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Axel Merk, Merk Investments
April 30th, 2013
Year-to-date, the U.S. dollar is up; does that mean we are in a rising dollar environment? Or is it an opportunity to diversify out of the greenback?
Last year, with all the turmoil in the Eurozone, the euro was up 1.79% versus the dollar; that appeared to be the best the U.S. dollar could do in times of turmoil. Of the major currencies only the Japanese yen was down versus the U.S. dollar:
Year-to-date, the dollar index, a trade weighted index comparing the U.S. dollar to a basket of six major currencies, is up 2.95% as of April 29, 2013. What many are not aware is that this index has not really been updated since it was first created in the early 1970s, giving the euro a 57.6% exposure. The dollar's downward trend has been slowed in recent years in large part by the turmoil in the Eurozone. Additionally, the New Zealand dollar for example, which is not in the index, is up 3.37% year-to-date.
To ascertain what may happen to the dollar, let's look at the greenback from a couple of different angles:
Myth: U.S. dollar's safe haven status
In recent years, when there has been talk about a "flight to quality" benefiting the U.S. dollar, we had a couple of observations:
In other words, the safe haven status of the U.S. dollar may slowly be eroding.
Myth: a rising rate environment favors the U.S. dollar
Assuming one believes interest rates are to head higher, it may be an expensive proposition to buy the U.S. dollar: as foreigners have historically had a major appetite for U.S. debt, their enthusiasm is historically trimmed back as the bond market turns into a bear market. As a result, early to mid phases of tightening by the Federal Reserve (Fed) have historically often been associated with a weaker dollar. It's the late phases of a tightening cycle that the dollar historically tends to benefit, as the next bull market is anticipated for bonds. There may be little historic precedent for the environment we are in, but a rising rate environment, in our assessment, does not favor the U.S. dollar.
Myth: the Fed's exit is near
It was just about a year ago that Fed Chair Ben Bernanke pronounced in a press conference: Let's be humble. He then clarified that meant that liquidity should not be mopped up too early; that we have to be sure that the recovery is firmly entrenched before one should consider an exit from the highly accommodative monetary policy.
To understand Bernanke, consider that in his own words, he has repeatedly stated that he believes one of the biggest mistakes during the Great Depression was to raise rates too early. As a result, the Fed has promised to keep rates low, purchased longer-term bonds, and engaged in Operation Twist. All of these policies reflect an effort to keep long-term rates low. Yet, a little over a year ago, a series of good economic data points caused the bond market to sell off rather sharply on the long end. In our assessment of Bernanke's thinking, that was undesirable as the recovery was nascent. Hence, the Fed doubled down by announcing an unemployment rate numerical threshold that would guide rate policy, moving the focus evermore away from inflation and towards employment. Not surprisingly, inflation expectations inched higher. The below chart is one of the many ways one can look at inflation expectations:
Bernanke has emphasized the Fed's communication strategy and the importance of guiding market expectations. Without getting too technical about the chart, our assessment is that Bernanke is comfortable with inflation expectations at the upper range of this chart and may even consider more aggressive monetary easing when inflation expectations drop, as has occurred in recent weeks. A lowering of inflation expectations may suggest to the Fed that all the monetary action, all the "money printing" hasn't been enough.
Myth: economic growth will support the U.S. dollar.
Skeptics still point out that it doesn't really matter whether the "exit" will come tomorrow or down the road: the "exit" is now coming closer and, with it, the market has to start pricing it in. Well, if it does, we might be in for another surprise. In our analysis, the biggest threat to the U.S. dollar may be economic growth. Let all the money that's been created by the Fed "stick" (economic growth may drive excess bank reserves to work), and it may be rather difficult to mop up the liquidity that's been made available to the system:
Additionally, it's likely that economic growth would drive interest rates higher across the yield curve. More important than the technical restrictions mentioned above may be the fact that the U.S. government cannot afford a high cost of borrowing to service the national debt. The average cost of servicing U.S. debt has come down from about 6% in 2001 to just over 2%. That cost of borrowing should continue to drift downward for a while as higher coupon Treasuries mature and are refinanced with lower coupon Treasuries. We are not predicting that the average cost of borrowing will zoom back up to 6% in the short-term, but what can come down, can also go back up. Even at 4%, discretionary spending by Congress will be crowded out by interest payments. Importantly, it may matter little what cost of borrowing the government can bear; more relevant may be the perception of the sustainability of U.S. government debt. Spain had very prudent debt management, with an average maturity of about 7 years for its debt outstanding; yet it took very little time for Spain's government to be on the brink of a bailout.
The U.S. bond market does not currently reflect serious concern about the sustainability of U.S. debt. However, without major entitlement reform, in particular in social security and Medicare, the numbers simply don't add up. Many have argued that, over time, Congress will come to its senses and indeed engage in reform. We are actually quite optimistic ourselves: however, we believe that the only language politicians listen to is that of the bond market. The Eurozone is proof that policy makers choose between the cost of acting versus the cost of not acting. Whenever possible, politicians kick the can down the road. But unlike the Eurozone the U.S. has a current account deficit. That is, the U.S. dollar may be far more vulnerable to a bond market that's imposing reform on policy makers than the Euro has ever been.
The reason we put this discussion under the header of economic growth is that it may well be good economic data that help to unravel the perception that U.S. debt is sustainable as yields return to more historic levels.
For a more detailed outlook on currencies, please read the Merk Gold and Currency Outlook. For purposes of this analysis, we want to show that it's far from clear that the U.S. dollar will benefit in the environment to come. Indeed, the downside risks to the dollar might be as high as ever. Ultimately, there may be no such thing as a safe asset anymore and investors may want to take a diversified approach to something as mundane as cash. Please make sure you sign up for our newsletter to be the first to learn as we discuss global dynamics affecting the dollar. Please also register to join an upcoming Webinar; our next Webinar is on Thursday, May 23, expanding on the discussion herein.
Axel Merk
Axel Merk is President and Chief Investment Officer, Merk Investments, Manager of the Merk Funds.
This report was prepared by Merk Investments LLC,and reflects the current opinion of the authors. It is based upon sources and data believed to be accurate and reliable. Merk Investments LLC makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the products herein. Opinions and forward-looking statements expressed are subject to change without notice. This information does not constitute investment advice and is not intended as an endorsement of any specific investment. The information contained herein is general in nature and is provided solely for educational and informational purposes. The information provided does not constitute legal, financial or tax advice. You should obtain advice specific to your circumstances from your own legal, financial and tax advisors. As with any investment, past performance is no guarantee of future performance.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Kaela Davis scored 28 points while Tyaunna Marshall added 26 to help Georgia Tech beat Virginia 77-76 in Thursday's second round of the Atlantic Coast conference tournament.
The seventh-seeded Yellow Jackets (20-10) survived a chaotic finish to advance to Friday's quarterfinals to face 10th-ranked and second-seeded Duke.
The Yellow Jackets took a 77-74 lead on Aaliyah Whiteside's three-point play with 13 seconds left. But on the next play, Georgia Tech's Nariah Taylor was whistled for a technical foul for taunting after blocking Lexie Gerson's 3-pointer.
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As the fabled magazine faces a fire sale, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor faces criticism for "absentee" management. Ben Bradlee and other insiders weigh in. Plus, Newsweek's greatest hits.
In 2007, when Random House tried to hire Jon Meacham for its top job, the genteel editor politely declined, opting to keep his post at the helm of Newsweek, where he'd worked for more than a decade.
"They'll have to blow me out of here," Meacham said at the time.
It looks like they're about to.
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• Newsweek's Greatest Hits On Wednesday morning, Washington Post Co. President Donald Graham said that after years of saintly patience, he was going to try to sell Meacham's home out from under him—if anyone's even in the market for loss-leading newsmagazines these days. Cold business calculations finally won out over familial sentimentality: Fabled Newsweek, which now loses more than half a million dollars a week, would have to go.
"I'm exploring every possibility," Meacham told The Daily Beast, suggesting that a buyer might be found who would agree to pay little or nothing for the magazine in exchange for assuming its substantial losses—the same dynamic that allowed Bloomberg to take over BusinessWeek in October.
Meacham, a history lover who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 biography of Andrew Jackson, threw in a Churchillian peroration: "I believe in what we're doing. I am realistic about the economic and journalistic realities. I also believe that Newsweek is an important part of the life of the nation. You can make fun of that, and say it sounds romantic or quixotic, but I happen to believe it. I believe in the people of this magazine. I believe in what we do. I'm not going to unilaterally disarm."
This is a man whose favorite movie is Jerry Bruckheimer's Armageddon.
Click Below to Watch Meacham on The Daily Show Wednesday
Meacham professed surprise at Graham's announcement—he is said to have learned of it only 18 hours earlier—but any shock must have been mitigated by the near-constant Newsweek deathwatch that has attended his tenure. He quickly regrouped Wednesday morning, addressing his staff and telling us and others about how he just might round up some billionaires and buy the darn thing himself. It would be a fitting end to a fitful period, over which, against all prevailing logic, Meacham has sought to reinvent the 77-year-old magazine into a printed facsimile of… Jon Meacham.
Maybe nothing would have saved Newsweek. But Meacham's vision, expounded over countless media appearances during his three-year tenure, was certainly unconventional. The new new Newsweek would be like The Economist, only better. He wanted a text-heavy, picture-light magazine filled with high-minded pieces targeted at the intellectual elite. His ideal reader, he said, would be interested in "what I'm interested in."
Meacham is famously, acutely interested in presidential history, the Founding Fathers, and religion. A frequent television talking head who writes books and travels on lecture tour, he was often away from Newsweek's New York offices, editing the magazine remotely. He is on contract for two more books—biographies of Thomas Jefferson and George H.W. Bush—and has a new PBS talk show, Need to Know, debuting this week and airing on Friday nights, the same night the magazine goes to press. Wednesday night, he was promoting his new PBS program on The Daily Show and making light of the Newsweek sale, joking to Jon Stewart, "I'll be over in the morning with the prospectus." Somehow, even while doing all of this and managing a struggling magazine, he finds time to sleep an average of seven hours a night.
According to a Newsweek insider, staffers came away extremely dispirited from a New York meeting six weeks ago at which the results of a reader focus group on the latest redesign were presented. The presentation, for which Meacham was absent, "was unrelentingly bad," says the insider. "There was hardly anything positive about the magazine. The recurring themes were 'dull,' 'boring,' 'like doing your homework.' Everybody was thoroughly depressed." Both because of this overhaul and also his hectic professional schedule that veterans liken to being an "absentee landlord," Meacham has drawn plenty of criticism throughout his term.
Former Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker, whom Meacham succeeded, declined to comment on the news of the sale, "except to say that this is a very sad day for all of us who worked so hard to make Newsweek what it once was."
Meacham dismissed criticism of his extracurricular activities, which he argues haven't detracted from his focus on Newsweek. "I have tried to present the magazine well and in different arenas, and I believe that what I have done outside the magazine has ultimately served it well," he told The Daily Beast. "Honestly, I don't think that if I had not written a book we would have sold 300 more ad pages."
Were readers really clamoring for more gray space in print magazines? And more opinion pieces when the blogosphere abounds in opinion?
To be fair, Meacham inherited a magazine from Whitaker in 2006 at a time of dramatically changing news demands. The weekly U.S. News and World Report, with more than two million higher-demographic readers, became a bi-weekly, then a monthly, with a focus on building its service franchise, and boosting its Web site. In the spring of 2008, 18 months into his tenure, Newsweek underwent a brutal round of buyouts that reduced its staff by 111 people, or about 20 percent. Meacham played off the cuts as painful but part of a broader strategy to haul his magazine into the 21st century. The trick, he believed, was to focus on what he insisted was substance over style. In a year and a half, he boasted in an interview at the time, he'd already upped the amount of text in the magazine by 30 percent and reduced the number of photos. (Barry Diller, the chief executive of IAC, the parent company of The Daily Beast, is one of the directors of the Washington Post Co.)
Were readers really clamoring for more gray space in print magazines? And more opinion pieces when the blogosphere abounds in opinion? A year later, Meacham unveiled an over-art-directed redesign.
That new, criticized look came with a new business model: half as many readers (from 3 million subscribers to 1.5 million) who would pay double as much (90 cents per issue, on average) to read it. It's hugely counterintuitive," he said at the time. "The staff doesn't understand it." He also raised newsstand price a dollar, to $5.95.
Time magazine—long the nation's dominant newsweekly, which stands to benefit even more if, some predict, advertisers start to migrate there from sickly Newsweek—issued a statement Wednesday that omits mention of its rival. "Time continues to be healthy and profitable, and a trusted source of news, reporting, and analysis for millions of people in America and around the world in print, online and on the iPad. We had a highly profitable year last year and will have an even more profitable one this year.
Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel declined to comment on the sale of Newsweek, other than to say he wishes Time's competitor well.
Former Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who as a Newsweek correspondent in 1961 was instrumental in persuading Post Co. Chief Executive Philip Graham to buy the magazine from the Astor Foundation, was wistful when reached by The Daily Beast on Wednesday.
"I feel a little sad about it. But I don't feel sad as a Washington Post person," he said, suggesting that selling the magazine was best for the company. "I wish them luck in selling it." As for Newsweek's future under another owner, "I guess the question has been is there room for two newsmagazines," Bradlee said, "and I don't think we have the answer to that yet."
Rebecca Dana is a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.


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Microsoft today announced it had sold 100 million copies of Windows 8, its first statement on sales milestones since January.
In a blog post and interviews with several influential bloggers and media outlets such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Tami Reller, the CFO and head of marketing for the Windows division, went on a mini publicity spree, touting that sales figure, promising changes later this year with an update code-named "Blue," and reasserted the company's dedication to the sluggish Windows RT market.
But except for the 100-million milestone -- which was on par with sales of Windows 7 six months after its October 2009 launch -- Reller provided no new information, said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy.
And that's a big problem.
"I think this is a terrible communications strategy," said Moorhead of the less-information-is-better approach Microsoft has taken the last several years, and that in his eyes, it continues to adhere to. While secrecy and news management can be used to advantage by some firms -- Apple was at the top of Moorhead's list there -- he argued that Microsoft's attempt to duplicate the strategy has created all kinds of problems, perceived and real.
"Only Apple can play Apple. I don't think Microsoft makes a very good Apple," Moorhead said.
"Microsoft relies on a large ecosystem that's very diverse," he said, contrasting it with the smaller universe of Apple developers and resellers, the Cupertino Calif. company's lock on its own hardware, and Apple's almost-exclusive play in the consumer space. By comparison, Microsoft has a huge audience of developers, hundreds of OEM partners, and both enterprise and consumer customers to inform. "Microsoft has to generate confidence in that ecosystem to get everyone excited, and to do that it has to keep that ecosystem informed. But [Reller's statements] just seems more of the same."
Many of the points that Reller made in the Microsoft-hosted blog post and in interviews were repeats of what other executives have already said.
While Reller used the "Blue" moniker -- saying that it would appear "later this year" -- and noted that the update would "respond to the customer feedback that we've been closely listening to," code for an assumed restoration of the Start button and perhaps a boot-to-desktop option -- neither was news: Soon-to-depart CFO Peter Klein had already covered both in an earnings call three weeks ago.
Ditto with Reller's references to "the next generation of tablets," and comments about future smaller tablets; her message that PCs are changing, and tablets are only part of the computing continuum; and that users are more satisfied with Windows 8 using a mouse and keyboard than published reports indicate.
All of those comments and observations had been made before, in some cases by Reller herself.
With little new information disclosed today by Reller or by Microsoft as a whole, whether about Windows 8's near-future plans or about the sluggish response to the new OS, everyone remains in the dark, said Moorhead.
"This communication style produces a reaction about what you'd expect. OEMs are running as quickly as they can into the arms of Google," said Moorhead. "It just gives OEMs another reason to go back to Google and Chrome [OS] devices. I've seen roadmaps for major OEMs, and except for Dell, there are Android-based clamshell [notebooks] on them."
Enterprise customers, too, who require long lead times to make OS decisions, are increasingly frustrated at the lack of information, Moorhead said, citing sources of his own.
"The risk there is that Microsoft could lose traction on its core customers," Moorhead contended, talking of major corporations that fuel much of Microsoft's current revenue. "Two, three years down the road, that could result in [Server and] Tools revenue going down, and then after that, the Office franchise is at risk."
From Moorhead's perspective, Microsoft's decision to keep things close to its vest -- a strategy credited to the ousted head of Windows, Stephen Sinofsky -- has been a failure.
"They're not scoring points with anybody," Moorhead said. "It would be much better for the entire ecosystem if they went back to the persistent and open communication they were once known for, and let the chips fall where they may."
Also today, Julie Larson-Green, who heads Windows engineering, appeared at the Wired Business Conference, where she revealed one new piece of information: The preview of Blue will, as many expected, ship during BUILD, Microsoft's developers conference, slated for June 26-28. It will be available to all users of Windows 8.
Reller is scheduled to talk at the JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on May 14, a week from today.
This article, Microsoft's drip-drip-drip Windows communications strategy dubbed a washout, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
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05 July 2009
ABOVE: Some of the first bodies to be recovered from the Wellington avalanche disaster. (Photo courtesy of Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, WA).
Late last month, at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree, Ol' Myrt here met once again with her good friend footnoteMaven who had traveled down from the greater Seattle area. Needless to say, all sorts of memories of the greater Seattle area have since poured into my mind. In fact, at this time I am longing for the more temperate climes offered by the Pacific Northwest, as the short side trip to the Grand Canyon resulted in heat exhaustion for this gramma.
But the Pacific Northwest isn't without it's challenging weather. "Late in the afternoon of February 22, the six-car train carrying more than 100 passengers left Wenatchee, Washington to begin its fateful ascent to the Cascades. It was followed an hour later by the No. 27 Fast—Mail. Through the blizzard, the trains finally arrived at the east portal of the Cascade Tunnel, a small station stop. They were met by a big, broad shouldered man who had concern and anxiety written all over his rugged Irish face."
Both the Museum of History and Industry and the University of Washington Special Collections Division provided author Gary Sherman photos to illustrate "Snowslide of the Century: Tragedy at Stevens Pass", [History Magazine, April/May 2009, pages 17-20.]
"SO FAR AS loss of life and damage to property is concerned, I believe this is the worst experience we have had." This is the tragic observation made by H. H. Parkhouse, a Great Northern Railway official on the scene at Wellington, Washington on 4 March 1910.
It is a good idea to check local newspapers and genealogical society magazines published in the area where your ancestors once lived to find out what challenges of nature, culture, religion and ethnic orientation may have affected your progenitors.
As a child I loved skiing Steven's slopes, but was blissfully unaware of the fact that the 1910 Steven's Pass incident is considered one of America's deadliest avalanches.
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
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- footnoteMaven said...
It was so good to see you my friend. It is a beautiful 78F today in Preston.
Yes, but the PNW has its challenges.
If you make it to town, let's have lunch!
- July 18, 2009 9:32 PM
- DearMYRTLE said...
Certainly, fM. GREAT seeing you at SoCal.
The wedding comes first, but NEXT July we'll be up to Orcas for sure, so will see you on the way.
- July 19, 2009 1:08 PM
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Preschoolers, infants performed better on language experiments after brief sleepWednesday, April 9, 2014
WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Naps play a crucial role in helping infants and preschoolers remember things they've just learned, according to new research.
Investigators examined young children's ability to recognize instances that are similar, but not identical, to something they've recently learned and apply it to a new situation, a skill called generalization.
In language, this would include being able to distinguish a grammatical pattern in a sentence they'd never heard before, or to understand a word no matter who says it, the study authors explained.
Experiments showed that language generalization was better in infants and preschoolers after they had naps, according to the findings presented Tuesday at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual meeting in Boston.
"Sleep is essential for extending learning to new examples," researcher Rebecca Gomez, of the University of Arizona, said in a society news release. "Naps soon after learning appear to be particularly important for generalization of knowledge in infants and preschoolers."
Another study presented at the meeting found that adequate sleep helps adults remember their future intentions.
"Whether we make plans for the next holiday or whether we just think about what to have for dinner tonight, all of these plans heavily depend on our ability to remember what we wanted to do at the appropriate time in the future," researcher Susanne Diekelmann, of the University of Tubingen in Germany, said in the news release.
"The likelihood that we remember to execute our intentions at the appropriate time in the future is substantially higher if we have had a good night's sleep after having formed the intention," she added.
Data and conclusions presented at meetings are typically considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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UCSB Ranked No. 7 in Leiden Ranking of World's Top 500 Universities
The Leiden Ranking is based on publications in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science database from 2005-2009.
Only six universities ranked higher than UCSB, including M.I.T, Princeton, Harvard, Rice, Stanford, and Caltech. UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco were ranked 8 and 10, respectively. Other UC campuses in the top 40 were UC San Diego at number 19, UCLA at number 20, UC Santa Cruz at number 21, UC Riverside at number 29, and UC Irvine at number 37.
"UC Santa Barbara's faculty and researchers are advancing the frontiers of knowledge, and we are very proud that these contributions have been recognized with the number 7 ranking among the top 500 world universities in the four-year study by Leiden University in the Netherlands," said Chancellor Henry T. Yang. "The high citation rate of our faculty's publications in prestigious journals is a testament to the far-reaching impact of the work taking place on our campus."
According to the Center for Science and Technology Studies, when compared with other university rankings, the Leiden Ranking offers more advanced indicators of scientific impact and collaboration, and uses a much more transparent methodology. In addition, the Leiden Ranking does not rely on subjective data obtained from reputational surveys or on data provided by the universities themselves.
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Does This Dirt Field Look Muslim to You?
The Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pa., supposedly honors the brave folks who sacrificed themselves during an in-flight power struggle on 9/11. So why does its design include a huge Muslim crescent pointing at Mecca? Here we go again.
A group led by the father of a Flight 93 victim will be running full-page ads this Friday and Saturday in a Shanksville-area newspaper, criticizing the perceived Islamic symbol it sees in the memorial's Field of Honor — the dirt circle in the top picture that resembles a topographical map.
At the center of the dispute is the Field of Honor, a circular, tree-lined landmass that will serve as the "heart" of the memorial, as well as a 93-foot Tower of Voices that will contain 40 wind chimes, one for each victim of the crash. Forty groves of red and sugar maple trees also will commemorate the victims, and ponds will be installed to serve as a natural barrier to the nearby Sacred Ground, the final resting place for the passengers and crew of Flight 93.
Basically, it's a level from the Legend of Zelda, but with lots of terrorism.
This design "controversy" was raised five years ago, has popped up occasionally ever since, and is finding new life during the 2010 War on Mosques. A few seconds of googling takes us to a 2005 Michelle Malkin post with an informative animated .gif, for those of you who cannot see the evil Muslim symbol within this secret terrorist beachhead.
Although the National Park Service changed the title of the ring surrounding the Field of Honor from the Crescent of Embrace to the Circle of Embrace and moved some trees and stuff around, just to be polite, critics aren't satisfied with this obvious 9/11 Victory Crescent:
"A more obvious tribute to the terrorists is hard to imagine," reads the ad, which will be published in the Somerset Daily American and was provided in advance to FoxNews.com. "It is not surprising, then, that the giant crescent would turn out to point to Mecca, and be the centerpiece for the world's largest mosque."
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text: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind Physics research provides new insights into the fluctuations of wind energy, with implications for engineering and policy. The amount of energy generated by renewables fluctuates depending on the natural variability of resources at any given time. The sun isn't always shining, nor is the wind always blowing, so traditional power plants must be kept running, ready to fill the energy gap at a moment's notice. Because the grid has no storage, and unlike coal or nuclear, there is no control over the fluctuating production of renewable energy, the energy they produce has to be consumed straight away, or risk collapsing the electrical grid. On particularly windy days, for example, surges in power generated by wind turbines have been known to overwhelm the electrical grid, causing power outages. To avoid this, operators of large power plants sometimes resort to paying consumers to use electricity on particularly sunny and windy days when there is too much excess power in the system, in order to balance the supply and demand of energy at the grid. Dealing with the peaks and troughs of intermittent renewable energy will become increasingly challenging as governments try to phase out of more stable coal-powered energy sources in the coming decades. In order to mitigate or manage these fluctuations in renewable energy, we need to understand the nature of these fluctuations better. Professor Mahesh Bandi, head of the Collective Interactions Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has used turbulence theory combined with experimental wind plant data to explain the statistical nature of wind power fluctuations in a single-author paper published in Physical Review Letters. Professor Mahesh Bandi, head of OIST's Collective Interactions Unit Wind speed patterns can be depicted as a wind speed spectrum on a graph. In 1941, Russian physicist Andrei Kolmogorov worked out the spectrum of wind speed fluctuations. Subsequently, it was shown that the spectrum for wind power follows the exact same pattern. However, until now, it was simply assumed that these spectra were identical due to the relationship between power and speed, where power equals wind speed cubed. But this proved to be a red herring. Professor Bandi has shown for the first time that the spectrum of wind power fluctuations follows the same pattern as wind speed fluctuations for a different reason. Kolmogorov's 1941 result applies to measurements of wind speed made at several distributed points in space at the same time. But wind power fluctuations at a turbine are measured at a fixed location over an extended time period. The two measurements are fundamentally different, and by carefully accounting for this difference, Professor Bandi was able to explain the spectrum of wind power fluctuations for an individual turbine. We can think of turbulence as a ball of air, or an 'eddy', of fluctuating wind speed. Long time-scale, low frequency eddies can span hundreds of kilometres. Inside these large eddies are shorter time-scale, high frequency eddies that might span a few kilometres. Therefore, if all of the turbines in the same wind plant fall within the same short and long time-scale eddies, the energy they produce fluctuates as if the entire plant were one giant turbine. This is exactly what Professor Bandi found when he looked at the wind power fluctuations of all of the turbines in a wind plant in Texas. In fact, even geographically dispersed wind plants can exhibit correlated fluctuations in power if they fall within the same short and long time-scale eddies. However, as the distance between wind plants increases, their power fluctuations start to decouple from each other. Two geographically dispersed wind plants might encounter the same long time-scale wind speed fluctuations whilst encountering completely distinct shorter time-scale wind speed fluctuations. In the past, some scientists have underestimated the problem of turbulence, arguing that the power produced by geographically dispersed wind turbines in windy and calm locations at any one point in time will average out when they reach a centralised grid. However, Professor Bandi's findings show for the first time, that this phenomenon, known as 'geographic smoothing', only works to a certain extent. The power generated by geographically dispersed turbine plants averages at high frequencies, because while one plant might fall within the short time-scale eddy, the other might not. In other words, the surge in power output at one plant is averaged out by a trough in power output from another, far-away plant at high frequencies. But because the plants still fall within the same long time-scale eddy, the power they produce will have correlated fluctuations at low frequencies. A surge in power at one wind turbine plant will coincide with the surge at a far-away plant within the same long time-scale eddy, meaning that the power they feed to the grid cannot be averaged out. This means that there is a natural limit to how much one can average fluctuations in wind power; a limit beyond which fluctuations can continue to wreak havoc on the grid. Using data from 20 wind plants in Texas and 224 wind farms in Ireland Professor Bandi showed that this limit exists in reality. "Understanding the nature of fluctuations in wind turbine power has immediate implications for economic and political decision making," says Professor Bandi. Due to the variability of renewables, coal-fired power plants providing back-up energy are kept running in case of sudden power outages, meaning that more energy is produced than needed. This means that 'green' energy is still contributing to carbon emissions, and there is an associated cost of maintaining reserve energy, that will only increase as the proportion of renewables increases in the years to come. The discovery of a limit in geographical smoothing, articulated by Professor Bandi, will enable better estimates of the operative amount of reserves that needs to be maintained. This discovery will also impact environmental policy. By considering the limit for averaging fluctuations of power, combined with the availability of different renewable resources such as sun, wind and waves in a particular area, policy-makers will be better equipped to work out optimal combinations of different energy sources for specific regions. "Understanding the nature of fluctuations for wind turbines could also open up other avenues of research in other fluctuating systems," says Professor Bandi. Date: 04 January 2017 Category: Research Update Creator Greta Keenan Specialties Biophysics Chemistry Complex systems Condensed matter physics Engineering and applied sciences Environmental sciences Evolutionary biology Fluid dynamics Marine sciences Material science Mechanics Physics Soft matter physics Research Unit Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit For press enquiries, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com Share on: Related Media Image Professor Mahesh Bandi Related News Research Update Gel, masks, and face shields: Researchers use specific skills to help Okinawa With the number of COVID-19 cases in Okinawa on the rise, OIST researchers are looking at how they can help the local community. Research Update Lighting the Path to Renewable Energy Scientists devise new method for studying solar power Research Update The Song of Silence Neurons in zebra finch brains operate as a barcode reader to detect songs of the same species during learning Research Update These feet were made for walking A little-studied human foot arch is important for walking and running, finds new study. Research Update New Unit Profile: Getting to the Heart of the Matter The Collective Interactions unit makes the details behind many theories more palpable by studying phenomena that can be seen with the naked eye.


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Unlike some smartphones we know, phones running WinMo 6.5 will get a pretty amazing connected voice command interface, courtesy of Microsoft subsidiary TellMe.
There are already TellMe apps out there, where the service listens to requests—search queries or requests for other data—and carries them out online. BlackBerry and Sprint Instinct have them, and the newest Ford Sync system uses TellMe for traffic data too. But in WinMo 6.5, TellMe isn't just an app, it's a one-button hub for voice commands of all kinds, including text messaging, making calls, and also jumping to Microsoft Live Search with natural language queries like "weather in San Francisco, California," "pizza in Kansas City" or "mother's day gift ideas."
Microsoft has long been big on the voice command thing, with PocketPC versions of it dating back five or more years, so it makes sense that they'd make a bigger push with Windows Mobile 6.5 than others have done. Things are also more connected now, so it also makes sense that a new voice command system would blur the line between what's happening on the phone itself (texting, etc.) and what's happening in the wireless cloud (searches, etc.).
I am a huge fan of voice commands, and am still pissed off that Apple has ignored their safety benefits, as well as their convenience, in iPhone development, and I'm glad to see at least one of the power hitters pushing the idea towards the next logical stage.
The service will be free at WinMo 6.5 launch, either as a download from the awkwardly named Windows Marketplace for Mobile, or pre-embedded by the carrier or handset maker. [TellMe]
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Console's Sound and Flexibility Key to Karisma's Business Model
MONTREAL, QC, CANADA – Karisma Recording Mobile recently installed a 96-input, 48-fader Solid State Logic C200 Digital Production Console in its flagship remote truck to handle the capture and broadcast of everything from sporting events to a star-studded Haitian relief concert. Karisma Recording Mobile is the go to company that has worked with Celine Dion, Brian Adams, Peter Gabriel, Star Academy and Lady Gaga over the years when these acts perform in and around Montreal. The C200 has the input power and audio quality to handle multiple performing act shows, while providing the flexibility to be the sole console servicing a major event.
"We installed the C200 to handle jobs that would be covered by up to four audio trucks in the States," says Marcel Gouin, president of Karisma Audio Post Video & Film and Karisma Recording Mobile. "The budgets are smaller here for concerts and events, so usually, even with major stars, our one remote truck will cover the audio for all the different bands. To bring sanity to this situation, the C200 gives us the ability to have a large number of mic inputs, handle more tracks and be able to do this with one operator within the space limits of our truck. This is a tall order and the C200 has passed with flying colors."
Since the January install, Karisma has provided the audio services for as varied a lineup as a Gala for Quebec's Lottery, a benefit for Haiti featuring multiple music acts, a Hockey Academy-type reality series that involves real hockey games, a variety show that ran for ten-weekends and a Canadian Hall of Fame event for Olympic winners and high profile sport figures. The C200 design streamlined the workload for all these events.
"I have an analogue background using inline consoles over the years and I believe that this is the most enduring way to work," states Gouin. "SSL has engineered the C200 to give the operator that familiar, time-tested knob-per-function design while covering a large amount of input channels in only two console pages. Other digital consoles make you sift through four to six pages and that is very inconvenient and sometimes impossible. Also, when I am working on one page, the metering panel will provide real-time information about the underneath layer which keeps me aware of what is going on all the time. When you do high pressure jobs the way we do, you don't need to have the technology in the way. The C200 allows me to concentrate on getting the job done right."
With the addition of a sidecar, Karisma captures on up to six Tascam X48 recorders and a total of 128 redundant tracks, for remixing and repackaging for further broadcast of live events for different broadcasters, DVD/Blu-ray distribution and CD projects, so sound quality is of the utmost importance.
"With the wealth of distribution points for any event, it is important that the sound quality is the best possible," Gouin explains. "The C200 gives me the warmth and detail I need to deliver a great performance. I have worked with many top consoles and the C200 is over and beyond anything I've used."
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Exposure scenarios are important tools for improving the safe use of chemicals in Europe. They provide information on how the exposure of workers, consumers and the environment to substances can be controlled in order to ensure their safe use. Exposure scenarios are developed by manufacturers and importers in the context of the chemical safety assessment as part of the REACH registration.
ECHA and several stakeholder organisations have developed a plan for improving the content and use of exposure scenarios during the years 2013-2018, called the CSR/ES Roadmap.
Several industry organisations and Member States have signed the commitment charter for this important collaborative effort. They also share a vision on how information on chemicals can be communicated in the supply chain to promote the safe use of chemicals, as illustrated here (click image to enlarge it):
A wider network has been established, called ENES, the Exchange Network on Exposure Scenarios, that provides broad-based expertise to discuss, review and road-test the actions identified in the CSR/ES Roadmap.
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CNBC goes inside the world of Coca-Cola to reveal hidden labs, secret archives and the high-tech search for the next blockbuster beverage. Go to the farthest corners of the globe to discover how Coke has made itself the most recognized brand on the planet.
With unprecedented access, CNBC pulls back the curtain on Coca-Cola, the most recognizable brand on the planet. In an original one-hour documentary, "Coca-Cola: The Real Story Behind the Real Thing," CNBC's Melissa Lee reveals never-before-seen labs, secret archives and high-tech product testing. Cameras follow Coke's urgent campaign to reinvent itself after years of losing ground to arch-rival Pepsi in the race to develop new, blockbuster beverages. Meet the men and women whose mission it is to put the buzz back in the bottles and see how Coke gets its drinks into the mouths of people in the farthest corners of the globe. From the production line to "Cola Wars," discover the secret that makes Coke pop.


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Great tune for this cold Christmas night.
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George Winston is awesome. I saw him a couple years ago - he played an entire piano concert (barefoot) then got up and jammed for 20 more minutes on slack key guitar.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. » Sixteen members of a Northern California high school baseball team ran from a practice to save a 16-year-old girl who was pinned under a car, working together to lift it off her while their coach pulled her to safety.
The girl, a student visiting Valley High School in Elk Grove from another school for an afterschool activity on Wednesday afternoon, was pinned under the car when her mother accidentally backed over her after dropping her off in the school parking lot, Sacramento police said told KCRA-TV.
The team, in the middle of their last practice of the season, heard her cries for help and ran to her.
"We all just ran out there as a team," varsity coach James Millholland told the TV station. "There was no one really saying much. The guys just got around the car and then everyone just lifted it up."
Players said it wasn't difficult to lift the four-door sedan off the girl while their coach pulled her out.
"With all the teamwork we had going on it didn't feel heavy," said player Sukhminder Gill. "It felt like we could pick anything up right now. The adrenalin was pumping up."
The girl, whose name has not been released, was home from the hospital Thursday. Her exact injuries were not clear, but she's expected to recover.
Players said it was a satisfying way to help finish their season.
"I felt like we were heroes," Ysidro Castro said. "We did something that actually saved the day."


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Three years after the assassination of Mrs.Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former Prime Minister, at Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, the cover-up of her assassination not only by the intelligence and investigating agencies, but by even her own Pakistan People's Party (PPP) continues.
Her party is in power at the head of a coalition at Islamabad. Her husband Asif Ali Zardari is the President of Pakistan. Yousef Raza Gilani, one of her close confidants when she was alive, is the Prime Minister. Rehman Malik, a former Police officer, who was responsible for her physical security when she was living in political exile, is the Interior Minister responsible for co-ordinating the investigation. The US, which played a role in bringing about a political reconciliation between her and Gen.Pervez Musharraf thereby paving the way for her return from exile, has very close relations with the Pakistan Army and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). All these factors should have led to a successful investigation by now, but they have not.
The investigation should have had two objectives. Firstly, to find out why there was no effective physical security for her despite the failed attempt by unidentified elements to kill her on her arrival in Karachi on October 18,2007.Musharraf, who as the then President had the over-all responsibility for ensuring her security, was allowed to leave Pakistan and take up residence in London without being questioned by the Police. Rehman Malik, who co-ordinated her security on behalf of the PPP, was appointed the Interior Minister without being questioned as to why why he left the scene of occurrence before she was killed. Secondly, to establish the details of the conspiracy to kill her, identify and prosecute those responsible. There has been no progress in this either.
In an editorial titled "Benazir Bhutto: 'tis tough to say goodbye" published on December 27, the Daily Times of Lahore says:
"It seems as if her 'deal' with Musharraf began to unravel as soon as she landed in Karachi and was received by millions of people. The power of the masses brought fear into the hearts of those who masterminded her assassination. Ms Bhutto survived a terror attack on October 18 but she could not defeat death on December 27 when another attempt was made on her life. Her killers have still not been brought to justice. It is a travesty of fate that even though Ms Bhutto's party is in power and her widower the President of Pakistan, there is no closure regarding her assassination. Those men who have been caught are not the masterminds of BB's murder plot. It would be a disservice to Ms Bhutto if the PPP is unable to bring the real culprits to book as soon as possible."
The Executive Committee of the PPP was to meet on December 26 to review the progress of the investigation so far, Rehman Malik had announced that a detailed progress report would be submitted by him to the Executive Committee. Gilani had announced that the progress report after consideration by the Executive Committee would be released to the public.
The Executive Committee met at Naudero as scheduled on December 26, but no progress report was submitted to it. There was no discussion on the progress on the ground that Bilawal Bhutto, Benazir's son who is the party chairman, could not make it to the meeting. It was decided to postpone a review of the progress of the investigation to an unspecified future date when Bilawal could also be present. It was decided that in the meanwhile the scope of the investigation should be further expanded in order to cover all aspects of the case. It was not stated what aspects had remained uncovered so far.
"The investigation into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is likely to be expanded to unveil some faces, who have so far been out of picture, after two arrested former police officers have told investigators that some intelligence officials were in contact with them on Dec 27, 2007.
In a related development, the Interior Ministry has sent a questionnaire to former president Pervez Musharraf currently living in London to record his statement. The Federal Investigation Agency obtained on Thursday (December 23) six days' physical custody of former chief of Rawalpindi city police Saud Aziz and SP Khurram Shahzad to recover the cellphones they were using on the day the former prime minister was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh. The agency had sought a 12-day remand, but the special judge of Anti-Terrorism Court-III granted six days. The two former police officers were taken into custody on Wednesday after a trial court hearing the case cancelled their pre-arrest bail. Special Public Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told reporters after the court proceedings that arrested officers had informed the investigators that four officers of the Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence had been in contact with them. But he said that their names could not be disclosed now because it was yet to be ascertained in what context they were in contact with the accused. If concrete evidence was found against the intelligence officers they would be included in the investigation.
The FIA investigators said in the court that forensic tests of the cellphones were needed to ascertain who had been in contact with the two police officers on the day of Benazir's assassination."
The Dawn report further added:
"Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had a few months ago formed a three-member committee, headed by Cabinet Secretary Chaudhry Abdul Rauf, which excluded from inquiry some top military officials who allegedly ordered the hosing down of the assassination site. The inquiry report, however, has not been made public. The UN commission on Benazir's assassination had accused MI's former director general Maj-Gen Nadeem Ijaz and some top police officials of being behind the hosing down of the site. The joint investigation team has prepared the 32-point questionnaire for the former President. Interior ministry sources said the document contained questions relating to security lapse and asked the former president why he did not provide adequate security to Ms Bhutto although she had expressed fears about threats to her life. Gen (retd) Musharraf's spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said the former president had nothing to do with the security of Ms Bhutto. He termed the government's move to send the questionnaire to Gen Musharraf an attempt to politicise the case and damage him politically."
Earlier, on December 2, the Pakistani media had carried the following report on the contents of some of the cables sent by Anne Patterson, the then US Ambassador in Pakistan, to the US State Department, which are among those leaked by WikiLeaks:
" Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan after getting 'clearance' from the US. President Asif Ali Zardari told this to the then US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson after the assassination of BB, US embassy cables revealed. According to the US embassy cables, Zardari held meeting with Patterson on 25th January 2008 in which he opened his remarks by saying that the US is "our safety blanket" and recounted how Benazir had returned despite the threats against her because of support and "clearance" from the US.... He said that he opposed to launch a FIR (First Information Report) over Benazir's death because Pakistan could not afford any more chaos. US embassy cables revealed that Zardari was not much interested in who the sniper was or exactly how Benazir was killed. This was not as important as finding out who financed the killing, who were the "hands behind" it. Ambassador said that we believed Baitullah Mehsud was responsible; Zardari dismissed this by saying that Mehsud was just a pawn in the process."
It is evident from this that Zardari was not interested in a proper investigation into the assassination by the Pakistani agencies lest their conclusions prove embarrassing to the Government. He wanted to have the responsibility for the investigation transferred to the United Nations, but the UN was prepared, after considerable persuasion, to enquire into only the physical security aspects of the case and not into the criminal conspiracy behind the assassination. Thus, three years after the assassination, the criminal conspiracy angle has not been thoroughly investigated. The PPP is not prepared to accept the contention of the ISI that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, then headed by Baitullah Mehsud, had mounted the conspiracy in retaliation for Benazir's support for the army raid into the Lal Masjid of Islamabad in July 2007.
Benazir herself had feared an attempt to have her killed by military elements in the ISI and the Intelligence Bureau with the help of Qari Saifullah Akhtar of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) with which Ilyas Kashmiri of the so-called 313 Brigade, with close contacts with Al Qaeda, was associated. Her suspicions regarding the role of these elements in the conspiracy against her have not been properly investigated so far.
In the meanwhile, the Army and the ISI struck back with anger when the UN enquiry sought to pin the blame on the Military Intelligence for the poor physical security provided to her and corroborated the allegations regarding the involvement of the Army and the intelligence agencies in terrorism. The UN report gave rise to strong suspicion that the military intelligence agencies were using the terrorists raised by them not only in India and Afghanistan, but also against their own political leaders whom they found inconvenient.
In an interesting report carried on December 25, the Dawn of Karachi has stated as follows:
"The military establishment reacted strongly to the United Nations Commission report on Benazir Bhutto's assassination, issued in April this year, and forced the government to write a letter to the UN to reopen the inquiry. Official sources said on Friday (December 24) that the army had termed the report a "bid to malign the national institution" and prepared a detailed reply addressing all aspects of the report. The reply was presented to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who was asked to send it to the UN to record the country's protest. The inquiry was financed by the government which paid $5 million to the United Nations. The report was opposed not only by the military establishment but also by sections in the civil side of the government. The then foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan had rejected the UN findings. ISPR (Inter-Services Press Relations) Director-General Maj-Gen Athar Abbas agreed that the military had some reservations on the report because it went beyond the mandate of the UN commission. "We have conveyed our reservations with special reference to security related issues to the government and asked it to record protest with the UN," Gen Abbas said. "
The Dawn added :
"The military believes that the UN Commission had touched some issues which had nothing to do with the assassination. During several visits of the three-member UN commission to Pakistan, its members called on top military, civil officials and politicians, including Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and ISI Director-General Lt-Gen Shuja Pasha and recorded their statements. The sources said there was hesitation in the military over the demand of the commission to meet top ranking officials of services but it was accepted to avert a negative impression that the military had some concerns over such meetings. While convincing the government to register a protest with the UN on the report, the army said the world body went beyond its mandate by accusing ISI of conducting covert operations in India and Afghanistan. The commission also accused former director-general of Military Intelligence, Maj-Gen Nadeem Ijaz, and some top police officials of being involved in hosing down the assassination site within 40 minutes after the killing. The issue of hosing down the site and alleged involvement of some top military officials remained a topic of intense discussion for many weeks and Prime Minister Gilani formed a three-member committee headed by Cabinet Secretary Chaudhry Abdul Rauf to look into the matter."
The Dawn said further:
"The committee (headed by the Cabinet Secretary) in its report, which has not been made public, gave a clean chit to top military and police officials. Some other findings opposed by the military are: "General Musharraf also had the full support of what is known in Pakistan as the 'establishment', the de facto power structure that has as its permanent core the military high command and intelligence agencies, in particular, the powerful, military-run ISI as well as Military Intelligence (MI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
The capability of the establishment to exercise power in Pakistan is based in large part on the central role played by the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies in the country's political life, with the military ruling the country directly for 32 of its 62 years as an independent state. General Musharraf finally stepped down as Chief of Army Staff (COAS) on November 28, 2007, handing the post over to his hand-picked successor, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. This did not, however, change the military nature of the regime.The UN in its response to the letter sent by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi ruled out the reopening of the inquiry and set aside Islamabad's objection. Mr Qureshi's letter said the UN commission's observations about the Pakistan Army and the ISI were not based on evidence. He said the UN report had a serious flaw because the commission had failed to approach third party states or to provide some reliable information to unearth, if any, international linkages perpetrating, planning, financing and abetting Bhutto's assassination. A Joint Investigation Team formed to investigate the Benazir case had issued its report earlier this month again blaming the slain chief of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, of masterminding the murder. However, the UN Commission had said that blaming the TTP leader for the assassination was a bid to divert the investigation from the right direction."
Thus, three years after the assassination of Benazir, the conspiracy to have her killed has been followed by a fresh conspiracy to prevent the real facts of the case from coming out. No one in Pakistan is interested in finding out the truth-- neither the PPP, not the civilian Government, nor the Army, nor the military intelligence agencies nor the Federal Investigation Agency nor the judiciary.
Such being the state of affairs in Pakistan, we will be living in a fool's paradise if we think that the Pakistani investigating agencies are going to properly investigate the conspiracy behind the terrorist strike by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in Mumbai from November 26 to 28,2008, and successfully prosecute those responsible. A question often posed to analysts on Pakistan is: Is there any danger of the Pakistan State being captured by the jihadi terrorists one day? The terrorists may not as yet be in de jure control of the State, but they are already in a de facto position to see that the State does not take any action which could prove detrimental to the terrorists. The judiciary may be increasingly bold in acting against the political executive and even the Army, but it is afraid of acting against the terrorists. There are five centres of power in Pakistan today: The Executive, the legislature, the judiciary, the Army and the terrorists inspired and led by Al Qaeda. That is the reality confronting the world.
B. Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. – AOL Inc. is laying off up to half the workforce at its Patch local news sites and shuttering or consolidating roughly 150 of the 900 sites while looking for partners for others.
Up to 500 of Patch's 1,000 employees will go in the layoffs, which started on Friday with 350 people getting pink slips. In all, the layoffs amount to about 9 per cent of AOL's total workforce of 5,500.
AOL Inc. CEO Tim Armstrong co-founded Patch, an ambitious experiment in local news meant to compete with newspapers, in 2007. AOL bought it in 2009 after Armstrong had taken over the helm of the New York-based Internet company.
Patch ran into the same problems that newspapers had already discovered — that it's expensive to cover local news. For about an 18-month period in 2010 and 2011, Patch was the biggest hirer of journalists, just as they were being laid off from struggling U.S. newspapers, said media analyst Ken Doctor of Outsell Inc.
AOL does not break out Patch's finances in its earnings reports, but Doctor said it was obviously "a financial drag on earnings." He estimates that AOL has invested more than $100 million into Patch over time.
In a statement, AOL said that "Patch's strategy will be to focus resources against core sites and partner in sites that need additional resources."
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As a marketing professional and former journalist I've learned that the words I use really have a powerful effect in how people receive or chose not to receive what I have to say. The challenge of getting kids to listen to us adults is more challenging then ever so to get the attention of my two older kids, Jonathan (10) and Elena (6), I've learned to almost never teach them something in the form of the universally dreaded "lessons" but rather in the shape of "tricks."
If you think about the powerful contrast between the words "lesson" and "trick" you'll quickly understand why one appeals to kids much more than other. From a kid (and I would argue even adult) perspective the word "lesson" is a heavy one. It often insinuates teachers, homework, judgment. In sharp contrast if you tell your kid you want to teach them a trick, who could say no to that? My kids don't. Heck, even adults have a hard time saying no to learning a trick or two.
Tricks are better than lessons because tricks are connected to magicians. Tricks relate to shortcuts (we know kids love those). Tricks are happy, quick, surprising, uplifting, wacky. At a time when children are over-stimulated and media-saturated with all kinds of "fun" stuff to divert their attention from you, their parent, you need a verbal weapon to capture their imagination. For me it's worked wonders to get their fuller attention about something when I tell them I'm going to teach them "trick" instead of a "lesson." How you descriptively explain the trick you're about to teach is just as vital and only part of a bigger strategy I will continue to describe in future posts but the first battle you need to win is actually getting your children's attention, especially while their young.
If you're reading this blog today, I would bet a big reason for that is because you want to learn more "tricks." Parenting tricks are the compelling, unique value proposition of this blog because while generally write from a dad's perspective, the fact is that the concept of parenting tricks is universal to mommies as well.
I get my kids attention by telling them that I'm going to teach them a trick. It's the first cardinal rule of PapiBlogger's Parenting Commandments and the reason why we published this post today. What verbal and non-verbal techniques do you use to get your children's undivided attention?


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A pair of leaks have provided the first glimpse at Ice Cream Sandwich. The OS has its expected influences from Android 3 tablets but also appears to take some direct cues from iOS. The always-on app shortcuts on the home screen now have an iPhone-like grid, RootzWiki saw, and now also appears to have iOS 4-style app folders.
Only a few unique-to-ICS features have emerged so far. The camera app can now shoot auto-stitched panoramas, and an NFC-aware version of Google Shopper will ship alongside to use the short-range wireless if a device has the hardware support. Gmail has been given a new theme that matches up with the blue colors of the "holographic" theme. Google has already said that ICS would support head tracking for cameras that can switch focus or even pivot.
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Despite borrowing from the tablet interface, the new OS is expected to place few if any extra demands on phones. As such, many devices from the past year shouldn't have trouble getting an update.
The build is "very recent" and shows that Google may still have some time to go before it has a complete release. Official plans have ICS shipping sometime during the fall. Nexus S owners would get it through an update, but it would first ship on the Nexus Prime, Google's Android showcase phone for 2011.
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I love Peanut Sauce. Thanks for these recipes!
I've been trying, almost unsuccessfully, to become a vegan again. It's difficult, especially when you are surrounded by carnivores. Especially dismissive carnivores. But I was vegan once before, and I'd like to try it again, since it was the only time in my life where I truly felt healthy and vibrant. I'm pretty sure that (along with exercise) veganism is the key to being a good diabetic, and to weight loss — at least for me.
One of the things I've noticed about veganism is the importance of getting enough fat in your diet. Oh, sure, there's the protein issue, but I eat lots of tofu and have never had a problem with anemia. Another problem for vegans, especially busy vegans who don't live on organic vegetable farms with their dreadlocked children and professional chef spouse, is making veggies taste really good, good enough to overpower the desire to give up and head to the nearest fast food chain. (See also: 25 Frugal Items for Your Organic Vegan Grocery List)
You can only sautee some kale in olive oil and garlic so many times before you want to scream.
But without fat, you can stuff your face with broccoli until the cows come home, and you'll still be hungry. In fact, you might start eyeing the cows with newfound enthusiasm.
Behold peanut sauce! One of my new tactics is to whip up a bunch of kick-ass vegan sauces that I can just throw on top of whatever it is that I'm planning on eating. I'll be publishing others over the next few weeks. None of the recipes will be limited to vegans, of course. They taste great on fish and chicken, or even other meats. You can throw them on at the last minute, or add broth and stew all kinds of things in them.
Note: People with peanut allergies can substitute other nut butters, or soy butter, in place of the peanut butter.
My first recipe comes from Cooking with Amy. It's my favorite one, and so easy to make. It's what I use for dipping vegan spring rolls.
Combine all ingredients with a whisk in a small bowl, adding the water last. Pour into a small saucepan and heat over medium heat until sauce begins to bubble and thicken. Experiment with this sauce adding a teaspoon at a time of one the optional additions and tasting as you go. Serve hot or cold.
AllRecipes.com offers this great recipe for Thai peanut sauce, which I like best with tofu. I LOVE the cilantro in it.
In a bowl, mix the peanut butter, coconut milk, water, lime juice, soy sauce, fish sauce, hot sauce, ginger, and garlic. Mix in the cilantro just before serving.
About.com offers this recipe for Indonesian peanut sauce. It's a little tangier, and perfect over salads (like Indonesian specialty salad gado gado — and yes, I know that gado gado isn't technically vegan, but it's close enough for this post). It's a little more labor-intensive, but lip-smackingly good!
Yield: 1 cup
Pound the salt and garlic in a mortar with a pestle into a fine paste. Add the chiles and pound to a puree. One at a time, add the galangal, lemongrass, shallots, and red miso, in sequence, adding each one only after the previous ingredient has been completely pureed and incorporated into the paste. Transfer to a bowl or to a glass jar with a right-fitting lid. Refrigerated, the seasoning paste will keep for a month.
Or, if using a blender, add all the above ingredients plus the vegetable oil and puree.
Saute the chile paste in the oil (or the chile paste-oil mixture) in a saucepan over mediium-high heat until it exudes a pleasant aroma, about 2 to 3 minutes. Lower the heat and add the sugar, peanut butter, coconut cream and tamarind juice. Stir to mix, and heat until the mixture boils and thickens, about 2 minutes.
Transfer to a bowl and let cool before serving. Stored in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid in the refrigerator, the sauce will keep for a couple of weeks. If it congeals and thickens, dilute with 2 to 3 tablespoons water and cook over low heat in a saucepan, stirring until smooth.
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People who read the actual blog post will note that the recipes are for peanut sauce, not for gado gado (Indonesian salad with eggs). Gado gado is mentioned in the story, and the non-vegan aspect of it is mentioned. Gado Gado is merely one item that you can slather peanut sauce on top of.
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My wife recently became vegetarian after visiting goveg.com, which is a very powerful site. And after reading Fast Food Nation and Omnivore's Dilemma, I feel I will be joining her soon enough. Although I still can't resist a good burger or chicken burrito. Shame on me.
Don't forget that that optional Worcestershire sauce is probably made with anchovies-- decidedly not vegan! I can't find veggie Worcestershire sauce anywhere 'round here in Seattle. Have you?
I can't wait to make Peanut Sauce.
hey there is actually a veg worcestershire sauce. Annies makes it and it's delicious, i use it a lot for making bloody marys! it's a great substitute. you can find it at most health food stores and now usually anywhere that carrys Annies dressing will carry the vegetarian Worcestershire. good luck! and enjoy.
Thanks for pointing that out, Fitch. I don't use the optional ingredients, but I'll add a note.
Paul - It can be a tough transition. But I think you're probably better off if you are at least a part-time vegetarian. Assuming no tainted spinach is consumed or anything. :) I have to go fully vegan or I will end up replacing all of the meat I used to eat with cheese.
The 'thai peanut sauce' is very good, but it's really heavy. I think next time I make it I'll swap the coconut milk and peanut butter proportions. And definitely use light milk. Tasty stuff.
The recipe is great. I just became a vegetairan last new years as a resolution, and I'm still trying to figure my way around it. I made a little more sauce than I needed for the recipe and I am just wondering how long will it keep for in the fridge, and does it have to be in an air-tight container, or will a small bowl with seran wrap do?
I made a big batch of sauce and kept it for two weeks. After that, I didn't want to risk it. :)
I wanted to make the Indonesian version, but I didn't have all the ingredients on hand (no miso, my tamarind paste was moldy). I substituted soy sauce for miso+salt, and I threw in a little more than 1 tablespoon sumac + ~2 tsp lemon juice for the tamarind. I also threw in about 5 green cardamom pods on a whim, and used closer to 3/4 or 1 cup 'lite' coconut milk (rather than cream) and a little over 1/3 a cup of peanut butter, with extra garlic and ginger. I watered it down a bit, then cooked up a bunch of tofu (and chicken, def. not vegan, but not necessary) in it, then poured it over freshly chopped cabbage in bowls, garnished with coriander/cilantro and lime. Totally dope, and hella spicy. Next time I may add spinach or broccoli.
I think Annies Natural Worcestershire Sauce is vegan it says vegetarian on the bottle but I can't see anything in it to say its not vegan too. I get it at whole foods here in san francisco. Its ever so nice tasting. Oh yes. Smashing it is.
I love making the first sauce! I add a little extra brown sugar and it comes out great. I serve it over rice noodles. I might have to try the other two at some point.
for most recipes that call for fish sauce you can substitute any wheat free soy sauce and the outcome will be pretty close to the same, you can also add some seaweed if you prefer a fishy flavor without any fish!
If you're going to suggest seaweed, you shouldn't leave it so open.
There are tons of kinds, and with plenty of different flavors. :/
Annies makes it and it's delicious, i use it a lot for making bloody marys! it's a great substitute. you can find it at most health food stores and now usually anywhere that carrys Annies dressing will carry the vegetarian Worcestershire. good luck! and enjoy.
I've added shredded fresh coriander a minute or so to the hot sauce before serving which works well, but sometimes it's a bit too much, and some people don't like it. Instead some freshly chopped basil works really good (about 2t but to your taste).
As a marinade for e.g. tofu or chicken (sorry!) I just use turmeric, sesame oil and soy sauce to get it into a mix. This works great to add that 'something different' to the taste.
Annies makes it and it's delicious, i use it a lot for making bloody marys! it's a great substitute. you can find it at most health food stores and now usually anywhere that carrys Annies dressing will carry the vegetarian Worcestershire. good luck! and enjoy.
Annies makes it and it's delicious, i use it a lot for making bloody marys! it's a great substitute. you can find it at most health food stores and now usually anywhere that carrys Annies dressing will carry the vegetarian Worcestershire. good luck! and enjoy.
Mmm! Tried and tweaked to our taste the Perfect Peanut Sauce with dinner last night...Jasmine rice topped with stir fried shrimp and veggies and a garnish of basil, limes and a drizzle of peanut sauce. This recipe is a keeper for sure!
Love these peanut sauce recipes. I use the Indonesian one and tweak it by adding fish sauce and lime juice for a thai/indo combo sauce it is my favorite. I sometimes make baked fries and dip them in it and pretend I am in Amsterdam eating Dutch fries!
Hey all,
I am living in indonesia at the moment and we all deep fry out peanuts on a *low heat* until golden (with chilli, lesser galangal and garlic slices) until brown. (about 7 mins ish). If you can get it, use coconut oil because it is amazing. Do that instead of using peanut butter and you will taste heaven! :)
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Once again, the Rockies' Charlie Blackmon is trying to break out of the crowd of outfielders and draw attention.
Blackmon succeeded in 2011, when he hit .314 in 19 Cactus League games, and the Rockies remembered it and promoted him in June. He hit .255 in 27 games before suffering a right foot injury that ended his season. Blackmon was impressive early in camp last year, but turf toe in the same right foot knocked him out of competition for a job and kept him out of the big leagues until the end of the season.
The injury last year prevented him from competing for a roster spot with Tyler Colvin, who had a solid season. Blackmon, 26, performed well in his late-season callup (.283, .325 on-base percentage, nine RBIs). But the big-league picture is crowded, and the Rockies have an impressive set of young outfielders attempting to make their big-league mark.
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Blackmon made a nice first impression in Saturday's 11-2 spring opening victory over the D-backs, with a blistering line-drive single, while going 1-for-2 with an RBI. He was to come off the bench Sunday against the D-backs.
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Gmail's Auto-Forwarding Notice
The explanation for this temporary annoyance is that some malicious software or other people who gain access to your account can setup auto-forwarding. "For about a week, this notice will appear for a few minutes each time you sign in to your account. Displaying the notification in this way helps ensure that you have a chance to see the notice, rather than someone who might try to gain unauthorized access to your account and use this setting improperly. The notice will disappear immediately if you choose to disable the forwarding setting, but that decision is up to you," mentions Google.
So that's the reason why there's no "dismiss" link and you're forced to see the pink bar again and again. Maybe it would be more useful to show this message for one week after auto-forwarding has been setup.
If you no longer want to see the message, temporarily disable auto-forwarding, switch to the simplified HTML interface or pin the Gmail tab if you use Chrome, Firefox or Opera. Another option is to add this filter in AdBlock Plus: mail.google.com##.fVKDI (the extension is available for Firefox and Chrome).
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i saw it earlier today and felt good about this. a lot of people with previously hacked gmail have no idea that their accounts is silently forwarding mails to another ID. this is good update.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 8:54 AM
Hotmail had this for months ifnot years, I always found it annoying (I use a backup account for my email so I got this always enabled). But for one week it seems good indeed.ReplyDelete
THANK YOU THANK YOU for the Adblock-plus Filter!!!ReplyDelete
very much appreciated!
A little CSS will get rid of the banner (and thanks Google for becoming even more annoying with every passing day).ReplyDelete
I can definitely see Sushubh's point, here: If someone got hacked a while ago, the solution of having the message show up for a week after a filter is created would fail to catch their attention (because the filter's likely older than a week).ReplyDelete
I think this is principally an effort to ferret out long-lived hacking.
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2011 at 2:41 PM
I was admittedly ready to commence violent one-man street demonstrations over the annoying pink bar at the top of my otherwise pretty gmail screen; however, now that I know why it's there I can calm down and save my clever protest signs for future re-use. Note to Google: How about a little 'hi, I'm here because...' link next to such a banner in the future?ReplyDelete
It's absurd that you won't even let people temporarily close it. It's a huge waste of space.ReplyDelete
Anonymous. "How about a little 'hi, I'm here because...' link next to such a banner in the future?"ReplyDelete
Duh. "Why is this notice here?" isn't clear enough?
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2011 at 7:43 AM
"About a week" has been three weeks and counting. What jackass at Google made the decision to NOT let me get rid of that message once I've reviewed it? Come on, Google.ReplyDelete
How annoying. We should have the facility to remove it once we've accepted itReplyDelete
I have to say if it helps to stop hackers auto forwarding your emails then I can put up with this. A while ago someone got into my emails and autoforwarded them all my sent mail disappeeared.ReplyDelete
I had this problem too, it would be a good way to stop hackers autoforwarding your sent mail.ReplyDelete
Hi, I have a question about the auto forwarded incoming emails. Can I find anywhwre a log of the emails that have been forwarded to the other address in the past?ReplyDelete
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