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By all accounts, Shiner beer shouldn't have made it this long. The Spoetzl Brewery ferments its brew in a one-stoplight town that's not on the way to anywhere, and much larger regional brewers long ago succumbed to consolidation and the muscle of national brewers.
For years, Spoetzl limped along with cast-off parts from other breweries and lingered on the brink of shutting down. But today, at 100 years of age, Shiner beers are more popular than ever, and it is the oldest and largest craft brewer in a state where people cling fiercely to their beer and to all things Texan.
"It's the classic little-guy story," said Mike Renfro, author of Shine On, a book about the brewery's history. "They managed to overcome some pretty incredible odds."
Before Prohibition and easy interstate travel, the United States was dotted with small regional brewers, but only a handful have survived and remained independent for a century or more. Pennsylvania's Yuengling Beer Co. and upstate New York's Matt Brewing Co., maker of Saranac beers, sell mostly on the East Coast, while August Schell Brewing Co. and Stevens Point Brewery, maker of Point beers, sell primarily in the Midwest.
In Texas, there's just Shiner now, and it's growing. The brewery now produces 400,000 barrels a year, 10 times what it did 20 years ago, and distributes to 39 states, selling particularly well with ex-Texans and Texas-themed restaurants, company officials say.
The German and Czech immigrants who settled and farmed around this town, an outpost roughly halfway between San Antonio and Houston, formed the Shiner Brewing Association in 1909. In June that year, they bored a well and at just 16 meters, water bubbled to the surface, providing a water source that the brewery still uses.
The first few years were a struggle until the association found Kosmos Spoetzl, a German immigrant with a secret recipe. He bought the brewery in 1915 and marketed his brew by loading up his Model T with kegs and ice. He drove the dirt roads along the region's cotton fields, offering thirsty laborers what today is basically Shiner Blonde.
But just five years after Spoetzl bought the brewery, Prohibition began and the brewery could only make ice and nonalcoholic "near beer" - officially, anyway.
Most folks around Shiner have heard tales of the real stuff being secretly brewed.
"From what I understand, it was nearer to beer than 'near-beer,'" said brewmaster Jimmy Mauric, 49, who grew up in Shiner and has been working at Spoetzl since he was a teenager.
Whatever Spoetzl was making, his brewery survived long enough to begin openly brewing beer again in 1933.
He ran the brewery until his death in 1950, when his daughter Cecelie took over. She ran it for nearly 16 years, one of the few female brewery owners in the country.
But time pretty much stood still in Shiner - a town that even today consists of the brewery, a wire works plant and a few streets of well-kept historic homes. Local folks took their kids to Spoetzl's hospitality room without thinking anything of it; Mauric recalls going there at ages four and five. Regulars would "sample" Shiner from 10 a.m. to noon, go home for lunch and be back from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., when the hospitality room closed, he said.
The beer industry, meanwhile, was going through a series of consolidations in the 1960s and 1970s. The big Texas regional brands, Pearl and Lone Star, were both acquired by Illinois-based Pabst Brewing Co. Their historic breweries in San Antonio closed.
Spoetzl stayed independent, surviving mostly because of a loyal following among Austin drinkers who embraced the dark Shiner Bock and the beer's Texas roots.
The brewery was so ramshackle and remote that big companies weren't really interested in it. Mauric said by the late 1980s, the brewery was probably on the verge of last call.
He and other employees kept Spoetzl going with spare parts scoured from shuttered breweries and were still climbing three flights of stairs to turn hand valves on the gravity-fed brewing tanks in 1989. "I used to say we were holding the place together with baling wire," Mauric said.
They produced just 40,000 barrels a year, distributing no farther than Austin, 128 kilometers north.
Salvation, and modernization, for Shiner-brand beers came in 1989 with the arrival of Carlos Alvarez, a beer marketing executive who first encountered Shiner Bock while building a US market for Grupo Modelo's Corona brands in the early 1980s.
"I saw the customers' enthusiasm for the brand," said Alvarez, whose Gambrinus Co. bought the Shiner brewery hoping to take advantage of its loyal customer base.
Just about everything at the brewery needed to be rebuilt and replaced, but Alvarez said he wanted to keep it in the town of Shiner, which has a population of about 2,000. He liked the authenticity it gave the brand and the people who made the beer.
"They are really hands-on individuals. They are farmers. They work in the fields. They are extremely handy," he said. "It makes a huge difference to be able to be from a real town, from real people who are not the creation" of marketers.
The brewery, which offers tours five days a week, is often filled with out-of-state visitors who got acquainted with it through a Texas connection.
Susie Pelc, a native of Shiner who long ago moved away, can now buy Shiner Bock at home in Aiken, South Carolina.
"But it's in the 'import' section," she smiled.


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I've been hearing it for a month about Disgaea 4 not being included in the Coming Soon for Sept. 6 alongside other games such as Resistance 3, Driver: San Francisco, Dead Island and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. So here you go: Disgaea 4, here on the front page, big as Christmas, is coming out this week.
• Dead Island (PC, PS3, 360)—Techland's highly anticipated survival horror zombie game isn't a shooter. The focus here is on melee combat as you try to survive Dead Island's open world.
• Driver: San Francisco (PS3, 360, Wii)—Ubisoft seeks to resuscitate a lagging franchise with a strange premise: Your protagonist is in a coma, and has the supernatural ability to leap from car to car, taking control of it as he tours the city by the bay.
• Resistance 3 (PS3)—The finale to Insomniac's trilogy takes place in an American heartland overrun by Chimaera, with protagonist Joseph Capelli fighting his way from Oklahoma to New York.
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (PC, PS3, 360)—Brawny, brutal and bloody, follow Captain Titus as he repels hordes of Orks with big, badass weaponry and, oh yes, the Chain Sword.
Also: Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten (PS3); Driver: Renegade (3DS);Rise of Nightmares (360); Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters (PC, Mac).
• Crimson Alliance (XBLA)
• Rock of Ages (PC)
• Skydrift (PSN, XBLA)
• Star Fox 64 3D (3DS)
Looking Ahead
Sept. 13: Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, NHL 12. Sept. 20: Gears of War 3. Sept. 27: Pro Evolution Soccer 2012; X-Men: Destiny; FIFA 12. Oct. 4: Dark Souls; NBA 2K12; RAGE; Spider-Man: Edge of Time. Oct. 11: Ace Combat: Assault Horizon; Dead Rising 2: Off the Record; Forza Motorsport 4. Oct. 18: Batman: Arkham City; Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One.
What are you getting? What do you want? What are you looking forward to? Sound it off below, and at #twig.
Sources: Video Game Release Calendar; GameStop
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I was out this weekend shooting late autumn in West Virginia. I broke the cardinal rule of chasing the light. I shot clear through midday. I know that magic light is not a rule and that there are really no rules, but I was struck by how landscape photography must differ in the east versus the west--even while I think most of the "luminaries" are shooting in the west. The area that is most different is that in the east you get few wide vistas, and when you do, you rarely get skies worthy of reproduction. I know this isn't always the truth, but it is a frequent problem. For this reason, I tend to shoot more intimate landscapes that are easier to control without hazy white skies. I also have been musing to myself about morning or evening light in the hills and hollers of West Virginia. There are some deep hollers that will never get morning or evening light. You just need to shoot with what god gave you.For these reasons, I have begun to shoot with a new recklessness that takes as its mantra, "shoot what you are given and be happy." I am curious how you might think that "rules" of landscape photography may need to be adapted for different regions with differing strengths and weaknesses. Fike[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=81664\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
As dobson says, it's more complex than "east-west". Most regions have a wide variety of terrain. It's just a matter of what terrain you choose to shoot in and what you choose to shoot.And what fike originally said about getting skies rarely worth reproduction - I'm sure that's true in many places. What the great landscape photographers often have to do is to wait until those rare occasions when the skies cooperate, or figure out the conditions that give the best skies and plan to be do it then.Me, I also subscribe to the "shoot what you are given and be happy" approach. Since I work full time in another field, I can't wait around, and photography is rarely the primary point of my excursions anyway. In that case, maybe there are other things in the photo that make it worth taking despite the uncooperative sky...Lisa[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=81797\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
In the east, like in the Shenandoah, you have mountains, but everything is mistier, funkier, somehow. But that doesn't mean it's not great -- for some interesting landscapes of the eastern wilderness type, look at Last of the Mohicans, which was mostly shot in North Carolina.It's all good.JC[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=81890\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I find it interesting that several of us eastern folks have interpreted this discussion to be about the inferiority of the east for landscape photography. I think as far as wilderness and parks, that is a widely held belief.I don't agree.Actually, I kind of feel like being a good photographer in the east may be harder, but in the end it makes you a better photographer. When I head west, I am never at a loss for a fine image, whether intimate or expansive. We all know what the liabilities of the east are: dull gray skies, few wild vistas, dense, dark woods. But, what are the assets in the east? Colorful autumn, verdant greens, what else.What are the liabilities of the west for landscape photography? I don't really know. Haven't lived there and practiced there long enought to know.FikeP.S. I know that there are exceptions to all rules and that Oregon has dense dark wilderness with colorful leaves that take on many generic qualities of the east. Sorry, for discussion sake, please indulge my generalizations.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=81965\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I agree. To me, "typical" western landscapes are like symphonic music, whereas eastern landscapes are more like chamber music. Whenever I come back easy from a phot trip to more "spectacular" parts of the world, I am thankful that I live where I do, where there is so much subtle, intimate beauty.Typical east and typical west are different, but that doesn't make one better than the other.Eric[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=81977\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Diane,Do let us know if you find the Lenswork article. I'm intrigued.Eliot Porter comes to mind as someone who, in my view, was able to deal very effectively with both the grand, western landscapes and the intimate eastern woodsy scenes.I agree with Fike that eastern landscapes may be a greater challenge. Hmmm. I wonder what Alain Briot would do in a flat, Maine woods?Eric[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=82084\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Eric, I did find it but I don't find an archive of the article. It is in Lenswork No. 51 (Feb. -Mar 2004) and the photographer is Joe Lipka--a view camera photographer. Maybe some of you have the old issues and can look it up--page 31.Diane[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=82124\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
What are the liabilities of the west for landscape photography? I don't really know. Haven't lived there and practiced there long enought to know.
So my theory is, that the westerly landscape photographers must be afflicted by beautiful but "photographed to death" places. How can one be happy with their own Yosemite valley pictures after having seen hundreds if not thousand images of that place?
(who never tried to photograph the Matterhorn here in Switzerland) ;-)


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The Social Meaning of RDF
March 5, 2003
One of the enduring joys of having a pulpit, such as is provided by the XML-Deviant column, is the chance to ride one's own hobby horses. While the point of the XML-Deviant column is to represent the most interesting and important facets of debate within the XML development community, it also affords me a chance to promote or demote things, based upon my sense of what is true, good, right, or useful.
RDF is one of my hobby horses, a technology which I have consciously sought to promote in these pages, fairly and honestly, whenever the occasion presented itself. I have written often about RDF ("Go Tell It On the Mountain", "RDF, What's It Good For?, "RPV: Triples Made Plain", and "Creative Comments: On the Uses and Abuses of Markup"), as well as about technologies built on top it ("If Ontology, Then Knowledge: Catching Up With WebOnt" and "The True Meaning of Service"). My goal has generally been to suggest that RDF is a good choice for particular kinds of data representation tasks; that it is a tool every web programmer should know how to use to her advantage. The particular kinds of data representation problem to which RDF is suited include those in which some or all of the first-class objects are web resources (that is, things which have a URL), or those in which some or all of the first-class objects are amenable to being named with URIs. That is not an inconsequential problem domain.
RDF is frequently described as a tool for representing knowledge, but therein lies a hornet's nest of deeply conceptual questions, better left undisturbed if you can help it. Sometimes, however, the hornet's nest has to be overturned because it is necessary to address the deep conceptual questions directly. The formal blessing of RDF specifications, especially "RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax", is a case in point. In what remains of this column, I review some of the vigorous debate surrounding one troublesome section of this document, section 4.
The Social Meaning Debate
As it so happens, a meeting will be convened in Boston tomorrow, 6 March, 2003, the day after I am writing this column, to discuss the issues raised by section 4. The agenda of this meeting is publicly accessible, so if you're very interested, you can follow along in detail from afar. I present the high points of that agenda in the next few paragraphs.
The RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax specification (hereafter, "Concepts") says that an RDF graph ("a set of triples", according to Concepts 3.1) has two kinds of meaning: a formal and a social meaning. The formal meaning of an RDF graph results from applying the RDF semantics, based on model-theoretic semantics, to the graph. But, as both Concepts and the RDF semantics documents suggest, there is another aspect to the meaning of an RDF graph, the social meaning. The social meaning is the place, one might say colloquially, where RDF meets and interacts with the real world. The debate about the social meaning of RDF, and the subject matter occupying much of the agenda of tomorrow's meeting, concerns whether and, if so, how the social meaning of RDF should be formally specified in the Concepts document.
In order to provide you with a better grasp of the issues involved, I want to quote the most relevant parts of section 4:
When an RDF graph is asserted in the Web, its publisher is saying something about their view of the world. Such an assertion should be understood to carry the same social import and responsibilities as an assertion in any other format. A combination of social (e.g. legal) and technical machinery (protocols, file formats, publication frameworks) provide the contexts that fix the intended meanings of the vocabulary of some piece of RDF, and which distinguish assertions from other uses (e.g. citations, denials or illustrations)…
The social machinery includes the form of publication: publishing some unqualified statements on one's World Wide Web home page would generally be taken as an assertion of those statements. But publishing the same statements with a qualification, such as "here are some common myths", or as part of a rebuttal, would likely not be construed as an assertion of the truth of those statements. Similar considerations apply to the publication of assertions expressed in RDF.
An RDF graph may contain "defining information" that is opaque to logical reasoners. This information may be used by human interpreters of RDF information, or programmers writing software to perform specialized forms of deduction in the Semantic Web.
The debate about these issues is very complex, primarily because it crosses, and then recrosses, many distinct but related disciplinary boundaries. It has recently crystallized around an extended set of comments and reactions to section 4 by Bijan Parsia. Parsia's general objection to section 4 runs something like this: given that formally specifying "social meaning" is an incredibly complex task (and not one especially relevant to the Working Group's charter), made only more complex by trying to specify it in relation to a formal system such as RDF, Concepts section 4 is, to quote Parsia, "vacuous ... it doesn't really specify anything and thus can be ignored ... or it's dangerously underthought and underspecified".
Parsia also makes the relevance argument, focusing on section 4.4 of Concepts, which says that if you publish RDF content you thereby "commit [yourself] to the mechanically-inferred social obligations" of that RDF. Setting aside the ambiguity of "mechanically-inferred", surely, as Parsia notes, that claim falters: either because the W3C lacks the grounds upon which to make such a claim authoritatively, or because it is intended to be merely informative, in which case it is, as Parsia says, "probably false".
The Unresolved Issues
The specific issues over which some consensus must be formed before Concepts can become a formal W3C Recommendation include the following:
- how or whether the meaning of URIs (when used, for example, as RDF predicates) is defined and defined authoritatively -- and whether, or to what degree, Concepts must make this explicit (see Concepts 4.3 Authoritative Definition of Terms);
- what Concepts means by saying that "an RDF graph may contain 'defining information' that is opaque to logical reasoners", that is, what is the meaning of this "defining information"? (see section 4.2 Social Meaning);
- how one asserts, or refrains from asserting, RDF statements (see Concepts 4.1 Asserted and Non-asserted Forms);
- how one specifies the meaning of an RDF graph, which presupposes some position on the relation of an RDF graph's formal meaning, social meaning, and social meaning of its "formal entailments" (see Concepts section 4.4 Interaction Between Social and Formal Meaning);
- whether non-RDF contexts, including various technical details of the Web's architecture (protocols, file formats, and so on), are sufficient to "fix the intended meanings of the vocabulary of some piece of RDF" (in the words of the Social Meaning Discussion Agenda), and, more crucially, whether the social meaning of RDF assertions is a function of the intention of the speaker ("speaker meaning") or is a function of the meaning of the assertion itself ("sentence meaning") (see Concepts section 4.2 Social Meaning);
- whether "publishing" RDF is sufficient to obligate one to its formal or social meanings and, further, what acts or ommissions constitute a party as the "publisher" or as the "asserter" of RDF;
- finally, what relation there is between RDF's meaning, whether social or formal, and legal contexts and considerations (see Concepts section 4.5).
In short, there remain significant issues to be resolved before RDF Concepts progresses in the W3C recommendation process. There are at least two different kinds of difficulty. First, these issues (knowledge representation, the relation of formal and social systems, the meaning of meaning, and so on) are simply very difficult. If they were easy, we would have had something like RDF a long time ago, or at the least there would be even more unemployed philosophers and logicians around. Second, these issues cut across areas internal to the institutional politics of the W3C and its constitutents. RDF is in a very real sense, as my grandmother would have put it, the red-headed stepchild of the W3C. Without the active support of Tim Berners-Lee, RDF might have suffered a far worse fate than controversy and debate, namely, obscurity and abandon.
Further, these issues are complicated by the fact that Berners-Lee both participates actively in the development of RDF recommendations, in which he is one among equals, and is also able to speak, ex cathedra, as the W3C's Director. Berners-Lee has participated in the social meaning debates so far, and his position -- which he has so far expressed outside his institutional role and authority as W3C Director -- is worth mentioning here. In his view, Concepts requires a statement of "what an RDF document means" and, further, that statement is an easy one to make.
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This seems to fly in the face of the debate about RDF's social meaning. In other words, if it's easy, why does it seem so hard? Why are so many smart people having such a hard time doing an easy thing? One option, after all, is simply to refrain from taking a position about these very difficult issues. But that does not appear to be a viable option at this point, given Berners-Lee's view that such a statement is required. Further, we must distinguish carefully what an RDF document means from "explain[ing] how to use it", which is not required of the Concepts specification, in Berners-Lee's view.
In my view the only thing which is required is a clear statement of how the formal meaning of an RDF document is to be arrived at. While it is true that, in various social contexts, this formal meaning may well have a further social meaning, specifying that social meaning is a very difficult thing to do well. It is also outside the scope of RDF recommendations per se, and may well be pointless insofar as social meaning is typically not amenable to authoritative pronouncement, even from institutions which are legitimately entrusted with the relevant kind of authority. Even the U.S. Supreme Court, which has the authority to determine a kind of social meaning (the legal kind), did not arrive at that position solely by the fiat of another U.S. institution, but, rather, by a historical, evolutionary process. Whatever social import RDF as a whole, or any specific RDF statement, has will be something which is determined not by the fiat of any one institution, but by the same organic, historical social process out of which social meaning is always formed.


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Saigo no RIBORUBAA
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Jitsudan iri no RIBORUBAA wo
Me wo mae ni natsu anata ni muketa
A revolver with live ammunition
I directed it at you who was standing before my eyes
Mata futari de natsu-matsuri no hanabi demo
Mi ni ikitai ne
GOMEN sonna koto
Mou muri datte wakatte iru n da
Saisho kara futari wa
Subete chigaisugita kara
I'd at least want to go and see the fireworks
Of the Summer festival together with you again
Sorry, I know that kind of thing
Is impossible now
Because from the beginning we
Were very different all over
"Aku" no watashi ga deatta
Anata wa "seigi" gawa no hito deshita
You met the "evil" me
You were a person on the side of "justice"
Nakinagara utsu no wa hajimete ka na
Onegai warui no wa subete watashi nanda kara
Sonna yasashii kao wo shinai de
For the first time, I wonder if I'll fire while crying
Everything is going wrong because of me, so please
Don't give me such a kind face
Natsu ni ippai omoide tsukutta
Aki no yoru ni hitotsu ni natta
Fuyu ni subete owari wo tsugeta
In Summer we made many memories
On an Autumn night we became one
In Winter I am told that everything is ending
hitosashiyubi ga chiisaku furueru
Watashi wa saigo ni "GOMEN" to itta
Anata wa saigo ni...
My index finger trembled a little
I said "Sorry" at the end
You in the end said...
Mata futari de natsu-matsuri no hanabi demo
Mi ni ikitai ne
Shinpai shinai de kitto sugu ni aeru kara ne
Zutto issho ni iyounette
Itsumo itteta mon ne
I'd at least want to go and see the fireworks
Of the Summer festival together with you again
Don't worry because we'll surely meet again soon
"Let's be together forever"
We would always say that
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas legislators passed a law Monday requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, overriding Governor Mike Beebe's veto of the bill, which he called an expensive solution to a nonexistent problem.
The Republican-led state House voted 52 to 45, largely along party lines, to complete an override that started in the GOP-controlled Senate on a 21-to-12 vote last week. Only a simple majority was needed in each chamber.
''We are trying to protect the integrity of one of the most fundamental rights we have here in America,'' said state Represent Stephen Meeks, a Republican from Greenbrier and the bill's House sponsor. House Speaker Davy Carter, a Cabot Republican who did not vote for the bill when it passed the House last month, supported the override.
The Democratic governor, who last week called the bill ''an expensive solution in search of a problem,'' told reporters earlier Monday that he had talked with some lawmakers to explain his veto, but had not urged them to vote against an override. ''He made his case as to why he thought it wasn't going to be good for Arkansas, but they have the final say and they've had that say,'' Beebe spokesman Matt DeCample said after the vote.
Representative John Walker, a Little Rock Democrat and noted civil rights lawyer, warned lawmakers to ''not go back on history'' by enacting the requirement.
Critics of such voter ID laws say the type of in-person voter fraud they are meant to prevent is extremely rare, and that the laws are really designed to make it harder to vote for certain groups that tend to back Democrats. Black lawmakers in Arkansas have compared the new voter ID law to poll taxes used in the Jim Crow era.
''I dare say you'll find any of your colleagues in this body of my color who will support this. It doesn't matter what their leanings are. What you're doing in effect is saying we don't care about what you think, we're going to do this anyway,'' said Walker, who is black. ''If you have the majority of course that's what you can do, but do you really uniformly to a person by party disrespect us so much?''
Arkansas is among 19 states where proposals to enact voter ID laws or strengthen existing requirements have been introduced this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Republicans have been pushing for similar laws in other states, although the measures have faced court challenges. Voter ID laws in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have been blocked. Similar restrictions by Texas and South Carolina have been rejected by the federal government under the Voting Rights Act, and Mississippi is waiting for federal approval of its photo ID law.
Four states — Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, and Tennessee — have similarly strict photo ID requirement laws in effect. Virginia will also have a strict photo ID requirement for voters in effect July 2014 under a measure signed into law last week by Governor Bob McDonnell.
Senator Bryan King, who sponsored the bill in the Arkansas Senate, said after Monday's vote that he was relieved by the results.
''This bill has had the most debate about it, it's had the most scrutiny of any bill this session,'' the Republican from Green Forest said.
The new law will require Arkansas to provide a free photo ID to voters who don't have one and will cost the state an estimated $300,000. The requirement would not take effect until there is funding for the IDs or until January, whichever occurs last.
Rita Sklar, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, called the override a ''terrible shame'' and said the group is prepared to sue to block its enforcement.
While Arkansas poll workers must ask for identification under current law, voters don't have to show it to cast a ballot. Under the new law, voters who don't show photo identification can cast provisional ballots.
Those ballots would be counted only if voters provide ID to county election officials or, before noon on the Monday following an election, sign an affidavit stating they are indigent, or have a religious objection to being photographed.


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The fees, ordered by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) earlier this month , are meant to help safeguard banks against risky borrowers who might default.
Planned fee increases that would have added to the cost of millions of mortgages will be postponed.
Currently, borrowers seeking loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are set to pay higher upfront fees starting April 1.
The fees, ordered by the Federal Housing Finance Agency earlier this month, are meant to help safeguard banks against risky borrowers who might default.
But housing experts say they will add thousands of dollars to the cost of all mortgages insured by Fannie and Freddie, with the biggest hits taken by borrowers with less than perfect credit histories.
On Friday, the incoming chief of the FHFA, Mel Watt, said he intends to postpone the fees — and perhaps even cancel them — until more analysis is done. The FHFA oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Watt, a former Democratic member of Congress, has been confirmed to his post by the Senate and takes office on January 6.
In a statement, Watt said he intends to "evaluate fully the rationale" for the fees and their impact on Fannie and Freddie and the "availability of credit."
Related: 10 hottest housing markets
The mortgage industry has been bracing for substantial increases in the price of loans in 2014.
"If these [policies] had been implemented, it would have increased borrowing costs dramatically," said David Stevens, CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association.
The hit for inpidual borrowers would depend on the amount of the home purchase being financed, according to Brian Koss, executive vice president at Massachusetts-based lender Mortgage Network.
Borrowers would have paid a fee when they took out the loan, or they could have effectively rolled the higher fees into their interest rate, raising monthly mortgage payments by as much as a quarter percentage point.
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Even with the reversal, however, mortgages will probably get more expensive over the next few months anyway as the Federal Reserve cuts back on its purchases of mortgage backed securities, a program designed to keep interest rates low.
Stevens, the mortgage industry representative, said the proposed increases made little sense. Defaults on mortgages made in recent years have been much lower than on those made before the housing crash.
As a result, Fannie and Freddie are flush with profits, so much so that they have already returned almost all of their $187 billion taxpayer-funded bailout.
"The GSEs are making a lot of money," said Stevens. "There's no rationale for the increases." To top of page


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Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world's foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind's relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life.
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Al Qaeda has established a vast mountain stronghold in Mali's lawless north, launching attacks and then melting into the rugged hills, which they vow will become an Afghanistan-style quagmire for North African governments and Western militaries, according to experts.
Like Tora Bora, the mountain labyrinth in Afghanistan where Al Qaeda evaded Western militaries for years under Usama bin Laden, Mali's Tigharghar Mountain chain allows terrorists to strike within the region and then vanish when pursued, according to a new report by Stratfor, a Texas-based intelligence firm. Caves, tunnels and land mines have made the jagged mountains an impenetrable safe haven for the terrorists, who authorities say were behind last month's attack on an Algerian gas plant and yesterday's car bombing that killed six in Kidal, a key city in northern Mali.
The terrorist groups are believed to be behind a month-old insurgency in Mali, which the government is fending off with help from France, which seeks to protect the interests of mining and energy companies in the region. But experts believe the effort is part of a larger bid to destabilize northern Africa, where Al Qaeda is regrouping after fighting American-led Western allies for more than a decade in the Middle East. Extremists vow the mountain refuge will ultimately be worse for their enemies than the decade-long struggle in Afghanistan.
"They made the mountains' terrain even more impassable by using land mines and improvised explosive devices and digging tunnels," the report states. "The militants could already use the extensive network of caves in the mountains, the entrances to which are extremely difficult to spot; in fact, the only way to confirm a cave's location is to observe militants entering and exiting the cave."
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Africa — Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM — has been a lurking presence for years in Mali, a country decimated by poverty and hunger. But political instability following a military coup last year has emboldened them to take over an enormous territory larger than France or Texas — and almost exactly the size of Afghanistan.
In Tuesday's attack, a bomber exploded his vehicle at a checkpoint near Kidal and killed at least six, according to the Islamic Movement of Azawad (MIA), which is fighting alongside the Malian Army and French troops against Islamic extremists fighting to overthrow the pro-Western government. France deployed 550 troops and launched airstrikes against the Islamists in northern Mali last month, easily reclaiming cities in northern Mali, but their momentum has slowed as the fighting has reached more remote terrain in the mountains, which rise from the southern Sahara.
The mountain chain — which covers roughly 8,500 square miles in northeastern Mali, along the Algerian border — simultaneously provides protection and allows penetration into Algeria's Hoggar Mountains and Niger's Air Mountains. The area's "steep, craggy hills and valleys" is also strewn with riverbeds that are arid most of the year, but still cut a landscape ripe for stealth movement by Al Qaeda fighters or those affiliated with the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, the Stratfor report found.
"As part of their offensive in Mali, which faced threats of a foreign intervention long before foreign troops began arriving in January, these militants intended to use the Tigharghar Mountains as their last resort," the report reads. "They made the mountains' terrain even more impassable by using land mines and improvised explosive devices and digging tunnels. The militants could already use the extensive network of caves in the mountains, the entrances to which are extremely difficult to spot; in fact, the only way to confirm a cave's location is to observe militants entering and exiting the cave."
Those elaborate tunnels to transport food, fuel and ammunition — some large enough for trucks to navigate — are augmented by surface terrain rough enough to provide cover despite lack of vegetation, making surveillance difficult. Even drones aren't much use in the mountains.
"The broken terrain limits the effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicles or other aircraft used for observation because the natural elevations create a shadow effect," the Stratfor report said. "Operating such aircraft at a higher altitude can eliminate this effect but lowers resolution and increases the area observed at one time."
The low-level mountain range is inhabited by several Tuareg tribes named Kal Adagh, which, according to local vernacular means "those from the mountains." Roughly 60,000 people live in tiny towns and small settlements throughout the area, with the largest concentration in Kidal in northern Mali.
Smugglers and criminals moved easily in the jagged hills long before the terrorist groups arrived. Drugs from South America have long passed through the Tigharghar Mountains on their way to Niger or Algeria into Libya, and militant extremists have in recent years launch other illegal activities such as kidnapping for ransom from the region.
Raffaello Pantucci, a senior research fellow for Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, told FoxNews.com western military might can chase the insurgents into the hills, but the pursuit too often ends there.
"The French have arrived with superior firepower and they've retreated back to the countryside and have gone to places like this," Pantucci said. "They've melted back into this part of the territory. In many ways, it's not really that surprising. A lot of these guys are former smugglers, so they're used to staying small and mobile."
In January, Islamist militants seized a remote BP gas plant in Algeria, holding more than 800 workers for several days before Algerian special forces swooped in and killed dozens of militants. Some 39 foreign hostages were killed in the incident. The Algerian government, fearful that the insurgency in Mali could spread to the region, said the raiders had travelled 600 miles through the Sahara desert from Mali.
France has also reportedly deployed special forces to Niger, on Mali's eastern border, to protect a uranium mine owned by French multinational Areva, out of fears Mali-based attacks will spread.
Former United Nations diplomat Robert Fowler, a Canadian kidnapped and held for 130 days by Al Qaeda in Mali, told The Associated Press the terror group is firmly entrenched in the north.
"Al Qaeda never owned Afghanistan," said Fowler, who was freed in 2009. "They do own northern Mali."
FoxNews.com's Joshua Rhett Miller and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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In this comedy, a basketball fan figures she could be a better coach than the guy getting paid millions to do the job -- and then gets the chance to prove it. Edwina Eddie Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) is a limousine dispatcher and sometime driver who is a passionate New York Knicks fan; she loyally follows their every move, attending as many home games as possible from the cheap seats and radioing game updates to her drivers when they play during her working hours. The Knicks are purchased by eccentric Southern millionaire Wild Bill Burgess (Frank Langella) in the middle of a long losing streak; when Wild Bill calls for a limo, Eddie arranges to drive him herself, and gives him a piece of her mind about the sad state of the team. Impressed, Wild Bill makes Eddie an honorary coach for the night, and her spitfire attitude and encouragement of the players impresses her. However, Wild Bill thinks putting on a show to boost attendance is more important than having a winning team, and eventually Knicks coach Bailey (Dennis Farina) quits in disgust. Wild Bill gets the bright idea of hiring Eddie as the team's new head coach; she considers it an honor, and at only $50,000 a year, he considers it a bargain. While Eddie is hardly an experienced leader, she soon learns how to motivate her team, and against all odds she helps pull the Knicks out of their losing streak -- but now has to face Wild Bill, who is losing interest in the team and wants to sell. Several real-life NBA stars make cameo appearances, including Dennis Rodman, John Salley, Rick Fox, and Mark Jackson, while prominent New Yorkers David Letterman and Donald Trump play themselves.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide


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When thinking in terms of Dynkin diagrams, I am naively used to see that the diagram for a subgroup can be extracted from the diagram of the group by removing some roots. Now, I noticed that for SO(10) and its subgroup SU(4)xSU(2)xSU(2), no such removal happens, the Dynkin diagrams have the same number of nodes.
How usual is this? For which cases we can find subgroups with the same number of roots (the same number of nodes in the Dynkin diagram, I mean) that the main group?
For the aforementionated case, if one tries to remove a further root then the inclusion relationship does not hold anymore: from SO(10) we got to SO(8), but from 4-2-2 we go either to SU(3)xSU(2)xSU(2) or to SU(4)xSU(2), and neither of them are subgroups of SO(8).


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Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Sprout Skincare
Though I was happy with my skin regime I always get intrigued with new brands.
The makeup remover (£8) contains organic Sweet almond oil, Extra-virgin olive oil and Jojoba oil.
It has a good consistency, not too thin that it runs down your face but not so thick that it's difficult to spread. It does remove my makeup well and also eye makeup (though can make your eyes a bit blurry afterwards) I do feel like it left a layer on my skin and felt a toner was necessary after use.
The cleanser (£15) I used more as a toner as I felt like its ability to cleanse the skin was a bit limited, it felt pleasant on the skin and was not drying and worked well after the makeup remover to lift off the residue. It contains organic Rosewater, Vegetable glycerin and Tea tree oil.
I really wanted to like these products and depending on your skin type I do think these could be an effective paring for cleansing/makeup remover, however whilst I think for sensitive skin simplicity is the way to go, if you don't get on with the ingredients then you have problems and unfortunately my skin did not get on with these.
Using the makeup remover, either on its own, with the cleaner or with other brands, I got congested skin. With the cleanser, again on its own or with other products I got irritated bumps.
My skin is back to normal now after nearly a month due to my return to my trusty skincare brands (Pai, Ambre Botanicals and Omorovicza) and I think this little detour has made me realise I should really stick to what I know.
For those new to my blog please note that I do have very sensitive/reactive skin so would not want to discourage someone from this brand who does not have said skin type.
I bought these from cutecosmetics.co.uk
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I've never seen this line before, but like the concept and the packaging...especially the seemingly handwritten info on the back showing who made the batch and use by date - makes it seem more personal and goes with the whole organic feel. But like you I have very reactive skin. Just by looking at the makeup remover ingredients I think I got a whole mess of clogs!! Ha ha :-)ReplyDelete
I'm glad that your skin is finally getting back to normal after the Sprout incident! I hate it when my skin goes bonkers from a new line!! Excellent review! <3ReplyDelete
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I have known Sprout for a While and intend to try out their products (mainly the lip balm and body scrub).... Hope I will be luckier!!! :)
Cute packaging but homemade makeup remover is so much easier to make for much cheeper.ReplyDelete
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Yes, I can see with ingredients such as what these products contain that as long as you knew the amounts needed it would be possible to home make them :)


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Force multiplierThursday, July 28th, 2011
We live in perilous times. Within a few days, the United States might default on its debt, plunging the country into an unprecedented catastrophe. Meanwhile, the tragedy in Norway (a country I'll visit for the first time next month) reminds us that the civilized world faces threats from extremists of every ideology. All this news, of course, occurs against the backdrop of record-breaking heatwaves, the decimation of worldwide fish stocks, the dwindling supply of accessible oil, and the failure of the Large Hadron Collider to find supersymmetry.
But although the future may have seldom seemed bleaker, I want people to know that we in MIT's complexity theory group are doing everything we can to respond to the most pressing global challenges. And nothing illustrates that commitment better than a beautiful recent paper by my PhD student Andy Drucker (who many of you will recognize from his years of insightful contributions to Shtetl-Optimized: most recently, solving an open problem raised by my previous post).
Briefly, what Andy has done is to invent—and demonstrate—a breakthrough method by which anyone, including you, can easily learn to multiply ten-digit numbers in your head, using only a collection of stock photos from Flickr to jog your memory.
Now, you might object: "but isn't it cheating to use a collection of photos to help you do mental math—just like it would be cheating to use pencil and paper?" However, the crucial point is that you're not allowed to modify or rearrange the photos, or otherwise use them to record any information about the computation while you're performing it. You can only use the photos as aids to your own memory.
By using his method, Andy—who has no special mental-math training or experience whatsoever—was able to calculate 9883603368 x 4288997768 = 42390752785149282624 in his head in a mere seven hours. I haven't tried the method myself yet, but hope to do so on my next long plane flight.
Crucially, the "Flickr method" isn't limited to multiplication. It works for any mental memorization or calculation task—in other words, for simulating an arbitrary Boolean circuit or Turing machine. As I see it, this method provides probably the most convincing demonstration so far that the human brain, unaided by pencil and paper, can indeed solve arbitrary problems in the class P (albeit thousands of times more slowly than a pocket calculator). In his paper, Andy discusses possible applications of the method for cognitive science: most notably, using it to test conjectures about the working of human memory. If that or other applications pan out, then—like many other research projects that seem explicitly designed to be as useless as possible—Andy's might end up failing at that goal.


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Vehicle: '72 Chevy K20
OWNER: Jeffrey Anderson, Esko, MN
TIRES: 36x12.50-16.5 Goodyear Wranglers
WHEELS: 16.5x9.75 Eagle 589s
SUSPENSION: 4-inch suspension, 3-inch body
DRIVETRAIN: 406ci small-block, Dana 44 front, 1-ton Eaton rear
PERFORMANCE MODS: Ceramic-coated headers, Pete Jackson geardrive
OTHER DOODADS: Heavy-duty bumpers
WORST MOD: Cedar tongue-and-groove bed--too soft
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Hi Rise
VEHICLE: '86 Jeep J10
OWNER: James Goeldner, Milwaukee, WI
TIRES: 39.5x18-16.5 Boggers
SUSPENSION: 4-inch-lift leaves with a spring-over in front, 4-inch leaves in rear with 2-inch block, leaves moved inboard on rear to clear tires
DRIVETRAIN: 454ci engine, SM465 tranny, NP205 transfer case, Dana 60 front with ARB locker, Dana 60 rear with Detroit Locker, 4.56 gears
PERFORMANCE MODS: '87 GM TBI by Rueben Gosewich, 3-inch dual exhaust
OTHER DOODADS: Four-wheel disc brakes, custom bumpers, dual Warn 8274 winches, Painless Wiring harness, fuel cell, aluminum radiator, Auto Meter gauges, dual Optima red tops
BEST MOD: The license plate you're going to send me (please!)
Thanks, Friend
VEHICLE: '03 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
OWNER: Chris Turner's friend (Chris forgot to add his friend's name. Thank him, Friend), Alberta, Canada
TIRES: 35x12.50-15 Pro Comp X-Terrains
SUSPENSION: 6-inch Full Traction long-arm kit
DRIVETRAIN: Superior front and rear axleshafts
OTHER DOODADS: Warn 9500i winch, custom rear bumper, Warn brushguard, custom tube fenders, Power onboard air, Lincoln onboard welder
A Simple Repair Gone Obsessive
VEHICLE: '66 Jeep CJ-5
OWNER: Daryl Spradlin, Homeland, CA
TIRES: 37x12.50-15 Goodyear MTRs
WHEELS: 15-inch black bead locks
SUSPENSION: YJ leaf springs with spring-over conversion
DRIVETRAIN: Buick V-6 engine, SM420 tranny, Dana 44 front with ARB Air Locker, Dana 44 rear with Lock-Right locker, 5.38 gears
PERFORMANCE MODS: Headers, cam, four-wheel disc brakes
OTHER DOODADS: Custom built 2x3x1/4-inch frame, custom front and rear fenders, cage, sliders, onboard welder, custom toolbox countersunk into rear tub
BEST MOD: Spring-over
WORST MOD: Not having adequate traction bars
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VEHICLE: '98 Chevy Cheyenne 1500
OWNER: Robert Shoemaker, Linden, VA
TIRES: Goodyear AT/S WHEELS: 16-inch Mickey Thompsons
SUSPENSION: Stock
DRIVETRAIN: Stock
PERFORMANCE MODS: Flowmaster exhaust
OTHER DOODADS: Grilleguard, lights
Lunch Box
VEHICLE: '75 Chevy Step Van
OWNER: Phil Wood, Newark, OH
TIRES: 44-inch Swampers
WHEELS: 12-inch-wide Weld wheels
SUSPENSION: Blazer front suspension with 8-inch lift springs
DRIVETRAIN: 355ci engine, TH350 tranny, Dana 44 front, 14-bolt rear
PERFORMANCE MODS: 671 Blower
VEHICLE: '73 Steyr Puch Pinzgauer
OWNER: Mike Newton, Las Vegas, NV
TIRES: 33-inch Dunlop Mud Rovers
SUSPENSION: Stock
DRIVETRAIN: Factory hydraulic lockers in all three axles
OTHER DOODADS: 24-volt onboard air, CB radio, custom bumper
FUNNIEST WHEELING INCIDENT: Twisting a rear housing my first time out with my new vanity tag "4x4 Rescuer"
BEST MOD: Seatbelts for 12 passengers in the rear
WORST MOD: Unintended bodywork from an Arizona ravine
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VEHICLE: '99 Isuzu Vehicross
OWNER: Billy Oliver, Tucson, AZ
TIRES: 31x10.50-16 BFGoodrich All-Terrains
WHEELS: Stock SUSPENSION: 3-inch lift using Old Man Emu Trooper leaves in rear, front torsion bars cranked and ball joints flipped
OTHER DOODADS: Transfer-case skidplate
BEST MOD: Lift and tires
WORST MOD: Arizona pinstriping
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VEHICLE: '96 Dodge Ram 2500
OWNER: Matt Black, Kamas, UT
TIRES: 38x13-16 Swamper TSLs
WHEELS: 16x8 Ultra wheels
SUSPENSION: 9-inch custom-built suspension
DRIVETRAIN: 360ci V-8, 518 tranny, NP241 transfer case, Dana 60s front and rear, 4.10 gears
PERFORMANCE MODS: K&N air filter, Flowmaster, JBA headers, MSD ignition
BEST MOD: Suspension
WORST MOD: Aftermarket performance chip
VEHICLE: '99 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo
OWNER: Ryan Ritter
TIRES: 265/75-16 Marshal mud tires
WHEELS: Stock
SUSPENSION: 31/2-inch lift, Rancho RSX shocks
DRIVETRAIN: Stock 4.0L engine, NV242 transfer case, Dana 30 front, Dana 35 rear
OTHER DOODADS: KC Daylighters on custom rack, Cobra CB radio, sway-bar disconnects
FUNNIEST WHEELING INCIDENT: Getting wedged between two hills during a winter outing
BEST MOD: Suspension
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VEHICLE: '01 Toyota Tacoma
OWNER: Jeffrey Lang, Gloucester, VA
TIRES: 36x12.50-15 Swampers
WHEELS: American Racing
SUSPENSION: 9-inch suspension and body
DRIVETRAIN: V-6, stock
PERFORMANCE MODS: K&N air filter
OTHER DOODADS: Front brushguard, lightbar, six Hella lights
BEST MOD: Selling it to start a family
WORST MOD: Selling it to start a family
VEHICLE: '82 Ford Bronco
OWNER: Brian Langbien, Queensland, Australia
TIRES: 35x12.50-15 BFGoodrich Mud-Terrains
SUSPENSION: Koni with King springs on front
DRIVETRAIN: 6.2L diesel, Dana 44 TTB front with Lock-Rite locker, Ford 9-inch rear
OTHER DOODADS: Homemade snorkel, U-bolts to hold steering in
FUNNIEST WHEELING INCIDENT: Having my passenger end up in my lap after taking a jump
BEST MOD: Teaching my 11-year-old son to fix it when I break it
WORST MOD: Playing too hard
Lesson Learner
VEHICLE: '95 Chevy K1500
OWNER: Brad Makepeace, Greenville, NC
TIRES: 44x19.5-15 Boggers
WHEELS: 15x12 American Eagle 589s
SUSPENSION: 8-inch Skyjacker springs in front, 6-inch Skyjacker leaves in rear with shackle flip, 3-inch body
DRIVETRAIN: TBI 350ci, 4L60E tranny, NP241 transfer case, reverse-rotation Dana 44 front with full spool, 10-bolt rear with Detroit Locker, 5.38 gears
PERFORMANCE MODS: Dual exhaust, TCI shift kit
FUNNIEST WHEELING INCIDENT: Happened downtown: large crowd + big truck + loud pipes + cops = inciting a riot
BEST MOD: Straight axle and Boggers
WORST MOD: Wasting money on an IFS lift first
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Kimberly: "Nothing about life is supposed to be easy…If it were, then our ancestors wouldn't have achieved what they had, and we wouldn't be where we are as a people today.â€?
Where She's From: Kimberly Randall, whose Zodiac sign is Taurus, was born in White Plains, New York, April 29th, 1986, of Jamaican descent, and raised in Georgia.
"My parents taught me that the decisions I make now influence me the remainder of my life. So I think before I speak,� she tells The Black Star News. Kimberly briefly attended Hampton University and now attends Georgia State from where she'll graduate in December.
"I began modeling and acting at 13. School plays, dancing, acting and doing hair advertisements for Kanekalon Hair,� she says. "I directed plays in High school as well as hosted news programs at my magnet school. I am now hosting an online television show for Rolling Out T.V, on rollingouttv.com.�
Where She's At: "I'm at the best stage right now. I'm headed in the right direction while learning something new everyday and meeting amazing people,� Kimberly continues. "I'm growing by watching others and seeing how they attained their success. I'm strong in my belief of God, and he has me reaching for the stars.�
Kimberly is ambitious—yet she knows that success only comes after hard work. "I see myself hopefully with my own show with the growing network Rolling Out, hosting events as a prominent M.C. I hope to inspire younger girls. Helping them see that just because your beautiful, you don't have to just be a video girl. You can be the director of the video, or the television host and that it takes patience and hard work to make it to a place where every morning you can wake up proud of how you reached your dreams.�
There are challenges that everyone who aspires to make it in the entertainment business has to tackle, Kimberly explains. "Temptations of taking the easy road, but I know that nothing about life is supposed to be easy,� she warns. "If it were, then our ancestors wouldn't have achieved what they had, and we wouldn't be where we are as a people today.�
Where She's Heading: Kimberly's dedication has allowed her to rack up achievements, even as she keeps her eyes on her books and class assignments until December. "I am a part of the new Bronner Brothers advertisement campaign,� she notes. "I have been featured in a soon-to-be released magazine as well as promoting up-and-coming fashion lines.�
"My mother said 'a pretty face only gets you to age 40.' I plan to be successful past that, and after looks fade and things begin to sag,� she adds, with a laugh, "I have to have something solid to fall back on. I want to remain successful not because of my exterior but because of who I am inside—a reflection of my family and my culture.�
So, how does this beautiful young talent prepare to step outside? "Juicy Couture perfume is the greatest, so is Vera Wang, they have such a classy smell. Adidas sneakers for my off days. They are comfy and stylish, Cocoa butter for the skin—the best lotion for dark complexion. And for clothing, I am best friends with the Black and White store. I love dressing up.�
Kimberly's Words Of Wisdom: "Never let anyone, any words or any assumptions stop you from conquering your dreams. The same people that told you 'no,' or 'you can't' one day will be the same ones chasing you down for a hand out.�
Kimberly's Secrets Of Success: "God.�
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Kimberly's Favorite Three Books: "The Secret, Redemption Song, and Lessons My Mother Taught Me.�
Leaders That Have Most Inspired Kimberly: "Of course, my mommy Millicent Roman, she is basically why I am me. Vicki Palmer of Coca-Cola Enterprises, a very educated woman that has accomplished so much, and Kathleen Bertrand, a Gospel and Jazz singer from my church. All three women are amazing, strong, beautiful and successful.�
The First Three Things Kimberly Would Do As President: "Accommodate as many individual requests by Americans, ensure equality amongst the races and gender, and provide more jobs.�
Kimberly's Favorite Cars: "Cadillac, my boyfriend's car, BMWs because they are so classy yet not over done.�
Kimberly's Favorite Musicians/Entertainers: "Robin Thicke-Lost Without You; Marron 5-Sunday Morning; Donny McClurken-Stand; Janet Jackson- All her songs; and Ciara-Promise.�
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It has been an interesting week for climate change news, with the IPCC releasing its full report on renewable energy, the European Commission moving ahead with energy efficiency legislation, very little happening at the UNFCCC talks in Bonn and of course the battle over carbon pricing continuing in Australia. In scanning the Australian media I spotted an insightful interview with the United States Ambassador to Australia. In the interview, Ambassador Bleich argues that the USA is on track to meet its 2020 greenhouse gas target (17% below 2005 levels) because of the breadth of activity across the economy in transforming the energy system.
THE US ambassador to Australia says America is pulling its weight in international efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, contrary to suggestions a carbon tax would see Australia acting "ahead of the rest of the world". In an interview with the (Sydney Morning) Herald, Ambassador Jeff Bleich said the idea that America was lagging was "not accurate at all" and it was "absolutely realistic" to believe the US would meet its target of a 17 per cent reduction in emissions by 2020, based on 2005 levels.
"The US is taking dramatic action, if you look at the largest investment in history in energy transition, the major regulatory reforms for the largest emitters and consumers of energy, the focus on the dirtiest emission technologies used by power plants and vehicles … we are moving on a very aggressive regulatory effort," he said. "… there's absolutely no question the United States has been doing a tremendous amount over the last two years … and going forward the President has said we need to double what we are doing because that is good for our economy."
The Californian emissions trading scheme, due to start next year, could also have "dramatic effects", for that state and potentially on a broader scheme for the western states of the US and Canada, he said. Although President Obama had been clear he preferred a national cap and trade scheme, when that was not successful in Congress he had moved to different approaches. These had not put the United States at a competitive disadvantage with major trading partners because China, Europe and others were taking action as well, nor had US companies in Australia expressed concern that a carbon tax would disadvantage their business here.
The Australian Industry Greenhouse Network has cited figures from the US showing that because of the impact of the financial crisis, US emissions were not scheduled to return to 2007 levels until 2027, suggesting that the US emissions reduction target was now easier and no longer required an "equivalent effort" to Australia's emissions reduction target of a 5 per cent cut based on 2000 levels.
Ambassador Bleich said that while the financial crisis may have had an impact on emissions, the measures being taken by the administration were also having a real impact.
The recent Productivity Commission report said the US was spending a little less than Australia on reducing emissions as a percentage of GDP and was abating less from its electricity sector, but Ambassador Bleich said the report had provided more evidence that major emitters were all acting.
I have discussed this before, but it is worthy of a revisit. There is no question that US emissions have fallen in part as a result of the recession, but the increasing availability of natural gas and generally higher energy prices causing consumers to think about energy use are also having an impact. Furthermore, a variety of renewable energy programmes (but mainly wind) are filling in capacity gaps in the power market and the Bush Administration bio-fuel mandates are having an impact in the road transport sector.
I recently revised my own analysis of US emissions for a conference and developed the following summary picture:
In terms of progress from today, the two big ticket items remain natural gas substitution for coal and the impact of CAFE standards in the transport sector. Emission and water regulation (not including GHGs) under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could result in a substantial portion of US coal fired power generation shut down by 2020. The displacement of up to 70 GW of coal fired generation capacity would require about 7.8 Bcf/day of natural gas or some 4 years of production increase, assuming the current production trend is maintained. Even if the annual increase was half the current trend, sufficient additional production would be available for such large scale substitution over the period 2012-2020.
The real unknown of course is the possibility of an emissions upswing over this decade as the economy shifts back into full gear.
US success in meeting the 2020 target could profoundly affect the broader discussions on reducing CO2 emissions, both in the USA and more widely. After 2020 we might we see more acceptance of CO2 measures on the basis that emissions had fallen, it hadn't damaged the economy or society, so "we can then do more". But it could be a double edged sword, with complacency creeping in on the back of the argument that the market has responded and CO2 is taking care of itself, so there is no need to worry about it.