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A smarty blouse for some occasion (a family dinner, party at work or a date if you are a fan of ampire style and it's falttering for your figure ) or you can make it just to check your skills in sewed pleats and want to try something new – it is exactly my case. I must confess that I wanted to make this blouse much more than I want to wear it – as for me, its bottom part is too loose: I guess if I cut all the extra fabric instead of making waist gathering and the front pleat, it would fit me better. But general effect is not bad so I recommend it with some piece of advice.
1. When cutting front bodice – give extra allowance for pleats. Because it's much better (and right !!) at first to make pleats and only then to cut the front parts according to the paper pattern.
2. I would recommend to cut the front part with v-neck edge across the fabric ( I neglected this technological trick and regret about it) because in this way your pleats will be even and flat without any twisting.
3. If you make a blouse of thin fabric when sewing the pleats put a piece of tracing paper under the seam not to stretch the fabric ( on the picture).
4. I also changed the processing of the back's bending and front facing ( on the picture). At first I sewed the back's bending and then used the front's facing to cover the shoulder seam.
The skirt is 12/2011 http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/a-little-glittering
Material Notes
Staple of cotton and viscose blend and cotton sateen for blouse's bands ( remnants from my skirt ).
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Sep 24, 2013, 09.22 AMby Mary Athey
This is gorgeous on you oksana. I love the skirt as well as the blouse. It just looks effertlessly elegant and you look lovely x
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Sep 24, 2013, 03.41 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Thank you, Mary, very much! I'm glad at nice words because I really had some doubts as for its silhoette for my figure.
Sep 24, 2013, 01.21 AMby EllenMarieS
Great blouse. Thank you for the helpful advice.
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Sep 24, 2013, 03.38 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Thank you very much. I'm glad to be helpful:-)
Sep 23, 2013, 06.16 PMby Ellen Hatteland
Beautiful blouse! Nice detail and suits your lovely skirt :-)) great job as always!
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Sep 23, 2013, 07.39 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Thank you very much, Ellen:)
Sep 23, 2013, 06.03 PMby Fantasywriter
I love this top!
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Sep 23, 2013, 07.40 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Thank you very much for both!
Sep 23, 2013, 05.45 PMby kisses
Love everything about it… Oskana you look very sophisticated and posh
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Sep 23, 2013, 07.40 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Thank you, kisses, very much!
Sep 23, 2013, 04.53 PMby liliv-1
Love this!! Very smart! You always look extra chic in your handmade clothes!
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Sep 23, 2013, 05.20 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Thank you, liliv! You always tell me nice compliments:)
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They are all 100% real;)
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Postby generalyuehfei » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:46 pm
Avanti Ventura (Limited release in October 2006)
Frame 6061 Alloy frame
Fork RST Gila T7 100mm Travel
Front Derailleur Shimano Alivio
Rear Derailleur Shimano Deore 9spd
Brake Levers Tektro Auriga Comp Hydraulic Disc
Shifters Shimano SLM410 24spd
Crankset Truvativ X-Flow 3.0 Power Spline, 22-32-42T
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Postby heavymetal » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:16 pm
sogood wrote:If you came here earlier, someone sensible here would have turned you to a Giant steel touring bike or OCR road bike...
I agree with this as well.
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Postby LuckyPierre » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:30 pm
sogood wrote:If you came here earlier, someone sensible here would have turned you to a Giant steel touring bike or OCR road bike...
Or how you could have rebuilt three or four old mtb's for the same price
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Postby europa » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:46 pm
(you need to go to bicyclewa's website to understand that one )
But you lot, stop hijacking the lad's thread ... especially seeing you're picking on me in the process
Sadly Nick, I can't help you with your choice because I don't know mtbs. Now, if you'd wanted a steel framed touring bike ...
In general, only buy an mtb if you want to ride it off road, which you do, or are only doing relatively short distances on the road - they are as efficient on the road as my tourer is on a fire trail.
Avanti are a good brand with large enough sales to offer good bang for your buck, so if the bike suits you, I suspect you're doing fairly well ... with the normal proviso about shopping around. There are still some 2006 bikes around and at least one shop in Adelaide was having a big 2006 clearance last weekend so bargains can still be had (it's the best thing about model changeover time).
sure you don't want a steel framed tourer?
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Postby generalyuehfei » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:00 am
1) I feel has enough value for the money in terms of specs
2) I liked the best in the test rides which included a Giant Yukon, Malvern Star something or other.
I was in two minds about the MTB relative to how much road/off-road use I intend to do.
Truthfully I have been searching some of these threads as a Guest for some time now and have understood there are better suited bikes for road use. I am getting into this for fitness reasons, not to go on touring rides (you will notice another thread where I purchased a heart monitor before a trip computer - just want to keep the heart rate up). With fitness you always need that element of fun for motivation and that is where I think the off road stuff might help to mix it up a bit.
Once the skills both in riding, maintenance and overall understanding increase I will certainly be very interested in the comments made about building 3-4 bikes for the price I am paying. Regarding off the shelf prices, nothing has come close under $900.
Thanks again and look forward to learning more here, Nick
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Postby rockshock » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:36 pm
I bought a mountain bike for the same reasons and i commute to work a lot. I also ride on the road on the weekends and i have found it most satisfactory. I feel MTB's are more versatile in the sense of being able to ride up and down footpaths and over dodgy parts in the road (holes, bumps etc.).
I am probably going to get a pair of thinner, slicker tyres soon, so i can go faster!
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Postby generalyuehfei » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:31 pm
I have owned it for 3 days going on 4 and have taken it through parts of a National Park (this was a slight detour on the way home from the bike shop on saturday), slapped road tyres on and hooned down the M5 towards Camden Valley Way and back...
I found myself smiling when taking it across rough terrains but also loved the challenge of the road ride....
Regards, Nick
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Postby europa » Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:46 pm
Financial oblivion, here you come ... but at least you'll have all those lovely bikes to play with after the wife leaves you
Seriously, it's good to hear love stories
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Postby Mulger bill » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:36 am
Two sets of tyres is the way to go, I lashed out and got another set of wheels with identical cluster and rotors, just so's the change over is a bit quicker, but I got bitten by the upgrade bug years back
Go forth brother, have fun. Life's too short to argue details.
(Boy, the skinny types here will crucify me for this. )
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Postby europa » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:46 am
I must have my road bike collection nearly settled because I'm starting to think of doing up an ancient mtb - but anyone who encourages me will find himself being frowned at
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Postby Mulger bill » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:25 am
Richard nailed it in one, the 475s with Mavic 139 rims OEM are a little fragile for my gumby off road style, but well suited to road use with sorta slicks, Conti Town & Country 1.9s.
My offroad wheels run Sunn Rhyno Lites on Shimano XT hubs with DB Sapim spokes.
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Postby Mulger bill » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:31 am
Thinking of a roadie sometime this year, any suggestions anyone?
Not an all out race bike but similar, definitely triple chainrings.
Caliper brakes, or linear pulls (V brake)?
As I've posted elsewhere, I haven't touched drop bars since friction shifters on the downtube.
Edit to add... Still not gonna be wearing lycra
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Postby beauyboy » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:25 am
I believe you got value for money i did a look up of your bike. To me what you have basicly got is, an Avanti BLACKTHUNDER Frame with with most of the components that come off the Avanti RIDGE RIDER. Now the RIDGE RIDER is $850 but the BLACKTHUNDER is $420(but remember this has lesser components). Some how i still think you did good.
Upgrade the NCL now QR!!!!!!
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Thanks for your replies
Postby generalyuehfei » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:36 pm
For when I am not feeling adventurous or at the end of a longer ride I have a set track around my neighbourhood which includes road, dirt, jumps and lots of eye candy - chicks dig guys on bikes that use them for exercise reasons (I guess being crouched over a bit hides the beer gut which I might add is flattening out a bit).
Yesterday I needed an 8mm allen key to tighten the right pedal to what I think is the hub. The screw keeps coming loose and the cogs move laterally causing the chain to rub on the shifter. Well, did I choose to drive the car 15kms to the hardware? No, I jumped on the bike and rode there and back.
Some questions
Just getting a click in the hub at about 3 o'clock (on the right) under load. Something that I can feel through the bike ... Is this a result of tightening that screw tooooo much?
About the advice on the hubs getting wet, are we talking rain wet or going through mud puddles and imersing them in water wet?
Blueish grease on the front forks, is that normal? Do you need to top this up? if so, How often normally?
I will be taking into the shop for its monthly tune up as advised when I bought it (free of course).
Regards, Nick
ps: leaving work early today coz no one around, hmmmmm, where will I go today?
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Postby Mulger bill » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:55 pm
OK the 475 hubs, if they just get rain, give them a spin when dry and feel for roughness, if you've been mudding or river crossing, strip and repack NOW, it's not a big job, check http://www.shimano.com you should be able to find a guide there.
The 8mm allen key business... I'm guessing that you needed to tighten the crank arm to the bottom bracket, its quite possible that the clicking is coming from that area (or many others ) Don't forget to use grease as appropriate.
Apart from that, make a note of any dramas, worries or questions and present a list to the mechanic when you take your girl in for a service.
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DAYTONA BEACH -- Large hotels, movie theaters, restaurants, nightclubs and shops could all spring up at Daytona International Speedway and on a large swath of property north of International Speedway Boulevard in coming years.
Rezoning requests the Speedway is making to the city this summer show the racing giant could one day build a combined 2 million square feet of retail space, 1,785 hotel rooms and 1,600 multi-family residential units on its land straddling International Speedway Boulevard. Casino gambling also could be added, if it's legalized in Florida.
On Thursday, Speedway officials will ask the city's Planning Board to approve changes at the racetrack that would include redesigning the grandstands to create a more modern stadium appearance.
The Planning Board gave its okay last month for the part of the project north of International Speedway Boulevard. Both proposals will need final approval from the City Commission this fall.
The requests together make up a massive development on 663 acres and, if approved at all the government meetings over the next few months, will clear the way for Daytona International Speedway to create a racing and entertainment complex unlike anything Daytona Beach has ever seen.
"The impact on the International Speedway Boulevard corridor will just be pretty awesome," said Mayor Glenn Ritchey. "It will also solidify the title as the world center of racing. I commend them for their investment."
Ritchey said he's not aware of any particular hotels or restaurants the Speedway might be talking to, but added, "I'm sure they know some potential clients."
Although the city has zoning authority over the Speedway's properties, the Volusia County Council also will discuss the request at its meeting Thursday. The county owns most of the racetrack property and is in a lease agreement with the Speedway that expires in 2054.
Speedway officials stress everything is very preliminary. They say what they're doing now is building the foundation with necessary zoning changes to develop the track and property north of International Speedway Boulevard owned by its parent company, International Speedway Corp.
Speedway President Joie Chitwood III said Monday there is no timeline for the Speedway improvements, but indicated that some of the plans could be put in motion in the next few years.
"I won't be running the Speedway in 50 years, but I want to be part of this process," he said. "We wouldn't be going to the city for these approvals if we didn't think this wasn't a potential in the near term. We want to make improvements sooner rather than later."
Chitwood would like to see the Speedway become the gateway to the city. His plan proposes aesthetic changes to the track's exterior, front-stretch grandstands and entry points.
Chitwood wants to install a new "skin" on the exterior of the Speedway to create a modern stadium appearance and a new front-stretch grandstand "to pay homage to racing history."
The new "skin" would be made of "metal panel screening," according to the Speedway request.
Escalators, which are fixtures at most sports venues, would be added in addition to what Chitwood described as "fan injectors," or new colorful metal entranceways to the grandstand areas.
The request calls for 300,000 seats for the track and its racing-related facilities, such as meeting rooms, lobbies, suites and concessions. Currently, the track has 147,000 seats.
Daytona Beach Deputy City Manager Paul McKitrick said the rebuilding of the north side grandstands could start in about a year and possibly be completed in about three years.
City Planner Rich Walton said the stadium wall could expand out toward International Speedway Boulevard to provide more space for fan activities inside the stadium.
The Speedway has discussed creating five new track entrances with sponsors such as Pepsi or Sprint that could have their own vendors set up just inside, Walton said.
Speedway spokesman Lenny Santiago said the timing of the grandstand changes is still undecided.
Walton said the Speedway might reconfigure the bridge that race fans use to get across International Speedway Boulevard so the south end of it connects directly to the track rather than extending back down to street level.
Chitwood said his vision of the Speedway in the future would become an "ah-ha" moment for first-time visitors. The Speedway was built in 1958 to host races and seat fans and not to be aesthetically pleasing.
"This is what I want," Chitwood said. "When someone turns down ISB and they see the Speedway, they want to pull over, get out of the car and take a picture of the World Center of Racing. We want fans to go 'Wow!' That's the objective going forward."
City officials are impressed with the quality and scope of what they've seen so far.
"I think it's a great project," said city Planning Board member Tracey Remark. "It'll take racing into the future. It's fabulous what's being proposed."
If gambling is ever legalized in Florida, the rezoning would allow for that on Speedway property. But even if gambling never makes it to the Speedway land, Ritchey believes the new complex would still be a popular draw.
He said he doesn't see any problem filling up new hotels rooms and restaurant chairs near the track.
"There are so many things going on in Daytona year-round and race fans come here year-round," Ritchey said. "I think it'll have the ability to be an attraction in and of itself."
But filling 1,785 hotel rooms might be a challenge without having casino gambling, said Abe Pizam, dean of the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida.
Beaches have always provided Volusia County's primary tourism advantage over theme park-filled Orlando, he said. Building an entertainment complex at Daytona International Speedway -- five miles away from the surf -- could be a tough sell, given that Orlando -- "the 50-pound gorilla" as Pizam calls it -- has far more entertainment options than Daytona Beach.
Casino gaming could give the proposed complex the boost it needs to succeed, but developers would have to overcome a political environment resistant to changes in gambling laws, Pizam said.
"I don't think the Daytona area has sufficient political muscle to pass it through the Legislature," Pizam said.
The Genting Group, a Malaysian casino giant, has poured $1.3 million this election season into a campaign to legalize destination resort casinos in Florida. The company spent $236 million last year to purchase The Miami Herald building, where it hopes to build a gambling establishment. So far, its efforts have been unsuccessful.
Ritchey thinks Daytona Beach is in for something special.
"I don't know how many entities would have the ability to pull this off," he said. "They continue to impress me with their willingness to invest here, and we'll reap the benefits. Other communities would kill for this opportunity."
-- Staff Writers Skyler Swisher and Godwin Kelly contributed to this report.


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Disclosure: I wrote this the day I returned to America and took five weeks to post it. So when I refer to last week, it actually means a month and a half ago. My bad.
Well, I have touched back down in the states. My time in Bolivia is over. When I said my goodbyes at BiblioWorks I actually started to cry– I guess that goes to show how much I enjoyed my time in Bolivia working for BiblioWorks.
|Maritza and Matt– they work so hard to make BiblioWorks function
|The office had a little going away party for me, so sweet!
The cake had a candle and everything.
The past two months were the fastest of my life. As I write this I literally cannot believe that it is over. I can clearly remember when I left for Bolivia, and to be honest I wasn't 100% ready to leave home after just getting back from the Philippines. I remember when I left America I thought, okay two months isn't that long, it will fly by. And that it did! Maybe it was a mistake leaving the U.S for Bolivia so shortly after my arrival from Southeast Asia. I mean, it was good that I left so quickly because it meant I avoided, well postponed, my culture shock. Since I was only home for a mere three weeks I felt like I was on vacation and therefore didn't face many of the problems, depression, and dissatisfaction that many people who study or live in a developing country feel upon returning to the U.S. But, on the flip side, I think my first two weeks I wasn't fully committed to Bolivia. My mind was on the Philippines, the fun events happening at Bowdoin, and how much I had cherished the time I spent back home visiting my friends and family. I thought it would be an easy transition– Southeast Asia to South America, but it wasn't. I think all the factors i listed above made my initial experience in Bolivia very different than what I had expected. Don't interpret this the wrong way and think I didn't enjoy Bolivia– the moment I arrived I knew that I was in an incredible country and I liked what I was doing, but it took time for me to realize that I love Bolivia. Overtime I became more and more passionate about the country and my role at BiblioWorks. When people asked me if I liked Bolivia I always said yes, but now I say, no I don't like it– I love it!
By far the biggest contributor to my increased enthusiasm was my work at Pampa Aceituno. The first month was frustrating with the number of strikes, holidays, and also I lacked the courage to go to Pampa Aceituno by myself. Lize only goes on Tuesday and Thursdays, so I only felt comfortable going on Tuesday and Thursdays. It's funny, I have absolutely no problem traveling or living by myself– I can be completely independent but when it came to working at Pampa Aceituno I was hesitant. Why? Because from the get-go I had been there with Lize, I had never had to venture on my own. I became accustomed to this, and going by myself seemed like it wouldn't be normal, I would be changing the system and pushing my comfort zone. I was nervous to be there by myself, what if I couldn't communicate my thoughts or understand. Lize doesn't speak English but if I didn't understand something I could later turn to her and ask her to explain it more slowly. I finally had that push I needed from Matt to go to Pampa Aceituno by myself. And of course, once I was on my way, there was absolutely no problem. If only I had gone into the library by myself the second week I was here, I would have realize that really it was all in my head. Additionally, after the first month there were fewer strikes and holidays as well.
The past three weeks in Sucre I have been so busy! Last week I completed two grants for BiblioWorks. One was for a library in a completely new community and the other a proposal for a BiblioBus with a focus on health and wellness. On top of that I've been preparing for all my activities in Pampa Aceituno, visiting the library every other day, and upping my hours in Spanish class. I felt as though there weren't enough hours in the day! All of the sudden I was down to days left in Sucre and all I could think about was how in my first two weeks in Bolivia I didn't capitalize on all my opportunities and my situation. I would love to have 2 more weeks in Sucre!! Why can't I take those first two weeks and move them to the end? :)
|One of my last days in Pampa Aceituno
My time in BiblioWorks, Pampa Aceituno, and Sucre has been unforgettable and has really got me thinking what I want to do once I graduate– The Peace Corps is now heavily on my mind, finding a permanent position at an organization like BiblioWorks, going to grad school for policy work so I can be more educated in how to make a difference, or maybe just teaching English as a second language.
Bolivia is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented by neighboring countries. Because its poverty and developing state, larger and more developed nations like Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and even Peru refer to Bolivia as poor, dangerous and an unfriendly place to visit. I've met only kind people, have found myself in no dangerous situations, and yes, it is an impveorshed country but that in no way makes it a bad place. Bolivia is absolutely beautiful in every meaning of the word. I am so grateful to Bowdoin and the McKeen Center for giving me this opportunity to volunteer in such an inspiring organization with an important mission, and of course in an incredibly country. Entonces, hasta luego Bolivia. Voy a volver.


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Gaucho wrote:Pretty amazing that he was able to catch it. Pretty dumb to even try.
pfim wrote:The Seattle match was great to watch in the second half after Tigres got a man sent off.
GaryRissling wrote:pfim wrote:The Seattle match was great to watch in the second half after Tigres got a man sent off.
I only saw one replay of the tigres player's second yellow, but from the angle I saw, it looked like a blatant dive by EJ.
But yeah, Seattle's first goal was pretty sweet too. I hope the Obafemi Martins deal gets finalized.
Here are a selection of some of the wise cracks aimed at the Reds winger:
@DualeAdam1 If you were a footballer, what would your preferred position be?
@Liam Payne ?Payny_01 How did you feel last season knowing Tim Howard was closer to lifting the golden boot than you?
@BillHansen28 So you left Aston Villa for Champions League football. How's that working out for you?
@Notcarlcole On a scale of 1 to Jesus, how good are your crosses?
@Dave B MUFC ?Bowsy_How did it feel to have more arrests than assists last season?
@arpan_manutd Do you know any footballer (except you) who is neither footed?
@Jon Barbuti Which Premier League bench is the comfiest?
@Fergie's Hairdryer How do you get to the other side of the road when you don't know how to cross?
@marc sepetowski ?sepo_efc Do you consider yourself to be just as bad as jordan henderson?
@?JacobCampbell5 Did you pick number 19 because you knew it would take about 19 months before you did anything of any kind of use ?
@?Abdn_Horror_Guy If you were to transfer away from Liverpool, how many goats and cows would your new club receive in the dowry to take you?
@?lloydturner1 How do you ignore all this abuse and carry on day to day ? #respect
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Friday, January 05, 2007
Top countries by excess oil per capita
1. Trinidad and Tobago -- 385
2. Kuwait -- 319
3. Qatar -- 312
5. Equatorial Guinea -- 283
6. Norway -- 235
7. Brunei -- 183
8. Saudi Arabia -- 104
9. Libya -- 87
10. Bahrain -- 85
11. Oman -- 83
12. Gabon -- 66
13. Angola -- 47
14. Venezuela -- 36
15. Kazakhstan -- 26
16. Republic of the Congo -- 26
17. Iraq -- 24
18. Azerbaijan -- 16
19. Russia -- 16
20. Iran -- 14
21. Algeria -- 12
22. Ecuador -- 9
23. Turkmenistan -- 9
24. Chad -- 8
25. Nigeria -- 6
The only nations worthy of the Occident's moralistic approval are the former Spanish colonies of Trinidad/Tobago and good-natured Norway. Flush with money from the commodities boom of the last few years, the Norwegians have appointed Philosophy professor Henrik Syse to apply SRI to the nation's national pension, funded primarily by oil and gas revenues. The Saudis have historically invested in their own brand of social responsibility, bank-rolling the Taliban in Afghanistan, for example.
While the Scandanavians exclude defense contractors like Honeywell and Boeing from the pension, many of the other countries topping the list use the cash to buy all kinds of deadly toys from places like Israel, Russia, and the US.
These places are enjoying a steady, massive wealth transfer from the rest of the "oil-addicted" world. Their people are enjoying (or at least their leaders are enjoying) money begotten through the luck of the geographic draw, with few 'internationally acceptable' (I'm trying to think like Thomas Friedman) standards attached. Although oil has dropped under the $60 mark, to the lowest levels in a year and a half, we're still looking at $168 billion in excess in revenues for Saudi Arabia, $16 billion for little Qatar, and $56 billion for Venezuela.
That Marxist leadership is sustained on the back of free-trade's dime in the Republic of the Congo illustrates how resource wealth makes political 'reform' unlikely. Enjoying this wealth infusion means countries like Russia do not have to adhere to 'fair trade' practices--if the Kremlin wants to chill Ukraine's penchant for European-style democracy or wants to gouge a putative ally in Belarus, it's going to. So we deny a UAE-owned company the right to US port security. Good for us, but we're not exactly dealing these friends of bin Laden a stinging economic blow.
A full listing of per capita oil shortages and surpluses is available here. Mexico, coming in at #26 with almost six barrels in annual surplus for each of its 107 million people, should at least be giving us a few of these for free in return for importing the country's refuse, inheriting all the problems they create, and exporting billions in remittances to Mexico in return (estimated to total $25 billion per year by the end of the decade).
Obsolescing oil will do far more to further humanitarian goals than any number of ill-advised military forays into the backward nations that extract an abundance of the stuff. Why not take what remains of the some $2 trillion we're set to end up pouring into the Iraq miasma and use it to finance a Manhattan Project for making alternative energy economically viable?
In the US, we can use our glut of coal for energy (in place of oil if something like the Fischer-Tropps process of converting oil into liquid fuel is able to be cost-effectively utilized largescale as companies like Syntroleum are trying to make happen) in the relative short-term while we develop photovoltaics, battery, and wind power. Long-term, nuclear fusion will hopefully serve as the ultimate azoth.
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T&T was a British colony for several centuries before independence, F-T process is spelled differently.
What about the competitive disadvantage from using higher cost resources in an energy-intensive economy relative to others?
It would seem to be better to seize the nationalized resources which are the most easily held, such as Iranian offshore oilfields; and where the regimes are a threat, and known aggressors against American interests, past and present.
I like to consider myself an isolationist, but not to the extent of pacifism.
There are several islands and offshore locations along those lines that might easily be seized. But those solutions are only banaids. It doesn't remove the billions of barrels flowing under Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Trinidad has a huge refinery, I believe, so it's a big processor, but not a big owner of crude oil in the ground.
This was an excellent analysis, and another reason why the US won't take significant steps to reduce oil dependency. But isn't there always another reason why something is happening, instead of, the one being propogated?
Bolton: Great idea, and it can be done under the guise of national security. But then how would the US directly "grease" those companies who had been benefitting from the corrupt regimes receiving greenbacks for oil?:)
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- crush41 said...
This site indicates that Trinidad's major refinery imports 36% of the oil it refines.
- Fat Knowledge said...
Good stuff. Thanks for uploading to Swivel. I was able to download it into Excel and play around with the numbers myself and add my own additional analysis.
The one thing about the revenue is that each country has different costs of production, so profits are different. If I remember correctly, Saudi Arabia produces for about $5 a barrel vs. $20 for Norway.
- crush41 said...
Right, the profit margins are going to be different, and not fully known. That's why I stuck to revenues.


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Ousted Professor Holds Final Class By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
It began inside a classroom, where a world-renowned professor was holding his last session with students, barring a decision from UC Berkeley's new chancellor.
Then it moved outside as ever-growing numbers of students, academics and journalists marshaled for a march on California Hall.
It climaxed in a chant outside California Hall, a cascading chorus of protest aimed at Chancellor Robert Birgeneau: "Justice Now! Justice Now! Justice Now! Justice Now!"
For Ignacio Chapela, a member of the Cal's department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management faculty since 1995, the day marked the end of the latest chapter of his battles for academic freedom and his challenges to an increasingly corporatized academic culture.
An overflowing crowd of students, faculty, and supporters crammed into his last class. As the 8:30 a.m. class drew to a close, Chapella thanked the crowd and vowed to "keep raising hell." After a standing ovation, the group led a march to the chancellor's office in California Hall. There they protested Chapella's dismissal and called on the university to grant him tenure.
Chapela's once-promising career at Berkeley foundered on two critical issues.
When Swiss biotech giant Novartis (now renamed Syngenta) struck a five-year $25 million deal with the College of Natural Resources' Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Chapela was quick to criticize, citing the obvious potential of conflicts of interest and corporate control of research.
His frankness did nothing to endear him to college Dean Gordon Rausser, one of the architects of the agreement.
But the crowning blow followed from a discovery made by Chapela and one of his graduate students, David Quist, one of the founders of Students for Responsible Research.
A native of Mexico, Chapela has remained deeply involved with his homeland, conducting research and helping indigenous people work toward economic self-sufficiency.
Quist and Chapela discovered strands of genetically modified DNA in the genome of native strands of corn cultivated in the heart of the region where maize was first domesticated.
Chapela and Quist submitted their findings to Nature, the British scientific journal which remains the world's preeminent scientific publication. Their publication in November 2001 ignited a firestorm.
Their discovery wasn't the first instance of artificial genetic intrusion. Reports have surfaced of strands of DNA conferring resistance to the pesticide Roundup finding their way into the weeds the herbicide was designed to kill.
But the Chapela/Quist discovery was especially troubling to the agribusiness giants whose patented strains of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being spread throughout the world and generating huge profits.
The implicit threat their research raised was of homogenized crops, of a reduction of genetic diversity that could render crops far more vulnerable because diverse varieties with a wide range of resistances would vanish into a giant genomic blender.
The attack was instant and fierce. A British web site posted scathing critiques from non-existent scientists who turned out to be creations of a corporate advertising and Nature received letters, one from a UC Berkeley colleague of Chapela, who questioned the scientists' methodology.
In the end, Nature published a partial retraction—the first in the publication's history—that advised readers to make their own interpretations of the findings.
Other research has since verified their findings, buy the damage was already done.
Chapela was already up for tenure when the Nature furor erupted, but the flap didn't prevent department members from voting 32 to 1 in favor of tenure, followed by tenure recommendations from both his department chair and the dean of the College of Natural Resources.
On Oct. 3, a five-member Campus Ad Hoc Committee voted unanimously in favor of tenure.
The first blow came on June 5, 2003, when the university's budget committee made a preliminary vote against tenure.
Then, on Nov. 12, the vice provost asked the ad hoc panel chair to reevaluate tenure in light of new critical letter, prompting the resignation of the chair.
After another negative vote from the budget committee, Chancellor Robert Berdahl denied tenure on Nov. 20, 2003, despite repeated tenure recommendations from the chair and dean.
Chapela's supporters are hoping for a more receptive hearing from new Chancellor Birgeneau, an academic with a history of involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Professors, journalists and supporters joined the regular student contingent for Thursday's final class, an undergraduate course in environmental biology. They filled the seats, lined the walls and sat on the floor.
The discussion was wide ranging—"part of the class is to show how environmental biology is connected to everything else"—and he invited all those in attendance, students and others, to comment on a current event and show its connection to environmental biology.
One student raised the issue of Proposition 71 as corporate welfare, the voter-approved $3 billion in funding for stem cell research, embodied in the California Institute for Regenerative medicine.
"It's the bailout of an industry that was in pretty bad shape," said Chapela. "It's exempt from public scrutiny. The Legislature can scream and scream, but they really can't do much."
Another student cited the Bush administration's decision to undo protections for salmon spawning runs and to include hatchery populations in the census of wild salmon.
Other issues raised included the implications of Bush administration research bunker-busting nuclear weapons and UC's long-standing in nuclear weaponry and the planned nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
During the class volunteers passed out cut sections of ribbons, red and earthy green, and audience members tied them to their forearms, reminiscent of two forms of protein on which so much of life depends, hemoglobin and chlorophyll.
As class drew down to the end, Chapela declared, "I will keep raising hell in different forms."
After a standing ovation, one after another, professors rose to pay tribute to their colleague.
"Today is also my last class," Professor Andrew Gutierrez told the crowd. Unlike Chapela, Gutierrez is retiring.
"I have come to the conclusion that Aristotle could not have made tenure here," he said. "Honesty is not something that's appreciated at this campus. The Mario Savio Steps and the Free Speech Cafe are two monuments to hypocrisy."
Miguel Altieri, a professor of insect biology, urged the audience of "the need to remember that this is a public university. We cannot allow this hypocrisy."
Two weeks ago, Altieri said, he had written the new chancellor, "saying this was your chance. I didn't even get a reply. The university does not belong to the university or to the corporations. It belongs to us."
Jennifer Miller, an assistant professor in the English Department, said that the last time she was in Chapela's classroom she'd been lecturing on oppression
"We are very, very lucky to have had Ignacio as a teacher," she said.
Miller recalled a time when she and Chapela had been serving on a committee and Chancellor Berdahl had asked them what might cause them to leave the university.
"He said, 'Is there something so wrong that it would cause you to leave?'
"Ignacio and I replied, 'If there was something so wrong, the last thing we would do is leave. We would stay and fight."
Then everyone filed outside and began the march on California Hall.
After a pair of chants calling for tenure, the audience listened as speakers addressed them through an amplified bullhorn.
First up was Dan Siegel, Chapela's attorney in his fight for tenure and a veteran of the '60s protest movement.
"The last time I came to California Hall, I was sitting in," he said. "I was arrested for protesting the actions of another chancellor."
Birgeneau, he said, "is caught in the conflict between doing the right thing and doing the expedient thing. As time goes on, we may need to escalate our tactics, but we will succeed."
Siegel pointed to another colleague of Chapela's who had run afoul of corporate power, "Professor Tyrone Hayes of the Department of Integrative Biology, whose research discovered the unintended consequences of corporate intervention into biology."
Hayes discovered the effects of the pesticide Atrazine on frogs, which developed severe malformations when exposed to the toxins.
Hayes then stepped forward. "If we lose Ignacio, diversity in the biological sciences will decrease by 50 percent. Isn't it a coincidence that Ignacio and I have wound up on the wrong side of the same corporation that was funding research here at the university?"
Hayes said he had consulted for Novartis and his work had been published in Nature and by the National Academy of Sciences. "I was lucky I had tenure; the vice chancellor wrote a letter saying I shouldn't be doing any work here on campus.
"This is bigger than frogs or corn."
David Quist, Chapela's collaborator on the transgenic corn research, said Chapela's tenure case should've been open and shut. "Then we get to the top levels of the administration and they show him the door."
Carolyn Merchant, professor of environmental history, philosophy, and ethics, said the denial of tenure is "unethical and unprecedented. I would urge the chancellor to look at the process and grant tenure, Right here. Today. Now."
"Something is rotten, not in Denmark, but here in Berkeley," said Ethnic Studies Professor Carlos Munoz. "This case send a clear message that faculty who challenge the dominant paradigm are not welcome, especially if they don't accept corporate funding."
Barbara Epstein, professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, blasted the tenure denial. "The university is egregiously violating its own rules. I hope this struggle continues."
Joe Nielands, emeritus professor of biochemistry, came to UC Berkeley in 1952. In a firm, clear voice, he decried "the privatization and the corporatization of the university," harkening back to the days when the school's funding came primarily from Sacramento.
"The Budget Committee knows the chancellor wants to get his hands on that corporate loot. . . Chapela is exactly the kind of person we need around here. He has wisdom, and above all he has courage and integrity."
After more praise from John Garcia, instructor at the University of San Francisco, it was finally Chapela's turn.
It wasn't his first time outside California Hall. After his denial of tenure, Chapela had brought a desk and held "office hours" outside administration headquarters in protest of the decision.
Chapela said the idea of the march first came up Saturday, and when the word got out, e-mails and phone calls poured in from around the world.
"You are standing here for many others," he told the crowd.
"At exactly the moment this was scheduled, the university scheduled another media event," a press tour at the university Richmond Field Station, where the university is planning a major corporate/university research park adjacent to Campus Bay.
"Now we are all students and teachers together, and I hope you will get the word out."
And then came the last chant, "We Want Justice!" repeated over and over again.
While Birgeneau refused to meet with the protesters, one of his staff did agree to accept copies of a letter signed by 145 university professors and 174 others calling for a review of Chapela's case and extension of his employment.
Calls placed to the Chancellor's office met with no response.?


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In regards to Blog Post Title Part I
Well, I still don't have many photos to show, but my weekend included a lot of feeling fancy – at least some contributions to it. I hid and cooked in the kitchen during the first Heartichoke, my friend's new vegan supper club, and we pulled off five French-inspired courses & seemed to have content guests on our hands. It was a great experience; the smoke alarms didn't go off and there's talk of a Tapas and Basque inspired dinner this Spring.
The photos I do have, thanks to my camera's 5 second life span, were not from the dinner, but are pretty fancy and productive for the end of a weekend:
Tuscan Braised Beans, The Urban Vegan. With the addition of gigantes beans and fresh basil. Dynise's dishes always class it up.
First theme, continued:
Herb Crusted Tofu with Mushrooms Marsala ala The Farm Cafe in Portland, via Everyday Dish TV. As for changes, I baked the tofu, used a mixture of maiittake and shiitake mushrooms in the sauce, and served it over braised beans and steamed baby spinach.
In regards to Blog Post Title Part II
Hey! If you're in the Portland area tomorrow night and you're a vegan or veg-curious female or you've ever met one or even if you plan on spending the rest of your life surrounded by the XY chromosome and no other, you should come show your support for Melisser Elliott, the talented author of the The Vegan Girl's Guide to Life, at everyone's local vegan owned and operated clothing store, Herbivore. The signing party starts at 5pm.
Later this week: Thoughts on the revolutionary documentary, Forks Over Knives. Have you seen it yet?


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Huber sanctioned for misconduct for solicitation charge
A local attorney faces suspension of his license to practice law after being sanctioned for misconduct by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct. Arkadelphia attorney Jonathan Huber has until Jan. 16 to appeal the suspension, which was made based on findings that he was involved in unethical conduct. Huber, who has also served as a Clark County Justice of the Peace, was arrested in October 2011 for soliciting prostitution. He pleaded no contest to that charge and received a $500 fine, six months of probation and had a 90-day jail sentence suspended under the condition of good behavior, mandatory counseling and submission to DNA testing. In the weeks following Huber's plea, Circuit Judges Robert McCallum and Charles Yeargan reported the misconduct to the professional conduct panel. In March, Katie Lavender, the 19-year-old woman whom Huber paid for sex, was the victim of a homicide at her Hot Springs apartment. That case has yet to be solved. In a Nov. 4 public hearing that Huber requested before the Professional Conduct committee, a seven-member panel heard testimony from six witnesses: Huber, the two Arkadelphia detectives who filed charges against him, Lavender's boyfriend and two women. Lavender's boyfriend, Blake Austin, testified about his involvement with Huber in August and September 2011, telling the panel the three had used social media to discuss sex for hire, with Huber providing the money. Pete Dixon, who at the time of Huber's arrest was an investigator for the Arkadelphia Police Department, testified that he had charged all three in the investigation. Dixon also identified "many pages" of sexually explicit Facebook screen shots he had retrieved from Lavender's account during the investigation. According to the hearing findings and order, Huber had solicited prostitution since fulfilling the court's orders stemming from the October 2011 charges, with the most recent date being March of this year. The first female to testify in the hearing asserted she received sexually explicit text messages from Huber on Feb. 26. Roy Bethell, also an APD criminal investigator at the time, attested her claims by providing copies of a paper printout of the text conversation. A second female said she met Huber through the website Plenty of Fish, an online dating service for singles. Huber is married with children. The second woman said the two arranged to meet at a Malvern motel, where Huber would rent the room and pay her for sex, on March 18. She testified that the two did engage in intercourse, but that Huber did not pay her because she left "hurriedly" after becoming "anxious." Huber testified at the hearing, "taking full responsibility for his conduct," noting he had a sexual addiction and was "trying to turn his life around from his previous sexual activities," the document states. Following the hearing, the professional conduct committee concluded that Huber's violation of a misdemeanor "reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects." Because Huber used a false name in setting up the encounters, the panel cited an Arkansas Rule that finds it is a professional misconduct "to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation." In addition to the one year suspension of his Arkansas Bar, the panel also sanctioned Huber with $6,400 in fines and court fees and an extension of his current three-year Health Monitoring Agreement with the Arkansas Judge's and Lawyer's Assistance Program for an additional five years.


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An Adventure in Arts and Crafts, Crozet, Virginia
The season of spring seems to go hand-in-hand with arts and crafts festivals, doesn't it? Maybe there's something about the emerging warmth that sparks creativity, or maybe it's humanity's reflection of nature's originality. Whatever the case may be, we love … Continue reading


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Völuspá ("Prophecy of the Seeress") is the first poem of the Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse poems. J.R.R. Tolkien was influenced greatly by the saga, and Christopher Tolkien even suggests that "those Dwarf-names in The Hobbit provided the whole starting-point for the Mannish languages in Middle-earth"[1][2]
In particular almost all of the names of the dwarves of Middle-earth, as well as Gandalf's, are taken from a section of the Völuspá called the Dvergatal (the "Catalogue of Dwarves").[3][note 1] The Dvergatal is contained in stanzas 10–16:
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- ↑ The Dvergatal is now considered a later interpolation, and is often omitted from newer editions of Völuspá.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Appendix on Languages", Commentary to §58
- ↑ Charles B. Noad, "Review: The Peoples of Middle-earth (The History of Middle-earth XII)" at Tolkiensociety.org. See section "Dwarvish and Mannish Related". Retrieved 30 August 2010.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 25, (dated February 1938)


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An acronym for "Chillin' like a Pot Bellied seahorse". Perhaps the greatest phrase every created, CLAPBSH was formed by a group of students at the Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. CLAPBSH is pronounced, CLAP-BSSSHHH. If you cannot pronounce the phrase correctly we have a solution for you: don't use it. If you have no idea what a Pot Bellied Seahorse is, don't Google it. Drive to Gatlinburg right now, and experience these incredible Seahorses for yourself.
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A narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the heart of the Internet itself
"For all the talk of the placelessness of our digital age, the Internet is as fixed in real, physical places as any railroad or telephone system ever was. In basest terms, it is made of pulses of light. Those pulses might seem miraculous, but they're not magic. They are produced by powerful lasers contained in steel boxes housed mainly in unmarked buildings. The lasers exist. The boxes exist. The buildings exist. The Internet has a physical reality, an essential infrastructure, a 'hard bottom,' as Henry David Thoreau said of Walden Pond. In undertaking this journey, I've tried to wash away the technological alluvium of contemporary life in order to see—fresh in the sunlight—the physical essence of our digital world."
—from the Prologue
When your Internet cable leaves your living room where does it go?
Almost everything about our day-to-day lives—and the broader scheme of human culture—can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first voyages. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now.
In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet's physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online world we think we know. It is a shockingly tactile realm of unmarked compounds, populated by a special caste of engineer who pieces together our networks by hand; where glass fibers pulse with light and creaky telegraph buildings, tortuously rewired, become communication hubs once again. From the room in Los Angeles where the Internet first flickered to life to the caverns beneath Manhattan as new fiber-optic cable is buried; from the coast of Portugal, where a ten-thousand-mile undersea cable just two thumbs wide connects Europe and Africa, to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have built monumental data centers—Blum chronicles the dramatic story of the Internet's development, explains how it all works, and takes the first ever in-depth look inside its hidden monuments.
This is a book about real places on the map: their sounds and smells, their storied pasts, their physical details, and the people who live there. For all the talk of the "placelessness" of our digital age, the Internet is as fixed in real, physical spaces as the railroad or telephone. You can map it and touch it, and you can visit it. Is the Internet in fact "a series of tubes" as Ted Stevens, the late senator from Alaska, once famously described it? How can we know the Internet's possibilities if we don't know its parts?
Like Tracy Kidder's classic The Soul of a New Machine or Tom Vanderbilt's recent bestseller Traffic, Tubes combines on-the-ground reporting and lucid explanation into an engaging, mind-bending narrative to help us understand the physical world that underlies our digital lives.


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The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Warwick Police.
Police were dispatched to Metro Center Boulevard around 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 17 for a report of malicious damage. A property manager for DiSanto, Priest and Co. told police one of their employees found a small hole in a window on the side of the building and, when they took a closer look, thought it looked like a BB or pellet had done the damage. The manager told police she had no idea who would have done it and said she knew of no one who had an issue with the company.
Officer Mark Jandreau reported going to the Motel 6 on Jefferson Boulevard around 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 17 for a report of a stolen car. An Alabama resident explained that he was a contractor working at the Garden City Center in Cranston and staying at the motel in the meantime. He said he got in around 1 a.m. that morning and parked his truck in the west parking lot. He said it was a 2006 white Ford F250 with an Alabama disabled veteran's plate and he had it backed up into a spot along the guardrail. He said he left the truck locked and he was the only person with a key for it and no one had been given permission to use it. He said he got a call from the North Providence Police that morning informing him that his truck had been involved in an accident in that city and whoever was driving the truck at the time fled the scene on foot. The owner told Jandreau that North Providence told him he had to file a report with Warwick Police before he could reclaim his truck from the North Providence impound. No suspects or witnesses.
Police went to 75 Minnesota Ave. on Jan. 21 for a report of a larceny. A manager showed police to the back of the building, where they stored four 50-foot copper cables for generators. The four cables disappeared sometime between 5 p.m. on Jan. 17 and that morning. A manager from the contractor who owned the cables told police they cost $500 each. There were no suspects or witnesses.
A Wingate Avenue resident told police he returned to his vehicle around 6 a.m. that morning and found that the 2007 Chevy Cobalt he parked in the driveway the night before had been broken into. He said a GPS unit was missing from the dashboard and a wallet he kept in the center console was missing as well. He also said an EKG machine from his work, which was worth around $2,500, was missing from the back seat. He said he reported that her car had also been entered and her GPS unit was gone. He said the EKG was in a black canvas laptop bag and that it was a 10-lead made by Schiller and that the wallet had credit card, bank cards, driver's license, military ID and possibly his Social Security card. No witnesses or suspects.
Police reported going to the Tavern Twelve at 2299 Post Rd. on Jan. 20 for two reports of larceny and malicious damage. At 8:30 p.m. Officer Eric Lima took a report of a 2008 Honda Civic coupe that had its front passenger side window smashed and items taken from inside. The owner said she parked the car around 6:30 and went inside for dinner. When she returned at 8:30, the window was smashed, her backpack was missing; a water bottle; a sweatshirt; a book; a phone charger; and an audio cable were also gone. No suspects or witnesses.
A little over an hour later, Lima reported he was back at the tavern taking a second report of another car having its back passenger side window smashed and a purse worth $25 that contained $30 in cash was gone, along with her identification. Lima noted that it might have been connected with the earlier report from another section of the parking lot. No suspect or witnesses.
Note to the guy on Wingate Ave: Never carry your SS card. Memorize the number (which you should have done at age 12 or so). Also, don't leave your EKG maching in your car. You'll have a heart attack when it is stolen and then you won't have an EKG machine....Dummy.
TO the woman who got ripped off at Tavern Twelve....I don't know what is dummer. Leaving all those valuables in your car or having dinner at Tavern Twelve.
With the high unemployemnt in RI, why would a company hire contractors from out of state and have to pay all the living expenses? What a shame that companies cannot use local workers!


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We tend to understand and accept the need for life insurance. However, odds are that we are far more likely to suffer a disabling injury or illness rather than premature death.
When we last talked about insurance planning, we focused on life insurance needs. However, we have a few topics left to discuss under the heading of insurance. In this article we will discuss disability insurance.
Disability insurance is very important to anyone who is self employed. Now I know we all feel like we are constantly being hounded about buying more insurance but before you disregard the need for disability insurance, answer the following: Could my family survive for six months to one year if I wasn't able to work? Would I lose my house? Would I lose my business? If the answer to any one of these questions is yes, then you might want to read on.
We tend to understand and accept the need for life insurance. However, odds are that we are far more likely to suffer a disabling injury or illness rather than premature death. In fact, it is 2.3 times higher for a male, age 30. For females, it is much, much higher (typically due to pregnancy complications).
The average length of a disability for persons age 30 is two years and eight months. However, the average length of a disability for an individual age 50 is just over four years. So, the older you get the longer the disability is likely to last. The likelihood of a disability affecting a business group of 2 to 5 people with an average age under 50 is almost 75 percent. Those are pretty high odds.
Are there other options? Yes, there is social security and worker's compensation. Social security disability insurance (SSDI) is difficult to qualify for and the process is time consuming. To qualify, an individual's disability must last or be expected to last for 12 continuous months or result in death. Additionally the worker must be unable to engage in any other substantial gainful activity, i.e. totally disabled. Worker's compensation does pay short-term disability benefits but the disabling injury must have occurred on the job and if you are self-employed and have no employees, you probably do not have disability insurance.
Typically disability benefits pay about 60 percent of an individual's normal earned income. That is intentional to discourage dishonest folks from trying to make a living on disability income payments.There are different types of commercial disability insurance policies:n Group – offered through your employer. It can provide short and/or long term coverage.
Individual – can be funded by an individual or business.Short term - typically they cover 13 or 26 weeks but may be as long as two years.Long term – provides extended disability coverage for the length of the disability or for the benefit period which could be a few years, to age 65 or for life. Obviously, the longer the benefit period, the more expensive the premium.
(The tax implications of these various options will not be discussed in this article).
Disability insurance is important in a business partnership as well. Types of policies include:Key employee disability insurance – typically purchased by the business to pay benefits for a key employee, should they become disabled.
Business overhead expense insurance – which pays the businessexpenses to include utilities, loan payments, rent, select employee salaries, etc. in case the owner was unable to work and generate income.Disability buyout insurance – this insurance would provide funds to buy out a partner if a partner become disabled and unable to continue functioning of the business.
As in any insurance product, the devil is in the details. Key considerations to look for in a disability insurance policy include:Definition of disability – some policies require an individual to be totally disabled to pay benefits, like social security. Doctors and other highly skilled professionals typically will purchase a policy with an own occupation definition. That means if a highly skilled professional cannot work in his specific profession, the disability policy pays benefits. Another definition is any occupation. That means so long as you can work, you don't collect disability. Some policies will have own occupation for the first two years and then any occupation thereafter. Obviously, the own occupation definition will drive a higher premium.Partial or residual benefits – a good policy should pay partial or residual benefits in case an individual is not able to go back to work on a full-time basis or unable to earn the same level of income they earned prior to the disability.Elimination period- this is the waiting period before benefits will be paid. This can range anywhere from 30 to 360 days. The longer the elimination period, the lower the policy premiums will be.Benefit period – This can range from as short as 24 months to lifetime benefits.Previous articles are posted on my web page at http://theretirementexperts.us/. If you would like to comment or make any suggestions, contact me at larrymartin@ theretirementexperts.us or call at 651-4321.
Larry Martin is a registered investment advisor offering advisory services through Main Street Advisor, LLC (MSA). The opinions expressed in these articles may not represent those of MSA. 1407 Main Street, Hays, KS 67601. The Consultants Financial Services, LLC and MSA are not affiliated.


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Check this out, go my old home town. Some have got it right.
Bikes take St Luke's workers to new heights
09 Feb, 2012 04:00 AM
STAFF at St Luke's Bendigo are embracing pedal power and have pledged to make good use of the organisation's new bicycle fleet.
Five hybrid bicycles were unveiled yesterday and are available for staff to use during work hours to travel to appointments in the city.
The initiative is designed to promote health and fitness as well as save money and reduce carbon emissions. St Luke's residential care co-ordinator Ben Shue said the idea grew out of a successful Ride to Work Day promotion and activities.
"Our CEO, senior management and the (car) fleet team have been right behind the idea," he said.
"It's part of their budget – it will save the organisation money and they want to build on the concept.We want to see staff using bikes for trips up to five kilometres."
The bikes were supplied by Bendigo Cycles.
Sustainability business mentor Ian McBurney said bike riding could be faster than car travel for short trips.
"La Trobe's Plan B shows Strathfieldsaye, Huntly, Maiden Gully, Junortoun and Big Hill are all 20 minutes from here on a bike," he said.


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'Scandal' (ABC Premiere TBA)
"The West Wing" sucked through the filter of "Private Practice" in yet another Shonda Rhimes series about a team of sexy youngish people in a high-pressure workplace: Here, it's a law firm that isn¿t a law firm in our nation's frisky capital. Kerry Washington is the boss with contacts in the Oval Office.
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Someone once told me that motorcyclists have 2 times as many fatalities as bicyclists and 10 times as many as car drivers. Motorbikes are dangerous but they probably aren't that lethal. Another published statistic 'proves' you are 56 times more likely to be killed when walking than when riding in a car...on a per mile traveled basis. All popular statistics are somewhat biased by social bigotry. Antimotorcycle prejudices thrive because bikes are 'non conforming' vehicles. What makes them seem excessively risky is...partly...that they are potentially disruptive to the order of our transportation system. Superior nimbleness causes bikes to be subconsciously seen as mildly threatening and seditious. Our road network is optimized for cars and light trucks so this bias is well rooted and insidious. Motorcycling may statistically chart as being riskier because more riders are young, male, and risk (speed/performance) oriented,...or because social drinking may more often be combined with riding than with overall driving activities. Riders sometimes become cynical, alienated or estranged after they've accepted the apparently increased risks of riding in return for it�s greater efficiency, enjoyment and fun.
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Recommended Reading from Progress:
Surface Transportation Policy Project
Volume X, Number 3; June 2000 Bureau of Transportation
Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile,
Katie Alvorod, 2000. New Society Publishing
Toward Sustainable Communities - Transition and Transportation in Environmental Policy,
Daniel Mazmanian and Michael Kraft, eds., 2000 MIT Press
Transportation of Liveable Cities, Vukan R. Vuchic, 2000 CUPR Press
Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities,
Timothy Beatley, 2000 Island Press
Car Free in Cleveland, Alt-Trans Cleveland, 2000 Alt Trans Cleveland Project; EcoCity Cleveland
The Charter of the New Urbanism, Congress for the New Urbanism,
1999 McGraw Hill Professional Publishing
Designing Sustainable Communities - Learning from Village Homes, Judy and Michael Corbett, 2000 Island Press
Car Free Cities,
J.H. Crawford, 2000 Paul & Poe Press
Parking Spaces - A Design, Implentation, and Use Manual for Architects,
Planners and Engineers, Mark Childs, 1999
McGraw Hill Text
The Wealth of Cities - Revitalizing the Centers of American Life,
John O. Norquist, 2000 Perseus Press
The Old Neighborhood - What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966 - 1999, Ray Suarez, 1999 Free Press
Sprawl City - Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta,
Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres, eds., 2000 Island Press
The Nature of Economics,
Jane Jacobs, 2000 Modem Library
The Livable City - Revitalizing Urban Communities, Partners for Livable Communities,
2000 McGraw Hill
Sprawl Busting: State Programs to Guide Growth,
Jerry Weitz, 1999 Planners Press
Bobos in Paradise - The New Upper Class and How They Got There,
David Brooks, 2000 Simon & Schuster
Roads - Driving America�s Great Highways, Larry McMurty, 2000 Simon & Schuster
Outside Lies Magic - Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places,
John Stilgoe, 1998 Walker & Co.
Hi folks,
It's nice to see you undertaking this project! I have a couple of questions about statements in your newsletter (IssueNo.1).
"One thing we know is that the accident rate for motorcyclists has been declining for many years. Riders now are a much safer group than in the '50s, '60s,and '70s. And through the '80s and '90s things seemed to improve even more, though the decline in registrations at the same time had to have been a large part of the explanation. Motorcycling has undergone another boom, however, and more people are riding again. Unavoidably, with greater exposure comes more accidents, though the best data we've seen recently still indicate that the number of riders is increasing faster than the accident rate, which means that on the whole, motorcyclists are safer than ever. This fact is being ignored. Motorcycle accidents are perceived differently from other traffic incidents; car wrecks are considered regrettable, but a cultural norm; the same result on a motorcycle is viewed as senseless. Or worse, inevitable.
Motorcycles are potentially dangerous, of course, but they don't have to be. The risk inherent to motorcycling seems to me a frictionless sliding scale: depending entirely on your own approach, it can move freely between safe and relaxed recreation and something verging on suicide. No other vehicle offers the movement so easily from one extreme to the other. So yes, you need to think about what you do and be careful."


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Smith Named to D3hoops.com Team of the Weekby Brent Harris • December 2, 2010 Share:
Honors continue to roll in for Wabash senior guard Wes Smith, who has been named to the D3hoops.com Team of the Week, presented by Scoutware.
Smith earned the honor after leading the Little Giants to three wins last week over Hanover, Otterbein, and Randolph-Macon. He was named the North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the second consecutive week by averaging 27 points in addition to handing out five assists, recording three blocked shots, and making four steals. He was named the Pete Thorn Invitational Most Valuable Player, scoring a season-best 34 points in the opening round win over Otterbein before adding 27 points in the Little Giants' 60-45 over previously second-ranked Randolph-Macon.


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RHLondon necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 230 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
We are a small team of London-based entrepreneurs looking to set up a financial product that generates both financial and social returns. SharedImpact enables individual investors to lend directly to entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa.
We believe that creating social impact should be aspirational, fun and addictive. SharedImpact is a Web 2.0 solution for tomorrow's philanthropists.
We are primarily targeting the Facebook generation. They are web-savvy but also have a social conscience. They have some disposable income that they are looking to allocate to good causes, but see current charitable options are tired and ineffectual.
SharedImpact will be perceived as a premium product, even though it will be accessible for as little as $100. Investing on SharedImpact will be a sociable activity, something you will want to tell your friends about - an exciting and innovative way of creating social impact.
We are looking for a logo to represent our social enterprise, SharedImpact.
The logo may also include the full name (SharedImpact, sharedimpact, Shared Impact or shared impact). The text should be easily legible and soft.
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- Fun - not too serious
- Nothing too elegant – don't want to come across as too fancy / inaccessible / clinical
- No cartoons - playful but not childlike
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Green / black possible colors but please feel free to experiment with other colors.
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