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I am attending a dear friend's a wedding in Hawaii early next year. In fact, I should have been Best Man at the wedding but my husband pipped me at the post - apparently the groom was scared that I would have ordered male Hawaiian strippers for the bucks night (which I would have - female strippers don't do it for me!). So, we have decided to make a bit of a family holiday of it, and hopefully I can sneak a little bit of shopping in as well!
For today's post I thought that I'd make it interactive. I was wondering if you could help me devise a Sephora shopping list. I have had a quick look on their website but got totally overwhelmed. Where do I start? Well, the most obvious place is with you guys! Do you have a Sephora wish list? Or have you hauled from Sephora yourself? The boys will be having a golf day whilst we are over there which means that us girls get a shopping day. However, my friends are not nearly as beauty obsessed as I am so there is no way that they will tolerate (or even stick around for!!) me spending 3 hours in Sephora. That means that I need to have a really concise list before I go so that I can rush in there, grab want I want and go before they all abandon me! We are flying with Hawaii Airlines which means that between me, my husband and our toddler we have a 160kg luggage limit (how crazy is that!! Us adults get 64kgs and our bub gets 32kgs!!) so weight is not going to be an issue.
So what am I after? Mostly skincare and bath & body products though if there are makeup products that are an absolute steal or are totally different to what we get here then I am interested. I love the idea of getting products that aren't available in Australia (even though that is then a tease when they run out). I am thinking of getting some Philosophy shower gels though not sure whether Sephora is cheaper than skinstore.com. I am also a huge perfume addict so love ideas of unique perfumes as well. How can you help me? If you have your own Sephora wish list then post it in the comments below. Or, have you done a post, or read a post of a drool worth Sephora haul then please post the link. I'd love suggestions of things to look out for but also things to avoid - ie any product that you bought from Sephora that didn't live up to your expectations. I have 6 months to compile this list, so as you can see I am already fast running out of time!
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Day 10, Aug 20th, RM357 to Rm 319 behind Goose Island
Flying Carp in Canoe
|We left little earlier this morning , about 7:00am, thru L&D 20 , and stopped in Canton for gas and milk, little windy again but not as bad as yesterday, A barge, Dennis Collins, caught up to us below Canton and we stopped a while to let him pass.Early this morning, we had our first experience with the flying Carp, this is an invasive species from Asia which jumps when disturbed. we had one land in the front of boat and another on our front platform.
|We also caught up with a young man in a canoe, Alex Shoemker, who started from the headwaters of Mississippi river, Lake Itasca, on July 1st. We also saw him again at L&D 21 and he locked trru with us. He had passed us while we were stopped at a marina
|Also saw his campsite the next morning where he had camped a mile or two from our campsite.
|We stopped at Art Kellers Marina to get a little gas, and had a little trouble getting in there. Quigley's book described it haveing the channel buoyed and well marked. — wrong– no buoys, poor signage, etc,– and we ran into some very shallow water, had to raise the big motor, get out and push off, and then use the little 3hp motor to get us to some deeper water. Then when we got there, there was no one around, and they did not answer the radio, finally a city park ranger saw us and called them. The attendant said best not to come in unless you are already familiar with area. Thus, notice to boating travelers, forget Art Kellers Marina.
|We travel some more, and quit about 4:30PM, pulled behind an island at River Mile 319, Goose Island on Illinois side. and anchored in some shallow water about 50 feet from shore. very few bugs, but enough that no lights afer dark, had some scrambled eggs and bratworst for supper. Stan washed his clothes after anchoring. Little wash machine worked well as long as you did not put to many clothes in it.
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Very interesting reading your reports Stan.Water looks very muddy .Is it?


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No.119 01.10.2008
Greetings. Happy new year!
We look forward to your support
and encouragement.
In 2008, we Game Freak will try for
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I'd like to ask a question to you.
Do you have an aspiration for this year?
I, Masuda's aspiration will be
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Continued from Session 3 – Fraud
Scott Atran (UMich among others) is an anthropologist who talked about intractable conflict – how groups like the Hamas or the Mujahedeen define and experience conflict. He talked of sacred values that lead to sacred conflict. Sacred values are impossible to negotiate on. Certain items are just off the agenda, so to speak.
One of the most reliable predictor of who will actually commit violence (regardless of political or religious convictions) is who their friends are.
Scott also drew our attention to the fact that groups like Al-Qaeda are grass roots organisations. They don't actively recruit, as there are enough disgruntled people to join their ranks willingly.
Dylan Evans (UC Cork) talked about how humans estimate probabilities. He presented an online risk intelligence test his group designed.
Ragnar Löfstedt (King's) asked whether transparency is always a good thing. He mentioned that doctors didn't want early disclosure of information on the Internet, as this created half-informed and highly opinionated patients. He also mentioned FDA's transparency initiative which looks like a remarkable paradigm shift.
William J. Burns (Decision Research) pointed out that the highest cost to society is paid for the reaction to a terrorist strike, not by the strike itself. He also mentioned that the Times Square "strike" (which wasn't) was "remarkably well handled".
Chris Cocking (London Met), fresh in from Glastonbury, talked about emergency crowd management. He disagreed with Gustave Le Bon's "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" and supported that crowds display emergent qualities that help stave off disasters. Interestingly he mentioned that many fire fatalities occur exactly because people do not panic enough and have a too phlegmatic approach to danger. But the popular view that crowds by default become anarchic, dangerous mobs, was directly challenged.
Frank Furedi (Kent) talked about fear and risk. He mentioned the Newsweek article on BP's oil spill worst case scenario and noted that worst-case thinking reduces risk to fantasy. A manifestation of this effect is that (apparently) right now in the UK anyone who has any direct contact with children other than their own (e.g. if you're giving your neighbour's children a lift to school some days along with your children) has to be CRB-checked. This has resulted in 7,5 million adults being listed in the CRB registry as "dealing with children".
That was the end of day 1 of the workshop. Further notes I scribbled in my notebook that day:
- "The London mob" – Tudor-era way of referring to "public opinion"
- Paper in SHB2009 discussing the danger of transparency without context. I assume it's "Identity and Trust in Context" by Peter G. Neumann.
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Musicians at work for the concert 'Bach's 329th anniversary'
Selection of propositions was organized with the view on assembling the concert program. Three competent experts – artistic director of progfessional BO 'Rīga' Mārtiņš Ozoliņš, musicologist Arnolds Klotiņš and composer, lecturer of Latvia State Conservatoire Rolands Kronlaks – formed the commission for selections.
Six of the propositions entered for selection will be realized: Laura Gustovska's idea of a contemporary version of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, Sabīne Ķezbere's fantasy on Prelude in B flat from Well Tempered Clavier, Vilnis Šmīdbergs' idea to arrange Bach's famous Concert for piano and orchestra in D minor for brass orchestra as a concert piece.
The program of the concert will also include submission of Leons Amoliņš 'Challenge to Dance' ("Izaicinājums uz deju"), Valdis Zilveris' idea to arrange popular Toccata and fugue in D minor adding jazz elements and variations of well-known piano miniature 'Musette' from Anna Magdalene Bach's Music book, proposed by Jēkabs Nīmanis.
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On July 13, 2016 remembering the three years of death of Cory Monteith , an actor that became famous because of Glee, Lea Michele, who was his girlfriend at the time of his death, a tattoo was held in his honor.
Actress Scream Queens published on its official account on Twitter a tattoo showing number 5, accompanied by the message "one more for my quarterback, " referring to the jersey Monteith used in Glee .
And one more.. for my quarterback..  pic.twitter.com/XxWgO34Egn— Lea Michele (@msleamichele) April 12, 2016
Michele and Monteith had an affair for nearly two years, who met on the set of Glee, issue created by Ryan Murphy, where recognized as one of the favorite couples of the show called 'Finnchel'.
Unfortunately Cory lost his life due to a lethal combination of alcohol and heroin, after a long battle with addictions and despite what happened, he is still remembered.
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Coldplay's Lesson for Soloists
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
– Albert Einstein
Coldplay's Lesson for Soloists
by Terri Lonier, founder WorkingSolo.com
These days, as we soloists ride the economic roller coaster, it seems everyone has a suggestion on how to improve your business. Sometimes, however, the best approach is to keep things simple and not over-analyze. Trying to figure out what works and what doesn't in your solo business? Consider this:
In a recent interview Chris Martin, lead singer of the Emmy Award-winning British rock group Coldplay (Viva La Vida, Yellow, Clocks), spoke about how he and his bandmates determine which songs to include in their concerts, particularly during the early stages of a worldwide tour. Millions of fans turn out to see them — from London to Tokyo, Melbourne, Chicago and beyond — and Martin wants to make sure they have a great time. Besides their fan's raucous cheers, how can he tell?
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Martin says he tries to make sure that the lights in the rear of the concert hall are just the backlit outlines of the door frames — with no people in them. "I know we're doing okay, when all the exits are clear. That's my way of judging it," he says. "The silhouette factor."
Pretty simple. No fancy, convoluted methods. Martin knows when Coldplay's song choices are right because the fans stay and hear them.
So how do you know if people like your product or service? What is your Silhouette Factor?
Copyright 2009 Terri Lonier. This article first appeared in the Working Solo Minute, the free weekly email newsletter published by small business expert Terri Lonier. It is reprinted with permission.To subscribe, visit www.workingsolo.com.
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Terri's simple "Silhouette Factor" applies to all businesses, not just Soloists. I'd ask the same question of you all, how do you know if people like your product or service? Do you have a unique factor?


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And the winner is…/
After much deliberating and careful consideration for all ten entries in my "Write me a new author biography" contest, I have chosen a winner.
Doing so was not easy.
I genuinely liked every entry and loved a few of them. All of them surprised me with the level of detail and insight that they provided about me and my life.
A couple of the entries were outstanding but just not suitable for an author bio, but they could easily be used on promotional materials. I intend on sending these to my publicist as well.
And throughout the next few days, I will share some of my favorite entries with you.
Like I said, I liked them all but really loved a few in particular.
And so, without further adieu, the winner of the contest, written by Charles Wolgemuth:
MATTHEW DICKS, who is not one for long, crafted sentences, preferring the stylings of Vonnegut over those of Saramago, is an author whose works, to date, include the novels Something Missing, Unexpectedly Milo, and the as yet unpublished Chicken Shack; a successful blog (matthewdicks.com); and a number of Op Ed pieces, all of which, at some level or another, tend to examine the outcomes of the quirky and/or rebellious individual when forced up against staid society; however, to say that he is an author is an understatement, for this husband and father from Newington, CT, who has faced a number of near-death experiences, lived in his car, and been tried for a crime that he did not commit, is also an acclaimed elementary teacher who has received the Teacher of the Year Award, is the co-owner of a DJ business, and still wishes that he could beat some of his friends at golf.
I loved this piece for a number of reasons.
First, and most important, the piece possesses an air of self-deprecation that I think is critical to an author bio. While I cherish some of the compliments lauded upon me by other entries, Charles' bio sticks to the facts and allows them to speak for themselves, absent any hyperbole. He hits the highpoints, leaving out the mundane and obvious, and states just enough to whet the appetite of the reader. And that last line, in which my struggles on the golf course is highlighted, demonstrates my willingness to share my flaws with the public.
Second, Charles effectively connotes my favorite author and my appreciation for his writing style by crafting the bio in the styling of Vonnegut's antithesis: Jose Saramago. I have criticized Saramago;s lack of paragraphs and obscene sentence length many times, preferring the crisp, clean prose of someone like Vonnegut. And yet Charles manages to demonstrate the effectiveness of Saramago's style while simultaneously expressing my distaste for it. Clever.
And sort of an inside baseball reference for those literarily inclined.
Lastly, I liked Charles analysis of the themes that I seem to return to in all my work, and in fairness, he was not the only person to center on the idea of the quirky or rebellious character battling the expectations of society, but he managed to capture this idea simply and effectively.
Bravo, Charles, on a job well done.
Naturally, my publicist and editor are on vacation this week, so I'll have to wait until next week to see what they think.


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GoFundMe Releases New Tools and New Data to Help Students Pay for College
REDWOOD CITY, CA | February 15, 2017 — GoFundMe today released a new guidebook highlighting the growing trend of college students who are turning to GoFundMe to pay for tuition and other costs associated with college. In the last three years alone, over 130,000 GoFundMes have raised $60 million from over 850,000 donations for college tuition and related expenses.
The GoFundMe Guidebook includes three sections:
1. National Data:
New national data about the growing trend of students using social fundraising to pay for school.
2. Step-by-Step Instructions and Tips to Launch a Successful GoFundMe:
Step-by-step instructions and important tips for students about how to create a successful GoFundMe to raise money for college.
3. State-Specific Data:
State-specific data about the cost of college and information about students in your state who have turned to GoFundMe to help reduce their college costs.
To view the guidebook, click HERE.
GoFundMe today also released a new college fundraising hub, which will serve as a resource for students and their communities. We want to make it as easy as possible for GoFundMe donors to find students, as well as giving students and their families the tips and tools they need for a successful campaign. Students and donors can visit the college fundraising hub here: https://www.gofundme.com/college-tuition-fundraising
GoFundMe has made these new resources available to all students, parents, faculty and staff at college campuses across the country to show how easy it is to reduce a student's bills. GoFundMe will continue to share tips and best practices directly with students to empower them to start campaigns.
About GoFundMe
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Please note that we are removing information from the FAQ as it is added to the Wiki. The wiki allows all fans to add and update information rather than having to submit it to "CHiPs" Online staff.
FAQ Credits
Please note that we are removing information from the FAQ as it is added to the Wiki. The wiki allows all fans to add and update information rather than having to submit it to "CHiPs" Online staff.
Who wrote this FAQ?
Quite a few people have helped out so far...
Editor: Patrick Delahanty
FAQ Creators: Patrick Delahanty, Timothy Lewis, and Michael Delahanty
Contributors: "CHiPs" Creator Rick Rosner, Executive Producer Cy Chermak, Director Phil Bondelli, Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, CHP Officer Ray, Julien Alain, Mike Aleman, Gary Allenbach, Vicki Ashton, Barbara Babb, Jeff & Melissa Ball, Michael Beckers, Jason Blackwood, Teresa Boussom, Matt Bowman, Jeff Chalfan, Chris Callahan, Gerry Coffman, Heather Cunningham, Christine Davis, Michael Delahanty, Chris Fogel, Chris Fontaine, Michael W. Freeman, Shawn Fuller, Todd Fuller, Bill Griffith, Jon Groves, Alex Guerrero, Jeffrey Hasterok, Kip A. Havel, George Hevia, Bryan Hoch, Craig Johnson, Tyler P. Juckem, Tim Krock, Doug Krause, Christopher Kristofco, Jim Lalopoulos, Quyen Lam, R. Carter Lassy, Tim Lewis, Jeff Liszka, Art Love, Albert Lucas, Sue MacNeil, John Maher, David McCreath, Scott Merzbach, James Miller, Wendy Moncur, Karen Moon, Nicholas Mooneyhan, John Moran, Tony Morelli, Bob Mueser, David Mark Nelson, Mark Panitz, Keith A. Pelletier, Paul Phelps, Richard A. Pirie, Jeanine Reece, Eric Reuter, Mike Shannon, Larry Sherrod, Mark Sinsabaugh, Heather Hunter Smith, Paul Sorenson, Rojohn Soriano, Brett Taylor, Jim Terry, Randy Torno, Ed Van Cise, Karl von Uhl, Dan Villanueva, Amy Young, Steven Zivanic, Fricis Zuments, "Arkow", "and-e", the folks at eBay, and The Collector's Guide to TV Memorabilia.
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Close to the explorations of the Fembot series, Hearts is an exploration of the spontaneous, the figurative and their relationship.
All the lines were drawn spontaneously after a period of waiting.
Sometimes, I internally felt my way around my own body with eyes closed. My focus would move from mouth, to chin, to neck, to shoulder, to chest… all the while my hand would move. Other times, with my eyes open, my focus was open too and I'd watch my hand move and the figure appearing before me.
Once the drawing finished, I'd meet it and then listen for where the eyes and heart would be painted, and sometimes other parts of the body too. Once painted, I knew the figure was a little more fixed than before.
Finally, with the the figure in front of me I'd ask it it's name. Often within seconds I'd hear a name, occasionally I'd raise an eyebrow, but knew it was my job to write it down.
For the Hearts Gallery click here
The exhibition is at the 19 Greek Street Gallery in Soho, London
It runs from 12th December 2013 to 17th January 2015


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More than 55 diseases have been linked to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. It's estimated that 99% of the people who have either gluten intolerance or celiac disease are never diagnosed.
Currently, as much as 15% of the US population is gluten intolerant. Could you be one of them? The best way to find out if you have an issue with gluten is to do an elimination diet and take it out of your diet for at least 2 to 3 weeks and then reintroduce it – and see how you feel.
Here are some signs that you MIGHT be gluten intolerant:
Digestive issues such as gas, bloating, diarrhea and even constipation.
Keratosis Pilaris, (also known as 'chicken skin' on the back of your arms). This tends to be a result of a fatty acid deficiency and vitamin A deficiency secondary to fat malabsorption is caused by gluten damaging the gut.
Fatigue, brain fog or feeling tired after eating a meal that contains gluten.
- Regular Migraines
Diagnosis of an autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Ulcerative colitis, Lupus, Psoriasis, Scleroderma, or Multiple sclerosis.
Neurologic symptoms such as dizziness or feeling of being off-balance.
Hormone imbalances such as PMS, PCOS or unexplained infertility.
Diagnosis of chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia. These diagnoses simply indicate your conventional doctor cannot pin point the cause of your fatigue or pain.
Inflammation, swelling or pain in your joints such as fingers, knees, or hips.
Mood issues such as anxiety, depression, mood swings, and ADD.


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How to Use KPIs to Know Where You are
Key performance indicators (KPIs) enable managers to continuously learn and improve; provide managers with a radar screen to take fast, corrective action; and enable process managers to measure progress toward strategic goals. KPIs are high on the list of most organization improvement agendas. But few organizations have understood how they should be chosen and used. What exactly is a KPI? How many should we have? How do we get value from them? This paper discusses these and other issues and provides some recommendations that managers can follow to get more value from these important measures.


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How to Install MySQL Service on Windows – XAMPP
If you are a web developer that work a lot with PHP and MySQL, surely you need to turn on and turn off the apache and MySQL server manually, eg: every time you start your windows, seems uncomfortable, right? It would be nice if the server automatically starts when we start our windows, so here we'll discuss how to install MySQL service on windows especially using XAMPP, if you prefer to use a command prompt, please refer to this tutorial: Install, Start, Stop, and Uninstall MySQL Service on Windows Using Command Promt
Install MySQL Service on Windows
Before we start to install MySQL service on Windows, there are a few things that need to note:
- First: In order to be able to install the service, make sure that you have installed the FULL Version of xampp, NOT the portable version nor the full version that packaged as an archive file (.7z or .zip), please refer to this article to determine any type of XAMPP package file.
- Second, you have to run XAMPP Control Panel as Administrator: it can be achieved through START > ALL PROGRAMS > XAMPP > XAMPP Control Panel, right click on XAMPP Control Panel and choose Run As Administrator
- Alternatively, you want to go to XAMPP installation directory, then right click on the xampp-control.exe file and click on Run As Administrator.
1. Install MySQL service using XAMPP
To install MySQL service using XAMPP, in the XAMPP Control Panel windows, simply check the MySQL service button that located on the left side of MySQL components, next, you will be noticed by a small message window "Click Yes to Install the MySQK Service", click Yes to continue.
If successful, it will display a green checkmark.
2. Running MySQL Service
MySQL service that we have installed is not running automatically, we have to run it manually, instead. To do so, simply click on the START button located on the right side of MySQL component.
If no errors occurred, the MySQL service will run and MySQL component will have a green background, now, every time you start your windows, MySQL service will also start.
3. Uninstall apache service using XAMPP
If you change your mind and want to remove / uninstall MySQL service, simply uncheck the install service button, but first, you need to make sure that the MySQL service is stopped, otherwise, it will trigger an error.
Addition Note
So far, you only see the changes on the control panel, but maybe do not know what is happens to your system. Windows provide a tool to manage services named Services.msc file, through this tool you can monitor all of the changes (install, run, and uninstall). To use this tool, go to windows start menu then type services, next, click on the services.msc file, in addition, you can also open the Service.msc file through Windows Control Panel by navigating to: Start » Control Panel » System and Security » Administrative Tools.
Startup Type Automatic means that the service will be started along with windows start.
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October 16, 2015
Business Law Policy Consultation
Consumer and Business Policy Unit
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services
Re: Ministry of Government and Consumer Services – Business Law Agenda: Priority Findings and Recommendations Report ("Business Law Agenda Report") for reform of Ontario's corporate and commercial legislation
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services ("Ministry") Business Law Agenda Report on priorities and recommendations for reform of Ontario's corporate and commercial legislation, which was published for comment on July 9, 2015. We appreciate the opportunity to be a part of the Ministry's reform process and to contribute to these important developments.
Hurt Capital Inc. is a research-driven investment and venture capital platform. Since 2008, our investment selections in the capital markets have outpaced the S&P 500. This was achieved with minimal trading, and predominantly a buy-and-hold approach to investing. We attribute this success to an investment methodology rooted in academic research, alongside the traditional value investing principles taught by Ben Graham at Columbia University in the 1930's and espoused by Warren Buffett with much success in recent years. Hurt Capital's research in this field strives to contribute to Ontario's economic prosperity and competitiveness as a jurisdiction of choice for entrepreneurial activity, investor engagement, and business expansion.
We applaud the Ministry for undertaking this initiative as part of its broader commitment to ensuring that Ontario's legislative structure facilitates an efficient market and prosperous business climate. We are supportive of the intent of the Business Law Agenda Report and we recognize the volunteer panel's significant efforts and difficult task in developing recommendations. Our comments that follow relate primarily to the panel's recommendations for making Ontario a jurisdiction of choice for innovative business and are broad in nature with a view to informing the trajectory of legislative reform and advancing the overall policy objectives of the Ministry.
Fiduciary Duty and the Principle of Fair Treatment
"An Indeterminate Theory of Canadian Corporate Law",[1] published in the University of British Columbia Law Review, establishes the foundation of a distinct theory for the enhanced efficiency of business corporations. In revisiting BCE v 1976 Debentureholders ("BCE"), this article uncovers novel insights and reveals new theoretical implications on otherwise challenging developments in corporate governance. In Canadian corporate law, an organizing principle of fair treatment is encompassed within the fiduciary duty. This distinctive duty reflects elements of Warren Buffett's approach to corporate governance, both essentially rejecting central tenets of shareholder primacy and stakeholder theory. In considering Buffett's control position in Berkshire Hathaway, which in turn holds a controlling interest in numerous other companies, this research posits that the existence of ethical dominant shareholders may enhance the economic efficiency of publicly traded firms. In militating against agency costs, companies with powerful shareholders may benefit from greater efficiencies, provided that an inversely correlated "discriminatory problem" is mitigated. Anecdotal evidence is drawn from Warren Buffett's preference for concentrated ownership structures combined with an approach to corporate governance that reduces "discriminatory costs", a variant of the agency costs pervasive in widely dispersed U.S. corporations.[2] We encourage the Ministry to consider this fresh perspective on the fiduciary duty and its linkage with the oppression remedy.
Innovative Business and Concentrated Share Ownership
In a study on U.S. firms, funded by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and conducted by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., researchers found that controlled companies are on the rise. In 2002, the S&P 1500 Composite had 87 controlled firms; by 2012 this number was up 31% to 114. Within these firms, 79 contained multi-class capital structures with unequal voting rights, while 35 were controlled through a single class of voting stock.[3] The technology sector is at the forefront of this trend, as represented by Google's (U.S. $464 billion, market capitalization) multi-class share split to concentrate voting control in the hands of two shareholders, the control position of a single shareholder over Facebook ($270 billion), and the concentrated shareholdings found in Amazon ($263 billion), Netflix ($43 billion), Tesla ($29 billion) and other emerging and newly listed technology companies.
At an earlier stage of this movement towards concentrated share ownership in the U.S., prominent Harvard scholar Michael C. Jensen[4] commented:
[t]he success of these massive real time experiments in new management and governance techniques over these last two decades [referring to the rise of shareholder activism, private equity, and increased use of performance pay] is a testament to the power of aligning the interests of principals and agents… All of this takes on more importance in light of the fact that we are in the midst of an unusually powerful shift in the worldwide economy, one strong enough to be labeled the Third Industrial Revolution.[5]
This observation emphasizes the significance of corporate governance theory in the context of rapid technology-driven progress and economic expansion.
In Canada, legal mechanisms have developed over a forty-year period in response to a prevalence of controlling shareholders and dual class share structures in public markets. The theoretical underpinning of Canadian corporate law has evolved within this context, which is almost precisely obverse to the principal-agent ownership structure observed by Berle and Means[6] in 1932 – specifically, the separation of ownership and control in U.S. firms. In contrast, the Canadian regime has advanced along a trajectory that contemplates a divergence of interests between dominant and dispersed shareholders, alongside conventional agency issues. As a result of this historical experience, Ontario is strongly positioned as jurisdiction of choice for both investors in innovative business and founders intent on retaining a control position in their venture.
In the U.S., the era of the Berle-Means dispersed share ownership structure is in decline. The magnitude of this shift is underappreciated, yet seismic in its implications. Increasingly, shareholders wield the power to determine or significantly influence corporate policy in U.S. firms. In focusing upon this evolution in share ownership structure – specifically, narrowing within the separation between ownership and control – a distinct economic theory for the enhanced efficiency of business corporations is emerging.
We encourage the Ministry to consider the unique characteristics of Ontario's capital markets, particularly with regard to concentrated share ownership patterns and the inherent efficiencies that are shifting the U.S. landscape towards greater levels of shareholder influence over corporate policy. Innovative business is both contributing to- and responding to the shifting governance landscape. In undertaking this review process – alongside the Ministry's commitment to advancing legal frameworks that are responsive, flexible and adaptable – Ontario will be well-positioned for this next phase of economic expansion.
[1] Claudio R Rojas, "An Indeterminate Theory of Canadian Corporate Law" (2014) 47:1 UBC L Rev 59, online: SSRN <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2391775>.
[2] Ibid at 62-63 (principle of fair treatment), 82-84 (fiduciary duty), 88-89, 114-20 (discriminatory costs), 122-24 (Warren Buffett).
[3] Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute, "Controlled Companies in the Standard & Poor's 1500: A Ten Year Performance and Risk Review" (October 2012), online: <http://irrcinstitute.org>.
[4] Michael C Jensen is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. His research and writing is prominent in the U.S. national debate on corporate governance.
[5] Michael C Jensen, Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims and Organizational Forms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000) at 5.
[6] Adolf Berle & Gardiner Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932), (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1967).


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It's the holidays, cue a time when you get nothing productive done and have whining voices in your ear saying I'm hungry, what are we doing today and when can we stop for lunch so this week my plan of action was take them out as much as possible and make them so tired they can barely speak, all in the name of fun.
So, we tripped off to St Tropez on Tuesday to stay with a friend who is house sitting in a villa overlooking the bay for six weeks. We chatted by the pool, drank un petit Chablis and put the world to rights while the kids played, all good. It is so hot at the moment, at 6.30 last night it was showing 34 degrees on the car, which is too, too much (but I know how rubbish the UK summer is right now so not moaning, really.)
Arrived back last night and spent this morning in Antibes at the market with a friend who knows it so well that I ended up spending a fortune at all the rigt stalls (but a Triumph bikini, sundress, silk shift and red leather handbag made it feel better and all for the price of a half price Tara Jarmon silk skirt in Rue d'Antibes) before heading to the beach. The boys suggested tombstoning off the rocks at Cap d'Antibes, a phrase which conjures up the local A&E to me, but the girls were keen so off they went, leaving us to swim and chat on the beach in perfect peace.
When we got a text at 7 asking if we could come and meet them, they couldn't wait to tell us how they bunked into the pool at the Eden Roc, only the most expensive hotel on the Riviera (preferred choice of Brad, Angelina, Quentin etc) and how they spent 45 minutes in the infinity pool undetected. Scarily, they had the whole trespassing thing off to a fine art. Every time they swam past a resident, one of them would say, my suite is lovely, how is yours? They talked about the chocolates left on the pillows each night and even worked out which room numbers they would use if quizzed by the lifeguard! Issy spent an hour tonight facebooking all her friends with the hotel link so they can check it out - most of them live in Brookmans Park in currently very rainy Herts so am sure they will be thrilled to get her message.
The day got even better when I saw that my first feature, on our lovely mate Mat Barker and his boat The Blue Peter, was the cover story of The French Paper's Life section, and then arrived home to open my mail - a cheque from the DSS for overpayment of my NI in the UK for the past 11 years, two copies of Grazia (thanks Jeanie), and a letter from my accountant saying that the taxman owes me. Don't feel so bad about the market now.
The only downside of the past two weeks has been getting stung by a jellyfish. As I swam I felt something attack my thigh, no kidding I thought it was a shark the pain was so intense. By the time I got back to the beach, my leg was throbbing and the next day, it had swelled to twice its usual size, was bright red, itchy and about 100 degrees. Ten days on, I have a massive scar and it is still itching like the pox. I braved the sea today but must have looked like a paranoid schizo as every time something glistened or moved by me I was a bag of nerves. Have noticed people really staring at it if I wear shorts or a bikini, it is quite interesting how differently you are perceived with such an obvious physical imperfection.
Anyway, tennis tomorrow, am planning to hold my head high after the aquasplash swimsuit debacle, I have no shame. Perhaps I should just slash my tennis skirt across the butt to prove that I do indeed have a sense of humour.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Italian Tomato Bruschetta Recipe
During our trip to Florence, we were able to cook a few meals at home, sampling local ingredients. We lived right in the heart of Firenze and while preparing dinner, I sent my husband Lulu out to find a rustic bread. He ended up in a "panificio" (bread bakery) and asked the baker for his most popular bread. Lulu came home with a giant loaf of Tuscan-style bread, which I sliced into thick, crusty pieces and prepared bruschetta.
Bruschetta basically consists of grilled bread rubbed with fresh garlic and topped with tomatoes, olive oil, salt and pepper. I upped the flavors with roasted garlic and loads of fresh basil.
Yields: 18 appetizers1 loaf artisan bread, sliced in 9 thick, even slices
1 head garlic, halved lengthwise
4 tablespoons puréed roasted garlic (click on the link for the recipe), total of 3 fresh heads of garlic
5 large heirloom tomatoes, coarsely chopped
½ bunch flat-leaf parsley (optional), chopped
¼ cup sweet basil, chopped
⅓ cup olive oil
2½ teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons black pepper, freshly ground
For the toasted bread: Heat a large pan with 2-3 tablespoons oil. Place the pieces of bread in the hot oil. Let sit for about 2-3 minutes on each side until nicely toasted. Remove from the pan. Rub the slices of bread against the fresh garlic. Gather 3 cloves of fresh garlic and finely mince it.
For the tomatoes: In a mixing bowl, combine the tomatoes, the minced fresh garlic, salt, black pepper and 2 tablespoons olive oil. Mix well. Adjust seasoning.
Let the bread cool, then cover each piece of bread with a very thin layer of the squeezed roasted garlic spread.
Add parsley (if using) and basil to the tomato mixture. Mix well. Top the bread with the tomatoes. Drizzle with more olive oil.
Serve at room temperature.
Bon appétit!
Slightly toasting the bread prevents the "tartines" from getting too soggy, even when a moist topping is added.
If you have a big gathering, grill the bread in advance. Store in a zip-top bag and spread the topping about 30 minutes before serving.
You can store the leftover roasted garlic by squeezing the puréed garlic out of skins, placing it in a container and covering with oil.
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What's better than having cupcakes? Having cupcakes at 4 in the morning!
'Can I have a hit of that sweet ass cupcake bro', you must have heard this before, right? I mean there must have been moments in your life when you were consuming the nectar of God, reimagined for us mortals in the form of red velvet cupcakes and your friend/Arjun Rampal looks at you and mutters those dreaded words. Then you sulk, cuss every living cat possible, breathe fire, ask for mercy, repeat and then finally cave in and share that cupcake you thought was your actual true love.
Now there are people out there who can't witness you going through this emotional roller coaster of sheer agony. People who care about you. People who care about the hungry children on the streets, Pope Francis, but most of all, they care about cupcakes.
Sprinkles Cupcake Bakery is setting up 24×7 cupcake ATMs throughout New York City. Cupcake ATMs have been out there for a while with Sprinkles setting up an ATM outside its Los Angeles bakery. The success seems to have encouraged Sprinkles to install this at multiple locations.
It's quite easy to use, you order you cupcake, swipe your card and, voila, a fresh cupcake served up in a decorative box any time you'd like. There are currently nine flavors to tempt your taste buds.
Black & white
Chocolate coconut
Cuban coffee
Dark chocolate
Lemon meringue
Red velvet
Vanilla milk chocolate
If this trend continues, an optimist can expect there to be a few cupcake ATMs in India soon. India, a country where 21% of the population still lives below the poverty line may very well get cupcake ATMs in the near future. If only they had ATMs for rational perspectives. So, if you want to get cupcake ATMs in India or you want to get that hemorrhoids medicine for your dog but are too cheap to buy from your money, here's a link to your solutions – change.org
So if cupcake ATMs open in India:
What it means for us:
1. Ability to fluently speak in French
2. Sudden realisation of how small and insignificant your mortal presence is to the rest of the universe.
3. Watch Big bang theory without a mild migraine
If you like cupcakes, live in New York City and you're are a fan of machines that dispense food (Waitaminute! I just found the plot for the next terminator movie!), then you're in for a treat.
Each cupcake costs $4.25 and the machine will be able to hold 760 cupcakes at a time.


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For months, advocates for and against true health care reform in Washington have been closely watching Senator Max Baucus of Montana, chairman of the all-powerful Finance Committee, and wondering what he'll do. We don't know the answer yet. Baucus was instrumental in helping George Bush pass tax cuts for the rich and privatize Medicare, but he's also said he wants to shepherd Barack Obama's healthcare plan through Congress and make universal coverage a reality once and for all. Thus far, we don't which Baucus will show up, the Bush-loving friend of big business or the populist ally of Obama.
There's a reason The Nation dubbed Baucus "K Street's Favorite Democrat" in a profile I wrote back in March 2007, after the Democrats recaptured Congress and Baucus became chair of the Finance Committee. Some background:
After helping to craft the largest tax cut in a generation, Baucus raised more than $1 million in campaign contributions from the financial sector for his 2002 re-election campaign. Opening doors in both directions were former Baucus staffers. During the debate over whether to add a $400 billion privately run prescription-drug plan to Medicare, his former chief of staff, David Castagnetti, and legislative aide, Scott Olsen, were part of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America's $8 million lobbying effort. Shortly after the legislation–written largely by the pharmaceutical industry–passed, Baucus's top staffer on the Finance Committee, Jeff Forbes, left to open his own lobbying shop, with clients including PhRMA, the drug maker Amgen and the American Health Care Association. These companies have in turn donated generously to Baucus; almost $700,000 between 2001 and 2006 from the healthcare industry and pharmaceutical lobby.
A study last year by Public Citizen found that between 1999 and 2005 Baucus, along with former Senate majority leader Bill Frist, took in the most special-interest money of any senator. He tops the list of recipients from business PACs. And only three senators have more former staffers working as lobbyists on K Street (at least two dozen in Baucus's case). Now that he's chairman, "former aides of Baucus, in particular, have been in demand on K Street by companies that hope to limit damage to their business interests," reports Congressional Quarterly.
The Sunlight Foundation recently reported that "five of Baucus' former staffers currently work for a total of twenty-seven different organizations that are either in the health care or insurance sector or have a noted interest in the outcome," including many of the firms–like PhRMA–that are sure to lobby against or work to severely dilute Obama's bill. Moreover, the Billings Gazette found that Baucus raises $1,500 a day from the medical-industrial complex, more than any other Democratic senator. "Baucus," the Gazette reported, "insists that this cascade of money is not unduly influencing his work." Said a Baucus spokesman, "No matter the issue, Max always puts Montana first."
Ok. Even if true, that's not always a good thing. The New York Times reports today that senators are considering taxing unhealthy products, like soda and cigarettes, to pay for healthcare reform. A 3 cent tax on a can of Coke would raise $51.6 billion over a decade, the Joint Committee on Taxation calculated. Unfortunately, such a move might harm the sugar beet industry of Montana and the high fructose corn producers of Iowa, the latter represented by Baucus' GOP counterpart and longtime ally on the Finance Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley. (The two are so close it's not clear who's heading the committee at times.) Thus Baucus says the proposal is on "life support." Protecting narrow state interests trumps covering 47 million uninsured Americans. Ladies and gentleman, welcome to your Congress!
There's still a chance Baucus will do the right thing and draft a meaningful healthcare bill with a strong public option that gets through Congress and to the president's desk. But it's a little scary to watch a man so compromised become the point person on Congress' most important bill.


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Brig Gen Nontobeko Mpaxa, commander of the SA army combat training centre, accused of cursing Afrikaner w/o At Malan, telling him she 'hated whites' – March 31 2010
May 4 2010 --Brig Gen. Ms Nontobeko Mpaxa, (picture and cv below) commander of the army combat training centre at Lohathlha, is being sued by Afrikaner warrant-officer At Malan after she had told him repeatedly that she 'hated whites', followed him around with her driver, spitting on the ground while cursing the junior military man, reports Volksblad Afrikaans daily.
This allgedly happened on March 31 2010, after Malan had been falsely arrested by a black military policeman whom he had spoken to about the fact that the uniformed man had been purchasing liquor at a Postmasburg liquor store while also using in a military vehicle. It is an infringement of military rules for military men to use military vehicles for such private purposes.
Malan instead was falsely arrested on a charge of 'drunk-driving' but he was never formally charged. During his rough arrest his arm was broken and his neck injured as he was roughly thrown into the military vehicle.
Stopped doctor from examining w/o Malan:
Shortly afterwards, when Malan was being examined at a hospital for his injuries incurred during the arrest, Genl. Mpaxa reportedly stormed into the treatment room, stopped the doctor from examining his patient, and she and her driver then followed w/o Malan through the streets, during which time she repeatedly screamed at him: "I hate you, I hate you', and spit on the ground.Junior officers repeatedly tried to get her under control but she ignored them in her rage, reported Volksblad.
Because of her interference, according to the statement submitted by Adv Gert van Niekerk, acting for Malan, his client had to go to a private doctor to getr Xrays done of his injuries during which it was found that one arm was broken.
The SAPS refused to lodge a formal charge against the injured Malan - but had illegally locked him up overnight in a room at Lohathlha military base.
Malan said in his statement issued through the legal representative that he was a 'law-abiding soldier who has received merit-bonuses for the past three years for his excellent work. He felt 'humiliated and injured in his dignity' he said.
Apparently Mpaxa has also been placed on a short-list for promotion to a higher post in Pretoria. The military command, approached for comment, said they did not comment on such cases until the court procedures had been completed.
- Adv Gert van Niekerk confirmed to Volksblad newspaper that he is taking various 'legal steps' on behalf of Malan against Mpaxa. http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Generaal-hof-toe-gevat-wat-glo-s%C3%AA-sy-haat-wittes-20100504
Below are her cv and her picture: http://www.actc.army.mil.za/aboutus/profiles.htm


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What if a credit union were created that focused on the unique needs of small, sustainably run farms and related businesses? This is the central question of the Maine Food System Credit Project (MFSCP) – a feasibility project sponsored jointly by MOFGA and Maine Farmland Trust.
In his keynote speech at MOFGA's Farmer to Farmer Conference in November 2012, just a month before his death, Russell Libby summarized MOFGA's accomplishments, the state of organic agriculture, and what we need to do to feed Maine and New England with healthful crops. A post-keynote workshop on feeding New England is covered here, as well.
On June 21, the Senate passed its version of a nearly $500 billion Farm Bill to replace the law that expires on September 30. The House Agriculture Committee addressed the bill in July. The bill should now go to the House floor for a full vote. If passed, it will go to House-Senate conference where the two drafts will be reconciled before being sent to the president for his signature.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled in June that the U.S. law allowing labeling of foods regarding their country of origin violates the WTO Technical Barrier to Trade agreement. A 2010 Consumers Union poll showed that 93 percent of Americans want to know where their food comes from.
The Maine towns of Appleton and Livermore have passed the Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance, joining Sedgwick, Penobscot, Blue Hill, Trenton, Hope and Plymouth. All ordinances were passed by voters at town meetings.
Local, sustainable food production is the way to feed our communities and the world, and we need fundamental change in U.S. farm policy to achieve that. So said two speakers at MOFGA's 2011 Farmer to Farmer Conference. Brian Snyder, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA), was a keynote speaker at the conference, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree followed his speech with comments about the Farm Bill.


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The title of "An Unreasonable Man," an improbably riveting portrait of Ralph Nader, is from George Bernard Shaw, who wrote: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
I guess "Inconvenient" was taken.
Choosing the Shaw quote as the film's opening epigram speaks volumes about the filmmakers' perspective on Nader, who for millions of Democrats immolated a heroic legacy of consumer activism and advocacy by running for president in 2000 -- thus, in their view, contributing to the election of George W. Bush.
That issue is tackled head-on at the top of "An Unreasonable Man," setting up the narrative tension of a film that then doubles back to document Nader's epic battle with the auto industry over safety issues in the 1960s and the juggernaut of consumer consciousness and policy shifts he so effectively piloted thereafter. Using a combination of archival footage and talking heads, directors Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan also chronicle how Nader came to make that quixotic 2000 run.
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World IPv6 Day seems to have been a success, at least from the technical point of view. It remains to be seen what impact the special day will have on convincing recalcitrant companies to get on the IPv6 bandwagon.
Carol Wilson at Light Reading took a bit of a snarky attitude about the well-publicized day. The test, she wrote, is:
... an indication that the vast majority of the very small number of IPv6 connections that exist today aren't broken. Or if they are, their users don't care enough to call and complain.
She went on to report that live trackers from Akamai Technologies and the Internet Society both showed that traffic peaked earlier. She provides links to both.https://o1.qnsr.com/log/p.gif?;n=203;c=204663295;s=11915;x=7936;f=201904081034270;u=j;z=TIMESTAMP;a=20410779;e=i
Computerworld has a nice piece outlining some of the things that need to happen after World IPv6 Day ends. They include upgrading a variety of infrastructure elements, including end-user operating systems, routers, firewalls and servers; dealing with immaturity of the new protocol; guarding against security vulnerabilities; and the need to maintain dual stack, IPv4 and IPv6 service well into the future.
Sandvine, a deep packet inspection (DPI) vendor, suggested that things went well. That also was the view of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet, who offers a more detailed technical explanation of how the Internet fared on June 8. The bottom line is that it did quite well:
Behind the scenes, I'm keeping in touch with ISP and IPv6 network administrators and help desk staff and they're seeing no real trouble either from the Internet administration viewpoint or from their users. To quote one of my network engineer friends at a tier two ISP, "My Customer Support team has told me that it [World IPv6 Day] has turned out to be a non-event for them, so this counts as a big win for the IPv6 Internet to me!"
Vaughan-Nichols did relate some details suggesting that a decent amount of work needs to be done in the longer haul:
For people using IPv6 from their home or office, 94% of sites aren't showing up correctly with AAAA address records on the Internet's master address list: the Domain Name System (DNS). AAAA records are used to store mappings between hostnames, for example, www.google.com, and IPv6 addresses. Without a valid AAAA record, clients that rely solely on AAAA for address resolutions can't reach these sites. That said, since most PC TCP/IP networking stacks fall back to using IPv4's A record for DNS address resolution, most users won't even see this problem. This issue will need to be dealt with by the various sites in due time.
That's the technology of the day. It will take a bit longer to determine how the PR battle went. One good sign, however, was that the Internet's big day won it a spot on "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer.


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New feature: Google Analytics loadtime tracking
Google Analytics has been updated recently with a brand new interface and some really cool new features. One of the latest additions to Google Analytics reporting is the loadtime reporting functionality. Analytics for Joomla is likely to be one of the first to add this great feature to the Google Analytics plugin for Joomla. Many creative webanalists have been developing complex ways to track loadtime of pages with event tracking in Google Analytics. This was a complicated, but extremely useful way to get better insights in the way a website was performing.
Google already made online marketers aware of the fact that loading time matters. They changed the algorithm of their searchengine to make sure it got the attention it deserved and added loadingtime results to the Webmaster Tools as a new metric.
To make it a bit easier to optimize for better loadingtime performance, Google also introduced a a brand new tool called Google Pagespeed, which gives you some pointers on how to improve the loadingtime of a website.
Sitespeed is now an official metric in your Google Analytics interface. You will have to use the new user interface to see the metric in your reports and add an additional line of code to your tracking code to get the data rolling in.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
� Blame Barney Frank for the Recession, Not George Bush - Big Government
From Big Government.com - This is a must "pass along" for those with liberal friends who want to blame George W. Bush for the housing market collapse. Barney Frank is an embarrassment to our country the way he has not taken even some responsibility for what is going on with FMae & FMac. It is very telling when Frank says in the 2nd video that we need to push for home ownership...because, along with healthcare, home ownership is a "right" as well.
Marco Rubio Responds To Harry Reid's "Outrageous" Remarks
Just another reason to vote for Marco Rubio in Florida and Sharron Angle in Nevada. It is shocking that the voters in Florida and Nevada even allow these races to be close in the polls. Charlie Crist and Harry Reid? Really? How hasn't this quote been all over the news? It is appauling (but not shocking) how Reid plays the race card here. I'm trying not to lose my cool....
Federal workers earning double their private counterparts - USATODAY.com
This is the article Sean Hannity and Mark Levin discussed last night. This is the scariest part, "Federal compensation has grown 36.9% since 2000 after adjusting for inflation, compared with 8.8% for private workers." It is time to reverse course folks. Republican and Democrat spending over the last 10 years needs to be reversed. It is time for government cleansing.


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Season Two of Leverage is interesting. Having established the team in Season One, the writers test the community in Two: Nate's sober and mean, Sophie leaves two-thirds of the way through to find herself, and then Nate starts drinking again and comes undone, leaving the kids to band together to survive. Sophie's departure was not a production decision: Gina Bellman was gone for six episodes on pregnancy leave, so they did the smartest thing possible and kept her in touch with team through phone calls and Skype, but her loss is felt keenly. It's an oddly disjointed season, which made analyzing it for community growth a challenge.
Still, I think that testing is important for the growth of any community, just as it is in any relationship. "The Bottle Job" is the episode in which Nate starts drinking again, which means it's a good one to look at for a community that's breaking from within, so I'm switching to that for Sunday. I'm also dropping and adding shows to the schedule to give better topics on aspects of community. Apologies for the changes.
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What are the RF planning tools?What are the requirements for RFPlan?
Product and Software: This article applies to all existing ArubaOS versions (2.5 and 3.x).
The two types of RF planning tools are: controller built-in RF plan and offline RF plan tool.
The built-in RF plan tool, also called the online RF plan tool, can be accessed from the controller WebUI with your web browser.
The offline RF plan tool is a Windows application and it needs to be installed to your PC's hard drive to run it. You can download it from the Aruba support site at: http://support.arubanetworks.com/
Java Runtime Environment is needed to run the tool. It's included in the package and is installed automatically during the setup process.
Other requirements to run the offline RF plan tool are:
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- Color monitor and 16-bit video card with 1024 x 768 screen resolution
The Current release as if now is "VisualRF Plan 7.7 build 440" and it is compatible with Windows 7 and 8.
The latest release is a 64 bit release and works best with 64 bit OS. However if we have a 32 bit machine, we can install this package and use this in compatibility mode.
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By Joel Achenbach and David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 3, 2010; A01
The blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico gushed 12 times faster than the government and BP estimated in the early weeks of the crisis and has spilled a whopping 4.9 million barrels, or 205.8 million gallons, according to a more detailed analysis announced late Monday.
BP's Macondo well spewed 62,000 barrels of oil a day initially, and as the reservoir gradually depleted itself, the flow eased to 53,000 barrels a day until the well was finally capped and sealed July 15, according to scientists in the Flow Rate Technical Group, supervised by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The new numbers once again have nudged upward the statistical scale of the disaster. If correct -- the government allows for a margin of error of 10 percent -- the flow rate would make this spill significantly larger than the Ixtoc I blowout of 1979, which polluted the southern Gulf of Mexico with 138 million gallons over the course of 10 months. That had been the largest unintentional oil spill in history, surpassed only by the intentional spills in 1991 during the Persian Gulf War.
The new flow rate figures came as engineers made final preparations for a "static kill" operation that might plug the well permanently even before a relief well intercepts Macondo at its base. BP announced late Monday that the procedure would be delayed, probably until Tuesday, because of a leak in the hydraulic control system on the well's new cap.
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Macondo's flow rate has been a major source of controversy since the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon. Early in the crisis, the Coast Guard and BP pegged the flow at 5,000 barrels a day, sticking with that figure even as outside scientists declared that it low-balled the actual rate. The flow rate team, assembled in May, tried to come up with a more solid figure. Scientists examining the surface slick as well as video taken by submersibles soon upped the estimate; by early June, the government declared the flow to be 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day.
Even the high end of that estimate did not quite do justice to Macondo when it was at full throttle in the early weeks of the crisis. The new figures reflect more data, including high-definition video, sonar measurements of the oil-gas ratio, and pressure readings in the new capping stack before, and then after, the sealing of the well July 15.
"We may never know the exact answer. But as we get more data, you're able to shrink the uncertainty," said Bill Lehr, senior scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a leader of one of the teams.
The new figures indicate that the roughly 800,000 barrels of oil that BP managed to capture with its various containment strategies -- a riser insertion tool, a "top hat," and flaring from a surface rig -- represented only about one-sixth of the crude that surged into the gulf over the course of nearly three months. In all, about 1.2 million barrels of oil have been accounted for, either burned, captured or skimmed off the ocean's surface. That's about a quarter of the new estimate for the total spill.
Where the other three-quarters has gone is unclear. Some has evaporated; some has been consumed by microbes; but scientists remain troubled by the possibility that large amounts of oil remain underwater in cloudlike plumes.
"This further confirms that a lot of the oil is still at sea. And we just don't know the implications of it," said Ron Kendall, director of the Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University. Kendall will testify before Congress on Wednesday about his fears that dispersant chemicals have helped much of this oil sink into deep-sea habitats.
For government lawyers preparing a case against BP, this number could help calculate the maximum civil penalty BP might face for the spill. If BP is not found to have acted with negligence, the penalty would be $1,100 per barrel. About 4.1 million barrels escaped into the gulf, according to the new estimate, so that fine would come to $4.5 billion. If BP is found to have acted with "gross negligence" in the lead-up to the spill, the maximum penalty would be $4,300 a barrel, which would work out to $17.6 billion.
"You've got to go in with a number," said David Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of Michigan and the former chief of the Justic Department's Environmental Crimes Section. "And I think these numbers strengthen the government's hand," compared with previous estimates that produced only a range.
In all, the 4.1 million barrels estimated to have polluted the gulf would be enough to fill the Pentagon to a depth of 18 feet or to fill 260 Olympic swimming pools. The entire Gulf of Mexico, by comparison, would fill 880 million Pentagons, or 973 billion Olympic pools.
John Amos at SkyTruth, an organization that uses satellite imagery to study environmental problems, said that this new figure showed how far off BP and the Coast Guard were in the crucial days at the beginning of the spill.
"When the next spill happens, being in the right order of magnitude with the spill estimate is going to be important," he said.
The well remains pressurized and dangerous, but BP and government officials hope that will change with the static kill attempt. The goal is to inject mud into the well and drive the oil back to the source rock.
First comes what BP calls an injectivity test. Mud will be pumped into the well from a surface ship at a gentle rate of one barrel a minute, then two barrels a minute, then three, as engineers monitor pressures and look for signs that the rogue oil is being forced back into the source rock 2 1/2 miles below the seafloor.
"We want to confirm that we can inject the oil that's in the well bore back into the reservoir," BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells told reporters Monday.


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Features of Colon Microbiocenosis and Faecal Calprotectin Level in Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Depending on the Nutritional Status
The article deals with an actual problem — the state of the microflora of the colon and faecal calprotectin level in patients with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases with different nutritional status. The study involved 76 patients with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, including 28 patients with Crohn's disease and 48 — with ulcerative colitis. We analyzed the findings depending on the nosology and nutritional status. It was found that among the patients of studied groups, patients with subcompensated form of dysbiosis dominated. Reducing the concentration of bifidobacteria in the colon content of patients from group III was detected more often — in 78.9 % of cases. Deficiency of lactobacilli was most often observed in patients of group II (92.3 %). The content of calprotectin was significantly increased in 84.2 % of patients, it positively correlated with the degree of severity of the disease and did not depend on their nutritional status.
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