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NORTH LIBERTY– As part of its 2013 year-long centennial celebration, the City of North Liberty is holding an ice-cream recipe contest. Submit your favorite ice-cream recipe for a chance to have it featured for all your friends and neighbors to enjoy at Isaac's Creamery.
Pick a base, sweet swirl-in, and a great mix-in and email your recipe by March 1 to: northliberty100@gmailcom. Drop off a recipe with Tracey Mulcahey at North Liberty City Hall, 3 Quail Creek Cr., North Liberty.
NORTH LIBERTY– With Valentine's Day on the horizon, the City of North Liberty is looking for love notes. Starting Friday, Feb. 1, lovers of North Liberty can drop off valentines at boxes at City Hall, the North Liberty Community Library, South Slope and local banks. Or, send an e-valentine by dropping one on the city's website at northlibertyiowa.org, or by e-mail.
SWISHER– The Swisher American Legion offers Lenten suppers Feb. 15 through March 22, from 5 until 8 p.m. at the Swisher Legion. Dinner is "All u can eat fish" for $10; shrimp for $14; chicken strips for $7; Add on shrimp for $6. Kids 6 through12 years eat for $5. Kids 5 and under eat free. Dine in served with one trip through the salad bar. Carry-outs are available. The public is welcome. For more information, call 319-857-4687.
SWISHER– The Swisher Sharp Shooters and Swisher Junior Auxiliary will hold a benefit breakfast Saturday, Feb. 9, from 7 until 11 a.m. at the Swisher American Legion.
SWISHER– Join the fun at the Swisher American Legion on Saturday, Feb. 9, for a Mardi Gras party and fundraiser.
The Mardi Gras party begins with DJ Bill Tandy from 8 p.m. until midnight, and features karaoke, raffle prizes, and a traditional Mardi Gras King Cake. A trophy will be presented to the person who wears the best Mardi Gras costume of the night.
Team Iowa will tend bar, and all tips will support veterans returning from active duty. Raffle proceeds also benefit veterans. Everyone is welcome.
NORTH LIBERTY– Garner Elementary will host a waffle breakfast with class basket auctions and raffles on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 7 until 11 a.m. at the school.
NORTH LIBERTY– North Liberty Boy Scout Troop 216 will host its 33rd annual chili supper from 4:30 until 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at the North Liberty Community Center.
Tickets are $5. Children 5 and under are admitted free. The dinner includes all-you-can-eat meat or vegetarian chili, bread, drinks and a variety of homemade desserts, including traditional scout cobbler.
The dinner is the troop's primary annual fundraising event. Proceeds help cover the cost of high adventure trips, summer camp and other activities for the troop's approximately 30 scouts.
IOWA CITY– Early voting has already begun at the county auditor's office ahead of a Feb. 5 vote on an Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD) revenue purpose statement (RPS). Satellite stations will open on Jan. 31 at University of Iowa Hospitals, and Feb. 1 at the Iowa City Public Library.
Voters are deciding if the schools should move ahead with a non-binding "One community, One district" plan that includes purchase of property and building new schools around the district, including a new high school.
IOWA CITY– On Nov. 5, after being elected with Karla Cook as co-chairs of the governance committee, Sarah Swisher gave the board her goal for 2013: a new diversity policy based on free and reduced lunch rates at the schools.
She cited similar policy in Des Moines and Waterloo districts where a socio-economic approach attempts to keep schools balanced diversity.
The plan, which has been approved already twice in 4-3 votes by the board, still faces a final reading, likely on Feb. 5.


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Two of the world's largest advertising holding companies -- Omnicom Group Inc. in New York and Publicis Groupe in Paris -- have agreed to merge into the world's largest agency with a market value that would exceed $35 billion.
The two companies announced the all-stock transaction Sunday. Shareholders of each company would hold about 50% of the new entity, which would be called Publicis Omnicom Group.
Omnicom is the parent company of TBWA\Chiat\Day of Los Angeles, which creates advertising for such high-profile accounts as Pepsico Inc. and Nissan; BBDO Worldwide agency; and OMD, which handles ad buying duties for film studio Warner Bros., among others.
Publicis Groupe owns such ad firms as Saatchi & Saatchi, which handles advertising for Toyota, and Leo Burnett in Chicago. Publicis also boasts the Chicago advertising buying powerhouse Starcom MediaVest.
The two companies had combined 2012 revenue of $22.7 billion. The merged group will have more than 130,000 empoyees and be jointly managed by Publicis Groupe Chief Executive Maurice Levy and Omnicom Chief Executive John Wren.
The merger is intended to give the new company more clout when negotiating advertising rates and placements with television networks and Internet companies.
The boards of both firms have approved the merger, which will be subject to numerous regulatory reviews as well as the approvals of shareholders of both companies.
The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014. The new entity is expected to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris.
"The communication and marketing landscape has undergone dramatic changes in recent years, including the exponential development of new media giants, the explosion of Big Data, blurring of the roles of all players and profound changes in consumer behavior," Levy said in a statement.
Wren, in the statement, said that he and Levy believed "this new company reflects our vision of retaining the best talent, attracting an incredible roster of clients and leading innovation."
Rival executive Dominic Proctor, who is global president of GroupM, the media investment unit of the competing firm WPP, called the planned combination "interesting."
"They are making it clear that a primary motive for the merger is achieving scale in media buying," Proctor said in a statement. "However, neither Omnicom nor Publicis was able to bring their investment teams together effectively as individual companies, so it will be fun to see if they can now do it together."
Moelis & Co. was the financial advisor to Omnicom. Rothschild was financial advisor to Publicis Groupe.

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More than one level of fallback is possible.
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At the moment the following fallback chain is supported:
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Many times in a Plasma based application or addon there is the need to reference a set of files for consistent and easy access and redistribution. For instance, Plasma widgets (or "Plasmoids") written in an interpreted language (e.g. QML, Javascript, HTML, Ruby or Python) are often made up of several files containing code, images, configuration descriptions and other resources. These are distributed and shipped as one compressed file and at run time the contents are made easily available to the Plasmoid. This is the role that the Plasma Package plays.
A Plasma Package allows easy deployment and later referencing of a group of platform-independent files. Plasma Packages are used with wallpaper images and plugins, themes, Plasmoids, DataEngines, Runners, QML file sets, Plasma desktop scripting templates and other similar contexts. Plasma Package is therefore quite flexible and with very few rules can be extended to cover a wide variety of uses in applications that need a way to redistribute and/or reference sets of files easily.
Plasma Package is intended to be a simple system that does not include things more complex packaging systems such as the Debian package format or RPM provides. While Plasma Packages do not have the concept of things such as dependencies or architecture targets, it also does not require a complex system with a database and (slow) management applications.
Plasma Packages usually have two things in common: a metadata.desktop file and a contents/ directory.
The metadata.desktop is an INI format file which contains a description of the contents of the package. This includes translatable strings for user visible text such as a name and description as well as content that is programmatically useful such as, in the case of Plasmoids, the scripting API used to write the Plasmoid the Package contains.
In the case of Plasmoids, the metadata.desktop contains the following mandatory fields:
Optionally these fields can be added:
An example file can be seen here:
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Name=Analog Clock
Comment=An SVG themable clock
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meta.desktop files for other Plasma components such as DataEngines, Runners and Wallpapers are very similar. It is recommended when creating new package types to adhere to the general style above as much as possible for consistency.
Packages may add additional top-level contents directories. This is used by Plasmoids to allow device-specific files to be made available. A package may also have no special content directory at all, though this is discouraged since it makes accidental overwriting of files such has the metadata or hash files very easy.
What appears within the contents directories is up to the Package itself. For Plasmoids, the following structure is supported:
Different kind of devices may require a different kind of user interface, due to input method (ie mouse vs touch vs remote), screen size, distance of viewing (ten foot interface) or any other reason.
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If you have to put some particular assets in your package that are intended for a specific kind of device, the Package structure supports separate hyerarchies for that, so you could have:
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At the moment the following fallback chain is supported:
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Use platformcontents/tablet only if really necessary, when something should really be different than a generic touchscreen interaction.
More profiles for different devices will be eventually added in next versions.
New formats can be defined programmatically using PackageStructure plugins. PackageStructure plugins call addDirectoryDefinition and addFileDefinition methods which define a key string that can be used to reference that resource, the path within the contents directories that it is expected to exist at, supported mimetypes, descriptions suitable for showing to a user (e.g. in an IDE or package creator tool) and whether or not the resource is required. Contents directories are also defined by the PackageStructure plugin.
The structure can be created dynamically at run-time depending on the package itself. This is accomplished by reimplementing the pathChanged method. This also allows one PackageStructure object to be re-used multiple times.
Together, these mechanisms allow for virtually unlimited flexibility in how a Package is structured on disk and what it contains. This makes Plasma Package suitable for the wide variety of use cases it currently fulfills.
A Plasma Package may be signed with a GPG key. First, a SHA1 hash of the metadata.desktop file and the contents directories must be created and placed in a file called contents.hash that resides at the top level. A GPG signature of the contents.hash file can then be placed in a file called contents.hash.sig. This can then be used to verify the contents of the package at runtime.
Hashes may be generated with the plasmapkg tool as of version 0.2 with the --hash command line option.
A Plasma Package can be packed into one zip file that contains all the required files. The gzip format is also supported, though zip is generally recommended due to the ability to easily perform random access operations on zip archives. The resulting file is then suffixed with an appropriate identifying ending, such as ".plasmoid" in the case of plasmoids.
Installation can be done by hand, but generally this is accomplished either by using Plasma::PackageStructure::installPackage or with the plasmapkg command line utility. When a Plasma Package is installed, the archive is uncompressed and stored under the package root defined by the Package's structure definition. By default, this is $APPDATA/plasma/packages. By default, the metadata.desktop is copied into the the services directory so that it can easily be found later by KTrader to find all Plasmoids whether they are written in C++ or an interpreted language.


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Hey MEATLOAF: "Two Out of Three Ain't Good Enough!"
For someone who self-selected himself for a pre-holiday season sabbatical from the IC private sector work force grind, I have not had much time to get to my monthly discourse with you. Actually I have started the December version of MazzInt several times but events have been occurring faster than I could assimilate them and certainly more swiftly than I could put them cogently into some broader context so I would just not be recounting media reports to you.
First there was the apparent sabotage at an Iranian Missile Base in mid November. According to Washington Post reporting the explosion on the Shahid Modarres base near the city of Malard was so powerful that it shook the capital, Tehran, about 30 miles to the east. Official denials of foreign involvement withstanding, suspicions have been raised in Iran and elsewhere of "foreign involvement" in what is a fivefold increase in explosions inside of Iran since 2010.
Then there is the 26 November hours long fire fight between US forces and Pakistani military outposts on the Afghan-Pakistan border that found 24 Pak soldiers killed in action as a result. This border incident pulled the scab off the festering relationship between the Washington and Islamabad over US unilateral actions to hunt and kill Al Qaeda members operating from or seeking safe haven in Pakistan. Since this fire fight Pakistan has halted the overland resupply through its territory of NATO International Security Assistant Forces (ISAF) conducting counterinsurgent operations in Afghanistan. Pakistan also forced the CIA to close down a UAV base in Pakistan and CIA drone attacks in Pakistan have been suspended. Afghanistan became bin Laden's base of operations for planning the USS Cole and 9/11 attacks because Pakistan's Military Government at the time wanted to isolate radical jihadist there. After 10 years of war it seems little has changed strategically: Afghanistan is still a failing state where Pakistan remains the protector of Muslim terrorists and warlords operating there in order to protect itself from these elements.
For me at least there was a circumstantial connection between the missile base bombing and the loss of a CIA stealth RQ-170 Sentinel UAV flying well inside of Iran circa December 6 purportedly conducting ISR against Iran's nuclear capabilities. While it remains unclear whether the "Beast of Khandahar "crash landed because of an on board technical malfunction or was spoofed by Russian provided Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities allowing the Iranians to take control of the vehicle, what is very clear is the US' willingness to run ISR missions in Iranian Airspace. As with the 1959 shoot down of a U-2 deep in Soviet territory, RQ-170 penetration missions of Iran will now be indefinitely canceled which I suspect will severely hamper the Intelligence Community's ability to assess the status and progress of Iran's nuclear program, though the missile base explosions do suggest there may be active HUMINT assets inside of Iran.
As I was contemplating the comparison here with the impacts of the Soviets downing a state of the art ISR platform in 1959 along with the larger lesson that UAV's no matter how stealthy will not be able operate at will over denied airspace, the world learned on a 48 hour time delay that North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il died while traveling on his personal train.
The New York Times immediately branded the delay in discerning the "Dear Leader's" demise an intelligence failure without considering that US intelligence might have had indications of Kim's death that it did not want to make public until after some kind of confirmation from Pyongyang. I would have expected the editors of the Times to possess a better understanding of how challenging it is to gather reports let alone confirm them when access is so limited. Hopefully this unfounded assertion of an "intelligence failure" will stimulate some critical thinking about the difference between clairvoyance and intelligence. The IC's limits on it abilities to track high profile individuals such as Kim Jong Il should also be instructive for policy makers and the American public regarding why ferreting out individual radical Taliban in Afghanistan is so difficult.
The controversy over whether the IC should have known sooner about Kim Jong Il departing the Hermit Kingdom for another worldly worker's paradise will quickly fade though as IC collectors and analyst get down to the difficult work of looking for indications of political unrest or regime instability as Kim Jong Un, his aunt and uncle along with the military "big hats," try to develop a stable power sharing arrangement for ruling North Korea. Given that leadership changes in communist regime are always unpredictable, it is not clear if Kim Jong Un will traverse successfully from being North Korea's Brilliant Comrade" to its "Great Successor?" Certainly he and his backers will be looking to create the circumstances where Un can show "he is in charge." Let's hope the choice is not demonstrating that he is like his grandfather Kim il Sung by shooting down a manned American ISR aircraft. While the United States would surely like to see Un and North Korea benignly wither away along with its nuclear weapons, there will be plenty of pressure from China and Japan to avoid a unified Korea. The IC will do a good job of assessing what vectors will be impacting on North Korea as it goes through only its third leadership change since 1948 but expecting the IC to predict with precision what outcomes these vectors will lead to gets us back to the IC being clairvoyant!
So as 2012 approaches the IC must concurrently deal with three dangerously volatile nation state problems: Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, where the later two have nuclear weapons and the former is a nuclear "wantabe." While being able to provide strategic warning for two out of three "ain't bad" this is not a Meatloaf lyric, which means the IC is going to have be ready, organized, focused, and mutually supporting (integrated?!?!) to provide strategic situational awareness and warning for "three out of three."
That's what I think; I hope as you enjoy the holiday season you will take some time to share with me what you think.


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On all blinds except Roller Blinds and Vision Blinds we will deduct a small amount to ensure the blinds clear the sides and bottom of the recess, allowing for correct operation. We will make a deduction of 10mm from the width, 5mm off each side and up to 10mm from the drop. On Roller Blinds and Vision Blinds we only allow approximately 2mm deduction on width measurement as this will lessen the fabric gap.
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Blockout Fabrics, as the name suggests are designed to 'block-out' the harsh, fading sunlight when needed. They are ideal for rooms in which persons need to sleep or where there are paintings or furniture which could be damaged by hard sunlight.
Translucent refers to fabrics which allow in the natural light but do not allow you to see the outside view through them. They function much like opaque glass. The light comes in but they provide excellent privacy.
Sunscreen Fabrics are designed to allow outside vision into the room or area they're shielding but reduce the amount of heat and glare which gets in. They're ideal for areas where you want to enjoy light all year around but want to maximise the capacity to shade in Summer, in particular.
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We've been getting reports from some people, in some parts of the world, unable to get to the iTunes Store or to download apps. As of now, Apple System Status is reporting problems with the iTunes Store, but not yet the App Store. Since they're connected, it's safe to assume the problem is pretty general.
If you're having trouble accessing iTunes Store or downloading apps, let us know where you are, when your trouble started, and when it starts working again!
Update: Apple is now reporting App Store, Mac App Store, iTunes Store, iBookstore, iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, and Backup are all down, down, down.
Users may be unable to make purchases from the App Store, iTunes Store, Mac App Store, or iBookstore. Users may also be unable to download previously-purchased content, use iTunes Match, or successfully restore Apps and Music from an iCloud backup.
Not much to do but wait and hope Apple gets their WebObjects all swept back in order quickly...
Update 2: Apple is reporting all services restored as of 10:54am PDT. Everything working for everyone again?
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Located "In the center of everything"... we're just an hour from the Oregon Coast, a short drive to Crater Lake through the most scenic drive in Oregon that leads up to Crater Lake, some of the most epic outdoor sports (fishing, mountain bike riding, rock climbing, rafting, and more!) and is the center of Oregon's growing wine industry. To see a map of Roseburg, Click Here!
In the Land of Umpqua we don't make wine complicated, we make it enjoyable. The mineral rich soils of the luscious valleys hidden in the timbered hills allow grapes to bring on a truly vibrant flavor. Here you will find each winery and tasting room has their own unique personality, just like their wine. In the Land of Umpqua you will find we can grow just about every varietal and it's quite possible you will discover more than one grape you've never heard of. The region's growing list of vintners produces a variety of award winning wines, including: Baco Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Tempranillo, and Riesling.
Outdoor enthusiasts can't help but come back time and again to explore the enchanting North Umpqua River and trail area. You won't ever hear someone say "there's nothing to do" when they are in the Land of Umpqua. Every season offers a unique adventure and depending on your activity it could be topped with a little excitement as well! Here is where you choose your own adventure: A trail hike or a solo morning fishing trip. White Water Rafting or mountain biking the North Umpqua Trail.
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Protein electrophoresis is the process of separating proteins by placing them in a gel matrix and then observing protein mobility in the presence of an electrical field. The most commonly used technique is sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). In these gels, protein mobility is a function of the protein's length and charge. Because proteins are normally folded and the amino acids in the polypeptide chain have different charges, it is important to make all proteins in a mixture have the same charge per unit length and the same shape if you want to compare their sizes by PAGE. This uniform protein shape and charge proportional to size is achieved by adding SDS detergent to remove secondary and tertiary protein structures.
The anionic SDS coats the proteins, mostly in proportion to their molecular weight, and confers the same negative electrical charge relative to size across all proteins in the sample. Glycosylated proteins may not migrate at their expected molecular weight because their migration is based more on the mass of their polypeptide chains, not the sugars that are attached (Sambrook J et al. (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, vol I. Ed 2. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).
The most widely used gel system for separating a broad range of proteins by SDS-PAGE is the Laemmli system (Nature 227:680 (1970)), which uses Tris-glycine gels comprising a stacking gel component that helps focus the proteins into sharp bands at the beginning of the electrophoretic run and the resolving gel, where higher gel percentages separate the proteins based on their size. This classic system uses a discontinuous buffer system where the pH and ionic strength of the buffer used for running the gel (Tris, pH 8.3) is different from the buffers used in the stacking gel (Tris, pH 6.8) and resolving gel (Tris, pH 8.8).
The highly alkaline operating pH of the Laemmli system may cause band distortion, loss of resolution, or artifact bands.
The major causes of poor band resolution with the Laemmli system are:
- Hydrolysis of polyacrylamide at the high gel-casting pH, resulting in a short shelf life of 8 weeks
- Chemical alterations such as deamination and alkylation of proteins due to the high pH of the separating gel
- Reoxidation of reduced disulfides from cysteine-containing proteins, as the redox state of the gel is not constant
- Cleavage of Asp-Pro bonds of the proteins when heated at 100°C in the Laemmli sample buffer, pH 5.2
Novex® precast protein gels: the beauty of a straight lineAs discussed earlier, the key use of protein gels is to separate proteins for subsequent transfer onto a membrane for interrogation with antibodies, a process called western blotting. The NuPAGE® Transfer Buffer maintains neutral pH and prevents reoxidation of reduced samples during protein transfer to a membrane. This avoids sample modifications that can occur at the alkaline pH of traditional transfer buffers and maintains sample antigenicity. NuPAGE® Bis-Tris gels are able to separate proteins using lower acrylamide concentrations than are required for Tris-glycine gels. This more open gel matrix allows for more efficient transfer of proteins to membranes during western blotting.
Integrity of samples is maintained throughout electrophoresis with the Novex® NuPAGE® SDS-PAGE Gel System (left), compared to samples prepared with Laemmli (Tris-glycine) sample buffer (right)


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hey! i just moved into the Cambridge/Somerville area, and I'm looking for a tennis partner/suggestions for cheaper indoor courts. for the next couple weeks, i'm available pretty much any time. message me! :)
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I'm available most evenings. I play at Winchester Lawn & Tennis (indoor courts @ $20/per person per hour), but could play elsewhere.
sorry that's too much $ for me right now! thanks though!
Hi Alicia,
I have access to indoor courts at BU.
It's $10 per person/hr.
Let me know if you'd like to play with us.
Hey Fatima,
That would be great! Can you shoot me an email at email@example.com? Thanks!
Hi Fatima,
Do you have a group that plays at BU? I would be interested in joining, if there's room.
Hi Laura,
Well, I have a group that plays outdoors in the summer months and we were going to try indoor courts at BU since I'm an alumni there. The courts are $10/hr. per person.
I was going to try to set something up for a weekend afternoon, maybe in 2 weeks, since I'm away this weekend. Let me know if you'd like to join us.
Hi Fatima,
I'd love to join. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com - let me know what you set up.
Hey I just realized my part time BU status gives me court access!
Hi, Fatima! I am available mostly in the evenings and on weekends. As the weather become warmer, maybe we can play outside in Rogers Park?
Hi Alicia,
We are planning to play later on today at 6pm and are looking for a 4th person.
Would you be able to join us?
hi, I have never played doubles but can probably pick it up fast. Call me 617 710 7004 an hour or 2 before if u need a 4th and I can mostly likely make it. I think I am about a 3-3.5
Hi Alicia,
I'm about a 3.5-4.0 player and live in Cambridge. If you still looking for someone to hit with send me an email.
Btw, MIT indoor courts are the best in the area in my opinion. Though with the weather being more mild now
I play at Harvard St courts or Blackstone courts in Cambridge.
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For the seventh year in a row, the strip of Fort Myers Beach behind the Holiday Inn at 6890 Estero Blvd. will be ransacked by well-formed muscle and determination as the Hammerhead Rugby Tournament hits the sand Saturday, July 18, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
At least 20 men's teams from around the country will compete on the beach -including seven women's teams, three "old boys" teams and six high school teams- in a tradition that's been long-standing in the sand and expected to be the biggest so far.
"It's a very social tournament," said Veronica McDonald, coordinator of the tournament. "This is one of the two beach tournaments in the country, and maybe another two internationals. It's a very difficult game and a lot harder because you're running on the sand. But it's great. You've got the waves, the tiki bar. The guys just want to play and have a good time."
During the tournament hours Saturday, spectators are encouraged to bring out their beach blankets, chairs and towels to enjoy all the sportsmanship and comradery.
"The guys love to show off," McDonald said.
Keep in mind parking may be a little tight at the Holiday Inn the day of the tourney. It's advised to either car-pool or take the trolley. Hotel general manager Carla Feazel said parking in the resort lot will be $5, but will include a $5 voucher toward any food purchase inside Pinchers Crab Shack, the resort's restaurant and lounge.
Overflow from the parking lot will be directed to the Santini Marina Plaza.
"We're excited about the tournament," Feazel said. "We always look forward to the event and have a pretty large turnout. The group is excellent to work with and they bring alot of excitement with them."
Rugby pub crawl
Following the tournament, rugby players will wash up and head down for the annual pub crawl, stopping at six of Fort Myers Beach's prime hotspots.
Pub crawl stops include Hooters (6:30 to 7:30 p.m.), the Lani Kai (7:30 to 8:30 p.m.), the new Surf Club (8:30 to 9:30 p.m.), The Cottage (9:30 to 10:30 p.m.), Cabascas (10:30 to 11:30 p.m.) and Jimmy B's Rooftop Bar (11:30 to 12:30 a.m.).
And keep your eyes peeled for these guys prior to the tourney. They started trickling in earlier this week and should be at the Sandbar and Grill in the Santini Marina Plaza Friday night around 8:30 p.m. for a pre-social and player's meeting.
For more info on the tournament, check out www.Beerfoot7s.com.


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Major Release ~ Super Robot Wars 3 2.0 Redux Super Robot Wars 3
# Posted on June 24th, 2019 08:25 AM by Gideon ZhiIt´s been six months to the day since AGTP released the translation patch for Super Robot Wars EX; today, a patch releases for Super Robot Wars 3 that brings it up to the standard set by EX. This is a dramatic improvement over the patch released at the end of 2002 in nearly every sense, technically, linguistically, and aesthetically. The bad names have been fixed, the translation has been doublechecked, and the game has been completely re-hacked from the ground up using the code written for SRW EX.
The new release is complete and should be issue-free; enjoy!
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Progress ~ Super Robot Wars 3 v2.0 Beta Super Robot Wars 3
# Posted on June 3rd, 2019 12:33 PM by Gideon ZhiThe new version of the Super Robot Wars 3 translation has recently entered private betatesting. The screenshot slideshow on the project´s page has been updated to reflect progress on the new version, but be advised that this new version is not publicly available yet.
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Progress ~ AGTP Turns 20 - Announcements, Updates, Cancellations Granhistoria, Star Ocean: Blue Sphere, Super Robot Wars 3, Super Robot Wars 4
# Posted on February 21st, 2019 01:06 PM by Gideon ZhiEven though AGTP officially celebrates its anniversary on March 7th each year, as that marks the date that the site found its way to PCPages, it initially launched on Angelfire on February 21st 1999. That makes AGTP twenty years old today. As such, I thought it might be nice to give an overall update on where a number of things stand.
First, I´m announcing that AGTP is picking up Granhistoria. Note that the project descrpition is just a placeholder (for now.) Progress-wise, Liana (Metal Max Returns) translated the script some years ago but wants to give it a going-over, and there are still some menu-related things to work out, but it´s in reasonably good shape.
Second, I´m announcing that the projects for 3x3 Eyes, Fire Emblem, Goemon 2, Sutte Hakkun, and Romancing SaGa 2 are being cancelled. Of these, Romancing SaGa 2 is officially available commercially in English, Goemon 2 has a very promising project in the works by somebody else, Sutte Hakkun and 3x3 Eyes were finished by other groups, and Fire Emblem both has other English options available and suffered a similar fate as the SNES Super Robot War games with questionable script translation decisions. I apologize to anyone who was looking forward to these, but please be assured that there are other options available for all of them.
Lastly, an update on priorities for the year. Super Robot Wars 3´s script edit is well on track for completion before the end of spring, and SRW4´s script retranslation is roughly 37% complete by string volume. I´ve replaced the screenshot slideshow on the SRW4 page with new images reflecting current work. Following these two, my priorities for the year in approximate order of importance are Star Ocean Blue Sphere, Metal Max 2, Hero Chronicle, and Ladystalker.
It´s been a a long road and I honestly don´t know if I have another 20 years in me, but for the moment I´m going to keep plugging away. Look for more good news soon!
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Major Release ~ Super Robot Wars EX Super Robot Wars EX, Super Robot Wars 3
# Posted on December 24th, 2018 02:50 PM by Gideon ZhiSixteen years ago, AGTP released a translation for Super Robot Wars 3. Today, we release the immediate followup: Super Robot Wars EX. Lots of progress has been made in those years, and the work done to EX presents a new gold standard for translation hacking to the SNES SRW primary canon. The release is complete and should be issue-free; enjoy!
As an aside, the work on EX has been successfully back-ported to Super Robot Wars 3, and an update to that patch that both fixes the numerous name translation mistakes and improves the technical presentation is in the works. A further update on that is forthcoming. In the meantime, EX works well as a stand-alone game or as a mid-story palette-cleanser for The Elemental Lords.
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Progress ~ Super Robot Wars EX Enters Playtesting, Plus SRW 3 and 4 Super Robot Wars EX, Super Robot Wars 4, Super Robot Wars 3
# Posted on December 4th, 2018 09:55 PM by Gideon ZhiI´m writing today to inform everyone that the Super Robot Wars EX script has been doublechecked and edited, and that playtesting has begun in earnest. Hopefully it won´t be long before we can release the patch.
I´ve begun the process of backporting SRW EX´s code to SRW3. Though the dialog itself is (mostly) fine, the terminology is in dire need of an update. Further, as EX shows, it could look a lot better than it does. SRW3´s script was translated by a different person than EX, 4, and Gaiden´s and I trust his work, so the process of getting 3 done should be simpler and faster than EX´s.
Since the SRW4 script basically needs to be junked, I´ve redumped it so it´ll be easier to reinsert. TheMajinZenki (JoJo, SRW 2, all five Great Battle games, SRW Advance Portable, etc) has begun translating, but if anyone wants to lend a hand, please don´t hesitate to reach out via email or on the Discord server.
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Major Release ~ Shin Megami Tensei if... v1.00 Shin Megami Tensei: if...
# Posted on October 25th, 2018 07:06 AM by Gideon ZhiIt´s been a long road, but today AGTP releases a complete translation for Shin Megami Tensei if... on the Super Nintendo/Super Famicom. For me personally this journey has encompassed a second undergraduate degree, a cross-country move, a complete career change, multiple periods of both employment and unemployment, the licensure of one of our translation patches, and the beginnings of a family, in addition to having to deal with several project-related IRC and Discord raids, hate speech, and generalized harassment from the SMT community at large. It´s done, and I *will* maintain the patch should anyone find any bugs or typos. But that´s it.
I do this for the enjoyment of the process, to challenge myself to produce work of ever-higher caliber. if... hits a high enough bar at this point that I´m satisfied releasing it. I hope everyone who´s been clamoring for the patch gets some enjoyment out of it; I´ll let the game speak for itself.
With Majin Tensei 2 being mostly done elsewhere, don´t expect any further Megami Tensei work out of AGTP. No updated patch for SMT1, no back-porting of if...´s work into SMT2, no Majin Tensei 1. I´m done. To those who were looking forward to the aforementioned, I truly apologize. Maybe focus on cleaning up your community.
And now, I´m going on vacation.
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Miscellaneous ~ Quick note# Posted on October 4th, 2018 01:21 PM by Gideon ZhiHi everyone, just dropping a quick message to note that the next site update will be three weeks from today (Oct 25.) See you then!
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Major Release ~ Laplace´s Demon Reaches v2.00 Laplace´s Demon
# Posted on September 6th, 2018 08:29 AM by Gideon ZhiToday marks a massive update to the old infamously bad Laplace´s Demon patch from 2001. The new version adds a completely re-edited script, fixes the issues with the text overwriting itself on-screen, fixes the out-of-order combat strings, throws in a new more typewritery font, expands item names and descriptions, and probably a lot more that I´m forgetting about. Granted, the old version was one of my very first forays into assembly-level hacking, so its crustiness at the time was somewhat understandable, but the new patch is a big enough change that I´m comfortable jumping the version number straight to v2.00. Enjoy!
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Release ~ Super Robot Wars Gaiden v1.05 Super Robot Wars Gaiden
# Posted on September 4th, 2018 11:26 AM by Gideon ZhiHi everyone, this is just a quick note to say that SRW Gaiden has been updated to v1.05. Among several typos, this fixes an issue where if an Elemental that does not have a pilot ends up in your Repair screen at the end of a map (for instance, if it gets wrecked and its pilot gets killed as part of a plot event), said Repair screen ends up slightly broken. I´m expecting that this will be the final version of the patch. Enjoy!
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Progress ~ The State of SRW Super Robot Wars EX, Super Robot Wars 4, Super Robot Wars Alpha
# Posted on June 25th, 2018 12:59 PM by Gideon ZhiWith the recent release of The Elemental Lords, it´s time to talk about AGTP´s remaining SRW projects. First on the docket is Super Robot Wars EX, which thanks to some recent tooling I´m proud to announce has taken some massive strides forward in the last few weeks and is very close to being technically complete. The script is in reasonably good shape, though I´m in the process of passing it off for a second look-over by SSJCyberSonic who´s fresh from his recent work on the A Portable project. I´ve added 22 new screenshots to the project´s page and am attaching two to this post. I´m hopeful that the game will be ready before the end of the year, but as usual I can´t promise anything. Additionally, EX´s new toolchain acts as a functional proof-of-concept for work that will be going into Hero Chronicle.
The added benefit of having EX fully functional is that the work can be ported to the other SNES SRW games. SRW3, while impressive for its day, is not nearly up to standard and I´m intending to redo it with EX´s new font code. And yes, the various incorrect character names will be fixed and the script itself will receive a fresh edit as well. The project´s stuff, while usable, is all extremely old though and I´m basically going to have to redo the hacking from scratch. Shouldn´t be too difficult, but no timelines or promises on availability.
So that´s the good news. The bad news is that the translated lines for SRW4 and SRW Alpha probably fall about 50% into the "best guess" category; in addition to the poor writing quite a lot of the text was just flat-out translated incorrectly. Alpha has been undergoing a verification process with Jolly, the current editor, who´s been steadily churning away on its gigantic script for the last several years; he´s estimating that he´s about 2/3s of the way through the script. What he´s done does look really, really nice though, and I´m looking forward to seeing the final version of the text. For SRW4, we´re probably just going to toss the script and retranslate it from scratch. Disappointing, but necessary. For the record, The Elemental Lords suffered a similar issue; this is one of the primary reasons the patch took so long in the first place. If anyone wants to have a whack at SRW4´s text please reach out! There´s an email button on the Contact page, and I can generally be reached on Twitter or on the Discord.
As a final closing note, I´ve made several minor fixes to The Elemental Lords. Typos, mispellings, that sort of thing. A few are still trickling in here and there so no new patch yet, but I´ll push out a v1.05 or something in the next month or two once that trickle slows.
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I just updated my main webpage to include a financial report of Johnson & Johnson so do check it out.
Also, its come to my attention that I didn't update the Lubrizol Corporation link properly on the right hand side of the page. I have since corrected it.
Before investing in pharmaceutical companies, its important to know the pros and cons of the industry.
Big pharmaceutical companies typically have wide moats and attractive financial strength. Most of the global pharmaceutical companies post Returns on Invested Capital of > 20%. They also have little debt on their balance sheets and plenty of free cash flow generation.
However, developing drugs is extremely costly and time consuming. Clinical testing phases of drugs can take upwards of a decade. Whats worst is that these expenses does not guarantee the success of a drug. A company can pump in a considerable amount of money into research with no guarantee of return.
Once a drug is developed and approved by the FDA, they normally enjoy patent protection. This typically lasts about 8 – 10 years.
Armed with this knowledge, one should look for the following traits in pharmaceutical companies:
- Companies which have a diverse range of drugs, and that have considerable patent time left.
- Companies that are actively developing new drugs to refill their pipeline.
Due to their strong financial positions, many pharmaceutical companies are choosing to acquire smaller companies to replenish their pipeline. This really illustrates why free cash flow and low debt levels are so important. Companies that are highly leveraged and generate little free cash flow would be unable to fund such acquisition's easily.
I am bullish on healthcare companies in the long run. As we face an aging population in developed nations around the world. Furthermore, as developing countries improve their standards of living, there will also be a corresponding increase in demand for better healthcare.
However, it's important (to me anyway) not to get too carried away with macro trends. Always ensure that the companies you invest in are trade at a reasonable valuation no matter how rosy the outlook maybe.
The author is long JNJ.


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BP trial to resume with testimony about company's 86-day struggle to cap blown-out Gulf well
NEW ORLEANS – BP's 86-day struggle to stop the flow of oil gushing from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico will be the focus of a trial scheduled to resume Monday in federal court.
BP insists it was prepared to respond to the deadly disaster, but plaintiffs' attorneys will argue that the company could have capped the well much sooner if it hadn't ignored decades of warnings about the risks of a deep-water blowout.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has set aside 16 days for the second phase of the trial, which also will feature experts' dueling testimony about the amount of oil that spilled into the Gulf.
The trial's first phase ended in April after the judge heard eight weeks of testimony about the causes of the blowout.


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New America Foundation: New Media Only Minor Component of Arab Spring
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2011 – Despite U.S. media portrayals of the Arab Spring as spontaneous and enabled by social media, Middle East experts said Wednesday at New America Foundation that the revolutions were part of a decades-long train of events. Future Tense, a project of the D.C.-based think tank, held a conference to discuss the role of new media in the Arab revolutions of the past year. The afternoon was filled with several different panels and speakers, all experts on the Middle East or social media that presented to a room overflowing with students, embassy and government officials and media professionals. Keep Reading


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"It was loud, it was in the moment, and it was just a small part of the person I am."
That's how Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman explained the postgame tirade he unleashed on national TV just seconds after his tipped ball sealed Seattle's NFC title game win over the San Francisco 49ers.
In a column for TheMMQB.com, Sherman wrote Monday that he was attacked on Twitter for his words with "racial slurs and bullying language far worse than what you'll see from me."
"I can handle it," he wrote, but Sherman did not smile upon learning that a handful of Seahawks fans chose to dump popcorn on NaVorro Bowman as the 49ers linebacker left the field with a potentially torn ACL.
"One thing I can't accept is what I read after the game about Seahawks fans throwing food at (Bowman) as he was being carted off the field with his knee injury," Sherman wrote. "If it's true, it's beyond terrible. That's as low as it gets. I'm sure whoever did this is in a small minority of fans, because I don't think that kind of action is an accurate representation of the character of the 12th man.
"Navorro Bowman is a great player who plays the game the right way," Sherman went on. "When he went down, I dropped to a knee and prayed for him. He deserves better than having food thrown at him as he's carted off a field. All players deserve better than that."
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(Reuters) - After nearly a decade of relying on weight-gain feed additives as a lifeline to survival, some of the 75,000 U.S. cattle feedyards that dot rural America in places such as Texas and the Great Plains, suddenly must do without the leading product Zilmax - nicknamed "Vitamin Z."
Merck & Co's announcement on Friday that it was suspending the sale of Zilmax in the United States and Canada surprised many cattle owners and feedlot operators, who say Zilmax and other beta-agonists have been a godsend for a struggling U.S. beef industry that saw overall domestic consumption fall more than 8 percent between 2002 and 2011.
"Sometimes it's the difference from breakeven, or even loss, and profit," said Jhones Sarturi, an assistant professor of beef cattle nutrition at Texas Tech University.
The feedyard business may seem simple to outsiders - roughly double the weight of young cattle to around 1,300 pounds with a few months of feeding, then send them to slaughter - but its economics have become brutal, and the number of feedlots has shrunk by one-fifth over the last decade.
Soaring feed costs in the wake of the worst U.S. drought since the Dust Bowl and fierce demand for light corn supplies by ethanol makers resulted in cattle ranchers thinning herds. That led to too few animals to fatten up and too many feedlot operators and packing houses scrambling to get them. Adding to the industry's woes, U.S. retailers are reluctant to raise prices in fear of alienating recession-weary U.S. consumers, who are willing to shift to less expensive proteins such as chicken and ground beef.
But with the help of Zilmax, and its rival livestock drug Optaflexx, made by Eli Lilly & Co's Elanco Animal Health Unit, many feedyards say they have found a way to reduce some of the economic pain. Mixed into feed in the weeks before slaughter, beta-agonists can add as much as 30 pounds of saleable meat to a carcass.
The Livestock Marketing Information Center in Denver calculated that feedlots in July, on average, lost about $82 per head of cattle sold to meat companies, the 27th straight month of losses. Industry calculations indicate the use of beta-agonists such as Zilmax and Optaflexx mitigated those losses an estimated $30 or $40 per head, said center Director Jim Robb.
Kansas-based Pratt Feeders sells cattle to the big U.S. meat companies: Tyson, Cargill, JBS USA and National Beef. Even so, Pratt closed one of its four feedlots in the past year due to the drought.
Things could have been worse, said Jerry Bohn, general manager at Pratt Feeders, which feeds Zilmax to some of its cattle and Optaflexx to others.
"It didn't heal us up - but it helped us," Bohn said of beta-agonists.
Tyler Karney, manager of Ordway Cattle Feeders in Colorado, said his confidence in the drug is unshaken by recent events: "Merck's decision to halt sales of Zilmax doesn't change my opinion of the product, or Merck."
But at least two of the nation's largest meat packers, who buy such cattle, are taking a more cautious stance.
Tyson Foods Inc, the biggest U.S. beef processor, said on August 7 it would no longer accept cattle fed with Zilmax, the leading brand of a drug type called beta-agonists.
Reuters on August 13 reported that JBS USA, prior to Tyson's announcement, played short video clips at an industry conference showing cattle fed beta-agonists that were reluctant to move and stepping tentatively as if on hot metal.
When Tyson said it would suspend purchases of Zilmax-fed animals, the company, which slaughters one in four of the nation's beef cattle, said it had observed similar behaviors in some animals delivered to its facilities. The company said it did not know what was causing the behavior, but animal welfare experts had told the company that Zilmax may be a cause.
In the days that followed, Merck said its own research had shown that Zilmax was not to blame for what was happening at Tyson's plants. Feedlot operators who spoke with Reuters said they had not seen the problems that have sparked the concern among packers.
On Friday, Merck said it needed time to implement what it called an "audit" of how Zilmax was being used in the field. The giant drug company said the suspension was temporary, and offered no explanation of why it was being imposed only in the United States and Canada, marketplaces that account for sales of $159 million. Merck does not disclose global sales of Zilmax.
Merck's decision spurred "lots of talk and lots of confusion," said Ken Winter, owner of Dodge City, Kansas-based Winter Feed Yard.
Despite scattered reports of some distressed cattle from animal welfare experts, JBS USA and Tyson, Merck said it was not aware of any problems beyond those observed and taken into account when Zilmax won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 2006.
The product makes up a tiny fraction of Merck's $47.3 billion in global sales. U.S. and Canada sales of Zilmax account for less than 5 percent of the $3.4 billion reaped by Merck's animal health business last year.
While markets such as China and the European Union have banned imports of meats raised with beta-agonists, in the United States, more than 70 percent of U.S. beef cattle that go to slaughter do so after consuming a regimen of beta-agonist drugs, according to industry estimates.
The FDA has deemed beta-agonists safe both for farm animals and human health, and there has not been a suggestion by regulators or industry that food safety is in question.
But the beef industry has learned the hard way that concerns about how our food is produced can mushroom quickly.
Outrage erupted on Twitter and other social media sites last year after consumers found out that everything from U.S. school lunches to fast-food hamburgers used so called "lean finely textured beef," a low-fat product made from chunks of beef, including trimmings, and exposed to tiny bursts of ammonium hydroxide to kill E. coli and other dangerous contaminants. The resulting media storm over what critics dubbed "pink slime" nearly destroyed the product's maker, even though U.S. food safety regulators said it was safe.
Concerns over another backlash against beef may help explain why meat companies have spoken publicly about their beta-agonist concerns, livestock experts and consumer advocates said.
"Consumers have no idea that these drugs are being used and that they're being used to the extent that they are in meat production," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington nonprofit that is vocal on food issues.
John Nalivka, an expert on livestock and president of Sterling Marketing Inc, said that if activists got onto the issue before industry, it could have been "'pink slime' all over again."
Meanwhile, cattle feeders are left to navigate the changing landscape without much direction from the companies deciding the fate of Zilmax and other beta-agonists.
Anne Burkholder, a Nebraska cattlewoman, expects to switch to Lilly's Optaflexx. She never had any issues with Zilmax and thinks it is a good product that will come back to market.
Still, she said, "My crystal ball is kind of fuzzy right now, just like everybody else."
Zilmax debuted in the United States in 2007. Users say it is pricier than Optaflexx, but packs on more muscle. They added that cattle must be weaned off Zilmax at least three days prior to slaughter, which narrows the time they have to find an optimal sale date.
Merck and Elanco say they help cattle feeders learn how to use their products in compliance with FDA rules. There are few hurdles to switching between brands, experts said.
Pratt Feeders' Bohn said Zilmax costs roughly $20 per head, while Optaflexx runs $8 to $10. He found that Zilmax adds about $15 to $30 in revenue per animal versus $10 to $12 for Optaflexx, because Zilmax puts more meat on the carcass.
Winter, who sells almost all of his cattle to Cargill, which has a plant across the street from his operation, said feeders can still win if Zilmax stays off the market.
Less Zilmax could mean slightly thinner cattle and a bit less beef on the market, which could fuel demand.
"If the product stays off the market, it should be positive for prices long term," Winter said. "That would be in our favor."
(Additional reporting by Tom Polansek, Theopolis Waters and Karl Plume in Chicago, Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Mo., Chuck Abbott in Washington and Ransdell Pierson in New York.; Editing by David Greising, Peter Henderson and Maureen Bavdek)


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Tree removal occurs when tress are dead, dying, diseased, or hazardous. Public trees are protected by Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 87 and the City of Cambridge Tree Ordinance. The removal of a healthy public tree requires an advertised public hearing. If a tree is declared by a Tree Warden to be an immediate hazard to the public, a hearing is not required.
Removal of Public Shade Trees
City of Cambridge, Department of Public Works
Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 87, Sections 3 and 4, a public hearing was held on Tuesday, December 18th, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. at the DPW Main Conference Room at 147 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, Mass., to consider the removal of the following public tree(s):
1. 29 Charles Street – Removal of 19.7" Zelkova for private property development and streetscape improvements. Location will be replanted.
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- MME talks to the head of the World Trade Organization about boosting trade in the Arab World
- Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the WTO assesses the potential of a Greater Arab Free Trade Area
- In Focus: how tense diplomatic relations between the EU and the Gulf States have cost BP
FACETIME: Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization
As the post Arab spring states look to rebuild their economies, boosting trade is one way to encourage growth. The Arab world is home to more than 350 million people, a potentially huge market. A proposed Greater Arab Free Trade Area or GAFTA, could tap into this potential market. This week MME speaks to Pascal Lamy, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization and asked him about boosting trade and increasing economic output.
IN FOCUS: BP oil exclusion
A diplomatic spat between the EU and the Gulf States is beginning to impact business in the region. The European Parliament strained relations last month when it condemned the UAE for a crackdown on civil rights activists, lawyers and academics. The first victim of that political row seems to be BP. MME takes a look at how the oil giant has been excluded from the next round of oil concessions in the UAE.


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Apple's Diversity Data: Workforce Mirrors Other Tech Giants
Applesaid its U.S. workforce is largely male, white and Asian, mirroring its Silicon Valley peers.
Apple said 30% of its global workforce is female, in line with the gender breakdown at Google and Yahoo. Separately, it said 55% of its U.S. staff is white and 15% is Asian, with Hispanics and blacks accounting for 11% and 7%, respectively.
The share of black and Hispanic employees is higher than other major Silicon Valley companies that have reported employee-diversity data.
The numbers include Apple's large retail workforce in its company stores. In its technical ranks, which include engineers and the Genius Bar employees at its stores, Apple said 77% of its U.S. employees are white or Asian, and 13% black or Hispanic. Apple said 20% of its tech workers are women.
"Let me say up front: As CEO, I'm not satisfied with the numbers on this page," Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook wrote in a letter accompanying the figures. "They are not new to us, and we've been working hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress, and we're committed to being as innovative in advancing diversity as we are in developing our products."
Apple released the figures after other Silicon Valley firms released their own workforce breakdowns, spurring further debate about racial diversity and gender equality in the technology sector.
Apple noted that it has added women executives recently, including former Burberry Group CEO Angela Ahrendts to lead its retail group and Lisa Jackson, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to oversee its environmental efforts. It also said it promoted Eddy Cue, a Cuban-American who oversees Apple's services business, to its senior leadership team.
In Apple's leadership roles, the lack of racial diversity and gender equality is even more pronounced. Apple said 28% of its managers and executives are women, while 64% are white and 21% are Asian. Together, blacks and Hispanics are 6% of Apple's leaders.
Cook also said his view of diversity extends beyond the traditional categories of race, gender, and ethnicity.
"It includes personal qualities that usually go unmeasured, like sexual orientation, veteran status, and disabilities," he wrote. "Who we are, where we come from, and what we've experienced influence the way we perceive issues and solve problems. We believe in celebrating that diversity and investing in it."
Apple's CEO has been a vocal advocate of gay rights. Apple employees took a formal role in San Francisco's Pride parade for the first time in more than a decade and Cook also wrote an editorial in The Wall Street Journal urging U.S. senators to support the Employment Nondiscrimination Act.
Correction: Apple said 30% of its global workforce is female. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said 30% of its U.S. workforce is female.
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"The … reduction in hazardous materials-qualified drivers is not the result of individuals failing the background check – less than 1% fail – but rather is a result of the onerous process associated with obtaining this credential and the fact that drivers often must obtain multiple credentials that entail expensive, duplicative federal background checks." –Robert Petrancosta, vice president-safety for LTL carrier Con-way Freight
The issue of regulatory simplification is not new – it's been around since … well, since regulations were invented. What I feel is interesting about the ongoing debate concerning hazardous materials transportation regulations are their economic impacts, especially upon truck drivers, fostered by the complexity and redundancy of the current rules.
It's important to note here that safety and security of the current rules are NOT being questioned – in fact, they seem to be doing their job quite well.
Robert Petrancosta, vice president-safety for LTL carrier Con-way Freight, stressed that point in his testimony about hazmat rules last week before Congress. Each day, he said, there are approximately one million shipments of hazardous materials in the U.S. – with 94% of them moved by truck – and the rate of serious incidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials by motor carriers is just 0.0001%, with the percentage of incidents involving injuries is 0.00002% or two one-hundred thousandths of one percent. That's a pretty good record if you ask me.
Furthermore, the trucking community believes the agency in charge of setting and enforcing the rules is doing a great job. "We support the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA) leadership in regulating hazardous materials transportation. [They've] implemented an enterprise approach to hazardous materials regulation and communicates on a regular basis with key stakeholders, including safety advocates, emergency responders, carriers and shippers," Petrancosta said.
He noted that the agency also embraces a risk-based, data driven approach to balance the need to ensure the safe and secure transportation of hazardous materials so they move efficiently in commerce. "PHMSA also has earned the respect of the international community and a PHMSA staff member currently serves as the chairman of the United Nations Subcommittee on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods," added Petrancosta. "Congress should ensure that PHMSA maintains its status as the lead regulatory agency for hazardous materials transportation both at home and abroad."
Con-way and Petrancosta are no strangers to hazmat, by the way. Out of the 56,000 shipments its 8,500 trucks and 17,000 employees handle every day, some 2,000 contain hazmat cargo. Petrancosta himself is past chairman of the American Trucking Assn.'s (ATA) hazardous materials policy committee, so he lives and breathes this stuff (figuratively, I stress) every day.
Yet there's room for improvement – especially in terms of simplification. Truckers are finding they must submit – and pay for out of their own wallets – multiple background checks. Federal and state hazmat rules can conflict with each other, causing delays in obtaining permits. Jurisdiction over hazmat rules – jumbled between PHMSA (an agency within the Department of Transportation ) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) – also complicates things needlessly.
The big issue, though, is redundancy. Many states – even municipalities and local governments – are putting in place background checks and credential requirements for drivers that haul hazmat goods – requirements that needlessly duplicate what's being done at the federal level, thus not improving safety or security all that much.
"Duplicative background checks and redundant credentials have caused a dramatic reduction in the number of qualified drivers that are available to transport hazardous materials," Petrancosta told Congress.
"Prior to the initiation of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) background check program, there were more than 2.7 million drivers that had obtained hazardous materials endorsements (HME) to their commercial drivers licenses (CDL)," he said. "We estimate that the number of HME holders will fall to 1.6 million – some 41% – by the spring of 2010."
Why this happening is pretty easy to explain – and it's not about failing the background checks (less than 1% of drivers fail them, Petrancosta stressed). No, it's all about the skyrocketing costs for these multiple checks.
"Drivers that transport hazardous materials must submit to a fingerprint-based background check to obtain HME to their CDL. This credential costs approximately $100, requires multiple visits to the licensing agency to complete the process and involves a delay of several weeks before the credential is issued," Petrancosta explained. "Many of these drivers also access port facilities and therefore must obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) – these drivers receive a discount if they have already been through an HME check, but still must pay an additional $105.25 for the second credential."
He estimates just obtaining federal credentials for Con-way's drivers alone to be approximately $250,000.
However, here's the kicker: "We recently learned that the city of Doraville, GA, has imposed a security background check for individuals that access the Doraville petroleum loading facilities," he said. "Under this program, Doraville collects fingerprints, transmits the prints to the federal government, receives a criminal history report, and then issues a Doraville credential at a cost of $100. The background check performed is identical to the check performed by TSA under the HME and TWIC programs. Unfortunately, Doraville has refused to recognize the HME or the TWIC as an acceptable credential."
Petrancosta said the ability of states and municipalities to subject hazmat drivers to redundant criminal history background checks could easily become an unbearable financial burden to hazmat drivers that operate in hundreds of cities throughout the country, if such redundancy is not addressed in the federal regulations.
A similar issue exists at the state level when it comes to hazmat permits. Petrancosta said individual states maintain more than 40 separate hazardous materials permitting programs, triggered based upon the type of hazardous material being transported through the state. "Some states have more than one permit, depending upon the types of hazardous materials being transported," he noted.
"Compliance with these separate programs is an enormous administrative burden for trucking companies that operate in multiple states, as it is extremely difficult to identify and monitor changes to these different permitting programs," Petrancosta added. "For some smaller trucking companies, it is difficult to predict which states they may travel through and whether they will transport particular types of hazardous materials through that state in a given year."
A solution to this problem would be the "Uniform Program," currently administered by seven states (IL, MI, MN, NV, OH, OK, and WV), which is a "base state" permitting program that ensures participating states will continue to receive the revenue they have come to rely upon under their individual permitting programs. It would also reduce state expenses, as the inspection and administrative functions would be shared by all participating states, while reducing the administrative burden on the regulated industry.
These are good ideas – ones that do NOT lessen hazmat shipment safety or security, but rather lessen the administrative and cost burdens associated with these regulations. That's smart and simple regulation – and we definitely need more of that.


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The Wall Street Journal had a front-page story about junk bonds on Wednesday, positing that some big bond-market investors have generated healthy returns by buying into the debt of lower-rated companies.
Junk bonds, which traditionally refers to the debt of all companies with ratings below investment grade, did well for investors last year, as the Journal article notes.
Indeed, the asset class has been chugging higher for a number of years. Earlier this month, MarketWatch reported that since the beginning of 2009, the Barclays U.S. high yield index, tracked by the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF , had returned 146%.
Given the gains mopped up by investors in recent years, much of the debate surrounding the market is about whether junk bonds now are too overvalued. And it's something investors should keep in mind as they think about whether it makes sense to devote additional money to a high-yield fund, ETF, or portfolio that contains junk bonds.
Jeffrey Gundlach, founder of DoubleLine Capital, is one of the investors cited in The Journal's story. Yet he's been sounding the alarm on how expensive high yield corporate bonds are for quite some time, saying the value proposition doesn't make sense. "I find it difficult to love a 4.0% yield in junk bonds while hating a 4.0% yield in Treasurys," Gundlach said at a luncheon last month attended by MarketWatch. (See our full feature on his investing tactics.)
Another notable voice on the relative value of high yield bonds is Martin Fridson, chief investment officer at Lehmann, Livian, Fridson Advisors LLC. He's often seen as something of an arbiter of market value because of his proprietary model that aims to determine the difference between fair value and actual value in the market. He does this by looking at the premium, or spread, that junk bonds pay over Treasurys.
He's been saying for a while now that junk bonds are "extremely overvalued" but recently sharpened his words to describe the market is "way, way overvalued." The media response he got to those words prompted him to write this in S&P Capital IQ LCD on Tuesday:
"Journalists were hard-pressed to balance their stories by finding authorities willing to be quoted as saying they perceived good value in high-yield. At most, the reporters found experts who agreed that high-yield was overvalued, but saw no near-term catalyst that was likely to widen the spread significantly."
Despite the warning signals emanating from the market, investors keep piling in, suggesting that they are gobbling up the debt even though they know it's not good value (Michael Aneiro of Barron's has a good column on this mentality). High-yield funds took in money for the 15th consecutive week, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch data that goes through last Wednesday.
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Back Seat Betty
To those on the ground, the overhead drone of American aircraft engines meant either imminent defeat or imminent freedom, depending upon what side they were on. To the guys in the air, the nose art on their combat planes provided a personality for the plane as well as a reminder of what was waiting for them stateside-a faithful sweetheart from the hometown and, maybe, a hopped-up car in the garage or barn.
A lot of recently built rods reflect the influence of vintage World War II fighters. This '31 coupe-owned by Tom Carroll, and built by Kevin Tully at Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle-is an excellent example. The homage goes further than copying a style for both the owner and the builder.
When Kevin and Tom first talked about building the coupe, Tom explained he wanted a driver that leaned toward the traditional, but something like nobody had seen before. After several weeks, Kevin called him up. He'd come up with a motor that was definitely out of the ordinary, a front end that was complete, and a concept perfectly suited for the Model A.
The coupe had come from the Southwest, where the previous owner had purchased it in 1962. Five years later, the owner's wife (who had never liked the car) passed away. "He drove the car to the funeral," Tom told us, "and on the way back to his farm, the car died right in front of his property. He felt his wife was paying him back for showing up at her funeral in the car she hated. He didn't want to drive the car and he didn't want to sell it, so he hauled it to town and stuck it in the back of a building that used to be the jail, where it sat from 1967 until I bought it in 2005."
Kevin had been in the service as an aircraft fabricator and his father had fought in WWII, so he was familiar with the style and mechanics of military planes. Tom's father had flown on a B-25 during the war, so when Kevin suggested the idea of building the coupe as a salute to the famous '40s fighter planes, Tom agreed. After that, a big part of the buildup consisted of searching for authentic parts-not for dress-up, but as functional controls and components. And what about those rivets? "We were about halfway through the project, finding all these airplane parts," Tom explained. "Kevin said, 'You know what's missing? We should rivet it. We'll paint it silver like aluminum and rivet it like aircraft.' I didn't think it could be done, but he proved me wrong."
Of course the tribute rod wouldn't have been complete without some nose art. The image is based on a popular "Vargas girl" pinup from the era. Tom gave her a name, which she shares with his fighter-inspired '31 coupe: Back Seat Betty.
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The frame is modified FoMoCo Model A, double boxed with a chromoly round tube inner structure to handle the Super Red Ram mill, and kicked up 14 inches, with custom rear 'rails to lower the body. It's dropped in the front with POSIES Super Slide front leaf springs and a 4-inch dropped and drilled Magnum I-beam axle, located with 36-inch Curtis hairpins and riding on Monroe Sensa-Trak shocks. The '58-64 Buick finned aluminum drum brakes feature Wilson Welding 45-fin backing plates and '46-48 front hubs. At the rear, it's a Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle (HRCC) triangulated four-link and Strange coilovers. The aluminum fuel cell contains dual wing tanks: an 11-gallon primary tank and a 4-gallon reserve, with separate sending units for the B-25 wing tank gauges in the dash.
The heart of Back Seat Betty is the 325ci '56 Dodge Super Red Ram polyspherical double-rocker engine. Ted at Opel Engineering in Streamwood, Illinois, did the machine work. The cylinders were bored 0.040 over and loaded with 9.6:1 JE pistons. This numbers-correct specimen originally came with the four-barrel power package, but now runs an Offy 3×2 manifold with triple Rochester 2GCs, tuned by Dickster. HRCC built a set of equal-length exhaust headers to custom specs. The stout Dodge high-block was balanced, blueprinted, and dyno-tested at 310 hp and 360 lb-ft of torque. Wilcap (805-481-7639) provided a flywheel and transmission adapter to tie the big Dodge to a race-prepped Tremec TKO-500 five-speed from TTC. The transmission is equipped with a Centerforce clutch with a McCloud hydraulic throwout bearing, and operated by a Hurst shifter. The narrowed '58 Ford 9-inch houses an Auburn limited-slip differential with 3.73:1 gears equipped with Moser street/strip axles and 11×2 Ford Racing drum brakes.
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A pair of Coker Tire 8.20×15 Firestone cheaters rise up above the wheelwells and is mounted on a set of 15×8 painted '40 Ford steelies with chromed center caps. The front piecrust bias-plies are 4.50-4.75×16 Firestones on 16×4 rims.
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The military aircraft inspiration is obvious, but goes beyond what you can see here. All wood was removed from the steel '31 coupe shell and replaced with aluminum aircraft-style spars. The top was chopped 6 inches and scaled-down, tinted B-17 cockpit windows were worked into the 6061 aluminum roof. Fender mascots from a '48 Buick were modified to resemble wing markers (red for port, green for starboard) and added to the cowl sides as turn signals. HRCC built the custom aluminum radiator and fuel cell. The '38 Plymouth grille shell is modified with aluminum filler panels and a '48 Studebaker hood ornament. The headlights are '38 Plymouth, refitted with a '30s-era PlyDo sealed beam conversion kit, pulled out of the original box. Taillights are from a '48 Hudson. Kevin drove 2,300 authentic B-25 Mitchell bomber rivets using a 4x rivet gun and buck, and added 1,100 additional POP rivets. Vince Thornbery, owner of the Paint Spot in Addison, Illinois, covered the frame with PPG gloss black and the body with silver to resemble aluminum. The Back Seat Betty nose art was inspired by an Alberto Vargas pinup and painted at the Paint Spot.
The entire cockpit interior was paneled in aluminum at HRCC, and equipped with components from vintage aircraft, including a P-47 Thunderbolt throttle control quadrant that locates the choke, ignition kill, and start circuits using control cables in the style of the old planes. An aircraft light switchbox runs the headlights, running lights, and instrument panel. The fabricated dash houses a '36 Plymouth speedometer and twin wing fuel tank gauges from the B-25 Mitchell flown by Tom's father (the gauges were rebuilt by United Speedometer Service). The wheel is from a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport plane. Custom-built fighter seats were shot olive drab and padded with canvas seat cushions by Riggs Brothers in Downers Grove, Illinois (there are no back seats in Back Seat Betty). Juliano's provided the belts. Even the dome light is a cockpit light from an RAF plane, and a genuine N.O.S. data plate from Lockheed is stamped with the car's date of completion, Tom's birthday, and his dad's birthday, all in military date format.


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Disability intersects with other factors such as race, class, gender, and sexuality, to magnify degrees of marginalization and increase the risk of violence. When the media ignores or mishandles a major factor, as we contend they generally do with disability, it becomes harder to effect change.
This white paper focuses on the three years of media coverage of police violence and disability since the death of a young man with Down syndrome, named Ethan Saylor, in January 2013. After reviewing media coverage of eight selected cases of police violence against individuals with disabilities, the paper reveals the following patterns in the overall data:
● Disability goes unmentioned or is listed as an attribute without context.
● An impairment is used to evoke pity or sympathy for the victim.
● A medical condition or "mental illness" is used to blame victims for their deaths.
● In rare instances, we have identified thoughtful examinations of disability from within its social context that reveal the intersecting forces that lead to dangerous use-of-force incidents. Such stories point the way to better models for policing in the future. We conclude by proposing best practices for reporting on disability and police violence.
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Keywords disability , police , white paper , mental illness , violence
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After more than a year of painstaking restoration, Bassett Hall, the Rockefellers' Williamsburg home, reopened.
Colonial Williamsburg continued to strengthen its management team in 2002 with the addition of two officers. Laura Loda joined the foundation as vice president of human resources, reporting to senior vice president for finance and administration Bob Taylor, and Jim Easton was named vice president of products, with responsibility for all of Colonial Williamsburg's retail operations, merchandise management, products direct marketing, and licensing operations. Easton reports to Colonial Williamsburg President and Chairman Colin Campbell. Ned Dunn, president of the Colonial Williamsburg Company, and Christine Hoek, vice president for advancement, resigned. Charles Driscoll, vice president of strategic projects, retired after thirty years of foundation service.
The foundation undertook an ambitious strategic planning exercise in 2002. Stating the objective of the planning as ensuring forever the foundation's ability to achieve its mission—to help the future learn from the past—the management team began a process of simplifying and focusing foundation activities. The strategic plans developed by each division were based on principles that include more effective management, year-round, foundation-wide training, and decision-making guided by the organizational mission. They also focus on improving the quality of programs and services, reducing the scope of activities and expenses, increasing collaboration across the foundation as a key to success, attracting more guests to the Historic Area, museums, and the hospitality facilities through a more integrated marketing function, maximizing returns on business activities in support of the mission, and enhancing the foundation's education, marketing, and fund-raising outreach.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation board of trustees elected four new members at its final meeting of 2002. They are Antoinette Cook Bush, executive vice president of Northpoint Technology, Ltd., a Washington, D.C.based world leader in the use of satellite and land-based information and technology sharing; Pamela P. Flaherty, senior vice president for global community relations at Citigroup; Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent with NBC News; and Edmond D. Villani, vice chairman of Deutsche Asset Management and former president and chief executive officer of Zurich Scudder Investments.
Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, retired from the board of trustees in 2002 after thirteen years of service. He continues as co-chair of the Raleigh Tavern Society, the foundation's leading special donor group.
In a recent speech, President Campbell reflected on the role of Colonial Williamsburg. He said, "During these uncertain days, it is clear that the 'Idea of America' that took root here in Williamsburg and that inspired first a colony, then a country, is as relevant as it has been at any time in our nation's history." Colonial Williamsburg is positioned to provide a critical link to the nation's past and an all-important bridge to its future.