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Reading through reports from regulatory bodies rarely excites anyone. However, now that these reports started to include the chats between traders that likens them to teenagers planning to sneak out at night without their parents' permission, there is plenty to keep a reader's attention. Below are a few of the best examples of incriminating conversations between traders of recent banking scandals, lightly edited for readability.
The latest worst thing to type ever
Traders at the Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS) from offices around the world attempted to manipulate LIBOR, for which the bank will be paying a $325 million fine to the CFTC. Here are some of the chats between traders:
Aug. 20, 2007:
Senior Yen Trader: This LIBOR setting is getting nuts.
Bank A Trader: I'm puzzled as to why three-month LIBOR fixing is not coming off after the Fed action.
Senior Yen Trader: ... the JPY LIBOR is a cartel now... it's just amazing how LIBOR fixing can make you that much money... it's a cartel now in London.
May 14, 2009:
Swiss Franc Trader: Please, can we get a super high three-month and a super low six-month...PRETTY PLEASE?
Primary Submitter: 41 & 51.
Swiss Franc Trader: If you did that, I would love you forever.
Primary Submitter: 41 & 51, then...
Swiss FrancTrader: If you did that, I would come over there and make love to you, your choice.
Primary Submitter: 41+51, it is.
Swiss Franc Trader: Thought so.
Primary Submitter: So shallow.
When the bank was under investigation, the traders moved to telephone conversations:
November 24, 2010:
Senior Yen Trader: Yeah, how are you?
Primary Submitter: I'm pretty good, sir. Very good. We're just not, we're not allowed to have those conversations on [instant messages].
Senior Yen Trader: Oh, sorry about that. I didn't know.
Primary Submitter: (laughter)
Senior Yen Trader: (laughter) Oh, because of the BBA [British Bankers Association] thing?
Primary Submitter: Yes, exactly.
Senior Yen Trader: Ah, OK, OK.
Primary Submitter: So, yeah, leave it with me, and, uh, it won't be a problem.
Senior Yen Trader: OK, great.
Not the first
RBS was just the latest to be fined for attempted LIBOR manipulation. Last year, Barclays (NYSE:BCS) had to pay $450 million in fines. The famous quote from that bank was the response to a low LIBOR submission request, "Done... for you, big boy."
Then, in December, the report detailing UBS's (NYSE:UBS) $700 million fine to the CFTC, with a total fine of $1.5 billion across all regulatory agencies, offered plenty more examples of what not to type:
Broker to UBS derivatives trader: Mate, you're getting bloody good at this LIBOR game... think of me when you're on your yacht in Monaco, won't you?
And again, even after the investigation started at UBS, traders still attempted to manipulate rates, just with a touch of caution:
Euro Trader 1: Low 6s, high 12s, please.
Euro Trader-Submitter 1: Noted.
Rates Manager A: JUST BE CAREFUL, DUDE.
Euro Trader-Submitter 1: Yeah, [Sterling Trader-Submitter] gave me your call update. I agree we shouldn't have been talking about putting fixings for our positions on public chat.
While these reports now might make good reading, with the fascinating dialogue giving color to the usual gray tones of banking regulation, it shows just widespread and accepted such behavior was. Additionally, investors in these banks shoulder the costs of these fines, not to mention the possible costs to society of a manipulated LIBOR. One estimate of losses for all states and localities due to LIBOR setting is $6 billion.
Who else might contribute to these scripts? Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) and Citigroup (NYSE:C) both are under investigation by regulators, but the Financial Times reports that neither is in settlement talks and they are "not even close to such discussions." Deutsche just suspended five traders while investigating LIBOR manipulation, while Citi took a $50 million loss last year after unwinding trades made by two traders who left during its own investigation.
But ever since the first fine related to LIBOR was delivered last year, the financial sector has outperformed the market, up about 25% since last June. The fines levied aren't enough to affect investors' belief in the future profits of a recovering bullish economy.


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Following USDA's June round of acreage updates, market expert Jerry Gulke breaks down the key numbers.
2014 will be a record-breaking year for soybeans. In its annual June Acreage report, USDA estimates 84.8 million acres of soybeans are planted in the U.S. for 2014, up 11% from last year.
Other highlights include:
- Corn acres are estimated at 91.6 million acres, down 4% from last year, representing the lowest planted since 2010.
- All cotton planted area for 2014 is estimated at 11.4 million acres, 9% above last year.
- All wheat planted area for 2014 is estimated at 56.5 million acres, up less than 1% from 2013.
Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group, says the market was expecting the bean increase. "Seed companies had told us they sold a lot less corn and more beans," he says. "Farmers responded to the marketplace and said they would plant corn, but not go overboard. Then it got late and they switched over to beans."
Following the report's release on June 30, soybean prices plunged. Corn, wheat and cotton prices also declined.
Listen to Gulke's full audio analysis:
Gulke says the long-term outlook for soybeans looks ugly.
"We could end up with over 450 million bushel carryover in beans," he says. "Informa is saying if this crop comes in, you could see $9.50 or $10 soybeans this fall. That's $1.50 away. We'll probably stair step down. If we start looking at a decent August, we will bleed lower."
Yet, while Gulke says he doesn't know how low prices will go, a new ceiling for prices is likely in place. "Corn shouldn't go above $4.80, before harvest," he says. "Beans shouldn't climb back above $12, unless something happens to negate what we learned after the Acreage report."
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ST. PAUL, Minn.: Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman whose sharply conservative views on social and fiscal issues elevated her to a leader of the tea party movement, announced Wednesday she will not seek a fifth term but insisted the decision was unrelated to ethics inquiries or her near-loss last fall.
It was a sudden turn for the foster-mom-turned-politician. She left the door open to other, unspecified political options.
Bachmann was traveling in Russia as part of a congressional delegation and was not available for interviews. In a lengthy video message to supporters, she said her decision �was not influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected.�
Ron Carey, a former chief of staff to Bachmann, said he suspects she was anticipating a tough battle ahead and seemed to be stuck in place in Congress.
�This is a great chance to exit stage right rather than have a knockdown, drag-out re-election fight,� said Carey, also a former state GOP chairman. �The reality also set in that she is not a favorite of Republican leadership, so she is not going to be rising up to a committee chair or rising up in leadership.�
Her departure next year is part of a larger shift involving the leading personalities of the tea party. Stalwarts like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Rep. Allen West of Florida and former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint have left elected office to move into conservative organizations and commentary roles.
They�ve been replaced by a new round of tea party-backed lawmakers such as Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho.
�The movement had moved past her to a new round of leaders in Congress and the states around the country,� said Dick Wadhams, a Colorado-based Republican strategist. �In a short period of time, a new generation has stepped forward since the last election.�
Bachmann also said her decision �was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign� last year. In January, a former Bachmann aide filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, claiming the candidate made improper payments to an Iowa state senator who was the state chairman of her 2012 presidential run. The aide, Peter Waldron, also accused Bachmann of other FEC violations.
Bachmann had given few clues she was considering leaving Congress. Her fundraising operation was churning out regular pitches for the small-dollar donations that she collected so well over the years. She also had an ad running on Twin Cities television promoting her role in opposing President Barack Obama�s health care overhaul. The early timing of the ad suggested she was preparing for a tough fight against Democrat Jim Graves, a hotel chain owner who narrowly lost to Bachmann in November.
Without the polarizing Bachmann on the ticket, Republicans could have an easier time holding a district that leans more heavily in the GOP direction than any other in Minnesota. A parade of hopefuls was expected.
By Wednesday morning, state Rep. Matt Dean, a former House majority leader, said he was inclined to run.
�It is something I have thought about in the past if Michele were to not run again,� Dean said. �It�s not something that I just started thinking about this morning.�
Graves said he thought Bachmann had �read the tea leaves.�
�The district is changing,� the Democrat said in an interview Wednesday with Minneapolis television station KARE. �They want somebody who really does have some business background and understands the economy and can get things done in Washington and back in the district.�
Andy Aplikowski, who has long been active in the district�s Republican Party chapter, said he expected Bachmann to run again but can understand why she didn�t.
�It�s a grueling thing to be in Congress. It�s a grueling thing to be Michele Bachmann in Congress,� he said. �Every move you make is criticized and put under a microscope.�
Bachmann�s strongly conservative views propelled her into politics, and once there, she never backed down.
She was a suburban mother of five in 1999 when she ran for a Minnesota school board seat because she thought state standards were designed to teach students values and beliefs.
She lost that race, but won a state Senate seat a year later. Once in St. Paul, she seized on gay marriage as an issue and led a charge to legally define marriage in Minnesota as between one man and one woman. That failed, but Bachmann had laid the foundation with social conservatives to help propel her into Congress in 2006.
In Washington, she turned to fiscal issues, attacking Democrats and President Barack Obama for government bailouts and the health care overhaul. Even in her early years in Congress, Bachmann frequently took those views to right-leaning cable talk programs, cultivating her national image as she built a formidable fundraising base with like-minded viewers outside Minnesota.
But her penchant for provocative rhetoric sometimes backfired. She was hammered in 2008 for saying Obama might have �anti-American views,� a statement that prompted a rare retreat by Bachmann and made her race that year closer than it would have been. She was also criticized by her fellow Republicans last July for making unsubstantiated allegations that an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had family ties to Egypt�s Muslim Brotherhood.
Her White House bid got off to a promising start, with a win in an Iowa GOP test vote. But Bachmann quickly faded and finished last when the real voting started in Iowa�s leadoff caucuses, a result that caused her to drop out. Saddled with debt, she opted to campaign again for her Minnesota seat and squeaked through.
But the failed presidential campaign continued to dog her. Allegations of improper payments prompted ethics inquiries. Bachmann also faced a lawsuit from a former aide that alleged someone on the congresswoman�s team stole a private email list of home-school supporters for use in the campaign. That case is pending.
On Wednesday, Bachmann promised supporters she would �continue to work overtime for the next 18 months in Congress defending the same Constitutional Conservative values we have worked so hard on together.�
As for her plans beyond Congress, she said, �There is no future option or opportunity, be it directly in the political arena or otherwise, that I won�t be giving serious consideration if it can help save and protect our great nation.�
Bachmann�s success in the talk media world led industry analysts to say she could easily move into a gig as a host. She has been mentioned as a potential challenger to first-term Democratic Sen. Al Franken but has given little indication that she would take that step.


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I was driving by a dairy farm a few weeks ago and saw a dead cow lying outside ready to be disposed. I wondered what the average consumer would think if he or she saw the dead cow. It would likely evoke a different response than those of us who work with dairy farms every day.
Unfortunately, death does occur on dairy farms and we all need to be careful not to become "desensitized" to death on dairy farms.
The National Animal Health Monitoring surveys estimate the death loss of adult cows on dairy farms to be 5 percent, with pre-weaning heifer deaths averaging 7.8 percent and post-weaning heifer losses at 1.8 percent.
Death of an animal can be a time to review what went wrong. Do you evaluate your death rate in adults and heifers with your veterinarian? Death can be seen as a treatment failure, a problem with not intervening with treatment soon enough or a problem with not euthanizing the animal when she is suffering and instead letting her die an inhumane death. Consumers who have pets understand euthanasia is a humane choice for a suffering animal. Unfortunately, euthanasia is not practiced often enough or in a proper manner on many dairy farms.
Many farms, regardless of size, have protocols for all sorts of things we do to cows on a daily basis. Breeding, treating with medications, milking routines, and managing calving problems are examples of common protocols. Proper humane euthanasia is often a protocol that is overlooked, but it is one that is very important to the consuming public. Every farm should work with their veterinarian to develop a proper Euthanasia Protocol and evaluate its implementation on a regular basis.
Who should be euthanized?
Animals that should be considered for humane euthanasia include:
- Animals that cannot stand and are not responding to treatment.
- Sick animals that do not respond to treatment, are not eating and have drug residues. Do not cull sick animals as a way to "get rid of them." The public does not want to consume sick cows especially if they have been treated with medications. Do not sell animals that may have violative drug residues.
- Severely lame animals that do not respond to treatment or are in severe pain, especially if the foot or leg is extremely swollen. Do not cull lame animals.
- Animals with broken bones or severe injuries.
Proper euthanasia methods
There are only three approved methods of euthanasia for cattle and they are: IV injection of a pentobarbital (a drug your veterinarian must administer), gunshot, or captive bolt. All other methods are not appropriate. It is important to note that all of these methods must be done correctly in order for it to be considered a humane euthanasia.
- IV pentobarbital. This is a drug that your veterinarian must administer. It causes immediate death and is painless to the animal. Deep burial of the animal is required because if an animal scavenges the carcass, it can ingest the drug from the dead animal's tissues.
- Gunshot and captive bolt. Both of these methods are similar. The proper placement of the bullet or bolt is critical to ensure instant unconsciousness. This point is the intersection of two lines that are drawn from the outside corner of the eye to the base of the opposite horn. Do not shoot between the eyes or you will miss the part of the brain you need to hit. A 22 caliber gun is acceptable for calves but larger animals require a 22 magnum or higher caliber or shotgun slugs. Do not use hollow point bullets as they fragment before penetrating the brain. After the shot is placed, bleeding out the animal may be necessary or administration of a drug to stop the heart may be needed. Ask your veterinarian for guidance
An excellent resource for euthanasia protocols with printable English and Spanish literature is available at http://vetmed.iastate.edu/vdpam/extension/dairy/programs/humane-euthanasia. Temple Grandin stated that "Nature is cruel, we don't have to be." Humane euthanasia should be a written protocol on all of our dairy farms.
Fred Gingrich is a practicing veterinarian and owner of Country Roads Veterinary Services Inc., in Ashland, Ohio.


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WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to consider extending crucial provisions of the USA Patriot Act, civil liberties groups and some Democratic lawmakers are gearing up to press for sweeping changes to surveillance laws.
Both the House and the Senate are set to hold their first committee hearings this week on whether to reauthorize three sections of the Patriot Act that expire at the end of this year. The provisions expanded the power of the F.B.I. to seize records and to eavesdrop on phone calls in the course of a counterterrorism investigation.
Laying down a marker ahead of those hearings, a group of senators who support greater privacy protections filed a bill on Thursday that would impose new safeguards on the Patriot Act while tightening restrictions on other surveillance policies. The measure is co-sponsored by nine Democrats and an independent.
Days before, the Obama administration called on Congress to reauthorize the three expiring Patriot Act provisions in a letter from Ronald Weich, assistant attorney general for legislative affairs. At the same time, he expressed a cautious open mind about imposing new surveillance restrictions as part of the legislative package.
"We are aware that members of Congress may propose modifications to provide additional protection for the privacy of law abiding Americans," Mr. Weich wrote, adding that "the administration is willing to consider such ideas, provided that they do not undermine the effectiveness of these important authorities."Continue reading the main story
One of the witnesses Democrats have invited to testify at both hearings is Suzanne E. Spaulding, who has worked for lawmakers of both parties as a former top staffer on the House and Senate Intelligence committees. Mrs. Spaulding said she would urge Congress to tighten restrictions on when the F.B.I. could use the Patriot Act powers.
The rapid build-up of domestic intelligence authorities after the Sept. 11 attacks, she said, had overlooked "important safeguards," which has resulted "in a greater likelihood at a minimum of the government mistakenly intruding into the privacy of innocent Americans, and at worst having a greater capability of abusing these authorities."
Still, she acknowledged, the public record contains scant evidence that the F.B.I. has abused its powers under the three expiring Patriot Act sections. And it remains to be seen whether a majority in Congress will welcome undertaking a potentially heated debate over national security in the midst of already wrenching efforts to overhaul the nation's health insurance system.
Republicans invited Kenneth L. Wainstein, a former assistant attorney general for national security for the Bush administration, to testify at both Patriot Act hearings.
"We have to be careful not to limit these tools to the point that they are no longer useful in fast-moving threat investigations," Mr. Wainstein said. "There is an important place for oversight of national security tools, and that oversight is being exercised by Congress and by the federal judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court."
The first such provision allows investigators to get "roving wiretap" court orders authorizing them to follow a target who switches phone numbers or phone companies, rather than having to apply for a new warrant each time.
From 2004 to 2009, the Federal Bureau of Investigation applied for such an order about 140 times, Robert S. Mueller, the F.B.I. director, said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week.
The second such provision allows the F.B.I. to get a court order to seize "any tangible things" deemed relevant to a terrorism investigation — like a business's customer records, a diary or a computer.
From 2004 to 2009, the bureau used that authority more than 250 times, Mr. Mueller said.
The final provision set to expire is called the "lone wolf" provision. It allows the F.B.I. to get a court order to wiretap a terrorism suspect who is not connected to any foreign terrorist group or foreign government.
Mr. Mueller said this authority had never been used, but the bureau still wanted Congress to extend it.
Several other lawmakers are expected to file their own bills addressing the Patriot Act and related surveillance issues in the next several weeks.
Many of the proposals under discussion involve small wording shifts whose impact can be difficult to understand, in part because the statutes are extremely technical and some govern technology that is classified.
But in general, civil libertarians and some Democrats have called for changes that would require stronger evidence of meaningful links between a terrorism suspect and the person whom investigators are targeting.
In the same way, some are proposing to use any Patriot Act extension bill to tighten when the F.B.I. may use "national security letters" — administrative subpoenas that allow counterterrorism agents to seize business records without obtaining permission from a judge. Agents use the device tens of thousands of times each year.
The Patriot Act section that expanded the F.B.I.'s power to issue those letters is not expiring, but they have become particularly controversial because the Justice Department's inspector general issued two reports finding that F.B.I. agents frequently misused the device to obtain bank, credit card and telephone records.
Finally, some civil libertarians want lawmakers to revisit a June 2008 law in which Congress granted immunity from civil lawsuits to telecommunications companies that assisted President George W. Bush's program of surveillance without warrants, and that adjusted federal statutes to bring them into alignment with a form of that program.
As a senator, Mr. Obama voted for that bill, infuriating civil libertarians.
The bill filed Sept. 17 — which is championed in particular by two Democratic senators, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Richard J. Durbin of Illinois — would repeal the immunity provision.
The measure would also tighten statutory restrictions to ban the "bulk collection" of phone calls coming into the United States from overseas. Some security specialists say that they doubt the National Security Agency has that capability today, but that it could become feasible as classified technology advances.
"Every single member of Congress wants to give our law enforcement and intelligence officials the tools they need to keep Americans safe," Mr. Feingold said in a statement when filing the bill. "But with the Patriot Act up for reauthorization, we should take this opportunity to fix the flaws in our surveillance laws once and for all."
But changes to the hard-fought 2008 legislation on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, could provoke fierce opposition from Senate conservatives. Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, strongly objected to revisiting that law.
"Our terror fighters need the tools and legal authorities to track terror suspects quickly, before they strike," Mr. Bond said. "Unfortunately, this bill would render our critical warning system useless by unraveling the bipartisan FISA provisions Congress passed last year."Continue reading the main story


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White House Considers Executive Order on Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.
Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war. Obama advisers are concerned that an order, which would bypass Congress, could place the president on weaker footing before the courts and anger key supporters, the officials said.
After months of internal debate over how to close the military facility in Cuba, White House officials are increasingly worried that reaching quick agreement with Congress on a new detention system may be impossible. Several officials said there is concern in the White House that the administration may not be able to close the prison by the president's January deadline.
White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said that there is no executive order and that the administration has not decided whether to issue one. But one administration official suggested that the White House is already trying to build support for an order.
"Civil liberties groups have encouraged the administration, that if a prolonged detention system were to be sought, to do it through executive order," the official said. Such an order could be rescinded and would not block later efforts to write legislation, but civil liberties groups generally oppose long-term detention, arguing that detainees should be prosecuted or released.
The Justice Department has declined to comment on the prospects for a long-term detention system while internal reviews of Guantanamo detainees' cases are underway. One task force, which is assessing detainee policy, is expected to complete its work by July 21.
In a May speech, President Obama broached the need for a system of long-term detention and suggested that it would include congressional and judicial oversight. "We must recognize that these detention policies cannot be unbounded. They can't be based simply on what I or the executive branch decide alone," he said.
Some of Obama's top legal advisers, along with a handful of influential Republican and Democratic lawmakers, have pushed for the creation of a "national security court" to supervise the incarceration of detainees deemed too dangerous to release but who cannot be charged or tried.
But the three senior government officials said the White House has turned away from that option, at least for now, because legislation establishing a special court would be difficult to pass and likely to fracture Obama's party. These officials, as well as others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal deliberations.
On the day Obama took office, 242 men were imprisoned at Guantanamo. In his May speech, the president outlined five strategies the administration would use to deal with them: criminal trials, revamped military tribunals, transfers to other countries, releases and continued detention.
Since the inauguration, 11 detainees have been released or transferred, one prisoner committed suicide, and one was moved to New York to face terrorism charges in federal court.
Administration officials said the cases of about half of the remaining 229 detainees have been reviewed for prosecution or release. Two officials involved in a Justice Department review of possible prosecutions said the administration is strongly considering criminal charges in federal court for Khalid Sheik Mohammed and three other detainees accused of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.


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Many conservatives in Illinois despair of ever having an honorable government. (Isn't "honorable government" an oxymoron these days?) We work locally to keep as many malfeasants out of office as we can trying year after year to save a state that has for decades been riddled with corruption. Most of our governors serve their final terms in jail in Illinois and we know have an extension of Washington as head of the Chicago Machine. Rahm Emanuel won with little fanfare. Everyone knew he'd have the baton of the Machine passed to him from Daley in a macabre dance where zombie voters grant a crony win in every Cook County election.
And now the dance continues with the teacher pensions. For years, the state squandered their responsibility to help fund the TRS (Teacher Retirement System). Hundreds of thousands of teachers paid into their pension system and their retirement insurance coffers for their entire careers. Every paycheck, every month, every year for years and years while the state, because of a loophole in the system, was able to spend the dollars they were to contribute on pet projects and other agenda items, ignoring their part in the process. Illinois is not a state where the teachers did not have to pay for their insurance or pensions. They dutifully paid into a system which is now close to bankruptcy. It isn't politically correct now to complain about that. People are without work in the private sector. They don't have pensions and although they DO have Social Security–it's broke too–for similar reasons–the squandering of government systems.
In Illinois, there is a crisis and lawmakers are crying foul. It's a mess. But rising out of that mess is a lawmaker who isn't very popular with unions or his fellow legislators for that matter. This dislike may stem from many reasons the public isn't privy to but I know that the fact that Chris Lauzen has been outspoken about conservative values is one of the causes for resentment from both factions. Now Chris is leaving the legislature after almost 20 years for a new elected position as Kane County Board Chair. Good for him. He will be a champion in our county. I'm sad to see him leave the Senate and I know I'm not alone. He fought the good fight and as he left, he gave the Illinois Legislature a gift–a solution to our pension and bankruptcy woes. And just as they did when he was a part of that legislative body–they've chosen to ignore it. True to the Chicago way, they have their own agendas–their own cronies to please and many pet projects and pockets to fill. The Chicago Machine continues–the beast is fed by backhanded deals and continued corruption.
As Lauzen wrote regarding the Illinois budget:
The Blagojevich and Quinn administrations along with their enablers in the General Assembly have bankrupted the state over the past decade, as you already know. They have raised our income taxes by 67 percent, driven hundreds of employers and thousands of jobs to other states, begun to cut social services including homeless shelters and early childhood learning, and now they're talking about multibillion (with a B!) dollar cuts to Medicaid and public employee pensions. Who votes for these folks?
This time, over 300,000 retired educators and the people in the state of Illinois are the ones who will suffer from this corruption–whether you agree with the pension system or not, imagine planning your whole life on it to be told–when you get to retirement age, that the rules are being changed. Oh. Not for the judges…that would be political suicide…and oh…not for those in another state system (IMRF–Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund) because they were smart enough to not have a loophole in their plan. The Illinois lawmakers would rather strip educators and cheat taxpayers than even consider a plan that Forbes magazine calls " …a clear map out from under the $3 trillion debacle."
What is Lauzen's plan?
1.) "Cap and Age"would cap the abusive amounts being paid to some highly-paid administrators when they retire.
2.) Public employees would work until 62 which is the "early retirement" age under social security with a grandfather clause built in for those close to retirement.
3.) Lastly, reducing the COLA (Cost of Living Increase) by 1%
These three proposals would rescue Illinois, Lauzen states, from the insolvency threatened by its $83 billion unfunded liability. He also requests that a clause be added to the TRS agreement, similar to the one in IMRF, where the state would be unable to squander the funds under penalty of not receiving those funds.
So I wrote to the IRTA (Illinois Retired Teacher Association) which is connected to the Illinois Teacher Unions. I shared Lauzen's plan with them and was told, and I quote, "The Lauzen Proposal is getting NO traction because he is disrespected by both his Party (R's) and Dems. His proposal no matter what he might say is dead in the water." I was told privately from two different upper level union sources that it was a viable plan (except for the TRS agreement change verbiage). So then I got a letter from IRTA telling me the following:
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has decided to allow a limited pension-reform bill (HB1447) to be considered when the General Assembly returns for a special session on August 17th. The bill requires State Employee Retirement System and General Assembly Retirement System members to make a choice between receiving their annual 3% compounded COLA in retirement and give up their access to retiree health insurance or choose to continue to have health insurance access and in exchange their COLAs would be reduced to 3% simple or one-half the consumer price index whichever is less.
Retired educators have paid into their retirement insurance and their own pension system for up to 34 years and beyond. To eliminate either is the ultimate corruption. This is a quickie fix which makes already retired educators choose between a cost of living increase (COLA) or their insurance. Not only does this plan rip the Illinois Constitution, it also forces already retired teachers to either find other insurance or reduce what they have counted on their whole careers. Most but the most radical retirees would accept Chris Lauzen's plan to reduce pensions but not demolish whole parts of them and save Illinois at the same time. To ignore this solution for political reasons is insanity and Chicago Machine politics on steroids.


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I HATE most of the 12 tone stuff. I like some of the more traditional pieces by guys who messed with that style, and I do enjoy the opera Solome by Strauss, which was during his flirtation with the 12 tone style.
I have heard this before but I really am always on the lookout for a clean LP copy - seems to be hard to come by and even though you can order it on ebay for next to nothing but the shipping is always insane. I have Elektra which is really cool.
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I don't listen to much classical overall, but I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Alfred Schnittke yet.
Pacifism-Sucks mentioned him on the first page.
I really enjoy Beethoven and Schubert. Oh, and Grieg!
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Must've missed it. He deserves to be mentioned more than once anyway.
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I suppose people listen to classical music in the same way a lot of the people here seem to appreciate other stylistically orthogonal genres such as post punk, death rock and neo folk. Musically I can see where the appeal lies, there is this undeniable 'classical music' quality to a lot of the funeral doom compositions, perhaps they evoke the same kind of emotions, I dont know, but yes for the most part this whole comparison thing is a gross exaggeration.
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Quite an obvious and "pop" choice, but I think that famous Vivaldi's four concerts cycle "The Four Seasons" and suites from "Nutcracker" and "Peer Gynt" ballets by Tchaikovsky and Grieg respectively contain so many classical "hits" that they are able to be "first steps" for those who want to feel what the power of classics is. And, by the way, "In the Hall of the Mountain King (I Dovregubbens hall)" form "Peer Gynt" is a killer dark track!
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Or the fascination with Wagner! Dude wrote some cool overtures and shit but you ever sit through Die Walkure in it's entirety? Man I went with my mother-in-law a few years ago, that shit is an endurance test to say the least. Just buy an LP of his famous overtures and call a fucking spade a spade.....
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"Rienzi" is not that long. "Die Walküre" is only one part of "Der Ring der Nibelungen", which consists of four parts BTW.
There was a really good, in-depth documentary about "Der Ring" on German TV recently, someday in my life I'll definitely have to experience the Bayreuth spectacle. And I have to check out the "Orgien-Mysterien-Theater" of Hermann Nitsch.
Lake & Palmer's adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition, that LP fucking RULES.
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"Rienzi" is not that long. "Die Walküre" is only one part of "Der Ring der Nibelungen", which consists of four parts BTW.
Oh I know man. I went to see Die Walkure and even that shit is like 4 hours long on it's own. I actually really enjoyed it, but I prefer Wagner in the background rather than being there for 4 hours.
It's the same with Mahler, I like his symphonies a lot but man he does go on and on. I prefer smaller scale stuff myself, I don't need that pomp and grandeur and spectacle. I think there's a more direct connection with a quartet piece. Just me though.
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I especially find cringeworthy seeing those shitful comparisions with metal like: X composer sounds like doom metal 200 years before it existed, Y composer played pure death metal riffs on strings and other gigantic overinterpretations that only pseudointellectual faggot on hard drugs could seriously see.
Gotta agree with you for once. That tryhard shit is sooo annoying.
I haven't read those kinds of reviews, but would be interested because, when I started trying to listen to classical music, I only wanted and still mostly do, what is as cool and heavy as metal.
That is why I (and probably quite a few of us) like and stick to just a few - Wagner, Carl Orrf's Carmina Burana, the Conan soundtrack, Dvorak.
This thread is great for mentioning a lot of composers, but I am looking for anything fast like how Paganini could get, or heavy like Wagner.
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Buckner and Respighi are must haves for metal fans.
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Huge thanks to the contributors of this thread. I've always had an interest in classical music, and being a metalhead I was naturally drawn to the more sombre, mournful, meancing and nocturnal sounds. But the scope of classical music is so vast I have found it extremely difficult to find the kind of stuff that appeals to me. The very well known likes of 'The Four Seasons' is just not really for me. I spend enough of my time trying to hunt down the (mostly obscure) metal that hits the spot and the prospect of having to do the same for classical is a bit intimidating! But this thread is an excellent cheat.
Another request for religious choral/chant style stuff!
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This whole thing of "metalheads pretending to like classical to seem smarter" seems a bit off to me, I was classical music fan way before I was into metal
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I like classical because I like it and that's it, but pretty much every other metalhead I've met that said he liked classical obviously didn't really care about it since they always go "Wagner and Beethoven" and that's it. I don't know if it's to seem smarter or what, but it's certainly bullshit.
And to the OP, there's plenty of well known classical music that's fucking great, no need to go for the obscure right away. If you don't like Four Seasons it might be because you're just not into baroque music. I'd reccomend to try to get into romantic composers, they're usually easier to get into (or at least they were for me). Try Grieg (Peer Gynt), Liszt (Funerailles and the first Piano Concerto), Saint Saens (Danse Macabre), some Wagner overtures, Mussorgsky (Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition-try the Ravel orchestration first), Smetana (Moldau), Borodin (Polovetsian Dances), etc.
Those are the ones that made me get into classical. Maybe they'll work for you as well.
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I especially find cringeworthy seeing those shitful comparisions with metal like: X composer sounds like doom metal 200 years before it existed, Y composer played pure death metal riffs on strings and other gigantic overinterpretations that only pseudointellectual faggot on hard drugs could seriously see.
Gotta agree with you for once. That tryhard shit is sooo annoying.
man, most of you people don't know what the fuck you're talking about - even the people defending "classical music". where the fuck do i begin?
oh yeah . . . so, like, the fucking nyogthaeblisz of classical is penderecki's "threnody", the gorguts "obscura" is xenakis. the goddamn deiphago of classical is magnus lindberg's "kraft". blah blah blah, etc.
you guys are talking about fucking bach and vivaldi and all this stale shit, and it's no wonder clueless people like NK7 and nileppez are just shooting you down in flames here. there's grampa classical, and then there's horrid, cacophonous, morbid, macabre classical music from the 20th and 21st century.
there's a whole world of sick classical shit and most of it was made after 1901, and particularly after 1945. dead white guy music starts for me with schoenberg at the turn of the 20th century. then you've got the sick innovations of varese (part. "hyperprism"), the gnarly serialism of schoenberg (a mixed bag, not vouching for all of his work because it's varied), berg (same) and webern (whose shit is crazy, but probably "boring" to most of you). as time rages on you have noisy, intense american dudes like carl ruggles and roger sessions. world war 2 brought us xenakis - brutal motherfucker got half his face exploded off FIGHTING and most of his music is warlike, particularly the shit before 1970. messiaen - who wrote his boring quartet for the end of time in a concentration camp - started writing crazy shit after 1950 (although his morbid "l'ascension" happened in the '30s. elliott carter is pretty fucking brutal, particularly after his shit started getting gnarly in the 50s. if you want deranged hobo noise on homemade instruments check out harry partch's "on the seventh day the petals fell over petaluma" or mauricio kagel's "acustica". pierre boulez' work is consistently fucked up and rigorous and i'm partial to EARLY stockhausen when he wrote notes and spent less time being a megalomaniacal hippy. the post-xenakis polish school has some cool shit, particularly in the 50s and 60s with penderecki's noisier work (some of his shit sucks) and guys like ligeti and lutoslawski. there are some late shostakovich pieces that sound like fucking cecil taylor (cf. duo for piano and violin - don't have the opus no. handy). a lot of the bartok sting quartets are sick and generally intense, but since there's no blast beats or gutteral vocals, they're probably pretty "boring". berio's sequenzas, although not consistently interesting to me, contain some really fucking shredding shit, particularly the viola one. the late stravinsky stuff where he went serial for the last time is pretty fucked up. even lame-ass aaron copland went serial at the end and that stuff is really monolithic - listen to "inscapes" and tell me that's not devastatingly heavy and dissonant! it doesn't sound like the fucking "four seasons".
there's so much cool shit out there that doesn't sound like granny's classical, but i'm really tired and need to go to bed. maybe if i get a wild hair up my ass, i'll write more . . . blah blah blah.
i don't even know what 21st century classical is about since i have no free time to listen or research the shit. go ahead - call me a "try hard" (thanks diehipster.com) - i call it "being interested in cool shit" - but finding out about this shit and what's good or not takes time and persistence, not checking in on a fucking death metal board. duh. very few people here make any good arguments whatsoever - i pity anybody really trying to find a clue on this thread.
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Yeah, Bach is stale shit
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Xenakis is perfect sleeping music. That shit is so boring I nearly go into hibernation while listening to it.
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Syrians accuse Assad regime of 'systemic' torture
A report by three international war crimes prosecutors accuse the government of the "systemic" killing of 11,000 people detained from the start of the revolution in March 2011 until August 2013.
AMMAN, Jordan -- Syrians who escaped the dictatorship of Bashar Assad said Tuesday that the use of torture by the regime as documented by the release of hundreds of new photographs is commonplace.
"I was detained multiple times and tortured until my ribs and four of my fingers broke even though I was blindfolded, handcuffed and my legs were tied," said Nayef al-Sari, 40, an activist in Daraa, Syria. "This regime tortures because it can't handle the revolution on the ground and is trying to assert power again. It has much blood on its hands."
On Monday, a report by three international war crimes prosecutors obtained by USA TODAY and first reported by CNN and the Guardian newspaper accused the Syrian government of the "systemic" killing of 11,000 people detained by the regime from the start of the revolution in March 2011 until last August.
The report is based on smuggled photos taken by a defector who worked with the military police photographing the bodies for death certificates of regime opponents who were tortured and starved to death.
On Tuesday, the group Human Rights Watch accused the United States of solely focusing on peace talks rather than putting "real pressure" on the Assad regime to end its campaign of systematic murder and bring those responsible to account. The group also accused Russia and China of shielding their ally Syria from concrete action at the United Nations.
"We cannot afford to wait for the distant prospect of a peace accord before the killing of 5,000 civilians a month comes to an end," Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said during the release of the group's annual report in Berlin Tuesday. "The mass atrocities being committed in Syria should have equal focus to the peace process."
Peace talks overseen by the United Nations and pushed by the Obama administration are scheduled to begin Wednesday in Geneva. But Syrian opponents to Assad have not decided whether they will attend because they say the focus should be on bringing Assad to justice.
"We see that the regime, in its savage and criminal practices, have obstructed any chance at the success of this solution," said Islamic Front, the largest umbrella group of Syrian rebels, in a statement. "The regime heads towards Geneva 2 with its barrel bombs, its sinful blockades, its policy of systematic starvation, its savagery in torturing prisoners to death, its murder of children, rape of activists and committing of massacres with its chemical weapons, not leaving any space for dialogue."
The new report of atrocities by Assad's regime is based on a review of the smuggled photos of by a team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts. The team says the photos represent "direct evidence" of "systematic torture and killing" by the Assad regime.
The bodies the photographed since the civil war began, showed signs of starvation, brutal beatings, strangulation, and other forms of torture and killing," wrote the investigators: Sir Desmond de Silva, former chief prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Lione; Sir Geoffrey Nice, former lead prosecutor of ex-President Milosevic of Yugoslavia at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; and David M. Crane, also a former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
"Overall there was evidence that a significant number of the deceased were emaciated and a significant minority had been bound and/or beaten with rod-like objects."
The report is based on nearly 50,000 photos taken by a defector named "Caesar" in the document who worked with the military police photographing the bodies brought from detention centers: The reason for the photographing of executed persons was to permit a death certificate to be produced without families be required to see the body and therefore avoiding explanations as to cause of death and also to confirm these executions had been carried out, the report said.
Caesar, whose name was changed to protect his safety, did not witness the torture or executions personally. He fled the country with the photos on a USB drive.
The report calls for Assad to stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, saying there is enough "clear evidence" to hold a tribunal.
"This is a smoking gun," David Crane, one of the report's authors, told CNN. "Any prosecutor would like this kind of evidence -- the photos and the process. This is direct evidence of the regime's killing machine."
Human Rights Watch says Assad must be tried for war crimes. But some Syrian activists doubt this will ever happen. They say Assad paid no price when he gassed hundreds of families to death last year in an attack that President Obama had said warranted a military response from the West. No such response came.
"Before the revolution everyone who opposed the regime in even the smallest thought or action was arrested and tortured," said al-Sari. "I know this bloody regime and it will not change but will escalate: Every time it loses something on the ground and gets weaker, its brutality increases."
Bhatti reported from Berlin


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Oh boy. Last time we saw the fan-made project looking to bring 1992's classic Genesis title Sonic 2 kicking and screaming into the 21st century was in 2008. Things have improved since then.
The game broke cover over the weekend for its full, proper reveal, complete with teaser trailer (below) and promise of an alpha release sometime in Q1 2011.
Since 2008 the project has been almost entirely re-worked, with a new engine leading to new art assets and an improvement in visuals we're all appreciative of.
This is the second fan-made effort to release a 2D Sonic the Hedgehog game we've seen in only a few months, both of which look a lot more promising than the disappointing Sonic 4.


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The unlikely companionship that developed amid the tombstones at a Kansas City cemetery between a stray dog and a motherless doe has ended.
The unnamed young female dog is now at Wayside Waifs while the deer is adapting to life without her faithful friend.
The doe, named Ella, and the Sharp Pei mix dog have been at each other's sides in the 43-acre Elmwood Cemetery for the last few months. Ella was born at the cemetery in late spring 2011. Her mother was later killed in a traffic crash. Ella has remained close to the cemetery, rarely venturing away and avoiding traffic on nearby Truman Road.
Then the female dog showed up in recent weeks and the two animals formed a close bond, which visitors to the cemetery chronicled through pictures and video. Some believed that the two should be kept together, either at the cemetery or a farm.
But cemetery officials feared that the dog wouldn't survive the winter without shelter and regular food and water. They didn't want to put out a doghouse or food for Ella's hound buddy, scared other less friendly dogs would show up and terrorize the deer.
As a result, cemetery officials contacted Wayside Waifs, a no-kill animal shelter in the Kansas City area, who agreed that the dog's future was in jeopardy. Workers went to the cemetery on Friday to assess situation, and then returned on Saturday.
Using treats, the workers were able to lure the dog into what Wayside Waif officials said was a humane trap.
And when workers returned, there was the doe keeping a nearby watch on her trapped pal.
"Ella was standing right by the van when the dog departed, looking kind of forlorn," John Weilert, president of the Elmwood Cemetery Society, told the Kansas City Star, KCTV5's reporting partner.
Elmwood trustee Bruce Mathews, who provided pictures of the duo to KCTV5, said it was extremely difficult to see the bond broken.
"It breaks my heart that they have to be separated, but they must," Mathews said in an email to friends of Elmwood. "Am I sorry they found each other? Absolutely not! I believe they became friends to teach us a lesson, however we each might interpret it."
Jennie Rinas, spokesman for Wayside Waif, said "it's a cute story" that has touched numerous people.
"A deer and a dog would be an unlikely pair living together in a cemetery of all places," Rinas said. "The reality is heading into winter that a deer is equipped better to survive in the wild. That's their natural habitat. It's not humane to leave a dog out without regular food or water. The best thing was to ensure it had warm shelter."
The female dog, which weighs between 25 and 30 pounds, was scanned for a microchip but one wasn't found. It has been vaccinated and given other treatments. The dog is 8 months to 1 year old.
As expected, the skittish and scared dog is struggling to adapt to an entirely new environment.
"The dog is very scared... The dog needs a lot of socialization," Rinas said. "We are going very slow. It's a shock to go from living out in the wild to a shelter in a few days."
Wayside Waifs hopes that the dog some day can be adopted by a loving family. But that is some time away.
Rinas said shelter workers are taking "it very slow" and being gentle with the dog, who may be called Elmwood in honor of the cemetery.
"There is no rush," Rinas said. "We are working toward a happy ending for all involved."
That wish for a happy ending for all involved includes Ella, who is clearly now missing her friend. Deer are pack creatures, so hopefully Ella finds new companionship. She also has her two-legged friends.
Cemetery officials said she has become a mascot for the cemetery, showing up at funerals, other events and tagging along on tours.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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As you move down and fill out the form, you'll note that you now have the opportunity to become a member for up to 6 years. This will only be for your SAfA membership and not your journals. Finally, some of the optional journal rates are dependent on your membership status. Please select your individual membership first (student, retired, African resident in Africa, regular). Once you do that, the correct optional journal rates will be displayed.
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Vara Prasad Arikatla
This page describes a former student worker. We're thankful for his contributions to the Digital Program.
Vara Prasad is working on his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, though he already has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Acharva Nagarjuna University, far far away in India.
Vara is very quiet and polite, always on time, dependable, a consistently high-preforming steady worker, and he gives great feedback. Vara is the one who brought it to our attention that the students were typing in hundreds of city names for the Railroad Timetables! When we first made the decision to include cities, the sample timetables we looked at had only a handful of cities! If he had not spoken up, we would have wasted tremendous manhours uselessly, so we are grateful for this kind of feedback. Vara's stellar work ethic features a meticulous attention to detail.
But don't let his intense focus fool you: he's also got a great sense of humor and a sharp wit.
Vara is wonderful at bringing issues to our attention, or problems that need resolving. Vara is one of the best!!


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Opportunity Commission
Nursing Facility Refused to Provide Reasonable Accommodation To Employee With Depression, Federal Agency Charged
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - GGNSC Charlotte Renaissance, LLC, a Delaware corporation, will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. GGNSC Charlotte Renaissance, LLC operates Golden LivingCenter-Dartmouth, a nursing home in Charlotte that provides care to persons who are mentally and physically disabled, ill and/or elderly.
According to the EEOC's suit, around April 25, 2009, Sandra Bagwell, who worked as a licensed practical nurse at the facility, was denied a medical leave of absence that she needed because of her disability, depression. The EEOC said that Bagwell had a major depressive episode which led to her being admitted to a local hospital and that on the same day, Bagwell's husband notified her supervisor that she needed to take a leave of absence. The agency further alleged that Bagwell had previously informed her supervisor that she suffered from depression. The center refused to approve Bagwell's request for a medical leave of absence as an accommodation for her disability and instead, fired her effective April 28, 2009, the EEOC said.
Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. GGNSC Charlotte Renaissance, LLC d/b/a Golden LivingCenter-Dartmouth, Civil Action No. 3:12-CV-00176) in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Charlotte Division, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to the $50,000 in damages, the two-year consent decree settling the suit requires that Golden LivingCenter-Dartmouth re-distribute and maintain its formal, written anti-discrimination policy. The policy includes, among other things, information on ADA requirements and the company's procedure for requesting leave based on an impairment or disability. The company must also provide annual training to its managers and department heads on the ADA and the ADA's prohibition against disability discrimination in the workplace. Golden LivingCenter Dartmouth must also post an employee notice concerning the lawsuit and concerning employees' rights under federal anti-discrimination laws, as well as provide periodic reports to the EEOC identifying individuals who request leave as an accommodation and the outcome of each individual's request.
"We are pleased that we were able to resolve this case without protracted litigation," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District Office. "This case should remind employers that inflexible leave policies may be in violation of federal law. Employers must always consider whether their leave policies are in alignment with the requirements of the ADA."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination. More information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Samuel L. Jackson considered auditioning for Star Wars VII
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- 14 November 2013
Samuel L. Jackson admits he considered auditioning for a role in 'Star Wars: Episode VII' he hasn't been approached by Director, JJ Abrams, for a part
Samuel L. Jackson considered auditioning for 'Star Wars: Episode VII'
The 64-year-old actor - who played the role of Mace Windu in a number of other 'Star Wars' movies - admits he almost considered turning up to the auditions, which are currently being held throughout the UK and US, to try out a role.
Speaking on 'The Late Show with David Letterman last night (13.11.13), he said: "I heard on television that they were auditioning people for 'Star Wars' and I said, 'well maybe we should just go to the auditions and see if we can get a job!'"
The 'Django Unchained' star claims neither him or his former co-stars Mark Hamill and Ewan McGregor have been approached by director JJ. Abrams for a part in the next installment.
He explained: "I pretty much hinted to JJ that I wanted to be in the film at George Lewis' wedding and he was kind of like 'mm' [nodding], that was about the most I got out of him.
"So maybe all three of us could just get together and go over to the star wars set one day and just kind of stand around and see if maybe they could use some old Jedi."


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To the tune of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland":
Dog tags ring, are you listening'?
In the lane, snow is glistening.
It's yellow, not white -- I've been there tonight,
Marking up my winter wonderland.
Smell that tree? That's my fragrance.
It's a sign for wandering vagrants;
"Avoid where I pee, it's my property.
Marked up as my winter wonderland."
In the meadow dad will build a snowman,
following the classical design.
Then I'll lift my leg and let it go, man,
So all the world will know it's mine-mine-mine!
Straight from me to the fence post,
flows my natural incense boast,
"Stay off of my turf, this small piece of earth,
I mark it as my winter wonderland."


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The latest matchup in the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry turned ugly when a fight broke out after a kick return. The fight, which included a few legitimate punches, led to three players being ejected.
Royce Jenkins-Stone of Michigan was ejected after he pulled off Dontre Wilson's helmet and threw it. Wilson could later be seen throwing a punch and was ejected. Marcus Hall of Ohio State was also ejected. As he was leaving the field he gave the Michigan fans two middle fingers.
Here is video of the fight. Two close-up GIFs can be seen below as well as Hall's middle finger salute.// OO.ready(function() { OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer', 'tuZGl4aDoCkXD1KBrO__Ge3LVV13yNib'); }); //
Here is Jenkins-Stone pulling off Wilson's helmet:
Here is Wilson (no. 1) throwing a punch:
And here is Hall as he was leaving the field:


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Haikou Banana International Youth Hostel
Haikou Banana Youth Hostel, on Hainan Island, offers accommodation including dormitory beds and private rooms.
Disponibilidad y preciosPara ver la disponibilidad y los precios, selecciona las fechas y pincha "Actualizar fechas"
Instalaciones & Políticas de Albergue
- Aire acondicionado
- Bar
- Barbacoa
- Alquiler de bicicletas
- Estacionamiento de bicicletas
- Intercambio de libros
- Desayuno no incluido
- Ventilador de techo
- Sala común
- Acceso gratuito a Internet
- Wifi gratuito
- Nevera/congelador
- Secadores de pelo
- Duchas de agua caliente
- Acceso a Internet
- Lavandería
- Incluye ropa de cama
- Taquillas
- Guardaequipajes
- Microondas
- Terraza al aire libre
- Mesa de billar
- Restaurante
- Mostrador de excursiones
- Toallas incluidas
- Lavadora
- WiFi
Política de cancelaciónEsta propiedad cuenta con una política de cancelación de 1 días. Si no se realiza la cancelación dentro de ese plazo se aplicará un recargo de anulación igual a la primera noche de tu estancia.
IndicacionesMostrar mapaOcultar mapa
Address: 6 Bieshu Liyuan Xiaoqu, 21 Renmin Dadao, Haidian Dao, Haikou Shi. 570208
Address & directions in Chinese:
Haikou Property is located in the North-East of Haikou City. We are on a large island called Haidian Dao (海甸岛).
We are located down an alley on Renmin Avenue (Chinese: Renmin Dadao 人民大道).
We are near to where Renmin Ave and San Lu (海甸三路) cross. On one corner of this crossing there is a Kentucky Fried Chicken. On another corner is a purple China EverBright Bank.
Make sure you are on the same side of the road as the EverBright Bank. Stand outside the bank facing the entrance, then turn to your left. Walk a few metres north and you will pass some restaurants on your right-hand side. Walk north about 100m until you reach Nanguo Supermarket, before Hainan Bank. In front of the supermarket is a bus stop. On the opposite side of the road there is a green China Post.
If facing the Nanguo supermarket you should see an alley on your left. Go in the alley, past the security gate. Haikou Property is about 50 metres along the path, behind the supermarket. We are the second villa on the left hand side and have a gray wall.
Important information if you get a taxi:
Not all taxi drivers know about us, so it is often easier to ask for the Kentucky Fried Chicken (Chinese: KenDaJi) on Renmin Dadao in Haidian Dao.
If you can speak some Chinese all you need to say is:
Haidian Dao, Renmin Dadao, Ken Da Ji.
Another useful tip for dealing with taxi drivers is to give them the Haikou Banana Property address. The taxi driver can then call the property to find directions.
Do not expect taxi drivers to be able to speak English!
***From Haikou Airport:
Taxi from the airport costs around 50 RMB. Make sure you bargain the price first. Or, take the airport bus to the airport hotel (MinHang BinGuan). Then change to the 19 bus, get off at JingHai HuaYuan on Renmin Road (near KFC).
***From Haikou West Train Station:
The train station is in the far west of the city. A taxi to the property will cost around ¥40.
***From Haikou East Station (High Speed Rail from Sanya or other parts of Hainan):
Get on buses 11, 23, or 44 at Shāngāo cūnkǒu bus stop (山高村口站) on Fngxing Road 凤翔路 (see map).
Get off bus at 'Jīng hǎi huāyun' bus stop (京海花园) on Rnmn Ave 人民大道.
Detailed bus directions:
Exit the Haikou East high speed train station.
Turn left (north) at the road in front of the station.
Walk about 100 metres north to the T junction.
Turn right (east) at the T junction to catch bus 44, heading east.
Or, Turn left (west) and cross over the road and catch bus 11 or 23, heading west.
Buses cost 1 RMB (put 1 RMB in slot next to driver).
Taxi: 25 RMB around 30 minutes.
***From South Bus Station (if coming from Sanya):
Taxi costs 25 RMB
***From Sea Ports (for buses from mainland):
Xingang Port ¥15 Taxi
Xiuying Port ¥30 Taxi
Haikou Banana Property GPS Co-ordinates:
Latitude: 20.055369
Longitude: 110.337973


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The Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse is a non-profit runs a variety of human powered boating programs for both kids and adults on the Brooklyn waterfront. We have a free kayaking program that puts nearly 4,000 people on the water. We have over 100 volunteers and in any given week, we might have 25 or 30 people staffing our program.
That presents quite a coordination problem that is only going to get worse as we scale--manually gathering responses, filling holes in our schedule, etc.
We'd like to great a simple tool that attaches to a gmail account that gathers replies by e-mail into a Google Sheet, and updates volunteers on our current staffing status.
Here's what would happen:
1) A note will go out saying "Hey, who wants to volunteer? What times can you come by?" We could either have specific slots that they could pick by number, or they might answer "Thursday, 5pm-7pm."
2) We'd like to gather all of their names, e-mails and phone numbers into a simple calendar page that shows a Gantt-like chart of the volunteers, and when they're staffing the program, and how many are present at any given time.
3) It would be amazingly cool if the chart were available in an image, so if someone got the e-mail on Monday, but ignored it until Wednesday, they'd see how many people have already signed up just by reopening the e-mail.
This would save our volunteer coordinator hours and hours, and undoubtedly be useful for lots of other volunteer coordination efforts. Any hacker interested in helping out over the next couple of weeks?
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How To Be Popular On The Internet
Today we're going to talk about what makes a successful blog post. Remember, it is very important to follow these instructions carefully, or else trolls may never find you and tell you how stupid you are.
Step 1:
Start with boobs.
Because an internet without boobs is like fingers without bones: Horrifying.
Step 2:
Add adorable animals, like:
And, of course, monkeys...
...with boobs.
Now that you've captured the attention of your audience, it's time to talk about something important and life changing.
You know, like Kim Kardashian's divorce:
And don't forget to sprinkle in a generous helping of "hip slang" for your peeps, yo!
"J... J... Jammin' on the one."
Finally, once you've wowed your audience with your insightful wisdom, it's time to leave them wanting more. If you have more boobs, now would be a good time to use them.
Unless they look like that.
If not, you can always say something about Justin Beiber:
Because love him or hate him, he is the internet.
That and boobs.
Thanks to Kristen M., Christina E., Kara A., Bethany M., Sarah H., Jill H., Zoe B., and Anony M., who would NEVER marry for a TV show or for money. Uh...right, guys?