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Ahmedabad: Gujarat BJP has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) that newly-formed Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) candidates should not be allowed to fight the polls using the symbol of a bat as it "violated" EC's instructions. (Agencies) Latest News from India News Desk
GPP is a party floated recently by BJP rebel and former chief minister Keshubhai Patel. The party was given the symbol of the bat by EC recently.
"GPP violated two EC provisions when it has been given a symbol of 'bat' to use in the elections," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman claimed.
"EC had given the symbol to GPP on the condition that it will field candidates in all 182 constituencies and submit form 'A' and 'B' required to file nomination papers of each candidate to the state chief electoral officer as well as to the Returning Officer of the constituency. However, GPP violated both conditions and so we have complained to EC regarding the issue," Sitharaman said.
"Our demand is that GPP candidates should be given individual symbols in each constituency as they failed to comply with EC instructions," she said.
BJP's legal cell head Parindu Bhagat said they have filed complaints with every Returning Officer of all constituencies going to polls in phase one and also with the state chief electoral officer's office in Gandhinagar.
Meanwhile, BJP also announced they will be holding rallies of Chief Minister Narendra Modi at 26 places simultaneously using 3D holographic technology on November 29.
Elections will be held in Gujarat in two phases on December 13 and December 17 while votes will be counted on December 20.

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BECHTELSVILLE, Pa. – Tim Buckwalter held off all challenges to win Wednesday's ARDC Midget Series feature at Grandview Speedway.
Twenty-eight ARDC Midgets took part in qualifying with Alex Bright, Jimmy Glenn and Brenden Bright winning the heats as Billy Pauch Jr. won the B Main. A twenty-six car field took the green flag in the 25 lap ARDC Midget feature.
Shawn Jackson was the early race leader, setting the pace for the first five laps with Steve Drevicki taking the lead on lap six. Tim Buckwalter was on his charge to the front, racing in second at the halfway mark. Making up the top five were Alex Bright, Steve Buckwalter and Jimmy Glenn.
On lap 16, race leader Steven Drevicki developed mechanical problems, coasting to a stop in turn one. On the restart, Tim Buckwalter inherited the lead with Alex Bright now in the chase and a fast closing Steve Buckwalter close enough to taste the win.
With the checker flag waiving, Tim Buckwalter took the victory over Alex Bright, Steve Buckwalter, Billy Pauch Jr. and Jimmy Glenn.


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WILLIAM HOOD is Mildred C. Jay Professor Emeritus of Art History at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, where he taught courses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, as well as in Spanish Art of the Golden Age, French Art of the Ancien Regime, and general courses in European art history and connoisseurship. In 2008-2010, he was Visiting Professor in Italian Renaissance Art History at Columbia University.
He has served as a Curatorial Consultant for the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Intermuseum Conservation Laboratory. He is a member of the Council for Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. He is a member of the College Art Association and the Renaissance Society of America.
Hood holds the Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, where he specialized in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, 17th- century art in France and Spain, and 18th-century European art more generally. In the 1970s he lived in Rome for an extended period as a Fellow of the American Academy, and returned for several years in the 1980s. As a Fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa Tatti he resided for several years in Florence during the late 1980s and 1990s. He is the author of Fra Angelico at San Marco and numerous articles on topics of Italian art from 1350 to 1650. He has lectured widely at museums such as the Metropolitan, the National Gallery, the Getty, the Frick Collection, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
William Hood has been able to share his great enthusiasm for lecturing on site in Europe with a number of travelers, including graduate and undergraduate students, as well as adults, privately and in groups. Teaching "on site," in fact, is his favorite of all professional activities. Close behind is the pleasure of offering individual consultation for art-lovers who want to improve their personal collections, whether modest or impressive.
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I have been to Lombard twice and by far one of the worst DMV's in the nation.
I first went to take my
I first went to take my driving test and I had to bring in proof of completion of the 6 hour drivers ed course. The man that was helping me said he was faxing it to the state so they can put in the computer. A couple months later I went back to retake the driving test. Little did i know that the state never received my proof of completion or they never entered it in so I was not able to take the test for a third time. This is absolutely ridiculous that the employees aren't competent enough to simply fax a paper or enter in the information that was given. I have a busy work schedule and you guys are seriously wasting my time. From now on I'm going to Schaumburg.
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I had a slim built, African American woman who wore short, curly weave as my driving examiner. The very moment I got into the car she started addressing me with an attitude simply because I had my indicator on. From that very minute, her disgusting personality started to surface! She completely insulted me referring to my driving like "a snail when I was pulling up in the parking lot with my dad to start the test". That woman began shouting at me as if I were a dog! Especially with the fact that she kept going around to all her coworkers in a boisterous manner telling them about my report. She even yelled at my father when he asked for my whereabouts. Shouting at him that he needs "to teach me more!" Who does that?? I made a remark about her to one of the staff, who did not seem surprised, and I was able to make a complaint to the manager.He did apologize but that, being my first experience, will forever be in my mind! I tell you her character is absolutely hideous! She spoke to me in such a condescending way. She needs to be retrained, better yet fired! She has no business at a dmv that has had lovely reviews for years. I would rather be exiled from this country than have her as an examiner again! Hideous, absolutely hideous! Never again! Something must be done about her!
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Can The Media Trust Paul Ryan?
Blog ››› ››› ERIC BOEHLERT
Hosting Rep. Paul Ryan on the Today show this week, Matt Lauer asked the Republican vice presidential candidate whether he would concede that some of the statements he made in his convention speech in Tampa last week "were not completely accurate."
Specifically, Lauer pressed Ryan on his controversial assertion suggesting president Obama was responsible for the closing of a General Motors plant in Janesville, WI., when in fact GM made the plant-closing announcement in June 2008, while President Bush was still in office. (The plant halted its production of SUVs in December 2008; also while Bush was in office.)
Ryan's easily debunked attack on Obama has put the candidate on the defensive. It's also sparked a debate within the media about fact-checking and how to cover candidates who campaign while aggressively removed from the truth.
And yet despite the GM controversy, and through the endless debunking, Ryan has remained loyal to the issue, even tweeting about the plant closing this week:
Questioned by Lauer about the controversy, Ryan's told him to go "read the speech," and then mounted this defense [emphasis added]
RYAN: What I was saying is, the president ought to be held to account for his broken promises. After our plant was shut down, he said that he would lead an effort to retool plants like the Janesville plant to get people back to work. It's still idle; people are still not working there.
But that's not what Ryan said in his speech last week.
In Tampa, Ryan quoted candidate Obama speaking at the auto plant on February 13, 2008, months before it was shut down. Then on Today, Ryan told Lauer he had referenced comments Obama made "after our plant was shut down." [emphasis added]
Hammered for dishonest comments he made in his convention speech about the closing of a GM plant, Ryan went on national television this week and compounded that dishonesty by revising what he said in his convention speech.
How is the press supposed to cover a post-truth politician like that? And should they trust Ryan's assertions in the future?
The first step for the press is to be diligent, which wasn't always the case while covering Ryan's plant-closing prevarications. As Bob Somerby noted at The Daily Howler, after Ryan appeared on Today, the show's website posted a report that promptly botched a key fact:
During his acceptance speech last week at the Republican National Convention, Ryan made a reference to a campaign visit that then-presidential candidate Obama made to a GM plant in Janesville, Wis. However, the plant had already been shut down when Obama paid the visit.
False. The plant had not been shut down when Obama visited in 2008, and claiming it had been completely confuses the issue of Ryan's remarks.
By contrast, the Boston Globe did a much better job holding Ryan accountable and pointing out his new explanation was at odds with what he actually said in his Tampa speech:
But in his speech, Ryan knocked Obama for statements he made before being elected president and before the plant shut down. He did not mention anything Obama said as president about getting people back to work after the plant closed.
Ryan's continued mishandling of the GM plant-closing story ought to signal to the press that it needs to treat the candidate's future claims with care.
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When it comes to throwing a fabulous baby shower, I prefer to focus on entertaining the mom-to-be, not the baby. Let's face it, it's a rough nine months….she deserves a party! So let the gifts be directed towards the baby, but cater the party details to a more mature audience!
I wanted to put an updated spin on the traditional stork themed shower, so we created a collection of paper goods around a sweet "French Stork", and incorporated a nautical-like color palette of aqua blue, navy and a touch of red. With all of the sweet decorations, it was almost like we were celebrating on the coast of France.
We carried the "Celebrate le Bebe" theme throughout the entire party, and used ribbons as a common accessory to create a cohesive look. We created flag garlands that hung down over the lunch table with ribbons, and they looks like sails from a sailboat. Our drink straws were dressed up with ribbon flags, and napkins were tied with the same ribbons.
The table sat center stage and was quite a showpiece. In addition to the flag garlands hanging down and defining a unique vertical space, we wrapped a collection of different bud vases with yarn to create a textured look. Crisp, white tulips and our stork centerpiece sticks filled in the table. Guests were greeted to an "appetizer" of mini donuts on a cupcake toppers as they were seated.
Like most parties, the dessert table served as a visual focal point for the party. Guests always delight in seeing the different themed desserts, and it also serves as a great ice breaker and conversation topic. For this particular table, I wanted it to look crisp and clean. I created a simple backdrop with a grosgrain ribbon-wrapped wreath and striped pennant banners draped on either side. A navy tablecloth really made the glass and all white serving dishes pop, and we also added in a couple of the yarn-wrapped vases to coordinate with the lunch table.
I used a variety of all white candy from Candywarehouse.com, including gumballs, rock candy, chocolate-covered pretzels, and sour daisies. The glass jars and tilt bowls were embellished with coordinating ribbon and candy jar tags identifing their contents.
Cake pops from Sweet Lauren Cakes featured the stork's sachel, a banner reminiscent of our invitation, and the words "le bebe" on them. To add some visual interest to the table, I stood them up in a white, footed bowl by Rosanna full of gumballs.
Allyson Jane made THE most precious hand-iced sugar cookies for this shower. She replicated our French Stork perfectly, and also made cookies that said "le bebe" on them.
To save time, and also keep the costs down, we mixed our designer desserts (the cake pops and cookies) with a couple grocery store finds. Store- bought cupcakes were dressed up with fondant toppers by Two Sugar Babies. They featured the stock satchel as well as the eiffel tower. I also created a powedered sugar donut "cake" on a mini cake pedestal. A banner topper that coordinated with our invitation stood atop it, and created an oh, so charming addition to the table.
My absolute favorite detail on the dessert table were the macaron rattles. These were very simple to make: I inserted a white macaron on either side of a 4″ white lollipop stick, and then wrapped the sticks in a skinny polka dot ribbon. They were DARLING and received many "oohs" and "ahhs!"
Candy jar tags and food tent cards helped brand the table, and we also carried the theme into the labels on our cracker party favors. All in all, this shower turned out to be a sophisticated take on a theme, and hopefully you will draw inspiration for many future parties.
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Postgame blog: Niklas Backstrom's big night, Nino Niederreiter's response and thoughts on the Western Conference
Hello and good evening from the basement of MTS Centre here in Winnipeg where it hasn't quite hit me that it's 7:30 p.m. as I'm writing this, not 11:30 like usual.
Tonight the Wild overcame a ton of adversity and pulled out a win despite being extremely outplayed for the first 20 minutes. Nino Niederreiter made it a 1-1 game early in the third period and Zach Parise made it a 2-2 game with a shorthanded goal with 4 minutes, 55 seconds remaining. And Charlie Coyle and Mikko Koivu potted shootout attempts to give them the win. Coyle's was the second shootout attempt of his career and the first one he made. It was pretty nice. Watch it here.
I've already written about seemingly every angle for the website and Sunday paper, but we'll continue with more here. Thanks to the early game (a 2 p.m. start), I've had plenty of time to flush out full thoughts for the paper and online. I'll link to all that here once it's posted. Regardless, here's tonight's three thoughts.
1) Niklas Backstrom was incredible. It's hard to fathom just how good he was when considering all the circumstances. Ten days ago, he took an elbow to the head and suffered the first concussion of his career. He's only practiced once since then and was preparing to back up. But during warm-ups, Josh Harding slipped on a puck and left with a lower body injury. Coach Mike Yeo didn't have an update on his status after the game, but assumed to he was day-to-day.
Backstrom gave the Wild a chance to win this one though. He stopped 14 shots in the first period when the Wild were at their worst. They recorded just four shots all period and went more than 11 minutes without recording a shot on goal.
"If it weren't for Backstrom, it really could have gotten out of control in a hurry," Parise said. "He really stepped it up. We could have been down, 3- 4- 5-nothing after the first period. He made some unbelievable saves and I guess we kind of woke up a little bit after the first period and had a better start to the second and played better as it went on. But that wasn't the ideal start. We were lucky to get out of there 0-0."
Backstrom, not surprisingly, downplayed what it was like starting under those circumstances.
"It's fun to get in there and get into the game right away," he said. "You don't really have that much time to think, you just go out there and play. I think this way it's good to get some shots and feel the puck."
2. Niederreiter responded. The winger played just seven shifts in the first two periods.
"We didn't put him out there much to try to get his attention," Yeo said.
The coaching staff must have been pretty upset to limit his playing time that much because remember, they only had 11 forwards suited up because Mikael Granlund didn't play (upper body injury, expected to practice Sunday). So limiting Niederreiter that much was essentially playing with 10 forwards for long stretches. Niederreiter started the third period, though, on the top line — Yeo said he wanted to give him another chance and wanted a big body to get to the net for Parise and Koivu. On his second shift with them, he scored the Wild's first goal, fittingly in front of the net.
3) The Western Conference continues to be a mess. You have to win to keep up. It's hard to believe, really. The top eight teams in the West would be in first place in the East if their current point totals carried over. I thought Parise put it best tonight.
"You're going to stress yourself out looking at that," he said of the standings. "Sometimes you go to bed in second place and wake up in ninth. It's unbelievable."
I'll write more about it tomorrow, but the Wild have a huge stretch of games coming up. For the first time since the first two games of the season, they play the West's best teams in a stretch. Their next four games are against teams in the top-8 spots in the NHL (and, of course, the West) and five of their next six games are against teams from that category. That's part of why tonight was important to win — because victories are going to be tougher to come by in the next two weeks.
That's it for me tonight. This is the spot where I usually tell you about the wake up call that I have to set for four hours from now. I'm still on a crazy-early flight, but, hey, it's only 7:30. Plenty of time to sleep. Or not. We'll see.


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MPS History and Evolution
The Model Progression Specification (MPS) was pioneered by Vico and Webcor, refined by the technology subcommittee of the AIA California Council's IPD Task Force, and was adopted by the AIA in late 2008. It is also known as the AIA E202. Since then, we at Vico have refined the approach twice. Version 3 of the MPS was developed to further hone virtual construction planning and eliminate the fractal tree effect of countless stages and their aspect/class iterations.
First and foremost, the MPS strives to unite all the project shareholders around a building plan. Just as you would not develop ten different ways to construct columns on your project, you would not model the same column ten different ways in your BIM. Secondly, the MPS recognizes that there can and should be many more model versions than traditional design phases. These model versions need to add information richness to the project and therefore, need to be planned to support the decision making process for that stage. Thirdly, some portions of the project will be more difficult to model than others. Some systems will be developed earlier and some later. This is not a problem as long as all parties understand the level of detail pace. And finally, many teams are working together from different geographies, so enhanced communication and planning means no balls are dropped and items don't fall through the cracks.
As we have said before, you do not need to plan your virtual construction project if you are simply using a BIM model for visualization. But if you want to use the BIM model(s) for coordination, scheduling, and estimating, then the MPS is essential.
As we started working with more and more builders on what had become the second incarnation of the MPS (or MPS 2.0 to use software-speak), we learned that each Aspect traditionally develops its Class over time. But what we found was that we need to tie their progression together as Target LODs (level of detail).
The Target LODs are then assigned to Building Element Categories per Stage to show the desired information richness for that point in the project (see below).
In the latest MPS 3.0, we incorporated goal matching Primitives should be select per Building Element Category to reduce the number of element definitions required.
These Primitives are then used by design, estimating and scheduling teams to define the 3D content warehouse, 4D task list, and 5D cost assemblies for that project Stage.
Here's a Primitive example for a Solid Wall:
Caption: This level of detail modeling guide defines the modeler's responsibility for diversification, geometry, penetrations, and connections for each progression. Note, too, that requirements are also laid out for the estimating and scheduling teams.
The MPS has certainly come a long way since we started 5D content planning in 2005 and its adoption into the first version of the AIA E202 contract in 2008.
If you are creating more than just 2D documents from your model MPS is a must have.
We also support the MPS process with a one-and-a-half day MPS 3.0 Workshop, to get each BIM project started in the right direction with a detailed modeling plan which complements the work you've done with your BIM Execution Plan.
The MPS is a meaty topic. To learn more, please navigate through these additional resources:
Webpage: The History and Evolution of the MPS
Webpage: MPS Terms and Definitions
Webpage: What is the BIM Level of Detail?
Webpage: The MPS as Sheet Music for an Orchestra
Webpage: What Is a Purpose-Built BIM Model?
Webpage: Who is Authoring the BIM Model?
Webpage: What You Need in Your Virtual Construction Toolkit
Webpage: Rollout the MPS to a New Project
Webinar: Webcor and the MPS
Webinar: Using the Content Plan and MPS
Webinar: Understanding the Model Progression Specification
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WOODSTOCK is ready to rock out this weekend for a free festival in the town square.
About 3,000 people are expected to enjoy music from 18 bands in the Market Place on Saturday and Sunday.
They will cover a mix of genres, including folk, jazz, classical, reggae, ska and rock.
Organiser Chris Baylis, who will open the event on Saturday as guitarist in band tp and woodman, said: "We're hoping for great music, crowds and atmosphere.
"It's all about giving people in the town centre the chance to listen to music, including some they maybe wouldn't usually listen to.
"We always try to put on a really eclectic mix of genres, with everything from a violin player who sings with voice effects to an 18-piece band to an acoustic duo."
The event started nine years ago at The Marlborough Arms in Oxford Street but was moved to the town square in its third year.
It costs £3,000 to host and organisers raise funds from its pop-up festival bar.
Witney band Leader, formerly Million Faces, will headline on Saturday with pop-rock anthems and ska band The Inflatables top the bill on Sunday.
Performances take place from 1pm to 10pm each day, also including Cooper Black, KingB and Screaming Weazels. There will also be food stalls and festival menus from bars and restaurants in the town.
Nikki Loy, from Ickford, near Thame, will perform on Sunday for the fifth time.
She said: "I love playing there because it's a really nice crowd, which grows throughout the afternoon."
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On her journey to success, Marie Marquis is taking a short trip back home. The Fulton soprano, on break from pursuing her master's degree at New York's Bard College's Graduate Vocal Arts Program, is performing with a classmate tonight at the Link Centre.
"My friend Kameryn (Lueng) approached me and she was like, 'How about doing a recital tour?'" Marquis said. "I thought it was a great idea, because I love sharing music with people."
The pair, accompanied on piano by Mei-En Chou, will perform in Tupelo tonight and in Lueng's hometown of Pineville, La.
Lueng and Marquis' program includes, as the title says, "songs of love and loss."
"We just picked out music that we like," she said. "We have some love songs and we have some songs about love that's lost."
Pieces from the program include Debussy's "Pantomime," Menotti's "Hello, Hello" from "The Telephone," Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You" and the gospel hymn "His Eye Is On the Sparrow."
Marquis has earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody and a Bachelor of Arts degree in French language and literature from Johns Hopkins University. She has also studied music, literature and art in Paris. She has one year left in her graduate program.
Lueng has performed all over the world and her roles include the maid in the world premiere of "Four Sisters," an opera by Elena Langer and librettist John Floyd Davies; Lucy in "The Telephone"; and Madame Herz in "The Impresario."
"After the recital (Lueng) will be doing a mission trip in Kenya and then flying to France to sing, and I'll be going to Canada in July to sing," Marquis said.
After Marquis completes her final year at Bard, she hopes to continue learning.
"I'll be doing auditions for the next year. I'm applying for a grant to study in France, so I'll be working on that over the summer," she said. "Then I guess, more school and more young artist programs."
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Posted By Alissa Trotz On July 30, 2012 @ 5:01 am In In The Diaspora | No Comments
It is now twelve days since the first of five days of community protest in Linden, when teargas and live rounds were fired into crowds of unarmed women, children and men, killing three men and injuring 20. Since then, the community has widened the scope of its demands to include justice for those murdered and wounded on July 18th, and protests in solidarity with Linden have been held not only inGeorgetown, but in the diaspora as well.
On Saturday night, a vigil attended by about 100 persons, holding placards and candles, was held in Toronto, Canada, at Queens Park, where the legislative assembly of Ontario's provincial government is located. Several Lindeners, young and old, were among those who spoke during the open mike session. Among the points made were that when the police attacked protestors on July 18th, they were in fact disregarding the fundamental rights of Lindeners and all Guyanese, as guaranteed by the Constitution of Guyana, to freedom of assembly, association and demonstration. The crowd was reminded that Lindeners' objection to the steep hike in electricity rates, imposed without proper and meaningful consultation with the community, also falls well within the ambit of Article 13 of Guyana's Reform Constitution which in fact calls for participatory development: "The principal objective of the political system of the State is to establish an inclusionary democracy by providing increasing opportunities for the participation of citizens, and their organisations in the management and decision¬making processes of the State, with particular emphasis on those areas of decision¬making that directly affect their well-being." People were urged to seek out the information and facts about the electricity rates in Linden for themselves, to understand what the issues were. So for example, when the state-owned newspaper runs letters and editorials that seem to suggest that Lindeners are a bunch of freeloaders, remember that this is a community that once provided some 90% of the world's calcined bauxite, and think about the fact that bauxite remains one of Guyana's largest foreign exchange earners, even though the community does not appear to reap the benefits of this. Or when you are told that the story is simply that Lindeners are refusing to pay the same rate as other 'ordinary' Guyanese and this is unfair, dig deeper below the surface of these soundbites.
Find out if this is what Lindeners are truly saying. Find out if Lindeners receive electricity from the same national grid as most other Guyanese. Ask about all of the bauxite related properties – including some in Georgetown – that were procured through the sweat of workers in Linden and that have since been sold off, and ask where the monies have gone, and how much of those monies have returned to the community. Ask about what happened to the power plant thatLinden once had. Standing with Linden means taking the time to properly educate ourselves on the issues. And even if you disagree, it must be an informed and not an ignorant position.
A section of the London, UK, protest
At the end of the evening, a resolution was read out and unanimously approved by the gathering:
"We, Guyanese and other citizens of the Greater Toronto Area, gathered on Saturday July 28, 2012, at Queen's Park, Toronto, at a vigil held in sympathy with the families and friends of the three dead (Shemroy Bouyea, Allan Lewis and Ron Somerset) and other victims of the shooting by members of the Guyana Police Force on July 18, 2012, at Linden, Guyana, hereby demand:
(a) that an impartial commission be appointed by the Guyana government to conduct a full and proper investigation into this callous and wanton killing of peaceful protestors as urgently as possible;
(b) the immediate removal from office of those
persons whose presence can compromise the collection and preparation of material evidence related to such an enquiry;
(c) that measures be taken within the Government, and the Police Force, to eliminate the possibility of the recurrence of such incidents;
We further state our intention to con-tinue our support for the people of Linden, and to monitor the actions of the Guyana government until this matter is justly resolved."
Vigils and protest actions have also taken place in New York. And in London, UK, a demonstration was organized in support of Linden on July 25th, which was called by Global Women Strike, joined by Caribbean Labour Solidarity and concerned individuals.
Nicola Marcus who has been organising vigils and other support in Georgetown said: "When I saw the photographs of the demo (London) I felt as if those protesting were right here – they had all the names of the people who were murdered and those who were injured. I felt moved by that. I said to one of the other women in Red Thread – I'm sure there are many people in Guyana who don't know all those names and look! – here are people from all over the world, in London, for whom each of those women, men and children is important. When I reported on the demo at a vigil in Buxton on Thursday to the over 1000 women, men and children there all I heard was "Wow!" – and I felt even more moved. I used that to say to the vigilers that the struggle is not only in Linden, and if people from all those places, based in London, of all races, women and men, could see that, we must see it too".
The press release issued by the Global Women Strike (GWS) declared solidarity with Lindeners, and also connected what is happening in Guyana with the struggles of communities in Latin America and around the world, an important point that was also made by a Chilean/Mozambican woman at Saturday's Toronto vigil. The GWS statement, titled 'Demonstration to defend Linden, Guyana & Condemn Police Murder' reads as follows:
A protest was held in support of the people of Linden, outside Guyana's High Commission in London, called by Global Women's Strike, and joined by Caribbean Labour Solidarity and concerned individuals. A lively, multi-racial crowd of women and men from 20 countries held a spirited demonstration outside Guyana's High Commission in London on 25 July, in support of the people ofLinden. On 18 July police had opened fire on a peaceful protest, brutally killing three people and injuring 20. Lindeners protesting 800% increases in the cost of electricity to the community, had organised a five-day community shut-down of the city, including industry, and road blocks. Since the shootings, the shut-down continues, and international outrage and support from around the world is growing for Lindeners who are demanding the scrapping of the price hike, prosecution of the killers, and the resignation of the Home Affairs Minister.
It seems like this state violence against the right to protest is how the 1% plans to stop communities globally from getting our entitlements. Protests have been called in the US in solidarity with protests in Georgetown, called by Red Thread, a multi-racial grassroots women's organisation. Whatever solidarity Linden needs we will aim to do, locally and internationally.
The London protest was called by Global Women's Strike, Caribbean Labour Solidarity, and concerned individuals. A placard with the names of those killed and injured in Linden was central, and condolences went out to the families. Chants included: "We are all Lindeners", "Linden Today – London Tomorrow", "No Divide and Rule: Afro, Indo, Indigenous, all of us together," and "Justice forLinden."
Chhattisgarh Women's Organisation (India) sent a message of support, and Selma James described how imperial powers had provoked divisions between races to undermine Guyana's independence struggle. Many Guyanese Londoners responded to the call, along with Londoners from across the Caribbean – Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica; plus people from Argentina, Bolivia, Congo, Cyprus, DRC (Congo), Eritrea, India, Italy, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tamil Eelam, Zimbabwe, US.
A former bauxite worker from Linden said "the area has a long history of struggle, and people won't give up" The Tamil Women's Organisation spoke of the tens of thousands of Tamils killed in Sri Lanka, and a large contingent from All African Women's Group joined in enthusiastically with the chanting. One of their members compared the robbery of Africa's resources with the theft of minerals by the same multinationals in Guyana and how many African women had fled shootings and rape by police and soldiers only to be denied protection by the British government. A US trade unionist, called for support for Linden's general strike. He said the cheaper price of electricity in Linden was won through wage negotiations between the bauxite owners and the union. Through this massive electricity price increase, the Government and the new multi-national owners are reneging on that long-standing bargain.
A Bolivian man spoke about the struggle for resources going on all over South America, and said that the continent must act as one. An Argentinean woman spoke about police killings in the UK – 1500 people have died in police custody, including Mark Duggan, and Jean Charles de Menezes brutally shot, and Ian Tomlinson whose killer was recently acquitted of manslaughter.
She said the organizing in Linden strengthens us here. A young man called for support of a Tamil hunger strike outside Olympic stadium.
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Pittsburgh teen, DeVaughn Robinson, places third in national August Wilson Monologue Contest
May 11, 2011 4:00 AMDeVaughn Robinson, a freshman at Winchester Thurston High School in Pittsburgh, came in third in the national August Wilson Monologue Contest finals Monday night at Broadway's August Wilson Theater in New York City.
He delivered the same speech by Sterling from "Radio Golf" that wowed the judges in the regional contest in Pittsburgh
The winner was Johari Mackey from Chicago, who delivered a speech by Berneice from "The Piano Lesson," and second place went to Aubrey Taylor from Seattle, who did a speech by the title character in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
On return to Pittsburgh yesterday, DeVaughan, 15, said of being among the winners: "I felt shock more than anything. I totally wasn't expecting to win anything. I was up there to take in the experience."
His prizes include a partial scholarship to Point Park University, the complete works of August Wilson, $250 and a plaque.
He had to hold his own in a field of 18 finalists, three coming from each city entered in this year's contest -- Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York and Seattle, in addition to Pittsburgh. He was the only freshman in the group, which comprised students of African-American, Caucasian and Asian backgrounds.
This third national contest "was the most competitive and the most culturally diverse -- it was a great evening," said contest organizer Kenny Leon of Atlanta's True Colors Theatre Company, Mr. Wilson's most recent Broadway director.
A starry panel of judges included Maurice Hines, Pauletta Washington (wife of Denzel Washington who just played Mr. Wilson's Troy Maxson on Broadway), Katori Hall, Homestead native Tamara Tunie ("Law & Order: SVU") and Sharif Atkins ("White Collar").
Additional entertainment was provided by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Brenda Pressley and Albert Jones, who performed a montage called "Impulse to Song," drawn from the 10 plays in Mr. Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle by his long-time associate, Pittsburgher Todd Kreidler. There was also a musical performance by Guy Davis.
Pittsburgh's other two finalists were Heaven Bobo from West Mifflin High School and Emily Kolb from Pittsburgh CAPA. All 18 students spent some time hearing about Mr. Wilson and his work from Mr. Leon and Mr. Kreidler, and they also talked with his widow, Constanza Romero.
They went to an exhibit of the work of Romare Bearden, an important influence on Mr. Wilson, and they saw "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and met its star, Daniel Radcliffe. They even had breakfast at Mr. Wilson's regular Broadway hangout, the coffee shop of the Edison Hotel.
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John Dube, International Union of Operating Engineers Local 882B service representative, casts his ballot during his union's strike vote held Jan. 27. The union represents 105 to 110 city workers in Williams Lake.
The union representing city workers in Williams Lake has voted 95 per cent in favour of going on strike.
"We had high voter turn out. It's a strong message our members want to send to management," John Dube, Union of Operating Engineers 882B service representative said Sunday evening half an hour after a day of voting by members closed at the Coast Fraser Inn.
The next step for the union will be to go to the Labour Relations Board because the employer plans to ask for a mediator, Dube said.
"We are not in favour of going with a mediator," he added.
If the union does decide to go on strike, it will have to serve the city 72 hours notice.
Previously Dube told the Tribune there are between 105 and 110 union employees working for the city.
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Meni! I have a VHS of highlights of Broken Arrow in 1994 if you are interested...and the price is right.
I am setting the price at a grilled cheese, I don't have a VCR anymore, so it really is no good to me.
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I used to wonder why so many people made fun of you, Meni.
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Ignore them, menu!
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You know Meni, if you could mix your spare AD video with the Stripper Takes a Dive video you might have something.
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damn, this thread had potential. then it kinda fizzled.
Meni, this kind of thing just doesn't happen to Christians. I think this is a sign to become a believer. I would do it ... fast.
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Isaac was a pain. Sucker just sat there. OK I am ok no problems what so ever. Somewhere into it i learned we had over nine inches of rain and we still had a day of rain to go. Total i dont know. Rivers here I have never seen this high. Just got power back. I think we have been on gen power for 3 1/2 days. Not too sure, its all a blur. I have learned much from this experiecnce and plan to share with you all. Because when shtf it will come in handy. Ok i have to make some rounds be back. Oh tomorrow i am headed to the MS gulf coast for my inspection for a repair. Some parts around NO hit hard, I mean hard. Some of these folks are above sea level and under water. Plaqumines parish hit real hard on both sides of the river. On the east side i have a new fence at a correctional filicity that is 98% finished I hope nothing happened to it. It will be a while before i can get there the roads are not passible as of yet. ta ta for now
Cycloneman, Good to see you back and happy to hear that everyone is safe. It sounds like it was a real pain, but it could have been worse.
The crazy's are out. I was in bed eariler but not now. My mother and father live right next door a stones throw from me. 50 feet no more than that. Remember we are on 6 acres. Yesterday my parents walk out their home and look over the property. They get into their car and a man is upon them at the car door. He must have been hiding behind one of the garages. You have to understand we live in the country. No one and i mean no one comes up to our property. This guy tells my parents a line of crap and he is about 6' 3" and missing teeth. He proceeds to walk a fence line between my neighbor and i and then walks towards the back and disappears. Tonight just a while a go my daughter goes outside for a smoke. She gets up on her car trunk and a man is in her sight not 75 feet away and aproaching her. He came from the back on my uncles property. She high tailed it into the house locked the door and started screaming. I was in bed and jumped up and loaded the ar next to my bed. Went outside and no sign of the guy. He was wearing a blue hoodie and he was a good 6'. Police came and we searched the woods as best as we could. On the back road we found a car parked with a guy sleeping in it. His story pans out and probably just a coincedence. he lives 2 blocks away and was sleeping in the car to avoid a fight at his house where he has family over for the storm. His descripton does not fit that of the guy my daughter saw. Anyway this guy had to come up and cross a 2 acre lot in the dead of night and dark. No lights back there. She only saw him when he came into the light. We are on full alert tonight and from here on. The last time we had katrina the same kind of bs happened for a couple of weeks. Ghost where they should not be.
Glad you got thru the hurricane OK. Now ya gotta keep your eyes open for another type of danger! Stay safe!
Cycloneman I was on the phone with Sam Yesterday and ask if he had heard from you. He said not. I had told him I was going to PM you because I knew you were in the path of Isaac. So I am real glad to hear that you are safe and hopefully out of harms way. We had it pretty rough over here on the MS Gulf Coast also. I am just North of Interstate 10, maybe one mile. Got a lot of Blow and over 17 inches of rain. I spent all day yesterday cleaning up the yard and mowing, whew! glad that's over.
I wish that storm would of went more southwest in Texas. Im not talking about the violence of the storm but atleast alot of rain although we got about a 1/2" of rain yesterday , its still not enough although they are forecasting a wet fall this year
glad to hear u are ok !! We used to live on the river back in Mo. after a bit of water again one yr my parents decided we needed to move above the high water mark,, cause they couldnt afford the "gill" transplants for all us rug rats. LOL,, take care and keep your powder dry


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Content enrichment through dynamic annotation
Weir, G.R.S. and Lepouras, G. and Vassilakis, C. (2004) Content enrichment through dynamic annotation. In: 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2004, 2004-04-14 - 2004-04-17.
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This paper describes a technique for interceding between users and the information that they browse. This facility, that we term 'dynamic annotation', affords a means of editing Web page content 'on-the-fly' between the source Web server and the requesting client. Thereby, we have a generic way of modifying the content displayed to local users by addition, removal or reorganising any information sourced from the World-Wide Web, whether this derives from local or remote pages. For some time, we have been exploring the scope for this device and we believe that it affords many potential worthwhile applications. Here, we describe two varieties of use. The first variety focuses on support for individual users in two contexts (second-language support and second language learning). The second variety of use focuses on support for groups of users. These differing applications have a common goal which is content enrichment of the materials placed before the user. Dynamic annotation provides a potent and flexible means to this end.
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Jean Frederic Chapuis skied calmly through the chaos to take freestyle ski cross gold at the Sochi Games today and lead France to their first Winter Olympics podium sweep.
Arnaud Bovolenta took silver and Jonathan Midol won bronze after the fourth finalist, Canada's Brady Leman, crashed out on the penultimate jump.
It was the second 1-2-3 in the freestyle skiing at the Extreme Park after the Americans swept the slopestyle event, and gave France a total of 14 medals in Sochi, their best tally at a Winter Games.
World champion Chapuis, who has dual nationality and raced for Switzerland in Alpine skiing before switching sports and countries in 2010, had shown good form all day.
Fourth fastest in the morning seedings run, the 24-year-old led Midol through from their round of 16 heat and the pair repeated the one-two in their two subsequent races to secure berths in the final.
Bovolenta came through the bottom half of the draw with Leman and made a good start in the final, edging ahead of Chapuis before being hauled in by the world champion.
When Chapuis got in front, he never looked like being caught and once Leman, who missed out on skiing at the Vancouver Games after breaking his leg on the eve of the contest, had fallen, the French sweep was on.
Although Midol's ski made contact with that of Leman before the fall, the Canadian had earlier similarly taken out Swiss favourite Alex Fiva in the first round of heats.
Having tangled with Leman, Midol, whose world championship silver medallist brother Bastien was ruled out of the Games by a serious back injury, looked unlikely to catch Bovolenta and the trio settled for staying upright over the final jump.
Semi-finalist Armin Niederer apart, it was a miserable day for the strong Swiss team.
Defending champion Michael Schmid, who has had three ruptured anterior cruciate ligaments since winning gold in Vancouver, sustained another knee injury last Sunday and did not start.
Fiva, the 2012/13 overall World Cup champion, was struggling with his back and failed to complete the seeding run before being taken out while leading by Leman.
As usual in the rough and tumble of the most unpredictable freestyle event, there were plenty of crashes and Fiva was by no means the only leading skier to go out early.
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What an impressive and colorful'Toon! Our rascal leadership has thrown our nation overboard, and I suppose we are depicted somewhere near the bottom of J.C.'s Red Sea.
Not confident, but I hope someday citizens can still draw breath, part the Red Sea, and remove all politicians & special interest cohorts who sold out their country. We need Moses, a working-class deliverer.
Hey Mr. Cole,
I think you could have made the cartoon with Mayor Doherty and Mrs. Evans. What's happening with our Federal Government is the same thing happening with our Local Government in Scranton. Don't you think?


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By Andreana Reale
March 26, 2010
Every year in Melbourne, on the Sunday before Easter, we have the Palm Sunday Peace March. Some years we fill a block or two of the main drag in Melbourne; other years it's just a handful and a megaphone borrowed from some political group. I like the eclectic mix that makes up the Palm Sunday Peace March—old lady Catholics in rainbow-colored clothes, university students with messy hair and lots of badges, aging socialists with worn red banners. Often members of clergy stroll along with the crowd, hands clasped neatly behind their backs.
I like marking Palm Sunday in this way. There is not normally any ritual attached to Palm Sunday—unlike the way we share communion the following Friday, or exchange eggs the next week. Yet for me, the story behind Palm Sunday marks one of the most significant moments within the four gospels.
Jesus enters Jerusalem mounted on a donkey, while lots of people make a pathway for Him using their coats and palm branches. The story is so important to the life and ministry of Jesus that it's one of the few stories that makes its way into all four gospels (Mt 21; Mk 11; Lk 19.18; Jn 12.12). Perhaps it deserves a little more of our time?
To understand the Palm Sunday story, we have to understand that it doesn't end there! In all gospels but John, the entrance into Jerusalem is followed by the famous "turning the tables" scene. Jesus goes into the Temple in Jerusalem and drives out the traders and moneychangers, turning over their tables. And of course, the story doesn't end there either—for not so long after, Jesus is executed.
What does all this mean? It helped me to understand that Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem actually echoes a custom that would have been familiar to people living in the Greco-Roman world, when the gospels were written.
Simon Maccabeus was a Jewish general who was part of the Maccabean Revolt that occurred two centuries before Christ, which liberated the Jewish people from Greek rule. Maccabeus entered Jerusalem with praise and palm leaves—making a beeline to the Temple to have it ritually cleansed from all the idol worship that was taking place. With the Jewish people now bearing the brunt of yet another foreign ruler (this time the Romans), Jesus' parade into Jerusalem—complete with praise and palm leaves—was a strong claim that He was the leader who would liberate the people.
Except that in this case, Jesus isn't riding a military horse, but a humble donkey. How triumphant is Jesus' "triumphant entry"—on a donkey He doesn't own, surrounded by peasants from the countryside, approaching a bunch of Jews who want to kill Him?
And so He enters the Temple. In the Greco-Roman world, the classic "triumphant entry" was usually followed by some sort of ritual—making a sacrifice at the Temple, for example, as was the legendary case of Alexander the Great. Jesus' "ritual" was to attempt to drive out those making a profit in the Temple.
The chaotic commerce taking place—entrepreneurs selling birds and animals as well as wine, oil and salt for use in Temple sacrifices—epitomized much more than general disrespect. It also symbolized a whole system that was founded on oppression and injustice.
In Matthew, Mark and John, for example, Jesus chose specifically to overturn the tables of the pigeon sellers, since these were the staple commodities that marginalised people like women and lepers used to be made ritually clean by the system. Perhaps it was this system that Jesus was referring to when He accused the people of making the Temple "a den of robbers" (Mt 21.13; Mk 11.17; Lk 19.46).
Jesus' words and actions remind us of Jeremiah, a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He relates these words:
"Do not trust in deceptive words and say, 'This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!' If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave to your forefathers for ever and ever." (Jer 7.4-7) (NIV)
And he goes on to write, "Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord." (Jer 7.11).
Jesus has been watching. The turning of the tables is a premeditated symbolic action signalling that this unjust system needs to end.
So what, then, do we make of this story, its celebration so close to Easter? Could there be more to the beginning of the Easter story than remembering Christ as simply a "sacrificial lamb"?
Last year on Palm Sunday, people who believed in peace—Christian and otherwise—gathered at the State Library, which is the usual place Melbournians meet for social and political actions. A police car or two quietly rolled beside us as we marched along the street.
A tinny voice broke through the Sunday traffic: "Peace is possible!"
"End the waste of war!" we all replied. Impassioned we were, but perhaps not all that triumphant.
We arrived at Bourke Street Mall, which is a key shopping area in the city. Somebody called out the names of countries at war, and each time a place was read out, a person would fall to the ground as a way to symbolize the deaths inherent in these systems of war.
I lay on the cold concrete, while shoppers passed by. After a while we got up, brushed our pants clean and kept marching. Our symbolic action was finished.
We weren't arrested and we certainly weren't executed—unlike Jesus, who turned the tables and confronted the systems that oppress the poor and dishonor God's name, to the point of death.
Andreana Reale is a writer, researcher and member of an intentional Christian community in Melbourne, Australia. She has a special interest in radical discipleship, sexuality and aid and development.
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Interesting. It's too often that one part of Christ's journey is ignored as another is celebrated. We throw the palm leaves in the aisle every Palm Sunday, but how often do we re-enact the over turning of the tables of the money changers. The above is an interesting response to Christ's acts. While it may not be the preferred actions for every believer, perhaps the lesson here is that living like Christ requires standing against injustice. What if we each took the time at some point between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday to stand against an injustice we perceive. I doesn't have to be as big as a protest. Maybe write a congress person or volunteer at a local shelter.
I think it's important also to remember the significance of where the items were being sold. That area of the temple, the courtyard, was the place where Gentiles could gather to hear the Word of the Lord. Jesus cleansing of the temple isn't only about correcting the wrong in the worlds but reaching the lost who need it.
Really great article, thank you so much for blessing my day with it!
Great article. It is important to identify correctly who it is that Jesus is identifying as the culprits in the temple. The merchants and money changers doing business in the temple had to have special permission to be there. That permission would only be able to be granted by the Priests. How do you suppose the priests would allocate the scare space available in the temple for such transactions? Surely they would require a bribe from the merchant. In economics we call this "rent seeking." The opening of the temple to buying and selling mixed market ethics with religious ethics. Usually that does not go well, especially if there is power ascribed to the religious element. It was the priests who were at fault here, and Jesus' actions would no doubt be interpreted this way by those priests. They were enjoying a monopoly on commerce in a place where there was also a mandate for people to buy. Who could imagine a better situation?
Markets are not bad. Merchants are not bad. Markets mixed with power have awful results, and this is an excellent example.
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Washington & Jefferson concluded its regular season Sunday with its eighth-consecutive victory, 7-4 over host Penn State-Behrend.
First baseman Tyler Schultz led W&J (27-11) by going 2-for-5 with three RBI and a run scored. Scott Brady and Derek McIlvaine each scored two runs.
After falling behind 1-0, the Presidents scored five times in the third inning. Schultz had a two-run single in the big inning.
Mike Vizzini threw three innings of relief for his fourth win of the season. He allowed one earned run on three hits.
W&J will host the double-elimination Presidents' Athletic Conference tournament beginning Thursday at Ross Memorial Park. The Presidents will play fourth-seeded Saint Vincent (18-18) in the first round at 6 p.m. Thomas More (27-12) will face Thiel (24-16) at 3 p.m.


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GM rebuffs two-class share plan from Einhorn's Greenlight Capital
General Motors Co on Tuesday rejected a proposal by billionaire investor David Einhorn to split its common stock into two classes to help boost its share price.
NEW YORK U.S. stocks rose on Friday as Dow component Hewlett-Packard surged on strong results and comments from Fed officials allayed fears that the central bank would curtail its stimulus measures.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke downplayed worries that the Fed has fueled asset bubbles that could hurt the economy in a private meeting with bond dealers and investors earlier this month, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
Bernanke's view helped ease fears that the central bank may end its easy money policies. Minutes from the Federal Reserve's January meeting hit markets on Wednesday as investors interpreted divergent opinions on the benefit of stimulus as a sign the measures may be halted sooner than thought.
"They are in uncharted territory with divergent views," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago. "I could see some pretty heated opinions on what the ultimate outcome is, so I do believe there is dissension."
Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) shares jumped more than 12 percent and gave one of the biggest boosts to both the Dow and the S&P 500 after the personal computer maker's quarterly revenue and forecasts beat expectations. Hewlett-Packard's stock rose to $19.20 at the close, up 12.3 percent for the day.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI gained 119.95 points, or 0.86 percent, to 14,000.57 at the close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 13.18 points, or 0.88 percent, to 1,515.60. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC added 30.33 points, or 0.97 percent, to end at 3,161.82.
With Bernanke's reported comments much on their minds in Friday's session, investors will want the Fed chairman to reiterate his remarks publicly when he speaks before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. That would echo comments made by two top Fed officials on Friday.
Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren and Fed Governor Jerome Powell both defended the U.S. central bank's asset-buying program, arguing that the policy helps the U.S. economy.
The S&P 500 shed 1.9 percent over the previous two sessions, its worst two-day drop since early November, following the release of the Fed's minutes on Wednesday. The selloff marked the end of seven back-to-back weeks of gains for stocks.
For the week, the S&P 500 slipped 0.3 percent and the Nasdaq lost nearly 1 percent. Only the Dow ended the week with a gain - up just 0.1 percent.
HP's results come near the end of a relatively strong earnings season in which 70 percent of S&P 500 companies beat analysts' expectations, compared with a 62 percent average since 1994 and 65 percent over the past four quarters, according to Thomson Reuters data.
"Overall, the earnings supports were better than expected in this cycle," said Peter Jankovskis, co-chief investment officer at OakBrook Investments LLC in Lisle, Illinois. "We may see the market rising during the month of March."
Fourth-quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are estimated to have risen 6 percent, according to the data, above a 1.9 percent forecast at the start of the earnings season.
But with only a handful of companies left to report earnings, investors are looking ahead to the possibility of hefty automatic budget cuts that could happen on March 1.
A large option investor appeared to be adjusting a bearish view on the SPDR S&P 500 Trust fund (SPY.P) while locking in previously established gains, in a possible hedge ahead of the automatic budget cuts that are set to take effect at the beginning of next month. The play involved weekly puts, expiring next Friday.
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"It is likely this large position protects an existing underlying long position in a portfolio," Schwartz said.
In another political risk factor, Italians go to the polls this weekend in an election that could threaten reforms in the indebted country. Silvio Berlusconi's resurgence has thrown the vote wide open, with deep uncertainty over whether the poll can produce the strong government the country needs.
Inconclusive Greek elections last year sparked a protracted selloff and a period of uncertainty in markets.
In the tech sector, Marvell Technology Group Ltd (MRVL.O) forecast results this quarter that were largely above analysts' expectations. Marvell gained market share in the hard-disk drive and flash-storage businesses. The stock rose 4.4 percent to $9.89.
Texas Instruments Inc (TXN.O) raised its dividend by a third and boosted its stock-buyback program, driving its stock up 5.2 percent to $34.18.
The PHLX semiconductor index .SOX gained 2.1 percent.
"Dividends growing are another way the market's level is justified, if not especially attractive at these levels," said Rex Macey, chief investment officer of Wilmington Trust in Atlanta, who manages about $20 billion in assets.
On the downside, Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF.N) dropped 4.5 percent to $46.86 after the youth-oriented clothing retailer reported a drop in fourth-quarter comparable sales, even as its latest quarterly earnings topped estimates.
Insurer American International Group Inc (AIG.N) posted fourth-quarter results that beat analysts' expectations. AIG's stock advanced 3.1 percent to $38.45.
About three stocks rose for every one that fell on both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
Around 5.8 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and NYSE MKT, below the 20-day moving average of around 6.51 billion shares.
(Additional Reporting by Ryan Vlastelica and Doris Frankel; Editing by Kenneth Barry and Jan Paschal)


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QUETTA - A complete shutter-down strike was observed in Mastung and Khuzdar districts of Balochistan on Sunday against killing and dumping of Baloch missing persons and Baloch political workers.
The strike call in Mastung was given by the Baloch Students Organisation (BSO-Azad) and in Khuzdar by BSO-Mohyuddin.
The bullet-riddled body of BSO-Azad leader Kaleemullah was recovered from Mastung the other day while body of Khalil Baloch leader of BSO-Mohyuddin was found in Khuzdar three days back.
All shops, markets and restaurants remained closed for the day in Mastung and Khuzdar owing to strike.
Life remained at a standstill in these areas due to the strike.
No unpleasant incident was reported as the government deployed a large number of seurity men in Mastung and Khuzdar districts to avoid any untoward incident.