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Just by sitting on its robes, the U.S. Supreme Court last week condemned public transit in Los Angeles to a fractious and uncertain future.
The justices voted unanimously not to hear an appeal by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to overturn the binding agreement it signed six years ago with the Bus Riders Union. That deal barred a planned increase in bus fares and raised the standard for bus service countywide.
Theres nothing wrong with striving to improve bus service, of course. But now the Bus Riders Union has an unassailable seat at the table and will henceforth sit as an equal partner with the MTA in a broad range of decisions on how to design and build public transit in Los Angeles. Thats terrible news for a city already on the verge of gridlock.
In its nine years of existence, the Bus Riders Union has gone through a series of changes, from an intriguing idea to an exciting example of the potential for grassroots political organizing, finally becoming what it is today -- an example of how fanatic, single-issue ideology can turn even the best intentions into dead-end politics verging on a public hazard. Far from being part of the solution, the BRU is one more in the maddening array of reasons why, for all the forward-thinking people and heavily funded agencies in Southern California, we still have no meaningful answer to traffic and transit problems that threaten to overwhelm the entire region.
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Consider, for example, the BRUs official response to last weeks court ruling. As it was written in 1996, the consent decree set modest targets for the addition of 50 to 100 new buses to the MTA fleet. The BRU is now demanding more than 700 new buses, on top of the more than 1,500 already purchased by the MTA since the decree went into effect.
Its the politics of triumph. The BRU scored a victory in court, and theyre a drunk with it. Forget the actual state of traffic in L.A., where the new buses sit in the same no-exit traffic jams as the old ones. And forget the cost of all the new buses -- its just government money. Besides, the bus riders know where to find an extra few hundred million dollars.
The easy answer is rail. To fund its sky-high projections for new bus service, the BRU is calling for a halt to all work on new train projects, especially the Gold Line, the light-rail line thats already under construction between Pasadena and Union Station, and which is to run from there out to East Los Angeles in the next few years. The MTA must agree to a moratorium on all rail projects, BRU leaders declared at a news conference March 19, the day after the Supreme Court ruling was announced.
Its on the question of rail that the BRU really starts to lose touch with any sense of purpose and proportion. Its as if the bus riders are jealous -- the trains are bigger, faster and sleeker, and the bus riders cant look at them without seething. Never mind that bus riders can ride the train for the same fare as a bus, and that thousands do so every day. That would be missing the point. At the center of the BRUs legal strategy, and at the center of the groups identity, is race.
From the outset, the Bus Riders Union perceived the lousy transit service in Los Angeles as a racial issue, where poor minorities were ignored by well-heeled bureaucrats seeking to curry favor with politicians beholden to the countys wealthy white suburbs.
To some degree, certainly, that was true, as was borne out in briefs filed with the court by the NAACP and other friends of the bus riders, which detailed decisions going back 30 years to fund bus service to the outlying valleys while ignoring South Los Angeles. Metrolink in particular, a rail system designed to serve affluent commuters, was attacked for draining scarce transit dollars from inner-city riders.
But the BRU and its allies in the civil-rights community -- along with the NAACP, the ACLU, the Southern Christian Leadership Council and the Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates -- lose any credibility when they apply their racial critique to the current state of rail transit in Los Angeles. Check with anyone who has ridden the Blue Line or the Green. Day and night, the trains are crowded with exactly the people the BRU says it speaks for -- working people of color. Or check with the MTA: More than 85 percent of the people riding light rail or the subway are minorities. Even the Red Line, the Cadillac subway that proved a sinkhole for federal construction funds, gets steady use by people from all walks of life and is contributing to an economic renaissance in Hollywood.
None of this figures in the rhetoric of the BRU. The complaint that led to the consent decree borrows charged language from the nations troubled racial history to describe the subway and light-rail system as a discriminatory two-tier, separate and unequal system of public transportation -- one for poor minority bus riders and another designed to serve predominantly white and relatively wealthy rail riders.
Anyone who disagrees with that critique is promptly branded racist by the BRU. Most of our critics are not black, Latino or Asian, said Eric Mann, the white political activist who is the leader of the BRU. Theyre from the white middle class, people for whom this whole debate is very theoretical.
The BRU highlighted the absurdity of its position when it turned out scores of protesters to recent meetings of the MTA board in an effort to block approval of the Gold Line extension to Boyle Heights. There they squared off with an equal throng of Latinos from East L.A., all of them demanding the train.
Mann dismissed that show of support as a handful of dupes. The Eastside constituency for rail is a function of the Eastside corporate elite, represented by Gloria Molina and a few churches that can turn people out, Mann said in an interview. Do you really think the average Latino in L.A. wants to ride the train to Union Station?
Judging by from the turnout at the MTA board, the answer is a resounding yes. But theres more at stake with rail than simply providing a faster, more comfortable alternative to the bus. Theres the question of how Los Angeles is going to deal with steady population growth when freeways and surface streets are already approaching capacity.
When you talk about the consent decree, you have to grasp that everybody in the county, whether you use the bus or the train, or if you never use public transit, youre still one of our customers, said Mark Littman, a spokesman for the MTA. That means developing alternative modes of transit -- including carpool lanes, rail lines or even bicycle trails as well as buses -- that will help keep passenger cars off the streets.
With its history of boondoggles, the MTA seems a poor choice to build the transit system of the future. Indeed, it was the MTA that made the BRU the force it is today, first by signing off on the consent decree, and then by spending more than a million dollars on fruitless appeals to overturn it.
But at least its board understands the scope of its mission. And the MTA remains the only regional transit agency weve got. The BRU is very good at advocating for one cause, Littman said. The danger and the damage come when you dont have somebody keeping an eye on the big picture.
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The auction of panchayati land reserved for Scheduled Castes took an ugly turn at Balad Kalan village in Sangrur district on Friday when the police resorted to a lathicharge on members of the Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Samiti (ZPSS). The samiti members were demanding cancellation of the auction, saying that the prices were beyond the reach of landless Dalit farmers.
According to the ZPSS, 12 people, including two women, were injured in the lathicharge. Paramjeet Kaur and Gurmail Kaur were referred to Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, while the others were admitted to the government hospital at Bhawanigarh. The police have arrested 28 people.
The police claimed that three cops were also injured in the clash. After the cancellation of five auctions, this was the sixth fixed by the district administration in the office of the block development and panchayat officer (BDPO) here.
Talking to HT, Sangrur district development and panchayat officer (DDPO) Baljeet Singh said, "In the past two months, this is the sixth auction they wanted cancelled, but we have to consider interests of farmers who are willing to take the land. The general land had already been auctioned on May 14."
He said the village panchayat had already auctioned 59 bighas (around 12 acres) of reserved land. Now, ZPSS members tried to stop farmers from participating in the auction of 472 bighas (nearly 95 acres) of reserved land, he claimed. The reserved price this time was ? 24,600 per acre. The DDPO added, "After our repeated requests fell on deaf ears, we had to call the police to complete the auction process peacefully."
On the issue of increased land prices, he said, "The farmers (who take the land on lease) are ready to pay, how we can stop them? This year, the panchayat will earn Rs 2 lakh more than last year's Rs 27 lakh from the reserved land."
"The money generated from the auction will be spent on the development of the village," he added.
Rupinder Singh of the ZPSS alleged that some officials of the district administration were hand in glove with rich farmers, who take the land by luring some poor people of the SC community. Three SC panchayat members, namely Paramjeet Kaur, Jarnail Singh and Surinder Singh, have resigned in protest against the auction, he added.
Bhawanigarh police station incharge Sukhminder Singh said the police had installed barricades outside the BDPO's office, adding that the protesting ZPSS members were hell-bent on their demand for cancellation of the auction, following which the police had to use lathicharge.


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Bolivia 1652-P E 8 reales royal
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This specimen was lot 935 in Goldberg sale 46 (Beverly Hills, May 2008), where it sold for $31,000. The catalog description noted[1],
"Bolivia. 'Royal' 8 Reales, 1652-P-E (Potosi). Philip IV, 1621-1665. Crowned Cross of Jerusalem, quartering arms of Castille and Leon, all in quadrilobe. Reverse: Crowned pillars over waves. Some trivial edge porosity on reverse. Boldly struck up, with three dates visible. Flan almost round. Handsomely toned, with considerable eye appeal. Probably as struck. Extremely Rare. NGC graded MS-63. The 'Royals' were struck on specially selected, round planchets with special dies - the dies not necessarily having the same designs and inscriptions as those coins of the same date and mintmark in the regular coinage. Some of the better specimens may have well been sent to Spain so that the king could see for himself what fine handiwork was being done at the various mints."
Royals are known of this type from the Potosi mint for 1652-66 but all are rare. The regular cob issues are not nearly as nice. The 1649-52 was a period of reform at the Potosi mint; it was found that the previous mintmasters in office 1625-48 had been debasing the cobs, a crime for which one official paid with his life.
Recorded mintage: unknown but few.
Specification: 27.07 g, .931 fine silver, .810 troy oz ASW; this specimen: 25.38 grams.
Catalog reference: WR-5; KM R21.
- [1]Goldberg, Ira, and Larry Goldberg, Goldberg Sale 46: the Millenia Collection, Beverly Hills, CA: Ira and Larry Goldberg Auctioneers, 2008.
- Krause, Chester L., and Colin R. Bruce II, Standard Catalog of World Coins: Spain, Portugal and the New World, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002.
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- 1650 8 reales
- 1653 8 reales
- Coins and currency dated 1652
- other specimens in The Millenia Collection
- return to coins of Bolivia


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Guess who's got a thing for stripes this season?
Guess who has been wearing pastel/mint colored nail polish for two weeks straight?
Guess who bought yet another item from Anthropologie?
{shirt: Jcrew, jeans: AG, earrings: Anthropologie (sold out), sandals: Target (similar), polish: Jcrew}
Guess who is the happiest to take family pictures?
Guess who really likes to pick their nose recently?
Guess who doesn't care, and apparently thinks he is cute no matter where his finger is.... hmmm, yea.
Guess who went running two days in a row? Guess who is finding it hard to walk now? {completely unrelated, but true}
If you guessed me, then you'd be correct... except for the picking of the nose question, obviously.
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UPDATE: The 100th Grey Cup is here and CFL.ca has wall-to-wall coverage:
TORONTO — The one hundredth Grey Cup game – a national celebration of a true Canadian icon set for Sunday, November 25th, 2012 – has been awarded to the Toronto Argonauts Football Club, the city of Toronto and province of Ontario.
Rosedale Field, Toronto
"The very first Grey Cup was played here in Toronto, at Rosedale Field in 1909, and we're coming back to celebrate all that the Grey Cup and Canada have come to mean to each other since that day," Canadian Football League Commissioner Mark Cohon said in making the announcement on behalf of the league's Board of Governors.
"Nothing brings Canadians together like the Grey Cup, and the 2012 Grey Cup, our hundredth, promises to be an incredible celebration not only of the Grey Cup's glorious and storied past, but also its bright future."
The annoucement was made earlier today at the Westin Harbour Castle in downtown Toronto. The Grey Cup's rich tradition was in the air, with several past Grey Cup winners in attendance and historic artifacts and pictures put on display by the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
The artifacts included several past Grey Cup rings, helmets, jerseys and even the original two bases for the trophy, which were retired more than twenty years ago.
Senator David Braley, owner of the Toronto Argonauts, accepted the honour of hosting the milestone event on behalf of the Toronto Argonauts and their fans.
"The Grey Cup is both the national championship of Canadian football and a symbol of Canadian identity and unity," Braley said.
"It's a tremendous privilege to host the one hundredth Grey Cup and return Canada's largest and longest annual sporting tradition to the city of Toronto, the place where it all began and where 46 Grey Cup games have been held. It represents an enormous opportunity for our province, our community and our Argonauts team."
He pointed out the most recent Grey Cup in Toronto, in 2007, a sold out game at Rogers Centre, generated more than $80.1 million in total economic activity throughout Ontario, with $52.9 million of that occurring in Toronto, according to an economic impact study conducted for the city by the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance.
Bob Nicholson, President and CEO of the Toronto Argonauts, said the announcement is tremendous news for all fans of Canadian football, but especially for fans of the Double Blue.
"I know our supporters will join with their fellow fans and friends from across Canada to make the 2012 Grey Cup truly special," Nicholson said.
"And Toronto Argonaut season ticket holders will have the first opportunity to purchase tickets for the one hundredth Grey Cup game."
Varsity Field, Toronto
Nicholson introduced Chris Rudge, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Olympic Committee from January, 2003 through the tremendously successful 2010 Vancouver Olympics, as the new Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the 2012 Grey Cup Committee.
"The 2010 Olympics reminded us of something the Grey Cup has always proven, and that is the power of sport to inspire individuals, energize communities and unify entire countries," Rudge said.
"My goal is to work with my fellow committee members, from across the city, the province, the Argonaut organization and all of Canada, to make the 2012 Grey Cup a week of celebration worthy of an event so steeped in emotion and history. Not only will we respect and embrace all of the tradition it represents, at the same time we will introduce new ideas to make it one of the biggest and best cultural events in the history of Canada. Torontonians will no doubt rally around this historic and exciting celebration as we blanket the city with emotion and passion."
Gary Lunn, the federal Minister of State for Sport, said Canadians are passionate about their traditions and that passion will fuel the 2012 Grey Cup.
"The Canadian Football League's motto is This is Our League, and it's equally true that the Grey Cup is truly one of Canada's defining events," Lunn said. "The Government of Canada welcomes this news and looks forward to a national celebration of the Grey Cup, one that will culminate with the festival and game here in Toronto."
SkyDome, Toronto
Michael Chan, Minister of Tourism for Ontario, called the announcement proof of the province's ability to attract and host major events.
"The Grey Cup game and festivities will bring tremendous economic benefits to Ontario. We look forward to welcoming thousands of Canadians from across the country to Ontario for what will be a great celebration," said Chan.
Appearing on behalf of Toronto Mayor David Miller, Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone welcomed the news that Canada's biggest city will host one of Canada's biggest events.
"Toronto looks forward to welcoming our fellow Canadians from every corner of this great country for the one hundredth Grey Cup," Pantalone said.
"Toronto was the site of the first Grey Cup game. And Toronto, in 1948, was the site of what is considered the first Grey Cup festival, when western visitors joined with Torontonians to turn what had been a mere game into a major party. Now we're confident Toronto in 2012 will be the site of the best Grey Cup ever."
The Grey Cup was not contested for three years during the First World War; hence the one hundredth playing of the Grey Cup game is set for 2012.
More details on the 2012 Grey Cup — including news on the full composition of the organizing committee, the event's logo, activities and ticket sales – will be unveiled in the months ahead.
Toronto Argonauts season ticket holders will have the first opportunity to purchase tickets for the 2012 Grey Cup game, yet another benefit of being a Double Blue supporter.
Cohon said plans are under way to ensure the Grey Cup is celebrated across the country, leading up to the game and festival in Toronto.
"Today is a great day for our league and for the Grey Cup, but it is just the start of something that is going to be very special," Cohon said.
"We will celebrate our game, our league, and, of course, our most cherished trophy. But in doing so, we will celebrate something even bigger: our country, and what it means to all of us."


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Back in 2010, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, used his speech at the annual economic symposium hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to signal the American central bank's willingness to adopt additional stimulus measures, paving the way for a second round of quantitative easing.
The remarks came against the backdrop of a gloomy economic outlook. If anyone was in any doubt about the key issue of the day, the theme of the 2010 conference said it all: "Macroeconomic Challenges: The Decade Ahead."
This year, as the Fed comes up against another fork in the road, the topic of the symposium is "Global Dimensions of Unconventional Monetary Policy", an apt formulation as American central bankers consider when and how to begin withdrawing the extraordinary measures implemented in recent years.
But unlike previous years, many of the key players will be missing from the gathering, which kicked off with the arrival of delegates yesterday and concludes over the weekend.
Mr Bernanke is absent owing to a scheduling conflict, the first time in a quarter of a century that a Fed chairman has skipped the gathering. The newly installed Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is also staying away, as is Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank.
Along with Mr Bernanke, a number of senior Fed policymakers will miss the conference, though Janet Yellen, the Fed chair's number deputy, will be in attendance (the lack of top central bank chiefs reportedly led economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch to quip in a recent note to clients that, instead of driving the markets as snippets of the speeches and presentations filter out, "the biggest effect" of this year's gathering "may be on vacation rentals that third week of August").
From the UK, the Bank of England's deputy governor for monetary policy, Charlie Bean, will stand in for Mr Carney. Similarly from Europe, the ECB vice-president Vitor Constâncio is making the trip to Wyoming in lieu of Mr Draghi.
The heads of the Bank of Japan and the Bank of Mexico will be on hand, however, as will the former governor of the Israeli central bank, Stanley Fischer, and Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund.
They will have a lot to talk about, with the markets anticipating a change in Fed policy as early as next month. Already, the prospect of a reduction in the bank's stimulus measures has triggered sharp swings on markets in the US and abroad, hitting stocks, bonds and currencies alike as investors parse policymakers' statements for clues about the exact timing of a shift.
The key question is whether the world's largest economy is strong enough to withstand a reduction in the value of the Fed's programme of buying up government- and mortgage-related bonds, currently worth $85bn month. Related to that are questions about how fast the Fed should wind down the programme, and when.
The minutes of the bank's last policy meeting, published earlier this week, left investors uncertain about the exact timing, though they did reinforce the view that the Fed was on track to begin rolling back the programme sometime later this year and potentially bring it to a complete halt by the middle of next year.
They showed that "almost all" Fed policymakers were "broadly comfortable" with the timeline, first floated in public by Mr Bernanke at a press conference earlier this year.
With these issues in mind, much attention is likely to be paid to what Arvind Krishnamurthy from Northwestern University has to say about the impact of unconventional monetary policy. Along with his colleague Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, he has been working on the effect of asset purchases on long-term interest rates, and his presentation is likely to be closely watched as the Fed considers whether, as a first step, it should begin the tapering process by cutting its purchases of government or mortgage-related bonds.
But this year's conference isn't just about policy. Another major topic of discussion among the assembled policymakers will be the identity of the Mr Bernanke's successor. He is widely expected to stand down when his current term concludes at the beginning of next year, and President Obama is likely to name his successor in coming months.
Until the summer, it was assumed that Ms Yellen would be elevated to the top job. A respected economist who has been the vice-chair of the Fed since 2010, she is a favourite of both many outside academics and Wall Street.
But recent debate in Washington has thrown up the name of Larry Summers, the former US Treasury secretary, who is said to be keeping away from the symposium. A polarising figure with a controversial record, he faces a challenge in the form of deep opposition among the Democratic Party ranks in the Senate, something that is likely to make for a rocky confirmation process. But he is believed to have the support of a number of key White House advisers.
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There is no doubt in my mind that increased speculative interest in oil contributed to the extreme price volatility of the past few years.
The extraordinarily high prices we saw last summer were not as much a measure of market fundamentals as a reflection of the strength of the prevailing bullish market psychology of investors. Now that market sentiment has flipped, I expect continued volatility with exaggerated price weakness. From a fundamental viewpoint, prices will be just as unsustainable at these low levels as they were at the stratospherically high levels last year.
The high level of volatility that now characterises oil markets represents a significant impediment to ensuring adequate and timely investment in the sector. If today's low prices continue long enough, they will sow the seeds for future price spikes and volatility. Saudi Arabia realises that we have an important role to play in promoting stability in world oil markets.
The most powerful tool we have for achieving a balanced market is our maintenance of spare production capacity. We work very hard to make sure that the global oil market is well supplied and well balanced, and to that end it is our ongoing policy to maintain at least 1.5m to 2m barrels per day of spare capacity to be used when there is an unexpected need. We will also expand refining capacity in Saudi Arabia and in key markets around the world. We are continuing to invest now to help ensure an uninterrupted supply of energy when the global economy recovers. We all have much to learn from the recent turmoil in global markets. We must learn from past mistakes and proceed carefully, ever mindful of the importance of stable energy markets to the world's economic well-being.
For over half a century, Saudi Arabia and the US have worked together in areas of mutual interest. I believe that our long-term relationship in energy has paid great dividends for the health of the global economy, the stability of oil markets and for our respective societies. Working together we can build on these successes to provide the foundation for a strong, sustainable economic recovery and a bright future.
Taken from a speech by the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister, Ali al-Naimi, in Houston on Tuesday
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Grand Theft Auto is obviously no stranger to controversy, particularly in more mainstream media circles. The widespread attention all started back in 2001, when GTA III first let you beat up ladies of the night – since then the abuse of prostitutes has been an issue with the release of every major Grand Theft Auto game released, general claims of youth violence, misanthropy and cancerous effects on society notwithstanding.
This would almost be at home as a gif or a meme if it weren't so socially salient, but in the link below, Rev3's Adam Sessler addresses the prostitute question in the best way possible. Who says GTA can't spark real social commentary?
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Texas financier R. Allen Stanford was convicted on Tuesday on 13 of 14 counts of fraud in connection with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
Three years had elapsed between Stanford's being accused of the hedge fund fraud—which involved 30,000 investors in 113 countries—and Today's decision. The trial was delayed because Stanford was beaten severely in a prison fight in 2010 after which he became addicted to prescription anti-stress drugs. He was subject to a year of therapy before being declared fit for trial, over the defense's objections that he had lost much of his memory and could not defend himself.
Stanford had pled not guilty to all 14 counts, which included conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and obstruction of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation. He was convicted of all but one wire fraud charge in the trial, which took place in Houston and lasted six weeks.
The eight-man, four-woman jury had appeared to be deadlocked on Monday, when they'd sent a note to Judge David Hittner saying they were unable to reach unanimous agreement on all 14 counts. Hittner instructed them to continue their deliberations.
Prosecutors claimed that Stanford had lied to investors for 20 years, convincing them to buy certificates of deposit from his bank based on the Caribbean island of Antigua then using the bank as his "own private ATM," in the words of prosecutor William J. Stellmach. Stanford borrowed $2 billion to finance a high-flying lifestyle that included mansions, private jets, yachts, even a cricket team and stadium. Prosecutors also accused the Texas financier of bribing Antiguan officials to cover up his fraudulent dealings.
According to the New York Times, the key to the prosecutors' case was the testimony of James M. Davis, Stanford's former college roommate and later chief financial officer. Davis told the court Stanford's business empire was a fraud—describing one incident in which Stanford dispatched him to London to fax a prospective client from a non-existent insurance company office, reassuring him about the safety of the investment he was contemplating.
"There really is no dispute that Allen Stanford lied," Stellmach told the jurors in his closing argument, "lining his pockets with billions of dollars of other people's money." Another prosecutor, Gregg Costa, compared Mr. Stanford to convicted fraudster Bernard L. Madoff.
Stanford's defense lawyers tried, unsuccessfully, to argue that Stanford had distanced himself from business matters, which were largely the concern of Davis. Davis, for his part, pled guilty to charges of fraud and conspiracy to obstruct an SEC investigation but told the court he'd been manipulated by Stanford who "instilled intimidation and fear."
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These proceedings consist of full papers presented both as posters
and talks at the main CL2003 conference
and the pre-conference workshop "Learner Corpora: Design, Development and Applications"
organised by Yukio Tono and Fanny Meunier.
The three other workshops produced separate proceedings.
The papers are arranged in alphabetical order by surname of the first
named author on the contents page.
The papers are stored as Adobe PDF files in the papers subdirectory on this CD Rom.
You will need to install the Acrobat Reader software which is available
for download from the Adobe website (www.adobe.com).
Versions for Unix (Solaris), Windows and Mac OS are available in the acrobat subdirectory.
Further copies of this technical paper are available from UCREL, Lancaster University.
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With local assistance of Dawn Archer, Matthew Davies, Aimee Doggett, Olga Moudraia, and Paula Robinson.
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Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)
Paul Baker (Lancaster University)
Michael Barlow, Rice University, USA
Mark Davies, Illinois State University, USA
Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK
Randall Jones, Brigham Young University, USA
Charles Meyer, University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA
Tamás Váradi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
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On Tuesday night they played Glasgow Caledonians at Hughenden and there was nothing friendly about it. Before the game, John Kingston, the Richmond coach, said he didn't give "a monkey's" about the result. Not so. After Richmond, impressively led by Ben Clarke, one of the few successes on England's fated tour, had won a competitive match 32-24 against one of Scotland's two newly- formed super teams, Kingston was sufficiently involved to have words with the referee, Jim Fleming.
Kingston, a no-frills Geordie who calls a spade a shovel, is not easily impressed, at least not publicly. Keith Robertson, the Glasgow coach and a New Zealander, said: "Richmond showed greater cohesion having been together longer. They demonstrated that you must run straight, run hard and hit hard. They have given us a benchmark."
On Friday evening Richmond played Scotland's other super team, Edinburgh Reivers and completed a satisfactory week with a 43-17 victory.
Two years ago, Richmond's pre-season get-together was in Agen; last year it was Dublin; and last week it was at Jury's Hotel, Glasgow. "The amount of food they get through is incredible," said a waitress. "If they ask for a banana they don't take one, they take the whole bunch."
One of the points of the exercise, apart from building team spirit, is to see how the new players blend in. One of them is the Frenchman, Laurent Cabannes, a player Kingston believes will provide a missing link between the backs and the forwards. It was after a disastrous match with Harlequins, Cabannes' former club, last season that Richmond got down to business. "It was time for some home truths," Dr Ian Maynard, the club's psychologist, said. "The forwards were asked to talk about the backs and the backs about the forwards. The main complaint from the forwards is that the backs had to vary their alignment and bring the full-back and the wings more into play. The backs thought the forwards had to get fitter and be more in the face of the opposition. We have worked on fitness, diet and the idea is to train as we play, with more intensity and aggression."
Maynard, a former Saracens fly-half who has worked with world champions in seven sports, has a mantra: control the controllable. "You can't control the opposition, the referee or the weather. What you can control is your own performance. It's not just about motivation, that kind of crap. The players know it's no longer fun, it's their job."
Before travelling to Scotland, Richmond had a six-week stint with the fitness coach, Tim Exeter: running, weights, speed work, ball handling and finally physical contact. Three key Welshmen in the squad are injured - Scott Quinnell, brother Craig and the centre Allan Bateman. They and others in the team have tended to be ignored by the WRU and one of the first messages Graham Henry, Wales's new New Zealand coach, will have received is a fax from Kingston notifying him of Richmond's strong Celtic presence.
If the jury on the quality of the hotel is still out - one prop fills an elevator - the spirit in the camp is good. "The opposition is stronger than we thought it would be," Mark Tainton, Kingston's assistant, admitted, "but it's been a testing ground and we have a better idea of where we are." Tainton took time out to watch Rangers FC train. "It was very, very professional. In support play and cover they tend to move as one and their ball skills are tremendous."
Richmond will meet Newcastle not at the Athletic Ground, their home for more than 100 years, and where they have been thwarted in attempts to develop the facilities, but at the new Madejski Stadium, a 25,000- seater state of the art ground off junction 11 of the M4. They have entered into a partnership with Reading FC and, but for such a deal, Ashley Levett, Richmond's benefactor in chief, would almost certainly have cut his losses and run. There will be a blitz to find bums to fill seats throughout the Thames Valley.
In Glasgow the PR team have a great idea for a poster campaign: "We have a sunrise image against a silhouette of the new stadium. The tone of the image of the players in the foreground is `moody, menacing, powerful, emotive'. The expectation is the rugby action will be the same."
Alex Codling, a promising lock, doesn't quite fit the image. He lost a bet with the Argentine scrum-half Agustin Pichot over the result of the England-Argentina match in the World Cup and had to dye his hair. It was supposed to be blue and white but it has come out punk orange.
When Tony Hallett, the chief executive, arrives in Glasgow hot-foot from business meetings, he has bad news and good news. The former is that the senior clubs, having boycotted the Heineken European Cup,failed in an 11th-hour attempt to create an alternative theatre in Europe. "We had a limited opportunity to succeed but we didn't try hard enough," Hallett said. Without the English, who objected to the structure and the fact that they weren't controlling the purse-strings, the European Cup is seriously undermined and Hallett doubts the financial commitment of either Sky or Heineken. The good news is that tickets sales for the new season have been brisk enough to warrant extra telephone lines in Richmond's offices.
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Hey y'all! I missed you. I've been busy at girls camp. What's girls camp? Every year all of the girls from our Church, (all over the world) ages 12-18 get together and go camping. They hike, practice survival skills, learn and grow spiritually and just have fun. It's the best (and this is coming from a non-camper)! This year I was asked to be the craft lady. I have been working with my amazing co-craft lady, Natalie, for months on the crafts.
To save others the time it took for us to put these together, I'm including all the details on each craft, supplies, websites, tutorials, etc. as well as show off creative examples from the girls.
We planned for crafts for about 100 people (girls and leaders).
I'm starting off the series simple with
Friendship Bracelets
We all remember friendship bracelets. They're the best.
Did you know that there is an on-line community of friendship bracleteers?
(Totally just made up that word.)
If you go to Friendship-Bracelets.net you can get TONS of pretty amazing patterns and instructions for thousands of different kids of bracelets. Some of them are pretty incredible. You can also upload pictures of the bracelets or patterns you've made to share with the community. Definitely worth checking out.
We knew that there would be girls who had made Friendship Bracelets before so we didn't provide them with many instructions. We did have a book available that we got from a closet at the Church with instructions, but I don't think it was used much.
- Embroidery Floss
- Duct or Masking Tape (to hold bracelet in place on table)
- Safety Pins (to hold bracelet in place on jeans)
- Key rings (optional)
We bought two packs of this big pack of embroidery floss from Hobby Lobby for $19.99 each. We only ended up using one. The craft was very popular but 150 bunches goes a long way.
This giant knot of thread was all that was left of the pack at the end of the week. We also had several safety pins left over as well as key rings. The pins and rings were purchased at The Dollar Tree.
This was a very popular and inexpensive craft and we are saving the other package for the girls to do next year. A must have for any camp.


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Mon. 7/30/07 12:15pm
First comment! Woo-hoo! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:17pm
Sean Padilla:
That Venice Arkestra song was sweet! Does anyone know where I can find their stuff? | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:23pm
that is why you wear HEADPHONES on the L!!! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:25pm
whoaaa.... time to get the noise canceling model | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:27pm
Liz B.:
No kidding! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:29pm
But I really DO feel sorry for people with regular jobs (typed in my bedroom, where I'm working in my nightgown and taking breaks to mulch tomatoes). | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:34pm
this is my 1st time hearing yr show liz - im impessed! thanks to you this east coast canadian fog is a little more bearable. | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:35pm
north guinea hills:
i actually feel sorry for people w/ real jobs as well. and i'm one of them typing this from my office wishing i was still in bed. weekend brings pain.... | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:45pm
You sounded like Miranda July during that subway bit! I actually thought it was her, not the DJ. | |
Mon. 7/30/07 12:56pm
hmmm....*bing* I'll bet it was Liz herself that made those comments on the subway!! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:00pm
Listener Mike D.:
Liz, who is doing that awesome Super Mario World bed music? Fantastic... -- Posted from my "cube", where WFMU helps to drown out the reality of my job on a daily basis. | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:01pm
loved the glasglow track.. all in the family! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:02pm
yes I feel sorry for people with real jobs, except for the real money part of having a real job. If my *fake* job resulted in REAL money then I would be truly content. Loving ms Liz's show today faboooooo thanks liz xo | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:07pm
I feel sorry for the people who have to ride the L | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:08pm
re: fridge cd - check out the comets track.. so good! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:09pm
Liz B.:
Comets is an awesome track, honestly it was a toss up between that one and "The Sun"! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:18pm
Lee-Ping Aboutabit:
Hey! Listen with Sarah, are you listening? Places with funny names: Ougadougou (pronounced Wogadoogoo). Sounds like neo-colonialist bullshit to me. How longhave you been listening to Andy Kershaw and severely missing the point? | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:20pm
Lee-Ping Aboutabit:
Oh I get it. That was the Benny Hill theme. I guess this is th anti-PC hour. Do you have 'Bernard Manning sings The Smith'? | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:21pm
Yakkety Moog makes me feel like I'm a kid again at the Disney Electrical Parade. Mmmmmm. | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:21pm
"Yakety Moog " is the moog version of the Benny Hill show ..... a comic stuff from England in the 80's. | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:23pm
north guinea hills:
oh god, i have country moog of vinyl. i weep for myself | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:26pm
No, please don't feel bad for playing the Moog Benny Hill song!! i'm listening in nashville and it made me laugh. This city produces some weird stuff ... would love to find more from the short-lived country moog era. Thanks Liz! you rock, love your Ra/Dan&Dale background music. | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:31pm
dave a.:
ive been in bed for2 weeks for no apparent reason,high fellow listeners... | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:34pm
Garrett Kelly:
I have that country moog album too! I was so happy to hear that song. My personal favorite is Poke Salad Annie. I love what it says on the back of the album too: Gil Trythall "was born in Tennessee and still lives there with his Moog and some other people. He teaches college, writes music, makes hit records and underground movies." Man, he rules! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 1:46pm
Ah ... cool tip Garrett, the "underground movies" by that dude might be interesting to track down. Probably a moog soundtrack for them, lol. I'm gonna keep an eye out for that LP in the thrift stores here in nashville | |
Mon. 7/30/07 2:20pm
Hey, thanx for ur intriguing selection of sounds! I am enjoying your mayhem picks in Amsterdam. K. | |
Mon. 7/30/07 2:21pm
Dan Lipert:
funky and killin it!! | |
Mon. 7/30/07 2:49pm
This Rajaz Meter stuff is getting played a lot and deserves to be. Love it. | |
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:126.96.36.199) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:188.8.131.52) Gecko/20091121 Thunderbird/3.0 (Thunderbird 3.0 RC1) The new offline mode with IMAP is awesome for laptop users. When I unplug my laptop from the network, messages are automatically scheduled to be sent later. The problem is that when I plug the laptop back into the network the message is not automatically sent. I still have to manually tell TB to send the message. If the Offline settings dialog (Tools menu | Options | Advanced | Network & Disk Space tab | Offline), "send unsent messages when going online?" is set to "Yes." Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unplug from the network 2. Compose and e-mail and hit Send later 3. Plug into the network Actual Results: The message is not automatically sent. Expected Results: The message should be automatically sent.
Comment 1•7 years ago
If you come manually back online then it does work (or you get a prompt as per the preference setting). If your laptop does automatic detection, then it won't automatically send (or prompt). Automatic detection is present on Mac & Windows so setting os to all as that's the best match.
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Comment 2•7 years ago
We're not going to block on this, but we'll consider a fix if there is something that can be safely included in a security release. Rafael: we should relnote this.
Comment 3•7 years ago
this would be good to fix for the 3.1 time frame. I want to mark this blocking the 3.1 release but I'd rather get a fix in the 3.0.1 release.
Comment 4•7 years ago
if I were "with the times" I would have known about the proper flag setting to target this for the right release
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Comment 5•7 years ago
I think this is effectively dataloss, since users feel like they've sent something, but it doesn't actually arrive until some indefinite point in the future.
Comment 6•7 years ago
(In reply to comment #5) > I think this is effectively dataloss, since users feel like they've sent For me it was much worse: after being offline, thunderbird started to complain that the "sent" folder could not be found, and it stopped working (could not get new messages, and could not successfully send new messages (could not find the "sent" folder anymore, an IMAP remote folder). Therefore I had to remove the config folder and reinstall.
Comment 7•7 years ago
Leandro: it's not clear to me why you believe the behavior you describe in comment 6 is part of this bug. Can you elaborate?
Comment 8•7 years ago
(In reply to comment #7) > Leandro: it's not clear to me why you believe the behavior you describe in > comment 6 is part of this bug. Can you elaborate? Well, after being offline and composing a few messages, when I reconnected, thunderbird got stuck trying to send every message send during off-line mode, probably trying to open the "sent" mailbox (that was the error message). I had to restart thunderbird several times (once per each message composed in offline mode as it was waiting forever trying to copy the message just sent on the "sent" folder). After that, again in online mode, thunderbird could not work anymore (could not retrieve incoming messages, send new messages, etc. so I had to reinstall, cleanup the config, ...). So my taste of the off-line mode was quite a disaster.
Comment 9•7 years ago
I'm sorry to hear about that, it sounds like an unpleasant experience. However, that sounds to me like it's probably not related to this specific bug. I'd suggest looking in GetSatisfaction at <http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/> to see if anyone else has encountered this issue, and, if not, opening a topic there. Thanks!
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Comment 10•7 years ago
I can look at this...
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Comment 11•7 years ago
Created attachment 443616 [details] [diff] [review] do go online stuff when we've received the online notification This patch moves the go online processing from the ui toggle to the "we've gone online" state change. This make us offer to send unsent messages, and playback offline operations when we autodetect that we've gone online. For windows, I've only been able to trigger the autodetect by putting the machine to sleep and waking it up. Magnus, please let me know if you won't be able to review this - it's a 3.1 rc1 blocker...thx!
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Comment 12•7 years ago
Comment on attachment 443616 [details] [diff] [review] do go online stuff when we've received the online notification Looks good to me
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Comment 13•7 years ago
fixed for 3.1 rc1, landed on trunk and 1.9.2 comm-central branch
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I am blown away again by the gorgeous pieces that are showing up on my Keys to Dynamic Composition blog. These are pieces by students taking the online workshop of that name, which I will be offering again in January. These are studies, pieces in progress, and finished works dealing with the abstract landscape:
This is a group of small landscape studies:
And this is one more piece from Lesson 1 about shapes:
Thanks to all of you participating in this workshop, and thanks to everyone visiting the blog.
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Chris Taylor, the Lead Systems Designer for Interplay's Fallout MMO codenamed Project V13, has cleared up the status of the PV13 screenshots that we released a while back. Here's what he had to say:
I'd like to point out those weren't even "alpha" screens, just "Proof of Concept".The current models look different. We still want a somewhat stylized look so we can avoid the "Uncanny Valley".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valleypax,-Chris
And in a later post:
Yes, proof of concept artwork is usually (and is, in our case) placeholder.Masthead has sent us new artwork and it is far superior to the proof of concept, and I liked the POC (recognizing that it was just POC and very early) so I'm very happy.
So to all of those people out there who still didn't believe the screens were from PV13, now you have your proof.


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Wheeler named public sector chief executive of the year
Hamish Rutherford at Stuff reports:
A former top international banker, who stared down the Beehive with lending restrictions and official cash rates rises months from the election, is this year's public sector chief executive of the year.
Graeme Wheeler, who became Reserve Bank governor in late 2012, was today named as the top public sector boss in political newsletter Trans Tasman's fifth Annual Briefing Report.
Since replacing Alan Bollard, Wheeler has introduced controversial loan to value ratio limits on mortgages in an attempt to cool the housing market and raised the OCR twice this year.
Both moves were politically unpopular, but Trans Tasman said the ''fresh ideas'' made him chief executive of the year and the Reserve Bank's best governor since Don Brash – a dig at Bollard, whose decade in charge was bookended by Brash and Wheeler.
''He's made some gutsy calls and stood up to the political pressure not to interfere in the iconic quarter acre dream,'' the report said of Wheeler.
''A courageous governor – and we will find out over the next year or so whether he made the right calls.''
The awards were chosen by a 16-strong independent board of advisers.
Inland Revenue was named department of the year because of a ''clear improvement in customer engagement'' over the past 12 months.
''One of the only departments leading the charge online for better customer and business interactions,'' Trans Tasman said.
''It is no longer just a compliance agency. It is also being seen by the public as a crusader which goes after people who try to avoid their tax obligations.''
As with previous years, I'm one of the 16 advisors. The release from Trans-Tasman is here.
As an employer, I have to say dealing with the IRD is so much easier than years ago. No more waiting on hold – just send secure mail. Can check my account balances instantly, and lots of useful calculators.
The Reserve Bank Governor should be fiercely independent. It is a tribute to Wheeler that he listened politely to the Government wanting to exempt first home buyers from the LVRs, but then decided it wouldn't work with that exemption and proceeded. It is unfortunate that Labour has vowed to over-turn that independent decision should they win Government.


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"Striped Shirt" Interview Recorded January 22, 1980 Click on Clip # to view videos |
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12-1 | 1-43 | On the use of journals. Journals took on a necessity when I started working on the helicopter. (PART ONE) |
Journal Experiment |
I used the journals way back… | |
12-2 | 1-08 | Journal use at Bell. Began to use journals for other thoughts – Gee whiz, (PART TWO) |
Journal Bell Notes |
In any case I carried on the journal work | |
12-3* | 3-06 | Nothing Sacred story. Arthur's dream revealing the secrets of the universe. The realm of inspiration is outside of time. |
Sacred Prayer Dreams Inspiration Time |
That reminds me the story of Nothing Sacred. | |
12-4* | 3-00 | Theory is process of manifestation into substance, then form, then physical existence. Reason that dreams are so important in our lives. Example of dream of horses in chamoises. |
Manifestation Substance Dreams Symbolism |
The theory is the process by which whatever you call it… | |
12-5* | 3-48 | Light is the electromagnetic spectrum, but it is also enlightenment. Everything that happens is due to light. Pair creation. Light in myth. Mazda – God of light. St. Basel on the firmament – the speed of light. We are light going through this experience to gain more understanding. |
Light Realization Myth Photon Firmament |
When I say light I mean the entire electromagnetic spectrum… | |
12-6 | 0-45 | Difference between thinking and intuition. Theory that dreams don't use the brain. |
Thinking Intuition Dreams |
I would distinguish our thinking from our intuition. | |
13-1 | 1-20 | Where do ideas come from? Everything issues from a central source of light. Synchronicity comes from everywhere. |
Thought Ideas Synchronicity |
The question of whether there's a different source for different thoughts … | |
13-2* | 2-07 | Domain of light is not subject to limitations. Dreams provide a language for the spirit. Dream example with MBM – film and refrigerator. Science tends to miss the meaning for the distracting elements in the picture. |
Spirit Dreams Symbolism |
I think that perhaps what's more worth dwelling on . . n. | |
13-3 | 4-00 | Demonstration of types of stability using a simple airplane model. Instability as applied to society, e.g, between government, industry and the university. These should be working to correct one another. When they work together they create catastrophic instability. |
Stability Helicopter Society |
(Ready when you are J.B.) This is the question of stability. | |
13-4 | 2-05 | Story of radionics experiments with Frances Farrelly. She tried to poison mice in order to heal them but they wouldn't get sick. |
Radionics Experiment Healing Intention |
Frances Farrelly. She was a... | |
13-5* | 3-02 | The predicament of the helicopter in 1944, like the early bird that had wings but couldn't fly. Survival of the fittest doesn't explain the incubation period when the bird is learning to fly. It's necessary to make an effort. |
Helicopter Evolution Darwinism |
When I was back in Philadelphia I was going through my notes . . . | |
13-6 | 2-11 | The difference between rhythm and vibration. Rhythm is a something you partipate in – vibration is external. Best understood as modulo and residue. (AB says rhythm is perceived over time while vibration is perceived instantaneously. |
Rhythm Vibration Modulo/Residue |
You asked me is rhythm the same as vibration. | |
13-7 | 1-22 | Rotation as an absolute. Velocity is question of who is observing it – and hence relative. But if I get up and rotate I can't claim that the universe rotated around me because it would mean that the stars would be travelling greater than the speed of light. Thus it is relativity itself that says that rotation is absolute. |
Rotation Relativity Velocity |
Relativity would lead you to expect rotation to be relative. | |
13-8 | 2-20 | Physics is the only science that deals with first principles. That's why I have a quarrel with it. The photon is unique in that to see a photon is to annihilate it. |
Physics Science First Principles Photon Photoelectric Effect |
Q: What do we mean by science? | |
13-9 | 1-31 | AY on black holes. Gravitons have spin 2. If light can't radiate from black holes, how can gravitons radiate? |
Black Holes Gravitons |
Now everybody's heard about black holes. | |
13-10 | 3-36 | Physicist's difficulty in explaining a force. You can't see it, weigh it, isolate it, etc. So the scientist says it's caused by a shower of particles. AY says it's the other way around – the force is primary. Hugeness of forces. |
Physics Forces Electromagnetic Force Particles |
For the most part I want to stick very closely to the findings of physics. | |
13-11* | 1-05 | The universe is something infinite that droops down into objectivity and then sweeps back to the infinite. |
Infinity Universe |
According to the theory what the universe really consist of… | |
13-12 | 5-55 | Summary of the mind-body problem essay. The four aspects applied to an automobile. Relation to Arisotles four causes. Four aspects applied to the mental world. The scientist's approach as opposed to the infant's approach. |
Mind/Body Problem Purpose Aristotle's Causes Fourfold |
Well, I have an essay in my forthcoming book called The Mind-Body Problem. | |
13-13 | 1-17 | Difference between the scientist and the inventor. Scientist is trying to discover the law, the inventor is trying to get around the law. |
Inventor Scientist Natural Law |
The scientist is anxious to find what the law is… | |
13-14 | 1-17 | I'm often accused of answering questions that people aren't asking. Theory provides answers. The questions will come later. Bacon quote about the mind. |
Questions The Theory Mind |
I suppose that's one of the real troubles with the theory. | |
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Bacon spread made in Edmonton pulled from shelves: could contain bacteria
Wednesday, Feb 05, 2014 04:00 pm
OTTAWA - A bacon jam produced in Edmonton is being pulled from store shelves because it may allow the growth of a bacteria that causes botulism.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency warns consumers not to eat the spread which is labelled Bacon by Brad Smoliak.
The product from food company Kitchen by Brad was sold in Alberta in 125-gram and 125-millilitre sizes.
Best before dates are March 14 and July 14, but consumers are urged to return the spread to where they bought it or throw it out.
Food contaminated with Clostridium botulinum toxin may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick.
Symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, fatigue, dizziness, blurred or double vision, dry mouth, respiratory failure, paralysis and, in severe cases, people can die.
Smoliak says on his website that there have been no reported illnesses associated with the product.
He says it was not made in his kitchen but at an off-site manufacturing facility.
"I deeply regret the concern and uncertainty this may cause you," he says. "I am a chef that lives in a culture of food safety. I have an unwavering commitment to keeping your food safe with standards that go beyond regulatory requirements. I acknowledge that my best efforts failed and I am sorry."
The recall does not include any other products from Kitchen by Brad.