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Dictionary of gardening names and terms |
Mimosa Wattle. Yellow flowered evergreen needs greenhouse protection in temperate and cool areas. Acanthus Bear's Foot. Perennial. Chocolate and white flowers on tall stalks thistle-like foliage. Aeration Hoeing ridging soil in winter and deep digging to open soil to the air and 'sweeten' it also making holes in a lawn to encourage growth. Maple. Japanese maples are delicate feathery leaved and often give spectacular autumn colour. Acid soil Soils with high content of peat or high levels other types of decayed vegetable matter and low in chalk are said to be 'acid'. Good for growing 'lime haters' such as rhododendrons and heather. Monkshood. Perennial. Blue purple and bicoloured flowers on tall spikes. Air Layering Way of rooting stiff branches or shoots attached to a parent plant. Stem is sliced under a joint sprinkled with hormone rooting powder area wrapped in compost filled polythene strip. Alluvial soil Soils formed from the sediment of rivers Alkaline Soil see Calcareous Soil Allium Perennials hardy bulb rooted. Includes onions leeks and decorative types. Aloe Vera Succulent. Tender can be grown outdoors in warm climates houseplant in temperate zones that can be put outside in sheltered sunny spot in summer. Alpine House Unheated greenhouse used for rock and alpine plants needs good ventilation and light. Love Lies Bleeding. Half hardy annual. Striking seed tassels. Some varieties produce edible leaves and seeds. Jersey Lily. Tender bulbous plants with striking lily type flower. Usually grown indoors to flower in early winter. American Blight see Woolly Aphis. Anise Annual herb. Pimpinella anisum. Grown for aniseed tasting seeds. Annual Plant that only lives for one year. Apple Mildew Powdery mildew producing stunted growth caused by Podosphaera leucotricha. Anemone Windflower. Perennial. Hardy. Both Tuberous rooted and Herbaceous species. Angel's Trumpet see Datura. Aquatics Plants that are grown in water. Arbour Shaded and/or sitting area made from wood wicker or metal that plants climb over. Artemesia Perennial herb. Artemisia spicata. Used fresh or dried leaves. Axil Angle between the base of a leaf and the stem of a plant. Balm Perennial herb. Melissa offininalis. Lemon tasting leaves used fresh or dried. Bark Outer layer of the branch or trunk of a tree or shrub. Basil Sweet Annual herb. Ocimium basilicum. Bast Inner bark of a Lime Tree. Bay Sweet Perennial herb. Laurus nobilis. Leaves used fresh or dried. Bear's Foot see Acanthus. Bell Glass Bell shaped cloche made from glass (with knob on top) or plastic. Bergamot Perennial herb. Monarda didyma. Leaves and flowers are used. Berry True berry has seeds inside pulp e.g. currant false berry has seeds outside pulp eg strawberry. Biennial Plant that grows flowers and dies within 2 years e.g. foxglove. Blanching Keeping light from vegetables to produce a specific crop e.g. forcing chicory in the dark. Bleeding Oozing sap from a surface wound eg grape vines pruned too early can 'bleed' to death. Bleeding Heart see Dicentra. Blight Fungal disease that attacks potatoes and tomatoes. Borage Annual herb. Borago officinalis. Leaves and flowers are used. Bottom Heat Heat from decaying manure heap or heated propagator used to warm compost under seeds or cuttings. Break First shoots from the main stem of chrysanthemums. Breastwood Shoots that grow out from the main branches of espalier or fruit trained fruit trees. Briar Stock Rootstock from wild Dog Rose Broadcast Seeds sown by scattering widely often by hand. Budding Inserting the bud of a plant into the shoot of a stock plant. Buds Baby' future shoots or flowers that form on shoots in axils or on tubers. Bulb Swollen underground stem of a plant made up of scales e.g. onion. Bulbils Miniature bulb type growths that develop in the axils of lily leaves. Chalky soil. Callus Tissue that forms on the base of a cutting before new roots form. Calyx Outer leaves surrounding the petals of a flower Cambrium Tissue between the bark and inner wood of a stem. Canker Decaying part of stems branches or trunk of a tree. Cararway Annual herb. Carum carvi. Seeds are used for flavouring. Catch Crop Quickly grown vegetables cropped between slower or permanent crops e.g. radishes between peas. Chamomile Perennial herb. Anthemis nobilis. Flowers are used. Charcoal Wood is slowly burnt without air to make charcoal - garden uses are as a 'sweetener' in potting compost can be used to help drain pots. Chervil Annual herb. Anthriscus cerefolium. Leaves are used. Chives Perennial herb. Allium schoenoprasum. Leaves are used. Clamp A way of storing potatoes swedes beetroot and other root crops that are put in a heap and covered with soil. Climbers Rambling plants used to cover walls fences sheds pergolas etc. Cloves Baby' bulbs of garlic or shallots. Coleward Dwarf variety of cabbage. Coriander Annual herb. Coriandrum sativum. Seeds and leaves are used. Corm Swollen bulb-like base of plants such as Cyclamen. Cotyledons First leaves of seedlings. Couch Grass Fleshy rooted invasive grass. Botanical name Triticum repens. Crab Apple Native wild apple sometimes used as root stock. Creeper Plant with flexible shoots used as wall fence or shed covering e.g. ivy. Crocks Broken pieces of flower pots used for draining flower pots. Crop Rotation Growing different types of vegetable crop year after year to prevent disease build up. Crown Bud Top flower bud of a chrysanthemum Crown Grafting Putting scions under the raised bark of a branch that has been cut back. Damping Off Seedling collapse caused by excess moisture and a fungus. Datura Angel's Trumpet. Half hardy annual. Shrubs/trees with large scented trumpet shaped flowers. Deciduous Trees and shrubs that lose their leaves in winter. Delphinium Perennial. Hardy. Tall spikes of white blue lavender or purple. Needs staking and protecting from slugs. Sweet William and other varieties including border carnations and annual pinks. Dibber Tool used for making holes for seedlings e.g. pencil sized piece of dowel or cut down fork handle with sharpened end. Dicentra Bleeding Heart. Perennial. Hardy. Pink or white flowers in early summer. Dicotyledons Plants with 2 seed leaves e.g. courgette. Dill Annual herb. Peucedanum graveolens. Seeds and leaves are used. Disbudding Removing unwatnted shoot or flower buds. Drill Shallow trench for sowing seeds in. Drying off Not watering plants and bulbs during the winter. Earthing up Drawing soil up the sides of plants such as potatoes and celery. Evergreen Plants that keep their leaves all year e.g. Holly. Eye A dormant wood bud. Fennel Annual - but can overwinter in shetered areas herb. Foeniculum vulgare. Fresh or dried seeds and leaves are used thick stalks eaten raw or cooked. Fumigating Using a poisonous smoke to kill insects in a greenhouse. Garlic Bulb grown from cloves. Allium sativum.Used fresh. Gooseberry Mildew Fungal disease attacking leaves stems and fruits. Mildew that turns from white to brown.. Gourd Round and other shaped fruit of the genus Curcurbita. Graft Shoot prepared to be inserted into the branch of a tree. Green Fly An aphid - natural predator is the ladybird. Greenhouse Place to grow plants in a controlled environment. Green manure Quick growing bulk producing crops such as mustard and vetches dug into the earth when a few centimetres high. Grit Small stoney particles used to lighten heavy soil or as a medium for growing Alpines. Habitat Natural home of a plant or a specially created area suited to specific plants e.g. a gravel bed for drought loving plants. Half Hardy Plants that need protection in winter. Hardening Off Gradually acclimatising plants raised in cover before planting them outside. Heeling in Temporarily planting plants trees and shrubs close together in a trench until they can go in their permanent position. Herbaceous Plants that lose stems and leaves in winter e.g. Lupins. Honeydew Sugary honey-type sap on the surface of leaves. Hotbed Decomposing manure topped with soil and covered with a frame - used to grow plants needing heat. Humus Natural compost or well rotted manure. Hybrid Plant reared from cross between 2 species e.g. Loganberry. Hyssop Perennial herb. Hyssopus officinalis. Used fresh. Inarching Grafting together 2 branches of separate plants. Jersey Lily see Amaryllis. Lateral Side shoot growing from main stem of a plant. Lavender Perennial herb. Lavandula spica. Flower heads used dried. Layering Way of propagating plants by buring a growing part in the soil. Leaf Mould Decayed leaves. Lichen A symbiosis between an algae and a fungus. Loam Soil made up of sand clay and decayed grass and plants. Love Lies Bleeding see Amaranthus. Maiden Tree Trees roses etc 1 year old. Maple see Acer. Marjoram Perennial herb. Origanum onites. Leaves used fresh or dried. Marl Chalky soil made up of clay and carbonate of lime used to be used as a fertiliser on farmland. Mimosa see Acacia. Mint Perennial herb. Mentha spicata. Fresh and dried leaves used. Monkshood see Aconite. Monocotyledon Plant with 1 leaf e.g. onion. Mulching Covering the surface of soil with layer of leaves grass cutting etc to conserve moisture and suppress weeds. Nasturtium Annual herb. Tropaeolum. Leaves flowers and seeds are used. Offsets Bulblets or plants still attached to parent plant. Osier Young shoots of Osier Willow (Salix viminalis) used for making baskets etc. Ovary Where seeds develop in a flower Parsley Perennial herb. Petroselinum crispum. Leaves are used. Pegging Down Fixing parts of long shoots of plants close to the soil to help propagation. Peppermint Perennial herb. Mentha piperita. Mainly used dried but can be used fresh. Pennyroyal. Perennial herb. Used fresh in small amounts. Perennial Plant that can live for many years. Pergola Structure - usually wooden often over a path used as a support for climbing plants. Picotee Type of carnation with flower edges a different colour from the main part. Pinching Removing the growing points of plants to encourage them to develop more bushy growth. Pinks see Dianthus. Annual and Perennial varieties. Piping Shoot of a carnation ready to use as a cutting. Pistil Female organ of a flower. Plunging Sinking a pot to its rim in earth or other medium. Pollination The action - windborn insect carried or manual - of taking pollen from the anthers to the stigma of a flower. Pricking out Transplanting young seedlings. Pruning Cutting off unwanting parts of a tree or plant. Puddling Putting clay in the bottom of a pond ramming it down to make a waterproof base. Radicle Embryo root of a germinated seed. Retarding Keeping plants in a cool environment to retard their growth - e.g. controlling flowering plant for Flower Shows. Rhizome Underground stem. Ridging Making soil into ridges to expose to the air during winter or pulling earth up around potatoes or celery. Root Pruning Pruning roots to check growth. Rosemary Perennial herb. Rosmarinus officinalis. Used fresh and dried. Rue Perrenial herb. Ruta graveolens.Mainly used in herbal remedies for animals. Runners Stems coming from the base of a plant that develop a 'baby' plant at the tip e.g. starwberry runners. Sage Perennial herb. Salvia officinalis. Used fresh or dried. Savory Summer Savory is an annual Winter Savory a perennial herb. Used fresh. Scion Shoot used for grafting onto the stem of a tree. Second crown bud Bud that develops on a new shoot after the crown bud has been removed e.g. on a chrysanthemum Sets Onion bulbs and potato tubers to plant. Shanking Shrivelling of the stalks holding bunches of grapes to the vine. Shoddy Waste wool used as a long lasting nitrogen rich fertiliser. Shrub Woody stemmed perennial. Silver Sand Very pale fine sand used in potting compost. Sorrel Perennial but can be grown as an annual herb. Rumex acetosa. Used fresh. Southernwood Perennial herb. Artemisia abrotanum. Used in pot-pourri. Spawn Mycelium of mushrooms also used as name for 'cakes' of straw earth etc impregnated with mycelium. Spit A spadeful of soil. Spore Fern cell that will germinate and produce a plant. Spur Short shoot - naturally produced or formed by pruning. Standard Tree with a clear stem of around 2 metres Standard roses have a clear stem of around 1 metre Stigma Top of the pistil (female part) of a flower. Stock Stem onto which scion is grafted Stopping also known as Pinching Removing the growing points of plants to encourage them to develop more bushy growth. Striking Putting cuttings into soil. Subsoil Lower layer of soil. Succulents Fleshy leafed plants e.g. Sempervivum commonly known as House Leek. Sucker Shoot or branch from the underground part of a plant. Sweet Williams see Dianthus. Generally treated as a biennial but is perennial in sheltered places. Tansy Perennial herb. Tanacetum vulgare. Used to be used as a herb for flavouring but now grown decoratively. Tarragon Perennial herb - needs protection in exposed areas. Artemisia dracunulus. Fresh and dried leaves are used. Tap-root Main root that goes vertically down into the soil. Tendril Thin growth a plant uses to attach itself to a support. Terminal Bud Flower bud that develops at the end of a lateral shoot. Thyme Perennial herb. Used fresh and dried. Topdressing Layer of compost or manure applied to surface of soil or pots. Topiary Cutting and shaping suitable plants to make shapes e.g. yew box. Transplanting Moving plants from one area to another. Trenching Method of deep digging soil. Tuber Swollen underground stem e.g. Begonia. Truss Number of flowers in a cluster e.g. tomatoes Violet Sweet Annual herb. Viola odorata. Used fresh. Wattle see Acacia. Woolly Aphis Also known as American Blight. An aphis that attacks apple trees killing buds and swelling shoots. |


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Friday, March 15, 2013
SEC Charges San Diego Lawyers in International "Pump and Dump" Scheme
The SEC charged a group of Canadian stock promoters, two San Diego attorneys, a Bahamas-based broker-dealer, and other participants in an international "pump-and-dump" scheme involving two publicly traded U.S. companies, Pacific Blue Energy Corporation and Tradeshow Marketing Company Ltd.
According to the SEC's complaint, Canadian stock promoters John Kirk, Benjamin Kirk, Dylan Boyle, James Hinton, and their associates, used false and misleading promotions to pump up trading in the stock of the two microcap companies and made millions when they secretly dumped their own shares. The SEC alleges that the promoters sent investors false and misleading emails about the companies through two websites they controlled, Skymark Research and Emerging Stock Report, and used "boiler room" sales calls to tout the stocks, falsely claiming that the recommendations were based on independent research by Skymark and Emerging Stock Report.
The SEC also alleges that San Diego-based attorneys Luis Carrillo and Wade Huettel were central participants in the scheme who helped the promoters conceal their ownership interests in the companies, drafted misleading public filings, and provided misleading legal opinions. As part of the scheme, their law firm, Carrillo Huettel LLP, secretly received proceeds of stock sales in the form of a sham "loan."
The SEC is seeking to have the defendants return their allegedly ill-gotten gains, with interest, and to bar Carrillo, Huettel, de Beer, John Kirk, Benjamin Kirk, Boyle, and Hinton from participating in penny stock offerings and from serving as public company officers or directors. The SEC is seeking civil monetary penalties from the attorneys, their law firm, and from de Beer.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
The Dog That Talked To God - Book Review & Giveaway
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The "New Android Project" wizard and the "New XML File" wizards have been reworked into multiple pages, to avoid having a vertical scrollbar and to streamline creating different types of projects. Here's the new XML File Wizard. The rows of file type radio buttons, and the project text field, have both been replaced by dropdowns, and the "root element" selection is now the focus of the page with a large list instead of just a dropdown: The "configuration folder" selector, which used to be the dominant part of the wizard, is now on page 2, and this page is optional so you can skip it by just pressing Finish on page 1: Next, the "New Project" wizard. There are now 3 different entry points into the wizard:
Here's the first page for creating a normal project - you enter the name, and choose whether to create a brand new project or create one from existing Android code, where to locate the project, and whether to add the project to a working set: The second page lets you choose which SDK version to use (and we automatically select the most recent one we find) : And on the last page you get to choose the application name, an optional activity to be created, and whether you want to create a companion test project to test the new project. All the text fields, except for the package name, have automatic defaults based on the project name, and as you edit one field the other defaults update (so for example updating the application name will update the default test application name and so on). Note also that the "Minimum SDK" textfield is now an editable dropdown instead so you can see the various Android versions and it will translate whatever version you pick into the actual API number that it's looking for: If you choose to create a new Test Project instead, you will be presented the same first page as the new project wizard shown above, but before the SDK selection page you will see the following page where you can choose which project to test. This selection will be used to extract information like the package name of the tested app which is listed in the test project manifest: And finally, if you create a new Sample project, it skips the first page altogether and takes you straight to the SDK selection page (where you choose an SDK to get samples for, since the available and actual samples depend on each SDK). After that, you get to the following sample selection page, where you can choose a sample and a project name. Note that the samples are now copied into your workspace, such that you can modify them as much as you want without affecting the "master" copy in your SDK install area (up until now the sample projects pointed straight to the SDK sources so edits would be permanent). |
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Geoffrey Bannister
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Geoffrey Bannister (born 1946, Manchester, England[1]) was an English-American educator and geographer. He is the fourth president of Hawai'i Pacific University. His goals for the university were to expand the graduate program research as well as building connections with other universities around the world.[1] [2]
Bannister was born in Manchester, England. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to New Zealand. He later moved to Toronto, Canada to get doctorate in geography. He became a U.S. citizen in 1989.[1]


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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Three Time Loser by Del Reeves. Please check back for more Del Reeves lyrics.
Three Time Loser Lyrics
Artist: Del Reeves
Album: Girl On The Billboard
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Well my first love was Norma Jean and I really love this queen
We plan to be married in the fall
But this old heart got reckless Norma Jean got restless
Then one day sweet Norma says that's all
And that makes me three time loser three time loser
I watch them all three walk right out the door
Cause I'm a three time loser three time loser
And I don't think I'll try for number four
Well the second time I chanced to fall I thought it was a true love call
Somehow things just didn't work out right
Cause Susie wanted money and all I had was honey
As Susie failed to make it home one night
And that makes me three time loser...
Well I tried tree and that's all for me looks like love's not meant to be
And I'm afraid to try for number four
Hm my heart's had such a bad fix got that way from lots of chicks
I don't think I'll try to love anymore
Cause I'm a three time loser...
No I don't believe I'll try for number four
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The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war has appointed one of the most renowned experts on international law as an adviser, in what is viewed as an indication that the Blair government's legal justification for the invasion is to come under serious scrutiny.
Dame Rosalyn Higgins, who was the most senior female judge in the world when she was the president of the International Court of Justice, will advise the panel on legal issues as well as the wider investigation.
The announcement of her appointment came after repeated assurances by the inquiry's chairman, Sir John Chilcot, that his team would not carry out a "whitewash". He has insisted the committee "will not shy away from making criticism. If we find that mistakes were made... We will say so."
Tony Blair will be called as a witness and he and other witnesses will be reminded to tell the truth.
The legal case for the war, presented by the then Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, became hugely contentious. The vast majority of international legal opinion disputed his claim that UN resolutions justified Britain joining the US in the attack.
There was disquiet among the Government's own officials and the Foreign Office lawyer Elizabeth Wilmshurst resigned over the issue.
Such was the concern over the legal advice that the country's most senior officers, including Lord Boyce, the then Chief of the Defence Staff, and General Sir Mike Jackson, the then head of the Army, asked for urgent clarification from Lord Goldsmith after he had presented his legal opinion.
One senior official connected to the Chilcot Inquiry said there was "no reason" why Lord Goldsmith could not be called as a witness.
Last year, Lord Bingham, the former senior Law Lord, said that in his view, the legal justification provided by Lord Goldsmith was incorrect.
On Tuesday, the inquiry panel met families of those who had died in Iraq, during which a number of relatives stated they believed the war was illegal. Some declared that Mr Blair should be prosecuted for war crimes.
Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mildinhall, whose 26-year-old son Lieutenant Tom Mildinhall was killed by a roadside bomb, said: "I believe this country has been badly let down and been lied to. I would like to see some accountability... The prime concern I have is over the legality of the war."
Deidre Gover, whose 30-year-old son Flight Lieutenant Kristian Gover died in Basra, said: "My son as an officer was prepared to die for his Queen and country in a just conflict. This was totally unjustified and wrong, and I think that's what the inquiry will prove."
The inquiry panel is going through thousands of government documents before holding its first public hearings later this year. According to Whitehall sources, these include documents relating to the legal advice sought by Lord Goldsmith and his correspondence with the cabinet before he gave the government the legal go-ahead.
The government has previously revealed that in March 2003, Lord Goldsmith twice put his legal advice in writing. The first document, dated 7 March and seen by only a handful of ministers and officials, was 13 pages long. It is reported to have argued that the case for war might not stand up in court. The second, circulated to the cabinet on 17 March and published as a parliamentary answer the same day, consisted of only 337 words in nine paragraphs. It declared unequivocally that the war was legal.
The inquiry has also appointed General Sir Roger Wheeler as military adviser to the panel. General Wheeler was not involved in the Iraq campaign.
Dame Rosalyn was appointed president of the International Court of Justice in 2006 and stepped down this year. During her tenure, the court determined that Serbia under Slobodan Milosevic was guilty of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
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New Game Plus
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New Game Plus or New Cycle is a recurring mechanic in the franchise, which enables the player start again upon finishing the game with certain bonuses. Typically they involve a removal of fusion level limits and, in more recent installments, carry-over of Compendium data to make it easier to acquire demons.
- Shin Megami Tensei (GBA/iOS version only)
- Shin Megami Tensei II
- Shin Megami Tensei: if...
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
- Shin Megami Tensei IV
- Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
- Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
- Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
- Persona 3 / FES / Portable
- Persona 4 / Golden
- Persona 5
- Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
- Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
- Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2
- Devil Survivor / Overclocked
- Devil Survivor 2 / Record Breaker
Specific GamesEdit
Shin Megami TenseiEdit
Shin Megami Tensei does not have a New Game Plus function, however on the GBA/iOS versions, some visionary items can only be acquired after having finished the game at least once. In addition to requiring beating the game, certain visionary items also require obtaining the ending of a specific alignment.
Shin Megami Tensei IIEdit
The Diamond Realm is unlocked after starting a new cycle. However, the player must first save at a certain save point and have the cleared save data intact.
Shin Megami Tensei: if...Edit
Starting a new cycle unlocks Akira Miyamoto as a playable character.
Shin Megami Tensei III: NocturneEdit
The player can use the burial chambers in the Labyrinth of Amala to fight certain bosses he has defeated and after achieving a qualifying Turn Press on all chambers, he can meet Cerberus in the 1st burial chamber of the 1st Kalpa, following him to the secret Tomb of Yomi in the 666th basement of the Labyrinth. Izanagi and Izanami will then award him with a extra Turn Press, mentioning how they had waited for a strong person such as the Demi-fiend to appear so that they could entrust them with their power. Before leaving, they ask him to pursue the path of creation and mention how their powers were lost due to the destruction of the old world. They mention that both Izanami and himself were the creators of the old world.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange JourneyEdit
Starting a new cycle allows the player to fight Geist Alilat, and the Ultimate Boss, Vile Demiurge.
Shin Megami Tensei IVEdit
There are two different type of New Game Plus - "New Life", and "Reincarnation". With "New Life," Flynn is reset to his base stats at level 1, with no items, equipment, or macca carried over, only the minimum which will always carry over is listed. "Reincarnation" includes everything listed under "New Life" plus stats, equipment, macca, and app points. All naming events occur normally during each cycle, allowing the player to change any previously entered names if desired, with the previous entry being the default.
New Life - Reset to level 1
- Compendium Info, including all unlocked demons (the first time Cathedral of Shadows is run, Mido will list all unlocked demons)
- Play Log Information
- DDS (Streetpass) Card with Demon attached
- The Applications Skill Expansion 1-4 and Demon Skill +1-4 are permanent after purchase and will always be active
- "Master" (Hard) difficulty unlocked
- Fusion Booster X App unlocked (requires Fusion Booster 1-7; removes fusion level limit entirely)
- Challenge Quests specific to NG+ are available, provided their other prerequisites are met
- File gains a "Cycle" tab underneath "Place" and "Play Time," which increases by 1 with each NG+
- File gains Four diamond-shaped slots next to "Level," which are filled to indicate which endings the player has achieved. 1: Orange - Nihilist/Bad, 2: Blue - Law, 3: White - Neutral, 4: Red - Chaos.
Reincarnation - Continue with everything
- Flynn's current Level, Stats, and Skills
- All Consumable Items (no Relics, Key Items, or Delivery Quest Items)
- All Weapons, Armor, and Accessories
- All Macca carried
- All Applications are deactivated and spent App Points are refunded (excluding Skill Expansion and Demon Skill+ apps, which stay active), any unused points roll over into the new pool. Apps must be purchased again as they become available through the story.
Devil Summoner: Soul HackersEdit
New Game Plus is unlocked once the player completes the Corridor of Time and enters the southernmost room where a voice asks if they want to reset time and continue their journey again. During New Game Plus, several things change:
- Damage taken from enemies is increased by 50%.
- Casino coins and the bank balance in Paradigm X is retained.
- The "Steven" and "Friday" apps are pre-installed in the GUMP, which enables COMP Fusion to ignore the level restriction and grants maximum loyalty, respectively.
- Likewise, the Goumaden no longer has level restrictions on fusing.
- New mini-games can be played at the shops in Shibahama Core.
- An alternate ending is available in which Spooky survives his possession by Satanael.
- In the 3DS version, compendium data is carried over. Demons unlocked from Nemechi are also retained, however Nemechi itself is reverted to the first stage.
Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King AbaddonEdit
New Game Plus is unlocked upon making a cleared save and only on Normal Mode. Hard Mode has nothing carry over. Raidou's level, weapons, money, and items do not carry over on Normal Mode. Things carried over:
- Raidou's current rank and max loyalty gotten from demons.
- The percentage of Case Files done. The ones done don't need to be completed again unless required for other Case Files that were not completed on the previous playthrough. Required to get the last Case File.
- Number of Tubes
- Fusions recorded and demons in the compendium.
- Cleared Alignment and time played.
- Three new Case Files available if Raidou goes Chaos on the previous playthrough. Required to obtain the last Case File.
- Deals at Konnou-Ya.
- Increased chance of getting alignment points when using the bathhouse trick to change alignments.
Persona 2: Eternal PunishmentEdit
After completing the game, the player has the option to save a "cleared game" data, which gains a small icon of the temporary party member chosen in that playthrough (Eriko Kirishima or Kei Nanjo) and can be loaded to start a new playthrough with some things being carried over, they are:
- All Analyze data (Demons, Personas and Fusion Spells, but not bosses).
- All Tarot cards (including Fool and Free).
- All cards registered in Time Castle.
- Possession of the Carma Ring.
- Bonuses granted by facilities in town (restaurants, aromatherapy and treatments).
- Any rare Personas only avaiable via mutation (Lugh, Michael, Mot, Pallas Athena and Shokuin) obtained in previous playthroughs will be added to the Velvet Room list and can be summoned normally.
- If the loaded data comes from a Nanjo playthrough, the Morning Star Material Card will be added to the selection of prizes in Mu Continent. Likewise, an Eriko playthrough will grant an Accuser's Diary Material Card.
- If the game has been completed on both Eriko's and Nanjo's routes, the EX Dungeon is unlocked.
- Tatsuya Suou will be at the same level he was at the end of the previous playthrough. Apollo, however, will restart at Rank 1.
The following do not:
- Levels and stats for any party member.
- Items (except for the Carma Ring and Tarot cards) and equipment.
- Money.
Persona 3 / FES / PortableEdit
The following carry over when the player begins a new cycle:
- Protagonist's level
- Protagonist's Academics, Charm, and Courage
- Persona Compendium
- Money
- Equipment
- Gifts received from maxed Social Links
The following do not:
- Other party members' levels
- Inventory
- Social Links
The Answer in Persona 3 FES does not have a New Game Plus.
Persona 4 / Golden Edit
The following carry over when the player begins a new cycle:
- Money
- Weapons, Equipment, and Accessories unlocked at Daidara's Metalworks
- Gifts received from maxed Social Links
If the player has achieved the True Ending, Izanagi-no-Okami can be fused in the Velvet Room once they have reached Level 91.
The following do not carry over:
- Player and party members' levels
- Inventory
- Social Links
- Equipment
Persona Q: Shadow of the LabyrinthEdit
The player has an option to carry over nothing into each New Cycle or to carry the following:
- Persona Compendium
- Persona Levels
- All Money, Items and Equipment, including Stored items
- Unlocked equipment in the Workshop
- Character and Persona levels
- Mapping Data - The player chooses separately from the above if the Mapping Data is to be carried over
- Enepedia data - Clock Tower enemy data will remain hidden until the player gains access to the Clock Tower in that playthrough.
Staring a New Game Plus or loading Clear Data after either protagonists' route has been completed unlocks bonus requests and allows the player to purchase the initial equipment of all party members from both character routes. Loading Clear Data after both protagonists' routes have been completed grants the request to fight the game's Ultimate Boss.
Persona 5Edit
The following are carried over:
- Human parameters, the five status
- Persona compendium
- Equipment, including teammates'
- Money
- Skill cards
- Items that unlock persona
- Items received from maxing co-ops
- Xmas present
- Play time
- Fishing rod
- Valentine chocolate, or The pity chocolate from the cafe owner
Not carried over:
- Name
- Game difficulty (Player can re-decide)
- MC's and teammates' level
- Consumable items
- Co-op ranks
- MC's personas
- Tutorial and Story cut scene history
- Materials for crafting
- Presents (for Co-op)
- Books
Devil Children seriesEdit
With the exception of Devil Children Fire/Ice Book, all games in the series leave a series of options that will have the protagonist restart the story from the beginning before they can defeat the final boss. This is a one time only choice that returns them, and allows for the capture of rare demons and ones missed earlier. This is a one time only situation, and afterwards they must complete the story.
Protagonist Level, money, items, and demons are retained. However, their demon partner is returned to their original form and level one, meaning they have to strengthen it again so it can fight the enemy.
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar TunerEdit
The bonuses are:
- All mastered Mantra will still be learned, giving access to their skills
- All not-mastered but purchased Mantra will still be unlocked
- All characters will learn the Human Form passive skill
- The Ultimate Boss can now be challenged
The following do not carry over:
- Stats and levels
- Money, equipment and items
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2Edit
The bonuses are:
- Any bonuses obtained from importing cleared data from the first game (stats bonuses, rings, etc.) will be valid
- All mastered Mantra will still be learned, giving access to their skills. Serph will inherit Seraph's Mantra Grid. If the player had Heat as a party member on the previous playthrough, Roland will inherit his grid
- All not-mastered but purchased Mantra will still be unlocked
- All characters will learn the Human Form passive skill
- Hard Mode is unlocked
- All Karma Rings, including customizations done to them by using gems, will be kept
- The Berserker Ring will be received at the Underwater Cable instead of the Hee-Ho Ring
The following do not carry over:
- Levels and stats for any character
- Money, equipment and items (except for Karma Rings)
- Mastered/purchased Mantras and Karma Rings (only if the player opts for beggining a New Cycle on Hard Mode)
Devil Survivor OverclockedEdit
At the conclusion of the 7th day and viewing the ending and staff credits, the player is prompted to make a clear save. If the player ended on Yuzu, Amane, or Naoya/Kaido routes, they can select whether to continue to the 8th day chapter or just New Game Plus.
Upon loading a cleared save, they will be presented with the Survivor Awards which awarded them points based on what they accomplished and spend them on bonuses for the next playthrough.
Devil Survivor 2 / Record BreakerEdit
Depending on the Titles obtained by completing certain objectives and a route during the story, points are given that can be spent to determine what is carried over to a new game, or the player can choose to spend none.
- Number of Demons kept in the Registry.
- Skills cracked.
- Auction Tiers.
- Removal of EXP Penalty.
- Up to 50% discount on the compendium prices.
- Removal of fusion level limit
- Unlock fights with Nebiros, Belial, and Alice
- Unlock Mitama fusion


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I recently read Joel McCracken's blog "5 Reasons Why You Should Learn Emacs Lisp Today", which mentioned that "Emacs Lisp is still the most popular Lisp language on github".
Joel's blog was written at the end of March 2012, it is now the end of March 2013 and I discovered that even a year later, Emacs Lisp (Elisp) is the still the most popular Lisp dialect according to Github's popularity calculation algorithm.
This fact changed my ideas about the Lisp market. Since I first read the term "Lisp" from Eric Raymond's essay "How to Become a Hacker", I regarded Common Lisp and Scheme as the two major Lisp dialects that have dominated the Lisp market . Later on, with the prevalence of Clojure, I thought the Lisp market was basically shared by these three languages. I never thought that a low key language, Elisp, could be so hugely popular. However, considering many Elisp repositories on Github are Emacs configurations, there is some extent of exaggeration.
Update poi519 mentioned that Racket (a language in the Scheme family) ranked #25 on Github. Take this fact into consideration, Scheme might be more popular than Clojure.
1 Emacs Lisp
Elisp, ranked #17
- Elisp, ranked number 17, most Elisp related repositories are Emacs addons and Emacs configurations.
- `magnars / .emacs.d' is an enhanced Emacs distribution from the creator of Emacs Rocks (A series of videos that demonstrate the beauty of Emacs).
- `nosequitur / smex' is an Emacs addon that is used for improving the experience of calling `M-x' (function `execute-extended-command').
- `js2-mode' is an Emacs addon written by Steve Yegge, which is used for JavaScript programming. `mooz / js-mode' is an improved version of `js2-mode'.
- `bbatsov / prelude' is another popular enhanced Emacs distribution.
- `chrisbarrett / elisp-namespaces' is an Emacs addon that implements namespace in Elisp.
2 Clojure
Clojure, ranked #23
- Clojure, ranked number 23.
3 Common Lisp
Common Lisp, ranked #33
- Common Lisp, ranked number 33.
4 Scheme
Scheme, ranked #34
- Scheme, ranked number 34. Most repositories that attract high amounts of forking (not in a sexual way ) are not practical projects, including the solutions to the exercises on "The Seasoned Schemer" and "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs".
5 Top 17 Languages
Ranking | Language |
1 | JavaScript |
2 | Ruby |
3 | Java |
4 | Python |
5 | Shell |
9 | Perl |
10 | Objective-C |
11 | Coffee Script |
13 | VimL |
15 | Scala |
16 | Assembly |
17 | Emacs Lisp |
6 Conclusion
Overall, Lisp languages are not popular on Github.
Considering many Elisp repositories are actually Emacs configurations, the most popular Lisp dialect on Github is probably Clojure, which has slipped out of the top 20. One of the biggest problems of Lisp is the lack of reliable libraries, which is "solved" in Clojure by building the language on JVM. I think this is quite a smart way to make Lisp more practical. Also, I've been trying to develop Android apps in Clojure, it really is a language of great potential.
Happy Hacking!


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It was not hard to figure out who was who in the halls of the congressional office buildings on November 15, 1993, two days before the vote on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There were clusters of people wearing labor union caps and jackets; they were lobbying against the trade pact. Then there were the crowds of dark-suited men in matching red, white, and blue neckties; they were with the pro-NAFTA business coalition, USA NAFTA. The patriotic neckties were just a minor tactic in one of the most expansive lobbying efforts in the history of corporate America. Calling itself a grassroots organization, USA NAFTA gave new meaning to the term by enlisting Fortune 500 companies as captains to whip up support for the agreement in each of the 50 states. An army of more than 2,000 member corporations provided backup.
The USA NAFTA coalition promised that the free trade pact would be all things to all people. It would improve the environment, reduce illegal immigration by raising Mexican wages, deter international drug trafficking, and most importantly, create a net increase in high-paying U.S. jobs. In the final days of the battle for passage, USA NAFTA worked closely with the White House NAFTA war room to sway undecided members of Congress. According to the Wall Street Journal, coalition members studied the fence-sitters' campaign contribution lists and urged the top corporate donors to turn up the heat. Many firms complied by promising new jobs in the member's district or threatening to withhold future contributions. Today, less than two years after the agreement became law, USA NAFTA's own members are blatantly breaking the coalition's grand promises. Many of the firms that only a short time ago were extolling the benefits of NAFTA for U.S. workers and communities have cut jobs, moved plants to Mexico, or continued to violate labor rights and environmental regulations in Mexico.
The best available information on NAFTA layoffs comes from the U.S. Department of Labor's (DoL) NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance (TAA). This program provides retraining and other benefits to U.S. workers after the DoL certifies that they were laid off because of a shift in production to Mexico or Canada or an increase in imports from those countries. Between January 1, 1994, and July 10, 1995, 62,000 workers filed claims for this assistance; 35,000 of them were certified. It should be noted that recipients of NAFTA-TAA benefits are only a fraction of the total number of NAFTA-related layoffs, since many workers are not aware of the program or apply for a general retraining program with more generous benefits. A University of Maryland study estimates that in 1994, more than 150,000 U.S. jobs were cut as a result of increased consumer imports from Mexico. Even these limited data reveal that USA NAFTA members have carried out NAFTA-related layoffs at a rate surprising even to cynics. If only for public relations purposes, they might have held off on the job cuts until the ink on the agreement was a little drier. However, by July 10 (only 18 months into the agreement), USA NAFTA firms were already responsible for 40 NAFTA-related layoffs affecting 7,785 U.S. workers. Another 4,626 workers from 24 plants operated by coalition companies applied for NAFTA-TAA benefits during this time and were rejected, in some cases simply because the Department of Labor was unable to verify a shift in production. Dozens of USA NAFTA companies carried out NAFTA-related layoffs, but a few member firms deserve special attention for their ability to quickly harness the agreement's benefits for themselves at the expense of workers and communities.
ALLIEDSIGNAL - At the helm of USA NAFTA was Lawrence Bossidy, CEO of AlliedSignal, a diversified manufacturing firm which produces auto parts and defense equipment. As chief spokesperson, Bossidy made countless public and media appearances to persuade Americans that NAFTA would be good for them. While lauding the benefits of the agreement for society at large, Bossidy was quick to deny any suggestion that it would provide incentives for his own company to move jobs to Mexico. In August 1993, CNN anchor Lou Dobbs asked him, Do you think jobs will move to Mexico [under NAFTA]? For example, would your company, would you put jobs in Mexico? Bossidy replied, I think quite the contrary, Lou. I think the jobs that were to move to Mexico have already moved there. I mean, there's more than 700,000 employees in the Mexican maquiladoras now! Less than two years later, Bossidy's firm could boast the most NAFTA-related layoffs. As of July, AlliedSignal workers in five cities have petitioned for NAFTA-TAA benefits. The DoL approved the claims in three communities (Greenville, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; and Orangeburg, South Carolina). Claims from workers in Danville, Illinois, and Eatontown, New Jersey, were rejected, even though the New Jersey workers say that AlliedSignal left little doubt that the company was moving jobs south. In the months leading up to the layoffs, New Jersey workers were sent to provide training in one of the company's Mexican plants, while Mexican managers were brought to New Jersey for training.
INCREASING DISPARITY - Bossidy's NAFTA promises were not confined to U.S. workers. In congressional testimony, he also claimed that NAFTA will benefit the Mexicans; it will improve their standard of living. Unfortunately for Mexican workers, just the opposite has occurred. The peso devaluation of December 1994 cut the value of their wages by as much as 40 percent, making them far less able to buy U.S. goods today than they were before NAFTA. Interest rates on credit cards have climbed above 100 percent, and the Mexican government reports that retail sales in Mexico's three largest cities have dropped by nearly 25 percent. The continuing crisis is expected to cause the loss of two million jobs this year, and economic desperation is blamed for the 30 percent increase in arrests by U.S. border patrols between January and May 1995. Workers at AlliedSignal, like those at other Mexican maquiladoras operated by U.S. corporations, have lost significant purchasing power. At the corporation's Monterrey, Mexico plant, workers saw the dollar value of their wages drop from $1.30 to $.82 an hour in January 1995. Laboring 48 hours a week at $.82 per hour, AlliedSignal's 3,800-person Mexican workforce would make approximately $7.8 million a year. By contrast, Bossidy's personal pay last year was worth far more $12.4 million, ranking him among the top eight corporate earners in the country. AlliedSignal' s executive board justifies the salary as necessary to keep Bossidy from being lured away by other corporations. One union leader ironically concurred. Any CEO who could be the head of USA NAFTA and then turn around in the first year of the agreement and start laying off people and get away with it he's worth $12.4 million!
GENERAL ELECTRIC - GE, one of USA NAFTA's proud captains, made NAFTA history as the target of the first complaint filed under NAFTA's labor side agreement. On February 15, 1994, the United Electrical Workers (UE) charged that GE had fired about 30 employees at its Ciudad Ju rez, Mexico plant for union organizing. Workers in the border area report that the GE case reflects common practice. In fact, such violations seem to have increased. After NAFTA became law, companies no longer had to worry about generating bad publicity that might have jeopardized passage. According to UE, GE officials told one worker that he was being fired for distributing union fliers and for telling a MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour reporter that GE used chemicals in its Mexican plant that are banned in the U.S. The NAFTA agency responsible for investigating labor complaints, the National Administrative Office, dismissed the case, not because it found GE innocent of the charges, but because it could not prove that the Mexican government had knowingly failed to enforce the rights of the GE workers.
Before the Ju rez firings, GE management had reportedly warned the workers that the company had come to Mexico to get away from U.S. unions, so if the Mexican workers brought in a union, GE might as well pack up the plant and move it back north. Meanwhile, GE was busily shifting operations from the U.S. to Mexico. In March, it announced plans to cut 271 jobs at its Fort Wayne, Indiana facility. In May, the DoL determined that the layoffs resulted from GE's decision to move jobs to Mexico, and certified 95 of the workers for NAFTA retraining. Both GE workers and the community of Fort Wayne got swindled. In 1988, the employees had agreed to a $1.20 per hour wage cut to prevent their jobs from being moved to Mexico. Then in 1992, GE managed to squeeze a $485,290 tax cut out of the local government, claiming it was necessary to defray the cost of new machinery needed to preserve jobs. Once NAFTA passed, the wage cuts and the tax breaks were not enough to keep those jobs in Fort Wayne. As one longtime GE employee put it, You give them all your life, and this is what they give you. In a cynical recycling of Reagan's failed trickle-down policies, USA NAFTA predicted that NAFTA itself will improve working conditions by generating economic growth, which will enable all three countries to provide more jobs with higher pay in a better working environment. This theory hasn't held up well for workers at Xerox, another USA NAFTA member.
XEROX - After taking a loss in 1993, Xerox profits rose to $794 million on sales of $17.8 billion in 1994. Rather than translate this gain into more jobs or higher pay, the corporation began both laying off workers and bargaining down the wages of those it kept. According to the DoL, Xerox has fired 50 workers in Oakbrook, Illinois, and another 13 in Peabody, Massachusetts, and moved the jobs to Mexico. Under the shadow of those job cuts, it's not surprising that Xerox was able to pressure workers at its Webster, New York facility to accept wage concessions by threatening to move to Mexico. Backed to the wall, the union agreed to reduce base pay rates by 50 percent for new employees and cut workers' compensation in exchange for job guarantees through the year 2001. In a similar move in May 1995, Xerox pressured 700 workers in El Segundo, California, to accept a 20 percent pay cut to save their jobs. The company even demanded the elimination of a paid five-minute break at the end of the day for workers to wash up.
ZENITH - Xerox employees aren't the only U.S. workers who have seen a drop in wages and working conditions. A June 1995 U.S. Department of Labor report revealed that real wages across the country dropped by 2.3 percent between March 1994 and March 1995, even though productivity had risen by 2.1 percent. Economists offer numerous explanations for the declining pay, but the increased power of corporations to bargain down their wages by threatening to move overseas is certainly a major factor. At Zenith's Springfield, Missouri plant, workers accepted an 8.2 percent wage cut in 1987 under threat of losing their jobs to Mexico. However, in spite of these concessions, USA NAFTA member Zenith has laid off 430 workers in Springfield and another 80 in Chicago after NAFTA took effect, and moved the jobs to Mexico. According to one of the Springfield employees, If [we] didn't give them the wage concession, they were going to move to Mexico. We just gave more. We just helped pay for it. South of the border, the TV maker is notorious for its rock-bottom wages. A March 1995 pay stub from one Zenith worker in Mexico showed he was making less than 50 cents an hour. On top of the low pay, Zenith's Mexican workers often face health risks. According to the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM), thousands of child-bearing-age women work with lead solder in Zenith's TV factories without proper training about its dangers or adequate protective equipment. A 1994 inspection of one Zenith plant in Reynosa revealed that eye protection and gloves were unavailable and unidentified containers of glue sat open on the floor.
ALCOA - NAFTA critics claimed that the agreement would add extra incentive for U.S. firms in highly toxic industries to avoid expensive safety measures and lawsuits by relocating to Mexico, where they could take advantage of more lax enforcement. A firm like Alcoa, for example, might see the largely unregulated Mexican border area as a pleasant refuge. Ranked by the Environmental Protection Agency as one of the country's top 100 polluters (in terms of toxic releases), Alcoa has been the target of numerous environmental lawsuits. In 1991, it was forced to pay $7.5 million for environmental offenses at its Massena plant in upstate New York. At that time, it was the largest criminal penalty ever paid by a U.S. firm for hazardous waste violations. As a USA NAFTA captain, Alcoa dismissed fears of anti-NAFTA environmentalists, claiming that it was a myth that Mexico has lax enforcement of environmental laws and worker protections and that in any case, protections are strict, and getting stricter. During the first year of NAFTA, Alcoa revealed just how seriously it regards these safeguards. According to CJM, in September and October 1994, a series of three unexplained gas intoxications led to the hospitalization of 226 workers at Alcoa's plant in Ciudad Acu$a. Community activists and the local press accuse the company of threatening to fire workers if they talked publicly about their experiences. CJM also claims that Alcoa management prevented health officials from inspecting the facilities until it was too late to conduct meaningful air quality tests. Nonetheless, health officials found that the gases had caused sudden spells of nausea, headaches, dizziness and fainting. So far, these incidents have not resulted in legal action against Alcoa.
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL - The effects of NAFTA in the U.S. are also increasingly toxic not so much to the health of workers (U.S. environmental standards have yet to fall because of NAFTA) but to the health of communities around the country. Last year Baxter International, a medical equipment manufacturer and USA NAFTA member, laid off 830 workers in Kingstree, South Carolina (population 4,000), after deciding to shift production overseas. About 120 of the workers, who made medical procedure trays, qualified for the NAFTA retraining program because their jobs were moving to Mexico. The rest, whose jobs were destined for Asia, were rejected. The layoffs dealt a devastating blow to the entire county, which already had the state's lowest per capita income ($10,255) and highest unemployment rate (13.6 percent). The layoffs also contributed to racial tensions in the county, which is 65 percent African American. Angered by the possibility that the loss of so many jobs might drive up local taxes and crime, residents of a small, predominantly white town tried to secede and join a neighboring county that is predominantly white and more affluent. The Justice Department refused the request, but the secession attempt created deep wounds in the community. Baxter CEO Vernon Loucks, Jr., is far removed from the type of day-to-day economic struggles faced by his company's former employees in Kingstree. A Wall Street Journal article on imperial perks featured Loucks and reported that in 1993, Baxter paid him $79,600 for personal travel by him and his family on the company jet, and kicked in another $33,450 for club membership fees. Loucks was also reimbursed nearly $100,000 for taxes attributable to use of aircraft, a car allowance, a financial counseling allowance, and the maintenance of a home security system. With all those angry unemployed workers out there, the company apparently feels obligated to pay for Loucks' personal security.
USA NAFTA MARCHES ON - The groups that fought against NAFTA particularly the citizens' coalitions formed by labor, environmental, consumer, family farm and other groups are proud that they took on practically the entire Fortune 500 and nearly won. (The vote was 234 to 200 in the House). At the same time, the experience was a chilling reminder of how things work in Washington. USA NAFTA representing more economic clout than many nation- states wrapped its self-serving lobbying campaign in an American flag. During the past two years, that flag has proved to have an exceptionally slick Teflon coating. The group has suffered neither negative publicity nor political disfavor, despite NAFTA's miserable results so far. Nor have USA NAFTA members drawn fire for the way they contributed to and benefited from the failure of NAFTA to fulfill its stated promises. Their star-spangled report, NAFTA: It's Working for America, opens with a quote from USA NAFTA Chair and AlliedSignal CEO Lawrence Bossidy. Today, it is clear that NAFTA is a success, he proclaims. Exports to Mexico and Canada are up, and we've been able to create thousands of new jobs here in the United States. By any standards, NAFTA is surely a winner.
As Bossidy indicates, U.S. exports to Mexico did indeed increase in 1994. However, what the report fails to point out is that during that time, U.S. imports from Mexico increased at a faster rate and displaced U.S. jobs by muscling out American products. Since the peso devaluation in December 1994, the U.S. trade surplus with Mexico has turned into a large and growing deficit expanding from $885 million in May 1994 to $6.9 billion a year later, and thereby wiping out any basis for claiming that NAFTA is a net job creator for U.S. workers. The bulk of the USA*NAFTA report is a state-by-state listing of jobs created by NAFTA. However, a careful examination reveals a sleight of hand. Almost all of the job claims are empty statements by USA NAFTA firms that they intend to hire more workers, not that they have already created actual jobs. Although USA NAFTA's work was completed with the passage of the agreement, the coalition continues to play an important political role in supporting the free trade model. When President Clinton was attempting to mobilize congressional support for the financial bailout of Mexico in January 1995, he arranged for lobbyists from 150 USA NAFTA firms to meet in Washington. Business Week reported that Rep. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.), Clinton's chief congressional strategist on NAFTA, told the group, You got us NAFTA. Now you can deliver on this one, too. The article described USA NAFTA's strategy as two-fold: mobilizing its troops to voice their support for the bailout package, and fear-mongering among border state legislators by claiming that an aborted bailout might trigger a flood of illegal immigrants. In the end, Clinton did not need USA NAFTA's help on the bailout, since he opted to bypass Congress with an executive order. However, the administration is clearly confident that the old USA NAFTA gang can still wield enough influence and con artistry to help push another free trade agreement through Congress. Otherwise, the administration might not have rushed into its latest round of trade negotiations aimed at expanding NAFTA to include Chile. President Clinton reportedly would like to push the expanded NAFTA through Congress before the 1996 election. When that bill comes up for a vote, USA NAFTA's patriotic neckties will no doubt reappear in the halls of Congress. CovertAction Quarterly has won numerous awards for investigative journalism. It is read around the world by investigative reporters, activists, scholars, intelligence buffs, news junkies, and anyone who wants to know the news and analysis behind the soundbites and headlines. Recommended by Noam Chomsky; targeted by the CIA (NAFTA's Corporate Con Artists by Sarah Anderson & Kristyne Peter).


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Megaupload raid warrant 'invalid', New Zealand judge says
- 28 June 2012
- From the section Technology
The search warrants used to raid the home of Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom were invalid, a New Zealand judge has ruled.
Action by the FBI to copy data and take it offshore to the US was also deemed unlawful.
"The warrants did not adequately describe the offences to which they related," High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann said.
Mr Dotcom was arrested, along with four others, in January.
Millions of dollars in assets were seized or frozen including almost 20 luxury vehicles, dozens of computers and art works.
However, Justice Winkelmann said the warrant for the search fell "well short" of outlining Mr Dotcom's alleged offences.
"They were general warrants, and as such, are invalid," she said.
In response to the judge's decision, New Zealand police said they were in discussions with Crown Law "to determine what further action might be required".
Mr Dotcom's site was said to have made $175m since 2005 by copying and distributing copyrighted material without authorisation.
The site's lawyers have said Megaupload simply offered online storage.
Mr Dotcom is currently on bail.


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Ok I am going to keep a running list of ideas that have been said over these threads and separate them from organize and let organize have its own list as well.
Please check this list before you post a new thread! Thanks for all the input so far and keep it coming. Running list of trade ideas: -An indication if you already have the card when trading with someone. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1474129.html -Sub folders under Folders. Example: Baseball(folder), braves(sub folder), jones(collection) http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1474129.html -Match Maker, when searching for a trade list the most recent match first. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1474129.html -Sort By BV when looking at someones organize in trade. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1491989.html -Filter someones org by your wants. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1491989.html -Search feature for what is out there for trade. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1492511.html -Make sure when trading for a card you already have the quantity in the wants box goes up instead of creating a new item. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1491924.html -This thread has many good ideas listed. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1470358.html -Trade Comments specify a character limit visually. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1488791.html -"I'm available for trade" toggle. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1490861.html - Good Ideas http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1496587.html Logan Fisher Sr UI Designer Beckett Media LLC |
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"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Past opportunities have gone, future have not come."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Next to knowing when to seize and opportunity, the most important thing is life is to know when to forego an advantage."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities."
John Wicker
"If you want something to change your life, you must first let it!"
N. S. Cole
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Game day has arrived once more, my fuzzy-faced friends. Four games have passed thus far, some of us have been lectured by our bosses on our unkept visages, some have likely had significant others part ways (Not me, I actually got a number unsolicited the other day. Go beard!); but despite any misfortunes, the bearded ones persevere. As such we come to Game 5 tonight, with the Capitals returning home to the Verizon Center intent on closing out the series with the 'Nads. From starting the series with a loss, the once-scraggly Caps have grown into a well-bearded offensive machine, even Nicklas Backstrom, whose face is forever frozen in time at age 13.
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You probably are wondering why I am posting a recipe using Guinness almost two months before St. Patrick's Day. But I was so excited about this I couldn't wait!!
A couple of years ago we went to Ireland and made the obligatory trek to the Guinness Storehouse. Figuring we'd need a little sustenance before imbiging sampling, we decided to have lunch at their restaurant (well, that and we had two teenage boys with us – 'nuff said).
As we sat ogling the panoramic view of Dublin (and trying to decide if a full pint was a wee bit much at lunch!!) the waiter brought us a basket of brown bread to tide us over until our entrees arrived (and probably to help soak up some of those pints we'd decided on!) . But not just any brown bread – it was the best brown bread of the entire trip – and maybe in my whole life.
So there was no question I had to get the recipe – but despite my efforts it was a no – go. The waiter had no idea how the bread was made and the pastry chef in charge of making the bread was off. The recipe book in the gift shop had lots of great Guinness recipes – but no brown bread.
Once home I searched the web- no luck. Although I have a pretty darn good Brown Bread recipe, it isn't the same as the one I'd had at Guinness.
So, I figured it was just "one of those things" and as they say, "life moves on". Recently though I was surfing the web and came across the Guinness website and clicked on their recipe section – you know, just in case that brown bread recipe was there.
And it was. Have I mentioned how much I really love the internet?
Needless to say, I ran right out and got some Guinness and set to work on the bread. Time hadn't dulled my affection for this loaf – it was as good as I remembered- and it's the perfect thing to go with soups, stews and winter salads – or as a little snack, toasted and spread with some good Kerrygold butter and a bit of Dubliner cheese.
Oh, and it's a "quick bread" – which totally works for me since as you know, I sort of have a problem remembering to make bread.
Yields 2 loaves
The original recipe can be found on the Guinness website. I've converted from the metric and made a couple of changes. The original recipe calls for black treacle which is very similar to molasses. If you can find black treacle, by all means use it, but I found molasses works as well. Also, the original recipe called for twice as much molasses/black treacle which to me made the bread sweeter than I remembered it so I reduced the amount by half. Finally, I sprinkled additional oats on top of the loaves which of course is entirely optional!
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- 3 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 1/4 cups white flour
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 2 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 1/2 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
- 2 cups whole milk
- 7 Tbsp. plus 2 tsp. unsulfured molasses
- 1 cup Guinness
- Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees and grease two 81/2 x 41/2 loaf pans. In the bowl of a food processor combine the flours, baking soda and brown sugar with the butter until the mixture resembles coarse sand. Stir in 3/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. of the oats. Add the milk, molasses and the Guinness. Stir to combine (the dough will be very wet). Evenly divide the dough between the two loaf pans. Sprinkle the tops with the remaining 2 Tbsp. oats. Bake for 40 - 45 minutes until the bread is nicely browned and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.


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The MessageTransaction class represents an action that can take place on a particular message in the message database.
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bb::pim::account::AccountKey | accountId () const |
ConversationKey | conversationId () const |
FolderKey | folderId () const |
bb::pim::message::TransactionKey | id () const |
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An enumeration of possible message transaction types.
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Copy constructor.
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The account ID as an AccountKey object.
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The conversation ID as a ConversationKey object.
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Returns the folder ID of this MessageTransaction.
The folder ID as a FolderKey object.
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Indicates whether this MessageTransaction is a valid transaction.
true if this MessageTransaction is valid, false otherwise.
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The MessageTransaction from which to copy all values. |
A MessageTransaction with all copied data.
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I still want to see them test the waters with her and McBride. I don't know why, but I think that would be hot.
I still want to see them test the waters with her and McBride. I don't know why, but I think that would be hot.
Count your blessings!
Oh see I think they fit quite well. I definitely think Sean is savvy and smart, and he can be charming and funny - with the right woman I don't think he's uneducated, but you're right, he probably doesn't have the Ivy league background and success in the same way as Ned. I can't remember, do we know much about him before he joined the service? I do think he's a good contrast for Alexis though, and he definitely brings out her fun side. He's a good guy with an edge....which I think is perfect for Alexis And the two of them crossing paths works, it doesn't seem contrived since the kids are dating. I guess time will tell if the pairing works - it's very new - but as far as I'm concerned, anything that gives Sean an excuse to take off his shirt works for me Now Carly and Todd - that's a relationship I can't wait for them to really explore!! It's coming, I know it is....right?.....pretty please?.......
FYI -I read in the new issue of TV guide that a "popular villain" who is "thought to be dead" is behind Robin's abduction. Fingers crossed - sounding more and more like Faison!!
"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world."
"I lost my dignity on a slippery wiener."
Well, that description certainly doesn't fit the usual villian, Helena, who's very much alive so far as we know. So maybe Faison...
Grrr, I missed yesterday by messing up my taping, so now I have to try to deduce how Todd and Johnny ended their discussion. I take it that Trey is drawing the line at marrying the mob princess.
Not that there aren't plenty of other supposedly dead Cassidine's they could roll out As for Johnny and Todd, basically they decided it was in each other's best interest to keep their respective secrets. But you know Todd won't sit still for long knowing Johnny killed his grand daughter!!
"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world."
"I lost my dignity on a slippery wiener."
Thanks, Katydyd! I figured---how else will they drag it out for a bit. And true, lots of other Cassidines out there...Helena was often avenging them, but that doesn't mean they are really dead--it's soapland!
There are lots of supposedly dead villains, but this one would have to have some reason to want to make everyone think that Robin is dead. And have access to the GH lab, AT THE EXACT MOMENT that Robin is in there working with volatile chemicals. AT THE EXACT MOMENT that Maxi clumbsily opens/breaks the spigot that allows the toxic gas to start flowing. Of course Ewan is someone who could have been placed in a position to do all of that ---- but outside of SoapOperaLand, it would be pretty unlikely.
The thing is, Patrick was talking to Robin through the door right up until the explosion happened, yet she doesn't have a single burn on her. Does this mean there is another exit from the lab that only the undead villain knows about?
So cute how Sean and Alexis were crushing on each other. Of course they have to draw things out with the stripper kiss interrupting her awkward approach.
I wasn't around for Faison. I'll have to look him up on Wiki.
And Todd is not going to let things drop. He needs to find a way to undo the baby switch and blame it all on Heather.
Count your blessings!
I just saw the first commercials today advertising the new air time for GH. Poop. It's been at 2PM since I was a little kid. It's going to be hard to remember the new time. It's ingrained in me that 2:00 = GH time!
I'm enjoying Alexis and Sean together. Finally, there's someone that seems to think about her when she's not being thrown at him by her daughters! I like Mac, but he never seemed to care much about Alexis as soon as she was out of his sight. It's been a long, cold Winter for Alexis, if you know what I mean. She deserves some action! As odd as the revelation about Sam being her daughter seemed in the beginning, I really like their relationship now.
I can't believe I actually felt sorry for Kristina today. I hope Trey gets found out before this goes too far. When it does come out, I don't think Joe Jr. will live very long.
Faison was an excellent villain and considering that he was Robert and Anna's arch enemy, it would make perfect sense that he'd be behind Robin's kidnapping. I'd love to see Anders Hove back on the show. He was so deliciously evil! If they're bringing back old characters and one we thought we're dead, Faison would be at the top of my list. He was one of those great "love to hate him" villains. Imagine how Anna and Luke would react to seeing him again!
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' - Isaac Asimov
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
I think there's hope for Trey. Even though he's Joe Scully Jr's son, it seems like he's not a totally bad guy. At least he has a consicious and tried to not have to do something bad to Kristina. And in an odd way, I interpreted his giving in to his dad, whom he seems to love very much, as being a good loyal son, not an evil one.
And I have no sympathy for Kristina at all. The girl deserves exactly what she gets. She got involved with Trey purposely to wreck havoc and get revenge on her parents because they committed the horrible crime of helping her get into Yale. She has always been selfish, conniving, and arrogant. Admittedly, she's had some bad luck with boys, (Kiefer, Ethan, and now Trey) but she brings it on herself. No sympathy here.
Well shoot. I guess Jerry is better than Helena, but I'd still be SO much happier if the bad guy was Faison....and frankly, he would make much more sense. Did Jerry even KNOW Robin? What did I miss? Why is he involved?
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' - Isaac Asimov
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Disney is making a Pirates of the Caribbean-style Don Quixote movie
The film is unrelated to Terry Gilliam's long-gestating Quixote project
The film is unrelated to Terry Gilliam's long-gestating Quixote project
Well done, Disney: you scared the kids
Overworked, under-staffed...guardian angels don't have it easy either
The ICA's director is stepping down amid reports of resignations and staff revolt. But is this crisis just a symptom of the sickness of the avant-garde?
Forget the plot (an immortal man risks losing his daughter in a bet with the devil) and revel in the fantastical world Terry Gilliam summons in this exposition on the imperative of the imagination (in the film industry as much as life itself).
Former co-stars' simmering 35-year feud boils over
Comedy stars shared some laughs and tips at the London Evening Standard Film awards on Monday night.
I became a member of Jack White's Third Man Records' 7-inch vinyl record singles club, which I thought was a great idea. I particularly like Dan Sartain, who is signed to the label. I also love Sweet Billy Pilgrim's album 'Twice Born Men'. It has been a while since I've played a record over and over again like this.
'Life of Brian' has been resurrected as something completely different: an oratorio for orchestra, 160 choristers and four of the surviving Pythons. It is, Eric Idle tells Andrew Johnson, very silly indeed
<b>David Usborne</b> meets the predictably anarchic Pythons in Manhattan.
There are moments in the new Terry Gilliam movie when his florid animations burst out of nowhere, reminding you of those giant trompe l'oeils he famously conjured for Monty Python.
The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast 40 years ago today. John Walsh dusts off the tapes to see if the old ones really are the best
A dead A-lister, a dwarf, a trio of male cuties and a former Python with a wacky cackle drew the world's paparazzi to the Cannes Croisette last night for the first showing of Heath Ledger's final performance – but Terry Gilliam's fantasy tale The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus still lacks a distributor.
The Monty Python film arrives in Aberystwyth, 30 years late. Richard Osley reports
Terry Gilliam managed to complete his latest film, 'The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus', despite the death of its star midway through production. But we may never get to see it. Guy Adams reports
The famous Monty Python comedy The Life of Brian is to be screened for the first time in a holiday resort after a council ban was declared void, it was announced today.


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