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Athena Hotelware Oval Coupe Plates 305 x 241 mm CC212
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Athena Hotelware CC212 summary12 x 9 1/2'
Why should I buy the Athena Hotelware CC212?
Great value 12x 9 ½' porcelain oval Coupe plates from Athena Hotelware which is tough, functional and practical making this crockery range popular, ideal for use in pubs, canteens and bistros. This item is guaranteed by the Edge Chip Warranty.
- Colour: White
- Shape: Oval
- Oven, Microwave and dishwasher safe
- Super vitrified durable glaze
- Chip-resistant Rolled edges
- This item is guaranteed by the Edge Chip Warranty
- Box quantity 6
- Dimensions 305x 241mm/ 12x 9 1/2'
- Material Porcelain
- Weight - Packed 15 kg
- Dimensions - Packed 270(H) x 230(W) x 330(D) mm
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category Brand Athena Hotelware External Size (mm) 305 x 241mm/ 12 x 9 1/2 Box Quantity 6 Crockery Type Plates Material Porcelain
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What are we fighting for? What are we using our treasure and our young soldiers for? How many are suffering because we are present in Central Asia? From our friends at "Voters for Peace", here's two good articles from them today. read it in full, click here.
Substitute "Afghanistan" for Viet Nam, and substitute "Commies" for "Taliban", and if we had a DRAFT, this war would be over. Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock says it all:
Opposition to Afghanistan conflict not just a liberal issue anymore
North Carolina Senate candidate Elaine Marshall (D) opposed the surge of troops to Afghanistan and wants American forces to withdraw from the country in an orderly fashion.
"We're spending billions to train a corrupt police force there, and here at home we're laying off policemen and firefighters," she said in a statement. "We're hiring teachers over there, and here we're sending teachers to the unemployment lines. If there's a country we need to rebuild, it's America."
And, More:
Liberal Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who faces a tough reelection fight, has been outspoken about a timetable for Afghanistan. He reiterated that stance Thursday.
"Rather than send more troops to Afghanistan, where there is no military solution, the president should lay out a timetable for ending our military involvement there so we are better able to combat al Qaeda's global network without needlessly risking American lives and spending dollars we don't have," he said in a statement.
Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan
by GLEN JOHNSON
Associated Press Read the full story, click here.
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
With just over 10 weeks before nationwide elections that could define the remainder of Obama's first term, only 38 percent say they support his expanded war effort in Afghanistan – a drop from 46 percent in March. Just 19 percent expect the situation to improve during the next year, while 29 percent think it will get worse. Some 49 percent think it will remain the same.


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|2005-12-18, 23:25
|Link #1
Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
Higurashi - Game Discussion (spoilers lurk here)
[Thread lost, need to re-create]
This thread is dedicated to discuss about the doujin game "Higurashi no Naku Koroni."
The red Na is an official part of the title, please use that when referring to the game or the upcoming anime.
Higurashi anime thread: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=26477
07th Expansion HP: http://07th-expansion.net/
Upcoming anime HP: http://www.oyashirosama.com/
|2005-12-18, 23:51
|Link #2
~Night of Gales~
Join Date: Dec 2005
Question, kj.
First, why does the Na signify as a whole in the game? I know it's part of the title, but there has to be some symbolic meaning....
Second, how long are these novels compared to 1 scenario of F/SN and W-Wish? If this novel is too long, I rather not ask my cousin in Japan to send them to me as I don't plan to translate while reading for 80 hours. My Jap is bad, so meh.
|2005-12-19, 01:42
|Link #3
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
Actually, I used to wonder about that too, and now that I'm pretty much caught up with the game (finishing up Tsumihoroboshi)... I still don't know.
Maybe I'm just slow. (Like how when Shion was mentally ridiculing Keiichi and Rena near the end of Meakashi for not being able to see through her deception, I felt like she was ridiculing me as well)
But Fate only had 3 scenarios, Higurashi so far has 6 chapters (Onikakushi, Watanagashi, Tatarigoroshi, Himatsubushi, Meakashi, Tsumihoroboshi), with 2 more to come (the next (7th) one, Minagoroshi, will be out in a couple of weeks at the Winter Comike), so if you're only starting now, it'll be a while before you can get caught up (unless you have some insane ability to read without having to rest).
(Just for fun) I'm curious, kj-san, what are your personal character rankings? And how have they changed with each new chapter? For example, here's my ranking:
Spoiler for rank chart:
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|2005-12-19, 06:00
|Link #4
~Night of Gales~
Join Date: Dec 2005
Crap, that is long. I'll ask my cousin to send the 1st Question, Onikakushi and I'll evaluate if I want the rest. And I have quite a lot of spare time these coming months, so I can take it. Judging from what you say, I'd probably need 25 to 35 hours per scenario.
|2005-12-19, 07:24
|Link #5
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
As per Kj's request, spoiler removed
Also I'm wondering about something : if someone is indeed responsible for the Tatari, would he have to have a portrait ?
The more I try to think about it, the more I end up thinking the last chapter will be nothing but disappointment.
The value of Higurashi is definitely in the mystery.
Last edited by Freakman; 2006-04-21 at 14:08.
|2005-12-19, 15:12
|Link #6
Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
Information regarding Higurashi no Naku Koroni doujin games
"Question" Arcs
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Onikakushi-hen
Comike 62 (2002.08.10)
Included chapter:
Chapter 1: Onikakushi-hen
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Watanagashi-hen
Comike 63 (2002.12.29)
Included chapters:
Chapter 1: Onikakushi-hen
Chapter 2: Watanagashi-hen
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Tatarigoroshi-hen
Comike 64 (2003.08.15)
Included chapters:
Chapter 1: Onikakushi-hen
Chapter 2: Watanagashi-hen
Chapter 3: Tatarigoroshi-hen
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Himatsubushi-hen
Comike 66 (2004.08.13)
Included chapters:
Chapter 1: Onikakushi-hen
Chapter 2: Watanagashi-hen
Chapter 3: Tatarigoroshi-hen
Chapter 4: Himatsubushi-hen
"Answer" Arcs
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai Meakashi-hen
Comike 67 (2004.12.30)
Included chapter:
Chapter 5: Meakashi-hen
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai Tsumihoroboshi-hen
Comike 68 (2005.08.14)
Included chapters:
Chapter 5: Meakashi-hen
Chapter 6: Tsumihorobishi-hen
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai Minagoroshi-hen
Comike 69 (2005.12.30)
Included chapters:
Chapter 5: Meakashi-hen
Chapter 6: Tsumihorobishi-hen
Chapter 7: Minagoroshi-hen
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai Matsuribayashi-hen
Comike 70 (2006.08.13)
Included chapters:
Chapter 5: Meakashi-hen
Chapter 6: Tsumihorobishi-hen
Chapter 7: Minagoroshi-hen
Chapter 8: Matsuribayashi-hen
Fan Disc
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Rei
Comike 71 (2006.12.31)
Included extra stories:
The Chapter After Chapter 8 (Don't read as Chapter 9!): Saikoroshi-hen
Chapter X: Hirukowashi-hen
Chapter X2: Batsukoishi-hen
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|2005-12-19, 16:47
|Link #7
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
|2005-12-20, 22:43
|Link #10
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
But the chapters are all split into intervals and breaks, after every 2 interval is a break that allows you to read new "tips" that you have received. The interval lengths are all pretty consistant across all chapters, I think.
Assuming that, I checked the number of interval (or maybe it's breaks?) there are for Onikakushi using scenario jump mode (a new option available once you finish reading a whole chapter once), and compared it to the other chapters. Onikakushi is somewhat shorter than ones like Watanagashi and Tatarigoroshi (Onikakushi had 15, both Watanagashi and Tatarigoroshi had 21). Himatsubushi was really a "side-story", so it's the shortest chapter (it had 10).
The "Kai" (answer) chapters so far are all pretty long as well, Meakashi had 27 intervals, while Tsumihoroboshi had 26.
I'm not sure if the length of intervals are really consistant across all chapters, but I'm pretty sure that the 2 answer chapters were certainly longer than the earlier chapters.
Speaking of Tsumihoroboshi, I finally finished it yesterday, that means comment time! (Even though close to nobody would be able to respond to me )
First, general comments. I'd just like to say that Tsumihoroboshi was truly the best chapter yet. I finally understood what Ryuukishi07-san is trying to get at with his "same world, alternate result" thing (For example, how Onikakushi-hen was actually a "failed result"). The key does lie in Rika after all (and Keiichi)...
Also, I have always noticed that Ryuukishi07-san always builds up his story in a subtle fashion that leaves you wondering "where is he going with this?", and then totally floor you when the pieces fall together during the second half of the story; but Tsumihoroboshi truly pulled this off more brilliantly than any other chapter.
The amazing part is how the stories are almost self-conscious, Ryuukishi07-san seems to know exactly what I would think as I read the story, and wrote the story out in a way that would always explain any doubts that I might have had. Everytime I saw something that stroke me as "alright, this time, that's just too unreasonable to work in the story", the story would always strike back with a response that makes me go "oh my god, so that's what's it's about!!"
Now, for some comments about Tsumihoroboshi, I won't make any explicit plot references, so it shouldn't really spoil the story, but just in case, I'm putting them in spoilers:
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|2005-12-21, 07:53
|Link #11
Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
Well, it's almost Comike...It's almost time for Minagoroshi!
Sushi-Y, congratulations in completing Tsumihoroboshi before Minagoroshi's release! You are now finally "caught up" with the rest of us Higurashi fans. Let's continue to discuss Higurashi as soon as Minagoroshi is released.
|2005-12-21, 18:41
|Link #12
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
I assume Minagoroshi would be the answer chapter that corresponds with Tatarigoroshi? So Satoko should take the main stage... gimme!
Speaking of which, during Tsumihoroboshi's final portion,
By the way, the Watanagashi-hen drama CD should be out today, but my money......
(That first promo clip with the soul brothers was so brilliant )
|2005-12-24, 05:27
|Link #13
Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
|2005-12-27, 01:29
|Link #14
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
Seems like Twilight Frontier (黄昏フロンティア) is going to be distributing a test version of the Higurashi game they've been working on for a while, "Higurashi Daybreak", at C69. Yay!
Info Page - http://tasofro.net/higurashi/index.html
C69 Info - http://tasofro.net/c69.html
Seriously, this thing is bringing me brain orgasms.
|2005-12-27, 01:43
|Link #15
Resident devil
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Philippines
OMG, seriously, LOOOOOOL
This sort of stuff is why I love the manga / anime / game doujinshi scene in Japan, it really gives the "By Gamers, for Gamers" feeling (btw last I heard Interplay shut down). It's a healthier culture than the Electronic Arts - spoonfed one in the U.S.
Can anyone capture the popup flash from this link and create a gif out of it?
|2005-12-27, 02:55
|Link #16
Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
|2005-12-28, 00:02
|Link #17
Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
The Japanese government-owned broadcasting station NHK did a special on Akihabara yesterday night, and lo and behold it featured "Higurashi no Naku Koroni" for part of its segments on doujin games!!!
Screencap credits: Walking Touhou (for those who can read Japanese)
Last edited by kj1980; 2006-04-21 at 13:30.
|2005-12-28, 02:38
|Link #20
Resident devil
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Philippines
A mouse is your friend. Especially one with a working left button:
Gah, since I've insulted you already, I'll indulge. The lowdown (very general):
* Upcoming anime is based on the best-selling doujin (non-professional) visual novel / game of same title. It's not really an ero-game, because it doesn't have any ero scenes, and it is a straight-through read (no choice options)
* It's a murder mystery in a small town school setting
* The appeal of the game lay with the anticipation of the next chapter (After the question chapters come the answer chapters)
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by Paula M. Riley
It's that time of year again. "March Madness," the name for the NCAA college basketball championship, is upon us. College women hoopsters have already begun their journey on the "Road to the Final Four," and the men's teams begin this weekend with conference tournaments.
Chestnut Hill is hosting its own version of March Madness, and everyone is invited to participate. On Saturday, March 23, at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., boys and girls, ages 6-18, and adults are invited to the first CHCA Hoops Madness. This is a fun morning of basketball with a 3-on-3 tournament and shooting competitions.
"The Chestnut Hill Community Association (CHCA) is excited to host a kid-centric, family focused event," said Brien Tilley, CHCA president.
Tilley is quick to point out that CHCA is not planning this exciting event alone. Matt Paul Basketball is a huge supporter and is collaborating with Tilley on all aspects of the event. Many local organizations have agreed to sponsor CHCA Hoops Madness, including Chestnut Hill Hospital, Chestnut Hill Sports, Cosimo's Pizza, McNally's Tavern and Temple Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine at Chestnut Hill Hospital.
"This is a great collaboration that began with a discussion in the coffee shop," said Matt Paul. "We at Matt Paul Basketball are thrilled to partner with CHCA to provide an outstanding experience. We hope everyone comes out to play and that the event brings all corners of the community together."
Participating children and adults can register as a team of four players (three players with one substitute) or they will be assigned a team on the day of the tournament. Each team will play a minimum of two half-court games and brackets will be based on age groupings. In addition to the 3-on-3 tournament, everyone is invited to the 3-point and foul-shooting competitions and will receive an official CHCA Hoops Madness 2013 tee shirt.
This tourney welcomes players of all levels, and Tilley encourages everyone to give it a try. As Matt Paul likes to say, "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."
There will be plenty of shots taken on the 23rd. The SCH Woodward and Kingsley Gyms host multiple courts, so throughout the event, there will be six games going on at once. When not engaged in tournament games, participants are invited to warm up with Matt Paul Basketball coaches and enter the shooting competitions.
"Between the games, the shooting competition, and the concessions, we think the kids are going to just love this," Tilley said. "we hope that offering a sporting event in such a fun atmosphere will really bring the community together."
His excitement for the day is obvious when he discusses the plans. He has high hopes that participants from the region's many elementary and secondary schools come out and play together.
Chestnut Hill Community Manager Celeste Hardester shares his enthusiasm.
"With Brien Tilley and Matt Paul leading the action," she added, "it's going to be a way-fun tournament!"
Enzo Mandarano, owner of Cosimos, echos her sentiment.
"Cosimo's is happy to help support events for the kids of Chestnut Hill," he said. "We love Brien and Matt and know they will do a great job with the Hoops Madness."
Register for CHCA Hoops Madness at www.chestnuthill.org. The price for children 18 and under is $15; for adult CHCA Members,$20, and for non-members, $25.


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Michael Phelps' sexy girlfriend, 25-year-old Megan Rossee, is an aspring model — and now we know why! She's gorgeous! See more pics and read on for all the details!
Ever since Megan Rossee announced she was dating Olympian Michael Phelps, all eyes have been on her — and we think she likes the attention.
Michael, 27, and Megan, 25, have reportedly been together for over five months, but he's keeping quiet on any relationship details. However, Megan appeared to enjoy cheering on Michael through Twitter while sharing their relationship on Instagram during the Olympics.
On July 28, Megan tweeted, "@MichaelPhelps this probably will get lost in your tweets but since i cant text i miss you and cant wait to spend time with you for real xo."
And when the swimmer and his gal pal walked the red carpet at a Speedo event on August 6, Megan seemed to enjoy being in the spotlight.
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do Michael and Megan make a cute couple?
— Christopher Rogers
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Educational Purpose
To present interesting cases with various types of anemia's to an expert faculty member for a discussion on the analysis of anemia, in particular the inherited anemias. To train fellows in abnormal blood cell recognition from the peripheral blood smear.
Principal Teaching Method
Case based learning from patients seen on either consult service or in the clinics. The attending is a senior faculty member with extensive experience in both research on red cells and clinical experience in managing patients with hemoglobinopathies and red cell membrane problems.
Most Important Educational Goal
Exposure of the fellow to the diagnosis and management of congenital hemolytic (and other) anemias, especially the more uncommon types.
Site Resources
Montefiore is a large hospital with various ethnic populations who have different inherited anemias. In addition, it has a large NIH sponsored Sickle Cell Center from which it draws clinical cases. These conferences are held at the teaching microscope in the Hematology suite.
Division of HematologyAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
Jack and Pearl Resnick CampusUllmann 921Bronx, NY 10461
718-430-2186Fax: 718-430-8855
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Cross-Traffic Alert
Cruise Control
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Driver Adjustable Lumbar
Driver Air Bag
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Engine Immobilizer
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Working with ORC and Parquet Files using Apache Zeppelin
You will learn
You will learn how to load data from ORC and Parquet files into SAP Vora engine.
Next up you will look into working with popular file types in data management namely ORC and Parquet files, the smallest, fastest columnar storage for Hadoop workloads. SAP Vora 1.4 supports both file types.
Apache ORC is a self-describing type-aware columnar file format designed for Hadoop workloads. It is optimized for large streaming reads, but with integrated support for finding required rows quickly.
Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format available to any project in the Hadoop ecosystem, regardless of the choice of data processing framework, data model or programming language.
Start this tutorial by launching the Zeppelin notebook
6_ORC and Parquet files.
In order to create ORC and Parquet files you will switch to Spark context. More information about Spark SQL methods and function can be found here:
Run the highlighted paragraphs in the notebook.
In the next step use
StructType to create a structured data frame of the data set.
StructType is a built-in data type in Spark SQL to represent a collection of fields.
Then create a fixed value called
options that stores required option as strings. This will be passed in as Vora options.
Create a data frame with the defined schema and options. This also includes the source file being loaded.
Select the desired columns from the
PRODUCT_CSV data frame and write them to HDFS in Parquet format.
If you receive an error that the file already exists please change the output file to something like
/user/vora/products_p_2.parquetto ensure its uniqueness.
Move to the next paragraph and create an ORC output file.
If you receive an error that the file already exists, then please update the statement and change to something like
Now you can create an in-memory Vora resident table, using ORC and Parquet files for loading data.
pathsoption is updated with previous step changes
Run the next paragraph and select data from the newly created table containing data loaded from your Parquet file.
Final step of this tutorial is to create a table from your ORC based file and select data from the table.
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Post subject: What happened to the GOP in California?
California--one of the state's leading the recovery and the innovation economy--now appears to have a supermajority of Democrats in the legislature. What happened? Interesting article:
The GOP challenge: Looking to California for lessons on how to change
By Patrick May and Matt O'Brien Staff writers San Jose Mercury News
Posted: MercuryNews.com
As California goes, so goes the nation.
Republicans who missed the lesson of the Golden State's shift from friend of the Grand Old Party to Democratic super majority may be giving the state another look amid the soul-searching a day after Barack Obama's solid defeat of Mitt Romney.
Just as the GOP years ago backed itself into a political-minority box in California by appealing to a vocal but shrinking base of white male voters while alienating other groups, many Republicans on Wednesday admitted they now face the same outcome on a national level unless they radically alter their strategy.
"The national Republican Party is following the path of the California GOP, which means they're doomed unless they can find a way to reach not only Hispanic and Asian voters, but also women and even gays and lesbians,'' said Terry Christensen, political science professor emeritus at San Jose State University.
Not since Bob Dole's 1996 loss to Bill Clinton has any Republican, or any candidate, ranked as poorly among Latino voters, according to the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center, and never has it mattered so much.
The nonwhite voter turnout on Tuesday reached a record 28 percent, and the Latino turnout a record 10 percent. Exit polls Tuesday showed that Obama won a startling 71 percent of the Hispanic vote and 73 percent of the fast-growing Asian-American electorate, while Romney carried 59 percent of the white vote.
"When Pete Wilson was (re)elected governor of California by essentially running against Latinos, I remember saying, 'They've just given away their future,''' said professor John Elwood at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. "Ever since then, consultants have been telling the GOP they've got to do something different or their future is gone."
California's Latinos were becoming steadily more Republican throughout the 1980s and early 1990s until state voters passed Proposition 187, the 1984 Wilson-backed measure to exclude illegal immigrants from nearly all public services, including public schools, said Stanford University political scientist Gary Segura.
That divisive, racially-charged period turned the tide of California politics, with more than 1 million Latinos registering to vote in the next six years and most siding with Democrats, Segura said.
That "created the California we have today," said Segura, with Democrats running all branches of government.
After Obama's victory Tuesday, built solidly on support from Latinos and other minorities, Republicans are now left looking at California as a warning of how a narrow game plan must be broadened to appeal to a changing electorate.
Obama didn't simply thump Romney in Tuesday's election, by winning Electoral College-rich battleground states like Ohio and Virginia. He exposed the faulty wiring of a Republican party that must win over Hispanics, Asians, women and young people as Obama did so dramatically in the polls.
Along with strong majorities of black, Latino and Asian voters, Obama won 60 percent of voters under 30; among women, the president took 55 percent of the vote; while Romney won 52 percent of men.
Romney could have learned from the mistakes of friend and fellow business executive Meg Whitman, who just two years ago lost a gubernatorial election after moving right to win the primary and alienating California's growing Latino electorate, said Arnold Torres, a Sacramento political analyst and strategist.
"Romney took what happened with Whitman and repeated it," Torres said.
Republicans could also have learned from the success of George W. Bush, who won 40 percent of Latino voters in 2004 thanks, in part, to a more inclusive tone and less partisan approach to the immigration debate, Torres said.
Instead, "I think the Republican party made a decision, and they were very well aware of it, that they can try to win this election without the minority vote, to push that white vote as best they can," Torres said. "If you look at those rallies, there was no color, no rainbow, nothing except white voters."
Those televised images weren't lost on voters like Janice Pennisi, a third-generation Italian-American from Walnut Creek who voted for Obama not necessarily because she thought he was the best candidate -- but because the idea of voting for Romney was a complete turnoff.
"I couldn't relate because he just seemed to represent rich, white men to me," she said. "Going forward, Republicans ... need to come back more to the center if they ever hope to get my vote."
Republicans lost some Latinos with their threats to repeal Obama's health care reform, according to the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. Conservative stands on abortion and same-sex marriage lost ground with younger voters who have more liberal social views, and some Republican candidates' high-profile gaffes about rape offended scores of women of all backgrounds.
Romney's tack to the right on immigration during the primary and comment about "self deportation" may have been his defining problem for Latino voters, according to polls that measured how Latinos viewed the election.
The hard question for Republicans is whether they're willing to modify some of these positions to attract a wider range of voters. On Wednesday, some pundits continued to insist that isn't necessary.
"No doubt the media will insist that Republicans must change, must sprint to the center, must embrace social liberalism ..." Fred Barnes wrote on The Weekly Standard blog. "All that is hogwash, which is why Republicans are likely to reject it. Their ideology is not a problem."
Former Bush speech writer David Frum tweeted a different message: "First step toward Republican recovery in 2016: insult fewer people."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc. Contact Matt O'Brien at 510-293-2465 or follow him at Twitter.com/mattoyeah.
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There's a lot of truth in the above commentary. I have to wonder though whether Fox News is prepared to change their message and focus on a more center oriented outlook and agenda, or whether they will continue to fan the flames of a far right oriented agenda. I think that we all know that in the next 4 years that the Obama Administration is going to ramp up to address our illegal immigration problem. Can the Republicans reshape their party to embrace immigration reform? I'm thinking that if they can't, their numbers and support will continue to dwindle.
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Just going by the stated topic, part of the problem is the GOP's tolerance and inclusion of the far right's obsession with social issues. The federal government already has its mitts (chuckle) far enough, arguably too far, into everybody's private lives; we don't need Uncle Sam into our pants clear up to his elbows. Every time some interviewer, moderator, muckraker, rabblerouser, or activist asks any presidential candidate his position on legislation regarding abortion, gay marriage, Ten Commandments posting, free Fluking rubbers, evolution, bible passages, and dozens of other such nationally unimportant issues guaranteed to repel ideologues, the right answer for both political and national reasons, IMO, should look something like this:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Stephanopoulos, but that should be a state issue, not a federal one, for several reasons. We already have plenty of federal laws on that issue, states are closer to the people and are thus in a better position to meet local needs and interests, and a wide variety of state approaches gives individuals greater choices in where and how they wish to live. The federal government's job is to address issues only it
address, such as national security, the national and global economy, and a few limited such issues truly too big for a state to manage. My administration should not and will not take strong stances on issues that can be handled at state levels without conflicting with the national interest."
The short version: "RTFC".
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:35 pm
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"legislation regarding abortion, gay marriage, Ten Commandments posting, free Fluking rubbers, evolution, bible passages, and dozens of other such nationally unimportant issues guaranteed to repel ideologues..."
What the hell? Nationally unimportant issues? Our character from the Great Northwest is the poster child for bogus "states rights" nonsense that would Balkanize and weaken our nation in so many different ways. States should have the right to limit our liberties and freedoms? Coming from a guy that grew up in Alabama, it's no smaller wonder that he would rally around and promote nonsense.
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Colorado is now both houses and Gov under the Democrats. The analysis here is that voters went party line and the Democrats rode Obama coat tails.
Also, there are elements of what Mac's article suggested. Hispanics are becoming a force in Colorado. They now join women and younger voters to reshape the electorate. Colorado used to be a gimme for Republican Pres. candidates.
This is not, necessarily, a good thing. The mixed legislature and a centrist Gov. was working pretty well for Colorado. (unless you are gay and wanted to be married).
The Repubs blew it on social issues and immigration here. Now, leaders of both houses are gay and the Gov. has already indicated he will sign a civil union bill which was blocked by Repubs in the last session. When will the Repubs get over gay marriage?
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When they dump the biblethumpers at the federal level.
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Just going by the stated topic
Why don't try reading the post under the stated topic. Or are you chicken?
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CB--I agree completely, and for someone who refuses to participate in an actual discussion, Isobars got it close to right. Pandering to the religious right, and their casting the ability to control the private social behavior of those who don't share their religious views, is a significant part of the Republican party's difficulties. So is amateurism. Government will not ever be as efficient as business, and will always need shaking up. Having an understanding of what government does that is important, what it does because it was once important--but isn't so much any more--, and having the patience to actually reform government takes something more than a 2 year term in the House of Representatives from a Tea Party district.
The name calling of women, and the description of the Catholic bishops of denying birth control to non-Catholics who work at their charitable institutions as religious freedom are huge problems. Not many Catholics in this country listen to the Catholic bishops--and even fewer agree with their ideas from the Spanish inquisition.
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From the Denver Post
In addition, Republican Mario Nicolais of Lakewood said the GOP is on the wrong side of equality for gays. The spokesman for a pro civil-unions GOP group, Nicolais correctly predicted in May that the fallout over the death of a civil-unions bill in the House would make it harder for the GOP to maintain the majority. Democrats picked up at least five seats Tuesday night, knocking out four incumbent lawmakers.
"I know that there are a lot of Republicans who have said, 'Look, why do we even have to talk about this? Can't we just talk about jobs and the economy? That's the important part,' " Nicolais said.
But when people don't trust you to be compassionate about the people they love and the people they want to spend their lives with, they're certainly not going to trust you to be compassionate about jobs and the economy.
This Republican Legislator has it figured out.
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"Compassion", as a national policy, is neither a goal or a path to freedom and national success. It's why liberals are called bleeding hearts, and slavish devotion to it leads to an unearned entitlement mentality followed by national bankruptcy, a la Greece. What is both "compassionate" and sustainable, at the federal level, is providing an adequately regulated framework that at least allows, hopefully encourages and enables, every citizen an equal opportunity to become as successful as he desires. That's capitalism, not Marxism or fascism or socialism or just giving STUFF to people so they will vote for your party. Feeding a stray dog is not compassion; it merely enables its subsistence ... just like prolonged unemployment benefits and tax "rebates" for people who choose not to earn enough to pay taxes. Every dog needs a home and most people need a job, and "compassion" is giving both a chance at that home or job, not just tossing it a bone and shoving it out of the way. Jobs and the economy aren't about "compassion"; they include identifying (or creating) a need, supplying a product or service which meets that need, hiring people to produce that product, and running the company well enough to keep it in the black so those jobs are sustainable. Keeping unproductive workers out of compassion for them harms everyone, for several obvious reasons.
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View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:16 pm Post subject: Never mess with the grannies! ...or they'll split your head with an axe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20301022 Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 11514Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:18 pm Post subject: Cannot help picturing her in a class, ax at her side, just waiting for a poor explanation of a grammar point or a silly exercise Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:13 pm Post subject: Can we rename 'the observer effect' 'the Axe effect' then? Teachers would have good reason to mewl and whinge about being put upon with her lurking in a class - yet I'd say their game would be well and truly raised, hyuck hyuck! Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 11514Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:18 pm Post subject: Quote: Can we rename 'the observer effect' 'the Axe effect' then? You'll have to get permission from Perilla and Fluffy on that Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:23 pm Post subject: Let's have a forum-wide vote! I hope for 109% in favour : 0 Back to top smithrn1983Joined: 23 Jul 2010Posts: 320Location: Moscow Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:49 pm Post subject: я полностью за! Back to top macedonianmikeJoined: 28 Jun 2007Posts: 64 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:34 am Post subject: One time a saw a bunch of babushki wacking a SUV that was parked blocking the tramvai with their bags. Back to top expatella_girlJoined: 31 Oct 2004Posts: 248Location: somewhere out there Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:20 pm Post subject: I learned from the Russian babushki. A more fearless group of people there has never been. I remember one time in Moscow years ago, we needed to get across the 18 lane Garden Ring road in a place where there was no perehod, but there was a traffic light which went green for pedestrians and cross traffic for about 20 seconds, on perhaps fifteen minute intervals. So you could stand on the corner forever waiting for a crossing light which would turn against you in seconds, leaving you stranded in the midst of thousands of angry Russian motorists. We were waiting on the corner with a babushka. All of us wanted to cross the road--then the light turned green. The babushka marched out into the middle of the street blowing a whistle with a mean junkyard dog look, and she stopped 18 lanes of Moscow traffic with that whistle and we ran along behind her like rabbits. She was not in a hurry and with her whistle and her babushka stink-eye, we all marched across that road and no one dared dispute her authority. They_just_stopped. Some kind of tough those ladies have, god love them all. Babushki rule. Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:16 pm Post subject: They invaded Berlin, fought Nazis to the death, survived Stalin. No jumped-up noveau riche pimply-faced SUV driver is going to faze them. Long live the grannies! Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:33 pm Post subject: Legend has it that all rulers of Russia, from Vladimir Vladimirovich back through time, had to answer to a babushka waiting at the doorway wielding a rolling-pin or worse should said leader have broken one of the myriad rules governing footwear, hats, late nights, drinking, women, doing what one is told to do, etc. Not one of them ever dared answer back... One can learn a lot about Russia from that Back to top Avogadro's NumberJoined: 30 Aug 2012Posts: 14Location: North Caucasus Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:18 am Post subject: I now have a babushka for a mother-in-law. Can you imagine those family gatherings? Back to top RoscoeTXJoined: 06 Jul 2012Posts: 56Location: Moscow, Russia Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:35 pm Post subject: When I was living in the US I adored and respected the elderly there...sure, they could be grumpy and cranky at times...But these old Russians have brought out an unpleasant and super mean side of me...I Just don't take crap from them. Never have had any problems here in Moscow from anybody under 55. Its the worst when their dragging around those raggedy two wheeled carts!! These people don't need to be glorified, they need to take a course in common courtesy Back to top expatella_girlJoined: 31 Oct 2004Posts: 248Location: somewhere out there Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 1:14 pm Post subject: Roscoe, I suspect if you had survived the trials and deprivations the Russian babushki have managed to survive, you would be feeling none too polite either. I'm thinking the US elderly never faced the kind of want and frozenness and impossible hardships that elderly Russians have lived with. Might make them a little crotchety, ya think? Russian grandma's are the backbone of the country. Without them there would be nothing but hookers and hooligans and thugs and oligarchs gone wild. Babushki are the stalwart civilizing force of Russia. Respect is deserved and required. Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 1:34 pm Post subject: I totally agree with you, expatella_girl, but I can also sympathise to a limited degree with RoscoeTX. The babushki are formidable, but sometimes they do appear to unnecessarily ignorant and aggressive in their dealings with people around them. It is not easy to always restrain oneself when dealing with said discourtesies, but I feel it is the only course. I mean, how does it look to have a stand-up row with an 85-year-old? Especially when she wins? Sure, you could say that they are taking advantage of their elderly status to push others about (the bullies!). But even so, I have more respect for a society that honours their elderly to some degree than a society, such as my own, sadly, which so often excludes them or even criminally victimises them. Granny-bashers are rightfully considered the worst form of low-life mugger back home. I do not see too much evidence of that here. If nothing else, that is something to be grateful for. Back to top RoscoeTXJoined: 06 Jul 2012Posts: 56Location: Moscow, Russia Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:22 pm Post subject: @expatgirl, again, I would not glorify and darn near deify these old people (60+) to such a degree as you and would not lump the rest of the population into a group of degenerates and criminals...There is a large percentage of good-hearted, respectful, and hard-working younger Russians out there, and I can happily say I've had quite a few as students. 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32 wrote:Even with a double OT against Denver and several OTs early on, Lee and Curry aren't even in the top 10 for MPG this year. In Nellie's final season, Ellis led the league in minutes (41.4). The year before, Jackson was #2 overall. The year before, Baron and SJax were 7 and 8 respectively. There's really no comparison between which coach blew out his stars more. Yes, Steph and Lee play a lot, but their backups (Jack and Landry) have extremely prominent roles, whereas Nellie established virtually no substitutes for Davis, Ellis, and Jackson.
And yes, you are absolutely correct, the front office increasing the level of talent makes this roster a winner by default. But I just believe that Mark Jackson establishing a pattern of substitutions for his main guns (not afraid to give them a blow even in a close game), invigorating his bench and keeping 10 or 11 guys sharp at all times, and - above all - playing each baller to his strengths, rather than a mismatch, is a recipe for greatness. Nelson might have been able to get these guys to the playoffs, you're right. But Mark Jackson has these guys ready to go deep; with home court advantage in the first round, these guys can practically punch their ticket to the semi-finals. Jackson is quite possibly the Coach of the Year. Nelson, to his credit, was past his CotY prime and I sincerely doubt he would be doing anywhere near as good a job with this team.
But that is what I call presuppositions - you asssume Nelson would be lazy and disinterested with this squad as well. Don't forget Nelson was COY three times. That Mark Jackson could become one is in no way a detriment to Nelson.
I think/assume it would have been quite the opposite - the man would have loved to coach a team with real talent not some half dleague and rookies who could not play - like anthony randolph, who had his best years, sad isn't it?, under nelson in his unsatisfying carrer so far. Patrick o'Bryant, btw,is now on the second best lithuanian club team, i wonder whetehr he will manage to crack the rotation there.
Also Nelson said during last tenure, that he wants the team to move the ball, he loved passers - and this year's squad is a passing squad, especially with bogut in which alows lee to play for the last 5 games in high post and create space (stretch the floor) and pass (7 assists again, again on that 'gimmicky' guard cutting play).
Bogut would be loved by nelson as well, who can pass almost like Sabonis did, the greates passing big ever. And though Bogut can't shoot very well, he would have been loved for his defense - and barnes as well, since he is a good wing defender - one trait Nelson always loved for his wing players.
So, yeah, apples and oranges, nelson's last years were with terrible undermanned squad's, jackson has a very good one in his second year.
I'm glad he went from walk it up offense during our first game with clippers, letting players (curry) take step in three on offense, i'm glad he started using lee a lot in high post, i'm glad he utilized 2 pf and 3 guard line-ups very well. I'm glad he went to push it up offense which rejuvenated this season, and we saw not much - 89-84 games. And he is one lucky man to have a team that can also play half-court just by having talent to spread the floor with shooters, and now having bogut in the middle (when, if, he will require double teaming) he will play lee in high post much more, since that is where lee is most effective.


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Forum for Syria Association holds a rally in front of the Turkish Embassy in Budapest on Saturday to express its outrage over the shooting down of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish fighter jet.
Organizers call on members of the Syrian and Arab communities in Hungary and Hungarians to join forces against the Turkish aggression on Syria.
The Forum for Syria Association would also like to express its opposition to Erdogan's Syrian policy, as the Turkish army regularly intervenes in the Syrian conflict, which resulted the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet in Syria's airspace.
Forum for Syria Association supports the anti-terrorist policy of the Russian Federation and expresses its condolences to the relatives of the Russian pilot killed in the air attack write organizers.
The demonstration will be held on Saturday on November 28, 2015 at 3 pm in front of the Turkish Embassy - Budapest Andrássy út 123.
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Rare pygmy elephants 'poisoned' in Borneo
Ten endangered pygmy elephants have been found dead in a reserve in Malaysia, with officials saying they may have been poisoned.
The animals, which had all suffered internal bleeding, were found near each other over the space of three weeks.
In one instance, a three-month-old calf was found alongside the body of its mother, apparently trying to wake her.
Sabah Environmental Minister Masidi Manjun said it was "a sad day for conservation and Sabah".
Sen Nathan, head veterinarian at the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve in Malaysia's Sabah state on the island of Borneo, said the elephants were all thought to be part of the same family group, and were aged between four and 20.
The bodies of four were found last week but then officials found another four animals dead or dying two days later.
Laurentius Ambu, Sabah's wildlife department director, said two "highly decomposed elephant carcasses" had been found earlier in the year.
"We believe that all the deaths of these elephants are related," he said.
The animals still had their tusks, indicating that they had not been killed by poachers, and none had gunshot wounds.
Samples have been sent for testing, but Mr Nathan said the damage evident in the elephants' digestive systems had led officials to "highly suspect" acute poisoning. Tests will confirm whether they could have been deliberately poisoned.
"It was actually a very sad sight to see all those dead elephants, especially one of the dead females who had a very young calf of about three months old. The calf was trying to wake the dead mother up," he said.
The WWF estimates that there are fewer than 1,500 Borneo pygmy elephants in the wild, most of them in Sabah state.
They are the smallest elephant subspecies, with babyish faces, long tails and straight tusks. They are threatened by logging, hunting and increasing contact with humans.
Mr Masidi said the death of "these majestic and severely endangered Bornean elephants is a great loss to the state".
"If indeed these poor elephants were maliciously poisoned, I would personally make sure that the culprits would be brought to justice and pay for their crime," he said.


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In the faraway year of 1993, a study in The British Journal of Psychology provided a (somewhat obvious) personality profile of RPG enthusiasts. And guess what? They like to read.
Players of a fantasy Play-By-Mail game were compared with matched controls on personality measures of decision-making style, sex-role, extraversion, neuroticism, empathy, leisure interests and personality type. Most players were male. On the Bem Sex-Role Inventory the players were less feminine and less androgynous than controls. They were more introverted, showed lower scores on the scale of empathic concern, and were more likely to describe themselves as 'scientific', and to include 'playing with computers' and 'reading' amongst their leisure interests than controls.
Of course, most of this shouldn't come as a shock and this study was from the halcyon Nineties, a mere 11 years after the cinematic tour de force that was Mazes and Monsters. That said, those early Dungeons and Dragons illustrations were enough to drive someone mad.
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From the first overheated moments of
with its Kama Sutra-plus-six-positions sex so satisfying for him, so exhausting for her it's clear we're in for that rarest of treats: an R-rated
from the Venus point of view.
For the Mars crowd, that means real people in real relationships, real raunchy, real funny. Thank you,
for every single one of those old-school Rs. In fact, so unusual is this sort of humor in
-driven ha-ha-Hollywood these days, it almost makes me ha-ha-happy that producer
is currently the industry-anointed 800-pound clown prince, since it probably took all 800 pounds of his princely powers to get this film made. (R-rated female-centric, gal-pal entertainments don't exactly top studio wish lists.)
Wiig stars as Annie, the increasingly unhinged maid of honor for her best friend Lillian's (
) upcoming up-market wedding. They are surrounded by an ensemble of witty twisted sisters who come in all shapes and sizes (both the wit and the sisters, the unrelated kind, just "doin' it for themselves"), and a director in
, who displays a lot of comedic common sense. This creative collective includes most notably
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) as the other merry maids. They all work hard to wring the most nonsense out of the clever script cowritten by Wiig and Annie Mumolo, friends whose collaboration tracks back to their Groundlings improv days. (See Wiig's Annie and Mumolo's nervous fellow passenger doing a high-anxiety, fear-of-flying scene slam at 30,000 feet midway through the movie.)
Wiig, now in her sixth year at
was already on her way to becoming the new grande dame of comedy with a zillion weird characters (like the simpering singer with creepy tiny wooden hands and severely receding hairline). She has a fearless way of offering up her body for slapstick sacrifice that can make you forget just how fine-boned pretty she can be. In "Bridesmaids," she proves she's a gifted actress as well, giving a surprising depth and affecting vulnerability to Annie amid her collapsing world.
The story swings between Annie's everyday struggles and a string of increasingly outrageous wedding plan fiascos. Feig, who created the brilliant flash of TV's "Freaks and Geeks," does a good job of making this feel like a movie, not just a series of sketches. But what distinguishes the film is the way in which the women relate and the raunch is handled.
Take Byrne's well-drawn, well-heeled Helen, a bridesmaid with a severe case of maid-of-honor envy. In the guy version, Helen would just be a whatever a family newspaper allows me to call a not-very-nice-female person. In "Bridesmaids," Helen is transparently and maddeningly ingratiating as she one-ups cash-strapped Annie's every wedding idea, but she's also a full-fledged human with some layers that will surprise you.
Even the movie's ultra-gross food-poisoning aftermath unleashed upon an ultra-pricey bridal boutique shows a woman's touch, because it's mostly implied. And McCarthy in the loo? Well, words fail. If you don't know the actress' work from TV's late, great
you will after "Bridesmaids." She turns the underestimated, beauty-challenged woman of the world into priceless comic fodder.
While the wedding-related meltdowns are serious fun, they hit all the notes you'd expect on the way to the altar: The parties engagement, shower and bachelorette and the problems cold feet, fractured friendships, bad fittings. Most of the something new is cooked up in Annie's personal world, which started to crumble when her Milwaukee cake shop went under. Now she works at a jewelry store, talking happy couples out of buying engagement rings.
She bumps into possible boyfriend material in the form of
) as Officer Rhodes, an adorable cop with an Irish brogue. They make a very cute couple, starting with the bad brakes (breaks?) that bring them together on one of Annie's Milwaukee-to-Chicago wedding planning runs. What makes their missteps spark is that they are so evenly matched liking and rejecting each other in equal measure. When things go bad, and they do, Annie literally can't get arrested, which we should all be grateful for because it's one of the best set pieces.
The writers have sprinkled in amusing characters here and there and that helps the film's two-plus hours speed by. That very athletic, tantric sex we spoke of earlier was thanks to
playing a handsome jerk in that Jon Hamm way that makes you forget you want someone to slap him. There are Annie's roommates, a strangely appealing British brother and sister act with no sense of boundaries (
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Anthony Saunders is the John M. Schiff Professor of Finance and the Chair of the Department of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Professor Saunders received his PhD from the London School of Economics and has taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses at NYU since 1978. Throughout his academic career, his teaching and research have specialized in financial institutions and international banking. He has served as a visiting professor all over the world, including INSEAD, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne. He is currently on the Executive Committee of the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, NYU. His research has been published in all the major money and banking and finance journals and in several books. In addition, he has authored or co-authored several professional books, the most recent of which is Credit Risk Measurement: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1999Saunders, Anthony is the author of 'Financial Institutions Management', published 2007 under ISBN 9780077211332 and ISBN 0077211332.[read more]
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Isis guitarist Aaron Turner (who also heads his own Hydra Head Records imprint) picks a bunch of tracks that are currently doing the business for him. As you'd probably expect, there's a bunch of metal but also an eclectic range of other stuff. His band play ATP's Melvins/Mike Patton-curated Nightmare Before Christmas event on December 5/6/7 at Butlin's, Minehead
Aura Noir 'Gaping Grave Awaits'
Anything that reeks of retro these days is generally rehashed garbage, but this a nice breath of foul air when it comes to revisiting and expanding on old school metal, black and otherwise. (YouTube)
Megadeth 'Tornado Of Souls'
Speaking of old school metal, this one just gets better and better with age - this gem is buried in the middle of the second side and is a killer.
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Einsturzende Neubauten 'Kollaps'
A beautiful blend of the harsh and the melodic, something I'm always a sucker for. The simplicity and primitive approach are transcended by creative will. A wonderful birthday present from my girlfriend... (YouTube)
The Wu-Tang Clan 'Unpredictable'
A lot of fans and press shit on this album. While it may not be classic Wu-Tang through and through, it is still an amazing piece of work. Killing RZA production which never fails to get the blood pumping.
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Prurient 'Lust End'
Yet another one-two punch of melodic and harsh elements. Certainly not noise in the purest sense, but definitely noisy.... and the atmosphere is reminiscent of some of the best black metal in terms of mood.
Pierre Dubuisson Anything from Sept Regards Sur L`esprit De La Mort
Neil Young 'Guitar Solo One'
Simply some of the most beautiful music ever made with a guitar, or any other instrument for that matter. If I had to content myself with one album for the rest of my life it might be this one. (YouTube)
Angelo Badalamenti 'Theme From Twin Peaks'
A great and fitting them from one of the more interesting TV shows to ever grace the airwaves. Though shamed by wayward episodes in the middle of its arc, the music was always a highlight. (YouTube)
Sun Kil Moon 'Heron Blue'
An acoustic epic that evokes a feeling similar to that I experienced when I heard 'The Battle Of Evermore" for the first time 17 years ago. 7 minutes and 38 seconds of cascading guitars and melancholy vocals put to the best possible use. (YouTube)
Shannon Wright 'Don't You Doubt Me'
This woman put on one of the best live shows I've seen in recent years, and I find I'm usually mostly unmoved by solo performers... a prejudice maybe, but one she certainly helped me overcome, at least temporarily. This is possibly the highlight of her last album. (YouTube)
Deathspell Omega 'Diabolus Absconditus'
Usually comp tracks are a throwaway, an unwanted child of the grudging participant. This, however, is not only a great track, but one of DO's best - and that's saying a lot. Damaged, buzzing, ambient, blasting, intricate - 20 minutes of the best black metal in existence.
The Melvins 'Blood Witch'
Some bands wither and fall into a black hole of suckdom when the get older. Others put 99% of bands who are 20 years their juniors to complete and utter shame. The Melvins belong to the latter category, and this track is surely proof of that.
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KTL 'Snow 2'
One of the most aptly titled tracks in recent memory. Soft and frigid waves of white noise covering everything in a soft veil. Sounds like there's not much happening if you're not paying attention, and much is revealed upon closer listening - both effects are interesting and compelling.
Supposedly recordings of a funeral violinist from France from decades ago. Whether real or a hoax, this is some pretty melancholy and truly eerie music.
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- Emmy The Great
- Wild Beasts
- DiSsers' US election special
- Tilly And The Wall
- Okkervil River
- Laura Marling
- Kaiser Chiefs
- El Guincho
- Grammatics
- Trans AM
- Duncan Lloyd
- The Walkmen
- Cut Copy
- Late Of The Pier
- Gabriella Cilmi
- White Denim
- Gareth Los Campesinos!
- Barry Adamson
- Muscles and Bumblebeez (Modular special edition!)
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Lock and Load! Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 takes the no-holds-barred arcade spirit of its predecessors and crafts an all-new furious cooperative shooting adventure for the next generation!
General Ratiev, evil leader of the Zalestad nation must be stopped. At the players disposal is a huge arsenal of weaponry, controllable vehicles and a rag-tag group of specialized soldiers, each with their own unique characteristics. Thankfully, players aren't alone in this mission; up to three players can enjoy the classic arcade-style experience together on a single console or online. Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 even compensates for the multiplayer mode by dynamically shifting difficulty levels based on the number of players in the game, ensuring that the game always poses a challenge. The Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 soundtrack is being created by Norihiko Hibino, an international composer well-known for his work creating music for the Metal Gear series of games. With a comprehensive scoring system and online leaderboards, players can see how they compare to the best digital soldiers in the world!
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Remember all that fun we had celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Times-News last year?
Seems like only yesterday. But on Thursday we can add a candle to the cake and make it 126 years. The anniversary falls on July 25, marking that day in 1887 when the history of this newspaper had its beginnings in the pages of a little weekly known as the Burlington News.
That is a special date in the history of the county, and as I looked back to that date this week, I found that this entire week is filled with anniversaries of note � some good, some not so good. Read along with me �
Today, of course, is July 21, and on this date in 1962, a loan of $1.4 million was completed to finance the construction of Cum-Park Plaza, Alamance County�s first venture into the world of shopping centers. One of the anchors was Roses� 5 and 10 Cent Store, which had been downtown for many years, a move that left the first major vacancy in downtown Burlington�s landscape.
The Times-News made some more history on Friday afternoon, July 22, 1994. It was on that date that this newspaper printed its final afternoon edition. Until 1974, the newspaper had printed an afternoon edition six days per week. It was in that year that the paper added a Sunday edition, and at that time the schedule was afternoon editions Monday through Friday and morning editions on Saturday and Sunday.
By the middle of the 1990s, afternoon newspapers had all but disappeared across North Carolina and the United States. In cities that had enjoyed both afternoon and morning papers, the afternoon editions were dropped. The reading habits of the public had changed, and newspapers changed with them.
On July 23, 1950, Glen Hope Baptist Church held the first service in its new sanctuary. Fire had destroyed the old structure on Feb. 6 the year before. That fire occurred on a Sunday morning as parishioners were arriving for services, and it so happened that a number of the firemen called to the scene were members of the church.
July 24, 1989 was the day on which Blanche Taylor Moore was in court awaiting an indictment charging her with arsenic poisoning in the death of her former boyfriend and felony assault in the poisoning of her husband. It was a year later she was convicted and sent to North Carolina�s death row where she remains to this day � 23 years later.
Baseball legend Ted Williams came to Burlington on July 26, 1943 to play a game with his U.S. Navy team from Chapel Hill. They played the Bur-Mil semi-pro team at the old Hillcrest Park on High Street. Williams, who had just hit .406 for his Boston Red Sox, had one hit in four trips to the plate. That Navy team featured other major leaguers like Johnny Sain, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr.
The Navy team, composed of players in the Navy pre-flight program, was called the Cloudbusters, and they also played at the same field in early June, again defeating a local semi-pro team.
On July 27, 1988, the Times-News reported the story of a convoy of trucks hauling tons of hay from Midwest farms to help local farmers who were in desperate need because of a prolonged drought in Piedmont North Carolina. It was reminiscent of the time local farmers had trucked their products to the Midwest when that area was in drought.
And ending this July week in local history is July 28, 1887 � the same year as the founding of the Times-News. That�s the date First Baptist Church of Burlington was born.
This July week was one of special memories in Alamance County�s past.
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UNDP gives US$ 5 million to help kick start Haiyan debris removalDec 3, 2013
New York/Manila, 18 November 2012—As the international community continues to transport and distribute aid to the victims of typhoon Haiyan under extremely challenging circumstances, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has pledged US$ 5 million to help kick start the removal of some of the millions of tonnes of debris left over from the storm. But, given the enormity of the disaster, more resources, funds, and supplies, are needed, as the recovery phase will be long and complicated for the country.
"UNDP's US$ 5 million can help kick start clearing away debris which is blocking roads, limiting access to assistance, and hampering relief efforts," said Helen Clark, Administrator of UNDP. "But this initial contribution is only the beginning of what's needed. We urgently need to raise US$ 20 million to achieve our objective of clearing rubble initially for one million people in provinces affected by Typhoon Haiyan." Helen Clark noted that the UN as a whole is requesting over US$ 300 million for the overall response to the typhoon.
Clearing debris is the first of many activities that UNDP plans to implement in the Philippines to help those who have lost homes, businesses, and jobs as a result of the typhoon. Among the benefits of debris removal is a reduction of the threats to life and health which are caused by unsanitary environmental conditions. And, because the typhoon hit areas where there was already widespread poverty, the work UNDP plans will support the immediate creation of temporary jobs. Thus entire communities will benefit from debris and waste management activities and support for rebuilding initiatives. This is vital for the more than 200,000 people whose crops, jobs, and businesses were wiped out by the typhoon.
UNDP launches donor appeal
Meanwhile, UNDP has called on the public to contribute to the Philippine recovery effort, and has launched a website for donations to its work.
Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, struck the Philippines on 8 November. One of the most powerful storms on record, it has caused widespread damage, overwhelming defences across the country. Almost 13 million people are affected by the storm, 1.9 million have been displaced, and thousands have died.
"As the government and the people of the Philippines recover from this terrible tragedy, UNDP will be working hard to support recovery and strengthen the nation's resilience to future shocks," Helen Clark said.
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When a guy spreads hot wax on his face and proceeds to go down on a girl. When he arises from the depths, her vagina is cleanly waxed while he is blessed with a beautiful beard; similar to that of James Harden's beard.
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John Baird called Jaccard "one of Canada's best economists outside of government" and by his parliamentary secretary as a "well-respected expert on environmental issues."
When Jaccard agreed with the Conservatives, he was lauded, Baird quoted his conclusions often in hearings. The bright light has now become a dull bulb:
The Harper government has rejected a new report that calls for the introduction of a levy on pollution to be coupled with a 50% income tax break for the average Canadian.
The report, released on Monday by environmentalist David Suzuki and economist Mark Jaccard who heads a consulting firm that conducted the study, suggests that a levy on greenhouse gas emissions -- also called a carbon tax -- could be phased in, generating between $53-billion to $103.1-billion in new revenues without increasing the tax burden of the population.
One of the sharpest analogies I've heard, that completely nails the simple logic:
"While most Canadians have to pay about $90 a tonne to dump waste at their local municipal landfill, anyone can dump thousands of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere absolutely free of charge," said the report. "The bottom line: we must stop using our atmosphere as a free dumping ground."
That Mark Jaccard, he used to be such a economic sage, now he's all washed up, pretty much clueless.


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The Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts is hosting an exhibition by Canberra artist, Nicola Dickson.
The naturalist, Jacques Julien Houtou Labillardière, was a member of the D'Entrecasteaux expedition which spent seven weeks exploring and mapping the area surrounding Recherche Bay in 1792 and 1793.
Labillardière collected thousands of plant specimens and published a remarkable account of his observations and interactions with the local area and its people.
Nicola Dickson visited south eastern Tasmania in 2016 to re-trace the steps of the naturalist. The works in this exhibition try to capture this experience, informed by imagining past events and by a sense of place.
This project was supported by ArtsACT project funding.
Exhibition open 16 February to 30 June