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NEW Hundreds of influencers warned by ASA
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
'Between 200 and 300' social media influencers have been contacted by the UK ad watchdog.
Council set to scrap in-house newspaper four years late
Thursday, January 10, 2019
A city council is finally set to scrap its own in-house newspaper four years after it pledged it would do so.
'Shockingly inaccurate', 'wholly unfair', 'naive' - pros slam PR episode of The Media Show
Wednesday, January 09, 2019
PR professionals are up in arms about how the industry has been characterised on a public relations episode of BBC Radio 4's The Media Show.
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Monday, January 07, 2019
The PR industry is making progress in tackling mental illness among its practitioners, but a new survey by PRWeek and the PRCA has found significant room for improvement.
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text: Jamboree, Fleetwood RV: For 2017, Fleetwood RV is shattering Class C motorhome expectations with the all-new Fleetwood Jamboree. The Jamboree redefines the category with a long list of features that break the mold of Class C design. With amenities like a roof-mounted integrated box patio awning, whole-coach LED flush-mount ceiling lighting and an 11 cu. ft. two-door stainless-steel residential refrigerator, it's easy to see why Jamboree is expected to become the new Fleetwood favorite with Class A amenities that pack a Class C punch.


text: The UN envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, read a statement from Aung San Suu Kyi that she is "ready to cooperate with the government in order to make this process of dialogue a success." This is the same person who won the Nobel Peace Prize for, um, not cooperating with the miltary junta; who chose to stay in the country to serve as a symbol for her supporters rather than tend to her dying husband; and who hasn't been allowed out of the house or made a single public statement since 2003. Until the press conference, which was held in Singapore and not attended by Suu Kyi, Gambari's trip was thought to have failed, but now he's been invited back by the junta, who is trumpeting Suu Kyi's statement in the government-run media. (Yes, I read too much political news. Yes, I might be a paranoid and mistrustful person). [Yahoo News]


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Wikitravel talk:Wikitravel Press
DerFussi -- thanks to the CC by-sa license, I can make a printed guidebook from Wikivoyage content, sell it and take all the money. Does that make you my slave? I'll answer my own question: no, it doesn't, because the whole point of open content is that it can be freely reused.
Of course we'd love to give away books for free, but printing physical books on paper costs money, print on demand is expensive and we just can't compete with Let's Rough Planet's 100,000-copy print runs on price. Instead, our advantage will be that we're much, much more up-to-date than "traditional" guidebooks.
Those Wikitravellers who opt/are chosen to be editors — and make no mistake, it will be a job — will get paid for their work, and a large part of any future profits from WTP will be plowed back into Wikitravel the website. I, personally, think that giving people the option to buy printed copies of guides they like is a much friendlier way of funding the site than advertisements or begging for donations. Jpatokal 05:23, 3 August 2007 (EDT)
DerFussi, you know that according to the license you can make and sell printed guides too, don't you? -- Mark 08:52, 3 August 2007 (EDT)
Links from Wikitravel[edit]
So, I'd like to open the discussion on another chapter of WTP, so to speak -- how its guides are linked in from (or, if you prefer, "advertised by") Wikitravel. As WTP's head honcho, I'd like to see both of the following:
Whaddaya think? And one important disclaimer: it's IB's website, so they'll also need to agree to anything proposed — they aren't too keen on us using up their valuable virtual real estate, but I'm sure they'd appreciate hearing the community's views on whether said space should be used for WTP ads or, say, random Google Adwords. Jpatokal 12:21, 5 August 2007 (EDT)
manual of style and contributing back to Wikitravel[edit]
> Where this work coincides with the Wikitravel manual of style, they'll contribute that work directly back onto wikitravel.org
I find this piece quite odd. Creating printable guides has always been a goal of wikitravel, and MoS should help in reaching that goal. Therefore, in my belief, ANY refinements made for publication should be contributed back to wikitravel. What can be exceptions from this? --DenisYurkin 16:40, 13 September 2007 (EDT)
Print-only markup[edit]
I'd like to open discussion on one way in which the Press will affect the content on the website: the need to add "print-only" markup, which will be invisible when viewed on the web, but will affect the way the book looks when printed. At the moment, only
You can see the above in action in the Singapore guide. Some future markup plans:
Any opinions on these? And in general, is the community OK with absorbing the small cost of absording little bits and pieces of clutter, as long as it contributes to a better printed guide? Jpatokal 05:28, 26 September 2007 (EDT)
I've implemented the {{web|...}} template now, so I could block out comments like "See Malaysia#Get in", which aren't very useful in a printed Singapore guide. Jpatokal 05:16, 31 October 2007 (EDT)
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It's OK for the article to say "See section in Malaysia article" if printed out by somebody on their printer, because they can go print the Malaysia article if they want. However, it's not OK for a printed Singapore guidebook to say that, because the Malaysia article is not included in the book!
Tatata, you're welcome to modify Template:Web, but what change do you want to make? Jpatokal 07:07, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
response after release of Singapore[edit]
I just found that first title was released by WikitravelPress in November: Singapore guidebook.
Any statistics available as the outcome of this release? How many copies were sold to date? Was there any increase in number of contributors to Singapore article / overall Wikitravel after the release? Any plans that the title will also appear at Amazon? Anything else the community would be interested in knowing? --DenisYurkin 15:33, 19 January 2008 (EST)
Attribution / licensing[edit]
http://wikitravelpress.com/books/en/Singapore/ appears not to be complying with Wikitravel:How to re-use Wikitravel guides#Attribution, and http://www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php?fCID=882062 appears to be ignoring all the license requirements completely. ~ 184.108.40.206 18:47, 29 January 2008 (EST)
Wikitravel Press books now on Amazon[edit]
Swept in from the pub:
Just wanted to let y'all know that Wikitravel Chicago is now available on Amazon.com, with the rest of the catalogue coming along shortly (by the end of the month if things go according to plan). Wikitravel books are eligible for free super saver shipping, so you can include them in any Amazon order and have them sent for free in the US only if the total is over $25. See the blog, tell your friends, stuff your stockings! Jpatokal 09:21, 15 November 2008 (EST)
Well I found out anywhere in the world you can order from American Amazon...but you will hafta pay extra. I might get the Chicago one! Keep smiling, ee talk 22:11, 15 November 2008 (EST).
No longer a lonely planet[edit]
Just wanted to gloat a bit: the Wikitravel Press guide to Chicago just beat Lonely Planet Chicago on Amazon's sales chart. (
Congrats - even though it's a little late. The Chicago guide is amazing. edmontonenthusiast [ee] .T.A.L.K. 21:25, 11 May 2009 (EDT).


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I just installed a new copy of VIEmu for VS 2008, and I can't find any where to enter my license key. I've looked in tools->options->viemu and I see the "unregistered eval copy" message there, but there is no button to present a license input dialog.
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Proverbs 9: 1-6 Ephesians 5: 15-20 John 6: 51-58
The best thing about the second half of life is figuring out what happened in the first, and often the moment of insight comes when the smallest of memories is poked. My mother has grown accustomed to questions from me that prompt her to reply, "After all these years, what made you think of that?"
For example, I had asked her why Grandma Klein, whom we visited almost every Sunday morning, after Mass, had Bible comics in her home. They were illustrated Bible stories, primarily from the Old Testament.
"She thought it would be good if you kids read them."
"But I don't remember anyone reading them except me."
"Well, you kept reading them, so she kept getting them."
"But where did she get them? She didn't go to Church." As a child, I never understood why my grandmother didn't go to church. She was Protestant, and I knew that Protestants "didn't have to, if they didn't want to," but my Uncle Albert and his family went every Sunday. They were Protestant. If someone had asked, I would have said that my Grandma was a poor Protestant.
Mom answered both my stated and my implied question. "She got them from Reverend Fager, her neighbor. And your Grandma Klein didn't stay away from church because she wasn't religious. Years before you kids were born, she and Grandpa Klein went weekly. In fact, she played the organ at the Methodist Church. But she stopped going when your Uncle Eldon died."
I never knew my Uncle Eldon. He was only a high school student when his appendix burst, back in the forties. He died before help could arrive.
My mother continued, "As a child, Eldon had sat at the organ with her. She tried going to Church after the funeral, but the pain from his loss would sweep over her every Sunday. She never played the organ again, never went back to church, but she wanted her grandchildren to love the Bible."
The grace of readings drawn from a lectionary, such as we use at Mass, is that one selection illumines another. Hearing only, "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world" (Jn 6:51) one immediately thinks of the Eucharist, but when the "Bread of Life Discourse" of Jesus is paired with Proverbs, "Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven columns; she has prepared her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table" (9:1-2) one realizes that Jesus himself is our nourishment. He is the Bread of Life, because he offers humans what is most essential to human life: meaning and purpose. Indeed — one has to ask — what would what we physically receive at Mass, if Jesus in his very person were not the nourishment that our souls require?
The fourteenth century Dominican mystic Henry Suso expressed our hunger for meaning, our thirst for Christ, so well when he wrote:
Lovable, gentle Lord, since childhood my spirit has eagerly sought and thirsted for something which even now I do not fully understand. Lord, I have pursued this desire for many years without overtaking it because I do not really know what it is, even though it attracts my heart and soul to itself and its absence leaves me without true peace. At first, Lord, following the example of my companions, I tried to find it in creatures, but the more I search the less I found, and the closer I drew to it the further it receded from me, because before I could fully enjoy or abandon myself to any pleasure-yielding idea, an inner voice warned me: "That is not what you are looking for." This revulsion from all creatures has been my constant experience. Lord, even now my heart hungers for this unknown satisfaction and has often experienced what it is not; but what it is, that my heart has not yet discerned. Alas, cherished Lord of heaven, what is it, or why is it that this strange longing should make itself felt so mysteriously within me? (Little Book of Eternal Wisdom ch. 1)
Almost half a century would pass before I thought to ask about those Bible comics, and I learned of a woman who spread her table, who, despite her own wound, found a way to feed her own with wisdom.
We live in a deeply wounded Church. It's not enough to say that people should listen to their leaders. Either we offer wisdom — we feed them with Christ, who is himself the Bread of Life, the deepest meaning of the mystery we call life — or we must understand that they will forage elsewhere. They'll have to, because the deep hunger that drives them is of God.
Rev. Terrance W. Klein
Grew up with you in KS. I think I will be visiting your blog with frequency.


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Ferretti 101ft
Yachts in this category are the perfect one family, two family or 4 couples yacht. They are large enough to hold comfortably 8-10 guests while being middle of the road with regards to budgets required. If your group consists of two families on a shared budget your trip can become quite comparable to that of a five star resort. With the major difference being you get only one location in a resort as compared to 6 or 7 islands and of course let's not forget your own private crew.
Most yachts of this style will come with
• sun deck jacuzzis in newer model yachts
• a wide range of sea toys
• some yachts also carry scuba equipment
Price Range
Yachts in this category range in rate from 45,000 to 80,000 Euros per week for the Mediterranean and $50,000 to $95,000 for yacht in the Caribbean depending upon time of year and length of charter. These rates do not reflect any promotions that may apply and are not inclusive of Fuel, Food & Beverages and all extras associated with the charter. Yachts in this category are the most popular. Subsequently there is a large range of options within this category. An older yacht within this category can be chartered well under 35,000 and with proper negotiations from your yacht planner, additional amenities and extras can be thrown in to your charter offer.
Yachts in this category have anywhere from 5-8 crew members depending upon services requested from client. An usually consist of Captain, First Mate, Cook and or Chef status, (2) Stewards for your hotel services i.e daily cabin cleaning, serving, cocktails and other such services while First Mate is typically certified for many of the water sports activities and when not assisting the Captain, takes guests out for tubbing, wake boarding, water skiing and all other sport related activities. On the larger end of the yachts 100-120ft. they tend to have Chef status, (2) First Mates and (3) crew for hotel services. The more crew members the better the personalized service
Accommodations in yachts of this style and category are typically a 4 or 5 cabin configuration consisting of (1) Master (1) VIP and (2) Twins or (1) Master, (1) VIP, (1) Double, (2) Twins. It is always important to discuss what your group will consist of so that we can properly choose the right boat with the right cabin configuration.
Tenders & Toys
Snorkeling, Waterskiing, Inner Tubes, Bananas are always the standard equipment. Many have jet-skis, wave runners and more elaborate tenders but jet-skis require licensing in European waters and many have been removed due to strict policies and violations due to Captain allowing for a guest to jet-ski without a license.
Sailing Area
The yacht represented in these photos travels in the Mediterranean. A multitude of these style yachts are available for the West Med, East Med and Caribbean


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'Merlin' preview photos: 'With All My Heart'
As the final five episodes of "Merlin" begin, sorceress Morgana will stop at nothing to keep Gwen inher evil clutches, hoping to use the queen as a puppet in her plans to destroy King Arthur, Merlin and Camelot. "With All My Heart" airs at 9 p.m. CT May 3 on Syfy. Check out the episode and behind-the-scenes photos here. Curt Wagner, RedEye's Show Patrol Want more? Discuss this article and others on Show Patrol's Facebook page.
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Hate Crime: California Nigerian Collent Sudent Gets Stabbed Up! (Man Shouted Racial Slurs At Him & Then Started To Cut Him)
"The student body president of California State University, Chico, was recovering Monday from stab wounds suffered in what police believe was a hate crime, officials said. Joseph Igbineweka, who was born in Nigeria, was stabbed early Sunday while walking in a Chico neighborhood near the college where mostly students reside, Chico police Sgt. Rob Merrifield said. Igbineweka passed two men who began to make racial slurs, Merrifield said. He ignored them and continued to walk, but they followed him and continued to yell at him. Igbineweka eventually turned around, and one of the men struck him, Merrifield said. He fought back, but the man pulled a pocket knife and stabbed him at least four times, in the neck, chest, stomach and arm, according to Merrifield. The attacker fled on foot" - CNN
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Tutorial: Interactive Debugging
Wing Pro's Debug Probe provides a powerful way to find and fix bugs, and to try out new code interactively in the live runtime state. This works much like the Python Shell but lets you interact directly with your paused debug program, in the context of the current stack frame:
Try it out from the point of exception reached earlier by typing this:
This will print the date of the first news item:
Wing offers auto-completion as you type and shows call signature and documentation information in the Source Assistant, just as when you work in the editor. However, in the Debug Probe the data displayed is obtained from the live runtime state and not only from static analysis of your source code.
Next, try this:
news[0][0] = '2013-06-15'
This is one way to change program state while debugging, which can be useful when testing out code that will go into a bug fix. Try this now:
This executes the function call and prints its output to the Debug Probe using the modified value for news.
Here is another possibility. Copy/paste or drag and drop this block of code to the Debug Probe:
def PrintAsHTML(news): for date, event, url in news: print('
%s %s
' % (date, url, event))
This replaces the buggy definition of PrintAsHTML found in the example1.py source file for the life of the debug process, so that you can now execute it without errors as follows:
The Debug Probe is useful in designing fixes for bugs that depend on lots of program state, or that happen in a context that is hard to reproduce outside of a debugger.
Conditional Breakpoints
Since the Debug Probe is all about working in a selected runtime context, now is a good time to take a look at conditional breakpoints, which are a good way to get the debugger to stop in the context you want to work with.
To set a conditional breakpoint, right click on the breakpoint margin and select Set Conditional Breakpoint. This brings up a dialog in which you can enter any Python expression. If the expression evaluates to True or raises an exception, the debugger will stop on it. If the expression is not True then the debugger will continue running.
Try this now by first selecting Remove All Breakpoints from the Debug menu and then setting a conditional breakpoint on the print within the for loop in PrintAsText. Use a conditional such as 'beta' in event. You may need to replace the word beta with some other word or fragment to get the debugger to stop here, since this depends on the news items that are currently listed on python.org. If necessary, take a look at the output from your previous runs of example1.py to find a word that appears in only one of the news items.
Once this is done, press the Restart Debug icon in the toolbar or select Restart Debugging in the Debug menu. Wing should stop on your conditional breakpoint in the loop iteration where it is true. In more complex code, this would be a quick way to get to the program state that is causing a bug or for which you want to write some new code.
Working in the Editor While Debugging
When the debugger is active, Wing uses both its static analysis of your code and introspection of the live runtime state to offer auto-completion, call tips, and goto-definition in the editor, whenever you are working in code that is active on the debug stack.
Try this now by typing the following in the Debug Probe:
testvar = 'test'
Then switch to example1.py and in PrintAsText (where you are currently stopped on a conditional breakpoint) create a new line and type this:
Notice that the newly created variable testvar shows up in the completer, with a cog icon to indicate that it was found in the runtime state:
This is a handy way to get correct auto-completion in dynamic code where static analysis is not able to find all the symbols that will be defined when code is executed.


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It's here!!! Check Into the Screening Room and Check Out some more 'Feeling Good' in this new exciting video clip. Michael never ceases to amaze us!
- Jan 28 2005
- Jan 27 2005
'Home' is where the heart is and now its yours to keep, available at all digital retailers to buy this beautiful digital single... Click here to purchase.
- Jan 25 2005
Michael sends a new message to our very own Bungalow-B... Go check in to the screening room to view his video message!!! Also the gallery is up with some new stills from his video 'Home!'
- Jan 21 2005
Mikey is back with a feature video clip previewed here first at Bungalow-B! The Screening room is once again up and running to show you Michael in action!!...
- Jan 21 2005
So we brought you 'Home' to Bungalow-B 'Feeling Good' and now you will feel even more delighted to hear that on Sun. 1/23 we bring you 3 more full length tracks just for our Bungalow-Bees. Don't forget the album will be out Feb. 8th and we here at the Bungalow are planning a special listening party to preview all the tracks before the album comes out!


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On 1 March 2015, Professor Dr Lothar H. Wieler became President and Head of the Robert Koch Institute. Lothar H. Wieler is a veterinarian specialised in microbiology who was formerly Director of the Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics at FU Berlin (for additional information see the link below).
The Vice President is Professor Dr Lars Schaade, a specialist in medical microbiology and infectious disease epidemiology. Before joining RKI, he held positions including Head of the Communicable Disease Unit at the Federal Ministry of Health (for additional information see the link below).
The heads of the specialist departments, the Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Central Administration as well as the Project and Junior Research Groups, are directly subject to the institute leadership. The senior management (comprising the three units for Fundamental and Legal Issues, Genetic Engineering and the Regulatory Authority for the Import and Use of Embryonic Stem Cells), the three units for Research Coordination, Press and Public Relations as well as Global Health and Biosecurity are also directly answerable to the leadership. The offices of the Central Ethics Committee for Stem Cell Research, the Genetic Testing Commission and the National Advisory Committee Blood fall within the ambit of the institute leadership as well.
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Learn To Do Therapeutic Massage At Home With This Fun And Educational DVD
Description: Therapeutic Massage at Home, Learn to Rub People the RIGHT Way! is the perfect guide to teach you to safely and effectively massage your partner, friends and family. Kathy Gruver, PhD, TV host and health expert guides you through a full back and neck massage with easy to follow instructions and beautiful original music. Whether you already do massage and want to enhance your skills or you'd like to massage your spouse, but don't know where to begin, this DVD is for you. Safe, effective, fun and educational. The perfect gift of health.
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The Diocese of Leeds has the largest church programme of choral music for young people in the United Kingdom. Our Choral Directors work with some 3500 children weekly (over 100 groups across 53 schools), returning to their bases to run our elite choirs; 6 boys' choirs, 6 girls' choirs, 5 mixed children's choirs, 2 youth choirs, 3 university choirs and an adult choir, all drawing their membership from our school sessions. more »
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Bradford Catholic Girls' Choir broadcast the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service on Tuesday 12th March. This is the BBC's longest running programme and is transmitted live each day from Emmanuel Church in Didsbury. The service is usually led by a professional choir, but occasionally choirs are invited to
The Diocese of Leeds is very fortunate that high quality choral music is not limited to Leeds Cathedral each Sunday. In particular our Schools Singing Programme lays the foundations of vocal excellence across the Diocese, and our Youth Choirs provide wonderful music in liturgies and concerts in
Holy Rosary & St Anne's Catholic Primary
Newly appointed Choral Director for Huddersfield, Lucy Appleyard, writes about her first month in post:
"As I approached my first school of the term on a windy Monday morning in September I looked back on my time spent as a choral scholar at Leeds Cathedral. I remember how impressed I
Seven singers from the Huddersfield Boys' and Girls' Choirs received their Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) Bronze Awards at a special service in the chapel of the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield. The Community of the Resurrection is an Anglican monastic community located at
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Corinthians Keep Professionals On Their Toes On Day One Of The 2010 Marinepool Melges 24 World Championship
9 August 2010
Tallinn, Estonia - 7 August 2010 - 2008 Melges 24 World Champion, Italian Lorenzo Bressani at the helm of Uka Uka Racing, laid down a marker to the fleet at this year's World Championship, with a near perfect first and a second after two difficult light and shifty races in Tallin, Estonia today. Bressani leads by four points from the 2008 Melges 24 Corinthian World Champion and reigning Corinthian Melges 24 European Champion, Oyvind Peder Jahre from Norway on Storm Capital Sail Racing Team who impressed with a third and a fourth today. Italy's Carlo Fracassoli on Gullisara lies in third overall tonight after scoring a second and a seventh.
Race By Race
Hopes of double-digit wind strengths for the first day of racing at the 2010 Marinepool Melges 24 World Championship in Tallinn, Estonia evaporated in the warm sunshine which bathed the seventy-nine-boat fleet as it reached the racecourse this morning. With the promising early morning breeze quickly dying away, the Race Committee were left with no alternative other than to post a postponement which remained in place for a little more than an hour before an attempt at starting racing could be made. After bringing the fleet back just once for a General Recall, a relieved Race Committee waved the fleet off at the second try with just two boats called OCS.
Despite having an expansive start-line available to them, the fleet seemed keen to take advantage of a perceived benefit on the right of the course and as a result there was considerable bunching at the starboard end. This allowed the boats starting further down the line a little extra space to get away cleanly and for the first few minutes it was the boats on the left of the beat who looked to be making the early running. As the fleet approached the halfway point however, the right began to come on strong and with the wind flicking slightly right as well the boats on the left suddenly found themselves in a real battle to get back across to the windward mark.
With just five to six knots of breeze blowing, if ever there was a day for local knowledge to pay, then this was it. No surprise then to see Estonian Tiit Vihul on Rock City round in second place behind Italian Carlo Fracassoli on Gullisara. Hot on their heels was 2008 World Champion Lorenzo Bressani on Uka Uka Racing. The power of the right hand side of the course appeared to work downwind too and Bressani in particular used it to great effect, leapfrogging into the lead by the gate. Fracassoli got there in second with Norwegian Corinthian Oyvind Peder Jahre on Storm Capital Sail Racing Team proving his ability to mix it with the professionals by moving up into third place. Bressani extended steadily on the second beat, keeping a loose cover on the fleet, benefiting from being first into the patches of extra breeze and increasing his leverage with every shift. Despite a horribly light final run, the top three maintained their positions to the finish, leaving the rest of the fleet to eventually ghost home behind them.
More waiting around then ensued and with the wind almost completely disappearing at times, the chances of a second race were looking almost non-existent. Principal Race Officer Lars Nyqvist is made of stern stuff however and after demonstrating resolute patience for at least another hour, he was finally rewarded with just enough wind to get the fleet off for a second race. Admittedly this was under a Black Flag following a Z-Flag General Recall on the first attempt, which saw as many as ten boats taking home a twenty percent penalty. The Black Flag did the trick however and the fleet got away cleanly for the first time all day.
First race winner Bressani had to dig himself out of a tricky situation in the final seconds before the gun when he found himself boxed in on the left hand side of the line. Reacting quickly he ducked behind several transoms before finding the smallest of gaps to dive into. With impressive boathandling and crew work he managed to build speed by the gun and was the first boat to tack on to port leading the pack upwind from the left. Unfortunately for him, the right once again seemed to be the way to go and despite his flying start Bressani rounded the top mark in fourth place, just behind fellow Italian Nicolo Bianchi on Saetta. Just ahead was the Norwegian Jahre, proving his first race result had been no fluke. Leading at the windward mark was a further Italian, Alberto Bolzan on Hurricane Murphy & Nye, who led the leading bunch into a string of gybe-sets back out to the right of the course. Rounding in around ninth place however, Norwegian Eivind Melleby on Full Medal Jacket, delayed his gybe for around a minute and used the resulting clean air and slight right shift to make a huge gain on the first run. In fact by the leeward gate he had eased into second place right behind Bolzan. The leading pack split evenly to the right and left buoys, with the two leaders subsequently benefiting on the right of the beat to round close together. Right behind them, Bressani in third was still very much in the mix.
Bolzan once again went for the early gybe but almost immediately sailed into a wind hole and had to gybe straight back. This gave Melleby and Bressani the opportunity to sail on for a while before gybing in clearer air and eventually both cross ahead of Bolzan at the mid-point of the run. The wind by this stage had dropped away again and Melleby and Bressani had to use all their light airs guile to pick their way downwind to the finish. Melleby took the win and Bressani rounded out an impressive day in second to take the overall lead at the end of day one. Corinthian Jahre followed Bolzan home to take fourth in that race and secure an impressive second overall. Second in the first race, Fracassoli could only mange seventh in this race, but this was good enough to see him sit in third overall tonight.
Corinthian Division
Day one of the championship proved that the Corinthian Division is coming of age as the all-amateur crews gave the professionals a really good run for their money. Top Corinthian performer was Oyvind Peder Jahre's Storm Capital Sailing. This team currently holds the European Corinthian Melges 24 Trophy and also won the 2009 Corinthian Worlds. Throughout both races they kept the pressure on the professionals regularly going head to head with Lorenzo Bressani, Carlo Fracassoli and Alberto Bolzan. Complimenting his second overall Jahre now has a comfortable six-point lead in the Corinthian Division.
Also putting in a great showing for the Corinthians was Tiit Vihul at the helm of Rock City from Estonia who lies second in the Corinthian competition, six points behind Jahre, and ninth overall. Vihul came to the Melges 24 Class from the X99s and after just two seasons is already snapping at the heels of the established crews. His best performance to date was winning the 2009 Nordic Championship and he clearly has his eyes on both a top ten overall position and victory in the Corinthian competition here in Tallinn.
2001 Yngling World Champion Christoph Skolaut sailing Franz Rocks for Austria finishes the day as third Corinthian and twelfth overall. A sixth place overall in race one demonstrates that this is another hugely experienced Corinthian team with designs on the overall standings. In the Corinthian standings they lie two points behind Skolaut and just one point ahead of fourth placed Jonas Berntsson from Sweden sailing Number of the Beast. One further point behind Berntsson is Peter Steinkogler aboard sailingteamaustria.com so we look all set for a truly thrilling Corinthian competition over the next five days.
Provisional Overall Top Ten After Two Races
1. ITA787 - UKA UKA Racing - Lorenzo Bressani - 3 pts
2. NOR751 - Storm Capital Sail Racing Team - 7 pts
3. ITA807 - Gullisara - Carlo Fracassoli - 9 pts
4. ITA727 - Hurricane - Murphy & Nye - Alberto Bolzan - 11 pts
5. NOR804 - Full Medal Jacket - Eivind Melleby - 15 pts
6. JPN797 - ThreeBond - Tetsuya Matsunaga - 18 pts
7. FRA639 - Euro-Voiles - Christophe Barrue - 21 pts
8. NOR400 - Baghdad - Kristian Nergaard - 23 pts
9. EST761 - Rock City - Tiit Vihul - 25 pts
10. ITA783 - Audi - Riccardo Simmoneschi - 28 pts
Provisional Corinthian Top Five After Two Races
1. NOR751 - Storm Capital Sail Racing Team - 2 pts
2. EST761 - Rock City - Tiit Vihul - 25 pts
3. AUT406 - Franz Rocks - Christoph Skolaut - 10 pts
4. SWE666 - Number of the Beast - Jonas Berntsson - 11 pts
5. AUT608 - Sailingteamaustria.com - Peter Steinkogler - 12 pts
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Championship racing runs from Saturday 7th to Thursday 12th August, with up to three races per day and a maximum of twelve races total scheduled. Five races are required to constitute a series. When six or more races have been completed a boat's series score will be the total of her race scores excluding her worst score. The first start of racing each day is schedule for 12.00 except for the final day when the first start is schedule for 10.00 and there will be no warning signal after 14.00.
Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, and in 2011 it will also be the capital of culture for all of Europe. This will be the biggest cultural event in the history of Estonia. Welcome to the city of culture! www.tallinn2011.ee
You can follow the racing live at the IM24CA Blog. Further information is available from the 2010 Marinepool Melges 24 World Championship Event Website and via the event's Facebook Group.


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Marilyn is great. I love her details, it really makes her. As does all the different colours.
How do you learn embroidery? Are there kits in shops? You have really peaked my interest.
Wow... I'm just in awe of how detailed she is--bravo!
Must buy embroidery supplies now! You're inspiring me! :)
Beautiful! I've totally been inspired by you. I whipped up a full circle skirt yesterday and decided to applique a couple of dogs onto it...so I'm now embroidering all the little details onto my little guys. Thanks for the inspiration. I'll blog about it as soon as I'm done!
Oh my that is really good! I 've always wanted to embroidery like that.
This is inspireing me. :)
Marilyn is so saucy! I really like the French knots. Your pin-up girls are so much fun!
WOW! So fantastic. I love the details in her face!
Barn House Antiques - Thank you so much! I really taught myself how to embroider, but there are plenty of fab tutorials online to learn from. Embroidery kits are also easy to come by if you want a complete starter kit. I got my Pin Up transfers from Sublime Stitching and I know they have some gorgeous looking kits (look here: http://www.sublimestitching.com/kits.html) I like their stuff because it's fun and different, so definitely give them a look. But if you have any craft shops local to you, chances are they will stock embroidery kits too. I hope this has helped, do let me know if you start some embroidery, I'd love to see what you create :)
Casey - Thank you! I'm so happy that I've started embroidery fever! That makes me so happy :)
Reagan - that sounds amazing! I love applique, I'm sure your skirt looks fabulous :) Pictures soon please!
Young Vintage Girl - My advice is just do it, it's so much easier than it seems. And practice makes perfect. I really hope you give it a go, thank you for the lovely comment!
mala-14 - Thank you!
Tasha - Thank you, I'm glad you like her :)
She is Wonderful, love how detailed you've made her and your stitchery is so neat! Beautiful!
She looks fantastic!!
By the way, I've given you a blog award :)
Thank you so much...I just checked out sublime stitching. I am going to order a kit and get the Cat-A-Rama transfers with it and I will buy Camp out Transfers too. They have such great stuff. Thank you so much.
Wendy - Thank you, I'm glad you like her :)
Kate - Thank you for your comment and thank you again for the award, I'm very happy right now!
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Since the very beginnings of trade and commerce, it has been a commonality that most information exchange between buyer and seller, customer and business, was treated as a discrete, confidential, and almost intimate affair. Trust was earned, not given.
Consider the not so distant history of the local American bank. Banks have been collecting personal information about their customers for decades, harkening back to consultations over a notepad, paper deposit slips, and hand-written applications. The reputations of applicant and banker, buyer and seller, were local reputations, with personal and professional references limited to the confines of the community and the reality of proximity.
Banks large and small managed piecemeal, disconnected snapshots of personal information in random, unstructured, and ultimately inefficient processes that took place without fanfare over the lifetime relationship between client and local banker. "Data collection" was nowhere to be found in the strategic plan, yet banks were the recipients of valuable information regarding their clients: income, investments, payment history, business and family relationships that involved money. Most customers relied only on their local bankers to know them personally and therefore to be capable of making recommendations and offering personalized financial advice. Customer-to-computer interactions, later known as "self-service," were still a fantasy in the minds of fiction writers like George Orwell.
For over a hundred years banks stored their data locally, first in secured filing cabinets, then safes, and as time progressed, on local computers backed up centrally, just as a precaution. By and large the customer relationship and treatment of privacy was based on local proximity and personal discretion. If a breach of confidentiality occurred, it was entirely local in nature, usually involving only a handful of individuals, with minimal impact to the wider community and certainly little impact on the overall banking institution. The relationship was personal, much like the one embodied by George Bailey, the beleaguered banker in the Christmas classic film It's a Wonderful Life. But the landscape of customer information was unique also for cultural reasons and societal norms. Individuals owned their personal information, not banks. This distinction is significant given the incredibly electronic world that now surrounds us.
Today, this data scenario and concept of "confidentiality" is as outdated as the black-and-white movie. Client confidentiality is no longer parsed out in handfuls among consenting and trusting individuals with personal and community ties. Few bank customers today live in the world of George Bailey and his town full of customers he knew by their first names. In fact, it is just the opposite. This is not merely the emerging era of data exchange; it is the beginning of the largest personal data explosion the world has ever seen.
What explosion? Consider this: the average company doubles its amount of data every year, adding more data to our cyber economy than pennies in the Treasury. Data is not the newest asset, it is the pivotal one. And cloud computing is making that data aggregation cheaper and easier than ever, with APIs creating new capture nets across a multitude of mobile devices.
The explosion of data is also going international and isn't anywhere near over. Personal data aggregation is only expanding as more health, financial, and social information elements find their way from individuals and businesses into the "clouds" of networked computers, handheld devices, and massive data warehouses. Not only does the business and professional world know how to collect more data, it is also capable of storing it at lower and lower costs. The old days when confidentiality and personal privacy were held in trusted cocoons of discrete individual relationships are over. Data, the lubricant of automating modern commerce, is essentially loose in the digital ecosystem. It is flowing without interruption across physical and legal borders, feeding the data-hungry environment we have created.
Company reputation, personal privacy, and business risk have new meaning and unprecedented exposures. Knowing how to succeed, or fail, in such a cyber world gives cause for a better understanding of the technology blind spots, for individuals and businesses alike. But how did we get here so quickly, and have we fully evaluated the unintended consequences of our technology addiction and Internet openness?
Given that we now have the benefit of looking backward, we can see a convergence of three key forces that accelerated the data explosion: information economics, information technology, and information culture. All three factors have occurred so quickly and in such a parallel fashion that it is difficult to determine which came first or which caused the other. Each of these factors will be discussed in sequential articles from the published book, Unseen Liability, the Irreversible Collision of Technology and Business Risk.
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Jeff Dabney to Hold Four Softball Camps in July
Tennessee State University softball coach Jeff Dabney will host his annual camps next month. Coach Dabney and his staff produce one of the most detail oriented camps in the country.
The third year coach will offer four different types of camps: Hitting/Slapping (July 10), All Skills (July 16 & 17), Slapping (July 23) and Hitting (July 24).
All camps are for girls 10 and up. Three camps (Hitting/Slapping, Slapping, and Hitting) are $75 dollars and $85 at the door. The camps last from 9am until 2pm every day.
The hitting camps focus on making the campers become an all-around hitter by focusing on various fundamentals. The slapping camp works with attendees on footwork and the various techniques of slap hitting and bunting.
The two-day All Skills camp on July 16th and 17th is $125 and $150 at the door. Each day will run from 9am-4pm and will focus on all aspects of the game, while giving campers an opportunity to be exposed to live game situations.
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Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith begins an invasion of Kentucky as part of a Confederate plan to draw the Yankee army of General Don Carlos Buell away from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and to raise support for the Southern cause in Kentucky.
Smith led 10,000 troops out of Knoxville, Tennessee, on August 14 and moved toward the Cumberland Gap—the first step in the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. After a Federal force evacuated the pass in the face of the invasion, Smith continued north. On August 30, he encountered a more significant force at Richmond, Kentucky. In a decisive battle, the Confederates routed the Yankees and captured most of the 6,000-man army. The Confederates occupied Lexington a few days later.
General Braxton Bragg, who moved into Kentucky from Chattanooga, routed a small Union force and sat on Buell's supply line. He later linked to Smith's force. In September, Buell followed the Confederates northward. The major encounter in the campaign would come on October 8, when Buell would defeat Bragg's army at Perryville, Kentucky. After Perryville, Bragg and Smith retreated back to Tennessee. They succeeded in drawing Buell away from Chattanooga, but they lost the contest for Kentucky.


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Ghost Cats of the South
Some cats give you whisker kisses, while others will invite you to rub them, then swipe you, claws out. And apparently, departed pets are one of the more common ghost experiences. Good ghost kitties, bad ghost kitties, ghost kitties in their many manifestations — you'll meet them all in these 22 stories. Readers can savor stories about a cat smelling of chicken soup who saves a pair of street musicians in Kentucky, a face-hungry Mississippi cat who inhabits the seats of a 1956 Chevy Bel Air, a porcelain cat who inspires girls at a North Carolina summer camp to reveal cherished secrets, and a Virginia cat who must get its owner his glasses before his coffin is sealed. The author, "ghostlorist" Randy Russell, lives outside Asheville. Softcover, 266 pages, 20 b&w photographs, $14.95. Published by John F. Blair in Winston-Salem.
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Procter & Gamble plans to trim more non-manufacturing jobs through 2016, on top of a 10 percent reduction target it should meet this year, as the largest household-products maker tries to reinvigorate what has become a sluggish organization.
P&G also said it may increase stock repurchases to $6 billion from $4 billion.
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P&G remains on track to eliminate about 5,700 non-manufacturing jobs by the end of the current fiscal year that will end in June. It now plans to reduce another 2 percent to 4 percent of its non-manufacturing jobs each year during fiscal 2014, 2015 and 2016.
"These are all continued steps in the right direction, but we wish they had taken bolder ones like even more aggressive cost-cutting," said Sanford Bernstein analyst Ali Dibadj, who was attending P&G's bi-annual analyst meeting in Cincinnati on Thursday.
Shares of P&G, a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, were down about 44 cents at $66.08 in late morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
The maker of Tide detergent and Pampers diapers has been working for months to improve its structure and cut costs, and has admitted that in recent years its innovation has not been as strong as successes from years past, such as Swiffer and Crest Whitestrips.
Some industry watchers have suggested that P&G consider splitting itself up, separating its beauty businesses from mainstays such as diapers, paper goods and detergent. However, P&G contends that its scale, including more than two dozen brands that each generate more than $1 billion in annual sales, is an advantage.
During the meeting, P&G highlighted some success it has had in emerging markets, such as seeing the Indian diaper category increase fivefold since it started selling Pampers there five years ago. At the same time, it is promoting lower-priced items, including its Gain and Era detergents, to attract cost-conscious U.S. shoppers it has lost to competitors such as Church & Dwight Co Inc.
P&G also maintained the forecasts for sales and earnings for the current quarter and the fiscal year it had given in late October.
The company said it expects to deliver annual improvement of 5 percent in its manufacturing operations, measured by the number of cases of products produced per person, per year.
Competitors such as Kimberly-Clark Corp and Colgate-Palmolive Co are also trimming their ranks as the industry contends with weak economic conditions in major markets such as the United States and Western Europe.
P&G has been under pressure to show improvement following the investment of activist investor William Ackman, who may want to see P&G Chairman and Chief Executive Bob McDonald pushed out of his job. Even before Ackman's involvement, P&G was proceeding with a $10 billion restructuring and other plans to strengthen operations.
On Wednesday, Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management disclosed that it raised its combined stake in P&G by 27.4 percent to 27.9 million shares as of Sept. 30, while Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reduced its holdings 11.4 percent to 52.79 million shares.
Thursday's outlook comes weeks after a better-than-expected quarterly report drove P&G shares to their highest level in four years.
P&G stood by the forecasts that it gave in late October. At that time, P&G said it still expected to post core earnings per share of $3.80 to $4 this fiscal year. For the current second quarter, P&G forecast core earnings of $1.07 to $1.13 per share, with organic sales up 1 percent to 3 percent.


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By Lou Mancinelli
While it is associated with the symbols of American freedom, we don't really know exactly what the assembly room in Independence Hall looked like in the 1770s. This, of course, was when John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and 53 other delegates who convened in Philadelphia signed the Declaration of Independence. Nor do we know for sure exactly when the Liberty Bell actually cracked, although it is believed that the 2,000-pound bell cracked when it was being tested. It was made in England in the 1750s.
"Images of America: Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell" (Arcadia Books, 2012), co-authored by Mt. Airy resident and Chestnut Hill Historical Society archivist Alex Bartlett, and Robert Sands Jr., a collection consultant at the Trenton City Museum, documents the photographical history of the hall and the bell.
The pair presented their photographs and hosted a book signing Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Flourtown Presbyterian Church on behalf of the Springfield Township Historical Society, where Bartlett serves on the board of directors.
Our best sense of what the interior of Independence Hall, located at 520 Chestnut St. in Old City, looked like during the Revolutionary War era comes from a combination of interpretations of period artwork and imagination. The earliest photos of the Liberty Bell surfaced around 1870. At least two different legends, one associated with an 1824 visit from Revolutionary War General Lafayette, the other with Washington's 1846 birthday celebration, date the crack decades before.
"The bell and the hall as symbols as freedom," said Bartlett, who earned a master's degree in museum communications in 2009 from the University of the Arts, during a recent interview. "Those symbols scream so loudly."
Bartlett, who has lived in Mt. Airy for all of his 41 years, said there have been plenty of books about each subject published individually, but few cover both. And when they do, the books are full of technical and academic jargon.
The authors composed the book in order to bridge the two symbols and to reach a wider audience than scholars and architectural and historical enthusiasts, including the thousands of international travelers who visit Philadelphia's historic sites each year. The authors met during a 2008 internship with the National Parks Service.
They had access to vast archives of photographs of the hall and bell and often talked about how interested they both would be in a photographical history of the two. Sands had already published two "Images in America" books, and "he suggested that he and I be the ones to put it together," said Bartlett. "We started feverishly working on the text around April of last year."
The book tells the narrative of an Independence Hall, designed by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton, that has undergone various large transformations since it was started in 1732, constructed in stages and completed in 1755.
The hall first served as the home of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, which commissioned its construction. The hall remained in that capacity until 1799, when it began to house the city government of Philadelphia. In 1812, its east and west wings were leveled, and fireproof structures consisting of office and storage space built in their place. Workers renovated the interior of Independence Hall for use as office and meeting space.
In 1854, the city consolidated the various townships of Philadelphia county, of which Chestnut Hill was included, into the city. That swelled the number of workers inside Independence Hall, which was alleviated in the early 1870s with the construction of City Hall. But by then, Independence Hall had fallen into a minor state of disrepair.
It was revitalized for the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. By 1896 it had been vacated by city offices. Since then, there have been various preservation efforts by different groups who recognized the historical significance of the building and the need to restore it to its original design.
In the late 1890s the Daughters of the American Revolution hired architect T. Melon Rogers to restore the structure to its Revolutionary era state. Rogers wanted to rebuild the east and west wings. While there existed some pre-construction room plans, historians have not discovered as-built plans or plans documenting the design and dimensions of Independence Hall once it had been completed. As such, the dimensions of Rogers' restorations of the wings are inaccurate. They are slightly too large, according to Bartlett, who said that as far as he knows, this error remains uncorrected.
Architects from the Architects Institute of America (AIA) restored much of the interior during the World War I years. And in 2004 and 2005, Bartlett was part of the crew that oversaw the lighting, wiring and draining excavation and restoration of Independence Hall.
As for the bell, the Pennsylvania Assembly commissioned it in 1752. It was rung throughout the city to keep time and announce special events. It arrived in 1753 and hung in the tower, which was reconstructed and fixed with the famous clock face in 1828, until 1850.
Almost as interesting as the question as whether the crack in the Liberty Bell carries any symbolic significance is the question as to how the bell and the hall came to be associated with historical significance and individual meaning in the first place.
It was in the early 1830s that abolitionists in the American Anti-Slavery Society in Massachusetts started to use the bell as a symbol of freedom. "Before that, it was referred to as the 'old state house bell,'" according to Bartlett. Later, following centennial celebrations in 1876, the bell toured the nation, where delegates at various exhibitions from New Orleans to Chicago to Charleston, Boston and eventually San Francisco in 1915 heralded it as a totem of American liberty.
What is it about humans that leads us to mine meaning out of inanimate objects? How has the Liberty Bell, created simply to remind people of the hour of the day, come to stand for the perception of liberty that supposedly saturates the character of America and awakens the inspiration of foreigners?
"Images of America: Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell" is available through amazon.com. But assuming the purchaser lives in Chestnut Hill or Mt. Airy, Bartlett will drop it off in person. For more information, email email@example.com


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|2008-09-19, 09:32
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|2008-09-19, 09:35
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|2008-09-19, 09:52
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What we had, was a US system that encouraged financial institutions to take ever-increasing risks, without sufficient due diligence. No one checked whether all that easy credit was being translated into productivity gain. There is a fondness, nowadays, for developed economies to rely heavily on monetary policy to fix these crises, ie, by setting interest rates to control the supply of money.
But merely controlling the money supply doesn't fix an economy's problem in the long run. Ultimately, an economy is about trading goods and services. If all the extra money generated by securitisation isn't being used to grow the pie, America's problem won't be fixed. Same goes for any developed economy that follows similar strategies.
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I'm more worried about Hank Paulson's promise to roll out the cash, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, at a time where the US dollar may become worthless. Must the world continue to foot the bill?
|2008-09-19, 11:51
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just wondering what everyone's opinion on the feds response to this whole mess this year?
other then the bear stern bailout i really can't fault how Paulson and Bernanke on how they handle all this crap. I see a lot of critisms on both these guys but i haven't heard of anyone offer a better solution.
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As I understand the US Federal Reserve is not really government, it has representatives of the US Government on it's board, but the money under it's control is capital contributed by private banks. So this whole "the US government is bailing the banks out with taxpayer money" we're getting at this end of the world isn't right.
Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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I do see people complaining about it, but it's something like having a cut. Would you rather pour alcohol on it to clean it and have it sting like crazy, or wait until the cut is infected and really starts to hurt?
The speech reminded me a bit of a tabula rasa approach (the government is basically spend a lot of reserve money to eat the debts), but no matter what the taxpayer is taking a hit. I'd rather it be as a result of the path to getting this mess fixed than it be because the financial system is collapsing.
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I don't have much to say on the point of the system going down, because something like the ruthless consumerist capitalism the US's been practicing is bounded to fall to pieces sooner or later.
The only thing I have to say is that this year's falldown was predictable since way more than a year ago. I can only scratch my head at the people amazed at this sort of outcome.
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An unelected financial elite is now entrusted with the assignment of getting us out of a disaster into which an unelected financial elite plunged the nation.
We are just spectators.
What the Greatest Generation handed down to us — the richest, most powerful, most self-sufficient republic in history, with the highest standard of living any nation had ever achieved — the baby boomers, oblivious and self-indulgent to the end, have frittered away.
Last 2 paragraphs of Buchanan's essay. I wouldn't change a word of it. Very well written and said.
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Oh Pat, you have some to teach us, but still so much to learn.
The Baby Boomer generation, easily the most self-indulgent American generation, are not the perpetrators of this long time coming economic failure. This article is blaming the victim but not the "criminal".
It was the "Greatest Generation" that removed our currency from the gold standard and helped to create the Federal Reserve that has so foolishly squandered our resources. Added to that, it wasn't until the early 1990s that Baby Boomers even attained enough power to shift our economy in other directions, before that, the globalization of our economy was lead by David Rockefeller and other like minded businessmen. What about the Korean and more importantly the Vietnam war and all the other bloodshed in the name of democracy against unknown and ultimately sometimes none existing threats (I am still trying to figure out why the "Greatest Generation" destroyed South America, let alone the Middle East), that led to hundreds of billions being spent for absolutely no reason. What about the long running failed energy policies? or even Nafta? All enacted by the "Greatest Generation". Who controlled Wall Street? The Educational System? Who created "unlimited credit"? Need I say more, cause there is still much more to say.
Pat, you really need to learn that simply because something happened recently, does not necessarily make it the fault of the younger generation. The vast majority of our leaders for the past 60 years have been members of the "Greatest Generation", and you shifting the blame to the preceding generation is very low, and even a little sickening (though, I will admit that the Baby Boomers are at fault for being to self-indulgent, and, of course, not voting the various scum out of office when they could have). We are all partially responsible for this crisis, of that you are correct, but do not forget who gladly and willingly led us down this avenue.
edit: Now having read the full article (and not just the two supplied paragraphs, let me say that many of the things he listed as being bad are in fact very good (such as globalization or borrowing and lending or realistically much that he claims is bad is in fact fairly good but needs to be properly regulated, something that he opposes for the stupidest reasons, as this economic crisis has shown us yet again), so please take Pat's words of advice with a grain of salt (is that the expression?).
edit: To add insult to injury, here is a fun article that Solomon posted on the Election board that helps to explain the current crisis: Who is the Blame?
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I have mixed opinions about the Patrick Buchanan article quoted above.
He's right in that, for years, "Americans have spent more than we earned. We save nothing. Credit card debt, consumer debt, auto debt, mortgage debt, corporate debt — all are at record levels".
However, I don't agree with his opinion that globalisation is to blame. He wrote: "Up through World War II, we followed the Hamiltonian idea that America must remain economically independent of the world in order to remain politically independent.
But this generation decided that was yesterday's bromide and we must march bravely forward into a Global Economy, where we all depend on one another. American companies morphed into 'global companies' and moved plants and factories to Mexico, Asia, China and India, and we began buying more cheaply from abroad what we used to make at home: shoes, clothes, bikes, cars, radios, TVs, planes, computers."
It seems that Mr Buchanan doesn't understand how globalisation works. Those American jobs would have been lost to Mexico, China and India anyway, regardless whether American companies "went global". Globalisation is nothing more than Adam Smith's idea for producers to specialise in their respective areas of competitive advantage, written large on a global scale. Even as the United States began hiving off the industries that it is no longer competitive in, it began to develop new competencies in areas that other countries cannot yet match, for example, advanced computing and entertainment.
The trade deficit that Mr Buchanan complains about is, at heart, caused by two factors. First, and more importantly, by the difficulty of converting redundant baby-boomer workers into other jobs once their industry went bust. I blame this on unionism, especially in the car industry. It's quite simple: American cars simply aren't as competitve in global markets as Japanese or European cars, that's why less are being sold. Greater innovation was required, but that could mean more redundancies, hence the unions stepped in and prevented it.
Second, the trade deficit, like almost every other deficit in the United States, has been funded by easy credit, the same factor that caused the sub-prime mess we're witnessing today. The simple fact is that Americans have grown used to spending beyond their means. The consumption had to go somewhere, and in this case, it was on imported goods, hence the trade deficit.
The idea that the United States must isolate itself from the world to retain its clout is dangerously wrong today, both for itself and for the world economy. The flow of goods and services has gone massively global since the 1990s, and this trend is not going to turn back.
The most fundamental fix for any country that "suffers" under globalisation is to address its economic productivity, through education and infrastructure development. Then, it has to ensure relatively free movement of labour, including foreign labour, to whichever industry needs it most. It has to allow competition at home, and through that competition each company becomes sharper, leaner and more innovative. And when critical mass has finally been achieved, the industry as a whole is ready to take on the world.
No, I don't see any solutions in Mr Buchanan's suggestions. I see more danger instead. A better model for the United States would probably be Japan.
During the boom years, Asian banks were criticised for not making better use of their shareholders' money. Well, look who has the last laugh now.
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Charpentier paced the Engineers to a first-place finish at the highly competitive MIT Winter Invitational by factoring into five victories and five NCAA provisional cuts. Charpentier split 20.67 to anchor MIT's winning 200 free relay and 44.99 to bring home a win in the 400 medley relay. He also provided a strong split in the fly to help MIT to the top spot in the 200 medley relay.
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In the market for a new flash drive? OCZ Technology had recently launched the 8GB Mega Kart. While this isn't as jaw-dropping as the (expensive) 64GB flash drives, this one will only set you back an approximate $140 USD. 8GB of flash storage in your pocket isn't that bad of a deal, and you could even install your favorite Linux distribution to it if you so desired. The read/write speeds on it were also surprisingly good.
OCZ Technology is at it again attempting to push the envelope for flash media. When they had introduced the Rally it was a smoking fast flash drive that had finally stolen the performance crown from Corsair's Flash Voyager. After that OCZ pushed the physical envelope for flash drives with the incredibly small Mini-Kart. Now OCZ Technology is at it again, but this time around they are attempting to push the storage capacity for computer users. The OCZ Mega-Kart offers an 8GB storage capacity while retaining a small footprint, and best of all an economically-minded price.


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Former Indian-American director of Goldman Sachs, Rajat Gupta, has asked a US court to reverse his insider trading conviction, objecting to prosecution's use of wiretaps supposedly implicating him.
In a brief filed Friday at the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, Gupta's lawyers argued wiretaps of now-imprisoned Sri-Lankan American hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam amounted to "hearsay statements" and should not have been presented to the jury.
"Without a proper basis for admission, these untestable, unreliable hearsay statements had no place in a criminal trial, and their admission alone compels reversal," Gupta's lawyers wrote.
A federal jury convicted Gupta, 64, in June of leaking Goldman boardroom secrets to Rajaratnam, the convicted Galleon Group hedge fund manager, who is currently serving an 11-year prison term for insider trading.
US District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan sentenced Gupta to two years in prison. But a federal appeals court in Manhattan in December granted his request to remain free during his appeal.
Rakoff, who presided over the trial, originally ordered Gupta to begin serving his sentence on January 8.
The judge erred when he allowed the government to present wiretaps of conversations not involving Gupta and limited Gupta's defence case by barring evidence that Rajaratnam had alternative sources of non-public information about Goldman Sachs, his lawyers wrote.
Rakoff "significantly curtailed" Gupta's principal defences and made erroneous rulings in the prosecution's favour that "decisively tipped the scales" against him, they argued.
Gupta challenged the government's use of court-authorised wiretaps, saying Rakoff shouldn't have permitted prosecutors to play recordings of September and October 2008 telephone calls between Rajaratnam and others that didn't include Gupta.
Rakoff also erred when he didn't allow Gupta's daughter to testify that he told her he had discovered that Rajaratnam had "swindled" him when he'd withdrawn money from the fund. Gupta lost $10 million, his lawyers said.


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The designer, builder and pilot of the remotely piloted vehicle used by the National Geographic Society to make a documentary film on the War of 1812 shipwrecks of the Hamilton and Scourge, will speak at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail "Blue Byway" event on Saturday, Oct. 5, at SUNY Oswego.
Christopher Nicholson, president of Deep Sea Systems International (Cataumet, Mass.), provided his technical and engineering expertise to the filming of the two historic schooners sank in Lake Ontario in 1812. For more than 20 years, Nicholson contracted with the National Geographic Society on expeditions worldwide and received NGS research grants to develop specialized underwater vehicles, imaging systems and HDTV cameras.
The WWII battleship Arizona, the H.M.S. Breadalbane, and famed freighter Edmund Fitzgerald are among the other historic shipwrecks Nicholson has helped explorers to document. His underwater engineering skills were also applied to the Hollywood production of "Titanic."
Nicholson presents Flying Fish awards to young inventors and artists, helps send students to the International Science and Engineering Fair, and supports student science fairs in the Yarmouth, Mass., area.
Nicholson is on the 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Great Lakes Seaway Trail "Blue Byway" program, co-sponsored by the Great Lakes Seaway Trail and New York Sea Grant, with National Weather Service forecaster and forensic meteorologist Robert Hamilton and New York Sea Grant coastal recreation and tourism specialist Dave White.
Presentation of two-tank diving destinations are also on the agenda of the Oct. 5 Great Lakes Seaway Trail "Blue Byway" seminar, which is part of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Underwater Series of maritime heritage and recreation programs.
Preregistration by Oct. 1 is $10 at www.seawaytrail.com/dive; late registration and admission at the door is $15, as space allows. For more information, call 315-646-1000, ext. 203.
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Sub Pop Goes to CMJ : Octrocktober 2012
That's right folks! Sub Pop is coming to The Big Apple to partake in the College Music Journal musical festivities. We will celebrate this year with a showcase in the vibrant borough of Brooklyn at The Knitting Factory on October 18th. The eclectic lineup for our Octrocktober Celebration is as follows:
Debo Band 8 PM
Daughn Gibson 8:50 PM
Poor Moon 9:40 PM
King Tuff 11:20 PM
Pissed Jeans 12:10 AM
*Doors are at 7 PM and this show is 18+ for the first time in years! Young music directors, that means you can finally experience an official Sub Pop showcase. Hooray! Go here to buy tickets.
What people are saying about the bands:
Debo Band:
"The Boston-based band Debo Band gives the psychedelic music heard on the Ethiopiques collections a high-spirited revamp," -Village Voice (Live review, 2012)
Daughn Gibson:
"All Hell is a subtly clever record that pits one type of music that strongly evokes one era— here, country music— against another, namely this decade's sample-heavy culture. Gibson does a lot of questioning within that framework, both seriously and tongue-in-cheek. All of that makes for a rewarding record to think about, and to intellectualize, but All Hell wouldn't be nearly so fun to listen to if it weren't for Gibson's ear for melody. His thick baritone breezes confidently over the songs, lassoing hook after hook, redeeming his burnt-out characters through song." – Pitchfork (Album review of All Hell, 2012)
Poor Moon:
"These songs are gutsier in their arrangements, more surefooted in the songwriting, and more certain of the band's identity." – Pitchfork (Album review Poor Moon LP, 2012)
"On their debut, Metz roll up the lurch of post-rock, the jagged flicker of post-punk, and the fist-pump chant-alongs of hardcore, into a concentrated clump of chaos." – Spin (5 Best New Artists for August, 2012)
King Tuff:
King Tuff finds Thomas leaving the garage for soaring, unbridled pop accessibility— the first track, after all, is called "Anthem". His drawling hooks are variously dedicated to provoking physical movement or singing bratty lines about breaking the rules, bumming around, not giving a shit, and other charming, unapologetic matters of youth. (Overlooked Records, 2012) – Pitchfork
Pissed Jeans:
"There's a blunt but effective wit at work here, pressed into the service of misanthropy." – New York Times
Sub Pop:
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I have created a team in the Madness Against Malaria competition, called Pastafarians Against Malaria. I think it would be good press if we won, plus it's a good way to do something for those less fortunate than us. And if you're selfish, just remember that this also will hopefully help eradicate malaria, which means that you won't have to worry about getting sick with it when you visit other countries.
So donate! Even if you can't donate very much. Every little bit helps. And you just might save someone's life.
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Can't. My Eradication of Malaria money is already scheduled to go into the 'John's Baby Hates Malaria' fund.
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New Catholic Dictionary – Saint Christopher
(Latin: Christ bearer) Martyr (3rd century), died Lydia, Asia Minor. He is one of the most popular saints of the East and West, and is invoked as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. The legends concerning him are confused and often contradictory; however, it is generally conceded that he was engaged in carrying people across a raging stream. One day he carried the Christ Child across, and his burden became heavier at each step until it was almost unbearable, for Christ bore in his hands the weight of the world; to prove His identity Christ caused Christopher's staff to grow into a fruit-bearing tree. This miracle converted many, and excited the rage of the king, who caused Christopher to be imprisoned, subjected to torments, and beheaded. Patron of travelers; invoked against storms and sudden death. Emblems: a tree, the Child Jesus on his shoulders, giant, torrent. Feast, Roman Calendar, 25 July.
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English Premier League greatest?
- Manchester United's Ryan Giggs is named the best player in the EPL's 20-year history
- United's legendary boss Alex Ferguson receives the best manager award
- Wayne Rooney's overhead kick for United against City in February 2011 is named best goal
- Arsenal's "Invincibles" of the 2003-04 season named the league's best ever team
(CNN) -- Since its inception in 1992, the English Premier League has grown into one of football's most compelling and commercially successful domestic competitions.
To celebrate two decades of top-level soccer, the finest players and managers to have graced the competition have been honored at this week's "20 Seasons Awards."
The big winners were Manchester United, the team which dominated the era by collecting 12 championships.
United's veteran Welsh midfielder Ryan Giggs was named top player, having featured in every Premier League season and scoring 107 goals.
Did Manchester City win the league - or did United lose it?
United's legendary Scottish manager Alex Ferguson was also honored, having like Giggs been part of all 12 title triumphs.
"Being named as the best player in the 20 seasons of the Premier League is a tremendous honor for me," Giggs, 38, told the league's official website, "and very humbling when you consider some of the brilliant players who were nominated alongside me."
There was also an award for the Old Trafford team's star striker Wayne Rooney, who received the "Goal of 20 Seasons" gong for his stunning overhead kick against archrivals Manchester City in February 2011.
United's 4-3 defeat of neighbors City in September 2009, which included a winning goal from striker Michael Owen in stoppage time, was voted the finest Premier League match.
But despite United's dominance, Arsenal's championship-winning side of the 2003-04 season took home the Best Team prize.
Known as "The Invincibles," the London club is the only team to remain unbeaten throughout an entire Premier League campaign.
The full list of award winners feature in the gallery above. Do you agree with the judges' choices? Have your say in the comments section at the bottom of this page.
Player of 20 Seasons: Ryan Giggs
Manager of 20 Seasons: Alex Ferguson
Team of 20 Seasons: Arsenal 2003-04
Goal of 20 Seasons: Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) v Manchester City, February 2011
Match of 20 Seasons: Manchester United 4-3 Manchester City, September 2009
Public vote Fantasy Team of 20 Seasons: Peter Schmeichel (Man Utd), Gary Neville (Man Utd), Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd), Tony Adams (Arsenal), Ashley Cole (Arsenal/Chelsea), Ryan Giggs (Man Utd), Paul Scholes (Man Utd), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd), Thierry Henry (Arsenal) , Alan Shearer (Newcastle).
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