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What I saw: lines of people, bundled against the cold, gas containers in hand, waiting, shuffling their feet to keep warm, waiting even longer than they thought possible for enough gasoline to get their cars going. This looked less like the community I know and more like a scene from "The Road," a post-apocalyptic novel about the end of the world.
As we repair our roofs, dry out our basements and restock our food supplies, we teeter, trying to find our footing, knowing that something deeply rooted in our psyches has shifted. The hurricane, followed fast by the snowstorm, has destroyed our property and destabilized our day-to-day routines. Our sense of confidence in a benign future is shaken.
Beaches are gone. Landmarks have washed out to sea. Homes are wrecked, along with the lifelong memories stored in photographs and books and family treasures. Even as we get back to normal, we know that the long, violent path of the storms has left scars.
The trauma has helped us find the best in ourselves. All of us with heat and electricity have reached out to friends and family. As we go to press, strangers are still living with neighbors they never knew before the storm. Children are bunking with cousins and friends of friends. Everyone has a story to tell, and in the stories we are writing the history of our time. Someday the 5- and 6-year-olds will tell their grandchildren about the hurricane of 2012, when the city's tunnels were flooded and Staten Island lay in ruins. We have the photographs to prove it — the boats on high ground, the tree limbs crushing roofs and cars.
We've heard the bad news, too, about looting in some areas. Someone I know said she put bullets in the shotgun she keeps in her house. There was the horror of two little boys swept away by the Staten Island storm surge after a man refused to open the door of his house to them and their mother. There were anguished complaints about the long lines for gasoline and justified frustration with the power company. If you sit for too many nights in the dark and the cold, your strength, and even your hope, begin to ebb. I hope that by the time we go to press, the lights up and down Long Island will be on.


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I had to take Riley back the neuro, Dr. G. yesterday as Riley was starting to scratch again. The Dr. decided to add gabapentin to the regimine he was already on ( pred. tramadol, pepcid.) He is on 100mg/day for now and we go back in 1 month for a re-check. I am hopeful that this will keep Riley's scratching to a minimum.

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All-Pacific League first-team pick finished with 91 goals to help Nitros reach CIF Southern Section Division V championship match. Added 54 assists and earned spot on All-CIF Division V second team.
Pierce Deamer, Junior, Hole/Set, South Pasadena
Collected 89 goals and 49 steals for playoff-bound Tigers. Named to the All-Rio Hondo League and All-CIF teams.
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Registered school-record 117 assists for CIF Southern Section Division V champions. All-CIF and All-Prep League first-team pick had 54 goals and 38 steals.
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Named All-Pacific League Player of the year and helped Nitros win second straight league championship. Finished with 136 goals, 22 assists and 25 drawn ejections while being named to the All-CIF Southern Section Division V first team.
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text: Last night on Crowned, we came dangerously close to losing the Sincere Sexy Reds. Could you imagine how suckass next week's big, studio audience finale would have been without them? Anyway, last night they did not disappoint: Laura got bitchy and essentially called the other girls ugly, then cried later on when she realized she might be stupid. But best of all, the ladies of the house threw a cocktail party, and Patty had one too many and ralphed while sitting in a white chair. Clip above.


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Der Spiegel's Julia Amalia Heyer recently interviewed a couple of Greek shipping magnates about what it's like to be rich in a floundering country.
Leon Patitsas, a 36-year-old heir to a shipping fortune, tells Heyer that the state offers no security to Greece's business class. That stance, he said is rooted in the population's belief that capital is to blame for everything, "and not the powerful unions that actually destroy jobs with their unrealistic demands rather than preserving them."
But Heyer writes that Greece's shipping industry enjoys unusual leeway when it comes to what it owes the state.
Although Greece-owned ships transport 20 percent of the world's seaborne cargo, they "usually" sail under the flags of other countries, she says.
As a result:
...the world's largest merchant fleet hardly contributes anything to Greece's economic performance, and shipping revenues aren't taxed. In fact, shipping companies don't even have to pay taxes for divisions that have nothing to do with transporting cargo on the seas.
What's more, she writes, the EU recently identified 57 different tax amnesties for Greece shipowners.
Patitsas says all this is necessary: the country's merchant marine fleet is the largest in the world, creating 400,000 jobs for the economy — jobs, he says, "that could go elsewhere at any time."
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Ruth Pease was twenty-three when she wrote this diary. She began it with a number of assertions to help her live a more moral life. She codified them into some thirty resolutions, adopted from the more extensive list of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). Edwards was one of the most important evangelical leaders of the 18th century, a key figure in the First Great Awakening. Edwards began his set of seventy resolutions in 1722 in his personal diary. Pease's resolutions are not copies of Edwards. She brought her own voice and ideals to her list, but she may have begun her diary with them as a way to express her admiration of Edwards. The resolutions are typical for a pious woman of New England. Pease married Orian Sage of Blandford in 1817. They lived there until 1848, when they moved to Ware, Massachusetts. Sage, a cheese merchant, served in town and state government. Ruth Pease died in 1858.
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B_E_E LOVED, kind, clean and good? Call me a hippie, but that sounds like fun to me.
Beauty Engineered forEver is another Kiwi beauty brand (sorry for missing you the first time) that lives up to the green credentials and ethos that so many other New Zealand beauty (and otherwise) brands seem to inherently embrace. Made from natural ingrdients that are safe and gentle and meet the most stringent global standards set for eco products. They want to make stuff that's efficient and beautiful and green.
I love this blurb: "B_E_E is from here. Very New Zealand, in ideas, ingredients and inspiration that could only come from our place. Made with the belief that New Zealanders like to make things better.....better than just about anyone else. We're from a part of the world that can change the world. So that`s what we`re going to do."
And they're as quirky as Bliss and Soap & Glory. Like a slightly Method products would be with a couple drinks in 'em, right?
The range includes laundry liquid, laundry powder, delicate fabric wash, multi-surface cleaner, dishwash liquid and whitener.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Barbra Streisand
File this under the heading of "Things I Never Thought I'd Experience in My Lifetime."
On Monday, Chris and I went to the Barbra Streisand "Back to Brooklyn" concert.
For those of you who are HUGE Barbra fans, as Chris and I are, I'll let that resonate for a moment…
Think about it–a live Barbra Streisand concert. The one-and-only, having never performed in Vancouver before, standing on that stage a few short feet from us, her beautiful vocal instrument filling the air. As I type the words, I'm still shaking my head in disbelief.
To put this into perspective, Barbra's performed LIVE on eighty-eight occasions–not in the past year… but since 1964, when she performed live for the first time. She told the sold-out crowd at Rogers Arena on Monday evening that, as she performed in New York's Central Park on June 17, 1967 (later referred to as "A Happening in Central Park"), to a crowd of 135,000, in torrential rain, she forgot a few lyrics.
Ever the perfectionist (boy, do I understand that impulse), Barbra freaked out and didn't sing live again for twenty-seven years. (In other places, it's been reported there had been threats on her life prior to that concert, as well.) It wasn't until the early 1990s that she triumphantly returned to the concert stage.
I remember reading about that eighteen-city, 1994 concert tour in North America and Europe, which sold out in one hour. Chris and I were on a bus (this was long before we owned a car) on our way to Victoria, BC's provincial capital, for several days. We had only been together for about a year.
The Vanity Fair article went into detail about why Barbra hadn't performed in so long, and the preparations taking place for that first tour. At one point, I remember turning to Chris and saying, "She doesn't have a right to do that–to prevent people from experiencing her live. When you have a talent–a gift–like she does, you have an obligation to use it, to share it with the world, and nothing should stop you from doing that."
Of course, I've since moderated my opinion somewhat, having gone through anxiety and panic attacks, as well as agoraphobia, over the past two decades. On a personal level, I understand now more than ever how Barbra could have freaked because of everything that happened (or could have happened) during that live performance in Central Park, how fear overcame her life, and how it could overcome any of ours, at any time (even if we think it couldn't).
I wonder how many of our lives are run by fear now, how many of our gifts have been silenced because of it. Many gay and lesbian people, not yet out of the closet, live in fear constantly, of being found out, of loved ones discovering their secret, because they're just too damn frightened (notice the timely reference to Halloween) to be themselves in a world that's still not totally accepting of us. It scares me to think about it.
I know for a fact I held myself back many years ago from choosing the career I really wanted to pursue, because I was filled with fear, because I felt the necessity to downplay my sexual orientation. Through much of my young adult life, I attracted attention to myself for being gay, to the extent that I couldn't take it anymore, and I made the conscious choice not to be me. Who knows where I'd be today if I'd had the courage to embrace my gayness back then, how the decisions I made would have been different.
Don't let your voice be silenced. To use gay vernacular, don't allow your flame to burn lower than it's intended to, or, God forbid, to burn out altogether. Stop pretending to be something you're not. Stop holding yourself back from being everything you were meant to be.
Perhaps that's why Barbra Streisand is such an icon to the gay community–because she's an inspiration; because she's a survivor, having overcome fear, proving we can all do the same; because her star has shone brightly for over fifty years, and her gifts continue to spread joy and magic.
The world needs your gifts too. Don't be held back from offering them because you're too scared to be yourself.
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I came across your blog some months ago, Rick. I come back to it from time to time and find that I go away somehow feeling disturbed and enthused all at once!ReplyDelete
This time, today, I visited it again and was struck by your consistency in voicing so positively what it means to be gay. Some years ago, I copied down the following:
"It is often a case of being neither glad nor proud to be gay, but finding the honesty and courage to bear its disadvantages." (Janet Watts, "Domestic Allsorts", The Tablet, 21st Nov 1998)
Those words rang true for me. I suppose that I couldn't embrace the reality of being gay as something that was cause for rejoicing. I thought, though, that I could maybe move to accept the fact that this is who I am and get on with it. Even to do that would be a way forward from where I was (a place of having to cover up who I am).
When I came back to your blog today, my first thought, besides your consistency, was "how hard to have to go on fighting this battle for acceptance and validation." Yet you take it beyond just the acceptance which I spoke of above and move it to a place of celebration and thanksgiving and even of giftedness and that seems worth hoping for.
I'm not really given to commenting on anything I read but I want to say Thanks.
John, I've read your comment numerous times now, and it continues to bring tears to my eyes, not because I'm particularly weepy, but for the following reasons:
First, because I'm thrilled that you're interested enough in what I have to say to return again and again; that you would take the time to leave a comment when, as you say, you typically don't (I know what you mean; I rarely comment on anything I read on the Internet either); and that you've dignified "This Gay Relationship" with what I consider to be a beautiful, thoughtful, and measured piece of writing (if you're not already a writer, you should be).
Second, because I feel pain in your words–like being gay is a heavy weight for you, and your life is less than what it could be because of it.
I know you've taken from what I write that I don't look at it that way, and I can't imagine my life, or anyone else's, limited because of something out of our control. As I've written here recently (which, admittedly, took me some time to get to), being gay just is. It's neither good nor bad. It's a part of us like any other part. And there's no reason why it should add to the burden of what we already carry around on a daily basis.
I saw a ray of hopefulness in what you wrote, and that makes me smile. While I'm not saying you should necessarily rejoice or celebrate being gay–I'm not sure I do that–what I am saying is that it's time to change the mindset that it's a cross to bear. We are all different in one way or another, and those differences are the source of our unique gifts to the world around us.
Invariably, self-acceptance is nothing more than making the shift in how we choose to look at ourselves (believe it or not, it has, or should have, little to do with the perceptions others have of us). At any time, we have the ability to turn a negative today into a positive tomorrow (or, at the very least, a neutral). And, where being gay is concerned, that's what I sincerely hope you'll have the courage and the grace to do.
Again, my sincere thanks for your comment. I am blessed to have received it.Replies
I've just come back to your blog, tonight, Ray, and read your words in response to what I wrote.Delete
You hope for me both courage and grace. Yes, both seem to be pertinent here.
Courage: I know I have grown in this respect (maybe it comes with age, too; life is too short for remaining trapped in fear of others' perceptions and those I've made my own...).
Grace: well, grace is grace and can't be forced or manufactured. I can only hope to be open to being surprised by it and hope to be receptive. It's not exaggerating to say that what I've read in your blog speaks to me of grace.
Again, thanks.
Thank you for your follow-up comment, John. It's good to hear from you again.Delete
I received an email from another reader several months ago, who said something that coincided with what you wrote. As a result, I found myself inspired to write a dedicated post tentatively titled "Lifting the Weight of Being Gay," which I expect to publish within the next few days. I hope you'll check it out.
In the meantime, I appreciate your interest in my blog and your kind words. I hope "This Gay Relationship" continues to be a place where you and other readers find solace and encouragement on your journeys to understand and accept yourselves.
All the very best.


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In the Suburbs / Celebrating talent honed by hard work
They could be our neighbors or the offspring of close friends. They may be students who once passed through our classrooms in high school. They are filled with dreams and have a glow that comes only with being part of the U.S. Olympic team. And they are representing our hopes and competitive spirit this month in Sochi.
And whether they take home gold, silver, bronze or just their wounded pride, we love them all for the courage they have shown in just competing. This Team USA comprises the best and brightest our nation has to offer.
As my wife and I have been watching some of the competition -- we've especially enjoyed figure skating, skiing and luge competition so far -- I can't help wondering: Where did these amazing athletes begin their journeys to the Olympics? How must they be feeling at this very moment?
Figure skater Jason Brown of Highland Park, Ill., has real charisma, and it showed in a performance that helped the U.S. win a team-skating bronze medal.
Blogger Jim Caple wrote: "Jason Brown has had a pretty memorable past year. At this time last year, he was just an 18-year-old figure skater on the junior circuit. In the year since, he made the Olympic team, won a medal and even met Russian president Vladimir Putin"
The American team found itself in a hole after U.S. champion Jeremy Abbott fell twice in the short program. Although Brown fell once, he garnered high enough marks for the U.S. to capture a team medal.
Caple quoted him as saying: "To be on the medal stand with my teammates yesterday and to think a year ago I didn't even think I was going to be skating in seniors competition? I didn't think I was going to make the Olympic team. And now to have a medal?"
Sage Kotsenburg of Park City Utah took the Games first gold medal by winning the men's slopestyle on Saturday. The unpretentious snowboarder "was determined to stay his chilled-out, snowboarding self and march to his own beat," the Los Angeles Times reported.
As he talked with reporters after the semifinals, the Times said, Kotsenburg seemed "oblivious to any pressure. Stress apparently is not in his DNA."
"I really want the medal just as much as the next guy," he told the Times, "but my attitude in the run (is) if I land, that's cool. If not, I need to try harder obviously. That's just how I snowboard. I'm super mellow, laid-back. I'm not like the normal guy that goes in the gym and trains. I haven't been in the gym since September."
The Games so far have delighted us, too, with the totally unexpected.
The luge was introduced as an Olympic sport at 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games. And in 50 years since, no U.S. individual had never won a medal. That is until Erin Hamlin captured the bronze Tuesday.
She had finished 12th in the 2006 Games in Turin and 16th four years ago in Vancouver.
"It's surreal," she told Yahoo Sports. "I came here with no expectations, and this is beyond what I imagined."
Julia Mancuso was magnificent winning bronze in the women's Super Combined Alpine skiing competition. Her navigation of the tough course was poetry on skis.
On of the TV said she literally seems to have a strategy for winning and understands every twist and turn that lies ahead of her on the course. The smile on her face at the end was one of satisfaction that all her work had paid off in a medal.
With each competition, we have seen the culmination of years of practice and hard work. When they started out, some of these athletes, I'm sure, never dreamed they would perform on a world stage, let alone stand on a podium to receive a medal.
Steven Gaynes is a Fairfield writer, and his "In the Suburbs" appears each Friday. He can be reached at: email@example.com.


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Unger: 'Bush giving us worst of both worlds'by Howard W. Hewitt • October 11, 2004 Share:
Ties between the Bush family and Saudi Arabia's Royal Saud family go back more than 25 years and are at the root of problems America faces today, believes veteran journalist and author Craig Unger.
Unger addressed nearly 100 people in Salter Hall in the Fine Arts Building Monday night and talked about his New York Times bestseller, House of Bush, House of Saud.
"Saudi Arabia is a country that has played a bigger role in fostering terrorism in the world than any other county, including Iraq," Unger said.
The author detailed his book which he says shows long-established connections between George H. Bush and President George W. Bush and the Royal Family. He contends the Saudis poured millions of dollars into companies with Bush ties and ties to friends of the Bush family.
His book opens with what initially spurred his curiosity which was flights out of the United States on Sept. 13, 2001, two days after the attacks on New York and Washington D.C. Unger learned more than 100 Saudis, including approximately two dozen members of the Bin Laden family, were flown out of the United States without ever being questioned about funding possible Islamic terrorist activity.
"I think Bush, in many ways, has given us the worst of both worlds," Unger said. "First in being soft on terrorism, in terms of addressing its root causes and, second, actually making it worse through the war in Iraq. The war on terror should have begun with Saudi Arabia's funding of Islamic fundamentalists."
But the root of future problems could come back to being the Middle East Oil, he explained.
"The thing that will hit people in the pocketbook here is our ties to Middle Eastern oil are more tenuous than ever before. Iraq is a mess. Our ties with Saudi Arabia are shakier than ever before. The price of oil has gone up from $23 a barrel Sept. 12 to $53 today. You have the ascendancy of China and India at a time when peak oil may be a reality."
Unger said some geologists believe that within the next five years the world will have exhausted half of nature's oil. "And when that happens prices don't go up gradually, they'll skyrocket."
Unger's reporting suggested a plan to invade Iraq existed as far back as the end of the 1992 Gulf War. He said then-president George Bush rejected it, President Bill Clinton rejected it, but members of the current Bush administration saw 9-11 as an opportunity to move against Saddam Hussein.
Unger acknowledges the book has been very controversial. "Basically the White House has tried to characterize me as a conspiracy nut," he said. "But there are more than 1,000 footnotes in my book; many of the documents are available on the Internet. You can check up on me if you want."
The criticism, or lack of attention, that most frustrates Unger is the media reaction. "I've probably given 500 talks but I'm basically taboo among the Washington press corps," he said. "The Washington press corps will not deal with this issue head on as far as confronting the White House.
"There's been so much consolidation of the press so that there really are eight to 10 companies that own the vast majority of them. When you're covering the White House or Pentagon or inside the beltway for one of those companies, you become addicted to sources. If you want that exclusive with (defense secretary) Donald Rumsfeld and if you ask these questions you're not going to get it. That hurts your career so they just ignore it."
Unger noted recent developments which have backed up many of his book's allegations, including Sen. Bob Graham who has publicly discussed the Senate Intelligence Committee's discovery of probable links between the Saudis and apparent funding of two of the terrorists involved in the 9-11 attacks.
Unger answered questions and signed books at a reception following his formal remarks. Discussion continued among Wabash students and staff about what they had just heard.
"It really was kind of a continuation of other things I've been thinking and hearing the past few months leading up to the elections," Sophomore Jim Stephens '07 (in photo with author, above) said. "It's just the general connection between the people in high positions of government, and it could be either party, and their close ties and conflicts of interest to companies in oil and weapons production."
The Lecture Committee sponsored Unger's Wabash appearance. The author appears frequently on news talk television programs as an analyst on terrorism, Saudi-American relations and the oil industry. He was editor of Boston Magazine and deputy editor of the New York Observer. He's also written for The New Yorker, Esquire Magazine and Vanity Fair.


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I Heard It's The Softest Thing Ever Lyrics
Tonight I'm sending a message this is the end of an era,
the end of second chances.
In the face of defeat,
I'm wining.
Yet, you still have so much left to say.
They're coming straight for me.
Just let me go for now,
I'll be just fine.
Don't ya know now that I'm back on my own.
Tell me how it feels to watch the walls of your security crumble.
I remember you,
you took the easy way out when I gave you something to stand for.
They're coming straight for me.
I was just another promise that you couldn't keep.


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Near-perfect conditions on the heels of two challenging years had Napa winemakers smiling as the 2012 harvest came to a close. To begin the season, spring bud break went off in perfect conditions, as did flowering and fruit set, setting the stage for a solid crop in terms of quantity. The summer continued with textbook conditions — warm days and cool nights allowing ripening with good flavors, sugars, and acid. Wines are rich, forward, and concentrated with plush, deep, dark fruit.
The ongoing drought played a role, with careful attention to irrigation causing some preliminary worries. Grapes did show some evidence of the stress with smaller, concentrated berries and higher polyphenols in the skins, but in the end these were more a contributing factor to the concentration and excellent quality of the fruit than a reason for concern.
Harvest started with a moderate September followed by a warm spell (with several days over 100°F) at the start of October, four days of rains to close out the month, and overall excellent conditions.
The results from these terrific conditions is a good-sized crop of very high-quality wines that are well-structured and concentrated with deep colors for the reds, slightly higher alcohols from the long ripening, but also in most cases with enough freshness and acidity to balance. Overall, they are wines with enough seductive fruit to be approachable young, but the best should age and develop for a decade and more.
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Turkey's leading steel pipe manufacturer, Borusan Mannesmann, will invest 150 million USD in the United States to establish a steel pipe manufacturing plant to cater to the energy sector. This plant is set to start production in 2014 and will make Borusan Mannesmann a global player in the industry.
December 24, 2012, Istanbul. Borusan Mannesmann, one of the foremost manufacturers of the European steel pipe industry, prepares to make a strategic investment in line with its vision of becoming a global player. Supplying the U.S. market with pipes used in the energy sector for several years, Borusan Mannesmann now aims to become a local manufacturer in order to be closer to the market and its customer base.
To this end, a pipe manufacturing plant with an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons will be established in the United States. With an investment of 150 million USD, the plant will focus its output on OCTG and ERW line pipes. The target revenue for the US-based company is estimated at 500 million USD.
Scheduled to start production by mid-2014, the plant is designed to produce the thick-walled and high-strength pipes suitable for state-of-the-art, advanced OCTG technology used in "shale gas" production. Final decision on the location of investment is not finalized yet but Texas and Oklahoma are the leading states to attract the investment through their incentive programs. The facility will be built on nearly 125 acres of land and provide 350 people with employment when it becomes operational.
A first in the Steel Pipe sector
Agâh Uğur, Borusan Holding Group CEO, comments on the subject as follows:
"Borusan Mannesmann is among the leading players of steel pipe market in Europe. One of its top goals is to become a global player in the pipe industry. This investment is not only a way to insert Borusan Mannesmann into the U.S. market; it is also the first step to becoming an international manufacturer.
As a Turkish firm that has made a name for itself through its success in exports, Borusan Mannesmann now strengthens its global presence with an investment in the competitive, yet widely recognized market, of the United States.
Borusan Mannesmann grows and expands by focusing on production for high value added sectors such as energy and automotive. In a first for the Turkish industry, we are now becoming the first Turkish company to invest in the steel pipe sector in the United States with this venture. This is our second overseas investment after our automotive pipe manufacturing plant in Italy. We have a strategic and long-term view of the American market due to its size and quality approach. Favorable changes to the energy policies in the United States, as well as the advancements in the shale gas technology, were the factors that hastened our investment decision at this time of global recession."
Underlining that, "OCTG and line pipes are a promising future market," Borusan Mannesmann , Board Chairman Semih Özmen added:
"Investing in a product that requires the use of advanced technology such as OCTG pipes requires significant know-how and expertise and our new CEO, Buddy Brewer, is among the few individuals with the experience and knowledge to carry this through. Not only that, Borusan Mannesmann is among the few firms with the strength to make such an investment."
Successful rise in the U.S. market
To date, Borusan Mannesmann has realized many oil and natural gas pipeline projects in Turkey, Central Europe, and North Africa. The Elba Express and Line 300 natural gas pipeline projects brought the company prestige in the U.S. market. Over the last three years, Borusan Mannesmann has become one of the largest international companies that export to the United States the pipes used in oil and natural gas exploration and extraction.
Thanks to breakthroughs made in the technical and commercial fields, Borusan Mannesmann has increased exports from 90 million USD in 2009 to 184 million USD in 2012. With 40 percent of its exports currently destined for the United States as well as this noted significant increase, Borusan Mannesmann is well on its way to accomplish its goal as a strong local and international player in the market.


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- Marussia news
Gonzalez gets Marussia FP1 run
- Drivers:
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- Rodolfo Gonzalez
- Teams:
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Marussia's reserve driver Rodolfo Gonzalez will drive in FP1 for this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix.
Gonzalez - who joined the team following the departure of Luiz Razia - will replaced Jules Bianchi in Friday's first session at Sakhir; a track that both Bianchi and Max Chilton have previous experience of. It will be Gonzalez's first Friday practice appearance for Marussia and he thanked the team for the way it had incorporated him in to his new role.
"I'm really happy with this opportunity to drive in my first FP1 session of the season," Gonzalez said. "It will be a nice feeling to be back in a car - especially to drive a Formula 1 car again - and with my previous F1 experience I feel more than comfortable and ready. I love this circuit; it will be quite dusty in FP1 but it's also good fun and I'm looking forward to seeing what I can achieve. I would like to thank the team for their faith in me. They have made me feel so welcome and have bent over backwards to involve me in every aspect of the racing."
Team principal John Booth said the team would use the session to judge Gonzalez's pace relative to the race drivers.
"We are pleased to welcome our Reserve Driver Rodolfo Gonzalez to the car for his first FP1 session of the season," Booth said. "On this occasion he will take over from Jules for the morning but we will see him taking part in this session at several of the races this season and we will alternate between the two cars. We wish him well and look forward to getting our first opportunity to gauge his performance level in the MR02."


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Muslim cartoonist has a different slant / Bendib's pen tackles controversial issues
Scores of U.S. editorial cartoonists have examined the Abu Ghraib prison controversy, but none of them has matched the biting, almost risque commentary of Khalil Bendib.
In a panel titled "Chain of Command at Abu Ghraib or ... Where Does the S&M Buck Stop?" Bendib portrays Dick Cheney as a slave master who holds President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld in neck chains. Rumsfeld, in turn, keeps in bondage a female U.S. soldier who has a leash around a naked Iraqi prisoner. (Condoleezza Rice is seen as a dominatrix, while a hand from Halliburton has a grip on Cheney, whose name is spelled "Chainy." God and Jerry Falwell, meanwhile, have neck chains around Bush.)
Bendib knows his humor is not for everyone. He thinks of himself as a social activist with a pen, and is the only prominent Arab and Muslim editorial cartoonist in the United States. Born in Paris and raised in Algeria and Morocco, Bendib, 46, has lived in California since 1977. He now lives in Berkeley
"Eventually, I hope to see legions of Arab American smart alecks like myself," says Bendib, whose work is distributed to 1,700 small- and medium- size papers around the United States.
At a time when the Arab and Muslim world is so much in the news, Bendib is awash in ideas. Within weeks of the Abu Ghraib controversy, Bendib drew the "Chain of Command" cartoon and four others that slammed Washington's policies in Iraq. Like other liberal thinkers after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bendib has found himself getting angrier every day about the state of the world ("Abu Ghraib is one of the things, among many others, that are bothering me right now," he says), and his anger is registering with more people.
Through Minuteman Media, the same company that distributes the columns of anti-Bush commentator Jim Hightower, Bendib's cartoons are used by such diverse papers as the Advance News, a weekly in New Jersey with a circulation of 20,000, and the Dodge City Daily Globe, a small daily in Dodge City, Kan. (They can also be seen at www.bendib.com.)
These days, Bendib is increasingly invited to give talks. Last month, he addressed the national convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, giving a slide-show presentation titled "Drawing While Arab." A clip of Bendib's address was shown on "NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw."
"He brings diversity (to the profession)," says Joel Pett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader, who invited Bendib to speak to the association's convention in Lexington, Ky. "I thought that the perspective of an Arab American on politics in the U.S. in the last two years was worth listening to."
Others aren't so sure. In October, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, criticized Bendib's rendering of Janice Rogers Brown, the conservative black California Supreme Court justice whom President Bush had nominated to a federal appeals court. In the single-panel drawing, which Hatch enlarged and displayed for TV cameras during Brown's confirmation hearing, she has a wild Afro and a face that looks remarkably like Clarence Thomas, the conservative black U.S. Supreme Court justice whom Bush's father appointed.
Bendib did the drawing for the Black Commentator, an activist organization whose audience is primarily African Americans seeking social and economic justice. Black Commentator vigorously defended the cartoon, while Hatch told the confirmation hearing, "I hope that everyone here considers this cartoon offensive and despicable." The publicity had the unintended effect of drawing more people to Bendib's work.
"At that point," Bendib jokes now, "I thought I should send a copy of all my cartoons to Orrin Hatch."
Bendib's job description is a contradiction in terms for someone who dislikes stereotypes: sketch drawings that reduce complicated issues into (what he hopes are) humorous panels. Bendib is fortunate to be in a field that guarantees him leeway. Unlike reporters and photographers, cartoonists can use satire, parody and humor to caricature people. Like stand-up comedians, editorial cartoonists are allowed to prod public figures in ways that might seem merciless.
As satire, their drawings become safe havens for views that otherwise might not be expressed. The Supreme Court ensured this in 1988 when it ruled that a savage Hustler magazine parody of Jerry Falwell was protected free speech.
Editorial cartoonists admit there's a fine line between legitimate criticism and sketches that demean or even smear.
"The laws about slander and libel are interpreted differently with regard to satire than straight-out news coverage," says Pett. "The laws allow satire to be taken to extremes that would not be tolerated in a news article, and that goes not just for cartoons but for 'Saturday Night Live' skits and anything else."
"There's something about cartoon drawings that people react to in an emotional way," Pett adds. "Letters from Christian conservatives and NRA members angry (at me) and demanding my resignation or an apology are a regular feature of (my paper's) letters. Christian conservatives seem to take particular offense at my putting a halo above their head and then attaching it with a coat hanger that disappears down the back of their neck. I've done that for 20 years, where the hanger is a thinly veiled reference to illegal abortion."
As a freelance journalist, Bendib can concentrate on any hot-button subject that interests him so he regularly does cartoons for CorpWatch, an Oakland organization that monitors corporations. In April, Bendib drew one that ripped Bechtel's practices.
For his cartoons for the Muslim Observer (a weekly publication in Michigan) and for his panels distributed by Minuteman Media, Bendib often ridicules Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza, and Ariel Sharon (whom Bendib depicts as obese with a Jewish star somewhere on his body).
Bendib also condemns many characteristics and practices of Arab and Muslim governments. Iran's clerical leaders were a particular source of Bendib's jabs after Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October. In a recent cartoon headlined "Daddy-Mocracy in the Arab World," Bendib poked fun of Syria, Morocco and Jordan -- all countries headed by rulers who inherited power from their fathers.
"I'm an equal opportunity critic," says Bendib, who was asked at the editorial cartoonists' meeting whether he supported the Palestinian group Hamas. "I reassure everyone that I don't have any sympathy for violent tactics and groups. My cartoons certainly irk Muslims and Arabs, too."
When he's not drawing cartoons, Bendib works as a sculptor, painter and ceramicist. Last year, Bendib completed a bronze statue for a public site in Geneva, N.Y., that memorialized the 1948 killings of Palestinians at the village of Deir Yassin. Bendib's Berkeley home, where he has lived with his wife, Song-Chin Bendib, for six years, is full of bronze figures he created that depict North African men and women.
Bendib knows journalism frequently demands simple prisms through which to see things, so he plays the game.
"I'm a Berkeley, KPFA, Third World kind of guy," he says. Just as he does with the depictions in his cartoons, he's reduced himself to a few, broad brushstrokes. But those phrases do get at the truth -- not the whole truth but a truth nevertheless. For Khalil Bendib, that will have to do for now.
As he says, "You always have to figure out a shortcut, an exaggeration, that conveys the idea very succinctly. Life is not so black and white, though I am in the black-and-white business."


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Ron Gonen, deputy commissioner for Recycling and Sustainability for the Department of Sanitation (DSNY), attended the Community Board 5 meeting last week to promote the city's new initiative targeting organic material.
"We can either turn it into compost, which is a rich fertilizer that the city then sells, or we can turn it into clean natural gas," Gonen said.
The city currently collects food waste from nearly 360 schools, expanding to an expected 400 schools by September, as well as curbside collection in Staten Island, Brooklyn and the Bronx. This spring, Queens will be the next borough added to the program.
Primarily single-family homes, but some multi-family homes, will receive either a 13-gallon or 21-gallon compost containers for food waste, leaf and yard waste, and soiled paper.
"We now take all your metal, all your paper, all your plastic; we're now going to take all your food waste," said Gonen. "We have to spend a lot of money to send stuff to the landfill, and if you participate properly in our recycling program, you literally have very little refuse that you need to put out."
In addition to banning Styrofoam by the end of the year, the city is also making composting mandatory for all large hotels, stadiums and universities by 2015, Gonen added.
CB5 chair Vincent Arcuri said he hopes the new compost initiative would also help reduce some of the garbage overflow in the neighborhood.
"One of the problems we have with the tenants not recycling is our litter bags are overflowing on the street corners," Arcuri said. "That's something we need to consider."


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CHAPEL HILL- Years of deferred maintenance are taking a toll on local schools, leaving county and school officials scrambling to figure out how to foot the bill.
"We have to have a different communication with the citizens. We cannot even afford this. We don't have enough money to do this," said Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Vice-Chair Jamezetta Bedford, speaking Thursday at a joint meeting of school board members and county commissioners. "The idea that we want new things and we want this new park or whatever, when we can't afford to maintain what we already have is very worrisome."
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school budget allocates $20 million in the next decade to repair aging facilities, but a recent evaluation of the district's oldest schools school revealed that repairing or replacing those facilities could cost as much as $170 million.
Orange County School administrators are still in the process of inspecting that district's schools. Initial estimates for renovation range between $20 million and $68 million, but school officials say those numbers are likely to rise as many of the county's oldest schools are in the Orange County system.
Members of the two school boards and county commissioners came together Thursday to discuss a potential bond package to take to voters, possibly as early as November of 2014.
County commissioners are considering a $100 million dollar bond referendum to pay for a new county jail and a fifth middle school for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro system, but that plan doesn't yet include any projects to repair aging schools.
And with the jail and the middle school estimated to cost about $76 million, that leaves just $24 million to address what school officials say is a $230 million dollar problem.
County leaders hope to break ground on a new jail in the next four years, but Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board Chair Michelle Brownstein said the school systems can't wait that long.
"My anticipation is that as more details come out about both Orange County schools and Chapel Hill schools, about the level of need at those schools, there's going to be a greater sense of urgency," said Brownstein. "There's going to need to be evidence that we're coming up with a plan. I don't think it is reasonable to think that we're going to be able to wait until 2016 to address our county's school needs."
The need for a new jail is also pressing, not only because the county jail is consistently overcrowded, but because the board recently signed a land lease with the state that mandates the county start construction within five years. Board of Commissioners Chair Barry Jacobs said failure to do so would invalidate the lease.
"If we haven't done what we need to by that time then we're just out of luck," said Jacobs.
Nonetheless, County Manager Mike Talbert warned commissioners their options may be limited.
"Right now, outstanding debt is $190 million dollars. You're looking at proposals that would nearly double that in a fairly short period of time. There are going to be limitations," said Talbert. "Our debt has to grow in proportion to our budget and to our population. There are very much limits on what we can do."
Veteran Orange County school board member and former county commissioner Stephen Halkiotis said he's worked on three bond referendums over the years. He told the assembled leaders not to get too worried this early in the process.
"It always starts this way, so don't get flabbergasted, don't get upset," said Halkiotis. "The first reach is real high. Then you realize you can only get certain fruit from the tree. Then you get real practical."
Commissioners will discuss the feasibility of a possible bond package at their October 8 work session.


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My physical therapist is giving me a complex. Is he supposed to do that? Is that included in his list of services?
I was hoping to just get this shoulder pain treated, but apparently the rest of me is in complete shambles. It's a wonder that I'm ambulatory. The first thing he observed, as every medical professional I have ever seen or walked by or made out with wants to tell me, is that my shoulders are hunched forward. Yes, I know, and you know what? They've always been like that, and there's apparently nothing I can do about it. I am a freak. There, are you happy? Are you satisfied, medical professionals of the world? I have freaky narrow shoulders that are bizarrely tipped forward. I thought it was a likeable slouch, but apparently it is WRONG and CRAZY and needs to be TSK-TSKED over.
And that's not all!
"Did you know that your torso is twisted over to one side?" the therapist asks.
I sigh. I actually did know that. "It's come up," I said.
"Does your back hurt?"
"Sort of. Yes. Pretty much always." I like to just not think about it, Physical Therapist Guy, but now that you're reminding me, OW. THANKS.
"Your right hip is twisted, as well."
"That might be because of the, uh, club foot."
"You have a club foot?"
"Well, I did, at least that's what they called it, but they treated it when I was little. So now it's okay."
He frowns. "Except it's thrown off your entire right side."
"I'm sorry," I murmur. Why am I apologizing?
Then he tries to twist my neck in some sort of impossible direction.
"That hurts?"
No, ow is my mantra. "Yup."
"Your neck is extraordinarily stiff. I could only move it this much. " He shows me a tiny increment with his two fingers. "I should be able to move it this much," he says, and swivels his head 360 degrees. (I exaggerate, but less than you might think.)
Well, kudos. Aren't you nimble! I will call you Mr. Nimbles! "Wow," I say.
"Yeah. That's a problem."
And it is only the beginning of my problems. The biggest one is that, after seeing him four times, after having been manipulated and stretched and prodded and told how stiff and inflexible I am, the pain in my arms is worse than ever. "Your body's not healing itself," he tells me. Then he takes my blood pressure, which is, according to him, alarmingly low. Technically I shouldn't be alive. All my blood should be pooling around my ankles—my freaky ankles.
I'm supposed to go for blood tests, because, I don't know, he's concerned about my liver? Honestly I stopped listening after a while. I should probably just go to someone else, someone who'll make me feel not quite so misshapen and hopeless. He's not saying things I didn't already know, so I can't blame him entirely. But no one else has made me feel quite so unfixable.
He also told me not to eat too much sugar, because it will impede my healing. But really, after you make me feel that bad, you think I'm not going to go home and eat cookies? Well, you don't know everything, Mr. Body Smarts Guy.


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Cleveland Browns' banged-up secondary likely to face third-string Steelers QB Charlie Batch Mary Kay Cabot, The Plain Dealer 11/19/2012 [url]http://mobile.cleveland.com/advcleve/pm_29205/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=xSmAaLxA[/url]
BEREA, Ohio -- The Browns' banged-up secondary will catch a break Sunday against the Steelers, as nemesis Ben Roethlisberger and replacement Byron Leftwich are both sidelined with rib injuries.
The Steelers are now down to bare bones, with 37-year-old Charlie Batch set to start at QB against the Browns, according to NFL Network. They're also scrambling to sign another quarterback after Leftwich left with broken ribs during Sunday's 13-10 loss to the Ravens.
The Steelers are so battered at receiver, with an injury to Jerricho Cotchery Sunday night and Antonio Brown out two games with an ankle injury, that they're bringing in Plaxico Burress for a workout on Tuesday, according to numerous reports.
But the Steelers, who've won 16 of the last 17 meetings with Cleveland, will get no sympathy from the Browns, who were without starting cornerback Joe Haden (oblique) and backup Dimitri Patterson (ankle) in Dallas, where the Browns lost, 23-20, in overtime. Haden's replacement, Buster Skrine, left with a concussion in the fourth quarter, which forced rookie Johnson Bademosi into the lineup. Bademosi, a special-teams phenom, had never played a down from scrimmage.
Overall, the Browns played five defensive backs in their first or second year, including three rookies. Of the five, three played 69 percent of the snaps or more, including rookie safety Tashaun Gipson and rookie cornerback Trevin Wade. Heading into Sunday, the status of Haden, Patterson and Skrine is uncertain.
"No doubt about it, there were some guys that were forced in to play," said Patterson, who's missed five games with a torn ligament in his ankle. "At some point in time, somebody's going to see what you've got. You can't hide your whole career.
"If your role is to play special teams, you can't just live in that role, because someone's going to go down and you're going to have to play. Do you want it? Are you going to step up and play? That's how it is. This is the NFL."
Patterson, who will test his ankle Tuesday to see if he can practice Wednesday, acknowledged that Roethlisberger being out is a huge break. He's 14-1 against the Browns.
"No doubt about it, banged up or healthy, it don't matter -- the guy just extends plays," said Patterson. "You go from playing a game where you're covering from three to four seconds to six to seven seconds and it's a totally different animal. You have to be in it to know what that feels like. It's very tough to do. He's a very good player."
But the Browns aren't taking anything for granted. The Steelers roll into town with the league's No. 1 defense, including the top-ranked pass defense.
"Of course it affects them, but if Charlie's playing, he's been there," said Patterson. "He's a seasoned guy. I still see them as a good team because of how they play. They're a team that's going to run the ball well, they're going to play good defense, and they're going to pass when they need to. They can still be there with Charlie Batch or Byron Leftwich. They almost beat Baltimore. Any quarterback that plays, it's going to be a tough game."
Gipson, who played extensively Sunday in part because Ray Ventrone was out with a hand injury, acknowledged the magnitude of losing Roethlisberger, whose dislocated rib posed risks because of its proximity to his aorta.
"Big Ben is probably one of the better veteran quarterbacks in the NFL, so you lose a guy like that, that's gonna be a huge blow to the team," said Gipson. "But they're very capable of coming down here and doing whatever they have to do to get a win, and it's our job to get on a roll here in these last six weeks."
Gipson, who played at Wyoming, admitted he doesn't know much about Batch. But by Wednesday, he'll know more than he ever expected to. Batch is 24-29 as a starter, with 60 TDs and 48 INTs. His career rating is 77.8.
The Steelers originally drafted Burress, 35, with the eighth pick in 2000. In five seasons in Pittsburgh, he caught 261 passes and 22 touchdowns. He caught 33 TD passes for the Giants before sitting out 2009 and 2010 while imprisoned for possessing an illegal firearm. He returned with the Jets last year to catch 45 passes, including eight TDs.
Last month, he told USA Today, "You put me out there right now, and I go out there and dominate, have a couple of touchdowns or a hundred-yard game, then you just got to shake your head and smile and laugh."
The Browns are hoping to have some of their injured DBs back for this game, but Patterson, for one, made no promises.
"[Skrine's concussion is] not going to speed up my injury anymore," he said. "I have to be smart and say 'am I going to be a liability on Sunday, or am I going to be an asset?' I'm listening to my ankle. That's it."
Patterson admitted he won't risk a major setback.
"At the end of the day, everybody's [got] independent contracts and you all have to put good stuff on film at the end of the day," he said. "No one's going to step in for me and say 'I forgot he had an ankle.' No, they're going to be, 'he just got beat for three touchdowns.' That's the reality of the situation."


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The Heroic Hermaphrodite
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
As Michel Foucault notes in his preface to Herculine Barbin, the nineteenth century was haunted by the theme of the hermaphrodite. Among French romantic writers who sought to violate the doctrine of a rational aesthetic order by mixing up the classical genres, bisexuality became synonymous with Beauty, with Nature at its most forceful or the Divine in natural guise. What often seems to distinguish the heroes and heroines of Balzac, Gautier, and Stendhal is a physical ambivalence that renders them unfit for social life while constituting the sign of a superior destiny. They exist not to love but to exercise universal fascination, not to reproduce but to illustrate their one-and-onlyness. As Balzac put it in Béatrix:
The small of the back: therein lies the nuance that separates from their sex almost all famous women; there they bear a faint resemblance to man, for they have neither the suppleness nor the unconstraint of women whom nature has destined for motherhood.
It was, indeed, the sterility of hermaphroditism that emerged as its most prominent feature in post-romantic, or so-called "decadent," literature, beginning with Baudelaire. Where Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin possesses boundless energy, the androgynes of finde-siècle poetry and fiction derive their raison d'être mainly from the satisfaction of shocking a bourgeoisie that honored productiveness and utility above all else.
It is ironical that when, in 1874, Dr. Auguste Tardieu published his Question médico-légale de l'identité dans ses rapports avec les vices de conformation des organes sexuels, a monograph containing the memoirs of a genuine hermaphrodite, few people outside the medical community paid it much heed. Michel Foucault found these memoirs while doing research for the volume on hermaphroditism to appear in his History of Sexuality and had them republished, along with the subject's medical dossier. They tell a sad tale, which begins on November 8, 1838, when Adélaïde Herculine Barbin—Alexina for short—was born in Saint-Jean-d'Angély, near La Rochelle in western France. At age seven, her father having died and her mother destitute, she was put in a home for orphaned girls where one of the nuns, who valued her keen mind, arranged to have her study at a school run by the Ursuline order. There she remained, the one poor child among rich, until her First Communion in 1853.
Her account of this period, though it portrays her as afflicted with "vague sadness," does not indicate any difference that could not have been explained by her intellectual superiority or social disadvantage. And the erotic attachment she formed to other girls, particularly to a nobleman's daughter who would soon after die of tuberculosis, offered no special cause for alarm in the hothouse atmosphere of convent life. The suspicion that she might be intrinsically different from those she had hitherto considered her "kind" forced itself upon her only afterward, during her fifteenth and sixteenth years, when nature took a course other than the expected one, covering her upper lip and entire body with down, leaving her flat-chested, and postponing menstruation indefinitely.…
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A binary options demo account is a place where you can practice trading binary options. You can trade in real time with real assets and see how your skills translate into the real world. The demo account platform allows you to take the broker of your choice out for a test ride, seeing all that they have to feature, but without yet risking your money. Demo account trading is just like real trading, only without the potential for losses.
There are a few different ways to learn how to be a better trader. However, in any field, experience is one of the best teachers you can find. No, experience is not a perfect teacher, especially if you start out with erroneous beliefs or strategies , but when done right, it is far better than any other method.
Unfortunately, in the world of finance, real world experience often comes at a very steep price. Your capital is at risk. When you begin trading starting out with real money, you are putting yourself at a huge disadvantage. Without the proper amount of practice , you might get lucky, or you might lose everything. It takes a while to get good enough at binary options trading to be worthwhile over the long term. And when you have a demo trading account, you can give yourself the potential to speed up the learning process.
The learning curve for trading binary trading is steep. Studies have shown that fewer than 5 percent of short term traders are successful over the long term. Without a practice account, you are throwing yourself into the water without learning first how to swim, and almost ensuring that you end up in that majority of traders who are unsuccessful.
If you want to be as successful as possible , having a good working knowledge of what you need to do from the beginning of your trading career is going to help you. Your odds of making money in the early stages of your real money trading go way up.
By no means is this a guarantee that you will make money, but it is a step in the right direction. Today, only a handful of brokers do not offer a demo account. The requirements for getting a demo account will vary a bit from site to site, though. In most cases you will need to open a real account first. The broker just wants to see that you are committed to trading.
They might even ask you to fund your account before you can have access to a practice demo account. If, after using their demo trading service you decide that the broker is not right for you, you can simply withdraw your money and it will go back to your bank or credit card. There are a lot of different brokers out there, and not all are going to be right for you.
By using the demo trading first, you can test out a specific strategy , get a feel for how it works, make some fine tuning adjustments to it, and then apply it in a real-life setting when it is time to demo trade. Many beginning traders think that after a few days of demo trading they are ready to jump in and start trading. This simply is not the case. The main problem here is that many brokers severely limit the amount of demo trading that you can do.
Some brokers allow you to keep a demo account open for only 72 hours before forcing you to make a decision on whether you are going to trade with real money or not. In other words, no, a demo account is not enough to be a successful trader.
With some of the more elaborate strategies, you will need months to prove that they are going to be successful for you. Your 72 hours of demo trading will not be enough time to judge whether your strategy is going to be successful or not, so you will need to take the necessary time before you start demo trading to test it out. Demo trading is not meant to be your first line of education.
Binary options are just too complex to learn everything you need to do in the short amount of time you have a demo trading account. Some brokers give you unlimited access to a demo account. A Nadex demo account is good for the life of your account. Nadex is a regulated broker that also offers Nadex demo account, so make sure to check it out.
If your broker has this feature, this is definitely a good thing. They will guide you further, letting you know exactly what the procedure is at their site for creating a demo account and if there are any requirements that you must meet, such as making a deposit or living in a certain part of the world.
They can also walk you through any other questions that you might have about the site or the platform that they use. Because each site is a little different, this is often the simplest way to get started demo trading today.
Your Capital is at Risk. Short Term or Long Term. Demo Accounts A binary options demo account is a place where you can practice trading binary options.
The financial services provided by this website carries a high level of risk and can result in the loss of all your funds. You should never invest money that you cannot afford to lose.


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text: Richard, No not at all ("..which you already know"), as you might guess from the abysmal typography of my question, I'm a newbie to distributed computing; I just have a distributable algorithm. 1. I'll try to write a minimal wiki entry for DLP to go along with the existing ones for ILP and MLP, but it would be better if you did it :-) But maybe your post almost makes a good entry itself. 2. Since my distributable algorithm searches for algorithms (actually in my case, for parameter vectors for itself, so it just searches the tiny subspace of it's own operating parameters) so I'm incidentally interested in metrizable classification of algorithms, and your "aspect ratio" looks toothsome. I'm imaging something like measuring performance of one algorithm on one data set, on each of several systems, such as a GPU, a hyperthreading CPU, a multi-core CPU, and a distributed network, and the (ILP, DLP, TLP) metric would be some linear combination of those serveral performances. But I'm having trouble picturing which would be which. Thanks, Peter > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "Peter St. John" <peter.st.john at gmail.com> > DLP? Wiki has entries for Indtruction Level Parallelism and Thread LP > (alsom Memory LP) but > not DLP? > > Hey Peter, > > That would be "data level parallelism". So, ILP is very low level > parallelism which > works on somewhat locally scoped instructions that are independent in a > super-scalar, > fanned-out parallel way on a "wide" processor. TLP refers to a slightly > higher level of parallelism > that is instruction dominated/oriented and is associated with independent > program blocks > or loop interations (can be within or between programs or subroutines), > and DLP refers > to data dominant parallelism usually associated with looping structures > that could vectorize > or, in other words, allow a compiler to stimulate, with a small number of > instructions, a large pipeline (and/or parallel stream [think GPUs here]) > of independent data operations in the > CPU for which the total instruction latency is trivially small in theory ( > i.e. when you have a > vector instruction set). > > In one sense, the low level parallelism (and structural hazard performance > limitations) of any program can be defined by a sort of aspect ratio that > is ILP x DLP x TLP and every code/kernel has its own dimensionality and > volume. > > A major question for performance and processor design is also, which kind > of latency dominates > --instruction latency or data latency--in limiting a code's performance to > something less > than register-to-register optimal. Generally, in HPC data latency is > dominant and the Enterprise world is instruction latency dominates. > > But now I am probably rambling, and telling you something that you already > know. > > Regards, > > rbw > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20071018/ceee5a06/attachment.html>


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Looking Deep in the Southern Sky: Proceedings of the ESO/Australia Workshop, Held at Sydney, Australia, 10-12 December 1997
R. MORGANTI (Ed), Warrick J. Couch
Springer, 1999 - Science - 336 pages
The southern hemisphere is undergoing a phase of intense "activity." On one hand, a number of exciting new facilities (ranging from optical and near-infrared to radio and millimeter) are, or will soon be, available. On the other hand, many new deep surveys, covering most of the electromagnetic spectrum, are underway. This will provide large databases and make coordinated radio, infrared and optical projects in the southern hemisphere ever more attractive and significant. With all these new facilities, important progress will be made regarding large-scale structure of the universe, the very early universe and the associated first epoch of galaxy formation. This book presents a collection of papers presented by experts in these fields at a workshop designed to address how southern hemisphere astronomy could best coordinate its efforts to maximise the use of the new generation of 8-10 telescopes in studying the key questions in these fields. It is aimed at research astronomers.
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CARTHAGE, Texas – Aarika Reyna only hit one basket Saturday night, but she certainly made it count.
Reyna hit a game-winning jump shot with 1.2 seconds remaining to lift the 12th-ranked Blinn Buccaneers to a 70-68 victory over the Panola College Fillies.
Reyna was fouled on the eight-foot jump shot. She missed the free throw attempt, but by the time Panola grabbed the rebound, time had expired.
"I thought Panola played really well," Blinn (17-1, 3-1 Region XIV) coach Jeff Jenkins said. "We're probably not playing as well as we're capable, but we found a way to win on the road against a good team. I'm just glad we found a way."
Sophomore forward Audrisa Harrison led the Buccaneers with 15 points and seven rebounds, while freshman forward Fatima Adams scored 13 and grabbed 11 boards.
"Our posts did a good job tonight," Jenkins said. "Fatima and Audrisa come to play every night."
Guard Tierra Tucker scored 12 while Jazzmin Parker added 10. Amari Jones chipped in seven points off the bench. Jones and guard Danielle Espinoza each got more playing time in the second half as the Buccaneers looked to shore up a defense that allowed 43 points in the first half. Panola led 43-41 at halftime.
Atoe Jackson led Panola (9-9, 1-4 in Region XIV) with a game-high 16 points and Electra Roberts scored 15.
Blinn was coming off its first loss of the season Wednesday at the hands of third-ranked Trinity Valley. Prior to that, the Buccaneers had won their first 16 games, the best start in program history.
The Bucs host Angelina College at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Blinn P.E. Building.


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The Membership Relations Committee is happy to showcase some ArkGeo Geocachers through the "Geocacher Profile". The committee thought Richard Honebrink aka Rhone should be the next cacher to be in the spotlight.
What is your geocaching name? Rhone
How did you choose your handle? First letter of first name, first 4 letters of last name
How long have you been geocaching? Since May, 2004
How did you find your first Geocache, and which one was it? GCJ7YT, Sling Blade Bridge This was not actually the first find, because I had found one or two stages of Deezer's multi-cache that was hidden in Benton's Tyndall Park a few days earlier. I was using an old Garmin GPS 12 at the time and didn't even know how to enter coordinates into it, so I just walked around looking at the location display until it matched the posted coordinates. It was this cache, that led me to figure out how to enter the coordinates because the difficulty of finding GZ was increased significantly by not doing so. This cache was particularly interesting to me because it was the location of one of the scenes in the movie by that name.
Who usually goes with you when you go caching? For a long time I cached alone except for I went to Fort Smith and cached with my son, Extreme 3435. I met SJClimber at a CITO at Beaverfork Lake north of Conway in April, 2005 and have been caching with him ever since. I also cache with goff-family, the snowlight, and KNKINCABOT, and Old River Runner.
How long will you work on puzzle caches before you give up? That depends on the puzzle itself. If it's something that is interesting to me, I never give up until it's solved. Sometimes the solutions are the result of collaboration with other cachers. I think the most difficult one would have to be GCKX3M, Revenge of the Big Crybaby, which unfortunately has been changed from it's original form. Another one that was really difficult is: GC1J386, Two Hundred Six.
What town/areas have you most enjoyed caching in? In the early days, Clarksville was the place to cache because of the very creative hides of nonnipoppy and gulfnutz. The area around Russellville, and Hot Springs are always fun for caching. Recently I have been spending most of my time hunting caches that are located on trails and require significant hikes to get the smiley.
Do you do paperless caching? No, I used to use a Palm device, but it gave up the ghost and I have always used a list with all of the important facts about each cache since then.
What kind of geocaching rig do you use? I am currently using a Garmin 60CSx.
Why would you recommend anyone else to take up geocaching? It is an interesting way to spend spare time, that not only takes you to unique places, but also gives one the opportunity to meet a lot of very nice people.
Where are you originally from? I am originally from St. Paul, Minnesota
In what states have you geocached? Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Michigan, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, South Dakota, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Mississippi, Indiana, North Dakota, Iowa, Nevada, Kentucky, Colorado, Wisconsin, Montana, North Carolina, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Georgia, and West Virginia. I intend to add 19 more states by the end of 2013.
What was your first event ever attended? GCJXNY, Central Arkansas Geocachers .. 1st Annual Meet August 22, 2004.
How many caches have you found? As of December 27, 2012 10,902.
Which type of cache container do you prefer over the rest? I like them all, but ammo boxes would be high on the list, followed closely by pre-form soda bottles (because they don't leak).
What was the most famous cache that you have found? That would have to be GC30, Mingo, which is the oldest active cache in the world.
Do you use disposable batteries or rechargeable batteries? I used rechargeable batteries for awhile, but switched back to disposable batteries because they last longer.
Do you enjoy hiding or finding more as your part of the hobby? I would have to say finding, but hiding caches is a lot of fun too, especially if you have a good place to put them where they are unlikely to become victimized by muggles.
Do you have a personal goal in mind when you make a hide? When I first started hiding caches, I had no goal, except that I liked to make the hides unique in some way. More recently my goal has to get people out onto a nice trail so they can enjoy nature and get some exercise as well.
What is you favorite type of cache hide? Anything that takes me to a special place…especially those places with exceptional beauty in some form. I very much enjoy many of the old virtual caches as well as earth caches.
Out of all your hides, what are your personal favorites that you take pride in? My personal favorites would be the multi-cache in Burns Park that consists of Leave it to Beaver, Rockaby Baby, and The Great Wall. I am also proud of the OT series.
What do you think the proper hide to find ratio should be to keep the sport fresh? For someone with a low number of finds, maybe 5%. After one has significantly over 100 hides, maintenance can become a big problem, so I think the ration should decline (unless many of the hides have been archived), to keep the task of maintaining them at a manageable level.
How did you end up getting into this wacky hobby? I remember first reading about Geocaching in the newspaper and I thought it was about the most stupid thing I had ever heard of. Several years later, I went on a nature hike (1:1) with the interpreter at Pinnacle Mountain State Park, and as we passed along the base of a hill in the park, he pointed up toward the top and told me that there was a geocache hidden up there (GCGZ07, Pinnacle Girl Scout Cache) That sort of perked my interest…mostly just a curiosity, and I went out and found Sling Blade Bridge shortly thereafter. Pinnacle Girl Scout Cache turned out to be find #45, and it was about that time that the hook had really been set.
What's your favorite geocache? There are so many that it's really hard to pick a favorite, but GC1YFD3, The Foxes Have Raided the Hen House, was a great cache. I also really enjoyed the Cachin' for chiggers series.
If money was no object, where would you like to go geocaching? That would have to be Australia. One of my favorite places is Sydney and the Blue Mountains just west. I intend to return to Australia in the near future and do a bit of caching while I'm there.
Do you like geocaching by yourself or in a group? Sometimes I prefer solitude, but it is usually more fun to share the experience with someone else. It is always good to have another pair of eyes, or sometimes even more than one other pair. I would consider a group of more than four to be a crowd in most cases, but it can be fun to be with a whole gang of cachers at an event searching for the temporary caches.
How many First to Finds do you have? Currently 210.
Are you a First to Find person who is always set on go and if so, how many miles out do you have your settings on to get notifications? I have a few FTFs that are 180 mile drive (120 straight line) from home, and I do enjoy being the first to find, but I never really have made being the first to find a priority. My philosophy is, that a smiley is a smiley.
Do you have any other hobbies besides geocaching? Yes, I enjoy caving, hiking, photography, making bread, and more recently have become very interested in woodworking.


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San Francisco: A Burger Crust to Write Home About at The Tipsy Pig
Burger reviews in the Bay area.
The Tipsy Pig
2231 Chestnut Street, San Francisco CA 94123 (map); 415-292-2300, thetipsypigsf.com
Cooking Method: Buttered and cooked on the flat top
Short Order: A flavorful, if unevenly cooked burger is a nice example of a gastropub staple; sharp cheese, sweet caramelized onions, and farm-fresh toppings are an added bonus.
Want Fries with That? Classic fries are good; the sweet potato fries are better.
Price: The Tipsy Burger (w/fries), $13; + bacon or a fried egg, $2; + avocado, goat cheese, blue cheese, or smoked cheddar, $1
Notes: Half priced burgers from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
I find it surprising that we don't have more "gastropubs" in San Francisco. I mean, we love drinking, we have London-comparable weather, and we really love good food. All of these things strike me as components of a gastropub-friendly city—not to mention the almost rabid affection for a good burger around these parts.
While we may not have a large number of spots that fit neatly into the gastropub category, The Tipsy Pig on Chestnut does so admirably, and with relish. Cozy, dark-wood booths, mac 'n cheese in a skillet, drinks in mason jars—a gastropub, to be certain, but one with a decided San Francisco flair (that heated back patio, for instance, is a real winner).
The Tipsy Burger ($13) is up to snuff as well. Seven ounces of pre-ground, Kobe-style beef from Niman Ranch are topped with a pile of caramelized onions and sharp white cheddar, and served on an Acme pain de mie bun.
A cut into the burger led to a modest gush of juice—a promising sign, especially as it revealed a gorgeous, ruby-hued interior. Well, ruby on one side, anyway—the burger appeared somewhat rare on the left, and a little past medium rare on the right. This wasn't ideal, nor was the burger's texture: It appeared to be far too tightly packed. Maybe it averaged out to medium rare in my mouth, but the uneven cooking didn't majorly effect the overall taste, and while I slightly missed the texture of a looser grind, ultimately, the burger's flavor won me over.
Incredibly well salted and beefy, the burger is seasoned with salt, black and white peppers, and onion and garlic powders. But what really gives this burger edge is the pat of butter placed on the beef immediately before it hits the flat top. In addition to being responsible for some of that first-cut-gush of juice, it lends a wonderful richness to the burger without taking away from the deep flavor of the beef. What's more, it helps the burger achieve a truly beautiful crust, which makes up for any textural deficiencies of the grind.
The sharp cheddar and sweet onions were nice accompaniments, distinctive and well-matched in their own right, and nicely paired with the meat. Little Gem lettuce and tomato slices were fresh and flavorful, as well—apparently the tomatoes are entirely dependent on the season, and come from Oak Hill Farms in Sonoma.
You get your choice of fries, sweet potato fries, or a side salad with the burger—go for the sweet potato fries. The regular french fries are perfectly fine; nicely salted and simple, they're reminiscent of McDonald's fries, and are equally addictive. But the sweet potato fries are stand-out. Incredibly crisp and with a creamy-sweet interior, they'd be even better with a shake of hot sauce.
The accompanying dish of pickle-studded Thousand Island is a nice burger topping and well suited for both fry-types, but I think I'll put in a request for some good pungent mustard next time. That seems like gastropub-appropriate behavior to me.
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I am a student and need to ask some questions about fruits and vegetables for a report at school1.Which group is healthier, fruits or vegetables?2.Are dried fruit considered healthier than plain ones?3.Are cooked vegetables healthier then raw veggies?4.Are there any types of fruit and vegetables that are considered unhealthy?5.Does the ripening of a fruit affect the nutrients it gives you when you eat it?6. Are canned fruits and vegetables are as good as un-canned ones?7. Will eating to much of both groups have you gain weight?Thanks so much for answering these questions.
Both fruits and vegetables contain many nutrients that contribute to health. You can find out about dried, canned fruits and veggies and changes in ripe fruit in our Ask the Expert section by clicking here. Cooking vegetables can cause some nutrient loss, like vitamin C, depending on how they are cooked, but some cooking methods, like steaming briefly, allow most of the nutrients to be retained. Cooking can also increase the bioavailability of some nutrients, like carotenes. Eating more calories than you use causes weight gain. Fruits and veggies are lower in calories than many other foods, and their high fiber and water content contribute to a feeling of fullness which helps most people to eat less. This can contribute to weight loss.