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Closed chambers: the rise, fall, and future of the modern Supreme Court
Penguin Books, 1999 - History - 576 pages
"Operating within a Network of Byzantine Secrecy, The United States Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial institution in the world. Nine unelected justices are charged with protecting our most cherished rights and shaping our fundamental laws."--BOOK JACKET. "In this account, Edward Lazarus, who served as a clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun, provides an insider's guided tour of a court at war with itself and often in neglect of its constitutional duties. Combining memoir, history, and legal analysis, Lazarus weaves together past and present to reveal how law, politics, and personality collide in the Court's inner sanctum."--BOOK JACKET.
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COVER- Launched: New businesses leave economic ruins behind
Art of the deal: Schenck puts paintings online
As a vice president of international language learning biz Rosetta Stone, Matt Schenck learned the art of business; now he's aiming for success with an actual art business.
"Buying art can be stressful," says Schenck, 38, who launched the online art venture Art Quiver in April, noting that most people don't have time to scour galleries for the perfect piece, and that even if they did, mingling in a world of berets, paint palettes, and words like "gouache" isn't comfortable for everyone.
"It can be intimidating," he notes.
Not so online, he hopes. "We're using the power of the web in a way that's not being done currently," says Schenck. Visitors to www.artquiver.com are invited to play a series of art rating games, in which they compare various works and rank them according to their preference. Other search options allow would-be buyers to search by medium, colors, style, price, or artists' portfolios. The sales history of the artists' previous works are offered in graph form as well, to assure buyers the price they're paying is reasonable.
"This has the power to change the way people interact with original art," he says.
It's a new world for the artists selected for inclusion on the site as well. Whereas most online art purveyors feature replicas of works by already famous artists, Art Quiver won't be selling Monet, Chagall, or Picasso. Instead, it features names that aren't well known yet, but could be someday.
"The web," says Schenck, "is about national exposure."
The idea for Art Quiver began percolating in Schenck's mind in 2007 after he left Rosetta Stone. He'd risen to the number two position at the language-learning company best known for its "He was a hard-working farm boy. She was an Italian supermodel" ads which helped propel the company from $4 million in sales and a dozen employees in 1998 to a public corporation with $250 million in sales last year and 1,400 employees.
"Matt doesn't just have an entrepreneurial idea; he makes it a reality and proves it," says Rosetta Stone CEO Tom Adams, who also happens to be Schenck's best friend from high school and who credits Schenck's creative marketing with much of Rosetta Stone's success.
Despite the fond feelings, Schenk doesn't regret moving on.
"My heart is in the start-up entrepreneurial phase," Schenck explains.
In summer 2008, after he and his family relocated from Harrisonburg, where Rosetta Stone was founded, to Charlottesville, he incorporated Art Quiver, and over the next six months, he raised capital and hired a "chief techie" responsible for building the most important element of the business: the website.
Less than six months after launching, the company, located in the city-subsidized "technology incubator" office space on the ground level of the Market Street Parking Garage, remains small and consists of Schenck, the webmaster, a graphic designer, a publicity person, and a Richmond artist who selects the artists featured on the site.
The works offered are not cheap–- they range from several hundred to several thousand dollars, with the artist receiving 55 percent of the price– but Schenck says the site's customers are not making a typical online purchase, where bottom dollar wins the day.
"Art is an asset," he says, adding that there's an additional– and unusual– aspect to buying art on the site: a lifetime guarantee that promises to return the original purchase price and pay for return shipping if the buyer ever has a change of heart.
"My job," he explains, "is to take away obstacles people have in buying art online."
About face: Permanent make-up raises eyebrows... literally
Mention the words "permanent make-up," and unfortunate images of harshly rimmed eyes and lips might come to mind, along with a question: what if you want a different color one day? But Mary Hunter, who opened Eyebrow Renovation and Permanent Make-up on October 22 in the same downtown building as the Hook's offices, says she has no intention of turning her clients into Tammy Faye Bakker lookalikes.
"If it's done right, you can't even tell," says Hunter, 59, who owned a local camera repair shop from 1983 to 1996 and says her experience with precision handheld camera tools helped prepare her to master precision tattooing equipment. Dispelling myths about tattooed make-up is her next challenge.
"This is not about glamour," she says. "It's about having a face you really like."
As women age, hair– eyebrows and eyelashes included– tends to thin. While cosmetic medical procedures including Botox and various facial fillers are common for women looking to turn back the clock, Hunter says restoring face-defining features through tattooing can also improve appearance for about the same price. (A single round of Botox typically runs between $300 and $400, while Hunter's price for eyebrow restoration, for instance, is approximately $325.)
Although the make-up is permanently tatooed, it is done with such fine strokes that even on close examination it's difficult to see. The tattooed eyeliner, for instance, is not a heavy line but is instead eyelash enhancement– subtle color applied right at the base of the lashes that Hunter says diminishes bleary, tired appearance or redness. It does not, she points out on before and after pictures of her clients, remove the need for standard eyeliner or mascara if one is looking for a more "made-up" look– for, say, an evening out.
Similarly, the individual hair-like tattoo strokes she uses in eyebrow restoration are not clown-like arches– they are subtle shading along the brow's natural line.
Hunter's career change– she most recently worked as an editor for a Northern Virginia-based technology journal– followed several harsh blows. Last February, she was laid off, and a month later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In May, she underwent a double mastectomy. Through her ordeal, Hunter was introduced to the concept of tattooing, not only to restore eyebrows and lashes lost during chemotherapy, but also as part of restoring the appearance of an aureola– the pigmented nipple area– during breast reconstruction, another service she offers.
"I thought, 'I could do that'," says Hunter, who started training with several aestheticians in town and is now licensed at both the state and national levels.
Six months after her own surgery, Hunter says, the tough times of last spring are memories, and she's excited to be starting a new chapter.
"This," she says with a smile, "makes people happy."
Star power: New Age in a storefront setting
It's only fitting that Abby Arnold consulted an astrologer when planning which day to open her new business, Ananda Community Center for Conscious Living.
"If you're going to do this kind of work, you have to live by it," says Arnold, who took her own astrologer's advice and opened the doors to Ananda on May 5. Three months later, she resigned her post teaching writing at UVA to commit herself full-time to her new wellness business which offers alternative treatments and classes.
And they are, indeed, alternative.
There's "Chakra balancing," based on the ancient Hindu concept that our bodies have seven pathways for processing life energy; "deep healing," which Arnold says uses techniques including "aura clearing;" and Reiki, a type of hands-off massage that also focuses on balancing the energy inside one's body by channeling the "universal life force." There's even Reiki for pets– mostly dogs, cats, and horses– who are sick or otherwise "out of sorts."
While the counties around Charlottesville are dotted with various spirituality and wellness centers from Yogaville in Buckhingham to Synchronicity in Nelson, Charlottesville proper didn't have much beyond the Quest Bookstore for New Age thought until the arrival of Ananda, which is located between the Artful Lodger and the Vinegar Hill Theatre.
Is there enough demand for these types of treatments in a storefront setting? Arnold admits she meets many skeptics– and she doesn't mind their doubting the authenticity of her offerings.
"I teach critical thinking at the university," she says. "I believe in skepticism in a nebulous area like this where results are verified by how you feel. Often, people come because they're in pain, or searching for something. It's easy to be tricked."
While most of the services she offers haven't been subjected to serious, peer-reviewed scientific research– and some studies suggest the veracity of psychic readings has actually been disproven– Arnold says her own experience is her guide, as she personally tests all treatments and services before offering them at Ananda. For instance, her chosen Richmond-based psychic "gives the best readings I've ever experienced," she says, noting that she fired another one for giving vague readings.
"If what they're saying could apply to anyone," she says, "you're not getting a real reading."
Arnold herself gets high marks for her skill as a Reiki practitioner.
"She is, by far, one of the best," says Cheryl Hopkins, who in addition to being one of Arnold's clients is the astrologer who helped Arnold select her opening day. During a Reiki treatment, Hopkins says, she may feel a cool or warm sensation as Arnold's hands pass over her. "Ninety-eight or 99 percent of the time," she says, "you'll go into a deep state of relaxation."
In addition to the treatments and services for humans and animals– which average $65 per hour– Ananda offers free lunchtime meditation sessions. Arnold says those who become members of the center for a fee ranging from $75 to a one-time donation of $5,000 will receive perks including a 1o percent discount on treatments and "free deluxe tea" any time the Center is open.
Despite no takers just yet on the $5,000 deal and despite launching her business in a tough economy, Arnold says she trusts that the stars wouldn't lead her astray.
"People need to find their own paths and what works for them at any given time," she says, "and that's what I want to help people do."
Good times stop, then roll again for Rowdy
When a group of friends launched Nascar news biz Rowdy early in the 21st Century, they couldn't have predicted the economic downturn. It turns out they were in for a wild ride.
"This time last year, when the economy was going crazy, we had our major funder pull all funding from us," explains one of Rowdy's three founders, Tyler Sewell. "We were broke."
Rowdy started as a service for Cingular cellphone users who could sign up for the Rowdy show– Nascar-themed skits featuring Sewell and one of his biz partners Tom Van der Voort as their alter egos, "Buck Fever" and "Bass Masters" (the company's third founder, Rusty Speidel, works behind the scenes).
But if the shows are funny, there was nothing amusing about the bleak future the company– which had added two employees– appeared to be facing last year.
"The five of us worked for free for about three months doing everything we could do to save our show," says Sewell, noting that by last year the shows were available on the website, radio programs, and podcasts.
Just before they turned the Rowdy engine off for good, however, they hooked up with Nascar publishing company American City Business Journal, which puts out a Nascar-themed magazine and newspaper and runs scenedaily.com, a Nascar website.
"I said, please come buy our company and save the day," Sewell recalls. To his and his partners' delight, the answer was yes.
Now a member of American City Business Journal family, Sewell says, Rowdy will be relaunching its website in January, is planning to do a syndicated radio show, and is pushing more video content online.
And while they're no longer their own bosses, Sewell says he and his partners are happy to be back on track.
"There's no real difference except we have solid backer and a business model that will definitely generate revenue."
Sounds like a winning combination.
Folded, not folding! Music biz keeps the beat, branches out
When John Keefe and Eric Braun launched their Shredhed product in 2008, the response from the music industry was immediate– and positive. The product– a laminated 2'X3' sheet of music that can be hung on the wall, folded into a triangular self-supporting music stand, or collapsed into a "trapper-keeper" style folder– won Best in Show at the National Association of Music Merchants Show in 2008, and had big name bands including the Black Crowes and R.E.M. signing up to allow the sheet music of their tunes to be packaged in Shredhed's user-friendly and info-packed format.
In the last year, says Keefe, there have been other successes for his and Braun's company, Inktree Inc.– Shredhed is now in major retail stores including Target, BestBuy, Barnes & Noble, and Guitar Center.
But finding other companies willing to invest in packaging their non-music related products in a new way has proven difficult in the toughest economic climate since the Depression.
Keefe says Carson-Dellarosa Publishing has adapted the Shredhed concept to a series of educational games called "2 Big Games," sold in educational supply stores, and a "green" direct mail media carrier, essentially a smaller version of the Shredhed folder, is being used in various corporate advertising campaigns.
The biggest news of all, however, is a deal Braun and Keefe recently inked to create an instructional supplement for what Keefe calls "one of the most anticipated video games of 2009." Alas, Keefe says, he's contractually prohibited from revealing which game until its release in mid-November– but he believes the deal bodes well not just for his and Braun's company but for businesses in general.
"It's an example of people coming out of their bomb shelters after the economic meltdown," says Keefe, who believes the potential for their patented product remains great in untapped areas like cooking and medicine– and that once companies see how the concept can be applied using their content, they understand the benefit.
"It's great for anything," he says, "that requires the use of two hands."
Cleaning up: Soap hopes still soaring
It started as a hunt to replace a bar of soap her boyfriend brought home from France in 2005. But when Marie Skylark– then a first-year biochemistry major at UVA– discovered no company in America made chef's soap, she didn't give up; she headed straight for her laboratory and created her own. Since the Hook's first article on Skylark, the young entrepreneur (age 22) says her soap business– Marie's Chef's Soap– has been, well, cleaning up.
By last spring, her product was available in several local stores– The Happy Cook in Barracks Road and Whole Foods on Seminole Trail– and in the last six months, she's added several others including Fluvanna Hardware, Mona Lisa Pasta, and Foods of All Nations.
"Our product has been absolutely successful in Charlottesville," said Skylark, who believes its origination in the community piqued most of local consumers' interest. "I think for people in Charlottesville, especially as they're becoming more health conscious, they're reaching out to the product more and more."
Now Skylark hopes the whole country will soon be awash in her bars, which retail for $28.95 and contain no animal products, synthetics, or fragrances– appealing to chefs who'd rather their culinary creations not taste soapy. Another perk: each bar should last for a whole year.
In addition to selling the product on amazon.com– a "great success," she says– she's working through the lengthy approval process to secure a January feature on QVC, the largest televised home shopping network in the country. She is also hoping to secure features with Williams-Sonoma, Anthropologie, and Kitchen Collection.
"We've really started to get some national exposure," she says, "and I think people are finally starting to see the uniqueness of the product."– Erika Maguire

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Updated July 25: Full details of the forthcoming DVD release of The Two Doctors have been revealed by the newest issue of Doctor Who Magazine. The audio commentary has been recorded with Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Frazer Hines, director Peter Moffatt and guest star Jacqueline Pearce. The "Jim'll Fix It" segment with Colin, Janet Fielding and the Sontarans (and, of course, legendary Gareth Jenkins), is included on the disc, as well as "Behind the Sofa," a 45-minute documentary about the writing of Robert Holmes; "Beneath the Lights," a 25-minute featurette of studio recording footage; "Beneath the Sun," a 35-minute featurette with some of the raw footage shot on location in Seville, Spain; and "Adventures in Time and Spain," an interview with Gary Downie about the trials and tribulations of being a location manager, with particular reference to this story. Also included is a segment from the radio series "Wavelength" on the making of the story, an isolated music soundtrack, production notes, photo gallery and easter eggs. The disc is due out in the UK on September 8. (Thanks to DWM and Gallifrey5, and the Restoration Team for pointing out the error in the original report!)
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U.S. Army Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair Accused of Sex Crimes
FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- U.S. Army prosecutors offered the first details of a rare criminal case against a general, alleging in a military hearing Monday he committed sex crimes against five women, including four subordinates and a civilian.
An Article 32 hearing on evidence in the case against Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair opened Monday at Fort Bragg, a sprawling post that is home to the 82nd Airborne Division. Officials said it was expected to last at least two days.
Sinclair faces possible courts martial on charges including forcible sodomy, wrongful sexual conduct, violating orders, engaging in inappropriate relationships, misusing a government travel charge card, and possessing pornography and alcohol while deployed. He served as deputy commander in charge of logistics and support for the division's troops in Afghanistan from July 2010 until he was sent home in May because of the allegations.
Before prosecutors could begin presenting their case Monday, defense lawyer Lt. Col. Jackie Thompson said military investigators had violated Sinclair's rights by reading confidential emails he had exchanged with his lawyers and wife discussing the accusations against him.
More:Former Marine Fired For Going To Doctor And Being A 'Disabled Veteran,' Suit ClaimsUnder questioning from Thompson, the lead investigator in the case acknowledged she had read the confidential e-mails, violating the terms of the subpoena used to obtain them from Sinclair's service provider. Those e-mails were later turned over to prosecutors, who are barred from seeing Sinclair's communications with his counsel.
Thompson then asked Criminal Investigative Command Special Agent Leona Mansapit if she had the resources she needed to conduct a proper investigation in Sinclair's case.
"Probably not, sir," Mansapit replied. "I wish I had."
The defense is asking the hearing officer, Maj. Gen. Perry L. Wiggins, to either require all new prosecutors be assigned or have the case thrown out.
Until now, the Army had kept details secret in the rare criminal case against a high-ranking officer. In other high-profile cases, Army prosecutors have been quick to release charging documents.
In March, the Army quickly released charge sheets laying out evidence against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of gunning down 17 Afghan civilians in a massacre in southern Afghanistan.
More:Feds Cut Way Back On Probes Of Worker Harassment, Discrimination CasesThe first Article 32 hearing in Bale's case also began Monday across the country at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, Washington.
There have been only two other court-martial cases against Army generals in recent years.
Prosecutors in Sinclair's case alleged at Monday's hearing that the crimes occurred between 2007 and 2012 in places including Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany, as well as Fort Bragg and Fort Hood in Texas.
In one case, prosecutors also said that Sinclair threatened one woman's career, as well as her life and the lives of her relatives, if she told anyone about his actions.
Sinclair's attorney asked for the charges to be thrown out, arguing that the prosecutors had read confidential emails between the general and his defense. Defense attorney Lt. Col. Jackie Thompson said this violated his client's rights and asked that new prosecutors be brought in to try the case.
The hearing officer called a recess until early Monday afternoon to give a legal adviser time to review the documents.
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Earning his new royal title Sir Bratticus, Justin Bieber has now been banned for life from an indoor skydiving facility in Sin City for being ill-behaved and for not properly potty-training his security team (basically).
According to a source, the Biebs and six friends showed up at Las Vegas Indoor Skydiving shortly before closing on June 16 to get their fly on. Unfortunately for everyone there, they were "a disrespectful bunch" and left the bathroom in disarray — one security guard even threw a paper towel on the ground rather than putting it in the garbage where it belongs, all while "directly looking at an employee" in spite.
Bieber himself was reported to be "very standoff-ish toward mostly everyone outside of his crew" and "very disconnected from reality."
Finally, when it came time to pay their $1600 tab, someone who worked for the facility told the tween sensation that in lieu of payment, he could post an Instagram photo of himself at the venue with some favorable commentary.
Definitely one to look a $1600 gift-horse in the mouth, an inside source claims Justin "actually faked like he was posting something, per the agreement, but never did." (And a little sleuthing indeed shows no skydiving photo on Bieber's Instagram account.)
After making a ruckus and generally being a poor excuse for a human being, Bieber and his crew left without tipping or paying and were thus banned for life.
As punishment, they will be banished to another dimension for all eternity. Assuming said technology exists.


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Martin Keyes, founder of Keyes Fibre Company in 1903 and inventor of molded fiber technology will be inducted into the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame (PIIHF) in Appleton, WI, on October 9.
Keyes is widely seen as the father of molded fiber technology, which is used to make products such as packaging for eggs, fruit and other food products, as well as cup carriers and packaging for electronics. The technology remains a significant part of Huhtamaki's business today after gaining the rights to market molded fiber products in Europe in the 1930s and eventually acquiring the Keyes Fiber Company in the late 1990s.
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Original molding machine from the Keyes Fibre company.
The factory built in 1908 to house Keyes' expanding business still operates today in Waterville, ME as part of Huhtamaki, Inc. and is also the original factory for producing the CHINET® line of single-use tableware.
This much-deserved honor was spearheaded by Paul Anderson, Huhtamaki materials manager and resident mill historian in Waterville, ME and Waterville Plant Manager Ray McMullin.
However, the idea for nominating Martin Keyes for the PIIHF came from Marilyn Gardner, a former employee of Quality Assured who bought film for plastic bottles from Huhtamaki in Finland. While on a visit to Waterville, ME, recognizing the Huhtamaki name on the mill, she started to research the company to learn what Huhtamaki was doing in the United States and came across Martin Keyes' story.
"Marilyn is a volunteer for the PIIHF and she quickly realized how significant Mr. Keyes' contribution to the industry has been," Anderson said. "She thought Mr. Keyes should be nominated for induction and started with the Waterville Chamber of Commerce, then went to the Historical Society and eventually to Colby College in Waterville. The information eventually found its way back to the Huhtamaki plant from our connections to Colby College. That's when we started to work on the nomination."
After waiting out a backlog of nominations for nearly two years, Keyes' nomination was accepted and he will enter the PIIHF posthumously, 100 years after his death, in October.
The Keyes name continues in business as the Keyes Packaging Group located in Wenatchee, WA. The CEO, Rebecca Kalis will attend the induction ceremony along with employees from Huhtamaki's Waterville plant.
For more information on this article, contact Paul Anderson at Huhtamaki's Waterville facility at (207) 861-7258 or Wess Hudelson at the Huhtamaki North American headquarters at (913) 583-3025.


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So a little while ago, I heard about Clean Currents, where BGE customers can switch over to wind power at competitive rates -- indeed, right now they claim a lower rate than BGE.
(Now, this is all accounting BS anyway -- the actual amps that come to your house still pushed there by coal and nuke plants. But some credit goes to wind power providers in other parts of the country, so in theory you're offsetting the dirty power you consume with clean power somewhere else.)
Sounds nifty, and it was on my list of things to check out more fully in my copious free time. I was talking about it this weekend with my friend Carl, who's always up on this stuff, and he mentioned that Clean Currents had partnered with Washington Gas Energy Services as the wholesale electricity supplier. (Which you can verify on their website.)
By coincidence, WGES had salespeople in my neighborhood yesterday. I'm normally a bit reluctant to do business with any company that disturbs me with telemarketers or door-knockers -- but these guys were such grade-A assholes that there's no way I would do business with the company they were representing.
Here's a hint, guys: when I say "thank you, no soliciting", that means you go away immediately. You don't stick around in desperate attempts to tell me how you're not selling anything, you're there to save me money. And then telling me that you need me to sign a waiver showing that I declined the "savings" you were offering? That just shows me that you're shady.
Let me point out that I had to deal with two of these guys in about a quarter-hour, so it wasn't just a single bad apple.
(Though the first guy was merely annoying. The second one, though...I have to admit that the second had me thinking of grabbing up the camp ax -- did I mention I was doing yardwork when these bozos harassed me? -- and doing some crude exploratory surgery to see what was wrong with his brain. But I kept those thoughts to myself.)
I'm not surprised to see that this company rates an "F" from the BBB.
I'll keep my eye open for other clean power options. But for now, I have to recommend staying away from anything involving WGES.
Update Nov 2011: According to Clean Currents' website, "As of July 15, 2011 Clean Currents is NO LONGER AFFILIATED WITH WGES and is now a full-fledged, independent electricity supplier. This means that for anyone who enrolled AFTER July 15, 2011, Clean Currents will serve as your sole electricity supplier."
It's also worth nothing that "Clean Currents was one of the first companies in the state of Maryland to complete the B Corp assessment and adopt the B Corp legal framework into its operating structure and was the first company in the state of Maryland and the United States to file to become a Benefit LLC." (Benefit corporations, or "B Corps", are a new legal structure in Maryland and few other states which are certified to provide a public benefit in addition to a financial return to investors.)
Janice Newsome (not verified)
Tue, 05/19/2009 - 21:37
Although I can understand the no solicitation, just a few minor points:
1) Rated F, by BBB when you aren't part of the BBB systems means nothing. They rate anyone who hasn't paid to be part of the BBB, so you are little off there.
2) These utilities that are doing sales in MD that sell wind energy are held accountable by state regulations. So, although you are put off by door to door people (as we all are) please know that any utility, resale or not, is still accountable.
Tom Swiss
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 17:16
In reply to misinformed by Janice Newsome (not verified)
BBB ratings
The BBB ratings are based on complaints received, not on whether or not the company has paid to join the BBB system. An '"F" is not the same as "not rated." More explanation here.
And being held accountable by the same state regulators that allowed BGE's corporate parents to rake in huge profits while squeezing Marylanders, well, it's not much comfort.
Tom Swiss - proprietor, unreasonable.org
Boyitz (not verified)
Wed, 05/20/2009 - 08:55
These guys came to my house
These guys came to my house about two months ago. Shady is written all over them. It was almost 9 PM, too. Really, who knocks on doors at that time of night? I didn't sign anything, so who knows? They might come back. I won't be opening the door this time. I, too, would suggest steering clear of whatever "offers" they might make.
TWC (not verified)
Fri, 05/29/2009 - 17:54
In reply to These guys came to my house by Boyitz (not verified)
Very aggressive salesman
The guy that knocked at my door was quite aggressive. Misrepresented himself as being from Washington Gas. After numerous times telling him I wasn't interested I finally escalated it and told him he was trespassing and I threatened to call the police. He said that the Gas company was allowed on my property and he could turn of my gas(implied threat). He hid his 'badge' after I asked his name. I called Washington Gas. They don't care. I called Washington Gas Energy Services and left a message. Quite a disturbing event at my own house. I agree with Boyitz, steer clear of a company that uses these tactics.
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 20:52
Reply from Clean Currents
I was very concerned about the complaints about WGES which some have posted here, especially since I have already signed on with Clean Currents (my service starts in the next few days)and have recommended that others do so. Complaints not withstanding, I am very excited about being 100% wind powered (I realize, of course, that my house in particular is not being powered by wind, but that I'm instead paying to put wind power into the grid in lieu of coal), and I'm hoping to get other people excited about this option too, for obvious reasons.
Anyway, I was able to get in touch with Clean Currents and told them about the complaints posted here. This is their reply.
"We have had heard bad things about the WGES door-to-door teams as well, nothing quite this bad yet, but similar. I have raised my concerns with WGES and am given a standard response of this is not our policy, and that it must be a bad sales person or a confused customer.
This type of behavior is one of the things that separates us from them, and generally they are not this bad, but they have stepped up their Marketing just as we have due to good prices and good weather. They have outsourced some of the door-to-door work and as a result you get issues like what we are seeing. These for hire sales people tend to be more aggressive and less well trained than internal people.
We have expressed our concerns directly to the person in charge of these teams, who is generally responsive to these types of service complaints.
Please continue to pass this information along to us, and tell any upset customers that they may call me directly if they have questions about their service.
Brian Eglsaer
Operations Manager
Clean Currents, LLC
155 Gibbs St., Suite 425
Rockville, MD 20850
301-754-0430 x706
(cell) 512-217-3493
(fax) 240-744-1719
A VERY disgrun… (not verified)
Mon, 11/09/2009 - 15:28
WGES door-to-door Scam
This is NOT Washington Gas.
These guys tag teamed me in May 2009. They were dressed like Washington Gas employees. One at the end of the walk making sweet talk to my dog. The other one telling me it was a courtesy (A Washington Gas courtesy-what he FAILED to say was "not the Washington Gas that you THINK I am...but the WGES different company that is scamming you - you stupid homeowner"). The utilities were going to be increased and if I signed, I could be locked in for a low rate for 2 years. I know. I was stupid. I signed - AFTER I had asked 3 times if they were switching me from Washington Gas and Pepco. He swore that no, I would still be with the same companies. What he FAILED to tell me was that I would be with Washington Gas, Pepco AND WGES - the blood-sucking parasite that has more than doubled my bills. I HATE WGES. To cancel them I have to pay $75 twice - once for Gas and once for Electricity and THEN a monthly amount for every month in the 2 year contract that I stupidly signed. A monthly amount to break the gas contract AND a monthly amount to break the Electricity contract.
I hate this company. DO NOT sign on with them.
Cecil Weston (not verified)
Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:58
In reply to WGES door-to-door Scam by A VERY disgrun… (not verified)
Hoodwinked by WGES
I signed up for 2 years with WGES for gas @ $124 per month begining in April '09, in Dec of '09 WGES switched me back to Washington Gas after taking my money @ $124 in the summer(when I would only be paying $35 per month) and dumping me in the winter.
Maryland Green… (not verified)
Sun, 09/12/2010 - 18:38
In reply to Hoodwinked by WGES by Cecil Weston (not verified)
$350 Cancellation Charge from WGES
In case anybody needs proof of WGES's policies, I have scanned my letter from them and posted in online here:
Marunda Madu A… (not verified)
Fri, 12/07/2012 - 12:32
In reply to WGES door-to-door Scam by A VERY disgrun… (not verified)
I HATE WGES also, how can this SCAM be allowed to continue. This WGES scam will cost you money not save you money. During winter my electric bill is near 35.00 per month. My bill with WGES was 35.00 + 71.00 to WGES. My summer bill (3-4 mo) is 160-180.00 per month. How does this reduce my expenses by 10% as promised ?
ucyiou12 (not verified)
Sun, 02/03/2013 - 13:40
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WGES is a blood sucking SCAM !
This scam is still going on in MD where I live. I became a fraud victim through opening my front door. I thought this was the same Wash.Gas that I have used for years. I was promised a 10% per month reduction in my electric bill but my first two bills increased by $75 per month. I canceled this scam , and now these thieves are trying to get $150 from me as a cancellation fee.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 05/14/2013 - 19:25
In reply to WGES is a blood sucking SCAM ! by ucyiou12 (not verified)
They just showed up at my
They just showed up at my door here in PA! I have never even heard of them, we have People's Gas and Penelec. It was two young girls, who to be honest looked like a couple of streetwalkers, being rather rude and pushy about the whole thing. I got irritated and rude with them and they gave up and left.
Anonymous (not verified)
Thu, 11/19/2009 - 18:49
EmpowerSales team for WGES
I recently interviewed with the Empowerment Group, part of Empowersales. They told me my job would be to simply go to existing BGE customers and ask them to allow WGES to now be there chosen supplier. Any feedback would be appreciated. How do these scam companies not get exposed?
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 12/21/2009 - 14:30
Experience with WGES and contradictory information
I live in Virginia, and was recently visited by a door-to-door representative of Washington Gas Energy Services, similar to the visits mentioned above. The salesman used a similar pitch, explaining he wasn't selling anything, but instead was offering an opportunity to lower my energy bills, and highlighted the "green" nature of WGES since apparently 5% of the bulk energy they produce is generated by wind power. As he explained, since WGES only has a business relationship with the company I use for gas service (and not the company I use for electricity), the WGES deal would only apply to my gas service. He explained that in comparison to the gas prices I'm currently paying, WGES was offering a fixed-rate price which is currently about half of my current costs. This fixed-rate price would be good for one year, presumably a one-year contract, at which time I would have the option to renew with WGES or discontinue and return my service to my original gas service provider. All I needed to do was provide him with my current gas service account number and he would submit my account through WGES to my current gas provider to have the service switched over. While we spoke, he continued to highlight that 5% of the energy WGES sells comes from wind energy.
After a little confusion, the guy did clarify he represented WGES, and not my current gas provider. It may have just been confusion on my part, or it may have been his strange initial explanation, but eventually we got that ironed out.
As he explained WGES's deal, I was first concerned that WGES's price was half of my current costs. Seemed too good to be true. His response was that since WGES sold bulk energy and was leveraging wind energy for some of it, WGES's costs were subsidized by the government (didn't get more specific than that), which was how WGES was able to offer such a good deal. I don't know whether the government subsidized energy is true or not, but doesn't seem logical to me since 5% wind energy is such a small amount in comparison to a 50% discount in gas prices -- particularly when wind energy only produces electricity, not gas. When challenged, the WGES rep at my door claimed to not know how the wind energy production affected the gas prices. The WGES website actually notes this point, that 5% of the electricity it sells is from wind energy. (http://www.wges.com/page/wind.php). This may not seem relevant, but I mention it because I think it speaks to WGES credibility. You can draw your own conclusions.
When I asked the WGES representative how the WGES service would work, he explained I needed to give him my current gas provider account number, sign what was essentially a contract on that day (which I would get a copy of), but that he was take the original back to his company to submit to my gas provider to have the gas service switched over to WGES. When asked about changes to the billing, the rep explained there would be no changes. I would continue to receive bills from my current gas provider, and continue to pay my current gas provider directly. When I asked about the actual gas service, the rep explained the gas service would continue to be provided by my current gas company. He further explained that WGES sold bulk energy (gas and electricity) to certain energy companies, of which my current gas provider is one, but that the only change I would experience in switch service to WGES would be in the cost I paid every month. Keep this in mind for later.
I did not sign up with WGES, and am thankful for it. I called my gas provider today to try to find out what their understand is of WGES's services. My gas provider explained WGES is a legitimate third party energy supplier, but that they (my gas company's customer representatives) were still trying to understand the details of the business agreement WGES has with my gas company, because apparently the business relationship between these two companies is new. According to my gas company's customer rep on the phone, it was his understanding that some WGES customers were having problems with actual gas service -- i.e. receiving gas at their homes. He also explained whenever WGES customers called my gas company's customer service line with complaints/problems to report, they would have to refer the customers to a WGES customer service number. When asked for further clarification on the WGES service, my gas company customer rep explained that for customers switching over to WGES service, both the billing and the actual provision of gas is handled/controlled by WGES, not/not the original gas company. This is in direct contrast to what the WGES rep told me last week at my door.
I don't know whether this is a scam or not, but despite the attraction of cheaper gas prices, I'm not comfortable signing up with what appears to me to be a questionable company for such an important product. Maybe this is a good deal for some people, but I'm not willing to take this risk.
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Sun, 01/17/2010 - 01:30
I would continue to receive
I would continue to receive bills from my current gas provider, and continue to pay my current gas provider directly. When I asked about the actual gas service, the rep explained the gas service would continue to be provided by my current gas company. He further explained that WGES sold bulk energy (gas and electricity) to certain energy companies, of which my current gas provider is one, but that the only change I would experience in switch service to WGES would be in the cost I paid every month. Keep this in mind for later.
Thu, 03/11/2010 - 18:14
Wind power
I have received several of the offers to change my electic power usage to 50 or 100% wind power. This implies that by paying a little more I can get all of my power from wind turbines. Since the transformer accross the street also suplies power to several homes, and its input source is one high voltage line, this would mean that the source of my power is the same as that to my neighbor's homes. Plus, there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of homes supplied from this same high voltage line. How could I be getting 100% wind power without all my neighbors getting the ame? Am I missing something here?
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 21:23
In reply to Wind power by Anonymous (not verified)
While this is not anything
While this is not anything for or against WGES since I've only just begun to research them, I wanted to answer your question directly, since it doesn't look like anyone else has.
To understand exactly how your power can be 50% or 100% wind power, you have to understand exactly how the utility system works... The entire nations utility power is on a "grid". There are LOTS of different sources of electric... various companies using various methods of generating power. All of this power is pumped into the "grid" basically on an "as needed" basis.
Let's think of it another way. In some areas, you can actually get reimbursed on your electric bill for excess power. In other words, let's say you install a wind turbine and solar panels... You produce 400kW in a given period, but only use 200kW. That means that for a given period, instead of "sucking" 400kW from "the grid", you've actually pumped 200kW back INTO the grid. So for that period, the power company will pay YOU for 200kW.
This is sort of the way all the companies supplying power to the grid works... But when you get right down to it, regardless of the "source" it's all just electric being pumped into the grid.
So when you say "I want 100% of my power to come from wind energy", what you are really saying is, "If I use 500kW of power for a given period, I want a company who supplies wind energy to the grid to supply an EXTRA 500kW of power to the grid for that period..."
I know that still seems confusing, but again, remember it's an "on demand" system... When that company pumps it's extra 500kW of power into the grid, that means a coal burning company pumps in 500kW LESS power into the grid...
So in other words, even though the "actual" energy you use really comes from all sources, you're changing the "balance" of which of those sources is sending more energy in...
Hope that helps!
Anonymous (not verified)
Fri, 06/04/2010 - 13:34
Military Unfriendly
While WGES did have a better rate than PEPCO, they have a policy that due to unpayment they will automaticaly default you back to PEPCO. I am a service member who was unable to pay bills due to military service, I come home and have a notice that due to unpayment I am being sent back to PEPCO, I call to try to arrange something different but am told I have to wait a year and then I can reapply. This is crap what kind of service is this to our service men and women who lay down thier life so you can do crap like this to them!!!
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 13:42
I participate in the Clean Currents program, and I have no problems with it. However, the relationship between Clean Currents and WGES was never clear to me. The first year I signed up for 50% wind through the Clean Current website and everything was fine. I was told I could upgrade to 100% when it came time to renew my contract.
After I'd had my 50% wind power for a year, I got a letter saying that it was time to renew my contract at 50%. Did I want to renew locking in a certain rate? I said yes and sent the form off. I thought it was strange, though, that there was no option for renewing at 100%. So, I went back to the website (where I had initially enrolled) and went through the process to upgrade to 100%. Sometime later, I noticed there was a '50% wind add-on' fee on my bill (a WGES portion of my PEPCO bill). I called the customer service number given and was told that the form I had sent in locked me into a 2-year contract at 50%. When I then went on the website and put in my upgrade to 100%, that was 'an addition' to the form I'd sent in and so I was being charged extra for it. I said that I had thought it was all part of the same thing, that I had been surprised that there was no option to renew at 100%, and I thought I was renewing at 100% when I went through the website (which is how I enrolled initially). I was told that at the bottom of my renewal form had been something to the effect that "If you have any questions call such and such number." I was supposed to simply understand without being told that if I wanted an upgrade to 100% then I needed to call that number to arrange it. I told her they needed to provide clearer forms, but she said basically it would be too much trouble to do this and it was my fault/problem for not having called the customer service number. I said I thought that I had done this when I went on the website--but oh no, she said that was the *Clean Currents* website and had nothing to do with them, and on and on.
This is of course all over a *$14.00* monthly fee for what's described as a '50% wind add-on'. For me, it's not really the $14/month that matters so much as the insufficient information that WGES provided me at the time of renewal, and their complete unwillingness to take any responsibility for needing to make things clearer to the consumer.
Anonymous (not verified)
Thu, 08/05/2010 - 14:32
Avoid WGES at all costs.
Avoid WGES at all costs. They charge you $480 when you change to another supplier, even if your 2 year contract ends, claiming an auto renewal. They try to charge you for terminating a contract you never agreed to!
Mon, 03/05/2012 - 16:51
Ignore the Complaint Maryland Green Power sent it with bill copy
Maryland Green Power has taken down the copy of the WGES bill from their website (the one showing the large cancellation fee for early termination which WGES levied) and now the blog post auto-forwards to another green energy company which competes with WGES, but does not require contracts, and thus, no cancellation fee as shown here:
Anonymous (not verified)
Sat, 04/21/2012 - 23:13
to all you idiots that are
to all you idiots that are saying shady door to door salesman dont deal with that person just because of a few bad apples does not mean that all agents are the same i recently sighned up with wges and have been very happy with my saveing on both my gas and electric and the young man who came to my door could not of been more polite and did not at all missrepresent himself as a peco employee or over exagerate the savings
Anonymous (not verified)
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 01:39
Totally a Scam
I live in Baltimore and I used to work for WGES. Their sales tactics were both misleading and aggressive. They had us working all hours, from 9am to about 10 pm. This was a supposed "comission" job. ( rolls eyes ) yeah... right.. anyway they claimed I would make 17 dollars per house that I signed up for electric annd 18 per house I signed up for gas. There were times I signed up over 7 houses in one day. Almost 40 a week.. now I am not mathematician.. but I dang well know I deserved more than a 25 dollar check at the end of the week. They would say 'oh.. the customer cancelled the service.' Which was a load of bollocks. These people basically ripped off my paycheck, when I quit I was supposed to have my last check mailed to be.. I've been waiting almost 4 years.. so.. that just goes to show how they run their business. Basically this company was and is a pyramid scheme. I didn't realize it at first until my boyfriend at the time ( now my husband ) brought to my attention some of their shady tatics. And I am thankful he did because if I kept working there I wouldn't have been able to stomach knowingly ripping off my community by switching them to something I thought was going to save them money. I honestly thought that's what they were doing. Turns out- it was all a lie. Friends and Family complained about their BGE bills being jacked up to mountain Dew and Back. I felt bad, really bad that those closest to me endured this. Do no trust these people. Sure, I met some wonderful people who aren't complete jagoffs, but other than that- those people only care about the green in their pocket- not the green of the environment.
Anonymous (not verified)
Thu, 06/06/2013 - 10:47
WGES calls my house everyday - PLEASE STOP CALLING ME
WGES calls at least 4 to 5 times every day. This is so annoying. I do not want their product/services. Does anyone know how to make them stop harassing me with these numerous daily unwanted calls?


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2) The process will format and wipe off all your files in the USB drive. Remember to backup before you proceed.1) You need to have a USB drive of at least 3GB space in order to create a Windows 7 bootable USB drive.
How To Boot And Install Windows 7 From USB Flash Drive (Updated)
( पेन ड्राइव से विंडो 7 इन्स्टाल एंड बूट कैसे करें ?)
Previously, I have discussed the way to create a Windows 7 USB installer drive using the command prompt. Even though I have make it easy to follow, there are still some of you having some difficulty in the process. Recently, I have come across this little cool portable application that is able to do all the things covered in the previous tutorial in a breeze and without the command prompt.
The application that I am talking about is WinToFlash. This is a small application (only 2.1MB) that allows you to convert your Windows installer CD/DVD to a bootable USB drive. Not only is it easy to use (nearly idiot-proof and does not require you to have any technical knowledge), it is also fully portable – No installation is required and you can bring it wherever you are.
Before you start, here are some stuffs that you need to take note of:
2) The process will format and wipe off all your files in the USB drive. Remember to backup before you proceed.1) You need to have a USB drive of at least 3GB space in order to create a Windows 7 bootable USB drive.
3) You need to have a Windows 7 installer DVD and an optical drive to read the DVD. If you have only the ISO file (downloaded directly from Microsoft), you can use Virtual Clone Drive to mount the ISO in your computer.
Download WinToFlash
Put in your Windows 7 installer DVD and plug in your USB drive.
Unzip the folder to your desktop and run the WinToFlash.exe file
Some of you might see the "WinToFlash DLP_NotFound" error message. You can safely ignore this error message.
On the main screen, click on the Window Setup Transfer Wizard. This will bring you to the wizard mode where it automates (almost) the whole process for you.
On the next screen, there is an option for you to go into the Advanced mode and tweak some of the settings. You can ignore that (if you are not into tweaking) and click Next to proceed.
Point the Windows file path to the Windows Installer DVD directory.
Point the USB drive to the USB directory.
Click Next.
Accept the agreement.
Preparing your USB drive. Make sure you have backup all the important files before you proceed. This will erase all your data.
Transferring in progress. This might take a while. Go for your coffee break.
Once you see the following message, the whole process is done. You can now boot Windows 7 from the USB drive.
Some computers require you to change the bootup setting in the BIOS before you can boot from USB. Look into your motherboard/computer manual for more instruction.


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PIRSA:06070013 ( MP4 Medium Res , MP3 , PDF ) Which Format?
What is the universe made of? The case for dark energy and dark matter.
Speaker(s): Cliff Burgess
Abstract: Currently, most physicists believe that only a small fraction of all the matter and energy in the universe is visible and can be seen through our most powerful telescopes. The remaining majority of the universe is thought to consist of elusive dark matter and dark energy, two substances about which we know very little. This presentation will explore the evidence in supporting the dark matter and dark energy theories and discuss some of their implications for how our universe will evolve.
Date: 07/07/2006 - 1:10 pm
Series: Particle Physics
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This time I browned Italian Sausage, quickly sauteed sliced mushrooms, topped with shredded mozzarella, then baked until hot and bubbly. Then a simple garnish to add color and another flavor layer.
To garnish I add a quick sprinkle of freshly minced parsley, a bit of grated Parmesan cheese and a sprig of thyme, a couple of basil leaves, or your favorite herb.
Bella Cucina's Farmhouse Olives ( www.bellacucina.com/ ) work really well. But any favorite olive would do, then showered with some red bell pepper slivers if you like. You could drizzle with a simple vinaigrette, but the olives are so flavorful I didn't bother.


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Today, visitors to Waterford, Virginia, experience many of the same views as residents in the 19th century. A National Historic Landmark District, Waterford preserves the ambiance and many of the structures that characterized it during its heyday as a flour milling town in the 19th century. In fact, the village has changed so little in shape and size that founder Amos Janney would find it quite recognizable. He could stroll from his 1733 home to the area of his original mill and then on to the Quaker meeting house he founded in 1741.
In 1943, descendants of village families and newcomers interested in preserving the buildings, traditions, and rural character of Waterford formed the non-profit Waterford Foundation. The Foundation has played an important role in revitalizing the physical fabric of Waterford as well as increasing the public's knowledge of life and work in an early American rural community.
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Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
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STDs and ecological niches
Many sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) invade the host and reside for long periods of time without killing the host. A good example is syphilis, which may reside in its host for 30 to 50 years. HIV also can take 10 or more years to kill its host, allowing plenty of time to spread the infection.


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10 minutes and 53 seconds. That's all it took for the Mustang to drive into cinematic history and become an icon for generations to come. 50 years after what critics call one of the best car chase scenes of all time, the legend is back. In all its glory, power and prestige, the 50th anniversary edition Mustang BULLITT is here.
As rare as it is fast, a limited number will be released in Australia. Every single one is unique with an individually numbered plaque on the passenger side dashboard, with a BULLITT badge on the boot and steering wheel.
Paying homage to the original, the new Mustang BULLITT comes only in manual transmission and Dark Highland Green paint. A white cue-ball gear knob, chrome surround on the black grille and windows, stays true to Steve McQueen's legendary Pony.
With intuitive Sat-Nav, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto* smartphone capability, the Mustang BULLITT combines the design elements of the original 1968 Mustang with 21st century technology.
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Forecaster Blog: A Large Easterly Groundswell is Taking Shape for the entire East Coast
Epic winter conditions are on the horizon across the Eastern Seaboard.
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The Tasman Sea is about to return to life in a very energetic way.
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Low-income families face a variety of overwhelming obstacles in trying to achieve financial stability — a job alone often isn't enough.
- One accident or illness can result in expenses that bury them in debt.
- Low-income individuals tend to lack access to banks and credit unions, resorting to high-cost products and services that further drain their income.
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Warm Goldworm
Frigid weather means it's time for my 1970s Goldworm label dress to come out of the closet.
The print on my Goldworm is fairly sedate compared with much Goldworm knitwear (check out this Flickr group). Some prints were inspired by paintings by Matisse, Gauguin, Klimt and other artists. Others drew from historical patterns, such as Egyptian Revival and Iznik florals. Mine isn't as flashy, but I love the print, the colors and the fit. I also paid a tiny fraction of what these highly collectible dresses are now going for.
Cute worm on the label.
Yes, this is a new-to-me 1970s velvet bag (this one made in India). I didn't have a purple one, you see.
It was cold outside the night I went to see "The Nutcracker Suite," but warm inside the Royal Opera House in London.
Thank goodness for dress shields.
I found a stash of them at my local thrift store a few months back. They sure save on cleaning costs and time. I had to explain what they were to the staff at the thrift store. It used to be you could buy them at five-and-dime stores like Woolworth's (back when Woolworth's existed). Any other vintage clothing wearers use dress shields?
(Total non sequitur - With the death of David Bowie, I was reminded that he called his Ziggy Stardust look, "a cross between Nijinsky and Woolworth's.")
In spite of the poor lighting and lack of visibility in my photos, I felt visible, so am linking up with Not Dead Yet Style's Visible Monday.


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Market panic: wild gyrations, risks, and opportunities in stock markets
Wiley, 2003 - Business & Economics - 266 pages
An engaging book that offers a comprehensive and provocative analysis of the market panic phenomenon
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What you see here is a gently worn #12 jersey size 50 with stitched letters and numbering. Although it has Reebok tagging and feels every bit authentic, I believe it to be a knock off (albeit a very nice one).
Here's the deal: I've had enough of this thing. This was my first jersey I ever purchased. Before this, I had never considered myself a "jersey guy", but when a co-worker talked me into going in on a group discount, I caved and I never felt quite right wearing it. That's probably because I believe it to be cursed by a Wiccan Bears' fan living in China.
You see, this jersey has been worn JUST THREE TIMES.
1) 11/1/09 – Packers lost 38-26 to the Vikings
2) 1/15/11 – Packers lost 37-20 to the Giants
3) 9/8/13 – Packers lost 34-28 to the 49ers
That's right. I wore it three times and was subsequently the cause of both a devastating loss and severe emotional damage to Packer nation each and every time, with last weekend's loss cementing this decision. No other cause for these losses can be ascertained without attributing them to wild speculation or superstitious nonsense. These losses were on me, and I accept that.
However, I would like to emphasize that just because the jersey is clearly cursed for me does NOT mean it will be cursed for you. In fact, it may have the exact opposite effect and result in a string of championships as long as the jersey remains wearable! Or, more likely, it will simply provide you with that traditional game-day flair that will make your football viewing that much more enjoyable. It just needs to be worn by someone who would appreciate wearing it. Again, I'm just not a jersey guy and I can't stand having cursed items in my closet. #Petpeeve
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Lucretius takes a leisurely 7,415 lines (244 pages in the Oxford text) to instruct his student Memmius in the nature of the universe. Monica R. Gale (G.), by contrast, has only 70 pages to teach a kind of "Lucretius 101" to high-school students and undergraduates, the envisaged audience of Bristol's Classical World Series, in which her book Lucretius and the Didactic Epic appears. This task must have posed quite a challenge to the author of the well-known (and considerably longer) Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge 1994): how to condense all that could and should be said about the De rerum natura into so small a space? But G. pulls it off: if you are looking for a concise, no-nonsense introduction to Lucretius for classroom use, look no further.
The slim paperback has the look and feel of a textbook, from the unattractive cover to the poorly reproduced illustrations (including a picture of the Epicurean Food Hall in Dublin!). It is clearly aimed at readers with little or no background knowledge who are studying Lucretius either in the original or in translation. Thus, G. quotes hardly any Latin (and translates what little there is); her well-chosen "Suggestions for Further Reading" are restricted to publications in English; and there is even a section with "Suggestions for Further Study," in which G. provides a number of essay questions that one can actually imagine assigning to students. True to its purpose, the book does not contain any striking new insights on Lucretius, but is rather a summary of generally accepted views, somewhat colored by G.'s personal interests and predilections (which readers of Myth and Poetry will recognize). Its main virtue lies in the intelligence of G.'s readings and in the outstanding clarity with which she presents the material.
The first chapter ("The Didactic Tradition") provides an overview of didactic poetry before Lucretius and tries to answer the question of why the Roman poet--just like his Presocratic predecessors, such as Empedocles--chose the medium of poetry, instead of prose, to convey his philosophical subject matter. G. suggests reasonably that this has to do with the typical association of poetry with both authority and seductiveness, two qualities of crucial importance to the didactic enterprise. In the second chapter ("Philosophy and Poetry"), G. discusses the relationship of poetry and philosophy specifically in Lucretius, coming to the conclusion that the two are "completely intermeshed" (8). After an extremely short (but still informative) introduction to Epicurean philosophy, she reflects on the appropriateness (or lack thereof) of Lucretian poetry as a medium for Epicurus' message, briefly raising the question of Epicurus' hostility to poetry. The chapter ends with a discussion of the famous honeyed-cup simile and other passages in which Lucretius more or less explicitly comments on his poetics.
G. then turns, in the third chapter ("Didactic Strategies: Lucretius and his Reader"), to an examination of the role of Memmius and the ways in which the teacher interacts with his student, before moving on, in the fourth chapter ("Venus and the Plague"), to a discussion of the proem of Book 1 and the end of Book 6. She suggests that the invocation of Venus and the description of the plague, with their stress on, respectively, creation and destruction, are designed to balance each other. She also subscribes to the widely held view that the bleak ending of the poem is to be understood as a kind of "final exam" that puts the reader's newly acquired Epicurean ataraxia to the test.
In the fifth chapter, ("Fear of the Gods and Fear of Death"), G. shows how in addition to the obvious tripartite structure of the De rerum natura, the poem can also be understood as divided into two halves, with Books 1-3 meant to combat the fear of death (by showing that "life" and "death" are just a matter of the conglomeration and dissolution of atomic compounds) and Books 4-6 intended to do away with fear of the gods (by providing rational explanations for potentially frightening natural phenomena). The sixth chapter ("Lucretius as Literary and Social Critic") is concerned with Lucretius' ambivalent attitude toward his poetic models Homer and Ennius (he styles himself as their literary sucessor while casting aspersions on their subject matter) and with the poet's criticism of contemporary Roman values, particularly the military and political ambition of the upper class. The book ends with an Afterword ("Lucretius' Didactic Sucessors"), in which G. very briefly surveys Vergil's Georgics (the topic of her own Virgil on the Nature of Things, Cambridge 2000) and Ovid's Ars amatoria.
Given the brevity of the book, G.'s choice of topics is by needs selective, and on the whole, she has chosen well. It makes sense, in light of G.'s audience, that there is little discussion of Lucretius' style and language, and the fact that the book's focus (quite unlike that of the De rerum natura itself) is on ethics and poetics rather than on physics is probably reflective of not just G.'s own interests but also those of most readers of Lucretius today. My only quarrel with Lucretius and the Didactic Epic is G.'s insistence (clear already from the book's title) on reading the De rerum natura as a kind of epic poem (a point of view in evidence also in Myth and Poetry, pp. 99-128). In my opinion, the term "didactic epic" is unhelpful: while it is true that for most of antiquity, didactic poetry was not recognized as its own genre but rather considered to be epic, the term "epic" in this case means little more than "a longish poem in hexameters." The fundamental difference between the two genres was pointed out already by Aristotle (Poet. 1447b13-20), who maintained that Empedocles--though commonly labeled an epicist, just like Homer--was not really a poet at all since his work--unlike that of Homer--was not "mimetic," that is, did not tell a story. This is not to say that didactic poems, including the De rerum natura, do not share themes and stylistic features with texts that are "epic" in the more narrow sense in which most classicists use the word. Still, I believe that it does greater justice to didactic poetry to treat it as its own class of literature--especially when one is addressing readers who may not be particularly well-versed in the criticism of ancient genres (and note that G. never defines what she means by "epic").
Such quibbles aside, G.'s book delivers exactly what it promises, an informed and informative introduction to Lucretius, aimed at lower-level students (though anyone interested in the De rerum natura will find Lucretius and the Didactic Epic a convenient summary of basic issues). It is the target audience that sets the work apart from other short introductions to the topic: E. J. Kenney's Greece and Rome survey (1977) is geared mostly for scholars, while W. R. Johnson's flamboyant Lucretius and the Modern World (London 2000; see my review in BMCR 01.01.17) addresses a larger audience of general readers. To the student who is confronted with the De rerum natura in high school or college, however, G.'s book will prove a trusty guide to a difficult but exciting poem.


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The large Timbale in silver-plated copper, designd by Mario Trimarchi with the help of Alberto Gozzi is ideal not only for making challenging gastronomic works in architectural forms, but also (and perhaps above all) as gratifying decoration on our kitchen walls. The form echoes the great classical tradition of European cooking in the 1800's: the Savarin. The Savarin is characterised by an opening in the center that forms a border where you can place syrups, sauces or a meat sauce. According to popular opinion, it was created at the time of Napoleon III by Parisian pastry chefs, the Julien brothers, who bestowed it with its name to commemorate the illustrious gastronome Brillat-Savarin, who invented the syrup with which they bathed their own sweet creations.
Mario Trimarchi, born in Sicily, has lived and worked in Milan since 1983. An architect of the "freehand" generation, he has always moved freely within the visual universe and considers drawing, photography, design and image as equal components with the same theoretical approach. Between 1994 and 1998 Trimarchi was Director of Advanced Design at the Domus Academy and from 1989 to 2000 was part of the Olivetti Design Studio, where he worked with Michele De Lucchi. In 1999 he founded his own Corporate Identity Care studio, FRAGILE. With FRAGILE he designs systems of identity, coordinated image and visual alphabets through which diverse individualities can be expressed. He has designed many trademarks, most notably for Poste Italiane, the graphics for numerous large exhibitions, communications systems for Italian design companies and, finally, many displays and interiors. Never relinquishing his passion for drawing, architecture or design, he is currently working on the theme of unstable geometries, which he utilises within the context of our relationships with everyday objects in an attempt to change, however slightly, our habitual patterns of living.


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Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.
The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement. He followed this with what have become some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Eliot was born into the Eliot family, a bourgeois family originally from New England, who had moved to St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Henry Ware Eliot (1843–1919), was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis. Eliot credits his hometown with seeding his literary vision: "It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London." His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), wrote poetry and was a social worker, a new profession in the early 20th century. Eliot was the last of six surviving children; his parents were both 44 years old when he was born. His four sisters were between 11 and 19 years older; his brother was eight years older. Known to family and friends as Tom, he was the namesake of his maternal grandfather Thomas Stearns.


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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Leaders of a teachers' union in Lebanon called for the government to pass a wage hike, as an open-ended strike continued Wednesday.
The strike that began in mid-February has affected government operations and public schools, The Beirut Daily Star reported.
Teachers took to the streets Wednesday in Beirut carrying signs demanding the Cabinet refer a wage hike measure to Parliament.
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