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Don't Fear, Downton Abbey Will Be Back For Season Five!
Don't Fear, Downton Abbey Will Be Back For Season Five!
If you've been suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal for the past few months, you don't have to worry about long-term losses in the Crawley family anymore. Though we're still teary at the idea of Downton post-Matthew, we're reassured by the fact that season four is coming in January and prepping for season five has already started. To help you get your fill, we've put together a guide to the gorgeous Abbey the Crawley clan and their servants call home.
In case you've forgotten during the long (seriously, WAY too long) hiatus, Downton Abbey meticulously traces the lifestyle of an aristocratic English family just before and during World War I, as well as the family's staff of servants, all of whom are harnessed to Downton Abbey, the regal home they inhabit.
It may sound like a dull period piece, but that could not be further from the truth. Drama! Intrigue! Dinner parties!
Downton Abbey itself is actually Highclere Castle, a 1,000-acre estate in Hampshire, England, that was designed in 1842 by Sir Charles Barry. Highclere is massive, with 11 bedrooms on the first floor and 40-50 on the upper floors. Several of the bedrooms are used in the filming of Downton Abbey, and the majority of the series is actually filmed on site at the castle.
While the Edwardian era officially ended in 1910, the style is broadly noted to extend through 1919. The show, which is set in 1912, reflects much of the era's look in terms of decor and colors. The onset of World War I delayed the influence of the art-deco style, which was the next era in fashion, art, and decor to follow the Edwardian era — though you can definitely see some hints of art deco in the Downton Abbey sets, as well. Keep reading to see photos from the upcoming season and to find out more about the unique decor from the series.


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i just asked this question and had an idea:
what if there were a person working for msi with a special stackoverflow-account who automatically gets all questions with the msi tag and could provide an official answer.
you could charge them a small ammount of money an give them a nice "Vendor" badge and they could do customer support here. i know most of the companies have their own support website but they often suck and often don't show up in google.
could this work? what do you think?


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piksla necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
An exciting chance to brand our security solutions and create the feeling that when our clients do business with us, they can sleep well at night knowing their data is safe and that fraud will be minimal, even with multiple people handlign the data. Our clients trust us to handle their most valuable asset -- their customers and we will use this brand to assure them they made the right choice.
http://www.teleperformance.com is the company; we need a sub-brand name for our security solutions
Teleperformance (http://www.teleperformance.com) is the world's largest call center company. A key part of winning clients is to gain their trust that we are protecting their valuable data. Therefore, we have developed a suite of solutions to combat fraud and increase the secure feeling that both our clents and their customers get when working with us.
To help emphasize these solutions, we would like to develop a brand. It could have a name like TPSecure (TP is an appropriate abbreviation of Teleperformance) but needs a visual logo to connote trust and security.
Our security solutions include vulnerability analyses, action plans to minimize fraud opportunities, early warning triggers if needed and ongioing communications with clients around this subject.
- A logo that connotes trust, security and sleep well at night
- Create a solution name or use the compnay name within the logo to emphasize the tie of our security solutions to our overall brand
- Respect our company logo colors. You need not use exactly the same colprs, but it would be nice if they work well together .
- Be creative and show us something other than a plain lock and key or vault.
- A logo that doesn't work at all with our corporate logo
- We are a businesss brand and this is a serious subject so can't be too playful
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The posh SUV test
Here I am, swaddled in a leathery womb, Radio 2 bubbling gently in the background like a muttering grandfather, driving a new BMW X5 3.0d through a lake. And it's about as terrifying as a sleepy Labrador. We are being calmly pursued by a Porsche Cayenne Diesel and a Range Rover Sport TDV6, appearing not unlike a triplet of unlikely speedboats in a semi-V formation, both equally unperturbed by the strenuous external conditions. Turning left, I exit up a small sandy bank, feel the big BMW's xDrive AWD system squirm as it makes infinite instantaneous assessment of the tyre's grip and the engine's torque, and the best places to deploy both, and simply potter off across gloopy mud that would swallow your feet.
The lack of fuss blurs the edges of the terrain, makes it all simple, finds clarity in the muck. In fact,
all three of these cars – as long as just one of the wheels can find something to cling to and you equip yourself with at least a measure of restraint – will maintain forward momentum without even noticing.
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Florida State University is trying to keep the doors open at its West Palm Beach Film School location, even though its partner production company has gone bankrupt. The Digital Domain bankruptcy has left the state on the hook for millions, created increased scrutiny on Florida State and has left the fate of students in the program up in the air.
After getting $20 million in state funding, Digital Domain declared bankruptcy in September, leaving the state out of $20 million and hundreds of workers in its Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach facilities without jobs. The company's CEO John Textor, recently spoke with South Florida's News Channel Five and deflected blame for the company's failure.
"The problem becomes trying to deliver on your promises to the community. That's not always consistent with the short-term whims of an investor market. One of the most difficult things we realized was trying to balance community goals with Wall Street goals."
Florida State University partnered with the company to build a film school location in West Palm Beach and the two shared a building. When Digital Domain went bankrupt, Florida State came under fire for not getting approval for the digital program from its own board, or the Board of Governors, which oversees all the state's public universities.
"I'm going to appoint a three person committee to meet with FSU to delve down and make a recommendation to the board," said BOG Chairman Dean Colson.
Earlier in the month, FSU Trustees gave University President Eric Barron permission to move the West Palm Beach Film program to Tallahassee, where the main film school is located. But in a presentation before the Board of Governors Thursday, Barron pushed for allowing the digital film program to remain in its current location.
"The faculty with industry experience is critical. We've asked both those individuals if they're willing to move to Tallahassee and they aren't willing to do that," Barron said. "We surveyed all 28 students that we have within the program at West Palm Beach, and with one exception, even knowing tuition would be substantially cheaper, they said they wouldn't be willing to move."
Barron says the university has found several other companies willing to partner with it to fill the gap left by Digital Domain:
"Olympusat is the first one. It's a media and entertainment company ...it has a global operation distribution. The Conversations are ongoing with CEO Chuck Mohler. It has the largest distribution of independent networks in the United States."
The list also includes the Sierra-Nevada Corporation, the health information company Watermark, and a fourth, called Pod 15, a code name used by the state to keep the company's economic interests a secret while they negotiate with the state for an incentive deal. Florida State's Partnership with Digital Domain was troubled from the start. The first issue was the location-West Palm Beach is home to a similar program run by Florida Atlantic University. The arrival of FSU into the area created tension between the two schools and ultimately led the university governing board to create new rules making it harder for schools to start programs in areas of the state where similar ones already exist.


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Yes, it is that time of year. (A little late, actually.) We're doing the unveiling of the nominees a little different this year, so pay attention.
Erin Andrews
Joked with Bill Cosby.
Turned 31.
Hit by foul ball.
Attacked by tiger.
Snooped in a hotel.
Confirmed the snooping.
Caused kvetching.
Splashed across New York Post front page.
Called 911.
Posed for GQ.
Talked to Oprah.
Went back to work.
Busted that peeper punk.
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Maria is adept at strategizing the most complex negotiations, while maintaining a strong work ethic and compassionate nature. Maria has remained a highly sought after authority on residential real estate, especially on the Gold Coast and within the international community. Speaking fluent Russian, Maria has served as liaison to numerous Russian brokers and developed a highly respected pipeline of foreign investors, buyers of luxury residences for vacation homes and real estate investment purposes. Given her widespread knowledge of the North Shore's most prominent villages, towns and enclaves, she delivers invaluable guidance to this exclusive network of clients and customers.
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Forces Detain Suspected Militants in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Afghan and international security forces detained several suspected militants, including a Taliban commander, in Afghanistan in recent days, military officials reported.
A combined force captured a Taliban commander and other suspected militants in Wardak yesterday.
The force went to a small compound in Sayad Abad district after intelligence confirmed militant activities there. The force entered the compound and captured the Taliban commander, who identified
Meanwhile, a combined force captured a Taliban facilitator and several other suspected militants in Kandahar yesterday.
Elsewhere, a combined force captured a Haqqani terrorist network suicide bomb facilitator and several other suspected militants yesterday in Khowst.
In Helmand, a combined force detained one suspected militant yesterday while searching for a Taliban weapons facilitator.
No Afghan civilians were harmed during these operations.
In Zabul yesterday, a combined force killed several militants, including a Taliban commander responsible for homemade bomb attacks.
The force found machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and a significant amount of bomb components.
In Kandahar yesterday, a combined force captured a Taliban facilitator believed to be responsible for transporting weapons and illegal aid.
No civilians were harmed in either operation.
During a Dec. 26 operation in Wardak, combined forces killed a Taliban commander responsible for planning attacks against combined security forces and buying weapons and bomb components in Wardak.
In other operations in Afghanistan:
-- In Laghman, a combined force detained suspected militants Dec. 26 while searching for a Taliban facilitator.
-- In Khowst on Dec. 25, a combined force captured several suspected militants, including a known Haqqani facilitator. The force recovered multiple AK-47 rifles, hand grenades and bomb components from the home of the Haqqani facilitator.
-- In Kandahar, a combined force captured a Taliban facilitator and a small group of other suspected militants Dec. 25.
-- A combined force detained several suspected militants while searching for a Taliban enabler in Wardak province Dec. 25.
-- In Paktika, a combined force killed somearmed militants and captured a small group of insurgents while searching for a Haqqani commander. During a search, the force captured several more suspected militants and recovered weapons and bomb components.
-- International Security Assistance Force members in southern Afghanistan detained nearly a dozen insurgents Dec. 24 for possible connection to the manufacturing of homemade bombs. Patrolling servicemembers in the south also found about 600 pounds of what is believed to be ammonium nitrate, a key ingredient of homemade explosives, as well as a Russian anti-tank mine. A local resident also led troops to a homemade bomb that had been placed under a bridge.


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Roger Parker swings back at Tracinda Corp in Delta Petroleum bankruptcy
Bankrupt former Delta Petroleum CEO Roger Parker, still under the cloud of a federal securities lawsuit alleging illegal insider trading at the company, lashed out against billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian's Tracinda Corp as the reason for Delta's demise.
In a filing in his personal bankruptcy case in Denver, Parker said it was Tracinda that wrecked the company he founded, not him, as Tracinda alleges in a separate lawsuit. Parker lays the blame at the feet of Kerkorian soldier Dan Taylor, who had been on Delta's board and then took the reins in 2009 when Parker resigned.
"It took 16 years for Parker and his team to lead Delta from a small cap stock to a successful company with a valuation in excess of $1 billion," Parker says in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. "It took Dan Taylor and Tracinda two and one-half years to plunge Delta into bankruptcy."
The case has lately turned into a mud-slinging-fest that, despite the legal verbiage necessary of court documents, reads like a soap opera scandal.


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In this episode...
We are often accused of focusing on race, but who actually seems obsessed with it? We take a look.
A particularly tragic and bloody harvest for drunken illegal alien drivers (and yes, immigration status is exceedingly relevant, hence 100% preventable!)
Jake and MJ venture into occupied Atzlan, let's just say that charges have been pressed!
Militant Latino video...here.
If you're one of the 13 people who haven't seen it, O'Reilly vs. Geraldo video...here!
Attention All Bloggers! Attention All Bloggers!
If you can 'get away' for a couple of days and are interested in attending the "Hold Their Feet To The Fire" extravaganza in DC as an accredited blogger who will be representin' from blog row, let me know soonest. We are acting as the unofficial ambassador to the blogosphere. We need strong anti-illegal immigration blogs and bloggers to attend and do it up right! If you can attend send me an email at: firstname.lastname@example.com
This shindig is being thrown by FAIR and ALIPAC so it's as legit as it gets! If you don't want to be one of the official bloggers you could always come and be a part of the Blogs For Borders crew! We'd love to meet ya. We also need folks to commit to blogging from home, so whaddaya say? Let's hold their feet to the fire!
We are often challenged to explain how we can hate Mexico but not Mexicans, pshhht! That's easy. Read this and this, see if you don't agree.
This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you'd like to join go to the Blogs For Borders Website and send us an email with "sign me up" in the subject line.
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Crawlspaces: Considering the Options
A version of this article appears in the May/June 2004 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
May 01, 2004
For crawlspaces, as for the entire house, there are house-specific, local, and regional conditions to consider.
A surefire way to start an argument in a group of building specialists is to bring up religion, politics—or crawlspaces. Politics and crawlspaces do have a lot in common. You can make up your own jokes. But why crawlspaces? Because many are prone to failure, there is a wide variety of ideas on avoiding or correcting the problems, and there's even disagreement as to whether "crawlspace" is one word or two. Misinformation,myths, and outof- date codes have contributed to some of the confusion, but many of the approaches do work under certain circumstances. We find that a one-sizefits- all approach can lead to problems. We have only to look at the older HUD housing for Native Americans to see disastrous examples. From Maine to South Dakota to Arizona, most of that housing (including heating systems and wall, roof, and floor assemblies) was identical, with the result that it really only worked well … nowhere. For crawlspaces, as for the entire house, there are house-specific, local, and regional conditions to consider. Solutions also depend on one's objectives. In the case ...
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Throwaway dialogue as art form
I stumbled onto that TV show Newlyweds the other night, and quickly became engrossed. I never realized this was a documentary about two pop stars; I just assumed it was some kind of reality TV show where the recently wed compete to break up each other's marriages. Hmm… actually, that's not a bad idea. Let me just call my agent…
One of the things I loved about Newlyweds was that Jessica seems to have a rent-a-friend: a person hanging around whose only job is to laugh at her jokes. Next time I go on book tour, I'm asking my publisher for one of those. (Max: "So you're Jeremy?" Jeremy: "Right! Ha ha ha! Very good!" Max: "You and me are going to get along just fine, Jeremy.") In fact, I could do with one in everyday life.
The other thing I loved was the dialogue. If this thing was scripted, I'd be campaigning for them to hand over the Emmy right now. See, I have something of an addiction to throwaway dialogue. This is an exchange between characters that has no bearing whatsoever on the plot, but is fun anyway. Or, at least, fun for the writer. (It's very liberating to write a scene that doesn't have to do anything.) But it's not so much fun to read, which is why my throwaway dialogue tends to get deleted between drafts one and two. It's basically just me being tricksy, and I don't think anyone wants to pay money to see that. You can just visit my web site.
Anyway, there was a tiny scene in Newlyweds that was so perfect that it sent me running for pen and paper. This is classic throwaway dialogue. It may well do nothing for you, but for me… goosebumps, dude. Goosebumps.
Jessica and Nick are walking down a hotel corridor. Suddenly Jessica lets loose an enormous sneeze.
Nick: Bless you.
Jessica: Is that true, that if you sneeze, your heart stops?
Long pause. Nick turns around to look at her.
Nick: Why would your heart stop?
Jessica (defensive): That's what I heard… just… what I heard.
Nick: From who?
Jessica: I don't know.
Loooooooooong pause.
Nick: Never heard that.


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Edward Cullen? No. This person actually exists. Alexander Skarsgård? No. In fact, drop the vampiric line of inquiry altogether. Any more guesses? Here's a hint: these parasites hail from Jamaica. Still nothing? Okay.
It's Bob Marley.
I know, right? It makes total sense! Marine biologist Paul Sikkel, who coined the name, says he means no disrespect; he dubbed the species Gnathia marleyi to honor the iconic artist:
"I named this species, which is truly a natural wonder, after Marley because of my respect and admiration for Marley's music," Sikkel said. "Plus, this species is as uniquely Caribbean as was Marley."
Fair enough. And for what it's worth, Marley is hardly the first celebrity to have his namesake loaned out to a newly christened species. He joins the ranks of such notables as Beyoncé, Harrison Ford and President Obama.
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The Reebok Minnesota Hockey High Performance 15, 16 and 17 programs are designed to identify the best players in Minnesota and to provide the top players from each district or section a chance to play with and against the best players in the state.
Bryceton Butkiewicz from the Moose Lake Area Hockey Association has been selected among the top 20 players to participate on the District 11 team in the High Performance 15 program. Other players selected are from Hermantown, Marshall, Cloquet, Esko, Duluth East and Duluth Denfeld. The players selected are from all levels — AA, A and B.
The next phase of the program, The Spring Festival, will take place April 26-28 in Edina as the team from District 11 plays against teams from other Minnesota districts.
At the conclusion of the Reebok Minnesota Hockey High Performance programs at the 15, 16 and 17 levels, the top 20-25 players represent Minnesota Hockey at a national festival/camp sponsored by USA Hockey involving the best players from each of the USAH districts.
The national festivals/camps are used by USAH to identify the top performers in each age group for possible opportunities to represent the U.S.A. at advanced levels of national and international hockey competition.


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Eric van der Kleij will step down as chief executive of the UK's Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) when his two year contract comes to an end this summer.
A spokesperson told Techworld that van der Kleij's formal end date is not yet confirmed, but that he will begin transitioning from the end of July.
The TCIO is a subsidiary of the UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) department. It was launched in March 2011 to attract new companies and investors to East London, and to provide support to Tech City companies seeking to expand internationally.
Van der Kleij has been a high-profile figure within Tech City, and remains a vocal supporter of local innovation. His stance has always been that the government should not interfere too much in the development of the cluster, but simply throw a spotlight on what is happening there.
The TCIO spokesperson admitted "concern" about the impact that van der Kleij's departure will have on Tech City, but added that "there is a very strong team behind him".
The organisation has put up a notice on its website stating that it is looking for a new CEO to support the growth of the technology cluster in East London, and help make it Europe's centre of innovation and the location of choice for tech and digital companies and investors.
"Our CEO will lead our strategy, and in particular, be responsible for the development of the pipeline of major corporate inward investors and raising the international profile of Tech City," it said.
A full recruitment advertisement will be posted in the coming weeks.
The spokesperson added that the TCIO would be seeking a candidate who could bring a similar level of public sector insight as van der Kleij, who is a "serial entrepreneur," having created several telecommunications companies.
"When he came on, he was passionate about the idea of supporting the cluster that was there, and he was an entrepreneur, so he had a lot of experience that could help," she said.
"He was already part of UKTI's global entrepreneurs programme, so he was loosely connected with government. He just wants to get back to doing entrepreneurial stuff."
Tech City is the name given by the government to the cluster of high-tech companies in East London. The number of companies has reportedly grown from 200 to 700 since the government initiative was announced in 2010, and includes the likes of Cisco, Vodafone, Google and Intel, as well as a wide range of start-ups.


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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 20 (UPI) -- A Tennessee park ranger says he was fired for dancing on the job after a visitor to Coolidge Park in Chattanooga posted a video of him busting a move on Facebook.
According to Deryl Nelson, his supervisors were not impressed with the video and he was terminated for "conduct unbecoming of a public employee."
Melissa Parsons posted the video online after capturing it on her cellphone because she didn't think Nelson's moves were appropriate for children to see.
"As a parent and seeing all the parents that were covering their kids eyes and turning their heads away, it wasn't something you would expect to see in Coolidge Park or anywhere from a grown man, especially a man in uniform," Parsons told NewChannel 9 WTVC.
"He went all the way to the ground, he came back up from the ground, he was grabbing areas that you would see on a rated R movie."
According to city records, Nelson was suspended for five days for "addressing inappropriate remarks to a co-worker" in 2013.
Nelson started dancing at the park after he jumped in with a group of visitors who were doing the Macarena. The 51-year-old plans to keep grooving, with or without his job.
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Do people sort subjects in boxes just to know what it means? Just to make sure they understand. Because, what would it feel like if they didn't figure out the answer. The unknowing dept off unquestioned answers. It might just frighten us.
Perhaps we ought to embrace the things we don't know. A dilemma always has two outcomes, but none of them will have a good or a bad ending. Because, in what context will it be good or bad. Making a decision was hard enough anyway.
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Novi Travnik was once known as the "Town of Youth". In 1949, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's Communist leader, wanted to turn his vision of an independent multi-ethnic Communist Yugoslav state of "brotherhood and unity" into bricks and mortar. It was a year after the split with Moscow, and Yugoslavia needed the means to defend itself.
To serve a new armaments factory, which he named "Bratstvo" (Brotherhood), Tito ordered the construction of a new town, called Novi (New) Travnik. To make it secure from potential invaders, the new town was located in a distant valley of Central Bosnia, 20 km from the historic town of Travnik. It was to become the embodiment of the socialist dream. "From the first moment that the picks and shovels struck the hard ground," begins the factory's official history, written in 1989,
"the voices of past times were overcome, Socialism and Self-management were born within my bosom; a time proud and new. Proud is what my favourite guest and friend was, too: Josip Broz Tito. When he came to see me, I turned into a town of youth, and that's what they named me."
Bratstvo factory gates
Qualified workers came from all over Yugoslavia to build the town and to work in the Bratstvo factory. At its height, 7,000 workers produced military equipment like cannons and rocket launchers, as well as tractors. Wages were among the highest in the country. The municipality was multi-ethnic – in 1991 there were 37 % Croats, 38% Bosniaks, and 13% Serbs. A big part of the remainder, the strongest believers in Tito's multi-ethnic vision, declared themselves to be Yugoslavs.
Novi Travnik in the 1950's
The socialist poet Mladen Oljaca wrote in 1960:
"This is a town without grey hairs. There are no pensioners. This is a town without beggars and unemployed. This is a town without churches and mosques, without differences in faith."
No religious buildings were included in the original plan for Novi Travnik. All the other essential facilities for the town's working class were provided, however: a cultural centre, hospitals, kindergartens, and schools. The German geographer Herbert Büschenfeld haswritten:
"Novi Travnik is the exponent of the `socialist town´ of the Soviet type, probably the most explicit example of this type in Yugoslavia."
(Herbert Büschenfeld, Jugoslawien, Klett, 1981, p. 245)
The export markets for Bratstvo's products included Libya, Egypt, India, and many African countries. Tractors, for example, went to Ghana. Weapons were sold mostly to friendly non-aligned countries. Of particular importance were big orders from Iraq during the late 1970s and the 1980s. A new hotel, Hotel Novi Travnik, was specially built for guests from the oil-rich countries of the non-aligned bloc. In the 1980s Iraqi residents were a part of the town's social life.
Mirjana Mehicic
The lifestyle in pre-war Novi Travnik was good, recalls Mirjana Mehicic. She was born and grew up in the town. Her parents had come from Serbia to work at the factory. Her husband, a Bosniak, was also employed in the factory when they first met.
"Novi Travnik was a real town. We are longing for the Novi Travnik which was once a centre of culture and fashion. We had many cultural events here. We had a discotheque, "Monaco" – it was known all over Bosnia and Herzegovina. We were in love, we saw life positively."
Hotel Novi Travnik in 2003
By the 1980's, however, Bratstvo – the original reason for the town's construction – was in trouble. "Even without a war, this industry would have collapsed," says Zeljko Rados, the local head of the Privatisation Agency: "We lost markets. The East no longer needed these types of weapons. Then came the fall of the Soviet Union."
When the war broke out in 1992, the factory – and the town itself – became a target. The Yugoslav Air Force bombed Bratstvo, destroying large parts of the production complex. The conflict between Croats and Bosniaks literally divided the town in half. Several hundred people died in the fighting.
At the end of the war Novi Travnik was still divided. The secure domestic market for arms, i.e., that provided the Yugoslav National Army, was gone. Exports were impossible. De-industrialisation, an overall Bosnian post-war phenomenon, hit Novi Travnik particularly hard. By 2006 Bratstvo was producing at a mere 3 percent of pre-war capacity. Of the 1,500 people officially on its payroll around 850 came to work, but only half of them actually received regular salaries.
Part of the Bratstvo Novi Travnik factory destroyed in the war
Workers leaving the factory
The collapse of the factory has devastated the town's economy. Nowadays only about 3,000 citizens in Novi Travnik have regular jobs. Many young people have left Tito's Town of Youth to look for better opportunities elsewhere. Those who remain now confront major social problems, such as drug abuse. Mario Lucic from the Galerija youth organisation says:
"It is a fact that many young people and not only young people – I know a lot of older people – are consuming drugs…"
As one extremely young drug addict told us:
"There are many drug addicts here at our place. … Because people have no work, no employment, they have nothing … there is too much [drugs] here. Drugs are causing havoc throughout Bosnia. … Most of them want to forget their problems here. To find relief. I know that is not right, but …we constantly try, to let it be the last time. But in the end we are disappointed and … I know that I should not seek comfort this way."
Mirjana Mehicichas worked at the Centre for Social Aid in Novi Travnik for 24 years and is now its director. She and her six colleagues try to address the town's growing social needs, a product of unemployment, poverty and old age, and the consequences of the war. "Despite the lack of staff and funding, we try to do our best," says Mirjana. Only 65 households receive monthly social assistance payments – this, in a municipality with an estimated 25,000 inhabitants. Every day 20 people come to beg for assistance, Mirjana says.
"We help them as much as we can, but due to limited resources many of them have to be turned down."
View of the centre of Novi Travnik
Unlike in booming Vitez, also bitterly divided during the war, no common vision of the future has taken root in Novi Travnik. As Galerija's Mario Lucic says:
"Urban-minded people have all left. A lot of people from the villages have come to town. They think in strictly national terms. … I don't see how this will ever change. The parents are under the influence of the national parties, and the children are under the influence of the parents. And the school only reinforces the national divisions."
Mario Lucic
Vitez is located on a main road. Novi Travnik's remote location, on the other hand, the very reason the site was selected by Tito in the first place, is likely to be the cause of its continuing decline. "We were in a hole, at the end of a dead-end road," says Mirjana. "Only now a new road to Bugojno has opened."
Marijo Lucic adds:
"All young people who want to make something of their lives go abroad – or stay abroad, if they've already left. We have no qualified, creative young people here. I am afraid that Novi Travnik will become a town of old people."
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This video of world No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic's appearance on Jay Leno's still-breathing program last night is nine minutes and 15 seconds long. Do yourself a favor: Skip the first seven minutes, to when he starts talking about the celebration that commenced among his team of fellow travelers after he won the Australian Open.
No rhythm. No rhyme. But the dude's l-i-v-i-n, ain't he?
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In From the Cold on Russia's delivery of the first of five M-31E Foxhound fighters to Damascus: No Cause for Alarm
While the Foxhound represents an upgrade for the Syrian Air Force, it's hardly a world-beater, as implied by the Israeli daily. In terms of overall capabilities, the MiG-31 is roughly equal to the F-14 Tomcat, recently retired by the U.S. Navy. The Foxhound was the first Russian fighter with a true lookdown/shootdown capability, allowing it to find low altitude targets amid ground clutter, and engage them with a long-range missile, the AA-9 "Amos." It's cutting edge technology, circa 1982.
Like the older MiG-25, the Foxhound and its missiles are not optimized for dog-fighting. The MiG-31's powerful radar (nicknamed "Flashdance) and the AA-9 were designed to engage non-maneuvering stand-off targets (like the B-52) and penetrating cruise missiles. Against a maneuvering, fighter-sized target, the AA-9 is much less likely to score a hit, despite its range and large size (the missile weighs over half a ton). In a dogfight against Israeli F-15s and F-16s, the MiG-31 would actually be at a disadvantage, given the "fire and forget" capabilities of the IAF's AMRAAMs.
No doubt some MO readers will scoff at the idea that the MiG-31 is "roughly equal" to the F-14, but before you blow a gasket, remember that we're talking about specifications on paper. In real-world performance, Russian-built hardware often (usually?) doesn't live up to expectations even with skilled crews. It's safe to say that Syrian flight crews, ground crews, and other assorted support personnel like controllers and mission planners aren't exactly top-notch.
The 'E' model of the MiG-31 is an export variant with some systems downgraded from front-line Russian planes, though I don't know which systems they are or how much the changes will affect capability. The planes are reworked aircraft from the Russian reserves, not new builds, and are being offered to customers as a replacement for MiG-25s. This is the first MiG-31E sale.
In From the Cold also notes that Syria will have to establish a Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) program because they currently operate single-seaters almost exclusively.
It wouldn't surprise me to see Iranian "advisers" turn up at Syria's Foxhound base; the Iranians have long experience with two-seat fighters, operating both the F-4 and F-14, and could provide some assistance in such areas as crew coordination, and the tactical "division of labor" between the pilot and WSO. However, the tactical proficiency of Iranian crews has also declined in recent years, so it's debatable if Syria would gain anything from Iran's WSO cadre.
What? Syria-Iran cooperation? Say it ain't so!
Anyway, while Israel is completely justified in being concerned over any Syrian upgrades, MiG-31s aren't going to have a significant impact on the balance of power, particularly since there will only be five of them.
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posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - 8:57 am
Dear Linda and Bengt:
My colleagues and I are testing a multidimensional model of acculturation using a sample of recent immigrant Hispanic adolescents. We have proposed three domains of acculturation - behaviors, values, and identifications. Within each domain, US and heritage cultural streams are operating.
We have estimated three growth mixture models - one for Hispanic and US behaviors, one for Hispanic and US values, and one for Hispanic and US identifications. Each solution produced 2 classes. We now want to do two things: (1) cross-tabulate these three sets of classes against one another using log-linear modeling; and (2) examine the effects of these three sets of classes on outcome variables (self-esteem, perceived competence, depressive symptoms, and grade point average).
I've read your article with Shaunna Clark indicating that classifying people into their most likely classes is a bad idea. However, how else would we do what we're looking to do? The classes are formed using three separate models, and we do not want the formation of the classes to be affected by the outcome variables.
Thanks in advance for any insights you can provide for us!
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Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - 9:42 am
What is your entropy in the three analyses?
Seth J. Schwartz
posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - 12:31 pm
Entropy values are .80, .70, and .83.
Seth J. Schwartz
posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - 4:07 pm
Not sure whether you saw this - entropy values are .80, .70, and .83.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - 4:43 pm
With entropy .8 or higher, you could use most likely class membership and do a multiple group analysis using the KNOWNCLASS option. You can still do this but for the group with .7 entropy, it won't be as good.
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So when I saw this Sally Hansen Insta-Dri top coat I decided to give it a go. I have had a few different quick dry products before and none of them have been exceptional. I had faith that good old Sally Hansen would know what she was doing (right, I know she's not real but still…)
This clear top coat cost me £6 from Boots.
This anti-chip top coat is supposed to dry any colour in 30 seconds and give a shiny finish. You should apply your nail polish, wait two minutes, then apply one coat of Insta-Dri – the polish will be touch dry in 30 seconds.
I thought this top coat had a really nice runny texture and went over my nail polish effortlessly. It added shine and looked pretty good once finished.
After 30 seconds my nails were touch dry – I felt them lightly with my fingers and all was fine. However when I tried to get on with normal business, such as typing I did notice then small makrs on my nails – like where nail polish has started to dry but got ruined before it could truly set;
Eek. For me this top coat wasn't 100% foolproof – I think though, if I could sit still for a bit longer it would dry a lot faster than other top coats but no, it wasn't like, paint and go unfortunately.
Meanwhile I have worn this nail polish from Barry M in Mushroom because I couldn't justify buying a Chanel nail polish – I love it's mushroom-soup-color.
I like Barry M nail polishes, the colours are pigmented and although I've had staining problems in the past with the colours, I would still spend a few pound coins on one!
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Halos knocking on top spot of Rankings
A's holding on in battle for AL West supremacy, best mark in Majors
One game.
Just one game separates the first-place A's from the second-place Angels in the American League West standings.
One game could change the balance of power in next week's rankings.
Is this the week the Angels take over the division lead, or will the A's manage to stay on top?
Yes, there has already been talk of the A's, led by newly-acquired starter Jon Lester, and the Tigers, who acquired David Price at the non-waiver Trade Deadline, squaring off in the postseason, but what happens if the Angels ruin those plans?
What's more, are the new-look Tigers, not the A's, the best team in baseball? Don't forget about the Nationals, Dodgers, Orioles and Brewers.
Will the Giants end the season as the best team from the West?
That's where you come in.
For the fourth consecutive season, MLB.com has set up a panel of experts to vote on the top 15 teams each week. The group includes MLB.com vice president and executive editor Carlton Thompson, executive editor Matthew Leach, columnists Mike Bauman, Hal Bodley, Anthony Castrovince, Richard Justice, Tracy Ringolsby, Phil Rogers and Lyle Spencer, along with reporters Alyson Footer and Jesse Sanchez.
What do you think? Agree, disagree? Have your opinion counted by submitting your Power Rankings.
1. Athletics: Oakland bolstered its starting rotation by adding Lester at the Deadline, but it's been the hitting, not the pitching, that has been an issue lately. The A's have lost two consecutive series, and here's one big reason why: Outside of Saturday's eight-run outburst in the fifth inning, the team has scored just three runs in its other 35 innings since Wednesday.
2. Angels: The Halos sport a 35-16 record since June 6 and now trail the A's by just one game in the AL West. They won two of three against the Rays over the weekend and have won six of their last 10 games.
3. Tigers: The Tigers added Price to the mix and now have three Cy Young Award winners (Price, Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander) along 2013 AL ERA champion Anibal Sanchez in the starting rotation. Detroit swept the Rockies over the weekend and now lead the second-place Royals by five games in the AL Central.
4. Nationals: Backed by a strong start from Stephen Strasburg on Sunday, the Nats split the four-game series against the Phillies to maintain a 3 1/2-game lead over the second-place Braves in the National League East. It appears Nate McLouth is on his way to the disabled list, and Steven Souza Jr., who hitting .354 with 18 home runs and 72 RBIs for Triple-A Syracuse, will get called up to take his spot on the roster.
5. Dodgers: Matt Kemp has five home runs in his last six games and 12 RBIs in his last 10. He also has 15 hits during that span. The Dodgers lost two of three to the Cubs over the weekend, but they are still winners of seven of their last 10 games and hold a 2 1/2-game lead over the second-place Giants in the NL West.
6. Orioles: The O's have won seven of their last 10 games and lead the AL East by 3 1/2 games. Baltimore's last six wins and eight of their last nine games have been decided by a single run, but the pitching has helped keep the team afloat during the recent offensive drought.
7. Brewers: The Brewers, who lead the Cardinals by only one game in the NL Central, now have to worry about nagging injuries. Both second baseman Scooter Gennett (right quadriceps) and shortstop Jean Segura (left quadriceps) were sidelined Sunday against the Cardinals, and Matt Garza exited a one-hitter after 71 pitches and six scoreless innings because of a left rib cage strain.
8. Giants: The Giants have lost seven of their last 10 games and trail the first-place Dodgers by 2 1/2 games in the NL West. The pitching has been as good as ever, though. Ryan Vogelsong, Jake Peavy and Madison Bumgarner dominated the Mets all weekend as San Francisco won two of the first three games in the series.
9. Blue Jays: Toronto is content with a 6-4 record on its recent 10-game trek through New York, Boston and Houston, but it's not happy with the three consecutive losses to the Astros to end the road trip. The second-place Jays will have to get over it, as they take on the AL East-leading Orioles for three games starting Tuesday.
10. Cardinals: The Cards won two of three against the Brewers, and Sunday's victory pulled St. Louis to within one game of the top perch in the NL Central. Newly-acquired starter John Lackey won his first game with the Cardinals on Sunday, the 150th victory of his career. St. Louis looks poised to make a run.
11. Pirates: The Bucs won two of three against the D-backs over the weekend, but Andrew McCutchen had to be helped off the field after drilling a game-tying sacrifice fly with "left side discomfort" in Sunday's series finale. The Pirates trail the first-place Brewers by only 1 1/2 games in the NL Central.
12. Mariners: The Seattle offense has been held to two or fewer runs in 16 of 26 games since July 4, and the team is 1-15 in those contests. The Mariners are also 10-16 overall in that span, a big reason why the club is trailing the Royals and Yankees by a half-game and two games behind Toronto in the chase for the final AL Wild Card spot.
13. Reds: The Reds won their first series since the All-Star break over the weekend in Miami, and their sleepy offense is showing signs of life. That's good news, especially when you consider Cincy lost each of the four series coming out of the break, and every single game -- even the wins -- felt tense.
14. Royals: There were increasing signs of perfection for the Royals all weekend. On Friday night, Jeremy Guthrie started his outing with three perfect frames, and on Saturday, Jason Vargas tossed four perfect innings to begin his start. On Sunday, James Shields tossed five perfect frames to start the contest against Oakland. Not surprisingly, the Royals sent Oakland to its first home series loss in nearly three months.
15. Indians: The Tribe swept the Rangers over the weekend, and it will up to Corey Kluber to keep the winning streak alive. Kluber has allow two earned runs in 26 2/3 innings since the All-Star break, including his first shutout on only 85 pitches (69 strikes) in his last start.


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in SpaceAstronauts Celebrate Holiday Among
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Much like the shepherds and wise men during the first
Christmas, people around the world had their attention turned toward
the heavens on Dec. 24, 1968, when the Apollo
8 crew delivered its famous Christmas
Eve broadcast from lunar orbit.
Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim
Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans
to orbit the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968. They were also the first
astronauts to spend Christmas in space. To mark the occasion, they
sent Christmas greetings and live images back to their home planet
and read from the Book of Genesis. It is estimated that as many
as one billion people watched the historic broadcast or listened
on the radio.
Apollo 8 launched from Earth on Dec. 21 and entered
lunar orbit on Christmas Eve. The Apollo 8 crewmembers ended their
history-making journey when they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean
on Dec. 27. Eight more Apollo missions would visit the Moon, with
six of them landing on its surface.
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4 crew was the next set of astronauts to spend Christmas in
space, in 1973. To give Skylab a touch of the holiday season, Commander
Gerald Carr, Pilot William Pogue and Scientist Edward Gibson made
a Christmas tree with food cans.
It would be 22 years before another American would
spend Christmas outside Earth's atmosphere. Astronaut John Blaha celebrated the holiday in orbit aboard the Russian Mir space station
in 1996. His crewmates were Russian Cosmonauts Valery Korzun and
Alexander Kaleri, who will spend his second Christmas in space this
year as a member of the Expedition
8 crew aboard the International Space Station. Kaleri's Expedition
8 crewmate is Astronaut Michael Foale, who will also spend his second
Christmas in space. In 1999, Foale was a member of STS-103,
the first and only Space Shuttle mission to fly during the holiday.
Foale and his STS-103 crewmates gave NASA and the
world a Christmas present that is still giving to the scientific
community. After three consecutive days of spacewalks to make repairs
and upgrades, they returned the Hubble Space Telescope to service
on Christmas Day. Hubble had been in hibernation since the loss
of its fourth gyroscope, designed to enable the telescope to point
precisely at distant astronomical targets for scientific observations.
Each of the seven STS-103 crewmembers, which included
astronauts from the United States, France and Switzerland, called
down holiday wishes from space in several languages after Space
Shuttle Discovery departed Hubble.
The first Christmas aboard the International Space
Station occurred in 2000 with the Expedition 1 crew. Astronaut Bill
Shepherd and Cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev spent
a quiet Christmas Day opening gifts and talking to their families.
Two more crews have spent Christmas on the ISS, Expedition
4 and 6, in similar ways with a few exceptions. Expedition 4
celebrated with turkey and other traditional holiday foods. And
the Expedition 6 crew
assembled and frosted a cake shaped like a candy cane. Santa delivered
the gifts to the Station with assistance of the Space Shuttle, Soyuz
and Progress spacecraft.
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Stylistic influences abound: blues grit, country lyricism, the soulfulness of gospel, a jam thrown in ... even tinges of Latin and jazz dot their sonic landscape. But the Gunfight doesn't lay claim to being a blues, country or gospel act ... they're really just a rock band. The band's instinctive ability to play seamlessly together is perhaps one of the first things to impress, and betrays the band's experience: Mexican Gunfight's personnel have wandered the U.S. tour routes together for nearly a quarter century, in a half-dozen different outfits, thousands of shows and in hundreds of venues (not to mention a variety of interesting vehicles). Perhaps most notably, their incarnation as The Renegade Saints got regional acclaim and national attention back in the early '90s, but even then they were too rockin' to be a jam band, and definitely too free-form to be grunge. Since that time the members of Mexican Gunfight -- individually and collectively -- have been notable fixtures in the NW music scene; there's a high probability that you have seen at least one of them playing at a bar, club, theater or festival over the last several years. The Gunfight pays homage to acts as diverse as Neil Young, Hothouse Flowers, Willie Nelson, Santana, Glen Campbell and Little Feat while offering just as much stylistic variety in its originals. They borrow songs from their "ancestral" incarnations, including the Saints but also Kerosene Dream, The Strangers, Dixon, Tremor Guild and Nine Days Wonder. (Bassist Dave Coey -- a prolific songster in all of his bands since the '80s -- has recently popped out a few new tunes that the band quickly worked over live a few times and brought into the studio.) The spirit behind Mexican Gunfight's music is - simply put - to consider everything fair game and have a blast rocking it up.
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