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Gunnison Sage Grouse transplants may be coming to San Juan County. Guy Wallace, of the Division of Wildlife Resources, told the County Commission on July 23 that the opportunity to transplant Gunnison Sage Grouse from Colorado has been given to the county.
Wallace said Colorado has a transplant program to supply birds to smaller populations and that San Juan County has been on the priority list for awhile. The county moved up the list because other areas weren't ready or able to take birds at this time.
Wallace said the transplant is part of a proposal by the Nature Conservancy, where additional land will be purchased to improve the grouse habitat. If the proposal is approved, San Juan will receive 45 birds – 15 this fall, 15 in the spring and 15 the fall of 2013.
Wallace reported that they have done three successful transplants in the Dove Creek area. He reports that they are working on predator control as well, specifically coyotes and ravens.
San Juan County Planner Nick Sandburg asked if the transplant would be enough to prevent the birds from being listed as an endangered species. Wallace said if the population is stable, it is less likely to meet the criteria US Fish and Wildlife has for listing a species.
Wallace said the birds could be relisted as a candidate species, but if they can demonstrate a stable population, the likelihood goes down.
Sandburg questioned if 45 birds is enough to stabilize the population. Wallace said that is the number they are focusing on for each of the transplants.
Wallace said, "If we can demonstrate they are a stable population, then that's one of the threats we have eliminated. The other is protection of habitat. We are doing that through this purchase, which will be a significant increase in the amount of habitat that is protected."
He also said that transplanting is part of the objectives for the range-wide and local working groups.
Wallace said there is a 30 percent survival rate for the young in the best of years. A larger population will stabilize the bird population, with more genetic diversity.
Commissioner Phil Lyman said the main objective in Washington, DC is not to save sage grouse, or they would address predator control. Lyman said, "It is just another arrow in the quiver of the environmental groups to control what happens."
Wallace said the transplant must be approved by the Regional Advisory Council and the Wildlife Board. He said the state does not want to see birds listed but wants to keep local management control.
Wallace said the purpose behind the local and the range-wide working groups is to develop a conservation plan and keep the bird from being listed.
USU Extension Agent Jim Keyes said, "Guy [Wallace] has made a great effort to help the land owners and wanting to keep the control of this under the State where it should be and not in Washington somewhere. If they will give us the time to show that all these things are happening, I think it can be a very good thing."
Wallace said there will be opportunity for public comment and an official county statement prior to the transplant.
In other matters, County Clerk Norman Johnson reported that 2012 Tax Valuations will be mailed this week. Johnson said he reviewed many residential bills and all he looked at receive a tax reduction.
Johnson also reported that the Board of Equalization will be held August 13 from 1 to 5 p.m. and August 20 from 3 to 6 p.m.
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At a time when top chefs are making their own whiskey and you can learn how to do it online, a California man learned the hard way that distilling alcohol at home is actually illegal.
James Jonathan Collins was hauled in by Banning police after they discovered a small homemade still in his garage.
It's so rare to arrest someone for making whiskey in California that officers actually had to call state regulators to see if it was really against the law.
"When they actually encountered it they even had to call the state department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to get guidance," said Leonard Purvis, Banning's chief of police.
They learned that you need a federal license to make your own hooch, Purvis said. And Collins, whose still consisted of a re-purposed beer keg sitting on top of two dusty milk crates, didn't have one.
The art of making whiskey is taking its place alongside the creative crafting of beer and wine in the annals of American gastronomic hobbies.
Online articles offer recipes, social media groups share tips on how to make it, and the Discovery channel has a reality TV show about those who make and sell the homemade whiskey known as moonshine.
But although state and federal laws in recent years have been changed to allow people to make beer and wine at home, Prohibition-era rules against making bathtub gin are still on the books.
To get a federal license, would-be distillers have to go through a lengthy application process, which includes proving that the whiskey will not be made at home, and promising to pay taxes on any that it sold.
It is perfectly legal to distill corn-based alcohol to make the fuel ethanol without a license. But not the stuff you drink.
Even so, cases like Collins are extremely rare, experts said.
Unlike Prohibition days, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms doesn't even handle hooch-related cases any more, spokesman Chris Hoffman said. The Treasury Department hands out the licenses, but mostly in order to collect tax on any whiskey that is sold.
At the state level, the department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is more concerned with rooting out liquor stores selling to minors and other community issues than looking for backyard distillers, said spokesman John Carr.
"We regulate locations that serve or sell alcohol," Carr said. "We don't regulate what happens in the home."
Even the Riverside District Attorney's office isn't sure what to do about the case.
Before deciding whether to charge Collins, pictured left, for operating the still, D.A. Paul E. Zellerbach sent Banning police back out to do more investigating.
Purvis, the Banning police chief, said home stills are dangerous, because the alcohol is very flammable.
It also can be poisonous, particularly if makers put in additives to boost the alcohol content.
His officers had come to Collins' house to arrest him on a bench warrant, after the 47-year-old failed to show up for a hearing on a DUI case, Purvis said.
They smelled the still, and initially thought it might be a meth lab, he said.
"There is a danger factor to it and that's what our main concern was," Purvis said. "It's highly flammable and not only is it dangerous to the occupants of the house but it could also be dangerous to neighbors."


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Living in Oakland as we do, I also like that my kids are growing up in a seriously diverse world, going to school with kids of all races and socioeconomic situations, which seems to be baking in empathy to people who are different from them.
And of course, music lover that I am, I'm also grateful for the plethora of live music opportunities and venues that we have here in the Bay. My kids have been to shows at the Warfield and Slim's in San Francisco, the Greek in Berkeley, the Paramount and the Fox in Oakland, and I look forward to taking them with me to even more of the theaters, auditoriums, and clubs that make the Bay Area such a mecca for great live music performances.


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We invite and encourage individuals and institutions to contribute to our endeavor by sharing with us their experience in providing IP services to SMEs and contributing to make the IP system more user-friendly and accessible to the business community at large. Information may be sent to the SMEs Section by e-mail, fax or mail (see Contact us for our contact details).
- Austria Wirtschaftsservice (Austria)
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- Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Cuban Industrial Property Office (Cuba)
- Danish Invention Centre (Denmark)
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- Engineering Institute National Autonomous University of Mexico
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- Italian Chambers of Commerce (Italy)
- Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Singapore)
- Japan Patent Office (Japan)
- Korean Intellectual Property Office (Republic of Korea)
- Mexican Industrial Property Institute - An Interview with the Director of the Western Regional Office (Mexico)
- National Board of Patents and Registration in Finland: SME Project (Finland)
- National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property (Peru)
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- Benchmarking National and Regional Support Services for SMEs in the Field of Intellectual and Industrial Property: Final Benchmarking Report; 2007 [PDF].
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WIPO/IP/RIO/02/3 "Support for SMEs in Using the Intellectual Property System" [PDF]
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Dodgers players help community to end caravan
Friday's four stops devoted to pillars of 'live, learn, play and serve'
LOS ANGELES -- Yasiel Puig, Carl Crawford, Kenley Jansen and Brian Wilson were among the Dodgers participating in the club's 11th annual "Pitching in the Community" Service Caravan on Friday.
Nineteen members of the 40-man roster made the day's events: Mike Baxter, Nick Buss, Drew Butera, Crawford, Tim Federowicz, Stephen Fife and wife Alyssa, Dee Gordon, Javy Guerra, Alexander Guerrero, Jansen, Matt Magill and wife Melissa, Jarret Martin, Puig, Paco Rodriguez, Seth Rosin, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Justin Sellers, Scott Van Slyke and Wilson. Also on the caravan were broadcaster Charley Steiner and assistant hitting coach John Valentin.
The four stops with the players Friday followed four days of community outreach featuring Dodgers alumni. The weeklong initiative concludes Saturday with the annual FanFest in the Dodger Stadium parking lot.
"Last year, our mission was to restore the brand," said Renata Simril, brought in by new ownership as senior vice president of external affairs. "This year, we're expanding the brand. Helping the community is what the Dodgers are all about."
Simril said the theme of the week has been "live, learn, play and serve." From Monday through Thursday, the caravan dedicated one full day to each of those "pillars," with one stop for each Friday.
The morning began at Kidspace Children's Museum in the shadow of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. On what would have been the 95th birthday of Jackie Robinson, the Dodgers hosted 42 students from nearby Washington Middle School, which Robinson attended. Players led a physics workshop and participated in experiments at the museum.
On Jackie Robinson's birthday, the 1st stop on the Caravan is Kidspace w/ 42 kids from Washington MS, his alma mater pic.twitter.com/tQ1TFvyRCH- Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) January 31, 2014
Next on the caravan itinerary was Homeboy Industries, which provides training and support to high-risk men and women formerly involved in gangs and operates seven social enterprises that serve as job-training schools. Players worked in the retail store, the bakery and cafe and assisted in maintenance.
Alexander Guerrero helping out with janitorial duties at @HomeboyInd https://t.co/BYQGktKbIL- Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) January 31, 2014
After lunch, the caravan moved to Weingart East L.A. YMCA, which is committed to nurturing the potential of every child and teen and improving the community's health and wellness. Activities included a Q&A session, fitness and stretching, and arts and crafts.
Finally, the bus rolled into Jesse Owens Park in Los Angeles to dedicate the 32nd and 33rd Dodgers Dreamfields, along with the county of Los Angeles, LA84 Foundation and Hollywood Indies Little League.
Final stop of the #Dodgers Caravan -- the dedication of a Dodgers Dreamfield at Jesse Owens Park: pic.twitter.com/XDqbuNsIky- Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) February 1, 2014
Among those taking part in the dedication were Nichol Whiteman, executive director of the Dodgers Foundation; the office of county supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas; county Department of Parks and Recreation director Russ Guiney; and Patrick Escobar, vice president of grants and programs for LA84 Foundation. The dedication was followed by a hitting and pitching clinic by the players with the Little Leaguers.


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CHICAGO -- General manager Jed Hoyer said Tuesday that reliever Kyuji Fujikawa did deal with some right arm discomfort toward the end of Spring Training, but the Cubs felt he was "ready to go" to start the year.
Fujikawa was placed on the 15-day disabled list on Saturday with a muscle strain in his right forearm. He has started his Cubs career 1-0 with two saves despite a 12.46 ERA (six earned runs in 4 1/3 innings) through five appearances out of the bullpen.
"Long-term, no, it's not a concern," Hoyer said. "He's been feeling good the last couple days. We'll get him some rest and kind of let him get away from it a little bit. He dealt with this at the end of Spring Training, and didn't throw a lot at the end of spring, and we felt that would get him right. This possibly should've been done at the end of spring going into the season, but we thought he was ready to go."
Fujikawa was named the closer after Carlos Marmol struggled early this year, but lately the Cubs have had to fare with a mix of relievers late in games. Hoyer said the team wants Fujikawa, who was signed to a two-year deal this winter after spending the last 12 seasons as a closer in Japan, to take some time recovering.
"It was really pretty obvious to everyone -- his command wasn't there, and this is a guy and that's really his strong suit," Hoyer said. "Watching him early in Spring Training, he had command of his fastball, and when he started losing that, you started wondering what a guy was covering up and what a guy's doing because of an injury, and his elbow was definitely barking."


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2013 is coming to an end and we sincerely hope that your year was as great as ours… so, New Years Eve is the time to say goodbye to this year and say hello to next year. It's also the perfect time to set resolutions for the whole upcoming year: what do you want to achieve, buy or conquer?
We at Styling Up hope to continue to provide you some help regarding fashion, outfits and tips on what to wear for several occasions. Our ambition is to improve our service to you.
Now that we set our goals for the upcoming year (hope you had a thought as well…), it's time to ask you if you already know what you'll be wearing on New Year's Eve. Aside from the blue underwear piece, of course J. If you are still struggling with ideas on outfits for such a special occasion, here are a few ideas from our stylists that will surely help you get a bit of inspiration.
We'd also like to remind you that, if you're a fan of dresses, a shiny glitter sequin dress is the perfect way to go and is the on trend choice for this occasion… if you're not a fan of dresses, we still have a few ideas for you based on trousers.
The Styling Up team wishes you a great New Years Eve and a great 2014!!
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"It's not how I think of myself and I think it's probably the healthier approach," the actress tells PEOPLE
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Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw is considered a fashion icon to many women, but the woman who played her says she doesn't identify.
"It's not an identity that I … connect to. I'm grateful if anyone says anything kind, and if they say something less kind, I take that as a part of anyone talking about you at all," Sarah Jessica Parker told PEOPLE on Wednesday night at the Barneys New York and Walt Disney Company 'Electric Holiday' launch. "It's not how I think of myself and I think it's probably the healthier approach."
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A couple of months ago I read Mike Hager's article in the Globe and Mail about Dr. Reggler's tribulations at St. Joseph's Hospital in Comox, BC, and I was overcome by a realization that, despite having been a practicing Family Physician for 7 years, I had culpably little understanding of the prejudicial impact of faith-based hospitals in determining patient access to care.
The article detailed the refusal of the "Catholic hospital" in Comox to provide medical aid in dying to its patients despite having a staff physician willing and able to do so, thereby forcing them to be transferred elsewhere. That such a policy could exist stunned me. It is the work of "the bishop [a.k.a. the Diocese of Victoria] and the hospital board," with the board's CEO maintaining that "minimizing patient discomfort and pain is always the highest priority," which seems to me to fly in the face of logic.
It is not, however, an isolated example. Canada contains many hospitals whose delivery of healthcare to its patients is directed by Church doctrine. ...continue reading


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AMHERST, Mass. – Two environmental health scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, both experts in endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC), have joined an international scientific outcry this week over a recent editorial in which prominent toxicology journal editors attempt to influence European Union (EU) policy on EDC regulation using what their critics say is "inaccurate and factually incorrect" information.
In a commentary published simultaneously today in Endocrinology and five other journals, researchers Laura Vandenberg and Thomas Zoeller of UMass Amherst join dozens of their colleagues around the world to express concerns about an editorial titled, "Scientifically unfounded precaution drives European Commission's recommendations on EDC regulation, while defying common sense, well-established science and risk assessment principles." It appears in an early online edition of Food and Chemical Toxicology.
In "Policy Decisions on Endocrine Disruptors Should be Based on Science Across Disciplines: A Response to Dietrich et al.," Vandenberg and the other critics discuss in detail what they call the factual shortcomings of the editorial by Daniel Dietrich, editor of Chemico Biological Interactions, and 17 other editors. They say that the Dietrich editorial "argues for the status quo in the regulation of EDCs, despite the large volume of evidence indicating that current regulations are ineffective in protecting human populations from these chemicals."
They conclude, "Policymakers in Europe and elsewhere should base their decisions upon science, not assumptions based upon principles that arose out of research on chemicals that are not EDCs."
Vandenberg adds, "Those that make policy decisions have a tough enough job understanding the science of endocrine disruption. When these decision makers are presented with information at odds with the scientific data, it does public health a disservice."
The critics say the "most worrying aspect" of the editorial "is the blurring of the border between what constitutes science and what belongs to the realm of political, societal and democratic choices."
Vandenberg and colleagues point out that more than 10 years ago, experts concluded that "the state of the science justified regulatory action" for endocrine disrupters. Yet Dietrich and his fellow editors "do not engage with the scientific basis for concern," and object to the EU following its own clear law, which includes the Precautionary Principle, to guide decision makers in managing this risk.
Further, the critics say Dietrich and the editors "seem to be unaware" that in addition to playing a role in physiological responses, "endocrine systems also have a programming role during development and that disruption of these programming events leads to irreversible effects that go far beyond disturbances of homeostasis."
Where the editorial writers assert that the current EU framework is based on what they consider a faulty assumption of 'no threshold' for endocrine disruptor effects, Vandenberg and the other critics point out that from a scientific standpoint this is still being debated. They write that the editors are ignoring evidence that the presence of a threshold is "far from established."
Vandenberg and Zoeller were also authors on a commentary titled "Science and policy on endocrine disrupters must not be mixed: A reply to a 'common sense' intervention by toxicology journal editors," published in Environmental Health in August. In that paper they say, "We call for a better founded scientific debate which may help to overcome a polarization of views detrimental to reaching a consensus about scientific foundations for endocrine disrupter regulation in the European Union."


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The small close-knit community of Maryvale is typical of the type of town you'll find in South East Queensland - friendly, peaceful, and surrounded by stunning natural beauty. The area's lovely aspect and crisp mountain air has seen a number of health resorts and farm stays open up. These resorts offer guests fine dining, award-winning local wines, pools, spas, horse riding, bushwalking, and the cosy ambience of an open log fire.
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text: Male -The Maldives is one of the world's most exclusive holiday destinations but it has quietly opened up to backpackers in the last five years with a reform that has upset religious hardliners.Most visitors arrive at the country's airport island, take a speed boat or seaplane to their expensive coral-fringed private resort and spend the next week relaxing in blissful ignorance of the country around them.It has been this way for decades, the result of a deliberate policy of keeping the wealthy holidaymakers - mostly Westerners and often newly-weds - on uninhabited islands separate from the local Muslim population.The Islamic Republic applies different laws for both: travellers are free to drink alcohol, eat pork, and for those not on their honeymoon, enjoy pre-marital sex. Elsewhere, Maldivian women can be flogged in public for fornication."Since Maldives is a Muslim country, we have always supported the idea that the tourism industry should be separate from the inhabited islands," says Mauroof Hussain, vice president of the conservative Adhaalath Party."If the hippy-type of travellers come, along will come drugs and narcotics which even now our society is suffering from," says Hussain, whose party has been a minority partner in successive governments since 2008.While the archipelago is still far from the hippy trail, the sight of backpackers wandering around Male and the nearby island of Maafushi is growing thanks to a new policy to attract budget travellers."Things like nudity are not acceptable in a place where people are living," adds Mauroof. "The people complain that they are praying in the mosque and just outside there are tourists in bikinis."'Very welcoming people'Since a reform under the country's first democratically-elected president Mohamed Nasheed in 2009, Maldivians have been allowed to open their own guesthouses on populated islands.While fundamentalist interpretations of Islam imported from the Gulf and Pakistan are progressively taking root in the Maldives, Mauroof's views lie far outside the mainstream and are ridiculed by many.What started as a trickle of guesthouses has become a torrent with entrepreneurs like 25-year-old Ibrahim Mohamed converting properties and profiting from what is the islands' biggest business and foreign exchange earner."Maldivians are very welcoming people. It wasn't Maldivians that wanted separation, it was the government and a few businessmen saying that they should be isolated," Mohamed told AFP. "The Maldives can't hide from the world anymore."His three-roomed Sundhara Palace located on a busy street of the cramped capital Male opened at the beginning of September, offering basic en-suite accommodation for $30 (R296 at R9.90/dollar) a night.The cheapest resorts are usually about 10 times this, with prices stretching up to several thousand dollars a night - with expensively priced food and drink on top.Mohamed stresses that the guesthouse policy is also "a good system to get money to the people instead of to wealthy businessmen".A handful of well-connected resort owners who prospered under the 30-year autocratic rule of strongman Maumoon Abdul Gayoom continue to control the Maldives economy and are active in politics.These oligarchs have united against Nasheed, who was ousted in February 2012 following a mutiny by security forces which he branded a "coup."His efforts to return to power through the ballot box have since been thwarted with the country wracked by protests and uncertainty after the Supreme Court annulled elections he won on September 7.The court order came in response to a legal challenge from the third-placed candidate Gasim Ibrahim, one of the country's wealthiest tycoons who is in alliance with the Adhaalath Party.A re-run of the polls has been ordered for October 19, with the British government warning travellers to avoid demonstrations and take precautions in the capital.If re-elected, Nasheed has promised in to expand the guesthouse policy as part of his ambitious social and economic reform programme."The industry is flourishing very rapidly. We feel there is so much more scope for that," he told reporters days before voting in the first round of the election in September.One of the people to take advantage of the changes is Dutch tourist Chris Constandse, a 27-year-old web designer who works for a travel website in Amsterdam.He booked a few nights at a hotel in the capital, but plans to spend the rest of his two-week holiday staying in guesthouses dotted around the country of more than 1,000 islands."Backpackers go to India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and I was like 'I always do things different', so I thought I'd go backpacking in the Maldives," he told AFP shortly before leaving on a ferry for one of the nearby islands."The most important thing is that you get in touch with the people. I've stayed in Male for three nights and I've already met some people and made some friends."


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Motorola Mobility filed a new lawsuit against Apple accusing the iPhone maker of infringing on its technology patents -- but to go ahead with the case it first needed to get permission from its soon-to-be parent company Google.
Reuters reported the latest case filed in Federal court Wednesday, which made several analysts familiar with the pending Google-Motorola Mobility acquisition believe that Google had to approve the lawsuit. "Section 5.01(j) of the Google-Motorola merger agreement does not allow MMI to 'assert any Intellectual Property Right in any new Action' without Google's consent (either under the agreement or in a separate document, which is what presumably happened in this case)," according to FOSS Patents.
Google agreed to buy Motorola for $12.5 billion in August, likely to gain its portfolio of patents to battle Apple. The acquisition still hasn't been completed.


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Back in June I wrote:
It used to be that the role of the state in financial market regulation was to ensure efficient market operations, promote transparency of prices and liquidity, protect consumers from abusive practices, and to resolve failed companies according to principles of equitable distribution of assets among like classes of creditors. If the role of the state now is to shield HFT, dark pool and OTC markets from transparency, provide liquidity where the market fails, oversee the orderly fleecing of consumers, and to ensure that some creditors of failing firms always win while others always lose, then we no longer have a market economy. And as virtually all these regulatory policies have evolved in the absence of public debate and legislative scrutiny, we also no longer have democratic governance of markets.
The deficit that worries me most in terms of the future of our civilisation is the legal accountability deficit - or anomie as I use it here. This deficit is huge and still growing rapidly as decisions are taken behind closed doors to shield lawless bankers from taxes or criminal sanctions and dedicate more and more public funds and/or monetary expansion to the same lawless bankers with too little public accounting, scrutiny or recourse.
This morning a commentary by Robert Fisk crystalised this concern as a political crisis in the offing: Bankers are the dictators of the West.
Let's kick off with the "Arab Spring" – in itself a grotesque verbal distortion of the great Arab/Muslim awakening which is shaking the Middle East – and the trashy parallels with the social protests in Western capitals. We've been deluged with reports of how the poor or the disadvantaged in the West have "taken a leaf" out of the "Arab spring" book, how demonstrators in America, Canada, Britain, Spain and Greece have been "inspired" by the huge demonstrations that brought down the regimes in Egypt, Tunisia and – up to a point – Libya. But this is nonsense.
The real comparison, needless to say, has been dodged by Western reporters, so keen to extol the anti-dictator rebellions of the Arabs, so anxious to ignore protests against "democratic" Western governments, so desperate to disparage these demonstrations, to suggest that they are merely picking up on the latest fad in the Arab world. The truth is somewhat different. What drove the Arabs in their tens of thousands and then their millions on to the streets of Middle East capitals was a demand for dignity and a refusal to accept that the local family-ruled dictators actually owned their countries. The Mubaraks and the Ben Alis and the Gaddafis and the kings and emirs of the Gulf (and Jordan) and the Assads all believed that they had property rights to their entire nations. Egypt belonged to Mubarak Inc, Tunisia to Ben Ali Inc (and the Traboulsi family), Libya to Gaddafi Inc. And so on. The Arab martyrs against dictatorship died to prove that their countries belonged to their own people.
And that is the true parallel in the West. The protest movements are indeed against Big Business – a perfectly justified cause – and against "governments". What they have really divined, however, albeit a bit late in the day, is that they have for decades bought into a fraudulent democracy: they dutifully vote for political parties – which then hand their democratic mandate and people's power to the banks and the derivative traders and the rating agencies, all three backed up by the slovenly and dishonest coterie of "experts" from America's top universities and "think tanks", who maintain the fiction that this is a crisis of globalisation rather than a massive financial con trick foisted on the voters.
The banks and the rating agencies have become the dictators of the West.
The banks as dictators makes sense to me. In thinking about my dissatisfaction with financial regulation for much of the past decade, I see that a great deal of it is attributable to who the regulators see as their polity. Their idea of consultation on regulations is to ask the bankers, traders and rating agencies whether they approve. The idea of making public policy in the public interest if the bankers disapprove is unimaginable to them. And so the banks get the regulations they prefer - or at least did so until the crisis.
And my queasiness about David Cameron's behaviour in Brussels on Friday stems from the same concern. He threw his toys out of the pram and turned his back on the EU because they wouldn't guarantee to preserve the City from further taxation, regulation and scrutiny. It's very clear that the polity he was serving was not the United Kingdom's 62,300,000 people - but the one per cent that make their living in the City of London.
Immediately after reading the Fisk piece, I read the moving statement of Patrick Meighan, My Occupy LA Arrest.
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I'm a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom "Family Guy", and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh's "Being Peace" when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted "We Are Peaceful" and "We Are Nonviolent" and "Join Us."
As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives to slice open every personal tent in the park. They forcibly removed anyone sleeping inside, and then yanked out and destroyed any personal property inside those tents, scattering the contents across the park. They then did the same with the communal property of the Occupy LA movement. For example, I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA's First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally contributed that exact canopy tent to Occupy LA, at a cost of several hundred of my family's dollars. As I watched, the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as "30 tons of garbage" that was "abandoned" by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to dispose of while we were sent to prison.
When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor's legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor's left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor's right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor.
It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist.
My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm.
I was put on a paddywagon with other nonviolent protestors and taken to a parking garage in Parker Center. They forced us to kneel (and sit--SEE UPDATE) on the hard pavement of that parking garage for seven straight hours with our hands still tightly zipcuffed behind our backs. Some began to pass out. One man rolled to the ground and vomited for a long, long time before falling unconscious. The LAPD officers watched and did nothing.
This account turned my stomach, as it demonstrates all too clearly that the sympathies of the state are with lawbreaking bankers and not the victimised masses bailing them out.
So that's what happened to the 292 women and men were arrested last Wednesday. Now let's talk about a man who was not arrested last Wednesday. He is former Citigroup CEO Charles Prince. Under Charles Prince, Citigroup was guilty of massive, coordinated securities fraud.
Citigroup spent years intentionally buying up every bad mortgage loan it could find, creating bad securities out of those bad loans and then selling shares in those bad securities to duped investors. And then they sometimes secretly bet *against* their *own* bad securities to make even more money. For one such bad Citigroup security, Citigroup executives were internally calling it, quote, "a collection of dogshit". To investors, however, they called it, quote, "an attractive investment rigorously selected by an independent investment adviser".
This is fraud, and it's a felony, and the Charles Princes of the world spent several years doing it again and again: knowingly writing bad mortgages, and then packaging them into fraudulent securities which they then sold to suckers and then repeating the process. This is a big part of why your property values went up so fast. But then the bubble burst, and that's why our economy is now shattered for a generation, and it's also why your home is now underwater. Or at least mine is.
Anyway, if your retirement fund lost a decade's-worth of gains overnight, this is why.
If your son's middle school has added furlough days because the school district can't afford to keep its doors open for a full school year, this is why.
If your daughter has come out of college with a degree only to discover that there are no jobs for her, this is why.
But back to Charles Prince. For his four years of in charge of massive, repeated fraud at Citigroup, he received fifty-three million dollars in salary and also received another ninety-four million dollars in stock holdings. What Charles Prince has *not* received is a pair of zipcuffs. The nerves in his thumb are fine. No cop has thrown Charles Prince into the pavement, face-first. Each and every peaceful, nonviolent Occupy LA protester arrested last week has has spent more time sleeping on a jail floor than every single Charles Prince on Wall Street, combined.
A deflationary collapse will lead to political instability. It always does, because deflation destroys the value of paper assets which are mostly held by the most wealthy - the 1 per cent. And when deflation destroys their assets, it destroys their power and creates a vacuum. We need to be very clear in such a case that the enemy of the people is not the state, because if the state uses its police powers to protect the guilty and punish the innocent, then popular resistance and revolt become all too probable.
In Europe, the politicians know this. Even the police know this. No matter what I think of any British government, the conduct of the LA Police would be inconceivable here. The police killing just one career criminal this summer sparked nationwide riots. Brutalising non-violent protestors would have all of us on the streets.
There are values which are independent of financial assets. Those of us concerned to retain those values as a legacy for our children need to be vigilant as the bankers are only concerned with the values they can cash short term.
Thomas Jefferson wrote, "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Fisk and Meighan remind us that the people are sovereign. The protests are because our sovereignty is undermined when it is disrespected by bankers buying lawlessness or by the police or financial regulators using state powers against the public interest. We have a right as a free people to self-governance under the rule of law. We as a free people have a right to regulate financial services to ensure that it serves a socially constructive function in the economy. Applying the rule of law to bankers reinforces the principles of justice essential to capitalism and the preservation of private property. The banks are not sovereign, and do not have a right to laws, regulators and police that protect them and them alone. There's some work to do here, of course, but having the issue crystallised helps a lot.


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Well guys, I'm sorry I didn't upload anything for y'all yesterday, but I was real busy with some other stuff that I had to get done. To start the tutorial day I will be showing you "how to draw Tony Stark", AKA Iron Man, or just simply Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man has become one of my favorite films and I think it's mainly because it's so darn entertaining as well as action packed. I don't normally like action movies unless they have some sort of humor, good plot, or anything else weird. Anyways, I figured that since I uploaded lessons on everyone else in a comic/cartoon style from the Avengers, I couldn't leave good old Tony boy out. Besides, I know there is a lot of Iron Man fans out there that just love Tony Stark. I mean, how could you not love this guy, he's freakin awesome. The only issue I have with this drawing of Mr. Stark is his hair. To me I think I could have done better, but if I kept messing with the drawing I probably would have messed up that smirk on his face and I definitely don't want to do that. Well folks, that's all I have to say for now. I will be back later with some more cool lessons for you all. Adios people and like always enjoy!
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Hey Jerry what's the story?!
All those innings with scoreless relief...k-rod ready in the bullpen...and genius brings in Ollie with the game on the line!
Does Jerry have to come back to New York with the team?
We need fire! We Need Wally or Bobby V!
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- Justin BJuly 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Listen, not that I am an Ollie fan, but he did pitch out of the jam he was put into the inning before. It's not like he came in and immediately gave up the game.ReplyDelete
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After a game in Los Angeles, New York Mets outfielder Vince Coleman tosses an M-100 firecracker at a crowd of baseball fans in Dodger Stadium's parking lot. The firework injures three children waiting for autographs, including two-year-old Amanda Santos. Coleman spends 200 hours performing community service and the rest of the year not playing professional baseball.
TODAYS GAME WAS PAYBACK, SOnNNnNnNNnNNNnnnn
I know he pitched out of trouble, but Jerry should have brought in K-Rod in for the 13th. if you get a good inning out of Ollie why push it?ReplyDelete
He has t build confidence in him if he's ever going to be useful again. Leaving him in until he fails is not the answer.
That's just my opinion.
better put castillo back in the box.ReplyDelete
Hahahaha nice Joe!ReplyDelete
Ollie coming in with the winning run on 3rd in extra innings on the road does make one scratch their head as to what was Jerry thinking?
I would like to see how many people believed the game was over at that point and were more shocked when Ollie got out of the inning?
Fantastic blog Joe. Just saw Nick and Anne, neighbors of your Dad's who reminded me of this blog. Nick's a huge Yankee fan, so I don't know how he saw your spot on SNY. I found your blog independently some time ago and love it. It's in my favorites.ReplyDelete
You read today's article in one of those NY rags, Post or TDN, saying Torre would be a good fit?ReplyDelete
I guess that's conceding that Jerry can ride the wave for the rest of this season.
I dunno. I like Jerry but he's putting too much faith in his faith.I don't even know what that means but sadly it makes some kind of sense to me.
The pitching has certainly been there, overall.
Jerry can't do squat if the team don't hit and score runs...
Right click> Ho-Jo> Box (but with holes for his head and arms so he can still attempt to do his coaching job, while he's still has it)
Ho-Jo's a good go with the flow kinda coach.
I don't think he is a motivator, and that's what they need now.


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Prost Beer (Indonesian Beer)
It is priced at IDR 16,100 in Hypermart, which is a little bit higher than the usual Heineken or Carlsberg beer in the country.
It is a typical lager beer which is smooth and easy to drink. Nothing out of the ordinary. I would have been expecting more due to its price tag which is slightly dearer compare to other international beers. Anyway, this beer is worth a try for those avid beer drinkers.


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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Japanese manufacturer Sharp is in serious talks with a number of US companies to try and save its finances. It plans to offer up stakes in the business in return for a "stable supply of breakthrough display technology".
The Journal reports that Dell, in particular, has been a focus of Sharp's advances, along with Intel and Qualcomm. In return for a hefty investment—somewhere in the region of £150 million—Sharp is promising these companies an inside track on future technologies. Presumably that means the latest version of its indium gallium zinc oxide—IGZO—displays.
Sharp's clamoring for investment is an attempt to turn its balance sheet around. According to the Journal, Sharp is expecting a second straight year of record losses—so at this point it will take pretty desperate measures to stop itself hemorrhaging cash. [Wall Street journal]
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Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul will unleash his take on the education system that focuses on "the biblical principle of self -government and personal responsibility," this fall.
Paul's educational institution, the Ron Paul Curriculum, was announced over the weekend as a two-tiered educational approach to homeschooling. The first is a free K-5 course system, supplemented by educational online videos and reading materials. The 6-12 program has a tuition of $250 per year plus $50 per course (the site does promise a 100 percent money-back guarantee). This second level is strictly self-taught and self-paced using online videos, reading assignments, and weekly essays.
Paul's "rigorous" curriculum focuses on the history of liberty of Western civilization, Austrian economics, Christian principles, and the defense of the free market system, says Gary North, Paul's director of curriculum development, in a video on the website. The curriculum also prioritizes use of primary sources, instead of textbooks that "dumb down the material."
Paul has been a vocal opponent of big government and during several of his past presidential bids, he's strongly advocated for the demolition of the Department of Education.
"If you care about your child, you'll get the federal government out of the business of educating your kids," Paul said during a FOX GOP debate in 2011. He placed the blame for what he considers the failure of reform programs like No Child Left Behind on the federal government and that citizens should be able to opt out of the public system.
Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, says he's skeptical of the program, which seems to lack human interaction, something he says is an important part in successful learning.
[The program] assumes teachers make no difference at all," Boser said. "I think when you look at homeschooling that works — it's had ups and downs — it works when it's a real educational process. That, more often then not, involves human begins in various steps of the process."
Boser says though some students will do well in the program, a independent study lacks an individualized method and incentive to push someone to learn harder concepts.
Though an increasing number of parents are choosing to homeschool their children. The number of homeschooled children rose from 850,000 in 1999 to 1.5 million in 2007, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
The curriculum's website boasts the program isn't accredited because Paul and his developers say the standards of a good education shouldn't be set by the federal government.
"The moment that somebody accepts the idea of accreditation, he has accepted the legitimacy of the power of the state to determine the truth. He has also accepted the legitimacy of the state to determine the correct methodology of teaching," North states on the site.
Paul's son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, received criticism in 2010 for using a similar principle after reports surfaced he'd established his own ophthalmology certification group and hadn't been certified by more reputable medical organizations.
This fall, Paul will also launch his book "New School Manifesto" on the "broken" American education system.


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Based on the current rumors du jour, Apple is expected to announce the next iPhone, along with a smaller version of the iPad, on Sept. 12. This same rumor has the devices going on sale nine days later, on Sept. 21. Whenever the new iPhone materializes, you can expect millions to buy them, some even lining up overnight for the privilege.
This time, though, I may not be among the multitudes.
Although I've been an iPhone user since the 3G, and I'm now carrying a two-year-old iPhone 4, I'm not sure I'm going to make the leap to the next model. I'm seriously considering a platform switch to Android.
This isn't set in stone. I want to see what Apple has to offer this time around, and I could end up packing what's presumptively called the iPhone 5. But after looking at the current crop of Android-based devices – particularly the HTC One series and the Samsung Galaxy S III – Apple's got a lot of work to do to win me over.
To be clear, my issue is not with Apple itself, or with the controlled iOS ecosystem. I actually like the curated nature of the App Store and Apple's fanatical attention to detail. However, at this point I'm also looking at trajectory – where Apple's hardware and design trends are headed compared to those of Google's Android and its hardware partners.
The Galaxy S III and the HTC One are remarkable smartphones. Both have big, gorgeous screens that rival the iPhone's current retina displays. Both are remarkably fast. They feature technology that isn't in the current crop of iPhones, such as 4G LTE connectivity and Near Field Communications capabilities — though both are expected in the iPhone 5.
Apple's design trajectory has it taking incremental steps. The original iPhone was a dramatic leap for smartphones, and the iPhone 4 was another big step. But while Apple tweaks its smartphones between two-year design-change cycles, Android devices advance in big ways each year. While few people buy a smartphone every year, this pace ultimately leads to more innovation.
As a result, Apple's going to be playing serious catch-up with the hardware of the iPhone 5. It's possible the next device will leapfrog Android devices, but in six months, a new Android phone will likely eclipse it. Apple's annual refresh cycle is starting to put it at a disadvantage, at least for those users who want state-of-the-art hardware.
At the moment, I think Apple still has an edge in terms of software. iOS remains a more intuitive and consistent operating system, and the design quality of its apps are generally superior. But the latest version of Android is much improved, as are the shells companies like HTC and Samsung lay on top of the interface. As I've written before, I've come to really appreciate HTC's Sense and, to a lesser extent, Samsung's TouchWiz (please, Samsung, come up with less embarrassing name, OK?). For the average user, they do indeed make Android better.
And Apple's primary innovation in its current software – Siri, its voice-based personal assistant – increasingly strikes me as a gimmick. It simply doesn't work that well. That said, the equivalent on Samsung's Galaxy S III is worse, and Android's built-in voice actions are marginally better. Siri is going to have be a markedly better feature in the iPhone 5 to win me over.
What I really like about Android, though, is that it generally is more convenient to use. Prime evidence: The ability to install home screen widgets that allow you to turn features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS on and off quickly. Every time I have to dive three menus deep to turn off Bluetooth on my iPhone, I get more annoyed.
What could keep me from defecting? Aside from Apple producing an incredibly kick-butt iPhone 5, there are several issues.
The first is that I'm heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem. Everyone in my family has an iPhone, and almost all of us use Macs. The latest update to OS X has ties into iOS, most notably in its Notification Center and Messages. I like that type of integration and I'm hesitant to give it up.
I like the fact that I don't have to worry about malware on iPhones, thanks to Apple's heavy-handed curation of the iTunes App Store. Malware on Android is a growing problem, and that's a serious concern for me.
Finally, I've got a lot invested in iPhone apps. I haven't totaled up how much I've spent, but I suspect over time it's been well over $150 for the apps I use regularly – maybe more. While many apps can be matched between iOS and Android, developers generally don't give you credit on one platform when you've paid for apps on another.
When the next iPhone is announced, I'll weigh all these factors and come to a decision. Meanwhile, I'd love to hear from iPhone users who made the leap to Android, as well as Android users who've switched to iOS. What's your experience been like? And how have you dealt with the issues that make me hesitate to switch?
Update: One other aspect that could prevent me from making the leap is the way Android devices are updated. Or, more specifically, the way they often are not.
Too often, Android devices are slow to get updates of the operating system as handset makers and telcos adapt the latest version for existing smartphones. In many cases, those updates may never come.
That's not the case with iOS. Apple provides major updates at least once a year, and usually there another update between those that provides a few new features. Eventually, older phones get left behind, but Apple keeps them in the fold for a long time. Just ask anyone still using an iPhone 3GS.
If I go with Android, I want to look at how capable it is of handling future Android updates. The Galaxy S III has the hardware to handle Jelly Bean (Android 4.1), and it's now got Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0). If there's a new Nexus smartphone, where Google handles the updates, that would be attractive as well.


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