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Also donating were Fae and Ira Murphy on East Shore Road, Tim Baker and family on Walcott Avenue, Baker's Pharmacy, anonymous, Patty Vandal of Hamilton Avenue, John Sugrue of Intrepid Lane, John and Charlotte Zarlengo, Joe Tamburini and Erica Gregg of Meadow Lane and Norm Berretta, who says, "Buy American!"
Phyllis Bedard at Trattoria also gave, as did Trish at McQuade's, along with Eric Cote and Sally Schott, who both handed me cash in line at McQuade's!
Gregg said,"Ilesh at Island Liquors is now carrying ground display fireworks and sparklers, and says that this week, he will donate proceeds from those sales to the Rocket 'hogs!
"The Jamestown Community Band will play a short concert on the beach, and will also kick off the opening sequence with a special patriotic number!
"Money keeps coming in, but we've still got bills to pay...so keep it coming! P.O. Box 1776, Jamestown, 02835."
Big KABOOM! on Saturday at sunset.
Belated kudos to two early Americans. Stephen Hopkins was born in Providence in 1707. Selfeducated, he became a member and speaker of the R.I. Assembly and in 1754, was a delegate to the Albany convention in New York, where he considered Benjamin Franklin's early plan of Union. Hopkins spoke out against British tyranny long before the revolutionary period. He attended the first Continental Congress in 1774, leaving there in 1778 to return to Rhode Island to serve in its legislature. He died in 1785 at the age of 78.
William Ellery was born in 1727 in Newport and under the tutelage of his prominent father, Benjamin Ellery, attended Harvard College, graduating at age 15. He worked as a merchant, a collector of customs and the clerk of the R.I. General Assembly. He began to practice law in 1770 at the age of 43, and was active with the R.I. Sons of Liberty. He was sent to the Continental Congress in 1776. Meanwhile, he held the office of judge of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and in 1785, became a strong advocate for the abolition of slavery. He was the first (customs) collector of the port of Newport, under the provisions of the Federal Constitution. He was serving in that post at the time of his death in 1820.
These two gentlemen represented Rhode Island and signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
Some tips from Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic on how we can ease our pets' anxieties during the upcoming holiday. "The noise from fireworks is the biggest concern for most pet owners on Independence Day. For pets that are scared of thunder and fireworks, the best thing to do is put them in a quiet part of the house or basement farthest from the noises, turn up the TV or music to mask the sounds, and distract them with good treats or chew toys to keep their attention off of the fireworks. Another tip is to really wear the dogs out on the day of the fireworks by taking them for a long walk or play session so they are tired and more likely to sleep through the noises. For dogs that are really scared, there are anti-anxiety medications that your veterinarian can prescribe to help calm your pet. Finally, be careful with all the outdoor grilling and parties, and keep your pets away from the grill and the grilled foods that might upset their bellies. And, be sure they don't get too overheated in the hot sun."
Thanks, doctor!
Kudos to the Junior Women's Club of Jamestown for the publication of the new, attractive island telephone directories.
If you think the phrase "Safe and Sound Fourth" is relatively new, guess again. The motto was penned by Thomas Lansing Masson, 1866-1934.
Sam Bari says that Peter Pemantell's poser, Then the light begins to shine...is from "My Father's Eyes" by Eric Clapton. Sam says, "Good one, Peter."
A note from Robert Higgins: "A happy day for shores residents – I just watched the red boat hull that has been sitting on the corner of Beacon and Garboard being towed away. The ugly boat hull has been an eyesore for over 12 years – happy days!"
Bob, there are no ugly boats, and, after all, this is an island and that's where boats are.
Kudos to Kettlebottom Outfitters for its participation in the R.I. Saltwater Anglers Association's Take a Kid Fishing Day. Capt Ty Leger and First Mate Grandson Tom took two inner city youngsters fishing on the bay.
Congratulations to islander Dr. Kimberly McDonough on her appointment to the Board of Trustees of Oceanpoint Financial Partners, MHC. She is founder and CEO of Advanced Pharmacy Concepts, Inc.
The 1942 movie, "Yankee Doodle Dandy," brought accolades to actor James Cagney for his exceptional song and dance routines. What is the name and birth date of the person he portrayed?
*** Who was Joe Palooka?
Word on the avenue is that the carrier "John F. Kennedy" will be berthed in the bay within a year.
The July exhibition at the Jamestown Gallery gets underway tomorrow, July 2, from 6 to 8 p.m. Featured guest artists are Diane Harrison, Ben Butler, Daniel Dahlstrom and Debra Lee Valeri. Co-op members participating are Joan Bishop, Cynthia Blair, Fran Gorman, Viv Eisner, Daniel Forster, Karen Imbriale, Eileen Muldoon, Kate Petrie and Pat Tuff.
The Potter League for Animals will conduct its Happy Tails Day Camp this month and next. Space is still available for the allday sessions from July 5 to 9 for grades 2 and 3. Email susanr@ potterleague.org for details.
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Actress Angelina Jolie was forced to take up yoga to prepare for her evil role in Maleficent.
The Salt star did many of her own stunts in the film and had to build strength to perform flying scenes.
Jolie's longtime stunt double Eunice Huthart urged her pal to take yoga sessions to prepare for the demanding Disney movie, but the actress says, "I have no patience for yoga. It's not something I do easily, because I'm not a still person. But I was forced to do yoga because (to fly) you have to have your core strength to be able to hold yourself.
"You're almost like a puppet with all these people moving (beneath you). When you go to the left or the right all of you have to move together. It's a big dance with a lot of people."
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OAKLAND, Calif., January 23, 2013 /3BL Media/ - Fair Trade USA's Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) for apparel today released a report on the recently completed Fair Trade Certified™ apparel pilot program. Launched in 2010 after an extensive feasibility study and stakeholder consultation period, the pilot project was the first global program to certify facilities making clothing and accessories with a consumer label to signal social and environmental sustainability. It is also the first time that a Fair Trade certification attempted to deliver direct economic benefit at two different levels of the supply chain: cotton farmers and cut-and-sew factory workers. The report, co-written by the MSG and Fair Trade USA, reveals that Fair Trade can play a role in promoting ethical and sustainable supply chains in the apparel sector.
During the two year pilot period, four factories out of 55 applicants were certified, with four more in process—a testament to the rigorous Fair Trade standards. A total of 16,000 cotton farmers in India, Egypt and Nicaragua directly benefited from participation in the program, along with 1,300 factory workers in India, Liberia and Costa Rica. This impact was made possible due to participation and purchases made by pioneering brands, including prAna, Maggie's Organics, HAE Now and Good & Fair.
Key findings include:
- Workers in certified factories earned 15 percent above local minimum wage on average, and up to double the minimum wage in one facility.
- Distribution of the Fair Trade premium resulted in tangible change in the local community (e.g. building a school in war-torn Liberia, and distributing cash bonuses equivalent to one week's pay).
- Impact (as measured by Fair Trade premiums) tripled each year of the program, due to availability of certified products through national channels like REI and Zappos.com.
- There is no one-size-fits-all approach to worker representation in cut-and-sew factories, and worker training is needed to ensure that all employees understand their rights, including the right to freedom of association as required by Fair Trade standards.
Several members of the MSG, a working group of 12 diverse representatives from across the apparel supply chain, visited pilot partners in India in 2011 with generous support from Catholic Relief Services' Fair Trade Fund. One NGO participant, Green America, observed a transformation in worker attitude, confidence, and sense of security.
"[Workers] had more pride in their work and felt more respected at this factory than at previous jobs," said Elizabeth O'Connell, Fair Trade Campaigns Director at Green America. "They stressed the importance of being paid on time, and relief that their payments went via direct deposit into their personal bank accounts—something especially important for the women, as their cash wages were often taken by their husbands in the past."
The full report outlines recommendations from the MSG, and includes Fair Trade USA's approach to promoting continuous improvement and economic development, premium management, higher wages, worker representation, and consumer transparency. All recommendations are intended to address the complexity of the apparel supply chain while providing the greatest benefit to farmers and workers. For example, the MSG recommends two distinct certifications, with corresponding labels for Fair Trade Certified Cotton and Fair Trade Certified Sewing. The goal of this is to increase impact for subsistence cotton farmers AND factory workers, and to communicate clearly to consumers. Second, they also identified the need for a more inclusive and flexible approach to the certification of artisan-made apparel and textiles. These and all other recommendations made by the MSG will be adopted in the Fair Trade apparel program moving forward.
The report also addresses key issues and challenges faced during the pilot period. One challenge was an economic climate not conducive to new sourcing commitments that may have a higher price tag for brands, even if they deliver impact to workers. As a result, brands were slow to participate in the pilot and to adopt Fair Trade in a significant way, making it difficult to assess impact on a large scale.
"Consumers want sustainably-sourced apparel," said Heather Franzese who managed the pilot at Fair Trade USA. "A recent Harvard study showed a 14 percent sales lift on clothing labeled 'socially conscious' in Banana Republic outlet stores. People want to know more than 'Made in Bangladesh.' They want to know that the woman at the sewing machine can afford to send her kids to school. The question is which leading brands will be the first to step up and provide that assurance?"
Why Fair Trade Apparel?
Americans today buy more clothing than any other nation in the world: 64 items a year, on average. In an industry infamous for dangerous working conditions, child and slave labor, gender discrimination and workplace abuse, Fair Trade certification offers a road not only to worker safety, empowerment, and community development, but also a potential solution for the apparel industry as it seeks ways to improve lives and protect the environment.
"This innovative work in Fair Trade is an important step toward setting a precedent for sustainably-sourced apparel," said Kelsey Timmerman, author of Where am I Wearing? "The industry knows it needs to move in this direction, and I applaud Fair Trade USA and their partners for working to offer a tangible, impactful solution."
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Fair Trade USA, a nonprofit organization, is the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. Fair Trade USA audits and certifies transactions between U.S. companies and their international suppliers to guarantee that the farmers and workers producing Fair Trade Certified goods were paid fair prices and wages, work in safe conditions, protect the environment, and receive community development funds to empower and improve their communities. Fair Trade USA also educates consumers, brings new manufacturers and retailers into the Fair Trade system, and provides farming communities with tools, training and resources to thrive as international businesspeople. Visit www.fairtradeusa.org for more information.
Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG): The MSG is a diverse group of NGOs, buyers, suppliers, trainers, auditors and cotton producers in the apparel industry that have met quarterly for the last two years to guide the implementation of the US Fair Trade apparel pilot. Members bring specialized knowledge, skills and expertise to tackle the challenges of improving the lives of garment workers and cotton farmers through this pilot. Members have regional expertise that covers Central and South America, Bangladesh, and other parts of Asia.
Members of the MSG:
- ASK India (a Verité affiliate)
- As You Sow / Responsible Sourcing Network
- The Cahn Group, LLC
- Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Fair Trade
- Chetna Organic Agriculture Producers' Company
- Counter Sourcing
- Coverco
- Indigenous Designs
- Liberian Women's Sewing Project
- Maggie's Organics
- Rajlakshmi Cotton Mills Pvt Ltd
- World of Good Development Organization
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A quarter-century ago, an up-and-coming senator from Colorado by the name of Gary Hart began outlining a Western strategy for the Democratic Party. His dream was to offset the national influence of an increasingly Republican South by building Democratic power in the Western states, which he saw as ripe terrain for such an effort. In 1984 Hart tried to bring this strategy to life by running for his party's presidential nomination. After a strong early showing, Hart lost the middle rounds of the caucus and primary season before winning almost all the Western states toward the end of the monthslong process. In the end, however, he couldn't gain quite enough delegates to beat frontrunner Walter Mondale. Mondale, whose core base was the old industrial Midwest, went on to be thoroughly humbled by Reagan in the presidential election that November. Three years later, Hart entered the 1988 campaign as a charismatic frontrunner, only to self-destruct with the now-infamous sex scandal aboard the aptly named boat Monkey Business. Had that campaign not imploded, it's possible that two decades of rightward Southern drift in US politics would have been avoided.
Five presidential election cycles on, and the Western Strategy is back at the fore of Democratic strategic thinking, with talk of several early Western primaries, and Denver making a serious bid to host the 2008 Democratic convention (the Democratic National Committee will decide early this year). This time around there's a better-than-even chance that the West will fundamentally alter the regional balance of power within the party. After all, with the exception of Bill Clinton's triumphs–helped, at least in part, by the third-party presence of Ross Perot–and Jimmy Carter's victorious 1976 campaign, in presidential elections since 1968 Democrats have failed to break away Southern states from the Republican fold, leaving them grasping for a new source of Electoral College votes.
"We want to hit different regions of the country as well as different populations," Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Stacie Paxton explained last summer, before the Democrats scored big in the West in the November elections. "There's already an effort under way, through the '50 state strategy,' to ask for votes in every state. In Western states more people are coming our way, but we need to put in the resources to take it over the top and win in these states. You'll see a lot more interest in Western states: resources, candidates stopping in those states. We're making investments now so we can be successful in '06, in '08 and beyond."
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Just across from Gare du Nord and a 10-minute walk from Gare de l'Est, this Paris hotel's location offers convenient access to the city's rail and bus systems. Sacré Coeur is 1.6 km (1 mi) away.
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In addition to 24-hour room service, New Hôtel Gare du Nord serves a buffet breakfast in its 19th-century vaulted stone cellar. The front desk is open 24 hours. Covered parking is available.
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New Hôtel Gare du Nord's 43 guestrooms are all equipped with flat-panel televisions with satellite and free movie channels, complimentary wireless Internet access, and direct-dial phones. Most include air-conditioning.
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Located in a fully renovated 1850 building, New Hôtel Gare du Nord serves a daily breakfast buffet from 6 AM to 10 AM (surcharge) in its vaulted stone cellar. Room service and the front desk are available 24 hours. In addition to complimentary wireless Internet access in the lobby, the 6-floor property provides a safe deposit box at the front desk and an elevator (lift). Covered parking is available for a surcharge.
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Catholic Relief Services said that its decision to allocate $5.3 million in emergency funding to the humanitarian organization CARE in 2010 under a U.S. government grant did not violate Catholic teaching. In postings on its Web site on July 20 and July 24, the U.S. bishops' international development and relief agency explained that the money it provided to CARE was specifically used for water, sanitation and nutrition programs for poor families in Central America and Africa and could not be transferred to other services provided by CARE.
The C.R.S. statements came in response to an online report that criticized C.R.S.'s decision to work with CARE because that agency provides contraceptives and other family planning services to women. C.R.S. said the report, which made its way to several Web sites, contained "inaccurate and scurrilous accusations."
John-Henry Westen, editor of LifeSiteNews and author of the article, stood by the story. In particular, he pointed to the findings of John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia and a consultant to the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, who said the distribution of funds to CARE could pose risk of "scandal." Haas, however, also told C.R.S. that none of the grants in question that the Catholic agency made to partnering organizations constituted support of or involvement in immoral activities.
"C.R.S. is not in agreement with CARE's policy on contraception because we do not support any positions that would be in violation of Catholic teaching on human dignity and the sanctity of human life," the church relief agency said on July 24. "Any funding Catholic Relief Services provides to CARE or any other international humanitarian organization comes from an outside source such as the federal government or a foundation, for a specific project, and has strict restrictions on its use.
"The grant in question with CARE," the statement continued, "was used to provide vitally needed food, clean water, sanitation services and basic nutrition programs to desperately poor families in Zimbabwe, Madagascar and five countries in Central America. Make no mistake about it, these programs are saving lives."
C.R.S. said on July 20 that it vetted its partnerships with CARE and other organizations in 2011 with Haas. The agency said the center's review concluded that none of the grants to partnering organizations constituted support of or involvement in immoral activities and that there was "little to no risk" of grant funds being used for programs outside of the grant request or for freeing up money at the receiving organization for immoral purposes. The review noted, however, that there could be a risk of "scandal over such partnerships if people become confused and wrongly assume that C.R.S. was endorsing a partner's position on other issues." C.R.S. explained that it continues to work with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the bioethics center to address such risk.


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Malaysian Ruling Coalition Wins Big Victory
KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's election win victory Sunday will likely enable him to press ahead with a series of ambitious spending plans aimed at accelerating economic growth and helping this resource-rich Southeast Asian nation catch up with some wealthier neighbors.
As results trickled in showing early gains for Mr. Najib's National Front coalition, bands of supporters rode on motorcycles through downtown Kuala Lumpur waving flags and sounding their horns.
By the early hours of Monday, the Election Commission showed the National Front winning 133 of the country's 222 parliamentary seats, more than enough to form a government, compared with its opponents' 89 seats.
Speaking late in the evening, Mr. Najib told reporters his government will focus on healing the country's political divisions and "move to more moderate and accommodative policies."
Political analysts noted that the country's large ethnic-Chinese minority had largely swung to the opposition, opening up a split between this predominantly Muslim country's prosperous cities and its largely ethnic-Malay-populated rural areas.
Still, some observers said Mr. Najib had secured what looks like a comfortable victory. "They were close to getting a two-thirds majority, and that will mean a stable and secure government," said James Chin, a Malaysian political science professor and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. "But the ethnic split in the vote shows that there is a danger that country could become more polarized."
Investors cheered the victory, sending the Malaysian stock market up 4.5% at the open to a record high. The market had been stalled all year in anticipation of the elections and the move upward was seen by analysts as a vote for continuing Mr. Najib's fiscal reforms. Malaysia's currency, the ringgit, hit a 21-month high against the dollar and bond prices rose.
The election victory is Mr. Najib's first, giving him his own mandate and positioning him better to push his agenda. He was appointed by his party in 2009 to succeed former leader Abdullah Badawi.
Opinion polls had suggested the election was poised on a knife-edge. It was portrayed by many people here as a contest to see what kind of country Malaysia should aspire to be.
Mr. Najib, a 59-year-old British-educated aristocrat, urged voters to stick with the National Front that has governed this resource-rich nation of 28 million uninterruptedly since independence from Britain in 1957 and which, under his stewardship, embarked on economic and social overhauls to improve its competitiveness and boost incomes.
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Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's People's Alliance, meanwhile, campaigned on speeding up the pace of change, pledging to remove a race-based system of quotas and preferences that has defined this diverse nation for decades and opened up its closely controlled political system.
In the days leading up to the vote, pro-democracy activists raised the stakes further by accusing Mr. Najib's government of attempting to sway the result of the election by flying in tens of thousands of people with questionable voting credentials to cast ballots in marginal seats.
Malaysia's Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections said it appeared that some of the arrivals were from Indonesia, Myanmar, and other countries—a claim Mr. Najib denied. After the election, Mr. Anwar accused the National Front of manipulating the vote, saying he would challenge results in several electoral districts.
Malaysia's election tussle was closely watched around Asia, where other governments are grappling with rising expectations for more freedoms and accountability. Analysts say the election will likely be followed in the Muslim world, where Malaysia is widely regarded as an example of how Islam can potentially coexist with the trappings of modern democracies, and where Mr. Anwar is a well-known figure who has repeatedly said he is fighting his last election.
Mr. Najib held off the oppositions' challenge, partly by borrowing from Mr. Anwar's reformist playbook and, analysts say, by stirring fears about the stability of the opposition leader's alliance—an often fragile coalition of Islamist hard-liners and secular-leaning democrats.
With a fresh majority in Parliament, Mr. Najib is expected to accelerate an ambitious $444 billion plan to upgrade the country's infrastructure by the end of the decade and enable the country to compete more effectively against heavyweights such as South Korea and Taiwan instead of jostling for export orders with middle-income countries such as Thailand or Vietnam.
He may have more support to continue rolling back some affirmative action policies introduced over 30 years ago to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population—especially as the margin of victory might be enough to protect Mr. Najib from a leadership challenge from within the United Malays National Organization, the main party in the National Front.
Such upheavals have happened before. Mr. Najib replaced former leader Mr. Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
To re-establish UMNO's dominance, Mr. Najib went about suppressing opposition publications and encouraged a more strict interpretation of Islam in order to outflank the growing appeal here of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, one of Mr. Anwar's opposition allies, before liberalizing the economy and freeing up the political system. Among other things, he allowed more space for political protests and outlawed warrantless arrests.
The allegations of vote fraud, though, if substantiated, could undermine Mr. Najib's credibility, especially among urban voters. For many people he won't be legitimate leader, and that could undermine him," said Bridget Welsh, a political-science professor at Singapore Management University and a long-term observer of Malaysian politics.
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Greenville College athletes are making their presence known; both on the field and in the classroom. As Panther Athletics continues to reach major milestones in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC), their success is mirrored in their academic achievements.
For the fall 2009 season, 25 student-athletes from Greenville College received SLIAC Academic All-Conference awards. These awards are announced three times per year, for the fall, winter and spring sports seasons. Athletes are eligible in the season they participate, and must meet four specific criteria. One, they must have a minimum 3.5 cumulative grade point average. Two, the athlete must be of at least sophomore academic standing. Three, they must attend at least one full year at the institution prior to receiving the award. And four, they must be a member of a varsity roster. Panther athletes rise to this challenge year after year.
The GC cross country teams boast a long history of success. The women have attained 14 SLIAC conference championships in the last 15 years, with the men following close behind with 11 of their own titles. On top of their 14th title win, the women secured seven spots on the Academic All-Conference Team. If this accomplishment were not enough, this season the women were considered for an Academic All-American Team award in NCAA Division 3 for the 12th straight year.
Head Coach Brian Patton attributes this success to the character of his athletes. "Two elements that I believe make any student-athlete successful in the classroom include both consistency and self-discipline," states Patton. "As a matter of fact, I believe both elements are transferable to all other areas of life. We have student-athletes that are consistent and self-disciplined in our sport. They get their workouts in, they sleep and eat properly, they make sacrifices others are unwilling to make, and they do it on a daily basis. They then take those strengths they have developed in sport and apply them in the classroom, or in their journey of faith."
This commitment to excellence is what drives their success year after year. Senior leadership, along with a team tradition of dedication and hard work, will enable this program to achieve numerous accomplishments in the many seasons to come.


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The Division manages:
- Policy Evaluation Review to monitor the implementation of governmentwide policies and their effectiveness in collaboration with federal agencies.
- The GSA Real Property Innovation Achievement Award Program to further develop and enhance the identification and distribution of best practices being incorporated in the Federal government.
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He walked into jail; Manchester resident carried out on stretcherBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 21. 2014 7:50PM
MANCHESTER - Fernando Ornelas - the Manchester resident who became paralyzed last October at the Valley Street Jail - calmly walked into the jail on his own power, but was removed on a stretcher with his head slumped, video from jail cameras shows.
The video was obtained during a state investigation into what happened to Ornelas, who was 54 when he entered Elliot Hospital for psychiatric observation following a minor car accident on Oct. 16. At the hospital, Ornelas fought with security guards; then at the jail, corrections officers forcibly brought him to the floor of his cell.
He left the jail on Oct. 17 with a broken neck.A five-minute compilation of video from jail cameras is available at UnionLeader.com.
In April, New Hampshire Attorney General Joe Foster said hospital security guards and corrections officers used a reasonable amount of force to restrain Ornelas, and his injuries did not constitute a crime.
Shortly after the announcement, the New Hampshire Union Leader sought access to the investigative file through a Right to Know request.
The investigation - conducted by New Hampshire State Police Sgt. Fred Lulka and Manchester police Sgt. Ryan Grant - comprised hundreds of pages of reports, hours of video footage from the jail and Manchester Police Department, and tape-recorded interviews.
Hillsborough County Corrections Superintendent David Dionne said everything was done properly at his facility."A situation happened, and he was removed with an injury," Dionne said last week. "I don't know where (it happened), but I feel for the family." He said Ornelas' lawyer has already put the county on notice that he plans to file a legal action.
Ornelas' lawyer said he has also filed a request for the investigative file, and he anticipates filing legal claims about 30 days after he receives the information.
"I'm ready to go right now. I just want to corroborate what I believe happened," said Boston lawyer David P. Angueira. "Everyone's on notice who was involved with Mr. Ornelas that day and knows what happened to him."
Ornelas ended up at Valley Street Jail after he got into a fight with security guards at the Elliot Hospital psychiatric evaluation program unit.
The investigation found that Ornelas became uncooperative once jailed at Valley Street. He banged his head repeatedly on the door of his jail cell, urinated in the cell and clogged the toilet so it overflowed.
Three corrections officers entered his cell, brought him to the floor, dragged him to the showers and eventually strapped him to a restraining chair.
In the chair, Ornelas' condition deteriorated, and an ambulance crew eventually returned him to the hospital.
Ornelas' lawyer said his client remains in a wheelchair at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center, where he is distressed and upset.
"All he was doing," Angueira said, "was looking for help."
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Foundries also do business with Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs), or semiconductor companies that can manufacture in-house. Foundries often have certain cost or capability advantages over the IDMs due to their dedicated focus on manufacturing, and they can handle more commoditized products, allowing the IDMs to employ their in-house capabilities to more IP-sensitive or higher-margin products.
Foundries are far upstream from the end-user - their services might be contracted by a chip designer, which then sells to a elecronic device manufacturer making an MP3 player, who then sells the product to an electronics retailer like Best Buy (BBY) befoe it's purchased by a retail customer. As a result, foundrieds are affected by issues on both ends of this chain, from Silicon Prices to end-user demand of electronics products. Success for a foundry is determined by its ability to land contracts with IC designers, and produce them cheaply to compete against other foundries.
As mentioned prior, the Asia-Pacific region dominates the rest of the world for semiconductor manufacturing, due to advantages in cost and government support. Foundries are primarily focused in the East-Asian Pacific rim, with many facilities based in either China or Taiwan.
The industry is fairly clustered, and dominated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM), with a few other smaller competitors, all with respectable market share.
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The foundry model evolved in the 1980's, as market demand for semiconductors led the Taiwanese government to establish two manufacturing companies, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) and United Microelectronics (UMC). The demand was partially spurred by increasing demand for computer hardware in the workplace.[14]. Each computer is constructed of millions upon millions of Integrated Circuits, or ICs, which control individual on-off behaviors in an electronic device.
Semiconductor Manufacturing is labor intensive, suited to the well-educated yet cheap labor available in Asia.[15] It is also capital intensive, as complex tools and equipment are required to test quality and move silicon from location to location within the ultra-clean confines of the plant. Semiconductor Equipment & Materials are made by companies such as KLA-Tencor (KLAC). Costs grew exponentially from the several millions USD in the 1970's[16], to well over a billion USD in the mid 2000's, with costs of the high single-digit billions not uncommon due to the increased costs of equipment.[17]
From a value-chain perspective, the foundries take in raw materials, such as silicon and gases, utilizing skilled labor and expensive equipment to turn it into finished semiconductor products on behalf of a customer. These customers are typically either an Integrated Device Manufacturer that produces goods for the end-customer and have their own manufacturing capability, such as Texas Instruments (TXN) or Intel (INTC), or a fab-less (fabrication plant-less) semiconductor company. Fab-less companies are dedicated to the design of IC's, and do not have any internal manufacturing capability due to the high startup and maintenance cost. As a result, they turn to the foundries to produced the finalized product they have designed.
An integrated device manufacturer (IDM) is a semiconductor company which designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuit (IC) products. Its ability to manufacturer products in house differentiates it from fab-less semiconductor companies. IDMs are motivated to deal with foundries for the purpose of cheaply-expanding capacity without having to invest in new facilities, or to handle manufacturing of older commodity products that are no longer profitably manufactured in-house.
Examples of IDMs include:
Some IDMs, such as Motorola (MOT), also operate as a "foundry", offering excess capacity to manufacture for other companies.
These "pure-play" companies exist without any in-house ability to manufacture semiconductors, and thus contract manufacturing to the foundries. Examples of these companies include:
These companies have removed the volatility associated with manufacturing, and focus entirely on research and design of IC's.
It is an open question as to which business-model is "better", as each model has its specific advantages. IDMs do not have to negotiate or contract to foundries, and thus their "closed" model sometimes has a lower likelihood of "leaking" Intellectual property rights. However, the vertically-integrated IDMs have complex operations and are exposed to many market issues. On the other hand, the fabless companies can focus on design issues, and improving the IC technology. NVIDIA (NVDA) is an example of a company that has excelled at the design of its chip technology, and come to dominate the graphics card industry over competitor Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), owner of the ATI brand of cards which conducted in-house manufacturing.
The foundry business takes orders from the IC designers, who in turn take orders from consumer product companies that integrate the chips into an electronic device such as an mp3 player or USB thumb drive. Thus the semiconductor business feeds into nearly all sectors of a developed economy, and the foundry business' position at the top of this value chain makes it vulnerable to fluctuations in demand (see image). Semiconductor Cyclicality is thus a concern for foundries, and business has suffered during past down turns, when overall demand for chips decreased dramatically as the global economy passed a glut of chips through the system. Concerns over a weak U.S. demand environment caused by the U.S. Housing Market feeding through to consumer demand will be a concern going into 2008-2009.
Moore's law is the oft-quoted rule of thumb in the semiconductor industry, postulating that chip density (a rough proxy for technological achievement) doubles every 12 months, which was later revised to 24 months.[20][21] This fuels two related developments in the foundry business. First, the doubling of density requires a shift to smaller-scale ICs. For example, if semiconductors were etched onto a wafer on a .13 micron process, Moore's law demands that they must be etched using smaller processes, such as 90 nanometer process. Indeed, in 2008, cutting edge processes were on 45-nm scales.[22] This decrease in size demands new equipment. As such, each improvement in technology often requires significant new capital investment, and plants are often retired rather than upgraded due to the high cost of upgrading.[23] The increasing costs of capital involved with IC production cause more IDMs to outsource part of their manufacturing to semiconductor foundries. For example, in 2007, Texas Instruments (TXN) announced that its high-tech SPARC processors at the 45nm scale would be manufactured by foundries rather than internally.[24]
Silicon Prices have been rising steadily due to increased demand for both semiconductors and other technology that uses silicon, such as Solar Power. In 2007, global silicon revenue grew 22.6%, estimated by Gartner, largely due to benefit of increased prices and higher volume.[25] This has also been partially reflected in the decreased gross margin of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM), falling from 49.1% in 2006 to 44% in 2007.[26] As companies are pressured to lower average sale prices due to competition, this combined with rising raw goods costs will negatively impact profit margins.
In the 2000's, with 4 large and capable foundries with manufacturing capabilities at legacy (.13 micron+) technologies, older chips are being commoditized. Many fabless customers have little reason to migrate the chips to smaller processes, since the existing chips are efficient enough for their uses, and do not require leading-edge technology manufacturing. As a result, even for TSMC, the technology leader, over 70% of revenues come from older (.13 micron+) processes.[27] These lower sale prices will continue to hurt the margins of the foundries.
The high capital-expenditure requirements in the business has historically limited the entrance of new competitors, as the top 4 competitors hold approximately 70-75% market share, according to two industry estimates (see market share for more information. The large integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) also do not enter the market, despite their own large pockets, since they want to keep their capacity open to their own chips. As a result, it is likely that the top 4 will continue to control the market and continue to invest in their business, taking advantage of the economies of scale resulting from the manufacturing business. These economies of scale include negotiating power for procurement, as well as continued relationship with the clients. Since processes have to be designed for each final product, the IC designer and foundry must cooperate to manufacture the product. As such, relationships and cooperative history are greatly beneficial to the Big 4.
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The global semiconductor foundry market revenues is estimated at $22.5B by Gartner Dataquest[30] and $24.5B by IC Insights for the year 2007.[31] The "Top 4" - TSM, UMC, SMI, and CHRT - are estimated to have 72.5%[32] and 68%[33] combined share of the total market by the two data services, respectively.


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Colitis is swelling (inflammation) of the large intestine (colon).
Causes of colitis include:
Symptoms can include:
The health care provider will perform a physical exam. You will also be asked questions about your symptoms such as:
The health care provider can diagnose colitis by inserting a flexible tube into the rectum (flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy) and looking at certain areas of the colon. You may have biopsies taken during this exam. Biopsies may show changes related to inflammation.
Other studies that can identify colitis include:
Your treatment will depend on the cause of the disease.
The outlook will vary depending on the cause of the problem.
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms such as:
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Bulldogs Fall Two Games Behind First-Place Harvard
PRINCETON, N.J. – An off night from the field doomed Yale Friday at Princeton. The Bulldogs shot just 30 percent from the field and dropped a 57-46 decision to the Tigers before a crowd of 2,730 at Jadwin Gym.
"We had opportunities to score, we just didn't do it," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. "We had a number of opportunities at the basket that we missed."
The loss, coupled with Harvard's home win over Cornell, dropped Yale two games behind the first-place Crimson with three to play. The Bulldogs (14-11, 8-3 Ivy) are at Penn on Saturday, while Harvard hosts Columbia.
"We're just focused on ourselves," said Justin Sears, who paced Yale with 22 points and nine rebounds. "Whatever Harvard does, Harvard does. We are focused on Yale Basketball."
Yale and Harvard meet in the next to last game of the season next Friday in New Haven.
Sears did most of his damage in the first half when he scored 19 of his points on 7-of-9 shooting from the field. Princeton, though, limited him to just three field goal attempts in the second half.
"They made it tougher for me to catch it, and every time I dribbled they collapsed on me and forced me to give it up," Sears said.
Javier Duren, who returned to the lineup after missing two games with an injury, added 13 points for the Bulldogs.
T.J. Bray, the Ivy League's leading scorer, paced Princeton with 19 points. Spencer Weisz scored 14 and Hans Brase contributed 12.
Princeton (16-8, 4-6 Ivy) wasn't much better than Yale offensively. The Tigers shot just 32.7 percent from the field but made seven three-pointers compared to just two for the Bulldogs.
The score was tied at 36 with 9:48 left. Princeton then scored the next 10 points to seize control. Will Barrett capped the run with a three-pointer.
After attempting 17 three-pointers in the first half, the Tigers were better at getting to the basket in the final 20 minutes.
"We did a poor job defensively on back cuts," Jones said. "If you take those opportunities away, it's harder for them to score."
NOTES: Yale, which had been averaging nearly 35 free throws in Ivy games, got to the line just 18 times… The Bulldogs were 2-of-12 from three-point range… Yale had a 38-36 rebounding edge… The Bulldogs committed 16 turnovers, which Princeton turned into 19 points… Yale and Penn tip at 7 p.m. on Saturday. The Quakers fell to Brown 76-67 on Friday.
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On October 19 and 20 (Saturday and Sunday) a few Daytime actors will join their fans for the Fall Bash Weekend. The events, which include a V.I.P. luncheon, a meet and greet and breakfast, will take place at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites at 401 2nd Street in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida.
Actors scheduled to take part are "Days of our Lives'" Eric Martsolf (Brady), "General Hospital's" Lynn Herring (ex-Lucy) and Kin Shriner (Scotty) and "One Life To Live" alum Forbes March (Nash). Please visit Soap This or call Patti at 1-727-210-5143 for more information and event pricing.
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John Kerry formally reported for duty at State Department headquarters Monday, and began his day with an address to the department's employees.
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So here's the big question before the country and the world and the State Department after the last eight years: Can a man actually run the State Department? I don't know. As the saying goes, I have big heels to fill. But this is beyond a pleasure. I'm going to utter five words that certainly no sitting senator, and probably a former senator, have ever uttered, and that is: These remarks will be brief. And I promise you that, because I don't know what we're doing for the productivity of the building right now. If this goes on too long, I may get a phone call from the president on a recall. ...
Some of what I've learned is how difficult life can be for people in the Foreign Service who have to uproot kids and uproot families and move from school to school and struggle with those difficulties. It's not hard – not easy. It's particularly not easy in this much more complicated and dangerous world. So I understand that. I also understand how critical it is that you have somebody there advocating for you. ...
Here, we can do the best of things that you can do in government. That's what excites me. We get to try to make our nation safer. We get to try to make peace in the world, a world where there is far too much conflict and far too much killing. There are alternatives. We get to lift people out of poverty. We get to try to cure disease. We get to try to empower people with human rights. We get to speak to those who have no voice. We get to talk about empowering people through our ideals, and through those ideals hopefully they can change their lives. That's what's happening in the world today. We get to live the ideals of our nation and in doing so I think we can make our country stronger and we can actually make the world more peaceful.
So I look forward to joining with you as we march down this road together living the ideals of our country, which is the best – imagine: What other job can you have where you get up every day and advance the cause of nation and also keep faith with the ideals of your country on which it is founded and most critically, meet our obligations to our fellow travelers on this planet? That's as good as it gets. And I'm proud to be part of it with you. So now let's get to work.
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Silent Hill: Downpour PlayStation 3 patch deployed
Silent Hill: Downpour was patched for Xbox 360 in late October, but the PlayStation 3 version has only just arrived. Konami advises the patch should be available now, or at latest when your local PlayStation Store updates. Although full patch notes have not been provided, the update appears to have the same features as the Xbox 360 version, namely improved frame rate; "fixed" save game system; bug squashing in the Homeless side quest; and general "performance enhancements" and bug fixes. Silent Hill: Downpour released for both consoles in March.


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WESTMINSTER � The Wachusett Brewery Store has been placed on one year of probation after selling beer to a minor during a police sting.
Gary McDonald, chairman of the Westminster Liquor Commission, said the commission voted Monday night to place the store on probation after learning that a minor, working as part of a joint Westminster and Hubbardston police operation, purchased beer Dec. 27 at the Wachusett Brewery Store.
Mr. McDonald said the store is not required to make any changes during the probation other than not to sell to minors again.
"I think they run a good operation down there," he said. "This has happened at other establishments."
The commission places a business on probation for a first offense, and could suspend its license if there is another violation.
Mr. McDonald said it was the first violation for the Wachusett store in the five years it has been in operation. He said store manager Wayne Ronn told the commission that the company was considering purchasing an electronic scanning device to automatically check a customer's identification.
Mr. Ronn said he sold a six-pack of Wachusett Larry Imperial Ale to the minor. Mr. Ronn, who has been in the liquor sales business for 40 years, admitted he missed one this time. He said the store will display a sign warning customers under age 30 they will have to show identification.
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Ali Noorani: New Immigration Process Must Include Road to Citizenship
The song goes: "I'm proud to be an American."
Not: "I'm proud to sort of be an almost-American."
As Congress turns its attention to immigration reform, leaders across the political spectrum recognize that a new immigration process must include a road to legal status for otherwise law-abiding, taxpaying aspiring Americans who now lack documentation.
But some hesitate or hedge on the question of whether these new Americans should have a clear path to citizenship or to something lawful-but-less.
A commanding majority of American voters have no such qualms — good news for those in Congress who like the idea of a road to citizenship but may be worried about their next primary. More important, it's convincing evidence for legislators who are truly undecided.
Recent bipartisan polling reveals in no uncertain terms that Americans think contributing immigrants should have a roadmap to citizenship — including 83 percent of Republicans, according to a poll this month conducted jointly by the Romney campaign's polling firm and one other.
Clearly, we are uncomfortable with the idea of a permanent class of in-betweens or not reallys.
As well we should be. We understand that the blessings of liberty and freedom that accompany citizenship must not have an asterisk next to them, just as people who aspire to be citizens recognize that their commitment to the United States can be nothing less than full-fledged.
Now, as throughout our nation's history, people move here to enhance their chances at freedom, success and equal opportunity. These values remain at the core of the American ideal, and they require hard work. Pursuit of the American dream has no place for half-heartedness.
Likewise, our laws should have no place for anything less than earned citizenship that truly cements new Americans' commitment to country and full participation in our economy, our communities and our political and civic life.
With citizenship, careers blossom, educational opportunities broaden and communities get stronger. Without it, only doubt would blossom, and new ideas, innovation and contributions would falter.
How strongly do American voters support Citizenship over Something Less?
A Jan. 10-14 Associated Press-GfK poll found "a major increase in support" for citizenship — 62 percent, vs. 50 percent in 2010 — "driven by a turnaround in Republicans' opinions after the 2012 elections."
Provide more context and the support for earned citizenship skyrockets. In a poll conducted Jan. 7-10 by Public Opinion Strategies, the Republican polling firm that worked with the Romney campaign, and Hart Research Associates, a Democratic one, 87 percent of participants said legalization for immigrants here without documents should include the opportunity to earn citizenship; only 7 percent rejected the notion. Among Republicans, the split was 83 percent to 10 percent. (The poll was sponsored by the National Immigration Forum, America's Voice and the Service Employees International Union.)
The same poll revealed that voters want a new immigration process that is broad and enduring. A package that includes stronger border security, verification of a legal workforce, earned citizenship for those who learn English and pay taxes, and that ties future immigration to our economic need found support among 77 percent of participants — including 80 percent of Republicans.
Congress must catch up to voters of all political stripes who are sending a clear message: We need a better immigration process that includes not only accountability at the border and on the tax rolls, but also a roadmap to full citizenship.
Nothing less will honor our history as a nation of immigrants and our own accountability to newcomers who breathe life into our country and its economy — and who will be more than proud to be Americans, if only we give them the chance.


text: Latest Analysis News Washington Post publishes impeachable accusation against Trump–Russia yet again is the issue The story proves that Russia may be forever used by the Democrats as their weapon of choice in petty domestic political warfare. Published 1 year ago on May 16, 2017 By Adam 1,627 Views Share Tweet The Washington Post has published extraordinary claims about Donald Trump, claims which if true could likely be impeachable offences. There's only one problem. They are almost certainly not true. The clams are defined by WaPo as follows, "President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump's disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said". The fact is that this 'breaking story' is yet again from anonymous sources simply defined as 'current and former officials'. Ostensibly, these former officials worked under Barack Obama and embody the corresponding agenda. Speaking of Barack Obama, one is tempted to feign sympathy for the need to rely on anonymous sources in the aftermath of eight years of Obama's war against whistle blowers. But this argument quickly unravels in this specific context. Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden were and frankly are all being hounded by US authorities for exposing corruption, criminality and ethical violations in the military, deep state and wider intelligence-industrial complex. Whoever 'leaked' this 'story' to the Washington Post would have certainly angered Donald Trump, but because the accusation boils down to something that is partisan in nature, the Democrat machine which even when out of power is frankly stronger than anything the Republicans have to offer, would have not only protected said individuals, they would have lionised them. I can all ready hear the nasal Chuck Schumer speech in their defence. One can close one's eyes and see Nancy Pelosi's interpretive dance in support of said individuals, live from the streets of San Francisco. As it is, both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser General H. R. McMaster have said that the story is categorically false. McMaster, far from being pro-Russian, is something of a traditional neo-con. Sometimes one is tempted to go to an old pay-phone, ring up the Washington Post and say 'I'm a White House official and I have information that Donald Trump secretly uses priceless paintings of George Washington as target practice for his shotgun inside the White House". If the story came out in a few days that would prove just how easy it is to be an 'anonymous source' for the US mainstream media. I still cannot believe it is this easy, but I do in all sincerity believe it isn't that much more difficult to get information published in the mainstream media under false pretences. The likely truth of the matter is that this story is totally false and is part of a further narrative designed to discredit Donald Trump. The people behind it are almost certainly members or supporters of a Democratic party that cannot accept that their candidate lost and furthermore they are on the verge of neurosis over the fact that Hillary Clinton lost to a man who stands for everything she hates: traditional values, anti-political correctness, anti-identity politics and in your face Americana (love it or hate it). This is all that it has ever been about. Many of these people probably couldn't point out Lugansk on a map, though suddenly they are experts in every conflict incorrectly blamed on Russia. If one explained that Sevastopol is a Federal City of the Russian Federation whose government is separate from the rest of the Crimean peninsula, I'm sure the looks of total confusion would be priceless. The people lacerating Trump using Russia as their subject of choice are only concerned with domestic, post-electoral issues, but are using foreign issues to try and make themselves look less petty than they actually are. The question is, why Russia? Here's an intellectual exercise to help one understand why Russia is the target. Q: Are the Democrats targeting Russia because they still think it is Communist and these people are hard core Goldwater style Cold Warriors? A: No. Stupid though many of these people seem, they do realise that Russia is no longer a Communist state. They're old enough to remember, even the ones who once had a nasty drug habit. Q: Are the Democrats inversely hard core closet Communists who view Russia as selling out the Marxist-Leninist dream? A: No. These people are as deep in the pocket of Wall Street as any other capitalist and furthermore the Communist Party of The Russian Federation is the second most popular party in the democratically elected State Duma. Modern Russia did not arrest nor ban communism, it simply forced it to complete in elections and as it is, it typically does well. Q: Have these people been paid millions by the Polish, Ukrainian, Latvian, Estonian or Lithuanian lobbies? A: Partly yes, but these lobbies are far weaker than the Saudi, Israeli and Qatari lobbies, FAR weaker. Again, most of these people probably couldn't precisely find Latvia on a map. I dare someone like Mark Dice to take his map off the San Diego beach and to downtown Washington D.C. to prove this. Q: Do Democrats associate Russia with the conservative values of traditional culture, Christianity, ideologically free patriotism and a place where the only 'identity politics' involved is having an identity that loves Russia? A: YES! Some could even articulate it…especially after a bit of that infamous Russian chemical agent known as vodka. Yes, Russia is hated for its domestic realities which the Democrats associate with the same traditional moderate conservative values they both consciously and unconsciously associate with Trump. If the Republicans were intelligent enough to articulate this (and thus far they have not been), they might actually start winning elections among America's conservative Christian heartland for reasons other than the fact than 'they aren't as creepy as the modern Democrats'. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:featuredRussiaDonald TrumpHillary ClintonEstoniaUkrainePolandCrimeaSergey LavrovDemocratsLatviaLuganskRex TillersonGeneral H.R. 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Published 22 hours ago on October 21, 2018 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… On Friday, one day after Russia and China pledged to reduce their reliance on the dollar by increasing the amount of bilateral trade conducted in rubles and yuan (a goal toward which much progress has already been made over the past three years), Russia's Central Bank provided the latest update on Moscow's alternative to US-dominated international payments network SWIFT. Moscow started working on the project back in 2014, when international sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea inspired fears that the country's largest banks would soon be cut off from SWIFT which, though it's based in Belgium and claims to be politically neutral, is effectively controlled by the US Treasury. Today, the Russian alternative, known as the System for Transfer of Financial Messages, has attracted a modest amount of support within the Russian business community, with 416 Russian companies having joined as of September, including the Russian Federal Treasury and large state corporations likeGazprom Neft and Rosneft. And now, eight months after a senior Russian official advised that "our banks are ready to turn off SWIFT," it appears the system has reached another milestone in its development: It's ready to take on international partners in the quest to de-dollarize and end the US's leverage over the international financial system. A Russian official advised that non-residents will begin joining the system "this year," according to RT. "Non-residents will start connecting to us this year. People are already turning to us,"said First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia Olga Skorobogatova. Earlier, the official said that by using the alternative payment system foreign firms would be able to do business with sanctioned Russian companies. Turkey, China, India and others are among the countries that might be interested in a SWIFT alternative, as Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out in a speech earlier this month, the US's willingness to blithely sanction countries from Iran to Venezuela and beyond will eventually rebound on the US economy by undermining the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency. To be sure, the Russians aren't the only ones building a SWIFT alternative to help avoid US sanctions. Russia and China, along with the European Union are launching an interbank payments network known as the Special Purpose Vehicle to help companies pursue "legitimate business with Iran" in defiance of US sanctions. Given its status as a major energy exporter, Russia has leverage that could help attract partners to its new SWIFT alternative. For one, much of Europe is dependent on Russian natural gas and oil. And as Russian trade with other US rivals increases, Moscow's payments network will look increasingly attractive,particularly if buyers of Russian crude have no other alternatives to pay for their goods. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest US leaving INF will put nuclear non-proliferation at risk & may lead to 'complete chaos' The US is pulling out of a nuclear missile pact with Russia. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty requires both countries to eliminate their short and medium-range atomic missiles. Published 23 hours ago on October 21, 2018 By The Duran Via RT… If the US ditches the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), it could collapse the entire nuclear non-proliferation system, and bring nuclear war even closer, Russian officials warn. By ending the INF, Washington risks creating a domino effect which could endanger other landmark deals like the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and collapse the existing non-proliferation mechanism as we know it, senior lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev said on Sunday. The current iteration of the START treaty, which limits the deployment of all types of nuclear weapons, is due to expire in 2021. Kosachev, who chairs the Parliament's Upper House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned that such an outcome pits mankind against "complete chaos in terms of nuclear weapons." "Now the US Western allies face a choice: either embarking on the same path, possibly leading to new war, or siding with common sense, at least for the sake of their self-preservation instinct." His remarks came after US President Donald Trump announced his intentions to "terminate" the INF, citing alleged violations of the deal by Russia. 'Giant leap backward to the Cold War era'? https://t.co/FBj2ppFLVk — RT (@RT_com) October 21, 2018 Moscow has repeatedly denied undermining the treaty, pointing out that Trump has failed to produce any evidence of violations. Moreover, Russian officials insist that the deployment of US-made Mk 41 ground-based universal launching systems in Europe actually violates the agreement since the launchers are capable of firing mid-range cruise missiles. Leonid Slutsky, who leads the Foreign Affairs Committee in parliament's lower chamber, argued that Trump's words are akin to placing "a huge mine under the whole disarmament process on the planet." The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 by then-President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The deal effectively bans the parties from having and developing short- and mid-range missiles of all types. According to the provisions, the US was obliged to destroy Pershing I and II launcher systems and BGM-109G Gryphon ground-launched cruise missiles. Moscow, meanwhile, pledged to remove the SS-20 and several other types of missiles from its nuclear arsenal. Pershing missiles stationed in the US Army arsenal. © Hulton Archive / Getty Images © By scrapping the historic accord, Washington is trying to fulfill its "dream of a unipolar world," a source within the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "This decision fits into the US policy of ditching the international agreements which impose equal obligations on it and its partners, and render the 'exceptionalism' concept vulnerable." Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov denounced Trump's threats as "blackmail" and said that Washington wants to dismantle the INF because it views the deal as a "problem" on its course for "total domination" in the military sphere. The issue of nuclear arms treaties is too vital for national and global security to rush into hastily-made "emotional" decisions, the official explained. Russia is expecting to hear more on the US' plans from Trump's top security adviser, John Bolton, who is set to hold talks in Moscow tomorrow. President Trump has been open about unilaterally pulling the US out of various international agreements if he deems them to be damaging to national interests. Earlier this year, Washington withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program. All other signatories to the landmark agreement, including Russia, China, and the EU, decided to stick to the deal, while blasting Trump for leaving. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Converting Khashoggi into Cash After two weeks of denying any connection to Khashoggi's disappearance, Riyadh has admitted that he was killed by Saudi operatives but it wasn't really on purpose. Published 23 hours ago on October 21, 2018 By Jim Jatras Authored by James George Jatras via The Strategic Culture Foundation: The hazard of writing about the Saudis' absurd gyrations as they seek to avoid blame for the murder of the late, not notably great journalist and Muslim Brotherhood activist Jamal Khashoggi is that by the time a sentence is finished, the landscape may have changed again. As though right on cue, the narrative has just taken another sharp turn. After two weeks of denying any connection to Khashoggi's disappearance, Riyadh has 'fessed up (sorta) and admitted that he was killed by Saudi operatives but it wasn't really on purpose: Y'see, it was kinda'f an 'accident.' Oops… Y'see the guys were arguing, and … uh … a fistfight broke out. Yeah, that's it … a 'fistfight.' And before you know it poor Jamal had gone all to pieces. Y'see? Must've been a helluva fistfight. The figurative digital ink wasn't even dry on that whopper before American politicos in both parties were calling it out: "To say that I am skeptical of the new Saudi narrative about Mr. Khashoggi is an understatement," tweeted Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "First we were told Mr. Khashoggi supposedly left the consulate and there was blanket denial of any Saudi involvement. Now, a fight breaks out and he's killed in the consulate, all without knowledge of Crown Prince. It's hard to find this latest 'explanation' as credible." California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that the new Saudi explanation is "not credible." "If Khashoggi was fighting inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, he was fighting for his life with people sent to capture or kill him," Schiff said. "The kingdom and all involved in this brutal murder must be held accountable, and if the Trump administration will not take the lead, Congress must." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan must think he's already died and gone to his eternal recreation in the amorous embraces of the dark-eyed houris. The acid test for the viability of Riyadh's newest transparent lie is whether the Turks actually have, as they claim, live recordings of Khashoggi's interrogation, torture, murder, and dismemberment (not necessarily in that order) – and if they do, when Erdogan decides it's the right time to release them. Erdogan has got the Saudis over a barrel and he'll squeeze everything he can out of them. From the beginning, the Khashoggi story wasn't really about the fate of one man. The Saudis have been getting away with bloody murder, literally, for years. They're daily slaughtering the civilian population of Yemen with American and British help, with barely a ho-hum from the sensitive consciences always ready to invoke the so-called "responsibility to protect" Muslims in Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya, Syria, Xinjiang, Rakhine, and so forth. Where's the responsibility not to help a crazed bunch of Wahhabist head-choppers kill people? But now, just one guy meets a grisly end and suddenly it's the most important homicide since the Lindbergh baby. What gives? Is it because Khashoggi was part of the MSM aristocracy, on account of his relationship with the Washington Post? Was it because of his other, darker, connections? As related by Moon of Alabama: "Khashoggi was a rather shady guy. A 'journalist' who was also an operator for Saudi and U.S. intelligence services. He was an early recruit of the Muslim Brotherhood." This relationship, writes MoA, touches on the interests of pretty much everyone in the region: "The Ottoman empire ruled over much of the Arab world. The neo-Ottoman wannabe-Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan would like to regain that historic position for Turkey. His main competition in this are the al-Sauds. They have much more money and are strategically aligned with Israel and the United States, while Turkey under Erdogan is more or less isolated. The religious-political element of the competition is represented on one side by the Muslim Brotherhood, 'democratic' Islamists to which Erdogan belongs, and the Wahhabi absolutists on the other side." With the noose tightening around Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS), the risible fistfight cock-and-bull story is likely to be the best they can come up with. US President Donald Trump's having offered his "rogue killers" opening suggests he's willing to play along. Nobody will really be fooled, but MbS will hope he can persuade important people to pretend they are fooled. That will mean spreading around a lot of cash. The new alchemy of converting Khashoggi dead into financial gain for the living is just one part of an obvious scheme to pull off what Libya's Muammar Kaddafi managed after the 1988 Lockerbie bombing: offer up some underlings as the fall guys and let the top man evade responsibility. (KARMA ALERT: That didn't do Kaddafi any good in the long run.) In the Saudi case the Lockerbie dodge will be harder, as there are already pictures of men at the Istanbul Consulate General identified as close associates of MbS. But they'll give it the old madrasa try anyway since it's all they've got.Firings and arrests have started and one suspect has already died in a suspicious automobile "accident." Heads will roll! Saving MbS's skin and his succession to the throne of his doddering father may depend on how many of the usual recipients of Saudi – let's be honest – bribery and influence peddling will find sufficient pecuniary reason to go along. Saudi Arabia's unofficial motto with respect to the US establishment might as well be: "The green poultice heals all wounds." Anyway, that's been their experience up to now, but it also in part reflects the same arrogance that made MbS think he could continue to get away with anything. (It's not shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, but it's close.) Whether spreading cash around will continue to have the same salubrious effect it always has had in the past remains to be seen. To be sure, Trump may succeed in shaking the Saudi date palm for additional billions for arms sales. That won't necessarily turn around an image problem that may not have a remedy. But still, count on more cash going to high-price lobbying and image-control shops eager to make obscene money working for their obscene client. Some big American names are dropping are dropping Riyadh in a sudden fit of fastidiousness, but you can bet others will be eager to step into their Guccis, both in the US and in the United Kingdom. (It should never be forgotten how closely linked the US and UK establishments are in the Middle East, and to the Saudis in particular.) It still might not work though. No matter how much expensive PR lipstick the spinmeisters put on this pig, that won't make it kissable. It's still a pig. Others benefitting from hanging Khashoggi's death around MbS's neck are: Iran (the drive for regime change rests on twin Israeli and Saudi pillars, and the latter is shaky right now); Yemen (support is building for Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's bill to cut of support for the Saudi war effort against that unfortunate country); and Qatar (after last year's invasion scare, there's no doubt a bit of Schadenfreude and (figurative) champagne corks popping in Doha over MbS's discomfiture. As one source close to the ruling al-Thani family relates, "The Qataris are stunned speechless at Saudi incompetence!" You just can't get good help these days). Among the losers one must count Israel and especially Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. MbS, with his contrived image as the reformer, was the Sunni "beard" he needed to get the US to assemble an "Arab NATO" (as though one NATO weren't bad enough!) and eliminate Iran for him. It remains to be seen how far that agenda has been set back. Whether or not MbS survives or is removed – perhaps with extreme prejudice – there's no doubt Saudi Arabia is the big loser. Question are being asked that should have been asked years ago. As Srdja Trifkovic comments in Chronicles magazine: "The crown prince's recklessness in ordering the murder of Khashoggi has demonstrated that he is just a standard despot, a Mafia don with oil presiding over an extended cleptocracy of inbred parasites. The KSA will not be reformed because it is structurally not capable of reform. The regime in Riyadh which stops being a playground of great wealth, protected by a large investment in theocratic excess, would not be 'Saudi' any longer. Saudia delenda est." The first Saudi state, the Emirate of Diriyah, went belly up in 1818, with the death of head of the house of al-Saud, Abdullah bin Saud – actually, literally with his head hung on a gate in Constantinople by Erdogan's Ottoman predecessor, Sultan Mahmud II. 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24 July 2007 3:07 pm (c)
If you use the C language, you may have probably wanted to pack your structures so no alignment is done by the compiler. This can be useful for example to build network packets. You can find the basics of packed structures using GCC, here or here.
If everything seems clear, why am I writing this? Today, a coworker has found a bug related to packed structures. The issue was with internal structures (i.e. a substructure). A year ago, or so, I knew that substructures were not packed even if its enclosing structure is packed, but it seems I forgot about it, so I have decided that it was worth writing it here so I do not forget it again (I'm sure I will).
I will take the example found in GCC documentation (only since version 3.4.0). Suppose you have the following code:
struct my_unpacked_struct { char c; int i; }; struct my_packed_struct { char c; int i; struct my_unpacked_struct s; } __attribute__ ((__packed__)); struct my_packed_struct my = { .c = 10, .i = 20, .s.c = 30, .s.i = 40 };
If we generate the assembly for this (I have omitted some things not needed for the example), we will get:
.globl _my .data _my: .byte 10 <--- c .long 20 <--- i .byte 30 <--- s.c .space 3 <--- 3 bytes of alignment .long 40 <--- s.i
As you can see, the compiler has not aligned the internal structure, but the enclosing one. So, what you need to do if you want the internal structure also packed is to pack my_unpacked_struct:
struct my_unpacked_struct { char c; int i; } __attribute__ ((__packed__));
Now, we get what we initially expected:
.globl _my .data _my: .byte 10 <--- c .long 20 <--- i .byte 30 <--- s.c .long 40 <--- s.i
Packing the whole structure my_unpacked_struct is fine if you do not use it anywhere else, but it would be great to use variable attributes (we have used type attributes so far), so we could only pack the internal substructure variable like this (it doesn't work):
struct my_packed_struct { char c; int i; struct my_unpacked_struct s __attribute__ ((__packed__)); } __attribute__ ((__packed__));
Update 2007/07/25: read the first comment to understand why the variable attribute is not working in this case.
By the way, in the example I have initialized the structure my using designated initializers.
And remember, be careful with packed structures!


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This is another type of rolled sushi, method of making this sushi is similar to my previous post - hosomaki-zushi except it is inside out. Uramaki (裏巻き) is usually coated with either tobiko (flying fish roe) or black sesame seeds, my home-made version made with stuff available in the pantry as well as stuff I want to introduce to my boys.
Again, this is simple homemade version of uramaki with tamago yaki filling, and mixed some dried vegetables in sushi rice. If you wish, you can also make it with filling like sashimi, tempura, avocado, and assorted pickled vegetables. I just want to share how this inside out sushi is made as I posted this long time ago, uramaki with grilled eel (unagi) and black sesame seeds coating, without a recipe.
Ingredients (makes 4 rolls):
- Sushi rice (cooked from 1 cup of raw rice)
- 2 sheets nori, divide into halves
Tamago Yaki (Please refer to Japanese Home Cooks p.51 for pictorial guide)
- 2 nos. large egg
- 1/2 tsp hon-dashi
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp water
- Oil for greasing the pan
*Hand vinegar
Tamago Yaki
- Combine water, sugar and hon-dashi in a bowl. Mix until sugar is dissolved then add in eggs and beat lightly with chopsticks or a fork.
- Heat a rectangle tamago yaki pan, grease with a paper towel dipped with cooking oil.
- Pour in one-third of the egg mixture, cook till the mixture is almost set. Use a spatula or chopsticks, roll the omelet then push it to one end of the pan.
- Pour in another one-third of the egg mixture, lift up the rolled omelet so the egg mixture cover whole surface of the pan.
- Cook till the mixture is almost set, roll up the omelet together with the rolled omelet (3).
- Repeat step (4) and (5) again.
- Transfer omelet onto a sushi mat, roll it up tightly and set aside until it is cooled completely.
- Cut into thick strips.
- While the sushi rice still hot, mix in vegetables mix then cover with a damp cloth. Ready to use.
- Place one sheet of nori (half size) on a sushi mat, rough side up.Wet hand with hand vinegar, arrange one-fourth of (1), in a row, on the nori as shown.
- Spread sushi rice evenly onto nori leaving about 5 cm of nori at one end as shown in the photo. Dip your fingers with hand vinegar again if necessary.
- Cover it with a sheet of plastic wrap, turn it over together with the plastic wrap. The 5 cm nori without rice side should be close to you.
- Arrange tamago yaki strips in the center, roll it up with the plastic wrap and sushi mat. Set aside for few minutes before cutting.
- Cut into 6 to 8 pieces, serve with shoyu, wasabi and pickled ginger if desired.
This is the dried mixed vegetables rice seasoning I used, attracted by the colours and bought a pack for obento actually.


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