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Abraham Lincoln in Illinois
A Selection of Documents from the Illinois State Archives
March 3, 1837
In what amounts to his first public enunciation on slavery, Abraham Lincoln joined with fellow Sangamon County legislator Dan Stone to denounce slavery.
By 1837, the abolition movement, which called for the ending of slavery, was starting in the North. Pro-slavery forces began to advocate that state legislatures in the North take a stand against abolitionists.
In January 1837, the General Assembly voted on a resolution that disapproved of abolitionists. The resolution also stated that the federal Constitution guaranteed the right to own slaves and that the federal government had no right to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. The state Senate passed the resolution unanimously. The House of Representatives passed it 77-6. Lincoln was one of the six voting against the resolution.
Six weeks later, Lincoln and Stone introduced into the record the attached protest. In the protest, they very clearly state that slavery is unjust. They temper that declaration by criticizing abolitionists as well. Lincoln and Stone also state that Congress has the right to eliminate slavery from the District of Columbia. The protest says nothing about eliminating slavery from the states, for despite stating that slavery was unjust, Lincoln and Stone agreed that it was constitutionally protected in the states where it existed.
The actions of Lincoln and the General Assembly during this debate demonstrate that in 1837 few in Illinois favored the abolition of slavery. Later in the year, Illinois abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, again demonstrating that Illinois was not yet ready to embrace freeing the slaves in the South.
According to Paul Simon in his book Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness, Lincoln would refer to his protest as defining his position on slavery, both in 1837 and in 1860. As president, Lincoln signed legislation passed by Congress that did indeed free the slaves in the District of Columbia. He also went further than his 1837 protest, authoring the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves in southern states in rebellion and championing the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which outlawed slavery.
Points to Consider
If Lincoln feels slavery is unjust, why doesn't he call for its abolition?
Does Lincoln believe that Congress has the right to interfere with slavery in the states?
How were Lincoln's actions as president consistent with his 1837 protest and how were they different?


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Taking It Back: The B Side Show Podcast #31 Respect Ya Elders pt.4
As we continue on through this journey of my past life as a radio host, I present to you my series within The B Side Show podcast "Respect Ya Elders". This was my opportunity to use an entire show to play nothing but the classics. This edition revolved around 70's and 80's black cinema. The songs chosen were the musical background to classics such as Sparkle (the original), Fame (the original), Claudine and Super Fly. I also took the liberty of adding clips from other classic films such as The Education of Sonnie Carson, The Warriors and The Mack to fully round out the show. According to my labels, this episode premiered in December 2008 and I must say, IT STILL SOUNDS DAMN GOOD! Listen below and judge for yourself!
The B Side Show "Respect Ya Elders Pt. 4" Originally aired December 2008:

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text: Has anyone come across this error message? Not quite sure when it started, maybe about a week ago after updating installing something or other on my iPad2 (I think it was that "Killbackground" app or whatever it is called; it installs a little button in the multitasking pane to kill all programs that are running in the background -- highly recommended, btw). But I don't think that app is causing this error. The error message comes up in a box titled "Failed to load - The operation couldn't be completed." right when I boot up the device and have not started any apps, yet, so I am not quite sure what the iPad is trying to load. Googling for the error message did not really explain anything to me, either (and the only related error emssage referred to error -1012). Has anyone come across something like this before?


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As PdL has been where it has long before the Tapas ever arrived there, one can only attribute this to an Entity beyond humanity.
I call him God, you may, or may not. Call It something else. If you do believe in Him, well, you must also agree that He's one great prankster with the McCanns.
I can just imagine Him and Maddie giggling down on all the stupidity that her parents have put themselves into and are still stuck with in.
First, if you remember, if someone was to kidnap someone from Apartment 5A at PdL, he would go the opposite way in which Jane Tanner saw him go, as was not it's only the fastest way out for PdL, as it was where the best cover provided for such a thing to be done.
Whoever made those roads go they way they go and connect the way they do could only be thinking in making the McCann's life hard.
Then, we saw that the shortest way to the beach from the Ocean Club is, as you know, blocked. So the natural path takes one by the PdL Church, which the McCanns so much want to us to know that they don't know it existed.
And you know why they want you to believe that? Because the Church is way too near where all the fun is, and where the fun is, is where you're most likely to find a witness, when you want to find one.
We also saw that the Rua da Escola Primária was the most possible inconvenient location to stage a abduction simulation. Its shortness, its lighting, its varying steepness and its various multitudes of options to avoid it and avoid being seen in it, makes it mandatory for anyone to be seen there carrying barefooted blonde little girl on chilly night be only because he wanted to be seen there carrying barefooted blonde little girl there.
Couldn't that street just be a tiny little shorter, a little bit darker and filled all the way with houses from top to bottom?
We also saw that dumping on the body on the beach made no sense whatsoever.
It also made no sense to be in Rua da Escola Primária if you wanted dump a body anywhere on the coast line.
Terrible little town when you just want to get away with a little "white" lie of hiding the fact that a little girl died there…
There are indeed many other little things about PdL that seem to really play against the McCanns that I'll speak of them later, like the fact that the Tapas Bar has the entrance it has, and the space the bar has, or that the front entrances to the Apartments seem to have been drawn up just to contradict these people, and other such details, that I'll keep to myself at this point in time.
It's like PdL is itself a "Divine Conspiracy" against the McCanns.
Today I want to highlight another one of these of these things.
Mrs Fenn, says "when, being alone again, she heard the hysterical shouts from a female person, calling out "we have let her down" which she repeated several times, quite upset. Mrs Fenn then saw that it was the mother of little Madeleine who was shouting furiously. Upon leaning over the terrace, after having seen the mother, Mrs Fenn asked the father, Gerry, what was happening to which he replied that a small girl had been abducted. When asked, she replied that she did not leave her apartment, just spoke to Gerry from her balcony, which had a view over the terrace of the floor below."
From her words, besides those that are quite explicit ("Upon leaning over the terrace, after having seen the mother" and "from her balcony, which had a view over the terrace of the floor below") one can infer that Mrs and Mr McCann are together or close to each other when the facts said above happened. She sees Kate in despair and asks Gerry, right? Now let's look at the Apartments 5A (McCann's) and 5G (Fenn's):
Now from another angle:
Have you noticed where the problem is? No, I'll help you:
Doesn't it seem that that thing was put there just to contradict Mrs Fenn's statement?
Like when they built that building by placing that simply decorative ledge they just "wanted" to clearly hamper the communication between those two specific floors? Making it impossible for the floor to have ANY visual contact with the terrace below?
We now get to know, for certain, that Mrs Fenn, from her balcony, DOESN'T have a view of the terrace, the immediate area of the street near the Apartment 5A, and to see the gate itself, only with a great deal of "leaning"… which might make us go back and review that whole thing about hearing or not the opening of the gate…
Would Gerry McCann be able to communicate with Mrs Fenn if standing on his terrace as pictured above? No, he wouldn't. But does that mean that Mrs Fenn can't speak to her downstairs neighbours, from her balcony, if she so desires? Of course she can:
There's a small space in the McCann's terrace, right in front of the couple's bedroom where both parties can speak to each other.
By the way, that litttle ledge of terrace, has almost been ignored as existing up to now, but it's there, as is shown, and not much used, and not much sense in using it.
Theoretically, then, that's where Kate and Gerry were standing when Mrs Fenn saw and spoke to them. Kate, hysterically shouting "we've let her down, we've let her down", and Gerry providing Mrs Fenn with the necessary clarification that "a small child" (why not his daughter?) had been abducted.
Sounds realistic to you?
To me, it doesn't either, but let's not let ourselves just go on feelings here.
We know for an alleged fact, that Kate sounds the alarm down at Tapas, and returns to the Apartment, followed closely by the remainder of the present Tapas, with the exception of Dianne Webster.
So we have either Kate coming up those apartment's stairs alone, followed by the group where Gerry is included, or the group arriving together, Kate included.
It's not humanly possible, much less for an elderly lady, for Mrs Fenn to, from when she hears the gate open, have the time to get up from her chair, open her balcony doors and lean over before the whole group is inside the Apartment below.
And Kate, as far as we know, hasn't started to shout hysterically yet. REPEATEDLY.
And, we must also say, that Mrs Fenn doesn't say anywhere that she does sees a group… So, definitely it's not at this moment that she communicates with the couple.
We know also, as an alleged fact, that the McCanns didn't search outside for their daughter.
We're almost led to believe that they stayed inside the Apartment the whole time as soon as they arrived there. We now know that that is not allegedly so.
We have at least, that strange episode where Gerry throws himself incomprehensibly on the floor OUTSIDE, and we have Fiona Payne's rogatory statement that clarifies things quite well:
1485 "How was Kate?"
Reply "Awful, I've never seen such horrible raw emotion in my life and I've seen a lot of it in my job. She, she was just bereft, she didn't know what to do, she was just panicking, extremely frightened, extremely frightened for Madeleine and, was wondering where she was or what was happening to her. And the helplessness, of not being able to do anything, what should she be doing, what could they do.
She was angry, really angry, punching walls, kicking walls, she was covered in bruises the next day, because she just didn't know what, what else to do.
She was angry at herself, she kept saying 'I've let her down. We've let her down Gerry', 'We should have been here'. She was praying a lot.
I just don't think she knew what to do, what to do. And she was just howling.
It was just, just awful. I think as time went on it just seemed a massive delay from when we said to Matt to phone the Police, that hour, it was an hour, it just seemed like an eternity, where nothing was happening, tut.
We're all intelligent people, we were all trying to think what we should be doing and, what's going to make a difference. And Kate's ringing, Gerry's ringing anybody under the sun, family, they just don't, they honestly just didn't know what to do..
So there was a lot of, Gerry's in and out, I mean, they were just sobbing, going between sobbing and then feeling helpless and then ringing people and this frantic activity.
Kate was desperate to have a Priest, which, people find weird, but I think that was just her way of thinking 'At least I can pray for Madeleine' and her way of feeling that she was doing something. But she wasn't functioning".
1485 "Did the twins wake up at all?"
Reply "They didn't. They didn't".
1485 "In the aftermath?"
Reply "No, and that was the other thing, she kept going into the twins, she kept putting her hands on the twins to check they were breathing, she was very much concerned in checking that they were okay.
But they were okay, I mean, they were fine, they didn't, they were asleep, but at the time it did seem weird, I remember thinking, when the Police came they turned the lights on, there was loads of noise, obviously from the moment Kate discovered that Madeleine was gone, the screaming and the shouting and there was a lot of noise and they, they didn't, so much as blink".
1485 "When you were with Kate in the aftermath, who else was in the apartment, I know you say that Gerry was coming and going, was there any other?"
Reply "Gerry was coming and going. Dave came in and, he came in initially with me, when I went to Kate, I don't think he went in any of the bedrooms, I think he was just mainly in the living room trying to put together what they should all be doing really, he was talking more to Gerry, so he was in. I didn't see Russell or any of the other group in, in Kate and Gerry's apartment.
Fairly soon after, a girl called Emma, who, I don't know what her position in MARK WARNER was, she was sort of I don't know what you call them, she was mainly working at the reception area, just as a, tut, I don't know what you call her job title, she was sort of looking after everybody".
1485 "Just one of the travel assistants or something, yeah?"
Reply "Yeah. I mean, I don't know what time she got there, it seemed quite early on, she was, she was in the room for the most part, it was me, Emma and Kate with Gerry and Dave sort of to'ing and fro'ing until the first lot of Police arrived".
From her statement one can easily understand that Gerry went in and out various times, and could, certainly, be called by the non-curious and non-busybody and very reclusive elderly Mrs Fenn, and went into that little ledge of terrace and told her that a small girl had been abducted.
Perfectly natural, one would even dare say, Of course he could have asked her if she had, by any chance seen the small child, which by chance happened to be his daughter, around somewhere near, or, as he was absolutely certain that she had been abducted, if she had seen something or someone strange or unusual.
He could, but doesn't.
As we know, he knew she hadn't seen anything, so why bother waste time, when there are more important things are to be done like… ringing up family and everyone under the sun that late at night?
So the conversation between Gerry and Pamela is now, I hope, clear. As mud.
Also, from Fiona's statement we can deduce that Kate was uncontrolled, INSIDE the apartment, her movements seem to be between the couple's bedroom to the other to check on the twins. And banging walls.
And from the phrase "when I went to Kate, I don't think he (David) went in any of the bedrooms", we're led to believe that when Fiona arrived, Kate was already in the bedroom, thus answering the previous question if Kate had or not arrived ahead of the group.
Fiona also says that Kate kept SAYING "I've let her down", that she was PRAYING a lot and was just HOWLING.
I don't know about you, but for me, howling is just the production of sound in an incomprehensible and very loud manner.
Not exactly perceptible, and not, I do think, to be taken as the already mentioned "we've let her down" hysterical screaming.
Mrs Fenn's statement ONLY is coherent with Fiona Payne's one if Kate went on that little ledge of the terrace and howled or hysterically screamed "we've let her down". Then, and only then, she could've been seen by the elderly lady, because as the elderly lady says, she did see Kate.
Pity nobody but Mrs Fenn reports such a public demonstration of despair on Kate's part. Or odd. Or telling.
I've said, and maintain, that "we've let her down" was an expression used by Kate PUBLICLY ONLY in the Tapas Bar, so either Mrs Fenn learned it in the way I just described above, or somebody told her (possibly over a cup of tea...), that Kate had said those exact words.
And if someone told her that, they might also have told her that she could use that information as if she herad it herself, thet it would be safe and correct to use it. If that did happen then… well, to put it bluntly, she's lying because it didn't, in reality, occur in her presence.
Unless, of course, like I just said, she did see Kate on that little ledge.
I think that now, and I hope you agree with me, both Gerry's dialogue, or monologue, with Mrs. Fenn's witnessing Kate's hysterical shouting is clarified.
I can't place these three characters, under the described conditions, together at around about 22:30, Mrs Fenn leaning on her balcony and Kate and Gerry being on that little ledge of the terrace. Can you?
I'll leave you some pictures of where all this supposedly happened, so that you may help me, if you so desire.


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Friday, April 22, 2011
Going for the shot...
Since cutting my teeth as a Citizen Blogger for the G20 Summit, I think I've photographed maybe 50 - 60% of the protests in Toronto (that have more than 50 people). There's a lot of 'fun' to be had photographing protests. Whether you believe in the cause or not, there is usually a high level of passion, and expression that you just don't get in many other situations. It's a fluid situation, dynamic and ever changing. It's hard to get that shot you want since it's there one second, and gone the next. You don't get the chance to compose your scene, adjust camera settings, check your focus and shoot. You literally have no time. So, what I've taken to, is running through the protest. If it's marching, I try to get through 2 or 3 times, sometimes as many as 5 or 6 depending on how the crowd is. It's a lot of running, but it's fun.
Once I get to the front of a protest, I usually have a moment or two to wait. Since I'm staying the in same area for a few dozen shots, now I'll take the time to adjust settings, and see if there's anything interesting that I can throw into the background. Sometimes, you have to get into weird positions in order to get the type of shot you want. I've been pinned against light standards, laid out across newsstands, crouched under a first floor window sill, between fake plants and walls, and probably many other places I can't (or don't want to) remember.
While I was at Queens Park today, I saw this guy shooting the horses that were there. He's lucky while shooting this, there aren't a lot of people around him. But this is the kinda thing you have to do to get the shot you want!
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Fishing Spoons for all Seasons
By Capt. Jim Hirt
Fishing spoons for spring, fishing spoons for summer, fishing spoons for fall and winter. Spoons are never the wrong bait. The variety of spoons is the reason they produce. The universal popularity of the spoon worldwide has caused it to evolve to an all species all season favorite. I would need to write a large book to go into all the types of spoons and their applications to different species. When I was done the subject would only be scratched on the surface. The best approach for me would be to cover all season fishing with spoons for salmon, trout and freshwater game fish. Fortunately I have had an opportunity over the past 25 years to try my luck on a wide assortment of species. The three most important factors to consider in lure selection are the action, color and size. I will break this down by season and type of fish.
The preferred water temperature of your target easily defines spoon action. In the times of the year when the fish you are after cannot find the temperature of the water they like you must adjust to meet conditions. For instance, you are looking to hook up with Brown Trout and the water temperature is 40 degrees, twenty degrees below their preferred range of 58 to 66 degrees. A slower lure action is required for this cold water. This can be achieved by a slower retrieve rate when casting or a slower boat speed for trolling. The problem with a slow speed is many spoons loose their fish attracting action. A spoon that solves this problem is the Nestor Wobbler made by BadgerTackle.com. The crankbait action of this spoon is deadly in slow presentations. This spoon also has multiple holes in the lip that will allow you to change from a wobbly baitfish action to a vibrating high-speed action. I recommend the Nestor Wobbler for most salmon, trout, bass and pike. It has been a consistent producer for me. Any time your target is in cooler water than they like slow down to improve your catch rate.
Color is very important to your success. Light is the number one consideration in your lure color. This is a good time to talk about color as it relates to the amount of light. You may or may not remember learning the colors of the rainbow in school. The colors are remembered by this acronym "ROY G BIV". These letters mean red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. There are exceptions to every rule. Most of the time I run lure colors of red, orange, or yellow when that lure is presented in the portion of the water column with the most light. The other end of the rainbow blue, indigo and violet are used in darker or low light situations. You may ask what about silver and white? I consider these as neutral or they will work in any type of light. All the other colors fall into either bright or dark. Bright lures are used in bright light conditions dark lures in low light. A relatively new and much improved addition to spoon colors is the glow in dark colors. After charging up the glow paint on the spoons with a bright light, they will take fish in the dark or stained water. You will find several manufactures with this product. I have found the glow on Badger Tackle spoons will last longer than most of the spoons being sold.
Size is as important to productive fishing as any of the other variables. The rules are simple: match lure size to the forage of your target and if fishing is slow or dead go to smaller size spoons. For example the first light bite was fantastic you were on your way to a limit catch. Then the sun comes up bright in a clear blue sky and all the action stops. I believe the reason for this is too much flash produced by large lures turns off fish. This is time to scale down to smaller lures. This approach can be applied any time you find yourself in bright conditions.
Consider all three, action, color and size to become more productive. Fish come in a wide variety of sizes and attitudes and one thing is common to all. You must get their attention if you expect to catch them. Adjust to meet conditions and you will become a better angler. Good Luck let's go fishing! Jim charters out of Milwaukee, WI. with Blue Max Charters. He can be reached at 414-828-1094 or visit his web site at http://www.bluemaxcharters.com Copyright© 2007, James J. Hirt, All Rights Reserved.


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And I exclaimed. But, by the time everybody else looked up, our minivan traveling 75mph, was too far past for anyone else to see. We took note of the upcoming intersection and surrounding landmarks, so we could stop and get a good look on our way home the next day. And we did, which is when this picture was taken.
It took me awhile to put words to what my soul already seemed to know and understand. The words sound like they're coming right off the page of a Marine's combat manual...Adapt and overcome.
I felt proud of this tree and grateful to it for teaching me its secrets, hard-won.
I felt proud of this tree and grateful to it for teaching me its secrets, hard-won.
I thought about which came first, the chicken or the egg. The fence or the tree. I don't know for sure, and I'm not sure it matters, but I bet it was the tree. And if so, there was obviously no parent tree around to settle the age-old "I was here first!" argument. And so it grew, in spite of having been there first.
It grew and grew, and it leaned just a little with the weight of the seasons. One day, it noticed something unlike itself. Something hard. Something uncomfortable. Something immovable.
Incapable of running away, the tree had to choose between giving up or pressing on.
It pressed on. But, not just on. Around. Around that thing that made it so uncomfortable. Completely around that thing.
And now that thing is a part of itself.
Maybe the strongest part, as a friend pointed out...
How long do you think that would take, my son asked? I don't know, son. I really don't know. Probably a long time. Seems to be a tree thing.
But, for people, there are a lot of hard things in life and fences are the least-hard of all.
ALS, cancer, losing someone you love and feel lost without, struggling with depression, alcoholism, being laid off, and sometimes, just getting through an ordinary day in an ordinary life. These are some of the fences in the lives of people I love. And these are just a few.
They look very different from one another, but they're very much the same. They're hard, uncomfortable, and not going anywhere any time soon.
Take heart, my friends.
The tree knows best.
When even one day at a time is too much...
lean on the fence,
and rest.


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In this part, Paul Ziegler gets critical about the way near field communication technology is implemented in Japan, from a security person's perspective.
Next thing we're going to look at is what I like to call the Too-Near Field Communication, which is kind of an international topic, because if you look at these couple of near-field communication cards (see right-hand image), the majority of those that are shown here are based on Sony FeliCa model.
The Japanese have taken this concept of near field communication, and they've taken it to another completely different level. I would like to introduce you to what I think is the worst idea in human history: it's the NFC-enabled Visa card (see left-hand image).
Now, this does not actually allow you to charge your Visa, but your card has a preset limit that you can set to whatever you want; you can set it to $200, and whenever your card empties, it will automatically charge another $200 to your card and will recharge the payment card that's on it. In this case it's Suica card that's intergraded.
If you try to convince anyone anywhere else in the world to use a credit card that is NFC-enabled that bills directly to your credit card, people will look at you and go: "Are you f**king nuts?" The reason why this works in Japan is because the same technology has already been around for years and it's been integrated in cell phones, so these cell phones (see image to the right) have NFC technology in them, something that we're just slowly seeing in other countries, and you can pay with them, and whatever you pay with them gets charged to your phone bill.
So, people are already really used to the concept of "Yeah, I have this unlimited bill that I can use with NFC, it's really practical, because all I have to do is *BEEP*"
So, why is this a problem? First, it's used virtually anywhere if you're in Japan. There's a couple of stores where you can't even pay in cash, they only take NFC; a popular example are the trains. If you want to get on a train, you have to buy a ticket. In many stations only 2 out of 10 ticket gates will have real ticket slots; everything else only takes NFC, so you're basically bound to carrying a Suica or FeliCa card with you.
You have this automatic recharging, and it's actually accepted by a lot on online stores by now. And you need to get a reader like this one, it's called FeliCa reader (see left-hand image), you can buy them on Amazon for about $10. They come with drivers, really easy to install. And the weird thing about the cards is that on the chip they will store your last 20-something transactions. This may be anything: this may be something you buy, or this may be a train you get on, or it may be the train you get off.
So, if you have this reader and you plug it into your PC, and you get anyone's card in the near proximity of it, you can extract a view like this (right-hand image). And this is actually not a hacker tool; this tool comes with the reader.
So, by now, what do we have? We get someone's NFC data – their card, or their cell phone; we got location tracking and we got purchase tracking, which obviously leads to some problems down the road somewhere. But what really makes it bad is that if you look at Amazon.co.jp, you can see that you can actually pay with your Osaifu-Keitai card (image to the left), and all you need is the exact same reader, so you plug in your reader, you go to Amazon, you say: "Yeah, I want to buy this," and they go: "Ok, what do you want to pay with?" "I want to pay with NFC" – "Cool". Touch your card to the receiver attached to your computer, beep – and you've paid.
Obviously, what we can do with it is we can buy stuff on other people's tabs. You open up Amazon on your laptop, you have some sort of cellular connection, you go to Pay, you take your reader, you walk up to some guy and do "BEEP", because there's no authentication, and you've just paid for it.
Now, I've taken a lot of crap for this particular point, because people always bring up the same defense, they say: "But Paul, the FeliCa standard particularly specifies that to prevent this we're only going to allow this across millimeters with private readers." So, they can do centimeters with commercial readers, but as an individual you can only get readers to allow you to read these cards from about 2 or 3 millimeters away, and you couldn't possibly get that close to another person without him noticing. That's just ridiculous.
Anyone who believes this has obviously never taken the morning commute train in Tokyo, because this is what it looks like, and this is not staged (see right-hand image). This is fairly common. This is a Tokyo line train, it's a rapid commuter express. It only comes every 20 minutes, so if you miss it you'll be late for work, and this is how they make sure that everyone gets on the train. Obviously, the inside pressure is still too high, so they need to get more people to be able to push in. So, anyone who wants to tell me that in this setting I couldn't possibly get within 3 millimeters of this guy's purse or wallet is trying to kid me. If you want to really shoot it off, have an emergency flight the next morning and carry two suitcases and try to get in there.
Alright, I think we've confirmed that with this technology and a little bit of evil spirit we can do location tracking, we can do purchase tracking, and we can buy stuff on other people's tabs by simply abusing the rush hour in the morning.
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The jury is still out on Louis van Gaal as there have been plenty of positives as well as negatives during his reign, but the reality is Manchester United have shown a great deal of potential in the business end of the season. The 3-0 loss at White Hart Lane damaged their top 4 hopes, but the Red Devils looked pretty good before conceding the opener, and they made sure to produce a perfect response, defeating West Ham on the road to reach the FA Cup final. With rock bottom Aston Villa next, Man Utd will see this game as a perfect opportunity to record another morale-boosting win. Unless they can win at Old Trafford, the Villans will be mathematically relegated after the weekend, and the players cannot wait for the season to end. Aston Villa have now lost eight football matches on the bounce, and with the confidence at an all time low, it is easy to predict they will return from Manchester empty-handed.
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Saturday, June 02, 2012
Thousand: Seven Hundred Sixty-Seven
by my name and it'll turn my head, yes, sure. I'm not shy to say so. Call me if you will. Call at twelve o'clock with the sun high, call at twelve with the moon, and, ah, what a fine warble my telephone is trained to, voice like an angel, or me, when I'm feeling musical, which isn't often, except many times a day when it's a day like that. I will close my eyes and listen because it is so beautiful, the song you bring into my life by calling me." The tour guide taps the ash off the
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I am concerened about the scheduling of up coming tests for MaryEmma. Her 6 month "follow up" MRI has been scheduled for Monday, Nov. 8th. (it has been scheduled for a few weeks now). Today, the GI specialist ordered a CT scan with barium and it is scheduled for 2 days after MRI. Although MaryEmma has not had issues with MRI and sedation before, it does seem to take a few days for her to bounce back. I am worried that the CT scan with contrast is too close to the MRI and her body may not process everything the way it should.
Has anyone else delt with anything like this? Did your child do okay? My gut is telling me to reschedule the CT scan for a later date.


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Jewish World Review Sept. 24, 2008 / 24 Elul 5768
McCain shorts himself
By John H. Fund
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What is John McCain thinking? First, Mr. McCain takes a wild swing by saying as president, he would have fired Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, for "betraying the public trust." It turns out a president doesn't have the statutory authority to do that, and Mr. Cox has been a political asset in dealing with the financial meltdown of last week. Indeed, the day after his call for Mr. Cox's firing, Mr. McCain retreated and called him "a good man."
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In an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal , James Franco 'breaks his silence " about what on earth he's been doing on General Hospital for the past few weeks. He confirms that his appearance on the soap is, as was predicted, performance art-or, at least, it was intended to be.
Franco writes:
I signed on to appear on 20 episodes of "General Hospital" as the bad-boy artist "Franco, just Franco." I disrupted the audience's suspension of disbelief, because no matter how far I got into the character, I was going to be perceived as something that doesn't belong to the incredibly stylized world of soap operas. Everyone watching would see an actor they recognized, a real person in a made-up world. In performance art, the outcome is uncertain-and this was no exception. My hope was for people to ask themselves if soap operas are really that far from entertainment that is considered critically legitimate. Whether they did was out of my hands.
I like James Franco and I like soap operas and I have found his entire appearance on General Hospital , thus far, to be an entertaining hoot. But based on Franco's own, self-identified criteria, I'm not quite sure he gets to call his work performance art. Obviously, the rub with performance art, as Franco points out in his op-ed, is that just saying it is can make it so. But if his appearance on GH is supposed to qualify because "Everyone watching would see an actor they recognized, a real person in a made-up world," I think he failed. You don't have to watch soap operas to see an actor you recognize in a made-up world. You can just go to the movies. What was actually jarring and potentially performance-art-esque about Franco appearing on a soap is not that the audience would recognize a "real person," but that the audience would recognize a famous one.
It seems to me the two questions we would have to be able to answer in the affirmative, by Franco's own standards, to make his appearance on GH count as performance art are as follows: One, does the presence of a famous person render us incapable of suspending our disbelief, incapable of forgetting the person onscreen is an actor and not a character? Two, does the presence of said famous person make us question whether soaps are a more "critically legitimate" form than we typically think? On both counts, Franco gets a no.
To dispense with the latter first, Franco's performance has not in any way legitimized soaps, or, more precisely, made us think more of the acting that goes on there. He fit right in, looking and sounding every bit the soap actor without any difficulty whatsoever. He has made soap acting look easy and absurd, exactly as mediocre as we all think it is. It is possible to construe this as a convoluted compliment: Franco's performance suggests that a good, even semi-believable performance is incredibly hard to pull off on daytime. If all you saw of James Franco was his performance on GH , you would not believe he was capable of his performance in Milk , but you would be wrong. Thus, any actor who is halfway plausible (and there are a few, including Kristen Storm, the actress who Franco bedded on the show, if you've been following), would likely be a lot better on film, with the opportunity to do multiple takes in good lighting. The trouble here is that a mediocre Franco is still much better than most of the actors he appears with, and we're left where we started.
Now, to the next question: Was it impossible for us to forget that this character Franco was, in fact, James Franco the movie star? Well, sort of. All of the non-soap-watchers who have tuned in just to watch Franco are probably unlikely to forget, given that they are watching just to blog/recap/observe this very fact. And yet, he is so much less out of place than we might have supposed. If his performance were amazing, nuanced, better than his colleagues', it might be hard to forget he's a famous dude; as it is, it's sort of hard to remember that he's a famous dude.
As for all of the people who watch GH , who watched before Franco and will watch after, I suspect they didn't care that he was a movie star about five seconds after he got on screen.
I said this briefly in a longer piece I wrote on GH , but soap watching requires an enormous suspension of disbelief. To me, this is its redeeming feature. Soaps are storytelling at its purest, by which I do not mean its best, but its most pared-down and essential. People watch soap operas to find out what will happen next to people they have known for many years. That's it. Plot and familiarity. No acting, production values, or intelligent story arcs are at work here. Soaps are like an old friend who you find frustrating but have learned to accept for who she is-you listen to her tell you really boring stories about the dentist, and, somehow, after all this practice, aren't even that bored. This-not only sticking with someone mediocre and dull, but being interested in someone mediocre and dull because you have known them forever and sometimes, every so often, they tell you a good story about a hot date-is not necessarily wise, cool or appropriately critical, but it is extremely, touchingly human.
All due respect to James Franco, but he is not nearly famous enough to destabilize this kind of commitment. Franco may have momentarily enlivened the viewing experience for regular watchers, who, sure, recognized him and thought something about him and his performance, but he is just another piece of plot, and another character, in a really, really, really, really long story. One's man performance art is just stunt casting to most of us, and another minor storyline to the remainder.
Photograph of James Franco by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images.


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AfDB to Participate in UN Climate Change Framework Convention Negotiations
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Tunis, 26 July 2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will attend the next round of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations, scheduled to take place from 2-6 August 2010 in Bonn, Germany.
The meeting aims at continuing the climate change negotiations leading up to the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to be held in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2010.
The AfDB has been actively involved in the UNFCCC process as an observer/ It fully understands the importance of these negotiations, and the need to achieve a fair and effective global agreement on climate change to Africa's benefit, especially ahead of the 2012 Kyoto Protocol Agreement expiry date.
The AfDB is committed to supporting African negotiators during this process. In February 2009, it recruited Seth Osafo, a lawyer and former UNFCC staff member, to provide legal advice to African negotiators on the UNFCCC talks and to ensure that Africa's interests would be well reflected in post-Kyoto Agreements.
Going forward, the AfDB will closely monitor progress and provide direct support and advice to African negotiators at the Bonn UNFCCC meetings.
The AfDB is also actively seeking to obtain the necessary accreditation to become a Multilateral Implementation Entity for the Adaptation Fund. It will continue to follow new developments on Adaptation Funds and related issues.
AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, is a member of the High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF), established on 12 February 2010, and chaired by the United Kingdom. The AGF will hold briefings throughout the UNFCCC negotiation process and will need to consult widely with a range of stakeholders. It is therefore critical for the Bank to be represented at these consultation meetings.
Other relevant issues for the Bank at the upcoming Bonn meeting inclu
- Investment and financial flows necessary to address climate change;
- Tools and mechanisms for enhancing funding for mitigation, adaptation and technology cooperation for an effective response to climate change;
- Technology transfer (renewable energy technology transfer is an important issue for the UNFCCC).
The Bank's Environment and Climate Change Division Manager, Kurt Lonsway, and Ms. Balgis Osman-Elasha, Climate Change Specialist in the Environment and Social Safeguards and Compliance Division, will attend the event.


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One of Create, Innovate Gosford's early successes was a relationship with local real estate agents, which developed from GBID's existing relationships with property managers in the CBD.
At the beginning of the project, local real estate agent Peter Turnbull from Citicoast Realty volunteered to conduct an audit of vacant retail properties (Audit of Gosford CBD 2010).
Deborah Lowndes said:
It's easier for us to talk to one real estate agent who manages four or five different owners, as opposed to us trying to build relationships with four or five different owners. If we build the trust of agents, then we are saving ourselves a whole lot of work.
Real estate agents being involved has meant easier facilitation of negotiating and using properties.
Real Estate Agent Rob Wilcox, who manages almost 90 per cent of retail properties in the CBD, is involved because he is:
trying to seek a new tenant for the landlord. That's the overarching thing; I put my landlord hat on and say, 'What can I do to get somebody into that shop?' And that was the rationale.
For Rob, the appeal lies in the temporary or 'meanwhile' nature of the project. Empty shopfronts that look unappealing can be used by creative enterprise to show the potential of a space, and this is a point of advantage.
Of concern for real estate agents were:
- Plate-glass insurance - which it was agreed would be covered by the artists
- License Agreement ensuring the artists take proper care of a property.
However, having reviewed the Renew Newcastle license agreement template, Rob Wilcox found it a reasonable document that was "flexible enough" for property owners.
His advice to other real estate agents being invited to get involved in an empty space initiative:
Consider it on its merits and look at the benefit it might bring. If you have a number of vacant shops, instead of having a vacancy, have somebody in there and make it look not disused. There's nothing worse than having a vacant shop.
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Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro USB Drive and Micro USB Drive Plus are now available
When it comes to storage devices, you will not go wrong with the name Verbatim. After all, they have been around for the longest time already, making sure that whatever your needs are, be it 5.25″ floppy disks (double sided or single sided?) to 3.5″ floppies that have a far more rigid chassis, not to mention newer portable hard drives and USB flash drives, Verbatim has got it down pat. I still remember how Verbatim floppies held a premium over regular floppies, as they had this Teflon coating which was said to be more resistant to scratches and fungal growth. Fat lot of good it did to my Prince of Persia disks though.
Today, we will look at the Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro USB Drive and Micro USB Drive Plus, which have just been announced to deliver rugged portable solutions that boast a modern design which will help you keep up with the times, delivering go anywhere storage which ought to be steady and tough enough to be able to withstand rough handling.
According to Mark Rogers, Verbatim Product Manager, Flash Memory Products "The compact, ultra durable Micro USB Drive and Micro USB Drive Plus are the ideal USB flash drives for people on-the-go. They are meant to be clipped anywhere for always-ready flash storage, but can be easily removed to share videos, school projects, photos or more. They are also available in multiple color options allowing for easy organization and identification."
Both devices will play nice with the Mac and PC platform, and you will have a selection of several storage capacities to choose from, starting from the humble 4GB and going all the way to the massive 32GB, although I would have liked to see a 64GB version in the pipeline as well. The choice of colors are also aplenty, where you can choose from 7 trendy colors such as Black, Sunkissed Yellow, Hot Pink, Eucalyptus Green, Caribbean Blue, Violet and Volcanic Orange.


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From the outer reaches of the Universe, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released exciting new screens for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, an action-adventure videogame that will be available in conjunction with the upcoming theatrical release of the Warner Bros. Pictures film, Green Lantern.
To give you a glimpse into the Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters story, we have a brand new set of in-game screenshots, as well as the official game trailer!
Featuring the voice and likeness of Ryan Reynolds (in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions), Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters allows players to assume the role of Hal Jordan to battle the Manhunters—a once noble android police force who are now bent on destroying the Green Lantern Corps.
Here are some screens from the Nintendo 3DS release:
Players take control of the most powerful weapon in the universe – the Green Lantern Power Ring – and conjure a spectacular range of "hard-light" constructs including a gatling gun, giant fists, and much more as they take flight to outer space in an effort to restore Intergalactic order.
Here is the official game trailer:
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Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters takes flight on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS on June 7th.


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this made me laugh a little. i like pigeons too, they're so funny and gawky.-indigo
The simplicity of this brought my day into focus as I was trying to complete a large complicated painting that I have a deadline to complete. Thank you for the posting, it brought me back to a calm frenzy...:>)Regards,A.J.
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Separation of Powers
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Montesquieu Separation of Powers
What are the three branches of power?
Legislative power: that of enacting laws
Executive power: executing the public resolutions
Judicial power: trying the causes of individuals
What is the legislature responsible for?
Legislature makes the laws,
What is the judiciary responsible for?
Judiciary settles disputes and imposes sanctions for breaking the law.
What is the executive responsible for?
The executive carries out the everyday tasks of government which can be anything given to it my the lawmaker. The executive implements the law and commands the resources of the state.
What was Montesquieu's main aim?
To protect liberty
Montesquieu continued
What did he believe to be the result of unchecked power?
Power must be checked by power - if any of two of the three functions fall into the same hands the outcome is likely to be tyranny.
What did he favour as the executive?
A monarchy
What responsibility should the executive have?
The executive should summon the legislature as and when it is needed.
Different kinds of separation of powers
Functional Separation - Where one branch carries out activities that strictly belong to another
Separation of Personnel - Where the same individual is a member of more than one branch
Checks and balances - Requires each branch to have some control over one or more of the others to ensure that they don't abuse their powers.
The Mixed Constitution
What did Aristotle believe?
Based on Aristotles three forms of government. He believed that any single form of government was unstable, leading to a permanent cycle of disasters.
What did Aristotle favour?
He favoured a blend of democracy and aristocracy: aristocracy to provide stability and wise leadership, democracy to provide consent.
How is this reflected in the English legislature?
English legislatue - House of Lords being aristocratic. Aristocratic and elected elements would have to agree to make changes in the law.
What was Montesquieu's standing?
Montesqueiu believed that an aristocracy based on inheritance produced an independent, educated and leisured class who would protect freedom and curb the democratic element, while other elements of the constitution could prevent the aristocracy from using their powers selfishly.
Judicial Independence
What does article 6 of the ECHR state?
Art. 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights requires a 'fair and public hearing... by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law'.
Art. 6 does not require a formal separtion of powers but requires that in the particular circumstances the court is not only independent but also appears to be so.
What does Judicial Independence require?
Judicial independence requires that the judges in individual cases be protected from pressures that threaten their impartiality.
A vital safeguard in the criminal process is that juries should not be vetted by the executive and cannot be required to give reasons for their verdicts or punished for giving or failing to give a verdict.
Accountability of the Judiciary
The judiciary should be legally and politcally accountable only to the sovereign Parliament in relation for example to expenditure or the general pattern of activity.
Collective accountibility to the public depends on the media and public having access to info regarding the judiciary. (E.g Supreme Court making its premises accessible to visitors)
Individual accountibility - a decision maker must explain/justify their actions. May be corrected/penalised if their actions fall short of required standards.
Judges are politically accountable to the public - judges often participate in public debate concerning general legal matters but avoid entering unto matters involving competing party politics
Accountability of judges to Parliament is limited in the interests of the separation of powers. Cases in progress shouldn't be discussed except in relation to matters of national importance/conduct of ministers. Judge's personal character or competence shouldn't be criticised
Separation of Function
Jennings - there is not important difference between the three functions, the executive/judiciary being essentially a more detailed kind of lawmaking.
However -
Legislature has no powers of enforecment, its work is finished once it has enacted a law and delivered it to the world.
The executive has the forces of the state under its control and in that it must be proactive in indentifying tasks and taking action,
The judiciary is distinct in that it is passive and can only decide particular cases brought to it by others and requires the cooperation of the executive to use state force.
Separation - Parliament/Executive
Parliament has no executive functions but the executive is involved in lawmaking.
The executive is responsible in practice for most legislative proposals so that Parliament's separate function lies in it having the last word to bring a law into effect.
Delegated legislation is made directly by ministers and other executive bodies under powers conferred by statute.
Criticised for the infringement of the separation of powers. It can be made without the public and democratic processes represented albeit imperfectly, by Parliament
Most delegated legislation is subject to a limited amount of parliamentary scrutiny by means of being laid before the House, although this is usually nominal.
The validity of DL can be challenged by the courts
Separation: Parliament/Judiciary
Judges are also lawmakers and their function is not confined to interpreting laws made by others
Judges' duty to follow precedent so as to limit the possibility of making up new law according to a judge's personal preferences.
Judges make their law only in the context of the particular case before them and must avoid changing the law in matters of large social significance.
A court must give way to Parliament
A court cannot usually investigate parliamentary proceedings or challenge statements made in Parliament.
Separation: Executive/Judiciary
By Judicial Review the courts can review executive action and have the last word as to what a law means.
The Attorney General has conflcting functions, he is a member of the government and of Parliament and the government's chief legal adviser. He plays a part in decisions to prosecute and is responsible for bringing legal actions against public bodies on behalf of public interest.
Judges have no duty to advise the executive. Judges are sometimes appointed to carry out investigations or inquiries into allegations against government.
Magistate's clerks are members of the civil service and as such part of the executive. However, they have certain judicial functions and all advise magistrates on the law.
Separation: Parliament/Judiciary
Judges are also lawmakers and their function is not confined to interpreting laws made by others
Judges' duty to follow precedent so as to limit the possibility of making up new law according to a judge's personal preferences.
Judges make their law only in the context of the particular case before them and must avoid changing the law in matters of large social significance.
A court must give way to Parliament
A court cannot usually investigate parliamentary proceedings or challenge statements made in Parliament.
Checks/Balances (Parliament/Executive)
- Legislature is protected against the executive under statute and convention. Legislature can remove the executive but under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011 the executive can no longer remove the legislature
- Parliament votes funds to the executive to enable the government to carry on
- The executive must resign if it loses the support of the HoC
- Individual ministers must appear before Parliament and explain the conduct of their departments.
Checks/Balances (Parliament/Judiciary)
Courts check parliament as they have the power to interpret statutes independently. Once a statute is enacted, Parliament loses direct control over it and it moves to the domain of the courts.
The intentions of the democratic branch must be respected but the court is concerned to uphold the rule of law.
Judges must observe the separation of powers by sticking to the language of the legislation even at the expense of their own views of justice or policy.
Courts must seek the intention of parliament. The intention of parliament is assumed to be indentified by the objective language of the statute.
The courts can take account of the purpose behind the statute in order to help them interpret it.
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Posted: Apr 16, 2014 at 12:00 AM (Last Updated: May 01, 2014 at 12:48 PM)The Green Tea variety of Evy Tea blends Meyer lemon and basil with cold-brewed green tea. In our opinion, this was the most refreshing tasting flavor of the lineup. The blend of full bodied green tea pairs almost perfectly with the citrus and herb flavors, which results in something that has very nice depth of flavor and is very refreshing. Plus, it's a zero-calorie formulation that is successful without needing any sweetener. That's something that's always an impressive feat in our book. Overall, we really enjoyed the intensity and complexity of this uniquely-flavored product. Packaging, on the other hand, feels like it's still a work in progress, but it's one that definitely feels like it's headed in the right direction. The 10 oz. glass bottle is simple and clean-looking, but the design of the logo feels a bit muted relative to the other text elements on the label. In addition, we feel as though the typography used on the lower portion of the front label could be cleaned up. Finally, we wonder if there shouldn't be a more prominent call-out for the lack of sweetener and calories. Ultimately, we really like the concept and this is a nice first effort from Evy Tea.


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Bart is back with more tales of derring-do and detention. During a school field trip to the zoo, Bart takes a dare that proves to be more than a little embarrassing. Also, a Professor Frink invention gone berserk leads to a population explosion...of Barts. Then, Bart goes in search of his "unique" talent, and, if that isn't enough, Bartman makes his debut in the pages of Bart Simpson comics.
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In case you missed it, here's this month's Metro Herald style column.
Metro Life is taking style advice from the people who really know their stuff, with a rotating panel of bloggers giving their top style tips. This week style connoisseur Whisty of whisty.wordpress.com returns
"ONE of the most interesting things about fashion blogging is getting to see clothing collections before they're released into stores. Shops like Oasis, Penneys / Primark and River Island get in touch twice a year and invite bloggers, fashion editors and stylists to view their collections for the coming season.
If you've ever watched The Devil Wears Prada, you will know the cerulean speech – when magazine boss Miranda Priestly tells assistant Andy exactly how it was that she came to wear a blue sweater that day. The gist of it being, that although Andy thinks she has made a sartorial choice that separates her from her fashion mag colleagues, as Miranda explains, she is in fact, very much a part of the fashion chain, albeit the weakest link.
Another point about the speech is how trends filter down from designers to the high street and so on. Collections are shown at international fashion weeks about six months in advance of the season. From there you can see how trends, styles and colours have all been translated from the designer collections to the high street a month or two later.
For example, one trend that was big on the catwalks for SS2012 was the peplum; a kind of mini frill attached to a top or a skirt that sits on the hips. Designers like Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Nina Ricci and Jason Wu all did versions of the peplum.
By the time the high street collections were launched, just about every shop had a version in their collections.
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Alliance Bernstein's Michele Patri on why past certainties are worth little today
A flexible fund management approach including agnosticism to benchmarks is crucial to handling markets in what will "probably be a fairly horrible economic environment over the next two years", says Alliance Bernstein's Michele Patri.
A flexible fund management approach including agnosticism to benchmarks is crucial to handling markets in what will "probably be a fairly horrible economic environment over the next two years", says Alliance Bernstein's Michele Patri.
The manager of the group's European Flexible Equity fund added classic long-only approaches will also struggle in volatile markets.
And not even hedge funds made money this year – they are down 4.4% by 31 October, according to Hedge Fund Research. Statistics from Morgan Stanley Research and Factset suggest in this year's difficult markets hedge funds have stopped generating alpha for the first time since 1995.
"The perfect storm has come over the past few months, and my base case is the equity market will be very challenging," said Patri (pitured).
"A portfolio manager needs tools to protect clients, and a long-only approach can expose clients to short term volatility. In the kind of environment we expect markets to have in 2012, such a manager will have an impossible job."
He said funds would need the ability to take a flexible approach. "Instead of picking the best possible pharmaceutical or consumer stocks, for example, you have to be able to ask, do you actually want to be in pharma or consumer stocks at all?
"My benchmark is 'not lose money', and to make it when I can. But if the market are going to be horrible, you will have some protection built in, too."
Patri's European Flexible Equity fund, launched in February 2011, made 2.3% to 31 October this year, as mainstream assets apart from core G7 debt struggled to make money. Even hedge funds, which should be able to profit even if markets fall, are down 4.4%, according to Hedge Fund Research.
Patri's fund drastically cut net long exposure to equities to at the height of the market volatility. Currently the net long position stands at 39%, and those companies it is exposed to are typically classic defensives such as pharmaceuticals, food retailers and telecoms, and physical gold via ETFs.
He avoids "any company with a lot of debt needing refinancing in 2012 because they are a risk. Before, you looked at debt to EBITDA, and how much the company could sustain EBITDA, but now it is different, because if you are a start-up company and you have to refinance a lot of debt, the question is, where will you find the money to do that?
"The problem with Europe's sovereigns is their impact on banks, and that is potentially unlimited. You can be an entrepreneur with 30 employees and $5m of revenue, and realise they are not giving you loans. That is why I think the next year will be horrible, and in this situation the stock market is vulnerable.
"It is a new mindset dealing with a business in such an emergency and managing a company when such changes happen."


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In September, Nottingham Glee Club will be celebrating 20 years of bringing live comedy to the masses.
To mark this occasion, the one and only Milton Jones brings his very best live material to celebrate the landmark birthday.
Now a huge comedy star of stage, screen and radio, Milton returns to the clubs he regularly played as a circuit headliner.
Milton will be supported by James Acaster.
Tickets for the gig on September 10, priced £15-16.50, are available from www.glee.co.uk
Milton Jones is regularly on Mock the Week (BBC2), has appeared on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow (BBC1), Live at the Apollo (BBC1) and he has headlined Dave's One Night Stand (DAVE).


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Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him....Job 13:15
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Job 23:10
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Job 23:12
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. Hab 3:17-19
i am very thankful for the Bible in times of battle. i am also very happy that it is Friday and i made it until the weekend. i am looking forward to the bible studies we are doing this weekend. They give me strength, encouragement and inspiration during times of trial. A shelter in time of storm.
My meals today were:
one watermelon, 5 bananas. (1170 Calories)
Non-sweet fruit salad with banana-avocado dressing. (1470 Calories)
Exercise: 30 minutes of isometrics....3 sets of 4 exercises....2 minutes of abs..2 sets of calistenics.
Have a wonderful Weekend.
Grace and Peace be multiplied.


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KALAMAZOO--Western Michigan University will honor 80 of its most outstanding graduate students during an awards program from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the Bernhard Center's South Ballroom.
The annual reception is open to the public free of charge and will include student presentations as well as awards. Light refreshments will be served.
The students being honored are recipients of the Graduate Research and Creative Scholar and Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Awards for 2011–12. Eleven students will receive the further distinction of being named All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholars, and 10 will be honored as All-University recipients of the Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Awards.
The Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Awards were given for the first time in 1985 by the Graduate College and the Graduate Studies Council to honor outstanding achievement by graduate students in research and creative activity. In 1998, the Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Awards program was implemented to honor outstanding teaching effectiveness by graduate students.
For more information, visit wmich.edu/grad or contact Dr. Julie Nemire in the WMU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com or (269) 387-8208.
Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Awards for 2011-12
All-University Scholars
- Michelle Barger, geosciences
- Timothy Edwards, psychology
- Ali Eshkeiti, electrical and computer engineering
- Isurika Fernando, chemistry
- Angela Marotta Garrison, counselor education and counseling psychology
- Dustin Hoffman, English
- Taylor Paskin, biological sciences
- Ryan Sibert, geosciences
- Stephen Spates, communication
- Anthony Squiers, political science
- Lydia Walker, comparative religion
Department Scholars
- Mark Steven Barajas, counselor education and counseling psychology
- Sara Bijani, history
- Gerardo Bohorquez Gonzalez, Spanish
- Caitlin Callahan, Mallinson Institute for Science Education
- Ting Chen, paper engineering, chemical engineering and imaging
- Mary Sajini Devadas, chemistry
- Brian Doane, counselor education and counseling psychology
- Katherine Ellison, history
- Leticia Espinoza, Spanish
- Nicole Fonger, mathematics
- Tamrat Gashaw, economics
- Brenna Halpin, music
- Kristin Hobson, interdisciplinary evaluation
- David Johnson, English
- Lucas Kanclerz, geography
- Ian Kerr, anthropology
- Maxwell Kirchhoff, political science
- Nicole Klutz, speech pathology and audiology
- Sooman Lim, paper engineering, chemical engineering and imaging
- Scott Marley, physics
- Daniel Rubio, philosophy
- Raed M. Salih, computer science
- Christina Sheerin, psychology
- Benjamin Slager, biological sciences
- Christine Strayer, educational leadership, research and technology
- Michelle A. Suarez, interdisciplinary health sciences
- Cynthia Visscher, sociology
- Matthew Wittbrodt, human performance and health education
- Jiangang Xia, educational leadership, research and technology
- Jaime Zinsmaster, nursing
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All-University Graduate Teachers
- Ellizar Abalos, music
- Matthew Arsenault, political science
- Skylar Bre'z, history and gender and women's studies
- Colleen Cullinan, psychology
- Kevin Douglass, chemistry
- Krystal Howard, English
- Kathryn Kestner, psychology
- Kate Rowbotham, Mallinson Institute for Science Education
- Marc Schaffer, economics
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- David Barry, sociology
- Emily Beard, communication
- Garrett Brookmyer, counselor education and counseling psychology
- Erica D'Elia, anthropology
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- Bryan Phinezy, mathematics
- Buddhi Rai, physics
- Daniel Serfas, geography
- Raymond Sheets, counselor education and counseling psychology
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Additional Functions
Additional Functions ( ) loads a dialog of functions to help view and trace material settings.
You can assign reflection or glow to a face by right clicking on the face. If the face has a material, you can also use this method to assign the reflection or glow to all faces with the same material. This is usually much easier then using these functions. These functions are provided for cases where the material you want to set is buried inside of components and/or groups and it would be difficult to access the face directly to modify it.
To invoke these functions, use the Plus Sign icon on the IRender Toolbar (
Display Attributes for:
These functions are used to view attributes stored by IRender on your SketchUp model.
- Entity
- Material
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Reflection and Glow Settings
- Show All - displays all material overrides stored in the model.
- Delete All - removes all material overrides stored in the model.
- Purge Unused - removes all material overrides which are not being used.
Selected Reflection
- Define - Displays a list of materials in the model and lets you assign a reflection to them.
- Edit - Displays a lost of materials int the model which already have a refection and lets you change the reflection.
Selected Glow
- Define - Displays a list of materials in the model and lets you assign a glow to them.
- Edit - Displays a lost of materials int the model which already have a glow and lets you change the glow.
If there are entities selected in the model, these functions only display materials for the selected entities. Otherwise they display display materials for all entities in the model.
Create Bump Map Images
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Image Functions
- Loads a dialog to display, select and remove images from a SketchUp model..
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We launched "Making A Stand" in September 2014 because as British Muslim women we believe in the principles of democracy, human rights, peaceful co-existence and respect for life.
As successful as that launch in London was, we did not want to stop there. We are now set to take "Making A Stand" around the country.
Across the UK, we want to stop the damage caused by extremists poisoning young minds, by building resilience in our communities and strengthening women's voices. All of which we feel are crucial in challenging extremism.
Extremism impacts women in particular. Extremists try to erode women's rights and justify sexual violence against them. They prey on our children, encouraging them to leave for Syria; the fear of losing our children to such violent groups is heartbreaking.
And yet groups like ISIS, Al Shabaab, Boko Haram and others justify their violence in the name of our faith. As Muslim women, we are here to reclaim our faith back. We are determined to ensure that these terrorists will no longer be able to prey on our children with impunity by recognising our crucial role in our communities in deterring people from being drawn into extremism.
No more. Enough is enough.
We want you to join us as we visit Birmingham, Luton, Cardiff, Leeds, Burnley, Crawley, Leicester, West and East London.
We've already visited Birmingham and Luton to great success, and we can't wait to continue our roadshow in Leeds on March 10th.
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The Beauty of the Lord
I am entering a new phase of life and I have decided to embrace it. It's called "middle-age." I am learning to see things more and more through God's eyes and less and less through mine. And it's good.
My favorite flower is the hydrangea. So unique in its color scheme and size, the hydrangea is relatively carefree. Depending on its soil, the flower will bloom in any shade of pink, purple, blue, powder, or cream. Each bloom holds dozens of smaller flowers which typically have four petals. I love its simplicity and complexity....a dynamic that seems to signify life.
The most amazing thing about the hydrangea, or any other flower, is that its beauty is not created by man. Its intricate handiwork was designed, flawlessly, by our Lord. Not only is each flower type unique, but each flower within its own category is unique. No two hydrangeas are exactly the same....yet each one is beautiful in its time.
So it is with women. The most beautiful women I have ever known are not defined by their hair color, their waist size or their prowess. They are brought to height in my mind by their incredible love for Christ. That love radiates from every facet of their lives and brings amazing light and allure. They work with their hands, yielding lovely things....quilts, blankets, curtains, candles, soaps, booties, herbs, casseroles, wreaths, rugs, bread, paintings. Those same hands make beds, fold clothes, till the garden, can the beans, caress their husband's faces, cuddle the grandchildren, open the mail, write the checks, pull the weeds, wash the dishes. Each one designed by God for a special purpose, these beautiful women set out each day to do exactly as He has called them. They simply amaze and inspire me.
The world has its own view of beauty, but it's askew. The world's greatest super models just can't hold a candle to the women of God. So I will accept my graying hair, my stiff knees, my increased waistline, my fading eyesight....and I will be thankful that the beauty of the Lord is eternal. He is mine God and I will praise Him!
"Let the beauty of the Lord be upon us. And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm for us the work of our hands."