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Fear And Loathing In 2016: Obama's America
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This past weekend I went to see 2016: Obama's America, the new documentary by right-wing author Dinesh D'Souza that opened nationwide after a limited release last month. I saw it twice, in fact, in two different theaters and chatted with a few fellow movie-goers to get their impressions of the film. And even though 2016 is rife with basic factual errors and logical inconsistencies, and steps on its own anti-Obama message with moments of unintentional comedy, the faithful that the movie preaches to love it, warts and all.
The most charitable thing I can say about 2016 is that it's poorly timed. The movie argues that President Obama's true ideology (inherited from his absentee father) is a "failed Third-World collectivism" that seeks to reduce America's stature in the world, as evidenced (in part) by Obama's determination to "lower NASA's horizons" so that it no longer exists as a symbol of American greatness. And this might be a compelling argument had NASA not just successfully deposited a Volkswagen-sized robot with a rock-vaporizing laser on the surface of Mars a few weeks ago.
Similarly, D'Souza's film argues that this "Third-World anti-American" viewpoint of the president's leads him to be "weirdly sympathetic to Muslim jihadis" captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Meanwhile, outside the movie theaters, news broke this weekend of an air strike that killed a senior Taliban official in Pakistan. (The obvious counterexample, Osama bin Laden's demise, doesn't merit mention in the film)
But again, to merely point out these untimely real-world inconsistencies is to do this movie a favor. 2016 is an outgrowth of D'Souza's 2010 book, The Roots Of Obama's Rage, a controversial and much-derided tome in which D'Souza laid out his hypothesis that Obama's actions are best explained by the aforementioned "collectivist" worldview he inherited from Barack Obama Sr. As Slate's Dave Weigel pointed out after viewing the movie's July premier, some of the blatantly false and risible elements of Roots didn't make it into 2016, but there's still plenty of nonsense to fill out an 89-minute documentary.
The first 20 minutes or so of the movie aren't actually about President Obama. They're about D'Souza himself. He leads us down a hurried biography of his life, starting with his birth in Mumbai, focusing heavily on his education at Dartmouth and Stanford, and moving on to his time spent working for the Reagan White House. (D'Souza prides himself on being a die-hard Reaganite, which I'll come back to in a moment.) The intended message is unmistakable: Dinesh D'Souza is smart. He knows his stuff. Trust what he's about to tell you, no matter how insane it might sound.
Then we ease into the crazy. Parts of the first half of the film could be described as "playful." D'Souza bounds from Indonesia to Hawaii to Kenya, retracing the arc of Obama's existence and hamming it up for the camera as he learns to hula dance and climbs onto the back of a moped in Jakarta. Interspersed are segments of Dinesh D'Souza: Journalist, in which he interviews a psychologist who specializes in child abandonment and an academic who knew Obama's mother and stepfather.
This thin veneer of competence gets completely washed away, however, when D'Souza visits the Obama family in Kenya, showing up at the home of Obama's stepmother seeking an interview and offering three goats as payment. It doesn't go well. D'Souza and his entourage are turned down and told to leave by security personnel.
But he did manage to score an interview with one member of the extended Obama family: the president's half-brother George Obama. A community organizer who lives in the slums of Nairobi, George figures prominently in D'Souza's theory, with the documentarian using him primarily as a vehicle to attack the president for not "lift[ing] a finger to help a destitute close relative." (George has told reporters that he chooses to live in poverty to identify with the people he tries to help.) In the interview, D'Souza asks George why he thinks his powerful brother hasn't helped him, to which George responds: "He has a family of his own. I am of older age. I can help myself." D'Souza tries again, desperate to get George to validate his theory of the president's callousness, but George won't cooperate. "He's got other issues to take care of," George says.
From there we're treated to a reenactment of Obama grieving over his father's grave (Obama himself provides the narration, courtesy of the Dreams from My Father audiobook), which serves as the dramatic, intellectually vacant set-up for D'Souza's primary argument: that Obama has adopted his father's political and economic philosophy and is inflicting it upon America, enforcing a sort of global penance for the sins of colonialism as a way of securing his deceased father's love and respect. This is where things really go off the rails.
D'Souza provides us a dossier for each of "Obama's Founding Fathers," drawn from the well-worn rogues gallery of intellectuals and fringe characters (Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, etc.), combined with the standard-issue warning that "we haven't seen the real Obama." He whips up some apocalyptic rhetoric about the debt, saying Obama will use it as a "weapon of mass destruction" to tank the country, and his discussion of the debt with former U.S Comptroller General David Walker is accompanied by -- and I'm being completely serious here -- high-pitched slasher-film music. (The fact that Walker also lays blame for reckless spending at the feet of George W. Bush does nothing to dampen D'Souza's enthusiasm.)
He whacks Obama for "blocking" the Keystone pipeline (not true) while loaning "billions of dollars" to Brazil to pursue offshore drilling (also not true). There's a bit of Glenn Beck-inspired paranoia as snaking thorns of red, black, and green encircle the Middle East and North Africa, forming the new "United States of Islam." This in turn leads to fearmongering about Iran's nuclear ambitions, and attacks on Obama for a) doing "nothing" to impede Iran's nuclear progress (not exactly true), and b) seeking to reduce nuclear stockpiles globally.
Here's where D'Souza's Reagan boosting comes back to bite him. The documentary attacks Obama for signing the New START Treaty with Russia, which calls for steep reductions in both countries' nuclear stockpiles, and mocks the president for his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. "Dreamy idea," D'Souza quips, sparing no sarcasm. Unmentioned is the fact that the abolition of nuclear weapons was also the stated dream of... Ronald Reagan, who first proposed the original START Treaty with the Soviet Union. As Reagan told the nation in a January 1984 speech: "My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth."
So 2016 suffers a great deal from logical inconsistency and factual error, but what did the audience think? After a well-attended showing in northern Virginia I chatted with two women from Arlington, both white and above middle-age, who came to the movie having never heard of Dinesh D'Souza but wanting to know more about President Obama. "I thought it was dramatic and scary," said one, who thought D'Souza offered "a very reasonable explanation for what's happening." They did not agree with D'Souza's claim that Obama is "weirdly sympathetic" to jihadists, given recent news about terrorist deaths, but the message on the debt resonated with them: "When they get up in the future projections of what's going to happen and if we continue on the road we're on, it's very scary."
On Friday, after a sparsely attended showing Washington, I talked with Ray, a white, middle-aged DC resident who first came in contact with D'Souza through Glenn Beck's Fox News program and was plugged in to conservative commentary (he went to see the movie after reading conservative columnist Thomas Sowell's rave review). Ray thought 2016 was "very well done" and reinforced his belief that the president is motivated by anti-colonialism, though he was slightly dubious regarding some of D'Souza's facts. When I asked if he saw any tension between D'Souza's attack on Obama's rhetoric on nuclear weapons and his Reagan boosterism, Ray said: "Well, every sane person wants a world without nukes." And when I mentioned NASA, it was Ray who brought up the Curiosity landing. "Obama said the right things," after the probe touched down, Ray said, "but does he believe it? I don't know."
And that really gets to the point of 2016. The facts, the scholarship, the logic are all secondary to reinforcing the idea that -- despite four years in office and a policy record to judge him on -- Obama is still an unknown and threatening quantity. D'Souza's exploitation of that belief is over-the-top and galling, but that's clearly what 2016's target audience wants to hear.
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BATON ROUGE — With roughly a week to go until the regular session convenes, unilateral support from the Terrebonne-Lafourche delegation appears unlikely for Gov. Bobby Jindal's tax swap plan.
BATON ROUGE — With roughly a week to go until the regular session convenes, unilateral support from the Terrebonne-Lafourche delegation appears unlikely for Gov. Bobby Jindal's tax swap plan.
Under fire for weeks for its effects on low-income families and small businesses, and at times for its math, the administration's plan would eliminate $3.6 billion in personal and corporate income taxes to make way for a new 6.25 percent state sales tax, among other changes.
It promises to be the focal point of the session that begins April 8 and adjourns June 6.
Siding with members of the conservative Budget Reform Coalition, Rep. Dee Richard of Thibodaux has complained that too few details were made available about the administration's plan in recent weeks and most information was unreliable.
Jindal originally told lawmakers the 4 percent state sales tax would only jump to 5.88 percent under his plan, but the figure was hiked Thursday as the various pieces of the governor's legislative package were being introduced.
The decision to increase the state sales tax a second time came on the heels of a report from the Public Affairs Research Council, a Baton Rouge-based nonprofit policy watchdog, that found the tax plan, with a 5.88 percent sales tax, would result in a $500 million to $650 million shortfall.
Richard, who has no party affiliation, said he plans to file a bill for the session that would repeal all tax exemptions that are not protected in the state constitution, increasing state tax revenues by $4 billion to $5 billion annually.
While the bill is still being drafted, Richard said it would be an avenue to effectively decrease income taxes.
"I know it's a long shot and it will step on a lot of toes, but we need an alternative plan on the table," he said. "We should at least look at that before altering sales taxes."
If he is unsuccessful, Richard said he would consider introducing the same language in the form of a constitutional amendment during the 2014 regular session.
"That would allow the people to vote on it," he added.
Jindal has said all along that he wants his plan to be revenue neutral, meaning the state would not experience a drop or rise in tax revenues when the changes take effect Jan. 1, 2014.
In addition to trading income taxes for more sales taxes, other parts of Jindal's plan would increase taxes on cigarettes, scale back existing exemptions and offer tax rebates to the poor and retired, both of which would be vulnerable for greater tax liability under the proposed swap.
Another alternative can be found with the Legislative Black Caucus, which wants to reduce income taxes, repeal corporate franchise taxes and increase taxes on tobacco products, among other mechanisms introduced by the caucus chairwoman, Rep. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe.
Sen. Troy Brown, D-Napoleonville, another member of the caucus who represents portions of northern Lafourche Parish, said he has largely been influenced by public opinion, especially in his Senate district.
"As of now, based on the public's discomfort on what they're hearing, I don't see myself being anywhere near being able to support the governor's plan," Brown said.
Revenues from the current income tax structure may be too important to give up, he said.
"To do away with such a stable revenue stream in such a dramatic way, it's just improbable. We're going to end up with more problems than we have now," he said.
The state budget Jindal has proposed for the next fiscal year predicts a revenue shortfall of $1.3 billion, which may be an indication that an aggressive tax swap at this juncture is ill timed, Brown said.
While there may be some dissent among the Legislature's leadership — Brown is vice chair of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee — many are expected to stand by Jindal, as they have on major issues in previous sessions.
House Natural Resources Chairman Gordon Dove, R-Houma, has offered encouraging words so far.
"I like the concept. I really do," said Dove of Jindal's tax swap package. "It could probably attract more business to Louisiana. But right now I'm trying to find out more about how the changes would affect low-income families and the middle class."
The administration favored an example of a teacher making $45,000 who would have a tax benefit of $680 under the plan, although Democrats have argued the same teacher would lose some of the benefits by paying for increased sales taxes for services targeted under the Jindal plan.
Rep. Truck Giscalir, D-Larose, said he is still trying to go through all of the legislation introduced by the administration.
"I've heard a lot of input from both blue collar folks who both like the plan and don't like the plan," he said. "I look forward to reviewing all of the legislation."
Other examples of income ranges and tax benefits offered up by Jindal include the following:
-- An employee at a landscaping company and a stay-at-home mom making about $35,000 per year would see their annual state tax burden reduced by about $130.
-- A plant worker making $60,000 per year, around $950.
-- A couple who owns a small business making about $90,000 per year, about $1,450.
Rep. John Bel Edwards, D-Amite, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, held a news conference this past week to offer a wide-ranging critique of Jindal's plan.
He argued it would benefit Louisiana's wealthy but will cost the state's businesses, local governments, retirees and senior citizens, the middle class and poor, and the state's tourism industry.
Moreover, Edwards said "it creates the highest sales tax in the nation."
The influential Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, which backed Jindal's education and pension reforms last year, is concerned the plan would shift too much tax liability to business.
It has promised to oppose Jindal's plan if it remains in its current form.
Although financial services are supposed to be exempt from the plan, officials with the Louisiana Bankers Association said they are worried because banks rely on other business services that would be taxed.
The Louisiana Municipal Association, which represents city governments, has "no position" on the plan, but its executive board "still has major concerns regarding the sweeping reform," according to a prepared statement.
How the plan will affect the ability of municipalities to maintain or increase local sales taxes is chief among them.
On the other side of the debate, the Beacon Hill Institute, the economic research arm of Suffolk University in Boston that is supported chiefly by conservative money, released a study this past week calling the plan a "powerful incentive for Louisiana's households and businesses to save and invest, spurring increases in employment and incomes."
It was released in partnership with the New Orleans-based Pelican Institute for Public Policy.
Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform also supports Jindal's plan.
In a speech Friday at the West Bank Luncheon in New Orleans, Jindal made his case to eliminate income taxes, abolish more than 200 "special interest tax loopholes" and make Louisiana's tax code "simpler and fairer for Louisiana families and businesses."
While Louisiana's economy is outperforming the southern and national economies, he said, there are too many Louisianans who are unemployed, underemployed or who have left the state to find work.
"Our tax code is complex, unstable and unfair," Jindal said. "If you have a lobbyist and a lawyer, you can find a loophole in the tax code. Families don't have lobbyists in Baton Rouge, and they aren't getting a fair shake in the current system. We need a system where special interest groups are no longer able to rig the system."
To the argument that his plan would negatively affect low-income families, he countered that eliminating income taxes and closing loopholes would reduce the tax burden for individuals and families across every income level.
"The bottom line is that eliminating income taxes will put your money back into your hands, so you can spend it how you want," Jindal said.
While local and state sales taxes combined would be the among the highest in the nation, Jindal argued the state sales tax rate alone would actually be one of the lowest in the region.
Texas has a 6.25 percent state sales tax, Mississippi has a 7 percent state sales tax and Arkansas has a 6 percent state sales tax.
"Under the new system, Louisiana's state sales tax rate would be 24th lowest in the nation," according to information released by Jindal's office.
The governor said the tax code in Louisiana is playing a role in outmigration, the pattern of people leaving the state, which is why it is his top priority for 2013.
"People are mobile, and they can move, and they will move to find new jobs and opportunities for their families," Jindal said. "This is exactly why states with no income taxes are outperforming other states in terms of economic growth and population growth."
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It's a pleasure to introduce today's guest, author Keven Newsome. Welcome, Keven!
A: Many different factors contributed to the formation of Winter. I suppose the original germ was to write about a Goth Christian, to show how God can use any person no matter what other people may think of them. And in truth, that's the simplest description of the book. In the flashback story, we see Winter's decline into the Gothic subculture and her self-destructive behavior as she deals with the slow death of her mother and a new life with her estranged dad. But in the primary story, we see her having overcome her past. She's now being used in a miraculous way by God. Giving her the gift of prophecy and having her fight a Satanic priest, was just for fun. To me, the real story is about Winter.
Q: Have you always wanted to be a writer?
A: I got an early start writing. My first piece was fan-fic based on a RBG video game. Oh, and I was eleven. I had wrote about three pages in the King's English. Why? Because the video game used that kind of language. My classmates tell me I never stopped writing, but I don't think I seriously considered writing until Junior High. That's when I started to develop story ideas that I would write in High School. I took a break in college, writing my "practice book" after graduating. I've been working on Winter for four years now. Have I always wanted to be a writer? No. At times I wanted to be something else. But I think I have always been a writer, even if I wouldn't admit it.
Q: How does your faith impact your writing?
A: This question is the reason I didn't write in college. In High School, I didn't care about mixing faith and writing. But as I grew closer to God, I couldn't bring myself to write contrary to my faith. It took several years for me to get an answer. In part I have Frank Peretti to thank for inspiring me to write exciting stories of faith. My heart was originally for fantasy, and there was little Christian fantasy to be found for me to learn from. After much prayer, I began my "practice book" and wrote it as a fantasy allegory. Winter, a modern day supernatural thriller, came a little easier. Now, I enjoy creating stories that bring the supernatural to light in a very real way. But fear not…I have another fantasy in cue to write, too.
Q: Do you plot out your story ahead of time, or do you think it up as you go?
A: I am a meticulous outliner. I didn't even start Winter until I had done a basic outline for the whole series. Then I did a complete outline for Winter. THEN I went back and wrote at least a paragraph describing each chapter in the outline. Only after completing that step for half the book, did I actually start writing. I do let the story grow and become what it wants to become. But when the story makes changes, I have to go fix my outline.
That being said…I have never outlined a short story.
Q: What's your favorite part of the writing business? What's your least favorite?
A: My favorite part is writing, of course. Being created in the image of God, humans can't help but be mini-creators. Immersing in the creative process is the closest I can get to being like God. And isn't that what we're supposed to do? Try to be like God? I just pray that my efforts are pleasing to Him. My least favorite part is submitting. Nobody likes to be rejected over and over and over. Can't we find a way to skip that part?
Q: What's the most important piece of advice you would give to a fledgling writer?
A: Write. Write. Write. You want to be a writer? Write. Don't dream about it. Don't talk about it. Don't spend all your time studying about it. Do it. And while you write, assume that every other writer is better than you. Listen to them. Learn from them. Grow. And keep writing.
Q: Scenario: You're about to be dropped off on a deserted island. You can take along one survival item, one book, and one person (living or dead… but they'll be alive on the island). What and who do you take?
A: Item – satellite phone. Book – A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building. Person – the Survivorman, Les Stroud.
Q: What's the one far out sci-fi technology you'd most like to see become a household item?
A: I want my flying car. Seriously, it's 2011. Where's my flying car?
I agree. I want the flying car and the briefcase it folds up into :+} Thanks for stopping by today, Keven. It was a blast!
Keven Newsome is a graduate student at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he is pursuing a Master of Arts in Theology specializing in Supernatural Theology. He writes stories that attempt to portray the Supernatural and Paranormal with an accurate Biblical perspective. He is the author of Winter, a thriller published by Splashdown Darkwater. He currently lives in New Orleans, LA with his wife and their two children. Keven is also the founder and administrator of The New Authors' Fellowship and produces music and video through Newsome Creative.
Find him online at http://www.kevennewsome.com/ (mind the Es, there are four), on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thewordcrafter, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kevennewsome.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Winter
Winter Maessen didn't ask for the gift of prophecy. She's happy being a freak – but now everyone thinks she's crazy. Or evil. Goths aren't all the same, you know. Some are Christians….Christians to whom God sends visions.
Students at her university are being attacked, and Winter knows there's more than flesh and blood at work.
Her gift means she's the only one who can stop it – but at what price?
View the trailer below
If you'd like to be entered to win the e-book, Winter, just leave a comment on this blog. I'll pick a winner at random on Monday, June 20th. Please leave an email address so I can contact you if you're the winner. (To prevent spammers from trolling for your email, please use this format with the brackets--you [at] yourmail [dot] com--or something similar.) E-book in the winner's choice of format (nook, Kindle, PDF) can be downloaded from Smashwords (with free coupon code) or emailed.


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DRx Romanelli x Shane Campbell Gallery Tote Bag
These bags are the product of a new collaboration between DRx Romanelli and Shane Campbell Gallery. Inspired by the many tote bags collected over the years at international art fairs and institutions, these tote bags are assembled by mixing pieces from different tote bags together and turning them into new creations.
Each bag is a unique edition, with a custom interior lining.This bag is made of leather, canvas, cotton, and sections of bags from Art Review and Art LA.
Bag dimensions: 15"h x 14"w
Design: DRx Romanelli
Made in Los Angeles
To learn more about DRx Romanelli, visit the DRx Romanelli Instagram and The Pancake Epidemic website.


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Take the stress out of stress testing
Stress testing and its importance for banks
Stress testing is a given for banks, as regulations and compliance pressures loom. Immature stress testing can cause regulatory scrutiny of accuracy and processes. Also, banks incur costs for missed opportunities and wasted resources through laborious, manual operations that fail to reap data for other business initiatives.
Troy Haines, Senior Vice President for Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions at SAS, discusses the requirements for regulatory stress testing in the US and how the main components of stress testing must be jointly developed and applied by risk and finance teams for greater efficiency and better decision making.
This means that, performed well, active risk management will actually help to manage regulatory risk.
Ray O'Brien
Global Risk COO, HSBC
How has stress testing evolved over the past four to five years?
Troy Haines: Initially, regulators emphasized credit losses and revenue by stressing a few macroeconomic risk factors—as was the focus of SCAP in the US in 2009-10. Today, regulators around the world are not only interested in stress scenario effects on credit performance and revenue, but also the stressed results on a broader array of measures such as liquidity and full balance sheet projections. In other words, stress testing must now be an integral part of the bank's capital plan, requiring a firmwide approach, which has proved quite challenging. Stress testing has become a systematic way to examine and identify an institution's financial vulnerability, and regulators have turned it into a process that needs to be transparent, auditable and clearly documented.
The regulators prescribe the scenarios, but not the stress testing process. Are banks on their own?
Haines: Not at all. We see, through stated CCAR principles, that the structured stress testing process has at least six components with a clear need for technology to perform each.
First, banks need a firmwide scenario management process that includes the technology to generate scenarios and make them repeatable from cycle to cycle.
Second, the need for model and model risk management is rather clear. Managing a multitude of models and the risks inherent in them is an enormous task. Banks need a model management platform that can manage all models from scenario models to calculations models.
Third, stress test calculations, because they entail so many differing elements across different scenarios along sometimes disparate systems that are nearly impossible to make on a manual basis, particularly for the diversified bank, require speedy, accurate and automated results.
Fourth, the sheer number of forecasting parameters for financial statement projections makes technology not just a convenience for process governance personnel; it is an imperative.
Fifth, results of each scenario must be aggregated to get a clear picture of what the bank's financial statements will do under stress.
Finally, banks need to be confident in calculating their capital and leverage ratios. In other words, they need a process to compute required capital, compare it to available capital, then determine if any action is required.
4 focus areas for successful stress testing
To deliver a successful stress testing program, the key areas that should be considered include:
- Efficiency. Integration of existing risk models and data hierarchies into a streamlined data infrastructure for firmwide stress testing. Data, computations, reporting — all must be part of a unified platform.
- Performance. The efficient aggregation of results for all major risk models across the organization with the ability to run complex, forward-looking stress tests with multiple parameters.
- Enterprise view. Views of economic capital and pro forma financials at the enterprise level with a view of market, credit and liquidity risk.
- Transparency and compliance. First, the ability to understand and document model assumptions, design and structure so they are readily apparent to management and regulators with the elimination of the "black box" characteristic of some models. Second, the capability to address major regulatory stress testing issues as they evolve and integrate them into the risk decision-making process.
With all of the different regulations requiring stress testing, are there any common themes across the different regimes?
Haines: Yes. The common themes across regulations include the similarity in the stress testing process, the adherence to sound data management principles, the need to integrate both risk and financial measures into stress scenarios when creating the capital plan, and the shift to stressing the full balance sheet and income statement rather than just single portfolios. Regulators prescribe macroeconomic scenarios, and banks must have a structured stress testing process in place to simulate them. Regulators also require banks to comply with balance sheet ratios under stress that are complementary to the existing risk-based capital charges.
Is the current focus of regulators on firmwide stress testing a trend toward replacing risk-based model charges with stress scenarios and, ultimately, a sign of distrust in models?
Haines: That's a fair argument. However, one can also view the firmwide stress testing as complementary to risk-based models. In practice, the stress testing exercise has developed into a regulatory test of risk models. There is increased regulatory scrutiny on the entire model life cycle—from model development to validation to implementation. Common across most regulatory stress testing regimes, this forces banks to quantitatively project assets, liabilities, income, losses and capital across a range of macroeconomic scenarios. Model complexity and portfolio size produce significant computational challenges, particularly during implementation. Consequently, many banks have to recode models during implementation, which poses significant model risk and deployment delays. Thus, a proper model governance process is critical to reduce model risk.
Is stress testing just about stressing financial statement elements and capital?
Haines: No. Most of the regulations also require banks to provide qualitative information on methodologies used to develop internal projections of capital across scenarios. In addition to providing stress test results, banks need to fully document how the results were derived. As many banks still have manual processes to reconcile and aggregate results from different systems, auditability and documentation can be daunting tasks — especially when integrating risk and financial data for financial statement projections. If we had to speculate, use tests may be next — where standard practices such as capital allocation and pricing would be reviewed under stress scenarios.
Why do you think there is so much emphasis on the qualitative aspects of the stress testing process?
Haines: Consider Basel II implementations where credit scoring, lending and RWA capital computations became audited processes. With firmwide stress testing, the increased level of scrutiny placed on the governance aspects of the process may prevent banks from passing the stress test even if the binding constraints like capital ratios and leverage ratios are met. Over the past few CCAR cycles, the qualitative expectations have increased exponentially. Banks are not only expected to comply but also constantly refine and improve their processes. Even though the quantitative measures are the ones that are binding, the qualitative aspects under each regime have become just as important to the regulators. This reinforces the need for a well-defined and governed process and workflow.
What are the major hurdles banks face in developing capital plans?
Haines: In short, the major challenges involve integrating risk, finance and economics from both a systems and organizational perspective. These functions have typically operated in independent silos, but to incorporate stress testing into capital planning, significant cross-functional collaboration is required. Today, the risk staff understands very little about the process of projecting the balance sheet (outside of pure portfolio stress testing) and the finance staff understands little of the quantitative mechanics used to project losses. Yet, both teams must work in concert to develop these plans.
Collaboration also is required to provide management with the details behind stress testing results, enabling them to successfully defend test outcomes to regulators. Understanding balance sheet and capital ratio sensitivities is ultimately the biggest hurdle banks face in capital plan development. Banks need formal structures to integrate forecasting from financial planning and capital management into their risk management processes in a timely and accurate fashion.
Are there any other challenges banks are experiencing?
Haines: Banks need models to project the regulatory-prescribed macroeconomic scenarios into actual risk factors that banks have in their books of business, and their currently in-use models may not be adequate for firmwide stress testing. It is difficult to separate earnings projections to ALM systems and loss projections to credit systems, for example, because of the associated interdependencies. Consequently, many banks not only have to revisit the model management of their existing CCAR and DFAST models but also have to build new models for firmwide stress testing purposes—and that process needs to be managed and reconciled with the existing bank models.
Besides the collaborative nature of risk and finance, are there other specific challenges for bank personnel?
Haines: Because model insight and expertise are limited, huge burdens are placed on key people. Banks are aggressively recruiting experienced staff, causing some to go as far as having agreements with each other not to poach resources. Plus, burnout from the CCAR cycle occurs frequently, so much so that the Federal Reserve has provided a relief clause to banks, shifting CCAR reporting to 2015 to give banks some relief for their staffs over the upcoming holiday period.
This article was originally published by Argyle Journal and is republished here with permission.
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SAS and Longitude Research conducted an in-depth survey of more than 100 senior banking officials in both Europe and the US to assess how the rise of stress testing is affecting their organizations — reviewing where investment is being focused, what the key priorities are with regard to stress testing, and how this is changing the oversight and management of these institutions.
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kdesu is an imporant tool for all apps that need to execute adminstrative tasks, either primarily or for a limited purpose. kdesu works pretty well in the scenario it was created for: gaining super-user privileges using "su" on unix systems. However, this scenario is becoming too limited. Ubuntu now relies on "sudo" for such tasks, and I have no idea how things work on windows. Support for sudo has been added to kdesu, but there are important issues remaining.
The purpose of this page is to collect requirements, design considerations and thoughts on how to make kdesu work well. Then after a while, there would need to be a decision on whether this can be done in the current framework, or whether substantial portions need to be rewritten. Hopefully, later the efforts to do so can be coordinated, here, as well.
A good kdesu implementation should fulfill the following requirements:
Of course this concerns the user side as well, but equally important, apps / scripts using kdesu should not need to worry about too many details. That means:
We're developing a GUI desktop, so it's important that kdesu can successfully invoke X11 applications on all systems.
On systems using sudo, *some* commands may be allowed for a user, but not others. Still, it's conceivable that said user does indeed know the root password and can use su for disallowed in sudo. In this setup it would be preferable to use sudo when possible, but fall back to su in other cases.
Also power-users should have an easy way to specify which backend to use, and potentially, in which way.
Ideally, kdesu should need no special setup on the part of the system administrator, or if it does, only trivial settings. Most importantly it would be good, if /etc/sudoers would need no kdesu-specific adjustments.
This may not be an absolute requirement, but would be highly desirable.
This is the simple case. Since a (successful) call to su allows anything to be done, we can just do anything, including setting xauth cookies, etc.
The main challenge is to figure out, when authentification has succeeded or failed, so as to provide meaningful feedback to the user. The current solution is to use a wrapper application (kdesu_stub), which gets called by su. kdesu_stub will indicate when it has been called successfully (and hence authentification has succeeded), then accept options such as an xauth cookie to use, then run the command.
su may require a pty to work, and may not accept a password from stdin. KDESu::PtyProcess likely reusable.
A good level of support for sudo is much harder to achieve. The current implementation relies on the same kdesu_stub helper command, effictively disabling the fine grained permission control of sudo.
The situation could be improved a lot by specifying the command to run as a command line option to kdesu_stub. Still, this would require system administrators to set up additional rules for the purpose of running commands using kdesu. Also some of the actions kdesu_stub allows may be considered highly problematic (for instance it allows the specification of a full environment via stdin).
The most obvious alternative would be to use sudo without any wrapper program, i.e. simply calling "sudo -c command" from within kdesu. However, the following technical problems will be encountered in this case:
no idea on current state or what needs to be done.
to be developed.
Note that a kdesudo project exists and is used in KUbuntu as a kdesu replacement (incomplete compatibility, however).


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Number of Lenders
Percentage of Lenders
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|More than 50 loans
Looking at this table, less than 15% of Prosper lenders have well diversified portfolios and 70% have little or no diversification. So, why is it that Prosper lenders are not very good at diversification? Looking at some additional stats will help us answer that question.
At Prosper you are required to invest a minimum of $50 when making a bid on a Prosper loan. This means to have 20 loans you need to invest at least $1000, and to have 50 loans you need to invest a minimum of $2500. When we analyze the number of lenders by amount invested we get that 41% of lenders have less than $1000 invested. So, short of investing more money into Prosper, there is nothing that these small lenders can do to diversify their portfolio.
On the Petri Dish suggestion forums several lenders have requested that Prosper lower the bid requirements for lenders to allow them to better diversify small portfolios. Judging by the number of small lenders with no chance for diversifying their portfolios I think this would be a good idea and a welcome improvement. Zopa, a peer-to-peer lending site in Europe, allows lenders to have as little as 5 Euros invested in each loan. I think lowering the minimum bid to $10 or even $25 would be a welcome improvement.


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LETTER- Bring back common sense
Cheers to Marlene A. Condon of Crozet for her common-sense solution to hygienic cleaning [Letter, July 31, "Plain soap will do"]!
Add to her suggestion of plain soap and water the cheap wonder disinfectant and cleaner white vinegar, and you have a recipe that's been used successfully by thousands of people over the years.(These are even the ingredients found in some commercial cleaners.)
Regarding cleaning, dredging, and replacing the Mall brickwork, [two other topics where local government spending has recently been questioned], "common sense doesn't seem to score the points it used to."
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README for pg_collkey version 0.3 Please read the LICENSE file, which is shipping with this software. *** DESCRIPTION *** This is a wrapper to use the collation functions of the ICU library with a PostgreSQL database server. Using this wrapper, you can specify the desired locale for sorting UTF-8 strings directly in the SQL query, rather than setting it during database installation. Default Unicode collation (DUCET) is supported. You can select whether punctuation should be a primary collation attribute or not. The level of comparison can be limited (in order to ignore accents for example). Numeric sequences of strings can be recognized, so that 'test2' is placed before 'test10'. *** REQUIREMENTS *** - PostgreSQL version 8.1.4, http://www.postgresql.org/ (might run with older versions too, but this is not tested) - ICU library version 3.4, http://icu.sourceforge.net/ (might run with older versions too, but this is not tested) *** INSTALLATION *** 1. Ensure icu-config and pg_config binaries are available to resolve compilation flags for ICU and PostgreSQL. 2. Call 'make'. 3. Call 'make install' to install into your PostgreSQL library directory. You will probably need to prefix this with "sudo" if you are a non-root user. Now you can use the 'collkey_icu.sql' file to enable the 'collkey' function for a database. *** CAVEATS *** The function will only work if the database encoding is set to UTF-8. This is a limitation which can be solved in future releases. Using different locales within one query can slow down perfomance. *** USAGE *** collkey (text, text, bool, int4, bool) RETURNS bytea The first parameter is the UTF-8 string for which you want a collation key. The second parameter is defining the locale (i.e. 'root' or 'de_DE', see http://icu.sourceforge.net/ for more information). Use 'root', if you want a default unicode collation (DUCET). If the third parameter is true, certain characters (puncuation, etc.) are processed at the 4th level (after processing of the case), instead of being processed at the 1st level. The fourth parameter is selecting the level of collation: 0: default level (usually 3rd level) 1: 1st level, only base characters are compared, accents, upper/lowercases (and punctuation, if the third parameter is true) are ignored 2: 2nd level, accents and modifications of characters are taken into account 3: 3rd level, upper/lowercase is evaluated 4: 4th level, other differences are evaluated 5: 5th level, strings are only equal if they contain the same codepoints (after normalization) The fifth parameter enables numeric sorting, if it is set to true. This means collkey('test 2') < collkey('test 10'). There are shortcuts with fewer parameters, see 'collkey_icu.sql'. Example: SELECT name FROM tbl ORDER BY collkey(name, 'fr_FR'); -- french ordering *** TODO *** - enable support for non UTF-8 databases


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Connect with Michelle
Hi, my name is Michelle Reid and I've been writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon for the last twenty years, and the crazy part about it is that I only realised it had been twenty years while updating this page!
So, hang on for a minute while I take this huge milestone in....
Twenty years with almost forty books published or in the pipeline ... I know it isn't a great average when compared with some authors but it sounds pretty good to me!
So what was I doing twenty years ago before I wrote books? Well, I did the all of the usual things, like growing up and attending school, finishing at secretarial college, which I hated, then spending the next several years wandering aimlessly from job to job. Eventually I met my husband, we married and produced two daughters who then grew up and between them presented us with two gorgeous grandsons and one beautiful granddaughter. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Somewhere in between my girls growing up and the grandchildren arriving on the scene, I started writing. To this day I don't know why, unless it was a natural progression from my never being without a book close by - often several - because books have always been an important part of my life for as far back as I can recall.
So, I started to write, by hand at first, scribbling short stories in notebooks which never saw the light of day. At some point I discovered Mills & Boon Romance books and that was pretty much it for me. I'd found my new love, as in reading romantic fiction and inevitably writing it too.
So twenty years on and almost forty books on, here I am still writing and still loving it!
Sabrina, An Officer and a Gentleman, Titanic and Meet Joe Black


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May 26, 2006
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Five female and five male Yale student-athletes have been named Academic All-Ivy for the spring of 2006. Honored Joanna Hess (Edmonds, Wash.) of the crew team, Peggy Hunt (Lake Wales, Fla.) of the softball team, Aimee Kim (Irvine, Calif.) of the tennis team, Jane Moore (Newtown, Australia) of the crew team, Joslyn Woodard (Irvine, Calif.) of the track and field team, Jihad Beauchman (San Jose, Calif.) of the track and field team, Milosz Gudzowski (Houston, Texas) of the tennis team, Mark Matza (Southbury, Conn.) of the golf team, Pascal Noel (Arlington, Va.) of the heavyweight crew team and Alec Smith (Turlock, Calif.) of the baseball team.
Hess, a senior political science major, has been a member of the varsity eight for three years and is currently with the team at the NCAA Championship.
Hunt, also a senior political science major, finished second all-time at Yale in strikeouts with 276.
Kim, a junior history major, was named second team All-Ivy and went 5-2 in league play.
Moore, a senior history major, was in the No. 7 seat for Yale's varsity eight at Eastern Sprints.
Woodard, a senior biology major, won a record 20 individual Heps titles and is currently competing in the NCAAs.
Beauchman, a senior economics major, was part of Yale's Ivy champion 4x400-meter relay team and is the school record holder in the high jump. He is also currently at the NCAAs.
Gudzowski, a senior economics major, played No. 2 singles for Yale and posted a 4-3 mark in league play.
Matza, a junior biology major, was All-Ivy and has been selected as next year's team captain.
Noel, a senior ethics, politics and economics major, stroked Yale's second varsity to a second-place finish at Eastern Sprints.
Smith, a senior economics major, was second team All-Ivy after posting a 3-1 record and 2.64 ERA in league games.


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→ Add supers as needed.
→ Remove entrance reducers.
→ Harvest honey at the end of July or when the honey flow slows.
→ Place an empty super on hives that have honey in the 2nd brood chamber or above a queen excluder (inner cover) on hives that have mostly brood in both brood chambers.
→ Colonies with excessive brood and large adult bee populations should be left with a super full of honey at harvest time.
→ Monitor Varroa populations.
→ A mite treatment may be necessary prior to supering for the fall honey flow or in lieu of fall honey production.
→ Did you register your bee hives with our state apiarist like you were supposed to in June?.
→ Register for EAS (Eastern Apiculture Society) Conference –
Highly recommended for any Beekeeper who want to raise their levels of skill and knowledge.
This monthly post is adapted from "The Beekeepers Calendar, A Year In The Apiary-Central Maine" by Tony Jadczak, Maine State Apiarist


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Designer: Lori Mason
Machine Quilter: Sue Urich
To order a kit of fabrics for quilt top and binding for $65 ppd., contact Bear Paw Quilts & More, 599/683-7397.
7/8 yard each of purple wood-grain stripe, ivory-and-orange print, and tan print (blocks)
1/4 yard each of orange print and solid purple (strip sets)
7/8 yard dark purple print (binding)
3/4 yard solid cream (blocks)
5/8 yard purple print (strip sets)
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4 yards backing fabric
71" square batting
Finished quilt: 62-1/2" square
Quantities are for 44/45"-wide, 100% cotton fabrics.
Measurements include 1/4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.


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Buy 24 for $29.96 each
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At the head of its class, the Mikasa VQ2000 Volleyball is approved for game play by the NFHS. Featuring micro-cell composite leather, true shape Accu-Balance technology, fabric wrapped center, and airlock butyl bladder, this volleyball has already captured some of the top honors for high school and secondary play.
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Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Mont., on Monday announced a new economic development initiative aimed at developing a blueprint for job creation based upon the suggestions of Montana businesses.
"Montanans have shown that they're national leaders in business, ingenuity and hard work," Bullock said. "I think those qualities really helped us come out of the recession stronger than most states."
Bullock wants to draw on the experiences of business owners to create a plan to tackle challenges faced by those companies and identify steps to attract and retain new businesses. The governor said it would be a bottom-up approach. He was joined at the press conference unveiling the initiative by its two co-chairs, CEO of The Washington Companies Larry Simkins and CEO of D.A. Davidson & Company Bill Johnstone.The project will start with a series of roundtable discussions:
- Billings–Tuesday, May 28th, 2:00 PM at the Broadway Downtown Center, 2804 3rd Ave. N.
- Missoula–Tuesday, June 4th, 2:00 PM at the UM University Center, 3rd Floor Meeting Room Foyer and Room 330-123
- Great Falls–Wednesday, June 12th, 2:00 PM at the Great Falls Civic Center, Missouri Room
- Miles City–Wednesday, June 19th, 2:00 PM at Miles Community College, Room 106-107
- Bozeman–Tuesday, June 25th, 2:00 PM at the MSU Strand Union, Ballroom A
"Everything is on the table," Simkins said. "The idea is we want to gather as many facts as we can before we sit down and start talking about what's necessary for economic development."
Simkins said the project hopes to publish a report outlining specific metrics to improve the state's business climate sometime in early 2014.
Learn more about the Main Street Montana Project on their website.


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Welcome to Bloominglabs, Bloomington's very own hackerspace!
Bloominglabs is Indiana's first hackerspace also known as a makerspace. We are a group of community members that have commonly rented a place where we can collectively build projects. We are open to the public on Wednesday evenings from 7pm until 10pm and are family friendly.
Also, a big hackerspace welcome to Club Cyberia, the new Indianapolis hackerspace! This space has been a long time in the making, and is now a reality. Check them out at http://clubcyberia.org/index.php/Main_Page.
Who are we?
Bloominglabs was forged from the Bloomington Hackerspace Initiative and the former IU Robotics Club. We are a bunch of people that want to do interesting things and explore the world and technology around us.
Stay informed
- Sign up to the announcement mailing list to keep up with our group.
- Our Calendar of events
- Follow us on Twitter @Bloominglabsand Facebook.
- Checkout photos from past events on Flickr
- Our IRC server is at irc.bloominglabs.org:6667, #hackerspace.
- We can also be reached via old fashioned email at contact (]at[) bloominglabs dot o r g.
Our Location
We have 1,000 sq ft of which 750 sq ft is unfinished, cement floor workspace and 250 sq ft is finished office space for hanging out. There's also a full bathroom. The address is 3927 W. Roll Avenue which is just north of 2nd Street up Curry Pike. Come check it out! [MAP]
Kits For Sale
Bloominglabs is a reseller of adafruit kits and products. See KitsForSale for details.
For members: check out our page about selling things at the workshops at SellingThings and for calculating sales tax, check out Sales Tax Calculator for 47401
Reserve a spot at any of our workshops or classes by sending email to contact]at[bloominglabs.org.
- Intro to Computer Programming class Thursdays from 6:30pm until 9pm
- See class notes at http://harold.uits.indiana.edu/~jtillots/IntroToProgramming/
- This 10 week long class will start on October 4th and end on December 20th with no meeting on November 15th or November 22nd.
- The course will be taught in C and a syllabus can be found here(subject to minor changes).
- We will cover what would be covered in a rigorous freshman Intro to Programming college course.
- Text will be Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language: 2nd edition"
- Cost is $125 non-members/$50 members and all proceeds go to Bloominglabs!
- You need to be committed to attending every week and there will be assignments to work on outside of class (but no exams!).
- Send an email to contact]at[bloominglabs.org if you are interested in attending.
Current Events (PastEvents)
We have lockers available for rent now!!
- Raspberry Pi Meetup
- The first Tuesday of every month at 7pm until 9pm
- Everyone is welcome
- OpenHouse
- Saturday, September 8th from 10am-3pm
- Tell your friends!
- See you there!
- Public Hack Meetings!
- Every Wednesday from 7pm until 10pm
- Come build projects, ask questions, teach things, and learn stuff
- All ages and everyone is welcome
We have acquired a mill. If you are a member and want to chip in for it, add your pledge to the Mill page.
What is a hacker space?
It's a physical location where people can share resources for their own creative pursuits. It's also a resource where people can come in off the street and advance their own knowledge. In urban locations it can often be hard to find places to weld/build/make noise and keep projects on-going without having to tear down and put-up your work each evening. With a hacker space people can work on their projects and not worry about annoying their neighbors or spouses. The social aspect is also an incredibly important component. Having people to bounce ideas off of and discuss your projects with when you get stuck is a great thing.
We are accepting memberships! Please see the Membership Manual for details.
Currently we meet every Wednesday at 7:00pm at 3927 W. Roll Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. These meetings are open to the public; anyone is welcome to attend. We usually meet for 2-3 hours and have a lot of fun. Having access to tools is only part of the equation, socializing with people and learning from each other is another large benefit from our group. Pretty much whatever people want to work on or learn is fair game. We currently have an electronics and robotics focus but there's also interest in general science and astronomy as well. If it's cool and interesting then we are all interested.
- Meeting_Minutes
- Bloominglabs Log - highlights of Bloominglabs events and news
Current Projects
What needs to be done yet?
Check out the Todo list to see the latest things we need to get done.
Also see who else is working on this project: Special:ListUsers
Uploaded files: Special:ImageList
Nearby Hacker Spaces or initiatives:
- Club Cyberia (INDIANAPOLIS!)
- Hive13 (Cincinnati, OH)
- LVL1 (Louisville Kentucky)
- Vault404 (Louisville Kentucky)
- Collexion (Lexington Kentucky)
- Pumping Station: One (Chicago)
- Dayton Diode
- Detroit Facility
- i3 Detroit
Other Cool Groups in Bloomington
- The Bloomington Print Collective -- a non-profit community print shop.
- Indiana Filmmakers Network -- provides support, camaraderie and resources to filmmakers.
- Bloomington Amateur Radio Club
- Indiana University Amateur Radio Club


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Someone will win our Where Am I? reader contest for May-June and a $100 BSA Supply Group gift card.
Shouldn't it be you?
Take a look at the photo of the swamp at left, taken by Harris Hatcher, and then click here to examine some clues we've provided about the mystery location.
Or simply grab your May-June issue and flip to Page 42.
Then submit your response. Note: Only answers received through the online form or by snail mail will be accepted.
After the entry deadline on Monday, June 27, my fellow editors and I will take all of the correct answers and select one at random to receive the prize.
Good luck!


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October in already on the wane, so you should begin bracing yourself for winter (or summer) birding. Once migration tails off, all you'll be left with are seasonal residents. For now, though, surprises still abound. Seen any? Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
As I mentioned last week, Corey and I met for some long overdue avian ogling. We worked Riis Park and Fort Tilden on a severely gusty morning, but still came up with some terrific birds. My favorite was a Blackpoll Warbler which Corey identified in its fall plumage with admirable aplomb. His best bird, on the other hand, ended up being a self-found Yellow-breasted Chat at Fort Tilden, his first ever in Queens. The sighting was made all the sweeter both because it was marvelously cooperative and because he never expected such a good bird would show a day after he and I scoured the same territory! Charlie, as predicted, stayed home to edit his latest podcast.
Accursed chat…
What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you've blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
Best bird of the weekend for me was this obliging Red-throated Diver. Normally a distant fuzz through a scope this bird fed close in shore. Delighting birders and non birders alike.
Connecticut Warbler. Twice.
Very co-operative Belted Kingfisher at Ramshorn in Catskill,NY.
Had seen them there before, but from a great distance.
Red-shouldered Hawk on Sunday afternoon at the Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch in Bedford, NY.
@ Wes Finger: we saw an unexpected Belted Kingfisher also at Crestwood Lake (Tuckahoe, NY). It even let a Downy Woodpecker sit on the same branch!
But by far the coolest bird of the surprisingly productive trip around our little lake was a small group of Green-winged Teal, the first of the season down here. They were hanging out on mudflats and proceeded to shoo away the resident population of much-larger Mallards! Some chutzpah for such a little duck.
Vesper Sparrow. Thanks to a tripod-toting bird-blogger at Fort Tilden.
No question about it. I went out to the Reifel sanctuary south of Vancouver BC in search of the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, which I finally saw after years of missing it in its fall migration.
But that wasn't the BBOTW. Just across the pond was a clump of birders huddled around a Wood Sandpiper. Only the third record for Canada, they said. That was the BBOTW.
Hooded Crow in SW Germany. It's not often you move to a new place and find a state rarity on your second walk around your new neighbourhood.
I had to work during the weekend, but I did manage to see a Brown Creeper climbing up a cedar tree, and then dart over to another tree. Looked just like a little mouse with a tail!
My best bird was a northern harrier. What was great was how obliging it was.
I was at the edge of the marshes at the portion of Alley Pond Park north of Northern Blvd. I watched it cruise low over the marsh, at times coming less than 10 meters away from me. It acted like I wasn't even there. It was the best viewing of a raptor I've ever had.
Saw a small flock of Bluebirds this weekend. Up here just outside Chicago that's pretty late to be seeing Bluebirds. No Juncos yet, I hope that means a mild winter-such as it is. Love your site.
My best bird was a Snowy Egret. I had to trespass to see it, but it was worth it.
The little known, infrequently seen, and candidate for splitting, Prevosts Ground-Sparrow in a coffee plantation just up the road from my house.
© 2013 10,000 Birds. All words, images, and opinions are the property of their respective authors unless stated otherwise.


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Faetal Proposition
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Music by James Bunton
For : Forcier Stage Works
Credits : Composed, performed, engineered, mixed with Mika Posen.
Toronto, ON - The Dancemakers Centre For Creation (June 2005)
Choreography :
Marie France Forcier (Forcier Stage Works)
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Forcier Stage Works is a contemporary dance company based in Toronto (Canada), known to develop choreographic works that combine substantial subject matter of sociological nature with evocative, raw and purposeful movement. Project based since 2005, FSW consistently works with the same core group of individuals, including artistic director Marie France Forcier, composer James Bunton and performers Heather Berry-MacPhail, Molly Johnson and Brendan Wyatt. This format provides the flexibility for company members to maintain successful independent careers while simultaneously providing the familiarity of a full-time company. Guest collaborators are commissioned to create with the group on a regular basis, allowing FSW to boldly investigate fresh perspectives from the strong foundation it has built over the years. Forcier Stage Works' and Marie France Forcier's activities are made possible by various governmental arts councils, but also in great part by the generous support of art lovers.


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The good news is that owners of the Samsung Galaxy S3 through Verizon now have global roaming capabilities. The bad news is that Verizon apparently believes the "sometime after launch" promise it made equals a half-year wait.
Last June, when the Galaxy S3 was about to launch, I wrote about how Verizon promised it would allow for global roaming and using any SIM card, not just one locked to a Verizon calling plan. From my column back then, Verizon said:
The Verizon model of the Galaxy S III will be global ready for GSM roaming after a software update that will be pushed sometime after launch. After the phone gets the software update to be global ready, customers don't need to call customer service to have it unlocked if they wish to use a local SIM while traveling. They can also call Verizon to have an international data plan added if they'd like.
In October, I revisited the situation since readers kept asking me when it was coming and weren't getting clarity from Verizon itself. Verizon responded to me that it still had no time frame.
I checked back twice more, in late November and early December. Verizon still had no update. In checking up on the situation today, I saw that in mid-December, Verizon pushed the Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" update to phones.
Verizon's own blog post about the update simply says:
The software upgrade, which will be pushed to customers in phases starting Dec. 14, also makes the smartphone Global Ready.
The support documentation about the update says:
Device is enabled for Global Roaming. Now take advantage of voice and data services in over 205 countries worldwide. For additional information and support please visit verizonwireless.com/globalGoing to that further support area for global roaming makes no mention of the phone being used with a local SIM card, rather than through Verizon. That's what Verizon initially promised, and that's what it should deliver. But the Samsung Galaxy S3 review unit I have from Samsung is for AT&T, so I can't test this.
Suffice to say, a six-month wait for a "sometime after launch" feature feels unacceptable. True, it came after launch. But half-a-year is a generation in smartphone years. Buyers who wanted an international roaming phone and bought the S3 for that promised feature with Verizon sure seem to have been left short.
Meanwhile, the other Jelly Bean update -- Android 4.2 -- has been out since mid-November. So while Verizon S3 owners got an update in December, it was a major update behind the latest available.
Hey, it could be worse. I'm a Verizon Galaxy Nexus owner. My Google-branded phone, that I specifically bought because I wanted a pure-Google experience, remains with Google Wallet deliberately blocked by Verizon and stuck at Android 4.1.1. That's three versions behind non-Verizon Galaxy Nexus phones, as Droid Life noted in November.
I have a Nexus 4 review unit from Google, and it's a great phone with only one major flaw to me: the lack of LTE. If Verizon offered a Nexus 4 with LTE, I'd have upgraded to that. But given how the Galaxy Nexus has been stuck in update hell, with Verizon also dictating what a "Google" phone can do, I'm not surprised Google hasn't pushed for the Nexus 4 to come to Verizon. Google tells me it's never-say-never, and there's always a chance this could happen. But I wouldn't get my hopes up.
For years, I preferred Verizon over AT&T and other carriers in the U.S. because of its extensive high-speed coverage. But with AT&T closing the gap (I have an iPhone 5 with AT&T and regularly get LTE coverage that matches Verizon), I wonder if consumers may take a harder look at when they get regular software updates for their devices. If everyone's offering high-speed access, who wants to stay with a carrier that takes the slow road when it comes to software upgrades?
The Lion King remake brings renewed life to a Disney classic: Jon Favreau's version offers incredibly lifelike characters, but at what cost?
SDCC, the biggest convention ever, had a very small start: What started as a gathering in a basement has exploded into one of the world's biggest cultural blowouts.


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The new surface transportation law, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st
Century (MAP-21) took effect on October 1, 2012. Yesterday, the United
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helpful to states and MPOs as they implement the bill.
The following are some highlights from the guidance document
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Landscaping and Scenic Enhancement Projects:
Recreational Trails Program:
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Scenic Byways:
MAP-21 eliminates the National Scenic Byways
program. However, the following projects
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under TAP:
construction of turnouts, overlooks, and viewing
historic preservation and rehabilitation of
historic facilities related to a byway; and
bicycle and pedestrian facilities along a byway.
The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) entire guidance
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Recycle your sight
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TORKE project for Lisbon's City Hall and its Urban Art Gallery, that began in 2011 and its still ongoing. To reach out Lisbon citizens, and to prove that urban art could change people's perception towards recycling, as well keeping historic heritage clean of vandalism, the challenge was issued to street artists to showcase their art in 400 bottle recycling containers and 10 trash trucks. The results were amazing, with over 3000 art submissions from writers to common citizens.via invisiblered.blogspot.com


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At least 2 dead, other minor injuries reported after explosion at Indianapolis home sets others ablaze in neighborhood
INDIANAPOLIS – A earth-shaking explosion killed at least two people, destroyed at least two homes and set several other homes ablaze in an Indianapolis neighborhood late Saturday night.
Fox 59 reports two homes were destroyed in the initial explosion, and two others were directly impacted. The resulting flames spread to several other homes, forcing hundreds of residents to flee.
It took firefighters over two hours to contain the inferno, and Fox 59 reported early Sunday nearly three dozen homes were damaged.
The station had no information on the identities of the two killed, but said firefighters were going door-to-door searching for more victims. At least four more people were injured.
The Associated Press reports one person was found dead in one of the two homes leveled by the explosion.
Lieut. Bonnie Hensley with the Indianapolis Fire Department Hensley said the cause of the explosion remains unknown, adding investigators would better assess the rubble after daybreak Sunday for clues.
Approximately 200 people were taken to an elementary school, Hensley said. Rescue crews remained at the scene Sunday, searching in the event of finding any more victims. All power and other utilities were cut to the neighborhood. Most of the evacuees later went on to stay with relatives, friends or at hotels, though about 15 to 25 were spending the night at the school on cots.
The powerful blast caught sleeping people unaware, so strong that it knocked garage doors off their hinges and caved in walls of homes in the residential community on the south side of Indianapolis. Many awakened by the blast scooped up their pets and were led away, still in their pajamas.
Pam Brainerd, a 59-year-old hospice nurse, said she was asleep on her couch when the tremendous explosion rocked the neighborhood, blowing out the upstairs windows in her house.
"I was sleeping on the sofa and all of a sudden, my upstairs windows were blowing out and my front door was falling in," Brainerd told The Associated Press. "My front door came off the frame. It was the largest bang I've ever heard."
Right after the explosion she stepped outside to see what she described tall flames one street away. "There was a house engulfed in flames and I could see it spreading to other houses. It looked like a war zone," she added.
The scene was initially chaotic outside a nearby elementary school where most residents were evacuated. Several people milled about pajamas, some with dogs on leashes. One lady brought along her cat.
Beyond the school's parking lot, smoke was still visible, rising in the distance. The smoke was illuminated by bright lights of emergency responders. Brainerd later left the elementary school to meet up with relatives, her two dogs in tow.
The cause of the explosion and fires wasn't immediately clear, but Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard immediately squelched initial speculation of a possible plane crash.
Television video showed tall flames shooting overhead soon after the blast, but firefighters later had the falems out, leaving clouds of gray smoke billowing overhead.
"It was so strong that it clearly had an effect for blocks," Ballard said.
He added that police went door to door after the blast to get everyone out. While some questioned whether natural gas was suspected in the blast, he said he had no preliminary information on a possible cause. He said it was still a time for taking care of those forced out.
"We're going to need some comforting in the next few days," Ballard added.
The blast was heard for miles all around. But for those close by, it was deafening.
Bryan and Trina McClellan were at home with their 23-year-old son Eric when the shock wave from the blast a block away shuddered through their home. It knocked the windows out along an entire side of their house.
Bryan McClellan said he raced to the basement to check on his two young grandchildren, ages 2 and 3, sleeping there.
"It was very very loud. It blew out the windows of our home and I thought something had happened in the basement of our house. I ran downstairs because my grandkids were in the basement." Thankfully, he said, they were all safe.
"The youngest one was holding his ears saying, `Loud noise, loud noise.' " he added.
Eric McClellan said he ran to the scene of the explosion and saw homes leveled or nearly leveled "Somebody was trapped inside one of the houses and the firefighters were trying to get to him. I don't know if he survived," he said, adding firefighters were trying to save a man.
He said firefighters ordered him to leave but he feared the man didn't survive.
Sarah Shaw and her sister, Rachel Kissel, are both nurses who heard the explosion while playing a video game at Rachel's house about a mile away.
They were barred from helping at the explosion site, but said they went to the school and helped treat some minor cuts and a woman whose back had to be stabilized after part of a wall fell on her. They said she was taken for further treatment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.