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Fluid Dynamics with Erosion
MotivationI really wanted to do something with fluid dynamics for my final project. I wanted to be able to pour a pitcher of water on a bank of packed sand and watch the formation of eroded channels and alluvial fans where sand is deposited. This is an interesting problem because the fluid flow affects its boundaries through erosion and deposition, which in turn affect the fluid flow. To my knowledge there had been no work in computer graphics on small-scale erosion phenomena of this nature. There has been work done on erosion of valleys and river beds over large time scales. Most of these approaches use empirical models for sediment transport and fluid flow. In order to get visually interesting results I wanted to solve for fluid flow with the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids and combine that with a physically-based sediment transport model.
There has been much work done in simulating sediment transport for engineering
applications. Numerical simulation is often performed before building dams,
weirs, bridges and other structures to predict and avoid possible
sedimentation and scouring around the structures. The focus of the models
used for these simulation is physical accuracy rather than visual effect.
These models form the basis for the model I used in this project.
Fluid ModelThe Navier-Stokes equations provide an accurate model of laminar fluid flow. For more details on these equations and their simulation in computer graphics, look here.
The fluid solver I am using for this project is based on [Griebel et
al. 1998]. The Navier-Stokes equations are discretized on a staggered grid.
After computing a tentative velocity field, a pressure correction term
to make the field divergence free is computed using successive over-relaxation
(SOR). Boundaries are assumed to lie along the grid edges at boundary cells.
I never got around to trying the fluid solver used by [Stam 1999]. All
of the necessary components are already in the code because I use
that model for suspended sediment transport, but I ran out of time. In
particular, I would like to compare the amount of numerical dissipation
that occurs from the semi-lagrangian advection step used in Stam's solver.
Sediment Transport ModelThere are two modes of sediment transport. Bed-load transport occurs when particles of sediment slide, roll, or saltate along the bottom. These particles move along in a region above the bed called the bed-load layer. The bed-load layer has a height corresponding to the maximum height achieved by a saltating particle. When the velocity of the fluid is high enough particles begin to move into the second mode of transport, suspended transport. Suspended particles entrained at the top of the bed-load layer move through the fluid by advection and diffusion.
There are a large number of empirical models for sediment transport (see [Chanson 1998]) which do not necessarily agree. Since I was more concerned about getting the visual aspect of sediment transport than physically accurate simulation I decided to start with a simplified model. I did away with the complicated expressions for coefficients based on physical parameters and replaced them with a single coefficient that could be set with a slider to achieve the desired effect. The model does not include bed-load transport. Though the contribution of bed-load transport to the total sediment transport is not neglible, suspended transport is the most important factor.
The main idea behind the model I used is that the capacity for a fluid to carry suspended sediment is related to the velocity of the fluid and the fall-rate of the sediment. A sediment particle has a terminal fall velocity that depends on its shape, size, and density relative to the fluid. Smaller particles such as clay and silt tend to have smaller fall velocities and thus remain suspended longer, whereas gravel and sand have much higher fall velocities. The critical velocity at which sediment begins to move into suspension is related to the fall-velocity. A smaller disturbance in the fluid is required to suspend particles with a low fall velocity. Similarly, the sediment capacity is also related to fall velocity. When the sediment capacity above the bed is higher than the concentration of sediment there is a net flux from the bed into the fluid - erosion. When the concentration is higher than the sediment capacity, some of the sediment is deposited. I add a term that increases the sediment capacity and critical velocity according to the slope of the terrain.
Once the sediment has entered into suspension it is transported using the techniques described in [Stam 1999]. The semi-Lagrangian advection uses the velocity field to take an Eulerian step backward in time to determine what the concentration would have been advected to the current position. In general, this step does not conserve mass, especially in the presence of vorticies. A more serious problem occurs at the bottom boundaries. The sediment moves downward according to its fall velocity. On the row of cells above the bottom boundary, the advection step looks backward and does not see the wall. All sediment that was in the bottom row is lost because it is not advected anywhere. To deal with this problem I advected the sediment into the top row of boundary cells and added the advected sediment back into the row above the boundary. This almost conserves volume. Volume actually goes up slightly with time. It has the disadvantage that the time-step has to be limited such that the sediment does not move more than one cell downward in a single step. Since the fall velocity is usually very small, this hasn't been a significant limitation.
As the sediment is eroded and deposited, the terrain changes. I represent
the terrain as a heightfield. For the purposes of the fluid simulation,
the heightfield is approximated with boundary cells. Velocity values at
the boundary cells are used to satisfy boundary conditions. No boundary
cells are allowed that have fluid on opposite sides as the value stored
at the boundary cell would have to be shared by both edges. At each iteration
I update the heightfield according to the sediment transport. Then I build
a set of boundary cells that conform to the new heightfield. I then delete
boundary cells that have fluid on opposite sides. The velocities and pressures
in the cells are not updated until the final status of the cell has been
ResultsI did not get as far as I had hoped on this project. I was never able to get a free surface for the fluid. The preliminary results are very nice. The erosion and deposition behaves plausibly. The evolving bed forms affect the fluid flow.
I ran the simulation on a 150x40 grid with periodic boundaries to simulate
a river bed. The user can apply velocity and add sediment concentration
with the mouse. The code is completely unoptimized yet the simulation easily
runs at 25 fps on a 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 with a GeForce 3 graphics card.
Here are some images produced by the simulation.
These spikes are a result of a defect in my model. I think what is happening
is that sediment moves out of suspension near the tops of the spikes leaving
little left by the time it falls to the bottoms. Over time the spikes grow
taller and taller, increasingly depleting the sediment reaching the troughs.
One possible solution to this would be to add instability based on slope.
Slopes higher than a given threshold become unstable and redistribute their
sediment to neighbors.
Future WorkThe results of this project are extremely encouraging. There are many things that I would like to do to improve it. First of all, I would like to implement a more sophisticated transport model involving bed-load transport. I would like to experiment with different methods for suspended transport that conserve mass. I would like to rigorously test and compare different fluid solvers. The solver could be improved to respond better to the actually shape of the heightfield. This would help eliminate blocky artifacts that are sometimes visible due to the boundary cell approximation. Adding a free surface would make the simulation much more interesting as bed-forms would affect the formation of surface waves. Heterogeneous sediments would allow for the formation of layers that are often seen in sedimentary rocks. Finally I would like to implement portions of the simulation on the GPU to facilitate larger grid sizes. I plan to eventually make this into a screen-saver type thing that I will release to the public.
Related MaterialProposal (Powerpoint)
Progress Report - 4/07/03
CFD Lecture (Powerpoint)
Sediment Transport / Final Presentation (Powerpoint)
ReferencesSediment Transport
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You can filter the search down by ticking boxes. For instance, you can remove all results except those with Foursquare special deals currently running, and if you do happen to be a Foursquare user you can filter out places you've been to already (or those you haven't been to).
Basically, this development increases Foursquare's appeal to non-users by making it a competitor to the likes of Yelp and Google. In an unfamiliar area and hungry for some falafel? Registered user or not, Foursquare gives you another way to find the right place, with all the data sourced from users. In fact, Foursquare says it has had nearly three billion check-ins so far, with millions of tips left by users.
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text: ESX Server Snapshot Backups 27. June 2010 plippard Technology (0) One of the more compelling reasons to use ESX/ESXi Server for virtual server management is the feature called Snapshot backups. Snapshot backups provide the ESX/ESXi Server administrator with the ability to essentially freeze a virtual machine (VMDK virtual server) at a point in time while scheduled updates or upgrades are being attempted. Snapshot backups are managed using the VMWare VI Client, discussed in a earlier post. When a snapshot is taken all updates (regardless of origin) which occur to the virtual machine will be written to a set of snapshot files, rather than the VMDK virtual machine image; thus providing the administrator with the opportunity to copy the VMDK virtual machine image. A snapshot can be taken for two reasons; 1) if an administrator wants to copy the VMDK virtual machine, or 2) if the administrator wants to apply updates or upgrades (update from Microsoft, application upgrades, etc) to the virtual machine. Once the VMDK virtual machine has been copied successfully, using simply copy/paste commands against the VMDK Virtual machine, or once the updates/upgrades have been verified as having applied successfully, then the snapshot is customarily deleted. Snapshot deletion will force ESX/ESXi Server to apply all queued updates/ upgrades (queued in the snapshot set of files) to the actual VMDK virtual machine. If the updates/upgrades failed for some reason then the administrator can revert the VMDK virtual machine back to the point in time when the snapshot was originally taken. If the VMDK virtual machine is reverted to the point in time when the snapshot was originally taken then all updates/upgrades after that point in time will be lost, including the failed updates/ upgrades. Snapshot backups are indeed a handy tool for virtual machine management. How many times have you applied an upgrade only to sadly find out that the upgrade failed and it needed to be backed out.


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Facts: Father and Mother divorced in 2011. The trial court approved their marital dissolution agreement (MDA) that included the following fee provision:
In the event it becomes reasonably necessary for either party to institute legal proceedings to procure the enforcement of any provision of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall also be entitled to a judgment for reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred in prosecuting the action.
The MDA also incorporated the terms of the parties' agreed parenting plan, which includes provisions related to child support and assigning responsibility for the children's uncovered medical expenses.
Postdivorce litigation ensued on several issues, including Mother's request for reimbursement of Father's portion of the uncovered medical expenses for their three children.
The trial court awarded a judgment against Father for reimbursement of the children's uncovered medical expenses in the amount of $26,096.50. Under the MDA, Mother was also awarded a judgment for her attorney's fees in the amount of $19,870.
Father appealed to the Court of Appeals, which affirmed the trial court's judgments but declined to award Mother her attorney's fees on appeal.
Mother appealed.
On Appeal: The Tennessee Supreme Court reversed the denial of an award of attorney's fees to Mother.
Mother argued the Court of Appeals lacks the discretion to deny attorney's fees to prevailing parties when there is a contract between the parties entitling the prevailing party to such fees.
Tennessee has long followed the "American Rule" with regard to attorney's fees. This rule provides that a party in a civil action may recover attorney's fees only if a contractual or statutory provision creates a right to recover attorney's fees or some other exception applies. Otherwise, litigants are responsible for their own attorney's fees.
One of the most common exceptions to the American Rule involves contracts that contain provisions expressly permitting or requiring the prevailing party to recover its reasonable attorney's fees incurred to enforce the contract.
A marital dissolution agreement is a contract entered into by spouses in contemplation of divorce. As a contract, a MDA generally is subject to the rules governing construction of contracts. A MDA may include enforceable contractual provisions regarding an award of attorney's fees in postdivorce legal proceedings.
Parties to postdivorce proceedings may also request an award of attorney's fees on statutory grounds. Three commonly used statutes are Tennessee Code Annotated § 27-1-122 (frivolous appeals), Tennessee Code Annotated § 36-5-103(c) (enforcing orders for alimony or child support, or cases about child custody or visitation), and Tennessee Code Annotated § 36-6-108(i) (parental relocation), all of which give courts the discretion to award attorney's fees.
The same is not true when the parties to postdivorce litigation have a MDA that contains a mandatory fee-award provision. It is well-settled that parties are contractually entitled to recover their reasonable attorney's fees when they have an agreement that says the prevailing party in litigation is entitled to recover fees. In such cases, the trial court does not have the discretion to set aside the parties' agreement and supplant it with its own judgment. The sole discretionary judgment the trial court may make is to determine the amount of attorney's fees that is reasonable under the circumstances.
The Supreme Court held the same analysis applies to appellate courts:
A marital dissolution agreement is a contract and as such is subject to the rules governing construction of contracts. Absent fraud, mistake, or some other defect, our courts are required to interpret contracts as written, giving the language used a natural meaning. This axiomatic rule does not change or lose its force because the parties to an agreement are before an appellate court. . . .
It necessarily follows that if an agreement is valid and enforceable, it must be enforced as written regardless of whether the parties are before a trial court or an appellate court. Accordingly, we hold that the Court of Appeals has no discretion whether to award attorney's fees when the parties have a valid and enforceable marital dissolution agreement which requires an award of reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing or successful party.
Applying this holding, the Court ruled that Mother was entitled to recover attorney's fees on appeal:
[B]ecause [Mother] was the prevailing party at both the trial and appellate levels, the parties' MDA entitles her "to a judgment for reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred in prosecuting the action" in each of the proceedings.
Thus, the case was remanded to the trial court to enter an award for the reasonable attorney's fees Mother incurred both before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.
Eberbach v. Eberbach (Tennessee Supreme Court, May 23, 2017).
Information provided by K.O. Herston: Knoxville, Tennessee Divorce and Family-Law Attorney.


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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: Does anyone use 10gR2 Grid control for enterprise wide monitoring ?
What a coincidence; my installation of GC 10gR2 became non-functional yesterday.
I'm just evaluating it; it does not monitor Production systems.
The install is very new, less than a month.
It's stopped functioning correctly on Dec 12.
It stopped monitoring for Policy Violations and Metric Threshold Violations.
The rest of it seemed to work okay; I could browse various targets I know about.
The fact that it did not notify me that it stopped monitoring seems to be a major flaw or bug.
I posted a simple question to the OTN EM-GC forum:
"Is there a checklist, flow-chart, or set of questions I can use to help guide my efforts to troubleshoot this? "
I got no answers.
I'm curious why Oracle does not provide some kind of utility which can tell me the general state of EM-GC and its various components.
Based on my reading of that forum, capturing this state is up to the DBA who knows about the location of perhaps 10 or more log files.
I poked around in the log files and used a status gathering utility for the agent. It appears that I have a communication problem between the agent and other components.
I do remember that when I installed EM-GC, runInstaller asked me if I wanted to secure communications. I said 'yes'.
So now I'm operating under the assumption that this decision has come back to haunt me.
Yesterday, I walked through some steps I found in the EM Advanced Configuration Guide [ ch 4 Enterprise Manager Security ].
I used the steps to verify that the agent and the oms are communicating securely.
Now, my EM-GC is more broken. It has completely lost contact with all of its targets.
So, my impression of EM-GC is poor. I give the product a D. It does have some nice features for browsing the DB. Otherwise, I'd give it an F.
I do, however, want to become proficient with this product.
Maybe the folks here are sharper than the people in the OTN EM-GC forum.
Here is what I see when I use emctl to tell me the state of my 1 and only agent which resides on the same host as both the EM Database and the oms:
bash-3.1$ bash-3.1$ bash-3.1$ emctl status agent
Agent Version : 10.2.0.1.0 OMS Version : 10.2.0.1.0 Protocol Version : 10.2.0.0.0 Agent Home : /usr/lib/oracle/xe/gc2/OracleHomes/agent10g Agent binaries : /usr/lib/oracle/xe/gc2/OracleHomes/agent10g Agent Process ID : 514 Parent Process ID : 499 Agent URL : https://ow2:3872/emd/main/ Repository URL : https://ow2:1159/em/upload Started at : 2006-12-21 19:35:41 Started by user : oracle Last Reload : 2006-12-21 19:35:41 Last successful upload : 2006-12-22 03:11:35 Total Megabytes of XML files uploaded so far : 0.12 Number of XML files pending upload : 1550 Size of XML files pending upload(MB) : 49.99 Available disk space on upload filesystem : 68.79% Collection Status : Disabled by Upload Manager Last successful heartbeat to OMS : 2006-12-22 12:31:41Agent is Running and Ready
Does anyone here have any general tips or set of questions which might give some clues on how to troubleshoot this broken implementation?
Notice the status statement:
Collection Status : Disabled by Upload Manager
This looks like a good place to start.
Two obvious questions:
What exactly is 'Collection' and what is 'Upload Manager' ?
-- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Dec 22 2006 - 13:57:29 CST
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text: Hi Greg Snow wrote: > The subplot function in the TeachingDemos package will create a new > plot inside of the existing one, so if you can plot your one image, > the subplot function will help (using base graphics). The EBImage > package may help with the reading and plotting of the figure. (there > is also grImport, but it looks like it is fully grid based which is Just to clarify, only the *drawing* parts of the package are grid-based; the *import* parts of the package are more neutral and it is possible to draw the resulting imported image using "base" graphics (it's just hard/painful to write a *general* drawing function for the imported image using base graphics). Paul > harder to work with base plots, on the other hand if your plot is > grid based, then it will work better than subplot). > > Hope this helps, > -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/


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LL Fan Flickering
Hi all,
New to this forum so apologies for creating another thread on this issue but not sure if my problem is the same as others...
Got my build a few months back and decided to add in LL fans (3x120 & 2x140). Hooked them up with no problems and fans were working perfectly. Had a normal exhaust fan that came with my case (Corsair Obsidian 500D) so I replaced with another LL 120 fan, but upon swapping this that's when the problem started.
Everything lights up fine when booting apart from one, which seems to start flickering in a different manner to my other fans. When choosing a static colour, white is fine but one little section shows off a different colour on the outer ring, but when choosing another colour, it doesn't change and shows multiple colours.
When playing The Division 2, it doesn't want to behave like my other fans colour wise.
RMA'ed the lighting node and received the new one, replaced but yet the same problem. I've tried rebooting my system as people have said on the other threads, changed the corsairservice to manual as suggested but still the same problem.
I hope it's not my fan/s that is the problem and just the iCUE software that needs to be looked at....any solutions/advice would be great
Thanks in advance
I have same problem I have 6 LL 120 fans and ever since last Icue software update my fans have been on fritz no matter what mode I do it keeps colour flickering. I've tried pc restart software update/ forced update close and reopen close all unessery programmes but no matter what I do it doesnt solve the problem whats going on here please help
"This looks like a software issue.
Many issues with Corsair Utility Engine can be solved by performing a clean reinstall of the software. This is a little different from just uninstalling and reinstalling the software. Please perform the steps below:
- Please make sure to install all updates for Windows.
- Uninstall the iCUE software.
Please locate your Appdata folder, and delete the 2 Corsair folders in the Local and Roaming folder.
- Run CCleaner: https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
- Run CCleaner's Registry Cleaner
- Restart your computer
- Reinstall iCUE"
Those were the steps I was given so you can try that to see if it works for you but definitely didn't work for me.
This is getting quite rather annoying
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As long as you show respect and deference to Aristide and the Lavalass party, I am bound to reciprocate in kind. Aristide has been a genuine patriote like Cassique Henri, Boukman, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe, Charlemagne Peralta, Dumarsais Estime, Daniel Fignole, Louis Dejoie.
Those guys will never give away a piece of our territory to foreign powers in exchange for their short term or ephemeral material comforts.
Mole Saint Nicolas, La Gonave Ile A Vaches Les Cayimites are in jeopardy.
They might want a military base on the Haitian territory so they could accelerate the development of vices and drug in Haiti.
Now watch what will happen to Haiti in the next 60 months.
Our gold mines, lithium mines and uranium mine will be hand over to the Amerequins for free while they will continues to buy our mangos for a few cents a sac and resell each mango in the US for one dollar.
Haitian cadavers will be for sale to the Medical school in the USA like under Duvalier regime.
Incarcerated Americans will be able to vote during election time in Haiti.
You probably will see the Duvalier death squad returning in Haiti.
People will disappear; thousands will be killed next 12 months under the supervision of the Amerequins.
They will harass the Cuban doctors or even break diplomatic relations with Cuba under the pressure of the USA. More girls and boys will become prostitutes, homosexual and drug addicts.
I never trust people that carry weapons.
Even if the pope is carrying a weapon I will not trust him. That is why they always say that you should never trust a police even if he or she is your brother or cousin.
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First campfire of the season
Late Sunday night:
I love fire. For 25 years, I was a fire fighter until I retired as an Assistant Chief.
I have a fire ring in my yard, heat my house with wood, and consider myself one of the firedogs at community bonfires.
I really like making fire.
Summer in Florida is all about heat, humidity, biting insects and did I mention humidity. It's really no time to make fire. Fall is the prefect time. Some Floridians prefer the springtime with it's show-off blooming goodness. I understand and appreciate spring, but autumn is incredibly wonderful.
Pay attention you folks who are thinking that Florida is paradise and how there are all those foreclosed houses and all…this place is not for sissies. The humidity is exhausting in August. We have bugs the size of small dogs and don't get me started on the snakes and alligators.
None the less, I (heart) the silly place and fall is my favorite time to be here.
My fire tonight wasn't the first of the community this fall, but it was my first one. I paired the fire with a tasting of three sour mash bourbons. While sour mash has a rich history in the South as good moonshine, all mine were tax paid and legal. We did an Eagle Rare, a Maker's Mark and an Evan Williams single barrel 1997. The Eagle Rare was sweetish with a aftertaste similar to Scotch. The Maker's Mark was smooth and wonderful. The Evan Williams was amazing.
Bourbon is, for certain southerners, a holy sacred elixir. It was the 'crack' of an earlier generation.
The best thing about the beginning of fire season is that oyster season is just around the corner.
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Alright, I didn't exactly get everything on my weekend to-do list done, but I feel like we were "go-go-go" all weekend. We did the boring stuff on Friday night–grocery shopping and cleaning.
Saturday we got up early (or, actually, when we usually get up) to have breakfast and head to my soccer game. We tied 2-2, and it was a little awkward. I definitely wasn't my normal, aggressive self. I'm going to give myself that game to get back into the groove, but I need to stop being afraid to challenge people.
After that, we headed straight to Ikea to get Sean a desk for his office room. We went through the store and figured out all the parts we needed, then went to the self-serve area and loaded them up. We waited what seemed like forever in check out. And then got out to the parking deck to realize the desk wouldn't fit in the back of my car.
We finagled it in and tied the door closed with kayak straps. We only had to stop once on the side of the highway on the way home to add more straps to the contraption. The rest of the afternoon was spent eating and assembling the desk–only to find out we'd gotten one wrong part. Nooooo!
Instead of waiting it out, we headed back to Ikea, got the right part, and headed back home. We eventually got the desk together. Victory.
Sunday involved an early trip to Home Depot, except they weren't open. So we came back home, went for a walk around h neighborhood, and headed back. Sean got a blind and a ceiling fan for his office, and I got the stuff to make a giant chalkboard for the kitchen.
While I painted my chalkboard, Sean washed his car, and then we headed to Kennesaw to take my car for an oil change. Except it wouldn't shift out of park in the garage. Sean finally got it out of the garage, and we dropped my car off at Subaru and went to Kennesaw Mountain for a nice quick hike. By the time we finished, my car was magically fixed (yay!), and we headed home to watch the Falcons game and eat homemade pizza.
After the game, we tried to put up the blind, but realized it wasn't the same as the rest of the house and also didn't fit the window. One down, one to go. Before we bought the ceiling fan for the office, Sean check to make sure the ceiling hole was over a stud. It seemed like it was, but when we went to install the fan, we realized it wasn't.
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Fiat, Gold and Rent
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and delivered at the 2012 Republican Party convention in Tampa Bay, Florida contains among others this choice golden nugget: The decision by this party to set up a commission to investigate the return of the US to the gold standard.
For classical Marxism, "money must be a commodity before it can become money"*. Traditionally this was accomplished by the production – for profit of course – of gold for sale as money. This is the only instance where money appears for sale in a capitalist economy – otherwise money always buys, but is not sold as money.** That is possible because what is purchased by the central bank is the particular use value of gold as money, as is true with any other commodity exchange.*** But specie production is not the only way to accomplish money creation. Under a capitalist fiat regime, it is not money that is created – what every "printing press" vulgarian thinks when they rail against the central bank – rather, it is capital in its commodity form, interest bearing money capital, that is created by fiat. True, this is a fictitious capital, a pseudo-commodity, but the interest borne by it is very real in value terms. That is because capital in commodity form typically enters the world as State debt in the form of a Treasury bond with a claim on the State tax revenues. Tax revenues are a tributary revenue stream of value into the State Treasury, and a portion of this value stream is redistributed and transformed into interest ("yields") on State bonds sold as the private property of capitalists.
Nevertheless this is merely an extension of part of the same tributary stream of value. It is therefore properly classified as a form of rent. Its structure is remarkably analogous to that of land rent: Its capitalization of rents into the form of a land price is a fictitious capital, but the land rents returned on investment in the land constitute a very real redistribution – a tributary stream – of value in the form of a private tax paid to the private proprietor of the land. Logically it makes sense that a fictitious capital can find "valuation" only by "non-commodity production" means, by being the bearer of a tributary transformation of value.
Sociologically, it is the synthetic reproduction of the capital relation as a type of value relation, coming into the world attached to the umbilical cord of a nutrient-providing tributary rent transfer. Historically, the shift from the gold standard to capitalist fiat is also a shift in emphasis from productive capitalism to rentier capitalism, something that should be no small irony for a school of economics whose guru once muttered something about "euthanasia of the rentier". Because far from being euthanized, rents have proliferated in the fiat currency era. Or has the epidemic of asset bubbles breaking out seemingly randomly everywhere, the proliferation of "rent trapping" cartels in (here speaking of the US) higher education, telecoms, health care – joining the traditional ones in housing, agriculture and mining – merely a coincidence, together with what goes under the rubric of "financialization", "Wall Street hegemony" and "privatization"?
Thing is, Marx's newborn baby not only remains dripping with blood from head to toe, but threatens to strangle itself with the umbilical cord that gives it life – or in an even more gruesome mixed metaphor, hoisted on its own life-giving petard. But capitalism is a gruesome system, ain't it.
The amusing thing is, the Republican Party has been the "rentier party" par excellence since the advent of Ronald Reagan. Advocacy of the gold standard, severing a prime source of rents, shows that this Party has become the primary political sinkhole concentrating the main contradictions of US capitalism, producing the ideological wingnuttery that we find so entertaining. This is a wing of the US bourgeoisie that, like the swathes of the US working class that it cons into voting for it, cannot recognize its real class interest.
The implications for a practical socialist program based upon the proper understanding of both profit, rent and the relation between the two and their joint contradictory relation to wages, is this: Touch upon the rent question today, without counterpoising "unproductive" rent as a greater evil to "productive" profits, and watch the whole bourgeoisie – from Austrians to Keynesians – howl in pain as one voice!
*Quoted from "Michael Roberts Blog: blogging from a marxist economist". This article is a reply to Roberts.
**For this theory of money, see Makoto Itoh and Costas Lapavitsas, Political Economy of Money and Finance (1999) and Lapavitsas, Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit (2003)
***See for starters Marx's own classical treatment in "The Form of Value or Exchange Value", pgs 47-70, Capital Vol I (1967), and also the interesting treatment in Itoh and Lapavitsas, ibid. Itoh's sensei Kouzo Uno put it quite succinctly when he stated that "The exchange value of a commodity or its value-form does not, as is often misconceived, mean its exchange ratio with another commodity. It is a unilateral expression of a commodity's value by its owner in terms of the use value of another commodity that he wants. A commodity must express its value in this peculiar fashion." Uno, Principles of Political Economy, pg. 5 (1964 English translation by Thomas T. Sekine; emphasis added). Most peculiar of all, then, under a gold standard regime, must be the exchange-valorization of gold though its purchase by the central bank, whose "relative form of value" on offer is, what exactly? It might be a convertible central banknote printed by the bank, which must be traded at a risk premium to the money commodity gold since it is, after all, a paper promissory note of the central bank. Or the central bank could exchange out of its stock of State Treasury bonds, with the yield playing the same role as the risk premium, except that it would constitute a rent tribute paid to the gold producing capitalist. In either case, the operation is entirely analogous to the creation of yield bearing fictitious capital in commodity form under a fiat (non-convertible) regime, and is the rational basis for the substitution of gold for fiat as "symbolic gold". But the essential point here is that, for the central bank, it is the particular use value of gold as money that is the means by which gold is "monetized". Not even gold is immediately money, and the quantity theory of money will find no refuge here, either.


text: Live Interview with Noisem! November 28, 2014Micah No Comment Facebook Genre(s): Death Metal/Grindcore Location: Baltimore, MD Our live interviewer, David, caught up with Noisem recently at one of their shows. Check out the interview below! Also, special thanks to Noisem for allowing David to interview you! PSAB: What's it like touring with Carcass, Obituary, and Exhumed? Noisem: An absolute dream come true. Watching all of these bands every night makes us try to better ourselves and attempt to at least make a dent in the interest of the crowd in comparison to these legends. PSAB: Craziest story of the tour so far . . Noisem: We met our guardian angel at a rest stop outside of El Paso. That day we had blown a tire, gone off the side of the highway and pretty much came 50 yards from either hitting a tree on the left side or plummeting off a cliff to the right. Luckily our MERCH dude Sam (also the guitarist of Jarhead Fertilizer) was driving and was able to safely stop us from either flipping or continuing going through to our deaths. But anyway. that night we were just at the rest stop and this dude comes up to us, so we begin talking. Then all of a sudden he goes into discussing the various music videos he has been in such as "In Too Deep" by Sum 41 and "Smooth Criminal" by Alien Ant Farm. To cut this short, the next day, we blew another tire on route to Tucson. He just so happened to be driving by, and was generous enough to drive us all to the tire shop while the van was being towed. That night he followed us to the show and he told us about how much he loved Soulfly, etc. But yeah, that was definitely my favorite moment. PSAB: Best/worst place you played on this tour. Noisem: Definitely Richmond. That night was great because a lot of our Baltimore homies came down and raged. Good time. PSAB: I just listened to Agony defined. Very unrelenting thrash/grind/death, you guys didn't fuck around on this record. I literally was sweating by the end of the third song from running around my house. What were you guys going for on this record? Noisem: All of the material on Agony was written before I joined the band, but It was mostly just our take on old school death/thrash. It was what we wanted to hear from a band at that time and I think it turned out well judging upon how positive the response has been. PSAB: Biggest influences? Noisem: All of us will have a different answer, but for me personally it's definitely Repulsion, Terrorizer, Slayer, the classics. I also think for a lot of the newer stuff we've been taking more of an influence from stuff like Infest and Crossed Out, old school hardcore, etc. Lyrically I would definitely have to say my biggest influences are Robert Smith, Jacob Bannon. Stuff like that. PSAB: How long have you been a band, how did it start? Noisem: I guess the band "officially" started in 2008. Harley and Sebastian are brothers so they've always been playing together. But for the sound we have now we probably I would say we began in 2010/2011 when we were Necropsy. I joined the band in 2012 and we haven't really changed since. PSAB: What is the Maryland scene like? Noisem: Depends. I think the Baltimore punk scene is thriving and there are a lot of great bands. Check out Dopecopper, Putrisect, Barbelith. PSAB: Anything we should keep an eye or ear out for in 2015? Noisem: We're going to be making some announcements in the next few weeks regarding that. Stay tuned! Interview, Live InterviewDavid, Death Metal, NoisemShare : Tweet ‹ Forthright Booking Presents The Spring Break You Neck Tour! Interview with Acaedia! ›


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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:49 pm
you no i am a dreamer!!!!!!
but can i put my hands on my head???
i sed dreamer!!
you no i am a dreamer"
i have the wierdest dreams, and am re-nowned 4 it, i got 4 interprettin dream books 4 xmas, but still, cannot finds the answers!!
i mean cummon, av u heard of freud?? according to him all my dreams are linked to sex.......theyre not tho!!!!!! im not a pedo, and the jungian view i a load of $@%&£
so seen as tho ur all philosophical ppl n stuff, can you help???
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:20 pm
well, think of the first feelings that you get from those dreams, in fact, all the feelings that you get from those dreams, and go with that. works for me and music...
"Rainy Day, Dream away" for example, is a really neat feeling, because when i heard it, i felt like someone was having a ball, every other person in the world was angry or sad or upset.
and of course, "Castles Made of Sand" gives me the feeling that the world is. some of it's good, some of it's bad, but it's what we've got to work with, and we just need to see a few more golden winged ships commin' our way.
hope that helps.and if it doesn't, sorry.
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:28 am
Well I say again, your dreams can be interpreted as anything, and mean anything, can mean you want to do something, don't want to do something, are deathly afraid of something, etc. You get the basic idea, yesh?
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:00 pm
one more example. in the end of The Fletcher Memorial Home (Pink Floyd, The Final Cut) Roger does some really cool stuff with his voice. "are you having a nice time? GOOD BYE! now the final solution can be applied".
when i hear that line, i feel like something will be done, but it will be far from humane. of course, you must first hear the rest of the song to feel me, but hey.
you feel me?
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:06 pm
i no wot you mean every time i hear every breathe you take by the police or sting i cry, and drops of jupiter, an all tme fav makes me stop in my tracks and listen to the words, and some songs when you hear them really reflect your life, and it makes you think, and makes you want to do something, or help or change, etcetc, im ranting a it but u get da jist
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:23 pm
Aye, I think everyone has one of those songs. The one that sparks the most memories for me is K-Ci and JoJo's "All My Life". I'll tell you why if ya like, but its a long boring story, even though it might bring some good points. Just don't wanna put it here if nobodys gonna read it. It SHOULD be in the spirital paths forum anyway if I do!
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:13 pm
post it. in Spiritual paths.
and i'm currently on a song-writing binge. that is interesting. never tried my hand at lyrics before (although i've done some poetry now and again) so it's odd, but it's getting good.
now there's a strange feeling... putting your feelings on paper.
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:52 am
Nah, not really. I've written over 90 poems myself, all in one year just as they came to me. Havn't written in a while since Junior year is hell, but I'm planning to take it up again soon/sometime.
Oh well, you sacrifice some things to do others, and vice versa.
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:49 pm
cool, one of my fav poems is the mirror, ill read (write) it to you:
i am silver and exact. i have no preconceptions.
what ever i see i swallow immediately
juat as is it, unmisted by love or dislike.
i am not cruel, only truthful -
the eye of a little God, four cornered.
most of the time i meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. i have looked at it so long
i think it is part of my heart. but it flickers
faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now i am a lake. A woman bends over me,
searching my reaches for what she really is.
then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
i see her back and reflect it faithfully.
she rewards me with tears and an agitation of hande.
i am important to her. she comes and goes.
each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
in me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
rises towards her day after day, like a terrible fish.
wots ur fav poem????
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:14 pm
music is poetry...
so prolly...
Time by Pink Floyd.
but if I must pick a real 'poem'...
Mosquito... grr.. can't remember who wrote it, or any of the lines off the top of my head...
i'll find a copy. don' worry.
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:58 pm
Well I couldn't say. But maybe an excerpt from one of Dr Seuss's books:
Our buildings to you
Must seem horribly small,
But to us, who aren't big,
they are wonderfully tall!
And it winds up being relevant here as well! Holy crap!
And english words are smeggin awesome mon! Learn some!
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:58 pm
erm.........im english i think i know how the accent is and i think i can say some of the words in my language!!! im not a posh southerner though, i dont like southerners they are arrogant, cocky, posh and eat gellied eels.........ewwwwwwwww, and they only sell REALLY expensive fish and chips, and they dont do mushy peas, gravy or curry sauce!!! dispicible!!!
(any english people will understand the relevane of this post, if you like peter kay anyway........for you yamks, he is an extremely funny comedian, and says some of that (^) in one of his acts)
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:18 pm
i'm a yank. so i don't know.
I KNOW some english folks, though!
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:58 am
Actually I do too. Nice people, had em over here for a week or so during the summer a few years ago. 'Twas a blast I think. Besides, we both watched the same old british comedy that I've mentioned before "Red Dwarf" (I highly reccomend it) so we had something to relate to. And after a while I was able to understand people with a HEAVY British accent, so now I've got a useful skill for future use!
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:47 pm
i stick to Monty Python myself. but anyways, until we get a board for Dreams, let's use this guy as a substitute. any one else got a dream or whatnot they would like to share? cause i don't.
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Learn more about Catalani's unique way of handling conflicts.
Ronault L.S. Catalani's book, "Counter Culture: Immigrant Stories From Portland Cafe Counters," was released in December. The collection is a sometimes philosophical, sometimes raw look at the history of Oregon's immigrants and their presence today in the Metro area's public spaces. Catalani recently spoke about the book. The interview was edited for space and clarity.Q: You say in the book that your writing is not apologetic, that it's not bent on assimilation or integration. What do you mean?
A: There is a lot of assimilationist writing out there -- I mean immigrant writing pleasing to the American inclination to be alike. A lot of immigrant writing is Oprah-style narrative. The stories tend to be about miserable women and their violent, childish men. They portray immigrant cultures as misogynistic. The stories end with resilient women making it on their own. This narrative sells books.
I'm talking about stories like Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" or Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior," which were both extremely popular. That's why the mainstream misunderstands us. There's a shouting match in the Asian community about these writers, about how authentic they are. What's important to me is anti-orientalism. I'm drawing creativity from our difference.
Q: Why is their type of writing bad?
A: It goes back to the noble savage, and to orientalism, the portrayal of the mysterious "other" onto which Westerners project their fantasies. These tend to be very romanticized views. And we immigrants have allowed this romanticization to go unchecked.
But the harm goes all around. When Westerners have those misinterpretations, people make grave mistakes like invading Iraq and thinking that everyone is going to rally around American ideals. That's because we, as immigrants, have allowed Americans to think they know us.
Q: But don't immigrants create that image as protection, because they don't want to be misconstrued?
A: We as immigrants are active participants in the romanticization of us. It has survival value. We encourage it to flatter Americans, to save face. But that can lead to us becoming a characterization of ourselves, just because that's how the mainstream views us.
As newcomers, immigrants are relatively powerless. As such, they are viewed as docile, polite, effeminate -- that's the romanticization. Americans don't understand that it's because we're powerless, we're afraid, because we're at the bottom -- not because that's our character.
Q: So it's easy to fall into the belief that immigrants are not capable?
A: As immigrants, we anticipate it. We've become used to the habit of suppressing ourselves, for purposes of getting by. My work as a community activist for the city is to help immigrant newcomers overcome the habit and take their cultural capital seriously, with all the suffering and historical gravity. This is not a statement of chauvinism or nationalism. America needs that social capital. It's been vigorous, because it's had that capital, this immigrant energy.
We immigrants should stow away the category of being miserable minorities. It's an ill family dynamic.
Q: In the book, you place immigrants in public places, square in Portland's most popular cafes. Why do this, when a lot of immigrant nonfiction deals with private stories?
A: I intend to be provocative. My goal is to put native Oregonians and immigrants in the same space, even if just for a moment. It's interesting that people can go to any taqueria in the city and not get where they're sitting. They don't get the social context, the familial context.
There's been some changes with mayors Vera Katz and Tom Potter encouraging participatory democracy and inviting immigrants to the table. We're learning more about each other. It's about this place, this time, and it's really our responsibility to make a bigger Portland, one that includes Mexicans, Africans and Asians.
Q: What does it mean to be a writer who is also a community activist?
A: I write what I know and what I've done. I feel I have the responsibility to speak, and I believe I have earned the authority for being the voice for immigrant and refugee folks. I've always wanted to write to disclose something. Part of it is saying, "This is wrong, this is what needs to be done." That's different from someone who just writes really pretty.
Q: Is Portland a good city for immigrant writers?
A: Portland has energetic ethnic enclaves where we immigrant writers can withdraw. They're a kind of haven, a sanctuary where you can be left with yourself, with your own feelings, without having to translate yourself. You can go to a taqueria, watch football in Spanish and write. Or sit undisturbed all day in steamy noodle shops.
But the arts in Oregon are burdened by the same historical backdrop that burden education, law enforcement, politics or media. Those of us who venture out, say to one of Portland's poetry venues, are always the only people of color. There's no place where we as immigrants can cultivate our arts.
Q: Your writing style is raw and poetic, with lots of short sentences and foreign vocabulary, what you call "expanding American lexicon."
A: I come from an oral tradition. My mother's older brother was a storyteller, my father was a hakim, a justice/mediator. So when writing, I try best to stay true to how our folk talk. We pay a lot of attention to rhythm and tone. My written work is best read aloud.
When writing across cultures, I know I must hook Anglo readers with familiar places and sentence structures. Things are familiar, but in a moment -- now that I've made you at ease -- I can shift the tables. I'm laying out a complex world with short phrases and by speaking in idioms and slang familiar to Asians, Islanders, Muslims and Latinos. Pretty soon, all Americans need to know how to read this code.


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The very best rock 'n' roll is often the summation of two key areas: a knowing melancholia and a style strong enough to make such downbeat subject matter pale into insignificance.
Orlando upstarts The Spinning Stillness do this in spades, making sunny moments out of sobering meditations on the delightful "Happy Times" EP. The quartet's sole release is notable for its charming, see-sawing spirit – each song a gorgeously positive explosion of joy and regret.
The EP's perky title track and opener betrays the influence of the early-noughties garage rock resurgence and, on first listen, radiates a curious Britishness. Think the winsome joie de vivre of peak Libertines or the more commercially-minded output of early Razorlight and you're on the right track. Nods to cooler, more cult outsider bands, such as Pixies, abound in Charlie Shephard's sometimes sweet, sometimes curdled vocal delivery. A sumptuous, sunlit collage of indie idols.
Sonic exuberance is dialled down a notch on "To You", a mellower, more complex offering than its predecessor. But that's not to say it scrimps on infectiousness or likability, and the downturn in mood is smoothly countered by the track's sashaying of duelling guitars and arresting textures. Malaise twisted to majesty.
The group's distinctive luminous guitars and deadpan vocals once again reveal themselves on "Smooth Darkness", a closing track that sails by on the EP's catchiest, most heartfelt chorus. In its combination of enthusiasm and finger-pointing, it honours its oxymoronic title in the most startling fashion – the perfect aural bookend to the EP's shape-shifting moods.
On "Happy Times", The Spinning Stillness inject a much-needed shot of melody and innocence back into the arms of indie rock. With the future looking bright, we're eager for our next hit.
The Spinning Stillness are an indie rock four-piece from Orlando, Florida. Listen to the "Happy Times" EP below. Check out the band's website here.


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August 17, 1991, Section 1, Page 8Buy Reprints
A freelance writer who was found dead with his wrists slashed in a hotel room in Martinsburg, W.Va., a week ago was buried near here today amid uncertainty about the cause of death and evidence that he was working on an article about a major Government conspiracy.
The body of Joseph Daniel Casolaro, 44 years old of Fairfax City, Va., was discovered by West Virginia authorities on Saturday in what was tentatively ruled a suicide.
Mr. Casolaro's family and friends said he had told them he was going to Martinsburg to meet a source for the story he had been working on for more than a year.
Family members and associates have said that despite the views of the local authorities and the findings of an autopsy, they strongly believed that Mr. Casolaro might have been slain because of what he had discovered. Mr. Casolaro had been investigating a case in which the owners of a computer software company, Inslaw, have accused the Justice Department of stealing programs the company had designed to track criminal cases worldwide. The department has denied the accusations and resisted all court challenges by Inslaw. 'Don't Believe It,' He Said
The case has been in the courts for nearly a decade and Mr. Casolaro's brother, Dr. Anthony Casolaro of Arlington, Va., has told reporters he believed his brother may have been close to uncovering a major conspiracy in connection with the Inslaw case. He said in an interview today that his brother had told him in the last two months that if he died in an accident, "don't believe it."
Dr. Casolaro said he was very skeptical that his brother committed suicide for several reasons, including the facts that his brother had recently received numerous death threats and that none of his notes on the case were found with his body.
Friends of the journalist said he was looking into a connection between the Inslaw matter and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a loosely regulated international banking concern that Federal regulators say is at the center of a worldwide banking fraud. U.S. Inquiry Is Suggested
Elliot Richardson, a former United States Attorney General who now represents Inslaw in its suit against the Justice Department, said Mr. Casolaro's death should be the subject of a Federal investigation led by someone "of unquestioned integrity and independence."
Mr. Richardson said today, "The significant thing about Danny's death is that he was just seeking confirmation of what he believed he already knew." He said that if the informers Mr. Casolaro had already talked to were to be believed, it involved a conspiracy "far worse than Watergate," one that involved B.C.C.I., drugs and the persistent but unproven allegations that in 1980 some members of Ronald Reagan's Presidential campaign team worked to delay the release of American hostages in Iran to damage President Jimmy Carter's re-election chances.
"These are not separate cases if these people are to be believed," he said. As for himself, Mr. Richardson said he did not know whether to believe Mr. Casolaro's far-reaching conspiracy theory, which the reporter dubbed "The Octopus."
Mr. Casolaro, who was not widely known in the Washington journalism community, had published a novel and some short stories and for a time owned a small group of computer industry trade publications.
Cynthia Gaither, the West Virginia prosecutor investigating the death, said the authorities still believed that Mr. Casolaro committed suicide, although an investigation was continuing because of the concern expressed by friends and family. Note Found With Body
She said Mr. Casolaro was found in the hotel room bathtub with numerous cuts on his wrists. There were no signs of forced entry to the room or any kind of a struggle. A note was found in the room that the authorities have characterized as a suicide note, but they would not reveal its exact contents. His brother said the note was an apology and a plea for understanding, addressed in part to a 22-year-old son from a failed marriage and concluded with the hope that "God will let me in."
Ms. Gaither said that the authorities had found "nothing inconsistent with the earlier finding that it was a suicide." A finding of suicide was made by Dr. James Frost, West Virginia's deputy medical examiner, but he said he could not rule out foul play.
Ms. Gaither said that investigators were continuing to interview everyone they believed Mr. Casolaro had met while in Martinsburg. She was also awaiting results of toxicological tests and the examination of other physical evidence like fingerprints.
A Congressional committee has been investigating the Inslaw matter.
Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that there was as yet no Federal aspect to the Casolaro death that would warrant its entry into the case.
Dr. Casolaro said that in a July 22 letter to his agent his brother complained of his anxiety over a mortgage payment, but also expressed exultation over his progress in the investigation.
After talking about the payments, which he subsequently made, Mr. Casolaro said in the letter, "I feel the happiness that an Eskimo must feel when he comes across fresh bear tracks before any other sled."


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Accessing BreEZe for Corporations and Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)
On November 1st, the Bureau of Security & Investigative Services (BSIS) mailed a letter to all licensees organized as corporations or limited liability companies (LLCs) requesting the submission of the company's FEIN in preparation for the Bureau's transition to BreEZe. As previously discussed in the letter, BSIS is scheduled to transition to BreEZe, the Department of Consumer Affairs' online licensing and enforcement system in mid-January 2016. Some of the many benefits of BreEZe include, but are not limited to, the ability to renew a license(s) online and pay online using a credit card in a secure environment.
If your company is organized as a corporation or limited liability company and you plan on using the online benefits of the new BreEZe system listed above, you must submit the Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) that is associated with your company's BSIS issued license number. If a company has multiple licenses, it must submit the FEIN for each of those licenses. The FEIN is required to create the unique user ID and password necessary to access your current licensing information.
If you have not yet submitted your company's FEIN to BSIS and wish to access BreEZe immediately after the Bureau's transition in mid-January, submit ALL of the following information via email (email@example.com) or by fax (916-575-7287):
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text: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, who died on Monday after suffering a stroke, was arguably the most recognisable British politician since Winston Churchill. Thatcher became prime minister in 1979, the first woman ever to be elected to the position. She held power until 1990, winning three consecutive elections as leader of the Conservative party, and was appointed to the House of Lords, as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven in 1992. Thatcher was advised to stop public speaking on health grounds shortly before the death of Sir Denis Thatcher, her husband, in 2003. In her final years, she struggled with dementia. In 2007, she became the first British prime minister to be honoured with a statue in the Houses of Parliament while still alive. Grocer's daughter Thatcher, née Roberts, was born in Grantham in Lincolnshire on October 13, 1925, the daughter of a grocer. After attending Grantham Girls' School she went to Oxford University where she studied natural sciences and specialised in chemistry. She became president of the the university's Conservative Association in 1946. In 1951 she married Denis Thatcher, a wealthy divorced businessman, with whom she was to have two children. After a tough campaign she was elected as member of parliament for Finchley, in north London, in 1953 and became education secretary under Edward Heath after he won the 1970 general election. Thatcher defeated Heath for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975 and became prime minister in 1979. Arriving at 10 Downing Street, amid mounting industrial action by the country's unions, she famously said, in a paraphrase of St Francis of Assisi: "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope." Falkland's factor Thatcher's political philosophy, which later became known as Thatcherism, involved less state intervention and a commitment to free markets and entrepreneurialism. Thatcher was a close ally and friend of late US president Ronald Reagan [Reuters] As her government began to introduce its policies, including reduced expenditures on services such as education and housing, unemployment rose sharply. By December 1981, Thatcher's job approval rating had fallen to 25 percent, the lowest of her entire premiership. In April 1982, Argentina invaded the British held Falkland Islands. After a short bloody war, the islands were recaptured. The conflict helped boost Conservative support and the party won a landslide victory in the June 1983 general election, taking an overall majority of 144 seats. Although strengthened by the election result, Thatcher's government found itself the following year challenged by a strike by Britain's coalminers. Miners' strike Thatcher was determined to lessen the power of the trade unions which she saw as holding the country to ransom. The strike turned into a violent and bitter dispute which split the country. Eventually, after a year on strike, the National Union of Miners conceded without a deal. Following the action, the unions went into steep decline, losing much of their power, rights and influence as well as millions of members. Thatcher had long been a target for the Irish Republican Army which was waging a violent campaign for a united Ireland. In October 1984, a hotel she was staying in was bombed by the IRA in a clear attempt to kill her and her cabinet. Thatcher, who was in Brighton for the Conservative party conference, delivered her speech as planned in defiance of the bombers. 'Iron lady' On the international stage, Thatcher wooed and bullied in equal measure. Francois Mitterand, the late French president, famously described her as having "the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe". She faced fierce criticism over her opposition to economic sanctions over South Africa's apartheid regime. At the height of the Cold War, Thatcher described Mikhail Gorbachev, the then Soviet leader, as a man she could do business with. But it was with Ronald Reagan, the US president and her political soulmate, that she developed a special bond. She backed Reagan's policy of deterrence against the Soviet Union, causing friction with allies who still adhered to the idea of détente that had been followed in the 1970s. The Soviets described her as the "Iron Lady" - a tag she relished. Her supporters credit her stance as playing a part in the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Fundamental change In 1987, Thatcher led her party to a third term in power with a 102 seat majority, becoming the longest continuously serving prime minister of Britain since Lord Liverpool in 1812 to 1827. However, controversial policies including the poll tax, which appeared to shift the tax burden from rich to poor, and her increasingly strident opposition to any closer integration with Europe, began to lose her support both in the country and in her party. In November 1990, Michael Heseltine, who had resigned from Thatcher's government in 1986, challenged her for the leadership of the party. Heseltine narrowly received enough backing from the parliamentary Conservative party in the first round of voting to take the contest to a second ballot. Although Thatcher initially stated that she would contest the second ballot, she resigned after consulting with her cabinet colleagues and left Downing Street for good. Thatcher's final years were dogged by ill health and a series of minor strokes meant she rarely spoke in public. But critics and supporters alike would accept that she helped create a period of fundamental change, not just in Britain but across the world. 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June 26, 2011
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Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who plans to run for president, reiterated her opposition to marriage equality while also saying that New York's decision was valid on the grounds that she supports states' rights.Read More
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This hand-tinted photographic card from 1900 shows a couple of beauties enjoying nude frolics on the beach.Read More
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During the Pridefest parade in Anchorage, Alaska yesterday, the car carrying the grand marshal ran over and killed a man marching in the parade, which was subsequently canceled.Read More
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An eyewitness perspective from Friday night's celebration at the Stonewall Inn. Gay marriage in New York state is a great step forward for many families; but let us never forget that we are family. Read More
A Look at LGBT Inclusion in Conservative JudaismFiled by Adam Polaski | June 26, 2011 | 9:30 AM |
Three years after being the first openly gay person accepted to a Conservative Jewish rabbinical school, Aaron Weininger says that the movement is continuing its tradition of acknowledging and accepting necessary change.Read More
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Segregate your PCI offerings — or else
High profile data breaches like that experienced by retailer TJX Companies Inc., have resulted in greater attention being paid to the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard. Value-added resellers (VARs) are in a good position to assist their clients with data security and PCI DSS compliance. But as you move forward, be careful to keep your auditing and assessment services segregated from product sales to avoid potential trouble.
The PCI DSS creates several business opportunities for VARs as described by SearchSecurityChannel columnist Mike Rothman in his article, PCI compliance opportunities for security resellers:
- Educating customers on PCI DSS requirements
- Pre-QSA audit and remediation efforts
- QSA services
- Product sales to support PCI DSS compliance
While you may have the staff and expertise to deliver all these services, plan carefully before you do so. Rothman goes on to say:
One more thing to keep in mind is that there is some of the fox guarding the henhouse going on here, since your organization would be in a good position to help the customer become compliant after the assessment. There's an independence clause in the PCI documentation as to what needs to be disclosed relative to customers you have assessed and whom also use your products or managed services. Since this is an ethically murky area, make sure you are on the right side when bidding work on the heels of a poor PCI assessment.
Indeed, according to a SearchSecurity.com Q&A with Burton Group analyst Diana Kelley, companies are being pitched products by the qualified security assessors (QSAs) who are conducting audits:
There are some assessors who are actually trying to pitch at the same time they're in the assessment process. They will go in and remediate for you or they will pass you if you purchase a specific product from them because that will meet PCI. That's a big red flag if that happens to your organization.
Kelley advises companies to report such behavior to the PCI Security Standards Council. While it may be a natural for your company to follow an audit with a product recommendation and sale, consider how you go about doing so – and whether it's worth doing at all. SearchSecurityChannel expert John Kindervag offers his advice on how to establish "auditor independence" as mandated by the PCI Validation Requirements for Qualified Security Assessors:
… it is generally accepted that policies be put into place that mandate a separation of duties between QSA auditors and QSAs, or other individuals within a QSA certified company who provide remediation support.
If you have concerns about staying out of the PCI dog house, submit your questions to John via our Ask the Expert feature on SearchSecurityChannel. John can answer any specific questions you have as you go about establishing and offering your PCI compliance services.