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from the seriously? deptThe Washington Post is running a rather bizarre op-ed piece from a guy who runs an "internet marketing"/SEO business in which he argues that we need SOPA and CISPA because someone once set up a parody page mocking his business -- something that this guy, Kenneth Wisnefski claims is "an attack":
But after enduring two online attacks to my companies' reputation and databases, I've come to the conclusion that the protection businesses would get from the legislation is worth sacrificing privacy.First of all, a parody page is not "an attack." Second, setting up a parody page is not "stealing" your logo. It's just making a copy of it. Most importantly, it's hard to see how there's a trademark issue here, because no one would see that page and get confused. Many, many such "sucks sites" have been deemed perfectly legal when it comes to trademark infringement. Now, there may possibly have been a defamation issue -- depending on what was stated on the website -- but neither SOPA nor CISPA deal with defamation. So, no, the laws would not have helped at all.
About a year ago, my company WebiMax was attacked by a person who stole our logo, created a mock Web site and misappropriated our tagline — Experience, Integrity, Results. He changed it to: "No experience, lack of integrity, no results." He posted commentary about WebiMax that was false and painted a negative image of us.
We got a preliminary injunction and the hosting company pulled it down. Three months later it popped back up on a hosting company in Ireland that works beyond the boundaries of the law. We believe we would not be going through this if the SOPA measure were in effect.
From there, he goes on to talk about how in a different company, someone hacked into the company's database and retrieved credit card info. Because of that, he thinks CISPA makes perfect sense, even if it means that the government might get to read his email:
Opponents of the measures raise the privacy concerns stemming from the government's proposed authority to monitor online activity and shut down Web sites that violate copyright laws.Except... having credit card info your company stored exposed has little to do with CISPA. At the very least, it sounds like someone should have followed much better payment database security techniques... such as encrypting the information. That kind of info is widely available to anyone and has absolutely nothing to do with CISPA. If CISPA was in effect when he had that same database setup, it would have done nothing to have prevented the hacking or to help anyone track down who did it.
I agree with that sentiment. I'd hate to have someone from the government reading my e-mails, too. But the reality is the protection the measures could offer businesses are worth the sacrifice in privacy to prevent another worst-case scenario.
I fail to see how "the protection measures" are "worth the sacrifice to privacy" when they wouldn't have actually helped in either of the cases he mentioned. And, of course, anyone who thinks privacy and security are "trade-offs" doesn't seem to know enough about either thing. As the slight paraphrase to the old Ben Franklin quote says, "those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
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Fluorspar for investors
A capacity crowd gets an essential perspective on this critical mineral
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(Update: On April 19, 2013, Prima Fluorspar Corp TSXV:PF began trading on the TSX Venture. Read more here.)
Since 2001 Industrial Minerals' annual Fluorspar Conference has been touring the globe, bringing together producers and consumers of this widely used but apparently obscure commodity. What might distinguish this year's Vancouver event, however, was the October 22 pre-conference workshop, which attracted over 200 potential investors. As the keynote speakers explained, fluorspar now tops the list of critical minerals and it's irreplaceable in most of its uses. Shortages threaten unless new deposits are found and developed—and that, the audience heard, is exactly what some Canadian juniors are doing already.
Given the commodity's low public profile, a quick Fluorspar 101 was presented by Simon Moores, a writer and Manager of Industrial Minerals Data for the authoritative journal Industrial Minerals. Miners report fluorspar (also known as fluorite) in percentages of calcium fluoride or CaF2. It can be processed into either of two grades. Metspar, or metallurgical grade, is widely used in steel making as well as ceramics and glass. About 60% of fluorspar production is acidspar, or acid grade, which starts at 97% CaF2 and is the most widely used, highly desired and expensive product, largely due to its use in hydrofluoric (HF) acid, one of the world's most widespread industrial chemicals. "It's the underlying and only feedstock raw material that feeds all these much, much higher-value products that some of the biggest industrial chemicals companies make," says Moores. The list of applications goes on, but some of the most common include the coolants essential to refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners.
For most of its applications, fluorspar has no substitute. While North American chemical giants rank among the world's consumers, neither Canada nor the U.S. currently mines fluorspar.
Last year's global production came to 6.3 million tonnes, with a drop projected for this year, Moores says. But as in other critical commodities, China looms large. "It produces 58%," he says. "This has risen from 51% in 2006." Although China's not the biggest consumer of the high-value products, it's the biggest end-user in the fluorspar production chain. "They're decreasing fluorspar exports, they've also got resource taxes in place, so fluorspar is on their radar. Although it's earlier days than graphite, 'control' is the underlying word for China's approach."
By factoring in the country risk of fluorspar producers, Moores points out, the EU assigns the mineral higher risk than graphite, lithium, cobalt, vanadium, molybdenum, tantalum, copper, zinc and titanium.
Although fluorspar prices have dropped a bit since January, "over 12 years it's been price increase over price increase over price increase," Moores says. "There was a 225% increase for acidspar between 2005 and 2012."
Jon Hykawy, Head of Global Research, Clean Technologies and Materials Analyst at Byron Capital Markets offered some future projections. "We see very significant growth by 2017," he says. "A large portion of that growth is in metallurgical applications, but more so in chemical applications. We see a very, very healthy growth in demand for acidspar, more than the Chinese can supply or other existing projects can supply through expansion."
Hykawy sees 4% to 4.6% annual growth for basic uses such as catalysts, water fluoridation, glasses and ceramics, fluorine gas and steel manufacture. But the growth in fluorochemicals, he states, will be far more impressive.
"Chlorofluorocarbons [CFCs] were shown to be significant contributors to ozone depletion," he explains. "It wasn't the fluorine that was the problem, it was the chlorine." CFCs were eventually replaced by hydrofluorocarbons [HFCs], a cause of global warming. "The current and best choice, and the chemical of the future, are HFOs, hydrofluoro-olefins—not a particularly more complex chemical, just different," Hykawy explains. "CFCs are about 15% fluorine by weight, HFCs came in about 60% and HFOs about 67% fluorine by weight. So as you have a global economy that's growing and increasingly using refrigerants, you also have an increasing proportion of fluorspar."
As for fluoropolymers, "the one most of us knows is DuPont's Teflon. It's ubiquitous because it's highly chemically and thermally stable. You can put it in frying pans, heat the bejeezus out of them and it doesn't break down," he says.
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New Seiner for Adamant Fisheries
Platypus Marine has delivered a new 58-foot trawler/seiner, the F/V Adamant, to Petersburg, Alaska's Adamant fisheries. The new boat, designed by prolific fishing boat designers Hockema & Whalen Associates, was built within fourteen months from the ground up at the Platypus yard in Port Angeles, Washington. The new boat will seine, trawl and pot fish, and Yaquina Boat Equipment will provide trawl equipment for the fall after the seine season.
Platypus Marine has a long history of repairing, upgrading or building new 58-foot seiners, and Adamant Fisheries has been a client for more than 20 years. The new boat, to be operated by Adamant Fisheries principals Mike Neuneker and Kyle Franklin, will join a sister boat, also designed by Hockema & Whalen, the 58-foot F/V Intangible. The overall design and efficiency of the first vessel led the company to choose Hockema & Whalen to design their second boat as well. The two vessels are similar, but while the Intangible is fitted with a foil under the propeller to make the propulsion system more efficient, the new boat is fitted with a Nautican nozzle and triple rudder, which is expected to increase efficiency a further 20 percent.
"The Nautican system is very efficient," says naval architect Hal Hockema. "It offers a lot more thrust at towing speeds, and the maneuvering characteristics have been very good as well." Hockema credits his company's project manager, Paul Monical, with the success of the vessel's construction. He also notes that Adamant fisheries made good choices in terms of materials and workmanship. "There's quite a bit of stainless steel in the boat," Hockema says. "The boat has all stainless guards and bulwark caps, which will require less maintenance. They put their money where it's most effective."
A large bulbous bow contributes seakeeping capability and fuel efficiency, while a hydraulic bow thruster provides low-speed maneuverability. A full marine electronics package provided by Radar Marine in Bellingham provides navigational and fishing electronics in an efficient, easy to read layout, while apitong wood decks provide grip and wear resistance while working on deck.
The construction of the boat was a collaborative effort between Adamant and Platypus, with each company bringing years of expertise to the table.
Platypus Marine's marketing department says the Adamant's hull shape offers better efficiency when the boat is empty, but also when fully laden, and notes that the design could reduce fuel consumption by as much as 15 percent, which could translate to a $30,000 savings from what would normally be a $200,000 annual fuel bill.
Top speed for the F/V Adamant will be 9.5 knots, and a cruising speed of eight knots while running the engine at 1,400 RPM will consume less than 10 gallons per hour. The main engine is a Cummins Tier II QSK19 rated at 750 horsepower, supplied by Tri County Diesel and turning the Nautican-shrouded prop from Sound Propeller through Twin Disc gears. The boat is also fitted with a 65 kW auxiliary generator also provided by Tri County Diesel as well as a 30 kW Northern Lights genset.
Bellingham, Washington's Radar Marine Electronics outfitted the well-equipped wheelhouse with three Green Marine 17-inch Sunlight Readable Marine Monitors. These provide ample viewing for an OLEX AIS & Bottom Mapping System and an ES70 Split Beam 38kHz Sounder offering fish sizing, biomass and direction, both provided by Simrad Kongsberg, as well as a Simrad AP70 Autopilot.
Radar coverage is provided by a Furuno 1835 4 kW, 48 NM Radar System with 10.4 Inch Color LCD Display and 3.5-foot open array, as well as a Furuno FR8252 25KW w 6ft Antenna. A Furuno CH250BB 88 kHz Black Box Searchlight Sonar System helps spot fish, and includes a 400mm Travel Hoist.
The F/V Adamant fuel tanks are divided fairly evenly between seven tanks with an in line centrifuge and a 600 gallon day tank. The fuel manifold allows for trim adjustments throughout all the tanks to allow for cargo distribution, based on which fish holds the operator is using. Each fish hold capacity has been balanced for optimum refrigeration efficiency. The aft tank, at 500 cubic feet, can be quickly dropped to 25 degrees, to serve as a freezer hold for storing bait. This tank can also be flooded and used as a refrigerated seawater (RSW) tank for salmon. An onboard packing capacity of 180,000 lbs. allows for an adequate freeboard (fuel dependent) with the net and skiff onboard.
Fleet Refrigeration, of Petersburg, Alaska, provided the refrigeration technology for the new boat, which has two separate 18-ton chillers, allowing one to be run with the smaller, 30kw generator, which also provides hotel power. The second, larger generator can provide power for both systems plus the full hydraulic load and ship's electrical power. It has a two-bearing 65 kw generator driven off the front of the engine, and a 160 gpm of hydraulic power off of the back of engine. The vessel has an ample hydraulic capacity of roughly 150 gpm with the hydraulic system designed and installed by Puget Sound Hydraulics.
The fishing gear and equipment, including square tube main and picking booms by Seven Stars Fabrication, have been designed for strength and efficiency in movement, as well as versatility.
The boat's hull steel work is ABS inspected and certified.
Representatives of Adamant Fisheries have expressed their satisfaction with the new boat, and at press time the F/V Adamant had arrived in Petersburg in time for a July 17th salmon opener.


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Not sold yet? Here's more about this lovely mill town.
Setting: Dover lies along a cluster of tidal rivers 13 miles northwest of Portsmouth (NH) Harbor, 70 miles north of Boston, and 60 miles southwest of Portland, Maine. It's connected via limited-access Route 16 to I-95, 10 miles distant, and is a stop on Amtrak's Boston-Portland Downeaster. Highs range from 25 to 30 degrees in winter to the mid-80s in summer.
Attractions: Compact city (population 29,000) is convenient to restaurants, shopping, Portsmouth's cultural scene, the university town of Durham, and the New Hampshire and Maine seacoasts. Public schools rate high, with private schools as alternatives. (Philips Exeter Academy is nearby.)
Drawbacks: Southeastern New Hampshire's economic boom has drawn white-collar jobs away from Boston―and attracted bigger traffic snarls as well. The bridge to Portsmouth can be a bottleneck at rush hour.
Housing Options: Residential neighborhoods tightly circle downtown's commercial district. To the north and west, farmland has given way to lower-density development. South between the Bellamy and Piscataqua rivers lie Dover Neck and Dover Point. Outlying neighborhoods feature Capes, ranches, and Colonials, with a few old farmhouses along Back Road on Dover Neck.
What It Costs: Housing prices vary little by neighborhood, with waterfront property the exception. Average cost is $200,000 ($325,000 for new homes). Average waterfront cost is $600,000 and can go much higher. Vacant lots are rare; expect to pay about $90,000 with town services, $100,000 to $150,000 more on the water. Rentals run $700 to $1,200 a month.
Your Next-door Neighbors: University of New Hampshire administrators, professors, and (in the few available rentals) students; high-tech and financial sector workers attracted to converted downtown mill space that houses employers such as PC Connection and MBNA.
Where You'd Spend Free Time: With two marinas in town, sailing and powerboating are big. Nearby lakes and ocean beaches beckon; the White Mountains are an hour and a half away. There's an 18-hole golf course in town and others close by, plus two indoor skating rinks and a 50-meter outdoor pool.
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To keep you teary-eyed until the show airs on Tuesday night, that ESPN link has a second trailer!
This one is the Kevin Millar Show -- with Cabin telling the CHB, as the Red Sox are warming up before Game 4, exactly how it's gonna go down!
CHB: It's embarrassing, man.
KM: What's embarrassing?
CHB: You guys are better than this.
KM: Well, I mean, you know, it happens. It's baseball.
KM: We wanted to go to the championship series and lose. That was our job. If we can get swept ...
CHB: Come on.
KM: But let me tell you, don't let us win today ...
CHB: Okay. That's a start.[* CHB's column before Game 3 began: "They have one more game to make their case. Are the 2004 Red Sox a happy-go-lucky (then suddenly unlucky) pack of frauds who failed to show up for the biggest series of their lives? Or are they full of the stuff that makes a team special and historic?"]
KM: Then we got Pedey tomorrow. Then we got Schill in Game 6 ... In Game 7, anything can happen. We could have you out there. I'll put you at second base. You know, in Game 7, anything can happen. Dan Shaughnessy, hitting 9th. Then you can take that fraud comment back*, and then we'll be in the World Series. This is it! (starts pounding his glove in time with his words) Don't. Let. The. Sox. Win. This. Game!
Also from that column: "If the Sox lose to the Yankees again tonight, they effectively are done for the season. ... Game 3 will dictate how this Red Sox team will be remembered."]


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WASHINGTON—As Congress began working on the FY 2013 budget and spending bills this week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) wrote several letters that repeated and reinforced the bishops' ongoing call to create a "circle of protection" around poor and vulnerable people and programs that meet their basic needs and protect their lives and dignity. The bishops' message calls on Congress and the Administration to protect essential help for poor families and vulnerable children and to put the poor first in budget priorities. The bishops' letters oppose measures that reduce resources for essential safety net programs.
In the letters, Bishops Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, and Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, chairmen of the Committees on Domestic Justice and Human Development and International Justice and Peace, respectively, urged Congress to resist proposed cuts in hunger and nutrition programs at home and abroad saying that "a just spending bill cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor and vulnerable persons."
On April 4, Bishop Blaire cautioned that "at a time when the need for assistance from [affordable housing] programs is growing, cutting funds for them could cause thousands of individuals and families to lose their housing and worsen the hardship of thousands more in need of affordable housing." He also reminded Congress that the Catholic community is one of the largest private, nonprofit providers of affordable housing in the country and is deeply involved in meeting the health housing and nutrition needs of families across the nation.
Bishops Blaire and Pates reaffirmed the "moral criteria to guide these difficult budget decisions" outlined in their March 6 budget letter:
1.Every budget decision should be assessed by whether it protects or threatens human life and dignity.
2.A central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects "the least of these" (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.
3.Government and other institutions have a shared responsibility to promote the common good of all, especially ordinary workers and families who struggle to live in dignity in difficult economic times…
Just solutions, however, must require shared sacrifice by all, including raising adequate revenues, eliminating unnecessary military and other spending, and fairly addressing the long-term costs of health insurance and retirement programs.
In April 16 and April 17 letters to the House Agriculture Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee addressing cuts required by the budget resolution, Bishop Blaire said "The House-passed budget resolution fails to meet these moral criteria." Bishop Blaire also wrote that cuts to nutrition programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP- food stamps) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) will hurt hungry children, poor families, low-income workers and other vulnerable people. Additionally, he wrote that if cuts to the federal budget need to be made, savings should first be found in programs that target more affluent and powerful interests.
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The SNAP/food stamps bill letter is available at: www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/hunger-food-nutrition/upload/Letter-to-House-Committee-on-Agriculture-2012-04-16.pdf
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The Mountain Bike World Cup begins again tomorrow with round four in Andorra - a small principality straddling the Pyrenees between France and Spain on the Mediterranean coast - after a hiatus of nearly a month for cross-country and two weeks for downhill. In the evening, round two of the 4-Cross takes place, followed on Sunday by the Downhill.
Until yesterday, the weather prognosis was grim, with days of rain turning sections of the 4-Cross and Downhill into rutted out quagmires. The cross-country wasn't affected as badly, but it still would make for a slog through some sections of the circuit. However, yesterday the sun came out, and is still shining today, drying out the terrain. Organizers are working frantically to fill in rutted out sections of the gravity courses, while the cross-country gets faster and smoother as riders continue to train. Everyone has their fingers crossed that the good weather will continue, although the forecast is for the rain to return this evening.
Our live coverage starts tomorrow with the women's cross-country at 10:30 am local, 4:30 am EDT.
The 5.2 kilometre circuit is winning rave reviews from athletes. "This is a return to true mountain biking," commented Seamus McGrath (Fuji) "It has everything - singletrack, climbs, descents, roots, rocks."
Probably the biggest factor will be the altitude - from a low point at 1850 metres (6000') and topping out at 2000 metres (6500'), riders will be gasping for air as they top the climbs. The current schedule calls for five laps for the women and seven laps for the men, which could be revised depending upon the weather. There is no start loop.
>From the start the riders go almost immediately into a short steep climb, which should spread the field out before they hit the first singletrack wooded sections, with more up and down climbing among the roots and rocks. After reaching the highest part of the course, the riders dropped back down through wooded single and double track to lose most of the altitude they just gained. Rocks and roots on the trail mean that riders have to maintain their attention.
At the bottom of the descent, the trail comes out of the woods for the toughest climb of the race - a zig-zagging grunt up a grassy slope that hits 20% in places. The climb was actually straight up the slope, until organizers realized that many of the women physically couldn't ride it.
>From the top of the climb, at approximately a third of the way into the lap, the riders have a chance to recover as they descend and traverse the mountain through forest on hardpacked and rooty singletrack to the lowest part of the circuit. From there it is a series of stepped climbs on double and singletrack to the finish.
The women's race is missing at least three top riders - Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa (Multivan Merida), Irina Kalentieva (Topeak Ergon) and Sabine Spitz (Ghost). Dahle Flesjaa is skipping the altitude as she continues her gradual return to top form, Kalentieva is ill (as she was in Madrid, missing round three), and Spitz is out because her recent heavy race schedule and desire to focus on training for the world championships next month (she plans to be at Fort William, Scotland next week).
This makes World Cup leader Marie-Helene Premont (Rocky Mountain) and Marga Fullana (Massi) the top favourites. Fullana thrives at altitude, but hasn't been able maintain top race pace for a full race thus far this year, while Premont loves the terrain but admits to feeling the effects of the altitude.
"It is a very nice course; I'm really happy with it. It is technical, with good climbs and descending. There isn't big, big climbs, but in the woods there are lots of little climbs, and you have to stay really focussed. The altitude I can feel for sure, but we will all have to deal with it. I know Marga has been staying at altitude, but usually I do okay. And if it rains, that could help me more, I think."
Other riders who have a shot at the podium include the Chinese - Ren Chengyuan and Liu Ying - American Georgia Gould and her Canadian Luna team mate Catharine Pendrel, plus Swiss riders Petra Henzi (Fischer BMC) and Nathalie Schneitter (Colnago).
North Americans looking to bolster their Olympic hopes include Kiara Bisaro (Opus), plus Americans Mary McConneloug (Kenda) and Heather Irmiger (Subaru-Gary Fisher).
The men's race has all the top contenders in attendance, led by World Cup leader Julien Absalon (Orbea), who is looking for his fourth straight win. Absalon has said that this is likely his final World Cup before the world championships and the Olympics, so he will be looking to try and solidify his lead in the series, since he will miss the next three events (Fort William, Mont Ste Anne and Bromont).
Other contenders include Absalon's team mate Jean-Christophe Peraud, Christoph Sauser (Specialized), Jose Hermida (Multivan Merida), Florian Vogel and Nino Schurter (both Swisspower). On the North American side, Geoff Kabush (Maxxis), Seamus McGrath, Adam Craig (Giant), Todd Wells (GT), Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Subaru-Gary Fisher) and Jeremiah Bishop (Trek-VW) are all here, still battling it out Olympic selections in the U.S. and Canada.
Premont will not race with the '1' plate - she was mistakenly not registered until late, and therefore issued plate number 62. She will still start on the front row. Christoph Sauser had the same problem (as do a number of men), and will also start in the front row, but wearing a high race number (120).
Unlike the cross-country riders, the downhillers are not so pleased with their course. "Too short, not technical, not interesting, rough" are comments from riders such as Greg Minnaar, Steve Peat, Nathan Rennie (all Santa Cruz Syndicate) and US Open winner Steve Smith (Cove Bikes), who also said "it's fun to ride, but not really a World Cup course."
"With all these mountains around us, why did they just run it down the side of a hill?" was another anonymous comment.
However, as the circuit dries, the ruts are beginning to smoothed out, and riders say that they are able to carry more speed and carve the corners better. "Right now the ground is perfect," says Smith.
>From 2000 metres (6500') the course drops to 1850 metres (6000'). Starting with wide sweeping turns, the riders hit a number of short tight berms before dropping into the woods for a singletrack run to the finish line with lots of ruts and roots to contend with. The winning run for the men should be in the two minute 20 second range if it stays dry.
For the men, all the favourites are here, led by world champion and World Cup leader Sam Hill (Monster). Peat, Minnaar, Julien Camellini (Chain Reaction-Intense, Matti Lehikoinen (Monster) and Gee Atherton (Animal Commencal) should be contending for podium spots.
The top North American is, without a doubt, Canada's Steve Smith, fresh off his victory last weekend against Hill in the US Open.
On the women's side, world champion and World Cup leader Sabrina Jonnier (Maxxis) is favoured to repeat, but Tracy Moseley (Kona) could easily pull off an upset, as could Rachel Atherton (Animal Commencal) or Emmeline Ragot (Suspension Center). There are only four North Americans on the start list, led by Canadian Claire Buchar (Intense), who will be looking to move into the top-10. Americans Melissa Buhl (KHS) and Kathy Pruitt (Jamis), plus Canadian champion Micayla Gatto (Commencal), are the other North Americans in the 33 rider list.
At this point, the 4-Cross track is under heavy (re)construction after the rain earlier in the week, and the damage that has been caused by riders hitting the jumps and landing on the soft, wet track. It has put ruts in the take off sections and, more seriously, dangerous holes in the landing spots. The organizers are rebuilding these sections as the track dries, but if it starts to rain again, there is a good chance that some sections will be removed.
Brian Lopes (Ibis) is the favourite man, however, Cedric Gracia (Commencal Oakley) is the local favourite - he owns a bar and a bike shop at the base of the mountain, and his face is plastered everywhere. Others to watch for include Maribor winner Alveraz de Lara Lu (Spain), Romain Saladini (Sunn) and possibly Guido Tschugg.
For the women, it should be a battle between round one winner Anneke Beerten (MS-Intense) and Fionn Griffiths (Norco), with Melissa Buhl looking to make it onto the podium this week.
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Today's spoilers include a new Transformers 2 set pic that fans are claiming proves certain cars are really Autobots. Also, someone has leaked a detailed plot breakdown of a crucial Lost episode that could mark a huge turning point for Desmond and Penny. There are more details about the fourth episode of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Plus new spoilers for Quarantine, Heroes, Sarah Connor Chronicles and Smallville. Spoilers ahoy! Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: This set picture of the new Chevy Volt and Corvette near White Sands, NM is fueling more speculation that both cars are Autobots. Higher res pic at link. [Transformers 2 - Movie Chronicles]
Quarantine: Here are some new stills from the U.S. remake of the Spanish film [Rec], about a reporter trapped in a quarantined building full of plague assholes. [Shocktillyoudrop]
Dollhouse: Episode four, "Stage Fright," includes a scene where Echo and someone else arrive on a riverbank in the wilderness and unload some as-yet-unspecified stuff. That episode also includes Alison, an African American pop star along the lines of Alicia Keys, Rhianna or Beyonce. Plus an "eerily calm" nerdy fanboy who is physically imposing. And then there's Bill "Biz" Zarella, Alison's manager since she was twelve, and an occasional client of the Dollhouse. [Fox via Whedonesque and SpoilerTV] Sarah Connor Chronicles: New set pics reveal Sarah Connor with a weird new haircut, dressed like Prince circa 1985. She would die 4 u. [SpoilerTV]
Lost: An informed source claims one of these characters will die in the first five episodes of the new season: Juliet, Rose, Sawyer, Miles, Charlotte, Penny, Richard and Frank. There's a poll at the link, but your vote doesn't affect the outcome. [SpoilersLost] Also, the show is seeking an actress, aged 2-3 years old, who can speak Korean. Is this an older version of Ji Yeon? [SpoilersLost] More details on location filming: that Jack/Kate street scene we featured a picture of yesterday involves Jack getting out of his truck and crossing the street to Kate's car. He kneels at the driver-side window, and they have a long conversation. Then Jack leaps to his feet and runs around, jumping in the passenger seat. She zooms off. Then they wind up nearby, on the 16th floor of a local building, possibly with Ben in attendance. And lo, there is video:
Also, that scene we showed another pic of, at the Marina Motel? Was also a Jack/Kate scene, a rainy one. And that big brick building may have been a location in London, featuring Desmond. [Hawaii Blog] Meanwhile, here's a purported breakdown of that Ben/Penny/Desmond episode, which is the fourth or fifth episode of the season. As we start out, Penny and Desmond are living on the run, and Desmond wants a kid. But Penny isn't sure she wants to expose a little kid to their fugitive lifestyle. Then Penny finds out she's pregnant, and the doctor warns about incomprehensible abnormalities in Desmond's sperm. Ben is hot on their trail, and Desmond buys a gun from a street dealer. Ben near catches Desmond a few times, and Desmond has to rescue Penny once. Ben is angry and adrift in the world. Then Ben travels to North Africa and finds a Dharma station located there. There, he finds Widmore's security chief, and tortures the man until he gives up Penny's current location, in Mati. In Mati, Ben knocks out a cook at an oceanfront restaurant and poison's Penny's food. But when he finds out Penny is pregnant, he stops the waiter from delivering the food. But on Penny's boat, docked nearby, Penny is terrible pain and Desmond goes for a doctor. He sees Ben on his knees, weeping, in an alley. Desmond brings the village doctor inside the boat, and the doctor is clueless about what's ailing Penny. He delivers her baby safely, but tells Desmond to rush the boat to a nearby coastal village. Desmond runs from the village and has some kind of crazy body spasms — is he time-traveling again? Are there segments of this episode where Desmond is in another time frame? [Spoilers Lost] Heroes: You know how the fourth chapter of Heroes is called "Fugitives"? It starts in episode 14, and here are our first clues, from a casting call. The show is looking for an Iranian paramedic named Malik, who is assigned to work with a "rather peculiar partner." (Peter, maybe? Or Matt?) And then there's Lauer, the superstar anchor of a major network, who has a high-profile interview with a politician. And finally, there's a four-to-six-year old kid, with brown hair, who's startled by a passing stranger as he rides his tricycle. (The kid may be a recurring role. Could it be one of our heroes as a youngster?) [Heroes Spoilers] Also Greg Grunberg says he's recently filmed some desert scenes in an area filled with paintings of Matt's various actions throughout the course of Heroes. Despite being stranded in Africa, Matt will continue to co-parent Molly with Mohinder. But now that Mohinder is a Brundle-ized freakazoid, Matt and Mohinder may have some conflicts over parenting her. [Crave Online] Smallville: Here are a couple of promo pics from the upcoming episode "Instinct," including possibly the first look at the TV version of Maxima the mating-crazed alien queen. [Superman Homepage]
Alison Mack talked to the CW Source, and they talked about her possible romantic tension with Davis "Doomsday" Bloome. [CW Source]
In the upcoming fifth episode, "Committed," a psychotic jeweler kidnaps Chloe and Jimmy and subjects them to a Kryptonite-powered lie-detector test. Uh-huh. And to track down this psycho, Lois and Clark have to pose as a couple, which is when they have their moment of almost-but-not-quite kissing. Lois plays it to the hilt, but Clark feels uncomfortable. [Smallville spoilers and E! Online] What are Doomsday's powers? Allow Sam Witwer to explain:
Very simple — he's indestructible. He's just the toughest guy ever. I was having dinner with Frank Darabont and some friends and he leans over to me and goes, 'how do you kill Superman'? I said, 'look, you just beat the hell out of him.' That's what Doomsday does in the comic books, he beats the hell out of him until he stops breathing.
[Sam Witwer Fans] And here's Erica Durance's appearance on Attack Of The Show. [Smallville Spoilers] Click to view


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Local Use Tax
What is the local use tax?
The local use tax is similar to a sales tax. The rates are identical, but the use tax is applied to taxable purchases that were not taxed at the local sales tax rate (for instance, items purchased out-of-state).
The State of Minnesota applies a 6.875-percent tax on taxable purchases within the state (this is the sales tax) and also on taxable purchases made by its residents and businesses outside of the state (this is the use tax). Hennepin County applies an additional 0.15-percent tax to taxable purchases within the County (sales tax) and also to taxable purchases made by its residents and businesses outside of the County (use tax). The City of Minneapolis applies an additional 0.5-percent tax to taxable purchases within its city limits (sales tax) and also to taxable purchases made by its residents and businesses outside of city limits (use tax).
Do I owe local use tax?
You or your business may owe local use tax. If you buy goods or services for personal use for a total of more than $770 outside of the City of Minneapolis within one calendar year, those purchases are subject to the 0.5-percent local use tax. If your business buys, leases or rents taxable goods or services used in your business, they are subject to local use tax either with the purchase or by April 15 the next year. Local use tax may also be due when your business brings items into Minneapolis or takes items out of inventory into a taxable use.
To determine if you or your business owes local use taxes, please refer to the Minnesota Department of Revenue Sales Tax Fact Sheets; #146 Use Tax for Businesses (pdf) and #156 Use Tax for Individuals (pdf).
How do I pay my local use tax?
Local use tax is collected annually by the state. It is due April 15 for all taxable purchases made within the previous calendar year, if the seller did not collect use tax at the time of sale.
To calculate the amount of local use tax that you or your business owes, please:
- Complete Form UT-1 (pdf), Individual Use Tax Return (for individuals).
- See the Minnesota Sales and Use Tax Instruction Booklet (pdf) (for businesses).
Or get a form by calling the Minnesota Department of Revenue at (651) 296-6181 (TTY users, call 711 for Minnesota Relay).
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This week the new team at Catalyst Vietnam engaged in an extensive and comprehensive training program. They kicked off getting to know each other and their trainers from Catalyst Global, with a couple of ice-breakers and energisers, 'Boom Time" and "Knowing Me Knowing You". They then participated first-hand in many of Catalyst Global's top team building programs, such as 'Beat the Box', 'Flat Out Pyramid' and 'Chain Reaction Table Top' focusing on sales and delivery aspects to ensure they uphold the Catalyst Global standards of excellence.
Catalyst Vietnam will be headed up by Truong Van Hoang. Truong has extensive experience in training and team building, as well as the tourism industry.
"There is an increasing demand in Vietnam for intelligent outcome focused training and team building programs, "said Truong, "I also know that products such as Go Team, will be popular for both inbound tourism and local MICE events."
Go Team is Catalyst Global's popular amazing race app based treasure hunt. Truong believes it is an excellent for building teams and a great way for visitors to explore popular destinations in Ho Chi Min City, Hoi An, Hanoi and beyond.
Supporting Truong is Cuc, an enthusiastic and vibrant person who firmly believes in the power of team building to enhance people's work lives and correspondingly increase staff retention and the financial health of a business.
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The team at Catalyst Vietnam will host a free showcase of Catalyst team building products in Ho Chi Min City next month for agencies and businesses. To book your spot at this exciting event, please email the team at Catalyst Vietnam


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From TMZ
Usher's son Usher Raymond V is in the ICU at an Atlanta hospital after a serious accident in the singer's pool Monday, TMZ has learned. Sources say the accident occurred around 6 PM yesterday. Usher was not home at the time.
Here's what we know ... The child was playing in the pool with his aunt and saw a toy in the drain. He dove down to get the toy and his arm got stuck in the drain. The aunt immediately dove in to rescue him but couldn't get his hand out. The maid then dove in and tried but was also unsuccessful.
The maid screamed for help. Two men working in the house came out, dove in and freed the boy. He was given CPR immediately and rushed to the hospital. Usher arrived and drove in the ambulance with his son.
5-year-old Usher Raymond V is the oldest of Usher's two sons with ex-wife Tameka Raymond. We're told Usher and Tameka are currently at the hospital.
Doctors have been running a series of tests and doctors say he'll be ok.
This is the second accident to strike a child in Usher's family. Tameka's 11-year-old son Kile from a previous relationship passed away last year from injuries sustained during a jet ski accident.


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If a Type B free agent turns down an arbitration offer and signs a Major League deal elsewhere the losing team gets one draft pick in the supplemental round, and it doesn't come from the new team. Keep in mind that an arbitration offer is necessary for draft pick compensation. …
Type B
- Mark Buehrle, White Sox – 68.508
- Juan Pierre, White Sox – 61.233
- Jason Frasor, White Sox – 60.976 (club option)
Frasor's 2012 option was picked up.
UPDATE: Rosenthal would be surprised if Buehrle leaves the Sox:
"Buehrle is a more interesting case because he's a guy that seemingly does not want to go other than two place, right? Chicago and St. Louis, and St. Louis is effectively closed," Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports told The Mully and Hanley Show. "Now, there are indications that he may be opening that up, but I'd be surprised if he landed anywhere but the White Sox on a two- or three-year deal. … I'd be surprised if he left."


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From NWChem
The VSCF module can be used to calculate the anharmonic contributions to the vibrational modes of the molecule of interest. Energies are calculated on a one-dimensional grid along each normal mode, on a two-dimensional grid along each pair of normal modes, and optionally on a three-dimensional grid along each triplet of normal modes. These energies are then used to calculate the vibrational nuclear wavefunction at an SCF- (VSCF) and MP2-like (cc-VSCF) level of theory.
VSCF can be used at all levels of theory, SCF and correlated methods, and DFT. For correlated methods, only the SCF level dipole is evaluated and used to calculate the IR intensity values.
The VSCF module is started when the task directive TASK <theory> vscf is defined in the user input file. The input format has the form:
VSCF [coupling <string couplelevel default "pair">] [ngrid <integer default 16 >] [iexcite <integer default 1 >] [vcfct <real default 1.0>] END
The order of coupling of the harmonic normal modes included in the calculation is controlled by the specifying:
coupling <string couplelevel default "pair">
For coupling=diagonal a one-dimensional grid along each normal mode is computed. For coupling=pair a two-dimensional grid along each pair of normal modes is computed. For coupling=triplet a three-dimensional grid along each triplet of normal modes is computed.
The number of grid points along each normal mode, or pair of modes can be defined by specifying:
ngrid <integer default 16>
This VSCF module by default calculates the ground state (v=0), but can also calculate excited states (such as v=1). The number of excited states calculated is defined by specifying:
iexcite <integer default 1>
With iexcite=1 the fundamental frequencies are calculated. With iexcite=2 the first overtones are calculated. With iexcite=3 the second overtones are calculated.
In certain cases the pair coupling potentials can become larger than those for a single normal mode. In this case the pair potentials need to be scaled down. The scaling factor used can be defined by specifying:
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Look, there is no woman-to-woman talk between you and me. We both are women do not make us share anything in common, thank God!
You said, "Why do they make such mistake? Isn't the author French?" I'm sorry, airhead, your very innovative challenge to the textbook's author's credibility for putting "un professeur" and "une personne" together is of no ground. That was not a mistake. That's just a list of vocabularies about people. They are not counterparts of each other. The female of "un professeur" is "une professeur" and there is no male of "une personne". Get over it, stuck up bitch.
I also want to tell you your black Chanel eyeglass frame with rhinestones on the side looks like from China, and I'm not talking about the official Chanel store in China. I know you're trying to pair it with your black patent leather Birkenstock style sandles with buckles of rhinestones with it but honestly speaking, with an attitude and a brain like yours, nothing looks sophisticated on you. You can just save the bucks. You are fat, boring, dry, uncool, have an ass as wide as a bench in Griffith Park, and you wear that kind of dated bubble gum crayon pink lipstick that can be exhibited in a fashion museum of the 80s in the condition where we are not really having our class on a dance floor of New Order or Duran Duran, but in Beverly Hills.
How did you keep your face as pale as the paint of a dirty white Taurus in Hollywood by the way? Do you do anything constructive to the world at all anyway? Or do you just spend all of your time on your eyelashes, toe nails and French lessons? I'm hoping you don't because if unfortunately you do, you suck in French and should just quit. You cannot make a negative statement; you don't know how to conjugate a verb; you don't know how to use "est ce que" to ask a question; you can't remember personal pronouns, you don't understand how to do our exercises, and after we explain to you, it takes you half an hour to answer each of my questions or ask me a question whenever it's your turn. I could have finished a cup of coffee there while waiting for you already! And what's your name again? Athena?! What kind of a name is that? An American woman like from Arkansas using a Greek goddess's name doesn't make her a goddess. Blegh!
What else? Oh if you didn't, your parents probably voted for Bush, didn't they? And do you by any chance actually know the history and influence of Greece on Western culture from the ancient to roman periods onwards or do you just know Saks Fifth Avenue and outlet malls like any other stupid white women here? To fill you in, the girl sitting next to you that you've been freaking out the entire time was not exactly fresh out from a farm with her pants rolled up picking water crest in a small village in Vietnam or something. We don't really celebrate for having running water instead of pulling buckets up from the wells. We actually study the sculptures and paintings from ancient Greece all the way to Frank Lloyd Wright and Cindy Sherman taught by top Australian, American and British professors in Asia. I'm sick of you these ignorant American people thinking your English is the only correct English. You call that thing a sidewalk doesn't mean the word "pavement" is wrong. Do you know what you call somebody without an accent here only means that person has an American accent which isn't even anything you want others to know in any other cultures at all?!
You have fear for hot, smart Asian girls that do well in school cuz deep in your heart you know so well that those white men that marry you do not really love you and all cheat on you with us, don't you? You know so well that you are the way you are and they are the way they are only because you are white and shallow and so are they, don't you? I bet you'd marry somebody like Grass-eater loser!
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Huguette Clark, the reclusive 104-year-old heiress, is known as generous toward those who care for her, including her social secretary, who received a $10 million gift. It's now clear that her longtime nurse has also been a recipient: To her, Clark has given the money to buy four homes for her family.
Clark also has made gifts benefitting her attorney's family, including a dollhouse worth more than $10,000 and a $1.5 million security system for the settlement where the attorney's daughters and grandchildren live in Israel.
A paralegal who worked for Clark's attorney for two years described those gifts. The paralegal, Cynthia Garcia, also told msnbc.com that Clark's attorney and accountant tried repeatedly to persuade her to sign a will, drafted a will that would have left money to the attorney, and joked about and cursed their client behind her back when she would not sign a will.
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The paralegal also said that the attorney last week called her after investigators started looking into Clark's affairs, encouraged her to leave town, and offered to hire an attorney, who then told her not to talk to investigators or the press.
A spokesman for Clark's attorney acknowledged the gifts, but said the attorney has acted "appropriately, professionally and consistent with her wishes."
Msnbc.com reported last week that the Manhattan district attorney is investigating the finances of the 104-year-old Clark, daughter of a Montana copper miner and heir to one of America's great fortunes. The DA's Elder Abuse Unit has detectives looking at transactions in her bank accounts, as well as the sale of her Stradivarius violin for $6 million and a Renoir painting for $23.5 million. Her wealth, estimated at half a billion dollars, is managed by her attorney, Wallace "Wally" Bock, 78, of Queens, N.Y., and her certified public accountant, a convicted felon named Irving H. Kamsler, 63, of the Bronx, N.Y. The men have not been accused of a crime.
Full coverage: 'The Clarks, an American story of wealth, mystery and scandal'
Msnbc.com also reported that the attorney and accountant became the owners of the New York City apartment of another elderly client after his last will and testament was revised six times.
The agency sent over a nurse
Clark is said to be alert and in good health for her age, but she left her Fifth Avenue apartment for hospital rooms some 22 years ago. A few years later, she hired a nurse through an agency.
Hadassah Peri, 60, is an immigrant from the Philippines and a registered nurse. She has spent long hours at the hospital as Clark's private nurse and is on call 24 hours a day, according to her attorney, John P. Reiner. Property records show that Peri owns at least six properties in the New York area, including four that her attorney says were gifts from her employer.
Clark gave Peri the cash in 2000 and 2001 to buy two apartments in Manhattan, on E. 96th Street near Park Avenue, for Peri's children to use as dorms while they were in college, the attorney said. They're valued between $200,000 and $350,000 each, according to property records.
There also is a two-unit house near Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, near the Peri family home. Clark offered to buy this house so there would be room for Peri's visiting family to stay. It's valued at about $700,000.
Finally, there's a vacation house next to a golf course on the Jersey Shore near Long Branch, N.J., valued at about $500,000.
Peri referred all questions to her attorney, Reiner, who said Clark bought the four homes for Peri and her family as gifts to thank her for nearly 20 years of attentive service.
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A former paralegal for Clark's attorney who has been interviewed by the DA described expensive gifts that benefitted the family of attorney Bock — including the dollhouse and the security system, said the paralegal, Cynthia Garcia. She first described these gifts in Saturday's New York Post.
Bock's spokesman, Michael McKeon, confirmed that those two gifts were made, but he said the paralegal has many of the details wrong and is just seeking "her 15 minutes of fame."
Cynthia Garcia, 42, worked for Bock from 2000 to 2002, and now lives in Florida.
She told msnbc.com that Clark gave attorney Bock's granddaughter an antique Barbie dollhouse worth more than $1 million. Bock's spokesman, McKeon, said the dollhouse wasn't an antique, wasn't a Barbie dollhouse, and was worth somewhere in the five figures, between $10,000 and $100,000.
The paralegal also said that Bock solicited from Clark a check for $1.5 million after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to build the security system, which Garcia called a "bomb shelter," for the community in Israel where his daughters and her family live.
Bock's spokesman, McKeon, said Clark did make a donation of about $1.5 million to the community in Israel, not to Bock's family. He said it was for a sophisticated security system for the community, not a bomb shelter, and that the money was handled scrupulously through an attorney in Israeli, with money placed in an escrow account and then paid as needed for the installation. If Bock's family left the community, McKeon said, the security system would stay.
New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients "for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer," but allow some gifts that are volunteered.
'Consistent with her wishes'
Huguette ("hue-GET") Marcelle Clark is the last surviving child of William Andrews Clark (1839-1925), a copper miner and U.S. senator who in his time was described by The New York Times as neck and neck with John D. Rockefeller for the title of richest American. Huguette, born in Paris and married only briefly, had no children. She has lived as a recluse for several decades, leaving unoccupied her three empty homes in California, Connecticut and New York City. Her attorney, Bock, has said he is the first of her seven attorneys to meet her, and even he has met her only twice.
In an interview with msnbc.com, the former paralegal Garcia made several other claims about the conduct of Clark's lawyer and accountant.
Kamsler and Bock have not responded to repeated requests for explanation, but McKeon offered point-by-point rebuttals to some of her claims, and also issued a blanket statement on Bock's behalf:
"Ms. Garcia, over the last couple of days, has made a number of wildly inaccurate and reckless statements," McKeon said. "Both her credibility and her motivation are suspect. She appears to be a person attempting to garner her 15 minutes of fame.
"An independent review will demonstrate that Ms. Clark's affairs were handled appropriately, professionally and consistent with her wishes. For many years, Ms. Clark has insisted on maintaining her privacy. Despite the numerous inaccurate assertions being made, Mr. Bock will continue to fulfill his professional obligations to honor and enforce her requirement of privacy."
The paralegal and her former employer give different accounts of her employment. Garcia said she quit when she was disgusted by Bock's handling of Clark's affairs, was rehired with a raise when Bock begged her to return, and then quit again. Bock's spokesman said Garcia was fired for scheduling a vacation during a busy season, begged until she was rehired, and then quit without notice.
'The conversation'
In the interview with msnbc.com, Garcia said that attorney Bock and accountant Kamsler would gather around a speakerphone from time to time for "the conversation" with Clark, who then was about 93 years old, urging her to sign a will.
Without a will, under New York law Clark's estate would flow to her nearest relatives, descendants from her father's first marriage, her half-great-nieces and nephews with whom she has had only limited contact, partly because Bock and Kamsler have controlled access to her, some of the relatives have said.
"Every month, Wally would have the conversation, which would take place around 3 o'clock. Wally would have a double scotch on the rocks. He'd all Irving over. They'd both get on speakerphone with Mrs. Clark. Her voice is very firm. Wally would say, I'm doing everything for your benefit."
But Clark would not sign a will, Garcia said.
"Wally would send over drafts, and she would mark them up in red pen and send them back with corrections. But then she'd say 'enough!' She never signed a will." At least one draft, Garcia said, would have left money to Bock.
Bock's spokesman, McKeon, said Bock "would just be doing his job" if he encouraged his client to have a will. McKeon declined to say whether Bock was ever named as a beneficiary in one of the drafts.
Mrs. Clark was the object of jokes between Bock and Kamsler, Garcia said. "They were laughing about her. We've got to get a will — that stupid bitch," the former paralegal said.
McKeon said Bock always treated Clark respectfully.
'Everything has to go through me'
The pleading for a signed will was so insistent, Garcia said, that Bock's law partners pulled a joke at a holiday party, presenting him with a carefully prepared last will and testament with a fake Clark signature, naming him as a beneficiary.
When Clark would give expensive gifts to friends, such as the $10 million she gave her friend and social secretary Suzanne Pierre in 2000, Bock "would call her and yell at her to stop doing that," Garcia said.
"The way he yelled at her, it was like a reprimand of a 12-year-old. He would really talk down to her. He scolded her. 'You don't do anything financial. Everything has to go through me. You don't just give things away.'"
Again, McKeon said, Bock was "just doing his job."
Bock would write large checks to himself from her account, Garcia said, before his semiannual trips to Israel to visit his children and grandchildren. "Fifty-thousand, seventy-five thousand dollars," Garcia said. "These were from her account, not his." She said she didn't know what the checks were for.
McKeon said he did not know anything about this, but that Bock has handled all of Clark's finances in an above-board manner.
An elderly client
Garcia also said she never met a man named Donald Wallace, although her signature is on a document testifying to his good health. Her signature is on a 2000 codicil, or amendment, to his will, a document that left Wallace's Manhattan apartment to his attorney, Bock, and his accountant, Kamsler. Wallace was Huguette Clark's attorney before handing her business down to Bock. The transfer of Wallace's property was described in a recent article on msnbc.com. Wallace's goddaughter and two neighbors said that he was suffering from dementia for several years before he died in 2002.
Garcia said that's her signature on the document, but looking at a photo of Wallace she said, "I don't remember seeing him." She said she couldn't have affirmed, as the document says, that Wallace was "of sound mind, memory and understanding and not under any restraint or in any respect incompetent."
The other witness to the codicil, attorney Monica Regina Dempsey, was a junior associate in Bock's office in 2000 and now is an attorney for a hospital in New Jersey. She told msnbc.com that she doesn't remember one way or another whether she signed the Wallace papers, but that as an attorney she wouldn't sign a sworn statement that was not true.
McKeon said he didn't not know anything about the Wallace case. You can read the Wallace court records in this PDF file.
'Wrap me up and shut me up'
Garcia, the paralegal, also said that Bock called her in Florida last week, after msnbc.com published the investigative reports, urging her to take a vacation and not to talk with anyone.
"At that point I was frantic. I don't want these reporters stalking me," Garcia said. "I told him, I feel like your shenanigans have turned my life over. I'm going to my mother's. He said, 'They'll find you there.'
"He said, 'When's the last time you went on vacation? Wouldn't this be a fabulous time?' I said, 'I don't have the money.' He said, 'Something could be arranged.'"
Bock's spokesman, McKeon, said it was Garcia who initiated the conversation by calling the accountant Kamsler, complaining that the press was hounding her, and that Kamsler passed the message to Bock, who called her back. McKeon said Bock did not offer to send her on vacation, but that Garcia made the suggestion, fishing for Bock to pay for it.
The paralegal said she then received a call from McKeon, Bock's spokesman, offering for Bock to pay for an attorney for her. McKeon, a former newspaper reporter in New York, has handled communications for Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign and former Gov. George Pataki.
"He said, 'Bock is offering you an attorney to protect and guide your interests' and to guide me in the the right way," Garcia said. She said she then heard from a Florida attorney, who told her "not to talk to nobody."
"They want to put me in a box and wrap me up and shut me up," Garcia said.
McKeon said that he did offer on Bock's behalf to pay for her attorney, and did have an attorney in Florida talk with her, but instead she decided not to hire any attorney, so far as he knows. But the offer, he said, was "not inappropriate or unethical," McKeon said. "She's a former employee of the firm. She's going to be talking with the district attorney, and anyone in that situation would want an attorney."
"It was to be her lawyer, regardless of who would pay," McKeon said. "It would be her independent adviser to help her through this."
As for Bock's handling of the reclusive heiress's affairs, McKeon said, "Over the years, Ms. Clark has made all of her own decisions — including insisting on maintaining her privacy.
"In short, she has lived her life the way she has wanted too. After more than 50 years as an attorney, Wally Bock has an excellent reputation and an unblemished record."
Related content
More links for "The Clarks: An American story of wealth, scandal and mystery":
All of msnbc.com's reports and the TODAY Show videos on Huguette Clark are gathered at clark.msnbc.com.
Part one of the investigative report: At 104, mysterious heiress is alone now
Part two: Who is watching Huguette's millions?
The photo narrative from February on Huguette Clark and her empty mansions
A PDF file for printing the photos
Notes and sources on the Clark family


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) -- It's official. Douglas Kass of
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Kass has been appointed by the "Oracle of Omaha" to represent the bearish view on shares of Berkshire Hathaway at the investing conglomerate's shareholder meeting scheduled for May 4.
The investment manager and
contributor will be tasked with making the case against investing in Buffett and Berkshire, just as the company's shares continues to test record highs and outperform gains made by broader indices such as the
In Berkshire's 2012
released on March 1, Buffett called for an investor to present a negative perspective on the company at its shareholder meeting.
Kass applied for the role, and in a Monday interview with
, Buffett said he was picked to present the bear case on Berkshire.
Interestingly, Kass may be able to borrow from Buffett's own words in making an argument against investing in Berkshire.
For the first time, Warren Buffett
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In Berkshire Hathaway's
to shareholders, Buffett outlined why he is worried a rising stock market will put the firm's performance below that of the S&P 500 over a five-year stretch.
Buffett fears Berkshire's five-year book value growth rate may underperform the S&P 500 for the first time ever. In 2012, Berkshire's book value per share increased 14.4%, behind the S&P 500's gains of more than 15%.
Such a scenario would be the first in Berkshire's history, indicating that even the "Oracle of Omaha" is having trouble keeping up with rising markets. Continued underperformance may also reflect Buffett's expectations of a strengthening economic recovery.
"In years when the market is particularly strong, expect us to fall short," said Buffett, in his letter.
Still, the lead to Buffett's self-deprecating
may simply be a way for him to put a humble spin on a year when Berkshire's book value increased by $24.1 billion and the company's profit to shareholders nearly reached $15 billion, amid strong performance from new subsidiaries such as
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Berkshire's stock gain of more than 14% in 2012 also beat the S&P 500, a performance most investors would take as proof of a strong year.
Kass, therefore, may find himself egging on bullish types such as Buffett and his loyal following of investors.
Still, given Buffett's changing stance on
and outlines for a dividend were Berkshire's performance to falter in 2013, Kass will have ample opportunity to paint a bleak picture to investors in May.
For more on Buffett and Berkshire's annual meeting, see why the "Oracle"is
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Price: Classic with Cheese, $8
If a trip to Savannah is in your future and you'd like to seek out neighborhood favorites where the locals go instead of shiny tourist traps, take note of Green Truck Pub. I'm aiming this advice specifically at visitors not to exclude locals but because, if the local weekly's "Best Of" awards plastered above the door are any indication, Savannahians are already well aware of the burger achievements of this friendly little spot.
Tasty things between bread dominate the menu. There is a smattering of sandwiches, ranging from pimento cheese to a veggie reuben, but for obvious reasons, I only let my eyes graze over that section before focusing on the burgers.
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In this paper I defend the idea that rather than disrupting rationality, as the common-sense conception has done it, love may actually help us to develop rational ways of thinking and acting. I make the case for romantic or erotic love, since this is the kind of love that is more frequently associated with irrationality in acting and thinking. I argue that this kind of love may make us develop epistemic and practical forms of rationality. Based on an analysis of its characteristic action tendencies, I argue that love may help us to develop an instrumental form of rationality in determining the best means to achieve the object of love. It may also narrow down the number of practical considerations that may help us to achieve our goals. Finally, love may generate rational ways of belief-formation by framing the parameters taken into account in perception and attention, and by bringing into light only a small portion of the epistemic information available. Love may make us perceive reality more acutely.
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The exabyte era is hurrying closer for ZFS storage supplier Nexenta, which hopes to have its partners ship more storage boxes than NetApp in five years time.
We were briefed by CEO Evan Powell following a Nexenta customer and partner shindig in Amsterdam. He said Nexenta was running at around $500 million a year in partner sales and getting ten per cent of that; meaning $50 million a year revenues. The anticipation is that there will be $1 billion in partner sales in 2013 and $2 billion in 2014, giving Nextenta revenues of $100 million and $200 million respectively.
For comparison FalconStor is currently running at almost $100m a year revenues and CommVault and OCZ at roughly $400m. Nexenta has a way to go but is doing very well indeed for a storage software company whose product is based on Open Solaris and ZFS.
Nexenta flash
Nexenta has recently qualified STEC SSDs for use in its arrays, and they provide 253,469 sustained write IOPS when 24 of them are used in an EraStor 255 all-flash appliance, with 2.8GB/sec throughput and less than 2ms latency. There were 200,000 read IOPS by the way. EraStor is a partnership between a bunch of European Nexenta channel partners and it provides the hardware while Nexenta provides a reference architecture.
These are goodish numbers for an SMB flash array but are not in the high-performance area. There a Kaminario K2-F MLC flash array delivers up to 600,000 random read IOPS and has an 8GB/sec bandwidth. A Nimbus S-class does up to a claimed 800,000 IOPS. Back down in SMB-land Pure Storage's 300-Series does 300,000 random read IOPS and 180,000 random write IOPS. WhipTail's ACCELA does 250,000 random write IOPS and has a 1.9GB/sec bandwidth. The EraStor box beats that on the numbers we've quoted here and gives the Pure Storage box a good run for its money on those numbers too.
We're told; "A second benchmark, using STEC SSDs with a larger system, is currently in process at Nexenta and is expected to exceed a nearly double sustained write IOPS performance at low latency." That would mean around 500,000 IOPS. Nexenta's channel will like that. Powell said; "STEC has a very high penetration of the all-flash appliance suppliers." It's in Pure Storage for example.
Interestingly Nexenta has a technology alliance with NAND fab operator Toshiba.
Roadmaps and exabyte sales
A coming development is for a data computing appliance, with applications and storage in the one box, Powell saying; "We're headed there." New versions of the Nexenta Elastic Framework management feature are also in development, with v4.0 coming in the third quarter and v5.0 in 2013. Powell mentioned object storage as well; "You'll see object storage scale-out with us within 12 months. We're in beta right now. We have customers who want us to support Swift right now."
The use case today is for backing up big and slow buckets of data, with some deployments in the 80PB area; "We have some customers talking about exabyte deployments. We're in 50 engagements of 10PB or more and a couple of them are talking about exabytes."
Powell said he'd told the company that the name of the first salesrep to sell an exabyte NexentaStor deployment would have his name tattoo'd on Powell's arm. Perhaps he's not serious.
V3.1.3 of its NexentaStor product is out with Intel Romley support, remote replication written by Nexenta to improve on the ZFS feature, domain group support and upgrade readiness for the next major release, v4.0. Powell said Nexenta is adding enhancements to NexentaStor's ZFS dedupe all the time.
NexentaVSA for View is generally available, giving Nexenta a VDI capability which it says adds a lot of automation to the previously manual VDI process. The storage cost per VDI instance is $35. Tintri's is $23 and GreenBytes is $12. Dell EqualLogic and HP LeftHand (P4000) are in the $200-300 area while NetApp, with its A-SIS dedupe, says VDI instance costs can be as low as $50.
There is a cloud archive facility whereby a NexentaStor system can backup data to Google, Amazon and OpenStack Swift clouds. There is a Hadoop connection for Nexenta being developed as well. Nexenta has boosted its support and is reliant for a lot of business on repeat purchases by customers. Powell said the average lifetime purchase with Nexenta for a customer is seven times the initial purchase; 18 times the first order though for the top customers.
Overtaking NetApp
Nexenta has some 4,500 customers currently and finance is the leading vertical. It was number six. One US finance customer has 3PB of Nexenta storage. Powell is bullish about the future; "In five years Nexenta will be the leading storage supplier in terms of the number of deployed units. It's NetApp today."
What we have here is a company that made its first sale in 2008 and has been growing sales in triple digit percentages annually since. It's a measure of Sun's and then Oracle Sun's failure that its Open Solaris/ZFS-based storage has languished while Nexenta's has erupted. You get the feeling that Nexenta customers would like the enterprise reliability and rock-solid reputation of NetApp kit but, firstly, can't afford it and, secondly, think Open Solaris + ZFS is superior to Data ONTAP even though it lacks many of NetApp's data management features.
NetApp is growing strongly and consistently in unified storage sales; look at the financial results, but Nexenta is growing faster, from a smaller base of course. If its growth projections come good then it will progress from being an irritating flea bite for EMC and NetApp to being a thorn in their feet. Powell I think relishes the prospect. He's on a charge and convinced Nexenta is going places, big places, exabyte-scale places. ®


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The official website of the Cauliflower Alley Club states Killer Karl Kox, a headliner in the 1960s and 1970s, died Thursday at the age of 80.
Kox, whose real name is Herb Gerwig, suffered a fatal heart attack Thursday morning while hospitalized. He had been hospitalized due to a massive heart attack he suffered on October 20, 2011.
The National Wrestling Association issued a statement regarding his passing: "The Cauliflower Alley Club is reporting the death earlier today of Killer Karl Kox. Kox wrestled all over the world and was a huge star in Australia, feuding with the likes of Spiros Arion, Mark Lewin, and others. Stateside, he held many titles, including the NWA National, Central States, Florida, and Georgia championships. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends."
Jim Ross commented on the legendary grappler's death on Twitter.
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Virtual world makes mastering
interview skills much easier
… when virtual 'really feels real'
"Fabulous", "amazing" and "fantastic" were only three of the superlatives used by the more than 20 educators and researchers who toured the SLENZ Project's two builds on Kowhai in Second Life and listened to commentary from educators, developers and builders during the virtual worlds' prestigious, annual Jokaydia Unconference on Sunday.
The superlatives were used by virtual visitors from around the world to describe the concepts, designs, the builds and the practises being used in the the SLENZ Project's two pilot education programmes, Foundation Learning (Bridging Education), under lead educator, Merle Lemon (SL: Briarmelle Quintessa), of Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, and Midwifery under lead educator, Sarah Stewart (SL: Petal Stransky), of Otago Polytechnic.
The Jokaydia attendees probably would have been even more blown away had they been able to watch the Pooky Media [producer Pooky Amsterdam, director Russell (Rosco) Boyd] machinima production on Foundation Learning, "Foundation Interviewing in Second Life," which was placed on general release on YouTube later that the day.
Jo Kay, herself, one of Australia's leading virtual world educators, said of the video, "Impressive! Congratulations too all involved in the project and the video," and SL's PimPeccable commented, "Brilliant and professional."
Arwenna Stardust (RL: Dr Clare Atkins) talks to the Unconference visitors.
Inside the Skill Mastery Hyperdome … demonstrating a "catwalk" rezzed.
The Skill Mastery Hyperdome, the centre of the foundation learning "class space", is described by PookyMedia in the preamble to the YouTube video, as "a step into the future, an environment in which students can learn, develop and practise skills that will help them progress on their career pathways and achieve their life goals."
And it obviously is – and eventually, like the Birthing Centre, will become the SLENZ Project's "gift" to virtual world education, having been created under Creative Commons attribution license in OpenSource. It is scheduled to be made freely available with all bells, whistles, scripts and animations in Second Life on completion of the project.
Foundation students who are use the Hyperdrome build are preparing to enter academic and/or training courses as diverse as nursing, teaching, business, police, travel and tourism, IT, engineering, and social work. Foundation Studies provides the basic building blocks and the scaffolding to enable students to enter and succeed in their selected career pathway.
Acitivites provided in this build are designed to enhance communication skills, specifically the skills needed in an interview situation. These students can select appropriate interview apparel from Rapungakore ("…you have come to the right place"), the clothing store, which is part of the Hyperdome.
Noting that irrespective of their ultimate career goal all students will need to develop interview skills and strategies, Merle Lemon, has pointed out that the hyperdrome environment allows students to experience virtual interviews, to take on the roles of both interviewer and interviewee, and to develop confidence in answering and asking questions in a professional manner.
"The opportunity to rehearse variations of the interview scenario will lead to further enlightenment through reflective evaluation and deliberation on their own behaviour in action," she said.
The Manukau Institute of Technology students, whose reactions are canvassed in the video, find that the Second interviews "really feel real" with one student even worrying that he was being interviewed for a "real job" which he couldn't accept accept because of his student commitments.
The SLENZ Project is funded by the New Zealand Government"s Tertiary Education Commission.
The Unconference participants tour the birth centre.
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