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The Kerry Record
On Friday, President Obama nominated Sen. John Kerry to become the next U.S. secretary of state. WSJ's Mary Anastasia O'Grady and James Freeman discuss Kerry's past dealings in foreign affairs relative to Latin America. Photo: Associated Press.
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Nenad with Daniel Ortega ... the head of the Sandinista is in Nicaragua ... and got basically he gave him moral support he came back to Washington ... I'm trying to convince and our people and lobby an advocate for an anti ... to the Contras the resistance movement that was hiding the sun he says ... and as early as those were the communist government supported by the Soviet Union and I to the industrious Cuban yet and Dom you know people the Sandinista and that the country as the presence in the whirl areas where they came ... for some help from outside because ... of this government was now and not only to be allied with the communists but also ... for its human rights violations ... nevertheless Mr Kerry took their side of the story ... on he managed to convince the house to vote against an aid package ... and be merry for a day after I they voted against Eddie Package Ortega flew to Moscow ... to get two hundred million dollars in aid from the Kremlin ... so I you know we are trying to keep the Soviets out of the hemisphere's general in your ... area was denied the salmon runs ... okay now of that was the nineteen eighties so it's best for him to two thousand I and ... presumably is to learn something ... seeing the cold war the rear view mirror you would've told she had some sense of ... who deserves our support and a dozen in Latin America ... another strange a intervention by Mr Kerry why should say before into thousandnine two thousand for when he was running for president he famously gave a speech in Boston where an answer to a question after the speech ... he said that the Fark Gorillas inclined at had legitimate complaints ... the car find a lot of people because the Farco Allison course iron on for ... meaning and killing children on ... blowing up innocent civilians that you know I think it's pretty ... aam strange that you would say that they were legitimate anyway so ... that's a stir Bank ... two thousandnine comes along Honduras it is odd and ... had it has a problem because they have a president who is allied with hula Chavez has called the mouse and I am ... I they have a one term policy for presents so I it tries to extend his term ... and we ... are all the institutions of government all the branches of government ... and both parties both main political parties including Sillies party ... now all back the ADN of removing him because he is violated the Constitution ... and I'm the US takes the side so I am who denies this is a friend of China's and John Kerry becomes very active in the story ... so ... the urban your readers to read your coverage unknown I know about this of but for those who are under the Journal of this is a constitutional beloved ... really a great moment for constitutional government in Honduras where this president is trying to stay beyond his term ... the other institutions of the government does say no and ... and on a leasing many John Kerry and ... the Obama administration come down on the side of the ... the president is trying to shred the Constitution is right and it's a model that's been used often last America by people who back to China so it's kind of China's model and what John Kerry did ... two things that jumped out at you is one ... I after the State Department ... outstripped the pieces from those people are in the interim government to refi was to let them to come to Washington to tell their side of the story ... at its center demand from South Carolina ... a range a trip to the Honduras a fact finding trip to find out what happened ... John Kerry tried to block him from doing that because of course he needed time a Guinea get approval and funding through to the Senate ... aam then there was a report from the Congressional Research Service which steady in the Honduran Constitution and said yes indeed I've the government was within its rights to remove the president from office ... of course not to send him to cause the date of that that was in a different ... subject but to remove him from the office ... and I'm John Kerry tried to force the Congressional Research service ... to ... rewrite their record and and come up with a different conclusion ... it's appalling Liberty Eli goes lately we sat at the top that was the turbo love you but dove but that baby right What's OBS to explain that in the Senate


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Tiger Woods is one dude who appreciates, among other things, second homes.
Jeff Lichtenstein of Christie's Great Estates & Illustrated Properties in Palm Beach Gardens, sent us a first glimpse of Tiger Wood's backyard and private practice complex –click on that photo, this is great House Porn:
"It appears he has one tee box in the southeast east corner to hit drivers. The entire area just west of the lap pool can be used to hit long, medium and short irons into any of the 4 greens. Each green is guarded by a single trap, except the green in the northwest corner which appears to have 3 pot bunkers.
Tiger has enough open space to practice his short game from any angle, any wind condition, which really appears what this practice area is all about.
His putting green is totally surrounded by dense vegetation. One wonders if he is trying to block out the wind by doing this or if he is cutting off both sunlight and air circulation. He probably has a sub-air temperature/humidity control system beneath the green, otherwise it would be worthless in the heat of the summer, especially if the grass there is bent or some northern grass.
I'm curious as to what type of grass he planted, both on the putting green and throughout his practice area. The denser Florida or tropical grasses react quite differently with the club head and ball, and Tiger may find he is switching grasses a number of times until he finds the right mix.
I would have thought he'd have 2 putting greens, each with different grasses.
Another curious thing I found is the placement of this particular Jupiter Island home so far back from the intracoastal. Usually, homeowners want to be very close to the water, but I believe Tiger wanted his practice area close to the water, so he reversed the norm, creating another unique signature estate among the Jupiter Island homes."
Thanks, Jeff and Cary! I am liking Singer Island, founded by sewing machine magnate Paris Singer in Palm Beach County. Supposedly this island was purchased for his mistress, who did not like it (picky) and is home to golfer Michelle McGann and rocker Clarence Clemons. Pretty upscale homes ans condos, but have they ever finished repairing the Tiara? Looks like you've got some gorgeous properties there. Any great hot deals? How about I come out, visit, rate, and tell the readers of SecondShelters all about it?

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Just a final note to all of you to say goodbye. I've spent the morning opposite my beautiful wife going around and asking people to take down their videos of me from youtube, because I dont want my work being used to promote breatharianism anymore or any other crack pot agenda, new age or other wise, my work has been used and abused by all kinds of people for their own agenda and no longer serves its original purpose. This has saddened me a great deal over the years. I never wanted to be known as a Breatharian, I never wanted to be famous, this label was thrust upon me without my consent before I knew what it was all about and what came with it. Breatharianism never once served me because it's make believe, it doesn't exist, how can it exist if the body maintains itself and produces 1.5 to 2litres of saliva per day, just that fact alone makes the term redundant. Breatharianism never served me yet I spent 17 plus years serving this so called health industry, fruitarian, raw food,liquidarian, breatharian, concept/idea/fairy tale, lifestyles. I was the poster boy for a fairy tale fantasy, a fantasy that burnt me out and left me depressed. I went through so much s### because of this and have got absolutely NOTHING back from it to this day, there has been no great change because of my message just more tricksters and scam artists, this has brought me the most sadness of all, watching the people that need help, love and support give all their power and money to these guru's only to realise they have been tricked. At the end of last year I decided to cancel my appearence at the Breatharian conference in munich and no longer promote BREATHARIANISM in any shape or form, be BREATHARIAN or have anything to do with anything BREATHARIAN. Thats right folks, I'm not a BREATHARIAN and technically by definition I NEVER have been breatharian, now I have walked the path I know whats on it, I now know all the in's and out's and I've learnt that being food free and being Breatharian are two totally different things and to learn your trade or live the lifestyle you just cant do it under the microscope/in the gaze of the angry public, I asked my wife why do people think I'm famous and why do they contact me from all over the world to ask me questions or to get know me, what am I doing....well most just want a robot to validate their insanity/escapisim and I'm tired of that, to make ANY change you need time/room to grow, you need space to mess up, just like I have soooo many times, you need time and space to actually live it and do what you need to do to help you live it. I've NEVER had that space to grow, I've only been surrounded with people who's only concern was if I eat or go to the toilet or not, few actually took time to get to know the real me. Over the years I have met some wonderful people that have welcomed me into their lives regardless of what came with me, I've also met some not so cool people that only had stars/dollar signs in their eyes, these people used and abused me just enough for me to see/wake up to it and for that I'm grateful, even at my low level I've seen how the fame game works and I dont want any part of it, the people suck and its really not all that. Now I have found real happiness with my wife and a handfull of real friends that love me for who I really am I can look at the world and see what part I want to play in it. I want no part of Breatharianism. In my life now I only focus on the people that I love and love me right back, for some time now my wife and daughter have played a huge part in keeping me on this planet and I owe it to myself and to them to be the best version of me as I can possibly be and thats all I really want to do, have a simple life and be very happy with my wife, daughter and dobermans in nature somewhere! My wife and I will do our camps and consultations as OURSELVES, not BREATHARIANS or other wise as the opportunity arise until the day comes when we decide to do something else. So...I'm not Breatharian, I'm me and I will do whatever I want, I will live however I want, with who ever I want, to do anything else is simply not being the best version of me that I can be. So long folks. Genesis Sunfire.
just came across this and thought others might be interested. I didn't really like that GS promoted certain "detox" products on youtube. i couldn't imagine anyone wanting to be in the spotlight really... i guess maybe he was serving the rest of us by putting information out there? i just always think, if i am independent of food, what can i really use money for? clothing? going to the movies? a new ipod? sex? taking the bus to kona? : ) i don't know if i'll want any of that really, i bet i won't.
I think this is a good step for GS, I would hate to be in the public eye like he is... I know some people may be jealous of his fame... i can really admire a lot of people's abilities but don't feel much need 2 b famous these days. the pressure is off i suppose : )
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Whether you're an early Corvette fanatic or just someone who stares at the average closed garage and wonders if it is hiding an automotive treasure it's hard not to get excited about the pictures of this recently unearthed 1961 'Vette.
Currently for sale on Ebay, this later C1 has been sitting where you currently see it since the car's second owner parked it in 1968. While it wasn't quite perfect when parked, we can only guess at the motivation for leaving a (presumably) functional Corvette languishing undisturbed in your garage for 44 years.
After sitting for so long this Corvette "needs complete and total restoration" and obviously does not run or drive. Apparently the car also lost its convertible top mechanism at some point and will be sold without it.
It impossible to deny how cool it is to see this car sitting where it's been for the past four plus decades. Even so, the current top bid of $36,700 has us wondering what plans the next owner has for the car once it's dusted off and relocated. Certainly it will take more to restore the car than to buy an already completed example.
We'd guess someone either has a checkbook waiting for the right early 'Vette with an interesting story or the next owner plans to just restore the car mechanically to the point where it can be driven. Hopefully it's the second scenario.


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Dry winter, warming trend foretell wildfire danger
BOISE, Idaho -- Two small but unseasonably early fires burning in California's wine country likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire season across the West.
Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Wednesday in their first 2013 summer fire outlook that a dry winter and expected warming trend mean the potential for significant fire activity will be above normal on the West Coast, in the Southwest and portions of Idaho and Montana.
"We're looking at a combination of a low-moisture winter and a warming and drying pattern in the West that will increase the fire potential," said Ed Delgado, predictive services manager.
If that sounds familiar to the region's residents, it should.
In 2012, record-setting fires raged in New Mexico and Oregon, while destructive Colorado blazes torched hundreds of homes amid one of the state's worst seasons in years.
Just like last year, Colorado experienced some of its first 2013 wildfires in March.
Outside the West, however, much of the U.S. is expected to experience normal fire conditions, with below-normal danger in the South where significant, long-duration rains saturated the landscape since Jan. 1, Delgado said.
In California, wine-producing counties Napa and Sonoma experienced early-season blazes Wednesday, as warm temperatures, low humidity and gusting winds through already-dry foothills areas east and north of San Francisco led to warnings of extreme wildfire conditions.
Both were more than half-contained, according to crews.
The culprit behind a California fire season that's a month ahead of schedule? A winter where only 40 percent of normal precipitation fell and scant spring rain that typically greens up hillsides and pushes fires back into summer.
California's "precipitation pretty much shut off at the beginning of the year," NIFC wildland fire analyst Jeremy Sullens said during a telephone conference with reporters. "Since they're not expecting a lot more precipitation for the remainder of the summer, conditions are going to worsen as we go into the hotter part of the year."
In Arizona, a nearly-square mile wildfire near the Chino Valley had state forestry officials busy Tuesday, as the fire rolled through grass and brush. The National Interagency Fire Center says there's likely more to come across the Southwest.
"Above normal significant fire potential will develop across much of the southern halves of New Mexico and Arizona in May," the report concluded.
In Northwestern states, cool temperatures and rain in April mean May will be mostly quiet. That could change quickly.
"Warmer and drier conditions beginning in June will quickly elevate significant wildland fire potential to above normal across southern and eastern Oregon and portions of south central and southeastern Washington," the fire center said.
And in the Northern Rockies including Idaho and Montana, fire danger is forecast at near normal through May and June, before escalating in July and August to above-normal potential.
Idaho is also coming off one of its worst-ever fire seasons in 2012, with 1,151 wildfires tallied and a nation-leading 1.7 million acres, or 2,600 square miles, burned.
Nevada also is in the grip of a drought, but persistent lack of moisture has stunted fuel growth, Sullens said.
The same goes for southeastern Oregon's open ranching country, where massive range fires last year torched great swaths of ground, including the state's biggest blaze in a century, July's Long Draw Fire.
"There's still a potential, but it's less than it was last year," Sullens predicted. "Nevada isn't really included in the above-normal fire potential."


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For months I have been going back on forth on 'themes' for my wedding. I have been loving the whole vintage/shabby-chic styling that a lot of weddings are sporting at the moment, with the mis-matched floral china, burlap bunting and wild flowers, and I was pretty much set on that for quite some time. But then I came across the knot tying diagram (in the collage above) and knew I had found my theme. How perfect for Robin and I! Not just because the first figure looks like an 'R' and an 'S' that 'tie the knot', but because both of us love water sports and being by the sea. So our nautical theme was born.
Pinterest is a gift and a curse for wedding inspiration. I have spent far too many hours drooling over all the beautiful, gorgeous wedding images over there, and as any of you who follow me you will know, pinning on to a million different wedding boards! It's great to have so much inspiration all in one place for free. No need to go and buy a stack of expensive wedding magazines (although I may have done a bit of this too!). The curse of course is that it's almost TOO much inspiration. I have a million and one different ideas of what I would like my wedding to look like and I find myself getting carried away. Luckily Rob is a lot more grounded (as most men are), and has reigned in my fanciful ideas many times already.
So I decided it was time to be decisive and pick specific ideas or photos to base our wedding on and have created a mood-board to show this. It relaxed my mind almost instantly, as well as got me super excited! Gone are all the other images that I loved (OK, they are all still on my other wedding boards) and all I have are the ones that I'm going to use for OUR wedding. This is what it's going to look like – how exciting!


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The Taliban & Afghan Women
The Taliban, an extremist militia, seized control first of Herat (1994) and then Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on September 27, 1996 and violently plunged Afghanistan into a brutal state of totalitarian dictatorship and gender apartheid in which women and girls were stripped of their basic human rights.
The Elimination of Women's Rights
Upon seizing power, the Taliban regime instituted a system of gender apartheid effectively thrusting the women of Afghanistan into a state of virtual house arrest. Under Taliban rule women were stripped of all human rights – their work, visibility, opportunity for education, voice, healthcare, and mobility. When they took control in 1996, the Taliban initially imposed strict edicts that:
- Banished women from the work force
- Closed schools to girls and women and expelled women from universities
- Prohibited women from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative
- Ordered the publicly visible windows of women's houses painted black and forced women to wear the burqa (or chadari) – which completely shrouds the body, leaving only a small mesh-covered opening through which to see
- Prohibited women and girls from being examined by male physicians while at the same time prohibited female doctors and nurses from working
Women were brutally beaten, publicly flogged, and killed for violating Taliban decrees. Even after international condemnation, the Taliban made only slight changes. Some say it was progress when the Taliban allowed a few women doctors and nurses to work, even while hospitals still had segregated wards for women. In Kabul and other cities, a few home schools for girls operated in secret. In addition, women who conducted home schools were risking their lives or a severe beating.
Taliban Reality for Women and Girls
- A woman who defied Taliban orders by running a home school for girls was killed in front of her family and friends.
- A woman caught trying to flee Afghanistan with a man not related to her was stoned to death for adultery.
- An elderly woman was brutally beaten with a metal cable until her leg was broken because her ankle was accidentally showing from underneath her burqa.
- Women and girls died of curable ailments because male doctors were not allowed to treat them.
- Two women accused of prostitution were publicly hung.
Taliban Law Is In Opposition To Islam
Women in Afghanistan were educated and employed prior to the Taliban control, especially in the capital city Kabul. For example, 50% of the students and 60% of the teachers at Kabul University were women. In addition 70% of school teachers, 50% of civilian government workers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul were women.
The Taliban claimed to follow a pure, fundamentalist Islamic ideology, yet the oppression they perpetrated against women had no basis in Islam. Within Islam, women are allowed to earn and control their own money, and to participate in public life. The 55-member Organization of Islamic Conference refused to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's official government. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, regarded by many as an ultraconservative organization, denounced the Taliban's decrees.
Who are the Taliban?
During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's the United States through a CIA covert operation based in Pakistan supplied billions of dollars to support insurgent militia forces called the mujahideen (soldiers of God). Following the Soviets' withdrawal in 1989, factions of the mujahideen fell into a civil war and in 1994, the Taliban emerged as a dominant force.
The Taliban is comprised of young men and boys of Afghan descent who have hardly lived in Afghan society. They were raised in refugee camps and trained in ultraconservative religious schools (madrassas) in Pakistan . Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates were the only countries that granted the Taliban regime of Afghanistan official recognition.
In addition, thousands of Pakistanis and hundreds or Arabs fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistan was the primary source of support to the Taliban, supplying military aid and personnel; Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates and known terrorist organizations provided the Taliban with financial support. Additionally, Afghanistan is and was under the Taliban the world's largest producer of opium and a major drug-processing center; almost all areas of poppy cultivation are occupied by the Taliban. But perhaps the biggest potential for financial support for the Taliban in Afghanistan was to be royalties for an oil/gas pipeline to be build from the Caspian Sea region through Afghanistan to a port in Pakistan.
End of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan and Re-Emergence
The 2001 defeat of the Taliban liberated Afghan women and girls from the regime's draconian decrees. The world witnessed reports of women in Mazar-e-Sharif, Kabul , and other cities going into the streets without male relatives and discarding their burqas–actions that would have garnered brutal punishments under the Taliban. Some 38% of the women have returned to work, 35% of the school children are girls, universities are again open to women. See current conditions for women and girls in section "About Afghanistan."
After its defeat in 2001, a large number of Taliban regrouped in Peshawar and the northwest frontier areas of Pakistan. However, many Afghan women and girls still live without basic necessities, nearly 1,000 girls' schools have been attacked since 2002. With inadequate security forces and U.S. attention shifted to Iraq, by 2008, the Taliban insurgents had regained control over much of the Southern region of Afghanistan, especially Kandahar and Helmand provinces, the largest area of poppy cultivation in the world. Moreover, the Taliban took over Swat Valley in Pakistan in late 2008. In 2009, the Pakistan armed forces mounted a counter offensive and have regained control of the Swat Valley. The Pakistan military has expanded its offensive against the Taliban along the Afghan border and in Pakistan's tribal areas, such as Waziristan. In 2009, the Obama Administration, however, announced a shift in focus, an increase of both military forces and civilian development funding. The U.S. also announced in 2009 that its top priorities in Afghanistan were security and development for Afghans.
- Testimony of Physicians for Human Rights before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, March 9, 1999.
- "This Could Be You," Jan Goodwin, Marie Claire magazine, March 1998.
- The Taliban's War on Women, Physicians for Human Rights survey report, August, 1998.
- "Muslim Brotherhood Leader Lashes Out at Taliban Militia," AP ( Cairo ), October 8, 1999.
- Testimony of Karl F. Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, March 9, 1999
- Feminist Majority Foundation Newswire
- Reuters, November 12, 2001; NY Times November 13, 2001
- AsiaTribune.com, July 7, 2009
- BBC News, July 8, 2009


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Broadly speaking, cybervetting can be described as the acquisition and use of online information to evaluate the suitability of an individual or organization for a particular role. When cybervetting, an information seeker gathers information about an information target from online sources in order to evaluate past behavior, to predict future behavior, or to address some combination thereof. Information targets may be individuals, groups, or organizations. Although often considered in terms of new hires or personnel selection, cybervetting may also include acquiring and using online information in order to evaluate a prospective or current client, employee, employer, romantic partner, roommate, tenant, client, or other relational partner, as well as criminal, civil, or intelligence suspects. Cybervetting takes advantage of information made increasingly available and easily accessible by regular and popular uses and affordances of Internet technologies, in particular social media. Communication scholars have long been interested in the information seeking, impression management, surveillance, and other processes implicated in cybervetting; however, the uses and affordances of new online information technologies offer new dimensions for theory and research as well as ethical and practical concerns for individuals, groups, organizations, and society.
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- We noted before that John Cena appeared after WWE NXT Arrival went off the air to put over new champion Adrian Neville. Cena, selling the injury from RAW, stopped production from closing the show with his theme song and said Neville deserved to close the show, so they played Neville's theme as everyone left.
- As noted, WWE is working on a new Batista DVD. WrestlingDVDNews.com reports that promotional material they received for the DVD stated, Batista's "life story is very compelling and continues in this program."
- WWE Network will be adding a lot more content once the one-week free trial is over on Monday. The idea is that they wanted the free trial users to sample enough to get them to pay but not give them everything at once.
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Don't go inside Walter White's superlab until you've familiarized yourself with all the rules and procedures for cooking meth. Fortunately, Kevin Tong's poster outlines the details, including the equipment and dos and don'ts of the lab.
Tong's limited edition poster was briefly up for sale over at BreakingGifs.com, but it sold out speedily. Fortunately, we get a look at the poster anyway, outlining White's instructions for safe and equitable meth making. Even though this lab met with a less than happy end, this is a fun little tribute to the fancy meth kitchen that was.
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Puerto Rico's governor is conceding defeat in a close election in the U.S. island territory.
Gov. Luis Fortuno said a few thousand outstanding ballots would not be enough to close the gap with his main challenger, Alejandro Garcia Padilla. The margin was less than 1 percent.
Fortuno congratulated Garcia and thanked his supporters at a news conference Wednesday.
Fortuno is from Puerto Rico's pro-statehood party while his rival supports maintaining the island's semi-autonomous status. Fortuno, also a Republican, had been a supporter of Mitt Romney and campaigned for him in Florida.
A slim majority of Puerto Ricans sought to change their ties with the United States and become the 51st U.S. state in a non-binding referendum that would require final approval from Congress.
The two-part referendum asked whether the island wanted to change its 114-year relationship with the United States. Nearly 54 percent, or 922,374 people, sought to change it, while 46 percent, or 786,749 people, favored the status quo. Ninety-six percent of 1,643 precincts were reporting as of early Wednesday.
The second question asked voters to choose from three options, with statehood by far the favorite, garnering 61 percent. Sovereign free association, which would have allowed for more autonomy, received 33 percent, while independence got 5 percent.
President Barack Obama earlier expressed support for the referendum and pledged to respect the will of the people in the event of a clear majority.
It is unclear whether U.S. Congress will debate the referendum results or if Obama will consider the results to be a clear enough majority.
Puerto Rico's resident commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, who has championed statehood, did not return calls for comment. He received 48 percent or 874,914 votes, while his opponent, Rafael Cox Alomar, received 47 percent or 855,732 votes with 96 percent of precincts reporting.
The island is currently a U.S. territory whose inhabitants are U.S. citizens but are prohibited from voting in presidential elections. Its resident commissioner in the U.S. House also has limited voting powers.
The future of the island's political status, however, also is dependent on who governs the island.
According to partial election results, pro-statehood Gov. Luis Fortuno was ousted by a razor thin margin by an opponent who supports the island's current political status.
With 96 percent of precincts reporting, challenger Alejandro Garcia Padilla with the Popular Democratic Party received 48 percent or 870,005 votes. Fortuno, a Republican and leader of the New Progressive Party, received 47 percent or 855,325 votes.
Fortuno has not issued comment, while Garcia celebrated what he called a victory.
"I can assure you we have rescued Puerto Rico," Garcia said. "This is a lesson to those who think that the well-being of Puerto Ricans should be subjected to ideologies."
Election results also pointed to a major upset for Jorge Santini, who has been mayor of the capital of San Juan for 12 years. His opponent, Carmen Yulin Cruz, received 71,736 votes compared with Santini's 66,945 votes with 96 percent of precincts reporting.
The island's elections commission said it would resume counting votes late Wednesday morning.


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Shutter Island may be packed with too many flashbacks and plot twists, but critics say that director Martin Scorsese succeeds in crafting a ghastly, psychologically disturbing world and elevating the pulpy, B-movie thriller of the '50s to high art.
The film, which opens today, is Scorsese's first feature since he (finally) won an Oscar for The Departed. Based on the book by Dennis Lehane, the film is set in 1954, when U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio, who kept the fake Boston accent) and his new partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), are sent to an asylum on an island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the disappearance of one of the patients. Officially, they're on Shutter Island to find Rachel Soldano (Emily Mortimer), who was committed for drowning her three children, and has escaped from a locked, windowless cell. Secretly, Teddy also wants to look into reports that human experiments are being carried out on the island.
Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), the psychiatrist who runs the asylum, won't let the marshals look at hospital files, so they're forced to conduct interviews with the patients, one of whom is the man Teddy believes is responsible for setting the fire Teddy's wife (Michelle Williams) died in. During the investigation, Teddy is plagued by migraines and memories of his wife and his service in World War II, in which he helped liberate Dachau. When a hurricane hits, the asylum's walls crumble and Teddy is trapped on the island with the inmates.
Critics agree that Scorsese creates a suspenseful, disturbing atmosphere filled with secret rooms, ghostly visions, and mental patients run amok, but some say that unlocking the secrets of the island is complicated enough without numerous flashbacks to Teddy's wife and the Nazi death camp. Reviewers complain that the second half of the film is rushed and "bogged down in large chunks of narrative explanation, and though all of the film's A-list actors turn in good performances, some question why Scorsese keeps casting DiCaprio as an "anguished but streetwise tough guy" when he "still seems like a pudding-faced little boy, alternately sullen and giddy, a little too eager to be loved."
Below, the reviews:
You may read reviews of Shutter Island complaining that the ending blindsides you. The uncertainty it causes prevents the film from feeling perfect on first viewing. I have a feeling it might improve on second. Some may believe it doesn't make sense. Or that, if it does, then the movie leading up to it doesn't. I asked myself: OK, then, how should it end? What would be more satisfactory? Why can't I be one of those critics who informs the director what he should have done instead?
Oh, I've had moments like that. Every moviegoer does. But not with Shutter Island. This movie is all of a piece, even the parts that don't appear to fit. There is a human tendency to note carefully what goes before, and draw logical conclusions. But — what if you can't nail down exactly what went before? What if there were things about Cawley and his peculiar staff that were hidden? What if the movie lacks a reliable narrator? What if its point of view isn't omniscient but fragmented? Where can it all lead? What does it mean? We ask, and Teddy asks, too.
Expert, screw-turning narrative filmmaking put at the service of old-dark-madhouse claptrap, Shutter Island arguably occupies a similar place in Martin Scorsese's filmography as The Shining does in Stanley Kubrick's. In his first dramatic feature since The Departed, Scorsese applies his protean skill and unsurpassed knowledge of Hollywood genres to create a dark, intense thriller involving insanity, ghastly memories, mind-alteration and violence, all wrapped in a story about the search for a missing patient at an island asylum.
Scorsese has given himself a film student's puzzle: Try to make a '50s-era thrill ride with today's techniques and technology. One senses his childlike delight behind every camera move and jump cut. As his audience squirms, he's in movie heaven... Scorsese is in full control of all three rings of this cinematic circus. Every lesson he learned, from Alfred Hitchcock to Don Siegel, is on display. Nearly every camera move is fraught with excitement. The music, costumes, props and the many rooms and halls of this fortress-prison are designed for maximum emotional impact. After finally getting that long-sought Oscar for The Departed, perhaps Scorsese figures it's time to have a bit of fun. He isn't asking to be taken seriously here. This isn't Taxi Driver or GoodFellas or even Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. It comes closest in his oeuvre to Cape Fear, but with a more commercial instinct... It's a pleasure to experience Scorsese as a circus master. One just hopes he doesn't continue in this vein.
Production design maestro Dante Ferretti's island is a rugged symbolist mythscape, pocketed with hidden places: soothsayers' sea caves, Ward C, a squat Civil War–era fort where the most violent offenders are kept in a Goya madhouse, and, beyond it, the ultimate locked door-to the lighthouse! Scorsese's return to his Roger Corman AIP roots is an object lesson in the proximity of high and low culture-Shutter Island is lousy with modernist references, soundtracked by avant-garde 20th-century composers, pretentious in the best Pulp-y tradition. 138 minutes is dangerously epic for a talky thriller, but you forget the time and even whether the plot makes sense-and if you don't notice, it doesn't matter. Since more attention has gone into filigreeing details into each scene than worrying about the way they'll fit together, the rattletrap engages you moment-to-moment, even as the overall pacing stops and lurches alarmingly.
While it's clear Scorsese is having great fun tightening the screws at every turn, some of the psychological tension that should have the crackle and shock of electricity in a thriller like this is lost in the crowd. There is always a sense that Teddy's running out of time, and for a while we don't know exactly why. Once we do, Scorsese sets about tidying things up a bit too fast, like a college professor who knows he's got to let the class out, so let's just get through this, shall we. Whether it's a rushed dénouement or a tendency to overindulge in delusions, the flaws are never enough to do permanent damage to the film. Ultimately, Scorsese has given us a new noir classic, though watching Di- Caprio's Teddy twist in the wind while his mind unravels would be satisfying enough.
In Shutter Island, Mr. Scorsese's 21st narrative feature and his most enigmatic, the director has made multiple movies from Dennis Lehane's best-selling novel of the same title: The one you see the first time, and the one(s) you see the second. Such claims can be made about other films, of course-Hitchcock's Vertigo, for instance, which the Mr. Scorsese refers to here more than once. But for all the immediacy and seemingly disposable pulp in its fiction, Shutter Island requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates. It's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt. But in the end, Shutter Island is the cinematic equivalent of a Joseph Cornell box, a world of appropriated ingredients given new meaning through their combination and juxtaposition. It won't be a beloved movie. It will inspire doctoral dissertations. And while this news may not bring unbridled joy to the folks at Paramount Pictures, let them be consoled by the thought that it possesses a kind of obsessive perfection.
Is there more to Shutter Island, though, than its steady visual/tonal craftsmanship and increasingly helter-skelter plot twists? What we want from this movie, I think, is a tricky and sophisticated mental-ward thriller that seduces us into a pleasurable vertigo of uncertainty. What we get is a tale dotted with vague portents of violence, ''heavy'' themes (the ethics of psychotropic drugs, the spectre of nuclear war), and surreal images of Teddy's memories of his wife (Michelle Williams), who died in a fire set by a negligent superintendent. The super may now even be a patient. As if the movie didn't have enough backstory, Teddy is also a WWII veteran haunted by flashbacks to the liberation of the Dachau death camp. On paper, Shutter Island is a nicely convoluted puzzle - The Shining with an extra helping of insanity. But Scorsese serves Lehane's puzzle more than he makes it his own. His style is like visual frosting laid on top of a maze, as the film invites us to spend a plodding two hours and 18 minutes figuring out the method to its madness. Shutter Island holds you, but it doesn't grip you. It's as if Scorsese had put his filmmaking fever on psychotropic drugs.
When focused on the insane asylum, the gloomy story - a Hitchcockian take on Dennis Lehane's novel - is unnerving and unrelenting. But it loses steam when it meanders into flashbacks, and a pat conclusion doesn't help. The denouement gets bogged down in large chunks of narrative explanation, presented in a strange blend of the overwrought and the obvious, undercutting the powerfully frightening scenes that went before. Also, a too-long and too-grisly climactic scene plunges what had been an enjoyable psychological thriller/horror hybrid into something far more dark and disturbing. As invested as we are in the agonized character superbly etched by DiCaprio, the twist feels both expected and convoluted. Still, despite its flaws, Shutter Island is worth seeing for the palpably nightmarish and gothic world conceived by Scorsese.
Scorsese struggles to bring Teddy's psychological combustibility and the movie's historical terror to coherent or resonant life. Some of the problem is that despite the luridness and gore, the film maintains a pristine, suffocating atmosphere. Even in a work of fraught romantic oppression like 1993's The Age of Innocence or with a strange, depressive allegory like 1999's underrated Bringing Out the Dead, Scorsese's filmmaking managed to descend into a visceral sort of madness. Serenity doesn't suit him. He seems medicated. Some of the trouble continues with his star. DiCaprio is hobbled by another shaky Boston accent, and his endless adolescence keeps him from being a credible 1950s cop and family man. He works as hard here as he always does, but this time it's like Holden Caulfield acting out his mental hospital years. Teddy turns out to be a sort of marionette. But there's nothing fun about DiCaprio allowing other people to pull his strings.
And the movie's central dramatic problem - the unstable boundary between the reality of Shutter Island and Teddy's perception of it - becomes less interesting as the story lurches along. You begin to suspect almost immediately that a lot of narrative misdirection is at work here, as MacGuffins and red herrings spawn and swarm. But just when the puzzle should accelerate, the picture slows down, pushing poor Teddy into a series of encounters with excellent actors (Emily Mortimer, Jackie Earle Haley, Patricia Clarkson) who provide painstaking exposition of matters that the audience already suspects are completely irrelevant. Mr. Scorsese in effect forces you to study the threads on the rug he is preparing, with lugubrious deliberateness, to pull out from under you. As the final revelations approach, the stakes diminish precipitously, and the sense that the whole movie has been a strained and pointless contrivance starts to take hold.
The instability this first act establishes is entirely deliberate (which is not to say it's entirely successful): Teddy Daniels can't make out what sort of island he's on and what the asylum's officials have in mind for him; the audience can't make out what sort of movie we're at and what Martin Scorsese has in mind for us. An important difference, though, is that Teddy is driven at the cost of his sanity to ferret out the island's dark secrets, whereas we have a hard time working up the energy to care. Shutter Island is an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it's never emotionally involving. The movie is inert, despite the fact that it bombards us with lurid imagery and high-intensity stimuli: frozen Dachau victims, dying Nazis, beautiful child murderesses, abandoned graveyards besieged by hurricanes. Set piece after set piece makes you go, "Holy mackerel," but the entirety of the movie makes you go, "When's dinner?"
Leonardo DiCaprio is not without talent, but how did he come to be Martin Scorsese's muse? The type of role Scorsese loves to craft for him is just the sort he's most unsuited to: the anguished but streetwise tough guy with his collar turned up to the wind. Beneath the Robert Mitchum mannerisms and carefully cultivated Boston accent (dusted off from his role in 2006's The Departed), DiCaprio still seems like a pudding-faced little boy, alternately sullen and giddy, a little too eager to be loved (his best performances, to my mind, are still in What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Catch Me If You Can). The photo at the top of this review captures the classic expression of Leo trying too hard: All his features migrate to the middle of his face and just sort of crouch there. In the movie's press notes, Patricia Clarkson (who appears briefly as an oracular figure in a cliffside cave) praises DiCaprio's energy as an actor: "I loved working with him because he gives 2000% on every take." If Marty insists on casting Leo as his leading man next time, he should take him aside and advise him that that's 20 times too much.
Maybe it's admirable, on a personal level, for Scorsese to pursue something he's not that good at. But that's a little like saying that I should try writing romance novels. Hey, it's just words on the screen, right? I do that already! He seems to have painted himself into a late-career pattern of making leaden, inflated genre pictures, all of them featuring DiCaprio in his unkempt, boiled-owl mode and all of them loaded with internal contradictions and at war with themselves. Shutter Island would be a difficult and delicate movie to manage under the best of circumstances. Scorsese and screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis need to keep the audience engaged by the movie's official mystery — Teddy's investigation of the hospital and its secrets — while slowly revealing other, deeper mysteries that lie within the characters and story. But from the instant Teddy arrives on the island, plagued with nausea and jitters, and announces (as in the much-ridiculed trailer) that he and Chuck are "dooly appointed fedrul mahh-shals," far too much of "Shutter Island" plays like lugubrious comedy.
When it comes to encasing a soft, pulpy plot in the hard candy of power-drama filmmaking, few fare better than Martin Scorsese. Even when said plot is stuffed with corn, rolled in cliche and harboring a twist visible from deep space, the director's grasp of camera movement and atmosphere still enthralls. That's why Shutter Island is at once a fine movie and a terrible one, entertaining and embarrassing in almost equal measure. It's a pretentious piece of rubbish shaped by craftsmen into a semblance of high art.


text: Student Scholarship Winners Page ContentThe Retiree Association Endowed Scholarship was Established in 1985This program is to assist Dallas College full-time students who are pursuing the first two years of a bachelor's degree. Each winner is awarded $500 for tuition and books for the spring semester only. Click on the photos to read each student's award-winning essay: Jennifer Pereyda2008-2009 Awardee Courtney Cox2009-2010 Awardee Veronica De La Torres2010-2011 Awardee Sarah Perez2011-2012 Awardee Donna Bowman2012-2013 Awardee Eboni Clayton2014-2015 Awardee Sonya Neal2015-2016 Awardee Abigael Oshadi2017-2018 Awardee Yazmin Munoz2018-2019 Awardee


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Smartblend is an application for seamless image blending.
Main goal of smartblend is panoramic image blending, but can be used for other applications, for example seamless texture creation, montage of photos, collage. Smartblend allows stitching of many problem shots (paralaxed, with moving objects, with exposure difference).
For example see the parallax picture below (from [1] described as "impossible to stitch" )
Just put one picture into another, and note the great difference.
Picture below is blended by smartblend.
Another smartblend example: http://www.liamphoto.com/subwebs/flam-chen/flamchen.htm
If you don't know what is a "command line application" it can not be usefull for you. But you still can use a frontend for smartblend
- Panowizard http://www.egelberg.se/panowizard/versions.htm
- EnblendGUI http://digitalretrograde.com/Projects/EnblendGUI/
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Download SmartBlend smartblend_1_2_2.zip (16 bit + big files support)
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How it works
It finds the visual error on overlap region and search seam line with minimal visual error. Than it blend pictures with algorithm similar to multiresolution spline.
To study algorithms and options use "–SeamVerbose" and "-PyramidVerbose" commands.
Good tutorial http://www.zubetzblitz.xaker.ru/Intro3.htm (but only russian, anyone want to translate? )
Welcome to anyone who wants to improve this smartblend, write a tutorial and other.
My mail is: minorlogic at yahoo dot com
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Back in July, NRPA's Director of Strategic Health Initiatives, Zarnaaz Bashir wrote this blog post about the importance of walking in America and the U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action on walking. As part of the Call to Action, the Every Body Walk! Collaborative was formulated.
The collaborative, of which NRPA is an active member, recently convened at the first ever national Walking Summit in Washington, DC. The summit gathered hundreds of people from many different disciplines and industries to exchange ideas, share solutions and set priorities for the nation about walking.
The great news is community parks and recreation continues to be recognized and viewed as a key component for improving health and getting people active through walking.
In fact, KCET-TV, the nation's largest independent public television station and their unique six-part series called City Walk developed a video that "takes you center stage and behind the scenes of the Walking Summit meeting the leaders, planners and developers dedicated to bringing the country literally back on its feet." In the video, a voice for parks and recreation can be heard!
NRPA's Zarnaaz Bashir talks about how parks are part of the health solution
Another outcome from the summit is a brief report brochure that provides a summary of the meeting, survey findings about Americans and their viewpoints on walking as well as resources for community leaders and citizens alike to help boost and support walking. One interesting finding (pointed out in the video too) is that 72 percent of Americans say walking is cool! That is a pretty cool finding.
Review the brochure and see what you can glean from it as you work to lead your communities to healthier lifestyles. Think about ways you can get more involved in promoting walkable communities and championing walking programs that get people moving.
There is more to come on walking from the Collaborative and the U.S. Surgeon General and NRPA will be keeping you informed about this effort and how you and your agency can be involved.
What are some ways community parks and recreation can support and encourage more walking locally? How are you promoting walking among your community? Tell us in the comments below or tweet us @NRPA_News.


text: Advertisement Advertisement Arts and Culture Culture Countdown to No. 1: The Top 175 Maryland athletes in Baltimore Sun history – Nos. 40-26 May 02, 2012 at 11:27 AM To celebrate the 175th anniversary of The Baltimore Sun, reporter Mike Klingaman has compiled a list of the top 175 athletes who were either born or raised in the state of Maryland, or who competed here for at least three years. The athletes are ranked based on their performance, their impact on sports and their lasting resonance with fans. Coaches and managers are not included. Every Friday, we'll reveal 15 members of the Top 175. Here are Nos. 40 through 26. FAN'S CHOICE POLL: Who are the top athletes in Sun history? Advertisement Advertisement


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TAMPA, Fla. - Raw. Erratic. Rusty.
Those are the descriptions you'd expect for a pitcher who has thrown three innings of game action in two years. And that is what the Phillies got out of Miguel Gonzalez Saturday afternoon.
The Cuban right-hander, signed late last summer to a three-year, $12 million big-league contract, seemed a long way from being ready to earn that keep in the majors after he walked four in 1 2/3 erratic innings during the Phils' 4-0 loss to the Yankees at Steinbrenner Field.
'It was a great first time. I felt good,' Gonzalez said through an interpreter. 'I felt strong. For the first time, I wasn't as sharp as I wanted to be. There were a couple of pitches I left up. But pretty much, for the first time, I felt good.'
That seemed like some candy-coating by Gonzalez, who has struggled with consistency in his bullpens and live batting-practice sessions in camp, particularly while working from the stretch. After getting a pair of minor-leaguers to strike out at the bottom of the order to start his outing, Gonzalez saw a slow roller by Brett Gardner squeeze through the infield for a hit in the bottom of the third, and the struggles began.
He walked Derek Jeter, then Brian McCann to load the bases. He escaped the inning by getting Brian Roberts to tap back to the mound, but his control didn't get better from there. He walked the first two batters in the fourth, then gave up an RBI single to Ichiro Suzuki. Gonzalez threw in a wild pitch before getting the second out of the inning on his 50th and final pitch.
The scouting report: He was at 92-93 mph with his fastball in his first inning, but the velocity slipped when he returned to the mound. His breaking stuff has a lot of action – but again, that doesn't do much good when a pitcher is working from behind constantly.
Ryne Sandberg, who is keeping completely open expectations with his mystery pitcher, thought he saw more from Gonzalez Saturday than he had in camp.
'When his fastball was down, it looked like it was a quality pitch,' the manager said. 'He threw some good changeups in fastball counts, and he threw some good breaking pitches. Whether he got a little tired or started to labor, he got up with the fastball and was giving up walks. The pitches he threw for strikes looked like they had some quality to them.
'He looked like he had a little rust. It was a nice atmosphere for him, his first spring-training game. It was a pretty big stage. I think early on he was better than his second inning.'
The good news is that there is talent there. The bad news is that it might be unrealistic to believe Gonzalez could be the fifth starter for the Phillies in August, let alone April.
'I realized my fastball wasn't as sharp location-wise,' said Gonzalez, whom the Phillies initially claimed would be a No. 3 or 4 starter to open 2014 – a wildly erroneous judgment. 'I went to the secondary stuff and it was working for me.
'I'm not happy at all. I'm not satisfied at all. I believe I have some more in the tank. It should be coming around.'
It was 10 years ago that a young, promising Phillies prospect named Cole Hamels made a splash when he made his Grapefruit League debut against the Yankees in Tampa. Hamels said his advice to Gonzalez entering his start would be to avoid trying to make it to The Show in one start.
'I think a good outing would be helpful,' Hamels said Saturday morning, 'but also because this is so new to (Gonzalez), I think being healthy the whole time (is key). I don't think he's used to this rigorous schedule so far.
'I would say a good, healthy outing – executing pitches, making some pitches at times – but really just maintaining his body awareness not to overdo it.'
Gonzalez admitted that a Major League Baseball spring training brings a markedly different level of preparation with it. Sandberg hinted that part of Gonzalez's struggles from the stretch might have to do with an attempt to improve his ability to hold runners at first base.
'It's a whole different program,' Gonzalez said. 'But I actually like it. I have adapted to it. I like it a lot. I like it better than what I was used to.'


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Gerrity Next For Foiled Again
Published: August 12, 2014 11:14 am ET
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For Foiled Again, it's summertime and nothing is easy. But trainer Ron Burke is confident the 10-year-old pacer will return to prominence again.
The three-time defending Dan Patch Award winner for best older male pacer, Foiled Again has won four of 14 starts this year and earned $303,540, but last visited the winner's circle in mid-April. He will try to snap a 10-race skid when he heads to Saratoga Casino & Raceway for Saturday's $260,000 Joe Gerrity Jr. Memorial. The entry box for the Gerrity closes at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
For his career, Foiled Again has won 80 of 212 races and earned $6.33 million, which is the most money for any harness racing horse in North American history. He has gotten better with age, with the money he has banked since turning age seven -- $4.3 million -- being good enough on its own to make him the richest pacer.
"I feel bad for him," Burke said. "He's super right now. He's drawn the wrong spots, but he'll get himself going. He'll come back."
Since joining the Burke stable in 2008, Foiled Again's overall win percentage in June, July and August is 19.2 percent, with 11 wins in 57 starts. That makes him 61-for-109 the rest of the year, which is a win rate of 55.9 percent. And he's hit the board an astounding 103 times in those 109 races.
During the months from September through the end of the year, Foiled Again has won 32 of 56 starts since 2007 and finished on the board 54 times.
Foiled Again will enter the Gerrity off a sixth-place finish in the U.S. Pacing Championship, where he was beaten by stablemate Sweet Lou by 5-1/2 lengths despite a :25.4 final quarter-mile. In his previous two starts, he was third from post seven in the Battle of Lake Erie at half-mile Northfield Park and eighth in the William R. Haughton Memorial from post 10 at the Meadowlands.
At the end of June, he paced the fastest mile of his life, timed in 1:47.1, but finished third to Sweet Lou in a world-record 1:47 mile in the Ben Franklin Pace at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.
"You watch the replay (of the U.S. Pacing Championship) and at the wire he's absolutely airborne," Burke said. "He came home as fast as anybody.
"Now a couple of the smaller tracks are coming up and he's always been good at Mohawk. We go to Saratoga with him, then Mohawk, and then we go to Harrington (Raceway) or maybe Scioto (Downs). He's sharp. He'll be good."
Mohawk hosts the Canadian Pacing Derby, which Foiled Again won in 2012, on Aug. 30. Eliminations, if necessary, will be Aug. 23. Harrington is home to the Bobby Quillen Memorial, which Foiled Again has won twice and been runner-up three times, on Sept. 15. Eliminations will be a week earlier, if needed. Scioto Downs has the Jim Ewart Memorial Invitational on Sept. 27.
Foiled Again ranks No. 6 in earnings among older male pacers this year. The leader is his stablemate, Sweet Lou, with $916,500. The five-year-old Sweet Lou has a nine-race victory streak after winning last Friday's Dan Patch Invitational at Hoosier Park in a track-record 1:47.2.
For his career, Sweet Lou has won 31 of 67 races and $3 million. He was the 2011 Dan Patch Award winner for best two-year-old male pacer and earned $1 million at age three, but picked up only four wins in 2013.
"I thought last year the torch would pass from Foiled to Lou, but I give credit to Foiled, he stepped his game up and Lou didn't quite come through," Burke said. "I'm not surprised this year. I don't know if Foiled has ever run into a horse in the last couple years that's as sharp as Lou is right now. It's just a matter of whether Lou can maintain this until the end of the year.
"But nothing Foiled does down the road will shock me. He's just such a good horse."
This story courtesy of Harness Racing Communications, a division of the U.S. Trotting Association. For more information, visit www.ustrotting.com.


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As the world's largest economy and second largest emitter, policy leadership from the United States will be critical in the transition to a Clean Revolution. The Climate Group's Head of US Policy, Evan Juska analyzes the latest US climate policy developments and trends.
By Evan Juska, Head of US Policy, The Climate Group.
With Congress still divided on the issue of climate change, many expect President Obama to use his regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act to further reduce US greenhouse gas emissions.
Indeed, most of the progress made in his first term was achieved through this approach - including the adoption of new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, and the introduction of carbon emission standards for new power plants.
In his second term, the President can have the greatest regulatory impact by introducing carbon emission standards for existing power plants, which account for about 40% of US emissions. A new proposal by NRDC estimates that pursuing these regulations in an economically responsible way could reduce power sector emissions by 34% by 2025.
But the question remains whether Congress would support such new regulations, especially if they were taken forward in a unilateral fashion. They would be subject to the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to stop a new agency rule from taking effect within 60 days of its introduction, with only a simple majority vote (i.e. 218 votes in the House and 51 votes in the Senate).
The Republican-controlled House would almost surely vote to reject such a rule, as it did in 2011 by a vote of 255-172.
How the Democrat-controlled Senate would respond is less clear. But an initial look at the voting records and public statements of the new Senate suggests that a vote would be close.
Forty-two existing Senators have already voted to take away the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, either through Senator Lisa Murkowski's Senate Joint Resolution in 2010 or Senator Mitch McConnell's similar Amendment in 2011.
In addition, four new Senators also voted to strip EPA's authority during their tenure in the House (Dean Heller (R-NV); Jeff Flake (R-AZ); Joe Donnelly (D-IN); and Tim Scott (R-SC)). And two other new Senators are on the record opposing it (Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Ted Cruz (R-TX)) – suggesting that 48 of the 51 votes needed to reject new carbon regulations could be secured.
Four wildcards could swing the vote either way. Senators John Rockefeller (D-WV) and Susan Collins (R-ME) both changed their votes from 2010 to 2011, in favor of allowing the EPA to retain its authority. But it is possible that they could support EPA's authority to regulate carbon in principle, without supporting specific new rules for existing power plants. Senator Rockefeller was concerned enough about the issue in 2011 to introduce his own bill preventing new carbon regulations for power plants from going forward for two years. "Congress, not the EPA, must be the ideal decision-maker on such a challenging issue," he said at the time.
In addition, new Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) have so far been ambiguous about their position, standing precariously between their party's ambition on climate on the one side, and their state's reliance on coal on the other.
Senator Heitkamp has already demonstrated her willingness to go against her party on environmental issues with her strong support for the Keystone XL pipeline. While Senator Kaine's energy plan calls for the "use of all Virginia energy sources [including] coal", at the same time opposing "ongoing efforts to weaken environmental regulations that are needed to protect public health".
Many have pointed out that President Obama would veto any attempt by Congress to prevent new carbon regulations from going forward. And despite the President's reluctance to use his veto in his first term, this is probably true.
However, that doesn't mean that a rejection by Congress would be purely symbolic. Any new regulations that use flexibility mechanisms to keep costs down, as they do in the NRDC proposal, would be subject to litigation and ultimately, approval by the courts. And the intensity of the litigation process will no doubt be heightened if Congress rejects the regulations.
In addition, in the case of a veto, Congress is likely to redouble its effort to stop or slow the new rules through other means, such as the appropriations process. Finally, such a scenario pitting the President against Congress on a key environmental rule would lead to further polarization on the issue of climate change in general, making progress on other climate policies that much more difficult to achieve.
So while Congress may not be able to stop new carbon regulations outright, its opinion on the issue matters. And at the moment, it looks like that opinion could go either way.
Read more by Evan Juska in The Climate Group's Blogs.


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MarketWatch Week Ahead: Fed, China in Focus
Next week's will bring the Fed's monetary policy meeting and Ben Bernanke's press conference. Plus, look for a report on whether China's economy has recovered. Polya Lesova reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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Hopes for a diplomatic compromise between Russia and the West over any kind of an orderly transition from the regime of Bashar al-Assad petered out Tuesday – amid fulsome support for peace and civic accord in Syria from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Meeting in the Kremlin with UN envoy Kofi Annan, even as fighting raged in the streets of Damascus, President Putin insisted that the Kremlin will "do everything" to back the faltering six-point peace plan, which envisages a cease-fire, UN observers on the ground, and talks between rebels and regime over a transitional government.
"From the very start, from the first steps, we supported and continue to support your efforts aimed at restoring civil peace," Putin told Mr. Annan, according to Russian news agencies. "We will do everything that depends on us to support your efforts," he added.
But the Kremlin leader offered no indication that Russia will support a UN Security Council resolution to be put forward Wednesday. The proposed resolution, backed by the US, Britain, and France, would extend the UN observer mission by 45 days – the mandate is otherwise set to expire on Friday – but would put future implementation of the Annan plan under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which might open the door to the legal use of outside force.
Russia wants the UN observer team's mandate renewed without any penalties against Assad for use of heavy armor and helicopter gunships in crowded urban areas.
On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West of employing "blackmail," by threatening to block any renewal of the UN observers' mandate unless Russia backed a Chapter 7 resolution on Wednesday.
Pressure on Assad
Experts say that if such a resolution comes to the floor tomorrow, Russia will almost certainly veto it. Russia has vetoed two previous Security Council resolutions because they envisaged outside pressure on Assad to step aside.
"What do you expect? For Russia, Syria means access to the Middle East. There are 80,000 Russian-speakers living there, and the Russian Orthodox Church insists that Russia must act to protect the Christian minority in that country," says Vladimir Yevseyev, an expert with the official Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow.
Last year then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered Russia's UN envoys to abstain on Resolution 1973, which authorized the use of force to protect civilians in Libya but developed into a rebel drive for regime change backed by NATO airpower. Russia has vowed not to allow any similar resolution about Syria to pass the Security Council.
"Medvedev isn't president anymore, there's another person at the top in Russia now, and that's Putin," says Mr. Yevseyev. "It's senseless to try to pressure Putin; in fact it might lead to the opposite result."
Coming to a compromise?
Foreign Minister Lavrov said Tuesday that Russia might reach a compromise with the West similar to the one that was forged at a meeting of leading powers in Geneva last month. But that deal only saw the light of day after all language calling for Assad's removal or any sort of outside intervention in the conflict was removed from the draft resolution on Russia's demand.
In an otherwise anodyne statement about his "very good" meeting with Putin Tuesday, Mr. Annan hinted at the same outcome. "I would hope that the [Security] Council will continue its discussions and hopefully find language that will pull everybody together for us to move forward on this critical issue," he said.
"In effect, this tells us that all avenues for diplomacy have already been pretty much exhausted," says Sergei Strokan, a foreign policy columnist with the Moscow business daily Kommersant.
"It's all about 'red lines' now. For the West, it's any role for Assad in any future Syrian government. For Russia, the red line is any kind of outside intervention, especially based on a Chapter 7 resolution.... Everybody's talking about peace and political solutions, but in fact diplomacy is totally deadlocked," he says.
"Why should Russia be so stubborn, right up to the bitter end? You have to understand that for Moscow this isn't just about Syria. It's about the mechanism for solving such situations. Putin wants to prevent any precedent that might authorize the use of outside force to engineer change in a crumbling authoritarian regime, wherever it may be," Mr. Strokan adds.
"Maybe next time it might be Belarus or, who knows, one day even Russia?"


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Film Journal
Maitland McDonagh
October 23, 2012
An incredibly ambitious undertaking that tells six distinct stories that unfold in different eras and places while sharing a common theme, the 172-minute Cloud Atlas stands at least some chance of being a blockbuster, if only by virtue of offering something for everyone.
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In the earliest story, American lawyer Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess) is returning home from the Eastern coast of New Zealand with a chest full of gold and a lucrative contract to work with slave traders. But he forms an unlikely bond with tattooed stowaway Autua (David Gyasi) that profoundly changes the way he judges other men.
In 1930s Scotland, young musician Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw) worms his way into the household of acclaimed composer Vyvyan Ayrs (Jim Broadbent) in hopes of jumpstarting his own career. But his letters to lover Rufus Sixsmith (James D'Arcy) suggest that he's rashly placed himself in danger.
San Francisco reporter Luisa Rey (Halle Berry) is investigating a tip in 1973 that the Swannekke nuclear power plant may not be as safe its management claims. She finds allies in elderly scientist Sixsmith and plant employee Isaac Sachs (Hanks), the latter torn between his career and his conscience.
After thuggish novelist Dermot Hoggins (Hanks) murders a critic at a swanky London party, his 2012 novel Knuckle Sandwich rockets up the bestseller list. But publisher Timothy Cavendish (Broadbent) only briefly enjoys his unexpected success before his estranged brother (Hugh Grant) has him locked up in a sinister old-age home.
Revolutionary leader Hae-Joo Chang (Sturgess) rescues "fabricant" Sonmi (Donna Bae)—a clone bred to wait tables and be groped by customers of 22nd-century Neo Seoul's Papa Song restaurant chain—from her life of predetermined servitude. But what part could a waitress who was literally made to be docile and obedient play in a political uprising?
And in post-apocalyptic Hawaii, cautious goatherd Zachry is obliged to play reluctant host to Meronym (Berry), a "prescient" from a more advanced segment of the society that rose from the ashes of the old world. Even more reluctantly, he strikes a deal to guide her to the top of a nearby mountain his people regard as cursed.
A "cloud atlas" is a book dedicated to the classification of cloud types and forms (the first was published in 1802), and the film's title suggests that each character is engaged in a journey that's both poetic and scientific, attempting to quantify the elusive and mysterious. The conceit of history-changing moments is handled more subtly than it sounds: No story ends with a decisive, earthshaking victory against blind conformity, comfortable ignorance or tyranny that will literally change the world. But each is a tile in a vast mosaic of events whose cumulative effect will. And though its big ideas can be reduced to well-worn phrases like "No man is an island," "All you need is love," "United we stand, divided we fall" and "We're all connected," Cloud Atlas attempts to strip each one of the layers of familiarity that make them seem like greeting-card platitudes rather than genuinely provocative notions.
Having the same core group of actors play different roles in various stories helps tie them together, even if it sometimes so strains credulity that it pulls the viewer out of the story—Halle Berry as Ayrs' Jewish wife, for example, or Sturgess as an Asian freedom fighter, or the phenomenally versatile Hugo Weaving as the Nurse Ratched of Cavendish's rest-home prison.
But on the whole, Cloud Atlas is consistently entertaining and surprisingly effective, as well as the shortest three hours most moviegoers will ever spend in a theatre…and that's no small recommendation.


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Global Investment ViewPoint - How Much Real Estate? October 2017
What is the value of the investable real estate stock in key global cities? This question is relevant to investors pursuing a global diversification strategy focused on core real estate in global cities. This ViewPoint presents the first-ever globally consistent estimates of real estate market size at the city level—utilizing the OECD's Functional Urban Area measurement of city size. The report also examines the relationship between real estate market size and real estate investment flows.
Among cities with a minimum threshold of $10 billion real estate investment inflow by year, London, New York and Dallas attract a significantly higher level of investment relative to their market size, according to CBRE Research. These are super-liquid markets. By contrast, Tokyo, which stands out as the world's single largest real estate market, attracts less investment than its market size would suggest, indicating unlocked investment potential.


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Race Could Dominate Contest in West Virginia
-- In the Mountain State where coal mining once ruled -- race could play a bigger factor in the presidential election than in any other state. West Virginia has been ranked by the US Census Bureau as one of the five least racially diverse states in the country and it's clear that race played a factor in the May Democratic primary.
In the contest, Hillary Clinton solidly defeated Barack Obama by one of her widest margins of victory in the primary season winning 67 percent of the vote to Obama's 26 percent.
According to exit polls, two in ten whites said the race of the candidate was a factor in their vote. This could spell trouble for Obama -- as only 31 percent of those voters said they'd support Obama over John McCain. McCain beat out Huckabee and Romney in the primary but came in third in the state's February Caucus.
West Virginia has voted for a Democratic candidate for President 20 out of the last 36 times, but ABC News has the state leaning Republican this election. However the mountain state could very well be up for grabs and prove to be a key swing state in this contest.


text: Benzine 1,160 Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 Greetings all. I have a potter's wheel in my classroom, that I've been wanting to get rid of all year. It takes up space, and is getting on in age, so it doesn't work as well as the others. I tried to have it put in district storage, but there simply is no space there. So it has sat around the room, messing with the flow of the classroom, and possibly fouling up the feng shui. I am in the process of trying to sell it, and just put the money back in the department, but I need to let, the administration know what, if anything, it is worth. I have no illusions about making a lot of money off of it, but if I can make some, then it's money I didn't have before. The wheel is an Amaco kick wheel, similar to what is below, only not so shiny and new. The drain valve is pretty locked up, and the bearings seem to be fairly worn, but other than that it works well. As I'm no expert on a wheel's value, especially one that has quite a bit of age on it (I'm fairly certain they brought the wheel in, and built the room around it), so I thought I'd ask the Ceramic Arts Daily Forum Hive Mind....or is it Collective? Thanks all! Link to post Share on other sites