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Spacey helps make TV history with 'House of Cards'
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kevin Spacey loves being part of what he calls "a new paradigm": Internet television that's just as compelling and well produced as anything on a cable or broadcast channel.
Spacey was nominated for an Emmy Award Thursday for his leading role in "House of Cards," the Netflix original series that collected nine bids in all.
"I'm so happy for the series and so happy for Netflix ... because it's a big acknowledgement of the show and its quality," said Spacey, also an executive producer. "For us to have broken through in ... so many categories, nine nominations, for what is really, in many ways, a new paradigm, is so thrilling."
Internet TV is a new frontier with new rules. For example, Netflix didn't require "House of Cards" to begin with a pilot episode introducing the main characters and story lines, freeing the writers to create natural suspense in an evolving story.
"It changes the creative process of how you write a show," said Spacey, 53. "When they gave us an order of 26 episodes -- or chapters, as we like to call them -- that was a remarkable thing for us because it meant that we could just get on with telling the story."
The way the show is distributed -- all 13 episodes available at once -- also offers audiences more choices about how to consume it.
Such creative flexibility draws film writers, directors and actors, such as Spacey, to the TV landscape.
"For storytellers who want to tell stories that are driven by character and not by explosions and things that only, in a sense, appeal to the heartbeat or the pulse and not the mind, then it makes sense to me that the best writers and directors and actors and storytellers are going to go to the ground where it is fertile," he said. "It's very fertile now, obviously. The streaming business is fertile, and the television business in its usual sense."


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In the beginning, life insurance was perceived as just another gamble, or a game of chance, involving three parties. The owner of a policy paid premiums to an insurance company, which was obligated to pay the beneficiary a death benefit, if and when the insured died.
In contrast to fire or property insurance, life insurance — profiting from someone's death — was viewed with a jaundiced eye. In many European countries, life insurance — betting on lives, as it was often called — was illegal. And where it was legal, there wasn't much thought given to how much insurance people should own, and the entire sales process itself was ad hoc and arbitrary.
But then Solomon S. Huebner came along and transformed the marketing and sales into a scientific process. A professor at the venerable Wharton School of Business, he brought the tools of economics and human capital valuation into a field that lacked discipline and respect.
Professor Huebner's main idea, and the one for which he is recognized today, is that people should insure their human life value, which is the present value of all the wages, salary and income that a breadwinner will earn over the course of his working life. He argued every head of household had a moral responsibility to have life insurance to protect that capital.
While you are working, you must ensure your dependents and loved ones are properly taken care of, in case you are no longer able to work. Once you have retired, should you — can you actually afford to — leave them anything?
Imagine that your generous uncle has promised to give you $100,000 from his estate when he dies, but he is currently 65 years old and quite healthy. Or, assume the same uncle has a life insurance policy with a death benefit he no longer needs. He is thinking of selling the policy to a third party in exchange for some cash now.
How do you derive a present value for the sum of money that your beneficiaries will receive at some random time in the future? The equation above shows how.
Using the spreadsheet above to handle all the numbers, the equation computes the discounted value of a $100,000 death benefit, under a variety of interest rates and at various ages. For example, the value of a permanent $100,000 death benefit at the age of 65, under a 5% valuation rate, is $41,656.
If the rate is lower, say 3% for example, the actuarial value of the policy is $57,776. With higher rates, the present values are lower. Notice the impact of age as well. If Uncle Generous is 80 years old (under a 5% interest rate) the value is $65,780 because he is more likely to die sooner.
Although most students of the industry rightfully view Professor Huebner as a huge advocate of permanent and everlasting life insurance, he actually had quite a bit to say about retirement as well. His master plan was to have a policyholder convert some of his life insurance into a life annuity around the age of retirement.
His argument involved more than just mortality credits and insurance economics. In echoes of Jane Austen, he wrote:
"…Annuitants are long livers. Freedom from financial worry and fear, and contentment with a double income, are conducive to longevity. If it be true that half of human ailments are attributable at least in part to fear and worry, then the effectiveness of annuities for health and happiness must be apparent…"
I venture to guess that if Professor Huebner were alive today, he would be on the road with annuity wholesalers giving seminars to financial advisors and their clients, extolling the virtues of longevity insurance and life annuities.
Here is some additional evidence about Professor Huebner's impact in retirement income planning. Many economists and financial experts have puzzled over the minimal appetite of consumers for life annuities — an aversion called the annuity puzzle by researchers in the field. And it seems that the annuity puzzle was puzzled over by Solomon Huebner in the 1930s, before any formal model of the lifecycle was properly developed by economists.
"…The prospect, amounting almost to a terror, of living too long makes necessary the keeping of the entire principal intact to the very end, so that … the savings of a lifetime, which the owner does not dare to enjoy will pass as an inheritance to others….Why exist on $600, assuming 3% interest on $20,000, and then live in fear, when $1,600 may be obtained annually at age 65, through an annuity for all of life and minus all the fear…"
As far as I'm concerned, this is yet another reason to include Solomon Huebner amongst the seven intellectual giants on whose shoulders 21st century retirement income planning research stands and the legacy equation should be named in his honour.
Huebner vs. Fisher
One can't help but compare and contrast Solomon Huebner to Irving Fisher. Both were born around the same time, grew up in religious households, were academic economists and served as professors at Ivy League institutions. They traveled and lectured widely, were activists for public health and life conservation and enjoyed generous compensation for their speaking and consulting efforts. Moreover, it seems they were interested in the exact same economic issues.
But despite the superficial similarities, there were some important differences between them. Fisher was a professor at Yale, but he spent very little time involved in the pedagogical affairs of the university. He didn't have students who continued his legacy, or were closely devoted to him. He was an academic loner. His research work was highly mathematical and inaccessible to many economists of his era.
In contrast, Huebner fought hard to get the economic profession interested in the study of insurance. He was intricately involved in the management of the Department of Insurance at the Wharton School. He created the department and kept tight control on all aspects of the curriculum. He was first and foremost an educator and teacher.
As you know by now, Fisher lost his life savings in the stock market crash of 1929, but for Huebner the episode proved to be rather profitable. According to his biographer, Huebner held most of his money in ultra-safe life insurance policies, as one might expect. He was opposed to speculation, leverage and buying stock on margin, especially with money you couldn't afford to lose. He would disapprove of today's exotic options, derivatives and triple inverse ETFs.
And yet, soon after the 1929 stock market crash, while prices were depressed, he said to his wife Ethel Elizabeth: "For once I'm going to do what I've always described to my students. Things are sinister, dark and discouraging. Now is the time to buy stocks." He then invested thousands of dollars — which would be equivalent to hundreds of thousands today — across many different companies. He claimed that: "One share in 50 companies is better than 50 shares in one company, because it gives the spread of averages." He profited handsomely from this diversification philosophy back in 1930, which, coincidently is the year that Professor Harry Markowitz – the Nobel winning founder of modern portfolio theory in the 1960s – turned 3.
Not bad for an insurance man.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., from The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement, by Moshe A. Milevsky. Copyright © 2012 by Moshe A. Milevsky.

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The rise of tiny LED projectors, steel-strong composites that bend like rubber, and advanced propulsion systems have given designers the ability to make car interiors that appear as beautiful as we hoped cars of the future would look. And these are more than just concepts, they're all for sale now or coming soon.
While the Frankfurt Motor Show is the world's largest by size, it's typically where automakers show off their important mass-market wares and not fanciful concepts. Therefore, the vehicles they've shown almost all are going to production or have some production intent.
Gaze into the future where you won't mind being stuck in your car and, in fact, you may prefer it.
Porsche 918 Spyder
Key Feature: The cockpit is portioned, star-fighter style, between the driver and the passenger. In between the two of them is a new type of black panel tech that gives full control of the 918 Spyder's controls including the climate, wings, lighting, and infotainment.
How It Will Impact The Future: The Porsche 918 Spyder the fastest hybrid in the world. It looks like sex, goes like stink, and doesn't ruin the planet. It's a race car for the street. It's for sale now. It sets the bar for future performance cars.
Kia Niro Concept
Key Feature: Exterior-mounted cameras controlled by those winglets on the interior of the steering wheel, connected to the onboard computer that allows video to be uploaded directly to the web.
How It Will Impact The Future: While the Kia Niro is a concept-only, automakers like Ford and Nissan have been experimenting with putting more cameras on the exterior of cars. This is a necessity for automated cars and being able to use that equipment to share is a novel idea.
Aston Martin Vanquish Volante
Key Feature: Touch-capacitive glass buttons with haptic feedback turn the car off/on and help the driver switch between features. Aston Martin was the first to use this tech, which is derived from smartphones, on a car.
How It Will Impact The Future: The Aston Martin Vanquish Volante is a lovely sports car from one of the more traditional British brands, but it's far from uptight. This car is for sale now and includes the wild blue interior.
Opel Monza Concept
Key Feature: Rather than a collection of LED screens, this interior uses 18 separate LED protectors to create a car world's first continuous and adaptable multi-function display.
How It Will Impact The Future: While the Opel Monza Concept isn't going into product, this technology is ideal for the car world in many ways and I'm sure Opel's parent company GM is taking notice.
Mercedes Concept S-Class Coupe
Key Feature: While this concept has two 12.3-inch touchscreens and a clever packaging of airbags to give the dashboard more shape, its' those lines on the door that are the most interesting.
Using computer algorithms delicate topographic lines were milled into the metal and mimic the contours of the door-mounted control elements. This creates an interesting light pattern with tiny sparkling highlights. For this creation the designers drew their inspiration from rock formations in Utah, USA. The progressive perforations of the loudspeakers were also generated using algorithms and display some intelligent aesthetics of mathematics.
How It Will Impact The Future: While Mercedes pretends the S-Class Coupe is a concept it's something in the post-Maybach world they'll have to build. These production techniques weren't developed on a lark and those screens are from the production S-Class, meaning this is nearly reality.
Jaguar C-X17 Concept
Key Feature: While everyone focused on the driver this year, Jaguar looked backwards to the rear seats and created a touch-screen entertainment system for those in the backseat.
How It Will Impact The Future: The Jaguar C-X17 is coming as a production car soon and, while this particular feature may not debut initially, it shows the direction Jaguar is going in. The rest of the interior is probably 75% production intent, if not more.
Anything we're missing? Post your favorite future dash into the comments below.


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Our 4-ply is also suitable for machine knitting. Normally each 50 gram ball of 4-ply will be around 175 metres (190 yards) long. As this varies from breed to breed, to be on the safe side you should work on plus or minus 10%. Please see our advice sheets and download the one about the length of wool in a ball or hank.
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By Nick Hamilton, KF13 Haiti and Dominican Republic, KF14 Colombia
This is the second of a three-part article on 'The Pros and Cons of Microfinance – A View From The Field'. The first part concentrated on the pros. The second will focus on the cons.
Most of the cons described below demonstrate one thing; microfinance assists on a micro level but is unable to affect macro-level influences. The latter are the main reason that people are impoverished in the first place.
During my time in Haiti and the Dominican Republic I generally found that there were two major obstacles that thwarted the success of microloans. The first was a lack of borrower education. While they can't go as far as sending borrowers back to school, MFIs can certainly play a part in providing additional training. It's not a quick win, but it's a very effective one. Giving borrowers options of training courses in a variety of sectors allows them to broaden their horizons, pursue something they are interested in and, importantly, gives local communities a good chance of diversifying.
The second obstacle is a lack of everything that results from effective national governance: a strong economy, a functioning infrastructure, a lack of corruption. Unfortunately, the MFI is powerless to affect these national-level influences.
If terrible road conditions prevent a borrower from traveling to the nearest large town to sell her produce in a cost-effective manner, the MFI can do nothing to change this situation. If communities have no electricity, no running water, no gas line and a terrible education system, the scope of what their people can achieve in entrepreneurial and development terms is incredibly limited.
In Haiti, more often than not borrowers would tell me that their main business challenge was a lack of frequent buyer activity. They couldn't grow their business because people didn't have enough money to buy their products. Practically no-one kept a strict 9 to 5 schedule because the demand wasn't there. An MFI can't affect a country's economy.
My experience in the DR and Haiti (but especially in the latter) has shown me that a lot of development-focussed charity (i.e. not including medical/relief work) is pretty limited on a national level when conducted in countries lacking in infrastructure, stable economy and, above all, effective government. An honest and successful government with a clear direction is key.
If microfinance were to be successful across the board (and by success I mean real, tangible business and income growth) it would have to work on the assumption that all clients are natural entrepreneurs, or at least have a knack for making a business work. This is not the case. The fact is that most people, wherever they are in the world, are more suited to working as an employee than running their own business.
Furthermore, a community will not progress if it is only made up of tiny, one-man businesses. On one hand the problem is a lack of business variety. There is no benefit to a 30-family community if 10 people sell second-hand clothes and another 10 run small convenience stores. There is no benefit to the individual 'entrepreneurs' either. However, this is a reality. I'd say that around 90% of the borrowers I met in the DR and Haiti used their loans to invest in one of these 2 lines of business. This comes down to a lack of education, skills and knowledge of other industries. Again, I really think that this is the one offering that all MFIs should look to develop, if they have not already.
On the other hand, this also highlights a fundamental flaw of the Grameen group model, if its intention is to develop communities and society as well as the individual (often the two go hand-in-hand). The Grameen model gathers large groups of people and hands them loans to go and pursue a business practice as an individual. When I walk the streets of London I do not see a string of one-man businesses, incredibly limited in scope. I see a vast variety of businesses, ranging greatly in size, but all of which share one thing: employees. A community needs businesses of a certain size to progress.
Microfinance is supposed to promote business growth. If anything, this model is stifling it. It would be far more beneficial to all if MFIs assessed their potential borrowers and only lent to those individuals who showed enough promise to mount and grow a business to a size where they could employ other members of their community. However, such is the nature of the third world and the cost of administering loans that if MFIs in these countries did this they would not be sustainable. In this regard, I actually think the Grameen group model can be counterproductive in terms of economic development. I also think that it discourages some borrowers (especially males who are not obliged to stay at home) from venturing out of their communities to find better paid jobs at larger businesses. Simple job creation isn't always a good thing.
One criticism I have of what I saw at Esperanza International is that loan sizes were too small. Loans generally ranged between $100 and $300 and, if borrowers repaid their loans in full and on time, they may have been granted a $50 increase on their next loan. That's not enough to mount a serious business that's going to go anywhere. It's easy to say but I'd like to see MFIs like Esperanza International take a bigger risk on promising clients by offering them larger loans. I'd also like to see Kiva let its lenders share some of that risk by increasing its loan size limits. In addition, if entrepreneurs cannot inject enough cash into their business, when something goes really wrong (e.g. a farmer loses half his cattle or a borrower becomes incapacitated) then entrepreneurs may regress back to square one and lose all progress that has been made thus far.
What I saw was that most businesses were not actually growing but were just being sustained. It's wrong to believe that all microloans will necessarily lead to business growth. I once saw a borrower on kiva.org whose profile stated that he was applying for his 18th loan. It's unlikely that this borrower was successfully growing his business.
Finally, one of the biggest bones of contention that people have with microfinance are the 'high' interest rates. I won't delve into interest rates too much because I'm sure that in most cases they're completely justified. Kiva's assessment of MFIs is now thorough enough that they would not become partners if they were in any way usurious.
Many people who criticise high interest rates by comparing them to what they are used to in the developed world must understand that the two are incomparable. Loan sizes in the third world are far, far smaller and so the cost of processing that loan while remaining sustainable (or indeed making a profit) is much higher. Loan officers may travel for 2 hours to disburse a loan and will have to make the same journey for every repayment meeting. Road conditions may be so bad that half of the MFI's fleet of motorbikes will constantly be under repair. Third world petrol prices are often incredibly high. The MFI may only have very slow internet for 2 hours a day, the electricity for which is provided by a high-cost generator. Country inflation rates may be extremely bloated and these need to be accounted for.
However, interest rates are high and require a borrower's business to be run extremely efficiently if it is to turn a profit. With that I cannot argue.
To be continued in Part 3, which will published on Wednesday May 25th, 2011.
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The ongoing Haiti cholera outbreak is the worst epidemic of cholera in recent history, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[3] After the 2010 earthquake, in little over two years, as of August 2013, it has killed at least 8,231 Haitians and hospitalized hundreds of thousands more while spreading to neighboring countries including the Dominican Republic and Cuba.[4] Since the outbreak began in October 2010, more than 6% of Haitians have had the disease.[5] Despite having made significant progress from previous years, in 2014 cholera still sends thousands to hospitals every month and remains deadly.
The outbreak began in mid October 2010 in the rural Center Department of Haiti,[6] about Script error: No such module "convert". north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing 4672 people by March 2011[7] and hospitalising thousands more.[8] The outbreak occurred ten months after a powerful earthquake which devastated the nation's capital and southern towns on 12 January 2010. By the first 10 weeks of the epidemic, cholera spread to all of Haiti's 10 departments or provinces.[9]
As of 12 December 2012, hospitalizations (2,300 per week) and deaths (40 per week) are roughly triple since Hurricane Sandy struck the island in what was expected to be a quiet cholera season, causing more deaths than the cyclone took in all countries combined.[1] In November 2010, the first cases of cholera were reported in the Dominican Republic and a single case in Florida, United States; in January 2011, a few cases were reported in Venezuela. The epidemic came back strongly in the 2012 rainy season, despite a localised delayed vaccine drive. In late June 2012, Cuba confirmed three deaths and 53 cases of cholera in Manzanillo,[10] in 2013 with 51 cases in Havana.[11] Vaccination of half the population is urged by the University of Florida to stem the epidemic.[12][13]
During the 19th and 20th centuries, six major cholera pandemics had spread around the world. At the time of this outbreak, the world was experiencing the seventh, caused by a new strain of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium, El Tor. Epidemics involving this strain started in 1961 in Indonesia, and spread rapidly elsewhere in eastern Asia and then to India and Bangladesh, the USSR, Iran and Iraq.[14] This was the first outbreak in Haiti ever recorded of El Tor.[15] Professors at Duke University have argued that none of the previous pandemics affected Haiti either.[16]
On 21 October 2010, the Haiti National Public Health Laboratory confirmed that cases of diarrheal illness that hospitals in the Artibonite region had been receiving had been identified as cholera.[17] Haiti has not had a cholera outbreak in recorded history, so it triggered panic and confusion in the populace, complicating relief efforts.[18]
The spread was partially blamed on the poor distribution of health supplies due to logistical problems.[9] The Pan-American Health Organization said there was also a lack of access to untainted drinking water.[9] According to the US CDC, in most instances cholera does not spread widely within countries where drinking water and sewage treatment are adequate. When water and sewage treatment is inadequate, as in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, cholera can spread rapidly.[19]
On 28 October, the head of Haiti's health department, Gabriel Thimoté, said 4,147 people were being treated. WHO's cholera chief, Claire-Lise Chaignat, said the epidemic was not contained and that she thought it had not yet "reached the peak", so Haitian authorities should be prepared for a "worst-case scenario" of cholera spreading in the capital, Port-au-Prince.[20]
On 10 November, Gabriel Thimote, Haiti's senior health official, said that the outbreak was "no longer a simple emergency, it's now a matter of national security."[21]
The outbreak of cholera became an issue for candidates to answer in the 2010 general election.[22] There were fears that the election could be postponed. The head of MINUSTAH Edmond Mulet said that it should not be delayed as that could lead to a political vacuum with untold potential problems.[23]
The suspected source for the epidemic was the Artibonite River, from which most of the affected people had drunk water.[8] Suspicion among Haitians centered on a UN military base on a tributary of that river home to peacekeepers from Nepal.[24] MINUSTAH officials issued a press statement denying the possibility that the base could have caused the epidemic, citing stringent sanitation standards.[25] The next day, October 27, reporter Jonathan M. Katz of the Associated Press visited the base and found gross inconsistencies between the statement and the base's actual conditions. Katz also happened upon UN military police taking samples of ground water to test for cholera, despite UN assertions that it was not concerned about a possible link between its soldiers and the disease. Neighbors told the reporter that waste from the base often spilled into the river.[26] Later that day, a crew from Al Jazeera English including reporter Sebastian Walker filmed the soldiers trying to excavate a leaking pipe; the video was posted online the next day and, citing AP's report, drew increased awareness to the base.[27] MINUSTAH spokesmen later contended that the samples taken from the base proved negative for cholera. However, an AP investigation showed that the tests were improperly done at a laboratory in the Dominican Republic with no experience of testing for cholera.[28]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said its tests of "DNA fingerprinting" showed various samples of cholera from Haitian patients were identified as Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1, serotype Ogawa, a strain found in South Asia.[29][30]
For three months, UN officials, the CDC, and others argued against investigating the source of the outbreak. Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO), said finding the cause of the outbreak was "not important". "Right now, there is no active investigation. I cannot say one way or another [if there will be]. It is not something we are thinking about at the moment. What we are thinking about is the public health response in Haiti."[31] Jordan Tappero, the lead epidemiologist at the CDC, said the main task was to control the outbreak, not to look for the source of the bacteria and that "we may never know the actual origin of this cholera strain."[32] A CDC spokesperson, Kathryn Harben, added that "at some point in the future, when many different analyses of the strain are complete, it may be possible to identify the origin of the strain causing the outbreak in Haiti."
Paul Farmer, co-founder of the medical organisation Partners In Health and a UN official himself who served Bill Clinton's deputy at the Office of the Special Envoy for Haiti, told the AP's Katz on November 3 that there was no reason to wait. "The idea that we'd never know is not very likely. There's got to be a way to know the truth without pointing fingers." A cholera expert, John Mekalanos, supported the assertion that it was important to know where and how the disease emerged because the strain is a "novel, virulent strain previously unknown in the Western Hemisphere and health officials need to know how it spreads." The Swedish ambassador to Haiti said the epidemic had strains originating in Nepal.[33] However, Nepal's representative to the United Nations "categorically refuted" the hypothesis that Nepali peacekeepers were the source of the outbreak.[34]
Under intense pressure, the UN relented, and said it would appoint a panel to investigate the source of the cholera strain.[35] That panel's report, issued in May 2011, confirmed substantial evidence that the Nepalese troops had brought the disease to Haiti. However, in the report's concluding remarks, the authors hedged to say that a "confluence of circumstances" was to blame.[36] Even so, the report presented no alternate hypotheses about how the strain could have arrived in a remote river far outside the earthquake zone, where few foreigners visit or work.
Some US professors have disagreed with the contention that Nepalese soldiers caused the outbreak. Some said it was more likely dormant cholera bacteria had been aroused by various environmental incidents in Haiti.[37] Before studying the case, they said a sequence of events, including changes in climate triggered by the La Niña climate pattern and unsanitary living conditions for those affected by the earthquake, triggered bacteria already present to multiply and infect humans.[37] However, a study unveiled in December and conducted by French epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux contended that UN troops from Nepal had started the epidemic as waste from outhouses at their base flowed into and contaminated the Artibonite River.[38] A separate study published in December in the New England Journal of Medicine presented DNA sequence data for the Haitian cholera isolate, finding that it was most closely related to a cholera strain found in Bangladesh in 2002 and 2008. It was more distantly related to existing South American strains of cholera, the authors reported, adding that "the Haitian epidemic is probably the result of the introduction, through human activity, of a V. cholerae strain from a distant geographic source."[39] Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation and climate change expert, still contends that climate changes were an important factor in cholera's spread, stating in an interview with UNEARTH News in August 2013 that the outbreak was "triggered by a complicated set of factors. The precipitation and temperatures were above average during 2010 and that, in conjunction with a destroyed water and sanitation infrastructure, can be considered to have contributed to this major disease outbreak."[40]
Domestic reactions
There were fears that following the discovery of 15 cases in the capital, the epidemic could spread further.[41] On 15 November, a riot broke out in Cap-Haïtien following the death of a young Haitian inside the Cap-Haïtien UN base and rumours that the outbreak was caused by UN soldiers from Nepal.[42] Protesters demanded that the Nepalese brigade of the UN leave the country.[43] At least 5 people were killed in the riots, including 1 UN personnel.[44] Riots then continued for a second day.[45]
Following the riots the UN said the outbreak was being staged for "political reasons because of forthcoming elections", as the Haitian government sent its own forces to "protest" the UN peacekeepers.[46] During a third day of riots UN personnel were blamed for shooting at least 5 protestors but denied responsibility.[47] On the fourth day of demonstrations against the UN presence, police fired tear gas into an IDP camp in the capital.[48] Riots following the election were a cause for concern in the ability to contain the epidemic.[49]
Initial spread
By the end of October cholera had been confirmed in four of Haiti's ten departments: Artibonite, Centre, Nord and Ouest, including the capital Port-au-Prince,[8][50] and the capital's Cité Soleil district,[51] By 16 November it had spread throughout the country.[44] In addition to those hospitalized, others were unable to receive treatment due to overcrowded hospitals.[52] Health workers also feared the disease would spread after Hurricane Tomas hit the island causing more flooding.[53]
There were also fears that the disease would further spread because many people were still living in unsanitary camps as a result of the earthquake earlier in the year.[54][55] Those concerns came despite claims that the outbreak had been contained in the north and central parts of the country.[56] The Pan American Health Organisation predicted that 270,000 people would be infected within a year of the outbreak.[21]
The first outbreak of cholera was reported in the Dominican Republic in mid-November 2010,[57] following the Pan-America Health Organisation's prediction.[21] By January 2011, the Dominican Republic had reported 244 cases of cholera.[58] The first man to die of it there died in the province of Altagracia on 23 January 2011.[58][59]
On 15 November the director of programming for Catholic Relief Services in Haiti, said, "Some people have been reporting that we've gotten in front of it and are in control of the spread of cholera. Actually WHO does not believe that. There's such a severe underreporting of cases that they're not sure of all of the hot spots."[9][60]
In late January 2011, more than 20 Venezuelans were reported to have been taken to hospital after contracting cholera after visiting the Dominican Republic.[61][62] 37 cases were reported in total.[58] Contaminated food was blamed for the spread of the disease.[63] Venezuelan health minister Eugenia Sader gave a news conference which was broadcast on VTV during which she described all 37 people as "doing well".[58] The minister had previously observed that the last time cholera was recorded in Venezuela was twenty years before this, in 1991.[58]
On 15 March 2011, a report was issued by the University of California that predicted total infections would number up to 779,000 and total deaths up to 11,000 by November 2011, compared with earlier UN estimates that around 400,000 people would end up infected.[64] The revised numbers were based on more factors than the UN's estimates, which assumed a total infection rate of between two and four percent of the population.[64] In a statement released at the same time, the WHO said total deaths thus far had reached 4,672, with 252,640 cases reported.[64]
Casualties over the years
Even before the outbreak Haiti has suffered from infectious diseases due to crowded living conditions and lack of clean water and sewage disposal. There is also a chronic shortage of health care personnel, and hospitals lack resources, a situation that became readily apparent after the January 2010 earthquake.[65]
Some aid agencies have reported that the toll may be higher than the official figures because the government does not track deaths in rural areas where people never reached a hospital or emergency treatment center.[60] In 2011, reports suggested over 6,700 people had been killed during the outbreak.[66]
By March 2011, after the initial intense flare up, some 4,672 people died and as of March 2012, cholera has killed more than 7,050 Haitians and sickened more than 531,000, or 5 percent of the population.[64][67]
The next years there was significant progress reduction of caseloads and deaths, with solid backing of international medical efforts and preventative measures, including latrines installed and changes in Haitian behaviors, such as thoroughly cooking food and rigorous handwashing. However, roughly 75% of Haitian households lack running water and thousands still live in camps or similar substandard conditions. Despite all these efforts, every rainy season or hurricane has caused a temporary spike in cases and deaths. Per the Haitian Health Ministry, as of August 2012, the outbreak had caused 7,490 deaths and caused 586,625 people to fall ill.[68] According to the Pan American Health Organization, as of 21 November 2013, there had been 689,448 cholera cases in Haiti, leading to 8448 deaths.[69]
Political reactions
On 12 November 2010, the United Nations issued an appeal for around US$160 million to fight the spread of the disease, saying that "all our efforts can be outrun by the epidemic" and warned of a lack of space for patients in hospitals.[70] It also denied that the Nepali contingent were responsible for the outbreak.[44] In November 2011, the UN received a petition from 5,000 victims for hundreds of millions of dollars in reparations over the outbreak thought to have been caused by UN members of MINUSTAH.[66] In February 2013, the United Nations responded by invoking its immunity from lawsuits under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.[71] On October 9, 2013, BAI, IJDH, and Ira Kurzban's law firm (KKWT) filed a lawsuit against the UN in the Southern District of NY federal court.[72]
Further reading
- Katz, Jonathan M. The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN 978-0230341876
- Wilentz, Amy Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. ISBN 978-1451643978
- ^ a b c d e http://www.paho.org/HQ/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=28070+&Itemid=999999&lang=fr
- ^ a b "Epidemiological Update" (PDF).
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- ^ Government of Haiti, health ministry http://www.mspp.gouv.ht/site/downloads/Rapport%20%20Web%2012.08_Avec_Courbes_Departementales.pdf
- ^ Roos, Robert (January 9, 2013). "Cholera has struck more than 6% of Haitians". CIDRAP.
- ^ "Final Report of the Independent Panel of Experts on the Cholera Outbreak in Haiti" (PDF). WHO. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ PAHO's Interactive Report of Cholera Outbreak
- ^ a b c "Cholera cases found in Haiti capital". MSNBC. 23 October 2010. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ a b c d Basu, Moni (31 December 2010). "Cholera death toll in Haiti rises to more than 3,000". CNN. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
- ^ Sarah Rainsford (3 July 2012). "Cuba confirms deadly cholera outbreak". BBC. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ "Cuba confirms 51 cholera cases in Havana". BBC News. 15 January 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ^ "To stop cholera in Haiti, vaccinate some—not all". Futurity. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ "Vaccinating Half of Haiti's Population Could Stem Cholera Epidemic: Report". Caribbean Journal. 17 January 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ "Health: Cholera". BBC. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera in Haiti and Other Caribbean Regions, 19th Century". CDC. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ CDC Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/11/11-0958_article.htm
- ^ "Cholera in Haiti: One Year Later". United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ^ "Haiti: Cholera slows but fears of spread remain". BBC News. 25 October 2010. Archived from the original on 3 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ MyHealthNewsDaily Staff (1 November 2010). "Haiti's cholera strain likely came from South Asia, CDC says". MSNBC. Archived from the original on 7 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera "Yet to Peak" in Haiti". Al-Manar. Agence France-Presse. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ a b c "Cholera death toll in Haiti passes 600". BBC News. 10 November 2010. Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ "Haiti: Seismic Election". Al Jazeera. 18 November 2010.
- ^ "Unrest 'must not stop Haiti polls'". Al Jazeera. 20 November 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ "UPDATE: Community Outcry Blaming Nepalese MINUSTAH Deployment in Mirebalais". 26 October 2010.
- ^ "MINUSTAH denies rumour that it spread cholera in Haiti". 26 October 2010.
- ^ "UN probes base as source of Haiti cholera outbreak". 27 October 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ Al Jazeera English October 28, 2010 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2010/10/2010102841412141967.html
- ^ "UN worries its troops caused cholera in Haiti". 19 November 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ "Haiti cholera 'resembles South Asian strain'". BBC News. 1 November 2010. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "CDC Announces Laboratory Test Results of Cholera Outbreak Strain in Haiti". Infection Control Today. Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
- ^ Katz, Jonathan M.; Associated Press (3 November 2010). "Experts ask: Did U.N. troops infect Haiti?". MSNBC. Archived from the original on 7 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Haiti's cholera 'from South Asia'". Al Jazeera English. 2 November 2010. Archived from the original on 9 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Svenska ambassadören: "Smittan kommer från Nepal" (Swedish)". Svenska Dagbladet. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ^ "Nepal's UN Mission Denies Blame For Haiti Outbreak".
- ^ "UN panel to investigate Haiti cholera outbreak.". Associated Press. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
- ^ "UN panel report" (PDF). United Nations. Retrieved May 2011.
- ^ a b "Haiti's cholera epidemic caused by weather, say scientists". The Guardian. UK. 22 November 2010. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ "Haiti cholera: UN peacekeepers to blame, report says". BBC News. 7 December 2010. Archived from the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
- ^ Chin, C. S.; Sorenson, J.; Harris, J. B.; Robins, W. P.; Charles, R. C.; Jean-Charles, R. R.; Bullard, J.; Webster, D. R.; Kasarskis, A.; Peluso, P.; Paxinos, E. E.; Yamaichi, Y.; Calderwood, S. B.; Mekalanos, J. J.; Schadt, E. E.; Waldor, M. K. (2011). "The Origin of the Haitian Cholera Outbreak Strain". New England Journal of Medicine 364 (1): 33–42. PMC 3030187. PMID 21142692. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1012928.
- ^ Auber, T. (7 August 2013). "UN peacekeepers or climate change? The complex factors contributing to Haiti's cholera crisis". UNEARTH News. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ^ "Cholera spreads to Haitian capital". Al Jazeera English. 9 November 2010. Archived from the original on 9 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera protesters barricade Haiti city, assail UN". Associated Press. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.[dead link]
- ^ "UN troops blamed for Haiti cholera". Al Jazeera English. 30 October 2010. Archived from the original on 9 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ a b c "Haiti cholera protest turns violent – Americas". Al Jazeera English. 29 September 2010. Archived from the original on 16 November 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
- ^ "UN faces heat over Haiti cholera". Al Jazeera. 17 November 2010. Archived from the original on 18 November 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ "Haiti riots against UN heat up". Al Jazeera. 17 November 2010. Archived from the original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ "UN blamed for Haiti shootings". Al Jazeera. 17 November 2010. Archived from the original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera unrest hits Haiti capital". Al Jazeera. 19 November 2010. Archived from the original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ "Haiti vote chaos continues". Al Jazeera. 29 November 2010. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
- ^ "Haiti cholera cases detected in Port-au-Prince". BBC News. 24 October 2010. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera suspected in Haiti town". Al Jazeera English. 29 October 2010. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ Botelho, Greg; Azadeh Ansari and Alanne Orjoux (22 October 2010). "Officials: Toll in Haiti's cholera outbreak now above 150". CNN. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Haiti fears spread of cholera". Al Jazeera English. 8 November 2010. Archived from the original on 9 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera outbreak kills 194 in Haiti". CBC News. Associated Press. 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera reaches Haiti quake camps – Americas". Al Jazeera English. 11 November 2010. Archived from the original on 18 November 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera crisis deepens in Haiti – Americas". Al Jazeera English. 11 November 2010. Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
- ^ "Haiti cholera reaches Dominican Republic". BBC News. 16 November 2010. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "Venezuela reports 37 cholera cases". Turner Broadcasting System. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ "Case of Cholera in Florida Is Linked to Haiti Outbreak". The New York Times. 17 November 2010. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ a b "Haiti cholera toll rises as medical supplies are rushed to victims". US Catholic. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
- ^ "Cholera alert reaches Venezuela via Dominican Republic". BBC News. 26 January 2011. Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ "Cholera Arrives in Venezuela". Latin American Herald Tribune.
- ^ Ezequiel Minaya (27 January 2011). "Venezuela's Confirmed Cholera Cases Increases To Nearly 40". The Wall Street Journal (News Corporation). Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Haiti cholera 'far worse than expected', experts fear". BBC News. 15 March 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
- ^ Robert Lee Hadden and Steven G. Minson. 2010. The Geology of Haiti: An Annotated Bibliography of Haiti's Geology, Geography and Earth Science. handle.dtic.mil. p. 10.
- ^ a b "UN hit with cash demand over Haiti cholera - Americas". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ Deborah Sontag (31 March 2012). "In Haiti, Global Failures on a Cholera Epidemic". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ^ Megan Dhaliwal (7 August 2012). "Panic Has Subsided, But Cholera Remains in Haiti". Pulitzer Center. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Pan American Health Organization (21 November 2013). "Epidemiological Update, Cholera". Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- ^ "Haiti cholera toll tops 900 with six provinces affected". Reuters. 14 November 2010. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
- ^ Pilkington, Ed (21 February 2013). "UN will not compensate Haiti cholera victims, Ban Ki-moon tells president". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
- ^ http://www.ijdh.org/cholera/cholera-litigation/#.Uv5x8HlO6TQ
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- Centers for Disease Control page on the outbreak
- PAHO Situation Reports on the Haiti cholera outbreak
- Cholera Will Not Go Away Until Underlying Situations that Make People Vulnerable Change – video report by Democracy Now!
- Not Doing Enough: Unnecessary Sickness and Death from Cholera in Haiti, from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2011
- Responding to the Cholera Emergency, in Best Practices and Lessons Learnt in Communication with Disaster Affected Communities, a infoasaid report, November 2011
- Rebuilding in Haiti Lags After Billions in Post-Quake Aid: Lofty Hopes and Hard Truths, New York Times Dec 2012
- Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti's cholera case with UN
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The European morning was dominated by Wednesday's Fed policy statement, which opened the door for policy tapering later this year if data continued to improved. Rising expectations of reduced central bank policy stimulus weighed heavily on bonds, stocks and commodities. Although the latter got added downside momentum from another poor China manufacturing data release. The net impact was very heavy dollar gains, which weighed on EUR, Cable and the commodities bloc currencies.
EUR-USD extended overnight losses and broke support at 1.3200. The Fed policy statement continues to drive macro fund flows into the USD. There was also added upside from the SNB's steady policy hand, which lifted USD-CHF higher. Meanwhile, the eurozone composite PMI jumped in June to 48.9 after decent French readings, but in Germany a better than expected services PMI was offset by a weaker manufacturing outturn. With the eurozone still in recession and U.S. economic fundamentals improving the outlook for the EUR remains on the downside. The technical backdrop also shifted dramatically to the downside in the wake of the Fed, which saw EUR drop from over 1.3400 yesterday. More stops are building through June-10 lows at 1.3177 and are reportedly in large size between 1.3170 and 1.3150.
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Art and Design Intersecting With Leadership
Creative Leadership
The term Creative Leadership is something you hear more and more these days. But what is it really?
As old school hierarchical leadership paradigms are becoming less and less relevant and effective, new styles of leading in more inclusive and flattened ways are coming to the fore. Creative Leadership isn't simply about leaders who are creative, but more about how stellar leadership is like an art form where good questions, collaboration, and empathy are the medium. In fact in chatting with one of my friends and fellow Think Jar contributors, Colin Funk of the Banff School of Leadership, he spoke about how they looked at leadership as the "17th artform". Now, I haven't counted how many artforms there are and I'm sure it is always evolving and shifting, but this notion of leadership as art has intrigued me for some time.
To add to this exploration of the link between art and leadership a recent TED talk on the subject has emerged. In the video below, the head of the Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda explores creative links between technology, design, art and leadership. Some thought provoking stuff on moving from hierarchy to heterarchy (flattened networks) where "keeping it real" triumphs over always wanting to be right.
Enjoy the talk and check out more articles on Think Jar Collective related to Creative Leadership
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Paul George and David West teamed up for 51 points and Indiana posted its NBA-best 16th win of the season Sunday, 105-100 over the Los Angeles Clippers.
George put in 27 points and West contributed 24 with 12 rebounds for the Pacers, who dealt the Clippers just their second home loss of the season.
Los Angeles had pulled to within 102-100 in the closing moments, but the Pacers dominated the offensive boards down the stretch to hang on for the win.
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Voters have approved park levies in Canton and Jackson Township and may consider one in North Canton. Plain Township says it's not going down that path.
The park levy has become some cities' and townships' tool of choice in dealing with budget shortfalls.
The state has cut in half local government funding for townships and cities. The state has repealed the local estate tax. And the public likes to use the parks.
Last year, voters in Jackson Township and Canton approved new levies to fund their park systems and reduce their reliance on their general funds. With its city facing a substantial deficit, North Canton City Council is expected to hold a vote by next week on whether it should ask voters to approve a park levy in May.
But Plain Township trustees are refusing to go down that path. They plan for the township's three parks to one day be financially self sufficient — without any increased taxes or new taxes — by persuading more athletic associations to rent the township's park facilities for tournaments.
"I'm not going to my taxpayers for an increase in tax dollars to operate a park system," said Trustee Louis Giavasis. "Our primary responsibility first is to maintain our roads and to provide police and fire."
In May, the three-member board fired Parks Director Todd Alexander for sexual and work harassment and misusing a township cellphone. Trustee Scott Haws said the way Alexander's job was structured, his focus was overseeing maintenance of park grounds. Haws saw an opportunity to create a new position where the new parks director would focus on programs and increasing park facility revenue while the park foreman would focus on maintenance.
In August, they hired Rob Steinberg as the parks programming and community outreach director. His salary is $50,000 a year. Steinberg's résumé says he has experience promoting the Canton Charge professional basketball team and the Canton Marathon the last two years. It also said he helped plan the Ohio High School Athletic Association State Football Championships as sports promotions manager for the Canton Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau.
Steinberg said he has been submitting bids to tournaments and trying to solicit business during the past five months. But he's not yet ready to make any announcements and doesn't want to reveal whom he's talking with so as not to jeopardize any potential deals.
Bringing in revenue will take time because associations typically announce tournament sites a year in advance. He says the township has retained two lacrosse tournaments for 2014. He said other opportunities could include hosting agility dog shows, a community garage sale, a disc golf course tournament, a car event and corporate events in the township's parks.
Steinberg said it could take five to 10 years to wean Plain parks entirely off the general fund.
The township's three parks, which opened after 1997, are in the township's northeastern quadrant. The 18-acre Alpine Community Park and the 42-acre Schneider Community Park, which are used mainly by residents, do not generate revenue, Giavasis said. He said that in a normal year, the 42-acre Diamond Community Park generates enough in fees to cover its costs.
But 2013 wasn't a typical year.
According to financial records, Diamond's fee revenue from concession sales, renting out its 80-foot by 16-foot indoor sports complex, soccer fields and baseball/softball fields to leagues and college teams along with fees from programs such as the soccer foot-skills class and Zumba Fitness declined to $213,000, less than the $266,000 anticipated.
Steinberg and Giavasis said the township lost a softball and lacrosse tournament last year, and unusually wet summer weather may have been a factor.
The township spent nearly $290,000 out of the Diamond Park fund, which covers the salaries and benefits of three full-time park employees and some part-time workers, supplies and other expenses.
Haws said the township used money in the fund to buy a couple of new $6,000 to $8,000 mowers, a new $12,000 awning for the concession stand and a new water fountain for Diamond Park. Nearly $92,000 left over from 2012 covered much of that cost. The fund ended last year with $17,465.
The cost of the other two parks totaled about $90,000 in 2013 drawn from the township's general fund. About $62,000 went to salaries for one full-time employee and seasonal workers. Giavasis said much of the rest paid for capital improvements such as electrical lines for a new restroom at Schneider Park, installation of a $4,000 water fountain there and re-grading Schneider's dog park.
Giavasis said if you don't include the one-time capital costs, then the general fund covers only about $60,000 of the park budget. He said a tournament can bring in $20,000 in revenue, so booking three more tournaments could be enough for park revenue to cover all park operating costs.
Officials in other communities said their situations are entirely different from Plain's.
Canton Parks Director Derek Gordon said his city has nearly 70 park properties over nearly 800 acres. The city's new park levy raises about $2.45 million for operations of the parks, two community centers and capital costs. Complicating things, the Canton Joint Recreation District, a separate entity, controls the rental of facilities such as the Willig Softball Fields.
Gordon said his department does not have anything like the Diamond Athletic Complex to rent to sports leagues. With so many "passive" park properties, many with no picnic shelters or ball fields and so few facilities to rent out, he said Canton parks could not raise enough revenue to cover its $1.5 million annual operating budget.
"Our footprint is so large that I don't see how that would have been feasible for us," said Gordon. "It's kind of apples to oranges."
North Canton Council President Jon Snyder, Ward 4, said his city has eight "expensive" parks, also without an athletic complex such as Diamond.
"We have a couple of ball fields but nothing compared to the ball fields they have," he said.
Without including Dogwood Pool, which collects about 80 percent of North Canton park revenue, the parks' revenue was about $60,000 but its costs were nearly $455,000.
Haws said if Plain Township can't get more money from hosting events, "we can at least go to our taxpayers and say we've at least explored every option."
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Perseid Meteor Showers Dazzle Every August
The Perseids is the name of a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so-called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The name derives in part from the word Perseides, a term found in Greek mythology referring to the descendants of Perseus. The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it travels on its 130-year orbit. Most of the dust in the cloud today is around a thousand years old. However, there is also a relatively young filament of dust in the stream that was pulled off the comet in 1862. The rate of meteors originating from this filament is much higher than for the older part of the stream.
The Perseid meteor shower has been observed for about 2000 years, with the earliest information on this meteor shower coming from the Far East. Some Catholics refer to the Perseids as the "tears of St. Lawrence", since 10 August is the date of that saint's martyrdom.
The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity being between August 9 and 14, depending on the particular location of the stream. During the peak, the rate of meteors reaches 60 or more per hour. They can be seen all across the sky, but because of the path of Swift-Tuttle's orbit, Perseids are primarily visible in the northern hemisphere. As with all meteor showers, the rate is greatest in the pre-dawn hours, since the side of the Earth nearest to turning into the sun scoops up more meteors as the Earth moves through space. In 2009, the estimated peak Zenithal Hourly Rate was 173, but fainter meteors were washed out by a waning gibbous moon.
This year 2010, the Perseid peak activity is expected over the night of Thursday 12th to Friday 13th 2010. And with no moonlight to speak of (the Moon is new on August 10th), conditions should be very favorable, weather permitting.
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Before I chose the 'RS' moniker and the associated tuning direction, the Corrado began equipped with a custom set of 12 Wilwoods front and rear, purchased almost eight years ago. I wanted visual brake balance. I loved the idea of massive Brembo calipers upfront, but hated keeping the dinky 9 rear brakes, lost behind the center hub of any wheel larger than factory. While poking around the internet in Manhattan College's computer lab (I was still in college), I happened upon Precision Brake Company
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Falling trees along the rail lines that connect Charlottesville to Chicago have put a stop to all rail traffic along the CSX/Buckingham Branch rail line. Empty grain cars have been stranded rail along Ivy Road, and there are coal cars out at West Leigh, as well as three other stranded trains on the Buckingham Branch. Even the Amtrak Cardinal has been sidelined, with a West Virginia stranding of 232 passengers that made headlines on the night of the storm, Friday, June 29.
Buckingham Branch general manager Steve Powell says that it took about five days to clean up the approximately 300 trees that fell onto the tracks that his company operates between Clifton Forge and Doswell. But problems on western connecting lines still kept five trains along the Dillwyn-based company's 200-mile stretch of track.
"The biggest problem was out in West Virginia," says Powell, noting that the troubles along the CSX line meant the Cardinal was still not running even as of Sunday, July 8.
So how much– between tree removal, damage repair, and lost business– did the storm cost the Buckingham Branch?
"I wouldn't be surprised," says Powell, "if it's in excess of half a million dollars."
–story updated 11:15am, Monday, July 9 with details from Powell
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Rail cars still strewn along the line, and Amtrak's Cardinal cancelled again today.
Correction, the Amtak Cardinal does not run on Saturdays, so we'll have to see about tomorrow. The route - Chicago to NYC is Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday.
No trains through downtown Charlottesville... quiet... safe ... visualize it - rails to trails Woolen Mills-downtown-UVA-Ivy-Crozet....
Please don't reproduce. This attitude is why services are so strained and things are expensive. Sure, cancel valuable resources and replace them with things that do nothing for people that do nothing.
You know a single train carries as much as (4 x 50,000 lb truckloads per 200,000 lb carload) and does it with a tiny fraction per ton of fuel compared to trucks.
You probably dislike trucks too, don't you. Anything not cute and useless is bad.
Do you ever see full coal trains going through Charlottesville? You do not. There are options for trains other than routing through this populated area.
Honeycomb, good luck reproducing with that attitude!
Amtrak's Cardinal cancelled again today. That's a shame, last I checked it was sold out.
Norfolk Southern freight train derails in Columbus, Ohio . Anyone know what materials pass through Charlottesville ? Could this happen here ?


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SAN ANTONIO -- The San Antonio Spurs were planning to attack the lane whether Oklahoma City big man Serge Ibaka was playing or not. The fact that the Thunder's athletic defender was absent only made things easier for them.
Tim Duncan scored 27 points and San Antonio took advantage of Ibaka's absence to dominate the paint, beating the Oklahoma City 122-105 on Monday night in the opener of the Western Conference finals.
Tony Parker did not appear limited by a hamstring injury, scoring 14 points and having 12 assists in 36 minutes.
"We always want to try to penetrate," Parker said. "We always want our ball movement, that's how we play -- kick and pitch and stuff like that. You know, obviously it's a little bit better with (Ibaka) not being in the paint, but we're still going to try to penetrate and make stuff happen."
The Thunder got their usual offensive outputs from All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, who scored 28 and 25 points, respectively. But Oklahoma City's remaining starters, Nick Collison, Thabo Sefolosha and Kendrick Perkins, combined to score five points with 13 rebounds and one assist.
But it was defensively where the Thunder struggled without Ibaka, who will miss the remainder of the postseason after suffering a calf injury in Oklahoma City's series clincher against the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Spurs had 66 points in the paint and shot 58 percent from the field. It was the highest shooting percentage allowed by the Thunder in the postseason since relocating from Seattle.
"We're a no-excuse team," Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said. "Serge is out. He's not coming back. We have to play better. We have to play better. If we expect to beat one of the best teams in basketball, and a very good offensive team, we have to play and we're not going to make an excuse."
The Spurs fed Duncan early with Ibaka out, and the veteran responded by shooting 6-for-7 in scoring 12 points in the opening quarter.
Parker, who suffered a Grade 1 left hamstring strain in San Antonio's series clincher against Portland, drove the paint and dished to Duncan early before looking for his own shot midway through the quarter.
"That's part of our game plan," Duncan said. "He knew that they weren't going to let him shoot the ball like he did in the last series. They were going to try to take that away from him, so he knew he was going to have to be an assist man."
Parker scored all but two of his points in the first half as the Spurs beat the Thunder for the first time this season.
Even though San Antonio improved to 7-1 at home in the playoffs, winning their past five games by an average of 20.6 points, Monday's victory was not easy.
The Spurs also still remember what happened in the 2012 conference finals, when the Thunder won four straight to rally from an 0-2 deficit.
"We knew that we have to play our best game to compete against them, and I think it's great to have an appropriate fear," Parker said. "They played great against us in 2012, and we know that we have to be perfect. They're younger than us and more athletic, and so we have to be more perfect."
San Antonio played nearly perfectly offensively and still rallied to take a 76-75 lead on Westbrook's 17-foot jumper with 5 minutes left in the third quarter.
"We don't believe in moral victories," Durant said. "Third quarter was obviously our best quarter, but we didn't close it out well. It's Game 1, we've got to make adjustments and be better for the next game. We're not taking no moral victories out of it."
Despite missing his first four shots, Westbrook continued to bull his way into the lane and it paid off as the game wore on.
Westbrook had 12 points in the third quarter, continually driving past Parker and the Spurs before they could settle in defensively.
With the exception of a pair of free throws by Derek Fisher, Westbrook and Durant scored all of Oklahoma City's points in a 23-22 third quarter.
The extended efforts exerted by the Thunder's two All-Stars eventually took a toll, especially with the Spurs bench coming to life. Westbrook and Durant were limited to seven points in the final quarter.
Durant and Westbrook were a combined 19 for 40. Durant was 1 for 4 in the fourth quarter.
"That's the key with Kevin," Popovich said. "You're obviously not going to stop him, but making him work hard is certainly the plan. It's everybody's plan, no matter who he plays against, they're going to make him work hard. I thought Kawhi was good, didn't foul, but I think the team did a nice job behind him, helping him."
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Popovich had some fun with former Spurs player Steve Kerr, who will continue as an analyst for TNT through the Western Conference finals. Kerr, who became head coach of the Golden State Warriors last week, interviewed Popovich prior to the game. "Well, I'm not really sure why I have to have him interview me before the game because he's a competitor now. That's my concern. I don't understand that one," Popovich said, smiling.


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One of the first maps of the new world, Johannes Ruysch made this map, using a polar projection, which includes an extensive view of South America, islands of the West Indies, and a portion of North America. The World Map from Ruysch appeared for the first time among the Tabulae Novae in some copies of the 1507 Rome edition of Ptolemys Geography. Ruyschs map illustrates a number of significant geographic features more correctly than before, especially along the easterly sea route to the Orient which was of prime importance to early sixteenth-century Europeans. An incredible historical piece.
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