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THE STORY SO FAR...In November 2010, we set off on a six-month trip around the world to interview anarchists for a feature length documentary film.
We aimed to release the film by the beginning of 2012, but the scope of the project has proved much greater than we could have imagined and, as inevitably happens (especially in a capitalist society), life has gotten in the way more than once. We are, however, still committed to finishing the film to the very best of our abilities and, while we cannot yet provide a launch date for it, we appreciate all the kind words and offers of support we receive from anarchist friends around the world. We hope you will continue to be patient with us as we move, perhaps more slowly than expected, towards our ambitious goal.
During the first year of work on our film, we travelled to a number of countries, meeting inspiring groups and individuals, conducting interviews, getting caught up in building occupations and petty squabbles and spending nights in squats, social centers and the houses of strangers who soon became friends. We conducted 104 interviews in four continents during this time and have already added a bunch more - we have also recently welcomed on board a couple of enthusiastic supporters who have offered to shoot more interviews for us.
While the task ahead of us remains daunting in scale - we've already committed the last two years of our lives to it - we're still confident that, sometime before the revolution, we'll be able to release a non-copyrighted, feature length film that includes a broad historical overview of anarchism, an explanation of its key principles, an exploration of anarchy in action and a snapshot of all the contrasting but ultimately complementary views held by contemporary anarchists from around the world. It will also serve as a message of realistic hope and a call to action in this time of compounded social and ecological crises.
With love and hope,
Steffi, Aragorn and friends
"By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind."
- Errico Malatesta
We're still hard at work filming and editing, but we've decided to share some unedited interview clips in the meantime. These teaser clips are - apart from a little cursory grading and noise reduction - straight off the camera and don't necessarily reflect the look or sound of the final film, but we hope they'll at least give a sense of where we're headed.
PS: As we're still busy with translations, the currently chosen clips might reflect an Anglophone / Eurocentric bias. We'll upload more as we go along :-)
Barry Pateman
Klee Benally
Juan Carlos Mechoso
Audrey Goodfriend (RIP)
Biko Mutsaurwa
Lara Messersmith-Glavin
Deric Shannon
"We are bound first to inform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others."
- Voltairine de Cleyre
Jonathan Payne
Warren McGregor
Lekhetho M.
Biko Mutsaurwa
Shachaf Polakow
Felipe Correa
Renato Ramos
José Carlos Morel
Bruno Rocha
Paulo Capra
Vincent Acrata
Victoria Toja
Mario Remedios
Juan Carlos Mechoso
Pablo Abufom
Pamela Quiroga
Joaquin Cienfuegos
John Imani
Cindy Milstein
Tom Wetzel
Ramsey Kanaan
Lawrence Jarach
Tom Older
Jean Pauline
Audrey Goodfriend (RIP)
Barry Pateman
Derrick Jensen
John Zerzan
David Rovics
Lara Messersmith-Glavin
Zimya Tomstrand
Jen Rogue
Jesse Cohn
Ryan Robert Mitchell
Allan Antliff
Drew Sully
Kevin Jose
Klee Benally
Joel Olson (RIP)
Steve Best
Abraham DeLeon
Kenyon Zimmer
Frank Fernandez
Howard J. Ehrlich
Flint Arthur
Kate Khatib
John Duda
Kevin Tucker
Suzy Subways
Jim Fleming
Christine Karatnytsky
Wayne Price
Joshua Stephens
Deric Shannon
Chris Spannos
Judith Suissa
Peter Marshall
Saul Newman
Iain Mackay
Ian Bone, Martin Roid and Andy Meinke at Freedom Books
Nick Heath
Donald Rooum
Jamie Heckert
Gabriel Kuhn
Rudolf Terland Bjørnerem
Laure Akai
Andrew Flood
Aileen O"Carroll
Jose Antonio Gutierrez Danton
Ariel Silvera
Kevin Doyle
Mariann Inanc
Michel Némitz
Anele Afrikah
Annick Stevens
Daniela Zarro
Lia Didero
Donato Didero
Q: When will it be done?
Q: Where have you travelled?
Q: Who have you interviewed?
Q: Who are you?
Q: How are you shooting?
Q: What experience do you have in making movies?
Q: What will this documentary focus on?
Q: What kinds of anarchists are you?
Q: It's just going to be old, white, heterosexual males talking, isn't it?
Q: Why didn't you come to where I live? This is anarchist central!
Q: Isn't it going to be just another boring historical documentary?
Q: Didn't you raise a whole bunch of money for this already?
Q: I don't want my name / image on your interviewee list anymore.
Q: Trailer!!!
A: We cannot provide a final launch date at this point but hope that you'll remain patient with us. We're working as hard as we can given the contingencies of our lives and will keep everyone posted on progress.
A: So far, we've travelled to South America (Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru), the US (East, South and parts of the West Coast), Canada, various countries in Europe and Southern Africa. We regret not being able to visit Eastern Europe, Asia, North Africa and Australasia. If there are passionate anarchists in these areas who would like to be interviewed, get in touch and we'll try coordinate a shoot with a local volunteer (unless you'd like to try fundraise to fly us over!)
A: Check out the interviewee list. We've spoken to an eclectic range of both well-known (and in some cases infamous) and not so well-known anarchists from around the world, representing a huge variety of traditions, practices and outlooks between them.
A: We're two long-time anarchists.
Stefanie Noire is an anthropologist and PhD student who was part of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front and an editor on
. She has published articles which can be found on Anarkismo and
as well as articles for specific journals. Aragorn and Steffi conducted
the 2010 Anarchist Survey
and Steffi helped establish the first
- a vegan restaurant and infoshop in Cape Town. You can connect with her
Aragorn Eloff is a South African anarchist who is part of the
bolo'bolo infoshop and collective
in Cape Town. You can connect with him
A: We've been mostly using a simple & effective Canon DSLR with a couple of lenses, a mid-range tripod, a Zoom H1 for external audio and a couple of other bits of gear (oh, and a ton of external hard drives!)
A: Not very much at all. This is our first film.
A. We want to provide a non-sectarian overview of the rich history of anarchist practice and ideas. We want to talk about a few important anarchists. We want to answer at least some of the silly - and sometimes not so silly - questions anarchists are always being asked by non-anarchists, and also clear up grievous misrepresentations. Finally, we want to explore the diversity of tactics and practices employed by anarchists in their work towards both living as anarchists in the present day and bringing about a better world.
A: We're probably best viewed as social anarchists of the 'without too many adjectives' kind. We wish to remain as non-partisan as possible in producing our film and we'll be exploring, among countless other things, anarchist communism, revolutionary syndicalism, insurrectionism, green anarchism, anarcha-feminism, anarcho-primitivism, post-left anarchy, CrimethInc-style approaches and even so-called 'postanarchism'. And no, we won't be going anywhere near those awful 'anarcho'-capitalists!
A: No! It's really important to us that we give a full account of situated anarchism. Diversity in location, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, ability and so forth is a core concern of ours. We also want to portray contemporary anarchism honestly:
A: We'd love to go everywhere, but we simply cannot afford to. If you can fundraise to fly us over to where you are, or are willing to explore the possibility of shooting some interviews on our behalf, let us know!
PS: Wherever we've travelled, we've been told by the awesome people we've encountered that the real action was elsewhere; that in another city just fifty miles from this one, the revolution was imminent. What we've learned is that the real action is wherever you are. Don't sell yourself or your group short!
A: We started this project because we want to do better than this. We want to attract new and especially young people to anarchism and convey a sense of the profoundly emotionally resonant connection we feel to the anarchist milieu and its aspirations. Given this, we will focus as heavily on style as on content.
A: We crowdfunded about 10% of the money we've spent so far. The rest came from money we saved and possessions we sold.
A: Drop us an email and we'll remove you immediately.
A: Trust us, we'd like to see a trailer as much as you would. We even put together a teaser trailer a few months back, but we weren't happy with it and decided that it was better to work hard on something that truly reflected our project than to hack something together to appease some imagined 'international anarchist community' who were waiting with bated breath for the release of our film.
"We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute."
- Buenaventura Durruti
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"On the one hand there is the existent, with its habits and certainties. And of certainty, that social poison, one can die. On the other hand there is insurrection, the unknown bursting into the life of all. The possible beginning of an exaggerated practice of freedom."
- Alfredo Maria Bonanno
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Nadal wins to reach French Open quarters
For the first time in his career, Rafael Nadal will make a fifth straight appearance in the French Open quarterfinals.
Nadal won a record 32nd straight match at Roland Garros on Monday, beating Dusan Lajovic of Serbia 6-1, 6-2, 6-1 to improve on his own record by one.
Nadal is an eight-time French Open champion with a 63-1 record on the red clay in Paris. His only loss came in the fourth round in 2009, when he was a four-time defending champion for the first time.
Another upset never seemed possible this time, despite complaints of pain in his back that slowed his serves in the previous round.
"I don't want to talk too much about this thing today," Nadal said of his injury. "I have important match to come. Today I won a match in good shape. We'll see what's going on in the future."
Playing on Court Philippe Chatrier, Nadal's favorite court in the world, the top-seeded Spaniard controlled the match from the start. He then won 17 straight points to open the second set, taking a 4-0 lead before finally sending a backhand wide to make it 15-15 in the fifth game.
Later in that set, Lajovic held three break points at 0-40, but Nadal saved them all and held. It wasn't until late in the third, with the match far out of reach, that Lajovic did manage a break — the only game he won in the final set.
"I played with no mistakes and having the control with the backhand, with the forehand from the baseline," Nadal said. "Sure, you never know what's better, but in theory, the theory says that it's better win like this than win longer matches."
Nadal has won 13 major titles, and is the only man to win eight at one of the four Grand Slam tournaments. With another championship at Roland Garros this year, he would become the first man to win five straight French Open titles.
And he's looking rather unbeatable.
The Spaniard, who turns 28 on Tuesday, has lost only 23 games through four rounds, only four more than he lost in reaching the quarterfinals in 2012.
Nadal will next face fifth-seeded David Ferrer, the man he beat in last year's French Open final. Ferrer defeated 19th-seeded Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1.
In April, Ferrer beat Nadal on clay in the quarterfinals in Monte Carlo.
"Always when you have a loss in the last confrontation, that can (have an) effect. Or not. I don't know," Nadal said. "I will tell you after tomorrow. But at the end, important thing for me is I am in quarterfinals here."
Also Monday, Andy Murray defeated Fernando Verdasco of Spain 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (3) and will next face Gael Monfils in the quarterfinals. Monfils advanced by beating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 6-0, 6-2, 7-5.
In the women's tournament, fourth-seeded Simona Halep of Romania beat Sloane Stephens of the United States 6-4, 6-3, and 2009 French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-4.
Kuznetsova and Halep will meet in the quarterfinals, while 10th-seeded Sara Errani of Italy will face Andrea Petkovic of Germany.
Errani defeated sixth-seeded Jelena Jankovic of Serbia 7-6 (5), 6-2. Petkovic beat unseeded Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 1-6, 6-2, 7-5.
Petkovic overcame an inconsistent serve in the early match on Court Philippe Chatrier.
The 28th-seeded German was broken three times in the first set, once in the second and three more times in the third. But she was able to earn seven breaks of her own — all in the final two sets — to advance to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros for the second time in her career.
Bertens, ranked No. 148, had been bidding to become the lowest ranked woman to reach the French Open quarterfinals since the field was expanded to 128 players in 1983.
After splitting the first two sets, the players exchanged breaks quickly and often in the third. Each of the first five games went to the returning player, with Petkovic finally holding to lead 4-2.
Both players were broken once more, but Petkovic was able to hold in the last game with a forehand winner on match point.
"It was super tough, because I didn't know her at all," Petkovic said. "I just stalked her on YouTube yesterday the whole day, and I was already impressed yesterday."

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This project is stacked with cool, but is also useful, an ogg/vorbis player in flash/as3. Arek Korbik at barelyfocused implemented a port for a pure Ogg/Vorbis audio library called FVorbis. Check out the demo (need flash player 10). Groovy.
The name is: FVorbis. Which stands for more or less "Ogg and Vorbis in Flash". That's right, pure ActionScript 3 implementation of the Ogg and Vorbis libraries that require no kind of native support from the Flash Player. A simple Vorbis player implemented using the new FVorbis lib compiles to about 46KB SWF file. And that's it.
To top it off the code is actually written in haXe, a favorite of the flasherati. This version was iterated from the Cortado's JOrbis code.
Ogg Vorbis is a great open source audio format which is widely popular in game engines such as recent tools like Unity3D (which will be launching their iPhone dev kit on Oct 22 btw but I digress), so it is great to see it starting to appear in flash. Thanks Arek.


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In 2020 we organize the 12th edition of our annual Magento conference! Over 300 Magento entrepreneurs en enthusiasts will get together to be inspired by and connected to our great community!


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Learn the Difference between Workflow and Business Process Management
Workflow management software serves for basic process automation. Workflow software by Comindware is the first choice for those on the way from Excel or Outlook-based activity tracking towards a more system oriented approach. Workflow management software provides key capabilities for task, data and document management and is optimal for non-structured and quickly changing business processes.
Classical BPMS focuses on process optimization as the next step to process automation. It goes beyond modeling of task sequences and capturing task related data, but also helps ensure all business processes are executed in the best possible way. Key capabilities include full process automation, activity monitoring, business analytics as well as enterprise system integration.
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Police arrested the mother of two children whose bodies were discovered in a Santa Ana hotel room Saturday after the woman apparently tried to kill herself in a nearby city, authorities said.
The 42-year-old woman from Scottsdale, Ariz., was questioned at a nearby hospital then booked into jail on murder charges, said Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.
Her identity was being withheld while coroner's officials tried to track down the children's father, Bertagna said.
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The woman told police about the children after she crashed her car about 8 a.m. in an apparent suicide attempt behind a Home Depot in the 2300 block of Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa (map), police said.
When officers arrived, she refused to come out of the car and attempted to strangle herself with an electrical cord, police told NBC4. She intentionally crashed into an electrical box with propane tanks in her front seat, but the propane did not ignite, according to Costa Mesa police.
Officers had to smash out one of the side windows to get her out of the car.
"As she was getting processed to the hospital, she made some statements that indicated a crime might have occurred (in Santa Ana)," Costa Mesa police Sgt. Tim Starn told City News Service.
Costa Mesa police notified Santa Ana officers about 8:20 a.m to check on the welfare of two children at the hotel, Bertagna said.
Officers found the bodies in a third-floor room after 9 a.m. at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Santa Ana and opened a homicide investigation into the case, officials said. Police sources told NBC4 they were found in the bathtub.
Police wouldn't disclose how the children died until a coroner's investigation is complete, but said that there were no signs the children were shot or stabbed.
Officials would not disclose the gender or age of the children.
Though the mother was living in Scottsdale, she had a previous address in San Jose and her gray 2006 Honda Accord had Georgia license plates, Bertagna said.
City News Service contributed to this report.
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Storm Prediction Center to Unveil Revamped Severe Weather Forecasts
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC), the National Weather Service agency responsible for severe weather predictions, plans to unveil several new categories to its severe weather forecasts this spring. These forecasts — called "convective outlooks" — will see "marginal" and "enhanced" added to the four existing categories of severe weather risk.
A severe thunderstorm is officially defined as one that: produces wind damage or winds in excess of 60 MPH; produces hail equal to or greater than the size of quarters (1.00" in diameter); or a tornado.
The SPC currently uses five categories to convey the predicted threat for severe weather to the public, ranging from least severe to most severe:
- "General thunderstorms" — shaded green on its maps — indicate the risk for non-severe thunderstorms.
- "See Text" — overlain on top of the general thunderstorm category, indicates a marginal risk for severe weather but not enough to warrant a slight risk.
- Slight risk for severe thunderstorms — shaded yellow on its maps
- Moderate risk for severe thunderstorms — shaded red on its maps
- High risk for severe thunderstorms — shaded purple/magenta on its maps
Here is an example of a convective outlook that features four of the above categories, from the infamous tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011.
The highest risk for severe weather was centered in the "high risk" zone from east-central Mississippi up through extreme southeastern Tennessee. And, as we know now, that is where the worst tornadoes occurred that day.
The risk categories are based on the probability for a certain type of severe weather to occur based on climatological norms. These probabilities can be confusing for both the general public as well as some weather geeks, which is why the SPC condenses them into categories to begin with.
Here are the tornado probabilities for the same outbreak pictured above on April 27, 2011.
The 45% risk zone over Alabama and Mississippi indicates that there is a 45% higher-than-normal chance of seeing at least one tornado within 25 miles of any point in the shaded area.
Normally, a 2% higher-than-normal tornado risk warrants mention, and 5% warrants concern. For hail and wind, a 15% higher-than-normal risk warrants concern.
The black hatching on the tornado outlook map indicates the risk for significant tornadoes EF-2 or larger. The same on a wind outlook indicates the risk for winds in excess of 75 MPH, and on a hail outlook it indicates the risk for hail larger than the size of golf balls.
Certain combinations of probabilities correspond with different types of risk. For example, a 5% higher-than-normal risk for tornadoes on day one (today) would warrant the issuance of a slight risk. Here is a chart from the SPC explaining the current probabilities and how they correspond to the categorical outlooks.
The new categories to be rolled out by the SPC include "marginal" and "enhanced."
A marginal risk for severe thunderstorms will replace "see text" on the convective outlooks. An enhanced risk for severe thunderstorms will occupy the slot in between slight and moderate risk to provide forecasters an additional step to more accurately convey the risk for severe weather.
According to a post on the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang this past January, the two new categories will change the color scheme on the SPC's maps. The risk will range from cool to hot — cooler colors indicating a lower risk, warmer colors higher.
- General thunderstorms will appear blue on the map.
- Marginal risk for severe storms will appear green on the map.
- Slight risk for severe storms will appear yellow on the map.
- Enhanced risk for severe storms will appear orange on the map.
- Moderate risk for severe storms will appear red on the map.
- High risk for severe storms will appear purple/magenta on the map.
Theoretically, the addition of these two new categories will help forecasters more accurately convey the threat for severe weather to the public, but as Jason Samenow noted in the previously linked Capital Weather Gang post, adding more terminology could also serve to confuse the public. Public reaction to the updates will make or break the SPC's decision to update their forecasts.
The revamp will likely go live either later this month or next.
[Image credits in respective order: AP / SPC / SPC / SPC / Jayson Prentice via Twitter]


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Here's the Reds lineup per Fay. Still no Ludwick. Frazier gets the start in LF tonight. Pirates going for the 21st straight losing season this weekend. Lets hope they get it.
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Zack Cozart 6
Joey Votto 3
Todd Frazier 7
Jay Bruce 9
Scott Rolen 5
Drew Stubbs 8
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No, it's not the fragrance, but I bet this one smells heavenly.
I haven't actually tried this one yet, but I've placed a bottle of Creme de Violette on order at my local Alcoholic Beverage Control shop. Yes, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, we still have a hard time getting our spirits.
Here is the recipe:
- 1 1/4 parts Grey Goose L'Orange vodka
- 3/4 parts creme de violette
- 3/4 parts lemon juice
- 1/2 parts simple syrup
- 1 dash peach bitters or orange bitters
In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add all ingredients. Shake vigorously until outside of shaker is frosted and beaded with sweat. Strain into martini cocktail glass and garnish with flower.
And if you're looking for any new bar accessories, take $10 off $75 Purchase at Barware.com with code SW-8937. I am getting ready to order some martini glasses, as shockingly enough, I don't own a set. Don't ask me how that can be, as I have no answer for you.
Photo and recipe via CocktailTimes.com. Go there, seriously.
Saturday's Cocktail: Black Orchid
No, it's not the fragrance, but I bet this one smells heavenly.


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With the VoiceOver screen reader built in, Apple Watch is a powerful and accessible device for helping you be more active, healthy, and connected. And you can customize your screen with a range of display adjustments like grayscale, text size, Zoom, and the extra-Large watch face.
VoiceOver Hear what's happening on your screen.
VoiceOver is a gesture-based screen reader that uses the speaker on Apple Watch. It tells you everything that's happening on the screen and helps you navigate it, without the need to see it. VoiceOver on Apple Watch is compatible with built-in apps, is available in more than 35 languages. And when you turn on Taptic Time, a series of distinct taps from the Taptic Engine can discreetly tell you what time it is (or you can choose to have chimes play the time). Just double-tap the display to feel hours and minutes, or triple-tap with one finger to feel only minutes. You can choose from three taptic styles: digits, terse, and Morse code.
Font Adjustment Bigger. Bolder. Easier to read.
Activate Larger Dynamic Type to increase the text size for a range of Apple Watch apps, including Mail, Messages, and Settings, to make it easier to read. You can also choose Bold Text to make the text heavier across built-in apps.
Zoom Make the screen up to 15 times bigger.
It's easy to zoom in on your content by using the Digital Crown to move across the screen by rows. With magnification up to 15 times the native size, Zoom helps you enjoy all that Apple Watch has to offer.
Grayscale Reduce color. Step up clarity.
If it's easier to see the screen without color, Apple Watch lets you enable grayscale onscreen. Once you set the filter, the settings apply systemwide, so you'll see only shades of gray on the Home screen, in apps, and more.
Extra-Large Watch Face Make the numbers your focus.
Apple Watch has many different faces that you can change and customize. One of them has numbers that take up the entire screen to make it easier to view the time.
Reduce Transparency Make everything stand out clearly.
For features like alerts and Glances, you can increase the contrast on your Apple Watch screen by reducing the background transparency.
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To make it easier to see whether a setting is on or off, you can have Apple Watch show an additional label on the on/off switch.
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When you turn on Reduce Motion, some screen elements — such as the movement of icons on the Home screen — will be simpler and more directly associated with your navigation gestures.
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Sara Graefe moved into her single-family home on East 10th seven years ago because it was her kind of neighbourhood.
Her street was a bike route. She liked the big mature trees that threw a canopy over the neighbourhood's modest homes. She was a block away from a SkyTrain station.
It suited her politically, too. Graefe and her same-sex partner felt the eastside would be more accepting of them and their young son. The street on the northern border of Kensington-Cedar Cottage, was a good fit for them
Graefe, in her words, "ardently supported" Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver in the last two civic elections. She readily put up Vision Vancouver signs on her front lawn. So did her neighbours. The area was a Vision bastion.
But that could change.
Last month, the City unveiled a preliminary version of the official community plan for Grandview-Woodland, the neighbourhood just north of Graefe's. The plan called for significant densification, notably commercial towers along East Hastings and around the SkyTrain nexus at Commercial and Broadway. Those towers were last-minute additions to the plan and came as a complete surprise to residents.
Uproar followed shock. None of the residents or businesses in the area wanted the towers, and at a neighbourhood meeting in early July, several hundred of them let councillors Geoff Meggs and Andrea Reimer know they were ... I believe the correct word is pissed.
Here, in the heart of Vision territory, you pull this surprise on us? One that would completely alter the nature of our neighbourhood?
Robertson did not attend.
In the days that followed, Robertson and council backed away from the tower idea, and promised residents they were a no-go. But there was no guarantee that plans for densification in some form won't go ahead, and residents were still worried.
This included Graefe and her neighbours, who, even though they are just outside of Grandview-Woodland, understand that East 10th may be rezoned to accommodate six-storey apartment/condo buildings near the SkyTrain station. This would include Graefe's block.
"Everybody on this street is really upset. We have a mix of renters and owners on the street, and we have block parties from time to time, and we had one in June soon after the news of this broke. And there was a lot of anger expressed. People are organizing."
That organizing includes a pamphlet a neighbour put out about the proposed changes, with a link to a petition the Grandview-Woodland Area Council has started at change.org/en-CA/petitions/city-council-needs-to-listen-to-the-residents.
"I think, depending how it goes down, it will affect my support (of Vision). ... I'm disappointed in (Robertson). This is a tipping point for me. I guess it could go either way right now for me.
"If down the road, there's additional consultations and they have open houses where they actually listen to the feedback ... then there's a chance of him redeeming himself. But if it proves to be just an exercise in consultation — which is my fear and the fear of many of my neighbours — then I think we're done."
This is not the only neighbourhood to complain about the city planners' insensitivity to local input. Marpole residents rose in revolt when plans for densified "thin streets" were unveiled — plans the city also withdrew. Yaletown, West End and Mt. Pleasant residents have all complained about plans for towers and increased densification in their areas.
And on the west side — well, my mailbox never filled up so fast with angry emails when I wrote a couple of columns supporting the city's plans for a partial road closure and a dedicated bike lane down Point Grey Road.
The question now is, who hasn't Vision and the city's planners angered in the past year?
Robertson, for the most part, has held himself above these frays. He's been very little in the news lately — perhaps because, unlike some other Canadian mayors, he hasn't been indicted for a crime. But he seems absent, and willing to send his foot soldiers out to deal with the angry mobs.
When asked about those towers in the Grandview-Woodland plan, which he admitted were design "clangers," he told me he didn't know who included them or why they were there — which suggests to me he should be riding herd a little more closely on his planning department, since it has been doing such a good job of undermining his and Vision's popularity. But Robertson was unapologetic.
"I don't shy away from moving along with commitments I made and was elected on in 2008 and 2011," he said. "And primary to that is housing affordability, and making sure people can live and move around the city affordably.
"People are arriving here whether we like it or not, so those of us who live here ... are under increasing pressure. And that's the way of the world.
"We're not going to pull up the drawbridge and seal off Vancouver. That's not realistic. We've got to deal with growth that comes our way and shape it ... and that's really tough to do when you're the most livable city in the world."
It would be especially tough to do if you weren't reelected.


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Fusion-io Brings Flash Madness to Workstations and Movies Like "Hugo"
After working mostly in the realm of servers, Fusion-io — the founding member of the AllThingsD Flash Madness Club and last summer's hot IPO — said today that it is bringing its flash technology to workstations. It is calling the product ioFX.
One early customer is Rob Legato, the visual effects supervisor who won an Academy Award for his work on the Martin Scorsese-directed hit motion picture "Hugo." Legato will be talking about ioFX with Fusion-io chief scientist and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak at a conference in Las Vegas next week.
Fusion does some cool stuff with flash memory. Here's the part where I roll out the old metaphor that has served me so well: In pretty much any computer, you can think of the processor as a fast-moving, highly efficient, type-A personality, constantly in a hurry, and always waiting impatiently for the rest of the system to give it more work to do. The slowpoke in the deal is the hard drive, which, though it's already spinning at a super fast rate, just can't get data to the processor fast enough. So the processor sits around, tapping its foot and looking at its watch, waiting for the other parts of the system that feed it data to work to keep up.
In high-performance computing, where there's more data to be crunched than in most average computing situations, this is sort of a big deal. You want the processor to be as busy as possible — mainly because the systems are so expensive, and you want to get your money's worth out of them — but also because jobs get done faster.
So Fusion-io's stock in trade is a series of insert cards that bring flash memory right up next to the processor. The flash chips grab great big armloads of data and hold on to it, handing it off to the processor in a way that keeps it happy and busy and not impatiently waiting — at least not so much.
We've seen the technology brought to bear at places like Credit Suisse, which added Fusion's flash cards to its trading systems. And its technology is also used in data centers belonging to Facebook and Apple.
On top of that, Fusion has relationships with all the big server vendors: Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell and SuperMicro all sell systems with Fusion-io on board.
Workstations are essentially heavily tricked-out PCs that are used primarily in two professions: Animation and special-effects work for movies and TV and computer-assisted design and modeling, used by folks who design buildings and cars and planes and pretty much anything else you can think of. They have the same problem that servers have — agitated processors constantly waiting for the rest of the system to catch up with them.
At this point, none of the workstation vendors are offering the card as an option, but if you've got a professional workstation — like, say, an Apple Mac Pro, which has three PCI Express slots — you might add one of these cards and speed up your work. In the meantime, the company is working with workstation vendors to get the ioFX insert cards certified. My guess is there will be more than a few visual artists who won't bother to wait.
Fusion-io shares are up almost 11 percent — or $2.64 — to $27.30, as of 11 am ET; not so much on this news — workstations are kind of a low-volume market — but on an analyst report from Piper Jaffray suggesting that Cisco Systems may be close to a deal to add Fusion-io's flash technology to its Unified Computing System platform.
The report goes on to suggest that Cisco could, over the next three or four quarters, become one of Fusion's bigger customers, along with Facebook and Apple, and could account for more than 10 percent of Fusion's business — which could, in turn, lead to a doubling of revenue this year. For the record, sales were $197.2 million in Fusion's fiscal 2011. Do the math.


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LEICESTER, England, April 25, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to the Daily Mail newspaper, a young British man owes his life to an insistent father who would not allow his son's organs to be removed from his body, despite assurances from four doctors that his son could not recover from the wounds he had suffered in a recent car accident.
The Mail reports that Stephen Thorpe, then 17, was placed in a medically-induced coma following a multi-car pileup that had already taken the life of his friend Matthew, who was driving the vehicle.
Although a team of four physicians insisted that his son was "brain-dead" following the wreck, Thorpe's father enlisted the help of a general practitioner and a neurologist, who demonstrated that his son still had brain wave activity. The doctors agreed to bring him out of the coma, and five weeks later Thorpe left the hospital, having almost completely recovered.
Today, the 21-year-old with "brain damage" is studying accounting at a local university. "'My impression is maybe the hospital weren't very happy that my father wanted a second opinion," he told the Mail.
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The Cambridge-based non-profit Science Club for Girls has been partnering with the Boys and Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster to bring hands-on science activities to girls grades 2-7 at their club. A recent grant from the American Association of University Women has allowed Science Club for Girls, along with their partner, Aisling O'Connor, a chemistry professor at Fitchburg State University (FSU) to continue this vital program.
For ten weeks each semester, the girls spend one afternoon a week with a female science or engineering student from FSU. This not only gives them important hands-on science experience, but time with female scientist role models.
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Jane's ability only happens within the mind, NOT in the physical. She gives the illusion of pain - Alice discusses this with Bella at the end of Eclipse. If they do the physical part for her power(throwing Edward across the room) then in theory she would be able to affect Bella. This won't work in relation to the book. Don't be stupid, CW.Jadey wrote:Im not that happy about Jane thrashing Eddie against walls and whatnot.. I.. it just doesn't seem right.
It will be bloody awesome to watch.. but.. it like, defeats the whole purpose of Janes power. You're supposed to just lie there, in agony.. Having Edward flung everywhere makes Janes power seem... less scary?
I dunno.
If we see Janes power deal with stuff physically... then Bella wouldn't be immune to it?
I understand it's just to show what her power does.. But if it's shown like that.. then it's not just the mind.. its the physical body aswell? Or... will they do it so only we see Edward bashing against walls.. and no one else?
Like... the audience will see Edward fly everywhere (cause thats what Edward thinks is happening) but the Volturi and Bella/Alice will just see him on the ground?
I so confooooooooooooooooooooooosed.
They can make Edward's reaction to Jane's mind-bending pain infliction by having really intense music along wiht him suffering on the turret castle floor.
I wish they would keep it real, and let excellent camera work, music and the acting do the job. That is was movie making is all about - great acting, great nuance established with music and mood and camera angles and especially excellent writing and directing.
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days like these
A couple of random links at the end of a very long day of far too many whining, irresponsible students (OH MY GOSH - WHY would you email your professor 2 weeks before the exam asking for a make-up due to a tennis match, then not reply to the professor's email until 30 minutes before the time she told you you could make it up to say that you couldn't make it up then?!?). Days like this make me question my life choices.
- Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville will be re-released this summer. And half a million women in their early thirties just sighed in memory of their riot grrl days. (I saw her one summer in Nashville and I have to say, it wasn't as impressive as it should've been.)
- Abstinence as a feminist stance? Only at Hah-vahd. (Seriously. This is an interesting take on what it's like to be a person of non-mainstream conviction at an elite university.)
- I bet Mom and my newly-retired Daddy can almost taste the Tennessee-UConn match they'd love to see in Tampa next week.
- I am so tempted to go see this show on Thursday.
- I already wanted to read this book. After reading this review, I want to read it even more.
- How is there not a newer Bradt Guide to Peru than the 2002 edition? Bradt Guides are the only country guides I like, because they are comprehensive and are written by outsiders who have lived and worked in the countries. These are the people who are giving us a guide to the Congos! Why can't they update a place as simple as Peru?!?
- Yeah, so I'm planning a trip with friends for late summer...


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Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani, one of the first two female athletes sent to the Olympics by Saudi Arabia, will participate in the Olympic's judo competition with a bare head.
"She will fight according to the principle and spirit of judo, so without a hijab," International Judo Federation president Marius Vizer said.
Given that many Saudi Arabian clerics would rather their country's women not compete at the Olympics — or exercise at all, since conservatives believe it's wrong for women to spend time playing sports — it's a given that this won't go over too smoothly.
Saudi woman to compete without Islamic headscarf [Reuters]
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PEREVALNE, Ukraine (AP) — Igniting a tense standoff, Russian forces surrounded a Ukrainian army base Sunday just as the country began mobilizing in response to the surprise Russian takeover of Crimea. Outrage over Russia's tactics mounted in world capitals, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calling on President Vladimir Putin to pull back from "an incredible act of aggression."
Fearing that Europe's borders were being rewritten by force, world leaders rushed to find a diplomatic solution to the dispute. But there was no denying what had already happened on the ground: Russia captured the Black Sea peninsula on Saturday without firing a shot.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said there was no reason for Russia to invade Ukraine and warned that "we are on the brink of disaster."
"We believe that our western partners and the entire global community will support the territorial integrity and unity of Ukraine," he said Sunday in Kiev.
NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels, Britain's foreign minister flew to Kiev to support its new government and the U.S., France and Britain debated the possibility of boycotting the next Group of Eight economic summit, being held in June at Sochi, the host of Russia's successful Winter Olympics.
In Kiev, Moscow and other cities, thousands of protesters took to the streets to either decry the Russian occupation or celebrate Crimea's return to its former ruler.
"Support us, America!" a handful of protesters chanted outside the U.S. Embassy in Kiev. One young girl held up a placard reading: "No Russian aggression!"
"Russia! Russia!" the crowd chanted in Moscow.
Kerry, interviewed Sunday on U.S. television news shows, talked about boycotting the G-8 summit, as well as possible visa bans, asset freezes and trade and investment penalties against Russia. Kerry said all the foreign ministers he had talked to were prepared "to go to the hilt" to isolate Russia.
Still, politicians were treading carefully, knowing it was a delicate time for Europe.
"We are on a very dangerous track of increasing tensions," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. "(But) it is still possible to turn around. A new division of Europe can still be prevented."
So far, however, Ukraine's new government and other countries have been powerless to counter Russia's tactics. Armed men in uniforms without insignia have moved freely about Crimea for days, occupying airports, smashing equipment at an air base and besieging a Ukrainian infantry base.
Putin has defied calls from the West to pull back his troops, insisting that Russia has a right to protect its interests and those of Russian-speakers in Crimea and elsewhere in Ukraine. His confidence is matched by the knowledge that Ukraine's 46 million people have divided loyalties. While much of western Ukraine wants closer ties with the 28-nation European Union, its eastern and southern regions like Crimea look to Russia for support.
Russia has long wanted to reclaim the lush Crimean Peninsula, part of its territory until 1954. Russia's Black Sea Fleet pays Ukraine millions every year to be stationed at the Crimean port of Sevastopol and nearly 60 percent of Crimea's residents identify themselves as Russian.
During a phone conversation Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin "directed her attention to the unrelenting threat of violence from ultranationalist forces (in Ukraine) that endangered the life and legal interests of Russian citizens," according to a Kremlin statement.
The statement also said "the measures taken by Russia are fully adequate with regard to the current extraordinary situation."
Ukraine's new government came to power last week following months of pro-democracy protests against a pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and his decision to turn Ukraine toward Russia instead of the EU. Yanukovych fled to Russia after more than 80 people were killed in the protests. He insists he's still president.
Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, put Ukraine's armed forces on alert and stepped up security at nuclear power plants, airports and other strategic locations. On Sunday, the government issued a decree to begin calling up reservists for training but no overt military actions by Ukraine have been seen.
Turchynov also appointed 18 new regional governors, including two oligarchs in the eastern cities of Dneprotrovsk and Donetsk, as big business and the new Ukrainian government united against Russia.
Ukraine's richest man, oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, urged business, ordinary people and the government to join together, saying Sunday that the use of force and "illegal action from outside" were "impermissible."
Russian troops, meanwhile, pulled up to the Ukrainian military base at Perevalne on the Crimean Peninsula in a convoy Sunday that included at least 13 trucks and four armored vehicles with mounted machine guns. The trucks carried 30 soldiers each and had Russian license plates.
In response, a dozen Ukrainian soldiers, some with clips in their rifles, placed a tank at the base's gate, leaving the two sides in a tense standoff. It appeared to be the first known case of outmatched Ukrainians standing up to Russian military might.
Later in the afternoon, civilians backing both Ukraine and Russia walked over to view the standoff at Perevalne, some shaking their heads in amazement in the geo-political developments right in their own town.
Unidentified soldiers were also seen cutting power to the headquarters of the Ukrainian Naval forces in Crimea — whose own commander defected later Sunday and pledged his allegiance to "the people of Crimea."
In Kiev, a Ukrainian security official said the head of the Ukrainian Navy — Adm. Denis Berezovsky — had been dismissed and faces a treason investigation after declaring his allegiance to the pro-Russian government of the Crimea region and offering no resistance to the Russian troops.
The speaker of Crimea's legislature, Vladimir Konstantinov, was quoted as saying local authorities do not recognize the new government in Kiev. He said a planned referendum on March 30 would ask voters about the region's future status.
A convoy of hundreds of Russian troops was also seen heading toward Simferopol, the regional capital of Crimea. Armed men in military uniforms without markings strolled around Simferopol's central plaza, Lenin Square, outside its Council of Ministers building.
In Brussels, NATO's secretary general said Russia had violated the U.N. charter with its military action in Ukraine, and he urged Moscow to "de-escalate the tensions."
Ukraine is not a NATO member, meaning the U.S. and Europe are not obligated to come to its defense. But Ukraine has taken part in some alliance military exercises.
"It is very important that we all do everything we can to calm tensions," said British Foreign Minister William Hague, who flew to Kiev on Sunday.
He said he has urged Russian officials to "speak directly to the Ukrainians" but so far they had not.
President Barack Obama talked with Putin by telephone for 90 minutes Saturday and expressed his "deep concern" about "Russia's clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty." Obama warned that Russia's "continued violation of international law will lead to greater political and economic isolation."
In Moscow, at least 10,000 people bearing Russian flags marched freely through the city Sunday, while a few dozen demonstrating on Red Square against the invasion of Ukraine were quickly detained by Russian riot police.
"We understand that the West wants to attack us and seize this territory. It (the West) is dangerous to us," said Victor Sidelin, a Moscow resident at the march.
McHugh reported from Kiev, Ukraine. Greg Keller in Paris, Laura Mills and Lynn Berry in Moscow, Tom Strong in Washington, Tim Sullivan in Crimea, Greg Katz in London and Geir Moulson from Berlin also contributed to this story.


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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds, blunt trauma, according to death certificate
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon suspect whose life came to a violent end on a Watertown street, died from gunshot wounds to the torso and extremities and from blunt trauma to the head and torso, according to the death certificate issued by the Massachusetts medical examiner.
The document, viewed by the Globe on Friday, shows that Tsarnaev was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m. April 19.
The death certificate also states that Tsarnaev was shot by police, and run over and dragged by a vehicle.
Quiet streets in Watertown erupted in mayhem early April 19 as the Tsarnaev brothers led police on a chase punctuated by exploding bombs and a frenzy of gunshots. As 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev lay wounded on the ground, his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, got behind the wheel of a Mercedes SUV the siblings are accused of taking in a carjacking. In the ensuing frenzy, police said, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurtled toward his brother, ran over him, and dragged his body.
On Friday, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body arrived at a funeral home in Worcester.
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Fan interference: in defense of the three stooges
It's appropriate that the Farrelly Brothers' much-anticipated and long-in-the-works cinematic update of The Three Stooges just opened on Friday, April 13.
The coincidental timing has nothing to do with bad luck or superstition, but the fact that much of the past few days has been spent writing and talking about The Three Stooges of the sports world: Former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, former Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino, and current Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen.
But hey, everybody, no matter how distasteful they are or repugnant the acts are that they commit, is entitled to a defense. Isn't that one of the rights, along with the right to stream episodes of Knight Rider on our iPhones and the right of each individual to pick and choose his or her favorite Kardashian sister, one of the principles this country was founded upon?
No one said it would be easy, but here goes, in order of least to most egregious offense:
1. Gregg Williams, not to be confused with Barry ("Greg" from The Brady Bunch) Williams. I admit I was a little nauseated when I heard the audio clip of Williams, then the Saints defensive coordinator, getting his squad all fired up prior to January's NFC Divisional Playoff Game by profanely encouraging his players to "beat (49ers running back) Frank Gore's head" and to "put a lick" on 49ers receiver Kyle Williams, a player who has had a history of concussion problems. It's largely distasteful stuff. But, a bit like overcoming my initial skepticism of movie stud Channing Tatum, I've reluctantly come around a bit after hearing some former NFL players dismiss most of this as pretty routine stuff.
Hey, no matter how much Roger Goodell would like to change the NFL's image, football is by its very nature a violent sport, and that undoubtedly contributes to much of its appeal. How many of us have said, as Williams does here, "knock the (bleep) out of him" or worse while watching football at home? Much of what Williams says in the contested clip can not only be dismissed as largely figurative language, but as hyperbole. Sure his speech is over the top, but what about professional football – the personalities, the salaries, and yes, the violence – isn't?
If Williams is never allowed back in the NFL, it should not be because of his words, but because of his primary role in the Saints' bounty system, which is not only banned by the NFL, but much more reprehensible. Like Adam Sandler. (Wait, has the NFL banned Adam Sandler? If not, it should.)
2. Ozzie Guillen. Look, the Florida – excuse me, I mean the Miami – Marlins knew what they were doing when they hired Guillen to manage their team. Ownership of the Marlins knew that Guillen could be counted on to say ridiculous crap, making the Marlins more attractive to the media and thereby making the largely irrelevant team – which has a new logo, new stadium, and high expectations not to completely suck (well, it's high expectations for them) this year – at least appear more relevant to the casual fan.
(BTW, who understands the Marlins' look-at-us moves such as hiring Guillen or agreeing to be followed by Showtime for its reality series The Franchise? It's not like people buy tickets to watch the manager manage or come to the ballpark to celebrate reality TV stars. Unless it's Hoarders bobble head night.)
Now, was what Ozzie Guillen said moronic, insensitive, and hateful? Yes, but this is someone who has said moronic, insensitive, and hateful things before, such as calling a local sportswriter "a fag" back in 2006 and MLB umpire Joe West a "(bleep)ing (bleep)hole" in 2010.
But in a strange way, despite the stupidity of saying "I love Fidel Castro" in the very city and to the very people that you most assuredly cannot say that too (I'm reminded of Basil Fawlty's desperately failed attempts to "don't mention the war" when entertaining a group of German guests), I can sort of buy Guillen's defense – that he was showing admiration not for Fidel Castro the man or for Castro's actions, but a sick sense of awe for the fact that the dictator has somehow managed to stay alive into his eighties despite being so hated and vilified by his people and by much of the world.
I can buy that somewhat lame excuse because Guillen has a history of not organizing or filtering his thoughts before he vocalizes them, and I'd rather buy that character trait than just accuse him of blinding ignorance.
However, if the Marlins' front office thought that they could hire Guillen and get the headines without the controversy, then they are the ones guilty of blinding ignorance.
3. Bobby Petrino. If the Marlins were ignorant for hiring Guillen, then the University of Arkansas was downright stupid for hiring Bobby Petrino as its head football coach. Here's a guy who has admittedly been an exceptional football coach, but who wherever he goes has shown remarkable selfishness, a brazen lack of loyalty, and massive inconsideration for his fellow human beings.
In 2007, when the Atlanta Falcons were suddenly without Michael Vick due to federal dog fighting charges, did first-year head coach Petrino rally his team to help them overcome nearly impossible odds? (Hey, when your quarterbacks are named Joey Harrington and Byron Leftwich, those odds are generous.) Well, maybe for the first thirteen weeks he did, until he resigned in the middle of the night three-quarters of the way into the season, leaving behind arrogantly impersonal goodbye notes in each player's locker.
But of course Petrino had already proven himself to not be a man of his word, having left Louisville just six months after signing a massive 10-year contract with the Big East powerhouse.
But breaking a business contract is good times and great oldies compared to breaking a marriage contract with a woman half your age after giving said woman a job plus a $20,000 cash gift while lying to not only your wife and family and the university about your relationship with said woman, but the police about the presence of said woman when a motorcycle accident you were involved with said woman suddenly and irrevocably ups your jig.
I'm sorry. I tried, but Petrino's actions are indefensible. Just like Moe's haircut.


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Investors cut their exposure to Europe and emerging Asian markets during the second quarter of 2012. But where did they put their money?
Select groups of bond funds, sector funds and Japan-focused investments picked up much of the global inflows, according to EPFR Global, a Boston-based research firm.
During the quarter, U.S. and global bond funds were the only major geographical fund groups to absorb over $10 billion, EPFR Global says in data it released for the quarter.
U.S. money-market funds, for instance, had outflows of $28.5 billion during the March-June period vs. U.S. bond funds, which attracted $57.1 billion.
"It's possible that in an environment where yields on some short-term U.S. and German debt are negative that investors are opting to hold more physical cash," said EPFR Global research director Cameron Brandt, in a statement.
For the first half of 2012, flows into U.S. bond funds were $129.7 billion – way ahead of the $35.4 billion that went into this category in the first half of 2011.
Overall, global funds into bonds worldwide were $75.4 billion in Q2 and $197.3 billion in the first half of '12, a big jump from $98.5 billion for the first half of '11.
Equity Fund Flows
Equity funds are seeing some support from institutional investors and spotty inflows from retail investors, the group says. Retail investors were net contributors to this fund category in only two of the past 61 weeks. In contrast, bond funds experienced retail contributions in 25 of the last 26 weeks.
As funds left Europe and much of Asia, Japan equity funds "swam against this tide, despite concerns about energy supplies, a less competitive currency and weaker Chinese demand," according to EPFR Global.
The $5.6 billion absorbed by Japan funds was the highest level since late 2005 and is being attributed to the Bank of Japan's asset-buying program, the research firm notes.
Sector Fund Flows
"Gold began to glitter again for investors during the second quarter," notes EPFR. Flows into gold and precious-metal funds were $1.6 billion in Q2 and total $5.1 billion in the first half of '12.
Yield-hungry investors also liked real estate funds, which had inflows of $2.5 billion in the quarter and $6.8 billion for the first half of 2012 – topping the results of gold-precious metals.
Commodities experienced about $264 million of inflows, but have had more than $7 billion in such flows year to date.
Health care/biotech funds grew by $1.3 billion in the second quarter and had inflows of $1.8 billion for the first six months of the year.
Other equity groups experiencing inflows of late are global emerging market funds, with positive flows of $1.4 billion in Q2, and global equity funds, up $755 million in the past three months.


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B.A., California State University-San Bernardino
Dr. Deirdre Pettipiece came to Lehman College from West Chester University, where she was Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. At West Chester, Dr. Pettipiece supported faculty development, external affairs and community development, budget management, and strategic planning for the College of Arts and Sciences, where she also successfully coauthored applications for over $2.75 million in grants. Earlier, she chaired the Department of Communication and Modern Languages at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Pettipiece received her Ph.D. in English with an emphasis on scientific writing from Arizona State University (ASU). She subsequently joined the faculty at ASU, creating and teaching its first hybrid and online literature courses and co-authoring the handbook Teaching and Learning in the Electronic Classroom.
She has written on a wide range of topics, including Sex Theories and the Shaping of Two Moderns: Hemingway and H.D . (Routledge, 2002) that focuses on the infusion of evolutionary reading and language in the works of the legendary authors Ernest Hemingway and Hilda Doolittle.
Over the years, Dr. Pettipiece has taught interdisciplinary and professional writing courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Northern Arizona University, Central Arizona College, South Mountain Community College, the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her deanship at Lehman, she holds a full professorship in the Department of English.
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- Pettipiece, D., & Everett, J. (2012). Ethos and Topoi: Using the outcomes statement rhetorically to achieve the centrality and autonomy of writing programs. In N. Biehm, G. Glau, D. Holdstein, D. Roen, & E. White (Eds.), The WPA outcomes statement: A decade later. Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press.


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Marvel expands its cinematic clout to encompass another colorful franchise, encompassing a rag-tag team of intergalactic adventurers. Headed by Peter Quill, aka Star Lord (Chris Pratt), the quintet includes the green-skinned warrior Gamora (Zoe Saldana), vengeance-seeking Drax the Destroyer (WWW champ Dave Bautista) and two endearing CG characters: clever, cybernetically enhanced, gun-slinging Rocket Raccoon, voiced by Bradley Cooper, and Groot, a humanoid, self-regenerating tree whose one line of dialogue ("I am Groot") is uttered repeatedly -- but with different intonations -- by Vin Diesel.
It begins in 1988, when grief-stricken 9-year-old Peter, whose cancer-ravaged mother has just died, is abducted from Earth and zapped into the cosmos. Now 30-something, he still carries his Walkman and earphones, bopping to a mixtape of funky `70s songs, like "Hooked on a Feeling," "Cherry Bomb," "Come and Get Your Love" and "I'm Not in Love." Piloting his own spacecraft, Peter is an intrepid mercenary, scavenging once-populated-but-now-deserted planets, on the payroll of a blue-skinned Ravager, Yondu (Michael Rooker). Dispatched after a mysterious silver Orb, Peter discovers it's coveted by Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), a villainous warlord who wants to trade it in exchange for the power to destroy Xandar, home to the Nova Corps, the space militia that's been at war with Ronan's race, the evil Kree, headed by all-powerful Thanos (Josh Brolin), who appeared during a brief post-credit scene in "The Avengers" (2012).
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Statement by NEA President Dennis Van Roekel on the Department of Labor's investigation of Prince George's County Public Schools
WASHINGTON - April 06, 2011 -
According to the Department of Labor, Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland willfully violated the law when it exploited a group of international teachers who came to the United States under the Department's H-1B visa program. The H-1B is a program designed to recruit qualified, certified professionals from other countries. Teachers were required to pay thousands of dollars in visa and placement fees that, by law, should have been covered by the school district.
"These teachers are our members and they deserve to be treated fairly, regardless of where they were born or when they arrived. Their mistreatment by the school district is blatant and appalling.
"The situation in Prince George's County raises a bigger issue about recruiting teachers internationally. We need a set of standards that addresses the employment needs of school districts, while protecting the rights of teachers. Recruitment agencies that work with school districts to hire teachers from abroad must be regulated. Without oversight, this becomes a lose/lose scenario where teachers from overseas—who we ought to consider a cultural resource—are exploited instead.
"We are pleased that the Department of Labor decided to conduct this investigation and help focus attention on the issue of exploited teachers, a problem which is not unique to Prince George's County. Next week, NEA will host the Education International Task Force on Teacher Migration where we will discuss this very topic. It's important to deal with these issues upfront and help establish globally recognized standards to protect the rights of teachers everywhere."
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Panels from a Scholar's Study
Artist/maker unknown, Chinese
Made in China, Asia
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)Date:
Wood with lacquer and gilded decoration (miaojin)Dimensions:
9 feet 7 inches × 20 feet 10 1/16 inches × 17 feet 9 7/8 inches (292.1 × 635.2 × 543.2 cm) Other (Side panels (18)): 6 feet 9 inches × 23 inches (205.7 × 58.4 cm) Other (Top panels (5)): 26 x 40 inches (66 x 101.6 cm) Other (Over-door panels (2)): 20 x 47 inches (50.8 x 119.4 cm) Other (Door openings (2)): 7 feet 6 inches × 47 inches (228.6 × 119.4 cm) Other (Windows (2)): 41 x 56 inches (104.1 x 142.2 cm) Other (Floor blocks): 18 x 18 inches (45.7 x 45.7 cm)Curatorial Department:
East Asian Art
* Gallery 340, Asian Art, third floor (Hollis Scholar´s Study)Accession Number:
1929-30-1Credit Line:
Gift of Wright S. Ludington in memory of his father, Charles H. Ludington, 1929
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The scholar's study was one of the innermost chambers of a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat's residence. This example was acquired by the Museum in Beijing, where similar interiors may still be seen in the palaces of the former Forbidden City. Designed to be a contemplative setting away from official duties, the two side walls are lined with hinged, lacquered panels, each with silk-covered latticework at the top and delicately painted landscapes at the bottom.
The study is furnished in a style typical of the period. The hardwood (huanghuali) seen at the back left is of the "kneehole" type, long popular in China. It offered ample room for storing the scholar's books, brushes, and writing equipment. The long, narrow table at the right front was designed for painting or looking at scrolls.
The occupant of the study was most likely a highly ranked mandarin, or civil official, who had passed a series of difficult competitive examinations in the Chinese classics in order to attain his position. He was versed not only in the duties of his office but also in music, poetry, and the arts of calligraphy and painting, and was a connoisseur of art with a keen interest in collecting.
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The whole Play Books service is tied with the Play Store itself, thus if you have already added your Credit or Debit card details to your Google Wallet, you are all set to start buying eBooks from the Play Store.
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The Pines
284 Third Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11215 (b/n Carroll and President; map); 718-596-6560; thepinesbrooklyn.com
Service: Skilled and welcoming
Setting: Attractively "unfinished" Brooklyn space with a huge back garden (not for dining at the moment)
Compare It To: Battersby, Gwynnett Street
Must-Haves: Apples, agnolotti
Cost: Figure $30/head for food
Grade: B
I don't quite remember when the notion of an ambitious restaurant opening up in Gowanus ceased to seem strange. After the success of Four and Twenty Blackbirds, perhaps; or maybe around the time Roberta's became a picnic-tabled dining destination in Bushwick? Regardless, we're now at a time when a talented chef considers a restaurant a block from the canal a reasonable proposition. I'm loathe to call a neighborhood "the new" Williamsburg or "the new" Bushwick—are we really at the point where something can be the new Bushwick? Perhaps not—but Gowanus now has a restaurant that precedes your first course with an amuse-bouche.
The owners of The Pines have already planted their stake in the neighborhood, with the exceedingly good seafood shack Littleneck on the same short block. The newer venture, opened nearly a month ago, is in a much different mold. Instead of a staunchly traditional New England, The Pines is an eclectic sort of New American. Instead of familiar clam rolls and lobster, The Pines has ingredients laid out in descriptions like "Amaranth w/ nduja, maitake, goose berry." The chef, Angelo Romano, has come through Roberta's and the now-closed Masten Lake. It's the sort of often wildly original, anything-goes model of many Brooklyn restaurants these days—housemade this, backyard-grown that.
And to a large extent, it succeeds. My fear with restaurants that exhibit this sort of unpredictable menu form is that they'll echo the experience we had with Isa: wild creativity without editing, and without the chops to execute properly. For the most part, The Pines avoids these pitfalls. Where the menu is best, it is surprising without being perplexing, occasionally familiar ingredients deployed in novel ways.
Take the "Lettuce" ($12), for example, one of my favorite dishes on the menu. To me, it looks like a pretty unexciting deconstructed salad, a slightly fancied-up romaine wedge. But those bits that look like croutons? They're slowly rendered bits of guanciale, airy-light and dissolving between a crunch of the teeth to a pure bite of pig fat. Sound rich, against an eggy, oily dressing? It's egg yolk–based, for sure, but the yolks are tempered with heavy cream and then united with gelatin for a much less liquid, airier effect than you'd expect. A salad with a rich dressing and light crunch, but with the elements reversed. Novel and delicious.
The apple salad ($10) was another whose flavors were far more compelling then a glance would indicate. Its dressing is based on sheep's milk yogurt and milk and tastes vividly of it, with just a bit of salt and balsamic, a creamy, tangy counterpart to the apples. Raw hibiscus leaf contributes to the tartness. I couldn't stop thinking about how I'd eat these apples... I'd love yogurt-slathered Honeycrisps diced over a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, or layered on a crust for a savory take on a dessert pie. On their own, however, it's an excellent thing, all the easier to appreciate how well these flavors play together.
The purslane salad ($14) was one that I liked for the most part, the greens precisely dressed with rice vinegar and good olive oil, crunchy pistachios and a foam of whipped pistachio milk filling it out. And I'm all about lardo draped over any melon, and the chunks of compressed ogen melon worked well here. That said, the method of eating isn't quite clear. I liked the bites of melon-lardo, and purslane-pistachio, but when the elements aren't visually readable—was that saucelike pool lardo, or pistachio, or...? it wasn't clear at first—I wasn't quite sure how to eat it. Tasty nonetheless, but this was one case I felt something a little more ready-to-fork would've been appropriate. At The Pines, plating is often a bit creatively unstructured, elements displayed on their own; in some cases it works, in others it's a little perplexing.
We were quite fond of our meatier starter, a delicate, fatty pig's head testa ($12) with huckleberry, celery, and black pepper. The filone loaf is airy and flavorful in all the right ways, if toasted a bit too hard to allow for the melty crunch of pig on bread. Of the full bread plate ($4), it was the seeded wheat we loved, excellent with the caraway-flavored butter, though we wish it had been a bit softer and more spreadable. (If you're going with snacks to start, the $6 bowl of balsamic-dressed olives is almost comically large, not disappearing at a table of six despite our best efforts.)
I've rarely had a harder time deciding what to order than when looking at The Pines's pasta section. How do you choose between cavatelli with duck heart; pici with trotter ragu; garganelli with crab brodo, lamb's quarter, and preserved lemon; and agnolotti with smoked pork neck, mizuna, and quark? "It's trotter v. pork neck, I think," someone murmured at our table. "Who will win?" The neck did. Those agnolotti ($22) ended up being my favorite, bundles of fatty, tender pork with the smoke coming through faintly. The neck is deboned, cooked for 12 hours, then cold-smoked over pecan wood before it's whipped with straciatella, egg yolks, and pecorino for the filling. Focused, indulgent, and memorably tasty. I liked the straightforward meaty funk of the cavatelli with duck heart ($17) as well, though the pasta itself wasn't perfect, a bit stiff (as distinct from al dente). But the ragu spoke powerfully of duck, a roasted carcass simmered into a broth with wild leeks as the base of a sauce with tomatoes and duck heart. Pecorino cheese to finish.
I've gone though several stages of thought about the mains, which didn't grab me as much as some earlier dishes. On the one hand, I had at least minor critiques of each one. On the other hand, $21 for slow-cooked pork shoulder isn't bad at all. I liked the well-seasoned, tender flesh (brined, pressure-cooked, and pan-seared) with macadamia nuts and gooseberries. Not all our entrees were executed well, however. $17 for short rib may be less than I've paid in ages, but I found the meat itself quite over-salted and with too much naked fat—nearly half of some of the pieces, barely rendered fat clinging to small bits of meat. We're all for the fatty parts when done right, but this seemed like fat to the exclusion of all else. But the rest of the dish—sweet potato puree, wilted treviso, baby pencil leek—worked well.
The less meat-heavy, though by no means vegetarian, amaranth ($14) with maitake mushrooms and 'nduja was probably the best illustration of The Pines walking the border between interesting–good and interesting–just interesting. I quite enjoyed this porridge of sorts, the fine grain tasting strongly of pork and the 'nduja's various spices, with maitake mushrooms atop. (The gooseberries, on the other hand: I get why you'd want a little sharp tartness in there, but found them a little jarring.) Others found the whole composition perplexing. "I don't know what I'm eating here," mused one (generally adventurous) eater. Some dishes at The Pines just don't have clear analogues; had I asked the waitress to explain the dish before I ordered, I honestly have no idea what she would've told me. "Spicy pork porridge," maybe? I found that I liked the dish that appeared, but on a menu like this, it can be hard to gauge your own preferences.
Desserts, in sharp contrast, are pleasantly straightforward. I couldn't get enough of a banana gelato ($7) with 'Nilla wafers and caramelized banana slices; a whipped sheep's milk cheese, just lightly sweetened, added a creamy, tart element. The chocolate gelato ($7) was similarly technically good, rich with a flavor all chocolate, with chocolate shavings, butter cookie crumbles, and a plum granita—I liked the tart fruit on the chocolate, and the crunch the cookie lent.
And speaking of granita, The Pines presented one as an amuse bouche before the meal properly began: a Concord grape one with dried bits of the citrus Buddha's Hand. The flavors were powerful and focused, both the gesture and the preparation quite sophisticated. At its best moments, that's just how The Pines is—smartly conceived, powerfully flavored, a lot more ambitious than even the team's excellent clam shack.
The comparisons to be made are other small, quirky-menued Brooklyn joints like Battersby or Gwynnett Street. At Battersby, dishes surprised me and delighted almost without fail. Here there's a bit more variation. I'd say, at this point, that The Pines has that intention, if not necessarily the execution. But it's young yet; and what's already on the plate is promising indeed. And if I lived on Third Avenue? I'd be very happy to welcome it.