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The chances of a viable two state solution are quickly slipping away according to a new report on settlement building from the Israeli-American NGO Peace Now.
"These coming elections are about the future of the two state solution. Every additional year with the right-wing in power means more settlement building and reduces the likelihood of achieving two states," the report says. The report comes in conjunction to a leak, exposed by Stav Shaffir, a Labor Party member of the Knesset (the Israeli parliament), which revealed the extent to which the Israeli government is secretly funding Jewish-only colonies.
"When I got into the finance committee I discovered that Israel has two budgets, one budget is being passed legally on the Knesset floor and another secret budget that is being transferred in the finance committee," Shaffir explained in an interview with the Israeli daily Ha'aretz. She said that in the last year alone, this secret budget amounted to around NIS 64bn (approx. USD $16.2bn), or about 15% of Israel's national budget.
Shaffir did not specify how much of this secret budget is being redirected to settlements in the West Bank, but intimated that the settlements were being disproportionately favoured at the expense of communities in the Galilee region and the Naqab desert in the south—areas in which Israel's Palestinian minority is concentrated. "The government… doesn't tell its citizens who live in the periphery, in the Negev and the Galil, that part of their money is moving unequally to the settlements," she claimed.
Additionally, Shaffir revealed that in the past year and a half the Israeli government transferred an additional bonus of NIS 1.2bn to the settlements—a move hidden from the Israeli public. Shaffir explained that she wasn't opposed to the process of settlement building in the occupied West Bank, which is illegal under international law; rather, she feels that Israeli taxpayer money should be more equally divided.
The new construction report by Peace Now reveals that Benjamin Netanyahu's government has increased construction by 40% when compared with the previous administration. 68% of this construction has taken place east of the line proposed in the Geneva Initiative.
The Geneva Initiative is a model peace agreement between political leaders and public figures from both Palestinian and Israeli society. That so much of the settlement construction during Netanyahu's term has taken place in the areas deemed by this initiative to be most obstructive to the possibility of a two state solution, suggests that the current Israeli administration is seeking to actively undermine the possibility of a viable Palestinian state.
The latest Israeli declaration of settlement expansion in January drew widespread international condemnation. The US State Department described the announcement as "illegitimate and counterproductive to achieving a two-state outcome." The EU echoed this sentiment, saying the new settlements were "an obstacle to peace," whereas Wassel Abu Yusef from the Palestine Liberation Organization decried the move as "a war crime."
In February 2013, a United Nations fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements concluded, "All Israel's settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law. The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an Occupying Power from transferring its civilian population into an occupied territory. The report calls on Israel to dismantle all its settlements, the construction of which could be considered a war crime falling under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court."
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From Introductory Combinatorics by Richard Brualdi
We have a chess master. He has 11 weeks to prepare for a competition so he decides that he will practice everyday by playing at least 1 game a day. To make sure that he's able to take a couple of breaks, he also decides that he wont play more than 12 games per week.
My question is, how do you prove/dis-prove that there will be a succession of (consecutive) days in which he will play k games, $k \geq 22$?
Specifically, I don't quite understand the use of the pigeonhole principle here.
Thanks in advance! :D
I'll try to clarify what I'm asking:
The goal is to prove that for every possible practice schedule that the chess master makes, there will always be a consecutive sequence of days such that he plays exactly k games.
So for example, if k = 22, how do you prove that no matter what his schedule is like, he will always play exactly k games in r days, $1 \leq r\leq 77$.
My main question is: what is the general method for proving different values of k? Are there values of k (from 1 to 132 inclusive) that are impossible to obtain?
Note that he does not necessarily have to play 132 games within 77 days! Also, keep in mind the bounds of k.


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This site is designed to provide a World dive site atlas. Actually, we create the environment for posting details and photos of your local dive site - its up to you to add the data - via the interactive form. New dive sites are being continuously added as they are submitted from divers around the world.
Have a look at those areas which are already beginning to be detailed - and you'll see the great potential. Now when you read about diving at dive site X in distant country Y, you'll be able to look it up and see how it really is. Not only are there data-sheets for each dive site, but also messages and a full interactive forum.
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Welcome to the way the world dives - Welcome to PADI and it's amazing courses and programs taking you from beginner to professional in well defined and quality safe steps. Whether you are new to scuba diving or snorkelling, or even just to progress your understanding or knowledge we have something for you. Lets take a quick look at what Borneo Dream has to offer in way of PADI.
Snorkelling - Often forgotten or sometimes treated by certain operators as not so important. Here at Borneo Dream we offer 3 different types of snorkelling. Free and easy or also know as unguided snorkelling where we deliver you to one of the islands and after a short island overview we leave you to relax, swim and snorkel at your leisure. Collecting you for lunch and delivering to a different destination in the afternoon. We then have a guided snorkelling experience where is small groups of no more than six we go on 3 guided snorkelling sessions away from the madding crowd. After the first two sessions we break for lunch.
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The final offering in our snorkelling program brings you to a real treat. Half day jungle trek across Pulau Gaya followed by lunch and an afternoon guided snorkelling session of a coral reef. This beauty is called Trek and Guided Snorkel. With all our snorkelling products or programs we include mask, snorkel, fins, wet-suit and life jacket if required. Plus lunch and free flow drinking water.
Scuba Diving - We all have to start somewhere so we have 3 course to get you going or put your foot on the scuba diving ladder. The PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experience Program is a non certification based 1 day program to give you a taste of scuba diving and what the underwater world is all about. Then the next two offerings are the PADI Scuba Diver Course 2 Days and the PADI Open Water Diver Course 3 Days. The Scuba Diver course will certify you to 12 metres and the Open Water will certify you to 18 metres. Now the PADI Discover Scuba is the first day of both courses making an upgrade should you wish to continue very easy.
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If you are already a certified diver and looking for the next step and sure we have something to offer you. Leading on from PADI Open Water Diver Course we have the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course, The PADI Rescue Diver Course and then in the professional level of PADI Divemaster. We then have a wide range of PADI Speciality Courses such as PADI Enriched Air Diver, PADI Digital Underwater Photography Diver, PADI Deep Diver - Just to keep you busy. Any how if you are interested or looking for something specific then drop us a line and we will always try and help.


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Rapid-reaction mechanism
This Regulation creates a mechanism to enable rapid action to be taken in specific areas in response to or avoid real or potential crisis situations or conflicts. Financing takes the form of grants. The Commission, with the help of its partners, is the institution responsible for implementing, coordinating and evaluating the mechanism.
Council Regulation (EC) No 381/2001 of 26 February 2001 creating a rapid-reaction mechanism [Official Journal L 57 of 27.02.2001].
This Regulation creates a "rapid-reaction mechanism" designed to allow the Community to respond in a rapid, efficient and flexible manner to situations of urgency or crisis or to the emergence of crisis.
The Annex lists all the regulations and programmes which the Regulation replaces if:
The activities covered by the ECHO Regulation remain in principle outside the scope of this Regulation, unless the Commission decides otherwise.
Nature of the actions
The mechanism triggers actions of a civilian nature to preserve or re-establish, in situations of crisis or emerging crisis, the conditions of stability essential to the proper implementation and success of these aid, assistance and cooperation policies and programmes. Actions are decided and implemented by the Commission after it has notified the Council and taken its approach into account.
Financing takes the form of grants and the interventions are exempt from taxes, charges and customs duties.
An overall annual ceiling is set for interventions under the rapid-reaction mechanism and the implementation period of any action may not exceed six months.
Eligible partners are authorities of the Member States or of the beneficiary countries and their agencies, regional and international organisations and agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and public and private operators with appropriate specialised expertise and experience. As regards NGOs and private operators, certain criteria, set out in detail in the Regulation, must be met, such as technical and management capacities, experience, and criteria relating to their record and guarantees.
Role of the Commission
The Commission ensures that action taken is effectively coordinated with action by the Member States, including on the ground. This action must be coherent, complementary and effective. The Commission must also promote cooperation with international and regional organisations. It must also evaluate actions in order to determine whether the objectives pursued have been met.
Dates of application
The Regulation entered into force on 2 March 2001 and applies until 31 December 2006. The Council must review the Regulation before 31 December 2005, following an evaluation report from the Commission.
Communication from the Commission of 1 October 2004 - Proposal for a Regulation of the Council establishing an Instrument for Stability [COM(2004) 630 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission of 11 April 2001 on Conflict Prevention [COM(2001) 211 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
Council Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 of 20 December 2002 implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds [Official Journal No L 358, 31.12.2002].
Communication from the Commission of 29 November 2001 - Financing of civilian crisis management operations [COM(2001) 647 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission of 11 April 2000 on EU election assistance and observation [COM(2000) 191 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
Commission Report: "One Year On: the Commission's Conflict Prevention Policy", March 2002.
Joint Report by the Secretariat-General of the Commission and the CFSP High Representative, transmitted to the Nice European Council of 7-8 December 2000.
For more information on the rapid-reaction mechanism, please visit the DG RELEX website.
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Post subject: Boy Scout Troop 258
For some of us, the Boy Scouts were a big part of growing up in Concordia. Im not sure when the Lions Club began sponsoring Troop 258, but my brother Don and his friends were members of the troop in the early to mid-1940s. Nups Schnakenberg was Scoutmaster at that time.
The next Scoutmaster was Chet Gibson, who most will remember for the turkey hatchery that he operated in Concordia. His Assistant Scout Leader was Nelson Powell. son of Lawrence Powell, the longtime MoPac depot agent. They headed the troop when I joined.
Next came Floyd Schoene, who worked at the Concordian at that time, along with Lee Wehrs as assistant. They can be seen in the faded photo below together with the members of Troop 258 and most of the Lions Club Scout Committee. We were gathered in front of the Scout cabin shortly after it was built. We held our weekly meetings in that cabin and it was a place to assemble for other activities. Note. I know the names of most of the people in this photo, but I will leave it up to the readers to see how many they can identify.
As Scouts, we were involved in various public service activities, most notably the scrap drives long before recycling became popular. They started in WWII but continued long after with regular paper drives every few months.
During the waste paper drives, some of us went from house to house around Concordia, brought out the old papers from the basement or wherever they were stored, tied them up in bundles, and put them on the sidewalk to be picked up later that day. We would then go around town loading the bundles into Nups Schnakenberg or Alvin Bokelmans truck to be shipped to KC for recycling. There, pulp from the paper was used to make such things as egg crate separators, some of which probably wound up back at Concordia Produce. The big reward for us boys was finding some comic books in the discards. We would read these in the weeks that followed and put them back in the next paper drive for someone else to find.
There were plenty of activities for us to fulfill the requirements for our next rank and to earn various merit badges. The highlight of summer was camp at Osceola. We would pile into Henry Kammeyers stretched DeSoto (that he had for his large family) and head south to the Ozarks. We loaded our belongings in homemade wood foot lockers on the roof of his DeSoto and, when we got there, filled straw ticks for the cots in our platform tents to set up home for the next two weeks. Camp Osceola was an interesting place, filled with caves like much of Southern Missouri, some of which we could explore. One of the best known was Cannonball Cave in the side of a cliff along the river that ran along the edge of the camp. The wildlife consisted mostly of copperhead snakes, tarantulas and scorpions. One of the memorable parts of life at camp was portly H. Roe Bartels leading songs in dining hall. Finally, after a fun-filled two weeks of swimming, hiking and various crafts, we would head home.
Starting in the 1940s, the cabin and land known as the Boy Scout property became the regular meeting place for Troup 258. In another posting, I noted how my father had purchased what he thought was the entire block between Main and Gordon St., South and 13th St. When he bought the property from John E. Cassing in 1942, the block was vacant except for a small dilapidated barn across South St. from Clem Duensings house. Dad felt that the land should remain undeveloped and hoped that it would be an extension to Southside Park. He would say that Concordia had plenty room to grow on the outskirts and it would be good to keep some green area in the middle of town. However, someone else claimed ownership to the lot at the south end of the property, along 13th Street. That lot was later sold to druggist Norm Benteman where he built his home, breaking up the continuity to the Park.
In 1945, Dad decided to donate the land to the Boy Scout troop for their use, but with reversionary rights to our family in case the troop disbanded or tried to sell the property. He wanted the troop to keep the property in a forever green condition as added park property for the city and felt that the Scouts were the appropriate group to maintain it. (Actually, while I was a member of the troop, my uncle John Runge would bring his tractor and mower to cut the weeds and I would clear the ditches with a scythe.) I understand that in later years Raymond Frerking kept the land in great shape for many years.
Over time, there were various attempts by the Scout committee to sell the property for other purposes (and raise additional funds) that Dad opposed as long as he lived. However, he did concede in letting Bob Kroencke purchase the northwest corner lot to build a home. After Dads death, more ideas for use of the land were floated, such as for a Katherine Kuhlman memorial or as a possible site for building a new senior citizens center. Our family did not consider any of those plans viable or suitable for that location. Finally, at the end of 2008, the Pape family gifted its reversionary interest in the property to the City of Concordia. We hope that they will continue to honor our Dads wishes.
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Post subject: Early Scout Photo
The photo below is the earliest that I am aware of for Troop 258 (1944?). According to John S., they were meeting in the old Lohoefner building on Main St. at that time. Does anyone know of something earlier?
The following are the names of everyone in the photo listed in alphabetical order:
Brice Bailey Jr., Carl Bergmann, Jim Borgelt, Stanford Brackman, Tyrus Frerking, Raymond Hartwig, Bill Henry, Phil Henry, Glen Kammeyer, John Kammeyer, Russell Meyer, Paul Mueller, Don Pape, Marvin Rehkop, Gene Rohman, John Schnakenberg, Norbert Schnakenberg, Milton Von Holten, Earl Wille, and Dean Wren.
I'll leave it to you to associate the names with those smiling faces.
Happy 100th birthday to the Boy Scouts of America.
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Note from Alex Jones: Even though we have seen countless instances of lone gunmen on the street, we have never seen an entire city locked down as we witnessed last week in Boston and its suburbs. The very definition of martial law is when due process is suspended and Americans are under military rule.
Infowars.com has reviewed hundreds of photos, many sent to us by our listeners, of militarized police pointing guns at them and treating citizens like terrorist criminals.
Below are samples of these images. We also saw a clip on CNN during the prison lock down in Boston showing a woman in a park playing with her children and a police helicopter told her to get out of the park.
Related: When history repeats itself, does anybody notice? This is what martial law in the US looks like: Papers, Please.
Shocking footage has emerged from Friday's lockdown in Boston, where police, federal agents, national guard troops and SWAT teams enforced door to door searches of everyone's home within twenty blocks as the entire city was placed under orders to stay off the streets.
The video, shot by a resident from their own house across the street, shows police barking orders at men and women as they order them at gunpoint to identify themselves, put their hands on their heads, and get out of their own home. They are then ordered to run down the street to be further frisked by police as scores of armed militarized cops look on.
The scenes look like something out of a disaster movie, with the backdrop of suburban America juxtaposed with what is essentially martial law playing out in full daylight.
The story floated in the mainstream media that the door to door searches were conducted with the voluntary consent of the residents of Watertown is clearly false. 9000+ Police locked down an entire city and went in with full force, with armored vehicles and combat gear, all to search for an injured 19 year old kid who turned out to be cowering in someone's back yard.
While armies of police roamed around people's homes and private property, Public transportation was shut down, businesses were forced to close, and a no-fly zone was enacted over Boston in an unprecedented show of force.
At this point, as military helicopters buzzed over neighborhoods, the Fourth Amendment had ceased to exist in Boston, which quickly resembled a war zone.
The compliant mainstream media reported on the activity without alarm or question. Katy Waldman of Slate wrote an article claiming that under dire circumstances police can suspend 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable searches:
In exigent circumstances, or emergency situations, police can conduct warrantless searches to protect public safety. This exception to the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement normally addresses situations of "hot pursuit," in which an escaping suspect is tracked to a private home. But it might also apply to the events unfolding in Boston if further harm or injury might be supposed to occur in the time it takes to secure a warrant.
This activity, once again, sets a shocking precedent. Police and military are training in these circumstances every single day of the year. They are fully acclimatized to the process, as if it is completely normal. They do not hesitate in carrying out such orders, which are now being implemented whenever the authorities deem a situation to be an emergency.
This is what fully fledged martial law in America looks like.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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Multiple reports, following Yahoo's Pat Forde, are saying that Bobby Petrino — liar, scoundrel, indifferent recruiter, proven winner — will be the new head coach at Louisville, the very program he ditched in 2006 for a short stint with the Atlanta Falcons.
After his cameo in Atlanta he went to Arkansas and enjoyed a few years of prolific points-scoring before crashing his motorcycle, getting caught romancing a staffer whose hire he may have illegally fast-tracked, and subsequently trying to enlist state police to help cover up the affair.
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Sources: Bobby Petrino returning for second stint as Louisville's head coach [Yahoo]
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Authorities say they have arrested the brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a quiet Northern California community last month.
Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz told reporters at a news conference that the arrest was made late Saturday afternoon. He says the 12-year-old boy will be charged with homicide.
The boy had told police last month that he encountered an intruder in the home on the day Leila Fowler was killed. He described the man as being tall with long gray hair.
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The Washington State economy has been relatively better off than some of the hardest hit areas. Our economy tends to lag the rest of the nation by about 18 months. This used to be due to our dependence on Boeing and the fact that the airline aircraft order cycle tends to be out of phase with business cycles due to the lag time. Now, of course, our economy is way more diverse with companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and other high tech companies as well, many of which now reside in Bellevue, just east of Seattle.
Incidentally, the Bellevue area still looks like a high tech boom town and is Washington State's version of Orange County – you know, modern, clean and nice looking. I just drove the length of I-5 from LA to Seattle and can tell you that I-5 in California does not look as well kept as it did in the past. There are areas where the weeds are growing several feet tall on the shoulders and the freeway is noticeable deteriorating in certain areas, something that I've never seen before on I-5.
At any rate, I have read three articles in the local Puget Sound Business Journal lately that underscore how deteriorating credit conditions are finally impacting Washington State.
The first article states that retail sales have dropped the LARGEST AMOUNT IN HISTORY! In the second quarter of this year, retail sales, as measured by taxable receipts (again, not susceptible to manipulation), fell by a whopping 14% year over year! That's an ACCELERATION from a yoy drop of 12.8% the first quarter, and a 10.8% drop in the quarter prior:
Washington state retail sales drop sets record
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
In the second quarter of 2009, Washington state taxable retail sales dropped 14 percent compared with the same time a year earlier; a quarterly decline so large that state officials said it set a new record.
Sales fell to $25 billion in the latest April-to-June quarter.
In the first quarter of 2009, sales fell 12.8 percent compared with the first quarter of 2008. In the fourth quarter of 2008, sales fell 10.8 percent compared with a year earlier. Those two quarterly drops are the second and third-largest declines since the 1974, when the state said reliable records began being kept.
Among the biggest declining industries in the latest quarter, retail sales from construction dropped 26 percent to $4.3 billion and motor vehicle and parts dropped 21 percent to $2.3 billion.
In Seattle, total taxable retail sales fell 13.1 percent to $3.8 billion in the second quarter.
This is the type of revenue hit that all municipalities are facing. Yes, they have the power of taxation, but buyers and holders of municipal bonds need to be paying attention. RISK is rising while at the same time the Federal government is artificially forcing interest rates down. This can and will eventually snap back – as interest rates rise, the price of bonds fall.
Now, please consider the percentage drops in taxable sales and compare them to the statistics being reported in such phony baloney statistics as Goldman's ICSC or the Redbook who's greatest yoy sales decreases are in the 4+% range. Why the discrepancy, and how can retail sales only be down 4% per year when imports are down 30%+ year over year?
Here's the answer… just like the stock market indices, these "indices" are vulnerable to SUBSTITUTION BIAS. If you are measuring same store sales, for example, how does that "index" handle it when one of their store chains goes out of business? Why they are no longer counted, of course! So the index only counts companies that are still around and does not capture those that have gone out of business, just as the DOW Jones Industrials doesn't capture the fact that only one of the original companies in the index, GE, is still in business and that ALL THE REST HAVE FAILED or been bought up by other companies. So, that's why the sales tax data captures what is really happening in the economy and why those other reports are close to worthless.
The next article is related to imports and exports. The Port of Tacoma is one of the largest and busiest in the nation. They had been so busy that they planned on spending $1 BILLION on expanding the terminal! But now that's on hold "until cargo volumes return:"
Port of Tacoma shelves $1B terminal project
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) - by Steve Wilhelm
The Port of Tacoma has decided to shelve a $1 billion plan for a massive terminal and waterway development project until cargo volumes return.
The port announced Oct. 1 that it won't build the planned $300 million, 168-acre terminal on the Blair Waterway for NYK Line, which is to start calling at the port in 2012.
The terminal project was just part of a $1 billion port development plan that included building roads, railway connections and a new terminal for Tacoma-based Totem Ocean Trailer Express Inc., which operates cargo vessels between Tacoma and Anchorage. All of these steps were necessary to develop the NYK terminal.
Tokyo-based NYK will still come to the port. It will share space with Horizon Line at the existing AP Moeller terminal directly in front of Port of Tacoma headquarters on the Tacoma Tideflats.
"I will be able to see their ships from my desk," said Port of Tacoma spokeswoman Tara Mattina.
Totem Ocean Trailer Express Inc., also called TOTE, will stay in its current terminal on the Blair, she said.
The port decision was driven by declining cargo volumes, which are down 15 percent so far this year, coupled with a 20 percent increase in the cost of the larger development plan, Mattina said.
"This is one way to bring NYK without spending that money," she said.
Last year, container volume at the port dropped 3 percent to the equivalent of 1.9 million 20-foot containers. The worsened slide this year could pull volumes down to 1.6 million containers for 2009.
In a statement, Port of Tacoma Executive Director Tim Farrell called the decision "an important step to balance supply and demand," which leaves the port with room for "substantial growth" in the long term.
That's $1 billion less that is not going to ripple through the local economy. Notice they don't do the math for you to express how much container traffic is down this year… well, the .3 million of 1.6 million containers equal an 18.75% drop in container traffic this year, right in the same range that retail sales are down, how 'bout that?!
The third article that caught my attention is related to both housing and the travel industry…
Starwood says it will fill its Seattle excavation
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) - by Jeanne Lang Jones
A big hole in the ground at Second Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle, next to Macy's parking garage, should be filled just in time for the holidays.
Connecticut-based Starwood Capital Group Global, which had planned to construct a luxury hotel and condominium tower on the site, mothballed the project when the economy soured. Starwood will start filling the excavation next week, according to a company spokesman. The firm will retain ownership of the property.
Work on the 23-story 1 Hotel & Residences stopped in the fall of 2007 after Starwood Capital failed to obtain construction financing on acceptable terms.
In a press release, Starwood Capital said, "As we wait for capital markets to stabilize sufficiently enough for us to realize our vision of building a world-class hotel and residences at the gateway to Seattle's retail district, we are working in partnership with the city to ensure the property remains clean and presentable over the short-term at this important location."
Starwood said its affiliate, Avstar Seattle LLC, the entity that owns the property, "remains committed to Seattle as an investment opportunity and has a vested interest in seeing downtown Seattle be successful."
Starwood bought out its former partner in the project, Portland developer Paul Brenneke, in June 2008.
Note that it was only the middle of last year that Starwood took on this project and already they are abandoning it and filling in the foundation! Perhaps their "forecasts" were a little optimistic about the strength of the Seattle area?
All three of these stories show the result of a collapsing credit bubble. Consumer spending, port traffic, hotel/travel traffic… all way down. Down so far that the numbers no longer can justify the huge expense. $1 billion on just one port expansion? Last time I checked, a billion was still a lot of money. That money must come from somewhere, and that somewhere for local governments is usually through bond offerings. They don't number out, and that's because the price to build, just like subprime housing, has reached ridiculous heights on the back of cheap credit, the largest credit bubble in the history of mankind. DEFLATION is what's required to bring the math back in line. Stop building ridiculous hotels, stop spending billions on port expansions, consumers stop spending money they don't have and price will fall back in line with EARNINGS. This is the cleansing of misallocation that is CAUSED BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT and their failure to regulate the creation of money.
Of course, if you peruse the Puget Sound Business Journal, you'll find all kinds of articles and opinions by "experts" talking up the strength of the area and putting their naturally positive spin on the situation. The truth is that Washington State is not all that far behind California in relation to it's size.
Here's a local newspaper article from last year showing the massive deficits the State is running:
State's projected budget deficit: $5.1 billion
Last updated November 19, 2008
Figure is nearly $2 billion more than was predicted 2 months ago
By AMY ROLPH
Washington's projected budget deficit has ballooned to $5.1 billion, nearly $2 billion more than predicted just two months ago.
That means when lawmakers convene in January to assemble the next two-year spending plan they'll have to drastically cut state programs or raise taxes, something Gov. Chris Gregoire has said she won't do.
"This will be ugly," said Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, chairman of the House Revenue Committee. "It's much larger than I expected it to be."
Tax revenues are expected to drop $1.9 billion below the state's former projections, meaning a possible doomsday for some programs -- and substantial belt-tightening just about everywhere else.
In September, the state's projected deficit for the 2009-2011 biennium was pinpointed at $3.2 billion. Now, not only has that deficit burgeoned to $4.6 billion, but the state's current budget is also suffering a $500 million shortfall.
The nation's economy has been widely blamed for Washington's growing deficit. As financial markets continue to experience record measures of volatility, consumers aren't spending like they used to -- and that means sales and real estate taxes aren't pouring into state coffers…
Let's see… that's $5.1 billion short of a $30 billion budget, hmmm…. The trusty calculator says that's a 17% shortfall, once again the same exact range as the numbers we're seeing in the articles above – HUGE! That $5.1 billion divided into the state's 6.5 million people means that the one year shortfall equals $785 for every man, woman, and child ($3,140 for my family of four), for just the year 2008 and just for the state's shortfall, not the local town and not the Federal Government, just the State.
And Washington State is certainly NOT alone. The following study was published just last week from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. It lists the current and forecast shortfalls for all the states including the years 2010 and 2011. Keep in mind as you see the horrific numbers in this report that those projections are forecasts which are proving to be wildly optimistic in their assumptions.
For the year 2010, 48 states are projected to run deficits and their income will fall short of their expenditures by a whopping 24% of their budgets, or more than $168 Billion, $350 Billion for 2009/2010 combined! Please spend some time looking at the table for your state, especially if you live in California…
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Listen to the audio replay from January 24, 2007 or download the MP3.
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jkaster: fabio_so: "Why CodeRush does not support Delphi 2006?" - julian: Mark Miller made a deal with Ray Navasarkian to produce CodeRush for Visual Studio. After Delphi 7, the IDE changed a fair bit and CodeRush has been stuck at support for that version.
jkaster: pachecoes: "support for VCL.NET? I love the Quantum grid VCL.Net" - nick: it's really incumbent upon us to make it worth your while. julian: we would rather target ALL .NET customers rather than just VCL.NET customers. For Win32, we definitely believe Delphi is the tool to use.
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Comic book legend Alan Moore isn't one to play nice with filmmakers. It has been well documented over the years that Hollywood has been adapting his works that Moore has, and wants, nothing to do with the adaptations of his work, adaptations that more often than not lose their way in the transfer from page to screen.
Over the years the results of those adaptations have been mixed, offering up everything from the gloriously awful The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the nearly great V for Vendetta but regardless of the final result, Moore has been clear to distance himself from any of the projects.
Maybe this is a sort of middle finger to previous adaptations, but Moore has finally made the jump to the movies and it appears to be as twisted as anything the author has ever put on the page.
Jimmy's End is being toted as Moore's first screenwriting credit and for it, the author has teamed up with Mitch Jenkins to deliver one deliciously strange looking short film. Described by The Guardian as a "blood-rich, burlesque vision of a seedy, vaudevillian neo-1950s world" this 30 minute short is definitely one to look forward to and we don't have long to wait. It will be posted on-line at the official website in four days' time.
And you can check out the first official trailer above.
This article by Marina Antunes originally appeared at Quiet Earth


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QUESTION OF THE WEEK- When is it okay for a police officer to fire his weapon?
Now videocast online at readthehook.com
James Churchman:""If he sees a weapon and feels like he's being threatened, then that's a good time to pull his weapon.""
Nick Mattsson:"Only when he wears a condom."
Eloise Merrifield:"It's only okay if they are actually in danger from a person who is armed as equally as they are. Somebody charging at them with a knife is not the same danger as somebody charging with a gun, so it would not be okay. It has to be a truly dangerous situation."


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NEWMARKET — A Hampton man is being held on $10,000 cash bail after he allegedly burst into his ex-girlfriend's apartment while the woman's 6-year-old daughter was home and threatened to kill the woman and her new boyfriend, according to court records and Newmarket police.
NEWMARKET — A Hampton man is being held on $10,000 cash bail after he allegedly burst into his ex-girlfriend's apartment while the woman's 6-year-old daughter was home and threatened to kill the woman and her new boyfriend, according to court records and Newmarket police.
Brian Callahan, 25, of 827 Lafayette Road, Hampton, waived a probable cause hearing Tuesday in the 10th Circuit District Court in Brentwood. He faces a litany of charges in connection with the alleged Dec. 21 incident at the Exeter Road home. Police said he brandished a pistol at the couple — it turned out to be a BB gun but they didn't know that at the time — and brought a 5- to 6-inch long butterfly knife with him and a ski mask, according to court records.
Newmarket police Lt. Kyle True said Officer Joseph Bozek responded to the scene after the victim's new boyfriend called 911 to tell them Callahan had burst into their home, according to a report filed at District Court in Brentwood.
True and Bozek arrived at the home and could hear "yelling and screaming," inside the apartment, and when they went inside, they found Callahan, who they described as "highly intoxicated and belligerent," trying to hide something inside the pocket of his sweatshirt, according to the court document.
"For our safety we requested that he show us his hands to which he refused," True said in the court document. "He pulled away and began to physically fight our attempts to place handcuffs on him. During the scuffle, he was subdued to the ground. As he hit the ground, his once concealed right hand released the object he was attempting to conceal … a black metal knife."
True said the ordeal left the couple and the 6-year-old girl shaken.
"The victims were both extremely upset and the 6-year-old girl was traumatized," True said during an interview Tuesday in his office. "Six-year-old girls are supposed to feel safe at home."
True declined to comment on what Callahan intended to do with the knife and the ski mask, which was described in court documents as having a "skull face on it."
Callahan's alleged actions on Dec. 21 came after Bozek gave the suspect a "verbal no trespassing order," to stay away from the woman and her home after showing up there on Dec. 19, according to the court document.
Callahan's ex-girlfriend told police he forced his way into her home on Dec. 21 by pushing her out of the doorway, according to the court document.
"Once inside, he pulled out a gun and told the occupants it was loaded," the woman told police.
"Callahan repeatedly held the gun in the face of (the woman)," and then "began telling her he was going to kill her."
Callahan also kept grabbing the woman's wrist, which was in a brace from a recent surgery, according to the court document.
Callahan also "pointed the gun in the face of (his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend) and threatened to kill him," according to the court document.
The man then began to struggle with Callahan and wrestled the gun away from him and threw it across the room, according to the document.
It took police three to four minutes of struggling with Callahan before they were able to handcuff him, according to the court document.
Callahan later told police he went to the couple's home with a clear mission, according to the court document.
"Callahan stated that he knew what he did was wrong and that his intent was to instill fear in (the couple)," according to the court document.
Callahan is charged with burglary, two counts of threatening to commit a crime, two counts of simple assault and one count of resisting arrest, according to True, who said the cases against the 25-year-old are now expected to go to the Rockingham County grand jury.


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I have gotten tired with Team Pyro and their pussy footin' around what we are really saying! If they want to be taken serious like we are, then I guess I better step it up a notch to show them how it is really done.
I hope this motivational poster will make it clear to all where we (The Truth Warriors) all stand and mean when we attack you stupid emergents!
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.,
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Bedard exercises caution in no-hit bid
HOUSTON -- Besides the oddity of seeing a pitcher lose after throwing 6 1/3 no-hit innings, Saturday's game was also odd for the way Erik Bedard exited.
While most players -- and pitchers especially -- talk about wanting the ball and wanting to stay in as long as possible, Bedard was having none of it.
"I was done," Bedard said of his thought process as manager Bo Porter approached the mound. "I wasn't about to go over 110."
The veteran lefty was thinking about his career when he asked out, saying he'd rather "pitch a couple more years than face another batter." Bedard left with 109 pitches and a man on first. Jose Cisnero allowed a go-ahead two-run double three batters later, saddling Bedard with the loss.
While Porter said he enjoys a bulldog mentality, he's also respectful of a player's physical limits, especially with his pitching staff.
"I've told our starters before, you better get it done within 120 pitches," Porter said. "Understanding the ramifications of what can follow that kind of stress on your arm, it's just something you have to be careful.
"Whenever you start to talk about health issues, I usually lean toward the side of protecting the player. This guy's had three surgeries and been down the road of the injury and having to rehab and he knows his body. I respect him for making the decision he made."
Bedard's outing was the first time a starter tossed at least 6 1/3 hitless innings and received a loss since Boston lefty Matt Young fell to Cleveland on Apr. 12, 1991.


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Wayne Newton's estate up for sale in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Las Vegas estate of entertainer Wayne Newton is up for sale amid uncertainty over what potential buyers will get.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/YtFGSY ) for sale signs went up Friday at Newton's Casa de Shenandoah.
Under a procedure approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Bruce Markell, prospective buyers must post a 5 percent cash deposit of their proposed price by May 15. An auction is scheduled May 31.
Newton has appealed the sale order. The three houses on the 38-acre property have leases and Newton's Arabian horses have a right to graze on the land.
Markell has said that trying to sell the property with such conditions would be challenging.
Plans to convert the estate into a theme park celebrating Newton's career collapsed last year.


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Benchmark Programs
Here are some different programs for performing benchmarking.
Note: It is important to recognize that benchmarks between systems may be misleading. Benchmarks should primarily be used to determine differences in performance for different software configurations on the same hardware system.
Unix Bench
FYI, the URL to the UnixBench is as follows;
UnixBench contains 9 kinds of tests:
- Dhrystone 2 using register variables
- Double-Precision Whetstone
- Execl Throughput
- File Copy
- Pipe Throughput
- Pipe-based Context Switching
- Process Creation
- Shell Script
- System Call Overhead
Unix Bench is preferred over lmbench since (according to reports) lmbench cannot be easily cross-compiled.
I have cross-compiled lmbench - it's not too hard. My target didn't have "make" or a compiler, but it did have bash.
Here is my recipe:
- Obtain lmbench. Make sure to get it from sourceforge (I used 3.0-a4), not bitmover, because the bitmover package is slightly tangled with a bitkeeper file "bk.ver". It's
- relatively easy to debug and disentangle it, but someone's already done that and put it up on sourceforge.
- Unpack lmbench in your build system.
- cd to lmbench-3.0-a4/src. Note that this is not the top level, which does have a Makefile.
- do "make OS=armv5EJl-linux-gnu CC=arm-linux-gcc" (or whatever your os and cross-compiler are)
- After everything is compiled, transport the whole directory tree to the target.
- cd to lmbench-3.0-a4/scripts
- Do ./config.run and answer some questions. This creates a config file that you can reuse.
- Do ./results
- Inside lmbench-3.0-a4/results will be a folder named armv5EJl-linux-gnu or something similar; inside that folder is a text file named imx21_199.0 or something similar.
- This is the raw lmbench results. Transport it back to civilization.
- When lmbench tries to save the results, it increments the last part ".0" until it finds an unused name. Therefore, you can rerun lmbench many times with a simple one-line
- bash script "for i in {1..100}; do ./results; done", and the result files will not overlap.
- You can get various kinds of summary postprocessing from lmbench. The "getsummary" script was sufficient for my purposes.
- To figure out which binary is generating which measurement, it may be useful to read the "lmbench" shell script in parallel with the raw results file.
The LMBench home page is at: http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/ The sourceforge project page is at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmbench


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In 1993, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor of Princeton University for their 1974 discovery of a pulsar, designated PSR1913+16, in a binary system, in orbit with another star around a common center of mass.
Using the Arecibo 305m antenna, Hulse and Taylor detected pulsed radio emission and thus identified the source as a pulsar, a rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron star. The neutron star rotates on its axis 17 times per second; thus the pulse period is 59 milliseconds.
After timing the radio pulses for some time, Hulse and Taylor noticed that there was a systematic variation in the arrival time of the pulses. Sometimes, the pulses were received a little sooner than expected; sometimes, later than expected. These variations changed in a smooth and repetitive manner, with a period of 7.75 hours. They realized that such behavior is predicted if the pulsar were in a binary orbit with another star.
The pulsar and its companion both follow elliptical orbits around their common center of mass. Each star moves in its orbit according to Kepler's Laws; at all times the two stars are found on opposite sides of a line passing through the center of mass. The period of the orbital motion is 7.75 hours, and the stars are believed to be nearly equal in mass, about 1.4 solar masses. As shown in the figure here, the orbits are quite eccentric. The minimum separation at periastron is about 1.1 solar radii; the maximum separation at apastron is 4.8 solar radii.
In the case of PSR 1913+16, the orbit is inclined at about 45 degrees with respect to the plane of the sky, and it is oriented such that periastron occurs nearly perpendicular to our line of sight.
(Figure from Weisberg et al. 1981)
Remember that a star in an elliptical orbit will move slower when it is at apastron than when it is a periastron. In an eccentric orbit such as that of PSR 1913+16, the radial velocity varies from a minimum of 75 km/sec to a maximum of 300 km/sec. Hulse and Taylor used their timing measurements of the pulses to infer the details of the orbital motion.
The pulse repetition frequency, that is, the number of pulses received each second, can be used to infer the radial velocity of the pulsar as it moves through its orbit. When the pulsar is moving towards us and is close to its periastron, the pulses should come closer together; therefore, more will be received per second and the pulse repetition rate will be highest. When it is moving away from us near its apastron, the pulses should be more spread out and fewer should be detected per second.
(Figure from Weisberg et al. 1981)
The fact that the negative velocities (blueshifts, approaching the Earth) are larger than the postitive one (redshifts, moving away from Earth) show that the orbit is highly eccentric.
The pulsar arrival times also vary as the pulsar moves through its orbit. When the pulsar is on the side of its orbit closest to the Earth, the pulses arrive more than 3 seconds earlier that they do when it is on the side furthest from the Earth. The difference is caused by the shorter distance from Earth to the pulsar when it is on the the close side of its orbit. The difference of 3 light seconds implies that the orbit is about 1 million kilometers across.
(Figure from Weisberg et al. 1981)
Since the pulsing of the radio emission from the pulsar can be likened to ticks on a clock, Hulse and Taylor realized that they could look for changes in the ticking caused by relativistic changes in the measurement of time. As seen above, the pulsar's orbital speed changes by a factor of four during its orbit. Likewise, since the orbit of the pulsar around its companion is elliptical, the two are closer together at some times than at others, so that the gravitational field alternately strengthens at periastron and weakens at apastron. Thus the binary pulsar PSR1913+16 provides a powerful test of the predictions of the behavior of time perceived by a distant observer according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
When they are closer together, near apastron, the gravitational field is stronger, so that the pasage of time is slowed down -- the time between pulses (ticks) lengthens just as Einstein predicted. The pulsar clock is slowed down when it is travelling fastest and in the strongest part of the gravitational field; it regains time when it is travelling more slowly and in the weakest part of the field.
(Figure from Weisberg et al. 1981)
The relativistic time delay is the difference between what is observed and what one would expect to see if the pulsar were moving in circular orbit, at constant distance and at a constant speed, around its companion.
Space-time in the vicinity of the pulsar is greatly warped. This curvature causes the pulsar orbit to advance.
The orbit of the pulsar appears to rotate with time; in the diagram, notice that the orbit is not a closed ellipse, but a continuous elliptical arc whose point of closest approach (periastron) rotates with each orbit. The rotation of the pulsar's periastron is analogous to the advance of the perihelion of Mercury in its orbit. The observed advance for PSR 1913+16 is about 4.2 degrees per year; the pulsar's periastron advances in a single day by the same amount as Mercury's perihelion advances in a century.
(Figure from Weisberg et al. 1981)
Relativity predicts that the binary system will lose energy with time as orbital energy is converted to gravitational radiation.
In 1983, Taylor and collaborators reported that there was a systematic shift in the observed time of periastron relative to that expected if the orbital separation remained constant. In the diagram shown here, data taken in the first decade after the discovery showed a decrease in the orbital period as reported by Taylor and his colleagues of about 76 millionths of a second per year. By 1982, the pulsar was arriving at its periastron more than a second earlier than would have been expected if the orbit had remained constant since 1974.
(Figure from Weisberg et al. 1981)
In the intervening decade, continued timing of the pulsar shows the continued decrease just as predicted by Einstein.
Because the binary system is losing energy, the orbits are shrinking, and someday the two stars should coalesce. Such a merger might produce strong enough gravitational radiation to be detected by instruments like the Laser Inteferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory now under contruction.
The pulsar's orbit is shrinking with time as shown in this diagram; currently, the orbit shrinks by about 3.1 mm per orbit. The two stars should merge in about 300 million years from now.
(Figure from Weisberg et al. 1981)
Further reading:
"Measurements of General Relativistic Effects in the Binary Pulsar PSR1913+16" Taylor, J.H., Fowler, L.A. and Weisberg, J.M. 1979, Nature 277, 437.
"The Binary Pulsar: Gravity Waves Exist", Will, C. 1987, Mercury, Nov-Dec, p. 162.
"Gravitational Waves from an Orbiting Pulsar", Weisberg, J.M., Taylor, J.H. and Fowler, L.A., 1981, Scientific American Oct, 74.
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Healthy Helton getting regular playing time
NEW YORK -- While Walt Weiss is still going to make sure to give Todd Helton occasional rest, the Rockies' manager said he's prepared to have his first baseman in the lineup consistently.
"I think he's swinging the bat pretty well, and he's feeling good," Weiss said. "If he's feeling good, I'm going to go ahead and run him out there. Within reason, I'm still going to take care of him [with] certain day games and that type of thing."
Helton is hitting .258 with seven home runs and 36 RBIs in 83 games this season. He also has a .327 on-base percentage. He missed time earlier in the season when he went on the disabled list with a left forearm strain.
Helton, 39, has also dealt with a balky back for a long time, and tweaked it when he pinch-hit in Saturday night's loss to Pittsburgh. He had been in the starting lineup for eight straight days leading up to that game.
Weiss said the fact that this could be Helton's final season doesn't factor into the decision of whether he's going to play or not.
"If he wasn't real healthy, he wouldn't be out there regardless," Weiss said. "But the fact that he's feeling good is why I'm running him out there."
Carlos Gonzalez's trip to the 15-day disabled list makes having Helton's bat in the lineup regularly even more important. Without any setbacks, that's going to be the case.
"As long as he's feeling well," Weiss said, "he's going to get a lot of time."


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