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Walking the double yellow line down the center of Bigelow Blvd
Surrounded by armored law officers like statues of Chinese warriors
All Plexiglas and hard plastic on one side, and the picture messaging
Throngs college students wearing t-shirts advertising records that
Were 20 years old when they were born 20 years ago. And all
Standing around to be engaged in gawking at 20 world leaders
The 20 people who lead the world, and not one voice is angry with that.
Kent St. taught us well that living under occupation is better
Than not living at all. I can hardly believe my silent eyes: the passé
Passiveness of those set up to fall the furthest! Lord! Where is the fire?
When will sirens rip us all back into the fleeting realization of what it means
To fucking live? Must I be the one to walk, bomb strapped and primed, into
These newly fenced off streets and detonate one million suicide notes all
Over the faces and hands of these present? This is my flesh, unto thee, to
Wake the fuck up from salvation and find the peace that comes along with
The ultimate knowledge of being alive! This is my blood on the psyche of
A weak nation, afraid to face the fact that everywhere else in the world
People aren't afraid to die for the things they believe! That they're not
Defending their houses to save their flat screens! Give me the poor, the tired, and
We'll throw a party to end all suffering! We'll throw all prejudice into the pitcher
And drink until it's gone! Then rub ourselves against each and every one else
Until all our children look the same and no one is interesting. Or we can sit and scream
Our differences at one another until we fall, laughing, into one unified voice
Rising above the institutional towers! And in the small harmonious groups that form,
We will move into the remaining woodlands and find deer and rabbits and fish
And corn and wheat that are still natural and we can hunt and gather and eat
And dance and sleep and live freely. We can live as real living things do.
But these high-tech kids, and these ironclad cops, and these marionette dignitaries,
And the everyday shmoes have fallen to believing they too are alive or, worse yet,
Free, in the financially driven whirlpool of this clogged cultural drain.
It is time to start pushing at the disruptive mass, or
We'll all drown in the diseased sanctuary of this stagnant pool, where
No one can afford both a life raft and medical attention,
A deadly choice, deciding how to live.
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Fortune magazine's annual list of the 500 most profitable corporations in the United States is out, and San Diego lays claim to two of them: Qualcomm and Sempra Energy.
Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) came in at No. 120 this year, up from 149 in 2013, with a 30 percent increase in revenues year-over-year to $24.8 billion.
Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) rose from 281 last year to 267 in 2014. The company posted revenues of $10.5 billion, up 9.4 percent year-over-year.
California-based companies accounted for 54 of the top 500 corporations. San Ramon-based Chevron (NYSE: CVX) is the top-ranking company in the state, coming in at No. 3.
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I put up this poll in response to the other poll just posted recently about trading up for Berry with BOTH our first round picks, and I think most here think it would be ridiculous to trade both our first rounders to move up and get Berry.
But out of curiousity, If Berry falls to pick #6, our first pick at #13 and our second rounder total the amount of points to move up to #6. What do all of you here on the zone think about that if Berry is available at #6, or even #7?
I am not personally advocating this, however getting Berry at #6 and a RT at #16 would be something I wouldn't be upset with (even with the loss of the second round pick). Every year I hear people saying how teams would love to trade down but there aren't many teams willing to give up picks to move up. If he gets past Seattle to #7, Cleveland has shown a willingness to move down in the past. Maybe Holmgren would work with us on a trade.
I know it is a deep draft but i thought this would be a more even poll than asking whether to give up both our firsts to move up.
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PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) - Now that election season is over, groups
in Brevard County are recycling the countless campaign signs that
have dotted yards and roadways in recent months.
The plastic components will be used to make park benches and the
wood will be used in projects by Keep Brevard Beautiful.
According to Mike Hazlett, a member of the group and president of a
local recycling company, who came up with the idea.
He wanted to keep the signs from ending up in landfills.
By Thursday, American Recycled Plastic had received about 1,000
signs, and calls from groups wanting to bring in more.
The county's Solid Waste Management division has also contacted campaigns about the recycling effort.
Hazlett says next election season, he'd like to expand the
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Emails that show HP was enraged by Microsoft's decision to loosen the requirements for its 'Vista Capable' marketing campaign have been made public.
"I hope this incident isn't a foretaste of the relationship I will have with Microsoft going forward, but I can tell you that it's left a very bad taste with me and my team," Richard Walker, HP's senior vice president for its consumer PC unit, said in an email to senior Microsoft executives dated February 1, 2006.
One of those executives, Jim Allchin, who was in overall charge of Vista's development and delivery, was almost as outraged, and told his boss, CEO Steve Ballmer , that he was "beyond being upset" by the move. Ballmer denied being party to the decision.
The emails were unveiled by US District Court Judge Marsha Pechman in the class-action lawsuit that accuses Microsoft of deceiving customers in 2006 by certifying PCs as able to run Vista when it allegedly knew the machines were able only to handle the stripped-down Vista Basic, a version that lacked the new, heavily-promoted Aero interface, and other touted features. Vista was released early in 2007.
In early 2006, Microsoft relaxed the Vista Capable rules by allowing computers equipped with Intel's older 915 graphics chipset to qualify for the programme. Will Poole, then responsible for the client version of Windows, tossed out the requirement that a PC's graphics use the Windows Device Driver Model (WDDM), Vista's revamped driver architecture that debuted in Vista.
The decision pleased Intel, which had complained that it didn't have a sufficient supply of the more advanced graphics chipsets that would have met the original requirements. In fact, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini thanked Microsoft's Ballmer for the change.
HP, however, was anything but happy.
"The decision you have made has taken away an investment we made consciously for competitive advantage knowing that some players would choose not to make the same level of investment as we did in supporting your programme requirements," said Walker's email.
HP, unlike other computer makers preparing for Vista, had decided to ditch the low-end Intel 915 and 910 graphics chipsets to make sure that its low-priced PCs would be able to run Vista. In another email cited in the same group of messages, Walked said HP had designed and built two new motherboards for its upcoming Vista Capable lines. It was thought HP spent nearly $7m (£4.7m) on the technology to make its machines meet the original Vista Capable requirements.
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Emails that show HP was enraged by Microsoft's decision to loosen the requirements for its 'Vista Capable' marketing campaign, have been made public.
"Now we have a situation where PC manufacturers (and processor/chipset suppliers) can claim Vista Capable in a 'good' mode just because it will run," Walker continued.
"What kind of consumer assurance is that? Hardly one that puts any credence behind your desire to create the 'best possible customer experience for the Windows Vista Upgrade'."
Walker went on to tell Johnson and Allchin that Microsoft's credibility at his HP group had been "severely damaged" because Microsoft had "changed the rules at the last minute" without notifying HP.
Allchin fired off a blistering email to his boss, Steve Ballmer, within 10 minutes of Walker sending his message. "I am beyond being upset here. This was totally mismanaged by Intel and Microsoft. What a mess. Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility, as well as my own credibility shot," he wrote to Ballmer.
"I was told this all started with a call between you and Paul [Otellini, the CEO of Intel]. I will have to get to the bottom of this and understand how we could be so insensitive to handling the situation."
Ballmer denied having any part in the decision to loosen the rules for Vista Capable by ditching the WDDM requirement, and instead put the responsibility on Poole's shoulders.
"I had nothing to do with this," Ballmer said in a reply to Allchin later in the day on Feb. 1, 2006. "Will [Poole] handled everything. I received a message that Paul was going to call. Will said he would handle it. Paul called. I had not even had a chance to report his issues when Will told me he had solved them. (it did not sound like he had) I am not even in the details of the issues," Ballmer said.


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PREVIEWS: "Daredevil," "Uncanny X-Men," & More Marvel Comics On Sale August 3, 2016
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Comics | The comics industry has undergone seismic changes in the past few years, and Heidi MacDonald rounds up some recent comments from retailers and pundits about what they're seeing. It's a good read that leads to many other good reads, but here's the takeaway: " The real issue — one that many people in the industry may have trouble dealing with — is that the comics audience has changed. They didn't get into comics during the first run of the Ultimate universe. They didn't come in with the original 52 mini series or Final Crisis. They probably didn't even start with the New 52. The methods and product mixes that were formulated to deal with a readership that grew up when comics were a niche product for nerds have to be reevaluated when new readers are coming in from the top properties in every form of entertainment, from graphic novels that they were taught in school, from webcomics, from creators with strong social media, from every which way. There is no well marked four lane highway to comics any more, just a delightful variety of roads, interstates and worn down dirt paths." [The Beat]
The latest Humble Bundle book bundle has been unveiled, and it's a musical mix of novels and graphic novels that are either by or about musicians.
The Humble Bundle deal lasts for two weeks, and it works like this: For the first tier, you pay what you want — as little as a penny. This gets you seven items, including three graphic novels: The first volume of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's gods-as-rock-stars series The Wicked + The Divine, the first volume of Rick Spears and Chuck BB's Black Metal and This Is a Souvenir: Songs of Spearmint & Shirley Lee, an anthology of short stories based on the songs of the British group Spearmint, plus three prose novels (two by Rush drummer Neil Peart) and an audio collection of Pete Seeger's spoken-word pieces.
Manga | Is former manga powerhouse Tokyopop coming back? Once the largest publisher of manga in North America, the company stopped publishing new manga in 2011, but didn't go bankrupt and never really went away. Tokyopop is selling many of its "global manga" titles digitally and in print, on demand, and it 's planning panels at both Anime Expo in Los Angeles and Comic-Con International in San Diego. On his blog, CEO Stu Levy drops a few hints, saying he's "rebuilding" Tokyopop. [Tokyopop]
Digital comics | Rob Salkowitz analyzes the latest news from Amazon and comiXology and suggests there's more to the story than meets the eye. While fans may view the renewal of Marvel's deal with comiXology as a story about a digital comics service, Salkowitz says it's really about bringing comics to the mass market through Amazon: "Kindle isn't Amazon's platform for reaching comic book readers. It's Amazon's platform for reaching all readers. comiXology counts its revenues in millions. Amazon counts its revenues in billions. Moving these titles from a superior specialty app to an inferior mainstream app isn't a big deal for existing fans but it's a huge potential expansion of the market." [ICv2]
Like comiXology and Marvel Unlimited, DC Entertainment and Image Comics are celebrating Comic-Con International with sales on select digital titles.
Through Tuesday, DC is marking the 75th anniversary of the Dark Knight by offering digital downloads of a whopping 750 Batman comics for 99 cents each. These aren't typical dollar-bin titles, however; they include The Dark Knight Returns, The Long Halloween, No Man's Land, Year One, Hush, The Court of the Owls and All Star Batman & Robbin the Boy Wonder. If you're wanting to go way back, there are comics dating back to 1938, with Batman's debut in Detective Comics #27.
This year's Eisner Awards nominations were dominated by two publishers, Fantagraphics and Image Comics, with the former earning 18 and the latter 17 (plus three shared). To celebrate the occasion, Image is holding a 50 percent-off sale on digital editions of all 10 nominated titles, for a limited time. That means you're getting single issues for just 99 cents each.
Whether you've fallen behind on some of the series or want to see what all the hubbub is about, now is pretty good time to check out East of West, Lazarus, The Manhattan Projects, Nowhere Men, Outlaw Territory, Pretty Deadly, Rat Queens, Saga, Sex Criminals and Zero.
The sale, which extends across the Image Comics storefront, comiXology, Google Play, Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks, ends April 21 at midnight ET.
Conventions | Declaring this weekend's inaugural Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal, Cumbria, England, a success, organizers have already announced the dates for next year's event: Oct. 17-19. "Our first year has been everything we could have wished for," said festival director Julie Tait. "There was a huge buzz right through Kendal – from The Brewery Arts Centre right to The Box on Wildman Street, as well as at the shopping centre and the library. The town has really got involved and there has been art work on every street. It feels like the weekend has involved everyone – from adults following their passion for Viz humour to kids learning how Peppa Pig was created." This year's festival featured guests ranging from Charlie Adlard and Ed Brubaker to David Lloyd and Trina Robbins. [Cumbria Live]
Hello everyone, Happy Memorial Day weekend to America, and welcome one and all to What Are You Reading? This week we are joined by special guests Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder, the creative team behind Halloween Eve and the upcoming Rocket Girl. I spoke to them earlier this month about Rocket Girl, which surpassed its Kickstarter goal but you still have some time to get in on the action and rewards.
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"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change." — Frank Lloyd Wright
It's a telling quote, both for Wright and for Eric Stephenson, who used it on the masthead of the personal blog he wrote from 2010 to 2012. The word arrogance may have its negative connotations, but when practiced in a measured way it exudes confidence and pride in your work. Wright had it. Steve Jobs had it. And Stephenson, as a nearly 20-year veteran of comics publishing, and the public face of Image Comics, has it.
And in recent years, Stephenson has a lot to be prideful about. Image has been experiencing its best years since its initial debut with The Walking Dead, Chew and Saga. It hosted an well-received expo last year, and has successfully wooed some of Marvel and DC's top talent for a return to creator-owned work. Stephenson, the company's publisher, also has finally been able to return to his neglected passion for writing with Nowhere Men, a collaboration with artist Nate Bellegarde.
Although best known for his work behind the scenes — he'll mark his fifth year as publisher of Image in July — Stephenson has written comics for Rob Liefeld's Maximum Press, Marvel and DC, not to mention his creator-owned titles.
In February we spoke to Nowhere Men artist Nate Bellegarde, and now we turn to Stephenson to discuss the series, and his past work, but also to delve into his publishing duties — specifically, headhunting talent, finding a place for Image in digital comics, and separating the company from the crowd.
Welcome to "Cheat Sheet," ROBOT 6's guide to the week ahead. Below you'll find a roundup for Marvel's announcements from South by Southwest, our contributors' picks of the comics of the week, and the top events to watch for in the next seven days.
When Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson came up with the idea for Nowhere Men, he knew not just any comic artist could handle the project. Luckily for him, Nate Bellegarde isn't just any comic artist.
Based in Boston, Bellegarde clawed his way into comics at an early age, making his professional debut at age 16 with a back-up strip in Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore's Battle Pope. He continued his association with Kirkman, providing back-ups for early issues of Invincible with Benito Cereno before segueing to their own standalone series with Hector Plasm. Bellegarde kept busy doing the first volume of Tim Seeley's Loaded Bible before being enlisted by Kirkman for Invincible spinoff books like Brit and Invincible Presents: Atom Eve & Rex Splode. His art had the crisp, clear style of his colleagues Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, but his linework betrayed a more subversive subtext. Each of his previous projects seemed to capitalize on part of the skill set Bellegarde had been honing over the years, but never quite captured all of it at once — until Nowhere Men.
Mixing the interpersonal conflicts of science projects like The Right Stuff with more esoteric fiction constructs like the best of Franco-Belgian comics (and a side of British Invasion-era music), Nowhere Men is an uncommon, and uncompromising, piece of work. With three issues on stands and the fourth due March 6, I spoke with Bellegarde about Nowhere Men and its role in his pursuit of a life in comics.
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
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If I had $15 this Wednesday, it'd be all Image for me – starting with Nowhere Men #3 (Image, $2.99). The Beatles as a scientific supergroup, through the lens of Dr. Strangelove? Let's do this. I've been a big fan of Nate Bellegarde for a while, and this book finally seems to capture what's unique about him – his comedy, his stark scientific acumen, and his humanism. After that I'd get Glory #32 (Image, $3.99). Beautiful cover by Ricken here, and reads like a great manga building up to some epic battle. After that I'd get Brian Wood and Ming Doyle's Mara #2 (Image, $2.99). I tried to hold back my expectations before reading Issue 1, and I was blown away – so now Issue 2 has something to prove. Finally, I'd get Invincible #100 (Image, $3.99) (Cory Walker's cover, if you want to know!). I've said it before, but I'll say it again: I think Invincible is better than The Walking Dead. No need to compare the two really, though, because no matter how you cut it, this series is great … and what Kirkman and Ottley have planned for the 100th issue looks to be unique – both for the promised deaths and the promise of seeing what could have been had Mark Grayson chosen differently.
If I had $30, I'd make up for lost time and get Brian Ralph's Cave-In (Drawn & Quarterly, $14.95) . I'm reticent to admit this, but I've never read this book. I loved Daybreak, but never found a copy or the motivation to seek out more … but this Wednesday that will change.
For splurging, I already have most of this in the single issues, but I can't help but splurge on the new collection X-Men: Mutant Massacre (Marvel, $34.99). This was my first crossover in comics, buying back-issues before I discovered events like Crisis on Infinite Earths and Secret Wars. In my rose-colored glasses, it's an ideal crossover for not being too overbearing and relating to a conflict or situation that isn't superhero-specific. Love the Morlocks, love Uncanny X-Men and the associated books around this time, so I'm buying this and spending an evening enjoying it all over again.
"… Without going all old man on everyone, I grew up in a time when you could still go to the movies or sit down to watch something on TV without knowing everything there was to know about it beforehand. Trailers didn't give everything way, you couldn't download an album a month before it was out, and you weren't reading solicitation copy for comics that wouldn't be out for another three months. It's like – I saw Star Wars in the theater based off a couple television commercials. I saw a lot of movies just because I liked the way the posters looked, or because they sounded cool. I picked up my first issue of X-Men the same day I bought a used copy of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars with money I'd earned mowing lawns and I didn't have clue one what either were about prior to the moment I flopped onto my bed to read the one while listening to the other. They both had an immediate impact on me – it was like entering two completely different worlds at once. It's harder to do that now, because both entertainment and information are transferred so quickly now and maybe withholding information will backfire on us, but I think trying to create something for people to discover is worth a try."
– Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson, explaining his resistance to providing details
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Notte della Taranta is the most important music festival dedicated to the revival of the pizzica tradition and its fusion with other music languages going from world music to rock, from jazz to symphony. Every summer since 1998, the last week of August a big concert with more than 100.000 people takes place in Salento.
The Notte della Taranta Orchestra was created in 2004 and it is composed of all the instrumental sections of an orchestra.
The success of this event, with competitions, events, and accessory activities, has generated a touristic flow and an international mobility of young users.
The TARANTA POWER STATION competition identifies an area next to the place of the event in Melpignano town in the territory of Grecia Salentina, and proposes the project of a multifunctional building with the double aim of hosting service spaces for the event and didactic and exhibition spaces to keep the event alive also in the other seasons.
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January 2016: The Economic Effects of War and Peace
Growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is revised downward to 2.6 % in 2015 and the short term prospects remain "cautiously pessimistic", according to the latest issue of the Quarterly Economic Brief for MENA (QEB). The report examines the different ways in which civil wars affect the economies of the region, including the important channel of forced displacement, which has become a crisis. It also explores how economic fortunes will turn around if there is peace.
July 2015: Economic Implications of Lifting Sanctions on Iran
This issue of the MENA Quarterly Economic Brief (QEB) traces the economic effects of the latter development—removing sanctions on Iran—on the world oil market, on Iran's trading partners, and on the Iranian economy.The most significant change will be Iran's return to the oil market. The World Bank estimates that the eventual addition of one million barrels a day (mb/d) from Iran, assuming no strategic response from other oil exporters, would lower oil prices by 14 percent or $10 per barrel in 2016. Oil importers, including the European Union (EU) and United States (US), will gain while oil exporters, especially the Gulf countries, will lose.
January 2015: Plunging Oil Prices
The over-50% decline in world oil prices—from US$115 a barrel in June 2014 to less than US$50 today—will have significant consequences for the economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This report titled " Plunging Oil Prices", focuses on the implications of low oil prices for eight developing countries, or the MENA-8 (oil importers: Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan and oil exporters: Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Libya) and the economies of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), who play a major role in providing funds in the form of aid, investment, tourism revenues and remittances to the rest of the countries of the region.
July 2014: Predictions, Perceptions and Economic Reality
This report assesses the macroeconomic performance of seven of the MENA countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen and Libya. All of these countries experienced rapid economic growth during 2000-10, and suffered a sharp economic slowdown in the aftermath of 2011. The brief focuses on the challenges facing these countries with a closer look at the actual growth performance in comparison with their forecasts and highlights the limitations of forecasting in the wake of the 2011 uprisings; and at the consequences of the growth slowdown, including unemployment, where perceptions may diverge from reality. The story is told in fourteen charts.
January 2014: Growth slowdown heightens the need for reforms
Ongoing regional tensions, together with a challenging external environment, have hit the economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region hard. Economic growth is slowing, fiscal buffers are depleting, unemployment is rising, and inflation is mounting in seven transition countries in the region.
July 2013: Growth slowdown extends into 2013
While the focus has been on the recent change in government in Egypt, five countries in the Middle East and North Africa Region, including Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan and Iran are facing a growth slowdown, rising fiscal deficits and debt, and high unemployment and inflation.


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S, worthy adversary, you cite the records of some of Dempsey's opponents.
As I cited before Dempsey beat whoever he fought from 1917 til 1923. Were they the best bunch of HWs that an Ali fought ? No sir. But as I insist, Dempsey when he was at his peak would have risen to any occasion
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LOS ANGELES— When Valley Beth Shalom, a large synagogue in the San Fernando Valley, wanted to invite people to an intensive four-month lecture course on Judaism, it bought advertising space in The Los Angeles Times and other area newspapers.
''An Invitation to Seekers,'' one advertisement beckoned, while another carried pictures of the rabbis -- from Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist synagogues -- who would lecture, stressing that ''people of all faiths and backgrounds'' were welcome.
As a result, the series has drawn up to 500 people, said Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, the synagogue's spiritual leader. Most are Jews who are curious to learn more about the faith, but others are non-Jews, of whom 20, he said, have already declared an interest in converting.
Intensive courses in Judaism are not hard to find, but for a synagogue to reach out so broadly and so publicly is unusual. ''We're not taking tambourines and going to the airports,'' Rabbi Schulweis said. ''We're simply advertising the fact that if you would like to learn, come and we will teach. That seems to me a profoundly Jewish notion.''
Judaism has historically embraced sincere converts (the biblical figure of Ruth offers a famous example), but it has long rejected proselytism. Tradition holds that a rabbi should turn a potential convert away, as a means of testing that person's sincerity.
But these days, some rabbis and Jewish officials -- arguing that Jewish institutions ought to shed their inhibitions about embracing religiously unaffiliated non-Jews -- are actively reaching out as never before with widespread advertising in secular mainstream media and large public lectures on the basic tenets of Judaism.
Gary Tobin, director of Brandeis University's Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, said, ''You have to be open to new ideas.'' He added: ''It doesn't mean for a moment that we have to abandon standards.''
Mr. Tobin, author of a coming book, ''Opening the Gates: How Active Conversion Can Revitalize the Jewish Community,'' recently wrote an article in the Jewish Theological Seminary's magazine saying, ''Jews cannot continue to hoard their heritage as a birthright only and inhibit others from swelling and reinvigorating their ranks.''
Although no one is advocating that Jews go knocking on doors or preaching on street corners, Rabbi Schulweis and others say that Jewish religious leaders need to respond to the fact that many people are unconnected to any faith and are spiritually searching. In addition, others say, Jews face a potential crisis of numbers arising from a high rate of interfaith marriage, a trend that could diminish the Jewish population by producing a generation that does not identify itself as Jewish.
But new efforts at outreach, especially through advertisements in newspapers, have disturbed some, even triggering a debate about what being Jewish means.
Ismar Schorsch, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, said that while Jewish institutions should reach out to the non-Jewish spouses of interfaith couples, to go beyond that crosses a line. ''It turns religion into a kind of supermarket, where you go shopping for the most interesting religion,'' he said. ''That kind of mobility in American society is well known.''
Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, said he worried that the idea of Jews as a distinct people, rather than simply as members of a religious faith, could be eroded. ''I think my concern,'' he said, ''is to insure that Judaism does not become a denomination in the Protestant sense, with a great many people coming in and a great many people going out.''
It is probably too early to accurately measure the impact of the new efforts. Sociologists say that no evidence of such a trend has turned up in national polling data and that pressures to convert on non-Jewish spouses in interfaith couples may even be declining. But anecdotal evidence suggests that over the last decade more single people, and occasionally couples, have been turning up in conversion classes.
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Although the debate about reaching out may be only beginning, an opening shot was fired five years ago by Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, then president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which represents more than 800 Reform synagogues. In the course of a sermon at the organization's annual meeting in 1993, he argued for reaching out to unaffiliated gentiles, in the spirit, he said, ''of the proselytizing Jew, Abraham, whose tent was continually open on all four sides for fear that he would miss a wandering nomad and fail to bid him enter.''
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New type muffler and not able to keep on the engine even for one flight . One last try.Copper filled sealant, nord locks, and safety wire the bolts . That does not work then the engine will be...
Mine came set @32 Deg. Changed to 28 * and runs fine Needs a starter to get it to go. 14 x 8 apc prop @8100 rpm on a HK Nemesis 60 size model .Could do with a bit more power.
What are the suitable props for the 140 FZ and are the rpm ~s I can expect ? At the moment I am using a 16x8 APC . 15 % nitro and 20 % oil.RPM is around 8600 tuned rich.
Flight test report. Engine monted on a Lucky Stick , ARF by Model Tech, and total wt. unknown. Engine started easy enough but needles need to be reset.As Earl said power good as a 46 .In mid range...
I think I am going to cause a stir when I fly mine . Building a DB Sports 40 for the engine should weight around 4.5 lb. ready to fly. I will also try a Bolly 10.5 x7.
Thanks guys. Tried 18*x6 wood and APC and did not like. I am running a Hawk C1.
Put the engine on the test stand and proceeded to run in the engine. Fuel , prop. as per instructions.After two days of head scratching got to run , it sounded more like a high speed diesel engine....
What size of props are you guys running on the Syssa 30 ? My engine needed a fair amount of running in. At the moment it is running a18*x 8* and more than happy with the performance. The original...
Some time back someone asked about Redline methanol oil. I have used some years back but the results were inconclusive. However recently tried it again but mixed with BP grade 93 castor and results...
I am building a a Sports Forty ( David Boddington design) for the engine. Should weigh about 4.5 #.
Italian ST G20/23,stored for like 3 years. It was recently commissioned in a 2 metre pattern plane. started immediately on the application of the starter. Checked for idle and it was near perfect...
I obtained a Novel 40 and the instructions are specific on the type of oil to use. None of the hobby shops stock Klotz benol . I can buy coolpower castor oil and an e mail to Dimitry confirmed that...
Granpooba.Good plan. I have a number of Petrol engines however I am hanging on to my 4C glow engines . The Saito 125 is terrific performer on 15% nitro and 20% CP multi viscosity oil.You will not be...
To those who are hanging on to their SYSSA 30.Try a JXF 17x9 prop.With the tonal inserts it is very quite and pulls the plane with authority.I would avoid low viscosity oils too.
Thanks for pointing it out.The 813 A carb tunes differently and the instructions are provided by Todd with the engine.RC Baja car racers use the carb  to improve the performance  of their engines.To...
The jury says Stihl HP  Ultra 2T oil.Unobtainable in many parts of the world. It is designed for chain saw engines and thinking along those lines how about oils produced for the ECHO line of chain...
Thanks.Have an APC 18*6 and try it. The reason for going to a coarse prop is noise control.
Joystick ,Ahicks and others I am about to join the group of satisfied users.Any input on prop?Running a 18*8 and rpm is 7600 (JXF) .Have the following props to try 17*9, 17*10.and 16*12.
Hi indomike.I have a similar setup. The problem is I cannot get the choke to work the way it should.Any ideas.Till that is sorted I will not be able to fly the model .I am thinking of a servo driven.
Joystick TX,no it was not waste of time .I have visited your gallery some time back and seen your choke set up .Thanks.
Thanks for suggestions regarding the choke arrangements. Anyone Tried a 17*10 or a16*12.Read recently that some guys are running a 15*14 prop. on their racing machines. I fly mostly sports aerobatics
Had to send in my Syssa for service.Sent a email to Todd and received a prompt reply saying he would repair it with return shipping paid by him. Though the repair is simple I chose to send it in....
So guys If I fitted a performance muffler I might get away with 12*8 prop. Noise is a big issue a our field.
TWO,satisfied ?
Out of the box the engine was turning 10600 rpm with a11 *7 MKprop. With less than 5% nitro and 11*8 APC prop the rpm was 11800. Transition was ligthing fast as described in the manual.


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It's not a masterpiece, but it's good naked fun for the fan of bisexual or gay male sex.
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I have a Dynam TurboJet
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I have a Dynam TurboJet
I dont like the throw amount after build on the elevator, I just dont think its enough
12-15mm is what they say, I might have half that.
It is set on inner hole on...
I have a Redcat Volcanp EXP pro electric
I hooked up a LiPo 2 cell 7.4 V to the truck and it ran awesome for about 5 minutes.
Now truck does nothing no lights on ESC, reciever nothing, even...
I have electric EXP pro 1/10 Volcano
Hooked up Lipo 2 cell 3300mah 7.4V battery
Ran like hell for about 5 minutes, now I have nothing when I hook up any battery
Still hesitates in and out thought that might be the issue, sticks out above the roof about 1/16 of a inch.
Already reset the low voltage cut off, sometimes its real herky jerky
Vocano elec EXP pro
Can I extend the reciever attenna? Does not even reach out the top of body.
Simple as just splicing and making it longer?
I want to extend the length of my reciever attenna on Volcano elec, anything more complicated than just splicing on another couple inched of wire?
Can I charge my new lipo battery on a ONXY 100 duratrax charger?
If not what do I need
I have deceided after dealing with both I will support my local, very well ran hobby shop.
I may pay more, but they know me, care, and support what they sell. Big fan this day and age of speaking...
Awesome, thanks
MY RC Truck will take
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8.4V Ni-MH
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What is my best option for power and run time as far as upgrade?
What brand is usually the best?
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Thats awesome, I will give it a try!
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I have that manual, I just dont get it
need in laymans terms  :)
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How do I go about adjusting or shutting off low volt cut off
First truck, are you talking abou the controller or the ESC inside the truck
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Volcano EXP Pro electric
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The answers to this question give excellent instructions for adding filters to the admin edit.php screen for custom post types. But they don't explain how to remove the existing filters on date and category. Does anyone know whether this is possible, and if so how to do it?
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I'm using the "columns" option in my blog posts and the html for the columns layout shows in the emails sent to my subscribers. Here is what it looks like in the email: https://flic.kr/p/nyo6jA
How can I edit it so that the html for columns does not show in the email?
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It happened to me to land on this Stack Overflow question
The OP was trying to split a string of semicolon separated emails, however he put in his question the sentence
How do I split a string based on a delimiter in Bash? which was probably what drove google in my search as I was trying to understand exactly this, only applied to a string which contains spaces.
Some answer didn't work at all, while others worked perfectly even on my string with spaces in it, among them there were some good answers, only missing something to work on a string with spaces.
Of course I downvoted those which didn't work at all and upvoted the working ones.
Then I thought to downvote also those 'almost ok':
I mean, one of them is
echo "email@example.com;email@example.com" | sed -e 's/;/\n/g'
I downvoted this to motivate the answerer to add
1) how to create an array (the OP needed an array as well to loop over it)
arrIN=( $( echo "$IN" | sed -e 's/;/\n/g' ) )
2) to use
for string containing spaces.
I thought this because maybe people can land to this page searching a more generic scenario, as I did.
I added a comment while downvoting and thought to upvote them later if they decide to edit the answer adding those further details.
Then I realized I cannot upvote a downvoted answer, as I receive the following advice:
You last voted on this answer
Sep 3 at 10:00
Your vote is now locked in
unless this answer is edited
I googled and it seems a wanted feature, so .. is my behavior wrong?
If so: how can I now remove my downvote over those answers which were correct?
Maybe I would not upvote some of them because they are not best choices in a more general scenario, but they are correct for the question over email and they don't deserve a downvote.


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Thursday, January 15, 2015
In late 2014, Amazon and the publishing house Hachette settled a months-long dispute over who should set the price for e-books. In Amazon's view, lower prices mean more sales and more readers, and that benefits everyone. But for publishers, the price of an e-book must reflect the investment made, from the author's advance to a book's production. The conflict, resolved for now, has only raised more questions about the value of books, Amazon's business practices, and the role of publishers. Is book publishing an oligopoly, a dinosaur in need of disruption? Is Amazon, which accounts for 41% of all new book and 67% of all e-book sales, a monopoly? Who is doing right by readers and the future of books?
Author & Self-Publishing Pioneer
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Joe Konrath is the author of several dozen thriller novels. He was traditionally published by Hyperion, Hachette, and Penguin. Since getting his rights back, he's sold over a million ebooks via self-publishing.
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Matthew Yglesias is executive editor of Vox.com, a digital news startup that launched in April 2014. Previously he was the Moneybox columnist at Slate. Yglesias was also a fellow at the Center for American Progress, a blogger for Think Progress, an associate editor for The Atlantic, and a staff writer at The American Prospect. He has authored two books, The Rent is Too Damn High (2012) and Heads in the Sand (2008).
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Franklin Foer is the former editor of The New Republic. Before joining The New Republic, Foer was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Slate. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, U.S. News & World Report, Lingua Franca, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, New York and Foreign Policy. In 2004 he published his first book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization.
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Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of ten best-selling works of fiction, including his first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987), and the sequel, Innocent, published by Grand Central Publishing in 2010. His newest novel, Identical, was published by Grand Central Publishing in 2013. He has also written two non-fiction books about his experiences in the law. Turow has been a partner in the Chicago office of Dentons (formerly Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal), an international law firm, since 1986, concentrating on white collar criminal defense, while also devoting a substantial part of his time to pro bono matters. From 2010 to 2014, he was president of the Authors Guild, the nation's largest membership organization of professional writers. He is an emeritus trustee of Amherst College.
45% voted the same way in BOTH pre- and post-debate votes (22% voted FOR twice, 20% voted AGAINST twice, 3% voted UNDECIDED twice). 55% changed their minds (16% voted FOR then changed to AGAINST, 5% voted FOR then changed to UNDECIDED, 7% voted AGAINST then changed to FOR, 1% voted AGAINST then changed to UNDECIDED, 14% voted UNDECIDED then changed to FOR, 13% voted UNDECIDED then changed to AGAINST) | Breakdown Graphic
If the For side lost, I'd say it's because they failed to articulate their argument. Joe Konrath particularly seemed out of his depth. His debate skills seem to fall in line with someone who learned debate from online forums.
I think there are many points they could've argued but didn't, while the Against did their job better. We can speculate and say it was rigged using the online votes as the sole data point, but that is, of course, merely speculation. It could be that, in the context of the debate, the people who were present found the Against more convincing. Which is fair, because if the vote was "Who presented a more cogent/coherent argument?" then I think the Against proved themselves more capable.
Now, with that said, I still voted For. As I said, I think the points are there: assuming to know Amazon's business model, the business taking a loss as a whole to directly challenge book publishers (a single aspect of their entire business), that the books published by traditional publishers is largely what they sell (so destroying those publishers would be taking a bite out of their own butts in the long-term), the fact that 'destroying literature' would harm the market, a market which they own a huge part of, etc, etc, etc.
I agree with the point that not everyone lives somewhere that books are readily available. I live an hour away from the city. The closest book store is in a small town and they specialize in Christian fiction, not my cup of tea. I am so happy that I can buy books over wifi on my kindle because otherwise I wouldn't have those books readily available.
On the other hand, it is also true that Amazon is a business and businesses have their own best interests in mind.
This was in New York City. The big five publishers are based there. They employee a lot of people in that city. If the audience was in Houston, the vote would have gone the other way.
I echo Jeremey's comments. I came to this web site to understand how the voting result came to to be so different from what I thought I was hearing in the debate. I wanted to understand if the audience was in some way biased.
As I was reading the transcript, I kept thinking that had this debate occurred a decade ago, "Amazon" would have been replaced by "Barnes & Noble." The presumption was that they were killing independent book sellers, and thus short-changing readers. The mechanism was a bit different, but just as Amazon was able to tweak their site to hide Hachette's books, B&N could decide not to feature a particular publisher's or author's works. Of course, independent booksellers could as well, but since there were many of them, contrarian views could still get out.
"Strategic Voting" comment by Yglesias seems very prescient, except it was all going in the direction of the Against camp. For wins Undecideds (14% switch to For vs. 13% switch to Against) but a ridiculous number of For switch to Against (16%); are we to believe somehow the Against argument was more compelling to pre-debate For's than Undecideds. This was a stacked audience with a disingenuous initial vote.
Authors are being treated like Milkmen. As farmers see the cost of producing a bottle of milk unprofitable, so too are authors unless they can win film rights. How likely is that? Amazon would have you believe that they work in the best interest of readers and I am sure they do, But the next time you purchase a bottle of milk think what the farmer gets in return; its the same for the author. Not many of us make more than £11K a year. A £9.99 book seems expensive but it can last a week unlike that expensive bottle of red wine drunk in a night. Come on, we all have a need to make a living and so Authors should join the Farmers to get a better deal.
This was the first debate I felt practically strong about--it surprised me that iQ2 uses a specific company as a debate topic--I enjoyed the debate but thought the audience was oddly pro-publisher.
I think the panelists on the pro-side made an excellent argument for the reader but the against-side continued to try to reframe the debate to be "Amazon is the Author's Friend", "Amazon is the Retailer's Friend" or "Amazon is the Publisher's Friend" which are much easier to create arguments to dispute. Neither of these were the topics.
I think the high "undecided" pre-vote by the audience was rather unique in this iQ2 debate and worthy of speculation that the audience were predisposed to throw the debate to the against-side. If the audience were made up of readers and not those with a bias, I suspect the result would have been closer to the online poll.
I think location of the debate had more to do in the outcome than the arguments--the organizers may have missed the fact that every large traditional publisher has a NYC office.
I haven't bought anything from Amazon, purposefully, for over a year. I read book reviews on their website, but that's all. If what I want is only sold on Amazon, I forgo it. I don't shop at Walmart either. In my opinion, Amazon is the yuppie, of which I am one, answer to Walmart.
A most interesting debate. For me the elephant that remains in the room is author marketing. An individual author isn't interested in the success of Amazon, he or she is interested in their own success. Readers buying from Amazon enter a bargain basement where millions of books are available and none stand out unless favored by Amazon. The lone author still must market on their own in order to survive. Amazon markets Amazon. The more powerful they become does not mean anything positive to those who produce. They are a destination website. While the internet has made it possible for anyone with a crayon to publish, finding quality material only becomes more obscure. Amazon is indeed a gate keeper of the "retail market" but no friend to the author or the consumer. All this debate proved is readers and authors are in need of more competition for Amazon, not more retail monopoly.
The concerns about Amazon are very similar to the concerns about Walmart expressed 25 years ago. Were those concerns legitimate? I think so, The quality of goods has gone down and the source of goods has shifted toward the country which can sell things to walmart most cheaply. Namely China, and all else who can bypass American Laws, designed to protect the worker. We now face the real issue of stagnant wages and immigrant labor under cutting American Workers ability to live unsubsidized lives. These are very real consequences and provide a real and substantial model for what could await the literary industry as Amazon follows the Walmart model of success. Quality is compromised when profits are the only consideration. As we have experienced, the quality of goods decreases as the streamlining associated with the newest human aberration - corpofacism increases, under the guise of lower pricing of goods.
Some of you don't seem to understand that the tickets for these functions go on sale way before the debate. The people in the audience buy tickets for those debates they are interested in. That is why you see people in the audience in the fields that the debate is about.
The against side's argument seemed to be mainly that Amazon is bad for publishers.... but that's not this debate.
I do not like the new 30 second speed round feature. If I wanted sound bytes and quick form statements, I could watch beauty pageants or Fox and Friends
@Rob The voting is not scientific, and I don't think IQ2 makes any claims that it is. The idea is for this forum to get the ideas out to more people by making it more fun and competitive; not so much to take the place of Gallup or Pew Forum in regards to public perception.
The results can be a pointer for which side may have the better arguments, but it's ultimately up to each viewer to weight the arguments and make their own conclusions.
This debate changed my mind regarding another question that concerns me greatly, is Amazon the writer's friend? Before seeing this debate, my answer was a resounding no. But I think the team arguing for the motion made some great points as well as the team arguing against on the deeper concern. My view is now that having both system is the best situation for the writer. I may even consider publishing on Amazon!
The voting method seems odd to me and woefully unscientific. And it seemed to me that the panelists who were FOR the motion were like two lone Democrats preaching to a room full of Republicans, if you'll pardon the analogy.
I'm not sure if the online voting is any more scientific, but I imagine it more closely resembles the truth.
Who knew that New York was full of Luddites aka publishing industry shills?
I stopped believing any results because of very bias, pre-selected audiences.
Interesting how the votes from the paying audience members are skewed so differently compared to online users from all around the country.
Funny also that a randomly selected audience member just happened to be a... wait for it... an old-school literary agent! Either that was a heck of a coincidence or publishing industry folk were pretty thick on the ground in that particular audience.
This debate wasn't held in New York by any chance, was it?
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Close Quarters Pub
Close Quarters Pub
31953 Lake Rd.
Avon Lake, OH
Hours: M–Th 4pm–1am; F-Sat 11am–1am
Close Quarters Pub is one SMALL pub! But that is the charm of the place! That, and the mixture of whimsical, nautical, down-to-earth neighborhood feel of this pub. Close Quarters has a menu that you wouldn't expect for a place like this..featuring a long list of sandwiches, wings, sides, munchies and of course, perch. But wings seem to be the most popular and when you walk in the door, you can smell the hot sauce! Yum!
You probably won't find a website for this place, it just doesn't fit their style!
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Taken on March 23, 2011