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AS the world economy emerges from the financial crisis, a startling new phase of globalisation is being revealed.
For a generation, freeing up trade and capital flows around the world has been driven by the rich nations, led by the US. Having been hit hardest by the crisis, however, these developed nations are now struggling to reconstruct their economic growth models.
They are burdened by unprecedented peacetime debts, being forced to wind back unaffordable social entitlement systems and are underprepared for the costs of their ageing populations.
The US is printing money to generate a lower dollar and to revive job growth; Europe is gripped by a sovereign debt crisis and battling to save the euro; Britain has been forced into its most savage austerity since World War II; and Japan yesterday suffered a sovereign credit downgrade.
As the rich world struggles, globalisation now is being powered by the big emerging market economies, led by China and India and extending to Indonesia, Brazil and others. Emerging market globalisation is even bypassing the rich world.
This is the irresistible theme among the couple of thousand political, financial and business elites who gather at this time of the year for the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told these high priests of globalisation that Asia was undergoing a "rapid and strong economic, social, cultural and strategic resurgence, the size of which is certain to redefine global affairs". He called it "the big shift" that would shape what he called "21st century globalism".
This new globalisation is already making nations like Australia much richer & more influential on the global stage. The rise of an emerging market urban middle class centred in Asia is pumping up the prices of commodities we export, from iron ore, coal and copper to beef and cereals. But this new world order also is likely to be more volatile, for instance as rising food prices spark social unrest in poorer nations and prompt some commodity producers to curb their food exports.
As well, prolonged high unemployment and budget austerity could produce a damaging political backlash in rich countries. That already is showing up in the currency war between Washington and Beijing that is making countries such as Brazil and South Africa less competitive.
The US Federal Reserve Board's "quantitative easing" is encouraging a flood of capital into the higher-growth emerging markets and pushing up their inflation and interest rates. In turn, developing countries are flirting more with controls on capital inflows to restrain their currency appreciation.
So far, however, the rapid rebound of China and other big emerging markets has helped pull the world economy out of recession quicker than many hoped.
Famed New York-based economic bear Nouriel Roubini called it a LUV recovery. The euro-zone economies, tipped by the IMF to grow a tepid 1.5 per cent this year, were in an L-shaped path out of the crisis. The US is in a U-shaped recovery, tipped to expand a sub-par 3 per cent this year. America's big corporates are in good shape, having pared back their costs and built up massive cash reserves. Yet the emerging markets -- led by 9 per cent-plus China and 8 per cent India -- are the V.
While many are relieved that a global depression has been averted, the crisis has exposed the weaknesses of the rich country growth model. At Davos last year, even the IMF was warning that the global recovery was still too fragile for budget stimulus measures to be quickly withdrawn.
But that was just as the Greek sovereign debt crisis was erupting before spreading to Portugal and Ireland. And that has forced Europe into budget austerity to cap the rise of its huge government debt burden lest financial markets impose a more brutal solution.
And, in his annual State of the Union address this week, Barack Obama said the rules have changed from when Americans could get a good secure job by merely turning up at the nearby factory. "Today, just about any company can set up shop, hire workers and sell their products wherever there's an internet connection," the US president said.
"Meanwhile, nations like China and India realised that, with some changes of their own, they could compete in this world and so they started educating their children earlier and longer, with greater emphasis on math and science. They're investing in research and technologies. Recently, China became home to the world's largest private solar research facility and the world's fastest computer."
In the new globalisation, the US president is saying that China and India are educating their workers better than many Americans. At Davos, this represented a broader shift. Some suggested that a multi-national corporation could just as easily get access to a few hundred skilled engineers in India than in a rich economy. And these new production opportunities are lining up with the new sources of consumer demand as the emerging markets shift their growth model away from exporting to the US and Europe.
"I think what's really happening is that the slowdown of the Western world and the continued expansion of the emerging market world is really shifting the balance of power in terms of where the consumer lies," Azim Premji, chairman of India's global IT services company Wipro said.
Obama called it the US's "Sputnik moment", harking back five decades ago to when the Soviet Union beat the US to putting a man in space. He outlined a growth and competitiveness strategy to lift America's lagging school performance, invest more in economic infrastructure such as high-speed rail, cut company tax, review business regulation and freeze parts of federal budget spending to contain the public debt explosion.
"President Obama articulated clearly the need for the US to restructure its economy," Washington-based international policy economist Fred Bergsten said in Davos. "He didn't go far in suggesting how that would happen."
Bergsten said Obama identified the need for the US to rely less on debt-financed consumer spending and government deficit spending in favour of increased saving, higher exports and stronger private investment; the so-called rebalancing of global growth called for the successive G20 leaders summits.
A substantial fall in the US dollar, at least against the Chinese yuan and some other Asian currencies, was the "transmission mechanism" to deliver this more balanced growth, Bergsten said. But the rest of the world was justified in waiting to see whether the US would do its part, such as by attacking a budget deficit that the IMF tips will hit 11 per cent of gross domestic product this year. "The US is getting perilously close to that threshold point for a financial crisis," Bergsten warned.
While Obama was talking in Washington, Yudhoyono was flying into Davos from New Delhi, where he attended India's national republic day celebrations and signed more than $15 billion of trade and investment deals. In Davos, Indonesian officials described the two economies as complementary. Indonesia needs infrastructure investment in railways, airports and energy generation. India needs the raw materials resource-rich Indonesia sells.
It's perhaps the most striking example of the new emerging market globalisation: the world's biggest Muslim nation becoming more economically tied to the world's second most populist and Hindu-dominated nation. But it's repeated elsewhere. The IMF this week forecast that sub-Saharan Africa would grow more than 5 per cent this year and nearly 6 per cent next year, thanks to growing trade and investment ties with China, again related to resource demand.
In Davos, Australian trade officials were surprised to discover that China is Brazil's biggest trade partner: it's Australia's main iron ore rival. "Everyone is looking to the Asia Pacific," Trade Minister Craig Emerson said in Davos. "How do we get part of this 8, 9, 10 per cent a year growth."
Remember that this is happening less than 15 years after the East Asian financial crisis that thrust Indonesia into the harsh grip of the IMF and only a decade after China joined the World Trade Organisation, an anniversary yesterday marked by a special session at Davos. Of course, the US decline could still be turned around, while emerging markets such as India's bubble might burst if the capital inflows reverse.
But Yudhoyono suggested that Asia's renaissance meant that countries such as Indonesia and regional groupings such as the Association of South East Asian Nations would play a more strategic role in resolving global problems. With the relative decline of the US, "no single power can shape the world order alone", he said.
The Indonesian leader called for the major economies to finally nail a deal this year on the WTO's Doha round of global trade liberalisation. Yet French president and this year's G20 chairman, Nicolas Sarkozy, neglected to mention the Doha round in his remarks at Davos on Thursday, instead calling for measures to stabilise commodity markets. Former head of the WTO forerunner Peter Sutherland berated Sarkozy for the omission.
In Davos for a trade ministers' gathering on the Doha round, Emerson was not impressed. "Anyone who is concerned about high prices for agricultural products should be in favour of trade liberalisation," he said. "If there is liberalisation of trading rules then those countries that are good at producing agricultural products will be able to produce more of them. If you produce more of them, that takes pressure off prices."
The good news for Australia is that the emerging market globalisation appears driven by the projected expansion in world population from less than 7 billion to 9 billion over the next generation, with most of this in Asia.
And, as emerging market populations become more urbanised, they are driving demand, and hence prices, for the mining, energy and agricultural products Australia controls & exports. Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese suggested the mass spread of mobile phones was encouraging 5 billion or so people to aspire for rich world living standards, including living in city apartments with airconditioning.
"They want the stuff we produce," the mining boss said, saying it would be very difficult for any "black swan", or left field event, to disrupt this booming emerging market demand for raw materials.
At the same time, however, new resource deposits were becoming harder to find and taking longer to develop in order to satisfy stakeholders. "Nobody wants a big mine in their backyard," Albanese said.
The message is that it will take time -- perhaps 10 to 15 years -- for global mining supply to catch up to the surge in emerging market demand. That would mean an extended period of high export prices for Australia.
The more troubling Davos take, however, came from New York-based political science and risk consultant Ian Bremmer who dismissed the G20 exercise as a panicked response to the financial crisis.
Now the worst had passed, the G20 was being exposed as cumbersome and ineffective.
Instead of the G20, Bremmer has made a splash by dubbing the new globalisation as "G zero". "What we have is everyone for themselves," he said yesterday. The old G7 (basically, the US, Europe and Japan) was too weak to provide the global leadership needed to resolve pressing global issues such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, trade and economic policy co-ordination.
Yet emerging market nations were either not capable of providing global leadership or held views incompatible with those of the developed economies, such as through their promotion of "state capitalism".
"Globalisation for the last 40 years has been the West reaching out and bringing in the emerging markets, their labour and profits," Bremmer said, "and a lot of people did very well. But that globalisation is over because the West can't consume the way it used to, the west's fiscal constraints are greater and the emerging markets want to define globalisation their way."


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Dreams, College, And A Corporation Scholarship To Pave The Way
People have a wide range of talents and abilities that often go undeveloped because they do not have the training they need. College allows people to learn how to hone their dreams into a reality. Once out of high school, children and their families are pretty much on their own for funding the next stage of education. Several solutions exist and one area of college funding is a corporate scholarship.
Corporate scholarships can be open to the public or be only available for application by employees and their families. One advantage to having this type of funding is they do not have to be paid back like a loan. A disadvantage is the competition can be fierce. Some are based on financial need, while many are based on academic achievement and test scores. The amounts mostly run around a thousand dollars for a full year. A few can be more depending on the company. The variety in opportunities is as varied as the different kinds of businesses and personal talents that exist. Usually the scholarship reflects the interests of the corporation. If they work with technology then they are more likely to be looking for people who have the ability to work with math and engineering subjects. The big department stores often reward scholarships that involve business and fashion.
Consider it a red flag if an agency or ad provides a list of guaranteed scholarships when a fee is paid first. Until the grant is given by the company, there are no guarantees when dealing with corporate scholarships. Legitimate groups do exist who charge for locating potential funding but they cannot guarantee the scholarship will be rewarded and they do not ask for the money first. The information is out there for free. Check with a guidance counselor or research the websites of the larger corporations for possibilities.
Parents should look into the possibility of scholarships from where they work. Large and small companies know the value of having an educated work force in their surrounding community. Consult the websites of some of the big banks if the child wishes to explore the financial world as his or her career. If the medical field is a possibility, check out the large hospitals and other medical institutions to see if they provide tuition assistance. There are a lot of corporations that really want to help. They know it pays to assist people to reach their dreams.
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The most difficult aspect or challenging part of buying document management software is that there are multiple features on offer with these systems. As a result, the buyer would have to be as discerning as possible when buying these software solutions. These management software solutions are primarily deployed for simplifying work life. However, at times, the overwhelming features could make the evaluation and selection process very tedious, which may even result in an individual or a company going for features that were not necessarily needed.
Every DMS or eFile document management software system should have a plethora of scanning features; for instance, batch scanning support. Apart from scanning paper documents, adding current electronic documents into the software is a very frequently used way of working with or around documents. Most people make use of the folder method for managing their important documents. As the number of folders and documents grows, it becomes imperative to have a proper document management software system in place for managing and organizing documents. The software solution being opted for should assist with importing the existing folder structure, so that one can kick start work almost instantly.
Along with features such as tags, folders, document types, etc. that make grouping documents for easy retrieval in the future, search functions is an area where document management software really does a better job than paper-based systems. With quick search, documents can be located almost instantly, while those hard-to-find documents or files can be easily traced with the help of advanced search. If a particular search function is being used quite frequently, the specific combination can be saved for future reuse, thereby helping save some additional time.
With the help of the text extraction feature, even certain content within the document would become searchable. This is one feature that is not possible with paper-based files.
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Hard money loans are loans that are based on assets where the borrower gets a loan that is secured by their real estate. Hard money loans are mostly issued by private investors or companies. These are some of the benefits of hard money loans.
The approval of the loan is fast. The process of documentation is very simple and that makes it easy to have the loan approved within a short time as opposed to waiting for weeks for a bank to approve you. Unlike other traditional lenders such as banks, hard money lenders do not emphasize on the borrower to have a high credit score. Their main concern is your assets valuation.
The loan comes with a lot of flexibility. A good hard money lender can help you to get hard money to buy a property or even invest in a small business. This will increase your chances of seeking loan approval much faster as compared to banks and other lending institutions despite the fact that you have a poor credit score.
With good lending terms and very little paperwork, you are sure of getting the loan on time. Most hard money lenders and lenders of bridge loans accept different collateral. You can choose to use your own home or the future cash flow that comes from your property as collateral.
Most banks will require that you adhere to the rules stipulated down by the Federal Reserve and their own banking policies as well. This makes it so hard for the borrower to get loans from such an institution due to the delays of checks and load of documentation. On the other hand, hard money lenders have their own set of rules and regulations which makes it very fast and easy to approve hard money loans.
As seen above, there are a lot of advantages of hard money loans. You should therefore take advantage of it.
Benefits Of Olive Oil For Skin
Olive oil has long been used in the cure for acne and as a natural moisturizer for the skin. The oil contains linoleic acid, a substance that keeps the water in the skin from evaporating. This substance is also present in our soaps but you get a purer version of the linoleic acid from virgin olive oil.
Olive oil contains antioxidants, which are compounds that work to prevent the effect of free radicals on the skin. Free radicals come from toxins and pollutants that break down the cells, and this leads to skin damage and the first signs of aging. Olive oil use provides the skin with a layer of antioxidants which help make your skin cells more resistant to damage. With natural olive oil use, the skin becomes softer, clearer, and more resistant to infection and inflammation.
Olive oil can be prepared with other natural ingredients for a natural moisturizer. When mixed with beeswax in a 1:1 ratio it can make a great lip balm. It can also be mixed with your favorite organic shampoo to add more moisture to the hair and to prevent tangling and hair damage. In some salons, olive oil is used on the nails to soften them before buffing.
You skin is important, its the largest organ your body has. Dry skin, or just general health, no matter what your skin needs olive oil for skin can help.
Internet Technology Ever Changing Landscape
Advertising over the web is generally cheaper than paying for airtime on a radio or a television network. It lasts longer, because anything posted to the web can remain there indefinitely. Internet marketing has spawned an entire industry with hundreds of different strategies to achieve the aim of creating exposure in a swamp of available material.
It is possible to buy ads on the web, but the key difference is that web ads can target select demographics or even individual users. People who surf the web end up having cookies installed on their computer, which allows search engines to keep track of user preferences. Some ad companies actually have ways of identifying data with a computer's ISP number.
All this data is used to direct ads towards people likely to click on them. These ads then lead to a website or even an order form. Hence its quintessential to have a website if you want to advertise on the internet, a good utah seo firm can help create a site for you if need be.
Web pages are perhaps the cheapest and most useful promotional media ever devised. The only thing that came close before the Internet was brochures and order catalogs. While a television ad can only make a few brief statements in a span of fifteen minutes, a web page can have tens of thousands of words.
While it is recommended to keep paragraphs short and sentences concise, companies can describe products in great detail. Many users will only buy something after they are able to examine it. Several photos and exact specifications goes a long way to satisfying this need. It gives the customer the reassurance they are buying exactly what they were wanting.
Internet marketing has spawned novelties such as keyword stuffing and META tags. There are enough competing pages that any search is bound to turn up thousands of results. Getting to the top of the list is a real challenge. Search engines rank results according to how well the content matches the search phrase. Predicting popular search phrases can be worth a lot of money.
Experts advertise themselves as being experts on finding popular search terms and integrating them carefully into a web page. This is called Search Engine Optimization. Search phrases can be included in the META tags and the page description as well.
Search engines also rank pages according to its existing popularity. Web traffic tends to generate more web traffic. Some web pages are recognized as an authority, while some businesses pay a lot of money in advertisement and content creation to raise their web site's profile.


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I love to buy chiles, especially when I find ones that are soft and pliant, so fresh you can imagine they were drying in a Mexican field maybe just last week.
I have to be careful, however, when shopping because my storage space is very limited. And the other day when I opened my cabinet, out came tumbling three bags of chiles that hit me on the head. I then realized that I needed to make something that would use up a lot of my supply. Fortunately, there was a big football game and nothing pleases people watching winter sports more than a big bowl of spicy red chili.
Now, I've written about chili before and provided you with general guidelines on how I make my chili. I don't use beans, I don't use tomatoes but most importantly, I don't use measurements. It works for me, but can be frustrating if you've never made chili and desire more strict instructions.
So for this batch, I decided to multi-task and wrote down what I was adding to the pot when I made my what I dubbed my seven-chile chili. Of course, there were a couple of mishaps—I added way too many ground cloves in the beginning and accidentally added cardamom instead of coriander during one spice addition. But the best thing about chili is that the longer it cooks, the flavors both deepen and blend into a complex dish where the sum of the bowl is greater than its parts.
People often ask if my chili is authentic Texas chili. I'll say yes because I'm a Texan and it's the chili I grew up eating. Though defining what authentic Texas chili is can be difficult. The term "chili" comes from chile con carne, which translates to peppers with meat. And that's at heart what I make, with the addition of some spices and aromatics. But there have been some grumbles.
Some people have grumbled because there's cinnamon and chocolate in my chili, though these flavors are commonly found in Mexican cuisine. Some people have grumbled because there aren't tomatoes in my chili, though I don't think that cowboys on the range had access to tomatoes all the time. And some people have grumbled because I don't use Gebhardt's Chili Powder, though I can't buy that in New York and using fresh chiles will trump chili powder any day.
But no matter what people say, I love my chili and usually, those that eat it love it, too. So here is some of my chili with measurements. Enjoy!
Seven-chile chili
6 anchos
2 pasilla
2 costeños
2 guajillos
4 chiles de arbol
4 pieces of bacon
4 pounds of chuck roast, cut into 1/4 inch cubes
1 large onion diced
6 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 cup of brewed coffee
1 bottle of beer
2 cups of water
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp clove
1/2 tsp allspice
1 tsp coriander
1/2 tsp cayenne
1 tablespoon cumin
(For all spices, please feel free to add more to taste throughout cooking if you like.)
Salt to taste
1/4 cup masa harina
1/3 Mexican hot chocolate tablet, grated
Heat the dried chiles (anchos, pasillas, costenos, guajillos and chiles de arbol) in a dry, cast-iron skillet on medium for a couple of minutes on each side. Turn off the heat and then add enough water to the skillet to cover the chiles, and let them soak for half an hour.
Meanwhile, in a large heavy pot, such as a Dutch oven, fry up your bacon. When done, remove from pan and crumble (Don't worry if you opt to eat a slice—you deserve it!) and leave the bacon grease in the pot (it should be about 3) tablespoons. In the pot, cook your beef in the bacon grease on medium heat, a few minutes on each side until lightly browned. You will probably have to cook these in two batches.
Remove the browned beef from the pot, and add your onions. Cook on medium until clear. Add the garlic and cook for another minute. Put the beef back in the pot, and mix in the coffee, the beer, two cups of water, bacon crumbles and the dry spices. Turn the heat up to high.
Your soaking chiles should be soft by now. Drain them and discard the soaking water (it will be bitter) and place them in a blender along with the canned chipotle chiles and one cup of fresh water. Puree until nice and smooth and then add the chile puree to the chili pot.
When chili begins to boil, turn heat down to low and let simmer for five hours, stirring occasionally. Taste it once an hour, and if the flavors are too muted, feel free to add more of any of the spices. Also, it starts to get too dry, add more liquid (your choice!).
After five hours, take a Mexican hot chocolate disc, and finely grate 1/3 of it into the pot. Scoop out 1 cup of broth and add the masa harina. Mix it well and then reincorporate it back into the pot. Stir until chili is thickened.
Let the chili simmer for another half hour or so. When done, serve with cheddar, onions and tortillas.
Note: If you can't find all of these chiles, I would just use the more readily available anchos and chipotles. I'd use 6-8 anchos, following the same soaking and pureeing method, and two chipotles.


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Disney•Pixar Cars MICRO DRIFTERS™ Fast Flip Carry Case
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Was: $19.99Now: $15.00
Enjoy on-the-go racing action with a case that features logos and buildings from the Disney•Pixar movies! The case can store and display up to 40 Micro Drifters cars and comes with one WGP Lightning McQueen vehicle (others sold separately).
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The characters from Cars are happiest on the road, and now they can travel in style with this cool case, which lets kids store and display up to 40 Micro Drifters vehicles. (The case includes WGP Lightning McQueen — others sold separately.) The cars fit neatly in individual storage compartments on both sides of the box. A divider separates the two sides and helps keep the upper vehicles in place while providing handy access. Fun logos decorate the inside, while iconic buildings from Radiator Springs sit on top. Push a button to pop up the structures and create instant fan stands, and then race cars along the two-lane track. When the winner has been declared, easily store your Micro Drifters vehicles and close everything up until your next high-octane adventure!
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The St. Johns County Main Library will be closed through April for renovations and improvements that include a complete update of the restroom facilities and the reconfiguration of the Children's Library and Adult Reading Area. Patrons wishing to utilize hold services during the closure should contact the Main Library at 827-6940 to designate a secondary pick up location. The book drop will remain open for items to be returned. Any items that would have normally been due during the closure will not be due until May 1. SJCPLS thanks patrons for their patience and understanding during the renovation period.
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With two huge brawls in the league this week (Rays/Red Sox, Dodgers/Diamondbacks), I thought it would be fun to compare some current players to their brawling counterparts in the WWE. I've been an avid fan of wrestling since I was a wee lad. I will not simply be matching up player and grappler – there will be legitimate correlations. The "beard-off" between Daniel Bryan and Josh Reddick will not be the only WWE-MLB connection this season.10. Rey Mysterio/Derek Jeter, SS, NYYBoth of these guys have been around for what seems like forever and both are currently out with injuries. When each is on, however, they are two of the most electric players in their respective sports. Mysterio flies all over the ring, and Jeter rarely lets a ball by, though his range is certainly diminished. Jeter and Mysterio are also vets that still have it, and both will be returning soon. And of course, both will be members of their respective Hall of Fames.9. Sin Cara/Hanley Ramirez, 3B/SS, LADSin Cara (tra...
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Remember learning your colors in kindergarten? Learning how to debug color assignment errors in multi-patterning can sometimes seem just as confusing. In Take Two of the Tech Talk videos on multi-patterning, David Abercrombie continues his discussion with Brian Bailey of Semiconductor Engineering about color assignment issues, and possible corrective actions. More often than not, a color assignment … Read More
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You can pick up nice compact (point and shoot) cameras, a couple models old, on ebay or keh.com for $20-$50 if you want something in the interim while looking for a full-feature, interchangeable lens camera.
Woodford Reserve -Getting my stuff together to go on my yearly dove hunt at a my buddy's farm. No cell phone reception. Just me and the bugs for a few days. Life is good......
You have not trained Java to fetch the bottle? I mean Java loves tennis balls, could you not put the tennis balls on the ends of the bottles that you wish to be retrieved?
Java goes to bed at 10p.
I have no place to hunt doves this year.
Haha, I've switched over to a Pepsi since I can't sleep and am posting like mad tonight. It may be the beer or it may be the caffeine at this point. No idea.We need a live chat stream on this forum. That would be amazing for back and forth among a group of members.
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VIENNA, Austria – With live entertainment every weekend ranging from legendary classic rock to top 40 covers by local bands, Ameristar Casino's Amerisports Bar located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, recently added HARMAN's AKG IVM4500 IEM in-ear-monitors to improve sound for every act in its uniquely shaped room. With a full HARMAN support system, including a Soundcraft digital console, Crown amplifiers and JBL Professional loudspeakers, FOH engineer Dan Allen ensures that casino patrons will enjoy their time eating, drinking and dancing in the bar.
With the multiple sets of AKG IVM4500 IEM's and its room simulation program, Allen says the performing artists have become more comfortable in the large room, which is octagonally shaped at the stage and dance floor end. The remaining area of the room – approximately 150 feet long – is rectangular and contains an island bar about 100 feet back. The room's technical staff had struggled with acoustical issues for years before the HARMAN audio overhaul and a sound-dampening renovation. With the internal processing selections of IVM4500 including 8 compression, 8 EQ and 8 room simulations settings, moving onstage acts to the AKG in-ear monitoring system has yielded positive results.
"AKG thought of everything when it developed the IVM4500's," stated Allen. "The in-ears are easy to set up and have very low signal latency. Even artists who have no previous experience with in-ear monitors are easily adjusting to them, allowing for their best performances every week."
Within the casino, wireless communication signals are very dense, as security and other departments utilize numerous free frequency channels. Allen's AKG WMS470 wireless mic systems are always clear and have never dropped signal during a performance.
The Amerisports Bar's audio reinforcement system also includes an AKG Rhythm Pack with a D112 kick drum mic, C430 condensers for overheads and D40's for toms. A Soundcraft Si Expression 3 digital console and JBL STX800 series loudspeakers powered by Crown XTI amplifiers round out the concert sound system.
"I've really grown fond of the Soundcraft Expression," Allen continued. "The user levels, recall and scene setups work well and can be easily used by our IT personnel if I'm not there. It's easy to train those engineers on the Expression who are used to analog boards. And, the JBL speakers are very honest, leaving the entire system quite transparent, especially in the atypical-shaped room. I have been a JBL fan for life and every time I see that orange sticker, I know we'll have great sound."


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The first day of a new law that allows handguns in Tennessee bars and restaurants is being met with opposition from some of the establishments' owners.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department will review and possibly replace the often-ridiculed multicolored terror alert system created after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - Evangelist Tony Alamo preyed on his loyal followers' young daughters, once taking a girl as young as 8 as his bride and repeatedly sexually assaulting her, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats on Tuesday rolled out a far-reaching $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans, with medical providers, employers and the wealthiest picking up most of the tab.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Nationwide home sales may have finally hit bottom, new data shows, but a host of thorny problems are hindering any recovery.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Southern Baptists are facing a membership decline that could shrink the nation's largest Protestant denomination by nearly half in 40 years, its convention president said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dramatically hardening the U.S. reaction to Iran's disputed elections and bloody aftermath, President Barack Obama condemned the violence against protesters Tuesday and lent his strongest support yet to their accusations the hardline victory was a fraud.
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Barnes, who previously served just one term, made the announcement surrounded by family at a news conference Wednesday in Marietta. The Democrat says he wants to improve education and transportation and says he's learned from past mistakes.
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MOBILE, Ala. - A judge on Thursday ordered a death sentence for a coastal Alabama man who was convicted of murdering four young children by tossing them from a bridge to "torture" his wife.
Atlanta ― Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reported that it has been a victim of a cyber-attack and there was a breach involving the personal information of its policyholders.
It's been just over a decade since Facebook arrived in American lives and changed the way we communicate with the rest of the world.


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I want to make you aware of a philosophical paper (still in a draft version) called "Why Religion Fails to Deliver: From Blind Faith to Scientific Spirituality" - free to read either here https://univie.academia.edu/GregorFlock or here http://philpapers.org/profile/39169 - in which the author quotes rather massively from Mr Harris' 2005 book and is by and large of the same opinion.
For those scientifically-minded guys who are opposed to the term "spiritual", I recommend reading this article of Mr Harris http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/a-plea-for-spirituality. Or read his new book "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion" (http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-path-between-pseudo-spirituality-and-pseudo-science) in which Harris, judging by the title, seems to move along similar lines to the above paper by Gregor Flock.
Also, if someone who is reading this is more familiar with Mr Harris (I am not), perhaps point out the "Why Religion Fails to Deliver" paper to him; he and the author of the paper seem to share very similar views.
Let us just suppose (for those who do not have faith), that even if you argue and debate, and finally, even if it is a long shot, and you finally are logically convinced (by the way, there are many books,eg by thomas equinas that logically prove the christian faith) that there is a God, and that He is the christian God. Does it mean you are going to heaven, just because you are mentally or intellectually convinced that Jesus is God??????
Not at all. Not unless you have a spiritual experience called being born again.A logical belief in Christianity will prevent you from experiencing the Real Deal, that is a Spiritual Salvation in Christ in the following ways:
The devil was once a mighty archangel, and presently with billions of demons, evil spirits, unclean spirits, etc with a far superior intelligence than humans.Each human being is assigned to tens, if not hundreds of evil spirits and demon hordes, that would love for you to deny their existence. For if you deny their existence, then surely you will deny God's existence. It is extremely easy, 1,2,3 steps for Satan to deceive humans in more than a thousand ways.
Don't even think for a moment, that you can compete with satan intellectually. However, he has no control over your heart, and what you choose to believe.And that is the loophole, which God has opened up for you. The faith route is the only way you can bypass Satan,and his cronies who guard the intellectual gates of the human mind.
When you get in to the logic debate about God, few important things to consider in SPIRITUAL WORLD which is what actually matters:
1) You could be tempted to fall into the dungeon of SPIRITUAL PRIDE, as you are tricked into judging Almighty God, which is a fool's folly.Spiritual pride was the reason, for satan's downfall. Also for man's downfall, in garden of eden, as eve sucumbed to the temptation about being as knowledgeable as God.
This could also result in the person who is logically convinced that Jesus is God, as an intellectual knowledge of the truth, will become a STUMBLING BLOCK for a real SPIRITUAL SALVATION experience.
2) It could also lead to DECEPTION as the person, cannot find God in the intellectual domain, but only in the Spiritual domain. God's thoughts are far higher than yours, mine and the devil's, so you have to trust Him at His word. As it is written in the bible:
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
God is spirit, only a spiritual born again experience can save the person, and the first thing to do is to humble ourselves. Second, we need deliverance from demonic spirits of unbelief that hold people as captives. This can be done if the person humbles himself/herself and receives Jesus Christ into the heart. Deliverance can be done even online, and specific prayers can set the captives free.
I speak from experience. Not here to argue with anyone.
Simple challenge for those who are sincere: Ask God to open your eyes, and to reveal Himself to you.Ask in JESUS name.Simple. Try it. IT WORKS
]]>Very few, if any, appreciated the natural beneficial relationship relationship between the atheist and believer. Probably just this suggestion gives the impression of my being deranged. However Simone Weil, in her usal laconic fashion, allows one to experience the potential for this relationship.
Simone Weil was a celebrated French Marxist and social activist who died a Christian mystic. Leon Trotsky admired her intelligence and she became an intellectual influence on Pope Paul V1.
Albert Camus wrotein 1951:
Simone Weil, I still know this now, is the only great mind of our times and I hope that those who realize this have enough modesty to not try to appropriate her overwhelming witnessing.
For my part, I would be satisfied if one could say that in my place, with the humble means at my disposal, I served to make known and disseminate her work whose full impact we have yet to measure.
She wrote:
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
- Simone Weil, Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine
the Simone Weil Reader, edited by George A. Panichas (David McKay Co. NY 1977) p 417
Do you have the humility to admit the possibility that you have a supernatural part that has not yet opened? This part if it exists is unnecessary for our daily lives described as within Plato's cave but yet is what makes human conscious evolution into the "New Man" as described in the Gospels, a human potential?
They're cultural traditions, not really religious ones.
In the same way we refer to a Judeo-Christian civilization, the Arab element to Arab-Islamic seems to be where most of the trouble arises from. Practices like wearing the hijab and stoning adulterers aren't Islamic by definition, they're cultural - but they've come to be associated with Islam because Arab culture is so intertwined with the religion.
Harris seems to admit that personal spirituality only becomes troublesome when it's organized by hierarchical religion structures, structures which are inevitably going to have a strong cultural influence. But personal faith isn't the same as "Faith" as in the dogma of religious belief, something the book seems to gloss over or miss for the most part.
I'm not sure whether it was intentional or not, but Harris seems to be using "Faith" as a more acceptable and politically-correct way to say "Multiculturalism." Personal spirituality, that kind of of faith, only becomes troublesome when it begins to become part of an organized religion - which the world over have always been about consolidating power and group behavior, about establishing a certain shared culture.
On the individual level, at the core of the every major world religion is simply empathy for your fellow man. When spirituality gets organized into Religions, that's when all the wacky stuff comes in. But the wacky stuff doesn't occur because of something inherent the spirituality or faith in and of itself, it arises because of the nature of the culture that's using organized religion as a guise for accomplishing cultural goals. This article talks about that phenomenon pretty well.
Faith isn't the problem, cultural practices are. And many cultures use religion as a reason to carry on their backwards practices. Cultures use the religions they've adopted as a carte blanche to do all sorts of asinine shit, the "organized" part of religion is the issue, not the spirituality and faith that religions originally get founded on.
Lumping Sufi Muslims in together with the Wahabbis doesn't make sense and discussing "Muslim faith" doesn't make sense, in the same way lumping Evangelicals together with Universalist Christians and discussing "Christian faith" doesn't make sense. Despite a nominally shared religion, those groups have developed inside different cultures, which is what sets them apart.
I'm new to these boards, and I'm currently reading the book 'End of Faith'. Two questions on the front of my mind:
1.) How do you avoid being paranoid when reading it?!? I find the chapter 'Problems with Islam' to be deeply unsettling. To the point of paranoia ! I guess I have a tendency to be a bit naïve and gullible, so the chapter is quite unsettling for me. It is not made any less unsettling by the fact that there are two muslims in my study group. (Which by the way seem like really nice people).
How do you guys handle this?
2.) The notes ! Aaarrgh, the notes ! I constantly move back and forth in the book to read the notes as I come across them. This is actually disturbing my reading experience. Are the notes of substantial importance to understand the book, or can I happily ignore them without loosing anything in the book?
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]]>And so, I am now a bit wiser and can offer a piece of advice to others: not everything worth saying is worth saying oneself. I am sure that the world needs someone to think out loud about the ethics of torture, and to point out the discrepancies in how we weight various harms for which we hold one another morally culpable, but that someone did not need to be me. The subject has done nothing but distract and sicken readers who might have otherwise found my work useful.
That paragraph bothers me. If a respected person of his intellectual status should not write on this subject as he did, then who should? Yes it does need to be SH, among others, who should so write. I do not buy Sam's implication that intelligent & thoughtful people cannot disagree with his views on this touchy subject without Sam's informed views on other subjects being discredited in their minds as a result. I cant even understand how grown ups can rationally disagree with his position - I've certainly heard no cogent argument against SH's position (just emotings). I suspect most governments are responsibly grown up about it, if only silently. In Alan Dershowitz's essay "Tortured Reasoning" in the book Torture (edited by S. Levinson) he points out (p 257) that "All forms of torture are widespread among nations that have signed treaties prohibiting all torture." SH just needs some thicker skin and he shouldn't worry that he will lose any worthwhile fans.
I think the only problem is that too many people have just not grown up and allowed themselves to be realistic or even honest with themselves. When some one says or implies (often self-righteously) that he or she would rather have his family and other innocents blown to pieces rather than have a knowledgeable terrorist waterboarded to save them, I think his or her only excuse for such gross moral negligence is that he or she is still morally only a child who cannot discern a true lesser evil here.
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From: Bare Root: A poet's journey with breast cancer, Terrapin Press, 2002
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The surgeon removed my urgent need
for company, so I'm drawn to Joshua Tree
where I watched a desert tortoise oaring the dirt.
She swam into the lake of shade under my Jeep.
The landscape is clear, less populated,
less pebbled with moody irritation.
Even though I'm alone,
I think my new life is in love with me.
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Sheltered Housing
Maintaining your independence and having your own front door becomes more and more important as we get older. Most people, though, recognise the need for greater support from outside sources - like their family, friends, the council or other organisations - as they grow older.
The 130 Sheltered Housing Schemes run by Birmingham City Council play an important part in helping people achieve this.
Sheltered Housing schemes are located across the city and come in a variety of accommodation types, such as bungalows and low and high rise flats. They are aimed at people who can usually manage on their own but who feel safer knowing that they call on the support of a professional member of staff if they need to. Many schemes have a residents' group where tenants can have a say in how their scheme is run and there are constituency and citywide Sheltered Housing Liaison Boards, whose members live in sheltered housing.
Each home is linked via an alarm to a professional member of staff when on duty from Monday to Friday and to the Careline alarm system at all other times. They will call on residents to offer advice and support, such as contacting Social Care and Health and local health services, but do not carry out any medical duties, cook, clean or shop.
How can I apply for Sheltered Council Housing?
- If you are an older person (usually aged 50 or over), live in a
Birmingham council or housing association property or are
on the Housing Register (waiting list), you can apply to
transfer to sheltered housing.
- If you own your own home, you may still be able to apply.
Whatever your circumstances you should contact your local housing office or your housing association for further information.