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The Jewish community in Uruguay, an estimated 45,000 among a population of three million, is concerned over a sharp increase in anti-Semitism this past year, the American Jewish Committee reported here.
Attacks on synagogues, Jewish organizations and Jewish students have been growing in number, according to reports reaching the AJ Committee, and distribution of anti-Semitic literature has become more widespread. Books like the notorious Czarist anti-Semitic forgery, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," are available in editions coming from Spain and Mexico and Argentina, too, though such volumes are now forbidden in the latter country because of their racist character. In Montevideo, Uruguay's capital, there is even a book stand that specializes in anti-Semitic material.
The Jewish Central Committee in Uruguay has gone to top-level authorities to denounce this state of affairs. There was a promise from the Ministers of Justice and of Foreign Affairs that a law would be passed under which propaganda inciting racial discrimination would be severely punished. More than a year has elapsed since that promise was made, but no such law has yet been passed, the AJ Committee reported.
Some Uruguayan newspapers reported that the government was not acting because officials felt adoption of such a law would implicitly acknowledge the existence of racial discrimination. This brought a denial by Justice Minister Bayardo Bengoa, but no action on the law was forthcoming. The independent Uruguayan press generally has been supportive of the Jewish community position, according to the AJ Committee.


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AN award-winning craft cider maker is heading across the Irish Sea as their export market continues to expand.
Hogan's Cider, whose cider production is based at H & MH Weaver, in Castlemorton, near Malvern, has teamed up with Premier International Beers, Ireland's leading and longest established importer of premium and craft beers, to introduce their products to the country.
The company, which has its headquarters just outside Alcester in Warwickshire, has seen their export markets expand from the US to Russia, Hong Kong, Germany, Australia and Finland in the last 12 months but this is a little closer to home.
Allen Hogan said: "This latest overseas venture sees us heading back to my homeland to tap into a growing Irish interest in the craft cider movement.
"Ireland is no stranger to cider drinking with a population reputed to have the world's greatest cider consumption per head.
"Up to now the market has been dominated by big players but more recently the craft cider phenomenon which is sweeping the world seems to be making inroads and we hope that our multi award-winning craft ciders tickle the tastebuds of Irish drinkers keen to explore an authentic artisan taste."
Dean McGuinness, of Premier International Beers, said: "Premier International Beers has been researching ciders for quite some time now to find a range of craft ciders of excellent quality to complement our range of leading premium imported and craft beers.
"Hogan's Cider has ticked every box that we would want it to – in terms of the quality of their ciders and perry, the superb attitude that the team at Hogan's has, and in terms of their commitment to quality.
"The chance to bring cider made by a renowned cider-maker with Irish roots back to his home country is an added bonus."
Premier deliver their imports nationwide to ensure that quality and choice is available in every corner of the country, serving the Irish restaurant trade, pub trade, off-licenses and supermarkets.


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LOL @ cats rolling themselves into little sausages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny you should bring this topic up, Ruth, as last night I found an ad in my 1957 Home Plans magazine about the Kirsch Easypleat, which is a device to make pinch pleats.
July 25, 2009Vintage Crafty Saturdays – Pinch-Pleat Curtains
Welcome to Vintage Crafty Saturdays here on the blog! Tom and I are running around like crazy right now, packing like idiots for our trip to Aruba in a few days, but hopefuly you guys have enough time to relax and be a little crafty today. Or at least time to read about the craft here on the blog. 🙂
This crafting post is dedicated to everyone's favorite mid-century curtains: pinch pleats. While we have a ton of white pinch-pleats in our three season porch, we still need to convert a bunch of curtains in the living room to pinch pleats. We have come up with a short-term solution of just clipping them up there, but the cats decided it is really fun to roll themselves up like little sausages in the curtains and pull them down.
So, this is to help everyone like me who needs to get some curtains up on those pinch pleat rods! It may not be a comprehensive tutorial, but I thought the measurement guidelines were good ones, because I for one had no clue how big the pleats should be.
As always, feel free to click on the picture to enlarge!
LOL @ cats rolling themselves into little sausages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny you should bring this topic up, Ruth, as last night I found an ad in my 1957 Home Plans magazine about the Kirsch Easypleat, which is a device to make pinch pleats.
We all love the pinch pleats, right Sable! Sausage kitties – he he!
I'd like to try making drapes with pinch pleats. Ruth, all you ever see are white-white-white pinch pleated drapes, no colors or prints/patterns!
Don't know about you, Sara, but every time I think of the cats rolling themselves into little sausages, I laugh until I cry! I can just visualize it!
Ruth, if you ever get a chance to snap a photo of your furkids doing this, please, please post it here!
I need a hanky! LOL!
Oh, yes, the sausage kitties. Mine cat loves to do this. I have some drapes with pinch pleats in the dining room. I've come home many times to find them in the floor.
Ruth – totally get a pic if you can, of the kitties!
Sable – I'll bet the cats look hilarious. I love patterened drapes too, esp. with the 50s atomic desgins all over them, or the old tropical prints too. You should put some of those pinch pleats up in your home.
Alex – what pattern are your pinch pleats?


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Indiana state fair board hires risk assessment firm
INDIANAPOLIS - State investigators say Eyewitness News video could shed light into the stage rigging collapse that killed two workers and five others at the Indiana State Fair.
The news comes as the State Fair Commission met with board members for the first time since the tragedy. There are new efforts to review the staff's emergency response, and an embattled director's charge for 2012.
Investigators from the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration are looking to aerials shot by Chopper 13 for help in its investigation into the collapsed stage rigging at the Indiana State Fair.
The State won't say what they're looking for, but confirmed it's related to their investigation into the fatalities of stagehand Nathan Byrd and ESG Security member Glenn Goodrich.
At the state fairgrounds Thursday, the annual joint State Fair Board and Commissioners meeting was held.
"As we continue to pray for those that have been injured and families that have been affected by the sudden loss of their loved ones, we must try to heal and rebuild," said Executive Director Cindy Hoye.
"Let us continue as we always have to prioritize public safety and customer service," she added.
Hoye re-emerged after weeks away from the glare of cameras with a call to preserve the historic institution.
"You were true heroes that night, that horrific night. You are stewards of this wonderful fair, and it's your responsibility to lead us forward," Hoye said to board members, praising them for their efforts to provide comfort and shelter to thousands of Sugarland concert-goers August 13th.
Hoye's decisions the night the stage crashed to the ground under the threat of a severe thunderstorm are now under scrutiny by Witt and Associates, a group hired by the governor's office to investigate the emergency response.
Now Hoye reveals the State Fair Board has hired its own team, Venue Solutions Group, to evaluate risk assessment.
"They're also reviewing our current emergency response plan and making updates and solutions to that," she confirmed.
Not one board member or commissioner questioned Hoye or Lacy, but all touted the success of the event away from the collapsed rigging.
Hoye didn't stick around for reporter questions..
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"I'm fine. We're doing well," said Hoye as she rushed towards the door. "We had a great meeting today and we're doing well, thank you."
Despite praise for the overall operation of the Indiana State Fair, there was one thing noticeably missing: a financial report. Board commissioners say it won't be ready until the end of October.
The theme for 2012: "The Indiana State Fair: Celebrating the Hoosier Spirit."


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May 1, 2017
FanDuel Fantasy Soccer: UCL Semi-Final Targets
With not many goals expected to be scored during this week's matches, solid peripheral players like Casemiro could be very helpful to fantasy managers.
April 17, 2017
FanDuel Fantasy Soccer: UCL Quarterfinal Targets
Casemiro has been an incredibly consistent fantasy producer during Champions League action, and Andrew Laird expects it to continue this week against Bayern Munich.
November 21, 2016
FanDuel Fantasy Soccer: Tuesday UCL Targets
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been unstoppable this season, and there's little reason to think Legia Warsaw will be able to slow him down playing in front of the Yellow Wall on Tuesday.
DraftKings Fantasy Soccer: Tuesday UCL Cheat Sheet
Real Madrid aren't the biggest favorites on Tuesday's seven-game slate, but that doesn't mean it's time to fade Cristiano Ronaldo.
October 17, 2016
Fantasy Champions League: Tuesday Cheat Sheet
Paulo Dybala has four goals in his last three games in all competitions, and his solid floor makes him attractive in cash games and tournaments.
October 5, 2016
CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifiers: Thursday Cheat Sheet
Neymar has been dominant in Brazil's World Cup qualifiers this year, and he'll now face off against a Bolivia side that is the biggest underdog on Thursday's slate.
September 26, 2016
Juventus are big favorites Tuesday against Dinamo Zagreb, which puts Paulo Dybala firmly in play because of his solid fantasy floor.
August 29, 2016
World Cup Qualifiers: Thursday Cheat Sheet
With Lionel Messi's status for this week still up in the air, finding the right alternatives will be the key to fantasy success.
August 20, 2016
Fantasy La Liga: Sunday Cheat Sheet
There are some big players missing from Sunday's three-game La Liga slate, but that doesn't mean the fantasy points won't be flowing.
June 25, 2016
Copa America: Saturday-Sunday Cheat Sheet
The Copa America Centenario finishes this weekend, highlighted by a final rematch between Argentina and Chile.
June 20, 2016
Copa America: Semifinal Cheat Sheet
There are plenty of upper-tier options available on the two-game, two-day slate for the Copa America semifinal matches, with Lionel Messi leading the way against the U.S.
June 17, 2016
Copa America: Friday-Saturday Cheat Sheet
The United States already clinched their spot in the semifinal, while six teams will compete for the last three spots over the next two days.
June 15, 2016
Copa America: Thursday-Friday Cheat Sheet
Copa America heads to the quarterfinal round, with DraftKings breaking out an always difficult two-game, two-day slate.
June 9, 2016
With Argentina, Chile and Colombia, not to mention the United States, in action over the next two days, daily fantasy soccer players will have plenty of upper-tier options to choose from.
June 5, 2016
Copa America: Monday-Tuesday Cheat Sheet
With the United States back in action, not to mention the hotly anticipated Argentina v. Chile match, DFS players will have plenty of options to choose from on the Monday-Tuesday slate.
June 2, 2016
Copa America: Friday-Saturday Picks
Copa America opens Friday, and Chris Henne has a number of key players who should be solid fantasy contributors on DraftKings.
April 4, 2016
DraftKings Fantasy Soccer: Champions League Targets
There are some marquee matchups in the Champions League quarterfinals, and RotoWire's Alex Spalding explains why Zlatan Ibrahimovic may be the key to fantasy success.
March 8, 2016
PSG brings a 2-1 aggregate lead into Wednesday's match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, but can fantasy owners rely on Zlatan Ibrahimovic like the Parisians will?
March 6, 2016
Setting the Table: Champions League Cheat Sheet
The Champions League returns this week with Real Madrid, Wolfsburg, Benfica and Paris Saint-Germain all looking to hold onto their aggregate leads and advance to the final eight.
February 15, 2016
The return of Champions League matches brings fantasy players to a familiar debate about their lineups: is it time to fade Cristiano Ronaldo?
December 7, 2015
DraftKings Fantasy Soccer: Tuesday Champions League Values
With Real Madrid having already locked up the top spot in their group, manager Rafa Benitez may rest a number of his regular starters, which could answer the question of whether or not to fade Cristiano Ronaldo.
November 2, 2015
The question, as always, during Champions League action: is it worth paying up for Cristiano Ronaldo? RotoWire's Alex Spalding found plenty of value plays to make that question easier to answer.
October 20, 2015
DraftKings Fantasy Soccer: Wed. Champions League Values
The big question for Wednesday's Champions League slate: is Cristiano Ronaldo worth $14,000 when Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez are out.
September 29, 2015
Cristiano Ronaldo has only scored in two games this season, but his upside is nearly unmatched, forcing fantasy players to look for values to help him fit into their rosters.
September 14, 2015
The Champions League is back, and RotoWire's Andrew Laird breaks down his top value plays to help fit in the guy who scored five goals on Saturday.
May 11, 2015
DraftKings Fantasy Soccer: Champions League Semifinal
If Bayern Munich are going to overcome the big deficit to Barcelona, Robert Lewandowski will likely play a major role.
May 4, 2015
Luis Suarez is red hot of late and RotoWire's Alex Spalding thinks he's well underpriced in DraftKings' contests this week.
April 21, 2015
DraftKings Fantasy Soccer: Champions League Quarterfinal
Crazy things can happen in the second leg of Champions League ties, and RotoWire's Alex Spalding thinks Cristiano Ronaldo will come up big for Los Blancos.
April 14, 2015
Cristiano Ronaldo leads a class of forwards in this week's Champions League matches that is one of the greatest collection of strikers you'll see this season.
February 23, 2015
DraftKings Fantasy Soccer: Champions League - Round of 16
RotoWire's Alex Spalding makes his top picks for this week's Champions League action.
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The self-esteem wave may have crested. For the last couple of decades it's been an article of faith among experts of many stripes that high self-esteem is the font from which all human goodness springs. The movement reached a fever pitch in the 1980s when California funded a state task force on self-esteem, claiming that "many, if not most, of the major problems plaguing society have roots in ... low self-esteem."
Research on the subject has yielded a mixed bag of results. But a lengthy review of the literature, led by psychologist Roy Baumeister of Florida State University in Tallahassee, now concludes that high self-regard per se is not necessarily good, nor does it translate into higher estimates by others of a person's brains, beauty, or virtue. The authors scanned the published literature on self-esteem's purported effects on school and job performance, interpersonal relationships, antisocial behavior, and drug abuse. Self-esteem, they conclude, "is ... not a major predictor or cause of almost anything (... with the possible exception of happiness)."
Psychologist Robert Bjork of the University of California, Los Angeles, says the self-esteem movement has led to the credo that "every kid should feel good about him- or herself ... in some contest, for example, whatever the actual merits of their carved pumpkin every kid had to get the same prize." But contrary to the assumption behind such approaches, "self-esteem is a result, not a cause, of doing well," the authors write in the May issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
They also point out that "indiscriminate praise might just as easily promote narcissism." And thinking you're great doesn't necessarily mean you are. After all, observes Brown University psychologist Lewis Lipsitt, Hitler thought highly of himself. So far, research has not succeeded in teasing apart the effects of "good" self-esteem from the grandiose or self-deluded varieties.
Self-esteem as panacea is "a very compelling illusion," because it correlates with happiness and other good things, says Baumeister. But he believes psychologists "were a little too eager in promoting the program before the data were in." Baumeister says his current research contains quite a different lesson about how to be a successful person: "Forget about self-esteem--concentrate on self-control."
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TheForce.net has an exclusive first look at the cover of Darth Maul: Death Sentence #3. The issue will be released on September 26, with cover art by Dave Dorman. A spoiler-filled description of issue #3 follows:
While an injured Darth Maul recuperates from his recent battle with a team of Jedi, he plots his revenge—and the rescue of his brother Savage Opress (now in Jedi custody). But it isn't simply the Jedi that Maul must face; it's a powerful mining magnate with forces of his own!
Luckily for Maul, the mine owner has made a career out of exploiting the local work force, and the natives are…revolting!
Darth Maul: Death Sentence is a new Star Wars comic from Dark Horse Comics. Written by Tom Taylor, and featuring art by Bruno Redondo & Michael Atiyeh, the four issue mini-series will follow Maul and Opress after the events of The Clone Wars: Season 4 finale. The series will debut on July 25, 2012.


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I've been enjoying my Shui Teas so much that I haven't had anything new to log for a while. I was feeling a little disconnected from Steepster so, in honor of Fall (even though it's still 106 degrees here) I thought I'd give this one a try.
This tea (in silken sachets) has a bright fruity fragrance that deepens to an almost bitter citrus. This is true before and after brewing.
Once brewed, you're left with a garnet colored tea. The taste is mildly flavored. From the fragrance, I expected a high level of bitterness or tartness but there's just a subtle pucker after a slight fruit flavor. I would prefer that the tea base be presented a bit stronger, but overall this wasn't bad.


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Jul 22, 2007
By John Weible
Today we changed our web servers to insert the new web server layer we announced previously. From now on, all web requests for www.library.uiuc.edu go through our new system.
Another server change and project related to all of the above is the implementation of a "reverse proxy web server" that will operate in front of the other web and CMS servers. It will have no content of its own, but silently intercepts and processes all web requests coming to our sites. It essentially operates like this:
In our case, the insertion of this additional layer also can help reduce the impact of change on
users while our content transitions to a CMS environment. It will also allow us to bring some
loose ends under the www.library.uiuc.edu namespace.
Examples of this name space improvement:
The complexity of the Library's web sites (both technically and organizationally) has brought us to the point where a multi-tier architecture now makes sense. Most very large web sites operate this way, since it allows a great deal of flexibility regarding the distribution of content and processing power on the back end servers.
With this new arrangement, we have some additional ways we can secure our real content and application web servers.


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This is a list of known minor errors in the typesetting of the book.
EMF Design Changes
Because we strived to produce a book covering the most current release of EMF, we needed to write it concurrently with the ongoing design and development of EMF version 1.1. Although we tried our best to reflect every recent design change, we inevitably missed a few. The ones we know about are listed below.


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Indonesian budget crisis hits inward investment
During the last ten days of May and first ten days of June Jakarta hosts several conferences in inward investment and finance, notably the Euromoney Indonesia Investment Conference on 21st – 22nd May in Bali ; the Indonesian Regional Investment Forum on 26th -27th May in Jakarta; the Third Annual Arab Asian Financial Forum on the 5th -6th June in Jakarta and the Investment IQ Indonesia conference in Jakarta on 9th – 10th June.
All of these events should help bring Foreign Direct Inward Investment into Indonesia but they will all be confronted with the consequences of upside down economics affecting investment in infrastructure :
(1) the hoped for contribution to infrastructure from the state budget and state owned enterprises is likely to be reduced because of pressure on the state budget from the rising costs of the oil subsidy (2) this will decrease the prospects of providing state backed co-financing alongside foreign investors in public-private partnerships (3) it is hoped that this pressure might be relieved by the rapid mobilization of Islamic bonds (Sukuk) but this will depend, as will the quality of project proposals, upon improved project preparation capacity and faster reactions from public administration.
Meanwhile the mathematics of upside down economics are stunning.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy confirmed in late March 2008 that the House of Representatives had agreed to allocate RP 126.8 trillion in fuel subsidies or about three times the orginal 2008 budget allocation of Rp 42 trillion ( an increase from about US$4.3 billion to US$12.9 billion. Energy & Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro confirmed that " state income from the energy sector will be about $30 billion and about half of it will be allocated for fuel subsidies".
However by the third week of May 2008 Finance Minister Sri Mulyani gave fresh figures on the cost of the subsidy in the light of constantly increasing oil prices spiking up to $136 dollars per barrel. Now the Government argued that the average 28.7 per cent increase in fuel prices would cut the annual spending on fuel subsidies by Rp 64.6 trillion ($6.6 billions) so that subsidy cost would fall from an estimated Rp 265.6 trillion to Rp 201 trillion ( that is from US$27 billion to $20.5 billion).
So in six months, the estimated cost of the fuel subsidy to the state budget has risen from an original estimate of Rp 42 trillion in the original budget to a revised total of Rp 201 trillion, five times the original estimate , and this is taking into account the implementation of the 28.7% fuel price increase to consumers.
The total state budget was projected for 2008 at Rp 987.5 trillion ( or US $ 107 billion). The cost of the fuel subsidy as a percentage of the state budget has grown from a projected 4.2% of the state budget at the start of 2008 to 20.4% by the end of May. So expressed as a percentage increase in the budget it has increased in five months by 500%. It would be 27% of the state budget without the implementation of the fuel increase. There will need to be another large fuel price increase during 2008.
The main impact of reducing the subsidy and of increasing fuel prices to consumers will be to remove a subsidy from the rich. The main grounds upon which the removal of the subsidy is opposed is that it will harm the poor. A recent Jakarta Post Editorial (May 14) estimated that 82% of the Rp 126 trillion fuel subsidy (US$13.7 billion) or Rp 103 trillion (US $11.2 billion) would go to motor vehicle.
It is true that more realistic fuel prices will indirectly have negative effects on the poor. Also that poor people have been using kerosene as cooking fuel. The state budget, which all parties in the House of Representatives agreed to, is unsustainable without the fuel price increase and reduction in subsidy. The use of kerosene as cooking fuel is also totally unsustainable and has to be stopped.
The Government has said that to mitigate the increase in fuel subsidies it will allocate Rp 14.1 trillion in direct cash assistance to poor families in 4,000 districts ( the same 19.1 million families who were assisted in 2005, a total of 76.4 million people) plus Rp 13.2 trillion in (hopefully productive) credits , and another Rp 5.3 trillion to 400,00 Small & Medium Enterprises. The combined cost of these measures is equivalent to spending the total state revenue from oil and gas sales for one year on social mitigation measures to compensate for bringing fuel prices nearer to market rates.
Some Regents and regional assemblies are opposed to direct cash assistance to the poor because it will be allocated on old social and economic data and is likely to cause conflict. The cash handouts, of RP 100,000 per month over seven months, are also opposed by NGOs, research organizations and politicians with experience of similar measures in 2005. There are also doubts that these funds will reach the poor.
The Chairman of the Regional Representatives Council, Ginandjar Kartasamita wrote recently (mid May) to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arguing that although the fuel price increase might save the state budget it would not save the economy. Peoples purchasing power and industrial competitiveness would remain weak.
The size of the fuel subsidy and the cost of mitigation measures to reduce it should be put alongside the figures given by the organizers of the second Indonesian Regional Investment Forum ( mid May) that Rp 151 trillion is expected to be secured from State Owned Enterprises for investment in infrastructure in 2008, (about US$$15.4 billions) compared to Rp 93.1 trillions, ($9.5 billions) in 2007.
The cost of the subsidy should also be compared with total amount invested in Indonesian bonds in 2007 which was Rp 91.15 trillion or US $9.3 billion, and the total amount issued in Islamic Bonds (sharia mutuals) in Indonesia in 2007 which was Rp 2.9 trillion or $296 million dollars. Fortis Investments Jakarta confirmed these figures in mid April, when they announced 31.6% growth of Islamic bonds in quarter one of 2008 compared to 2.12% growth in conventional bonds. Conventional bonds grew by $111 millions whilst Islamic bonds grew by $93 millions in quarter one of 2008.
These figures should also be compared to recent figures for corruption cases. The Anti Corruption Court is now trying the case of the Pelalawan Riau Regent Tengku Azmun Jaafar who is accused of illegally issuing forest clearance permits causing losses 1.12 trillion of state funds (US$122 millions). In one corruption case the alleged loss to the state was greater than three months growth in private or Islamic bonds.
Recently Vice President Kalla made an interesting speech acknowledging that the prevailing mode of decision making for major business & project proposals in Indonesia was still reliant on political rather than technical or professional support. In a speech read for him at Tanjungpura University he underlined the failure to recover from the 1997 crisis or to push growth above 7%, with the main problem being lack of capacity and poor human resources. " We are not even obtaining half of our targeted average investments (for public spending)" he said.
During the New Order 75% to 80% of all business investment was controlled by a small elite of businessmen close to government, confirmed Chris Kanter Deputy Chief Investments for KADIN. This pattern is changing, but slowly.
The Government is shortly to issue its last economic development promotion package of this administration prior to the 2009 general election. This will be based on a document called " Focus on Economic Programmes 2008-2009" issued by outgoing Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Boediono and includes new laws on special economic zones, financial safety net provisions and improved credit management. New ministerial decrees also include immigration priviliges for foreign direct investors and accelerated import procedures for equipment, plus fiscal incentives including a 30% income tax reduction for 6 years. At present 17 firms with $7bn of foreign direct investment committed are awaiting this new rule to become effective.
As Mohammed Hidayat, the Chairman of KADIN (the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has recently confirmed there remain doubts about the new package and the relationship between private and public sectors in Indonesia ." The previous economic packages have run aground because of bureaucratic problems , All of the business problems in this country stem primarily from bureaucrats ".
Despite these doubts and problems there is an infrastructure crisis and the foreign direct investment has to be found. Paradoxically the budget crisis means more opportunities for foreign investors not less, and probably on better terms with less state enterprise participation than might have been planned. The gap in the budget also creates an investment gap that has to be filled. Now is the right time for the new Islamic bonds and Islamic Finance generally to come into play. Investments need to be deployed with eyes open to the main problems of the recent past, with sensible joint venture deal structuring, reflecting fair risk sharing and comprehensive risk mitigation, externally referenced and monitored financial control requirements and arbitration clauses based on international treaties or agreed international arbitration mechanisms, to help enforce contracts.
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Passenger claims to have AK-47 on flight
A "disruptive" passenger on an international flight to Christchurch was met by police after lighting up a cigarette and claiming he had an AK-47 machine gun.
The passenger, believed to be an Australian in his 30s, was onboard Jetstar flight JQ171 arriving from Melbourne about 5am yesterday.
Another passenger, who did not want to named, said he was half-asleep when he noticed the man in the row in front of him had lit up a cigarette.
He said the man had definitely been drinking, and was verbally abusive toward the crew.
"He had had a guts full and just wanted to get off the plane," he said. "He was being fairly belligerent."
When the crew wanted to search his cabin baggage, the man told them there was an AK-47 in it.
The passenger said he believed the man was "just mouthing off" and there was no gun.
He said it appeared the man realised what a "stupid" comment it was to make as soon as he had said it when the crew became noticeably more nervous.
The passenger praised the crew for their handling of the situation.
A Jetstar spokesman said confirmed there was a "disruptive" passenger on board Jetstar flight JQ171 overnight Sunday from Melbourne to Christchurch.
He said the crew handled the incident on board.
Police met the passenger upon arrival in Christchurch, and the matter was now with police.
"Jetstar does not tolerate antisocial behaviour."
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Mass. police get $26K for K-9 unit
By Dan Gigliotti
DALTON, Mass. — The Police Department has sniffed out additional funding for the establishment of a K-9 unit.
The department was granted a total of $26,000 to the support the creation and early maintenance of a trained dog and K-9 officer.
"It's something that we're excited and gearing up for," Police Chief Jeffrey Coe said, following the formal acceptance of funds by the Select Board on Monday.
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On the surface, the real estate industry is all aboutĀ wheeling and dealing, and million dollar deals. Financial risk is a given, butĀ physical risk can be part of the job as well. Not many people think of realĀ estate as being a dangerous profession, but in reality, agents are put face toĀ face with strangers on a daily basis. Hosting open houses, or showing homes toĀ clients can put agents at risk for being robbed, carjacked, and assaulted.
Robbery is the most common risk that agents face. AgentsĀ typically dress in nice clothing, wear jewelry, and carry high tech devicesĀ such as PDA's. The house itself is also at risk because the homeowner is notĀ usually present at the time of showing. Real estate agents should be cautiousĀ with what they carry on their person. Leave expensive jewelry at home, andĀ don't carry more cash than is absolutely necessary. As for the house, have theĀ homeowners remove anything that could be a potential target for theft.
Sexual assaults can occur when an agent is alone either inĀ their office, or in a house with a client. The best defense is prevention.Ā Avoid being alone at open houses as much as possible. Try to have a co-workerĀ or friend accompany you. If that isn't feasible, call the office every hour toĀ let them know that everything is okay. Set up a policy that if the officeĀ hasn't heard from you in one or two hours, they should call you immediately onĀ your cell phone.
If you are alone at the office, keep windows and doorsĀ locked. Consider playing music to give the impression that multiple people areĀ present. Some experts suggest that you should close curtains and blindsĀ so that people can't see if you're alone, while others argue that by leavingĀ curtains drawn, the public can have a clear view of anything that happens,Ā thereby keeping you safe by exposure.
Having a safe word for your office is a very good idea,Ā particularly for house viewings. This is a word or phrase that you can say onĀ the phone to let your office know that something is wrong, without alerting theĀ predator. You can have one general safe word, or have a few codes for varyingĀ degrees of danger.
Being alone at an open house is very risky. There are roomsĀ that the predator can hide in, or drag you into. Let the client enter roomsĀ first. This prevents you from being taken from behind, and also keeps you closeĀ to the exits. Don't go into isolated areas like basements and attics. AllowĀ them to view those areas on their own.
Other precautions that you can take include having a newĀ client meet you at the office, before going to a property. Photocopy theirĀ driver's license, or write down their license plate number. Introduce theĀ person to a couple of co-workers. You not only want the office to have thisĀ information in the event of an emergency, but also, it decreases the chancesĀ that the client will try anything criminal. He knows that others have seen hisĀ face and have his information.
Give the office your itinerary for the day, including theĀ addresses of all houses being shown and a time line for activities. The moreĀ information that you provide your co-workers or family with, the safer you willĀ be. Although these actions cannot guarantee your wellbeing, you will haveĀ increased the chances of being rescued quickly, and returned to safety.
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[Intro: Krizz Kaliko & Tech N9ne]
[K] Alright, party night tonight, alright you, come on in
You're good, skinny jeans, come on in, tight shirt, come on in
Ah, that new rock 'n roll gay look, yeah, you're cool, come on in
[T] What's up, man?
[K] Hey, man, you can't get in here, boy
[T] What's wrong with me, man?
[K] Well, can't you read the sign, boy?
[T] No French braids, no dread locks, no gold teeth, gold teeth-
Aw, you don't want no black folks in here, huh?
[K] Can't you read the sign? It says Power and White, I-I mean Power and Light District
[T] Look here, man
How much it gonna take to turn this all white club, into a nigga club?
[K] What!?
[Hook: Krizz Kaliko]
Let me in the door
If you say you hear me knockin' what you standin' there for?
Who I gotta kill or sleep with? Cause I'm the world's best kept secret
Let me in the door
If you say you hear me knockin' what you standin' there for?
Cause I'm the one that do that music, you feel but you still refuse this
Let me in the door
[Verse 1: Ca$h Image]
Right now 'fore my goons have to tear it down
We don't wait in line and we don't stand around
We in clubs and we draggin', actin' brand new
Actin like he never seen my face and I ain't got loot
They know I'm Ca$h Image and I'm with Tech N9ne
And 'fore the club close the owner gon' respect mine
We spend a lot of money and that's the bottom line
Ten cars on chrome plus the neck shine
Baggy jeans on and J's worth a lot of bucks
And you ain't gotta know me, you can tell my dollars up
Poppin' collars in the club, turn the bottles up
And all the models in the club wanna follow us
It's Mr. Chevy man, you hear my song playin'
And every time we in the club we be spending grands
First deny Tech (What!?), then deny me (What!?)
And I was number 1 on 103 for 40 weeks
[Verse 2: D-Locc Da Chop]
You say you hear me knockin', so why you don't wanna let me in?
But I ain't buggin' so tell the cops to come and get me then
Complain about my shoes ain't really talking bout shit
Dude, I spent like 350 on this outfit
NV ain't gon' let me in seein' as he actin' funny with me
What it gonna cost me, homie? I brought a little money with me
I don't wear tight shirts, my pants kinda baggy
KC hat tilted so now they wanna red flag me
I buy the bar every time, point blank period
The doorman hatin', takin' his job too serious
Me, Ca$h Image, Tech and Kaliko
About big business so what I'm talking to a bouncer for?
The women see me scream my name like the announcer spoke
They actin' brand new this week so I'm about to go
To the block and bubble and get plenty cake
I just wanted women and I don't like this club anyway
So fuck y'all!
[Verse 3: Tech N9ne]
I get money from music and I like to spend-spend
When I hit the town I know they're gonna let me ins in
But these other clubs be trippin' like I begin sin
You hear me knockin'? (Aw yeah!) Well, let me in then!
Cause NV ain't so friendly, they got a gay assembly
Of femmes who think the blacks be packin' semis
(That's why they don't sell no Henny)
Stink butts who think bucks
But they don't know my bank account is like a Brink's truck!
Could buy it any day, 2.1 on a new building and lease
Some at The N9ne has plenty say
The rhymin' get me paid so I resign cause NVA
And plus NV stands for no vaginas anyway
They place me and Lil' Weezy, we give no love
That's why when I brought Chingy in there and he peed in your club
Not in the toilet either (No!), you don't enjoy the beaver (No!)
You'd rather plot on how to give a lil' your boy the peter
America's clubbin' phase two, I erase you
My pants are too baggy even though I'm clean and I'm paid too
Orlando south races they treated me cold
And Lucky Strike in Power and Light won't let the Nina in to bowl
Whoa, guess my Dickies the wrong clothes
Play my music but won't let me and my homies through the doors
Over one million records sold, lots of money to fold
They should let me in any club in (KC, MO!)
And I'm the biggest tipper, bartenders know me well
And waitresses love me so club owners: (Go to hell!)
You got that blow to sell, but you want this bro to fail
When it really ain't me cause it is your destiny to go to jail
And when you be serving you might see work
On Club Nina when you walk up you might be hurt
You might skee skirt, cause you ain't getting in if you ain't got a
(KC hat and a white t-shirt, ey!)
[Outro: Tech N9ne]
Only reason I even go to the club is so I can listen to some loud music and drink, holler at a bianc
My neighbors be mad at me cause I be shakin' the whole block with my system
So that's why I go to the club
I gotta work at the club, take pictures and sign autographs, yadada mean?
I don't need to be in your club for real
And club dollars say that I owe them 70 dollars
I paid 125 dollars to get in
Why you trippin I just wanted to drink
So if 70 dollars is owed that means some cats were there after I left
Ya know what I mean ha ha put it on my tab
"Let Me In," the seventh track on Sickology 101 by Tech N9ne featuring his label mate Krizz Kaliko including fellow Kansas City rappers Ca$h Image and D-Loc Da Chop (often confused with D-Loc of Kottonmouth Kings).
In this song the artists describe scenarios where they are not allowed to enter clubs and they adress this matter. The instrumental itself is a up-beat, half-way party song produced by Young Fyre.


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In the list of countries with the most attractive image, the Netherlands is in 12th place. This is quite a feat for such a small country.
But how should we promote the Holland brand? Hundreds of people from the marketing agencies, the civil service and business, who represent the Netherlands abroad have come together this week to discuss this issue.
If you ask ten Dutch people "what makes us proud to be Dutch?" you'll get ten different answers.
No one has a problem naming
- windmills
- cheese
- tulips
Nor is it difficult to cite
- the country's heroic struggle against water
- Golden Age artist Rembrandt van Rijn
And it stands to reason that the Dutch are proud of
- making it to the World Cup final last summer
- the fact that just about everyone here can skate and cycle
But people start having difficulty when it comes to
- raw fish with onions
- Dutch frankness
- the Red Light District in Amsterdam
- the right to abortion and euthanasia
Dutch perks
US historian and author Russell Shorto, guest speaker at the annual conference on the image of the Netherlands, thinks the Dutch reputation for "tolerance" is misleading. There are plenty of people in the Netherlands, especially in the more conservative areas, who couldn't be characterised as particularly tolerant.
Mr Shorto, who has two children, would like to suggest another 'unique selling point' for the Netherlands. He was flabbergasted when he first received child allowance. One of the many perks the Dutch are entitled to.
Government funding to bring up your children is unthinkable in America. Fair's fair, the Dutch pay quite a lot of tax for it. According to Mr Shorto, having a financial safety net eases a lot of social tension. The Dutch don't have to worry too much about getting sacked or sickness insurance. And that makes them relatively relaxed.
The figures are clear. The Netherlands has a large number of multinationals and is one of the world's biggest investors. Far bigger that its tiny number of inhabitants warrants. For instance, worldwide the Netherlands is the second largest exporter of agricultural products.
In spite of all this, the Netherlands still has difficulty selling itself. Mark Zellenrath of engineering company Arcadis which helped out in the United States after hurricane Katrina saw what happened there.
"Everyone is glad that we helped. Americans watched how we went to work and took over. The Chinese are good at that too. People have no idea that the Dutch have a lot more technical solutions up their sleeves. A complete lack of marketing on our part."
Solving impossible problems
The Netherlands is notorious for sending rival trade missions to foreign countries. First Japan gets a visit from a delegation from Rotterdam, and a day later it's Amsterdam's turn. The two delegations have no idea that they are fishing in the same pond. Totally confused, the Japanese go for the Spanish option.
Economic diplomacy can open doors, says Henk Jan Bakker, a foreign ministry civil servant.
"Even at the highest level, companies are helped. You would think top companies like Shell could look after its own affairs. Well, not always."
In 2007, the company was confronted by lots of unexpected financial claims from environmental organisations, when it tried to invest in a large oil and gas project in Siberia.
The Dutch are also very good at solving seemingly impossible problems. Not just in the field of water management, but also in the area of logistics, agriculture and technology.
The delegates to the conference have agreed to be less modest in the future. They promise to be more concrete and give more examples of Dutch achievements and to embrace the new media. Next year, 'Brand Holland' will also be promoted via Twitter and Facebook.
So what makes Dutch trouble shooters so unique?
This is what I heard at the conference:
"Thanks to our tolerance and openness, the most junior employee is allowed to challenge the boss here. That can be very refreshing. But in a hierarchic culture, like in Germany, Sweden and America, that is unheard of."


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama's special assistant on immigration policy highlighted a daylong forum in Columbus this week exploring ways to empower and engage Ohio's foreign-born residents.
State Rep. Kevin Boyce, a Columbus Democrat, hosted the New American Forum on Thursday at Franklin University.
Felicia Escobar, special assistant to the president and part of the White House Task Force on New Americans, delivered the day's keynote address. Participants also took part in small-group discussions on housing and civil rights, small business and workforce development, human trafficking and language access in education and the justice system.
The American Immigration Council estimates that roughly a quarter of Ohio's immigrant population lives in Franklin County, home to Columbus. That includes more than 45,000 Somali Americans.


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Chantelle Hadley didn't think she'd have that much fun bringing in the fruit at Harvest Fest 2014 at Pontchartrain Vineyards. Despite the heat and persistent need to watch for ant piles, she surprisingly enjoyed picking grapes that will be used in the vineyard's white wines.
"It was a lot of fun," said Hadley, who was resting in the shade and enjoying the post-harvest music of Marc Stone, who performed at this fundraiser for Children's Hospital. "We didn't think it would be [fun], we were like, 'We're gonna just pick some grapes 'til it's over and then go drink,' but we had a lot of fun, just picking. You get so into it, into a zone."
Amateur winemaker Barton Livingston participated as well. Somewhat of a homemade wine connoisseur, he's been making his own from dewberries, blackberries, mayhaws, and his favorite, elderberries, for many years.
Livingston said he's tasted four Pontchartrain Vineyards wines and liked them, noting they are, of course, "cleaner" than his homemade concoctions. He personally made 65 gallons of wine this year, 40 gallons of which were given away to neighbors. He stresses, however, that his hobby can't compare to what the winery produces. "Ours is a homemade process — of course, we don't have the refined process like they have."
Did any pickers cheat ... just a little ... and take a taste of the day's harvest?
"No, no way," chimed the four or five pickers sitting with Livingston and Hadley under the sun shade.
"They're all liars. All liars," Livingston smiled, in confession. "I ate as many as I picked."
Following the harvest, there was a competitive grape-stomping contest. Participants were divided into six teams, and a barefoot stomp in buckets was measured to see which team had the highest juice yield.
The contest raises the obvious question: do any wineries ever still stomp their grapes? Did they EVER stomp their grapes?
"People ask that all the time," said winery spokesperson Bryan Dias, who described this winemaking tradition as a bit of a myth. "The wine press has been around for probably a couple thousand years, just a hand press," he said, "so even for commercial production in Roman times, people didn't stomp with their feet. It was pressed. But there's a ritualistic component to it, and that's kind of why the tradition hangs on."
Dias showed off the inner workings of the facility, explaining how the winery — located in the gently rolling countryside of Bush, in northern St. Tammany parish — extracts the juice from fruit grown on its 15 acres of fields.
Dias said the winery uses a mechanized 1-ton de-stemmer, but the press — which is used next — is actually not mechanized, it instead uses water pressure. A bladder fills with water and presses the grapes against the walls of a barrel, extracting the juice, which drains into a bucket, which then travels through a tube to the cellar, where it is pumped directly into a tank for fermenting.
Pontchartrain Vineyards president, Lincoln Case, said the winery expects to bring in 12 tons of grapes this year. Following a low yield of last year, brought on by a late freeze, Case said this is a very good harvest, perhaps tied with the highest the vineyard has seen since Hurricane Katrina.
This is partially attributable to changes made since he became president of the winery earlier this year, Case said. He explained the previous president had a different growing style, one that eschewed pruning and weeding. According to Case, "it was very difficult to pick the fruit, and the vineyard got a little out of control. So this is the first year we've really done a traditional pruning style in the vineyard."
Case said last year's low yield on the white grape was not a problem then, due to the shorter shelf life of white wine, which they still had available.
"We have reds that we can sell eight, nine, ten years out from harvest," Case said. "The whites, especially in the grocery stores, after two or three years, you start getting a little bit of a consumer bias, of, 'oh, this white is four years old, it's too old to drink.'"
"Last year, we weren't really even concerned if we got a crop," Case said. "But this year, our Roux St. Lois will sell out, and hopefully we'll have the new stuff in the bottle by the time it sells out ... with the amount we're selling right now, that's probably a good number for us, right around twelve tons of white fruit."
After the harvest, participants sat back and rested to Stone's guitar grooves, and open sky, beer and barbecue made the heat seem tolerable. It wasn't a huge turnout, but was a respectable showing considering the event had to be rescheduled due to a rain-out the weekend prior.
As for Livingston and his family, he said he'll back again to do it in the fall.
"I love seeing some of the younger people out here, people of all different ages," Livingston said. "It's great."


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Waiter Praised For Refusing To Serve Customer Who Insulted Special Needs Child
How adorable is that little munchkin up there? As somebody whose lifelong goal is to be a mother, I'm pretty much fond of all children I see. Obviously, this is not the case with everyone, but you would at least hope that people would have the common decency to not be rude or discriminatory about kids, right? Wrong, sadly. In fact, a man at a steakhouse wanted to be moved from the boy above because he's a special needs child.
Milo Castillo has Down Syndrome, which apparently made this customer at Lorenzo's in Houston, TX so uncomfortable that after being seated near the child, he asked the waiter, Michael Garcia, to move his family elsewhere. Though the child was not misbehaving or being obnoxious in any way, Garcia obliged their request, but then heard the man say, "Special needs children need to be special somewhere else."
Garcia was not all right with this behavior (because what decent human being would be?) and told the man that he couldn't serve him, as he found the comment "disturbing." Though he was afraid he might lose his job, Garcia was simply appalled that the customer had said this in front of his own children, thereby teaching them that discrimination is a-okay. Garcia reportedly said, "How could you say that? How could you say that about a beautiful five-year-old angel?" Honestly, I have the same question: how could somebody say something so cruel about another human being, let alone a child?
Milo's mother Kim was very happy with Garcia for standing up for her child, saying:
"No one wants to sit next to a loud, disruptive child but it had nothing to do with him having special needs. He is just a kid and shouldn't be discriminated against. He certainly didn't ask to be born with Down's syndrome.
"I was really impressed that Michael would stand up for Milo. He really doesn't know us … he stood up for Milo just because it was the right thing to do."
Fortunately, Garcia did not lose his job due to the incident. In fact, he's received tons of praise and admiration for retaining his morals even when it was a risky.
Fantastic, right? It's always good to see humans value, well, humanity. Garcia says that we would serve the family again if they came into the restaurant, but I have a feeling they'll be sticking away. Hopefully the fact that somebody who is paid to serve them literally refused to because of the father's remarks was a bit of a wakeup call, but then again, ignorant people have trouble changing. Nevertheless, the more the world decidedly stands against discrimination against people with Down Syndrome and other such conditions, the less tolerated that behavior will be.
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The curious case of the four armed Americans in Baghdad
- By Marc Lynch
Marc Lynch is associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, where he is the director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and of the Project on Middle East Political Science. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He is the author of The Arab Uprising (March 2012, PublicAffairs).
He publishes frequently on the politics of the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Arab media and information technology, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Islamist movements.
Iraqi authorities arrested four armed Americans in civilian clothes in Baghdad who claimed they were there to protect Shiites heading toward Karbala. The two men and two women were reportedly carrying automatic weapons and driving a silver BMW with unregistered diplomatic plates. The Iraqis said that they found this all suspicious, since there had been no prior coordination and the law forbids such American activities without notifying the responsible authorities. The U.S. Embassy reportedly stepped in within 15 minutes of the arrest, and the four were released without charge. It isn't obvious exactly what was going on, but we can all probably guess.
Baghdad governor Salah Abd al-Razzaq told reporters that even if the group were U.S. intelligence operatives, their activities had nothing to do with Iraqi security and were a clear violation of Iraqi sovereignty. He demanded an explanation from the U.S. Embassy and a promise that it not be repeated. A diplomatic crisis seems to have been averted, but the curious episode should be a cautionary tale. Whatever really happened, this could have easily escalated into a major diplomatic showdown and a legal nightmare for the Embassy.
Expect a lot of more of these kinds of incidents in the coming days. While there hasn't been much coverage of the incident in English, it's being heavily covered in the Arab and Iraqi media. Arresting and exposing American operatives in Iraq is going to be politically popular and the local media will eat it up. A lot of ambitious political forces might find it useful to be seen on TV arresting an armed American. Armed Americans traveling around Iraq, whether security contractors or intelligence operatives, are going to be an endless source of potential crisis. And people wonder why the Pentagon staunchly opposed maintaining any U.S. military presence in Iraq without a SOFA which guaranteed immunity from prosecution for American soldiers?


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These quilts are beautiful, and I love that they are puffy. Its interesting for little ones! I think my son would love this, and I would too :)ReplyDelete
I would make this beautiful quilt for my little man...it is beautiful!ReplyDelete
This is too cute! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I would make this for my 7 yr. old daughter!ReplyDelete
I love that quilt too! What an amazing giveaway, I would make it for my sister-in-law she has just set the date for her wedding, and I think it would make a gorgeous wedding present!ReplyDelete
Hoping to make one for my future children!ReplyDelete
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Diablo III
Review by Bkstunt_31
"It's a good game... I just kinda wished I owned it."
Ah, Diablo. You KNOW you've made it as a company when you release a game (like Diablo and Diablo 2) and then when other companies make similar games they are called "Diablo clones". Blizzard basically made THE STANDARD hack and slash game with their Diablo series. And now, 10 years after releasing Diablo 2 (Blizzard was busy with that whole World of Warcraft thing you may have heard of) we now have Diablo 3.
Well, the economy is tough! Even Diablo 3's $60 entry point is fairly expensive in today's gaming market, so its only natural that you want to know exactly what you can expect out of Diablo , which is why you're likely reading this. And after beating the game several times on several difficulties and putting in 80+ hours I'm finally ready to tell you EXACTLY what to expect.
Diablo 2 pretty much wrapped up the story of the Prime Evils with the main game and its expansion pack. Players fought and killed Mephisto, Diablo and Baal and saved the mortal world known as Sanctuary. However Sanctuary is NOT a very safe place. A prophecy foretold of evil's return and 20 years later a fateful star appeared out of the sky and crashed into the chapel at the (very unfortunate) town of Tristam. Deckard Cain was with his niece Leah when the star crashed and the two got separated with Cain disappearing under the chapel. The star also seems to have reawakened the dead as well, as zombies and skeletons now roam the land freely. However, you (or your player character) have come to Tristam to investigate the star, as it is an omen of the evil that is to come.
If you've played any other hack-and-slash game out there you know as well as I do that the story generally ISN'T the star. The same can be said of Diablo 3. The story is not going to leave you in awe. It's pretty generic. You'll pick whatever class you want to play as (which we'll go through in the game play section) and immediately be dropped outside Tristam to investigate the fallen star, which of course sweeps you up in the on-going Diablo story of Hell verses Heaven and mortal man's attempt to slay the lords of Hell. I've played with every character and can straight up tell you that there is very little personal back story in the game about any of them. Every single one of them is a beacon in the darkness and like every generic straight-eyed hero they all believe exactly what they are told. Your average gamer will see the game's various double-crosses and plot twists from a mile away but the hero won't. The main story is also going to be exactly the same regardless of WHO you choose as your hero.
Regardless of the generic hero, the obvious plot twists and the lack of any story diversity, the game DOES pack in plenty on NPC's to interact with in each base camp you'll visit. The story (and game) is broken up into four acts (similar to the previous game) and each act has it's own base camp (Act 3 and Act 4 have the same base camp). These are packed with NPC's you can often talk to and ask questions to flesh out the story. The game also features three followers that you'll unlock over the first two acts. Followers are primarily there to accompany you when you are playing SINGLE player only, and you can only take along one follower at a time. They will often talk and converse with you as you play though, leading to several witty and humorous dialog exchanges.
In the end, go into Diablo 3 not expecting an epic story. It's decent and sets up the framework for your death dealing adventures well enough, but that's about it. I should also warn you that if you DO want to hear the story you NEED to play single-player. If you play multi-player other players can SKIP events which leads to NO story at all for you. You've been warned!
Game Play
Now HERE is the bulk of your experience and what is likely the most important thing about Diablo 3.
Before starting you'll have to choose to play as one of five different character classes. The most familiar classes in the game will be the Barbarian who once again relies on brute strength and a fury gauge to deal out damage and the Wizard, who plays just like previous magician classes and relies on her spells and high intelligence to damage enemies. The other three classes are the Witch Doctor, who can summon zombie dogs and a golem as minions as well as use hexes to damage enemies. Like the Wizard he relies on mana as well. Next you have the Demon Hunter who is essentially your ranged specialist and has Hatred and Discipline resources to manage which power his various attacks. He can lay traps and be extremely mobile. Lastly you have the Monk who gains spirit as he fights and can use it to put various mantras on the entire party (to increase stats) and use his better damage dealing abilities.
The customization options for each class are downright impressive. You will gain skills as you level up and it won't take you TOO long to unlock your left and right mouse button skills and your 1-4 number key skills, which gives each character a total of six different skills. Now, each one of those key skills needs to be picked out of a POOL of skills for that key. Meaning that one Monk may have an ENTIRELY different set of skills than another monk. That in and of itself is pretty cool (customization is the name of the game in my opinion) but it gets better. Each individual skill also has a set of rune stones you can choose from, which leads to even more customization. Add on to all of this a set of 20-30 unique passive skills per character that you can choose to have up to three active at any time and you've got a LOT of customization options.
As for the game play itself the game is classic hack-and-slash action. You'll face literally THOUSANDS of demons and other enemies as you fight your way through the game. And along the way you'll also pick up hundreds (maybe even thousands) of pieces of armor and weapons. Your character can equip a wide variety of armor including chest pieces, leggings, boots, gloves, shoulder pieces, helmets, two rings and an amulet just to name a few (I'm sure I'm missing a piece or two, but you get the general idea). The game also has some unique weapons and items that only certain classes can use. For example, only Witch Doctors can equip and use voodoo doll items. And like most loot-heavy games ("Diablo Clones", if you will), Diablo 3 has its loot "ranked" by tiers. Loot will drop in Gray, White, Blue and Yellow colors which indicate the loot's rarity and value. There are also orange and green loot colors as well, which stand for legendary and set pieces respectively but those are VERY rare. The color of the loot directly affects the gear's statistics as well and in Diablo 3 statistics are EVERYTHING. You can easily make it through the normal difficulty without worrying about gear TOO much but once you start playing Nightmare, Hell and Inferno difficulty modes gear will soon become the most important thing in your life.
The game's quests are really nothing special. You'll be gathering items for people, finding ways to open magical doors and rescuing people over and over. You know, that usual "do-gooder" stuff. Most normal enemies won't even pose a challenge for you aside from some annoying hit-and-run tactics they may utilize but THEN you have the elite enemies to face. These enemies can either be preset mini-boss enemies or randomly generated common enemies. They usually either come in groups of three or one big enemy with minions. What makes these enemies special is the wealth of additional abilities they have, from extra health to being able to make illusions of themselves. They have far more variety than the two examples I gave of course, and as you increase in difficulty levels they will add on MORE abilities. You could fact elites with 4-5 devastating abilities once you reach Inferno, which admittedly makes for a REAL challenge. And of course it SHOULD be challenging since the best equipment often comes from the elite monsters. Preset boss monsters are also present and provides some measure of difficulty, but I found the real challenge of the game to be the elite monsters in the Inferno difficulty.
In fact, as you progress in difficulty you can expect the game to become MORE and MORE gear-dependent. Near the end you'll find yourself scouring the auction house to shore up your gear's statistics and optimizing your skill choices just to SURVIVE. Fun for some sure, but in this one reviewers opinion depending on gear to "win" isn't exactly my idea of fun...
As you would expect from Blizzard, the graphics in the game are all top-notch (well, with a decent computer anyways and the options turned on). The cinematic movies are of course brilliant and happen fairly often, but of course don't change at all as you plow through different difficulty levels. The character designs are all well-done as is the armor designs. The armor gets fancier and fancier as you level up and of course every new piece of armor is always displayed on your character. The character and enemy animations are also brilliant. I didn't have a single problem with any skill glitching out on me or frankly not looking awesome when I used them over all five characters. I found that the game does have some lag from time to time but it's very rare (and my machine is definitely above maximum specifications). In short, everything is just plain pleasant to look at throughout the game. It is wonderfully detailed, has excellent character and enemy designs and is animated wonderfully. There ARE some instances of palette-swapping as you go through the game, with very similar looking enemies likely just given boosted statistics, but it seems that every dungeon crawler nowadays does it. Given how long Blizzard took to make Diablo 3 palette-swapping may come as a surprise but there it is.
As you would expect, Diablo 3 has a fairly dramatic soundtrack. Comprised with an orchestra, the music can really amp up at times and get your blood going. It does its job in psyching you up when you should be, but the music overall isn't something you're going to catch yourself humming to later on or anything. One could just call it "typical Hollywood drama music" and I wouldn't argue one bit.
The game is fully voiced though, with dozens of unique voices for all classes and NPC's throughout the game. The voice acting is well done. I think that the followers are probably my favorite to listen to as they ramble on when they are out on an adventure with you, with the Demon Hunter class probably being my favorite class to listen to. In the end the audio in the game is well-done and only enhances the experience and while the soundtrack and music may not be very memorable the voice acting is a treat to listen to.
Another BIG draw to a game like Diablo 3 is the amount of re-playability it has. Let's face it: you can sit down and beat the game in 7-8 hours. Easy. So its fair to say that the game itself is NOT that long. However, you'll only get to level 28-29 by the time you beat the game. Now, take that knowledge and combine it with the fact that your character will level up to level 60 and learn new moves and earn new rune stones all along the way. This game is MADE to be played MULTIPLE times. The real length of the game is not only beating 'normal', but in beating all subsequent difficulties as well.
That alone will take you 40+ hours, especially given how the final difficulty, Inferno, ramps up the challenge. THEN you have five different character classes to play as. Plus remember that I said that if you want to hear the story you have to play in SINGLE PLAYER mode? Well, MULTI PLAYER mode is really the place where you'll have the most fun, so that's just another play through for you if you care about the story at all.
In the end the re-playability is fantastic, even if NOT ALL THAT MUCH changes from play-through to play-through.
Other Concerns
Ok, you've already read a fairly long review, so let's level. I write a LOT of reviews and this is the first time I've had a "other concerns" section. And I do have some concerns about this game.
First of all, to play Diablo 3 you MUST ALWAYS be connected to Blizzard's servers. Always. Even if all you do is play by yourself. This in and of itself as you can imagine is an issue. Playing online with a group of friends or a random party and your internet takes a bump? Disconnected. This has happened to me and it is BEYOND annoying. PLUS it really drives home the point that YOU DON'T OWN THIS GAME. Blizzard does. You are merely paying money to experience what they want you to experience and you're going to play it exactly how they want you to play it. Some may not see this as a big deal but to me, a VERY avid gamer, I see it setting a bad precedence in putting the company first and consumer last, something that I hope only companies as big as Blizzard have the gall or money to pull off.
Secondly, just to install and get Diablo 3 to play on my machine I had to overcome THREE technical issues, two of which were plain and simple issues related to Blizzard's updating and installation processes. You would think that a company as big as Blizzard and that has been rolling out updates and patches as long as they have would have this stuff down pat, but such is not the case. If you're going to buy Diablo 3 you should have some amount of tech-savvy and be prepared to do some workarounds to MAKE Blizzard's product work.
And the last of my concerns is Blizzard's auction house. If you didn't know by now, you can not only sell items for gold but there is a separate auction house run by Blizzard where you can sell items for REAL money. Now, remember up there earlier in the review where I said that the end-game of Diablo 3 is extremely gear dependent. Combine that with a real money auction house. Now combine all of that with Blizzard taking a cut of everything that is sold. See what I'm getting at...
Now don't get me wrong, if it wasn't Blizzard selling the items or finding a way to facilitate items being sold it would just be somebody else. You can't KILL that kind of business. I get it: they are just doing what someone else would do but are CONTROLLING it. But something about Blizzard, a game developer, making money off of these things seems wrong to me, even with that knowledge. Plus they're the ones making the end-game so gear dependent to further facilitate these transactions. Take from this what you will, but at least you are INFORMED now.
Please note that my "Other Concerns" section DOES NOT factor into this score. Some of those points though have made more than one person outright refuse to buy this game, I am sure.
In the end, Diablo 3 is still a very enjoyable hack-and-slash experience. Not everything is memorable or perhaps even ideal (really, Blizzard!? You can't give me a way to sell junk out of my inventory without going to town!?), but it's an enjoyable game with the highlights really being the game play and re-playability options. Hopefully this review armed you with all the info you need before purchasing this game. Have fun and keep playing!
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 07/17/12
Game Release: Diablo III (US, 05/15/12)
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Hi, there is a small chance I will be moving to Port Orange/Daytona Beach for grad school! If so I have no idea what the area is like compared to Cali.
Could anyone chime in on how crunchy the area is. Are there CSA's? Year round Farmers Markets? Does the Costco or Sams have a good selection of organics? Do people mind line drying cloth diapers in town, lol? Is it too humid/rainy to line dry year round? Is it a bikeable community (I haul my kids in a trailer everywhere)... Safe to do yoga in the park or even better the beach at sunrise? Also is there a ban on PitBulls? I heard somewhere there band in Florida!
I'm bumping up your post. Anyone have a recommendation or information to share?
i lived in port orange most my life. just left but go back often. its a great place to raise kids. no super progressive or crunchy but quite and very safe.
farmers markets- both at the pavillion and a great one in new symrna.
yoga- none 5 years ago now theres yoga every where you look
karen tysus is an amazing midfwife
3 health food stores but loves and debbies are the best
Hi Mama
We currently live in Ormond Beach, but will be moving to Daytona Beach in December. We have lived in Port Orange, Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach in the 3 years we've lived in Florida (we moved from NJ). I found Ormond to be the best, but as another mama said there are health food stores around and i like Love Market the best (one in Port orange and one in Ormond). We are part of a non secular homeschooling group in ormond that we go to park days with. They also have book clubs, drama, clubs, sewing clubs, etc..We go to roller skating with other homeschooling groups once a month in Ormond. We joined an organic fruits and veggies co-op that one of the homeschoolers in our group organizes. There are farmers markets in Daytona Beach ( i like City Island on Saturday) and Ormond Beach and Holly Hill as well as Port Orange (i've never been as of yet). There are a bunch of Yoga places in all towns as well as i've heard on the beach. I went to Hot House Yoga in Ormond and liked it. I've never heard of a ban on pitbulls as i know many people have them here, though renting is probably tough. We rent and i know alot of rentals specify no pitbulls and some other large breeds, but again i'm sure there are some landlords that accept.
As far as alot of crunchy people...well i think there crunchy people here, but we could surely use more:) I line dry my clothes outside and can most of the time. I only started this year so i'm not sure how the winter will go. During rainy times i just hung inside. For this area being bikeable i guess it depends where your located. I have found that alot of places are not, but it depends on the person i guess.
Anyway HTH
and good luck with your move
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Alzheimer's Disease
Identical Twins and Alzheimer`s
If one identical twin gets Alzheimer`s disease, can the other expect to get it also?
Although the exact figures vary from one study to another, it is clear that an identical twin carries a significantly higher risk for AD if the other twin develops the illness.
A well-conducted study of Swedish twin pairs showed a 67% rate of developing AD in the second identical twin, vs. only a 22% rate of AD in the second fraternal twin. (M. Gatz et al., 1997, Journal of Gerontology (Series A. Biological sciences and medical) volume 52, pages M117-125).
Jon Stuckey, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
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Formerly, Assistant Professor of Neurology
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: >>> using any C code in the backend? this includes 3rd party libraries >>> which link in C, including postgis, pljava, xml2, etc. Any features >>> being used not included in the standard core distribution are >>> interesting. >> >> Nope, nothing like that. They're fairly generic setups, with nothing >> added that isn't part of the core distribution. >> >>> >>> How long do your database connections stay open? forever? If yes, is >>> memory distributed semi-evenly across all postgres processes or only >>> to particular ones? If no, do you see excessive consumption with the >>> non user backends like the stats collector, etc? >> >> Nope, nothing is forever, everything is a fairly brief connection (a >> few seconds, tops, with most under 1s). Although I do have pgbouncer >> sitting in front of systemA to serve as a connection pooler. > > hm. well iirc pgbouncer tries to dump server connections older than > an hour or so. this plus your other statements makes me very > suspension the problem is in postgres itself. since postgres process > dies when the connection dies, long term memory accumulation is just > not possible except in the processes that aren't serving client > sessions (the very first thing you need to do is rule those processes > out). pgbouncer itself could be the issue, but i doubt it. > obviously, a full memory profile during your problem times is a > critical piece of evidence (a 'top' sorted by memory usage should to > the trick nicely). OK, I'll get that top output for everyone in a week or so once swap usage has grown noticeably above its current level. > > it's possible you've unhappily tripped a leak in the o/s -- is > everything properly updated? running any funky hardware (like fiber > san drivers)? anything else interesting or out of the ordinary to > report? No funky HW. Fairly standard 1U server with SATA disks, the OS is up to date.
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After releasing six albums, appearing in a handful of films, and single-handedly resurrecting the songbook of Judy Garland, Rufus Wainwright took the next logical step: He spent three years writing a two-hour opera. But Prima Donna, which will premiere this July at the Manchester International Festival in England, isn't the only bizarre career move Wainwright has taken lately. He just wrapped up work in Berlin on a musical adaptation of Shakespearean sonnets with director Robert Wilson. On that project, his feelings are mixed: "It was a bit like World War II over there," he laughs, "which is to be expected, I guess, because that's where World War II took place." But Wainwright considers it "a good booster shot" for what he'll experience once he unveils Prima Donna. The opera's main character is Régine Saint Laurent, a diva who disappears for six years following a tragedy on the night of a premiere. The story begins on the morning of her return to the stage. Saint Laurent is seizing her moment, much like the 35-year-old Wainwright, a lifelong opera buff who accelerated his artistic plans once his mother became sick with cancer. "Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do," he says. "And there's no time like the present."
CARYN GANZ: The star of your opera is literally a diva. Were you drawing on anyone specific?
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT:Well, the closest one would be [Sunset Boulevard's] Norma Desmond, or actual old silent-movie stars who had it all taken away from them. I suppose one could argue that there were Madonna moments. Some peoplethink my opera is about her early career in Detroit or something—like, Pre-Madonna.
GANZ: Divas loom large in high culture, but also in low culture like reality shows. Did both sides of that persona inspire you?
WAINWRIGHT: There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time. You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.
GANZ: Did you set out to write a feminist opera?
WAINWRIGHT: It's funny, now that you mention it—I didn't set out to do that. But I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's Judy Garland or Norma Desmond, there is this tragic quality to older women that one can revel in, and you want it to be more three-dimensional than that. So it was important for the character to be strong and resilient, because there are so many victims in opera.
GANZ: The opera also lasers in on the idea of the comeback, which, from Mickey Rourke to Britney Spears, is one of the most compelling tropes in our culture right now.
WAINWRIGHT: Well, in a way I'm kind of making my own comeback. I've been in the business now for 20 years. I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense—in America, especially—that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it. I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement—that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!
GANZ: As everything about the music industry gets more digital, you're moving in the opposite direction—opera and Shakespeare . . .
WAINWRIGHT: I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.
GANZ: Your opera is in French, which is one reason you didn't end up at the Met. What can you do in French that you can't do in English?
WAINWRIGHT: The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery. Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me—I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There's something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.
GANZ: I read in a New York Times profile that you saw a production of Strauss's Elektra at the Met high on drugs. Do you recommend people come to your opera in a similar state?
WAINWRIGHT: Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice—once completely high and once completely sober—and both times were equally wonderful. Opera is above drugs and alcohol and you don't have to be fucked up to either write it or see it. It's about transcendentalism. It's not of this world. So I'd suggest not being fucked up, because you're just wasting your money.
Photo above: Rufus Wainwright in New York, March 2009.All clothing: Dolce & Gabbana. Grooming products: Clarins Men, including Moisture Balm. Fragrance: Dolce & Gabbana The One for Men. Styling: Michael Philouze/Michele Filomeno. Hair: Kevin Ryan/Art + Commerce. Makeup: Osvaldo Salvatierra/Streeters. Special thanks: Fast Ashleys.
Caryn Ganz is a New York music critic and deputy editor of RollingStone.com.
Find upcoming tour dates at Rufus Wainwright's official Web site.
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By Ron Olsen
From: Boulder, CO
Aug 20, 2004
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|Pumpy moves past the little overhang above the second bolt, and a committing clip at the third bolt; don't blow it or you're looking at a good fall.
By Clint Locks
From: Boulder
Sep 13, 2004
rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
|Ron-Of course by 'good fall' you mean a BAD fall, right? I seem to remember it's pretty committing to pull that section. This one's fun! Actually, this whole area is nice.
By Gary Schmidt
From: Boulder, CO
Aug 7, 2005
|Fun route. Crux is definitely figuring out the first roof and then the next couple of moves. Though I did it very differently then my partner, so there is more than one way to slay the beast! Nice climb with interesting moves. My first time in the area and was impressed overall.
By slim
Sep 1, 2008
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|Good climbing in general, but rap bolting + clipping crux = completely lame.
By keith story
From: Boulder, CO
Jul 23, 2011
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
I took the fall on the third clip while stepping through. Not wearing helmet==== Idiocy. I flipped upside down and ended up staring about 18 inches from the starting rock.
BE CAREFUL on this one and don't try it when you're hungover, tired, or sloppy.
Otherwise, excellent route with creative opportunities.
By Hiro Kurotsuchi
From: Colorado
Aug 9, 2012
Agree with everybody else - be on your game, there are bolts where you really need them, but don't goof while clipping them. Falls with all the slack out would be undesirable.
Update - bring one or more long draws for rope drag.
By Naataanii Todea
From: Boulder, CO
Dec 25, 2016
|Bolts are where you need them to be, no more than that. The roof is a little spicy! Final bolt below roof is a little low for me!
By S. Neoh
Sep 3, 2017
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|I echo the two comments above about being on your game down low. To me, the crux is between bolt #2 and #3.