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Brazil coup shows BRICS powers are no alternative to US imperialism
By Patrick Bond
May 29, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- On May 12, Brazil's democratic government, led by the Workers' Party (PT), was the victim of a coup. What will the other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China, and South Africa) do?
Will they stand by as the reactionaries who took power in Brasilia pivot closer to Western powers, glad to warm Dilma Rousseff's seat at the BRICS summit in Goa, India in five months' time? Or take a stronger line, following the lead of Latin American progressive countries (Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and El Salvador)?
Here in South Africa, few expect Jacob Zuma's African National Congress (ANC) government to react constructively on the international stage. Making waves isn't likely at a time when Standard & Poors and Fitch are on a South Africa visit, deciding whether to downgrade the country's credit rating to "junk" status, as happened in Brazil late last year.
This is a shame because the last two weeks have offered excellent opportunities for diplomatic rebellion: revelations have emerged implicating the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in assisting the apartheid state's 1962 arrest and twenty-seven-year imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. This isn't exactly surprising; the State Department did keep Mandela on its terrorist watch list until 2008.
Following these revelations ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa charged that the CIA "never stopped operating here. It is still happening now — the CIA is still collaborating with those who want regime change."
BRICS and Empire
South Africa's chief foreign policy spokesperson Clayson Monyela responded to Kodwa's accusation with assurances that South Africa's relations with the United States "are strong, they're warm, and cordial." But Kodwa's cry of imperialism, in light of the Brazilian coup, has struck a nerve.
Indeed, the argument that Rousseff's ouster demonstrates that the purportedly anti-imperialist BRICS are under sustained attack by US empire is being repeated in a number of corners. Commentators like Eric Draitser, Pepe Escobar, Paul Craig Roberts and Hugo Turner, along with officials from Venezuela and Cuba, all make this claim.
A founder of Brazil's heroic Movement of Landless Workers (MST), João Pedro Stedile, was asked by Il Manifesto about why "a group of deputies from right-wing organizations went to Washington before the last elections." He replied, "Temer will arrange his government in order to allow the US to control our economy through their companies . . . Brazil is part of the BRICS, and another goal is that it can reject the South-South alliance."
Another version of this anti-imperialist framing was heard at the South African Black Consciousness movement's Black First Land First launch conference on May 13:
The eloquent South African commentator Siphamandla Zondi, who directs the Institute for Global Dialogue (one of South Africa's main foreign policy institutes), also shares this view.
Zondi defends the BRICS project and disputes the argument put forth by myself and others that the BRICS actually serve a "sub-imperialist" role in the global economy — that they are fully complicit in reproducing inequality both within their own countries and between others in the Global South.
In a challenge posted on Facebook he called for observers to recognize that "imperialism has, in the modern age, taken on racism, crude capitalism and patriarchy as its forms."
No to the coup, No to imperialism
Rousseff is of course the victim of a coup. I hope the Brazilian people will rise up against the illegitimate interim government. But whether the coup was a product of imperialism, as Zondi and many others argue, requires a bit more circumspection.
As WikiLeaks cables revealed, Temer was a mole for the US State Department a decade ago, playing what Washington considered to be an incompetent, ideology-free role as a political "opportunist."
Indeed, we witnessed a similar problem here in South Africa, with the country's then lead spy, Moe Shaik, offering the same sort of tell-all function — before becoming a key liaison to the BRICS New Development Bank.
But as concrete evidence of a US-led coup in Brazil this fact seems insufficient. Moreover, Rousseff herself denied the role of imperialism a week after the impeachment, during a Russia Today interview: "I don't believe external interference is a primary or a secondary reason for what's happening now in Brazil. It's not. The grave situation we see now has developed without any such interference."
She repeated this when pressed by the interviewer, so it was crystal clear that she blames the old oligarchs for her downfall. This point was reinforced by subsequent revelations about the coup plotters' local motivations, to avoid their own prosecution for corruption.
Moreover, the interweaving of racism, patriarchy, and global capitalism is also not as straightforward as it once was. When Obama's allies hit the Honduran government in 2009, for example, it was a black man and a woman (Hillary Clinton) in Washington who Africa Command's agendagave international credence to the local capitalist elite's coup against a progressive democrat.
Similar concerns about Obama's role on the African continent have also been expressed — appropriate considering the Africa Command's agenda. But the role of the BRICS countries shouldn't be downplayed in these geopolitical power plays.
The United States is made more dangerous by the sub-imperialist geopolitical functions that Deputy Sheriff Zuma regularly accepts, such as endorsing NATO's bombing of Libya which led to regime change in 2011, supporting Israel even during its periodic mass murder of Gaza civilians, happily hosting US-South African military exercises, and even bragging openly that the South Africa army will serve as Obama's "boots on the ground."
This isn't to say that crude imperialism has faded away. Looking just at the 2009–2012 years when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, Washington's Blog writer Eric Zuesse summarizes repeated US incursions in Honduras, Haiti, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine (and one might add Paraguay too).
Yet, despite this impressive list of imperialist interventions, US "regime change maneuvers in the rest of the black world," as Zondi phrases it, are not that common. They are not needed at the moment, especially in Africa, where the local leadership is already supine when it comes to Washington's agenda.
Neoliberal multilateralism
Simply put, "racism, crude capitalism and patriarchy" associated with twentieth-century US imperialism have been largely replaced by Obama's neoliberal multilateralism — a style of governance that the BRICS have bought into, not opposed.
This isn't something to celebrate. Multilateral neoliberalism leaves the BRICS countries far less able to pursue any positive South-South interventions.
Indeed, Rousseff's ouster demonstrates this clearly and the incoming Temer regime is likely to pursue a desperate course to re-establish its global position. The westward drift announced last week by Temer's foreign minister, José Serra, plus Brasilia's renewed neoliberal agenda on the home front, suggest this will be the case.
But while it's obvious that Serra is going to become much more active as a sub-imperial ally of the United States than was Rousseff, Rousseff also did little of substance on the foreign policy front aside from occasional anti-Yankee rhetoric (such as when she learned from Edward Snowden that Obama had bugged her phone and email).
As the thoughtful (and generally pro-BRICS) commentator Oliver Stuenkel recently lamented:
Serra, on the other hand, has promised that:
Many who see Brazil as the victim of imperialism also hold the corresponding view that Brazil, along with the other BRICS countries, plays a progressive role on the global stage. Zondi articulated this viewpoint concisely in a recent piece for the Cape Times:
Many South Africans are impressed with the BRICS, but the reality of Brazil's global maneuvering is much less rosy. In the most important multilateral settings, BRICS elites have worked against the interests of the world's majority and against the environment.
Consider Brazil's actions in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since 2010 it has been working to reconfigure voting power ("voice") in the institution. It has successfully increased its vote by 23 percent (with China also up 37 percent, India up 11 percent and Russia up 8 percent). Yet the US still won't give up its veto power – it is the only country with more than 15 percent required – and the BRICS' total vote is now just 14.7 percent.
Worse, the restructuring deal that made this rise possible was detrimental to African countries: Nigeria just lost 41 percent of its voting power, along with Libya (39 percent), Morocco (27 percent), Gabon (26 percent), Algeria (26 percent), Namibia (26 percent) and even South Africa (21 percent).
From this perspective "BRICs versus Africa" seems a more apt way to describe Brazil's role in "reform of global governance" at the IMF.
Brazil's maneuvers at other global governance institutions — including the World Trade Organization (WTO) which is currently headed up by Brazilian Roberto Azevêdo — are equally damaging.
According to the ordinarily pro-BRICS NGO Third World Network (TWN), Brazil conspired with the United States and the European Union at the WTO to "[ensure] that India did not get the language it proposed" to maintain vital food subsidies, which in coming years will lead tens of millions of Indian peasants to suffer.
As TWN's Chakravarthi Raghavan put it, "on the eve of Nairobi, Brazil unilaterally abandoned the G20 alliance to join the US and EU, in trying to act against China and India," not to mention against the world's poor.
Of course, Brazil's behavior is not unique. China and Russia persistently block efforts by Brazil, India, and South Africa to permanently join the Security Council. The point is simply that intra-BRICS solidarity, let alone broader South-South solidarity, is hard to find in reality.
The issue of Brazil's role in battling the global environmental crisis also deserves greater scrutiny. In 2009 Lula supported — alongside the United States, India, China, and South Africa — the Copenhagen Accord, which voided the Kyoto Protocol's binding emissions-cut premise, contained utterly unambitious emissions targets, and also wrecked the UN process that year.
Moreover, Rousseff was a booster of the pro-corporate "Green Economy" gambit at the Rio Earth Summit in 2012 that was (semi-successfully) rejected by most of the Global South. She is also a proud signatory to the 2015 Paris UN climate deal, a deal which assures catastrophic global warming and also now legally prevents climate victims in the Global South from suing the Global North for its climate debt.
Brazil has also combined forces with the EU — against Bolivia — to "open the same carbon trading loopholes that undermined the last global climate deal," according to Oscar Reyes of the Institute for Policy Studies.
He notes that "the Paris Agreement explicitly allows countries to count emissions reductions made in other countries as part of their own domestic targets, referring to these by the euphemism 'internationally transferred mitigation outcomes.'"
Finally, the claim that "Brazil has also been an advocate of the responsibility to protect" simply doesn't hold water. Consider Haiti and the "right to protect" role countries like Brazil are tasked with carrying out. As Brazil expert Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research explains,
Despite Brazil's UN-designated "right to protect" responsibilities it has done nothing to expose or oppose these crimes of occupation which include the rape and sexual abuse of Haitian children by UN soldiers. The Haiti experience, according to Weisbrot (a PT sympathizer), "eviscerates Brazil's potential for moral leadership in the world."
Meanwhile back in Johannesburg, lefty-sounding rhetoric from the ANC's Luthuli House is nothing more than politicians blowing dust into the air.
When ANC leaders call the courageous South African public protector Thuli Madonsela a "CIA agent," or declare that the Mandela Washington Fellowship program of the US Embassy is training kids for "regime change," they show off anti-imperialist feathers. But in reality, Washington has no beef with Pretoria. The ANC has always excelled at talking left while walking right.
US empire is real and oppressive, but it shouldn't prevent a clear and critical appraisal of the BRICS countries' true role in the world. Especially if we want to forge alliances to change the world, not merely shift around the Titanic's first-class deck chairs.
Bond is professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and an honorary professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is co-editor of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique. An earlier version of this article was originally published at Jacobin.
The Brazilian Coup and Washington's "Rollback" in Latin America
Written by Mark Weisbrot
It is clear that the executive branch of the U.S. government favors the coup underway in Brazil, even though they have been careful to avoid any explicit endorsement of it. Exhibit A was the meeting between Tom Shannon, the 3rd ranking U.S. State Department official and the one who is almost certainly in charge of handling this situation, with Senator Aloysio Nunes, one of the leaders of the impeachment in the Brazilian Senate, on April 20. By holding this meeting just three days after the Brazilian lower house voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, Shannon was sending a signal to governments and diplomats throughout the region and the world that Washington is more than ok with the impeachment. Nunes returned the favor this week by leading an effort (he is chair of the Brazilian Senate Foreign Relations Committee) to suspend Venezuela from Mercosur, the South American trade bloc.
There is a lot at stake here for the major U.S. foreign policy institutions, which include the 17 intelligence agencies, State Department, Pentagon, White House National Security Council, and foreign policy committees of the Senate and House. An enormous geopolitical shift took place over the past 15 years, in which the Latin American left went from governing zero countries to a majority of the region. For various historical reasons, the left in Latin America tends to favor national independence and international solidarity, and is therefore less willing to go along with U.S. foreign policy. I remember the first time I saw Lula Da Silva. It was in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2002. He was speaking to a crowd at the World Social Forum, and standing under a huge banner that said "Say No to Imperialist War in Iraq."
Lula is a good diplomat, and he maintained a good personal relationship with George W. Bush during their overlapping presidencies. But he changed the foreign policy of Brazil, and contributed to the regional development of an independent foreign policy. In 2005 at Mar del Plata, Argentina, the left governments buried the U.S.-sponsored "Free Trade Area of the Americas," thus putting an end to the American dream of a hemispheric commercial agreement based on rules designed in Washington. Brazil under the Workers' Party also strongly backed Venezuela against U.S. attempts to isolate, destabilize, and even topple its government. Lula's first foreign trip after his re-election in 2006 was to Venezuela, where he supported President Hugo Chávez in his own re-election campaign. The Workers' Party(PT) government also supported regional efforts to overturn the U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras, and successfully opposed the expansion of U.S. access to military bases in Colombia in 2009. And many in the U.S. foreign policy establishment (including then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) did not appreciate the Brazilian government's role in helping to arrange a nuclear fuel swap arrangement to settle the dispute with Iran in 2010, despite the fact that it was actually done at Washington's suggestion.
Washington's Cold War never ended in Latin America, and now they see their opportunity for "rollback." Brazil is a big prize, as is evidenced by the new foreign minister in the interim government. He is José Serra, who ran unsuccessfully for president against first Lula (2002) and Dilma (2010), and is expected to use his current position — if this government survives — as a springboard for a third shot at the presidency.
In his 2010 presidential campaign, Serra went to unusual lengths to demonstrate his loyalty to Washington. He accused the Bolivian government of Evo Morales of being an accomplice to drug traffickers and attacked Lula's government for its attempts to resolve the nuclear standoff with Iran. He also criticized them for joining the rest of the region in refusing to recognize the post-coup Honduran government, and campaigned against Venezuela as well.
This is the kind of guy that Washington wants, very badly, in charge of Brazil's foreign policy. Although corporations are obviously a big player in U.S. foreign policy, and they literally do much of the writing of commercial agreements like NAFTA and the TPP, the number one guiding principle in Washington's foreign policy apparatus is not short-term profit but power. The biggest decision-makers, all the way up to the White House, care first and foremost about getting other countries to line up with U.S. foreign policy. They did not support the consolidation of the Honduran military coup because Honduran President Mel Zelaya raised the minimum wage, but because he headed a vulnerable left government that was part of the same broad alliance that included Brazil under the PT. These governments all supported each other, and they changed the norms of the region so that even non-left governments like Colombia under Juan Manuel Santos mostly went along with the others.
That is what Washington wants to change right now, and there is much excitement in This Town about the prospects for "a new regional order," which is really the old regional order of the 20th century. It won't succeed — even by their own measures of success — any more than George W. Bush succeeded in his vision of reshaping the Middle East by invading Iraq. But they could help facilitate a lot of damage trying.
Patrick Bond is an advocate of the notion that the BRICS countries are sub-imperialist; ie that they may not be as mighty as the main imperial power as the US, but that it is only their relative lack of power which prevents them from oppressing other nations in the same way as the US does. Where they can, they will.
But he runs into a difficulty when the governments of the BRICS (at least some of them) can be ousted with the backing of the US or its connivance, or when US courts can help to impose huge exactions on them. Of course, there is no possibility of reciprocal action by them against the US precisely because the US is the sole imperial hegemon.
So, lacking any support for his original thesis from actual events he resorts to increased invective against these governments and their (often genuine) failings.But invective is not analysis. As he admits, the S African government can only do what it does because it is accepted by the US. The same applies to Brazilian intervention in Haiti.
When regional powers act in a way contrary to US interests we have regime change. Welcome to the real world, with one dominant imperial power.

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They had been talking about it for a long time, but now it's true. Titus, those masters of the lucrative licenses, has nailed down a handful of real auto licenses for Roadsters. Since many of the cars in the game were the spitting image of some of the most celebrated automobiles on the road today, it only seems right that they get an official nameplate and logo associated with them in the game. There may be more on the way, but for now Roadsters will feature models of Ford, Renault, Mitsubishi, TVR, Toyota and Wiesmann among others. The Ford car is a cool concept vehicle that looks like a hot rod with a colored wing attached to it. Dodge may be close to giving the nod on the Viper-like and Prowler-esque vehicles in the game so stay tuned. There are automobiles in the game that resemble models from Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Nissan, but those automakers have not given their stamp of approval.
We've got screens of some of the licensed cars plus shots of an updated version of the game. Enjoy
The idea behind Titus' second racing game for Nintendo 64 is simple: Give gamers a racer with everything they liked in Automobili Lamborghini and fix everything that they didn't like. Now add around 30 of the hottest convertibles, and you've got Roadsters, the latest project by Lamborghini designer Rob Stevens.
For starters, Roadsters '98 uses an improved 3D engine from its predecessor that makes the game look better, enables more cars on screen at the same time, and moves much faster. The unfinished version of the game we saw already pushed eight cars on screen at the same time -- without slowing down too much. An impressive step up from most other racers on N64.
Roadsters features around 30 original roadsters, that closely resemble such hip rides as the BMW Z3, Mazda Miata, Renault Spider, or Porsche Boxter -- but that's not all. Titus managed to radically increase the overall speed of the gameplay over the predecessor, giving players more of a feel what it's like to roar through Europe without having to care about speed limits. Unlike most other racing games, players can also select from different drivers, who, just like the cars, are polygonally rendered.
The cars themselves seem to be the biggest treat in Roadsters. While there are no official licenses, anyone who's ever watched television or driven down the boulevard of a medium sized city will recognize most of the yuppie-mobiles in this one. Kudos to Titus on the car designs. We were particularly fond of the classic convertible knock-offs like the '66 Corvette or '67 Cobra. While some may not be able to appreciate the refined lines of the old school roadsters there'll be plenty of nouveau chic rides that resemble Vipers, CLKs and Testarossas. The convertibles are so well done that you'll be able to smell the wine and cheese. Or for the middle aged man in you, you hairline will start to recede.
Another improvement that was already visible in the unfinished game is the way the cars steer. Rather than sharing the same digital and over-sensitive feel of Lamborghini, the roadsters in the game swerve realistically and much smoother. In fact, the steering in Roadsters isn't as bad as we initially thought. When we ran the E3 version, we had trouble navigating through the game and ended up selecting vehicles that were far too powerful and advanced for our inferior driving skills. When you first start a championship mode game, you'll only be able to select from a group of cars that handle and drive much easier. Mastering the powerslide, a la Ridge Racer, will be key to handling the more advanced cars.
Of course, like Lamborghini, Roadsters is set to offer full steering wheel support.
Unlike Ocean with GT 64, Titus is also expanding on the limited number of tracks of most next-generation racing games. A whopping 10 distinct tracks will be accessible off the bat, with at least two hidden tracks, and there will even be changing times of day and weather conditions. On the effects side, you can expect the usual fare: Skid marks, smoke effects and lens flare galore.
Graphically, Roadsters roadsters can't deny its Lamborghini heritage, but the tracks are much more diverse, the colors more vibrant, and the cars much better looking with more details and specular highlighting. Taking a hint from Gran Turismo (PSX), Titus has also added a new replay mode with changing camera angles that makes it easy for players to determine their driving mistakes. Like in the PSX classic, the camera will push in to reveal the cars' improved detail and pan along for some exciting visuals.
Like Automobili Lamborghini, Roadsters '98 again offers a four-player split-screen vs. mode at smooth framerates, but Titus says it is planning to add a unique feature to boost the competition factor: Betting on who will win.
We were pleased to see that Titus added a reverse gear to the cars since we had such a big problem getting stuck against rails, walls and fences in the E3 version. However, this problem was replaced with some questionable (and no doubt unfinished) drone A.I. The computer controlled cars were programmed so tightly, that if they were knocked off track even slightly, they would simply smash into a wall and stay there, engines revving as they tried to complete their scripted pattern. This was a good thing if you fell behind in a race, but it doesn't do much for the competitive spirit. We're sure that Titus is still tinkering with the AI, so this problem should be ironed out by the time the game ships.
One feature we were told about but didn't get to experience was the taunting feature each different driver will have. The audio bits hadn't been inserted but Titus says each driver will have multiple taunts at their disposal that players can hurl at competitors as they scoot by. While cursing yuppies is one of the funniest things you'll hear on this green earth, we have a feeling that Titus will skip this in favor for some good old fashioned videogame humor. However, French-cursing would really go a long way towards repairing the emotional damage caused by Superman.
Outlook: Roadsters has some promise with its great car design and good driving mechanics. Other than the taunt feature, which has not been proven to work yet, there's as of yet not much else beyond the conventional racing elements to set Roadsters apart. If Titus improves the game look with smoother framerates and perhaps a little anti-aliasing, Roadsters could look sharp but without looking jagged and sketchy. The strength of a game like World Driver: Championship definitely puts pressure on a game like Roadsters and it'll be up to Titus to answer the challenge.


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Here are three top spots in Olympic National Park where you can get a taste of the park's three major ecosystems: mountains, rain forest and coastal wilderness.
Rialto Beach: A don't-miss wild Pacific beach. Walk from the oceanside parking lot over a low, driftwood-draped dune, then go 1.5 miles north along the beach to Hole in the Wall, a dramatic rock formation pierced by an arch.
Time your visit for low tide so you can walk through the Hole in the Wall and see the nearby tide pools, brimming with sea life. Keep going miles farther if you have the energy; backpackers can camp along parts of the beach.
People with limited mobility also can enjoy the Rialto Beach views, thanks to a rubber wheelchair ramp that goes from the parking lot to the top of the low dune.
Hoh Rain Forest: This verdant, rain-bathed valley, also on the west side of the park, offers a small visitor center (with a moss-draped phone booth that's a visitors' photo favorite), massive conifers and moss, moss everywhere. Walk a level mile-long loop trail among old-growth or go for miles along the Hoh River trail. The milky Hoh River is born in the glaciers of 7,980-foot Mount Olympus in the park's heart.
Hurricane Ridge: Drive the 17 miles from Port Angeles up a twisting road to 5,242 feet.
At the top is Hurricane Ridge's large parking lot, which must be one of the world's most scenic, with a panorama of peaks and meadows. Walk short meadow trails, such as the paved and wheelchair-accessible Cirque Rim, or longer (unpaved) trails.
Or simply enjoy the views from the terrace of the visitor center. Inside are natural-history exhibits, a gift shop and snack bar. But with a sandwich costing more than $7, you may want to take a picnic.
Hurricane Ridge takes its name from the winds that can howl through, sometimes at more than 70 mph. And be prepared for snow that lingers late, and arrives early, in this subalpine world that can get up to 35 feet of the white stuff in a year.
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Microsoft is bringing a regional headquarters to the Cortex district of St. Louis.
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The move will bring 150 new jobs to St. Louis. Microsoft is investing more than $50 million in local jobs, facilities and software grants. The office and Microsoft Technology Center will open in summer of 2018.
"People are noticing what is happening in Missouri. And we're excited to have Microsoft as a corporate partner." Gov. Greitens said.
Cortex was founded in 2002 and has grown into the Midwest's leading hub of innovation and technology commercialization.
Dennis Lower, president of Cortex calls the move a 'great validation of our mission.'
"The new Microsoft Technology Center brings another leading-edge technology resource to St. Louis' booming innovation community, and its presence adds further credibility to the reality that St. Louis has become one of the leading growth cities for innovation companies." Lower said.
Last October, KSDK's Pat McGonigle took a look inside Cortex and the future of St. Louis jobs.


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Multiply Rational Numbers. Honors Math – Grade 7. KEY CONCEPT Multiply Two Rational Numbers. To multiply rational numbers: 1. If the factors have like signs , the product is positive! 2. If the factors have unlike signs , the product is negative!
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Honors Math – Grade 7
KEY CONCEPT Multiply Two Rational Numbers
To multiply rational numbers:
1. If the factors have like signs, the product is positive!
2. If the factors have unlike signs, the product is negative!
Remember to first multiply the rational numbers and then determine the sign
When track season is over, Ms. Alaya decreases the distance of her weekday runs by 1.1 mi per week for three weeks in a row. What rational number represents the total decrease in Ms. Alaya's runs for the three weeks?
What are the important facts?
Express the numbers as rational numbers.
What operation does the problem suggest?
Remember when multiplying decimals to align the digits not the decimal points.
Also, remember to count the decimal places in each factor to determine the number of decimal places in the product!
Remember when multiplying two fractions, you may cancel any numerator with any denominator.
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For a pan-Asian restaurant in Stockholm, Lomar Arkitekter used a bold yellow and green colour combination to mix a street market feel with a polished Scandinavian look.
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The furniture, in yellow and pastel green, was custom designed for the space, with overhanging lamps and lighting fixtures above bench tables.
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You can learn everything listed below by listening to the September 27, 2011 Q and A audio replay at:
Topics include: building an affiliate site from scratch, how to choose which affiliate products and services for the site, the difference between using local and global affiliate programs on your site, when to use info products and when to use services and physical products, deciding who is your target audience and deciding who your target audience is not, why it's "dangerous" for men to market to women without getting really good advice, marketing to trends in your marketplace, the power of pictures and layout to focus your visitor toward taking the desired action you want them to take, why you should tell your visitors what to do, the big mistake of communicating to the masses and how to avoid it, creating balance between content and promotion, how to know what works best to get the results you want, using the opening screen shot for maximum effect, the value of mapping out a website before uploading and making it go live, using a combination html site and blog site for best results, an easy way to add commenting and sharing tools to your html pages, using email marketing for local business, how to analyze your conversion stats, how often to email your prospects and customers, what information can you send them, how be of service by showing people how to do things and then sell them the tools to do it, how to track response when driving online traffic to offline sales, how to leverage your newsletter update results by three times, how to get people to look forward to receiving your emails, using human nature to get more results, why you are not a bother by sending people emails, how to get great ideas to use in writing emails to your prospects and customers, the reason why you need to write your own emails rather than just copy and paste, the most effective and least expensive way to learn and master anything, why every local offline business owner can benefit from doing an internet radio show, how to do great interviews, how to come up with questions, how to structure the interview with your guest, how to keep things moving along and interesting, how to interject your sales pitch into your interview or radio show, how long should an interview or radio show be, how to timing markers to keep you on track in your interview style radio shows, what to put into your 30 second commercial that is inserted within your interview content to get people to take action, how to make sure you deliver your offer with confidence, the phrase to never say on a BlogTalk Radio show, how to avoid rushing through your offer at the end of your presentation, how to outline and timeline your show for best flow and results, why it's easy to get people to do interviews for you, why an internet radio show has more long-term value than regular broadcast radio
Lots to learn here – FREE audio
I love it when people read my blog posts, there's always
something in them that benefits the person who
reads them.
And today is no different.
You will see all the topics listed below the following
If you're a paying member of ISS you can login here
to listen to the Q and A audio from last night, download
it or listen online:
If you're not a paying ISS member you can listen to it free for
the next few days, but you can online listen online and cannot
access all of the other audios that are available for online
listening or download to paying members.
Here's where I post these to "give you a little sample of ISS":
Here's the topics for the May 24 session:
RSS – what is it, how do you benefit from it as a publisher and a consumer
Where to get a free RSS reader and how to use it
Free WordPress plugins to use RSS feeds to pull content into your
Wordpress pages and posts
Using RSS publishing for your lists, sequential followups and
broadcast messages too
How to target your audience and develop a blog or website around
their interests
How to SEO a blog or website that has many related topics
How to use Google's Wonder Wheel to create the SEO structure of
your blog or website
How can a complete "non-techie newbie" get started
Where to find lots of free tutorial videos on most any internet
tech question
The big mistake most people make when learning from
video tutorials
Why every internet entrepreneur should learn basic website
and blog skills
Why people don't appreciate free solutions to their problems
What exactly does make it possible to make money online
Where do you start and what product do you select to market
The three basic ways to make money online (or offline too)
Why you should learn to make html pages even though you
publish on a WordPress blog
Free and low cost WYSIWYG html editors to try
A tutorial video that shows exactly how to build a simple html
website step-by-step
The reason a lot of people really screw up their WordPress-based
websites and blogs
What you must do on your WordPress blogs to help your visitors
take the desired action you want them to take
Using "social direct marketing" to make sales
As you become more advanced in your internet business there's
a new problem you'll start running into
How to attract buyers to your website rather than "tire kickers"
What's the real purpose of your website or blog
Why "working on your blog" is a big waste of time and what you
should be doing to get more results
Content is NOT king, there's something else that works so much
better (and it's not relevant content either)
How to increase your persuasive communications skills
The amazing importance of words and how to use them to get the
results you want
What search engines are really trying to do and if you understand
this it's easier to get the traffic you want from them
The little secret to getting other people to "Like" and "Thumbs Up"
your postings on social sites
Understanding the power of sharing positive things with other people
The story of "The 360 Degrees of a Circle" and why you should know about it
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Give it a listen and make sure you've got a pen and paper while you
As always, my best to you —
Mark Hendricks
12 Parts of Every Successful and Profitable Internet-Based Business
Get out your pen and notepad, and get ready to take lots
of notes on this one.
Listen in on this radio show segment:
12 Parts of Every Successful and Profitable Internet-Based Business
Mark Hendricks
Internet business and marketing, here's what others have to say
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So, back to the blogging business of the day.
Do you ever crochet for the sake of it? I do I'm afraid. Sometimes I just want to have a go at making a particular motif or pattern. With a particular yarn, using certain colours that appeal to me at that moment in time. I love the feel of the yarn around the hook and the satisfaction of making a pretty thing from gorgeous wool, or maybe cotton. I can't say it's the same for sewing - I don't sit at my machine just to feel the whir of the wheels and the up and down of the needle (although a perfect tension row of stitches is very satisfying :o), an end product is always the aim here.
But when it comes to crochet, the process of forming the stitches with loops and yarn-overs is enough to bring me happiness. ( I know I'm in good company here and can confess to such things :0)
And this is exactly how this project started:
Lovely, lovely, lovely african flower motifs. Classic pattern, if you type it into the search engine it's easy to get the written instructions and/or tutorials. Such a joy to make, who needs any more reason than that?
This gift box was my colour inspiration and most of the yarn was either stash or from the January sale bin in the yarn shop, reduced in price to a quid a ball. The main joining colour is Jarol Heritage classic dk in shade 152 and is probably my favourite yarn at the moment, both for colour and texture. One saturday evening, when no one was looking, I picked up the bits I needed and just started crocheting, like I say, simply for the sake of it. I made a few motifs over the next few days and played around with them a bit but I have to admit thoughts of what to do with them started to come to me. I didn't want to commit to a blanket as however much I love the idea I have enough others either on the go or waiting in the wings to be started and so a smaller, slightly quicker item was called for.
Being hexagons means things are not so straight forward as traditional granny squares are they? but I did remember seeing this tutorial for a bag some time ago and decided to have a go at it.
It has turned out really well and I do love it! I had to take my time to work my way through all of the instructions but it's a good tutorial and it all seems to come together in the end.
I attached the handles using embroidery floss.
I lined it with some gorgeous Tanya Welan fabric - I love this rosy print! I just had enough to make a little inside pocket :0)
I used this pretty ribbon trim to finish it off. I love this little detail so much but it was more luck than judgement that it was included. When making my lining pattern I forget to allow for the small crochet border I had made around the top of the bag and so the lining came up slightly short. Adding the ribbon will help to stop the top edge from curling, well I hope so anyway!
My attempt at a selfie to show off my bag - dismal failure! Where are my girls when I need them????
As far as the handles go, I picked them up on my travels some time ago. The lining fabric and the ribbon (drool) are from The Homemakery ( I think I have a serious website crush here - is there such a thing?)
Oh b*m, I have just been over to the site to get the link and Kate has some gorgeous new fabrics listed, now where did I leave my willpower?...
have a great day my friends,
'till next time...


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Dad's the word! Ali Fazal asks his father to shift to Mumbai
Ali Fazal recently asked his father, Feroz, to shift to Mumbai from hometown, Lucknow, to stay with him.
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As Ali is tied up with his busy schedule, his dad was lonely and decided to suprise him by visiting him on the sets of his film, Tadka.
The actor has never had his family drop in while shooting.
He feels that would be distracting and they would feel out of place. But, his father bonded with the unit folk and his co-star, Nana Patekar. Better late than never.


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Just curious if anyone has been on prednisone for a long time and what side effects you may have had from it.
My Opthamologist recently put me on oral prednisone for my Scleritis and he said depending on what happens, I may have to take it every other day basically forever, depending on what happens with the inflammation in my eye(s).
At the same time, it has really helped with all of the aches and pains I have been having recently.
Anyhow thanks everyone!
I have been on predisone for about 10 years and the biggest side affect I have had is weight gain which I cannot stand. I am on 10 mgs. a day but have been higher at certain times after being diagnosised. I do have to get a yearly bone density test because of the predisone makes the bones brittle.
Good luck to you,
I took prednisone for 8 months, just finally weaned off of it. Started at 5mg, went up to 10mg, then tapered off 1mg at a time from there. I almost immediately started losing a SMALL bit of weight without trying. Yay, but now I'm gonna have to work at it-in moderation.
My most irritating side effect beside weight gain was my hair (already dark and thick) became more noticeable on my face, darker and thicker. I t makes me self conscious and I won't put my hair back to expose the side of my face. I wondered if with long term use if I would eventually have more facial hair. Definately not desirable for a woman.
Also the shape of my face has changed a bit, not in a good way. And not just from the weight gain.
These are all regular noted side effects.
My rheumy explained that it's not a matter of if you will have side effects from this drug, but when. A bit disturbing, since I usually don't have much of any side effects.
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Why Clydesdales? asks the ToolBear.
I am curious. Why is the Clydesdale, a draft horse, selected as the totem for this forum? A bear would be far more appropriate.
I have never seen a horse on a bike. Bears now, that's different. Bears on bikes or unicycles was a circus staple back when and today.
In fact, when I bought my Dahon folder with those 20" wheels, Herself helpfully warned, "You'll look just like a circus bear on that thing."
In fact, she may have had these images in mind:
Well, the shape on that one is similar.
All that riding has slimned these bears down a bit.
We also have bears on scooters, mopdes, cars. Narry a horse on anything on YouTube.
Bear in mind, that a Clyde is a big strong workhorse that thrusts forward with power. A Bear is just a big strong animal that kicks back in the bushes eating berries.:p
Which do wimminz prefer to ride...horses or bears?
Nuff said.
Also, "bear' is a nickname for a hairy and/or heavily built gay man... I can't be sure, but I don't think many of us fall into that category. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I'm not sure if it's the actual origin of the category, but the first races I remember seeing it were the Budweiser sponsored triathlons in the early 90s.
From the Urban Distionary entry for "Bear"
1. bear
A term used by gay men to describe a husky, large man with a lot of body hair.
George's sexual tastes run toward bears.
3. bear
A chubby homosexual with a lot of body hair.
Some definitions refer to any hairy man as a 'bear,' not just gay men.
wife used to be an actress, so I have met a few, none were happy, and most were wishing they were (happy). I could say more, but I don't want to get the moderators mad at me.....
Also, "bear' is a nickname for a hairy and/or heavily built gay man... I can't be sure, but I don't think many of us fall into that category. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
They would probably love those tight shorts <g>.
The language has certainly changed. Gay used to mean happy. A ****** was firewood that old women went into the forest to gather: "A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.."
My last encounter with a bear - up close and personal at age 10, he forsook the berries for the content of the ice chest. Steak, as I recall. They are omnivores so a nice mess of donuts wouild work well. There was one at Yosemite that had a favorite brand of bear.
Of course, from the bear's POV, he has to spend those summer hours eating. Not enough fat and he is out of luck later in the winter.
When I think of a Clydesdale, I think of the horses Bud used to use in their Super Bowl commercials... big, powerful, majestic animals. I think of it as a compliment.
The characteristic action of a Clydesdale is demonstrated at a trot; an animated gait with high hoof action in both the front and rear. Despite its large size, the Clydesdale presents with an energetic quality described by the Clydesdale Horse Society as "gaiety of carriage and outlook."
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A room adjoining the main gallery area presents Orthocenter ? a series of small ceramic sculptures stemming from the artist's experiments on the ways in which the gravity, rotation and fluidity of a mass generate geometric shapes. Orthocenter Views is a grid of 99 photographs illustrating the transformation of lumps of clay by the artist's hands. And the video Boulder Hand shows Orozco uninterruptedly rubbing a stone in the palm of his hand, as if to polish it: "Stability is contrary to nature. In the video there's this movement of the hand that turns a pebble over and over, like a river."
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The gallery basement presents Orozco's video Solvitur Boomerando which shows him throwing a boomerang; here again Orozco explores the notion of circularity and return. Facing this video is a grid of 99 photographs presenting the Observatory House, a replica of an 18th-century observatory from the Jantar Mantar site in New Delhi (India).
"The Goodman Gallery exhibition focuses on architecture, geometry and abstract structures; the one at the Crousel Gallery is more organic, related to nature and hybrids," concludes Gabiel Orozco.


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Tyrone (Irish: Tír Eoghain), the ancient territory of the O'Neills, now in the Province of Ulster, central Northern Ireland, and County Clare where O'Neill was chief of Clan Dalvy and of Tradree, a district in the barony of Inchiquinn. In the 10th century, a branch of this family went to Limerick to assist in the expulsion of the Danes. After one victorious occasion they wore green boughs in their helmets and on their horses' heads signifying their victory.
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I know this may sound silly but being a newbie I need your help on this one!!!
I have a Q regarding using math functions in SQL. I have a table which has 4 colums namely: timestamp, kwh,kvarh and kvah.......Timestamp, kwh and kvarh have values in them and I want the kvah column to have values equal to kvah=SQRT(kwh*kwh+kvarh*kvarh).......Can anyone please lemme know how to do this using SQL.....I tried doing this in access(since the database is quite huge), but had some probs with network......So please help me out!
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create table aa (timestamp, kwh int, kvarh int, kvah int);
insert aa (kwh, kvarh, kvah) values(2, 3, 9);
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update aa set kvah = sqrt(power(kwh,2)+power(kvarh,2));
select * from aa;
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It's all been leading up to this. For six years, #OnceUponATime has charmed viewers young and old alike with its captivating stories and delightful trips down nostalgia avenue. But like all great adventures, it must eventually come to an end. And as the sixth season races vigorously towards the finish line, we all begin to wonder if it will be that end.
Recently, co-creator and executive producer Adam Horowitz - who's known for teasing fans on Twitter - shared a glimpse at the final two episode titles for #OnceUponATimeSeason6. While not entirely foreboding in nature, they still manage to make us wonder whether or not this is the end of road for Emma Swan and company.
First, The Tantalizing But Troubling Tweet
As you can see above, the final two episodes have been revealed as a two-parter titled "The Final Battle." Fans of #OUAT will recognize this almost instantly. The show has been teasing the final battle since the earliest moments of the first episode. Rumplestiltskin gleefully announced the final battle would begin once Emma Swan stepped foot in Storybrooke. Though they've had some epic showdowns with the likes of Maleficent, Cruella De Vil, Peter Pan, and Mr. Hyde, they've yet to come across a force they could not conquer.
Obviously the titles hint that something big is about to go down in the town of Storybrooke. Fans will remember that since the current season began, Emma has been having visions of her imminent death at the hands of a hooded stranger - now revealed to be the time-traveling son of Rumplestiltskin and Belle. The show has played around with destiny and prophecy in the past and it usually, even after a long fought battle, ends up turning out just fine. However, as the season progressed, there has been no signs indicative of the path changing anytime soon.
Alongside the recently announced musical episode, I think it's fair to guess what remains of this season is going to be anything but uneventful.
The Cast Is Rumored To Be Getting A Bit Smaller
There are apparently negotiations going on with Jennifer Morrison (Emma Swan), Lana Parrilla (Regina), Colin O'Donohue (Hook), and Robert Carlyle (Rumple) to continue on with the show should it receive a renewal for Season 7. Though that doesn't necessarily mean other negotiations are not taking place, it also doesn't bode well for other members of the ensemble cast, though it does shed some light on what exactly is in store for us come the Season 6 finale. It should be noted that both Morrison and Carlyle have stated in past that they're uncertain that they actually will return to the series if it does indeed come back in the fall.
Rumors have been swirling that both Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming/David (Josh Dallas) are likely to perish in the Season 6 finale. While this would be a significant blow to the series, it may finally end up correcting the so many wrongs the show has put forth ever since breaking their own rules of resurrection.
Other cast members such as Emilie De Ravin (Belle), Rebecca Mader (Zelena), and Sean Maguire (Robin Hood) have come and gone from the show before, so it wouldn't be all that surprising if the network decided to axe their characters moving forward. It remains to be seen whether Jared Gilmore (Henry Mills) will come back as well. However, given that both his mothers are in negotiations to return, I highly doubt his young self will follow in the footsteps of Star Trek's Wesley Crusher.
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- Will 'Once Upon A Time' End With Sixth Season? It Could Happen
- 'Once Upon A Time' Beautifully Paid Tribute To Robin Williams
- Tiger Lily Is Coming To 'Once Upon A Time' Season 6
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ABC president, Channing Dungey, already announced back in February that the show would undergo something of a reboot if it were renewed for a seventh season. She and the creators of the show had a long talk before the midseason hiatus about the future and what they have planned going forward.
"Eddy [Kitsis] and Adam [Horowitz] came in and talked with me right before the holiday about what some of their potential ideas might be for season seven. There was some interesting stuff, we gave them some feedback, and they are now working and are going to come back and sit with me in a couple of weeks."
She wanted everyone to know, however, that regardless of what happens, whether the show gets a renewal or not, there will be closure in store for the fans.
"There will be a little bit of closure in this particular narrative regardless of what happens with season seven."
It appears that regardless of the show's uncertain future, at least #ABC and the show's creators have planned a finale that will bring the show to a close in a way that respects the longtime fans of the series. Considering the show's history with ratings and the many times it's already reinvented itself, we should all feel incredibly lucky that we're even getting that much.
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