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We used First Student for a company outing. We were on a tight schedule and First Student did a great job working with us to get our reservation together and paid for on time. We scheduled 2 buses, even though it turned out we only needed 1. The office staff with First Student was very helpful when we suggested that we only use one bus for our return trip. They provided a refund for the second bus that we did not need, even though we didn't expect or request one. It was a very nice gesture by them. The drivers were scheduled for us were interesting to say the least. One driver opened his door to chat with a high school student who he did not know on the side of the road. Needless to say, this made the individuals on that bus feel uncomfortable. The other driver raised even more concerns. He drove pretty recklessly, and even blew a red light at one point. I don't think two drivers' actions should reflect First Student as a whole, but it is hard to give a great review when those drivers did leave our group with some concerns.
Reviewed By: Company attending volunteer service event Travel Date: April 2013 Published on May 09, 2013 at 08:59 AM
I spent hours planning a one night trip for 75 people only for the bus company to not show up. It appeared there was a miscommunication between headquarters and the local bussing unit. Having to disappoint dozens of people by turning them away for an event they had been looking forward to for weeks was disheartening. Mistakes like these cannot be made in big transportation companies. I will not rely on First Student Charters for my future transportation needs.
Reviewed By: Travel Date: Febraury of 2013 Published on April 01, 2013 at 01:41 PM
Affordable option with personable company
I help organize a trip from our college in Baltimore to the DC mall area. The bus was on time, the price we agreed on, clean and the driver friendly. I would call to help get everything planned as email can be slow, but great company to go with! Thanks
Reviewed By: College Student Club Travel Date: February 2013 Published on March 15, 2013 at 05:09 PM
Saint Louis University Global Brigades
Bus failed to show up until an hour and a half after scheduled time. Had to make multiple phone calls to driver and directors at 5am only to have them show up at 6:30am. The trip was to Lambert Int'l Airport for a group of 30 people flying to Ghana, Africa. This oversight could have seriously affected the outcome of this group's travel and was a very disappointing interaction with First Student.
Reviewed By: Saint Louis University's Global Brigades Travel Date: Dec 30th 2012 Published on January 16, 2013 at 01:21 PM
accepted quote, then denied it months later
I tried to book two buses to transport my wedding guests from the ceremony to the reception. After 2 months of checking for a confirmation I was emailed to call and give payment info. When I did, I asked to confirm the number of people with them and was informed that the lot rejected my order due to the pick up location. We switched the location and it was another 4 weeks of calling back to find out that they rejected the order once more. So now we're scrambling to find a solution with our wedding swiftly approaching. I strongly suggest going somewhere else if confirmation in a timely fashion is what you need. They seem very disorganized in general.
Reviewed By: People Planning a Wedding Travel Date: 03/22/13 Published on January 10, 2013 at 04:26 PM
First Student charter
Bus arrived early, was clean. Driver was very courteous. We took 33 men to camp with some gear, and the bus was able to handle all the men an gear. It was a school bus, so the knee space was tight for the tall men, nut it was ok. The timeliness was the arrival and departure were the most important drtails to is. First Student came trough.
Reviewed By: Chaplain Travel Date: Oct 5 2012 Published on October 28, 2012 at 08:42 AM
First Student Charter Bus Rental
My son and I arranged to have First Student transport his New Trier Homecoming group (50 people) on the night of Homecoming. I called the Monday before to confirm the itinerary and to book the rental. I gave my credit card and the woman I spoke to said that the charter was booked. I asked if there was anything else I had to do or look for, and she said that we were all set and that the bus would be at the house at the designated time. The bus never came to pick up the kids. They had to walk to New Trier, and then call parents to transport them to the after party. I called First Student on Monday to ask what on earth happened. At first I was told that the bus was "booked and then unbooked". I didn't quite understand what that meant, so I asked for some follow up information. Later that day I talked to a supervisor who needed to talk to the person who booked my rental. Apparently she was out sick for a few days. I was told that I would receive another follow up call to explain what happened after she spoke to the booking agent. I never received any more communication from First Student Charter Bus Rentals. This was really a terrible experience for my son, who had been in charge of arranging the bus. You can imagine that both parents and fellow students were quite angry at this lack of the rental bus. I feel we did everything necessary to book the bus. I know understand there should have been a route number email sent to us, but that was never mentioned at the time of booking. I feel that I have tried to follow up on what happened, but am still completely dissatisfied. My only recourse is to tell people not to use First Student because they are an unreliable company that does not follow up on grievances. Wendy Shelton
Reviewed By: Wendy Shelton (New Trier Parent) Travel Date: October 13, 2012 Published on October 27, 2012 at 09:03 AM
Great Trip to Burlington
We had a great ride to Burlington. Richard was our bus driver and was a great sport with our group. He made a couple stops for us and we really appreciate everything he did! No complaints, this was a wonderful experience.
Reviewed By: Dude who rented the bus Travel Date: October of 2012 Published on October 16, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Wedding bus rental
We rented with First Student Charter Bus Rentals for my wedding last month. Disclaimer: I didn't ride the bus. Disclaimer 2: I kinda wanted to (it was a school bus full of my drunk relatives and friends) I reserved the bus to pick up our guests from one hotel, bring them to the hotel we were having our wedding at, and bring them back at the end of the reception. The bus got everyone to the ceremony on time and showed up early to pick people up at the end of the night. Our guests were having fun so I asked the driver if we could extend by another hour and the company and the driver were completely accommodating. I would like to mention that the driver also seemed very friendly and polite. I heard no complaints from anyone riding the bus and knowing the passengers like I do I can say that if something went wrong I would have heard a complaint. The prices were comparable to the "discounted" prices we were quoted by the hotel. I had a very positive experience with this company and I would recommend them!
Reviewed By: the groom Travel Date: 18 August 2012 Published on September 17, 2012 at 07:21 PM
St. Gregory Youth trip
The driver was early, courteous, and on time and waiting for us.He helped load the bus with supplies. Our contact person, Karen Kramer from First Student was most helpful and even showed us how to save some money on our trip by the way that she scheduled the bus and the driver. The bus was clean and well-maintained. If we have need of bus services again we will remember our good experience. Thank you! Fr. Jim Shaughnessy
Reviewed By: Pastor Travel Date: Aug. 18, 2012 Published on September 04, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Failure to Arrive for Scheduled Trip
Our Church had been using First Student for about 1 year. They had missed a few pickups of our College students (at Carnegie Mellon and Pitt) due to the Pittsburgh Marathon or bad weather (First Student did not call us to let us know that they were not coming). We then scheduled them for our College Retreat. On the day of the Retreat - they called 2 hours before the pickup time to tell us they had no drivers for trip! This left 85 College students waiting at Carnegie Mellon / Pitt for the Retreat. We scheduled this trip 2 months in advance. First Student had no explanation, no alternative transport and no regard for our situation. We had to call another Bus Company that afternoon to find transportation for our students. Our Students waited hours and the Retreat had to start late. Calling First Student later, we found First Student to be unapologetic and did not care as we stopped doing business with them. I highly discourage use of this company.
Reviewed By: Elder Pittsburgh Chinese Church Travel Date: January 2011 Published on August 23, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Great Job
Excellent and courteous service. Prompt and great to do business with. Would use them again for sure.
Reviewed By: Richard Jack Travel Date: 6-24-12 Published on July 07, 2012 at 01:20 PM
WSU Soccer Camp Rental
Good service and responded to mistake made by bus company.
Reviewed By: Wright State Soccer Travel Date: June 2012 Published on June 27, 2012 at 05:39 PM
Cherry Hill
We used First Student and the bus driver was excellent. She arrived earlier than our departure time, got off the bus and greeted our children and was an excellent driver. Never, have we had a bus driver that smiled and was very professional. Kudos to "Suzette" (don't remember her last name) who work at First Student. We will be using this company again and definitely recommend any group to use their services!
Reviewed By: Travel Date: Published on June 20, 2012 at 06:08 PM
Great experience
Lynda Olson, our contact at First Student, was very responsive, helpful and flexible. She advised us on parking at our destination, alternate routes due to road construction, and the best options for our group in terms of the types of vehicles she could provide. Our driver was professional and friendly, arrived on time for both pick-up and return, got us to our destinations safely, and was flexible in various requests for leaving articles on the bus, etc. Overall a great experience with First Student and would recommend for large group or team activities.
Reviewed By: A Tough Mudder Team Travel Date: May 19, 2012 Published on June 11, 2012 at 10:22 AM
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Both of the buses were great! They were basically there on time and the bus drivers knew exactly where to go and when to get there. They were great!
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(UPDATE) 2:17 p.m.—Stormy weather is in the forecast over the next few days in the Baltimore metro.
Heavy rain is expected with a thunderstorm possible Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service. A coastal flood advisory has been issued for Harford County from 4 p.m. Wednesday until 4 a.m. Thursday.
In a news release, Baltimore Gas & Electric warned residents to prepare for possible power outages.
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Hey Wayne, why don't you write for Patch then? Seems you could do a much better job.
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I might consider it, but I got a full time gig workin on diesel engines and doing taxidermy on the side. But i'm pretty dang agile with the pen and paper amongst other things.

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NEES and PEER will host OpenSees Days 2012 at the University of California, Berkeley Richmond Field Station (RFS ) in Richmond, CA on August 15'th and 16'th.
- Wednesday, August 15: Getting Started With OpenSees
- Thursday, August 16: OpenSees: Beyond the Basics
Students, researchers, and practitioners are welcome to attend any of the days. Registration is free, lunch is provided, but space is limited to the first 100 applicants, and registration closes August 10, 2012
August 15: Getting Started With OpenSees
UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station
The annual one-day training workshop on how to use OpenSees will be more hands-on this year. This workshop is intended for beginning users. This workshop will introduce users to the tcl scripting language, and basic modeling and analysis techniques using OpenSees.
August 16: OpenSees: Beyond the Basics
UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station
An workshop intended for intermediate users and those who have attended the Getting Started Workshop. The workshop will focus on structural and geotechnical modeling using OpenSees, and how to extend OpenSees for your own research needs.
The afternnon sessions will be devoted to presentations from those in industry and research and will focus on how OpenSees has been used and extended to futher their work. Anyone interested in presenting is encouraged to send a short abstract before July 1, 2012.
Day 1 – Getting Started With OpenSees
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Introduction to OpenSees & NEEShub
9:00 - 10.15 Getting Started with OpenSees Frank McKenna
10.15 -10:45 OpenSees & Output Vesna Terzic
10.45-12.00 Basic Modeling & Analysis by Example Frank McKenna
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00- 2.00 Nonlinear Analysis With Examples Frank McKenna
2.00 - 4.00 Presentations by Industry/Research
4.00 -4.30 Introduction to NEEShub Gemez Marshall (NEEScomm)
4.30 -5.00 OpenSees on NEEShub Frank McKEnna
Day 2 – OpenSees: Beyond the Basics
8.00 - 8.30 Homework Solutions/Discussion
8.30 - 10.00 Structural Modeling with Examples Vesna Terzic
10.00-11.30 Geotechnical Modeling With Examples Pedro Arduino
11.30-12.15 Adding New Code to OpenSees Frank McKenna
12.15- 1.00 Lunch
1.00-1.45 Parallel Processing Using NEEShub Frank McKenna
1.45-2.15 Extending OpenSees for the Particle Method Prof. Michael Scott (Oregon State)
2.15-2.45 Panos Galanis (UC Berkeley)
3.00-3.30 State of the Practice of Nonlinear Response History Analysis
Dr. Mahmoud Hachem (Degenkolb)
3.30-4.00 OpenSees in Practice Soil Structure Interaction Dr. Arash Khosravifar (Fugro)
4.00-4.30 Parametric Analysis of Wind Load Effects on PV Solar Roof Bearing Arrays
Rod Holland (Sunlink)
Dr. Andreas Schellenberg (R&C)
4.30-5.00 Using Performance-Based Earthquake Evaluation Methods to Assess the
Relative Benefits of Different Structural Systems
Dr. Vesna Terzic (UC Berkeley)
5.00-5.15 OpenSees Challenge 2012
Presentations from those in reaseach and industry on how OpenSees is being used to model and how it is being extended with new code to improve simulation capabilities. Anyone interested in presenting is required to submit a short abstract to: fmckenna AT berkeley DOT edu before July 1, 2012.
The Workshops will be held at the UC Berkeley Field Station, an off-campus facility at:
1301 South 46th Street, Richmond, CA.
For driving directions see below.
Arrangements have been made with the Hotel Shattuck Plaza (http://www.hotelshattuckplaza.com/) at 2086 Allston Way in downtown Berkeley to provide rooms for workshop participants at a discounted rate (in collaboration with the PEER Center). You can book a room in two ways:
1. Call the Hotel Shattuck at 510-845-7300 (or toll free 866-466-9199) and ask for the PEER (Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Ctr, UCB) group rate.
2. Book online at: https://booking.ihotelier.com/istay/istay.jsp?hotelid=17233 IMPORTANT: To get the group rate you will need to click on the Corporate/Preferred Accounts option at the top left hand side of the page. This will prompt you to enter the courtesy rate code (PEER10). Once the code is entered, the discounted rates and the available room types for the selected dates will be displayed.
For those driving, there are no hotels in the proximity of the richmond field station. The following is the closest and parking is free:
DoubleTree Hotel, Berkeley Marina
For transportation from the Berkeley campus and adjacent downtown area (where many hotels are located) to the Richmond Field Station, your best bets are drive, take a taxi, or take the UC Berkeley "RFS Line" shuttle.
• Driving.
• First enter the gate, when the road takes a turn to the left, go straight and park in the parking lot at the end of the building that is on the right hand side.
When & Where
1301 South 46th Street
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 8:00 AM - Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM (PDT)
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I don't know much about processors, and I want to be able to run the new battlefield 3 game on high
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And im running vista home basic 64-bit..
Now after trying the battlefield 3 beta I was obviously disappointed in my computer not being able to run it very well at all, SO i decided i probably should upgrade my processor. I ordered the i5 650 @ 3.2GHz, now i didn't put down a deposit on this so I'm not obligated to buy it haha but I just wanted to know if you guys think I would be able to run things on high, or is it necessary to get an even better processor?
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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- A massive brawl broke out overnight in Schenectady involving nearly 100 people. Schenectady police say the fight broke out on North Broadway at Club XI eleven.
Quentin Blunt, 33, was stabbed in the back inside the club. He was taken to Albany Med for treatment.
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It's just very puzzling, how can Sharp allow this to happen during this crucial ...
It's still on. But Sharp reportedly has had problems in manufacturing its IGZO ...
Sharp, dulled by losses, running out of options
Junko Yoshida
NEW YORK -- Weighted down by an expected annual loss estimated at $5.6 billion, embattled Sharp Corp. warned that it may not be able to survive as an independent company.
Sharp is now forecasting a full-year net loss totaling 450 billion yen ($5.6 billion). In August, it had projected a 250 yen billion loss for the year.
After announcing a massive quarterly loss on Thursday (Nov. 1), the company cited "serious negative operating cash flow," underscoring growing concerns about its ability to survive as an independent company.
The latest results underscore the harsh reality faced by the 100-year-old Japanese company left with with few options.
Despite asset sales along with job and pay cuts, Sharp continues to struggle. It secured a 360 billion yen ($4.64 billion) syndicated loan from Japanese banks last month. The loan, scheduled to run until June 30, 2013, provides short-term relief as the company looks for other way to survive.
But time is running short. In August, Standard & Poor's cut Sharp's credit rating to junk status. That followed huge quarterly losses by the former Japanese consumer electronics giant.
"Sharp's liquidity position has weakened, and the company is highly dependent on short-term borrowings in light of weak internal cash flow and a less favorable funding environment," the ratings agency said.
Few options
Sharp could swallow its pride and give in to the terms and conditions demanded by Terry Gou, chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn, making the Taiwan-based group Sharp's biggest shareholder.
Next: Sharp-Hon Hai deal?
It is due to a number of write-offs the company had to make.
In the first half of the current fiscal year alone (April to September, 2012), Sharp said it made a net loss of 387.5 billion yen as a result of rising restructuring costs and falling demand for LCD televisions.
It booked 84.4 billion yen of extraordinary charges as it wrote off the value of surplus display inventory and pulled out of solar panel manufacturing.
It also wrote off 61 billion yen of so-called deferred tax assets – corporate-tax credits it could redeem if it returned to profit. But that's a prospect that doesn't look good for now.
thank you Junko, that makes sense, it was not an operational loss...still their prospects look bleak
Maybe the firm needs to just focus in on just a few of its more profitable business units and sell of the rest. That way it could stay independent, and run leaner and meaner. Easy to say, tough to do, I know... but it's not like the company doesn't have a choice.
I agree Sylvie... but it is hard to do in Japan, much easier would be in US
If Sharp gets rid of its LCD operation, there is really nothing left.
It's got solar, but that's tanking -- everywhere in the world.
Presumably, Sharp could focus on small-screen LCDs for mobile. But then, again, that's a very competitive market.
The fact that it makes harder for a Japanese company to make a huge change, as discussed in the thread here, is the following. Japanese companies, in general, are not in the habit of ruthlessly cutting employees at the first sign of decline in any given quarter.
They won't act fast.
But to their credit, Japanese companies are much more paternalistic. They see themselves socially responsible for taking care of their employees.
Being socially responsible is actually making lots of sense for me...we tend to dump engineers in North America at every sign of biz weakness...good for companies, perhaps, not so good for the society at large...kris
I agree, Kris.
I feel ambivalent every time when I report on quarterly results.
But those are the early warning signs no companies should take it lightly, and they should come up with a strategy -- quickly.
If Sharp runs themselves into ground, then, there will be no Sharp and no place to work!
It's still on. But Sharp reportedly has had problems in manufacturing its IGZO panels, which led to a substantial delay in delivery. Plesae read the story here:
It's just very puzzling, how can Sharp allow this to happen during this crucial time since the survival of this company is at stake..(??)
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"By the time you saw the headlights of the Pontiac come over the other side of that knoll, it was maybe two seconds before the cars crashed," said Hart. The Pontiac looked like it had just started to veer to the right when they hit head on and came to a complete stop."
Hart said the back side of the Cutlass lifted off the ground a quite a few feet and its front end was completely crumpled.
"It looked like the back end of that car passed the front end. The car was bent like an L and the back end was raised so you could see the gas tank and the shock absorbers," he said.
Hart said his wife and the people from the cars behind him and the single car in front of him got out and tried to render assistance to the victims, while he called 911. He said his wife and others checked for pulses of the man in the Cutlass and the women in the Pontiac and there were none.
"There was just complete silence, no moans not a sound," he said.
Hart said he was driving at 55 mph and he was about four car lengths behind the car in front of him, when the Cutlass accelerated passed him in the southbound lane at a high rate of speed. He said he applied his brakes to give the speeding car more space to move back into the northbound lane.
"He had plenty of room to get back over and it was like he had to pass that one car in front of me. I said, 'please Jesus, please Jesus, don't let anyone be coming the other way on the other side of that knoll,' and that's when the crash happened."
Hart said the male driver of the was on the floorboard of the crumpled Cutlass. He said he saw four females in the Pontiac not making any noise. He said one seemed like she was gasping for breath, but not making any noise.
Hart said the state trooper at the scene told him there were five dead and two injured. Hart said he did not see the two others among the mangled wreckage. He said rescue workers had to use the jaws of life to try and extricate the victims from the wreckage.
Troup County Coroner Jeff Cook confirmed that there are five fatalities. The identities of the victims have not been released, pending notification of next of kin.
GSP troopers were still investigating the scene of the wreck into the and West Point Road has been reopened.
Please check back with lagrangenews.com over the weekend for further updates to this story and pick up Monday's edition of the LaGrange Daily News for a full report.


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In my previous post on the Volcker Rule, I admittedly glossed over the real issue in my second prediction. This issue is important, but it's also reasonably complex (way too complex for some people, I suspect), and it requires some context and explanation to fully appreciate.
The statutory text of the Volcker Rule contained a glaring flaw: the statute prohibited proprietary trading by basically defining everything as "proprietary trading," and then carving out exemptions for everything else. This was a colossal mistake for a variety of reasons, but the most important reason is that rather than having the regulators simply define "proprietary trading," it put the regulators in the position of having to define every form of legitimate trading that banks do — underwriting, market-making, hedging, etc. Obviously, that's a much, much more difficult task, and one that's significantly more likely to lead to problems due to gaps — whether intended or unintended — in the proposed rule's exemptions. It's hardly a targeted solution to the problem of government-backed prop trading, to say the least. (I imagine the ultimate blame for this lies with someone in the Legislative Counsel's office, although Merkley and Levin's offices bear some blame here too, as they were clearly in way over their heads during this entire process.)
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The upshot of this is that it creates a presumption that all trades are prohibited prop trades, unless proven otherwise. What the banks want to do is to flip the presumption — instead of regulators scrutinizing whether each trade falls into one of the nine "permitted avtivities" exemptions, regulators would be scrutinzing whether each trade is a prohibited prop trade.
Whether flipping the presumption would dilute the strength of the ban on prop trading depends entirely on the quantitative and qualitative metrics that regulators ultimately use to identify prohibited prop trades. The right metrics would appropriately identify prohibited prop trades, while the wrong metrics could either identify too many trades as prop trades, or too few. But that's where the debate would shift — or rather, should shift — if the regulators flipped the presumption. (The metrics described in the proposed Volcker Rule would, if anything, be overinclusive, and would require the regulators to apply some judgment to flagged trades — which I think is appropriate.)
Now, regulators only have so much discretion here. The statute is the statute, and flawed though it may be, regulators still have to work within its confines. But there are ways to effectively flip the presumption.
One way to do this is to define the main exemptions (market-making, hedging, and underwriting) very broadly, but include a carve-out for trades done for the "trading account" — which is, bizarrely, where the real definition of proprietary trading is located in the statute. The effect of this would be to allow regulators to focus on whether a bank's trades exhibit the characteristics of trades done for the "trading account" (i.e., prop trades), based on the quantitative and qualitative metrics the regulators have identified, rather than focusing on whether each trade can fit into one of the defined exemptions. In other words, the presumption would be that a trade falls into the market-making or hedging exemptions, unless the regulators believe otherwise.
This is basically what I predicted the regulators would do in my previous post — although, crucially, I limited my prediction to the market-making exemption, and I said that the regulators would make this an "alternative" market-making test. A broader market-making exemption with a metrics-heavy carve-out for prohibited prop trading would go a long way toward: (a) alleviating concerns about the Volcker Rule's impact on market-making without necessarily diluting the prop trading ban; and (b) making the regulators' task a lot less daunting, and a lot less likely to cause unforeseen and unintended disruptions to the financial markets.
29 comments:
- Rick Damaini said...
Instead of all these contortions, why can't we just reinstate Glass - Steagall?
- March 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
Amen. Banks should be banks, not trading houses, and bankers should be bankers, not traders. Bankers should cease speculation with depositors money, and divest any trading operaion to the vagaries of the market.
- March 5, 2012 at 6:06 PM
- James Wade said...
We now know that there was a very good reason for separating retail banking from investment (or"merchant") banking. Taxpayers took it on the chin. Now the big "financial institutions" (far grander and more toxic than any mere "bank") want to, and are doing, more and more of the same. The Volker Rule will cause them a certain amount of inconvenience, but in the long run, since they have favored access to the best Congress that money can buy, they will avidly pursue self-interested trading and profit. "Stakeholders" and customers will take what crumbs they are thrown.
- March 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM
- Conscience of a Conservative said...
The Banks know exactly what is proprietary trading and what isn't. Paul Volcker stated this from the beginning, and all reasonable people know this. The regulation fails in that it's attempting to be too precise which can only be to the advantage of those gaming the rules.
- March 6, 2012 at 9:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
While the point is well taken, I am not at all clear as to the utility of this post at this point.
Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, SEC and OCC have jointly promulgated their proposed Volcker Rule. That was more than a month ago, and comments have been coming from all directions.
Most notably, the comment letter filed by Occupy the SEC, in a 325-page missive, addresses this and many other, equally, if not more, urgent issues. Annexure B to the comment letter even lists suggested changes. - March 6, 2012 at 10:00 AM
- AHodge said...
heres my simple long held view.
maybe fits with "flipping"
You will finally have to define narrow banking by what it is. Maybe banks making loans and holding them and running the payments system. they then are the only ones to get discount window deposit insurance early non resolution help etc.
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screw up or breach marked accounting limits and you get resolved"
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- Anonymous said...
all of these comments make me sad with how stupid people are.
and the poster who mentions the occupy sec 325 page letter? It has some of the dumbest most toxic thoughts of all.
Perhaps you all should seek a deeper understanding of the finance world before you all spew around your worthless uneducated comments.
Reg Reform is a good thing and was needed. Shot-gun wedding reg reform is not. - March 6, 2012 at 11:13 PM
- Fusion said...
I don't think that the Occupy SEC letter is "stupid." Did Anonymous bother to read it before reviling it as containing "some of the dumbest most toxic thoughts of all" ?
Exactly what in the letter's content is dumb and toxic?
Its annoying when people pour out condescension on those with whom they disagree but fail to identify the errors in the opposing party's argument. Dear Anonymous: consider reading the Occupy SEC letter. Maybe then you can tell us why you find it so toxic. On the other hand, you might find many points on which you agree with them. You'll never know unless you read it. - April 2, 2012 at 10:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
I actually have read the entire paper from start to finish as well the dozens to hundreds of other comment letters on the proposed rules. Most comment letters are a couple of pages in length and fairly straight to the point... versus 325 pages!!!
When commenting on a rule in question, comment on the rule in question. Don't use 325 pages to bitch about the financial system as a whole and things that don't even pertain to the very specific detailed rule you are commenting on.
I would happily discuss why many of the points are toxic but frankly I think that there a limit on how long these posts can be.
If you don't work in the industry on a day to day basis I find it laughable that people think that they can add value to it when they know NOTHING about it.
I find it very much similar to:
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Reading through comments and hearing wrong they are about Repo, reserve ratios etc is just painful and frustrating.
Finally as it pertains to specifics points, reading it once was painful enough.. if they had half a bit of intelligence and typed up something that was palatable I would happily re-read and tell you why they are so fucking stupid and misguided in their thoughts - April 3, 2012 at 10:59 PM
- Fusion said...
Exactly what is so toxic in Occupy SEC's letter. If you have read, as you claim you have, please identify and specify what is toxic. Exactly what idea have they proposed that has upset you so much?
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- Mike Spooner said...
Defining the rules in the "everything is disallowed unless and until we say otherwise" manner may have been done to prevent future, as yet undesigned and undeveloped trading activities, from being allowed until due consideration could be given to them. Admittedly, such rules could end up being (temporarily) more restrictive than absolutely necessary, but at least are much more future-proof.
If the rules merely explicitly disallowed an explicitly enumerated set of *specific* patterns of trading, then those organisations that wanted to avoid all restrictions could concievably invent new trade structures to circumvent the restrictions - not a good outcome.
Perhaps Congress was just opting for the lesser of two evils... - August 13, 2012 at 9:27 AM
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As a community project, they have been working on these additional classrooms for a while now. The opportunity that comes with this new structure is huge—as they will secure more teachers and funding from the local government. Communities show their commitment to Hug It Forward by stuffing ¾ of the bottles needed before breaking ground on the bottle school. Volunteers arrive on site to pitch in and show support, not to do the community's work for them. A two classroom project requires 6,500 bottles—this meant collecting bottles and stuffing them for weeks ahead of our trip. One person can stuff about 2 bottles per hour, as they need to be very densely compacted into "Eco Bricks" that become the wall's insulation material. One of the school's classrooms was entirely filled up with bags of the bottles—Eco Bricks ready for us to start tethering into place. At our welcome ceremony, parents and the school's principal shared with us how much the project meant to them and to their children's future, hammering home the magnitude of a project like this.
During our stay, we enjoyed meeting some of the neighboring households. Hug It Forward makes an effort to share community ties with visiting groups to provide context to the visit. Aside from seeing some daily activities of tortilla-making and intricate weaving done by the women, we also had some topics that provided overall understanding of the experience of poverty many Guatemalans face, daily. One man shared his story about migrating to New Jersey in order to improve his family's quality of life, as well as what it was like returning back to his community and home in El Retiro. We were also introduced to an elder in the community who recounted firsthand some of the atrocities he and the people of his village experienced in the Civil War that raged 36 years through Guatemala's history. His stories are still unspeakable to many in his family; one of the most striking moments of the trip was his recollections of daily terror in the very hillsides we had earlier been planting trees in with the students, the grandchildren of his devastated generation.
The group of LUSH employees was about as vast and varied as the colorful offerings in an Antiqua marketplace—but all of us were united by the opportunity to represent LUSH in action. In our daily work back home, we all interact with Charity Pot in a different aspect of its supply chain. Every LUSH team does something to bring the product and the projects it supports to life. This starts with finding beautiful, fairly-traded ingredients. Fresh batches of the product are handmade and then shipped all over the continent, into shops and available on-line. Gifts like "My Fair Lady" are wrapped with special sizes of Charity Pot, and packed by hand. Window displays and shop feature tables are created, Charity Pot is written about, tweeted about, and webinars are hosted to further involve staff in the Charity Pot process. Retail Staff massage the product into hands and share the causes that are meaningful to them.
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Turkey Stops Tour Bus
By: Ben Manning
Updated: February 24, 2013
It happened Saturday afternoon near Worthington, Pennsylvania. About 45 people were on the bus heading back to Chicago after a ministry conference at IUP. The turkey slammed head on into the windshield, causing the bus to crash.
None of the passengers were hurt, but the driver was hit in the face by glass fragments.
The bus driver was able to get the bus off the side of the road. And he waited on scene for another bus to pick up his passengers before going to the hospital.


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The Off Season Chronicles – Mascots
Lets be honest…most of the stuff they are talking about on any rugby league related website right now is just junk. Players complaining about not getting paid enough, shoulder charges being banned, the return of Sonny Bill, the loss of Folau…its all just the same old boring crap. So instead of going on and on about that stuff, I would like to do something a little bit different. I want to talk about the current roster of team mascots…(wait before you close the explorer page…I promise to make you laugh just once. It will be worth it)
The Battle For The Bottom
Its become increasingly clear that nobody cares who will win the minor premiership as much as which of the teams currently located from 8-14 will be playing finals football. Its a crazy race mid table and I thought it would be fun to investigate who has the potential to be a top 8 team and who doesn't.
The 2012 June Report – Part 1
At the start of the year I made some predictions of where I thought teams would end up at the end of Round 26. Well its Round 16 and…
My predictions for the 2012 Ladder | Actual 2012 Ladder | |
1 | Storm | Storm |
2 | Tigers | Bulldogs |
3 | Sea Eagles | Broncos |
4 | Knights | Sharks |
5 | Bulldogs | Cowboys |
6 | Cowboys | Sea Eagles |
7 | Dragons | Rabbitohs |
8 | Broncos | Tigers |
9 | Rabbitohs | Warriors |
10 | Warriors | Dragons |
11 | Panthers | Titans |
12 | Roosters | Knights |
13 | Sharks | Raiders |
14 | Eels | Roosters |
15 | Titans | Panthers |
16 | Raiders | Eels |
Yep, so far 1 from 16 which is terrible! Still 10 rounds of footy left before it matters just how terrible I go in this years 'footy footy footy' table tipping comp. Anyway…its time for an article I've named 'The June Report". If you didnt catch last years article it looked something like this – but to sum it up I use movie quotes to describe how good/bad the teams are doing in 2012. This year I thought I would lighten the mood and do something funny. Before we begin please watch this…"THAT'S AWESOME". Thats right…its time to kick it Old School. So Part 1 will cover all of the bottom 8 teams and Part 2 will finish up with the top of the table. Lets get into it. Starting with…
Mitch Martin: "True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend…"
Yes, it was love at first sight when the management team were watching the tail end of the 2011 season and seeing all the good things that Chris Sandow was doing for South Sydney. They imagined the love Sandow and Hanyne could make on the football field. The intense romance that their big forwards would find with Crissy stirring the ship or the relationship he could have with those speedy wingers name Willie and Esi.
Yet it seems it wasn't meant to be. Sandow is a shell of the player he was this time last year. His defence got WORSE (if thats possible), he doesnt control the game at all, he never gets the ball to Hayne early and his forwards are lucky to be given a reasonable pass. What seemed like love was really just lust.
Frank: A little housewarming gift.
Mitch: I actually gave this to you for your wedding.
Frank: This model?
Mitch: That exact one
Am I only person that remembers how Gus Gould "helped" South Sydney when they where re-instated in 2002? I must be because every single Panthers fan was so pumped about him joining the club. Never mention they fact that after basically putting Souths into more debt he just took off – thanks Phil.Now he is doing the same thing at Penrith and his excuse is that they 'are trying to fight a code war in Western Sydney' – comon!!
Penrith have had glimpses of being a rugby league team this year but they can't seem to string together 80 mins of footy. It probably doesn't help that this year they have lost one of their best players in Michael Gordon (signed with the Sharks), told there BEST player he wasn't allowed to be Captain anymore (Luke Lewis) and pushed their best attacking weapon into NSW Cup (Michael Jennings).
Yet does any of that have to do with the war between AFL and NRL? NO WAY – It's just bad management!
Frank: "Honey, you think KFC is still open?"
Sorry…Roosters…Chicken…it was the best I could do and I had to have this quote in. I'll be very careful here because there is a very vocal friend of mine who is on the Roosters Protection Warpath this year. This basically involves rubbing a Roosters victory/Souths loss in Rabbitohs fans faces. So here goes…
The Roosters are exactly the side I thought they would be this year. They really needed a big signing this year and it never came. They lost Perrett *cough who cares* but there still a piece of the puzzle missing. Sometimes I watch them play and think they could be a semi finals team. Then the 2nd half will start and they will leak 20 points like its nothing. This shows when you consider they are 3rd in Points Against. They need to tighten up defensively and move Braith out of the number 6 jersey…gosh when will Smith realise he is a backrower…anywhooo. I stand by my prediction of 12th for the Roosters in 2012…so JB.
Beanie: Whose life is ruined?
Mitch: Let's see. Blue's dead. Frank's divorced. I've lost my house. Nicole thinks I'm a total jackass. And we got nine kids who are gonna get expelled from school and you're not even gonna help them out.
At the start of the year I stated that Canberra are not a top 8 side. You can't win a competition when your two best players (Josh Dugan and Terry Campese) are always injured. It's a model for disaster and yet Canberra have learned nothing after two years of the same stuff happening. I continue to dry retch when people talk about the Raiders playing semi finals football when there coach and CEO (who are brothers by the way) continue to have a different focus. They are just a mess of a football team.
Speaking of a mess of a football team…
Jerry: "What sort of actual association will you have with the university? "
Beanie: "Well, legally speaking, there will be a loose affiliation. But, we will give nothing back to the academic community. As well as provide no public service of any kind. This much I promise you."
Want to talk about terrible buys this season? Nathan Tinkler got the worst buy for sure. Newcastle are currently travelling worse than they where this time last year (Rick Fox giggles). Bennett seems disinterested (more so for him anyway), Darius just isn't there, Gidley is injured (no surprise), Uate can't catch the ball, Tahu is 'Tahu" and Newcastle dont even look like a top 8 side.
Run while you still can Nathan…they will stone you in Newcastle if you don't bring them some glory.
Beanie: "Frank here was staring at a white picket fence. Now he's single, he's broke, and has second-degree burns all over his body. And I see a spark in his eye that I haven't seen in fifteen years."
I was pretty mean to the Titans at the start of the year. I laughed at the chance of them being in the 8 at seasons end. They needed to buy a 5/8 after Mat Rogers retirement (wait is he still retired or just permanently injured?) and instead they purchased two centres and lock/second rower. Add this to their financial troubles and you have land slide rugby league club.
That being said I think the Titans are actually turning it around. Maybe not to make semi finals football but enough to scare a few teams into thinking they are. I really like Aiden Sezer who is potentially the future of the club and Scott Prince hasn't being doing stupid brain snap stuff as regularly as he did at the start of the season. I think things are looking sunnier up in the Gold Coast.
Marissa: That's really, loud.
Frank: Yeah, thanks. Took the restrictor plate off to give the Red Dragon a little more juice. But it's not exactly street legal, so keep it on the down low.
[waving to a neighbor]
Frank: Hey Mike!
Jules (the trivia host at the Petersham Inn) is a huge Dragons fan. He asked me a good question the other day saying:
"If the powers that be said that your team were given a premiership at the cost of sucking for 2 years, would you take it?"
I said hands down I would ride that bad boy all the way to Chalmers Street!!
Its funny because the Dragons have been a juggernaut in the last 3 years and yet coming into this season they where glossed over to make the top 8. Sure it doesnt help that they lost a few players and a superstar coach but did that mean they werent even going to contend when the core of their squad was still present? I think its very foolish to right off the Dragons just yet.
To put it into perspective…this week the Dragons play Canberra (should be an easy win), then they have the BYE, then they play Cronulla (a team just begging to fall from grace) and then South Sydney (whom they only lost to in Golden Point last time). They win all those matches and the Dragons are a top 8 team. Don't give up hope just yet Dragons fans.
Frank: I had an awesome time!
Beanie: I know that you had an awesome time. I think the entire town knows you had an awesome time.
The Warriors were living off that 'awesome' time last season when they sneaked into the Grand Finals. Everybody had them either winning the competition or making a strong case to do so in 2012…well havent things changed.
Watching the Warriors play can be like playing spin the bottle…only one of the girls is your cousin and the other is Erin McNaught. You could end up playing the best game EVER or you could end up in a really really bad situation. That is because the Warriors are the ultimate rocks and diamonds team. They could show up and play fantastic second phase football, hell they nearly beat Melbourne playing that way. Other times they will show up and play park footy at best.
One thing I wont do here is speculate where they will end up because you just never know. They are a streaky team and one 3 game winning streak will see them in the finals…so I just hope for the Warriors fans sake that we all end up in a serious make out session with Miss McNaught.
Thats it for the bottom 8 teams. Stayed tuned for Part 2 coming out very soon.
Sporting Heartache
Heart break is a funny thing. I mean we've all got a story that could define a heart breaking moment for us. Sometimes these things are gone in a day and others stay with you for what feels like an eternity. In the sporting realm heartbreak comes in many shapes and forms. It could be an injury to a key player or it could be that crushing defeat from a formidable rival. Maybe thats why we all love sport so much…in sport we all bear witness to the same heart wrenching stories and its something that can be shared. That being said though Sporting Heartache can be cured using a simple 5 word remedy…"there is always next season".
Before We Turn The Lights Off
The 2011 rugby league season only increased my love and passion for the sport, if that's at all possible. As a fan I struggled to watch my team sit outside of the top tier…but as Editor-in-chief of the 'On the Try Line' the biggest struggle came every week. Having to come up with new stories and ideas that would actually get you reading was often time consuming, occasionally annoying, rarely useful but most of the time it was fun to do.


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Kriya Yoga meditation derives from an ancient Indian tradition, revived in the nineteenth century by the Indian Yogi Mahavatar Babaji. Despite its huge growth in popularity in the West and the attendant growth in numbers of teachers, many Gurus claim direct student-teacher lineage back to the students of Babaji. Its goals are to achieve inner tranquility and spiritual union with the divine. Its methods are similar to many other yoga systems, using breathing in particular as a means of achieving self-control. This technique of breathing and energy control is known as Pranayama, and has been linked to medical benefits including asthma and stress relief.
Kriya meditation is a strictly disciplined form of meditation, intended to become a regular habit within daily life. Adherents believe it must be practiced regularly and carefully, and often under the supervision of a teacher, in order to build up the required levels of focus and concentration. Teaching is generally one-to-one, in the guru-student tradition of the art.
The meditation itself is practiced in the dark, away from any direct light – even that of a candle. Any outside sensation is merely a distraction that takes away from the practitioners chances of achieving truly deep meditation – contrary to popular images of the guru meditating under a tree or by a river! Meditation is practiced sitting, on a cushion, or even a block of wood – the aim is not to get too comfortable and doze off, but to actively seek out inner calm and silence.
The Pranayama breathing techniques are designed to focus the mind on the here and now. The student sits comfortably, back erect and straight, focusing on the area between their eyebrows (the so-called "spiritual-eye, a center of spiritual power). They then begin to inhale and exhale slowly, mentally saying Hong as the breath is taken in, and Sau as it is breathed out. Together, the phrase Hong-Sau means "I am Spirit". Gradually, more and more attention is focused on the breath, trying to feel it higher and higher in the nose as it is breathed in. As the mind becomes calmer and more focused, it begins to relax, and the amount of breath diminishes, creating a deeper meditative state. The student is encouraged to constantly refocus their mind on the breathing, not allowing their thoughts to wander too far. The meditation ends by simply sitting for a few minutes to experience the deeply relaxed and meditative state.
Deeper levels of the Kriya yoga are revealed to practitioners only. Masters of the art claim that a person must be prepared for the profoundly life-changing effects of Kriya, or they will not be able to handle it. Someone seeking these effects must therefore build up a daily meditation habit – some masters will not take students before they have spent a year building up their meditation and concentration skills. While the teachers are not jealous of their positions – many recognize the validity of other paths – they certainly guard the secrets of their art from the uninitiated. Perhaps this is just as well – it is said that Paramhansa Yogandana (the man who popularized Kriya in the West) practiced this for hours on end as a boy, at the end of which he was left in a higher state, with no breath at all!
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www.encognitive.com MEDITATION MUSIC – Feng Shui- Kokin Gumi – Zen Garden A Japanese rock garden (枯山水, karesansui?), sometimes mistakenly called a Zen garden, is an enclosed shallow sandpit containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass and other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water. Plants are much less important (and sometimes nonexistent) in many karesansui gardens. Karesansui gardens are often, but not always, meant to be viewed from a single, seated position. Some Westerners believe that karesansui gardens can be used to calm human minds, but they were not intended for such in their native Japanese settings. en.wikipedia.org
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Plants & Fungi from Kew
Kew's international work helps to discover and describe the world's plant and fungal diversity, conserve plants and habitats, promote the sustainable use of plants, and inspire an appreciation of plants and the environment.
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New initiative to protect UK trees
Kew's Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) has established the country's first national collection of tree seeds – the UK National Tree Seed Project.
Seeds from the UK's best loved and most vulnerable trees and shrubs will be collected and protected in long-term storage in the vaults of the MSB at Wakehurst Place in Sussex.
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A priority list of 50 trees and shrubs will initially be targeted for collection, including:
- Fraxinus excelsior (European ash) - currently under threat from ash dieback.
- Taxus baccata (yew) - a native conifer rich in myths, legends and folklore.
- Fagus sylvatica (common beech) - vulnerable to an invasive pathogen causing bleeding cankers.
- Betula pendula (silver birch) - betulinic acid from the bark has shown activity against cancerous cells and HIV.
Adopt a seed - sword lily
Sword lily (Gladiolus dzhavakheticus) is known from only a very few locations in Georgia and Armenia.
This eye-catching plant grows on sub-alpine meadows which are intensively used as hay meadows, an activity which threatens sword lily populations and reduces the chance of reproducing by seed.
Sword lily (Image: David Kikodze, Tbilisi Botanical Garden and Institute of Botany)
You can help Kew's Millennium Seed Bank save plant species at risk of extinction by adopting a seed.
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New Tropical Carnivorous Zone
Opening for spring 2013, Kew's new Tropical Carnivorous Zone can be found in the Princess of Wales Conservatory.
The display features carnivorous pitcher plants Nepenthes truncata, N. rafflesiana, the 'fanged' N. bicalcarata, N. vietchii and the recently described N. robcantleyi, which has been displayed at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The zone also features elephant yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), voodoo lily (A. variabilis) and a new hybrid at Kew A. decus-silvae × gigas, plus a range of epiphytic ferns and orchids including Bulbophyllum species.
DNA Bank celebrates 20th anniversary
Experts from Kew talk about the significance of DNA research and how it's revolutionised the way we understand plants today.
Kew's DNA Bank safeguards more than 42,000 samples of wild plant DNA, representing some 34,000 plant species. Over the years it has helped to revolutionise how scientists approach botany.
Around 2,000 requests for DNA Bank material are now handled every year. Samples are used by researchers worldwide to further plant research and conservation.
Samples in Kew's DNA Bank include species that are now extinct – for example DNA from the last known plant of St Helena olive.
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Celebrating the launch of JSTOR Global Plants
by: Kat Harrington, Library, Art and Archives blog24 May 2013
Kew's unique Directors' Correspondence collection is being made available digitally through a new collaborative website, JSTOR Global Plants.
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Mapping Coffee in Ethiopia part two
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Kew photographer Paul Little has just returned from accompanying a field trip to the Highlands of Ethiopia to research the impact of climate change on the vital coffee crop. Read part two of his diary of the trip.
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Seed collecting on Mount Kilimanjaro
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Kew Gardens botanist Emma Williams recounts her experiences on a recent seed collecting expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
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Observations on a strange vegetable - the snake gourd
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He may be a Seed Morphologist but Wolfgang Stuppy of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank discovers there is more to the snake gourd than just some strange fruit and eccentric seeds.
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Directors' Correspondence Digitisation Team
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Meet the Library Arts and Archives Digitisation Team and find out what they do.
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Every species counts
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Two new completed publications reveal just why every species matters to the health of our planet, and why we need to change our perception of their 'usefulness'.
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IMA offers 'thank you' for arts sake | Letters
November 6, 2012 · Updated 3:31 PM
The Islands Museum of Art thanks everyone who donated to Art K-12 education through the San Juan Island Community Foundation's matching grant program. The Community Foundation increased your donations by a 50 percent match, helping us reach our fund-raising goal.
These funds are being used in a collaborative effort with the San Juan Island School District to maintain art education at Friday Harbor Middle School and to expand the Art Enrichment program at the elementary school.
Art education helps our students develop the visual literacy, problem solving and critical thinking skills needed to succeed and thrive in their careers and lives.
This K-12 program is also supported by grants and funding from the Friday Harbor Elementary School PTA and the Washington State Arts Commission.
We thank these organization for their support as well.
Bo Turnage / Friday Harbor; President Islands Museum of Art
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Screening and intervention of diabetes mellitus in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in poverty zones in China: Rationale and study design
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice,
Wang Q et al. – To the knowledge, this is the first and largest study which focuses on the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in China. The authors hypothesize that the current prevalence of DM in PTB in China will be understood and the results of the study will provide important evidence for preventing and controlling DM and PTB.


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An OpenGL-accelerated desktop with Xgl and Compiz
A member of Suse's X11 team delivers an insider's look at Xgl.
Mac fans were ecstatic when Apple introduced the Quartz Extreme [1] graphics interface, which accelerated desktop effects using 3D hardware. Microsoft's Windows Vista with its Aero technology looks to close this gap with the Mac. In the world of Linux, Xgl [2] now provides a comparable and even more advanced technology that supports similar effects. Xgl is an X Server by David Revemann that uses OpenGL to implement graphics output. When a program tells Xgl to draw a line, Xgl passes the vertices to the OpenGL subsystem, which then sends the matching commands to the graphics hardware. Despite this emphasis on OpenGL, Xgl also retains the protocol that existing applications use to talk to the X Server, removing the need to rewrite application programs.
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