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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The "too big to fail" money center banks and the large regional banks make up the 24 bank stocks in the PHLX KBW Banking Index (BKX).
The last time I profiled these banks was on Sept. 26 in Don't Bank on Bank Stocks, Just Trade Them and since then the BKX moved up to a potential double top at $52.04 on Oct. 5 vs. its 2012 high of $52.11 on Sept 14.
The sideways-to-down pattern since Oct. 5 has created negative technical divergences on both daily and weekly charts for several members of the BKX and for the BKX as an index. The BKX made significant gains of 52.3% since bottoming in October 2011, and is up 25.9% year to date.
Fundamentally www.ValuEngine.com shows the Finance sector 11.3% overvalued.The weekly chart for the BKX ended last week with declining momentum (12x3x3 weekly slow stochastic) reading of 78.28 down from 81.98 the prior week. This decline under 80 on a scale of 0 to 100 is a negative divergence. Last Friday's close at 49.25 was just below the five-week modified moving average at 49.50. This is a technical negative and a symptom of "QE Fatigue." Chart Courtesy of Thomson/Reuters The daily chart for the BKX (49.60) shows declining momentum with the BKX below its 21-day simple moving average at 50.33, is just above its 50-day SMA at 49.56 and is above its 200-day SMA at 46.76. My quarterly and annual value levels are 47.55 and 42.98 with monthly and weekly risky levels at 51.11 and 53.04.
The above table shows data from www.ValuEngine.com covering nine stocks in the BKX.
Reading the Table OV/UN Valued: The stocks with a red number are undervalued by this percentage. Those with a black number are overvalued by that percentage according to ValuEngine. VE Rating: A "1-Engine" rating is a Strong Sell, a "2-Engine" rating is a Sell, a "3-Engine" rating is a Hold, a "4-Engine" rating is a Buy and a "5-Engine" rating is a Strong Buy. Last 12-Month Return (%): Stocks with a Red number declined by that percentage over the last 12 months. Stocks with a black number increased by that percentage.
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Justin Otto of Top Side Lacrosse put together some AWESOME video highlights from the ULax NYC Box Lacrosse Championships this past weekend. And he did it so fast! Some great up action in these clips and we somehow managed to make it look pretty. Props to all the cameramen and Otto for his great work!
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this looks to be in the spirit of the original DK
Now do I sign up to steam purely for it?
EA steers angry customers away from reviewing games at Google Play « The Verge
Two-time "Worst Company In America" winner Electronic Arts isn't doing its publicity department any favours. The company's new freemium game Dungeon Keeper tricks frustrated players into leaving bad reviews on its own site, instead of on the Google Play Store, Gamasutra reports.
Here's exactly how the ruse plays out: Dungeon Keeper, like most mobile apps, prompts players every so often to give it a rating on the Google Play Store or App Store. In the Android version of the game, there are two possible outcomes when you get a rating prompt. If you choose five stars, you're gently nudged over to the Google Play Store to leave a review. If you choose between one and four stars, Dungeon Keeper pops up an email form where you can only send feedback to developer EA instead of publicly voicing your concerns. You can still, of course, manually visit the Google Play Store and leave a bad review, but in a world where the difference between a success or failure of an app often comes down to its reviews, EA is stacking the deck in its favor.
I think I am going to go for War for the Overworld :-)
Although I did start playing Dungeon Keeper on my Mac at home and stuck at the same old level as when I was a youngun.
The thing is, if they had release theme hospital like this, I don't think we would of minded so much, taking a day to build say the operating theatre, but a Day to dig in DK - HELL NO!!!!!
I want to get WFTO, but I think I'm going to wait. This is one of those games I know I'm going to absolutely hammer once it's out and I don't want to over-play it before it's completed.
As for this version of Dungeon Keeper? Blah. It can go and rot. Still haven't bought DK from Gog, but that's because there's apparently a lot of compatibility issues with Win7. Anyone bought it who can confirm if it works or not?
I have it running in DOSbox on a mac, so surely you can use DOSbox to run it within Windows 7. I can find the startup and mapping script used for it (on my home MacBook Pro so will have to be this evening), but it will need adapting for windows over a self-contained mac app. :-)
I was thinking the same thing about WFTO
Dungeon Keeper runs flawlessly in DOSBox. You may need to tweak the DOSBox ini to emulate a computer closer to what is appropriate for DK. If I recall, it was running a bit slow out of the (dos)box, so I had to increase the cycles and other settings to get it to run at a suitable speed.
Alternatively, run a virtual machine of Win95 or 98 and install it there.
DK II, however, has issues...
2:55 onwards gets odd "theirs that smell again" "my god its full of pies" "your minions crave chocolate"
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Does GoG support steam or do all games purchased there have normal downloads?
Only ask as I saw Hammerwatch there (Hammerwatch for download $1.59 - GOG.com) which is awesome, I got through steam, so didn't know if buying stuff there gives steam keys
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Employers across the region—from Indonesia to Thailand to Mongolia—are pointing out that those graduating from institutions of higher learning lack the skills needed to succeed in today's market These include communications, critical and creative thinking skills, teamwork abilities, command of foreign languages, and ICT skills.
These skills are needed more than ever to improve productivity and competitiveness, especially in the manufacturing sector, which is lagging in several countries, and to respond to the needs of the growing service sector Higher education has a critical function in supplying employees who have higher–level academic and technical skills, as well behavioral ones. Its inability to supply graduates with these skills may, therefore, have dramatic consequences on economic growth.
The country case studies, under development, are taking a closer look at how skills match up to labor market needs and how to make higher education more responsive to these needs. Policy reviews are complementing these studies to focus on critical policies for skills.
Indonesia Skill Report (Added July 21) In Indonesia, the past two decades have been a time of great progress but also massive transformations and abrupt setbacks. In this context, this report reviews the main characteristics of - and trends in - demand for skills in Indonesia, seeking to document the existence of a possible skills mismatch between employer demands and available supply and the contribution of the education and training sector to this mismatch, to finally aim at proposing measures to improve its responsiveness to what the labor market and the economy need. In today's job market in Indonesia, there appears to be a premium on theoretical and practical knowledge of the job. While skills do not appear to be yet among the most important constraints for the economy, the situation is different for larger more export-oriented manufacturing firms, and subjective assessments of difficulties of matching needs with available skills provide evidence that skills are becoming an issue overall in Indonesia. The widest gaps across professional profiles are for English and computer skills followed by thinking and behavioral skills. Theoretical and practical knowledge of the job are also considered to be weak. There are important gaps in creativity, computing and some technical skills for young workers. English remains the largest gap. Five general skill related priorities can be highlighted for Indonesia. First of all, the country needs to improve skill measurement to get a fuller understanding of skill needs and gaps. Second, it is urgent for Indonesia to address the still unsatisfactory quality and relevance of its formal education, including higher education. Third, the country needs to set-up multiple pathways for skill development. Fourth, the country needs to develop an integrated approach to tackle skill development for youth. Fifth, Indonesia should also tackle labor market constraints which affect the skill matching process.
Philippines Skill Report (Added July 21) This report investigates trends in skills demand and supply over the past two decades for insights into ways to build (and use) the critical skills needed to sustain competitiveness of the Philippines economy. Demand for skills is growing driven by the service sector. Beyond responding to the needs of the demand, adequate skills are central for improving the long-term innovation potential and competitiveness of the Philippines economy. There is a strong need for critical skills with focus on: a combination of job specific and generic skills, higher level skills applicable to the service sector, skills supporting a more competitive manufacturing sector. Unfortunately, many of these skills are under-provided: the economy is facing emerging skill gaps. Causes for emerging skill gaps are multiple, including reasons related to overall skill supply (quantity-quality) and labor market. Quality and relevance of education and training is the most preeminent constraint across the board, much more than overall quantity constraints. Weaknesses in skills include gaps in critical generic skills and, to a lesser extent, gaps in some job-specific/technical skills. Some of the skill gaps also have particularly strong implications for longer-term competitiveness and innovation. General policy recommendations include: more international benchmarking of institutions and students; strengthening generic, or life, skills in the curricula of all education and training levels; better articulation of the different pillars of the skill supply system; more flexibility in curriculum and academic decisions; support for closer linkages between post-secondary and tertiary education and industries; and improved quantity and quality of the information on the labor market.
Mongolia Policy Note Abstract (Added July 21) The rapid growth of Mongolia's higher education system has been fueled by the increased demand for higher skills in the labor market, leading to rising education premia. However, the increased supply of tertiary education graduates has failed to improve Mongolia's international competitiveness. As a result of rapid expansion, an inequitable financing mechanism, and insufficient quality assurance, Mongolia's tertiary education suffers from low external efficiency, inequitable access, and poor quality. Enhancing the quality of tertiary education along each of these dimensions will be essential to improving Mongolia's international competitiveness over the medium term. To do so requires making strategic choices, improving governance, and increasing investments in the system. This policy note offers a set of recommendations in order to help Mongolia's tertiary system to: (i) improve its coherence, governance, and responsiveness to the changing demands of the market economy; (ii) improve its efficiency and resource utilization; and (iii) improve the quality of its curricula, teaching, and learning.
Higher Education and Skills for the Labor Market in Cambodia Although Cambodia's higher education system has grown rapidly over the past five years, the emphasis has been weighted toward expanding the system vs. improving it—in terms of teaching quality, research capacity, and labor market responsiveness. As a result quality is at stake and skill gaps are emerging. Diversification remains paramount, say the study's authors, in a country where the economy is concentrated on just a few industries and where almost 50% of tertiary students are enrolled in business-related courses. It is also critical to ensure that higher education provides workers with the right set of analytical and decision-making skills. Other recommendations in the report include the development of a more comprehensive labor market information system to ensure, in part, that the skills gap begins to narrow.
Higher Education Institutions in Thailand and Malaysia – Can They Deliver? Despite a long history of higher education reforms, scarcity of skilled, competent employees continues to be one of the biggest policy concerns in Thailand and Malaysia. While enrollments are increasing, higher education institutions in both countries have to face the "market test" by improving the quality and relevance of their students. This comparative study of the higher education systems of Thailand and Malaysia explores the main higher education related skills gaps and mismatches. Several findings of interest have emerged:
Vietnam - Higher Education and Skills for Growth This paper explores the demand for and supply of higher education in Vietnam, by looking at trends and drivers of the demand for skills in the country and at the main constraints and challenges that the higher education systems faces in addressing this demand. The paper finds that the demand for skills has been increasing significantly in Vietnam, owing to a combination of inter-industry employment changes, capital accumulation and some evidence consistent with skill-biased technical change. Low R&D capacity, increasing evidence of skill bottlenecks and the still inequitable distribution of higher education opportunities, combined with broad institutional and financing constraints, suggest that the higher education system does not yet have the tools it needs to adapt to the growing and changing needs of an increasingly dynamic economy. To develop a first-class high-performing higher education system, Vietnam may consider pursuing a three-stage reform agenda to: Strengthen its framework for a competitive higher education system, help universities improve the relevance of decision making for emerging social and economic needs, and invest more in building a first-class higher education system.
Labor Market Outcomes of Higher Education in East Asia Current diagnostics on higher education and skills in East Asia show that higher education systems are not keeping up with the changing demands for skills, which contributes to the widening skill gaps among graduates and their lack of success in the job market. This paper focuses on the successes and failures in the job market of graduates, examining employment/unemployment/rates of return and job/industry profile, overall and across population groups. In addition, the study explores how the benefits of additional education vary by socioeconomic status. The paper uses data from various household and labor market surveys from individual countries in the region. The main findings of the paper highlight the diversity in labor market outcomes across the East Asia region. The lowest unemployment rates for university graduates are found in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand and the highest in the Philippines and Indonesia. Overall, youth unemployment rates exceeded those in the adult population, especially in Indonesia. A significant proportion of graduates in Vietnam, Thailand and Mongolia are employed in the Professional and Management occupations, whereas a significant proportion of graduates in Indonesia, Cambodia and to a certain extent in the Philippines, are employed in clerical occupations. Workers with post-graduate qualifications are more concentrated in high paying occupations. Finally, the assumption that graduates with higher socioeconomic background derive greater benefits in the job market generally holds true, with the exception of Vietnam. Clear evidence is found that the marginal "return" on schooling increases by both family income and the father's education. In other words, individuals from less privileged backgrounds benefit much less from more education.
East Asian Private Higher Education: Reality and Policy Private higher education accounts for 38.6 percent of higher education enrollment in East Asia. This is more than twice the raw enrollment in any other region, except for Latin America, and it continues to grow. This growth is a combination of private initiative and favorable public policy. Moreso than in other regions, the bulk of private higher education is "demand-absorbing": It emerges to absorb the rising demand for higher education because the demand exceeds the supply, and public supply cannot keep pace. Private higher education institutions, both nonprofit and for-profit, are crucial to access but can present problems of quality and transparency. At the same time, the most reputable of these institutions are productively tied to the labor market, show capacity for improvement and enhance diversification, choice and competition in higher education. They can also offer models for the public sector in market-oriented fields of study, entrepreneurial management, and efficiency. The extent and shape of government regulation is not easy to ascertain regionally. Often quite permissive policy has led to "delayed regulation", which has led to low quality. Here, caution is required because over-regulation can crimp innovation, competition, choice, and diversification. Too often, regulatory provisions (and accreditation) mirror those for the public sector or are even more demanding.
Governance of Higher Education in East Asia This paper offers an overview of trends in higher education governance in the East Asia, with a special focus on autonomy and accountability, and provides some policy recommendations based on international experience. Governments in the region have prioritized institutional reform in higher education so that they can build a more flexible and responsive system. Although significant inroads have been made in the past decade, reform still has a long way to go. Reform has been much more effective in high-income countries in the region, in particular, Japan and Singapore. Middle-income countries, including Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, began reform early but have been slow to push through reform. By contrast, low-income countries, particularly Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia, are at an early stage of reform and are only now considering options on how to decentralize the governance of their higher education systems. Evidence on outcomes remains rather weak and this is clearly the next priority area for research.


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The man fixing the morgue: Stephen Cina and his big project
BY NEIL STEINBERG email@example.com October 26, 2012 11:14PM
Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Stephen J. Cina is interviewed in his office on Thursday, October 25, 2012 in Chicago. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times
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Forget the high-tech world of TV pathologists. "Chicago CSI" this is not.
"We don't solve all our cases in 24 hours," said Dr. Stephen Cina, the new Cook County medical examiner. "We don't work exclusively with supermodels. I don't have a helicopter. We can't look at a body and say this body has been dead three days and six hours. If a pathologist ever does that, you need to arrest him, because it means he killed the person."
Indeed, the corpses that arrive at 2121 W. Harrison — every other hour of every single day, on average — are still being logged in by hand, and Cina's staff has fewer than half the doctors it needs, meaning any hope of regaining the accreditation it lost in 2011 is years away.
His predecessor, Dr. Nancy Jones, was pushed out over the summer after lax treatment of bodies at the morgue came to light, pausing on her way out the door to call her boss, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, "evil." But six weeks into the job, Cina is has only praise for his new employer —"President Preckwinkle's office wants me to do the right thing . . . she's a very squared-away, competent lady" — and he is optimistic about the future of the scandal-plagued office.
"I prefer to talk about things moving forward, rather than dwelling on the past, because I wasn't obviously here," he said.
By the time he arrived, the mess that splashed into the papers — bodies piled on floors slick with medical waste — had been tidied up.
"I was pleasantly surprised," he said. "I did not have to start from Ground Zero here. The president's administration had laid the groundwork."
In June, the Department of Labor cited the ME's office for 21 violations. Now they're down to two — a deteriorating shelving system in the cooler, and lack of a chemical waste management program. Cina said both will be corrected by December.
Meanwhile staff morale is high.
"The attitudes of the employees was also a pleasant surprise," Cina said. "You'd think with everything that's gone on, they would be demoralized. They certainly were tired," he said. "But the people had a surprisingly positive attitude. Just coming in here it was a lot of smiles. Some tired eyes, but lots of smiles. That made my transition a lot easier."
He expects that in one year the office will finally be fully-computerized, with bodies entered into a bar code system.
"We'll be able to track the bodies from the moment they come here," he said.
Not only will modernization help prevent backlogs — on Thursday there were 204 bodies in a morgue designed to hold 275 — but it will help authorities understand what is killing people.
"We'll be able to better serve the public health and identify trends," Cina. said "Let's say some very hot heroin is out on the streets. We can put 'heroin' as cause of death, cross reference with Zip codes to see if there are hot pockets, so the database is going to be remarkably improved."
New drugs are abused so quickly, there isn't always a test for what has killed someone.
"Synthetic drugs are coming out so fast, quicker than tests to find them," he said. "We can have people die of overdoses and medical technology hasn't caught up yet with what they overdosed from."
Cina has begun a search for qualified staffers.
"There's 450 board certified forensic pathologists practicing in the country, so there's a shortage," he said. "The demand is extremely high."
Still, he hopes his office will be fully-staffed within three years.
That should help prompt the National Association of Medical Examiners to return its seal of approval. To be accredited, "no doctor should do more than 250 autopsies a year," said Cina. "There's me and five others, with about 5,000 cases a year. If you do the math, the math is not good. Ideally I need to get up to 15, 16. I've got several recruits coming in, really hoping to pull in seven or eight by next summer. That will be a big step."
Besides the medical and logistic challenges, his job is certain to involve political difficulties too. Is Cina ready for the storms to come? Does he have a plan?
"Basically, I'm going to call 'em like I see 'em," he said. "If I get an inordinate amount of pressure, I don't intend to buckle or break under it."
Having been a coroner in Colorado, he's glad to be working in a medical examiner system.
"Coroners are under more pressure than MEs, especially out West, where the coroner is also often the funeral home director, and families say, 'Well, I really don't want this to be a suicide.' I don't have to deal with that — I'm not in the funeral home business. This is my full-time job."
Speaking of which, so there isn't any interference from his $5,000 a day legal consulting work?
"It never was to the degree it was reported on," he said. "The $5,000-a-day is if I had to travel out of town for a trial. That happened over the past five years maybe two or three times a year . . . the county has rules on consulting, as to how many hours you can do — I've put self-regulations on mine that are less than that — I take eight to 10 a week when you're allowed 20. I haven't hit that yet. . . . I've been able to put anywhere from 60 to 80 hours per week in this job since I've been here, and just a few hours here and there in consulting, which I've been doing while I watch the Bears play. So it's not been any conflict at all."
Cina and his family — his wife plus four teenagers, two boys and two girls — are moving to the South Loop.
Right now, he's enjoying settling in to his new job.
"Everyone here is dedicated to serve the people of Cook County," he said. "I think they understand the sacred nature of the privilege we have, We're the last physicians to see these patients. Maybe I'm in a honeymoon period, maybe I'm not. But if it stays like this, this is going to be a wonderful place to work."


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London SlutWalk: we came, we saw, it was awesome.
There's really something about a good protest, isn't there? And as they go, the London SlutWalk was fantastic – a great turnout, a wonderful atmosphere, enlightening speeches, and inspirational attendees. The crowd was a delightful mix – gay women, straight women, gay men, straight men, people in costume, people with placards, lions and tigers and bears – oh my!
We took some videos and photos and things – you know, for posterity – ch-ch-check it out. Were you there? What did you think of the walk/rally?
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LT1 Engine Swap-Alternator Wiring
I am putting a 350 LT1 engine from a 1995 Impala SS into my 1986 El Camino. I want to use all of the accessories from the 1995 enigne to inlcude the Alternator, Power Steering and A/C Compressor and will use the LT1 computer as well. To do the swap and keep the engine wired as is, I will use a Painless Wiring Harness made for the 1995 LT1 with the computer. My Question is, will the alternator from the 1995 work with some type of connector on my present wiring or do I need to use the alternator from my 1986 engine. Thanks for your assistance.
Use the 1995 alternator and 95 wiring for it from the Impala SS as the amp rating is much higher for the added power needed to keep up with the electric, high pressure, fuel pump and other fuel injection and electronic sensors on the 95 engine that the 86 engine never had.
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El "Premio de los Premios a la Innovación 2011" a Gabriele Centazzo, alma de Valcucine."Por su sensibilidad social y ecológica que va demostrando, desde hace los años '80, en la dirección de Valcucine, una sociedad que manifiesta su cultura empresarial en el marco de la ética, del medio ambiente y de la innovación. El galardón a su empeño...
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Valcucine Temporary LaundryThe days on which the "Salone del Mobile" furniture exhibition is held are the busiest of the year. In our agenda, events and openings intertwine with normal daily commitments preventing us from paying all the visits we would like. Nevertheless, this time it will be almost impossible to...
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Fuorisalone 2011: Beyond the KitchenApril 2011 Salone del Mobile time. Milan becomes the world design centre one again thanks to its exhibition, districts, its circuits and its routes full of initiatives and turmoil. The Brera area stands out as one of the most vital and interesting centres of the Milan panorama thanks to the many galleries...
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Green Good Design Award 2010Valcucine recibe otro importante galardón: el GREEN GOOD DESIGN AWARD por el sistema Invitrum 100%, el primer mueble bajo de cristal totalmente reciclable, con piezas de aluminio reciclado y un único costado estructural de cristal de tan sólo 10 mm. Un producto que refleja enteramente...
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Valcucine has been selected for the ADI Italian Industrial Design Index 2010VALCUCINE has been selected by the "Osservatorio Permanente del Design ADI" (The Association for Industrial Design's Permanent Design Observatory) for the "Industrial Research" section of the ADI Design Index 2010. This section collects projects and initiatives to promote research and innovation...
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Valcucine @ Artissima with Artematica Vitrum ArteValcucine and Artissima become partners to promote, together, an alliance between art and quality design. Valcucine's aesthetic research results in product innovation where customisation is pursued in the hallmark of an increasingly more accredited creativity. For the 17th edition of Artissima,...
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Valcucine @ Moa Casa 2010Valcucine will be at Moa Casa 2010."Nuova fiera di Roma" October 23 - november 1.Pavilion 4, stand 16. In collaboration with: Anzalone (Roma), Ardecò (Roma), Frisetti Design (Roma), Stuarr (Roma), Vallatinnocenti - Tivoli Terme (Roma). For more informations: www.cooperativamoa.com
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The United Nations estimated Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The U.N. human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking."
Opposition activist groups had been estimating the death toll at more than 45,000 and this was the first time that the U.N. estimate was higher.
"Given there has been no letup in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement. "The number of casualties is much higher than we expected, and is truly shocking," she added.
"The failure of the international community, in particular the Security Council, to take concrete actions to stop the blood-letting, shames us all," Pillay said. "Collectively, we have fiddled at the edges while Syria burns."
A regime airstrike on a gas station in a Damascus suburb on Wednesday pushed that death toll in the civil war even higher. Anti-government activists said dozens were killed and wounded when the strike ignited an inferno and left behind a gruesome trail of charred bodies. It may be one of the bloodiest attacks in weeks.
Mohammed Saeed, an activist who visited the site in the eastern suburb of Mleiha, said the missile struck as drivers waited in line with their cars at the station. Syria is facing a fuel crisis and people often wait in line for hours to get gas.
An amateur video posted online showed the carnage at the scene, where black smoke billowed from the fire.
In northern Syria, rebels clashed with government troops near at least three airports, part of their push to cut into the government's air power.
A number of rebel groups, including the Islamic extremist Jabhat al-Nusra, attacked a helicopter base near the village of Taftanaz in Idlib province. Videos posted online showed them blasting at targets inside the airport with heavy machine guns mounted on the backs of pick-up trucks.
The videos appeared to be genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the issue.
Rebels also clashed with government forces near the Mannagh airport in Aleppo province and near the Aleppo international airport, shutting down air traffic for a second straight day, activists said.
In another blow to the regime and Syria's economy, a Philippine-based container port operator says it has pulled out of Syria and withdrawn all of its Filipino workers from a key port because of the civil war.
The move by Manila-based International Container Terminal Services Inc., through its Syrian subsidiary Tartous International Container Terminal, could effectively derail cargo services in the northwest port city of Tartus, Syria's largest port.
The family of American journalist James Foley revealed Wednesday that he had been missing in Syria for more than one month. He was providing Agence France-Press with videos and his family said he was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Thanksgiving day.
The family called on those holding him to contact them.
"James is a professional journalist who has remained totally neutral in this conflict," AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog said in a statement. "His captors, whoever they may be, must release him immediately."
Covering Syria has been a challenge for journalists. The government rarely gives visas to journalists, prompting some to sneak in with the rebels, often at great danger to themselves.
The new U.N. analysis said monthly casualty figures have been steadily increasing since the conflict began in March 2011.
Independent experts compared 147,349 killings reported by seven different sources — including the government — for the study, which was commissioned by the U.N. human rights office.
By removing duplicates they arrived at a list of 59,648 individuals killed between the start of the uprising on March 15, 2011, and Nov. 30, 2012. In each case, the victim's first and last name, the date and the location of his or her death were known.
The real death toll is likely to be even greater because reports containing incomplete information were excluded and a significant number of killings may not have been documented at all by the sources available.
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"I can explain," Sherlock promised, his voice raw and rough in John's ear "I will tell you everything... anything... all of it, I swear..." He swallowed, knowing he should pull back, give John time, allow room for his anger. "I'll let go in a minute... "
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The Nets aren't letting off the Heat so easily, as they beat Miami by double digits in game 3 of their second-round playoff series. NY1's Budd Mishkin filed the following report.
We didn't see this coming. A playoff game with the NBA champions usually goes down to the final minutes, but in Game 3, the Nets exploded in the third quarter and turned a close game into a 14-point lead after three quarters, thanks largely to the three-point shooting of the entire team, and specifically, Mirza Teletovic. On the strength of that performance, the Nets went on to win Game 3 104-90 and make this a series.
"The playoffs are about timely shots, not shooting the best, and so tonight, as the stats say, when you shoot 60 percent from the three, hopefully, that gives you a chance to win, and tonight, it did," said Nets head coach Jason Kidd.
"We were able to feed off our crowd. I thought we played with a lot of energy from start to finish," said Nets guard Joe Johnson.
LeBron James got off to a great start against the Nets, with 16 points in the first quarter, but the defense tightened from there and James finished with a relatively quiet 28 points.
"Third quarter was the deciding factor for us," James said. "We scored 14 points, and we allowed them to get whatever they wanted, and that's what changed the game around."
"That was our gameplan," said Nets guard Shaun Livingston. "We understand he's going to hit some tough shots, but we want to make him shoot tough shots and play on the perimeter."
The Nets out-rebounded the Heat by 12, and their three-point shooting was outstanding, as they shot 15-25 from behind the arc. Six nets finished in double figures.
"I think we did a pretty good job sharing the ball," Teletovic said. "We attack the paint, want to get in paint, they close, we kick the ball out, it was just, swing it, somebody's always wide open." "Unfortunately, we got to win one in Miami if we're going to hold down our home court to get the series," said Nets forward Paul Pierce. "So we're just not going to panic, take it one game at a time, come out here in Game 4 with the same intensity, and they'll be ready
The Nets did what they had to do Saturday night. A similar performance Monday night, and we'll have ourselves an interesting series.
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Great post. The question I would ask is, what do we expect them to retain? I love Treasure Island as a boy and retained a good sense of the book, but when I recently re-read it (along with a few other classics) it was like a whole new story with a touch of familiarity. When I was ten, I read War & Peace. I think it was about Russia. It turned me off because it was over my head. (As I write this comment, I just noticed my old copy of W&P on my shelf … fate?
My son went from reading 4 paperbacks a month to reading twice as many on his iPad. But they're all Star Wars sagas. I love that he reads, but I don't expect him to retain much more than I did about Treasure Island. I'm happy that he'll grow up with a love of reading.
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Fully focused on the important issues, emerging trends, contemporary research, and special challenges facing juvenile justice today, this comprehensive exploration of the American juvenile justice system covers the history and philosophy of juvenile justice, the current practices for processing youthful offenders, the detention of juveniles, and the diversion of youth from the juvenile justice system. Unique in its approach, it gives students an "up-close and personal" view of the fascinating and sometimes tragic world of the juvenile offenderand the personal, psychological and thinking processes that characterize juvenile misbehavior.Comprehensive overview of juvenile justice system institutions and operations. Realistic look at the life of juveniles. Updated statistics, research studies, case studies, interviews & photographs.For anyone working anywhere within the juvenile justice system.
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Yet it's also practical, in that "geek" has gone from being a negative epithet to a kind of laudatory epaulet in a generation. The seven steps are all about balance and, I suppose, would work equally well for giving a jock child a more complete upbringing. Though I clearly didn't have that direct athletic experience while growing up, my son — who suggested an alternate heading for tip number three, "Mindmeld with your child. (Or use the Force, if you must.)" — easily could have.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has saluted the outgoing Timothy Geithner as one of the best U.S. Treasury secretaries ever. He's surely been among the most contentious.
Not since the Great Depression had an administration inherited so many grave financial threats at once. To many, Geithner deserves credit for helping steady the banking system and helping restore investor confidence. Yet his toughest critics say Geithner's policies consistently favored big banks over ordinary struggling Americans.
When Geithner became Treasury secretary in January 2009, the economy had sunk into a deep recession. Unemployment was surging. Stock prices were sinking. The financial system was teetering.
Geithner, whose last day in office is Friday, was an administration point man on all these issues. Here's a look at some of the crises the Treasury confronted on his watch:
In the bleakest days of the financial crisis in 2008, the Bush administration got Congress to approve a $700 billion government bailout fund: the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.
By the time Geithner took office, billions had been handed out to the biggest banks. Many were considered at risk of failing because of their huge investments in subprime mortgages that were souring.
Opponents charged that TARP, a taxpayer-funded bailout, let banks evade responsibility for reckless gambles. Geithner countered that the banking system had to be stabilized. The bailout was deemed necessary to get credit, the essential lubricant for an economy, flowing again.
In the end, the banking system was bolstered with the help of TARP and a separate Geithner initiative requiring the largest banks to undergo "stress tests." The tests calmed investors by showing that the banks could withstand an even worse downturn.
TARP distributed $245 billion to banks. So far, it's brought back $268 billion for a return of $23 billion.
Critics argue that under Geithner, the government failed to ensure that banks would use their TARP money to lend more to businesses and homeowners.
Geithner's approach won't prevent future crises, opponents further argue. They say big banks still feel free to make risky bets because of an implicit guarantee: that if their gambles fail, the government will save them, and the banks' executives won't be held accountable.
"Secretary Geithner protected the interest of the largest financial institutions, and we will pay a very heavy price for that," said Neil Barofsky, who was the government's top watchdog for TARP.
Many private economists are less critical. They say Geithner achieved the fundamental goal of stabilizing the U.S. financial system without damaging the economy.
"The effort was a success and vitally necessary for ending the Great Recession and starting a recovery," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
Geithner and the administration endured intense criticism for giving bailout aid outside the banking system to American International Group.
The insurance giant represented everything the public detested about the government bailouts: Its rescue was the costliest at $182 billion. It spent $440,000 on spa treatments for executives only days after its rescue. It gave millions in bonuses to top executives, including those who'd made the risky bets that had unraveled AIG.
Geithner, who led the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before heading Treasury, was involved in the decision to save AIG in September 2008 and oversaw its bailout as Treasury secretary. Some of the rescue money went to fully repay banks that had invested in AIG. Critics called this a giveaway to banks that should have had to accept less than full payment.
Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have said that letting AIG fail would have threatened the entire U.S. financial system, in part because of AIG's outsize role in selling credit default swaps. These swaps were insurance-like guarantees on mortgage bonds. They required AIG to pay billions once the housing market went bust.
Supporters note that the government ended up profiting on its investment. AIG has repaid all the bailout money, and the government made $22.7 billion more than it provided.
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A partly paralysed man who had set off a bomb inside Beijing's airport in hopes of winning redress over an alleged beating by public officials has been given a six-year prison sentence.
Lawyers and relatives of Ji Zhongxing were on hand for Tuesday's verdict and sentence. The court did not say whether he was among the nearly 40 people in attendance.
Ji, a former motorcycle taxi driver from the eastern city of Heze in Shandong province, went on trial last month for endangering public safety with a homemade bomb. The 33-year-old had faced up to 10 years in prison.
He was the only person injured in the July 20 explosion, losing a hand.
Liu Xiaoyuan, Ji's lawyer, said his client had hoped to attract police so he could be detained and discuss his beating in 2005 by city security guards in the southern city of Dongguan.
Ji had denied exploding the bomb deliberately, claiming it went off accidently as he was shifting it from one hand to the other.
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The attack drew widespread condemnation but also sympathy from many Chinese who said it shows the government ignores the powerless and marginalised.
The Beijing Chaoyang District Court said on its microblog that the explosion inside the crowded airport and Ji's transporting of the device by public bus from Shandong constituted a major threat to public safety.
But it said it decided on a lighter sentence because Ji had warned onlookers that he had a bomb and had cooperated with prosecutors.
Response to the verdict online was generally positive, although some questioned whether the government was sincere in investigating Ji's earlier beating.
Xu Xin, a legal commentator, wrote in his verified account on the Twitter-like Weibo that Ji's sentence was relatively light.
"Well, that's that. At least in prison, his life will have some sort of order," Xu wrote.
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Gong Liegang, a lawyer based in Kunming, the capital of southwestern Yunnan province, called the sentence "abnormally harsh" and described Ji as "a vulnerable person" who had no other way to protect his rights.
Chinese unable to win redress for grievances have in the past resorted to extreme measures, including bombings, but such incidents are rare because of tight state security.
Ji had been petitioning Chinese authorities for years after the 2005 attack, which left him paralysed from the waist down and more than $16,000 in debt, according to his elder brother Ji Zhongji.
Ji's sentence comes weeks after the execution of a Chinese kebab vendor, who was convicted of killing two city officials, prompted public criticism of a justice system said to punish the poor harshly while letting the rich and powerful off more lightly.
Ji's protest in July had come just days after security workers apparently beat to death a watermelon vendor in southern Hunan province in a dispute over where he could sell his fruit.
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Investigators are following up on leads and expect to arrest even more people they say helped Estell get out of the detention center.
Deputies say he made an elaborate escape plan with a woman who picked him up from the detention center.
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Ferrett, B. and Wooton, I. (2010) Tax competition and the international distribution of firm ownership : an invariance result. International Tax and Public Finance, 17 (5). pp. 518-531. ISSN 0927-5940
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How does the international distribution of firm ownership affect the outcomes of tax/subsidy competition for mobile plants? As corporate ownership becomes increasingly globalised, this question becomes increasingly important for policy. We prove a strong invariance result in the context of the tax/subsidy competition between two host countries for a monopoly firm's plant. Both the equilibrium plant location and the equilibrium tax/subsidy offers are independent of the international distribution of the firm's ownership. The reason is that the tax/subsidy competition equalises the firm's post-tax profits across countries, making owners of capital indifferent towards the location of production.
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A Treasury of Priceless ScriptureThis fourteenth-century Tibetan classic serves as an excellent introduction to basic Buddhism as practiced throughout India and Tibet and describes the process of entering the Buddhist path through study and reflection. It begins with setting forth the structure of Buddhist education and the range of its subjects, and we're treated to a rousing litany of the merits of such instruction. We're then introduced to the buddhas of our world… Read More
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A.J. Graham passed for four of his five touchdowns in the first half and Marshall dominated from the start in a 59-14 rout over Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday.
Graham, who completed 19 of 27 passes, threw for 239 yards and had one interception in just his third career start for the Thundering Herd (4-5, 3-2 Conference USA). Troy Evans had six catches for 106 yards and two touchdowns.
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April 15, 2009
Rep. Velázquez Encourages Red Hook Youth to Be Community Leaders
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NEW YORK – Last night, Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) presented $350,000 in federal support to the Red Hook Community Justice Center's youth programs. Velázquez delivered keynote remarks at the Center's Rising Star Recognition Ceremony, during which time she praised the youth program participants honored at the event for demonstrating leadership and commitment to community service.
"The success of the Red Hook Community Justice Center shows us that neighborhood crime can be turned around when our communities pull together," said Velázquez. "The young people in Red Hook have embraced the opportunities provided by the Justice Center, and their futures hold great promise."
The Congresswoman secured the funding from the U.S. Department of Justice in support of the Justice Center's innovative youth programs. With these funds, the organization plans to expand its internship program from serving 10 local youth to 40. The resources also will support the Red Hook Youth Court, Juvenile Offender Intervention Network (JOIN), Youth ECHO and a youth baseball league. These programs focus on providing alternatives to crime and giving young adults the opportunity to participate in prevention and resolution efforts. Due in part to the Center's work to address the underlying causes of criminal behavior, the Red Hook community saw the largest drop in major crimes in the city in 2006 and 2007.
"The Red Hook Community Justice Center provides important services that give our young people the opportunity to lead healthy lives and grow up safely. I am honored to help their programs expand their reach and touch the lives of hundreds of neighborhood kids," said Velázquez.
Launched in June 2000, the Red Hook Community Justice Center is the nation's first multi-jurisdictional community court. Judge Alex M. Calabrese hears civil, family and criminal cases that run the gamut of neighborhood problems like drugs, crime, domestic violence and landlord-tenant disputes. Sentences often incorporate drug treatment, mental health counseling, community service, and on-site educational workshops and GED classes. The Justice Center also focuses on prevention programs, including community mediation, intensive leadership training for local teenagers, and the Red Hook Public Safety Corps, which provides 50 local residents with full-time community service jobs each year.
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WHERE: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Foster Theater
TO RSVP: This event is FREE with a reservation through the Rock Hall website at https://tickets.rockhall.com or at the Rock Hall Box Office. Seating is limited.
Quincy Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 as the recipient of the Ahmet Ertegun Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has had one of the longest, most successful careers in popular music. He is a record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer and trumpeter. He has worked with such artists as Michael Jackson, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, to name just a few. He has been nominated for a record 79 Grammys – and won 27 – and in 1991, he received the Grammy Legend Award. The entire narrative of this documentary unfolds in a collage of interview snippets, backed by stock footage featuring Jones, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, and Sarah Vaughan, among many others.buy tickets
In February, the Museum focuses its attention on a specific African-American root or offshoot of rock and roll. Events include free performances by local and national groups, film screenings, lectures, and intimate evenings of conversation, all celebrating the traditions of blues, soul, rhythm & blues and gospel. Since 1996, performers have included Robert Lockwood, Jr., The Temptations, Charles Brown, Ruth Brown, Mavis Staples, Take 6, Al Green, the Ohio Players and the Manhattans.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate national Black History Month with a new exhibit Jammin', Jazzin' & Jivin': Jazz on Film and a month-long FREE film series inspired by the exhibition. Jammin', Jazzin' & Jivin' is open now and the film series will kick-off on Wednesday, February 12. During the month, Sean Jones, Artistic Director of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, will join in a conversation about rock and roll's roots in jazz with the Rock Hall's Vice President of Education and Public Programs Lauren Onkey and John Kisch, founder and director of the Separate Cinema Archive and organizer of the Jammin', Jazzin' and Jivin' exhibit.
The exhibit, Jammin', Jazzin' & Jivin': Jazz on Film features 27 posters spanning nearly 70 years of jazz-related cinema. These promotional posters are works of art in themselves. Jammin', Jazzin' & Jivin': Jazz on Film helps illustrate the connection between jazz and its close relatives -- rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie – and how these genres found audiences in the African American community and soon after - worldwide. Numerous Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees including Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Bessie Smith and Quincy Jones are featured.
From the advent of talking pictures, jazz music was rich source of material for the film industry. In films made by major studios and independents, in full-length features and one-reel shorts, jazz was often presented to exclusively black audiences. These films are, in some cases, the only moving images we have of some of these artists. In the era of modern Hollywood, jazz is often the back story in a biographic film of a legendary figure, like Charlie Parker or Billie Holiday.


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A sportscaster in Atlanta is grabbing headlines for the way he paid tribute to Robin Williams.
Zach Klein name-checked 22 of Williams' many films in his sports roundup just hours after the actor's death was reported Monday.
"For those of you who suffer from Insomnia, Saturday's Braves game was perfect for you," Klein, who works for WSB-TV, said as he launched into his report.
He also described a player with "Happy Feet" and remarked on how another flexed his muscles like "Popeye."
"Honestly, I just wanted to do something to show my appreciation for the greatness that was Robin Williams," Klein told Agence France-Press via email Tuesday. "It was a hard day for so many and I thought a subtle tribute to a man many loved and admired was the least I could do."
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