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July 19, 2013 6:00 PMBRUSSELS -- As an exultant Britain awaits the birth of a royal baby, Belgium is preparing to install a new king this weekend and wondering what this means for its own less joyous bout of royal baby mania, over a birth that took place 45 years ago.
Played out in serious newspapers, gossip magazines and, for the past month, a Brussels courtroom, Belgium's fixation with royal bloodlines revolves around Delphine Boël, a now middle-aged artist who insists she is the illegitimate daughter of Albert II, Belgium's soon-to-be ex-king.
The palace has not denied this but has not confirmed it either, sheltering behind a high wall of royal reserve. "This is a private affair, and we have no comment whatsoever," said a palace spokesman, Bruno Neve.
One thing, though, is certain: Ms. Boël will not be on the guest list on Sunday when Belgium's political and social elite gather to watch Albert II, 79, sign a declaration of abdication and then his son, Prince Philippe, 53, be sworn in as this tiny nation's new monarch, its seventh since Belgium became an independent state in 1830.
Unlike most European royalty, Belgium's monarchy still has modest but, on occasion, critical political powers. In addition to his duties cutting ribbons and hosting banquets, Albert II played an important role in settling a political deadlock after inconclusive elections in 2010 that left Belgium without a government for more than 500 days.
Nevertheless, monarchy in Belgium has always been something of an improvised production. When the country's founders first decided they needed a king, they shopped around Europe for a suitable candidate. Rebuffed by a member of the French royal family, which sniffed at Belgium as an inconsequential upstart, they settled on a jobless German aristocrat, Prince Leopold Franz Julius of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
He became Leopold I and grumbled constantly about his fractious subjects, whom he derided as "unsufferable creatures." Next came Leopold II, who did not like Belgium or its people much either, sneering at "the little country, little people and little spirits." He set about expanding his domain by seizing and exploiting the Congo as his personal property, an episode of wild brutality and greed that has made his name a byword for the worst excesses of colonialism.
But while not short of skeletons in and already out of their capacious family closet, members of the Belgian royalty have so far been unable to figure out what to do about Ms. Boël and her claims to be one of their own.
"They are paralyzed," said Mario Daneels, a Belgian writer who first revealed in a book published in 1999 that Albert fathered an illegitimate child in 1968 with his mistress then, a Belgian aristocrat. "They don't know what to do. You put a camera in front of a Belgian royal and they start stuttering."
Ms. Boël, who says she is that child, has steadily escalated what began as a discreet lobbying campaign for recognition into a very public battle to break down the palace's defenses. A professional artist, she has turned art into an irreverent weapon. A neon sculpture she created reads "Love Child," the two words separated by a red heart topped by a yellow crown.
Complaining of canceled bank accounts and other indignities because of "the situation surrounding my existence," Ms. Boël said in a statement that "I don't believe that my legal action will end all discrimination against me or my family, or mend my personal relationship with my father, but with DNA proof there will be undeniable certainty about my identity."
In a series of interviews with Belgian and French news media, Ms. Boël has insisted that she has no claim on the king's fortune but simply wants to heal the wounds caused by decades of rejection. "I am deeply saddened, but I believe blood can work wonders," she was quoted as saying last month after she began a legal action to try to prove her royal lineage through DNA tests.
A genial figure who mixes easily with his subjects, Albert has worked hard during his 20-year reign to narrow the gulf between his country's Dutch-speaking regions in the north and Francophone areas in the south. Many Dutch speakers still view the monarchy as an alien institution that speaks mainly for the French-speaking community, but few bear Albert any personal animus. His son, Philippe, speaks Dutch as well as French but has a more prickly character that will make mediation even more difficult.
Across the linguistic divide, reverence and even respect for the monarchy have become increasingly rare. The news media in both languages now jump on royal gaffes and any hint of scandal. "I almost feel sorry for them," said Mr. Daneels, the writer. "There is a climate where they can't do anything right."
The possible existence of an illegitimate daughter has not helped, setting off a flood of testimonials by disenchanted actors in the drama. After decades of public silence, Ms. Boël's mother, Sybille de Selys Longchamps, told two Belgian newspapers last month that she understood and supported her daughter's efforts to gain recognition. "I want to re-establish the truth," she said, describing an 18-year-long affair with Albert II.
For years the king lived apart from his wife, Paola, an Italian aristocrat who loathed Belgium's rainy weather and chilly northern ways, and the couple came close to divorce. All the same, they had three children, including Philippe. Albert and Paola later patched up their relationship and now often appear in public together.
The king has not directly addressed the question of whether Delphine Boël is his daughter, though he did refer in a 1999 speech -- made soon after the publication of Mr. Daneels's book -- to a 1960s "crisis" in his marriage. The oblique remark was widely interpreted as a tacit acknowledgment of extramarital liaisons.
In an editorial last month, La Libre, a French-language newspaper partial to the monarchy, heaped praise on Albert for his "perfect reign" but added that it was now time to answer nagging questions: "Is the king the father of Delphine Boël or not? If yes, why does he wait to recognize her?"
"This affair, which certain people are trying to turn into an affair of state, should be solved with love, tact and discretion. For her, for him and for the others," the editorial said.
The moment for a discreet settlement, however, has already passed: frustrated by repeated failed efforts to make contact with King Albert, Ms. Boël went to court in Brussels last month to try to force him and two of his official children, including Prince Philippe, to give DNA samples to try to prove paternity. Two hearings have so far been held, both behind closed doors.
Ms. Boël's lawyer, Alain de Jonge, declined to comment on the proceedings but said that Albert's abdication should help lift a major obstacle to her case: once he steps down, he no longer has immunity and is subject to the law like all other citizens. "He will lose his inviolability," the lawyer said.
The mess is already creating headaches for Philippe, who will be, as of Sunday, Belgium's new monarch. On official visits he is hounded by journalists asking him about the woman nearly everyone in Belgium views as his father's illegitimate daughter.
But, like the family as a whole, he has kept his own counsel. Asked about the matter during a recent tour of the Brussels offices of Procter & Gamble, he firmly rebuffed prying questions: "This is not the place for that."
worldThis article originally appeared in The New York Times.


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Schalke head coach Felix Magath told his players to forget about winning the Bundesliga crown after a 2-1 home defeat at the hands of title rivals Bayern Munich.
Bayern moved a point ahead of Schalke as a result of their win in Gelsenkirchen and Magath pulled no punches after the final whistle.
He told his club's official website: "That's removed the burden of us being leaders and of people talking about winning the title, because after a game like that none of my players need harbour any illusions about winning the league.
"We were too timid, too cautious in the second half. Instead of forcing Bayern into errors, we left them. That was our mistake.
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Game 1: Saturday, January 8th | ||
76ers | 109 | Final OT |
Pistons | 112 | |
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Game 2: Friday, February 25th | ||
Pistons | 94 | Final |
76ers | 110 | |
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Game 3: Wednesday, April 13th | ||
Pistons | 104 | Final |
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Coverage: CSN
7:00 PM ET, February 25, 2011
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Det: W. Bynum 29 Pts, 5 Reb, 6 Ast, 1 Stl
Phi: A. Iguodala 21 Pts, 7 Reb, 11 Ast, 1 Stl
PHILADELPHIA -- The 76ers finally got even.
Elton Brand had 20 points and 17 rebounds, and the hard-charging Philadelphia 76ers reached .500 for the first time this season in a 110-94 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Friday night.
Led by a resurgent Brand, the Sixers have rebounded from a 3-13 start to get to 29-29. Coach Doug Collins had already in his first season led the Sixers to more wins than they had a year ago. The Sixers have won 12 of 16 and are in seventh place in the Eastern Conference -- with the sixth-place Knicks in sight.
"This is a great night for our team and our fans," Collins said.
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It sends the wrong message, but the Pistons have no choice but to part ways with John Kuester after Friday's incident, Marc Stein writes. Blog
By rebelling against their coach, several Detroit Pistons have put NBA players in a bad light at a pivotal moment, Stephen A. Smith writes. Story
It was a clunker of a day for the Pistons.
Detroit used six players in the latest embarrassment for the fallen franchise. Several Pistons skipped at least part of Friday's shootaround and sat out their third straight loss.
Tayshaun Prince, Tracy McGrady, Ben Wallace and Rodney Stuckey did not start. Coach John Kuester wasn't around for the finish -- he was ejected in the second quarter after he was whistled for two quick technical fouls arguing a non-call.
Kuester called the personnel situation "an internal matter" and there was no word if the DNP'ers would be available for Saturday's home game against Utah.
"The guys at the shootaround were going to get the minutes," Kuester said. "I thought they played their hearts out. They tried so hard. I was proud of them."
The short-handed Pistons trailed by nine late in the third until Lou Williams and Jrue Holiday hit consecutive 3s that carried the Sixers into a dominant finish.
Andre Iguodala had 21 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Sixers. Thaddeus Young shot 12 of 15 and scored 24.
Iguodala put the exclamation point on. 500 with back-to-back, fast-break dunks that wowed the crowd and sealed the win. Iguodala has tempered his desire to play as Philadelphia's No. 1 scoring option and has put up some of the best all-around numbers of his career since November.
He has the Sixers in prime position to grab a winning record Sunday at Cleveland. The Sixers have not finished above .500 since the 2004-05 season. They went 41-41 two years ago.
The Sixers believed so strongly in their developing nucleus, team president Rod Thorn balked at making a move by Thursday's trade deadline.
Brand scored 10 points in the third quarter. When Spencer Hawes missed a dunk off a perfect pass from Iguodala, Brand was there for the put-back.
The Sixers are 26-16 over their last 42 games and have the ninth-best winning percentage in the NBA since Nov. 27.
The Pistons mercifully want this season over.
"I feel badly for John Kuester," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. "I think it's a black eye for the league. I know Detroit is in disarray right now at some level. You worry about a coach and, you know, his psyche after something like that happens."
Team spokesman Cletus Lewis said Richard Hamilton, Chris Wilcox, Stuckey and Austin Daye missed the bus for shootaround, with Stuckey and Daye able to arrive late.
Prince, McGrady and Wallace also missed the shootaround. Lewis said Prince had an upset stomach, McGrady had a headache and Wallace was tending to an unspecified family matter.
Told it was suggested the Pistons had other motives for skipping shootaround, Kuester said, "Sometimes perception is different than reality."
Kuester was tossed in the second quarter -- while McGrady and his teammates laughed as their coach headed toward the locker room.
The Pistons are far removed from the days when Hamilton, Prince and Wallace led the Pistons to the 2004 NBA title.
Will Bynum led the Pistons with 29 points, Charlie Villanueva had 17, and Ben Gordon and Greg Monroe each had 16.
Bynum played 48 minutes, Gordon 45 and Monroe 43.
"I sat and got DNP's for a month and a half, you think I was turning down 48 minutes? I ain't crazy," Bynum said.
For three quarters, the Pistons kept close on the strength of 52 percent shooting. They didn't have the fresh legs to keep up with a Sixers team that dunked their way toward easy buckets and a 100-87 lead in the fourth quarter.
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The Sixers are 19-9 at home. ... Sixers G Evan Turner said he'll work with Philadelphia University coach and shooting guru Herb Magee in the offseason. Turner wants to get more arc on his usual flat jumper. ... The Pistons are the first team to use six players since Golden State Nov. 24, 2009, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 94 | 110 |
Rebounds (Offensive-Total) | 6-32 | 13-49 |
Assists | 19 | 34 |
Turnovers | 15 | 17 |
Steals | 8 | 7 |
Blocks | 2 | 8 |
Fast Break Points | 8 | 31 |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 16 (2/0) | 18 (0/0) |
Largest Lead | 0 | 20 |
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Game Leaders
Points | W. Bynum 29 | T. Young 24 |
Rebounds | G. Monroe 11 | E. Brand 17 |
Assists | W. Bynum 6 | A. Iguodala 11 |
Steals | G. Monroe 3 | J. Meeks 2 |
Blocks | G. Monroe 1 | J. Holiday 2 |
Team rosters: Detroit | Philadelphia |
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PSA: Kids, stay indoors. Also my experience with the US healthcare system
UPDATE: The final total for the three hour visit at the hospital was just over $1,900. This is after the initial bill of $860 which should not have been more "unless other tests were ordered". It is what it is… insurance covered roughly 80% of the bill, so other than the outrageous cost of medical care in the U.S. and the mediocre quality of care received (hte hand specialist laughed at the splint they had me in), I am OK with the situation.
I'm writing this with eight working fingers. My dangerous activities have finally caught up to me this Labor Day weekend. While I am a bit bummed that this happened, I am also a firm believer that everything happens for a reason.
~10:30 am – i injure my hand at turkey moiuntain on the downhill course. at first i think it's still possible to ride it off, but since i can feel some moving parts in my hand where there usually aren't any. I limp my way back the mile or so to the car and slowly make my way to an urgent care facility.
10:50am – The nurse at the Urgent Care Facility has some doubts as to where or not they will be able to treat me if the break is serious, so I weigh my options and decide to head to the St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa.
11:15am – I arrive at the St. Francis Hospital Trauma Center and check in at the front desk. I tell them that I am in a bit of pain, but that my injuries are not life threatening. At this point I'm not even sure that I am in the right place. Frankly I am a bit worried that this broken bone 'is going to rack up an astronomical bill, and I voice this to the receptionist. He tells me that he "is not the billing department" and that since I am here he "might as well check me in". Glad to see that no one is interested 'in ;using the tools available correctly.
11:25am – A nurse named Cathy brings me back to my first waiting area where my vitals are taken and I am asked a ton of questions, some of them new to me. Some interesting ones are: "Do you feel like your life has no purpose?" and "Do you feel safe at home?", which weren't really relevant, but it's good to hear they are required to ask mental health and domestic abuse questions to everyone, even slightly clumsy bikers.
11:33 (9 minutes later): A male ER doctor stops by the room for around two minutes to take a visual look at my hand, and immediately recommend an x-ray. The staff assure me that the next step will take place soon, so I hang tight in the room. Really, I am distracted by a flat screen monitor near my bed with a pretty interesting monitoing system that the hospital uses. Among other things, patients are listed in diffrent blocks of the hopital floorplan along with total wait time, their nurse and doctor's names, as well as what I expect is an estimated time of completion for my room. This helps me keep track of time throughout my stay here.
11:38am: I am whisked to another room and hooked up to a machine which automatically monitors my blood pressure, pulse, and oxygen level. I check the monitoring system and see that the times on my assigned block have reset, and there's now a blinking icon of a bone next t0 my name. Cathy comes back in and tells me that the doctor recommended a pretty heavy narcotic to relieve the pain. This surprises me a bit since I said I was at a 7 on the pain scale, so I ask if less drastic measures can be taken. I am also a bit worried about the cost, which is the probably the bigger deciding factor in the decision not to get legally high at the ER.
11:55am: The nurse comes back in and hands me two pills which she says are Loritab. I hang out in the chair usually reserved for visitors and play the waiting game.
12:40am: Two radiology techs find my room and wheel up a portable x-ray machine. Photos of the bones in my hand are taken from every conceivable angle, and some are taken of my wrist.
1:20: After another 40 minutes, a radiologist comes by the room with the results of the x-rays, on his iphone. His words, 'this was not on my iPhone'. He's pretty upbeat about the situation but doesn't tell me anything besides 'it's dun' broke' and recommends that my hand is put into a splint.
1:35: A nurse comes in to splint me up. After three guesses, she finally gets the injury right. We're putting a splint on you broken fingers? Your broken wrist? Oh, your hand is broken, I'll cast the entire thing. I have to convince her that only the bottom two fingers should be splinted, and sure enough, she checks with the doctor to makke sure. My hand is put into a plaster cast which covers a straight line from my pinky to my elbow. The semi-permanent cast is then wrapped in not one, but two cloth ace bandages. I look like the michelin man.
1:55: After some more paperwork they tell me I am free to go. It's kind of confusing since I feel like I should owe someone something. I am a bit neurotic when it comes to these things, so I make sure to find the billing department.
2:15: After some considerable wandering around and many bad directions (does anyone know how this place is paid for?), the department is found and I get an estimate on the cost. Bum-ba-bum! $860 before any additional fees are added on.
So what does $860 do for you in a hospital?
Entrance Fee
Two waiting rooms
One Hydrocodone
One minute with the ER doctor
Five minutes with an orthopedic doctor
Nursing care during your stay
Overall, I am not surprised. It was Sunday, I was worried about the alternatives and needed my hand fixed. Knowing what I know now, I absolutely did not receive better health care at the ER over an urgent care center. My hand specialist laughed at the splint I came in with and agreed that I would have been just as well off going to a clinic.
Just another lesson I learn in life.


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Chip McCallum, III
Charles A. "Chip" McCallum, III | |
Candidate for Alabama House of Representatives, District 47 | |
Political party | Independent |
Profession | Attorney |
Website | website |
- B.A., Accounting, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, class of 1983.
- Juris Doctorate, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, class of 1986.[1]
Professional Experience
- Partner, McCallum Hoaglund Cook Irby Law, 2001-present.
- Co-founder and director, SouthCity Bank.
- Partner, Cambell, Waller & McCallum, 1996-2001.
- Attorney, Haskell, Slaughter & Young, 1986-1996.[1]
Fiscal Accountability
- Supports report card rating systems for all government agencies.
- Supports the proposed Education Trust Fund Rolling Reserve Bill.
- Opposes any raises in taxes.
- Supports making every vote of the legislature on the record in real-time and online.
- Supports listing all tax dollar allocations online.
- Supports authentic income disclosures by all legislators.
- Supports ethics reform by supporting subpoena power for the ethics commission.
- Opposes accepting any PAC money for his campaign.
- Supports performance-based budgeting.
- Supports Greg Canfield's Education Trust Rolling Reserve Bill to, "dramatically change how our state budgets educational funds and creates reserves for down economic times... [to] be used for planning purposes."
Sustainable economic development
- Supports the 31/47 Initiative of One Vestavia, as well as their efforts to secure funding for re-development of the area.
- Supports a regional partnership between Vestavia Hills and Hoover.
- Opposes government intervention in private business.
- Supports frees market and free enterprise.
Health care
- Supports health care for every citizen.
- Opposes Obama's health care reform.
- Supports strengthening the existing private system by keeping costs down and increasing access.
Sustainable fuel use and the environment
- Supports oil independence.
- Supports holding BP accountable.
- Supports alternative energy development.
- Opposes cap-and-trade legislation.
- Supports, "preserving green spaces in our communities."
- Supports legal immigration.
- Opposes illegal immigration.
- Opposes amnesty.
- Supports strengthening borders.
- Supports an employment verification system that holds companies accountable.
- Supports gun rights.
Death penalty
- Supports capital punishment, "in cases where it is justified."
The unborn
- Supports parental consent and notification requirements.
- Opposes partial-birth abortion.
- Supports adoption as an alternative.
- Supports, "evidence-based, teen pregnancy prevention efforts."
- Opposes same-sex marriage.
- Supports right to vote on regulation and legalization, should the proposition be completely transparent and include an oversight commission whose members have no conflicts of interest or history of one.
Constitutional Reform
- Supports reforms to build, "a modern framework that will enable Alabama to reach its fullest potential to all its citizens...[and] move our state forward."[2]
McCallum was defeated in the November 2 general election by incumbent Republican Jack Williams.[3]
Alabama House of Representatives, District 47 General Election (2010) | ||||
Candidates | Votes | |||
Jack Williams (R) | 8,735 | |||
Chip McCallum, III (I) | 5,527 |
On April 3, 2010, the Republican Party executive committee disqualified McCallum as a candidate for the House District 47 seat, citing his donations to Democratic candidates and "long-standing support of Democratic candidates."[4]
McCallum, now an independent candidate, said, "I've given to candidates from both parties for years and I've made no secret about it. I'm non-partisan and will continue to be non-partisan."[5]
The candidates McCallum donated to include John Edwards, John Kerry, Al Gore and Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb.[6]
"You would be hard-pressed," McCallum said, "to find a lawyer that does any kind of civil litigation work like I do that has not given contributions to candidates of both parties."[4]
Community Service and Involvement
- Member, Vestavia Hills Long Range Planning Committee
- Board member, Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation.
- Board member, Laps for CF Foundation
Board member, Men's Committee of the Birmingham Heart Ball.
- Coach, youth baseball, basketball and soccer.
Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce
- Trustee
- President, 2006
- Executive vice president, 2005
- Board of directors, 2002-2008
- Legal counsel, 2001-2004"[2]
McCallum and his wife, Lynne, live in Vestavia Hills. They have two children- Courtney, 19, and Alex, 21."[2]
His father, Charles A. "Scotty" McCallum, is a former two-term mayor of Vestavia Hills.
Contact information
Campaign Address:
2062 Columbiana Road
Vestavia Hills, AL 35216
Mailing Address:
McCallum 2010 Campaign
732 Montgomery Hwy., PMB 232
Vestavia Hills, AL 35216
Phone: (205) 637-6288
External links
- Campaign website
- Project Vote Smart Biography
- Independent general election candidate list
- [1]
- Chip McCallum's Twitter Account
- MHCI Law
- SouthCity Bank
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McCallum Hoaglund Cook Irby Law
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Campaign site for Chip McCallum III
- ↑ Statewide general election results
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TROY, N.Y. — MapInfo Corporation, a provider of location intelligence solutions, announced that Marco's Franchising will use its Smart Site Solutions technology to provide market and real estate intelligence for the chain's national expansion.
According to a news release, Marco's Franchising, headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, currently has 127 units primarily in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Nevada.
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"MapInfo is helping us to develop solid growth plans with its state-of-the-art technology," said Jack Butorac, Jr., president, Marco's Franchising. "We have set a goal of doubling the current number of restaurants — a goal that, with MapInfo's help, will easily be achieved."
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I think the instruments to learn language are hard-wired into the brain but the language itself is acquired through interaction.
Id say for someone language, any language, is hardwired in the brain, and thus with just little practice it manages to learn it well. So as Julia said: the instruments to learn language are hard-wired into the brain some have it more developed and some less, but practice is the only way for those with the less developed one.
The idea is that universal grammar, not specific, is hard-wired.
Our ability to communicate, or get thoughts across for others to understand, is hard-wired. Language is not necessarily.
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Something good is happening in history departments around the world when it comes to China. Western historians have finally taken a cue from their China-watching counterparts in journalism and put ideology to the side to describe China with a newfound clarity. Gone is the tendentious political correctness that for decades muddled a lot of academic writing on the Middle Kingdom; out, too, is the exoticism of China as a world apart. This is excellent news for people interested in China and the role it played in the past and could play in the future.
The latest example is "Restless Empire," a wonderful book by the Norwegian-born and American-educated historian Odd Arne Westad. "Restless Empire" tells the story of the foreigners who helped China become what it is today, from China's first interactions with the West to the current era. In doing so, Westad upends, but ever so politely, a slew of misconceptions about China that have been concocted by his academic predecessors both in the West and in Asia.


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Writer/Director Corbin Bernsen (25 Hill) presents a fun-filled family comedy starring George Newbern (Father of the Bride), Megyn Price (Rules of Engagement) and Taylor Spreitler (Days of our Lives).
Martin Taylor has no clue who his teenage daughter is dating, why his son only communicates with an electronic sign outside his bedroom door, or why his youngest child only watches religious TV. Convinced the family needs to reconnect, Martin surprises his nest with a little experiment - he locks them in their own home with no power, no heat, no running water, and absolutely no contact with the world outside! The sudden holiday staycation isn't what the Taylors had in mind for the weekend, but they'll have to team up to prove they can survive Dad's wacky mission. With a heartfelt message and some persistence, one little member of the family helps put their priorities back in the pews, because they'll need all the faith they have to get through this. Rated PG. Approx. 90 minutes.
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Fall Out Boy is back. Ending a three-year hiatus that commenced following a 2009 greatest-hits set, the popular emo-rock band announced on Monday that it would release a new album and launch a North American tour in May.
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If it offends you so much, stop reading and posting (here) on their forum. They're not forcing you to read or post anything. Kinda like TV...if you don't like it, flip the channel. I bet it won't be long before you're back here again. WECT and Star News are far too tame in their reporting. You'll get bored quickly. »
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Manumission, from manumit /ˌmænjəˈmɪt/, is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. Different approaches developed, each specific to the time and place of a society's slave system.
The motivations of slave owners in manumitting slaves were complex and varied. Firstly, manumission may present itself as a sentimental and benevolent gesture. One typical scenario was the freeing in the master's will of a devoted servant after long years of service. A trusted bailiff might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude, for those working as agricultural labourers or in workshops, there was little likelihood of being so noticed.
Such feelings of benevolence may have been of value to slave owners themselves as it allowed them to focus on a 'humane component' in the human traffic of slavery. In general, it was more common for older slaves to be given freedom, once they had reached the age where they were beginning to be less useful. Legislation under the early Roman empire put limits on the number of slaves that could be freed in wills (Fufio-Caninian law 2 BC), which suggests that it had been widely used.
Freeing slaves could serve the pragmatic interests of the owner. The prospect of manumission worked as an incentive for slaves to be industrious and compliant. Roman slaves were paid a wage (pecunium) with which they could save up to, in effect, buy themselves. Manumission contracts found in some abundance at Delphi specify in detail the prerequisites for liberation.
Greek slaves generally became metics upon being manumitted. That is, they became resident aliens, non-citizens in the city where they lived. Their freedom was not absolute. In Athens, freeborn metics were required to nominate a sponsor or patron (prostates): in the case of freed slaves, this was automatically their former master. This relationship entailed some degree of continuing duty to the master.
Failure to perform the duty could lead to prosecution at law and re-enslavement. Continuing duties specified for freed slaves in manumission agreements became more common into the Hellenistic era, and they may have been customary earlier. Sometimes extra payments were specified by which a freed slave could liberate himself from these residual duties. Freed persons were commonly required to live nearby the former master (paramone). As ex-slaves risked beatings for failing to meet the continuing duties, their freedom was limited. But ex-slaves were able to own property outright, and their children were free of all constraint. Children born into slavery were also considered the property of the master. Free individuals could be subject to paramone.
Under Roman law, a slave had no personhood and was protected under law mainly as his master's property. In ancient Rome, a slave who had been manumitted was a libertus (feminine liberta) and a citizen.[1][2]
A freedman customarily took his former owner's family name, that is, the nomen (see Roman naming conventions) of his master's gens. The former owner became his patron (patronus). As a client (cliens), the freedman retained certain obligations to his master, who in turn owed mutual favors. A freedman could also acquire multiple patrons.
A freedman became a citizen. Not all citizens, however, held the same rights and privileges (women were citizens, but could not vote or hold public office; see Roman citizenship). The former slave's rights were limited or defined by particular statutes. Freedmen could become civil servants but not hold the higher magistracies (see for instance apparitor and scriba), priests of the emperor, and hold other highly respected public positions. If they were sharp businessmen (or in some cases businesswomen[3]), there were no social limits to the wealth they could amass. The children of a freedman held full legal rights, though Roman society was stratified. One of the most famous Romans to have been the son of a freedman was the poet Horace, who enjoyed the patronage of Augustus.
A notable character of Latin literature is Trimalchio, the ostentatiously nouveau riche freedman in the Satyricon of Petronius.
Judaism was one of the oldest religions to legislate laws of manumission.[citation needed] Manumission of a Canaanite slave was seen as a religious conversion, and involved a second immersion in a ritual bath (mikveh). The Talmud made many rulings which had the effect of making manumission easier and more likely. The costly giving of gifts, on the occasion of manumission, is mandated in the Bible related to the automatic 7th-year manumission. The price to buy freedom was set as the total fee for a hired servant, over the outstanding period of service. The classical rabbis changed the price to be the original price for which the servant was purchased, pro-rated for the amount of service already worked. If the servant had become weak or sickly, and worth less in the market, the price of freedom was to be reduced further. The rabbis ruled the price could never be higher than the original one, regardless of any increase in strength or skills by a servant.[citation needed]
African slaves were freed in the North American colonies as early as the seventeenth century. Some (such as Anthony Johnson) went on to become landowners and slaveholders in the colonies. Slaves could sometimes arrange manumission by agreeing to "purchase themselves"; that is, to pay the master an agreed amount. Some masters demanded market rates; others set a lower amount in consideration of service.
Regulation of manumission began in 1692, when Virginia established that in order to manumit a slave, a person must pay the cost for them to be transported out of the state. A 1723 law stated that slaves may not "be set free upon any pretence whatsoever, except for some meritorious services to be adjudged and allowed by the governor and council."[4] In some cases, when a master was drafted into the army, they sent a slave in their place, with a promise of freedom if they survived the war.[5] The new government of Virginia repealed these laws in 1782 and declared freedom for slaves who had fought for the Colonies in the American Revolutionary War. The 1782 laws also permitted masters to free their slaves on their own accord; previously, a manumission required obtaining consent from the state legislature, an arduous and rarely granted request.[6] However, as population of free negroes increased, the state passed laws forbidding free negroes from moving into the state (1778)[7] and requiring newly freed slaves to leave within one year unless they had special permission (1806).[8]
Various other states at this time established laws governing manumission and tended to make it easier to accomplish. In the first two decades after the American Revolution, many of the new states passed laws allowing slaveholders to declare slaves free by filing papers, and numerous manumissions were made in the idealism of the war. The percentage of free blacks as a proportion of the total black population increased in the Upper South from less than 1 percent to nearly 10 percent in this period. In Virginia, the proportion of free blacks increased from 1% in 1782 to 7% in 1800.[9] Together with several northern states abolishing slavery during this period, the percentage of free blacks nationally increased to 13.5 percent of the total black population.
After invention of the cotton gin in 1793, which enabled the development of extensive new areas for new types of cotton cultivation, manumissions decreased due to increased demand for slave labor. In the nineteenth century, slave revolts such as the Haitian Revolution and especially the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner increased slaveholder fears, and most southern states passed laws making manumission nearly impossible until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, after the American Civil War in 1865.
In the Upper South in the late eighteenth century, planters had less need for slaves as they switched from labor-intensive tobacco cultivation to mixed-crop farming. Slave states such as Virginia made it easier for slaveholders to free their slaves. In the two decades following the American Revolutionary War, numerous slaveholders accomplished manumissions by deed or in wills, so that the percentage of free blacks to the total number of blacks rose from less than one percent to 10 percent in the Upper South.[10] Some northern states quickly abolished slavery, adding to the national population of free blacks; New York and New Jersey adopted gradual abolition laws that kept the free children of slaves as indentured servants into their twenties.
Of the Founding Fathers of the United States as defined by the historian Richard B. Morris, the southerners were the major slaveholders, but northerners also held them, in generally fewer number, as domestic servants. John Adams owned none; George Washington freed his slaves in his will (his wife independently held numerous dower slaves); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts; James Madison did not free his slaves and some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York; John Dickinson freed his slaves in a manumission process between 1776-1786, the only Founding Father to do so during this time.


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China's credit rating cut as debts rise
PUBLISHED: 10 Apr 2013 12:25:00 | UPDATED: 11 Apr 2013 03:40:17PUBLISHED: 10 Apr 2013 PRINT EDITION: 10 Apr 2013China's debt problems started in 2009 when state-owned banks went on a lending spree to drive the economy through the global financial crisis. Photo: Getty Images
Lisa Murray AFR correspondent
Shanghai | China has suffered its first credit rating downgrade in 14 years amid concern a build-up of debt has increased the risk of a financial crisis and subsequent government bailout.
The surprise decision by Fitch to downgrade China's long-term currency rating to "A+" from "AA-" follows warnings by high-profile economists and billionaire investor George Soros about China's debt problems and the growth of its "shadow banking" system.
The rating cut and the corruption charges laid against a former railways minister overshadowed Wednesday's release of robust trade figures for March, with exports growing by 10 per cent and imports jumping 14.1 per cent.
Fitch said total credit in the Chinese economy may have reached 198 per cent of gross domestic product at the end of last year, up from 125 per cent at the end of 2008. That compares with about 70 per cent for the euro zone and less than 60 per cent for the US. Shadow banking – lending outside the formal banking system that features a lack of transparency and oversight – makes up nearly half of all new credit.
China's debt problems started in 2009 when state-owned banks went on a lending spree to drive the economy through the global financial crisis. The easy credit allowed China to grow strongly but resulted in surging property prices and local government debts.
"China experienced the secondfastest expansion of credit in real terms, behind only Qatar, between end-2009 and end-June 2012," Fitch's report said.
Credit Suisse chief regional economist Dong Tao said China's total credit to GDP ratio was "alarmingly high".
But he said it was "a medium-term problem" and "not an imminent trigger for a financial crisis".
The senior economist at Berenberg Bank, Christian Schulz, pointed out that with annual inflation running at a moderate 2.1 per cent and $US3.3 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, "China has considerable room for manoeuvre to deal with hypothetical financial troubles and potential growth slowdowns".
"For a long time, experts and commentators have pointed to excessive bank lending, real estate bubbles, bad loans and public mis-investment that could lead to an economic and financial crash. Reliable data is scarce but while these risks probably exist, China so far has been able to deal with them."
The Fitch downgrade came as China reported another set of robust trade figures in March.
China's trade with the US, New Zealand and Hong Kong surged during the first quarter, offsetting a 2 per cent drop in trade with the European Union. China imported a total of 190 million tonnes of iron ore, about the same as last year and trade with Australia rose by 5.9 per cent over the period.
The bigger than expected jump in imports produced an unexpected trade deficit of $US884 million for the month.
Exports grew more than 20 per cent in both January and February, prompting speculation the figures were exaggerated. A government spokesman acknowledged there was a big difference in the trade numbers produced by Hong Kong and mainland China.
But he said this was because Chinese exporters, who didn't know the final destination of their goods, often nominated Hong Kong. But Hong Kong doesn't count goods that are transferred elsewhere in its import numbers.
Meanwhile, ex-railways minister Liu Zhijun was charged with bribery and abuse of power, prompting speculation about whether ousted party official Bo Xilai will also be charged.
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Bio-Path Holdings, Inc., (OTCBB: BPTH) ("Bio-Path"), a biotechnology company developing a liposomal delivery technology for nucleic acid cancer drugs, today announced that Dr. Ana Maria Tari, PhD, MBA has been appointed Director, Preclinical Operations and Research. She will report to Peter Nielsen, President and Chief Executive Officer and be responsible for leading the Company's evaluation and selection of new drug targets for licensing and development; design, source and direct preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies; and be the primary scientific liaison to the scientific community and clinical trial sites, including University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Tari was a key member of the research team that performed the basic research and preclinical development of the liposomal delivery technology that Bio-Path has licensed from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and is at the core of the Company's research and development efforts. In particular, Dr. Tari was the lead researcher who developed the Company's lead product candidate Liposomal Grb-2 (BP-100-1.01) that is currently in a Phase I clinical trial in blood cancers. Dr. Tari has authored or co-authored numerous articles in leading scientific journals, including several on the research done in Liposomal Grb-2. Previously, Dr. Tari has performed consulting work for the Company, being particularly instrumental in the transfer of licensed technology to the Company including manufacturing techniques, drug assays and testing methods.
Peter Nielsen, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bio-Path commented, "We are very fortunate to have Ana Tari join Bio-Path. Ana is a leader in the field of liposomal antisense therapeutics and will prove to be an invaluable resource as we develop and commercialize our proprietary neutral lipid delivery technology of which Ana was instrumental in developing. I look forward to working with Ana as we continue to advance our technology in our current clinical trial and her experience in the identification of new drug candidates and clinical trial design will be instrumental when we seek to expand into new drug targets."
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In this activity, students create a scale model depicting the vertical distance from Earth's surface to various features and objects, including Earth's atmospheric layers, the Van Allen Radiation Belts, and geocentric satellites. Students also... (View More) compare the vertical distances to these features and objects with distances from their classroom to other common points on the ground. Includes background science information; student reading, handouts and worksheet; teacher information; and suggested extensions and adaptations for students with vision impairment. (View Less)
This is an activity that compares the magnetic field of the Earth to the complex magnetic field of the Sun. Using images of the Earth and Sun that have magnets attached in appropriate orientations, learners will use a handheld magnetic field... (View More) detector to observe the magnetic field of the Earth and compare it to that of the Sun, especially in sunspot areas. For each group of students, this activity requires use of a handheld magnetic field detector, such as a Magnaprobe or a similar device, a bar magnet, and ten small disc magnets. (View Less)
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This book contains 24 illustrated math problem sets based on a weekly series of space science problems. Each set of problems is contained on one page. The problems were created to be authentic glimpses of modern science and engineering issues, often... (View More) involving actual research data. Learners will use mathematics to explore problems that include basic scales and proportions, fractions, scientific notation, algebra, and geometry. (View Less)
This is a 15-day unit of inquiry-based lessons about the surface features of the Moon and the Earth and how these two worlds formed and continue to evolve. Students participate in real science as they help lunar scientists map the surface of the... (View More) Moon with MoonMappers, an online citizen science project that lets the public analyze real data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The lessons in this unit follow the 5E instructional model. Includes an overview of citizen science, glossary of lunar feature vocabulary, alignment to NGSS and NSES, and featured links. (View Less)
This is a lesson about density. Learners will relate the concept of density to the density of dust in space. They will use mission data from the Student Dust Counter (SDC) interface to determine the density of dust grains in a volume of space in the... (View More) Solar System in order to answer questions concerning the distribution of dust in the solar system. They will discover that space is much more sparsely populated with dust than they may have thought. Students discuss their findings with the class. (View Less)
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This is an activity about observing the Sun. Learners will construct a pinhole projector to project an image of the Sun, observe and record the size of the projected image, and calculate the diameter of the Sun using the measurements and a known... (View More) distance to the Sun. This activity is from the Touch the Sun educator guide. (View Less)
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This is an activity about the movement of sunspots. Learners will project an image of the Sun using a telescope, binoculars, or a pinhole projector, observe and record sunspots over the course of several days, and calculate the speed of the observed... (View More) sunspots to, therefore, determine the rotation rate of the Sun. This activity is from the Touch the Sun educator guide. (View Less)
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This is a series of three activities about light and spectra. First, learners will construct their own spectroscope, observe common light sources, record the observed spectra, and compare their findings. Next, learners will use their spectroscopes... (View More) to observe the spectra from different gas tubes and compare each observed spectrum to known spectra. Finally, they will observe a solar spectrum created by a prism, view a solar spectrum on paper, and attempt to determine the elements present in the Sun. This activity requires spectroscope posters and gratings available from the Stanford Solar Center (http://solar-center.stanford.edu/posters/), fluorescent and incandescent light sources, and emission lamps and power sources. This activity is from the Stanford Solar Center's All About the Sun: Sun and Stars activity guide for Grades 5-8 and can also accompany the Stanford Solar Center's Build Your Own Spectroscope activity. (View Less)


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Dumb question. I tried Sam Adams Boston Lager some years ago and nearly spit it right back out. Recently I tried it again because a friend bought a case of Sam Adams variety pack while we did his front and rear minivan brakes in my garage. He left me with the remainder, and as I ran out of everything else, I tried one again before throwing them away. It was quite shocking--it was actually good. I didn't mind it, and thought it was a nice beer. Did Sam Adams change in the last 10 years? They do have several more beers than when I tried it when it first got mass marketed. Or did my tastes mature? Which is it? Could my tastes have changed that much?
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If you want to relive that feeling from 10 years ago, go ahead and pick up one of the Cranberry Lambics. That will definitely take you back in beer hell history. (But be warned) -Me
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No, back then I actually liked their cranberry lambic--it was the only one I did like.
I don't have many complaints about Sam Adams Beers except the Cranberry Lambic and the Cherry Wheat. I'd drink BL all day and be happy.
Make Beer, Not War.
hahahaha, their cranberry lambic has to be one of the greatest beer abominations of history.
There was a time I thought SABL was way too hoppy. I type this half way through a pint of Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA. I was at Chili's for dinner last night and asked what was on tap. Typical BMC, then SA and SA seasonal. Ok, I'll take the seasonal because I recently caught the winter lager at the airport and thought it was pretty good. They bring me a summer ale... in January. I sent it back.
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Sam Adams has gotten better. Their competition changed from BMC to craft brewers and they responded.
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Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARUN), a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise, and HarborLink Network, Ltd., a leading provider of public Wi-Fi networks in North America, today announced the completion of HarborLink's managed Wi-Fi service upgrade at 350 corporate-owned restaurant locations across North America.
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Note to mods: Please, delete if I'm wrong, I hate it when people cry wolf but I was always told the link counts were the way to tell....
It looks like this time around, googlebot hit domain names that have autoforwarding, cached the page it forwards to, and when it comes to the new domain, it compares the 2 pages, consideres it spam, and dumps it.
i see that one of my new site has PR8. it is listed in google,
but it is listed under some PR3 pages with the same subject, is google not yet finished or what, is this usual after the www2 goes to www?
if you hold shift and click, you van cleerly result is a redirect.
it just changed again, itnow is straigt url,
i think google want to confuse me. Google is dooin a good job.
Now I'm *still* up there with these people, with my honest and content filled site - but what do I do next month when they encroach further -adopt their tactics?
They seem to be getting away with the most flagrant and basic spamming techniques. Reporting them seems like wasted time - by these statistics there must be millions doing the same.
So what precisely is this masterful Googlebot? Does it stand for Google-Robot? I suspect not. I'd like to suggest it is indeed a Google-Bot, the Bot standing for bottom (butt I think to my American friends!)
Very disappointing indeed. Are we back in the 1980s!
We're doing 1 update thread per month per many member requests to do so.
But the question is are these sites better for end user?
When I create a site I make the name reflect the content and make it readable. It can then be placed in literature, on lorries, on billboards - and the punters will remember it. The dashes break the words and make it sensible.
End of story really. I don't give a monkey's if some spammers have dashes in there - they have a lot of other stuff too. I would give a monkey's if my sites were somehow penalized simply because I care about the none-net world and how memorable the site URL it.
Any idea as to why the main homepage would be displayed instead of the pages that specifically target the 2 and/or 3 keyword phrase search? Is this is good thing or a bad omen?
Hidden keywords. (White text on white background) keyword-linked-urls placing high in keyword searches repitition, repitition, repitition of keywords doorways with redirects ... the whole ball of (spammy) wax
Not very impresswed with the update this time around. However, Google nailed me (quite rightly) last month for having a duplicate page up. I was testing and forgot to take it down ... (went nuts trying to find what I had done to lose 2 PR points!) ... Found it, removed it and my PR is back up again. :)
It seems PR has very little to do with the serps this time around though. Several sites with PR 1 or 2 are showing in the top search results against sites with PR 6 and even 7??? I think someone suggested some filters may have been removed. I don't know if this is correct or not, but something major has certainly been altered.
Oh well, there's always next month! Never a dull moment with Google.
I'm not sure if this is right, but I have this happen sometimes too and I think it's because I have more links to the homepage than to the individual 2-3 targetted word pages so then it has higher authority due to link popularity. Still, I too prefer to have people find the targetted page rather than the home page since they'd have to sift through all the links on the homepage in order to get to the desired page. Yet, it is hard to get external links to a 2-3 targetted word page since if it's focused on a specific model number etc how many sites would want to link to that vs a homepage that has a lot more information?? Anyone know the answer to this one ?
There are many factors involved. Clustering for one. Internal linking within your own site is another factor.
On www, I am now listed 8th or 16th for one of my key phrases...
My PR is grayed out...
I believe the Google submission page should have some sort of a disclaimer for mental enguish...
P.s If they can see the mistake will they change it at ones or first next update.
Anybody have some sage advice?
Define "spammer".
The kw stuff and hidden text "spam" is mostly dealt with by the algo. PR is the gate keeper and cornerstone of the whole system. So, the threat to PR is where the anti-spam efforts have to focus as the "source of all spam". Take care of PR, and everything else takes care of itself.


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Pina: movie review
Wim Wenders documentary on German choreographer Pina Bausch leaves as much mystery as enlightenment.
Wim Wenders's documentary "Pina" was made in 3-D, and, along with Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," it represents an artistic high point in the use of that much-maligned process. Is there something in the German visual tradition, I wonder, that drew these artists to 3-D?
In any case, the low esteem in which 3-D movies are held is generally deserved. By now, we've probably all had our fill of 3-D films that seem to exist only to gouge us at the box office and are often little more than refabricated 2-D movies anyway.
"Pina" began as a long-gestating idea between Wenders, one of Germany's most respected film directors, and his friend Pina Bausch, the German dancer and choreographer whose company is based in the northwestern German city of Wuppertal. When Bausch died suddenly in 2009, just as the project looked as if it was finally ready to roll, Wenders had to abruptly change course. What was intended as a collaboration with Bausch became instead a kind of testimonial featuring members of her troupe performing large excerpts from her most famous choreography.


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