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"The very rich are different from you and me." Yes, and that's why their representatives on the Catfood Commission are horrified that their fellow commissioner Alan Simpson was so indiscreet as to reveal what they think of most Americans: Namely, that we're "lesser" than them.
Come Saturday Morning: We're All "Lesser People" to the Elites on the Catfood Commission
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Bottom Kill of Teacher Jobs, Health Care for the Poor
|By: David Dayen Monday May 31, 2010 7:15 am
We now know about the failure of the top kill in the Gulf, ensuring the continued gusher of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for at least the near future. Almost nobody in America knows about the "bottom kill" pulled off by the House of Representatives late on Friday.
Blue Dog Founder Hired to Lobby for Transocean
|By: Teddy Partridge Thursday May 13, 2010 6:12 pm
Blue Dog Caucus founder and former Oklahoma Congressman Bill Brewster's firm Capitol Hill Consulting Group was hired to lobby lawmakers by Transocean, owner of the failed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
Reid Press Conference Today on Immigration: Double Messaging Time
|By: Jane Hamsher Thursday April 29, 2010 11:48 am
And thus the press gets their direct cue not to take Reid's immigration efforts seriously. They get it (wink wink). This is how they all wind up running around "knowing" things, like the White House will never include a public option in the health care bill. Yet it keeps the credulous typing their fingers to a bloody pulp to the bitter end, insisting that Obama most certainly will because after all he mentioned the public option in his address to the joint session of Congress. And, of course, blaming Republicans.
Will White House Put the Screws to Blue Dogs on Immigration Like They Did on Health Care?
|By: Jane Hamsher Monday April 26, 2010 9:35 am
Immigration just might be the issue that breaks through the White House "veal pen" strategy and forces them to deal with an issue — or risk the defection of an important part of the Democratic base in the 2010 elections.
Reminder: Liberals Not the Obstacle to Passing Health Care Reform
|By: David Dayen Thursday March 4, 2010 6:20 pm
People still have a problem being truthful about what's stopping the House from passing a health care bill tomorrow. House liberals have brooked every compromise, made every harsh vote, lost virtually every big fight, and still backed the bill. Raul Grijalva, who just, um, a day ago talked about leaning no on the final passage, heard enough happy talk from Barack Obama to flip right back to support today. That was never, ever in doubt. They'll accept the assurance from the President that he will sign the Senate bill and the reconciliation sidecar in tandem, and that's that. They don't need much convincing. . . .
Top 20 Democrats Who Could Lose Their Seats over Health Care Vote
|By: Jane Hamsher Wednesday January 6, 2010 11:50 am
It's going to be awfully difficult for some of these Democrats to explain why they want a seat in Congress in the first place if all they're doing is supporting the decree by the Senate that the House is now irrelevant. But even if they get past that, they'll have to justify voting for a mandate that forces people to pay almost as much to private insurance companies as they do in federal taxes, and allows Aetna to use the IRS as their collection agency — unpopular with Democrats, Republicans and Independents.
Breaking Down the House Whip Count on Health Care's Final Passage
|By: David Dayen Thursday December 31, 2009 9:30 am
While lots of House Blue Dogs say they're keeping an open mind on the final vote, nothing has changed on the political landscape where the same people continually worried about challenges from their right and habitually unwilling to take stands on Democratic priorities and principles would suddenly change their worldviews. I would be surprised if more than a handful changed their vote. Which means that Speaker Pelosi will have a difficult job getting to 218, no matter what comes out of the conference committee.
Will Blue Dogs Risk Their Seats to Pass Health Care?
|By: Jane Hamsher Tuesday December 29, 2009 7:45 am
Many have asked if the progressives in the House will stick together and keep the health care bill from passing if it has mandates but no public option. My answer is: it depends.
I'm frankly not sure how they hope to hold this thing together, because the one thing members fear more than anything is losing their seats. Rahm never worries about the progressives because they have no financial base and they're in strong Democratic districts, so they risk a lot less voting for a bailout than those in close seats. This time around, there may be enough progressives who are willing to join with the Blue Dogs and vote against a bill with a mandate, but no public option alternative, to push it over the top (or under the minimum of needed votes, as the case may be).
Financial Reform Bill Passes (with No Help from the Corporate Whore All-Stars)
|By: David Dayen Friday December 11, 2009 4:30 pm
The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, one of the most sweeping regulatory changes to the financial industry since the Great Depression, passed the House of Representatives today by a final vote of 223-202. On final passage, 27 Democrats voted no along with every Republican voting.


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The Food and Drug Administration has approved changes to the labels of several drugs made by Merck, the agency said Friday.
Merck will collaborate with a Korean manufacturer to develop a biosimilar version of a drug used for autoimmune diseases.
The National Community Pharmacists Association on Monday announced that nominations currently are being accepted for its Willard B. Simmons Independent Pharmacist of the Year Award and the NCPA Prescription Drug Safety Award.
More than 200 drugs are under development in the United States for treating skin diseases, according to the country's largest pharmaceutical industry trade group.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a bête noire among much of the Republican party since President Obama signed it into law. But as GOP presidential candidates prepared for the first official debate in Manchester, N.H., one group launched a series of ads defending it and other programs to address the nation's health coverage gap.
Men with prostate cancer are at a higher risk of developing diabetes or diabetes risk factors if they receive a therapy designed to block the production of testosterone, a new study has suggested.
Catalyst Health Solutions on Monday announced it has completed its acquisition of Walgreens' pharmacy benefit management subsidiary, Walgreens Health Initiatives.
Abbott has delivered quarterly dividends for more than 300 consecutive quarters as of Friday, the drug maker said.
Cardinal Health on Friday announced a new pharmacy college scholarship program, making $1.1 million in scholarship funds available to 13 pharmacy schools. Recipient schools will be endowed with scholarship funding ranging from $50,000 to $125,000.
A new strain of swine flu has emerged that appears somewhat resistant to flu drugs, according to published reports.
Health 2.0 and Walgreens on Thursday announced the launch of the Walgreens 2011 Challenge: A New Approach to Patient Information Navigation, which invites teams of developers to create an application that presents aggregated U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data on specific health topics.
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of South Carolina found that unhealthy food products that tout healthy names may dupe dieters into considering them as good-for-you items.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Selecta Biosciences have established a research collaboration to develop vaccines for Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes.
MinuteClinic has entered a clinical affiliation with OhioHealth, a not-for-profit, charitable healthcare organization based in Columbus, Ohio. MinuteClinic has seven walk-in medical clinics inside select CVS/pharmacy stores throughout the region.
Patients with Parkinson's disease treated with an investigational drug made by Abbott saw a decrease in the amount of time their symptoms resurfaced, while the time in which their symptoms stayed under control increased, according to results of a late-stage clinical trial that Abbott announced Thursday.
A federal court has ruled in favor of drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. in a dispute with Amylin Pharmaceuticals over Lilly's partnership with German drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim.
Patients with Type 1 diabetes using an insulin product made by Eli Lilly can store it in their pumps for longer periods of time, while children using it have additional options, thanks to a labeling change approved Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Question: On a frequent basis I see news reports concerning "pending" home sales. What are they and are they significant? Answer: Pending home sales are a measure of real estate activity released monthly by the National Association of Realtors. "A sale is listed as pending," says NAR, "when the contract has been signed but the […]March 30th, 2015 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Should We Dump Mortgage Insurance?
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Does It Make Sense To Prepay An ARM?
Question: We often hear about the advantages of prepaying fixed-rate mortgages but not the benefits of paying ahead with ARMs. I have prepaid my ARM over time and now enjoy far lower monthly costs because of less principal and lower rates. Why not encourage more people to take this approach? Answer: You raise an important point. […]March 16th, 2015 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Does Wall Street Home Buying Hurt You?
Question: Wall Street firms are buying up huge numbers of single-family homes. How does this impact private home buyers? Answer: We usually think of single-home real estate investors as local people who buy several properties and keep them over time or as rehabbers who buy properties, fix them up and then quickly re-sell. The entry […]March 9th, 2015 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Is Your Real Estate Offer Confidential?
Question: We made an offer on a home. The listing broker said there were three more offers and we would have to increase our bid. The other offers, like ours, were all cash. How do we know there was another bid or that it was higher? If we raise and win (or lose) can we […]March 2nd, 2015 | Peter G. Miller | 3 comments | Continued
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LYONS, France, January 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Artprice, wishes to inform the market that the decision (7 January 2013) regarding guarantees of intellectual property rights in China will henceforward allow Baidu, the most visited website in China and the fourth most visited on the internet, the same bandwidth and machine power as Google (contractual agreement since 2003); Henceforward, Baidu will be able to search over one million logs per day to absorb the tens of millions of Artprice pages in Mandarin and the 210 million pages in five other languages.
Baidu was founded by Li Yanhong and Eric Xu in January 2000 in Beijing and very rapidly became China's market leader on the back of its Mandarin search technology. Vis-à-vis Google, its marketing slogan is "Baidu knows Chinese better".
In 2013, mainly through Baidu (China) and Google, and including its different languages, Artprice's aims to post approximately 210 million standardised free Art Market data online (without any impact on its turnover and earnings) and hence occupy the heart of the market via its fixed-price and auction-based Standardised Marketplace.
Artprice is therefore continuing its conquest of new customers (and their accompanying behavioural logs) in the framework of its integration of Big Data implemented at the end of 2011. This Artprice Big Data - which represents the firm's principal source of wealth, but which does not appear on its balance sheet - may best be understood by reading an article in Le Monde: http://goo.gl/NgiJ3
Artprice now has a colossal customer database with records of over 18 billion logs - in full compliance with the regulations of the European and American authorities - that allows it to know exactly what each of its clients is looking for and/or possesses through its Data Mining and now Big Data activities.
-Lex Google- is not really the right answer in the global digital economy.
In 2013, Google and Baidu (China) have become the direct interfaces for all of Artprice's databanks. The relationship between Google and Artprice is contractual and dates back to 2003. It is in itself, proof that Lex Google is not really the appropriate solution in the global digital economy.
As announced in its last press release, Artprice has - since early December 2012 in the case of Google and since January 2013 in the case of Baidu (China) - started making a very large part of the structure of its databanks and its Market Art standardization available as online freeware (free proprietary software license, but with certain usage restrictions).
All of the industrial processes forming Artprice's databanks are patent protected, notably via patents filed with the A.P.P. (Agence de Protection des Programmes- Software Protection Agency).
http://www.artprice.com (c)1987-2012 thierry Ehrmann
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After the close of markets on 21 December 2012, ARTPRICE joined the prestigious SBF 120 index. Following the quarterly review of the Euronext Paris indices, the meeting of the Scientific NYSE Euronext Committee for Indices decided to admit Artprice.com into the CAC Mid 60 and the SBF 120. The SBF 120 index is composed of the 120 largest French listed companies, including the CAC 40 companies and the country's 80 most liquid stocks.
The current liquidity of the Artprice share is 3.83 million euros per day calculated over 440 trading days (amounting to a total of 1.688 billion euros).
Artprice is the global leader in databank on Artprices and indices with more than 27 million indices and auction results covering more than 500,000 artists. Artprice Images® offers unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world, a library of 108 million images or engravings of artworks from 1700 to the present day along with comments by Artprice's art historians. Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 4,500 international auction houses and auctioneers and publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the main news agencies and 6,300 international written media. For its 2.072 million members (member log in), Artprice posts standardized adverts in what is today the world's leading Standardised Marketplace® for buying and selling works of art by private contract or at auctions -regulated by French law alinéas 2 et 3 de l'article L 321.3 du code du commerce-
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SYS-CON Events announced today that robomq.io will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. robomq.io is an interoperable and composable platform that connects any device to any application. It helps systems integrators and the solution providers build new and innovative products and service for industries requiring monitoring or intelligence from devices and sensors.
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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, will discuss how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at the same time reduce Time to Market (TTM) by using plug and play capabilities offered by a robust I...
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After making a doctor's appointment via your mobile device, you receive a calendar invite. The day of your appointment, you get a reminder with the doctor's location and contact information. As you enter the doctor's exam room, the medical team is equipped with the latest tablet containing your medical history – he or she makes real time updates to your medical file. At the end of your visit, you receive an electronic prescription to your preferred pharmacy and can schedule your next appointment.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Solgenia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Solgenia is the global market leader in Cloud Collaboration and Cloud Infrastructure software solutions. Designed to "Bridge the Gap" between Personal and Professional Social, Mobile and Cloud user experiences, our solutions help large and medium-sized organizations dr...
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While not quite mainstream yet, WebRTC is starting to gain ground with Carriers, Enterprises and Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) alike. WebRTC makes it easy for developers to add audio and video communications into their applications by using Web browsers as their platform. But like any market, every customer engagement has unique requirements, as well as constraints. And of course, one size does not fit all. In her session at WebRTC Summit, Dr. Natasha Tamaskar, Vice President, Head of Cloud and Mobile Strategy at GENBAND, will explore what is needed to take a real time communications ...
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- RETURN POLICYHave you ever gone to the store to return something and lost the receipt? Chances are that makes retailers more nervous than it makes you. In 2009 the National Retail Federation estimated that 1 in 13 returns were fraudulent, resulting in losses of up to $14.8b. How do you mitigate these losses while enhancing the customer's experience?
- THERE'S AN APP FOR THATIntroducing a mobile app that assists consumers before, during, and after their shopping visits by facilitating shopping lists, offering budgeting tools, and finally recording receipts—all for free. Here's the catch: shopping lists, budgets, and receipts are used to form analytics for consumer spending behavior.
- WIREFRAMES AND PAPER PROTOTYPESTo quickly capture the essential functions of the App, we sketched out the menu structures and information hierarchy. We kept the essential functions of the app displayed prominently in a tray menu at the bottom, with user account settings embedded in a slide down menu at the top. The app includes budgeting, shopping lists, and feedback options for shoppers to access on the go.
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- PAPERLESS TRAILShopper's and business travelers alike benefit from improved recordkeeping of electronic receipts. Additionally, retailers cut receiptpaper supply costs and promote an eco-friendly image. Analytics are purchased by major retailers, providing enhanced proximity-basedmetrics as well as operational safeguards against fraudulent returns.This business-to-business marketing plan requires a two-tier strategy appealing to both consumers and retailers alike.
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Fertilizing pansies
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Yeah it's pansy time here in WI! So I bought some and potted them up on Sunday. Now I would like to actually keep them healthy and happy and hopefully have them fill out the pot! So I have dutifully watered and am now wondering when/if I should fertlize? All have open blooms and one pot has some chives in it as well. I do have a fish/seaweed fertilizer that I could use. When should I use it and are there signs that a pot needs fertilizer?
I posted yesterday, but must have not clicked all the way through as my response isn't here.
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Anyway, the abbreviated version of yesterday's post is that pansies are fairly hardy and don't really need to be fed. In the ground that is. In a container a once a month feeding at normal strength with the organic fert you mentioned should do them fine.
Try to avoid any fert that is high in nitrogen as this tends to promote green growth at the expense of flowers.
The chives you have with pansies in one pot should do OK together as far as feeding requirements as both are low need when it comes to feeding. The pansies will require more water than chives to do their best, but chives should be fine with the moist soil pansies want although chives don't require moist soil and do fine in drier conditions. Heck, chives do fine in most any conditions. They are true survivors. Forget about the chives, they take care of themselves! ;-)


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why bother with airplanes at all? Why not just use explosives?
Explosives, in my opinion, are sufficiently terroristy, and the airplanes make everything vastly more complex. Why complicate an otherwise sound plot?
As an amateur blacksmith and a professional mechanical engineer, I know that ordinary fires can soften steel to only a few percent of its strength at room temperature.
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PSB, St. B cop shop examples of polarizing architecture
The '60s was a decade of sweeping change and exuberant style; Zeppelin and Floyd, Corvettes and Mustangs, bell bottoms and miniskirts. As the baby-boom generation watched man walk on the moon, the ideas of the past were washed away in a tide of forward-looking enthusiasm.
More than four decades later, we remain enamoured with the psychedelic styles and imagery of the Mad Men era, yet architecture finds itself the one artistic expression from that time that is unloved and even reviled in today's popular culture.
Architecture of the '60s was a celebration of new technologies and a reflection of the ambitious society from which it came. Often criticized for lacking personality and texture, the clean lines of '60s modernism rejected the styles of the past, boldly looking toward the future for inspiration. These ideals extended to urban renewal, which was often seen as a government-led initiative that would sweep away entire neighbourhoods, replacing them with the sterilized order of modernist buildings.
The Civic Centre campus, which included the new city hall, Public Safety Building, Centennial Concert Hall and Manitoba Museum was the manifestation of this movement in Winnipeg. In the name of progress, entire blocks of the downtown were demolished and replaced with a series of monolithic structures that would overwhelm the pedestrian scale and dismantle the neighbourhood's organic composition. This disengagement with the human experience at an urban level contributes significantly to the negative perception of 1960s architecture in contemporary public opinion.
With modern construction technology in its infancy at the time, many buildings of this era have also not aged gracefully. The Public Safety Building, the most brazen of the Civic Centre structures, has for a decade been plagued by significant problems with its Tyndall-stone facade. Steel straps currently hold the panels in place and a protective walkway was built in 2006 to ensure pedestrian safety. With the police soon relocating to the former Canada Post building, the fate of one of Winnipeg's most polarizing structures has become uncertain.
Built in 1965, the PSB is a grand, audacious building designed by Libling Michener & Associates in the brutalist style of modernism. Brutalism is precisely as it sounds. It is characterized by heavy, fortress-like massing, aggressive lines and cold materials. It was a style as unapologetic as the skimpy bikinis and wide-collar shirts that defined the brash 1960s. Brutalism is not endearing. It is uncomfortable and challenging. It is a style you either love passionately or you absolutely despise. There is no indifference.
Because of the visceral reaction these buildings elicit, they are commonly disliked and are more often demolished than redeveloped.
Preservationists argue buildings such as the PSB represent a time in our history that is important to recognize and protect. They maintain that while the ideals of brutalism may not be in line with current architectural sensitivity, its evocative expression can provide visual texture and animation to a vibrant city. Acknowledging brutalist buildings can be difficult to live with, its supporters stress they are rarely bland and always evoke an emotional response that can enrich the experience of urban living.
Brutalist structures portray an image of bravado, making them popular across North America for government and law-enforcement buildings. In a parallel saga, the PSB's smaller, less flamboyant brother across the river also faced an uncertain future. Designed in a softer version of brutalism in 1963 by renowned local architect Étienne Gaboury, the St. Boniface Police Station on Provencher Boulevard was declared surplus by the city following construction of a new facility in 2008.
Similar to the PSB, the structural rigidity and harsh aesthetics typical of brutalist buildings led to the complex remaining vacant and being threatened with demolition. Recently, two proud members of the local community stepped forward with a plan to convert the facility into a francophone medical clinic. Having been saved from the wrecking ball, the building's impending redevelopment provides hope others of its kind might also find new life.
The Public Safety Building's introverted plan and segregation from the street makes it a much more difficult building to redefine and reconnect to its surroundings. Its scale, technical challenges and cost of redevelopment likely mean it will not meet with similar fortune.
Whatever its future holds, the opportunity exists with the PSB to inspire public debate about the definition of heritage in our city's built environment. Should it be limited to buildings with cornices and arched windows or might heritage be defined more broadly to include all the significant architectural styles that work together to create Winnipeg's multi-layered narrative, rich urban character and visual texture?
In a city that allows its old airport terminal to be so easily demolished and offers such little resistance to the loss of century-old buildings in its National Historic Site, it would certainly be an uphill battle to arouse public support for the inclusion of modernist and even unfriendly brutalist buildings under the preservationist umbrella.
As we finally begin to shed our image as a city of uninspired architecture, however, it might serve us well to find a place in our urban renaissance for provocative older buildings such as the PSB. Like renovating the bathroom in your suburban '60s bungalow and leaving the original pastel green toilet and tub, some will hate it, some will love it, but it is guaranteed to enliven the conversation and inspire reaction.
Brent Bellamy is senior design architect for Number Ten Architectural Group.
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Body of man who fell from boat on Withlacoochee is recovered
Published: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:02 p.m.
DUNNELLON - Divers on Friday afternoon recovered the body of a 53-year-old man who apparently fell from a boat into the Withlacoochee River on Thursday afternoon, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
Commission spokeswoman Joy Hill said the man - Roy L. Morand, 53, - was boating with two other adults: Sterrick D. McNeil Jr., 49, and that man's brother, Vernon, 53. All are from Ocala.
They were aboard a 12-foot fiberglass boat on the river in front of City Beach when the younger McNeil began pulling up the anchor.
Hill said as he was pulling up the anchor, the boat tilted slightly, taking on some water. Hill said Morand and Sterrick McNeil fell overboard.
McNeil managed to get back into the boat, while Morand did not, authorities said.
FFWCC was notified about the incident at 6:45 p.m. Hill said the Marion County Sheriffs Office dive team responded to the area and searched for the man but suspended its search once it got dark.
The search resumed at about 7 a.m. Friday morning in the murky waters. The body was found about 20 yards from where the man reportedly fell into the water, and was about 20 deep in the water.
Hill said that while life jackets were on board, none of the boats occupants was wearing one.
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International Student Exchange Program Subsidy - Outbound Students, University of Western Australia (UWA)
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- Description
- Under the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP), the Australian Government provides funding to UWA to support the participation of outgoing Australian undergraduate exchange students.All eligible students who have applied for the UWA Exchange Program are automatically considered for these subsidies. As the number of available subsidies is limited, applicants are considered based on academic merit, and awards will be allocated by the UWA Study Abroad Scholarships Committee.Please not exchange application deadlines http://www.international.uwa.edu.au/students/exchange/apply
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- Value
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- Value unit
- One off payment in total
- Basis of award
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- Eligibility
- Students must be enrolled at UWA
- Must be approved to participate in the UWA Student Exchange Program (see http://www.international.uwa.edu.au/students/exchange/eligibility for exchange eligibility criteria)
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Prisoner abuse in Iraq
Original post made by Jag Singh, Duveneck/St. Francis, on Jun 26, 2006
More recently it has defended the practice of holding Iraqi detainees in tiny cells as "reasonable". The cells measured "four feet high, four feet long, and 20 inches wide" which makes it impossible for prisoners to stand up or lie down a clear violation of the Geneva Convention. Once again the Pentagon reneged on its promise to treat prisoners humanely. The cells bore a striking resemblance to the tiny cells in Auschwitz where prisoners were unable to stand up or lie down.
There can never be a favorable outcome of the war in Iraq only revulsion and shame and anger at the president and his advisors who have used a web of deceit and fear to maintain their dwindling grip on power. This war is a sad testimony to our compliant media and our lawmakers who have been cowered by indecision and misguided patriotism. It is a pity the pro-life Republicans who want to 'stay the course' fail to 'walk the walk' by sending their sons and daughters to the killing fields of Iraq.
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For over two hundred years the mechanical metronome has been a vital tool for musicians, but it's limited, often distracting, and can't be used in a performance setting. Berlin-based startup Soundbrenner's answer is the Pulse wearable metronome, which keeps the beat by vibration or light and can be programmed for multiple players. Read More
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Given the premier nature of Switzerland's watchmaking industry, the level of excitement, glitz and glamor that surrounds Baselworld should come as no surprise. The town of Basel, nestled as it is just minutes from the French and German borders, was littered with banners, flags and posters this month, signalling the arrival of the biggest event on any watchmaker's calendar. Once again, Gizmag joined the thousands of trade, press and public attendees in search of the latest and greatest in wrist-worn fashion and innovation. Read More
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US vow over disputed uslands 'may backfire'
Publication Date : 25-04-2014
US President Barack Obama's promise of military cover for Japan's claim on the Diaoyu Islands faces the potential of backfiring, observers said.
Obama stated in a press conference in Tokyo on Thursday that the US-Japan mutual security treaty covers China's Diaoyu Islands.
"We do not believe that they should be subject to change unilaterally, and what is a consistent part of the alliance is that the treaty covers all territories administered by Japan."
The forthright remarks from Obama are widely interpreted as a display of Washington's strong commitment to its Asian allies designed to dispel suspicion of weakening US clout in the region.
Obama is on a four-nation tour that was postponed seven months ago because of the US government shutdown. He faced flak at the time for postponing the trip, both in the US and overseas, amid criticism that the US was preoccupied with domestic affairs at the expense of its international commitments.
Responding to Obama's comments, Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said that the Chinese army will continue military patrols in "relevant waters" in the East China Sea.
The Chinese military is "fully capable of safeguarding the Diaoyu Islands, and it is unnecessary for other nations to go to extreme lengths to provide a so-called security guarantee," Yang said, adding that China will firmly safeguard territorial sovereignty in the face of provocation from Japan.
Ruan Zongze, vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies, said Obama's remarks may lead to unforeseen problems because the military commitment - directly naming specific islands - could "sabotage US strategic initiatives in the region" and undermine its strategic flexibility.
"As a result, Tokyo is keeping Washington in check in this regard, and, honestly, the ruling Japanese cabinet is very unpredictable," Ruan said.
Ruan noted that Obama's remarks about the islands "also harm the credibility of the US", because instead of taking an honest broker's viewpoint the US is firmly backing one side and this has the potential to cause problems.
With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe beside him, Obama told reporters that he had not drawn any new "red line" over the islands, and he emphasized the need to resolve maritime disputes peacefully.
"The treaty between the US and Japan preceded my birth, so, obviously, this isn't a red line that I'm drawing," Obama said.
Li Haidong, a researcher of US studies at China Foreign Affairs University, said Obama's visit to Japan aimed to boost Japan's status as a "pillar" of Asia-Pacific security and as a key player in containing China.
But, Li said, the two allies have different agendas.
"The US seeks stability in the big picture of its relationship with China, yet Japan is not afraid of fanning the flames of a conflict with China," Li said.
The US-Japan defence treaty requires Washington to come to Japan's defence if it is attacked.
Experts said Washington believes that backing Tokyo will have long-term benefits.
Lyu Yaodong, an expert on Japanese diplomacy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said Obama is "determined to see tangible progress in his rebalancing strategy" during his Asian trip, and "to achieve this goal, satisfying demands from Japan regarding the islands is necessary".
Abe told reporters on Thursday that "the Japan-US alliance is more robust than ever before."
"The US pivot cannot succeed without strong support from important allies such as Japan," Lyu said.
Ruan noted a shift in the US-Japan military relationship, and one example is that the US is "outsourcing" more defence duties to Japan.
"Washington believes that its promise on the islands is a feasible way to strengthen its influence over Japan, and accordingly Washington wants Japan's self-defence forces to play a greater role, which is very dangerous," Ruan said.
Yang, the Defence Ministry spokesman, also confirmed what Chinese Navy Commander Wu Shengli said on Wednesday about a worst-case scenario.
Wu told reporters on the sidelines of the Western Pacific Naval Symposium that the possibility of a military conflict remains between China and Japan, and the priority is to "prevent the outbreak of a conflict".
Yang also said the PLA will continue military patrols in waters near a tropical Japanese island close to Taiwan, days after Tokyo announced it would break ground on a new radar base in the area.
The radar station on Yonaguni Island, just 150km from the Diaoyu Islands, marks Japan's first military expansion at the western end of its island chain in more than 40 years.
"We are paying close attention to Japan's military trends," he said.
"China's military will continue to carry out battle readiness patrols, military drills and other activities in the area," Yang said.
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ST. LOUIS — When Pope Francis was elected, he appeared to the crowd in St. Peter's Square without the short, red velvet cape known as a mozzetta. Some Roman Catholics immediately cried foul, worried that the pope's decision to forgo the more formal wear signaled a threat to traditional Catholic worship.
Specifically, they fretted over the fate of the old Latin Mass, now in the hands of a papacy that seemed to shrug off pomp and circumstance.
But more than one year into Francis' reign, the Tridentine Mass, as it is sometimes called, appears to be alive and well. Decades after the Roman Catholic Church moved away from celebrating Mass in Latin, a throwback movement is growing, in many cases with the young leading the charge.
This week, four men were ordained into the priesthood at St. Francis de Sales Oratory, the neo-Gothic church in south St. Louis known for practicing the Latin liturgy, for its soaring 300-foot steeple and for its listing on the National Registry of Historic Places.
The Mass marked only the second time members of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest have been ordained in the United States. The religious community, founded in Africa in 1990, regularly celebrates the old-style Mass, or the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, as Pope Benedict XVI referred to it.
Slow, steady rise
Mary Kraychy, with the Coalition in Support of Ecclesia Dei, a nonprofit group based in Glenview, Ill., that promotes the Latin Mass, says she's seen a slow but steady rise in the practice, with more than 400 churches offering the liturgy. The organization sells missals that display the Latin text of the Mass alongside the English translation.
Kraychy describes it as a "youth movement," with much of the enthusiasm for the rite espoused by those who are too young to remember the Second Vatican Council. In 1969, Pope Paul VI declared that the church should perform Mass in the native language of parishioners, which led to the Tridentine Mass being largely replaced.
Francis Altiere, 32, is from Pennsylvania and has a degree from Harvard University. He says his decision to become a priest is owed in part to his discovery of the traditional Latin Mass in a church in downtown Boston.
"At this Mass I really understood the priesthood for the first time," Altiere said. "The primary reason for the beauty of our churches and liturgical ceremonies is to give glory to God, but it is also such a powerful means of evangelization."
Those who attend St. Francis de Sales Oratory also say their faith is strengthened by the liturgy and by the feeling of solidarity experienced by those who attend the Mass.
"Everybody here believes what they're doing is true, real," said Tom Leith, 55, an engineer in St. Louis. "You're among people who believe what the church teaches."
St. Francis de Sales Oratory loyalists say a combination of pacing and visual cues allow even those with little knowledge of Latin to follow the Mass.
Jim Kahre drives 40 minutes with his nine children from High Ridge to visit the church every Sunday.
"I almost get goose bumps," said Kahre, who works in IT at an accounting firm.
In 2011, Roman Catholics in the English-speaking world were introduced to a new translation of the Mass that is said to more closely align with the original Latin.
Altiere, said he will use his new gifts as a priest to not only recite the Mass in Latin, but also to save souls.
"There is a saying that the priest does not go to heaven alone," Altiere said. "My goal as a priest is simply to lead as many souls to heaven as possible."