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Why the United States needs to get out of the 'indispensable nation' business.
- By Gordon AdamsGordon Adams is a Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University and a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. From 1993-97 he was the senior White House budget official for national security.
Senator McCain is pushing Gen. Dempsey to get the United States into the fight in Syria. NSA chief Keith Alexander announces the creation of 40 new cyberwarrior teams, 13 of which are dedicated to the development of offensive cyberweapons. The urge to advance America's national security agenda around the globe, using the military instrument, continues unabated despite a defense drawdown, the potential for the defense budget to drop another $52 billion below what the administration asked for next year, and Secretary Hagel's warnings that the going is going to get tougher.
It makes me wonder if it is not time to rethink our assumptions in a fundamental way. In the 1990s, when I worked in the White House doing defense and foreign policy budgets, the Clinton staff regularly asked with wonder, "Why do we spend so much on the military?" Pretty senior people, not just the young whippersnappers like George Stephanopoulos or Rahm Emmanuel.
After a while I got to expect the question, so I would routinely carry with me a set of briefing graphics that described the U.S. defense posture and its budget. The graphics told a story about what the U.S. military did and where they did it. They weren't about waste or out of control "back office" administrative costs, or runaway pricing of weapons programs. Those all contribute to the size of the budget.
But at the heart, I would explain, we had and have a huge military establishment because, at the very core of our foreign and national security policy, we assume that the U.S. military, the United States as a whole, is responsible for everything and the military needs to be everywhere.
When I walked people through the briefing, I would point out that the American soldier, sailor, and pilot is everywhere. The U.S. military was then (and continues to be today) the only one in the world with a truly global presence. No other country has global military communications, global logistics, global intelligence operations, global basing, global transportation. No other military can deploy forces anywhere in the world, by sea or by air, fly in any airspace (in principle), sail to any part of the world. No other military even tried — not then, not today.
It's not just about the costs of overseas basing; it's about having the personnel, equipment, and capability to do that anywhere in the world. To put a fine point on it, we have, for decades, asserted and executed the role of global system integrator. And our defense budget is expensive, fundamentally, because the military is the primary instrument for ensuring we can play that role.
This assumption is as common to our discourse as the water we drink and the air we breathe. It is hardly questioned. Just listen to the politicians' speeches and the policymakers' declarations. If there is a failing state in Syria, we must start planning to use the military to deal with it. If there is a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the U.S. military is needed to provide assistance. If there is a bad guy oppressing his people, we need to step in with swift regime-change justice. If there are untreated illnesses on the Latin American coast, the American military has to sail a hospital ship in to comfort them. If there is an Islamic extremist surge in Mali, the U.S. military has to engage at least to the extent of supplying intelligence, transportation, and fuel, and then bulk up training programs for African militaries, along with our own military presence on that continent.
The assumption is very broad; it affects much of American statecraft and foreign policy. The success of our diplomacy and the global trading system depend on our global military presence. Our global diplomacy will fail, some argue, if the United States does not have a global military to back it up. The U.S. military is the bedrock "guarantor" of security in every region. Terrorist organizations can only be confronted by the United States, primarily through military operations.
The global "commons" depends on the U.S. military to ensure that the seas are safe, the airspace is used peacefully, outer space is not militarized (though we send much of our military communications through space-based assets). And, increasingly, the global cybercommons, it is argued, is a responsibility of U.S. Cyber Command, the leader of which is currently dual-hatted with the job of leading the National Security Agency, responsible for all that global listening and data gathering we are hearing about.
This huge capability, operating on a global basis, is rarely questioned. When it is, or when a major combat deployment on land ends, as I pointed out last week, the military "shrinks" a bit to some more normal state (especially the ground forces), awaiting some new assignment of responsibility for an event or challenge somewhere around the globe. Meanwhile, we pursue "stealth globalism," forces and intelligence operatives who work more in the dark — as they did in the 1950s, the 1980s, and today.
All kinds of signals are now appearing that this global role is unsustainable, even counterproductive, and out of touch with the dramatic changes taking place in the world. Yet we push on, as if the assumption is still tenable.
The explosions in the Middle East reflect historical realities which we did not create and which we cannot control, yet political leaders like Sen. McCain still bluster that we can and ought to use our military to do so. And yet our very global presence seems to exacerbate the problem; the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha found, in a June opinion survey of 14 countries, that the United States and Israel were considered "the largest threats to Arab national security."
The finding is consistent with the conclusion drawn by CIA counterterrorism operative Michael Scheuer 10 years ago in his book Imperial Hubris, that what sustained support for al Qaeda in the region was not anti-American values or cultural reaction, but resistance to America's presence and policy in the region.
The rise of China, which the military's "Asian Pivot" is designed to contain or resist, is not something we caused. But it is inevitable, and the expansion of the U.S. military presence in the region is a double-edged sword. It may appear to reassure some of China's neighbors; it may also exacerbate precisely the military confrontation it is intended to prevent. But it is clearly built on the global assumption: Regional powers cannot resolve contentious security issues, so we must be there with a major military presence.
For decades the security assumption in Europe was that the American military presence ensured not only the deterrence of the Soviet Union, but also provided the sinews that bound the security of the European countries together. Yet, for the past 20, nay, even for the past 50 years, the United States has pushed the Europeans to bulk up their militaries; they have not only failed to do so, but their military budgets have plummeted as the Europeans make their own choices about their security interests, impervious to U.S. global demands.
And today, having learned that the global intelligence apparatus of the United States was not only gathering military and security secrets, but tapping into such un-terrorist locations as the offices of the European Union, the Europeans are asking themselves what is the cost to their security of such deep intrusion by the big brother across the Atlantic.
And despite the rhetoric about the global commons, today ships sail without naval protection (don't talk to me about pirates — a nit on the seas compared to the global naval traffic). Aircraft fly under rules negotiated by diplomats and technical experts; they are not accompanied, each, by an American fighter jet. Aside from military communications, space is full of commercial enterprise, guaranteed by commercial rules and international agreements. And I have just noted the down-side of making the NSA responsible for policing cyberspace.
I despair, I confess, of any expectation that the Washington assumption will be reexamined. But it is worth raising the flag, because persisting in the illusion that we should, and can, be the indispensible nation, the guarantor of the system, the protector of the commons, is unsustainable, counterproductive, and even dangerous.
In a world where virtually no problem can be solved without the cooperation of all, especially inevitably rising powers like Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, India, Iran, China, and even Russia, the assumption that we have the answers and are the indispensible manager is just plain wrong; it passed its sell-by date a long time ago.
And being wrong, it can be counterproductive. We walk in with the answer, send the forces to execute the answer, and discover that we are not as beloved as we think we are.
And not being beloved, we become the force to resist, which frustrates the very purpose we set out to accomplish.
Plus, today, the entire global mission is unaffordable. No amount of increase in defense spending is going to reverse the trends I have identified. As defense resources decline, and they will decline with our fiscal and economic troubles and the end of the misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, we will still have the world's only global military. But it is going to have to be matched with our non-military, civilian wits, because using the military tool is not buying us the security we once thought it did.
It is time to rethink the assumptions, because the price of not doing so is too high; its ineffectiveness too obvious, and the blowback too threatening to our long-term security.
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Compulsory purchase order
A compulsory purchase order (CPO) is a legal function in the United Kingdom and Ireland that allows certain bodies which need to obtain land or property to do so without the consent of the owner. It may be enforced if a proposed development is considered one for public betterment; for example, when building motorways where a land owner does not want to sell. Similarly, if town councils wish to develop a town centre, they may issue compulsory purchase orders.
In Ireland, CPOs became quite common due to the massive road upgrade programme under the National Development Plan. CPOs are also used for rail projects. If one objects to the issuing of a CPO, one may appeal to the High Court.[1] Compensation is available to ensure that the person is restored, as far as possible, to the same position that they were in before the land and property were compulsorily purchased, so that the person is left in the same financial position after the CPO as they were in before the process.[2]
In the United Kingdom, most Orders are made as subordinate legislation under powers given to Local Authorities in existing legislation (e.g. an Order for road works is made under the Highways Act 1980). Whilst the powers are strong, the Authority must demonstrate that the taking of the land is necessary and there is a "compelling case in the public interest". Owners or occupiers can challenge this, and their objection will be heard by an independent Inspector.
Compensation rights usually include the value of the property, costs of acquiring and moving to a new property, and sometimes additional payments. Costs of professional advice regarding compensation are usually reimbursed by the Authority, so that people affected by a compulsory purchase order can seek advice from a solicitor and a surveyor and expect to be reimbursed.
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Machia in custody; bond set at nearly $1 million
Anthony Machia of Falls Village and his attorney, Michael Merati of Torrington, in Bantam Superior Court on Tuesday. John McKenna photo |
This time around, the state is making sure he won't so easily slip away.
Machia was ordered held on $996,000 bond for breaking the rules of his release while awaiting prosecution on charges following what police describe as a drunken, high-speed ride across the Northwest Corner in January. The bond set Tuesday far exceeds the $154,000 bond Machia met that allowed him to go free.
And this time, should Machia manage to post bond, the conditions of his release will include the Global Positioning System monitoring rejected in March when state officials said topographical limitations near Machia's Falls Village home made such surveillance impossible. State probation officials, and the company that provides the service, later told The Sunday Republican there are no limitations statewide.
In shackles just four days after he was able to walk out of the same courtroom on a pretrial appearance, Machia, 30, stood silently in work clothes and boots. His Torrington attorney, Michael Merati, answered "not guilty" in a firm voice to the judge's standard inquiry.
Calling it an "unusual" situation, Judge Richard M. Marano raised his bond to nearly $1 million. The new amount includes increases on pending cases and a $750,000 bond on a warrant served by state police who showed up at Bantam Superior Court Tuesday.
Merati said there are no plans to free Machia, who will get credit for time served if he is convicted and sentenced to prison.
The warrant issued Monday claims Machia violated the conditions of his release by drinking and driving.
Assistant State's Attorney Jonathan Knight declined to comment when asked if a 10-year prison term offered to Machia as a deal to avoid trial as an enhanced three-time DUI offender is still on the table. At his appearance Friday, Machia was given a week to decide if he'd take the deal or go to trial.
Knight asked Marano to keep the bond at the $1 million set when Machia was arrested.
"He presents an extreme risk to the general public," Knight said.
Police made his recapture a priority, but Machia was able to elude them through a network of friends and family, investigators said. Connecticut resident Joseph Whynott told police Sunday he saw Machia drinking at a house party on Barnum Road in Sheffield, Mass.
Whynott said he has known Machia for years but only as an acquaintance. Whynott, who told police he arrived separately at the gathering, told the Republican-American that Machia had been dropped off at the party. Whynott planned to spend the night on the farm property and didn't notice his GMC pickup was missing until police called him the following morning.
Police had found the truck in a muddy area just off the road with Whynott's wallet and keys inside. The empty alcohol containers inside were not his, Whynott said.
Whynott said Machia's drinking habits weren't any of his business. "He is not my friend," Whynott said.
A Volkswagen Jetta that had been parked nearby was reported missing just after daybreak. It too had been left with the keys in the ignition. The whereabouts of the Jetta remain unknown, police said.
Machia already has stolen seven other vehicles, according to police and court documents.
IN COURT TUESDAY, Marano carefully noted details of Machia's record which have been amended by the Bail Commissioner's Office, including a previous DUI conviction in Massachusetts unknown to Connecticut officials when the plea deal was offered. When asked about the Massachusetts DUI by The Sunday Republican, the state's attorney's office confirmed its existence.
Problems gaining access to other states' motor vehicle records are notorious in the court system, where Knight has said it seems like he needs a "key to unlock it."
Although Connecticut and Massachusetts count each other's drunken driving convictions against a defendant's record, those records sometimes go unchecked. Frederick Weller of Newtown was among those who fell through the cracks, racking up six DUI convictions in four states and escaping the notice of probation officers and prosecutors until he crashed his wife's Ford F-350 pickup truck along Route 7 in Sheffield on Feb. 28, 2012, killing 24-year-old Moira Banks Dobson and seriously injuring 53-year-old Russell Brown.
Weller's crash happened a couple of miles west of the stolen truck police say Machia crashed after the party.
The Republican-American has not yet learned the details of Machia's confirmed DUI conviction in Massachusetts. In Connecticut, he was convicted of assault with a motor vehicle for causing a crash in 2003 which injured three including himself, and in 2010 for an arrest in Thomaston. He has two drunken-driving charges pending in Connecticut, one from last August and another following a Jan. 23 car chase through the Northwest Corner. He hasn't had a license to drive since 2008 and has numerous motor vehicle convictions and pending charges including evading responsibility, engaging police in pursuit, and nine convictions for violating his probation.
His case was continued until May 23.
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Students of single-teacher schools in and around Kancheepuram will soon have better lighting during the evening hours.
The Swami Vivekananda Rural Development Society (SVRDS) distributed 75 solar lamps to 75 village schools at a function held at Sriperumbudur Single Teacher Schools Unit recently.
K.K. Sai Sekhar, a member of single-teacher schools, said the solar-powered lamps provided to the schools meant teachers could conduct classes without any interruption in the evening hours. He said the solar lamps were distributed to the schools at a cost of Rs. 3.75 lakh.
SVRDS has established single-teacher schools in 580 villages in Thiruvallur and Kancheepuram districts. Students in these schools are in the age group of 5 and 12 years, and are given value-based education in Tamil and English, and also taught mathematics and general science. Classes are held from 5.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
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Adoption is the legal process whereby a person or persons become a child's legal parent or parents. The Adoption Services Program finds permanent homes for children available for adoption. Social workers match children relinquished for adoption or who are in the continuous custody of the Director of Child, Youth and Family Services with adoptive parents. The program also approves applications to adopt a child from other Canadian provinces and territories and foreign countries.
Individual/couples who wish to apply to adopt a child should contact a social worker with the Adoption Services Program at the CYFS office in their region or call (709) 729-4394.
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Applicants may apply to adopt a child who is identified as available for adoption by another province or territory of Canada. The Department of Child, Youth and Family Services will work with adoption authorities in the child's province of birth to facilitate the adoption. Applicants must meet the requirements for adoption under the Adoption Act, 2013 in Newfoundland and Labrador and any requirements of the province/territory where the child is born.
Applicants may apply to adopt a child from a foreign country. Applicants must meet the requirements for adoption under the Adoption Act for Newfoundland and Labrador. They must also meet the requirement of the country from which they choose to adopt a child. Applicants typically use a private adoption agency licensed in Canada and the foreign country to help facilitate this complex process. Currently, there are no private agencies in Newfoundland and Labrador. Applicants usually avail of services of agencies located in other provinces.
Step-parents and relatives (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling or a first cousin of a birth parent or a child by birth or adoption) may apply to adopt a child using the Step-Parent, Relative or Person with Permanent Custody of a Child Self Help Kit.
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The Adoption Act, 2013 requires that birth parents be given information regarding adoption, the types of adoption and alternatives to adoption. Providing information about the alternatives to adoption is essential in order for the birth parents to make a fully informed decision about the permanent plan for a child.
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He laid down after his fall this morning and his legs are still giving him touble..he could not move his right leg at all when he tried to get up and cannot walk with out both me and his cane, and then he barely made it to the bathroom and back without collapsing. He can't even get his own shoes on. He refuses to let me call an ambulance so we are waiting for his sister and her hubby to show up so we can take him to the ER. Will update when we get back.
Finally home, after 6 hrs in the ER's urgent care. DX of muscle spams (no cause given) sent home with flexeral, vicodin, and naproxin. They took an x-ray to make sure he did not break/crack his hip (it was fine). They gave him a shot of Tordal while we were there and it worked great.....he was even able to drive home.
I hope he'll feel better tomorrow. Glad you took him to be sure what was wrong though.
Glad to hear nothing was broken and that you are finally getting home. Hoping that he is not too sore tomorrow.


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Emotional Disturbance (ED): Under current federal law, students with emotional, behavior or mental disorders are categorized as having an ED. A student may have this condition if he displays inappropriate behaviors and feelings, an inability to learn or develop interpersonal relationships and a general mood of unhappiness over a long period of time.
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE): Entitles a public school child with a disability to an educational program and related services to meet her unique educational needs at no cost to the parents; based on IEP; under public supervision and meets state standards
Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Federal law that provides for special education and related services to eligible children with disabilities
Individualized Education Program (IEP): Written plan to meet the unique educational needs of a child with a disability who requires special education services to benefit from the general education program; applies to kids enrolled in public schools
Informed Consent: Agreement in writing from parents that they have been informed and understand implications of special education evaluation and program decisions; permission is voluntary and may be withdrawn
Intelligence Quotient (IQ): Score used to indicate general cognitive ability; average range of intelligence, which includes 84 percent of the population, is 85 to 115
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE): Educational instruction in a place that encourages maximum interaction between disabled and nondisabled kids and is appropriate to both
Learning Disability (LD): A neurobiological disorder that affects the way a person of average to above-average intelligence receives, processes or expresses information. LD impacts one's ability to learn the basic skills of reading, writing or math
Modification: Modifications are changes in the delivery, content or instructional level of a subject or test. They result in changed or lowered expectations and create a different standard for kids with disabilities than for those without disabilities
Multidisciplinary Team: Professionals with different training and expertise; may include, but not limited to, any combination of the following public school personnel - general education teacher, special education teacher, administrator, school psychologist, speech and language therapist, counselor - and the parent
Out-of-Level Testing: When a student who is in one grade is assessed using a level of a test developed for students in another grade. Below-grade-level testing is generally what is meant when the term "out-of-level testing" is used.
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Its not even gonna be 500$ Nintendo knows that no one would buy it if it was that much. At least from around 200-300$ maybe around 100, but i doubt it
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I already got to the last boss on the my VBA(virtual boy advance) but i never beat maybe i'll beat it this time. Can't wait for fire emblem for 3ds
I'm pretty good at sonic games, but sonic heros really stumped me. I don't know if cause it was when i was little or what, but sonic colors I beat in 8 hours. could have beat it in lesser time, but distraction and other stuff. I got it on christmas and beat it on christmas. I just hope they make up for leave modern sonic mode like the classic sonic mode. Still getting it either way.
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Tobi Tritscher is one of Austrias best Freeskiers and lives in Schladming. Its the end of the season and Tobi spends another day at his home glacier. During the last season he was filming for a big european movie production and hitted some huge kickers in different QParks all over Austria. Expect a sick segment in the new "Aestivation" movie, which will be realeased in autumn!
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The Red Ninja saves our city again. Kill the Giant Spiders as they try to escape after pillaging our city.
You lose a life for every spider that you leave behind.
Touch spiders to move them forward
[Arow Up Key] - Move Up
[Arrow Down Key] - Move Down
[Spacebar] - Shoot Primary
[Enter] - Shoot Special
[+] ---- Volume Up
[-] ----- Volume Down
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Horrible, Too Much Non-Sense, And Killing Spiders? I go for blood And Gore... So Put More Effort.
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I like the consept, but it is too hard at the beggining and the character just DOESN'T move fast enough to reach spiders, it is most especially annoying if you have run out of special attacks.
Also, at the beggining could you describe the different objects that come towards you, because I kept dodging the extra special attack thing (thinking that it was something that would hurt me), until I accidentally ran into one and got an extra special attack.
Other than that, the animation was excellent, and the menu screen awesome. Good work!
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Kind of crap. The controls are awkward, If you are using the arrow keys it really should be shift and space if you want large keys. A,S or Z,X are also popular combos. The biggest reason I did not like the game is that without warning, both times I died when pressing space and a spider was hit by the super move.
You will lose a life if you leave a spider behind. So you either have to kill them or touch them to move them forward.
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Jade Sheds Light On Guatemala's Geologic History
A new analysis of jade found along the Motagua fault that bisects Guatemala is underscoring the fact that this region has a more complex geologic history than previously thought. Because jade and other associated metamorphic rocks are found on both sides of the fault, and because the jade to the north is younger by about 60 million years, a team of geologists posits in a new research paper that the North American and Caribbean plates have done more than simply slide past each other: they have collided. Twice.
"Now we understand what has happened in Guatemala, geologically," says one of the authors, Hannes Brueckner, Professor of Geology at Queens College, City University of New York. "Our new research is filling in information about plate tectonics for an area of the world that needed sorting."
Jade is a cultural term for two rare metamorphic rocks known as jadeitite (as discussed in the current research) and nephrite that are both extremely tough and have been used as tools and talismans throughout the world. The jadeitite (or jadeite jade) is a sort of scar tissue from some collisions between Earth's plates. As ocean crust is pushed under another block, or subducted, pressure increases with only modest rise in temperature, squeezing and drying the rocks without melting them. Jade precipitates from fluids flowing up the subduction channel and into the chilled, overlying mantle that becomes serpentinite. The serpentinite assemblage, which includes jade and has a relatively low density, can be uplifted during subsequent continental collisions and extruded along the band of the collision boundary, such as those found in the Alps, California, Iran, Russia, and other parts of the world.
The Motagua fault is one of three subparallel left-lateral strike-slip faults (with horizontal motion) in Guatemala and forms the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates. In an earlier paper, the team of authors found evidence of two different collisions by dating mica found in collisional rocks (including jade) from the North American side of the fault to about 70 million years ago and from the southern side (or the Caribbean plate) to between 120 and 130 million years ago. But mica dates can be "reset" by subsequent heating. Now, the authors have turned to eclogite, a metamorphic rock that forms from ocean floor basalt in the subduction channel. Eclogite dates are rarely reset, and the authors found that eclogite from both sides of the Motagua dates to roughly 130 million years old.
The disparate dating of rocks along the Motagua can be explained by the following scenario: a collision 130 million years ago created a serpentinite belt that was subsequently sliced into segments. Then, after plate movement changed direction about 100 million years ago, a second collision between one of these slices and the North American plate reset the mica clocks in jadeitite found on the northern side of the fault to 70 million years. Finally, plate motion in the last 70 million years juxtaposed the southern serpentinites with the northern serpentinites, which explains why there are collisional remnants on both sides of the Motagua.
"All serpentinites along the fault line formed at the same time, but the northern assemblage was re-metamorphosed at about 70 million year ago. There are two collision events recorded in the rocks observed today, one event on the southern side and two on the northern," explains author George Harlow, Curator in the Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History. "Motion between plates is usually not a single motion""it is a series of motions.
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Have a ton of work to try and get through tonight, food to get in and dogs to walk and i need to do my second run in my new regime (I made a personal challenge of getting back into running).. plus it's freezing cold and my heart just isn;t in it today!
Anyone got any good tips for motivation under such circumstances?
love the post! Thanks for the morning laugh
I too am a returner of sorts...
Hi - newly running again, too - but running at night so far. First run back last night and did 1.6 miles in 14'33
Am on a personal challenge to run every day for a year!
5am? I hope I get to that stage..
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Used to be a runner once before - but now I hit over forty, fat and unfit I decidedI'd better get back into it again! Still sorting out my profile, just thought I'd say hello


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In this summer's sleeper hit, four magicians of varying specialties and egos are brought together by a mysterious, hoodied benefactor. Played by Jesse Eisenberg (30 Minutes or Less), Woody Harrelson (Seven Psychopaths), Isla Fisher (The Great Gatsby) and Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), they perform a live trick to end all tricks: robbing a bank in Paris … all from a Vegas stage. With follow-up engagements in New Orleans and New York, the quarter is chased by an eager-beaver FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo, The Avengers).
That's merely scratching the surface of the story, which one can't delve into any further without revealing its twists. The movie has more of them than a bag of rotini pasta — so many that director Louis Leterrier (Clash of the Titans) needn't have cheated in a few instances that break the bonds of plausibility.
Oh, well; Now You See Me is too snappy to be harmed irreparably by it. The plot moves as if it were on laughing gas, and the players follow right along. If you can't have fun with this, your mind isn't jostled into the proper frame. This is a heist/caper film dipped in David Copperfield.
Another minor drawback to the film is its two-hour length, which I bring up only because Summit Entertainment's Blu-ray comes with the option of watching an "Extended Edition" that adds a needless 10 minutes. Instead, navigate over the extras for the alternate ending set in a neon graveyard in the Vegas desert; it plays better into the already-greenlit sequel. The deleted scenes also reinstate the role of Elias Koteas (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas), cut entirely from the finished product. —Rod Lott
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Air New Zealand revealed a new lie-flat option in coach class, reportedly the first of its kind. Dubbed "Skycouch," the seating features adjacent, flat seats and fully retractable armrests, meaning passengers can put the armrests up and stretch out. (For pictures and a video tour of the new seats, check out this post at the Cranky Flier.)
22 Skycouch sets (of three seats) will be available on the carrier's new 777s, which are scheduled to arrive in November.
Sounds great! But how much will it cost? Air New Zealand isn't saying just yet, but did indicate that people travling together will be able to purchase two Skycouch seats at full price and get the third for half off, thus completing the set. Details on actual airfares will be released in April. Brett Snyder (of Cranky Flier) writes that individual seats will likely cost about $150 more than regular economy when purchased individually, which is nowhere near the cost of premium economy or business class.
Now, you may be saying, "Hey, this is great—but what if you're not flying to New Zealand or Australia?" Well, yeah, most of us won't get to enjoy Seatcouches anytime soon. But if an airline had to start somewhere, why not the incredibly long flight to the South Pacific?
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In a very heavy 4 qt. saucepan, mix sugar, corn syrup and water. Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved. In the meantime, quickly beat egg whites from 2 large eggs. Add a pinch of cream of tartar. Back on the stove, using a candy thermometer, make certain mixture reaches 260 degrees. Immediately pour mixture in a l qt. saucepan so it is easy to pour over the beaten egg whites. Very slowly pour hot mixture over the egg whites and continue beating 20 - 25 minutes until mixture slightly looses its gloss. Quickly stir in vanilla and nuts and drop by tablespoon onto waxed paper.
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Obama's climate negotiator pulling America into a new Kyoto Protocol
Is the U.S. being hoodwinked on climate change?
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On December 5, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern told the United Nations Climate Change Conference now underway in Qatar, that "The Durban Platform represents an agreement for the 2020s and beyond—one that will be applicable to all and therefore have the potential to achieve the ambition we all seek."
That is what Western politicians have been telling their citizens for the past year. They must think none of us actually read the Durban Platform. For if they did, anyone could see we are being hoodwinked. It would not be "applicable to all" at all. It would be another Kyoto Protocol.
Here's why.
At last year's U.N. Climate Change Conference, delegates, including those from the U.S. and Canada, endorsed the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. Under this agreement, the American, Canadian and other governments pledged to work with the U.N. to establish by 2015 a global apparatus to force countries to enable legally-binding GHG reduction plans starting in 2020.
The Durban plan advances—"in a balanced fashion," the U.N. asserts—the implementation of the December 2010 Cancun Agreements. Stern has stated that the Cancun Agreement "is a very good step and a step that's very much consistent with U.S. interests and will help move…the world down a path toward a broader global response to changing 'Äì to stopping climate change."
Besides the lunacy of any plan to "stop climate change", it is important for people to understand that Cancun has an opt-out clause for developing countries that allows them to agree to legally-binding emission cuts yet never actually carry them out. Developed nations do not have this option. Cancun states this twice:
- At the beginning of the Cancun Agreement it is stated: "...Parties should cooperate in achieving the peaking of global and national greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that the time frame for peaking will be longer in developing countries, and bearing in mind that social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of developing countries…"
- In the section entitled "Nationally appropriate mitigation actions by developing country Parties", the first clause starts: "Reaffirming that social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of developing country Parties, and that the share of global emissions originating in developing countries will grow to meet their social and development needs…"
In other words, if a Cancun-based treaty became international law, GHG reduction would proceed in developing nations only to the extent that it does not interfere with their "first and overriding priorities" of "social and economic development and poverty eradication." Developed countries would be held to their emission reduction obligations regardless of the impact on their societies.
Since actions to significantly reduce GHG emissions will usually interfere with development priorities, developing countries will soon realize that an agreement based on Cancun will not limit their emissions. Such a treaty would then work in the same asymmetric fashion as Kyoto. That the U.S., Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Russia have said they will not participate in a second phase to the Kyoto Protocol may prove immaterial if any legally-binding treaty based on the Cancun Agreement ever comes into force.
Under the Cancun Agreement, UN monitoring is to be much more intrusive in developed countries than in developing countries.
For example, the world is expected to simply believe China when they assert that certain domestic GHG reductions have been accomplished - the UN cannot inspect. This has the strong potential to result in significant reporting fraud as has occurred in a number of other fields concerning China (see here and here for examples).
International inspection and monitoring of developed countries' emissions will be very strict, however. The U.N. already do this, last year rebuking Australia "for poor reporting of progress to cut greenhouse gases" and "ordering" them to do better. It is hard to imagine the U.N. "rebuking" China, or ordering them to do anything.
If a Cancun Agreement-based treaty becomes international law, we will have little idea of what emission cuts will actually be happening in countries such as China. Once again, there will be anything but a level playing field between developed and developing countries no matter what Stern or our politicians say.
In the final analysis, the only really significant difference between a Cancun-based GHG reduction treaty and Kyoto may be that developing countries are expected to submit their intended emission cuts to the UN. But their obligations to carry those cuts into effect would appear to be essentially meaningless. The current approach is clearly designed to persuade the United States to participate in an agreement for binding international GHG emission limits. Then, the U.S. and everyone else would be effectively included in an extension to the Kyoto Protocol after all.
It is quite possible that Todd Stern and his political masters in Washington know this. In his December 5 speech at the climate conference, he also encouraged discussion of "the principle of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capacities." Stern concluded, "The United States would welcome such a discussion, because unless we can find common ground on that principle and the way it should apply in the world of the 2020s, we won't succeed in producing a new Durban Platform agreement. And we have to succeed. So let's have that discussion."
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The assassination of Rusty Millio was reminiscent of the hit on Joey Peeps in the season 5's "Marco Polo." In both incidents, the person killed was:
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2. Killed in the car along with the other person in the car.
3. The car itself was already in gear and started to move with the dead bodies slumped over inside.
Playing the killing in this way brings that story line full circle, since Rusty ordered the Joey Peeps hit, which started the chain of events leading to the deaths of Angelo Garape, Billy Leotardo, Tony Blundetto, and finally Rusty himself.
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Lauren Bacall: (after Christopher attacks her) Jesus, my fucking arm!
Artie: The restaurant business is like keeping an elephant. It costs a fortune, and sooner or later, it shits on your head.
Carlo: (on finding Vito) Tommy says the guys can track somebody from the corn in their shit.
Tony: I saw them do that on C.S.I.
Tony: (warning Benny) You don't shit where you eat. And you really don't shit where I eat.
Martina: (to Artie) I never fuck you! I go to Benny and we laugh at you when I fuck him in the pile of money that we take from your stupid customers!
Murmur: I could watch her walk away all night.
Chris: Good, cause like most girls with you, that's what she's gonna do.
Artie: (to Benny) Ever try a Martina? It's like a martini, only from Albania. Goes down real easy, right, Benny?
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Though credited, Lorraine Bracco, Dominic Chianese, Robert Iler, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and Aida Turturro do not appear in this episode.
Artie refers to Benny, Christopher, and Murmur as, "Benny, Moe, and Jack," playing on The Pep Boys' advertising mascots: Manny, Moe, and Jack.
Christopher refers to Vito as "La Cage aux Fat." This refers to La Cage aux Folles, a farce about two gay lovers who pretend to be straight.
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World population to reach 6.9 billion at New Year: German group The world's population will have grown to about 6.9 billion at the new year and hit 7 billion by the middle of 2011, says a German aid group that promotes birth control. The German Foundation for World Population in Hanover, or DSW, runs a "population meter" on its website that calculates the current world population from various annual data sources. The calculator is to read 6,934,196,000 at midnight on Friday, up 80 million from one year ago. The numbers assume that 2.6 new people join the world population every second. DWS, which supplies free contraception, did not forecast any exact date for the seven billion mark to be reached. © 2010 AVUSA, Inc. |
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Astronomy The angular distance of a point north or south of the ecliptic. Compare with declination (sense 1.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Notre Dame wakes up, stops Princeton
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
By NICK PERUFFO
PRINCETON Ś When youÆve won 15 straight games, itÆs not hard to see how you could lose a bit of focus, if only for a half.
Such was the case Tuesday night for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish against Princeton High. Though Notre Dame would wake up after halftime and cruise to a 77-51 win Ś its 16th in a row Ś the tight first half had the Little Tigers thinking upset.
ōI could see it in warm-ups a little bit, that we werenÆt quite going as hard,ö said Notre Dame guard Isaiah Johnson, who lead all scorers with 29 points. ōIn practice we go really hard, but sometimes in warm-ups we come in and look at the other team and think weÆre just going to beat up on them, and thatÆs not the case.ö
Though eight of the IrishÆs first 12 points came on dunks, Princeton hung tough by frustrating Notre Dame with their zone defense and knocking down open threes. After the Little Tigers finished the first quarter up 16-15, they opened the second with three consecutive threes to open up a 10-point margin.
ōWeÆre werenÆt boxing out, and the best shot in basketball is the offensive rebound kicked out for a three,ö Notre Dame coach Bob Turco said. ōProbably out of their seven threes before halftime, five or six of them were uncontested.ö
The Irish, however, promptly responded with a 13-2 run of their own, and went into the half up 33-32.
Notre Dame looked like a different team coming out in the second half. They were able to generate some crisp interior passing with big men Seth Harris and Josh Williams, and Johnson was notably more aggressive attacking the basket.
ōWe just wanted to penetrate their zone,ö Johnson said. ōWe were shooting too many threes in the first half, and it wasnÆt our game plan coming in. In the second half we took over trying to get to the basket.ö
Williams also did a nice job finishing aroundŚand often aboveŚthe rim, ending up with 18 points.
ōIf we didnÆt start using our big uglies, there was going to be some changes,ö Turco said. ōThe first look should be high-low all the time for us.ö
The Irish continued to extend their lead in the fourth, with Patrick Minoque adding six points off the bench.
Senior center Lior Levy lead Princeton with 15, while point guard Scott Bechler added 10, though Bechler was scoreless after the half.
At 17-1, Notre Dame looks to be in very nice shape as the county tournament approaches. Turco, however, believes his team isnÆt about to count their eggs before they hatch.
ōLast year we were 17-2, and four of our top eight kids got hurt,ö Turco said. ōThey know that at any given time, things can change. With what we went through last year, I donÆt think itÆll be an issue this year.ö
The Irish will try to stretch their streak to 18 wins Friday when they host Hun. Princeton will also be back in action Friday, traveling to Hightstown.
Johnson 10-6-29, Chew 2-2-6, Williams 9-0-18, Harris 1-2-4, Preston 3-1-7, Metz 2-0-5, Lafferty 1-0-2, Minoque 1-4-6, Ricci 0-0-0, Knorr 0-0-0, OÆKeefe 0-0-0 3s: Johnson (3), Metz
Levy 5-4-15, Bechler 3-1-10, Bloom 1-0-3, Mahotiere 2-1-6, OÆMeara 3-0-7, Golden 2-0-5, Murray 1-0-3, Braverman 0-0-0, Kane 1-0-2 3s: Bechler (3), Levy, Mahotiere, OÆMeara, Bloom, Murray
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Here is a game that doesn't need an introduction. Tetris, a very classic video game, is finally getting turned into a movie. Larry Kasanoff, who produced the Mortal Kombat films, is spearheading the film project with the Tetris Company. You're probably thinking, how can they turn a game about blocks trying … Continue reading


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Enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of phosphate (phosphoryl or pyrophosphoryl transfer) usually from ATP to a second substrate.
Protein which catalyzes the phosphorylation of serine or threonine residues on target proteins by using ATP as phosphate donor. Such phosphorylation may cause changes in the function of the target protein. Protein kinases share a conserved catalytic core common to both serine/ threonine and tyrosine protein kinases.
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Reviews For Poinsettias and Touch Football
Reviewer: Laura_trekkie (Signed)
27 Aug 2006 6:11 pm
Great character piece; for John, but also for the others. Each memory was very apt for the character and I could picture the scenes described. John's was a sad story though. But I liked the insight into his relationship with his father, how they drifted apart in their grief, but there wasn't the emnity that a lot of fics give them. I did think, as he remembered the poinsettias, that it might be nice if Elizabeth got him a poinsettia after his reminiscence about them. Though, it might also bring up painful memories too. Laura.
Reviewer: Ishtra Nalamanti (Signed)
26 Aug 2006 6:46 pm
I wonder if somebody would send him a poinsetta around Christmass time for him to fuss with in his quarters (if it survived the trip first of all). It would be such an endearing thing to see after reading this.
Reviewer: Wallaby_55 (Signed)
25 Aug 2006 11:50 pm
Poor John :( I really like this, even though it makes me sad. What I especially like is that you don't villify his father-- there's distance there, but I don't get the feeling he's a bad person, and that's a refreshing change from many other John character stories. Nice work (I love ChristmasFic!)


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On 30 August, 2012, Michel Dancoisne-Martineau held a reception at which he gave an update on the progress of the restoration work at Longwood (for further details, photos and text in French and English, see Michel's blog here). Among the invitees were the island's Governor, Mr Mark Capes, members of the Legislative Council, Eddie Palmer, UK representative for the Department for International Development (DfID), and Michael Dean, head of Tourism. The restoration project was launched by the Fondation Napoléon, the Souvenir Napoléonien and the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs at the end of 2010, and donations can still be made up to December 2012!
"I am very honoured to be able to say a few words today in my role as representative of the Fondation Napoléon on St Helena. As you are all aware, The Fondation Napoléon (established in 1987) is a registered charity committed to the encouragement of the study of and interest in the history of the First and Second Empires and the preservation of Napoleonic heritage. The Fondation has been a long term supporter of the French properties on St Helena and is a key partner in the Longwood House Restoration Project.This project is a fine example of partnership working; partnerships between Countries, between Governments; partnerships within Countries, and within Governments, everybody working together to achieve a common goal, which is the preservation of the Napoleonic heritage on St Helena.After a long wait and a lot of patience on the part of all involved, especially on the part of Michel and of Thierry Lentz the Fondation's Director, we are very happy to see the major work starting on the Generals' Quarters. I say happy but I am also a little sad as I have a lot of wonderful memories of these apartments which are now being carefully demolished. I can only imagine how Michel must feel having lived and worked in this building for more than 20 years. At the same time I am also more than a little excited that this project is happening at the same time as the airport project, and in my mind both projects are symbols of the St Helena that is to come – a St Helena with a sustainable economy built on a sustainable tourism industry, with a strong sense of our history and our community as its pillars.We are very fortunate to have the backing of the Fondation and the support of so many international friends helping us to achieve this goal."
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