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Planning to observe Black Friday with a shop-a-thon in NYC? Don't forget to stop by the ASPCA, where we're celebrating in our own way: with Cat Friday. You could just meet the cat or kitten of your dreams…and we think that's a much sweeter deal than anything you'll find on retail.
On Friday, November 25, the ASPCA Adoption Center is opening its doors for the extended hours of 10:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. and offering very special discounts on cat adoption fees that you won't want to miss.
For Cat Friday only, felines one year and older have waived fees, and kittens four months to one year have an adoption fee of only $50! (It's normally $125.)
With each of these special adoptions, adopters will receive additional goodies including a free cat collar and ID tag and a cardboard carrier.
All ASPCA pets are spayed or neutered, up to date on vaccinations, and microchipped! Plus, adopters will receive a certificate for a free vet visit within two weeks of adoption at ASPCA Animal Hospital.
For those intent on holiday shopping, Gift-A-Pet certificates, good for one future cat or kitten adoption, will also be available for purchase.
See you Friday!
Why not make a slightly better deal by offering adoption of Black Cats at $40, and others at $50... on Black Friday?
I believe black cats are not adopted as quickly as other color cats.
Could you set up a Sponsorship Program for shelter pets for the elderly and veterans in nursing homes, VA hospitals, or retirement communities? It could be partly or wholly funded by people who cannot keep a pet in their home or apartment, or who already own a pet and who want to help shelter pets, and help veterans and seniors to own a pet? The ASPCA could seek funding for the Program via their usual funding appeals, and they could receive aid from the VA, local retirement communities and nursing homes.
I'm not sure of the details, but I would guess that the VA homes, nursing homes, and retirement communities would work with you on the program. The remaining piece of the program would be funding by others who can afford to do so, but cannot own a (another) pet themselves.
In addition to the Cat Friday program advertised in the latest ASPCA email, why not establish a "Grey Saturday" program which has incentives for people to adopt shelter pets that are over 6 years old? The cost could be reduced for older pets and senior adopters.
If people are too busy shopping today that they miss out on the 'Cat Friday' program, they still might adopt a "grey" pet on Saturday.


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Of all the great cataclysms that can happen in the Universe, almost nothing compares to the death of even a small star like our sun.
We can predict with a fair amount of certainty that our sun will die in about five billion years, and we can also predict just exactly how it will die.
We cannot, of course, watch the entire 10-billion-year lifespan of a star.
However, we can wander through the forest where there are many oaks going through various stages of life. Here we will see acorns on the ground, the saplings they produce, the tall, mature oak and its decaying corpse on the ground.
The Milky Way galaxy contains in excess of 300 billion stars. You're bound to see every kind of star at every stage of its life from even casual observations.
As it turns out, stars about the size of our sun often leave beautiful emblems of their deaths — fitting funeral wreaths to the graves of giant thermonuclear reactions that exploded for billions of years.
Our own sun has settled comfortably into the prime of its life, a respectable and long-lasting middle age. The sun is a stable inferno fusing hydrogen into helium and releasing the energy that gives light and heat to the earth.
It will not always be that way, and we can look to objects like the Ring Nebula to give ourselves an inkling of what is in store.
Look almost straight overhead, and you'll see the bright star Vega. Hanging almost straight east is a small parallelogram of stars. You've found the constellation Lyra.
Visible in binoculars halfway between the two stars farthest from Vega in the parallelogram is a fuzzy, star-like point of light. At medium magnification through a telescope, that point will expand into a smoke ring in space called the Ring Nebula (M57 in the Messier catalog).
The Ring is really a shell of gas and dust surrounding what is left of a star that has reached the end of its life cycle.
They are called planetary nebulae because their disk-like appearance bears a superficial resemblance to planets in small telescopes.
They got that way because a star ran out of hydrogen fuel to burn, swelling to 1,000 times its former size. Planets as far as the earth is from the sun would be exposed to the thousands of degrees temperature of the star's atmosphere. The planet would remain but its water and atmosphere would vaporize into space. In five billion years our planet will French fry.
Soon thereafter (in millions, not billions of years), stars like our sun then eject about 10 or 20 percent of their substance into space at up to 15 miles per second to form a shell of gas like the Ring Nebula. The star that remains collapses to a super-dense ball only the size of Earth but with a mass almost as great as the original star. That so-called white dwarf eventually fades to cold blackness.
In the meantime, the shell of gas continues to expand. After a mere 100,000 years or so, it is too faint to be seen.
Our own sun will die soon, in only 5 billion years or so. A typical species on Earth is lucky if it survives 100 million years. It's hard to imagine humans lasting any longer than that.
Still, we're the ones with the big brains. If our intelligence doesn't kill us first, it might eventually ensure our survival for a long time.
I know it's presumptuous of me, but I would like to think that humans will have solved their problems and still be around in five billion years.
If we do, surely we will have developed the ability to leave our doomed solar system to find a new home among the stars.
Perhaps some day, a human mother, unimaginably in advance of our puny notion of what is human, will show her children a faint smoke ring of light and say, "There is the place where humans first trod, from which the human seed first spread among the stars."
Jupiter peeps above the eastern horizon by 10:30 p.m. or so, but you should wait until it's a bit higher — at least midnight or so — to look at it in binoculars or a telescope. Binos show two to four of its brightest moons lined up close to the planet. A telescope reveals the planets parallel cloud bands.
Mars, the sort-of-red planet, rises in the northeast around 2:50 a.m. Look for it low in that direction just before morning twilight.
Rarely seen Mercury makes an appearance next week. Stay tuned for details.


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When writing his novels, Nicholas Sparks aims to write a story that feels real and evokes genuine emotion.
The acclaimed author and Trent Woods resident soon will unveil his 18th novel — "The Longest Ride."
The book will be available Tuesday — the day he kicks off a book-signing tour at 8 a.m. at Target in New Bern.
"It comes down to I hope they enjoy the novel," Sparks said. "I write them because I want people to read them, enjoy them and remember them."
"The Longest Ride" is the newest Sparks' novel since "The Best of Me" appeared in 2011.
And it's his first attempt at a dual love story.
The story documents two couples, ages apart, from western North Carolina. Not knowing each other, their lives cross paths in a surprising ending.
"It's a story of two distinct couples — Ira and Ruth — and there is this love story that spans decades," Sparks said. "I think an ending that surprises the reader is the best kind of ending for any particular story. It's important because that makes for a very memorable story."
Luke is a bull rider, living on a ranch in King. He meets Sophia, a sorority girl at Wake Forest University.
They are two people with a polarity of characteristics.
Sparks' inspiration for Luke, and the rodeo and life on a ranch, was based on his brother-in-law, Bob.
"My sister, she's deceased. She passed away 13 years ago. She was married to a guy named Bob. Bob lives on a ranch," Sparks said. "The ranch in 'The Longest Ride' is that ranch, right to the pumpkins, the Christmas trees, the number of cattle right down to the horse named Horse, and his dog was named Dog.
"Sophia, like most of the female characters I have created, she is inspired by my wife in many ways — intelligence, humor, kindness, loyalty, generosity," he said.
On the other side, there is Ira Levinson, who, while faced with adversity, can't help but recall his memories of his late wife Ruth, who had a passion for artwork.
"Sophia and Luke are very real characters. So are Ira and Ruth," Sparks said. "They have the same hopes and fears and dreams that everyone has."
While writing "The Longest Ride," Sparks researched and studied every aspect of artwork, rodeos, bull riding, maintaining a ranch and sorority life.
It took him three months to create the concept before beginning to write it.
"What I wanted to do was write the story where you really appreciated the distinct love story of these two couples," Sparks said. "Hopefully, the reader will wonder how on Earth these stories are going to intersect and what's going to happen in the end."
Sparks wrote most of "The Longest Ride" with western North Carolina in mind, but he includes portions from the eastern part of the state.
"This state has so much variety, from the coast to the mountains to the Piedmont," Sparks said. "I write about small town life, so I am very happy writing my novels here."
Sparks sold his story to Fox, and the movie for "The Longest Ride" is expected to be released in early 2015. Sparks is a producer for the movie.
Sparks always kicks off his book-signing tours in New Bern to give back to the town he lives in.
"New Bern was very instrumental in my career, in many ways," Sparks said. "I wrote 'The Notebook' while I was here. I set 'The Notebook' in New Bern, and much of the scenes in 'The Notebook' were drawn from my life when I was living on Brices Creek.
"New Bern had a very good turnout in my first signing and I live here," he said. "I try to be involved in the community, and this is my chance to do my best and get them all signed."
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Dog fighting is a huge problem, and sometimes it can seem that you can't do much to help as an individual. But there are a few things you can do to stop it now, and we really need your help.
Why? Take it from those of us who have seen dog fighting compounds first-hand: Life as a dog used for fighting is a nightmare.
They live chained up or in a tiny cage. They don't get the veterinary care they need. They die in the ring or are unceremoniously shot for losing. Some are used as "bait" for other dogs. Some have litter after litter. Some starve. Some go without water for days.
Odds are that dog fighting is happening in your state right now. We need your help to stop it. Give dog fighting victims three minutes of your time?
1. Ask your U.S. representative to support the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act.
The Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 23, would make it a federal offense to knowingly attend an organized animal fight and would impose additional penalties for bringing children to animal fights. Violators would face up to one year in prison for attending a fight, and up to three years in prison for bringing a minor to a fight.
You can help the bill along by contacting your rep. We've made it easy at the ASPCA Advocacy Center, and we promise it only takes a few minutes, tops.
2. Download our new anti-dog fighting toolkit for citizen advocates.
If you're as horrified by dog fighting as we are, and you think you might want to commit more time to stopping dog fighting in the near future, download our new toolkit developed with the U.S. Department of Justice. It's got everything you need to know to get more involved. (We admit, actually reading it will take more than three minutes, but you get the idea.)
3. Fight Pit Bull prejudice via social media.
Pit Bulls and dogs who look like Pit Bulls get a bad rap because of their reputation as fighting dogs. Fight it by becoming a tireless advocate for them on your social networks. Start by posting the profile of a cute, adoptable Pit Bull-type dog on Facebook (we suggest Pet of the Week Champion) or sharing a happy tail about a Pit.
You can even share the story of a rehabilitated ex-fighting dog, like Ninja.
Oh, and of course, a bonus fourth thing you can do: Share this post on your social networks.
Easy, right? Together we can make a huge difference, and to the dogs who are suffering right now at the hands of fighters, it means the world.
To learn about a few more ways to fight back against blood sports, view our 10 ways to help end dog fighting and get educated about the issue on our dog fighting page.
On behalf of the dogs, thank you!
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So sad. This needs to stop now.
It's time to stop ignoring this cruel and sick behavior. The way things stand now, the "rewards" to these sick individuals who not only sponsor, but attend these activities outweigh the consequences of getting caught that there is no deterrent from doing it. These are the kind of people who have no social conscience or respect for life and what kind of message does that send when we don't take SERIOUS action. There shouldn't be so much as a second thought when it comes to passing some kind of legislation that demands serious punishment for such heinious acts. One doesn't even have to be an animal lover to agree that this is wrong on so many levels. Let's get it together!!
What kind of person enjoys watching something like this? They would have to be uneducated, a coward, and a menace to society for starters. It's cruel and barbaric and must be stopped. If we hope to remain a civilized society, we need to remove the people that participate in this heinous crime and put them where they should be, IN JAIL!!!
Dog fighting needs to stop. These dogs are tortured to death in a cruel manner. The underlying practices need to stop; no living creature deserves such harsh cruelty and to be exploited by vicious men.
One of the comments says, "If the people who are supposed to serve an protect can't do their job right, we should show them how it's done." Animal rescuers do as much as they can. but they cannot always save a helpless animal. They're only humans. It is not their fault if noody reports this crime happening. How are they supposed to know? If more people were active and contributed instead of depending solely on animal rescuers, there would be less tortured animals around the world. We can't save every single animal, but with more action, we could save a lot more than we think.
dog fighters are very disturbed and sick people , yes, scum of the earth!
Suffolk county SPCA needs to get their ass's into North Bellport, There are pitbull fights going on every day, they are making $1,000's off of these dogs. We have picked up bait dogs running scared in that area and no one is doing anything to stop it. Someone needs to do something to save these dogs and SPCA has not done anything in that area.
Punishments for those that promote and support dog fighting should be increased considerably. They really need to be in the position where they have to think twice before they contemplate such a despicable and backward action.
I think pitt bulls have the right to live but the people that think they are for fighting just down the road from me there is a pitt that is barely given food and does not have any human contact the dog is a good dog but if no one is going to take care of it they need to find a new home for it.


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February 28, 2013
We Did It! A Victory for VAWA
Great news! Congress passes a real Violence Against Women Act that will help protect ALL women from violence.
Recent Victories
August 29, 2014
One of the two Papuan students tortured or otherwise ill-treated by police has been
released. The other is still in detention and has been charged for his peaceful political
activism in Indonesia's West Papua province.
August 19, 2014
Kuwaiti Bidun activists 'Abdulhakim al-Fadhli and 'Abdullah 'Atallah were released on 6
and 14 August, respectively.
June 11, 2014
Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was released on June 5 at the end of his six year sentence for "inciting separatism." Amnesty International supporters have campaigned untiringly for his freedom.
February 27, 2014
On February 7, India's Supreme Court granted bail to indigenous human rights defenders Soni Sori and Lingaram Kodopi, ending 2 and a half years of imprisonment for their nonviolent advocacy on behalf of locals caught between state forces and armed insurgents in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh.


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[quote author="burt"]One of the ways to distinguish "faith" (in the sense I've been using it) from "dogmatic belief" is that people who have real faith can joke about themselves and their beliefs.
I think there's some merit to that position, but it doesn't really defend faith at all ... just makes what I think is a valid distinction between genuine faith and what faith really is in most cases (a free pass with a microscopic veneer of honor and virtue that like-minded believers give each other to believe that for which there's no valid basis to believe). Believers who have genuine faith (if there really is such a thing) have to accept that others who cite faith may very well be correct in doing so (at least theoretically) even when faith is cited to validate a belief system that contradicts their own.
Genuine faith is a bit on the intellectually problematic side (putting it kindly), but still there's what I think is a valid issue of degree between the facade of faith ("standard issue" faith—I presume those who agree with me are right ... we call it faith) and "genuine" faith (I believe faith is a valid form of epistemology). I'd argue that under the context of honest naivety "genuine" faith isn't an indication of a character weakness (a lack of intellectual integrity), whereas I'd argue it is in most cases (which still may be a pretty insignificant flaw even though it may have very significant effects).


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How Old Were You When You First Got a Cell Phone?
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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by BenSchuarmer (922752) on Monday January 07, 2013 @10:32AM (#42504437)cell phones weren't publicly available when I was 21
Re:I'm old (Score:5, Informative)by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07, 2013 @12:28PM (#42505893)
Fun Fact: A tweet is actually 160 characters, but the first 20 are automatically reserved for an internally-used user ID.
Re:I'm old (Score:2, Informative)by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @08:25AM (#42530541)
Actually it's not.
Twitter was originally SMS-based, where you would write a post (they didn't call them tweets back then), and it would get forwarded to all your followers via SMS. Obviously the SMS to your friends had to be prefixed with your username, so that's what the 20 characters at the start were reserved for.
And, yes, it's still possible to use Twitter exclusively via SMS.
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Of course not. You'd have to cross my lawn to do so, and I have strict rules about that!


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For A Season of Global Giving
We got this guest post in this morning from our friend John Heckinger at Global Giving. They've got a cool new idea brewing over there, and I think it's an inspired way to start the week and to celebrate the season.
Last week, GlobalGiving introduced a whole new way to give others a whole new way to give – GlobalGiving Gift Cards. They're the size and shape of a normal credit or gift card, but they're 100% biodegradable. These little pieces of wallet candy are made out of corn and can be used exactly like the gift cards you purchase from a retail store, but with much greater benefits:
- Performance art education for street kids in Rio
- Vaccines for kids in Cambodia
- Pedal-powered light for families in Nepal
- Solar energy for low income families in the US
GlobalGiving Gift Cards make it easy, and maybe even stylish, to help others close to home or in remote parts of the developing world, in a direct and real way. When you give a GlobalGiving Gift Card, you're giving someone the ability to give someone else in the world something extremely meaningful– an education, a livelihood, clean water, or a safe place away from conflict.
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After five years of filming and 13 months of editing, Burlington native Ben Nabors was officially headed to South by Southwest.
His first feature-length documentary, "William and the Windmill," was one of eight documentaries selected for the music and arts festival's film competition, held annually in Austin, Texas. Based on the strength of the 31-year-old's 2008 short, "Moving Windmills," and the compelling story of its protagonist, William Kamkwamba — who revolutionized his Malawian village as a teenager by building a windmill out of spare parts — South by Southwest Film Festival jurors expected great things. Hundreds of films were submitted to compete in the festival.
But first, Nabors had to finish it.
The film festival began March 8. That same day, the Williams High School graduate finished post-production on the film — a 13-month process sifting through more than 400 hours and 11 terabytes of digital footage. He sent the film by Fed-Ex to the film competition's organizers and made his own preparations to fly from his Brooklyn home to the Texas spectacle.
"It was really a buzzer-beater. I know some people were nervous that it was going to get there at all," Nabors said.
"William and the Windmill" premiered March 10 and was greeted enthusiastically by audiences. At the film festival's end, Nabors' film won the grand jury prize for documentary feature.
"I think they found something in our film that was unique," Nabors said. "We had a standing ovation after our first premiere. The subject, William, is just an incredible person. People are just drawn to him."
Kamkwambe's story became a global sensation after he gave a TED Talk in 2007. TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design and its conferences attract world-renowned thinkers and industry leaders.
As a child in Malawi, a country in eastern Africa, he was forced to quit school because his parents couldn't afford the $80 a year to send him. Unable to attend school, he read books in the library and became fascinated with windmills. He taught himself how to build one out of scrap parts, using an old lawnmower blade for the fan, that could generate electricity. He attached a thin copper wire to a car battery and light bulbs in each of the rooms in his family's home.
As he built more and better windmills, his family's life improved. He also built his village's first water pump, which is solar powered.
Kamkwambe became focused on bringing electricity and water to other places in Malawi and Africa.
It was the TED Talk and Tom Reilly, an acquaintance of Nabors' who'd taken Kamkwambe under his wing, that got Nabors interested in filming the story.
His cameras followed as Kamkwambe traveled the globe, becoming famous and sought out.
Nabors' film follows him through changes and challenges of balancing the newfound attention with his personal goals of building his life and bettering his homeland with practical solutions to common problems.
"Documentary filmmaking is a search. You have to trust your subject and your idea and see what comes out of it. We followed the story not knowing where it would go," Nabors said. "He's a young person maneuvering things I've never seen anyone maneuver. He finds himself between two cultures."
NABORS GREW UPin Burlington, attending Smith Elementary and Turrentine Middle. While a student at Williams, he worked at the now-closed West End Cinemas. He was always interested in movies but didn't see a practical future in it, he said.
At Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., he studied event planning. Following graduation, he relocated to Brooklyn, N.Y., and worked as a professional event organizer and producer. Somewhere along the way, he transitioned into filmmaking.
He joined Group Theory, a collective of independent filmmakers and producers in Brooklyn. He's been busy behind the camera ever since.
"Palimpsest," a short film he wrote and produced, took a jury prize for acting at this year's Sundance Film Festival. It's now slated to be produced as a feature-length movie.
For several years, he's been producing a behind-the-scenes documentary about the tumultuous run of the "Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark" musical on Broadway. Among other projects, a feature-length documentary about Stefan Sagmeister — a graphic designer whose experiments with his own personal happiness he turned into art exhibits — is also in the works.
Nabors still has family and friends in Burlington and returns here often. His "wonderful" mother, Jean Anderson, was able to attend the premiere of "William and the Windmill," he said.
"William and the Windmill" is slated to show at several more film festivals in Toronto and Oregon this spring. He hopes the film will show in North Carolina, but nothing has been scheduled yet. Eventually, it will be available on DVD, he said.
You can watch Nabors' short, "Moving Windmills," online at www.movingwindmills.org.
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The only problem is the magnet or base. This base will stick to any metal corner bead, door frames. The problem is when the laser is on the ceiling bracket any beating on the wall will make the laser slide down the bracket. It would help if the laser had a lock on the bracket so it wouldn't slide when putting in fence staples or using a impact to put screws in molding or hammering hard nails.
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Quick set-up for use with tripod, although sensitive to movement when used with a tripod. However, it readjusts quickly when settled. The darker the room it is used in, the better. Can be seen well in shaded areas outside. Range up to 30 feet. Good purchase.
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Just find some metal and know you have a line. For me it's been anything from the door hinge to a air vent. I found that covers what I need for the most part, but I did buy a reconditioned Bosch tripod for the times that I can't find anything to match up with the height I need.
I find a use for this thing all the time. Anything from around the house setting up curtains or shelves, to setting up drop ceilings at the site this tool is a huge time saver!!
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By Paul Hodges and John Richardson
LONDON (ICIS)--Stock markets and oil and petrochemical prices have rallied since the New Year, partly on a belief in a sustained recovery in China GDP growth during 2013. But there are plenty of reasons to believe that the recovery may not be sustainable.
Evidence at the ground level, in the polyolefins business, is at best mixed over whether there has even been a strong improvement in demand in China.
Some pessimistic producers fear that the rebound is limited to a few converters in need of prompt material before the Lunar New Year, which falls on 10 February, and temporary supply tightness.
Southeast and northeast Asian integrated high-density polyethylene (HDPE) margins indicate that producers, at least until the second week of January, lacked pricing power despite the very tight market.
Part of the explanation could be that problems persist for China's 12.4m small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which, according to the government newspaper, the China Daily, account for 50% of tax income tax payments, 60% of GDP and 80% of employment.
The SMEs are paying interest rates of 15% via China's shadow-banking system. Bank loans from the state-owned lenders meet only 20% of the financing requirements of smaller companies, the China Daily said in a 17 January article.
Rising fuel costs, as a result of more expensive oil, are likely to have exerted further pressure on the SMEs. Prices for gasoline and diesel remain near record levels in China, around 40% higher than during the previous peaks in the summer of 2008 when prices were capped to prevent social unrest during the Beijing Olympics.
This creates a threat to consumer demand in a country where the majority of people earn less than $10 a day (people on low wages spend a bigger proportion of their incomes on fuel and food than the wealthy).
Labour costs are also set to rise even further this year, because of tight labour markets and government-driven efforts to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
In 2012, the number of working-age people in China decreased by 3.45m to 937.27m, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The country's demographic dividend is beginning to fade due to the one-child policy.
Rising labour costs could further squeeze margins for the SMEs and accelerate the closure of low-value manufacturers in China's more developed eastern and southern provinces.
And, if China's new leaders are serious about cleaning up the environment following the air pollution crisis in Beijing in mid-January, environmental compliance costs will increase, with factories that fail to meet more stringently-enforced rules closed down.
The root cause of the expected rebound in first quarter GDP growth also suggests that the recovery may not be sustainable.
State-directed bank lending surged in May-October 2012 as the central government attempted to shore-up support ahead of the once-in-a-decade leadership handover in November. Some $1,100bn was allocated for infrastructure investments.
Some of the extra money may continue to percolate through the economy during the first half of this year, but the process of withdrawing stimulus has already begun.
Inflation has also become a problem again, as in December overall inflation reached a seven-month high, driven by a steep rise in real estate and food costs. This is likely to make the government cautious about further stimulating the economy if the government is to hit its target of annualised inflation of 3.5 %.
And the fact that infrastructure spending and a rebound in the real-estate sector have driven the recovery casts further doubt on its sustainability.
HSBC says that investment growth is making the biggest contribution to growth since 2009 – the year that China injected $640bn into the economy to compensate for the global financial crisis.
December's retail sales rose by 15.2%, to an eight-month high. But UBS argues that the strong figure was largely the result of an increase in property transactions and spending on furniture and household goods.
China's average annual urban disposable income in 2012 was yuan (CNY) 24,565 ($3,943). Home prices, meanwhile, averaged CNY 20,700 yuan per square metre in Beijing, according to a 20 January 2013 Reuters article.
China's new leaders have given every indication that they will forge ahead with rebalancing the economy – a job probably made a lot harder by the politically-motivated economic stimulus of May-October last year.
Statement after official statement, and numerous articles in state-run media, emphasise the need for more balanced growth.
The task has been given extra urgency as a result of rising public discontent over income inequality, air pollution, food contamination and corruption amongst top government officials.
Beijing has made it clear that it will be happy with GDP growth of 7-8%, far below the peak of 14.2% in 2007, as the investment growth model – responsible for all the above problems – is dismantled.
But the problem is that the economy has become heavily dependent on investment as a driver of growth and so GDP growth during the adjustment process even lower than 7-8% seems a possibility.
Peking University finance professor Michael Pettis, in a 28 December 2012 post on his China Financial Markets blog, said that China needed to at the very least reduce investment as a percentage of GDP growth to 40% - from around 50% in 2012 - over the next five years.
"Chinese investment must grow at a much lower rate than GDP for this to happen. How much lower? The arithmetic is simple," he wrote in the same blog post.
"It depends on what we assume GDP growth will be over the next five years, but investment has to grow by roughly 4.5 percentage points or more below the GDP growth rate for this condition to be met.
"If Chinese GDP grows at 7%, in other words, Chinese investment must grow at 2.3%. If China grows at 5%, investment must grow at 0.4%.
"And if China grows at 3%, which is much closer to my ten-year view, investment growth must actually contract by 1.5%.
Fixed-asset investment grew by 20.7% in 2012, which puts the scale of the adjustment in perspective.
And there is another wild card in the pack that could severely damage global, as well as Chinese, economic growth – the risk of a war between China and Japan.
The two countries are at loggerheads over the ownership of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
China's new leaders could have adopted an aggressive stance towards Japan in an effort to deflect attention from economic problems at home, say many commentators.
As a result of all of these uncertainties, chemicals companies must no doubt be building into their scenario planning another sharp decline in China demand growth.
They might also be looking for new opportunities in China linked to the efforts being made to change the country's growth model. For example, there could be huge opportunities in helping China clean up its environment.
Further study could also be necessary into customer bases. Some end-users are at risk of going out of business due to high labour costs and other factors, while those focused on higher-value manufacturing might well be set to expand.
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I think there will be injuries and inexperience that leads us to a 32 win season. The season after we should bounce back to the mid-40s or so and then the sky is the limit after that.
This is pretty much a prompt to get people talking, and to hear some predictions that don't involve our starting lineup for a change..
I'm predicting we go 36-46. Which would be a good start for the team. I don't think we have enough experience to go 40+, but I feel we have just too much talent to win any less than 30-35 games.
What does everyone think?
I think there will be injuries and inexperience that leads us to a 32 win season. The season after we should bounce back to the mid-40s or so and then the sky is the limit after that.
Cool! I dont an exact number, but around 38-43 wins, and I favor us to hit the forty win mark.
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I'm saying 28-54. IMO we aren't that good from top to bottom and we really have no depth. We don't have a top 25 player on this team or 3 top 100 players. Don't expect much and think 28 is due to Monty getting everybody to play hard every night. Enough teams will over look us or mail in enough games so we'll win 20+.
Only 7 more than last season? Wow.
Kaman being gone is an addition by subtraction. Okafor and Ariza barely played last season. Jack's loss will hurt for sure.
Gordon, Davis, and Anderson are easily in the top 100. Not sure why Da Troll is drinking.
Last year's team was injury depleted and they still won 22 games in 66 games. This team if healthy will win at least 30-35 for sure. Anderson, Davis, and a healthy Gordon are huge additions.
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I'm going with 34-48, but would not be the least bit surprised if we got a few more wins than that....team health will naturally play a big part and its a must that Monty develops a knack of knowing who to have in and when...I am not as down on our depth as some seem to be around here, but that's based on a couple guys stepping up and doing their part when called upon...
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If Gordon can give us 75 games (he probably won't), I would consider anything under 34 wins a failure.
Haven't we learned not to let da throne troll ?
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I think we struggle to start, but progressively get better throughout the year. Anderson will be the team MVP, and Davis will win rookie of the year. This record is guessing at injuries too. I say Gordon plays a total number of games somewhere in the 60s. If he played all 82 games, I'd say we're around 42-40.
Also, to dA Throne, no depth? Seriously? Anderson and Davis are both solid starters, while Smith and Lopez are great bigs to have playing the rest of the minutes. We also have Warrick and Thomas to play in case of injury or blow out. At the 3, we have Aminu, X, and Miller, or we could go big and play Davis there, or go small and play Rivers or Mason there. At the 2 we have the ability to play either Gordon, Rivers, Mason, X, or Vasquez. PG is our weakest spot, but we still have 3 guys that can play point in Vasquez, Rivers, and Roberts.
And Davis not top 100? Seriously? Do you realize who #100 is? It's Nick Collison according to NBA Rank.
You really don't think Davis can match Collison's production?
Last year our best player a lot of the time was Jarrett Jack. Barring another 9 game season from Gordon, I don't see how we finish below 30 wins. It's just not plausible to me.
I'll say a ceiling of 44 wins, floor of 31.
Once again I don't know how Davis will responed to being a pro. Maybe he'll exceed Collisons production maybe he won't. Until he actually does he's not better than Collison that's the way I see it.
So you're saying Anthony Davis is worse than any other player that has ever played in the NBA because he is a rookie?
Also, on depth - I see a lot of different guys that can produce on any given night off the bench. To me Smith is a great 3rd big off the bench, and Lopez is a great 4th big. I really believe our bigs are some of the stronger in the NBA. Given that we added Rivers, Mason = Belli, and X should improve (even if it's just a little), there is some depth there. There's plenty of different options we can go with this team. Of course it's not the most talented bench, but it's not horrible.
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I can see 30 wins. Like Da Throne said, I'm not sold on the depth or our centers for that matter. Lopez has a lot to prove (I'm not sure what people are basing their expectations for him on). Anthony Davis and Austin Rivers will have their games where they show flashes but at the end of the day they haven't played a pro game and haven't come anywhere close to playing over 82. They'll improve over last year but unless the rest of the West performs horribly, I think they are a year away from being mentioned in any type of playoff/.500 season talk.
^ I'm of the opinion that if everything goes perfectly (health, players living up to expectations, chemistry, etc.) the Hornets may be able to threaten for the eighth seed. I would be ecstatic if they got to forty wins.
Depends on how many games Gordon plays and how fast AD improves. anywhere from 25 to 45.
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The proposed constitutional amendment would allow the governor to select his or her own judge to rule on the Missouri Supreme Court. The state senate would then confirm the appointment of the judge, similar to the federal courts process. The group began the petition drive in order to eliminate the current system that, they said, is prone to being influenced by special interest groups, according to the organization.[1][2]
On May 2, 2010, the state's petition drive deadline, supporters filed an estimated 250,000 signatures from all nine congressional districts.[3] The petition drive began on July 13, 2009 in order to send the measure to the ballot.[4] The Missouri Secretary of State has until August 3 to verify the submitted signatures.[5]
Ballot summary
Version 2
The official ballot title of Version 2 is (certified September 4, 2009):[6]
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to repeal the current nonpartisan court plan for the selection of judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Courts in St. Louis City and Jackson, Platte, Clay, St. Louis, and Greene Counties and to create a new method of selecting such judges through appointment by the Governor with advice and consent of the Missouri Senate?[7]
Version 3
The official ballot title of Version 3 is (certified November 12, 2009):[8]
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:
- repeal the current nonpartisan court plan used to select judges and the current prohibition on judges participating in political campaigns;
- select all judges through partisan elections; and
- reduce the terms for Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges from 12 to 8 years?
Fiscal impact
According to the secretary of state's office, "Most local election authorities estimate no costs or savings, however, some local election authorities may incur estimated costs of $25,000 to $184,536 for each general election if the proposal results in the need for additional ballot pages. The proposal may result in an estimated savings of $7,741 to state governmental entities."
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ShowMe Better Courts is the sponsor of the proposed judicial selection amendment.
The campaign effort in support of the initiative has received a total of about $1.6 million in contributions as of early May 2010. According to reports the six-figure amounts were donated by David Humphreys, a Joplin roofing contractor, and Stanley Herzog, a St. Joseph contractor.[9]
On September 15, 2009 two lawsuits were filed in the Cole County Circuit Court against the proposed amendment.[10]
- One lawsuit, filed by Jefferson City attorney Alex Bartlett, argued that the petition for the proposed constitutional amendment did not follow the laws governing the initiative process and should be thrown out.[11] Secretary of State Robin Carnahan approved the petitions for circulation on September 8.[12]
- The second lawsuit, filed by Jefferson City lawyer Heidi Doerhoff Vollet on behalf of former state Sen. Harold Caskey, argues that State Auditor Susan Montee did not offer an accurate fiscal note. The lawsuit would require for Montee to issue a new fiscal note and thus block circulation of the petitions until the legal battles are settled.[11]
- Ballot measure supporters said December 31, 2009 that they are seeking to intervene in the lawsuit in order to help move it forward.[13]
- On February 26, 2010 Cole County Circuit Court Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that the challenge was invalid.[14] Judge Joyce said the summary that would appear on petitions is fair and sufficient.[15]
Second initiative petition
ShowMe Better Courts on October 9, 2009 filed a second initiative petition with the Missouri Secretary of State's Office. This time, it's a petition that would replace the Missouri Plan for selecting appellate judges with direct elections. If approved by the voters in November of 2010, Missouri would have direct elections for the Missouri Supreme Court and the Missouri Court of Appeals like its neighbors in Illinois[16].
An initiative filed earlier in the year by ShowMe Better Courts is in litigation as a result of a lawsuit filed by groups who prefer to continue the practice in Missouri of having a small commission pick the state's high court judges.[16]
In a statement in regards to direct elections, James M. N. Harris, the executive director of ShowMe Better Courts said:
"Direct elections are the primary method of appointing judges in many other states, as well as at the local level in a majority of counties in Missouri. It's not like this is a new, untested idea. While the group of ambulance chasers that dominates the current process will no doubt voice concern and try to obstruct this attempt to give the people a voice, their concern is based upon the realization that they will no longer be able to use the secrecy and lack of accountability under the current system to bend the court to their will. All along, our goals have been very simple: increasing transparency, increasing citizen control, and reducing the influence of the trial bar." [16]
Ethics complaint against Missouri Bar
On March 12, 2010 ShowMe Better Courts filed an ethics complaint against the Missouri Bar, a state-created association for state lawyers. The complaint alleges that the state Bar been using funds in the campaign against the proposed measure. According to the complaint, the Bar is a creation of the Missouri Supreme Court as as such, is only allowed to use funds to educate others about the court. James Harris of ShowMe Better Courts said,"No group is above the law and the law is clear that organizations or individuals who engage in political activity to influence the electorate have disclosure and reporting requirements associated with that activity." However, Missouri Bar president Skip Walther said that the association has not spent any money against the proposed measure and the appeal is "replete with inaccuracies."[17][18]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Missouri signature requirements
To qualify for the ballot, each initiative requires signatures from registered voters equal to 8% of the total votes cast in the 2008 governor's election from six of the state's nine congressional districts. On May 2, 2010, the state's petition drive deadline, supporters filed an estimated 250,000 signatures from all nine congressional districts.[3] The petition drive began on July 13, 2009 in order to send the measure to the ballot.[19] The Missouri Secretary of State has until August 3 to verify the submitted signatures.[5]
- July 13, 2009 - petition drive began
- October 9, 2009 - filed a second initiative petition
- September 15, 2009 - two lawsuits were filed in the Cole County Circuit Court against the proposed amendment
- February 26, 2010 - Cole County Circuit Court Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that the challenge was invalid
- March 12, 2010 - ShowMe Better Courts filed an ethics complaint against the Missouri Bar
- May 2, 2010 - petition signatures due
See also
- Four initiatives aim for the Missouri ballot
- Missouri judicial selection ballot measure cleared for petition circulation
- Missouri group files petition on referendum for restoring judicial elections
- Lawsuits filed against Missouri judicial selection ballot measure
- Ballot title approved for Missouri reform of judicial selection
- Missouri groups plans initiative to reform judicial selection
External links
- Missouri Government Official Website
- ShowMe Better Courts (supporters)
Additional reading
- The St. Louis Tea Party,"Show Me Better Courts Delivers Petitions For Amendment," May 3, 2010
- Examiner,"Petitions to be reviewed by Missouri Secretary of State's office," May 3, 2010
- Associated Press,"Justices making new push to abolish elected judges," December 11, 2009
- ↑ Columbia Daily Tribune, "Drive targets judge selection", July 13, 2009
- ↑ Judgepedia.org, "Better Courts for Missouri", 2009
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Watchdog.org,"Four initiatives aim for the Missouri ballot," May 2, 2010
- ↑ 2010 Missouri Election Calendar, 2010
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Associated Press,"Four petition drives, including one to repeal KC's earnings tax, meet state deadline for submission," May 2, 2010
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State,"Constitutional Amendment to Article V, Relating to Repealing the Nonpartisan Court Plan, version 2 2010-061," retrieved November 23, 2009
- ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatch,"Ballot title approved for Missouri court plan repeal," September 8, 2009
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State,"Constitutional Amendment to Article V, Relating to Repealing the Nonpartisan Court Plan, version 3 2010-071," retrieved November 23, 2009
- ↑ The Kansas City Star,"Money, money, money fuels Missouri petition drives," May 4, 2010
- ↑ Associated Press,"2 lawsuits challenge proposed Mo. ballot measure on judicial selection," September 15, 2009
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 News Tribune,"2 lawsuits seek to block court-changing petitions," September 15, 2009
- ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatch,"Ballot title approved for Missouri court plan repeal," September 8, 2009
- ↑ Associated Press,"Missouri backers of court changes seek to join lawsuit," December 31, 2009
- ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatch,"Ballot initiative to require direct election of judges gets court OK," February 26, 2010
- ↑ Associated Press,"Mo. judge rejects suit over court ballot measure," February 26, 2010
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 "St. Louis Post Dispatch" UPDATE: Anti-Missouri Plan group now seeks direct election of judges, October 7, 2009
- ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatch,"Missouri Bar hit with ethics complaint over alleged campaign violations," March 12, 2010
- ↑ Associated Press,"Mo. lawyers' group accused of violating ethics," March 13, 2010
- ↑ 2010 Missouri Election Calendar, 2010
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The North
I will not be one of them.
Nope. I will not be going to the State Fair this year. In fact, I have never been. That's right. I have lived in
Some will say that is almost unpatriotic or something like that. Living here all these years and not going to the State Fair? But the opportunity just never seemed right.
When I was little and my dad got time off from work, we usually went to visit his parents in
And when I was in
Never been much of a Fair fan anyway. Used to go to the local fair years ago, but always was with law enforcement types as part of my work.
But I did go to one really big Fair — the World's Fair in
The World's Fair was held at Flushing Meadows, present home of the U.S. Open tennis event. If you go there today you will see the Unisphere that was the Fair symbol. That Unisphere is the largest replica of the world in the world — 12 stories tall.
There were unbelievable exhibits from across the world, and it was indeed an experience to be there and see all those things.
There was a General Motors exhibit that showed us transportation in the future, some of which came to pass, some of which did not. And various countries had exhibits showing the culture in their particular part of the world.
But you know the one thing I remember most from that Fair? The one single thing?
"It's a world of laughter, a world of tears,
It's a world of hopes and a world of fears,
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all."
That's right. I remember most of all the Walt Disney boat ride that featured that lilting little song that is so memorable that I find myself humming it yet today. We rode along in an enclosed passageway, listening to that song, and every so often there would be some of the animated characters singing it. They were children from various parts of the world and were shown in settings from their respective countries.
It was quite a spectacular thing in my mind.
And in the minds of lots of others, apparently, as the ride is still a part of the attractions in
There were many huge and spectacular exhibits at that World's Fair, but the one I remember most is the "small world" attraction.
But back to our State Fair. I know many of you will be there. Hope you enjoy it. But it will remain on my list of things that I have not done and am not likely to do.
Come to think of it, another thing I have never done is to visit the North
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DATE & TIME: Saturday, October 27, 12:00 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: Michie Stadium (38,000) -- West Point, New York Television: CBSSN. Home Record: BSU 3-1, Army 1-3. Away Record: BSU 2-2, Army 0-3. Neutral Record: BSU 0-0, Army 0-0. Conference Record: BSU 3-2, Army 0-0. Series Record: Army leads, 2-1.
GAME NOTES: The Ball State Cardinals are set to step out of Mid-American Conference play and take on the Army Black Knights at Michie Stadium this weekend.
Coach Pete Lembo is on the verge of guiding the Cardinals to bowl eligibility for the second straight season. Ball State also began its 2011 season with a 5-3 record, but finished 6-6 and was one of just two eligible FBS teams not to be extended an invitation to a bowl game. The Cardinals are riding a two-game winning streak after last week's 41-30 victory over Central Michigan. This week's game is the final non-conference test on BSU's schedule.
Saturday will be the third consecutive week the Black Knights take on a team from the MAC. Army has lost seven straight against MAC opponents, including a 48-38 setback to the previously winless Eastern Michigan Eagles last time out. Coach Rich Ellerson's team, which is currently on a two-game losing slide, needs to win out to become bowl eligible.
Army holds a 2-1 advantage in its all-time series with Ball State. The Cardinals win in the rivalry was a 48-21 rout in Muncie last season on Sept. 24, 2011.
Ball State's success this season is largely due to its dynamic offense which leads the MAC in total offense with 480.8 yards per game. The only team to hold the Cardinals under 400 total yards of offense this season was Clemson.
BSU has a potent weapon out of the backfield in tailback Jahwan Edwards, who ranks fourth in the MAC with an average of 100.1 yards per game. The sophomore tailback has eclipsed the century mark in each of his last two games. Edwards frequently visits the end zone with 19 touchdowns in 20 career games.
Horactio Banks complements Edwards very well as an alternative option out of the backfield, but a knee injury kept him sidelined last week. While Banks was injured, Barrington Scott rushed a career-high 25 times for 99 yards and two touchdowns.
Ball State also has a potent passing attack with Keith Wenning under center. The junior quarterback went 23-of-30 for 231 yards, three touchdowns, and one interception in last week's triumph over Central Michigan. On the season, Wenning has completed 64.1 percent of his passes for 2,236 yards with 15 touchdowns and six interceptions.
Wenning has a pair of reliable targets in Willie Snead and Jamill Smith. Snead is 11th in the FBS and first in the MAC in receiving with 823 yards and six touchdowns on 62 receptions. Smith has 54 catches for 583 yards and three scores.
Ball State's defensive unit is not on par with its offense. Last week, Cardinals gave up 446 yards of total offense to the Chippewas, who came in averaging only 366.7 per contest.
Travis Freeman (83 tackles) and Tony Martin (62 tackles) are both key players on the defensive side of the ball for BSU. Freeman is 14th in the FBS and third in the MAC in tackles. Jonathan Newsome leads the team with 7.5 tackles for loss and 6.0 sacks.
Army is normally one of just a handful of programs in the country that still utilize a wishbone offensive scheme that relies almost exclusively on the run, but it has been evolving in recent weeks. Army attempted 44 passes in its past three games after throwing the ball just 28 times in its first four contests. Through just seven games, the Black Knights have amassed 2,724 yards on the ground, which is the most in the nation. On the other side Army has only 468 passing yards.
With such a prolific rushing attack the Black Knights have had a stable of backs carrying the ball, led by Raymond Maples, who has 789 yards on 137 carries for a solid 5.8 yards per carry and 112.7 yards per game. Quarterback Trent Steelman (709 yards, 10 TDs) leads the team in touchdown runs and is second on the team in attempts with 132.
As a passer, Steelman has completed only 22 passes all season for 356 yards and one touchdown. Last week, the senior had a record setting day, breaking a 26-year old program record for a quarterback with 212 rushing yards, which included two 70-plus yard dashes to the end zone.
The Black Knights are generous on the defensive side. They give up an average of 37.9 points and 466.1 yards per contest. Army has a number of prolific tacklers led by Geoffery Bacon, who has piled up 75 tackles. Brandon Fusilier- Jeffires has 50 total tackles, while Nate Combs has been a force on the line with six sacks and nine total tackles for loss.
The Cardinals will be able to score at will unless Army makes dramatic adjustments. Ball State was not nearly as efficient or dangerous offensively last season and it still compiled 545 yards of total offense against the Black Knights. Lembo's squad cannot afford to lose this one with Toledo and Ohio coming up next on the schedule.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Ball State 38, Army 27


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Unsinkable BrownTuesday, November 13th, 2012
Recently, a client asked for brown as a color option on a project. A couple of years ago, I would have resisted. But, brown has slowly been creeping into my mind. First, I found myself admiring the brown tile at the Honolulu Airport. Then, I decided I should move away from my earthquake safe Melmac dinnerware. So, I bought several settings of Heath Ceramics dinnerware.
The Heath colors are subtle, subtle and subtle. Seeing one brown combined with cream or tan plate convinced me that brown could be alright. Some of my favorite design solutions are brown. Does this mean I'm mellowing, or developing, God forbid, good taste? I still resist any attempt to put brown in bathrooms. Brown wall, tiles, fixtures, or accessories should never be used there. I won't go into details, but how do you know if someone previously had an "episode" in the bathroom if everything isn't bright white?