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DAVENPORT, Calif. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged residents to heed mandatory evacuation orders Saturday as more than 7,000 firefighters battled to control nearly a dozen blazes across the parched state.
Schwarzenegger met with firefighters at the Lockheed Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a day after the governor returned to the state from attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, Eunice Shriver.
Meanwhile, a separate fire in Yuba County north of Sacramento grew dramatically and officials more than doubled the firefighting force to contain it.
The Lockheed Fire has blackened close to 8 square miles of remote wilderness since Wednesday and prompted mandatory evacuations of the mountain communities of Swanton and Bonny Doon, which have about 2,400 residents and several wineries.
"These fires will be different than most of the fires because of the terrain," Schwarzenegger said. "It's very hard to get equipment in there and the resources in there. That's why you see a lot of helicopters and fixed winged aircraft being used."
The fire spread slightly overnight but crews gained some ground when the winds died down, containing nearly 40 percent of the fire, said CalFire spokeswoman Julie Hutchinson.
Firefighters worried that strong offshore winds would fuel flames by drying out the trees and brush, but Hutchinson said they hadn't developed by late Saturday.
"There were very minimal winds," she said. "Offshore winds haven't really come in."
Schwarzenegger said the Lockheed Fire was one of 11 burning in the state. Other blazes have forced evacuations and knocked out power, and smoke and ash from the growing wildfire in Santa Barbara County whirled into the Los Angeles area, prompting an unusual weather forecast of "scattered smoke."
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi declared a state of emergency Friday for Santa Cruz County.
Schwarzenegger said 25 firefighters had been injured in various blazes, but the extent of their injuries wasn't immediately known.
"We pray that they heal as quickly as possible," Schwarzenegger said.
The Lockheed Fire blaze started Wednesday about 10 miles north of Santa Cruz. A change in winds shifted the fire away from Bonny Doon but closer to Swanton, CalFire spokesman Daniel Berlant said.
No homes had been destroyed, and no injuries were reported. The blaze damaged two small structures and was threatening more than 1,000 homes and buildings. The cause is under investigation.
Hannah Good, a veterinarian who lives in Bonny Doon with her partner and two children, said workers helped to evacuate her birds, cats, donkey, pony and dog.
"It was quite a scramble getting the animals and our family out of there," Good said. "Once I smelled the smoke, I knew we had problems."
Meanwhile, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said Saturday that a week-old wildfire burning in the Los Padres National Forest was started by a campfire set by marijuana growers, part of a drug operation run by Mexican nationals.
More than 230 homes and ranches remained under evacuation orders as more than 2,000 firefighters took on that blaze, which has burned 131 square miles of timber and brush in the forest about 140 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It was 25 percent contained.


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Victor is a short film about Filipino faith and beliefs. It is written and directed by Jarell M. Serencio. It is one of the official entries for the New Breed Short Film Category in Cinemalaya 2012.
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|Jarell M. Serencio
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|Victor Caparas
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Victor, a native of San Pedro Cutud in San Fernando, Pampanga, has been offering himself to be nailed on the cross every Holy Week (Semana Santa) for the past ten years. He and his fellows do this to ask God's forgiveness for all their sins as well as grace to grant all their petitions.
- Victor Caparas as Victor
- Fernan Manansala as Jeffrey
- Chona Yutuc as Karen
- Zenaida Yutuc as Babaeng Bayaran
- Ricky Yutuc as Kaibigan
- Medina Yutuc as Mother
- Theresa Canlas as Fish Vendor
- Nenita Nicolas as Sari-Sari Store Vendor
- Executive Producers- Alwin Domel Resurreccion and Jarell M. Serencio
- Producer- Eduardo W. Roy Jr.
- Cinematography- Jarell M. Serencio
- Film Editor- Fiona Borres
- Music & Sound- Teresa Barrozo
- Kapampangan Translator-Christina Silvano; Written and Directed by Jarell M. Serencio
Award and recognition
- Best Film, New Breed Short Film Category, Cinemalaya 2012
- ""Victor" by Jarell M. Serencio".Cinemalaya 2012 on facebook.(Accessed on 13 August 2012).
- "Victor".YouTube.(Accessed on 13 August 2012).
- ""Victor" by Jarell M. Serencio".Cinemalaya 2011.(Accessed on 13 August 2012).
- Cruz, Marinel R."Cinemalaya 2012 award winners bared".Inquirer Entertainment.(Accessed on 13 August 2012).
- ""Victor" by Jarell M. Serencio". The Blog of Innocence: SilentVoice Points.(Accessed on 13 August 2012).
- "Cinemalaya Short Film Reviews and Awards Part I".Meari: Writing Undercover on Tumblr.(Accessed on 13 August 2012).
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- "Victor - A Cinemalaya 2012 Short Film".facebook.(Accessed on 13 August 2012).
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Australia's human rights commission president, Gillian Triggs, has called for the government to move all asylum seeker children and families in immigration detention on Christmas Island to the Australian mainland, following a recent inspection visit, which revealed the ongoing "despair and helplessness" among the detainee population who continue to experience a spike in levels of self-harm and depression.
The commission visit, which formed part of the ongoing inquiry into children in immigration detention, took place on 14 July, when the delegation verified that 10 women were placed on 24-hour watch for self-harm and suicide and a total of 13 considered high risk. Guardian Australia was told by Christmas Island sources on Wednesday that there are currently six women on constant watch – meaning a guard sits outside their room with the door open at all times – and four men at the Northwest Point centre that had self-harmed.
Earlier in the month prime minister Tony Abbott said that asylum seekers who self-harmed were attempting to hold the government over a "moral barrel", following reports that at least one woman had attempted suicide on Christmas Island and a number of mothers had been placed on 24-hour watch. The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
our julie wishes to smell the sunflowers...
Apparently our own Julie Bishop, minister for foreign objects and champion stare-gazer, wants to go and visit the crash site of MH17, herself, possibly with Aussie troops or police... I hope she wears a clown suit as to distinguish her from being a Ukrainian spy. I believe either she is search of glory in what is still a war zone, unless she has hidden the fact she has been an air crash investigator all her life... We wish her well.
May be, she should visit Gaza instead...
shooting his lips from the tulips...
Dutch frustration with Russia in the wake of the MH17 crash is taking on an increasingly personal note, as some called for Vladimir Putin's daughter to be deported from the Netherlands.
Pieter Broertjes, the mayor of the city of Hilversum, used a radio interview on Wednesday morning to call for 29-year-old Maria Putin, who is said to live in Voorschoten with her Dutch boyfriend, to be thrown out of the country.
More than half of the 298 people killed when the Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in eastern Ukraine last week were Dutch.
Broertjes later apologised for his remarks via Twitter, saying they were "not wise", but adding that "they stemmed from a feeling of helplessness that many will recognise".
A plane carrying the first 50 victims of the crash is expected to arrive this afternoon at Eindhoven airport, from where they will be transported to army barracks in Hilversum. The Dutch government has declared Wednesday a day of national mourning and will mark the bodies' arrival with a minute's silence across the country.
Should I be Putin's daughter (which I am not) I would get out of the Netherlands as soon as possible. There are enough crackpots in the world to create trouble like highjacking and ransom demands... Don't worry I am not planting ideas in the mind of people... These ideas are already there amongst us as "we" (our neo-fascist masters) try to find ways to "punish" Putin...
Hi-hee hi-ho, it's up to a war zone we go...
Fifty Australian federal police have been deployed to London, ready to go into Ukraine if agreement is secured to send in an international team to secure the crash site for the investigation of flight MH17.
Tony Abbott spoke to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, about the decision to deploy police for a multinational force to Ukraine.
The prime minister said he wanted to deploy a team to Ukraine "as quickly as possible" but the details of the multinational force – including whether they would be armed – were still being worked out.
"Obviously I would be very careful about putting any Australian personnel seriously into harm's way without any protection, but given a reasonably permissive environment which seems to have developed over the last few days, given that Organisation for Security Cooperation in Europe [OSCE] officials have been allowed to visit the site, it seems unmolested, in the last few days, I am optimistic these police could be allowed on site," he said.
read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/australia-has-federal-police-ready-to-enter-ukraine-and-secure-mh17-site#start-of-comments
Meanwhile Gus invites the Russians with a gun ship to investigate what's happening in the high seas where an Australian ship is holding quite a lot of asylum seekers while denying them "duty of care"....
Most people think that Tony Abbott's mission is idiotic... He is an idiot but he might pull it off... Idiots often get strange breaks. He got elected, didn't he?
a stern warming to mr putin...
Please, Vladimir, note that our Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is more of a bully and a sneaky psycho than you are. You've been warned...
only in overseas press...
The prime minister of Ukraine has stood himself down... You've seen this first on YD...
"Ukrainian Prime Minister resigns
The collapse of the coalition government may tip the country into a serious political crisis, in addition to economic difficulties and the bloody conflict with the pro-Russian separatists."
now in the NYT...
KIEV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, a pro-Western technocrat who has guided the Ukrainian government through the tumultuous months since the ouster of President Viktor F. Yanukovyvch, resigned abruptly on Thursday, after the governing coalition of Parliament collapsed.
"I declare my resignation in connection with the collapse of the coalition and blocking of government initiatives," Mr. Yatsenyuk said from the rostrum of Parliament.
Earlier in the day, two major parties announced they were leaving the governing coalition, a step that would allow President Petro O. Poroshenko to dissolve Parliament and call elections for the fall.
That announcement followed weeks of negotiations between the parties, but the move was not supported by Mr. Yatsenyuk's Fatherland Party, which is led by the former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, who had challenged Mr. Poroshenko for the presidency.
it was an unfortunate accident...
Why does foreign policy default to stupid? From the moment that we heard of the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine it was clearly an accident. Whoever's finger was on the trigger, the tragedy cannot have been meant. This was not another 9/11. It was cock-up, not conspiracy.
Yet foreign policy craves conspiracy. Vladimir Putin blamed the Ukrainian government. Ukraine blamed the pro-Russian rebels. America's UN ambassador, Samantha Power, "cannot rule out" Moscow's responsibility. London howled blue murder all round. There had been blood. There had to be blame.
What happened was a ghastly mess in bandit country, meriting the swiftest possible restoration of dignity for the victims. Yet before even the bodies had been collected, politicians vied with each other fortightening sanctions, ending trade, expelling oligarchs and freezing bank accounts. Soon they were fighting like rats in a sack. Barack Obama was a wimp. François Hollande was an appeaser. David Cameron was a hypocrite. The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy hurled down thunderbolts on everyone, "This is the spirit of Munich – appeasement. And it is a disgrace."
These moments are dangerous. In 1914, the Austrian government declared the madcap shooting of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand a "Serbian government plot" and went to war. In 1983, the Russians shot down a Korean airliner that had strayed over Siberia, killing all 269 people on board. It was clearly an accident, the fighter pilots' ground control being drunk and panicking. This intelligence was suppressed and the incident exploited to precipitate one of the most scary confrontations of the cold war.
Five years later it was America's turn, when a US cruiser shot down an Iranian civilian Airbus A300 in Iranian airspace. The US navy wriggled and excused itself, while Iran seized on it as a crime of wanton aggression, aided by America rewarding its sailors with medals. Washington refused to admit legal liability, and took eight years to pay $62m in compensation to bereaved families.
What is terrifying is how such incidents are distorted to suit the interests of revenge. Clearly Putin has been reckless along Russia's western frontier, backing Ukrainian rebels with enough weaponry to make accidents more likely to happen. Yet the idea that he willed the tragedy is as absurd as that Konstantin Chernenko willed the Korean massacre or Ronald Reagan the downing of an Iranian plane.
Putin must have been as appalled as anyone at the fate of the airliner. It also sabotaged his delicate power play in the region and threw him on the defensive. Intelligence from Moscow suggests that he is bruised and angry, retreating into his circle of hawkish advisers and their nationalist rhetoric. This is the moment Confucius advises us to give the enemy a bridge over which to retreat. Instead, the west's hawks are having a field day, deriding Putin's paranoia as if to goad him into doing something worse.
read more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/25/mock-putin-pride-paranoia-mh17-excuse-punish-russia
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Trying to deploy Australian personnel to the Ukrainian warzone - let alone armed ones - shows a dangerous lack of respect for the very real conflict taking place in eastern Europe, writes Matthew Dal Santo.
Generous commentators discern a wider strategy in Australia's mission to the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine - a heartening sign of the government's willingness to engage, hard-headed, with the world, wherever Australia's interests demand it.
Today, though, the AFP's Ukraine Operation is looking more and more like the charge of the light brigade: gallant, but not bright.
For the third day running, the AFP has failed to reach the crash site. The Federal Government has said they could wait for up to three weeks on the outskirts of Donetsk, in the middle of a civil war whose deeper geopolitical issues the Government has by its own admission little interest in.
This isn't the AFP's fault. But those who sent them there appear to have been misled about the conditions they would find.
In place of the ceasefire supposedly provided for by last week's Australian-sponsored Security Council Resolution 2166, the crash site is a battleground as the Ukrainian army attempts to drive a wedge between the rebels and the Russian border. (See, for instance, this New York Times report.)
Indeed, the AFP's Ukrainian hosts stand in breach of a cardinal provision of SC/2166, "that all military activities, including by armed groups, be immediately ceased in the immediate area surrounding the crash site to allow for security and safety of the international investigation".
This puts Bishop, now back in Kiev, and Australia in an awkward situation. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has every right to feel put upon by Australia's SC/2166: though welcome when it comes to the rebels, it's an obvious burden when it curtails the army's ability to suppress a rebellion on national territory. Certainly, it's a concession of sovereign rights it's hard to imagine any Australian government being prepared to make.
To fix the situation but in reality probably making it worse, Bishop wants Ukraine's parliament (which has not yet approved the Dutch-Australian mission) to approve the arming of the policemen Australia has deployed on its territory.
Yet the only thing worse than having unarmed personnel deployed in this particular warzone on the other side of the world is armed ones.
There are two simple reasons.
First, the Netherlands is a NATO country. Second, Australia is an American treaty ally.
Bishop will have to be very confident that both the Kremlin and the rebels will distinguish the inoffensive purposes of armed Australian personnel as clearly as we do.
That can't be taken for granted.
On Tuesday, the rebels accused the OSCE - the Organisation for Security Cooperation in Europe, under whose auspices the mission has been arranged - of serving as a vehicle for American interests.
And from Russia's perspective, the whole point of this conflict is to stop the eastward expansion of Western-led organisations, such as NATO and the EU, which it perceives as a cover for spreading America's sphere of influence over the territories of the former Soviet Union.
read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-30/dal-santo-mh17-australias-shallow-foreign-policy-revealed/5634810
It can frustrating for families of those who got killed in the accidental shooting of MH17 not to get all the bits that belonged to their loved ones... But it's unrealistic to expect an exclusion zone of war around MH17 debris. Already there are suggestion that the site has been land-mined by the rebels... Nothing to do with them being hard-hearted, but seeing an ARMED police force from NATO and Australian lackeys of the US trampling the sunflower fields could be seen as a geo-political action rather than a "humanitarian" venture.
And we still don't know who shot MH17... Ukrainian forces or rebels?... And there is nothing "humanitarian" to be found there. Only sad and innocuous remnant of people existence.
Peace in your hearts.
Meanwhile we are still searching for MH370... see
poking the bear in the eye won't help...
From the American Conservative
The downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17 was a great tragedy, and the world wants to make sure that such an event never happens again. People all over the globe, not least Australians and the Dutch who have lost more than 230 civilians, have been understandably angry about the failure of the Russian-backed rebels in Eastern Ukraine to respond satisfactorily to this calamity.
But it is imperative that we think clearly and, if necessary, coldly, about the underlying cause of the Russia-Ukraine standoff, which sparked the military blunder. If we fail to do so, we'll have little hope of trying to solve it. Alas, there is a real danger that the West's response—more sanctions against Russia, diplomatic isolation of Vladimir Putin, increased military support to Ukraine—could exacerbate tensions.
The conventional wisdom in the West blames the turmoil on Putin's goal to recreate the former Soviet Empire. The Bear is on the prowl again, we're told, and it must be put back in its cage.
But the United States and the European Union are hardly blameless. As John Mearsheimer, one of America's leading experts on international relations, points out in a forthcoming issue of Foreign Affairs, it was the West's efforts to pull Ukraine away from Russia's strategic orbit that was guaranteed to cause big trouble.
By expanding NATO up to Russia's borders in the Clinton and George W. Bush eras, and by helping bring down a democratically elected, pro-Moscow—albeit corrupt and thuggish—government in Kiev last February, the West has poked at the Bear and failed to see how those decisions look from its perspective.
It has repudiated the implicit agreement between president George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990-91 that the Atlantic alliance would not extend into Eastern Europe and the Baltics, a region that Russia has viewed as a necessary zone of protection long before Stalin appeared on the scene. In so doing, the West has taken no account at all for Russian susceptibilities and interests.
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US supplies Israel with bombs amid Gaza blitz
Pentagon says Israel allowed to tap local US arms stockpile in past week to resupply it with grenades and mortar rounds.
The United States has allowed Israel, waging an offensive in the Gaza Strip, to tap a local US arms stockpile in the past week to resupply it with grenades and mortar rounds, Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon's press secretary, has said.
Israel, however, did not cite an emergency when it made its latest request about 10 days ago, a defence official said on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
On Sunday, Barack Obama, the US president, called for an immediate and sustainable ceasefire in Gaza.
Washington allowed Israel to access the strategic stockpile to resupply itself with 40mm grenades and 120mm mortar rounds to deplete older stocks that would eventually need to be refreshed.
In a statement, Kirby said: "Both munitions had been in WRSA-I stock for a few years, well before the current crisis.
"All stocks in WRSA-I, as required by law, are 'in excess to US requirements'.
read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/us-supplies-israel-with-bombs-amid-gaza-blitz-2014730233016747143.html
So why would not Putin be able to supply armament to the "Rebels" in East Ukraine?
you may not read about this in the english hegemony press...
Ukraine says at least 300 troops and border guards were forced to enter Russia during fighting with separatists and heavy mortar bombardment along the border.
Ukrainian defense spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists on Monday that the forces crossed into Russia for safety reasons, after they became trapped between the rebels and the border. However, Russian authorities insist the troops were seeking refuge.
Much of the fighting is currently concentrated in the region along the frontier. Lysenko said diplomatic negotiations were now underway with Moscow to secure the soldiers' return, adding that Ukrainian troops were close to cutting off rebels in Donetsk from the Russian border and their comrades in Luhansk.
Russia's security service said border guards had allowed 438 Ukrainians to cross at Gukovo, between the Ukrainian Luhansk and the Russian Rostov region, after they agreed to give up their weapons.
"They were tired of the war and wanted no further part in it," Russian border guard spokesman Vasily Malayev told Reuters. He added that 180 of the group were taken by bus back to Ukraine later on Monday, and that the remaining soldiers were being kept in a camp on Russian territory.
Speaking on Russian television, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would help facilitate the return of the soldiers, but he suggested they had defected.
"I expect Ukrainian authorities to understand that it is absolutely unacceptable, when Ukrainians ... are forced to fight with their own people, to treat those who refuse to do so as traitors to the motherland," said Lavrov.
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Responding to Russia's retaliation on Thursday (07.08.2014), the European Commission was self-assured and relaxed. The European Union, a spokesman said, is "prepared to act" regarding the Russian import ban on food from EU member states.
"We reserve the right to take action as appropriate," said the spokesman, who said the ban was clearly politically motivated. He declined, however, to give details of possible retaliatory measures.
The agriculture and food embargo is set to last a year and includes meat, fish, poultry, milk products, vegetables and fruit from the EU and the US. Australia, Canada and Norway are also affected.
The Kremlin has already shown it can pinpoint specific countries. Immediately after the EU imposed encompassing economic sanctions against Russia on July 31, Moscow stopped the import of fruit and vegetables from Poland, allegedly due to health risks. Poland has always been at the forefront when it comes to taking a hard stance against Moscow.
Russia threatens further steps
Food imports involve large sums of money: According to the Commission, EU food exports to Russia were worth almost 12 billion euros ($16 billion) in 2013. For the most part, this trade will now likely cease to exist. Local Russian producers are expected to fill the gap, though their efforts are likely to fall short. Imports of Brazilian meat and cheese from New Zealand are expected to fill some of the gaps.
The ban is clearly "politically" motivated? What about the sanctions against Russia?... Get a life... We're ruled by hypocritical idiots... At least the Neo Zealanders have not climbed on their stupid soapboxes to satisfy their sorrows at the same time as their neo-fascist views... The mix of sorrows and neo-fascist capitalism is ugly...
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing "Russian troop deployments" in the east of the country.
His announcement came as pro-Russia rebels took the coast town of Novoazovsk and threatened the strategic port city of Mariupol.
Russia said no forces were crossing Ukraine's border "at any point".
At least 2,119 people have been killed since fighting erupted in April between Ukrainian forces and separatists.
According to my very reliable sources on the Russian border, there are NO Russian troops in Ukraine... This is just a stir by the president of Ukraine to get world media attention...
I repeat: no russians involved...
World powers have called a succession of emergency meetings to step up the international response to Russia after Kiev accused Moscow of a de facto invasion and of opening up a second front in the conflict in eastern Europe.
The UN security council was meeting in emergency session, and Natoand EU leaders will consider a response on Friday, amid signs that hundreds of Russian soldiers are actively involved in the insurrection against Kiev's rule.
Russia denies that any of its troops are in eastern Ukraine. But on Thursday Nato said it estimated there were now more than 1,000 Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. The organisation released satellite images that it said showed Russian armoured vehicles and artillery had been crossing into Ukraine for at least a week.
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Kick-starting the entrance examination season with the toughest of all engineering entrance examinations, the IIT-JEE 2008 (Joint Entrance Examination for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology) went off with no unexpected twists in the tale, except for a small variation in mark distribution in the second paper and a relatively tougher and lengthier mathematics paper.
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Following the recent Supreme Court decision to implement 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Castes, all existing IITs will carry out the reservation in three phases, implementing nine per cent reservation this year, while the three new institutes in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan will implement 27 per cent at one go.
IIT-JEE patterns are closely monitored both by students and the coaching institutes. The Hindu EducationPlus spoke to experts and students to form an analysis of the paper for the benefit of students who have already appeared for the exam as well as those who are preparing for future JEEs.
Aditya Kumar, who took a year off to write the entrance test this year, said: "The paper was too lengthy to solve and even the chemistry paper seemed a little tougher than usual." His friend Harish agreed and said that the Mathematics section was tougher and some of the problems were too long for the objective format.
"The mathematics paper was tough in both sessions. Questions were challenging but those who identified and omitted those questions stand to gain," said Ajay Arora of Triumphant Institute of Management Education (TIME).
While in 2007, both papers contained 69 questions each, this year the mark distribution was different but the difference is too minor to affect students. Experts also said that physical chemistry and modern physics sections were tougher than usual.
The cut-off for the mathematics paper is predicted to be much lesser than usual. Going by last year's method, institutes such as TIME estimate the overall cut-off at 4 per cent which is a total of 167 marks.
Mathematics was the thorn in the flesh for the majority of students. In physics, the questions were uniformly distributed and the linked-assertion types were difficult. Experts say that IIT-JEE 2008 was more challenging than those in the previous years and chemistry was the only really scoring section.
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06.03.07 - By Geoffrey Ciani: The most highly anticipated match-up of the year is just two months away. That, of course, being the Cinco de Mayo showdown between pound-for-pound king, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and boxings biggest attraction, Oscar De La Hoya. When this fight was first announced back in November of last year, it seemed light years away; now were just two months out, and the bout is just as intriguing as it was then.
Whats interesting are the unknowns. In particular, there are two unknowns that make this fight very difficult to pick a winner. (1) How much does De La Hoya have left? (2) Will Mayweather be able to overcome De La Hoyas natural advantages in size and strength? If one had the answer to these two questions hed stand a much better chance at accurately predicting how this fight might unfold.
Regarding how much De La Hoya has left, its very difficult to say, because The Golden Boy has fought just three times since 2004. Two of those bouts were at middleweight, when De La Hoya squared off against Felix Sturm and Bernard Hopkins. To me, the only thing those fights proved was that Oscar had no business fighting at middleweight. Against Sturm, he looked soft, slow, and weak as he was repeatedly being tagged by simple but effective fundamental techniques. Although De La Hoya wound up winning a very controversial decision in this one, he didnt look good.
He looked a little better fighting Hopkinsthat is, until he was brutally stopped in the ninth when Hopkins connected with a vicious body punch that sent De La Hoya crashing to the canvas in agony. De La Hoya did not beat the count, and this was the first and only time he was stopped inside the distance during his professional career. Even though De La Hoya looked better against Hopkins, its difficult to assess how much better he actually was. In fairness, he looked to be in better shape and appeared to be a little sharper, but De La Hoya has always been a fast starter, whereas, Hopkins has always been a strong finisher. To me, it was obvious in the middle rounds that Hopkins was just heating up as De La Hoya began to tire. In recent years De La Hoya has had a tendency to become winded down the stretch, due to overexerting himself early.
De La Hoya has only fought once since the Hopkins loss, and that was Cinco de Mayo weekend of last year when he faced Ricardo Mayorga. What made this bout interesting was that it was coming off of De La Hoyas longest period of inactivity. What did he have left? Well, it appeared he had quite a bit more left than many suspected, as he proceeded to make easy work of Mayorga. The move back down to 154 was smart, and it seemed the year off did him a lot of good. The problem is, its difficult to gauge how much he has left based on that performance alone. Mayorgas a pretty decent fighter, but hes always been inconsistent and in no way rivals the skills and smarts of Mayweather.
So how much does De La Hoya have left?
Regarding Mayweather, he is undoubtedly the most talented fighter in the world today, but talent alone doesnt guarantee victoryespecially when one ventures into uncharted territory as Mayweather is about to do. Having never fought in the Junior Middleweight division, its impossible to tell how Mayweather will adjust to the added weight. De La Hoya represents the biggest and strongest foe he will ever have faced. Not only that, but De La Hoya was once an elite fighter himself and has been an outstanding fighter throughout his entire career. So Mayweather isnt just making his debut in a new weight class; hes doing so against a foe who has been amongst the most talented pugilists in the sport for over a decade.
Complicating matters further, Mayweather never really beat a top fighter at welterweight. Having just three fights in that division, he had respectable wins against Shambra Mitchell, Zab Judah, and Carlos Baldomir. Make no mistake, though, these were not the best of the best in the division when Floyd fought them. Mitchell was stopped in three by Kostya Tszyu just a year prior, Judah had lost his previous fight against Carlos Baldomir, and Baldomir was never an elite welterweight, despite having wins against Judah and Arturo Gatti. The point being, Mayweather didnt exactly clean out the division. In fact, he never even fought the best challenges in the divisionguys like Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito.
Also, the size difference in his bout with Judah appeared to be somewhat more of an obstacle for Floyd than many anticipated. This advantagein size combined with Judah being quick enough not to be overwhelmed by Floyds speed made Mayweather appear a bit uncomfortable in the early-going. After a few rounds, Mayweather was able to make adjustments to neutralize Judahs size. To his credit, Mayweather is one of the smartest fighters in the world today. On the flipside, however, Judah is one of the dumbest fighters and was incapable or unwilling to make adjustments of his own. Like Judah, De La Hoya is fast enough that Floyds speed advantage shouldnt be overwhelming; unlike Judah, De La Hoya is a very smart fighter capable of making adjustments.
Can Mayweather overcome De La Hoyas advantages in size and strength?
I really have no idea how this fight is going to unfold, but I suspect it will be competitive, and dare I sayexciting. Today is March 5, and were now just two months away. It will be interesting to monitor the hype leading us to this celebration of Mexican Independence.
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Re: Gulfstar 37's Pro's & Cons
For whatever value, I have found Gulfstars to be a good tough boat for the money.
They have "over built" hulls since they were designed before the advent of CAD which allowed a lot less layup (per the computer) to be done to the hull construction.
But, the deck stanchions allow their decks to rot, because they didn't put epoxy around the stanchion bases; so you could have an extensive project in replacing the wood in the deck, and ideally, adding some epoxy where the stanchions bolt through the deck.
Considering the quality of the interior cabins' is mostly veneer, you could also spend a lot of time / effort / money improving that area. Or not, your choice.
If the chainplates in a 37' GS are inside the interior cabin walls, you might want to change those. (see my earlier thread: Triumph) Well, change them anyway. :-)
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Industry executives said on Tuesday that Internet companies need to be more accountable for the mass of personal data collected from users to guard against cyber crime.
"Information is the currency of growth, but it's also increasingly become the currency of crime," Peter Cullen, chief privacy strategist for Microsoft Corp, said at the Family Online Safety Institute's annual conference.
"People have very high expectations when it comes to companies in terms of how they collect, use, store and most importantly protect their information," Cullen said.
He also said that companies must hold themselves to a higher standard when handling consumers' personal information and invest more in internal structures to ensure privacy.
Michael Fertik, the founder of the online reputation-management company ReputationDefender, said that there should be regulations that mandate an opt-in default to give consumers greater control of their "digital dossier."
"It's remarkable how deep the data sets are about each of us, and it's disturbing," Fertik told Reuters, citing websites that track users' locations.
Companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft collect personal data that is often used in advertising or passed on to third parties without users' knowledge.
Fertik advised regulators to put limits on how long companies can keep personal data on consumers, saying that over time the data may be used beyond advertising.
"Companies that make the bulk of their revenue in advertising have a very terrible tension between that economic incentive and your privacy interests," said Fertik, a member of the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on Internet Security.
The Commerce Department reported earlier this week that there was a seven-fold surge in high speed Internet subscribers between 2001 and 2009.
Mobile devices are also increasingly being used to access the Internet.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is preparing recommendations for privacy laws, and telecommunication analysts believe there will be bipartisan support on the issue.
Amy Mushahwar, a data privacy and security attorney at Reed Smith LLP, told Reuters that privacy was a "nonpolitical" issue that both Republicans and Democrats could agree upon in a divided Congress.
"This is a much less partisan issue that still has the potential for movement," she said.
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Philadelphia Eagles LB Casey Matthews might be onto something; well, maybe not. Oregon Ducks head coach Chip Kelly is a hot name for the NFL coaching vacancies that are going to start popping up. One place that is most likely going to have an opening is in Philadelphia. It's not a far fetched idea; in fact it is a great one. The New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints all operate fast paced offenses built on speeding up the game before the snap. Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots run a NFL version of the Oregon offense. Belichick had Kelly visit Foxboro in order to pick his brain about the Ducks explosive offense. NFL teams lately have been taking portions of the college offense ino the pros; the Redskins for instance, are using a spread option offense for Robert Griffith III. It's unavoidable the two worlds would collide. Matthews suggests Chip Kelly would be a good fit in Philadelphia, bringing his high octane offense and combining it with the amount of talent the Eagles have on offense would be a perfect match. "I think the fans here would love him," Matthews said Thursday via Philly.com. "They would love his attitude, his go-get-it mentality." "The way he carries himself, the way his mindset is, I think they'll really like him here," he said. "He would crack jokes. When he would talk to reporters at halftime he would give the most sarcastic answers."
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I'm glad i ordered the 11.5. I usually wear 12C AEs, and i wear size 12 Irish setter boots, do i wasn't sure what to get. They seem to fit large IMO
Also i toss in my cheap jos a bank shoe trees when I'm not wearing them, the large size fits well in the 11.5 (full trees)
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Hi there,
I am in the process of purchasing a pair of W1Ks, either in the rust, or cordovan no. 8 colour. While I've seen plenty of pics of the rust following wear and treatment, I haven't seen any pics of the cordovans following wear or treatment. Does anyone have the W1Ks in cordovan no. 8 and care to share some pics of them showing the patina following some wear and also before and after treatment? This would be much appreciated and help me figure out which colour to get.
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Yes. The Krause is Horween Dublin leather and is NOT the same as most leathers. Dublin is Essex leather (tanned like shell) with a waxy finish There is a reason AE is making the Krause. Dublin is also used in the AE rough collection which I have 3 shoes in, and all 3 leathers have a slightly different finish. Just as the Krause in russet is a different leather finish than the tan.
A word of caution, I normally use Obenhauf's leather oil on my bison leather boots, and occasional use it to touch up in between applications of HDLP on chrome tanned boots. When I was treating several pairs of bison boots I decided to also treat my AE rouch collection Black Hills with the leather oil. And the next day it looked like the leather Gods had puked all over my shoes. It took 2 weeks of saddle soaping them every night to get them back to normal. You have to be careful in using products on exotic leathers like Dublin.
I was hoping the Krause would be like the Elgin which is very waxy and a great color and finish IMO.
AE says for care of the Elgin: These types of leathers can be cleaned using a damp cloth to remove dirt and any residue. Follow by using a soft cloth to apply Allen Edmonds Leather Lotion , which has been specifically formulated for these leathers.
That is it, just water and AE leather lotion which is the same as Bicks 4.
For my McTavish it says: Use Allen Edmonds Conditioner Cleaner to remove surface residue and to keep leather soft and pliable. Follow by applying Allen Edmonds Saddle Soap which cleans all smooth leather shoes while restoring the leather's natural oils.
When I got my McTavish one shoe was a bit darker than the other, and yes they are firsts. The overall color was a bit lighter than I hoped just like the tan Krause. The leather between the McTavish and Krause is pretty much identical from what I can tell. seer had already treated his McTavish with neatsfoot oil to darken them so despite the issues with the Black Hills and oil figured it was safe. It was and by using a couple of extra coats on the lighter shoe I was able to match them both:
Elgin on left, McTavish on right with right shoe being darker out of the box:
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After leveling out the color with neatsfoot oil:
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The Krause were the same, one was slightly lighter than the other. Using saddle soap helps break the finish up so that any product applied can more evenly sink in. When dying leather shoes a deglazer is used but I would not use such a product on Dublin leather, the saddle soap is safe. In this case I used shoe cream instead of neatsfoot oil to even the color out. I was happy with the color that the cream provided and I finished with wax paste polish. It turned out very well. And they have a much better finish and protection against the elements than out of the box which is a lot more of a dress boot finish than a work boot.
Good luck and any questions shoot me a PM.
Cold Iron, thanks a lot for taking time to explain this. This has definitely given me knowledge on how I should treat my boots. Thanks!!
Cross posted from my 721LTD review thread.....
Here's how you waterproof boots with snoseal or a similar wax oil product.
Get your unlaced boots, some rags, your snoseal, a brush, and a hair dryer.
CIMG0929 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
Wipe off any mud or crud with a damp rag, brush them thoroughly and start applying the snoseal with your finger liberally. The first pic shows the nice thick bead being applied to the where the welt and the upper meet. This is the area where time well spent will reward you in dry feet even if you stand ankle deep in water.
CIMG0930 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
Keep applying it liberally in every nook, cranny, along edges...
CIMG0931 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
CIMG0932 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
CIMG0933 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
Once you have the boot completely covered it's time for the hairdryer. What you basically do is heat up an area of the boot until the wax melts. Keep heating it while keeping the hairdryer moving in small circles. DO NOT just blast a spot! It is possible to cook the leather but you would know way ahead of time from the smoke that you F'ed it up but good. LOL. Anyway once the leather warms up enough the pores will open up and the shiny hot wax will just get sucked into the leather. Move over a bit and keep doing this to the entire boot. The big secret to really waterproofing leather is to get the wax deep into the leather. Heat is the only way this will happen.
CIMG0934 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
CIMG0936 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
Boot on the left is done. While the boot is still warm take a rag and wipe it down and polish it a bit.
CIMG0937 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
Another shot of the snosealed boot (left). You can see the wax on the surface. Don't sweat it, this is normal and it does buff up with a little elbow grease.
CIMG0938 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
The other boot getting it's very liberal dose of snoseal.....
CIMG0939 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
Once you are done do it all over again. Yeah, that's right do it again. The wax will penetrate deeper into the leather and the addition of another coat of wax/heat will evenly distribute the treatment throughout the boot's leather. That additional coat along the welt area alone is worth the additional work. Once it's all said and done get ready to brush and buff your ass off. If you feel like it you can add a bit of color to the toe cap, vamp and quarters if you wish. If you do you'll get to be shoe shine guy for a bit longer.
CIMG0940 by DYSong Photography, on Flickr
Just for the fun of it here's some more food for thought.
How many times have you read on this board a horror story about water or salt stains on a brand new pair of boots or shoes? How about that great deal on vintage shell cordovan shoes and after one wear they cracked and self destructed? Same goes for leather jackets. How many times?
Here's a few facts about leather that's not well known or talked about.
You have no idea how old the new leather is that your item is made out of. You have no idea how long or in what environment your new leather item has sat around in. All you know is it's supposed to be new. New DOES NOT mean the original tanning oils or waterproofing is intact. Time and environment determine how long it takes for these critical components to dry out, deteriorate or otherwise be compromised. IF YOU DO NOT WANT NASTY SURPRISES WITH NEW LEATHER GOODS then take the time to condition them with the appropriate product BEFORE you use it. If you are going to expose leather to any type of water then waterproof it appropriately BEFORE you get it wet. This truly is a case of where an ounce of prevention is worth it. I wear leather coats in pouring rain, no issues or problems. I obviously put shoes and boots through the ringer. Again no problems.
There is one thing that should be noted. The color will darken. With light oils not as much and over time it does lighten back up a bit. Snoseal or other wax/oil compounds it's a different story. The leather will darken and tend to stay that way. It's a simple choice in my book. I want my boots, shoes, coats, saddles, wallets and whatever else to last as long as possible. That means I will maintain them properly with no regard to the color shift. The other choice in my book is neglect and well you'll pay for it in the long run and possibly much sooner.
Now the vintage stuff is a different animal. It's most likely going to be dry or worse dry rotted. If it's just dry that can be taken care of. It's a process that takes a lot of time and patience but it's doable. Again you go through the restoration process BEFORE you use it NOT AFTER!! Dry rot on the other hand is something that's not fixable. Good luck determining if a leather item is dry or dry rotted.
I digress.
Anyway there you have it. How I waterproof boots and shoes and why I do what I do.
Such a great tutorial. I dont feel bad for quoting such a long post because I had trouble going back and finding it.
Doing the same to my Addison's now and having a detailed post like Crane's helps alot.
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What is the symbolism and meaning of the cherry blossom? Why do so many cultures value this tree?
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The cherry blossom was also important to the samurai culture of Japan. Like cherry blossoms, samurai expected to have short lives. The cherry blossom also represented drops of blood.
The connection between warrior and cherry blossoms carried forward to World War II. Cherry blossoms were associated the kamikaze suicide flyers who sacrificed themselves during war actions.
Today, cherry blossoms are connected to innocence, spring and simplicity.
The Meaning of the Cherry Blossom in China
Cherry blossoms have almost a diametrically opposed meaning in China than the blossoms have in Japan. In China, the cherry blossom is associated with women's dominance and beauty as well as feminine sexuality.
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Somali Justice Advocacy Center Expresses Deep Concern Over Al Qaeda Involvement in Piracy in Somalia and Cautions U.S. to Not Exercise Military Force
The Center further expresses a concern over huge amounts of ransom cash (in U.S. dollars) changing hands without any proper institutional supervision and is afraid it might end up in the hands of extremists.
The Center is deeply troubled by the lack of proper action from the international community against the piracy issue and the increasing influence of extremists in the region.
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"We caution the U.S. not to exercise the military option against piracy, which would further complicate the issue," Jamal continued.
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