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Hungary Wants Change in IMF Talks to Credit Line From Loan
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Hungary wants a precautionary credit line with the International Monetary Fund, rather than a standby agreement it's been in talks to obtain for almost a year, a government spokesman said.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said today on state radio that he considers an accord to be within reach and wants the Washington-based lender's help to lower financing costs for the European Union's most-indebted eastern nation.
"There has been no agreement because the Hungarian government has made it clear" that "Hungary's liquidity doesn't make it necessary to ask for an IMF loan and that's why we want to negotiate a precautionary credit line which provides possible help in case of a further deterioration of the euro area," Andras Giro-Szasz told TV2 in an interview today.
Hungary, mired in its second recession in four years, requested aid in November as its credit rating was cut to junk. Talks for a loan of about 15 billion euros ($19.5 billion) were delayed multiple times because of Orban's resistance to adhere to legal and economic conditions set by the IMF and the EU.
Hungary's economic vulnerability has declined "significantly" and the country may not need external financing in 2013, provided the global environment doesn't deteriorate, Mihaly Varga, the government's chief bailout negotiator, told state news service MTI today.
Hungary, which has no date set for the resumption of aid talks, must avoid sending the message that an IMF deal isn't important, Varga said.
Forint Strength
Investor faith in Hungary's commitment to obtain an IMF loan has helped the forint rise 12 percent this year against the euro, the most in the world, after plunging 15 percent in the second half of last year. The forint strengthened 0.2 percent to 281.29 per euro by 2 p.m. in Budapest.
Hungary can "stand on its own feet" and wants to use IMF aid to lower its financing costs, Orban told MR1 state radio today. He didn't object to the reporter's question about the goal of obtaining an IMF loan.
"We're not far from a good agreement" with the IMF, Orban said in an interview with state radio MR1 today. "There's a good chance."
The IMF has said Hungary qualifies for a standby loan facility, which according to the lender's rules comes with conditions and quarterly policy reviews. Hungary need not draw on the funds, IMF representative in Budapest Iryna Ivaschenko said on Oct. 4.
Orban's Measures
Orban shunned the IMF after taking office in 2010 to prevent interference in what he called his "unorthodox" measures. They included the effective nationalization of $13 billion of private pension-fund assets, extraordinary industry taxes to raise revenue for the budget, Europe's highest bank levy and forcing lenders to swallow exchange-rate losses on foreign-currency mortgages.
The measures damaged investor confidence, cut investments, helped push the economy into a recession and cost the country its investment grade as Standard and Poor's, Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service have all cut Hungary's credit to junk.
Orban reversed his policy last year when the state started struggling to raise funds at debt auctions, the forint plummeted and the country's sovereign credit grade was cut to junk.
Hungary is open to "any kind" of credit line to prop up financing, Orban told MTI state news service on Jan. 8. Hungary's talks with the IMF are aimed at "a standby credit line with conditionality and control as its key elements," Tamas Fellegi, Hungary's former aid negotiator, said Jan. 12 after meeting IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
'Friendly' Environment
The nation needs to move away from "ad hoc" taxes and should create a more "business friendly" environment to boost growth and make budget financing sustainable, the IMF said in a July 26 statement after a week of talks in Budapest. On Oct. 4 it said the government doesn't have to draw funds from a standby loan. There is no date for the next round of talks.
Hungary yesterday announced it would sell euro-denominated retail bonds as it seeks to diversify financing amid investor concern over the government's commitment to reach an IMF deal. The country won't sell foreign debt on international financial markets before an IMF agreement, Laszlo Andras Borbely, deputy chief executive officer at the debt agency, said yesterday.
The government placed full-page advertisements on the back pages of major newspapers on Oct. 9, declaring it "won't give in to the IMF." The country expects "respect and trust" from the IMF and "won't give up Hungary's independence," the ads read. Other ads rejected cutting family benefits or levying a property tax.
There's no evidence Hungary is making progress toward a financing deal with the IMF even though an agreement would help stabilize the country's credit rating, Frank Gill, analyst at Standard & Poors's said on Oct. 10. An IMF program would be an important anchor for Hungary's creditworthiness, Gill said.
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What the hell is wrong with this band? Everytime they show that they have some real potential to go the distance (I'm referring to their self titled album), they always have to go and shit all over it. What the fuck.
The album starts off on a really, really strong note (Resurrection), blazing through the riffs with a killer mini-solo about 1:20 in, really good, and it really stands out. Unfortunately, this is one of the only things that stand out.
Whereas self titled had a lot of riffage in it (Save Ourselves comes to mind), it seems that on this album they simply got bored of writing interesting riffs after the title track.
The album basically meanders through itself with no sense of direction, and no chance of putting itself back on course, at least until the final track, but by then it's too late. Most of the riffage is completely heartless, even the drumming barely stands out. Most of the time all it really does is provide a course for the guitars to follow. Or is it the guitars that provide the course for the drums? Really, that's how mediocre this album this is. NOTHING stands out!
If you've heard, or own Impossibility of Reason, you may as well stick with that; because that's basically what this album is.
For me, at least, Chimaira's real debut was their self titled, and was their last album.
Do not buy this record.
Chimaira are determined to make me pull my hair out with frustration. Firstly they release some standard mallcore drivel. Then the plan was to get all their young fans raving by pretending to make real metal with their second offering by dressing their nu-metal lyrics up in some decent drumming and unbearably simple tremolo picked riffs. But then; SHOCK HORROR they release an album worthy of praise in the metal scene with decent riffs and mature lyrics, and suddenly their typical Roadrunner fan base don't get it anymore... Typical!
So what to do now they have a following in the mallcore/metalcore scene and damn good footing in the post thrash/groove scene? Answer: Simple just mix these two together and hopefully neither side will notice the difference!
So here we have Resurrection. The album explodes onto your eardrums with the title song complete with blast beats and Hunter utilising his more guttural death growls. This time out the band have opted for a thicker and altogether rawer sound. So far so good. But the single greatest downfall of this album is its lack of interesting guitar work and this is apparent from the off. Where are the tempo changes where are the blazing solo's of bygone days? They seem to have gone back to the Impossibility of Reason sessions here, and again with the tiresome breakdowns?!
Whilst the album does have some moments of noteworthy riffing namely on Pleasure in Pain and Empire its safe to say the guitars have been simplified again to make the album sound angry rather than mature. What have they got to be so angry about? They got a record deal, plenty of chicks and a pile of cash to keep their spirits up!
And as for the lyrics, well its back to the mallcore days of standard hate myself/you fare I'm afraid. Last time out they proved they are capable of dealing with these "life struggle" issues in their lyrics without sounding like whiney emo fags. A huge step back on this front then.
So Chimaira seem to have just missed the mark this time out, with a brutal album that is sadly let down by its childish crappy lyrics, filler and dull guitar work. Better luck next time.
OK, the following review is speaking as somebody who usually doesn't go for modern day new school metalcore stuff. In fact, with rare exceptions, I am firmly of the opinion that America dropped the ball and hard for metal long ago. As of this album, Chimaira are one of those exceptions.
This is a very well-written album that reeks of sincerity above all; these guys mean every chugging riff, every throat-ripping scream, and every double kick flurry. And it works, it doesn't come off as contrived as Killswitch Engage or many of their so-called peers in the modern American scene. This is metal and core in equal parts, dare I say it.
Mark Hunter's savage screams are intimidating and not as generic as your typical metalcore vocalist, and he displays a good clean voice as well, often layered in two or three part harmonies. The guitar work is not all sweep-picked wankery, too. In fact, the guitar leads are aggressive and exciting in an old school thrash metal manner with frequent use of wah-wah pedal and they convey a greater sense of urgency and emotion, especially on "The Flame", a harrowing enough song as is that is elevated to higher levels of intensity by its keening leads under Mark's screaming of "My God, what have I done!" You can even hear the bass very well in the mix with its growling tone taking the lead in the intros of "Six" and "No Reason To Live" and setting the mood for both songs. And Andols Herrick is an excellent drummer who navigates every song flawlessly no matter what the tempo with creative fills and tasteful use of double kick and cymbals. This guy deserves to be put up with the greats for his exceptional skill and remarkably non-triggered sound--well, OK, the kick drums are triggered, but not to the obnoxious degree that most bands use them to.
Standout songs: the epic "Six" with its moody bass intro developing into a behemoth of a tune that batters you mercilessly into the ground in the spirit of the song's chorus line "Never back down, never back down!"; "The Flame" which begins with sound effects that make me wince every time since it is a song about a father abusing his daughter and finally killing her in the heat of passion--the leads on this one, as I mentioned, are especially heartfelt; "Black Heart", and "Killing The Beast". I love how that last tune ends in a wash of staticy noise that absorbs the vocals and the trance-inducing tribal drumming.
This is above all an emotionally brutal album that really takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the dark side of the human psyche. From start to finish you can't help but listen and hang on for dear life as Chimaira surge, lunge, and smash their way through every song. But it also has a surprising level of subtlety and taste as well; the clean vocals are not overused and the breakdowns are not gratuitous. Everything feels as though it is in its proper place with no real excess, and this feels great!
I do believe there is hope for modern American metal, and its name is Chimaira. If this album is any indicator, the future is in good hands with these guys. I hope they keep up the good work this album is establishing!
Well I'll be damned, this is actually pretty good. After not really listening to any Chimaira, I first got into a few of their songs through picking up samples, Lazarus and Salvation both went down well for me off their previous album, but unfortunately the rest sucked. And I lost hope for the band, despite their at times interesting take on Metalcore. But when Kerrang released their little Metallica CD, I was blown away at how well the band pulled off Disposable Heroes, admittedly they had a great song to work with, but they shaped it so the vocals worked perfectly. So, when they came out with another album, I figured it's worth a look, and luckily, it has been.
The band is still definitely in metalcore territory, which doesn't bother me, because I quite enjoy the odd album from the genre, but they have definitely thrashed it up a little. Now, I'm not going to be like the other guy who reviewed this and say that this is a balls out thrash album, it's not, but there is a thrash influence coming through. None of the riffs could really be called true thrash riffs, but many have the same structure of The Haunted riffs, and if they get called thrash, then these riffs are thrash.
As for quality, there's a bunch of good stuff at the start, the title track has a cool riff about 20 seconds in, Pleasure in Pain is fast and one of most energetic songs that have come out of the camp. Worthless is musically strong, although it is lyrically worthless (yeah, I punned). Six is 9 minutes long and doesn't feel like it, which is always a good sign, despite it not being overtly progressive like Lazarus. However, A lot of the stuff in the middle is pretty average, or just plain poor, and sits way too much in the realms of mid-paced chunkiness, which the band really doesn't do very well. This is surprising as it is their base sound. The second half picks up again, although none of the songs have start to finish brilliance. Look at "End it all" for instance, cool riffs, bad lyrics, and unnecessary spoken sections.
Chimaira are still functioning as a very solid simple rhythm band, which provide quite enjoyable songs, which don't exactly blow your mind away with technicality, instead they simply aim to be catchy and fun, and not exactly deep listening. The band has developed some pretty cool solos, but since Trivium hit it big, every metalcore band has been trying to write great solos too. And for that reason they fail to be incredibly impressive. The guitarists are clearly not the most talented to ever grace us, but they know how to use what they have.
Mark Hunter is original, and for that reason can easily make some people hate the band, or like them. Luckily for those who dislike him, he's actually pretty low in the mix. But of course to the people who like him, like myself, this means that they have to listen to more of the bands music, which isn't exactly perfect. He's as raspy as ever, but now he tries out some death growls (background only). Hunters singing voice hasn't gotten any better since the last album, there's not much of it, but you know, its average. One thing that Chimaira has on other Metalcore bands is of course their varied song structures, which means that only a few songs have singing, rather than all.
Another strong point for the band is the drumming, which is pretty good thrash drumming when the tempo is up, and is thoroughly groovy when the band decides to slow down and crush. Andol's has got a lot of both arm and foot control, and manages to have a strong, full sound most of the time.
The album isn't really going to blow your mind, or grab an anti-metalcore listener's attention, let alone make them change their view point, but there's some solid fast metalcore here, it's still laden with a bunch of sub-standard stuff, but it's not too much, and shows the band is on the rise.
New record label. Old drummer returns. New style. New album.
Things have changed a fair deal for Chimaira over the past few years. After the release of their self-titled, there were fights, actual fistfights, between some members of the band. Kevin (the drummer at the time) wasn't getting along with everybody. Mark (vocals) and Chris (samples) almost left the band. Things were looking to spiral out of control.
However, I think having all those bad times was a blessing in disguise for Chimaira, as they have now produced their best album yet.
The album title states it perfectly - Resurrection. Resurrection from the near-death experience they were facing after their self-titled. And the songs have much more meaning this time round.
Personally, I think two things got them back on track...one, they got the hell away from Roadrunner Records. As stated on their DVD, Roadrunner was screwing them around, so they had to leave. Perhaps being picked up by Nuclear Blast saved them? Two, they got Andols back on the drums. He is a much better drummer than Kevin anyway, so it was good for them and good for the fans.
Now, onto the music...immediately, you can tell they have adopted a more thrashy style to their music. Tracks like "Black Heart" and "Needle" are good examples. They have tried several different styles of music throughout their albums, and while I think they all worked for them (yes, including "Pass Out Of Existence"), thrash seems to be the style that fit their playing much more. More natural, perhaps.
Mark's vocals are slightly more varied this time around. The last album had hardly any clean vocals, which I tend to like better, but this album needed clean's. Again, this fits well with the changed music style. I especially love the clean line of "Pathetic, isn't it?" on the track "End It All". Even though it's just one line, it's catchy and memorable.
The lyrics themselves are a little more thought out as well. "Resurrection" obviously deals with the resurrection of the band, but then there's tracks like "The Flame", which contains disturbing lyrics of a girl being raped by her father. Then tracks like "Worthless" and "Black Heart" have simple, almost emo-type lyrics, taking you back to "The Impossibility Of Reason" days.
The riffs this time around are much better as well. The opening riff of "Black Heart" is very catchy. The instrumental section of "Six", while slower than usual, contains some decent guitar riffing. The opening guitar/ambient on "No Reason To Live" would've been better omitted. They don't sound too great, and don't have any use to the song anyway. Luckily they stop and don't return after about half a minute. The guitars themselves aren't crunchy of chunky in any way...they're smooth, with minimal distortion, but still retain that heavy sound, not dissimilar to that on their second album.
As usual, the drumming is superb from Andols. His performance here exceeds anything he did on his previous two showings. I absolutely love his bass drum work in "The Flame", the most death-metal song on the album. His work everywhere is amazing. Plus, they're not too overbearing either...he knows when to let up and when to let loose.
One small aspect that shouldn't be overlooked is the fact that the songs are linked together. Not in a Meshuggah "Catch 33" way, but each song doesn't have a gap between them, keeping the songs connected by samples, mostly. Doesn't seem like a huge aspect of the album, but I love it when bands do that. It gives the album much more flow to it and a sense of continuity, much more than any of their previous efforts.
As a whole, this album is a must get for Chimaira fans, or even fans of thrash. I'm more into death myself, but this album gets a lot of replaying, and there is no need to look far to wonder why - this album is Chimaira's best yet.
Pros: Better riffs, catchier than previous efforts, got off Roadrunner so they could expand further with their sound, superior drumming, songs are linked.
Cons: Samples occasionally don't fit quite right, some average soloing.
Best tracks: Six, The Flame, End It All, Needle
Chimaira has always shown a lot of potential as a metal band. Even though they did the "nu metal" phase, the melodic death phase, and the epic metal phase (their first 3 albums in that order) - Chimaira have found their way to their roots in thrash metal. Finallly.
Chimaira took all the things that went wrong with their last album and fixed them for Resurrection. This album feels more heartfelt, pissed off is more of the term, and the album really cooks because it feels raw. This album doesn't feel as forced as their last few. The music is more fluid (if chunky riffs can be called that). The album has a definate flow that was missing from all their previous efforts - from beginning to the end it feels as though you have been taken on a journey. What a good album does.
Musically, the riffs are non-stop thrash influenced monsters that really got me headbanging to the music. Both guitarists in Chimaira have a lot of talent on the fretwork and for the first time Chimaira uses them to their full ability. Solos tear through most of the songs and even the leads have been brought to the front of the music instead of being an underscoring element.
The drums (with Andols back in the kit) have gone from death metal sound to more of a thrash sound. The cymbals are used more and the bass drum is less of an overpowering element. The drumming really supports a lot of the guitar work on Resurrection. Andols is a good drummer in his own right and he seems to be finally picking up some recognition.
Mark Hunter's vocals have also taken a step up. Although it is still pretty one sided post-thrash death growl, he seems to be trying to really vary the sound of his voice on many of the songs. There are parts in songs where there is singing that compliments Mark Hunter's growl. This helps the album from getting a little repetative.
Lyrically, Resurrection is at the top of its game. The lyrics are dark and angry but really thought filled. Well - some of them are. Songs like "Worthless" aren't so intelligent in the lyrical field but it gives the album some good variety in how the listener respondes to songs.
Overall, its a very empowering album that is meant to be dark but supportive in its creation and consumption. Chimaira really are one of the better new metal acts (expecially in the United States) and if they continue down the road they are going - possibly in metal history.
Songs to check out: Resurrection, Six, Empire.

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Such audacious goals are not new to India. We set them up and won them — be it the green revolution or vaccines for the world
The National Eye Institute (NEI) of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has initiated an Obamaesque project termed "Audacious goals in vision research." Of the 478 pre-proposals it received in response, NEI requested about 85 experts from all over the world to study these 'audacious goal' proposals and asked each of us to send them what we consider as the best five among these. (I say "us" here since Dr. Gullapalli Rao and I, both of the LV Prasad Eye Institute, were the two from India, out of the 85).
NEI then held an intensive discussion for three days last week with all of us in order to discuss the proposals in depth. In order to do so, 10 representative themes in these audacious goals were chosen and 10 researchers to present them and to give roadmaps of how to achieve the goals.
What is an 'audacious goal'? It cannot be ridiculous or beyond the reach of science, such as the infamous quest for the "perpetual motion machine," which was attempted in earlier centuries. (Such a machine is impossible since it breaks the laws of conservation of energy; you cannot get something out of nothing).
Also, it cannot be just incremental such that it can be achieved using the conventional methods within a few years; for example, to make a human cornea in the lab — a laudable and needy goal but limited in its end. It has to be far-reaching and generate new knowledge through its approach. Dr Francis Collins, Director of NIH defined the goal of "putting man on the moon", set up by John Kennedy as an audacious one, or "ridding the world of polio" as another. Dr Paul Sieving, Director of NEI, further elaborated on this. He pointed out that the goal must be inspirational (become the seed out of which many new, perhaps equally audacious, ideas emerge); far-reaching in its endpoint and affecting the whole of mankind; bold and innovative; compelling such that NEI should pursue it over other opportunities; and the goals should reach beyond vision and ophthalmology, and inform or benefit other areas of sciences.
Thus, each proposal should contain elements of goal development, feasibility and implementation. It should ask what the barriers and challenges (technological / conceptual/ theoretical) are and how to address them; what advances (from related or other disciplines) are critical to reach the goal; how long it would take to achieve the goal; how do we know when the goals are achieved, and how far-reaching and global the achievement would be.
Tough questions indeed! And ten broad themes came out the proposal and discussions. Without going into their intricacies, let me summarise them.
Dr Jeffrey Stern of Rensselaer, NY spoke of "Releasing our Inner Salamander." The amphibian animal salamander is able to completely repair its eye parts by itself. Is such a mechanism lying dormant in the human eye? How can we awaken it using today's science and technology, create new knowledge and achieve such self- repair methods?
Dr Julia Richards of Michigan wants to turn back the ageing clock in the eye such that diseases such as glaucoma, retinal disorders and such start 10, 20, or 30 years later than they do now.
Drs. Yingbin Fu of Utah and Steven Pittler of Alabama want to find methods to edit the genes in the body precisely, using molecules that target mutations and scissor them away right in the eye and add the right sequence of the DNA to cure the disease right in the eye.
Drs. Dennis Clegg of Santa Barbara, CA and Rajesh Rao of Missouri want to "reprogramme the retina" using stem cells and similar molecular toolboxes to develop an "off-the-shelf tissue graft" to repair the eye.
Dr. Robert Duvoisin of Oregon wants to restore vision by opto-electronic stimulation, not by using bionic chips, but making nerve cells in the eye sensitive to light so that images captured by a camera can be converted to nerve signals that are sent to the brain.
And Dr. Tonia Rex of Tennessee wants to regenerate the axons (threadlike extensions of a nerve cell which conduct electricity) from the optic nerve so that vision loss due to glaucoma and other disorders is restored. Dr. Russel van Gelder of Seattle wants to reverse blindness of the retina by using photo-switch molecules which become active (or inactive) when light of certain wavelengths hits them.
The tenth was by Dr Janey Wiggs of Harvard who wants to put together a vision BioBank from all over, which collects samples corresponding to both genetic errors for certain types of eye diseases as well as samples of the disease tissues themselves. Using such banks, we can accurately determine a person's risk for specific eye diseases, as well as their responses to therapies.
Setting up such audacious goals and methods to approach and win them over not only spurs innovation, but brings disciplines to work together, and while winning, the goalpost creates new science and applications of value to humanity at large. Such audacious goals are not new to India. We set them up and won them — be it the green revolution, vaccines for the world, or the proposed Mars project.
Minister Jairam Ramesh wants to solve the sanitation problem of India. Conventional methods do not work here, given the current technology sociology, and personal hygiene habits of the aam admi.
We need innovative solutions, meeting of disciplines including social psychology in order to reach this audacious goal. I believe we have it in us to do so. Let us go for it — for a cleaner, safer and healthier India.
Keywords: National Eye Institute, sanitation problem, Jairam Ramesh


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NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 Preview
By: Mike Chambers - February 6, 2002
The performance and image quality tests on this page are centered on the Accuview antialiasing sub-system of the GeForce4 Ti 4600. As with the GeForce3, the GeForce4 supports 2X, Quincunx, and 4X antialiasing modes under OpenGL. As we learned on the previous page that without antialiasing enabled, the GeForce4 Ti 4600 took a significant hit in performance with anisotropic filtering enabled.
Therefore, within each set of antialiasing tests I've included results with 2X and 4X anisotropic filtering enabled. This page concludes with an image quality comparison based on two different scenes from Quake 3.
2X Antialiasing - Maximum Quality
Quincunx Antialiasing - Maximum Quality
4X Antialiasing - Maximum Quality
Based on these results, the GeForce4 Ti 4600 is first and foremost an antialiasing powerhouse. The Accuview sub-system is delivering blistering frame rates at high resolutions with 2X and Quincunx antialising. In fact, at 1024x768 and 1280x1024, Quincunx is performing at the same level as 2X antialising.
What about the new antialiasing sampling pattern? Has the exceptional performance of the GeForce4 Ti 4600 come at the expense of image quality when compared to the GeForce3?
The following image quality comparison, which utilizes a java applet to overlay images, contains 40 screenshots each of which average around 300KB in size. The comparison has two scenes with each scene containing a series of screenshots taken at a resolution of 1024x768 and 1280x1024 from a GeForce3 Ti 500 and GeForce4 Ti 4600. The screenshots were taken with include no antialiasing, 2X, and Quincunx antialising. The antialiased screenshots also contain a set of screenshots with 4X anisotropic texture filtering enabled.
Specific areas of the thumbnails are outlined in white and are what the image quality comments are based on.
Scene 1
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Some comments after studying these images at their original size and resampled at 200% of the original size. In the first scene I concentrated on far right window, the edge of the top stair, and the top and bottom edge of the deck extending to the right. In scene two, my primary focus was on the stairs and surrounding textures.
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Based on this examination, I would give 2X and Quincunx antialiasing image quality a slight edge on the GeForce4 Ti 4600 over the GeForce3 Ti 500. However, there are an endless number of similar examinations that could be made at varying angles or other game engines. The main point that's being stressed here is that antialiasing image quality has not been compromised on the GeForce4 Ti 4600 in order to gain added performance.
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"There is no question that the People's Republic of China and the People's Liberation Army are intent on acquiring U.S. military technology."
"Being a 'progressive' is not progress at all. In fact, progressives NEVER change. They do the same thing over and over again. They ONLY go and react to where linear time takes them – ONE DIRECTION. They confuse progressing in time as automatic to progressing in wisdom – hogwash! A Traditionalist is a far more genuine progressive (open-minded) for he observes, relates and gains knowledge not only in 'this' time, but also in 'those' times that came before him."
"We buy our chains from our jailers and only when we put need before desire will we escape the prison of neo-liberalism"
"We cannot live life by our own terms if we are not specific and clear about the details of those terms."
"When someone says the most successful nations in the world today are socialist, they are outright wrong. Socialism has never existed. Capitalism on the other hand, has been apparent in its different forms. Ask yourself a question. Is your productivity incentivized by paying taxes for the goals of "society" or do you work to have the money for yourself and your family? Chances are, you work to achieve your own goals and ultimately: productive activities are unleashed by a free enterprise system."
"After lagging behind their foes all summer and fall, liberals are turning up the heat and conservatives are unlikely to cede them the field as the confirmation hearings approach."
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The Cincinnati Bengals have placed DE Jamaal Anderson on injured reserve after he tore his quad late in the 4th quarter Sunday in their win against the Cleveland Browns.
Anderson finished the day with 4 tackles while filling in for Carlos Dunlap, who was sidelined with a knee injury.
Dunlap was limited in practice last week and is expected to be ready to take the field when the go up against Robert Griffin III and the Redskins Sunday.
With Anderson out, the team has signed fifth-year DE Wallace Gilberry, who played for both Kansas City and Tampa Bay.
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text: 9 out of 10 Graeme Dalkeith Good Points+ Notation and tabulature is a good size and clear to read. Good Selection of songs. Bad Points− The tracks on the CD are not in order, and the title of the tracks are incorrect. This was also the case with the "Play bass with... the best of ac/dc", so I think this may be a common problem with the series. Confirmed purchase: 01 October 2014 Published on: 15 October 2014


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The notice was issued by a bench of chief justice Altamas Kabir, justice Fakir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla and justice Vikramajit Sen. The PIL sought a market-determined price mechanism for the diesel used in commercial enterprises.
Demanding discontinuation of supply of subsidised diesel to undeserving sections of society particularly owners of luxury cars, telecommunication towers of private sector, malls, supermarkets, and five-star hotels and resorts, the petitioner demanded that they be given diesel at a market-determined price.
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This is to help Christian friends of Israel receive God?s heart of love for the Arabs, alongside their commitment to the Jews. Likewise for those whom God has called to minister to the Arab world to learn to pray with God?s heart for the people of Israel.
Penny Valentine's latest study/prayer guide follows the same format as her first book Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem, which has helped thousands of readers to pray effectively for Israel. Once again, 40 short biblical studies form a springboard from which to pray scripturally for various issues relevant today, but this time prayer is also included for Israel's Arab neighbours, also mentioned in the Bible and sharing a prophetic destiny in God's Kingdom.
God's people are back in their homeland and amongst their Arab brethren by His power and promise in fulfilment of His Word, and are a key to the salvation of the Muslim world. After all, Jews and Arabs of the Middle East, as the prophet Isaiah says (19:24), are called together to be 'a blessing in the midst of the earth'.
For that reason, this book begins with a study on reconciliation as in the emotive, polarised climate of the Arab-Israeli conflict it is essential that we stand apart from accepted cultural attitudes on both sides and learn to love both peoples as those who are dear to God's heart.
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Former Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat is the biggest draw of this $120,000 event, the second biggest in the country after the Super Series event that New Delhi will continue to host till 2017.
Over the next week, P. Kashyap and Ajay Jayaram have a great opportunity to come up with a strong finish. Seeded two and four, the Indian players will be keen to more than justify their pre-event billing by getting past the semifinals.
A host of other Indian players also have just the right kind of opposition to feel confident of winning. Former National champion Sourabh Verma leads the second level of Indian players behind Kashyap and Ajay.
The focus will be on the younger Indian players to provide the unexpected. The women's section, where Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu are the top two seeds, an all-Indian final looks a distinct possibility. The challengers from Japan and Indonesia look fairly beatable in these conditions.
The organisers are confident of Saina landing here on Tuesday, the day meant for the qualifying rounds. Since Saina has stayed away from the National championship for a few years now and returned home from here last year after being part of the draw, there is still some suspense over her participation.
"As of now, Saina will be part of the field. If there is a change in her plans, then we shall deal with it accordingly. Why worry about any eventuality at this stage?" was how Dr. Vijai Sinha, the secretary-general of the Badminton Association of India (BAI), reacted when asked about Saina's participation.
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The Hindu had reported the plight of children from Odisha in April
When Asish Mehra goes back home to Odisha next week, he will be careful to pack among his family's meagre belongings two ruled notebooks and a school uniform.
"I am keeping them for the next year," says the little chap.
Asish's parents work in a brick kiln in Poochiathipedu in Tiruvallur district, and he goes to the closest government school. Ashish got his notebooks and uniform only now, at the fag end of the academic year.
The Hindu had carried a story in mid April indicating that though the children had classrooms to go to, their quota of books, notebooks and uniform had not yet arrived. While local NGOs managed to scrounge some textbooks from the previous years, the numbers were still insufficient.
Following the report, these children have now got uniforms and books, but scarcely a month before they are meant to leave for home. The migrants are set to return to Odisha soon and will be back only in January.
Under the Right to Education Act, these children who used to attend bridge courses, were incorporated in mainstream schools, where they got a room all to themselves. They continue to be instructed in Odiya, their mother tongue, by education volunteers from Odisha.
While the other kids in government schools (regular stream) got their quota of books, notebooks and uniform, these children missed out, because they arrived in the final quarter of the school year, G.Sundar, a volunteer with Aide et Action working with the children in the kilns pointed out.
They also had no noon meal to start out with, as a result of which, parents were reluctant to let the children go to school.
While some kids benefited because kiln owners provided food in the interim, most children stopped going to school. The books, uniform and noon meal were sanctioned from mid-April, and the children managed to get about a month or half a month of proper schooling.
The volunteers hoped that the next academic year will not be fraught with as many difficulties in giving these children an education. "They are already at a disadvantage as they have to migrate in the middle of the term with their parents.
Only now have their parents begun sending some of the children to school. By making the process difficult, we will only be ensuring that parents decide to keep them back in the kilns," according to Mr. Sundar.
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Spent the Easter holidays here with my family and would definitely stay again. We stayed in the Delny Highland Lodge and it has everything you could possibly need.
Set in beautiful surroundings, it was great for my young family with horse riding, fishing and great walks.
The owners were very nice and nothing was too much trouble.
The Old Dutch Barn was really nice and the food was very good.
My family of 5, including 3 teenagers had a fantastic holiday at this beautiful park. Staff were amazing and couldn't do enough for us, and were always on hand with advice, directions, etc. The settings are amazing and my kids loved that the animals were close by, especially Kevin the goose, who entertained them continually. It's worth noting that the hi fi worked fine and we got a great reception. Would love to go back again. Would deffo recommend and already have to several friends. Loved, loved, loved it......
A fab wee holiday - one I have already recommended to a friend and one we hope to repeat ourselves in the future.
Great holiday at the lodge, and good little restraunt/bar on site. Good location for exploring as there is plenty places to go that are not too far.
Really happy with our stay, perfect county getaway. Quiet and peaceful surrounded by nature. Is what we were looking for.
The people who run it were really friendly too. Will book with them again. Very happy :)
We had a wonderful restful break with our two boys (ages 18mths and 11yrs) the surroundings are stunning, the park well set up and the lodges were clean, well equips and comfortable. The added bonuses of a play park and unlimited wifi suited our kids perfectly! The staff were very friendly and helpful and we enjoyed dinner at the old Dutch Barn several times which was great. We are looking forward to visiting again soon!
Comfortable attractive accommodation in pleasant surroundings, with friendly helpful owners.
We had a fantastic time. The lodge we stayed in was spotlessly clean and had everything we needed for our stay. We used the lodge as a base for exploration and it suited our purposes well. Staff were very friendly and helpful. If you are looking for 5 star fancy accommodation then don't go there. However, if you are looking for a comfortable place to stay with everything you require to have a brilliant time, then look no further.
we went out of season so it is quite difficult to give a fair review but we did have a lovely quiet peaceful weekend & took our bearded collie kyla on long walks which she absolutely relished......would like to go back during the season sometime.
This is a lovely place to stay with scenic surroundings.
The immediate surroundings of the lodge was beautiful. The only downside was that Scotland closes in the winter a fact we weren't aware of when we booked so there was no where inside to visit and keep warm. A must in February half term.
Everything we needed was on hand and the lodge was warm and welcoming.The bottle of wine and fresh flowers added to the warm welcome.
We went during xmas/new year. The area was well maintained and cleaned. However, at times the park was very icy. No grit/salt was put down on either the steps leading upto the chalet or the car parking area which made it dangerous at times. Anyone with reduced mobility would struggle in these conditions.
Lodges were very out dated for the amount of money we spent, rooms were not cleaned properley,bathroom not clean,chips under beds,we stayed two weeks and never even got offered clean sheets,nothing there for kids,lights were out at bottom of steps so u could not c a thing if u went out kids nearly broke there neck,so it would b ok if u was retired and wanting to do nothing at all apart from sit, nearest proper shop is Inverness 26miles away
Great place for families or couples, local amentities few minutes drive away. Lovely place


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As a new season approaches there are probably a lot of new sailors about to make their first trips. I thought it may be nice for them (and us) to benefit from the hindsight of others. Please post your tips on things that you have learned which now seem obvious.
I'll start the ball rolling with water. The 5 litre giant bottles may seem like good value, and are usually the first choice for a new sailor. They are however difficult to pour from into anything but the kettle so now I go for the 1litre sports cap bottles which I can take on deck to drink from or fill the kettle.
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Stugeron sea sickness tablets - keep some in, nothing will put a new sailor off quicker than a bout of sea sickness.
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Always rig a gybe preventer when running, it stops gybes.
06-05-12, 11:11 #5Peter. Not changing my name yet but am now Boatless.
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Communicate clearly - if crew are inexperienced dont use boaty words they may not understand.
Brief well in advance of any manouver what is planned to happen, what could happen, what the fall back plan is.
Rig fenders and warps both sides for a marina. I have been told by marina staff the berth is port side too - only to find it isnt! Easier to take them off when secured, than have to put them on in a hurry.Peter. Not changing my name yet but am now Boatless.
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We keep Sturgeron on board, not for sea sickness, but because it puts the kids to sleep when we fancy sitting oin the cockpit with a bottle of wine!
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Tom McGrath
Will Ferrell
Brad Pitt
Tina Fey
Jonah Hill
David Cross
Rated: PG
Well now I can forgive Will Ferrell for Land of the Lost.
Megamind is the latest film from the Dreamworks Animation Studio which has had a busy year with How to Train Your Dragon, Shreck 4, and now this. Megamind (Ferrell) follows the title character who is an alien from a planet that was destroyed. Now living on Earth he plans to conquer it after growing up in a prison. At the same time, another alien from a nearby planet that was destroyed also lives on Earth and has become it's protector, his name is Metro Man (Pitt). Their battles continue on until finally Megamind does what even he though was impossbile, to eliminate Metroman.
After this Megamind feels everything is going his way after getting rid of his enemy, however he soon learns that it's no fun being a villain without an adversary, because of this he decides to make a new hero, Tighten, from the local news cameraman played by Jonah Hill. At the same time, Megamind takes the appearence as a Metroman researcher and starts a relationship in his disquise with the 'Louis Lane' character of the film Roxanne Ritchi (Fey). Things start to get out of hand though when Tighten doesn't make for the best hero.
One of the taglines to the film was "the superhero movie will never be the same," although it doesn't really live up to this. The film really doesn't have the most original story. It has an idea that is very similar to Despicable Me, however despite not being completley original, the story was still strong. The pacing was great and there was actually a good amount of heart to it. Some of it was also a bit predictable (especially with that trailer they put out) however there were still some good surprises in there.The film never felt dull either, even without being very original, I found it pretty fresh.
The characters were what carried a lot of the movie. First of all, the voice acting was superb here. In most Dreamworks animated films, the voice talents are usually big named actors who are just brought on because of their financial draw. Usually all the voices are so distinct, when you watch the movie you just here the voice and see the actor not the character, but that wasn't the case here, mostly. I really didn't see Pitt, Farrell, or Fey in the film at all, that's how well their voices blended with the character, something I really appriciate in voice acting. The one that really comes through over everybody though is Jonah Hill who is instantly recognizable.
Megamind himself was a great protagonist, being very charasmatic and fun to follow. Farrell definetley brought the character to life. and his sidekick, Minion played by David Cross made for a great addition too. Megamind and Minion were written very well giving their characters a lot of chemistry. Roxanne Ritchie was a good character too, making for a good love interest in the film.
The dialogue written for the characters was really good too, having a lot of wit and humor involved. I laughed quite a few times through the movie and got them all from different characters. The comedy was also helped by some bits of slapstick that was done by the animation team which was another highlight.
I saw the film in 3D, however I don't think it needed it. The animation looked fantastic in the film, everything crisp, clear and well rendered. It especially made for some great action scenes, especially towards the end.
Overall, Megamind is a great animated film, it may not have the heart that some of it's Pixar rival's have however it still has heart to it and is a lot of fun to watch as well. Plus Megamind has one of the best entrances that any character has had in a movie (the welcome to the jungle scene). This one gets a solid 4 out of 5.
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In an interview with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, Mercury News asked if the Wii U would provide support for 3D displays.
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"If you are going to connect Wii U with a home TV capable of displaying 3-D images, technologically, yes, it is going to be possible, but that's not the area we are focusing on.
"When it comes to 3-D, we already have the 3DS, and each owner of the Nintendo 3DS is capable of viewing 3-D images. However, when it comes to the home console, it depends upon the availability of 3-D TV sets at home, which, unfortunately, is not expanding enough. And rather than pouring a lot of energy into that kind of area, with the Wii U we'd like to focus more on each Wii U owner being able to have an equal opportunity to enjoy it."
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Mavs moving in on Butler
|02.13.10 at 11:19 am ET
Reports out of Dallas and Washington indicate that the Mavericks are closing in on a deal that would get them Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson in exchange for Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, James Singleton and Quinton Ross. (The Washington Post had a could of different names at the end of the deal, but the principles, Butler and Howard, are the same).
The hot rumor Friday morning involved the Celtics trading Ray Allen to the Wizards for Butler and Antawn Jamison.
Jamison is still very available and has been linked to the Cavaliers among other teams.
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