text:
to believe {verbo}
creer · considerar
Traducción inglés-español para "to believe"
"to believe" en español
to believe {verbo}
to believe [believed|believed] {vb} (también: to think)
On the other hand, I have a natural inclination to believe everything you say.
who have no will to live, to believe in something, to work towards great ends,
It probably heard the reindeers' bells jingling and could not believe its luck.
There is every reason to believe that the same will apply to the Danish initiative.
I can hardly believe that we will ever achieve this at intergovernmental level.
to believe [believed|believed] {vb} (también: to ponder, to animadvert)
I believe that these and other questions will continue to have their place.
I do not believe this is something we should consider as inevitable or normal.
That temptation is obvious. Clearly, we believe it to be unacceptable.
There are two aspects, which I believe are important, to be considered.
I personally believe that we have to view the whole issue globally.
Sinónimos (inglés) para "believe":
© Princeton Universitythink · consider · conceive · trust
Traducciones similares
Traducciones similares para "to believe" - español
Ejemplos de uso
Ejemplos de uso para "to believe" en español
I believe that these proposals constitute a pragmatic response to your request.
I believe that a procedure such as Mr Sjöstedt describes is out of the question.
This, I believe, was the fundamental reason why my country did not join the euro.
We would then have a solution that would, I believe, be acceptable to everyone.
This is therefore the crux, I believe, of a military debate at national level.
I believe that in politics, including European politics, intelligence is required.
I believe that each citizen would be very pleased to receive these four cents.
Mr Purvis, I believe that we should not enter into any judgement of intentions.
I cannot believe that Europe would be prepared to abandon them in their plight.
I also believe in the benefits of the call for the Commission to create databases.
I believe that policy-makers should make more use of their know-how and expertise.
I do not believe these products are dealt with adequately in the present text.
We believe that the amount appropriated to agricultural aid should be reduced.
I believe that this is a very sensible proposal and wish to make it more specific.
I have no monopoly on truth and I believe that it behoves us to show humility.
These are a series of new areas that we believe should be covered by the EAGGF.
There might be others who believe there are far more simple solutions to that.
We believe that this is the role which the people of the world expect us to play.
I believe this is an excellent and very wise report, much like the rapporteur.
We not only have the right strategy, I believe we have the only possible strategy.
Sugiere una nueva traducción de inglés a español
¿Has escuchado expresiones coloquiales recientemente? ¿Hay alguna traducción técnica en inglés que no hayas encontrado en el diccionario inglés-español? En los campos de texto de abajo puedes agregar fácilmente nuevos términos al diccionario inglés-español.
Sugerencias recientes de los usuarios: frontalidad, trucho, fideo de chocolate, compañero de ligue, bola de demolición
Palabras similares
Belgians · Belgium · Belgrade · Belgrader · Belgraders · belief · beliefs · believability · believable · believably · believe · believer · believers · belittlement · belive · Belize · Belizean · Belizeans · bell · bell-bottom · bell-bottomed
Echa un vistazo al diccionario francés-español de bab.la.


text:
Fans that want to see high school girls basketball at its finest may want to take the short trip to Ackerman at some point today.
Good players, good rivalries and good competition will all be a part of the Mid-Mississippi Challenge at Choctaw County High School.
Dandy Dozen performers and Mississippi State signees Victoria Vivians of Scott Central and Blair Schaefer of Starkville are two of the players who will showcase their talents on the court.
Choctaw County basketball coach Gary Beals looks forward to putting on the event once again.
"This is our seventh year to do it and we've had some good players," Beals said. "It's a good thing for girls basketball. There's a lot of emphasis put on boys, but that's why I did it.
To subscribe to the E-edition, please click here.View more articles in:

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The Massey Prize for Research in Law, Innovation, and Capital Markets was created at the University of Texas School of Law to promote the interdisciplinary research and teaching that encourages robust links between the rule of law and the capital markets.
Established in 2009 by a $2.4 million gift from John H. Massey, '66, and his wife, Elizabeth, this biennial prize for scholarship recognizes the book, article, or body of work that makes a substantial contribution to understanding the intersections of law, innovation, and capital markets. The prize carries a cash award of $50,000, and is presented at a symposium that highlights the recipients' scholarship.
On November 11, 2011, the inaugural Massey Prize was awarded to Robert E. Litan, for his remarkable body of work on entrepreneurship and economic growth. Litan is vice president for research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, and coauthor of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, a book which has been translated into ten languages and is widely used as a college text.
The award ceremony launched the Massey Prize Symposium. Several hundred people gathered to hear the keynote presentation by Diana Henriques, New York Times senior financial writer and author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust. Her talk, "Mixed Signals: Madoff, the Meltdown, and the Media," explained how fear of the market's uncertainties and complexities drove investors to Madoff—who appeared to offer a safe haven with reliable, if unremarkable, returns. The investors, seeking safety, were betrayed by the considerable failures of the regulatory and legal structures that were supposed to protect them.
"The full disclosure regime is woefully inadequate," Henriques said. "It is based on the assumption that sunlight is the best disinfectant. And I believed in this until I began to study Bernie Madoff … investing with him was a leap of faith … but most investing is a leap of faith, because no one reads the fine print. That is the fatal flaw in the full disclosure regime."
Henriques concluded by proposing some solutions to this problem. Notably, she suggested that Washington could establish draconian penalties for rogue players—penalties so severe that Wall Street would have powerful incentives to police itself.
Charles Plott, an experimental economist at the California Institute of Technology, discussed the analysis of securities markets through a series of mathematical models he developed to explain and predict how markets move.
"Markets depend wholly on the legal rules and structures that govern them," Plott said. Using the models he developed, he illustrated the point that while markets can seem chaotic, they are in fact coherent when examined in light of their structure and architecture. When markets fail to operate it's because of their underlying architecture. Plott's conclusion was that regulators must proceed with caution, because the models demonstrate that even the smallest changes in structure can have profound consequences on how markets behave.
These were excellent introductions to the third speaker, Dr. Robert Litan. His talk focused on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law on July 21, 2010, legislation which was passed as a direct response to the financial contraction of 2008.
Two basic conditions produced the 2008 contraction, Litan explained. First, too many banks were too highly leveraged. Second, there were too many bad mortgages packaged in misleadingly rated bond securities. Wall Street, commercial and investment banks, rating agencies, regulators, consumer—each bears a share of the blame. And it is because there are so many reasons the banking system came to a screeching halt in the fall of 2008 that Dodd-Frank is a 2,300-page bill.
Litan believes that this bill, while far from perfect, contains a number of provisions that will force Wall Street to be more careful—notably, establishing a clearinghouse for derivatives contracts. He cautioned, however, that legislators will have to make certain these entities are well capitalized. Litan's accessible, erudite discussion of this complicated legislation clearly demonstrated why he was chosen as the recipient of the inaugural Massey Prize.
The symposium concluded with a roundtable discussion on the regulation of financial markets that continued the conversation about the Dodd-Frank legislation. It was moderated by Tom Gilligan, dean and Centennial Chair in Business Education Leadership at the McCombs School of Business. Henriques, Litan, and Plott were joined by Paul Atkins, a former Securities and Exchange commissioner, and Edward S. Knight, '76, executive vice president, general counsel, and chief regulatory officer of NASDAQ.
Dean Larry Sager closed the program with his thanks to symposium participants, John and Elizabeth Massey, and to Professor Matt Spitzer, director of the Massey Prize in Law, Innovation, and Capital Markets and the Center for Law, Business, and Economics at the University of Texas, for organizing the event.
John H. Massey, a member of the UT Law School Class of 1966, has spent his professional life as a successful investor and executive in radio, television, banking, and the insurance business. Elizabeth Shatto Massey has long been active as a community volunteer. John Massey's interest in endowing this fund at his law school stems from his strong belief in the importance of the rule of law for economic stabilization and growth.
If more information is needed, please contact Tim Kubatzky via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 512-232-1939.


text:
« October 2012 | Main | December 2012 »
November 30, 2012
Let's Play Name That Party!
Not far into this Ruth Marcus column entitled Susan Rice and Double Standards, we come to this:
For perspective on this complex question, it helps to return to 1974 and the nomination of another woman, Alice Rivlin, to head the Congressional Budget Office.
As Rivlin tells the story, the office had just been created, she was selected by a search committee — and the House Budget Committee chairman made clear his adamant, gender-based opposition.
"Over his dead body was a woman going to run this organization," Rivlin recalled at an Atlantic magazine "Women of Washington" lecture last year.
The omission sticks out like a sore thumb. Who on earth could that dastardly, chauvinistic, bigoted House Budget Committee chairman have been!!?
Why, that would have been Albert C. Ullman, Democrat from Oregon. I wonder why Ms. Marcus didn't think it was worth a mention. Maybe if it been a Republican — she is writing about Rice's supposed mistreatment at the hands of Republicans, after all. You might think there was some kind of a double standard.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 12:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tax Hike Champions
Among the billionaires favoring higher taxes on people earning more than $250,000 per year are Bill Gates, Charles Munger, and Jim Sinegal. Aside from their billionaire status their stance on raising taxes, what might these three gentlemen have in common? Well, they're all on the board of directors for Costco. In fact, Jim Sinegal is a founder and former CEO of Costco.
There is newsworthiness here. It came about when the Costco board voted voted itself a $7.00 per share stock dividend in time to beat the Obama tax hikes. Not only that, they're borrowing $3.5 billion to do it. The payout to the board amounts to about $29 million, of which $14 million goes to Sinegal. He will pay taxes on his $14 million at the rate of 15% instead of up to 43.4% if they had waited until the first of the year. That 's a difference of about $4 million in taxes that Sinegal won't pay.
The Wall Street Journal writes:
We emailed Mr. Sinegal for comment but didn't hear back. Mr. Galanti explained that while looming tax hikes are a factor in the December borrowing and payout, so are current low interest rates. Mr. Galanti adds that the company will still have a strong balance sheet and is increasing its capital expenditures and store openings this year.
As it happens, one of those new stores opened Thursday in Washington, D.C., and no less a political star than Joe Biden stopped by to join Mr. Sinegal and pose for photos as he did some Christmas shopping. It's nice to have friends in high places. We don't know if Mr. Biden is a Costco shareholder, but if he wants to get in on the special dividend there's still time before his confiscatory tax policy hits. The dividend is payable on December 18 to holders of record on December 10.
To sum up: Here we have people at the very top of the top 1% who preach about tax fairness voting to write themselves a huge dividend check to avoid the Obama tax increase they claim it is a public service to impose on middle-class Americans who work for 30 years and finally make $250,000 for a brief window in time.
Whenver those those billionaires favoring higher taxes are asked why they just don't write a check to the treasury if they don't think they're paying high enough taxes, they say no. They say how we're all in this together so we all should make the sacrifice. Well... Here's their idea of how the sacrifice should be shared.
Hat tip to reader Marian for pointing out this story.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 11:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 29, 2012
The Balanced Approach BS
Two things about Obama's famous "balanced approach" to paying down the debt. First, there's not a soul on the planet who believes there will be any pay-down while Obama is in office. The national debt is projected to reach $20 billion at the end of his next term — up $4.4 trillion from the end of this one.
Trilion dollar deficits are in store for each of the next four years, and Obama's only solution is "asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little bit more in taxes." We have to combine cuts with revenue, he used to say. But now Obama wants to raise taxes this year, then talk about spending cuts next year.
So spending restraint is out. As is usual with Obama's promises — closing Guantanamo, keeping unemployment below 8%, the list goes on — a promise to address spending cuts next year will have its expiration date.
That leaves only tax hikes to fill in the budget hole. So, how's that going to work? Well, how did it work in England?
In the 2009-10 tax year, more than 16,000 people declared an annual income of more than £1 million to HM Revenue and Customs.
This number fell to just 6,000 after Gordon Brown introduced the new 50p top rate of income tax shortly before the last general election.
The figures have been seized upon by the Conservatives to claim that increasing the highest rate of tax actually led to a loss in revenues for the Government.
It is believed that rich Britons moved abroad or took steps to avoid paying the new levy by reducing their taxable incomes.
Can there be much hope that things will be different here? Even if we actually get the revenue that Obama's tax hike on the wealthy is calculated to produce, it will only give us enough money to run the government for about week. Eight and a half days, actually. The greater likelihood is that raising taxes in the way he proposes won't raise the revenue Democrats say it will, and it may not raise any revenue at all.
Obama's re-election has immunized him from accountability for our dismal economic growth. His place in history is secure. Left leaning media and academia will glorify Barack Obama no matter what happens. He doesn't need the economy to get better.
Obama's insistance on tax hikes, and now his plan to skip the part where we cut spending, are calculated to be unpalatable for House Republicans. It's part of a political bet. Since a recession is coming anyway, everything will be aimed at focusing blame for it on the Republicans.So let's let him have his due. I'm with Ann Coulter on this one. Repubicans should give in on taxes. Let's see how the Obama plan works.
Republicans have got to make Obama own the economy.
They should spend from now until the end of the congressional calendar reading aloud from Thomas Sowell, Richard Epstein, John Lott and Milton Friedman and explaining why Obama's high tax, massive regulation agenda spells doom for the nation.
Then some Republicans can say: We think this is a bad idea, but Obama won the election and the media are poised to blame us for whatever happens next, so let's give his plan a whirl and see how the country likes it.
Republicans need to get absolute, 100 percent intellectual clarity on who bears responsibility for the next big recession. It is more important to win back the Senate in two years than it is to save the Democrats from their own idiotic tax plan. Unless Republicans give them an out, Democrats won't be able to hide from what they've done.
Even Democrats might back away from that deal.
Give Obama his tax hikes. Then we'll see the true balance in Obama's BS.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 09:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 28, 2012
Majority Opposes Federal Health Care Guarantee
According to Gallup, a majority of Americans polled said they oppose a federal healthcare guarantee.
An interesting graph. A clear majority favored a federal guarantee until ObamaCare was proposed and then passed. Then it wasn't quite so popular. Wishing for a better health care system got us ObamaCare instead. Americans suddenly aren't so happy. Buyers remorse setting in?
We thought we were getting the post-racial society and an end to divisive politics, too. We got Obama instead.
Hat tip Hot Air.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 09:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 27, 2012
No One Intended To Mislead?
Well, that's what UN Ambassador Susan Rice would like us all to believe. But that nonsense is even less believable than the story she peddled on the Sunday talk shows when she explained how the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya was really a protest over a YouTube video.
Under fire from congressional critics, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice stressed in a Tuesday statement that she did not intend to mislead the public about the September 11th attacks on the Benghazi consulate.
"Neither I nor anyone else in the administration intended to mislead the American people at any stage in this process, and the administration updated Congress and the American people as our assessments evolved," Rice said.
This exercise with Susan Rice has proven to be quite the useful little distraction for the Obama administration. It has given Democrats and their allies in the media yet another excuse to spew a lot of fake righteous indignation about Republicans being racist and sexist — they questioned Rice's wild fantasy about rioting over a YouTube video. Meanwhile, with the exception of Fox News, Democrats and the media ignore the really important questions.
Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA chain of command -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
Who told the CIA to stand down, and why? And why wasn't there any military presence near enough to make a rescue attempt? It's not as if the administration didn't know that the consulate could not be defended.
The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an "emergency meeting" less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a "coordinated attack," according to a classified cable reviewed by Fox News.
Summarizing an Aug. 15 emergency meeting convened by the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Aug. 16 cable marked "SECRET" said that the State Department's senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not believe the consulate could be protected.
Security request were denied in spite of the Ambassador's fears. It seems the administration, the State Department in particular, was hot to "normalize operations and reduce security resources."
Eric Nordstrom, the former Regional Security Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Libya, told congressional investigators looking into the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, that the State Department was eager for the American diplomatic presence in Libya to reduce its American security footprint and to rely more on locals, sources tell ABC News. A senior State Department official denies the charge.
In an email from Nordstrom from earlier this month obtained by ABC News, the former Regional Security Officer referred to a list of 230 security incidents in Libya that took place between June 2011 and July 2012, writing that "(t)hese incidents paint a clear picture that the environment in Libya was fragile at best and could degrade quickly. Certainly, not an environment where post should be directed to 'normalize' operations and reduce security resources in accordance with an artificial time table."
A policy of normalizing operations would fit right in with Barack Obama's claims that al Qaeda was on the run, that the Muslim world now sees America in a new and attractive light. On the other hand, admitting what actually happened might damage that perception, and horror of horrors, damage it right before the election.
And then there's Hillary. How will it work for her 2016 presidential aspirations when it comes out that she and Obama refused requests for more security in Benghazi just so they can maintain this fairy tale story about how the Muslims really like us now?
Democrats are their liberal media allies are right when they complain that Susan Rice and her silly story aren't the issue. They keep saying it over and over again in hopes that we'll forget about the real problem. What we really need to know is by whose order were four Americans left unprotected in Libya, and why. And who made certain they remained unprotected?
Getting back to Susan Rice, by her participation in a diversion from those questions, she has proven herself unfit to be Secretary of State. Did she and the rest of the administration intend to mislead? You betcha!
Posted by Tom Bowler at 06:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
On Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming
Dr. Walter Starck, a marine biologist who pioneered in the scientific investigation of coral reefs, is not a fan of the CAGW theories.
The climate gravy train can provide a sumptuous ride for those whose work shows promise of producing what the government wants.
For third rate academics CAGW has much to offer. One doesn't need to be particularly capable to speculate about some dire consequence of warming, receive widespread publicity and be treated as an important expert. Unlike in real science, no colleagues will dispute them and the few sceptics willing to question anything will generally be ignored and denigrated by all their peers. The news media will describe them as experts and provide the public attention they know they deserve but somehow had never been recognised by anyone else until they climbed onto the climate bandwagon. Grants then flow and jetting off to attend important conferences in attractive places with all expenses paid provides frequent welcome breaks from the tedium of academia. Perhaps best of all, is a delicious feeling of importance and moral superiority over all of the high achievers striving so hard to discover something of consequence about the real world. The only personal cost is to one's own scientific integrity and that's not worth much if one is just another unrecognised minor league academic no one had ever heard of before they joined into the climate alarm. In any case, saving the planet is the noblest of all causes and absolves any tinge of guilt in such regard.
Via Power Line.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 06:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 26, 2012
BS from the Oracle of Omaha
I've been wondering why nobody thinks to call Warren Buffet on his disingenuous challenge on taxes.
SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. "This is a good one," he says enthusiastically. "I'm in it, and I think you should be, too."
Would your reply possibly be this? "Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent." Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.
Buffet must think we are such stupid people. No, Warren. We don't forego buying into investment based on our individual income tax rates. But we would think twice about sellling an asset depending upon on the capital gains taxes. The prospect of a future hike in capital gains might encourage us to sell assets sooner, while the prospect of a future drop might make us hold onto an asset a little longer.
Let's say you have a piece of commercial real estate you'd like to unload, not that this is a particularly good time to unload real estate, but work with me here. There are some weirdos who actually try to figure what they're going to get out of a sale after all the taxes and commissions are paid. Not only that, they might actually include capital gains taxes in that calculation.
Now strange as this may sound, some of these folks might actually ask a higher price if the bottom line comes to less than they'd like to get. Yeah, the greedy bastards. And that higher price might make the investment a little less attractive. In fact it might make it so unattractive that a buyer and a seller never reach a deal. And all because of the capital gains taxes.
So, while capital gains taxes may never discourage investors from making investments, they can discourage or even prevent an investment opportunity.
Warren Buffet knows this. He also knows Obama's proposal for taxing the rich won't get us to a balanced budget, and he knows that it won't even put an appreciable dent in Obama's projected annual deficits. Guess whoses taxes have to go up to tackle that problem.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 02:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 23, 2012
Yesterday the Washington Post described a failed meeting of the economic and political minds that occurred last year at the White House. Barack Obama brought in seven of the world's top economists to get their advice on how to fix the ailing economy.
"I'm not asking you to consider the political feasibility of things," he told them in the previously unreported meeting.
Never mind that it was rather late, even a year ago, to start bringing in the big guns to talk about fixing the economy. It wouldn't have mattered if the president brought them in on day one, the result would have been the same. They advised him to introduce a big plan to forgive part of the mortgage debt owed by millions of homeowners who are underwater on their properties. He ignored them.
It had long been thought that when property values declined in value, homeowners would spend less because they would feel less wealthy.
But Mian and Sufi's research showed something more specific and powerful at work: People who owed huge debts when their home values declined cut back dramatically on buying cars, appliances, furniture and groceries. The more they owed, the less they spent. People with little debt hardly slowed spending at all.
There are lots of reasons to object to mortgage debt forgiveness, not the least of which is how unfair it would be to all of those homeowners who by scrimping and saving and sacrifice didn't go in over their heads and didn't need to be bailed out. I don't think that would be a persuasive argument to Obama who seems routinely to favor one citizen over another as a matter of course. It's good politics to have people owe you.
At a more basic level, officials simply did not believe that a big program of debt forgiveness was a smart investment, costing hundreds of billions of dollars — money that it preferred to spend on a massive economic stimulus package that could much more quickly lift the economy. The administration also announced a more modest program designed to avert foreclosures by reducing mortgage payments but not the total debt balance.
How quaint that officials worried about hundreds of billions of dollars in debt forgiveness. Better to go with a massive Keynesian stimus. And we can all see how that worked!
In late 2009, the economy started to grow at a pace of 4 percent per year — fast enough that employment would have returned to normal by just about now. But in 2010, growth sputtered to 2 percent. The administration responded with more stimulus. But the pattern repeated itself in 2011 and this year.
I don't recall any 4 percent growth, but if the Washington Post says so, why it must be gospel. Maybe we got it for about a week and a half in September of 2009, spurred by a massive rally in Washington DC. Since then the economy as crawled but the stimulus spending has been phenomenal. Five trillion dollars in deficits in four short years, with $5 trillion more anticipated in the next four.
The administration never saw the mortgage debt overhang as the big drag on the economy, and they still don't. Why would they, when their alternative theory tells them to spend, spend, spend. Unlike George Bush whose half a trillion dollar defict was unpatriotic, the Obama administration will happily spend us into bankruptcy in the interests fairness — everybody gets a fair shot at poverty. It's all very disappointing but the housing debt is not to blame, they say.
Obama's advisers believe the ultimate pace of recovery is understandable, if disappointing, given the financial crisis and the collapse in housing prices, as well as surprises such as a drought this year, the European debt crisis, rising oil prices and the trade-disrupting Japanese earthquake.
It's the drought, the earthquake, the hurricane, Europe. they've get plenty of excuses. They also have a crisis which we can be sure won't go to waste.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 12:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 14, 2012
Petraeus to Testify
Fox News reports that Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to testify before the House and Senate intelligence committees about the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya in which four Americans were murdered, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
While Petraeus prepares to give his side, lawmakers have begun to openly question when Petraeus first knew about the investigation that uncovered his affair -- and whether it impacted his statements to Congress on Sept. 14 about the Libya terror attack.
Petraeus briefed lawmakers that day that the attack was akin to a flash mob, and some top lawmakers noted to Fox News he seemed "wedded" to the administration's narrative that it was a demonstration spun out of control. The briefing appeared to conflict with one from the FBI and National Counterterrorism Center a day earlier in which officials said the intelligence supported an Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda-affiliated attack.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News he now questions whether Petraeus' statements -- which were in conflict with both the FBI briefing and available raw intelligence -- were in any way impacted by the knowledge the FBI was investigating his affair with Broadwell.
Charles Krauthammer, for one, thinks Petraeus's testimony was "impacted" and in a deliberate way.
KRAUTHAMMER: Of course it was being held over Petraeus's head, and the sword was lowered on Election Day. You don't have to be a cynic to see that as the ultimate in cynicism. As long as they needed him to give the administration line to quote Bill, everybody was silent. And as soon as the election's over, as soon as he can be dispensed with, the sword drops and he's destroyed. I mean, can you imagine what it's like to be on that pressure and to think it didn't distort or at least in some way unconsciously influence his testimony? That's hard to believe.
So the White House "outed" Petraeus even though there was no crime. The FBI had kept their investigation under wraps while it was going on, and presumably they could have continued to do so after it was over.
How does the White House avoid damage from this? The story Petraeus gave congress back in September was not true. What's the story now? Does the White House have anything else to hold over Petraeus's head?
The affair was over, and the investigation was over. David Petraeus thought he was going to keep his job, his family, and his reputation. The job is gone, his reputation has been badly damaged, and it remains to be seen if he can keep his family together. I can see where payback might be an attractive option at this point.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 12:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
November 13, 2012
Conservatives Are Aghast at Bill Kristol!
The headline on Breitbart: "Bill Kristol Caves on Higher Taxes." Oh, the hand wringing...
Giving in on Obama's tax hikes would not win many votes. But it would certainly end the GOP as a viable opposition.
Kristol has embraced a policy that is nothing more than a left-wing, soak-the-rich meme. It would not close the budget deficit; at best, it would reduce the annual $1 trillion-plus deficit by 7 cents on the collar. Raising taxes would, however, hurt investment and punish success. And Republicans have been burned before by agreeing to deals in which Congress hikes taxes and the promised spending cuts never materialize.
Author Joel B. Pollack is laboring under one huge misconception. He seems to think Democrats care about the economy. Oh, he's certainly right about civilian Democrats, the ones not in politics. They'd like the economy to bounce back so that there are jobs and pay raises again. And he might be right about one or two of the Democrats in Washington.
As for the rest of them, Obama has demonstrated that they don't need a good economy to get re-elected, and what's more, a bad economy is so much more useful. Think of it as a crisis that won't go to waste. When people are suffering, that's the time to devise programs to assist. Mostly the programs assist Democrats' re-election prospects.
And let's not forget, Obama's goal has always been the transformation of America. He's been pretty successful so far, but there's more to come. An economy in crisis is the more fertile ground for achieving it.
In fact, our economy is in such dire straits right now that neither tax cuts nor tax hikes will make a noticeable difference. The absolute best we can hope for is continued sluggish growth that merely fails to keep pace with population growth. It's more likely that we're headed back into recession, or worse we might be in for a catastrophic meltdown. But the only question of interest to Democrats is who gets the blame for it.
Obama spent the past two years warning voters about going back to the policies that got us into this mess to begin with. The great failure of the Romney campaign was to let Obama keep repeating his nonsensical theory without challenge him on it. Everybody knew he was blaming "the Bush tax cuts," but no one ever made Obama say it out loud and then have to defend it.
Repeated endlessly without challenge, Obama's campaign sound-bite became a plausible explanation for enough voters to make a difference. Bill Clinton even trotted out on the campaign trail to reinforce the message, implying that the economy boomed in his day because the wealthy paid more taxes.
I know. It's really simple minded, but there it is. Never mind that the Clinton boom was the result of a lot of Republican policies that Clinton wisely adopted after 1994 when congressional Democrats got booted out of the majority for the first time in 40 years. The North American Free Trade Agreement, welfare reform, spending restraint, and a dot-com bubble. All of these things, in combination with a broadened tax base, stunned the world with the first U.S. budget surpluses since the Kennedy administration. It was shocking. No one would ever have dreamed it.
There will be no such boom in the Obama second term. Tax and regulatory policies will keep the damper on, and for at least the next two years Republicans will be powerless to turn this disastrous economy around. The best we can hope for is that they block or delay the more permanently damaging policies that Obama intends to put in place. We just have to hope that the tipping point has not been reached, and that Republicans will be able to return America to a more market oriented economy and get some jobs growth.
In the meantime, a rise in marginal rates from 36% to 39% for high income taxpayers is not the most damaging policy proposal Obama has come up with, but fighting it could be the most damaging thing Republicans do. When negotiations are under way to avoid the fiscal cliff, Republicans can stick to their principles by announcing that they oppose the tax hikes because of the damage they'll do to the economy, but going over the fiscal cliff would be even more damaging. Republicans have to announce that Obama's tax and regulatory policies are killing the economy and killing jobs and there is nothing they can do about it, and then remind voters every day that Obama owns the economy.
Obama doesn't own it right now. He's sticking to the story that he's inherited George W. Bush's mess — again! He will continue to blame Republicans, and voters will continue buy it, especially if Republicans fight him on tax rates. The worst case is if we go over the fiscal cliff because Republicans fight a 3% tax increase. The damage to the Republican brand will be incalculable. The next worse case is if Republicans win on taxes. The economy will continue to stagnate but Republicans will be saddled with ownership of it. It's those Bush tax cuts that are killing us, you know.
Republicans have to wake up and realize that Democrats don't care if the economy goes to hell, in fact they'd prefer it. Instead of fighting the Obama on taxes, Republicans should go along with him, while at the same time announcing that they strongly disagree, but that it would be worse to go over the cliff. The point is to make clear that Obama's policies are not going to help the economy. But he won the election and now the economy belongs to him. It's a message that they must repeat every day from now until 2016.
Posted by Tom Bowler at 05:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack


text:
Although the economy needs to improve before the Fed raises key rates, some dividend payers might act as good hedges amid higher rates, while others have something to lose, says Morningstar's Josh Peters.
In Session 1 of the 2013 Morningstar Individual Investor Conference, Northern Trust's Katie Nixon, Charlie Bobrinskoy of Ariel, and Morningstar's Bob Johnson tackle today's macro questions on government policy, economic growth, inflation, and more.
Morningstar's top strategists discuss their tips for investing in a rising-rate environment, where equity values lie, and some of their favorite investment ideas right now in this special midyear roundtable.
A rising-rate environment has historically led dividend payers to underperform, but that is no reason to abandon these high-quality companies, says Morningstar's Josh Peters.
This article is for informational purposes only. This article is not intended to provide tax, legal, insurance or other investment advice. Unless otherwise specified, you are solely responsible for determining whether any investment, security or other product or service is appropriate for you based ...
©2014 Morningstar Advisor. All right reserved.


text:
L'Oreal USA announces the appointment of John Costanza as General Manager for L'Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase and Shu Uemura Art of Hair. John's extensive industry knowledge and distribution background made him the ideal choice for leading L'Oreal USA's Prestige Partner Brands as the company continues to accelerate the growth of these strategic brands in the U.S.
Costanza brings 19 years of experience within the professional beauty and salon industry to his new role at L'Oreal USA. Most recently, he served as Group Vice President for Sally Beauty Holdings Canada and BSG United Kingdom. He was responsible for Marketing, Sales, Merchandising, Finance, and Human Resources across the street and store channels in Canada, as well as for the indirect sales force through the U.K. and Europe sub-distribution. Prior to that, Costanza was Vice President & General Manager for Beauty Systems Group Canada, where he was responsible for driving sales growth through stores and outside sales consultants.
From 1999 to 2001, Costanza was with Joico Hair Care Laboratories International, where he was the Regional Sales Manager, Northeastern U.S., with responsibility for developing the market penetration of the Joico brand. John also served as General Manager of Joico Canada from 1996 to 1999.
"I am thrilled to join L'Oreal USA's Professional Products Division to share my passion for salons and the haircare industry with my talented team and our external partners," says Costanza "I look forward to being able to focus on the luxury marketplace in this new role to drive growth, sales and innovation over the next few years."


text:
UTSA newsletters
» UTSA Expressions -- Student Center for Community Engagement and Inclusion
UTSA magazines
» Giving
» Discovery -- UTSA Research
» Innovations -- College of Engineering
» Ovations -- College of Liberal and Fine Arts
» Spectrum -- College of Education
UTSA TEAM Center to offer community autism spectrum screenings April 26
(April 21, 2014) -- In conjunction with Autism Awareness Month, the Teacher Education Autism Model (TEAM) Center will hold free developmental screenings and consultations for families who think their child may be on the autism spectrum on Saturday, April 26.
The Team Center will have 30-minute time slots available for screenings between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the TEAM Center in Durango Building Room 0.220B at the UTSA Downtown Campus.
Evaluations will include intervention recommendations for potential language and social skills problems. Parents can make appointments online at utsa.edu/autism or by calling the TEAM Center at 210-458-2007.


text:
News of Riverton, Lander and Fremont County, Wyoming, from the Ranger's award winning journalists.
Coroner sticker argument was 'kids arguing in a sandbox'
Jun 3, 2013 - Brad Blanchard, Lander
I really don't know whether I am supposed to laugh or frown at the conclusion of the long argument between the Fremont County Coroner and the county commissioners over the kind of identification sticker that is put on the county coroner's trucks.
The whole time this was going on, I was hoping that people from outside Fremont County or Wyoming weren't aware of this or were not paying attention to it. It seems so small and petty that I felt embarrassed for Fremont County.
I just could not believe that grown men and women would spend so much time and hot air arguing about something like this. It was like kids arguing in a sandbox. But my friend said we should be OK with it, because if they were all arguing about this it must mean that the county didn't have any more important problems to worry about.
I don't know about that, because it sure seems there are lots more important things for our county's leadership to be concerned with than decals on the corners wagon. And it was downright hilarious when the stickers that the corner wanted to put on the vehicles said state of Wisconsin not Wyoming.
As the old saying goes, you can't make this stuff up. People would never believe it.


text:
Book Search
Handbook of Employee Selection
The Handbook of Employee Selection summarizes the state of science and practice in the field of employee selection. Chapters in this book cover issues associated with measurement such as validity and reliability as well as practical concerns around the development of appropriate selection...
Published March 16th 2010 by Routledge
Stereotype Threat Effects in Employment Settings
A Special Issue of human Performance
Evolved from a symposium that was presented at the 2002 SIOP conference, these papers discuss "Stereotype Threat": the pressure that individuals may feel when they are at risk of confirming, or being seen by others as confirming, a negative stereotype about a group which they identify. Especially...
Published June 1st 2003 by Psychology Press
Contributions By New Editorial Board Members
A Special Issue of human Performance
Reinforcing the international diversity of researchers who are concerned with aspects of human performance, this special issue contains articles submitted by five new editorial members based in Australia, Canada, Germany, Singapore, and the United States. The increasing globalization of work...
Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press
Personnel Selection and Assessment
Individual and Organizational Perspectives
Series: Applied Psychology Series
The impetus for this volume came from the editors' belief that most current research and thinking about personnel selection and assessment in organizations considered only the perspective of the employer. The job applicant seeking to join the organization or the employee being considered for...
Published June 1st 1993 by Psychology Press


text:
Capt. Daniel C. Grieco
Captain Daniel C. Grieco graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1986 earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science. He completed aviation training and was designated a Naval Flight Officer in December 1987.
After initial qualification in the S-3A Viking, he was assigned to Air Anti-Submarine Squadron TWENTY TWO (VS 22). While assigned to the "Checkmates," he transitioned to the S-3B and deployed aboard the USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67) participating in Operation Desert Shield and flew 23 combat support missions in Operation Desert Storm.
Upon completion of his first sea tour, Captain Grieco was assigned to Fleet Replacement Squadron TWENTY SEVEN (VS 27) as an instructor. During this tour, he held the lead instructor for Electronic Warfare Training of the S-3 community and was the east coast S-3 NATOPS senior evaluator and model manager.
Captain Grieco's next assignment was to Commander Carrier Group FOUR as his Flag Lieutenant. During this tour he participated in the intermediate and advanced training of five Carrier Battle Groups as well as participated in NATO exercise Strong Resolve 95.
Upon detaching from Commander Carrier Group FOUR in October 1996, he reported to Sea Control Squadron TWENTY FOUR (VS 24). While attached to the World Famous "Scouts," he was the operations officer and deployed aboard USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67) to the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Southern Watch.
After graduating from Naval War College, in April 2000 Captain Grieco was assigned to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the National Military Command Center as the Assistant Deputy Director for Operations on Operations Team THREE. Selected for command, he was assigned to return as Executive Officer of Sea Control Squadron TWENTY FOUR (VS 24). He assumed command of the Scouts in April 2005 and as Commanding Officer deployed the squadron as the last 8 aircraft S-3B squadron aboard USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) for Operation Iraqi Freedom. During his command tour, the squadron flew 229 overland combat sorties supporting Multi-National Division Southeast, won the 2005-2006 deployment CVW 8 Golden Wrench, CNAL Golden Anchor and 2005 Battle "E." Upon detaching from the Scouts, Captain Grieco was assigned as the Executive Assistant to Commander Naval Air Forces, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, where he was selected for Major Command and Aviation Nuclear Pipeline training. Upon completion of Nuclear Power training, Captain Grieco reported to USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), home ported in Yokosuka Japan, as Executive Officer from December 2008 to October 2010.
Captain Grieco's next assignment was as Commanding Officer USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC 19), the 7th FLEET Command Ship from May 2011 to July 2012. While in command, he sailed BLUE RIDGE over 30,000 miles visiting 18 ports in 12 different countries in support of the 7th FLEET Commander.
Captain Grieco took command of USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) in February 2013.
He holds Masters Degrees from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and the U.S. Naval War College. His personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (3 awards), Air Medal (Strike/Flight)(2 awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (3 awards), Navy Achievement Medal (2 awards) and various campaign and unit awards. He has accumulated over 2700 flight hours and 650 arrested landings.
US Navy Recruiting | No Fear Act Data | FOIA
US Navy | US Marine Corps | Navy Reserves
US Navy FAQ | USA.gov | Section 508/Accessibility


text:
Weights & Resistance Training
Serious weight and resistance training doesn't require complicated machines or space-eating barbell plates. Brookstone has gym-quality exercise gear that helps workout warriors of any fitness level to trim down, muscle up and increase strength...even when space is limited. So take the first step today.
SAVE Dynamax Gyroscopic CORE Trainer
Was $499.99 Now $429.99
Super Soft® Aquatic Barbells
(1 review)
NEKDOODLE Aerobic Water Fitness Swim Aid
(1 review)
Super Soft® Swim Bar
(1 review)
SAVE Marcy 50 lb. Kettle Bell Set
Was $124.99 Now $105.99
SAVE Weider Pair 12.5 lb Adjustable Speed Weights
Was $99.99 Now $72.30
Zobi Weight and DVD Set
From $19.99
Lighted Walking Weight - Set of 2
From $14.99
SAVE Weider Spacesaver 100 Weights—Dumbbells and Stand
Was $499.99 Now $350.99
SAVE Stamina 1700 Power Tower Home Gym
Was $229.99 Now $205.99
SAVE Stamina Kathy Smith Kettlebell Solution
Was $39.00 Now $32.00
SAVE Stamina 36 lb. Adjustable Kettle Versa-Bell
Was $149.99 Now $139.99


text:
The Indian peacock has beautiful blue-green plumage in its train with a series of eyes that look magnificent when the train is fanned open. Many of the brilliant colours are due to an optical interference phenomenon known as 'Bragg reflection', which is based on the nanostructures of the barbules of the feathers.
As we all know, the peacock flares out its feathers when it is trying to attract the attention of the peahen. It also performs a dance that involves strutting and quaking and emitting a very loud high pitched cry.
You might think I have started writing for a nature magazine instead of the finest IT mag in the land but I haven't completely lost my mind. It was during the recent 17 days of election limbo that I started to think of peacocks - and it wasn't just for the strutting and high-pitched cry.
The peacock fans its feathers in an impressive display because it believes its show will be better than all of its counterparts. It wants to show off its attributes, as that is its best chance of being chosen by the finest female.
And it isn't just peacocks that do it - all across the animal kingdom we see examples of animals showing their potential mates something impressive in the hope of winning their affections.
We don't see the peacocks hiding in holes in the ground and keeping their beautiful feathers hidden.
After all the votes were counted in the recent federal election and the polls finally declared, the final two party preferred vote showed a difference of only 0.2 percent. I initially found that incredible. Of the 14,088,260 Australians enrolled to vote, there was only a tiny margin between the two major parties (we won't mention the 5.55 percent of informal votes thanks to Mr Latham).
Then I started to think about it a little more and it made perfect sense. The two parties basically looked the same.
We didn't really know what differences there were as both parties kept their heads down and rolled out safe messages that had a large smell of 'metoo-ism' about them. If you looked solely at what they were both offering to do, you would see they looked similar. So in hindsight it was actually no surprise at all that the votes that we cast were almost perfectly split down the middle. We were all voting for the same outcomes, just under two different names.
Statisticians would tell us that if you lined up enough people and asked them to enter a room and choose a marble from either the left jar or the right jar - and both jars were full of orange marbles - you would end up with a 50/50 split. That is what this election was all about. The closest we had to any difference at all, and the single component that I believe won the election for the ALP, was the NBN - and it pleased my little techno-heart to see technology as such an important issue at the Federal level.
Apart from the NBN, there was no peacock in this election shouting loud and clear and brandishing its plumage. There is an important lesson in business in this.
In business, stand for something. You won't appeal to 100 percent of the marketplace, but what is important is that you appeal very strongly to your segment of the marketplace. When you try to appeal to everyone you inevitably will be offering something so bland and unenticing that you might vaguely appeal to half of the marketplace.
There will be no loyalty, as your offering will probably be the same as 10 other businesses are selling. And if you have multiple businesses offer the same product then the only differentiator is price. If you can offer something unique in the marketplace then you can almost name your price.
Not only do you need to make sure that you have a great set of feathers but you need to show them off. I have seen business award ceremonies where they hand out a gong for the 'quiet achiever'.
If you are in business and you win one of these awards, immediately go back to your business and tar and feather the award and ceremoniously execute it by hanging it in your staff room.
If you have superior products and services, the last thing you want to do is be quiet about them. Go out and tell the world - like the peacock shows off its feathers. If you don't have superior products and services then change your offering.
Tell me how you fan your feathers at email@example.com.
Copyright © CRN Australia. All rights reserved.
Issue: 339 | June 2015
Access CRN's extensive online resources including; email bulletins, community discussions and unique online news.
Processing registration... Please wait.
This process can take up to a minute to complete.
A confirmation email has been sent to your email address - SUPPLIED GOES EMAIL HERE. Please click on the link in the email to verify your email address. You need to verify your email before you can log on to the CRN website or start posting comments on articles.
If you do not receive your confirmation email within the next few minutes, it may be because the email has been captured by a junk mail filter. Please ensure you add the domain '@crn.com.au' to your white-listed senders.


text:
Michelle Christine Smith Bridges, 39, of Huntersville, passed away suddenly after giving birth to her second child, Sydney Michelle on the afternoon of Nov. 2, 2012, at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, leaving behind family, friends and co-workers much too soon.
She also leaves a legacy of love, friendship, trust and commitment to the many people she touched throughout her life. In her death she gave her family the most precious gift anyone can leave behind, as her daughter Sydney Michelle was born into this world as she left. Read the full story


text:
Henri Comte de Chambord, pretender to the French throne with the 'Legitimist' claim, makes what becomes known as the 'Antwerp Declaration', rejecting the idea of a Revolution Monarchy.
Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are not a subscriber, please click here to read about membership. All our articles have been written recently by experts in their field, more than 95% of them university professors.


text:
« Exit photo gallery
Presidents with Saudi leaders
President Barack Obama travels to Riyahd, the capital of Saudi Arabia, March 28 to meet with the country's leaders. Many of his presidential predecessors have also reached out to Saudi kings and leaders to maintain a key relationship to U.S. interests in the Middle East. Here's a look at meetings between U.S. presidents and Saudi kings:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Saud discuss Saudi-U.S. relations aboard the USS Quincy on the Great Bitter Lake, north of the city of Suez, Egypt, on Feb. 14, 1945.(Photo: AP Photo)
Please see the Comments FAQ if you have any additional questions or email your thoughts to firstname.lastname@example.com powered by Disqus
More: See all POLITICO photo galleries
Did you know that this gallery has keyboard shortcuts? Use your left and right arrows to navigate through the gallery.


text:
I'm amazed that in the study on subliminal advertising researchers used an anagram of Lipton Ice - Nipeic Tol - for the control (29 April, p 16). Why? Well, at first glance I thought they were both Lipton Ice. Some brains work like that, especially in the first 300 milliseconds.
To continue reading this article, subscribe to receive access to all of newscientist.com, including 20 years of archive content.


text:
Museum Victoria cares for thestate's scientific and cultural collections
Until 4 Oct 2015
Now Showing
Join and save
Now showing at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre
How mites get around, feed and cause all kinds of trouble.
Tiny arachnids that are all around you.
Tribute to former Premier and supporter of MV.
Know a young person with dino fever?
Federation Square gets a little Cretaceous.
Trial voyage of Australia's new research vessel.
First Peoples is now open at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Mel...
Explore the museum's diverse collections of items from Victoria's history.
Explore the Immigration Museum with our free multilingual tour app and hear stor...
Research, create and share your own family or community history.
Facilitating dialogue about cultural difference and promoting diversity.
Museum Victoria's online humanities resources
3 Museums, 1 Membership
Hi. Just wondering what is cost on the weekend for WW1 for a concession
To read the latest tweets from @museumvictoria
Follow Museum Victoria on
Hi Jennifer, not all the species of Engaeus in Victoria are endangered. There are a number of species that are considered threatened including th...


text:
Provides online reference and learning tools for students who read below grade level, are dealing with specific learning problems, or are at risk of falling behind. This user-friendly collection contains all of the resources that students need including encyclopedias, an atlas, historic timelines, a dictionary, news, and other essential learning tools. 21st-Century Explorer is ideal for reluctant readers, ELL and ESL students, and adult literacy students.
EBSCO Primary Search
Primary Search contains full-text for more than 60 elementary school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full-text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets.
Kids Infobits
Kids InfoBits is a database for students in kindergarten through grade 5. It features a kid-friendly graphic interface with full-text content from elementary reference sources and magazines. Kids InfoBits covers geography, current events, the arts and sciences, people, government, history, and more.
Kids Search
Kids Search is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 5. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases.
Novelist K-8
Helps teens and children identify books they'd like to read based on titles, authors and topics they have read and enjoyed. It also provides full-text reviews and annotations.
Searchasaurus is a search engine for users in elementary or middle schools. Searchasaurus is a way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young researchers to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for young patrons to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.
Sesame Street
Sesame Workshop, has partnered with Impelsys to convert many Sesame Street books into eBooks. Sesame Workshop now offers content in the most innovative, engaging and user friendly formats appealing to both children and their parents. The online portal offers more than one hundred eBooks with new titles being added on a regular basis. The eBooks feature audio narration, interactivity and animation bringing popular Sesame Street characters to life.
Spanish Reference Center
Spanish Reference Center provides both PlanetaSaber and the Enciclopedia Juvenil. PlanetaSaber features the Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, an encyclopedia in the Spanish language, including over 145,000 encyclopedia articles, more than 10,000 maps, photos, and media pieces, and 8,000 Internet links. Also includes a visual navigator, interactive atlas, and multilanguage dictionary. Enciclopedia Juvenil, for younger ages, helps students sharpen their language skills while they learn new lessons.
An online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.


text:
Adult Services
Adult Services provides social programs to help Yolo County's elderly and dependent adults to live safely and maintain as much independence as possible.
Adult Protective Services (APS) is a state-mandated program that provides information and referral, assessment, and case management services to elderly (65 and older) and dependent adults (18-64) who are at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation by self or others.
In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a federal, state and locally funded program providing assistance to those eligible aged, blind or disabled individuals who are unable to remain safely in their own homes without this assistance.
1-888-675-1115 (Toll Free Adult Abuse Reporting)
1-530-661-2955 (Adult Abuse Reporting)
1-530-661-2955 (Adult Services Reception)
911 (After Hours Emergency)
25 N. Cottonwood Street
Woodland, CA 95695
530-661-2955 or 1-866-226-5415
500-A Jefferson Blvd., Suite 100
W. Sacramento, CA 95605
916-375-6200 or 1-866-226-5415
Days and Hours of Operation:
Monday through Friday, 8:00 am - 4:00 p.m.
AARP: www.aarp.org
Administration on Aging: www.aoa.gov
Benefits Check Up: www.benefitscheckup.org
Eldercare Locator: www.eldercare.gov
Meals on Wheels: www.mowaa.org
Medicare: www.medicare.gov
National Council on the Aging: www.ncoa.org
Senior Living Map: www.seniorlivingmap.org
SeniorNet: www.seniornet.org


text:
i just got my vines and i am wondering how to prepare my soil i have sandy/clay soil that packs like cement when it dries.
I haven't checked the soil pH yet I will either get a soil tester or bring it to my extension agent fortunately we have A&M agricultural close to me
If you are in a zone close to mine and you are growing concord grapes i would be VERY interested in hearing from you
Concords grown in zone 5 here in Western PA.
If your soil is sand and clay and packs hard, you really need to mix in a lot of topsoil so the roots can spread and the plants can feed.
See your extensions agent for tips on growing things in your local area. They can give you the best advice for your soil.
Grapes will tolerate most soils but they need a location well drained and full sun (southern facing slopes , south side of buildings and windbreaks)....they do not tolerarate soil PH outside of this range 5.5 to 7.8 ... any soil ph outside of these numbers will need to be corrected . Your biggest concern should be to the learn the correct pruning methods for producing fruit , do it the wrong way and mostly what you get are a lot of non producing shoots. Read up on this and start out the right foot and your vines should produce well for you .
Grapes grow from the subsoil, so topsoil is of no concern to them.
I am in zone 6b have about 100ft of concord grapes in ph 7.5-8 soil and they are growin like mad.
that I never grew grapes!


text:
Pianist and bandleader Frankie Carle's career spanned seventy years. He first professional job came in 1916, working in his uncle's band for a dollar a week. He briefly led his own outfit in 1920 before joining Edwin J. McEnelley in 1921, with whom he made his first recordings. In 1936 he joined Mal Hallett, where he worked with such stars as Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenney.
After Hallett's band broke up in 1937 Carle led his own regional outfit around New England. His big break came in 1939 when he joined Horace Heidt. Gaining exposure on Heidt's national radio program, Carle quickly became popular for his piano style and found himself in big demand. In 1941 Eddie Duchin, about to enter military service, asked Carle to take over his orchestra for twenty five percent of the gross. When Carle mentioned it to Heidt, Heidt offered Carle a thousand dollars a week plus five percent of the gross. Carle stayed on with Heidt.
When Heidt decided to retire in 1944 he helped Carle form his own orchestra. Carle's group charted several hits for Columbia during the 1940s and appeared on two radio programs. Al Avola and Frank DeVol arranged. Paul Allen, Lee Columbo, Betty Bonney, Phyllis Lynne, and Marjorie Hughes were vocalists. Hughes was actually Carle's daughter. When Carle was searching for a new vocalist his wife slipped Margie's recording into the stack of demos, and Carle unknowingly choose her. He changed her name so as to let her build her own reputation, but gossip columnist Walter Winchell let the secret out after her first big hit, ''Oh, What It Seemed to Be.''
When the age of big bands faded during the 1950s Carle formed a slimmed-down unit. Known as Frankie Carle and His Rhythm, the group consisted of Carle on piano and four female musicians on guitar, drums, accordion and bass. It played smaller halls and recorded for RCA. Carle semi-retired during the 1960s but became active again during the big band revival of the 1970s. Carle's last tour was in 1983. He retired to Mesa, Arizona, to be near his daughter. Carle passed away in 2001, just 18 days shy of his 98th birthday.


text:
The following is an archive of a post made to our
'vox mailing list'
by one of its subscribers.
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
February 18, 2013
7:00pm - 9:00pm
SugarCRM and Open Source
Joseph Arruda, Senior Product Manager, SugarCRM
This talk will discuss how a business like SugarCRM is
Open Source-friendly, how it release its code, how it consumes
3rd-party code, and how it uses code review tools like BlackDuck
with continuous integration.
About the Speaker:
Joseph Arruda is Senior Product Manager at SugarCRM, focusing on
mobile and cloud-based initiatives for both outward bound products
and internal tools. He has been described as an open source geek,
a policy wonk, and even a bit of a creative illustrator.
(Joe was also in attendance at LUGOD's second-ever meeting, in January 1999.)
About SugarCRM:
SugarCRM produces a customer relationship management (CRM) system that
is available in both open source and commercial applications.
SugarCRM's functionality includes sales-force automation,
marketing campaigns, customer support, collaboration, mobile CRM,
social CRM and reporting. Created as an open source project in April 2004,
and founded as a company in June of the same year, SugarCRM is currently
headquartered in Cupertino, California. It was named one of the 10
most successful open source projects in 2012 by Network World Magazine.
This meeting will be held at a special location:
Explorit Nature Center
3141 5th Street
Davis, California 95616
For more details on this meeting, visit:
or simply:
http://www.lugod.org/ (and follow the links)
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
About LUGOD:
The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
and Free Software.
Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers
in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater
Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public.
You can find LUGOD on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/
and on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879
Please visit our website for more details: http://www.lugod.org/
Bill Kendrick
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
(Your address: firstname.lastname@example.com )
vox mailing list
Hosting provided by:
Sunset Systems
Sunset Systems offers preconfigured Linux
systems, remote system administration and
custom software development.
LUGOD: Linux Users' Group of Davis
PO Box 2082, Davis, CA 95617
Contact Us
LUGOD is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
based in Davis, California
and serving the Sacramento area.
"Linux" is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.


text:
RETAIL: Escondido used book store thrives in down economy
Escondido used book store thrives in down economy
In an economy this bad, The Book Mark paperback book exchange in Escondido really shouldn't be having a year this good.
The Commerce Department keeps reporting declining consumer spending, and the Book Industry Study Group reported declining sales all through 2008. So The Book Mark should, if anything, be in trouble.
Then again, the store exchanges old escapist fantasies for new ones at a bargain price of 50 cents.
"I had a tremendous summer," said the store's owner, Elaine Fitzgerald. "We had people coming down from L.A., from out in the desert, up from San Diego, from all over."
From the outside, The Book Mark looks like any other storefront, with a glass window, and a sign across the front. The front of the store has some new books, puzzles and greeting cards, and a counter on the right with a cash register and no computer.
Penetrating deeper into the store, a visitor will find 150,000 books, each neatly shelved, sorted by section and alphabetized by author.
The store's internal economy is simple: Buy a book off the shelves and it'll cost half off the cover price. Customers looking to trade will pay the difference between half the cover price of the book they're trading and the price of the one they want, with a minimum 50 cent fee.
Fitzgerald sorts through all books offered in trade and she may reject some books, but if the book was bought in the store, she takes it back no matter what.
The result has been a steady stream of regular customers who have been coming to the store for years, some from all the way back to 1976, when she opened the first store on West Grand Avenue.
Back then, Fitzgerald was a young mother with children just starting school. She'd been a secretary, but she was unsatisfied.
"I wanted to put my energy into something for us, rather than my energy for someone else," Fitzgerald said.
Then one day she and a friend were antiquing in San Diego's North Park neighborhood. With limited time before having to pick up their children from kindergarten, they picked one store at random.
The shop happened to be going out of business, and they were unloading a block of 5,000 paperback books, cheap. Fitzgerald flashed back to a Times-Advocate (a precursor to the North County Times) article her husband John had read about a Utah store that bought and sold other people's books. This was it, she thought; the business she wanted to run.
She bought the lot of books, piled as many as she could into the couple's 1956 Cadillac, and hurried home. She returned with the family pickup truck and camper and took the rest.
The first store was 600 square feet on Grand Avenue next to an office rented by attorney Bill Hawk. Husband John built the shelves for the store, and her parents came down to help get things set up. Many of the books didn't have covers, and her mother-in-law spent days making cardboard covers for each one.


text:
Who We Are
SYNCIS® is one of the top marketing organizations in America. We bring together individuals, families, small business owners, and some of the largest insurance and financial services providers in America to make financial products and services more accessible to middle-income families.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help families attain proper financial protection and prepare for the future. Our Associates come from all walks of life and understand that many people may feel overwhelmed by the complexity of financial products. We work to make the process less intimidating by educating families about basic financial principles so that they can make informed decisions about which financial products fit their needs.
Because guaranteed pensions, employer 401k matching, and generous government benefits are now the exception rather than the norm, we believe life insurance and annuities will become an increasingly important part of Americans' plans for financial stability. We see the current economic uncertainty as an opportunity to let families know that they need to take action immediately to plan for an uncertain future.


text:
Narrow your search
The new service means wireless carriers can sell customers a way to seamlessly make transactions at any credit card terminal with their phones, and no hardware has to be changed.
Reuters has reported that Google is leaning on app developers to use its payment-processing service rather than rival offerings, although the company says that its policy has not changed.
Reuters reports that Google is leaning on developers to use its payment processing service rather than rival offerings, though the company says that its policy has not changed.
Competing for market share with rival Zong and a few others, the start-up says new partnerships give it access to 200 million new user accounts. (But do they all pay?)
American Express continues its push into the emerging space of mobile purchasing, making a $19 million investment in mobile-payments provider Payfone.
The financial services company launches Serve.com, a PayPal-like platform that's designed to bring digital and mobile payments to new markets.
Originally developed for the Xbox, Microsoft now has a Windows version of Kodu--a tool for letting preteens create their own code.
As part of its "Zong Plus" offering, the mobile payments company will let members use regular credit cards, and offers a loyalty program with which to do so.
Still in a close rivalry with competitor Boku, Zong has partnered with two subscription services so that members can bill their payments to their cell phone bills.
Two rival companies, Boku and Zong, want to replace your credit card number with your cell phone number. Here's how it might pan out.


text:
Comments Feed
If Windows Phone 8 is a joke as far as it's market share is concerned, then Apple's OSX must also be a joke for the same reason.
Looking at the Defaults screen, can the default IE web browser be changed to some other 3rd party web browser in this new update?
16:10 is available in the new Kupa Ultranote X15 tablet, available with Core i7 and 8GB RAM.
Paul, it will be interesting to see what you think of the Kupa Ultranote X15 when it's released.
8GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, Intel Core i5 or i7, removable battery, 10.1" IPS 1920 x 1200 digitizer...
The battery life indicated depends on what you're doing. It will go up and down depending on the type of activity and what you are connected to. My Samsung 700T tablet does a similar thing.
Apparently the Surface Pro does NOT include WiDi because it does not have an Intel Wireless chipset. So WiDi would need to be done with a USB dongle.
It does have NFC.
It might have WiDi. Certainly the processor and graphics card support WiDi, so it just depends on the WiFi adapter included.


text: I showed up at the door of a Greenway home I've admired for years. Charles B. Reeves — who goes by "Sprat" — greeted me with his enthusiastic welcome: "Delighted." For the next 90 minutes I tried to take notes about his version of the history of North Baltimore's Guilford.


text:
Feature...Join CNU!Be a Part of the Movement»»»
New Initiaties
New Initiatives Forum*Submitted by Filmanowicz on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 3:55pm
Description: Would you like to start a new initiative? Hash out a thorny new urbanist issue with colleagues? Join CNU initiative leaders in collaborative discussions about future projects. Accessibility and affordability were just two of the many in... read more »


text:
The Pink City is Calling!
Traduction à suivre
25 Juin 2014
Dreamed about Camping in the Pink City of India? Well you can, the Bharat Scouts and Guides will be holding their 17th Indian National Jamboree from 6-12 November 2014!
Held in the beautiful Rajasthani city of Jaipur, Guides and Scouts from all over the world will join with the exciting, fun, adventurous and cultural activities the National Jamboree has to offer from learning about the Millennium Development Goals to Night Hikes from Global Development Village to International Night!
You don't even have to bring a tent! Food is also provided so all you have to bring is yourself, sleeping bag and all the things you will need for seven days!
To find out more information and register, click on this link or see the documents attached! We hope to see you in the Pink City of India!


text:
Earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits with the added bonus of incredible Heli-Skiing right outside your door.
Medical Symposium
CMH is proud to host a number of Medical Symposia each year where professionals can earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits with the added bonus of incredible Heli-Skiing right outside their door. If you are interested in one of the dates below, please contact the organizer directly to book space.
|Group Organizer
|Dec 6-Dec 13, 2014
|Gothics (exclusive)
|The Aesculapian Society
|Ted Ritota
|Jan 10-Jan 17, 2015
|The Aesculapian Society
|Ted Ritota
|Jan 17-Jan 24, 2015
|The Aesculapian Society
|Ted Ritota
|Jan 17-Jan 24, 2015
|Galena (exclusive)
|Patient Care Symposium
|Eric & Judi Disbrow
|Feb 28-Mar 7, 2015
|Patient Care Symposium
|Eric & Judi Disbrow
|Mar 14-Mar 21, 2015
|Health Symposium
|Paul Dudzinski
The Aesculapian
Education in the Great Outdoors. The Aesculapian Society is an international group of conscientious health care-related professionals. Conducting Heliskiing, Heli-Hiking Symposiums for Physicians, Dentists and Health Care-related Professionals since 1991.
Dec 6-Dec 13, 2014: CMH Gothics Lodge (Exclusive)
Jan 10-Jan 17, 2015: CMH Monashee Lodge
Jan 17-Jan 24, 2015: CMH Bugaboos Lodge
Host: Dr. Ted Ritota
email@example.com | Tel: 561.737.0470
The Patient Care
Hosted by CMH for over 30 years, the Patient Care Symposium provides in an informal setting a multi-discipline, multi-specialty update on patient care. Attendance is open to physicians, dentists, lawyers and other related professionals with an interest in medical issues. Participants learn of new developments in all specialties, enjoy the camaraderie of a week of heli-skiing, and receive continuing education credits.
Jan 17-Jan 24, 2015: CMH Galena Lodge (exclusive)
Feb 28-Mar 7, 2015: CMH Bugaboo Lodge
Hosts: Eric and Judi Disbrow
firstname.lastname@example.com | Tel: 530.672.0126
Health Symposium
This loyal group of health professionals has been skiing together for many years. New professionals interested in a lively meeting and great skiing should contact the organizer directly for more information about this group, and/or to ask about future trips.
Mar 14-Mar 21, 2015: CMH Bugaboo Lodge
Host: Paul Dudzinski, MD
email@example.com | Tel: 970.493.0950
Call Us
And open the door to
a life long obsession


text:
The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Cicle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin
Basic Books, Apr 21, 2009 - Science - 272 pages
Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world--a world they had to piece together from the fossilized and often fragmentary remains of animals never before seen. In this transporting, seamlessly written book, Christopher McGowan takes us back to a time when geology and paleontology were as young and vibrant as genetic engineering is today. The nineteenth-century pioneers of these new disciplines were an eccentric lot, from different social classes and sexes, with a range of motivations in fossil hunting. These "Dragon Seekers" sought to persuade a populace raised on a literal interpretation of Genesis that the ground they walked was once a very frightening and unfamiliar place. A sweeping narrative history, The Dragon Seekers shows how these remarkable characters forever changed our interpretation of the world and its inhabitants.
What people are saying - Write a review
User ratings
|5 stars
|4 stars
|3 stars
|2 stars
|1 star
Review: The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For DarwinUser Review - Goodreads
Fascinating book about the British origins of paleontology in the half-century before Darwin, relationships among the major players of the day, how religious beliefs affected the thinking of the early ... Read full review
Review: The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For DarwinUser Review - Goodreads
As a natural history buff, I really enjoyed this book. It was interesting, readable and brought early scientists and fossil finders to life. I look forward to reading more books by Mr McGowan. Read full review
Selected pages
In the Beginning
Dragons by the Sea
The Scriptures and the Rocks
Chalk Pits and Leeches
The World of Darkness
The Tooth of the Iguana
Just Causes
Mr K�nig Regrets
The Professor and the Naturalist
Landslides Glaciers and Riots
Of Dinosaurs and Species
Decline and Fall
Beside the Sea
Common terms and phrases
Agassiz ammonites anatomy animals Anning's appeared audience beach Beche belonged Blue Lias bones British Museum Buckland cave chalk Charlesworth cliff coast collection collectors Conybeare Conybeare's creatures Cretaceous Cuckfield Cuvier Darwin dinosaur discovered discovery Dorset Earth England Eurhinosaurus Excalibosaurus extinct feet fish fossil record fossilists Geological Society giant glaciers Hawkins Hawkins's Hunterian hyena ichthyosaur iguana Iguanodon journal entry Kirkdale Konig later lecture length Leptonectes letter he wrote limestone living lizard London Lyell Lyme Regis mammals Mantell marine marl Mary Megalosaurus modern Natural History Museum Noachian flood Origin of Species Owen's Oxford paleontology plaster plesiosaur probably pterosaur published quarry quarrymen reference remains remarkable reptiles restorations ribs Richard Owen rocks Royal shale sils skeleton skull specimen Stonesfield strata Sussex teeth Tilgate tion told took tooth transmutation transmutation of species trustees vertebrae William Buckland


text:
Press releases
Business Doesn't Have To Be Boring
02 May, 2013
Entertaining clients or talking business over lunch or dinner doesn't have to be a dull affair. Put a spark in your meeting with a tantalizing lunch or dinner at D'Sens, il cielo or Hamilton's restaurant. Enjoy conversation-inducing food and the perfect ambience to make your meal, and business, a resounding success.
Starting from: THB 648 net per person
For table reservation, please call (0) 2200 9000 or


text:
- Shopping Bag ( 0 items )
Doody's Review ServiceReviewer: Mark Gonzalez, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This is a guide to common problems in reconstruction of the adult hip, knee, elbow, and shoulder.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide practicing orthopedic surgeons with a unique volume on adult reconstruction.
Audience: Orthopedic surgeons and residents are the intended audience.
Features: Although relatively short, the book has very practical and up-to-date information on adult reconstruction. It would be most useful for orthopedic residents and general orthopedic surgeons and less useful for orthopedic subspecialists.
Assessment: The particular strength of this book is that it covers key points of adult reconstruction but is relatively short. The references are up to date and pertinent. It is perfect for busy orthopedic surgeons who practice general orthopedics and want a concise review of the current literature.


text:
03 February 2002 - A view from the top deck
RRS James Clark Ross Diary
Position at 1200: 52° 56.1'S, 037° 11.1'W - 70 miles North of South Georgia
Distance Travelled since Grimsby: 29097 Nautical Miles
Air temperature: 7.7°C; Sea temperature: 5.4°C
Weather : Blue sky and sunshine, South-westerly winds, Force 4, slight sea and low swell......in Antarctic speak, a dingle day!
Current, frequent weather observations reported back to BAS Headquarters in Cambridge is used to plot the ship's current position and recent track. Meteorological data are also available from this page. The callsign of RRS James Clark Ross is ZDLP.
And now, the end is near, and so we face, the final station......!
So here we are into the last week of science before we head back to Stanley. We have spent the last week doing much the same as the previous weeks! Going around and around in squares and boxes.......we never do circles on this ship! (Apart from 'great' ones......navigation term used by salty sailors and the 2nd officer). Occasionally we do manage a straight line but as anybody who has ever been on this ship will know, we don't go in straight lines for long. Some of the people on board who notice this probably more than others are the top predator observers on the monkey island, they just get settled in to a routine of looking in front of the ship and we seem to suddenly turn around! This weeks science bit has been written by them.
View from the 'Top Deck'....
The hardy souls that have inhabited our monkey island for the last month,
at last let us in on what they have been up to!
Written by Kees Camphuysen
This biosciences cruise covers a whole range of things from ocean currents, via nutrients and phytoplankton to krill right up to seabirds, seals and whales! This last group is also named the "top-predators" as they occupy the top of the food pyramid. So, what would be the most appropriate place to look at these guys? Right! From the very top of the ship, right above the bridge. Some people call this the monkey-island, but a more appropriate name would be the top-deck. Captain and mates have familiarised themselves meanwhile with an infrequent stampede above their heads if the top-predators team (that has consisted of Kees Camphuysen, Matt Swarbrick and Dafydd Roberts) rushes about in a desperate attempt to relocate and identify some non-co-operative whale that was seen alright, but dived away before the ID could be completed. Between these stampedes, it is supposed to be rather quiet, when the team is looking concentrated into a narrow, 300m wide band ahead and on one side of the ship in their desperate attempts to detect the most inconspicuous of them all: subsurface swimming penguins.
At the top deck, a small hide has been erected. Not so much a hide with a roof and walls around the observers, but three chairs on a pile of pallets behind a windshield, where a GPS, a clock and some other small tools are the instrumentation needed to log the data in an appropriate way. 10x40 binoculars, a range finder and clipboards for recording forms are all that is further necessary to do the job. Quite a contrast with all the advanced equipment needed to measure and log the tiny creatures, water and currents as these have been deployed elsewhere on the ship and were reviewed earlier. The outcome, however, is rather similar: a base file with lat-long positions and areas covered, and a records-file with all the air-breathing animals that were visible within that 300m transect plus those that were there but not in transect.
Most answered question: "What if you count the same bird twice?" Well, you end up with a mistake, isn't that obvious!?! That's exactly why ship-following birds are carefully looked at and why these are kept out of the counts and analyses. But otherwise, just as if the same krill is hit twice by the transducer, you would overestimate the number of birds. A far greater problem, however, not often mentioned by �our visitors� is the birds and whales that are missed! To minimise that problem, a fair amount of concentration is required and precisely for that reason, a rather isolated site with clear visibility, not hindered by glossy windows, out in the open was chosen as an observation point.
So, what has been achieved so far? A great deal, really. Perhaps the most important top-predator of them all, as it is a rather heavy animal and also very numerous, is the Antarctic Fur Seal or Kerguelen Fur Seal Arctocephalus gazella. At the time of reporting, we've recorded 19,262 individuals! Well, plus or minus a few hundreds. These guys come in groups and these groups are not easy to count! What is very clear, however, is that they occupy most of South Georgia's shelf and wander far beyond that, and that the shelf break seems to play a key role in the whereabouts of their feeding - at least during daytime. There is a lot more to be said about those seals, but the data should be properly analysed first. A striking result, realising that South Georgia's fur seal population at present amounts to around 2 million, was that the western boundary box that we have studied contained some 220,000-230,000 individuals (see density chart). That is, while South Georgia's shores themselves are literally covered in seals and while the study area is in fact a rather small portion of the shelf area and it's immediate surroundings.
Whales have been seen frequently, and that includes sightings of (globally) comparatively rare species such as the Southern Right Whale - Eubalaena australis and Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae. However, South Georgia's waters are in fact in a miserable state nowadays. Some 70 years ago, biologists working in these waters would draw density maps of Blue Whales Balaenoptera musculus and Fin Whales B. physalus just as the ones we produce today for fur seals and seabirds (Kemp & Bennett 1932). But for us, drawing density maps of a few odd sightings, would be a rather stupid and a pointless thing to do. Believe it or not, the larger baleen whales are still commercially extinct. A slight recovery of the stock, for some of the species at best, has by no means brought these animals back into the system to an extent that one would call these majestic creatures at present a significant part of the ecosystem around South Georgia.
Left with the seabirds, the ship is followed constantly by a small cloud of Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans and giant petrels Macronectes spp., taking any opportunity that may develop around the ship to start to feed. In the absence of food, however, some individuals followed the ship for more than 24 hours on end. Other species ignore the ship.
It is clear that the Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus and Gentoo Penguins Pygoscelis papua are mainly utilising relatively shallow shelf waters, while several petrels and albatrosses roam the seas far beyond our study area. Again, the shelf break is of significance on many occasions, but it is obvious that a few weeks of sailing is just not enough to fully appreciate both the variability and the range of these animals.
Only the future will tell us how well our data matched simultaneous
recordings of food abundance and prey availability (determined by factors
such as density, depth and prey size). Tens of thousands of lines of coding
accumulated into our database files meanwhile and on the basis of this,
rather accurate distribution maps of all top-predators north of South Georgia
will be produced. Preliminary results show, not surprisingly, that the
main krill consumers do concentrate their activities in areas rich in dense
krill swarms. Less easy to explain will be why some �good areas� are exploited
and others are not. Future analysis will have to focus on opportunities
and constraints faced by the predators operating in these waters.
Kemp S. & Bennett A.G. 1932. On the distribution and movements of whales on the South Georgia and South Shetland whaling grounds. Discovery Reports 6: 165-190.
- The map showing densities of Antarctic Fur Seals in study area NW of Bird Island, South Georgia, based on observations during the second BIOMASS programme (24-27 January 2002)
- Breaching Southern Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis (photo CJ Camphuysen)
- Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans in flight (photo CJ Camphuysen)
Drifter buoy update
As you will recall we have been deploying some drifter buoys during the time we have been around here to look at ocean currents. This image shows the latest updated positions of the buoys
Pretty satellite images
We have mentioned the weather at the top of the webpage, one of the things we use for keeping an eye on the weather is our Dartcom satellite terminal. This is especially useful for keeping an eye on the ice conditions...but only on a cloudless day! It comes into it's own when trying to spot a way through heavy ice. This image is from yesterday (02/02/02).
Thanks this week....
To Kees Camphuysen for writing the science bit and some of the photos, Alex again for more photos, Jon for images and Steve the R/O for the weather image.
Coming up......
We are currently completing the last of the work to the North of South Georgia, then we will be doing some Swath Bathymetry to the North of Bird Island before heading to the South to deploy two more drifters. Once these are in we are heading in the direction of Stanley doing more Swath.....notice I say 'in the direction of' as it was said earlier, we never go anywhere in a straight line!
Then we are due into Stanley on next Thursday night ready for demobilising on Friday. Next week's update will not have any science as such, it will mainly be some photos that we haven't fitted in yet and .....well who knows!?!


text:
Edinburgh, Scotland (PRWEB UK) 26 March 2014
RunRev Ltd., http://www.livecode.com, today announce that LiveCode 6.6, the popular cross platform app development environment, is available. This release brings automatic scaling and handling of Retina screens to the desktop platforms, in line with the existing iOS and Android support. Also in this release open SSL and encryption support have been added for the mobile platforms. LiveCode continues to increase the feature parity available on all six supported platforms it offers.
Kevin Miller, CEO of RunRev Ltd, said, "We recognise that whilst the mobile platforms are continuing to grow and mature in terms of apps and development, the desktop platforms are vitally important to developers and end users alike. We are proud to offer seamless support for a huge variety of screen sizes, shapes and densities with LiveCode 6.6. Now you can write the same single line of code to handle scaling for your app on the smallest Android device and the largest Mac Retina screens."
The full feature line-up for LiveCode 6.6 is:
This release completes the achievement of the promised stretch goal "Resolution Independence" from the hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode run last year to take LiveCode Open Source.
Find out more about LiveCode 6.6 here: http://livecode.com/whats-new/ or download the full release notes for LiveCode 6.6 here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_6_0/LiveCodeNotes-6_6_0.pdf.
About RunRev
Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, RunRev has a vision that everyone can code. It makes the open source LiveCode platform for building native mobile, desktop and server applications. The visual workflow allows the user to develop apps live, while the natural language syntax is powerful and uniquely accessible. Commercial successes include both SMEs and Fortune 500 companies. LiveCode apps have grossed over US $100 million and include #1 best sellers, enterprise business systems, games and productivity tools. The company is committed to promoting digital literacy – schools using the platform have seen a doubling of uptake for their CS courses. In 2013 RunRev began an exciting initiative to provide an open source version of the LiveCode software. The first version of this, LiveCode Community, launched in April 2013.


text:
Jocelyne Cesari
With the rise of islamophobia, the question "Are Muslims threatening the core values of the West? has become central in European and American politics. This course will respond to this question by providing unique testimonies of Muslims in France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and the USA. These data come from an unprecedented exploration of Muslims religious and political life based on several years of field work in Europe and in the USA conducted by the islam in the west program. It will show that the reality of Muslims of "flesh and blood" is far from the "Islamic artefact" at the core of European and American politics and it will provide original insights on the ways Muslims act as believers and citizens. Through a methodic investigation, it will analyze the crisis around Sharia, Burqa, and minarets, unveils the specifics of western liberalism and secularism and its transformations since 9/11. Its unique interdisciplinary scope allows for in depth analysis of Islam in liberal democracies by taking a broader approach to religion, liberalism and democracy.
Enrollment Limited: No
Open to BTI Students: Yes
0.50 credits
Fall 2013
Mon 2pm-4pm
Divinity Hall Room 211
Relationship to Program Requirements
|Program Requirement
|Area / Category / Art / Designation
|MTS Area(s) of Focus
|MDiv Distribution Category/ies
|MDiv Art(s) of Ministry
|Language Course Designation(s)