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Social Justice, Global Dynamics
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Many theoretical publications make assumptions about the facts of globalization, and in particular about the role and autonomy of the nation state. These factual claims and assumptions often play an important role in justifying the normative conclusions, yet remain under-explored. This...
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Politicising Ethics in International Relations
Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality
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The ethics of hospitality – the welcome of the foreigner – is implied in all moral debate in international relations ranging from questions of asylum to those of humanitarian intervention. Why then has there been so little reflection on hospitality in the study of international relations to date?...
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I started to write something about the upcoming (last! suspenseful!) Harry Potter book and I just couldn't do it. You can read about that everywhere. I wanted to offer something else.
And then I stumbled across a lovely diversion over at retroCRUSH. When you think about your first, fondest comic book memories, what comes to mind? The triumph of good over evil? The complicated plots? Or is it that awesome outfit that you sort of wished you had?
(It's okay, guys. I won't tell anyone. It doesn't make you less of a man. Honest!)
You have to love this rundown of The Top 10 Greatest Super Villain Costumes of All Time, whether you look back fondly on Catwoman's accessory choices or not.
Be warned: Some of the commentary is really not suitable for children. Let's just say that if you were around when these characters and their associated comic books first came out, you're old enough to appreciate the piece.
I especially loved this:
Only The Riddler could wear this green spandex number with such studliness. The Riddler also had some cool variants including a green blazer version for the more formal occasions. Plus, the outfit inspired various other super villains, most notably…
Matthew Lesko!
(If that doesn't make you giggle, you have no soul. I'm just sayin'.)
I'll confess to being a wee bit disappointed that Galactus only made #4 on the list. That's quite the outfit, you know. The hat alone should've given him a spot in the top 3, dude.
Anyway, if you're tiring of Potter-anticipation, you may find the piece a welcome respite. Enjoy!

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Drawing on her rich imagination, two-time Newbery winner Lois Lowry confronts these questions and explores the conflicts between the gentle bits and pieces of the past that come to life in dream, and the darker horrors that find their form in nightmare. In a haunting story that tiptoes between reality and imagination, two people, a lonely, sensitive woman and a damaged, angry boy, face their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see.
©2006 Lois Lowry; (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
"Spellbinding....Exquisite, at times mesmerizing writing." (Publishers Weekly)
"The prose is light as gossamer; the story as haunting as a dream." (Kirkus Reviews)
"One of my favorites!"
I read this story to my children whenthey were little. They loved it as much as I did.
Audible books, wow who knew I would be so taken with reading.
"Vividly written"
I could not lay it down.
The 1st page to the last, the book holds the reader's attention. The listener is captured by their own imagination. I cannot pick a favorite moment with out giving the best away.
The narrator, Anne Twomey, was really very creative with her voice. I had not heard her before. She is quite good.
It made me smile inside myself. I was delighted with the book.
I have read other books by Lois Lowery. I enjoyed each one and would reread each one.
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Incredible Veal Recipe Needed
Hello Serious Cooks! I am traveling with my fiance to St. Croix next week to vacation with my future in-laws and they have asked us to prepare a meal while we are there using veal as the main dish. We are skilled in the kitchen but I don't have a go-to veal recipe since we don't eat it that much. If someone could please recommend a great recipe I would really appreciate it! I am told there is a decent grocery store there so I guess don't worry too much about my ability to find ingredients.
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ROI vs. TCO
by David Merrill on Feb 13, 2013
A colleague sent me this article about using ROI to justify IT investment requirements to business managers/leaders. Some follow on discussions have opened up an old debate about TCO versus ROI to justify IT spending in the face of potential savings. Since the inception of our Storage Economics work at HDS in 1999, I have always been a big proponent of ROI. For all the same reasons as defined in the article, ROI is a valuable tool when competing with other internal spending/funding initiatives. ROI can be a single measurement that management can use to contrast investment options from IT, marketing, new properties, R&D or whatever companies spend money on. So when you have to compare and compete, ROI is an excellent method.
For the first 5-7 years of doing storage economics (and even hypervisor economics), our tools and methods centered around ROI methods and calculations. Our earliest work was designed to help IT planners build business case justifications for new investments and architectures. It seems to me that around the time of the global economic crisis (also concurrent with an acceleration of data growth and storage demand), there was a subtle shift from ROI to TCO work as our preferred method. Perhaps this is/was a personal preference, but in my work around the world, reducing unit costs of things (TB, VM, VDI, Mailboxes, Oracle instances etc.) has been paramount. And here is why:
- IT budgets are relatively flat, or increasing only slightly (if you follow IDC check out report #12 "Research Report – 2013 IT Spending Intentions Survey")
- Storage and VM demand is anything but flat. Most of my customers indicate a 40% year on year growth in storage, VM or VDI
So, with a nearly flat budget and a 50% growth in IT resources, what is to be done? The answer is to track and actively reduce unit costs. This older blog post has a diagram to show the concept.
I tend to see that a 30% year on year of TOTAL unit cost reduction can allow most organizations to hold a relatively flat OPEX and CAPEX budget. This is why TCO is such a critical management message. So in most conditions, TCO and ROI methods can co-exist to tell a compelling storage. Investments to drive down unit cost (preserving budgets) and ROI to compete head-to-head with other company initiatives. So instead of a versus arrangement, the best approach is a combination of both.
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Ulf Mattsson on 04 May 2013 at 5:35 am
Can you position security and privacy in relation to ROI vs. TCO?
David Merrill on 22 May 2013 at 12:49 pm
Ulf, thanks for the question. We see that security and privacy (as well as encryption) of data and storage are part of the total cost of storage. These efforts (and investments) to secure, protect and encrypt data are not free, and have to be included in any TCO model where these features are present. This old blog post talks about these points. You can also download the full paper that outlines all 34 costs here.
Since this is a cost category, you can also perform an ROI to justify investments, or additional investments needed to provide the security that you have. You need to balance the investment against the cost of the risk that your company faces if the data is not properly protected. See my blog post on the cost of risk and ALE here.


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OK, now it's time to install a new filter and refill the crankcase with oil. The General calls for an AC/Delco UPF44 or equivalent filter, and, once again, the brand you use is strictly a matter of personal preference as long as it meets or exceeds the factory spec. Be sure to coat the rubber gasket of the filter with some new oil before installing it. This will ensure a tight fit between the filter and the engine block and prevent any leaks. The factory spec for the filter is to tighten it using 22 lb-ft with a torque wrench. Again, I use the "feel" method here, too. I just hand-tighten the filter about one full turn after the gasket makes contact until it "feels" tight enough, and I've never had any leakage problems using this method.
At this point, most folks lower the car and proceed to fill the motor with new oil, but I feel this is a bit premature. The way I do it is to first level the car, then pour in 6 quarts of new oil, replace the filler cap, and push the dipstick all the way home. I generally give it about 5 minutes to allow the new oil to fill the pan. (CAUTION: Make sure the C5 or C6 is in park if it's an automatic, or in neutral if it's a stick.) Start the engine and let it run for a few minutes, shut it off and check for any leakage around the filter and drain plug; if there are any problems, now's the time to take corrective measures while the car is still elevated. If everything checks out OK, you can reverse the methods you used to elevate the car to get it back on the ground again.
Open the hood and check the oil level with the car sitting on level ground (I use a small bubble level resting on the door sill plate to check for levelness); the oil will probably be a little low, which is normal. Add an additional 1/2 quart of oil if required, start it up and let it run for a few minutes longer, then shut it off and check the oil level again. It should be right on the money now. If it is, the next task is to reset the "oil life" indicator on the DIC.
This is easy to do, and resetting the indicator is necessary so that you'll know when your next oil change is due. For a C5, turn the ignition switch to "on," but do not start the engine (however, this can be done with the engine running in a C6). Press the "trip" button on the DIC so that it cycles through until it displays "oil life" percentage remaining. Press and hold the "reset" button for two seconds. "OIL LIFE REMAIN 100%" should appear on the display. You can shut off the ignition switch or, better yet, start her up and take her out for a spin.
Take the used oil to Auto Zone, Pep Boys, or just about any other national auto parts outlet who will accept it for ecologically-responsible disposal/recycling at no charge. That's all there is to it. So you've saved yourself some money and the job is done right. So why not treat yourself and the family to a pizza with the saved cash? I told you it wasn't a difficult job, didn't I?
Tools Required: low-profile trolley jack, four sturdy jackstands, bubble level, droplight, 15mm wrench or socket w/ ratchet, 5w30 synthetic oil, filter, oil drain pan; optional: gradual-incline Rhino Ramps, FilterMag, magnetic oil pan plug, 1-inch wrench, creeper or mat, latex or nitrile gloves
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Inspired by earlier games in the Donkey Kong Country series, Donkey Kong Country Returns is a new take on a beloved Nintendo franchise. The first Donkey Kong Country game developed for play for Wii, this new iteration blends familiar actions, levels and characters with a whole new graphical treatment and feel, as well as new control schemes and play options. Features include: a co-op play option allowing you to team up as Donkey Kong and Diddy, radically different visuals ranging from nearly 3D treatment to others that appear in silhouette, two different controller schemes and more.
Under the influence of a group of evil Tikis, the animals of Donkey Kong Island have raided Donkey Kong's banana hoard and stolen his stash of bananas - and being an ape of large appetites he understandably wants them back. Good thing that you are along for the ride. With Donkey Kong Country Returns, Retro Studios brings Donkey Kong back to a banana and platforming hungry public in a new side-scrolling adventure with familiar characters and new levels that reignite the passion players had for the Super NES original and all things Donkey Kong.
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TfL say if the planned industrial action goes ahead, "there will be no Tube service from late afternoon on Wednesday July 8 and no Tube service at all on Thursday July 9."
Ambulance, police and fire crews are all attending a seven-vehicle crash near ASDA on The Broadway in Bexleyheath.
London Underground and the Tube unions will be back around the negotiating table at lunchtime today in a bid to stop this week's planned 24 hour strike going ahead.
London Underground staff who were hailed as heroes on 7/7 for evacuating stations and tending to the wounded are being 'forced' to reapply for their jobs due to 'dangerous' job cuts, the RMT union has said.
A pervert who performed a solo sex act on six London buses, including one in Old Street, has been jailed.
South Kensington Tube station was evacuated and a police cordon put up this afternoon due to a 'security alert'.
A candlelit vigil and 'die-in' protest will be held at Bank junction today in memory of cyclist Ying Tao who died after a road traffic collision there last Monday.
The Commissioner of Transport for London (TfL), Peter Hendy, is leaving his role to take over the helm of Network Rail.
There are delays and cancellations to Paddington trains until this afternoon due to a signalling problem.
Trains into Euston station and Clapham Junction station are experiencing 'major delays' of up to 40 minutes that are expected to last until 2pm.
Mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan wants to ban cars and buses from Oxford Street - one of the world's most polluted roads.
Hundreds of cyclists gathered at Bank this morning at the junction where female rider Ying Tao, 26, was killed on Monday. The London Cycling Campaign is organising the event after the PwC worker was struck by a tipper truck lorry during morning rush hour. Cyclists were encouraged to meet between St Princes St and Threadneedle St to call for "urgent action to be taken to redesign dangerous junctions like the one at Bank and to take dangerous lorries off London's streets".
A cyclist who died after he was hit by a car early on Sunday morning has been named.
The London Cycling Campaign is organising a flash protest tomorrow morning at the spot where cyclist Ying Tao was killed yesterday.
TfL have released a new Night Tube map and let slip their plans to expand the Night Tube across the Metropolitan Line, Circle Line, District Line, and Hammersmith & City Line - as well as the Overground and DLR.
A 26-year-old female cyclist has died after being hit by a lorry in an accident at Bank junction this morning.
Tube drivers plan to stage a 24-hour strike that could shut down the entire Underground network in a dispute over pay - just as crowds flock to the city for Wimbledon.
London Underground drivers have voted to strike in a row over pay and the introduction of a new all- night Tube service.
Putney Bridge is open again after a police incident earlier this afternoon.
A cyclist has been injured in a crash near Hoe Street, Walthamstow.
London Underground staff unions claim Monday mornings will be 'absolute chaos' when the Night Tube starts in September.
A woman has died after being struck by a train at Kinsgbury Tube Station this afternoon.
The line was shut down for an hour after ambulance service found the victim dead at the scene
A major milestone in the £14.8 billion cross-London Crossrail has been reached with the completion of the tunnelling work.
Train passengers travelling on the Woolwich line between London Bridge and Charlton via Lewisham are facing a second day of misery, with rail operators saying disruption will continue until the end of service today.
There are train delays affecting London Bridge after a freight train derailed on the Woolwich Line near Charlton today.
The Circle Line is experiencing sever delays this morning due to an earlier signal failure.
Planned rail strikes have been suspended after talks over a pay deal, the arbitration service Acas has said.
Two people have been killed on train lines to London today in two separate incidents.
All trains via Tulse Hill have been cancelled due to a bridge strike, affecting journeys to London Bridge, West Croydon, Peckham Rye, Herne Hill, Streatham and Crystal Palace.
A female cyclist has died after being struck by a lorry on Denmark Hill, south London.
Officers will patrol trains and all 144 stations of the London Underground set to remain open overnight from September.
Chiltern Railways trains to and from London Marylebone are experiencing delays and cancellations this morning due to signalling problems.
Abellio Greater Anglia is to spend £30m cleaning its trains after customers sent in photos of flea bites they claim were received on board AGA services .
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Will tablets drive out laptops?
September 12, 2010 | 11:15 am
By Chris Meadows
On our sister blog Gadgetell, J.G. Mason posts an editorial calling the iPad a "trap" for the computer industry. Mason quotes an All Things D piece stating that the iPad is having a disruptive effect on low-end notebook computer sales as people delay or cancel notebook purchases to buy an iPad instead. Mason further calls the industry's faddish focus on tablets to compete with the iPad another such disruption.
Mason thinks that over time, the iPad (and presumably tablets in general) will develop out of its more limited present capabilities to become a larger, faster, and more capable computer in its own right, which will be useful for both consuming media in tablet form and doing actual work when docked to a keyboard and other peripherals.
Unless the industry decides to lead and not follow, laptops will likely become things of the past. Apple is betting the industry will follow the money, as it usually does. This will keep Apple's premium position in the market and keep investors happy for some time to come.
What Mason entirely fails to explain is why this is necessarily a bad thing. Now granted, if it were just the iPad taking over that ecological niche, I could see some protests against Apple's "walled garden" development model driving out everything else (how ironic given how often similar complaints have been made about Microsoft's desktop dominance compared to Apple's tiny market share!).
But it is highly likely that other manufacturers will have their own just-as-good tablets running more traditional OSes once they get some momentum built up. If someone wants a tablet that can do it all and be fully compatible with the programs he's been using so far on his desktop or laptop, why wouldn't he get a Windows 7 tablet rather than an iPad?
If a tablet can do everything a laptop could well enough that we don't need laptops anymore, then the tablet will be "the new laptop" and the companies that make laptops now will shift over to making tablets. What's so bad about that, as long as it gets the job done?
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I can't imagine a tablet replacing my laptop. Most of the time I need the screen real estate completely and I often regret not having more available. A virtual keyboard would ruin that. Having to take an additional keybord with me makes no sense. Having it attached to the screen is more handy to take it with me and it doesn't bother me much when working. And closing the laptop is a good protection for the screen while transporting it.
Well said Chris – This Mason's article is just a silly and incoherent ramble.
"UBS analyst Maynard Um says the iPad is having a negative impact on the entire PC industry."
How on earth does this make any sense ? a new brilliant product comes out and now it's damaging the entire industry ? Please !! What they mean is Apple is destroying some competitors by innovating and giving people what they want.
"Why? PCs are boring. iPad is fun. Tablets are the new golden goose of PCs. So, we'll start to see a tablet from everyone. Just as Apple planned."
Duh … and that is a bad thing how ?? Ooh the evil Apple is … horror … giving people what they want and they LOVE it !! OMG what will happen next ?
I kept reading the article expecting Mason to point out he big flaw, the killer blow that proves the iPad was bad. It never comes. Nothing. Just another establishment computer nerd who is emotionally bonded with his Desktop and laptop world, and who can't seem to grasp that other formats and other devices will change how we live and use computers, just like laptops and desktops did in their day.
As a matter of comment I personally do not think tablets will do away with laptops or desktops. They are devices for different purposes. The iPad gives a convenient and portable and efficient way to consume and produce content to a certain level. Laptops offer a next level complexity of options for generating and consuming. Laptops offer most of what desktops offer but in a portable way. So there is room for all formats in the future imho.
US consumers have historically proven that they can and will change their buying habits once they 'get used to' the idea of using something different, along with having ample motivation to do so. Once folks that use laptops try out the tablets, and if they find them easy to transition over to, then laptops will themselves begin to fall into the 'former fad' category. A few die-hard users will tout their superiority, but if indeed–as the article asserted–tablets can do all that laptops do, folks will tend to save up for and buy the newest, sleekest, best-designed gizmo on the market. Having researched eReaders and tablets, and written up comparison pieces for the Sacramento Book Review and San Francisco Book Review readers, I've decides to make do with my 'old' 8 year obsolete HP laptop, until I've saved enough to purchase an iPad. It is simply the best fit for me, being that I an online almost constantly, review books online, read books online and write my own eBooks to upload online, as well as keeping in touch with my editors and freelance employers. I was a skeptic, die hard laptop fan until I tried out a friend's iPad and was amazed at how easily my current work habits adapted to it's user-interface, not to mention the apps available.
Personally, I think we are moving toward a 'hard drive on a stick' model where people will just have a thumb drive they plug into various screens. So you might have your core OS and apps in this drive and then plug it into your phone-sized screen to do you phone/music player stuff, and then plug it into your book-sized screen to read, play games etc. And then at home you would have the monitor-sized screen with all your peripherals attached, or the media-sized screen to play media and stream TV from your computer. You'd have everything all on the one stick—apps, files, media etc.—and just plug it into whatever screen you want to work on…
Yes, I rather like Joanna's model, although the thought of manufacturers getting together to use a standard format for everything is rather mind-boggling!
I use an Asus EEE and a Kobo book reader and find this suits me- if I want a computer I want a keyboard and the E-ink screen of the Kobo is much easier for reading. And it only took me over 40 years of computer usage to get the ideal combination!
I think Joanna Is close, but not quite right about where we're going. Instead of that stick being carried around, I expect services like DropBox will let you "install" your software on them, then use the software from whichever screen you connect to the service. Google's ChromeOS looks a likely precursor.
Anytime an Apple device disrupts something that runs Windows, it's always seen to be a "bad" thing. There's just some urgent need for the world to have a product that dominates 95% of the computer industry for some reason or the other. Honestly, who the heck really cares if a few Windows computers disappear. Netbooks were crap computers built for the indigent masses in India or some other third-world country. The vendors were losing money building every one of them. Even Michael Dell said he wished those crapbooks would go away. iPads use less power, take up less space, they use less consumables and the applications are less expensive. They're not perfect but they're practical to those that are willing to accept them as a change. Especially, younger users who haven't grown up believing that Microsoft and Windows is some sort of computer religion that deserves some blind worship until the end of time. Windows has slowed down the computer industry long enough. Let's get some fresh blood and fresh ideas on what computer use can be defined as.
Microsoft had its way for almost 30 years and now it's time for some changes. If consumers are happy with those changes, then that's a good thing. Just because a few tech-head idiots want to stick a full version of Windows on a tablet, it doesn't mean the world at large wants some horrid crap like that. Windows desktop on every computing device in the world is not everyone's dream.
So, if the iPad cuts into a few notebook or netbooks sales, what's the big deal? Microsoft will lose a few million Windows licenses out of billions. Hardly enough to shift the rotting computing industry away from Windows very much.
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The festival features hip-hop dance crews from all over Zimbabwe, including Break Equation, Rockies, Ice Cold, Royal, Real Flex, Flip Floppers Jnr, Assasins and Hood Crankers in the B-boy crew.
Antivirus, Fusion X, Nemesis, Thee Magnetic Force Crew, Hip Hop Honeys H3 and SWAT among others are competing in the Nu-Xool Crews while in the Dancehall-Ragga Crews are Desert Fox, Street madness, Style n swagger and Untouchable who will showcase their stunts in the category.
Thirty dance crews will battle it out in front of three judges and again Best solo B-boy and B-girl and Best solo Jerk, Dougie, Krump, Popping and Locking will be crowned.
Shinsoman and Badman are set to ignite the audiences with their scintillating performances when they perform some of their hit songs, symbolising the effort artistes are putting in the HIV movement.
The popular DJ Stackx, will turn tables at the show with Tatea da Mc and Flowsick as masters of ceremony.
This year's edition will run under the theme, "Step up to HIV" in recognition of the World Aids Day, which falls on the same date as the festival.
In an interview with Cool Lifestyle, festival organiser Cecilia Manyowa said the dance clash would be a high profile event.
"It's a dance affair. All the competing dance crews have confirmed and this year there are a lot of prizes to be won," she said.
Cecilia said, this year's festival was aimed at making a positive contribution towards the fight against HIV/Aids.
"Our theme metaphorically, means to get in line and take your place in the 'dance' against HIV/Aids.
"Stepping up means being responsible, knowing your status, encouraging others to follow suit and preventing infection, through promoting awareness campaigns," she explained.
Cecilia said there would also be crews outside Harare representing their provinces.
"What is commendable about this festival is that youths from all over Zimbabwe are coming together to spread the Aids message through the popular culture of dance.
"The 34 dance crews are set to showcase their talents after emerging winners at the just ended auditions from the three different categories," she said.
Cecilia said dance was one way of promoting youth involvement in issues affecting today's world.
"Jibilika festival becomes a vehicle through which the youth join in social activism in ways which also develop their natural skill."
Artistic director of Jibilika, Plot Mhako said dance played a pivotal role in people's lifestyle.
"In Africa, whenever people gather for one reason or another, dance takes centre stage. Because dance expresses what words cannot say, while entertaining and engaging the audience, it is being employed as a platform for youth participation in the fight against the Aids pandemic," he said.
Mhako mentioned that the Jibilika team was being assisted by various youth groups including S.O.D. and Gaza 6ix, cliques which have reputable influence among today's Harare youths.
The Dance Festival was launched in 2007 and has developed over the years. It also gave birth to the Battle of the Year dance competitions.
The festival is sponsored by United States Embassy, Red Fox International, Alliance Francaise, Zimbabwe German Society and the Culture Fund of Zimbabwe among others.
To date groups such as Reflex and High Definition have participated in such festivals and they have represented the country in such battles.
Meanwhile Cool Lifestyle is giving away Jibilika Dance Festival T-shirts to five lucky teens by answering this simple question: Where is the festival taking place?
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The arrival of Intel Intel's Haswell processor range was signalled by two major events – the first, Computex in Taipei, saw all the major PC manufacturers showing off their new ultrabooks and hybrid devices, many of which were promising extended battery lives based on Intel's new chip architecture.
Subsequently, Apple Apple's keynote presentation at WWDC saw the new, Haswell-toting Macbook Airs brought out, promising a 70% increase in battery life and the achievement of all-day functionality away from power outlets – the Holy Grail of the road warrior.
The consumer tests on Haswell are coming in now, but some sectors have been working with and testing Haswell-driven devices for a considerable period – and in some cases for extraordinary purposes.
Ben Saunders, the British polar explorer, is intended to assault the South Pole this autumn, retracing the steps of Captain Scott's unsuccessful Terra Nova expedition. In the run-up, he received early access to a Haswell-powered ultrabook – Sony Sony VAIO® Pro Ultrabook – with which to connect during the journey through one of the world's truly remote places.
I contacted Saunders after the announcement of the Scott Expedition. My first question was, why Scott? Terra Nova remains one of the most famous tragedies in the history of polar exploration – why relive it?
My motivation stems in part from a fascination with the fact that this journey remains unfinished. There hasn't even been an attempt on it in the 101 years since Scott's death. In ways the Terra Nova expedition was a tragic, poignant tale, but I think its achievements are often overlooked. Scott, Wilson and Bowers died after covering nearly 1,600 miles on foot, which is a record that stands to this day. Given what we've learnt in the century since, about everything from solar panels to scurvy, it's amazed me (and it's testament to their determination and endurance) that the bar they set has never been raised.
Polar exploration has become a simpler process in the intervening century, of course – just as Everest, fifty years ago one of the deadliest challenges for the intrepid mountaineer, has become a challening but achievable part of a backpacker's itinerary, not least through improvements in portable oxygen technology. One of Scott's innovations was the use of "motor sleds" – which sadly experienced disabling malfunctions and, unlike his rival Amundsen's dogs and ponies, could not be eaten when they broke down. How would Saunders' journey differ?
In many ways the two trips are almost incomparable, yet in others they're identical. We're following Scott's exact route to and from the Pole, via the Ross Ice Shelf and the Beardmore Glacier and we'll be entirely unsupported for the entire expedition, which means we're travelling on foot, wearing harnesses and dragging our supplies and gear for the entire journey, with no external assistance (and no motors at all!)
Scott wouldn't have had the communications we'll have. We'll be using the latest technology to communicate with the world beyond Antarctica whilst we're away in a way that hasn't been done before, blogging daily and sending video back regularly that will be posted on our own YouTube channel.
And the custom-made clothing we'll wear would also have been almost unrecognisable to Scott and his men (ultralight synthetic micro fibre shells, closed-cell foam insulated ski boots, hollow-fibre insulation, polarised goggle lenses…). Our sleds or pulks are made by hand from carbon fibre and kevlar by a Norwegian composites specialist. We won't have the pre-positioned depots and a siege-style approach that Scott had though; Scott's men hauled roughly 200lb each, or 91kg. In contrast, Tarka [L'Herpiniere, Saunders' partner] and I start with loads of nearly 440lb each, or 200kg.
Polar bearing – The Scott Expedition
Cold boot
Temperature affects high technology in unusual ways – in particular, in extremly low temperatures, batteries discharge quickly, and the temperature changes of hot processors against cold air can have unwelcome consequences. How does cosumer-grade technology function in a polar climate?
The Ultrabooks have stood up extraordinarily well to Intel's testing. Initially they made sure sure they were reheated to room temperature before booting them, but towards the end of the ten-week testing cycle they'd occasionally start them up from deep-frozen, and they all worked (and have kept on working).
The Ultrabooks we'll take are completely unmodified. The battery life is remarkably good, and we'll recharge all of our tech gear using a 62-watt solar panel and a couple of lithium polymer battery packs. The only thing we've changed are the cables – power, USB, that kind of thing – which have all been replaced by low-temperature silicone cabling (apparently good down to -190 degrees C…)
Connectivity will be provided by an Intel NUC [Next Unit of Computing - a low-power, small form factor computer driven intended for media centre and other light use], connected to an Iridium satellite phone, broadcasting a wireless signnal to alow the VAIOs to connect from inside the relative warmth of tents and sleeping bags. The NUC itself will be powered by a dedicated photovoltaic panel powering a lithium-poymer battery.
We're travelling through the Antarctic spring and summer so will have 24-hour daylight. We tested a new type of 62-watt folding photovoltaic panel in Greenland this spring and it was extraordinarily effective, happily powering two Ultrabooks, two Iridium sat phone handsets, a Nikon Nikon D800 and a handful of other gizmos including MP3 players and some e-book readers we were testing. The panel charges a couple of 400-gram 51Wh lithium polymer battery packs made by a Chinese company called Ape ("light weight, fashion appearance!") and they're streets ahead of anything else we've tested. The tech gear, in turn, is all recharged from the battery packs.
We have two Iridium satellite phones and a Solara tracker that's always-on and automatically sends our coordinates back to our UK base team on an hourly basis via the same Iridium network, so they're the devices we're absolutely reliant on, along with our handheld GPS units.
During the journey, Saunders and L'Herpiniere will be tweeting and blogging their progress, in a first for Antarctic explorers (this is now no escape, it seems), but also gathering scientific information:
We'll also be using (the computers) to store meteorological data that we'll be recording en route. And I'm not sure if I should own up to this, but we'll also be loading a few movies onto the Ultrabooks. We watched a couple in Greenland and it felt like pure (and utterly incongruous) decadence to be lying zipped up in a sleeping bag watching a film while a storm was blowing outside. Tarka's never seen The Wire, so we'll take that as well, I reckon!
If nothing else, a viewing of The Wire may radically alter the pronunciation of "sheet ice".
Snow latency
Although this is to a degree a publicity stunt – polar explorers, like high-altitude skydivers and other daredevils, have to hustle to an extent to find funding for their adventures – the idea of polar exploration as an acid test for mobile computing is an interesting one – as is the mix of complexity and necessary simplicity contained in the kit intended to connect two men to the Internet in the world's most remote places. When Saunders and his companion return, in February 2014 all being well, Haswell will be in many more devices. Few, however, will have been placed under such meteorological duress.


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Matt Peterson tracks the offseason needs of every team in the league. Today's franchise, the Minnesota Vikings [full archive here].
Season Recap: After an offseason trade for Donovan McNabb, there was hope McNabb had enough in the tank to take the team to the playoffs. Well, his year in Washington proved to be no fluke as he led the team to a 1-5 record to start the season. Rookie quarterback Christian Ponder was given the starting job and managed to win only one more game the remainder of the season. Ponder did show some promise though, and it is now up to GM Rick Spielman to surround him with more talent.
Team Needs:
1. Left Tackle: A young quarterback like Christian Ponder needs a good left tackle to protect his blindside. Enter Matt Kalil- the top offensive lineman in the draft, with potential all-pro talent. Kalil starts from day one and serves as Ponder's personal protector for the next 10 years.
2. Cornerback: The Vikings compete in the NFC North against Aaron Rodgers, Matt Stafford, and Jay Cutler- all elite quarterbacks who LOVE airing the ball out. The Vikings need a number one cornerback to match up against all those weapons. Morris Claiborne could be an option in the first round, but Minnesota will most likely wait until the second round and select Trumaine Johnson, Brandon Boykin, or Josh Robinson.
3. Wide Receiver: There's been a hole at receiver since the day Sidney Rice left for Seattle. The Vikings need to find another weapon opposite of Percy Harvin, who was one of the only targets Ponder had during his rookie season. This is a deep receiver class, and the Vikings can grab Brian Quick, Alshon Jeffrey, or Mohamed Sanu in the second or third round.


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Thirteen United States citizens represented by the American Civil Liberties Union sued the US government after they were prevented from flying over US airspace after January 1, 2009. They believed that they were on the No-Fly List because airline representatives, FBI agents and other government officials had informed them of this fact. But the government had provided them no notice or information on why they were placed on the watch list so they could challenge their inclusion.
On June 24, after four years, the citizens finally achieved the victory they had been seeking. The US District Court for the District of Oregon ruled [PDF] the citizens who were placed on the No-Fly List had their rights to "procedural due process" violated. The current process was determined to be unconstitutional, and the court instructed the government to "provide a new process" that satisfies the "constitutional requirements for due process."
Judge Anna Brown noted, "Each plaintiff submitted applications for redress through the Department of Homeland Security Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP). Yet, "despite plaintiffs' requests to officials and agencies for explanations as to why they were not permitted to board flights," explanations were not provided. In fact, the government would not even confirm or deny whether they were on the No-Fly List.
The ACLU managed to convince the government to let each of these Americans return home after they petitioned the court. A number of them had been stranded abroad when they joined the lawsuit.
Who exactly are these people, who the government would not inform whether they were on the No-Fly List and argued in court they had no right to more information about being on a watch list?
US Army veteran Raymon Earl Knaeble IV, who lives in Chicago, had been working in Kuwait for a multinational global defense and security company, ITT System Corporation. In March 2010, he flew from Kuwait to Bogota, Colombia, so he could marry his wife, who is a Colombian citizen. On March 14, he was not permitted to board his flight from Bogota to Miami.
Knaeble had been offered a job in Qatar, but it required that he receive a physical examination in Killeen, Texas, on March 16. Because no airline would allow him on any flight, he eventually lost the offer to work for ITT in Qatar.
FBI agents questioned him numerous times in Colombia. In May 2010, Knaeble attempted to get to the US another way by flying to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and crossing the US-Mexico border. But, when the flight stopped (as it typically does) in Mexico City, agents from the Mexican government questioned him for over three hours and detained him for fifteen hours. He was not allowed to travel to Nuevo Laredo or by bus to the border. Agents put him on a flight to Bogota.
He eventually made it back to the US after traveling for twelve days from Santa Marta to Mexicali, California. He flew to Panama City and then took buses to Mexicali. However, the travel was "fraught with peril" and he feared for his safety.
"Honduran and El Salvadoran authorities interrogated, detained, and searched me on three occasions," Knaeble explained in his court declaration [PDF]. "In Guatemala, I was followed and questioned. These experiences caused me to fear for my safety. Every time foreign authorities stopped me or subjected me to questioning and searches, I did not know if they would permit me to proceed or would detain me."
US Marine Corps veteran Ayman Latif, who lives in Georgia and has a wife and children, lived with his family in Egypt from November 2008 to April 2010. They tried to return to the US in April 2010, but Latif was not permitted to board the first leg of the flight.
A month later, FBI agents questioned Latif. He was told he was on the No-Fly List. He later obtained a "one-time waiver" to fly to the US, however, while he was trying to get back to the US, he was unable to be at scheduled evaluations he had to attend to continue to receive veteran disability benefits. His benefits of $899.00 per month were reduced to zero.
US Air Force veteran Steven Washburn, who lives in New Mexico, attempted to fly from Dublin to London to Meixco City. He made it to London, but the plane turned around three hours after taking off from London. He was detained after the plane landed, according to his court declaration [PDF].
On multiple occasions, Washburn was interrogated by FBI agents. He took "a series of five flights" in May 2010 that landed in Juarez, Mexico. He crossed the US-Mexico border on foot and returned to Las Cruces but was detained and interrogated for three hours by Mexican officials. Later, in June 2012, an FBI agent came to his workplace and told him if he spoke with the FBI he could have his name removed from the No-Fly List.
US Marine Corps veteran Ibraheim Y. Mashal, who works as a dog trainer, was not allowed to fly from Chicago to Spokane, Washington, to go meet with a woman who had hired him to train her dog. An airline representative told him on April 20, 2010, he was on the No-Fly List. That same day FBI agents interrogated him at Midway International Airport and in his home.
"Two of the FBI agents who questioned me the day I was denied boarding asked me to speak to them again," Mashal stated in a court declaration [PDF]. "Because I had nothing to hide, I met with them on June 23, 2010. The agents again asked me deeply personal questions about my religious beliefs and practices, political opinions and family. They told me that if I would help the FBI by serving as an informant my name would be removed from the No-Fly List and I would receive compensation. I told the agents that I did not feel comfortable answering their questions without my attorney present. The agents promptly ended the meeting."
Mashal founded a national non-profit organization, Always Faithful Service Dogs, along with other veterans in January 2012. The organization provides service and therapy dogs to disabled military veterans in the country. He is the organization's president and head dog trainer, but Mashal has not been able to attend events in California or Boston or go to Board of Directors meetings in California because he is on the No-Fly List.
Amir Meshal wanted to fly from Irvine, California, to Newark New Jersey, but in June 2009, he was not permitted to board his flight. FBI agents told him he was on a "government list" that prohibited him from flying.
Later, in October 2010, FBI agents informed him he could be removed from the No-Fly List if he became a government informant. "If you help us, we can help you off the No-Fly List," Meshal was told [PDF].
Mashaal Rana moved to Pakistan and pursued a master's degree in Islamic studies in 2009. When she tried to board a flight from Lahore, Pakistan, to New York, in February 2010, she was not allowed to fly. An FBI agent later interrogated his brother in the US, according to her court declaration [PDF].
She tried to fly back to the US again in October 2012 because she was six-months pregnant and needed medical care in New York to deliver her child. Her brother worked with US officials to obtain a clearance to fly home on November 3, but five hours before she was to depart, her brother told her he had been informed by an FBI agent that she would not be able to get on her flight.
Rana was offered a "one-time waiver" to fly back home a week later. She declined to use it because she did not think she would be able to fly back to Pakistan to be with her husband.
Sheikh Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, an imam of one of Portland's largest mosques, has a wife and children. In March 2010, he was not permitted to fly to Amsterdam and found himself surrounded by government officials at the Portland International Airport.
"An airline employee told me that I could not fly because I am on a government watch list," Kariye stated in a declaration [PDF]. "When she told me this, five government officials, including a police officer, detective US Marshal and two FBI agents were surrounding me."
"I felt humiliated that everyone near me in the airport, including government and airline officials and other travelers, could see that I was denied boarding on my flight. I felt like I was being treated like a suspected terrorist."
In February 2010, Nagib Ali Ghaleb, who lives in Oakland, California, tried to travel to San Francisco from Yemen, where his wife and children were living. The flight was scheduled to stop in Frankfurt. He was not permitted to board the flight from Frankfurt to San Francisco. He flew back to Sanaa and a US Embassy official later told him he was not permitted to be on any flights to the US.
"About two weeks later," according to a court declaration [PDF] from Ghaleb, "a US official asked me to come to the US Embassy for questioning.
"I met with two officials, one of whom was an FBI agent. The interrogators offered to arrange for me to fly back immediately to the United States ifI would agree to tell them who the 'bad guys' were in Yemen and in San Francisco. The interrogators insisted that I could provide the names of people from my mosque and my community. When I told the interrogators that I was not interested in spying on the Yemeni community, they told me that if I did not cooperate, they would have me arrested and jailed in Yemen. They advised me to 'think about it.'"
Ghaleb was eventually granted a "one-time waiver" to fly to the US in July.
Also, Abdullatif Muthanna, a US citizen who traveled to Yemen to see family, was not permitted to board his flight from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to New York. He was told by an airline employee and Saudi immigration official that he was "prohibited from flying."
"I was very distressed that I could not fly back to the United States," according to a court declaration from Muthanna [PDF]. "I suffer from mental health and digestive conditions that require medical treatment. I needed to return to Rochester to see my general physician and specialist, to adjust my medication, and to secure medication that was not available in Yemen."
Muthanna joined the lawsuit and shortly after US officials communicated with him about a "one-time waiver" so he could return to the US. He came back to Rochester, but after being separated from his family for two years, in 2012, he sought to return to Yemen. He tried to board a flight from Rochester to New York and was denied.
FBI agents came and visited him in the store where he worked several days later. He tried to get on a flight to Abu Dhabi but could not get a boarding pass. Two months passed. He did extensive research hoping to find a way to get to his family.
"I planned to drive from Rochester to Philadelphia. I then planned to sail by cargo freighter from Philadelphia to Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates via Antwerp, Belgium through a shipping company called The Cruise People, Ltd. I hoped that after reaching Jebel Ali, I could travel to Yemen by car or bus. I feared that it may not be safe to travel from Jebel Ali to Yemen over land due to the civil conflict in Yemen. But, I could not find any other way to travel to Yemen to be with my family."
The day he was to travel, August 12, Captain Jaroscaw Bielewsk informed him he was not allowed to sail. He would also be denied passage between Antwerp and Jebel Ali. The captain later told his ACLU attorney that this was because of a Customs and Border Protection "recommendation."
In January 2010, Faisal Nabin Kashem, who lives with his family in Connecticut, traveled to Saudi Arabia for a two-year Arabic language-certification program. He also enrolled in a four-year Islamic studies program. When he tried to come back to the US in June, he was able to get on the flight and an airline employee told him he was on the No-Fly List.
Two FBI agents also questioned Kashem on July 6 and informed him he was on the watch list. He joined the lawsuit in August 2010 and, subsequently, US officials communicated with him about flying back to the US. They offered him a "one-time waiver" so he could fly home. He declined to use it because he did not think he would be able to return to Saudi Arabia to continue his studies.
The issue of FBI agents using the No-Fly List to coerce American Muslims into becoming government informants is the subject of another lawsuit, and this lawsuit does not resolve that issue. It does, however, offer each of these Americans the hope that they will finally be able to clear their name.
For all of these Americans, it means they will be able to finally travel to be with family, who they have not been able to see for years. It may no longer disrupt their careers. It may open up the possibility of being able to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform a hajj, which is a religious pilgrimage and considered an Islamic obligation. It may remove some of the fear of going somewhere and being detained and interrogated by foreign authorities.
Above all, they will finally get to know the truth about why their government had them placed on a watch list that brought them so much anxiety, hardship and suffering and whether it was a mistake or a deliberate act by government officials.


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NWACC selects president finalists
Posted: October 5, 2012 at 12:35 p.m.
NorthWest Arkansas Community College has narrowed its search for a president to six semifinalists out of 30 applicants, according to a news release from the college.
The semifinalists are:
- Jo Alice Blondin, chancellor at Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus
- Steven Gates, senior vice president for learning and provost at NorthWest Arkansas Community College
- Cindy Hess, president of St. Louis (Mo.) Community College, Forest Park campus
- Evelyn Jorgenson, president, Moberly Area Community College, Mo.
- Anthony Kinkle, president, Wichita Area Technical College
- Carol Spencer, executive director, Academic Program Articulation Steering Commitee, Arizona.
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Walker Wants Democrats Home
Wisconsin's Republican governor flew around the state yesterday, to La Crosse and other places. Walker says the state will lose out on millions that could be used to help balance the budget, if 14 Democrats do not return to Madison and vote on the budget plan by tonight. While the governor spoke to reporters inside a La Crosse airport hangar yesterday, a couple dozen union picketers were outside, hoping to speak to Walker. The governor says even if some collective bargaining rights are eliminated because of the bill, Wisconsin state workers will still have better benefits than many federal workers.


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Yeah, getting tested is an invasion of privacy, but being photographed nude isn't? Makes perfect sense to me. If you're crazy.
Not to mention the liability ACs would be incurring if they didn't test for illegal drugs and a fighter was injured while fighting under the influence.
Not only that, it helps many people with stress--although it actually causes anxiety in a large population of daily users--and can act as a pain reducer dealing with routine muscle-aches from training, etc.


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July 1993
Our biennial boosting and bashing of the state's most beguiling politicians.
What's red and white and growing all over (as a tourist attraction)? Texas wineries.
How did Vickie Smith, waitress from Mexia, become Anna Nicole Smith, world-famous face? It's anyone's Guess?
The Alamodome is more than an outsized sports arena. It's a marvel of urban planning that ensures San Antonio's downtown vitality for years to come.
Is folksy, friendly Kenny Rogers an insatiable phone-sex addict? Three women from the Dallas-Fort Worth area say he is, and now the Houston-born singer is fighting to restore his good name.
A provocative San Antonio exhibit captures the flash and fervor of the Chicano movement in art and politics.
The latest culinary crazy, Cowboy Cuisine has put a new spin on traditional Texas cooking.
Thirty years ago, the old Mount Carmel Center was our local haunted house. Even then the specter of evil was present.
Collectors flock to Del Rio to capture a care, fantastically patterned reptile.
Houston's Mattress Mac is making a comfortable living as a film producer.
Propane producers and the Railroad commission want us to retire the charcoal grill.


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Visitor parking for the Biodesign Institute is in the Terrace Road Parking structure just west of Rural Road on Terrace, south of the Institute. (Parking charges: $2/hr.; $8/day. Cash only.)
The visitor entrance is located on the north east corner of the building, which fronts Tyler St. Visitors to Biodesign must present a valid photo ID at the check-in desk.
To get to our facility via Metro Light Rail, get off at the University Avenue/Rural Road Stop and head southwest one-half block to our front door. Tyler Street does not provide vehicle access to Rural Road.
Driving Directions
From the 202 and Scottsdale Rd.
- Exit the 202 at Scottsdale Rd (becomes Rural Rd) and head south.
- Take a right on Terrace Rd (approx two blocks south of University Dr.)
- Visitor parking lot will be on your left hand side.
From the 60 and Rural Rd.
- Exit the 60 at Rural Rd and head north.
- Take a left on Terrace Rd (approx two blocks north of Apache Blvd)
- Visitor parking lot will be on your left hand side.
Main Entrance:
727 E. Tyler St.
Tempe, AZ 85287-5001
Visitor Parking #4:
Rural Road Structure
1100 S. Rural Road, Tempe, AZ 85281


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I'm coming from the ZTE Blade and want to buy a new phone for Christmas. So I looked at Amazon and found two very interesting handsets: The Huawei Ascend G300 (lots of old ZTE Blade/Skate devs/buddys bought that device) and the Huawei Ascend G330.
The G330 costs only 15 Euros (12 pounds) more than the G300 and has got a dual core 1ghz processor, but it hasn't got such a great Dev community.
Which one would you recommend me? Do you think that the G330 will also have such a great community? Is there any other phone in that class?
Thanks in advance!
PS: Hi Daz!
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Nokia's Nokia's Valtteri Halla has recently announced that Nokia and Intel will launch the MeeGo code repository sometime in this month. The new and improved OS devised by Nokia and Intel, combines the best features of Maemo and Moblin.Read More
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text: Really feeling "Laid Back" from the homie A&R and Tek. This track come off of A&R's upcoming project, The Francis Albert EP, which is set to drop on May 8th. One of the illest things in the world to me is watching artists progress throughout their career and either see them grow or fall off, A&R was dope to begin with but he has really stepped it up over the past year. Keep your eyes and ears on this dude. Stream or download "Laid Back" below.


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There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? - by Edgar Allan Poe
The following story will explore how the Cayman Islands, home to 52,000 people, also houses nearly one foreign corporation per citizen. It is also home to virtually all of the world's hedge funds. The Caymans is being used by corporations to avoid U.S. taxes and hedge funds to illegally manipulate global markets. It goes without saying that the average citizen is not benefiting from this. In fact, now is a very critical time in history to expose this fraud. Let's see why we should be unnerved while contemplating the House of Ugland.
Welcome to the Island of Zero
The house pictured above is home to international law firm Maples and Calder:
PO Box 309, Ugland House
South Church Street, George Town
Grand Cayman KY1-1104
Cayman Islands
This is a house used by 12 of the 30 companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average to avoid U.S. taxes. President Obama referred to Ugland House a few weeks ago:
On the campaign, I used to talk about the outrage of a building in the Cayman Islands that had over 12,000 businesses claim this building as their headquarters. And I've said before, either this is the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam. And I think the American people know which it is: The kind of tax scam that we need to end.
Basically everyone has known about this corporate game for decades. Now that the U.S. is strapped for cash this method of tax evasion is coming to the surface. The federal corporate tax rate is 35%. The effective tax rate of U.S. companies that shelter in the Caymans is one to five percent. In 2001, almost half of the money U.S. companies earned outside the U.S.—47 percent—was accounted for in offshore tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, which has no corporate income tax. What's really unnerving is many corporations don't pay any federal tax at all.
During last summer's market mayhem this report didn't get the traction it deserves. From :
The Government Accountability Office said 72 percent of all foreign corporations and about 57 percent of U.S. companies doing business in the United States paid no federal income taxes for at least one year between 1998 and 2005.
More than half of foreign companies and about 42 percent of U.S. companies paid no U.S. income taxes for two or more years in that period.
During that time corporate sales in the United States totaled $2.5 trillion, according to Democratic Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, who requested the GAO study.
Four companies alone have accumulated a combined total of more than $75 billion in earnings untaxed by the U.S.: Hewlett-Packard Co., Merck & Co., Pfizer Inc. and Coca-Cola,
Here is the intro to the report the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, wrote to Senators Levin and Dorgan:
July 24, 2008
The Honorable Carl Levin
Chairman Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
United States Senate
The Honorable Byron Dorgan
United States Senate
In response to your long-standing concerns about whether foreign-controlled U.S. corporations are abusing transfer prices and avoiding U.S. income tax, we compared the tax liabilities of foreign- and U.S.-controlled companies incorporated in the U.S. in three prior reports. We reported that from 1989 through 2000 foreign-controlled corporations were more likely to report zero U.S. income tax liability than U.S.-controlled corporations with a majority of both types of corporations reporting no liability.
Bloomberg recently ran a story about this featuring Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard disk drives, headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. Yet the documents it files with the SEC list its address on South Church Street in George Town, the capital of the Cayman Islands.
While the U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent, Seagate paid an effective tax rate of 5 percent in the year ended June 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The Caymans have no corporate income tax for companies incorporated there. The Caribbean island has helped scores of U.S. companies, including Coca-Cola Co. and Oracle Corp., to legally avoid billions in tax payments to the U.S. government, says U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan.
Maples and Calder, owners of Ugland House, incorporated more than 6,000 new companies over the past five years. Back in 2004, the building served as home to 12,748 companies using the same address. This five-story office building on South Church Street is now the official address for 18,857 corporations. About half those Cayman companies had billing addresses in the U.S., according to a 2008 GAO study.
Intel Defense
Intel's former vice president of tax, licensing and customs, Robert Perlman told the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in March 1999 that Intel would have been better off incorporating in the Cayman Islands when it was founded in 1968.
"Our tax code competitively disadvantages multinationals simply because the parent is a U.S. corporation," Perlman testified.
He has a point. The U.S. is criticized for having one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. This can place U.S. companies at a major disadvantage while operating in the same space as highly subsidized foreign competitors.
Then again, many of these companies avoiding taxes were being subsidized by the U.S. government at the same time. Twenty-four of the 100 largest contractors with the U.S. federal government—including Altria Group Inc., Oracle Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co.—have subsidiaries in the Caymans, according to a March 2001 report by the GAO. Those 24 companies received a total of $35 billion from the U.S. government. "They are shortchanging our country even as they profit from it," says Senator Dorgan.
The Caymans provide near-total financial secrecy for companies, banks and accounts. There are more than 500 banks and trust companies with deposits of more than $1 trillion in the Cayman Islands, according to the Cayman Monetary Authority. That's more deposits than there are in New York City, and the Cayman Islands are about one-third the size of NYC.
"When $250 billion of the $880 billion in foreign bank deposits within U.S. banks is attributed to the Cayman Islands, to connect the dots you've got to ask questions about the extent of tax dodging in that country and other tax havens," Levin says.
One of the many problems with this behavior is the role of corporations in the U.S. capitalist system. They were designed to replace the need for socialized government welfare programs. The trend of corporations paying fewer and fewer taxes, while offering fewer benefits to their employees, with stagnant wages, is contributing to a breakdown of the free market. Nations are running out of money, corporations are bailing or failing, and real wages have not improved for thirty years. This is a good example of how citizens are being victimized by the system. It is not just the U.S. who is missing tax revenue from this scam. Instead of enforcing the law and cracking down the political dictate is to spend more. This is a Mafia style business solution.
How Corporations Game Taxes
A practice called transfer pricing may be the key to how U.S. corporations avoid taxes in the U.S. and other countries, Dorgan says. The accounting practice lets companies buy and sell products and services with their own offshore subsidiaries and set prices themselves. Companies abuse transfer pricing by shifting profits overseas to avoid U.S. taxes, Dorgan says. They set artificially high prices for imports and artificially low prices on exports, he says.
In a March report on financial crime and international law enforcement, the U.S. State Department cited examples of transfer pricing abuses, without naming companies. It said one company claimed to import dish towels from Pakistan for $153.72 each; another reported it had imported briefs and panties from Hungary for $739.25 a dozen; a third claimed it had paid $4,896 a unit for metal tweezers imported from Japan. The report also cited a company claiming to export toilet bowls to Hong Kong for $1.75 each. The State Department report called those prices absurd and ridiculous.
The fabricated high prices of imports let companies report artificially high expenses in IRS tax filings. The exaggerated low prices of exports allow companies to report smaller profits to the IRS. "Criminal individuals, corporations and other enterprises engage in abnormal international trade
pricing that transfers value and/or reduces U.S. tax liability," the State Department report said.
Transfer pricing abuses by corporations cost the U.S. Treasury $53 billion
a year, according to Professor John Zdanowicz of Florida International
University in Miami. He says tracking a product used in transfer pricing
transactions between U.S. companies and their subsidiaries in the Caymans
and elsewhere is difficult. "Where it really comes from and where it's really going, nobody knows, because of the secrecy," he says. The $53 billion in lost U.S. taxes results from more than $150 billion of profit from improper transfer pricing, Zdanowicz says. "It's a $150 billion shell game," he says. ()
How to Make Money with Terrorists
The laws to prevent abuse are there, but enforcement is virtually non-existent. It's particularly difficult when they are obstructed by the highest office. In 2004 David Evans wrote a phenomenal piece for Bloomberg called . Here is an excerpt from the most alarming section:
On April 13, 2003, President George W. Bush accused Syria of having weapons of mass destruction. "We believe there are chemical weapons in Syria," he said on the South Lawn of the White House. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, appearing on CBS's Face the Nation the same day, said busloads of Syrians were sent to Iraq to kill Americans. "Reasonable people don't want to be associated with a state that's on a terrorist list," Rumsfeld said. "Who in the world would want to invest in Syria?"
Six weeks later, on May 31, Devon Energy Corp., an Oklahoma City–based oil and gas producer, entered a partnership with the Syrian government to spend $17 million to search for oil in Syria according to company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Theodore Kattouf, then U.S. ambassador to Syria, attended the contract signing in Damascus. Devon channeled the business through a Cayman Islands subsidiary.
Devon's work in Syria didn't mark the first time a U.S. company won a contract through a Cayman subsidiary in what the U.S. called a terrorist state. A Halliburton Co. subsidiary sold $33.6 million in products and services to Iran in 2001, according to filings with the SEC. Vice President Dick Cheney was chief executive officer of Houston-based Halliburton, an energy services and engineering company, from 1995 to 2000.
Iran is blacklisted by the U.S. as a terrorist state, which means U.S. companies are forbidden from accepting contracts from Iran. The Halliburton unit that won the contract in Iran was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and therefore wasn't subject to U.S. law, Halliburton says.
In February, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Republican Charles Grassley, sent a letter to the Treasury Department asking if Halliburton was being investigated for violating U.S. sanctions. The committee also wrote letters to ConocoPhillips and General Electric Co. asking about their revenue from terrorist states, including Iran and Syria.
Halliburton is the 30th largest military contractor, with fiscal 2001 federal contracts of $534.2 million, according to a March study by the General Accounting Office, the auditing arm of Congress. Halliburton has 13 subsidiaries in the Caymans, two in Liechtenstein and two in Panama.
General Electric, the world's largest company by market value, has sold locomotives in Syria; in Iran, it sold medical equipment, provided oil and gas services and contracted to build hydroelectric generators, according to the Senate Finance Committee. ConocoPhillips, the largest U.S. oil refiner, runs a gas processing plant in Syria, the committee said. "We comply strictly with U.S. law in sales to Iran," says GE spokesman Gary Sheffer. "If Congress decides to change the law, we'll comply."
"All of Halliburton's business is clearly permissible under applicable U.S. laws and regulations," says Wendy Hall, a Halliburton spokeswoman. "If Congress decides to change the laws and provisions, Halliburton will, of course, comply."
Quick Hedge Fund Facts
So that's the tip of the iceberg for international corporations legally abusing U.S. tax law. There have been famous cases of illegal abuse such as Enron. Back in December 2001, Enron Corp., the Houston based energy company that went bankrupt, used 441 Cayman affiliates to help hide $2.9 billion in losses.
To delve into what hedge funds do is another giant stinking pit of abuse and secrecy. Out of the total of 9,800 hedge funds operating at the end of the third quarter 2006 worldwide, 8,282 were registered in the Cayman Islands.
In 1993, the decision was made to turn this tourist destination into a major financial power, through the adoption of a Mutual Funds Law. This enabled easy incorporation and/or registration of hedge funds in a deregulated system. From the day of application, it takes two to five days for a hedge fund to be approved and costs $3,600 in total fees.
The number of hedge funds operating in the Cayman Islands exploded from 1,685 hedge funds in 1997 to 8,282 at the end of the third quarter 2006, a fivefold increase. Cayman Island hedge funds are four-fifths of the world total. Globally, hedge funds hold $1.44 trillion in assets under management, but through using leverage of anywhere from 5 to 20 times, they command up to $30 trillion of deployable funds. This equals the size of the NYSE.
CEO to Worker Pay
The point of all of this is to become aware of what is really going on when it comes time to raise taxes on the public. This is going to happen. It has to happen, because the U.S. is running out of money. However, the money is out there. It's just not being legally distributed as it should be. Instead the burden will be unjustly placed on you and me. As long as the House of Ugland stands, our standard of living will fall.
The last concept related to all of this is the trend in CEO compensation. This is a visual demonstration of how we are being cheated by a corrupt system which is protecting itself to our severe disadvantage. The market collapse is doing nothing to change the gross inequality of the system. What the media typically avoids discussing is the effect inflation has on real wages. Basically, prior to the market crash it was impossible for most people to get ahead and beat inflation. If the market enters a long period of inflation along with higher taxes–forget it.
In 2005, the average CEO in the United States earned 262 times the pay of the average worker, who earned just $5.15 per hour. This is the second-highest level of this ratio in the 40 years of recorded data. In 2005, a typical CEO earned more in one workday (there are 260 in a year) than an average worker earned in 52 weeks.
This extreme compensation ratio reflects both the extraordinary growth of CEO pay and also the diminishing value of the federal minimum wage that has not been raised since 1997. Adjusting for inflation, the purchasing power of the minimum wage is now at its lowest since 1955. When you hear rhetoric spew about why you have to pay your fair share, remember what you've learned here today. This burden can only be carried for so long.
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BT's Twitter competition plays cupid and encourages romantics to tweet their messages of love to the top of London's BT Tower.
But an ad for Ikea in Australia has become a social media hit, offering free cots to babies born nine months after Valentine's Day.
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10 U.S. Code § 7086 - Physical disability retirement
(a) Each civilian member who has served not less than five years, and who, before reaching the age of 65, becomes totally disabled for useful and efficient service in his position, by reason of disease or injury not due to his own vicious habits, intemperance, or willful misconduct shall, upon his application or upon the request of the Secretary of the Navy, be retired with a life annuity computed under section 7085 of this title.
(b) The amount that the Secretary shall pay annually under this section is the difference between the total amount to which the retired member is entitled under subsection (a) and the immediate life annuity to which he is entitled at the time of his disability retirement under the annuity policy required by section 7082 of this title.
(c) Each civilian member retired under this section, unless the disability for which he was retired is permanent in character, shall be examined by a board of medical officers designated by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy or of the Postgraduate School, as appropriate, one year after his retirement and annually thereafter, until he becomes 65 years of age.
(d) Payments by the Secretary under this section shall be terminated if the retired civilian member is found to be sufficiently recovered for useful and efficient service in his former position and is offered reemployment in that position by the Superintendent.
(e) If a civilian member retired under this section is later reemployed by the United States, the payments by the Secretary shall be terminated.
(f) Each civilian member retired under this section who is reemployed as a civilian member of the teaching staff of the Naval Academy or the Naval Postgraduate School shall, upon his later retirement, be paid annually by the Secretary the difference between the total annual amount computed under section 7085 of this title and the immediate life annuity which the total premiums paid on his annuity contracts would buy.
Source(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 439; Pub. L. 89–718, § 40,Nov. 2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1120.)
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In subsection (a) the words "reaching the age of 65" are substituted for the words "becoming eligible for retirement under the conditions defined in the preceding sections hereof", since a civilian member's 65th birthday is the date on which he becomes eligible for retirement under this chapter.
In subsection (c) the words "or the Postgraduate School, as appropriate" are inserted because the Postgraduate School and the Naval Academy are now two separate institutions.
In subsection (f) the words "or the Naval Postgraduate School" are inserted for the same reason.
In subsection (g) the words "Federal Employees Compensation Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (5 U.S.C. 751 et seq.)," are substituted for the words "Act of Sept. 7, 1916, entitled 'An act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes' ". Authority for referring to this Act as the Federal Employees Compensation Act is contained in the Federal Employees Compensation Act Amendments of 1949, 63 Stat. 854. The words "but this provision shall not bar the right of any claimant to the greater benefit conferred by either Act for any part of the same period" are omitted as unnecessary.
1966—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 89–718substituted "chapter 81 of title 5" for "sections 751–756, 757–791, and 793 of title 5".
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References to Superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School deemed to refer to President of the Naval Postgraduate School, see section 557(a)(1), (2) ofPub. L. 108–375, set out as a note under section 7042 of this title.
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'Penny Dreadful' Season 1, episode 3 recap: 'Resurrection' tells Caliban's storyAdd to Favorites | Penny Dreadful
After the sudden and tragic murder of Proteus in the last episode, "Penny Dreadful" has some serious making up to do for getting rid of the most likable character in the whole affair. Whether they were able to pull that off is up to you to decide, but there was definitely some important character development throughout.
We learned what drove Victor to his fascination with the human body and creating life in the first place. After the death of his best friend, a dog, his mother also became gravely ill and passed. However, upon the "birth" of his first creation, which didn't go well, he freaked out and abandoned him.
During the years he was left alone, the creature taught himself to read and speak and eventually set out to track down Victor. He found a home working backstage at a theater and was labeled Caliban, taken from "The Tempest.". The best part of that was the bit of "Sweeney Todd" being staged when Caliban first encounters the theater. It was also the second time in as many weeks a character has thrown out the phrase "Penny Dreadful" in conversation.
Now, Caliban expects Victor to build him a female counterpart. He's found a life and home in the theater. However, others still look down on him due to how his looks and lack of civility. He wants a life companion, but that's not something Victor is willing to deliver. Even the threat of death isn't enough to convince the doctor, who leaves Caliban behind. That will definitely be followed up on soon.
Meanwhile, Ethan rejoins Vanessa and Malcolm in the search for Murray's daughter, Mina. Vanessa had a vision of the girl, leading them to the London Zoo. After an encounter with wolves, they found Fenton, a servant to the vampire master, in the monkey house. They capture him and try to get information, but it's useless.
They then call Victor in, at which point they must all agree to do whatever it takes to find Mina. It forces Ethan to face the fact that what they're dealing with isn't of this world, but something else entirely. Vanessa also learns that she's the one the vampire master wants, not Mina. Murray knew, but wasn't going to divulge that information to her.
The strangest bit in the episode, was the complete waste of Billie Piper. After a sex scene and a couple moments with Ethan last week, Brona's only appearance in "Resurrection" was via another sex scene. Considering how good an actress Piper is, her character needs to be fleshed out as soon as possible. Otherwise, what's the purpose of having her there in the first place?
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The No. 8 Wildcats are hoping to use this break to refine the most important position on the floor: point guard.
"We are trying to make some progress at our point guard position," said Mitchell. "That is something that needs some work, so we have been looking at some different people in practice. I'd like to see us run a little more efficiently on offense."
Turnovers have been a concern for Kentucky. Then-No. 1 Baylor handled Kentucky and forced the Cats into 22 turnovers and Kentucky is averaging 21.7 turnovers per game.
Kentucky's fast-paced offense will ultimately lead to a higher number of turnovers. The Cats fly up and down the floor as much as they can and try to score quickly.
Mitchell, however, is still looking to bring that number down significantly. And he's looking specifically at the point guard position to help stabilize the offense.
Junior Maegan Conwright has started at the point guard position for UK this season, but Mitchell is looking at all his options options. And he has a few.
Redshirt sophomore Jennifer O'Neill provides some depth at the position, but she's inexperienced in the offense and hasn't played big minutes yet this season. Freshman Janee Thompson is likely the future at the position, but she's in a similar boat as O'Neill as far as minutes and comfort in Mitchell's up-tempo scheme.
The most obvious choice to help Conwright with the ball-handling duties is likely Kentucky's best scoring option. Senior guard A'dia Mathies is averaging 15.0 points per game so far this season, but there's a chance that her role on the team may be transforming in the not so distant future.
"I think it's too soon for that, but it's a possibility," said Mitchell of Mathies seeing more time at point guard.
And if things don't improve in terms of taking care of the basketball, Mitchell's patience may wear thin if his current crop of players can't give him what he's looking for.
"Trying to get some young players in the mix there with Janee Thompson being a freshman," said Mitchell. "Jen O'Neill coming off a redshirt year, Maegan (Conwright) has not played the position full time, she's played in spurts here. Just trying to have some patience but at some point you can't have an infinite supply of patience, so A'dia is always a real good option for us."
Part of Mitchell's concern has to do with a greater focus this season on UK's offensive attack. In seasons past, Mitchell has harped on UK's defense almost exclusively early in the season. The Cats did that last season, and it worked out pretty well as they came away with the SEC championship.
However, Kentucky isn't just trying to win conference championships anymore. The Cats have their sights set on a much larger trophy and finally breaking through to the Final Four after multiple trips to the Elite Eight. Mitchell thinks it's been their lack of offense late in the season that has kept them from reaching those goals. With several players still in the fold from those teams of the past, Mitchell feels his veterans can pick up the slack on defense while he puts his energy into improving the offensive side of the ball.
"We have a veteran team in a lot of areas that I think is familiar with what we like to do defensively," said Mitchell. "We've just noticed it when we won the SEC championship last year, and that was a great accomplishment for us, we've been in some big games late in the season where our offense has been not what we wanted."
With that in mind, the offense-first philosophy this season has definitely taken some getting used to. That may be why they haven't quite seen the returns on their offensive product that they hope to have later in the season. It's just going to take some time.
"This preseason I would say that we definitely have tried to emphasize our offense," said Mitchell. "Like I said, it's a work in progress and one of these games pretty soon you are going to see us reap some of the benefits of all of the hard work."
While UK's emphasis has been on offense more so than in the past, the focus hasn't been on a particular offense that Mitchell is trying to install. Rather, they are looking to help their players become better play makers within the flow of their up-and-down offense.
"We have placed a greater emphasis on trying to help the players make more plays instead of teaching them how to run a certain play," said Mitchell.
After the team spends Thanksgiving with an early-morning practice followed by a team meal, the team will have a chance to get some rest in the afternoon before they hit the floor for this first time since last Saturday. There, Mitchell will get to see just how far his team has come in those six days of work.
"It's been a real good week for us preparation-wise," said Mitchell. "We needed to take some steps forward and I think that we have. The game against Morehead State will be very interesting to see how much progress we have made."