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Washington, DC — Failure to control corruption, as determined by the World Bank Institute, has again left Kenya and Uganda ineligible to apply for hundreds of millions of dollars in additional development aid from the United States.
Releasing its findings for 2007, the US agency administering the special assistance programme ruled last week that neither Kenya nor Uganda could advance beyond the "threshold" to which they had been assigned in earlier years.
Tanzania, which had previously been deemed eligible for the Millennium Challenge Account, is not one of the three countries newly invited to begin the application process for actual aid disbursements.
No African state was chosen this year to formulate an aid "compact" with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, which oversees the performance-based programme. Moldova, Ukraine and Jordan were selected last week. They could soon join 11 countries - five of them in Africa - that have qualified for assistance through the Bush administration initiative.
"Compact-eligibility is the reward for pursuing good policies," said Ambassador John Danilovich, director of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. "These countries are now invited to begin the process of creating their compacts to reduce poverty."
Winning approval for a compact can result in substantial amounts of assistance. The 11 chosen countries - which include Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Madagascar and Mali - are sharing nearly $3 billion in additional aid.
Within the past two weeks, for example, the Millennium Challenge Corporation has approved a five-year, $461 million compact with Mali and an identical agreement with El Salvador.
To qualify for the assistance, a country must score well in three broad categories entitled "Ruling Justly," "Investing in People" and "Promoting Economic Freedom." It is required that a country achieve results higher than the mean in at least half the indicators included in each of the categories. A failing grade on the corruption indicator automatically disqualifies a country for assistance, no matter how well it is rated in accordance with 15 other criteria.
Kenya failed the corruption test for the third consecutive year. It would have otherwise qualified for the assistance, even though it was also given poor marks for rule of law, immunisation rates, health expenditures, and the number of days required to start a business.
Kenya received passing grades in several areas, including political rights, spending on primary education, trade policy, and inflation.
But a public row between Attorney General Amos Wako and the director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) Aaron Ringera over the competence of investigations and evidence in five cases has left doubts over the government's commitment to tackling the vice.
Coming under a barrage of criticism over the pace at which it was conducting investigation into the Anglo-Leasing scandal - the biggest fraud to be uncovered under President Mwai Kibaki, who came to power in 2002 pledging to run a clean administration - the KACC sent five files involving Cabinet ministers to the AG.
After two weeks, Mr Wako returned the files and publicly pointed out shortcoming in both the quality of investigations and evidence gathered.
The Commission responded immediately, pointing out that issues raised by the AG had been answered, but Mr Wako maintained the queries he had raised "could have been noticed even by a first year law student."
In Uganda's case, it is also disqualified on the corruption count. It was given other failing marks on political rights, enrolment of girls in primary education, and the cost of starting a business.
Like Kenya, however, Uganda would have been deemed eligible for the programme had its corruption indicator been favourable.
Kenya and Uganda are among 11 countries earlier placed in a threshold grouping that enables them to consult with US officials about how to meet millennium aid eligibility criteria. But unlike several threshold countries, the East African neighbours have not yet completed formal agreements with the Millennium Challenge Corporation on how to proceed towards eligibility.
Tanzania did win approval of its threshold proposal last year. Tanzania has also again received a passing grade on the corruption indicator and all the other criteria included in the "ruling justly" category. It was given a failing score in regard to health expenditures, girls' enrolment in primary schools, and days needed to start a business.
The news of its failure to qualify comes at a time when Uganda's political will to fight corruption is facing stern tests both at home and abroad.
An inquiry into allegations of corruption in the multimillion dollar Global Fund against Malaria, Tuberculosis and HIV/Aids implicated several officials including the three ministers in the Ministry of Health but no action has been taken against them in spite of local and international pressure to do so.
The country has been disqualified from the latest round of HIV/Aids and malaria funding from the Geneva-based programme due to its failure to bring the culprits to book.
"There are substantial problems with Uganda's existing grants," a Global Fund official told our sister newspaper, the Daily Monitor, last week. "When there is an unsatisfactory past performance, a country must address to what extent a new grant will not suffer from the same problems."
Despite having a plethora of organisations to fight corruption, including a Cabinet Minister for Ethics and Integrity as well as an Inspector General of Government, Uganda's anti-corruption initiatives have largely proved to be paper tigers that have not led to arrests and prosecutions.
Although several commissions of inquiry have been held in the country over the past couple of years - into allegations of plunder in Congo, purchase of junk helicopters for the army, and into the police force - very few recommendations have been implemented and some implicated officials continue to enjoy senior positions in government.
Opposition MPs welcomed the news of Uganda's disqualification from the Millennium Challenge Account.
"My argument is that if we are corrupt, why should we beg for money that goes into a few corrupt people's hands?" Nandala Mafabi, a Member of Parliament from the opposition Forum for Democratic Change who heads the Parliamentary Accounts Committee, told The EastAfrican on Friday. "Our first task is to fight corruption."
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Hey guys. The run of orcs kicked off by the excellent John Mueller got me fired up to paint my own favorite cannon fodder: The Gnoll. I really want to finish this, but my eyes are bleary from staring and I don't know where to go next. Can anyone help? Advice, comments, anything. I'd really appreciate it.
Teaching myself to paint is the pits at times like these! I really wish I could take more traditional painting classes at school. Pretty much everything I've learned so far has been from you guys.
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I like his expression, I also like his tiny little eyes.
Forgive my stupidity, but explain a "Gnoll".
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*nerdalert* Rimwalker, "gnolls" are a D&D race o' critters, a popular replacement for orcs.
My main feedback would be...just keep going. The details and face need to tightened up: I'd wanna see the pointy teeth, the fur, the facial musculature, etc. What you've got going around the well-rendered eye should expand across the canvas, then go one level further. His hair is also pretty well groomed for a semi-bestial hyena-humanoid. :-)
Might you consider a background of a contrasting color or tone?
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Thanks guys.
Rimwalker: Thanks! As Atomick explained, Gnolls are a Hyena-like creature very similar to orcs in stature and strength, accoring to the famed "Monstrous Compendium." I imagine them as having feline characteristics as well. I always prefered them to orcs, as I imagined them being more tribal and cunning.
Atomick: Thanks. Just keep going? The same thing only more so? I agree that's still pretty loose at this point, everything was starting to get pretty muddy near the end. I will experiment with adding dark, warm green notes in the background, but I would like to keep it mostly warm red-oranges in order to motivate the warm lighting of the character. Perhaps instead of adding green to the background I will intensify the greens in his face, and create contrast that way. Or both even. If anyone knows a better way to do this, please let me know.
I showed this to a friend of mine, and she suggested moving the center of interest (the eye) farther away from the center of the picture. Maybe I will lop off the right side of the pic, about the signature's width plus a bit, but I'm afraid of crowding the image. I think I'm also going to give him some armor, leather with a bit of metal on the shoulder, and use the highlight on that to create a second point of interest. Do those sound like good ideas? Or should I just tighten the rendering as is? Armour sounds like a good idea, the more I think about it...
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Seems that President Bush is being true to form. Man did I get a laugh reading this.
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There is a small nation in this world, which for one reason or another, has always been a 'pet project' of US presidents.
this project, a claim of global benevolence and caring, is best summed up with the deceptively optimistic sound bite, 'the road map to peace'.
Israel/Lebanon: Israeli Indiscriminate Attacks Killed Most Civilians (Human Rights Watch, 6-9-2007)
The reason for why this story appealed to me more than other current issues (such as Dubya tasting his foot once again, or a US General threatening to tell us something we knew all the long) is that this little situation is the epicentre of what we see elsewhere in the region and thus the world. It is the stick that stirs this world up, which also enables the US to do what it wants, where ever it wants! But this stick itself is US in design! (sounds like a global government no?)
Last year, the israelis (IDF) kidnapped a load of Palestinians. In response and probably to use them as pawns for an exchange, Palestinians (aka the Hez) arrested some Israeli troops. Israel proceded to bomb seven shades of shite out of eveything. Anything. The world complained, the US who gives (NOT SELLS) most if not all of the IDF's weapons said nothing. Which is sad, because as the IDF is dependent on the US, the US is pretty much the only one the IDF is likely to listen to.
Many many innocent palestinians died because of the bombardment. It was seen to be completely disproprotionate. The US said it was a shame but unavoidable coz of those pesky Hez 'terrorists' hiding amoungst wimmin and children. Having seen the chaos in Irak with the 600 000 dead civilians there, it was clear that the IDF weren't likely to be much more accurate than the USMC etc when using the same (if not inferior) kit.
But finally we have in this report independent, verified and conclusive proof of what the 'bed wetting liberal peaceniks' have been saying all the long.
Meanwhile, the US still proceeds to send huge amounts of weapons to the IDF, whilst ignoring the Hez in even simple dialogue, purely beause the US has decided to categorise them as being 'terrorists'.
The IDF killed hundreds illegally and are 'good guys'
The Hez killed a few but are dismissed as terrorists.
If these situations were reversed, I AM TELLING YOU, that would be a genuine road map to peace.
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who said recently:
"You made one of your greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account nor punished those who waged this war...You permitted Bush to complete his first term, and stranger still, chose him for a second term, which gave him a clear mandate from you... to continue to murder our people in Iraq and Afghanistan".
are these the words of a crazy person; an extreme person; or someone merely speaking the truth?
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To lightly address yer first post wolfy....
the Israelis of course have a right to exist. few suggest otherwise, despite what might be claimed in various media. it is entirely the fault of postWW2 nations for the jewish state being built on arabic land. however, the expansion of this state thru illegal and violent means is not acceptable and has been the flash point that creates the cause of people like Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, OBL, AQ, Ahmadinejad...... the list goes on.
a minority of people have been gifted with the means to enforce their own endeavours at the cost of the locals. in turn, the locals are galvinised thru a sense of resistence. it is the exact same kinda thing that provokes the insurgency in Irak.
in nature, there is the 'asymmetry of the hunt'. best described: how can a spindly limbed and timid little gazelle ever stand a chance against a massive predator like a lion? during the chase the lion is working to realise just one meal. that is it. the deer meanwhile, is fighting for its very existance. for everything.
you have the mighty lion of the US military or the hugely funded IDF. you have the tiny deer of the under equipped Hamas or simple citizens of irak. lions will presume survival upon the basis of their superior strength. the gazelle acquire survival thru herding into groups. as one strikes against the other, any sense of making ground is superficial, as any offensive act merely functions to increase the fortitude of the other side.
the US lion takes the piss in the deer's grazing land of palestine; head deers like OBL send out the call and a herd forms called AQ. the resistence continues.
point is, when you draw in theological belief as a motive for this behaviour; ie when OBL would wish to promote the virtues of his religious belief, he can gain great respect by foreseeing the aggression of infidel america. his foresight is assurred, as he knows exactly what to do to gain the desired reaction. just in the same way Bush proclaims 'insurgents' to be 'evul terrorists' before the news cuts to more dead marines thanx to IEDs.
the perpetuation of conflict thru self-fulfilling prophecy.
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you second post is concerning mr wolf.
it is one thing to say that your gov has been incompetent or outright manevolent in its actions since being elected. but to say it was outright robbery or fraud... and yet your right to bare arms against a gov gone nuts, is to suggest an almost insane level of complacency.
if your perspective is accurate even in the slightest, then the acts of 9-11, acts allegedly motivated to hurt innocent people in order to mobilise them into action having been made aware of the terrorist's level of suffering being visited upon them, is justified!
are you really saying that the US population is so apathetic to what is done across the world in their name, that they genuinely deserved the WTC going pop?
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Today's story for me:
of course this is a nonsense. all this was, was an opportunity for a bunch of lawyers to ensure a consistent income for several years.
if this was ever cemented in international law and Iran was 'forced' to pay up for allegedly helping a foreign entity to do something they have been accused of (not proven guilty of), it would create such a huge precident, that the US would go financially belly up over night, from the inward flood of litigation claims.
Iran is alleged to have supported Hezbollah in the above attack?
Well we KNOW the US supported the IDF in the attacks on Palestine last year killing many more innocent civilians NOT military personnel.
but sod worrying about mere support... what of actual personal involvement in genocide of an entire nation? If 241 dead marines is worth $2.65 billion, what 'value' can be ascribed to 600 000+ dead irakis? how much did 'shock and awe' actually cost?
i will never get used to the bullshit manner in which the US tries to claim mistreatment and victimisation. it is so perversely nonsensical that it is funny, actually laff out loud funny.
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Hi. My name is Kris Turvey. I'm 35, and became interested in drawing about 3 years ago (I drew a lot as a kid but studied music as an adult which is kinda where all my creative energy went until recently), since when it has become a serious passion. I'm self taught, although its only in the last couple months when I got hold of the Loomis books that I feel I actually started learning!
I'm working semi-professionally (i.e. I still have a part time non-art day job) doing storyboards and concept art mostly on film projects and adverts. My biggest project to date was doing some promotional artwork for the movie KickAss. My goal is to become either a full time concept artist or a digital matte painter (or ideally a mixture of both). As such I have only put in relatively quick concept type work here (most of these are between 1-2 hours) rather than longer illustration type work.
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Hey Kris,
cool stuff. I totally understand where your coming from. I've been at it for only a few years myself - freelancing. I too have a day job. I first learned digital painting about 5 years ago and anatomy has always been a sticky point with me.
Love your creature and mech designs. Also great work on the matte painting. Keep it up!
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Frampton IS better than Hatton ever was… He's a better boxer… Is he going to win more titles???
That depends on who he has to fight.. Hatton only fought one guy on the level of Rigondeaux or Lomachenko.. It the luck of the draw.Posted October 19, 2013 3:13 pm
Frampton has the potential to be better than Hatton.Posted October 19, 2013 1:49 pm
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Parodi should be good enough to cause Carl SOME problems, at least make him work for the win. He is no mug, a decent boxer and has been very active by today's standards, fighting 5 or 6 times a year. He didn't come to lose. But Carl to win on points or second half stoppage.Posted October 19, 2013 12:18 pm
Hatton had no level, he held on for dear life in his fights because he knew he couldnt take a shot, overrated due to his popularity and way off the elite level.Posted October 19, 2013 7:19 am
Hatton became the linear/Ring champ at 140, something both Khan and Froch hav failed to do. I hope Frampton can get to Ricky's level, he's certainly got the talent.Posted October 19, 2013 7:11 am
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Frampton boxes better than Hatton… defends better… jabs better… maintains his conditioning between fights better… and even absorbs a punch better… The UK has an unbelievable amount of boxing talent right now.
Frampton only has a few fights, so he has great potential to get better. The only problem? Rigondeaux is in his division and Lomachenko is at featherweight. Those are the 2 best amateurs I've ever seen in my life. It would be hard for anyone to get past them. Frampton probably won't go 43 fights before he's defeated.Posted October 19, 2013 1:25 am
Frampton is a dedicated athlete with skills … Where Hatton was a beer swilling pie stuffing elbow throwing thug …..who was KTFO i could paly that replay all day long ……………..Posted October 19, 2013 1:24 am
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Keep your child warm with this beautiful and easy-to-make striped knitted poncho from Bernat Yarns. Use this free pattern to create a comfortable poncho for children ages one to eight.
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6/8 yrs 26 1/2" (67 cm)
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Cast on 65 (73-85-97) sts.
1st row: (WS). K1. *P1. K1. Rep from * to end of row.
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Our 13 electoral votes went to the Democrat. I was in the second grade the last time Virginia supported a Democrat for President. And, oh by the way, we were still in segregated schools back then.
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Actor Charlton Heston, or as I think of him, Ben Hurr, and oh yes, Moses, passed on after a long and protracted battle with Alzheimer's disease. Finally, one of the most likable people in American media, Tim Russert, host of "Meet the Press" died well before his time. I can't help but think that Election 2008 would have been the richer and more fun had he been around.
The New Year dawns with our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in harm's way all over the world. It's still not safe out there. Not even close.
Our economy is in bad shape and a lot of people are having a tough time. Things may get worse before they get better. But it's still a New Year, and with that, there is a renewed chance for new beginnings and new opportunities. Besides, who knows, by this time next year, I may be writing an article about how many reps I am up to at the gym and just how much I benched pressed the night before. That will be proof that anything is possible.
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Richard Pops
Thank you Jon. Good morning everybody or afternoon, whatever it is. So, we'll see today about [three of the stories] (ph) on Alkermers. On the PowerPoint presentation is this idea of creating value through two portfolios and to know our company is to gain an understanding of these two portfolios that we've been building over the last several years and we're really excited about where we are right now and where we are going to be going over the next 12 months and beyond.
I will make forward-looking statements and as I always do, I encourage you to read our disclosures in our SEC filing to try and capture the risks of our business.
The simplest way to think about these two portfolios is that one is our commercial portfolio, and that is drugs that are approved by the FDA and regulatory authorities around the world and are generating revenue for us and being sold in the market around the world. This portfolio is remarkable in terms of complexity, the lack of coherence between the various elements and its long patent life.
The other one is the commercial, is the pipeline, the development pipeline, the products in development, and while most of the world is in focus over the last year on our building the commercial portfolio and the news coming from that, almost in the background this pipeline has been maturing and getting more and more exciting and is filled with all kinds of news events in 2013.
So the commercial portfolio is comprised of, right now about over 25, but we ask people to focus on what we call the Big 5. These five products are singular products in their classes really. They are early in their patent life and they are going to drive the growth of our revenue line into the next decade.
The pipeline is also quite rich and is popular with primarily the new drivers, the new chemical entities, no longer simply based on their delivery technologies, but entirely new molecules that are designed to satisfy specific needs that we've identified in the market place. It's a whole theory. This concept is about value. The way we select product is based on the idea of finding a value, both for patients and the families, but also for payers and the whole ecosystem in general.
There are papers on the rocks, as well as our long acting form of identifying currently stage three for the treatment of schizophrenia, 5461. We'll talk about also the compression, 3831 also for schizophrenia. And then with our commercial pipeline still with us, we also have follow-on product line extensions that will drive those franchises in the future as well.
So these Big 5 in the commercial portfolio are driving a revenue line, a value creation line that we are really, really pleased with and what's so interesting about this business is the story about this business is far from completely told. These five products are early in the line and there still remains many potential outcomes for how this portfolio is going to grow.
For example, take Bydureon. How big a product is Bydureon going to be? How big a product is Vivitrol going to be? And what we liked so much about the portfolio is any aggregate, when we model all these discreet elements, there's many different ways that this portfolio will grow in non-linear ways into the future.
We say this portfolio by itself was referenced, was comprised of a really exciting biotechnology company, but its important to understand that way we are managing the company, the way we are building the company and that we are playing even in a bigger arena. The idea is that we are creating a much bigger company using this as a financial foundation for a potential blockbuster product. And if you're able to finance your own R&D, if your proving the technical capabilities to make innovative new products and you have the capital to keep doing this repeatedly, we see the probability of us having a breakout of success in the pipeline as being very high over time.
(Inaudible) saw the first opportunity for that happen this year, 5461 and 3831, which we'll talk more about, represent not theoretical ideas, but products that fully conceive in the clinic, being tested in patients or data's being just developed for you over time.
So, if there were a single picture that captures what we've done on the commercial side over the last two years or so, that's it. We've built the company now, we're comparing fiscal years 2011 for a March year end to fiscal year 2013, which is the year we're in right now, which we'll complete at the end of this month.
So we took revenues from about $180 million to over $500 million and we went from loosing money as we invested aggressively in the development portfolio, to making money on an ongoing sustained basis, while being able to grow the R&D expenses at a rate not as great as we grew the revenue line or the product line. And what we liked so much about this, at this level of finance, of funding, around $150 million to $160 million a year, we can do an enormous amount of R&D. We are still perpetuating and we can still deliver on our financial goals that we think are important in managing the company with discipline.
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By Daniel firstname.lastname@example.com A 36-year-old man who previously pled guilty to misdemeanors, using a false name, has pled guilty again. This time, the Morrow man used the name Mickie Ryan Ford, apparently his real name, and pleaded guilty to four charges, in Clayton County Superior Court. Ford was arrested in April on charges he walked out of a store with three pairs of shoes, worth $190, stuffed in his pants, according to court documents. He was charged with shoplifting and possession of a three-inch glass pipe, believed to be used for smoking crack cocaine. When arrested, he gave police a driver's license bearing the name "Nolan J. Reeves." He also had a social security number, assigned to the false name, "Reeves." He was arrested under that name and charged in that name, court documents show. Ford pleaded guilty to the charges, using the false name, and was released on probation sometime in the late spring. He was arrested again in July. When arrested the second time, the man was apparently selling fake credit cards, and the fake identity -- "Nolan J. Reeves" -- which he had previously used in court. On Nov. 5, Ford pled guilty to the charges in the second arrest: Attempting to sell fake credit cards, possession of a fake identity, giving a false name to police and driving without a license. Ford was sentenced to seven years in prison. All of the charges previously listed under that name of Reeves have been moved, in the Clayton County court records, and are now filed under the name Ford. Ford has a criminal record of misdemeanor charges, including theft by receiving, theft, manufacturing false documents and a long list of shoplifting arrests.
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Ancient Egyptian sculptors first fashioned block statues in the Twelfth Dynasty. Such statues show their subjects seated on the ground, with the legs drawn toward the chest and the body enveloped in a full-length cloak.Interpretations of the meaning of block statues vary. Some Egyptologists see them as simple representations of men in repose. Others feel they have a religious meaning: they seem to show the soul emerging from a mound in the underworld at the moment of rebirth. This example depicts a man named Ay who achieved the exalted religious positions of Second Prophet of Amun and High Priest of the Goddess Mut at Thebes. His career flourished during the reign of Tutankhamun, when the statue was made. The cartouches of King Ay, Tutankhamun's successor appearing on the statue, were an attempt by an artisan to "update" the sculpture.
- Medium: Limestone
- Possible Place Collected: Sumenu (modern day Dahamsha), Egypt
- Dates: ca. 1336-1327 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XVIII Dynasty
- Period: New Kingdom
- Dimensions: 18 9/16 x 10 x 12 1/4in. (47.1 x 25.4 x 31.1cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 66.174.1
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Block Statue of Ay, ca. 1336-1327 B.C.E. Limestone, 18 9/16 x 10 x 12 1/4in. (47.1 x 25.4 x 31.1cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 66.174.1. Creative Commons-BY
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Embed imperfectandloved 3604 views 2012-05-10T23:54:16 A short Happy Mother's Day animation that I made last year.
Used music from "iMovie '09".
Some Tags: Happy Mother's Day, animations, Mom, silgin
Used music from "iMovie '09".
Some Tags: Happy Mother's Day, animations, Mom, silgin
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Christopher Whalen and the Bet on Small Banks
Robert Teitelman | Posted 04.02.2012 | Business
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Traditional banking is a difficult, commoditized service business, shorn of products that make fat profits. That's the reality that no one ever speaks of when they cry out to revive Glass-Steagall or when they wax poetic about the joys of small-town banking.
Recently, the yearly reading of "Howl" at Columbia University attracted crowds to the Philosophy Hall. An irony was not missed: in his days, Allen represented rebellious youth. Now, he is the poet of our time.