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Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/26
Federal prosecutors from Obama's Dept. of Justice on Friday asked a judge to lift an injunction placed on specific section of a recent law that permits the 'indefinite military detention' by the United States government and was signed by the President in December.
Link: http://ppjg.me/2012/05/26/breaking-the-chains-of-suppression/
Awhile back, I came across the video of a debate between a proponent of nuclear energy and a detractor. It was titled What the world needs now is nuclear energy; true or false? The detractor was mainly making a case for wind and geothermal and the proponent was making the case that nuclear was the only way to supply abundant energy.
Link: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE84P01H20120526?irpc=932
Federal prosecutors on Friday urged a judge to lift her order barring enforcement of part of a new law that permits indefinite military detention, a measure critics including a prize-winning journalist say is too vague and threatens free speech. Manhattan federal court Judge Katherine Forrest this month ruled in favor of activists and reporters who said they feared being detained under a section of the law, signed by President Barack Obama in December.
Link: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/turn-out-the-lights-the-largest-u-s-cities-are-becoming-cesspools-of-filth-decay-and-wretchedness
Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world. Sadly, that is no longer the case. Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rotting and decaying. Cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis and Oakland were all once places where middle class American workers thrived and raised their families. Today, all of those cities are rapidly being transformed into cesspools of filth, decay and wretchedness. Millions of good jobs have left our major cities in recent decades and poverty has absolutely exploded.
Link: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/05/as-an-encore-to-bailing-out-the-big-banks-government-to-backstop-derivativees-clearinghouses-in-the-u-s-and-abroad.html
Little noticed is that on Tuesday Team Obama took its first formal steps toward putting taxpayers behind Wall Street derivatives trading — not behind banks that might make mistakes in derivatives markets, but behind the trading itself. Yes, the same crew that rails against the dangers of derivatives is quietly positioning these financial instruments directly above the taxpayer safety net.
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/syria-arms-russia-idUSL1E8GPFB820120525
A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday as credible.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/25/documentary-on-u-s-torture-seeks-to-begin-process-of-truth-telling/
Since the close of the Bush administration, there has been little official attention paid to the policy during those years of using torture on accused terrorists in order to extract administration. As a result, the American Civil Liberties Union and the writers' and human rights group PEN have conducted their own study of 150,000 declassified documents and other materials and have now published The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program.
Link: http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/26/popular-hair-growth-drug-chemically-castrates-users/
Warning to all men who are considering using Propecia to treat their male pattern baldness: it causes sexual dysfunction in nearly all users and this is often PERMANENT! The alternative, Rogaine, is not much better and carries a risk of causing skin problems, dark circles and accelerated aging. Fortunately, there IS a natural (and much safer) alternative.laught of the American led so called War on Terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/house-passes-hr-4133-binding-us-to.html
Without any mainstream media coverage at all, the House of Representatives passed the United States – Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (USIESC).
Link: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/25-May-2012/us-drone-strike-hits-mosque-10-killed
At least 10 people were killed and several others sustained injuries when unmanned US predator drone targeted a mosque in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan Agency on Thursday.
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/queb-m25.shtml
After Tuesday's 150,000-strong demonstration supporting Quebec's striking students and opposing the provincial Liberal government's draconian Bill 78, the state has intensified its campaign of repression.
Link: http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/If_Violent_Crime_Rate_is_at_40_Year_Low_Why_is_US_Spending_100_Billion_Dollars_a_Year_on_Police_120525
From the amount of money spent each year in the United States on law enforcement, one might assume crime continues to be a growing problem. Crime rates today are at their lowest levels in 30 years and the rate of violent crime has dipped to a 39-year low. Yet the number of arrests between 2009 and 2010 declined only slightly, according to the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), which noted in its new report that police spending increased 445% between 1982 and 2007 and federal funding for police burgeoned by 729%.
Link: http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/24/economic-collapse-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/
As everyone is well aware, Europe is an absolute mess. The gravity of the global debt crisis is getting worse and for sure it's the end of the world as we have known it. EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht recently said, "The endgame has begun, and how it will finish I do not know."
Link: http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2012/05/25/the-euros-parachute-drop-has-no-end-in-sight/?iid=Lead
So much for the euro currency holding up well versus the dollar. The euro has plunged 5% in the past month. That's like a 50% move for a stock. Sleepy currencies don't often move that sharply in such quick fashion.
Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-spain-bankia-20120525,0,267898.story
Bankia and its parent asked the Spanish government for 19 billion euros in aid on Friday. Bankia was among the five banks downgraded by S&P on Friday. It's not looking good for the Spanish banking system. Standard & Poor's just slashed the credit ratings of five banks and said the country is headed into a double-dip recession. One of them, Bankia, just asked the government for 19 billion euros in aid - a roughly $23.8 billion boost.
Link: http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/05/24/astronomer-insists-there-is-a-planet-x-four-times-the-size-of-earth-lurking-at-the-edge-of-our-solar-system/
Distortion to orbits of asteroids beyond Pluto imply mystery planet is tugging at them, claims astronomer. The evidence for 'Planet X' – the mysterious hypothesised planet on the edge of our solar system – has taken a new turn thanks to the mathematics of a noted astronomer.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-gregory/war-in-afghanistan_b_1539749.html
If President Obama has his way, the last U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan could be Americans born five years after 9/11. The administration has signed a pact to maintain a military presence there until 2024. After initially claiming the rumors of such a deal were false, the administration has since described this pledge as a means of providing "training" assistance to Afghan forces. The White House continues to issue mixed messages on the war, simultaneously insisting that the war is "over," but that U.S. troops will face "hard days ahead" in the conflict.
Link: http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=900
Don't these people live on the same planet, work in the same world, and play on the same turf as the rest of us?! Don't they drink the same water, eat the same food, breathe the same air? Truly, the leaders of the World Shadow Government (WSG) have soiled their own nest in ways that are forever irremediable and irreversible. Sounds totally crazy, does't it? That's because it is! However, the question still remains —–> Why? … WHY?! … … WHY ?!
Link: http://www.rt.com/news/fukushima-chernobyl-cesium-137-contamination-145/
TEPCO's new estimates suggest that its Fukushima reactor has released more than quadruple the amount of radioactive cesium-137 leaked during the Chernobyl disaster. But the method used to measure the damage may undervalue the hazard even further.
Link: http://naturalsociety.com/calcium-supplements-double-risk-of-heart-attack/#ixzz1vqlMqq7G
New research is confirming once more what many have known for years — calcium supplements, which are biologically foreign to the body (as opposed to food sources), can actually spike your risk of heart attack by a very significant amount. Labeled by the researchers as "not safe or effective," the latest study reached the startling conclusion after examining 24,000 middle-aged and elderly participants for 11 years. The increased heart attack risk when taking the calcium supplement is represented by a leap from 1 in 700 affected individuals to about 1 in 300.
Link: http://zen-haven.dk/world-holds-its-breath-as-brazil-faces-amazon-threat/
Brazil's congress just passed a forest code that puts the Amazon and other forests in jeopardy – it now sits on her desk and the deadline for her to pass or veto ends within the next 24 hours. Her decision will have massive ramifications for Brazil. The code, if approved, would give loggers and farmers free rein to chop down 190-million acres of Brazilian forests. A territory roughly the size of France and Britain combined would be at risk to chainsaws. It would put forests and rivers up for grabs, placing 70% of Brazil's river basins at risk. It would also give amnesty to anyone previously charged with illegal deforestation. But, this code would be a catastrophe, not just for Brazil, but all our futures. Brazil is home to 40% of the world's last remaining rainforest – a lung that provides the earth with one fifth of our oxygen.
Link: http://www.rt.com/news/greece-double-suicide-crisis-136/
A 60-year-old Greek musician and his 91-year-old mother jumped to their deaths from their 5th floor apartment, driven to despair by financial woes. This double death is the latest in a rising epidemic of crisis-induced suicides in Greece. Witness accounts vary – some say the mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's, jumped first, screaming a prayer as she plummeted to her death. Other neighbors say the mother and her son jumped together, holding hands.
Link: http://enenews.com/ambassador-murata-makes-public-statement-in-english-once-a-quake-beyond-magnitude-6-or-7-happens-then-the-world-starts-heading-towards-the-ultimate-catastrophe-unit-4-a-global-security-issue-vid
Ambassador Murata makes public statement in English: Once a quake beyond magnitude 6 or 7 happens, then the world starts heading towards the ultimate catastrophe — Unit 4 a global security issue (VIDEO)
Link: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/24/questions-for-memorial-day-what-if-have-only-memories-freedom/
What if Memorial Day reminds us of times when we had more freedom? What if freedom is dying right under our eyes? What if the memory of the past is more fulfilling than the reality of the present?
Link: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/245876-Planting-Evidence-to-Sow-Fear-Chicago-Cops-are-the-Terrorists
It seems pretty clear by now that the three young "domestic terrorists" arrested by Chicago police in a warrantless house invasion reminiscent of what US military forces are doing on a daily basis in Afghanistan, are the victims of planted evidence -- part of the police-state-style crackdown on anti-NATO protesters in Chicago last week.
Link: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/11497-the-nato-un-army-perpetual-war-and-bankruptcy-for-us
Pretending to have achieved some kind of victory in Afghanistan, President Obama and the NATO leaders have pushed ahead on the globalist agenda to transform NATO more fully into the global military arm of the United Nations.
Link: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/groups-concerned-over-arming-of-domestic-drones/
With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft. Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mexico border in the battle against illegal immigration. But now, these drones are starting to be used domestically at an increasing rate.
Link: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/23/media-blackout-obama-appoints-assassination-czar-137181/
Corporate news blackout as Obama appoints John Brennan as the sole person in charge of designating people to be assassinated. John Brennan, Obama's chief counterterrorism advisor was a name that you did not see on the Mainstream media today as they continue to run stories that serve to distract the masses from stories that matter. Video- http://youtu.be/AFs0lV42U7s
Link: http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/23/new-stage-of-resistance-in-greece
New elections have been set for June 17 in Greece, and the far-left SYRIZA alliance is currently favored in opinion polls to take first place. If that happens, it would be a stunning blow to the austerity agenda that the bankers, bosses and political elite of Europe have imposed on Greece, in the form of the so-called "Memorandum."
Link: http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/23/dea-backed-honduran-commandos-put-gun-to
Apparently, the United States' Central American law enforcement partners didn't get the memo about Obama ending the "war on drugs," because after killing two pregnant women from a helicopter in which DEA agents were riding shotgun, the Honduran military (and, allegedly, several American contractors) then raided a small village:
Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/only-bombing-iran-into-submission-will.html
Iran and six world powers are meeting today for nuclear talks in Baghdad - and Israel is unsurprisingly unhappy about such diplomacy.
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/morg-m23.shtml
The more the crisis from derivatives losses at America's biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase, expands the more the debacle exposes the criminality of the capitalist financial system and the corruption of its political facilitators. Less than two weeks after JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon stated in a hastily assembled conference call that his bank had lost $2 billion in trades on credit default swaps by its London-based Chief Investment Office, financial analysts are warning that the total loss could rise to $7 billion.
Link: http://www.upiasia.com/Top-News/2012/05/23/Concerns-focus-on-Fukushima-unit-stability/UPI-67051337797686/
Whether a pool where spent fuel is stored at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant could withstand another strong earthquake has become a source of growing concern. The concerns among activists, experts and politicians focus on Unit 4, which contains most of the plant's spent fuel not stored in dry, hardened storage casks, Stars and Stripes reported. After the 9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, an investigative report by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, an independent think tank started to investigate the causes of the plant disaster, cited among risks a loss of cooling water in Unit 4. If left exposed, the spent fuel could heat and melt, releasing a huge amount of radiation.
Link: http://enenews.com/caldicott-corium-hasnt-finished-will-never-finish-means-japan-financially-video
Helen Caldicott: The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation. Dr. Helen Caldicott: They don't know how to clean it up. It's not in cold shutdown. The corium — the mass, hundred tons of melted uranium lava — is laying on the floor of the containment vessels. It hasn't finished and will never finish. I think it means the end of Japan financially. Is the corium inside the containment vessels? Top Japan official: Very strong possibility there is nuclear fuel outside containment vessel: VIDEO
Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107894
ATLANTA, Georgia - A coalition of advocacy groups is targeting corporate support for the right-wing Heartland Institute after the organization took out a controversial billboard in Chicago comparing people who believe in global warming to a serial killer and mass murderer.
Link: http://piazzadcara.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/market-crash-alert-by-mike-whitney/
As you might have noticed, the stock market is falling like a stone. As of 9 AM PST, the Dow Jones has dropped 172 points while all the other indices are down sharply. German 2-year debt (bund) has dipped below 0% this morning at auction, signalling an acceleration in the bank run taking place in southern Europe. Depositors in Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, etc would rather take a loss on their investment, then risk not getting their money back at all. The European Central Bank (ECB) does not guarantee deposits, so people are withdrawing their money en masse and getting out of Dodge pronto. What we're seeing is a real-time panic.
Link: http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/sullivan-c10.1.html
In 1972 a wonderful little book was published. It arrived with little fanfare yet somehow it has managed to survive for 25 years. Most people have never read it. These are the same people who today are asking questions about what went wrong with America. These are the same people who today find that their plans for the future, no matter how hard they have worked to make those plans a reality, have vanished into thin air. These are the same people who are working 3 jobs to keep what one job secured for them 20 years ago.......These people are you and I, the working middle class, the "We the People."
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/nato-protests_b_1537472.html
Remember when police beat Tea Party activists with batons, raided homes without warrants, unjustly arrested and strip-searched Tea Party protesters, or attacked and intimidated journalists covering Tea Party rallies? Me neither. But then again, the Tea Party took to the streets in favor of higher profits and less regulations for the richest 1 percent, whose ranks they hope to but will never join. The media is more than happy to inflate their crowd estimates, and police are more than happy to let pro-status quo protests take to the streets undisturbed. The Tea Party has since phased out street protests to take over a major political party and make it bend to their every radical whim.
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/23-5
Marchers defy Bill 78; Neighborhoods fill with sound of banging pots and pans. That's how yesterday's Montreal protest is being described today. Hundreds of thousands red-shirted demonstrators defied Quebec's new "anti-protest" law and marched through the streets of downtown Montreal filling the city with "rivers of red."
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/23-10
The original debt deal required a bipartisan "supercommittee" to find $4 trillion in deficit savings, or "sequestration" would automatically be triggered — an across-the-board cut of $1.2 trillion in each party's priority: domestic programs and defense. Even under that self-imposed sword of Damocles, Congress failed to do its job, setting the cuts in motion. But House Republicans argued that the requisite cuts to defense funding would harm national security. Take the money from food stamps and health care for the poor, they cried, as they cradled the defense industry in their arms.
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Mother Earth Birth & Doula Services is now Mama Oceana Full-Spectrum Birth & Doula Services. You can find our new website at: http://mamaoceana-withwomen.webs.com/
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Hey everyone! I applied for and was granted a 75% scholarship to attend the 2013 SQUATFest weekend workshop held in San Francisco, CA in August! I am so excited that I received the scholarship. But now I need to come up with the money for a plane ticket [roughly $650] first and foremost, and anything extra will go towards lodging (I will be couchsurfing or staying in a hostel to save money, and for the experience!), food, any bus or taxi faire, and in case of an emergency. Every dollar helps! I have signed up to attend the breakout sessions that I believe I will most benefit from and to be able to offer new services to women including belly dance for birth, introduction to placenta preparation, full spectrum doula work, shamanic herbalism for the childbearing cycles/midwifery, and others. I plan on taking away every detail I can from this amazing opportunity and bringing that knowledge back to my community. Please share with your friends and help get me to San Francisco! All help and every dollar is appreciated-- may it return to you threefold.
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Benefits of Labor Support
~Benefits of Labor Support
(Source: Mothering the Mother, M. Klaus, M.D., J. Kennell, M.D., P. Klaus. Second edition of this book is called The Doula Book)
• Shortens Labor:
Length of Labor, study #1: No doula, 19 hours, Doula, 9 hours
Length of Labor, study #2: No doula, 15.5 hours, Doula, 7.7 hours
Length of Labor, study #3: No doula, 9.4 hours, Doula, 7.4 hours
• Increases your odds of a natural birth from 12% with no doula, to 55% with a doula
• Reduces requests for epidurals (which are indicative of the level of pain being experienced) from 55% with no doula to 8% with a doula
• Reduces the need to use oxytocin (a drug used to stimulate a labor that is not progressing normally) from 44% with no doula, and 17% with a doula
• Reduces the use of forceps from 26% with no doula, to 8% with a doula
• Reduces the need for C-Sections from 18% no doula, to 8% with doula
• At six weeks of age, babies with feeding problems are 63% with no doula, and only 16% with a doula
• Babies with colds or runny noses was 69% with no doula, 39% with a doula.
• New mothers rate their marriages as better after the birth only 30% with no doula, but 71% with a doula.
• Mothers expereinced several benefits: they report that they bonded much more quickly with the baby, could take their babies home sooner, and had fewer maternal fevers when supported by a doula.
• Cost Savings: It is estimated that a reduction of Cesarean sections from the current 20 to 25% average down to 10% would mean a savings of about $3,500 per birth, more than $2 billion annually. A reduction of epidurals from the current 80% down to 10% would result in an average savings of $1,300 per delivery, saving more than $4 billion annually.
• Penny Simkin writes in Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn that relaxation in labor will 1)conserve energy and reduce fatigue; 2) calm and reduce stress; and 3) reduce pain
• These are only the physical and financial aspects of labor support. See a recommended reading book,Secret Life of the Unborn Child, to understand the social impact of easier childbirth on all generations to come, as you understand how labor pain and maternal tension can increase incidence of criminal behavior and mental disease.

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Re: Evans new Level 360 drum heads
I purchased 2 sets of the Genera reso heads, one for my gigging set and one for another set of drums I should be getting soon. After installing the Genera reso heads, I noticed more brightness from the drums. This was in my studio though with no other sounds around. As far as playing live unmiced, I don't know if the extra brightness would come through to the audience. I did one gig with the genera resos but I couldn't record it, so I don't know how my recorder likes them yet.
I feel drums have all the low end you want. That's why I prefer a crisp papery attack, to balance out the lows inherent in drum tones. It's easy to add more low end to drums, with muffling, thicker heads, low tuning....but it's harder to make them crisper, brighter and more responsive without losing sustain.
Pity the genera resos dent more easily. I think I might like the tone as a batter.
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Familial DNA Merits Careful Use
Professor Hank Greely is quoted in the Star Tribune on the use of familial DNA, and the additional safeguards needed to ensure individuals' confidentiality.
California's "Grim Sleeper" serial killer evaded authorities for three decades until last summer.
That's when investigators turned to a controversial new type of DNA analysis -- a technique that merits careful use in Minnesota. Using familial DNA doesn't pinpoint the perpetrator, but it can generate new leads by potentially identifying the criminal's family members.
Lonnie Franklin Jr., a Los Angeles man in his late 50s, is suspected of at least 10 murders and is now awaiting trial. Officials trying to crack the cold case knew that DNA found at crime scenes did not directly match anything in law enforcement criminal databases.
Hank Greely, a law professor at Stanford University and the lead author of the law journal article, said it's not clear how many states use familial DNA, though California and Colorado have been at the forefront.
Stanford's Greely said additional safeguards are needed to ensure individuals' confidentiality. Having county attorneys sign off on this technique's use -- a provision that was in the bill at one time -- also should be reconsidered.


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While the big news in marijuana reform was that voters in Colorado and Washington State passed ballot measures legalizing marijuana, there were also some important victories at the local level in Michigan. Three of the largest cities in the state overwhelmingly approved local marijuana decriminalizing ballot measures.
Detroit, Michigan's largest city, overwhelmingly approved Proposal M. With 80 percent of precincts reporting, the proposal is at 60 percent yes to 40 percent no. The ballot measure makes it no longer a local criminal offense for adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana. Marijuana possession is still technically a crime under state law, but this initiative is a powerful message to local officials about how residents of the city want limited police resources used.
In Grand Rapids, Michigan's second most populous city, the voters approved Proposal 2 to decriminalize marijuana. As a result marijuana possession and use will only be a civil infraction in the city. People caught with small amounts of marijuana would only be subject to a $25 fine for a first offense and sightly higher fines for subsequent offenses.
The final big local victory for marijuana was in Flint. The local voters approved an initiative to remove the penalties for minor marijuana possession on private property for adults age 19 and older. With 95 percent of precincts reporting, the initiative is at 57 percent yes to 43 percent no.
Combined these three municipalities contain roughly 10 percent of the people in Michigan. Having the voters in all three cities vote to reduce or eliminate penalties for marijuana use is an important sign that a large segment of the state has turned against marijuana prohibition.


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The curse of black gold
Oil is bad news for a country: far from bringing prosperity, it is the harbinger of poverty, malnutr
Oil is bad news for a country: far from bringing prosperity, it is the harbinger of poverty, malnutr
by Nick Cohen Published
In the great 1970s sitcom Rising Damp, the late Leonard Rossiter played Rigsby, the miserable owner of a boarding house. In one episode, he was forced to find reasons to be cheerful when he had to talk a suicidal lodger down from the roof. After toying with the joys of the springtime, inspiration hit him. "Think of North Sea oil!" he cried. Those of us of a certain age can remember the thrill those three little words produced. Oil was going to take us from the dowdy 1970s and transform Britain into a prosperous and contented land.
It didn't quite work out like that. The dowdy 1970s were followed by the calamitous early 1980s, when unemployment went from one to four million. Much of the blame for the collapse of British manufacturing rested with Margaret Thatcher's demented monetarist experiment. North Sea oil revenues helped pay for the cost of keeping millions on benefit, so in that sense oil mitigated the worst effects of Thatcherism. But oil revenues also allowed Britain to tolerate mass unemployment and deeply damaged exports by further forcing up the already unsustainably high value of sterling.
Looking back, it is hard to see the oil as a blessing. In the developing world, the blessings of oil have been even more elusive. At about the time Rigsby was reeling in his tenant, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, a Venezuelan oil minister and founder of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, gave a prophetic speech to his countrymen. "Ten years from now, 20 years from now, you will see, oil will bring us ruin. It's the devil's excrement. We are drowning in the devil's excrement."
The usual complaints about the dependence on oil are that it destroys the environment and starts wars. A new report from Christian Aid adds poverty and corruption to the list.* It is written as a warning to the Iraqis as their oil flows again. They would do well to take it seriously. Oil has a history of impoverishing its producers.
In 1995, Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University and his colleague Andrew Warner looked at how the possession of oil and other raw materials affected national economies.
Conventional wisdom held that there was no better news for people than prospectors striking lucky on their land. Sachs and his colleagues found that, on the contrary, the more a country depended on natural resources, the lower its growth rate. Not quite believing his own results, he double-checked, introduced new variables and checked again. The results were indisputable.
Professor Michael Ross of the University of California backed them up with a chart which mapped oil sales against literacy and malnutrition rates. Each 5-percentage-point rise in oil exports was matched by a three-month fall in life expectancy and a 1-point rise in childhood malnutrition.
Nigeria is the clearest case of what Christian Aid calls the "oil curse". Possession of Africa's largest oil reserves did not prevent the proportion of households living in absolute poverty - that is, managing on $1 a day, or less - rising from 27.8 per cent in 1980 to 66 per cent in 1996. In Angola and the Sudan, the battles to control oilfields exacerbated the terrible civil wars brought on by tribalism and religion.
Alfonzo's Venezuela has earned $600bn from oil since the 1970s, but the real income per head of its citizens fell between 1973 and 1985, and is falling again today. Even those Arab oil countries that in the 1970s captured the popular imagination of the world with their fabulous wealth - Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Iran - saw their economies contract between 1970 and 1989: yet these were years that covered the supposed boom time of the Opec cartel.
Indeed, an underappreciated reason for Saudi Arabia's role as seedbed of the most brutish religious bigotry is that the promises of wealth its citizens received in the 1970s have proved illusory. Saudi Arabia has one-quarter of the world's oil reserves, and oil and gas exports account for 80 per cent of the country's exports, but it remains relatively poor.
The princes of the House of Saud have done very well, but the population as a whole has a per capita income of £4,300. Puerto Rico and Slovenia do better. St Kitts and Uruguay are only just behind.
The tiger economies that charged out of poverty in the second half of the 20th century did not have huge reserves of oil or any other natural resource. They defied conventional wisdom on a second count by ignoring free-market economics and relying on trade barriers to nurture native enterprises. Capitalist protectionism was tolerated by the United States in the cases of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia because they were its allies in the cold war, or, in the case of China after Mao died, imposed by the market-Leninist dictatorship.
Sachs and Warner explain the phenomenon of oil poverty by showing how the discovery of oil destroys native enterprise. An oil boom sends the currency soaring, making it harder for local manufacturers to export. Skilled workers leave industry and agriculture to service the new rich, who pay more for their labour. By using oil as collateral, governments are freed to build up enormous foreign debts. Grand projects proliferate, and the most popular form of aggrandisement is, invariably, the aggrandisement that comes from purchasing weapons.
The curse of oil is not confined to the developing world. Developed economies have suffered from the "Dutch disease" - named after the crash in the Dutch economy following the discovery of natural gas in the 1950s. Yet there is no logical reason why oil and gas wealth should always lead to poverty. The Netherlands and Norway, for example, eventually found ways of handling the windfall. With a little ingenuity, democratic governments can spread income and set up trust funds to encourage the diversification of industry.
The snag in that last sentence is found in the words "democratic governments". In the developing world, oil and corrupt autocracy appear to be natural partners. Britain's relations with Saudi Arabia provide a case study. The al-Yamamah arms deals in the 1980s were certainly the biggest and probably the most corrupt weapons sales in history. The corruption on the Saudi side was notorious: every prince who could get a bribe - or "commission", as bribes were tactfully called - grabbed one. The corruption on the British side was harder to pin down.
Al-Yamamah is likely to have been the British equivalent of the Elf Aquitaine scandal, which is currently shredding the reputation of the French political class. Unlike France, Britain does not have investigating magistrates and our parliament is controlled by the executive. All we know is that the only report the National Audit Office refused to release to the public or to MPs was the report on al-Yamamah, and that Jonathan Aitken's 1997 libel action against the Guardian was driven by his desire to cover up his links with Saudi Arabia.
What is certain is that the weapons sales made no military sense. According to the Campaign Against Arms Trade, "defence" absorbed 30-33 per cent of the Saudi government's budget in the 1990s, and 10-16 per cent of the national income. The spending continued despite huge budget deficits, an economic crisis and the knowledge that the usually mediocre weapons systems were not needed. A plausibly cynical explanation would be that the "commissions"that arms sales generated were a useful way for the princes to justify taking a cut of the profits from oil exports.
Oil might have been made to corrupt. It is best exploited by large companies - in theory there is no reason why one multinational could not manage the entire oil production of the Middle East. Concentration of ownership and concentration of power go together. A government need only do business with a few men at the top of a few companies. Sweetheart deals are easy to arrange. One reason why the pseudo-sophisticated argument that the Iraq war was "all about oil" didn't stand up was the way it betrayed an ignorance of the oil industry. The oilmen around Bush were perfectly capable of sparing him the trouble and expense of an invasion by cutting a deal with the tyrant.
The concentration of tax revenues is as malign as the concentration of power and production. Christian Aid says that, when a natural resource provides the bulk of a state's revenue, as in many oil-producing states, there is no incentive for the state to encourage the development of representative government. Oil removes the need to tax the population and win its consent for taxation.
Professor Michael Ross produced a second chart, which showed that when oil wealth rose, democratic rights fell. "Oil makes matters worse in countries where governments are already weak," he concluded. "It provides the income for a government to ignore its people and get on with the business of spending without questions being asked. Oil provides the reason and the means - it is a terrible opportunity forgone."
In Angola, the International Monetary Fund estimated in 2002 that $1bn of oil income disappeared in 2001 alone. Among the allegations that French magistrates have levelled in the Elf Aquitaine affair was the charge that the former president of the French state oil company paid "commissions" to secure Angolan oil contracts. By an uncanny coincidence, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the president of Angola, is not only Angola's most powerful man, but also its richest man.
A collection of essays from new Labour's Foreign Policy Centre** paints an even starker picture of dependence in Africa. Uganda has no oil, but because its government has tackled HIV and reduced poverty, aid has flooded in. Half the Ugandan government's income now depends on western governments and aid agencies. The ends may be admirable, but like the rulers of the oil-dependent states, the Ugandan government is more answerable to donors than to its citizens.
Finding ways out of dependence is far from easy. Third world activists and the British government have pressed the oil giants to publish the payments they make to states, which would be a start at least. BP agreed to reveal its dealings with Angola - although none of its competitors followed suit. The Foreign Policy Centre and many in the aid world have been heartened by the conditions attached to the financing of a $3.7bn pipeline between Chad and Cameroon. The World Bank lent money on condition that Chad dedicated 80 per cent of its oil revenues to education, public health, social services, education and rural development, and saved another 10 per cent for future generations. It looked like an inspiring deal, which might be a model for the future. But Christian Aid reports that Idriss Deby, Chad's president, was taking oil receipts to buy weapons as soon as the project began.
Just before the Iraq war, Barham Salih, the leader of the Iraqi Kurds, flew to Europe to make what will go down as the most fruitless appeal for fraternal solidarity in the history of the socialist movement. He asked all the nice white people who had supported the Kurds and opposed Saddam when Iraq was America's ally to remember their old comrades and back the destruction of the Ba'ath regime.
"Some of the people demonstrating on the streets said that this war is for oil," he told the audience at the Socialist International. "Iraqis know that their human rights have too often been ignored because Iraqi oil was more important to the world than Iraqi lives. It would be a good irony if at long last oil becomes a cause of our liberation - if this is the case, then so be it. The oil will be a blessing and not the curse that it has been for so long."
I hope he's right, but the record shows that the Devil's excrement is usually cursed.
* Fuelling Poverty: oil, war and corruption. Available at www.christianaid.org.uk
** Unbinding Africa: making globalisation work for good governance. From www.fpc.org.uk


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HOUSTON, Texas -- Felix Hernandez pitched six scoreless innings for his 100th career win and Seattle homered three times to back him up in a 7-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Monday night.
Hernandez (2-2) reached the milestone in his fourth try to join Jamie Moyer (145) and Randy Johnson (130) as the only pitchers to reach 100 wins with the Mariners.
Hernandez allowed five hits and struck out nine to lower his ERA to 2.08.
Kyle Seager, Jesus Montero and Kendrys Morales all homered for the Mariners, who snapped a three-game losing streak.
Rick Ankiel hit a solo homer for the Astros, who fell to 5-14 for the second-worst start in franchise history. They opened 4-20 in 1969, according to STATS.
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Good to finally have a full review up. I tend to agree that the "cons" were weighted more that I would have done, but overall a pretty fair assessment. I like what Sony has done with the A7/A7R and if I were buying a new camera today, it would be one of these. Not perfect, but very good for my style.
GREAT for landscape & street photography, natural light portraits, & using older manual-focus lenses. The accuracy of CDAF focus should be noted in addition to the slower focus compared to PDAF. Small/light weight FF such a huge plus.
NOT GREAT for fast action or sophisticated flash work. Limited glass selection means it is (temporarily) limited in native lens use.
I appreciate that the reviewers did not like the "feel" of the camera - as shown by the lowest score in "ergonomics and handling" - but also recognize this is the most subjective of sections, and the most customizable.
Overall, Sony deserves to be applauded for innovation, this pushes the art of Photography forward.
Thanks for the article.
I shoot almost exclusively with manual-focus lenses on my NEX-7, which has some of the same concerns as the A7/A7R. While not perfect, these platforms are a dream to use with these old lenses... I would also add that they take a lot of practice. The HUGE plus to me of the A7 over the NEX-7 is the inclusion of auto-ISO in manual mode. Great improvement for these manual lenses.
Getting tack-sharp focus at open apertures is tricky for computers or people, but it really does get easier with practice and getting used to the lenses. I actually feel somewhat disconnected with the act of photography trusting the auto focus now.
And yes, razor sharp rendering is not generally the description I would use for most of the older lenses. "Character" comes up a lot more.
I think these cameras are brilliant for Sony, and they deserve credit for both pushing the boundaries and for smart marketing.
Sony has attempted to stake out the "middle ground" in the camera world: not as small as M43, not as large and professional as Canikon. High IQ, relatively small packaging, it's been fairly successful, but not earth-shattering.
What I see with this announcement is the ability to sell the Sony Alpha system to everyone. P&S users can move to NEX by purchasing a cheap NEX3 system knowing they can migrate to a world-class e-mount full frame camera in future. Sony Alpha DSLR users can purchase their professional line knowing they can easily adapt their lenses to a much smaller system as backup or for travel or other photography where size/weight matters. Add in the option for both APS-C and FF and it's even more compelling.
I do believe these cameras will become a cornerstone / reason for many people looking to decide on a camera system for the future.
Not just the iPhone, but many of the later generation smartphones are perfectly acceptable replacements for "point and click" compacts and for gimmick shots like panorama (linear in the case of iPhone, or spherical in the case of Android). That camera market segment is rapidly disappearing as a result, with phones used to capture moments when one doesn't have a quality camera along. The only thing that caught my eye with these particular pictures was the apparently high-quality in-camera panorama stitching. Good to see phone manufacturers competing on this basis- it brings nothing but goodness for us consumers.
Lots of great cameras on this list. For me, the photography made possible by the RX-1 differentiates it. Having a spectacular 24MP Full-Frame sensor (have you seen the high ISO samples!?!) and immaculate 35mm macro-capable Zeiss lens in a camera that slips into a pocket makes this the camera that everyone wants, even if we mostly can't afford it... and even there, the closest camera feature-wise would cost 2-3x as much and weigh 5x as much.
If I could have any camera on that list, I would chose the RX-1, so it gets my vote.
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Hildred Gibson age 82 of Edmonton died Sunday December 9, 2012 at the Metcalfe County Health Care in Edmonton. He was the son of the late Sylvester and Lonie Mae Jessie Gibson. He was a retired carpenter and member of the Missionary Mound Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife Doris Gibson of Edmonton, one son Dale (Pam) Gibson of Edmonton, two grandchildren Amanda Gibson of Edmonton, Matthew (Karen) Gibson of Tompkinsville, and one great grandchild Mason Gibson.
Besides his parents he was preceded in death by his stepmother Elsie Gibson, half brother Trent Gibson, and infant sister Mildred Gibson.
Funeral services will be 1:00 PM Wednesday at the Butler Funeral Home in Edmonton with burial in the Missionary Mound Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from 4:30 PM until 8:00 PM at the funeral home.


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Two Myanmar kickboxers knocked out their opponents while another drew during the Let Hway Challenge Fight between Myanmar and the Philippines at Yangon's Theinphyu Stadium on October 7.
Fighters Tway Mashaung and Thetti Aung accounted for the knockouts. Khine Linn Oo fought to a draw.
Fans packed the stands eager to see how their countrymen would fare against international competition. But it was a frustrating start for Myanmar fans as Khine Linn Oo struggled to keep pace with his opponent Janito.
The Filipino quickly got the upper hand, using his height to his advantage. His long reach on strikes gave him a clear advantage. By the ending bell Khin Linn Oo had managed a draw; the effort was enough to maintain his positive reputation with Myanmar fans.
Thetti Aung made quick work of Rolando by landing a series of quick punches followed by a finishing elbow strike just two minutes into the first round.
Spectators grew even louder when fan favourite Tway Mashaung sent his opponent, Mike Ganado to the floor in the first minute of the second round of their bout.
Tway Mashaung, the winner of numerous domestic tournaments, showed his skills attacking with a variety of punches and kicks coupled with quick footwork.
At the start of the second round, Tway Mashaung seemed committed to finishing his opponent as quickly as possible. He launched a powerful left hook, which landed on Ganado's right jaw forcing a technical knockout.
Although the Myanmar side was triumphant in the tournament, fans were not satisfied with the short fights and felt that the Filipino side was greatly overmatched.
"I am happy with our fighters but I prefer watching the fights between local fighters because they are evenly matched and we have the chance to see what our traditional sport is," said one boxing fan.
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PHILADELPHIA – The School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania has launched SP2 Community Teamworks, a pilot program that involves local engagement as well as team-building through volunteer projects.
Modeled after Goldman Sach's Community Teamworks in New York City, School of Social Policy & Practice students, faculty, staff and alumni provide suggestions for and participate in local volunteer opportunities.
"Community Teamworks enables students from our five degree programs to work alongside faculty, staff and alumni on projects that will have a positive impact on organizations and agencies throughout the city," Richard J. Gelles, the School's dean, said. "Our students already contribute more than 250,000 service hours each year across the region through internships, practicums and field placements, but, as proactive agents of social change, we believe that there is always more than can be done."
Community Teamworks organizers, including its director, Ashley Mapp, have already coordinated with West Philadelphia residents to learn the community's needs.
"Recurring themes emerged in most of our community meetings," Mapp said. "These included disparities in education, the need for college access, numerous abandoned homes and the limited availability of extracurricular activities for children. Now that we have this information, we are able to shape our program so that it can be the most effective."
Gelles said the project's goals are two-fold.
"One, everyone involved with the School of Social Policy & Practice will be able to make sustainable improvements that will continue long after the day of service has been completed. And, two, Community Teamworks is a meaningful way to build a stronger community within the School itself. It's not often that students in our Penn Aging Concentration program are able to work side-by-side with students from our Non-Profit/Non-Governmental Organization Leadership program to better our neighborhoods."
School of Social Policy & Practice students, staff, faculty and alumni, along with local agencies, nominated 501c(3) non-profit organizations in Philadelphia using the School's online Project Proposal Form.
Nominees were required to be able to host at least 20 volunteers at their facility or project site and to have at least two employees at their site available to volunteer during the day of service activities, which will be completed between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. for three days during March and April.
Later this month, a committee of students, faculty, staff and local residents will select three projects from the submitted proposals. The committee will review each nomination to determine how the School can maximize its efforts and make the largest possible impact.
Non-profit organizations selected to participate in Community Teamworks will be notified in late February.
The plan is to start small with three projects for the spring semester involving only people affiliated with the School of Social Policy & Practice, but School administrators are optimistic that the program will eventually expand to include other schools and programs across Penn.
"Community Teamworks is another initiative from the School of Social Policy & Practice designed to illustrate our commitment to working with our neighbors," Mapp said.


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Three decades ago, Pastor Frank Holsclaw and his wife, Gail, were looking for a program to keep their young daughters, who both have special needs, busy during the summer.
When they couldnt find one for Joy and Abigail, they started J.O.Y. School at their church, Pawleys Island Presbyterian. J.O.Y. is short for Jesus. Others. Yourself.
Last week, the 30th season of the J.O.Y. School came to a close with a music and comedy program in front of an overflow crowd at the church.
Its really grown leaps and bounds since we began, Pastor Holsclaw said.
The support from all the different organizations, the churches and the community has really been great.
The Holsclaws have watched the children grow up, and the still get pleasure from seeing the kids full of happiness and joy, the pastor said.
The program, which is free for participants, takes place very June and July. Along with educational, music and drama activities, there are also field trips to the beach, a swimming pool, a bowling alley and boat rides.
A lot of these children, if they were not at a program like this would be at home, with their parents having to look after them, Pastor Holsclaw said.
So just to be able to see children be able to have a wonderful summer like other children are able to enjoy, that what thrills me the most.
This was the 24th year for program director Martha Insignares.
I cant imagine spending my summer anywhere else, she said. I cant imagine spending six weeks with any better people then these: the kids, the parents, the staff.
The title of this years closing program was In Search of the You Can Bird in the Rainforest. In additional to musical performances, many of the J.O.Y. School participants also told jokes and told the audience who their favorite teachers were.
This was the first year dialogue was added to the show, Insignares said.
Granger Brown of Pawleys Island signed up his brother George, for the first time this summer. George was visiting from Stillwater, Okla.
Brown said he doesnt know of any programs like J.O.Y. School in Oklahoma.
He had a great time, Brown said. I didnt know anything like this existed. And to see the turnout of how many people came out here in this small of a town, community.
Brown said he hopes to bring George back every summer.
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By Richard Stevens – Senior Writer/GoLobos.com
If you want to take the time to give some time to support New Mexico athletics, there are a number of good reasons to do so.
The events are fun. The act of going gets you off the couch. You are supporting events, teams and deserving student-athletes that represent your community and your state.
And here's another reason that you might not realize.
You are giving back to a group of outstanding citizens, who already have given a whole lot to their community and their state.
"We get amazing support from our community and it's an honor and a responsibility to give back," said Kit Vela, the University of New Mexico's women's soccer coach.
Said Jeremy Fishbein, the Lobo men's soccer coach: "We don't do community service just to clock hours. I believe individuals have an obligation to give back, not just to your community, but to humanity. You should want to be that type of person.
"You always want your athletes to do community service because of what they get out of it on a personal level and not because they have to do it," said Fish. "I know the majority of our athletes do it for the right reasons."
You can't look into the heart of each Lobo coach, student-athlete and administrator to know the motivation behind community service. However, you can toss out the hours given and see the value of it.
The Lobos generated 7,804 hours of community service in the school year of 2012-13. In case you think that is a misprint, let's toss out the number again: 7,804. You divide that number into 10-hour days and that's 780.4 days – in about a 10-month span. That number hovers around 22,000 hours over the past three school years.
"What I'm proud about the most is that a lot of our players do things on their own and aren't even trying to get attention for it," said Fishbein. "They don't even list their hours. They just do it because they get satisfaction out of it."
Said Kurt Esser, a senior associate athletics director at UNM: "A lot of our student-athletes do more than what is listed. We do a significant amount, but we don't do it just to make an impressive list. We're proud of it, but besides helping our community, an important aspect is maybe inspiring other people to give back to the community."
When you give more than 7,000 hours of volunteer service to your community and your state, you can't help but form an impressive list. Here are some of the areas that benefited from UNM reaching out to the community that supports the Lobos:
The Heart Gallery of NM Foundation, United Way, Coaches vs Cancer, Special Olympics, American Heart Association, a variety of projects with APS and schools around the state, UNM Children's Hospital, Carrie Tingley, St. Jude Children's Hospital, the VA Hospital, a variety of organization that fight cancer, heart disease, hospital visits, Red Cross, programs that assist the elderly, programs to benefit youth sports or community centers, Rotary Club, Toys For Tots, Bible Study groups, Boys & Girls Club of America, March of Dimes, State Fair events, Down Syndrome, American Lung Association, Diabetes fundraisers, fundraisers for firefighters.
The list goes on and on, but Lobo student-athletes have even donated time to improve hiking trails, have held food and clothing drives and have helped build houses for the needy.
"You give back for multiple reasons," said Vela. "One reason is keeping our humility. We need to remember and appreciate how fortunate we are to be on an athletic team. There are a lot of people who don't have the opportunities that we have.
"There are a lot of people in our community that need help and we should be one of the groups providing support. You need to give before you get and giving is invaluable. Our athletes also need to remember that they are role models and people look up to them."
As always, there has been a huge amount of community service dedicated to the youth of Albuquerque via time given to APS, youth groups, community centers and other schools and youth clubs around the state.
"It seems that each sport gravitates to certain areas and that's only natural," said Esser. "Kids always look up to the Lobos. "I think everyone who extends a helping hand to someone else ultimately realizes that they also are rewarded for the experience."
Editor's Note: Richard Stevens is a former award-winning Sports Columnist and Associate Sports Editor at The Albuquerque Tribune. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The computing cycles required to support these consumer on-line services, however, will take network demand way beyond the PC desktop browser standard and require enterprises and service providers to allocate up to 10 times the conventional compute power, according to research by Morgan Stanley. Internet application and web access devices like smartphones will potentially reach 10 billion units worldwide in the next few years, but it's important to understand the new standards for network availability resource demand, and usability attitudes, will come from more than smartphones alone.[1]
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Bear Necessity started as a bear party, but has become more a general gay dance party for real men.
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DJ Sergio was thé 2013 discovery for me and my friends!
Thnx Sergio for your splendid performance!
BN should solve the Bar-problem: it just takes too long to get drinks. You want to earn money so hire more people and sell more drinks.
Also the music can be much more exciting - you think the people come back for the music......I dont think so. There is just not much left in Amsterdam so there is not really much choice to go to.
Atmosphere is really good - attitude free.
Dutch gay men can be so ugly , in particular when dragged up as a bear, but still cursed with that ugly bitchy face. Avoid Amsterdam like the plague.
Nothing worse than all these international djs, going from city to city, with their famous on the scene name, and never delivering, never taking you on a journey of music and euphoria.
It's just monotonous beats, and piss idiotic older gays who got stuck in A'dam, pretending that they are still having as good a time as 20 years ago.
The bear thing is just an excuse. Obese people who pretend that fat is sexy.
To Mark365
You are discriminating. Cant'wait till you get to 50. What will you then do? Stay indoors? Not feel welcome because of bigots like you? Glad you don't like BN. Stay away. We don't need lowlife there!
Dear Mark365
I have never been to BN that's been worse than let's say ******.
Who is forcing you to pay 'that' ???? I think you should drop that person as your friend. You simply should not to go somewhere where someone is forcing you to go.
I also wonder where did you get that 55+ thing. I think you are confusing this event with some other one. If you like 18-21yo parties you should look for some other events and believe me, there are many of them.
Calling someone a 'desperate male' only shows you have a serious issue with your own look and age.
How about to keep looking for a party that you are happy with and leave the people that enjoy BN to keep enjoying it?
From the poster i can see one of the best djs micky galliano is coming from london. Last BN Mike J (Greenkomm resindent) and the one before Niko Krist from Cologne were playing + the residents. Makes me wonder if you just had a bad day when you wrote your comment. To Me BN is one of the biggest non commercial parties in Amsterdam along with Furball, Spellbound, XXL Leather, Ladz, Blue etc.
So much choice, hope you make the right one next you are out :o)
Sorry Guys !
There is no way you want to pay for that ! Bad music & useless stuff, that is a trademarks of this party. Most of the audience is a desperate males (55+) so for that kind of crowd quality is not in need (according to organizers). You can see that from the first minute you step in. What a waste of everything !!! Such a greedy idiots !!!
Dear BN team,
Next week I will visit BN for the first time. I just payd for two tickets.
I just want to let you know: compliments for the clear information and the professional way of payment !
Up to fryday and let's have FUN !
Dear Greg,
Thank you for your feedback about BN pride edition, we do apologies for the bar queue
For the bar, unfortunately we had 3 bartenders calling sick that evening, en we couldn't find a replacement for them.
Regarding the music I'm sorry you didn't like it, however this is BN music and it seems that the BN clubbers like it a lot, and that is the reason they come back.
It was indeed HOT at BN, the air-conditioning was on max, but to keep an 17century building
Cool with 1000 pax inside it is a huge challenge and we are working very hard to solve this issue!
Regarding the drinks, Odeon is not more expensive than any other club/Bar in Amsterdam.
I do hope that in your next visit you will have more fun.
Kind regards BN team
I had a great time at Bear Necessity. The place was crowded but not more than any other other events over the weekend. Yes, it was hot but Odeon will never beat Paradiso in this way. Music was good.
Shame I didn't meet the sourpuss posting bellow. I'd make him smile :) ...but then again, would I? He sounds like nothing would make him happy.
Went to this party last night. [4 Aug 2012 - AMS Pride Edition]
Let's start with the good:
Guys were great! I saw no attitude. Everyone was friendly and [trying to] have a good time together. It was truly good to be amongst so many laid back friendly men. : )
Now the Problems:
Music was lame. Same under beat pretty much the whole 3 hours I was there. It's like the DJ put his stuff on a loop and forgot it. There was NO TALENT in that DJ's set. I'm sorry if that seems harsh, but it's factual.
Sadly there were just too many people in the small space. You literally could not move. Couldn't dance. Most guys just standing around bobbing up and down a little. Most looked kinda bored.
The bar: YOU NEED MORE HELP! It was not uncommon to wait more than 20-30 minutes to get a drink. There was no rhyme or reason to the way service was poorly handled.
Drinks: Look, I understand that alcohol is "expensive" but this place took it too far. A single shot (if you could call it that...) was WAY over priced. Then you were charged for the "mixer" whether it was a juice or a soda or whatever.
There was pretty much no "selection" to choose from. You either got what was in the well. (Ref Vodka anyway)
This is unacceptable. When you've got to wait 30 minutes between WEAK drinks, it's pretty much impossible to even begin to get a buzz.
Before you say it, NO. Getting 3-4 drinks at a time was not manageable. You couldn't move around with one drink in your hand without spilling it everywhere, it would not have been possible to have more than that one.
Overall I'd say that the idea of the BN is a good one, but the execution was just bad. They either need a larger venue, or less ticket sales. Better bar service. And real DJ's. Not someone with a lot of "gear" playing what amounts to iTunes "DJ Radio" all night.
I won't return to this next year. I think Rapido XL or some other party is worth a try.
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Step back to 2000, when in the course of a week, Wyar-Romito's life took a drastic turn. The Johnstown, Pa., native was getting ready to graduate from Susquehanna with a degree in psychology. Her near-term plans were set. She had been accepted into a graduate program at George Washington University, where she intended to advance her study of psychology. But a fateful visit to the Career Development Center one day brought those plans to a screeching halt.
An ad for an assistant beauty and fashion editor at health magazine caught her attention. "Even though I didn't study journalism at Susquehanna, something in my gut told me to throw my résumé in the ring," Wyar-Romito says.
A week or so later, Wyar-Romito received a call from Trevisan, which was followed by two trips to New York City for interviews. When they met, the women clicked immediately. "She was this super- eager, weeks-away-from graduating, doe-eyed girl from Pennsylvania, and I knew she had the drive and the smarts to come up the learning curve quickly," Trevisan says. "I also loved that her dad was waiting for her in my lobby."
From there, life was a whirlwind. On May 13, 2000, Wyar-Romito turned 22.
The following day, she graduated from Susquehanna. She moved to New York City on May 16 and walked into the office of health magazine for her first day of work on May 17.
"My life completely changed all because Colleen took a chance on a totally inexperienced 22-year-old who happened to have the work ethic, drive and well-roundedness of a Susquehanna-bred graduate," Wyar-Romito says.


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Image above: Jeff Parness talks about the work and devotion that has gone into the nationwide effort to restore an American Flag recovered from the area around ground zero following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Image above: The National 9/11 Flag was raised over the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex after Florida's contribution was added. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Image above: Joe Dowdy, special operations manager at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, contributes stitches to Florida's contribution to the "National 9/11 Flag" during a ceremony at Kennedy on Feb. 18. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
› Larger image The contributions of NASA and Kennedy Space Center were stitched into the fabric of one of the nation's most recognizable symbols Friday when flags from Florida's Spaceport were sewn into an American Flag recovered near ground zero following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"The National 9/11 Flag" is on a cross-country journey to be restored to its original 13-stripe design using pieces of fabric from American flags destined for retirement in all 50 states. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex was the official stop for the state of Florida on Feb. 18.
"For our site to be chosen, you know, on one hand I believe is all together fitting and proper because what we do at Kennedy Space Center is dare mighty things on behalf of the American people and all of humankind," said Joe Dowdy, special operations manager at Kennedy. "Some of that involves sacrifice and certainly this flag is an incredible demonstration of what free people sometimes have to be called upon to do, to sacrifice even their own lives."
The Brevard Police and Fire Pipes and Drums kicked off the stitching ceremony, followed by the United States Air Force 45th Space Wing Honor Guard stationed at nearby Patrick Air Force Base and more than a dozen 9/11 first responders.
A host of Floridians were invited to take part in the stitching ceremony, including Danny McKnight, the retired Army Colonel who led the ground convoy in 1993's battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, the combat depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
Craig Carson, an agent with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office who was nominated to take part in the ceremony, spent eight to nine months helping with the recovery effort in New York City.
"It was miraculous," Carson said. "It seemed like the whole world showed up to New York City that day to help. It was amazing."
The flag has become one of the most enduring symbols of the recovery from the attack.
"A few days after the collapse of the World Trade Center this flag was hanging on a scaffolding at 90 West Street, which was a building directly south of the World Trade Center that was heavily damaged when the south tower collapsed," said Jeff Parness, director, founder and chairman of the "New York Says Thank You Foundation."
Charlie Vitchers, the construction superintendant for the cleanup of ground zero, sent a crew up to rescue the flag, Parness said. Seven years later, Vitchers donated the flag to the organization so it could make a new mark in American history.
LeRoy Haynes was a supervising fire marshal and commander of the Bronx/Queens Fire Department and was on the corner of New York City's Church and Vesey streets, headed to the emergency command center at the World Trade Center with co-workers when the first tower began to crumble.
"We all ran and that big cloud of dust and smoke started to come at me," Haynes recalled. "That cloud was coming faster than I could run, the wind blew my helmet off and at that point in time all I could do was dive under a car."
Haynes survived and gathered all the strength and spirit he could to help setup a triage center on Broadway later that day. Haynes said he remembered seeing the flag in the aftermath of the attack.
"The flag was a mess. It was full of holes, parts were burned, singed, and it looked like it had been in a war," Haynes said. "It was amazing that it was one of the few things still standing."
Earlier this year, "The National 9/11 Flag" became a symbol of healing at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green. Born Sept. 11, 2001, Green was killed at a town hall event held by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, on Jan. 8, 2011. Giffords is the wife of STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly.
"We realize that there are so many things that will never be made whole again, but this flag can be made whole again," Parness said. "There's this cathartic element of 'Well, I can finally do something. I can hold this needle and thread and try to make this whole.'"
The flags of Kennedy join other rich pieces of history, including parts of the flag that President Abraham Lincoln was laid on in 1865 after he was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
"I kind of think of America as this magnificent mosaic," Dowdy said. "It's composed of all these various events, various places that make us a very special country. So there's this wonderful parallel about what this flag represents and what we represent here at Kennedy."
The star-spangled banner, which brings new meaning to national collaboration, later stood proud amongst rockets and capsules from NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo days at the visitor complex's Rocket Garden. Including hundreds of people at Kennedy, "The National 9/11 Flag" is estimated to have touched more than 100 million lives.
Once complete, "The National 9/11 Flag" will become a permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial Museum being built at the World Trade Center site. There, America's flag can evoke a sense of pride, unity and hunger to keep achieving greatness, just as the nation's space program has for more than half a decade.


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