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Community reaction to a 90-day jail sentence — implemented by a visiting judge in a vehicular homicide case on Tuesday — has been harsh not only toward the judge but also one of the man's attorneys.
David Billings, 50, of Mountain City, was sentenced Tuesday to a total of nine years in prison — with all suspended except 90 days — in a Dec. 3, 2010 vehicular homicide and vehicular assault case that involved the death of 27-year-old Tanya Martin and the injury of her then-6-year-old daughter.
Billings will serve the remainder of his sentence on probation and as part of that, his driver's license was revoked for three years. He is not eligible for a restricted license due to the offense.
On the Johnson City Press website, readers commented on the report of the 90-day sentence with things like "pitiful," "ridiculous and sad beyond belief," "shocked and saddened," and "sickening."
Other readers compared Billings' light jail term to more harsh sentences for non-violent crimes. And others made mention that one of Billings' attorneys, Stacy Street, is now a judge and that's the reason for the light jail term.
But Billings' sentence was within the guidelines set out in state law. Based on his reported family life, consistent work history and lack of a criminal background, the judge could have given him probation outright.
Billings was represented by Street and Jim Bowman. Street is now a Criminal Court judge in the First Judicial District after being appointed to that position in April.
When asked Wednesday if he felt his presence influenced the judge's ruling in any way, Street said Blackwood is the most fair judge he's ever seen, and that it wouldn't have mattered if Street was at the table with Billings or not.
Street also said he made a point to not actively participate in the hearing because he didn't want any appearance of impropriety.
"Judge (Robert) Cupp has specifically recused himself from any case where I represent the defendant. That's why Judge Blackwood was brough in, to remove any appearance of impropriety because he's not a fellow judge," in this district, Street said.
"I did not participate in the hearing and that was the reason why. I had anticipated doing the sentencing hearing because I did the memorandum before I was appointed to the bench. Mr. Bowman and I agreed it would not be appropriate for me to handle the hearing," Street said.
In fact, Street said, "I will not argue a case in front of a judge now just so there is no appearance of impropriety."
Assistant District Attorney Ken Baldwin said there was nothing wrong with Street being at the hearing.
"The law gives him six months to wind up all of his cases. It was
appropriate for him to be there. He did not participate. He and Jim Bowman had been (Billings') attorney since the beginning," Baldwin said.
"I think Judge Blackwood did what he did because he felt like it was right under the law. It is a probatable offense. It is uncommon for a person to
get probation for vehicular homicide, but it's not unheard of."
The court had the discretion to consider all the possibilities. He made the decision he made."
Baldwin said the DA's office could ask the state Attorney General's Office to appeal the case, and Baldwin said there had been some discussion in his
office Wednesday morning about that possibility.
"We can request an appeal. The Attorney General's office in Nashville will decide if it has sufficient merit to appeal, whether the judge abused his discretion. "(Blackwood) cited the appropriate guidelines to justify his decision. That makes it very, very hard to appeal."
For Martin's family, what really matters is the light sentence Billings received for killing Tanya and injuring her daughter. The reality of Billings' sentence continued to sink in Wednesday.
"He needs to go to jail, but it can't be just jail," said Martin's sister, Aisha Martin. "He gets to say goodbye to his family. They should have taken him that day like he took my sister that day," she said. Billings was not taken into custody after the hearing Tuesday. Instead, he was allowed to delay his jail sentence until Aug. 16. Aisha, who read a portion of a two-page statement during the hearing Tuesday, said she wanted more jail time for Billings, but not necessarily an extensive amount of time.
"Community service," she said. "Give back to the community you took from. I felt like I was
saying, give his life back," but punish him, too, she said. Ninety days is not enough for Aisha or the rest of her family.
Blackwood did not specify any type of community service or drug and alcohol counseling, but the probation department could require Billings to go to counseling.
"I agree with what's right is right, but 90 days is not right," Aisha Martin said.
"While I believe (Billings) needs to be placed in jail to serve his time, I want more. I want him to learn and understand what he truly did. To him, he took a life. There's no significance to that. I want him to know who's life he took, not her name and face, but Tanya's and others' stories. He took a life and for that I do not wish him damnation or rotting in a jail cell. I think the greatest gift is life, so I believe he should give his life, everyday, to families that have lost loved ones because of the same reason he took Tanya's. Then he will truly know what he has done," she said in her statement to Blackwood prior to the sentence being imposed.
"Martin Luther King said, 'Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.' In saying that, jail is jail and that time, however long, will end. That is the punishment, but where is the lesson or rehabilitation? In helping others who have been wronged in the same way, he will not only understand what he did, but he will grow and forgive and become a better man. To live with his own conscience is eternal and both a gift and torture."
Aisha Martin said her family and friends of her sister hope to bring some kind of change in the law so other families don't have the same experience they did.Related articles:
Family shocked by vehicular homicide sentence
Man pleads guilty to homicide in Gray crash that killed woman, injured 6-year-old
Attorneys in crash death case say client wants to plea, but doesn't like state's offer


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The publisher of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Monkey Island, and the Lego Star Wars series, announced new leadership today. According to a statement obtained by GameSpot, LucasArts has named Paul Meegan, chief executive officer at Epic Games' China branch, as its president and general manager.
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As for the new boss, in addition to his work at Epic Games China, Meegan has served as executive vice president of production at Ubisoft Shanghai, studio director at Jaleco Entertainment, executive vice president at Ubisoft Montreal, and as president and founder of Sinister Games, Inc, which was obtained by Ubisoft in 2000.
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Maguro Enterprises LLC also known as Google requested and received more water for its previously announced expansion.
During a special meeting of Berkeley County Council, council unanimously gave full support behind an agreement allowing more water to the site. Maguros representative at the meeting, Colin Martin, would not disclose publicly how much water Googles $600 million expansion needs.
Its just getting more, Martin told The Independent.
The special meeting was held March 11 after councils regular committee meetings. Here are some of the actions taken:
The Human Resources and Purchasing Committee approved the new personnel manual, but has asked for a taskforce to study employee leave, which was not part of the approval.
The Human Resources and Purchasing Committee approved a bid by CPPB for asphalt paving material.
The Human Services Committee approved the purchase of a replacement vehicle for mosquito abatement. Two vehicles were damaged during the February ice storm, and the insurance company deemed that one of those was totaled, and paid the county about $13,000. Another $11,000 is needed to purchase a new vehicle, according to manager Jeff Cary. Cary added that FEMA funds may help with the purchase.
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"A great how-to book from an associate of the glitziest and most interesting personality in the real-estate business." (Bookpage)
"Interesting, but not very helpful"
The positive of this book is the fascination of hearing all about Trump's deals and how his out-of-the-box thinking gets him great deals and makes him lots of money. The negative is that everything is on such a large scale that it's hard to apply to most small investors.
I think the intention of the book was to use Trump as an example and show how to apply his ideas to the small investor. For me, personally, a lot of those concepts were over my head, but what I did get out of the book was motivation and inspiration. So I would recommend the book more on entertainment value than educational value.
"Solid Strategy with a Fascinating Story"
The book stresses strategy, but also addresses a lot of negotiating tactics as well. The book's written by George Ross, a long-time business associate and attorney for Donald Trump. It is solid and full of ideas we can put to work in business and especially in real estate investment. The key is always: "how do I add value?" Without an solid business answer to that question, the rest of the strategy rests on sand. But there are lots of other strategic and tactical ideas that the author covers in a systematic and clear manner.
Along the way, you get to know both Donald Trump. I was rather neutral on Trump before I read the book, but I come away with a new found and deep respect for the main's integrity, creativity and entrepreneurship. He's the real deal and it's a pleasure to understand how he thinks about real estate, investments and people.
"A book that pleased me,"
Finally a book on real estate that give some value in form of actual cases, tips and advices. Yes, there are obvious things that en entrepreneur already know. But for me it worked as reminders. A notepad could be good to have at hand.
"So so not my first choice"
The first half is just examples of what Trump has done in the past but doesn't have much to do with the average investor. It mostly applies to big-time commercial investors but doesn't really get into much detail. The second half has more applicable tips to use in real estate.
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It says it can be for smaller investors but it really isn't. just a bunch of Trump deal case studies.
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His ability of transforming unsolvable into a great winnings. Besides the normal real estates invesment, Trump came up with deals nobody would think of made him this rich.
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Kelley: St. Patrick's Day brings more spending of the green
So what does St. Patrick's Day mean to you?
If there are only two kinds of people in the world — the Irish and those who wish they were — guess which kind will be honoring the ancient apostle with green beer?
Seventy million Irish emigrants and their descendants find themselves scattered across the globe. Some 4.5 million additional pairs of Irish eyes are smiling from the Emerald Isle. This evening, many of them will be raising glasses of Harp lager or Guinness stout —unadulterated by food coloring, I might add — with the following toast:
"St. Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth, drove all the snakes from Ireland, here's a drink to his health! But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then, forget the good St. Patrick and see them snakes again!"
In honor of Ireland's favorite symbolic serpent wrangler, however, big cities and small towns across the fruited plain will celebrate the feast day of the mitre-headgeared Irish icon via parades, the "wearing of the green," Celtic music, Irish food, and "Kiss Me I'm Irish" lapel pins. The Irish, on the other hand, are more than mystified as to all this conviviality. Isn't Patrick Ireland's patron saint?
Last year, for the first time, the water in the fountains on the north and south lawns of the White House got a special March 17 treatment at the behest of Michelle Obama. Apparently, the annual transformation of her hometown river from a murky brown to an eye-popping emerald green inspired the First Lady to transplant the St. Paddy-honoring custom to Washington, D.C.
Chicagoans have Stephen Bailey to thank for their once-a-year magical makeover. In 1961, he discovered that an orange dye used to detect leaks in the concrete channelizing the waterway could safely turn the Chicago River a "perfect Irish green."
Not only was a tradition born that day, but, as Bailey would insist, the route from Chicago to Ireland could be momentarily marked in the appropriate hue. Indeed, observers keenly track the progress of the verdant mass of water as the Chicago River flows into the Illinois, down the Mississippi, up the Gulf Stream, and finally across the Atlantic to the Irish Sea.
While the world's first St. Patrick's Day parade took place in New York City — not Ireland — some 248 years ago, Ventura County takes great pride in its own "Erin Go Bragh" extravaganza.
Last Saturday morning, Ventura Elks Lodge No. 1430 presented its 22nd annual St. Patrick's Day parade. The grand marshal was none other than Zachary Levi, who plays Chuck Bartowski in the eponymous NBC hit show, but he was unceremoniously upstaged by the appearance of Shamrock, the biggest inflatable green pig in the world.
Last year, nearly all holidays were dampened by the recession, and March 17 was no exception. This year, however, the spending of the green is up — with the grand total of St. Patrick's Day purchases predicted to surpass $3.44 billion.
According to a March 8 National Retail Federation survey, of those planning to commemorate St. Paddy's Day, eight out of 10 (80.8 percent) will be content with simply donning something green.
The survey reported that one out of every three plan to consume a traditional Irish meal. Like clockwork, 42.1 billion pounds of corned beef and 2.6 billion pounds of cabbage are already on sale at local supermarkets. Even authentic Irish soda bread, plump with raisins and marked by an indented cross, is available as an in-house bakery special.
Spending is projected to surge in all age groups but in consumers between the ages of 18 and 24, experts are expecting a March 17 blowout. Each young adult is likely to fork over $40.18 this year, up from $36.05 in 2009. In addition, 39.2 percent of this demographic are planning on attending a private party or whooping it up at a bar or restaurant, compared with 35.4 percent last year.
Nobody could be greener with envy than those who aspire to own a pub as authentic as Dargan's in Ventura, Garman's in Santa Paula or Old Dublin in Oxnard on this particular night. Yet all sectors of the Ventura County economy must be rejoicing that residents seem willing to shake off their financial woes for 24 hours as they attempt to pass themselves off as citizens of the Ould Sod.
So no matter what St. Patrick's Day means to you, before you quaff that adult beverage sweating on a cocktail napkin festooned with leprechauns, keep this final toast in mind: "An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth."
Hold on and stay off the road.
— Beverly Kelley , Ph.D., who writes every other week for The Star, is an author ("Reelpolitic" and "Reelpolitic II") and professor in the Communication Department at California Lutheran University. Visit http://beverlykelley.typepad.com/my_weblog/. Her e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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What are muscle conditions?Muscle conditions include any disease or injury affecting the body's muscles and resulting in dysfunction, atrophy, or paralysis. The most common cause of muscle conditions is injury.
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Muscle conditions associated with injury are common. Disorders of the muscles due to inflammation (myositis), or myopathies (diseases of muscle tissue) occur less frequently and vary by specific condition.
Muscle conditions develop as the result of several processes. Injury-related muscle conditions most commonly result from overuse or trauma. Muscle disease may be caused by inflammation, genetic conditions, infection, cancer, or nerve disease. Most commonly, people develop muscle inflammation due to an injury, such as a strain or sprain. Overuse of a muscle resulting in inflammation of a tendon (tendinitis) is a common muscle condition. Less commonly, genetics play a role in muscle conditions that affect the neural, hormonal, or metabolic regulation of a muscle or muscle groups. Soft tissue sarcomas are a type of cancer that can cause a number of muscle conditions.
The signs and symptoms of muscle disorders vary by type. Acute injury-related muscle conditions can resolve relatively quickly whereas genetic or disease-related muscle conditions may last indefinitely. Muscle pain, spasm, stiffness, weakness, atrophy, and even paralysis are possible symptoms. Fortunately, many muscle conditions can be treated successfully with rest, anti-inflammatory medicines, physical therapy, and, in rare cases, surgery. Even better, you can reduce your risk of overuse-related muscle conditions by proper conditioning and warming up prior to engaging in strenuous activity.
In rare cases, muscle conditions may be a sign of a serious neuromuscular disorder. Seek immediate medical care (call 911) for serious symptoms, including difficulty lifting the front part of your foot and toes, weakness in your legs, feet or ankles, hand weakness or clumsiness, slurring of speech or trouble swallowing, or muscle cramps and twitching in your arms, shoulders and tongue.
Seek prompt medical care if you are being treated for muscle conditions but mild symptoms recur or are persistent.
What are the symptoms of muscle conditions?
Muscle conditions cause dysfunction of the muscle fibers due to inflammation, nerve impingement, or nerve disorders and can cause a number of symptoms. The symptoms can vary in intensity among individuals.
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Roane County has been awarded $6,506 in federal funds under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Programto supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county.
The selection was made by a national board chaired by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and consisting of representatives from the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, United Jewish Communities, Catholic Charities USA, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA and United Way of America.
Roane County Executive Ron Woody is now accepting nominations for the fourth annual Governor's Volunteer Stars Awards in Roane County.
The awards celebrate the efforts of volunteers who strive to improve their communities through service.
The Tennessee Bar Association is urging attorneys to offer free legal services to those unable to afford a lawyer throughout October as part of the national Celebrate Pro Bono initiative.
Activities will include legal advice clinics, education programs, public presentations and other events.
The initiative kicked off with legal clinics in Franklin and Johnson City on Oct. 1, with more than
35 events planned across the state during the month.
The Kerbela Roane County Shrine Club "Lady Shriners" will have a spaghetti dinner and silent auction from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 8 in Union Lodge 38 at 550 W. Spring St., Kingston.
This event will raise funds for Shriners Children's Hospitals, which will receive all the proceeds.
The Shriners Hospitals for Children treats children with burns and orthopedic problems with no cost to the patient or family.
Transportation is also provided, along with accommodations for the family during the child's hospital stay.
Jessica Tamar Allen of Rockwood and Corey Dustin Jones of Harriman were married on May 20 in Liberty Baptist Church, Kingston.
The Rev. Randy Griffis officiated during the 7 p.m. ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Keith and Buffy Allen of Rockwood.
The groom is the son of Charlie and Kim Jones of Harriman.
The bride, escorted by her father, wore an A-line silk ivory dress with beaded lace embroidery throughout with fabric and lace flowers sewn onto the skirt and chapel-length train.
Cynthia Lynn Franklin and Jody Louis Will were married on July 23 at Chapel at the Park in Gatlinburg.
The Rev. Timothy McIntyre officiated during the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Don and Barbara Franklin of Kingston.
The groom is the son of Tim and Patty Will of Athens.
Following a wedding trip to Alaska aboard the Carnival Spirit, the newlyweds are at home in Kingston.
Jaycee Ann Hall was born Sept. 3 in University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville.
She weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces, and was 21 inches long.
She is the daughter of Robby and Heather Hall of Lancing,
Grandparents include Anthony Phillips and Tammy Stepp of Kingston, Robert Hall and Anita Hall of Lancing, and the late Lois Melton Hall.
By Ellen Probert Williamson
There is little, when one thinks about it, that is new in gardening. Much of it is actually very old indeed.
The terraced gardens of skyscraper city apartments hark back to the hanging gardens of Babylon. The stepped-back-style of city architecture traces its roots to the Aztecs, Incas and Biblical times. In addition to providing sunlight and air, it creates terraces for gardens.
25 Years Ago
"Just Say No Clubs" began forming in Harriman and Kingston schools as a part of the state's effort to eradicate the misuse and abuse of drugs through education.
10 Years Ago
Rockwood firefighters had a poster contest as part of National Fire Prevention Week. Since funding for the program had been cut by the state, Rockwood Firefighters Association Local 4043 donated funds to pay for trophies presented to third- and fifth-grade winners.
Five Years Ago
Harriman firefighters face life-threatening situations regularly.
They certainly aren't afraid of a little pink.
The city's fire department now has candy-pink T-shirts sporting the message "firefighters for a cure."
October is breast cancer awareness month.
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One of the fun parts about eating traditionally, is looking back into your heritage, and pulling recipes from old cookbooks, or from grandma's recollection. It gives you a connection to the world that your grandparents/great-grandparents grew up in(which was VERY different than today). It gives you respect for the ones that came before you, and how they lived.
Unfortunately, both of my Grandma's have passed away, but are vibrantly living in the memories, and small treasures that they have left behind. In Grandma Shirley's case, it is her boxes and boxes of recipe cards, that she lovingly wrote by hand (and copied by hand to give away).
Grandma Shirley was known for her wonderful cooking, and I attribute my love of cooking and all things food to her. Every time I would walk into the house, I would be met with an irresistible smell of her good cooking, a huge smile from behind the kitchen island and a bounding hug. I do wish that I had learned more from her in the way of traditional foods. When I was a child, I remember her making huge batches of sauerkraut, but had no interest then in making a food that had such a pungent smell (though I love that smell these days)…
I have memories of my father talking about one of the dishes that he used to eat as a child, and I was revolted at the thought of eating Liver and Onions. My ignorance is funny to me now, as I go out of my way to put liver into many things that my family eats, such as my liver meatballs, burgers, and liver bolognese.
I do wish I could find my Grandma's recipe for Liver and Onions, but I will keep searching through miles and miles of small recipe cards, and am sure to find some AMAZING traditional recipes along the way!
For now, I will share my favorite recipe for Liver and Onions, and hope that one day, and aspire to be half the woman that my Grandma Shirley was.
In my recipe, I add bacon, like they do in England…
because bacon makes everything better
(Grandma Shirley is nodding her head in agreement).
- 4 slices pastured bacon, cut into ½ inch pieces
- ½ lb grass-fed beef liver, diced into ½ inch pieces, and coated lightly in arrowroot flour
- 1 tbsp pastured butter, ghee, or coconut oil
- 1 large yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1¼ cup beef bone broth (preferably homemade)
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- Cook the bacon in a frying pan on medium high heat, until crisp and set aside.
- Brown the liver for about a minute on each side in the reserved bacon fat.
- Set the liver aside with the bacon.
- Add your preferred fat, and the onions. Don't stir the onions for at least 3 minutes, to let caramelize. Turn the onions, add the garlic and cook for 3 more minutes without stirring.
- Add the beef broth and tomato paste.
- Add sea salt and black pepper to taste.
eat. love. nourish.


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Finally saw I'm Still Here, and it was pretty good, but more obviously fake than I had expected it to be, given the confusion and 'controversy' and 'is it or isn't it' that seemed to surround it at the time. So many scenes just didn't make sense if you thought them through logically and took them at face value. I didn't buy the most notorious scene for one second. (But it was funny)
Why did I like it then? I guess I'm just a fan of the fake-documentary in general. So I'm an easy pushover. But it should be said that Joaquin Phoenix did a brilliant job. Although for my money, Mail Order Wife is the all-time masterpiece of the genre. You can watch it on Hulu I believe. And, you should, because it is hilarious.
The fake documentary did make me curious about the real Joaquin Phoenix and got me to thinking about the Phoenixes in general. I know so little about them. What is Rain doing? Etc. The film opens and closes with Joaquin in Panama, at what one gathers is his father's house. Why does Joaquin Phoenix's father live in Panama? And why does he dress like a Sandinista nowadays?
The obvious conjecture that suggests itself is that this is an ex-hippy we're dealing with, and a few clicks on Wiki later, sure enough, Joaquin & River's parents were members of the Children of God / Family International cult, which is known primarily for its innovative technique of 'Flirty Fishing' – having its female members offer sex to try to get recruits/donations. Or, as some courts have charged, running a prostitution ring.
By the way why do so many commune/cult members seem to have turned out actors as their progeny? The Phoenixes, Winona Ryder, Beck the musician is a Scientologist, etc. It almost seems as if actors are the main, if not only, lasting cultural legacy of cults. What is it that cults do exactly that produces good actors? Is it just the child sexual abuse or is there more to it? Were historical actors in e.g. ancient Greece, etc. also generally produced by their equivalent of cults? One wonders.
Then there is the odd fact of Joaquin's friend and 'assistant' Antony, who it appears is his real friend and assistant in real life, but who is also the guitar player for Spacehog. Spacehog were pretty good! What the hell is their guitar player doing being Joaquin Phoenix's personal assistant? Is that really the way things work in rock/Hollywood? For some reason I find that incredibly depressing. If I dug into things would I find that Blur's bass player fetches espressos for Jude Law, that the Stone Roses's drummer shaves between Matt Damon's eyebrows for him weekly, that the lead singer for Cast orders the escorts for Shia LaBoeuf?
I'm Still Here raised all these questions and more for me. Oh, I guess Casey Affleck & Joaquin wanted to say something about celebrity (or something) too. I'm not sure they did. But did you know that Beck is married to Giovanni Ribisi's sister? And that they're Scientologists too? Actually, sort of Scientology royalty (second-generation)? She had a small acting career too – she was the redhead in Dazed And Confused. I thought of all these things and more while watching I'm Still Here. It gave me that sort of time/space. Come to think of it, maybe the film itself wasn't that great. But Joaquin's rapping wasn't that bad either. Kind of a wash really. Maybe the main point of the film is that rap is kinda easy. But at the same time, you walk away with a real respect for P. Diddy and the professionalism he brings to what he does. And so on.
Okay, let's just say the movie was 'thought-provoking' in the literal sense of the term and call it a day. I have no real point here. And in the end, wasn't that the point?
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Had a chance to look at most of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a second time, and got to wondering what exactly made it miss the mark. When I wrote about it before my main complaint was the CGI, and that criticism does hold up. But if I can forgive CGI in fully green-screen film like Sky Captain, I can deal with it in Indy.
I've decided the real problem is just Shia LaBeouf. Everything else, on paper, is fine:
The most iffy part is the 'ancient aliens' storyline. But this basically worked fine and is pretty consistent with the other Indy movies, all of which featured the cheesy supernatural.
Having the bad guys be the Soviets? Refreshingly fine.
It's totally fine and, in fact, makes total sense to set the story far later than the others and give Indy a grown kid. Harrison Ford is pushing 70 after all.
The story (therefore) takes place in the late '50s, so the kid is kind of a rebel, with a leather jacket and switchblade, etc. Ok sure. Totally makes sense.
It's totally cool that the kid is with Marion Ravenwood, but adventuring Indy didn't know about him, and I'm totally on board with bringing Karen
Black Allen (heh – thanks George!) back.
Even some of the details about the kid: dropped/kicked out of several schools, but highly intelligent, hangs around with the academic set, and also trained in stuff like fencing, but with a disrespect for authority. Yes, yes. That's Indy's kid.
And the general notion of grooming Indy's kid to be the next Indy is totally fine. Indy's got to pass the torch at some point.
All of that is fine. If you had described all of that, and nothing more, to me I'd have said you had the ingredients of a perfectly workable Indiana Jones movie. Some of the set pieces are pretty good, while others are irritating (and the movie at times is just a string of set pieces), but even that is well within the Indy tradition.
The only real problem I can see is that as Indy's kid Mutt, the next Indy, the rebel misunderstood greaser to which Indy needs to pass that torch, they cast Shia LaBeouf. Indiana Jones is a swashbuckling adventurer played by the man's-man actor of our time. Harrison Ford may be a shorty (and, I think, a bit of a weirdo) but he is almost universally beloved as a strong, rugged ugly-handsome hero type, a cowboy with a bit of Bogart in him. And whatever else you may think of him, you just don't look at Shia LaBeouf and think, "chip off the Indy block" or "the next Harrison Ford". You think, "Disney Channel superstar". And that's a problem.
Why exactly did they do this?
I'm not even anti-Shia, as such. I think he's fine for the role he plays in those Transformer movies, for example, because he's supposed to be a dweeby, overlooked everykid. But for Indy, Jr.? Seriously, what were they thinking?
Does Steven Spielberg like Shia LaBeouf because he sees in him a younger, cooler version of himself, or something? Because that's the only explanation I can think of.
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Another bah-humbug thought that won't ever win me any popularity contests is that the existence and continued production/popularity of "jewelry", which just offends my intelligence. Imagine: vast amounts of capital is utterly wasted digging up/honing little rocks, and shaping melted metals, to put on women's, like, fingers and ears. These things by definition and construction serve no actual purpose whatsoever, and cost vast amounts of money at least when compared to their size and usefulness. Yet women – in what, as far as I'm concerned is the most challenging and serious paradox for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes – actually demand these completely-useless things. All the time, and throughout their lives.
The standard explanation is that they believe (or at least act as if they believe) that "jewelry" – i.e., shiny rocks – can make them more beautiful. Which is to say, I guess, that an ugly woman with jewelry on can be no longer ugly, or that a beautiful woman with jewelry on somehow gets beautifuler. Now, as far as I can tell this is not a conclusion that has been drawn by actually asking men what they thought. It seems to have been decided amongst women themselves. But men do pretend to believe it too (indeed some may do so in the comments) – usually because they have to, or think they have to, in order to get women.
No one has an interest in admitting the truth (which is that jewelry is essentially a signalling/superiority strategy directed at other women – "look at what I got this dumb-ass man to waste his money on, just by me being me; it's shiny so you can't avoid looking at it; now I am superior to you"). Women of course will never admit that this is why they want to have jewelry even though there is no other rational reason for it (and even they can't be so dumb as to believe that the difference between them being beautiful and not, them getting a man and not, is having some shiny rocks on their bodies). Meanwhile, men have no interest in admitting they are so dumb (and desperate to get into her pants) that they fall for the whole thing – so they fall right into line and play-act the way the de Beers commercials teach them to. So you end up with a stable, neverending arms race of jewelry buying. The result is, of course, by definition a complete deadweight loss to society.
Women are supposed to be the kinder, more caring and sensitive sex. They support social programs up the wazoo. They care! Yet at the same time, in reality they demand that vast, vast expenditures be spent in Third World countries on gathering and making shiny objects. Without this STUPID preference on this USELESS expenditure, society would be significantly wealthier. Literally: less people would go cold, or hungry, or starve. Maybe that's why I always appreciated this Sarah Silverman sketch so much – it basically says it all:
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Merry Christmas to all.
But this still seems relevant.
I mean it: if I could sign bilateral mutual disgiftament pacts with the various adults around me without causing social ostracism, I would do it in a heartbeat. I was thinking how it could actually be done logistically: someone sets up a centralized website where you create an account, with basically just your name and location, and you list the various adults with whom you'd be interested and prepared to sign disgiftament treaties. Now, they don't know they're on your no-gift list unless/until they list you too (or already had) – so, no ostracism, no shame. But if they DO list you too, you are both notified, and both should be happy about this, thus the disgiftament treaty is immediately and permanently triggered, to be enforced by The Honor System. From there on all that remains is to publicize the website, to make sure everyone's aware of it. Once it catches on I think it could go viral. The boost to our economy (from removing a sizable chunk of the deadweight loss that gifts represent) would be not insignificant.
Because everything I say/write tends to be glazed over with sarcasm (even when not intentional), let me just make this as clear as possible: I actually, sincerely think this is a decent idea for a website. In fact, it may be the best idea I have ever had in terms of how it would help humanity. Again: not being sarcastic!
As an alternative, perhaps a Standard Alternative Gift Tax – a yearly flat fee that one could commit to paying other adults in lieu of the various asinine birthday/holiday gift obligations we now have. If it were reasonable, say $100-300 range, I'd switch over to the SAGT track for many people. Of course, if two adults are on the SAGT with each other, you just cancel them and it becomes de facto mutual disgiftament. Beautiful.
Either way, whether we go with the Disgiftmanet or the SAGT, Merry Christmas! Ho ho ho!
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Some folks have a bee in their bonnet about the filibuster & have been agitating to get rid of it for a while now. (Except, of course, when it was used by Senate Democrats to block George W. Bush's judicial appointments – in which case it was a key cornerstone of the Republic.)
I guess I can understand the intellectual arguments on both sides, but (as often happens) what I can't understand is the passion. What drives a person to feel so strongly about the supposed need to get rid of the filibuster that they blog about it endlessly? I mean, even if my position (which, I'm not even sure I have one) were to get rid of the filibuster, I still wouldn't care.
At face value, one can only interpret such caring to indicate that the carers passionately want the Senate to be constantly doing stuff. If the Senate isn't doing stuff, or is thwarted from doing as much stuff as a majority of it seemingly would like to, that's something akin to a tragedy and certain people just can't abide it. Why, the Senate could be doing more stuff – writing more laws and regulations, handing out more pork and earmarks – and it's not! Ipso facto, reform is needed – say some people.
It's similar to the left's approach to treaties. 'It's a treaty! I haven't looked into it too deeply but we should probably sign it! Why are you against it? What are you, just against all treaties?'
Theirs is a bias for action, or (at minimum) for a stance according to which 'action' and 'non-action' start out on an equal footing, and in each opportunity for an 'action' you need the argument for non-action to outweigh the argument for action. Otherwise, they're for action!
It's difficult to convey just how alien a point of view this all is from mine. I guess it's fair to say I have a bias for inaction. All other things being equal, and lacking other information or highly compelling reasons to the contrary, my default answer to 'should we do it?' is No. I certainly don't feel any strong compulsion to try to make the Senate able to do more stuff daily nor does its current (supposedly too low) rate of doing stuff make me feel sad, incomplete, or unsettled. In the most fundamental way possible, this is all just a statement of the fact that I am conservative.
So maybe I am extreme. But the opposite point of view seems extreme as well. Whatever you think about this or that Senate, or this or that issue, the notion that the United States needs the Senate to be constantly doing stuff strikes me as pathologically bizarre and disconnected from reality. As if our lives couldn't continue if the Senate stopped doing stuff! This bespeaks a mindset that seems a little too steeped in bureaucratic thinking. Like a middle manager who thinks their PowerPoints are so important, there's a class of politically-agitated folk which sees our DC masters as something akin to the engine or heartbeat of our country – if they are 'paralyzed', if they stop, we all stop. That's why filibuster reform is so important!
My inclination is to assert that no one with (simultaneously) a real life, a real job, a real background, a real family, real responsibilities, and real experiences could possibly think this way. But I guess, by the same token, I do understand why DC elites, various classes of self-anointed intelligentsia, and the wunderkind bloggy commentariat think this way.
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Most of you will recognize this logo, the beloved eagle of the U.S. Postal Service:
Now, I've just spent several hours using my deft computer-artistry skills to highlight how, I gather, we're supposed to visually parse this image. I have colored the eyes blue, the beak yellow, the wings brown, and the talons orangeish. Et voila le result:
Hopefully, if you're sane, this is how you already saw it. But me? I never saw an eagle at all. Instead – well into my tweens – I always saw a strange, little, badly-drawn mailman with a hat, striking an odd pose & doing a sort of kick with his obscured right leg, holding what I now think must be a napkin draped over one arm, and ceremoniously presenting a letter to the viewer (is he a mailman or a waiter?) with the other. Something a little bit like this:
I always wondered why the U.S. Postal Service saw this as a good logo, thought mailmen would ever stand this way (and I could never quite parse how he was meant to be standing), and why they didn't know what their own hats looked like.
But, I just understood it to be a highly-stylized impression of a mailman, something like an example of (what I might have later learned to call) cubism or futurism or somesuch, and just figured I had a lot to learn about the basis for and background of the U.S. Postal Service logo. Great mysteries awaited me, and that was ok.
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And these aren't real thoughts….
Kids in a certain age-range seem to crave sugars & starches (and absolutely nothing else) so much that maybe we should just listen to them. Maybe 4-12 year old kids just need a crapload of sugar and starch, biologically (and not only that but if there's any 'green stuff' on or mixed in with or even near the rice, or noodles – or any kind of non-cheese-based sauce near it at all – this destroys the starchy nutritional value their young bodies need). And maybe by resisting all this and trying to heartlessly force e.g. vegetables, etc. on them we're inadvertently causing a national epidemic of sugar-starvation. Why aren't we listening to the evolutionary signals our kids are trying to send us? I'm actually kinda starting to talk myself into feeling bad about it.
You know how you can either buy like brand-name cereals, or generic knock-off versions that cost half or 1/3rd or 1/4th as much? I noticed that the knock-offs don't have cool stuff (cartoons, games, etc.) splashed all over the box (if they even have a box – often they're in bags). And I miss all that stuff. There's nothing to read/play while you eat! You think they have like expert comic-book authors and game-creators on staff, to create those things? Maybe that's what you're actually paying for when you buy the brand-name cereals. And, indeed, maybe they're actually a good value – and the knockoffs are a ripoff – when you factor that in. Have we all been duped by Big Generic?
The politics of marijuana legalization are strange to ponder, because often the same people who want to demonize, regulate, propagandize against cigarettes – but of course, tax them and use those taxes as crucial funding! – are the ones who want to legalize marijuana. But it's not like marijuana cigarettes ("doobies" or "joints" in the vernacular, I hear tell) are somehow wholesomey-good for your lungs, or that the arguments used against tobacco cigarettes somehow magically don't apply to marijuana cigarettes. So what's going to happen when the latter are legalized? Is the idea to legalize-and-then-demonize? Maybe there's just a dual morality at play in peoples' minds: cigarettes are evil precisely because they're legal, whereas marijuana gets a pass cuz it's not? But then what happens when it is? Or will (in a legalized scenario) Big Marijuana get a pass because (we all assume) its kingpins won't generally be easily-despisable fat bald white men from North Carolina, but rather, Birkenstock-wearing balding-up-top-yet-gray-ponytail-sporting sensitive NPR-listening hippy types from Reading, California, and we don't mind them getting rich? (At least, I think we don't. That's what it seems like.)
By now everyone has noticed that their supermarket chain wants to track all the food purchases you make. You either have a card or use your phone number and get little pseudo-discounts for letting them do it, and this helps them do data-mining. Fair enough, I suppose, but I wonder if/when the supermarkets (or whatever consulting firms they outsource the analysis to) will start to realize that the data they get just might be polluted by a load of crap? It's not like a huge amount of security or quality control is applied to this ID tracking involved. You can just borrow someone's card, or give them any old phone number (your wife's, friend's, etc); actually I often get the impression that the cashier would be perfectly willing to just let you use their phone number if it'll get you the discounts and make you happy. I even think I've had it happen. So suddenly a purchase history full of maxipads, pre-made sushi and organic-everything is buying up cheese puffs, beef jerky and a 12-pack of Cup O'Noodles. Ha! Let's see your algorithms deal with that, oh so clever 'data miners'! Don't like it?, well maybe you should never have left the cushy confines of that Operations Research graduate-school program! This is the real world!
So yeah, seriously, you shouldn't have read any of that. You just lost a few minutes of your life you'll never get back,


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Posted at: 07/26/2013 6:13 PM
By: Chris Ramirez, KOB Eyewitness News 4
Anti-abortion activists say they have more than enough signatures to put a ban on late-term abortions on the city of Albuquerque ballot.
Project Defending Life says it has about 27,000 signatures on their petition to put the ban up for a vote. The group was required to get 15,000 signatures from voters by July 25.
New Mexico is one of the few states with no restrictions on abortions, and activist Tara Shaver said Albuquerque is coming to be known as the "late term abortion capital of the nation."
Across New Mexico, doctors can legally terminate a pregnancy, even into the third trimester.
Shaver is trying to change that by ending abortions after the 20th week in pregnancy.
"We obtained almost 27,000 signatures in less than 30 days. That's completely unprecedented," Shaver said.
But if Albuquerque voters pass abortion restrictions in Albuquerque only, laws in the city would differ than those across the state.
"This group's ultimate purpose is to restrict abortions in their entirety. This particular ban as it stands would not be constitutional in New Mexico and it wouldn't be constitutional under our federal constitution." said Laura Schauer Ives, legal director for the ACLU of New Mexico.
If voters approve the ban, the ACLU pledges to challenge it.
But Shaver is prepared for a legal battle, and says the fight is for women's health.
"The city of Albuquerque can enact this ordinance. Yes, we know this will likely be challenged, but we will defend it because we do care about these women and their children," she said.
The Albuquerque city clerk is counting petition signatures. If there are enough valid signatures, the petition goes to the city council to place on the next ballot--which is in October.


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Pumas flank Matera off the hook
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:42
The judicial officer was not satisfied on the balance of probabilities that there was contact with the eyes
A SANZAR judicial hearing has found Pumas flank Pablo Matera not guilty of eye gouging Springbok counterpart Francois Louw.
Matera was cited for of contravening Law 10.4 (m) Acts contrary to good sportsmanship during the match between Argentina and South Africa in Mendoza.
The SANZAR judicial hearing was held before judicial officer Terry Willis via video conference with the assistance of former professional player Paul Thomson from New Zealand.
After hearing the evidence of an eye specialist, Dr Michael Delaney and the evidence of Louw from South Africa, together with that of Matera, the judicial officer was not satisfied on the balance of probabilities that there was contact with the eyes or eye gouging such as to constitute a breach of the laws of the game of rugby. Accordingly, the citing complaint was dismissed.
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|» Du Plessis, Louw out for Pumas
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Merry Christmas From AKQA
Originally guest posted James Houston
Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like a wall full of microwaves.
I thought I'd end the week's postings on a festive note, and this video is obviously right up my street. They could have thrown a printer or scanner into the mix to beef it up a bit, but lets not get picky on this season of good will.
Thanks to Will from itsnicethat for giving me a platform for me to show some interesting videos. I've really enjoyed writing for the blog over the last week, and I hope that you've all enjoyed my pickings.
Happy holidays everybody.


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Mortal Kombat II
Death Punch Guide by SirGalahad
Updated: 01/01/70 | Printable Version
------------------- MORTAL KOMBAT II: THE DEATH PUNCH ------------------- By: Chris McCullough email@example.com The following is info on a new type of move on Mortal Kombat II. Since it looks like mk2faq16 is the last of the MKII faqs, I felt it necessary to make a mini faq on this topic. But enough bantering, on with the subject... WHAT IS THE 'DEATH PUNCH'? -------------------------- The 'Death Punch' (as it is being called around my parts) is a powerful jab that takes a large amount of energy away from the opponent as well as setting him up for a combo move. It is basically done with timing and correct placement of the characters. HOW DO YOU DO IT? ----------------- The 'Death Punch' is easiest to learn by playing aginst the computer on the Player one side on the Very Hard setting. Walk up to the compute and jump away before you reach him. As you jump away, press any KICK button. If done right, the computer will stop for one second, then jump into you, leaving him open for a combo move attack. It is here that the 'Death Punch' can be done. The correct distance between the two character should be three steps outside of sweeping range. When the computer goes past the peak of his jump and begins to descend, press the HIGH PUNCH button. If done right, the character will not jab, but leave his fist out long enough to get hit by the computer. It is here where timing is crucial. If you punch too soon, you will miss and the computer will land next to you. If you punch too late, you will just jab the computer and take off the normal damage for a punch. If you punch just right, you can take off the equivalent of a kick up to the equivalent of Scorpion's Spear-and-Uppercut move. USING THE 'DEATH PUNCH' FOR A COMBO MOVE ---------------------------------------- As said earlier, the 'Death Punch' can be used for the start of a combo move. As far as what is known so far, the only way not to use the 'Death Punch' in a combo move is when it takes off the maximun amount of energy possible. This is because: a. Your character will stumble backwards. b. The opponent will fly back nearly a screen's length c. Because of a. and b., there is no time to connect with anything Well, that's basically it. If you have any more info on this or any new moves (or rumors, kudos, complaints, etc), mail them to 25096.ef.gc.maricopa.edu. Special thanks to Mitch Keller for teaching me the move. (THE END? III) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Chris McCullough | "Sometimes I go into my own little world... | | (a.k.a. Sir Galahad) | But that's okay, they know me there." | | email@example.com | --- Joel Hodgson | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Yankees manager Joe Girardi is already in a bind. Mark Teixeira lands on the 15-day DL with a hamstring injury, and now closer David Robertson is out with a strained groin. Girardi has proven he can weather the storm and make the right moves, but Robertson is not the player you want to lose. He was 2-for-2 in save chances as Mariano Rivera's replacement. Adam Warren is a relief pitcher the Yankees will rely on more and more especially with Robertson headed for the DL. NewsChannel 13's Rodger Wyland can be heard weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon on WOFX 980 AM.
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San Francisco 49ers Sign CB Eric Wright
The San Francisco 49ers have signed cornerback Eric Wright, whom they traded for and released a few weeks back, to a one-year deal and have placed him on the non-football injury/illness list. In a corresponding move, the organization waived cornerback Lowell Rose.
Tunnel Vision: Wright, who is dealing with a personal matter, failed his physical a few weeks back after having been traded for and was consequently released. The fact that he is close to returning to football bodes well as San Francisco recently lost their top backup in Chris Culliver after he tore his ACL a week ago.
Look for Wright to compete for a sop with Nnamdi Asomugha, Perrish Cox and Tramaine Brock for playing time behind their starters. This move has no fantasy football impact.


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Recently, students in the Institutional Technology program took part in a special collaborative project with the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS). Read more about it here.
Program Coordinator: Yefim Kats, Ph.D.
Master of Science in Instructional Technology
Instructional Design and E-Learning
Instructional Design and E-Learning with Instructional Technology Specialist Certification
Master of Science in Instructional Technology – Combined UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE
Instructional Technology Specialist certification (pde APPROVED)
Certificate of Advanced Study in Instructional Technology
Certificate of Professional Development in Instructional Technology
The Instructional Technology specializations are designed to meet the varied needs and goals of today's wide range of instructional technology professionals. The specializations share a common core of courses as well as a common philosophy, addressing key concepts and skills related to learning, technology, and culture. The core courses provide the theoretical understanding of instructional technology and hands-on experience with state-of-the-art hardware and professional level software. The Program emphasizes the reflective nature of learning, the need for each learner to construct unique meaning and the process of building learning communities.
Instructional Technology offers blended courses, which are a combination of online participation and on-site class meetings that provide students with the advantages of distance education without sacrificing the richness of a face-to-face learning experience.
Students applying for entrance into Instructional Technology are expected to plan for this aspect of the program. Attendance at each of the face-to-face meetings is a strict requirement for every course. Assignments are frequently submitted online and may be due as early as the first face-to-face meeting. Instructional Technology provides a Jump Start date by which students and instructors will be expected to communicate regarding course information and possible assignments. The number and length of in-class meetings are determined by the nature of each course. Typically, courses may meet four (4) to eight (8) times per term. Courses also may include virtual meetings for which students will be required to make time in their personal schedules but for which travel to campus or another learning site is not necessary.
Students are encouraged to register early in the time frame provided by the School of Graduate Studies. Students will need to provide an email address after which they will be assigned a username. Once the username has been assigned students are expected to gain access to Blackboard leaning management system at chc.blackboard.com following password instructions that will have been provided. On the Instructional Technology site within Blackboard students will initially access partial syllabi for their courses that may include initial course assignments. Current partial syllabi will be posted by the Jump Start date announced on Blackboard, with a full syllabus and detailed course information available at a later time. Student participation in online activities, including a discussion board, is required in all courses and forms a part of the final course grade.
A possible student option in Instructional Technology is the Guided Individualized Course (GIC). The GIC accommodates students' need for academic self-sufficiency in meeting targeted goals requiring an independent path of study. It is a special form of an independent course in which the student works under the guidance of a professor to achieve program-related goals. Advance approval from the Coordinator of the Instructional Technology Program is required.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2002 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will host a town hall meeting Nov. 12 in the Pentagon auditorium at 11 a.m. Eastern time.
Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, Joint Chiefs vice chairman, will also participate.
Rumsfeld, after brief remarks, will take questions from the military and DoD civilian audience on hand.
Plans call for a limited number of audio and video streams to be available through DoD's Web site at www.defenselink.mil on a first come, first served basis. Users requesting access in greater numbers will get an error message.
In addition, the American Forces Radio and Television Service will telecast the event live via satellite to its viewers overseas. The event will also air on Pentagon Channel 13.
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26) The United States currently uses a ________ exchange rate regime.
A) crawling peg
B) pegged
C) floating
D) fixed
Answer: C
Topic: Exchange Rate Regimes
Skill: Recognition
27) Based on the premise that, other things equal, countries would prefer a fixed exchange rate:
Variable rates provide stability in international prices for the conduct of trade.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Exchange Rate Regimes
Skill: Conceptual
28) Based on the premise that, other things equal, countries would prefer a fixed exchange rate,
which of the following statements is NOT true?
A) Fixed rates provide stability in international prices for the conduct of trade.
B) Fixed exchange rate regimes necessitate that central banks maintain large quantities of
international reserves for use in the occasional defense of the fixed rate.
C) Fixed rates are inherently inflationary in that they require the country to follow loose
monetary and fiscal policies.
D) Stable prices aid in the growth of international trade and lessen exchange rate risks for
Answer: C
Topic: Exchange Rate Regimes
Skill: Recognition
29) Which of the following is not an attribute of the "ideal" currency?
A) monetary independence
B) full financial integration
C) exchange rate stability
D) All are attributes of an ideal currency.
Answer: D
Topic: Exchange Rate Regimes
Skill: Conceptual
30) If exchange rates were fixed, investors and traders would be relatively certain about the
current and near future exchange value of each currency.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Exchange Rate Regimes
Skill: Conceptual
31) The authors discuss the concept of the "Impossible Trinity" or the inability to achieve
simultaneously the goals of exchange rate stability, full financial integration, and monetary independence. If a country chooses to have a pure float exchange rate regime, which two of the three goals is a country most able to achieve?
A) monetary independence and exchange rate stability
B) exchange rate stability and full financial integration
C) full financial integration and monetary independence
D) A country cannot attain any of the exchange rate goals with a pure float exchange rate
Answer: C
Topic: Currency Regimes
Skill: Conceptual
32) The attempt by many countries to stimulate their domestic economies and to gain access to
global financial markets, is causing more and more countries to choose a ________ or ________ exchange rate regime.
A) floating; monetary union
B) monetary union; full capital controls
C) full capital controls; floating
D) pegged; fixed
Answer: A
Topic: Currency Regimes
Skill: Recognition
33) Beginning in 1991 Argentina conducted its monetary policy through a currency board. In
January 2002, Argentina abandoned the currency board and allowed its currency to float against other currencies. The country took this step because
A) the Argentine Peso had grown too strong against major trading powers thus the
currency board policies were hurting the domestic economy.
B) the United States required the action as a prerequisite to finalizing a free trade zone
with all of North, South, and Central America.
C) the Argentine government lost the ability to maintain the pegged relationship as in fact
investors and traders perceived a lack of equality between the Argentine Peso and the U.S. dollar.
D) all of the above.
Answer: C
Topic: Currency Regimes
Skill: Recognition
34) In January 2002, the Argentine Peso was officially valued at a rate of Peso1.40/USD. More
recently the exchange rate is Peso 3.10/USD, thus, the Argentine Peso ________ against the U.S. dollar.
A) strengthened
B) weakened
C) remained neutral
D) all of the above
Answer: B
Topic: Currency Regimes
Skill: Analytical
35) On September 9, 2000 Ecuador officially replaced its national currency, the Ecuadorian sucre,
with the U.S. dollar. This practice is known as ________.
A) bi -currencyism
B) sucrerization
C) a Yankee bailout
D) dollarization
Answer: D
Topic: Currency Regimes
Skill: Conceptual
36) You have been hired as a consultant to the central bank for a country that has for many years
suffered from repeated currency crises and depends heavily on the U.S. financial and
product markets. Which of the following policies would have the greatest effectiveness for reducing currency volatility of the client country with the United States?
A) dollarization
B) an exchange rate pegged to the U.S. dollar
C) an exchange rate with a fixed price per ounce of gold
D) an internationally floating exchange rate
Answer: A
Topic: Currency Regimes
Skill: Conceptual
37) A bank holiday
A) occurs every day after 3:00 p.m.
B) is a term used when a country's central government freezes (temporarily) all deposits
in commercial banks.
C) is observed in Europe every fourth Friday.
D) occurs the last three working days of the year to prepare financial statements for tax
Answer: B
Topic: Bank Holiday
Skill: Recognition
38) Which of the following is NOT an argument against dollarization?
A) The dollarized country's central bank can no longer act as a lender of last resort.
B) The dollarized country can no longer profit from seignorage (the ability to profit from
the creation of money within its economy).
C) The dollarized country losses sovereignty over its own monetary policy.
D) All of the above are arguments against dollarization from the viewpoint of the affected
Answer: D
Topic: Currency Regimes
Skill: Conceptual
39) The Euro currency is fixed against other currencies on the international currency exchange
markets, but allows member country currencies to float against each other.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The Euro
Skill: Recognition
40) Even though the Euro currency has been designed and printed, it is still not available for
general use by the public, except for tourists, in the European Union.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The Euro
Skill: Recognition
41) Which of the following is NOT a required convergence criteria to become a full member of
the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)?
A) National birthrates must be at 2.0 or lower per person.
B) The fiscal deficit should be no more than 3% of GDP.
C) Nominal inflation should be no more than 1.5% above the average inflation rate for the
three members with the lowest inflation rates in the previous year.
D) Government debt should be no more than 60% of GDP.
Answer: A
Topic: The Euro
Skill: Recognition
42) Which of the following groups of countries have replaced their individual currencies with
the Euro?
A) France, Germany, and the United Kingdom
B) Sweden, Denmark, and Greece
C) The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Austria
D) Germany, The Netherlands, and Italy
Answer: D
Topic: The Euro
Skill: Recognition
43) The tremendous international mobility of financial capital is forcing emerging market
nations to adopt one of two polarized choices, free float or currency board, for their foreign currency exchange regimes. Which of the following would NOT be a reason for an emerging nation to choose to have their currency freely float?
A) The country desires to lose political influence on the valuation of their currency.
B) The emerging nation desires an independent monetary policy.
C) The emerging nation is willing to tradeoff exchange rate stability to gain free
movement of capital.
D) All of the above.
Answer: A
Topic: Emerging Markets
Skill: Conceptual
44) According to the authors, what is the single most important mandate of the European
Central Bank?
A) Promote international trade for countries within the European Union.
B) Price, in euros, all products for sale in the European Union.
C) Promote price stability within the European Union.
D) Establish an EMU trade surplus with the United States.
Answer: C
Topic: The Euro
Skill: Conceptual
45) Ignoring transaction costs and based solely on the change in currency exchange rates, a
speculator who sold short a two-year contract for the euro (receiving dollars) in January 2006 would have realized a profit upon the exercise of the contract in January 2008.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: The Euro
Skill: Analytical
46) Which of the following is a way in which the euro affects markets?
A) Countries within the Euro zone enjoy cheaper transaction costs.
B) Currency risks and costs related to exchange rate uncertainty are reduced.
C) Consumers and business enjoy price transparency and increased price -based
D) All of the above.
Answer: D
Topic: The Euro
Skill: Conceptual
47) A special Drawing Right is a unit of account established by
A) the Federal Reserve Bank.
B) the World Bank.
C) the International Monetary Fund.
D) the European Central Bank.
Answer: C
Topic: International Monetary Fund
Skill: Recognition
48) A currency is considered hard if
A) it is expected to be revalued or appreciate.
B) it is expected to be devalued or depreciate.
C) it is backed in part by a precious metal such as gold.
D) it is difficult to trade on the international currency exchange markets.
Answer: A
Topic: Currency Terminology
Skill: Recognition
49) Under a fixed exchange rate regime, the government of the country is officially responsible
A) intervention in the foreign exchange markets using gold and reserves.
B) setting the fixed/parity exchange rate.
C) maintaining the fixed/parity exchange rate.
D) all of the above.
Answer: D
Topic: Currency Regimes
Skill: Recognition
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GPU memory consumption, back buffer, Quadro
2 Attachment(s)
The use of glScissor when drawing into the back buffer causes the GPU memory requirement to continually increase.
Please see the attached simple OpenGL program glxtest.c. It is run using
./glxtest.exe (ibufse) (iscissor)
in which
ibufse=1: draw to front buffer
ibufse=2: draw to back buffer
iscissor=0: do not scissor when clearing
iscissor=1: scissor when clearing
./glxtest.exe 2 1
draws to the back buffer repeately, scissoring when clearing the screen.
Observe that
continually decreases. The memory of the process reported by 'top'
also continually increases.
If I don't scissor
./glxtest.exe 2 0
or if I scissor into the front buffer
./glxtest.exe 1 1
then the memory doesn't increase.
I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel 2.6.18-8.e15) on an x86_64 platform.
Driver: NVIDIA 295.53, as downloaded from the NVIDIA website.
Graphics card: QUADRO FX 570, 256 MB memory.
I have attached nvidia-bug-report.log.gz.
Is this memory increase a bug in the NVIDIA drivers for Linux? If so, should I report the
bug directly to NVIDIA?
Thank you.
Re: GPU memory consumption, back buffer, Quadro
Does the problem go away if you add a glFinish() or a SwapBuffers in your rendering loop? It's possible that your rendering requests are simply queuing up more work faster than the GPU can process it.
Re: GPU memory consumption, back buffer, Quadro
The problem goes away if the entire back buffer is cleared by glClear.
But if the glClear is removed, or if the glClear doesn't clear the entire back buffer
(because of the scissoring), then the problem is present.
Re: GPU memory consumption, back buffer, Quadro
Okay. Can you please either repost the test with the glFinish in place or provide a patch to make sure I add it to exactly the same place you did, for testing?
Re: GPU memory consumption, back buffer, Quadro
Hello Aaron,
I have reposted glxtest.zip. Note that there is a call to "gerror" after every OpenGL
call, and gerror calls glFinish. So glFinish is called after every OpenGL call.
The memory increase is still present when drawing to the back buffer, when the back buffer is
not completely cleared by glClear.
Re: GPU memory consumption, back buffer, Quadro
I see the same results using tdsussman's example with a Quadro FX 5800 , and I see a similar leak in my application, though I don't have the scissor test enabled.
tdsussman: have you found a workaround? Thanks.
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CLEVELAND -- Michael J. Fox made a return to television Thursday night with a new show on NBC.
The comedy touches on his life with Parkinson's. The show has struck a chord with many families here in Northeast Ohio.
The Cleveland Clinic hosted a premiere party for the show to give families an opportunity to bond, share experiences and watch the show together.
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Lupita Nyong'o Reveals She Now Lives In A Bubble In 'New York Magazine'
From the outside looking in, gorgeous actress Lupita Nyong'o is living her dreams and having the time of her life! Aside from winning numerous awards for her first major film role in "12 Years A Slave," the Yale grad has been featured in numerous prestigious fashion mags across the globe and has become America's sweetheart.
Unfortunately for Lupita, the world-wide attention and her new found fame have been hard to adjust to.
In the latest issue of New York Magazine, which also features a beautiful spread, she reveals that she was disturbed by a recent run-in with the paparazzi and she now lives in a bubble:
I don't know who they were waiting for, but they definitely chased me down, which is a startling, disturbing experience. I did not expect it. I went into flight mode.[…]There are so many highlights that are no longer highlights. I'm living a very swollen life.
I've been in a bubble. I haven't been out much. I haven't gotten used to being recognized." More than that, "I was blissfully ignorant of the magnitude of the project I was in or what it was going to mean for the world.
In the interview, she also revealed that her family fled to Mexico City after the disappearance of her uncle before she was born, and how it was hard to adjust to such a liberal society when she moved to America:
Her politician father fought against Kenya's regime when his brother disappeared under suspicious circumstances
"His car was found on the ferry in the town he lived in with a pair of his shoes and no sign of him," Nyong'o says. Worried that he might be the next one to go missing, her father relocated, figuring that "no one would look for a Kenyan in Mexico." Nyong'o was born shortly thereafter and, in the Kenyan tradition of naming a child after what's happening at the time of his or her birth, was given the name Lupita, a diminutive of Guadalupe. "Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called Lupita in Mexico."
On moving to America and needing structure
"I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure. It was very hard to adjust to an individualistic and very liberal system. I mean, my upbringing, I would iron my clothes every night. I would plan what I wore the night before, and then I would iron it. That's just the way my mom raised us. Then I got to Hampshire, where clothing is sometimes optional and all this kind of thing. I was mortified."
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Ugh, we're so easy when it comes to reality show. We like peanut butter, we like chocolate. Oh, you put them together? No wonder it's delicious. That's basically how we feel after watching the new trailer for MTV's Buckwild. The show, which apparently follows the "colorful antics of a group of friends just out of high school in rural West Virginia," premieres January 3. We can't even pretend we aren't going to watch this; we aren't going to put on airs with you guys. Of course, it's no surprise we like it. It's got elements from every other reality show we love:
- The delightful colloquialisms and truck-based amusements of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
- The screaming matches and drunken hook-ups of Jersey Shore. Also, it sounds as if at least some people are using the same bed. The Smoosh. Room. Lives!
- The gasp-inducing stunts of Wipeout! (That truck swimming pool? We're glad no one was immediately paralyzed upon jumping into that thing.)
- The romantic tension and/or simmering rage of Battle of the Exes.
- The constantly exasperated parental presence of Teen Mom.
- The screaming phone calls to various moms of the same.
- The drink hurling and brawl starting of any number of Real Housewives shows. (We'd settle for a Real Housewives of Miami, but the sky's the limit!)
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Birth control vaginal ring (NuvaRing). Planned Parenthood website. Available at:
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control/birth-control-vaginal-ring-nuvaring-4241.htm. Accessed May 6, 2014.
Contraception. American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists website. Available at:
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Contraceptive patch and vaginal rings. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated April 14, 2014. Accessed May 8, 2014.
How does it NuvaRing work? Nuvaring website. Available at:
http://www.nuvaring.com/Consumer/how-it-works/index.asp. Accessed May 6, 2014.
MacGregor EA. Contraception and headache. Headache. 2013 Feb;53(2):247-276.
Vaginal ring.
American Pregnancy Association website. Available at:
http://americanpregnancy.org/preventingpregnancy/vaginal-ring/. Accessed May 6, 2014.
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