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24 June 2008
Part II: The deadly convenience of Victor Bout
With international arms dealer Victor Bout behind bars in Bangkok, many world leaders are squirming over revelations of his client list.
By John CK Daly
Bout with the law
Belgium was the first nation to seek legal sanctions against Bout, where in the mid-1990s the Service Général du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (Belgian Military Intelligence Service, or SGR) began "Operation Boomerang" against Bout on suspicion that he was supplying weapons in return for diamonds to African countries under UN sanction.
On 18 February 2002, Belgium transmitted a secret warrant to Interpol for Bout's arrest on a charge of money laundering and weapons smuggling worth US$32.5 million through Belgium. The warrant was based on Sanjivan Rupriah's secret FBI testimony of the previous month.
Russia's Interior Ministry (MVD) also began to investigate Bout for possibly shipping weapons to al-Qaida. The MVD Information and Regional Communications Division ordered then-deputy interior minister Nikolai Boborovskii to investigate the case when it was learned that Bout's Air Cess had chartered planes owned by the Aerostan air transport firm registered in Kazan in central Russia, Interfax reported.
Global embarrassment
While Washington was congratulating itself on Bout's detention in Bangkok, there were many clues about his activities scattered across the US, too.
The 2002 Interpol warrant described Bout's power of attorney over Delaware's Vial company bank accounts, reporting that he used them to launder weapons trafficking proceeds. Vial, established by Bout for African operations in the early 1990s, was an acronym from the first two letters of the founders' names, Viktor Bout and Aleksandr Kibkalo, who founded the company after working for a firm in Angola following Bout's discharge from the military, according to Izvestia.
Equally prominent were the activities of the man described by the UNSC Committee on Liberia Assets as Viktor Bout's "chief financial officer," Richard Chichakli. From a suite of offices in Richardson, Texas, Chichakli was president and director of the Trans Aviation Global Group, Inc. The UN identified Chichakli as the Chief Financial Officer for San Air General Trading in the UAE and president of Orient Star Aviation. Other subsidiaries that Chichakli operates from Richardson include Central Africa Development Fund, DHH Enterprises Inc., IB of America Holdings, Inc, Richard A. Chichakli, PC, Chichakli & Associates PLLC, Daytona Pools, Inc and Continue Professional Education, Inc. While admitting knowing Bout, Chichakli has denied all the federal charges against him.
Following the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq, Bout's British Gulf aerial armada was a godsend for US forces, as the logistical supply aircraft using Baghdad International Airport were under constant threat, and any downing of US military aircraft there would be a public relations disaster.
The commander of the US Transportation Command, Air Force General John Handy, noted that insurgents fired on US military aircraft using Baghdad International on almost a daily basis; "As we fly around, we are repeatedly shot at, with manpads [man-portable air defense systems], small arms, and triple-A [anti-aircraft artillery]," Stars and Stripes magazine reported.
In a January 2005 letter to Congress, then-assistant defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz admitted the Defense Department "did conduct business with companies that, in turn, subcontracted work to second-tier providers who leased aircraft owned by companies associated with Mr Bout," ABC news reported.
In the strongest signal of Bout's usefulness to the Pentagon in Iraq, in March 2004 the UN Security Council began drafting a resolution to freeze the assets of mercenaries and weapons dealers who backed ousted Liberian dictator Charles Ghankay Taylor, including Bout, but French diplomats and UN sources say the US worked to keep Bout off the list because of Bout's British Gulf flights to Iraq, IPS reported.
Washington's pressure resulted in Bout's name disappearing from the British list submitted in April, even though it headed the list in January's version. While Bout's name remained on the French list, according to British sources it was "rejected," even while "the affair is still being discussed in New York."
Bout's resupply activities broke in the western media in May 2004, when western diplomats were quoted as saying that Bout's freight companies might be involved in delivering goods to US forces in Iraq, and that the Pentagon was "recycling" his cargo network, according to the Financial Times.
Perhaps to deflect international criticism of the move, as well as the fact that Bout had no substantial US-based assets, in July 2004 the US Treasury Department sanctioned Bout because of his association with Taylor.
As Bout's usefulness in Iraq diminished Washington slowly applied more pressure. On 26 April 2005, the Treasury Department expanded its sanctions against Bout by identifying 30 companies and four individuals linked to Bout, whom it labeled "an international arms dealer and war profiteer," and submitted the 30 companies and four individuals to the UN Sanctions Committee to add to the consolidated list of individuals and entities tied to Taylor. The sanctions prohibited transactions between US citizens and the designated entities and also froze the assets of designated persons within US jurisdiction.
By late 2004, Bout's activities had also become a liability for the Pentagon. During a 15 December 2004 Special Defense Department Briefing on Iraq Reconstruction Update press conference (PDF), a journalist asked Charlie Hess, director of the Project and Contracting Office in Iraq, about Bout. To a question about whether the DoD had ever used Bout's services Hess replied, "I have not heard anything about that. But if you had some details, we can certainly check into it."
On 31 October 2006, President George W Bush issued an executive order freezing Bout's US assets. Andrei Smulian estimated the value of Bout's fiscal assets affected by Bush's executive order at US$6 billion, Kommersant reported. After apparently severing ties with the Pentagon, Bout continued his activities in Iraq, reportedly in 2006 selling 200,000 Kalashnikovs from Bosnia-Herzegovina to Iraq, Zagreb Vecernji List reported.
Nor was Iraq the only Middle East market that Bout operated in.
In July 2006, prior to the outbreak of hostilities between Hizbollah and Israel, western intelligence agencies spotted Bout at a Hizbollah facility in Lebanon. Shortly before Bout's arrival in Beirut, Chichakli, after leaving Texas when the federal government froze his assets, moved to Damascus, where he currently lives. Fuelling Israeli suspicions of possible Bout shipments, Israeli intelligence concluded that Hizbollah had used Russian-made anti-tank weaponry in Lebanon, according to chechennews.com.
A delegation under Deputy General Director of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry Mark Sofer arrived in Moscow on 18 August and complained that Hizbollah guerrillas had used Russian-made anti-tank missiles in their 34-day conflict with Israeli forces in Lebanon. The following month Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Israel on a visit to more complaints about Hizbollah's use of the RPG-29 Vampir and 9K129 Kornet anti-tank weaponry, Kommersant reported.
For most Americans, however, the most disquieting item in Bout's record of carnage is that according to Britain's MI6, Bout was still supplying arms to Osama Bin Laden's terror network until just before the 9/11 attacks, according to De Standaard.
The potential for embarrassment resulting from Bout's prosecution is global.
In 2001, the Romanian media reported that the Flying Dolphin air transport company, the parent company of Flying Dolphin Romania, while registered in Liberia had its work offices in Dubai, UAE, where Bout lived at the time. Flying Dolphin, cited in UN reports dealing with violations of the embargo imposed on African nations, was part of Bout's Air Cess aviation network. Sheikh Abdullah Zayed Saqr al Nayhan was the sole shareholder of both Flying Dolphin and Flying Dolphin Romania, and is described in the UN reports as close to Bout. Al Nayhan is a member of the ruling family in Abu Dhabi and former UAE ambassador to the US.
Bout had UK connections dating back to at least 1999, when British gunrunner Christopher Barrett-Jolley leased Bout's aircraft to run armaments to Sudan, the DRC and other African hotspots. In 2000, Peter Hain, Minister for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, used MI6 reports and his parliamentary immunity publicly to name Bout as one of Angola's sanction busters.
In March 2005, according to official Civil Aviation Authority records, in one instance Britain's Ministry of Defense hired Bout's Trans Avia and Jet Line International to transport armored vehicles and a small number of British troops from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and RAF Lyneham to Kosovo, according to the Evening Standard.
The British were also discomfited by the revelation that Bout actually ran many of his activities from British territory, including Gibraltar's Westbound, Ltd, owned by Ronald De Smet, who had a lengthy history of acting on behalf of Bout. Westbound is also a major shareholder in Centrafrican Airlines. Other Centrafrican Airlines major shareholders based in Gibraltar were Southbound Ltd. and ATC Ltd.
Little ado about much
Since the mid-1990's, not one UN arms embargo has resulted in the conviction of an arms trafficker, as the UN has no detention powers, while Interpol depends on the cooperation of local authorities. Astonishingly, despite having the toughest arms-trafficking laws in the world, the US has not prosecuted a single case of arms trafficking.
After his arrest Bangkok police chief Lieutenant General Adisorn Nonsi said that Bout may face up to 10 years in prison or may be fined from 4,000 to 200,000 baht (US$130-6,400), according to the Bangkok Post. Given his activities in the rest of the world, Bout would doubtless prefer to remain in Southeast Asia. His lawyers fear that Smulian, already in US custody, may strike a deal, further implicating his former business partner, Poliarnaia Zvezda reported.
The timing and operatives behind Bout's arrest remain a mystery, but it is possible that, as he flew directly from Moscow to Bangkok, Russia's security forces might have been involved, especially given Bout's previous relations to the Pentagon.
Russian arms exports are now only second to oil exports in value to the Russian government, and are surging toward US$8 billion annually. Given that many Russian weapons exporters are now either security officers on active duty or in reserve, they may have been tempted to betray Bout because of suspicions that he was a possible US collaborator.
Further incentive to clean house may have come from the fact that Russia's defense minister and former presidential hopeful Sergei Ivanov was passed over for promotion while President Dmitrii Medvedev, former first deputy prime minister, succeeded Vladimir Putin, further reducing their potential krisha, or patronage, protection.
The reality is, that even after Bout's arrest, Russia's transport aviation earns income from foreign wars and will continue to do so. Bolstering perceptions that Bout's transport activities may have been superseded by Russian governmental activity, on 8 June Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov told participants at the 12th St Petersburg International Economic Forum, "Our business participates in the transportation support of wars led by other nations. We earn income from wars, however cynical that may sound," RIA-Novosti reported.
Bout's brother Sergei sees darker forces at work behind Bout's arrest, with Washington seeking Bout as part of a decade-long campaign to exclude Russian aviation from the lucrative global transport market.
During a recent interview he said that his brother was a victim of a "specific battle for the international aviation transportation market. For the last 10 years the US has attempted to exclude [Russia] from this market in order not to allow Russian aviation to survive. Attempts to resuscitate it were made. We showed the entire world that our aircraft can fly, that our aircraft can transport. This was not at all profitable to Americans, they lost markets, but our aviation, considerably more effective in this plan, worked."
Bout's organizational skills have impressed many western observers. Misha Glenny, author of McMafia, a study of global criminal networks, told ISN Security Watch when asked about Bout, "He's a spectacular success - my own personal opinion. […] "You generally find behind spectacular success of criminals shady government support.
"That Bout has been arrested is a very positive sign. […] The influence of gangsters in Russia is diminishing," Glenny concluded.
Bout's trials promises to be a unique and disturbing peak into the shadowy world of illicit arms trafficking, and the US must be nervously contemplating what he might say in court about his transports flights into Baghdad and Afghanistan as a Pentagon contractor.
Perhaps however, Viktor Bout is merely misunderstood; as his wife Alla recently observed in her first interview with a western newspaper: "He's a poet, not the lord of war," she told the UK Sunday Times.
Those interested in following Bout's legal difficulties can now visit his "official" website, which promises to "provide you with information, details, and all the facts the world's governments wanted to suppress about the Victor Bout story, and the man behind the story that grew into a legend."
As for Bout himself, in his first and so far only prison interview with a western journalist since his arrest, the "merchant of death" stated simply: "Today I despise Americans," the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Dr John CK Daly is a non-resident scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. He is also the chief analyst for Oilprice.com.
Editor's note:
This is part two of " The deadly convenience of Victor Bout." For part one, please click here.
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Hi there, for me the following statement does not really makes sense:
function check() { jimport( 'joomla.filter.output' ); $alias = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe( $this->title ); if (empty( $this->alias ) || $this->alias === $alias ) { $this->alias = $alias; } /* All your other checks */ return true; }
As I read it, the filtered $alias is only asigned to the table property, if $table->alias is empty OR $table->alias is exactly the same. So in case $this->alias is not empty, the property will not even be checked or reasigned.
What I find more logical is the method used in the Joomla components
if(empty($this->alias)) { $this->alias = $this->title; } $this->alias = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($this->alias);
What is this supposed to mean
This sentence is confusing me quite a bit:
"The alias is used in the URL instead of the title (the title is the text you want to have in the url)."
Is this a mistake, or do I just not understand. If so, could anybody explain?

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Got Supplements? #2 : Improved Performance and Muscle Recovery
So almost everyone knows now that protein is one of the most important facets of any active persons/athletes diet because it helps in the recovery and build process. However what most people don't know is that, Protein can be helped or encouraged further to better your body with the addition of BCAA: Branched Chain Amino Acids.
BCAAs are naturally occurring nutrients that are obtained mostly from dairy products, meat and legumes. They include leucine, isoleucine, and valine. The problem is that are body does not naturally produce them. They are the building blocks of protein and are very helpful with energy output during exercise, which is why the suggested dosage is usually before and after working out.
So what does it do for you? Let's ask the experts:
• "Improving exercise performance
Exercise causes an increase in serotonin levels, which are believed to cause fatigue. But BCAAs are believed to reduce serotonin levels, and thus cancel out the fatigue and actually enhance exercise performance. There have been many studies that promote this exact ability: In 1998, subjects ingested either BCAA or a placebo before taking an endurance cycle ride in the heat. The BCAA group cycled 153.1 minutes on average, while the placebo group averaged only 137 minutes. A more recent Japanese study looked at the effects of a BCAA mixture on athletes during a one-month training stint and found that indices of blood oxygen-carrying capacity were increased. However, many other studies indicate that BCAAs have no improvement and the amino acids are said to be ineffective for this use.
• Reducing muscle breakdown
"BCAAs are metabolized primarily in skeletal muscles, while other amino acids are metabolized in the liver, which is why some think they must take BCAA supplements if they're engaging in strenuous exercise," explains Currie. With that in mind, BCAAs are often touted to help repair damaged muscles, decrease muscle soreness and increase muscle function. Some data shows that BCAA supplementation before and after exercise has beneficial effects for decreasing exercise-induced muscle damage and promoting muscle-protein synthesis. A 2006 study concluded that the intake of BCAA may promote an anabolic hormone profile (causing muscle repair after workouts) while also decreasing the likelihood of training-induced muscle damage. A Japanese study examined a group of men and women—some given BCAA supplements and others given a placebo—as they did multiple testing days involving squats, which were used to promote delayed muscle soreness. Both sexes reported less soreness when they were given the supplements. Studies like this one and many others lead experts to believe it's possible to consider BCAA as a useful supplement for muscle recovery."
Source: http://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/supplements/supplement-guide-branched-chain-amino-acids
I've been using BCAAs for about 6 months now and I really do believe that they help in the recovery process, I'm not too sure about the increase in performance, as that is something that is very hard to gauge (we all have our good and bad days right?) , but if they do, great.
This is a supplement I would recommend to any person who goes hard at least 4++ times a week.
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Evaluation of Ultrathin Friction Course
C.K. Estakhri, J.W. Button
Publication Date:
January 1994
NOVACHIP™, sometimes known as ultrathin friction course, was successfully constructed on two highways in the San Antonio District of Texas. The French process, NOVACHIP™, is a new technology for Texas and the United States and this research study was initiated by the Federal Highway Administration in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation to provide a means for evaluation and documentation of the process and resulting performance. After ten months of service, the NOVACHIP™ pavement surfaces are in excellent condition. The pavements appear to be in essentially the same condition as immediately after construction. The pavements will be monitored for a period of three years and performance documented. In general, NOVACHIP™ appears to have promise as a preventive maintenance treatment or surface rehabilitation technique for asphalt concrete pavements. It should provide the engineer with an alternative for chip seals, micro-surfacing, open-graded friction courses, or thin asphalt concrete overlays.
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TRB, 940929, Ultrathin Friction Course, Novachip, Preventive Maintenance Treatment, Surface Rehabilitation Technique For Asphalt Concrete Pavements
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A Bottle for a Breastfed BabyRoni
Little Bean has been successfully breastfeeding for over 3 weeks now and I'm ecstatic! I was a little concerned breastfeeding wouldn't be an option for me this time around. Five years ago I had a breast lift and was worried it would effect my flow. On top of that, Bean decided to come about 4 weeks early. It was a little shaky at first but now we have a good routine down and I'm getting more and more confident.
For the past week I've been pumping about once a day just to get a good supply in the freezer in case of emergencies. I am a big proponent of breastfeeding but I also like to have the ability to go out without the kids now and then. This requires breast milk and a baby prepared to eat from a bottle.
I settled on a simple started kit. This one to be exact.
I'm happy to say Little Bean had no problems eating from the the bottle. He sucked down 2 oz in no time. It gave me some confidence that I could leave him with a sitter if necessary.
I think I'll give him a bottle of breastmilk every day or so just to mix it up a little. With my first I went back to work so he went between breast and bottle routinely. This time around I work for myself and have no plans for child care. So I guess I'll have to be a bit more diligent with it.
Note: Picture of me and baby courtesy of Little Bean's 5 year old brother. 😉


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At 93-3/8" in length, this flat dryer drum belt has 5 ridges and is 3/8" wide.
This part works with the following brands: Whirlpool, Admiral, Estate, Inglis, Kenmore, KitchenAid, Roper, Maytag, Crosley, Jenn-Air, Hardwick, Magic Chef, Amana, Caloric & Glenwood.
This part fixes the following symptoms:
Remove front panel, lint basket, motor mounts,exhaust hood, front drum brackets. Then slip serpentine belt around drum, pressure w/ tension idler pulley and slip around drive motor spindle. Replace all parts in reverse order (a two person job).Vacuumed inside of dryer (full of lint.)
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Pulled off the lower panel with 5/16 socket.Pulled off the door assembly by removing the two screws at the bottom of the door assembly. I pulled down a little and then out. be carefull of the wires. Other posts said to remove. The wires were long enough I did not have to remove them. I just leaned it against the wall. I then removed the 4 screws that hold the front piece in.pulled it off replaced brackets , installed self adhesive felt(stuck good) and then glides. Mine were thin but not the problem. I then reached under the drum and released the belt from the tensioner. I then pulled the whole drum out.This is the time to vacum out good. I could get to the rear rollers very easy. The left roller was shot and the shaft half wore into(the problem). I pulled off the two screws holding the roller support. Normally You have to remove the wheel with snap ring pliers first to remove the support. In this case snap ring long gone. Replaced support shaft, installed thrust washers and roller with grease for both sides. The right support shaft was still good. Removed tensioner pulley and inspected. It was just as good as the new one. Cleaned and greased and reinstalled. Put new belt on the tub and slid it back in. Be carefull to get the belt on the proper side of the tensioner. I then installed the front supprt in place to support the tub with the 4 screws. Spun the tub(felt good) then reached under and reinstalled belt to motor and tensioner. Spun again to check for belt alignment. (Check) Reinstalled door an lower panel. Test Quiet Sounds like new. Very easy! I hope this helps someone just as the other post has helped me. Blessings to all.
Damper kit and Springs corrected the problem. Follow the instrutions listed on this web site and all went well..The only problem was with the damper kit. The "kit" did not include the glue needed to replace the damper pads. This cost a delay on a day and trip to a local parts store that I did not want to make. So be sure to order glue for the damper pads.
Unplugged dryer, turned off gas, raised front of dryer with two 2X4's on edge resting on legs, removed two lower panel screws, removed lower panel. Removed lower blower & filter assembly, screws (3) are on the inside of drum. (Good chance to clean it out) Removed two lower front upper main panel screws. Supported top panel with wood for access. Removed panel slowly, marked wires that go to door switch, set panel aside. Removed tension on belt by reaching in on the right lower side and unhooking the tensioner from belt, look to see how it is installed, for reinstallation on assembly. Pulled drum out slowly as not to damage seals on drum. replaced parts, attached with self tapping screws.(screws all the same size) reassembly in reverse order. Will need to put belt on drum before installing drum. Check drum alignment with rollers and seals. Used very small amount of high pressure grease on roller bracket and shaft assembly where the support roller shaft spins for lubrication. All's quiet. (Vacuumed out inside while dissassembled)
I am a widow. Had to pay for labor. He said it was motor. I said I would think about it. I looked on line at your site. Found symptoms that pointed toward idler pulley wheel with bearing, etc. Your site said: ZERO PERCENT CHANCE LOUD SCREECHING WAS MOTOR! So I ordered all parts above. I called repairman to return; he assured me he tried it enough to be assured it was motor bearings. So, I placed another order with you for a motor. Repairman just installed motor, screeching is gone! We installed the belt, pulley, etc..few of the above parts since dryer is old. PLEASE UPDATE YOUR WEBSITE TO INCLUDE MOTOR (BEARING) AS POSSIBILITY FOR LOUD SCREECHING.
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Announcing the Winners of the Best New Dad Photo Contest!strollerderby
Thanks so much to everyone who entered our Best New Dad contest. We received over 200 submissions — the most out of any contest we've run so far. (Check out all the adorable photos in our slideshow here!) Each entry was so precious, which just made our decision even harder! The Babble staff voted for their favorites, and these three dads led the pack. (But remember: You still have until Friday to vote for our Reader's Choice Award, and that dad will also win an iPad 2!)
Without further ado, here are our winners …
1st PLACE: Matt and Sadie, Submitted by Tara Doyle Malone
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Congratulations David, you win an iPod Nano!
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Once More With Feeling
The Talkhouse has been gaining momentum as a unique forum for musicians to discuss other musicians. Last week Lou Reed's celebration of Kanye West was widely read; from the jazz world Vijay Iyer (Flying Lotus, Boards of Canada) and Dave Douglas (Wayne Shorter) have contributed valuable pieces.
Today my review of Joss Whedon's soundtrack to Much Ado About Nothing is up.
There's a new button on the sidebar at DTM, "Upcoming," which has info on gigs and masterclasses, including the free piano gathering next week.
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Any woman who considers using OCs should understand the benefits and risks of
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Wall Street This Week: GoGo Soars, Game Firms Lose
Another ascending quarter is expected from the leader in airborne connectivity, and descending quarters are seen for video game giants EA and Activision.
Another ascending quarter is expected from the leader in airborne connectivity, and descending quarters are seen for video game giants EA and Activision.
It's a good quarter for GoPro and JetBlue, a bad one for Lumber Liquidators. News of Twitter's bad quarter is leaked -- on Twitter. And Hulu snags Seinfeld.
Ford is finishing up a huge round of new-product launches that should start to pay off big later in 2015.
The truth involves the food with integrity mantra, the addictive cilantro rice and the trendy nature of hot chains. And Chipotle is just getting started.
Last week's biggest gainers were Vale, Skechers and Amazon; the biggest losers were HomeAway, DeVry and 3D Systems.
The week's highlights include a leading automaker hoping to get back on the road to growth and an early report on the country's hottest smartwatch.
Strong pickup and SUV sales helped boost GM's earnings, but troubles overseas took a bite out of those profits.
Drug mater Mylan rises after it agrees to buy rival Perrigo, and Ocular Therapeutix falls after disappointing results for inflammation and pain treatment.
Etsy's IPO is Thursday, and Intel helps usher in earnings season on Tuesday. In between is the deadline for federal income taxes.
Shares of Dave & Buster's have nearly doubled since its IPO in October, and the chain has come through with four consecutive years of positive comps.
Movado posts better-than-expected quarterly results. World Wrestling Entertainment says growth in its video streaming service will be hard to maintain.
SeaWorld is getting a new CEO, and quarterly reports from Pier 1 and Bed, Bath & Beyond will give a good snapshot of the state of home decor.
GoDaddy -- a domain registration firm that's been losing money for years -- soars in its IPO, and McDonald's raises pay at company-owned restaurants.
There's a CEO switch at DISH, and Books-a-Million, CarMax and Monsanto are among the firms reporting quarterly earnings.
A pair of analysts boost their price targets on Netflix, and Facebook opens up Messenger to third parties.
There's sure to be news from Facebook's annual F8 conference. GameStop joins Luby's Cafeteria and Sonic with quarterly reports.
Olive Garden's new leadership is cutting costs and boosting average checks, but it's not a turnaround until customers start coming back.
Avon's out of the S&P 500, and it's worried about a strong dollar. Carmike Cinemas has reportedly hired an investment bank to explore a buyout.
Key earnings this week come from FedEx, Adobe and Kodak. Key sales come from Sony (the PS4 in China) and Google (the Nexus 6 on Verizon).
The right ingredients are in place for this to be a slow yet gradual rise in 2015, but El Pollo Loco will need to keep getting things right.
The top burger chain is bouncing back despite a mixed February, much to everyone's surprise. What will the new CEO emphasize?
What brings stocks down? News about a carcinogen (Lumber Liquidators), a bad quarter (Bazaarvoice) and a decision against a spinoff (Bob Evans Farms).
Analysts predict a fine quarter for Verifone (which authorizes paying by plastic) and Vail Resorts. Box will release its first report since its IPO.
Lumber Liquidators suffers when 60 Minutes finds that its flooring has too much of a carcinogen, and The Fresh Market pulls out of California.
For Comcast, Time Warner, Charter Cablevision, 2014 was a lousy year, with continued decline in subscribers.
The week's biggest winner was Eagle Pharmaceuticals, for a promising cancer drug, and the biggest loser was the fast-casual chain Noodles & Co.
Target, a big and trendy retailer, and Mobileye, a 2014 IPO leading the way on driverless cars, are among the firms reporting earnings this week.
Walmart finds money to raise wages and dividends. Increases in bookings and earnings send Priceline stock up. The week is not so good for Box and AT&T.
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VILONIA, Ark. Arkansas governor's aide Matt DeCample says the state death toll from tornadoes that swept through the Little Rock area has been revised downward to 14 from 16, as two victims were counted twice.
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Next Tuesday we're invading Philly for an evening of networking, fun, and bacchanalian pleasure. Are you coming?
Josh Zelman, Jordan Crook, Chris Velazco, and myself will be rolling into Philadelphia on Tuesday morning and we're ready to talk start-ups, tech, and all things in between. We're excited to head out to the city of brotherly love and we're also excited to announce a new sponsor, Uber, who is offering a special gift to our Philly readers.
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We're also holding Office Hours earlier on in the day, around high noon, although the official reservations are already closed. Still, it wouldn't be the first time we met up with some eager, yet unannounced startups at an Office Hours session, so feel free to stop on by the Caribou Cafe around then and we'll try to squeeze everyone in.
Special thanks to our excellent sponsors who helped get this thing off the ground as well as Anthony Coombs who was our ears on the ground. We'll also be hunting for Disrupt Battlefield companies, so get your pitch down cold.
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Heading to Gstaad for some skiing? Bordeaux for wine tasting? Walmart for shopping? Wherever the destination, or even if you're tucked in for the night, remember that Santa's not the only one trying to squeeze down your chimney. Thieves love this season too, when boxed electronics sit atop the dining room table and jewels for tonight's party are laid out on the dresser.
To deter the bad guys, you don't need heavy artillery (although the high-end stuff defies belief). Following are some tools that can keep the family safe, from homespun to high-voltage -- literally. How far you go with security measures depends on your level of paranoia and the size of your bank account.
A veteran Los Angeles real estate agent said that one of his high-end clients installed a bank vault in his house to store valuables and a $36-million underground tunnel leading to a secret guest house on the property.
If you're on a home-security budget, you can pick up motion detectors, good locks for windows and doors, and outdoor cameras for $150, total, says Al Corbi, president of Los Angeles-based SAFE, or Strategically Armed and Fortified Environments, a company that designs sophisticated systems for clients worldwide.
"You can get cameras for $20 at Home Depot or Radio Shack," Corbi said. "Most knuckleheads don't know if you're home or not. If they see a camera or lights blast when they walk up, they'll break in to the house next door, not yours."
With apologies to Jodie Foster, panic rooms don't work, Corbi says. It takes too long to get the whole family inside. He suggests a "safe core," which can be installed for $1,500. Or millions of dollars, if you want the Full Monty. A safe core is an area such as upstairs bedrooms that -- when one or more special doors lock -- seals the family off from the intruder.
If you've got the big bucks, though, you can install 24 (or 1,000) tape recordings for different events, such as an intruder entering your property. "You are being photographed!" a loud voice booms. That usually scares them off. Indoors, intruders get a different not-so-subtle message: "This system is armed and ready to harm you!" If your children are too close to the pool, a voice can warn them to back up. "We have tapes for every imaginable scenario."
Those seeking protection for million-dollar safes or yachts -- and who isn't? -- can install a SAFE system that "makes the criminal not want to commit the crime," Corbi said. "He has to make a life-or-death decision quickly." 'Nuf said.
Finally, for the discerning, über-paranoid (and ultra-rich) homeowner: a subterranean shelter that can withstand nuclear, biological and chemical attacks. Corbi installed one for a client who wanted a putting green included. The cost? "Use your imagination."
If this all seems too much, remember you can always light up the inside of your house so it appears that someone is home, lock your doors and remember to turn on the home alarm. "Most people don't," said L.A. Police Det. Bill Longacre.
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Further meeting of Technical Sub-Committee on persons unaccounted for since the Gulf War
22-01-2003 News Release 03/05
Geneva (ICRC) – The Technical Sub-Committee is today holding its 38th session at the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Amman, Jordan.
Delegations from Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are participating in this meeting under ICRC auspices. Today's meeting is a continuation of the discussions initiated in Amman on 8 January, when the Technical Sub-Committee resumed its work after a four-year hiatus.
The Technical Sub-Committee was set up in 1994 by the Tripartite Commission to investigate cases of persons still unaccounted for in connection with the 1991 Gulf War.
In accordance with the Technical Sub-Committee's working procedures, which provide for the confidentiality of the discussions, the ICRC will abstain from making any statements about the meeting. The ICRC is hopeful that this ongoing process will bring about practical solutions that put an end to the anguish of families waiting to know the fate of their loved ones.
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Six people from that accident still remain in the hospital. One person is dead.
The one-vehicle accident took place near the Belvidere Oasis. Police say 47-year-old Donna Bradley of Chicago lost control of her SUV, drove off the road and into the median before hitting a pole.
One of her passengers, 47-year old Dawanna Mitchell, also from Chicago, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Four others are critically injured. Two of those victims were transported by helicopter to Saint Anthony Medical Center.
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2007 is a milestone year for the Association Regionale Sud-Ouest (AERSO), and this book has been compiled to commemorate all the wonderful memories from AERSO events over the past years.
Photos, results, and newspaper clippings highlight the following:
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The Anchorage teachers union and the school district made public each of their contract proposals Thursday, and they appear far apart.
The two sides began bargaining for a new teacher contract on Wednesday. The existing three-year contract will expire June 30. Negotiations will be private until near the end of the process, though each side's initial proposal can be seen on the union and district web sites.
The district's first proposal offers limited raises during the first year of a three-year-contract, and calls for a freeze on salaries after that.
The union, the Anchorage Education Association, proposes a one-year contract. And during that year, the union wants the district to raise base pay and credit teachers with two years of experience -- and raise their pay commensurately.
Teachers are traditionally paid based on a combination of experience and how much college education they have. The current salary schedule starts at $46,979 for a teacher with no experience and a bachelor's degree. It tops out at $86,471 for those with doctoral degrees, maximum college credits, and 20 years' experience.
Raises based on experience and education can be substantial. For example, the first-year, bachelor-degree teacher earning $46,979 would get an additional $1,275 the second year for experience. If he or she earned 18 approved college credits beyond the bachelor's degree, add another $2,341 for a second-year salary of $50,595.
The district's initial offer is to keep base salaries the same for the next three school years, but allow teachers to move up one level for experience and one level for education, if they qualify. That movement would be offered in the 2013-2014 school year only. After that, salaries would be frozen.
The union's first offer seeks raises to base pay that would bring the starting salary up $470 to $47,449, and the top salary up $1,427 to $88,198. It calls for the district to give teachers credit for two years of experience in one year, plus any raises earned by adding college credits.
"It is normal that we're pretty far apart in the beginning," union president Andy Holleman said. "Nobody really thinks they're going to win fully on any article (section of the contract). That's where the hard work of bargaining is going to come in."
The union often starts out offering a one-year proposal, he said.
He said he couldn't talk about specifics of the contract.
School Board president Jeannie Mackie said at a press briefing Wednesday that during the last set of negotiations, in 2010, the two sides were initially "pretty far away."
But the 2010 negotiations ended amicably.
An Anchorage School District spokeswoman said Thursday district officials will not comment on the initial proposals.
The Anchorage Education Association represents 3,500 teachers, counselors, librarians and school nurses.
Negotiations are beginning at the same time as the School Board is working on a budget for the 2013-2014 school year. The district gets most of its money from the state. School officials expect no increase in state funding, they say, which will mean a $25 million shortfall to maintain current staffing and services.
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosted a ceremony at their headquarters, Mar. 26, to celebrate Women's History Month. Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Wilma L. Vaught served as the keynote speaker.
Vaught is one of the most highly decorated women in U.S. history. She served in the Air Force for more than 28 years, and is one of only a handful of women in the world who have been promoted to the rank of general. Vaught has paved the way for women in the military, but her most lasting contribution is her effort and driving force to build the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, located at Arlington National Cemetery, which honors women who have served in the U.S. military.
"Without education it's very difficult to be empowered," Vaught told the audience, speaking of the theme of this year's Women's History Month: "Women's Education -- Women's Empowerment." Vaught gave a thorough history of significant women in the military -- dating back to the Revolutionary War where Sybil Ludington, who was only 16 years old, had traveled 40 miles at night, during a rain storm to warn countrymen and the militia of a possible British attack. Although the British destroyed food and munitions and burned down the town of Danbury, Conn., the militia was able to stop the British advance and push them back to their boats in the Battle of Rigdefield. Sybil Ludington was later recognized by Gen. George Washington for her contribution to the war.
Vaught then spoke of the roles that women played in all of the wars in U.S. History. "When you think about D-Day in the War -- there were women in England. Did you ever think about what those women did on D-Day?" Vaught asked the audience. She then went on to read a letter that a woman who had been there had written her, "The women before D-Day were waiting and praying," Vaught concluded.
Vaught, who joined the Air Force in 1957, told the audience that she could never aspire to become a general because the law, at that time, stated that women couldn't become generals or admirals. "But look at where we are today … Combat sees no gender difference. Women have been doing this since the very beginning and there are many things, from a cultural standpoint, that women have had to deal with, but as you look at the history of women in the military, we have come so far."
Vaughn, who is president of the Women's Memorial foundation, quoted an inscription that is etched in the ceiling of the memorial from an Army nurse, who served during World War II: Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom. That our resolve was just as great as the brave men who stood among us … that the tears fell just as hard for those we left behind us.
The first celebration, recognizing the contributions that women have made to our nation was on March 7, 1982, when Women's History was celebrated only for one week. In 1987, after being petitioned by the National Women's History Project, Congress passed resolutions requesting and authorizing the president to issue annual proclamations and designate the entire month of March to honoring all of the prominent roles and incredible sacrifices that women have made. Since 1995, Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama have issued annual proclamations, declaring March as Women's History Month.


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What: "Moon Over Buffalo"
When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 4 p.m. Sundays through March 17
Where: Sutter Street Theatre
Cost: Tickets are $23 general, $21 seniors, $18 students with an ID Card
Info: For tickets and more information call (916) 353-1001 or visit www.SutterStreetTheatre.com.
In the madcap comedy tradition of "Lend me a Tenor," "Moon Over Buffalo" centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they're playing "Private Lives" and "Cyrano De Bergerac" in rep in Buffalo, New York, with five actors.
On the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George's dalliance with a young ingénue, they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if he likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie remake of "The Scarlet Pimpernel."
Unfortunately for George and Charlotte, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, abetted by a visit from their daughter's clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which play they're actually performing, caused by Charlotte's deaf old stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George's body. Ludwig stuffs "Moon Over Buffalo" with comic invention, running gags and a neat sense of absurdity.
The show at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 4 p.m. Sundays through March 17.
Tickets are $23 general, $21 seniors, $18 students with an ID Card.
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From old ladies to surfer chicks: Learning to surf at Hanalei Bay
Kim Steutermann Rogers
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
There we were four women who had all reached the point in our lives when we could check AARP off the list of invitations we'd received in the mail—and we were lying face down in the sands of
Hanalei Beach
on Kauai's North Shore. It was a slightly overcast summer day that as it wore on, drew people outside like Hawaiian cleaner wrasse to algae-wearing turtles. While they adjusted beach chairs and applied sunscreen, we stared down a surf break known as "Grandpa's." Grandpa's, as in, people young and old could surf this wave. Grandpa's, as in a beginner's wave. The bunny slope of surfing.
Mike, our surf instructor from
Kauai Experience
, said there is no better place on Kauai to learn to surf than Grandpa's, and we started our lesson on the beach while we were still dry.
Honestly, there aren't too many instructions to impart. Surfing isn't like golf. There aren't a dozen different clubs in your bag to figure out when to use what. There aren't a dozen different swings to perfect. There are really two things to know to get started: 1) How to go from prone to standing; and 2) Where to stand on the board.
I started with the first, doing my best impression of a "pop up" and wound up in a lunge with my right leg bent, facing forward, and my back leg straight.
"This isn't yoga," Mike said, "We're not doing the Warrior Two pose."
I took up a regular yoga practice about a year ago when years of sitting in a writer's pose introduced new knots in my body, and as I approached a certain age that carried weight in my family's medical history. So, I'm not surprised my body's muscle memory naturally assumed this yoga pose. But my yoga instructor is named Maile. Not Mike.
Now might be a good time to introduce Mike. He's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, San Diego-born waterman who has called Kauai home for years. You know that tired metaphor about looking up a word in the dictionary and seeing someone's face. Well, under, "surfer," you'd find Mike's mug. So, to hear Maile's words come out of Mike's mouth surprised me. At first. Then, I realized surfing and yoga have much in common. Both require practice. Both require patience. Both can be a Zen experience.
No amount of popping up and standing in a stance that reminded me of a shortstop player on a baseball team can actually simulate the real thing. So, we took to the water quickly, just as a slight breeze—Mike called it makani—rippled across the ocean's surface.
The oldest among us—and probably the most fit—went first, and she surfed a wave the entire way to shore. That put the pressure on me, the youngest. I managed to stand, maybe not gracefully, and ride a wave nearly as far. In the end, we all accomplished our goal—we surfed waves.
I'll be real here: We had help. Mike watched the horizon for waves and told us when to start paddling. Then, he gave the tail of our boards a push to give us the momentum we needed to go from prone to standing. But we all surfed. We walked on water. We rode the power of the ocean from point A to point B. Sometimes those pinpoints weren't very far apart. Other times, they were—or, at least, in our minds, they were. And we had as much fun, if not more, than the little groms on each side of us.
A couple hours later, sporting wet swimsuits, sandy feet and ear-to-ear grins, we drove home. It was a completely different conversation. On the way to Hanalei, we complained like little, old ladies. "If there's no surf, I won't be happy." "Mike better not cancel because of his back injury." And "It's a little expensive, don't you think? Does he know we're kama`aina. And old?"
But on the ride home, the conversation went like this: "I hope someone asks me what I did this morning." "I need to get the right surfing clothes." "Who's going to call Mike to schedule our next surf session?" And "My goals are modest. I just want to paddle into a wave of my own with no push from Mike."
On the subject of goals, my physical fitness goals have changed as I've aged. Instead of working out to fit a society-defined definition of body image, I find myself gravitating to physical activities that will help ensure my second 50 years are as good as my first.
In the shower, after I guffawed over the amount of sand I'd collected in my swimsuit, I realized that after one surf session, my body felt more alive than it had in years. More alive than after yoga. More alive than after a hike up Sleeping Giant or across the crater of Haleakala. More alive than after a trek down the beach in search of Hawaiian monk seals. It was a different kind of alive feeling that came with a grin, and I figure it had something to do with the healing magic of the ocean—the combination of an Epsom's salt bath and the gravity-free feeling of an inversion table.
All I know is: I want to keep this up. I want to keep surfing. I want to keep feeling alive. But time, as always, will tell whether we—the "Gredgits," as we've dubbed ourselves—overcome our old lady predilections and become the surfer chicks we think we can still be. Or not.
(And the first person to correctly explain the name, "Gredgits," in the comments below will receive a personal, autographed copy of something—I don't know what yet—from me. And, no, none of the Gredgits are eligible to win;-)


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I have made an articles repository where writers can post articles on almost all topics of real life and computer world. I have got a few writers up and writing but i need to find and invite more and more writers as I am giving very good advantages to the writers and in fact they will be making more than anyone else and there is no ban on self-promotion and their articles can pay them through google adsense as well...
I was wondering if there is any such writers organization or website where i can request them to post on my site too.
the basic idea behind my articles repository is not to make money. I want to create an article area where different authors from different fields post articles and readers can take advantage of this repository as a one-stop-for-knowledge.
I just added adsense offer to make attraction for writers otherwise there is no payback for their great efforts to writer articles and share knowledge.
I also have ideas to offer much more advantages to my writers and readers both.. so lets see how it works..
My site continues to be listed in every major article submission site list on the net.
Optimize a page for "submit computer related articles" or "post computer related articles". The more narrow the niche, the better chances of ranking higher, like "submit computer memory articles".
Good luck,
I ended up getting articles from about 15 people at $10 each, the quality ranged from really bad to pretty good.
I ended up getting articles from about 15 people at $10 each, the quality ranged from really bad to pretty good.
I thought about doing the same thing but couldn't find the solution to three problems:
1. How can I be sure the article writers aren't just stealing copyrighted content from elsewhere and submitting it to me?
2. How can I prevent the articles submitted to me from being copied and used by others and thus possibly subjecting me to duplicate content penalties?
3. How can I prevent subjecting myself to the consequences of copyright violations if I publish submitted articles that were stolen from elsewhere?
the solution to three problems:
2. You can purchase the right to publish the article, or you can purchase the ownership rights. Less reputable or knowledgable authors are probably selling you the right to publish, and they are free to sell it to anyone else. Spell out the terms for your rights.
3. Do your homework. Be prepared to remove anything that receives a claim, at least until the issue is resolved. Seek out quality content authors with reputable credentials.
If I am not wrong google knows which is first published article hence if it is your unique article and you have published it first that means you are the owner of original article.
Sadly, Google really does not know - or care - who published first, or who is the copyright owner.
If they only list one (often the way) that may or may not be the first, the most popular or the one from the best ranked site. It may simply be the one spidered first. Or whatever.
Google is certainly useful for finding copies (search for "a long unique phrase from the article"). But that's as far as they go.
1. How can I be sure the article writers aren't just stealing copyrighted content from elsewhere and submitting it to me?
I don't want to be controversial, but if you want a decent written article, you could find a professional freelance writer and pay them a respectable amount of compensation for the well-researched, enjoyable and entertaining prose they come up with.
Why are webmasters all over the internet still looking for illiterate, plagiaristic morons to write them scrappy $10 articles?
nice discussion and new points coming on front. however, I am making a very general kinda articles repository where I will invite all authors to post their articles / tutes on different computer and real world related topics / issues and some of them are already posting.
So I am not making this repository for making money and also I don't have any sponsor to pay for my own time and the time of writers so I have come up with a formula to pay my writers for their efforts, besides their great efforts to make a repository of tutes for newbies and contributing to the community, and which is to offer them to mention their adsense id in their user panel and my adsense rotator will rotate ads on the articles so they will not earn ONE TIME fee to writer article but LIFE TIME money as their ads will be displayed on the articles for the life time and all clicks will pay them.
Also I am offering good discounts to my authors as recently a company agreed to give especial discount to my writers on their all shopping on Christmas and New Year and after that they will get more attractive offers to be my authors.
So do you guys think I will be succeeded really to establish this articles repository and tutes writers will contribute as I can see many free tutes sites or tute writers work for money only? though I am also offering good packages to my authors.
So I am not making this repository for making money
You've mentioned this a couple of times already so I am curious to know how you are being compensated for the time and effort you are putting into this project? (Or are you already living off interest? >;-> )
I would hazard there are two ways to start building a collection of excellent, high-quality articles and successfully encourage writers to contribute more.
The first is to create a high quality space such as WW where people readily submit quality articles for free, content with the kudos they receive from making a noteworthy contribution to an invaluable resource.
The second is to run the whole project as a proper commercial venture and pay topic experts professional rates for high quality articles.
So either you pay a lot, or you pay nothing at all. I'm not sure paying a little will bring you all that much success. (But I'd be delighted to hear if anyone has a different experience because this impacts a bit on my business model as well!)
I have been running four open source projects that thousands of people around the world have been using and I have been providing FREE support for these projects as well as new versions are published time to time at my convinience and you know what, You would never see a DONATE button my projects :) ... I want to SERVRE, because I am a student of such communities I remember my days when I used to google many such articles and tutes to get my problems solved this is the only reason I am doing this all stuff without any greed to earn money. I am already working on big web projects and that money is enough for me I just want to contribute and help many newbies who google to find help like I used to do.
I hope I answered your question :)
btw I got a sponsor who is offering 5% discount to all my members on total order price on shopping so join me if you want to get discount :) .. wait wait.. and did I tell you he is not paying me a single penny but all to my writers .. this is yet another answer to your question :)


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This is growing in the greenhouse and may be a weed but I hope not as it is very pretty and I would like to add it to pots and use as ground cover under shrubs etc.
It looks like a Persicaria bistorta, but there are lots and I don't know which one this is
Persicaria capitatum. Well done Dove.
Sorry I appeared to have chopped some of my answer. Should have read ... You are right, I have looked it up and it is Persicaria Capitata (as Edd says) and I shall be planting it in the greenhouse as that is needed for tommies! Thank you both.
I spent a lot of my childhood hoeing sugar beet fields by hand and there's a wild persicaria that loves those conditions - it's ingrained in my memory - there was a pull-out of arable weeds from the Farmers Weekly on the wall in the boot room!
Perhaps it is a wild plant but it is rather lovely and I have already transplanted some of it in a little rockery.
Thank you everyone.
So nice to re plant a weed


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Who Takes the Blame?
A little over a month ago the New York Times reported on an incident that occurred at the New York Philharmonic on November 9 of last year. During the final measures of Mahler's Symphony Number 9, the unmistakable sound of the marimba iPhone alarm tone disrupted the performance and continued well past the usual few seconds it takes for someone to silence an offending device. This iPhone was particularly distracting because the racket was emanating from the front row. The conductor halted the performance until it was silenced. (Kudos to him for having the courage to tackle such an offense head on.) Finally, the gentleman to whom the offending phone belonged figured out that it was indeed him who was causing the incident and he silenced the phone. According to the New York Times, the man was horrified that he had disrupted the performance and claimed that he had only been given the iPhone the day before and did not know that an alarm had been set to go off. To his credit, he had toggled the ringer mute switch to silence the iPhone before the performance but had no idea that an alarm would sound even if the switch was set to mute.
This gentleman learned the hard way that toggling an iPhone's ringer mute switch does just that - it silences the ringer and all other alert tones save one. The exception is an alarm set to fire in the built in clock app. I almost learned this lesson the hard way myself not long after getting the original iPhone. I was on my way into a funeral and had set my iPhone to mute well before entering the church but several feet from the sanctuary doors my iPhone started playing the scifi alarm tone. I had the alarm set to go off each weekday to remind me to pick up my oldest son from school. Because of the funeral, I had made arrangements for my wife to pick him up but the alarm was still set to go off. Thankfully the alarm went off before the funeral and not during it, but my close encounter prompted me to research the behavior of the iPhone ringer mute switch and learn that alarms overide the mute setting. Since that time, if I need to be absolutely sure that my phone is going to be silent, I either turn the phone completely off or disable all pending alarms in the clock app.
The New York Philharmonic incident set off an intense conversation among the iPhone faithful and Apple pundits. Everyone was asking "what is the correct behavior of the iPhone ringer mute switch?" The answers were varied and many of them were quite thoughtful and well articulated. I particuarly appreciated posts by John Gruber, Andy Ihnatko, and Marco Arment. All of them raise great points and arrive at valid conclusions regarding how and why Apple designed the iPhone ringer mute switch the way they did. That said, the emphasis in most of the discussions I read or heard was on how Apple could have or should have designed the ringer mute switch. This seems to place most of the responsibility back on Apple.
However, isn't it fair to examine our responsibility as users? Shouldn't we know how to operate the devices we carry on a daily basis? If we can't or won't take the responsibility to learn the essentials of their operation should we even be carrying them? If my iphone alarm had gone of during that funeral I'm not sure I could have shifted the blame away from myself and onto Apple. That would be like driving a convertable through a car wash with the top down and expecting someone else to get wet. I don't think angry funeral attendees would have welcomed a cry of "Don't blame me. It's the fault of those wacky Apple designers." They would have seen it as my fault. They would have seen it as my responsibility to know how to operate my phone and to have the good sense to mute it given the setting I was in. To his credit, the gentleman whose iPhone alarm went off during the concert personally apologized to the conductor and the New York Philharmonic. He took responsibility for not knowing his phone well enough to prevent the disruption. I wish I had heard more of this kind of reasoning in the excellent discussions of ringer mute switch design that followed the incident. In the end, the buck stops with users - the people who buy the phones and carry them wherever they go.


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Dale108: The Q's main market is Japan, where is seems to be quite popular. I have the original Q and find it fun to use. IQ is also quite good and I find DR better than other small compacts such as the LX7.
yup, I noticed myself, the DR is quite wide for a smaller sensor like this. I have the original Q btw. the IQ with 8,5mm lens is very good, very sharp wide open.
techmine: Its not that small after all :-)
err, you probably never had it in your hand, don't you LOL I also thought it too, it was not very small after all, until I hold it in my hand, it really quite small, compared to my G11 and G1X, it's a tiny fun camera :)
fakuryu: If you hate this camera, probably you just don't understand it.
yup, I really don't understand, why you have to hate a camera, a thing, a non living thing, as if they are alive :) it's just a gadget. I still think Q system is good. I have the original Q, at first I don't really expected it to be so good. It's only different sensation when you hold it in your hand.
decent/adequate IQ is on paper only, you have to use it to know why Q are fun to use!
I wonder if the Pentax Q has the same problem or in other hand, the Q series might be have better situation?
horrible filters!
Roland Karlsson: The black grip looks OK, and suitable price being $99 extra for attaching it. But - the wooden ones looks as strange as it can be - just out of place.
3rd party grip for RX-100 inspiration
lazy designer!
expensive toy app!
slightly better than 808!
Wish the sensor has better lens (what I meant, optical zoom lens with a proper body) but the 1020 lens is quite decent, judge on these images.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom real (and only) competitor so far ...
yup, very good iso 4000 IMO
yup, very good iso 4000 IMO
good! my first SLR was RICOH anyway...
Canon should at least raise the MP to 24MP, IMO
CaseyComo: Aren't _these_ the golden days of camera design? Features, functionality, optics, and prices that photogs of previous eras could not even imagine. Nostalgia is one thing, but there's a reason that we don't all shoot manual focus rangefinders or big 4x5s and carry a lightmeter and exploding flashbulbs.
the problem I found (probably not in Japan or US or EU) to use film camera is not with the camera, but with the film. It's rather hard to find celluloids except in big stores at big cities.
ezradja: Probably it's just me, but I find the selections not very good anymore. Probably because of new breeds of serious compact camera such as x100, rx100, g1x etc even pentax q or nikon 1 are more interesting to me these days...
my work (studio and wedding) camera is full frame, Nikon D700 and cropped sensor Nikon D7000, while I also have 550D, G11 and G1X at home for anything else. Yeah, probably I just bored with DSLR type camera, would love to have pentaq Q or even considering RX100 (the new version seems interesting)
Probably it's just me, but I find the selections not very good anymore. Probably because of new breeds of serious compact camera such as x100, rx100, g1x etc even pentax q or nikon 1 are more interesting to me these days...
Polaroid anyone?


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Jerry Lawler video interview
Here is an interview I conducted last Saturday with WWE Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler at Steel Cage Memorabilia in Dundalk.
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Here is an interview I conducted last Saturday with WWE Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler at Steel Cage Memorabilia in Dundalk.
Great interview w/Lawler.....I grew up in the Memphis area, which should be required viewing for any true wrestling fan, regardless of the age.
Kevin, as always great job and Jerry Lawler seems like a legitimately nice man. I was wondering if you asked him any thing outside the video about stars returning from the past like how Bret Hart recently returned, Steve Austin guest hosting, and The Rock possibly coming back? I was watching The Greatest Stars of the 90s from WWE not to long ago and Jerry Lawler really praises The Rock and called him basically in his opinion the biggest star of the 90s. I think Lawler misses The Rock like all of us and Steve Austin performing. He must of been happy Bret Hart came back to WWE and put the past behind him.
Hey Kev,
Great job on the interview. I wish it was longer.
Great interview Kev,
One ironic note on Lawler's comments about it being a "long time" before Matt Striker has a WrestleMania match....Matt Striker HAS actually had a WrestleMania match (WM 23 as part of the New Breed Team vs ECW Team) and Lawler is still waiting... lol
Good interview.
And it gives me a chance to say this, which is a bit off-topic but since we're talking about Jerry Lawler and comic books: On "The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" DVD, Lawler talks about Warrior's outside merchandising (including a comic) and tells a story about how once, Warrior came to the ring wearing a baseball cap. Lawler says this totally dispelled the whole 'Warrior' gimmick, that he looked cheap and not at all ferocious, etc.
Why doesn't somebody tell the same thing to Triple H, who frequently appears on the ramp looking like a commercial by wearing his new WWE Shop(tm) baseball cap and T-shirt?
RESPONSE FROM KE: Funny you should mention the Warrior story. After the interview we talked some more and it came up in conversation.
Doesn't the WM match write itself? If Vince is willing - he often says he's done wrestling, but he always seems to come back one way or another - he should wrestle The King. Their feud could stem from the fact that Lawler's never had a WM match, and he's tired of the Chairman keeping him down. Doesn't this make all the sense in the world?
I loved Lawler back in the day but McMahon absolutely ruined Lawler's legacy when he joined the WWE. He was mainly made to look like a clown (though at times he was a compelling heel) and Lawler's refusal to wrestle on a regular basis for the WWE makes him seem like a joke.
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