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Firefighters battle blazes amid high temperatures
SANTA CLARITA – Fire crews worked amid lingering high temperatures and low humidity to bring a series of brush fires dotting the state under control.
In Northern California, a wildfire in Henry Coe State Park had spread across more than 3,000 acres.
The fire, which was at zero containment early Tuesday, was threatening private cabins in the area about 20 miles southeast of San Jose, a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman said.
Campgrounds and hiking trails had been evacuated and one outbuilding had been destroyed, but no major residential or commercial areas were threatened by the remote blaze, officials said.
Officials have not determined the cause and had no estimate of when the fire would be contained.
In the southern half of the state, near Santa Clarita, a 700-acre wildfire that threatened some rural homes in the Angeles National Forest was 20 percent contained, fire officials said.
Firefighters ordered the evacuations of about 25 homes south of Acton late Monday afternoon after the two-day-old fire, which may have been started by lightning, unexpectedly grew by hundreds of acres.
The blaze died down, but authorities warned flames could spread Tuesday as temperatures rise in the day.
"There is a potential for extreme fire growth," U.S. Forest Service spokesman Bruce Quintelier said. "This fire is a long ways from being dead and being contained."
Farther north, in the Lancaster area, firefighters battled a 350 acre blaze near Elizabeth Lake.
Flames jumped the fire line in several places during a flare up Monday, but crews were able to control those spot fires, officials said.
The blaze, which was not threatening any structures, was 80 percent contained early Tuesday, Los Angeles County fire dispatcher Betty Parker said.
Meanwhile, firefighters tackled an 85-acre wildfire in the San Bernardino National Forest at the east end of Big Bear Lake.
The fire, which is believed to have been started Saturday night by a flash of lightning from a passing storm, forced the closure of a five-mile stretch of Highway 18, which was expected to reopen Tuesday night, fire officials said.
The blaze was 95 percent contained late Monday, with full containment expected Tuesday.
In Santa Barbara County, crews battled a 200-acre blaze in the Gaviota coast area that shut down a nearly 20-mile stretch of Highway 101.
The blaze started about 8 p.m. Monday just north of the 101 and burned across the highway before pushing down to the ocean, Fire Incident Commander Bob Dell said.
The fire, which was about 70 percent contained, also damaged railroad tracks alongside the highway. At least one northbound freight shipment was held up.
Firefighters also continued to watch for any hot spots left in the wake of the long-burning Zaca Fire, which scorched more than 240,000 acres, mostly in isolated wilderness areas of Santa Barbara County. Fire officials had announced the blaze's full containment Sunday evening.
Sparks from equipment being used to repair a water pipe ignited the fire on July 4.
Two men and a cattle ranch were charged Friday with felony crimes for allegedly recklessly starting the fire, which cost some $117 million to fight.
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Mia Farrow won a major victory when a judge ruled Woody Allen is woefully unfit to take custody of their three children, but the bruising court battle is far from over.The scene shifts today to Surrogate's Court, where the filmmaker is trying to stop his former leading lady from undoing his adoptions of two of their children , Moses and Dylan. Farrow has charged that the 57-year-old Allen defrauded her and the court when he adopted the youngsters because he failed to disclose his "virtually incestuous" affair with their sister, 22-year-old Soon-Yi Previn. Farrow was awarded custody of the couple's three children Monday. Allen was allowed only supervised visits with his 5-year-old biological son, Satchel. He cannot visit 7-year-old Dylan for at least six months and can't see 15-year-old Moses at all unless the boy wants to see him.
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New Jersey prosecutors say they will move quickly to extradite a man suspected of killing his 2-year-old daughter by tossing her into a creek while she was still strapped in her car seat.
Twenty-seven-year-old Arthur Morgan III was captured late Tuesday afternoon at a home in San Diego, Calif. The arrest came one week after he allegedly killed Tierra Morgan-Glover during a court-approved visit and then fled the state.
Morgan had been the subject of a nationwide manhunt. He was being held early Wednesday in California, and it was not clear when an extradition hearing would be scheduled.
The girl's mother, Imani Benton, called police after Morgan failed to return the child. She learned of his arrest when she arrived at a friend's home Tuesday night and heard people cheering.


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Getting to Confluence Point
Edward "Ted" and Pat Jones-Confluence Point State Park is located at 1000 Riverlands Way in West Alton, St. Charles County. Take Interstate 270 to Route 367 and head north, toward Alton, Ill. Route 367 becomes U.S. 67 and crosses the Missouri River. Just before the bridge over the Mississippi, take a right turn (there is a service station there) on Riverlands Way into the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary.


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"The secret of the Christian life is simply the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ."
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" . . . You are the physical, visible, audible expression of the glory of Jesus Christ."
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We meet every Sunday morning at 10:30 to worship our great God! Join us for contemporary praise music and preaching from the Word in a casual environment.
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Coffee and tea are served at 10:00am in the back of the Worship Center.
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Cassandra Yarem and Brandon Mazzie
Announcement is made of the engagement and upcoming wedding of Cassandra Yarem to Brandon Mazzie, both of Easton.
The bride-elect is the daughter of John and Christine Yarem, Moosic. She is a graduate of Riverside Junior-Senior High School and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Elizabethtown College. She is an accountant at Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, N.J.
The prospective bridegroom is the son of David and Michele Mazzie, Easton. He is a graduate of Easton Area High School and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from Arcadia University. He received a teaching degree from Gwynedd Mercy University and a master's degree from Wilkes University. He is a teacher at Easton Area High School.
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Perfection may be the aim at S&C, but "the culture is actually much more informal" than you might think.
"FROM our perspective, the economic crisis was very stressful, and caused a lot of pain," says chairman Joe Shenker, "but as lawyers it also ultimately gave us an opportunity to be involved in some amazing legislative and regulatory changes."
This high achiever steamrolled through the downturn, pulling in the punters trying to keep their heads above water as the financial landscape changed dramatically. "We are helping clients to reposition their businesses and assisting them with litigation that arose from the crisis," states Shenker, who also remarks that the balance of work has now begun to shift: "There was much more bailout work at the start, but transactional work has begun to pick up again." Both domestically and internationally, the firm was involved in some massive deals last year, not least AT&T's $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV. It got in on the act during the world's largest-ever IPO, acting as counsel to the underwriters as Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba was listed on the New York Stock Exchange for $25 billion.
The Work
Most of S&C's new starters begin life in the litigation or general practice groups, although a handful make their way over to tax or estate & personal. Joe Shenker tells us the aim is "to develop every lawyer here as a generalist counselor. While they will have areas of expertise, they need to have a generalist approach so that they'll know how to direct a client to a solution for any problem that arises." This means neither litigators or transactional associates are shoehorned into a particular subset of practice.
"My experience has been an embodiment of that system," remarked a third-year litigator. "I've worked on a variety of matters for a variety of clients. I just wrapped up an arbitration and have also worked on contract disputes, constitutional challenges, securities law – as that is what we do a lot of – criminal investigations and class actions." Their colleague chipped in: "It's what attracted me to the firm in first place. I like to be constantly challenged and having the same assignments over and over didn't pique my interest."
"I like to be constantly challenged."
From corporate juniors: "You have 18 months before you have to express an interest in an area of practice, so I tried a patchwork of everything – M&A, securities, project finance, regulatory and corporate governance advice. Not only is it a great way to meet people from all over the department, but it really helps you to make an informed choice."
To get staffed on cases juniors can take advantage of a formal system. Rookies fill in a form listing their hours and availability, with associate development partners – in conjunction with an HR administrator – then making sure projects are assigned accordingly. "I relied on that at the beginning," reflected a general practitioner, "but very quickly I started to get most of my assignments from people I'd already worked with." Not everyone falls into this "repeat-business approach." A litigator said: "I actually receive the majority of my assignments through the formal system. It's just a preference thing – some people will do the exact opposite but I like to work for a variety of people on a variety of matters so it suits me better."
Litigators concurred: "If people recognize you're willing and have talent, they will give you specific assignments that aren't just straight doc review." One elaborated: "That does come up but a lot of it depends on what you show you can do. I've drafted final memos to our clients and was also responsible for interviewing an expert witness on one of my cases." Transactional juniors agreed that "you can get a lot of responsibility early on. Especially when it comes to talking to clients or opposing counsel – it can be a bit terrifying at the beginning!" However, "after six months you tend to get the hang of things and by my second year I was practically running a small deal by myself. No one gives you more than they think you can handle, and everyone messes up at some point, so you can't be afraid to take things on."
Training & Development
Rookies are expected to dip their toe into the fire as "S&C recognizes that the best training is through doing work. Despite the ton of formal talks and training lunches, partners put a premium on us getting that hands-on experience." Joe Shenker insists this is a key part of the culture: "To train our associates to be the best broad-based, all-around lawyers requires extreme on-the-job training. That means giving them high-level responsibilities at an early stage and having them very closely mentored by senior lawyers." But as our sources mentioned, the firm is far from neglectful when it comes to delivering formal training. "It's continuous and comprehensive," interviewees insisted. "You have at least one training session a week in addition to the practice group lunches that keep you up to date on current matters and interesting legal issues. There's never a shortage of CLE credits to go around either, so it really comes at you all the time."
"The best training is through doing work."
Culture and Hours
The intensive training schedule is not surprising considering S&C views perfection as the ultimate goal. "Our culture is highly professional," asserts Joe Shenker. "We try to do an excellent job in everything we do. The perfect is not the enemy of the good." His junior cohorts agreed: "It sounds cheesy, but S&C is motivated by a desire to excel," pondered one. "All my colleagues are committed to doing the best job on even the smallest of tasks. You need to develop a thick skin as your work can get heavily edited and your feelings will get hurt at first. It's never personal – it's all about getting the best final product." Another added: "People here are highly accomplished. They take a lot of pride in their work so don't accept typos in final documents and our formatting is very particular. Everything should be perfect – and that kind of mindset might drive some people crazy."
This attitude, coupled with a more than 130-year history, may lead to misconceptions about the firm's culture. "The firm has this stuck-up, ultra-white-shoe, old-school reputation," explained an insider, "but I don't think that's fair. People are a bit more professional than at peer firms, and we have funny quirks about how we style our letters, and that makes us come off more rigid than we really are. The culture is actually much more informal. The people on either side of my office just yell to each other – it's not a 'shhh' environment."
"Hours are not the metric of quality."
Despite striving for perfection, S&C does not impose crazy billable hours requirements on its junior associates. In fact it imposes none at all. "We believe that hours are not the metric of quality," asserts Joe Shenker. "We spend however many hours it takes to make the product right. It would be counter-intuitive to say to our clients 'it's not the hours, it's the product', and then demand from associates an hourly requirement. They need to spend the right amount of time to do their best work."
"I couldn't tell you how many hours I billed last year," chipped in a junior. "I don't worry about it because there's enough work that I will naturally bill enough for the firm to be happy. Nobody pays a lot of attention to it." A third-year's two cents: "It's about getting enough hours of training in, and becoming of value to the firm through learning. You have to make sure you're advancing at the appropriate pace."
Although they don't need to be constantly checking the clocks, sources admitted the schedule is still "quite grueling." We heard: "There's really no such thing as an average day. Sometimes I'll bill around eight hours, sometimes it's closer to 15. Sometimes I don't have to work at the weekend, but recently I put in 20 hours. It totally depends on a client's needs and the pace of the deals." The consensus is that "you always have to be available," but "the firm is very receptive to you working from home." A source informed us: "You're expected to be in the office during business hours but then no one cares when you leave the building and go home. They treat you like an adult. If you get the work done, nobody's coming to look for you."
Pro Bono
Associates praised S&C for being "very committed" to pro bono. One source said: "There's a special person at the firm (special counsel - pro bono, Jessica Klein) who is responsible for coordinating the many different programs we are associated with and blasting out emails asking us to join specific projects." One of S&C's stand-out partnerships is with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund's name-change clinic, which services low-income members of the transgender community in New York seeking to change their legal name to conform to their gender identity.
"Many different programs."
Pro bono hours
Diversity at the firm "is a priority that hasn't necessarily been realized. The essentials have been dealt with, but we're still not where we need to be." Associates said strong efforts were being made by the diversity committee, Asian, Black and Latino, and LGBT affinity groups, the women's initiative and recruiting team to improve the hiring and retention of diverse attorneys. "In terms of minorities the firm has made great strides," remarked one rookie, pointing to the strong representation of Asian attorneys in particular. A female source told us there are "fewer women here but I never feel like I am an outcast." The figures show a recent increase in women at partner level – which was noted by a few sources, and the incoming and summer classes are fairly equally split by gender.
"In terms of minorities the firm has made great strides."
We were told about the firm's various diversity initiatives: "There are affinity groups, cocktail parties, talks and lunches with role model partners." There is dialogue on "what could be done to advance minorities within the firm," and we hear the efforts are making an impact. At the recruitment level, too, "they are committed to diversity and it is a priority" alongside S&C's task of "looking for the best candidates."
Get Hired
Everyone at S&C boasts top credentials: "The common thread between us is that we all have good grades from a good law school," considered one junior. Joe Shenker says the quest for perfection starts from the bottom: "The goal is to recruit the smartest people from around the world. Our recruiting is global, and we have more students in our incoming class born in mainland China – albeit educated in the US – than were born in Brooklyn, New York." While intelligence is key, recruiters are also on the look out for "engagement in the subject matter and a career at Sullivan & Cromwell." An interviewee explained: "When you're comparing thousands of students, academic performance has to be exceptional but they also need to present themselves well and show a high level of interest and knowledge of the firm, its clients and the work it does."
"Good grades from a good law school."
Strategy and Offices
"We're not trying to be everything for everyone," reflects Joe Shenker, "but there are areas in which we are continuing to grow aggressively." These include energy – both exploration and distribution – project finance, infrastructure in developed and developing countries, IP and restructuring.
Strengthening these areas doesn't mean S&C is to forgo its "conservative business model" and infrequent lateral hiring. "We don't want to be in every geographic location," Shenker says, believing the firm is already well positioned with its eight international offices across Europe, Asia and Australia. "We want to build organically, and when we need to be in other locations we have relationship firms in those areas." For example, S&C is currently "extremely active" in Latin America "at the high-end of M&A and projects" by operating in conjunction with leading local outfits. Shenker adds: "We continue to be active in Western Europe in part as a result of the longer-lived economic crisis; we are extraordinarily busy in Asia, and so we will continue to build there."
"We don't want to be in every geographic location."
In addition to its eight overseas offices, S&C has four in the States – New York, DC, LA and Palo Alto. DC and LA have between 20-30 lawyers each while Palo Alto has about ten. S&C owns its 125 Broad Street location in Lower Manhattan. It took an absolute battering during Hurricane Sandy –"we were under about 30 feet of water" – yet was the first building to reopen in the financial district. A cool quirk of working here: 4pm snack time. "They have chips and candy, and recently added M&Ms, which was a great addition."
Culture and Hours
A source told us: "People give you open and honest feedback. They aren't brutal – nobody would tear you down for no reason – but they're not overly nice either. I'd rather that than them being kind to my face then trashing me in my review."
Taking all four weeks vacation on offer is also "very much encouraged." A tax associate explained: "The policy doesn't allow you to carry over too many days. In our group you're expected to bring in cover for matters when you do go away, but that's so you're not being hassled while you're on holiday."
Pro Bono
"I've found the pro bono work very rewarding," commented a junior. "I've managed to do things I never thought I would at this stage of my career. I've drafted briefs and argued motions; I even brought an appeal at the Supreme Court!"
Robert MacCrate and the MacCrate Report
Most 93 year-olds would be content to don some comfy slippers and take things easy. Robert MacCrate, though, isn't your average nonagenarian. Although retired from practice, he continues to serve on many boards and is still active at Sullivan & Cromwell as a senior counsel. In addition to serving as a partner for the firm he initially joined in 1948, MacCrate had many other appointments that keep his resume looking healthy. Two of his biggest gigs were serving as counsel to New York Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller (who would later serve as vice president under Gerald Ford) and as special counsel to the Department of the Army for its investigation into the My Lai massacre, where hundreds of unarmed civilians were killed during the Vietnam War.
MacCrate is perhaps best known for his service as president of both the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association (ABA) during the late 1980s. He later chaired the ABA Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession, which issued a report, widely known as the MacCrate Report, in July 1992. While it declined to attack the dominant law school teaching methodology, it did encourage law schools to actively provide courses that would teach fundamental skills and values to those students who planned to go into a "relatively unsupervised practice setting."
It called for a practice-oriented, rather than theory-oriented, approach. Specifically, it pushed for mandatory externships with government agencies, judges, or pro bono legal assistance clinics. In addition it encouraged state Bar associations to alter the Bar examination to focus more on practice-oriented skills rather than rhetoric and legal maxims.
The report is widely viewed as the template for modern legal education in the US, but many traditional and high-ranking law schools neglected to adopt many of its recommendations. While it listed the skills and values any good lawyer should have, it also gave law schools the flexibility to decide how and if they should be taught. Because of this resistance to practice-oriented legal education, many have called into question the existing law school ranking system, criticizing it as being outdated and failing to reflect an ability to produce competent attorneys.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
125 Broad Street,
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Website www.sullcrom.com
- Head office: New York, NY
- Number of domestic office: 4
- Number of international offices: 8
- Partners (US): 136
- Associates (US): 443
- Summer Salary 2015
- 1Ls: $3,076/week
- 2Ls: $3,076/week
- Post 3Ls: $3,076/week
- 1Ls hired? Yes
- Split summers offered? Yes
- Can summer spend time overseas? Yes
- Summers 2015: 130 (108 2Ls, 5 1Ls, 14 3L pre-clerks, 3 SEOs)
Main areas of work
Sullivan & Cromwell brings a multidisciplinary approach to providing the fullest and most comprehensive legal advice to our clients. Our global practice includes four main groups: General Practice (corporate), Litigation, Tax, and Estates and Personal. Our lawyers are trained to be generalists through broad exposure to a wide range of challenging legal matters, many of which have a significant cross-border component. A substantial number of S&C's clients are non-US commercial enterprises and government entities, and many of our US clients retain us for international matters. Our lawyers serve our clients through a network of 12 offices in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Melbourne and Sydney.
Firm profile
S&C has the most broadly and deeply trained collection of lawyers in the world. They thrive in our working environment, which is characterized by commitment to clients, leadership, professional development, broad experience, teamwork and commitment to community. Associates at S&C typically acquire leadership skills as lawyers more quickly than they would at other law firms, as they are given early responsibility for managing transactions, counseling clients and representing their interests in dealings with other parties. To supplement this on-the-job experience, we provide comprehensive training programs for associates as well as formal mentoring programs.
Recruitment details
Number of 1st year associates: 77
Number of 2nd year associates: 68
Associate salaries: 1st year: $160,000
2nd Year: $ 170,000
Clerking policy: Yes
Law Schools attending for OCIs in 2015:
S&C interviews at top law schools around the country. Our lawyers are alumni of more than 135 law schools.
Summer associate profile:
We are actively seeking people whose intellect, character, motivation and other attributes promise to make them outstanding lawyers.
Summer program components
Training/Orientation: All summer associates participate in a formal orientation program, as well as a wide variety of training programs and skills workshops.
Advising/Assigning/Evaluations: Summer associates are assigned a partner advisor and an associate advisor, from whom they receive assignments. They are also matched with a junior associate, who is there to help with day-to-day matters at the firm. In addition, each summer associate is assigned to an Associate Development Partner, who oversees the distribution of summer associate assignments.
Events: Every summer, S&C organizes a variety of events, including professional opportunities, social events and charitable events.


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Rep. Ted Yoho Praises Birther Conspiracy, Calls Obamacare Racist Against White People
UPDATE: More of Yoho's far-right comments here.
Speaking at a town hall meeting earlier this month, Florida Republican congressman Ted Yoho promised that he would support possible birther legislation floated by Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), telling the audience that after learning about a potential birther bill from Stockman while attending a Tea Party meeting, he called the congressman and agreed to back it.
In audio recorded by an audience member and posted on YouTube, Yoho can be heard telling the crowd that the issue of President Obama's birth certificate was a "distraction" from topics like the national debt, he said he was hopeful that a birther investigation could bring down the whole government: "They said if it is true, it's illegal, he shouldn't be there and we can get rid of everything he's done, and I said I agree with that."
Yoho also seemed to embrace the right-wing claim that Obamacare is "racist" because it taxes tanning beds, explaining that if he goes tanning then he will be "disenfranchised because I got taxed because of the color of my skin."
I had a little fun with [John] Boehner and told him about the sun tanning tax. He goes, 'I didn't know it was in there,' and I said, 'Yes, it's a ten percent tax.' He goes, 'Well, that's not that big of a deal.' I said, 'It's a racist tax.' He goes, 'You know what, it is.' I had an Indian doctor in our office the other day, very dark skin, with two non-dark skin people, and I asked this to him, I said, 'Have you ever been to a tanning booth?' and he goes, 'No, no need.' So therefore it's a racist tax and I thought I might need to get to a sun tanning booth so I can come out and say I've been disenfranchised because I got taxed because of the color of my skin. As crazy as that sounds, that's what the left does right. By God, if it works for them, it'll work for us [inaudible].
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The dressmaker (edition 2011)
by Kate Alcott
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The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
Recommended by Laurie, listened to audio.
We all know of the Titanic, the Unsinkable Ship that struck and iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. The ship, touted as the greatest ship ever built has had numerous novels written about it - and the eponymous film we've seen so many times made about it. What most of us don't know is what after the sinking of the RMS Titanic. That's where The Dressmaker comes in.
Tess Collins' is looking for a way to escaping working for the family that employs her when she runs to the docks the day the Titanic is disembarking from Cherbourg. She manages to finagle her way into working for the famous Lady Lucile Doff Gordon as a maid - for now. Tess knows how to sew, not be a maid, but will do whatever it takes to start a new life.
The firs part of the book is filled with Tess and Lady Duff Gordon, "Madame's" life onboard the Titanic. Readers are introduced to many of the same characters they may already be familiar with from some other semi-fictional Titanic themed works: Isidor Straus, Margaret Brown, the Astors, and of course, Cosmo Duff Gordon as well as characters unique to The Dressmaker. The first class workings of the ship are also (minimally) introduced.
The sinking of the ship occurs rather quickly. Yet, not at all, without emotion. While there is so much of the novel left that you know that at least some of these main characters are going to survive the sinking, it still puts a hitch in your throat to read.
Where Titanic left viewers with Rose arriving safely in New York, in The Dressmaker that is really just where Tess' journey begins. This novel delves into the hearings that were held, investigating what happened on the Titanic - who, if anyone, was to be held accountable and really shows the different ways different survivors reacted. Both to simply surviving as well as to how and/or why they did survive.
It's is definitely a side of the RMS Titanic tragedy that is rarely examined in fiction and I greatly enjoyed it being a part here. Especially as it ran parallel (yet also a great part of) to Tess attempting to begin that new life she was so bound and determined to start that day on the docks.
What is truly fantastic about The Dressmaker - aside from the fictional aspects that are a part of it - is that very, very few if any of the characters are identifiable as good or bad. The characters are so many shades of gray that it's hard to really decide which to side with. Some of it, sure, is the situation. After such a traumatic event it's hard to dislike even those that appear to have made questionable decisions but it also makes it easier to forgive the seeming 'good' guys who do some odd things or believe in the 'bad' guys who do a good thing.
The characters were incredibly human in that regard. There was no set good guy with a halo over their halo or an identifiable devil (at least not among the main characters). It was nice that the morality and decisions of most of the characters seemed murkier than dishwater most of the time.
Kate Alcott's novel not only gives us a marvelous glimpse into what happened after the Carpathia docked, but also what 1914 New York was like - for women, in fashion, as a city. It's a remarkable novel, that I really enjoyed.
(thank you to the publisher for my arc)
I loved this book! I read it under two days, I just couldn't put it down.
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Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on theTitanic. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who offer differing views of what lies ahead for her in America. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes, and amidst the chaos, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat.
The survivors are rescued and taken to New York, but when rumors begin to circulate about the choices they made, Tess is forced to confront a serious question. Did Lady Duff Gordon save herself at the expense of others?
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0385535589, Hardcover)The Most Famous Designer You've Never Heard Of
An Essay by Author Kate Alcott
Let me introduce you to the most famous designer you've never heard of—a fiery red-head named Lucile Duff Gordon, who in the early years of the twentieth century was the one of the top names in the fashion world. Lucile was famous for her diaphanous, floating fabrics in soft colors that freed women from the corsets of the nineteenth century. Her clothes were worn by royalty, high society women and glamorous movie stars alike. But Lucile, herself, was a very tough lady. When I first "met" Lady Duff Gordon in the course of researching The Dressmaker, I thought she was one of the most imperious and unlikeable women I had come upon in years. I wondered: do I really want to write about her? Is she too much of an obnoxious type? Nobody was allowed to stand in her way to success. The people who worked for her were indeed terrified half the time. "Madame" was mercurial and prone to fire anyone who did not do her bidding instantly. Rules and propriety were for other people. She thought nothing, so it is reported, of spitting her gum (which she chewed often and with relish) out of a window at her New York loft, ignoring the possibility that it might land on a passerby (which it did once, prompting an angry woman with gum in her hair to storm the loft and demand an apology. She didn't get it.) I decided to leave that vignette out. My readers would hate Madame before the story got going. And yet the longer I thought about Lucile, the more I saw her as one of the more amazingly determined women of her time. (Maybe on a par with Elinor Glyn, her sister, who, in order to stay attractive in Hollywood, was daring enough to have one of the very first face lifts ever.) Lucile reigned supreme in the designing world at a time when few women had the savvy to propel a business to success. How ironic then that the most indelible image of her doesn't stem from the fact that she was the most famous dress designer in the world, but from the fact that—as a passenger on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, escaping in a boat that held only twelve people—she refused to allow the crew members to row back and save others. In addition, her husband offered money to those crew members. As a bribe or simply a thank you? Lucile's boat was not the only one that didn't go back, of course, but she made a plum target for the newspapers of the time. Nobody will ever know for sure what happened in Lifeboat One, but Lucile never quite escaped the shadow of the ensuing scandal. There were still some good years ahead – but her business began to weaken, made even more vulnerable when she lost a major legal battle involving a contract dispute. Her one piece of irrefutable good luck? Three years after the Titanic went down, Lucile made a last minute cancellation for her reservation on a ship due to become as notorious as the Titanic – the Lusitania. The ship was destroyed by a German torpedo and sank in 1915. Twelve hundred people died. Lucile died years later in 1935 at the age of 71, already forgotten, in an English nursing home. Her business went bankrupt in 1921. But, oh, the clothes! I pored over pictures of them: ethereal Edwardian gowns hinting at female sensuality; bolder costumes for her Hollywood clients. They were magical, the kind of clothes I used to imagine wearing as a child when I wrapped myself in curtain remnants from my father's textile factory, pretending to be a princess. A few years ago, I visited the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, hoping to see one of her gowns on display. I was disappointed to find that all they were showing was a dreary olive-drab, no-nonsense suit that Lucile designed for women during World War I. I stared at it, looking for some hint of the creativity of the woman I hoped to capture for my book, wondering what splendid examples might be locked away in the vaults of the museum. I wanted to see the billowy sleeves and scalloped hemlines; the layers of floating chiffon, mixing colors of blue and gold, silver and green. I wanted to see the laces, airy as a spider web, the satin ribbons – all of it. Lucile would be furious that her best work wasn't being shown. I could easily imagine her stomping out of the place, ranting and raving as underlings scurried about to correct what she would see as massive injustice. But for all of her tantrums and scenes, she was a complicated and immensely talented woman. Yes, the designer you never heard of. And yes, I decided, I did want to write about her.
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Suge Knight officially charged faces third strike
LOS ANGELES, CA – Today former hip-hop mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was officially charged with murder and attempted murder in a Compton hit-and-run that occurred on Friday.
Adding to Knight's woes, his bail of $2.025 million bail was revoked after homicide detectives petitioned the bail commissioner, plus this will be a third strike for the Death Row Records founder.
The 49-year-old Knight was arrested early Friday after going to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's West Hollywood Station, accompanied by his lawyer. Earlier that day Knight is accused of running over two men following an altercation.
Fifty-five-year-old Terry Carter was killed and actor Cle "Bone" Sloan was injured when Knight backed over the pair in his red Ford F-150 Raptor pickup and then ran over them as he fled the scene.
Knight's attorney claims he was trying to escape an attack when he accidentally struck the victims. A homicide lieutenant said Knight argued with Sloan through the driver's side of the truck and then purposely struck Sloan and Carter while in the parking lot outside of Tam's Burgers in Compton.
Knight has been officially charged with one count of murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of hit-and-run with an allegation that he committed a serious and violent felony while out on bail in another pending case. He was out on bail for a robbery charge.
Authorities said bail was revoked since Knight is considered a flight-risk. They were also concerned about witness intimidation due to his criminal past. The District Attorney has confirmed this would be his third strike if convicted.
Knight faces life in prison if convicted. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday.
Former rap mogul Serge Knight arrested for murder
COMPTON, CA – Former rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has been arrested for murder after two men were mowed down by a truck driven by the troubled artist, killing one and injuring the other.
Los Angeles police Lt. John Corina told CNN that witnesses said it appeared that the driver of the truck intentionally hit the two victims, so they are handling the investigation as a homicide. Knight's bail was set at $2 million.
According to reports, Knight had an argument with 55-year-old Terry Carter and 51-year-old Cle Sloan, on the set of the biopic "Straight Outta Compton," a film about the rap group N.W.A. The argument continued in the parking lot of Tam's Burgers.
Knight allegedly tracked the two men down in the parking lot and backed his red Ford Raptor over the victims and then ran over them a second time as he left the scene, killing Carter and injuring Sloan. Officers later found Knight's Raptor abandoned in Westwood.
Knight, who was accompanied by his attorney, turned himself in at the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station.
Knight, the founder of Death Row Records, is no stranger to violence. In 1996, while Knight was driving a car in Las Vegas, Tupak Shakur, who was a passenger in his car, was shot to death.
Death Row Records filed for bankruptcy in 2006 after Knight spent several years in prison for violating parole on assault and weapons convictions, adding to his troubles he had ongoing feuds with Dr. Dre, Snoop Lion (Dogg) and others.
Last August Knight, along with two others, were shot while attending a party hosted by singer Chris Brown on the evening before the MTV Music Awards. Then in October he was arrested for allegedly stealing a photographer's camera.
In October, he was busted along with comedian Micah "Katt" Williams for allegedly stealing a photographer's camera.
Country music singer Kevin Sharp dies
FAIR OAKS, CA – Country music singer and Northern California native, Kevin Sharp died Saturday at his mother's Fair Oaks home. He was 43.
Sharp recorded multiple chart-topping songs and survived a battle with cancer when he was a senior in high school.
According to Sharp's sister, Mary Huston, he died at his mother's Fair Oaks home just before 11 p.m. Saturday night. He died due to complications from past stomach surgeries and digestive issues brought on by the aggressive battle he had to undergo in his teenage years.
Sharp was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, as a high school senior. He went into remission after two years of chemotherapy and radiation.
Sharp climbed the charts with his release of "Nobody Knows," a single on his 1996 debut album, "Measure of a Man." He released two other albums, "Love Is" in 1998 and "Make A Wish" in 2005.
During Sharp's battle with cancer, The Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him his wish to meet Grammy Award-winning music producer David Foster, who provided him with some tips that helped jump-start his career.
Sharp also was motivational speaker, a spokesman for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and he wrote "Tragedy's Gift," a 2004 book about fighting cancer.
Sharp is survived by five brothers, two sisters and his mother.
Justin Bieber's home searched
LOS ANGELES, CA – Justin Bieber has been served a felony search warrant at his Los Angeles home early this morning.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the warrant was served at 8 a.m. Tuesday. A number of patrol cars were seen entering Bieber's gated community in a high-end Calabasas neighborhood.
UPDATE (11:15 a.m.) – Lil Za friends of Lil Twist and Bieber has been arrested at Bieber's home on felony drug charges.
UPDATE (10:50 a.m.): According to sheriff's they were not specifically looking for eggs, but anything that could link him to the crime. There are reports that deputies confiscated Bieber's security system.
According to TMZ, the 19-year-old pop-star was being held in his garage while deputies executed the warrant, searching for evidence that may link Bieber to an egg-throwing incident with a neighbor. There are reports that deputies brought along a battering ram.
Investigators will be looking for evidence of eggs that may link to eggs discovered at the neighbor's home. They are also looking for any video that Bieber and his crew may have recorded of the incident.
What may be more concerning for Bieber is anything deputies find that is illegal is now fair game, so the singer may be facing other charges when all is said and done.
The Sheriff's Department will be holding a press conference at 11 a.m. PST.
The Biebs is accused of pelting a neighbor's home with eggs during an argument. The neighbor videotaped the incident and in the clip the neighbor can be heard yelling at the egg-thrower.
Bieber has had a difficult time getting along with his neighbors after throwing all night parties and racing down streets in the quiet neighborhood.
Recently Bieber announced to the world that he would be retiring so he can spend some time "figuring out myself as a man."
Katy Perry's epic lip-sync fail
CANNES, FRANCE – Katy Perry is coming under fire after her performance at the 15th annual NRJ Music Awards in Cannes over the weekend.
As Perry started her hit song "ROAR," it quickly became obvious that the pop-singer was lip-syncing the song. It was so bad the host of the show actually stopped her performance and asked her to start over.
"Bonsoir, Katy Perry. If you don't mind we can restart, what do you think?" the host says to Perry.
Perry agreed to start over, but it didn't get any better. There is a video posted on YouTube that was recorded from the time the singer started the song over. You can hear that she's out of breath due to the choreography and she is off-key at times.
As for the video of Perry getting caught? We managed to find one website where it was still posted, but the internet police are quickly taking the videos down.
Organizers for the NRJ Awards show came to Perry's aid in the form of a statement.
"Katy Perry was singing live at the NRJ Awards Saturday night in Cannes, but regrettably the wrong mix has been played accidentally which over-rode Katy's live vocal feed on-air at the beginning of her performance of 'Roar'," NRJ stated.
"TF1 & NRJ would like to apologize to NRJ double award winner Katy Perry for this technical problem beyond our control."
Are we expecting too much from pop-stars like Perry?
Chris Brown arrested for felony assault
WASHINGTON, DC – Chris Brown found himself behind bars in Washington, DC on Sunday morning after being arrested on felony charges.
According to Washington Metropolitan police, Brown and his body guard, Christopher Hollosy, were arrested Sunday morning at 4:25 a.m. outside the W Hotel and are being held at the 2nd District police station.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries.
Brown's twitter feed said the 24-year-old was in Washington to host a "homecoming party" at The Park at Fourteen nightclub on Saturday.
According to Metropolitan Police, Brown got into an argument with a man outside the W Hotel on K Street. The victim said he was hanging out with friends at the W when they saw 2 women getting ready to take a picture with Brown.
The victim and his friend photo bombed the 2 women, which is when Brown punched the victim, breaking his nose. The victim has stated he may require surgery.
According to police Brown was heard saying, "I'm not into this gay s**t, I'm into boxing," just before punching the victim.
This does not bode well for Brown.
This arrest could set the stage for a violation of his probation and send the singer to jail, something the Los Angeles District Attorney has been trying to do for some time.
Brown has been dodging jail time since his arrest in 2009 for punching Rihanna while driving a rented Lamborghini on a Hollywood street. The altercation left Rihanna bruised and bloody on the eve of the Grammy Awards.
Read: Chris Brown avoids hit-and-run charges
Brown entered a guilty plea and received five years' probation and ordered to spend more than 1,400 hours in "labor-oriented service." However, Brown came under fire earlier this year for forging documents showing he had completed his service.
Los Angeles prosecutors filed probation violation charges against Brown after the prosecution investigated his log of service for completing his probation. The prosecution could not validate his community service hours. They charged that Brown falsified documents and are sought to have him redo his service in Los Angeles County. According to Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray, their investigation "provided no credible, competent or verifiable evidence that defendant Brown performed his community labor as presented to this court."
Brown was ordered to complete an additional 1,000 hours of community services for the violation.
Brown has continued to have anger management issues and problems with women in general. Most recently he went on a rant about women while performing at the Emerson Theatre in Hollywood.
In a video posted on TMZ.com, Brown told the audience that a man should keep a woman in her place. We won't quote it all here since it was pretty crude. Suffice it to say he told the crowd, "So every person in this motherf**king building, if you got a bad b**ch you better say that sh*t to her, or she might f**k another n*gga."
In a fender bender Brown went "ballistic" on the woman in the other vehicle, causing charges to be filed.
Brown also threatened a parking valet after the attendant wanted to, of all things, get paid.
There was that brawl earlier this year between Brown and fellow artist Frank Ocean a number of months ago. Ocean ended up dropping the charges.
Let's not forget the incident involving Brown throwing a chair through a plate glass window while being interviewed on ABC's "Good Morning America," this after being asked a question about him punching Rihanna.
Read: Chris Brown picks a fight with Frank Ocean
Anger management issues?
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Brandlin will get to decide on November 20, since the singer is scheduled for a probation status hearing.
Chubby Checker wins ok to sue HP over penis app
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Chubby Checker has won the right to move forward with a lawsuit against HP and its Palm unit on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled that Ernest Evans, better known as Chubby Checker, can move forward with a lawsuit he filed earlier this year for trademark infringement against HP.
In February of this year, Checker filed suit alleging that HP infringed on his trademark name "Chubby Checker," with an app called "The Chubby Checker."
"The Chubby Checker" app appeared on websites for Palm OS devices and touted that it "enables women to estimate the size of a man's penis based on his shoe size."
"The Twist" singer's lawyers are seeking $500 million, claiming the app has done "irreparable damage" to his reputation.
According to HP, the company removed the offending app in September 2012 when they first received a complaint from Checker's lawyers. The German firm behind the app, Magic Apps, is no longer selling the software.
"He's hurt," his lawyer Willie Gary told Associated Press back in February, "He worked hard to build his name and reputation over the years," he continued, "We cannot sit idly and watch as technology giants, or anyone else, exploits the name or likeness of an innocent person with the goal of making millions of dollars."
HP, in an effort to dismiss the claim, said that Checker failed to prove that HP knew of the infringement. However, the judge disagreed and said that Checker did prove that HP was aware of the app due to their detailed application and approval process for the app, and thus knew it violated the trademark.
In an article last year in the San Francisco Chronicle Checker was quoted as saying, "I have only one regret in my whole life, this is my greatest regret – that my music is not being played and more people aren't seeing Chubby Checker. That's very painful for me. Many nights I have tears in my eyes about that. While I'm praying to God and thanking him for all the good things, I ask, 'Why don't they play my music? Did I do something wrong? Is there something about it?'
Checker went on to say, "It's not just any music – the No. 1 song in the world, the only song to be No. 1 twice – why don't they play my music? It's so painful. Why isn't Chubby getting his music played like the rest of the white boys?"
It was over 50 years ago that "The Twist" hit No. 1 for the first time. Along with the song came Checkers signature style of dance called "The Twist." According to Checker, his song and dance moves changed the way people danced forever.
Is he simply trying to protect his trademark, or could this be retribution for the many years of what he views as neglect?
Medley's get righteous at Thunder Valley Casino
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and legendary Righteous Brother Bill Medley along with daughter McKenna Medley, performed at Thunder Valley Casino Resort on Saturday.
Bill was backed by the very talented 3 Bottle Band, who has been playing together with Medley for over 35 years. Band members were Gabe Rabben (drums), Jamie Browning (bass/vocals), Tim Lee (keyboards), and Larry Hanson (lead guitar).
This year marks the 51st anniversary of the Righteous Brothers. The second half of the duo, Bobby Hatfield, died of a heart attack back in 2003; Medley now tours with the 3 Bottle Band and his daughter Mckenna.
Kicking off the show was a video showing Medley as he made appearances in various shows throughout his career, including the David Letterman Show and the hit TV series, Cheers. As the video ended, Medley started to sing "A Song for You" while he was still offstage. After about a minute he started to make his way to the stage, providing for a nice dramatic entrance.
The audience was mesmerized with Medley from the start as he continued with "Show Me" and "Soul and Inspiration." In between songs he would talk about life and joke with the crowd.
The 72 year old Medley's voice was rough at times, but had a nice coarse sound to it. He even made fun of himself after singing "Unchained Melody," saying he knew everyone was waiting to see if he could hit the high note, but didn't. He did follow the joke with a quick high note, which sounded great.
For his hit song, "Time of My Life," from the movie Dirty Dancing, Medley brought out Mckenna to perform Jennifer Warnes' part. McKenna did an awesome job and has a very melodic voice with a bit of a country/blues flavor.
McKenna went on to perform solo, singing "Silk Flowers" and "Give Me One Reason."
After McKenna completed her set, Medley sat down at the keyboards and called on band member Jamie Browning to sing a few songs with him and McKenna. This is where Medley shined, providing the audience a glimpse of what it's like to jam with one of the best.
Mckenna has just recently started a blog called "A Righteous Fit," chronicling her daily struggles and successes to keep fit. McKenna says, "Staying in shape is a constant struggle for me. I'm not here because I have all the answers, even though I may have a few tricks- especially when it comes to traveling," she goes on to say, "But I just want to inspire good health, and have a place to be accountable for my own health." It was fun following her posts on her trip to Thunder Valley.
Hawaii comes to Thunder Valley Casino
There was a whole lot of pupu'ing going on at Thunder Valley Casino Resort on Saturday as Hawaiian natives Tia Carrere, Daniel Ho, and the band Kapala entertained fans with some old-fashioned Hawaiian music.
Kicking off the show was Grammy Award winners Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho singing "He Aloha Melee" and "Pupu Hinuhinu."
Carrere's performance was flawless, as was Ho's incredible guitar work. Carrere's voice was smooth and silky as she continued on with "Me Ke Aloha Pumehana" and "He Nani," from their award winning album 'He Nani.'
You may recall Tia Carrere is a veteran actress who has starred in numerous movies and television shows, her most notable role was as rock singer Cassandra in the movie 'Wayne's World.' She's also the voice of Nani, in the movie and TV series of 'Lilo and Stitch.'
Carrere has come a long way since her start on the TV series 'General Hospital,' not only as an actor, but as a singer. Teaming up with childhood friend Daniel Ho, they have garnered a number of Grammy Awards including best album for 'Ikena' and 'Huana Ke Aloha.'
Daniel Ho has released 18 solo albums and produced over 50 albums. Providing backup vocals for Tia on a number of songs, he played several instruments throughout the night including the piano, ukulele and guitar.
When the band Kapala stormed the stage it was nothing but pure energy as band members Lance Kalanikai Artis, Ashley Kimo Artis, Richard Lanakila Heirakuji, Lopaka Ho'opi'i, Adriano Kawika Larioza and Zanuck Kapala Lindsey, put on a high energy and very entertaining show, kicking off their set with "96795" and "Chigasaki."
The crowd really got into Kapala's set as the band made their way through a number of their hits including "Come on Home" and "Palapalai." Some fans headed to the back of Pano Hall to dance, while others danced at their seats.
It was a great night out, with Carrere and Ho putting on a spectacular show, and Kapala finishing up the night with some high energy tunes.
V101's Big Valentines Jam
Thunder Valley Casino Resort did it again Friday night as they packed them in for V101's Big Valentine's Day Jam with a stellar lineup including Sacramento's own Club Nouveau, Zapp, and The Bar-Kay's.
Thunder Valley Casino's Pano Hall was at capacity as droves of fans crowded in to see their favorite bands from the '70s and '80s.
Starting off the show was Club Nouveau performing a number of their hits including "Situation #9," "Jealousy," and their No. 1 hit "Lean on Me." The crowd met them with wild applause as fans were jumping to their feet.
A couple of their songs fell flat for me, but the audience didn't seem to mind since the majority of the room remained on their feet for most of their performance. Closing with "Lean on Me," the instrumentals were lacking with the piano getting lost in the mix of things. Founding members Jay King and Vallerie Watson were joined by original member Samuelle Prater.
The logistics for this show were difficult at best with Zapp and The Bar-Kay's bringing in a large number of instruments with everything from drums and keyboards to Zapp's Peter Frampton style Talkbox. This may have contributed to the less than stellar performance by Club Nouveau.
Zapp followed Club Nouveau with many of their hits which included "More Bounce to the Ounce," "Dance Floor" and "Computer Love," just to name a few. Founding members and brothers Lester Troutman, Terry "Zapp" Troutman and Vontel Troutman were joined by Gregory Jackson and Thomas Troutman.
What can I say about the Zapp band other than they simply killed it. Great colorful props, bright clothes, bright lights, and wonderful sounds, this group of guys had the crowd on their feet during their entire set.
As Zapp finished their set a large number of people headed for the doors. While some came back in for headliner The Bar-Kay's many didn't. Apparently a small portion of the fans were there to see Zapp.
As The Bar-Kay's took the stage the crowd was re-energized and back on their feet. The crowd seemed more subdued for The Bar-Kay's than for Zapp, but that evaporated mid-way through their set.
Onstage was Larry Dodson (lead singer), James Alexander (bass), Tony Gentry (guitar), Ezra Williams (keyboards), Carlos Sargent (drums), Mark Bynum (keyboards), Darrel Stanley (background vocals), Archie Love (background vocals) and Mike Anderson (guitar).
Bringing on the funk, The Bark-Kay's performed many of their hits including "Soul Finger," "Let's Have Some Fun" and "Hit and Run."
While The Bar-Kay's had a stellar performance, at the end of the day Zapp stole the show and clearly should have had top billing.
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The Sovereigns Are Coming! Foreign Governments Are Investing Large Sums of Money in American Assets, Creating Financial and Political Waves in the West. Daniel Drezner Examines Fears about Sovereign Wealth Funds
Drezner, Daniel, The American (Washington, DC)
Sovereign wealth funds are government-controlled pools of assets that are making increasingly prominent investments in the economies of the Anglosphere. The combined heft of SWFs is estimated at approximately $3.3 trillion and growing rapidly. In 2007, Russia and China created new SWFs; press reports indicate that Saudi Arabia and Japan will create their own SWFs in 2008. These funds have been involved in high-profile equity purchases of Blackstone, UBS, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and Citi. Morgan Stanley economist Stephen Jen projects SWFs to amass $12 trillion in assets by 2015--similar to the current gross domestic product of the United States. Their growth, unfortunately, feeds into two trends known to unnerve Americans: foreign investors and financial turbulence.
Over the past 30 years, the United States has experienced periodic waves of investor protectionism. In the 1980s, the specter of Japan Inc. gobbling up prestigious pieces of property led to such absurdities as members of Congress holding a press conference to bash Toshiba products. In 2006, public hysteria helped to block United Arab Emirates-owned DP World's acquisition of six port facilities in the United States. Congressional resistance thwarted China National Offshore Oil Corporation's attempt to acquire Unocal. Public opinion polling shows unremitting hostility among a majority of Americans toward the prospect of foreign "ownership" of American firms (they're more receptive to "investment"). SWFs exacerbate these suspicions. If Americans reacted negatively to faceless Japanese salarymen, imagine the reaction when the foreign purchasers are Arab governments or the Chinese Communist Party.
At the same time, a series of financial disruptions have buffeted and confused Americans over the past decade. Americans have had to cope with the vicissitudes of the dot-com bust, Enron and its aftermath, financial derivatives, hedge funds, private equity, subprime mortgages, and structured investment vehicles. Given the uncertain effects of many of these financial shocks, one could excuse the average American for looking at SWFs with more than a whiff of distrust.
In an admittedly hostile political climate, the SWFs have not done themselves many favors. At a Davos World Economic Forum session in January, Norway's finance minister Kristin Halvorsen responded to gentle criticism of her country's sovereign wealth fund by responding, "It seems you don't like us, but you need our money."
Compared to Norway, the transparency of other SWFs ranges from bad to worse. In terms of U.S. foreign policy, an obvious concern is that SWFs are sprouting up primarily in countries not commonly thought of as reliable U.S. allies. Testifying before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in February, Alan Tonelson of the U.S. Business and Industry Council voiced the obvious concern: "If, for example, the Chinese government held significant stakes in a large number of big American financial institutions, especially marketmakers, and if our nation's current period of financial weakness persists, how willing would Washington be to stand up to Beijing in a Taiwan Straits crisis?"
No question, the growth of SWFs puts advocates of open capital markets in a quandary. During debates over what to do with the Social Security trust fund a few years ago, there was deep resistance to the idea of having a U.S. government fund pick winners in the stock market. Why should foreign governments get to play?
Sovereign wealth funds do present concerns on the near and far horizons, but the predominant reaction at this point should be what is emblazoned on the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "DON'T PANIC." To date, SWFs have acted responsibly, and there is no sign that their behavior will change soon.
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Tekkit Texture Pack is based on Kyctarniq's Texture Pack. This is a photo-based texture pack so all the images are based on something real. This pack is not finished it needs consistent menus. It is evolving wonderfully and is nearing completion, just in time for the next release of Tekkit.
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Need to Know: CB Amerson among week's 5 most talked about Redskins
May 3, 2014, 5:06 AM EDT
Here is what you need to know on this Saturday, May 3, five days before the NFL draft.
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Here are the five most talked about Redskins from the week that was:
Jay Gruden doesn't have final say in the draft but it would be foolish to say that he doesn't have a major voice in who's selected. He got great productivity out of two tight ends in Cincinnati and it would not be surprising if he successfully lobbied for Bruce Allen to tab a second one to pair with Jordan Reed for the Redskins.
Is David Amerson ready to start at cornerback yet? We took a look at that question and concluded that a second-round pick who has 700 NFL snaps under his belt had better be able to start.
There's plenty of optimism that DeSean Jackson can bring a major boost to the Redskins' offense. But if you've been following the team for longer than, oh, 10 minutes or so you know that these things don't always work out in Washington. Will Jackson boom or bust in DC?
The decision to franchise tag Brian Orakpo stirred up some controversy with some saying that he hasn't played well enough to justify the $11.45 million salary. Now he stirred up some more discussion by saying that he was a "proven" player.
Robert Griffin III has been a team captain since midway through his rookie year so he certainly has some leadership traits. But with London Fletcher gone he will have to pick up the leadership intensity a notch or two. Appearing on TV, Fletcher speculated how well Griffin might be able to handle it.
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- kenlinkins - May 3, 2014 at 7:07 PM
When I think of CB's I think of race horse's. You go to the Yearling Sales and check out the breeding, how they look, move and buy on potential (just like the draft). Then you start training for their first year on the track (a true rookie). In that first year you hope they can work up to graded stakes races and show they belong in major races. Maybe they become a Sprint Specialist, a mudder, or a closer (Like Special Teams or nickel back) but they show they belong and by performance move up the latter. They are lightly raced in year one because they are young and learning (like a rookie CB). They do not have to win the KY Derby but they must show they can run against Grade One talent and win sometimes (win a job in sub packages). Then they get a few months off before the must prove they can handle the best race horses in the world (Starting in season two). Again, they do not have to win the Breeders Cup, but they must win Grade One races and make money. (must handle the best WR in the game without get burned all game long). If they can do that, you have a solid race horse (A true NFL CB talent). So this is the year that David Amerson shows if he can run with the big boys or is a going to be a ALSO RAN type of player.
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Scientometric Portrait of Dr. Atta-Ur-Rahman
Anjum, Manzoor Ahmad Khan, Ahmad, Munir, Library Philosophy and Practice
Bibliometrics is a word that means "the more that is published on a topic, the more important the topic is in terms of money and energy being used" (Jaing, 2003).
The terms bibliometrics by Pritchard and 'Naukometriya' (the Russian for 'Scientometrics') by Nalimov & Mulchenko were coined simultaneously in 1969 while Narin (1976) used the term 'Evaluative bibliometrics' to denote the use of bibliometric techniques, especially publication and citation analysis in the assessment of a scientific creativity.
The anyhow fuzzy borderlines between the two specialties almost vanished during the last three decades and nowadays both terms are used almost as synonyms. Instead, the field informetrics took the place of the originally broader specialty bibliometrics (Glanzel, 2003).
Bbibliometrics is not only the term that is used to refer to the quantitative study of document-related processes. Informatics and librametry may be defined in similar ways; scientometrics, technometrics, sociometrics and econometrics are fields that overlap with bibliometrics to greater or lesser extent (in the sense either that similar methods are used, or that related processes are studied); and webrometrics and cybermetrics are new areas that focus specifically on the communication of information in electronic form (UCLA Graduate School).
Kalyane and Kalyane (1993) for the first time used the phrase 'Scientometric Portrait' to carry out bio-bibliometric studies on scientists while Sinha & Bhatnagar (1980) and Sinha & Ullah (1994) used the term 'Information profile' for such studies while Sen (1995) proposed the term 'Microbibliometrics' for the studies on individual scientists in IASLIC conference (1994)'
Recently the term 'Bio-bibliometrics' is being used for a method of retrieving and visualizing biological information (Stapley & Benoit, 2000) while Koganurmath, et al. (2003) have suggested that 'Scientometric portrait' is the appropriate phrase for the studies on scientists and 'Informetric portrait' for the studies on researchers in other disciplines such as arts, humanities and social sciences.
Biographical Sketch
Professor Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman an outstanding academician and one of the leading scientists in Pakistan completed his Masters in Organic Chemistry from the University of Karachi in 1964 and obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in 1968, where he later on had the rare distinction of being appointed as Don at Kings College, Cambridge (1969-1973) and D.A.A.D. Fellow of University of Tuebingen, Germany in 1979. He is also the only scientist from the Pakistan, other than the late Prof. Abdul Salam (Nobel Laureate), who has been awarded the prestigious degree of Doctor of Science (ScD) by Cambridge University. Three Pakistani Universities, Sir Syed Engineering University (2003), Gomal University (2004) and Karachi University (2005) each awarded him D.Sc. degree
He is internationally renowned in the field of Natural Product Chemistry. He has hundreds of publications to his credit including 15 Patents, 94 Books, 59 Chapters in Books published by major US and European presses while more than 70 students have completed Ph.D researches under his supervision.
He is an eminent writer and the level of his writings can be judged from the fact that his first book "Biosynthesis of Indole Alkaloids" was published by Oxford University Press, England as Vol. 7 of their prestigious "International Series of Monographs in Chemistry' in 1983 while another book "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" is considered to be the first text book to have a detailed discussion on 2D-NMR spectroscopy. Its success in USA and Europe prompted it to be translated into Japanese language by Prof. H. Hirota from Tokyo University and Prof. Motoo Tori from Tokushima Bunri University. Another title "Stereoselective Synthesis in Organic Chemistry", published by Springer-Verlag, Germany was appreciated by the Nobel Laureate Sir D. …


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Everyone I have ever talked to says they are the same thing.. but if that is true, why is one 3x more expensive than the other? I've never taken either so I don't know.. but something doesn't add up.
What is the difference between Oxycodone and Percocet?
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14 Nov 2007
oxycodone is the active ingredient in percocet... the reason that oxycontin is so much more expensive is the amount of milligrams, most percs are 5mg or 7.5mg(there are 10mg too). oxycontin comes in 10,20,40,80,160mg... so depending on the size the price goes up accordingly. they are the same narcotic, qty determines price or if you meant roxicodone... thats the same too, but I usually hear about the 30mg one, which would explain the 3x the price you mentioned
it is because percocet is the brand name and the other one is a generic.
many times the brand name is preferred and considered better quality by users.
but there is no difference in the ingredients?
no difference in the ingredients... just the manufacturer.
why would someone pay 5x as much for one of the other if they are both the same thing? This blows my mind
same reason they pay twice as much for any name brand instead of a no frills generic... they really believe the quality is much better. In some cases it is,most of the time its the same with a different wrapper.
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