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Carnival Cruise Lines has announced that its 88,500-ton Carnival Legend will sail two special Bermuda cruises in 2006 and 2007 -- just days after Italian counterpart Costa Cruises revealed that their largest ship to date, CostaMagica, will also head to the region for its first-ever series of seven-night Bermuda voyages in 2006.
What's particularly interesting about these itineraries is that in the past, the conservative British isle been quite restrictive, preventing "overcrowding" by allowing a limited number of small to mid-size (and mostly older) ships to dock there. Most mainstream lines have had a limited presence if any; for example, Carnival returned to Bermuda in 2002 after a hiatus of three full years -- and then sailed Bermuda-free again in 2005.
Costa and Carnival aren't the only major players staking a new claim in Bermuda -- starting this month, Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas and Voyager of the Seas (the largest ship ever to call in Bermuda) are also visiting the island on an alternating 26 week schedule.
Why the departure from previous island "policy"? We're curious, too. The Bermuda Department of Tourism is remaining quite mum, but a spokeswoman assures us that the region is "delighted to welcome visitors aboard these larger ships to the island" and that 2006 will continue to bring major cruise lines to Bermuda, though details have not yet been finalized.
CostaMagica will sail two seven-night Bermuda sailings departing from Ft. Lauderdale on April 21 and April 28, 2006 -- and, incidentally, will be the only ship sailing roundtrip to the region from Florida. Carnival Legend will also sail two Bermuda voyages, six-night cruises departing from New York on April 20, 2006 and April 19, 2007; both feature an overnight visit to King's Wharf and a full day in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Hospira Issues a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of One Lot of 0.25% Bupivacaine HCL Injection, USP (2.5 MG/ML), 30 ML Single-Dose Vial and One Lot of 0.75% Bupivacaine HCL Injection, USP (7.5 MG/ML), 30Publish Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:52:00 -0400
Contact:Media(224) 212-2357 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Sept. 13, 2013 - LAKE FOREST, Ill., - Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), announced today, on July 12, 2013, it initiated a voluntary nationwide recall to the user level for one lot of 0.25% Bupivacaine HCl Injection, USP (2.5 mg/mL), 30 mL Single-dose Vial (NDC 0409-1159-02). An expanded recall was issued on August 29, 2013 for one lot of 0.75% Bupivacaine HCl Injection, USP (7.5 mg/mL), 30 mL Single-dose Vial (NDC 0409-1165-02). Both recalls are due to confirmed customer reports of particulate floating and/or embedded in the glass vial. The particulate was identified as stainless steel ranging in size from 542 microns to 1700 microns in lot 18-136-DK (0.25% bupivacaine) and as iron oxide with an average size of 2000 microns in lot 23-338-DK (0.75% bupivacaine). To date, Hospira has not received reports of any adverse events associated with this issue for this lot.Both products are packaged 25 units per carton/50 units per case in glass teartop vials.Bupivacaine is indicated for the production of local or regional anesthesia or analgesia for surgery, dental and oral surgery procedures, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and for obstetrical procedures.The administration of an injectable with the presence of foreign particulates may potentially cause thrombophlebitis, bacteremia, sepsis, and/or endocarditis and death may result. Signs and symptoms could include redness, pain, swelling at the site, fever, shortness of breath, tachycardia, nausea and vomiting. Depending on the particle size, if undetected, it could block administration of the diluted drug to the patient, causing a delay in therapy.Lot 18-136-DK was distributed August 2012 through September 2012. Lot 23-338-DK was distributed January 2013 through May 2013. Both lots were distributed nationwide to wholesalers/distributors, hospitals and pharmacies.ProductNDC NumberLotExpiration Date0.25% Bupivacaine HCl Inj., USP (2.5 mg/mL), 30 mL Single-dose Vial0409-1159-0218-136-DK*1JUN20140.75% Bupivacaine HCl Inj., USP (7.5 mg/mL), 30 mL Single-dose Preservative-Free Vial0409-1165-0223-338-DK*1NOV2014Anyone with an existing inventory should immediately quarantine any affected product and return the product to Stericycle. For additional assistance, call Stericycle at:LotPhone Number (8am to 5pm ET, M-F)18-136-DK1-866-240-536423-338-DK1-888-627-2279For clinical inquiries, please contact Hospira using the information provided below.Hospira ContactContact Information Areas of SupportHospira Global Complaint Management1-800-441-4100 (8am-5pm CT, M-F) (email@example.com)To report adverse events or product complaintsHospira Medical Communications1-800-615-0187 or firstname.lastname@example.com (Available 24 hours a day/7 days per week)Medical inquiriesAny adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this product may be reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) MedWatch Adverse Events Program either online, by regular mail or by fax.Online: www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htmRegular mail: use postage-paid, pre-addressed Form FDA3500 available at www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htmFax: 1-800-FDA-0178This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the FDA.About HospiraHospira, Inc. is the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies. Through its broad, integrated portfolio, Hospira is uniquely positioned to Advance Wellness™ by improving patient and caregiver safety while reducing healthcare costs. The company is headquartered in Lake Forest, Ill., and has approximately 16,000 employees. Learn more at www.hospira.com.
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By A Shriner
from Brooksville, Florida
About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
Comments about Pittsburgh Automotive 12 Ton Hydraulic Low Profile Heavy Duty Bottle Jack:
I bought this to lift a heavy double axle enclosed utility trailer. The trailer had both tires flat on one side and I needed a low profile jack. I am pleased with the quality and lifting power of this jack. I will be using it often. A great value for a low price.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By none
from albertville
Did the job with no problems
Great Budget Jack! Solid lifter
By Carter
from New Braunfels
About Me Professional
1. Before I purchased this Jack I checked it in the store, no problems retracting. 2. This is a heavy Jack because it is rated to pick up 24,000 pounds (for those who stated it was too heavy) 3.I use this for supporting/lifting headers in houses, lifting loaded trailers, changing flat tires in the grass/dirt and whatever else I throw at it. 4.HF is good about warranties and returns if one has the receipt. 5.The low profile with its lifting capacity makes it an excellent verstile Jack for the money.
Worked well for me
from Htown Texas
About Me Remodeler
I used this for reseting some blocks under a house. These worked great exactly as I was hoping they would. Mine did have screw releases but this was a good ways back anyway I saw the horrible review and decided I should Add mine which was good. Worked well to help me level my home, got my money back out of that.
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Rubber plug is used !
By Ham
from Boston, Ma
About Me Mechanic
Not bad but they used a rubber push plug to the hydraulic fluid cylinder , I would have liked a screw instead.
Worked at first, then wouldn't retract
By Sill plate replacing
from MI
Worked fine for the first several uses, but then would no longer retract. Was within 90 days so returned without a problem. I also have a 20 ton that has not had an issue yet.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Locked in up position.
By Ezra
from deal, nj
It looks like it's well made but it locked in the up position when I tried it just out of the box.
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Goes up, not down
By Buddy
from Chicago,Il
I bought this for its low profile, to lift suspension etc while vehicle on jack stands. It's great for that but will NOT completely retract, even fill plug out and with the screw on front completely removed and hydraulic oil running out. With the weight of my body against the piston, it would reseat the last two inches. If HF has another in stock, I may try again, but I'm guessing this may be one of their "must avoids."
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By Unhappy Jack
from Indianapolis IN
About Me Auto Enthusiast
This jack is useless because it won't retract after the release has been turned. The only way I could get it back in was to beat on it with a sledgehammer. Even then it would barely budge. It's going back.
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Virginia Man Wins Jackpot Worth $75.6 Million
Joe Denette of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, is what you might call a die-hard racing fan. In fact, not even winning a Mega Millions jackpot valued at $75.6 million could keep him from a good NASCAR race.
On Friday, May 1, Mr. Denette matched all six numbers in the Mega Millions drawing. The next morning, he checked the winning numbers and realized he had won. One problem, though – he also had tickets to that evening's NASCAR race at Richmond International Raceway. What did he do? He gave the winning Mega Millions ticket to his mother for safekeeping while he enjoyed the race!
"She asked me where I was going and I said 'the race!'" he told Lottery officials. "I won four race tickets from a radio station for answering NASCAR trivia questions."
On May 12, he returned to the racetrack to receive his check from Virginia Lottery Executive Director Paula Otto. Rather than take the full jackpot amount over 26 years, Mr. Denette chose to take the cash option of $47.8 million.
He was one of three ticket-holders nationwide to win and split the $227 million Mega Millions jackpot. The winning numbers were 9-16-24-40-43 and the Mega Ball number was 35. He used the Easy Pick function, in which the computer randomly selected the numbers on his ticket.
"The computer did it," he told Lottery officials. "I used to hate computers. Not anymore."
Mr. Denette has been unemployed since January, when he was laid off from his job with a home building company.
He bought the ticket at Joyful Convenience Market, located at 5409 Mudd Tavern Road in Woodford. The store receives a $50,000 retailer bonus from the Virginia Lottery for selling the jackpot-winning ticket.
"This is the third-largest prize ever awarded by the Virginia Lottery and the fourth Mega Millions jackpot won in the Commonwealth," said Ms. Otto. "In the time it took for the jackpot to grow to this level, from March 13 to the May 1 drawing, Mega Millions sales raised $12.5 million in profits for Virginia's public schools."
They are not the only winners. Virginia Lottery retailers earned more than $1.4 million during the same time for selling Mega Millions tickets. The state tax withholding on Mr. Denette's prize resulted in $1.9 million for Virginia coffers. Along with Mr. Denette, there were more than 100,000 winning tickets bought in Virginia for the May 1 Mega Millions drawing, ranging from $2 to $10,000.
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Beacon frequency: 28.245 MHz.
Power output: 2 W
The beacon is currently offline due to problems with the TX. We are working on it!
Location is in a small village named "Bomlitz". The region is called "Lüneburger Heide".
License holder of DB0TEN is Michael DH2OAA.
QSL Manager is Jörg DO8HF.
Special thanks to Klaus, DF6AP and Jan, DK1OM for supporting this project!
Reports are welcome!
Repeater frequency: 439.2125 MHz; more information (in german) here.
A short history of the beacon
DB0TEN started in 2010 as a private project of Michael DH2OAA and Martin DO1MF. They realised that no reliable 10 m beacon for propagation tests existed in the north of Germany and Scandinavia. So Michael requested a license at the German license authority "Bundesnetzagentur".
Two problems brought the project to a halt for nearly two years:
1. Michael changed his employer in 2011 and suffered from very heavy workload.
2. The assigned location was no longer available.
After several long discussions, a solution was found.
Many people contributed to the project.
Michael's part of the beacon is the Realistic HTX-100 transceiver, the housing and the concept. He added a compact power supply and a small ATMEL-board for the keyer logic and placed them in a metal case. A little blower running at half speed keeps the temperature at moderate level.
PIC programming was done by Klaus DF6AP.
The vertical antenna from COMET was provided by Martin DO1MF.
Jörg DO8HF gave parts for lightning protection.
Jan DK1OM offered a new location on the roof of his father's house.
This brought new life to the project and the beacon finally went "on air" on June 29th 2012.
Jan, DK1OM
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This page contains a text in Old Irish with a modern English translation. This particular text and its translation are extracted from a lesson in the Early Indo-European Online series, where one may find detailed information about this text (see the Table of Contents page for Old Irish Online in EIEOL), and general information about the Old Irish language and its speakers' culture.
"Cinnas conicfaesu anní sin", ol inL bʰen. "Ar inN dain nombiasu oc comʰruc friH fer comʰthrén comʰchrotha comʰchliss comʰfʰobaidʰ comʰéscaidʰ comʰchiníuil comʰghaiscidʰ comméte friut bam escongsa ocus foLchichiur curu immotL chossa issindL áth coN mba éccomʰlonn mór."
"Fortongu doL dʰía toingthe Ulaidʰ", ol Cú Chulainn, "fortatnesabʰsu friH glaisslecca indL átho ocus nicotL bʰia ícc úaimLse de coH bráth manimL dʰergaissu."
"Bia sodʰsa dono glass duitsiu", olsí, "ocus gébʰa bréit dotL dʰóitind deiss conicci doL rigʰidʰ clí."
"Tongusa doL dʰía toingte Ulaidʰ", ol Cú Chulainn, "notLbʰenabʰsu sechamʰ comʰL chleittíniu coN mmemʰa doL sʰúil itL chinn ocus nicotL bʰia ícc úaimLse de coH bráth manimL dʰergaissu."
"Biamʰ samʰaiscse finn áuderg dono", olsissi, "ocus doragʰ issinN linn iN fail indL átho inN nattan rombiasu oc comʰruc friH fer busL choimʰchliss duit ocus cétN mbó finnN náuderg imL dʰiaidʰ ocus memʰais ind éit uile imL dʰiaidʰse issinN náth ocus conbibʰsustar fír ferN fortsu aN llá sin ocus géttair doL chenn ditL issindL áth sin."
"How will you be able (to do) this?", said the woman. "For at the time when you will be in combat against a man of the same strength, of the same shape, of the same skill, of the same swiftness, of the same eagerness, of the same descent, of the same prowess, of the same height as you, I will be an eel, and I will throw slings around your feet in the ford, so that it will be a very unequal combat."
"I swear by the god by which the Ulstermen swear", said Cu Chulainn, "I will crush you against the grey stones of the ford, and there will be no cure from it for you on my part until Doomsday, unless you ask my pardon."
"I will be a grey wolf-bitch, then, against you", said she, "and I will take a strip off the end of your right arm up to your left fore-arm."
"I swear by the god by which the Ulstermen swear", said Cu Chulainn, "I myself will strike you with my javelin so that your eye shall burst inside your head, and there will be no cure from it for you on my part until Doomsday, unless you ask my pardon."
"I will be a white, red-eared heifer then", said she, "and I will come into the water at a spot of the ford when once again you will be in combat against a man who will be as skilled as you, and a hundred white, red-eared cows after me, and all the cattle will charge into the ford after me, and the right of men will be violated against you on that very day, and your head will be chopped off you in that very ford."


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Stoll, Sabine (2005). Beginning and end in the acquisition of the perfective aspect in Russian. Journal Of Child Language, 32(04):805-825.
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The goal of this research is to determine the relevant factors that aid in the acquisition of the perfective aspect in Russian. Results confirm the findings of previous research, which say that aspect is not learned as a uniform category, but rather interrelates with the acquisition of Aktionsarten. This study focuses on the factors responsible for the difference in the rate of the acquisition of two complementary Aktionsarten in the perfective aspect: telic verbs (verbs including a result/goal of the denoted event) and ingressive verbs (verbs including the beginning of the event).
Since the usage of Aktionsarten strongly depends on the surrounding discourse, two experiments that varied in their discourse complexity were conducted. One study looked at the production of isolated utterances (thirty-nine children aged 3;0 to 6;11) and the other study focused on complex texts (fifty-two children aged 3;0 to 6;11). It was found that while telics are used independently of discourse context, ingressives depend strongly on contextual information.
These results suggest that discourse complexity and narrative competence define the acquisitional process for ingressives, yet are irrelevant in the acquisition of telics.
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College Hockey:From freshmen to seniors, Minnesota's a program moving in one direction
PHILADELPHIA — Four years separate Minnesota senior captain Nate Condon, born in 1990, and sophomore defenseman Brady Skjei, born in 1994, but that age difference may be a cultural gap that cannot be bridged.
"I always give Brady Skjei a hard time," said Condon. "He's my roommate on the road and he listens to One Direction all the time and I can't stand it."
One Direction is a band that hails from Great Britain, the kind of pop band typically known as a "boy band."
There are eight freshmen and six sophomores on this year's Minnesota team, a squad that looks different from the one that took the ice at the Frozen Four in Tampa two years ago. That provides an opportunity for upperclassmen like Condon to mentor younger players.
"We might be a little bit different because we have some younger guys that come straight out of high school, so they bring a really youthful experience to us," said Condon. "I had to play two years of juniors in order to make it to the next step for college and so I'm an older guy, but it's fun to hang around the younger guys."
The Golden Gophers' rookie class has netted 56 of the team's 137 goals, or just over 40 percent of Minnesota's scoring this season. Condon (9-15–24) plays on a line with freshmen Taylor Cammarata (9-16–25) and Justin Kloos (15-15–30).
"Being paired with Cammarata and Kloos all season," said Condon, "they're really talented offensively, they're really great players. I had to kind of show them the ropes at the beginning of the year, as far as defensive [play] and really how to be a college hockey player.
"It's been a little bit different for me this year as I kind of had to coach up some of the younger guys and their defensive habits. It's been rewarding to see them come into their own this season."
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On a recent trip to the Tyler Museum of Art, to lecture at the opening of his latest show, Dallas sculptor George Tobolowsky drives south on Central Expressway and fiddles with the radio. He drives a lowered Chevrolet pickup. The bed is gouged and dented in 100 places. When he parks it in front of his sleek, white townhouse, one might expect a repairman inside. The interior of the truck resembles a vandalized storage shed. Strewn across the rear floorboard are work shoes, loose papers, a fluorescent safety vest, gloves, tie-down straps, a hard hat, and dust masks. The ride reflects a lifetime of hauling heavy things.
Barely out of Dallas, Tobolowsky looks for an exit ramp. "I need to get out and walk around," he says. "My back hurts." His left leg is propped against the armrest on the door. "Last week I kicked a piece of steel," he says. "Should've known better." If the art world were a rodeo, sculptors would be the bull riders of the bunch; pain is tied to the pleasure. To make his pieces, many of which weigh 1,000 pounds or more, Tobolowsky has battled sciatica, gashes, and burns. "I've got a friend who's a woodworker. He accidently cut off the tips of his fingers. He tries to convince us that they're growing back."
Since his first solo show at the Gerald Peters Gallery in 2006 at the age of 56, Tobolowsky has moved steadily toward the front row of the Texas art world—this time as a maker of art.
He already had a patron's seat. Tobolowsky is currently serving on the board of SMU's Meadows Museum and has served on the boards of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Contemporary, and he is a co-founder of the Texas Sculpture Association and the Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston. Tobolowsky gravitates toward the boards' building committees. For six years, he was on the board for construction at Greenhill School.
"I love designing and working with architects," he says. "I'm interested in things being sized right and in making sure they work."
That interest doesn't necessarily explain his sculptures or why he was compelled to make them, to make the relatively late transition from patron to artist. Except that now, George Tobolowsky's life feels as though it is sized right.
Tobolowsky is the great-grandson of Russian émigrés. He wears a Stalinist mustache that requires his companions to study his eyes to determine his mood. His children have begged him to shave it off, to see what's underneath. He has thus far resisted their petitions. The Army succeeded in removing it, but the streamlining lasted only for the duration of basic training. His wife, Julie, has never seen him without it.
Tobolowsky's father was president of a textile company. Tobolowsky assumed he would follow his dad into business. He went to Hillcrest High School and studied accounting and sculpture at SMU. He graduated from SMU Law School. He likes to say that he took a sculpture class at Meadows to meet girls. He got a few dates, but the relationship that stuck, the one that continues to animate his life and work, was with James Surls, arguably the most successful living Texas-born sculptor. Surls' work has been displayed at MOMA, the Smithsonian, and the Guggenheim. In 2009, the New York City Parks Public Art Program displayed five of Surls' pieces in the median on Park Avenue.
"When we met, he was teaching and working in bronze," Tobolowsky says of Surls. "He was a wild-looking guy. You didn't see anyone like him at the business school." Perhaps more than anyone else, Surls nurtured Tobolowsky's transformation from businessman to artist.
"I suppose destiny took George into the business world," Surls says. Tobolowsky started his career as an accountant at Arthur Young in Dallas. He later worked in the legal and tax departments at the Zale Corporation, which was started by his wife's family. Tobolowsky owned and operated various franchise businesses with partners, including tanning salons and Dunkin' Donuts shops. At one point, Tobolowsky ran 75 Blockbuster stores. And then, in 1995, he built a sculpture studio on his ranch in Mountain Springs, an hour north of Dallas. He told himself he was building it for his friends.
The Mountain Springs studio, constructed from reclaimed bridge beams and stone found on the property, served as a clubhouse for Tobolowsky's artist buddies until Thanksgiving 2004, when it occurred to Tobolowsky that perhaps the studio was for him. "I looked around and saw other people using my materials and my tools, and I thought, 'I should do this,' " he says. He'd built a few pieces here and there, but not enough to express a sensibility, a singular point of view. Until that Thanksgiving, there had never been any urgency.
"All artists hear the voice," Surls says. "Maybe it comes from a deity. Maybe it comes from inside. It doesn't matter. What matters is that the voice lands them on a seesaw of sorts, perfectly balanced. If they say yes to the voice, they get to cross into the realm of belief. In a religious sense, it's called 'getting the calling.' "
Starting that Thanksgiving, Tobolowsky and his welding assistant, Joe Miller, worked fast. Tobolowsky gathered found objects: discards from machine shops, salvage from oil fields, and worn-out parts from trucks and tractors. Sometimes the objects had markings on the surfaces: measurements, batch numbers, or dates. His favorite pieces had the words "bad" or "scrap" painted or etched on the sides, damnations of industrial uselessness.
He cleaned the pieces. He painted them or left the paint alone. He cut some in half or into irregular shapes. He started putting them together. He took photographs of partially built pieces, and then went home and sketched their conclusions directly onto the photographs. He built. He tore down. He rebuilt. When he finally had a collection, he called his art world connections.
Early on, Tobolowsky exhibited in Waco, Dallas, and Houston. By 2007, the late Ted Pillsbury, former director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, was a fan. In a lecture commemorating the Texas Sculpture Association's 25th anniversary, Pillsbury ended his slide show with images of Tobolowsky's work. "Tobolowsky is largely self-taught," Pillsbury said. "In the last five to 10 years [he has] created a formidable body of work, and his work is growing in its sophistication and its recognition." Tobolowsky's work currently sells for $3,000 to $40,000. His first sale was to Dallas civic leaders and art collectors Sally and Tom Dunning, who promptly carted off Tobolowsky's piece The Architect to their home in Santa Fe. Craig Hall has purchased at least five of Tobolowsky's pieces, three of which are located in Hall Office Park in Frisco. Hall's sculpture collection was assembled with the help of curator Patricia Meadows, and it focuses on the works of living Texas artists. One of Tobolowsky's pieces, Road to Success, sits in the elevator landing outside Hall's private offices.
Jed Morse, curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, believes that viewers can approach Tobolowsky's work on a number of levels. "There's just the sheer physicality of the sculptures," he says. "The weight. The mass. The steel. The simple act of walking around them." Then, Morse says, there's the history of the pieces, the found objects' life and utility. "It's another point of entry for appreciation." And thirdly, "Although the works are assemblages, they are very intentional in shape, line, and form." Morse considers Tobolowsky an extension in the tradition of welded steel sculptors that includes Julio González, Picasso, and David Smith.
Thirty minutes out of Tyler, Tobolowsky shifts and groans like a man flying coach to Singapore. "I'm going to pull off at this McDonald's," he says. "Walking's not too bad. Sitting's what hurts." When we get back on the highway, he hands over his BlackBerry. "Read this," he says. An email calls for artist qualifications for the Love Field renovation. The city of Dallas will spend $2.6 million on newly commissioned artwork, 25 percent of which will be reserved for Dallas artists. (Tobolowsky was eventually named a finalist for the project. He's also a finalist for an art project for the Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel.)
Tobolowsky currently produces 30 sculptural steel pieces a year. He often names his pieces using business terminology: Reverse Triangular Merger, Hidden Dealbreaker, and My Traveling Entrepreneur, a 4,000-pound sculpture that is now owned by the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Tobolowsky's naming scheme is a nudge to observers to take a second look. "I got push-back, when I first started naming pieces," he said. "Mostly from my family. But my artist friends saw the appropriateness of the names. They seemed to work." The naming honors Tobolowsky's business roots and the nature of the found objects themselves.
"Wouldn't it be easier to paint?" is a question Tobolowsky sometimes gets from visitors. It doesn't bother him. "I like found objects," he says. "I like the shape and texture of pieces. I always try to figure out how an object was used. It helps me associate what goes with it." Tobolowsky says that museum patrons and collectors want to know the stories of the component parts. "It's better to know," he says. "Besides, you've got to know what kind of metal it is." Tobolowsky purchases his found objects at several Dallas-area scrap yards and fabrication plants. Gold Metal Recyclers is one of those scrap yards. It is located in southeast Dallas, separated from its neighbors by a tall, concrete wall. The security guards know Tobolowsky's Chevy. They know the mustache. They smile when he pulls through the gate.
The back lot at Gold Metal Recyclers is a scene of civil war-quality devastation: cranes stack worn-out buses near a pile of highway signs; grapplers load shredded aluminum into a compactor; another set of cranes stacks Coke machines. There is a pyramid of blue trusses from Texas Stadium. A hard hat seems ridiculous at Gold Metal Recyclers, an umbrella for a hurricane. In the dust and roar, it's a struggle to remember that something good is happening. Materials are being recycled, and art is being imagined.
Tyler is an important stop on Tobolowsky's pilgrimage. It is the site of James Surls' first public show. When museum curator Ken Tomio introduces Tobolowsky, the two men are semicircled by a crowd of perhaps 70 young couples and oil-money folks, one of whom purchased a sculpture earlier in the evening. "Usually when people take up art at an advanced age, they take up watercolors," Tomio says, smiling. All around him and Tobolowsky are 1,000-pound sculptures. "I guess the seed was planted young in George," he says.
All evening, men and women ignore typical gallery restraint and rub their fingers across Tobolowsky's pieces. When asked why, they say they wanted to feel the texture. Some talk about the monochromatic quality of stainless steel, others, the anthropomorphic nature of the pieces. The museum staff has already had to warn visiting schoolteachers to keep their students off Tobolowsky's sculptures on display outside. The pieces look friendly enough to climb. On this night, the piece that seems to garner the most attention, Wall Street, is a study of pressure and heat, and a belief that something beautiful might arise from all the commotion. Made from stainless steel, Wall Street weighs 1,200 pounds, about the same as a teenage buffalo. Wall Street is outfitted with wheels and tanks. Tulips seem to shoot from the top. It begs a viewer to locate a switch and turn it on.
As the evening winds down, a middle-aged woman is overheard commenting to her companion that Tobolowsky seems to know when his sculptures are finished. The question the woman inadvertently raises—when is a work complete?—has tortured artists ever since they painted in caves. Is a work complete when the inspiration has been translated onto canvas or steel or, perhaps, into sound? Something in our physical world? Or does completion require a third party, an observer, to take it all in? Tobolowsky has a more precise definition. "It's done when it sells," he says.
The accountant in Tobolowsky might always believe in markets serving as co-creators and assaying engines. Perhaps they are. Regardless, his personal transformation is beginning to look like its own kind of completion—the completion of a life, a movement from "I should do this" to "I must do this." Surls says that if Tobolowsky didn't sell another piece for five years, it wouldn't matter.
"He wouldn't stop making art," Surls says. "He's in."
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"The HyperActives are a bunch of spoiled teen superheroes who are more interested in the spotlight and being famous than they are in actually saving the day," explains Hilinski. "They're made up of Rush, HoneyChild, Panzer, Surefire, Reactor Girl, WereClaw, Boy Genius, and Scandal, although nobodies quite sure what Scandals powers are."
The sell-out of issue #0 has excited Hilinski, as one might expect, and he's proud to be one of the more prominent Alias success stories. "Well we sold out in just about a week, maybe even a little under that, we've seen retailers and fans asking on messageboards about the book, I've seen it go up on e-bay already for $3 for a 75 cent issue. So I'd say that the demand is definitely there. We did great sales numbers for a new book, surpassing even my expectations. So, I'm definitely stoked. Success-wise I put a lot of effort into getting the book out there on the Internet, trying to get as much press as I could. And art-wise I tried to do some things that would get us attention like the Turner Homage cover and drawing in the style of J. Scott Campbell, I thought people would be more likely to try something new if it seemed familiar to them. So a teen superhero book drawn in a familiar style seemed a good idea. Looks like it worked. Wait until you see the homage cover we've got coming for issue number 2, oh yeah."
The art style employed by Hilinski, as detailed above, helped draw a lot of attention to "HyperActives," but the artist isn't about to rest on his laurels, with plans to change his style yet again. "Oh, I'm definitely all about experimentation. This was fun doing the book in the Campbell style, but I'm not sticking with it forever, I'm pretty flexible style wise and I want to stretch myself and keep improving. We're already talking about a second series and I'll definitely be doing something different there. Jim Lee and Travis Charest are huge influences on me, too. I'm definitely thinking of moving in that direction style wise. Eventually the goal is to create a style that is uniquely my own. I'm just going to have fun getting to that point and draw off of as many influences that I can along the way."
But don't worry about a story arc focused on Scandal's cell phone being misappropriated, as Hilinski laughs and says, "I'd be more worried about the video tapes that might pop up. Unfortunately, Mike Miller's got a pretty firm policy of no nudity in the books. Otherwise who know what might happen."
The strong response from fans, and the sell-out of #0, has brought "HyperActives" closer to another series, which pleases Hilinski., but don't expect an ongoing. "[the chances of another series are] Pretty good right now. Like I said Darin Wagner and I are already discussing a second series and we've got a ton of ideas. The great start and success of this first series pretty much ensures that there'll be more 'HyperActives' to come. I'd like to do an ongoing, but we'll have to see what we think will do best in the current market. A series of miniseries seems to be a safer bet."
As a gift for current fans, Hilinski offers up some teasers, saying, "Well with issue one the biggest change is what starts out the main story line, namely the arrival and joining to the team of the all new Silverwing. Which needless to say is going to ruffle a few feathers on a team of self-involved wannabes. They definitely don't want to share the spotlight with a new member. So, Silverwing doesn't exactly get welcomed with open arms. Directly after that, Silverwing is thrown into the fire, so to speak, as he faces off against the Hypers arch-enemies the Uberforce."
If you're not a current reader, well, Hilinski offers up some encouragement for those who might be interested in "HyperActives." "This is the book fans are talking about. This is the book that's lighting up message boards. Mario Gully [creator of Image Comics' 'Ant'] was nice enough to mention me and the 'HyperActives' on the Image boards. I found the thread when it was already 7 pages long and joined in on the fun. When J. Scott Campbell's fans, admitted diehards, started talking about the 'HyperActives' over on Campbell's own board, the thread was longer than the thread for the newest issue of 'Wildsiderz.' What does that say about the book? Admittedly not everybody had nice things to say, but I didn't exactly show up with my eyes closed. I had a pretty good idea what would happen when I drew the book the way I did. But it definately got us attention, and that was the first hurdle we had to over come. Now that the book's out there and we've gotten attention, we're going to payback the fans with an amazing story, characters your going to get to know and love and hate, and art that's going to keep the fans talking page after page. I think HyperActives will be the most talked about book, not just coming out of Alias, but coming out of anywhere other than DC and Marvel. And who knows, maybe we can try and give them a run for their money. Either way, I don't think people will want to miss what everybody is talking about. So buy the 'HyperActives!'"


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Surat Municipal Corporation and Animal Protection Club continue to use unapproved CNVR in the worst possible manner
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We wrote a few days back about the treatment of dogs in Surat, Gujarat, meted out by Surat Municipal Corporation and Animal Protection Club, Karad. The situation does not get any better in the last few days with these new pictures coming from the ground in Gujarat. A commentary is not being provided since enough has been said on the blasé attitude of this and other municipal corporations & Animal Welfare Organizations (AWOs).
She is not the first dog in Surat or a victim of the CNVR surgery. In Bangalore we've seen many cases and so in parts of India where CNVR is practiced as it simply does not compensate for the poor vet practice that is used to do the surgery and give no opportunity for the dog have any help. In an country where 1st time right is not a culture for any mission critical activity – this 'import' method is being applied liberally on dogs simply because of its convenience (to the vets and AWOs/NGOs).
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4 Responses to "Surat Municipal Corporation and Animal Protection Club continue to use unapproved CNVR in the worst possible manner"
Sonya Ghosh
July 26th, 2012 @ 9:12 am
I would suggest that a similar operation be performed on the people responsible…
July 26th, 2012 @ 6:51 pm
Shame on humans who did this. I think a law with heavy consequences should be passed immediately to stop this cruelty. The ones who did this will definetely be going to Hell. Shame on you guys who did this to our voiceless animals.
December 6th, 2013 @ 3:26 pm
Agar ji kisi ko bhi daya aati hai na to please woh inko apne ghar le ja kar rakhe kyuki in kutto ki wajeh se ghar bahar nikal na bhi haram ho gaya hai . bachho ka kehl na bhi band ho gaya hai. navsari bazar police choki ke pass to itne hai ki had ho gay koi usko pakad ne wala bhi nahi hai. aur meri apni beti ko bhi ek kutti ne panja mara hai. i hateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this dogs. jinka man bhar aaya hai inko dekh kar woh kuch paise khrcha kare aur inke rehne ka ghar banade ya addopte kar le. sirf blog par faltu me daya na dikhaye.
December 9th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
IAM SORRY FOR MY WORDS [edited]
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The World Cup has started, and I live with an obsessive soccer fan. This means that for the next few weeks the t.v. will be blasting soccer games so loudly that I will feel like I am right there on the sidelines in Rio De Janeiro. I figured I should go ahead and get in the spirit since I will be a forced participant anyway, so I have decided to make a few Brazilian inspired dishes. I did a little research and came up with a dish that was influenced by Brazil but also that my family would love. The result was amazing!!! This simple and economical version of slow cooker black bean soup freshened up with tomatoes, red onions and a generous squeeze of lime will be on repeat around here this summer!
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Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton said he was able to take some pointers from how Washington Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III operated in Sunday's 40-32 season opener against the New Orleans Saints.
Griffin, who like Newton is a former Heisman Trophy winner, competed 19 of 26 passes for 320 yards and two touchdowns and ran 10 times for 42 yards in the Redskins' win.
Seeing Griffin's success was encouraging, Newton said.
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"I said it before, I'm a big fan of RGIII. He had an excellent game. He did an excellent job of managing the game and doing what the defense gave him, nothing more and nothing less."
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Good Enough To Eat: These GummiLights
GummiLights are expensive rubber lamps designed to look like Gummi Bears. Unsurprisingly, I tried to eat one. Shocked? I was. I'll be here all week folks, make sure to tip your waitstaff.
These GummiLights are made of a translucent rubber and measure in at 7-inches tall. They're illuminated by brightly glowing LEDs and come in a variety of candy-like colors, including red, orange, yellow, clear, blue, purple and pink. Each one is powered by rechargeable lithium batteries, and can run for about 20 hours on a charge.
A single bear will set you back $125 or you can get a set of 5 for $500. But, if you want something that'll really light up the night, you're gonna need me. I'm so bright my parents call me son (I'm on a roll today, folks!). Also, "little shit" and "a terrible, terrible mistake". Anybody want to adopt a GW? I spoon.
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(a) Trafficking in Persons means recruitment, transportation, transfer, sale, purchase, lending, hiring, harbouring or receipt of persons after committing any of the following acts for the purpose of exploitation of a person with or without his consent:threat, use of force or other form of coercion;
(1) Exploitation includes receipt or agreement for receipt of money or benefit for the prostitution of one person by another, other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour, forced service, slavery, servitude, debt-bondage or the removal and sale of organs from the body.
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( 3) Debt-bondage means the pledging by the debtor of his / her personal labour or services or those of a person under his/ her control as payment or security for a debt, when the length and nature of service is not clearly defined or when the values of the services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt.
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"Concerts in the park" takes on a whole new meaning.
From August 29th through September 10th, music will echo through some of Utah's most scenic canyons. The Moab Music Festival aims to merge music with the natural landscape found along the Colorado River in the ...


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Apricot-Ginger Acorn Squash RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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It's a real treat digging into tender baked squash with a buttery apricot sauce. Natural fruit preserves add sweetness, and ginger makes it savory without unwanted calories.—Trisha Kruse, Eagle, ID
- 1 small acorn squash
- 2 tablespoons apricot preserves
- 4 teaspoons butter, melted
- 1-1/2 teaspoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Cut squash in half; discard seeds. Cut a thin slice from bottom of squash with a sharp knife to allow it to sit flat. Place hollow side up in a greased 11-in. x 7-in. baking dish.
- Combine the remaining ingredients; spoon over squash. Cover and bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Uncover; bake 15 minutes longer or until tender. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Apricot-Ginger Acorn Squash in Country Woman October/November 2009, p36
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"I'm not a big fan of squash, but I decided I'd try this recipe because all of the ingredients looked tasty. I tried it, I didn't like it 'cause I just don't like the taste of acorn squash. My husband tried it, also not a fan of squash, but he liked it. I suggest you try it once and decide for yourself!"
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"I'm not sure what the pepper adds to this recipe. If I made it again, I would not use it."
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"I think it needs a little more time in the oven, but it was delicious!"
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"wonderful..the bit of soy sauce(that I nearly left out) adds an unexpected zip to the recipe."
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"This was really good. I'm making it again this week. I did not have apricot preserves so I used peach. Yummy!"


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Lynn Wentworth is clear about her interest in the issues facing women and girls. Like other new donors at The Community Foundation, she is looking for support in how to align her passion with her philanthropy. "The Community Foundation is helping me broaden my initial sense of what I want to do," she says. "I want it to be meaningful and they're helping me figure out what that is."Click here to read more.
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I'm running postgres 8.4 but pgbench does not appear to be installed on my Mac. I've looked but I am unable to find anywhere where I can get a copy of pgbench to augment my postgres install. Looking at documentation I thought pgbench ws included in postgres 8.3 and higher, but I could be wrong.
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First off, setup and disclaimers: I'm using current CVS Gnus under XEmacs 21.4.15. I have an IMAP mail-source, and my mail store is nnml. Specifically, my mail store is nnml in a directory tree in AFS on the other side of a DSL line. I use exclusively spam-stat (and am very happy with it, though something with a little less of a runtime performance bite would be nice). Around the time of the Great Spam.el Rewrite (TM), I noticed two things happening: (1) When I exit a mail group, the process of refiling spam into the spam group is really, really slow. Like, in the tens of seconds per message range. This involves lots of talking to the AFS servers but I'm not really clear what's going on. The big wait comes *after* the "Wrote /afs/sipb.mit.edu/blah/blah/12345" message, with nothing else appearing in the message area. (2) When I exit the spam group, spam.el helpfully tries to refile all of the spam from there into the spam group, tripping (1) hundreds of times. Kind of unpleasant. Excerpts from my config: (setq gnus-spam-newsgroup-contents '(("nnml:mail.misc.spam" gnus-group-spam-classification-spam) ("nnml:.*" gnus-group-spam-classification-ham)) gnus-spam-process-newsgroups '(("nnml:.*" (gnus-group-spam-exit-processor-stat gnus-group-ham-exit-processor-stat))) gnus-spam-process-destinations(Continue reading)


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The attorney for the former Panama City firefighter accused of killing his ex-girlfriend says his client is not competent to stand trial.
41-year-old Joseph Moody is charged with the murder of 24-year-old Megan Pettis.
Police say Moody confessed to shooting Pettis in march as she tried to leave the parking lot of the 23rd Street Publix.
Moody's attorney originally entered a not-guilty plea and his trial was set for September but Rusty Shepard now wants his client declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.
He has a doctor who will back up the claim but the state is not buying it.
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Sony Xperia E (single-SIM) up for pre-order in the UK for £129.99, ships on March 19
The dual-SIM version of the Sony Xperia E has been on sale in the UK for more than a month now, and the single-SIM variant should have become available by the end of February. That hasn't happened, but if you're interested in the non-dual-SIM Xperia E you should be happy to know that it's gone up for pre-order today.
The device is expected in stock on March 19 in black. If white is your favorite color, you'll need to wait until April to get an Xperia E. The outlet offering you the chance to pre-order one right now is Clove, a well known online retailer.
The Sony Xperia E has been priced at £129.99 with VAT included. This compares favorably to the dual-SIM Xperia E which is going for around £180, but then that's to be expected since there's usually a premium to pay for dual-SIM capabilities.
The Sony Xperia E runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and has a 3.5-inch 320×480 touchscreen, a 3.15 MP camera, a 1 GHz Qualcomm processor, 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, all the usual connectivity options, and a 1,530 mAh battery.


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Palm Beach County Holds Top Spot Nationally For Price Gains
Palm Beach County prices up 35 percent from last December
In an article featured in The Palm Beach Post, Kimberly Miller reports that Palm Beach County, FL earned the number one spot nationally for price gains for the month of December, up 35 percent from 2011.
According to the article, demand for homes by both investors and traditional buyers are driving the price gains, while inventory for both single-family homes and condominiums have decreased significantly.
Miller points out how some analysts offset the achievement of increased price gains with the dramatic housing crash, noting how it left room for improvement.
The report released by California-based ZipReality used data from the Multiple Listing Service and included single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums.
Some, like Jupiter-based Platinum Properties broker/assistant Kevin Ken met the report with skepticism. "Everything is really competitive, and we're seeing situations where there are multiple offers again, but 35 percent seems high," Kent said.
Lanny Baker, CEO of ZipRealty, says prices will continue to increase throughout 2013 and projects moderate and steady growth over the next several years.
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According to Shreveport's The Forum, Twang Darkly is one of 10 Must-See Acts That Will Make Your Summer Sizzle!
The article quotes me briefly -- here are my full answers about Appalachian music and the dulcimer from which the quotations were pulled:
Twang Darkly's music, while not old-fashioned itself, seems to have old-fashioned roots. What led you to an appreciation for this type of folk music?
My appreciation of Appalachian folk music developed somewhat indirectly through an affinity for 1970s English folk-rock groups (Jethro Tull, Pentangle, Gryphon, etc.) who were drawing upon medieval and Renaissance era folk music from England and Scotland. Such music stirred and intrigued me -- all the more so to the degree that it mixed less modern sounding approaches with its rock. Appalachian music (not the relatively recent offshoot Bluegrass, but the more "primitive" modal repertoire for fiddle, dulcimer, and voice) is actually evolved from the same source material (and a few others) for reasons of immigration. Given the relative isolation of Appalachian culture in America through the early to mid 20th century, Appalachian music is a bit like peering into the past, as a lot of the older song structures have been preserved, if through a glass darkly.
Since I'd grown up in North Carolina and had been encountering mysterious hints of early music every summer vacation in Appalachia for most of my life, all these musical interests coalesced around the mountain dulcimer that I purchased around the time I went to college. Coincidentally, my parents also moved to the mountains around that time, so summers for me became quests to find (or invent) knowledge about the dulcimer and how I could use it to make music like the stuff that I wanted to hear. Not coincidentally, I joined a troupe of roving musicians in a Renaissance dinner theater in this same period and began to use my mountain dulcimer in that context, writing original music with an early music feel.
More broadly, I have a fascination with lost art and knowledge as the hidden roots of creative influence. With the blues, for instance, if you get beyond strictly contemporary "12-bar" stuff and start to dig, you readily start to uncover shared roots with much older African musics, especially so with the kind of stuff you can hear in Mali and other north/west African locations. Some folks don't realize that the banjo, for instance, is evolved from African instruments and that this somewhat secret history of the banjo and its sounds is intriguingly tied up with the development of blues and jazz. These kinds of connections dwell deep in the roots of things and such lore can be a powerful source of inspiration and curiosity.
Why is the dulcimer your instrument of choice?
The Appalachian dulcimer (or "mountain dulcimer") has a hypnotic magic to it that greatly influences how I play guitar, banjo, and other instruments, as well as how I compose. Because the dulcimer has a diatonic fretboard (like a guitar missing some frets), it's ideally suited to playing modal music (music that is focused upon utilizing particular scale patterns beyond the typical do-re-mi..., often with a strong identity maintained around the root note through drones, pedal points, or recurring motifs -- Miles Davis's "So What" is a famous example). In fact, the "traditional" approach to playing dulcimer utilizes two strings as drones against which a modal melody moves on the remaining string. I don't feel limited to this use of the instrument, but, even so, I also don't try to escape this "mode and drone" orientation. It works almost like choosing the ground rules for poetry -- if you decide to write a sonnet, for instance, it's going to have a distinctive feel to it versus a villanelle or free verse. Such constraints actually foster altered states of creativity. Because you can retune a dulcimer, or use a capo to actually select from different modes, it's essentially designed to let you toggle between different creative spaces.
It turns out you can apply this same kind of thinking to other instruments as well, especially if you make use of alternative tunings that allow for interesting drones, etc. So, in a sense, even when I play guitar, I'm often channeling my dulcimer-imagination and it's influenced everything I do musically.


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Wasn't it Dorothy Parker, S, who had something germane to say about laying men end to end on Holden Nowell's tongue? I can't believe she wouldn't have nailed that spontaneous reflex, grave or no grave. But I'm not just being antiquarian. I'm interested in her guidance in this matter.ReplyDelete
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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2012 Article IV Consultation with the Lao People's Democratic RepublicPublic Information Notice (PIN) No. 12/121
October 18, 2012
Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case. The staff report (use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this pdf file) for the 2012 Article IV Consultation with the Lao People's Democratic Republic is also available.
On August 31, 2012, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with the Lao P.D.R.1
Despite policy tightening, global uncertainty, and natural disasters in Lao P.D.R. and its main trading partner, Thailand. real GDP growth remained strong at 8.0 percent in 2011 compared to an average of 7 percent per annum over the last decade. This has allowed the country to make significant progress with attaining Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets. Inflation has moderated to 3.8 percent (y/y) in May 2012—reflecting lower food and fuel price pressures, policy tightening, and favorable base effects. The fiscal deficit declined further in 2011 to reach the pre-global financial crisis average. Credit growth, however, has again picked up to over 40 percent (y/y) in the first four months of 2012, reversing positive progress towards maintaining financial stability in 2011. The current account deficit has widened and gross international reserves declined by US$50 million to US$677 million at end-2011, covering about two months of prospective nonresource imports, the lowest level in almost a decade.
Macroeconomic policies have remained generally sound; however, low reserve coverage and rapid credit growth amid high lending rates have emerged as sources of vulnerability. Although the FY2013 budget targets a broadly unchanged fiscal stance, the prospect for rapid increases in civil service wages could crowd out higher priority spending going forward. Monetary policy remains accommodative and recently the Bank of Lao P.D.R. has tempered the sale of its securities, thus contributing to an increase in credit to the economy. The supervisory approach remains compliance-based and the entrance of new banks in recent years have spread supervision capacity thinly. Data gaps and poor data quality also hamper the ability to adequately monitor the economy and to design proactive policies to prevent macroeconomic vulnerabilities.
Structural reforms have been accelerated in the context of commitments under the ASEAN Economic Community and the prospect of World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. The authorities aim to complete entry conditions for WTO accession by year-end.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors commended the authorities for their sound policies, which have contributed to impressive economic growth, reduction in poverty, lower inflation, and improved debt dynamics. Directors encouraged the authorities to take advantage of the favorable conditions to maintain macroeconomic and financial stability, build external and fiscal buffers, and achieve sustainable and broad-based growth.
Directors recommended a further tightening of monetary policy to help address the risks stemming from rapid credit growth. Quasi-fiscal lending to local governments should be phased out, and the pace of monetary expansion reduced through sterilization and higher reserve requirements. Directors also encouraged the authorities to strengthen the monetary policy framework and avoid pursuing multiple policy objectives. Moving to an explicit inflation target range in the medium term would help enhance the effectiveness of monetary policy and anchor inflation expectations. Directors stressed the importance of replenishing international reserves, to be supported by tightening macroeconomic policies and taking advantage of the prospective large capital inflows.
Directors emphasized the need to strengthen banking supervision to maintain financial sector stability. Improving the regulatory and prudential toolkit will ensure the quality of credit amid financial deepening. They encouraged the authorities to participate in the Financial Sector Assessment Program in due course, and welcomed the efforts underway to address the shortcomings in the Anti- Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regime.
Directors welcomed the commitment to prudent fiscal policy and to build buffers to deal with future shocks. They encouraged the authorities to exercise restraint in civil service wage increases which could crowd out higher priority spending. Directors recommended anchoring fiscal goals around the nonmining deficit. They welcomed the establishment of the State Accumulation Fund sourced by excess revenues and underspending, which will strengthen the ability of the budget to respond to future shocks. Directors recognized the improved debt sustainability assessment and called for further strengthening of the debt management framework and maintaining prudent borrowing policies.
Directors welcomed the authorities' reform efforts to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth. Improvements in the business climate, under the umbrella of WTO accession and the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, will be key to enhancing competitiveness in the nonresource sector, while stepped up efforts to strengthen public financial management will create more space for high impact spending. Directors also noted the importance of improving the quality of data. They agreed that technical assistance by the Fund would support the authorities' reform agenda.