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[pdf] Gillespie et al. Finding Osama Bin Laden : An application of biogeographic theories and satellite imagery. MIT International Review. Feb 17, 2009.
Dear Editors and founders of the MIT International Review:
Professors Gillespie et al. while writing in MIT International Review have not only identified Parachinar, the town where Osama Bin Laden may have been hiding, but they have also pinpointed the three buildings that they think are likely to be Bin Laden's hideout. Since I am from the Northwest Frontier Province, I find it a little odd that Osama may be hiding in the only Shiite majority town in the entire tribal region of Pakistan.
The geography professors at UCLA may have used spatial analysis to determine the probable hideout of Osama; they certainly overlooked history and anthropology, which would have explained the gory sectarian rivalries between the Shiites of Parachinar and the Sunni supporters of Osama bin Laden. This is yet another example of technical analysis devoid of any understanding of the local socio-cultural and political contexts.
Parachinar is a small town of approximately 20,000 individuals, who are almost exclusively Shiites and belong to Turi and Bangash tribes. The Sunni tribesmen from North Waziristan agency along with other militants from Arab countries and the Caucasus have been attacking the Shiites over the past two years, which has resulted in the death of hundreds of Shiites. In addition, since the Sunni tribesmen control the ground access to Parachinar from Peshawar, the supply of food, medicines, and other necessities to Parachinar have been interrupted for months, forcing the doctors to operate without anesthesia. The power and water supply, which have been restored only recently, also remained suspended.
I find it hard to believe that after having hundreds, if not thousands, of Shiites murdered by the followers of Osama bin Laden, the Shiites of Parachinar would like to aid and abet Osama bin Laden.
It is sad to see that the press in North America has largely ignored this tragedy that has been unfolding in Parachinar over the past two years. It took faculty and students from UCLA to put Parachinar on the map, but only for the wrong reasons... [In Full]
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That accusation was leveled by Michael Hayden, who led the CIA from 2006 to 2009, in an interview published Friday by Australia's Financial Review.
"At a minimum, Huawei would have shared with the Chinese state intimate and extensive knowledge of the foreign telecommunications systems it is involved with," said Hayden, a retired four-star Air Force general who also served as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1999 to 2005. He's now a visiting professor at George Mason University's school of public policy, a principal at security consultancy Chertoff Group, and a director of Motorola Solutions.
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Hayden refused to comment on specific "instances of espionage or any operational matters," for example, pertaining to whether the U.S. government had discovered Huawei actively eavesdropping on equipment or networks it had installed. But in his professional opinion, Huawei is engaged in espionage on behalf of the Chinese state. "Frankly, given the overarching national security risks a foreign company helping build your national telecommunications networks creates, the burden of proof is not on us. It is on Huawei," he said. "In fact, I don't think Huawei has ever really tried hard to meet this burden of proof test."
One of the top concerns related to China's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer spying on behalf of the Chinese state is that the country's intelligence services don't limit themselves to targeting "state secrets" or political espionage. "They have a much broader definition of legitimate espionage to include intellectual property, commercial trade secrets and the negotiating positions of private entities," Hayden said. "In other words, they don't limit themselves in the way we do in the English-speaking community."
Accordingly, the former NSA director saluted the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report on Huawei and ZTE, released in October 2012, which found that "these guys are not even transparent to themselves," he said. "There's no transparency around who appoints the board of directors or controls the ownership of the business. And there's no independent Chinese government oversight committee that could give us continuing confidence that Huawei or ZTE would not do what they promised not to do."
The House report led to a ban on U.S. government agencies buying equipment from Huawei or ZTE without prior approval from the FBI. The report's findings also influenced U.S. businesses. According to a study conducted by InformationWeek earlier this year, 37% of surveyed businesses said the findings were major cause for concern, while 34% said the results represented a deal-breaker.
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, N.Y.— The sanctuary of the old synagogue is still arranged for worship. The waxed benches still form tidy rows; the homespun red-and-white-striped curtains that separate the men from the women are firmly pulled back. But the floor is dusty and the hill outside is full of weeds.
Shortly after the turn of the century, Jewish families who fled Europe because they were persecuted, and then New York City because they were hot and crowded, arrived here in Sullivan County. They raised cows and harvested beets, set up butcher shops and started the bungalow colonies that were the seeds of what, several decades later, became the Catskill Borscht Belt.
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Now the Borscht Belt is far gone, and in these parts, its imminent death is the longest-running story around. As for this other, older Jewish world, it persists -- in remnants of the settlers' drugstores and dry-goods shops, in their old farms and in their synagogues.
Today, in their diversity, these old synagogues are a sometimes tarnished reflection of what remains of that world. Of the 20 Sullivan County synagogues built between the turn of the century and World War II, 15 remain. Most have a dwindling handful of members, but a few could be said to be experiencing some kind of rebirth. At one, the dominant sound is the creaking of a door left blowing in the dry wind. At others, you can hear the murmur of prayers.
In some sense, though, the survival of all these synagogues is precarious. And on Aug. 8, seven of the county's synagogues were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The designation, though more of an honor than real protection, was largely the work of more of an honor than real protection, was largely the work of Maurie Sacks, an anthropology professor who started surveying these old synagogues four years ago. ''I felt then -- and I still feel -- that these are endangered buildings and I wanted to have a record in an archive,'' she explained, ''so that 50 or 100 years from now, people can learn about the people who built them.''
The designation celebrates their distinctive vernacular architecture: ''intact symbols'' and ''recognizable Jewish places.'' These synagogues, the listing reads, ''both separated their congregants from the Christian surroundings in which they lived and symbolized Jewish assimilation into the American rural landscape.''
When she started her project as part of a one-year sabbatical from Montclair State University in New Jersey, Ms. Sacks, 58, thought she would be documenting the demise of the once-treasured synagogues, which, taken together, present an intriguing melange of Eastern European and New York State regional architecture.
And she certainly found synagogues -- like those in White Sulphur Springs and Swan Lake -- that are virtually deserted. But, to her surprise, she also found several synagogues that had come back from the edge of extinction; like Agudas Achim in Livingston Manor, a flawlessly maintained tan stuccoed building with bold stained-glass Stars of David and a handsome vaulted ceiling in the sanctuary.
While Agudas Achim switched to Reform Judaism in 1984 to increase its membership (''We had to wait until some of our older members moved to Florida,'' said the congregation's president, Bob Freedman. ''We didn't want them to feel cut out'') the synagogue in Parksville had to remain Orthodox to survive.
''We have the boys who wear the black hats and the white shirts -- the Lubavitchers who come from the camp,'' said Annette Fisch, a jovial woman in a jaunty white straw hat, referring to a nearby summer camp. ''They consider it their duty to hold services here. They send us a group of 10 boys. If it wasn't for the boys, the place would be closed all summer.''
The visiting Hasidim conduct the old-style services at the Parksville synagogue -- the women pray in the balcony -- but it is a core group of townsfolk like Mrs. Fisch, 69, and her husband, Morris, 78, who keep up the 1907 building at the end of Main Street, a dusty thoroughfare lined with vacant glass-fronted stores, parallel to Route 17, the major highway in the area. The Dead End Cafe is down the street. A rusted-out compact car buries itself on the side of the next driveway.
But inside the synagogue, there is excitement, not only about the National Register designation but also about the resurgence of the synagogue.
''When I was a child, there was never room here,'' Mrs. Fisch recalled. ''Me and my girlfriends had to go sit on the porch because there was no room. One time, Eddie Cantor came here, to this very synagogue!''
The synagogues were at their peak in the 1950's. Although the big resorts like Grossinger's and the Concord had their own chapels, the townsfolk who supported the tourist industry -- the merchants and the waiters -- needed their own places of worship.


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I'm just about up to that part and am tempted to deviate from my EDI, Liara or Tali team set.
lol i kind of felt sorry for liara, she was SOO happy to get a protheon on our ship. kind of let down, since he refers to the asari as "inferior" and brushes off her attempts to conversate. i noticed he does have a lot of interesting things to say about the asari and other races from his time. he mentioned salarians as "lizard people" and said they used to eat flies! ahahahah i couldnt stop laughing.
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Ben Witt turned me on to these. The 170mm dimension is a tip off to what kind of bike this hub works with, and if you've been paying attention, you know that bike is a Salsa Cycles Mukluk. It is really hard to get a feeling for the proportions of this hub without holding it in your hand. It is just plain silly. Typical Phil Wood machine work makes this hub even more fun to look at. Of course, the bearings and all are top notch inside.
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<===(Image from Ben Witt....again!) Of course, you have to have something to lace the hubs to. The original plan was to go with the Vicious Cycles Graceful Fat Sheba rims. (A fair jaw-cracker of a product name there, eh?) Well, Ben calls me up the other day and says, "I can not let you use those rims!" Why? Because the "unobtanium" Surly Rolling Darryls suddenly were "obtanium".
Look at that weight. That's about what a highly Swiss cheesed GFS rim would weigh in at and far less than a stock GFS. Plus, it is a hair wider, and more importantly, a better rim. The spokes will be equally as nice, and the whole wheel set will really be quite an upgrade over the stock Salsa/GFS wheels.
Of course, this will all go on the otherwise stock Mukluk complete at some point. I'm hoping to pick up the rims and at least one of the hubs this weekend with wheel building to commence shortly afterward. Stay tuned for the "Other Bike" project's wheels to be shown here soon.
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Nippon Yusen, K-Line Climb on Profit Forecasts: Tokyo Mover
Nippon Yusen K.K. and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., two of Japan's three biggest shipping lines, rose in Tokyo trading after predicting better-than-expected earnings this fiscal year.
K-Line climbed 4.9 percent, the most in three weeks, to close at 170 yen. Nippon Yusen rose 2.2 percent to 238 yen. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. declined 1 percent after its profit forecast trailed analyst estimates.
All three shipping lines expect to make profits in the year started April 1, compared with year-earlier losses, because of rising rates for carrying containers and increasing car shipments. Nippon Yusen this month said its auto shipments will be the highest in five years as demand surges in North America and plants in Thailand recover from floods.
The shipping line predicted a profit 23 billion yen ($283 million) this fiscal year, surpassing the 18.2 billion yen average of 16 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The company also said it expects a profit of 65 billion yen next fiscal year and of 115 billion yen in fiscal year 2016.
K-Line, Japan's No. 3 shipping line, predicted an 11 billion yen profit. Analysts had forecast a 4 billion yen loss. Mitsui O.S.K. forecast a 3 billion yen profit, trailing the 14.5 billion yen estimate.
The Japanese lines are still contending with plunging rates for dry-bulk shipments and rising fuel costs. The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of commodity-shipping prices, has fallen 8.8 percent in the past year.
The price of 380 Centistoke marine bunker fuel, used by ships, traded at $718 a metric ton in Singapore yesterday. It reached a more than three-and-a-half-year high of $745 in February.


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Where's the Griffon?
Spring is here and our fun-loving mascot, the Griffon, is out enjoying the San Francisco sunshine! Do you know the name of the attraction pictured behind the Griffon in the photo?
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6th Annual San Francisco Salsa Festival
Whether you want to shake it on the dance floor or watch world-class performers do it better, the San Francisco Salsa Festival is the perfect opportunity to celebrate all things salsa. Taking place in downtown San Francisco from April 17-19, this colorful festival features dance performances, competitions and exciting workshops.
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Enjoy a night of dancing and dining at the San Francisco Zoo when you attend ZooFest, a benefit event that takes place this year on Friday, April 25. Wear Western attire to this upscale celebration, which also includes live music, cocktail hour and a live auction. Benefiting numerous zoo initiatives, this dazzling event is a must-do for animal lovers in the San Francisco area.
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Earth Day in San Francisco
More than a celebration, Earth Day in San Francisco is a motivating force to take care of the planet and make eco-friendly choices. Celebrate this green holiday in downtown San Francisco on Saturday, April 19 with a massive festival and free party. Discover live music, art installations, interactive workshops, organic food and beer gardens, eco-friendly fashion shows, green zone for kids and much more.
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Giants Season
Listen to the crack of the bat, smell the fresh-cut grass and taste the garlic fries: baseball season has arrived. The San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball team plays at AT&T Park, located one mile from our hotel along the scenic SF waterfront. Take your family and friends to experience the great American pastime and enjoy a thrilling day at the ballpark.
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The EU's top diplomat on Friday deplored a deadly car bomb explosion in central Beirut and urged Lebanon's leaders to join together to restore security in the country.
"The spiral of violence in Lebanon is deeply worrying," said EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, deploring the blast that notably took the life of Mohamad Chatah, former Lebanese finance minister and a key member of a coalition that opposes Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
"I urge Lebanon's political leaders and the Lebanese people to put aside all differences and join forces - as a priority and without delay - to restore security in the country."
She also reiterated a call for the formation of a new government "capable of addressing the many challenges Lebanon is facing".
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by Ian Millhiser Jun 28, 2016
Alito tries to rekindle the birth control wars in the most offensive way possible.
by Alex Zielinski Jun 2, 2016
CDC researchers called these declines "absolutely astounding."
by Alex Zielinski May 11, 2016
It's the first law in the country to demand this kind of coverage from insurers.
by Tara Culp-Ressler Apr 16, 2016
Sex ed classes in the U.S. just keep getting worse.
by Tara Culp-Ressler Feb 18, 2016
"Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil," Francis told reporters.
by Alex Zielinski Nov 20, 2015
"There are programs that we couldn't have even imagined existing on campuses when we began this survey."
by Alex Zielinski Nov 10, 2015
Long-term contraception use quadrupled between 2002 and 2013.
by Tara Culp-Ressler Sep 24, 2015
The pope still takes pretty much the same stance on reproductive rights as you'd expect.
by Ian Millhiser Aug 25, 2015
Federal appeals courts are unanimous in saying that employers must comply with current birth control rules. The Supreme Court doesn't seem to care.
by Tara Culp-Ressler Aug 6, 2015
"People used to worry that the pill might cause cancer, but in the long term, the pill reduces the risk of getting cancer."


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If you're planning an outdoor event, Fallen Leaf Lake Shelter is a beautiful lake-front facility in Camas.
To make a reservation, please call the Camas Parks and Recreation office at 834-5307.
Whether it's a business meeting, conference, social gathering or wedding, the Camas Hotel delivers exceptional events for up to 60 people. Versatile and stylish spaces offer several alternatives for your special event. Please call Christi, our manager to inquire about our services and facilities . 360-834-5722.
Miss Nola's Cafe, featuring Southern and New Orleans-style cuisine, in the hotel building, can be booked for private parties. Chef/owner Tim McCusker does catering both on and offsite. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Call Tim at: 360-210-4037
Our light -filled Atrium (shown on side column) works well for intimate gatherings of up to 25 people.
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Our light -filled Atrium (shown on side column) works well for intimate gatherings of up to 25 people.
The newly built Lacamas Lake Lodge, 227 NE Lake Road (just 1 mile from the Camas Hotel) is now available for booking. The lovely spot, right on Lacamas Lake, is perfect for Wedding Receptions, Conferences and gatherings of all kinds. Call Camas Parks & Recreation office for information about booking. Their hours are Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm. Contact them at 360-834-5307.


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Spinach Pizza Pie
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 18 mins
This is a firm pizza that will make even spinach haters LOVE it. Excellent for vegetarians. For a beautiful meal, serve this pizza with a sparkling red wine.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 large prepared pizza crust or 1 can refrigerated pizza dough, roll out crust from the refrigerator section
- fresh baby spinach leaves
- 1⁄4 onion, chopped
- 1⁄4 lb mushroom, sliced
- 1 lb mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- Pam cooking spray or olive oil
- Very lightly spray pam on pizza crust, or spread 1-2 teaspoons olive oil on crust.
- Spread the baby spinach leaves over the crust in a single layer, to within 1/2" of the edge.
- Spread the mushrooms on the spinach leaves.
- Sprinkle the onions over mushrooms and spinach.
- Spread the cheese over the vegetables.
- Sprinkle with oregano.
- Bake at 425 15-18 minutes, until cheese is bubbly and beginning to brown.
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Made this a couple of times now. The whole family loves it and periodically requests it again. I make as directed with 2 exceptions. I have an old favorite recipe for a quick homemade pizza dough, and I use a small can of mushrooms, drained, and chop them with the onion in my mini-food processor. In step 3, I spread my mixture over the pizza in little sausage-like lumps. I originally came up with the "mock-sausage" for my daughter who doesn't like the texture of mushrooms, but it's really good. Everyone loves it this way. Thanks wildheart for a new standard.
This was great! I used one of those Boboli pizza crusts and added some sliced tomatoes to the top. Yummy!
My wife cooked this exactly as written, except that I asked her to add about 6 leaves of fresh basil(chopped) from the first yield in my garden. Doggone good recipe! I loved it, and so did my daughter. My wife is biased against tomato-less pizza and didn't try it...yet.


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Casey Anthony is now far away from Orlando, the scene of her trial for the murder of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Following her release from the Orange County Jail at 12:09 am, Anthony first went to the office of her attorney, and then made a dash to the Orlando Executive Airport.
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Goldman Sachs Grilled in Senate Hearing Over Mortgage Business
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives were grilled by U.S. senators probing the bank's mortgage business as Senator Carl Levin asked why it sold a set of investments the lender had itself labeled "shitty."
"How about the fact that you sold hundreds of millions of that deal after your people knew it was a shitty deal?" the Michigan Democrat asked Daniel Sparks, who ran the bank's mortgage unit at the time. "Does that bother you at all?"
Levin, who heads the Senate subcommittee that's holding today's hearings, was referring to a June 2007 e-mail from Thomas Montag, the former head of sales and trading in the Americas at Goldman Sachs, to Sparks. The message described a set of mortgage-linked investments that his bank had been trying to sell as part of "one shitty deal."
"I don't recall selling hundreds of millions of that deal after that," Sparks replied, adding that he believed the e-mail referred to his performance, not the security itself.
"If you can't give a clear answer to that one, Mr. Sparks, I don't think we're going to get too many clear answers from you," Levin said.
Seven current and former Goldman Sachs employees including Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein are testifying about the mortgage-securities business in the years leading to the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Goldman Sachs, the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, had been sued for fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and contests the claim.
Tourre Denies Allegations
As the executives testified, Goldman Sachs shares had one of three gains among the 79 financial companies in the S&P 500. The stock rose 70 cents to $152.73 as of 12:50 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
Fabrice Tourre, the only Goldman Sachs employee named by the SEC, testified today that he "categorically" denied the allegations. "I will defend myself in court against this false claim, Tourre, 31, told the standing-room-only hearing of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in Washington.
The transaction referred to by Levin was Timberwolf Ltd., a $1 billion collateralized debt obligation holding pieces of other CDOs. The CDO also included optimistic side-bets on the performance of CDOs, derivatives in which the firm took the opposite pessimistic side in ''many'' cases, the panel said.
Timberwolf's 2008 Liquidation
''Boy that timberwo[l]f was one shitty deal,'' Montag, who is now Bank of America Corp.'s president of global banking and markets, said in a June 22, 2007, e-mail. Within five months of Timberwolf's debut, the CDO had lost 80 percent of its value, and it was liquidated in 2008, according to the statement yesterday.
''The message that I took from the e-mail from Mr. Montag was that my performance on that deal wasn't good and I think the fact that we had lost money related to that wasn't good," Sparks said at the hearing. "I didn't use that term in respect to this deal."
Sparks, 43, who left the bank in 2008, told Montag earlier on June 22, 2007, that $300 million of Timberwolf securities were the "main thing" left among a group of positions the bank had bought from an unidentified source, according to the e-mails. In a June 7, 2007, e-mail, a Goldman Sachs employee said a head of sales in Korea at the New York-based company felt like he could "push" a buyer whose name was redacted to purchase more of the debt.
Blankfein to Speak
The CDO was among securities that Goldman Sachs sold to clients after deciding the firm needed to reduce its mortgage holdings, Levin's panel said in a statement yesterday.
Montag, now 53, isn't scheduled to appear and didn't respond to a request for comment. Bank of America spokeswoman Jessica Oppenheim declined to comment.
The committee began to release excerpts of the Goldman Sachs documents yesterday. Today, Blankfein, 55, will tell the panel his firm didn't wager against clients, according to a prepared text of his remarks.
"We believe we at all times worked appropriately with our clients," Lucas van Praag, a Goldman Sachs spokesman, said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. We did try to manage our risk, as our shareholders and regulators would expect.''
Bear Buys Timberwolf
The Timberwolf CDO was issued in March 2007, following a Goldman Sachs quarter that ended February 2007 in which one department of the bank shifted from $6 billion of bets that mortgage bonds would perform to $10 billion they would default, according to Bloomberg data and information the panel released.
Bear Stearns Asset Management, the manager of two hedge funds overseen by Ralph Cioffi whose collapse in June 2007 roiled global markets, was among the buyers, purchasing about $300 million, according to the committee. Cioffi's funds that month sold some securities to meet margin calls from lenders.
Sparks in one e-mail urged "personnel working on a potential Korean sale to '[g]et 'er done,' and sent a mass e-mail to the sales force promising 'ginormous credits' for selling'' the debt, according to Levin's statement. ''A congratulatory e-mail was sent to an employee who sold a number of the securities: 'Great job _ trading us out of our entire Timberwolf Single-A position,' '' the panel said, potentially referring to $36 million of A-rated notes.
Montag's Career
Montag retired from Goldman Sachs in December 2007, and was recruited in April 2008 by then Merrill Lynch & Co. CEO John A. Thain to his firm. Merrill Lynch was bought by Bank of America in a government-assisted deal at the start of 2009.
CDOs repackage pools of assets such as mortgage bonds, bank capital notes and buyout loans into new securities with varying risks. While Timberwolf was initially intended to be about half invested in mortgage-bond CDOs and half invested in collateralized loan obligations tied to company debt, the bank sold many of its ''best-performing'' CLOs separately after a rebound in their values, Levin's statement said.
Levin's committee also released e-mails with references to Hudson Mezzanine 2006-1, Anderson Mezzanine 2007-1 and Abacus 2007-AC1, the CDO at the heart of the SEC suit filed April 16.
The U.S. claims Goldman Sachs misled investors by failing to disclose that hedge fund Paulson & Co. -- which was betting against the U.S. mortgage market -- helped the Abacus CDO manager select securities to include in the portfolio. Goldman Sachs has called the SEC's lawsuit ''completely unfounded." Paulson wasn't accused of any wrongdoing.
Greywolf's Role
CDO managers select the collateral going into the vehicles, and sometimes reinvest as the underlying positions pay down and trade in and out of holdings.
In Timberwolf's case, the manager was Purchase, New York-based Greywolf Capital Management LP. The firm's partners included the late Greg Mount, who joined in 2005 after nine years at Goldman Sachs, where he helped build its CDOs business, according to the prospectus and the firm's website.
Greywolf, which focuses on corporate debt and says on its website it manages $848 million, planned to buy $41 million of the CDO's junior-most tranches, according to the prospectus. In January 2007, Goldman Sachs underwrote a $502 million CLO managed by Greywolf tied to high-yield company loans, according to Bloomberg data.
Conflicts Disclosed
The conflicts of interest section of Timberwolf's prospectus said that Greywolf might "take into consideration research and other brokerage services" from investment banks in its decision-making for the CDO and also make separate investments with "interests different from or adverse to" the CDO's collateral.
"Under the terms of the Collateral Management Agreement," Greywolf "will be permitted to take whatever action is in the Collateral Manager's best interest regardless of the impact on the Collateral Assets," according to the prospectus.
Mount died last April, the company said in a statement at the time. Shawn Pattison, a spokesman for Greywolf, declined to immediately comment.
On Goldman Sachs's role, the prospectus said the firm would act as the sole counterparty for the bullish derivative bets on CDOs that the vehicle was making through so-called credit-default swaps, "which creates concentration risk and may create certain conflicts of interest."
Matthew G. Bieber, described by the panel as the Goldman trader responsible for managing Timberwolf's issuance, later characterized the day that the CDO was created as "a day that will live in infamy," according to an e-mail released today.
An employee at Goldman Sachs who today answered a number for Bieber said that he was "off the desk" and didn't take a message.


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Responsibility and Identity in Global Justice
New Forms of Subjectivity: Theorizing the Relational Self with Foucault and Alcoff
Version of Record online: 20 OCT 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01235.x
© by Hypatia, Inc.
Special Issue: 2nd FEAST Special Issue
Volume 26, Issue 4, pages 804–825, Fall 2011
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How to Cite
Tarver, E. C. (2011), New Forms of Subjectivity: Theorizing the Relational Self with Foucault and Alcoff. Hypatia, 26: 804–825. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01235.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 20 OCT 2011
- Version of Record online: 20 OCT 2011
Taking seriously Linda Martín Alcoff's suggestion that we reevaluate the extent to which poststructuralist articulations of the subject are truly socially constituted, as well as the centrality of Latina identity to her own account of such constitution, I argue that the discussion Alcoff and other Latina feminists offer of the experience of being Latina in North America is illustrative of the extent to which the relational and globally situated constitution of subjects needs further development in many social-constructionist accounts of selfhood. I argue, however—contra Alcoff—that Michel Foucault's mode of investigating subjectivation, particularly as it is articulated in his later work, has room for just such an account, especially when it is supplemented by postcolonial theory. With this end in mind, I take as a case study the public discourse surrounding Sonia Sotomayor prior to her confirmation as the first Latina woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, suggesting that an analysis of this discourse (including its position within and contribution to wider discourses of ethnicity, race, gender, and class) shows why the accounts of relational subject-constitution offered by both Foucault and Alcoff are indispensable.


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Providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduced unplanned pregnancies and cut abortion rates by 62% to 78% over the national rate, researchers reported.
Among a range of birth control methods offered in the study, most women chose long-acting methods such as intrauterine devices or implants, which have lower failure rates than commonly used birth control pills. In the United States, IUDs and implants have high up-front costs that sometimes are not covered by health insurance, making these methods unaffordable for many women.
"The impact of providing no-cost birth control was far greater than we expected in terms of unintended pregnancies," Jeff Peipert, MD, PhD, the studys lead author and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said in a news release. "We think improving access to birth control, particularly IUDs and implants, coupled with education on the most effective methods, has the potential to significantly decrease the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions in this country."
The Contraceptive Choice Project enrolled 9,256 women and adolescents in the St. Louis area between 2007 and 2011. Participants were ages 14 to 45, at risk for unintended pregnancy and willing to start a new contraceptive method.
Participants had their choice of birth control methods, ranging from long-acting forms such as IUDs and implants to shorter-acting methods such as birth control pills, patches and rings.
The women were counseled about the different methods, including their effectiveness, risks and benefits. The extremely low failure rate (less than 1%) of IUDs and implants compared with shorter-acting forms (8% to 10%) was emphasized. In all, about 75% of women in the study chose IUDs or implants.
From 2008 to 2010, annual abortion rates among study participants ranged from 4.4 to 7.5 per 1,000 women. Those rates represented a substantial drop (62% to 78%) over the national rate of 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available.
Among girls ages 15 to 19 who had access to the free birth control provided in the study, the annual birth rate was 6.3 per 1,000, far below the U.S. rate of 34.3 per 1,000 for girls the same age.
Although birth control pills are the most commonly used contraceptive in the United States, their effectiveness hinges on remembering to take a pill every day and having easy access to refills.
In contrast, IUDs and implants are inserted by healthcare providers and are effective for five to 10 years and three years, respectively. Despite their superior effectiveness over short-term methods, only a small percentage of U.S. women using contraception choose these methods. Many cannot afford the cost of IUDs and implants, which can cost more than $800 and may not be covered by insurance.
"Unintended pregnancy remains a major health problem in the United States, with higher proportions among teenagers and women with less education and lower economic status," Peipert said. "The results of this study demonstrate that we can reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy and this is key to reducing abortions in this country."
The study appeared Oct. 3 on the website of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. A PDF of the study is available at http://bit.ly/SGbbq3.


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Use of the p,p'-DDD: p,p'-DDE Concentration Ratio to Trace Contaminant Migration from a Hazardous Waste Site
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For approximately 50 years, beginning in the 1920s, hazardous wastes were disposed in an 11-hectare area of the Marine Corps Base (MCB) Quantico, Virginia, USA known as the Old Landfill. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and DDT compounds were the primary contaminants of concern. These contaminants migrated into the sediments of a 78-hectare area of the Potomac River, the Quantico Embayment. Fish tissue contamination resulted in the MCB posting signs along the embayment shoreline warning fishermen to avoid consumption. In this paper, we interpret total PCB (t-PCBs) and total DDT (t-DDT, sum of six DDT, DDD, and DDE isomers) data from monitoring studies. We use the ratio of p,p'-DDD to p,p'-DDE concentrations as a tracer to distinguish site-related from regional contamination. The median DDD/DDE ratio in Quantico Embayment sediments (3.5) was significantly higher than the median ratio (0.71) in sediments from nearby Powells Creek, used as a reference area. In general, t-PCBs and t-DDT concentrations were significantly higher in killifish (Fundulus diaphanus) and carp (Cyprinus carpio) from the Quantico Embayment compared with Powells Creek. For both species, Quantico Embayment fish had mean or median DDD/DDE ratios greater than one. Median ratios were significantly higher in Quantico Embayment (4.6) than Powells Creek (0.28) whole body carp. In contrast, t-PCBs and t-DDT in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) fillets were similar in Quantico Embayment and Powells Creek collections, with median ratios of 0.34 and 0.26, respectively. Differences between species may be attributable to movement (carp and killifish being more localized) and feeding patterns (carp ingesting sediment while feeding). We recommend that environmental scientists use this ratio when investigating sites with DDT contamination.
Keywordsbioavailability DDD DDE DDT environmental fate hazardous waste sites PCBs
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- Use of the p,p'-DDD: p,p'-DDE Concentration Ratio to Trace Contaminant Migration from a Hazardous Waste Site
- Journal
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Volume 120, Issue 1-3 , pp 559-574
- Cover Date
- 2006-09
- 10.1007/s10661-005-9103-7
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- 0167-6369
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- 1573-2959
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- hazardous waste sites
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- 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chesapeake Bay Field Office, 177 Admiral Cochrane Drive, Annapolis, Maryland, 21401, USA


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Twins C Suzuki takes foul off mask, gets stitches
Minnesota Twins catcher Kurt Suzuki left Saturday night's game against the Boston Red Sox in the second inning after getting hit in the mask with a foul ball.
Minnesota Twins catcher Kurt Suzuki left Saturday night's game against the Boston Red Sox in the second inning after getting hit in the mask with a foul ball.
Craig Kimbrel could throw a bullpen session on Sunday, while the Red Sox have no timetable for Koji Uehara, who is recovering from a pectoral strain.
An MRI revealed no structural damage or cartilage issues in Mookie Betts' right knee. There is, however, some swelling, which accounts for him being out of the Red Sox's lineup Saturday night. John Farrell classified it as "a short-term situation."
Tyler Zeller is now the fourth highest paid player on the Celtics' roster, ahead of All-Star point guard Isaiah Thomas. A glance at Boston's current cap commitments.
A look at the Celtics' depth chart after Saturday's flurry of roster activity.
Mookie Betts was not in Boston's lineup Saturday, but an MRI revealed that the star outfielder has no structural damage in his sore right knee.
With Saturday's signings, the Celtics are headed back over the salary cap. Access to the $5.6 million mid-level could allow the team to either inflate the contract of second-round picks like Demertius Jackson or target in-season help.
After the Celtics' flurry of activity on Saturday, a look at their projected depth chart.
Ken Griffey Jr. said he "absolutely" thinks David Ortiz should make the Hall of Fame, citing the slugger's career numbers while calling him "one of the most feared hitters in all of baseball."
The Boston Celtics made a flurry of moves Saturday, including agreeing to deals with Gerald Green and Tyler Zeller. What it seems to suggest is that Boston is willing to head into next season with the roster it has constructed. The Celtics still have the flexibility and assets to explore trade opportunities, but also bolstered their depth assuming no deals materialize.
Eric Karabell takes a look ahead at the fantasy expectations for players on the Patriots, Jets, Dolphins and Bills.
For the second time this season, Betts hit leadoff home runs in back-to-back games against the Twins on Thursday and Friday. Only three other players in the modern era (since 1900) have hit leadoff homers in back-to-back games multiple times within a single season, the Elias Sports Bureau reports.
Ortiz grounded into a 4-2-3 double play with the bases loaded and no outs in the ninth inning on Friday. It's the second time this season he's grounded into a double play in a walk-off situation. He did that only three times in his career before this year, ESPN Stats & Info notes.
Gerald Green and Tyler Zeller are each expected to signs deal with the Celtics, according to sources.
On a tough night for All-Stars David Ortiz and Mookie Betts, the left-hander had another solid outing, striking out a season-high eight batters.
The Celtics have had a busy offseason but could easily put themselves in position to land free agent J.R. Smith, a polarizing 3-point specialist.
Kyle Gibson ended a two-game hitting outburst by the Red Sox, allowing just a pair of hits in the first inning and none over the next seven as the Minnesota Twins edged Boston 2-1 Friday.
Mookie Betts felt what manager John Farrell described as "soreness" in his knee to the point where he "felt like he couldn't run as normal." Farrell called it "precautionary" to take Betts out of the game. Red Sox hoping it's not a lingering issue.
Braintree is your Super 8 State Champion for the second year in a row. Re-live all of the spring state tournament action here.
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#2454 closed enhancement (fixed)
[patch] for-loops reset state of inner ifchanged
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I have a use-case of ifchanged which maybe worth to talk about:
Normally ifchanged is placed in a for-loop (or other kind of loop). If this loop is enclosed by an other loop the state of the ifchanged in the inner loop maybe incorrect respective to the outer loop.
Since I'm not really good at explaining this I made two hardcopies which should explain it better. I have a template which display tournaments in the outer loop and within the tournaments a loop of competitions with a competition-date which should only rendered if the competition-date has changed regarding the previous value.
Normally this result in the output of ifchanged-demo1.png . Please look after 'Sparda-Bank West Mannschaftsturnier, Bochum, 16./17.9.2006' In the next line the date 16.09.2006 is missing.
With the patch the result would be shown as in for-reset-ifchanged-demo1.png.
This maybe break some of the normal usecase of ifchanged, so this needs to be reviewed and discussed forther.
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Changed 10 years ago by dummy@…
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Modified output where for-loop resets stated of inner ifchanged
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The used template-snippet (for explaination only)
comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by adrian
Great report! Modifying the behavior of the for tag is a bit hackish, though. Ideally the solution would only modify the implementation of ifchanged. Can you come up with a way of doing that?
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by dummy@…
I tried to do this first in the implementation of ifchanged, but until now I didn't understand the way django is processing the nodes and how the ifchanged-Node can see that a new for-loop has startet ?
Changed 10 years ago by dummy@…
Solution which handles all in ifchanged-implementation
comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by mtredinnick
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Hi all,
I have WordPress installed on my server and it all works fine.
If I go to my index.php it displays all my blogs as expected.
I am trying to pull my blogs into a different php page with little luck.
I have been researching this for some time now. I have read i a lot of placed that is you make it WordPress ready and add the loop it should work.
i add require('wp-blog-header.php'); - this works.
however the loop cannot find any of my posts.
If i past exactly the same code into index.php it works.
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The Sony BRAVIA EX720 is the cheapest LED TV series in Sony's lineup that can display 3D video. It has good picture quality specs — an impressive contrast ratio and 200Hz refresh rate — but it requires significant picture adjustment to look its best. If you can hook it up to a Blu-ray player with some good Full HD video content, it looks great in a dark room.
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Sony's BRAVIA KDL-55EX720 has a thin, dark brushed aluminium strip running along its lower bezel, while the other edges of the screen are finished in glossy black. It's not too different from Sony's more premium models, the HX925 and HX820, although both of these have glossier and more attractive finishes on their screens. The BRAVIA EX720 is shiny as well, so if possible it's best located in a dark or dim room without any direct lighting — curtains are a must.
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If you can watch it in a darkened room, and have the time to play around with screen settings to find the best compromise between detail and brightness, Sony's BRAVIA EX720 is an impressively-featured TV for the asking price. Christmas sales should make it better value again.
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Boasting tasteful, modern decor, this private bedroom contains a comfortable double bed and a wardrobe. The tiled communal bathroom features a bidet and a bathtub with shower, and the shared kitchen provides laundry facilities.
The Whitechapel area was once most famous for Victorian poverty and Jack the Ripper. Though the Ten Bells pub still remains, the district has become one of London's most popular tourist destinations. Brick Lane offers everything from vintage boutiques and festivals to world-class Curry Houses and vibrant markets.
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Nice clean & comfortable room. Great host.
It was a nice apartment in East London, although it was in a rather rough neighborhood and not really in Shoreditch as the title suggests. (After our last night, we found a notice by the police saying that there had been a lot of burglaries in the area and that we should look out for anything suspicious.)
The apartment itself was clean and great for 3 people to live in. It was especially nice for cooking your own meals, as food and hotel prices in London are not that cheap. The WiFi connection was also great.
The city can be reached by tube in 20-30 minutes. If you plan on staying out longer at night, Taxis from Central London can cost up to 35 pounds, so better look for night busses. Another thing was that it is located in an area where it is rather hard to get to the airports.
Clean and comfortable room. Good transport links.
Everything was fine. Nice little bedroom. It was pretty loud outside all night, but that's whats to be expected of London.
A quiet room.No T,V. unfortunately.shared toilet and shared shower good hot water.Saw the manageress for 2 minutes. close to tube/buses etc no real issues with the place you get what you pay for...Wetherspoons 5 minutes away, lots of takeaways very close. A good visit in all..
Room was clean and instructions for getting to the location and getting the keys were good. There weren't any troubles with the other guests staying in the apartment, they were respectful and kept the shared areas clean. The sink faucets in the bathroom were loose, but they still worked.
Really central - Great accommodation
Hello, we just been a few days in London, For start the good things = Good location, good instructions from the owner, Medium things = Clean so so, bins not being empty every day. Bad things we stay in room 4, next door from the shower, and was annoying to listen noises and being fully booked the use of the bathroom was constant. Front door handle is naked.
It is a shame as the apartment is decent size and very good located and average as per London standards, I would not repeat in this place due to the comments I told, maybe another room with no bathroom next door .........
Lovely accomodation, really nice big bedrroom, everything clean and well provided for. Well recommended, would stay here again. Only thing is was locating the property due to the fact that external renovations in the area have covered everything in scaffolding. Best thing is to concentrate on the photo and look for the red wooden fence on the right.
Room was clean and as described, situated in a great location. Very good value for the price, i would stay again.
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