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High Tide: From France's Libya Sanctions Push To Argentina FATF Concerns
A roundup of corruption-related news from Dow Jones and other sources.
The New York Times digs further into a cable released by WikiLeaks about corruption in Libya called "Qadhafi Incorporated."
On the U.K. Bribery Act, there are still big questions, little guidance and more delays. (Westlaw)
The U.K. faces a dilemma over the implementation of the Bribery Act. (The National)
Thebriberyact.com authors begin their Q/A session with a question about what "ordinary" means in terms of corporate hospitality.
Tom Fox takes a look at the latest FCPA challenge on the definition of "foreign official."
Klaus Stahlmann, the head of MAN SE's diesel and turbo division, will leave the company as he is a target of a bribery investigation. He couldn't be reached for comment. (Wall Street Journal)
Ary Muladi, an alleged middleman in the bribery case against two Indonesian KPK leaders, stood trial for attempted bribery and obstruction of justice more than a year after the scandal broke. His lawyer said he will file a "demurrer," because a not guilty verdict against another suspect should acquit his client as well. (Jakarta Post)
Money Laundering:
Argentina will learn later Wednesday whether it is a country that fails to fight money laundering under the rubric established by the Financial Action Task Force. (Financial Times, sub. req.)
Swiss banks have lodged 30 reports of possible money laundering by members of former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's regime but all of them came after the Swiss government froze his assets. (Wall Street Journal)
France will back an Egyptian request to freeze the assets of deposed president Hosni Mubarak and his family, Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said. (AFP)
The UNCAC Coalition welcomes all the moves to freeze Mubarak's assets. (news release)
Mideast leaders and their assets prove the rule on how to handle politically exposed people as customers: Do your due diligence. (Compliance Building)
A very long piece on the son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea, who a 2010 U.S. Senate Subcommittee report identified as one of the most corrupt people running money out of his native country into the U.S. (Foreign Policy)
Jailed financier Allen Stanford has been moved to a prison hospital in Butner, N.C., to treat his addiction to anti-anxiety medication. (Antimoneylaundering.us)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for the European Union to quickly adopt sanctions against Libya, becoming the first in the region to explicitly endorse the action after violent clashes between security forces and demonstrators calling for Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi to stand down. More here, here and here. (Dow Jones Newswires, BBC, Al Jazeera, Financial Times, sub. req.)
Germany's foreign minister said sanctions against Libya would be "unavoidable" if Gadhafi doesn't quell violence. (Dow Jones Newswires)
Peru announced it's ending diplomatic relations with Libya. (AP)
The political impasse causing sanctions in Ivory Coast continues unabated as violent clashes and gun battles erupt in Abidjan. More here. (Al Jazeera, Reuters)
Despite all the consternation about it, the new SEC whistleblower program is yielding fewer tips than many expected. (NY Post)
The "community of whistleblowers" wrote an open letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about the case of Scott J. Bloch, former head of the Office of Special Counsel, who they say "gravely damaged the federal civil service." More here and here. (Whistleblower Lawyer, Talking Points Memo, Emptywheel)
Terrorism Finance:
Should the MEK be taken off the list of foreign terrorist organizations, given its high-profile backers? (PBS Tehran Bureau, Talking Points Memo)
General Anti-Corruption:
The U.K. will allow a key regulator to publicize its corruption investigations at the initial stage, according to a report. (Compliance Week)
Canadian resources companies listed in the U.S. will be forced to comply with the provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires them to disclose payments to foreign governments. (Globe and Mail)
The Czech police has closed its corruption investigation into a meeting between Prime Minister Petr Necas and former police chief Oldrich Martinu in December. (Prague Daily Monitor)
Nigeria pledged to be more transparent as it restarts savings in its oil accounts. (Bloomberg)
Azerbaijan urged its citizens to use an anti-corruption website as part of a high-profile campaign to combat graft. (Sydney Morning Herald)
The Muslim Brotherhood sees foreign investment in Egypt flourishing once the economy is free of the corruption that weakened it in President Hosni Mubarak's era. (Reuters)
Awakened by the salary scandal in Bell, Calif., newly engaged citizens are turning out at community meetings and city halls across the state, demanding public documents, asking tough questions and pushing for change. (LA Times)
The Florida state legislature is considering a bill that would replace a rule that prevents them from accepting trinkets from the public with a $25 limit on gifts. (Miami Herald)
The U.S. is invoking state secrets to prevent disclosures about alleged contracting fraud that could prove embarrassing for the country. More here. (New York Times, ProPublica)
Related: The U.S. Commission on War Contracting labeled oversight of the contracts as "weak," and the use of hired hands became a "default option" for most operations. (AP)
Tens of thousands of people protested in the Indian capital against surging prices and government corruption on Wednesday. (AFP)
Also in India, the prime minister agreed to join a corruption probe in a bid to end legislative deadlock. (Voice of America)


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Boomer Marriage
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Is there a secret to marriages that last? Can you keep things hot as your hormones cool? Are you making unrealistic demands that can actually doom your marriage?
It seems that Boomers have changed the traditional vows of "for better or worse" to "for better, and better." Host Robert Lipsyte turns to his panel to see how the institution of marriage is faring under the strain. Therapist Terrence Real, author of "The New Rules of Marriage," argues that Boomers have new and unprecedented goals for their marriages: they want relationships to stay as hot-and fascinating-as they were in the first blush of romance. Suzanne Braun Levine, former Ms. Magazine editor and author of Fifty Is The New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood says that as women blossom in later years, it's often hard for their marriages to keep up. And Dr. Janet E. Taylor, of the Family Circle's "Ask Dr. Janet" column, explains how conflict can provide the roots for new growth in marriage.
Hearst magazine publishing legend Cathie Black offers advice on keeping current to keep your job...
How can you get around feeling old, insecure, and expendable in the workplace? Lipsyte asks someone who knows--Hearst Magazine President, Cathie Black. And she is ready with hard-hitting, practical advice on staying relevant. The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller: Basic Black: Tips for Getting ahead in Work (and in Life), does not flinch from tough talk: That old business suit does not look as good as it did ten years ago and you really need to be hip to what's happening in popular culture.
Funny words on aging from this comedy writer to the stars...
And finally, Eric Kornfeld-comedy writer for funny ladies Bette Midler and Rosie O'Donnell--makes us laugh over his own anxiety about aging. Will he die trying to text his daughters?
Very nice articles. One of the myths about marriage is that marriage will make you happy. Not true. Your happiness both as an individual and as a married partner must come from within yourself. Being married can add to your happiness, but it is not and can not be the primary source of your happiness.
One of the myths about marriage is that marriage will make you happy. Not true. Your happiness both as an individual and as a married partner must come from within yourself. Being married can add to your happiness, but it is not and can not be the primary source of your happiness. Here are strategies to help you create a happier you and a happy marriage.
Almost everyday we hear people complaining about their marriages. Very seldom do we hear stories about a happy marriage. Young people reading romantic novels and seeing romantic films often conclude that marriage is a bed of roses. Unfortunately, marriage is not as sweet as one thinks. Marriage and problems are interrelated and people must remember that when they are getting married, they will have to face problems and responsibilities that they had never expected or experienced hitherto.
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Marriage is a scary thought to all singles out there. We've seen a lot of couples getting divorced because of lack of communication, misunderstandings, arguments and the like. But when each person try to reach out to his/her partner and reconcile (maybe talk about happy thoughts on how you first met, first dated and how you first fell in love with each other), the essence of being "tied together for eternity" is all worth it afterall.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. I would like to share another good articles i found about marriage tips and helps. You can check it out at askdiana.net.
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I happened upon your pbs show poking around on the computer. I'm so excited about the relevence of each topic. I've been writing a journal and talking to people about my observations and experiences of this time in life. I'm happy to say that you are hitting all the right topics. I've been telling people that we Boomers came into each decade with a completly unique take on what we want and expect at each stage of living. I've felt at times that age has made it's presence known to me by reactions I get from some younger people. It's a wake-call for me. Move on old timer, well now I have to get cracking on facebook and blog . Thanks for confirming and validating our experiences. What a fun show.
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Is Your School A Breath Of Fresh Air? | Facility Executive - Creating Intelligent Buildings
Give your facilities a chance to be recognized by the EPA's IAQ TfS Awards Program.
Is Your School A Breath Of Fresh Air?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools (TfS) Program in 1995 to reduce exposures to indoor environmental contaminants in schools through the voluntary adoption of sound IAQ management practices. This program provides IAQ guidance and resources for facility managers and others who work in K-12 public and private schools.
The IAQ TfS Awards Program was initiated to recognize schools and school districts that have demonstrated a strong commitment to improving children's health by promoting IAQ practices. For those schools and districts just beginning to implement IAQ management plans to those who have mature, sustainable, district-wide IAQ programs, EPA provides a series of national level awards.
Up until this year, the Awards Program featured four types of awards: National Great Start Award; National Leadership Award; National Excellence Award; and National Model of Sustained Excellence Award. Additionally, for 2009 the National IAQ TfS Connector Award has been added to the program.
Since the inception of the IAQ TfS Awards Program, EPA has presented National Excellence awards to nearly 80 schools and school districts in recognition of their dedication to improving IAQ.
Description Of Awards
The IAQ TfS National Great Start Award is for U.S. schools and districts in the initial stages of implementing the IAQ TfS Program. To qualify, schools must establish an IAQ team or designate an IAQ Coordinator. Designed to recognize schools and school districts that are on their way to achieving sustainable IAQ management plans, Great Start Awards are non-competitive. Applications are accepted year round, and awards are presented throughout the year.
The IAQ TfS National Leadership Award is for U.S. schools and districts that have shown significant progress in implementing an IAQ management program. To qualify, schools must at least meet the minimum criteria for the Great Start Award and show progress towards completing IAQ walkthroughs or assessments for each school in the district that has agreed to participate in the program. Applicants must demonstrate how they are taking action to address IAQ issues and have identified and prioritized any IAQ repairs and upgrades. The Leadership Awards are non-competitive. Applications are accepted year round, and awards are presented throughout the year.
The IAQ TfS National Excellence Award is one of EPA's highest IAQ awards, presented to U.S. school districts with exemplary IAQ programs and that have shown exceptional commitment to good IAQ management. These awards are competitively judged and will be presented to the selected school districts at EPA's 10th Annual IAQ TfS National Symposium, to be held in Washington, DC on January 14-16, 2010. Deadline: must be postmarked by September 30, 2009
The IAQ TfS National Model of Sustained Excellence Award is presented to U.S. school districts that show ongoing exceptional commitment and achievement in maintaining healthy educational facilities while institutionalizing comprehensive IAQ management practices. Recipients must have been a past National Excellence Award recipieny. Applicants must demonstrate how they have sustained their IAQ practices, established IAQ management goals, and tracked short-term and long-term progress on IAQ management. These awards are competitively judged and will be also presented to the selected school districts at EPA's 10th Annual IAQ TfS National Symposium in January 2010. Deadline: must be postmarked by September 30, 2009
New for 2009 is the the National IAQ TfS Connector Award, which will be presented to individuals and organizations whose outstanding, innovative actions and initiatives have supported improved school indoor environments, with a special focus on activities that reflect the spirit of the IAQ TfS Connector—the central communication and networking platform of the IAQ TfS Program. These awards are competitively judged and will also be presented to the individuals or organizations at EPA's 10th Annual IAQ TfS National Symposium in January 2010. Deadline: must be postmarked by September 30, 2009
More information, along with past winner stories, can be found on the Awards Program home page.
Or Start Now..
If you're still in the early stages of creating a formalized IAQ program in your school, you may want to order (or download) the components of EPA's IAQ TfS Action Kit.
Since its release in 1995 (just re-released this year), the kit (which is free of charge) instructs schools on how to carry out a practical plan to improve indoor air problems at little cost or no-cost using straightforward activities and in-house staff. The kit provides best practices, industry guidelines, sample policies, and a sample IAQ management plan.
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Great blog. Do you mind if I put a link to it on my web site? By the way Trane will be making an announcement about us and their new commitment into commercial IAQ. And being a major player in the HVAC market it should have far reaching effects in IAQ in schools.
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The institution of marriage, which is older than the religion most Americans who support marriage discrimination use to justify their bigotry, has been evolving as long as it has existed.
It began as a business contract between two families and had absolutely nothing to do with love: the bride's father sold his daughter to the groom in exchange for goods and services. The idea that love plays some sort of role in marriage is only a couple of centuries old, and has arguably only come to fruition in recent decades.
Women's bodies and experiences have been treated as commodities to be exploited by men throughout the history of Western civilization and continue to be treated as such today. Were it not for a societal redefinition of marriage as a contract of love rather than business, women's social status would still put them closer to livestock than men. So maybe marriage needs to be redefined, to continue down the path of human equality rather than the hierarchical social structure with wealthy, heterosexual, white men as real humans and everybody else as second- or third-class.
The hatred that fills recent letters opposing marriage equality and the hearts of a majority of voters in 2004 will do nothing but hurt the Mid-Ohio Valley and the state at large. Not only will businesses and the state miss out on the money that comes from more weddings, you stand to lose more college-educated citizens (who tend to make significantly more money and overwhelmingly support marriage equality) to places without constitutional amendments declaring at least 10 percent of the population as second-class citizens.
Just two months after I first came out to another person in 2004, the voters of my home state told me I don't belong. I left as soon as I could and have not looked back. I was a citizen of New York when they legalized marriage equality, and I wept with joy that night. My new home doesn't acknowledge my right to marry yet, but at least I'm not constitutionally defined as less human than my heterosexual counterparts. Until equality is the national standard, I plan to work with LGBT teens to undo the damage done by closed-mindedness and bigotry in the hopes of preventing teenage suicide attempts that are more successful than mine was. If God exists, I know He'd be prouder of my love and acceptance than the hatred some choose to spew in His name.
Alex Meeks
Philadelphia, Pa.


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Mt. Gox Bidders in Deal Aimed at Halting Liquidation
The consortium of U.S. investors seeking to buy and revive Mt. Gox has pulled another unexpected tactical move aimed at blocking liquidation of the failed bitcoin exchange and instead getting a rehabilitation plan accepted by the Japanese bankruptcy court.
According to documents filed with a Chicago District Court and a press release from the investor group, known as Sunlot Holdings, a deal was worked out with U.S. and Canadian creditors involved in two putative class-action lawsuits whereby they would settle their claims against the exchange and two of the original defendants and support the rehabilitation plan.
Under that agreement, creditors worldwide would receive a prorated disbursement from the 200,000 bitcoins that Mt. Gox has in its coffers as well as a payout from cash on hand, and would then get a 16.5% equity stake in the proposed future exchange. It's all part of an effort to recover money lost as result of the disappearance of a further 550,000 coins (about $242 million worth) from Mt. Gox's books.
Read more about the deal here.


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RandomSurge wrote: if I know one thing is that intelligence can't be measured with a number
not yet anyway
hugh grants hooker wrote: as it was explained to me, i.q. isnt a measure of intelligence. its basically just a measure of how easily you comprehend things.
an i.q. of 130 will catch on to things fairly quickly
an i.q. of 80 is gonna have trouble catching on to the basics of drink pouring.
The_Human wrote: If you read the dictionary...thats a form of intelligence...The ability to create new ideas...Thats real intelligence...but it has to be something new or theres no point...you have to beable to express your view in a convincing way...people would consider you smart...
biggest stupid asses in the world...
All they did was talk over your head and cloake their idea in some type of bullshit, because it was nothing new and they didnt want to get busted.


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Letters: 'fiscal cliff'
In an essay ["The Obama squeeze," Opinion Dec. 11], Washington Post writer Michael Gerson criticizes the president for not having left House Speaker John Boehner "a soft place to land" in the current negotiations about how to cope with end-of-the-year tax increases. This is the same Michael Gerson supporting the same John Boehner who steadily denies the elderly, the infirm, children, and other needy Americans a soft place to land in the same negotiations. How cheeky is that? – Jim Varnadore, City Heights
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Michael Gerson's editorial is familiar Republican rhetoric on the impending fiscal cliff. Essentially he asserts that President Obama won't or can't give the Republicans political cover on "serious structural cuts in entitlement programs" and give Republicans "a soft place to land."
The part that really woke me up from my pre-coffee morning stupor was his statement that "despite Rep. Paul Ryan's best efforts, entitlement reform is not yet a popular, bottom-up political movement. It won't happen unless the president leads-providing cover for the political class to move together."
Wow, really? Having your Medicare, Social Security, veterans benefits and every other entitlement program take a cut is not a winner with the majority of the American public? What a shock.
I may be wrong, but I think Michael Gerson has been to Washington state partaking of some of the newly legalized marijuana. – Sal Tarantino, San Diego
Much uncertainty exists regarding outcome of the dysfunctional federal government sending us over the fiscal cliff. Two branches, Senate [Legislative] and president [Executive], are determined to send us over if they can't get their way.
One thing is certain, however. The national debt cliff will engulf all U.S. citizens as our re-elected president is determined to spend 30 percent more federal funds than are available. When President Obama began in 2009, the U.S. national debt was slightly over $10 trillion, with each citizen owing $35,000 of the total. After four years of virtually unlimited profligate spending, and now a total debt of over $16 trillion, a new U.S. citizen at birth today accepts $52,000 debt, or an increase of $17,000. Those who voted to return Barack Obama to office may anticipate that in four more years, each voter and each of their children could owe an additional $17,000 for a total of $69,000. A family of four will be obligated for $276,000.
Voting for Obama was voting to put yourself further in the poorhouse and say, "I don't care about the future of my children and grand children. They can just fend for themselves." A truly sad situation. – Ronald Mears, Alpine
The best thing that could happen to this country is to go ahead and drive over the fiscal cliff. It would not be the end of the world. It would require a long-overdue belt-tightening on everyone's part but it just might make fact of the warning that we cannot forever continue to overspend, borrow, overspend and borrow.
But if we don't go over the fiscal cliff; if our president and our congress and our people are too dumb to recognize that we're headed exactly where Greece and Spain and the rest of Europe find themselves; if we're willing to be satisfied with 20 percent unemployment, bread lines, and the inability to borrow because our credit is no good, then let's just cave in and renew what isn't working.
Somewhere, sometime, there will be a national realization that, "There is no free lunch." We created this problem. It should be ours to solve, not our grandchildren's. Better now than later! – Marty Bouman, San Diego
First let us agree on three facts. One, government cannot produce wealth; it can only function on the proceeds/taxing the wealth of the people it governs. Two, if the government were to confiscate the wealth of all those in the top two highest tax brackets, it would be unable to pay off the entirety of the federal debt. Three, the majority (50 percent plus one) of the federal government budget is consumed by the nondiscretionary programs (entitlements) and debt interest.
Given these facts, one must conclude at least two things. One, taxing primarily those in the two current highest tax brackets will not alone solve the current program. Two, only focusing on military- and defense-related (VA, DOE nuclear programs, etc.) government programs, will not affect the majority of the federal budget.
Now, how does this affect our discussion on the "fiscal cliff"? It affects the conversation in that we cannot come to a long-term budget solution by only focusing on taxation. Therefore, any discussion will need to talk about government spending. Government spending is far too high, if even the higher rates being presently proposed by the Obama administration will not fund the spending proposed by the Obama administration. If government were a person, they would not be able to fiscally survive.
As for taxation, we need to (in the long term) have federal tax receipts be greater than federal spending to pay for the federal debt. We need to reduce spending, so that tax receipts can realistically exceed expenditures. If we can agree on certain underlying facts, it will help facilitate any compromise our leaders come up with. Without that they will only be talking at one another rather than to one another. – James Udan, Chula Vista
Thank you for printing articles in Sunday's paper on how business leaders and underwater home borrowers feel about solving the problems posed by the fiscal cliff ("Business leaders weigh in on fiscal cliff" and "Underwater borrowers scared by fiscal cliff," Business, Dec. 9). My understanding is that an average working family will pay an additional $2,200 per year if nothing is resolved. Failure to extend the payroll tax reduction adds another $1,000 per year. The number paying the alternative minimum tax will increase from 4 million to 28 million, with their average tax increasing $3,700 per year.
While everyone's opinion is interesting, only the opinions of San Diego County's five congressional representatives really count. I posed the question to my representative, Congressman Duncan Hunter. The response from his office is that his main concern is that the superrich not pay higher taxes, as proposed by President Obama. So, all you average families out there, if Duncan Hunter is worth $2,200 to $6,900 to you, continue to support him. And let's hear what our other representatives are thinking on this subject, before it's too late. – Hal Valderhaug, La Mesa
The country is facing a major financial hurdle at the end of the year, 22 days from the writing of this letter. So what does Congress do? They go home. Did any of them think that maybe they should stay in Washington and actually earn their pay? You know, WORK!
And are the Republicans not paying attention? We just had an election in which their ideas were pretty well thrown out. Do they not understand that it is time to compromise?
Another question: why are the Republicans so protective of the plutocrats? For the most part the plutocrats have enriched themselves and their Congressional lackeys, but have done nothing for the average citizen.
Color me disgusted! – Peter Klein, La Mesa
This ongoing "fiscal cliff" wrangling is idiotic and childish, not to mention a complete waste of time and effort. Plus, in 60 days these same Washington nitwits will subject us to a rerun when they argue over raising the national debt.
Why not take a rational, sensible approach to ending this endless game? Why not adopt an obvious, permanent solution?
Why collect income tax at all? Let the tax accountants and IRS agents go out and find good, honest work!
The solution: Let the federal government simply print whatever money it needs! So what if we experience some increases in prices for goods and services. The superrich, with 1,000 times the wealth of the poor, will suffer 1,000 times the pain. Can anything be more fair? Spread the misery equitably. This is the American way. This can become the new normal. – Lance A. Dohe, San Diego
In response to "Obama's power play" (Opinion, Dec. 8): Once again Charles Krauthammer has it exactly right. We are on a path of unsustainable spending and headed for a European-type disaster and financial ruin. Unless the Republicans develop some backbone this will not be just a probability but an absolute certainty. – Janet Piatek, Normal Heights
I am troubled with the hypocrisy surrounding the "fiscal cliff." It appears that all the relevant players, the president and both parties in Congress approach this pending financial dislocation as if it materialized out of the ether.
A series of conscious actions and decisions by our government have created this situation.
• The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were not funded by current revenues.
• The Bush tax cuts approved by both houses of did not result in offsetting revenues.
• The reduction of the Social Security tax rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent was approved by the president and Congress further weakening the fiscal integrity of Social Security as well as contributing to this farce.
• And the biggest folly of all, Congress's attempt to leverage itself by institutionalizing massive spending cuts to both military and civilian programs resulting in the virtually inevitable failure to reach an agreement on reducing the federal debt. This ill-conceived and inept approach was given the imprecise and pretentious name "sequestration." "Castration" would probably have been far more descriptive and accurate.
Every political figure has conveniently ignored responsibility for this chain of events. As John Kennedy paraphrased Galeazzo Ciano, after the Bay of Pigs, "Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan." Hence, the absence of ownership for the "fiscal cliff."
The proposed solutions by both the Democratic and Republican parties are equally defective. Sharp spending cuts will have a reverse multiplier effect on the money supply, edging us into a recession. Nor can we spend our way out of debt. Current monetary policy of artificially low interest rates has failed to engineer anything more than feeble growth. And parenthetically, on balance, the Republicans' assertion that increased taxes on the upper 2 percent of the population will discourage investment and economic growth is unsubstantiated and historically inaccurate.
Only a gradual and PREDICTABLE schedule (to reduce uncertainty both for Wall Street and Main Street) of increased tax revenues AND moderated expenditures (regardless of how they are characterized) has any realistic chance of avoiding a recession or an explosion of inflation and the consequential pain and suffering.
It will take courageous political figures, selfless leaders in industry, finance and technology and equally selfless proponents of social safety net programs to overcome entrenched conflicting ideologies and the greedy self-interested.
From where will they come? In the musical "1776," John Adams' soliloquy comes to mind. "Is anybody there? Does anybody care?" – T. Robert Huntley, Vista
This is the year the world is predicted to end, we are going over the cliff and our national economy will end as we knew it to be. Hogwash – this nation is too great to go under due to errors of some elected individuals. The people have voted, they have decided how they want this nation to be governed. Therefore, stop pointing fingers at each other and accept that one political party is going to get its way, and hope that the decisions will be good or correctable at a later date. I think the Republican Party should give the president everything he wants, and let it be the party of the president that will be recorded in history as to what occurs and the impact it will have on this nation's future.
My father told me along time ago, the main difference between the Republican Party and the Democrat Party is Republicans want to provide fishing hooks, and Democrats want to provide the fish for the people to eat. Do we go fishing, or line up for fish handouts? Either way, we eat. – Willard "Doc" Howard, Chula Vista
Before and after the election, Obama and crew continually bamboozled us with the idea that taxes would be raised only on the rich, the 2 percent with incomes over $250,000. Ninety-eight percent of the electorate could vote for Obama with their vote to raise taxes on only someone else. Seemingly, Obama and crew thought if they repeated the lie often, it would become true.
I have received a letter dated Nov. 21 from the Social Security Administration giving me the "good" news that my benefit for 2013 will increase 1.7 percent due to cost of living. The "bad" news is that, based on their analysis of my 2011 tax return, my deducted Medicare premium will increase, so that my monthly check will decrease from $1,290 to $1,093. Furthermore, Obama and crew have reduced my CD income to nil and are "licking their chops" to attack my investment income.
My AGI is typically one-third of what Obama and crew define as "rich." I am a child of the Depression and have lived prudently to provide for retirement. I will be able to live out financially regardless of their profligate tax policy. But as a fiscal conservative living in liberal California, I will die distressed with the proclivity of my fellow voters to create debt for future generations. – Jon I. Fellers, San Diego


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Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 QPR
Harry Redknapp and Glenn Hoddle suffered a nightmare return to White Hart Lane as Tottenham Hotspur ran out 4-0 winners to maintain their 100 percent start to the Premier League this season.
Nacer Chadli scored twice, while Eric Dier was on the scoresheet for the second time in as many Premier League games to seal the three points before half-time.
Emmanuel Adebayor added gloss to the scoreline in the second half, but Spurs were already at the top of the table by that point. Erik Lamela proved to be the destroyer-in-chief for Tottenham with his two assists capping an excellent display for the home side.
Erik Lamela first half Passes 28 Accurate 96% Chances Created 2 Assists 2 (@StatsZone Image) #THFC pic.twitter.com/KHymOPErA5— EPL Stat Man (@EPLStatman) August 24, 2014
Mauricio Pochettino drafted Jan Vertonghen and Chadli into his starting XI, with Kyle Naughton and Aaron Lennon making way. QPR handed Leroy Fer and Mauricio Isla their debuts, but there was no place in the squad for striker Charlie Austin.
Tottenham took an early hold on the game, and Lamela went close in the opening stages, but his fierce drive was deflected wide of goal. However, clear-cut opportunities were absent from the first 10 minutes as both teams felt their way into the match.
But after Adebayor had headed just over the crossbar, Spurs took the lead in the 12th minute courtesy of the Togo international's assist. After good work by Christian Eriksen in midfield, Adebayor's cross into the area from the left was chested down by Chadli, and the Belgium international prodded the ball past Robert Green.
Chadli goal puts Tottenham 1-0 up v QPR #thfc #vine https://t.co/blxuYuFySH— Premier Betting Tips (@PremierBetting1) August 24, 2014
Tottenham a goal up and QPR's 3 at the back isn't working at the moment— Matt Law (@Matt_Law_DT) August 24, 2014
Matt Phillips was guilty of squandering a great chance for QPR when he clipped the ball over the bar after being one-on-one with Hugo Lloris. That miss was almost followed by a second Spurs goal, but Eriksen's free-kick clattered against the underside of the bar with Green beaten.
It seemed only a matter of time before Spurs would go further ahead, and in the 31st minute, they did just that. Lamela's corner was perfectly placed for Dier at the near post to bullet a header beyond Green in the QPR net for his second goal in as many Premier League appearances.
Eric Dier is the first defender to score in his first two games in the history of the Premier League! Great stat from @2010MisterChip— Phil Kitromilides (@PhilKitro) August 24, 2014
Seven minutes later, Tottenham went three goals to the good with Lamela proving to be the architect once more. The former Roma man cut across the field before clipping a cross back for Chadli to head home his second goal of the day.
We score when we want...Lamela to Chadli goaalllll 3-0 #THFC https://t.co/8Sl2DQJV1T— Spurs Finest® (@SpursFinest) August 24, 2014
All that I believed Lamela would be for @SpursOfficial he is showing right now. Still gutted he left @OfficialASRoma #EPL #Spurs #Lamela— Thomas R Atzenhoffer (@socceratz) August 24, 2014
It came as little surprise that Redknapp should alter his line-up for the second period, and Richard Dunne was replaced by Nedum Onuoha as the three-man central-defensive unit was scrapped.
On the hour mark, Spurs made a change with Mousa Dembele coming on for Nabil Bentaleb. But the changes made little difference to the nature of the game, and Tottenham hit a fourth in the 65th minute after Danny Rose chased down the wing before playing a great cross for Adebayor to slot home.
Chadli received a standing ovation from the home crowd as he was replaced by Harry Kane, before Roberto Soldado came on to replace Adebayor.
Steven Caulker attempted to claw a goal back against his former club, but, even with a deflection, Lloris was equal to the QPR player's effort.
"Harry, give us a wave," chant Spurs fans. He obliges. QPR fans are furious with him. As Alan Partridge would say, "they don't like that."— Paul Hayward (@_PaulHayward) August 24, 2014
However, the points had long since been decided with Tottenham controlling the game throughout the 90 minutes.
Selected Player Ratings
Erik Lamela: A+
Much maligned in his debut season for Tottenham last year, Lamela is beginning to prove his worth. His display against QPR was decisive.
Eric Dier: A
Another fine goalscoring performance from the young English defender following his arrival from Sporting. He's proving to be a genuine find by Pochettino.
Joey Barton: B
The only QPR player to achieve pass marks from the woeful first-half display, but the player's efforts were bypassed as Spurs dominated.
#THFC 4-0 #QPR In fairness to Joey he's created as many chances as anyone. But Spurs rampant http://t.co/A11GWORU1Q pic.twitter.com/1t2tyH82yM— Stats Zone (@StatsZone) August 24, 2014
What's Ahead
Tottenham are back in action on Thursday when they play host to AEL Limassol in the Europa League play-off round at White Hart Lane, where they will be defending a 2-1 lead.
Queens Park Rangers travel to Burton Albion on Wednesday for their Capital One Cup tie against the League Two side.
Post-match reaction
Mauricio: "It was fantastic and we are very pleased because the players deserved this win." #COYS pic.twitter.com/oL7ZzryCyY— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) August 24, 2014
Mauricio: "We played like a team which is the most important thing. It was an unbelievable team performance not only one player." #COYS— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) August 24, 2014
Redknapp on QPR fans' displeasure: "There were a few punters (Spurs fans) who said 'Give us a wave'. What's the big deal?"— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) August 24, 2014
Better from the Spurs attack today. Far more active and it paid off against QPR. Would describe their work as having purposeful fluidity.— Thomas Cooper (@Tom__C) August 24, 2014
a comprehensive 4-0 victory with plenty of positives. Tougher tests to come but promising signs early into Pochettino's reign #THFC— Nick Dorrington (@chewingthecoca) August 24, 2014
Tottenham 4-0 QPR FT: Possession: 60%-40% Shots: 19-9 Chances created: 14-6 Take ons: 32-19 Pass accuracy: 90%-81% pic.twitter.com/YFMjCL42py— Squawka Football (@Squawka) August 24, 2014


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I had this issue, and it turned out to be some sort of hardware problem with
my scsi sub-system - only when I moved it to a new computer did it start
working... In other words, could be a hardware issue - you might want to
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I Wanna Dance With Somebody + How Will I Know
Posted by hutchead on April 3, 2008
Eric covers a few of Whitney Houston's hits, I Wanna Dance With Somebody and How Will I Know.
3 Responses to "I Wanna Dance With Somebody + How Will I Know"
April 5, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Ha! that's my friend Mo's Video. She took a few good ones actually. This show was one of the ones he did while he was sick. that's why he has someone who does not know the words try to sing "You don't have to believe me"
June 24, 2009 at 2:23 am
I'm gonna pass this one along to my friend – she's gonna realy like this one – thanks again!
April 15, 2010 at 3:55 am
After watching some of the Birmingham clips on YouTube, umm okay, she didn't get each note of 'I will always love you', but 'I look to you' or the 'love medley' were good. Hmm, the press out for blood? Or, were the tickets priced too high?


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Former Texas Rangers pitcher Brandon McCarthy, now a Yankee, is reportedly selling his modern Dallas home for $1.95 million. The property, right off the Katy Trail, is 2,875 square feet, with three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
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I am in awe of writers… their ability to choose the exact word to bring the emotion or feeling directly to the reader. I am there. I am her. I feel this about Sandra because she is a mom warrior. And not only that, but … Read More
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Sharing A Story- A Brother's Homecoming
This post was sent to us by a young man who has a brother diagnosed with Autoimmune Encephalitis. You can share your story about AE. Please read on for a sibling perspective: June 10, 2013 marked my brother Sammy's return from Duke after 8 long … Read More
Sharing a Florida Family Story: Fighting for the Prize
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AE Alliance Awards First Grant
The Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance awarded its first grant to the Autoimmune Brain Disease Program at Duke University Children's Hospital. Co-directors of the Program, Dr. William Gallentine, Pediatric Neurology and Dr. Heather van Mater, Pediactric Rhuematology, accepted the grant and will use the funding to advance … Read More
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The Market Revolution
Henry Clay in The Market Revolution
Henry Clay (1777-1852) was one of the most powerful statesmen in America between 1811 and 1852. Born in Kentucky, Clay served briefly in state government before being elected to the Unites States House of Representatives in 1811. He served as Speaker for most of the twelve years he served in the House of Representatives (1811-1821, 1823-1825). He served on the diplomatic team that negotiated the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812, and he served as Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams between 1825 and 1829. He sat in the United States Senate from 1831 to 1842 and 1849 to 1852. He campaigned unsuccessfully for the presidency of the United States in 1824, 1832, 1840, and 1844.
As a member of Congress, Clay advocated a series of economic policies labeled the American System. These included protective tariffs on European imports, federal spending on internal improvements, and conservative land policies designed to limit urban flight to the west. Through these measures Clay hoped to strengthen America's manufacturing sector, foster more restrained growth of the nation's agricultural sector, and link the two together through improved roads and canals.


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quote: I merely pointed out that your contention that both MS and Google were doing exactly the same thing is wrong.
quote: They scan emails to help the user.
quote: And finally including a DT contributors comments in a DT article is sketchy especially if many of their readers already don't have a high opinion of the commenter therefor invalidating the comment even if it were an intelligent one.
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The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), located right on the HDS campus, has a number of studio, 1- and 2-bedroom apartments for rent to Summer Language Program participants. Apartments are rented on a first-come, first-served basis, so contact the CSWR as soon as possible if you are interested in this option. For more information, visit the CSWR's Summer Housing page.


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April 7, 2004 -- Parents who buy home drug-testing kits on the Internet may not be getting the whole story.
A new study shows that none of the web sites studies that sold drug-testing kits provided adequate instruction on how to properly perform or interpret a drug test, and little information is provided on the risks of false-positive tests results.
Researchers say more than 200 drug-testing kits have been approved for home use without a prescription use since they were introduced in 1997. Several web sites specifically market these products to parents and encourage them to institute a "home drug policy."
But researchers say those recommendations are at odds with the policies of many professional organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, because they don't address issues of testing an adolescent against his or her will or giving adolescents the right of informed consent.
Little Information Provided About Home Drug Tests
In the study, published in the April issue of Pediatrics, researchers surveyed eight Internet sites that sold home drug-testing products. The products include hair, saliva and breath alcohol, and urine tests.
Researchers found most sites gave conflicting or incomplete information about which drugs were detected by the various tests. They found 14 indications for home drug testing were cited and all of the web sites claimed that drug testing was a way to know with certainty whether a child has used drugs.
However, no site included detailed instructions on how to collect a valid specimen for testing, and the sites did not adequately address the technical challenges of testing and the potential for inaccurate results.
Researchers say the potential for false-positive or false-negative results exists with every laboratory drug screening, and these errors may be even greater when using a home-based drug test.
For example, false-positive results for amphetamines are common and may occur when the child is using cold medicines that contain pseudoephedrine.
In addition, only two of the sites gave suggestions on what parents could do if their child was using drugs.
Finally, researchers found only one site made a clear statement against testing an adolescent against his or her will.
"All in all, the quality of the information varied from site to site, and no single site contained adequate information to perform and interpret accurately a drug test and then make reasonable treatment decisions," writes researcher Sharon Levy, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School, and colleagues.
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Conservatives Evenly Split on Common Core — WSJ/NBC Poll
Opponents of Common Core, a new set of national academic standards, are pressuring Republican candidates and warning of a mounting conservative revolt.
But in fact, conservatives are evenly split over the standards, with 45% supportive and 46% opposed, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Even among Republicans who describe themselves as tea party supporters, opposition to Common Core rose only as high as 53%.
As controversial as the standards have become in some quarters – three Republican-led states have dropped Common Core in recent months — nearly half of adults, 47%, have never heard of it. That may leave room for both supporters and opponents a chance to shape public opinion.
The benchmarks were created by a bi-partisan group of governors and educators seeking to raise student achievement and draw state-by-state comparisons. But the Obama administration's disbursal of federal education grants to states that adopted Common Core set off alarms among conservative activists wary of federal incursion into local schools.
The standards were described in the poll without reference to the federal government's role. Overall, 59% said they strongly or somewhat supported the standards, while 31% said they strongly or somewhat opposed.
Support was highest among African-Americans (80%), Hispanics (76%) and liberals (75%).
Poll Shows Erosion in President's Support
The Numbers: Obama's Job-Approval Rating Takes a Hit
Obama Carbon Rule Backed by Most Americans
Obama Gets Low Marks for Bergdahl Swap
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MUMBAI: Tata Motors could face stiff competition and hurdles if it chooses to make a bid for Jaguar and Land Rover, the iconic British brands put on the block by Ford Motor, the troubled American automobile giant. Ford has imposed severe conditions on bidders to protect it from any potential backlash in Britain, where the brands are still popular and where Ford enjoys huge goodwill and market share.
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What's this? A bonus Reverie?
I had very curious dreams last night which I won't share all the details of here, but I will say that the last one ended with me attending a very libertine kind of soirée. At one point, to gain admittance to the next chamber, one had to write a poem centering on a long branch bursting with leaves and flowers. Not only that, but the poem had to be abecedarian, with each line starting with a successive letter of the alphabet. My trick was that I was going to write each short line on the underside of a leaf, which I was sure what intrigue and impress the party throwers, and get me in. But like Coleridge, my alarm to get up for work dragged me into consciousness after I'd only gotten two lines in. Bummer.
(Also, my subconscious is now apparently poem-prompting me. Oy.)
But anyway, the lines I got were: A garden / begins with… So rather than just save this story as a curiosity, I thought I'd toss it into the blogosphere. Start a poem with the two-word line "A garden", and the second line "begins with" followed by whatever you want. Third line should start with C, fourth with D, etc.; and the whole thing should be somehow garden-themed. Consider this a mini-challenge to celebrate the midpoint of the year; it's all downhill from here.


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Salt Basin Dunes Enhanced Visitor Use FONSI
Contact: Karl Pierce, 915-828-3251 ext 2300
Contact: Janet Coles, 915-828-3251 ext 2400
(Pine Springs, TX) On December 21, 2012, Intermountain Regional Director John Wessels signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for a project to enhance visitor access to the Salt Basin Dunes on the west side of Guadalupe Mountains National Park. This step concludes the agency's environmental review of the project and allows the project to go forward. The project is designed to enhance visitor amenities at the Salt Basin Dunes to encourage increased visitor experiences in this scenic and ecologically unique area. In November , the agency completed an Environmental Assessment of the project to enhance visitor access to the Salt Basin Dunes, which the National Park Service has determined, will not have a significant impact on the park and therefore will not require further environmental study.
Why did the National Park Service (NPS) decide to enhance visitor access to the Salt Basin Dunes?
The new facilities will be located on the west side of the park at the Salt Basin Dunes, which includes the second largest gypsum dune field in the United States, as well as cultural sites, wildlife and plant life. The area was added to the national park in 1998, but has only been accessible to the public on a limited basis since that time. Currently, facilities for visitors to this remote section of the park are limited to a small, poorly defined gravel parking area. There are no sanitary facilities, no room for larger vehicles to park or turn around, no interpretive displays and no shade. During the summer months temperatures can exceed 100°F. Summer storms may produce heavy rains that can make the access road impassable for days or weeks at a time. Access to the Salt Basin Dunes requires a nearly 90-mile round trip to the Pine Springs Visitor Center to check out a gate key. The proposal to enhance visitor facilities at the Salt Basin Dunes is needed, in part, to address human health and safety risks, and resource degradation associated with the existing, inadequate parking area. In particular, the lack of sanitary facilities has created a situation in which visitors have created numerous social trials around the parking area. The small size of the existing parking lot causes drivers of larger vehicles to drive into the surrounding desert scrub in order to turn around without backing. The new facilities will eliminate these concerns, protect park resources, including viewshed, archeological resources, historic structures, sensitive species, and wilderness character, will increase accessibility to the area and provide visitors with an opportunity to learn about and appreciate this unique area. Visitor access to the Salt Basin Dunes is addressed in the park's Draft General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (February 2008), which may also be found at the NPS planning site (http://parkplanning.nps.gov/gumo/). The National Park Service evaluated the impacts of this proposal in a comprehensive Environmental Assessment (EA).
What work will be accomplished as part of this project?
Based on the findings in the EA and the public input received throughout the planning process, the NPS has decided to construct new, defined parking area large enough for 10 passenger vehicles (including one universally accessible spot) and 2 recreational vehicles, and an RV turnaround, to accommodated anticipated public use. It will contain a double vaulted toilet, shade structure sheltering three picnic tables, and interpretive displays explaining the natural and cultural history of the Salt Basin. The site is 1/3 mile west of the existing parking lot on Williams Road. The picnic shelter, vault toilet and permanent interpretive displays will be universally accessible, as required by the Architectural Barriers Act and the Section 106 of the Rehabilitation Act. The existing parking area will be halved in size by removing fill and will be converted to an accessible interpretive area and overlook. Half of the old parking area will be restored to native salt desert vegetation. The road leading to the existing parking area will be converted to a 1/3-mile long accessible trail. Much of the center of the development will be revegetated to native salt desert scrub and grass species. The project will include interpretive displays describing the natural and cultural history of the dunes. A split rail fence will separate the developed area from the surrounding desert ecosystem. As part of the project, park staff will repair or replace some of the existing infrastructure in the dunes area, including preparing a construction staging area adjacent to current entrance gate, reinstalling a cattle guard at the NPS boundary to restore functionality, building a temporary road adjacent to entrance gate during reinstallation of the cattle guard, replacing a locked entrance gate with open swing gate, removing interior gate and fencing adjacent to existing entrance gate, modifying the existing road by adding a base course and minor contouring to assist with road drainage, installing a pump at Lemonade Well to allow water tenders to fill tanks from the well for dust abatement, improving the road to Lemonade Well to provide access for water tenders, and increasing protection patrols in dunes area.
How does this action coincide with the reason the park was established?
Guadalupe Mountains National Park was established by Congress on September 30, 1972, "to preserve in public ownership an area in the State of Texas possessing outstanding geological values together with scenic and other natural values of great significance." The 1988 Statement for Management states that "the Guadalupe Mountains are nationally significant because of a combination of outstanding geologic, scientific, and scenic resources, including cultural and natural features unique to the American Southwest." In 1988, the National Park Service added 10,123 acres of the Salt Basin on the western side of the park, including significant portions of the dune fields bordering the basin. The dunes record the existence of a large lake that gradually dried during the last 10,000 years. Progressive shrinking of the lake left behind characteristic features such as coppice and parabolic dunes, saline lake deposits, shoreline terraces, and shoreline dune ridges. As the second largest gypsum dune field in the United States and the only large area of gypsum dunes outside of White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, the Salt Basin is geologically significant. In addition, the dunes support unusual plant associations and rare species, marking the area's biological significance (NPS 1988). Because of their scenic beauty, geological importance, and unusual ecosystems, The Nature Conservancy purchased 266 acres of the dunes in 1980 and managed the property as a nature preserve until transferring ownership to the NPS in 2011.
When will the NPS begin project activities?
Park staff has already begun constructing the new parking area and has constructed a split rail fence around it. The vault toilet has already been delivered and installed. Park staff is currently constructing a shade structure and developing temporary interpretive signage. The additional work is ongoing and will be performed by park staff.
Further information about the NPS Enhance Visitor Access at the Salt Basin Dunes project is available in the Environmental Assessment/FONSI which can be located at: http://parkplanning.nps.gov/gumo/ or by contacting Guadalupe Mountains National Park Chief of Resource Management Janet Coles at (915) 828-3251 x2400 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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> I can't really follow that argument. If "tcp will recover" then the
> errors must be visible to TCP, and TCP will retransmit that segment
> before SSH can even take a look at it, let alone notice the corrupted
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My apologies I worded that badly. I was more focused on trying to get
across that a layer 1 problem can be causing the symptoms this person is
seeing. Problems that would not lead to a noticeable issue in a non-SSH
TCP transfer (because there would be no disconnect) but would lead to a
very noticeable problem when using SSH.
In my specific case the corruption happened on the NIC but after the TCP
checksum was calculated. I have also seen situation where a faulty cable
introduces intermittent data corruption. TCP checksums do catch much of
it (but it does not necessarily catch all of it due to a higher than
expected rate of checksum collision
([url]http://www1.acm.org:80/sigcomm/sigcomm95/papers/partridge.pdf[/url])) but
sometimes a corrupted packet does get through and causes a disconnect
from SSH. In both cases its a layer 1 problem, but as you point out, the
specific corrupted packet causing the SSH disconnects is transparent to
I was thinking more along the line that if TCP gets a corrupted packet
then it just retransmits. If SSH gets a corrupted packet it disconnects
(which is good, I wouldn't say this is anything but the correct behavior).
Previous discussions on this problem can be found here
and the referenced bug #845
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He made a few brief remarks, noting that, as important as the security alliance is, business opportunities are also at the top of his list. Trade has increased under the KORUS agreement, he said, calling it a "win-win for both countries." There's more work to do to fully implement it, he said, something he and President Park discussed in their meeting yesterday. Noting Korea's interest in the TPP, Obama said that fully implementing KORUS is "the best way to demonstrate it can meet the high standards" of the Trans Pacific agreement.
Addressing international executives, Obama said, "If you are looking for a great place to set up shop, come to the United States." The US has good schools and a "pretty big consumer market," as well as a government committed to making it easier to invest.
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It's been nearly 34 years since Linda Benson and her daughter Kelley were found stabbed to death in their Grand Junction apartment. Thursday, this 1975 cold case got very hot, after police confirmed they arrested a man in connection to their murders.
Grand Junction Police Department spokesperson Kate Porras said in a news release that even though an arrest had been made, the investigation is ongoing, so they could not release his name.
(Note: all direct quotes used in this story were taken from an 11 News in-depth report on the case from November 2008.)
"Complete unbelief," said Linda Benson's mother Barbara Rippy as she recalled how she felt after learning about the murder. "I had just seen them."
It may be more than three decades after her daughter and granddaughter were found dead, but in an interview with 11 News last November, Rippy says it's something that haunts her to this day.
"Some things you just do not forget -- you never forget them," said Rippy.
On July 24, 1975, police found the bodies of 24-year-old Linda Benson and 5-year-old Kelley Ketchum, stabbed multiple times. Officials believe the killer climbed up an AC unit behind their building, hopped onto their balcony, then went inside their home. They say there were no witnesses.
"This is probably one of the most gruesome cases in the last thirty years in this community," said Commander Greg Assenmacher of the Grand Junction Police Department.
11 News ran an in-depth report about the case in November 2008. Then, officials said since 1975, the Grand Junction Police Department, Mesa County Sheriff's Office, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and even the FBI were involved in trying to crack the case. No arrests were ever made.
But investigators said the recent creation of a CBI cold case team and advancements in DNA technology gave them new hope.
"DNA has been in our system forever," said Larry Bullard, a retired officer who has been helping the Grand Junction Police Department with the cold case investigation. "We're just now learning how to go back, analyze it, compare it and use it forensically."
In February 2007, officials say they turned evidence from the case over to CBI for DNA profiling. There's been no word from police if that is what led to the arrest.
During our interview with Rippy, she made an emotional plea to the community.
"If anybody anywhere knows anything that could help us bring some closure to myself and the rest of our family, please come forward," said Rippy.
Now, 34 years later, she may finally get that closure.
Our sister station in Denver, 9NEWS, is reporting that sources tell them investigators are looking to the possibility this suspect was involved in several other murders in Grand Junction and Denver. Grand Junction police did not confirm that Thursday.
Police Chief Bill Gardner, District Attorney Pete Hautzinger, and Assistant Director for the Western Slope Colorado Bureau of Investigation office Dave Linnertz will hold a news conference Friday at 3 p.m. at the police department. The news release indicates more information will be available at that time.
11News will continue to follow this developing story. The suspect is due in court today at 1:30 p.m. and authorities will hold a press conference at 3 p.m.


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Hinduism And Buddhism Vol. 1
An Historical Sketch
Chapter II - Origin And Growth Of Hinduism
The earliest product of Indian literature, the Rig Veda, contains the songs of the Aryan invaders who were beginning to make a home in India. Though no longer nomads, they had little local sentiment. No cities had arisen comparable with Babylon or Thebes and we hear little of ancient kingdoms or dynasties. Many of the gods who occupied so much of their thoughts were personifications of natural forces such as the sun, wind and fire, worshipped without temples or images and hence more indefinite in form, habitation and attributes than the deities of Assyria or Egypt. The idea of a struggle between good and evil was not prominent.
In Persia, where the original pantheon was almost the same as that of the Veda, this idea produced monotheism: the minor deities became angels and the chief deity a Lord of hosts who wages a successful struggle against an independent but still inferior spirit of evil. But in India the Spirits of Good and Evil are not thus personified. The world is regarded less as a battlefield of principles than as a theatre for the display of natural forces. No one god assumes lordship over the others but all are seen to be interchangeable—mere names and aspects of something which is greater than any god.
Indian religion is commonly regarded as the offspring of an Aryan religion, brought into India by invaders from the north and modified by contact with Dravidian civilization. The materials at our disposal hardly permit us to take any other point of view, for the literature of the Vedic Aryans is relatively ancient and full and we have no information about the old Dravidians comparable with it. But were our knowledge less one-sided, we might see that it would be more correct to describe Indian religion as Dravidian religion stimulated and modified by the ideas of Aryan invaders.
For the greatest deities of Hinduism, Siva, Krishna, Râma, Durgâ and some of its most essential doctrines such as metempsychosis and divine incarnations, are either totally unknown to the Veda or obscurely adumbrated in it. The chief characteristics of mature Indian religion are characteristics of an area, not of a race, and they are not the characteristics of religion in Persia, Greece or other Aryan lands[1].
Some writers explain Indian religion as the worship of nature spirits, others as the veneration of the dead. But it is a mistake to see in the religion of any large area only one origin or impulse. The principles which in a learned form are championed to-day by various professors represent thoughts which were creative in early times. In ancient India there were some whose minds turned to their ancestors and dead friends while others saw divinity in the wonders of storm, spring and harvest. Krishna is in the main a product of hero worship, but Śiva has no such historical basis. He personifies the powers of birth and death, of change, decay and rebirth—in fact all that we include in the prosaic word nature. Assuredly both these lines of thought—the worship of nature and of the dead—and perhaps many others existed in ancient India.
By the time of the Upanishads, that is about 600 B.C., we trace three clear currents in Indian religion which have persisted until the present day. The first is ritual. This became extraordinarily complicated but retained its primitive and magical character. The object of an ancient Indian sacrifice was partly to please the gods but still more to coerce them by certain acts and formulae[2].
Secondly all Hindus lay stress on asceticism and self-mortification, as a means of purifying the soul and obtaining supernatural powers. They have a conviction that every man who is in earnest about religion and even every student of philosophy must follow a discipline at least to the extent of observing chastity and eating only to support life. Severer austerities give clearer insight into divine mysteries and control over the forces of nature. Europeans are apt to condemn eastern asceticism as a waste of life but it has had an important moral effect.
The weakness of Hinduism, though not of Buddhism, is that ethics have so small a place in its fundamental conceptions. Its deities are not identified with the moral law and the saint is above that law. But this dangerous doctrine is corrected by the dogma, which is also a popular conviction, that a saint must be a passionless ascetic. In India no religious teacher can expect a hearing unless he begins by renouncing the world.
Thirdly, the deepest conviction of Hindus in all ages is that salvation and happiness are attainable by knowledge. The corresponding phrases in Sanskrit are perhaps less purely intellectual than our word and contain some idea of effort and emotion. He who knows God attains to God, nay he is God. Rites and self-denial are but necessary preliminaries to such knowledge: he who possesses it stands above them.
It is inconceivable to the Hindus that he should care for the things of the world but he cares equally little for creeds and ceremonies. Hence, side by side with irksome codes, complicated ritual and elaborate theology, we find the conviction that all these things are but vanity and weariness, fetters to be shaken off by the free in spirit. Nor do those who hold such views correspond to the anti-clerical and radical parties of Europe. The ascetic sitting in the temple court often holds that the rites performed around him are spiritually useless and the gods of the shrine mere fanciful presentments of that which cannot be depicted or described.
Rather later, but still before the Christian era, another idea makes itself prominent in Indian religion, namely faith or devotion to a particular deity. This idea, which needs no explanation, is pushed on the one hand to every extreme of theory and practice: on the other it rarely abolishes altogether the belief in ritualism, asceticism and knowledge.
Any attempt to describe Hinduism as one whole leads to startling contrasts. The same religion enjoins self-mortification and orgies: commands human sacrifices and yet counts it a sin to eat meat or crush an insect: has more priests, rites and images than ancient Egypt or medieval Rome and yet out does Quakers in rejecting all externals. These singular features are connected with the ascendancy of the Brahman caste.
The Brahmans are an interesting social phenomenon without exact parallel elsewhere. They are not, like the Catholic or Moslem clergy, a priesthood pledged to support certain doctrines but an intellectual, hereditary aristocracy who claim to direct the thought of India whatever forms it may take. All who admit this claim and accord a nominal recognition to the authority of the Veda are within the spacious fold or menagerie. Neither the devil-worshipping aboriginee nor the atheistic philosopher is excommunicated, though neither may be relished by average orthodoxy.
Though Hinduism has no one creed, yet there are at least two doctrines held by nearly all who call themselves Hindus. One may be described as polytheistic pantheism. Most Hindus are apparently polytheists, that is to say they venerate the images of several deities or spirits, yet most are monotheists in the sense that they address their worship to one god. But this monotheism has almost always a pantheistic tinge.
The Hindu does not say the gods of the heathen are but idols, but it is the Lord who made the heavens: he says, My Lord (Râma, Krishna or whoever it may be) is all the other gods. Some schools would prefer to say that no human language applied to the Godhead can be correct and that all ideas of a personal ruler of the world are at best but relative truths. This ultimate ineffable Godhead is called Brahman[3].
The second doctrine is commonly known as metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls or reincarnation, the last name being the most correct. In detail the doctrine assumes various forms since different views are held about the relation of soul to body. But the essence of all is the same, namely that a life does not begin at birth or end at death but is a link in an infinite series of lives, each of which is conditioned and determined by the acts done in previous existences (karma).
Animal, human and divine (or at least angelic) existences may all be links in the chain. A man's deeds, if good, may exalt him to the heavens, if evil may degrade him to life as a beast. Since all lives, even in heaven, must come to an end, happiness is not to be sought in heaven or on earth. The common aspiration of the religious Indian is for deliverance, that is release from the round of births and repose in some changeless state called by such names as union with Brahman, nirvana and many others.
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It is possible (though not, I think, certain) that the Buddha called his principal doctrines ariya in the sense of Aryan not of noble. But even the Blessed One may not have been infallible in ethnography. When we call a thing British we do not mean to refer it to the ancient Britons more than to the Saxons or Normans. And was the Buddha an Aryan? See V. Smith, Oxford History of India, p. 47 for doubts.2.
This is not altogether true of the modern temple ritual.3.
It is very unfortunate that English usage should make this word appear the same as Brahman, the name of a caste, and there is much to be said for using the old-fashioned word Brahmin to denote the caste, for it is clear, though not correct. In Sanskrit there are several similar words which are liable to be confused in English. In the nominative case they are:
(1) Brâhmanah, a man of the highest caste.
(2) Brâhmanam, an ancient liturgical treatise.
(3) Brahma, the Godhead, stem Brahman, neuter.
(4) Brahmâ, a masculine nominative also formed from the stem Brahman and used as the name of a personal deity.
For (3) the stem Brahman is commonly used, as being distinct from Brahmâ, though liable to be confounded with the name of the caste.
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