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Editor's Note: Country hitmaker Rosanne has called New York City home for more than 10 years. Incredibly, she witnessed the horrific event at the World Trade Center towers unfold from only blocks away. Here is her amazing account of the terrible day, and the emotional aftershocks that followed.
By Rosanne Cash
I took my daughter Carrie to school on Tuesday morning, and stayed for a parents' meeting. Her school is in the West Village, in a straight path about 20 blocks north from the World Trade Center. From the school cafeteria, we heard a plane fly very low and loud. We looked at one another, somewhat alarmed. One mother said quietly, 'That plane is going to crash'.
In a couple of minutes, someone came in to say that a plane had crashed, into the World Trade Center. I could hardly believe this. My friend Olivia came up to me, white and shaking, and said that another plane had just hit the south tower. Everyone knew then that it was a terrorist attack, something every New Yorker had been expecting since the Trade Center was bombed in 1993.
A frantic feeling took over. I hurried to find Carrie, but the teachers asked us to let them take the children into the school chapel first to tell them what had happened. While they were in the chapel, I walked outside and around the school to Greenwich Street, which had a clear view of the towers, looming so large they felt close enough to touch.
The towers were burning. I could see wreckage sticking out of the north tower. People were standing in the streets, complete shock on their faces. There were no newscasters describing what I was seeing, or telling me how to feel; there was just silence and horror.
I tried to call my husband, John, to tell him not to leave the house, but there was no cellphone service. We left, and I started walking fast, gripping Carrie's hand. There were no available taxis, the trains were shut down, and I was desperate to get home to my husband and baby, about a half mile away. As we walked, a lot of people stopped on the sidewalk, looking back at the towers. I glanced back, but kept walking. The south tower was collapsing.
We saw a bus, ran to get on it and rode the few blocks home. It was packed. My husband opened the door, frantic with worry. I was sobbing. The phones were not working, and I was anguished not to be able to reach my parents and older daughters. Oddly, the only call that managed to come through was from my dad. He was extraordinarily calm, as he always is in crises, but terribly concerned. I asked him to have my sister call everyone else and tell them we were okay.
We packed our bags, and put aside water. We didn't know if this was the end of the attacks, or if chemical weapons had exploded with the planes, or if the Empire State Building, a mere twelve blocks away, would be the next target.
The drive out of the city was eerie. The streets were empty except for a few cars and a lot of police, ambulance and fire vehicles. When we got up to the George Washington Bridge, thousands of people were walking over it in complete silence. It was a searing, pathetic scene. We got up to our weekend house close to midnight.
The following day, John and I wandered around like zombies. I could not get the sound of the first plane out of my head, and the knowledge that seconds after I heard it, so many people lost their lives.
We went back to the city Wednesday afternoon. The smell was horrendous, like burning plastic and glass. And still, the only sound was fighter jets and sirens - the city, usually a cacophony, was empty and silent except for those two terrible sounds.
On Thursday, I walked to the spot on Greenwich Street where I had stood watching the burning towers two days before. Now there was nothing there but smoke. I walked to the command post where volunteers were handing out water to the rescue workers. I stood there for a long time, cheering the workers along with the other civilians. A station wagon came slowly out of the site with two dirty and exhausted fireman sitting on the open back door. As the car passed, I raised my arm high to them, in thanks and compassion. One of the fireman, though he looked fatigued to the point of collapse, instantly raised his arm back to me in a salute which conveyed perseverance and sadness - but not defeat. After he passed, I stood in that spot alone and wept for half an hour.
Today is rainy and chilly. As I write, the smell of burnt plastic is wafting through my window. There is now a central spot for volunteers at the Javits Center, which is where I am going today.
It still unfolds, in the most surreal and sad way. My daughter Chelsea has three friends whose parents did not come home from work on Tuesday. The stories are endless; everyone has one, and we are all compelled to repeat them over and over. And it still does not make sense.
Those of us who did not lose a loved one are full of gratitude and cherish our families so, so much. I am overcome with the concern and love I have received from friends and family. People I barely know have called or e-mailed just to see if I was doing okay. And, though unspeakably sad, somewhat traumatized and a little fearful, I am more than okay. My family and I are alive and well, and I am renewed in my faith of the inherent goodness of most of the people of this world.
I have been a New Yorker for over 10 years, and I have never been so proud as I am now. I have witnessed and been a part of a union of minds and spirits, as people take care of those who need help and comfort. Everyone wants to be of service.
I am happy to say that I have not heard a single word of retaliation or hatred. I cannot imagine wishing this destruction on any other person on earth, even the most hateful and coldhearted. I do not believe in further violence - in robbing more children of their parents, in putting more holes in this precious planet, or in the horror of thousands more people devoting their days to searching for pieces of human bodies. I believe in justice, civilized and honorable, and in peace. Peace to all, and let it begin here, in the city which has suffered the most, and let it begin with you and me.
Rosanne Cash


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While the page has already been taken down, the fine folks at The Digital Reader managed to grab a screenshot for our viewing pleasure.
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Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Source: The Notebooks, 1508-1518
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The infinite is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Source: Essay: "The Avatars of the Tortoise"
I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.
John Taylor (1808 - 1887)
Source: Journal of Discourses, 5:115.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts . . . perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?
John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Source: A Letter Concerning Toleration
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Sir William Blackstone, the great English jurist, writing in his Commentaries on the Laws of England in 1769, was most explicit in emphasizing the weakness of man's nature. As he observed: ". . . if our reason were always, as in our first ancestor before his transgression, clear and perfect,unruffled by passions, unclouded by prejudice, unimpaired by disease or intemperance, the task would be pleasant and easy; we should need no other guide but this. But every man now finds the contrary in his own experience; that his reason is corrupt, and his understanding full of ignorance and error. This has given manifold occasion for the benign interposition of divine Providence, which in compassion to the frailty, the imperfection, and the blindness of human reason, hath been pleased at sundry times and in divers manners, to discover and enforce its laws by an immediate and direct revelation. The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law . . ."
James Keller
Source: Three Minutes by James Keller, M. M., 1950
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.
James I (1566 - 1625)
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See European Southern Observatory full press release at http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/
Artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B. Original artwork is in full press release - http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
Excerpt: European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results [are] online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012. [http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1241/eso1241a.pdf]
Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System — only 4.3 light-years away. It is actually a triple star — a system consisting of two stars similar to the Sun orbiting close to each other, designated Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red component known as Proxima Centauri. Since the nineteenth century astronomers have speculated about planets orbiting these bodies, the closest possible abodes for life beyond the Solar System, but searches of increasing precision had revealed nothing. Until now.
"Our observations extended over more than four years using the HARPS instrument and have revealed a tiny, but real, signal from a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B every 3.2 days," says Xavier Dumusque (Geneva Observatory, Switzerland and Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal), lead author of the paper. "It's an extraordinary discovery and it has pushed our technique to the limit!"
The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet...it causes the star to move back and forth by no more than 51 centimetres per second (1.8 km/hour), about the speed of a baby crawling. This is the highest precision ever achieved using this method.
…The newly discovered planet, with a mass of a little more than that of the Earth, is orbiting about six million kilometres away from the star, much closer than Mercury is to the Sun in the Solar System. The orbit of the other bright component of the double star, Alpha Centauri A, keeps it hundreds of times further away, but it would still be a very brilliant object in the planet's skies….
"This is the first planet with a mass similar to Earth ever found around a star like the Sun. Its orbit is very close to its star and it must be much too hot for life as we know it," adds Stéphane Udry (Geneva Observatory), a co-author of the paper and member of the team, "but it may well be just one planet in a system of several. Our other HARPS results, and new findings from Kepler, both show clearly that the majority of low-mass planets are found in such systems."
"This result represents a major step towards the detection of a twin Earth in the immediate vicinity of the Sun. We live in exciting times!" concludes Xavier Dumusque….
This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth. Alpha Centauri B is the most brilliant object in the sky and the other dazzling object is Alpha Centauri A. Our own Sun is visible to the upper right. The tiny signal of the planet was found with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. Original artwork is in full press release - http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
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2012-10-22. Out There: Discovery Rekindles Wish for a Journey to the Stars | by Dennis Overbye, New York Times. Excerpt: The discovery last week of an Earth-like planet circling Alpha Centauri B "set off an epidemic of daydreaming among the astronomical and sci-fi set," including Sara Seager, an MIT astronomer, who repeated a call made last year by Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy that "we should drop everything and send a probe there." "But if astronomers have learned anything over the last few years from devices like the Kepler satellite, it is that small planets come in packs. There is plenty of room in the system for more planets, habitable ones." Read the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/science/space/discovery-rekindles-wish-for-a-journey-to-the-stars.html?scp=8&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt
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to the whole world, so that a river of love flows to people who are
full of hatred and without peace. I invite you become peace where there is no peace and light where there is darkness,
so that each heart accepts the light and the way of salvation"
"I invite you to pray with the heart in order that your prayer may be a conversation with God. I desire each one of you to dedicate more time to God. Satan is strong and wants to destroy and deceive you in many ways. Therefore, dear children, pray every day that your life will be good for yourselves and for all those you meet."


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Water hole a play field for Birds
Category: Nature
Photo and caption by Vijayashankara Nanjegowda
Water pond in this part of the world is a rarity. Rains are few and far between. When it rains small collections occur in some parts of this dry arid sun baked region. When it does happen, it is a festive season for the birds and also for the people thronging to see the pond! The birds come here through the day, spend the time walking, floating, swimming, flying around the water hole. And also they get enough to eat. Birds make merry while it lasts, because it does not last long!
Location: Sohar, North Batinah, Oman
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So many charities and so little time. iFire Design proudly supports Autism Speaks by participating in their yearly Walk Now for Autism Speaks event. In 2010 we raised $700 and in 2011 $4,000. Our 2012 team will be trying to raise $10,000 for the cause.
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I recently started engaging with a new marketing / customer engagement medium called CrowdTap. "Crowdtap is a revolutionary social marketing and research platform that enables you to be rewarded for ideating and promoting with leading brands, entertainment properties, non-profits and startups. Earn cash rewards for yourself and charity for taking surveys, sampling new products and […]
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Follow my friend Angel and her real life experiment to see how engaged she is with the people around her both "in real life" and via social/digital mediums.
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You are invited: Watch my Autism Speaks video message. I will be walking in the 2011 Walk Now for Autism Speaks in Chicago in May and I am looking for donations. Please take a moment and watch the video above. What is Autism anyways? What is Autism? Autism is a general term used to describe […]
LinkedIN's New Map?
Not really sure what this does or how exactly I will find it useful just yet, but none the less it is interesting to look at. The skinny on what this is can all be summed up with an excerpt from this Mashable.com article LinkedIn Launches Tool to Visualize Your Business Network by Ben Parr:


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Chi-X Quick Off The Blocks
By Geoffrey Rogow
If the first two weeks are any indication, Chi-X is going to be quite the competitor in Australia.
After opening with a soft launch of just 22 brokers and eight securities on Oct. 31, the first real rival to the ASX has expanded in recent days, with its modest trading book already showing meaningful volume.
On Wednesday, the new exchange had 1.2% of total stock trading action, which included more than 43.6 million Australian dollars (US$43.8 million) worth of trades. Some single names appear to be the favorite pickings, such as SMS Management & Technology and Kagara (both had more than 6% volume on Chi-X one day this week), as well as several exchange-traded funds tracking the S&P/ASX 200 — the benchmark index in Australia.
The total volume Chi-X Australia has garnered in just two weeks matches the same percent of volume its Japanese unit took six months to achieve.
Still, executives for Chi-X caution against jumping to any conclusions until the middle of next year, seemingly having their sites on much bigger market share.
If Canada, another proud resource-rich Commonwealth nation is any indication, Chi-X is smart to preach caution. Competition in trading is an ongoing experience there, with brokers saying that among other things, the high cost needed to connect to multiple venues has limited a quicker transition.
"Connectivity took place incrementally in Canada, both by venue and by broker. It was a slow process that is not yet complete even four years after the launch of the first competitive market place," said Alison Crosthwait, a managing director in the Canadian operations of Instinet, one of the largest electronic brokers in the world.
One thing to watch in the days ahead for Chi-X Australia is the impact of potentially more computer-driven quantitative and other high-frequency trading. Fidessa's Steve Grob, director of group strategy at the trading systems provider, noted the average trade size for Chi-X Australia is about a third of market average, often a hallmark of HFT.
This growing industry received a strong share of blame for the "flash" crash in the U.S. and has been in the crosshairs of regulators there, leading some in Australia to worry if the same quant-driven breakdown would happen in Australia. (Scott Patterson, a colleague of ours in the United States, detailed some of the potential hazards to this growing industry in his New York Times bestseller "The Quants").
Then again, says Crosthwait, HFT was already growing in Australia before Chi-X came aboard.
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Nintendo to unveil a new Mario game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has confirmed that Nintendo's newest "Smash Bros." for Wii U and 3DS will be present. This is great news for fans of Smash Bros., since last year there had been no such appearance at E3. Masahiro Sakurai, the Smash Bros. director, announced about the debut on Twitter. The excitement created by this new game might be what Nintendo needs right now, particularly after a season of weak sales for the Wii U. Some media analysts believe that the gaming crowd is drifting more towards playing games on smartphones and tablets as opposed to game systems, however competing systems such as the Xbox and Playstation have been performing well.
Perhaps in an attempt to boost popularity for the Wii U, recently updates allowed gamers to access classic Nintendo games through the new console. Other potential updates for the system are rumored to include new games that allow for inter-console connectivity and further customization for players. While some have discussed the possibility of users to create their own characters to play in the Smash Bros. series, the company is very cautious about introducing non-Nintendo characters into their classic games. Older games are re-surfacing in other manners as well; the popular Zelda game "The Wind Waker" was recently released in HD for the Wii U. E3 will be an important time for Wii U's future, as other games for the system such as the new "Mario Kart" will also have a debut.
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The Salem Fire and EMS department performed 12 boat rescues in the overnight hours from the two evacuated trailer mobile home parks in the city.
These took place at Ramey's Mobile Home Park and Salem Mobile Home Village.
The Riverland Trailer Park has been evacuated on a voluntary basis.
The Roanoke River crested at 3 a.m. in Salem at nine feet along Tidewater Drive, which is two feet above flood stage.
This caused not only the evacuation of the mobile home parks, but also closed the low water bridge on Mill Lane.
That bridge remains closed as the waters slowly recede.
The Red Cross is manning the shelter at Andrew Lewis Middle School that opened around midnight.
It is helping a handful of displaced individuals at this time.
The concerns the rest of the day are heavy isolated storms hitting the already extremely saturated ground.


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Not only will simple math prove that a 10% loss offset with a 10% gain does not make an investor whole, research by Brian Rom at Investment Technologies almost a decade ago found nearly 60% of investments were asymmetrical with no rhyme nor reason to their returns.
The problem with assuming symmetrical returns and singular goals to beat the market have led to Alpha, Beta and other ratios equating to little more than garbage in/garbage out encouraging investors to bet the farm at the top of a market and scaring them away from equities at the bottom.
No Clear Insight
Currently AdvisorCFA is ranked at the top of Mr. Kam's website. The manner in which Mr. Kam is measuring 'skill' could leave one to conclude that AdvisorCFA has skill. However, the data is not conclusive because of the short time period and incorrect benchmarking.
In order to prove skill, we would need to compare AdvisorCFA's results over longer time periods and against a true benchmark, like a global energy index. Compared to the Surz Global Energy Index over the same time period, AdvisorCFA lags the index on an annualized basis (36.51% vs 39.3%). Although the sum of the averages appears quite impressive (438.76% vs 189.00%) the index outperforms AdvisorCFA by nearly 300 basis points over the term. Averages prove nothing.
Such problems with short periods and singular comparisons were addressed in 1992 when William Sharpe developed a procedure for identifying a manager's style in terms of a set of passive indexes, which we refer to as the manager's 'style benchmark.' If a manager's style can be identified in terms of a style benchmark of passive investments, one can use twenty or more years of data instead of being limited to the data of the manager.
Using this procedure, it can be easily ascertained how Mr. Kam's own mutual fund (MOFQX) is performing since its inception.
Note: In the chart above, the horizontal axis represents monthly time periods.
This insight allows us to not only avoid pigeonholing Mr. Kam into a single style (and possibly penalizing him for raising cash in a falling market or staying in a underperforming asset class) but can more accurately determine whether the manager has skill in both the allocation to an asset class as well as picking the best equities within the class. As seen in the chart above, comparing Mr. Kam's portfolio to the S&P 500 would not allow us to determine skill because his best fit benchmark over the period would be the Surz Small Growth Index. (Morningstar, using holdings-based returns analysis, proved similar results).
While Mr. Kam has done an excellent job outperforming the S&P and Surz Small Growth Index, one cannot accurately claim he is skillful in his allocation of capital, since Small Growth was not a great performing asset class over the period. He had much better options, so greater due diligence would be required to understand if his focus is on small cap or if the fund is unconstrained by such objectives. With an expense ratio of 195 basis points, I would hire Mr. Kam as a small growth manager, but avoid him for an iShare (index fund/ETF) if his goal was as stated "A fund that constantly strives to be in the right sectors and stocks at the right time, so you don't have to constantly change funds."
A Better Mousetrap - OMEGA
I agree with Mr. Kam that skill cannot be easily identified. In order to best meet advisors' goals and discern whether a manager is skillful in meeting those goals, we offer a tool known as OMEGA and the OMEGA Excess Return which overcomes the mathematical shortcomings with MPT. Omega and our process for finding skill will hopefully be highlighted in a coming issue of this publication.
Brent E. Bentrim
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Abaiang Atoll, also spelled Apaiang, also called Apia, formerly Charlotte Island , coral atoll of the Gilbert Islands, part of Kiribati, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. Comprising six islets in the northern Gilberts, the atoll has a lagoon (16 miles by 5 miles [26 km by 8 km]) that provides sheltered anchorage. The islets of Abaiang are Teirio, Nuotaea, Nanikirata, Twin Tree, Ribona, and Iku. Its European discoverer, Capt. Thomas Gilbert (1788), named it Matthew's Island for the owner of his ship, the Charlotte. He called the lagoon Charlotte Bay and the main islet Point Charlotte. Subsequent errors in identification led to the island's being known as Charlotte Island. The area's first influential missionary, the American Hiram Bingham, arrived there in 1857. The atoll, occupied by the Japanese in 1941–43, was subsequently used by Allied forces as a base for attacking the Marshall Islands. The administrative centre and main village is Tuarabu. Copra is exported. Total land area 7 square miles (18 square km). Pop. (2005 prelim.) 5,502.
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In a much anticipated wait, temperatures will finally warm up quite nicely this week. The colder weather we saw the past few days has lifted of to our east and in its wake is a warmer air mass. A zonal pattern will be our main weather maker the next few days, as the SSW winds bring in warmer and moist air.
A weak cold front will make it's way through the South, but models are showing the front stalling out across the Highway 84 corridor before lifting back to the North. As the front moves through and stalls along the 84 corridor, slight chance of isolated showers are possible.
Rain chances will stay with us throughout the entire week. With the advection of the warm and moist air, this week could become a little muggy as dewpoints will climb into the upper 50s lower 60s.
As we head into the latter part of the week a strong cold front will be in our wake bringing with some isolated thunderstorms in which some could be severe. Timing of this front is still uncertain as the models keep sliding back and forth between Friday into Sunday. Once the front exits to our West we will be left with seasonable temperatures, as Sunday will be in the lower 60s area wide. For much of the week we will see temperatures 10 to 20 degrees above average.
The good news is Spring is around the corner, so this weather is very welcome. The cold isn't completely over, but we are beginning to see signs of a changing pattern that coincides with Spring.


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Tungsten rings, tungsten wedding rings.
Tungsten Information
What is tungsten?
Tungsten is a natural element which has many unique properties. Tunsgten has the highest melting point of all non-alloyed metals, and is extremely hard - approximately four times harder than titanium. Tungsten is most well known for its virtually scratchproof qualities. Even in high impact environments, tungsten will not scratch.
Why are your rings "tungsten carbide" and not just tungsten?
Tungsten in its purest form is very brittle. A pure tungsten ring - if dropped - can quite easily shatter. To prevent this, our rings contain carbon. This provides all of the greatest qualities of tungsten, without any of the drawbacks.
Is tungsten hypoallergenic?
Tungsten carbide is 100% hypoallergenic and allergy free and will not produce skin irritation or discoloration. Tungsten does not react to sunlight, salt water, chlorine or anything that the body emits. We use solid tungsten carbide with confidence knowing that anyone can wear it without the concern of an adverse reaction to your body. Tungsten carbide rings require other metals to be used as a "binder", with cobalt and nickel being the two most common. While cobalt is cheaper, it will cause the tungsten to oxidize over time, and cause spots to appear on the metal that cannot be removed. This is why we only use nickel as a binder. Tungsten - like titanium - actually bonds to the nickel molecules, preventing them from leeching into the skin. This is why tungsten is hypoallergenic.
I have heard that tungsten carbide rings cannot be removed in an emergency?
This is not true. We have confirmed with government ambulance service paramedics that they can indeed remove tungsten carbide rings when required. Hospital ring cutting tools are actually made from tungsten carbide!
Did you know...?
Tungsten is (W) on the periodic table of elements. The "W" stands for "Wolfram", which is the name of the mineral that tungsten is derived from.
Tungsten is the hardest metal on earth, and is second only to Diamond as the hardest material on earth. This is why tungsten can only be scratched with a Diamond.
Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal at 3422 degress celsius!
Not realising the importance of tungsten carbide, the British sold its tungsten "scrap" to Germany at the start of World War One. Germany used this to develop armour piercing rounds with tungsten carbide cores, that proved devastating to British tanks.
After World War One, Germany used Japan to secretly purchase as much of the world's tungsten stock as possible. The United States then quickly bought as much tungsten as their ships could carry (from China, the world's largest producer of tungsten). Japan then chased these ships with their warships, but were unable to catch them. This was just prior to their attack on Pearl Harbour.
Strategically, tungsten is considered one of, if not the most valuable of metals in the world today.
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Many people know that some metals can produce reactions on a person's skin, including rashes and even blistering. This fact sheet will endeavour to explain why this occurs, and provide other resources and updates.
Nickel is without doubt the primary reason people experience skin reactions when wearing jewellery. The following quotes are excerpts from the Queensland Department of Health's fact sheet on nickel in jewellery: "The most common adverse health effect associated with wearing jewellery that contains nickel is a type of skin irritation called allergic contact dermatitis. A person can develop an allergy to nickel following repeated contact with nickel found in jewellery. Sweat from the skin acts as a corrosive to metals, which allows nickel in jewellery to be in direct contact with the skin. Once a person is sensitised to nickel, any further contact with nickel will cause an allergic reaction. Nickel sensitivity is usually persistent for life.
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Definition of proselytize in English:
(also proselytise)
verb[with object]
1Convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another: the programme did have a tremendous evangelical effect, proselytizing many [no object]: proselytizing for converts (as noun proselytizing) no amount of proselytizing was going to change their minds
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- Nevertheless, we are not required to proselytize and attempt to convert others to Judaism, since a good non-Jew is spiritually better off than a bad Jew…
- They have every right to engage in proselytizing, but before they begin proselytizing Jews, I wish they knew a lot more about Judaism.
- She was aggressively proselytized by local church authorities and told that she would never see her lost children if she didn't convert and accept baptism.
evangelize, convert, seek/make converts, bring to God/Christ, bring into the fold, spread the gospel/word (to), propagandize, preach (to), win over, recruit;
1.1Advocate or promote (a belief or course of action): Davis wanted to share his concept and proselytize his ideas
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- Both the IOC and FIFA have embraced and proselytised the central tenet that a belief in the positive values of sport is at the heart of their purpose and their success.
- He interrupts the sermon to proselytize his own beliefs - a system he characterizes by saying nothing.
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proselytization noun
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- I await with bated breath their similar proselytization of the Christian Easter festivities.
- His combination of scientific method, confident proselytization, and field experience - as a soldier in both world wars and a journalist in Latin American brush fire wars - was convincing, and his idea gained extraordinary currency.
- Diplomacy, proselytization, trade, credit, and currency exchange all require that the units share some common social understanding of themselves, their relationship, and their activity.
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- Will annoying street corner speakers, preachers, and proselytizers next be relegated to chat rooms alone?
- Like a religion bent on enlarging its congregation, it has a huge phalanx of proselytizers - who call themselves not missionaries but educators.
- The proselytizers could point to the Canadian Charter of Rights as the secular scripture that protects any religious expression that doesn't threaten freedom and democracy.
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Pro-life video of the day: What are they looking at?
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Like these people at the 2013 March For Life, we should all be upset by what was on the jumbo tv provided by Created Equal. But until the madness stops, we must not look away.
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COSMOPOLIS -- Cosmopolis is a gorgeous film of absurdly good-looking people spouting bromides, platitudes and underlined and capitalized "BIG thoughts."
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When a wool or even cashmere topcoat won't suffice against the biting cold, it may be time to pull out the strongest weapon in your arsenal—the down puffer jacket. While a puffer jacket can neither match the refinement nor the tailored look of an overcoat, it provides the best protection against almost all of nature's most cruel manifestations.
To some, the puffer jacket is an abominable and ridiculous article of clothing that should only be worn by mountain climbers and young school children. A few years ago, they would have been quite justified in their conviction. People were faced with either an incarnation of the Michelin Man costume or some heinous, oversized coat that absolutely could not be worn if one needed to be taken seriously.
Luckily, winter wear pioneers like Moncler provide an alternative that has literally given a new shape and perspective on men's down jackets, transforming them into stylish and luxurious items that both look and feel great. Known especially for their shiny body and opulently soft material, they are the gold standard when it comes to heavy-duty winter jackets.
This Moncler jacket is great for a variety of reasons. First off, it's cut close to the body meaning that you won't look like the Pillsbury doughboy. It also incorporates one of the biggest crossover trends for men and women this season, which is the patent leather-look the shiny veneer gives off. Slipping on a Moncler jacket is like the intensified feeling of comfort you have when you first wake up in the morning and would give anything to stay in bed. The material is so plush and luxurious that you'll wish it were winter longer.
If you aren't interested in spending nearly a month's rent for the real deal, you can buy a similar looking substitute from North Face ($249). While it doesn't have the same attention to style and detail, North Face is known for their high-quality insulation, meaning it will serve its primary purpose: keeping you warm well into the negative digits.
This jacket from Lacoste ($295) is a little wide across, but its glossy finish, which mimics the Moncler look, adds redeeming style value. One important feature it has though is the cinch cord at the bottom hem of the coat that allows for a more fitted appearance.
For the best equilibrium buy between price and quality and if you live in New York City, check out Uniqlo in SoHo, which has a good selection of puffer jackets for around $130.
The best way to look stylish while wearing a down jacket anywhere besides the ski slope is to embrace the inherent bulkiness and offset it by wearing a long scarf that comes down through the bottom of the coat to elongate your body. Wearing a great pair of boots will also add flair to an outfit otherwise muted by the weather.


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Through the 2010-2011 fiscal year, donations to Voluntary Services dropped by $400,000. (WRDW-TV / Sept. 15, 2011)
News 12 at This Morning / Friday, Sept. 16, 2011
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Michael Flake served five and half years in the U.S. Army. He's now happily employed through the Charlie Norwood VA, but that wasn't always the case.
"I was fighting an addiction over 30 years. I came here from Alabama. They had no beds for me there," Flake said.
He says he came to Charlie Norwood with only the clothes on his back.
"The first clothes I put on came from the services; they don't have the services to do that now," he said.
The program provides clothes, bedding and basic hygiene essentials like shampoo and soap, which helped Flake during his time of need.
"I've been in training, that comes from the donations of those services," Flake said. "I have a job. I'm a contributing member to society.
Kim Hoge with Voluntary Services says this year they can't lend a helping hand to everyone that needs it.
"We were providing those items to any veteran who presented themselves to our organization here. Now we've had to cut back; we're only giving those items to inpatients," Hoge said.
You can see it in the supply bins which are usually filled to the top. Through the 2010-2011 fiscal year, their donations dropped by $400,000.
"That really has an impact on our veterans and the health care they are receiving," Hoge said.
Flake is disappointed to see the decline.
"It hurts me -- I feel so helpless because No. 1, I am living example it saves lives," Flake said. "This money is helping someone. It benefits the community, it will generate jobs, it will generate better people walking the streets."
If you can't give up any more money because of tough times, the VA also needs volunteers to serve the men and women who served our country.
"Manpower needs are great, which are also down for Voluntary Services," Hoge said.
It's a way to give back without breaking the bank and you could find yourself helping someone like Flake transition back from war.
If you are interested in volunteering or giving back, you can visit the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center off of Wrightsboro Road.
To make a cash donation, contact Voluntary Services at (706) 733-0188, Ext. 3020. Monetary donations can also be specifically designated for a particular program.


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By Dan Thompson (USAG-Yongsan)May 19, 2009
SEOUL - As Memorial Day approaches, veterans cemeteries from Omaha Beach in Normandy, France to Arlington, Virginia will fill with visitors remembering Soldiers who served and sometimes gave their lives fighting for freedom.
However, half the globe away from those pristine lawns with neatly placed, almost glimmering marble headstones is a small plot of land near the banks of Seoul's Han River. It is the final resting place for many American servicemembers.
The Seoul Missionary Cemetery, more widely known as the Seoul Foreigner's Cemetery, may seem like an unlikely place to find graves belonging to American veterans of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, yet more than 20 servicemembers rest in eternal slumber amidst the low hum of Seoul's busy traffic and cawing magpies.
One is left to wonder if the graves have been forgotten.
"We try our best to care for all of the graves," says cemetery manager Jung Yong-sub. "Sometimes we get visitors to the American Soldiers' graves, but mostly people come to see the American missionaries buried here."
While the ornate graves of prominent American missionaries command the small cemetery's hilltop, the tombstones of American Soldiers mostly resting in section H are obscured by tall grass.
Indeed, the only flower adorning the grave of one World War II and Korean War veteran's tombstone is a single yellow dandelion punctuating the green monotony of tall grass like the sharp burst of an occasional car horn in Seoul's creeping traffic.
So why are they buried there' While some American servicemembers appear to be buried at the cemetery along with their Korean spouses, other tombstones offer few clues as to why their remains were not repatriated to the United States.
Especially mysterious are the graves of at least three servicemembers who were killed in action while serving in Vietnam. One of those Soldiers, Staff Sgt. Bobbie Wooten, was assigned to an artillery battery and killed in action June 15, 1969.
Wooten and his comrades' graves are barely distinguishable through the tall grass - in stark contrast to the flawless resting places at Arlington National Cemetery.
When asked if Americans in the Yongsan Community could do anything to help honor the Soldiers of Seoul's Missionary Cemetery, Jung says he is open to suggestions.
"We are normally dealing with inquiries about famous American missionaries, but anyone interested may bring flowers or place a flag on a grave, if they wish."
It appears Jung could use the assistance. The nondenominational 100th Anniversary Memorial Church, which gained custody of the site in 2005, is admittedly more focused on the historical significance of Christian missionaries in Korea than memorializing American Soldiers, some of whom perished in the Korean War.
"The situation offers an opportunity for American civic organizations and individuals in Seoul to fill the void and care for the graves - especially as Memorial Day approaches," said U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan Commander Col. Dave Hall.
Those interested in visiting the Seoul Missionary Cemetery will find the small island of solitude full of ornate American missionary tombs, some of which show battle scars from the Korean War.
Other noteworthy eternal guests include American Civil War veteran Brig. Gen. Charles W. Legendre and Ginchi Paddock. Several still-born or very young children of American families in Seoul also have their final resting place here.
Visitors interested in paying their respects to the hidden U.S. heroes of the Seoul Missionary Cemetery may visit Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cemetery is located about 200 meters from the Hapjeong subway station (line two). Brown signs in English lead visitors in towards the cemetery and subway station maps clearly indicate its location.
"Anyone interested in visiting the cemetery is welcome," Jung says. For information, Jung may be reached directly by calling 02-332-4155 or 011-218-7542.
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For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston
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John . . . just . . .just shut up! Not helping!
Actually, he's right. It IS a competition!
No, Jon's only saying what Ellie is thinking.
BenderSastre seems to have hatred-of-men issues.
And that right there is why so many women from that generation ended up hooked on legal narcotics.
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No thoughts for today.
But does Ellie think it worth it to compete with the other mothers?
Seems to me a valid observation.
"Open mouth, insert foot."
I remember when birthday parties became a competition like that. I felt kind of left out 'cuz I knew I'd never have something that cool. Of course, now: I don't care.
This generation as well! If you get cheap (or no) goodie bag stuff, have a bad craft, aren't super-creative and don't have 10-20 kids at $20 per kid, your party is no good. Many parents are nice about it, but it is all a competition and I am NOT the best Mom.
i see that in Canada in this comic they have the same ideas aka ,competition as in America that competition is what is "life" concept. n,ever about smell the roses and live and love for today, but "mine is better than yours" bs. that is most of our lives and society's misconstrued sense of values.
what a waste of life. the one with the most toys wins!
Why does Michael have a receding hairline?
I agree the whole thing becomes a competition to see who can throw the best party (in other words spend the most money). It's so frustrating when you don't have the money to spend. Even a church potluck becomes this way with the women trying to outdo each other as to what they bring. I'm a competitive person but some things ought not to be a competition!
I think it all has to do with their initial reaction and being able to relate to Ellie in certain moments. I am married to a wonderful man and I took his comment as simply that: a commentary on the issue of how mom's feel the need to impress one another. It was funny. But I am generally happy and satisfied… BUT, if you are unhappy in general, you will see this with a negative p.o.v. and will view John as an @$$ pointing out something that is stressful for Ellie. People superimpose their own beliefs/reactions onto the characters!
Pony rides! I want pony rides! And video games for prizes, and a store bought 10 layer cake with sparklers on it, and fireworks at dark…that it spells out "Happy Birthday" to me.
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Apple Safari 4 is more than just one of the fastest web browsers for Windows and Mac. UPDATED 9 JUNE 2009.
Apple's web browser has been around for six years, and with Safari 4 we find a stable, mature web browser with both excellent speed and standards compliance.
Safari debuted in Mac OS X 10.3, but many people today will be familiar with Safari as the web browser for the iPhone. For the principal two personal computer OSes in the world, we now have Safari 4 for Mac and for Windows, the fastest and most feature-packed iteration yet of this relative newcomer.
But being an Apple app, more features doesn't immediately equal more user complexity. Open Safari 4, and the main window is automatically populated with Top Sites, a wall of thumbnail pages based on your browsing habits. Clicking on any of these brings you directly to your site, making a good visual aid to quick browsing.
You can also manually assign what sites will appear in this space, and the thumbnails you see are updated regularly, to reflect up-to-date content on your favourite sites, all in miniature.
To customise the layout, you just click the Edit button in the bottom left corner, and select either the X to delete or a pin symbol to 'fix' any displayed site.
Safari was one of the first web browsers to include tabs to allow easy switching between different pages within the same window. Safari 4 beta, released earlier this year, put those tabs above the address bar, increasing space available to view page content below.
This had the side effect of removing the easy reordering of tab positions just by dragging. It also made complete window reposition somewhat more challenging, as grabbing the window by its top bar could cause an inadvertate switch to the page of the tab you picked up.
Apple may have listened to the critics; the tabs are now firmly back below the navigation bar, in what must be said is a more visually elegant arrangement.
NEXT PAGE: Speed and recent changes >>
Apple Safari 4 is more than just one of the fastest web browsers for Windows and Mac.
Also changed since the beta is the way that page-load progress is indicated.
Safari 3 and earlier used to colour in the space behind the address with an expanding blue bar - a sight familiar more to iPhone users, due to the slower loading process - while Safari 4 beta relied on just a spinning cogwheel (which also doubled as a Stop loading button, since the usual discrete Reload and Stop buttons had been removed).
Now in Safari 4 we have a graphical device at the end of the address field which shows 'Loading...' and also spins a cog as the page completes.
With a typical broadband connection, you won't be looking at the loading icon for long, though. We found Safari 4 to be quick - very quick in fact - in its page rendering. For many sites we visited, pages would appear just as quick as clicked.
Another addition for Safari 4 is the Cover Flow navigation model. First seen in iTunes, this similarly allows a graphical way to look around your favourite or previously visited sites. You can use Cover Flow here to flick your way through bookmarks or history, with again small thumbnail renderings to guide your way.
We found a picture of a site painted on the screen in this manner could give faster cues to sites in our browsing history, rather than reading site URL addresses and trying to imagine what we saw on that page.
For Mac users with Multi-touch trackpads, the final release of Safari 4 addresses an issue with pinch zooming of pages, altough we found this still not quite as fluid as it was with Safari 3, as magnification jumps in a limited number of steps between different zoom factors.
For web developers and the technically curious, Apple provides a neat view of page source along with load times for the various code elements.
Just enable Develop mode in the Safari 4's preferences, and look under the newly instated Develop menu between Bookmarks and Window. There you'll find Show Web Inspector. In Windows, the Develop menu appears with other window menus under the folded-corner page icon on the right of the browser pane.
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Apple Safari Bet review
Apple is trumpeting its updated Apple Safari 4 web browser as exceptionally fast and innovative. It certainly looks good, but what does it actually offer? We gave it a quick spin to see what's under its hood.
"Safari 4 is the fastest and most efficient browser for Mac and Windows, with great integration of HTML 5 and CSS 3 web standards that enables the next generation of interactive web applications," proclaims Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide product marketing.
Safari prompts you to install Bonjour for Windows and Safari Desktop shortcuts. Bonjour is the applet used to aggregate content from attached devices as well as your hard drive. It's not an essential part of the Safari experience.
Having specified whether these two extras should load along with Safari and accepted Apple's licence agreement, you get a rather odd Apple thankyou message that stalled the installation progress. What it actually means is we needed to quit the existing web browsing page so everything could be updated. It would have made sense to say so.
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Once the installation has finished, and you've gone through the rigmarole of restarting your PC, you'll be able to start using the Safari 4 beta. Unless you've specified a home page, the main window will be black - something we can only hope Apple changes in the final release as it looks plain wrong.
To set your website as the home page, you need to click the Sprocket icon to the right of the Safari home page and click the Preferences option the drop-down list. You can then enter a new web address as your desired home page.
At first glance, Safari is a plain-seeming browser, but, as soon as you start typing in web addresses or entering a search term, things pick up. If you were already using Apple Safari as your web browser, the Top Sites tab should already be populated; if not, you might want to start by having a look at what Apple deems Popular.
The tab on the right of the links options immediately below the web-address bar in Safari 4 proffers a drop-down list of sites such as eBay, Amazon, Craigs List, Flickr and so forth. You can optionally view these as a succession of tabs that runs across the top of the browser window. If you find these less-than-inspiring, press the + button and, rather than being offered the option to add items that are Popular with you rather than Apple, you get a list of Top Sites.
Much like Google's Chrome browser, this list is displayed as a set of visual thumbnails of sites you frequently visit. The thumbnails are 'live', meaning that you can see what's currently on the main page, rather than being shown what was uppermost on your last visit. You can flick through these if you're using a touchscreen display or zip through them with a mouse. The experience is similar to the Cover Flow feature in iTunes or on the latest iPods and iPhone.
See also: Google Chrome review
In any case, Safari remembers what you looked at, the pages you visited on each site and records useful keywords so you can easily call up previously-visited information.
NEXT PAGE: more useful additions
Apple is trumpeting its updated Apple Safari 4 web browser as exceptionally fast and innovative. It certainly looks good, but what does it actually offer? We gave it a quick spin to see what's under its hood.
Another useful addition is the RSS feed at the far end of the address bar. Where a site has an RSS (really simple syndication) feed so you can receive updates in your email inbox, clicking on the blue RSS icon gives you options for which feeds you get.
Similarly, the News button in the links bar lets you view updates from a range of publications and websites. As with the Popular list, a tabbed view is available, and it's also possible to customise your settings.
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We like the fact that you can view the stories here by source, date or title and can specify whether Safari displays related stories on the topic or a simple list of articles from a range of sources. An 'article length' slider lets you adjust this to suit.
We've yet to find a way to activate and deactivate the sources on offer to make them more UK-specific, for example.
The Settings tab offers a comprehensive set of customisation options. You can also launch the Private Browsing feature and clear the History so that other people using the PC can't follow your web trail.
Preferences extend to how frequently the History cache should be cleared out, whether Safari should use a particular style sheet standard, the text encoding, Auto Fill for passwords and usernames at secure sites, and so on.
Cookie preferences, plug-ins, Java and JavaScript enabling and other Security settings can be specified, while the Bookmarks tab lets you choose how, whether and what are associated with the Bonjour service.
While it's too soon to say whether Safari will become our browser of choice, our first impressions of a highly user-definable experience and a neatly ordered information repository in which items are quietly logged and can be called up again whenever we need. We'll give you a fuller review in due course, once we've run some more formal tests to establish whether it live up to its claims of being speedier and more innovative than the rest of the browser bunch.
Rosemary Hattersley
See also: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 review
Apple Safari 4: Specs
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
- 500MHz Intel Pentium processor. Any Mac running Security Update 2009-001 and Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 or Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11, Mac with an Intel processor or a Power PC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWire
- 256MB of RAM
- Top Sites and Cover Flow on Mac OS X Tiger require a Quartz-Extreme compatible video card
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
- 500MHz Intel Pentium processor. Any Mac running Security Update 2009-001 and Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 or Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11, Mac with an Intel processor or a Power PC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWire
- 256MB of RAM
- Top Sites and Cover Flow on Mac OS X Tiger require a Quartz-Extreme compatible video card
Safari 4 has come out of its short beta period to blossom as a remarkably attractive and well featured modern web browser. For Windows users, Safari has previously been something of an also-ran behind Firefox and IE, but with Safari 4, the browser could catch up on XP to Windows 7 systems too. Safari 4 is extremely fast in its page rendering thanks to the refined WebKit engine, and offers some genuinely useful user interface elements which make finding sites quicker and browsing a more comfortable experience.


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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried Theme of Warfare: The Vietnam War
O'Brien claims that The Things They Carried isn't about war, it's about peace. But let's face it: The book is mainly set in a war zone during the Vietnam War.
Peace stands out in relief against the war as we read. The warfare in the book isn't about tactics or violence or heroics. War is made up of boredom interspersed with moments of sheer terror. Other than that, it's mainly the backdrop against which the soldiers live their lives. As a backdrop, it can be horrible and gory, or it can be exhilarating and funny. O'Brien emphasizes that it's impossible to make generalizations about what war "is."
Questions About Warfare: The Vietnam War
- What is war, according to Tim O'Brien? Try to sum it up in one sentence. How does O'Brien complicate the idea of war?
- Which symbols and images does O'Brien use to communicate the effect of war on soldiers? What's the nature of that effect?
- Can civilians ever understand war? What is O'Brien's take on this? How can you tell? Do you agree? Why or why not?
Chew on This
In The Things They Carried, the Vietnam War is a thing of horror that has made American decency twisted and dirty, a mockery of what it once was.
By refusing to generalize about war, O'Brien enriches civilians' understanding of it, pushing us to think beyond such trite sayings as "war is hell."


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Definition of price-taker in English:
A company that must accept the prevailing prices in the market of its products, its own transactions being unable to affect the market price.
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- The other thing that strikes me about people on low or middle incomes, particularly those with children, is that they are essentially price-takers of important commodities like electricity, petrol, and diesel.
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- We will be more price-takers than price-makers.
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In the Philippines, Shaving Money Here, There Adds Up To A Lot
MANILA—Around $410 billion in illicit money, much of it derived from false trade transactions, flowed in and out of the Philippines between 1960 and 2011, says a new study by a Washington D.C.-based financial research group.
The study by non-profit Global Financial Integrity, which works to improve financial transparency in developing countries, looked at trade transactions to determine illicit money flows in and out of the Philippines. It found that traders had underpriced exports or wrongly declared imports to save on customs duties and value-added taxes.
For example, it noted, a firm in the Philippines selling $10,000 worth of rice to a buyer in Japan may only declare the transaction to be worth $8,000 on their invoice to Philippine customs officials, thereby lowering the taxes they would pay on the reported income.
"In the case of the Philippines, we also see substantial underpricing of imports," the report stated, noting that when such underpricing occurs, it is usually complemented by "overpricing some other imports, underpricing exports, or via alternative money laundering schemes."
According to the study, false invoicing accounted for around $363 billion in trade inflows and outflows over the 52-year period studied.
The tax revenue and customs duties lost to such false trade transactions over five decades have harmed the government's ability to tackle its budget deficit, put a curb on rampant corruption and hurt economic growth at a time when the country was in the midst of developing.
The Philippines Department of Finance has estimated that it loses around $4.4 billion every year because of loopholes in customs policies and procedures. To tackle the problem, the government reorganized the Bureau of Customs last year and has begun discussing legislative reforms needed to update the country's outdated customs rules and procedures, which have been unchanged since 1957.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III has also made some progress toward clamping down on corruption in an effort to foster stronger economic growth. Since he won election in 2010, the Philippines has seen its credit rating raised to investment grade by the top three global investment-rating agencies thanks in large part to improved perceptions of governance.
But according to the study, illicit financial flows are undermining those efforts. Between 2000 and 2011 illicit money flows cheated the government of around $1.46 billion in annual tax revenues. Meanwhile, the government's budget deficit moved from $1.43 billion in 2006 to a record $6.9 billion in 2010.
The trend doesn't appear to be slowing. Total trade misinvoicing in the Philippines increased from an average of 14% of total trade between 1960 and 1969 to an average of 20% of total trade in the 2000-2011 period, a growth of 3% a year, according to the study.
By comparison, trade misinvoicing in South Korea declined sharply as a proportion of total trade, from 27% in 1960-1969 to just 6% of total trade since the 1990s.
In estimating the illicit funds flows, Global Financial Integrity looked at data that included re-export transactions involving the Philippines and Hong Kong. It also used the World Bank's residual method, which compares a country's source of funds with how it uses those funds, and the Hot Money Narrow method, which uses balance of payments leakages to estimate illicit flows through the deliberate manipulation of export and import invoices.


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Jewel Drops out of Dancing
Jewel's dancing days are done as the singer/songwriter has dropped out of the hit ABC-TV show Dancing With the Stars due to injuries.
Jewel has fractured tibias in both legs. "I originally thought it was tendonitis or ligament strains," Jewel said before a concert appearance Thursday night, March 5, in Highland, Calif. "It was painful enough for a doctor to put me on cortisone. When I went in for an MRI, it turned out to be something else. I had no idea something like this was possible." Jewel's stress fractures are just below her knees, which had been swelling from a practice regimen of up to eight hours a day. Jewel is using crutches to get around. "Hopefully I'll get to sing on the show and come back and [compete] again," Jewel says. Jewel's husband Ty Murray will remain in the competition. Jewel will appear on the season premiere of the show, Monday night, March 9, and her replacement will be revealed at that time, according to the show's executive producer Conrad Green.
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Definition of hermit crab in English:
hermit crab
A crab with a soft asymmetrical abdomen that lives in a castoff mollusk shell for protection. In several kinds, the shell becomes covered with sponges, sea anemones, or bryozoans.
- Superfamily Paguroidea.
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- The fossil trackway undoubtedly was produced by a terrestrial hermit crab, like those that are common in beach and dune environments in the Bahamas today.
- Track size varies depending on the size of the terrestrial hermit crab making the trace.
- And just as a mollusk shell once vacated may be taken over by a hermit crab, the external forms of our lives will be filled by others after we are gone.
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Location: Food Components and Health Laboratory
2013 Annual Report
Objective 2: Determine the extent to which soil fertility, CO2, and other environmental stresses, and their interactions, affect changes of phytochemical composition of Brassica crops. • Sub-objective 2.A. Soil Nitrogen. Using kale and broccoli varieties, evaluate effects of low, intermediate, and high soil N during cultivation at ambient or elevated CO2 and ambient or elevated temperature regimes.
A controlled environment experiment was conducted to compare effects of elevated CO2 (800 vs. 400 ppm) on two varieties of kale grown at current ambient springtime temperatures and two levels of soil N (80 and 120 lbs/acre) with.