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Definición de discount house en inglés:
discount house
1British A company that buys and sells bills of exchange.
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- A clearing giant differs in its structure, business activities, and orientation from a discount house or a merchant bank.
- Prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 world trade was financed through real bill circulation with London acting as the discount house on a remarkably small gold base.
- Furthermore, there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts.
2North American another term for discount store.
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- They are owners of the nation's largest steel works, travel agency, brick factory, discount house, auto dealership and computer software firm.
- The night before we left on our vacation at Grand Beach Michigan, I dreamt of seeing a large maroon discount house and also a concrete bridge near an old railroad crossing.
- It goes for a little under a hundred bucks at most discount houses and it seems like quite a bargain.
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Bangkok's Creative Watering Holes
What looks like a saloon entrance leads to a low-lit cavern, and up the wrought-iron staircase, a sultry woman croons along with a jazz combo.
Downstairs, the well-heeled crowds sip elaborately crafted cocktails, seemingly unconcerned with the blacksmith tools scattered about.
This is a typical after-hours scene in Bangkok, or more specifically, Thong Lor, one of the City of Angels' most cosmopolitan neighborhoods. A world away from the backpacker dives of Khao San Road and the city's less salubrious red-light districts, the area—based around Sukhumvit Road's Soi 55—offers edgy watering holes, craft brews on tap and pop-up music nights that cater to locals and expats alike, proving that it's possible to have a night out in Bangkok without recreating "The Hangover Part II."
Going Out in Bangkok
Start your evening at Soul Food Mahanakorn, a two-story shophouse turned bar-restaurant run by former Atlantic food writer Jarrett Wrisley. The 32-year-old Allentown, Pa., native serves Thai comfort food, and in case the reggae playing in the background isn't relaxing enough, order the Jai Yen Yen ("Cool Heart" in Thai), which combines gin with ginger ale, passion fruit, pineapple, lime and cucumber.
"People want casual drinking and dining spaces that are quality-driven and creative," Mr. Wrisley says of Bangkok. "It's a refreshing trend."
If beer is your thing, head down the road to the cluster of establishments called Seenspace 13, home to BREW Beers & Ciders. Take a seat inside an industrial space designed to look like a brewery, complete with exposed pipes, or, if the weather's fine, on the cozy outdoor terrace (not an option during rainy season). Wherever you perch, choose from the 10 brews on draft and more than 100 labels, including Westmalle Trappist beer from Belgium and Bavarian beer Weltenburger Kloster Anno 1050.
Ready for an intimate cocktail? The Iron Fairies (the place with live jazz) will provide. The bar's Australian owner, Ashley Sutton, has written a series of children's books about iron fairies, whose figures he crafts by day in a space that doubles as a metal workshop. The figures gaze at patrons ordering drinks made with Ketel One vodka and mysterious ingredients like "dragonfly wings."
Next, make your way to WTF Café & Gallery, tucked away in a small side alley off bustling Sukhumvit Road. Since opening in 2010, the former shophouse has become a hub for the city's creative types. Not only is it known for its music, welcoming staff and unconventional drinks—take the Orchard, a mix of gin, lime, lemongrass syrup and lychee—but it also hosts poetry readings and exhibitions in the upstairs art gallery. After dinner, try the dark chocolate with extra-virgin olive oil (trust us, it works).
"We had always moaned about why there isn't a nice neighborhood bar with good music and drinks," says Christopher Wise, a Vermont transplant who co-founded the bar with his wife Somrak Sila. Previously a graphic designer, Mr. Wise says he wanted WTF to be "like the kinds of places I used to visit in New York, Berlin and Barcelona."
Last year, the couple launched Opposite, a creative space that plays host to all manner of buzzworthy happenings, including pop-up restaurants serving up Roman, Isan (northeastern Thailand) and New Orleans-style feasts, as well as music events (keep an eye on its website for what's next). One DJ and live music show last year focused on mid-20th-century West African pop, while another evening saw a free gig by Brooklyn garage-punk band Vivian Girls that went late into the night.
As the evening progresses, consider a nightcap or two in the hard-to-find Shades of Retro. Hidden down an unmarked alley directly across from Thong Lor Soi 21, the bar embodies the city's love of all things vintage, with midcentury furniture (all for sale) sharing space with a distinctively attired clientele—don't be surprised if you spot Teddy Boy haircuts and wingtip shoes. Drinks are served with free popcorn and, if you're lucky, you might catch one of their open-deck vinyl sessions, featuring sets from unknown DJs. Love the wax? Ask to take a spin yourself.
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You know the type: She's perpetually reading a novel, face hidden behind the book's cover, burrowing through page after page without once raising her eyes to the world around her. There is a precipitously wobbling stack of books on her nightstand. You're sure she'd rather spend the afternoon with Heathcliff than with you.
The avid reader is often scolded for what appears to be antisocial behavior. But psychologists are now recognizing that fiction strengthens our social ties and increases our empathy toward others. Just as flight simulators help pilots-in-training learn to fly, fiction helps us understand the human character, explains Keith Oatley in Scientific American Mind (November/December 2011).
"The seemingly solitary act of holing up with a book . . . is actually an exercise in human interaction," Oatley writes. "It can hone your social brain, so that when you put your book down you may be better prepared for camaraderie, collaboration, even love."
Several studies confirm the heightened emotional intelligence of bookworms: In 2006 researchers found that people who read fiction rather than nonfiction can more easily decipher the emotions of others, simply by looking at their eyes. The following year, researchers discovered that reading a single short story would temporarily improve subjects' social skills. And in 2010 they showed that exposure to stories made preschoolers more able to take on the perspectives of others.
This fiction-induced empathy runs deep: MRI scans show that when we read fiction, our brains mirror the protagonists' actions and our emotions swell in response to their plight.
So don't think of that novel only as an escape. It could be just what you need to connect with your friends, family, and that guy sitting next to you on the subway reading a well-worn crime novel.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined her counterparts at the May 12, 2011 Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Nuuk, Greenland, in welcoming the release of a major climate science report on the state of the frozen Arctic. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), a working group of the Arctic Council, released an assessment report on the impacts of climate change on Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA). The report represents the culmination of a multi-year study that included contributions from scientists and indigenous groups from all of the Arctic States and additional expertise from non-Arctic communities as well.
The report assembles the latest scientific knowledge about the changing state of each component of the Arctic 'cryosphere'- or ice-bound environment - including snow, frozen ground, ice on rivers and lakes, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets and sea ice. The report goes on to assess how changes to human activities and ecosystem services within the cryosphere, such as freshwater supplies, will impact the Arctic ecosystem as well as people living within the Arctic and elsewhere in the world. The United States contributed to the SWIPA report by serving as the lead for several chapters and by providing numerous authors and expert reviewers.
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I've long been a fan of the band OK Go. The music is fine but the videos are finer, inventive and happy and irresistible. The latest has gotten a kajillion views in the past week.
Here it is:
See, you know that lame Internet koan "Information wants to be free"?
I totally hate that. Information doesn't have the capability of "wanting" anything. People who take the trouble to gather information "want" to be paid. Of that I am sure, and with information as with anything else, you get what you pay for.
That's where OK Go comes in. Here is a Gizmodo interview with Damian Kulash.
I think it has become increasingly clear to us, as we have chased our most exciting ideas, that there's been a dissolution of the distribution system for music. That seems really depressing when you see that records aren't selling, there's no way to make any money, the system's falling apart. But if the system itself is falling apart, then so are the rules wrought by it. Videos evolved in this very restrictive environment of MTV. There were only maybe 100 that would play at any time, and labels weren't willing to invest in them. So now that the system is falling apart, there's also no reason to stick within the confines of the definitions that were built up during that system
The videos are free, sure, but the concerts aren't — and if you tried to steal a ticket to a concert or sneak in, you could be thrown out or arrested. The point is they give a little excellent content in the (confirmed) belief that they will get much more back. In other words, the oldest trick in the book.
Tomorrow, if I can remember to bring my Kindle to work, more on the topic.


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Spanish and Italian yields climbing again but US futures steady. (MarketWatch)
Euro oil giant Total (TOT) has been slaughtered of late, time to buy at a bargain price? (The Armo Trader)
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TD's Fred Tomczyk sees the trend of sub-$1 billion teams leaving the wirehouse continuing. (Investment News)
U.S. equity funds suffer $3.08 billion in outflows this week, "a sharp reversal from the previous week's $906 million inflow." (Financial Planning)
How does Jamie Dimon show congress who's boss? He rocks the Presidential seal (of approval) cufflinks when he testifies. (The Daily)
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A few months ago while I was working for my friend, Shepard Fairey, I had the chance to not only meet one of my most influential childhood idols but also interview him. Glen E. Friedman is for photography like Black Flag is to my friends who picked up a guitar after realizing that they themselves could "do that too!"
I saw what Glen was doing... just basically shooting his friends skateboarding, making art, having fun, making music and documenting all the cool shit that was happening around him... and that no one else was documenting either... and I figured I could do the same thing with a 1980 35mm Canon A-1 hand-me-down camera (which I still use to this day). Just so happens that Glen's friends included Minor Threat (and later Fugazi), Black Flag, Beastie Boys, Ice-T, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, The Misfits, Bad Brains, Run-D.M.C., KRS-One, Public Enemy as well as Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Alan Gelfand, Duane Peters, and Stacy Peralta just to drop a few names on your lap.
But Glen is more than just a great photographer and artist, he's a great personality with a biting opinion about pretty much everything, a father and now a pretty damn good friend (email) of mine. He's one swell dude. Well, enough rambling by me... let's let Glen take over in that department. Enjoy!


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Acting Up: Free Speech, Pragmatism, and American Performance in the late 20th Century
April 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-59332-465-0 / Hardcover
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 / xviii, 292 pages
Nunns examines how free speech became a centerpiece of American identity during the 20th century and how ideas of freedom of expression came to a head during the "Culture Wars†in the 1980s and '90s. He explores four case histories: performance artist Karen Finley and her court case revolving around public funding for the arts; the lawsuits involving the film I am Curious (Yellow); the controversy surrounding a community's performance of Angels in America; and the racist songwriting of David Allen Coe.
Acting Up demonstrates that free speech relies upon the cultural tides of the moment. The book offers a pragmatic approach to law, politics, and culture, by also investigating the founders of pragmatism (William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.), and examining how their ideas continue to shape the American intellectual landscape.


text: Posted January 6, 2013 My whole concept is, if you go by that logic then you might as well say Flacco, Sanchez, The Golden Calf of Bristol are better than him too because they took their teams to the playoffs early in careers. Stupid logic. it comes back to this ridiculous preconceived notion a lot of people have in their heads about "winners" and "losers". it's an unbelievably stupid, simplistic way to look at a thing as complicated as quarterbacking in the NFL. the guy we just watched, matt schaub, has been houston's starter for six seasons and elevated that team out of complete irrelevancy but this is his first win as a starter in the playoffs. guys like The Golden Calf of Bristol, sanchez, and flacco all got wins before him but only a complete dumbass would dare argue that schaub is inferior to those three. 2 people like this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Self-reliance and sustainability in the 21st century.
By David Boyt
Sawmill, Norwood, portable sawmill, lumber, post and beam, timber frame, David Boyt
One of our projects is an 8' by 14' post and beam storage shed. When complete, it will house my welding equipment, generator, wood planer, and air compressor. I also promised Becky (my wife) that there would be room for garden tools there, as well. My experience with post and beam construction goes back thirty years when we built our house. That was also my first taste of sawmilling, assisting the sawyer on a very different machine from the one I now run. It was a large circle mill with an exposed blade and drive belt, powered by a Detroit Diesel engine that was always running full-throttle at a level that rattled my teeth. My job was to pull off the boards, help turn the logs and shove sawdust. Wherever I stood, it threw sawdust and wood chips at me.
Mills have changed a lot since then. I run a much more civilized band mill, which I can easily run by myself. The blade and belts are inside safety guards, and the engine makes no more noise than a lawn tractor. I can generally mill the lumber I need in less time than it would take to drive into town and buy it. Plus I know that the lumber came from a woodlot that is being managed sustainably so that it can be enjoyed and used by future generations.
Some of my construction techniques are pretty rough, and generally involve a chain saw, if I can manage it, though I have been known to use high-precision tools, such as a hand drill and skill saw when doing finish work or building furniture.
The shed's foundation is a framework of white oak 6" by 6" beams sitting on cinder blocks. White oak is a rot resistance species that will hold its straight shape, if it is off the ground. The posts are black oak, which last indefinitely, if kept out of the weather. I experimented with cutting shoulder onto the posts by cutting them oversized, then making a second cut, and trimming them with a chain saw (the photo shows it better than I can describe it).
I also experimented with a "scissors joint", which is used to make a long beam out of two shorter ones. I had seen this type of joint, and wanted to see whether I could build one with simple tools. Turns out that as long as you take your time and measure carefully, it isn't difficult to make, and it is strong.
The next step will be to fit the beams to the posts, and install the angle braces, which I hope to complete in the next couple of weeks. After that, if my old Ford tractor is up to the task, I'll top the posts and beams up onto the foundation. My neighbor has a bigger tractor with a front end loader. Always good to have a plan "B". I'll post photos of the "shed raising".
Other than that, it is a busy season for Becky, who is a substitute teacher. She covers everything from Kindergarten to Sr. High math. Her favorite is high school history class, though. Some of the elementary students really take to her, but it can be exhausting. I don't know how anyone has the patience and energy to teach elementary school full time.
Our animals sense that winter is coming, and the dogs seem to eat their weight in food every day. We've only used the wood stove a couple of times, but in a week or two, it will be going full time. We've got winter preparations yet to make. The main one is draining down our outdoor water collection system and covering up the outdoor water tank to protect it from freezing.
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The Founder of VICE travels for 15 hours by train to finally arrive in Siberia and investigate logging camps that are using North Korean slave labor. Filmed in December 2011, it is shocking to see that this sort of thing still happens in Russia long after Communism has fallen. The documentary paints a stark picture of the relationship between Kim Jon Il and modern day Russia: their partnership has outlasted Communism in Russia. In part 1 of the documentary, we meet Russian alcoholics on a train on our way to Siberia.
Once arriving in Siberia, the next goal is to locate the labor camps. Kim Jon Il has set up labor camps in Russia to help fuel money back to the impoverished nation. To find the camps, our hosts make friends with the local mafia known as "The Fish." Although these are labor camps with sub standard working conditions, the workers admit that life was harder in North Korea and that the country is impoverished. This is incredibly honest information from people who used to live in a country that controls all access with the media. When Siberia Labor Camps are viewed as an improvement, you know that things are bad back home.
They find out that many workers are being stationed in the camps for up to 10 years but the conversation halts when the managers or the logging camp arrive.
The FSB (Russian secret police), North Korean secret police and the local militia all decide to find out what the documentary crew has been up to – so the crew and cameras make a run for the border and to safety, hoping that their equipment will not be confiscated and their story will be told.
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In his annual report, McCaughey says this is "unfair and unreasonable".
However, he adds that the county has all the "necessary finances in place" to complete the Garvaghey project.
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Just five job announcements were made for Waterford over the three-year period from 2008 to 2011 by the IDA. It also emerged in a report ordered by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation that in 2008 just 39% of graduates, in the county, were able to secure work in the county, according to the Employment Action Plan for the South East which was released last Friday.
The plan, ordered following the decision by Talk Talk to move its call centre from the city with a loss of 575 jobs details the struggle that Waterford and the whole South East Region is currently facing, with unemployment at a staggering 18.2% compared with the national average of 14.5%.
While no new jobs announcement came with the report, the plan revealed that the IDA would assign a "clear priority" to the region with a view to attracting additional investment to the area particularly in sectors like Life Sciences, Financial Services and new areas like Clean Tech.
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The controversial closure of the westbound carriageway on the M6 motorway between Athlone and Ballinasloe, which was due to start on Monday, has now been postponed until the spring.
Local traders had strongly criticized the pre-Christmas closure of the road to facilitate drainage improvements on its surface.
And it's understood that, following discussions between Roscommon County Council and the National Roads Authority, it has now been agreed to delay the work until after the winter.
The posponment was welcomed by Athlone councillor Kevin 'Boxer' Moran.
"I think this is wonderful news for traders throughout Athlone because the closure would have had a huge impact, particularly in the lead up to Christmas," said Cllr Moran.
"This work still needs to be done but the money to do it has not been lost and it will now take place in the spring."
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A Dublin woman who told a judge she had to leave the scene of an accident because of "a pressing engagement", has been ordered to pay €22,500 in personal injury damages and €30,000 in legal costs.
Catherine O'Halloran said in the Circuit Civil Court that her Lexus jeep had "nudged" the bumper of a car at a round-about in Ferns, Co Wexford, in May 2009 but had "obviously not caused any damage."
O'Halloran, of Springmount, Ferndale, Shankill, Co Dublin, old Circuit Court President, said she had exchanged insurance details, but left before gardai arrived.
The driver and two passengers were awarded €7,500 each plus legal costs.
(Source: The Irish Independent)
A teenager who went missing from Ashford for over a week has been found safe and well.
On Tuesday (November 29) the Gardai issued an appeal seeking assistance from the public in the search for missing 16-year-old Sean Lennon. He had last been seen wearing a grey hooded top, jeans and white runners on Tuesday November 22.
Gardai believed he may have been located in Dublin city centre as it's an area he was known to frequent.
He was found in Dublin later in the evening of November 29 and the HSE is now caring for him.
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Posted February 17, 2011
The night they drove old Hosni down -- and all the neo-cons were singing. Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol was the kapellmeister.
Prior to the exit of Beast
Mubarak, Kristol (in yet another of his Olympian pronouncements), thundered:
How do we know neo-cons aren't really conservatives? Conservatives are realists. They confront reality without ideological blinders. They do their best to perceive the world as it is, not as they wish it was.
Neo-cons think democracy is the magic elixir – good for what ails the downtrodden, regardless of their benightedness and barbarism. The neo-cons' touching faith in the universalism of democratic longings is like the liberals' faith in economic interventionism.
In the case of the Egyptian masses (better they should go back to sleep), popular sovereignty would mean lopping off the limbs of shoplifters, killing Christian converts on the spot, a Cairo-Tehran alliance (possibly with Iranian missiles in the Sinai) , abrogating Egypt's 30-year-old peace treaty with Israel, the merger of mosque and state – and, please welcome the Moslem Brotherhood.
Kristol is incensed – incensed I tell you – over Glenn Beck's warning that the "Egyptian awakening" may be a milestone on the road to a caliphate.
"When Beck rants about the
caliphate taking over the Middle East from
An alliance between the left and radical Islam? How preposterous! Oh, Beck, you old Bircher.
Let's see, the left is anti-American, and
"caliphate-promoters" are anti-American. Both hate
In the war on terror, both would hamstring law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Both rely on useful dupes (Bill Kristol?). But only a certified member of the lunatic fringe could conjure up a connection between militant Islam and the totalitarian left.
Jealousy may play in part in Kristol's attack, reminiscent of the cruder smears of the left. According to the latest stats, The Weekly Standard has a circulation of just over 103,000, while between 2.5 million and 3 million watch Beck's television show every weekday evening. Kristol has his thousands, Beck his millions.
In 1999, Kristol was gung-ho for NATO's
bombing of
According to a Council of Europe
report, released last December, Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci runs an
organ-harvesting operation. Thaci's goons execute Serb prisoners; then Albanian
surgeons move in and extract kidneys. That's the way democracy goes, down
Kosovo way. ("All in favor of killing this Serb for his organs,
raise your hands. The ayes have it.") Free Kosovo is also a major route for
drugs and women trafficked into
You'd think Thaci's nickname ("The Snake") might have given Kristol a clue that when the erstwhile leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army took over, all would not be sweetness and light and constitutional democracy.
Last week, neo-nincompoops
weren't the only ones giving rave reviews to the premiere of "
In his February 4th Friday
Gazans celebrated the glorious
news with gunfire. "The resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is the
beginning of the victory of the Egyptian revolution," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu
Zuhri assured the Ummah. In Shiite-dominated areas of
The Pharaoh himself was more sanguine. In a phone call to former Israeli Cabinet Member Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Mubarak warned that demonstrators, "may be talking about democracy, but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam."
When it comes to creating the
institutions of representative government,
According to various scientific
surveys conducted over the past few years, of
Jew-hatred is endemic. Posters carried by protestors depicted Mubarak with a pig snout and ears, and a giant Star of David as a backdrop.
The late Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid
Tantawi, Grand Imam of
In his classic "Jews in the Koran and the Traditions" (soon to be a major motion picture) Tantawi explained: "The Koran describes the Jews with their own peculiar degenerate characteristics … refusal to distance themselves from the evil they do, and so on." Two-thirds of Egyptians believe spiritual guides like Tantawi should play a more central role in the nation's political life.
Besides wishful thinking, what is
the basis for optimism about the prospects for Egyptian democracy? In the
In its index of freedom in the world, Freedom House rates countries as "free," "partly free" or "not free," based on free and fair elections, representative government, an independent judiciary, respect for human rights, etc.
Muslim nations are either royal kleptocracies (
Of the 47
Muslim countries – stretching from the West Coast of Africa to Central and
Southeast Asia – Freedom House rates exactly one of them "free" –
Could there be something about
Islam and the mentality it instills in the faithful that makes it arid soil for
the propagation of democratic institutions? Democracy has flourished in the Protestant
and Catholic countries of Europe and across the ocean in the Western Hemisphere,
likewise in the Jewish state of
But in the wide, wonderful world of Islam, democracy is as alien as religious tolerance and regular baths.
Consider the Muslim Brotherhood (doing
business in the
Speaking of functional fools, President Obama welcomes MB participation in a future Egyptian government. According to James Clapper, Director of National What-Passes-For Intelligence in this administration, the Brotherhood is "a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence."
If you don't believe it, just ask
them. "The Muslim Brotherhood is not seeking power… (but) wants to participate and help,"
Mohammed Morsi, a member of the organization's
What would you expect them to say at this point in time: Jihad, jihad, jihad – praise Allah and pass the scimitars?
In a CPAC speech ("The Muslim Brotherhood Inside the Conservative Movement") last week, ex-New Leftist, now conservative leader David Horowitz disclosed; "My parents were communists in the heyday of Stalin. The Party's slogan was not 'Bring on the dictatorship of the Proletariat' or 'Revolution Now.' But that is what they believed. The slogan of the Communist Party was 'Peace, Jobs and Democracy.'" – or, we're heterogeneous and we only want to participate and help.
Clapper's claptrap and the current disinformation campaign bear the same relationship to the real Muslim Brotherhood as Obama's latest budget does to fiscal austerity. Al-Banna explained Islam should be "given hegemony over all matters of life." The Brotherhood's credo? "The Koran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, struggle (jihad) is our way, and death for the sake of God is our highest aspiration."
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an MB spiritual leader, has written: "There is no dialogue between them (the Jews) and us, other than in one language – the language of the sword and force."
In Brotherhood documents seized by the FBI in 1991, and used in terrorism-funding trials, the stated goal for infidel lands is "a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western Civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
Who could possibly be concerned by the prospect of such an entity taking over the most populous nation in the Arab world?
Richard Clarke – chief counterterrorism advisor to both the Clinton and Bush administrations – told a Senate Committee in 2003 that "descendants of the membership and ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood included Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda." Discover the Networks discloses, "Ali Sadreddine Bayanouni, head of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, has repeatedly pledged his support for the terrorism of Hamas and Hezbollah."
Bringing to mind no one so much
as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society, Harvard History Professor Niall
Ferguson remarked in the course of a February 14 MSNBC interview that, "If you
look carefully at the Muslim Brotherhood, you'll see it stands for the
imposition and enforcement of strict Sharia law and restoration of the Caliphate."
Funny, I thought only Glenn Beck talked like that.
I almost forgot to mention that, in 1981, in a joint operation with another jihadi group, the Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar al-Sadat.
It's estimated that in the next Egyptian election, the Brotherhood would win 25% to 30% of the vote – possibly a plurality, certainly enough to shape a future government. Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933 based on winning only 230 seats out of 608 (38%) in the 1932 Reichstag elections.
Even the above estimate understates the Brotherhood's clout – as its ideology has a powerful appeal for most Egyptians. (Recall the MB's 65% approval rating.) The Jacobins didn't start with a majority in the French Assembly of 1789 or the Bolsheviks in the Second International. But they were the most ruthless mutts in the pack, the best organized and believed in their destiny – like the Muslim Brotherhood.
Anyone willing to bet on the Egyptian "awakening" leading to democracy – anyone other than Kristol and the mainstream media?
There's a reason William Kristol is a popular talking-head. He's a liberal's conservative – pompous, toothless, embracing many of the left's favorite clichés and always willing to attack authentic conservatives.
Instead of neo-con, Kristol should be called a Dodo-con, as he waddles toward a well-deserved extinction.
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Six candidates preparing to vie for mayor next year all agree on at least one thing: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has done a poor job helping minority- and women-owned businesses gain contracts with the city.
In the first mayoral forum of the 2013 election, the prospective candidates came together Tuesday to discuss the city's commitment to minority- and women-owned businesses. While they differed slightly in their criticisms of the current mayor, all agreed that not enough has been done to help these businesses gain a greater percentage of city contracting dollars.
"If you go to City Hall, you do not see an administration that looks like New York City," said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who declared the city is suffering because of that lack of diversity. "It begins with choosing people who are committed to real economic justice at the highest levels and up and down the administration, and constantly enforcing those notions in everything we do."
Each candidate was asked to give the mayor's record on minority- and women-owned businesses a letter grade. Media executive Tom Allon gave the mayor a B- for effort and a C- for results; de Blasio and City Comptroller John Lie appraised his efforts as an F. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn awarded the mayor a C or C-, while Stringer assigned an incomplete grade and former City Comptroller Bill Thompson simply said the mayor had "failed."
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New Orleans police made three arrests Thursday after reports of suspicious activity in St. Roch Park.
Authorities said one of the people they arrested was a juvenile, and the other two were identified as Earnest Reed and Dreshawn Fields. All were suspected of having weapons.
Police said they checked the prior criminal history of the three males and will charge them with illegal possession of a firearm.
Investigators said Reed was carrying a Glock .17 semiautomatic handgun that had been stolen in Orleans Parish in 2010. They said Fields and the juvenile discarded a 9 mm Jiminez Arms handgun and a .22-caliber Browning Arms handgun in a garbage can at the park. The 9 mm gun was also stolen in June.
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When he died, Ernie's daughter, Sylvia, inherited his collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, ephemera, memorabilia, and mementos.
The photographs include those that were taken personally by Ernie, but many more that he acquired from friends and other sources. A number of them are very well composed, beautifully printed, and show every sign of having been the work of professional photographers. Some, in fact, we have seen on other websites. The photo of Anthony Fokker, for instance, is found on a number of websites, so if Ernie took it, how did it come to have such wide distribution? We doubt that he took it, but it is not entirely beside the point to mention that Ernie had the picture because he had met Fokker and he could have taken it (because he had access to Fokker). The fact is that we just do not know. Although a photo this old is now in the public domain, we would like to attribute it correctly. If anyone does have this kind of information we would be very happy to have it, too. Most of the photos are unlabeled with respect to their origin and we have no way of knowing where many of them came from.
The newspaper clippings tell an amazing story, because they collect information about some important but largely forgotten events in the history of aviation. Ernie was interested in the events in which he participated, and he saved many newspaper stories that told of these events and their significance at the time. It would be very difficult now to collect these stories with the thoroughness we see here. Unfortunately, although Ernie was an avid newspaper clipper, he was not always careful to preserve source information. For most clippings, it is possible to figure out their source, but some offer so few clues that we just do not know were they came from. Some day, when we have more time to spend in public archives looking through miles of microfilm, we may be able to track this down.
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Throughout this site, we will refer to Ernie's collection of clippings, photos, and memorabilia as the Ernest H. Buehl, Sr. Collection: abbreviated as "EBC" (Ernie Buehl Collection).
Most of the information in this website comes from newspaper clippings, letters, and other material that Ernie collected over the course of his lifetime. Many of the newspaper clippings were cut from newspapers and pasted into scrapbooks or tossed loose into envelopes and boxes. Some of them were cut in such a way that the source and date cannot clearly be identified. A certain amount of guessing, based on events discussed and other known timelines allow us to narrow the possibilities.
Most of the photographs and other images, too, were collected by Ernie Buehl. Again, many of these were pasted into scrapbooks or stored loose in boxes. Almost none are clearly labeled with respect to the place and time that they were taken, or with respect to who appears in them. A number of them are still recognizable to the family, and others can be placed in a context based on the known events of Ernie's lifetime.
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Forum Moderators: not2easy
The article submission sites seem to take the position that it's my responsibility to contact the owners of the offending sites.
Has anyone here done more than complain to the owners of offending sites? For example, has anyone filed a complaint with Google, or threatened legal action?
I get pretty steamed when people break the rules.
I have done this in the past and the hosting company got straight onto the phone with the offenders and the page was removed within hours.
I have a web forum with this very same problem.
There is no way for me to prevent copying of the articles posted in the forum.
Any registered member can screendump, print, read/write cope or simply copy and paste. This is something the members know and wish to do themselfs, it is a forum for sharing knollege.
There is no way for me as site owner to prevent this as it is the main purpose of the place and the reason the members go there, to share info and experiance...
I find it is best to be polite and send them a friendly email stating the terms first.
I agree, I have seen many posts in this forum where the first response is to roll out the big artillery and pulverize the offender. I am in no way justifying the theft of content, but I am saying sometimes a little honey is much better than largest cannon. If they still refuse to be decent about it after you have been nice then pulverize them.
In the past week I have had to deal with a couple of people who were taking pages off my site and posting them as their own writing on a closed forum in order to "share the info and experience." In fact, after I contacted them telling them to remove my copyrighted material, one of them put up a web page about how we would never have gotten anywhere if we didn't all share our knowledge. The fact is that I was already sharing the knowledge--on my own site. And so are the people who wrote the articles your forum subscribers are ripping off. The way you can deal with this issue is to have moderators doing their jobs and to educate your forum members about what copyright is and how to respect it. I have seen forums do this, so I know it works. There is nothing wrong with putting up four lines of an article and then giving the url to the rest of it.
If there was several people on the forum that reacted, I would try to find some way around this.
I agree education is the way to go, and educate the members!
But that does not help situation that is current.
The matter at hand that set this of has been resolved.
The guy who posted the info on his page deleted it and that is not the issue any more, The guy who had this text taken has previusly not cared about this, infact encureged sharing.
He turned 180 and is angry at all and evrything, with more or less reason!
If there is 1400 members, 40700 posts and one complaint in 3 years!
We are a special place with guy's that look to find info about the hobby we love.
Copyrightsa is not a big issue to many, but I thought I would try and find out a way to prevent this in future.
It was not as easy as I thought.
There is nothing wrong with putting up four lines of an article and then giving the url to the rest of it.
Yep. And if you go to the U.S. Copyright Office's site you'll find the above fairly accurately defines the concept of "Fair Use."
The problem is some people don't think the law applies to them .... until they get a wake-up call.
I think your expectations for "article submission sites" are way too high.
I read a study a few weeks ago where some seeded articles were submitted to various article sites. After a period of time, those articles were searched for using a variety of search engines and something like 5% of the instances where the articles had been copied were the links back to the author still intact. In other words, they were removed 95% of the time.
That requires a lot of "hunt & kill" to find those 95%.
I think it's important to have realistic expectations about article sites. Are the results worth the continuous effort of tracking down those who don't play by the "rules"? If YES, submit away.
Are you comfortable submitting your articles knowing they will be copied and used without proper attribution? If YES, then again, submit lots of articles.
You also want to register your work with the US Copyright office or similar office, which is not free. If you register within 45 days of the date of creation, any attorney fees are paid for by the guilty party.
Webmasters will probably go with the "periodical" registration, rather than every time a web page is changed. Lets say you change your web site once a week, you can register a copy of that web site as a 52 week periodical?
And I have seen more than one forum claim ownership of all posts as an intregal part of the license agreement of users participating on the site, all posts become property of the web site, not public domain.
The problem of course will be determining if you can enforce a violation, you may not want to post some material on the internet simply because an offender may be in a foreign country that you have no control over.
It may be better to market your material to traditional printed methods, which is easier to control?
I have seen forums that claim ownership of all info posted, but this is not something I would want or like to be forced to do.
I belive the writer of the post should own it and have the rights for it as well as obligations.
Problem is when a poster thinks that what he put's in public is private. It is not.
He owns it but it can (not saying it is or will be!) easely be used by others with or without approval.
For me and the forum I have it is not possible to use papers.
We involve too many people and sources of information for this to me practical even thru email.
there can be 30 sourses of info and page after page of cotrodicting litteratour to be compiled in one or two sentences.
Eash member must share what they wish, when they have time and are in the mood. Evryone has a choice to publish it or nor, if it is forum, book or other media.
In the forum the facts are kept as a piease to complete the big puzzle of history in this subject of interest.
Once in a while someone get's the urge to look over what is gathered with in a speacialety of the hobby, very narrow fieald of search and is only possible to do this way.
Even if it is Possible for forum to over ride the creators copyright it is not fair in my opinion.
Those who wish to be named in the "credits" should be and others like me who don't should not be.
This is a wonderful hobby for us that give joy and satisfaction... And a lighter wallet to carry around...


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American Politics
Jenna Becker Kane (http://sites.temple.edu/jennabeckerkane)
Dissertation: Lobbying Justice(s)? Measuring the Influence of Amicus Curiae in State Courts of Last Resort
Despite well documented evidence that both the level and diversity of amicus participation in state high courts have been growing, little progress has been made in determining whether or not amicus briefs influence state court outcomes or the mechanism through which this influence is exerted. My dissertation seeks to answer these questions by using an original dataset assembled from content analysis of more than 2300 state supreme court decisions handed down between 1995 and 2010 and spanning three distinct areas of law: products liability, environmental law, and free speech/expression. First, I investigate the influence of amicus filings on court decisions and test whether this influence varies across courts with different methods of judicial retention. Results show that amicus briefs submitted by interest groups have the most influence over judicial outcomes in areas of law where interest groups routinely make large-scale donations to judicial campaigns. This raises serious concerns about the influence of big money in judicial elections.
The second part of my dissertation tests two competing theories of amicus influence to determine how state high court judges utilize amicus information in judicial decision making. The informational theory assumes the influence of amicus brief information to be evenly distributed across judges. However, theories of confirmation bias and motivated reasoning suggest that the information in amicus briefs may be received and evaluated differently depending upon the ideological predispositions of individual judges. Using multi-level modeling, I analyze the votes of more than 12,000 individual state high court judges to determine whether judge ideology conditions the influence of amicus briefs such that judges are more receptive to pro-attitudinal information contained in briefs from interest groups that share their predispositions. The final portion of my dissertation investigates the case-level and court-level factors that attract interest group participation as amicus curiae in state high courts in order to better our understanding of interest group strategies when engaging state judiciaries.
Committee: Megan Mullin (Chair), David Adamany, Kevin Arceneaux, Chris Bonneau (University of Pittsburgh)
Katharine S. Javian (http://sites.temple.edu/ksjavian/)
Dissertation: Party Voting in the American States: How National Factors and Institutional Variation Affect State Elections.
My dissertation examines two related questions: first, how do national-level conditions influence state legislative and gubernatorial elections? Second, how does state-level institutional variation mediate how state elections are influenced by those national factors? I approach the first question by testing existing theories, specifically, I examine the effect of presidential coattails, surge and decline theory, referendum voting theory and vertical policy balancing theory. Using multilevel modeling, I analyze gubernatorial elections from 1948-2010 and state legislative elections from 1968-2010. I find evidence for surge and decline, referendum voting, and vertical balancing in both gubernatorial and state legislative elections.
Next, I turn to the question of whether state institutional variation mediates how national forces influence state elections. I find that formal institutional power and the size of state government do not systematically affect state election outcomes. However, I show that coattail effects and referendum voting are lessened in states with the direct initiative and that vertical balancing is increased. This dissertation adds to our understanding of elections in the American states as well as the American electoral process in general.
Committee: Christopher Wlezien (Chair), Kevin Arceneaux, Megan Mullin, Department of Political Science, Matthew Levendusky (University of Pennsylvania)
Jay T. Jennings (http://sites.temple.edu/jayjennings)
Broadly speaking, I am interested in the capacity of citizens to effectively participate in a well-functioning democracy. As a discipline we agree on an ideal: citizens should be informed, interested, and tolerant individuals who participate in politics. My research focuses on understanding what differentiates those citizens who nearly meet such an ideal and those who decidedly fail. My work largely draws from previous research in political psychology, political behavior, and public opinion to form new ideas regarding contributions to the democratic capacity of citizens. Religious motivations are an important, but understudied, element of democratic citizenship. Entitled Religious Motivation and the Democratic Citizen, my dissertation investigates the relationship between religious motivations and traits associated with the ideal citizen: political participation, political interest, political knowledge, and tolerance. Pioneered by Gordon Allport, religious motivations are a psychological measurement of the role religion has in one's life. It is my contention that religious motivations are key to the understanding of religion's mixed relationship with democratic citizenship. My dissertation employs nationally representative surveys including a unique survey-experiment to provide evidence of religious motivations' important explanatory power. The findings suggest it is not what religious service you attend, or even how often you attend, but the motivation for being religious that best explains the level of political engagement and prejudice. My dissertation chapter entitled The Prejudice Paradox: How Religious Motivations Explain the Complex Relationship between Religion and Prejudice can be downloaded here.
I am also the project manager for the Pennsylvania Policy Database Project which is directed by Joseph McLaughlin through the Institute of Public Affairs at Temple University. Following the model set forth by Baumgartner and Jones (1993) and the U.S. Policy Agendas Project, our project has collected and coded nearly 200,000 government and media records in Pennsylvania from 1979 to the present. Our 2010 article from State Politics & Policy Quarterly can be downloaded here.
Committee: Kevin Arceneaux (Chair), Robin Kolodny, and Megan Mullin.
Joshua J. Weikert
Dissertation: Balancing Act: How an Unbalanced Media Affects the Electorate
Is there balance in media coverage of presidential election campaigns? While the literature supports the notion that it is, in the aggregate and across time, lacking systematic imbalance and bias (D'Alessio and Allen 2000), previous studies generally do not consider intra-campaign shifts in the composition of coverage, leaving unanswered the question of whether coverage is consistently balanced or merely appears so when all the ups and downs of the election are tallied up. This project takes advantage of a project-generated content analysis of all NBC Nightly News broadcasts and New York Times articles during the general election period (from the national party conventions through Election Day) for four election years (1996-2008) to determine whether intra-campaign imbalance exists along three axes: volume of coverage (total coverage of each candidate), share of coverage (percentage of coverage received by each candidate on a given day, not conflated with volume), and tone of coverage (average daily valence score of coverage, positive or negative). Share and tone of coverage are both highly variable, while increases in volume of coverage are tied to specific campaign events. Analysis shows that intra-campaign shifts in coverage causes predictable shifts in support, and candidates can actively attract media attention and create or blunt imbalance.
Committee: Michael Hagen (Chair), Richard Joslyn, Daniel Chomsky, Philip R. Yanella (outside reader)
Comparative Politics
Krystyna Litton (http://astro.temple.edu/~klitton/)
Dissertation: Party Novelty and Economic Voting: How Party Renewal Affects Voters' Party Preferences in Various Economic Contexts in the EU
In the literature, electoral accountability has been explored in many ways. Among those are the studies of economic voting examining to what degree government parties are held accountable for the state of the economy. By now, the studies have incorporated variables that reflect how clear is the chain of responsibility for the economic policies. Among those are national level variables, such as the clarity of responsibility index, and party level variables, such as the number of seats a party occupies in a government. This dissertation suggests that the responsibility for the government policies can be obscured by yet another party level variable – party novelty. I define party novelty as the quality that reflects the degree of change within a party in terms of its structure (mergers, splits, etc) and attributes (name, leader, and program) within one electoral cycle. I argue that party change obscures party identity and, thus, affects voters' ability to hold it accountable for the state of the economy. This study explores the concept of party novelty and its effects on voters' party preferences in various economic conditions. I construct the Party Novelty Database (1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009) and show that party novelty can be measured. Moreover, I demonstrate that party novelty varies in understandable ways, and, most importantly, that party novelty matters. Using the European Election Study and the Euromanifesto Project (1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009) I show that party novelty moderates economic voting, and this effect differs across types of party changes and the timing of change.
Committee: Christopher Wlezien (Chair), Richard Deeg, Michael Hagen, Marcus Kreuzer (Villanova University)
International Relations
Lauren A. Farmer (email@example.com)
Dissertation: Bastions Against the Fourth Wave: Toward a Theory of Authoritarian International Organizations
Abstract: I theorize that some states may build and maintain authoritarian organizations (AOs) that exist to protect and reinforce authoritarian practices and values. First, I offer a logic for understanding AOs. Second, I hypothesize a range of benefits that an AO might offer its member states, identifying both negative benefits (a lack of democratic conditions) and more positive material benefits (contributing to repression and cooption) and normative (legitimizing) benefits that an AO might provide. Finally, I apply qualitative research methods to compare 3 potential AOs: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).This project furthers our understanding the dictator's learning curve, by adding an international component to explanations of how non-democratic governments survive and counter democratizing pressures at home and abroad.
Committee: Mark A. Pollack (chair), K. Orfeo Fioretos, Richard Deeg
Molly Ruhlman (http://sites.temple.edu/mollyruhlman/)
Dissertation: Nongovernmental Participation in Intergovernmental Organizations
Although all Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) interact with non-state actors (NSAs) in some capacity, the extent to which NSAs are granted participatory roles in the governance of IGOs varies substantially. Why do some intergovernmental organizations – intergovernmental clubs of sovereign states – extend access, participatory opportunity or even participatory rights, to non-state actors? The goal of this project is to address the question of variation. I investigate the interests of the actors with power to determine the rules regarding engagement with NSAs – member states and IGO secretariats – and identify specific incentives for each actor to establish rules or practice of engagement with NSAs in each type of engagement. I expect that the member states and or secretariats that determine these engagement practices will benefit from the inclusion or participation of NSAs in specific and predictable ways. By identifying the interests and incentives of the relevant actors, we can predict the creation of particular sorts of engagement and explain variation in those engagement mechanisms across different intergovernmental organizations. To test the proposed relationship between IGO interests and participatory rules I examine the United Nations system and three UN organizations: The UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP).
Committee: Mark Pollack (Chair), Orfeo Fioretos, Sarah Bush, and Peter Spiro
Political Theory
Alex Melonas (http://sites.temple.edu/melonas/)
Dissertation: Situated Animals: Biology, the Self, and Political Theory
My broad research interest is in exploring the ramifications of political theory being freed from two opposed extremes of biologism and social constructivism because, ultimately, the human animal is both a biological creature and capable of becoming. To this end, I address two questions in my dissertation with the aim of re-situating the human animal as a common property in political theory. First, I explore and challenge the commitments that inform the strict social constructionist thesis. This move leads to a second consideration: what questions are open if we see the problem not as biology, but as biological determinism? My thesis, simply put, is that work at the intersection of the biological sciences and political theory need not amount to political conservatism or pessimism. To defend this thesis, I make four arguments. First, I use Ernst Cassirer to show that "human" and "animal" can be integrated in a philosophical anthropology in a constructive way, one that avoids the reductionism implied in the term "animal" (or biological creature) and the naiveté of conceiving of human beings as though they are distinct from or wholly independent of nature. Second, I use Marx to show how we can integrate the biological sciences into a meaningful theory of human freedom. Third, I show how the biological sciences can be integrated into a contemporary political theory of identity in a way that resists essentialism. Finally, I use feminist scholarship to argue that the biological sciences cannot be used to justify hierarchy, or rather, that "hard science" doesn't in any meaningful sense say anything at all about equality.
Committee: Heath Fogg-Davis (Chair), Jane Anna Gordon, Kevin Arceneaux, Joseph M. Schwartz


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say the deadly beating of a 26-year-old witness in a Philadelphia murder case was unconnected to the man's involvement in the investigation.
Akeel Prout's killing appears to be related to a domestic dispute, police said. They declined to elaborate because the investigation is ongoing.
Six men attacked Prout late Saturday, punching and stomping him outside his girlfriend's West Philadelphia house.
Prout had witnessed the October 2011 homicide of a schoolteacher killed by a stray bullet. He initially identified the gunman as 19-year-old Daniel Shelley, but recanted at the preliminary hearing, said he did not know the defendant and did not see him. Prosecutors still plan to use Prout's initial statement at Shelley's trial, which is set to begin April 15.
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La Jolla Community Calendar Jan. 1
New Music
■ Athenaeum Music & Arts Library will kick off its annual SoundOn Festival of Modern Music, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8 with a concert at 1008 Wall St. The festival showcases the vibrant ensemble-in-residence, NOISE, presenting cutting-edge world premieres and festival favorites. Tickets: $10-$20. (858) 454-5872. ljathenaeum.org
Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015
Happy New Year!
■ New Year's Day Polar Bear Plunge Swim, hosted by La Jolla Cove Swim Club. 10 a.m., Kellogg Park at La Jolla Shores Beach near the lifeguard tower, followed by chili-and-soup potluck. firstname.lastname@example.com
Friday, Jan. 2
■ La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club Breakfast Meeting, 7:15 a.m. La Jolla Marriott, 4240 La Jolla Village Drive. $20. (858) 395-1222. lalollagtrotary.org
■ Computer Help Lab, tackling general questions on computers and programs, 11 a.m. Riford Library, 7555 Draper Ave. (858) 552-1657. lajollalibrary.org
■ Art Interact Club meets, 3:30 p.m. La Jolla Riford Library, 755 Draper Ave. (858) 552-1657.
Saturday, Jan. 3
■ Seniors Computer Group, 9:30 a.m. Wesley Palms, 2404 Loring St., Pacific Beach. Free for guests, $1 monthly membership. (858) 459-9065.
Sunday, Jan. 4
■ San Diego County Diversity and Inclusiveness Group meets to affect a faith-neutral name for the La Jolla December parade, 8:15 a.m. Starbucks, 1055 Torrey Pines Road. Free with RSVP: (858) 454-2628. firstname.lastname@example.com
■ La Jolla Open Aire Market, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Girard Avenue at Genter Street. (858) 454-1699.
Monday, Jan. 5
■ Ico-Dance class, (low impact, full bodied, expressive dance class for all ages and abilities), 9 a.m. La Jolla Community Center, 6811 La Jolla Blvd. $7 for members, $12 for non-members. amandabanks.com/ico-dance
■ Raja Yoga class, guided by the Nataraja Yoga and Meditation Center, 4:30 p.m. Congregational Church of La Jolla, 1216 Cave St. Donations accepted. (858) 395-4033.
■ La Jolla Community Planning Association meets, 6 p.m. La Jolla Rec Center, 615 Prospect St. firstname.lastname@example.com
Tuesday, Jan. 6
■ Rotary Club of La Jolla, noon, La Valencia Hotel, 1132 Prospect St. Lunch $30. Guests welcome. email@example.com
■ Hatha Chair Yoga, 12:30 p.m. Riford Library, 7555 Draper Ave. (858) 552-1657. lajollalibrary.org
■ Soroptimist International of La Jolla monthly dinner meeting, 5:30 p.m. for prospective and current members. Location given upon RSVP: firstname.lastname@example.com
■ Community Balance Class, learn techniques to improve balance, walk safely and maximize independence, 6 p.m. Ability Rehab, 737 Pearl St., Suite 108. Free for MS Society members, $10 for non-members. (858) 456-2114.
■ Seaside Quilt Guild monthly gathering, 6:30 p.m. social time, programs at 7:00pm. Soledad Club, 5050 Soledad Road. $5. email@example.com
■ Toastmasters of La Jolla meets for those wanting to improve their public speaking skills, 6:45 p.m. La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Prospect St. Free for guests, and $85 six-month membership. email@example.com
Wednesday, Jan. 7
■ Kiwanis Club of Torrey Pines meets, 7:15 a.m. Torrey Pines Christian Church, 8320 Scenic Drive North. First three meetings free, then $15. firstname.lastname@example.com
■ Torrey Pines of La Jolla Rotary meets, 11:30 a.m. Rock Bottom Brewery, 8980 La Jolla Village Drive. $20. (858) 459-8912. email@example.com
■ Tapping to the Stars, tap classes for women, noon. Ooh La La Dance Academy, 7467 Cuvier St. $70-$87 a month. firstname.lastname@example.com
Thursday, Jan. 8
■ Sunrise Rotary of La Jolla meets, 6:55 a.m. The Shores Hotel, 8110 Camino Del Oro. $20. (619) 992-9449.
■ Qi Gong, 9:30 a.m. Riford Library, 7555 Draper Ave. Qi Gong is used to relax and harmonize the body with gentle exercises for all ages and abilities. (858) 453-6719. lajollalibrary.org
■ Pen to Paper writing group meets, 1 p.m. Riford Library, 7555 Draper Ave. (858) 552-1657.
■ La Jolla Town Council meets, 5 p.m. La Jolla Rec Center, 615 Prospect St. (858) 454-1444.
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
David Hilbert (1862 - 1943)
Source: as quoted in Excursions in Calculus, by R.M. Young.
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No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality.
Shirley Jackson
Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
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In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.
Eckhart Tolle
Source: The Power of Now : A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Pages: 120
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Usually, what happens right around April 15th each year.
From a macro perspective, a depression is defined differently by different groups, but most agree that it's a more severe and prolonged version of a recession, with GDP in sustained decline and unemployment at high rates.
When it happens, everyone has less money to spend and things become a cycle—since people aren't spending money, businesses don't need to make as much stuff and they lose revenues so some of them shut down, which means fewer jobs and even less spending. During a depression, the government might step in with programs that are meant to provide jobs and get people spending again.


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Capitals Sign Mike Knuble to One-Year Contract Extension
There were 34 forwards aged 35 or older in the NHL in 2010-11, and only three of them scored 20 or more goals; only three of them had as many as 200 shots on goal. Just nine of them recorded 40 or more points. Only 11 managed to play in as many as 75 games, and of those 11, only four averaged more than 17 minutes per night. Only three of the 34 forwards aged 35 or older in 2010-11 finished the campaign with a defensive mark of plus-10 or better.
Finally, only one of those 34 forwards achieved all of the above: 20 or more goals, 200 or more shots on goal, 40 or more points, 75 or more games, plus-10 or better while averaging 17 or more minutes per night.
That one player is Caps right wing Mike Knuble. On Monday morning, a day after the conclusion of the 2010-11 NHL regular season and two days before the start of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Capitals announced that they have agreed to terms with Knuble on a one-year contract for the 2011-12 NHL season.
"He's like fine wine," says Caps coach Bruce Boudreau of Knuble. "He just keeps getting better. The last half of the year, he's been arguably our best player. When you're getting up in age a little bit, that at the end of the year you'd be a little bit more tired. I think his minutes have increased year after year. It's not fatigue. He's in great shape."
Knuble, who will celebrate his 39th birthday on July 4, was the 10th oldest forward in the NHL in 2010-11. Among those older than him, Calgary's Craig Conroy has already announced his retirement from the NHL.
Boston's Mark Recchi (81 games) was the only player older than Knuble to play in more games in 2010-11; Anaheim's Teemu Selanne (31 goals) was the only player older than Knuble to score more goals. The Islanders' Doug Weight and Detroit's Mike Modano have at least hinted at retirement, and it's possible that Knuble could be one of the five oldest players in the NHL by opening night of next season.
"It's a point in my life where you don't need to be out chasing things if you're in a good spot and feel like you're with a team that has a chance to win all the time and contend. That's a very important thing and a very important thing for you and your family, to stay in that spot. I'm happy with my decision.
"My kids, they don't even know yet. I'll go home and tell them and they'll be thrilled that they get to go to the same sports and their teams and their schools next year. That's very important to us."
Knuble is also one of only five active players in the NHL with 20 or more goals in each of the last eight seasons, a distinction that puts him in the company of Calgary's Jarome Iginla (12 straight), Chicago's Marian Hossa (11 straight), New Jersey's Ilya Kovalchuk (nine straight) and Tampa Bay's Martin St. Louis (eight straight).
Detroit's fourth choice (76th overall) in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft, Knuble finished up the 2010-11 season with 268 career goals in 968 games. One more healthy season in the league would put him over the 1,000-game mark for his career, an achievement that would give Knuble a great deal of pride.
"I'm looking forward to that," says Knuble of reaching 1,000 games. "It's a big milestone for me. It means different things to some people. Maybe some people don't care, but it's a big deal to me. I've got to play 32 games next year. You hope you stay healthy and have a spot in the lineup."
At 43, Recchi is the oldest player in the NHL. Knuble doesn't have specific designs on how long he'd like to play, but he's in no hurry to hang up his skates, either.
"I'm going to delay it as long as I can," says Knuble of his eventual life after hockey. "It's year to year now. I've been pretty lucky; I've stayed pretty healthy. I don't have any nagging issues. You just hope your [quality of] play can stay up as much as you can keep it up.
"Time gets us all, eventually. It's going to catch up to everybody. I think playing with good players, being put in the right situations to succeed can delay that."
Knuble labored for half a dozen seasons as a fourth liner with the Red Wings, Rangers and Bruins before finally breaking through with his first 30-goal season with Boston at the age of 30 in 2002-03. That was the first of his eight seasons with 20 or more goals. Knuble has reached the 30-goal plateau twice during that span.
Knuble will enter the 2011-12 season with 268 career goals. With a strong and healthy season, he could take a run at the 300 mark. That's an impressive feat for a guy who had 50 career goals when he celebrated his 30th birthday.
"I believe in this team," says Knuble. "I believe in this group and I believe in the players we have here. I've enjoyed playing here. I've been very fortunate. Every city I've played in, I didn't want to leave. I'm thrilled to have the ball in my court and work with [Caps GM] George [McPhee]. I wanted to stay."
"He's a consummate professional," says Boudreau. "We're a lucky group to have him for another year."