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I reworked my vertical farm piece for Worldchanging, and by the time I was done, it was an entirely different article. So if you can stand one last entry about vertical farms, this one offers a somewhat more thoughtful look at some of the principles behind sustainable development.
Columbia Professor Dickson Despommier has generated a fair amount of attention with his concept for "vertical farms," stacked, self-contained urban biosystems that would — theoretically — supply fresh produce for city residents year round. The New York Times showcased outlandish artists' conceptions of what such farms might look like. Colbert did his shtick. Twelve pilot projects are supposedly under consideration, in locations as far-flung as China and Dubai.
The concept has captured the imagination of at least the sliver of the public that laments the enormous resource demands of our food production system and yearns for something easier on the land, easier on our aquifers, and less demanding of fossil fuels. Vertical farms seem to promise all that.
Promising, of course, is different than delivering. Construction requires a lot of energy. Keeping vegetables warm in winter requires a lot of energy. Recycling water requires a lot of energy. Generating artificial sunlight requires a lot of energy. In other words, the secret ingredient that makes vertical farms work (assuming they work at all) is boatloads of energy. No one seems to have actually done the math on the monetary and environmental costs of such a scheme, but they would no doubt be considerable.
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Super Bowl XLVIII: Richard Sherman on Muhammad Ali
(on what the last week has done for Richard Sherman as a brand) ?I see the fun in the Super Bowl. I see everybody?s attention and how much the NFL has grown as a franchise, as a world brand, and I see that the Super Bowl is a huge event for the world. There are a lot of cameras, a lot of different languages, a lot of countries, a lot of diversity ? I love it.?
(on how his communications degree helps him) ?I definitely think having a communications degree helps you in a sense. It helps you understand the media side of things and what messages do, how widespread the messages are received, the marketing side of it. Just being an intelligent individual and learning from those professors at Stanford, you have a perspective that is unique.?
(on how his ability to communicate helps him on the field) ?It is an asset, but we have five, six guys out there who have a high football IQ. I think Earl Thomas might have one of the highest football IQs I?ve ever heard of, and he studies the game to a T. He studies it day, night, night and day. In the morning, at night ? he?s probably studying it right now. You?ve got Kam Chancellor, who does the same thing, he studies the game to a T. So when you see Kam Chancellor going downhill to make those huge hits and those huge plays, and Earl going to make those, it?s because they know the play is coming. They?re not guessing out there. It?s a real testament to us as a group.?
(on the attention he has received this week) ?I really think these cameras should go to my teammates, especially after Bobby Wagner?s 15-tackle game in the NFC Championship, Kam Chancellor?s interception and multiple pass deflections and his 11 tackles, or Earl?s 11 tackles. I think these cameras can be around anyone. I think that what happened after the game, the situation that occurred, forced them to be around me and forced everybody?s attention, but I think I have the best teammates in the world. Doug Baldwin had a heck of a game, and he?s a heck of a receiver, and has the stats to prove it. I think that these cameras could be anywhere. They could be on all my teammates, and they deserve it.?
(on Peyton Manning) ?Peyton Manning?s numbers speak for themselves. I think he?s one of the best in the history of the game, and I think he?s broken multiple records to prove that. He?s a living legend right now. He?s been a living legend for years.?
(on the biggest challenge when facing Manning) ?Being patient. Being patient and understanding that he?s going to get his yards and he?s going to make his plays. He?s one of the best in the history. If you pull your hair out over every pass he completes and over every yard that he makes, then you?d have a long day ahead of you. Because he?s a great, elite quarterback and he?s going to make his yards, he?s going to make his plays and anytime that you get mad about things like that, you get angry, or you feel some type of way, then it will be hard for you to consistently play well. So our defense has a whole has to be patient and be able to overcome the adversity, and we?ve done so all season.?
(on the one thing that he regrets about his postgame interview following the NFC Championship Game) ?Last week I felt like I regretted just attacking a man ? attacking it and taking away from my teammates. You never want to talk down on a man to build yourself up and things like that. So I regretted that, and I regretted taking that attention away from my teammates. That?s the one thing that I wish I could do again.?
(on if he understands that many people want to see him fail on Sunday) ?Oh I fully understand that. I?ve fully understood that my entire life. It?s been like that, people wanting to see you fail, but you stay focused on the task at hand and you pay the price.?
(on why it is important for him to be a role model) ?Because I think kids need a positive role model, and they need to understand that there are more options to the world than what they just see in their neighborhood. Especially the kids in the inner-city. They need to understand that there?s another opportunity, there?s another path that you can take, and I think if those kids take those paths and use those opportunities, they?ll benefit and our future will be very bright.?
(on what he would be doing if he was not a professional football player) ?If I wasn?t a football player, I?d be coaching, or I?d be scouting, or I?d be somewhere in the game, man. You?ve got too much knowledge and too much understanding of this game. This is what you?ve done your whole life, so you can?t just walk away.?
(on what people should expect on Sunday) ?A great show.?
(on who the top five quarterbacks are in the NFL right now) ?I?m not going to label them right now. I?d have to have more time to think about that.?
(on how players should prepare themselves for life after football) ?You manage your money well. Anytime you get a substantial lump sum of money at any given time in your life, you want to make sure you manage it well and manage it for the duration of what could be 50 or 60 years. You never want to spend it all, you don?t want to necessarily be frivolous either. You can live a good life without spending tons of money every day or every week.?
(on how much the Seattle secondary will have to vary and disguise their coverage to counter Manning) ?We don?t vary or disguise coverage over anybody. We play a pretty simple defense. For the most part you know what we?re going to do every play and you?ve got to line up and play it. I think that?s how we?ve been all season and it?s the last game of the season, there?s no time to change it now.?
(on how it feels to be compared to Muhammad Ali) ?It?s very humbling. It?s very humbling to be compared to Muhammad Ali because of all the serious ridicule that he went through, the serious racial degradation and stigmas that he had to fight ? the stereotypes he had to fight against. He had to really stand his ground and almost go to jail because he wanted to stand up for what he believed in. I think his situation was a lot more brave and a lot more serious than my situation is now, and he had to deal with a lot more scrutiny and just headaches and criticism. But it?s a blessing because he?s one of my biggest idols and a person who I really look up to.?
(on his time in New Jersey) ?New Jersey has been great, man. It?s been a nice city, it hasn?t snowed as much as they said. Thank you New Jersey for being awesome. You guys are amazing.?
(on what it means to be a member of Seattle?s Legion of Boom) ?The Legion of Boom is a legacy. It?s a legacy, it?s a group, it?s a legion, it?s a vast army of individuals and we have countless bodies behind us that are more than capable of doing the job. It?s Kam Chancellor, the enforcer, the punisher, the guy who sets the tone for the defense; it?s Earl Thomas, the fastest guy on the field, the most knowledgeable, who understands everything; it?s Byron Maxwell, making big play, after big play, after big play; it?s Walter Thurmond, doing a heck of a job playing disciplined, sound football. I think it?s our identity and it sets a high standard, and it?s a standard that I think everybody is more than capable of living up to and has.?
(on how well the Legion of Boom will have to perform on Sunday against Manning) ?The Legion of Boom is going to have to be on its A-game against Peyton. He?s a legend. If you?re not on your A-Game, we?re going to have a long day.?
(on if he would prefer to play the Super Bowl in New Jersey or a warm climate) ?Well I think I?m happiest playing in New Jersey. It?s a big stage, it?s one of the meccas in the world and I think that everybody?s going to get a chance to see it. It?s obviously one of the biggest cities in the world, one of the most known, and I think everybody?s going to? you know, the NFL seems to be happy about it, so we?re happy about it.
(on how he would fare playing wide receiver, one of his former positions, against the Broncos secondary) ?How would Richard Sherman the receiver (play)? I don?t know, man. I haven?t seen Richard Sherman at receiver in about eight years. He used to be pretty good, but I could have used to been a ?used to.? I don?t know how he?d be now.?
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wearing nothing under a coat, only to open it and show your junk to everyone.
Some shithead came to the party, opened his coat, and flashed everyone.
viết bởi Ricky Roma 30 Tháng chín, 2003
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Can you define these popular missing words?
To show an "inappropriate" body part by quickly moving a object or artical of clothing out of the way then back "flashing" the part at somone
dude, she just flashed you!
viết bởi Chirs Stage 14 Tháng hai, 2005
HM 05 of the Pokemon games; it lights up dark areas (like caves), and in battle reduces your foe's accuracy.
Flash is a Normal type attack; it can be taught to nearly every Pokemon
viết bởi Shawn B. 23 Tháng mười, 2003
Fastest man alive. Runs the speed of light(that's 186000 miles per second holmes)also the most kick aznass superhero ever to live, he is so fricken awesome that he could f your mom fifty times and then run around the world in less than a second.
Stoner: Dude! Why is your mom lying on the floor naked in a pool of her own blood?
Dude: I dunno, must have been the flash.
Dude: I dunno, must have been the flash.
viết bởi deflatemouse 13 Tháng ba, 2004
Flash is a program developed by Macromedia. It is widely used for internet development. It can be intergrated with most other Mecromedia products, such as d
reamweaver or Fireworks.
reamweaver or Fireworks.
This program was developed in Flash
viết bởi Mince 16 Tháng bảy, 2004
adj; showey. ostentatious.
Mo fo think he flash as a rat with a gold tooth.
viết bởi herbie 25 Tháng tám, 2004
Pre-drawn designs for tattoos.
I was looking for flash of a shark.
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I can't wait to see some of the great things to come in C++! (The c++0x standard would really be nice... come on c++ committee.. hurry up )
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Holly cow! The production quality was really amazing! Such a funny video.
Hanselminutes on 9 - ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the InternJul 27, 2010 at 12:57PM
ViewData vs. ViewModel... that's sort of unnecessary complexity to MVC. My vote is for ViewDataDictionary to inherit from IDynamicMetaObjectProvider so that we can have the best of both worlds with 1 concept. But that's just me....
Abstracting your favorite IoC container is a really terrible idea. Why would you use Unity over StructureMap over NInject, etc if you're just going to abstract away the power? Doesn't make a lot of sense from an architectural perspective. Why take on an additional dependency that is just an abstraction on IoC and dependency containers, wire-ups, etc?
And another thing... infered actions. Why would you use MVC if you're just returning a view? Smells exactly like webforms at that point.
FINALLY a show with Steve Marx. Such a great evangelist.
No, Laura this does not prove global warming. It has yet to be proven that our emmissions cause global warming. CORRELATION DOES NOT PROVE CAUSATION! THIS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF SCIENCE! THIS IS AN ISSUE OF SCIENCE, NOT POLITICS!
Here's the problem. C9 pays a LOT of money in bandwidth to be sent over to countries nowhere near the United States where their servers probably are. With Azure, C9 would have the ability to serve many more users and allow for better scaling on the data center side.
A few tips on the dev end...
- AZURE! It should help your scalability and distribution issues.
- If you don't use Azure, perhaps a CDN??
- Cache videos... perhaps that could help some bandwidth costs. YouTube has recently added this feature


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Beautiful military girl examined by strict nurse
You're in the Army now, you bitch, and you should do exactly what you're told. This is the first lesson the beautiful busty military academy student had to learn when walking down the doctor's office for her medical exam. She got a bitter taste of what to expect in this facility, because her med exam was a very tough, nasty and kinky experience to have.
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Prickly Pear Cactus, Nopales, paddle cactus
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Opuntia, also known as Prickly Pear Cactus or Nopales or paddle cactus (see below), is a Genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.
Currently, only prickly pears are included in this genus of about 200 Species distributed throughout most of the Americas. Chollas are now separated into the genus Cylindropuntia, which some still consider a Subgenus of Opuntia. Austrocylindropuntia, Corynopuntia and Micropuntia are also often included in the present genus, but like Cylindropuntia they seem rather well distinct. Brasiliopuntia and Miqueliopuntia are closer relatives of Opuntia.
The most commonly Culinary species is the Indian Fig Opuntia (O. ficus-indica). Most Culinary uses of the term "prickly pear" refer to this species. Prickly pears are also known as "tuna", "Nopal" or nopales, from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus (from the resemblance to the ball-and-paddle toy). This and similar species are native to Mexico.
The genus is named for the Ancient Greek city of Opus.
Like all true cactus species, prickly pears are native only to the Western hemisphere; however, they have been introduced to other parts of the globe. Prickly pear species are found in abundance in Mexico, especially in the central and western regions. They are also found in the Western United States, in arid regions in the Northwest, throughout the mid and lower elevations of the Rocky Mountains such as in Colorado, where species such as Opuntia phaeacantha, Opuntia polyacantha and others become dominant, and especially in the desert Southwest. Prickly pears are also the only types of cactus found to grow natively far east of the Great Plains states; O. humifusa is widespread throughout southern New England and Long Island, where it can be found in Northport, as well as throughout the northern Great Lakes states and southern Ontario, Canada. O. humifusa is also a prominent feature of the flora at Illinois Beach State Park, in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, north of Chicago, and of Indiana Dunes State Park southeast of Chicago.
In the Galapagos Islands there are six different species (O. echios, O. galapageia, O. helleri, O. insularis, O. saxicola, O. megasperma) divided into 14 different varieties, most varieties being confined to one or a few islands. They have thus been described as "an excellent example of Adaptive radiation". On the whole, on islands where there are tall, trunked varieties there are also giant tortoises, and islands lacking tortoises have low or prostrate forms of Opuntia.
Prickly pear species were introduced into Australia in the late 1800s, causing major ecological damage in the eastern states. They are also found in the Mediterranean region of Northern Africa, especially in the most northern nation of Africa, Tunisia, where they grow all over the countryside, and Southern Europe, especially on the island nation of Malta, where they grow all over the islands, and can be found in enormous numbers in parts of South Africa, where it was introduced from South America.
Opuntia species are the most cold-tolerant of the lowland cacti, extending into western and southern Canada; one Subspecies, Opuntia fragilis var. fragilis, has been found growing along the Beatton River in central British Columbia, southwest of Cecil Lake at 56° 17' N latitude and 120° 39' W longitude. Prickly pears also produce a fruit that is commonly eaten in Mexico, known as tuna; it also is used to make Aguas frescas. The fruit can be red, wine-red, green or yellow-orange.
Charles Darwin was the first to note that these cacti have thigmotactic Anthers: when the anthers are touched, they curl over, depositing their Pollen. This movement can be seen by gently poking the anthers of an open Opuntia Flower. The same trait has evolved convergently in other cacti (e.g. Lophophora).
Chollas, now recognized to belong into the rather distinct genus Cylindropuntia, are distinguished by having cylindrical, rather than flattened, stem segments with the large barbed spines. The stem joints of several species, notably the Jumping cholla (Cylindropuntia fulgida), are very brittle on young stems, readily breaking off when the barbed spines stick to clothing or animal bark as a method of Vegetative reproduction. The barbed spines can remain embedded in the skin, causing significant discomfort and sometimes injury.
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As food
Cactus figs are often used to make candies, jelly, or drinks such as Vodka or lemonade.
Opuntia ficus-indica has been introduced to Europe, and flourishes in areas with a suitable climate, such as the south of France, southern Italy, Sicily, where they are referred to as fichi d'India or ficurinnia (Indian figs), along the Struma River in Bulgaria, in southern Portugal and Madeira, where they are called tabaibo, figo tuno or "Indian figs", and eastern and southern Spain, as well as Gibraltar where they are known as chumbo or higo chumbo ("chumbo fig"). In Greece, it grows in such places as Corfu and its figs are known as frangosyka (French figs) or pavlosyka (Paul's figs). The figs are also grown in Cyprus, where they are known as papoutsosyka or babutsa (cactus figs). The prickly pear also grows widely on the islands of Malta, where it is enjoyed by the Maltese as a typical summer fruit (known as bajtar tax-xewk, literally 'spiny figs'), as well as being used to make the popular liqueur known as Bajtra. In Egypt, it is known as teen shouky. The prickly pear is so commonly found in the Maltese islands that it is often used as a dividing wall between many of Malta's characteristic terraced fields in place of the usual rubble walls. The prickly pear was introduced to Eritrea during the period of Italian colonisation between 1890 and 1940. It is locally known there as beles and is abundant during the months of late summer and early autumn (late July through September). The beles from the holy monastery of Bizen is said to be particularly sweet and juicy. In Libya, it is a popular summer fruit and called by the locals Hindi, which literally means Indian.
In Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other parts of the Middle East, prickly pears of the yellow and orange varieties are grown by the side of farms, beside railway tracks and other otherwise noncultivable land. It is sold in summer by street vendors, and is considered a nice refreshing fruit for that season.
Tungi is the local St. Helenian name for cactus pears. The plants (Indian fig opuntia) were originally brought to the island by the colonial ivory traders from East Africa in the 1850s. Tungi cactus now grows wild and organically in the dry coastal regions of the island. Three principal cultivars of tungi grow on the island: the 'English' with yellow fruit; the 'Madeira' with large red fruit; and the small, firm 'spiny red'.
The young stem segments, usually called Nopales, are also edible in most species of Opuntia. They are commonly used in Mexican cuisine in dishes such as huevos con nopales (eggs with nopal), or Tacos de nopales. Nopales are also an important ingredient in New Mexican cuisine.

Medicinal uses
The stem of certain Opuntia have been investigated in the treatment of Type II diabetes. Although some researchers have shown a blood glucose-lowering effect of O. streptacantha, another study of three other species of Opuntia (O. lasiacantha, O. velutina, and O. macrocentra) showed no such effect. Yet another study, on O. megacantha, raised concern about Toxic effects on the kidney.
It may be that certain species are effective and useful in diabetes while others are not, but this needs to be clarified with further research before recommending its use. Furthermore, when buying nopal in the market, it is impossible to know which species one is buying, and therefore whether or not it is useful in treating diabetes.
Indian Fig Opuntia (and probably others) might have a reducing effect on alcohol Hangover by inhibiting the production of inflammatory mediators. Studies have yielded differing results, with some studies witnessing significant reductions in Nausea, Dry mouth, and loss of appetite as well as less risk of a severe hangover, while others witnessing no compelling evidence for effects on alcohol hangover.
The gel-like Sap of prickly pears can be used as Hair conditioner.
In Mexico and the Southwest, its pulp and juice have been used to treat numerous maladies, such as wounds and inflammations of the digestive and urinary tracts.[1]
As an intoxicant
Mexicans have used the fruit for thousands of years to make colonche, an alcoholic drink. At least two commercially important Distilled spirits are produced from Opuntia fruit. In Malta, the pink herbal Bajtra Liqueur is made from Opuntia. A St. Helenian distillery produces the clear, more potent Tungi Spirit from Indian fig opuntia cv. 'English' and 'Madeira'.
Opuntia is also added sometimes to the Entheogenic drink Ayahuasca. Psychoactive compounds and derivates thereof have been confirmed in some species. These include 3,4-DMPEA, 4-hydroxy-3,5-DMPEA, and Mescaline.
In dye production
Dactylopius coccus is a Scale insect, from which the Cochineal dye is derived. D. coccus itself is native to tropical and subtropical South America and Mexico. This type of insect, a primarily sessile Parasite, lives on cacti from the genus Opuntia, feeding on moisture and nutrients in the cactus sap. The insect produces Carminic acid, which deters predation by other insects. The carminic acid can be extracted from the insect's body and eggs to make the red dye.
Cochineal is primarily used as a Red Food colouring and for Cosmetics. The cochineal dye was used by the Aztec and Maya peoples of Central and North America. Produced almost exclusively in Oaxaca, Mexico by indigenous producers, cochineal became Mexico's second most valued export after silver. The dyestuff was consumed throughout Europe, and was so highly valued that its price was regularly quoted on the London and Amsterdam Commodity Exchanges.
Now, the highest production of cochineal is by Peru, the Canary Islands and Chile. Current health concerns over artificial food additives have renewed the popularity of cochineal dyes, and the increased demand is making cultivation of the insect an attractive opportunity in other regions, such as in Mexico, where cochineal production had declined again due to the scale insect having numerous natural enemies.
Apart from cochineal, the red dye Betanin can be extracted from some Opuntia plants themselves.
Prickly pears (mostly Opuntia stricta) were imported into Australia in the 19th century for use as a natural agricultural fence and in an attempt to establish a Cochineal dye industry. They quickly became a widespread Invasive weed, rendering of farming land unproductive. In 1919 the Federal Government established the Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board to coordinate efforts to eradicate them with the State Governments. The Moth Cactoblastis cactorum from South America, whose larvae eat prickly pear, was introduced in 1925 and almost wiped out the population. The son of the noted entomologist Frederick Parkhurst Dodd, Alan Dodd was a lead official in combating the prickly pear.
The same moth, introduced accidentally further north of its native range into southern North America, is causing serious damage to some native species in that area.
Other animals that eat Opuntia include the Prickly pear island snail and Cyclura rock iguanas. The fruit are relished by many aridland animals, chiefly birds, which thus help distribute the seeds. Opuntia Pathogens include the Sac fungus Colletotrichum coccodes and Sammons' Opuntia virus. The Ant Crematogaster opuntiae and the Spider Theridion opuntia are named for their association with prickly pear cacti.
See also
- Prickly pears in Australia
- Prickly pears in Australia
- References
- (1995): The bug that changed history. Boatman's Quarterly Rreview 8(2). HTML fulltext
- (2000): Effects of Opuntia megacantha on blood glucose and kidney function in streptozotocin diabetic rats. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 69(3): 247–252. PMID 10722207 (HTML abstract)
- (2002): Taxonomy, distribution, rarity status and uses of Canadian Cacti. Haseltonia 9: 17–25 Google Scholar PDF abstract
- (1983): Effects of nopal (Opuntia sp.) on serum lipids, glycemia and body weight. Archivos de investigacion medica 14(2): 117–125. PMID 6314922 [Article in English, Spanish]
- (1995): Ayahuasca Additive Plants. In: Ayahuasca Analogues: Pangaean Entheogens.
- (2005): Interventions for preventing or treating alcohol hangover: systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Brit. Med. J. 331(7531): 1515–1518. PMID 16373736 PDF fulltext
- (1988): Natural Enemies of Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus Costa): Importance in Mexico. Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development 3: 43–49. PDF fulltext
- (1998): Glycemic Effects of Various Species of Nopal (Opuntia sp.) in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Texas Journal of Rural Health 16(1): 68–76.
- (1997): Visionary Cactus Guide: Opunita [sic]. Retrieved 2007-OCT-15.
- (2004): Effect of Opuntia ficus indica [sic] on Symptoms of the Alcohol Hangover. Arch. Intern. Med. 164(12): 1334–1340. PDF fulltext
External links
- Opuntiads of the USA
- Eating the Prickly Pear
- Arizona Salvage Restricted Protected Native Plants (AZ Dept. of Agriculture)
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> For both trees I have similar configs, I didn't change anything relative
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I can't reproduce this problem here. I've created an encrypted
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Bailouts, Moral Hazard, Fed-fed Inflation and the Budgetary Consequences of the Bailouts
(Notes for Remarks Made at a Joint Atlas/NCPA Breakfast on Friday, September 26, 2008)
I'm still under the influence of our "Cowboy Chic" night last night. I can relate to the cowboy part, but I'm not so sure about the chic. Given our preoccupation with the ongoing financial crisis, it reminded my of the way a cowboy doubles his money: "He folds it over and puts it back in his pocket."
My research has turned up only one cowboy poem about banking and collateral. To summarize, the cowboy went to the bank to borrow some money. The banker said he'd have to have some collateral and asked the cowboy: "How many cows you got?"
The cowboy was a little put off by that, but everything worked out all right, and the cowboy made a nice profit on this cattle. When he went to the bank to pay off his loan, the banker encouraged him to deposit his profits in the bank. The cowboy thought about it for a minute, then asked the banker, "How many cows you got?"
The financial crisis is over a year old now, and is getting worse despite the Fed's best efforts. The Fed has been playing whack-a- mole for a year now-it knocks one problem down and up pops another.
As a rock and roll fan, I'd cite Buddy Holly's song: Crying, Waiting, Hoping as capturing the mood of the past several months. As a country music fan, I'd probably choose "I can't kiss you good-bye darling cause you won't go away."
I don't have much time this morning, so I'll just summarize the origins of the sub-prime mess with a sophisticated Japanese Haiku:If good loans Don't earn enough to suit us Maybe bad loans will.
Of course, all this happened within the context of long-standing American culture of debt, which I've tried to capture in a less sophisticated rhyme:My house is under water, for sure My car is upside down, you bet But I'm getting me a consolidation loan And finally getting out of debt.
We have too much debt and not enough credit. This strikes me as odd since credit and debt are two sides of the same coin, and, by definition, are always equal.
What's been going on is a long, painful deleveraging process; so, I expect my next poem to be titled "The Deleveraging Blues."
But I'm blocked, like the credit markets, and I can't get anything to rhyme.
All I've got so far is"My capital is too thin to spread on a cracker What I need is a Middle Eastern backer Or maybe a Chinese sovereign wealth fund Would lend me back some of my mon-ny"
[I learned that little method of cheating for a rhyme from Arlo Guthrie's motorcycle song.
"I don't want to die; I just want to ride my motorcy-cle"]
By the way, what rhymes with toaster? I don't want to have the bank repossess my toaster.
The Real Economy
On the impact of the crisis on the economy:
A little-noticed GDP revision gave us a negative 4th quarter 2007-the first negative quarter since this expansion began in the 4th quarter of 2001.
The 1st and 2nd quarters 2008 were positive, largely because of the impact of the cheaper dollar on net exports-exports went up and imports went down. In the 2nd quarter, real GDP rose 3.3 percent, and increased exports and reduced imports together accounted for 3.1 percentage points of that. [The plus 3.1 percent increase was just revised down to plus 2.8 percent.]
I think renewed weakening in the economy is inevitable. Consumers, who now account for 70 percent of total spending, have been sustaining the economy by spending all their disposable income and saving none of it. They thought of their capital gains in the stock market and their homes as their savings, and would usually withdraw some of their equity when they refinanced.
Those two piggy banks for consumers are now long gone. Most consumers need to consume less and save more, but if too many of them become thrifty at the same time, we'll have-pardon me ladies and gentlemen-a "Paradox of Thrift," as described by Keynes.
The downdraft in labor markets is getting stronger. We've had a decline in payroll employment for the past 8 months, and the unemployment rate has finally moved above 6 percent.
We may not get two consecutive negative real GDP quarters, but I think the business cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research is almost certain to declare a recession, beginning last December or January. The recession, or slowdown, is unlikely to be as short-lived as the last two, and probably not as mild.
The Credit Markets
The pipes of the credit markets have been clogging up, and it was still getting worse as of yesterday morning. Too bad my mother is no longer with us. She could have fixed this mess. No matter what was wrong with me, her cure was always a large dose of Syrup Pepsin, her laxative of choice. I'm pretty sure that most of you think of the present bail-out proposal as an appropriate target for a laxative.
What is vs. what ought to be.
There's a country song that says, "I tell it like it used to be when you were still in love with me," and, later, "I tell it like it ought to be 'cause how it is killing me."
How things ought to be is that the moral hazard involved in the mortgage securitization process should have been recognized and dealt with years ago.
How it ought to be is that Freddie and Fannie should have been restrained years ago by eliminating their subsidized borrowing rate.
Investment banks ought to have had some limits on their debt relative to capital, to prevent excessive leverage. However, given where we were this past year and where we are now, I think government intervention along the lines of the Paulson plan is necessary to prevent a financial meltdown.
Bailouts and Moral Hazard
I know I can't make you feel good about any of this, but things aren't as bad as the conventional wisdom has it. I'll comment briefly on bailouts, moral hazard, potential inflation, and the budget impact of what's been going on.
The main reason to avoid moral hazard is to avoid rewarding overly risky behavior by decision makers so that future decision makers won't emulate their behavior.
The Fed facilitated the buyout of Bear Stearns by J.P. Morgan/Chase by lending $30 billion on collateral after a large haircut.
Bear was not bailed out because top management lost their jobs and stockholders were virtually wiped out. They were gobbled up, not bailed out.
For that reason I don't think the Fed's loan created significant moral hazard that would invite others to emulate the policies that brought Bear down. Bears creditors and counterparties were helped compared to the alternative outcome of bankruptcy. That might bias future creditors to favor larger institutions, but these secondary parties aren't as relevant to the moral hazard problem and the decisionmakers.
The situation is similar with the Fed's $85 billion, fully collateralized, bridge loan to AIG.
The CEO of AIG, on the job only a few months, was fired by the Secretary of the Treasury expressly to avoid moral hazard.
Also, the Treasury got an 80 percent equity stake in AIG, a company that arguably could have made it on their own after the bridge loan. This also is not an outcome future decision makers will want to emulate because AIG was treated so well.
The takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was also similar-not a bailout, but a takeover. The CEOs lost their jobs and the stockholders were wiped out. I would argue that no moral hazard affecting decision makers was created by the Fed's offer of access to the discount window and the Treasury's potential injection of funds. After all, they were put into conservatorship by their regulator.
The two CEOs were let go even though most of the accounting irregularities occurred on their predecessors watch. Stockholders were either wiped out or virtually wiped out.
I would not define any of these cases as "bailouts" that would encourage copying of their sins, even though creditors and counterparties may have benefited.
After all, good economic policy that contributes to a good economy also creates a type of moral hazard by encouraging more entrepreneurial risk taking. I would call this benign moral hazard. [This argument was made persuasively in a WSJ opinion piece by the Research Director of the Dallas Fed.]
Was the Fed's role inflationary?
The Fed brought down its target Fed Funds rate from 5 ¼ to 2 percent and created new facilities for channeling reserves to those in the greatest need in addition to the loans mentioned above.
What many people have missed is that the Fed has been offsetting these injections of liquidity through the discount window with open market operations. There has NOT been a sharp or significant bulge in most measures of the money supply.
With respect to interest rates, the Fed's rate reductions on the short end of the curve have not brought down rates farther down the curve, especially mortgage rates. Only Treasury rates have declined, in a flight to safety.
Banks and other financial institutions are scared and are hoarding their liquidity. The velocity of money is no doubt declining and, right now, I think the net impact could be more deflationary than inflationary going forward given the massive destruction of paper wealth in the deleveraging process.
The Fiscal Impact of the $700 billion Plan
With respect to Treasury expenditures on the $700 billion bailout package, as the Secretary has emphasized and no-one seems to get, they don't plan to put the money down a rat hole, which is often the case with other government expenditures. Assets will be purchased initially, but ultimately they will be sold back into the market. They need President Clinton to help them explain that this particular government spending is an "investment"-not normal government spending.
If the package is approved as proposed by the Treasury Secretary, I think there is a reasonable chance that after a couple of years the operation may turn a profit. If not a profit, then the net loss will certainly be only a fraction of the up-front cost. However, all bets are off if the plan is loaded down with the disincentives to participate currently being discussed.
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Who will your team draft? Will it be the best pick, or will they do something crazy and unexpected?
It's possible that there will still be a lockout, which will have a large impact on this draft.
The NFL draft experts out there kind of take this into consideration. As I update you through the day with my mock draft thoughts, I will be comparing them to the expert picks.
Today, we will be looking at the mock drafts of Todd McShay, Mel Kiper, Pat Kirwan, Rob Rang and Chad Reuter, plus mine.
1. Carolina Panthers: Cam Newton, QB
17. New England Patriots: Ryan Kerrigan, DE
5. Arizona Cardinals: Von Miller, OLB
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9. Dallas Cowboys: J.J. Watt, DE
25. Seattle Seahawks: Jake Locker, QB
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on October 23, 2012 - 12:40 AM
So many times, when star musicians announce they're embarking on a "farewell tour," their fans have good reason to be suspicious.
How often have you seen a musician try to bring out an audience for "one last tour," which is inevitably followed a couple of years later by "The Comeback Tour"? Then, sometime after that, another farewell tour, and so on.
Sadly, the "Goodbye Tour" of the great country singer Glen Campbell likely is his final trip down the road. Campbell's Buffalo fans will have their chance to say goodbye when he takes the stage in the University at Buffalo's Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Campbell, a superb singer and guitarist from Arkansas, has been in the public eye since the 1960s. He is 76 years old and suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Little by little, the disease is taking his memory, but instead of retreating, Campbell and his family have been open about his illness.
He announced that he had Alzheimer's and began his final tour more than a year ago. With the aid of TelePrompters and several family members and close friends in his band, he has done quite well, according to reviews that have appeared all over the nation.
"[Campbell] looked good, moved well and took immediate control of his audience," the entertainment paper Variety reported after a concert in late June at the famous Hollywood Bowl. "Best of all, his guitar playing sounded unimpaired; fast, funky with brilliant fills and in-the-pocket extended solos that made it clear that he's still one of the great pop and country guitarists."
Introduced to the public by the Smothers Brothers, Campbell teamed up with his songwriter buddy Jimmy Webb to create some of the most memorable songs of the '60s and '70s, including "Galveston," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress," and perhaps one of the most beautiful hit songs of all time, "Wichita Lineman."
For years one of the recording industry's most in-demand sidemen, Campbell provided guitar backing for some of the biggest names in music, including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, the Righteous Brothers, the Byrds, and the Mamas and the Papas.
He also briefly replaced Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys before he started making big hits under his own name. During the late 1970s and into the 1980s, cocaine, alcohol abuse and a stormy relationship with singer Tanya Tucker drove him close to the edge of madness. He later said becoming a born-again Christian saved his life.
Last year, Campbell recorded a powerful, poignant album, "Ghost on the Canvas," which some music journalists picked as one of the year's best. There have been plenty of Webb songs, other hits like "Rhinestone Cowboy" and songs from "Ghost" on the ongoing tour, which recently took Campbell to New York City's Carnegie Hall.
In addition to showcasing some great songs, Campbell's final tour has caught the notice of medical professionals, who give him credit for refusing to let Alzheimer's destroy him.
"Alzheimer's disease is something most people would rather look away from," senior care expert Laurie Edwards-Tate wrote earlier this year in the Washington Times. "But Glen Campbell's willingness to be open with his fans proves to them that a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease does not need to be terminal or hopeless."
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Private family services will be held in Chinle, Ariz. Arrangements are by Muffley Funeral Home of Clovis.
Ms. Draper was born Dec. 15, 1958, in Brigham City, Utah to Teddy Sr. and Florence Catron Draper. She worked as a secretary for the reservation schools.
Survivors include two sons, Anthony Nez and Alfred Nez; her parents, Teddy Sr. and Florence Draper; five brothers, Teddy Draper Jr., Michael Draper Sr., Otto Draper Sr., Teddy Draper III and Wendell Draper; and seven sisters, Geneivia Stephens, Gloria Begody, Theodroa Wilson, Wendy Draper, Theoshia Van Winkle, Loraine Wilson and Francine Catron.
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman will finally take the stage of the Capri Theatre on Saturday for a benefit concert.
Chapman's concert was rescheduled twice due to illness. The concert will start at 7 p.m.
A baby Taylor guitar decorated by Chapman and originally auctioned off at her first concert at the theatre in 2006 will be auctioned off again at Saturday's event. The guitar is signed by Chapman, members of her band, including her son Ernest Chapman, Tripp Dudley and Annie Roboff. Other musicians Vince Gill, Michael McDonald, Steve Cropper, Eilidh Patterson and Ruth Trimble have signed the guitar.
A minimum bid of $1,000 is requested, which will go to the Capri Theatre Building Fund.
Chapman will also be conducting a songwriter's workshop at the Cloverdale Playhouse from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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On 1th of Octomer 2013 Saturday, This company named Omega Ifrastructure gave one Advertisement in Pune local newspaper Anandbazar Patrika in the business and general information column that they require building roofs or land for Installation of mobile tower, they are offering around Rs 90000.00 (Ninety thousand) per month and around Rs 8000000.00 (Eighty Lakhs) as advance security deposit.
I have free land so I send request message to them.
When I called one of their given phone numbers, (Phone number- 08587894733) one lady representative received the call and introduced herself as Priyanka Sharma, she asked me the address and told me to wait for about 10 minutes , and she added that in the mean time she is going to check through satellite whether our address location is suitable for installation of tower. After some we had a talk over phone and told me that after checking through satellite now it is confirmed that our address is suitable for installation of their company's tower. When I asked about the tower detail she told me they are going to install 3G tower ( i think Airtel or Aircel she told me). Now she told me that I have to get myself registered for the further procedure of installation and as a registration fee I have to pay Rs 2800.00 (Twenty eight hundred only) through their SBI account. She confirmed me that as soon as I pay the registration fee through SBI within two days their personnels are going to come with installation equipments and also tehy are going to bring the security deposit amount cheque as advance .
[ Please Note That: Priyanka Sharma when repeatedly asked by me whether after two days every formalities will be completed , each time she assured me that this Rs 2800.00 is the only amount which I have to pay and subsequently within next two days they are going to pay me the advance amount , that is Rs 80,00,000 in terms of security deposit for the installation ]
Somehow on 16th of Octomber 2013 I kept mortgage one gold ring and arranged the amount , subsequently deposited the amount in my parents SBI account,then on 18th of Octomber 2013, Wednesday I visited our local SBI branch with one cheque drawn in favor of ARVIND VARMA as per direction of Priyanka Sharma through SMS, she also provided the account number and over phone I told her the branch code through which I am depositing the amount,she insisted to deposit cash or bearer cheque, but I paid through Account payee cheque. She told me that Mr Arvind Varma is the person taking care of our region.
In the evening she confirmed me that payment was received and took my mailing address.
On 20th of September 2013,Friday I received a call from the number 09654309803 and a gentleman introduced himself as Rajen Kumar Singh and told me that they have already dispatched their company detail and letters through speed post on 18th of September 2013, when I asked that Installation was supposed to begin that day only and I was to receive payment from them, Mr Rajen Kumar Singh told me that as soon as I receive the speed post letter from them I have to give him a call.
I waited with patience and on 21st of September 2013, Saturday in the afternoon I received the Speed post envelope through post man.
When I opened the envelope there were some printed papers, the first paper was about Omega Infrastructures Terms and Conditions and there was one point where it is written – Government Tax 1st installment of Rs. 25,000/- and 2nd installment of Rs. 24,750/- Service Tax Customer have to pay within 7 days after receiving the Documents.
Next it is written that after paying this amount, company's working team will come to site and star to install mobile tower.
In the next line it is written that Monthly rent and remaining amount will be delivered by working team.
After receiving envoloper I search about the company on internet. But could not found much about this company. They I found one article on the consumer cout forum regarding omega infrastructure. There they have mention how this organization full them. So I request other people to not belive in such companies.


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Life- full of challenges - man accept realities - he to know - weaknesses and strongholds - ignorance of one's weaknesses take him nowhere - knowing and acknowledging this before making use of strongholds or virtues he must get rid of weaknesses - otherwise his voyage be stumbled - he plug the holes lest he be drowned.
Life is full of challenges. Man has to acept realities in his life. He must know his weaknesses and strongholds for his progress. Ignorance of one's weaknesses takes him nowhere. It will hinder his progress in life. He must be knowing and acknowlwdging this before he goes to make use of his strongholds or virtues for his well-being.
Man must get rid of his weaknesses otherwise his voyage of life would be stumbled. He is likely to overestimate himself and underestimate others. He must plug the holes lest he would be drowned. If he is to make progress really he must know himself fully.


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The protagonist of Harri Nykänen's Nights of Awe is named Ariel Kafka, and he's one of two Jewish police officers in Helsinki.
Now, Finland's entire Jewish population is no bigger than a couple of good-sized Long Island bar mitzvahs, so it's no shock that Jews would be somewhat exotic figures there. Nykänen has Kafka react with head-shaking amusement to well-meaning questions about Jews, and the deadpan humor is of a piece with what Nykänen did so well in Raidand the Blackest Sheep, the only previous book of his available in English.


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Jonah Goldberg: Will Clinton tell us truth about Benghazi?
The only real accountability for the Benghazi scandal will have to come in 2016.
Reading through the competing partisan reports and listening to the congressional testimony of various officials last week, it seems fair to say that no actual crimes were committed (though you never know what you don't know).
There were, in at least a figurative sense, criminal lapses in judgment by senior officials. Many of those lapses are recounted in the Accountability Review Board report. It found "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department" that "resulted in a special mission security posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place."
Translation: U.S. officials were caught by surprise by a terrorist attack on 9/11 in a country where our ambassador had repeatedly warned his superiors -- including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- that security was grossly inadequate. That ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was vindicated in a pyrrhic sense when he was murdered by well-organized terrorists.
Clinton picked four of the five members of the "independent" board, and they were kind enough to show her a draft before they released it to Congress. The ARB assigned all meaningful blame to some midlevel officials. ARB members declined to interview Clinton because, according to testimony Thursday by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Michael Mullen (the chairman and vice chairman of the ARB), they determined at the outset that it wouldn't be necessary. None of the people who were interviewed for the report were under oath.
Congressional Republicans would like to get relevant witnesses to testify under oath, but they claim that the State Department and CIA are blocking that. But to listen to defenders of the administration and a lot of allegedly neutral journalists, this basic exercise in congressional oversight is a deranged and entirely fabricated partisan witch hunt. It's an odd charge given that the only obvious fabrication in the whole affair was the relentless effort to cast the attack that killed four Americans as a spontaneous reaction to an obscure and shoddy YouTube video.
But we probably know what happened. In the midst of a hard-fought presidential election, the administration, and specifically the president, was caught embarrassingly flat-footed by a terrorist attack. And even when it knew the attack was still going on -- without any possible knowledge of when it was going to end -- it still failed to send any help. The ARB establishes that much.
In their testimony last Thursday, Pickering and Mullen softened that criticism by noting that the U.S. military can't be expected to defend every diplomatic outpost everywhere in the world all of the time. Fair enough. But maybe it's not unreasonable for the military to be ready for an attack in, say, the Middle East on Sept. 11? Particularly in a country where officials knew security was a huge problem?
Hillary Clinton is a master of the passive-aggressive art of dragging out investigations until the press and public lose interest and spinners can use abracadabra phrases like "it's all old news," "let's just move on" and, most famously, "what difference does it make?"
The irony in this case is that it's precisely that tactic that has now turned a political problem for Obama into a political problem for Clinton. And unfortunately, the only real accountability we can hope for on Benghazi will come when she runs for president herself.
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The Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) was established by the International Sociological Association in 1962 with a view to opening up a broader range of opportunities for the participation of individual members in the activities of the Association in the field of sociology of law.
Part 1. Aims and Objectives
1.1. The RCSL shall act, principally in the framework of the International Sociological Association, as a free association of scholars active in sociology of law or socio legal studies all around the world, whatever their nationality, opinion and scientific or methodological tendency.
1.2. In order to achieve its institutional ends, the RCSL shall undertake measures:
1.3. RCSL shall therefore:
Part 2. Membership
2.1. Members of the RCSL may be regular or affiliated. Regular members shall be individuals or collective members in good standing with ISA. Affiliated members shall be individuals or institutions interested in the activities of RC12, who are not member of ISA. Members should be individuals active in research, publication or teaching in the field of sociology of law, socio-legal studies or neighbouring fields or associations which support the development of socio-legal studies. Scholars or associations not showing these qualifications may be admitted as observer members.
2.2. Individual members shall be admitted upon application to the RCSL Secretary, whose decision shall have immediate executive effect
2.3. Associations shall be admitted by the Board, whose decision shall have immediate executive effect, subject to ratification by the first subsequent Members' Assembly.
2.4. Individual members and associations (through their representative or spokesperson) shall have the same rights and duties and must adhere to the stipulations of the present Statutes.
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3.1.The Members' Assembly of RCSL shall be convened on the occasion of each conference of the RCSL.
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3.3. All members can take part in the meeting, but only members in good standing in the RCSL shall have the right to vote. Proxies shall not be admitted.
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4.9. An RCSL member who wants to be a member of a Working Group can become a member at any time by notifying the Working Group chairperson. A member of a Working Group may resign from the Working Group at any time by sending a notice of resignation to the chairperson of the Working Group. The notices shall be sent by e-mail or by postal mail.
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5.2. The Board shall consist of the RCSL president, 7 elected members, the chairpersons of the recognised working groups and the immediate past RCSL president. In its first meeting, it shall elect from among its members two vice-presidents, one secretary and the RCSL representative and alternate to the Research Council of the ISA. In due course, it shall also designate the RCSL representatives within the Board of Directors of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law of Oñati and within any other pertinent body. The RCSL past presidents shall be non-voting members of the Board. The winner of the Podgórecki Prize for emergent legal scholars shall be a non-voting member of the Board for the subsequent two years.
5.3. Each member of the Board must be a member in good standing of both the RC12 and of the ISA in accordance with the ISA Statutes. The places of any Board member not in good standing with either the ISA or RCSL shall be declared temporarily vacant by the President, and the vacancy filled according to paragraph 5.4.
5.4. Temporary vacancies in the Board between consecutive ISA World Congresses shall be filled by appointment by the President, in accordance with ISA Statute 4.5.
5.5. The president of the RCSL shall not be immediately re-elected. The other elected members of the Board shall not be elected more than twice consecutively.
5.6. The Board may co-opt up to four observer members, with no voting rights, in order to extend RCSL activities in specific areas or to take care of specific activities, or to represent a continent or country which is lacking in the Board. The scientific director of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law of Oñati shall be an additional observer member of the RCSL, provided he/she is not already an elected or ex officio member. Should they not be Board Members, the founders of the RCSL shall be invited to attend the Board' sessions.
5.7. The RCSL president shall represent the Committee towards its members as well as towards third parties. Should he/she resign or die, or should his/her activities be seriously hindered, his/her powers shall be exercised by the vice president oldest in age, who shall be the acting president until the next elections.
5.8. The secretary shall execute the initiatives decided upon by the Board, admit new individual members in the first instance, update the membership list and send a newsletter to the RCSL members at least every six months in order to inform them about activities undertaken and planned. The secretary shall also act as treasurer and in this capacity he/she shall collect the membership fees for RCSL and its constituent working groups and submit to the Board an annual budget of the Committee every year.
5.9. A quorum of half the Board's voting members shall be necessary for the Board to take decisions. The Board shall take its decisions by the majority of those present and voting, unless a qualified majority is required by the Bylaws. In the case of parity within the Board, the President shall have the casting vote. In case of need or lack of quorum, votes can be taken by postal ballot or by e-mail ballot, on President's proposal.
5.10. The Board may establish an Executive Committee composed of the president, the vice-presidents, the secretary and two members, whose task shall be that of dealing with current business between Board meetings.
5.11. Reports on the funds of the RCSL shall be made every year and sent to all RCSL members. Decisions on the use of funds shall be made by the Board annually.
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6.1. All individual members, either regular or affiliated, and collective members shall be entitled to vote for the Board. All individual regular members in good standing shall be eligible for election as president or as Board members.
6.2 Six months prior to the next ISA World Congress, a nominating committee shall be formed by the Board, in order to identify possible candidates for nomination. The nominating committee shall prepare a form inviting nominations, to be sent to all regular members at least twenty weeks before the forthcoming World Congress.
6.3 All regular members of RC12 shall be entitled to nominate candidates for the Board. Nominated candidates must be regular members of RC12 and must agree in writing to be a candidate.
6.4 The nominating committee shall prepare a ballot listing all nominated candidates for the respective positions on the Board and providing each candidate's CV. In case of several nominations for the same position, the nominated candidates shall be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
6.5 The vote shall be secret and taken either by postal mail or by electronic procedure, according to the Board's decision. Valid votes shall only be those received by the President no later than 14 days before the first day of the ISA World Congress.
6.6. All members may express one vote for the president and seven votes for the board, separately. If there is a tied vote, the candidate oldest in age shall prevail.
Part. 7. Annual Conference
7. 1. The Board shall do everything within its power to arrange a conference of the RCSL at least once a year. The meetings shall preferably be devoted to specific theoretical and methodological themes, although general sessions may be held in addition. The selection of the themes and the call for papers shall be the responsibility of the Board, in cooperation with the local organising committee. The Board shall encourage countries not represented to participate and to send suggestions and contributions.
Part. 8. Statutes amendment
8.1. Proposals for amendment to the statutes can be submitted by any member of the Board, or by any five members in good standing of RC12. They shall be collected by the secretary, then submitted first to the Board for discussion and subsequently to the members for a vote through a postal ballot or by electronic procedure, preferably in the election year and at the same time as the election for the president and other Board members.
8.2. Amendments to the statutes shall be deemed to be adopted if they are approved by a 2/3 majority of those voting.
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The latest revenue forecast predicts a slower than anticipated recovery. That means Washington's $735 million reserve fund for the next two years has dwindled to $163 million. Democrat Ed Murray chairs the Senate budget committee. He says lawmakers may have to come back next January and reduce state spending even more.
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