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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service is holding a series of community meetings seeking community input on proposed Hawaiian monk seal recovery actions.
Specifically, NOAA Fisheries is seeking information on potential adverse effects to historic properties and/or traditional cultural properties (e.g., archaeological sites), as well as information on potential impacts to cultural resources and practices (e.g., fish ponds and fish pond operation) that may result from implementation of actions proposed in the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery.
Examples of the proposed actions include capture, veterinary treatment, transportation, and release of monk seals on shorelines throughout the Hawaiian archipelago.
Input from community meetings around the State will be incorporated into a revised Cultural Impact Assessment for the PEIS and will form an important component of NOAA's compliance with the National Historic Preservation Division Section 106.
The Draft PEIS is available for review at: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/eis/hawaiianmonkseal.htm
Meeting Schedule (all meetings to be held between 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.)
- Nov. 14 - Hana High School
- Nov. 15 - Lahainaluna High School
- Nov. 27 - Hilo High School
- Nov. 28 - Kealakehe Elementary School
- Dec. 11 - Waianae High School
- Dec. 12 - Waialua High & Intermediate School
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Home List of Titles Observer-based robust finite-time cooperative consensus control for multi-agent networks
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- This paper studies the finite-time consensus tracking control for multi-agent networks. The time-varying control input and the velocity of the leader is unknown to any follower. Only the position of the leader is known to its neighbors. We first propose a new finite-time multiple-surface sliding mode observer to estimate the leader's velocity. It is seen that the estimation error of the observer can converge to zero in a finite time. Then, we prove that finite-time consensus tracking of multi-agent networks can be achieved on a new terminal sliding mode surface. Simulation results are presented to validate the analysis.
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- Convergence; Mobile robot; Mobile robots; Multi-robot systems; Multiple-surface sliding mode observer; Multiagent network; Observers; Robust control; Robust finite-time cooperative consensus tracking control; Time-varying control; Time-varying systems; Tracking; Variable structure systems
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University of Hawaii Regents met in executive session for almost 4.5 hours Thursday.
They covered a number of issues, including a plan to pay outgoing president MRC Greenwood $24,000 a month under tenured position at the UH medical school.
Regents met behind closed doors in spite of appeals by open government advocate Beverly Keever, and Malia Zimmerman of the Hawaii Reporter to discuss the matter in an open forum.
But Eric Martinson, in his last meeting as board chairman, said it was considered a personnel issue and would be taken up in executive session.
The regents did vote on a new leadership slate, naming former U.S. diplomat and sitting regent John Holzman as the new chairman of the board.
Holtzman, along with other regents, said they felt Greenwood in her new post was a bargain.
Greenwood announced she was stepping down early from her post as president because of health and family issues.
"We have an agreement with her. What she is going to be focusing her efforts on is to create a center of diabetes and obesity here in Hawaii affiliated with John A.Burns School of Medicine. A center like that will be a tremendous asset to Hawaii," said Holzman.
But Greenwood only wants to work for six months out of the year. Holzman could not explain why Greenwood would not work full time, or what she would be doing the other six months of the year.
The regents were expected to name an interim president at the meeting , but said they needed to do more vetting and would likely call a special meeting to vote on the matter soon.
Greenwood steps down at the end of August.
The board also said the selection committee charged with finding a new permanent replacement for Greenwood will be expanded from 7 to 12 members. It plans to hire a headhunting firm and will be creating a new website to post the status of the search.


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7, 2002
Washington, DC – Wednesday, August 7, 2002
– Education Leaders Council (ELC) today announced that
Illinois is among the six states asked to lead the first phase
of the Following the Leaders project designed to increase
student achievement and the quality of public education in
America. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Following
the Leaders provides states with technology and hands-on guidance
to enable teachers, administrators and policymakers to implement
the dramatic changes in educational quality mandated by the
federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
"We look forward to entering into this unique partnership
with the Council and these other states," said State
Superintendent of Education Robert E. Schiller. "Illinois
has already undertaken many of the initiatives required by
No Child Left Behind, and we are pleased to be selected as
a national leader in implementing NCLB."
"ELC is eager to work with Illinois in this first phase
of Following the Leaders to realize the goals of the new law,"
said Lisa Graham Keegan, CEO of the Education Leaders Council.
"Last month, 28 states applied to participate in this
project. Each applicant showed great enthusiasm and a 'can-do'
spirit. Illinois has an infectious enthusiasm and commitment
to students and we have the tools to help them put the promise
of NCLB into practice," she said.
Following the Leaders includes a combination of standardized
tools and reports, as well as teaching aids and other features
that can be customized to particular school needs. Teachers
and principals will benefit from direct assistance as they
begin to employ new resources that not only help them to align
their lessons to state standards, but also to determine individual
student progress. Parents also play a significant role, as
they will now receive regular updates about their child's
performance, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and
responsible for student achievement, a hallmark of NCLB.
Illinois will be required immediately to mobilize a leadership
team, including a project coordinator; identify and prepare
10 to 15 of the 435 Title I schools identified by the state
as eligible to participate; provide detailed technical specifications
for each of the schools and state offices that will be involved;
and begin a comprehensive needs assessment.
Alaska, Illinois, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and
West Virginia were selected for their immediate capacity to
use Following the Leader tools effectively for realizing the
goals mandated by the NCLB, the landmark statute enacted in
January 2002 that requires dramatic increases in the quality
of public education. The law calls for all students to be
tested annually in grades three through eight beginning with
the 2002-2003 school year. School ratings will be based on
tests of individual student performance, rather than on average
class scores, to allow parents, teachers and policymakers
to better address student needs so that "no child is
left behind" in pursuit of a quality education. Schools
not meeting minimum standards for student achievement must
provide parents and students with a wide range of supplemental
learning and instructional services.
The six states chosen for the first phase represent a broad
cross-section of the U.S. education landscape. Some states
are well on their way to compliance; still others recognize
that there is more work to be done. The six states are small
and large, spread across the geographic, economic and political
Throughout the selection process, all 28 states that applied
were informed that there are no winners and losers. September
2002 is simply the beginning of the first phase with the second
rollout of states scheduled for January 2003 and yet another
later in the year. Expansion of the program to additional
states is dependent upon future appropriations, as is the
extension of Following the Leaders services to other schools
and districts within existing states. The first phase of the
project does include capacity-building features necessary
to sustain reform and build for the future. Furthermore, ELC
and its partners are committed to action and the need to deliver
a model with workable solutions for the nation to follow.
About Following the Leaders
Following the Leaders is a nationwide initiative
coordinated by ELC in partnership with Project Achieve, AccountabilityWorks,
the Milken Family Foundation and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.
Funding for Following the Leaders was awarded by the U.S.
Department of Education on June 28, 2002. Applications for
the project were received from 28 states on July 19, 2002,
including: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, IO, LA,
For more information visit: www.followingtheleaders.org.
About Education Leaders Council
Washington DC-based Education Leaders Council (ELC) is a not-for-profit,
policy "action tank." It is comprised of reform-minded
state leaders who are committed to make a difference in education
and student achievement. As advocates for school choice, teacher
quality, accountability and standards, ELC is actively engaged
in regional and national debates focused on these issues,
maintaining that "good enough" is not good enough.
ELC shares the belief that the time is now for no child to
be left behind, continuing to exert pressure and provide the
resources necessary to ensure excellence in education for
For more information visit: www.educationleaders.org.
Following the Leaders –
Fact Sheet
August 7, 2002
Following the Leaders (FTL) engages participating states,
districts and schools in a rapid deployment of the No
Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). It provides all participants
not only with the tools they need to put the essential
elements of reform into place, but also with the constant
guidance, expertise and reform-oriented philosophy they
need to ensure that these goals are fully and permanently
Education Leaders Council received $3.5 million from
the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement
of Education to lay an immediate groundwork to ensure
the success of the project.
FTL funding will ultimately determine the number of
states participating in the program, as well as the opportunities
to extend the program within existing states.
FTL garnered an overwhelming initial response with 28
states that submitted applications to participate in the
project. 12 states were invited for interviews and six
states were selected to participate in the first phase
of the project. These six states include: Alaska, Illinois,
Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia.
FTL does not award cash grants. It offers states and
schools a comprehensive system for analyzing the extensive
data that is required to be collected and reported under
NCLB, and then using that information to set policies
that will improve classroom instruction and school management,
ensure state assessments are rigorous and meaningful,
and that data (and the resulting analysis) are readily
available to parents, schools, districts, and policymakers.
FTL builds upon work that has already been done in the
states and helps them improve their own systems of assessment.
It does not dictate to states what their standards should
be or what tests it should use. Rather, it provides states
with the best information about their current assessments
to allow states to determine their needs and what changes,
if any, are needed.
FTL provides a comprehensive system of data analysis
for the Congress and US Department of Education to gauge
progress toward meeting high academic standards, closing
the achievement gap, and realizing that ambitious goals
of NCLB.
FTL provides State education agencies, governors and
other state policymakers with the ability to closely monitor
progress in districts and schools toward meeting the requirements
of AYP. It also provides them with an idea of what a quality
assessment system looks like, allowing them, if they so
choose, to continually improve the State assessment.
FTL provides Classroom teachers with the ability to
assess the effectiveness of their instruction, see the
academic progress of their own students on any given
day, and access best practices and effective instructional
FTL provides the technology framework to facilitate
communications between teachers and parents, ultimately
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North Texas Soccer's 2013 Annual General Meeting will be held July 12-14 at the Overton Hotel and Convention Center in Lubbock, TX. Registration for the AGM is currently underway. Early registration is $80. All registrations received after June 14 will be $105 and on-site registration on the days of the event are $130 per registrant.
Any bylaw/rule change proposals must be received by April 12 at 5:00 p.m. North Texas Soccer Hall of Fame nominations are due by April 15 at 5:00 p.m. and nominations for yearly honors must be submitted by May 31 at 5:00 p.m.
For more information about the Annual General Meeting, and to download registration forms and documents, click here. New information about vendor exhibits (deadline May 22) and election of officers (due by June 7 at 5:00 p.m.) has recently been added.
Finally, a four-man scramble golf tournament will start at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, July 12 at The Rawls Course. Awards for longest drive, closest to the pin, winning team, and various other amazing prizes will be presented. Put your own team together or take your chance at being placed on a team. The cost is $65.00 per player, which includes carts, green fees, range balls, lunch, and tax. Deadline to register is June 21, 2013.
Please continue to check back as we get closer to the event for additional information about the North Texas Soccer 2013 Annual General Meeting.


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Season's End
It doesn't get any easier. Two seasons in a row, both ending with a loss. Last year was more devastating–we should have been in the playoffs. This year we knew how it was going to end, but it is still tough. As I write this merely hours after the game, it still hasn't sunk in. I can't believe we just ended the season with a loss to the Pirates of all people. But it's true. And it's going to hit me sometime this week. But I can't believe it's over.
Everyone knows the Padres had a horrible year. It was disgusting, disappointing, and utterly detestable. But they're my team. I am a Padres fan, through thick and thin. As bad as this season was, there are so many positives. The young players: Will Venable, Chase Headley, Nick Hundley. The veteran players: Trevor Hoffman, Brian Giles. And the comeback players: Jody Gerut, Mike Adams, Shawn Estes. Adrian with his big bat, and Kouz with his stellar glove. From the induvidual standpoint, there were many positives. But as a team, it wasn't working. 99 losses is proof of that.
This season changed my life. At the beginning of the season, you would have called me an obsessed fan. I would listen to every Spring Training game. As the season started, I was all-Padres all the time. When I wasn't on the internet reading stuff from the Padres, Union-Tribune, and XX 1090 websites, I was writing, thinking, and breathing Padres baseball. My schedule and my time were revolving around the Padres. I was up listening to every pitch of the 22 inning game. When I had the opportunity to go to a youth conference in Minnesota, there was consultation of my Padres schedule. Thankfully, my love for the Padres didn't hinder me from going, because it changed my life. In the weeks before I left, I was growing incresingly depressed over the Padres. I wouldn't sleep well after a loss. My attitude and outlook on life was horrible. Because I was so attached to the Padres, their patheticness was hitting me hard. Looking back, I think I was seriously depressed. But I didn't see it then. The day I left, the Padres got beat in extras by a walk-off grand slam in St. Louis. I was really upset. I knew I needed help. One of my classes at the conference was called "Does God Care About Sports?" It was taught by a pastor, a big football fan. I learned so much from him. He had been an obsessed fan once like I was. This pastor helped me realize my problem. The Padres were essentially, my idol. I was pretty much worshipping them. The problem was that the Padres were taking God's place in my life. That's why I was so depressed. Because without God, I'm dead. The scary part is that I didn't realize that the Padres had taken over. There are a few things that are essential to this situation: 1. I recognized that I had a problem. 2. I wanted to change. Also, I was disconnected from the Padres for the whole week. I knew nothing that the Padres were doing during the week. When I talked to my youth and family pastor later that day, he noticed a change in me. He told me that he had noticed that something had been weighing on me, and that God was setting me free from it. It was then that I realized how awesome my God is. He was relieving me of a burden that I didn't realize I had been carrying.
What happened that week is what I like to call "The Release". I let go of the Padres and got God back into the center of my life. I can certainly still enjoy games. But as long as the Padres are not ruling me, I'm fine. But believe me, the rest of the season was not easy. I struggled every day to put God before everything else. One of my greatest assurances is knowing that God is in control of everything, even baseball games. I don't know why we had such a bad season, but I know that God has a plan for it. Maybe He used it for the very purpose of relieving me of them. I really don't know. It hurt to lose the last game of the season, this year and last. But He's in control. And as hard as it is to have a season end, I am so glad to have a break. I need it. Next year will be different. I won't be ruled but the Padres. Baseball is a game, for goodness sakes. People are meant to enjoy it. And that's what I am going to do.
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Wow…what a powerful message! Being a fellow Christian…I can definitely relate to what you posted here. I'm so glad you have God back at the center again. I'm trying to open myself up to Him more and more each day…some days better than others!
Thanks, also, for posting in my blog…it's great to see another strong member of the FriarFaithful. I look forward to your next entry!
Very nice blog post. Thank you for sending me this link.
It sounds like you figured out the balance between baseball and life. Watching our great game will be much more enjoyable for you in '09 because of this…win or lose. Finding the balance is the tough part. Supporting your team is the fun part…way to go!
Great article, Kaybee. I appreciate your love for the LORD especially, and your love for the game – in the right light.
I've been a Reds fan since 1970, and remember the Big Red Machine quite well. The team has done very poorly since 2001 – not one winning season after 2000. They're still my team, just like the Bungles of football – I mean the Bengals, of course.
I have learned that baseball, football, Etc., are just games, and I do all I can to NOT put today's players, teams on a pedalstool like I used to. Pete Rose is my all-time favorite – what better example (of players being human like us) for fans to see.
At any rate, keep growing in your faith in the LORD. He'll NEVER steer you wrong.


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The meeting of the Sullivan County Health and Family Services Meeting was packed with onlookers at the government center on June 6, with many people coming to show support for Dr. David Sager, who had recently been fired from his job as deputy commissioner of the Division of Family Services (DFS).
During public comment several people took to the podium to praise Sager, who is a former county legislator, and his work with DFS, and question why this was not being addressed by the legislators. Supporter Liz Bucar asked if the legislators had been instructed not to talk about the case publicly.
Legislator Cindy Gieger said she was not instructed not to talk about the case by the county attorney. She also said she had no advance knowledge of the firing and was "shocked" when she learned about it. She said she is reviewing county policy regarding "at will" employees, who unlike civil service and union employees can be terminated for no reason.
Stepping away slightly from their usual practice of declining to discuss personnel issues, other legislators at the meeting also said they had no advance knowledge of the termination. Sager, who was present at the meeting, said he was attempting to bring into the public sphere the reason he was terminated.
Perhaps that is why commissioner Randy Parker decided to tell at least one newspaper that he decided to terminate Sager, who is a chiropractor, because of his lack of experience in social services.
The Sager issue played out as information about a number of other significant issues was discussed.
Women Infants and Children
Parker said his office had begun a dialogue with state officials about whether the county would continue to provide the federal Women Infants and Children (WIC) once the county contract expires in October 2014. WIC provides funding for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant and postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.
WIC is a non-mandated program, but Parker called in an "absolutely necessary service." He said if the county stopped being the provider, the state would look for other local providers to administer the program.
Sandy Oxford called consideration of the elimination of the program "reckless." She said her understanding was that the program is entirely paid for by the federal government.
Homeless housing down
Parker handed out a chart that showed that the number of homeless people the county is paying to house in motels has dropped significantly over the past three months. At the end of March the total number of people was 150, by the end of May that number had dropped to 84.
There were several reasons given for the significant drop including the exclusion of people who are not eligible for housing due to income, sanction, jail, rehabilitation or hospitalization. Another reason listed was "More stringent interview process to search out previous or alternative resource."
Arrests for abuse and fraud
Gerald Dietz, the chief fraud investigator for DFS, said there had been a total of 21 arrests for waste fraud and abuse of social services over the past two months.
Legislator Gene Benson asked, "Is the amount that we're saving outweighing the cost of putting some of these people in jail?"
Diets responded that the prosecutions have not yet been completed, but that because of the arrests, "there are a number of people who have called and are paying their obligations because they are worried about being arrested."
Parker detailed some of the arrests that have been made. He said, "a local child care provider arrested for fraudulent bill submission, a local resident claiming that their child is in childcare when the child is not, an individual trying to sell their food stamp card for cash in a local grocery store, people working under the table not reporting their income, an individual who had $16,000 in his bank account coming in and saying he has no resources."
Parker also said there are warrants out for fathers in 34 child support cases, where the fathers owe a total of $1.4 million in child support. Parker said, "Some of that money is owed back to the county for services that we had to provide to the mother and children because they weren't getting child support payments."


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Badgers days away from Rose Bowl rematch
The Wisconsin Badgers are just days away from taking on Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
This is their third consecutive trip to Pasadena, but this year it will be under new leadership.
This Wisconsin versus Stanford matchup is a rematch of the last time the Badgers won the Rose Bowl, a 17-to-9 game won by then head coach and now interim head coach Barry Alvarez.
A lot of Badgers fans still remember that game in which Ron Dayne rushed for 200 yards. But those of us who remember that game might feel old then after hearing the responses of the current players on this year's teams.
"I don't remember that. Nope," said Jared Abbrederis, Badgers junior wide receiver.
"It was Dragon Ball Z and a lot of cartoons," Badgers senior running back Montee Ball said, referring to his childhood.
"I can honestly say I did not watch that game," said Badgers junior center Jordan Fredrick. "I was not a huge college football fan growing up. It was just something I had never really watched or paid attention to."
"I was 11," said Stanford's senior outside linebacker Chase Thomas.
A reporter asked if Stanford's junior outside linebacker Trent Murphy thought about playing in the Rose Bowl when he was young.
"I wasn't thinking about the Rose Bowl when I was ten," Murphy said. "I was probably out chasing dogs or something."
"Did you catch the dogs?" the reporter asked.
"Absolutely. Absolutely."
Stanford's Trent Murphy will go from chasing dogs to chasing Montee Ball, James White, and Melvin Gordon. The Badgers' rushing attack, averaging over 300 yards per contest since the start of October.
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"Unauthorized Streaming"
Posted 06 August 2013 - 05:22 PM
Get your kicks in now, boys and girls...
cause they're planning on shutting this shit DOWN by any means necessary apparently.
I wonder what the future of the beat battles and 90% of these threads will look like if this BS actually gets legislated.
I wonder how Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, HBO Go, Xbox Live, etc. will look like when you can be incarcerated for "criminal streaming" of a fucking copyrighted work, regardless of context or intent. Corporate greed and bureaucratic red tape are single-handedly impeding humanity's progress by making any innovation or derivation from others' works impossible...I swear, it's like we're living a real-life version of Brazil and 1984 mixed with Mike Judge's Idiocracy. Thoughts, STMB?
Posted 06 August 2013 - 06:05 PM
Posted 06 August 2013 - 06:23 PM
Not to play the devils advocate, but unauthorized streaming is generally taking money from the artist.
not necessarily. as i'm sure you're well aware of, the original artist may not even have the rights to their own work--meaning that the label they had done business with is the official owner of the music, and the sole party that can sue if they see fit. furthermore, those rights can be sold to whoever at any time past the original date of the work up until 70 years after the artist's death (as we saw with the whole MJ/Beatles debacle)...so a lot of these small labels that producers and DJ's like us tend to sample may now have had their entire catalogs bought up by larger corporations and special interest groups, who are now looking to make every penny back on their investment by re-releasing shitty compilations and watered-down versions of once-popular hit songs (that's where we see a lot of these weird sideways covers of like Bob Marley tracks and shit)...so at the end of the day, it's these already profitable corporations that specialize in this re-packaging biz that can claim "infringement" on their bought "rights", not the artists themselves.
and i also refuse to believe that "streaming", i.e. listening, to an artist's work is taking $ from their pockets. if it weren't for torrents, i would have never gambled on listening to an album like Madvillainy, which i ended up liking so much that i am now a lifetime supporter of anything ST-related...you can't get those kind of results without the ability to let people actually listen to the music in the first place. & on another note, they're bending their definitions of "streaming" to fit not just music, but video content as well...meaning you could potentially be arrested and charged with a felony for borrowing your cousin's Xbox Live password to watch stuff on his/her Netflix account, as if that holds the same weight as pirating DVD's and bootlegging them on the streets.
Posted 06 August 2013 - 06:28 PM
Posted 06 August 2013 - 10:24 PM
Posted 07 August 2013 - 11:42 AM
Then there's the side of it discussed in the MMS #13 booklet, that we get to be exposed to so much more amazing music thanks to copyright infringement. Which is true, I'm sure most of the people here, myself definitely included, were able to discover and actually possess/listen to stuff that we may have gone our whole lives without finding thanks to this new era.
But watching this all evolve over the years, I can't help but feel like it contributed heavily to a culture of "immediate satisfaction", where we've become conditioned to feel that it's our RIGHT to have whatever art we want at little to no charge, right when we decide we want it. Musicians can fallback to a certain extent on live performance, but films don't have that option and it forces artists to have to live on the road to pay the bills. Obviously there needs to be a balance, people shouldn't be put in JAIL over this shit (and to be honest, it'll probably stay alive in some form or another), but i think the notion that nobody suffers from this is except greedy execs isn't exactly true. Just try to put up a ST track on youtube and see what I mean.
Posted 07 August 2013 - 12:22 PM
But it also sucks reading these people with the high-horse attitude that just because they have a high speed internet connection that they deserve free music/movies/news, acting like their rights are being violated when they can't stream a movie online, or bitching about a copyright strike when they carelessly posted someone's album on youtube.
Posted 07 August 2013 - 12:23 PM
There isn't any at all what so ever. A good example of this is the UK pound notes, take the time out to read any of them and you will find the word" I promise to pay the bearer the sum of". Read this correctly and you will suddenly realize, this means " I owe you ". The paper and coins we use to pay for food bills etc, are in fact " I owe you " notes. You haven't paid for anything, just in agreement that you own the owner of the product, credit somehow. There is not enough printed paper to cover the amount of so called money globally, they cover this amazingly well with credit cards, debit cards, that are literally digits on a computer database, these can be changed very easily. Now I have explained that how can anyone have ownership over anything, really think about this one, because you can't.
Those Fat cat corporations just want our money, and quite frankly, they fuck my planet up, so I'll take what I enjoy from them, all of the bullshit on this planet with money, ownership, etc will come to an end, and it will happen when we are alive. Everything has to go back to being Independent, self maintained within a balanced community, that were part of bringing this Horror show on earth to an end. Just have a think about, no money existing in any form, no contracts, no being fake to a so called boss because you know they have the power to fuck you up, by firing you. Don't get me wrong I'm like James I'll torrent, and if it's good they will get my cash, otherwise it get's deleted, was no different back in the day you would record albums off of vinyl or tape for friends, and they would eventually purchase it, and become a fan, and then go to gigs and support the artist. The end of the day though how the hell do you own something you can see or hear, you can't !! it's just waveforms resonating at a certain frequency. I'm all about giving my beats away and making tunes for people for free, I have no issue with that at all, just more bothered about making someone smile, rather than making everyone shit scared your going sue them for listening to sound. The Nazi movement never disappeared, it just hid behind a curtain laughing at the control it has, wouldn't surpise me if it was that twat drummer from Metallica or Paul McCartney that have winged about it, obviously the millions they already have isn't enough, but it's okay they're just "I owe you" notes, so there's nothing to worry about really.
Posted 07 August 2013 - 12:34 PM
ODK, why don't you do something about it and go live off your own hands in the forest?
Posted 07 August 2013 - 01:12 PM
all of the bullshit on this planet with money, ownership, etc will come to an end, and it will happen when we are alive.
^I hope so but hasn't this been going on forever. They will figure out how people are stealing from them, make it illegal, and then we will find some other way to get the stuff we want for free. If you want to rip people off all the time you have to adapt every once in a while or they will catch on.
Posted 07 August 2013 - 01:36 PM
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Posted 07 August 2013 - 02:25 PM
money and ownership won't be coming to an end within our lifetimes, and if they did, it would be in a situation where probably about 3/4th of us would already be dead from some apocalypse event. there's nothing fascist about the notion of personal property or working for a living, which is what artists are attempting to do. You're pointing at some vague idea of "Corporations", connecting dots between poisoning the environment and you paying for entertainment that just aren't there. Streaming stuff isn't going to "bring down the system" in the way that you are looking for, it's just going to restrict labels and film production companies from taking chances on stuff because they cannot afford to. All we'll see in theaters will be The Avengers PT 7 and all we'll see at best buy is Lil Wayne and Taylor Swift because these are what actually sells, what's rewarded in a system like this. People hip enough to like interesting shit are also hip enough to get that shit for free. Not to mention that the overseas markets are determining more and more of what gets produced, because here we don't pay for shit anymore. And then there will be no more movie theaters and no more record stores, it'll all be on the computer, where the artist gets bled dry on a minimum payscale. $.0000001 per stream.
What people seem to forget is that there wasn't anything inherently wrong with the system we had in place, in fact it was working out great for artists of all kinds. Yeah, and you could even tape some shit and then share it with your friends. But you COULDN'T tape some shit for free then instantly send that tape to millions of people. The capability of people to get their music out into the world via streaming IS a HUGELY positive advancement, as it allows amateurs the ability to launch themselves. Imagine if there were streaming mixtapes when Prince Paul couldn't get Gravediggaz financed!? But there has to be a limit (like the prohibition of involuntary streaming of content that people put time, money [albeit semi-invisible, nonexistent money] and effort into), because the numbers don't lie, it's killing industries left and right. If you're content to give all your personally-made music away for free forever, then it's probably because you're A) young, B, trying to break out and really want someone, anyone, to listen to it AND C), you have a decent job that supports your existence, and you make music in spare time. Madlib, for example, spends a majority of his time honing his craft, as do many serious musicians, and wouldn't be able to do what he does if he needed to work a full-time job to support himself and his family.
I'm all for mom-and-pop, grassroots, local stores, featuring local talent and all that. they got choked out and we deserve to have em back. But WE are also partly to blame for that, it's not ALL the corporations faults. and I hate them goddamn corporations too bud. But the idea that the only way back is if we burn the economic structure to the ground and start up from anarchy is ludicrous and lazy. You should have to BUY that Rock Konducta 7" you want to hear so bad, that way Madlib can eat, that way he can make us more music. and what do you care anyway, money isn't real.
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Posted 07 August 2013 - 05:14 PM
artists like Madlib, DOOM, Jay Dee, the typical "gods" of hip-hop we all clamor over, are among the people who i am more than willing to pay hard-earned $ for whenever they release pretty much anything (obviously in Yancey's case i'm talking posthumous releases).
but i'm not going to do the same for every. single. thing. that i am exposed to on a daily basis. i'm a college student who makes less per hour than your average entry-level Wal-Mart employee, i'm not made of cash. and for the little pleasures and bits of happiness i get in my life, a lot of them come from discovering a new album or finding a movie i've never watched before that i can analyze and interpret in my own works as a film major...what this legislation is attempting to do is squash that little bit of sunshine in my life like a diseased cockroach, and label me as a fucking FELON that could potentially serve jail-time for the harmless downloading of acapellas and other sound clips off of YouTube. i really don't mess with torrenting very much, and when i do its usually for an album that i don't care enough to actually pay money to buy. i tried being a good little boy and shelling out my $ before letting myself listen to an album, and you know what i got? Yeezus...that should say it right there, lol.
so i feel no remorse for major corporations, aka the ones pulling the strings regarding this piece of legislation they're trying to pass...people on this thread seem to be misinterpreting this indifference toward EMI and Capitol as a slight to our brethren here on small, indie labels like ST, Brainfeeder, Lex, Warp, etc...which just isn't the case. it doesn't seem like a lot of us on here are understanding the big picture here, that our government is just looking for shit to tag you with to try and make everyone a criminal. i'm not a conspiracy theorist, but i do think its odd how much big govt. has ADAMANTLY come crashing down on all of our freedoms within the past ten or so years, and that its now getting to the point where you can't smoke in your own house and you can be completely stripped of your livelihood for admitting to have used offensive language TWENTY YEARS ago (*cough* Paula Deen *cough*)...i'm not saying it's all going to hell. but look at the film Idiocracy and compare it to a lot of what's going on today, and tell me that the real world isn't headed down that direction of reverse-evolution and systematic tyranny being welcomed by people too stupid to realize the severity of a lot of the new laws passed within the past 6 years (*cough* NDAA *cough*).
all i'm saying is, it's gonna reach a point where it starts to affect all of us in our daily lives, and by then it'll be too late to change anything short of an entire revolution...which is totally unnecessary if people just understood how much their rights are starting to be taken away now, internet streaming is small potatoes compared to the other shit they've been trying to do.
Posted 07 August 2013 - 10:00 PM
Saying "oh, well I lay out money for the Madlib, but I'm not gonna lay out money for EVERYTHING I want to listen to"... That's, again, living in a world where free content is just an entitlement, something that we all deserve, and the average citizen can just decide for himself whatever the fuck he wants to pay for. I mean, it's noble that you give dough to ST and all, but there was a world not too long ago where if a broke mother fucker wanted to listen to some shit, he went to the library, or listened to the radio, or borrowed some shit from a friend, or just waited and built up anticipation as he scraped some dollars together, and not everybody got to be a walking musical encyclopedia all the time. I mean, I understand the plight of a broke college kid all too well, and I'm sorry you feel like free content is one of the few bright spots in your life, but does that necessarily give you a license to just reach over the counter and steal some shit? And I can almost guarantee you that every last one of those smaller labels that you mentioned (ST included) are supporting piracy control in some form or another (morally at least), because the truth is it affects them TOO, those big companies are just the ones who have the money and influence to bring legislation around. The whole thing has warped the system so badly that we'll never be able to tell how much money has been lost, by the little man too.
As somebody in film school (a content creator), I'd think you'd have a personal stake in this as well. Imagine investing 50 grand or more of your own dough into a feature, finding some critical acclaim, only to have your sales gutted, redbox won't carry you, and netflix is waiting with it's hand out to fuck you. Every dollar counts, and maybe if content (music, film, tv) had ANY value to people anymore, they'd be willing to wait or pay for it. I'm as guilty as the next, so I understand that to a certain extent we, the people, have to be stopped by authority figures from destroying our own entertainment industries.
Maybe when you get out there into the job market though.
Posted 07 August 2013 - 10:40 PM
Imagine investing 50 grand or more of your own dough into a feature, finding some critical acclaim, only to have your sales gutted, redbox won't carry you, and netflix is waiting with it's hand out to fuck you. Every dollar counts, and maybe if content (music, film, tv) had ANY value to people anymore, they'd be willing to wait or pay for it.
i don't know if i necessarily agree with all of what you said. obviously, i want to be able to sustain a livelihood doing the things i do; however, coming from the standpoint of a consumer i understand the value of "under-selling" your product for the overall good of your namesake. Louis C.K. doesn't give two shits who pirates his stuff, he's confident enough that his stand-up specials are so good that you'll be willing to head on over to his website and just pay the $5 to own a copy of it. now he's an exception to the norm, but i believe a lot of the business models of film are headed towards that direction anyway, where content is no longer at the whim of large corporations and instead owned and distributed directly by the creators...so for people to think i act like i have some sense of entitlement is completely inaccurate. i did not torrent Yeezus, i went and paid for that piece of shit album--but that wasn't my point anyway. you also, again, seem to be misinterpreting my streaming habits that i worry about. i'm not pirating movies, i'm not illegally streaming content from some seedy foreign site, so those arguments you've presented are completely irrelevant to what i'm particularly talking about...my main fear is that i'll be prosecuted and reprimanded for something as banal as downloading vintage albums not on any sort of surviving label from the '70s and earlier for usage in my sample-based music; also, i download lots of acapellas to try and remix songs for practice in my production. given the language of the bill i referred to earlier, it states that that is technically not okay, and something i could do time for if they ever decided to nab me. i think that is unfair, given the fact that the original artists are usually fucking dead and if not so far removed from the original music they produced that its silly to think that at this point i'm taking food off their tables. am i taking $ out of a dead Glenn Miller's pockets, am i really hurting Roland Kirk by downloading his album on my laptop? i'm sure you collect vinyl, Swamp, does that make you guilty because whatever records you found digging ostensibly had $ going to the shopkeeper and NOT the original artist? the main point that i was trying to make by sharing the original article was not this "right to torrent freely" crap that you seem to be arguing against, it was showing how ridiculous its becoming to adhere to more and more restricting laws in the U.S. i'm NOT for illegal download of films like you think i am, but i don't think someone should do hard time in prison for borrowing their buddy's Netflix account password to watch American Dad on their TV...what's next? a year for jaywalking? $50,000 fines for littering? these laws they're trying to draft are just as hyperbolic as those two examples imo.
Posted 07 August 2013 - 11:39 PM
As far as are you really hurting Roland Kirk? I mean, not directly, or even remotely close to directly, but the point is that yeah, theoretically you are, because even though you may not have even known about the record otherwise, and even though neither you nor Roland Kirk's estate/ghost will ever really be aware of your transgression, if no streaming or .rar content existed, somebody still would be (IS) controlling the rights and royalties of these peoples' music. Maybe not the people who should be, but that's a whole different discussion. Used record sales is a different story too, because of proportion of purchased copies to existing copies. Yes, admittedly glenn miller's estate etc. is not getting my 7 dollars, but I'm not multiplying the copies of that glenn miller record exponentially and handing them out, as with mp3s spread via the internet. there is 1 (one) glenn miller record in my hands and at some point someone paid for it, and now it has passed to the shop owner, who also paid for it, who passes it to you, who pays for it whatever the market says. in this way crate digging is the more noble way for sure. In fact, that old Roland Kirk record that you bought from the bin has stimulated more economic activity in its long life than an itunes purchase could ever dream of, it's changed hands 2, 3, 4 times, each time most likely for cash.
BUT I was probably just ranting on in general and not specifically directed at you, and I do the shit too AND I've elaborated enough on my opinion anyway. the end.
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and Fungas when you actually want to pull me up for something read my statement properly, do you know me well enough by person, to know if I already do something ? you don't what so ever.
I work with special needs kids and get them out of abusive homes and support them so that they can try to live a normal life with the community, I also fund raise to get cash to get deposits on buildings so we can open more kids homes, and when my Daughter is old enough I will foster as many kids as I can manage. I'm also going to make drum sample packs and with the money, put that towards more kids homes, with actual proof of where peoples money has gone. Then when I got that going here I'll get it going in another country, then the next and so on. Can't do it all on my own but I have no faith in other people to help, as they're always looking at what the other person is doing, people can always say what is wrong, but can never bring a solution to the table, or do it themselves CAN THEY FUNGAS they think they can sum someone up through a few lines written in a Hiphop forum!
So what do you do, how do you make a difference, whats you plan, who's life have you changed for the better.
Don't try and twist and manipulate what I've said, when you have no understanding of it, If I see an artist at a live show I give them £20 regardless, at least I know they will get a pretty dam good breakfast. And why the hell shouldn't I have the right to listen to a whole album before I part with my hard earned "I Owe you notes, how's it a conspiracy when it as blatant as a brick in the face and written on the money itself, don't blame me for the world being fucked up, Lets put it another way, how many of us make beats on here and have honest software, honest effect plug ins etc. Who smokes weed, who does graf and pays for their cans. who skateboards, by some people making up a rule and making it stand all of this is breaking the law, You find a wallet full of cash on a bus no one is around, only the driver, what do you do. You can lead a Jedi to his crystal but you can't stop him picking up the red one !
Posted 08 August 2013 - 07:26 AM
I've got two words for you. "Cognitive" and "dissonance".
Swampy, it's going to happen I wouldn't be alive otherwise, I've got my dot's connected give people too many dots and their minds will implode, trying to get other people to do the same instead of rolling over and accepting anything that is shoved down their throats, this world is like a ball being pushed down under water and held down, at some point that ball has to come back to the surface because it is in an unnatural state.
I also think all the "generation Y is going to change everything"-advocates forget that this generation does not only include strong progressive forces, but also strong conservative and nationalist forces. The crisis polarized in both ways.
Posted 08 August 2013 - 09:29 AM
that old Roland Kirk record that you bought from the bin has stimulated more economic activity in its long life than an itunes purchase could ever dream of, it's changed hands 2, 3, 4 times, each time most likely for cash.
that's a good point, man. it was nice debating with you
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I appreciate your threads, rady.
Last game of the season also means we won't be seeing Clyde until next season aside from Summer League and pre-season.
Go, Knicks!!!
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I appreciate your threads, rady.
Last game of the season also means we won't be seeing Clyde until next season aside from Summer League and pre-season.
Go, Knicks!!!
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Thanks for the season Game-Threads Rady ..I know it was difficult at times throughout this chaotic season.
Will the Knicks rotation of players be the same as last night winning rotation?
Woodson didnt look to happy after the win walking to the lockerroom by himself.
I hope 10 Knicks players get 20+ minutes of playing-time.
How bad do Toronto Raptors want to have a 49 win season?
Nice segment with Mike Walczewski in the pre-game.
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I like this starting line-up on paper.
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Nice comeback! All tied up.
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Nice way to end the season. Fun game. Aldrich is a keeper. His rebounding and blocking is solid and he's been making his hook shots efficiently.
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Terrence Jones is the starting small forward for the Raps now?
Figures JR would find his game with the season over...maybe we can carry some of the momentum from the last month of the season into next year so we don't bury ourselves from the start like this year.
The Knicks should have been in the playoffs. Relative to the talent and the payroll of the Knicks not making the playoffs is like finishing last.
It started with Dolan letting Grunny go and hiring silent Steve Mills whose only roster move was to bring in JRs brother. Anybody notice that since they hired PJ he's been talking to the media unlike Mills.
Let's see what happens with Melo this summer.
well guys.. see ya in oct....
Yep locker clean out time
We finish the season winning 16 of our last 21 and by beating the two teams ahead of us in the Atlantic that are making the playoffs. Ending up 1 game out of the 8th seed can't help but make you think of all the games we gave away. Which brings us to the first major move for PJ to make, the firing of Mike Woodson. I know some of you guys are out until the fall, but I think this offseason will have some really interesting stuff for us to discuss. The Lamar Odom signing likely means we'll have the triangle instituted this summer (with Odom, maybe Metta, and maybe Shannon Brown to help with the teaching) and that we may see at least one trade with Odom in the mix as a balancing salary. That, plus a new coach hire, and not to mention, the Melo free agency, is plenty for us to bat around.
Let's go Knicks!...in 2014 - 2015.
Yeah htr10 I hope it's a busy summer and I am optimistic that with PJ he'll make things happen unlike with Mills who didn't do squat all season.
Sign Melo and a new coach to implement the triangle. I would fire Woody tomorrow even if we didn't have a new coach lined up.
Dumping Chandler and Felton are priorities also. I would keep Iman but he needs to work extra hard on that jump shot this off-season.
On the fence about Odom but it's a no risk move but I was not impressed with his play his last few seasons.
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Thanks Rady for all the great threads this year. Awesome as always. Lets all hope for a better 2014/15 year. Going to be fecked up watching the NBA playoffs and we aren't in them though. Would love to see a cinderella team this year go far (Wash, Tor, or Bobcats)


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What did you drive
First off this is the lounge, subjects do get going off subject sometimes. No harm no foul.
Second we were not having a debate over the years of what was a hot rod. I had said IMO or JMO several times. I believe I said people can call their cars what they want. But lets be clear the term Hot Rod was used before most of the cars that people call Hot rods were made, it was used for cars that were made in the 30' and 40's. Don't forget there are customs ,street machines muscle cars then DD
I don't mind being called out if I get called out on a engine thread, or a body thread, or any of the threads like that if We get off subject, but I think the lounge, it's like we are sitting in are shop shooting the bull, it is just talk.
Garrell or I did get off subject a little, but if you go back and read the posts we sure weren't getting on each other, and it was Garrell thread. If he thought it was way off, read his Threads he keeps people to the subject.
I have never talked to you or seen your posts, I don't know if you are a new Mod or a old one, If you are new IMO you need to think a little before you call someone out. I would have done this in a PM. but you didn't so I didn't either, Don't mean to hurt your feelings, I have been called out before And I maybe had it coming, but I just took it and went on< but this one I think was out of line. I'm not one to hold back so there you have it.
My rant is over, remember this is the lounge.
wHAT DID YOU DRIVE
Hey guys this was "What did you drive" NOT why don't you drive what I drive. I think maybe the defination of a hotrod may have changed over the last 50 yrs. maybe it is any car that you personalize, whether with speed equipment, or customize, or restore to original condition and whether you race it show it or just rub the paint off polishing it. I have really enjoyed reading about the interesting variety of rides all of you drove. Lets lighten up and not try to force what we like on someone else, maybe a new thread who likes spinach or cheese burgers?
I wasn't trying to call anyone out. The thread took a turn away from discussing first cars and there were several posts that could have very easily led to a flame war over what cars count and what cars don't. That is a topic I have seen argued about more times than I care to count. The goal of my original post was to try and keep that from happening and remind everyone here that we are all on the same team, so there is no need to fight over our cars.
What did you drive
Croz, I hope that was understood in my last post, everyone has different taste in all things and especially with their rides. No one is right or wrong, I don't even look down on the poor Mustang owners, they have rights too.
Hope everyone knows I was kidding, lets all lighten up a little and enjoy.
'95 nissan altima gxe. i modded it out with LED's and speakers. it was mine and i paid 4,000 for it with some help from family. then years later after learning about oil seeping into optical distributors and timing chains, flat tires, slipping transmissions i inherited a mazda mx-6 from a friend, tried to soup it up and thunked myself in the head sold the mazda and bought an 81 camaro for 700 bucks, running on 6 of 8 cyl! i learned a lot from that lil altima and it lasted me 8 years, the odometer stopped working at 195,000 miles and i drove it for another 4 yrs after that with no major problems. we nick named it the "altimate driving experience"!
1952 Buick 2 door sedan,bought it with money I made working at the KAYO station in Daytona,circa 1965.
Paid 100 bucks for it,put in a new battery,changed oil n drove it till i gaduated,lots of good memories in that big back seat
I like spinach AND cheese burgers.
Listen guys, threads go off in different directions, anyone who can't handle that really needs to rethink how he spends his time. It ain't no big deal, geeez.
what did you drive
Topwrench, Thats the kind of storey that will keep us on track, thanks.
Hey Brian, haven't run across you lately, thanks for the help. Have you looked at the numbers for this thread lately, every time I think it is dead a new group comes along and it is back going!
g-body cars
Hello, i figure i would contribute. In 95 when i was 16 i bought an 81 Camaro for $200 that needed a good amount of body work and a carb. Fixed it up and sold it to buy the first car i drove, an 84 Monte Carlo.
I sold the Monte to buy an 84 regal for $400 and drove that until the engine was rod knocking (still drive it for 2 months with the knock, motor honey keeping her going).
I yanked the 231 6 cyl in favor of a Pontiac 350 from a 71 lemans. Bolted right in, same drive shaft just needed custom exhaust. Had this car for a few years before getting into my first grand national.
high school ride 85-89
first was a 4door 66 tempest.. with ohc 6 and frame rot.. nover hit road
next was a 66 lemans 2 door..326/2spd. thinking I could use the good of both to make one.. high school kids have time but not enough money.. that was a fun car tho..
next was my grandma's 74 duster inline slant , it did great burn outs..next was a 80 sunbird, then 75 cutlass 260/3spd, then a 80 t/a 301/3spd
next was an 85 t/a 305/stick this car was fun.. but my drivers lic. payed for it in steps/points..
oh to have them all back again..
I graduated HS in 1987 and My high school car was a 57 chevy 210 4-door that my Grandfather bought for us to restore when I was 11 years old. It had a 283 punched out to 301 with a 2-barrel and a glide. I could race it and never shift it in a red light shoot out. It was my daily driver and weekend show car/drag car. This was back when 4-drs were very much hated. I loved that car...Till I drove it out to California where I was stationed and learned very quickly how not to drive on "black ice" . Somebody soulda told me that it snows in southern California that way I woulda been ready for it.
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That is the kind of stories I was looking for, thanks for keeping the thread alive.
Wow, in High School, changing cars was like changing socks. Something different all the time. My first was a 63 1/2 Galaxie, then a '64 Galaxie, then a '66 Cyclone, traded it for a '66 GTO, bought a '57 Fairlane, then bought a '66 Impala. Got married in '74 and the cars slowed down quite a bit
They also sold "re refined" motor oil out of glass bottles. Had a tin funnel on it to pour with then you put the bottle back in the rack when you were done. They refilled the glass jars from a 55 gallon drum.
what did you drive
Hey Cobalt327, good to read from you. I am still working hard on my recovery but have had a few setbacks recently. My landspeed racing plans are coming together and getting ready to run in the first ever Ohio Mile at the end of April.
How is the wagon project coming along?
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Ex-Glencore pair open up hedge fund
A brace of former Glencore and Goldman Sachs commodities traders have launched an oil and agriculture-focused hedge fund, as the market improves for the sector.
Founded in 2013, Tulos Capital launched to outside investors in February 2014. Led by Paul Schurman and Patrik Sundberg, the fund aims to raise around $500 million over the next few years. An event driven and volatility trading hedge fund, it will focus primarily on trading in agricultural commodities and oil, with options to expand into other sectors.
Schurman, chief investment officer, was previously global head of oil derivatives at Glencore. He left in late 2012.
Before joining Glencore in July 2010, Schurman spent a year at hedge fund Millennium. Before that, he spent eight years Goldman Sachs. Made managing director in 2006, he traded oil derivatives, and headed up the commodities trading desk in Tokyo.
Sundberg joined Glencore with Schurman, having trod a similar path at Millennium and Goldman Sachs after joining the Wall Street bank in 2005.
Hoss Hauksson, who formerly managed trading, structuring and middle office teams for structured products at the Cantonal Bank of Zurich, is the fund's chief operating officer and head of risk.
The launch of Tulos comes during a more favourable time for commodities hedge funds after a chaotic 2013.
UK fund Clive Capital and US-based Arbalet Capital closed shop after suffering poor performance. Commodity funds at Brevan Howard and Armajaro also struggled.
However, agriculture funds are posting double digit returns over the first quarter The AQR Risk-Balanced Commodities Strategy Fund was up 10.74%, and the Prim Agriculture fund up 10%, according to data from Lipper Global.


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After approval from the OKMH Board of Directors in April to move forward with plans to build a new and bigger hospital facility, actual blueprints of the design are getting closer to being completed, according to OKMH CEO David Lee.
Lee said that the approximate size of the entire new building space will be about 90,000 square feet, which will make the new state-of-the-art facility about double what the current facility is now. The current hospital facility is 45,000 square feet.
An architect has been hired that has hands-on familiarity with the current OKMH facility.
"O'Connell Robertson out of Austin has been hired for a while now to help us through this process," said Lee. "They are very familiar with our current building, as they have handled projects in the past, such as the ER renovation."
Lee states that groundbreaking for the actual construction of the new facility is projected to begin sometime around late summer or early winter of this year.
Decisions on what will become of the current hospital building is still being considered and reviewed.
Some options that OKMH officials are possibly considering are to have Kaiser Home Health utilize a portion of the space, renovate or tear down to build a new specialist clinic, or make it a dialysis clinic.
No decisions have been made on what to do, if anything, with the current structure.


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My 13 week old has been extra fussy these last couple weeks. With the fussiness, she is very drooly (we change her clothes a few times per day and bibs get in the way of her hands to mouth), she started gnawing on her fingers, eating WAY more from the bottles while I'm at work, refusing to take her naps during the day, and the most concerning of all went from pooping about 1x every 4-6 days to pooping all day long. And the poops that she has ALL DAY LONG are very mucusy. They're a very different consistency than they used to be and it seems there is poop in there whenever I go to change her wet diapers...which is pretty much before and after meals every couple of hours (more often if i happen to notice she needs it). In addition to the very frequent mucusy poops, she has a very nasty red, raw diaper rash. I've tried air drying her, desitin, powder, clothdiapers, no diapers, extra-frequent changings and after a week it is not raw but is still pink.
I have no doubt that she's well fed and is gaining/developing well. Is this what teething looks like? I've been eating Soy-Joy protein bars for snacks at work lately, could this be a soy allergy? How do we get her poop and sleep schedules back to normal?
here are her feeding schedules:
when I'm home, I pump at 2am, 6am and 10 pm. She's only been breastfeeding for 5-10 mins per side before falling asleep or playing with my nipples. She takes a 20 min nap and wants to eat again and this continues all day long. She takes 4 oz bottles when she has nursed for a couple hours in this pattern and seems to be getting cranky/frustrated with it. Bottles are usually given around lunchtime, dinnertime and bedtime.
When I'm at work:
I pump at 2am, 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, and 10 pm. We bf between 6pm and about 930 pm when baby falls asleep for the night. She nurses in the same pattern as when I"m home, each side for 5-10 mins before falling asleep and taking a 10-20 minute nap then wanting to nurse again and repeat.
I take fenugreek, mothersmilk tea and 1-2 beers per night (beer helps I dunno why). I just finished Reglan I barely noticed an increase-MAYBE 1/2 oz per pump session. I have a mirena IUD that was placed 3 weeks ago.


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Panamanian food is rare around these parts — in fact the only specialist in the fare I know of is a mobile vendor called Teodora's Kitchen. A mother-and-daughter-starring food truck, Teodora's has been garnering buzz at weekly concession-dishing gigs for kitchen-less beer halls such as Seventh Son and Zauber Taproom. Since I hadn't yet visited the new Zauber locale, I caught up with the less-than-a-year-old Teodora's during its regular Sunday stop there.
If you haven't been, the huge window-flaunting, concrete-block-constructed Zauber is roomy, airy, slick and good-looking — like the most handsome and cleanest converted garage in Grandview. Under alternating green and white naked bulbs, there's footie on three TVs, jazzy picnic tables and 18 taps.
So I grabbed some suds (Note: Zauber's own brews are currently available only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but always-here local beers go for an un-cheap $6.50/pint; flights of five four-ouncers — served in a cute metal caddy — cost $10) then stepped outside to order at Teodora's. In less than 10 minutes (I'd arrived early, and business was just picking up), a friendly Teodora's worker delivered my grub. The scratch-made stuff was damn good.
The best bargain and flavors on Teodora's small menu that day — and my new favorite food truck entree — was the mammoth Carne Frita ($10). It was a soulful and zestily seasoned (just-tingly, not spicy), sorta fajita-esque beef stew in which commendably tender meat chunks were married to hacked-and-cooked onions plus stewed tomatoes. Ratcheting up the already-fine value was surprisingly good white rice, a generous serving of savory lentils and (as with all entrees here) a customer-picked side dish — go with the killer tostones (crispy, not greasy, golden-brown-fried plantain coins).
Teodora's Empanadas (2/$8) were also excellent. Pretty, puffy and crispy-yet-pliable, masa-flour pastry pouches held finely ground beef with a chili-powder-like seasoning. For your side, try Teodora's distinct potato salad — mayo-rich and pink from the addition of beets.
Teodora's Fish Tacos (3/$9; try the crunchy, freshly fried chips and spicy salsa for your side) came on decent soft corn tortillas and featured fresh, rich, zingy and generous garnishes of cilantro, salsa and slaw. The attractively cornmeal-battered, could've-been-more cod nuggets were a tad chewy and a bit lost under their heavy and messy accompaniments, so I'd call this still-not-bad entree a qualified success.
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Home List of Titles 3D-tailored gold nanoparticles for light field enhancement and harvesting over visible-IR spectral range
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/189429
- Title
- 3D-tailored gold nanoparticles for light field enhancement and harvesting over visible-IR spectral range
- Author(s)
- Rosa, Lorenzo; Sun, Kai; Mizeikis, Vygantas; Bauerdick, Sven; Peto, Lloyd; Juodkazis, Saulius
- Abstract
- A method for practical area upscaling of nanopatterning for light-harvesting and photocatalytic applications is presented. Large area electron beam lithography is used to design patterns of simple-shape nanoparticles. After evaporation of gold, ion beam lithography is used to slice nanoparticles with grooves as narrow as 17 ± 3 nm in width for the required spectral performance and light field enhancement. It is demonstrated by systematic numerical simulations that cutting grooves into the Si and SiO2 substrates up to a 10 nm depth augments the volume where the light-field enhancement occurs. The dominant component of the field enhancement in the groove is |Ez|2, perpendicular to the substrate's surface. The application potential of 3D-tailored nanoparticles in light harvesting applications is discussed.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
- Source
- Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 115, no. 13 (Apr 2011), pp. 5251-5256
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry; 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural); 0904 Chemical Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Localized surface-plasmon; Nanogaps; Photopolymerization
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- American Chemical Society
- 1932-7447
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July 17, 2012: With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. And yet, less than one percent of our planet's mass is locked up in water, and even that may have been delivered by comets and asteroids after Earth's initial formation. Astronomers have been puzzled by Earth's water deficiency. The standard model explaining how the solar system formed from a protoplanetary disk, a swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding our Sun, billions of years ago, suggests that our planet should be a water world. Earth should have formed from icy material in a zone around the Sun where temperatures were cold enough for ices to condense out of the disk. Therefore, Earth should have formed from material rich in water. So why is our planet comparatively dry?
A new analysis of the common accretion-disk model explaining how planets form in a debris disk around our Sun uncovered a possible reason for Earth's comparative dryness. In this study astrophysicists Rebecca Martin and Mario Livio found that our planet formed from rocky debris in a dry, hotter region, inside of the so-called "snow line." The snow line in our solar system currently lies in the middle of the asteroid belt, a reservoir of rubble between Mars and Jupiter; beyond this point, the Sun's light is too weak to melt the icy debris left over from the protoplanetary disk. Previous accretion-disk models suggested that the snow line was much closer to the Sun 4.5 billion years ago, when Earth formed.See the rest:


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This course is an introduction to pharmacoepidemiology, which is the study of the use of and the effects of drugs in large numbers of people. The course will provide an overview of the principles of pharmacoepidemiology, sources of pharmacoepidemiology data, and special issues in pharmacoepidemiology methodology. It will review commonly used study designs, special topics, and advanced methodologies used in pharmacoepidemiology studies.
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1. Why do you want to be Mayor?
I believe that I can make a difference and I will devote as much time as possible to make that happen.
2. What experience do you have that makes you qualified to be Mayor?
I have been on the council for 4 years have been a small business owner for 12 years and spent 25 years in management in the private sector.
3. What are your long term goals for the City of La Crosse?
Public safety; our Police and Fire Departments need to be brought back to full strength.
Economic Development; we need to continue to bring in good jobs while retaining the ones we have.
Stability at City Hall; we need to ensure a positive work environment for our City employees.
4. What are your long term goals for the City of La Crosse?
We need to continue to enhance the natural beauty of the La Crosse area. Our City parks, trail systems, bluffs, and water ways need to be maintained at their highest levels to continue bringing people to this area.
Continuing to focus on economic development to generate job growth.
Collaboration with local governments to create financial efficiencies.
5. The current Mayor and the City Council have had disagreements about several City issues lately, if elected Mayor, what will you do to work with the City Council?
The Mayor needs to be more vocal with the council and express his/her concerns before bringing vetoing issues.
I have a proven track record of effectively working with all council members through collaboration and standing behind my beliefs while working for my constituents.
6. How will you balance the City budget?
We need to continue to find more efficient practices within departments by collaborating with department heads and local governments.
7. Are you in favor of raising property taxes?
I believe that we can find enough efficiencies to pay for any increases.
8. How long have you lived La Crosse?
11 years in La Crosse and all of my life in the La Crosse area except for 4 and 1/2 years in the military.
9. What do you like most and least about living in La Crosse?
Most: The abundance of activities available to experience in our region's natural beauty which is enhanced by the four seasons.
Least: High taxes.


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It's tempting to overstate the influence of Protomartyr's Detroit home on the quartet's bleak, post-punk scrawl.
After all, the title of the band's sophomore album, Under Color of Official Right, was inspired by a phrase repeated during the 2013 trial of former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was brought up on charges of bribery and extortion, and the crew's songs are dotted with city-specific references justifiably foreign to outsiders unfamiliar with local characters like music promoter Greg Baise, whom singer Joe Casey name-drops on "Pagans." Not to mention the band's hollow, desperate sound, which echoes an urban landscape dotted with abandoned buildings and shuttered businesses.
In a mid-March phone interview, however, Casey, who was born in Detroit to a city worker father and a homemaker mother, was hesitant to draw a straight line from the city's well-documented struggles to the quartet's prickly sound, which can be similarly depressed and prone to violent outbursts.
"We're always a little wary to get that comparison," said Casey, 37, who joins his bandmates for a concert at Café Bourbon Street on Saturday, April 26. "Let me give you an example: Right behind the Lager House, where we played a lot of our early shows, there's this [gym] called Detroit Tough, and my brother joked, 'Oh, I bet they lift giant tires in there instead of having workout equipment.' Later I found out that's exactly what it is. I mean, Detroit tough? The idea of people trying to make a buck off that mindset seems a little silly."
Unlike various watchmakers and car companies, who have embraced Detroit's blue-collar reputation as a thinly veiled marketing ploy, the bandmates have resisted the urge to hype the connection, and Casey said the ways the city has influenced the group's development are generally more practical than philosophical.
"The kind of bars we started playing in don't have the best sound systems, so you had to shout," he said. "So there's kind of a rawer sound because of that."
Prior to launching Protomartyr in 2010, Casey, who had never been in a band previously, held down a series of part-time gigs that offered plenty of freedom ("They were the kinds of jobs where you could stay out all night if you wanted to," he said), but little in the way of actual satisfaction.
"Not to be too depressing, but I was living a pretty meaningless life," said the singer, who met guitarist and bandmate Greg Ahee when the two were working as doormen at the Gem Theatre, a historic playhouse where patrons took in shows like the long-running "Menopause, The Musical." "I had a crappy job, and I was getting pretty old, and I didn't have much to show for anything. I had all the rock 'n' roll jobs without actually having the rock 'n' roll life."
While Casey is now living the rock 'n' roll life, he's still unable to place too high a stake in the band's future, which seems like a uniquely Detroit (or at least Midwestern) characteristic — even if the singer would be loath to admit as much.
"Optimism is kind of a strong word," he said. "So am I optimistic about the future? No. I'm happy with how things are going now, but being realistic is the best approach to life. That way if good things happen, you can still be pleasantly surprised."
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Who do you think is going to die in War or who should die? And why? It would be really unbelieveable if noone died bcs it is a war and people died throughout history. So leave your thoughts
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Lol, if you were at the anime section, i would have spoiled the shit out of you.
really hard to say
the war has reached its climax so im just looking forward to it and see who dies
Kakashi. He's not coming back this time
I guess the 300+ fodders don't count.
Originally Posted by Loome
Lol, if you were at the anime section, i would have spoiled the shit out of you.
Please don't do that.
Since people are being brought back to life instead of dying during a war....
Im gonna have to say nobody.
There are 80000 shinobi and samurai, and the Zetsus have gone and replicated several shinobi already, half of whom are definately dead, the other half, who knows. There was also that guy from the Aburame clan who was running recon, he died because of Deidara, damn Deidara blew the poor guy up. What you seem to want is to see a major character die. I vote...Guy, but I wouldn't put it past Kishi to kill off Kakashi, again...
I say Gai, Tsunade for sure...and then Maybee Tenten, Kiba, the leader of the second division from Iwagakure, and several fodders without a name
Hiashi the hyuuga head.
Loads of fodders.
Sasuke (YES I SAID IT).
Quite certain the majority of these will at least die in the war.
i have already decided none of them are going to die since none of them had died which is complete BS they fight all these ressurected Edo guys alot of them stronger but none die {mostly cuz they ganged up on them cowards and plot}
Well, Tsunade is currently cut in 2...so, I'm guessing Tsunade.
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