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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 706937, 6 pages
Subclinical Cardiac Dysfunction in Children with Coeliac Disease: Is the Gluten-Free Diet Effective?
1Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, 67600 Zonguldak, Turkey
2Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, 06500 Ankara, Turkey
3Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Ankara Diskapi Children's Hospital, 06110 Ankara, Turkey
4Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara Diskapi Children's Hospital, 06110 Ankara, Turkey
5Department of Biostatistics and Medıcal Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07059 Antalya, Turkey
6Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, 67600 Zonguldak, Turkey
Received 21 August 2012; Accepted 2 October 2012
Academic Editors: G. Barbaro, L. Murray, and L. Rodrigo
Copyright © 2012 Berna Saylan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Berna Saylan, Ayhan Cevik, Ceyda Tuna Kirsaclioglu, Filiz Ekici, Ozgur Tosun, and Gonca Ustundag, "Subclinical Cardiac Dysfunction in Children with Coeliac Disease: Is the Gluten-Free Diet Effective?," ISRN Gastroenterology, vol. 2012, Article ID 706937, 6 pages, 2012. doi:10.5402/2012/706937


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Switch not operating outlet anymore! The brass tab IS broken. Help!?
I changed out an outlet because it was old and not holding plugs well anymore. One of the receptacles was on a switch but now both receptacles are always hot. I DID break the brass tab on the hot side but that didn't change anything. I've also changed the switch out but still both outlet receptacles are hot.
Within the outlet box is a black hot wire, an orange hot wire (goes back to the switch), & a white neutral.
The switch box has a black hot & orange hot wire
Please help! :wallbash:
OK, so, can you verify that with the black and orange wires disconnected from the receptacle, the orange wire is switched?? meaning that when you operate the switch you liven the orange wire.
and, you've cut the the connector between the terminals that the black and "orange" wires are connected to and that the white has the connector in place??
I bet u have the orange and black wires reversed
Double check to be sure that wire ends don't stick out from the screws far enough to touch other metal parts.
What other wires are in the boxes and how are they grouped in back (which cables are which wires coming from)?
Hi all,
I removed the orange and black wires from the outlet to check if the switch activated either of them. They were both hot, regardless of the switch's position.
Therefore, I took off both the black and orange from the actual switch and tested. They too were both hot.
Now i'm more confused! Shouldn't the orange be dead if it's not connected to the switch?
This switch was fully functioning properly before I changed the outlet out, so I really dont know what could've caused this!??
Maybe the wires got crushed at the back of the box because the clamps were too tight and the wires got shorted together back there when you pulled on them.
Are both wires still live when you disconnected both ends, namely from both the switch and the receptacle?
yes, I just checked the wires when both disconnected from the switch and the outlet. The orange and black are both always hot. I'm guessing that means the wires somehow fused themselves together in the conduit? Both boxes look ok, the wires aren't touching...
If you rewired the receptacle incorrectly, perhaps you have damaged the switch, inadvertantly.
If the power from the panel goes to the switch box first, you would have the incoming neutral wired to the neutral going to the receptacle.
The power wire from the panel will be wired directly to a colored wire going to the recept. It will also have a jumper connected to the switch.
The switch will then be connected to the other colored wire going to the recept.
At the recept. the neutral wire connects to the silver recept. terminal.
The other, colored wires will connect to the two, split, bronzed terminals.
It doesn't matter which order is used! :thumbsup:
Did you do some electrical work elsewhere at the same time?
Maybe the wires from this switch do not go directly to this receptacle and there is a problem at an outlet box or junction box in between.
Hm. I did change out all the outlets at the same time because they were all so old. Is there a chance the orange switch wire runs through another outlet box? I'll have to open them up and check but if it is also in another box should it be disconnected from the receptacle?
Maybe the orange wire is supposed to be live all the time and the black wire controlled by the switch. YOu;ll have to inspect all the outlet boxes that you worked on to see which is the case.
If you live in Chicago area then I should able recall the conductor colour code and with orange that is switched hot while black is unswitched hot conductor.
So take the NCV tester to verify it or use the test light one of the two should able tell you the indentfication of that conductor.
P.S. If you are in Chicago area then this link will give you the answer { Scroll down half way }
Colour codes link
French Electrician ---I'm flattered that you saved that chart!--Mike--
Check your new switch. It sounds like you may have installed a three-way switch in-lieu of a one-way light switch.
I would expect that at some time in the past two years, the OP solved his problem.
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The relationship between politics, media and the visual arts for cultural practitioners living in the 'Arab world' has never been as urgent a topic for debate as it is now. At the present time, there is not so much a discussion among visual arts practitioners but rather a rampant desire by cultural brokers to create unsophisticated forums for so-called discussion of the Arab Spring. The 'debate', or lack thereof, can be construed as forming a one-dimensional history that is being written by groups, who, it has been argued, attempt to capitalize on market and cultural interest. Writers, curators and editors try to capture, for better or for worse, the genesis of 'revolutionary art' through canon-forming curatorial frames. These include private institutions such as Mona Said's gallery in Cairo, the entire curatorial framework around the Shubbak festival in London and, of course, the numerous international film festivals from Rotterdam to Berlin whose curatorial programming included large film festival seasons around the theme of the Arab Spring.
At this point, I feel it is essential to divulge the elements of my identity that inform this particular reading of the situation. I am an Egyptian writer, film and media curator living in Britain. Raised and educated in the United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom, a sense of plurality has never been alien to me. I have spent the last few years writing about film and visual arts in Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine, not necessarily because of any nationalistic impetus, but because I felt that many of the artists connected to these places were (and indeed still are) addressing meaningful theoretical questions through innovative strategies of execution that resonated in a way I could not find elsewhere. As a result of this personal interest, I am often asked to comment on cultural conditions not only in Egypt, but for the entire Arab world, and not merely from a visual arts or film perspective either. This expectation that I hold an identity–an 'Arab' identity that as a curator and a writer I have to perform – has been in equal measure both flattering and discomforting. Since the beginning of the Egyptian uprising, dozens of individuals and cultural producers have felt compelled to ask me not about my political feelings towards the uprisings, but rather, what effect I believe it will have on the visual arts of the Arab world, almost as if both issues could be theorized hand in hand.
It is an impossible question to answer, but it is one that I feel obliged to grapple with. What I am laying out here are my discursive thoughts, or sketches towards a discourse. Ultimately, what I am most interested in discussing is the social impulse generated by the interplay of politics, media, and the visual arts in the contemporary Arab world, and Egypt in particular. With this in mind, my aim is to discuss how technology's socializing qualities might be able to shift generalizing cultural forms of categorization as it continues to advance, and set inter-disciplinary educational fields in motion.
I should begin by quoting Hassan Khan, one of the leading artists from Egypt to utilise new media technologies. In the autumn 2011 issue of Index journal, published by MACBA Barcelona, Khan precedes his own short story with some weighted words. He begins his narrative for 'The first lesson I remember learning is that humiliation exists', with:
'A question lies behind the choice of title used here … The question is ironically the one that may be most expected at this moment–the one that, at this point in time, critics, curators and editors will ask artists who come from Egypt. The question has, of course, to do with how an artist, operating at a historical moment, deals with an event whose proportions and form defy all expectations. The question is usually followed by enquiries about whether your practice has changed following such events, if you feel that you have a new responsibility as an artist, if your understanding of art has changed.'[1]
Khan insists that nothing has changed directly in terms of his conceptual, aesthetic and theoretical preoccupations or indeed in his choice of subjects. This is significant coming from an artist whose work has often revolved around issues of social communication, re-articulation and transformation through media, as evidenced in sound works such as DOM-TAK-TAK-DOM-TAK (2005). This is pertinent to my argument, because Khan's processes of appropriation and re-inscription echo some of the common qualities of media appropriation that began in January 2011. As the curator Rasha Salti stated recently at a conversation during the 4th Marrakech Biennale, media has been the primary tool within the recent political revolts.[2] Spectators of public dissidence, who may have begun their journey through the upheaval by watching mediated images, subsequently became involved with the movement through their own processes of media capturing–-documenting photographs and fashioning them into posters that they would re-present and distribute on both online and physical social networks.
The issue of media technology is crucial to this understanding; as Gilles Deleuze asserts, technology is a socializing force before it is a technical one.[3] In terms of the visual arts and the Egyptian uprising, this created a grey area because one of the most famous early casualties of the struggle was the new media artist, Ahmed Basiony, who was shot by snipers on Tahrir Square. This brings me to a pivotal point in my argument, which concerns the role of new media art in Egypt and the region. While political activism and the impetus behind new media art may be mutually exclusive, they are bound by the idea of 'open' flows of democratization via digital communication technologies. Media-based art is derived from an art historical trajectory that has developed since the 1970s, potently evolving from the mid-1990s through to the millennium, and which saw the artist's role transformed into that of a tinkerer or hacker, capable of cracking open the confines of insular capitalist hegemony and educational hierarchies. Media and .net artists from the likes of Electronic Disturbance Theater and Critical Art Ensemble to Heath Bunting, Zach Blas and JODI, have all in some way or other practiced civil disobedience either in real life or online.
From a political perspective, it is deeply poignant and significant that Basiony–the artist that subsequently represented Egypt at the 54th Venice Biennale–was known in Egypt for having utilized open source software not only in his own artwork, but also in his teaching, in public workshops, and through postgraduate study. This leads me to the question: could the relationship between the open source ideology in recent new media history and the proliferating 'share' culture of revolutionary dissidence have created this grey area whereby artists who work with new media as a resource from Egypt and the whole region are asked to comment or subscribe to an artistic interpretation of the Arab uprisings?
This is not to say that artists in Egypt and the Arab world are not interested in engaging explicitly with the subject matter, or that it cannot be presented in an intellectually engaging artistic capacity. In 2011, Hamza Serafi created a video art project entitled, The People Want…, an allegory of civil unrest in Egypt represented by popcorn kernels. Here, Serafi asserts that a certain 'combination proved explosive, as people (kernel) who had to endure injustice (heat) committed over time, and their plight further expressed by the media (oil), … reached a point of no return (popcorn).'
The work was inspired by one of the artist's friends, a protester who dubbed the pro-Mubarak regime 'Hooligans … [being] fed Kentucky Fried Chicken Meals laced with 100 dollar bills'. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) operates on a number of different metaphorical levels here–an imperial one (American power and investment in the Mubarak regime), a geographic one (in that protestors used to meet at the KFC in Tahrir Square), and a literal one (in that KFC serves popcorn-style chicken). At the time, I found the implicit humour in the work refreshing, but this is not to say that all artists from the region should be expected to construct works of art that either literally or figuratively engage with the theme of revolution.
In the opening article in the October 2011 issue of the UAE-based journal Contemporary Practices, the French-Tunisian scholar Khadija Hamdi starts by suggesting that post-revolutionary art in Tunisia is an 'engaged' form of creative practice.[4] Before long, she suggests that the term 'engaged art' is an essential and responsive movement to the oppressive former political regime. For me, this language of 'the new dawn' or 'the new day' is a dangerous one. It suggests that as artists, writers, curators, and ultimately citizens, all of our thinking and all of our belief systems should function in opposition to or in response to a fallen regime. What does this language or framing ask of artists? That revolution should be a unifying thematic device, akin to the Palestinian conflict or the Lebanese Civil War? Without hesitation, one can argue that this would be counter-intuitive if, indeed, the uprising was meant to unshackle artists from the binds of conforming to government regulation or censorship.
If we are to learn anything from the mobilizing rationale of the uprising, it is that technology is a force that can break down hierarchical boundaries. Socializing media works against forms of categorization that we have so often become accustomed to the frequent usage of collective ethnic terminology such as Arab Art, Chinese Art or Indonesian Art in the international art world. In his essay Geo-coding Contemporary Art?, Timo Kaabi-Linke criticizes these common labels as ideologically reductive catch-alls that deprive art of its universality.[5] He then goes on to draw a potent correlation between this and our current socio-political condition, arguing that protestors from the Arab uprisings to the Occupy Wall Street movement (many of whom have come together initially through social media) are bound by no particular agenda or manifesto beyond the fact that that they no longer wish to tolerate exploitation. He goes on to argue that none of the protestors represents a particular sector (i.e., workers or students). This picture of differences that Kaabi-Linke attempts to draw is one that could be appropriated to our benefit – to break down geo-political systems, which attempt to set out a prescriptive schema for artists.
This is easier said than done, of course. The contemporary visual arts operate within a hierarchical structure of artists, art schools, academicians, curators, writers, and ultimately, collectors and philanthropists. Historical processes of selection, even from a Post-colonial position, continue to require that artists be framed within a curatorial context that is easily digestible and one that often accentuates difference. And while the act of fetishizing Orientalist stereotypes is no longer as unsophisticated as it used to be, a common set of rigid principles continues to be put forward. Namely, one can argue that both cinema and the visual arts in the Arab world continue to emphasize work that bears an Oriental aesthetic quality, coupled with both a critical and documentary sense of introspection from the artist, to illustrate that they are aware of their socio-political condition–examples of which could once be found in some of the large-scale paintings of Khaled Hafez and in the early work of Ghada Amer.
The subsequent reality is that many of the artists who live in Egypt and the Arab world in general end up a part of exhibitions with titles such as Taswir – Pictorial Mapping of Islam and Modernity (2009), a show that pioneering artist and educator Shady El Noshokaty occupied in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, or Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East (2009) at the Saatchi Gallery in London, which many writers (myself included) have criticized at great length for its generic categorization. The polemic of the latter can easily be derived from its title, and its lead imagery– of Kader Attia's Ghost (2007), which comprised aluminium sculptures of veiled women kneeling. This was complicated by its unclearly defined geographic expanse, and its lack of interpretation or material for further engagement. This form of curatorial framing is a persistent problem and can even be seen within the so-called East itself. For example, a new show at the Mori Art Museum in Japan entitled, Arab Express (2012), professes to bring new art and identity from the Arab world to Japan.
A question arises: who bears the burden? The artist can choose to refrain from participating in such exhibitions, but they subsequently risk fading into obscurity. With these issues still at the core of our intellectual processes of 'curating' so-called art in/from the Arab world, I believe that now is a critical moment for us to consider how the social impulses that have provoked such international interest in these artists are theorized, curated, exhibited, and re-appropriated for the world.
The most positive counter-activities are the grassroots, artist-led movements, educational and visual arts institutions, which exist locally and extend beyond such didacticism. Historically, this may not have been possible because contemporary art institutions in Egypt in particular have been shielded from public view and have been short of the visibility or the platforms that music, cinema or literature have held. Moreover, as Shady El Noshokaty noted when he co-founded The Media Art Workshop programme at Helwan University more than a decade ago, higher art education often lacked an infrastructure, both in terms of technical apparatus and, perhaps most importantly, because curricula were never fluid.[6] Students were forced to study in what he dubbed 'totalitarian' systems, whereby they were unable to specialize in a particular media and were only awarded places at art colleges based on their grades, as opposed to artistic potential. Greater awareness, however, is growing with the rise of social networks (virtual and physical) throughout the entire region. Artists have now become agents in the ecology in which they operate, allowing a new generation free tools of access, as evidenced by the forthcoming launch of Shady El Noshokaty's ASCII Foundation, Wael Shawky's MASS Alexandria, and the ambitious Home Workspace programme led by Ashkal Alwan's Christine Tohme in Beirut, Lebanon. Karaj: Beirut's Media Lab in Experimental Arts, Architecture and Technology, Batroun Art Space in Lebanon, Medrar for Contemporary Art in Cairo, and the Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum, are all also worth significant mentions here.
With education comes knowledge and the vernacular of artistic independence, which will hopefully allow younger artists the artistic mobility to delineate their career trajectory more clearly. The so-called 'Arab Spring' has come to play a dual role in this grand scheme. It has shed a light on art spaces, whereby venues such as Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo has become a meeting space for individuals from many different walks of life to congregate, study and debate through their residencies, open talks, rehearsals, and Independent Study Program; yet at the same time, it has given international cultural brokers a knee-jerk position from which they can respond, theorize and canonize art produced by artists who bear a connection to the Arab world. When asked how she would advise artists to navigate the temptation of succumbing to this schema propagated by revolutionary dissidence, Sarah Rifky, former Curator at Townhouse and co-director of Beirut art intitiaitve in Cairo, noted that:
'I think engaging other people's curiosity is fine, so long as it's not co-opting the current state of fluidity and attempts at conjugating a new political reality into a fixed form of spectacle. I can't prescribe how anyone should 'deal' with this; perhaps the most important thing is a matter of questioning the impetus of questions, asking why people might want to engage [with artists], and how. Being critical, scrutinising, but also open and sincere.'[7]
The art scene in the Arab world itself, however, continues to remain generative in different ways and extends beyond engaging with the curiosity of international cultural brokers, who are often interested in being part of 'a conversation' about endless hope and change. If anything positive has come out of this, it is the socializing quality of the media utilized both by artists and practitioners who collectively 'share' the multiplicity of voices, narratives, and histories present in the region. Still, the goal of cultural brokers should be to ensure that the narrative of revolution does not encroach on the numerous narratives that exist on the fringes. Local art scenes often rely on international exposure and funding to flourish, and as such we must continue to ensure that the narratives that we cling to or decide to develop are not ones that reduce artists to a further categorical specificity, but which allow a more meaningful sedimentary dialogue to come to fruition.


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When publishers announced the forthcoming release of "Adios, Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush" in August, The New York Times ran a notice referring to the book only as a work "with an unprintable title."
The book, written by "Bush's Brain" co-author James Moore and Texas political operative Jason Stanford, takes its name from comments Perry made on camera after an interview he apparently didn't enjoy.
It gives us a chuckle to think the paper of record is too sophisticated to print something Rick Perry said on television. What an obscene man (or just an uptight newspaper)!
More on the book, which is out now, from the Houston Chronicle here. —PZS


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Sometimes what you need is distance in order to get your clarity. My recent relationship didn't work out. And that's ok, because it wasn't a total wash.
The man I was dating taught me something important. And that was that needed to find the focus to take care of myself. You see, I have some, oh, lets call them, Crisis in my life at the moment. Everything is more or less in the air. And I find myself very much afraid for my future in a way I never have been before. While this man was the sweetest guy on the planet, and while my time with him has brought me laughter and joy at a time when I needed desperately, what he taught me was that I was wrong to look for the things ina partner that I had been looking for. I had been looking for someone to share the load. To support me, and protect me. But really, what I needed was someone to let me do that for myself.
I am very capable to slaying my own dragons. The fact that I don't want to should have no bearing on my opinion of my abilities. And it certainly should not impede my efforts. In fact, I need to take care of this thing I am facing on my own, and I need to do it in a brave way. And when I have, the people who should be in my life will still be here.
Recently, I had to make the uncomfortable decision of telling a close friend to effectively "fuck off": That I didn't want visits or phone calls or texts. I wasn't rude, but I was assertive. This man has had a romantic interest in me, and me telling him this didn't go over well. On some level, I think he assumed that being single again, that he and I would simply fall together. But the fact is that this will never happen, for a million reasons. But the biggest reason why, came as a result of my expressing my need to be alone. He parked his truck just out of sight, walked up to my door, dropped off my Christmas gifts on my door step and ran off like a needy attention seeking 4 year old. As if to say "If you don't want to see me now, you will never see me again. To say I was pissed is an understatement.
Those who know me know that I take care of everyone all of time. I seldom take time to myself, so when I do, there is a reason. My friends understand this and give me my space. My recent ex understood this and forced the space on me, and the ex who broke my heart 1/2 a year ago had kept a healthy distance, making himself available to talk when and if I feel the need, because he knows, that's all I need.
So this is my type of rehab. Rather than going away and taking a physical time out, I am separating myself from people and limiting my interaction with them, as a means to preserving focus on myself. Something that is sorely needed at the moment.
While disappointed that my relationship with this amazing guy didn't work out, and while ever hopeful that we will eventually find our way back to each other in one way or another when this all blows over, I am grateful to have this time out to myself. To fix what needs fixing. To find my own strength. Rediscover my sword, and slay another dragon. Hopefully I won't be slaying them alone for long.


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In the recent debate about stricter gun control, some officials on both sides of the Rio Grande saw a sliver of hope -- that such laws might curb the flow of illegal weapons over the United States' southern border.
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By all accounts, the last few days of August were hellish ones for John W. Meriwether and his beleaguered hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management. In the midst of the marketplace slaughter that sent LTCM--and its creditors--to the brink of catastrophe, Meriwether still had time to attend to some family business. On Aug. 27, he signed an "interspousal transfer grant deed" transferring to his wife, Mimi, a 20-acre vacant lot on Del Ciervo Road in a tony residential area of Pebble Beach, Calif. It was, until that moment, the only property in his name.
Was John Meriwether seeking to improperly put a major personal asset out of reach of potential creditors--such as unhappy investors--who might sue him and LTCM as a result of the firm's fall? By that transaction and others years before, did he effectively insulate himself and other LTCM honchos from the consequences of their high-stakes bets?
These are troubling questions in light of the near failure of LTCM and the widely criticized $3.6 billion bailout. Lately, attention has focused on four LTCM principals who borrowed money to finance their investments in the fund. Yet another issue remains unanswered--what is the personal exposure of Meriwether and his 15 colleagues? Though the bailout left them with vast, as yet undisclosed personal losses and a 10% stake in the firm, their personal liability has been kept to a minimum. A BUSINESS WEEK examination of public records shows that, long before the Aug. 27 transfer, Meriwether had shielded his own and his partners' personal assets in the event LTCM ever got into trouble.
VIGOROUS DENIAL. A Meriwether spokesman vigorously denied the Aug. 27 property transfer was for asset-protection reasons. "That was done in implementation of estate planning that was under way for over a year," said LTCM spokesman Peter Rosenthal. "The implementation was begun, of this particular thing [the property transfer], a number of months earlier," he said. Why would it take "a number of months" to obtain Meriwether's signature on the bottom line of a simple, two-page property-transfer form? Said Rosenthal: "You got to get somebody to do it, you know, and he has other things to do every day."
Whatever the motivation, the effect of the transfer was to get the property out of reach of future creditors. The lot was transferred to Meriwether's wife as "her sole and separate property." Lawyers say that means creditors may be hard-pressed to seize that valuable property, even though California's community-property laws generally mean property owned by one spouse is the property of the other spouse.
To be sure, there has been no litigation. And Rosenthal insists the timing should in no way arouse suspicion, even though Meriwether acted at the tail end of the month that almost put LTCM out of commission. Still, the public record shows that if a lawsuit barrage begins, Meriwether wIll be ready.
LTCM itself was structured so that Meriwether and the other 15 principals have no liability beyond their own investment in the funds. Meriwether's colleagues, who include such top brains in finance as Nobel Laureate Myron S.
Scholes and former Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman David W. Mullins, have been widely described in the press as the "general partners" of LTCM. But, in a strictly legal sense, they are not.
According to public records, the LTCM is a Delaware limited partnership owned by another limited partnership called Long-Term Capital Holdings. Corporate filings show that the general partner of Long-Term Capital HoldinGs is yet another corporate entity, LTCM LLC. And a person familiar with LTCM says that LTCM LLC is, in turn, owned by the 16 principals--though not always in their own names. Some, he said, participate via their spouses and trusts.
Such complex corporate structures limiting top management's liability are a comparatively recent phenomenon among hedge funds, which were originally organized to give general partners personal liability if the funds went under. Still, hedge-fund lawyers note that such corporate structures often fail to shield managers when their investment vehicles run off the road.
CASH PURCHASE. But if LTCM's woes result in litigation, Meriwether has a second line of asset defense. While he may well have substantial liquid assets, he has none of the real property that creditors can easily track down and seize.
True, Meriwether lives on a widely publicized 68-acre estate in North Salem, N.Y. But land records show that it's not John Meriwether's estate at all, but rather Mimi Meriwether's estate. It was purchased for $2.7 million, apparently in cash, in January, 1994, just as LTCM was getting ready to open for business. The estate was purchased by his wife, and there is nothing in the public record to indicate whether John Meriwether was the source of the funds.
The Aug. 27 transfer may be problematic because it took place at a time when the fund was in hot water. Estate and asset-protection lawyers say it could well be construed in any future litigation as a fraudulent act intended to hinder creditors--which, they note, is a misdemeanor under California law. "It smacks of a fraudulent conveyance," observes L. David Burningham, a California attorney who specializes in estate planning and asset protection. But Burningham adds that he does not know the circumstances of the transfer, which would be justified if it serves a legitimate purpose, as Rosenthal insists.
If Meriwether's actions have shielded his assets, the same can't be said for all of his 15 other "partners." Some have substantial assets in their own names that could be reached by creditors in any future lawsuits. One who didn't appear to anticipate anything amiss at LTCM was Scholes, who purchased a $6.5 million house in San Francisco only this past July, on the brink of the LTCM disaster. Lawyers say that Scholes could have done a lot better job of structuring that purchase to protect that asset. Whatever his brilliance as an economist, Scholes may have a thing or two to learn about the finer points of asset protection. And John Meriwether would be an apt teacher.


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I have copied and pasted this review as it was so accurate that I could not have said things as accurate as this. It is our sentiments exactly. The only thing missing is that the Bay area is not kept clean of trash and debris. In fact they use building materials (IE: concrete chunks and/or bricks)as filler and for seawalls. There was also an awful lot of people that did not pick up there dog pooh! It was disgusting and we complained about it as we picked up an entire bread bag full of it! Pitiful! We also were warned to keep our unit locked as there had been thefts. This is a fishing area and that's what most of the tenants are. It is an excellent spot for that. It has an excellent view of Corpus Christi Bay but the park has not been well maintained. It's a little difficult to find and a little difficult to maneuver a large rig into the Bay sites. The spaces on the Bay are very tight but they have the best view of any of the other parks we've seen in that area. All of the sites are gravel, the roads are gravel and when it rains it's a muddy mess. The Winter Texans plan activities (run by the guests) and they try to be inclusive, however, in order to find out about the activities you need to constantly check at the office. We made friends because we tried. The laundry facilities are clean and sufficient for the size of the park. We used the restrooms at the pool area and those were also clean. The pool is nice and the water is heated and they have a nice hot tub that needed a good disinfecting. There is a meeting hall where the park activities take place and it's large and nicely appointed. We stayed for the month of December and then went back again for a 2 day stay in April to see some friends. We didn't notice the tall grass in December but in April we noticed that the grass around the sites was really tall. Our friends (who stayed from November - May) used their own weed eater to keep the grass cut around their site. The park is at the end of a "seedy looking" neighborhood. We may consider staying here again because of the view and close proximity to Corpus and the beach, but it would not be our first pick.
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I am surprised that no one has mentioned all the extra fees. Five dollars for each visitor and there are many more. We found the owner to be very rude. We let our dog off his leash to swim in the creek. Instead of informing us that it was not allowed she came over yelling and screaming at us like a maniac. I filed a police report as she seemed to be terribly violent and out of control. She said if it happened again she would throw us out. We left as we have never had a problem in any of the 100's of parks we have been in. We also found the road noise to be unbearable at times as stated in one of the previous reviews!


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"Burn the Quran! Burn the fucking Quran!" a woman screams hoarsely, over and over again. Tinny guitars course beneath her howls, sawing away at any semblance of melody. Sampled snippets of fundamentalist Islamic rhetoric filter through, and muffled voices exhort their unseen audience to praise Allah and to destroy the infidel.
To fans of heavy music, the hallmarks are immediately recognizable. This is raw, mid-tempo black metal, a lo-fi example of heavy metal's most evil subgenre. Black metal feeds upon hatred, nihilism, and anti-human behavior. Extremity is everything. It drinks the blood of Christ, turns upon its own, and takes almost carnal pleasure in the theory and imagery of war. The music from the early days of this scene conjured images of the ashes of burned churches and the dried blood of murder, and yet the genre, in its middle age, often doesn't shock the way it once did. The hellish noise of this particular song, though, does. There's something different about it. This is real.
The overall effect is chilling, which is, of course, exactly its creator's intent. Her name is Anahita, and she is the 28-years-old voice and vitriol behind Janaza, Iraq's very first female-fronted, black-metal band. Allow that notion—Iraq's very first female-fronted, black-metal band—to sink in for a moment. Her first recording, Burn the Pages of Quran, boasts five distorted, primitive tracks that altogether run just shy of an unlucky 13 minutes. She, along with a handful of other acts hailing from the Middle East, are repurposing black metal's historically anti-Christian ferocity to rail against Islam. In doing so, these bands are serving up another example of how art and dissent can intersect in a region where dissent can sometimes have deadly consequences.
For rather obvious reasons, Anahita keeps her full identity secret. In every photograph, she's smeared with layers of black and white corpse paint, rendering her anonymous and demonic-looking. It's difficult for a Westerner to find much information on Anahita, but she is becoming recognized within the international metal scene as one of Iraq's most blasphemous entities. She rarely grants interviews; the only other published Janaza interview to date comes courtesy of long-running dark music blog Heathen Harvest. It took well over a year for me to track her down, and even then, she refused to speak on the phone, instead insisting on communicating via Facebook. She answered questions about her life, her views, and her music, including the one that weighed heaviest on both of our minds: What would happen to her and her compatriots if religious authorities discovered their actions?
"A simple answer. They would kill me, and kill all of my friends, by cutting off our heads."
Death informs every part of Anahita's world. She was raised in a Muslim home in Baghdad by parents she described as "open minded" and "not strict." A suicide bomb—"by a Muslim guy of course," Anahita wrote—killed her parents and her younger brother during the Iraq War, and she said she has since seen religiously motivated violence hurt some of her college friends too. "What keeps the fire burning is that I live every day in the memories of my parents and friends, and every day the people try to threaten me," she said. "That's why I am full of hate." Fittingly, in Arabic, "Janaza," the name of her band, is a funeral prayer for the dead.
She lost her faith, as so many do, between the pages of a book. "I was reading some scientific facts and how Islam doesn't make sense at all with the current science, and they use the method of 'brainwashing' to convince people about Islam," she wrote. Her lyrics for Janaza and its sister project, Seeds of Iblis, make clear where she stands now: "Islamic Lies," "Burn the Pages of Quran," and "When Islam Brainwashed Mankind" are a few of her more memorable tunes. However, unlike many of her contemporaries within the global black metal scene, she leaves Jesus out of it. "I am fully anti-religion in general, but I didn't live in a Christian atmosphere and the Christian people didn't kill anyone who means something to me," she says.
Before her parents' death, Anahita, a self-taught musician, had played in a thrash band called Desertor. "I've been a musician since about nine years now, but didn't have any chance to write and record my own materials in the past due to the fucked-up situation in the city," she said. "I used to have a small thrash-metal band in the early 2000s before the war, and we used to record and rehearse a lot, so we were used to recording."
To hear her tell it, a diverse metal scene thrives underground in Iraq. "Metal is metal, black metal is black metal, it doesn't matter if girls or guys are handling the music, the most important thing to me is the passion behind the music itself," she said. "There are many bands here, they just need time and money and some help to record their materials."
She's not alone in her fight. Seeds of Iblis ("Iblis" is an Arabic word for the Devil) features five men and one other woman besides Anahita herself (Epona, who has also spent time in the now-defunct black metal band False Allah) who handles the vocals and lyrics, and released their first EP, Jihad Against Islam, in 2011 via French label Legion of Death. This band is even more unrelenting, crafting songs like "Sex With Muhammad's Corpse" and "Inverted Hilal." One of the band's guitarists, Yousef, pulls double duty in Tadnees, another virulently anti-Muslim outfit who, together with the aforementioned projects, style themselves as part of an "Anti-Islamic League."
Outside this immediate black circle, there's a scattering of other Middle Eastern or Muslim-raised blasphemers who have been making their screams heard. On the more obscure end, there's Damaar, a now-defunct Beirut collective whose howling, sacrilegious approach to black metal spawned tunes like "Preaching for Mass Suicide" and "Ode to Blasphemy (Onward to the Gates of Mekka)" on their Triumph Through Spears of Sacrilege demo (released by American label Nuclear War Now! Productions). More famously, Lebanon group Ayat have released albums through the prolific North-American label Moribund Records. When their most recent record, Six Years of Dormant Hatred, was released and first burst into the greater consciousness, writers and music critics made much of their brutal, sacrilegious, seemingly anti-Muslim lyrics. Since then, perhaps shying away from the heat generated by their album, the band issued this statement: "We never described ourselves as Anti-Islamic Black Metal. We are against the religious establishment in all its forms and Islam is just one form of it."
Venturing beyond the Middle East yet ever deeper into Islamic territory, we find Weapon. Currently based in Canada and freshly signed to Relapse Records, this particular black/death horde is led by frontman Vetis Monarch, who was born and raised in a Muslim household in Bangladesh. Though the soul of the band is purely Satanic, they make their sentiments in regards to Islam known in songs like "Remnants of a Burnt Mosque" and "Violated Hijab."
In a scene revered and reviled for its commitment to darkness and blasphemy, it's nevertheless rare to encounter musicians who are, quite literally, willing to die for their art. Anahita's message is controversial, but it also comes with sobering, almost-jarring humanity. As her one-woman war against Islam rages on, her deepest desire seems to be for peace—or at least, for understanding.
"The goals of Janaza and Seeds Of Iblis are to show the world that Islam is dangerous," she said, "and even the people who live in the Middle East get hurt by this religion and seek for freedom of speech, just like the other people from all over the world."


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Bread. February 2007
6.5 million will make a different Singapore
Everything but the two biggest questions on people's minds: Will I be
outcompeted for a job? Will Singapore feel like a foreign place socially?
Instead the Straits Times' feature on 24 February 2007 was headlined, "Will this city rock?" -- not exactly the first concern people have when they hear the government talk about preparing for the day when we'll have 6.5 million people on this tiny island.
Much of the first half of the article was devoted to explaining why this new figure has been announced.
Indeed, at the current 4.5 million, Singapore is a relatively small city by world standards. In many areas, we don't have critical mass. In an age when our neighbours are industrialising, moving up the value chain to a knowledge economy is the only way for us to go. To get there, we need an unparalleled concentration of talent, in various synergistic disciplines. Thus Sanyal's reference to a "minimum cluster of activities".
More than that, the talent we need must be unusually adventurous, people who by personality are bored with the conventional and the known, who feed on pushing beyond boundaries. These are the inventors and the creative workers that we've been talking about for 10 years. Such people don't thrive in cities that are too safe; they need exciting places. Thus the Straits Times' choice of headline.
Yet our birthrate is too low for Singaporeans to get to the 6.5 million figure without massive immigration. Singapore's Total Fertility Rate per woman is just 1.25, well below the 2.1 needed for a population to even replace itself. Evidently aware that immigration is a very controversial subject, the article devoted nearly half its length to explaining all the above, in an effort to convince readers of the necessity of the coming influx.
Then the article's focus shifted to housing and infrastructure before touching, briefly, on the social impact.
Amazingly, the newspaper had little more to say about the matter beyond that point.
Economic illiteracy
For an economic species, a shocking number of humans have no understanding of economics at all. We still see the world in ways not different from those of hunter-gatherers: there's a finite amount of resources "out there" within the territory we dominate, and if more people come to live off this territory, we'll each have less.
Few seem to realise that this equation broke down 10,000 – 15,000 years ago when humans discovered agriculture and domesticated animals. How much food a community had from then on depended more on how much labour they collectively put in to ploughing fields, raising crops and husbanding animals. Subject to the yield available from the land, they could produce from the same acreage many multiples of what hunter-gatherers could have caught or foraged.
Aha, you say, there is still an upper limit, being the maximum yield of the land. But in fact this is a movable barrier too. It depends on technology, such as knowing how to selectively breed better seeds or build better fences to keep predators away from the herds, and on infrastructure, like irrigation. In other words, an economy is something that is created by people, not a function of natural resources.
Now, look at the problem in a different way. Take 2 million people, foreigners all, by coincidence the same number that Singapore expects to welcome in the next decade or two. Put these 2 million people on an uninhabited island with no natural resources. The island had no economy before they arrived. Will it have an economy after? If so, where does the economy come from?
Sure, there will be an economy after they have landed, even if they have no resources to extract. They can barter their labour for food and other necessities from abroad. Maybe some will import denim and sew jeans which they'll re-export. Others may import fresh fruit and turn them into cider. Still others may draw cartoons and sell them for others' entertainment. In addition, they' will provide services to each other too, such as building houses, catering meals and serving as translators. So long as they put in the two most flexible resources any population has -- their thinking skills and their labour -- they will have an economy.
Since they are relying on thinking skills and labour, the limiting factors will be creativity and efficiency. Over-regulation (like a big chief enslaving all the 2 million people) and habits of mind (e.g. the people collectively thinking it immoral to work with alcohol, and so the cider industry is never born) are the main enemies of creativity, while regulation again, plus poor governance and poor infrastructure (which are related) are the main enemies of efficiency. That is why in modern economies today, these factors predict a country's long-term economic performance far better than things like land area or natural resources.
Thus by this analogy, when one puts an additional 2 million folks into Singapore, they add an economy of their own to what we have here. They don't take our economy from us. However, we should exercise reasonable care to attract people with skills, verve and determination -- the people most likely to create their own economy. However, due to intermixing, at a micro level, the Singaporean will find new competitors for his job, but he also has new jobs (created by the new economy) to compete for. Things will even out, but overall, it is better for the 2-million strong add-on economy to be located here than elsewhere.
As I mentioned above, how productive these new immigrants will be will depend on things like governance and infrastructure. On both these scores, we can expect Singapore to do rather well. We don't expect corruption, unstable exchange rates, unreliable power supply or massive traffic jams to bleed efficiency from the system. The very fact that the government has announced the 6.5 million target in advance shows that they intend to plan housing, transportation and other infrastructure to cater for this.
What we need to watch out for is over-regulation and conservative, risk-averse habits of mind. These two are major inhibitors of economic performance and Singapore doesn't have much to be proud of here. The government is partly responsible, but so too are Singaporeans themselves.
Too many Singaporeans are too comfortable with their provincial worldviews. It manifests in various ways, including a smugness by which we see others not of our ethnicity or nationality. It comes through from the social pressures we exert on our families and others to keep to known career paths, accepted ways of acquiring social prestige and conventional modes for forming families. We frown on those who do things differently; we have little tolerance for those who rock the boat. We like our known world to stay as it is.
Well, ethnically and culturally, it won't stay as it is when we reach 6.5 million. For example, we like to think that Singapore is 75% Chinese. This might have been true 30 years ago, but already today it is only true if we base our calculation on 3.6 million citizens and Permanent Residents. If we base it on the 4.5 million people actually on this island, the figure is probably different, and perhaps lower (even allowing for new arrivals from China)
Certainly the "Others" category, which includes Caucasians, is more numerous than the 2.4% figure among citizens and Permanent Residents.
When we get to 6.5 million, it will different again. We may have a Russian community or a Brazilian or Iranian, just as how the Burmese, Koreans and Nigerians have recently become visible. Even the new Indians and Chinese are quite different communities from the Indians and Chinese who have been here from a few generations ago.
Terence Chong is right: Cosmopolitanism is a attitude, not a function of physical proximity. We can have all these people living here, and yet we can still live and socialise within our own little ghettoes, and spend precious time and energy in mutual suspicion. The government's constant use of the CMIO [1] model is also unhelpful. It reminds people to think of themselves by race. It essentialises traits and therefore stereotypes communities.
Compared to building infrastructure to serve 6.5 million people, we have much more work to do to break habits of mind. The first thing to do is to stop seeing others by race and group attributes, but as unique individuals. Then to stop thinking that your own group, religion, or moral beliefs are superior. And to stop wishing that the kind of society we've known in the past must necessarily be the kind of society we should have in the future.
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Facebook can be beneficial from an SEO perspective. The actual text within a Facebook Business Page's title is searchable not only by Facebook but also by Google and other search engines. The About box and thecontent within each post are also crawled by the search engines. Consider the screenshot below.
Every time you post a Facebook status update that includes a link to content on your website - it's seen as another reputable link back to your site. This aids in the optimization of your website, in addition to the SEO opportunities of the Facebook Page itself.
In some cases, Facebook Pages show up higher than their associated websites in search engine results for keywords related to your business.
Finally, if a website has the Facebook Like Box social plugin installed, when the plugin pulls in the latest two or three posts, that content is seen by the search engines as fresh content with keywords. This concept is very similar to when you post a new blog post. Check out the screenshot below for an example of the social plugin.


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I just installed your plugin, but something looks strange,
it only worked when I changed
in the plugin code
maybe something changed in the recent wordpress versions
Hey, it's working great… Thanks for a nice plugin…
I previously wrote some similar functionality using MySQL's FIELD() function instead of FIND_IN_SET(). I wonder if there's a performance difference between the two.
Sort Query by Post In
Query for a specific set of post IDs, and return them in that same order.
NOTE: This plug-in has been incorporated into WordPress core as of version 3.5.
Sort Query by Post In is a very light weight (less than 10 lines of code) plug-in intended for developers executing custom post queries. You're welcome to include it in your theme and redistribute – just offer us some credit, please!
When constructing a WordPress post query in your theme template files or plug-in, WordPress offers the option to explicitly specify the posts to retrieve using the
post__in parameter. Unfortunately, the
orderby parameter does not offer an option that will sort the result by the exact order passed in the
post__in parameter. This plug-in adds a
post__in option for the
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And don't worry about the plug-in being deactivated – your post queries with the new
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The following links will provide you with the minimum computer system requirements for Canvas:
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MQM Chief and Founder Altaf Hussain has announced his decision to quit the party after raids by Scotland Yard on his residence in relation to murder of Imran Farooq. Altaf Hussain said that he was transferring party powers to the Coordination Committee.
Altaf Hussain has announced his resignation multiple times in the past, but always took it back on "staged" insistence of party members. One of resignations was in 2008 when several lawyers were locked and burned alive in Karachi Tahir Plaza while MQM was on running the anti-judicial campaign.


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Jay Diaz brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 78 Designs von 23 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I am an entreprenuer who is looking to create a label for my trademark
"Mojitoville". I am a Latin (Puerto Rican) male who likes to sip cocktails in South Beach with my wife.
The target audience is anyone who appreciates the relaxing environment of a tropical environment complete with Palm trees. 21 and over would be the target, but we dont want to offend people with children.
Mojitoville is to us a state of mind. a tropical scene that brings to mind a lazy afternoon around palm trees with cocktails made with fresh mint.
We need to see the name "Mojitoville" (TM patent pending).
some suggestions (though not required) hammock, mint leaves, palm trees, Latin flavor a plus. We would like to see some fun colors
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The Uncharted series has a very likable main character in Nathan Drake. It would have been easy for lesser writers to introduce a love interest that people didn't like when said love interest wasn't on the same page as the major protagonist. That was not the case with Naughty Dog. They came up with a prominent character who could function on her own outside of being a love interest, and they made her just as likable as Drake himself.
Elena Fisher and Nathan Drake hardly even start out on the same page. After they're attacked and make it to safety, Drake intentionally bails on her to continue his quest. Elena finds her way back on the same path as him because she's a journalist ready to do pretty much anything it takes to accomplish whatever she sets out to. In fact, she even briefly hesitates to let her camera go even when her life depends on it. Like Drake, she doesn't shy away from danger, although she doesn't actively seek it out like he does, either.
I love the fact that she has no problem going toe to toe with Drake. Their banter and general interactions are one of the best parts of the series to me. They challenge each other and don't let the other "win". And in each installment, we've been introduced to Elena as she's living her life outside of her relationship with Drake. She's using him to help her out in the first one; in Among Thieves, she's investigating a story where he happens to be; and in Drake's Deception, she comes to Drake and Sully's aid at the drop of a hat despite the falling out that they've had. Even when they're teamed up, Elena's not solely being dragged along with him; she's doing things of her own accord and for her own reasons. They love each other but neither of them is strictly dependent on that. They make each other better. They're equals. That's the most important part, and why their relationship is pretty great, especially for a videogame.
Elena may not be the main character or an action star, but there's no way the Uncharted games would be the same without her. She's tough, intelligent, funny, resourceful, and brings with her a more grounded quality that Drake needs in his life. She's intrinsically linked to Drake (they are his games, after all), but she's not defined by that. Elena needs help at times, sure, but never once is she a damsel in distress. I remember being genuinely worried that she was going to die toward the end of Uncharted 2. I hadn't played the first one, so it's a testament to her character and that game that I was able to get so attached to her so quickly. That doesn't happen very often for me.
And about that awesome banter…
Elena: "So on a scale of one to ten, how scared were you that I was gonna die?"
Drake: "Four."
Elena: "Four?"
Drake: "Yeah, why?"
Elena: "A four?"
Drake: "Yeah."
Elena: "You were at least an eight."
Drake: "An eight?"
Elena: "You were a total eight."
Drake: "An eight? Those Guardian things were an eight."
Elena: "Are you kidding me?"
Drake: "Yeah, those were terrifying."
Elena: "What's a ten?"
Drake: "Clowns."
Elena: "Clowns over my death? Clowns?!"
Drake: "I, I hate clowns. I hate clowns."
Elena: "Oh my word. You thought I was dead."
Drake: "No."
Elena: "Yeah, you thought I was gone."
Drake: "No, no."
Elena: "Yes you did."
Drake: "No, I had you all along."
Elena: "I saw you shed tears. You shed a bunch of them."
Drake: "Tears?"
Elena: "Mmhmm."
Drake: "It was raining."
Elena: "No it was not."
Drake: "You were unconscious and it was raining."
Elena: "It was totally sunny out and you were bawling."
Drake: "It wasn't sunny, you were unconscious."
Elena: "Whatever. I kept your tears in a jar. I have proof."
Drake: "I'll give you five, how's that?"
I think that sums up it.
Note: I want to give a shout out to one of my favorite videogame characters ever, Claire Redfield. Unfortunately, being the shitty company they currently are, Capcom has neglected her character in Resident Evil for like ten years now, despite the fact that she was easily the best in the series up until they started ignoring her. She hasn't so much as made an appearance in the last four main games. Fuck you, Capcom. Fuck you. That's why I went with Elena Fisher, since she's a lot more relevant at the moment.