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Glory for Sydney as Del Piero scores again
Sydney FC's marquee men Alessandro Del Piero and Brett Emerton were heroes as Ian Crook's side downed Perth Glory 2-1 at ANZ Stadium.
Sydney came from a goal down to wrestle the three points from last season's runners-up and record their second straight win in what was a lacklustre performance.
Travis Dodd opened the scoring for Perth in the 18th minute after tearing apart the Sydney defence, as the visitors controlled much of the first half. It was a different story in the second, however, as Perth went down to 10 men after Steve Pantelidis was sent off for bringing down Emerton in the penalty area.
Alessandro Del Piero stepped up and slotted home the spot-kick, with a little help from the left upright, ensuring he got his name on the scoresheet for the third consecutive game.
Emerton then nabbed the winner a short time later after Rhyan Grant dispossessed Liam Miller, the former Blackburn midfielder finishing with a delightful chip over the hapless Danny Vukovic in goal for the Glory.
Ten-man Perth pressed hard for an equaliser late and should have had a penalty after Rhyan Grant handled in the box, but the claims were rejected.
In the day's other game, the Central Coast Mariners defeated Melbourne Heart 1-0 thanks to a goal from Pedj Bojic. The Mariners win lifts them into the top four and leaves the Heart just one place off the foot of the table.
The Mariners welcome Del Piero and Sydney FC to Bluetongue Stadium next weekend.
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Kate Winslet, Evan Rachel Wood Dazzle At Mildred Pierce Premiere
Kate Winslet showed off her curves at the premiere of her new mini-series Mildred Pierce in New York last night. The actress wore a tight Stella McCartney dress with polka dot paneling down the side.
Battling Kate for hottest red carpet look was Evan Rachel Wood, who also looked gorgeous in a plum, long sleeve jersey dress by Elie Saab and Hollywood glam hair and makeup.
PHOTOS: Kate sizzles on the cover of Glamour magazine
The two women were joined on the carpet by everyone's favorite firecracker Melissa Leo, director Todd Haynes, Guy Pearce and James LeGros, who will both star in the mini-series.
Mildred Pierce, which debuts on HBO on March 27, tells the story of a woman who separates from her husband, opens a new restaurant and falls in love with a new man. Kate will play Mildred while Evan will play her daughter Veda in the five-part series.
Kate recently opened up about the tough role. "We had more to shoot, and we had to work a lot faster, but the determination and the level of focus that we all had to have because we were limited was so much more intense, honestly, than certainly any film I've been a part of," she said. "I mean film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder."

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Government secrecy on the rise
A new report by OpenTheGovernment.org, a coalition of 67 organizations, finds that government secrecy "by almost any measure is expanding and little is being done to stop it." Some highlights:
– In six years, President Bush has issued at least 151 signing statements, challenging 1149 provisions of laws. In the 211 years of our Republic to 2000, fewer than 600 signing statements that took issue with the bills were issued. Among recent presidents, Reagan issued 71 statements challenging provisions of laws before him; G.W.H. Bush issued 146; Clinton, 105.
– Since 2001, the "state secrets" privilege has been invoked a reported 39 times–an average in 6.5 years (6) that is more than double the previous 24 years (2.46).
– A 2007 Justice Department Office of the Inspector General report on secret wiretap warrants indicated that the government made 143,074 National Security Letter requests in the period 2003-2005. The number for 2006 remains classified.
Patrice McDermott, director for the coalition, said, "The executive branch seems to believe that something is kept under wraps solely on its say-so, whether it is legitimately so or not."
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BSI to hold annual event in conjunction with StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas in Las Vegas
January 4, 2013
Building Stone Institute (BSI) is holding its annual members meeting in Las Vegas, NV, on Sunday, January 27, 2013. This event, held in conjunction with the StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas annual exposition at Mandalay Bay Convention Center, unites the BSI membership with other industry groups who convene at this annual show. BSI will be exhibiting on the StonExpo show floor from Booth B1052.
In addition to the exhibit and education offered at StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas, the BSI member activities will continue with a team building exercise on Monday, a joint happy hour with the Marble Institute of America on Tuesday and a tour of BSI member Las Vegas Rock on Wednesday afternoon.
Members are required to register in advance to attend the BSI specific activities during StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas. Program details, registration forms, sponsorship information and more about the BSI are available online at www.buildingstoneinstitute.org.
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The Nu River flows some 3059 kilometers from the slopes of Tangula Mountain in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau to the northeast corner of the Indian Ocean. For approximately 700 kilometers of this length, it carves what has been called the "Grand Canyon of the East." The river is flanked by the Gao Li Gong Shan range to the west, and the Bi Luo Snow Mountain and Mei Li Snow Mountain Ranges to the east, forming a canyon of 4500 meters in depth.
The Nu River flows through Yunnan Province in China before it broadens and enters eastern Burma, where it is more commonly known as the Salween River. The Salween River forms a portion of the Burmese-Thai border and empties into the Andaman Sea in Kayin State.
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CVAC Programs
- Offers multi-faceted annual programming to showcase local artists, engage the community and foster appreciation of arts and culture.
- Home of the 46 year old, Cowichan Arts Council (CVAC).
- PORTALS is a door to the arts.
- PORTALS is a major go-to place for arts and culture in this region
- PORTALS is a member-user art space, not a gallery
- To date, PORTALS staff has trained well over 100 volunteers.
- Hosts approximately 16 different shows or events each year
- Welcomes 10,000 guests through its doors every year.
- Is in its 5th year of operation inside Island Savings Centre
The CVAC Youth Outreach Program (YOP) is a two-year, multi-disciplinary program designed to mentor, support and enrich the creative development and portfolio production opportunities of selected high school students in the final two years of secondary education in Cowichan Valley schools. This will provide them with needed assistance as they contemplate future careers in arts-related fields.
This popular project is a collaboration between poets/prose writers and artists in other mediums. 2D, 3D and performance artists read the written works in the 'Word First' show in PORTALS called choose the piece they wish to interpret in their own medium. A second show ('A Vision of Words') of the complementary pieces (written and other mediums) occurs in several locations around the Cowichan Valley, including in PORTALS. Performances are scheduled at different events during the run of the show. Finally, a perfect-bound anthology captures the entire project in a full-colour volume.
CVAC is offering a new service for members which combines our mandate to increase community outreach with exciting opportunities for CVAC artists. We have purchased a portable, easily assembled tent for member use at cultural events around the Cowichan Valley. Called Pop-up Portals, this program is about taking our multi-purpose exhibition space, PORTALS, out to the community, helping our members to practice their art in different venues while enriching community events with their unique voices. You can think of it as an opportunity to increase exposure to your work, improve sales, and do some community networking that could pay dividends in future opportunities.
- One of CVAC's few fundraising shows
- All small works, no bigger than 50 square inches
- Fun festive holiday time show, runs in conjunction with Christmas Chaos Craft show in the Island Savings Centre
- Designed for gift-giving
- Transforms PORTALS into a space full of tiny works of art
- All works submitted must be originals
- Annual Spring show, in its 46th year
- Cowichan Valley's largest open art exhibition and sale
- In it's 4th year of showing inside the Cowichan Suites and PORTALS inside the Island Savings Centre
- Open to all CVAC members in good standing to display their work (so writers don't think they can't come in)
- Showcases student, emerging and professional art work
- Members are encouraged to submit original work never before exhibited.
- Jurors select 1 Best in Show, 5 Awards of Excellence, 10 Honourable Mentions
- Peoples' Choice award voted on by the public. Their choice is announced at the close of the show.
July Kids Camps
- Month-long kids drop-in art sessions
- Accessible to all children in the Cowichan Valley
- Fun, interactive, creative, friendly environment
Rent A Wall
- Artist's opportunity to rent 4' wide section of wall space or floor space in PORTALS
- Group show environment
- Allows emerging artist to get a taste of showing without having to produce a large body of work.
- One rotational period mid-show to change out displayed work with new works.
- Opportunity for self-promotion
- Newly revived by volunteer Gail Robb
- Satellite gallery space for 2D artist to show their work
- Month to two month long rotations
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In this exclusive interview, TNA Wrestling's Samoa Joe talks to Guru Magazine about wrestling criticism, international expansion, and managing his hard-hitting style!
A couple of weeks ago, a world-first happened here in the UK.
You may not have heard about it at the time, but at London's Wembley Arena in late January, one of the world's largest professional wrestling organisations, TNA Wrestling, filmed its flagship television show Impact in front of a record crowd.
What's that you say – professional wrestling?
Yes, I know it's not a typical subject matter here at Guru Magazine – but a not-very-well-kept secret about me is that I have been a fan of the sport (or 'sports entertainment' as it's more commonly referred to these days), for over 20 years – and have spent each and every one of those years fending off well-meaning jibes, comments and criticism from my friends and peers – which has only increased as I have gotten older and haven't "grown out of it".
Watching professional wrestling continues to be a huge passion of mine, and in a future issue of Guru, I will be looking to explore the Science Behind Wrestling – refuting some of the preconceptions that exist about the industry and explaining why, to me and many others around the globe, there is no greater art-form on the planet. And yes, before you say it, I'm well aware that the outcomes are predetermined!
To do this, I'm going to talk with some of the most-respected names in the world of professional wrestling, and recently I had the opportunity to interview Samoa Joe – a former TNA World Heavyweight Champion whose hard-hitting style has earned him plaudits from fans around the world and an international reputation as one of the very best in the business today.
Having wrestled for over a decade for organisations including Japan's Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Pro Wrestling Noah, as well as Ring of Honor in the United States, Joe has been a mainstay for TNA Wrestling since 2005, during which time he has held all major championships for the organisation, including the prestigious World Heavyweight Title.
Here's what the man himself had to say:
GURU MAGAZINE: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us today. Going all the way back to the beginning, why did you decide to become a wrestler in the first place?
SAMOA JOE: It was an odd set of circumstances. I'd called a gym wanting to work out – I'd done judo for a long time, and I called in and ju-jitsu was a kind of a hot thing at the time. The trainer at the gym [encouraged me to] try the pro wrestling school there; I did and it was fun and I took to it.
It started out as a 'wacky hobby' that I didn't think much of and I wasn't aspiring to much at the time, but within the span of a couple of years, I found myself in Japan working full-time, and I then realised: this is a great living, this is a lot of fun, and I enjoy what I'm doing, so I became a pro wrestler.
GURU MAGAZINE: Wrestling gets quite a lot of criticism in the mainstream media. Do you feel that, as a professional wrestler, you have to frequently defend what you do for a living?
SAMOA JOE:Obviously during the 'Attitude era' [regarded as the industry's most popular period, when in the late 1990s anti-heroes such as Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock reigned supreme] and even now we have pushed the borders on controversial topics and we do all kinds of things that the general populus may not like … but you'd be hard pressed to watch most TV nowadays and not find the same thing.
Is [wrestling] the greatest moral compass and example of how to live your life? Absolutely not, because we solve almost everything through violence! But at the same time, if you're looking at it that seriously, then I think you're missing the plot.
GURU MAGAZINE: You have a very hard-hitting style. Have you had to adapt this style when moving from promotion to promotion around the world?
SAMOA JOE: Not really. I think when companies hire me they know what they are hiring, and they get me for that reason. I think the biggest change that I've made is that I make an effort not to do things that some people may not be able to defend themselves against – but that's more along the lines of professional courtesy. There hasn't been much adaptation whatsoever for me to be honest – they hired me to be a hard-hitting, no-nonsense ass-kicker and that's what I tend to be!"
GURU MAGAZINE: You currently, of course, wrestle for TNA Wrestling, which has just completed this historic UK tour. Where do you think the company will be in five years time?
SAMOA JOE: I think five years from now, TNA will still be doing well and thriving, and will have more of an international presence around the world. For all of the criticism that people like to levy against the company – I've heard "it'll be dead in five years, six years, whatever" – every year we've grown, every year we've expanded and we've forged ahead into new markets – the UK, now India [with new promotion Ring Ka King], and that trend will continue. I think anybody that thinks otherwise is kidding themselves – and we'll be more than happy to prove you wrong!
This coming Sunday, Samoa Joe teams with a face that some of our UK readers will no doubt recognise – Nick 'Magnus' Aldis, who formerly competed in ITV's Gladiators show as Oblivion. The pair will challenge for the Tag Team Championships on the upcoming Against All Odds show – but does that mean that Joe's days as a singles competitor are over?
"The proudest moment of my career so far was winning the world heavyweight championships [back in 2008]" says Joe, "for a bevy of reasons, but first and foremost that it was from an athlete [1996 Olympic Gold Medallist Kurt Angle] that is world-renowned and world class and one of the very best in the game. I look forward to replicating that success in the future".
If you've enjoyed this interview and would like to see for youself what it's all about, head on over to impactwrestling.com to watch Joe in action.
And if I still haven't convinced you to give wrestling a try, keep an eye out for The Science Behind Wrestling – coming soon to Guru Magazine. You wouldn't dare miss it!


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Standoff in Colorado Springs ends in arrest on live TV
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A standoff in Colorado Springs ends in an arrest of a robbery suspect Friday night.
It happened in 3900 block of Surrey Lane around 10 p.m. That is near North Academy Boulevard.
Police said it all began around 6 p.m. Friday night. Police said Nicholas Mireles, 25, broke into a home with a machete. The suspect and the homeowner did know each other.
Mireles then barricaded himself inside of the home. Police said the threat to others in the neighborhood escalated, leading to the standoff. Officers notified people living nearby to stay inside of their homes.
Officers fired several flash bangs and tear gas into the home. Around 10 p.m. the man came out of the home peacefully and was arrested.
Neighbors said it's a night they will never forget.
"My kids called telling me the street was barricaded. I panicked, I was like what was going on and that's when we came home as fast as we can," Kimberly Elizando said.
"I was talking to one of my neighbors and when the standoff started to escalate, that is when officers asked us to go inside," Kurt Carraway said.
Mireles now faces burglary charges.


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Like 99% of the people on this site, I'm a gamer. I have been since I was 4, and I don't think I'm quitting anytime soon. Gaming is more than a way to pass the time for me, it's my main hobby. Why most people read books, watch movies, and draw, I play video games. Mind you, I have other hobbies, but this is a video games site, so why would I waste time talking about those?
I'm interested in any game that isn't a racing, sports, or RTS game. I have no favorite system, but I've drifted away from handhelds as of late. Games with a good story are my absolute favorites, but I have a spot in my heart for the mindless hack 'n' slash. Being a firm believer that video games are art, however, I always go for the story over anything. A good story doesn't have to be original, it just has to be relate-able, believable, and focus on emotions of the characters. Of course, the gameplay has to be good, too, but that should be a given.
What else....multiplayer is a love/hate thing for me. I like multiplayer with friends, sometimes even competitive, but I'm so...not good at it, that I shy away from it. I like co-op more, and I'm a team player. I'm not the guy that keeps tripping you up in co-op because it's hilarious. I actually work with you. Because of this, I don't play co-op much. Everyone seems to disagree with my logic of actually working together (Or maybe I'm terribly unlucky).
That's all I can think of. So...nice to meet you, and congratulations on actually reading all of this!


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UK-based writer James Kerr was granted access to the All Black camp for five weeks in 2010. Ahead of Sunday's test against England, he sets out what the All Blacks can teach us about life and leadership.
When the All Blacks take the field against England tomorrow morning they will do so as, statistically, the most successful sporting team in human history. New Zealand's win-rate over the last 100 years is over 75 per cent. It's a phenomenal record.
But back in 2004, something was wrong. The 2003 World Cup had gone badly. Discipline was drunk and disorderly and the All Blacks were losing.
In response, new management under Graham Henry began to rebuild the world's most successful sporting team. They wanted a fresh culture that placed emphasis on individual character and personal leadership. Their mantra? 'Better People Make Better All Blacks'. The result? An incredible win-rate of just over 86 per cent , and a Rugby World Cup.
In early 2010, I had the privilege of going deep inside the All Blacks camp for five weeks. Here are lessons in leadership I learned.
1. Sweep the sheds
Before leaving the dressing room at the end of the game, some of the most famous names in world rugby - including Richie McCaw, Dan Carter and Mils Muliaina - stop and tidy up after themselves. They literally and figuratively 'sweep the sheds'.
Former All Black Andrew Mehrtens describes it as personal humility, a cardinal All Blacks value.
Though it might seem strange for a team of imperious dominance, humility is core to the culture.
2. Follow the spearhead
In Maori, whanau, the 'extended family', is symbolised by the spearhead.
Though it has three tips, to be effective all of its force must move in one direction. Hence the All Blacks mantra 'No Dickheads', a term stolen from the Sydney Swans.
The All Blacks select on character as well as talent. Some of New Zealand's most promising players never pull on the black jersey - considered dickheads, their inclusion would be detrimental to the whanau.
3. Champions do extra
Former All Black Brad Thorn's mantra, 'Champions Do Extra', helped him become one of the most successful players in rugby history.
The philosophy simply means finding incremental ways to do more - in the gym, on the field, or for the team. It is much like the philosophy of marginal gains used by cycling's Team Sky.
A focus on continual improvement, the creation of a continual learning environment, and a willingness to spill blood for the jersey was at the core of All Black culture.
4. Keep a blue head
After the 2003 World Cup, the All Blacks worked with forensic psychiatrist Ceri Evans to understand how the brain works under pressure.
"Red Head" is an unresourceful state in which you are off-task, panicked and ineffective. "Blue Head" is an optimal state in which you are on task and performing to your best ability.
The All Blacks use triggers to switch from Red to Blue. Richie McCaw stamps his feet, while Kieran Read stares at the farthest point of the stadium, searching for the bigger picture.
5. Leave the jersey in a better place
The All Blacks have long had a saying: "leave the jersey in a better place". Their task is to represent all who have come before them - from George Nepia to Colin Meads, Michael Jones to Jonah Lomu, and all those who follow.
An All Black is, by definition, a role model to schoolchildren across New Zealand. This creates a compelling sense of higher purpose: if we play a bigger game, we play a more effective game.
Better people make better All Blacks - but they also make better doctors and lawyers, bankers and businessmen, fathers, brothers, and friends.


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World AIDS Day 2010: Digital Death
It's hoped by participants that the newly released pictures of celebrities posing in caskets will be able to make the intended impact.
The eye-catching photos of names including Kim Kardashian and Swizz Beatz were put together to raise efforts for World AIDS Day, which is on Wednesday (December 1).
Each of the celebrities pictured signed off from their social networks today and will stay logged off until at least $1 million has been raised for Alicia Keys' "Keep A Child Alive" cause.
Fans and followers are encouraged to text message to donate during their favorite celeb's digital death.


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Dear Stata Listservers,
I have program to graph 11 individual facility measures against
corresponding benchmarks and combine them into one figure. The program
runs fine except for one of the 11 measures pertaining to the rate of
indeterminate test results for a test called HER2. When I isolate this
section of the program as shown below and run it I get the same error
message: "Incompatible types may not assign class to double". One
possible suggestion in the past was that someone had been using a
local macro name corresponding to a name used deep within stata, and
that might be what was causing the incompatibility problem. this is
not true in my case, because these local macro names work throughout
the whole program for each of my measures except for one
Are there any other reasons why I might get this error message that
anyone out there has come across? Thanks, Garth
capture program drop cy10txrange
program cy10txrange, rclass
use `1'_, clear
keep if id==`2'
local var her2_indet_rate
local tt = "Her2 indeterminate results"
local num = her2_results_ind
local den = her2_results
local meas : display %9.2f `var'
twoway (rcap `var'_h `var'_l `var', lwidth(medthick) lcolor(blue))
(scatter `var' `var', msize(vlarge) mcolor(black) msymbol(oh)) if
id==`2', ///
xlabel(none) ylabel(0(.1).4, format(%9.1f) labsize(vsmall)) ///
title(`tt', size(small)) xtitle("") legend(off) ///
note("`num' /`den' =`meas'", ring(0) size(small) position(5)) ///
saving(_`2'_`var'.gph, replace)
cy10txrange treatanalysis10 5249 "Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital"
Garth H Rauscher
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Detectives appealed for witnesses today after a man was shot dead in the street in south London last night.
The 35-year-old was blasted to death after a disturbance in a street in Woolwich early yesterday evening.
Police and paramedics rushed to Lord Warwick Street near Woolwich Dockyard at 6.20am after 999 calls from the public.
The victim, who lives locally, was treated at the scene but was pronounced dead at 7.19pm.
Three men were arrested after the shooting and were being interviewed in south London police stations today.
Detectives from the Trident Gang Crime Command launched a murder investigation.
The victim is not believed to be linked to gangs and police are keeping an open mind about the motive.
The man is thought to have been shot once. A post mortem will be held later today.
Anyone with any information should call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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A self-described conservative Republican candidate running for a seat in Congress joined a protest against migrant children in Oracle, Ariz., on Tuesday, where it was rumored that children would be dropped off in a shelter. Adam Kwasman, who currently serves in his state's House of Representatives, saw a yellow school bus full of what he thought were child migrants and tweeted--and later deleted--"Bus coming in. This is no compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law."
The politician later told Phoenix's 12 News Brahm Resnik that he "was able to see some of the children in the buss, the fear in their faces." Resnik broke it to Kwasman that the bus was full of YMCA campers--not migrant children:
Kwasman later tweeted that he was apparently grateful to God that the yellow school bus in question wasn't carrying migrant children:
Last tweet not the bus of illegal immigrant children. Thank God.
-- Adam Kwasman (@AdamKwasman) July 15, 2014
Kwasman faces his party's primary election in August.


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Yesterday, however, the town was coming to terms with its new-found celebrity status as the birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI. On April 16 1927, Joseph Ratzinger was born in 11 Marktplatz, a yellow and white former toll house with wooden shutters, overlooking the picturesque main market square, into a poor but strongly religious household (his mother made her own soap).
Even though the cardinal had been the favourite to succeed the late Pope, few people here believed he would get the job. "I didn't think he would win because he was a German," Getrude Becker, Marktl's baker, said. "Germans aren't very popular abroad. And he was the favourite. They are not supposed to win."
What did she think of him? "I think he's a bit conservative," she said. "I'm not sure he's in touch with modern times."
Frau Becker was nevertheless yesterday offering her customers Benedict XVI chocolate cake (€1.30 a slice) and Vatican bread (€1). A few metres away, a rival bakery was giving away raisin buns baked in the shape of an ecclesiastical hat.
After hearing the news of his election on Tuesday afternoon, most of the town's 2,700 residents poured into the main square as the bells of St Oswald's - where the Pope was baptised four hours after his birth - were rung for a special mass. And, since this is Bavaria, afterwards locals drank a lot of beer.
"I laid on free beer for everybody, despite our weak financial situation," Marktl's mayor Hubert Gschwendtner told the Guardian yesterday. "I was sitting at home watching TV with my family when the news came through. We couldn't believe it. People were weeping and cheering with joy."
Marktl, next to the birch-lined River Inn, boasts two supermarkets, a couple of guesthouses and cafes, one hotel and a go-kart track. In recent years, as Germany's economy slithered into recession, all three of its breweries and two of its butcher's shops shut down. Now, though, guesthouses for miles around are overflowing with journalists and TV crews, and thousands of pilgrims are expected to visit his birthplace.
"It's good for the local economy, of course. We have to see how things develop," the mayor said.
There is already a plaque outside the house where the Pope was born, unveiled in 1997 when the then Cardinal Ratzinger returned from Rome to his birthplace to be made an honorary citizen. Yesterday the current owner of the house, a homeopath, rumoured to be a lapsed Christian, was not at home.
Until now, though, only the odd cyclist stopped here. The Heimatsmuseum - or homeland museum - next door containing the neo-Gothic font where the Pope was baptised, together with a cabinet of Bavarian first world war uniforms, and a picture of a woolly mammoth, has been almost permanently closed.
Yesterday, most people in Marktl seemed convinced the Vatican's cardinals had picked the right man. "I've met him several times. He's not a hardliner. He's prepared to compromise," Holzner Wendelin, 76, said.
"I like the fact that he's not wishy-washy. You have to take a firm stand on things like abortion," Gertraud Becker, who runs the town's post office, added.
At the age of two, Joseph - together with his elder brother Georg and sister Maria - moved to the nearby village of Tittmonning; the family later settled in Hufschlag, a hamlet near the town of Traunstein. (His house there is derelict.)
Joseph attended St Michael's, the local Catholic seminary. "His reports show he was an exceptional pupil," headmaster Thomas Frauenlob said yesterday. "He learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. But unlike his predecessor as Pope [a former goalkeeper who was fond of skiing] he wasn't very sporting."
The Pope's time at the seminary between 1939-1941 has been shrouded in controversy because of his membership of the Hitler Youth. In his memoirs, Ratzinger admits that he joined up, but only because membership was compulsory, and after he was enrolled by his seminary. He left the organisation as quickly as he could, he said.
Between 1943 and the autumn of 1944 he served with an anti-aircraft unit in Munich. He then joined the German infantry, but because of ill-health was sent back to Traunstein, finishing the war in an American prisoner of war camp.
Yesterday Herr Frauenlob said the records relating to the Pope's war service were locked in the seminary's archive and would not be released for another 35 years. "We haven't had a chance to go through them. I haven't given it any thought," he said.
The Pope, a former Bishop of Munich, was a frequent visitor to Traunstein, his childhood home, he added. "The Pope is an absolutely brilliant man. He is also a very pious man. He has an extraordinary understanding of the Bible, knows the traditions of the church, and is very sober and analytical."
Was he too conservative? "That depends on who you ask," he said.
Pope Benedict XVl is the first German Pope since 1523, when Hadrian VI spent a mere 22 months in office. At a time when Germans have been plunged into gloom because of the economy, there is at last something to feel happy about.
Yesterday, however, Herr Gassner, the museum curator, said the key to understanding the new Pope was to appreciate that he wasn't really German, but Bavarian. "We've got more in common with the Austrians than with north Germans," he said. "We are a warm-hearted and open to the world. But at the same time we are sceptical of other people."
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Catholics in East Asia reacted mostly with joy at the election of Cardinal Ratzinger while religious leaders in the many predominantly Muslim nations expressed the hope he would continue his predecessor's peacemaking efforts.
In the Philippines, the continent's most populous Catholic country, President Gloria Arroyo said her nation rejoiced. Most Filipino Catholics share the pontiff's conservative views on abortion, contraception and homosexuality.
China, which does not recognise the Vatican, said the Pope should sever links with Taiwan and not meddle in China's internal affairs.
Africa is the fastest growing part of the Catholic church and reaction was mixed. In Nigeria, Father Felix Ajakaiye said the Pope should not change the position on women priests. "This is not an issue in Africa."
But South Africa's retired Anglican archbishop, Desmond Tutu, said: "We would have hoped for someone more open to recent developments in the world, the whole question of the ministry of women and a more reasonable position with regards to condoms and HIV/Aids."
Ratzinger was "a warrior to challenge modernity", according to Italy's La Repubblica newspaper, while France's leftwing Libération headlined its editorial "Intransigence".
Conservative catholics, however, were pleased. "This is a moment of very great joy for the whole church," said Javier Echevarria, prelate of the conservative Opus Dei movement in Spain.
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In Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic nation, leftwing scholars remembered that Cardinal Ratzinger had served Pope John Paul II in disciplining leaders of the liberation theology movement that helped organise workers' and peasant groups in pressing for political reforms in the 1960s.
Dominican scholar Frei Betto said: "It is worrying to see the Catholic Church led by a man who ... views the modern world in which we live with mistrust."
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In the US, commentators said the appointment threatened to deepen the rift between a small but powerful traditionalist minority, and millions of others who had been hoping for a more liberal approach to such issues as contraception and abortion, and women in the clergy. It may also frustrate hopes that a new pope could heal the divisions following the sex abuse scandal by pedophile priests.
· Reporting by John Aglionby in Jakarta, Giles Tremlett in Madrid, Andrew Meldrum in Pretoria, Gareth Chetwynd in Rio de Janeiro and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington


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Sultanahmet - Istanbul, Cumba Suite
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Floor No.2
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|Sehsuvarbey Mahallesi, Duzgun Sokak, Kumkapi, 34126 Istanbul, 土耳其
This stylishly decorated luxury studio apartment located on the second floor has a king size bed and a couch in the alcove, natural Ottoman architecture. The suite has a large bathroom, and private kitchen is fully equipped with high-end modern appliances (30 squaremeters).
While retaining its period features, our apartments offer uncluttered modern luxury for everyone from the single business/leisure visitor to couples. Maximising light and space, each room is furnished in an elegant, international style that exudes quality and comfort.
Please ask us if needing several apartments in the same building or location, we have this feature also. Apartments ranging from studios for couples to three bedrooms for larger groups of friends or families offer independence and discreet privacy coupled with the comforts and service you expect from a five-star hotel. Staffed on-site 24/7, our professional multilingual staff will assist our guests with requests from finding you a table at the area's best restaurant to organising tours all around Turkey.
Work / Entertainment & Electronics;
High-speed wireless Internet,
220V outlets and adapters for non-220V devices,
Large flatscreen HDTV,
DVD player,
Bed & Bath;
Comfortable King size beds,
Towels and linens, bathrobes, slippers, extra blankets and pillows,
Private bathrooms,
Luxury toiletries,
Make up mirror,
Hair dryer,
Baby cribs (if needed, please inform us in advance),
American kitchen with refrigerator, microwave, stove, kettle, coffee and tea maker and toaster,
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Juice squeezer,
Dining table and chairs,
Full dining utensils such as cutlery, glasses, & dishes,
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Safe box,
Iron & ironing board,
Individually controlled heating and air conditioning,
Reading lamps,
Daily housekeeping service,
Laundry and dry cleaning service *,
24 hour on-site concierge for your needs,
Airport transfer *
On-street parking,
Tours and travel assistance, city map,
Restaurant and sightseeing reservations,
Translation and interpreter service,
* Service may require a nominal fee.
Our central location is within walking distance of Istanbul's most popular historical, cultural and tourist attractions such as the Blue Mosque, Hippodrome Square, Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, the Egyptian (Spice) Bazaar, the Golden Horn and many others. Just a few minutes' walk from the apartment's door are the tram and train stations, offering rapid and easy transportation to all parts of Istanbul.
Within a 2 minute walk is;
Kumkapi fish market,
Supermarkets (Bim and Sok),
A pharmacy,
Within a 5 minute walk is;
A post office,
Several banks,
A Hamam (Turkish Bath),
Within a 10 minute walk is;
Beyazit tram station,
Grand Bazaar,
Yenikapi Sea-bus port,
Little Hagia Sophia,
Sokullu Mehmet Pasa Mosque,
Within a 15 minute walk is;
Sultanahmet tram station,
Blue Mosque,
Hippodrome square,
Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art,
Mosaic Museum,
Within a 20 minute walk is;
Suleymaniye Mosque,
Hagia Sophia Museum,
Basilica Cistern,
Within a 25 minute walk is;
Hagia Irene Museum,
Topkapi Palace,
Archaeological Museum,
Gulhane Park,
Few kilometers;
Sirkeci International Train Station (2 km),
Spice (Egyptian) Bazaar (2 km),
Ferries Dock (Eminonu) (2 km),
Laleli Shopping district (2 km),
Galata Sea Port (Karakoy) (2.5 km),
Galata Tower (2.5 km),
Dolmabahce Palace (4 km),
Harbiye Military Museum (4 km),
Bus station (Otogar) (11 km),
Ataturk International Airport (airport code IST, 17 km).
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first time on Wimdu for us. Saban was extremely helpful -ask him to fix anyhting for you during the stay in Istanbul.
The apartment we stayed in was very comfortable, clean and welcoming. It is close to Sultan Ahmed and a range of very good restaurants are just around the corner. I would like to thank Saban for making our stay so enjoyable. We will definitely stay with him again.
Phil and Linda Bayliss, UK.
A great place to stay in Sultanahmet - we recommend the Penthouse Suite. Very convenient for many of the sights which were within easy walking distance. Facilities were available for preparing and eating food but with restaurants aplenty a few minutes stroll away we found ourselves out and about all day. Saban not only provided us with accommodation, he arranged an excellent excursion to Gallipoli: an emotional but worthwhile experience. Many thanks Saban.
We stayed five days at this apartment. It was, as described, rather small but newly decorated and very clean. Please note that stairs in the building are very steep. The apartment was equipped to a high standard. Towels, toiletries, complementary selection of teas, sugar, salt and pepper were also provided. We were surprised that it was serviced every day.
The apartment is located in a narrow side street which appeared to be run down, however the location was excellent and made up for this.
Saban was very attentive and always available to help. He also assisted with advice on where to shop and which tours to take. He was ready to make necessary bookings.
The apartment represents good value for money and we would highly recommend it.
Just had a great experience at this flat with my girlfriend.
what can I say, as good as an hotel room and even better because Saban helps you with everything you ask.
Saban is a very obliging and helpful host who gave us a warm welcome to his comfortable well equipped apartment. A perfect size for 2 people, and we loved the view of the ships on the sea! Located in an area of 'real' Istanbul, but close to all the major sites. We really enjoyed our visit and can highly recommend staying here.
Very good service by owner of the apartment and good English (e-Mail and phone). Centrally located in old "Sultanahmet-District", about 10 minutes walk to next tram-station "Beyazit" and the "Grand Bazar" as well as about 15 minutes to "Hagia Sophia", "Blue Mosque", "Topkapi Palace" and "Gülhane Park". Ideal for sightseeing by walk. Comfortable equipment, very clean by daily cleaning service, always hot water, air condition, lovely view on Marmara sea. TV/Radio: even some German ones (via hotbird satellite). Parking facility: not used, but should be clarified in advance where exactly when needed!
With respect to every person that works for the hotel and corporate apartments they are all top notch! From initial email until check out, I really can not say enough in how friendly, accommodating and professional they treat you. The apartments are perfectly situated in the center of everything, exceptionally clean and have wonderful balconies. Either for work or pleasure theses properties are great choices and were perfect for the brief stays I and a colleague had.
We where guided from the airport to the appartment, as we stupidly did not ask for airport transfer. However, arriving at the appartment, we where installed fast, with short introduction to the appartment and the sourounding area.
All what you need is easily located near the appartment, further the appartment is located in walking distance from a lot of interesting things to see. People in the area are helpful and all in all, it was a perfect place for my wife and me. We defently will return there. There is both good and "expensive" resturants near, but also places for more ordinary food, at absolutly reasonable prices. Hint, the supermarked near, offers all you want in one shop, but the small stores, are best and better priced.
I just arrived back on Saturday , from Spending a lovely time at the host saban penthouse. When we arrived , Me and partner zeynep , was very surprised by the wonderful view of the sea , and how beautiful the penthouse was. It was very cold and snowing when we arrived just afer midnite. The apartment was warm and cozy , and had a comfortable and warm bed , and 24hr hot water which was nice. We was very close to Sultan Ahmet , blue mosque , and trams to Takism square was about 30 mnutes by tram.. We planed to stay for 5 days , but had to return early due to my partner being ill. But we loved the penhouse so much , we are planning are next trip in April , and booking with saban the kind and considerate (HOST).
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Although Katrina began as a relatively small hurricane that glanced off south Florida, it was supercharged with extraordinary intensity by the relatively blistering sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.
Fox News counters with the loveable Pat Michaels, a UVA professor and CATO wonk, to summarize the research. (Note that he used the words: stastically significant, explanatory variable, variability explained by, and concomitant, showing why he is a professor and not a broadcaster). For the skeptical, see the $325K that ExxonMobil paid his organizations in the 2002-3.
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- Sea level is rising. The storm was by all counts not as bad as expected. The real lesson of Katrina is that the most prolific damage, human displacement, and economic cost came with the flooding, not the storm. This is the real worry for cities around the world with populations close to sea level. For the Bay Area, that means Martinez and Alameda could easily look like the images you see on TV today.
- Global Warming means more energy in storm systems. Hurricanes depend on warm water to build energy, and warmer water is leading to more intense storms (see Kerry Emanuel's July 2005 Study in nature, release).
- We must act now. Science knows global warming is coming, but much like the city of New Orleans, we refuse to take pre-emptive action, choosing instead to deal with the consequences when they arrive. We all feel terrible about the death and destruction of today; lets use this opportunity to make sure this doesn't happen again…all around the world.
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Should the Federal Government Be More Like Wawa?
Mitt Romney was right, as I wrote yesterday, to praise Wawa as an innovative private firm. But Romney's point went further: Using Wawa as an example, he said the federal government needs to be more efficient and sensitive to its clients' needs.
Romney is right that the federal government is sometimes maddeningly difficult to work with. For example, the Census Bureau has a horrible website. Census divides its data into arbitrary silos, makes them available in inconvenient formats, and even peppers its website with dead links. (Seriously, go to this page and click on "age and sex." See?)
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Sometimes, with the right management, structural problems can be overcome. Dan Grabauskas, who was the Massachusetts secretary of transportation when Romney was governor, rose to prominence as the guy who made the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles a non-hellish place to renew your driver's license. Maybe Romney can put Grabauskas in charge of Census. But again, it's not like Obama doesn't know that good management can produce good outcomes.
The second problem with the Wawa approach is that only a subset of the problems with the federal government can be solved with innovation or greater efficiency. State and local governments really do look a lot like Wawa: They spend large fractions of their budgets on employee compensation, and improvements in productivity can lead to more services provided per dollar spent.
But the federal government mostly moves a lot of money around. For example, 98 percent of spending on Social Security is actually going out as benefits. You can change Social Security's finances a lot by changing benefit formulas and tax rates, but the program is already very efficient.
This holds across other government programs, too: farm subsidies, education grants to states, Medicaid and welfare programs (which are partly federally funded but state administered). Romney can give states more running room to innovate as they spend that money, and he has proposed to do so, but the federal government itself cannot become much more efficient.
There are big federal programs that do engage in significant direct spending and have major opportunities for innovation. But the third problem with Romney's Wawa approach is that he has made commitments that will limit his ability to innovate in these areas.
The part of the federal government that probably has the most opportunities for improved efficiency is the military. We buy weapons systems that the Pentagon doesn't want. The Pentagon wants equipment it probably doesn't need. We compensate military personnel in a Byzantine manner that emphasizes benefits over wages.
But Romney has promised to increase spending on the military. Theoretically, he could cut inefficient defense spending and plow the savings back into other areas of the military. But, if he plans to keep that promise, he can't Wawa-ize the military and use the savings to shrink the deficit.
Another inefficient area of federal spending is health care. America spends a far larger share of GDP on health care than any other country -- 18 percent -- but we don't get appreciably better outcomes than other rich countries. And even though we have a nominally private health care market, about half of health-care spending in the United States is government spending.
The problem for Romney is that there are really only two ways to make health care cheaper: Pay less for the same amount of things, or pay for fewer things. And both of these options are fraught with political risk. The conservative base is likely to be highly skeptical of any moves Romney takes to control the cost of health care that diverge from a Paul Ryan-style approach of simply capping public costs and therefore shifting them to consumers. But the Ryan approach itself would be a political disaster once Americans realized that Medicaid and (later) Medicare benefits were no longer sufficient to buy health care.
Another chunk of the federal government that could be made a lot more efficient is the United States Postal Service. The Post Office has a declining business model, far more employees and facilities than it needs, and unreasonable congressional mandates to provide money-losing service to far flung areas.
Unlike the military and the health care sector, Romney could probably succeed in getting a sweeping reform of the postal service enacted. Falling mail volumes and unfunded liabilities for retirees will soon force a financial restructuring at the USPS that will create a window of opportunity for big changes. In fact, when people ask me what I think a Romney administration would do, my first answer is almost always that it will fix the Post Office.
It would be a good thing if the Post Office were more like Wawa. In fact, we could follow the German example and close many freestanding post offices in favor of desks inside stores like Wawa.
But the dysfunction of the Post Office probably isn't one of the top 10 problems facing the federal government today. And that shows the limits of the Wawa approach: "Be like Wawa" can be a useful way of thinking about how the government should do what it does, but it doesn't tell you what the government should do.
The key policy questions of our time are mostly about what the federal government should do with the limited resources it has available. We can't innovate our way out of those questions; we'll have to reevaluate our views on what government will do. And unlike the "how" questions, Romney has been decidedly cagey on the "why" question -- that is, the purpose of government.
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Original post made by Get over it, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Jul 15, 2009
never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire
That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one
would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had
studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a
free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all
resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of
anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that
socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that.
If somebody is unable to understand THIS explanation, I have serious
doubts about their ability to even function in society, much less run
our country!
As the late Adrian Rogers said, "you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.."
Comments (9)
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 15, 2009 at 11:50 am
But Bush/McCain/Palin's socialism works differently. For Bush/McCain/Palin, if you're a wealthy investment banker, and your company made major campaign contributions (AIG, Bear Stearns, ...), then you can run your company into the ground and the tax payer will come bail you out and make sure your company doesn't fail.
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Republicans believe in socialism and wealth redistribution. They just make sure the wealth gets redistributed to the wealthy.
Republicans: Socialism, but for the rich only.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 15, 2009 at 11:55 am
Web Link
Sounds as if this is a story that has been circulating for years, with the current use of "Obama" interchanged with other political figures/economic advisors.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 15, 2009 at 12:23 pm
But Obama is not a socialist. So this whole allegory is just stupid.
Listen, just because you keep calling Obama a socialist doesn't make it true. Why don't you get together with some other politically like-minded people and try to flesh out a party that represents your own ideology, rather than just trying to spread false accusations about the party that is currently in position?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 15, 2009 at 12:44 pm
You don't get it, do you? It doesn't matter how long it's been circulating, nor that Obama's name is used. Step outside party lines for a second and look at the principle behind this.
Love Palin, you do the same thing. I don't agree with the bailouts, particularly when they went to payouts to executives that ran companies into the ground. It's rewarding someone for slacking with money produced by hardworking people.
That's the point.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 15, 2009 at 12:51 pm
It does matter that Obama's name was used, because that implies that Obama is a socialist.
If you would like to engage in a debate about socialism, that's great. But that's not what you said here. You said "A Lesson in Obama's Socialism." And that doesn't exist. It has nothing to do with party lines.
a resident of Livermore
on Jul 15, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Is this SOCIALISM OR PORNOGRAPHY? Web Link
a resident of Deer Oaks/Twelve Oaks
on Jul 15, 2009 at 12:57 pm
You really have to wonder about people who cite chain emails & urban legends to make their point.
One thing is true: "socialist," at least as it applies to the President, is a pejorative, nothing more. It's baffling because there are plenty of legitimate areas of criticism to level at him.
a resident of Val Vista
on Jul 15, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Parent of Two is a registered user.
Some of the Obama fans seem to be missing the whole point...
When the INCENTIVE to achieve is taken away (via higher taxes, handouts to failures, handouts to cronies, etc.), all of society loses.
Yes, Bush did some of those things. AND WAS WIDELY HATED FOR IT.
So why is Obama getting a pass from you when he's doing the exact same things?
Stop bringing up Bush. He's out of office now. The funny thing is that Obama is pretty much continuing all of Bush's failed policies. You likely had a better shot at "change" by voting for McCain and voting out all of Congress (rather than Obama and re-electing most of Congress).
a resident of Canyon Creek
on Jul 15, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Get over it... YOU lied and you got caught! That's the problem with you conservatives. Most of what you spit out is second hand jargon you read on a web site or heard from Hannity, Rush or the likes.
Then, you all change the story a hundred times as you pass it along, to suit your needs.
I have not heard ONE single original revelation about Obama, or democrats, or liberals in the last year!
You guys LOST, so deal with it and try to do something positive and productive in this society! Your anger is going to kill you!
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