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The United States and Global Poverty: How Can Aid Make a Difference?
Stephen L. S. Smith is department chair and professor of economics and business at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. (economics) from Williams College (1979) and Ph.D. (economics) from Stanford University (1988). His teaching and research focus on international economics and economic development. In recent work he has collaborated with Julie A. Schaffner and Judith M. Dean to edit Attacking Poverty in the Developing World (2005, World Vision/Authentic Media) and to author "Global Poverty: Academics and Practitioners Respond," in The Review of Faith & International Affairs (2006). Dr. Smith is co-editor of Faith & Economics, the review published by the Association of Christian Economists.
The United States and Global Poverty: How Can Aid Make a Difference?
U.S. international economic policies are not the only determinant of the trajectory of global poverty, but they matter enough to merit scrutiny. Policies on trade, immigration, foreign direct investment, exchange rates, governance of international financial institutions, and aid all affect poverty. Though U.S. policies are deeply flawed in many respects, they deserve some credit for the global decrease in the number of poor people since 1980 (from 1.5 to 1.1 billion). (1)
I focus on aid, a topic that is enduringly contentious and richly deserves attention from Christian thinkers. Aid is now eclipsed in size by other kinds of capital flows (FDI, commercial bank lending, remittances and trade-related finance), but generous, well-structured aid remains capable of enormous good.
I. Theological Foundations
All strands of Christian theology affirm private and national aid. Private generosity toward the poor is a tangible act of faithful obedience to the Lord's commands in both the New and Old Testaments. Care for the poor is encouraged whether or not the donor is responsible for impoverishing the poor: it is an act of love that points to Christ and is part of the faithful's proper, virtue-protecting rejection of Mammon. The early church's help to the Jerusalem church is an example of global Christianity caring for the poor across national boundaries. Reformed, Catholic and Anabaptist theological traditions speak with one voice on personal generosity, though they differ about the proper initial direction of such generosity (within or outside of the church).
Christian teaching also affirms that nations should give generously and are judged in part on how they care for the poor, though here theological traditions offer more differentiated views. Broadly speaking, national assistance is enjoined less in the Anabaptist tradition than in the Reformed and Catholic perspectives, which frame it in terms of justice and solidarity. There are also prudential reasons--such as national security--why the state might wish to provide aid. Christian traditions view many of these aims as basically legitimate. (2)
II. The Current Situation: The Aid Landscape in the Early 21st Century
Recent years have seen intense ferment in all aspects of aid. Official and private aid flows grew exponentially; new institutions emerged to become major players; innovative collaborations offer improved means of structuring aid; and new research findings, now based on long country experience with growth and aid, confirm some fears about aid but also open doors for new approaches.
First, let's consider official development assistance (ODA). U.S. ODA stagnated in the 1980s and 1990s. Then the September 11 attacks, combined with growing recognition of the AIDS epidemic, jolted U.S. policy. Between 1999 and 2004 U.S. ODA rose from $9 billion to $20 billion (or to 0.17 percent of national income). This is substantial. In per capita terms U.S. aid still lags behind most other rich countries. But U.S. aid has risen to 25 percent of all rich country aid (from 17 percent), which enhances the U.S. voice in aid matters. The distribution of aid has shifted, too. Sub-Saharan Africa's slice has grown to 20 percent from its historic average of 10 percent. Israel and Egypt, previously among the largest recipients, in 2004 received a mere 2 percent each. (3)
Furthermore, the Bush administration made two key changes. U.S. economic assistance is now exclusively on a grant rather than a loan basis. Also, future aid is conditioned on successful policy implementations and observed outcomes. This conditionality represents a decisive break with past practice and could significantly improve aid effectiveness. (4)
Private aid also has surged. In 2004 U.S. NGOs provided $7 billion in net grants--far more than any other rich country's NGOs. U.S. per capita private donations are strikingly larger than private donations from much of Europe and Japan. (5) Much of this is attributable to the work of Christian relief and development NGOs. World Vision provides aid on a particularly large scale, raising literally billions of dollars of private in-kind and cash donations. In fact, evangelicals have been even more tuned into economic development, and more generous, than these figures indicate. For instance, missions trips take many U.S. Christians to poor regions to work, not to sightsee. North-South church-to-church contacts have burgeoned. (6)
Another new feature of the aid system is the creation of several large development-oriented private foundations. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, buttressed with $31 billion from Warren Buffett, promises to provide more than $4 billion in aid per year for the foreseeable future. (7) Western aid agencies have always worked closely with NGOs in developing countries. The emergence of serious private foundation money vastly expands the potential for public-private collaboration. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the most prominent such collaboration, promises to unite private, official multilateral, and country government resources in a massive way.
Yet aid remains contentious. There is little evidence of any link between aid and economic growth. This matters because growth is extraordinarily reliably related to poverty reduction. (8) There are many reasons why aid might not promote growth or might at best have ambiguous effects in the recipient nation. In economic terms, it suffers from an endemic principal-agent problem. It is hard for principals-donors-to hold their agents-aid agencies and NGOs-accountable to deliver aid well. Likewise, the poor--also principals in poverty reduction--rarely can hold their governments, NGOs, and other actors responsible for actually delivering poverty reductions. Furthermore, aid frees up government resources for other, possibly counterproductive, uses. Finally, there are difficult incentive problems inherent in delivering aid. At both the household and national levels aid can harm self-reliance and encourage cultures of dependence. (9) Food aid appears to be particularly problematic. (10) These problems sustain a longstanding, powerful critique of aid and help explain something that has been clear since the 1960s: aid is not a necessary condition for countries to grow and achieve poverty reduction. (11)
Even when people support aid, debates remain about tactics and strategy. For instance, proponents of the Global Fund and of Bush's PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) initiative are battling about tactics to fight AIDS transmission. (12) Another debate centers on whether or not to use DDT to fight malaria. Putting conditions on ODA is also controversial. And at the broad strategic level there is disagreement between proponents of Sachs's (2005) "big push" initiative--that ODA should be quadrupled and directed by the UN to lift poor countries out of "poverty traps"--and others, such as Easterly (2006), who promote a strategy of smaller, decentralized increases in aid, administered with more institutional innovation and private-sector accountability.
Nonetheless, aid has the potential to do enormous good. Though it has not, historically, spurred economic growth, it can raise human wellbeing by improving poor people's education, health, longevity, and dignity. Indeed, aid was probably a key to the human development improvements in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa over the past 25 years, improvements that occurred despite those regions' stalled economic growth. However, aid must be kept under intense critical scrutiny. Focused attention on accountability and good stewardship are vital.
The increase in overall aid to poor countries is promising. Perhaps even more promising is the rise of new, more accountable institutions that take a collaborative, focused approach to particular development issues (such as education or water supply rather than "development"). Sachs' plan for an overall "big push" may be over-ambitious, tied as it is to an overburdened, dysfunctional UN bureaucracy. But a "big push" might very well work in single policy areas such as AIDS or malaria. The surge of funds and actors from the private sector suggests that smaller-scale, flexible, innovative programs may prove fruitful--in collaboration with official actors, to be sure.
III. A Christian Perspective and Recommendation
The present situation offers Christians deep opportunities and, indeed, obligations to serve others in the name of Christ. I advocate "critical generosity." As individuals, in churches, and in NGOs, Christians should be generous to a fault, but also should pursue hard-nosed analysis of how funds are stewarded. Intensifying U.S. Christians' efforts is well within reach, given our generation's increased wealth and global connections.
The time is ripe for innovative approaches. It is essential that programs recognize the full set of incentives facing the poor, and enable the poor to provide feedback to program designers. This requires experimentation and keen attention to the details of program design. It also is essential for NGOs to implement independent program reviews and more sophisticated project evaluation. Collaboration between academics and development practitioners is foundational to all of these tasks. (13)
Increased giving through Christian NGOs is particularly attractive. They have well-earned reputations for honest work. They have increasingly advanced institutional capacities. They are part of local, national and international Christian networks that encourage information-sharing and transparency. These factors ameliorate the principal-agent problem in aid. (14)
Additional well-structured ODA should also be encouraged. Christians need not obsess about the official target of 0.7 percent of national income, which is arbitrary and not inherently compelling. Rather, Christians should work for generous national responses to particular problems, responses that combine private aid and ODA. Adopting tangible goals--say, eliminating malaria in sub-Saharan Africa--will help build political constituencies for aid and encourage sharp thinking by focused agencies. Given the large extent of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, a focus on that region might be wise. We should steel ourselves to the likelihood that more generous ODA--though the right course--may not ease global anti-Americanism.
Finally, Christian NGOs need to be heard from in policy advocacy--but with a consistently wise voice. NGO voices are essential, but some do not always see the whole picture. Narrow advocacy can at times harm development. (15) Given the importance of economic growth in poverty reduction, Christian NGOs have a particularly valuable role to play in thinking about how to serve the poor in the midst of the dislocations entailed in growth. For the sake of not wasting funds, NGOs should support reasonable conditions on U.S. aid even if that means some countries are shut off.
© Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. Center for Christian Studies at Gordon College.
1. The poverty figures are measured at the common "$1 per day" standard; source: World Bank (2005), Table 2.5a, which summarizes changes in the number and proportion of the absolutely poor. More generally, see CDG/FP (2006, 2004) for an attempt to quantify an overall effect on poverty reduction of the whole range of country policies that are relevant to poverty.
2. The theological literature on giving is so large as to defy summary. Two good places to start are Sider (1997, 1999). Griffiths (2004) offers a good short synthesis.
3. Figures here are author calculations from World Bank (2006), Tables 6.9, 6.10. The rise in ODA is substantial even apart from the 17 percent of U.S. ODA now going to Iraq. The rich country group is the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC). The United States remains far below its pledge to commit 0.7 percent of national income to ODA. The top ten U.S. aid recipients reflect strategic and national security concerns: Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Ethiopia, Sudan, Colombia, Jordan, and West Bank/Gaza.
4. See Radelet (2003); similar changes are underway in DFID (the UK's official development agency), as described by Griffiths (2004).
5. See CDG/FP (2004) for further detail on this. Only Norway, Switzerland and Ireland exceed U.S. per capita private giving while many countries fall several orders of magnitude lower.
6. Rick Warren's venture in Rwanda garnered some media attention, but most economic assistance that flows church-to-church goes unrecorded in official statistics and its extent underappreciated by mainstream media. The church has always been active in economic service, though much of this story remains untold. The present era is distinctive for the enormous ramp-up in scope and size of these activities, including significant South-South Christian efforts.
7. Strom (2006).
8. On the growth-poverty reduction link Dollar and Kraay (2002) survey the evidence and offer important original results. There is some variability by region and policy regime, but overall the growth-poverty reduction elasticity is unity. For recent evidence on the effect of aid on growth see Rajan and Subramanian (2005) and Easterly (2005). World Bank (1998) offers a contrarian view summed up in one of its chapter titles: "Aid Matters-In the Right Policy Environment" but has received little empirical support from other researchers.
9. Easterly (2006) discusses the principal-agent problem at length.
10. Barrett and Maxwell (2005) have a trenchant analysis of food aid as well as suggestions for plausible policy improvements. See also Maren (1997).
11. Easterly (2006), surveying global growth and aid over the past 60 years, writes "…aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development based on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that," (p. 368). He echoes Bauer (1984) "External donations have never been necessary for the development of any society anywhere. Economics achievement depends on personal, cultural, social and political factors, that is people's own faculties, motivations, and more, their institutions and the policies of their rulers. In short, economic achievement depends on the conduct of people and their governments" (p. 34).
12. The Global Fund promises big scale economies and a unified global reach while PEPFAR offers speedier aid delivery and fast institutional innovations. This debate has become ensnared in the hugely controversial question about the extent to which condom use should be emphasized in AIDS prevention. See Chase (2006), Donnelly (2006), and Smith (2006) for useful accounts.
13. See Dean et al (2005, 2006).
14. Easterly (2006) emphasizes the importance of networks in addressing aid problems. Thornton and Thornton (2006) address agency issues in development work.
15. Mallaby (2004) offers vivid examples, but cites World Vision and Oxfam as exceptions.
Barrett, Christopher B. and Daniel G. Maxwell. 2005. Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role. (London: Routledge).
Bauer, Peter T. 1984. Reality and Rhetoric: Studies in the Economics of Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Chase, Marilyn. 2006. "Gates, Clinton See AIDS Care-Delivery as Hurdle" The Wall Street Journal, August 15.
Dean, Judith M.; Schaffner, Julie A. and Stephen L. S. Smith. 2006. "Global Poverty: Academics and Practitioners Respond," The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 4:1 (spring), pp. 13-20.
_____, eds. 2005. Attacking Poverty in the Developing World: Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration (Waynesboro, GA: Authentic Media, co-published by World Vision).
Donnelly, John. 2006. "And Now for the Good News" The Boston Globe, August 20.
Dollar, David and Aart Kraay. 2002. "Growth is Good for the Poor" Journal of Economic Growth 7:3, pp. 195-225.
Easterly, William. 2006. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and so Little Good (New York: The Penguin Press).
Center for Global Development/Foreign Policy. 2006. "Ranking the Rich. The 4th Annual CDG/FP Commitment to Development Index" Foreign Policy No. 156 (September/October) pp. 68-75.
_____. 2004. "Ranking the Rich 2004" Foreign Policy No. 142 (May/June) pp. 46-56.
Griffiths, Brian. 2004. "The Role of Trade, Aid and Domestic Reform in the Fight Against Global Poverty" in Peter Heslam, ed., Globalization and the Good (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans).
Mallaby, Sebastian. 2004. "NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor," Foreign Policy No. 144 (September/October), pp. 50-58.
Maren, Michael. 1997. The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity (New York: The Free Press).
Rajan, Raghuram and Arvind Subramanian. 2005. "Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?" IMF Working Paper No. 127 (June).
Radelet, Steven. 2003. "Bush and Foreign Aid." Foreign Affairs, 82:5 (September/October) pp. 104-117.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2005. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time (New York: The Penguin Press).
Sider, Ron. 1997. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (Dallas: Word, 4th edition).
_____. 1999. Just Generosity (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker).
Smith, Chris. 2006. "What Works: President Bush's Approach to AIDS, on the Ground in Uganda" National Review Online January 19.
Strom, Stephanie. 2006. "Bill Gates's Charity Races to Spend Buffett Billions" New York Times, August 13.
Thornton, Jeremy and Phil Thornton. 2006. "Agency and Incentives in International Development Partnerships" Faith & Economics No. 47/48 (fall), forthcoming.
World Bank. 1998. Assessing Aid (New York: Oxford University Press).
_____. 2005. World Development Indicators 2005 (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank).
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Hi Raya,
Convergence insufficiency usually stems from a weakness in the muscles (medial recti) that bring the eyes slightly inward in order to read. Patients with this problem will often complain of double vision, blurry vision and headaches.
The best treatment options are relatively simple to achieve. First, I recommend that you do exercises for the medial recti (pencil push-ups). Hold a pen or pencil about 1 foot away from your nose. While looking at the tip of the pen, bring it in towards the nose without allowing the tip to become double. Once you see that the image becomes double, work very hard to make it single and hold for as long as possible. Once you become fatigued (usually in 10 to 15 seconds), rest for about 10 seconds and perform exercise again. Continue to do this for about 10 minutes, 2 to 3 times per day. At first, this exercise will be difficult, but as the muscles become stronger it will be easier and you will be able to bring the pencil closer to your nose before it becomes double.
The other treatment would be a pair of reading glasses to help take the strain off your eyes as you work in front of the computer or reading. The reading glasses should be prescribed by an ophthalmologist.
I hope this is helpful...
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Tragedy struck the lacrosse family on Saturday, as Seton Hill women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley, 30, who was six months pregnant, and the bus driver were killed after the team bus crashed.
But already her peers and competitors on the field are rallying the lacrosse world together in her honor.
A big push, mostly using social media such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, is gaining support among all levels of women's lacrosse: You'll be seeing a sea of Crimson and Gold in upcoming games in support of Seton Hill.
Tweets are circling around lacrosse, picking up steam for teams to wear Crimson and Gold ribbon in their laces at their upcoming games in support. The movement was started by players at Marymount University, and a few short hours after coming up with the idea, messages were filling Twitter feeds of everyone in lacrosse.
Adriana Labella, a Marymount player, was one of the women behind the movement, Tweeting the message around lacrosse. The team was at the men's team's game and thought up the idea, getting permission from their athletic director and organizing with Lynchburg, their opponent on Wednesday, to wear Crimson and Gold laces. Labella's Tweets have been circled seemingly everwhere.
A Facebook page called Play 4 Seton Hill that lists all the teams participating in the movement — Labella said she is "shocked" by the support from women's teams, coaches and pro athletes. Other teams can get involved at that page.
Marymount University head coach Jamie Reynolds has been encouraging her players to do acts of kindness and promoting life lessons this season. She split her team into "fams" — an idea from assistant Kate Athing — where each "fam" does randon acts of kindness on campus. That mentality clearly stuck with her players.
"This is a perfect example of a small act that is making a huge impact and bringing the lacrosse community together," Reynolds wrote in an email.
And Marymount is just one of many schools chipping in. Frostburg State was one of the first to show their support, with pictures gracing the Facebook page with Crimson and Gold ribbons.
"I have an amazing group of young women and I think this tragedy has hit home with all of us, not only because it is a women's lacrosse team, but because we are all directly or indirectly connected to the Seton Hill team. It's sad that things like this make us all take a second and realize how blessed we are and how fragile life really is, but it also brings to the forefront how strong and supportive our amazing lacrosse community is," Reynolds said
"We know how much sticking together can change everything," Labella said. " We want to share our strength.. In the end were all one team."
Please visit the Play 4 Seton Hill page to learn how you can help out. And this week and coming weeks, think of the Seton Hill community when you see Crimson and Gold.


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The Student Government Association serves as the voice for the students at LSC-University Park.
It has a five-person Executive Board: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Student Activities Board President. The SGA Executive Board is elected every fall semester by the student population for a one-year term. The board members oversee three committees: Ethics, Volunteer and Lion Pride. Any student can submit an application to join a committee.
SGA has influenced positive changes, such as bringing the Minuti coffee shop to campus and establishing electronics charging stations and express printing stations.
Meet the Executive Council
Campus Involvement
SGA provides programming and opportunities that encourage students' voices to be heard.
These programs include trips, an art contest, service learning projects and General Assembly meetings. SGA members also work closely with Student Life in participating in their school events.
Ethics Committee
Convened when a Registered Student Organization is in violation of the LSC Student Handbook or RSO Handbook.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Review and investigate possible violations of the RSOs' constitutions, codes of ethics, rules and agreements set by Lone Star College (LSC), Student Government Association (SGA) and Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) as brought to the committee by the office of Student Life.
- Meet with members of Student Life to check on compliance with rules and policies set forth by LSC, SGA and other organizations
- Meet once a month to discuss and reflect on any inactions and/or how to improve the methods in the future.
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A cohort of dedicated students who pool their community resources to help their peers find volunteer opportunities that they would fit perfectly in. Committee members serve as liaisons between the student body and volunteer outreach programs.
Responsibilities and Duties
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The Northern Sydney Storm - 21 January 1991
A very severe thunderstorm moved across the northern suburbs of Sydney during the afternoon of 21 January 1991. There was extensive damage, mainly due to the strong winds accompanying the storm. Large hail was reported up to 7cm in diameter (the size of tennis balls!) and flash flooding was reported from several locations. Some areas received more than 35mm of rain in 6 minutes and more than 60mm in half an hour.
Areas of most severe damage stretched from the Warrawee-Turramurra area to Duffys Forest, with significant damage occurring to property in the Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby and Warringah council areas. More than 7,000 houses were damaged, 20 of them so badly that they had to be demolished. Access to and within the affected area was greatly restricted because of fallen trees and downed power lines. Power was cut to 164,000 homes.
The total insurance pay out on the storm was nearly $215 million (July 1997) although the total damage bill may have been nearly 3 times this amount.


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Mike McRae is entering his 13th season as head coach of the Canisius baseball program. McRae has led a total rebuilding project of the Golden Griffins, taking over a team that won four games in 2004 to winning the program's first two MAAC Championships and making the program's first appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 2013 and 2015. McRae has a record of 370-314 in his 12 seasons at Canisius, including a 282-192 (.597) record in the last eight seasons that includes three MAAC regular-season titles.
McRae, the four-time MAAC Coach of the Year, has led Canisius to the conference tournament in each of the last 10 seasons, the longest streak in the conference. In 2015, the Griffs lost the first game, but reeled off five-straight victories, including a two-game championship round, to capture its second title. In 2013, Canisius won all three of its games in the MAAC Championship, including a walk-off 11-10 win in the title game, to win the program's first conference championship. During the 2013 season, the Griffs:
During the past eight seasons, the Golden Griffins have won 282 games, putting Canisius second in wins in the Northeast region. Accolades for the Griffs during that time include:
Canisius has had nine players, including two draft-eligible juniors, associated with the program selected in the Major League Baseball Draft during the past six years.
Canisius has had a number of players receive conference, regional and national accolades:
The individual accolades have not been just on the field but also have come in the classroom:
Canisius jumped onto the national scene in 2008 with a 21.5-game improvement in its won-loss record from 2007 (20-35), the biggest improvement in the country and second-biggest in the NCAA since 1998. Canisius was one of 31 teams in NCAA Division I with 40-plus victories. The team's .755 winning percentage ranked ninth in the country as the Golden Griffins were one of four teams in the country with 13 or fewer losses. Canisius finished 82nd in the official NCAA RPI.
In 2008, Canisius posted a 25-6 road record, which ranked fourth in the country. Canisius, along with Miami, Kentucky, Oklahoma State and North Carolina, was one of five programs at the Division I level to finish in the top 50 in scoring, earned run average and fielding percentage.
In 2010, the Griffs won their second MAAC regular-season title in three years, jumping out to a 16-2 start in conference play en route to a 19-5 MAAC record. In 2009, Canisius posted a 36-22 record, qualifying for the MAAC Tournament for third consecutive season. After dropping its first game in the postseason, the Griffs battled back and won three consecutive elimination games to force a decisive championship game.
McRae, who has a 363-357 career record in 12 years, is the only coach in league history to be named MAAC Coach of the Year at two different schools, winning the award at Canisius (2010 and 2008) and Niagara (2003). He led the Golden Griffins to a breakout season in 2007 as Canisius made its first MAAC playoff appearance since 1994.
The Griffs made three-straight appearances in the Big 4 Baseball Classic championship game from 2005 to 2007 and won the tournament in 2006, 2007 and 2009 as McRae had a career record of 10-2 in six years (four titles) of the Big 4 Baseball Classic.
The 2003 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year came to Canisius from Niagara University, where he led the Purple Eagles to back-to-back MAAC playoff appearances. He compiled a 65-86 overall record (.430 winning percentage) and a 41-36 (.532) MAAC mark with the Purple Eagles.
McRae set a school record for wins with 26 in 2003 and topped the mark with 27 in 2004. His 2004 squad finished second in the league, while his 2003 team was third. He coached Josh McCurdy, the 2003 MAAC Player of the Year, and recruited James Avery, the 2003 MAAC Rookie of the Year. Both players went on to be selected in the MLB Draft.
McRae began his career by becoming the first head coach at Brock University. From there, the Niagara Falls, Ontario, native joined Niagara's staff as a hitting instructor in 1996-97 before moving to Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., from 1997-98. From 1998-2001, McRae served as an assistant coach at Maine, where he was responsible for the 12-man pitching staff.
He also served as an assistant coach for the Canadian National Youth Team, which competed in the World Championships in 1996 and 1997 and as a guest coach for the Toronto Blue Jays during their 1997 spring training.
McRae was a four-year letterwinner at Colby College and captained the 1991 team. He also lettered as a goalie on the Colby College hockey team. McRae earned his undergraduate degree from Colby in 1991 and his master's degree in education from Niagara in 1993.
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INSIGHT-Petrobras writedown may give new ammunition to class-action suit
By Tom Hals and Noeleen Walder
WILMINGTON, Delaware, April 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil company Petrobras' $17 billion write-down, announced last week, may have been meant to close the accounting on a sprawling corruption scandal, but could instead provide fresh ammunition for a U.S. class action lawsuit.
The case, filed in Manhattan federal court in December by a group of large investors, alleges $98 billion of the company's American depository shares, or ADRs, and bonds were artificially inflated since 2010 by the company overstating the value of assets such as major projects. Petrobras has moved to have the case dismissed.
The plaintiffs say Petrobras improperly inflated the project costs to fatten profits of suppliers and contractors, who in turn kicked cash back to Petrobras employees.
Last week, the company wrote down assets to reflect a more accurate value, and the lawyer leading the class actions for investors said the restatement is "highly relevant" to the case and bolsters his clients' allegations.
"We believe these facts are certainly helpful to our case," said Jeremy Lieberman, an attorney with the Pomerantz law firm in New York, who is leading the plaintiffs' case.
Petrobas has argued that investors are taking aim at the wrong parties. It wants the case dismissed before investors can begin the process of demanding evidence from the company, such as documents and witnesses which might prove their case.
"Petrobras itself was the victim in this scandal, carried out by a criminal cartel of Brazil's largest construction and engineering companies," said the defendants in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Petrobras blames a group of Petrobras suppliers, corrupt politicians and former Petrobras employees, and none of them have been named as defendants. Continuación...


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Landscape Art: Class It Up
Art? Hmmm, yas. Hang that one over the china cabinet, that one over the televisontrola, and that one near the gold-plated bathtub. At least that's how you can act when your art arrives. Even if you don't own a gold-plated bathtub.
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — About 10 men openly carried their firearms at yesterday's city council meeting in Spokane to show their support for gun rights. The Spokesman-Review reports the council approved an ordinance to clarify that public assembly areas such as Joe Albi Stadium may ban firearms. Council members say the ordinance brings city rules in line with state law.


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Despite being tasked specifically with dealing with the public, many spokespeople seem to pretty much hate dealing with pesky reporters. Unlike other public relations professionals who are either unbearable cranks or dissembling sugarcoaters, Mandell tells it like it is in reference to investigations and public records. He sometimes even — gasp — engages in friendly chit-chat. He's a straight shooter of the metaphorical kind.
Working 14-hour days and eating meals in your car isn't really conducive to making a love connection. Emerge Broward is the answer. The Fort Lauderdale-based networking organization boasts 500-plus members and frequent events, which feature anything from a happy hour on Las Olas to community service projects elsewhere in the county. A meetup at Tundra earlier this year was just drinks, handshakes, and all the fried goat cheese you could fit in your face — though if you're trying to land a hottie, maybe keep the cheese-pile servings to under a dozen. Membership is $25 a year, and getting acclimated is as easy as showing up and slapping on a nametag. The friendly faces will do the rest.
Shondelle Solomon-Miles, AKA "Coach," has a body as impossibly skinny and taut as Iggy Pop's, a look as fierce as Nicki Minaj's, and a way of making you obey that's like Mom when she means business. Coach's B.A. from Columbia University and master's degree from the University of Miami don't hurt either. At her gym, Synergize, she follows the standard Crossfit methods of team workouts consisting of hard-core, old-school moves like jumping jacks, dead lifts, burpees, sprints, and the terrifying-sounding Turkish get-ups. Whereas other Crossfit gyms can feel too aggro, Solomon-Miles has a winning supply of motherly warmth: Eat foods that are "supportive," she says; push through your fears, she guides. There's also her no-bullshit, get-it-done, drill-sergeant toughness. Men and women alike, she will work you — and then make it all better with a smoothie from the juice bar at the end of class. True, the price ($159 to $199 per month) is steep, but the results are undeniable.
The big, beat-up building just off of Wilton Drive is exactly as vintage as it's supposed to be — the door handles are sticky, and the carpet showcases the standard "bowling pin and explosions" theme, but the lanes are clean, the balls are heavy, and — most important — the games and drinks are cheap. Ten bucks will get you unlimited bowling on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m., and their ordinarily cheap drinks get even cheaper during happy hour, from 4 to 7: Domestic pitchers cost $6.50 to $9, and 16-ounce beers are two bucks a pop. A good place to bowl; a great place to drink. What else do you need?
The vibe in the Retro Arcade isn't exactly a dimly lit cafe where patrons debate Kant or Joyce over glasses of malbec. But there is a special sort of intelligence to be found at the Retro Arcade Night. The monthly gathering brings together the humble stoners; future, present, and former rocket scientists; and perhaps even a retired English professor. And while any female met at this event is likely to be of the superbrained variety as well, she is a bit harder to come by than the dude-nerds. Let's just say the girl/guy ratio at this party is slightly more slanted than a pinball machine.
"Right now, it's time to win in court and then tell the people what the real deal is." That's how Dan Borislow responded to New Times' emailed request for an interview. The media, particularly sports website Deadspin, hasn't been kind to the three-wheeled-motorcycle-riding, West Palm Beach millionaire who made his fortune in the late 1990s in the telecom industry and a decade later invented the magicJack. In December 2010, Borislow spent big to acquire a women's soccer team, move it to Boca Raton, and name it after the magicJack — only to be accused of single-handedly destroying the Women's Professional Soccer league in the ensuing months. The litany of weirdness includes a former player who alleges that Borislow made her call him "daddy;" the firing of a well-respected coach who got the team off to a 3-0 start; emails Borislow sent to league brass calling them a "bunch of blithering idiots"; and rumors that he benched players and threatened their careers if they raised concerns about these antics. In the wake of all the bad publicity, the magicJack team was suspended and the league canceled its 2012 season. It's a tragedy, especially since the magicJack was stacked with talent; the roster included several players from the women's World Cup Soccer team that made a run in 2011 and would have given the league a fighting chance. We're eagerly waiting for litigators to wrap up the show so Borislow can finally tell us the real deal.


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Publication Acceptance Date: 11/13/2005
Publication Date: 2/9/2006
Citation: Balasubramanyam, A., Sekhar, R.V., Jahoor, F., Pownall, H.J., Lewis, D. 2006. Pathophysiology of adipocyte defects and dyslipidemia in HIV lipodystrophy: New evidence from metabolic and molecular studies. American Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2(3):167-172. Interpretive Summary: Patients infected with HIV are now developing a new condition called HIV lipodystrophy syndrome. This condition is characterized by high blood cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations, which are known to cause cardiovascular disease with time. High blood cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations are usually caused by alterations in fat metabolism. In this paper we discuss the metabolic changes that cause the HIV lipodystrophy syndrome. The data used in the paper is based on our studies performed in HIV -nfected men with HIV lipodystrophy and uninfected healthy men. We found that the patients with HIV lipodystrophy syndrome were removing triglycerides from their circulation much more slowly than the healthy men. They were also storing the triglycerides at a much slower rate. This finding suggested that defective removal from the blood and storage of triglycerides were the causes of high blood triglycerides in patients with HIV lipodystrophy syndrome. We also describe some experiments that suggest that some factors, produced by the blood cells that are infected by the virus, are disrupting the normal function of young and mature fat cells. This alteration of fat cell function in turn seems to be contributing to the dyslipidemia of this syndrome.
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Disgraced MP Eric Joyce has been arrested after allegedly rowing with police at an airport over his mobile phone.
The incident last Sunday, believed to have been sparked after Mr Joyce left the device on a plane, leaves the Falkirk MP now facing a breach of the peace charge.
The former Labour member, who left his party after a brawl at a House of Commons bar, was said to have become abusive to airline staff who refused to let him retrieve the phone.
When police were called the MP was also said to have behaved in an "abusive and confrontational" way towards officers.
A spokesperson for Edinburgh Airport said: "We can confirm that an incident did occur on Sunday evening and an individual was arrested for being abusive and confrontational towards airport staff and police.
"Behaviour of this nature is something we have zero tolerance for at Edinburgh Airport and police officers will act accordingly if the safety of our passengers and employees is put at risk."
Meanwhile a Police Scotland spokesman confirmed a "52 year old man" was involved in an alleged breach of the peace on May 19 at the airport and was due to appear in court.
The Standard contacted Mr Joyce's constituency and parliamentary offices but the MP did not make any comment about the incident.
Mr Joyce was convicted of assault in a parliamentary bar in 2012 after which he resigned from the Labour Party.
He admitted four counts of assault and was given a 12-month community order, fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £1,400 in compensation to his victims.
The MP was arrested again in connection with a separate incident at another parliamentary bar in March this year but did not face any charges.
However, the former Army major was banned by the Commons authorities from purchasing alcohol anywhere in the Palace of Westminster.
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Townsend, Tennessee - Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Welcome to the Fishing Report. It is cloudy and warm in Townsend this morning. The temperature is 50 degrees. Today the high is supposed to be 67. Traffic was light but I came in early. I stopped at the swinging bridge. Little River looked inviting. I'm hearing through the grapevine that the river will be stocked with those big brood fish soon. These large rainbows are apparently culled from the hatchery for one reason or another and they bring them to Townsend. That happens most years in December. Fly fishermen and people fishing with conventional tackle take advantage of the late stocking. It doesn't draw a big crowd though. I've fished for them in the past, several years ago. A 20" plus rainbow is not uncommon.
Flow is getting closer to normal. Right now the river is flowing at 303 cubic feet per second. Median flow for this date is 211 cfs. The water temperature at 7:45 was 49 degrees. It will warm up even more during the day.
Fishing should be pretty good. The conditions are very good. You might get some dry fly action this week. Try some Blue Wing Olive or Parachute Adams dry flies. If that doesn't work, switch to nymphs.
You might even get a smallmouth bass to take a fly. The water temperature is reaching a point that they could get active. I would like to say that I will go smallie fishing on Wednesday. However, the rain that is approaching could cause the river to rise. We are certainly going to get some rain over the next three days and it could be heavy. We may get 2 inches or more before by Thursday. Then it is going to get cold again. Try to go fishing today if you can.
The big Christmas parade was held yesterday. It is an amazing event. Santa was riding on a wagon pulled by two of Rick's mules. They were really good looking mules. And Santa, it turns out, lives about ¼ mile from our house. He and his family moved here from Louisiana. I've eaten some of his Cajun food. He often does the cooking at the lunch held at the Police Chief's house on Wednesdays.
I told him, "You don't sound like you are from the North Pole". He said he was from the South Pole. That made more sense to me. Below is a photo of Santa taken yesterday.
Other than that, nothing much is going on in our town. Our Planning Commission meeting was cancelled for some reason. The City Council meeting might be cancelled too. I can't remember if that is normal during the holidays, maybe it is.
I'm working on the Fishpond section of the online catalog. I downloaded all of their new photography from an FTP site on Sunday. I hope to have Fishpond finished by the end of the week. I use their photography instead of taking the pictures myself. That saves me days of work. Their photography is really good and it fits our website style.
Try to go fishing before this rain starts. Or wait until the rain starts and go fishing. The latter might be better.
Have a great day and thank you for being here with us.
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WRAPUP 1-Canada retail sales slump, inflation holds steady
By Leah Schnurr
OTTAWA, March 20 (Reuters) - Canadian retail sales dropped more than expected in January due to lower prices at the gasoline pump, suggesting the economy may have had a weaker start to 2015 than anticipated.
Statistics Canada also said on Friday that the annual inflation rate in February was pressured by cheap gasoline as well, holding steady at 1 percent, matching expectations, and at the low end of the Bank of Canada's target range.
Analysts said inflation at that level is unlikely to push the central bank to make an interest-rate move, though the drop in retail sales makes the path of monetary policy less clear.
The 1.7 percent sales drop surpassed expectations for a 0.7 percent decline. In volume terms, sales dropped 1.2 percent.
"I think you spell 'ugly' with retail sales this month," said David Tulk, chief Canada macro strategist at TD Securities.
"The weakness in retail sets up industry level (gross domestic product) to contract, which puts the first quarter (growth) at risk of falling below 1 percent."
Low prices pulled gasoline sales down 8.8 percent, the largest decline since November 2008.
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The first two things are correctable. The third, I have no control over.
However, I'm going to start with the third point and work backwards.
If you truly believe you don't have the physical characteristics to create great attorney video, what happens when a new client walks into your office and meets you? Are you worried about the same type of reaction they're going to get compared to having them watch you on video?
The better practice, in my opinion, is to create lots of video that gets your viewer used to whatever physical limitations you have so when they do come into your office there are no shocks or surprises. They know what they are going to see and what they are going to get.
You would be surprised to learn that they often don't care what you look like, all other things being equal. They are coming to you for legal help. Whether you have a hare lip, or a massive scar, or genetic deformity, or some other awful physical manifestation, the reality is that your client or consumer will eventually need to see you in person. At least with creating great content in a video they get to recognize immediately that you have important information that can help them.
Alternatively, if you truly believe that your physical characteristics should not be on video, there are options. You can create what is known as a "video sales letter" that educates people and you simply add your voice narrating the text. Another option is to have a spokesperson speak on your behalf. Out of those two options, it is preferable to have your voice narrate the video since viewers will then get to recognize your voice.
If that is true, then you truly should not be creating attorney videos since your consumers and clients would never watch your videos. They would be uninformative and not compelling.
The world doesn't revolve around you…anymore
If you still think that viewers care about where you went to law school and how great you are, my best practices recommendation is not even to bother creating attorney video to market your practice. Stick to what you have always done and you will always get the same results.


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The most fustrating thing I face with FumeFx is trying to start my simulation in the middle of the timeline.
For example, I created an explosion from frame 1 to 400.
I am trying to simulate frames 300 to 400.
My issue is the simulation doesn't generate the explosion as it would "appear at frame 300" UNLESS I start from frame 1 and simulate to 300.
Is there a way to tell fumefx to start simulating at any frame intervals (like rendering)
but without having to start the simulation from the begining?
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I just got a new Auto Ordinance 1911.
Are all the 1911 Blackhawk Serpa holsters universal for all 1911 firearms regardless of who makes them?
I would imagine so since 1911's are pretty universal, just wanted to make sure tho.
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I just got a new Auto Ordinance 1911.
Are all the 1911 Blackhawk Serpa holsters universal for all 1911 firearms regardless of who makes them?
I would imagine so since 1911's are pretty universal, just wanted to make sure tho.
Although I haven't tried it with different models, it should be universal by size (commander or full size). If you've got a funny trigger guard width I would think that would cause problems. That's pretty much the only place the Serpa holds your gun.
The main incompatibility with 1911s seems to be with railed guns. If you don't have a rail, standard 1911 holsters will probably work.
A number of instructors will not allow Serpas in their classes. The release button gets trigger fingers in a place that induces some folks to fail to follow one of the fundamental four rules of firearms safety.
What instructors were those again?
Here's a thread at another site that went over the subject of blaming ND's on the Serpa design ad nauseum: http://forum.pafoa.org/concealed-ope...a-allowed.html
I've seen many ND's, never with the Serpa. Someone has one with the Serpa - it's the Serpa's fault. :rolleyes:
Gabe Suarez, and his instructors, that I recall at the moment. I think there were others before them.
I think another major instructor also disallows them, but his site is not searchable, so it may be difficult to confirm.
I was first warned about the Serpa by a former LE colleague, who is now a prosecutor.
Y'all keep in mind I am simply passing along information. I have not considered the Serpa for myself, simply because it differs from what the mandatory rig I use on duty. I want my rigs to either use the same retention system as my duty rig, or else no active retention system at all.
I am also not blaming anything on the Serpa; it is the violation of one of the basic rules of gun handling, if one's finger is on the trigger when it should not be. I CAN see how some fools would keep their booger hooks under tension, after releasing a pistol carried in a Serpa, causing said booger hook to snap onto the trigger. Such folks should not handle guns, nor drive motor vehicles or operate other dangerous machinery.
I'm not trying to shoot the messenger, so to speak. I just hear it a lot. And I mean, a lot. The design puts your trigger finger along the frame of the weapon, so in a way it is actually an aid to indexing your finger along the frame. It is my opinion that an ND with a Serpa is caused by the same problem as an ND with any other holster. Others disagree with me, and I'm fine with that. I hate to see a good product slammed over one incident.
Keep it on topic thanks, the thread was about the fit of 1911 pistols in the Serpa holster.
You can easily modify the SERPA 1911 holster to accomodate full-railed guns. On the bottom-rear of the holster you'll see where the half-rail slot (that comes in the holster) ends. Just take a saw/cut-off tool/hot knife and cut a notch (about 1") from the end of that rail slot to the bottom of the gun. Use sand paper etc. to clean up the cut and you'll have a serpa that any 1911 will fit into. The bottom inch of the rail just sticks of from the whole.
I carry my TRP that way 100%
As others have stated, the SERPA fits most 1911's that do not have a rail. If your gun does have a rail, it is a fairly easy thing to do a slight modification to the holster so your railed gun will fit very nicely.
The SERPA is a VERY well designed holster. To manipulate the release "button" your trigger finger HAS to be in the proper position that will put your finger ABOVE the trigger guard up on the frame. If you have an ND when drawing from a SERPA it is YOUR fault, not the holsters fault nor any BS design flaw. YOU moved your trigger finger into position to operate the trigger before the gun is on target.
Train with the holster with an empty gun and LEARN to draw properly. In my opinion, if you have an ND with a SERPA, you would end up having one with any other kind of holster you use because you are careless and don't really know what you are doing when drawing your gun.
Just my opinion, but I feel pretty strongly about it.
I have had to draw for real twice this year unfortunately, very stressful situations both. Both were draws done from my SERPA and neither time did I have an ND. Both were with a Glock 23, no external safety, just the big safety between my ears, and it was engaged as it always is.


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Writing/appending tables to CSV files?
Whats the best way to initialize and write to a csv file in Mathematica,
given a loop that produces a 1 x N vector each time (which I want saved) --
I want the final CSV file to be M x N, where M is the number of iterations
of the loop and N is the length of the output vector. Thoughts?
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I've been watching the events unfold over the last week.
The magnitude of the CT shootings did not completely sink in with much of the sheeple for at least 48 hours after it occurred, and many at the Ventura California Gun Show on the following day (which I personally attended) did not realize exactly what had happened--except for yours truly that is.
The prices were not jacked up, there was not a frenzy feeding at the firearms tables, and ammunition of all calibers were in plentiful supply... until Sunday that is.
Then I began carefully studying the news coverage of this event.
As of Sunday, I noticed that all the Marxist networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and so on) were now using specific phrases and all taking a similar track with their coverage.
I suspect that the midnight oil was being burned in the DC Thug-House (formerly the White House) and that the MSM media campaign and talking points were completely being issued from this location--actually I will bet money upon this for any takers.
Piers Morgan (who should be deported BTW, and who would have been deported back in the day by J. Edger Hoover FYI) was the tip of the insanity spear following this incident, and was the one leading the charge of talking points and trail balloons being floated.
Now I am thinking that just one more incident like the one which occurred in CT will launch the media frenzy as we are witnessing now into an orbital trajectory.
One more high-profile shooting incident will kill off the 2nd Amendment in this country for good with a political move for a total repeal. I believe that are others like me out there who are also having this line of thought. If you look at the magnitude and numbers of the firearm purchases in the last week, I think 9 out of ten of these people have the same idea in their brains.
And most likely another high-profile event will happen. I will lay money on the fact that "they/them" in the Thug-House, and in the media are licking their chops and waiting for the chance to make the run up for a total firearm ban. They are laying in wait for the chance to stampede of the inbred idiot politicians into taking some sort of action into making it "all legal-like" if you know what I mean.
My money is on a scenario where when His Excellency, Emperor Seotoro the 1st, launches the final attack against Iran (holding hands with Israel)--and afterwards you will see hundreds of Mu-slime counter-attackers rise up and slaughter civilians en-mass with weapons (purchased legally) by US Mu-slime citizens and legal residents.
Actually if this happens then the levers of tyranny will be openly pulled and there will no longer be any pretense or Mr. Nice guy play-acting from the Emperor in DC.
(Special note: The psychos in DC will officially re-categorize people like you and I as terrorists, along with the enemies inside our borders)
Or perhaps just another psycho (or pair of psychos) who has been digesting a steady stream of murder simulator (video game) violence, or who have been replaying a constant stream of violent filth (movies on Blue Ray) released like clock work by the major studios, will strike again in a high profile copy-cat move to get on the six o:clock news.
Oh wait! Did I fail to mention--it has been alleged that I am a screenwriter. Guilty as charged, so this makes me an eye witness expert on what transpires behind the scenes of the motion picture industry, and all of the miss deeds of its guilty conspirators and degenerates who run it. Wayne LaPierre was completely on target when he blamed "the media" for the constant stream of violence it has been inflicting on the American public. LaPierre is the wrong messenger for this topic, and he does not know even half of the story behind his statements. But this is another op-ed piece that I will soon be writing, along with naming names and providing photos. Let's get back to my main subject...
So we are one more incident away from a political stampede propelled by the Marxist main stream media, the Communist anti 2nd Amendment Rights activists along with all of their useful idiots and lackeys. But do any of of these dupes are playing with a blow torch in the middle of an acre of parked gasoline tankers?
The talk and the mood at the gun shows, shops and political meetings is very dire now. This frenzy feeding of guns and ammunition is largely not because people are seeking to possess "something" in the hopes of it being grandfathered in--it is largely being done a preparation for what many see as an impending civil war, which many perceive to be rapidly approaching.
This is the talk. This is not what I advocate, but this is what is being openly spoken of in public at gun shows, in gun shops and in every other imaginable public place including internet forums. I am just the messenger here.
I'm wondering if TPTB realize what will unfold if they managed to push their agenda too far.
There are breaking points you know.
You can bet they're counting on it.
When Rumsfeld give his now most famous quote: "There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know."
You can be sure he was only being facetious.
When you own the world's most powerful computers, you know what the population will think/do 10 steps ahead before they do it.
You really think Obama had an off night during his first debate? More likely he had a computer generated analysis of every possible outcome calculated right down to his looking into the camera like a deer into the oncoming headlights of a Semi.
It's mind-blowing how much worldly knowledge the Gov possesses.
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We tried – The Berlin Wall circuit with Fat Tire Bike Tours
A friend of mine was visiting in Berlin, and having been enjoying some wonderful autumn weather we decided to go on a bike tour. Like many foreign visitors to Germany my friend was very interested in the subject of the former GDR, and we made our first choice a tour along the Berlin wall – the Berlin Wall Tour with our friends at Fat Tire Bike Tours.
General impressions
What most impressed me was our guide Sam from New Zealand. As a foreigner in the country you might think he was not the most suitable person to explain the history of Germany – yet this was very far from the truth.
Not only did Sam know the history of the former GDR and the Cold War to perfection, but had an absolutely wonderful talent as a narrator, and I never once lost interest during his explanations.
The size of the group was also just right (between 10-12 participants) and there was a real mixture of nationalities. It was also just the right length of time – between 4-5 hours – so to not feel saturated by too much information.
All in all it is a very well-designed tour that may even be of interest to those less passionate about history, so we encourage you to go and try it out for yourselves.
The Route
The tour leaves from the Television Tower where Fat Tire Bike Tours has their office – you can't get more central than that!
The first stop is of course Alexanderplatz that was then the most important square in East Berlin.
The tour continues along Karl-Marx-Alle (formerly known as Stalinallee in the GDR days). At that time it was designed as the main GDR thoroughfare and many of its buildings were built exclusively for propaganda purposes.
From Karl-Marx-Allee the tour continues along to the left through the Friedrichshain district before making a stop at the Neues Deutschland publishing house; at the time the newspaper of the SED (German Socialist Unity Party). The publishing house was a very fitting backdrop to hear about some of the many crimes committed by the GDR commanders and the Stasi (German Ministry of State Security).
After passing the Ostbahnhof we arrive at the East Side Gallery.
The East Side Gallery extends to the Oberbaumbrücke Bridge. We then cross the Kreuzberg district to reach the Soviet Memorial.
We return once again to Kreuzberg, cross the Görlitzer Bahnhof Station and travel along the curved line of the Wall, in front of the Engelsbecken area to reach Checkpoint Charlie.
Embarking on a calm return back to our starting point we made a final stop at a particularly grey and non-descript office building. Sam explained that it was the former GDR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also the SED Central Committee's headquarters. As such it was home to the legendary press conferences with Günther Schabowski, who mistakenly made public the possibility of Eastern citizens being able to leave the country. The news spread like wildfire and the borders with the west were opened.
It is these kinds of stories lying behind the very discreet appearance of so many buildings, streets and squares that make this trip along the Berlin Wall so unique and fascinating. In short an excellent trip and an absolute must to try.
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April to October: Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 10:30h
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Fast train S-Bahn: S5, S7 and S75 to Alexanderplatz
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SPENCER TOWNSHIP — A 7-week-old puppy is dead but the homeowners are safe after fire broke out in a house on the east side of Half Mile Lake.
Five fire departments battled the fire on Jewett Street, which runs off Half Mile Road west of Morgan Mills Avenue in Spencer Township.
Russ Miller said he was sitting in his living room with his wife, Rita, when he noticed black smoke collecting near the ceiling.
Spencer Township Fire Chief Alan Wright said Miller reported the house was filling with smoke around 7:45 p.m. to Kent County Sheriff's Dispatch. Miller called dispatchers back a few minutes later while firefighters were en route to report smoke coming from his roofline.
The back of the home facing the lake was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived around 7:50 p.m.
Firefighters knocked down most of the fire in less than an hour. They waited for a Consumers Energy crew to cut power to the residence before they could fully extinguish the blaze.
The Millers escaped the home unharmed with one of their dogs, but a 7-week-old puppy in the back of the house likely died in the fire.
The Ridgell family, who lives about 100 feet from the Miller's house, sprang into action while firefighters worked on extinguishing the blaze.
Ed Ridgell and his children brought out chairs and tables for the firefighters, along with extension cords pulled into their home, lights and flashlights.
His daughter, Rebekah Ridgell, began to make coffee and cookies for them as well.
Her brothers, Brandon, Justin and Cole Ridgell, raced out the door to hand baked goods and coffee to firefighters and place the rest on a table as fast as Rebekah prepared them.
"It feels good to do something," Brandon Ridgell said. "I wanted to (help) because I couldn't when the fire started."
After items became low on the table, the Ridgells dug deeper into their cabinets to provide chips, granola bars and other snacks for the firefighters.
Ed Ridgell said his family wanted to help "for the love of Christ."
Wright believes the fire may have ignited in the attic, but the investigation into an exact cause still is ongoing.
The Spencer Township, Oakfield Township, Montcalm Township, Maple Valley Township and Algoma Township fire departments all assisted at the scene. Police helped clear traffic after firefighters reported cars impeding their access to the scene.


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To get more women to drink at her pub, Susan Mathane is sprucing up her ladies' room. The South African entrepreneur worked with brewer SABMiller on a face-lift for her bar, Susan's Place, in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg. Last year she updated the space, adding couches and a thatched roof and renovating the bathroom—changes Mathane expects will bring women through the door and encourage them to stay a while.
SABMiller is betting that financing bar renovations, part of a roughly $5 million program in South Africa, will boost stagnant sales in the country by appealing to more of the 17 million women of legal drinking age, especially those who are younger and employed. The interior rehab work includes painting and adding or updating bathrooms; the company is also buying supplies such as beer glasses, because many women don't like drinking from bottles. "We come here because Susan keeps improving this place—it's safe, and the toilets are very clean," says Kgomotso Mbatha, 19.
For decades the prevalence of Christianity and Islam kept most South African women out of bars. In the early years of apartheid in the 1950s and 1960s, blacks were prohibited from buying commercial, malt-based beers and full-strength brews, which they could purchase only at illegal shebeens, informal bars often with just a few plastic chairs set up in the proprietor's front room. Most of the shebeens had no toilets, and their ramshackle condition didn't appeal to respectable women.
With the end of apartheid, many shebeens were licensed, and new bars have opened as the country's black middle class has grown to about 4.2 million. SABMiller, the world's second-largest brewer, is working with 6,000 tavern keepers such as Mathane to make their establishments more attractive.
The company controls about 90 percent of the market in South Africa, where it was founded and first sold beer to thirsty miners more than a century ago. Now based in the U.K., the beverage maker struggled to grow in South Africa last year amid rising inflation and increased competition from Heineken and Diageo. The amount of beer it sold in the fiscal year ended on March 31 was unchanged from the previous year. "With demand being weak, the aim will be to recover market-share losses," says Wynand Van Zyl, an analyst at Macquarie Group. Says De Wet Schutte, an analyst in Cape Town at Avior Research, "As abstinence levels in South Africa drop closer to global averages, much of the change [in drinking patterns] is being driven by women."
On the ground, business is picking up. Instead of gossiping over a cup of tea at home, Mbatha and a friend spend the afternoon at Susan's Place drinking SABMiller's Brutal Fruit Mango-Goji beer or Flying Fish Premium Flavored Beer—slightly sweeter drinks preferred by female customers. They sometimes leave in the late afternoon and return in the evening with more friends. Since making the changes 10 months ago, Mathane says sales are up 20 percent. Apart from improving the looks of bars, SABMiller is advising owners on how to talk with customers and suppliers and even how to arrange seating. The company is equipping many bars with refrigerators to emphasize the importance of serving cold beer.
SABMiller's shares have gained 6.7 percent since Jan. 1, outpacing its major competitors. It sells beer in more than 75 markets across the world but is protective of its turf in South Africa, which accounts for almost $5 billion in annual revenue from beverages, including soft drinks, and is its second-biggest profit center after Colombia. "We'll continue to gain share and protect our territory," says Mauricio Leyva, managing director in Johannesburg. "Their relationship with trade customers is very important," says Chris Wickham, an analyst at Oriel Securities in London. "What SAB's consistently demonstrated is that they're very strong and adept with the distribution system, and it helps them maintain share."


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The physics of a mooring ball...
I've been floating an idea in my head for a while (pun intended) ;). The idea in question, is using a fairly large ball fender at the end of my anchor bridle to act as a portable mooring ball. Why you ask? 2 possible reasons.
1: I recall reading, though can't find it now, that a mooring ball itself helps add shock absorption and ultimately holding power to an anchor when a boat is in big waves and wind. Is this true, and if so, through what mechanism? Sinking of the ball acting as shock absorption much like the weight/caternery of chain being lifted, or is there more to it than that?
2: The motion might be better in an anchorage with big waves. Again, is this true? What I imagine is that instead of my anchor chain trying to violently pull my bow down, only to have it rise up again, I might be surging back and forth towards and away-from the ball instead of just pitching at the bow.
Anyone know if either of the above is true and if so would adding a big round fender 15ft forward of the boat at the end of my stretchy bridle be a useful thing to do?
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A picture is worth a thousand words...
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So . . . what's your point?!!!??! Where is that anyway? PH?
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I can't imagine a mooring ball offering any sort of help as ground tackle.
It's job is to allow you to find the darn thing when you get back. It might double as an aid to keeping the rope bits out of the mud or a place to put your identification.
You don't really "need" a big buoy unless someone with authority tells you that you have to.
I've used both a big round floaty thing and a lobster pot type float and found the only difference is that the big round floaty thing will bang against your hull when it's dead calm and keep you up all night.
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Wonder if med sailor's idea has merit. If the ball was far enough away fom the boat when the penant was "bar tight" the float would be brought under water and quite probably serve the function of a snubber to sone extent if ball had significant displacement when submerged. Issue would be to have sufficient distance from boat but not too close to anchor as to effect it's function. Lets say with 7 to 1 have the float in the 5 to 1 or 6 to 1 positon. In a mooring field much shorter scopes are usually employed so practicality of his idea would be limited unless two floats employed ( and held together by spring loaded line when not under load) and there was sufficent area to swing.
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Maine - as usual yu're right ( grin). Sure need a hell of a lot of chain. I just carry 200'. But if placed at scope you desire on the chain and enough lt out afterward might work. Maybe Medsailorwill let us know. I don't think I would place my boat at risk. If I did this wuld still rig conventional snubbers to protect the windlass etc. Ifyou had to move in a hurry would just be another thing to mess with.
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My anchor bridle is between 15 and 20 ft (haven't measured). I was thinking (as Outbound says) that for it all go to bar taught, the buoy would be submerged. Also, my bridle attachment point is AT the water line, so it definately would either be submerged (possibility for adding snub-factor) or, it wouldn't be submerged, and my boat would be snatched up horizontally 20 ft behind the ball (possibility for trading pitch for surge).
I guess I should have clarified in my first post that my bridle setup wouldn't be the same as a typical mooring ball.
Good point about it banging against the hull. I did think of that, and was also thinking "I'd only employ this method if I thought it would be a windy anchorage with big waves".... Then again, if I knew that were the case I wouldn't anchor there would I?? :rolleyes:
Still, the physics intrigues me. And there are some harbors that will be rolly that I will want to anchor in. ;)
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MedSailor, I found this on another forum, which might interest you (it did me):
Boater's Handbook - Elbert S. Maloney - Google Bøger.
I think he has a good point when it comes to the weight of the chain coupled with the angle pulling the stem down into the water.
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