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Squirreled away amid the Depression-era architectural remains of downtown Rock Island is a sentinel of a bygone era.
Walk through the narrow front door and you enter a cramped kingdom, a narrow expanse of colorful cardboard towers soaring to the stucco ceiling.
A tall, thin man with ebony and silver bolts of hair and an impish grin greets you, hearty and hale, beneath a sign that winks "We Can't Save Your Sole, But We Can Heel Your Shoes."
"Welcome to Leo's," he smiles. "Can I help you?"
Under an old red-white-and-blue sign, tucked into an unassuming brick rectangle, Leo's Shoe Repair has survived and thrived at 315 20th St. since 1927. Its founders, the Faramelli family, have been in the footwear business since the 1800s, when Andrew Faramelli traveled from village to village in his native Italy, crafting shoes by hand for modest families bursting with children.
In the early 20th century, Andrew and his family, including his infant son, Leo, crossed the ocean to settle in Rock Island, staking a spot for a haven of enterprise that has survived through three generations to its current owner, Leo's son, Jim.
"Shortly after the store first opened," Jim says, leaning on the teeming glass-and-wood counter festooned with signs and smudges that it has held for decades, "the Depression began, and there were grown men standing on street corners selling pencils and apples just to get some change in their pockets. My father would tell me the trains would pull up down the street and people would line up. The government trains would bring big bags of corn and flour to break up and give to people. Just basic nourishment for people to get by."
He looks around the shop, nodding, smiling, at the walls of parts and parcels. "This survived that," he said. "Dad said they were busy, but people couldn't afford to repair their shoes so he had to keep prices down to the bare minimum. But he did. And he survived."
Jim came on board as Leo's partner in 1970, off a stint in the Navy, after graduating in 1967 from Augustana College with a degree in business administration. He had worked by his father's side since he was 12 — and never really considered leaving him behind.
"I always enjoyed it," Jim said. "When I came back in 1970, there was a recession going on, and guys I knew were getting let go from their factory jobs. There didn't seem to be a lot of job security, unless you owned your own business. So I decided it would be a good idea to start here. And I missed it. I've always liked working here. I wanted to come back."
So he's remained, through the retirement of his father and changes in the shoe business, where quality is not always the buyer's first consideration. Leo's still does one thing very, very well. Shoes. Jim makes them, fixes them, customizes them. If you have a shoe-related need, Jim can take care of it.
"It's a steady business; people always need shoes, people are always going to wear shoes," Jim said. "I think that's one of the reasons we've lasted so long. We're not in a business that will ever go away."
About 80 percent of his work is everyday repair, everything from addressing typical wear-and-tear to salvaging footwear ravaged by the family dog. The other 20 percent are custom builds, for people with unusual needs, health-related or anatomical.
"Some people have one leg longer than the other, or they have foot problems, or they need a special kind of sole or shoe for their back problems or other health problems, or orthopedic shoes," Jim said. "And we help them."
Fashion, times and trends matter little to him, Jim said. There's more rubber cement and less stitching nowadays, due to more mass production, but essentially, shoes are shoes. You wear them. They wear out. They need to be fixed or rebuilt. And when they do, Jim is there, always there, answering the bell of the door with a smile as a slow procession of customers arrives, most calling him by name, all engaged in jovial small talk as the details of their needs are addressed.
He's fixed them all. Trendy sneakers gored by puppies, ladies' pumps with stumped heels, expensive imported numbers and basic domestics, even an $1,800 pair of custom-made orthopedics. And he'll continue to do so, as long as he can, he said.
"It's interesting; I enjoy it," Jim said. "It's always different. I'm not doing the same thing every day. I meet a lot of people and hear a lot of fun stories. It's never boring."
Leo's has done its part to help the community over the years, fixing shoes and giving away free pairs for underprivileged children, collecting donations for shoe drives for the needy. "We like to give back to the community," Jim said, "because the community has given so much to us."
He pauses to greet a customer with a first name and a grin, fields an anecdote, trades some shop about his favorite hobby, fishing, and sends the older man off with a wave and two tins of polish.
"It's all about community, appreciating your customers, hard work, doing a good job, trying to be conscientious, doing the best you can," Jim said. "I guess that's true of any job."
He watches a woman with gray hair and a pink dress, carrying a large plastic bag, approach the door, awaiting the bell jingling as the worn wood lets in a bit of the late afternoon sun.
"A lot of businesses today are lucky if they make it a year," Jim said, looking around the shop with a glint in his eye. "I've been lucky. I've been pretty lucky."


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After getting off to a slow start due to a hamstring injury, Chicago Cubs' outfield prospect, Jorge Soler, is having an unbelievable year at AA Tennessee. So much attention has been given to Kris Bryant and Kyle Schwarber for their great seasons but it is about time Soler got on our radars.
Soler's sample size is still relatively small but it's hard not to be encouraged by his play. There is an outside chance that Soler could make an appearance in the big leagues as a September call-up but chances are he will stay in the minor leagues, at least, until mid 2015.
The Cubs hoped that Soler would be able to bring the same spark that Yasiel Puig has brought to the Los Angeles Dodgers when they signed him to a nine-year, 30 million dollar contract back in 2012 and there is still a very real possibility that he will. But nagging injuries that have caused him to miss significant time and have really hindered his development. Since Jorge Soler reported to Cubs' rookie-league affiliate in June of 2012, he has only played in 112 games (less than one full minor league season).
The assumption is that the Cubs are reserving right field for Soler, whenever he is ready, and hopefully he is able to stay healthy and on the field from now on. He is proving in 2014 that he has major league talent, without a doubt, but does he have major league durability?
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She can request a birth record from the Ufficio di Stato Civile, Comune di Mammola, Postale 89045, Provincia Reggio Calabria, Calabria ,Italy. The request should be in Italian and form letters can be obtained thry the www.italianancestry,com in part 3 under Calabrese resources. The service is nominally free but it is sughgested that she include a return addressed envelope and a $5.,00 contribution as suggested by the Mormon church people. She can also go to the nearest FHLibrary of the Mormon church and request microfilm for the Mammola civil records and look for the family records. This will require ordering relevant microfilm and then reading handwritten material which may be difficult if you cannot readily read italian language. Peter
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Paris, France, Jan 14, 2013 / 10:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Over one million people reportedly took to the streets in France on Jan. 13 in opposition to President Francois Hollande's "marriage for all" proposal. Figures show between 1.3 and 1.5 million protested against their president's plans to pass same-sex marriage, according Bruno Dary, the former military governor of the city of Paris. Numbers from other media outlets range from an estimated 340,000 to 800,000 … [Read more...]
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Washington D.C., Jan 13, 2013 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Planned Parenthood report showing an increase in abortions and decrease in other health services is leading to questions over the federal funding that the organization receives. "While government subsidies to Planned Parenthood have reached an all time high," Marjoirie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List said in a Jan. 7 statement, "so too has the number of lives ended by this profit-driven … [Read more...]
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Anchorage, Alaska, Jan 13, 2013 / 01:49 pm (CNA).- Byzantine Catholics marched through the streets of Anchorage on Jan. 6 to Chester Creek near Valley of the Moon Park in Anchorage to celebrate the baptism of Jesus.Led by Father James Barrand, several dozen parishioners of St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Church bundled in winter coats and walked a quarter mile along Arctic Avenue singing hymns and carrying liturgical banners and sacred icons. The procession ended at the creek for the … [Read more...]
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Vatican City, Jan 13, 2013 / 12:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI baptized children at the Vatican Sunday to mark the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, encouraging Christians to remember their own baptism and the "beauty of being born again.""I would like to extend my prayer and my blessing to all newborns," he said Jan. 13 after baptizing numerous babies aged three to four months in the Sistine Chapel."I especially invite everyone to remember your … [Read more...]
St. Paul of Thebes, Church's first known hermit, honored Jan. 15
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Washington D.C., Jan 12, 2013 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Religious leaders from across the United States asked the Obama administration to make peace efforts between Israel and Palestine a priority over the next four years. "American political leadership is needed now more than ever to support both Israelis and Palestinians in creating a resilient and just peace," said representatives of 35 Christian denominations. In a Jan. 7 letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, they … [Read more...]
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Khloe Kardashian has laughed off the recent reports that husband Lamar Odom has cheated on her with strippers.
Lamar, 32, was said to have had a "wild night" when visiting a strip club in Washington D.C. when he was away with the rest of his Dallas Mavericks teammates. Several eyewitnesses said they saw him go into a private room with a stripper and was dropping dollar bills on the lap dancers.


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In 20 days, Britain will have a new prime minister and a new way of running the country. Gordon Brown is signalling a revolution in Downing Street. He is making clear he is prepared to trust the professionals.
The appointments he is announcing of key personnel in Downing Street show that after a quarter of a century of being in the dog-house, the professional administrators of the state will no longer be seen as obstacles to good government in the style of Margaret Thatcher or as "scars on my back", in one of Tony Blair's more self-pitying tropes.
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I have never had knee problems i had played 6 vball games in 2 days & now i can't straighten my knee while standing without pain what's the problem?
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I can't straighten my knee without pain i can hardly walk or stand must keep the knee slightly bent to prevent pain it just happened suddenly after sit?
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I had plica removed along with a chondroplasty now i can't straighten my knee. I was told that I have arthrofibrosis. What is the treatment for that?
Depends.: Arthrofibrosis is scar tissue. Sometimes it will respond to an oral medication called a Medrol (methylprednisolone) Dosepack (prednisone). If that fails, you may need arthroscopic surgery to remove the scar tissue. Keep up with your physical therapy motion exercises. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Last night I hurt my right knee. I have a history of patellar tendonitis in the knee. It hurts to put weight on it. I can't straighten my knee. It hurts to bad to try. I went to urgent care they only ace bandaged it. They said it was patellar tendonitis.
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Why can't I straighten my knee after having a subluxation?
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So i had played 6 games of volleyball in a tourney, so now i can't straighten out my knee when i walk, but i can laying down. Whats the problem?
Difficult to say: Without an exam, but could be a meniscal tear, patellar maltracking problem, synovitis, muscle spasm. Being more specific could help. Tell where the pain is, how bad, when do you get it, did you injure the knee, does it catch or lock, has this happened before. ...Read more
I can't bend or straighten my knee w/o it being very painful. It doesn't pop and i can do a squat without it hurting. This came out of no where. ?
See a doctor: If your knee is not swollen, the inability to straighten it completely or bend it means that something is physically blocking the joint. However, squatting involves bending so i wonder what you mean by "can't bend". There are a few possibilities but you will need to see a doctor. ...Read more
I can't bend or straighten my knee all the way without pain.If I sit down, it is difficult to try and straighten my leg to stand. I can't kneel either?
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Need to see orthopod: When a knee pops as you describe it often indicates an injury or tear to an internal structure like the meniscus. The back pain may be related to the injury but the persistent knee pain may need attention - anti-inflammatories and pt initially but may also need arthroscopic saurgery. ...Read more
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For long-term investors, the next few months could present a good share-buying opportunity. Concerns about the pace of economic growth in the United States and the European debt crisis are likely to weigh on equity markets in the near term, but assuming the global recovery gets back on track, share prices should recover.
"The September quarter is normally the weakest quarter of the year and ongoing worries about Greece, Europe, the US and China could push shares lower still in the next few months," says
"Nevertheless, it suggests there is good scope for shares to rebound into year end if we are right and the global economic recovery ultimately continues and Greece is given another bailout. This is particularly so with global monetary conditions likely to remain very easy."
Oliver argues investors have three main concerns: Greece's debt pile, the US slowdown and the possibility of a hard landing in China.
As for Greece, the AMP economist believes default looks likely, but he suggests this will be delayed until Spain and Italy are in better shape and until such a time as the European banking system can be better managed.
Meanwhile, a fall in the oil price should help the US economy rebound. Oliver is perhaps most sanguine about the Chinese authorities' ability to manage a soft landing. He expects inflation to slow over the next six months and argues fears of a property crash are overblown because China does not have an oversupply of housing. Furthermore, the government will support its banking system and, given the prospect of social unrest, it will do everything it can to ensure the economy stays afloat.
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The past couple of weeks have been busy with visiting family. Harper and I took a trip up to squamish mid-week to hang out with Grandma and Auntie Lois (Dad was unfortunately very busy at work and couldn't join us). It was really great having lots of help with Harper, especially at mealtimes and we had lots of fun going to cafes and relaxing at home. Harper did very well with the sleeping away from home (thank goodness!).
Then one day we arrived home to find a card in the mail from Grand Dad. He invited us to BC 150 celebrations at Fort Langley. So, Harper and I jumped in the car and met the Gibsons in Langley for an afternoon at the historic fort. Thankfully the weather cooperated and we had a great time under sunny skies.
Harper is working hard on learning how to pick things up with her fingers. She has almost got the hang of it, but the blueberries on her high chair tray continue to elude her!
Auntie Erin came to visit.
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Harper and Auntie Lois playing SuperBaby!
We visited the playground in Squamish for a swing!
Grandma enjoyed swinging too!
Sitting on Grandma's lap looking cute.
We visited Grandpa at the Squamish cemetery.
Harper wasn't too excited about Auntie Lois' offerings on the menu tonight.
We visited Fort Langley for BC150 celebrations. Harper gots lots of Auntie Erin snuggles!
Saying hi to Grand Dad. Pretty nice weather for a west coast November isn't it?!?!?!
Harper is working on her pincer grasp, but blueberries are really hard to pick up.
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THE Adelaide 36ers have signed former Gold Coast Blaze forward Anthony Petrie for the next two NBL seasons.
Petrie comes to Adelaide following the demise of the Blaze as an NBL franchise.
The 203cm big man averaged 10.4 points and 5.7 rebounds a game for the Gold Coast last season.
He met his teammates today as the side began pre-season training and will join them for a five-game series in China in September.
Adelaide 36ers chief executive Leeanne Grantham said Petrie had a reputation throughout the NBL as a hard worker who could score from both inside and outside the key.
She said the club would now turn its attention to filling the remaining spots on its roster for the 2012-13 season.
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Marc Jacobs's Debut Makeup Line Is In The Works
Marc Jacobs knows women. He's the much-loved designer who dresses and fraternizes with starlets and socialites and starred in an ad campaign for NARS, not to mention the fact that he's a man who can rock a skirt with the best of them … but is he suited to create his very own makeup line? All signs point to yes, because the fashion visionary has snagged a deal with Sephora to formulate his debut cosmetics collection alongside the über-popular beauty chain.
"The idea of choosing a color for your lip, or an eyeliner — it's just such a delight," he said last week at the first sit-down for the venture. "The ritual of waking up and making those choices is something people really enjoy."
I love that Marc realizes that, for many women, there is a true devotion to and appreciation of cosmetics and the face they choose to put on each morning, an enjoyment that transcends just looking "pretty." The enterprise is in the very preliminary stages of creation so there isn't much information as of yet, but given Jacobs's attitude toward the project, I'm really looking forward to seeing what he comes up with. [NYMag.com]


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DALLAS -- The NFL was aware last week that temporary seating areas at Cowboys Stadium could be problematic but chose not to alert fans in the days ahead of Super Bowl XLV.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday -- a day after the NFL turned 400 ticket-holders away from seats at Super Bowl XLV because of temporary seating areas that weren't up to code -- that league officials wanted to have a chance to complete necessary fixes before alerting the public.
"We made a judgment that we had a very good shot to be able to complete it," NFL executive VP for business operations Eric Grubman said in a news briefing with Goodell. "We made a judgment that it was the right course of action to bring the fans in, rather than discourage them, or create a sense that they wouldn't have the information necessary."
Local public safety officials in Arlington, Texas, site of Cowboys Stadium, declined to sign off on the safety viability of the temporary seating areas the NFL built for the game. Workers continued to assemble the seating areas even as fans entered the building until being called off shortly before game time.
"We simply ran out of time on a couple of sections," Grubman said.
The 400 non-seated fans were allowed into the stadium to watch in standing-room areas or in club levels on TVs. There were 850 other displaced fans who were re-seated. Goodell said that in addition to a $2,400 treble refund, the NFL would invite the 400 non-seated fans to next season's Super Bowl as "guests" of the league.
"We felt in the middle of the week that it was going to be a problem," Grubman acknowledged. "We did not feel until the game day that we had an issue where there was a distinct possibility that we would not be able to accommodate fans."
The problems with the seating areas did not arise at the last minute, Grubman said, while adding that the NFL did not dispute the local officials' refusal to certify their compliance with safety code.
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Target: President Abdul Hamid
Goal: Release two Bangladeshi human rights activists who are being prosecuted for exposing government crimes.
Bangladesh has begun legal proceedings against Nasiruddin Elan, the director of Odhikar, the nation's leading human rights group. They have granted bail to the secretary, Adilur Rahman Khan, who was also arrested. Elan and Khan are facing with charges for reporting on human rights abuses conducted by government forces. These charges violate their freedom of expression; the two activists need to be released, and the charges dropped.
It is believed that the act of arresting and prosecuting the director and secretary of Odhikar is a political move to silence critics of the government. They are both charged under two sections of the law, where they are accused of falsely reporting human rights abuses by the government during the Islamist Hefazat-e-Islami movement in May.
On August 11, Khan was arrested and detained for 62 days, at which point the High Court overruled the low courts and gave him bail. Elan unfortunately was denied bail and continues with legal proceedings. The police raided their group's offices, confiscating computers and other materials, no doubt to use in court against them.
Human Rights Watch documented the events during the Islamist Hefazat-e-Islami movement, when efforts to disperse the crowd grew violent. Security forces left 50 people dead and 2,000 people injured. As a human rights group, Odhikar was trying to bring to light these horrific events, and instead they are being silenced and threatened by their own country. This needs to stop. Tell the president of Bangladesh that he needs to stop denying his people freedom of speech and release these activists.
Dear President Abdul Hamid,
I am writing this letter to ask you to release activists Nasiruddin Ela and Adilur Rahman Khan from custody and drop all charges. Your people should have the right to freedom of speech and should be allowed to investigate any human rights abuses, even those conducted by military or security forces. It is imperative that your people be allowed to criticize their government and voice their opinions.
There is evidence suggesting that security forces hurt and killed people during the Islamist Hefazat-e-Islami movement. You shouldn't be going after the activists who documented the events, you should be prosecuting those who harmed and killed citizens.
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I actually sat through this year's Super Bowl halftime show. I've done it before but not often. Super Bowl XLI with Prince (great show) and I sorta watched the infamous Nipplegate from SB 38, but to let you in on a secret I never got to see the actual incident live because I was in the bathroom — barbecued chicken wings felled me — and by the time I got out the show had ended.
The Black Eyed Peas were wretchedly bad. If there was ever a performance that made me wish for the return of the geriatric bands it was this one. And it looks like the whole world (including the various creatures in the oceans) agrees they suck(ed).
Please end Super Bowl halftime shows. They are a total waste of time beyond giving you an extended toilet break so you don't miss the start of the 2nd half. This space could be used up so much better with something related to the Hall of Fame Inductees, a $1,000,000 field goal contest, Grambling vs. Southern marching bands, I don't care. I couldn't take Fergie's incoherent yelling through every song and the sound system was horrendous and obviously neither did any other country in the world.
If you absolutely want to have this kind of spectacle do it BEFORE the game, and by that I mean hours before the game even starts. You don't see this in the NBA Finals, World Series, World Cup, or any other major sporting event. Okay the Grey Cup does have a halftime show featuring the few Canadian singers and bands relevant to music but yep, only football has concerts at intermission. Could you imagine the 7th Inning Stretch in the World Series being taken over with a makeshift performance by Far East Movement?
I'm not even sure The Who got a reception this bad and they were just as awful as BEP. Usher and Slash could not save this year's "performance" and if there was ever a band that is completely incapable of performing live, it's the Black Eyed Peas.
Instead of a lockout and canceling the season, cancel these stupid musical performances at halftime, Roger Goodell.


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Lady Gaga Wears Cleavage-Baring Dress in Paris (PHOTOS)
Lady Gaga left little to the imagination when she exited her hotel in Paris this afternoon.Eyes up here!
Making her way through the mob of fans and photographers, the "Judas" singer wore a plunging black and white Versace dress that really showed off her décolletage. Gaga also wore a turquoise wig and black hat, which offset her black fingerless gloves and bright red fingernails.
The singer has been busy overseas showcasing all of her eccentric fashion.
Last week, Gaga strutted the runway at the finale for Germany's Next Top Model in Cologne, Germany. The singer donned a turquoise wig and see-through white dress before launching into a crowd-pleasing performance of "Edge of Glory."
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The imminent launch in London and New York of several exchange-traded funds that will hold physical copper is definitely a sign of a bubble in the base metals market. The copper bubble is no different to the ones that have gone before. A commodity mined or produced for a useful purpose, such as industrial production in China, gets into the bubble zone when it is sought after for its investment value alone.
There are already plenty of speculative investors using the futures market to punt on copper. What's different and disturbing about the latest development is that the emergence of exchange-traded funds will open the door for retail investors to get in on the copper bubble.
The question many will ask is: how long will the bubble last? It is impossible to answer but one thing is certain – all bubbles eventually burst.
Those in the mining industry selling their production to China will argue that we are not witnessing a bubble. The surge in the copper price to a record this week is actually the natural result of world markets reassessing China's impact on global commodity markets.
A quick look through the copper forecasts of the world's major investment banks suggests that most think we are now witnessing an aberration in copper prices.
JPMorgan, which helped fuel the latest surge in copper prices when it bought $US1.5 billion of copper reserves this week to back up its planned exchange-traded copper fund, thinks copper prices will peak at $US4 a pound in the fourth quarter of 2011.
RBS thinks copper will peak at $US4 a pound in 2012 while UBS thinks the peak will be $US3.85 in June 2011.
Merrill Lynch is far more bullish. Its latest key commodity forecast says copper will hit $US4.50 by March next year and $US5.44 by June 2011. Those sort of forecasts are typical of the ones being guarded by large mining companies, aware that there are few new copper mines coming on stream next year.
The bullishness in copper is evident from what is happening in futures markets. Citigroup analysts recently noted that the net long position in copper (as measured by the number of long-short contracts open) is at the highest level in the past five years.
Estimates of the shortfall in copper supply in 2011 range from 350,000 tonnes to 400,000 tonnes.
China's demand for copper in 2011 was tipped to rise from 7.3 million tonnes to 7.74 million tonnes in 2011 by Macquarie Research's commodities team before it took into account the impact on copper demand from the country's spending on its national electricity grid.
Macquarie said this week that the grid's consumption of copper would rise from about 750,000 tonnes to 1 million tonnes, which meant the increase in consumption from the grid alone would account for 50 per cent of Macquarie's copper demand growth forecast in 2011.
The emergence of exchange-traded funds as a buying factor in the copper market will only have an incremental impact on copper demand, according to Macquarie. But there is good reason to be believe that opinion is too pessimistic.
Exchange-traded funds are widely recognised as the fastest growing investment vehicle in global markets since the invention of the mutual fund in the 1970s. The total assets in ETFs in the United States are expected to hit $1 trillion by year's end, up about 26 per cent on 2009.
One of the fastest growing and largest ETFs in the world is the SPDR gold trust, which is listed in New York and has a market capitalisation of $US58 billion. It has grown in value by 30 per cent this year. The SPDR gold trust has to buy physical gold and hold it in warehouses. That has meant it has become the sixth-largest holder of gold bullion in the world after the US, Germany, the International Monetary Fund, Italy and France.
Copper-backed exchange-traded funds will lock up copper supplies that would normally be earmarked for use in industrial production.
However, many institutional and retail investors will be attracted to them because of the flexibility they provide in terms of providing instant exchange-traded liquidity at a low cost. The tricky issue will arise when the bubble bursts and everyone is running for the exits, and the exchange-traded funds start selling physical copper.
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The local winners were small-cap fund managers and not the big institutions that manage the bulk of Australia's superannuation assets.
This is the latest example of foreign investors taking strategic positions in Australian listed stocks that have been shunned by big local investors.
A recent example of this was the initial public offering by
Mesoblast, which has a market capitalisation of about $1 billion, has about 15 per cent of its issued capital held by UK-based institutions. They have shown a greater risk appetite than local investors and it paid off in spades. The stock has more than doubled. The deal with Cephalon effectively removes much of the risks associated with commercialisation of its regenerative medicine patents.
The deal involves Cephalon buying 19.99 per cent of the company at a 31 per cent premium to the previous close, an upfront payment of $US130 million and up to $US1.7 billion in milestone payments from 2013 onwards.
Cephalon will be paying for the cost of phase two and phase three clinical trials and the regulatory costs. A clinical trial can cost about $US100 million.
Mesoblast chief executive
The Cephalon deal will fund the commercialisation of adult stem cell therapeutics for degenerative conditions of the central nervous and cardiovascular systems.
Mesoblast now has $250 million in cash to fund other treatments for diabetes, auto-immune and inflammatory diseases, ophthalmic indications and key orthopaedic bone and cartilage conditions.
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Sky City and Broad Sustainable Building get taken seriously by the BBC
We have been saying this for years on TreeHugger: This is the future of building.
Holy smokes! Did China's CO2 emissions actually just fall?
Chinese coal use and CO2 emissions were down in the first four months of 2015, a new report from Greenpeace suggests.
Apple will protect 1 million acres of forest in China, wants to run manufacturing on clean energy
Apparently Tim Cook has scheduled reminders to make big green investments are regular intervals on his Apple Watch, because it's barely been a couple weeks since Apple made its last one.
China's low-carbon electricity on track to be greater than entire U.S. grid in 15 years
Things change. Even China is steering in a new direction, and though it'll take it time to get there, it's a necessary move for the planet.
Apple buys a forest the size of San Francisco for conservation, will build 2 new solar farms
The fruit company keeps taking steps in the right direction. Hopefully other big corporations follow in their footsteps.
Chinese textile mills save money while going green
A new report from Clean by Design shows how energy and water efficiency translate into big savings.
China coal imports down 42%
Year-on-year, Chinese coal imports are down dramatically.
Rare research unveils secret life of giant pandas in the wild
Little is known about how the famously reclusive giant pandas maneuver in the forests; new research reveals some surprises.
Pollution was just too much: Beijing to close its last remaining coal plant next year
Concrete steps in the right direction, but are they doing enough?
This is what smog sounds like when set to music
A NYC-based artist and programmer makes music out of pollution; listen to it here.
A fix for some of fashion's worst hotspots
Clean by Design offers a solution for one of the fashion industry's biggest problem areas: the fabric mill.
China takes viral 'Under the Dome' video offline
The documentary about China's air pollution problem appears to have been censored.
Broad Sustainable Building completes world's tallest prefab, 57 stories
The latest tower dominates the skyline of Changsha
Woman's personal documentary of air pollution goes viral in China
Former news anchor Chai Jing's "Under the Dome," an investigation of smog, gets hundreds of millions of views.
It's official! Chinese coal production and consumption are falling
New figures released by the government show that China's coal addiction may be slackening off.
Goats climbing in trees!
Happy Chinese New Year!
China's coal production falls for first time this century
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Whitney Houston influenced younger generation of singers
Tweeting in reaction to Whitney Houston's death on Saturday, Mariah Carey called Houston's voice "one of the greatest to ever grace the earth."
Carey's more flamboyantly ornamental style may have been the most obvious role model for young divas over the past two decades. But there never would have been a Mariah had there not been a Whitney — nor a Beyoncé, a Christina Aguilera, a Kelly Clarkson, a Jennifer Hudson.
Houston was the first superstar to marry a gospel-honed agility and rhythmic intuition with an expert pop balladeer's knack for velvety smoothness and slick drama. Just as Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin respectively set the standard for female pop and soul singers in the '60s, Houston set the standard for pop-soul singers in the '80s.
PHOTOS: A look back at Houston's life, career
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Veteran music journalist J.D. Considine, a contributor to Canada's The Globe and Mail, notes that Houston had crossover potential in her bloodlines. Her elder cousin, Dionne Warwick, "is a gospel-schooled singer who sang straight-down-the-line pop, even as she took elements from R&B and jazz."
But where Warwick's voice and delivery were more modest and idiosyncratic, Houston championed a smooth, soaring, melisma-happy approach that influenced generations of radio stars, not to mention aspirants on American Idol and a crop of other TV talent searches.
"What Whitney's style came down to was selling the melody and selling it hard, and selling your voice along with it — showing that you had the ability to take the chorus all the way to the moon," Considine says. "Whitney had the power to do that, whereas a lot of other singers don't, and have embarrassed themselves trying to."
Certainly, no one had better tone than Houston in her prime. Her voice was creamy pure but capable of shivery, sultry nuances and siren-like belting.
"When I started my career, I wanted to be like her," Celine Dion said in a statement, while Aguilera noted, "Her notes soared to places most singers dream of reaching." Toni Braxton acknowledged her "incredible influence over music as a whole."
More than crossing lines between pop and R&B, in fact, Houston's virtuosity transcended genre entirely. "Whitney Houston was the first CD I ever bought," country star LeAnn Rimes pointed out on Twitter. "I'm doing what she taught me to do by listening to her records over and over as a little girl."
Even those who lacked the technical ability to emulate Houston were inspired by the beauty and power of her singing. Jennifer Lopez called Houston's "one of the greatest voices of our time," while Rihanna simply tweeted, "No words. Just tears."
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After almost 21 years on the job, Gary Bettman's daily calendar must look different than it ever has.
Certainly less littered with red flags.
For the first time since he assumed control of the NHL, there are no wild, burning-out-of-control brushfires that all of us in the all-seeing, all-knowing media can point to as evidence of a league that obviously doesn't have its house in order or is playing some kind of shell game.
That's not to say this is a golden era, although the league has never been bigger, has never attracted the revenues it does now as it hurtles towards becoming a $4 billion-a-year business.
If there is trouble, it is contained to the ice for now, and the width and breadth of it depends on how you view the suspension-a-day realities and the increasingly questioned role of fighting in the sport. Related to both of those, of course, is the percolating concern over brain injuries to players.
These are serious issues, but they are basically limited to what is going on when teams collide on the ice.
Off the ice, it's hard to recall a time post-1967 when there has been quite the stability there is now.
The arrival of the suddenly-competent Florida Panthers in town to play the unpredictable Maple Leafs certainly brings the immediate contours of Bettman's NHL into vivid relief.
The Panthers surely have attendance woes (less than 14,000 fans a night), and there's no shortage of people who would argue they would quickly be transformed from a "have-not" franchise into a "have" franchise if they were transferred to Quebec City or even Toronto.
But as we speak, this is not a franchise is crisis.
"I'm not worried about Florida," said Bettman in a recent interview.
Since Vincent Viola bought the team in September, concern over the state and future of the Panthers has died down to a quiet gurgle. Viola, a West Point grad and pillar of the U.S. financial community, spent $230 million, we are told, to buy the team, the lease to the arena in Sunrise, a three-sheet ice complex in nearby Coral Springs and the rights to develop a nine-acre site adjacent to the home of the Panthers.
So far, the most curious part of Viola's Panthers is that he has installed his 25-year-old son, Travis, as No. 2 in the hockey department under GM Dale Tallon. Travis Viola's title is vice-president of hockey operations and special projects, a job for which he has no apparent qualifications, and the fact he is listed on the team's web site ahead of assistant GM Mike Santos has rankled some.
We'll see how that works out, and for those who remember the Michael and Kevin Feterik Show once-upon-a-time with the Calgary Stampeders, these kinds of situations always smell funny.
But it's not yet cause for alarm with the Panthers.
Given that Peter Horachek is 9-8-1 since taking over from Kevin Dineen as head coach in early November, any competitive distress the team appeared to be in has also been quieted for the moment.
And that's about it for NHL franchises in trouble.
Think about it. The Phoenix Coyotes have been sold. Attendance will be watched closely, but for five years at least, the Coyotes story has moved off the endangered franchise list and off the business pages. The messy, messy New Jersey Devils ownership story has been resolved for now after a $320 million transaction in August. Ottawa owner Eugene Melnyk says he's losing $10 million a year and attendance is soft in the nation's capital, but the troubles seem manageable.
The New York Islanders aren't a model club, but the pending relocation to Brooklyn has given the Isles a direction and possibility for success down the road. The St. Louis Blues were sold by Dave Checketts and Co.
Before that, there was the ownership chaos in Atlanta, and that was resolved nicely by moving the franchise to Winnipeg where it, by all indications, has been a resounding success.
Before that, there were troubles in Dallas when Tom Hicks was divesting himself of the team, and in Nashville in the wake of Boots del Biaggio. Currently, both situations are stable, although it will be interesting to see how the small market Predators thrive in a world where the salary cap appears headed north of $80 million in the relatively near future.
Bankruptcies in Buffalo, Ottawa and Pittsburgh just after the turn of the century were resolved without moving the teams. Prior to that, the NHL had to deal with a 60-cent Canadian dollar that caused hardship in every Canadian NHL city except for Toronto, and of course there was Quebec City's move to Denver (1995) and Winnipeg's shift to Phoenix (1996).
Given that the seven teams north of the border are now powering the league's revenues, those days seem like a distant memory.
So really, for the first time since taking over on Feb. 1, 1993, Bettman doesn't have a major franchise crisis with which to deal.
Nobody's bankrupt, nobody's in danger of missing a payroll, nobody appears to have crushing debt that's strangling the team.
That can change, of course, and change quickly.
But it's where the NHL currently sits.
On top of that, there's a long-term, $2 billion U.S. television network deal with NBC that doesn't expire until 2021, a new 12-year, $5.2 billion deal with Rogers for Canadian national rights that extends to 2026 and a 10-year collective bargaining agreement with the players union that kicked in this year.
As well, what began with one lucrative outdoor game has now ballooned into six, although we'll wait and see whether too much exposure to the elements kills that golden goose.
Until the next franchise problem - and there will be one - the gloomiest off-ice cloud on the NHL's horizon is probably the class action concussion lawsuit that has been joined by about 200 former NHL players.
Right now, it's not clear exactly where that action is headed, but it's worth watching in the wake of last summer's $765 million settlement of a similar suit brought by former NFL players.
Those kinds of financial figures would rattle the cage of any NHL owner. Maybe concussion lawsuit chill is part of what is driving the heightened level of supplementary discipline these days.
Bettman, quite probably, will still be booed wherever he goes, although those doing the booing might not be able to tell you why they're booing.
Old habits die hard.
But for now, there are no sirens wailing in the night for the NHL, no owners being carted off to jail, no bankruptcy judges picking over the entrails of red-ink splattered franchises.
Even The Great One has been made whole, which was the right thing to get done.
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An Australian court on Friday sentenced a former vice president of Chinese company Hanlong Mining Investment to more than two years in jail for insider trading, officials said.
Bo Shi Zhu, also known as Calvin Zhu, pleaded guilty to three charges of insider trading in July last year and will serve a minimum of 15 months, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) said in a statement.
"In making the order, (New South Wales Supreme Court judge Peter) Hall, among other things, took into consideration Mr. Zhu's high level of cooperation with ASIC's investigation and early guilty plea," ASIC said in a statement.
Zhu, 31, admitted making Aus$1.3 million (US$1.35 million) in share trading while working for three different employers, including Hanlong, after acquiring inside information about proposed takeovers.
They included details related to Australian iron ore explorer Sundance Resources and uranium explorer Bannerman, which were both takeover targets of Hanlong.
Australia's corporate regular, which brought the charges, said the offences occurred between December 2006 and July 2011, and also related to when Zhu worked for Caliburn Partnership and Credit Suisse.
ASIC said its investigation regarding other people associated with Hanlong Mining was ongoing and it could not comment further.
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ABORIGINAL girls as young as eight have been paid in cash and drugs for sex in north-western NSW by truck drivers passing through the area.
Some of the girls are offered as little as $25. Local residents and Aboriginal elders say the trade is driven by a lack of money and a need for drugs, particularly speed and ice.
The allegations were aired on ABC's Lateline last night. The local federal member, Nationals MP Kevin Humphries, said police have had their hands tied because the crimes were not reported.
One girl, when asked if she had ever been raped by a truck driver, said: "More or less. People say that a woman had asked for it if you jumped in the truck, but if you don't want to do stuff it should be your decision." The girl revealed she once got into a truck and there were two men inside, "so I couldn't get away that easily".
Many drivers look for girls under the legal age of consent 16. "Some have actually said to me, if you go and get a young girl, there's money in it for you," another girl said.
But most of those involved are not proud of their participation. "It's hurtful and it's painful and it's heart-aching and in the end it doesn't get you anywhere," a third girl, involved for six years, said.
Local elders say the bulk of the trade is in Moree and Boggabilla. But girls are also targeted by truckies in nearby Walgett and Coffs Harbour.
"It's affecting the young girls so badly, mentally, physically and in every other way," elder Madeline McGrady said.
Boggabilla, north-west of Coffs Harbour, has 647 people, half of whom are indigenous. Walgett, 329 kilometres south-west, has a population of 1735 47% are indigenous.
Residents claimed last night reporting such crimes to police was difficult because some local constables also had sex with Aboriginal teenagers.
NSW Police said officers were working to gain information that led to arrests, but denied any of its members at Boggabilla had relationships that could compromise their ability to do their duty.
A spokesman for the Australian Trucking Association said most trucking companies banned passengers from cabs. Professional drivers, who wanted to get their job done safely, knew their cabins were workplaces.
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Hi you guys and girls!
Thanks for wanting to help!
I got this option: http://pastie.org/3206675
to select premade backgrounds and call it with this function: http://pastie.org/3206683
Now I want to check if e.g. the first radiobutton/background of the array is selected so I can enhance the function.
Does anyone know how I can do that? I'm thinking something like if(of_get_option('patterns')[1]==checked){ …
Appreciate every help,
thank you!
$backgrounds = array( of_get_option('patterns') ); if ( $backgrounds[1] == 'true' ) : // do something endif;
Or, if you're just trying to set a user selected background on the body:
<style type="text/css">
/* Background */
html, body { background: url(<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/<?php echo of_get_option('pattern'); ?>) top center!important;; }
Hi Scott and thanks!
Now I got this: http://pastie.org/3206893 Because it only should call the background function if the first background pattern is not selected. But like that, it seems to return false all the time because the pattern option http://pastie.org/3206896 does not work anymore.
Also, if I output this:
$background = array(of_get_option('patterns','')); print_r($background); I get this (no matter which background of the radiobutton array I selected):
Array ( [0] => http://karmathem.es/dev/this/wp-content/themes/this/patterns/ )
So it seems I will never be able to choose 1, which does not explain why the function will not run, since 0 != 1…
Maybe I am being blind now.
So basically what you require is that if no option is set then it defaults to a background that you specify, else it sets the users chosen background?
<?php // Check if a user has set a background via the options if ( of_get_option('patterns') ) : // they have, so set it <style type="text/css"> html, body { background: url(<?php echo of_get_option('patterns'); ?>); } </style> // Nope, lets set a default one thene else : <style type="text/css"> html, body { background: url(../your/default/image.jpg); } </style> endif; ?>
Hi Scotty, thanks for your help again!
It's not quite like that.
The problem with the radiobutton option is that you cannot unselect it without resetting all the options which will cause a loss of all option settings. Which means I cannot check the if of get option because as soon as a background is chosen for the first time you cannot unselect it, but only select another background or reset the options, therefor the if of get option will always be true.
So the first radio button will be a "none" selection the person chooses in order to remove his custom background choice.
I need to check if the first one has been selected in order to deactivate the custom background function.
All the best
I dont know 'of_get_option' function details, – are you use option framework or something?
//which mean user has made some changes if( get_option('patterns') !== '' ){ //first option value selected if( get_option('patterns') == $patternpath . '01.jpg' ){ } else { //another option value } } else { //do something default, if option is not set }
I dont know if this will help you
good luck
Thank you webinpixels!
Yes, it's the framework, so instead of get_option it's just of_get_option (I just now realized "of" actually means "option framework").
I tried this: http://pastie.org/3212224 But no matter which radiobutton I select it's always "hi".
do you have test the value of your option ( with print_r ), if the value is right (same with the value of radiobutton that selected) – please post it here – but if the value is not right as expected , you should check the framework function or your function which process the data into wp option table
I just found out if I do this: http://pastie.org/3212281 and link directly to the static URL of the image it says 'hey', so there probably is no way of making that dynamic since the output of the option is static.
Thanks for all your help, if anybody wants to share a brainstorm I'm thankful!
Edit: webinpixels we just had the same thought
Thank you for bringing me on the right track you guys! Have a fantastic day
All the best,
Mel for KarmaThemes


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Moves by Papua New Guinea to formally run a national interest test over all foreign investment would not routinely be particularly worrisome.
After all, national interest was the protective mechanic exercised by the Howard government when treasurer Peter Costello permanently suspended the march on Woodside Petroleum by its erstwhile mothership, Royal Dutch Shell, back in 2001.
The problem for PNG is that the changes proposed to its Takeovers Code come at a uniquely troubling time for its political leadership and its broad bank of foreign investors.
Over recent months the Prime Minister
Other expressions of the government's ambition include what looks for all the world like the enforced sale by Fijian interests of a majority share of PNG's main television station, EMTV, and the government's march to control of the nation's miserably performed second mobile network, Bemobile.
Of course there is a particularly grim irony to the EMTV sale.
The Fijian owners of the network have made it abundantly clear that they had been warned by government to divest ahead of legislation that would constrain foreign ownership of PNG media.
The PNG government reportedly said that the model for reform would likely be the regime that Fiji had introduced to end foreign ownership of its media.
If that threat becomes reality and there is no grand-fathering of the rules, then
"EMTV has been under intense political pressure for the past 12 months," a source in PNG explained to me on Monday. "The PM has threatened to withdraw their licence a number of times unless they toe the government line. The government has told them directly that they would get a significant national shareholder whether they liked it or not."
It is claimed that the media in general is being put under huge pressure. There is a view that content of the national broadcaster NBC (radio) and Kundu2 (TV) is being vetted and managed by the Department of Communications.
Our classically well-placed source warns that the government's next target is said to be Digicel PNG, the hugely successful private sector mobile carrier, which transformed the communications sector under Sir Mekere Morauta's reforms of 1999-2002. While the circumstances and processes of each these deals of recent past differ, the outcomes have been resolutely the same. The government now speaks for these assets, though in the Ok Tedi case at least, there will be a series of legal tests of first the validity of the uncompensated nationalisation and then of the authority that might deliver it.
Maru's economic nationalism spells long-term trouble
You only have to digest a little bit of the public commentary offered by the man at the pointy end of this mission of recovery to understand what this is all about.
Like O'Neill, Maru has made a bit of a name for himself as an economic nationalist.
He has consistently complained that 90 per cent of corporate PNG enterprise is owned by foreigners. In early September he explained the need for changes to PNG's historically open-door approach to foreign investment by observing:
"It is time the country has to serve the interests of its people and not allow too much control of our resources by foreigners," he said.
The amendments Maru introduced have been assessed as likely to undermine share prices over the short term and foreign investment over the longer haul.
Interestingly, the national interest test is not limited to foreigner investment. By some readings, the looseness of the wording of the amendment means it can also be used to restrain local investors.
A note to clients penned by the independent PNG law firm, Leahy Lewin Nutley Sullivan, was critical of the discretion the amendment offered the government while being slightly more optimistic than some about the potential for the misuse of that freedom.
"In our view, " the firm wrote, "it is likely that unless the PNG government provides clear guidance as to what the national interest test is and how and when the Securities Commission will apply it . . . the amendment, and the uncertainty it creates, will discourage foreign investment in PNG and PNG companies.
"In our view it is also likely that the amendment will, in the short term at least, have a negative impact on the share price of PNG-listed companies as investors begin to price in the effects of the amendment.
"These issues in turn are likely to adversely impact the further growth and development of the Port Moresby Stock Exchange."
Just finally, the latest in the Ok Tedi dispute is that O'Neill has lived down to expectations by continuing his creep towards asserting control over $US1.4 billion that is held in a Singapore trust in the name of the Western Province and the people most affected by living with the grubby copper mine.
Those monies are controlled by the PNGSDP, which also used to control 63.4 per cent of Ok Tedi. On Friday O'Neill told the board and executive of PNGSDP that they had been sacked.
This proposition was rejected by the formidable PNGSDP chairman, Sir
PNG is a signatory to the convention that makes this an option and that makes enforceable ICSID's rulings. Sir Mekere has also gone to the Singapore courts for rulings that would block O'Neill from appointing and removing PNGSDP directors and executives or from dealing it is assets.
"These are the actions of a power-hungry Prime Minister prepared to put his own interests ahead of the nation," Sir Mekere said in the statement. "This is a sad day for Papua New Guinea."
The bigger worry now is that there might be a whole lot more days like these.
Settling may be the likeliest course of action for Treasury
There are three ways that the potential class action against
The first unknown here is whether IMF and Maurice Blackburn can get the funding they require to sustain their pursuit. IMF has indicated a good start with one institutional owner signing on the dotted line. Whether that disclosure proves magnetic enough to lure other disgruntled shareholders to action, we will see. On the evidence of Treasury Estate's recent AGM, where re-elections and remuneration reports were overwhelmingly endorsed, that might well prove a harder task that some might hope.
But let's presume the litigation team gets its backing, what then does TWE do? Well, of course it could defend itself and the management of its disclosure obligations. More likely though, given that given the demonstrable loss of share value triggered by the recent travails has been relatively modest , TWE will move to settle the whole thing, following the same path of least resistance that saw CSL settle its legal problems in the US.
There, as may be in this situation, the investment in settling was going to be less that the cost of defending the action. Which means only that, as sad as it might be, the financially expedient thing to do is settle.
The Australian Financial Review


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|Chapter 1, Mishnah 3
| Mishnah Seder Zeraim, Tractate Berakhot
Chapter 1, Mishnah 4
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|Chapter 1, Mishnah 5
After dealing with the times for reciting the Shema (1:1-2) and the physical position for its recitation (1:3), the present mishnah now discusses its liturgical context. The Shema is not recited alone, but "sandwiched" between the blessings "before it" and the the blessings "after it."
The two blessings before Shema in the morning are Yozer ha-Me'orot (about light and the coming of day) and Ahavah (about God's love for Israel, especially as expressed in His gift of the Torah). The blessing of love is called either Ahavah Rabbah ("great love") or Ahavat Olam ("everlasting love") in the different traditions. The blessing after Shema in the morning is Ge'ulah (redemption), beginning with the words Emet ve-Yaziv.
The two blessings before Shema in the evening parallel those of the morning. They are: Ha-Ma`ariv Aravim (about the coming of night) and Ahavat Olam (about God's love for Israel, as above). In the evening, the two blessings after Shema are Emet ve-Emunah (about God's redemption of Israel from her enemies, paralleling the morning blessing) and Hashkivenu ("let us lie down in peace…"). The last blessing (the second one after Shema) has no corresponding morning blessing.
[In some rites there is a third blessing on weekdays, Barukh Hashem le-Olam ("Blessed is G-d forever…"). This blessing was instituted in the post-Talmudic era, though, and hence is not mentioned in our mishnah.]
According to the Jerusalem Talmud, Shema is "sandwiched" between four blessings in the evening and three in the morning, for a total of seven each day, so that it will correspond to the verse: "I praise You seven times each day for Your just laws" (Psalms 119:164). The seven praises mentioned in the verse are the seven blessings of the Shema, and the "just laws" are those refered to in the Shema itself.
Hebrew Text
- בַּשַּׁחַר מְבָרֵךְ שְׁתַּיִם לְפָנֶיהָ וְאַחַת לְאַחֲרֶיהָ,
- וּבָעֶרֶב שְׁתַּיִם לְפָנֶיהָ וּשְׁתַּיִם לְאַחֲרֶיהָ,
- אַחַת אֲרוּכָה וְאַחַת קְצָרָה.
- מָקוֹם שֶׁאָמְרוּ לְהַאֲרִיךְ – אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי לְקַצֵּר.
- לְקַצֵּר – אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי לְהַאֲרִיךְ.
- לַחְתֹּם – אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי שֶׁלֹּא לַחְתֹּם.
- וְשֶׁלֹּא לַחְתֹּם – אֵינוֹ רַשָּׁאי לַחְתֹּם.
English Translation

- In the morning one says two blessings before it [the Shema] and one after it,
- while in the evening he says two blessings before it and two after it,
- a long one and a short one.
- Where they said to make the blessing long – he may not shorten it.
- [Where they said] to make the blessing short – he may not lengthen it.
- [Where they said] to conclude it – he is not permitted to omit the conclusion.
- [Where they said] not to conclude it – he is not permitted to conclude.

 A long one and a short one: The blessings "before it" and "after it" have already been clarified in the introduction. But what is the meaning of "a long one and a short one" – which two blessings does this refer to? Nor is it clear what a "long" or "short" blessing actually means. The two main explanations of these uncertainties are by Maimonides and Rashi.
According to Maimonides, a long blessing is one that both opens and closes with the formulaic "Barukh attah…" ("Blessed are You…"). A blessing lacking this formula either at the beginning or the end is a "short" blessing. Now, the second blessing before Shema (in both the morning and the evening), since it is the second blessing in a "chain" of blessings and follows on the heels of this formula in the previous blessing, does not itself therefore begin with "blessed." It is a short blessing according to Maimonides, and that is the meaning of "a long one and a short one": The first blessing before Shema both opens and closing with the "Blessed" formula, which makes it a "long" blessing. But the second blessing before Shema omits the formula in its opening, making it a "short" blessing.
According to Rashi, "long" and "short" refer to the content of a blessing, i.e. how many different matters it refers to. Thus "a long one and a short one," for Rashi, refer to the "two after it" in the evening (mentioned immediately before in the mishnah). These two blessings, in terms of their content, are indeed a "long one" followed by a "short one."


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Papua New Guinea's political crisis appears closer to a resolution with Governor General Michael Ogio admitting it was a mistake to have sworn in a ministry headed by reinstated prime minister
Mr Ogio's reversal would appear to make it more likely that Peter O'Neill will continue to assert himself as prime minister at the expense of his rival, in what has the makings of the last stages of the crisis.
At a meeting at Government House in Port Moresby yesterday Mr Ogio hugged members of Mr O'Neill's team and toasted their success in champagne in a remarkable turnaround from last week when he swore in Somare ministers.
"My conclusion to swear in the Somare government in law was wrong and invalid,'' said Mr Ogio, a Somare appointee. PNG's short-lived political and constitutional crisis is likely to head back to the courts for a final resolution, but the O'Neill forces are continuing to strengthen their position and so exert pressure on Sir Michael to relinquish his bid to remain prime minister. The crisis was precipitated when the Supreme Court found on December 12 that constitutional processes were invalid when Mr O'Neill was elected prime minister on August 2 in the absence of Sir Michael who was in Singapore undergoing heart surgery.
Explaining his strange about-face, Mr Ogio said the advice he had received before swearing in Sir Michael's minister was flawed.
"I did not take into account Parliament's decision to remove Sir Michael on December 9 this year,'' he said. "I recognise the election of Peter O'Neill as prime minister, I confirm he was sworn legally and correctly.''
Mr O'Neill told reporters gathered at the Government House: "This is a perfect Christmas present for the nation.''
Mr Ogio himself has had a stay of execution having been re-confirmed in his job by Mr O'Neill after his sacking last week and replacement by the parliamentary speaker who, as acting head of state, had sworn in an O'Neill ministry.
The bizarre happenings in Australia's closest neighbour and second largest aid recipient will not engender confidence in PNG's stability, but the fact that a crisis appears to have been averted without bloodshed suggests the country's institutions are relatively resilient.
Mr O'Neill moved decisively at the weekend to assert his control over the business of government. He has an overwhelming majority in Parliament and has used this ruthlessly to exert pressure on his ageing rival.
The Somare camp will be considering its position, but apart from legal redress its options appear limited. The military refuses to become involved and the police force is apparently unified behind the O'Neill camp.
The Australian Financial Review


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Bulgaria's Nuclear Referendum and Belene NPP: Who Is More and Most Corrupt?
Nope, these aren't lottery numbers but alleged price tags (EUR billions) for Bulgaria's Belene NPP.
The week before Bulgaria's "nuclear referendum" PM-Borishev, ex-PM-Stanisov and a myriad of other political hobbits and their affiliated parasite-experts kept spewing them out.
THEY, Borishev, Stanisov, and the sort, don't care about Bulgarians' common interest as a society, nation, state!
THEY don't even care about foreign interests – Russian (regardless of the Socialists' Moscow-inclination), US, French, Turkish.
THEY only care who'll snatch "the commission" for Belene!
("Commission" means bribes, commissions, treats, tips, and public procurement orders.)
That's what Bulgaria's GERB rulers and opposition Socialists are fighting for. The rest is just noise for deluding the enemy – i.e. the citizens, or those who deem themselves that. That's why BSP organized the referendum, and GERB made sure it made no sense.
Hopefully, Western Union or Moneygram will launch a wire service to the afterlife so THEY can spend their "commissions" later as their days on earth won't be enough.
And since Oktay Enimehmedov failed to kill Ahmed Dogan but "killed" the referendum, Bulgarians should think what matters from here on. And act upon it.
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Call for budget that funds first responders and provides real security for the nation
Washington, DC — Joined by police from around the nation, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Joe Lieberman today called for a budget that invests in real security by funding America's first responders.
Democrats believe America should be smart and tough, and want to give first responders like local police and firefighters the funding and the tools they need to protect the American people. Unfortunately, President Bush and his Republicans in Congress are supporting a budget that slashes funding for first responder programs–by 23 percent from 2006 and 50 percent from 2004–in order to spend billions to hand out tax breaks to special interest and multi-millionaires.
"This budget is a test for Republicans, forcing them to choose between rubberstamping the President's policies and protecting the nation," said Senator Reid. "Their budget would take police from the streets and leave our ports and trains vulnerable. We must make the investment needed to ensure our homeland security, because America deserves and demands better."
"We know that when the men and women on the front lines of our defense respond to a disaster, they do not have the training, the equipment, and frequently the manpower they need," said Senator Lieberman. "They don't even have the basic capability to communicate with one another across jurisdictional and service lines, or, as the response to Katrina showed, to communicate at all. But the Administration has refused to provide the funding and the national leadership to make sure we are prepared for the disaster that we know will come. There is no cheap way to be better prepared. It takes money – more money than the Administration's budget offers."
In an increasingly dangerous world, America can do better than the dangerously incompetent Republican record on homeland security. Democrats are fighting for a fiscally sound budget that invests in real security by protecting America's ports, supporting its veterans, funding its first responders, and implementing the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.


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Summer Job Fair in Donegal awaits student, adult applicants; seasonal work highlighted
Many students and adults will be looking for summer employment.
The Summer Job Fair, sponsored by the Mountain Laurel Chamber of Commerce, will make job-seekers' goal a little easier by bringing area employers and applicants together under one roof.
"This is something new that we thought we'd try," chamber Executive Director Kris Enberg said. "This is a way that we can tie in some of our businesses with people in the community who are looking for summer work."
With many college and high school students seeking employment, the Saturday event will include area businesses that may not be considered potential employers.
Enberg said the idea for the Summer Job Fair was posed to the group by one of its members, Jeffrey Abramowitz, who organized and planned the event
"There are a lot of employers in the area who will be in need of seasonal staff," said Abramowitz, chamber member and Job Fair Committee chairman. "Whether it be summer or winter, places like Seven Springs, Idlewild Park and Hidden Valley will be looking for staffing."
Abramowitz said that area schools have been contacted to reach out to students looking for summer work.
"We contacted local high schools and colleges," Abramowitz said, adding that California University even did an email blast to inform its students of the employment opportunities spotlighted at the fair.
"I've seen these types of fairs work in other areas, and I felt that we could use something like this in our area," Abramowitz said.
The fair will make the chore of job-searching easier and more economical for many, he said.
"Instead of these students driving from location to location to put in applications, they will all be there under one roof," Abramowitz explained.
The chamber emphasizes that the event is not only for students in search of seasonal work.
"The job fair is for everyone," Enberg said. "This is our first, and we hope that it will be something that we will now have every year, that will be a benefit to both our businesses and to members of the community."
The Summer Job Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Donegal Community Center, Route 31.
Marilyn Forbes is a freelance writer.


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Neil and Darlene Pryde, owners of Bella Roma, are trying to raise enough money for a new water well to be drilled somewhere in Africa through World Vision.
A local restaurateur is doing his part to combat hunger.
Neil Pryde, owner of the Bella Roma pizzerias in Windsor and Brooklyn, is fundraising to have a water well drilled in Africa through World Vision.
It's a feat he's started on his own, but one that cannot be accomplished without the backing of the community.
"You just can't save any money today. Business costs have doubled in the last 10 years," Pryde said.
Pryde's fundraiser, dubbed Bella Water (beautiful water), must bring in $15,000 for the well to be drilled. He hopes this goal can be achieved by the end of the year but, if it's not, he'll keep canvassing for donations.
"I won't quit," he said.
Pryde has a genuine understanding of the plights faced by the people he wants to help. He's written letters for Amnesty International, worked with Greenpeace and travelled extensively.
He's come face-to-face with displaced families forced to leave their drought-stricken homeland. He's witnessed the conflict hunger can cause firsthand. And, he says, he's contributed to the problem.
In fact, we all have.
"I believe that it is our fossil fuel burning, western lifestyle that is creating deserts around the world and rendering people unable to feed themselves," said Pryde.
Pryde says drilling a well is a long-term solution that will benefit the host community for years to come.
"We're treating the symptom: send them food, they're hungry. We're not treating the cause: they can't feed themselves," he said.
"If you don't have water you can't grow anything to eat."
The slogan at Bella Roma is Keep the Peace... Feed the People.
"Something I came to believe as I travelled was there would be a lot less fighting if there were less hungry people."
Pryde says local businesses that donate $500 toward the Bella Water cause will receive advertising space on the message boards at Bella Roma for one week and their business cards will also be stapled to the outgoing pizza boxes for the same period of time.
Individuals wishing to support the fundraiser can drop donations off at the Bella Roma locations in Windsor and Brooklyn, where "I drilled a well in Africa" t-shirts will be available for purchase. Donations made be made online by visiting https://my.worldvision.ca/mwv/Forms/MwvViewFundraiser.aspx?fundraiserId=432.


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I had lasik 11 years ago and 3 weeks ago I had PRK enhancement, my vision is far worse than it was before the enhancement, both near and far vision, is that normal?
Is It Common for Your Vision to Be Worse After a PRK Enhancement?
Doctor Answers 4
Vision to Be Worse After a PRK Enhancement
Learn more: http://www.globallaservision.com/vision-services/laser-eye-surgery-2/lasekprk/
Vision after PRK
It is okay for the short post operative healing period. Our goal is not to make your vision worse! Your results are not normal. Discuss with your surgeon.
PRK enhancement after lasik
THe healing process for PRK is longer than LASIK, so it is not unusual for the vision to be worse , certainly for the first few weeks. Depending on the intial prescription it could take up to 3-6 months to become stable.
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Quality of Vision 3 Weeks after PRK Enhancement
It is normal for the quality of vision after a PRK enhancement to be still fluctuating after 3 weeks, but if it is decidedly worse, you should call your surgeon. There is no question that PRK, whether it is an initial procedure or enhancement, has a slower recovery. The reason for this is that the corneal surface has more healing to do after PRK. The initial phase of healing with PRK takes about 5-10 days and varies depending on the healing speed of the individual. PRK is an extremely safe alternative to LASIK, and I do alot of them. As long as the patient, staff and surgeon are all on the same page in terms of the slower speed of healing, then all should be well.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.