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I will watch with interest to see if Congress gets it right this time. JP Morgan announced a $2 billion loss to its shareholders. The Federal Reserve Act was designed by bankers to ensure they could keep their profits while passing all of their losses on to taxpayers. After almost 100 years of sticking those losses to taxpayers, the American public is just now beginning to see the evil of the Federal Reserve.
The solution lies in letting those banks (and every other entity) keep their profits and their losses. Transferring the losses to a third party constitutes a moral hazard that encourages banks to make even higher-risk investments since the potential for profits is higher and the risk of loss is virtually insured by federal law to be absorbed by the taxpayers.
Congress should not bail out JP Morgan. Congress should pass a law forbidding any future bailouts. Congress should repeal FDIC and require banks to purchase private deposit insurance. Insurance companies would accurately assess the risk of a bank before offering deposit insurance and depositors could easily see which banks to avoid based on their high risk nature. Let the free market work to determine how resources are used and let the consumers decide where to invest or deposit their money. The answer lies not in more banking regulations; but less banking regulations that entangle the taxpayer's money in banking operations. The only way banks are going to behave better is by holding them accountable to their shareholders for their actions. Take the public purse out of the banking system and let bankers return to the conservative (low risk) ways of doing business that made them a public trust business in the first place.
I am not holding my breath in anticipation of Congress doing the right thing. I would even place a bet Congress will articulate another lame excuse (lie) justifying why JP Morgan is "too big to fail" and passing those $2 billion in losses onto the (already overburdened) backs of the taxpayers.
Hopefully, if Congress can see these truths, maybe they will begin the necessary process of unwinding the Federal Reserve Act which has been the main reason for our stumbling economy ever since the law was enacted on Dec. 22, 1913.
Gary Harper, president
Wayne County TEA Party
Mad cow disease serious issue
About the mad cow disease article. It seems to me they are trying to down play a quite serious disease. I'm betting if you'd offer Sara Klein of the consumer advocacy group an e coli burger or a mad cow burger, she would take the former any day.
Once a person eats meat from an infected cow they get a disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome for which there is no cure. A degenerative condition of the brain caused by a slow virus (one that causes no sign of disease until many months or years after the original infection).
The condition causes progressive dementia, sudden muscular contractions, muscular coordination diminishes, the intellect and personality deteriorate, blindness may develop, power of speech is lost and the body becomes rigid. There is no treatment and death usually occurs within three to 12 months of onset. The article also states no human version of the illness linked to eating beef.
My cousin's friend in Kentucky died this past year from Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome. The officials kept it quiet so the public wouldn't find out.
Chronic wasting disease in deer and elk is the same strain as mad cow disease. It is chronic wasting disease in our Ohio deer herd and will officials tell the public, or keep quiet so it won't ruin the hunting business?
Someone told me one person a month dies from mad cow disease in Canada.
M. Miller
Correction: rule of law over the rule of men.
Hey Buzz, there is no such thing as right wing political correctness. You cant just cram a bunch of Buzz words together and assume they make sense. Political correctness is a liberal idea based on the false premise that one can actually pick up a turd by the clean end! Right wing ideals are conservative in nature and focus on individual responsibility and individual liberty. Those on the right prefer the rule of law over the rule of me; just as did our Founding Fathers.
dman, do you also believe in the tooth fairy? Any surplus claimed by SS is in the form of non-negotiable, single-use, U.S. Bonds. That is akin to having $20 in my left pants pocket, taking the $20 bill out of my left pocket and replacing it with a slip of paper that says IOU, and then spending the $20; all the while claiming that I still have $20 in my left pocket! If SS has a surplus, why are they currently paying out more than they are taking in? And why is that spending trend causing the trustees to declare the program will be insolvent sooner than expected? Maybe, just maybe, because the trustees looked at the IOUs and decided they are not even worth the paper they are written on. It matters not who is to blame - what matters is that a government entitlement program created by progressives as the only legal Ponzi scheme in the United States is reaching the inevitable fate of all Ponzi schemes; fewer people paying in and more people expecting payouts!
jaxgary48, Social Security has a $2.7 trillion dollar surplus. It does stand on its own. The problem is that Congress "stole" that money to cover other expenses.
People like Buzz have a fascination with the term "Teabagger" and obviously are very familar with the practice. Buzz I would guess is on the recieving end.
Bam, thanks for the clarification. I must be teabagger! People who think government regulation (intervention in the market system) is good should consider the farm subsidy programs. The government sets an above-market price by offering subsidies to farmers. This price induces farmers to grow more of the subsidized crop. The increase in supply over demand leads to a surplus which the government must buy, warehouse, and ultimately sell or give it away. The solution from government regulators: pay farmers NOT to grow crops that would increase the surplus. The government likes this plan because it costs less than buying, warehousing, and disposing of surplus. What is overlooked is that the taxpayers are now paying farmers NOT to raise crops and this is somehow a better solution that eliminating the farm subsidies that caused the original surplus. If farmers cant sell all of their corn at a fair price this year, they will (correctly) plant less corn next year. The market system rewards producers who get it right by setting a price that is fair to both parties; producers and consumers. Interjecting a third party, government, into the market system reduces efficiency and increases the costs. Buzz can probably agree with the central planners and think government is doing something positive for our economic well being. I can only see folly in these and many other government schemes designed to help friends of government and punish the taxpayers because we must pay for these government giveaways. What not end all government subsidies? There is no valid economic reasoning for government programs that merely transfer the wealth from those who earn it to whomever the government seems to favor at the time. The sugar subsidy should be abolished. The ethanol subsidy, tariff, and usage mandates all need to go away. Minimum wage should be abolished for the same reasons. Corporate welfare of all forms must be eliminated. Bailouts are a form of corporate welfare. All federal welfare programs need to end. Medicare, Medicaid, and social security need to stand on their own without being a burden to taxpayers - politicians need to solve those issues by reducing benefits, increasing use taxes, tightening the eligibility, or a combination of the three. The Department of education, EPA, HHS, commerce, and a few others need to be phased out. Homeland security needs a closer look by applying the economic test; is the benefit worth the cost - be sure to include the cost of giving up some personal liberty and freedom as a result of the department and the Patriot Act. The federal government needs to focus on issues that are federal in nature and allow the states and the people solve the issues that are not federal in nature.
Some seem to forget that for every loss on Wall Street there is a win.All this talk about Chase losing 2 billion (which is a drop in the bucket compared to their net worth)and not a mention to who or what won that bet.Seems like some would be happy about the increase in taxes due to the rapid escalation of that unknown recipient.
And Gary, a teabagger according to buzzy is anyone who disagrees with him.
I am not teabagger, whoever that is. But I AGREE with you that our banking system needs MORE regulation because it is anything BUT a free market operation. The central bank (Federal Reserve) makes sure the financial markets are not free by manipulating the money supply and intentionally deflating the value of our currency. When the Glass-Steagal Act was in force, our banks were severely restricted in their ability to put depositors money at risk. With that piece of deregulation, the flood gates were opened to permit the types of banking abuses that we are seeing today. As long as the central bank (along with every other bank in the nation acting as a de facto branch), continues to put taxpayers money at risk, we have a problem. My point is that we need less regulation that puts taxpayers money at risk. The solution to ineffective deregulation is, of course, more regulation. However, as a market conservative, I would prefer to see a far better solution - repeal the Federal Reserve Act and allow the financial markets to be free.
By the way, if you want to make this a partisan issue, it is not conservatives who caused these problems; the problems have always been caused by progressives (beginning with President Wilson) who want to expand the federal government into virtually every aspect of American life. You can find almost all progressives as registered DEMOCRATS! Not all Democrats are progressives; but I am certain almost all progressives are Democrats because Republicans tend to be near the center or right, and progressives are on the extreme left.
PS, the real crooks are the progressive politicians who are usurping states rights and are stealing our individual liberties one at a time. Buzz, we agree on several principles; but see the causes and solutions to the problems in polar opposite terms. I want to see our federal government restored to the powerful but limited federal government provided for in our Constitution; any step in that direction is good, and any step away from that is obviously bad!


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First, an admission of bias: I love Shure. I had a pair of Shure's E3c noise-isolating headphones for two years, and boy did I adore them. Great loud or soft, comfortable, able to make a transcontinental jet flight whisper-quiet while listening to jazz one tick above mute--bliss. I think I blew out one of the drivers before running them over with my bike, but I didn't mind. Bygones.
So I was ripe with anticipation when Shure shared their SE310 headphones (as well as their top-line model, which I have not reviewed yet). Could these be the replacement I'd been seeking?
My heart got heavy when I discovered the truth: I don't love the SE310s. What's wrong with me? I want to love the Shures. I want to recapture my lost joy.The difference, I think, is in the level of headphones. The SE310s are $299 headphones, and are playing in a different arena in many ways than my old E3cs, which, if memory serves, retailed for $199 and cost significantly less. At this price range--which I've experienced with several brands--headphones start becoming reference-grade, where the focus of the output is on re-creating the original sound more than just making stuff sound great. (I unearthed this trend on the Etymotic hf2 when I began this review series.)
When I plugged the headphones into my home stereo, I heard Shure's solid headphone output: separation of instruments, a focus on high-end clarity, strength across the audible range. Tonal separation holds its own against the hf2.
But my typical listening scenario--out of the home, at low levels--turned out to be less than ideal for these headphones. In that environment, the midrange lacks warmth and depth, and the acoustics flatten significantly. I was startled, but a bit of research revealed similar complaints on old reviews of Shure's E4c headphones elsewhere online. Unlike my old E3cs, richness and bass reproduction aren't Shure's strong suit at this level.
That's a shame, because the SE310s are fantastic noise isolators. On the commute to work, I had a consistently quiet ride, making it easy to listen to music safely. The Shures by far have the best scores I've given for noise reduction. They're an inverse of the Klipsch Image X5, which had midrange and low-end richness but weak noise isolation (if you'll recall, I stuck some Shure foam ear cushions on the X5s as part of my testing).
So I guess the SE310s aren't for me. I still have every expectation of loving Shure's SE530s, which are in the queue (and at $549 the most expensive headphones I've ever encountered). In the meantime, I've learned something: my audiophile nature has its limits.

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Hi ho, Dust Bunnies!
Thanks so much for subscribing to my newsletter—by now you'll have gotten my welcome message, so you know that this will mostly be devoted to keeping you in the loop about my clean comings and goings. There will, however, always be some bonus content. It might be just what nail varnish shade I'm wearing, so don't get too excited about that!
Speaking of exciting things! I was thrilled by the response to a new project I've launched on Jezebel called Year of the Clean Person (#YoCP for all the hashtag-y places you visit). The premise is pretty simple: Each month, there will be a dedicated column describing a big ticket cleaning project, determined by me.
The idea for YoCP stemmed from two things:
1. I wanted to harness the power of New Year's Resolutions and help people tackle some of the more daunting cleaning projects that we tend to promise ourselves we'll deal with this year, no really this is the year I swear. Things like getting a bookshelf in order, taming your shoe collection, cleaning and organizing a pantry. All that good stuff.
2. I was looking for an outlet to address those type of bigger projects, and Ask a Clean Person isn't really right for it—that column focuses more on one-off, specific situational-type questions.
YoCP will be its own thing, separate of AaCP. And it's essentially why I started this newsletter—enough people asked for email notifications that it made good sense. Emails won't be overly frequent, but there will be at least one a month and likely more. The January assignment is to make a list of what your YoCP will look like. Seems simple, right? It's not as easy as you think, but will be well worth your time.
But hey, I promised you some bonus content, didn't I? Well sure, here goes.
After the YoCP post ran on Jezebel, I received several emails from people who were struggling with facing the task of sorting through and disposing of the belongings of loved ones who had passed. I imagine that many others who didn't write to me directly are also working through the same thing, so I'm sharing here the advice I gave one reader in the event it may be helpful for you or someone you know.
In terms of offering some advice on parting with belongings to which you have an emotional attachment, one thought process that can be helpful when bracing yourself to get rid of keepsakes is to remember that your mother wouldn't want you to be weighed down by her things, nor would she want you to sacrifice your comfort level just to hold onto her belongings. Your mother also wouldn't want you to feel sad! It is, of course, natural to feel sad but I find that reminding myself that a family member would not want me to be sad is a good way not to fall into a crippling grief spiral.
The memories of your mother will not be diminished if you don't hold onto her keepsakes, I really promise that. See if you can pick out a small handful of items that you'd like to display and have a trusted friend or family member help dispose of the rest so that that painful act doesn't fall on you, but rather on someone to whom it won't be as emotionally taxing.
Wow things just got a little heavy, huh? To lighten the mood up a bit, here are some non- or semi-Clean Person things I've done recently:
The history of the Roomba | Fortune
How To Make Bourbon Balls, And Be A Holiday Hero | Foodspin
Hang Onto Your Plungers, The Liquid Plumr 2014 Calendar Is Here! | Jezebel
The 2014 fragrance forecast | Fortune
Drynuary Returns | Foodspin
Speaking of Drynuary! (That exclamation point does not really belong there.) My pal John Ore and I have moved our Drynuary operation over to Foodspin, where the response has been … interesting. Be on the lookout for our Week Two report, which will run on Friday, for more on what the response from readers and the media has looked like.
In closing, it is very cold; I'm coping by drinking tea and listening to Delilah. Perhaps you might like to do the same.
Vinegarishly yours,


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Australia's influence in global affairs will diminish in coming decades if forecasts about the changing fortunes of national economies come true.
In research that highlights the need for renewed debate about boosting the nation's population, Australia is forecast by 2050 to have slipped from the list of the world's 20 biggest economies.
Argentina, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria will all be larger and could threaten Australia's place in global forums such as the Group of 20.
"Since the gold rush of the 20th century we've probably punched above our weight, but as the world is evolving we're coming back to the field," said PwC economist Jeremy Thorpe.
"We've been a small but advanced economy, and as other larger economies become more advanced they will have to gain more importance than they historically have had."
The research, published by the global accounting firm PwC on Thursday, is based on estimates of future gross domestic product expressed in purchasing power parity -- a measure that seeks to capture a country's real standard of living.
The prediction about Australia's falling ranking is based primarily on shifts in economies enjoying the benefits of younger and faster-growing populations.
"Urbanisation is driving a lot of this; we've seen it in China and we'll see the same situation in Vietnam and Brazil," Mr Thorpe said.
While China has long been forecast to overtake the US as the world's biggest economy some time in the next decade – with India in third place – the PwC report highlights the likely speed at which Indonesia, Nigeria and Vietnam will grow.
Brazil could overtake Japan to be the fourth-largest economy.
According to PwC, Australia's economy in PPP terms was $US893 billion in 2011, in 17th place. By 2030 it will grow in today's dollars to $US1.54 trillion and slip one place.
The ranking contrasts with a government analysis done in October of International Monetary Fund data that showed Australia's economy had climbed three places to become the 12th largest in the world, ahead of Spain.
Those comparisons were based on GDP figures translated into US dollar at current exchange rates.
At the time, Treasurer
The PwC research highlights the threat from faster-growing nations which also export resources and agricultural products.
"It does reinforce that it is the Asian century, but there other countries as well – Brazil being the most obvious – that we'd be crazy not to take notice of both as an opportunity and as a threat," said Mr Thorpe.
The research implies that one way Australia could maintain its ranking would be to boost its population rate -- something that was debated in 2010 after Treasury released its intergenerational report forecasting a national population of 36 million by 2050.
"That debate kind of got shot down very quickly. It's a debate we have to have again," said Mr Thorpe. "One way to solve the ageing population problem is to bring more people in."
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But by far, I would love to see Skrillex in concert the most. He is a dubstep producer and an incredibly cool guy. Dupstep is an amazing genre of music and it is gaining popularity. I am actually starting to make some dubstep songs, and it is really fun. Skrillex is definitely someone i would love to meet!


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|Jeffs Clinch NESCAC Tournament Bid With 13-11 Win Over Williams
Jeffs Clinch NESCAC Tournament Bid With 13-11 Win Over Williams
April 29, 2006
The Jeffs earned the No. 6 seed in the tournament and will travel to third-seeded Bowdoin College tomorrow for a first-round matchup. Middlebury finished at the top of the conference and will host the NESCAC Tournament for the sixth straight year.
Cherney opened the game with some fireworks, taking a feed from Miller in front of the cage and whipping it behind his back for the score 1:07 into play. Williams responded with a heavy hand, notching four straight goals to take a commanding 4-1 lead, and after a unassisted tally from Miller, Eph sophomore Michael Vrla (Paradise Valley, AZ) closed the quarter with his second goal of the game to make it 5-2 Williams.
Amherst came out firing in the second session as Cherney took advantage of a man-up opportunity, converting a feed from fellow quad-captain Kevin Boova (Summit, NJ) at the 11:31-mark, and then torched his defender 3:06 later for an unassisted score to spark a 4-0 Amherst run. Sophomore Will Ferrer (Greenwich, CT) and junior Chris Hofmann (New Canaan, CT) added unassisted goals in the spurt as well. Senior James Lee (Darien, CT) stopped the bleeding for Williams, scoring off a feed from sophomore Andy Camposeo (Florence, MA), but Boova found Ferrer for a man-up tally to close the half with a narrow 7-6 Amherst edge.
Senior Joaquin Walker (Denver, CO) gave the Jeffs a two-goal advantage just 40 seconds into the third quarter, sprinting past his man for the score. There was little action for the majority of the frame as Williams pulled within one on a goal by Lee at the 8:49-mark, but the last 1:35 saw an explosion of scoring as Eph senior Tim Pingree (Boston, MA) converted a feed from sophomore Dixon Hargrove (Wallingford, PA) to knot the score at 8-8, and Miller posted a pair of goals in the final minute, awarding assists to Boova and sophomore T.J. Jackson (Worcester, PA).
Williams wouldn't go away, pulling back to a 10-10 tie as Hargrove found the net 52 seconds into the quarter and dealt his fourth assist of the game as he found first-year Kevin Connolly (Simsbury, CT) for the leaping score at the 7:28-mark. However, Amherst answered by taking sound control of the game with three straight goals. Hofmann opened the run, scooping up an errant Williams pass at midfield, sprinting down the right sideline and flipping the ball over the goal to a wide-open Jackson for the score. Boova continued, sliding a gorgeous cross-field pass to Miller for a back-door goal, and Cherney capped the spurt, taking a feed from Walker and launching a shot from straight on to make it 13-10 Amherst with just under five minutes to play.
Lee got one back for the Ephs, notching a man-up goal with 2:15 to play, but Williams could do no more and Amherst held on for the win.
Miller had one assist to go with his four goals, while Boova finished with a season-high four assists. Ferrer had two goals and Hofmann, Walker and Jackson contributed a goal and an assist apiece. Senior quad-captain Andrew Wilcox (Ancramdale, NY) was a force in the midfield and on the defensive end, going 9-for-16 on the face-off and grabbing six ground balls. Junior David Beck (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) was stellar as well scooping up five ground balls. Rookie goalie Matt Pietroforte (Brooklyn, NY) finished with eight saves and a pair of ground balls.Hargrove led Williams with a goal and four assists, while Lee added three goals and an assist. Vrla, Pingree and Connolly each had two goals, while Vrla chipped in a helper. Junior Chris Merwin (Baltimore, MD) won 10-of-20 face-offs and recorded a game-high nine ground balls. Rookie netminder Michael Gerbush (Glen Head, NY) posted seven saves in the losing effort as the Ephs dropped to 6-7 (3-6 NESCAC) and earned the No. 7 seed in the NESCAC Tournament. They travel to second-seeded Wesleyan University for tomorrow's first-round tournament matchup.
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In this video uploaded to YouTube, a bullmastiff named Millie helps her owner, Gail Mackie of Kincardine, Scotland, bring in some grocery bags. The pup bites onto the grocery bag handles and happily trots back into the house to drop off the goods.


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FORT HOOD — Col. Kevin Vizzarri described his replacement as commander of First Army Division West's 166th Aviation Brigade as "the real deal," during a Monday morning command-change ceremony at Cameron Field.
After two years leading the "Greywing" Brigade, Vizzarri relinquished his post to Col. Christopher Albus.
"Greywings, I can tell you, you are getting a great commander who is a perfect replacement," he said.
Vizzarri, who is married with two young sons, is retiring after 25 years as an Army officer.
As the only aviation brigade in First Army, the 166th mobilizes, trains and validates Reserve component aviation units, consisting of 48 percent of all U.S. Army aviation assets, to meet the needs of combatant commanders.
Trust between the active and Reserve components was key to the brigade's success, Vizzarri said.
"Col. Vizzarri has had a high visibility ... training mission to carry out," said Maj. Gen. Warren Phipps, division commander.
Under his leadership, Greywing soldiers trained 43 units and more than 5,470 soldiers. That added up to more than 15,000 flight hours using 345 helicopters, Phipps said.
"Under their charge, the 166th Aviation Brigade has been an exemplary standout in our division," he said.
Vizzarri also oversaw the move of the brigade's environmental training from Albuquerque, N.M., to Fort Bliss, saving more than $100,000 on every eight-day rotation, or about $1.6 million a year.
Albus joined the Greywings with his spouse, Christine, and three children from West Fort Hood's Operational Test Command, where he served as director of the U.S. Aviation Test Directorate.
"I'm fully confident in your leadership, competence and character," Phipps said. "The 166th will be great in your hands."
Also during the ceremony, the brigade's Command Sgt. Maj. Glen Vela relinquished the noncommissioned officers' sword to Command Sgt. Maj. Scott Bailey, who most recently served with Fort Hood's Warrior Transition Brigade.
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Well, you can see that kind of episodic change is again entirely different from the other two.
And surprisingly for a master lawmaker, his accounts of legislative fights are often episodic.
And I think [Gould] was guilty of using a poetic language to conflate those three kinds of episodic changes.
Meanwhile, the cameras were still rolling and we were burning film at a rate rarely seen in episodic TV.
"This has always been an episodic, tragic, and rare event," says Sepkowitz.
Episode is always there, even in a landscape; the question is whether the appeal—the original intuition—is episodic or universal.
I think it is just to say that the religious picture is not episodic.
There is in it a threefold exposition of the theme alternating with episodic matter.
Its application has always had an accidental, impartial, episodic character.
The second kind is not episodic; it does not seem fitted for a place in a larger composition.


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As head of the family-built Westfield shopping centre empire,
"This is the first time I have ever opened a restaurant," Lowy said at
The Norths' venture – which they have reportedly sunk about $4 million into – encompasses fine dining, bistro, bakery, food store and even a cooking school and is the centrepiece of what Lowy hopes will be a foodie heaven on the fifth floor of the new Westfield Sydney shopping emporium.
The inspiration for it is said to have come from food emporiums upstairs in London's Harvey Nichols and the Time Warner building in New York. Westfield has been a bit of a late starter on the food front but Lowy said: "We realised we really needed to get on the bandwagon at a whole new level."
As a mark of the Norths' popularity among their peers, party goers, lubricated with Ruinart champagne, included some of Sydney's celebrated chefs such as
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Paris (AFP) Nov 21, 2006
The EU and six nations signed a treaty Tuesday launching a multibillion-dollar experimental nuclear fusion research project, aimed at emulating the power of the sun to provide limitless, clean energy. "This is a new step in an exceptional adventure," French President Jacques Chirac said after leading the signing ceremony in Paris that ended decades of tortuous negotiations.
Representatives from the European Union, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States signed the pact on the construction of the 10-billion-euro (12.8 billion dollar) reactor.
Originally called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor but now known officially by its initials ITER (or "the way" in Latin), the facility is to be built in Cadarache, in southern France, over a decade starting 2008.
The project aims to research a clean and limitless alternative to dwindling fossil fuel reserves by testing nuclear fusion technologies.
Instead of splitting the atom -- the principle behind current nuclear plants -- the project seeks to harness nuclear fusion: the power of the sun and the stars achieved by fusing together atomic nuclei.
If it is successful, a prototype commercial reactor will be built, and if that works, fusion technology will be rolled out across the world.
Chirac said the experimental reactor was "a hand held out to future generations" and predicted that, if it proved successful, "we will be able to derive as much energy from a litre of seawater as from a litre of petrol or a kilo of coal."
The EU is to put up half the cost of building the reactor, with the rest evenly divided among the other parties. The project will employ 400 scientists, two-thirds of them non-French.
Following years of wrangling, Japan agreed in 2005 to withdraw its bid to host the project -- in exchange for 20 percent of staff posts including the director general's job.
A Japanese engineer turned ambassador, Kaname Ikeda, was named earlier this month to head the project.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who was also in Paris Tuesday, called the signing "a major event" and a step forward to finding new energy sources that did not cause climate change.
In a fusion reaction, energy is released when light atomic nuclei - the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium - are fused together to form heavier atomic nuclei. To use controlled fusion reactions on Earth as an energy source, it is necessary to heat a gas to temperatures exceeding 100 million Celsius - many times hotter than the centre of the sun.
One of the attractions of fusion is the tiny amount of fuel needed. The release of energy from a fusion reaction is 10 million times greater than from a typical chemical reaction, such as burning a fossil fuel. But the project has been criticised by environmental groups like Greenpeace, who argue that the enormous cost will suck funds away from other areas of alternative energy research, with no guarantee that an effective method of simulating and harnessing the fusion process will ever be found.
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"The energy that powers the stars is moving closer to becoming a new source of energy for the Earth through the technology represented by ITER," U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman said. "The ITER Members represent over half of the world's population. The U.S. is proud to be part of this partnership, and to join in the pursuit of nuclear fusion as a source of clean, safe, renewable and commercially deployable energy for the future."
Fusion energy is an important component of President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative (AEI), given fusion's potential to become an attractive long-range option for the U.S. clean energy portfolio. In FY 2006, DOE allocated $25 million to ITER and the President, as part of the AEI, has requested $60 million for the project in FY 2007.
"Signing this agreement brings us one step closer to a viable source of fusion power," Dr. Orbach said. "ITER also is the first stand alone, truly international, large-scale scientific research effort in the history of the world. It will surely serve as a model for future collaborative large scale science projects," he added.
ITER will be constructed at Cadarache, France and is expected to be completed in 2015. The site is adjacent to the main research center of the French Atomic Energy Commission. The EU, as the host, will provide 45.46 percent of the construction phase funding.
The U.S., as a non-host partner, will participate in the construction phase at the level of 9.09 percent. The U.S. contribution to ITER will consist of about 80 percent in-kind components, and about 20 percent in cash to a central fund and for personnel assigned to the project at the ITER site. DOE laboratories will subcontract with industry to build the components of ITER for which the U.S. is responsible. The total value of the U.S. contribution is $1.122 billion.
Fusion energy, created when light atomic nuclei are fused together at temperatures greater than those of the interior of stars and far above the melting point of any solid container, could provide significant amounts of electricity and also generate hydrogen that could power fuel cell vehicles of the future. Fusion power has the following advantages:
Fusion is clean: It produces negligible atmospheric emissions and zero greenhouse gas emissions. Fusion is safe: Reactors cannot "melt down," and do not generate the high-level, long-lasting radioactive waste associated with nuclear fission.
Fusion is renewable: Commercial fusion reactors would use lithium and deuterium, both readily available natural resources. President Bush announced on January 30, 2003, that the U.S. was joining the negotiations for the construction and operation of this major international research project, whose mission is to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of clean fusion energy.
The President's initiative in joining ITER allows the United States to share the combined experience and knowledge that will result from the design, construction and operation of this vital project at a greatly reduced cost to the individual partners. The U.S. was one of the original participants in the early design and R and D for ITER, and U.S. participation in the ITER construction and operation phases capitalizes on the previous investment.
Following the initialing of the Agreement in Brussels on May 24, 2006, which marked the conclusion of negotiations, DOE transmitted to Congress the final initialed text to begin the 120-day review required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. DOE also briefed committees of jurisdiction in both the House and the Senate during the negotiations to facilitate the 120-day review. On September 29, 2006, House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert wrote to Secretary Bodman,
"I am satisfied that the Agreement on the Establishment of the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization for the Joint Implementation of the ITER Project has been negotiated in accordance with the requirements listed in paragraph 972(c)(3) [of the Energy Policy Act of 2005]. Under Secretary Orbach and his staff are to be congratulated for their hard work over the past several years in securing this agreement."
President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative represents a 22 percent increase in clean-energy research at the Department of Energy that will accelerate breakthroughs in the way our cars, homes and businesses are powered. For FY '07, the President requested more than $2.1 billion in AEI funding for research into cutting-edge technologies with a goal of reducing oil consumption by 5 million barrels a day by 2025 and producing clean electricity for millions of homes.
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With the NHL losing a second season in eight years because of labor turmoil becoming a legitimate scenario, Penguins wing Pascal Dupuis strolled through the Iceoplex at Southpointe on Friday wearing a Montreal Expos cap.
That franchise was crippled following the 1994 baseball work stoppage. Ten years later, Dupuis was an NHLer when a season was lost.
Here we are again, and this time, the veteran isn't sure what to expect.
"I thought the whole time it was going to get resolved during the last time (in the 2004-05 season)," he said.
But it didn't, and now players are unsure what might happen next.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman needed only an hour to dismiss three NHLPA proposals Thursday, leaving many Penguins in a surly mood.
"You all saw what happened during the last couple of days," Dupuis said. "It looks like one side has an agenda and is sticking to it."
The handful of Penguins on hand for Friday's workout believe there will be a season, but none was optimistic about how quickly it might begin. Team player representative Craig Adams said he might join teammates Evgeni Malkin, Deryk Engelland and Dustin Jeffrey in Europe soon.
Some of the Penguins admitted that, like many fans, they believed the lockout was coming to an end when the league offered a "50/50" split of hockey-related revenue earlier this week.
"We had huge (mood) swings," defenseman Ben Lovejoy said. "All of us were probably way too optimistic on Tuesday night as most of the general public was. We all thought this was a good sign and that we could be playing hockey by Nov. 2. As more and more details came out, I think the players were more and more disappointed."
Adams was miffed that the league rejected the proposals in such short order. He is hopeful the league will reconsider.
"The only thing that makes me optimistic is that we proposed three really good deals for them," Adams said. "I kind of think that, maybe the longer they look at them, they'll see that they're really good deals."
Bettman's suggestion Thursday that the players can contact the league to reconvene negotiations didn't go over well, either.
"They're waiting on us to make an offer," Adams said. "I think both sides should do what they think is the best thing for them and the best chance of getting a deal done. If he wants to wait on us, he can wait."
What happens next in anyone's guess.
"It's disappointing," captain Sidney Crosby said. "What happened in Toronto really isn't good for anyone involved in this."
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Question: What makes you feel older than turning 50 yourself?
Answer: Watching your younger siblings turn 50.
Which my baby brother does this weekend. And in honor of the event, I am passing along a list generated by friends, which features the Good, the Bad and the Ugly about being a 50-something.
Let's start with a positive, shall we? The thing about being in your 50s is that you know yourself pretty well. You know, for example, that any movie that lasts longer than two hours will end up boring you. Or that you're always going to order a cheese enchilada at the Rio Grande café even though you sometimes flirt with the idea of going all crazy and ordering a chicken chimichanga instead. Or that you prefer nonfiction to fiction, unless, of course, you're talking about mysteries written by gloomy Scandinavians. Or that while you'd love to go back to school and become a nurse, you realize that you're careless with medication, which isn't a particularly desirable trait in a health care provider.
There's a real comfort in knowing who you are, even when you don't always love who you are.
As for a downside, well, it's true that things can start to slip a little in your 50s. Like your energy level. Or the discs in your lower back. Or your memory. Oy! The memory thing! Names and phone numbers and random trivia about celebrities (wait how many kids does Brangelina have?) that you knew cold yesterday can momentarily elude you today. So frustrating! But don't worry. People are forgiving when you forget. After all, you're 50! And besides, you'll remember eventually. (Six! Brangelina has six kids!)
See what I mean?
Another positive about life in your 50s? Perspective. You begin to sense that some of those things you thought were sooooo important when you were younger like which teacher your kid got for kindergarten don't actually matter very much. And speaking of perspective, you also realize you're gonna die one day.
Um. This is a positive? Please hear me out. When you're a kid you understand that death happens. You buy a pet goldfish. It dies. Your mom talks to you about death, and (as a result) you learn this crucial life lesson, i.e., that goldfish make completely unsatisfactory pets and there's no point in buying another one. Meanwhile, death remains an abstraction. A noun with a lower case "d." Something that happens to fish. And other people. Never to you.
But when you hit your 50s? Fine. You completely get that a pale rider on a pale horse will be making an unscheduled stop at your door one day. This realization causes you to assess how you spend your time. You even start saying "no" to certain things you might have (necessarily) taken on when you were younger.
Tiny example here: I used to feel morally obligated to stick with every book I ever started. It's like I took a vow and married it. But now? I just date books, and they have to seriously charm me by the first 30 pages, otherwise I'm all, hey, thanks for the flowers and dinner, but I'm outta here, because life is too short.
Saying no to stuff that doesn't matter means there's time to say yes to the things that do whatever that happens to be for you. Family. Friends. A hobby. A career. Community. Church. A really great cause. And because you're in your 50s now, you know what those things are.
Happy birthday, Jimmy.
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Las Vegas, NV, September 19, 2011 –MPi (www.mpi-edge.com), the pioneer and leader in vehicle inspection tools, service workflow expertise, and consulting for automotive dealership service centers, today announced that company Chairman and CEO Les Silver will be a featured speaker at the 11th Digital Dealer Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 5-7, 2011. Silver's presentation titled: "Digitally Inspect and Inform Vehicle Health to Owners" will be held On October 7th at 11:00am. Attendees will learn important steps that define how to increase service department profitability using digital technology.
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So basically, I'm just curious, what do all you guys out there do? You know when you're not shredding 23 footers on the weekend. What do you guys do for a living? Do you like what you do? Do get to surf as much as you'd hoped? Do you have any regrets about the career path you took?
Personally, I recently graduated from a pretty average college with a pretty average business degree with pretty average grades. I'm currently unemployed, and looking to get a job with a company I'm passionate about, but I know that is unlikely. What is more important, personally, is being close to a beach I can surf. I've been applying to all sorts of companies, jobs, and locations, but I'd like to hear what some of you guys do, whether you like it or not, whether you'd go back and do it differently.
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Out: Quarterback Brandon Weeden (concussion, knee). Questionable: Inside linebackers Tank Carder (shoulder) and Craig Robertson (knee) and tight end MarQueis Gray (hamstring). Probable: Quarterback Jason Campbell (concussion), right offensive tackle Mitchell Schwartz (toe), running back Willis McGahee (knee), punter Spencer Lanning (left knee) and outside linebacker Paul Kruger (finger).
Did not practice: Weeden. Limited participation: Carder, Robertson and Gray. Full participation: Campbell, Schwartz, McGahee, Lanning and Kruger.
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The NCAA's spring signing period dawned — literally — at Jesuit, where seven Tigers student-athletes signed college paperwork at a 7:25 a.m. ceremony in the President's Board Room.
Signing before roughly three-dozen onlookers were (left to right): Benny Ely (Rollins College, baseball), Ryan Brady (Washington and Lee, lacrosse), Cole Fox (Swarthmore College, lacrosse), Devin Harris (East Tennessee State, basketball), J.J. Weir (Rhodes College, basketball), Anthony Sferra (Catholic University, football) and Lucas Trim (Villanova, golf).
The other signee, tennis player David Pagliarulo (St. Joseph's), was competing at the Class 2A state tournament in central Florida and couldn't attend.
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Size: 1.420
Identification: Natural Emerald
Type: Colombia
Cert: AGL - February 23, 2011
Shape: Square Emerald
MM: 6.58 x 6.36 x 5.21
Color/Tone: 2.5/80
Color Scan: Green 75 Blue 15 Yellow 10
Clarity: LI2-MI1
Cutting: Very Good (3-4)
Brilliancy: 100%
Finish: Very Good (3-4)
TQIR: Excellent 1.5
Enhancement: None
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How to create an installation repository for Rational Method Composer 7.5
Rational Method Composer; RMC; create an installation repository for Rational Method Composer 7.5; install the product on multiple computers from a single repository: IBM Packaging Utility
Technote (FAQ)
How can you create a local network repository for IBM Rational Method Composer 7.5 (RMC)?
The purpose is to install the product on multiple computers from a single repository.
- Download and extract RMC 7.5.
- Install the packaging utility found in C1LE2ML.zip file (IBM Rational Enterprise Deployment V7.5 for Windows).
- Open the IBM Packaging Utility from Start > All Programs > IBM Packaging Utility.
- Click Copy packages.
- Add a repository.
- Navigate in the dialog to the directory, where you extracted the six archives of RMC 7.5 Main Installation Multiplatform Multilingual.
- Click on the file diskTag.inf from the disk1 directory.
- Select the newly added location.
- Select the local or network directory. This directory must be accessible from the client computers where you install RMC.
- Click Copy.
You can download the iFixes and updates from the internet from every client with the automatic update function of IBM Installation Manager. Otherwise, if you want to include the latest iFix in your repository, consider the steps below.
- Download the iFix.
- Extract the archive to a local directory.
- When you create the repository repeat point 4 and 5 and add the disk1\diskTag.inf from the iFix.
- Select both RMC 7.5 and RMC 7.5 iFix when you copy to the new repository.
On the client computers, where you want to install RMC, you do the following steps.
- Install the IBM Installation Manager, from C1LE2ML.zip (IBM Rational Enterprise Deployment V7.5 for Windows).
- Start the IBM Installation Manager.
- Click File > Preferences from the menu.
- Navigate to Repositories.
- Click add repository and put the location that you used at point 8.
- Click OK.
- Click Install and follow the steps to install the product.
You can not store the Activation Kit in the repository. You need to install it as explained in the following technote: How to download and install Rational Method Composer 7.5
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Software version: 7.5
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The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, accuses the federal transportation agency of stonewalling the plaintiffs' requests and destroying pertinent records.
The group has been trying since May to find out what information the TSA has collected on them while testing a new terrorist-watch database called Secure Flight, according to the suit.
The lawsuit asks the court to order the TSA to stop deleting files and hand over information about the plaintiffs. It also asks that the agency be found in violation of the Privacy Act.
Privacy activist Bill Scannell of California said it is important for Alaskans to be able to access information kept about them by the TSA, to make sure it is correct so they don't get barred from a flight.
"Here in Alaska, if you're told you can't fly, you're effectively exiled," he said. "What are you going to do — walk? Take a taxi?"
To test its new Secure Flight system, the TSA had ordered all major domestic carriers to turn over their passenger name records for June 2004.
After the test, the agency announced it was purging records it no longer needed, the lawsuit says. The plaintiffs, who had all flown in June 2004, wrote repeatedly to the TSA, asking them not to destroy records collected during the test, but the agency said it could not find the records, Harrison said.
"It comes to a point where we say: 'What are you hiding?'" plaintiff Charles Beckley said.
A spokeswoman for the TSA told the Anchorage Daily News that the agency does not comment on pending litigation.
The agency's Secure Flight database will replace the system domestic airlines use to check passengers against the government's no-fly and watch lists, the TSA said.
The TSA had not notified the public before contracting with a private company to add more information to the database. The expanded records included information such as full names, phone numbers, dates of birth and possibly other personal information, the lawsuit says.
The Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, concluded earlier this year that the TSA violated the law when it did not fully inform the public about the scope and methods of its data collection.
The new system will collect more personal information on individuals in an attempt to reduce cases of mistaken identity, the TSA said. After a few days, the information would be purged. Credit card and Social Security numbers are not part of the information collected, according to a TSA spokeswoman.
The plaintiffs are John Davis, superintendent of the Bering Strait School District; Sarah Huntley and William Beck who own an Anchorage-area travel agency; and Beckley, a Montana resident who provides technical support to rural Alaska school districts.
A hearing on the matter has not yet been set.


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Hong Kong (AFP) April 26, 2012
Hong Kong held a nuclear emergency drill on Thursday involving over 1,000 officials and foreign experts, the city's first exercise since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan last year.
The drill was meant to test contingency plans for a nuclear incident at Daya Bay power plant in China's Guangdong province, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Hong Kong's border and 50 kilometres from the centre of the financial hub.
"This will better prepare Hong Kong to deal with any emergencies," Security Minister Ambrose Lee told reporters, describing the exercise as "successful".
Lee said experts from France, Britain and the International Atomic Energy Agency were present to observe the exercise. Some 100 residents of an island near Daya Bay were evacuated as part of the drill.
Greenpeace activists tried to participate in the exercise and managed to unfurl a banner reading "Save our home from nuclear risks" before they were turned back by the authorities.
"They have taken the easy way out -- evading nuclear crisis management and replacing it with nuclear propaganda," Greenpeace Senior Campaigner Prentice Koo said in a statement.
The two-day drill, which will continue on Friday, was announced last year shortly after the Fukushima plant in Japan was hit by meltdowns and explosions triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes around the plant and swathes of the area remain badly polluted. Some towns could be uninhabitable for decades.
The twin power stations at Daya Bay provide most of Hong Kong's electricity.
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From: Bernie Cullen <>
Subject: [DNA] Sardinian-American with DYS393=9 has tested L160+ (I2a1a)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:08:12 -0800
A member of the I2a project with roots in Sardinia has the rare value DYS393=9. The 9 has also been reported in two newborns in Sardinia who tested M26+, see Table S1 in this 2008 paper by Contu et al: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174525/
Almost all M26+ have the unusual 11,21 at YCA IIa,b, but our Sardinian-American member has 21,21. But he has received L160+ results which confirms that he is M26+. L160 is downstream of M26 and L160+ seems to be a little more common than L160-. The only other M26+ person I know of with recent roots in Sardinia has also tested L160+.
Bernie Cullenco-admin I2a projecthttp://www.familytreedna.com/public/I2aHapGroup/default.aspx?section=yresults
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On Friday, Harald Stock, CEO of Gruenenthal Group, unveiled a haunting statue that memorializes the victims of thalidomide. He also used the occasion to say, for the first time, that the company was sorry for the drug's legacy.
To refresh memories: Thalidomide was a drug marketed to pregnant women in the late 1950s and early 1960s for treatment of morning sickness and anxiety. As a result, some 10,000 babies – principally in Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Japan and Australia – were born with limb deformities, and countless women suffered miscarriages.
"I want to take this opportunity to express our deep regret over the consequences of [thalidomide] and our deep sympathy for the victims, their mothers and families," Mr. Stock said at the ceremony in Stolberg, Germany, where the company is based.
"We also ask for forgiveness for not reaching out to you from human being to human being for almost 50 years ... We ask that you see our long speechlessness as a sign of the silent shock that your fate has caused us."
Understandably, the apology infuriated thalidomide survivors. After all, it comes half a century too late, and it didn't exactly come across as heartfelt.
The "silent shock" argument is, at best, disingenuous. Gruenenthal hasn't been too shocked to spend 50 years fighting legal claims, though it should be noted it has paid out an estimated €500-million (about $620-million) in compensation, most of it in out-of-court settlements.
The unexpected statement, however, does present a good occasion to mull over the legacy of thalidomide in Canada.
The blunt truth is that the behaviour of the Canadian government on this file is no better than Gruenenthal. In many ways, our response has been more appalling.
Canada has a lot to be sorry for, and ashamed of.
Thalidomide was first distributed in Canada in 1959, two years before the drug was approved. It was hailed as a miracle drug with no side effects. Free samples and perks were given to doctors who prescribed it to their patients. The drug was approved for sale in April, 1961, without adequate testing or review.
Of course, we cannot judge the approval process on today's standards, but consider that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration never approved thalidomide. Frances Kelsey, a Canadian working at the FDA, resisted tremendous pressure from the drug manufacturer and physicians who wanted access to the drug, because she recognized that safety data were nonexistent.
Canadians were among the first victims of thalidomide. At least 15 wives of Canadian soldiers posted in Germany gave birth to children with severe limb deformities between 1959 and 1961, before the drug came to Canada. That information was hushed up because, at the time, spouses were not allowed to accompany their soldier-husbands; they were there surreptitiously. Worse yet, those babies were left behind in German orphanages after families were told they could not be helped in Canada, and having a disabled child would hamper soldiers' careers.
There were concerns expressed in Germany and elsewhere about babies being born with flipper-like limbs. But it was dismissed as a statistical blip; remember that birth defects like spina bifida and encephalopathy – which have almost disappeared thanks to folic-acid supplementation – were still commonplace then. So was hiding away those with disabilities, physical and mental. Worse yet, the 1950s were a time of technological wonder, and the medical and pharmaceutical establishment was confident, cocky even. The thought of a "miracle drug" causing harm was dismissed out of hand.
It was not until an Australian pediatrician, William McBride, published a letter in The Lancet pointing out the link to thalidomide that the world took notice. Within weeks, the drug was withdrawn in most countries.
But not Canada: It would take three more long months before thalidomide distribution was halted by Health Canada, and the drug remained available in some pharmacies for several more months.
There were 115 known victims of thalidomide in Canada, but you wouldn't know it from the official silence.
There were some positives that came out of the scandal, namely a revamped drug approval system and, eventually, a crackdown on samples of unapproved drugs going to doctors. The significant number of thalidomide babies also led to the creation of several pediatric rehabilitation centres.
For the most part, families were left to fend for themselves. Almost all sued and they got paltry settlements – about $100,000 on average.
But as people with thalidomide grew into adulthood, they became more organized and vocal. On the 25th anniversary of the drug's withdrawal, there were many retrospective pieces, where the full scope of the horror was finally clear.
The Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada, with the help of the War Amps, lobbied for government compensation, spurred on by payments made to victims of an even bigger public health debacle, tainted blood.
On Valentine's Day 1990, the federal government created a $7.5-million fund, allowing for payments of $75,000 to $100,000 for survivors. It was a token amount, and a token gesture.
To this day, Canada has never apologized to the victims of thalidomide and their families, nor has it compensated them adequately.
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Roar coach Mike Mulvey has urged FFA boss David Gallop to investigate the use of goal-line technology after a clear Thomas Broich goal was waved away during Brisbane's 2-1 victory over Adelaide United.
The Roar have moved 10 points clear on top of the A-League ladder and could have won in more emphatic fashion had Broich's 46th minute strike been added to the scoresheet.
The German star put his foot through a 30m strike that clattered into the crossbar and ricocheted into the goal, before bouncing back out into play. Replays showed the ball clearly over the line.
Gallop was in the stands for the match and must have given some thought to what would have happened if Brisbane had come out on the wrong side of the ledger.
His former code, the NRL, utilises video referees while England's Premier League has embraced goal-line technology. A camera-based system will be used at the FIFA World Cup.
There remains some resistance within football circles about the use of added technology to assist referees, with traditionalists arguing that it takes away some of the purity of the contest.
But Mulvey and Adelaide coach Josep Gombau said the time was right for the A-League start embracing the technology at hand to ensure the right decisions were made.
"A wise head said to me inside that it's probably time for the FFA to start investing, or looking to invest, in that technology," Mulvey said.
"It exists, let's see if we can get it here. Maybe it's an exorbitant price. They are things of beauty, a strike from 30m. I can be quite calm about it because we've won the game.
"But there will be an instance where a coach is sitting like this and it's cost them the game, or a position in the finals. It's not right, in today's day and age. It's not right."
And Gombau: "In normal life, we use technology. Why not in football? That's my opinion. If it's a goal, it's a goal. The referee has to decide in one second, it's very difficult.
"So people think it's just part of the game but for me, no. If it's a goal, it's a goal."
The incident may have given Gallop food for thought but Mulvey and the Roar have bigger fish to fry. Their lead on top of the ladder may be unassailable, with five rounds to play and three at home.
Besart Berisha (22nd min, 51st min) bagged a timely double and the scoresheet was only blemished in the 92nd minute, when Jeronimo caught Michael Theo out with a quality finish that needed to arrive 20 minutes earlier.
Mulvey has been loath to talk about winning the league title but confidence is rising at the Roar, as is momentum as they head to play Sydney FC next week.
"We've set this opportunity up for ourselves. I said to the lads, the door is open and we're going to step through it. I thought we really stepped through it today," Mulvey said.
Berisha may be moving to Melbourne Victory next season but is clearly savouring his final flings in the orange jumper, especially when the Maverick (Broich) to his Goose is teeing them up so well.
"What I really want to do is enjoy his time here let the fans get to see him without fear or failure. We understand he's moving on but he's shown he's a true Brisbane Roar player. He scored two wonderful goals," Mulvey said.
Brisbane lost Socceroo Ivan Franjic with an ankle injury, while Jade North was rested early after some soreness in his hamstring.
BRISBANE ROAR 2 (Besart Berisha 22m, 52m) bt ADELAIDE UNITED 1 (Jeronimo Neumann 90+3m) at Suncorp Stadium. Crowd: 12,514. Referee: Shaun Evans.


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A senator allegedly targeted said Thursday that he's confident there will be a review of the facts, but played down the idea that he was manipulated.
The staff of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, head of the effort to train Afghan security forces, ordered the information operations unit to compile profiles, voting records and other information on visiting lawmakers to leverage in a campaign to get more assistance, said a story Thursday on Rolling Stone's website. It says the campaign also improperly targeted the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, and others.
The military cell devoted to what is known as "information operations" believed their mission on arriving in Afghanistan in November 2009 was to assess the effects of U.S. propaganda on the Taliban and local Afghan population, the magazine said, quoting Lt. Col. Michael Holmes, whom it identified as the leader of the five-man team.
Holmes said they resisted the order to compile information on congressional delegations that were visiting there and think of what information "to plant inside their heads." He said they were subjected to retaliation for resisting.
"My job in psy-ops is to play with people's heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," Holmes is quoted as saying. "When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you're crossing a line."
Those singled out in the campaign included Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Jack Reed, D-R.I., Al Franken, D-Minn., and Carl Levin, D-Mich. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., of the House Appropriations Committee; the Czech ambassador to Afghanistan; the German interior minister, and a host of influential think-tank analysts, the story said, without identifying the international figures by name.
Levin pointed out Thursday that he has long been in favor of building up Afghan forces.
"For years, I have strongly and repeatedly advocated for building up Afghan military capability because I believe only the Afghans can truly secure their nation's future," Levin said in a statement. "I have never needed any convincing on this point. Quite the opposite, my efforts have been aimed at convincing others of the need for larger, more capable Afghan security forces, and that we and NATO should send more trainers to
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