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Emily Lummer '52 continues to be interested in American history. She recently traveled to the New York City area to visit all the Revolutionary War sites with the North Jersey American Revolution Round Table.
From the left, Marjorie Morgenstern Glassman '49, Rosalind Palent Benedon '48, Sharon Gootman Blumenthal '47 and Adele Press Albert '47 (not pictured) met at Montclair State College more than 65 years ago. They still remain friends to this day.
'50s Eleanor Bill Calvin '51 was honored at a luncheon of the Bristol County Retired Teachers' Association by the Edith Stewart Chase Foundation in October 2013. Through the years, she served as member, trustee, secretary and treasurer of this nonprofit group, which gives financial grants to retired Massachusetts teachers when unexpected needs arise.
Frank Gomba '52 retired in 1999 after teaching chemistry at the U.S. Naval Academy for 43 years. He resides in Maryland with his wife of 55 years, Vivian Thompson '54.
Len Nichols '51 and his wife, Betty, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a party at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Stuart, Fla., in June.
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Joseph Moore '59 MA will receive the GSEAA Distinguished Service Award from Rutgers University in recognition of his outstanding contributions to education. Moore is the author of Montclair State University: A Century of Triumph Over Circumstance, which he authored for the University's centennial anniversary celebration. John Riordan '59 is currently serving his second year as
Walter Veit '57 and his wife, Irene Salvi '60, divide their time between the San Francisco Bay area and Orlando, Fla. The Veits enjoy tennis, bicycling and traveling when they are not spending time with their eight grandchildren. They recently took a Eurail trip to Amsterdam, Prague and Budapest. founding chair of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Dean's Advisory Council at Montclair State. Bill San Giacomo '59, '62 MA began his 42nd year as the head coach of men's golf at Trine University in Angola, Ind. Margaret Faig Litke '53,'56 MA retired in May 2013 after 43 years of teaching, the last 23 as an adjunct professor of ESL at Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J. Pictured left to right are Diana Accardo Roberts '53, Litke, Rosemary Sharkey Huber '53 and Marian Salanitro Russo '53.
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NZ Dollar Outlook: Kiwi may falter as investors mull conflicting forces
By Tina Morrison
June 16 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar may falter this week as traders weigh the outlook for higher interest rates as dairy prices come off the boil while economic growth continues to accelerate.
The kiwi will probably trade between 84.90 US cents and 87.50 cents this week, according to a BusinessDesk survey of 10 traders and strategists. Four predict the kiwi will remain largely unchanged, while three expect it to fall and three say it may rise. It recently traded at 86.70 US cents.
Investors are mulling the future track of the kiwi after it spiked higher last week when the Reserve Bank affirmed its commitment to rising interest rates even as bank officials said the currency should decline to reflect softer commodity prices. While Thursday's release of first quarter growth data is likely to feed into sentiment of a strong economy, the fortnightly dairy auction on Wednesday will probably show commodity prices continue to soften. Traders will be eyeing any subtle changes from the Federal Reserve on Thursday as they mull the outlook for rising interest rates in the world's largest economy.
"There's a lot of conflicting forces on the New Zealand dollar at the moment," said Bancorp Treasury Services client advisor Peter Cavanaugh. "The market is still torn. Volatility might be low globally but we have got our own peculiar little issues here."
In New Zealand this week, the GDP data will probably show the economy grew 1.2 percent in the first three months of the year, from a 0.9 percent pace in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to economists polled by Reuters. That would mark the fifth quarter with growth of 1 percent or above in the past six years.
Meantime on Wednesday, the country will probably post a $1.2 billion first quarter current account surplus, from $1.4 billion in the fourth quarter, which could push the annual deficit to 2.8 percent of GDP, the first time it has been below 3 percent since late 2011.
Traders will be eyeing Fonterra Cooperative Group's fortnightly GlobalDairyTrade auction early Wednesday morning which may show prices fell for a ninth straight sale. Dairy prices have fallen 26 percent since February and the decline in commodity prices has been highlighted by the Reserve Bank as a reason the kiwi should be moving down.
On Friday, the latest ANZ-Roy Morgan monthly consumer confidence report is scheduled for release and will be watched for signs of softness falling interest rate rises.
Elsewhere, traders will be eyeing tomorrow's release of the Reserve Bank of Australia's minutes to its last meeting. The bank is probably keeping the Aussie in its sights given it has risen 1.6 percent against the greenback so far this month.
In the US, the Federal Reserve is expected to continue tapering its asset purchases at a steady pace following its latest meeting and traders will be looking for indications of when interest rates may start rising. The US also has data on inflation, industrial production and housing.
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NSN and the ETSU Storytelling Program
A special opportunity for all NSN members
Looking for a Master's Degree in storytelling? NSN has an arrangement with East Tennessee State University (ETSU) to offer NSN members in-state tuition when attending classes in storytelling.
This means if you live in Oregon, for example, you can now attend the summer institutes and regular classes in the storytelling program at ETSU for Tennessee tuition rates – a significant savings!
Visit the ETSU website for information on the Storytelling Program at ETSU.
- Apply for admission and sign up for your classes through ETSU.
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Availability: Ships in 2 - 3 weeks Dimensions: 50.5" L x 27" H x 31" D Weight: 20 lbs. Assembly: Some Assembly Required Collection: Yellow Pine Slat Backs Warranty: This woodworker stands behind his work and will offer replacements for any manufacturer defects Handcrafted In: Pennsylvania, USA Shown In: Gold Color Finish Reviews:
This Amish-made 4-foot slat panel porch swing is a wonderful addition to any porch or patio. Nothing is better after a long day of work, then to swing your cares away in one of these Amish swings. Featuring pressure-treated yellow pine construction and solid, top-quality Amish craftsmanship, this patio swing is built to withstand almost anything.
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Artist: Boom Bip
Date Released: April 20, 2004
Label: Lex
Produced By: Boom Bip
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- Closed Shoulders (cLOUDDEAD Remix)
- First Walk (Peel Session Version)
- Morning and Day
- Awaiting an Accident (Lali Puna Remix)
- Third Stream (Four Tet Remix)
- The Use of Unacceptable Colours in Nature (Mogwai Remix)
- In the Tree Top
- Pulse All Over (Peel Session Version)
Slated as Lex's (the hip-hop off shoot of WARP) flagship artist, Boom Bip, AKA Bryan Hollon, creates mellow and freewheeling soundscapes that will sit in your mind for hours and quite possibly raise you into a meditative state parallel to full-on nirvana. OK, that may have been a bit too much, but the atmospheric tracks usually contain an array of mellow instrumentation that verges on experimental dance music, but never quite reaches a fast enough tempo. Think of artists like DJ Signify or a more experimental, less jazzy DJ Shadow. The album also compiles re-mixes from last year's vinyl only From Left to Right EP with guest re-mixers including Four Tet, Boards of Canada and Mogwai, not to mention a couple tracks from the Peel Session recordings. This is a decent album that will grow on you, especially if you like drugs and/or engrossing music. Michael Ardaiolo


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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:49 PM
Purveyor (29,457 posts)
Wrench Inventor Claims Sears Stole His Idea, Took It to China
Source: ABC NEWS
By DAVID MUIR
Nov. 14, 2012
In the small town of Cabot, Pa., Dan Brown is the proud inventor of the Bionic Wrench, a product made solely in Pennsylvania. His goal from day one was to make his invention in America.
This time last year, Brown's factory was buzzing, with his employees working overtime to fulfill holiday orders. With the help of Sears, Brown's company sold more than 200,000 wrenches at Christmas alone.
"Last year was a great year," Brown said. "We got ourselves on a commercial and Sears had us in stores. We were going crazy."
Brown says he agreed with Sears not to sell his bionic wrench to any other national chain such as Lowe's or Home Depot. Brown's company continued business this year but suddenly there was no deal from Sears for Christmas.
Brown heard from a customer that there was now another wrench on the shelves at Sears with what appeared to be a similar mechanism. But this one, made in China, is sold under the Sears brand, Craftsman.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/MadeInAmerica/wrench-inventor-claims-sears-stole-idea-china/story?id=17720122#.UKQtDW9my_g
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Response to Purveyor (Original post)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:53 PM
DollarBillHines (1,922 posts)
1. Didn't Sears rip off the socket (ratchet) wrench, as well?
Like Chrysler and intermittent windshield wipers.
Response to DollarBillHines (Reply #1)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:59 PM
RoxyNexus (39 posts)
3. Sears Loses Patent Suit; Clerk Wins $5 Million In Sears Case
Published: April 3, 1982
CHICAGO, April 2 A former clerk for Sears, Roebuck & Company was awarded $5 million by a Federal court jury today for a patent violation stemming from the retailer's sale of millions of socket wrenches he designed 18 years ago as a teenager.
Response to DollarBillHines (Reply #1)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 11:27 PM
AnotherMcIntosh (11,064 posts)
10. Not just Chrysler:
Response to Purveyor (Original post)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:59 PM
Xithras (16,191 posts)
2. Seems like a pretty straightforward patent dispute.
Bionic Wrench patented their design. While doing so, they acknowledged that there was a similar design from the 1950's and specified how theirs was different.
Sears claims that their Craftsman design is based on that 1950's design.
So place the parts side by side, compare the differences specified in the Bionic Wrench patent filing, and see if the Sears model contains those differences. If so, Sears needs to pay out the arse. If not...well, then it's much ado about nothing.
Response to Purveyor (Original post)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:59 PM
TheAmbivalante (114 posts)
4. I do believe that I will buy the real deal.
Screw Sears.
You can buy directly from the inventor.
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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 08:04 PM
truthisfreedom (19,962 posts)
5. It's difficult to say without knowing every detail about the design, so I'm not judging this one but
who would put all their eggs in one basket when Sears has such a famous tool line with a very popular brand name? Seems like he didn't think it through... I would have sold to everyone BUT Sears.
Response to truthisfreedom (Reply #5)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 08:11 PM
Purveyor (29,457 posts)
6. I'm surprised they gave the china version the Craftsman label. Guess I haven't been paying
attention lately, since most of my craftsman tools were purchased many years ago.
Response to Purveyor (Original post)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 08:24 PM
xfundy (5,105 posts)
7. I believe Craftsman is a separate entity.
Formerly the most popular brand of hand tools in the USA, they now also sell their tools in Ace Hardware stores.
If I wasn't sick with either the flu or the yick I'd continue on.
Response to xfundy (Reply #7)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 09:37 PM
happyslug (14,779 posts)
9. No, Craftsmen is trade name of Sears, thats all
Now, Sears has ALWAYS tried to make sure whoever is suppling is items, sell those items through other outlets. From what I can gather Bonney tools made Craftsmen Tools, till it was taken over by the Utica Tools in 1967, Utica Tools was the taken over in 1967 by the Triangle tool company, then by Cooper Tools, which in turn was merged with the Danaher Tool Group to from the Apex Tool Group, which was sold to Bain Capital in 2010. Bonny tools were marketed till the 1990s but then the name disappeared.
In simple terms, Craftsmen was the name some other tool maker (Starting with Bonny) made and sold through Sears. Sears wanted something better then the cheap tools sold by others retailers, thus the Craftsmen name and the trend to better quality tools (Bonny had a very good name in the 1940s when my Father bought some and used them for decades, I think I still have one or two Bonnys purchased in the 1940s if not the 1930s).
Please Note, Sears has in addition to its regular "Craftsmen" tool line a "Craftsmen Industrial line" made by W.R. Grainger, which is considered as good as Snap on (which means regular Craftsmen are a step down from Snap on and even Sears knows that).
My Father had a saying," buy tools from Sears, unless it rotated or had an engine connected to it". i.e. the Craftsmen hand tools were very good, but once you started to get away from that, you were better off buying elsewhere,
Response to Purveyor (Original post)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 08:49 PM
Unknown Beatle (2,559 posts)
8. When I can afford it,
I buy Snap-On tools. Made in USA and better than Craftsman.
Response to Purveyor (Original post)
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 12:11 AM
Snarkoleptic (4,980 posts)
11. Sears is a bad actor.
I live in the taxing district in which their corporate HQ is located. They're in Hoffman Estates, Illinois where they moved from the Sears tower in downtown Chicago. They received a massive long-term tax break to keep them from moving from Illinois. At the expiration of this period, they cried poor and demanded an extension. This extension heaped tons of stress on CUSD 300 schools and they finally agreed to stay in Illinois with some concessions.
I will never again shop at Sears as they're a parasitic corporation.


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So you have booked your flights to Beijing totally excited about seeing the Forbidden City and the Great Wall for the first time. You realize, however, China may very well be the first country you will be traveling to where you will be needing a tourist visa. That is because for most of Southeast Asia, Filipinos are not required a visa to enter. We can all zip in and zip out. China, however, does require most nationalities (Filipinos included) a visa prior to arrival. The good news is that China has a pretty organized visa application process. Having been through it, let me share what I learned about the whole thing.
As with any other immigration procedure, you will need documents to prove your identity, and in the case of the Chinese visa, your financial standing as well. Below are the complete list of requirements.
|Valid Passport
|The passport must at least have 6 months validity and blank pages.
|Passport Emergency Contact Page
|Aside from the passport itself, you also need to submit a photocopy of the emergency contact information page (the back page of the passport), which should have been completely filled out.
(passport-size or 2x2)
|We all know the drill here. Colored, white background, well-kept hair, collared shirt, full-face front view, no eyewear and definitely no headgear. Glue, not staple, the photo to the application form. And they do not accept scanned photos.
|Invitation Letter
(with a copy of the inviter's valid Chinese residence visa and passport information page or Chinese national identity card)
|When we applied for our visas early this year, this was not a requirement. Rather, you have a choice between this or hotel reservations. Since no one was really inviting us to go to China, we had to book our hostels beforehand. However, when I checked the website of the Chinese Embassy in Manila this week, hotel reservations are no longer mentioned in the requirements. So it may no longer be an option.
How to go around this? What I would do is make arrangements with my hotel. Ask if they could help with this. If that doesn't work, a China-based tour company could certainly accommodate this. (Agree? Any other suggestions? Do leave a comment below!)
|Proof of No Derogatory Record
|For Filipinos, this will be the NBI Clearance. The kind that is valid for travel abroad, of course.
|Proof of Financial Standing (updated on the month of your visa application)
|For most people, a bank certificate or passbook for your bank account will do. The certificate must be updated within the month you are applying. And you need to include the receipt for when you purchased the certificate itself. The money seen here is sort of an assurance that you have the ability to fund your travels, that you are indeed a tourist with money to burn on this trip.
One thing to remember though is they may require that the bank certificate indicate the date when the account was opened. This is their assurance that you did not just open the bank account last week, borrowed money and placed it there to have immigration officials think you have the financial capability to be a foreign tourist. So the older the account, the better. And of course, the more money, the better.
For Filipinos with a Banco de Oro account (such as myself), you will bummed to know that BDO's bank certificate does not indicate this date. As a solution, I asked for the first page of my bank statement aside from my bank certificate. The first page of the bank statement will indicate when you opened the account.
If your trip will be sponsored by another person, then it is their bank certificate that's required, along with a sponsorship letter. If a company will sponsor the trip, then you need to present the company's bank certificate and business registration along with your sponsorship letter. If a Chinese citizen will sponsor the trip, you will need his bank certificate, sponsorship and invitation letter, a copy of his valid residence visa and passport information page or Chinese national ID. (See Note 4 below.)
|IMPORTANT NOTE: Guide to Chinese Visa application has been updated on 31 March 2013. See newer version of this guide here: How to Apply for a Tourist Visa to China.
Additional requirements for specific people:
|Employed persons
|Photocopy of Company ID
|Photocopy of Social Security System (SSS) ID (If not available, the pink slip will do.)
|SSS contributions (Print-out from the SSS website will do)
|Photocopy of Tax Identification Numer (TIN) ID
|Photocopy of latest Income Tax Return (ITR) Statement (BIR 2316)
|Photocopy of School ID
|Photocopy of business registration
|Photocopy of TIN ID
|Photocopy of latest ITR
Some notes:
|Employed persons and students refer to people who are employed or students in their home country. A work visa or a student visa is an entirely different visa altogether.
|Applicants 16-21 years old, personal appearance is required.
|Visa officers may request other documents, if necessary.
|It is not specifically stated in the requirements list of the Chinese Embassy that an applicant's sponsor could be a person without Chinese citizenship, a Filipino citizen, for example. However, I know of a friend, Filipino, who did not have to submit any other requirements because her father, Filipino, sponsored the whole thing. They were all granted visas and traveled to China without any immigration hitch.
|The requirements stated above are for first-time applicants. For those who have been granted Chinese tourist visas before, you do not need to present proof of no derogatory record, proof of financial standing, and any other documents in the table for additional requirements for specific people.
|When we applied early this year, we were also required to present our round-trip flights. If you check the Chinese Embassy website, this is no longer required. I think this is good because entry by land to China is very possible. However, I do think Filipinos will still be required to present these. According to my travel partner's experience applying for another visa, an Indian Visa, the foreign consulates here in the Philippines received a directive from Philippine Immigration that requires all visa applicants confirmed flights. So there.
|Take note because THIS IS IMPORTANT. Document requirements and visa procedures in general do change. Surprise! I can attest to that obviously. The Chinese Embassy used to accept hotel reservations in lieu of a letter of invitation. Now, it's not even mentioned in the requirements list. And as I said in No. 6 above, round-trip flight tickets are no longer required. Apparently, they changed the rules about a couple of months from the time we applied. So really do not rely solely only on this guide. At the very least, skim through the consular services section of the Chinese Embassy website. I will try to update this guide from time to time so that it reflects current procedures. But I can only do so much. Again, consult the Chinese Embassy website.
Below is the schedule of visa fees for holders of Philippine passports who apply directly at the Chinese Embassy. Asking a travel agency to process the visa for you may imply a few additional bucks. I'll discuss the options for application submission in Step 4. Fees are quoted in Philippine peso.
|Number of Entries
|Fee (in PHP)
|Single Entry
|Double Entry
|Multiple Entry valid for six months
|Multiple Entry valid for twelve months
The regular processing time is 4 working days. If you need a rush job, then you need to pay up: an additional 1,100 PHP for three-day processing and 1,700 PHP for next-day processing.
|IMPORTANT NOTE: Guide to Chinese Visa application has been updated on 31 March 2013. See newer version of this guide here: How to Apply for a Tourist Visa to China.
Along with your documents, you will need to submit the Chinese Visa application form. You can download it at the Chinese Embassy website.
Some notes:
|Chinese visa officers do not take too well with journalists/writers. In fact, they have a specific box for this type of occupation in the application form. One travel agency I went to reported that they once processed the visa application of a journalist/writer but at the end of it, the visa was denied by the embassy. I'm sure that this does not apply to all cases. Journalists have been able to enter China. If you are doing some type of news coverage in China or will be working as a resident correspondent there, then you have your specific visa application guidelines for journalists. If you are a journalist or a writer and are going to China not for business but for vacation, the best you can do really is submit all required documents and hope against hope that you be granted a visa. Their country, their rules.
|You can use the blank space for any other declarations. The thing was, my employment situation was a bit complicated at the time of my application. Back then, I just quit my job and just started doing part-time work for another company. Thus, some of my employment documents were still associated to my old company. I had to explain this in the declarations box. I'm not sure if it helped at all. But I say it wouldn't hurt.
For this step, you have two options: (1) course your application through a travel agency (who will charge a processing fee, of course); or, (2) go to the Chinese embassy yourself to submit your application. Fortunately, I can write about both. I went the first route. A friend of mine, Rachel, did the second route and she described to me the whole process.
Option 01: Travel Agency
As I mentioned above, I was doing part-time work for a company at the time of my application. Fortunately for me, the company was a local travel agency. So, they kindly assisted me in the application. I had to pay the company's standard processing fee, however, which was 2,500 PHP, inclusive of the regular single-entry visa processing fee. But that's alright. Saved me the trouble of submitting it myself. This is simple as going to your most trusted travel agency, handing them your documents, and paying their fees.
Option 02: Directly at the Embassy
|Having completed all the required documents, you need to go to the Chinese Embassy at World Center Building, 330 Buendia Avenue (Gil Puyat), Makati City before 8 a.m. There's already a line for applicants outside the building even before working hours. The line's not like NBI's or Comelec's program for late registrants, Rachel says. It's tolerable, and yes, they're organized.
|Once the office is open, you'll be directed to an officer who issues you a number. You can then sit down inside and wait for your number to be called.
|Once you're number has been flashed, go to the window assigned to you and submit all your documents. Do not panic if the officer asks you a few questions. Rachel says she remembers being asked about the nature of her employment. You have to answer in Chinese though. Else, you're visa is denied. We're kidding, of course! But you may need to answer a few questions right there and then. Relax. If everything's fine, the officer will give you a slip of paper indicating the date on when you should claim your visa.
|After that, you have to fall in line to pay for the processing fee. You go home after that.
|IMPORTANT NOTE: Guide to Chinese Visa application has been updated on 31 March 2013. See newer version of this guide here: How to Apply for a Tourist Visa to China.
This part is the easiest. If you applied through a travel agency, you only need to wait for their notification that your passport, now with a Chinese visa, is ready for claiming. If you opted to apply directly at the Chinese embassy, then you need to show up to claim your passport, also now with a Chinese visa, on the date written on the slip of paper the visa officer gave you when you submitted your application. Easy breezy. You're practically on your way to seeing one of the oldest and most fascinating countries in the world.
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A shrimp from America has been invading Europe's rivers and lakes for several decades, but something seems to be preventing this colonist from becoming numerous and problematic, like so many other invaders - such as the Californian grey squirrel and American crayfish. Could the resident European shrimps have something to do with this?
Jaimie Dick and his colleagues mapped the occurrence of the interloper and found it only existed where native shrimps were absent or rare. When native shrimps were common, the American shrimp simply could not establish and it disappeared. The results have been published in the open access journal NeoBiota.
"We came up with the idea that the native shrimps might be eating the exotic species to the point of local extinction, and hence its patchy occurrence" said Prof. Dick. "So we staged fights between two of our native shrimps, Gammarus pulex and Gammarus duebeni, and they both proved very effective at killing and eating the invader Crangonyx pseudogracilis.
"Remarkably, one of the native shrimps. G. pulex, which almost never allows the invader to establish, was the better of the two predators in our experiments. The other native shrimp, G. duebeni, sometimes co-exists with the invader because it is a less effective predator. Thus, our laboratory experiments helped us understand a Europe-wide pattern of failed invasion".
Invasion ecologists use the term 'biotic resistance' to describe how native species might fight back and drive invaders extinct. But unravelling how this occurs is not an easy task. By comparing the numbers of invaders killed over a range of their densities, the research showed that the native shrimps can kill most invaders to the point their populations crash, and hence the invasion is halted.
"Understanding how native species resist exotic species could help us prevent further invasions that damage crops, biodiversity and cost Billions of pounds each year. If we act to help native species populations, we can reduce the menace of invaders. Finally we can begin to turn the tide on unwelcome and out-of-control colonists."
The authors are conducting more work in Ireland, England, Canada and South Africa to understand how native and invasive species interact and thus how to combat a very real environmental and economic problem throughout the world.
MacNeil C, Dick JTA, Alexander ME, Dodd JA, Ricciardi A (2013) Predators vs. alien: differential biotic resistance to an invasive species by two resident predators. NeoBiota 19: 1-19. doi: 10.3897/neobiota.19.4839
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"woolen head covering," especially worn by soldiers, evidently named for village near Sebastopol, Russia, site of a battle Oct. 25, 1854, in the Crimean War. But the term (originally Balaclava helmet) does not appear before 1881 and seems to have come into widespread use in the Boer War. The British troops suffered from the cold in the Crimean War, and the usage might be a remembrance of that conflict. The town name (Balaklava) often is said to be from Turkish, but is perhaps folk-etymologized from a Greek original Palakion.


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Foreign do-gooders have no right to meddle in the US presidential election, writes Miranda Devine.
Next Tuesday, on the same day as the Melbourne Cup, is the American presidential election, the winner of which, if you heed opinion polls and pundits, is just as hard to pick. But the bookies never seem to have a problem identifying a favourite.
Last year's Melbourne Cup winner, Makybe Diva, is favourite, at $4, to win again on Tuesday. Centrebet yesterday had United States President George Bush favourite to again win the White House at $1.55 to John Kerry's $2.30.
After our election, bookies boasted they were the most accurate pollsters, offering $1.10 on a John Howard win on election eve compared with $6 for a Labor victory. One Sydney gambler reportedly reinvested his winnings with a $50,000 bet on Bush, sending a chill down the spine of Michael Moore disciples.
This US election has grabbed the attention of non-Americans like no other. And "the world" wants Bush kicked out, if you believe an international poll conducted by newspapers (including this) in 10 countries, two weeks ago, showing 52 per cent support for Kerry compared with just 28 per cent for Bush. (Australians had a marginally better opinion of Kerry, at 54 to 28.)
The British left-wing newspaper The Guardian, which participated in the poll, decided to go a step further and attempt to persuade US voters in the crucial swing state of Ohio to vote out Bush.
Operation Clark County aimed to match up individual readers with "undeclared" voters in Clark County, Ohio, the bellwether equivalent of Eden-Monaro in NSW, since no Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio.
"The forthcoming American election, on November 2, may be the most important in living memory," enthused The Guardian on October 13, boasting its experiment would give non-Americans "a real chance of influencing the outcome of the vote".
The plan was that each reader would write a letter to a Clark County voter urging a vote against Bush. Although The Guardian claimed the project was bipartisan, its front page headline on day one was: "What you can do to beat Bush - with a little help from the folks in Ohio". Sample letters by celebrities, such as novelist John le Carre, drove home the point: "Probably no American president in all history has been so universally hated abroad as George W. Bush ... Give us back the America we loved, and your friends will be waiting for you." Movie director Ken Loach wrote: "Today, your country is reviled across continents as never before." Great way to win friends.
The experiment was a rip-roaring success, if making people notice your newspaper was the goal. But if getting Kerry into the White House was the goal, it was an abject failure. After sending out 14,000 Clark County addresses to readers, The Guardian abandoned its project, realising it may have backfired, judging by 5000 responses such as these. "Real Americans aren't interested in your pansy-ass, tea-sipping opinions. If you want to save the world, begin with your own worthless corner of it," wrote a Texan.
"Each email someone gets from some arrogant Brit telling us why to NOT vote for George Bush is going to backfire, you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies," wrote a resident of Wading River, New York. "I don't give a rat's ass if our election is going to have an effect on your worthless little life. Oh, yeah - and brush your goddamned teeth, you filthy animals."
"Hey England, Scotland and Wales," wrote another irate American citizen, "mind your own business. We don't need weenie-spined Limeys meddling in our presidential election. If it wasn't for America, you'd all be speaking German. And if America would have had a president, then, of the likes of Kerry, you'd all be goose-stepping around Buckingham Palace!"
From Knoxville, Iowa: "Keep your noses out of our business. As I recall we kicked your asses out of our country back in 1776. We do not require input from losers and idiots on who we vote for in our own country."
The Guardian's experiment became the talk of the internet. Australian blogger Tim Blair, who says the newspaper lifted the idea from his website, where he had posted it as a joke, sent The Guardian an invoice for $5000. He also posted the email addresses of 53 of its reporters. Websites around the world picked up the story and 3000 emails bombarded The Guardian staff in a week, prompting the newspaper to wail about "intimidatory tactics of the angry right".
But the real damage to The Guardian's aims came when letters started to arrive in Clark County, so angering locals that the area's Republican campaign office reported a surge in volunteers. "Butt Out Brits, voters say" was the headline in the Springfield News-Sun. The Clark County Republican Party chairman, Dan Harkins, said: "I just want to thank The Guardian for ... helping to keep the Republican base committed. What a gift."
A local, Beverly Coale, received a letter from Guardian reader Neil Evans of Kent telling her if Bush won she would have to "put on a Canadian accent when travelling abroad". She threw it away, fearing it was from a terrorist, the News-Sun reported.
The Guardian's project was to have culminated in a trip for four readers to Springfield, Ohio, to meet the voters. But realising the reception would be hostile the newspaper had to switch the destination to the "more tranquil" Washington.
There could be no better demonstration of how unfailingly counterproductive are the global left's furious, hyperbole-charged campaigns to bring down Bush. A similar campaign in Australia against Howard simply delivered him a resounding victory on October 9. Swinging voters in both countries are usually moderates, unimpressed by intemperate ad hominem attacks by people who presume to be better informed. They can see Bush, Howard and their supporters are not the monsters their enemies try to paint them. They can see Bush is not a moron, any more than Howard is a fascist. In fact, Bush and Howard's enemies may be their best campaign weapons.
Meantime, The Guardian has gone back to its usual balanced, measured political analysis of the US election, with columnist Charlie Brooker calling last weekend for Bush to be assassinated. "On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all.
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Stocks To Trade At Cloud Computing Summit (SFSF, NTAP, FFIV, CVLT)
The Lazard Capital Markets Cloud Computing Investor Summit will take place tomorrow in New York. There are several stocks to watch going into this conference: SuccessFactors (NASDAQ: SFSF,) NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Concur (NASDAQ: CNQR), and CommVault Systems (NASDAQ: CVLT).
The Lazard Capital Markets Cloud Computing Investor Summit is scheduled to take place at The New York Palace Hotel, 455 Madison Avenue, New York, NY.
NetApp is scheduled to present at 9:00am.
F5's presentation will begin at 10:30am ET on Thursday, December 9, 2010. F5 representatives for the conference will include Karl Triebes, SVP, Product Development and Chief Technical Officer, and Cooper Werner, VP, Finance.
Concur's executive vice president, corporate development John Torrey will deliver a presentation on behalf of the company at the Lazard Capital Markets Cloud Computing Investor Summit, on Thursday, December 9 at 3:00 p.m. ET.
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I just heard about this story from super-stealthy auto spy Brenda Priddy and our good friends at iZoom.
Justin Lilly has a wish. He wants to restore and drive a 1951 Ford F-100 that's been in his family for over thirty years. But afflicted with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a chronic lung disorder that's left Justin with about 30% of the normal lung capacity of a teenager, he's getting some help from the Make-A-Wish Foundation and students at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Washtenaw CC is known for its 'Custom Cars and Concepts Program', one of a few high-end auto customization courses taught in the country. Vehicles that have come out of Watenshaw's garages have made it to SEMA and been featured on television shows, like the Learning Channel's "Rides". When WCC instructor Gary Sobbry heard about Justin's project, he knew he and his students could help.
Sobbry and company are doing more than just bringing this truck back to its original factory specs. They're taking it to a whole new level that couldn't have been dreamed of half a century ago.
With generous help and support from Ford Motor Company, the WCC team and Justin recently installed a new engine donated from a 2003 Ford SVT Mustang Cobra. The stonkin' 4.6-liter V8 has been modified with a Kenne-Bell supercharger to produce 630 flywheel horsepower, or, about 529 more horses than the truck's original straight-six.
But a project like this requires a significant budget to make all the custom mods come to life. And here's where you can help.
Justin and his friends at WCC and Make-A-Wish need $20,000 to complete his pickup. If you'd like to provide your support, you can send a tax-deductible donation to:
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Larry Edsall at iZoom already sent in $100, and we're throwing another Franklin in the mail. So, now it's down to $19,800.
With your help, Justin's vision, and WCC's overhauling skills, we're sure when this truck is done it's going to take everyone's breath away.
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The RCWR Show recently interviewed former WWE Superstar Matt Hardy, and he offered some advice for TNA's creative team.
Hardy's advice for TNA: "The first thing I would say to TNA is with your story telling and the personas and characters you are are telling stories for TV, be sophisticated. Make sure there's continuity in every story you're telling because the viewers are more intelligent in 2013 than they've ever been. There is so much information accessible to everyone who watches wrestling on TV. You can go online, you can Google anything. You can find out everything. So when you're on there and you're portraying a story of these two characters that are wrestling and ultimately it is good vs evil, you know, it is bad vs the hero and in this era of golden TV with shows like Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, Mad Men, whatever the show is, wrestling repeats are bad which is good storytelling.
You have a specific universe. Walking dead, there's a walking dead universe where zombies live, you know but the show sets up parameters and they give you rules and guidelines and you know kinda what the extent of the cast can be, and everything makes sense. Sure viewers watching it know this is a fictional show but as long as everything makes sense, there is continuity they enjoy it. Because viewers want to be entertained, That translates totally over into the wrestling business and it's been tied to the wrestling business for so long that it's just been like—well it's just wrestling. We can either throw this out or forget about this, lets drop this storyline or lets not let this guy go away, what about the fans? They'll forget about it, they'll forget about it. You cannot insult the wrestling fans intelligence because they are smarter now than they were then. So professional wrestling, my advice to TNA would be make your stories as strong as possible and make sure there's continuity. Don't insult the viewer's intelligence."
Hard to find any fault in his thoughts there. I can only assume that a lot of the people who grew up watching the Monday Night Wars back in the 90's like I did, throughout school, for the most part are hungry fans waiting for some awesome story lines that keep us guessing. It is harder to 'outsmart the viewer' after what we grew up watching and with the internet leaking so much information nowadays.
I'm pretty certain this site posted this interview over 3 months ago.
Can someone else confirm this?
I'm certain they posted this a few months ago too. Typical.
I did a quick google search and all i'm seeing are things recently posted. There was a article of hardy critizing wwe's creative a month or two ago however.
no, Hardy did say this a couple months ago, in a different interview…if its a new interview its a new story..
well if it was done a few months ago i missed it
He was on the show on the 13th, so they're new. However, this is pretty generic advice. It's possible he's said it 100 times over the years.
Um. I do not care what this hasbeen says.
And wtf is a wwe pay per view being mentioned on a tna page. I get sick of wwe loving sites . Can't there be a page where wwe is not talked as about? That is where the little boys play.
Not much point in these comments. Walking dead has a thousand plot and character flaws every episode. The only reason people watch it is because it has Zombies and I guess some of the actors aren't too bad. For example, the recent episode of walking dead has the final main event showdown with the lead bad guy and the lead good guy. It features the lead good guy getting pounded into the ground, ready to die. Then another couple bit character come up and finish off the bad guy from behind cowardly. The lead good guy, "bad ass" looked like garbage and would have died without help and could do nothing. They basically interfered in a fair fight and 3 on 1'd the guy. And the bad guy is scrawny and has only one eye left. So explain that Matt Hardy. It's basically just a popularity contest. You like walking dead, so you are going to ignore the crap. You don't care about TNA, so you are going to pick it apart. It's not that complicated.
Right on JoeWrestling! Matt knows about how the iwc majority of sheep complain and to me he is just another hasbeen trying to get iwc support because he knows the iwc sheep will love him for it. Or will they? That is what he is trying to do. Its not his real opinion. Its his opinion based on the fact that he wants to be loved by the sheep part of iwc because sadly they are the majority.
Well said by Matt but why the hell don't Dixie Carter and co already know this? Fucking Dixie Land match? That's not creative at all. It's a cage match with a ladder after. TNA is going down the pan unless they pull there fingers out quickly.
Really tna is going down? Internet marks are still saying this? No matter what tna does the internet sheeps will complain. I guess it comes with lack of patience. You think AJ is really gone? We all read the spoilers. you would enjoy tna if you were not so brainwashed by the internet wrestling community. And to these smarks out there that I bsse these words on. Get a life. Maybe if you had one you would enjoy TNA more and heck relate with some of the storylines. Maybe its you who is boring
It's pretty simple advice, actually. It irritates the heck out of me that they expect us to fully invest in the Aces & 8s storyline, shove it down our throats for an inordinate amount of time with absolutely no payoff, then proceed to pi$$ all over it when the folks that started it left.
To me, that was as much an insult to the fans as it was the Hogan/Bischoff/Pritchard regime…
this isn't bad,not bad at all.
I'd like to see Matt back in TNA and teaming with Jeff to try and re-invigorate the tag division..


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Having Compassion for a Catfish
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This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago.
A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in a nearby pond and went to investigate.
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It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball which became stuck in his mouth!!
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The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to because the ball would always bring him back up to the surface.
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The resident tried numerous times to get the ball out, but was unsuccessful.
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He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish.
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[Ed. Note: In Genesis 2:19-20, we are told that when God created all the animals of the earth, he brought them to Adam to give them names. This is teaching us that animals are to be our companions, or brethren. In Matthew 25:40, we are taught that whatever we do for the least of The Lord's brethren, even the least of them, as some might regard this catfish, we do for Him.]
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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
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Some people don't know the difference between "Retro" and Old School so I will tell you now. "Retro" is a trend. Old School is an attitude; it's about doing things the way they're supposed to be done. Binky does Soul and Funk music the way it's supposed to be done: dirty, gritty and nasty! He's been around the world as a sideman, performed on platinum selling albums with Janet Jackson and others, and he's currently a member of the world famous and superbad Dap Kings and Daptone SuperSoulRevue. Now he's ready to step up and show the world what he can do on his own. Do yourself a favor daddy and come along for the ride! Stay tuned for the upcoming full length LP "Hip-No-Tize-Her!" on Daptone Records.
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Heavy equipment rental group
Perth-based Emeco said on Monday after reviewing its performance to date, it was now expecting underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of between $90 million and $105 million and a net loss of between $10 million and $17 million this financial year.
Although the company had not previously provided full-year earnings guidance, the forecasts were well below what analysts had been projecting. Consensus was for EBITDA of $130 million and net profit of $4 million.
Emeco, which appointed former Aurizon executive
Activity in the Canadian oil sands industry was increasing ahead of winter, while there had been a spike in inquiries in Australia and a number of positive business development opportunities were being pursued in Chile, the company said. "The seasonal factor in Canada and the anticipated improvement in utilisation in Australia and Chile are key factors that will influence a meaningful improvement in earnings for Emeco in the second half."
Emeco joins a host of mining services companies that have downgraded earnings guidance again in the past two weeks as they continue to come to terms with a major pull-back in spending by mining clients.
Many of those, including mining and drilling contractor
But analysts are warning investors not to read too much into forecasts of a new year recovery.
Shaw Stockbroking's Danny Younis said Emeco's guidance that earnings would be weighted towards the second half indicated the risk was to the downside.
"With market activity weak across the board, pricing pressures coming from customers and competition eroding margins, Emeco is going to struggle to break free from the current downward spiral," he said.
"As we see no short-term lift in activity levels coming, we see no reason for investors to be in [the company]."
Emeco shares gained 0.5¢ to 25.5¢ on Monday, indicating that investors were already factoring in a disappointing year for the company.
Elsewhere in mining services, embattled engineering and construction firm
The company is now expected to reveal details of a substantial earnings downgrade and a heavily discounted rights issue to shore up its balance sheet next week.
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This Song is Dedicated to Ted Stevens
Note: "21" should read "85".
Note: "21" should read "85".
The more immediately pressing question, of course, is whether the conviction will matter in Stevens' bid for re-election. Ordinarily, I'd be inclined to repeat my usual pessimistic assertions to the effect that Stevens could be videotaped at a bull moose bukakke party and still be re-elected in November. But these days, I'm feeling unusually hopeful.
So today, I raise a glass of Pruno in Ted's honor.
Mr. Trend doesn't like the New York City Council's decision to permit Michael Bloomberg to run for a third term. I'm not really persuaded by the arguments against, however. A couple points:
The bottom line for me is this: talk about a supposed "deep contempt for democracy"aside, Bloomberg actually has to run for re-election; he's not being re-appointed to a third term. If the term limit extension is truly a high priority for New York voters and they strongly oppose it, they're free to vote him (and the councilors that supported the extension) out of office. If the voters prefer Bloomberg to remain in office — whether because they support the extension or because they see the issue as trivial — I see no good democratic argument for why they shouldn't be allowed to have their way.
In any case, deadly threats aimed at abortion providers – unlike, for example, bombs planted in opposition to the War in Vietnam – remain a live fact about life in the United States. So when Sarah Palin refuses to call clinic bombers "terrorists," it's hard to take seriously her pretended moral outrage about the fact that Barack Obama served on a foundation board with someone who had been an anti-war bomber (never involved in a fatal incident) thirty years earlier.
And one might add that it's perhaps even more instructive that having served on some foundation boards with an ex-terrorist with zero deaths on his cv is supposed to be disqualifying for one candidate, but apparently his opponent can actually boast about Henry Kissinger's endorsement of and active involvement in his campaign.
Justin Gardner summarizes Newsweek's numbers:
If John McCain is not elected president, which one of the following three possible candidates would you be most likely to support for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012?
Romney: 35%
Huckabee: 26%
Palin: 20%
This doesn't really surprise me; Romney's perceived strength on economic matters probably makes him the most compelling candidate to Republicans right now. Nevertheless, I would be kind of surprised to see Romney get the 2012 nomination. First, I have some doubt that Palin will actually run. Second, I suspect that, even if Palin does run, Huckabee will be the candidate to beat. He was the only Republican to actually improve his image during the primary campaign, and he now has a Fox News platform with which to connect to the base. Most importantly, he's insanely likable; I watched his show the other day and couldn't help but to identify with him. It's fair to say that neither Mitt nor Sarah score high on the likability quotient.
Of course, the fact that John McCain has an enormous lead in California makes this entirely moot…
Guest post by Law Prof.
Apparently, it's gotten to the point where McCain don't expect enough people to be motivated to pay attention to his own (frankly uncreative) logo — that star between two arrow-like lines. So yesterday McCain's own ad campaign was prominently displaying Obama's trademark flag-sunrise. (See the screen-cut from fivethirtyeight.com) Unfortunately for McCain, that is what we in the intellectual property legal field call "trademark infringement." While few people are likely to be confused once they click-through to "speak out", as the ad requests, it doesn't eliminate the initial confusion. If Burger King ran a similar web ad with McDonalds' trademark equally prominent and BK's equally hidden, BK would be creating initial interest confusion (and I think that there might be an argument even if the ad said "tell Mickey D that you like your hamburger broiled not fried"). First Amendment law protects a lot of speech, but won't protect against such confusion even in political speech, methinks. The key is that everything in TM law is to be considered in consumer/observer context — and, in the context of web ads, TM owners run all sorts of odd pitches and requests for "taking a poll" just to get people to click a link. And people often do respond with an immediate, almost instantaneous, mouse-click. Many people are likely to click through to the next page before realizing that it's not an Obama ad – especially in the midst of a heated election cycle. TM control becomes even more powerful in this context. Of course, all that the Obama campaign could do in this situation is seek a Temporary Restraining Order (or ask the ISP to pull the ad). But, more importantly, when it's one week until the election and you know that your own trademark won't inspire people to act, it's time to call it quits.
Sometimes simple questions result in enormous projects. The question that Andrew Gordon tackles in Rules of the Game amounts to this: Why did the Grand Fleet fail to destroy the High Seas Fleet at Jutland, in spite of a massive advantage in material and a devastating tactical position? Gordon begins with a detailed account of the development and deployment of the Fifth Battle Squadron (consisting of four of the five members of the Queen Elizabeth class, most powerful battleships in the Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland, which is followed by a familiar account of the Run to the South, in which the British battlecruisers under the command of David Beatty encountered the Franz von Hipper's squadron of German battlecruisers. Then, just as the battleships of the Fifth Battle Squadron turn away from the oncoming High Seas Fleet, we return to Trafalgar, a history of the Victorian Royal Navy, and a long discussion of what peacetime does to military doctrine and practice. As you might imagine, it's a long and detailed book. The first half of this review deals with Gordon's theoretical argument, and will be of interest to those curious about the study and practice of military doctrine. The second half focuses on Gordon's empirical argument about the outcome of the Battle of Jutland.
Gordon argues that the nineteenth century dominance of the Royal Navy combined with the social customs of the Victorian Age to produce an officer corps hostile to and largely incapable of decisive, independent action. This hostility was reflected in the training and social institutions of the Royal Navy. The consequence was a military organization that was exceptionally effective at certain tasks, but remarkably inflexible. However, no social institutions can exist without producing resistance, and the Victorian Royal Navy produced both doctrinaire officers and "ratcatchers", rebels who struggled with the hierarchy but who would do well in combat situations.
British command at the Battle of Jutland featured a doctrinaire officer (Admiral John Jellicoe), and a ratcatcher (Admiral David Beatty). Of course, these are ideal types that can never quite catch the complexities of particularly individuals; Jellicoe would not have risen to command if he had not himself among his fellow doctrinaire officers, and Beatty tamed his rebellious streak enough to move up the Royal Navy hierarchy. Military organizations, like any other organization, are riven by faction, although the factional breakdown doesn't always manifest in the same manner. Carl Gemzell made this point in a not-often-enough-read study on conflict within the German Navy between 1880 and 1940, and it's fair to say that the dispute between "conservatives" and "crusaders" in the US Army represents a modern manifestation of this tendency. Factionalization isn't simply dichotomous, but describing it as such can be a fair way to characterize certain kinds of arguments.
Gordon's policy/theoretical argument is that military organizations need to understand factionalization and structure themselves to manage, and even take advantage, of its manifestation. His conclusion provides twenty-four lessons on how military doctrine evolves during peacetime, and on how peacetime developments can create difficulties during war. This chapter in particular should be of tremendous interest to both scholars and practitioners of military doctrine. The lessons evaluate both how the body of knowledge itself emerges, and how that body of knowledge creates individual officers, an officer corps, and the physical structure of a military organization.
On the empirical case, Gordon aggregates and refines the mountain of evidence about the conduct and outcome of the Battle of Jutland. He is interested primarily in the command decisions of the Royal Navy, and as such doesn't spend a lot of time considering German deccision-making. It's not quite true to say that the evaluation comes down to a comparison of Beatty and Jellicoe, but it's not quite untrue, either. The case against David Beatty is complex, but compelling. His audacity made him a capable commander, but he lacked a sense for detail. His evaluation of subordinates was suspect, and in any case he didn't communicate well with his senior officers. These shortcomings may well have had an impact in the early stages of the Battle of Jutland. Had Beatty taken more care to coordinate with the Fifth Battle Squadron, more damage might have been inflicted on Hipper's battlecruisers, and Queen Mary just might have been saved. Later, poor communications with his subordinate created a zone of vulnerability for the Fifth Battle Squadron, which could have but did not lead to the loss of one or more of the most valuable units in the Royal Navy.
All of these issues have resulted in damage to Beatty's historical reputation. The initial reaction to Jutland in the United Kingdom was to blame Jellicoe; he had failed to destroy the Germans, and in fact the Grand Fleet ended up suffering greater losses than the High Seas Fleet. Jellicoe was "promoted" out of command of the Grand Fleet, and Beatty was promoted into command. As Gordon suggests, however, the historical record has tended to support Jellicoe over Beatty. Gordon disputes this conclusion. Beatty, in spite of all the mistakes he made, did his job; he drew the High Seas Fleet into a hopeless tactical position against a vastly superior enemy force. The loss of a battlecruiser or two would hardly be remembered if Jellicoe's Grand Fleet had proceeded to destroy the Germans, as it clearly was capable of doing. Put differently, the loss of a battlecruiser may be attributable to Beatty's mistakes, but the escape of the High Seas Fleet is on Jellicoe.
There was no single decisive moment at Jutland; the tactical and operational situations resulted from the accretion of a tremendous number of decisions large and small. However, some decisions deserve more attention than others, and Gordon devotes study to Jellicoe's decision to turn the Grand Fleet away from a German destroyer attack. With the High Seas Fleet in disarray and suffering a pounding from Jellicoe's battle line, Admiral Scheer ordered his destroyers to launch a torpedo attack against the Grand Fleet. Instead of turning into the attack (accepted doctrine was to display as little profile as possible for torpedos), Jellicoe decided to turn away, and the Grand Fleet lost contact long enough for the Germans to escape. The decision was understandable both to the extent that Jellicoe wished to preserve his fleet, and in that he expected he would be able to retain contact in spite of turning away.
I wonder if part of the problem is that Jellicoe was thinking at a level above his paygrade. I know more about Jutland than Tsushima, and a lot more about Jutland than Trafalgar, but one difference between Togo/Nelson on the one hand and Jellicoe on the other is that the former two didn't worry overmuch about the consequences of defeat. They were given a job (destruction of the enemy), and a set of tools with which to do that job, and both of them undertook as expediently as possible to bring the enemy under their sights and destroy him. Jellicoe seems to have agonized over his position as the only man who could lose the war in an afternoon. Togo, as I suggested some time ago, could have agonized in the same fashion; the IJN held a strategic advantage, could have won the war without forcing an engagement against the Russians, and indeed could only have lost the war by allowing the Russians to win a battle of annihilation.
Still, I get the sense that Nelson, Togo, and Beatty would not have turned away from the destroyer attack, but rather would have maintained contact with the Germans. Had contact been maintained, the outcome of the battle could not have been in doubt; the British had more ships, better ships (this is a debatable point, but I'll be happy to respond to any queries in comments), and a tactically advantageous situation. The Grand Fleet, even accepting a few torpedo hits, would have utterly destroyed the High Seas Fleet with relatively light losses. Then again, part of Gordon's point is that while all of the decisions that were made at and before Jutland were consequential, there can be said to be no "moment of decision" in which Jellicoe could have made a certain judgment that would have destroyed the High Seas Fleet or allowed it to escape.
All that said, it's worth noting that a Tsushima-esque battle of annihilation would likely not have shortened the war by a day, but would have killed some 20000 German (and no small number of British) sailors who, in the real world, survived the war. It's also worth noting that Beatty, Jellicoe, and most of the other officers of the Grand Fleet successfully accomplished the tremendous number of very difficult tasks that were necessary to bring the High Seas Fleet to the point of destruction; they shifted formation and maintained station, avoided submarines, avoided collision, and in general did all of the tasks that are expected by professional naval officers. The conservative vs. crusader distinction is more one of degree than of type; all professional military officers of a particular rank are capable of a large range of tasks.
Rules of the Game is well worth reading, both for specialists in military doctrine and for those with an interest in naval combat. The book is long and detailed, so it helps to be interested in both; I would hope, though, that an interest in either would be enough to draw the reader in and keep her attention.
Looks like Chinese Democracy will finally arrive on our shores…
Yellow onions, because that's all we had in those days.
Steven Warshawsky — proprietor of a "boutique law firm" that defends employers in discrimination suits — has written an epically funny brief on behalf of teh power of teh PUMA. Apparently, he's met some! And they have websites. There was an old lady at a McCain event, for example, who used to work as a phone volunteer for Hillary Clinton. And some other dude. But that's nothing, he explains, compared with the dearth of Obama buttons in his neighborhood:
Some more anecdotal evidence of a lack of support for Obama among Democrats: I live in the Upper West Side neighborhood of New York City. You cannot find too many places in the country that are more liberal than that. Walking around my neighborhood during the 2004 presidential campaign, I felt "assaulted" on all sides by Kerry-Edwards buttons, bumper stickers, and posters. This year, there clearly is not the same level of outward support for Obama. It is remarkable (and welcome). Will most of the people in my neighborhood vote for Obama on election day? Of course. Will Obama win New York? Almost certainly. But the lack of enthusiasm for Obama among these Democrats, who I'm sure would be going gaga for Hillary, speaks volumes about Obama's true prospects for victory this year.
And given the total lack of McCain-Palin signs in my neighborhood, I'd warn Oklahoma Republicans against being too confident about the eventual disposition of their seven electoral votes. After all, Warshawsky was on the money about Giuliani and Mark McGuire, so who knows?
Peter Dreier and John Atlas break it down.
In her own excellent article on the subject, Dahlia Lithwick has some good analysis of John Paul Stevens's unfortunate endorsement of the vote fraud fraud earlier this year:
In the end, all roads lead back to John Paul Stevens. He wrote the plurality opinion in last term's Crawford v. Marion County, which upheld Indiana's restrictive voter-ID law. Stevens understood that there is no such thing as polling-place vote fraud, conceding that "[t]he record contains no evidence of any such fraud actually occurring in Indiana at any time in its history." But, continued Stevens, in the manner of someone rationally discussing the likelihood of UFO sightings, "flagrant examples of such fraud in other parts of the country have been documented throughout this nation's history." Like, um, an 1868 mayoral election in New York City, he notes, and a single 2004 incident from Washington. Stevens was more worried about shaky "voter confidence" in elections than actual voting. The message that went out from on high was clear: undermine voter confidence. Even if it's irrational and hysterical and tinged with the worst kinds of racism, keep telling the voters the system is busted.
Each time they spread the word that Democrats (especially poor and minority Democrats) are poised to steal an election, John McCain and his overheated friends deliberately undermine voter confidence.
It's a great scam; use apocryphal stories of "voter fraud" to create a pretext for further vote suppression, and the Supreme Court will actually cite the completely unfounded fears you've created as a justification! Even granting that Stevens was trying to keep the possibility that some vote suppression method might be held unconstitutional in the future, once you've accepted "voter confidence" as a valid reason it's not clear what will ever fail the test…


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I had breast reduction in January of 09, My breast are still very sore where the scars are. The stitches hurt really bad especially when I wear a bra they are very uneven and the scars are really thick and very noticable. When I first got it done they were lifted now they are hanging again.
How Long Does It Take for Your Breast to Heal After Breast Reduction?
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Breast reduction
You forgot to mention how long ago it was since yoru surgeyr. If it is within one year then the scars may need some times to mature. If it is longer, perhaps they can be revised?
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Painful breasts after Breast Reduction
I am sorry to hear about your breast Reduction experience. It is by no means typical. By four months after Breast Reduction surgery, Your breasts should NOT be sore and the stitches should long have dissolved and not bother you. Although the healing process proceeds as long as a year with the scars being constantly re-modeled, by 6-10 months you are essentially looking at the end result. You may wish to speak to your surgeon to see if he can advise you on how to flatten your scars. various modalities are available but they are most effective in the early period after surgery.
Breast Reduction Healing?
Thank you for the question.
It is difficult to give you good lives without direct examination. Based on your description of your you may be a candidate for revision surgery to improve the "hanging" and scar revision surgery. Discuss your questions and concerns with your plastic surgeon directly.
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