text: We choose: New Zealand Test team Thu 24 Apr, 2014, 11:20am By Jack Brady, National Correspondent, NRL.com @JackBraydes Tweet Email Print Injuries mean there will be plenty of new faces in this year's Kiwis team for the mid-year Test against Australia. Credit: Grant Trouville Copyright: NRL Photos Stephen Kearney take note: After hours of form research, checking on and not a small amount of soul-searching, NRL.com has come up with the following Kiwis team for the one-off Test at Allianz Stadium on Friday May 2. The national selectors will name their squad at 5pm this Sunday. See NRL.com's Australian Test teamPick your six-man Test Match Fantasy team1. Roger Tuivasa-SheckWhen a side is shaken to its core by injuries to key players including Kieran Foran and Issac Luke, massive changes are inevitable. Consider this game then as a litmus test for the man earmarked to replace former Golden Boot winner Anthony Minichiello at the Roosters next year, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck. Young RTS demonstrated his capabilities of filling the role with a 360-degree step last weekend. His 138.8 metres per game in 2014 is a testament to his growing ability.2. Jason NightingaleNightingale, or Gypsy to Red V teammates, seems to have fallen out of favour when it comes to the NZ Test team in recent times. His form in 2014 though is way too hard to ignore. Even without Foran going down with a medial ligament injury to his knee, Nightingale would've been in our side. Four tries in seven games for the Dragons this year should be enough for Gypsy to make a comeback.3. Dean WhareDean Whare has carved a niche for himself in the Kiwi side over the past two years. Having eight caps to his name already for the Kiwis from just 57 first-grade games is a remarkable effort. The Penrith centre has proven a hit at the foot of the mountains in 2014 with three tries, three line breaks assists and 14 tackle breaks to his name – the perfect provider for any winger outside him.4. Shaun Kenny-DowallShaun Kenny-Dowall had to take the good with the bad in 2013. Sure, he won a premiership with the Roosters but he broke his jaw in the grand final, ruling him out of the World Cup. With Bryson Goodwin getting plenty of game time on the wing for the Rabbitohs in recent weeks, Kenny-Dowall has played admirably in a Roosters side warming to the task in recent weeks. His match-winning try-scoring double last weekend against Cronulla will have helped his chances.5. Manu VatuveiHasn't set the world on fire at club level but is too good to overlook on the big stage. 'The Beast' is not bending the line as much as in recent years, and has just five tries so far for the Warriors. He will have to be outstanding here if he's going to add to his 24 Tests down the line when others return from injury. 6. Josh HoffmanBrisbane's stop-gap solution at five-eighth looks set to do the same for the Kiwis. While Thomas Leuluai would've been five-eighth under any other circumstance after Foran's injury, it should be remembered the Kiwis will also be without Issac Luke. Leuluai is only one man, so it is now up to Josh Hoffman to step up to the plate. This could be a much-needed confidence booster for Hoffman.7. Shaun JohnsonShaun Johnson is a rocks-or-diamonds kind of player. He will do something amazing - just look at the Auckland Nines highlights reels - then he will inexplicably come up with a clanger. Luckily for New Zealand he is more often brilliant than baffling, and they've got him for the long run, with no-one remotely close to challenging him for the halfback spot. Expect to see more diamonds from Johnson as his Test appearances accumulate and he matures. 8. Jared Waerea-HargreavesWaerea-Hargreaves is a part of the furniture nowadays when it comes to the Kiwis side. 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His 15 tackle breaks and 10 offloads are a testament to how much the 24-year-old prop has come along in the past four years.11. Simon ManneringCaptain Mannering is the defensive king the Kiwis team sorely missed this time last year. Accustomed to fitting in competently at centre and second row, Mannering has killed it in 2014 with an average of 30 tackles per game. While his club side are struggling, Mannering will bring great positivity to the national arena. 12. Alex GlennWith Sonny Bill Williams pledging his allegiance to Union in 2015, the Kiwis have chosen to go down another path and not consider Williams for the Test. Enter the much-deserving Alex Glenn. His 121.3 metres for the Broncos demonstrates his classiness in light of the great players he competes with in club footy.13. Elijah TaylorYou're better off asking Elijah Taylor about what position he can't play competently. There's a reason why Ivan Cleary chased the former Warrior to come to Penrith. He has the speed and prowess to break a game, playmaking capabilities when needed and his defence has been remarkable in 2014 – punctuated by his average of 40 tackles per game for the Panthers. Interchange14. Manu Ma'uHe is already a Parramatta favourite, so it will be no surprise if Manu Ma'u completes his journey from the doghouse to the penthouse next Friday night at Allianz Stadium. Has only played seven NRL games but has delivered much-needed aggression and intensity for his team. Expect Stephen Kearney to unleash Ma'u's raw passion on the tiring Kangaroo forwards. 15. Ben MatulinoBen Matulino has become almost an automatic selection for the Kiwis when available in a short space of time. The extremely reliable prop, Matulino has been one of the Warriors' best since making the jump to the NYC in 2008. Will line up for his 20th Test if picked.16. Frank-Paul Nu'uausalaThere's a reason they call him the Wrecking Ball. Never one to back down from a grinding game of footy, Franky-Paul will easily account for any opponent when given the chance. While his minutes are down this year for the Roosters, expect him to make up for lost time when it comes to the black and white jersey.17. Sam MoaWhen the Roosters signed Sam Moa for the 2013 season no-one thought much of it. With the likes of Jennings, Sonny Bill and Maloney joining the ranks, Moa was something of an afterthought. Until he played, that is. Unlucky not to have won the Clive Churchill medal in last year's Grand Final, Moa has broken the old adage that front-rowers don't score tries in 2014, after crossing for three of his own already.NRL.com's New Zealand Test side1. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck 2. Jason Nightingale3. Dean Whare4. Shaun Kenny-Dowall5. Manu Vatuvei6. Josh Hoffman7. Shaun Johnson8. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves9. Thomas Leuluai10. Jesse Bromwich11. Simon Mannering12. Alex Glenn13. Elijah Taylor14. Manu Ma'u 15. Ben Matulino16. 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Hi all
I am working with a latent growth curve model.
After fitting the growth model (that is, the model with just the latent
growth factors and the measured variables), I add a time-invariant (in
this case "male") covariate in the do file like this:
1. add the path: (Intercept Slope <- male _cons)
2. remove the means() option
3. and add e. to the factor covariances (if any)
No problem with that.
My question is how to achieve the the same thing with SEM builder ?
Specifically, how do I get _cons into the paths from the time-invariant
covariate to the latent growth factors ?
Robert Long
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As many of you are aware, I have defended the REIT sector continuously for months now. My last article flew in the face of the doom-and-gloom crowd that has been hitting the SA pages with all the reasons NOT to continue owning, or not to buy many of the stocks in this sector. This article (a direct rebuttal to the naysayers) was short and direct, and I believe spot on.
My personal favorites in this sector are Annaly Capital (NYSE:NLY), American Capital Agency (NASDAQ:AGNC), and Realty Income (NYSE:O). I currently have strong positions in NLY and O and have been adding to NLY after the last dividend "mini-cut."
Let's Review The Basics
Annaly Capital
Price: $16.71/share
Dividend Yield: 14%
ESS Rating: Bullish
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ESS Rating: Bullish
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Price: $36.30/share
Dividend Yield: 4.9%
ESS Rating: Bullish
Why Am I Bullish In A Big Way
Yesterday the fed "spoke." Well, Mr. Bernanke spoke, anyway, and the other Governors wrote their opinions. It was a major lift for this sector, as well as the overall equity market itself.
Previously, Bernanke told us that short term rates would stay at current levels (almost zero) until 2013. That in and of itself was spectacular news for the REIT sector (especially the mREITs). Then when Operation Twist was announced, it did not have the affect that the apocolyptic crowd knew it would, and the mREITs continued to have a good yield curve to work with.
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Are there headwinds? Of course there are. There always will be risks with any stock, but I believe that there is an opportunity right now to buy shares of any of these stocks and know that you have the wind at your back. At least for another 3 years or so.
My Opinion
Short and sweet: I love NLY at these prices and am going to buy more. O pays monthly dividends, which I love, and I am considering adding AGNC to my portfolio. I believe that this sector has a green light for the foreseeable future, and I want to in it even more than I already am.
Disclosure: I am long NLY, O.
Disclaimer: Please do your own research prior to making any investment decision. This article is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security and is the opinion of the author.


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Configlook XML Tool
Is "Configtool" still used with AsyncOS 7.x? and if so, is there any documentation, readme or help file for this tool?
Thanks in advance,
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Is "Configtool" still used with AsyncOS 7.x? and if so, is there any documentation, readme or help file for this tool?
Thanks in advance,
Bob Bagheri
Greetings Bob,
Are you talking about Email Security appliance or Web Security appliance? If it is an ESA, than answer is no. I dont see any such command available for IronPort command line in 7.x.
If you explain what exactly you are looking for, I can suggest you a similar command which can be use for the same purpose.
Support Engineer
Yes, I'm talking about the ESA.
If you select the "Documents" tab right here in the Cisco Support Community Ironport ESA site, you will see "Cisco IronPort Systems Contributed Tools" uploaded by Mauricio Palomar. Select this and you will get the following page:
Under the first section labled XML Tools, you will see a tool called "XML Config Viewer". Acoording to the descripiton this is a "PHP Source code for the config viewr tool.". This is the tool I'm looking for some type of documentation for or a web site where I can get started.
Hi Bob,
This tool should still work although I have not tested it with the 7.x series recently. Being that these are all user contributed tools the only
documentation available is that which is included in the archive, typically the readme file. Many of the applications and tools listed here also have extensive help built in which can be viewed by passing specific command line switches after the command, like 'executable' --help.
Are you looking to expand the functionality of the XML config viewer for a specific purpose or were you just wanting to know about its basic use?
We also have documentation on running queries against the XML directly without this tool if your interested in that. Another item of interest in this area would be the reporting API.
Christopher C Smith
Cisco IronPort Customer Support.
Thank you Christopher, I was looking in the folders after expanding it, I didn't see any "readme" files. Oh well, I'll keep digging.
My goal was to take the config from a customer appliance and build documentation from it. I'm definitely interested in learning how to do more advance functions / queries via XML. Are the XML queries procedures listed in the advance configuration guide?
HI Bob,
I think what you may be looking for, at least as a guide is the reporting API. While you may not need all the parts to reporting it goes into a bit more detail related to the queries and how they work.
I am including that in my post. Addtiionally not sure if its been upated, but
Instead of curl -k "https://admin:[email protected]/monitor/overview?"............
Its now
curl -k "https://admin:[email protected]/monitor/reports/overview?"............................
If it turns out this is not exactly what your looking for let me know.
Christopher C Smith
Cisco IronPort Customer Support
Thanks for your reply. My goals are two fold.
First I would like to evaluate a client's appliance configuration file and quickly build documentation for the appliance.
The 2nd part for visiting existing sites where in addition to creating documentation from the configuration file, I would like pull additional info. This is where the reporting queries will be handy.
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A settlement agreement has been reached between former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of rape.
However, Strauss-Kahn is still awaiting a ruling on whether he is linked to pimping in a French prostitution ring.
A person familiar with the case said Thursday that lawyers for Strauss-Kahn and the maid, Nafissastou Diallo, made the currently unsigned agreement within recent days with Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon.
A separate agreement was also made to end another lawsuit filed by Diallo against the New York Post. A court date is expected next week, but it hasn't been set yet, the source said.
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Dominique Stauss-Kahn will pay Nafissatou Diallo $6 million, half of which will be paid from a bank loan. The other half will be borrowed from his wife, Anne Sinclair. The couple has separated, but Sinclair paid Strauss-Kahn's bail in New York, as well as the cost of renting a house in lower Manhattan for $50,000 a month.
Sinclair, a journalist and heiress, has stood by Strauss-Kahn throughout the allegations against him.
Strauss-Kahn and Diallo will meet December 7 in McKeon's chambers to sign the settlement agreement.
Strauss-Kahn initially said he had diplomatic immunity in the case, but this argument was turned down by a judge in May. His lawyer's have since asked McKeon to throw out part of Diallo's claim for other legal reasons.


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A recent FPA survey of advisers asked a number of technology questions, but the one that may have been the most stunning was, "What is the biggest challenge when it comes to acquiring new technology for your practice?"
According to the survey, 78.1% of respondents said, "knowing which technology to buy," and only 21.9% said, "cost."
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You get the picture — identify your pain points. These are signs that either your process or technology could be improved. You'll have some low hanging fruit that makes clear what you should do. For instance, it's time to replace that 4800-baud modem with a high-speed fiber optic connection to the Internet. Easy to implement, high impact on productivity. These can be your next technology investments. More than likely, some items will have a big impact but either are difficult to automate or convert to a new technology tool — portfolio management, for example.
It may make sense to begin with those high-impact and easy-to-implement projects so you can clear the decks to plan for the more complex projects. If you're at that stage now, then you may find it helpful to get advice from colleagues, technology vendors or consultants. Questions to ask them may be the subject of a future article in this section.
Dave O'Brien is a NAPFA-registered financial adviser in Richmond, Va., and owner of O'Brien Financial Planning, Inc., a fee-only registered investment adviser.


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While Minnesota was going for it and playing their top guys, that clearly wasn't the strategy for the Blazers, who sat all of their starters for the game (McCollum, Barton, Claver, Robinson or Leonard). So no CJ McCollum for the small army of you who wanted him in a Timberwolves uniform coming out of the draft. Sorry. One final note for the final game for the Wolves: we had a special analyst calling the game with Matt Devlin, as former Pup Sam Mitchell was in the booth!
The first quarter started with a Shabazz offensive foul and then a missed jump shot, giving a little early ammo to his critics. Stop me if you have read this a few times this week, but the first quarter was full of turnovers and stints of basketball without any buckets. The Summer League "Twin Towers" kept the Timberwolves in the game, combining for eight of the team's fifteen points in the first quarter. At the end of one, the Blazers held a one point lead, 16-15. The Wolves shot 5-15 from the floor and 4-8 from the line in the quarter.
Flip joined the broadcast in the second quarter and as provided over the course of this past week, here are a few highlights:
- Covered off on Shabazz's struggles and learning to play in a system
- Dieng is "NBA ready" on the defensive end of the floor
- Says the team has become one of the more versatile teams in the league
- Barea will have a similar role now vs. what/how he played in Dallas
With regard to the actual game going on, the Timberwolves caught "fire" early in the second quarter, led by Clark and Mychel Thompson. Kee Kee hit three 3PT's in the quarter and helped give the Wolves the lead. However, Shabazz struggled to find his groove on the offensive end, which included another turnover. I've called out the negatives, so allow me to be fair and balanced here and point out that Lorenzo Brown executed in the final minute of the half, assisting on a basket to John Holland and scoring as the clock ticked down. At halftime, the Wolves led 39-32.
All of the good that the Timberwolves put forth in the second quarter was negated by their play in the third. Minnesota scored twelve points in the quarter, and gave up twenty to Portland. The most intriguing part of the quarter was actually Sam Mitchell's commentary, where he suggested that there might not be minutes for Shabazz in the Wolves rotation and that he could spend time in the D-League. Sam was not saying that Shabazz should be there or deserved to be there, he was simply saying that with the moves the team has already made (Budinger, Brewer, + Martin) it might be better for Shabazz to play big minutes in the D-League.
I'm going to chew on that for a bit, as I certainly can understand what Sam was saying here. It might make sense to send Shabazz down on weeks where the team only plays 2 games and is traveling / not practicing and to get heavy minutes there. Before this turns into an opinion piece, the score at the end of three was Portland 52, Minnesota 51.
I have yet to mention Robbie Hummel's name, as he was kept out of tonight's action. Perhaps it was his ankle or the amount of playing time he received up to this point in the week, but his hustle and grit was certainly missed (for me at least, maybe not the team). Two of the three rookies impressed me in the fourth quarter, as Dieng and Brown both played very well this evening. Starting at the five minute mark or so, the Wolves went on an 8-0 run to take the lead and were able to hold on from there. The Timberwolves close their Las Vegas Summer League experience with a win, beating the Blazers 72-66.
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A diabetic had a seizure, drove across two lanes of on-coming traffic, missed three telephone poles, hit the front of the store at the exact speed and angle to launch over a brick wall (see the short wall in the pics) through the glass windows, up into the drop ceiling and landed on my car. A car that I loved so much, I put it in my showroom so nothing would happen to it. This is a true story, Three months prior to this happening I found a paint shop that did A1 work, I gave them the car in pieces, I removed the bumpers, grille, headlights, trim, emblems- you get the idea. All the parts were put in boxes with detailed instructions for re-assembly. When I had saved the several K for the paint job (Im not rich, no family money-middle class guy) I met with all the people that were going to work on my car, I thanked them in advance for doing a great job and gave each of them $100.(I know its not a lot, but I thought if there was a chance that it would help the attention to detail I wanted, it was worth it-everyone likes a tip) I explained that I wanted the car to look showroom new, no tape lines, no overspray, etc,-Perfect is what I wanted. The paint shop called later on and told me "we have to tape around the windshield, or we could cut the gasket back and after the car is finished install a new gasket for around $200" - of course I told them- do it. When the car was being painted, I wet-sanded all the trim and gave each and every piece three coats of satin black. I also had removed the interior and had the carpet cleaned, and the seats, trim, re-dyed in the OE gray, I also put together a list of parts that I ordered from the dealership, new headlights, fog lights, trim, gaskets, clips-anything that showed signs of age. I got the car back after about a month, it took me three weeks to re-assemble everything. (I did find a swirl/fish eye in the pass. q.panel- they gladly fixed) The car was perfect, not a ding, rock chip, swirl, nothing. interior perfect- no side bolster issues, no cracks in the dash- nothing. The car was PERFECT! Two months before the "accident", a young arab guy (not that, that matters) was in the store one day and decided he wanted my car-(his parents owned some hotels here in Charleston, so he had family money I guess) he returned the next day with 20,000-cash, I explained that the car was not for sale, he was very un-happy when he finally left, he was at 25k- like I said, I loved my car. After the "accident", the persons ins. company explained to me that I would get a check for "book value" of $12,000-- I flipped out, "this was NOT my fault, I did not want this to happen, etc"-I had 20k in receipts, that paint job, cams, chip, evo2 front lip, car cover, intake, ACS interior etc..They did not care. They ended up giving me 14k (I went and talked to a family lawyer, he explained that he could get me more, but it would take 1-2 years and after he got paid maybe a couple thousand more- his recommendation-take what they are offering. It gets better (or worse I guess) I had to give the ins. company my title to get my 14k, I didnt have the title yet, why you ask, I had just made the LAST payment two weeks before the "accident". It was in the mail from the bank. There is more, my friend Tony asked me to buy the car back from the ins. company and he would give me that amount, plus 1k. I did, he parted it out for about 10k. (in his defense, he did offer to split the profits if I would help him take it all apart, take pics, help with listing/shipping etc.) I just could not do this,(could you) it was already way, way to painful an ordeal. I didnt want to pull the motor, and have to see that head cover that I worked on every night for a week with a dremel, taking it down to metal, taping it up, painting it with black engine paint, making it look like new again. I new this car inside and out, but just couldnt tear my baby apart for profit. I had worked hundreds of hours on every inch of this car to make it perfect. (I still do some work on the E46 M3 but not like the E30 M3 though) I was actually looking for an E30 M3 when I got the E46--I just could not find one that was close to the condition of the one I had for less then 30-40k. I found that it was hard to finance a car for 35k that is 20 years old as well. so, I am very happy with the E46 M3, for now, (I dont want this to sound crazy, but the E30 m3 almost seemed like it had a soul) I do hope that someday I can add a mint E30 like the one I had. With my luck, probably not.
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Buying a new bottle of water every day versus refilling a container from the drinking fountain. Purchasing a new pair of jeans versus waiting until a current pair wears out.
In each scenario that Zions Bancorporation President and CEO Harris Simmons threw out to fourth-graders at Salt Lake City's Guadalupe School, 10-year-old Audrey Palestino consistently chose the frugal option.
That is, until she had to decide between buying the next volume in the Lemony Snicket series or waiting until a library copy became available.
"That's a need," she said.
Distinguishing between needs and wants is a lesson Simmons and thousands of volunteers from various banks and credit unions have been teaching in classrooms and after-school programs across the state as part of Financial Literacy Month.
In a state known for high rates of foreclosures, bankruptcy filings and scams, Utah leaders have targeted financial literacy helping students learn how to save, budget and prevent debt as a public policy goal. In 2008, the Utah State Office of Education developed an online curriculum to help teachers teach about money management and lawmakers made passing a half-semester financial literacy course a requirement for high school graduation. This year, legislators passed Senate Bill 43, which creates a task force to study how to improve that high school class.
It's all a good start, but it's not enough, says Brian Nelson Ford, a personal finance consultant and author of The 8 Pillars of Financial Greatness.
"I think we're trending in the right direction, but we're not where we need to be," Ford said.
Ford said many children form their spending habits and patterns well before high school. And while teachers may be well-meaning, they often don't know enough about money management themselves.
"We need teachers who are a little more passionate and better trained in personal finance," he said. "We need to move away from 'textbook' personal finance and toward 'real world' personal finance."
State Sen. Pat Jones, D-Cottonwood Heights, agrees. This is why she sponsored SB 43 to assess what's working and what's not.
"A lot of people are going online and giving us feedback like, 'it's a waste of time' and 'it's not meaningful'," she said. "It's too hit and miss right now."
But that kind of evaluation is purely anecdotal at this point. Julie Felshaw, financial education specialist at the Utah State Office of Education, says the first group of students required to take the financial literacy class has only been out in the world for five years and the Legislature didn't fund any kind of ongoing assessment.
"It's going to be 15 to 20 years before we learn the impact of financial literacy classes," she said.
As far as teacher training, Felshaw says the state office does offer resources to boost teacher proficiency in personal finance, including an online course to help educators talk about money to various age groups. It also offers summer workshops to review standards and objectives. She said these resources are available but optional, and attendance is in the 50 to 60 percent range.
"We encourage them to attend, but in fairness to teachers, they've got a pretty full plate and a lot are not just teaching [personal finance]," she said.
Zions Bank's Simmons added that while financial literacy in the classroom is very important, lessons about money should largely take place in homes.
"It's something that parents can do," Simmons said. "Too often we rely on schools to do all of this. This is something that all of us as parents need to be teaching our kids."
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Resources for teaching financial literacy
Finance in the classroom • Games, lessons and activities to teach financial literacy to youth grades K-12 provided by the Utah State Board of Education. http://financeintheclassroom.org
Jump$tart Clearinghouse • An online library of financial education resources. http://www.jumpstart.org/jump$tart-clearinghouse.html
Tomorrow's Money • Basic financial information, including building credit and saving provided by the Utah state treasurer. http://www.utah.tomorrowsmoney.org
Believe in Your Future • Information, tools and resources for getting out of debt, saving for retirement or buying a home provided by the Utah Council on Financial and Economic Education (UCFEE). http://www.believeinyourfuture.org
MyMoney.gov • Online courses, articles and curriculum from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), Department of the Treasury and other federal agencies. http://www.mymoney.gov/category/topic1/youth.html


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Dungeon) 1972. Porn. Approx. 90 min. Rated X, hard core sex. Marilyn,
a pretty American woman, is kidnapped in Paris and raped by a high profile
pimp over a three-day period. Marilyn just happens to fall in love with
that very same man, Lucifer, who raped her. Because she slightly resembles
Marilyn Monroe (and I mean slightly), Lucifer is able to pimp out Marilyn
and make a fortune. To make life more fun, Lucifer sells his wife into
sexual slavery and starts to fall for Marilyn himself. Just when things
are going great, a rival pimp named Caesar kidnaps Lucifer and bribes
Marilyn into working for him. Well, she does because of her love for
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movie. There is a little rough sex, but who doesn't like that now and
then? It appears that someone made a fairly decent porn flic and gave it a
title to stir up some controversy. The only mention of rape is when a
narrator, if you can believe that, states "Marilyn was raped over a
three day period." With that out of the way, lets get back to the actual
content. There is more sex in this movie than 10 of today's porn flics
put together. The first 18 minutes alone had about 5 sex scenes. If
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Israel resumes talks about talks (LONDON TIMES) From Ian MacKinnon in Jerusalem, ISRAEL 01/27/05)
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ISRAEL and the Palestinian Authority resumed diplomatic contacts yesterday, after a two-week freeze, to pave the way for a summit of their leaders.
The representatives failed to agree on an agenda, but will hold further talks next week to prepare for the first meeting between Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the new Palestinian President.
The summit, which could take place within two weeks, would be a sign of a thaw in relations between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships at the end of a week of relative calm.
Initial optimism after Mr Abbass election victory was punctured when six Israelis were killed in a bombing at the Karni terminal between Israel and Gaza two weeks ago. Mr Sharon banned all contact between the camps.
Amid signs of hope which have included the arrival of William Burns, the US Assistant Secretary of State, for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders there were also indications of the delicacy of the nascent peace.
A three-year-old Palestinian girl was killed at her home in Gaza when Israeli troops fired in response to two Qassam rockets that were launched at a Jewish settlement.
Undercover troops also killed a Palestinian militant in Qalqilya when they opened fire on a car.
Palestinian police were preparing to deploy across southern Gaza today to try to prevent the firing of the rockets after fruitful talks between senior Palestinians and Israelis. Three thousand police who fanned out in northern Gaza last week helped to preserve the peace that led to yesterdays negotiations.
Israeli security sources said that assassinations of Palestinian militants had been put on hold a key demand of Hamas and Islamic Jihad during five days of negotiations with Mr Abbas in Gaza that were aimed at securing a ceasefire.
Yesterdays discussions between Dov Weisglass, a special adviser to Mr Sharon, and Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian minister, sought to hammer out differences over the topics for consideration by the leaders.
[The] meeting was conducted in a good and constructive atmosphere, Mr Erekat said. We decided to meet next week to continue preparations for the summit. No date has been set yet for the summit.
But Hassan Abu Libdeh, the Palestinian Prime Ministers chief of staff, who was also part of the delegation, said: The summit will be held within two weeks if we finalise all the details in the meeting that will be held next week.
Israel is keen that the leaders should focus on security issues and seek ways to end violence while the Palestinians wish to talk about the West Bank separation barrier and the release of the 8,000 prisoners held in Israeli jails, another of Hamas and Islamic Jihads demands.
But the talks about talks were a clear sign that Israel is impressed with the efforts of Mr Abbas to bring calm.
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On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, NewsChannel 5's Stephanie Gorin took a revealing look at the dangers of distracted driving. Police said they see drivers doing everything from putting on makeup to sending e-mails while behind the wheel. Officers said distractions like these cause 80 percent of all accidents. Click on the following links to see Stephanie's pieces and some resources to keep you and your family safe.
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Conceptually similar to how bacteria can be either helpful or harmful to humans (certain strains of Escherichia coli can synthesize vitamin K2, but bubonic plague is caused by Yersinia pestis), bacteria can also be either helpful or harmful to plants.
In addition to the well-known synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen, some bacteria can help plants withstand adverse salt or drought conditions. Others increase nutrient uptake from the soil, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer.
Such bacteria are of great interest for coaxing enhanced productivity and resilience from agricultural and biofuel crops. Relevant to such endeavors is the research of Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonheinne (University of Queensland, Australia) and coworkers.
These scientists have shown that plants can digest non-pathogenic microbes for food. In addition to sustainable agriculture needs, this discovery suggests that plants might prey on some of the microbes drawn to nutrients excreted by plant roots, a surprising "man bites dog" story of the plant world.
Experimental setup.
The scientists studied the uptake and digestion of two non-pathogenic (safe for plants) microbes, Escherichia coli (a bacteria) and saccharomyces cerevisiae (a fungus), by two plants, arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) and solanum lycopersicum (tomato). Their plants were grown in water (not soil), meaning that the intended bacteria and fungus were the only two microbes present in the plants' growth medium.
In some of the experiments, microbes were enhanced with nitrogen-15, to enable the scientists to determine the origin of the nitrogen in their plants (i.e. from the microbes or not). The microbes were carefully added to plant roots and grown for typically either 4 hours (thale cress) or 3 days (tomato), followed by observation via fluorescence or electron microscopy.
Microbial death in plant roots.
The scientists observed microbes within live plant roots within 4 (thale cress) or 12 (tomato) hours. This uptake was at least somewhat specific.
In other words, the plant roots aren't taking up everything they find. Silica microparticles, roughly similar in size to the microbes, were not taken up by either plant.
Most of the fungal cells taken up by tomato plants were dead within one week, and were reduced to microbial debris after two weeks. In contrast, the tomato plants were still healthy.
The microbes were not observed in the plant leaves. Thus, the microbes were confined within the plant roots and broken down.
Microbial entry into plant roots.
Given that plant cell walls are generally effective barriers to microbial entry, how do the microbes get in the plant roots in the first place? In the case of Escherichia coli, they enter the plant roots via a combination of enzymatic degradation of the cell wall, and possibly by physically trapping them near the root surface.
These entry results strongly suggest that the plants are controlling microbial entry. In contrast, pathogenic microbes attack plant roots to gain entry.
The plants seem to be in charge here. They are presumably expending their own energy to get at the microbes.
Microbes become plant food.
What advantage do the plants gain by chewing up microbes? The scientists found that the microbes become plant food.
After incubating tomato plants with bacteria enhanced with nitrogen-15 for one hour, followed by two weeks of growth, enhanced levels of nitrogen-15 were found in the leaves.
In other words, nitrogen from the bacteria found their way into plant leaves. The scientists found 35 micrograms of nitrogen-15 per gram of dry weight, and almost none in plants not incubated with bacteria.
The research described herein may point another way towards utilizing bacteria to enhance plant growth: direct consumption. Future research directions should focus on determining how often this happens under typical plant growth conditions, and how much of an energy contribution it makes to typical plant physiology.
On a practical note, it would also be extremely helpful to apply this knowledge to agriculture and biofuel production. Can microbes be designed to be "tasty" to useful plants, and/or can plants be engineered to chew up specific microbes? Positive results may be extremely beneficial for making optimal use of limited resources, and help build an environmentally-sustainable future.
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Paungfoo-Lonhienne, C., Rentsch, D., Robatzek, S., Webb, R. I., Sagulenko, E., Näsholm, T., Schmidt, S., & Lonhienne, T. G. A (2010). Turning the Table: Plants Consume Microbes as a Source of Nutrients PLoS ONE, 5 (7) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011915


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On Mental Floss, Jill Harness's collection of librarian tattoos. Above, Elizabeth Skene's card-catalog sleeve, by Frank William of the Chicago Tattoo Company. Right, Michelle's super-librarian tattoo, chosen to represent her career as a high-school librarian, based on Mary Marvel, and done by Chris Cockrill of Avalon II Tattoo.
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Ed Felten presents and argues for the idea of "accountable algorithms" for use in public life -- that is, "output produced by a particular execution of the algorithm can be verified as correct after the fact by a skeptical member of the public."
He gives a great example of how to run a securely random TSA checkpoint where, at the end of each day, the public can open a sealed envelope and verify that the TSA was using a truly fair random selection method, and not just picking people they didn't like the look of:
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Now we can create our accountable selection method. First thing in the morning, before the security checkpoint opens, the TSA picks a random value R and commits it. Now the TSA knows R but the public doesn't. Immediately thereafter, TSA officials roll dice, in public view, to generate another random value S. Now the TSA adds R+S and makes that sum the key K for the day.
Now, when you arrive at the checkpoint, you announce your name N, and the TSA uses the selection function to compute S(K, N). The TSA announces the result, and if it's "yes," then you get searched. You can't anticipate whether you'll be searched, because that depends on the key K, which depends on the TSA's secret value R, which you don't know.
At the end of the day, the TSA opens its commitment to R. Now you can verify that the TSA followed the algorithm correctly in deciding whether to search you.
The Glenn Gould Variations is a new conference/event in Toronto mounted by the Glenn Gould Foundation Glenn Gould Estate, dedicated to the kind of odd, creative, quirky and thoughtful ideas that Gould was known for. The inaugural event, called "DREAMERS RENEGADES VISIONARIES," will be held in Toronto on Sept 22/23 at the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall. There are over 50 presenters, performers and speakers (including me!), and it promises to be quite an event.
Update: Ron Davis from the Foundation sez, "Dreamers, Renegades, Visionaries: The Glenn Gould Variations is presented by U of T in association with the Glenn Gould Estate. The Foundation is one of several supporters of our event. But the Foundation is independent of it."
Filmmakers, dancers, choreographers, voices, music makers, DJs, visual artists and music producers, mix it up with philosophers, futurists, journalists, media mavens, historians, and provocateurs who defy description!
The "immersive experience" of DREAMERS RENEGADES VISIONARIES: The Glenn Gould Variations is accessible and affordable (a first for Toronto!) for everybody, inspiring and provoking creativity in thought, word and deed with no boundaries…just like Gould himself.
This provocative mix of performance and talk is inspired by Canadian icon and multi-media innovator Glenn Gould, and part of the celebrations marking the 80th year of Gould's birth.
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After some four month of silence on Twitter, Kathy Bates returned to share news that she was diagnosed with breast cancer two months ago, and has undergone a double mastectomy. I felt an extra-strong twinge of sadness when I read Twitter replies from her fans wishing her a "speedy recovery." I get that line a lot, too. There's no such thing. Read the rest
A TSA screener who worked in Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood airport in Florida is in jail, "facing 25 counts of possessing child pornography showing young children engaged in sexual acts." He first admitted to investigators that he had downloaded the material and deleted it, but later said he "didn't know how the child pornography got on his computer." Here's the arrest info. (photo: Broward County Sherrif's office). Read the rest
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William Gibson speaks with Wired's Geeta Dayal about his new book Distrust That Particular Flavor (my review), and particularly the idea that science fiction sucks at predicting stuff.
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Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. Fortune tellers are either deluded or charlatans. You can find science fiction writers who are deluded or science fiction writers who are charlatans — I can think of several of each in the history of the field. Every once in a while, somebody extends their imagination down the line, far enough with a sufficient lack of prejudice, to imagine something that then actually happens. When it happens, it's great, but it's not magic. All the language we have for describing what science fiction writers and futurists of other stripes do is nakedly a language of magic.
I'm having a week where some well-intentioned person on the internet describes me as "oracular." As soon as one of the words with a magic connotation is attached — I know this from ongoing experience — as soon as someone says "oracular," it's like, boom! It's all over the place; it's endlessly repeated. It's probably not bad for business. But then I wind up spending a lot of time disabusing people of the idea that I have some sort of magic insight…. You can also find, if you wanted to Google through all the William Gibson pieces on the net, you can find tons of pieces, where people go on and on about how often I've gotten it wrong.
"Innocence of Muslims," the spectacularly crappy anti-Muslim movie trailer linked to recent violence in Libya, and the death of a US ambassador and others? The guy credited as its filmmaker, "Sam Bacile," has been outed as one Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
Noah Shachtman at Wired News reports that "Bacile" was one of many pseudonyms used by Nakoula. Others include Matthew Nekola; Ahmed Hamdy; Amal Nada; Daniel K. Caresman; Kritbag Difrat; Sobhi Bushra; Robert Bacily; Nicola Bacily; Thomas J. Tanas; Erwin Salameh; Mark Basseley Youssef; Yousseff M. Basseley; Malid Ahlawi; and my favorite, P.J. Tobacco.
He first told news outlets he was an Israeli Jew; law enforcement authorities have since identified him as a Coptic Christian immigrant with a shady past. He reportedly has a criminal record including at least one narcotics conviction: an LA County District Attorney's office source says he was arrested by the L.A. Country Sheriff's Department in 1997 and charged with intent to manufacture methamphetamine.
There are two major active volcanoes in the Sacatepéquez department of Guatemala, and one of them is very active today: Volcán de Fuego, or "the fire volcano" (as contrasted with its adjacent twin, Volcán de Agua, or "the water volcano"). The last time this volcano erupted was in 2011. Mashable gathered some "citizen"-published photos and videos, here's a roundup of pics at Prensa Libre, and here's an AP item. Many evacuations, which is routine whenever the volcano wakes up; no casualties at this time. Read the rest
Apologies for another Titanic-related post this week, but this one has Mythbusters in it. James Cameron did an interview with IGN in which he talked about the conversion to 3D, yada yada yada... And then a minute before the end of the video, the interviewer asks Cameron if he's aware of the Reddit thread trying to debunk the whole "door couldn't hold both Jack and Rose" thing. Cameron argues that while sheer surface area may have allowed two people to lay on top, physics would not. It flipped when Jack tried to get on, you see. And the filmmaker says that Discovery Channel's Mythbusters will be tackling this mystery of buoyancy on an upcoming episode, and he would like to help them prove that he was right.
I feel like Cameron has actually run this experiment in his own personal laboratory numerous times, and that's why he's so sure of this. (Plus, science totally backs him up.) Though I still think that if Jeremy Sisto played Jack, he not only would have found a way for both him and Kate Winslet to get on that thing, he would have saved both of their lives with sex warmth.
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I loved the cover painting for Daniel Clowes' Eightball no. 18, and now it's available as a limited-edition print.
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This is a limited edition, archival, facsimile print of the cover painting used for issue no.18 of the comic Eightball by Daniel Clowes. It has been reproduced at a 1:1 scale to match the size of the original painting that is currently on display as a key part of the "Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes" touring museum exhibition. This giclée print was created to the highest standards of production under supervision of the artist. The finest quality materials were used including an eleven-color, high dynamic range, process inkset on conservation grade 100% cotton acid and lignin-free paper and tested by the Fine Arts Trade Guild and guaranteed to resist fading and discoloration in excess of seventy five-years. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist and includes a registered certificate of authenticity. Don't miss out on this chance to have a museum quality piece of art for your very own.
An optional logo was made for this print in the style of a "paste-up" that the artist would use in his formative years in a pre- digital era. Each logo is hand-cut by the artist and can be mounted (with archival PVA adhesive) by us at your request, or included 'loose' for you to choose to mount yourself (or not) when framing. The colorway for this logo differs from the one used on the printed cover of Eightball no.18.
Yesterday, I reviewed the new David Byrne book, How Music Works and mentioned that I'd be interviewing Byrne about it live on stage in Toronto on Sept 19, as part of the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors.
The IFA folks have made a pair of tickets for the event available to Boing Boing readers. To win, answer the following question:
What is David Byrne's favourite mode of transportation?
And send us your answer by midnight eastern on September 16 to email@example.com with the subject line "BYRNE TIX." One winner will be notified September 17.
The event is called "David Byrne and Cory Doctorow: Wassup Internet?!—Music in the Digital Landscape," and it'll be held at 7:30pm on Sept 19 at the Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay West. Read the rest
Want an awesome painting like this? It's a two step process:
Step 1: Find generic '80s oil painting at thrift store
Step 2: Paint a badass Kraken in it
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> > > > > > > > Real problem: size itself > > > I tried to create an xfs filesystem on a 4MB ramdisk (/dev/ram0), > > > but I found no combination of option that succeeded. > > > Did I not try hard enouh or is the lower limit for xfs size > > > larger than 4MB? > > > > > > > Yes - the minimum is 16MB, if I remember correctly (ie. the > > minimum size of one allocation group). > Ahh, that's serious. I'll have to find a workaround for that :-{ I sent my previous message and realized another workaround, if you want to experiment with xfs like this, then you can use a loop device on top of a file in an existing filesystem. Performance is pretty good, there is absolutely no guarantee of recovery after a crash, if you do not unmount cleanly it will not recover. Steve > > Thanks for the info. > Detlef > > -- > Detlef Vollmann > vollmann engineering gmbh Tel: +41-41-4120911 > P.O. Box 5106 Fax: +41-41-4120912 > CH-6000 Luzern 5 / Switzerland eMail: dv@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Supporting the Health of Adults Undergoing Orthopedic Surgery During the Recovery Period (SHARP)
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Delirium (acute confusion) is a highly prevalent condition among hospitalized elders with substantial morbidity within the hospital and beyond. Particular patient populations are at high risk for poor outcomes after an episode of delirium. Patients with hip and other long bone fractures are at increased risk of developing delirium (acute confusion) which impedes functional recovery. This is a pilot study to test the tolerability and efficacy of donepezil, a cholinesterase inhibitor medication used commonly in persons with dementia, for the prevention of new or worsening delirium in aged hip and other long-bone fracture patients. Additional purposes involve gathering a small amount of patients' serum to better understand the pathophysiology of delirium in this population.
The purposes of this pilot study are to determine: 1) the safety and tolerability a cholinesterase inhibitor medication) in aged hip and long bone fracture patients, 2) To obtain estimates of subject accrual and preliminary estimates of effect size on the development of new delirium symptoms to allow for planning of a larger, definitive trial, 3) To better understand the underlying causes of delirium by examining whether a measure of blood anticholinergic activity relates to the incidence and persistence of delirium symptoms, and 4) To explore the interaction between anticholinergic activity, donepezil therapy, and delirium symptoms.
|Drug: donepezil Drug: Placebo
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
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|Supporting the Health of Adults Undergoing Orthopedic Surgery During the Recovery Period
- Percentage of Participants With Delirium Using the CAM Over Time [ Time Frame: Baseline, hospital interviews, weeks 2, 4 and 6 ]Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)—Measure of the presence or absence of delirium. Requires 1) acute change with fluctuating course, 2) inattention, and either 3) disorganized thinking or 4) altered level of consciousness.
- Change From Baseline and MDAS Scores Over Time [ Time Frame: Baseline, hospital discharge, weeks 2, 4 and 6 ]Measures severity of 10 delirium symptoms items (0 not present, 1 mild, 2 moderate, 3 severe) yielding a total score of 0 to 30, with 30 most severe.
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|January 2007
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|February 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Active Comparator: 1
Drug: donepezil
5 mg each day for 30 days
Other Name: Aricept
|Placebo Comparator: 2
Drug: Placebo
Encapsulated cornstarch One capsule daily for 30 days
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|70 Years and older (Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- hip or other long bone fracture undergoing operative repair
- age of 70 years or older
- the ability to communicate effectively in English (including adequate hearing)
- residence within a 50 mile radius of the BIDMC
- life expectancy 6 months or greater
- not currently on cholinesterase inhibitor therapy
- not with known hypersensitivity to cholinesterase inhibitors
- not a previous study participant or refusal
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients with sick sinus syndrome or greater than 1st degree AV block without a pacemaker
- patients with a pathologic fracture due to metastatic cancer
- patients with advanced dementia or total functional dependence.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00586196
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|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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|Edward R Marcantonio, MD
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00586196 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R21AG027549 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|December 21, 2007
|Results First Received:
|February 28, 2013
|Last Updated:
|August 21, 2014
Keywords provided by Edward Marcantonio, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center:
Postoperative confusion
Hip fracture
Long bone fracture
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Neurocognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders
Cholinesterase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Cholinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Nootropic Agents
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The nine West European Economic Community (EEC) member states told the World Conference to Combat Racism meeting here they would not accept any resolution referring to Israel, Zionism or the Palestinian issue.
The nine, who announced their stand through the West German delegate, intimated that should the conference adopt the resolution prepared by the African state, they would leave the meeting. This threat was not made explicit but the West German Ambassador made it clear. Other West European delegates also made this point known in unofficial meetings with the Afro-Asian delegations.
Both Canada and the Scandinavian countries announced that they fully associated themselves with the EEC-member countries' stand. The African-proposed resolution does not refer to the declaration on Zionism and racism adopted in 1975 by the UN General Assembly but it contains several Arab suggestions and violently attacks Israel both for its own policies and for its links with the South African government. The Communist and Arab delegates have been circulating draft resolutions which link Zionism with racism.
The Soviet Union and the Arab delegates made it clear they would not be unhappy if the Western countries walk out. The Africans, on the other hand, would like the final declaration to be adopted by unanimous vote. The United States is not attending the conference because it was convened under UN resolutions such as the one equating Zionism with racism. Israel is not attending for the same reason.
"The conference condemns the existing and increasing relations between the Zionist State of Israel and the racist regimes of South Africa, in particular those in the economic and military field, and deplores and warns against cooperation between them in the nuclear field….
"The conference also notes with concern the insidious propaganda by the government of Israel and its Zionist and other supporters against the United Nations organs and against governments which have advocated action against it.
"The conference recalls with deep regret the cruel tragedy which befell the Palestinian people thirty years ago and which it continues to endure today–manifested in preventing it from exercising its right to self-determination on the soil of its homeland, in the dispersion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, the prevention of their return to their homes, and the establishment therein of settlers from abroad, and in the practice of diverse forms of racial discrimination against Palestinians…
"The conference voices its hope that the Palestinian people will soon have the opportunity to exercise its inalienable right to self-determination in Palestine, and proclaims its solidarity with the Palestinian people in its struggle for liberation and against racial discrimination."


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General Scowcroft delivers 42nd annual Hanify-Howland lecture
Retired Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF, a foreign policy expert, delivered the 42nd Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on Sept. 19 in the College's Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. The event, titled "U.S. Diplomacy in a Transforming World," was free and open to the public.
Scowcroft is best known for his work as national security adviser to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm, where he advised and assisted a wide range of U.S. and foreign corporate leaders on global joint venture opportunities, strategic planning and risk assessment. His prior 29-year military career began after his graduation from West Point and concluded following service as the deputy national security adviser, having attained the rank of lieutenant general. During the course of his military career, Scowcroft served as professor of Russian history at West Point; assistant air attaché in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; head of the political science department at the Air Force Academy; special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and military assistant to President Nixon.
He is currently the president and founder of The Scowcroft Group and one of the country's leading experts on international policy. The recipient of several military awards and honors, Scowcroft serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations at Columbia University in New York City.
The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The series was started by Hanify's friend, the late Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.


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Just some sketch I did in class...I'm trying to understand some things, and trying to understand what I want to become.
And yeah, the 3d and all the other shit are supposed to be off like they are...I was messing around
Just some sketch I did in class...I'm trying to understand some things, and trying to understand what I want to become.
And yeah, the 3d and all the other shit are supposed to be off like they are...I was messing around
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Knowtheledge - Not feeling that last one. But the 2nd to last one. Needs to be finished.
my black loptop counts as a blackbook right? here's something I did in a facebook battle recently, the 3d was done in photoshop, thats it.
and here's this
**ALSO if anyone wants to do a full collab I'm looking for a partner to do like a black/white prodo with, so holler!
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Picture 118 by SkateJunt, on Flickr
this one wack as hell, but postin anyway, for my homie RESM, drew it in like 5 minutes in class
Picture 117 by SkateJunt, on Flickr
crits please! the k's leg may need some shortening up on the bottom.
Props to everyone. Just keep at it dont give up. And your style will come natuarly trust me. Peace out whoop whoop
Yo, Fuck yo IPOD!
wazzah! ha
Beko, your letters are overlapping to much, give them some room to breathe.
hey im back, been about a year or so since ive been here, heres some of the latest
pm if from the 613
Beko. Take it easy, don't press so hard with the pencil. (it's easier to erase and fix, it doesn't leave "carbon copies" in the pages below it.) Your curved letters tend to get bulbous in parts for now try and keep them even. For example the bottom of the B and O. The center of the B where the two curved portions meet is a bit too thick. Try making it the width of the bar from the top. Keep it up.
how are my straights lookin?
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Looking like crap! The bar consistency is everywhere different, comon you must do straights like a real mafakka, check your keyboard.
Naked exchange. crits for improvement?
more simps, didnt bother with 3d, and sadgeh ive been drawing my keyboard for the past 3 weeks, im trying to tweak the letters a bit
Picture 122 by SkateJunt, on Flickr
need some serious crits from the serious and respectable boys on here (you mans know who you are)
this baby's planned to go on a sweet highway spot i got this sunday, gonna be about 115 ft. long (letters are gonna be hand-reaching height) and filled in with chrome
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St. Stanislaus School Hosting Open Houses
ADAMS, Mass. — Saint Stanislaus Kostka School is holding two information and registration open houses in March.
The open houses is geared for preschool, kindergarten and the first- to eighth-grades. The first open house will take place on Sunday, March 2, at 11:30 a.m. The second will be held Tuesday, March 11, at 6:30 p.m. Both will be held at the cafeteria at the school, located on 108 Summer St.
The event will include:
- The launch of a full-day pre-kindergarten program.
- A meet and greet with Principal Janet Tremblay, teachers, parents and students.
- A school tour.
- A question and answer exchange about curriculum, faith-based education, financial assistance and more.
- An explanation of the registration process and forms.
For planning purposes, contact the school at 413-743-1091 or email@example.com if you plan on attending.
Saint Stanislaus Kostka School welcomes students and families of all faiths.


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I Have a Big Wide Nose How Can I Go About This to Change my Nose with out Sergery
I Have a Big Wide Nose How Can I Go About This to Change my Nose with out Sergery
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Not everyone is a candidate for non surgical nose job.
Fillers are not going to make your nose look smaller or narrower. I am afraid only surgical refinement will work.
Reducing a Big Nose without Surgery
Unfortunately, there is no way to make a large nose, like yours, without surgery. You have an ethnic nose with thick skin and wide nostrils. The only way to reduce the size is with a surgical procedure.
Learn more: http://rhinoplastysurgeonnewyork.com
You cannot make a nose smaller non-surgically
While sometimes adding fillers to the nose in a non surgical rhinoplasty can change the light and shadow reflexes off of your nose and give an illusion of a smaller or more refined nose, most reductive measures involve actual surgical rhinoplasty and from your picture there is no good way of making your nose smaller without an actual rhinoplasty.
Learn more: http://www.rhinoplastyspecialistsurgeon.com/choosing-a-rhinoplasty-specialist-surgeon/reductive-vs-augmentative-rhinoplasty/
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I dont know if I agree with what is there now. My idea is that this has to do with the original Armani empire. The doors are closed and covered by webs, and it is much, much closer to Silvermoon, so it would be understandable that it would have been eradicated. Atleast, thats my opinion. Also, if you look between the cracks of the wall, you can see a green raid portal.
- Just a back door to Zul'Aman maybe? Delerzhus
- What about the now remarkably lost Shrine of Ula-Tek? We need a place to fulfill our roles as amani troll priests. Ravenore , the Necroshadowmancer 22:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- I once used my hunter's eagle eye near here, behind the closed door is a dungeon similar to the catacombs in the Ghostlands, I couldn't see past the first chamber, I also could not see an instance portal from where I was so who knows just what will go there--Saphiredragon89 (talk) 01:24, 17 July 2008 (UTC)


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Seoul (AFP) Dec 11, 2012
North Korea's heavily-criticised long range rocket launch looked set for a lengthy delay Tuesday, with reports that the entire rocket had been removed from the launch pad for repair.
According to analysis of the latest satellite imagery, the entire three-stage Unha-3 carrier has been taken down and moved to a nearby assembly facility, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a military source as saying.
"It seems that North Korea has pulled down the rocket from the launch pad to fix technical problems," the source said. Local radio and TV stations carried similar reports.
The South Korean Defence Ministry refused to confirm the reports which, if true, would signal a considerable delay in the launch schedule.
North Korea says the rocket is being used to put a satellite into orbit, but the United States and its allies insist the launch is a disguised ballistic missile test that violates UN resolutions.
North Korea had originally provided a December 10-22 window for launching the rocket, but extended that by another week on Monday when a "technical deficiency" was discovered in the first-stage engine.
Yonhap's military source said Pyongyang was still expected to go ahead with a launch after repair works are completed.
The North's decision to try and launch the rocket in winter has led analysts to suggest a political imperative behind the timing, which may have overruled technical considerations.
New leader Kim Jong-Un is believed to be extremely keen that the launch falls around the first anniversary of the death of his father and former leader Kim Jong-Il on December 17.
The possibility that the launch has been rushed has been backed by missile experts, sceptical that the problem which resulted in the failure of the North's last rocket launch in April could have been resolved in just eight months.
North Korea said Monday that it had experienced especially cold weather in the three days leading to the opening of the launch window on December 10.
State media quoted Ri Chol-Su, vice-director of the Central Meteorological Institute, as saying temperatures had dropped to minus 17 Celsius (1.4F) in western coastal areas where the launch centre is located.
North Korea is banned from conducting missile tests under UN resolutions triggered by Pyongyang's two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
The latest planned launch has been condemned by the United Nations, as well as the United States and its main military allies in Asia, Japan and South Korea.
Russia has joined international calls for Pyongyang to cancel the mission, while China, North Korea's sole major ally and its biggest trade partner and aid provider, has expressed concern.
EU foreign ministers said Monday that an eventual launch would be a "provocative act" in breach of UN resolutions and require an international response.
UN diplomats inside and outside the Security Council have started consultations behind the scenes on what action to take if Pyongyang goes ahead with the launch.
According to Japanese reports, Japan, the United States and South Korea have agreed to demand the UN Security Council strengthen sanctions on North Korea to levels that match those on Iran.
That would include increasing the list of financial institutions, entities and individuals subject to asset freezes.
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Iffy Onuora's header - his first goal since rejoining Town in March - had put Huddersfield in the driving seat.
But a tap-in from Gary Fletcher - his 19th of the season - gave Lincoln hope.
Mirfin crowned an impressive display with the winner when the home side failed to clear after Alan Marriott saved Andy Booth's towering header.
The visitors flew out the traps and were deservedly rewarded after just five minutes.
Rob Edwards' inswinging corner from the right-hand side lured goalkeeper Marriott into no-man's land to leave Onuora with the task of glancing the ball off the top of his head into an empty net from three yards.
Shell-shocked, Lincoln went about dragging themselves back into the contest but were far too reliant on the long ball.
Manager Keith Alexander had work to do at the break, and whatever he said had the desired effect as his side drew level six minutes after the restart.
Kevin Ellison's huge throw caused havoc in the Town penalty area and out of the resultant melee, Simon Yeo's volley forced keeper Paul Rachubka into a stunning reflex save.
Decisive goal
But from the rebound Ben Futcher teed up Fletcher six yards from goal and he made no mistake.
Lincoln should have took the lead in the 74th minute
when Yeo zipped past two Huddersfield defenders before angling a delightful cut-back to Marcus Richardson who completely missed the ball.
Just when it seemed Lincoln where poised to seize the initiative, Huddersfield scored what could prove the decisive goal.
Andy Holdsworth's corner was met with a thumping header by Booth which brought an equally emphatic stop from Marriott.
Unfortunately for the Lincoln keeper his defence were caught on their heels and Mirfin was left unopposed to stab the ball into the net from a tight angle.
Lincoln huffed and puffed until the final whistle but lacked the nous and creativity to break down Huddersfield's well-drilled defence, who played out the
remainder of the game with consummate ease.
Lincoln City: Marriott, Weaver (McCombe 81), Bloomer, Futcher,
Bailey, Butcher, Gain (Liburd 78), Ellison, Yeo, Richardson (Green 87), Fletcher.
Subs not used: Sedgemore, Wilford.
Booked: Gain.
Huddersfield: Rachubka, Mirfin, Sodje, Yates (Scott 90),
Holdsworth, Lloyd, Edwards, Worthington, Schofield, Booth,
Onuora (Abbott 75). Subs Not Used: Senior, Fowler, Brown.
Booked: Worthington.
Attendance: 9,202.
Referee: G Laws (Tyne & Wear).


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