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In a storm shelter, a meal in candlelight. A clean plate with a bit of oil and a bit of bread. A few leaves from the garden and a few berries from the field. A cup of nuts, and a bit of water. In the distance, the sky is bursting orange and green in fire and guts, but here the candle doesn't flicker, the small bookshelf doesn't sway, the table legs steady and the chair sits solid. Head down, a dim reflection of the candle in the oil on the plate, a dim distant face in the reflection in the oil, contorted and ripped apart by the sopping of the bread. [MySpace]
In a yet unmade documentary, we open to a teenage girl with pale skin applying thick dark eye makeup. Threadbare socks and bad leather, hair product and fingerless gloves. Loud noise rock to drown out the arguing, and to fan the fires of argument, a condom in her chest pocket. Painting her toenails black, pan around the room to reveal dozens of posters, applicable to her tastes, but all upside-down. Bangs covering her eyes like a hood, a voice from behind the camera, "Why are all your posters upside-down?" "Because I don't want to idolize anything, if you look at a face upside-down it looks more like an animal than a human, and I don't want to forget that everything I like is still not me, you know?" Only silence from behind the camera. [Pre-order Remorsecapade]Posted by Dan at January 15, 2010 4:10 PM
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Do Hedge Funds Manipulate Stock Prices?
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- Author(s): ITZHAK BEN‐DAVID, FRANCESCO FRANZONI, AUGUSTIN LANDIER, RABIH MOUSSAWI
- Published: Nov 12, 2013
- Pages: 2383-2434
- DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12062
We provide evidence suggesting that some hedge funds manipulate stock prices on critical reporting dates. Stocks in the top quartile of hedge fund holdings exhibit abnormal returns of 0.30% on the last day of the quarter and a reversal of 0.25% on the following day. A significant part of the return is earned during the last minutes of trading. Analysis of intraday volume and order imbalance provides further evidence consistent with manipulation. These patterns are stronger for funds that have higher incentives to improve their ranking relative to their peers.

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They've had a spot of bad luck last week, though. First there was a router fail in London which impacted some sites.
@andrewgirdwood bandwidth provider had a router fail in London. We've routed around until they fix. Sorry for the trouble.— Matthew Prince (@eastdakota) September 10, 2012
Then there was a bigger issue on Saturday which hit many more sites and made the news.
There will be an SEO burp as a result of this for some sites - but hopefully a short one.
If Google can't access your site's robots.txt then it's cautious about crawling your site at all. As it happens, some sites will have been wrestling with the Cloudflare outages just when Google was trying to access their robots.txt. Some of these sites will now be on Google's watch list. On of my blogs, Geek Native, just got the bad news email from Google.
There's not much that can be done about it other than wait. I've used Fetch as Googlebot on the robots.txt to test and confirm Google is happy now but I doubt that'll hasten the recrawl. It's interesting to note Google uses the double slash in their email between the domain and the robots.txt file name, though, typo?
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A new bill introduced by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and George Allen (R-Va.) would allow members of the private science and technology community to contribute to the prevention and response to emergencies that involve technology and communications systems. "This legislation invites a generation raised on information technologies to help their fellow citizens when crisis strikes," Wyden explains. The Wyden-Allen Science and Technology Emergency Mobilization Act calls for the formation of a corps of science/tech volunteers that can be rapidly mobilized; a "virtual technology reserve" database that emergency officials can use in times of crisis; a Center for Civilian Homeland Security Technology where emergency prevention and response technologies can be tested; and a "communications interoperability" pilot program designed to fund collaborative efforts between fire, law enforcement, and emergency preparedness and response agencies. Private-sector boosters of the proposal include Intel, AOL, Microsoft, and Oracle. Wyden and Allen's bill will be debated by the Senate Commerce Committee, while Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) may make a similar proposal in the House. Wyden first considered such a measure a month after the September terrorist attacks, but he and Allen discovered that the government placed barriers in the way of private-sector companies that wanted to help, such as credential requirements and a lack of access.
The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act introduced yesterday by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) would require electronics manufacturers to install anti-copying safeguards in new hardware and software. Proponents say the legislation will drive the adoption of digital television and high-speed Internet access. Under the bill, copyright owners would be required to incorporate digital tags in works such as music and films that would lay out rules about how they can be played, viewed, and copied on computers, digital TVs, and other devices. If manufacturers and content owners have not agreed on an enforcement standard within a year, the FCC could choose one, making it unlawful to build devices that lack it. Critics such as DigitalConsumer.org founder Joe Kraus argue that the bill would give copyright owners too much power over consumers and impinge on their fair use rights, but Hollings promises that this would not be the case. Some manufacturers are also against the measure, claiming they need no government prodding to develop anti-copying systems.
Statements that the FBI is considering changes at the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) have sparked worries that the bureau is planning to restructure or disband the organization. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote that FBI Director Robert Mueller proposed breaking up the NIPC last month, and warned that such a move "would destroy the fragile trust between NIPC and the private sector, which controls 90 percent of the nation's critical infrastructure." He added that the flow of information between the private sector and the FBI would be seriously hobbled, blinding the agency to infrastructure threats, while public-private cyber security initiatives would halt. The NIPC eats up over $25 million in funding annually. Meanwhile, FBI officials said they are being inundated with digital evidence, while cyber criminals are ahead of them. The FBI maintained that the NIPC remains an important component of the cyber security initiative, and the bureau is trying to find a way to "maximize [its] support for NIPC."
Robin Rothberg and 16 other members of his Pirates With Attitude software-piracy organization could face more than two years of jail time for online software swapping, and critics are up in arms. Pirating software for purely recreational purposes, as Rothberg and his group did, was changed from a civil violation to a criminal offense in 1997, after the software industry pressured Congress to do so. The industry hopes a prison sentence will deter potential pirates, but copyright law specialist Marci A. Hamilton of Yeshiva University argues that the actual crime does not justify such a harsh penalty. Miriam Nisbet of the American Library Association contends that copyright owners have too much power and influence over government policy. The software industry claims that all forms of piracy add up to money and jobs lost, but detailed analysis does not seem to support such findings. MIS Training Institute CEO Lois Jacobson adds that there are considerably more serious forms of computer security violations that law-enforcement resources should tackle, besides software swapping. Most of Rothberg's group have pleaded guilty, and sentencing is scheduled for April; but although probation seems likely for many of the defendants, the government appears determined to have Rothberg and several other members incarcerated.
White Hat Technologies is planning a summer camp where teenage computer enthusiasts can learn network security basics and the ethics of hacking, but CEO Thubten Comerford says he will stop referring to the place as a "Hacker Summer Camp" because of the negative connotations associated with "hacker." He made his decision after an article in the Denver Post quoted him as "admitting" that kids could learn illegal hacking techniques at the camp, although he claims it was a misquote. In order to qualify for the program, teens would have to demonstrate their hacking abilities on a "Honeypot" network run by White Hat. Comerford assures that teaching kids ethics will be a vital part of the program. This sits well with parents who are concerned about their children's online activities, but some parents are not so sure. One parent, Angela LaGarda, says children can just as easily learn about hacking on their own. The camp is expected to open in the summer of 2003.
Voice activation is becoming a more popular feature in everyday appliances around the home as a function of the technology's decreasing cost and increasing sophistication. Chips that enable voice commands have dropped dramatically in price, with specialty chipmakers such as Sensory able to mass-produce them for as little as $1. A range of home use and entertainment products now carry voice activation features, often as a differentiator from competing products. Base modules from VOS Systems can turn any device powered by an AC outlet on and off, but specially programmed devices, like an MP3 player from e.Digital and Siemens' Gigaset 4215 cell phone, allow for more advanced features. One voice-controlled TV remote allows the user to program in a series of commands, such as "record TV," that would turn on the VCR, tune the TV to channel three, and activate the recording. Training devices for such uses is necessary, and gateway words must sometimes be used to avoid accidental activation, otherwise ambient noise or unintentional words may turn on the device.
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Nanotechnology--the science of manipulating atoms or molecules to form new materials--is gaining favor and investors as it moves from the realm of science fiction to scientific possibility. "The debate has shifted from 'Will it happen?' to 'When will it happen?'" notes Foresight Institute President Christine Peterson. Nanotech and its potential have been bolstered by breakthroughs such as the development of nanoscale computer circuits. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and the federal government are just a few of the organizations that have launched nanotech research efforts. The Bush administration has apportioned $604 million this year for nanotech R&D, while the Pentagon announced a five-year, $50 million plan to build an MIT laboratory designed to churn out nanotech-enhanced equipment for soldiers. Another investor is Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which has spent $40 million in nanotech funding in the last two years; part of its focus is on bio-mechanical products such as computer chips fabricated from a material similar to hemoglobin. Silicon Valley's future may hinge on nanotech, since conventional electronics are reaching the limits of silicon chip size. Shrinking electronics is especially important to NASA, given the high cost of carrying bulky computers and other equipment on space missions, as well as the impracticality of relaying computations across vast distances, given the time lag; Meyya Meyyappan of the Ames Research Center thinks nanotech research could lead to the creation of a "thinking spacecraft" with autonomous decision-making capability.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has named Leslie Daigle as the new IETF Internet Architecture Board (IAB) chair. Daigle, who works at VeriSign, has pioneering expertise in the fields of search engines, directory services, and Web services, and is now the first women ever to hold a key senior position in the IETF. The main duty of the IAB chair is to guide the macro-picture vision of protocols and methods necessary for the smooth running of the Internet. Daigle, who was IAB's executive director before becoming chair, replaces John Klensin, an Internet founder who helped design the first email and file-exchange systems. Daigle's achievements include helping to develop the tool of uniform resource identifiers (URIs)--part of the Web's foundational structure--and the creation of one of the first-ever search engines, Archie. "URIs are as fundamental to the Web as IP addresses are to the Internet," says VeriSign co-worker and IETF player Michael Mealling. In other IETF news, the new IETF Security Area director is AT&T researcher Steve Bellovin. Two new IETF Routing Area directors are AT&T's Bill Fenner and Nexsi Systems' Alex Zinen.
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In as little as five years the United States could be facing a shortage in telecommunications capacity, which would cause prices to rise in nearly all sectors and push alternative technologies to the fore. The situation that is currently shaping up, say analysts, is that telecommunications startups are dying off at a surprising rate, with remaining small companies getting limited funding. Large companies such as AT&T and SBC Communications have little incentive to push innovation since much of their infrastructure is old technology and would be made obsolete faster. Some experts say that, if not addressed soon, the continuing increase in communications demand, including rapidly rising Internet use, will eclipse the current bandwidth glut. As a rule, telecommunications firms try to keep enough capacity on hand for 20 years in the future, but overbuilding during the late 1990s has led many to believe further expansion is unnecessary. On the contrary, TeleChoice says that 63 percent of network links between large cities are nearly full and could soon become overburdened if high-speed Internet applications and connections take off with consumers. The nation's dark fiber, the estimated 95 percent of infrastructure that is unused, would take a significant investment in routing equipment and setup costs to make operable.
When House members return from spring break in April, they will vote on a proposal to create a program in which IT workers from both the federal and private sectors will swap jobs for a temporary period. Such an initiative would offer relief from a shortage of government IT professionals, many of whom are defecting to industry in pursuit of higher salaries. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), a co-sponsor of the proposal, adds that the shortage could worsen when more than half of all federal IT workers will reach retirement age by 2006. He says an employee exchange program would help government agencies modernize their IT resources, while Information Technology Association of America President Harris Miller believes that many companies would lend IT workers for the opportunity to study the government's inner workings. IT workers who participate in the program would continue to be paid by their primary employers. An earlier employee exchange program between the Defense Department and high-tech companies was scuttled in 1999, after people raised concerns that businesses with closer ties to federal agencies would have a competitive advantage when bidding on government contracts; such fears also play in to the current proposal. Meanwhile, companies are reticent to let valuable workers go, and are worried that the government workers may refuse to return to their old jobs.
Hackers have taken to instant messaging and Internet Relay Chat networks to spread viruses and malicious code, according to security experts. The CERT group at Carnegie Mellon University reports that tens of thousands of user systems have been infected or subject to remote control through socially engineered attacks. Hackers are using old techniques borrowed from email ploys, such as promises of free software, pornography, or other downloads, but the increasing trend is toward downloads that offer antivirus solutions. More sophisticated URL addresses that closely imitate legitimate sites are showing up as well. Jimmy Kuo of security research group McAfee says hacker groups seek to build networks of computers they can activate for denial-of-service attacks against rivals. Symantec Security Response senior director Sharon Ruckman says the new activity is just a shift to a new channel in order to circumvent increasingly effective antivirus and security software.
Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada have hit upon a form of concrete that can conduct electricity while retaining its structural integrity. This property, which James J. Beaudoin of the council's Institute of Research in Construction calls percolation, generates heat, so structures built using the substance can melt snow. This ability was tested late last year by St. Lawrence Cement, which built a snow-resistant sidewalk and loading ramp. The researchers originally investigated mixing carbon fibers into the concrete so that it would maintain its strength, but decided on coke breeze as a less expensive alternative. An even greater challenge was mixing, handling, and curing the concrete in just the right way so that its conductive properties were the same in all batches, according to project manager Mark Arnott. Government agencies in both Canada and the United States think the conductive concrete could enhance computer security, since Beaudoin and Arnott acknowledge that the substance can effectively block the electromagnetic signatures produced by computers, which spies can intercept. This could eliminate the need for a Faraday cage, and the material's efficiency is currently being researched.
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Bridgestone, the Japanese tire maker, says it has developed a special material that will halve the cost of displays and consume just a small fraction of the power used by current liquid crystal displays (LCDs). A spokesman for the firm said the company had found a fine powder that can create images 100 times faster than LCDs when floated in static electricity. Electric signals would also be able to pass through the display much easier because of the non-solid structures. The company says the new displays will also show up better under low light and not require a backlit component, saving costs and space. Bridgestone expects to release a prototype device by the third quarter and begin mass production by the end of 2003, targeting the handheld computer and cell phone markets, which need low power displays for video-streaming applications. Other firms are developing organic electroluminescence displays (OELD) that also consumer little power and generate their own light. Bridgestone says its technology and OELDs will be competitive and provide users with more display options.
The economic slowdown has hampered innovation in technology because large companies are reticent about experimenting with new research and venture capitalists are wary of funding uncertain technology concerns. "Innovation is a state of mind: the willingness to think differently," asserts MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte. Research firm Venture One says last year's $32.1 billion in venture funding showed a 65 percent drop from 2000, but still was the third-largest amount in history. However, much of that money went to prop up existing investments. Biotechnology, nanotechnology, and Internet efficiency companies are drawing some dollars, though the emphasis is still on products that are able to get to the marketplace quickly. Intel Capital's Claude Leglise says the contracting venture capital market is actually beneficial in that it ensures the best people with the best ideas receive funding.
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Speaking at a conference in Hong Kong on Wednesday, FBI assistant director Ronald Eldon told gatherers that rapidly changing technology has made it imperative that various countries share their information about cyber threats. Criminals are taking advantage of ever-new gadgets to wreak havoc with computer systems, and to react, "Government must respond not at government time but at Internet time." The ease with which information can now travel across borders using mobile devices requires that nations work on conforming legal requirements and diplomacy. Eldon suggested that a 24-hour network that currently links only some industrialized countries, allowing them to share information about cyber attacks, should also be connected to the systems of other countries, and that private industry and academia should be encouraged to assist in finding high-tech tools necessary to prevent breaches.
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Virginia has cancelled an important provision in the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), strengthening software vendors' control over contracts. The provision, which the insurance industry fought especially hard for two years ago when UCITA was adopted in that state, would allow merging companies to transfer their software contracts. Merger and acquisition activity is common in the finance and insurance industries, and being able to ensure technological interoperability and software portability is key to many deals, says Lars Kristiansen of Nationwide Insurance. Maryland, the only other state to adopt UCITA, has not included any such exemption for businesses. Critics say that canceling the provision will force companies to address the issue of contract portability when it is first being written, and that software vendors could otherwise extract "windfall" profit from licenses whenever their customers merge or are acquired.
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The Internet has helped highlight the usefulness of machine translation (MT), a technology that has improved very little since the 1970s. With the emergence of the World Wide Web, companies realize there will be people who communicate in other languages who visit their Web sites, and that they need to make their online presence multilingual. Indeed, 57 of the 100 largest companies in America had multilingual sites in 2000, up from 33 percent in 1999. Meanwhile, an increasing number of Internet users do not speak English; this year, 32 percent of Web users are expected to be English speakers, down from 48 percent in 2000. Unfortunately, the quality of MT technology--systems that use computers to translate languages--has not gotten any better of late, but expectations for MT will soar as a result of the Web. Every Internet user can now take advantage of MT, but people will eventually demand faster translations, and better results. In this regard, the Internet does not help MT, considering slang, colloquial language, and ungrammatical constructions of Web pages, chat rooms, and emails would hamper the effectiveness of the technology. At the same time, the Internet will make it easier for MT companies to improve the technology as Web-based companies standardize the content of their documents and as translators pool their work to create a database of previously translated content.
New director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Arden Bement has made it a priority to have more people recognize his agency's contributions to the country's quality of life. Raising NIST's profile will help garner additional funding, an important consideration when many R&D initiatives could be scaled back in order to satisfy a White House directive to address homeland security. Many of the last century's key technologies would not have been developed and standardized without NIST, including semiconductors, computers, and satellite communications. Emerging technologies that Bement singles out as important centers of NIST research include nanotechnology and quantum computing. But the agency is not shirking its duty to homeland security, and is pursuing standards for technology used to irradiate mail, find nuclear material or biological-chemical agents, and secure airports, among other things. It also assists other groups, such as the EPA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. NIST has a staff of over 3,000, and is located at a headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md., and a facility in Boulder, Colo. Many staff members are culled from post-doctoral fellowships and international exchange programs.
The progress of nanotechnology and the applications that stem from it is going forward thanks to the development of technology that helps scientists clearly understand and direct atomic behavior; indeed, the nanotech era may arrive sooner than skeptics expect because of such progress. Researchers are gaining insight on the interactions of matter with devices and techniques such as the scanning probe microscope, the nanomanipulator, and physical vapor synthesis, which can also be used to manipulate molecular structure and thus change existing substances or create new ones. More nanomaterials are being produced for less money, which will lead to nanoscale products of higher quality. Also pushing nanotech progress forward is more public money; increased research and development, both in national/corporate laboratories and academic institutions; cross-fertilization among scientists; and academic and federal researchers spinning off their work into the commercial sector through statutes such as the National Competitiveness Technology Transfer Act and the Bayh-Dole Act. Computers employed in nanotech research are becoming more powerful, a development that is itself being fueled by nanotech. Furthermore, venture capitalists are eager to exploit new technologies, while companies are investing in nanotech to hone their competitive edge. Finally, more advanced software is driving nanotech, and more industries recognize that the technology is critical to their development and are making investments and modifications based on that assumption.
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George Wang has a grand vision: Asian investors trading online into Australia – millions of them.
He picked up a stock exchange licence from the carcass of the Austock group in 2008 and is determined to launch his own exchange in Australia this year, specifically designed to attract Chinese investors.
"Our exchange will be built as an alternative to Shenzhen, Shanghai and Hong Kong Stock Exchange. " Wang makes the point Chinese companies need to grow and there are more than can be accommodated in China alone.
His vision for an Asia-Pacific stock exchange is a vehicle to allow Chinese investors to trade online into Asian companies listed in Australia as a way to gain a foothold in the West.
And the Chinese-born Australian has the money, determination and political influence to pull the audacious plan off.
Having recently dined with Victorian Premier
The idea for the exchange, which flourished during the Beijing Olympics where Wang was a principal sponsor of the Australian team, is now taking serious shape.
The APSX had its listing rules approved by federal Treasury last year and is now having its business rules and computer systems tested by ASIC.
Wang has poached former ASX executives David Lawrence and Sharmila Hedge and appointed former ASX director
The exchange has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese broker, China Development Bank Securities, has also opened an office in Shenzhen and is preparing further agreements for companies such as Wang's Singapore-listed AIMS AMP Capital Industrial REIT to list on the exchange.
Wang also considers that a key is to the exchange's success will be to allow the Chinese investors to trade in Chinese currency to minimise costs and barriers to investment.
"Like all investors, Chinese investors prefer to trade in their own currency that they know and are comfortable with," he says.
Parliamentary secretary to the Treasurer
Oh, and he better remove the photos of him with a beaming Queenslander
Aside from being adept at political diplomacy, Wang is extremely confident that politicians will "get it".
"It will promote Australia as a hub to introduce Asia to the Western world. They can set up a presence here, so that will bridge the gap," the enthusiastic Wang says.
"It will create a lot of jobs; a lot of capital will flow to Australia," he says, sipping green tea in the lobby of Melbourne's Crown Promenade Hotel at a recent stockbrokers' conference.
While people have warned Wang against starting an exchange in the current volatile market, the man who arrived in Australia in 1988 as a 26-year-old with only $3000 to his name is used to beating the odds.
After arriving in Sydney, Wang built his mortgage investment company AIMS Financial Group from nothing. It has now raised more than $4 billion from capital markets and was involved in the controversial takeover of property fund manager MacarthurCook in 2009.
Wang has long knocked on the door of the BRW Rich List with an estimated wealth of more than $116 million.
He is also influential as an adviser to a number of Chinese government bodies and deputy president of the International Trade Council of China and president of the Australia-China Finance and Investment Council.
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100th Day of School: Paper Quilt
Celebrate your progress over 100 days of school with this paper quilt project, creating one square for every school day so far! It's easy—simply color in and cut out the squares, then paste them onto a piece of construction paper to create this celebratory quilt.
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In 2006, the municipality of Venice requested bids for a project to make use of an abandoned vineyard and estate on the teeny, dreamy island of Mazzorbo. Winemaker Gianluca Bisol focused his winning proposal on reviving the Veneto's native Dorona grape, which hadn't been used to make wine commercially since the Renaissance. Bisol converted the old manor house into a simple, lovely wood-beamed inn filled with Venetian antiques. Some of the A-frame rooms feel like they're in a tree house.


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Everything, the staff were friendly and all spoke English.the hotel was warm and welcoming. The restaurant food was good and reasonable priced.the beds and pillows were comfy. No English TV channels exept International news buts thats usually the case in Europe.
excelent quiet location very attentive staff
New, good standard, comfortable. Good breakfast. Nice playground for the children.
Luxury and quiet. Great place to relax and recreation activity during your business trip. Nicely located near the Szyndzielnia mountain.
the staff were very nice. we were charged 50 zlote (12 euros) for toast for 2 people and when i questioned the bill to see was there some kind of mistake, i was told there wasn't. i would not recommend eating in this hotel unless you want to be ripped off.
Definitely the best 3 star hotel i've ever slept it. Food delicious - invoice value was not..
Very nice hotel, close to the center of Bielsko-Biala, room very clean and breakfast wonderful. Prices of the minibar very good.
wonderful location , caring staff , cozy smoking in cafe areas
Breakfast was poor.
Service great, room very nice, food in restaurant very good. Location fine so long as you have your own transport
The staff, the pool and breakfast The room was grim, badly furnished, and depressing
The hotel itself was situated in a lovely area One of the staff members wasn't very useful or helpful. The dinner that was included was slightly misleading as it was finished by 5pm and therefore I could not take advantage of it
Comfortable hotel with good facilities, nice pool and spa. Comfortable air conditioned rooms. Food good quality and helpful staff.
A delightful hotel with an amazing spa and a first-class menu, including Chateau wines at great prices. Delightfully located in the a green, well-to-do neighbourhood just outside the non-descript city. The only thing that detracts a bit from the comfort is the knowledge that it's less than 20 kms. from Auschwitz,,, But that's not the fault of the hotel... As elsewhere in Poland, people have difficulty making themselves understood in languages other than Polish (and Russian). But the yonger generation is correcting this in a hurry.
Pool was lovely. Comfort rooms spacious. Pool only open from 3pm. (Not sure if it says on your website, and it was not relevant to us, but pool only for over 12 years old). Staff did not try to sort our requests in a satisfactory manner.
Beds were the best we had slept in. Breakfast very good. I will say that Booking.com must be able to tell a 'twin room' from a double, but the hotel sorted it out for you, much to their credibility.. I enjoyed my stay very much Gwenda krop I was travelling with my 22 year old granddaughter. asked originally for a twin room, and after several emails stating a 'twin room' which means a room with 2 single beds, we were given a 'double room' then a queensize bed room!!! My granddaughter certainly doesn't want to sleep with her grandmother.... BUT the Hotel was very good and fixed our problem, I have no fault with them at all. I think the web site needs pore options available. Thankyou Gwenda Krop
Staff was excellent and helpful. Reception is open 24 hr / day. Hotel is located near international roads, far from the center, so it was really quiet and nice surroundings, very green. Breakfast all the same but good. We had clean but worn out towels. Breakfast wasn't included into the price and a little bit overpriced. No transport to the downtown, only taxi (quite cheep, but anyway). Not for a long stay.
Reception staff very friendly, polite and helpful. Hotel was clean, pleasant and quiet.
Friendly staff,good basic food,helpful English-speaking receptionists. Beds need new matresses.
It is conviniently located near some international roads, the reception is open 24 hr / day. The room wasn't very clean, pillows had strange smell and luckily we stayed there just for one night.
Silence and comfort. Wireless internet.
Everything was perfect. Staff was very frendly. Food in the restautant was perfect.
Cheap & clean hotel for 1 night's stay breakfast wasn't included into the price
the staff were extremely helpful, the breakfast was lovely no
Cousy place with rather fantastic chief & kitchen
Good service and cleanness, value for money
Excellent value for money even at 3.3Pl to the pound. The breakfast buffet was outstanding. The price of the room should be quoted in the local currency otherwise hoteliers can wait until you arrive and set their own price.
Clean, quiet,professional.
excellent breakfast, room clean football match cripted
Gabriela and Joanna were so helpful and friendly, they were able to communicate our wishes to Taxi drivers and gave us very good advice on places of interest to visit while we were in Poland, they made our stay very welcoming and we were very Happy there. the staff were very helpfull and friendly and spoke good English. Would return again.
There was no gym. I am training for a 1/2 marathon race and there was no where to work out. I had to run outside and there was really no where that was conducive to running outside either.
There is no access to outdoor cafe . Smoking is allowed in the hotel lobby.
I found this hotel on booking.com but all the reviews were in Polish (I think). This was a very special trip involving finding family that had not been met before. All the hotel reviews that I found in this location had foreign language reviews so it was a lucky dip. What a good choice. The hotel was excellent choice and is highly recommended should you wish to visit this area in Poland. All the the services provided by the warm and friendly staff were excellent. The food was first class. As we do not speak Polish it was important that either the staff or the menu should have an English translation. We were impressed because both was true.
The welcome was excellent as was the room and breakfast. A great location and excellent value for money.
Beautiful location, really nice hotel for money.
value for money jacuzzi and sauna took a long time to warm up when people were not using it before us, thin walls between rooms
1 night stay does not give much time to have any oppinion, but I liked the breakfast
Improve english comunication in the Reception.
The room was very comfortable. The restaurant was a lovely place to eat breakfast and the breakfast itself was excellent.
Hotel Receptionist, particulary on arrival, was very helpful. Let us change rooms as we preferred to be on the quiet side of the hotel. Location was good, both for visiting the area generally, public transport and also convenient for town and restaurants. Free Car Parking. Breakfast was a very limited choice, same minimal warm food every day. Had to ask staff to refill serving bowls almost every day. The lack of Air Conditioning meant the room was too hot as outside day temperature was over 30 degrees which made the room uncomfortable at night. Air Con is supposed to be ready for September! Wedding Reception on last night which was very noisy untl 04.30 am. No advance warning was given.
Excellent facilities and very friendly staff. The location close to the railway station makes the hotel a good base to explore the Beskid Mountains
Very nice room, heigh ceiling, friendly staff. The breakfast was good but extremely limited choice. I felt Like I was eating the leftovers.
The staff were fantastic, always polite and very helpful. All the staff seem to speak English and acted very professionally. The rooms were nice, but a double bed is made of two single beds, also the bed linen was made for single beds.
The room was very comfortable and furnished with style (even though a little small), the breakfast excellent. Very good quality-offer ratio for the offer I got.
Good value for money
Excellent room, good price, Free WiFi, friendly staff, central location. No gym (I used good gym in shopping centre for 15Pln - don't forget a towel). Limited choice at breakfast
Central location, good standard of decor Traffic noise at the front of the building. Lack of air-conditioning would be a problem in hot weather.
Really nice. Not a single slice of cake available at breakfast.


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A few years ago the Blue Room went through a purple patch of domestic comedy/dramas by young, rising artists. House of Fun, Jack + Jill and, in particular, Pride, perfectly suited the precocious talents of their writers, directors and actors, and found inventive ways of saying something genuine about the lives of 20-somethings.
The devisers and performers Holly Garvey and Violette Ayad, working with director Ian Sinclair and Georgia King's Little y Theatre Company, have returned to that territory with Rabbithead, and it shares many of those earlier productions' strengths.
Nowhere more so than in its opening, a fluffy sequence with a twist in its neck that leaves housemates Holly and Violette (the characters keep the actors' names) with a problem that badly needs burying.
After all the early fun, and some snappy vamping - Garvey does a mean Ann- Margret (although she mightn't realise it) - things get a little dishevelled. It's not so much that the script gets silly as that it won't let the silliness go. So, for example, Violette's boyfriend Bottle-o Rob is a bit of a cockroach - well, no, he IS one - but the metaphors are carried a little too far, and get a little too convoluted. Eventually you get the feeling Sinclair, Garvey and Ayad know what's going on rather better than we do.
That's OK, though. Even if Rabbithead is a bit underformed, it's easy to enjoy Garvey and Ayad's talent and Tessa Darvey's fine, funny set and the zest of the whole exercise. It's already well worth a look, and I suspect will be even more so once its nuts and bolts get tightened.
The early show at the Blue Room, Levon J Polinelli's Werewolf Priest, in which the eponymous pastor of a small village (Sven Ironside) is both the perpetrator and victim of some lycanthropic shenanigans put to music, is emphatically not the next Rocky Horror Show.
The songs (composed by the busy Ash Gibson Greig) are all like minor ballads from Phantom of the Opera, and, apart from Magnus Danger Magnus' rollicking turn as a narcissistic, self-promoting explorer, and a zany splatter film ending, I'm afraid there isn't much to write home about.
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Cats like to scratch. They scratch during play. They scratch while stretching. They scratch to mark territory or as a threatening signal other cats. And because cats' claws need regular sharpening, cats scratch on things to remove frayed, worn outer claws and expose new, sharper claws. Unfortunately, all this scratching can cause a lot of damage to furniture, drapes and carpeting!
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BELLEVUE, WA — Already the United States' largest operator with approximately 47,000 locations in all 50 states, Coinstar Inc. will put even greater distance between itself and its next-largest competitor with the planned purchase of The Amusement Factory LLC later this year. The Amusement Factory is the nation's second largest operator with more than 14,000 locations.
Coinstar has signed a definitive agreement to purchase substantially all of the operators' assets for approximately $36 million in shares of Coinstar common stock.
Specializing in bulk vending, cranes and kiddie rides, The Amusement Factory (Van Nuys, CA), reported gross revenues of $60 million in 2004. Coinstar will not assume any of The Amusement Factory's existing debt. Officials said the purchase price was based in part on a standard evaluation formula that includes a five-times-EBIDTA basis.
The resulting company will offer location customers the efficiency of dealing with a single vendor for multiple machine types, and increase Coinstar's purchasing power and market clout considerably. AF is Coinstar's second major acquisition following the 2004 purchase of Denver-based American Coin Merchandising Inc. (dba Sugarloaf) for $235 million in cash. In 2003, ACMI purchased New York-based Folz Vending, a nationwide bulk specialist with $50 million in annual revenues, for an undisclosed sum.
The purchase of The Amusement Factory is expected to close in mid to late fourth quarter of this year. TAF founder and CEO Fred Simon will remain president of the acquired company and Randy Fagundo will continue to serve as president of ACMI. The two companies are expected to merge logistical support and administration after a period of independent operations. A single bulk vending entity will probably emerge; Simon appears slated to head that division.
Coinstar and The Amusement Factory have an estimated 3,000 overlapping locations. TAF's prime sites include Wal-Mart and Kroger Co. Following the deal's completion, the combined management expects to boost "route density" by placing more Coinstar and ACMI machines in TAF locations, and likewise more of TAF's equipment in Coinstar/ACMI locations. "Cross-selling was a big part of why Coinstar acquired ACMI," said Fagundo. "That same strategy obviously applies with this deal as well." Simon said the two men had been discussing a possible merger since 2001, well before Coinstar's acquisition of ACMI.
Both Coinstar and The Amusement Factory have extensive field services operations, including staff, regional offices and warehouse facilities. Cost savings will accrue from facility consolidation, improved route servicing and enhanced logistics management to boost efficiency and eliminate redundancies, officials said. Field integration of the two companies is expected to start in the second quarter of 2006 and be substantially complete by the end of next year. Fagundo and Simon said they will combine the best practices from both companies.
Coinstar expects this transaction to be slightly accretive to Adjusted Earnings Per Share within the first 12 months, excluding the effects of the amortization of intangible assets. Coinstar will obtain an independent valuation of certain of The Amusement Factory's tangible and intangible assets which will enable Coinstar to determine purchase price allocations, including amounts assigned to inventories, intangible assets and goodwill. As a result, reported GAAP earnings per share will be impacted by the noncash accounting charges related to such amortization of intangible assets.
The size of Coinstar's and TAF's combined operations means the new entity will achieve unprecedented scale for a non-arcade chain amusements/bulk operation. Yet officials believe Coinstar/ACMI has blended the best of a large national firm – economies of scale, world-class business management and financial clout – with the zealous, local service that keeps locations happy and profitable. Functions such as purchasing, merchandising and accounting are handled at the national headquarters. Fagundo said ACMI currently maintains 37 offices across the country, but they are organized as independent business units. Regional and general managers are compensated based on the profitability of their individual unit, and route managers are paid on commission.
Fagundo and Simon said they would continue to support a range of industry manufacturers and plush, prize and merchandise suppliers. No determination has been made yet as to whether the company would institute a route-wide hike in vend prices.
Coinstar launched in the San Francisco Bay area the early 1990s with self-service coin-to-cash machines, charging an 8.9% fee on each transaction. Today some of its kiosks also vend prepaid card services, or allow the purchase of gift cards or eCertificates from national retailers, without incurring a coin-counting fee.


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Historic Nelson Mandela Poster
An historic poster from India honoring Nelson Mandela for resisting compromise with the Apartheid South African government in the 23rd year of his incarceration is on display at the San José Peace and Justice Center.
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An historic poster honoring Nelson Mandela in the 23rd year of his incarceration by the Apartheid government of South Africa is now on display in the San José Peace and Justice Center. The poster was printed in Hindi in 1985 by the solidarity organization Contemporary Third World in New Delhi, India.
Facing an escalating revolutionary situation across South Africa, in February 1985 President Peter Botha offered Mandela release from prison on condition that he "unconditionally rejected violence as a political weapon." Mandela refused. The poster was issued specifically in solidarity with Mandela's historic decision.
The poster honors "Nelson Mandela who despite 23 years in prison torture turned down an offer to be released with conditions." It then reproduces "Mandela's message in the name of the people to the white racist government."
It would be over four additional years before he would be finally freed on the eve of the fall of Apartheid.
The poster is titled "South Africa's liberation struggle against white rule." It was collected by the author at a time when public awareness of Nelson Mandela and the nature of South African Apartheid was far greater in India than it was in the United States.
Mandela passed away on December 5, 2013 at the age of 95. He was honored by a state funeral attended by many world leaders in the village of his childhood, Qunu.
The San José Peace and Justice Center salutes Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Nelson Mandela presente!
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When you think about Nelson Mandela, you probably think about freedom — free people, free country, free speech. What may be overshadowed by Mr. Mandela's extraordinary legacy was his complicated journey to support free markets and a free economy.
When Mr. Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he told his followers in the African National Congress that he believed in the nationalization of South Africa's main businesses. "The nationalization of the mines, banks and monopoly industries is the policy of the A.N.C., and a change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable," he said at the time.
Two years later, however, Mr. Mandela changed his mind, embracing capitalism, and charted a new economic course for his country.
The story of Mr. Mandela's evolving economic view is eye-opening: It happened in January 1992 during a trip to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Mr. Mandela was persuaded to support an economic framework for South Africa based on capitalism and globalization after a series of conversations with other world leaders.
"They changed my views altogether," Mr. Mandela told Anthony Sampson, his friend and the author of "Mandela: The Authorized Biography." "I came home to say: 'Chaps, we have to choose. We either keep nationalization and get no investment, or we modify our own attitude and get investment."
Inside South Africa, Mr. Mandela's quick reversal was viewed with skepticism, and questions have long persisted about whether he was somehow pressured by the West to open up the country's economy.
However, according to Tito Mboweni, a former governor of the South African Reserve Bank, who accompanied Mr. Mandela to Davos, Mr. Mandela's change of heart was genuine.
When they arrived in Davos, where Mr. Mandela was scheduled to speak, "We were presented with a speech, prepared by some well-meaning folks at the A.N.C. office" in Johannesburg that focused on "nationalization as A.N.C. policy," Mr. Mboweni recounted in a letter to the Sunday Independent newspaper in South Africa late last year. "We discussed this at some length and decided that the content was inappropriate for a Davos audience."
"So I drafted a short message for the audience," he added. "That message was about how the A.N.C. intended to achieve social justice for the majority black people: decent housing, health care, decent education, public transport, access to clean water, sanitation and access to what I called 'the means of production,' that is, the creation of a black business class. That is all. No capitulation."
But as the five-day conference of high-level speed-dating wore on, Mr. Mandela soon decided he needed to reconsider his long-held views: "Madiba then had some very interesting meetings with the leaders of the Communist Parties of China and Vietnam," Mr. Mboweni wrote, using Mr. Mandela's clan name. "They told him frankly as follows: 'We are currently striving to privatize state enterprises and invite private enterprise into our economies. We are Communist Party governments, and you are a leader of a national liberation movement. Why are you talking about nationalization?' "
"It was those decisive moments which made him think about the need for our movement to seriously rethink the issue," Mr. Mboweni said.
Mr. Mandela's push toward free markets opened up his country to become the fastest growing in Africa and eventually brought in billions of dollars of investment from large companies outside the country. Barclays, for example, acquired Absa, South Africa's largest consumer bank, in 2005. Iscor, the country's largest steel maker, was sold to Lakshmi Mittal's LNM in 2004. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China bought a big stake in Standard Bank, South Africa's largest financial services company, in 2008. And Massmart, a South African supermarket chain, sold a majority stake to Walmart in 2011.
Mr. Mandela himself also embraced the big money charity that can only be delivered by billionaire capitalists. He became a friend of Bill and Melinda Gates, who have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the region; Theodore J. Forstmann, the buyout executive and philanthropist; and Richard Branson, the entrepreneur, among others.
But for all of Mr. Mandela's embrace of capitalism and free markets, as demonstrated though his policy called GEAR (Growth, Employment and Redistribution), the results raise more questions than answers about its success.
South Africa has certainly grown, but at an annual 3.2 percent clip from 1993 to 2012, far below other emerging countries like China and India. And the gap between the haves and have-nots is now higher than it was when Mr. Mandela became president. Inequality in South Africa is a real and growing issue.
South Africa's National Planning Commission has said that in 1995, the proportion of its citizens living below the poverty line of $2 a day was about 53 percent; the figure has gone as high as 58 percent and as low as only 48 percent.
The official unemployment rate hovers at about 25 percent and may, in truth, be much higher. According to Bloomberg News, the average white household earns six times what a black one does. Among young black men, unemployment is close to 50 percent. Whites still hold nearly three-quarters of all management jobs.
"There is still a war between capital and labor," Irvin Jim, the general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, said on the South African Broadcasting Corporation's The Big Debate program in September, according to The Africa Report magazine. "Nothing has changed. During the struggle, workers fought for a living wage, but the apartheid wage gap is still there." The average white wage is 19,000 rand ($1,900) a month, he said, but for blacks it is just 2,500 rand. "What does that buy? Inferior squatter camps, inferior goods, inferior everything."
Mr. Mandela may have ended apartheid and years of awful violence, but his dream of creating a country that, as he said, is "a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities" may still remain a dream that capitalism and free markets have yet to solve.


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The average San Antonio family had an income of $51,486 last year, up from just over $49,000 in 2011 1200 WOAI news reports.
"Compared to some of the other metro areas, that's good, because most of the other metros saw a fall from 2007," the Census Bureau's Edward Welniak told 1200 WOAI news.
In fact, the report shows many of us are actually better off today than before the Great Recession, because while our household incomes have risen while other cities have held relatively steady or fallen, and the local cost of living remains well below the national average.
Incomes in Dallas and Houston, while higher than San Antonio's at $56,900 and $55,900 respectively, did not increase over the past two years.
In fact, for the first time ever, San Antonio's metro household income is now higher than the statewide average of just over $50,000.
:"Your median rent, for example, is about $1200 lower than the national average," he said.
The median gross rent (rent plus utilities) in San Antonio in 2012 was $828, compared with a national average of $925.
About 17.3% of San Antonio residents live below the poverty line, a little higher than the national average of 15.5%, but declining. In fact, Texas was one of two states which saw net declines in the number of residents living in poverty in the 2012 community survey. Nationwide, the poverty rate remained relatively stable. 18.9% of metro San Antonians lack health insurance, which is higher than the national average.
Interestingly, 12% of San Antonians are foreign born, a number which is actually lower than the 14.8% of all 25 major metro areas studied.
Among the San Antonio population 25 and older, 83.7% had completed high school last year, slightly lower than the national average. But the percentage of San Antonio residents who have completed a bachelor's degree in 2012, 26.5%, was significantly lower than the national average of 31.2%


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Angle droop versus frequency droop in a voltage source converter based autonomous microgrid
Majumder, Ritwik, Ghosh, Arindam, Ledwich, Gerard F., & Zare, Firuz (2009) Angle droop versus frequency droop in a voltage source converter based autonomous microgrid. In Chisholm, William (Ed.) IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting 2009, 26-30 July 2009, Calgary Telus Conventional Centre, Calgary.
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This paper compares the performance of angle and frequency droops in an autonomous microgrid that only contains voltage source converter (VSC) interfaced distributed generators (DGs). As a VSC can instantaneously change output voltage waveform, power sharing in a microgrid is possible by controlling the output voltage angle of the DGs through droop. The angle droop is able to provide proper load sharing among the DGs without a significant steady state frequency drop in the system. It is shown that the frequency variation with the frequency droop controller is significantly higher than that with the angle droop controller. The angle droop controller is derived from DC load flow. Both the angle and frequency droop controllers are designed through eigenvalue analysis. The performance of these two controllers is then performed through PSCAD simulations.
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Religion in History
Religious/ historical milestones in ethics
2400BC Egyptian Book of the Dead - weighing of hearts to determine worthiness. The non-worthy were usually pictured as eaten by a monster, ending their chances for an afterlife. In another version (anticipating Hindu ideas), souls of the wicked were supposed to pass into the bodies of animals before returning for another chance at human life. This would happen after they had traversed every animal species, a journey believed to last 3000 years.
1750BC Hammurabi's Law Code: "eye for an eye" justice aids the weak and poor
1300BC Moses' Ten Commandments
600-500BC - many advances in ethics:
Confucius' version of The Golden Rule (...don't do to others)
Zoroaster promulgated a heaven/ hell afterlife, based on behavior in life
Jeremiah/ other prophets - preached a sense of individual responsibility for evil
Hindu Upanishads - theory of rebirths based on prior life goodness
Buddha took outcasts into his order, defying Hindu tradition
100BC Writings of Jewish Pharisees that are strikingly similar to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, including returning evil deeds with good, forgiveness
30AD Jesus' teachings that all persons are of equal value, washing of feet by a leader
1215 Magna Carta - limits on the rights of rulers (follows public revulsion to Henry II' s 1170 murder of Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury)
1789 French Revolution: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" - execution of the king
1948 United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After pushing for her husband's New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt as UN delegate pushed through this Declaration.
Family tree of world's religions (Confucian thought is not really a religion)
Primitive religions worldwide have similar characteristics (1-5 below)
Most modern religions have roots in Indo-European (central Asian) culture:
- First Hindu writing is Rig-Veda, developed by Aryan invaders c1500BC.
- Aryan migrants to Iran about the same time have gods and chants similar to those in the Rig-Veda. Zoroaster c600BC selects one god as Lord Wisdom, opposed by an evil force. He says man can choose to do good or bad, and goes to heaven or hell accordingly. Zoroastrianism becomes the state religion of the huge Persian empire. One group influenced by its thinking are the Jews, captive in Babylon from 586--538BC.
- Other Aryan migrants to Europe take a similar group of gods with them. These become the gods of ancient Greece, Rome, and northern Europe. These religions are eventually abandoned in favor of Christianity.
- Later Hindu writing in the Upanishads develops a theory of cycles of rebirth, based on the morality of one's previous earthly life. Buddha builds on these ideas c 500BC. While Buddhist thought gradually loses out to Hinduism in India, missionaries make it the dominant religion in China and East Asia.
- Jewish religion, influenced by Zoroastrianism, becomes a major inspiration to Christianity 30AD and Islam 622AD. Some feel that pharaoh Akhenaten's monotheism influenced Hebrew thinking.
- The Muslim Koran makes quite clear its roots in Jewish and Christian theology.
Functions of religion (Items 1-5 in many primitive religions)
1. Explain/ influence the universe (taken over by science)
2. People's love for ritual (often hoping to influence their future)
3. Cultural heritage/ stories
4. Promote respect for leaders and privileged elite
5. Define role of humans in the natural world (as in Taoism)
Deeper philosophical thinking, typical of more advanced religions:
6. Asking for help from a higher power (prayer) Most scientists today do not believe in this.
7. Question of what happens after death
8. Explanation for suffering and evil
9. System of ethics (questions of universality, human rights, moral absolutism vs changes over time, ways of promoting good actions)
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An Alabama teacher has been questioned by the Secret Service after using the hypothetical assassination of President Barack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geometry students, The Birmingham News reports.
A Secret Service official tells the newspaper that agents "talked to the gentleman," did not find a credible threat, and have closed the investigation.
Officials said the Jefferson County geometry teacher was apparently teaching students about parallel lines and angles and used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama.
"He was talking about angles and said, 'If you're in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,' " said Joseph Brown, a senior in the geometry.
The paper says it could not reach the unidentified Corner High School teacher for comment.
School Superintendent Phil Hammonds says there are no plans to fire him.
"We are going to have a long conversation with him about what's appropriate," Hammonds tells The News. "It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words."
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