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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the head of another party backed down on Wednesday and agreed to let Green Party leader Elizabeth May into the country's election debates for the first time.
It is a major victory for the Greens, who have been trying to be treated on an equal basis with the four parties that have official status in the House of Commons. The Greens have one seat in the House, a member who was originally elected as a Liberal.
"My views are those of overwhelming gratitude to the tens of thousands of Canadians who protested vehemently," May said after hearing word opposition had been dropped to her taking part in the televised party leaders' debates on October 1 and 2.
New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, who vies with the Greens for voters supporting much tougher action on the environment, gave in after a large number of e-mails and questions on the campaign trail.
"I have only one condition for this debate, that the prime minister is there, because I want to debate the issues with him. I don't want to be debating the debate forever. It has become a distraction from the real issues," Layton said.
In opposing participation by the Greens, Harper's Conservatives had argued that they were too close to the Liberal Party, the biggest opposition party. But the Conservatives backed down after Layton's decision.
May and Liberal leader Stephane Dion both advocate a carbon tax, and Harper has said May would tend to take more votes from the parties on the left. However May insists she draws support from all points on the political spectrum.
The broadcasting consortium that runs the debates later agreed to include her in the debates.
Election day is October 14.
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Petkovic suffers knee injury at Hopman Cup
Andrea Petkovic's 2013 campaign has suffered a potentially catastrophic setback before the new year has even begun, with the German struck down by a knee injury at the mixed teams Hopman Cup yesterday.
The injury-plagued Petkovic appeared hampered by a right knee problem late in the opening stanza of her singles match against Australian teenager Ashleigh Barty, but still managed to win the first set 6-4.
The former top 10 player sought treatment at the end of the first set and broke down in tears while being attended by the trainer.
With her right knee heavily strapped she returned to the court, but the 25-year-old did not even manage to play another point, instead retiring from the match in tears, throwing her upcoming Australian Open campaign into serious doubt.
Petkovic had been ranked as high as ninth in the world in 2011, but slipped outside the top 100 this year due to injuries, with back and ankle problems seeing her end the year at 126 in the rankings after playing just 23 matches for the season.
She had surgery on a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee in 2008 and last year tore the meniscus in the same knee.
Her retirement handed Australia a 3-0 win in the Group A tie, with the Germans forfeiting the mixed doubles and Bernard Tomic earlier beating Tommy Haas in three sets.
Earlier on the opening day, the Spanish pairing of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Fernando Verdasco notched a 2-1 win over South Africa in sweltering heat.
The singles rubbers were split in the Group B tie, with Medina Garrigues beating Chanelle Scheepers and Kevin Anderson upsetting Verdasco before the Spaniards proved too strong in the deciding mixed doubles.
The fourth seeds for the eight-nation tournament, Verdasco and Medina Garrigues, won the doubles in a match tiebreak, 6-4, 6-7 (3/7), 10-8 on a day where the mercury reached 40C (104F).
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I have just received both pieces and I am delighted with them.
Thank you. Excellent service. Very pleased.
Hi Nancy,
I've received my gorgeous demi and I am delighted with it. Talk about
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worn. I've been buying jewelry over the internet for many years, but I have never received a purchase so well-packed! If you need a reference for a very
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Hello Nancy,
The little Dutch boy Ginny arrived today and he is just so adorable. I now
have a boyfriend for my little Dutch girl Ginny. Thank you for the prompt
I love him.
Bonjour Nancy!
I just received the Sunny Pastels outfit this afternoon.
It is beautiful! So clean, so crispy, in such an excellent condition, just
as it was in the picture.
Thank you, and I will certainly shop again in your boutique on Ruby Lane!
See you ;-)
PS - Skipper is wearing it, and she just looks great!
Hello, Today I received my beautiful fuchsia-colored Juliana brooch. It is even prettier than your pictures! I am very pleased
I was greatly surprised to have Meg arrive so quickly! She was delivered yesterday, and I opened the box this morning. She's quite the beauty and completes my set of Julie Good-Kruger/Little Women dolls. Thanks so much!
Hi Nancy, Just wanted to let you know that I rec'd the green
dangle Juliana brooch today. It's very lovely. It matches the
bracelet that I have. Onto the earrings next!!
Hello Nancy I just wanted to let you know this arrived on Friday.
It's lovely - thanks!
Received Debby yesterday just fine. She is a sweet doll and I
love the handmade dress. Thanks for sending her carefully
packaged. It makes a difference for sure.
Hi, Received the Matisse Renoir pin and earrings set today and I am THRILLED! Thank you for a WONDERFUL vintage set that I will enjoy owning and wearing for many years. GREAT packing and FAST delivery!!!
Jill arrived today and she is absolutely gorgeous! She is my only Jill doll and I couldn't be more pleased with the purchase. Thank you also for getting her here so quickly. Nancy, thank you for allowing me to put Ginny on lay away and for selling your beautiful dolls.
I received Jill and she is as lovely as you described her.
I am very pleased with her.
Thank you very much.
Received the Cissette, so very pleased!!! LOVELY!!! And, that was fast shipping!!!
Received the Dollikin!! Thanks for the fast shipping!!! She is very lovely!!! In the cabinet w/her other Uneeda Dollikin friends!!!
So very happy!!!
I apologize for not contacting you sooner. I really just want to thank you for the Alan doll, he's in lovely condition and I'm very pleased with him:) Thank you also for the lay-away which made that possible!
Thank you for the lovely brooch.
I appreciate the careful packing.
Hi Nancy,
Received the lovely earring today! Thanks a million.
I want to thank you for the beautiful Revlon doll..She is
absolutely gorgeous. Also thank you for the doll stand. I really
appreciated the note you sent on how to care for her.. Every time I
look at her I get so happy.
I am writing to give you happy news! Miss Revlon has arrived!!!!!! She is all I hoped for and am so thrilled with her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much again for allowing me to put her on layaway with you!!!! I really appreciate it and will be back again hopefully someday soon to purchase again!:))
Nancy, just letting you know that Raggedy Ann/Andy and the little green cape arrived today in perfect order, thanks to your careful wrapping. And they are WONDERFUL - even better than expected! Absolutely love every little creative stitch on those dolls!!! I am one happy customer!!! It's been a pleasure dealing with you, and I thank you for your accurate description and pictures, along with careful attention to your customer's needs. Still giving serious thought to at least one other of your 1940's Raggedy Ann/Andy sets. Have a great day!!
I got Shirley today,she is beautiful and well worth the price.
Received Barbie outfits on Saturday. They are beautiful - Thank
Nancy----the Raggedy Ann arrived here in Michigan in the morning
mail. She is a charmer. Thank you so much,
Thank you for the beautiful doll and super fast shipping! Very
pleased once again!
Hello Nancy,
The beautiful black velvet doll arrived .
Thank you ever so much for such prompt international shipping.
Velvet was very well pack and just as described.
I rec'd the Betsy and just wanted to let you know how beautiful I think she is!
Just a perfect doll, and the additional items are in perfect condition as well.
Thank you for accepting my offer. I have purchased a few dolls off the Ruby Lane website and am pleased with all of them.
They all go into individual plexiglas show containers and then into a bookcase with doors. So she will be well taken care of.
Thanks again,
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I received my necklace safe and sound and love it! Thanks so much.
Nancy----the very beautiful pearls have arrived here in Michigan.
I"m planning on wearing them to my niece"s wedding next Saturday.
Thanks again,
Received my earrings and love them. Thank you.
Hi Nancy, I am not sure if I had already emailed you to say I
received the little Patsyette doll, anyway she is adorable and
arrived in great condition thank you,
Hi Nancy
I received my doll yesterday. Thank you she is gorgeous.
Kind regards
I received my 2 Jill dolls today and they are so adorable - I just love
Thanks ever so much and have a wonderful day :)
Hello Nancy!! I just wanted you to know that I LOVE my Cissy
doll. She is absolutely fabulous and I am soooo happy. Thank you
so much for everything AND looking forward to shopping with you
again real soon!!! Hava a great weekend!!!
Hi Nancy,
Received the "brides dream" today. Thank you for accepting my offer. This is a very pristine nrfb. I love collecting vintage Barbie pre-1973. Still would like to purchase a # 1 brunette for my ongoing collection. I hope we can do business again. It has been a pleasure....
Hi, Nancy!
Oh, my gosh! My necklace arrived just now...can't believe how
beautiful it is! The craftsmanship is beyond belief. Have it on
now :-) Even my husband, who never says much, raised his brows
and commented "Wow, that's really nice!" And it arrived so
quickly! Thanks so much for helping with the price...much
appreciated. Your shop is bookmarked :-).
Warmest regards-
Hi Nancy I received my necklace and it is wonderful! Great condition, very happy with it! Thanks for getting to me so quickly!
Hi! Received the earrings yesterday. Love
Them!! Thank you!
Hello, just wanted to let you know the plum brooch arrived today.
It came packaged safe and secure and was a beautiful as the
picture. I am very happy with my purchase. Thank you.
Hi, Nancy--just a note to say that the Napier "Day to Night"
brooch arrived safely today and I am pleased to add it to my
collection. Wishing you all the best
The bracelet arrived and it is elegant and pretty! Thank you.
Hi Nancy, This is gorgeous and I will so enjoy wearing this
lovely set! Thank you for getting it here so quickly! Again love
it! Have a wonderful rest of your week and weekend!
Just a note to say thank you. I received these in perfect
condition, beautifully packaged. I'm so pleased with this set. I
can't wait to put it on display with my childhood Jill dolls.
I received the hat today - i can't believe your fast service!
Thanks very much for a nice item and great service.
Nancy, this pin arrived and it is very pretty- even better than
in person. I hadn't seen one in person before and it is really
nice. Thank you for the fast shipping.
Hi! I received the BEAUTIFUL little Lenci doll!!! I just LOVE her
so much!!! Thank you! She is just Adorable!!!
Thank you Nancy - your Jacqueline arrived and she is a very nice
doll, just as described.
No question. Just to thank you for the prompt and efficient
service. Love the earrings!
Blessings to you,
Hi there, I received Sasha Blonde Tunic and she is very
beautiful. Just wanted to thank you.
Hi Nancy: Received my ring it looks better in person. Thank you
for your courtesy and layaway.
Hi Nancy, I just wanted to let you know that I received the 2
outfits. They are both great! I'm glad I decided to buy the
navy outfit.
Hi Nancy, Just a quick note to let you know I received the BAPS
doll and am very pleased with the transaction. I'll be sure to
check into your store again.
Hi Nancy -
I just received the Nancy Ann Storybook boxed outfit.
It's beautiful! I could not be more pleased. This is -- in my humble
opinion -- such a rare find, that I can't believe I will be able to show
if off when I do a program on NASB dolls for my local doll club (in
July... I like to start prepping early).
Thanks a million. It's exactly as great as you described it to be.
Just received these bangles and they are stunning. I am very
Hi Nancy, I just received the 18" 1950's plastic doll I ordered.
It is very nice and arrived in fine condition. Thank you for your
prompt shipment of this order.
Hi Nancy, Cissy arrived safely today, thank you very much! Just
wanted to let you know she is here...
Received Jan doll today! She is so pretty! Very pleased! Thank
God bless!
My doll arrived and she is just beautiful! Thanks so much
Hi Nancy,
I just wanted to let you know that I picked up my Alexander kins
at the Post Office today. She is beautiful. Thank you for
packaging her so well.
I received the red carved bakelite bracelet. I love it! Thanks!!!
Thanks very much for the beautiful Nina ballerina, Nancy!
She arrived safely and is beautiful!
Nancy I received the doll yesterday and I like her a lot! Thank
you so much and great packing job, over the top.
The Regency bracelet I bought from you arrived today
and simply took my breath away. I've been collecting Regency for
30 years now and have a huge collection of that maker's wonderful
pieces. But I didn't have anything in this color range. This
bracelet it a stunning addition to my very-collection. It's just
gorgeous. Thank you for making it available. I'm thrilled.
Dear Nancy, I want to let you know that the bracelet arrived safely and it is a wonder piece "in person", I love it. When I opened the package, my 4 yr old grand daughter happened to be here and was eyeing it VERY closely. She wanted to know if it was for her…….I said maybe in 35 years or more, LOL
My Nancy Ann arrived yesterday! I love her! Thank you very much!
Hi Nancy, Thank you so much for the lovely Cissette doll. I
really appreciate the very fast shipping!
Fast & fab as usual. Thank you!
The dress is fabulous. I don't even have a doll for it! The
textiles were just so unusual. It truly is enough just to display
it all by itself. Thank you!
I just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with this doll bed
and bedding! You did a wonderful job in packing it up to ship.
Thanks so much.
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More than 1,000 people turned out for Eastwood's play day — making it the biggest play day Broxtowe Borough Council has ever held in the town.
The family-orientated event included pedalo boats, inflatables, puppet shows, drumming workshops, circus tricks, dance and art workshops which children of all ages could get involved with.
There were even live performances throughout the day from children's entertainers Macamu and Johnny and the Raindrops.
This was the fourth Play Day organised by Broxtowe Council this summer and Councillor Ian Tyler, portfolio holder for bringing people together, was delighted that it had been so well attended.
He said: "The council is incredibly proud of its excellent track record of providing summer play opportunities over the years which can offer families the chance to enjoy an afternoon out together, have fun and get creative all right on their doorsteps.
"The Eastwood Play Day was a brilliant event and there was a fantastic turnout, making it one of the biggest play days the council have organised in the town.
"There was a wide range of activities for both younger and older children and even the sun shone to keep spirits high."


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Paphiopedilum exul is a species of Paphiopedilum found in Asia.
Plant blooms in the summer with a single 7.5 cm wide flower.
Plants are found growing on the limestone cliffs of Krabi, Thailand at elevations of 6 to 30 meters. The area is subjected to cool winters and springs with drizzles and heavy rain during the summer and fall.
Plant should be grown in areas with bright light and cool to warm temperatures. Pot in a well drain mix such as medium fir bark and perlite. Species can tolerate many different potting mediums. Water regularly about every four to five days. Reduce watering during the winter to induce blooming. Growth can be encouraged by keeping the plant in a warm area.
Common Names:The Excluded Paphiopedilum
- Cordula exul [Ridl.] Rolfe 1912
- Cypripedium exul [Ridl.] Rolfe 1892
- *Cypripedium insigne var. exul Ridley 1891
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Elizabeth Forward falls again to South Park
Elizabeth Forward has shown it can stay with perennial WPIAL Class AA championship contender South Park.
What the Warriors haven't been able to do is beat the Eagles.
South Park (7-2-1, 7-1-1) senior Molly Shultz scored on a perfect crossing shot from 25 yards out at 12:44 of the second half to help the Trib Total Media Class AA No. 4 Eagles to a 2-1 victory over Elizabeth Forward (8-3-0, 6-2-0) to complete a season sweep of the Warriors. The loss also ended Elizabeth Forward's seven-game winning streak.
In the three years since Elizabeth Forward dropped down from Class AAA and landed in Section 4 AA, the Warriors are 0-6-0 against South Park and have been outscored 20-4.
"They're a very skilled team, a very fast-paced teams and they caught us on some mental mistakes and they took advantage," Elizabeth Forward coach Brandon Gerba said. "Simply put, they did what they needed to do to put the pressure on us and they followed through."
This loss may have been the most frustrating of all. Trailing by a goal with 6:37 remaining in regulation, junior forward Alison Pastore slammed the rebound of her own shot into the net for the apparent tying goal, but the referee immediately waved the goal off and awarded the ball to South Park on a goal kick.
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Elizabeth Forward weathered an early South Park flurry and quickly gained a territorial advantage. The Warriors had several outstanding opportunities, including a shot from sophomore forward Rachel Blackwell from 20 yards out that caromed off the crossbar 8:44 into the game and another four minutes later from 15 yards away by senior Macy Pekala that was smothered by Eagles goalkeeper Krista Mosi.
After South Park played the ball into the Warriors' zone, Pekala played the ball up quickly for an outlet pass that Pastore caught up to onside and behind the defense at the 30-yard line. Pastore dribbled for 10 more yards, then snapped off a shot that rolled just inside the left post past Mosi to give Elizabeth Forward a 1-0 lead at the 17:22 mark.
South Park tied the game when senior forward Taylor Barum picked up the loose ball along the right sideline from 25 yards out and lobbed a perfect crossing pass to the left side of the net where freshman defender Amanda Luffey headed it past junior goalkeeper Jennifer Keefer to tie the game, 1-1, at 25:56.
BV Area 11, East Allegheny 0
The Lady Leps find themselves tied atop Section 4 AA with South Park following its win.
"We were able to get a lot of girls playing time tonight," BVA coach Paul Sasko said. "We were able to work on a few things within the game as well."
Hayden Pascoe scored four times to give her a team-leading 19 goals on the season to pace BVA.
Caitlin Caldwell, Sarah McCullough, Emily Gagliardi, Maggie Lewis, Kelsy Lawson, Baylie Campbell and Heather Wells each added one goal apiece for the Lady Leps while Ashly Gagliardi recorded her ninth shutout of the season.
BVA, which has clinched a playoff spot, is at West Mifflin today in a section contest.
Ringgold 5, Albert Gallatin 1
Ringgold (6-5-1, 5-4) remains in the playoff hunt in Section 4 AAA following its win.
"It wasn't pretty but we will take it," Ringgold coach Tom Cameron said. "We will take the wins regardless of how they look."
Nicole Wills and Bailey Cooper each scored twice while Ali Dimoff added a goal.
The Lady Rams host Mt. Lebanon Wednesday in a section tilt.
South Allegheny 2, Charleroi 0
Charleroi (5-5-1, 5-3) dropped a contest to Section 2 A leader South Allegheny.
Charleroi had a "Pink Out" for Breast Cancer Awarness Month and both teams celebrated the event by getting together for a dual team photo at halftime.
The Lady Cougars, who currently hold down third place in the section, are at second place Bentworth Wednesday for a key section match.
Bentworth 3, Chartiers-Houston 3
Bentworth (8-4-1, 6-2-1) received both sides of the proverbial coin Monday night thanks to its Section 2 A tie.
The outcome means Bentworth's chances of winning a section title are all but gone, but it solidified its hold on a potential playoff spot.
Bentworth hosts Charleroi Wednesday in a section matchup.
Beth-Center 4, Monessen 0
Monessen (0-11, 0-10) dropped a Section 2 A contest at home.
The Lady Hounds are at Serra Wednesday in a section contest.
Keith Barnes is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 412-664-9161 Ext. 1977.


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Carlson: Obama Has To Accept Fox, Now That GOP Gained In Midterms
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If there's one thing Fox & Friends, Fox News' non-news morning show, likes talking about, it's how great Fox News is. This morning, the three co-hosts used Bill O'Reilly's recent interview with President Obama as an opportunity to continue pushing their absurd distinction between what counts as news, and what counts as opinion. As Media Matters has pointed out numerous times, the line between Fox's "news" reporting and its "opinion" reporting is often blurred and many times non-existent. While their primetime talking heads usually make every effort to smear Obama and Democrats with a never-ending parade of lies, distortions, and misinformation, it's in combination with the straight news echo chamber that Fox really lives up to its self-described title: the& "voice of the opposition."
This morning on Fox & Friends, we got confirmation of that fact from the unlikeliest of sources, co-host Gretchen Carlson. For some context, in his interview with O'Reilly, Obama downplayed tension with Fox, saying, "Fox News has a point of view, and I think that's part of our democracy." In the ensuing victory lap, co-host Steve Doocy and guest Laura Ingraham desperately pushed the Fox "fair and balanced" talking point. Carlson, however, made a more interesting observation:
CARLSON: It also signaled to me, Laura, that this was just one piece of the puzzle of the changing Obama since the midterm election.
INGRAHAM: Oh, yeah.
CARLSON: He has to accept Fox now based on what happened in the midterm elections. And yet, you put that up against the dichotomy of him saying that he hasn't moved to the center. So which one is it?
Now why would Obama have to accept Fox after a midterm election that featured the largest Republican electoral gains in recent history? Because Fox is fair and balanced? Or because it's the political and campaign arm of the GOP? While Doocy was trying to spin his show as a mixture of news and opinion, Carlson was proudly declaring herself the voice of the opposition.
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In case some of the Super Bowl prop bets went by so fast that you couldn't keep track, our friend R.J. Bell at pregame.com catches us up.
How long will it take Carrie Underwood to sing the National Anthem? Over/Under 1 minute and 42 seconds WINNER: OVER (1:45)
What color will the Gatorade dumped on the winning head coach be? WINNER: Orange (5 to 1, third-biggest long shot)
How many times will Archie Manning be shown on TV: over/under = 4.5 WINNER: UNDER (contrary to heavy action on "over)
How many times will Kim Kardashian be shown on TV: over/under = 2.5 WINNER: UNDER (contrary to heavy action on "over)
Will The Who smash a guitar on stage during the halftime show? No: -180 WINNER: NO
How many times will Pete Townshend do his "windmill" move? Over/Under = 6 WINNER: OVER
Who will the Super Bowl MVP "thank" first? WINNER: "does not thank anyone" (2 to 1)
MVP: WINNER: Drew Brees (3 to 1)
Score first TD?WINNER: Pierre Garcon (12 to 1)
Passing Yards by Drew Brees? WINNER: UNDER 290 (though he won MVP, 288 yards was his final total)
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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Bonds are supposed to be for the big guys. You know, the mega financials, insurers, pension funds, and the like. But there is a corner of the stock market that continues to bring bonds within the reach of individual investors. The product they use is called a mini-bond.
Mini-bonds look just like stocks and trade just like stocks, mostly on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). But they are actually bonds, not that most folks, including your broker, ever really notice. And rather than being priced and traded like traditional bonds — with $1,000 face values traded in lots of tens of thousands or millions — these trade in more manageable quantities, with face values of $25 or less.
Now here is where I need to roll out some of the fine print on these bonds that look and trade like stocks These mini-bonds have rather scary acronyms given by the banks that put them together and brought them to the market. But, behind the forbidding facades are some very investor-friendly securities.
Mini-Bond ABCs
I'll start with one type of mini-bond called Trust Preferred Securities (TruPS). These have been quietly trading for quite a while, yet haven't been on most investors' radar because they're just not widely touted by anyone.
Behaving much more like preferred stocks, these securities arise from regular everyday companies, including big utilities and other companies, which essentially issue them to bank holding companies. The holding companies then package them up as trusts and issue them to investors in the markets, just like stocks.
The bank holding companies then use the funds to invest in bonds from the issuing companies. Those bonds typically have intermediate to longer maturities, and the cash flow from the bonds is what pays dividends on the TruPS.
The process creates the advantage for the issuing company of being able to treat the TruPS stock as equity for its balance sheet without having to register the issue with the SEC, while the IRS lets the company treat the dividends as debt that allows it to reduce its tax liabilities, just like regular bonds.
So the investor benefits from the steady dividends and the advantages and security of owning a bond, and the company gets access to cheaper after-tax capital.
There are a plethora of these issues as well as other varieties of these easy-to-buy bonds with acronyms like PINEs (Public Income Notes), QUIBs (Quarterly Interest Bonds) and more.
But what makes them all similar is that they're issued to investors in sums typically amounting to $25, with calls by the issuing company at their issuance price – again typically $25. The key then is to understand the credit of the issuing company, know the current price of the TruPS, know the yield to the call price as well as the call dates.
The result is that you and I can put together a group of these bonds from a variety of industries that pay us quite well, with yields running for most from 7% to over 14%.
And even better, even though these mini-bonds trade like stocks on the NYSE, they tend to be very steady in price, even when the stock market is in a tizzy of trouble. This is mostly because nobody in trading rooms or hedge funds knows about them. And that's perfect for us.
One more thing to note: Because they are brought to the stock market by banks, some of the mini-bonds can have their names shortened and can actually have the name of the bank bringing them, rather than the company behind them. So, don't get spooked — just look behind some of the names on the stock tables to find the real issuing company.
3 Great Mini-Bond Buys
Which mini-bonds to buy now? Here are some of my favorites.
I'll start with an easy one from the giant US telecom company: Verizon (VZ). The A-rated issuer has a TruPS trading under the symbol of PJL on the NYSE, with a dividend of 7.625% due in 12/01/30.
Trading pretty consistently either just above or just shy of the $25 range, the yield is running currently at around 7.5%. I see this paying you a steady and solid dividend rate that trumps the dividend from the common stock and the regular bonds by a whopping margin.
Next is an issue with a bit more in yield from another telephone operator with regulated phone lines based in the Kansas side of Kansas City in Overland Park. Embarq has its 7.1% due 06/01/36 TruPS, which trades on the NYSE under the symbol of FJA.
The bond trades with a bit more volatility than the Verizon TruPS, yet is also advancing in price more than the Verizon issue. FJA trades in the upper teens, giving us yield at a great value. The result is a current yield for FJA of over 9.3%, payable every June and December. A newer issue, this mini-bond is not callable until June of 2012, which would be a huge gain for you at the current price.
Verizon isn't the only baby-bell to go to the NYSE for some of its bond issuance. Qwest (Q) has had a pile of challenges, but still maintains an impressive chunk of telecom assets in a crucial section of the U.S. market.
I see the credit prospects for this utility being good enough to invest in the company's TruPS, trading under the symbol PKH. The bonds are the 7.75%, due 02/15/31. They continue to trade positively — in the mid-teens. These mini-bonds are callable like the others at $25, so we have only upside price potential. The yield therefore is a big one: currently over 12%.
Last up in my examples of these stocks that pay you comes from my favorite airline holding company: AMR (AMR).
The holding company for AMR has a PINE trading under the symbol AAR, paying 7.875%. Trading around $13-$14 apiece, these mini-bonds are generating another huge yield of over 14%.
And while many might question the stability of owning a bond from an airline, note that AMR continues to pay its bills, and has continued to prove that it can rollover credit lines and bonds and has continued to have ample access to new leases and other new lines of credit. That's the key: I personally stress test every company I recommend, and AMR passes with flying colors.


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This page contains LOTS of information about septic system types,
their history, etc. If you want to jump to a certain section, please
select from the following list:
If you would like to become a semi-professional septic consultant
yourself, continue reading this entire page to learn LOTS of details!
System History
Back in the old days, the standard method of liquid
waste disposal was to install a pipe from the house to the closest
water body and let it all go down hill. After discovering this method
of wastewater disposal pollutes our waterways, causes disease and
can be lethal to humans and animals, newer methods were created.
To help solve these initial problems, standard gravity
soil treatment systems were introduced. This type of a system allowed
the solids to settle out in a tank and the liquids to be filtered
by gravity through the soil. Putting the liquid waste into the ground
instead of straight into our surface water was a good first step,
but other problems ensued.
Sites with poor draining soils were found to sometimes perch
a water table near the surface in the wintertime. Having a drainfield
in a perched water table would oftentimes cause the
system to back up into the house or cause pre-mature failure. On
sites with excessively well drained soils (fractured rock, etc).
There wasnt enough filter material (dirt) to filter the effluent
before the pollutants made it into the aquifers. This caused contamination
of our ground water which was also found to be a problem.
Todays regulators have studied many of these problems previously
experienced and changed the sewage regulations to help increase
the life of our systems and also try and protect the public from
contamination of surface and ground water. The rules are not perfect,
but most have been created based on documented problems and scientific
they Work - General
The septic system is a natural method of treating and disposing
liquid household waste. The first component of all septic systems
is the tank. Most tanks are split into two compartments and have
pipe baffles and an outlet filter to ensure the solids stay in the
The biologic process begins in the tank where the effluent separates
into layers and begins the process of decomposition. Bacteria, which
are naturally present in all septic systems, begin to digest the
solids that have settled to the bottom of the tank, transforming
a large percentage of these solids into liquids and gases. When
liquids within the tank rise to the level of the outflow pipe, they
enter the next part of the treatment system (pre-treatment device,
distribution box, pump chamber, etc, depending on the type of system).
Final treatment of the effluent always occurs in the soil where
additional microbes break down the waste and the clean
water is put back into the ground thereby recharging the aquifers.
Wastewater contains several undesirable pollutants. Pathogens such
as viruses or bacteria can enter drinking water supplies creating
a potential health hazard. Nutrients and organic matter entering
waterways can lead to tremendous growth in the quantity of aquatic
microorganisms. Metabolic activity of these microbes can reduce
oxygen levels in the water causing aquatic life to suffocate. Septic
system regulations attempt to reduce the chance of these pollutants
from having a negative impact on people and animals.
For further technical information from the State of Washington,
check out this document:
of Systems - General
As you know by now, there are nearly as many types and sizes of
septic systems as there are cars on a new car lot. In Washington,
the systems are divided up into three basic categories:
Pressure Distribution
Advanced Treatment
The first two types (standard gravity and pressure distribution)
are relatively straightforward, non-propitiatory system types. Standard
gravity systems require three feet of "good" soil under
the trenches while pressure distribution sytems only require two
feet. Advanced Treatment systems however are a much bigger animal
and can be used where there is only one foot of "good"
dirt beneath the trench bottom. They come is many makes, models
and sizes. Some are proprietary, name brand systems and others
are not. If you would like to know a brief history of why we have
so many types of systems, please see our history
section above.
Most systems today include pumps, control panels, graveless infiltration
chambers and effluent filters. Some systems even include textile
filters, aerobic digestion and ultraviolet disinfection!
Standard Gravity
As the name implies, gravity drainfields work by letting gravity
drain the effluent from the septic tank into a series of underground
trenches. This means the drainfield area must be below the elevation
of the septic tank. If this is not the case, then a pump is necessary
and it is called a pump to standard gravity system.
When you
send new liquid waste into the septic tank, an equal amount of liquid
(called effluent) comes out the outlet side of the tank. An outlet
filter is installed in the tank to help prevent solids from
escaping the tank.
After passing through the outlet filter, the effluent flows through
a distribution box (d-box) which diverts the flows to multiple pipes.
The effluent leaves the d-box under the power of gravity and flows
downhill to each of the underground drainage trenches. The trenches
are made up of either: perforated pipe over drainrock or graveless
chambers. Each type effectively does the same thing
they allow
the effluent to perc into the ground at the bottom
of the trench. By design, Standard gravity systems are progressively
failing as the effluent works it's way down the trench.
The bottom of the trench needs to be 3 feet above any restrictive
layer, such as a hardpan, water table or excessively permeable soil
(rock). Chemical and biological processes treat the effluent as
it percolates down through the required three feet of soil. The
size of the drainfield depends on the estimated daily wastewater
flow and the soil conditions at your site. (ie- how much water is
used per day and how fast will the soil take it?)
Pressure distribution systems are usually required when there is
less than optimal soil depth available for complete treatment of
the effluent by a gravity system. A minimum of two feet of properly
drained soil is required under the trenches. The tank and drainfield
size are normally the same as a standard gravity system, but the
method by which the effluent is distributed to the soil is different.
A pump
(or sometimes a siphon) is used to pressurize the effluent into
a small underground pvc pipe which transports it to the drainfield.
The drainfield itself consists of pipe and rock, graveless chambers
or drip irrigation tubing. Unlike a standard gravity system, a pressure
distribution system wets the entire length of the trench each time
the pump turns on. This allows the effluent to be spread over a
larger area and receive better treatment from the soil.
Treatment Systems:
As mentioned above, advanced treatment systems come in MANY makes
and varieties. Some are built in a factory and some are built on
site. Some are proprietary and some are public domain. These systems
are required when shallow soils exist on the site (12-30 inches).
The basic function of these systems is to clean the wastewater prior
to the final disposal into the ground. Most of the time, these treatment
systems are followed by pressure distribution drainfields (trenches
or drip tube).
The most common types of pre-treatment systems used in Clark County
include the following:
Sand Filters
Sand Mounds
Aerobic Treatment
Textile Filters (AdvanTex)
Glendon Pods
For a detailed description and pictures of each, continue reading
jump down to our advanced treatment system comparison
Sand Filter
After the septic tank, a pump sends pressurized effluent to a large
underground box which is full of sand and drainrock. Effluent is
spread evenly over the surface of the sand via a pressurized pipe
network (similar to a pressure distribution system). The dirty effluent
filters through the sand and collects in a sump at the bottom. A
second pump sends the relatively clean effluent to the drainfield
where the final treatment occurs and the effluent is disposed in
the soil.
Another system suited for sites with shallow soils is a
sand mound. A mound is a drainfield raised above the natural soil
surface with a sand fill material. Within the sand fill is a gravel
bed with a network of pressurized pipes. Septic tank effluent is
pumped through the pipes in controlled doses to insure uniform distribution
throughout the bed. Treatment of the effluent occurs as it moves
downward through the sand and directly into the natural soil beneath.
Treatment Another method of treating wastewater
involves an aerobic process by which air is injected
into the effluent in a specific manner. The increased levels of
oxygen in the effluent allow the microorganisms to thrive and digest
the biological nutrients. A small air compressor is used to inject
air into the effluent.
EGSD does not typically recommend these systems for residential
projects. They do however have a place in commercial applications
with high-strength waste. Although we do not recommend aerobic systems
for residential projects, you may have heard about many aerobic
systems being installed for residential projects in Clark County.
Most of these systems are specified by designers who are also associated
with selling this product.
Filter (AdvanTex) Considered to be one of the
higher quality treatment systems available, AdvanTex filters are
becoming more and more popular in Washington State. Similar to a
sand filter, the AdvanTex filter uses media to filter out the contaminants
in the effluent. Instead of sand however, the AdvanTex uses a textile
The AdvanTex system has the following benefits:
Easily replaceable media (no need to dig up the whole yard
if the media gets plugged)
Constant re-circulation of the effluent to keep all biological
processes working and ensure consistent treatment
24/7 monitoring with an advanced control panel
Much smaller footprint than a sandfilter
Although the up front cost of the AdvanTex is more than a sandfilter,
its lifetime cost is typically lower (see
the system comparison section)
To learn
more about this product, please visit Orencos website at:
Glendon® Biofilters
Glendon Bilfilters are used on the really tough sites, typically
where seasonal groundwater or significant rock is found at 12-18
inches below the surface. The system consists of different layers
of sand and gravel placed in a watertight box built into the soil
with a sand fill placed over the top of the entire area. Effluent
is pumped into the bottom of the filter and allowed to wick itself
up through the sand and over the rim of the box and into the soil
(effluent remains under the cover sand). Typically one pod
is used for each bedroom in the residence. After installation, grass
can be planted over the mounds.
To learn
more about this product, please visit Glendons website at:
Treatment Comparison
The following tables and graphs are intended to help you better
analyze and compare the top advanced treatment technologies used
in SW Washington. The numbers and data provided are approximate
and should not be considered absolute.
The systems compared are:
AdvanTex Textile Filter
Whitewater Aerobic System
Sand Filter
Glendon Pods
This graph includes the APPROXIMATE cost of: installation, inspections,
pump and blower replacement, tank pumping, electricity costs, filter
cleaning/replacement, jetting pressurized distribution laterals
and a 3.0% inflation rate. All prices are approximate and based
on multiple sources.
**ALSO NOTE: This graph assumes the sandfilter
will need to be replaced after 20 years and the Glendon pods after
30 years. Newer design methodologies along with systematic system
inspections and maintenance may allow sandfilters to last indefinitely.
Many older sandfilters are failing after 10 years or less. Glendon
systems have not been around long enough to know their life expectancy.
Actual costs will vary.


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Two area teens drowned while noodling in Century Lake just west of Sulphur Springs around lunch time Friday. A third man was rescued by a fisherman in a boat on the lake, according to police.
Clay Mitchell of the Sulphur Bluff area and Doyle Brooks of the Bogata area, both 19, had been recovered from the lake by 9 p.m. Friday and pronounced dead at the scene by County Judge Robert Newsom and Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Ronny Glossup.
Brooks, Mitchell and Rob Ward were noodling in Century Lake, where the old dam was broken when Lake Sulphur Springs was created, during the noon hour when one of the trio was swept away by the current, which was moving more swiftly than usual due to Thursday night's storms, according to Sulphur Springs Police Lt. Jay Sanders.
The two other men noodling with him attempted to help him, but also soon began to be pulled away by the current.
Randy Carter of Sulphur Springs was fishing from a boat down from the old dam at the lake and saw and heard the young men in distress.
"He got over as quick as he could to help. By the time he got over, only one – Rob Ward – was still there. His friends had already been swept further down," Sanders said.
By the time officials were contacted and responded, it was too late to save the two other men. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials responded with equipment, police reported.
The young victim's families had been contacted by 3 p.m. Central Baptist Church volunteered its facility to serve as a waiting area for the families.
Using "good witness" accounts, officials were able to narrow a search pattern down to a specific area of the lake. Due to the thickness of the silt, sonar was used to pinpoint what officials believed to be the two men's bodies about 75 to 80 yards off the dam.
"They located and recovered them pretty quick after that. They were fairly close together," said Sanders.
One victim was recovered from Century Lake around 7 p.m. and the second a short while after that.
Autopsies were ordered for Mitchell and Brooks, as is standard procedure in these types of deaths.
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Morse Settling Back In To Toccoa Manager's Chair
Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse is settling in after his first week back on the job.
Morse started work last Tuesday, returning to the position he held from 2002 to 2009.
He said he is glad to be back with the city of Toccoa.
"I am excited to be here," said Morse. "It is kind of funny. Some things have just come back like I never stopped doing them. Some things are different, some learning new folks and some new projects we are working on. It has been really good (for) my first week and I am just really glad to be here."
Morse said he also appreciates the community welcoming him back to the city manager's post.
"I appreciate the warm reception that I have been given by a lot of our citizens," said Morse. "I really do appreciate that. The employees, I think, have been doing a good job and I am so glad that they are going to be here to continue."
Over his first few days on the job, Morse said he has worked to reacquaint himself with the operations at City Hall and the initiatives the city is undertaking.
"Basically, I have just been trying to make the rounds and see all of the employees and see all of our facilities," said Morse. "I sort of feel like I need to lay eyes on everything that we have and everything that we are doing. So that has been the first priority for the first week. Obviously, I have been working with the folks in the Finance Department to see how we are financially."
Regarding the finances, Morse said it is tight now, but adds he feels good about the future.
"Unfortunately, we are still a little 'hand to mouth' in our finances because of some of the debt that we have, but I think the folks have done an outstanding job over the last four years in making sure that we maximize the dollars that we have and that we are good stewards of those monies and I think we have been," said Morse. "So, yeah, it is still a tight financial environment that we are in, but I think the future is bright and looks bright and I think we are going to be fine."
Morse said the city also benefits financially from its Commission Reserve Account, or CRA.
City commissioners started the CRA back in 2008, during Morse's previous tenure, with a goal of putting $2 million in the account.
The CRA has since reached that $2 million figure and as of August 31, contained over $2.16 million in it.
Morse said the CRA is very helpful to the city and he adds the commission should be commended for establishing it and funding it.
Regarding other short-term goals, Morse said he is looking to the commission and the departments to set those.
"I think my biggest role is to continue to make sure that we stay financially healthy and the department heads and the employees are given the resources they need to get their job done and just to make sure that we stay a stable organization, one that is functioning properly and can look long-term," said Morse.
Morse also said he is looking to commissioners regarding the establishment of some longer-term goals as well.


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Shoot! Existential Photography
Existential Photography
Admission £2
12 October 2012 - 6 January 2013
Ria van Dijk, Photo-shot, Oosterhout, Netherlands, 1978, Polaroid, 10.8 x 8.8cm © Erik Kessels. Courtesy Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Courtesy of The Photographers' Gallery, London
Jean-François Lecourt, Shot into the camera, 1987, C-type print, 180 x 125 cm © Jean-François Lecourt. Collection of the artist, courtesy of The Photographers' Gallery, London
Christian Marclay, Stills from Crossfire, 2007, Audio-visual installation on four screens, 8 min 27 s, loop. Courtesy of the artist, White Cube and The Photographers' Gallery, London
Steven Pippin, 35mm Pentax camera shot in the side, Auto-portrait with two mirrors, 2010 C-type print on di-bond, 60 x 80 cm Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers' Gallery, Lo
Rudolph Steiner, Pictures of me, shooting myself into a picture, 1997, Fujichrome RDP II, transparencies, 20.3 x 25.4 cm Presented in light boxes. © Rudolf Steiner.
Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre Photo-shot, fairground at Porte d'Orléans, Paris, June 1929 © Jazz Editions / Gamma / Gamma-Rapho. Courtesy of The Photographers' Gallery, London
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In the period following World War I, a curious attraction appeared at fairgrounds: the photographic shooting gallery. If the punter's bullet hit the centre of the target, this triggered a camera. Instead of winning a balloon or toy, the participant would win a snapshot of him or herself in the act of shooting.
Shoot! Existential Photography traces the history of this fascinating side-show – from its popular use at fairgrounds to how it fascinated many artists and intellectuals in its heyday, including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Man Ray and Lee Miller. The artist Erik Kessels celebrates one shooter in particular – Ria van Dijk, who took portraits of herself in this way every year from 1936 – sixty of these images feature here.
Investigating numerous analogies between taking photographs and shooting, the exhibition includes works by many contemporary artists including Sylvia Ballhause, Agnès Geoffray, Jean-François Lecourt, Christian Marclay, Steven Pippin, Émilie Pitoiset, Niki de Saint Phalle, Rudolf Steiner and Patrick Zachmann.
To artist Rudolf Steiner the camera also serves as a target. In his series Pictures of me, shooting myself into a picture, the bullet hole serves as the aperture for a pinhole camera, creating an image upon impact. The video-sound installation Crossfire by Christian Marclay is a sampling from Hollywood films that edits together those moments in which the actors on the screen begin to take aim at the movie theatre audience. For eight minutes and twenty-seven seconds, the montage transports the viewer into a visual and acoustic crossfire from all sides.
At the end of the exhibition, visitors (18+ years) have the opportunity to take their own portraits in a photographic shooting gallery.
Download Shoot! Existential Photography Exhibition Notes for schools here
Exhibition curated by Clément Chéroux and co-produced by the Rencontres d'Arles and the Museum Für Photographie, Braunschweig


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News Clips - April 30, 2010
From April 23 to April 29, Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 324 references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Congress rejected grant, but free online courses growing
USA Today | April 28
President Obama's original plan for community colleges included $500 million to create free online courses that individual institutions could then customize for their students. That money never materialized — it was left out of the student aid legislation in last month's health care bill. [...] The most famous members of this family of "open-access" course materials — such as MIT's OpenCourseware, Yale Open Courses, and
Carnegie Mellon
University's Open Learning Initiative — provide syllabuses, video lectures, worksheets, and other course materials completely free of charge, to anyone no strings attached.
Bioengineers turn trees into tires
Popular Mechanics | April 28
The field of transportation is ripe for green tech: It accounts for two-thirds of U.S. oil consumption and generates one-third of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. Most research has focused on alternatives to gasoline-powered internal-combustion engines, but multinational biotechnology company Genencor is working on a more plebian car component: tires. [...] "There are three things we must do to move toward a sustainable technology base," says
Terry Collins
, professor of chemistry and director of the Institute for Green Science at
Carnegie Mellon
University. "Go solar for energy, move from fossilized to recently dead plant matter for the source materials of our products and reduce and eliminate toxic substances from our technologies." Because oil refining generates high levels of air and water pollution and hazardous wastes, reducing the need for petroleum-based inputs would be reason to call BioIsoprene a green product.
Natural gas supply, jobs and technique debate booming
USA Today | April 28
Energy companies increasingly are drilling into the Marcellus Shale, a mile-or-so-deep layer of methane-rich black rock stretching from Tennessee to New York. The layers of shale are being tapped for natural-gas deposits, which in turn has led to a boost in U.S. natural-gas supplies, lower energy prices for consumers and jobs in areas hit hard by unemployment. [...] "It's a boom," says environmental engineer
Jeanne Van-Briesen
Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. "That means a lot of choices, a lot of consequences good and bad."
Tinkering to avert disaster
The New York Times – Green Blog | April 27
Geoengineering – the large-scale, deliberate manipulation of the climate to counteract the effects of global warming – has more than a couple of ideas that sound like something a Bond villain might cook up in his spare time. [...] Indeed, one of the perils associated with geoengineering is the projected low cost of some of its solutions for counteracting global warming.
Granger Morgan
, head of the department of engineering and public policy at
Carnegie Mellon
University, who testified at the final hearing in March, said the relatively low cost of injecting light-blocking aerosols into the atmosphere, for instance, might tempt individual nations or extremely wealthy private parties (a Dr. Evil, perhaps), to unilaterally deploy such techniques with or without the world's consent.
Spammers pay others to answer security tests
The New York Times | April 25
Faced with stricter Internet security measures, some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate America's playbook: they are outsourcing. [...]
Luis von Ahn
, a computer science professor at
Carnegie Mellon
who was a pioneer in devising captchas, estimates that thousands of people in developing countries, primarily in Asia, are solving these puzzles for pay. Some operations appear fairly sophisticated and involve brokers and middlemen, he added. "There are a few sites that are coordinated," he said. "They create the awareness. Their friends tell their friends, who tell their friends."
Education for Leadership
Internet sensation Chatroulette gets a FaceFlip
Pop City | April 28
Carnegie Mellon
freshman Maxwell Hawkins has created an oddly twisted new app that takes faces on a bender. The computer sciences and art student developed FaceFlip as a high-tech prank among code writers, creative geeks who are always looking for ways to flip each other out. FaceFlip works with Chatroulette, an online, worldwide sensation developed by a teen in Russia that connects random strangers from around the world for quick, webcam conversations in rapid-fire succession.
Arts and Humanities
Déjà vu
The New Yorker | May 3
A major Wall Street firm is accused of misleading clients by concealing key conflicts of interest. E-mails suggest that an employee touted its wares in public while slamming them in private. The scandal is front-page news, and observers anticipate severe damage to the firm's reputation. [...] The flipbook for the deal at the heart of the current Goldman Sachs scandal warned that it might not contain all material information, offered no guarantee that the information was accurate, and said that there were "potential conflicts of interest" in the deal. It might as well have said "Don't trust us." The problem, as
George Loewenstein
, an economics professor at
Carnegie Mellon
, has shown, is that we tend to discount disclosed conflicts of interest and, in general, underestimate their importance.
A Carnegie Mellon professor's new book tackles some of the whys and hows of science
Pittsburgh City Paper | April 29
For someone whose job title is "professor of philosophy,"
Carnegie Mellon
Clark Glymour
deals heavily in the nuts and bolts of the material world. Glymour specializes in the philosophy of science, a field that he says asks "the big questions about how scientific inquiry works, why it should succeed, what makes it reliable [and] the best way to carry it out." He's spent decades evaluating procedures for everything from wildfire prediction to the space program.
Review: CMU's 'Richard III' thoughtfully conceived
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | April 27
Carnegie Mellon
School of Drama's production of "Richard III" would fit easily into the season of almost any regional professional theater in the U.S. Thoughtfully conceived and stylishly attractive, it's a very up-to-date, yet timeless retelling of Shakespeare's drama. Director
Matt Gray
and actor Gabriel King make Richard neither the national villain or savior but a crafty, unstoppable force who will plot, threaten, murder, reason and cajole to become king because he can.
Information Technology
iPhone app translates Iraqi to English
Discovery News | April 28
For the first time, researchers have developed an iPhone app that translates the Iraqi dialect of Arabic to English and vice versa. The app, which was developed by researchers from
Carnegie Mellon
University's International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) and the CMU spinoff Jibbigo, produces either a speech-to-speech or speech-to-text translation. It could help military personnel, humanitarian aid workers and engineers to communicate more effectively with Iraqi peoples.
Cybersecurity: How safe are your data?
Nature.com | April 28
Protecting research data presents particular challenges. Most information-technology (IT) professionals suggest ensuring that large or sensitive data stores are managed by a centralized IT team that can monitor and administer systems, keeping a close watch over traffic and limiting access. But this can conflict with the ethos of researchers who need such systems to be accessed by a wide variety of students, postdocs and collaborators. [...] As
Marty Lindner
, a principal engineer in the computer emergency response team (CERT) at the
Carnegie Mellon
Software Engineering Institute programme in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says: "The best way to secure a computer is to remove the keyboard, because then the human cannot make a mistake."
Insituvue's Sonic Flashlight helps insert needles on the first stick
Pop City | April 28
Insituvue, a new Pittsburgh medical device startup, is preparing to commercialize a device developed at University of Pittsburgh that gives medical professionals a better view during procedures, such as inserting catheters and IVs. [...] The device was developed several years ago by Dr.
George Stetten
, professor of bioengineering at Pitt and research professor of robotics,
Carnegie Mellon
. The company, funded by several Pittsburgh investors, hopes to raise $2.5 million. There will be hiring down the road, says Rosensteel.
Pet food sucking up U.S. water
National Geographic | April 26
U.S. industry—from pet food production to growing wheat—is a huge drain on freshwater resources, a new study says. Researchers investigated the hidden costs of water use by estimating the amount of H2O consumed per U.S. dollar of end product by different industrial sectors, including agriculture. [...] Despite these inconsistencies, population growth and more frequent droughts are making water scarcer, and putting more of an emphasis on water conservation, said Blackhurst, a researcher at
Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. (Get the facts on conserving water.)
Regional Impact
Make room Austin, Pittsburgh gaming companies are gaining momentum
Pop City | April 28
A cottage industry of nearly a dozen gaming companies is flourishing in the region. [...]
Carnegie Mellon
's Entertainment Technology Center's unique two year Masters of Entertainment Technology helps to keep game developers in supply, along with the Art Institute's media arts curriculum. "Pittsburgh has a chance to be the next Austin," Witherell adds. "With CMU's Entertainment Technology Center and companies like Schell Games, Pittsburgh can be a force in the entertainment technology industry. There's incredible talent, people, artists and a low cost of living. Those are the perfect ingredients."
Pittsburgh-area census participation matches 2000 level
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 29
The easy part is over for the U.S. Census Bureau. The hard work starts Saturday. Census officials reported with satisfaction Wednesday that Americans this year matched the voluntary mail participation rate of 72 percent from the 2000 census. Pennsylvanians also matched their 2000 rate of 76 percent, and Allegheny County residents their 78 percent. Pittsburghers mailed back their forms at a 71 percent rate, two points higher than a decade ago. [...]
Stephen Fienberg
, a
Carnegie Mellon
University professor of statistics and social science who has studied the census for decades, agreed that the voluntary participation rate has been surprising in defying survey trends. It does not assure a complete and accurate count in the end, he noted. "We're still missing a lot of people, and getting an accurate count on households that haven't returned their questionnaires is a really difficult task," Dr. Fienberg said.
Researchers make mice of gadgets
Times of India | April 29
Scientists have found that by installing a pair of optical sensors on the back of a phone or a mp3 player,it can work like a mouse. The same inexpensive,but high-quality optical sensors employed in the common computer mouse can enable small mobile phones and digital music players to be used as their own pointing and gestural input devices,say researchers at
Carnegie Mellon
University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII). The device could be used on any surface including a piece of clothing or the palm of a hand.This new input method,called Minput,responds to up-down,and side-to-side motions,like a computer mouse,but also to twisting and flicking motions.
Models for scaling up green chemistry design
Reuters | April 28
Part 1 of this series contrasted the decade-long $12 billion federal government investment in development of nanomaterials with Congress's repeated failure to enact a relatively miniscule Green Chemistry Research and Development Act authorizing expenditures of roughly $165 million over three years. [...] Warner's and Benyus's nonprofit organizations are but two of several developers of education and training materials. Others include the American Chemical Society's Green Chemistry Institute, the University of California at Berkeley's green chemistry program, and academic centers of green chemistry excellence, such as those at
Carnegie Mellon
University and the University of Oregon. The National Academy of Sciences has also published a workshop on green chemistry and education needs.
Traffic planning project wins award
The Peninsula | April 28
A promising project aimed at reducing travel time of emergency vehicles swept all awards at the fourth annual
Carnegie Mellon
University Qatar (CMUQ) 'Meeting of the Minds' Undergraduate Symposium held yesterday. 'Dynamic Path Planning and Traffic Light Coordination for Emergency Vehicle Routing' by Computer Science students Yi Luen Tessa and Hend Geddawi won the Best Project for Computer Science category, Best Poster Design and Best Overall Project.


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Here's one that caught my attention: apparently in Wisconsin, if you're an independent candidate for legislature, state law allows you to choose up to five words describing yourself.
So, meet Ieshuh Griffin, who signed up to run, and wants to use the following descriptive phrase:
NOT the "whiteman's bitch"
|Ieshuh Griffin
In a close vote, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board ruled that she can't use it, but Ms. Griffin may go to court to force the issue. Interestingly, the vote was 3-2 in favor, but under the board's rules, she needs 4 votes.
Personally I'm cheering Ms. Griffin on. Free speech is free speech, and I think the phrase conveys a highly political concept in which a stand is taken. If that's not highly-protected political free speech, what is?
I wonder if the Wisconsin board would be so concerned about the phrase if it wasn't so utterly catchy? Depending on other race dynamics, if the courts allow her description onto the ballot, she could actually win the race. Even if she doesn't, the phrase is certainly food for thought.
If that's the way Ms. Griffin wants to describe herself, that's how it should read on the ballot. If the delicate flowers constituting Wisconsin's electorate can't take it, well tisk tisk – there is nothing in that phrase that wouldn't make it into a prime time television network's script in many contexts.


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Laos: Part 2
Luang Prabang
16.03.2008 - 20.03.2008
The Basics:
Our next stop was at the Northern city of Luang Prabang. This is the ancient capital of Laos. Now its a world heritage sight.
Luang Prabang left us with a very different feeling than we had at Vientiane. It has all the quaintness and charm that Vientiane lacked. There's a main street with the standard selection of ok restaurants, tour agencies, shops etc. Along that street, a nightly bazaar takes place. There you get all the touristy junk anyone could want (surprisingly, none of the fake watches, purses – instead supposedly hand made fabrics and woven stuff that look alarmingly like haight-ashbury chatscke.) The part of town you visit has rivers on either side (its a small peninsula). One of the rivers is the Mekong and the other a tributary. There are handful of "wats" or buddhist temples throughout town.
Scenes in the city streets and its Wats:
An amazing daily event is the "saffron trail" in the early morning when the monks receive rice from the locals.
Do they really eat peanuts?
There are a range of small day tours to do outside of town. Several are of the outdoors adventuring type. However, we chose to visit an elephant camp. Both of us absolutely loved our time with the elephants. We traveled on elephant back. Drove the elephants (kind of), fed them and washed them. While it was silly, the whole thing was quite a hoot. Hands down one of the funner days of the trip.
Getting to Luang Prabang:
We chose to fly from Vientiane to Luang Prabang. There's a 10-12 hour bus option as well. However, we read fairly negative things about the bus (shootings, terribly windy and bumpy route, did I mention shootings?) so we opted to fly. Once in Luang Prabang, we spoke with a handful of travelers (of the young variety) who bussed. It seems that the bus isn't all that bad. But, as I wrote earlier, busing isn't our thing.


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The Past, Present & Future of Your Television
The Past, Present & Future of Your Television
Record date: Jan 15, 2014
Bruce A. Johnson, Technical Director, University Place, Wisconsin Public Television, takes us on a fast paced romp through three quarters of a century of technological progress. Learn how new technologies are changing the ways we consume visual media.
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Israeli women's rights moving to front of bus
Anat Hoffman, the progressive Israeli activist who made headlines two summers ago when she was arrested for carrying a Torah at the Western Wall, comes to California next week with a clear message for American Jews: What's happening in Beit Shemesh is as big a threat to Israel as what's happening in Tehran.
"Americans have been trained to care about Israel's security and think of it in terms of Israel being surrounded by millions of enemies," Hoffman said in a phone interview in advance of her Los Angeles visit Feb. 3-4, during which she will speak at shabbat services at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills and Temple Beth Am. "But security is not just measured by soldiers on the border. It's also measured by an 8-year-old girl's ability to go to school without being bullied." Hoffman was referring to Naama Margolese, the Beit Shemesh girl who became a household name after Channel 2 TV aired a report revealing that she had been spit on and called a "whore" by ultra-Orthodox men while on her way to school. Their complaint was that the shy Modern Orthodox girl in a long skirt was not dressed modestly enough.
A native of Jerusalem, and a city councilwoman there for 14 years before becoming executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) — the Reform movement's legal advocacy arm in the Jewish state — Hoffman, 57, has been fighting for decades to ensure that things like this don't happen. Now, as the story of Naama Margolese reverberates throughout the Jewish world, Hoffman's moment may have arrived.
For the first time, Hoffman said, issues of gender equality and religious pluralism are poised to figure heavily in the Israeli political debate. "I see this as a very important window of opportunity, because we are on the eve of an election," she said.
Moreover, the Israeli populace is still fired up and feeling politically re-engaged by the protests of last summer, in which hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets and — setting a precedent for the American Occupy movement — erected tent encampments to protest economic and social inequalities.
"The question now," Hoffman said, "is are we going to be put to sleep again and focus only on the security bit, or are we going to focus on the internal issues?"
Hoffman is convinced that those internal issues — gender equality, religious pluralism and minority rights chief among them — pose as great a threat to Israel's future as the prospect of a nuclear Iran. But she's not sure American Jews agree. "Ask a hundred Israelis right now what is the most dangerous thing for Israel, and most will not say the atom bomb. Ask a hundred American Jews, and they'll say the Iranian bomb. I say, let's not think about Iran for a bit. Let's ask Israel, 'Why can't a woman have a bat mitzvah at the Wall?' "
Hoffman has been fighting for more than 20 years for a woman's right to pray and read from the Torah at the Kotel. As chairwoman of the group Women of the Wall, she has long been at odds with the Orthodox establishment that controls Jerusalem's holiest Jewish site. But it's not just their influence over religious sites that irks her. As extremist factions of the ultra-Orthodox minority have grown ever more brazen, their influence has spread beyond the confines of their cloistered communities.
The practice of gender segregation on public buses exploded into the public debate last December after Tanya Rosenblit and, later, Israel Defense Forces soldier Doron Matalon were harassed by ultra-Orthodox men for refusing to sit at the back of a bus.
But Hoffman has been chipping away at the problem for years. In 2007, IRAC filed a petition on behalf of five women who had been harassed on gender-segregated buses, and last January, Israel's Supreme Court deemed the practice illegal. Since then, Hoffman has regularly led "Freedom Rides," wherein she and other Jewish women sit at the front of gender-segregated buses to ensure the court decision is being upheld. When they are harassed by ultra-Orthodox men, bus drivers often don't interfere, Hoffman said, deferring to the customary practice of separating the sexes. "We have 13 lawsuits against drivers for not enforcing the law, and it's very effective," Hoffman said. "Those suits for damages are helping to unlearn what 10 years of segregated buses have taught."
But why have these issues only reached a boiling point in recent months? According to Hoffman, women's role in Israeli society is changing on a broader level, and the powers that be are threatened.
In Israel's secular world, a deeply entrenched culture of sexism is finally beginning to crack. A law protecting women from sexual harassment that passed more than a decade ago is challenging the male establishment, and 2011 saw Israel's former president, Moshe Katsav, begin serving a seven-year prison sentence for rape. "Once the law began to be implemented, behaviors that had been tolerated in the army and government suddenly became illegal," Hoffman said. "The bastards changed the rules and didn't tell Moshe Katsav."
At the same time, in the Orthodox world, women are gaining power and influence. Hoffman points out that it's women who receive a more worldly education — and therefore pay the mortgage and balance the checkbook — while men receive only a religious education. "Women are in the world, and the kids see that the women know more. So how else can the Orthodox world keep them in their place other than to say, 'You might know more in the modern world, but in the religious world, you should know your place.' "
As Hoffman — who earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA — prepares to address Jewish audiences in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, she said she hopes that American Jews will hold Israel's feet to the fire on social issues. "Don't go easy on us," she said. "Israel needs to hear the truth from its supporters. To be a Zionist is not a spectator sport."
Anat Hoffman will be speaking in Los Angeles on:
Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m. "Between the Stones and a Hard Place: The Challenge to Gender Equity in Israel." Hoffman will speak during Shabbat Unplugged Service-In-The-Round. Following Kiddush, she will also speak from 9:15 to 10:15 p.m. Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, 8844 Burton Way, Beverly Hills. Free and open to the public.
Feb. 4, 9 a.m. "Civil Rights in Israel." Shabbat Morning Worship. Temple Beth Am, 1039 South La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles. Free and open to the public.
Feb. 4, 4 p.m. Women's Rights in Israel. Mincha, Seudat Shlishit, Maariv and Havdallah. Temple Beth Am, 1039 South La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles. Hoffman will speak during Seudat Shlishit. Free and open to the public.


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The Latin names we use for plants can seem to be off-putting, obscure, some even say elitist. Why do we persist in using them?
We use them because we have to – usually there are no others. Garden varieties may have English names, such as Delphinium 'Blue Spire' or Daphne 'Kevock Star'. But for most species, and particularly for more unusual ones, of which we offer very many, there isn't an English name. We could make them up – but what use would that be, beyond the confines of our catalogues? You couldn't look for the plants in other catalogues, or for information on the web or in a library, or even talk about them with other people.
The names given to plants, and all other living things, are bound by international rules, which ensure accuracy and consistency when sharing information. Latin is a fair choice of language: or rather, as nobody speaks it, it is equally unfair!
Of course, there are English names that are generally accepted, but even those may be quite local. A bluebell in England means one thing, in Scotland (sometimes) another, and in Australia it is different again. A cowslip is a widespread and loved plant in Britain, but in the rest of Europe the name is not used at all. There is also the so-called Tibetan cowslip, while in North America there is the Virginia cowslip, something completely different that is also sometimes called the Virginia bluebell! But when you know a plant by its accepted English name, you may want to look for it in our catalogue. So, increasingly, we are referring to these English names somewhere in the plant descriptions. You can then use the Google search engine on the mail order page, or on our home page, to check our entire web site for every reference to that name. Try cowslip or bluebell.
It will take us a while to get all the names included – there are about ten thousand plants in our database – but if you notice something that is missing, let us know. We don't want you to be disappointed.
Every wild plant or animal has two names, first the genus and then the species. There may then be further names, perhaps of a variety or sub-species (in which case the extra name is Latin), or it may be a cultivated variety or strain, (with the extra name(s) in English or another language, depending on who named it). Names of cultivated plants have capital letters, and are written in single quotes, as in Primula cockburniana 'Kevock Sunshine'. And the Latin parts of names are by convention written in italics. But in most of our catalogue we haven't done this - because it's a big job, and there are more important things to do.


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The government has pledged that none of the weapons the US Air Force drops on Australian military training ranges will contain depleted uranium.
Under an agreement reached at the Australia-United States Ministerial consultations in Adelaide last November, US Air Force bombers are to make greater use of our military ranges.
In answer to a question on notice released on Tuesday, former junior defence minister De-Anne Kelly said the exact numbers of US aircraft operating over Australia had yet to be determined.
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For the Record:
Let's make sure that we have the names of all the incompetent fools, the faulty software vendors and the cowboy Systems Integrator well and truly recorded for us all to remember:
Paul Lucas - Minister for Health - Incompetent Fool:
Mick Reid - DG for Health - Incompetent Fool:
Robert Schwarten - Minister for Public Works - Incompetent Fool:
Mal Grierson - DG for Public Works - Incompetent Fool:
Philip Hood - Director of Corptech - Incompetent Fool:
All of these incompetent Fools were warned on numerous occasions by a multitude of good people that this payroll bungle was going to happen and they did not care or act. This was also the case when IBM was also warned.
SAP - Faulty Software Vendor:
SAP did their best which was just not good enough on this occasion.
WorkBrain - Faulty Software Vendor:
WorkBrain was the real problem here and will continue to be until it is removed. This product has been removed from every major installation they had in Australia because it simply never works even after millions of Dollars are wasted trying to fix it.
IBM - Cowboy Systems Integrator:
IBM did not care from day one that this would not work; all that mattered is that they got paid and the tax payers got the least they could.
All of these parties have played a key part in the monumental payroll disaster that now exists within Queensland Health and for the full story you can read:
But for now cast your vote !!!!!!


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