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That was very short, but so so sweet. It works quite well in its brevity, even if of course the story behind it could have been stretched out far longer. I like it a lot as it is, with the "present" framing this quick summary of their recent past. You also manage to sprinkle in a LOT of details about both of these characters. It's a wonderfully smooth oneshot :)
Author's Response: Hello Kara!!! Thank you for dropping by :) I think if I hadn't written this as a drabble, then it would have been longer--I'm rather glad it isn't, and that you think the brevity of it worked, and that there was detail without it seeming like an info-dump :) Thanks for reading, reviewing and for your kind words! Alex
This was beautiful! :o I love that both of your recent fics used a non-linear narrative, and did it so well. The romance between them was so delicate - delicate, not in the sense that their feelings were weak, but because neither of them was rushing it, and there was so much fear in their hearts.
And gahh! The writing was very lovely and mellow; it made me think of warm spring afternoons. I could picture them lying there, happy in each other's solid presence, and hopeful.
Very lovely fic, Alex! I am adding it to my favourites.
Author's Response: Hello Natalie! The proof that I can, occasionally, be romantic :) I know what you mean by delicate--I think most of my stories tend to be quite dense, and this was enjoyable to write because it wasn't dense. I'm so pleased you found it vivid and enjoyed the writing--thank you so much for reviewing (and adding to your favourites-I'm honoured!) Alex
Alexxxxxx. I think you know how much I hearted the original, but I love the expanded one even more :D
It was gorgeous and romantic and still kind of angsty and rather hot as well and I just loved it as you can see by the complete lack of commas lol. And the progression of their relationship was beautifully written and I liked that Katie was chasing Leanne and not the other way round hehe.
Author's Response: Sorayaaa--yes, I did think the ZOMG (even though I've been meaning to ask someone what the Z stands for in that for ages) comment meant that you liked it. I'm glad you like the expanded version more--would be kind of awkward if you preferred the drabble. Anyway, thanks again--I hope my comma errors didn't offend you too much...thanks so much for reviewing :) Alex
I like this. I love the lazy image of two girls lying in the sun, and the way this lilts into the past when they were young and happy, then through the harder, dangerous times. It's a lovely story, and no, it's not fluffy.
Okay, sorry I have picks.
several people wondering the grounds, 'wandering the grounds, not 'wondering' (I've noticed you mix this up a little bit)
Second, and I know this is a bit of a dispute, but Leanne was a Gryffindor. In the book, when Katie comes back from the hospital, she is in the common room and Leanne is telling her about McLaggen (you know, Zach's mate - heh heh). So ... despite Wiki and the films, leanne has to be a Gryff. Not sure how many people will pick on you for that. I am canon nerd. EEEP!
Back to the story. This was a lovely piece of light crafting, but it drew me in totally. Thank youuuuuuuu for sharing and showing your lighter side. ~Carole~
Author's Response: Thanks so much for your lovely review Carole--I have corrected 'wondering' (and you are right, I do do that alot--need to keep an eye on it) and changed Leanne to being in Gryffindor, so thanks for pointing that out. I've noticed that I tend to write rather plot/ character heavy stories, and so writing a lighter story (in content and just general feel) was really nice, actually. I'm very glad you enjoyed it to, and that I proved I had a lighter side. Thanks again for the review! Alex


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Corning (NYSE:GLW) has long been a favorite stock of retail investors. It has long held a five-star rating on Motley Fool, and the coverage -- and commentary -- here on Seeking Alpha has been consistently bullish.
At first glance, it's easy to see why. After Wednesday's fourth-quarter earnings report, the company has $2.24 per share in net cash and trailing earnings of $1.77 per share; and yet the stock closed Friday at just $12.62. The P/E is just 7.13, and backing out the net cash, even lower at 5.85. And, while the most recent quarterly results were disappointing, the company still achieved record net revenue and forecasted first-quarter sales growth in four of its five business segments.
But digging into the stock -- and the recent disastrous earnings report -- reveals the reasons for Wall Street's relatively neutral stance toward the stock and GLW's 45% drop from the 52-week high reached in early 2011. Corning faces a wealth of issues that should make investors question the sustainability of its current earnings, and provide the logic behind the company's continued low valuation. One of the key valuation metrics that stands out in GLW's case is its price-to-sales ratio. Even after a record 2011, with $7.9 billion in revenue, and a two-day, 13.4% drop following Wednesday's year-end report, Corning still trades at 2.5x trailing twelve-month revenue. Earlier this year, the company had publicly -- and confidently -- predicted a goal of $10 billion in revenue in 2014. Even at that level -- which the company has not mentioned since that second quarter conference call -- the company would still be trading at twice its annual revenue two years from now, should the stock stay flat.
Corning has managed to justify its high sales multiple through a combination of high margins and earnings from its equity affiliates (whose sales are not counted in the company's total revenue). But the company is under attack in both areas. Margins dropped 340 basis points sequentially in the fourth quarter, according to the company's conference call. Further compression is on the way, as Corning's Display Technologies segment -- which includes the company's LCD glass operations, but not its vaunted Gorilla Glass product -- is expected to see hard times in 2012. From the most recent conference call:
We have proposed advancing our normal 2012 glass price declines versus more normal moderate price declines each quarter throughout the year. This will provide our customers more immediate financial relief. However, this cumulative 2 quarter of higher price declines will cause a reset of the profitability in our display business. We're hopeful that our pricing actions combined with capacity decisions will lead us to get back to more stable price declines after quarter 1.
Yes, the company predicts that the retail glass market will grow by 10%. But Corning also expects yield (the amount of Corning glass sold that actually winds up in smartphones and tablets) to increase, and inventory in the supply chain to contract by one-half of a week. As such, the company is looking at relatively flat demand. Meanwhile, it expects its wholly owned glass business to be "in line" with the glass market -- ie, flat -- while volume at affiliate Samsung Corning Precision Materials will be "flat to down double digits," pending negotiations with major customers. With revenue flat and pricing down substantially, margins will no doubt fall considerably. This is not a short-term problem, as even the company notes; as quoted above, it is seeking "more stable price declines" that mean the company is "approaching a new floor in profitability."
The pressure on the Display Technologies segment will reverberate across the company, as that unit provides nearly all of the company's profit. According to the company's fourth-quarter financial statements (pdf), the Display Technologies segment (which includes Samsung Corning) accounted for 90% of Corning's company-wide net income. Given the pressure on margins in that segment, the fact that analysts still expect an earnings decrease of less than 20% for 2012 seems optimistic, at best. (It simply may be that it has not yet updated the numbers after the aforementioned fourth quarter earnings, which knocked the stock down 12.5% for the week.)
Corning's earnings from its equity affiliates -- including joint ventures Samsung Corning Precision Materials, Dow Corning, Hemlock Semiconductor (a maker of polysilicon majority owned by Dow Corning), and Pittsburgh Corning -- were off sharply in 2011 as well. Equity earnings were down 25% year-over-year, despite a one-time gain at Dow Corning, and are guided to fall 5%-20% in the first quarter, including a 35% decrease at Dow Corning. The culprits again are lower volumes (at SCP) and lower margins (at Dow Corning). To top it all off, the company expects its tax rate to rise to 20% in 2012, adding further pressure to the bottom line.
The issues facing Corning -- and its equity affiliates -- are structural, long-term problems that cannot simply be blamed on a weak economy or near-term difficulties. The LCD market is simply not growing as planned, which will impact profitability in the Display Technologies segment, the stock's key earnings driver. The company's joint ventures are seeing lower profitability as well, beset by increased competition and lower margins. Yes, the P/E just above 7 -- and below 6 on an enterprise basis -- looks tempting. But the company's earnings potential for the near term looks dismal. As earnings fall, the P/E will rise, justifying the stock's current valuation. This is a key point that GLW bulls often miss while pointing out the company's low trailing earnings multiple.
Those same bulls are also fond of pointing out the strength of the company's balance sheet. Yes, the company offers over $3/share in cash. But back out long-term debt and other non-pension long-term liabilities (which appear, from the most recent 10-Q, to include the company's potential asbestos liability through Pittsburgh Corning), and net cash drops to just $1.10 per share. About half of that cash will be required to complete the company's $1.5 billion stock repurchase authorization announced back in October. Over half -- some $780 million -- of the authorization has already been spent, at an average cost of $14.18 per share, a 12% premium to Friday's close of $12.62. The company also hiked its dividend by 50% in conjunction with the buyback, but even at the current depressed price offers just a 2.38% yield. The lower share count provided by the buyback seems unlikely to overcome the potential earnings loss from lower revenue and compressed margins. It's also uncertain that the company's free cash flow will cover the aggressive plans the company has to return capital to shareholders. FCF for 2011 was just $544 million -- about 5.5% of the company's current market capitalization -- and levered cash flow, which includes net interest costs on debt, was $474 million. Given Corning's market capitalization near $20 billion, those numbers are not particularly impressive.
None of this is to say that Corning is necessarily headed for bankruptcy, or a slam-dunk short at its current depressed levels. But the common bull case pitched by the stock's backers -- single digit P/E, raised dividend, strong balance sheet -- overlooks the key issues facing the stock. Yes, four of the company's five business segments are guided for growth in 2012. But while those segments account for 60% of the company's sales, they generate just 10% of Corning's earnings, due to substantially lower margins than the Display Technologies business. Specialty Materials, which includes the company's vaunted Gorilla Glass product, posted a loss in 2011, despite Gorilla Glass sales tripling. Should that segment swing to a profit in 2012, it will simply not be enough to overcome double-digit top-line -- and significant bottom-line -- decreases in the company's legacy glass operations. Corning's key business lines are under serious pressure, and the seemingly sterling fundamental numbers underlying the stock simply cannot be expected to hold up going forward. The market, when efficient, is a forward-looking mechanism, and in Corning's case, it is clearly seeing hard times ahead.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.

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There's little mystery to the Heights and Bishop Carroll offenses heading into Thursday night's season opener at Carpenter Stadium.
Carroll will rely heavily on its passing game with senior Zeke Palmer. Heights will run and run. Then run some more.
And yet, even with that knowledge, the defenses have the toughest jobs.
"What do we want to take away from them?" asked Heights coach Rick Wheeler, whose team is ranked fifth in Class 6A. "Because when you take away something (with your defense), you provide other things that open up. That's what happens to us. They can put two guys on our quarterback or the dive back or whatever their scheme involves. Our job is to find out what they are leaving open for us."
It's exactly that which makes Thursday night's matchup between the City League's top two teams so fascinating. What will open up? Where will the big plays come from?
Carroll coach Alan Schuckman, whose team is ranked first in Class 5A, has run the spread offense since he was hired 17 years ago. The spread was a rarity in a time when virtually every team had three backs ready for a handoff. Schuckman stuck with the spread, which exploded in popularity, although he's added wrinkles. Carroll can come out of the shotgun, no-huddle, it changes tempos.
That offense has been ridiculously successful. Seven of the City League's top regular-season passing totals are by Carroll quarterbacks, including senior Zeke Palmer, whose 1,589 yards over nine games in 2011 ranks No. 7.
Because the system is firmly in place, Carroll has been able to groom its quarterbacks from the start. As a freshman, Palmer ran some of the varsity offense.
"Sophomore year, that's where you really hit it big, trying to soak up all the offense," Palmer said. "Trying to adjust to the speed of the game, picking up the offense. Coaches for (junior varsity) do a good job making sure you learn it."
Palmer has so many options.
"We've evolved," Schuckman said. "We're pretty multiple. We can get in the I, get in the three-back, we can do a lot of things. When we get in the (shotgun) and spread and read, read, option, that's a triple-option, as well. Just out of a different set."
Heights' offense is all about confusing the defenses, using the line to pull this way or that and then the quarterback either hands off, keeps or pitches.
"It's like a pitch to a halfback," Wheeler said. "It may look like a pitch to the halfback, but it could have went to the fullback or the quarterback could have kept it. It's where the progression took the play."
Wheeler hasn't always used this offense, which he calls the flex bone but is often referred to as the veer or the triple option.
Heights used the spread offense in 2005 and 2006 when quarterback Cameron Kasel threw for 2,462 and 2,247 yards, ranking No. 2 and 3 in City League passing totals.
Heights is firmly entrenched in the flex bone now and it fits the Falcons, but it took a rival coach to plant the seed.
It was before a 2006 playoff game against Hutchinson, which also runs the flex bone, that Wheeler remembers Hutchinson coach Randy Dreiling say, "I bet it's easier to find my style of quarterback in your building than it is to find your style of quarterback in your building."
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Heights senior Chris Reed is running the Falcons' offense, taking over for Top 11 selection Matt Reed, who has graduated.
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Published : October 23, 2012 :: 1626Insane Rayong Man Burns His Own House
Rayong-Bankai police with volunteers and residents hunted an insane man who set fire his house and escaped into the forest with a knife. He was later found and captured, although he cut his uncle's leg with the knife during the struggle.
RAYONG – October 22, 2012 [PDN]: at 6 p.m., a report of a crazed man trying to burn his house was received by Pol. Col. Athik Lapanuparp, the director of Bankai police station. He rushed to the scene with police forces.
When police arrived at the scene in Nonglakork, Bankai, they discovered the man had locked himself in his house. He was identified as Mr. Aphai, age 37.
The police colonel coordinated with two fire trucks from the subdistrict administrative organization of Nonglalork, which were ready to spray water in case the man tried to burn the house. The police tried to convince Mr. Aphai to open the door, but he instead ran out of the house with a gas tank and burnt his house right after that. Then he ran into the rubber forest with a chopping knife.
Meanwhile the fire trucks immediately began spraying water to stop the fire. Then the authorities dispersed forces to find Mr. Aphai, because they were afraid that he could cut himself or passersby. After about 30 minutes, officers found the deranged man in an exhausted state, with the knife in his hand. The sick man's uncle, Mr. Chuchart, charged his nephew to disarm him, and was cut in his leg.
Then the volunteers and residents tried to catch and step on Mr. Aphai, pinning his arms and legs until he could not move. Then they sent him to the detective team in Bankai to prosecute.
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Re: Stopping a running program
that is a bit rude, what is with killing the Kernel, the FrontEnd
and reboot the computer ;-)
Helen Read wrote:
> Jens-Peer Kuska wrote:
>> Hi,
>> a) your While[ 1==1, Print["Hi"]] cause the kernel to send a lot of
>> data to the FrontEnd and the FrontEnd must format it again and
>> again for every new cell. So the FrontEnd is busy and it is
>> hard for it to send a Abort message to the Kernel.
>> I would suggest to use Dynamic[] to show the progress in a variable, i.e.,
>> mymessage = "Wait";
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>> i = 0;
>> While[True,
>> mymessage = If[EvenQ[i++], "Humpty", "Dumpty"];
>> ]
>> b) if you do so, Alt-"." as well as the menu entry
>> Evaluation | Abort Evaluation work
>> c) if not, you have to press Alt-. several times and
>> hope the the FrontEnd will get it and that the buffer
>> with all the Print[] messages is not too full
> Sometimes if the FrontEnd will not respond to Alt-. or Abort Evaluation,
> you can shut down the kernel completely from Evaluation, Quit Kernel,
> Local. Of course, that clears everything that you had in memory.
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The dogmatist gave a voice to the thoughts which the sight of the picture had awakened.
The theories of dogmatist and traditionalist are not the authentic documents of the Christian religion.
You were in danger of becoming a dogmatist, but you are too much of a man for that.
In the eyes of the dogmatist they are strangers out of a strange land of thought.
The dogmatist has called the great Emancipator a compromiser.
He is often a dogmatist, but this fault is not peculiar to him, he shares it with the rest of mankind.
Without being a dogmatist, De Gourmont was an antagonist of absolutism.
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A Canada Day stabbing in Winnipeg was allegedly the product of a feud that began in Toronto between a group of so-called train hoppers who frequently move around the country.
The Free Press has uncovered new details of the July 1 attack in Transcona, which sent a 34-year-old man to hospital in critical condition.
Sources say the victim is a resident of Saskatoon who suffered a gruesome injury as a result of having a serrated knife plunged into his stomach and then removed. He has since been upgraded to serious but stable condition.
The man had recently arrived in Winnipeg after jumping on a train carrying cargo. He was socializing behind a restaurant in the 1500 block of Regent Avenue with a group of other transients he'd met along the journey.
The group had spent a few days living on the streets, sleeping under a bridge and foraging for food and drink in dumpsters.
One of them, allegedly, was the accused. The two men had a history that dated back to a recent rail stop in Toronto where they got into a dispute.
Sources say their hostilities carried over to Winnipeg and were fuelled by alcohol.
"There was some argument over how certain things had gone down in Toronto," a source said.
Following the stabbing, police quickly identified an alleged attacker and issued an arrest warrant. They described the fugitive as armed and dangerous.
Michael John Ernest Wereta, 27, was arrested two days later inside a Winnipeg home. Sources say he is a resident of Winnipeg who was staying with the mother of his newborn baby, whom he was carrying in his arms when he emerged from the home and surrendered to officers who had drawn their weapons.
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You wax lyrical BB. I agree with your interpretation of "Dojo", but can't work out how it applies to these fish...........unless all that stuff they do makes as much sense as standing one-legged on a post on the Seashore waving your arms about?
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(CNSNews.com) – Three days after President Obama declared in response to North Korea's long-range missile launch that "rules must be binding, violations must be punished," the U.N. Security Council remains divided over a response.
Japan, the country most directly threatened by North Korea's ballistic missiles, is moving towards new unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday advised patience, saying during a joint appearance with her New Zealand counterpart that negotiations were continuing.
"Seventy-two hours is a long time in a news cycle," Clinton said. "It's not a long time in relations between nations or in the affairs of the Security Council."
State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Clinton had spoken by phone to the Chinese and Russian foreign ministers. Beijing and Moscow have both urged "restraint" in responding to Sunday's launch of what the U.S. military identified as a Taepondong-2 ballistic missile.
After North Korea tested a nuclear weapon in 2006, the council took five days to agree on a legally-binding resolution demanding an end to Pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests.
The U.S. and Japan say the latest launch was a violation of that resolution. China and Russia disagree, citing North Korea's claim that the launch sent a satellite into orbit and did thus not constitute a missile test.
"Launching a satellite is different in nature from firing a missile or a nuclear test," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in Beijing. "This issue also involves the right of all countries to peaceful use of outer space."
Scientists and military experts say there is no evidence to back up the satellite claim, and the U.S. military said whatever payload the rocket was carrying landed in the Pacific Ocean together with the projectile's remaining stages, after traveling more than 1,800 miles.
Japan, whose airspace was compromised by the launch, is not in the mood to take chances.
"If the Security Council fails to swiftly adopt robust measures against North Korea, the reclusive country will continue to use its nuclear arms and missiles to provoke and threaten others," Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun said in an editorial Tuesday.
"If North Korea succeeds in building a smaller nuclear warhead, Japan will be staring down the barrel of a terrifying threat."
Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said the credibility and authority of the council would be undermined if it failed to respond to the violation.
But with a Chinese and Russian veto threat hovering over negotiations in New York and obstructing attempts to draft a condemnatory or punitive resolution, Tokyo once again is looking to act alone.
(Although the second-biggest funder of the U.N., Japan's long running U.S.-backed bid to become a permanent member of the Security Council has been frustrated by regional rival China. Japan is currently a temporary council member.)
Existing Japanese sanctions imposed after earlier missile tests, including a ban on imports and port calls by North Korean ships, are due to expire next Monday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura said a decision on new sanctions could come at a cabinet meeting on Friday. Officials say a total ban on exports to North Korea is under consideration.
Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday passed a measure condemning the North Korean action and calling on the government to "stiffen" sanctions against the Stalinist state.
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Japan has consistently been the most uncompromising of the five countries – the others are the U.S., South Korea, China and Russia – involved in the "six-party" talks aimed at negotiating an end to North Korea's nuclear weapons programs. Japan's stance is attributed to its proximity to the threat, North Korea's belligerent rhetoric directed at Japan, as well as an unresolved bilateral dispute over North Korea's past abduction of Japanese citizens.
A unified U.S.-Japanese approach to the crisis splintered in 2007-8 as Tokyo differed with Washington's decisions to leave missile development out of the six-party negotiations and, last year, to remove North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Pyongyang has sought to exploit differences between the two allies, and demanded more than once that Japan be excluded.
The six-party talks have been stalled since December, and China and Russia this week stressed the need to restart them.
"The core element in this situation is the six-party talks," said Russian U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin, warning against "an emotional knee-jerk reaction" to the missile launch.
Ahead of the launch, North Korea warned that the six-party process would "rupture" completely if the issue is taken up by the Security Council. On Tuesday, a North Korean diplomat at the U.N. warned, without elaborating, that "strong steps" would be taken in the event of council action.
Several commentators have said the North Korean action constitutes a major "international crisis" of the type Vice President Joe Biden predicted would confront Obama in his first six months in office.
"The U.S. and indeed the world now wait to see whether President Obama's strong rhetoric will be backed up by firm resolve to confront North Korea's defiance of the international community," said Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Bruce Klingner, adding that the ramifications of the response would be felt far beyond the Korean peninsula.
Speaking shortly before the launch, the administration's new special representative for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, said although there should be consequences if it went ahead, he hoped that once "the dust settles," the six-party talks would resume.
Bosworth also defended the idea of bilateral talks with the North Koreans, arguing that they strengthened rather than weakened the six-party negotiations, and saying that bilateral talks conducted during the latter years of the Bush administration had "proved to be quite useful."
Noting that the North Korean leadership was always eager for high-level bilateral talks, Sun-won Park, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, recommended that the U.S. cut off such contacts, saying this would be "the greatest sanction against North Korea."
The U.S. and North Korea held bilateral talks over missiles during the Clinton administration, but they stalled in mid-2000, after the U.S. rejected a North Korean demand for $1 billion for each year the country suspends missile development, deployment and sales abroad.


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Posted below is a letter from my friend in London, Lord William Rees-Mogg. Lord Rees-Mogg was a founding editor of Strategic Investment, the U.S.-based investment letter I edited for five years. His letter speaks for itself on the chances of a black President in America.
When I lived in London, I'd try and get together with Rees-Mogg about once a month to hear what he thought about American politics, the euro, history, or whatever was on his mind really. It was great for me because he could get me into places I'd probably never get into by myself, like the cafeteria in the House of Lords or the member's dining room at the Garrick Club.
It was interesting to see that side of London. But my main interest was talking politics and financial markets with someone who's seen a lot of both. What's more, it's always worthwhile to hear what an outsider has to say about your country, even if you don't like what they have to say. The outsider's perspective often reveals things that you might not notice as a native. I hope my outsider's perspective on Australia will be valuable in the same way, by the way.
This week William wrote on race and American politics, which is good timing for a number of reasons. First, all the buzz in America right now in on Illinois Senator Barrack Obama, who coincidentally has a new book out called "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream." Say what you will about race in America, but I challenge you to find a Western or liberal country where black people have enjoyed as much political success as they have in the United States.
When I lived in France and England I can't tell you how many times I was lectured about racism in America and how hateful American society was/is. This was usually from people who'd never been there, but had seen an episode or two of "Cops." Is there racism in America? You bet. There are 300 million Americans. You're bound to find some morons in the bunch.
But let me tell you about racism in Europe. There's what I call "official racism," otherwise known as multiculturalism. In Britain, this has had the effect of creating a society segregated by both race AND religious belief. Instead of people acknowledging what they have in common, multiculturalism encourages us to define ourselves by our differences, and then highlight those differences.
That's all fair enough. But don't be surprised if by encouraging this kind of diversity through government policy you get a culture increasingly divided rather than integrated.
What does it mean to be British anymore? Beats me. It's not the language. It's not the culture. It's not the religion. It's not even cricket or rugby. It might not be anything really, except maybe the Queen.
And France?
France is known for its strict adherence to the idea of equality. It was one of the three pillars of the French Revolution (liberty, fraternity, equality.) Though I love France, the France you see in downtown Paris is only the official version. Official France is for rich tourists, not black immigrants.
The "real" France, meanwhile, has been far less successful at creating an integrated society where immigrants can become part of "the French dream," whatever that dream happens to be. It just doesn't happen in France, at least not in ways that are obvious to me. Black culture remains on the outside looking in, except maybe in some sport.
Contrast that with the United States, where black jazz and blues musicians first created and then altered the face of popular music in the early and mid twentieth century. You find the same thing in food and sports. New Orleans, for example, one of America's mostly culturally rich cities, gets a large part of its identity from its black, and, ironically, French roots.
In other words, the most visible parts of American culture that have the biggest impact on the largest number of people have been hugely influenced—even defined—by the contributions of black Americans. Where else is this true in countries with large multi-ethnic populations? Name me a place in Europe and I'll buy you an Australian beer.
Is there a lot of racial conflict out in the open America? Of course. But it's better to have this conflict out in the open than to have in smouldering in the suburbs, ready to flare up at any instant. Better to have open if uncomfortable discussions than to send the police rushing out on the weekends to put out dozens of small cultural brush fires.
Living in free societies means having complicated, sometimes contentious discussion with people who don't agree with you. It means having those discussions without having the right to silence people who disagree with you. Sometimes people do things with their freedom that you don't approve of. That's the price you pay for living a free society.
It also makes perfect sense that free societies have to guard that freedom. Tolerating intolerance is stupid, frankly, and fundamentally challenges the existence of liberty, no matter who the intolerant party is. You don't suspend your right to have intelligent judgment when you live in an open free society. You just make sure you are very careful and very open about discussing what the general rules are that guarantee a right to free speech without inciting the kind of hate that leads to more cultural troubles down the road.
Australia is better off having open and honest discussions about race now, before a larger problem emerges later. That kind of problem is emerging now in Europe. And it won't be going away anytime soon.


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Biological immunomodulators are routinely evaluated as a natural source of molecules with profound effects on the immune system. They belong to a group of physiologically active compounds, collectively termed biological response modifiers. Most of the studies were focused on immune system stimulation. Recently, they have become the focus of studies seeking molecules that are able to overcome negative effects of various immunotoxins. This paper concentrates on the effects of a glucan/resveratrol/vitamin C combination on immunosuppressive effects of mercury and perfluorinated hydrocarbons. Effects described in this review have strong clinical potential, as environmental contaminants have adverse effects on all aspects of the immune system and represent a serious threat to the health of both humans and animals.
Environmental contaminants having adverse effects on organs and tissues of the immune system represent a serious threat to the health of both humans and animals. It is well documented that such toxins increase host susceptibility to infections, compromise immunosurveillance and increase the chance of autoimmune diseases. These problems have led to efforts to identify sets of immunologically relevant end points and large epidemiologic studies [
Thimerosal has been used as a wound disinfectant and a preservative in vaccines for quite some time [
To identify the potentially immunotoxic compounds and to regulate their use and/or accumulation represents an important approach. Of similar importance is the need to find ways to overcome these negative effects on animal and human health. Moreover, with the ongoing steady rise of health care costs, the benefits of an inexpensive and natural compound would be enormous. With regard to mercury poisoning, most of the effort is traditionally oriented towards acute poisoning. Common treatments consist mostly of chelation therapy, which can be hazardous if administered incorrectly. In the case of perfluorinated carboxylates, the treatment consists of a series of steps that include gastric lavage, endoscopy and antidote. Again, much less attention is focused on low-dose poisoning.
The purpose of this review is to provide new insight into our current knowledge of biological and immunological activities of a glucan–resveratrol–vitamin C combination and how these compounds might overcome the immunotixic effects of several known toxins. Thus far, no natural immunomodulator has been used in the treatment of low-dose effects of immunotoxins.
β1,3 glucans are structurally complex homopolymers of glucose, usually isolated from yeast and fungi. β1,3-glucan's role as a biologically active immunomodulator has been well documented for over 45 years. Interest in the immunomodulatory properties of polysaccharides was initially raised after experiments indicated that a crude yeast cell preparation stimulated macrophages via activation of the complement system [
However, despite the clear and well-established biological effects of glucan, the search for even better results continues. Lately, more and more manufacturers have been experimenting with the preparation of various cocktails or mixtures of potentially bioactive powders. Recently, new studies appeared demonstrating that some molecules have synergistic effects when combined with glucan. Initial scientific studies have shown beneficial effects on both nonspecific and specific immunity when glucan was given in combination with vitamin C [
For evaluations of the possible effects on mercury poisoning, we chose a treatment with a two-week daily dose of thimerosal corresponding to approximately 200 μg of mercury/kg. This treatment induced a systemic suppression of all tested reactions—from cellular (phagocytosis, NK cell activity, mitogen-induced proliferation and expression of CD markers) to humoral immunity (antibody formation and secretion of IL-6, IL-12 and IFN-γ) [
Originally, we tried to determine if glucan alone, as the immunologically most potent part of the combination, can change the direct toxicity of mercury. Studies of the simultaneous administration of mercury compounds and glucans began with changes in direct toxicity of mercury. In both cases, glucans significantly lowered the toxicity. As the direct toxic effects of mercury compounds are hypothesized to be caused by apoptosis, well-known inhibition of apoptosis caused by glucan might be the explanation.
In all our tests, glucan significantly lowered the toxicity of not only thimerosal, but also mercury acetate [
Effects of the glucan/resveratrol/vitamin C combination on proliferation of human monocyte cell line U937. PFOA—perfluoroctanic acid; PFOS—perfluooctane sulphonic acid; RVB—resveratrol/vitamin C/glucan combination.
The exact mechanisms of this action are not known, despite extensive research on the immunological effects of glucan [
Our results showed that thimerasol strongly inhibited the proliferation of human monocyte cell line U937. Simultaneous treatment with thimerasol and RVB 300 (resveratrol/vitamin C/glucan) decreased this suppression up to 50% in doses ranging from 0.01 to 1 μg/well (
Effects of the glucan/resveratrol/vitamin C combination on phagocytosis of synthetic particles by mouse peripheral blood neutrophils. PFOA—perfluoroctanic acid; PFOS—perfluooctane sulphonic acid; RVB—resveratrol/vitamin C/glucan combination.
Effects of the glucan/resveratrol/vitamin C combination on NK cell activity of mouse splenocytes. PFOA—perfluoroctanic acid; PFOS—perfluooctane sulphonic acid; RVB—resveratrol/vitamin C/glucan combination.
Effects of the glucan/resveratrol/vitamin C combination on
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Previous reports indicating that the addition of glucan resulted in significantly lower immunotoxic effects of mercury suggested that glucans can be successfully used as a natural remedy of low level exposure to immunotoxins [
All these data strongly suggest that natural immunomodulators such as glucan and some of glucan-based combinations represent an interesting and potentially clinically important way of blocking or at least partly restoring the immunosuppression of toxins such as mercury or perfluorinated hydrocarbons. From these observations, one can imagine that glucan-based modulators can be used for prophylactics in some cases of chronic immunopoisoning, strongly suggesting the need for further studies.
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I saw a commercial product similar to this one at a Chinese buffet and searched everywhere until I found one for home use. This rice cooker couldn't be simpler to use or to clean. It keeps rice warm without allowing it to dry out. It can be used for all kinds of rice, even brown and sticky rice. Be sure no one uses metal utensils on the inside liner because it scratches easily.


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The project was built On Jun 29, 2013 in VIlkaviskis city, in south west Lithuania. It was intended for city yearly celebration in purpose to bring people together for creation and communication about there own city image.
Pixel - short for Picture Element, a pixel is a single point in a graphic image.
Townspeople were given to draw there own image of missing dot in their city. Drawings on small ceramic plates was glued to wooden cubes and insert into the ground creating dynamical installation.
After opening in city celebration day, sculptural installation was removed to 'Vilkaviskis center of culture'.
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I suspect the dividing line between ideologies is age. While my two experiences with a DNR were not children (my mother who requested her own and my wife which I approved) were both intended to cause a switch to palliative care. There was no real discussion of any other meanings and I was not aware it the limited meaning for cardiac arrest only until this article. Perhaps the duplicate meaning should be left alone. I have watched what the medical community does at the end of life many times and there has been no death with dignity except for the two DNR orders. In all other cases there were midnight ambulance runs, auto blood pressure cuff that squeezed the arm till it turned blue, not enough pain relief so the suffering continued for days and total separation of the patient from their loved ones all in the name of a few more days of miserable existence. I for one do not wish to dye that way. At present, the only way I can see to prevent it is to get a DNR from a doctor that is old enough to understand..


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Most of the human-made hybrids have met early deaths because they have two timed kill switches that prove fatal by their early 40s: one for endocrine failure (I had this and defeated it), and another that switches an ion channel to create metabolic mayhem, for example, sodium for potassium, or cadmium for calcium (I have both of these and control them through diet). Some accumulate copper and others iron in toxic levels (I accumulate copper, but not enough to cause significant illness). Many hybrids are capable of great feats of endurance and healing...all hybrids who make it past their 40s have gained at least some control over the expression of the DNA.
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WOW Do you have any links for that info. How did you change your diet? I had adrenal failure at 40 now I'm 44 and worse off.... I had really weird phenomena happen in the last few years. Now I'm just lost...
I was also from the Baltimore/Washington area.
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No links specifically. I had an adrenal complication from the endocrine failure made even worse by the extreme stress of my first 35 years on this planet. So I know the exhaustion and weird symptoms that can cause.
What I did was fairly simple, and has evolved somewhat over the years: I cut back to 700 calories a day, and watched every morsel that went into my mouth to find out what foods were good for me and eliminated any that gave me bad reactions. I stayed on the calorie restriction for six months, then to about 1200 calories per day for a year, and then went to eating mostly normally, although I am picky about what foods I eat. I eat mostly organic vegetables, fish, chicken, nuts, and eliminated refined sugar, bananas, wheat, and all unfermented dairy. I eat berries but not much fruit. I never ate a lot of junk food, but it is a no-brainer that junk food and soda was permanently off the menu. The extreme diet gives the cells a chance to rest, and helps cull the cells that are most compromised. It also helps you more easily identify foods that do not agree with your physiology. You *will* have food intolerances, probably multiple food intolerances, some of which are subtle. A food that makes you feel a bit high right after eating it is toxic to you, even if it feels good and you can't trace a specific problem it is giving you.
I take supplements of antioxidants C, E (I dropped this later and added D), and alphalipoic acid. I took very high doses of these at first, and maintain on a gram of C, 800 mg of D, and have dropped the alphalipoic acid for now. Over time, I added blue green algae and turmeric to my daily supplements, which have worked well. I make my own turmeric capsules from empty gel caps and a bulk bag of spice...you don't have to get fancy, just make sure you are getting simple and real stuff in a form that you can absorb (liquid is best, hard pills are worst).
You must detox, and take your time with it; let your body get very used to the elimination cycle. I took a year to complete it. I ate a bowl of oatmeal every day while detoxing because oatmeal draws toxins out through the colon, and took milk thistle extract to enhance the detox (start very slowly!!!...I started with the recommended dose and went into toxic shock). I eat oatmeal at least once a week and detox with milk thistle 2-3 times a year now, just for a couple of weeks, to maintain.
The key for rebuilding the endocrine system and regulating any autoimmune symptoms you may be having (very common among hybrids) is DHEA (not DHA, although that is good for you, too). I am female, and was taking 100 mg at first (20x the recommended dose), and used every bit of it. A male would require more. Over time, I was able to taper off and now only take it if I have an unusual physical challenge like an illness or sudden increase in physical demands...it helps me heal connective tissues that otherwise will not heal. I use vinegar and baking soda dissolved in water (separately!) as needed to balance pH and electrolytes.
Since I have the potassium/sodium switch, I have to supplement potassium heavily. Be careful...too much potassium can kill, but so can not enough. If you have sporadic cardiac arrythmia and frequent muscle cramps, start slow with potassium until you stop having symptoms, then cut back a little and maintain. Sodium leaches potassium out of the body, so cut back if you have a heavy salt habit. Steamed or raw broccoli is a good source of potassium.
Do not supplement calcium artifically unless told to by your doctor; instead eat plenty of vegetables, some cheese, and take a little vinegar every day...you'll get enough out of your food and the calcium in supplements tends to deposit in the kidneys. Also do not drink large amounts of tea regularly...the tannic acid in tea binds calcium and causes it to deposit in the wrong tissues. When in question about whether you are getting the right minerals, remember that the safest way to absorb minerals is through the skin. Soak in mineral salts (read the label, many are crap), or sit in a lake or ocean regularly. I have yet to find an oral multi-mineral supplement that wasn't dangerous...but you can soak your feet in it and absorb only what you need. Daily vinegar (I use apple cider vinegar) will draw out excess copper. Giving blood regularly is necessary if you have excess iron.
This protocol should work for most hybrids (and many humans), but listen to your body. Since I don't know your makeup, I can't be sure what sensitivities you might have. The biggest problem for black ops hybrids is the presence of extra-nuclear gray alien DNA, which is artificial to start with, and absolutely causes metabolic and autoimmune mayhem. If you have it, you will reach a crisis point at which your body must purge the cells with the highest concentration of that DNA, so you may go through a very bad patch of unexplained and un-remediable illness. Stick with the diet and supplements, exercise as much as you can, soak in mineral salts, let yourself rest when you need to, and you probably will get through it OK as I did.
I hope that helps.
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They are one of eight club's, announced by the Football League, to be given a route straight through to the second round in the competition's northern section.
Port Vale, Tranmere, Walsall, Burton, Doncaster, Hartlepool and Sheffield United have also been handed a bye.
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The silver penny is from the reign of King Athelstan. He was grandson of Alfred the Great and was crowned in 925.
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I know this has been covered in a couple of threads.
But the solution was more of a workaround with gcc-4.2 then an actual fix. Mdk3 uses some code from aircrack-ng in the osdep directory, so I used some of that code for linux.c and just updated the file. Additionally there were some innocuous warnings from the printf() statements in mdk3.c. eg.:
The following is a patch to compile mdk3-v5 with gcc-4.3.Code:
mdk3.c:3348: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
mdk3.c:3364: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
First, download the code and unpack it.
Now, open up your favorite text editor and create a file called mdk3-v5-gcc-4.3.diff.Code:
# wget http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/mdk3-v5.tar.bz2
# tar -jxf mdk3-v5.tar.bz2
# cd mdk3-v5
Paste the following code from http://pastebin.ca/1389806 into mdk3-v5-gcc-4.3.diff. The text box near the bottom of the page can be used to easily copy and paste the patch code. Save mdk3-v5-gcc-4.3.diff in the current working directory which should be the mdk3-v5 directory.Code:
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WOOSTER -- When most of her peers were at home sleeping, doing homework or watching TV, Linda Flores spent her nights in motels and strange basements, forced to have sex with man after man in order to bring in cash for her pimps who were running a sex slavery operation.
Human trafficking survivor Linda Flores, LSW, MSeD, was presented by League of Women Voters of Wayne County to speak at Memories Party and Conference Center on "Human Trafficking: Can you prevent your child from being a victim?"
Flores is the director of education and training for Gracehaven House and a victim's advocate and founder of Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution, or SOAP, both based in the Columbus area. SOAP is an outreach campaign that aims to distribute thousands of bars of soap with the number for the National Human Trafficking hotline to motels.
The idea is to reach out to victims during the only time they are allowed to be alone -- in the bathroom. The goal is to educate motel owners and managers about human trafficking and to offer a way for them, as well as clientele and victims to reach out for help.
"It has rescued many, many young girls," Flores said.
Flores also is an author, whose latest book, "The Slave Across the Street," tells the story of her own experience with human trafficking.
Flores spoke about human trafficking and how it can happen to young women in even the safest-seeming towns.
"This is a really important issue," she said. "It's been going on since the beginning of time. Many people don't know it's happening in the U.S."
Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment and harboring of another person by force to be used for labor or sex, said Flores. According to her, victims can be threatened or blackmailed into trafficking. While many people often think of human trafficking as unfair labor happening in other parts of the world, Flores assured there is most definitely a problem of domestic minor sex trafficking, which can include pornography, prostitution and stripping.
Flores is a survivor of sex slavery who was forced to participate in the trade as a teenager, all while living in her suburban home with her family. Growing up, Flores' family moved around a lot. Despite the constant change, she said she "had a good life," and "was just a normal kid." When Flores was 15, her family moved to an upper-middle class suburb of Detroit.
She quickly developed a crush on a boy at school. Though her strict Irish-Catholic parents did not allow her to date, she did decide to accept a ride home from the boy after school one day.
Instead of taking her home, he took her to his house, where he drugged and raped her. Feeling embarrassed and guilty, Flores did not tell anyone. When the boy came to her with photos of the incident, threatening to blackmail her if she didn't do what she was told, her two years of forced sex slavery began.
She was forced to sneak out of her house in the middle of the night and was driven to various upscale homes where groups of men would be waiting to each take their turn having sex with her. Flores would be returned home by 4 a.m., then she would go to sleep, get up for school a couple of hours later and do it all over again.
"Nobody had any idea something like this was happening to a kid like me," she said.
Flores saw no way out of the situation, as the men, who were her "pimps," followed her everywhere, knew where she was at all times and threatened to kill her family.
"Nobody would choose this life. They just don't know any way out," said Flores.
Flores' experience ended after two years when her father started a new job in a different part of the country, causing her to move again.
Victims of human trafficking are typically forced to sleep with 15 to 20 strangers per night, earn $800-$1,000 per night and forced to work 365 days per year, according to Flores. The average pimp earns about $300,000 per year.
According to Flores, human trafficking is the second leading crime in the world and the country, and Ohio is the fifth leading state for the crime, after Florida, California, Texas and Minnesota. Ohio is attractive to sex trafficking operations for a variety of reasons; it has plenty of highway systems, two routes for exiting the country, by way of Toledo and Ashtabula, and a leading numbers of truck stops, strip clubs and child pornography cases. Ohio also has a large number of universities, military bases and immigrants, all of which increase numbers of potential victims and customers.
The victims of human trafficking are 80 percent women and 50 percent children, and 32 percent of victims were sold into sex slavery by their family members. There are 100,000 children in America currently being trafficked, with the average age of U.S. victims entering prostitution at 13 years old.
Flores said sex trafficking can be occurring in a number of different establishments, such as nail salons, ethnic restaurants and grocery stores.
"This is happening all around our country," said Flores.
She advises people to be on the alert for signs and behaviors that could mean that someone is a victim, such as bruising on the body, carrying large amounts of cash, hanging around older men, dropping grades in school, loss of friends and involvement in drugs.
One of the problems in the U.S. is the fact teenagers are often arrested for prostitution, but the individuals that are serving as their pimps, or the individuals that are buying the sex, are not often arrested. Flores believes that law enforcement is doing a disservice by mislabeling human trafficking as teen prostitution, a crime Flores says simply "doesn't exist."
Flores assured that human trafficking can occur in rural areas. Parents should teach their children to ignore strangers that approach them, and to be careful in places like shopping malls. Flores also advises parents to give their young girls compliments and to simply check their beds at night.
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New winery tool helps prevent problem ferments
The Ferment Simulator Tool, created by the AWRI and funded by the GWRDC, was officially released for all Australian wine grape levy payers in late 2013.
The AWRI's project leader Richard Muhlack (former AWRI Riverina Node manager and now lecturer in Wine Science at the University of Adelaide) said a fermentation trajectory can be tracked or even a pre-fermentation strategy modelled in advance to assess its potential outcome.
The simulator will also raise an alert if a ferment is heading off track and multiple ferments can be monitored via a 'traffic light' display.
The tool's usefulness has exceeded even the AWRI's expectations, Dr Muhlack said.
'The simulator is more extensive than we originally conceived at the beginning of the project, as it is now a tool that has the potential to be used to report on ferment status, energy consumption and refrigeration demand across an entire tank farm, rather than just for a single ferment', he said.
'Temperature adjustments, tank agitation or additions of nutrients can all be assessed in this way.'
The tool also allows for the tracking of winery refrigeration loads, allowing refrigeration demand to be predicted for hot weather in order to minimise electricity use during peak tariff periods.
Extensively trialled over the past three vintages, the simulator is available in 'full' and 'lite' versions.
'In a business environment where producers are under pressure to improve their resource efficiency and reduce operating costs, this tool will assist in targeting operations to mitigate issues associated with problem ferments and to give early warning of energy demand spikes that may be associated with punitive demand tariffs imposed by electricity providers', he said.
The ferment simulator has been successfully tested on white and red ferments across several vintages and regions, and a recent GWRDC-funded expansion will see it incorporate functionality for cool climate and wild ferments.
'There is certainly scope for new features – such as the ability to interface directly with sensors and instrumentation in the winery, or to provide a web/mobile interface – and so I would be hopeful of opportunities for the tool to be developed further in these areas', he said.
To download the ferment simulator, levy payers need to sign in to the AWRI website.
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