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Upward Planarity Testing of Embedded Mixed Graphs
Binucci, Carla and Didimo, Walter (2012) Upward Planarity Testing of Embedded Mixed Graphs. In: Graph Drawing 19th International Symposium, GD 2011, September 21-23, 2011, Eindhoven, The Netherlands , pp. 427-432 (Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25878-7_40).
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A mixed graph has both directed and undirected edges. We study an upward planarity testing problem for embedded mixed graphs and solve it using Integer Linear Programming. Experiments show the efficiency of our technique.
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From Eileen Weintraub, Helping Animals India
At the stroke of midnight Sunday night our dear Samson has gone beyond! No more cat body and his consciousness is free.
Before birth and after death the great mystery continues but through meditation techniques we have learned we directed his consciousness to go the pure land of Amithaba Buddha where it is said he can learn to come back as a Bodhisattva to help all.
From difficult beginnings, I took him from Vicky's Lynn (my cat rescue mentor) animal rescue house in San Francisco. The vet said he was 4 months old although he was so tiny, he looked like about 6 weeks. For months he was so out of it, he just purred when anyone held him and I took him around wherever we went. Finally he "woke up" and lo and behold realized he was a feral cat. He continued to have seizures around the full moon and even before earthquakes (this was San Francisco!) and he even participated in several studies about this phenomena. After 10 years he had no more seizures and he was medication free for the rest of his life.
Since he was so feral to anyone else except me, he became my personal cat and he was my constant companion, muse and inspiration for the past 17 years. In the past few years he even became fond of my husband, Mark.
He is sorely missed by all here.
From the Buddha Amitabha text:
Bodhcitta (compassion and enlightenment) is precious
Where is unborn let it arise
Where it is born let it never decline
But ever increase rising higher and higher
The Four Limitless Meditations
May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness
May all beings be free of sorrow and the causes of sorrow
May all beings never be separate from the sacred joy that is free from sorrow
May all leave attachment to one's aversion to others and live believing in the equalness of all that lives
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Determinants of Child Labour and School Attendance: The Role of Household Unobservables
We develop a random effects multinomial logit model to distinguish between unobserved and observed household characteristics as determinants of child labor and school attendance. Using a semi-parametric approach, the random effect is drawn from a discrete distribution of latent classes of households. The results show that household-level unobserved heterogeneity is substantial. Household-level unobserved heterogeneity swamps observed income and wealth heterogeneity. Households that belong to the class with a high latent propensity to send their children to work are not influenced by marginal changes in the explanatory variables. Households most sensitive to changes in explanatory variables are those with a high propensity to have their children neither in school nor working. Policy interventions and changes in external conditions are likely to produce large changes in the behavior of this group of families.
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- Keane, Michael, 1993. "Simulation estimation for panel data models with limited dependent variables," MPRA Paper 53029, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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Hello everyone! Matt will be on House of Lies episode airing this sunday. Don't miss it. I've done some gallery updates. Huge thanks to Kaci from ChristianSlaterFans.com for sending this wonderful stuff! Also thanks to Mila from david-morrissey.com for the Fotogramas scans. Plus some stuff I had here and never had a chance to upload before. Enjoy!
Some Previews
TV Shows:
Hey guys, did you see Matt last week? I've tried doing clips, but my computer hates me. Anyway, here are some I found on youtube, plus pictures, thanks to Claudia!
More Promised Land promotion for Matt!
Matt has been promoting Promised Land and here are pictures. Huge thanks to DeAdele from RyanRenoldsFan.net for the pictures:
Matt Damon and his wife Luciana attended the premiere of Promised Land in Los Angeles last night, here are pictures:
I've uploaded pictures from last night's New York premiere of Promised Land. Enjoy!
HBO has a video showing off 2012 shows and what's to come in 2013, which has a quick view of Behind The Candelabra (must be like 2 seconds and must be hardly call footage, but hey, I'm taking what I can get here!). Around 00:02:07 if you want to skip.
Matt Damon attended the "TimesTalk Presents An Evening With Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon & Gus Van Sant" tonight, below are pictures and the video interview.
Matt Damon was honoured for his career at this year's Gotham Awards, here are pictures:
Here's the article from BBC:
Actors Matt Damon and Marion Cotillard have received career tributes at the 22nd annual Gotham Awards in New York.
The Fighter director David O Russell was also honoured at the event, the first in the yearly film awards season.
Wes Anderson's comedy Moonrise Kingdom was named best feature at the event, an annual ceremony held to recognise the year's best independent films.
Britain's Emily Blunt was recognised, along with her co-stars, in another indie comedy, Your Sister's Sister.
The film, about a man who sleeps with his girlfriend's sibling, beat Russell's Oscar-tipped Silver Linings Playbook to the best ensemble performance award.
Another Oscar hopeful, the critically acclaimed Beasts of the Southern Wild, saw its director Benh Zeitlin receive the breakthrough director prize.
Zeitlin also received the inaugural Bingham Ray Award, named in honour of the former United Artists president and co-founder of October Films who died in January.
Damon, who received his award from Blunt's actor husband John Krasinski, said it felt "really weird" to be honoured and joked that "people are trying to get rid of me".
Fellow Oscar winner Cotillard said she felt "very welcomed" and "very happy" as she arrived at the event, held on Monday at the Cipriani restaurant on Wall Street.
The Gotham Awards are held annually by the Independent Feature Project, a not-for-profit organisation that supports independent film-making.
Last year's event saw Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Christopher Plummer film Beginners share the top prize for best feature.
Captures from We Bought a Zoo in Blu-Ray quality have been added to the gallery:


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34Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. 35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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IOM Report: Lowering Costs and Improving Quality of Care
PAMF's Dr. Paul Tang Member of the Institute of Medicine's Learning Health Care System Committee
The increasing complexity and escalating costs of health care in the United States threaten the nation's economic stability and undermine progress in improving Americans' health. Medical care lags behind many other industries in its ability to meet needs, offer choice, and become safer and more affordable to those it serves.
On September, 6, 2012, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its latest report, Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America, which details ways to bring about better quality care at lower cost by harnessing existing knowledge and technologies. The report calls for a transformation of the health care system into one that continuously improves, and it describes the specific steps that should be taken by all participants — including care providers, hospital and clinic managers, health insurers, policymakers, clinical researchers, and patients and their families — to achieve this improved system.
"This report provides a framework for creating a health care delivery system in America that continuously learns and continuously improves. It leverages something America already does very well – innovation – and applies that to health care," according to Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., internist and vice president, chief innovation and technology officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) and the PAMF Innovation Center.
Dr. Tang is an elected member of the IOM and has participated on a number of IOM studies, including a patient-safety study he chaired, which published two reports: Patient Safety: A New Standard for Care, and Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System.
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Texas Department of Health Resources, Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children:
An Inventory of WIC Program Records at the Texas State Archives, 1974-1978
Agency History
The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program ) is a federally-funded program under the authority of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, Section 17. The program is designed to provide food supplements, health care, and consumer education to eligible women and children who face nutritional risk. It is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Food and Nutrition Service, through regional offices and state agencies. During the time period of these records, the Texas Department of Health Resources administered the program in Texas. The Texas Department of Health Resources (1975-1977) was preceeded and succeeded by the Texas Department of Health.
Scope and Contents of the Records
Types of records include correspondence, memos, audit workpapers, reports, regulations, and copies of the Federal Register. Records date from 1974 to 1978. Records are concerned with administering the WIC program in Texas and include policy development, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations, and an audit of local WIC programs in Texas that includes food and administrative costs. Policies developed for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program manual by the USDA and sent to the Texas Department of Health Resources include reporting requirements, certification procedures, and calculating administrative costs. There is detailed correspondence about these issues between the USDA-Food and Nutrition Service and the Texas Department of Health Resources including correspondence with the Acting Texas Commissioner of Health, Francis Duff.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
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Restrictions on Use
Most records created by Texas state agencies are not copyrighted and may be freely used in any way. State records also include materials received by, not created by, state agencies. Copyright remains with the creator. The researcher is responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).
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(Identify the item), WIC Program records, Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children, Texas Department of Health Resources. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
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Accession number: 1993/151
These records were transferred to the Texas State Archives by the Texas Department of Health via the State and Local Records Management Division of the Texas State Library on April 20, 1993.
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Sports Week for July 19, 2012
July 19, 2012
American Legion AA Playoffs
Thursday, July 19, Cheney vs. Ferris, at A.K. Jackson Field, 1 p.m. Friday, July 20, Cheney vs. Gonzaga Prep/Lewis and Clark/Shadle Park winner, at A.K. Jackson Field, 7 p.m.
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Airway Heights MX Park
July 28 Supercross No. 4
Sunset Speedway
Saturday, July 28, Regular race.
Spokane County Raceway
Drag Racing
Summit Bracket Series No. 8. Land of the Leaders Challenge, Jrs, High School Drags, Street Legal, Rocky Mountain Door Slammers, Gates open at 2 p.m., racing 3 p.m.
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July 20-22, Chump Cars Chump Car "24 Hours of Spokane."
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Friday, July 20, Sportsman, Zip's Pony Stocks, Road Runners, gates open 5 p.m. racing 6. Saturday, July 21, Mr. Dizzy Bus Jump, Motion Auto Supply Bump 2 Pass, gates open 5 p.m. racing 6. Friday, July 27, Zip's Pony Stocks, Road Runners, Motion Auto Supply Bump 2 Pass, gates open 5 p.m. racing 6. Saturday, July 28, Dr. Pepper Super Late Model Series, Hobbys, Pro 4, gates open 5 p.m. racing 6.
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Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at The University of Chicago, on her book:
"The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age"
See http://www.valpo.edu/law/seegers-lecture-on-j... for details.
Lisa Bernstein on "Usage in the Courts: The Flawed Evidentiary Basis of Article 2's Incorporate Strategy" on Day 2 of Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation's Reputation Symposium. See http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/reputation/ev... for details.
See http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsfaculty/index.as... for details.
Geoffrey Stone, professor and former dean ('93–'02) at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses the role of freedom and education in America today. Stone is one of the world's foremost scholars of the Constitution. His most recent books are Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007) and War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007).
This event will feature a panel of distinguished guests with diverse perspectives on and experience with the Chicago police torture scandal that has plagued the city over the past three decades. Confirmed panelists include former Chicago police superintendent Richard Brzeczek and People's Law Office founding partner G. Flint Taylor.
Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and winner of the 2011 Bradley Prize, will examine "Can Innovation and Growth Survive the Entitlement State?" at the Bradley Distinguished Lecture Series on Tuesday, May 8. The luncheon event is 12-1:30 p.m. at the University Club, 924 E.
THE FUTURE OF RISKCurated by Anwen Tormey (Anthropology) and Bernard E. Harcourt (Political Science)COULTER LOUNGE, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE1414 E. 59TH STREET
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On April 27th, 2012, the Cornell Law School Law and Economics Program will host the 3rd annual Empirical Health Law Conference, which will be co-sponsored and co-organized by Georgetown's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. The conference will bring together a diverse mix of scholars in health law, economics and policy.
Geoffrey R. Stone is Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He has served as dean of the Law School and, from 1993 to 2002, as provost of the University of Chicago. His most recent books are Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007) and War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007). Prof.
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BACUP Borough captain Daniel Cocks has committed himself to the club until 2014 as boss Brent Peters attempts to tie down further members of his squad to new deals.
Bacup visit Glossop North End in the North West Counties Premier Division this weekend and Peters has started to plan ahead by entering into discussions with a number of his squad, with another senior player close to finalising a deal.
Borough lost six players in the summer, despite winning the North West Counties League Challenge Cup last season, and Peters believes that has had a big impact on Bacup's results this term.
They currently sit 17th in the Premier Division table.
Second-placed Padiham are scheduled to entertain struggling Ashton Athletic tomorrow.
Colne, sixth in the league, host Runcorn Linnets.
Barnoldswick Town are eighth and are at home to fifth-placed Runcorn Town.
First Division leaders AFC Darwen are scheduled to make the trip to Holker Old Boys, who sit second bottom of the table going into the weekend.
Nelson, who are now third bottom having failed to win since taking nine points out of nine at the start of the season, visit Oldham Boro.
In the Evo-Stik Premier Division, ninth-placed Chorley entertain struggling Stocksbridge Park Steels after beating them 5-4 in the reverse fixture on the opening weekend of the season.
Clitheroe currrently sit fourth in First Division North and are at home to Garforth Town, while ninth-placed Ramsbottom United travel to Cammell Laird.


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At least that is what he told a second-grader at a townhall last February.
John and his accomplices having reached the townhall, received their sentence from Wesseling, the city judge.
The Atkins town pump, also his gift, stood before the townhall.
As mayor, I am in my place in the townhall, and here I stay.
On to the center and to the townhall pressed Harcourt, and with him now was Richard.
Next morning, he resumes session, not at the townhall as prudent Municipals counselled, but once more at the barracks.
For, alas, neither is the townhall itself without misgivings.
And he went thus as far as the townhall, so as to assemble there the burgomasters and the sheriffs.
Yes, Friends, that is the townhall; discoursing so, to the Night.
By seven o'clock, on this raw October morning, fifth of the month, the townhall will see wonders.


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This work provides examples of:
- A Friend in Need: When Dan's mother has a stroke and becomes paralyzed, his friends all help take care of her.
- Artifact Title: The main cast all quit Microsoft relatively early on in the book and never go back
- Brick Joke: The Marilyn Monroe wig.
- Dance Party Ending: Sort of, the last entry is about the night Dan and his friends attempted to recreate a Pink Floyd stage show with laser pointers for his disabled mother
- Dead Little Sister: Jed casts a long shadow over Dan's family
- Heroic Safe Mode: It's implied that Dan's dad has been in this state ever since his little brother died. He was using his work at IBM to defer the grief of Jed's passing, and when he gets laid off early in the book he can defer it no longer and has a Tear Jerker of a breakdown.
- Limited Social Circle
- Mood Whiplash: Dan's dad in mourning for Jed after losing his IBM job is followed up with an entry that consists essentially of "Went to Boeing surplus, bought zinc".
- Mythology Gag: The random words Dan inputs into his computer and the housemate's Jeopardy dream categories would appear again (though differently) in jPod.
- Quirky Household: In the beginning of the book, five of the characters live in a group house, which Abe has been renting for years despite having boatloads of money from Microsoft stock. Dan's description of it is very telling of their nerdy quirks.
- Production Foreshadowing Dan notices Karla never seems to talk to or about her family. She only tells him they're psychotic. Dan quips that all families are psychotic.
- Spiritual Successor: Microserfs has one in Coupland's 2006 novel jPod.
- True Companions
- 24 Hour Party People: Susan's vesting party contains these people in rare literary form.


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Dr says my glucose levels high and liver levels are slightly high what does this all mean and what will be done next?
Glucose : It could mean you have pre-diabetes or diabetes. There are many reasons why liver enzymes will be high but in someone with glucose elevation, fatty liver is also a possibility. I would work closely with your doctor to get the risk factors under control. Discuss all this with the doctor who ordered the tests for you. Good luck. ...Read more
My b12 levels are always 1200-1300 and my alanine levels are high. Does it neccesarily mean something is wrong with the liver?
Maybe: Elevated B12 means nothing. You're making more of the binder protein for some reason. Nobody measures alanine, but if your alanine amino transferase (ALT / SGPT) levels are up, you'll want to know why -- if it's not alcohol, you may have a medication allergy, a viral hepatitis, iron overload, Wilson's, autoimmune hepatitis, or it may be your body's way of asking for more exercise. ...Read more
High b12 for many years until last test level was in middle, does this mean my liver is doing better?All fasting morning tests and same b12 vitamin
We ingest most of: our B 12 from meat, especially red meat. Are you presently eating less meat? That would account for it. If your B 12 was high, I don't understand why you were taking this supplement. Peace and good health. ...Read more
My doctor said my liver levels are sightly high and so is my glusose.What does it mean and what should be done next?
Repeat test.: Test should be repeated to confirm findings. Additional test such as HGB a1c, lipid panel may be helpful as well. ...Read more
I have cirrhosis of the liver and they told me my ammonia level was 135. They said that was high. What does that mean?
Cirrhosis: Ammonia is a breakdown product of proteins, and is toxic at high levels. One of your liver's jobs is getting rid of toxins in your body. If your liver is not working because of cirrhosis, ammonia can build up, among other things. High levels of ammonia can severely effect your central nervous system. ...Read more
D-dimer level .76 High. INR test 1.1 High. Total Protein 8.6 HIGH. Diffuse fatty infiltration liver. What could this mean?
Need more info: Diffuse fatty infiltration can have many causes, common ones being fatty liver due to alcohol and fatty liver associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. It would require more information to settle the issue. However, if you are even slightly overweight, reduce you weight through diet and exercise, not easy, but essential. ...Read more
What does elevated liver levels mean I do drink alcahol a lot is it from that im 40 year old male with coronory heart disease ...Help?
Most likely yes: Excessive alcohol intake can definitely make your liver enzyme tests abnormal. This can be very dangerous in the long run. Try to abstain for a while to let your liver "recover" from the damage. ...Read more
What does serum enzyme levels alkaline phosphate elevated 790.5 i had a blood test for my liver and my doctor told me this i had ultra sound done on my liver and it showed hypercalcemia 275.42 what does it mean?
Inconsistent info: The data you provided are not in the usual fomat and it is not feasible to provide an interpretation. Especially the calcium levels are likely not reported correctly. All tests need to be interpreted in the clinical context and you should discuss the results with the docor who ordered the tests as s/he has other information as well. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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St. Athanasius of Alexandria, Egypt, lived from about 293 to 373. He spent much of his life waging a theological battle with Arianism, the belief that Jesus, though the son of God, was inferior to God the Father.
As a young theologian Athanasius took part in the Council of Nicea in 325. This meeting established an orthodoxy that proclaimed the equality of Jesus and God the Father as divine beings of the same substance.
But in the succeeding decades changing tides of theological belief and church politics resulted in five different periods of exile for Athanasius, who was the bishop of Alexandria and an important Egyptian national figure as well as a religious leader. During one such banishment, secreted among hermetic monks of the Egyptian desert, he penned Discourses Against the Arians—his strongest indictment of Arianism and most precise description of orthodox Christian belief, as represented by the four New Testament Gospels.
In 367 he decreed to all Egyptian Christians that the only texts they should regard as sacred were 27 Jewish and Christian books specifically listed by him. The works on that list comprise the New Testament as we know it today.
Athanasius died shortly before his orthodox views gained the upper hand over Arianism at the Council of Constantinople in A.D. 381.


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|1,400 sq. ft.
|Property type
|chateau / country house
|Minimum Stay
|2 - 5 nights
'The Residence' is a beautiful, secluded property nestled in the foothills of the Berkshires. Built in 1926 and renovated in 1996, our beautiful 3 bdrm, 2 bath vacation rental is centrally located between Great Barrington and Lenox, and only 3 minutes to Stockbridge center. While the rental is close to many of the area's attractions, it feels 'away from it all' as it is ensconced in the magic of the woods and ceaseless birdsong. This rental is part of a family estate which sits on 14 acres of woods, rolling meadows and a delightful babbling stream.
We offer:
- All Amenities inside and out
- New Queen Beds upstairs; Double Bed down; Sofa Bed too
- Large Eat-In Kitchen with everything for cooking and eating
- Comfortable and cozy living room w/ rustic wood-burning fireplace
- Large Library collection for your enjoyment
- Beautiful Deck with woodland view
- Children's play barn
- Table Tennis barn
- Ample Parking for multiple cars
- In-home washer and dryer
- Dishwasher and Microwave
- WiFi
- DVD player and Radio
- In-house Phone; free domestic long-distance phone
- Lake Swimming Passes Provided along with beach towels
- Charcoal grill located on sweet back porch
- Friendly - with prior arrangement
- Walk to the Chesterwood & Norman Rockwell Museums
- Near 'Berkshire Mountain Bakery' (can smell the fresh bread)
- Uniquely located off the beaten path yet within minutes of Stockbridge, West Stockbridge, Great Barrington and Lenox.
- Mountain bike, sled, and cross-country ski your way through the woods and meadows straight out the front door!
Note: the rental unit adjoins the caretaker's apartment (i.e., shares a wall; no shared spaces or entrances, separate driveways). The caretaker is respectful quiet, and keeps to himself. He is available to assist guests with the rental if needed and, along with all of our family, does his best to ensure your stay is all that you hope for.
We, Emma and Sheva, are cousins in a professional family with very strong ties and attachments to the Berkshires. The 'Residence' on Williamsville Road has been in our family for over 40 years. It's been that magical place where our extended family has lived, loved and grown. It's been that beautiful space where marriage proposals were accepted and where joyous weddings took place.
It's been our home to welcome the newest members of our families and where our children spent weekends and holidays delighting us with their discoveries of a fallen bird, wild strawberries, or new deer prints in the snow.
It's been that fun treat where teenagers invited their city friends for swimming, skiing, and sleepovers. It's been the quiet retreat where sister-in-laws got to know one another better and where brothers bonded; that place where parents aged, where screenwriters wrote, where the academics of the family studied and researched, and where so many dreams started that ultimately changed the lives of others in so many ways.
That is our home. That is The Residence. This is the unique love and magic we can offer you as your 'Home-Away-from-Home' in the Berkshires.
Sheva & Emma Gross, cousins in the family that has owned the Residence for 50 yr purchased this chateau / country house in 1968
The property (14 acres of pristine woods) is secluded and yet just minutes to everything. Our caretaker Michael is there if you need him, and all efforts are made to make your stay in our home as comfortable and enjoyable as possible.
The Residence is also a unique piece of Berkshire history. The first cabin on the property (across the driveway from the rental) was built 'by hand' by Gertrude Robinson Smith and her companion, two very feisty and spirited women who defied convention for their time. (The New York Times called the Residence 'a manless eden.')
In addition to founding the American Women's Association, raising funds for war relief, and championing independence for young women in New York City, Ms. Robinson Smith was a co-founder of Tanglewood, and the Residence actually served as the first ticket office for the music festival!! A rustic one-room cabin off the upper driveway of the property is there today as it was then, marked, simply, 'office.'
The rental is spacious, comfortable and beautiful, and the grounds are well-kept and very peaceful.
Place was great, it was cozy and comfortable as advertised. We took advantage of the fireplace and the wood provided. It has good access to the Berkshires. Close by is Monument mountain which has a long ridge on a couple mile hike so we got lots of good views. Also, we went to wine festival at Chatham fairgrounds which was not far. Last, we rented a pontoon boat on Lake Pontoosuc in Pittsfield for a couple hours. Next time around we'll visit the Stockbridge Bowl, drive up Mount Greylock, and go to the Norman Rockwell museum.
Had a perfect snowy winter weekend. The house is perfect for cooking and hanging out by the fire. Would definitely go back!
Very nice home. Beautiful property with a brook that runs through it. We split with two families (w/ kids), and everyone was comfortable and cozy. We built a fire in the fireplace all three nights. Well equipped kitchen. Cable TV. Short, 15-minute drive to Butternut Mountain.
What a gem! 4 adults and 4 kids were comfortable and cozy in this woodsy retreat in West Stockbridge. With temperatures in the double-digit negatives, we were not able to explore the property as much as we wanted but the hikes that we were able to take were breathtaking and the kids LOVED exploring the woods and the creek. The house was a perfect fit for our group, whether we were hanging out in front of the fire, or the kids were playing board games in "their" room upstairs, we were comfortable and happy. The property has this great feeling of being super remote and isolated but being really close to all the area attractions all at the same time. The owners were extremely helpful and responsive every step of the way.
First off let me say that the owners are incredibly responsive to any question. We had a cable tv issue, which could only be resolved by the old unplug, plug back in method. It was also uncharacteristically hot for May and the room air conditioners as well as dehumidifier literally saved our vacation. The home is even more beautiful in person. We felt so relaxed there, that we decided to forgo our usual dinners out and eat-in. The cable stations are robust for we eat-in couch potatoes. I got to watch the French Open and professional golf, and the hubby watched his cycling shows on BEIN.
Some places I'd recommend for eating, Once Upon a Table in Stockbridge for lunch. There's a chocolate shop located behind them with great gelato for dessert. We got take-out from The Brick House Pub in Housatonic, very close-by which was always excellent. For breakfast we went to Haven Cafe and Bakery as well as Spoon in Lenox. Also Pleasant and Main Cafe in Great Barrington is a nice spot too.
If you have a dog, try Kennedy Park in Lenox. It's completely shaded and has short or long loops. And don't forget Taft Farm in Great Barrington for their fresh baked cookies and brownies.
My sister, cousin and I all want you to know how much we enjoyed your family home. With the exception of the saggy downstairs bed, (which has now been replaced!) everything was welcoming, comfortable and perfectly suited for our little gathering. We spent happy evenings before a crackling fire, sharing our stories, playing cards (have you ever tried Spite and Malice?) and making simple meals. Spring was on the verge of bursting forth. As a Californian, the abundance of water was a welcome novelty and I have a great appreciation for the boulders and stone walls that are found everywhere. So thank you for sharing your home with us.
The Berkshires are an unparalleled haven for the Arts, encounters with nature, and New England charm and history, all within 2-3 hours from New York or Boston. In the summer, visitors and performers flock to the region to enjoy top-quality theater, music and dance. In the winter, downhill and cross-country skiing beckon. And throughout the year, the great outdoors are preserved for the enjoyment of all--whether you prefer to connect with nature by hiking, fishing, canoeing, cycling, or from the comfort of an Adirondack chair perched on your deck. Amble through historic towns and buildings and visit world-class art museums and galleries, stopping to dine at delicious eateries along the way.
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5 night minimum stay
Labor Day Weekend
Sep 1 2017 - Sep 4 2017
3 night minimum stay
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Sep 6 2017 - Nov 2 2017
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Nov 3 2017 - Nov 21 2017
2 night minimum stay
Nov 22 2017 - Nov 27 2017
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Between Thanksgiving & Xmas
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Holiday minimum stays & rates apply.
Fee of $50 per approved pet. Note age, breed, size when you inquire.
No tax on cleaning, pet fees & damage deposit.
You may include damage deposit in rental check, or write a separate check that can be held & returned. If no damage done to the rental property, the security deposit will be refunded within 14 days
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The author of the passage is most likely to agree with which of the following?I. Most conveniences of today would have been unimaginable just a century ago.
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III. The harder we run, the harder we are likely to fall.
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If x2 = y + z, y2 = z + x and z2 = x + y, then what is the value of ?
Post and discuss tips and tricks for building assertive and convincing arguments
Q99 The development office at Platonic University has provided a suggestion to evaluate ways of improving the revenue for overcoming there expenses. They further build up by addressing one potential solution by following what one of the universities has done. Greene University has been able to increase their revenues by accepting $100 million sum of donation by renaming themselves after the donor and the development office proposes a similar activity as a way to increase the quantity of donation. The argument sounds plausible but there are some logical flaws. Firstly, the argument is silent about the location of Greene University and the circumstances at which they were able to receive their donation. Secondly, the renaming of a university may result loss in the market value of the brand name and the recognition of the university. Thirdly, advertising to a homogeneous group of people may not result in increasing the amount of donations. The first flaw creates a false analogy. That is, the method adopted by Greene University may not work for Platonic University as the argument is silent on certain external factors. Greene University may be located where large majority could be of wealthy people who can afford such a donation. Methodology for the advertisement for donation could have played much important role. People could have reacted differently knowing the actual usage of the donation. The second flaw is the assumption that renaming of the university is the only way of receiving or increasing donations and the after effects. Extrinsic factors could have their toll. People may not be able to recognize the achievements of the university and may result in reducing the amount of enrollments for the future. A brand works on its created market identity. Renaming may change the university image and popularity and students might not want to enroll for a university who are not well recognized. Thirdly, by advertising to wealthy people only may not increase the number of donations. Revenue may not be affected much by the number of donations but could be by the sum of donation. The nature of the people gets them to donate rather than the wealth they attain. University could achieve more if they address to a heterogeneous group of people than one category. Thus, the argument is not logically convincing. The evidence provided to support the conclusion failed to address the above mentioned flaws. The argument could have been strengthened and made more reliable. The development office could access the expenses incurred to generate revenue and create more elaborate proposal.
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Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.Not only he, but also his mates, is trying best to achieve growth and success.
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It was a $4 billion deal that hung on a wink and a nod. In Mozambique's grand presidential palace overlooking the Indian Ocean,
Mozambique President Armando Guebuza, Mines Minister Esperança Bias and Transport Minister Paulo Zacula had gathered to officially welcome Rio Tinto to town, with arms wide open and the promises running high.
In that palace, just footsteps away from the Avenue Mao Tse Tung, Rio sealed the deal. The road was a reminder of China's support for Marxist Mozambique in its push for independence from Portugal as far back as the 1960s. These days Mozambique is a resource rich African success story, a magnet to big business.
And here was Rio about to win a river. As far as it was concerned the government had already given the vital permission it needed to dredge the famous Zambezi River, once the lifeblood of Africa's food bowl.
For Rio, rights to the Zambezi river were key
Rio had the river that would carry the coal from the $4 billion coal deposit it bought from Riversdale, a relatively small, Sydney-based miner that lacked the heft of a Rio when it came to bending a government to its wishes.
Had they been able to see into the future, they would know this was the beginning of the end for Rio chief executive
Routed by Chinese influence and rival Brazilian miner Vale, they were to be left humiliated, holding a multibillion-dollar loss.
Yet just two years ago optimism ran high. The river was the key to Rio's fortunes, leaving Ritchie and the board convinced they could bring alive a coal region capable of taking the competition to Rio's biggest rival,
But the legwork long predated the formal reception in that palace, the facade of which is now being renovated by Chinese engineers.
Due diligence on Riversdale was being run concurrently with regular trips back and forth to Maputo from November 2010 until the fateful January palace meeting. Rio's top brass, including Ritchie and the head of energy business development, Matt Coulter, and exploration head Eric Finlayson were in and out of Mozambique meeting with the top of Mozambique's government.
The company flew in teams of specialists in community relations, anticipating the challenges that lay ahead relocating villagers in the remote but densely populated province of Tete. It sent geologists to the site and people to handle government relations. But no one was stationed there permanently until the Riversdale acquisition was completed in August 2011.
From the president down, all privately agreed that the world's second biggest miner would be allowed to sail barges full of coal 400 kilometres down the wild Zambezi River to a new port that would be constructed at Quelimane on the coast. Rio would also build a power station on the banks of the Zambezi, in line with Riversdale's previous plan, to make use of the high-ash coal that was too volatile to send overseas and would otherwise need to be disposed of.
The only threat seemed to be going nowhere
The only possible threat to the project appeared to be going nowhere. This was a Chinese hydro- electric facility.
In 2006, the China Import Export Bank had agreed to lend Mozambique $US2.3 billion to build a hydro-electric facility, but the plan had stalled. As far as Riversdale, and later Rio, were concerned their coal-fired power was not only cheaper, but also less environmentally damaging for the river. This meant it was far more likely to be preferred by the government than China's hydro power proposition. So they thought.
This was another tick for the plan to buy Riversdale that Rio believed offered it a competitive edge not only over BHP but over its next smaller competitor, Brazilian miner Vale, which was already constructing a mine in the Moatize Basin in Tete province.
Rio's Albanese knew Vale's Moatize Basin all too well. Rio had looked it over when he was Rio's head of exploration. One insider was at pains to explain that the promise of Mozambique had long been on the Rio radar.
"There are old mines there still and the remains of old barging facilities on the Zambezi," he says.
Region's potential was well-known to rivals
So the potential for this coal frontier to rival the BHP-controlled Bowen Basin in Queensland was as well known as the huge obstacles that stood in its way.
The first was getting hold of the river, or the right to dredge it. The rich coal fields needed sensibly priced transport to deliver the economic gains.
So it was that Rio used its belief in its Zambezi River deal to justify the huge $4 billion offer to Riversdale. With the river it could sail its coal downstream rather than be forced, like Vale, to rely on a multibillion-dollar and time consuming investment in rail.
Vale's infrastructure solution, the 900 kilometre Nacala corridor, hinged on a railway crossing through Malawi, a country with which Mozambique had not enjoyed strong relations since the 16-year-long civil war that ended only in 1996.
Yet what Vale had over Rio was its strong, longstanding relationship with Mozambique, which had gone from strength to strength since 2004. The two enjoyed a bond Rio could never have – Portugal. Both Brazil and Mozambique had been Portuguese colonies, and Portuguese is still the main language in Mozambique.
Still, so far so good, even without these close links Rio's river plan had delivered. Yet Vale's influence was to resurface in a deadly manner.
Rio overlooked Mozambique's cranky neighbour Malawi, which relied on the Zambezi to feed the secondary river systems in its landlocked country.
Rio counted on residual bad blood between the two nations to ensure Mozambique's President Guebuza would be indifferent, or even happy, to cut flows to his disliked neighbour.
The theory overlooked Malawi's weapon of last resort, Vale.
The Brazilian miner had to get Malawi's approval to run its railway through the country. Malawi knew it had a strong bargaining position. It would only grant Vale's access in exchange for keeping the river flows.
Rio somehow missed China's burgeoning influence
That was nightmare number one. Nightmare number two was China. If the Brazilians had influence in Mozambique, so too did the owners of Rio's second largest shareholder, Chinalco.
Rio somehow missed China's burgeoning influence. In some ways the Chinese influence is opaque and lives behind the doors of corrupt ministers and officials in this rapidly developing country. In other ways its presence is all too obvious, in the Chinese cranes that are everywhere in Maputo, where new modern buildings replace the more gracious remnants of Portuguese architecture. Yet such has been the pace of recent Chinese investment that this physical manifestation may have been less obvious in 2010.
And while Rio had teamed up with China in nearby Guinea to avoid conflict over infrastructure investments at its iron ore project in Simandou, it went into Mozambique alone.
Government relations have not been Rio's strong point in recent years. In Australia, Ritchie and Albanese were part of the team that designed a plan for Chinalco to "rescue" the company after it declined BHP's advances and fell prey to a debt burden acquired buying Alcan for $US38 billion.
The $US19.5 billion Chinalco investment would ultimately prove deeply unpopular with politicians in Canberra and Rio learned the hard way that diplomacy meant more than sitting down for dinner with the mining minister once a year.
The transport problem and Rio's coal resource are intertwined, rather than distinct problems. A coal resource is not defined purely on geology. It is the volume of product that can be economically exploited. Transport costs, as well as geology and long term price assumptions, play a determining role in calculating a resource.
Long term price assumptions were also tied to the length of time and cost any infrastructure proposal would take to develop and the quick, cheap and, from an engineering perspective, easy Zambezi solution helped boost reserves.
Yet late last year Rio drill rigs made a devastating discovery.
For the first time drilling revealed that the deposit was home to a lot more of the cheaper coal used in power stations than the highly valued steel making coking coal.
The wink and nod in the palace proved just that
But by the time Rio worked this out the deal was hostage to the river, the one mode of transport that made it affordable.
That wink and a nod in the palace turned out to be just that, 13,000 kilometres away from the boardroom in London where Ritchie had presented the deal with enough confidence to win the green light from CEO Albanese, who chaired Rio's investment committee.
Three months ago the deal was beginning to show signs of unravelling, but it wasn't until early December that the full scale of the disaster was finally clear. Rio had been undone by powerful vested interests in a country where appearances can often be deceptive.
On November 22 China's Vice- Foreign Minister, Zhai Jun, paid a visit to that same presidential palace in Maputo to meet with Mozambique's President.
"Guebuza spoke highly of the traditional friendship and cooperation between Mozambique and China, noting that a new page is being opened in Mozambique-China relations and that China has become an important and indispensable partner for Mozambique," China's Foreign Affairs Ministry revealed a day later.
Mozambique decided dredging was not 'doable'
And suddenly, river transport was no longer a viable option for the Mozambique government. No one knows whether the Chinese were to blame, but it was soon after this meeting that the government formally announced that the dredging could not proceed.
In March Transport Minister Zucula said "as it is proposed it is not doable". Rio shrugged this off, saying it would overcome the challenges, releasing presentation slides suggesting barging was still its preferred transport means a month later in April.
Yet behind the scenes, sources say Vale was also moving hell and high water to prevent a favourable outcome for the environmental impact assessment.
"It didn't want us to do it," says one. "Vale tried everything in its power to prevent that river study going forward in my view."
By November the picture was becoming crystal clear.
This deadly miscalculation was to cost Ritchie and Albanese dearly and is now a $3 billion liability on Rio's balance sheet.
Many small firms have been undone by misadventures in frontier lands, but the Rio example has highlighted the specific perils of trying to do business in regions where the allure of high grade ore bodies has proven so tempting.
For Rio this example has ultimately served to further unwind its pre-Alcan reputation for prudent decision-making and superior operating skills, including logistics.
Mozambique is widely regarded as the southern Africa success story, working hard to restore civil order after a 16-year war tore apart infrastructure that had been developed during its time as a Portuguese colony until 1975.
Its pristine coastline has now captured the attention of some of the world's biggest oil and gas companies, including Anadarko, Petronas and Sasol from neighbouring South Africa.
Vale, Russia's ENRC, India's Jindal Steel, Anglo American and smaller companies like Ncondezi Coal and Beacon Hill Resources are all actively pursuing grand scale plans to mine coal in the Moatize.
BIAS won't discuss promises made to Rio
Mines Minister Bias is attuned to the needs of investors and miners praise her willingness to facilitate their needs in order to increase government revenues and lift Mozambique from eleventh place on the United Nations Development Program's multidimensional poverty index.
"We are always working in order to make business easily. We need to provide better services to the public including to the private sector so we are going to reduce time," Bias says of her government's attitude toward facilitating Rio's investment.
"If someone goes for a business I believe that they go because they believe that they will get some revenues," she pragmatically admits.
But she won't discuss promises that may or may not have been made to Rio.
When asked to comment on the possibility that Rio Tinto and her ministry had discussed the dredging, she is circumspect.
"I think that this question you have to ask to Rio Tinto, sorry for that," she says.
Yet Rio management had presented to its board, some of whom had signed off on the disastrous Alcan deal just three years earlier, the same dredging plan that investors in Riversdale never thought would be possible.
When Rio's chairman,
Du Plessis knew drastic action was needed
Du Plessis knew drastic action would need to follow, but he allowed the board to reach the conclusion on Monday, with subsequent meetings over the two days that followed to discuss how Albanese and Ritchie would step aside, and then how they would be replaced on January 15 and 16.
By Thursday, January 17, the decision was announced to the market, catching almost everyone by complete surprise, even those who had campaigned so hard to stop Rio from using the Zambezi on environmental grounds.
Inside Mozambique there are deep suspicions about why Rio had been so confident that it would be given the green light, given the lack of transparency and accountability around decision-making.
"The fact they were expecting to be able to do this without assessing the risk or the potential consequences and then punishing their staff for not achieving this, tells you the norm of the business here, which is that plans usually go forward as they wish," says Daniel Ribeiro, from environmental justice group Justiça Ambiental.
"The norm, until now, is that no major project has ever been denied. Every large project, they'd always found a way to show that the impacts were acceptable, no major project was ever denied. This is the first case where the environmental impact assessment said that impacts were too high and it doesn't justify the investment."
Why did Rio Fail?
So why did Rio Tinto fail and why now?
It would be naive to assume the upcoming municipal elections, to be held this year, and general election next year and the rising tide of discontent within Mozambique were at the core of the decision.
Similarly, the idea that business would have to yield to concerns about the environment are dismissed. As Ribeiro explains, no one is claiming a victory on environmental grounds.
Instead, Rio's failure began much before it arrived when China's Export Import Bank agreed to hand over $US2.3 billion to fund the 1300 megawatt Mphanda Nkuwa hydroelectric project in 2006.
Seventy kilometres downstream from an existing hydroelectric facility at Cahora Basa, built by the Portuguese in 1976, Mphanda Nkuwa was envisaged as a means for breaking South African power utility Eskom's absolute dominance of the Mozambican grid.
"The reason why the barging plan didn't go forward is because you have two big sectors in this country depending on that river. One is dams, which will prevent transport and transport will prevent dams, so you have two big sides of the government, one pushing dams and money from hydro power and you have the coal sector and you have big influences in both sectors so it ends up being okay, whichever interest is the biggest," Ribeiro says.
Since 2003, the World Bank, the European Bank, the Nordic Bank and African Bank had all considered the proposal, previously named Mepanda Uncua, but ultimately none could consent on environmental grounds given fears it would irreversibly damage the Zambezi's flow.
"They've got an ethical investment criteria," says one source who looked over the hydro power project. "Well, I'm not sure how the World Bank or the IMF or any of those groups, if they're going to meet their United Nations' Millennium Goals, is ever going to support another hydro developer in the Zambezi river."
China is handing over large amounts of 'untied aid'
But China is actively building roads, schools and hospitals as well as handing over large quantities of what is known as "untied" aid.
The money goes straight to the government to do with as it pleases, unlike donor funds from Europe and the United States that carry conditions over how it is spent.
In China, the relationship known as guanxi in Mandarin is the cornerstone for doing business.
"They don't say we'll give you money for this and in return we want this. It's very much relationships, goodwill etc, but at some time or another some Chinese company will be wanting to do something there, I don't know if that will be to put in an LNG plant or whatever, and they'll say 'look at all the good things we've done for you'," says one source with direct knowledge of the situation.
Unusually Fierce debate within the Mozambique government
Competition between factions pushing the hydroelectric dam and those pushing Rio's coal mining investment gave rise to a level of internal debate that few in Mozambique and certainly Rio had ever anticipated.
Energy Minister Salvador Namburete sees hydro power as a viable export to supply Eskom's grid across southern Africa. Mozambique's Mines Minister Bias ultimately lost.
"I don't think if you talk about people politicking, I don't think that that's Esperance's [Bias's] strong suit," says one Rio insider.
"I think that she's a very dedicated person who wants to see development, good development in her country.
"All of these places have serious challenges, you've got very, very thin levels of bureaucracy, not a lot of expertise and clearly there's a temptation by some people to do the wrong thing. Where Mozambique is at the moment, it's a real challenge for it."
But there was another force at play, again centred on the river, from Malawi.
Vale's Nacala corridor from Tete province to the coast transects Malawi and securing the border crossing required a promise.
Malawi's Mines Minister, John Bande, gave a clue about this when he addressed a conference in Cape Town earlier this month.
Malawi also a player
"Vale is working with the Mozambique government and ourselves, they are mining coal there and they will transport it through Malawi, connecting through the Nacala corridor in to Mozambique," he said.
"Also we have one program, it's the Zambezi waterway, it's a regional project championed by Malawi, it's connecting the Mozambique waters into Malawi."
"Those two really are big and we think they can really work well with the mining sector," said Bande.
In return for the water to help its agricultural industry, Malawi, a landlocked country, gets to export goods through Mozambique into the Indian ocean.
Very few people doubt Vale's capacity to influence the Mozambique government, but its operations director in Mozambique, Altiberto Brandi, is realistic about the challenges facing his company.
"We have quite a nice deposit and it's a lot on our plate, $8 billion investment, $4 billion on the mine, $4 billion on the infrastructure, so it's a lot on our plate to digest," he says.
"We have the challenge of logistics, we are quite far from the coast, from Beira we are roughly 600 kilometres and from Nacala we are roughly 900 kilometres, a little bit over."
Brandi is optimistic the project will be completed by the second half of 2014, but others say there is no chance of success without Rio's cooperation.
One insider recalls flying a group of engineers over the site of Vale's proposed railway only to be told it wouldn't work.
"They said the gradients are too steep, you'll never get enough coal along the line, the cost of rebuilding far exceeds putting a brand new rail system from Moatize down to one of the coastal cities north of the Zambezi," he recalls.
Rio's option, running a jetty from the end of the river to a newly constructed port, would cost a tenth of Vale's Nacala project, he said.
But when Vale's Nacala corridor got the green light to be built just weeks ago, Rio realised talks would quickly become more serious.
Brandi says Vale is happy to utilise its experience in third party logistics from Brazil.
"We are used to moving cargo around for other people, it's not a major problem, I think it's a condition of the construction actually.
RIO negotiating with Vale over transport
"The operating model is being decided now and it will be a multi-user rail line," he says.
But it has not yet been decided whether Vale will offer Rio a chance to buy equity in the line or simply provide a haulage service at a fee.
"That hasn't been decided, there are several ways of doing it and that is being discussed now," he says.
The suggestion that Rio is playing hardball while it pushes for the decision on the waterway to be reversed is denied by the company, which says it is reassessing whether the development and investment in a railway still makes sense given the greater proportion of lower priced thermal coal its own drilling found.
Riversdale's former boss Steve Mallyon says Moatize faces the exact same challenges as the Bowen Basin did in 1961.
"It's a world class coal province that needs world class infrastructure. But that's expensive," he says.
"Our first employee at Riversdale built the Saraji line and he said it just reminded him exactly of what it was like back in the Bowen Basin."
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For the past couple of years I've been working towards/dreaming about picking up a 2002 to call my own, and a couple of weeks ago I finally pulled the trigger. I went up to Detroit and amidst a strong fuel/exhaust smell she managed to tackle the 4 hour drive back to Springfield (Ohio) without a fuss so I can't complain. Anyway, without further ado here she is:
The engine runs pretty strong, not that I have much to compare it to.
Once I got it home and really started looking it over, I found out that she has a few nice surprises and a few not so nice surprises. But that's all to be expected I suppose.
First, a 32/36 w/ manual choke:
Next, a Tii Mechanical Advance Dizzy:
Then I forgot to take a picture, but a full Ansa Sport Midsection and Muffler, which is pretty freaking loud @4000 rpm cruising down the highway lol. I think there's also a leak somewhere though, so that's definitely not helping anything.
The interior also came with a 3 gauge pod with oil pressure, voltage and an old school vdo clock (that still keeps time!) as well as a very old tape deck lol.
Now some of the not as nice things:
Driver side rocker panel
Driver Side Floor with carpet and sound deadening removed:
Oil leak from somewhere around the oil filter housing / intake manifold / head gasket.
So the plan is to fix the rusty area's and get the interior back to being sealed from the exterior. I've got some plans to help stiffen her up where it counts that shouldn't add to much weight either. In the end it won't be a show car by any means, more just a car meant to be driven. I've already started some of the rocker work so I'll post up more pictures soon.
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At the moment, Conard is pushing a new book, based on the startlingly tone-deaf premise that super-wealthy people make life better for the rest of us — that having billionaires (about 400 in the US today) tends to keep life nice for the little people.
Unfortunately for Conard, the conclusion he perversely chooses to believe contradicts best practices of wealth management. More on that after some orientation to Conard's ultra-privileged world.
Conard's capacity for guile was made abundantly clear after he hid, then later admitted, his role behind a scheme to donate one million dollars to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign entirely anonymously. Sadly, Corporate America seems to reward manipulators like Edward Conard perhaps because they hoard such secret political power.
However, at this moment, Conard is pushing himself on the public to hawk his new book, "Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong."
Excuse me if I don't link to a sales page. The man's worth hundreds of millions of dollars; he doesn't need your money. He wants it… but he doesn't need it.
Think about that for a minute. Who could do more good with that $18.26 (per Amazon): you, and your family, and the places you'd spend it… or a guy who already has $18.26 ten or twenty million times over?
It seems stunningly bad form for Conard to publish this insult to equality while his buddy is trying to pick up the White House. The author seems unaware that Romney's campaign blanches and reels with every mention of the book. Conard's opportunistic self-aggrandizement has the "Unintended Consequences" of reminding the public that the Bain Capital environment — which he and Romney co-authored — must have been rather ethics-free.
Bain — in vain, mainly because it is so plain — has sought to distance itself from Conard.
I defer to the Elias Isquith's eloquent characterization of Conard's "economics." Isquith writes: …it's self-evident crackpot nonsense, gussied up with copious econojargon and delivered with the unbending, serene confidence of the religious zealot."
The crackpottiest central notion of Conard's bunch is that having a small number of ultra-wealthy people is beneficial for society. He suggests that these barons know best how to invest. He advises the other 99.999% to say "Thank you" and stay out of the matter.
Few notions could be more misguided, or economically dangerous.
In fact, it is hard work to "use" money (that is, to invest in any sense) effectively. As a rule, very wealthy people find it complex, and often difficult, to find enough truly worthy causes in which to invest.
Over the years, I've spoken with millionaires and with billionaires who confirm this conundrum. Whether investing as a capitalist, or as a philanthropist, handing out money can be a challenging full time job.
Some were discussing philanthropy, primarily toward land conservation. What agencies can they trust? Which organization is most efficient? Can they rely on external indicators to reveal where their money really will go?
Imagine giving an organization thousands (or millions) of dollars, only to discover later that the group does something different from what you were led to believe. It's nightmarish.
Others among these wealthy folks were talking about venture capital, usually for tech startups. A solo VC explained to me that he simply did not have the time to make investments of only, say, $500,000. He had twenty-odd million dollars to invest, but could reasonably study, understand, and track only three or four projects. So, he needed each of his investments to be on the order of two to five million dollars.
His $20M capacity arises out of various raw data, as well. Here are some examples from the philanthropic side.
Gates Foundation has nearly 1,000 employees to manage a $33B endowment. Bill Gates decided that $33M requires one dedicated staff member — given a massive organization to support their effort. As the largest charity in the world, their $33M figure skews rather high.
Pew Foundation runs toward the other extreme, with a $5B endowment and 630 staff. Thus, at Pew, one person can deal with only $8M.
Scanning Wikipedia's list of largest charities, only a few readily provide data on both staff and endowment. But, they're remarkably consistent.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: 825 people endowed by $16.1B = $19M each.
Robert Wood Johnson: 283 employees for $7.5B = $26M for each staff member.
Macarthur Foundation: 182 employees for $4.1B = $22M per employee.
Although they have quite different missions, these groups might agree with a VC that (even with efficiencies of size), $20M still requires the attention of one person. Placing more than $20M under the control of one person is… bad business. It's inefficient. It's unreliable. It's unacceptable.
If Conard wishes to be truly businesslike and efficient, and use wealth responsibly, his best strategy would be to distribute his hundreds of millions to a few dozen people, in $20M chunks.
Otherwise, most of his money will languish beyond his capacity to invest well and wisely. Clearly, he wouldn't want to punish we the commoners by locking it up that way.
Hmmm… but then, perhaps twenty people — with twenty other sorts of knowledge, and twenty other value systems — would be empowered to improve society. And, Edward Conard would have to share the spotlight with twenty other people. And, he would be reduced to a mere twenty-millionaire himself. That would never do!
To help Mr. Conard avoid such horrifying mediocrity, I propose that Edward reserve two shares for himself, totalling $40M. He can manage one $20M share for the benefit of "the 99%" — and spend the other $20M making himself feel important. It's Win-Win!
One can only hope that — as Conard presses his vile schmeer into the faces of the 99.999% — the natural human revulsion for his brand of selfishness will keep Mitt Romney among the unemployed for at least another year.


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Southerners Set to Showcase the Region's Best
The tightknit breeding community of the South Island has thrown its support behind New Zealand Bloodstock's new South Island Sale on 13 April, offering a unique selection of the region's best stock.
South Island vendors make up 20 of the 29 vendors with yearlings entered in the South Island Sale, supplying 102 of the 150 yearlings catalogued for sale.
The new-format Sale now forms part of the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale Series and, like the Premier, Select and Festival Sales held at Karaka, every yearling that goes through the ring is eligible to be entered in the Karaka Million Series.
Edwina Morris and Alan Jones' Berkley Stud provide the largest draft with 24 yearlings catalogued in the session. The eight-time leading vendors are predominately represented by their resident sires Coats Choice andEdenwold.
Coats Choice's racetrack performers are led by pin-up boy Natuzzi (NZ), the winner of back-to-back Listed Lightning Handicaps and a close second in the Group 1 Telegraph Handicap. The son of Redoute's Choice has 11 yearlings in the Sale, nine of which will be offered by Berkley Stud including Lot 46, a half-brother to Listed performers Maine (the Jogger) and Mystical (My Halo).
Barnmate Edenwold – a Canadian stakeswinning son of Southern Halo - has eight yearlings catalogued with six of them to be offered by Berkley Stud. Among his progeny in the draft is Lot 111, a grandson of former New Zealand Filly of the Year and Group 1 winner Plume (Crested Wave).
Brian and Lorraine Anderton's White Robe Lodge displaced Berkley Stud as the leading vendor last year and returns with a 14-strong draft this year made up of progeny of their resident sires Gallant Guru and Raise the Flag.
Gallant Guru is the sire of leading three-year-old filly Include (NZ) and has five of his seven progeny at the Sale offered by White Robe Lodge. Among the son of Montjeu's yearlings at the Sale is Lot 3, the half-brother to Australian Group 3 placegetter Red Eye Special (Yamanin Vital), and Lot 108, a three-quarter-sister to Southern Filly of the YearOrtem Fire (NZ) (Gallant Guru).
Second season sire Raise the Flag, by Sadler's Wells, was highly regarded at this year's Karaka Select Sale, ending the Sale as the leading sire by average at $86,667 with a top price of $147,500 for a close relation to Lot 108.
Mike & Barbara Cooney of Willow Glen have 10 yearlings catalogued for Sale including progeny of their resident sires Saperavi and Minstrel Court. One of the feature horses in their draft is Lot 89 by Saperavi out of Listed winner Shock Attack (Inviting), the dam of Group 1 Captain Cook Stakes winner Hurrah (Bahhare) and Hong Kong stakes winnerBest Gift (Bahhare).
Three Valleys from Timaru has a diverse selection of 11 yearlings catalogued by varying sires from the North and South Island. Among their notable entries is Lot 103, a colt by Battle Paint who is a half-brother to Group 3 winner Al Farouk (Cape Cross).
Waimate establishment Pear Tree Farm has eight yearlings on offer at the Sale by Any Suggestion, Captain Rio, Man of Power, Monaco Consul, Raise the Flag, Shocking and Showcasing. First season sire Man of Power is represented in their draft by Lot 131, a half-brother to Group 3 Hawke's Bay Gold Cup runner-up Boninsky (Keeninsky) out of a half-sister to Group 3 New Zealand Cup winner My Scotsgrey (Golan).
A draft of eight yearlings has been catalogued by Myles Gordon & Deborah Clark's Long Acres Stud of Darfield. The draft includes progeny of South Island stallions Minstrel Court and Remind, the stud's sole resident sire who has four entries in the Sale.
Longacres' draft also features yearlings by freshman North Island sires Per Incanto, Shocking and Rip Van Winkle. The filly by Rip Van Winkle, Lot 109, is out of dual stakes placegetter Vision (Entrepreneur), a half-sister to Group 1 winner Gaze (Cape Cross).
Local Christchurch vendor Hedwood Thoroughbreds has seven yearlings catalogued featuring sires from the South and North Islands along with Australian stallion representation. Lot 105 is the only horse in the Sale by Australian sire Exceedingly Good. His filly is out of Zabeel mare Tiffany Ruby, a daughter of Group 1 winner Ruby Clipper(Rubiton) and a half-sister to Group 1 winner Seventh Rock (Rock of Gibraltar).
Among other Southern vendors featuring at their local auction are Belmont Park, L. Daly,R. W. Gibson, C. M. Harris, Joy Holdaway, Inglewood Stud, Leafland Stud, Mansfield Farm, Paritai Farm, Park Hill Stables, Tapildo Lodge, Te Mania Thoroughbreds, G. Tomlinson, Twin Oaks, D. G. & H. A. Voice and C. P. Wilson & B. A. Sheat Partnership.
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