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Terminology differences with DART
If you've recently upgraded from DART for Publishers, you'll find that some of the terminology is different in DoubleClick for Publishers. Use this guide to get a better understanding of DoubleClick for Publishers terms and how they relate to DART for Publishers.
|Term in DART for Publishers
|Term in DoubleClick for Publishers
Any content in a website that acts as a commercial device to carry a message or attract a user. This content typically takes the form of an image or text, but can also use multimedia effects.
|Line item
An advertiser's commitment to purchase a specific number of ad impressions (CPM), user clicks (CPC), or time (CPD), on certain dates at a specified price. A line item:
(Learn how to create a line item)
An advertiser is the company or organization that buys ad space and supplies the creatives for ads in a website.
An agency is a company that manages advertising for other companies. Agencies can represent one or more advertisers in DART for Publishers.
A company is an advertiser, agency, or organization that buys ad space and supplies the creatives for ads in a website.
(Learn how to add a company to your network)
|Availability forecast
The DART forecasting tool that is used to predict the availability of inventory. Availability Forecast is used in two ways:
If there is not enough inventory predicted to meet the requirements of the ad, the Availability Forecast report is automatically displayed to inform the trafficker of the problem.
|Check inventory
Forecasts will help you confirm whether ad impressions are available before you book inventory in a line item. If the forecast confirms that ad inventory is available, you can move the forecast data into a line item in a new order or an existing order. With forecasts, you can optimize your ad inventory and prevent overbooking or underselling.
For more information on differences between forecasting in DART for Publishers and DoubleClick for Publishers, see Check available inventory.
|Change log
A list of all of the changes that have been made to an ad or order since it was created. The change log also shows the user who made the changes.
|Change history
A list of all of the changes that have been made to an order's name, placement, cost or other settings. You can review changes to an order's name, placement, cost, or other settings at any time by viewing the change history.
|Creative library
The Creative Library centrally stores and traffics an advertiser's creatives in a DART for Publishers network. Within a network, each advertiser has a unique library into which creatives can be uploaded, stored, and assigned to ads. A trafficker can also bulk import creatives into DART through zip files.
There's no official creative library in DFP. You can assign existing creatives within your network to other line items. For instance, when you go into the line item, click Add creatives, and select the Use an existing creative option. This search automatically filters for the creative sizes selected for the line item.
(Learn how to add an existing creative to a line item)
|Content category
A collection of DART sites or zones that are grouped according to a common theme or focus (for example, business or sports). Content categories can be targeted. Content category targeting provides a more horizontal means of targeting, as opposed to the vertical, hierarchical structure of DART site or zone targeting.
Similar to content categories, in DoubleClick for Publishers you can create placements to group a collection of inventory (ad slots) that an advertiser might want to target. Unlike content categories, you can report on placements.
Say, for example, you operate a news site. You might create one placement that includes ad slots for all skyscraper ads on your site. You might create another placement that includes all ad slots on pages containing content about sports. Both of these placements could include the ad slot for the skyscraper ad slot on sports pages. Other placements might include combinations of ad slots appearing in the world news, travel, and weather sections of your site.
|Sponsorship/exclusive ad
An ad that is targeted exclusively to a keyword or zone, so that no other ad can be served in its place.
|Sponsorship ad
The delivery type for the highest-priority line items in DoubleClick for Publishers, most commonly used for time-based campaigns such as a sponsorship or fixed placement. To make a sponsorship exclusive, you must set the weight at 100%.
(Learn more about sponsorship line items)
|Internal redirect (sometimes called an "inred")
A command, contained in an ad, that tells an ad server to retrieve a different ad from the pool of inventory that belongs to either a DART for Advertisers network or a different DART for Publishers ad network.
Similar to third-party creatives, they are used to retrieve a creative asset. However, internal redirect tags aren't sent to the user's browser; instead, they are processed internally within the DoubleClick system.
|DoubleClick tag (sometimes called an "internal redirect")
Is functionally identical to an inred in DART. It can be hosted by either DoubleClick Campaign Manager (DCM) or DART for Publishers.
(Learn how to Traffic DoubleClick tag creatives)
Target an ad to key-values by entering them directly into the Keyword/Key-value panel in the Content tab.
|Key-values and audience segments
In new DFP, target an ad to key-values and audience segments. Learn about defining key-values and audience segments.
|Master ad
The primary ad in a roadblock campaign. When a master ad serves as part of a roadblock, DART also serves a companion ad on the same web page. The master ad is always served first. Each master ad in your order can be associated with up to six companion ads, all of which inherit the master ad's targeting and delivery settings.
|DoubleClick for Publishers doesn't have master or companion ads. Instead, roadblocks are set up in a single ad/line item that contains all of the creatives for the roadblock. Roadblocks are set up in a line item's settings in the "Deliver creatives" drop-down list.
(Learn how to roadblock creatives)
|Network promotional ad
An ad that promotes the ad network. Network promotional ads do not generate revenue.
|House ad
The lowest delivery priority of the DFP delivery types typically used for ads that promote products and services chosen by you.
(Learn more about house line items)
|On-schedule indicator (OSI)
A factor, calculated by DART for all DART for Publishers ads, that indicates whether an ad is ahead of or behind schedule by comparing the average number of ads delivered each day with the optimal daily delivery.
|Progress bar
100% = on schedule, <100% = underdelivering, >100% = overdelivering
(Learn more about the progress bar)
Contains two or more linked ads that serve together on the same page. Each roadblock must contain one master ad and can contain up to six companion ads.
Serves creatives from a line item (ad in DFP) together on the same page. Roadblocks in the new DFP are set up in a single line item that contains all of the creatives for the roadblock. Roadblocks are set up in a line item's settings in the 'Deliver Creatives' drop-down list.
Learn more about roadblocking creatives
|Sequential rotation
In DART for Publishers, a rotation type that serves all of the creatives within an ad in the order of the assignments. The number at the far left of each assignment determines this order.
|Sequential rotation
In DoubleClick for Publishers, you can create a sequential rotation by selecting Sequential in the "Rotate creatives" list on the line item's "Settings" tab. See Rotate a sequence of creatives in a line item to learn more.
DART sites comprise a network and organize inventory for both targeting and reporting purposes. You can group one or more ad slots in DART sites. A DART site can be composed of ad slots in a webpage, part of a webpage, or across multiple webpages, and is not necessarily a representation of an actual website URL. You can further organize your inventory by dividing DART sites into subsections called zones.
|First-level ad unit
The first level of your inventory's hierarchy. You can find your inventory on the "Inventory" tab.
If you're upgrading from DART for Publishers to a DoubleClick for Publisher premium account, all of your sites will become top-level ad units upon upgrading.
(Learn more about inventory hierarchy)
|System default
The 1 x 1 pixel transparent GIF file, sometimes called
|Unfilled impressions
An ad request made by your
Learn how to generate an unfilled impressions report)
|Time-based bulk
A paying ad that runs only for the time period specified, doesn't have impression goals, and runs at the lowest priority of all paying ads. When a time-based bulk ad is running, no non-paying ad of the same pixel size can run in the ad network. The time-based bulk ad is always served instead of the non-paying ad.
|Price priority
Line item type most commonly used to fill your site's unsold inventory if not contractually obligated to deliver a requested number of impressions.
(Learn more about price priority line items in DoubleClick for Publishers)
|User group
A group of permissions that can be assigned to individual users.
A group of permissions that can be assigned to individual users.
|Weight-based bulk
A type of weighted share-of-voice ad that you can use to easily book network, remnant, and other pre-emptible deals. Like other bulk ads, weight-based bulk ads are paying ads that are sold with no guarantee that the number of impressions booked will be delivered. Weight-based bulk ads can target the same criteria as any other ad.
Line item type that is commonly used to traffic your ad networks. Can specify a percentage of your remaining impressions to fulfill.
(Learn how to create line items)
An entity within a DART site, used to identify one or more ad slots within that DART site. Zones are used to increase the granularity of targeting within a DART site. A zone can be composed of ad slots in one or more webpages or parts of webpages. Not all DART sites contain zones.
|Second-level ad unit
The second level of your inventory's hierarchy. You can find your inventory on the Inventory tab. If you're upgrading from DART for Publishers to a DoubleClick for Publishers premium account, all of your zones will become second-level ad units upon upgrading.


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A MIDWIFE will run the London Marathon in memory of her late grandmother.
Kate Greenwood, of Welland, will take on the 26.2 mile challenge around the streets of the capital on Sunday, April 21, with the aim of raising £2,000 for the Stroke Association.
The 27-year-old said: "I was only 11 when my grandmother had a stroke, and her death had a big impression on my childhood.
"I really enjoy running, so taking part in the London Marathon feels like a great way to honour her memory.
"I'd also like to help raise funds for a very important cause. During my training as a nurse, I regularly worked with stroke survivors."
Dorothy Jones, regional fund-raising manager at the Stroke Association, said: "Without the efforts of fundraisers like Kate, we would not be able to support the 11,000 people who have a stroke in the West Midlands each year, as well as their families and carers."
The charity works with stroke survivors and their families and carers, health and social care professionals, scientists and researchers.
It campaigns to improve stroke care and support people to make the best recovery they can, as well as funding research to develop new treatments.
To sponsor Miss Greenwood, go online to virginmoneygiv ing.com/KateGreenwood1.

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Sometimes societies find themselves in pernicious cycles in which the perceived medicine seems worse than the known disease. The Roman satirist Juvenal lamented the ill effects of free food and free entertainment for the masses ("bread and circuses") in part because he knew there was no remedy for the pathology in sight — and thus only a slow decline toward fiscal insolvency or riots were on the horizon. Any Roman emperor bold enough to rein in the Praetorian Guard, charge the mob for grain, and curb gladiatorial shows would earn a usurper marching on Rome from the provinces. So most did not.
When Ronald Reagan sought to end the so-called misery index, he knew that higher interest rates, tax cuts, and efforts to prune entitlements would in the short term lead to higher unemployment, more deficits, slower growth — and growing unpopularity. His recovery came just in time for the 1984 election; just a year earlier Reagan had been demonized as a heartless bastard who had strangled the economy for the benefit of the rich.
We are currently mired in the slowest recovery from any recession in our modern history — and we face the same circular dilemma. A good argument could be made that President Obama's gargantuan new health-care initiative, federal takeovers of businesses and failed subsidization of green industries, vastly expanded food stamps, unemployment insurance, and disability insurance, and "You didn't build that business" boilerplate have ossified the private sector. Many businesses have plenty of cash, but their owners are terrified to risk much of it in hiring, buying, or expanding. This results in fewer jobs and slower growth — and again, in this squirrel cage of an economy, yet more need for entitlements.
How to break the cycle of less money coming in, ensuring more money going out? Curbing entitlement spending is critical if we are to rein in debt and foster initiative, but in the short term such sobriety will raise howls of protest from those who are hurting and the legions invested in administering their entitlements. Business incentives are needed to spur growth, but may spike for a time our already unsustainable deficits. Vast new investments in energy production could create real wealth and millions of jobs — but not without eliciting environmental hysteria. Raising interest rates slightly would restore some of the dollar's value and allow savers to earn something more than the present pittance on their deposits — but it would anger those who are already deeply indebted.
The federalization of the private sector, the constant talk of higher taxes, the demonization of the entrepreneur, and the war against the gas and oil industries seem to ensure an ossified economy that guarantees, in turn, a need for more entitlements that, in turn again, only raise the deficit and slow down the economy further — in a self-perpetuating cycle that cannot be stopped and yet cannot go on. And yet it can go on for a while longer on borrowed money to the benefit of those invested in receiving from big government.
Given human nature, societies never voluntarily reduce entitlements. That is the subtext of much of the critique of popular democracy, beginning with Plato and Aristotle. It will do no good to note that before the 2006 Medicare prescription-drug benefit, Medicare recipients felt that payouts were already generous. It will do no good either to note that the country once felt that its Social Security disability program was humane enough without 85,000 new enrollees each month. Nor would it be wise to remind Americans that vast new improvements in technology — from laptops, cell phones, and flat-screen TVs to new prescription drugs — have made life far less harsh and far more entertaining than at any time in the past. Tell today's Kia owner that his car is far more comfortable and reliable than the rich man's Mercedes of the 1970s — and he is still upset that someone else has the money for a new Mercedes right now.


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(CNSNews.com) - Graduate students and former graduate students now form the last redoubt of approval for President Barack Obama, according to the
When American adults are sorted by their level of educational attainment—including those with a high school diploma or less, those with some college, those with college degrees but no graduate school experience, and those who have attended at least some graduate school—only the last group still gives Obama a majority approval rating.
Obama's approval is lowest among Americans who have a college degree but never attended grad school. Among this group, only 41 percent approve of the job the president is doing. The last time college-degree-only Americans gave Obama a majority approval rating, according to the
Americans who have attended some college, but do not have a college degree, give Obama a 42-percent approval rating. The last time this group gave Obama a majority approval rating was the week of April 19-25.
Americans who have a high school diploma or less give Obama a 43 percent approval rating. The last time they gave Obama a majority approval rating was the week of Feb. 22-28.
During the course of Obama's presidency, there has been only one week—Aug. 16-22, 2010—when the president's job approval rating dipped below 50 percent among grad students and former grad students. That week, it hit 47 percent among this group. Aug. 16-22, 2010, and the following week of Aug. 23-29, was also the period when Obama hit his lowest overall weekly approval rating of 43 percent as measured by Gallup's polling.
For last week, Obama's overall approval rating was 44 percent in the
However, for the three-day period of Oct. 21-23, Obama's approval rating was only 41 percent--the absolute lowest three-day rating of his presidency, according to Gallup. For the three days of Oct. 23-25--the latest period available--Obama's overall approval rating was 43 percent.
Gallup asks about 500 people per day whether they approve or disapprove of the job the president is doing.
In the week of Jan. 19-25, 2009 when President Obama was sworn into office, his overall approval rating in the


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| resources | opal
| intersect
for The Diary of Opal Whiteley
|a mythical being usually with magical powers
"The fairies in the woods leave me colored pencils in the moss box."
|Paragraph 45: Yellow jackets as fairies
Scene 13: fairies bring pens to Opal Paragraph 255: man with gray neckties believes in fairies
|someone who makes paper
"Yellow jackets are paper-makers who use paper to make their nests."
|Paragraph 27: Example
|rail fence
|A wooden plank used as a railing for a fence
"To sneak my pig out of the pig pen I take the rail fence down where it is weak."
|Paragraph 396: Example
|The road runs in front of Opal's grandparent's house. It's real name is Mosby Creek Road.
Opal calls this place where the road goes three ways . It is the intersection of Mosby Creek Road and Layng Road.
Opal's vivid imagination sees Mosby Creek road as going two different directions. One way the road goes west towards Cottage Grove. The other way the road goes is east to her school and the blue hills. Layng Road goes north and onto the upper logging camps and the Bohemia gold mines.
|Picture: where the road goes three ways today
Picture: sky view of where the road goes three ways
Paragraph 5: The road to Sadie McKibben's house
Paragraph 6: The road to the school house
Paragraph 9: The road to the upper camps
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Nitty-Gritty of IP Video Migration
Learn about essential technologies to step clients through the IP video upgrade process, be it baby steps, significant migration tactics or a complete forklift overhaul.
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Encoders Bring Networked Video Benefits to Analog Cameras
According to SSI's 2014 Systems Integration Study, video encoders are providing an increasingly lucrative way for integrators to provide an IP migration path for legacy customers. For example, more than six in 10 integrators reported at least 10% growth in selling/installing digital encoders compared to the previous year. Those who experienced growth of 60% or more increased 10 percentage points over the previous year. The overall average rose 6 points to 26%, the median 1 point to 15%. These figures can be expected to continue improving as more systems are transitioned to IP.
With similar outcomes to providing a hybrid NVR, video encoders are a cost-effective way to integrate analog cameras and gain important benefits of IP video. Video encoders make it possible to move toward a network video system without having to discard existing analog equipment. They connect to analog cameras, digitize the images and send them over an IP network, allowing analog cameras to take advantage of many of the same benefits as provided by network cameras.
The most common video encoder is a standalone version with single or multichannel connections to analog cameras. For larger, centralized systems, high-density racks with encoder blades offer the most flexible solutions. The security solutions division of Lenexa, Kan.-based C&C Group, a member of the InsideIQ Building Automation Alliance, specializes in IP video migration services. The integrator provides many of its SMB, government, hospital and other legacy clients with video encoders to facilitate network video functionality.
To market its offerings, the company invites businesses to attend occasional "lunch 'n' learn" sessions. C&C Group's own technicians are joined by vendor representatives to offer demonstrations of various IP video products and software. For clients that want to further consider a migration path, the company will conduct a private showing that is more specialized around their needs.
"Our approach is find out what the customer's pains are and what they are trying to get out of the system, and then show them the IP system is better capable of producing what they have today," says Todd Tenbrink, an account manager with the company's security solutions division.
The client's budget most often dictates purchase and implementation plans, be it an incremental approach to a forklift overhaul. As an example, for a large facility operated by Sysco Foods, Tenbrink recently advised the national food distributor go with video encoders as a cost-effective means of upgrading its legacy system.
"They couldn't rip and replace all of it, but they definitely wanted to get to the IP world. Their pains were they had multiple DVRs that were failing and they also had a matrix switch that they were no longer able to keep maintained," he explains.
C&C Group put in a video management system (VMS) and encoded all of the existing analog cameras, which included 50 American Dynamics p/t/z outdoor speed dome cameras and 14 fixed cameras.
"We were able to use most everything except we didn't have to use the video monitors that were coming off the matrix switch because now we are using the client software and the desktop computers that they were already using," Tenbrink says.
The project's equipment costs were for the VMS, storage space, a network switch and the encoders. What probably would have been $200,000 for a complete rip and replace instead cost the end user about $75,000 to do a front-end upgrade.
"They already had very expensive cameras. That was another reason to use them. It might have been a different story if they were using cheap, 10-year-old cameras," says Tenbrink.
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Rose Petal and Flower Petal Rosary
Prices and Shipping Costs
Currently not accepting new orders
Handcrafted Rose Petal Rosary
Traditional Chain Rosary : $95.00
Sterling Silver Rosary : $175.00
Handcrafted Flower Petal Rosary
Traditional Chain Rosary : $80.00
Sterling Silver: $175.00
Handcrafted Flower Petal Chaplet
Chaplets are available when ordering two or more Flower Petal Rosaries.
Traditional Chain Chaplet : $25.00
(Single decade chaplets are available in the Flower Petal beads only. Chaplets are NOT available in the 100% Rose Petal beads. )
Express/overnight delivery by request only: Add $20.00 to the standard shipping charge for Express Mail. Please note that selecting RUSH shipment does not rush the order process - this charge covers postage costs for express or overnight delivery.
* Rosary and Chaplet prices effective January 2008.
Copyright © 2003-2010 by A Crown of Roses. All rights reserved. WARNING: The content and rosary photographs on this website are the property of A Crown of Roses and are copyright protected. Violators will be pursued and are punishable by law.


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Pacific Beach United Methodist Church welcomes all people, regardless of age, race, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, physical condition, sexual orientation, ethnic background, or economic situation.
You may give online by clicking below. This will open a new window or tab with a secure form for online donations. Thank you!


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I can be boisterous or quiet depending on my mood and the setting. Typically, I'm more reserved unless I know a lot about the subject of conversation. I do enjoy a good debate or discussion.
Very detail oriented for most things. I'll ask many questions about things I know nothing about.
I have been told that I have an old soul. I do feel like that sometimes. I can be old fashioned.
I can be charismatic but I often choose not to be. I am a capable leader but I prefer to be a follower.
I'm the type who does not readily ask for help but I'll accept it most times if I actually need it. In the end I enjoy solving problems myself. It makes me feel better about myself and that I am capable.
I am empathic and generous; usually quick to help out.
I love to do all sorts of stuff from playing card games to running through the woods on an adventure. I do enjoy video games. Typically RPG's or fighting games. I really enjoy any games that are co-op. Most of the time I'm a bit of a nerd. I enjoy things like Pokemon, Yugioh (and other tcgs), Marvel, smash bros, root beer, writing, adventures, and of course good times with friends. I play a lot of pokemon. I'll battle anytime, anyplace. :) Im a Gundam fan. I've got a little collection of figures. I am very loyal to those I care about and can be quite generous at times. I am also into LARP. Live Action RolePlay.
There is one I go to once a month called Legacy and it is amazing! Ask me about it.
Star Trek, Avatar the Last Airbender, Sekirei, Pokemon, Digimon, gundam, Firefly, Marvel Movies, Kung Fu movies, LOTR, Star Wars. Just to name a few.
For music, I like every genre. If it sounds good to me, I like it. Some examples are: classical, disturbed, REO speed wagon, and Metallica.
I am not a picky eater and I will try anything new. I love burgers, root beer, and sushi most of all.
Free will
Fun times to enjoy
Other times I will be thinking of stories to write.
The rest is daydreaming. :)
Get to know me more beyond what is written here.
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Spelt Sourdough Bread Result Needs Advice
I have been baking for a while and while previous normal results are not what I would love, they aren't terrible. Even these results aren't in terms of taste. I use white Spelt pretty regularly at this point, and over the last few months, it has been spreading in the oven. I recently received a dutch oven (5 quarts) from a friend and I have been using it. This recipe used the dutch oven with the following recipe.
600 grams white spelt
360 grams water
9 grams vinegar
12 grams salt
20 grams olive oil
Starter is from my rye starter (more robust in taste and delicious). I use a 20% formula-- 20 percent of the flour and 20 percent of the water, thus: 72 grams water, 120 grams flour, and about two tablespoons starter.
Once the build is finished, I make the dough. I let the dough rise about five hours, degassed, let the dough final rise about an hour. I let the dough final rise in the dutch oven,lightly spray and score with scoring knife (although, I cannot seem to make a significant mark with the knife which is a little discouraging) and place in a preheated gas oven at 500 degrees F and immediately reduce to 475. After 20 minutes I remove the dutch oven lid and reduce heat to 450 for the last 2o minutes and remove. The pre and post results are attached. Hydration levels by my calculation are approx 63 percent with the oil. Any ideas ad suggestions on how to improve this would be appreciated. On another note, the crumb seems better to me and the taste is always incredible to me and to everyone else who raves about it.
Your thoughts would be welcomed.


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Classical Revolution
The members of Classical Revolution are determined to make the experience of classical music - both playing it and seeing it live - less formal and more fun.
To that end, the loose collective of local musicians has banded together to present the music they love in a relaxed setting with no fussiness involved.
That doesn't mean the quality of performance suffers - they've hosted guest performances by members of the Portland Symphony, Portland Cello Project and Muse Ensemble. It just means you can enjoy the music without pretense or pretension.
9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 26, Someday Lounge, 125 N.W. Fifth Ave., 503-248-1030, free
Castella bassist Craig Montoya probably is best known for his time in Everclear, and while his new band still is fully capable of angsty, radio-friendly anthems, there's a subtlety and universality to Castella's music that's lacking in Everclear.
Songs like 'Shame' and 'Alone Tonight,' from the band's self-released album, drip with longing even when they're propelled by muscular playing, and vocalist-guitarist Ryan Andrews knows the power of restraint. If you haven't crossed paths with Castella, remedy that at tonight's free show (with the excellent Von Super and My Fellow Traveler).
9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E. Burnside St., 503-231-9663, free
'Going Home' sounds like a nostalgic name for a record, but Vanderbuilte singer-songwriter Nathaniel Boggess seems to be looking ahead and not behind.
The former West Virginian seems right at home in the Northwest's rough and tumble alt-country scene, alongside folks like Mike D and Thee Loyal Bastards and Seattle's Old Man Winter, who are sharing the bill tonight.
If you like your country music flavored with blues and rock, sprinkled with regret but not entirely sorry about the decisions made along the way (only the damage that they've done), then be sure to check out this promising young band of bandits.
9:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, Berbati's Pan, 10 S.W. Third Ave., 503-226-2122, $6
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The application of Ga:La:S-based glasses for optical amplification at 1.3µm
J.A.Medeiros Neto, J.Wang, B.Samson, B.Dussardier, D.W.Hewak, E.Taylor, R.I.Laming and D.N.Payne
The optical properties of praseodymium-doped low-phonon energy glasses have recently attracted considerable attention for their potential application as a 1.3μm Pr3+-doped optical fibre amplifier. Sulphide glasses based on Ga2S3 and La2S3 are amongst the lowest phonon energy glass which are suitable for this application, with quantum efficiencies exceeding 50% currently measured on bulk samples in our laboratory. The purpose of this paper is to describe the thermal, optical and spectroscopic properties of Pr3+-doped sulphide based glasses and report on progress to date in achievement of a Pr3+-doped sulphide based fibre.
9th International Symposium on Non-Oxide Glasses Hangzhou China 10-14 May (1994)
Southampton ePrint id: 77163
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0448 Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Date: November 6, 2012 2:19:02 PM EST
Subject: Whack-a-mole, anyone?
I'm pleased, puzzled, and a little dismayed by Gerald Downs' response to my essay, "Did Shakespeare's Company Cut Long Plays Down to Two Hours Playing Time" in the most recent issue of SHAKESPEARE BULLETIN (30, 2012) 239-62.
If he had written only this line, "I agree with Steve that longer plays were acted essentially as written" then we'd have gone out for a pizza and traded Textual Scholarship jokes. That's all I wanted to prove in this essay, one more brick in a wall of evidence I'm building to separate the reasonable from the unfounded speculations about these early scripts. But he found other chunks he disagrees with.
For example, he claims: "There can be no real doubt that the corrupt texts derive from plays nearer to the better texts."
First, I have to stress that my goal in this essay was to counter the hypothesis that ALL of Shakespeare's long plays were cut down for performance. I didn't offer any evidence about sources for the shorter versions of plays like Q1 Romeo and Juliet. The more modest goal was to show evidence that some plays were longer than two hours and need not have been cut down to that length. As part of my conclusion I said only that those textual arguments which depended on the shorter texts as being derived from the longer ones should be re-examined.
But ""There can be no real doubt "is a debater's trick that gives the appearance of certainty without the obligation for further evidence or argument on the order of "There can be no real doubt" that the Earth is flat. or "There can be no real doubt" that Democrats are engaging in voter fraud. But important, consistently-structured and patterned textual variants he ascribes to "corruption" could with greater likelihood arise from different sources found in related documents such as authorial manuscripts. (Downs's favored sources, hypothetical, corrupt transcriptions from dictation, or shorthand, or from memory, however, do not account for any of the rich theatrical embrocation and varying connections to source material found among the "bad," and the "good" quartos and the folio texts. But that's not the issue in my essay under discussion.)
Another problem: For R&J, he claims that "Q1 is the record of a performance, as a comparison of the prologues shows" Well, dears, Gerald can SAY that a comparison will show, but in order for standers-by to believe him he really should do the showing. (I always told my writing students, "If you want someone to believe what you believe, show them what you saw that made you believe it yourself.") Maybe Q1 R&J indeed was performed as it appears in the printed text. Or a performance with quite different words and actions may have been badly transcribed and the transcriber accidentally and creatively came up with what we read in Q1.
The proposed story I think Gerald believes of it being a record of performance, i.e., a transcription taken down by shorthand – or memorially reconstructed, or generated through a transcription of a purposefully compressed Q2 text in order to reduce it into two hours traffic – though appealing to most editors including Lukas Erne, the most recent editor of Q1, is still quite shaky and requires us to buy into many subsidiary and unlikely hypotheses . (I've published some pieces of a longer study about the "bad" quartos which is now in the works, (and if I ever stop juggling dead fish with Jerry Downs I'll get back to writing it.) Nevertheless, that whole kettle ain't important to my essay.
Jerry asks, "What reason do actors have to speak quickly?" Ah. Here we're at the aesthetics of performance. Slow speech by actors of Shakespearean texts yields b-o-r-i-n-g performances. You like 'em that way? Fine. But my experience as a director and as a member of audiences tells me that verbal quickness is a sign of lively performance. What reason do dancers make quick steps? why do musicians enjoy flighty arpeggios? Why not?
Jerry also suggests that the corruption of the early printed versions is proven because "Shakespeare's "fellows" denounced the published texts." But the "stolne and surreptitious copies" stuff from the Folio preliminary pages represent a jaunty appeal by Heminges and Condell to encourage purchases, not a true avowal or declaration that the earlier publications were all untrustworthy.
But then Gerald Downs swings at one of the fine practitioners of our scholarly craft. He says: "Grace Ioppolo hasn't identified any foul-paper text satisfying any definition, including her own."
This is where I have to get off this particular Bibliographic Train. I just ain't interested in riding anymore with Jerry. Grace Ioppolo has done the tough and painstakingly detailed work of examining the documents. Here's a sample: "Heywood's 1624 autograph manuscript of his play The Captives is a foul-paper text that offers a full example of an author in the act of composition. Other foul-paper manuscripts also survive, although they have not always been recognized as such. . . . In his manuscript of The Captives, Heywood is obviously in the act of composing, not copying, unsure as he writes which characters will appear in which scene, at what point they will enter, what they will say, and even what relationship they will bear to one another (Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood, pp. 94-5). Her discussion is crystal clear, her illustrations abundant, and her conclusions consistent with the evidence she so generously provides.
If Gerald Downs can't see the virtue and validity in Grace Ioppolo's work, then all I can do is recommend that we all look at Grace's work and learn from it, And that we then turn to Gerald Downs derogation of her excellent scholarship and hold him up to the ridicule of the polis. Pugh!
It's Tuesday. Let's go out and vote. Clear the air. Likely after the results are in I'll come back with shovel and broom to continue cleaning up after the Textual Circus parade. That's Show Biz.
Steve Bozowitz


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The growth of flower-stem-plugging bacteria can be reduced by cleaning
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important points are to clean buckets, tools and surfaces regularly
and thoroughly and to rinse buckets well after cleaning and allow
them to air dry before stacking.
2. When flowers arrive in your store, you should immediately check the
temperature inside the boxes or the temperature of the water in wet
packs with a needle thermometer. The temperature should be no higher
If temperatures are higher
than 40 F, inspect the flowers carefully for insects, Botrytis,
wilted blooms or leaves, yellow leaves, and bloom or leaf drop. If
you find any of these conditions, contact the supplier immediately.
3. If you cannot unpack flowers immediately upon their arrival in your
shop, you should:
the boxes and leave them at room temperature
the boxes unopened in a floral cooler at 33 F to 35 F
It is crucial that flowers be processed immediately upon their
arrival in your shop; however, if it absolutely is not possible, the
flowers should be refrigerated until they are processed.
4. As you process flowers, it is best to remove all sleeves and
You may leave sleeves on flower bunches for a few hours to prevent
damage to the blooms or to help straighten stems, but you must
remove them eventually to promote air circulation among the blooms
and bunches.
5. To remove dried-out stem ends as well as dirt, debris and microbes
in the stem cells, how much of the stems should you cut off?
inch to 1 inch
between 1 inch and 3 inches
Dried-out stem ends and stem-plugging dirt and microorganisms are
generally confined to the first 1 inch to 3 inches of the stem ends.
Make the cuts under clean water or in air, with a clean, sharp knife
or pruner. If you cut flowers under water, you should change the
water (or, preferably, the flower-food solution) frequently because
the removed stem ends can quickly contaminate the water or solution.
Otherwise, it is more beneficial to cut flower stems in air.
inches or more
6. The difference between hydration solutions and flower foods is:
hydration solutions do not contain a nutrient (sugar)
flower foods do not contain a wetting agent to accelerate water
A and B
In addition to
bactericides, which control microbial growth, and acidifiers, which
lower the solution pH, hydration solutions contain a wetting agent,
to accelerate water uptake, and flower foods contain a nutrient
of the above
7. Mixing flower-food solutions to the proper concentrations is really
not too important; it is simply a ploy by the manufacturers to sell more
If not mixed to proper concentrations, flower foods can actually
decrease flowers' vase live. Both too much and too little are
harmful. It's also important that, for most flowers (except bulb
flowers, for example), flower foods be mixed with lukewarm (100 F to
110 F) water.
8. Why is it important to use bulb-flower-specific flower foods with
cut bulb flowers?
flower foods contain plant hormones to replace those that bulb
flowers lose when they're harvested.
flower foods have less sugar than standard flower foods, and sugar
can aggravate leaf yellowing in bulb flowers.
A and B
When they are cut from
their bulbs (their food-storage organs), bulb flowers experience
hormone imbalances that cause premature leaf yellowing, non-opening
blooms, loss of color and reduced vase lives. Bulb-flower-specific
nutrient solutions (e.g., Chrysal Clear Professional Bulb T-Bag™ and
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concentration of sugar, which can aggravate leaf yellowing. These
solutions should be prepared with nonfluoridated water.
9. Some bulb flowers do not benefit greatly from the nutrients in
flower foods, so it's not necessary to place these flowers into
flower-food solutions.
While laboratory studies show that some bulb flowers (tulips,
daffodils, Irises, Agapanthuses, Anemones and callas) may not
benefit from the nutrients in flower-food solutions, they do benefit
from the bactericides contained within; therefore, flower foods
always should be used with these flowers, particularly
bulb-flower-specific flower foods.
10. Many flower care authorities recommend placing bulb flowers into
cold flower-food solutions.
Flower-food solutions made
with cold water help prevent bulb flowers from opening too quickly.
11. All species of Narcissi (daffodils, paper-whites, etc.) should be
isolated from other bulb flowers for a time following processing.
When cut, Narcissi exude a gelatinous substance that is detrimental
to the vase life of some other flowers, especially tulips and
Anemones. Keep them in separate containers for several hours after
cutting them. After that time, the harmful sap will have leached,
and the flowers can be arranged or placed with other flowers, even
if recut again.
12. Most flowers (except tropical flowers and some bulb flowers) should
be placed into a floral cooler at 33 F to 35 F immediately after
processing rather than left out at room temperature to hydrate.
Research shows that maintaining most flowers (except for tropical
flowers, paper-whites and amaryllises) at 33 F to 35 F is crucial to
extending vase life. The flowers will hydrate in the cooler, and
they should be placed there for at least two hours before designing
with or selling them.
13. Most tropical flowers should be stored at what temperatures?
to 49 F
to 55 F
Most true tropical flowers, including birds-of-paradise, gingers,
Anthuriums, Heliconias and some orchids, require storage
temperatures between 50 F and 55 F. Temperatures lower than 50 F can
cause chill damage. If these refrigeration requirements can't be
met, the flowers should be stored outside the cooler, at room
or higher
14. Except for design time, you should always keep flowers refrigerated
until sold or delivered.
Keeping flowers cold slows their respiration (moisture loss); helps
them maintain their carbohydrate reserves, their fuel for vase life;
and decreases their sensitivity to ethylene.
15. You should check your cooler temperature every two days.
Many flower care authorities suggest checking the temperature in
your cooler twice daily. The best method is to place a thermometer
in a container of water that sits in the cooler. Keep your cooler
set to maintain bucket solutions in the 33 F to 35 F range.
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Humble Hennon reflects on prolific night
Fifty years ago Friday, Don Hennon scored 45 points to set a Pitt record that stands today.
Hennon's opponent in the 87-84 double-overtime victory• Duke.
The No. 11 Panthers will play the No. 6 Blue Devils again, at 7 tonight at Madison Square Garden, on the eve of the 50-year anniversary of the most prolific scoring game in Pitt basketball history.
"It doesn't seem like that long ago," said Hennon, 70, a retired surgeon from Franklin Park. "It's really been 50 years• That's totally amazing."
Hennon, a two-time All-American, attempted 42 shots and made 20, marks that still exist in the Pitt record books.
While today's game is the first meeting between the national powers in nearly three decades, Pitt played Duke five times in a six-year span from 1954-59.
The Blue Devils had won the previous three meetings, before Hennon, a 5-foot-8 junior guard, posted his record-breaking game Dec. 21, 1957 at the Field House.
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His 45 points remains the second-highest scoring game by a Duke opponent in 103 years -- more than Lew Alcindor or Michael Jordan or Ralph Sampson ever scored. No Duke opponent has ever surpassed Hennon's 20 field goals made.
Hennon's feat is even more remarkable considering it came during an age when there was no 3-point line, no one-and-one bonus and no shot clock.
Whether it was long-distance bombs or his running jump hook, the kid from Wampum dazzled Duke. The Blue Devils would upset Jerry West's then-No. 1 West Virginia one month later, win the ACC regular-season title and finish No. 10 in the final national poll.
"It was a really good game," Hennon said. "They had recruited me a lot coming out of high school. I had a lot of incentive to play a little harder."
Bill Shay, a sophomore guard on the 1957-58 Pitt team, said a half-century later that he still vividly recalls the Saturday afternoon televised game.
"They did everything they could to stop him," Shay said. "He was just unstoppable. ... I thought he should have shot more in the game. When I was in there, what I did was try to get out of his way."
The Blue Devils used a zone against Hennon, who was among the nation's leading scorers at the time. They went with man-on-man. When efforts failed in the first half, they put a quick sophomore guard from Philadelphia, Marty Joyce, on him, "in desperation."
"We couldn't touch him," said Jim Newcome of Spartanburg, S.C., a senior center for Duke in 1957. "We tried everything, but nothing worked. After the game, our little guard (Joyce) said to our coach, 'I would have fouled him, but I couldn't catch him.' Hennon was a great player."
Hennon is the No. 4 all-time leading scorer at Pitt with 1,841 points, despite playing at a time when freshmen were ineligible. His career average of 24.2 points per game remains the best in Pitt history.
Hennon, whose No. 10 jersey was retired in 1968, was a sixth-round pick in the NBA, but the undersized guard turned down pro basketball to study medicine.
He still attends every Pitt home game and served as an honorary coach, along with John Calipari, at the Pitt alumni game at Petersen Events Center last month. He is surprised his single-game scoring mark remains intact.
"Most records don't stand for 50 years," he said, "Especially in basketball now."
Shay, the men's basketball coach at CCAC-Allegheny for the past 39 years, said Hennon's records should be even more unapproachable.
"If the rules today were the same back then," Shay said, "Don would have dwarfed any scoring record anybody ever had."


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Crews are back at work today analyzing data from Monday's 787 functional check flight on Line number 86, a Boeing-owned production airplane built for LOT Polish Airlines. The flight, a normal procedure to validate that all systems function as designed, was another step forward toward returning the 787 to commercial service.
Line 86 takes off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash. on March 25, 2013.
The plane took off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash. at 12:11 p.m. for a 2 hour, 9 minute flight south primarily along the Washington and Oregon coastline. Six crewmembers were on board - two pilots, two instrumentation engineers, one systems operator and one flight analyst. The crew reported afterwards that the flight went according to plan.
During the functional check flight, crews cycled the landing gear and operated all the backup systems, in addition to performing electrical system checks from the flight profile. More than 600 of these functional check flights were completed in 2012 across Boeing commercial airplane programs.
Line 86 lands back at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. at 2:20 p.m. on March 25, 2013
With the completion of yesterday's flight, we've begun preparations for certification ground testing and flight demonstration with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, scheduled in the coming days. The plan is to conduct one certification demonstration flight, which will also take place on Line number 86, to demonstrate that the new battery system performs as intended during flight conditions.


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Yes, it's only one month away! If you haven't made plans, get to it! I've already sent out emails to everyone that I noted from my original article that expressed interest. So if you haven't seen an email from me, please let me know. There is some very important news and questions I have for you.
From my original article: The particulars are that we are going to meet in Kimberling City at the Port of Kimberling Resort which is located on Table Rock Lake 18 miles west of Branson.
The dates have been set, Mon. Sept 3 thru Wed. Sept. 6 2012. Of course if you care to come just a day, or stay the whole week I'm sure that's fine.
I've secured a meeting room for us to use if it's too hot outside or raining to gather, but mostly you'll find us (Mrs D, her sister and I) out on the patio close to the pool. There will be swimming involved, so bring your suit. The photographers of the group may take a hike, or drive to somewhere scenic to take some pictures too!
I've checked the long range weather forecast and this is what I've found: Average Highs around 87° and lows around 67° (Looking at this summer trends, the temp is approx 5° higher than averages)
So my best guess is it'll be in the low 90's for the high and the low 70's for the low.
Mrs D, and I have been doing the coordination of this meet and we want to make sure you all know, we don't have any set plans on activities but if anyone is interested Kavika was kind enough to make a list of some places you might like to see. I didn't look up links for these but if you find something that interests you, then you can Google it.
Here's the list in Kavika's words:
1. Dogwood Canyon....This is a beautiful place I've been there a couple of times. You can take a tram ride, bicycle, walk, picnic, sit under a tree by the creek or go fishing.
2. Branson Belle, This is a huge paddlewheeler, 3 stories high on Table Rock Lake. They have a dinner show while they tool around the lake. It lasts around 2 hours....I think that they have 3 tours a day.
3. Silver Dollar City. Great place to walk around, lot's of shows but too expensive for what you get IMO.
4. Talking Rocks Cavern. If you like caves this is a good one.
5. Mill Creek Park. Just down the hill from our house and about 3 to 4 miles from the Marina your staying at. A very beautiful RV park, with day use. A big swim beach, lot's of trees for shade and just a great place to relax.
6. For Wino's...The Stone Hill Winery in Branson which is about 20 miles away.
7. Branson Landing in Branson...On Lake Taneycomo. An open shopping area on the river walk. Restaurants, and various types of stores. Of course there are all the shows in Branson and a very nice Military Museum there as well.
Thanks Kavika for putting this wonderful list together for us!
Ok, Again I re-iterate that we don't have anything organized! It's going to be an entertain yourself or hang out with us around the pool or in the meeting room. We want to enjoy our vacation, and not have to do anything. *grins*
So, I suggest if you think you want to come to the Branson Vinemeet that you make some plans soon! We would love to see you there!


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Mossad, CIA join Bulgaria´s hunt for Burgas attack accomplice (ISRAEL HAYOM) Avi Cohen, Israel Hayom correspondent in Burgas 07/22/12)
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5140
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As investigation continues, Bulgarian security forces distribute sketch of man suspected of assissting bomber Local reports say accomplice still in Bulgaria Chabad rabbi in Burgas: We are not running away.
Bulgarian security forces, Israeli intelligence officers and CIA agents are on the hunt for an accomplice suspected of helping the terrorist who detonated himself near a bus in Burgas last week, killing five Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver.
Bulgarian police on Saturday distributed a police composite sketch of the suspect to hotels in Burgas and in the surrounding area. The authorities suspect that the accomplice has ties to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
Bulgarian media reported over the weekend that the suspected accomplice was an American citizen going by the name of David Jepson. One possible scenario is that the explosive device carried by the terrorist, which weighed about 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds), was activated remotely by the accomplice and that the terrorist himself did not know he was going to explode.
According to reports, the accomplice was still in Bulgaria, but this has not been confirmed by the authorities.
Other reports indicated that a Hezbollah cell that was involved in the attack had subsequently fled Bulgaria across the Turkish border.
Meanwhile, the little known Qaidat al-Jihad organization, a branch of al-Qaida, has claimed responsibility for last week´s attack in Burgas. Arab media over the weekend ran a statement by the organization, saying, "With Allah´s help and accurate preparation, one of our men was able to blow up a bus in Bulgaria carrying Jewish tourists. We will continue to fight Jews and Americans until they get out of Islamic lands."
However, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry on Saturday rejected the organization´s attempt to take responsibility for the attack, echoing assessments by Israel and the U.S. that the attack was carried out by Hezbollah. The New York Times reported last week that U.S. intelligence had confirmed Israeli claims that the terrorist was a member of a Hezbollah cell that was planning to attack Israeli targets in Bulgaria. According to U.S. assessment, the bombing was carried out in retaliation for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov briefed reporters over the weekend on developments in the investigation. "In the last 48 hours, large amounts of intelligence were collected," he said, adding that contrary to what Bulgarian media had reported earlier, the terrorist was likely not a Bulgarian citizen. He added that the terrorist spent at least four days in the country before carrying out his attack.
Tsvetanov also noted that Israeli and Bulgarian security authorities were working in tandem on the investigation and that reports that the bomber was previously imprisoned in Guantanamo were untrue. The interior minister also denied reports that Bulgarian authorities received a threat before the bombing that "something terrible will happen soon."
In addition to collaborating with Israeli intelligence agents, Interpol explosives experts from the U.S., France and Switzerland also arrived in Bulgaria to aid in the investigation.
As the investigation advances, Bulgarian authorities continue to reinforce security at the airport in Burgas. Citizens have been prohibited from entering the arrivals area at the airport, where footage showed the terrorist waiting shortly before the attack. In addition, every car entering the airport terminal is being carefully checked.
Israelis in Burgas: We are not running away
A few days after the attack in Burgas, life seems to be returning to normal in the Bulgarian coastal city´s popular Sunny Beach. Security and safety measures that were bolstered significantly in the 24 hours immediately following the attack have since dwindled. Even in places often crowded with Israelis, only standard security forces were deployed to prevent any disturbances.
With the calming of the storm, many Israelis arrived Friday night at a traditional Shabbat meal at the Habayit restaurant run by the local Chabad House.
Rabbi Chaim Tvardovitz, Chabad´s emissary in Burgas, said, "It was important for [Israelis] to come for the blessing, so that everyone knows there is a response to terrorism here and we are not running away."
But not everyone has embraced the calm following the attack. Raz Haham, a young Israeli in Burgas, said, "Until the terrorist attack, no one was scared, but today people are more suspicious and it feels less comfortable to be here. Some people were even afraid to leave their hotels."
Another young woman said she felt as if terror attacks were "chasing" after her.
"Last year, I was in Eilat when there was that terrorist attack there, and two days ago, I couldn´t believe it when there was once again an attack near me, she said. It´s a bit frightening, but I only learned of the attack in Burgas from messages that I received. I felt scared and now I´m just waiting for the flight back to Israel."
Another Israeli tourist said on Saturday that he had to leave his hotel around noon, even though his flight home was at night. The hotel told him he could leave his luggage in its storage room, but he told the receptionist that "the luggage room is not secured, and if I were a terrorist I would take advantage of this." The receptionist was not moved by his comment, and he was asked to leave the hotel room at the agreed time.
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The Hudson Valley Community College baseball team (4-4) picked up one final victory against Southeastern Community College on Thursday, March 25, 8-2, before ending its spring trip.
Hudson Valley's Dave Balsamo (Shenendehowa, Halfmoon) went three-for-five with two homeruns in the win.
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San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford is ramping up her opposition to a controversial proposal that would have the county partner with a private firm and use eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages to stimulate the housing market.
She said she is most concerned about the "unintended consequences" of such an action, such as banks possibly becoming less willing to lend to homebuyers if government is cherry-picking loans from underwater homeowners.
"The abuses of eminent domain are too plentiful and fresh for those of us who value property rights to swallow assurances that its use in this context would be limited," Rutherford wrote in an editorial last week for the conservative blog Flashreport.
San Bernardino County, with roughly 150,000 of its residents underwater on their mortgages, is among the hardest hit in the nation since the subprime mortgage crisis hit in 2007. It is seriously considering the proposal by San Francisco-based Mortgage Resolution Partners that, if implemented, would be the first time eminent domain would be used for such a purpose.
Eminent domain is typically used by government to seize private property, at fair market value and through court order, for redevelopment or large-scale infrastructure projects.
The idea has sparked pushback from the financial industry, which has warned that government action to seize property through such a plan would hurt the housing market.
Rutherford was the first county supervisor to voice opposition to the plan in June, when the Board of Supervisors approved a joint-powers authority with the cities of Ontario and Fontana to examine options for assisting homeowners with negative equity and facing foreclosure.
"If the (joint-powers authority) continues down this path and starts trying to implement eminent domain, I will be an incredibly outspoken opponent of it," Rutherford said. "But we're a long way from that, and I don't think the JPA would support that unless the public supports it."
County Chief Executive Officer Greg Devereaux has said no program will be implemented until it is properly vetted and supported by the public.
Representatives from Mortgage Resolution Partners maintain they are confident that their proposed program will actually open the door more quickly to more lending in the county.
"Put simply, with so many families suffering with underwater mortgages and the federal government unable to do anything to help, using a private sector-based solution like ours is the best way to clear the debt overhang that is preventing private companies from lending now and forcing citizens in San Bernardino County to lose their homes," said John Vlahoplus, chief strategy officer for Mortgage Resolution Partners, in an e-mail Monday.
Supervisor Neil Derry said he also has some reservations about the proposed plan.
"This opens a new line of constitutional law we're not familiar with and that hasn't been pursued," Derry said.
But Derry said he's not quite ready to dismiss the plan entirely, and that the county should carefully examine and weigh all its options.
"I've got thousands of constituents who are upside-down ont heir mortgages right now. Just saying no to an interesting idea right of the box, I think, is irresponsible," he said.
Rutherford said she is principally opposed to eminent domain other than its intended use and that more and more people in her district - from homeowners to people in the real estate business - have been asking her about the county's plans.
"The idea of government seizing a portion of your investment portfolio just stirkes me as wrong," Rutherford said. "It undermines a basic American principle of property rights ... ."
Mortgage Resolution Partners has been proposing the same idea to municipalities across the nation hardest hit by the mortgage meltdown, but company representatives say San Bernardino County has been the most receptive and is furthest along in discussions.
Under the plan, the county would use its eminent domain power to seize underwater mortgages. Once acquired, the loans would be restructured to reflect the current market value of the property, making it possible for homeowners to meet their monthly mortgage obligation.
Mortgage Resolution Partners would work with the county to find private investors to finance the eminent domain process. In return, Mortgage Resolution Partners would receive a fee for each loan seized through eminent domain.
Rutherford said she's concerned about the potential blowback from the investor community should the county move forward on the proposal.
"I have now sat across the table from investors who have said to me that if San Bernardino County begins eminent domaining mortgages they will stop investing their capital in the county, so that's a huge red flag," Rutherford said.
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Hockey welcomes 'positive signs' on economy
Since the Reserve Bank upgraded its economic forecasts last month, there has been increasing commentary from market economists suggesting the May budget could reveal the Treasury coffers in much better shape than Mr Hockey has been publicly letting on.
The argument is that a rebound in growth could produce a corresponding bounce in revenue.
In turn, there had been scepticism at the time of the mid-year review of the budget, that the government had deliberately understated the outlook for revenue, with the intention of making an apparent improvement in the May budget look all the better.
Both strings of scepticism seemed to get some backing in the December quarter accounts on Wednesday which showed a rebound in consumption and a generally happier economy, with nominal growth in the economy – the closest proxy for movements in revenue collections – also looking healthier.
But Mr Hockey was having none of it.
Not optimistic
Asked if he was feeling more optimistic about the budget in the light of the national accounts, the Treasurer's response was simple.
"No, I'm not," he said.
The Treasurer said he saw the national accounts as no more than "one quarter in relation to some of the nominal growth details."
"Frankly, I think there are some good signs; profitability of business is good but that may mean that they take advantage of the losses they've accrued over previous years and what we actually receive in company tax, which is our most volatile, as you know, source of revenue arguably."
So one question is whether the Treasurer remains worried about the revenue outlook for economic reasons, or because he's worried about a mechanical problem in tax collections.
After all, tax commissioner
The Australian Financial Review reported on Wednesday that Mr Jordan and deputy
The tax office was looking to "clear up the backlog" of old cases and had a "very strong focus to settle or go to court and stop just playing" games, he said.
Tax uncertainty
But the Treasurer was making a different point at his national accounts press conference on Wednesday.
"The fact is that, even though companies might be more profitable during this period, it might not necessarily be reflected in the level of tax they actually pay because they've got previous losses," he said.
Perhaps more importantly, Mr Hockey said "if you look at some of the major mining houses, without naming them but they're pretty obvious, they would have been the biggest taxpayers over the last few years, maybe not last year, but over the last few years.
"That's because they have consistent revenue streams and relatively consistent profitability. But as I say, iron ore prices have come off – volumes are up, volumes are good but prices aren't necessarily terrific and [with] coal I think we're near record volumes but prices are down significantly.
"In fact, the prices – the current iron ore and coal prices – are below our budget forecast."
This goes to the nub of the Treasurer's continuing official pessimism about revenue. The Treasury is telling him falling commodity prices since the December quarter national accounts offset any reason for optimism.
Despite a stronger growth number in the December quarter, the government remains concerned that weakness constrains what it can do in the May budget.
Asked if the weak revenue figures put him under more pressure to cut deeper, Mr Hockey said "we're not going to undermine improving economic growth in the budget.
"We're not going to do that. We want the economy to grow faster. To give people more jobs. That's what we want. But we are, of course, going to do everything we can to have a credible path back to surplus so that we can then start paying down the debt."
The emerging shape of the May budget is therefore one constrained in what it can do short-term.
For those with a memory of recent budget history, this puts Joe Hockey in exactly the same place that
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The Academy has not announced the nominees for 2011 Oscars yet, but "Toy Story 3" has started campaigning to win Best Picture award. In a campaign site launched by Disney, there are fifteen posters which feature a line started with "Not since...", and highlights the animation as the best reviewed film of the year.
These posters capture scenes from the animation and associate them to those from previous winners such as "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King", "Titanic" and "The Godfather Part II". Some of them look funny like the one which compares a destroyed Mr. Potato Head to the crime scene in "The Silence of the Lambs".
In a message posted on the site, Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross states, "Calling out these fun-loving comparisons to Best Picture winners from Oscar's past matched with specific images from the film, we feel, reminds us of the many unforgettable moments from TOY STORY 3, and what we love about it in the first place." The complete statement and other pictures in a series of "Not since..." can be seen here.
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Commenters on Penguin's Facebook page have called the cover for new edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 'creepy,' 'sexualized' and 'inappropriate garbage.'"
In the New Yorker, Margaret Talbot says pretty much the same thing:
You can imagine what the designers were getting at. Dahl is darker and edgier than most beloved children's authors. In "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," the obnoxious children suffer ignominious comeuppances—one falls into a filthy garbage chute; another blows up like a giant blueberry—and these are observed with sadistic glee by Willy Wonka and the author alike. The trouble is that the designers went for the wrong sort of darkness. One thing that Dahl's books for children are not is sexually perverse, or indeed sexual at all. (His macabre stories for adults, which sometimes feature sexual cruelty, are another matter.) And if the Stepford daughter on the cover is meant to remind us of Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde, she doesn't: those badly behaved squirts are bubbling over with rude life.
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This also came through the NBCUniversal acquisition. Universal owns two theme parks, one in California and one in Florida, and Comcast is now investing heavily in expansion, including building the hotels needed to house guests.
The aim in this case is not to own the space, but to gain the same level of profitability Disney has by controlling licensed merchandise from its creation to its final consumption. The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that Comcast's budget for the parks has increased fivefold since they were acquired.
For investors, all this should mean outstanding profitability. Comcast has generated more than $14 billion in annual operating cash flow for three years now, and that could be ready to accelerate. It has been steadily increasing revenue while maintaining margins in the range of 20%. Despite its huge investments, its debt-to-asset ratio remains less than 25%.
AT&T's debt-to-assets ratio is higher, and it lacks top line growth. Fox has less than half Comcast's revenue and lower margins. Disney's cash from operations is just two-thirds that of Comcast's.
AT&T, of course, has been around since the 19th century and won its monopoly status in telephony early in the 20th century. Rupert Murdoch has been building his media empire since the early 1950s. Comcast's history in its current form, under CEO Brian Roberts, dates to just 1990.
Had you put $1 into Disney stock back in 1978, you would now have more than $10,000, which is impressive. But if you had put $1 into Comcast stock, the small cable operator then run by Roberts' father Ralph Roberts, in 1978, you would now have more than $120,000.
Comcast hasn't invented anything. Its innovations have been copies of what other companies were already doing. But it has been a stellar investment, and looks set to remain one.
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"I have this mystical-schmystical idea," one of my writing teachers once said, "that stories exist outside of us somewhere, and it's our job to get them down properly."
He was a hard-nosed editor and a robust skeptic, and he confessed this notion five minutes before workshop's end, as if not to give his own idea too much credence. I suspect, though, that most of us knew what he meant.
And if we can be mystical-schmystical for a moment and imagine this is so: Well, what does it mean to get a story down "properly"? Skillfully, yes; honestly, one hopes; but do we employ the storyteller's guile, or the sage's compassion, or the filleting knife of the satirist? What do we do with the stories we catch?
I recently happened on The Heaven of Animals, the debut short story collection by David James Poissant, and it brought this question to mind. In it, Poissant casts his storyteller's net and catches sixteen kinds of suffering. Here, a grief to ring the bell of every reader's memory: deaths of friendships, parents, children. In several stories, it's a marriage that dies, or else hovers in death's doorway, waiting to tumble in or out.


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Judge's Facebook activity scrutinized
This week, City Councilmember Mike Judge was called out not for his political views or votes but for his online profile—specifically, the types of pages he "likes" on Facebook, some of which contain scantily clad women in suggestive poses.
An anonymous email addressing these concerns was sent out Sunday afternoon to local media, the city manager and city attorney, and the City Council—all except Judge, who is serving as mayor pro tem.
Using the identifier "Simi Mother," the email sender states that she is a concerned parent whose daughter was "exposed to less than becoming behavior" by the councilman, characterizing the pages Judge "likes" on Facebook as "pornographic in nature."
"He has the audacity to do this in the public eye and share this information," the email reads. "I find it incredulous that someone of his status in the community would act so carelessly. Does Mr. Judge not realize that each time he 'likes' his smut websites it goes out for people to see? He's brought his private bedroom behavior to our bedroom community."
The concerned "Simi mom" called out seven pages in particular, via screen shots of those pages attached to the email: Fap Fap Fap, Tactical Girls, Hot Chicks With Abs, Models Universe, Hot Mirror Shots and The Cougar Club. The other page name is not suitable for print; the page posts revealing photos of women, focusing on two body parts in particular.
Like the latter, four of the pages do regularly post provocative or sexually explicit photographs, as well as crude jokes and humor.
Tactical Chicks appears to simply be a business page aimed at selling shooting equipment to women. And while Hot Chicks With Abs may have what some consider sexy images, its angle is more about showcasing impressively fit women.
When the Acorn called Judge about the matter, he said that while he did like the pages referred to in the email, he wouldn't characterize them the same way.
"There's no porn on my Facebook," Judge said. "I know what pornography is, and I don't consider any of that pornography."
When asked if he was surprised by the email, he said he wasn't because someone is stirring up trouble for him at his job with the Los Angeles Police Department as well.
"I know it's the same person. In fact, if I had proof I'd tell you who it was," he said. "There's one person on Facebook that has been hounding me for a while, and I know it's the same person."
Judge's personal Facebook page—he has a separate fan page called "Mike Judge Simi Valley City Council" that he initiated when he ran for City Council in 2010—had 985 likes on Monday morning, which could be seen without being his "friend."
Judge's "likes" archive dates back to 2008, but the pages in question were liked in 2011 and 2012, with just one liked in 2013: Models Universe.
Though the page sounds harmless, the profile picture featured Monday, and at press time, showed a woman's bent-over backside covered by little more than a thong.
Judge said he knew his "likes" were viewable to the public. When asked if he was worried at all about how his "likes" would reflect on his character, he simply said "no."
The council member said that he didn't go "trolling" for the pages but that he liked them after friends shared them with him.
"I have a lot of friends in the military, a lot of friends in law enforcement, so I get a lot of these things," he said. "Some people might find them distasteful, some might find them funny, that's the way it is. I also post a lot of puppy pictures."
Judge went on to say, "I have male friends that are mostly in the alpha category, and they look at these kind of pictures and I sometimes do too, but I don't make a habit of it."
The city's Code of Ethics and Conduct for Elected Officials does not specifically address this kind of situation.
City Manager Laura Behjan said there is a social media policy in place for city employees, though it only addresses usage of the city's social media sites, such as the police department's Facebook page. The city doesn't monitor employee's personal social networking usage, she said, nor does it monitor that of elected officials.
Though Behjan read the email, she didn't look at the pages referred to and said she didn't have enough information to make a judgment as to whether any "thresholds" had been crossed or if the matter rises to a level of concern.
Mayor Bob Huber, to whom the email was addressed, also didn't know how to respond to the matter and had not viewed the pages. However, he was suspicious of the sender's true motivations.
"It seems to me that this is politically motivated to spend the time to go through someone's 'likes,'" he said.
Whatever their motivations, the sender was correct—Judge liked those pages. When the mayor was asked if that is a concern for a council member to like those kinds of pages publicly, he was hard-pressed to give an answer.
But in an email the next day, Huber said Judge doesn't answer to him—he answers to the voters.
"Mike Judge is an elected official and is responsible for his own actions," Huber said, adding that he reviewed the city's ethics policy and consulted with the city attorney.
"No one is alleging corruption, conflict of interest or the commission of any crime—this is a private matter between Mike Judge and the people of Simi Valley, if true."
On Monday evening, Judge posted on his City Council Facebook page that he would be more careful about what he "likes," saying he "found out the hard way" that it is not wise to "like" any and everything a friend may share.
"I should have known better, and from now on I will keep a tight control on what I 'like.'"
Judge no longer "likes" any of the pages referred to in the email, except Tactical Chicks.
He's also "un-liked" eight more pages since Monday that may have featured offensive content.