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Instructions for Sewing a Rakusu
The Zen Center sewing teachers are happy to make rakusu sewing instructions available on our web site. For assistance or information regarding sewing a rakusu, contact Kathy Early at Green Gulch Farm or Wendy Lewis at City Center.
These instructions are intended for those who have received permission from their teacher to sew Buddha's Robe in preparation for a ceremony of receiving Bodhisattva Precepts, or for someone sewing a Robe as a gift for someone who has already received the Precepts. If you would like to sew but have not received permission, please discuss the matter with a Zen Center teacher.
The documents (below) are intended to be used in conjunction with instruction from a qualified sewing teacher, as it is almost impossible to describe the construction of the rakusu just through words. We do not recommend attempting to sew a rakusu solely by relying on these written instructions. In particular, it would be important to consult with a sewing teacher regarding appropriate fabric and thread. Please be aware that within the tradition of sewing that has been passed down to us, different teachers may have slightly differing styles and preferred methods which are all valid. Please take any questions about these instructions to your sewing teacher.
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Surfwear retailer Billabong is considering a $527 million takeover offer from one of its former executives, and has downgraded its full-year earnings guidance.
Former board member Paul Naude has offered $1.10 for each Billabong share, as part of a consortium made up of New-York based Sycamore Partners and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Yamashita TreasureLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Greep Hooke was invited by his friend Jack Fruit to a treasure hunting expedition in the Far East. He was shown a 50 plus year old map with Japanese markings and writings. It came from a grand niece of a Japanese Army Colonel who executed Gen. Yamashita's orders to bury gold and other precious metals in different parts of Japanese occupied territory towards the end of World War II. Unfortunately, as decoys more bogus maps were prepared than genuine ones.
Greep examined the map. He noticed the colored FLAG (with a tiger mark) at the end of a multicolored ARC was in between a MOUNTAIN and a RIVER which had been properly identified. The writings below the FLAG had been translated into English. It read:
Greep then remarked, "Yamashita was known as the Tiger of Malaya and much is told about the Yamashita Gold. But considering the odds, the treasure you seek is but a myth."
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The Hickory Crawdads have announced that Christian rock band Kutless will be the headline band this summer for the 'Dads annual Christian Concert. This year's concert is scheduled for Saturday, August
16th, following the 'Dads game at Crawdads Stadium.
Kutless released their self-titled, debut album in 2002, and have since gone on to make seven total albums while garnering 8 Dove Award Nominations from the Gospel Music Association (GMA). The band was awarded RIAA Gold Certification for their third album Strong Tower, while their 6th record, It is Well, included the hit song "What Faith Can Do", which won the Mediabase Christian AC Song of the Year in 2010. The group's most recent album, Believer, debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes Christian Music Charts in 2012. Kutless is set to release their 8th album, Glory, on February 10th, 2014.
Last year's Crawdads Christian Concert was a sold-out hit, with the 'Dads filling Crawdads Stadium to max capacity for that night's game and accompanying performance by Big Daddy Weave. Seats for this year's game/concert will go on sale later this month. Tickets will cost $15 for individuals and $12 for groups of 20 or more.
The Crawdads 2014 season begins April 3 with a 7-game road trip to Greensboro and Kannapolis, before the 'Dads Home Opener on April 10 against Asheville. 2014 Season Tickets and Ticket Books are on sale now.
For more information on the 2014 Christian Concert or on the Crawdads 2014 schedule, visit the 'Dads website at www.hickorycrawdads.com or call the Front Office at (828) 322-3000.
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Pack the ultimate meal-in-a-basket with these simple to make and easy to eat picnic food ideas! Picnic recipes must meet a few requirements to be considered "the best picnic food ideas" in our book.
Pack the ultimate meal-in-a-basket with these simple to make and easy to eat picnic food ideas! Picnic recipes must meet a few requirements to be considered "the best picnic food ideas" in our book.
1. Picnic foods need to be easy to transport. Anything that's too fussy will only create more work and worry, so scratch it from the list.
2. Picnic recipes should also be simple to prepare. You pack a picnic basket quite a bit ahead of time and then cart it off to a destination that could be far from home. Any recipes that don't keep it simple will just mean more stress, which is everything a picnic is not!
3. Finally, any and all picnic ideas have to be fun, fresh and infused with seasonal flavors. Avoid the same old same old, and go for recipes that include lots of seasonal ingredients, are easy to bring outdoors and can be eaten with your hands.
We've collected 10 of our favorite picnic foods and ideas. Some of these recipes are family-friendly, others are more appropriate for adults-only. But even if you don't pile your menu high with our favorite picnic foods, pay close attention to WHY we chose them for ours!
Contributor Coryanne Ettiene shared this punch recipe with us last summer and it was the overwhelming hit on our patio bars. What makes it so appealing for a picnic menu is it can be prepped ahead of time with minimal effort. You can also leave the vodka out so kids can enjoy it, and add a splash to parents glasses later on.
No drink is cheaper or easier to make the night before your picnic than this inexpensive sangria recipe we're fans of serving. It's chock full of fresh seasonal fruit and requires just a slight stir before chilling.
When we hit the park for a picnic we aim to take the dinner party from the table to the blanket as best as we can. That means, packing a salad along for the feast. You could pack any salad recipe and eat with forks, or, you could go finger-style with these Bacon Salad Singles - no plate required!
Finger sandwiches are always a good choice for picnics since you can cut them up ahead of time and eat them without too much fuss while sitting on your blanket. We're big fans of these finger sandwich ideas for summer.
Wraps are another great picnic food idea. Not only are they easy to customize to everyone's tastes, they're also way easier to wrap and hold with your hands while you munch then a traditional sandwich. These turkey cranberry ones are a favorite of ours.
Watermelons always make an appearance at picnics - we know this so well we planned an entire watermelon theme picnic party. But, rather than just cutting up some wedges and having guests grab, try getting creative with the fruit. We're big fans of this picnic-friendly watermelon salsa.
Tequila infused fruit isn't kid-friendly, but adults will love this sweet spiked treat. Turn the recipe into a picnic food by popping fruit cut-outs on to a stick after they've marinated in a tequila marinade. You can also omit the alcohol to make it a family-friendly treat.
If you haven't already jumped on the party trend bandwagon, now's the ideal time. While dessert recipes in a jar look great, they're also super picnic-friendly. Bake up a delicious dessert you wouldn't necessarily think to transport to your favorite picnic destination in a mason jar or try one of ours for a new crowd pleaser.
We're also fans of these cupcakes in a jar recipes!
Merlot marinated cherries are the perfect picnic food. They're easy to pack and transport, taste delicious and can be eaten by hand as you lounge on the grass.
Chances are the kids will join you on your picnic, so make sure you've got treats for them. They don't necessarily have to be sweet treats, but they are required to be fun. This trail mix is kid-friendly thanks to it's yummy ingredients, easy to hold bag and fun printable topper you can download from the recipe page.
See how Dawn Sandomeno and Elizabeth Mascali elevate the every day with their fantastic recipes and ideas!Read More »


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This article was published 3/1/2013 (1688 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
We did not fall off the "fiscal cliff" this week. That made for a much happier start to the new year than if U.S. politicians had proven they were incapable of any form of compromise.
So now, what?
The first thing to happen is a relief rally on the stock markets, as we have seen since enough U.S. Congressmen chose the greater good and common sense over their narrow ideologies and passed compromise legislation Jan. 1 to avert a series of automatic spending cuts and tax increases. It was feared these would push the U.S. economy over a "fiscal cliff" and send it into recession in 2013.
Rather than talk about the poor press coverage and the politicians, let's first look at what you should be doing right now in your own situation, given these circumstances.
The Canadian stock markets are at their highest level since last February and the U.S. markets are near the multi-year high they set two months ago.
Many investors take such facts to either mean:
1. This is the start of a big rally, and I should put all my money in stocks; or,
2. Stocks are high, so I should sell all.
Many other investors will do nothing, leaving their asset mix as is and they will be closer to doing the right thing. However, I think this rally is a great opportunity for you to review your current asset mix and make any changes necessary to bring it back to your long-term target.
When the markets have risen is the best time to do a self-test on your asset mix and consider making adjustments back to your target. This time is best, as it allows you to reduce stock holdings -- if that is the right thing for your situation -- while likely taking profits.
It is much more painful to rebalance to your target mix after a stock-market crash, which is when most people choose to reassess their personal risk tolerance.
Oh, you don't have a long-term target? Well you should.
The first step in the investment-planning process is to determine your ideal, or target, asset mix, and write down your investment policy. This should at least state the target percentage of your overall portfolio to be in:
1. Cash and near cash assets;
2. Fixed income (bonds; GICs);
3. Equities (stocks, trust units).
Ideally, you have these categories broken down further, but let's start with this. Your percentage in each category should be based on your situation. The key factors are your time horizon for this portfolio, your current or expected need for liquidity, your need for income and your personal risk tolerance.
Your investment adviser or several good websites can provide you with a questionnaire that will help you determine your target asset mix. This is very important as you want an optimal mix that can provide the maximum return for your constraints of time and risk tolerance.
It's also important to put aside in liquid investments any amounts you may have to withdraw from the portfolio in the next two years. You don't want any such amounts to be in investments that can fluctuate wildly, such as equity holdings.
Remember, Dave's Rule No. 1 of investing is to always avoid putting yourself into a situation where you may be forced to sell low.
The politicians have given us an opportunity to set those amounts aside while stock prices are good, so take advantage, if your situation requires that.
You can count on those same U.S. politicians doing some dumb things going forward that will shock the markets. The next critical vote needed in the U.S. is to raise the debt ceiling and borrowing limits. That's the one that should really be called the "cliff." The so-called fiscal cliff was, at worst, going to be a slippery slope, with many opportunities to turn off.
If Congress decides to make this debt-ceiling vote a battleground for ideology and an opportunity for grandstanding, as it did in 2011, things will get very rocky again.
Either way, I wish all the best to you and yours in 2013.
David Christianson, BA, CFP, R.F.P., TEP, is a financial planner in Winnipeg and author of Managing the Bull, A No-Nonsense Guide to Personal Finance.


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Here's the new long-awaited single from M.I.A. Riding the controversial coattails of her Super Bowl XLVI halftime performance featuring Madonna, M.I.A. finds herself with another catchy chart topper. The video rolls action packed with clever stunts and neo-middle eastern swagger. Oh by the way, if you haven't heard, Madonna isn't too happy about the M.I.A. incident now known as "Fingergate". The Material Girl accepted her apology, but officially stated that M.I.A's actions went against the positive unified energy of the performance. The NFL will pass the network fine along to M.I.A. We smell a publicity stunt, as her single just dropped the week of the Big Game…whatcha think?


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I know how to spatchcock a chicken and even split them in half, but never seen it done this way.
The chicken is opened in a half the long way and the top (breast) is spilt from the bottom except around the neck area. It's a popular way of splitting chicken in Argentinean BBQ evidently, and I'm not sure what the advantage of doing this way. If any one had it or tried it, please share.


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Sociopathy. I have been considering the various aspects of what it's like to be a sociopath. I did some online research, read about it, looked at the DSM manual for the clinical details. After doing this, I began to consider...is being a sociopath actually a benefit to an individual in modern society? I mean, from purely a strategic, competitive point of view. Living without empathy, ability to deceive easily, social aggression and fearlessness, if you weren't to factor in the ethical consequences of being a sociopath but to examine it from a cost-benefit perspective, looking at prospects for general life success, is being a sociopath a plus or minus in the game of life? From a materialistic, competitive, and self-interested point of view.
To clarify, I personally am not a sociopath (I did a self diagnosis based on the DSM and have no identifying characteristics). I am curious about this though, there are some articles that suggest that sociopathic traits are more common in certain high-success occupations, such as CEO and political leader and surprisingly doctors. It is observably the case that sometimes sociopaths rise high in the social ladder, and can take positions of leadership in a country, such as Saddam Hussein did in Iraq. They are often charming, and can be very manipulative if they are intelligent. So ultimately, then, in this sometimes cutthroat and brutal world that we live in, is being a sociopath an advantage or disadvantage?
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According to the stats our trainer gave us when I worked in the prison system, over 75% of all inmates in federal prisons are sociopaths.
So, no, I don't see an advantage.
The media will mostly report on the sociopaths that get ahead, but that doesn't mean there aren't rational and empathetic people who succeed.
Hmmm... I wonder, however... What percentage of lawyers and bussiness executives fit the DSM criteria for sociopathy? It would seem to be an advantageous attribute in such professions (Just as a black sense of humor is advantageous to paramedics and butchers).
I'm pretty sure that one of the owners of the private ambulance service i work for (It has three, and this is the "Money Guy") fits the description quite nicely.
This former friend and roommate I mentioned in my earlier post was working as a paramedic when I last saw him, and several people who have seen him since then report that he still works in the medical field in some capasity.
Heh. Well, i could see how that may be an advantage. Lacking empathy would protect you from some of the messed up stuff that you see... But i prefer dark humor. Heh.
I wouldn't know, but I would not want a sociopathic doctor treating me!
They're not usually "true" sociopaths (see explanation below), they simply share certain personality traits that are not particularly dangerous in and of themselves.
Some of those are advantageous, like not responding to tragedies or problems with negative emotions. Imagine being a soldier on a battlefield finding a mortally-wounded comrade, or being the first person on the scene of an accident.
Imagine the difference between:
* being scared to go near to render assistance...crying...panicking...screaming in terror and thereby adding to the victim's distress...
* calmly rendering assistance...comforting the victim through his agony...trying to keep him calm and peaceful as possible.
One of my friends went through that scenario when he was about 4! Traffic accident victim died in his arms.
Both of them might care about the victim, but one of them is contributing to the problem. Negative emotions around sickness, injury, suffering, and death are not for the benefit of the person in distress.
So, don't hold it agains the doctor if he doesn't feel bad because you feel bad. He's actually doing what he's supposed to. Calling him a "sociopath" is somewhat confusing the issue. There are doctors who are sociopathic in the more accurate and dangerous sense of the word, and you're absolutely right, you wouldn't want them treating you, but they are the rare exception not the rule.
From the Mayo Clinic:
Antisocial personality disorder is a type of chronic mental condition in which a person's ways of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others are dysfunctional — and destructive. People with antisocial personality disorder typically have no regard for right and wrong and often disregard the rights, wishes and feelings of others.
Those with antisocial personality disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others either harshly or with callous indifference. They may often violate the law, landing in frequent trouble, yet they show no guilt or remorse. They may lie, behave violently or impulsively, and have problems with drug and alcohol use. These characteristics typically make people with antisocial personality disorder unable to fulfill responsibilities related to family, work or school.
The "may" I bolded above is key. Like most conditions in the DSM, antisocial personality spans a spectrum, and not every individual who suffers from it, even to a pathological degree, will display every characteristic.
Extreme sociopathy often is accompanied by poor impulse control, inability to plan, inability to envision or appreciate consequences for actions, substance abuse, sexual promiscuity, ...
But less extreme examples can be people who fully live by the principle, "The end justifies the means". And I'd bet government and big business are full of people like that.
I agree that full blown sociopathy is fairly rare in professions of high success, but I would bet there are at least some guys who have it, that are clever enough to pass as a "nice guy". It depends on how well they could hide it from others. That is, until you find out what they are really about. And if you happen to live in a society with a lower degree of rule of law and legal organization, these guys can run rampant. Below is Pablo Escobar Gaviria, one of the most ruthless and successful drug lords of all time. He was by far the richest man in the country of Colombia in his heyday, and one of the wealthiest men in the world at that time (80's-early 90's). He almost gained political control of Colombia, had many high ranking military officers and politicians and judges and an army of cops in his pocket, and had many, many people assassinated. He killed guys at his own house parties if he thought they did something wrong, or probably just to inspire fear in others.
I am curious about this though, there are some articles that suggest that sociopathic traits are more common in certain high-success occupations, such as CEO and political leader and surprisingly doctors.
If you analyze the context in which the word is used, you'll notice that it actually refers to several different characteristics. The book "The wisdom of psychopaths" sort of clarifies this with some venn diagrams of various chacteristics all lumped together under this term, though the author himself is not clear throughout his writing and often mixes meanings. His father was not a serial killer--and sounds like he was an OK guy.
Doctors, particularly surgeons, have the "low fear response" characteristic. They also have low emotional response levels to problems, and at least some of them lack the chronic low-level chronic anxiety that most people have.
In other words, you can't have an emergency-room surgeon who falls apart emotionally when a grisly auto-accident victim shows up. They don't respond as much emotionally as average people would.
Neither would a senior Buddhist monk. They train themselves to react compassionately but not with negative emotions like terror and anxiety. The man who flatlined a test of reaction to a gun being fired right behind his head (but not at his head) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Most people would register a sharp startle response that would be picked up by the EEG. The monk flatlined it. Though he knew what was going to happen, and so was able to put himself into an altered state of consciousness that made it possible not to react emotionally to the loud noise and knowing it was a bullet.
A serial killer or a politician might not react with fear-related responses to an accident victim either--in fact, probably not. Since they think of other people as pieces of meat, seeing a ground up piece of meat doesn't bother them. That's why some people lump those traits together. But there are differences. You're a lot safer in a dark alley with the surgeon or Buddhist monk than you are with the serial killer or politician.
So doctors usually are not truly "sociopathic"; they only share some specific traits with them, but not others.
Lack of empathy
I realize that's commonly said about sociopaths, but sociopaths typically have at least average empathy, and high-functioning sociopaths have higher-than-average empathy.
Empathy refers to the sense of what other people are feeling, thinking, or perceiving. It's what autistics lack, and the reason some of them can't talk--they don't perceive any intention to mom and dad moving their lips and making noise.
People with Asperger's Syndrome often make social faux-pas, but they are not typically sociopathic. They lack empathy. If they come to realize that they hurt your feelings, they'll apologize and mean it. Sociopaths might apologize (or not), but they wouldn't mean it. Typical sociopaths are quite aware of your feelings. They don't CARE about your feelings.
What is missing is CARING about how anyone else feels. Sociopaths lack compassion, not empathy.
Given the somewhat muddled definition of "sociopath", the ones and the only ones who scare me are the ones who can
watch someone being tortured, and see nothing but a piece of meat writhing.
I met my first one when I was about 24. Scared me so badly it changed my personality. I had no idea such a thing existed. Actually, they are fairy common, around 4% of the population.
So ultimately, then, in this sometimes cutthroat and brutal world that we live in, is being a sociopath an advantage or disadvantage?
It depends on the sociopath, the context, and how you define "advantage". Someone mentioned guys in prison. Those are "low-functioning sociopaths". Politicians are "high-functioning sociopaths"; they test for sociopathic traits at higher rates than guys in prison.
I am reluctant to give examples because I am not interested in persuing an argument with someone who disagrees, so I'll state this generically and if someone doesn't believe me, that's fine, I don't need to change anyone's mind, and I won't pursue it:
People are regularly assassinated to steal identities, prevent them from disclosing dirty little secrets, to remove heads of state of foreign countries to be replaced by an agent of the sponsor of the assassination, and in the course of black ops--for example, in one case, a man was assassinated to use his apartment for a false-flag terrorist attack. Most governments confine their wet-jobs to overseas operations, but domestic wet-jobs do happen from time to time when the stakes are high. There are a few fairly well-documented cases, and for that matter it is now somewhat openly admitted that policies exist making possible domestic assassinations.
Terrorist attacks are fairly common, and most of them have government sponsors. The sponsor is not usually the one named in the news.
Real politics would make Macchievelli blush. The high-level politicians who authorize these crimes do not end up in prison; instead they have libraries named after them and they're rewarded with money, coke, and harlots and/or catamites depending on their taste in vice.
Is that "successful"? If money, fame, and vice are the standards of "success", then yes. But Buddhists would refer to them as "hungry hell-beings", and Christianity would say something about "eternal separation from God". Make your choice.
I think you are confusing sociopaths and psychopaths.
Psychopaths lack a connection between higher reasoning and base emotional instinct. In other words, they lack what we would ordinarily refer to as conscience. People, things, events simply have no emotional resonance.
Psychopaths are fairly common, with certain studies showing the numbers as high as 1 in 4 people. But psychopaths are not, by their nature, bad people. Most are highly intelligent, and they learn social rules which they (due to personal benefit) learn to abide by. Mr. Spock would probably be, clinically, classified as a psychopath...he is a beloved character and a positive role model to millions.
But yes, some psychopaths behave very badly. Lacking emotional resonance, the concepts of right and wrong must be defined, and if defined incorrectly, undesirable results can occur.
As to the original question, yes, these traits can provide a certain advantage. But they can also be a significant disadvantage. As with all things, it is a double edged sword. And yes, a higher percentage of businessmen and politicians test positive for psychopathic behavior than in the general population. It is quite compatible with alpha or type-A personalities, and if channeled properly can be used very successfully.
From a materialistic, competitive, and self-interested point of view.
I choose not to use what's left of my precious mental energy considering such points of view.
I'd rather take a nap.


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AfterEffects content lead, Todd Kopriva, shared information about this new custom feed service started by Google. If you are using our Community Publishing System, you would want to know when new articles are posted. Unfortunately, the Community Publishing System does not provide RSS feeds at this point.
With the new Google service, I could create a custom feed for the index page of Community Publishing System in a jiffy.
Here are the steps:
- Copy the URL of the page for which you want to receive feeds
- Go to http://www.google.com/reader and sign in
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- Paste the copied URL in the text box and click Add.
For more information about the custom feed service, see this post.


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As an arm of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, we accomplish our mission through science-based risk assessment, policy development, monitoring and inspections, consultation, education, and enforcement of regulations designed to protect the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the places where we live, play, and work. While protecting human health is our primary mission, we also act in concert with many other agencies, programs, and organizations whose work helps to protect and enhance environmental quality.
Air Quality
To improve outdoor air quality to maintain a healthy and pleasant environment
Food Safety and Sanitation
To protect the public's health by preventing food-borne illness, by assuring that foods sold and served to the public are wholesome and free from contamination or spoilage, and by promoting food service establishments' compliance with state laws and regulations.
Restaurant Inspection Database - Here you can view inspection reports for restaurants, fast food operations, delis, markets, cafeterias, convenience stores and other types of food establishments inspected by the Health Department.
Environmental Planning
To insure that public health issues are adequately considered in land use planning decisions.
Animal and Insect-borne Disease Monitoring (also known as zoonotic diseases)
To control the spread of illnesses transmitted by animals and insects through disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, community education, maintaining rabies vaccination records, and other control measures.
Day Care and Institutional Sanitation and Safety
To insure that institutional facilities comply with health and safety regulations to prevent transmission of communicable diseases and to ensure a safe physical environment.
Water Quality
To protect surface and groundwater from contamination and to control water-borne diseases, transmission by regulating, inspecting, and monitoring public water supplies and both public and private sewage disposal systems.
Septic Systems
To protect the public's health and the environment by preventing the contamination of ground and surface waters through inspections, monitoring ,and consultation on septic systems and by issuing permits for the proper construction and installation of septic systems.
Solid and Hazardous Waste
To prevent adverse health impacts and environmental degradation associated with the storage, disposal and accidental spills of hazardous or non-hazardous materials.
Environmental Property Records Reviews
The Larimer County Department of Health and Environment provides property records reviews for a variety of environmental concerns.
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A car mechanic who always knew he would be a millionaire has done just that - banking a massive £108m EuroMillions jackpot.
Neil Trotter, 41 from Coulsdon, owner of Mitcham repair garage Chameleon Coachworks, scooped the jackpot - Britain's fourth largest lottery win - on Friday.
He bought the winning ticket from Londis in Wallington Corner, Wallington, on the day of the draw.
After being unveiled at press conference in Dorking this morning, he said he was so confident he would win he told people on Friday that "this time tomorrow" he would be a multi-millionaire.
Checking his ticket on Friday night Neil Trotter was pleased when he saw he had the first three numbers.
And as the other balls came out of the machine he realised he had won the lot.
His winning numbers were 6,24,25,27,30 and 'lucky stars' 5 and 9.
Mr Trotter, who is also racing driver, said: "I went as white as a sheet and my partner Nicky said 'what's wrong?' and I said "I have won the lottery."
Then I phoned my dad up and said I have won the lottery, I have won the lot.
"I said I have won £108m and he said 'what have you been drinking?'
The 41-year-old is a keen racing driver and most recently took part in the BMW Compact Cup, where he came sixth out of 60.
At the moment he drives a Ford Focus so purchasing a new car is high on his agenda.
And he is thinking of buying a whole fleet of supercars.
He said: "There will be quite a few cars and we have to find somewhere to put them all.
"It's not an immediate thing to buy lots of stuff, I went to take my time and purchase wisely.
"It's early days yet and I don't know what I'm going to do. I just want to take stock of what I'm doing."
His partner of eight years, Nicky Ottaway, who appeared with him at the press conference today said on her shopping list are handbags and shoes - and a house.
She said: "There needs to be room for a pony and somewhere to put the cars."
The 33-year-old quit her job this morning and Mr Trotter is set to give up his Mitcham based business.
They also plan to holiday abroad too as soon as Mr Trotter has renewed his passport.
He added: Me and my dad thought we'd heard all the Only Fools and Horses jokes but I can see this is going to run and run.
"Still, being Trotters we were always going to be millionaires one day."
His win has catapulted him info fourth place in the National Lottery rich list.


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I love the movie Finding Nemo. My favorite character in that movie is Dory. Maybe I love her because – just like her – I'm a little scatter-brained sometimes. Or, maybe, it's her optimistic attitude that I identify with the most. One of my favorite scenes from that movie is this one.
"When life gets you down you know what you gotta do?…Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming!"
I find myself singing that silly, little tune at the oddest times. The latest was this last week while I was keying on a particularly difficult project.
Before I began keying I did what I always do when I start a new project – I read the project page on the wiki. Then I checked the discussion tab in the wiki to familiarize myself with the common errors discovered by arbitrators. I am very familiar with the keying standards and I had the field helps to guide me along the way. I felt pretty good about how to classify the forms types. I felt like I knew what information I should be keying and where to find it on the form.
Great. First record. Ready. Set. Key!
Between the handwriting and the diacritics on that very first record my enthusiasm waned very quickly. I started fantasizing about how easy it would be to just cancel the image set and return it for someone with far greater patience than I to key it. In the middle of that little daydream I caught myself singing, "Just keep keying! Just keep keying! Just keep keying, keying, keying!"
So, on I trudged. And what trudging it was. It wasn't easy. There were times I wasn't sure that what I was keying was accurate. I used Google several times to check that the places or the names I was keying even existed. Sometimes they did. Sometimes they didn't. I put in my most reasonable interpretation of the data. I reviewed the Polish handwriting helps so I could recognize the diacritics a little easier. And on I trudged.
That first image set took me a couple of hours. But, I finished it and I downloaded another. And I finished that one.
And, lo and behold, after a keying a few dozen records, I realized that my enthusiasm was back. I was recognizing characters and words with more ease. Rather than daydreaming about cancelling image sets I was really thinking about the lives of the people whose names and family data I was capturing.
My accuracy may plummet when those first couple of image sets finally get arbitrated. That's ok. I did my best. I kept keying. These records will be made available to the public that much faster because of my contribution. These people will be remembered.
Editor's Note: I am a jogger and when I take on the feat of completing a half marathon I often repeat to myself, "just keep running, running, running." I know I can complete the race by continuing to put one foot in front of the other and the more I practice the easier it is to finish the race. I am not fast so I don't focus as much on my times but rather on simply keeping moving and finishing the race. (It helps that I have to get back to my car – good motivation always helps!) How does this relate to keying? Just like Crista says after keying a few image sets it became a lot easier, looking at your accuracy every once in a while is beneficial but it hopefully doesn't influence whether you continue to contribute. Keep moving forward and trying your best. Many times we don't make a realization about the instructions until we have keyed a few records; sometimes we can go back and fix them and sometimes not; other times we just can't seem to figure out those letters but we do our best and keep going. It also helps to keep the end in sight, referring both to the end of the image set and the indexes we are creating. No matter how long it takes you to finish the image set, or how many records you key compared to other contributors, or whether your accuracy is Excellent or Needs Improvement – your contributions make a difference!


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I am going to try an experiment this year and see where the results lead me. So my wife just purchased me a bag that holds 20 + discs. I have this thing stuffed to the gills with all the usual suspects to cover the conditions found while playing. I am one of those people that brings everything just in case so I end up carrying a lot. I have noticed that regardless of conditions I throw about 90% of my shots with 4 or 5 discs. To be fair I have some duplicates of these discs that are worn in to a different stability that I carry making the total around 10 plus a couple of putters. What I plan to do is write down all my discs and put a tally next to them when I throw them. It should not take long for a pattern to develop. The discs that get little use will go in as conditions dictate and the ones that get less than that will get donated or replaced with something I would actually use. Have any of you ever tried this to build your bags? Its a bit of a weight thing, a bit of a pain in the ass to pull discs out of a stuffed bag thing, and just a do more with less thing.


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Court Theatre Presents THREE TALL WOMEN 1/13-2/13/2011
Court Theatre continues its 56th season with Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell. The production will run January 13 - February 13, 2011 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue. Press opening is Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 8PM.
Three Tall Women was written shortly after the death of Edward Albee's adoptive mother, and it remains his most personal play. Wickedly funny, and told with uncompromising truth, the play takes a long, hard look at the arc of one human life from the perspectives of three different generations-one woman in youth, one woman in middle age, and one woman lying on her death bed. As the elder woman reflects on her life-including the estrangement of her son, widely interpreted to represent Albee himself-she develops clarity of mind that transcends her debilitated body. Three Tall Women will be directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell, whose 2004 production of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was named "the finest production... [of the play] I've seen to date" by Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal.
"Three Tall Women is the play that brought Edward Albee back to the attention of the American theatre. It's a striking text. Anyone who's ever witnessed a parent or grandparent at the end of their life-that is to say, most of us-will recognize the complex mingling of pain, regret, hope, and unexpected humor of that experience," says Charlie Newell. "I'm thrilled to be returning to the world of Edward Albee, after the wonderful experience of directing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2004."
Edward Albee's Three Tall Women features Mary Beth Fisher (Woman B), Lois Markle (Woman A), Maura Kidwell (Woman C) and Joel Gross (The Boy).
The creative team for Three Tall Women features Leigh Breslau (scenic design), Marc Stubblefield (lighting design), Anna Kuzmanic (costume design), Megan Geigner (production dramaturg). The Stage Manager is William Collins. Court Theatre's Resident Dramaturg is Drew Dir.
Edward Albee (Playwright) was born on March 12, 1928 and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), All Over (1971), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), The Lady From Dubuque (1977-78), The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981), Finding the Sun (1982), Marriage Play (1986-87), Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize), Fragments (1993), The Play About the Baby (1997), The Goat Or, Who is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award), and Occupant (2001). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.
Mary Beth Fisher (Woman B) has appeared at Court Theatre in The Year of Magical Thinking (Jeff Award Solo Performance), The Wild Duck, What the Butler Saw, The Glass Menagerie, Arcadia, Travesties, and The Importance of Being Ernest. Her Chicago credits include The Seagull, Rock n' Roll, Frank's Home, The Clean House, Dinner With Friends, Heartbreak House, The Guys, The Rose Tattoo, Boy Gets Girl, Spinning into Butter, Design for Living, Light Up the Sky, The Night of the Iguana, and Marvin's Room (Goodman Theatre); Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Dresser, and The Memory of Water (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Laramie Project: Epilogue, The Little Dog Laughed, and Theatre District (About Face Theatre); The Marriage of Figaro (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company). Her NY credits include: Frank's Home (Playwrights Horizons); Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations), The Radical Mystique, and By The Sea...(Manhattan Theatre Club); The Night of the Iguana (Roundabout Theatre Company); and Extremities (Westside Arts Theatre). Ms. Fisher has also worked in regional theatres throughout the country. Her TV/film credits include: Ride Along, State of Romance, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Prison Break, NYPD Blue, Profiler, Early Edition, Turks, Formosa Betrayed, Dragonfly, and Trauma. She received the 2010 Chicago's Leading Lady Award from the Sarah Siddons Society and was named "Best Actress" in Chicago Magazine's "Best of Chicago" issue (Aug/2010). Ms. Fisher is an Inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.
Joel Gross (The Boy) makes his Court Theatre debut with Three Tall Women. He just closed To Master the Art at TimeLine Theatre, where he also played Dakin in the Jeff Award-winning (Ensemble/Mid-Size Production) The History Boys. Joel has also worked with Lookingglass Theatre Company, Collaboraction, Strawdog Theatre Company, Dog & Pony Theatre Company, and The House Theatre of Chicago. Joel is a proud member of Gray Talent, and teaches teen acting workshops at Act One Studios and the Chicago Waldorf School.
Maura Kidwell (Woman C) makes her Court Theatre debut with Three Tall Women. Maura was last seen in Lobby Hero at Redtwist Theatre, where she has been an ensemble member since appearing in Equus in 2007. Maura has also performed at The Gift Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, Provision Theater Company, Erasing the Distance, and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Film work includes Lifetime Original Movie Close Quarters, Return to the Hiding Place, and Saving Shiloh.
Lois Markle (Woman A) makes her Court Theatre debut with Three Tall Women. Among her many stage credits are: BROADWAY: Hedda Gabbler, True West, and The Grapes of Wrath. OFF BROADWAY: The American Dream, The Sandbox, Measure for Measure, Camino Real, Curse of the Starving Class, I Am A Camera, The Middle Ages, and Cuba Si. National tours include: Present Laughter, Summer, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and After the Fall. Some favorite regional credits include: Old Times, Toys in the Attic, A Delicate Balance, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Driving Miss Daisy, The Gin Game, Lost in Yonkers, Major Barbara, Albee's Women, An Evening with Jon Robin Baitz, and Eleanor Roosevelt in Her Own Words. Among her film credits are: Torn Between Two Lovers, Breaking Up, Coming Apart, and The Sporting Club. Some TV work includes: The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order, and ABC Playbreak.
Charles Newell (Director) has been Artistic Director of Court Theatre since 1994, where he has directed over 30 productions. He made his Chicago directorial debut in 1993 with The Triumph of Love, which won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Production. Directorial highlights at Court include The Illusion, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Wild Duck, Caroline, Or Change, Titus Andronicus, Arcadia, Man of La Mancha, Uncle Vanya, Raisin, The Glass Menagerie, Travesties, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hamlet, The Invention of Love, The Little Foxes, Nora, and The Misanthrope. Charlie has also directed at the Goodman Theatre (Rock 'n' Roll), the Guthrie Theater (Resident Director: The History Cycle, Cymbeline), Arena Stage, John Houseman's The Acting Company (Staff Repertory Director), the California and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, Juilliard, and New York University. He is the recipient of the 1992 TCG Alan Schneider Director Award. He has served on the Board of Theatre Communications Group, as well as on several panels for the National Endowment for the Arts. Opera directing credits include Marc Blitzstein's Regina at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Rigoletto at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Charlie is a multiple Joseph Jefferson Award (Chicago's highest theatrical honor) nominee and recipient. His production of Caroline, or Change at Court was the recipient of 4 Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Production-Musical and Best Director-Musical.
Previews are January 13 - January 21, 2011. The opening press performance is on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Curtain times are Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. with Saturday matinees at 3 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Ticket prices are $30 to $40 for preview performances; $40 to $60 for regular run performances. Tickets are available at the Box Office, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago; (773) 753-4472 or online at www.CourtTheatre.org. Student and senior discounts available. Groups of 10 or more may purchase tickets by calling Milan Pejnovich at (773) 834-3243.
Three Tall Women is sponsored by Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Upcoming Events
University of Chicago Student Night
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 8:00PM
University of Chicago students are invited to enjoy free food and soda after the performance, as well as a post-show discussion with members of the cast, design team, and staff. University of Chicago student tickets are always just $10 with valid U of C student ID.
David Bevington Post-show Discussion
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, following the 7:30PM performance of Three Tall Women
Join world-renowned University of Chicago theater scholar David Bevington in a lively post-show conversation with Resident Dramaturg Drew Dir. Your comments and questions are part of the discourse as Professor Bevington and the artistic staff provide context and probe the deeper issues of each play in Court Theatre's season. One Wednesday performance of each play features this popular in-depth discussion. These conversations begin immediately after the performance, last approximately 30 minutes, and are free and open to all.
Now in its 56th season, Court Theatre is guided by its mission to discover the power of classic theatre. Court endeavors to make a lasting contribution to American theatre by expanding the canon of translations, adaptations, and classic texts. Court revives lost masterpieces, illuminates familiar texts, and distinguishes fresh, modern classics. Court engages and inspires its audience by providing artistically distinguished productions, audience enrichment activities, and student educational experiences.
Court Theatre is the professional theatre in residence at the University of Chicago continuing to discover the power of classic theatre. Court Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Productions are made possible in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and by a City Arts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Court Theatre is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the American Theatre; the League of Resident Theatres; the Illinois Humanities Council; the Arts Alliance Illinois; the League of Chicago Theatres; and Hyde Park Cultural Alliance.
Title: Three Tall Women
Directed by: Charles Newell
Written by: Edward Albee
Dates: Previews: January 13-January 21, 2011
Press opening: Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 8 PM
Regular run: January 23 - February 13, 2011
Schedule: Wed & Thurs: 7:30 p.m.
Fridays: 8:00 p.m.
Saturdays: 3:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Sundays: 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Location: Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.
Tickets: $30-$40 previews
$40-$60 regular run
Box Office: Located at 5535 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago; (773) 753-4472 or online www.CourtTheatre.org


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The Tigers defeated the Chicago Cubs 5-3 on Thursday afternoon to take the series and lift their record to 30-33. The Tigers were supposed to shred the American League Central en route to their second consecutive division crown, but this series win, after taking the series from the Cincinnati Reds over the weekend, marks only the second time this season that the Tigers have won back-to-back series.
In fact, we have to go all the way back to April 12 to remember this feeling. The Tigers swept the Boston Red Sox to open the year, then took two of three from the Rays, and then pretty much fell off the radar. They've won a few series in the mean time, and even swept a couple of them, but they hadn't put back-to-back wins together in those 17 series.
The Tigers took contributions from pretty much everyone in the finale versus the Cubs, but the three stars of the game are:
Justin Verlander: His eight inning effort was rocky in the beginning, he allowed two runs in the second, but that was all the Cubs would get. His final line (8 IP, 8 K, 0 BB 2 ER) will be good enough to win just about every time out.
Austin Jackson: It's great to have his bat in the lineup again. Quintin Berry filled in admirably, but he simply couldn't match Jackson's power potential. Austin ended the day 3-4 (plus a walk) with a double and a home run (he knocked in three and scored twice).
Ryan Raburn: A lot of folks were none to pleased to find out that Raburn had been recalled from the minor leagues today and that he had been inserted into the lineup, but he came through with two hits in three plate appearances (a single and a double). He and Jackson were the only two Tigers to both score a run and drive in a run.
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Gwynne Dyer: Unpacking U.S. energy myths
Which of the following statements is true? The United States now has a 100-year supply of natural gas, thanks to the miracle of shale gas. By 2017 it will once again be the world's biggest oil producer. By 2035 it will be entirely "energy-independent", and free in particular from its reliance on Middle Eastern oil.
Unless you've been dead for the past couple of years, you've been hearing lots of enthusiastic forecasts like this, but not one of them is true. They are generally accompanied by sweeping predictions about geopolitics that are equally misleading, at least insofar as they depend on assumptions about cheap and plentiful supplies of shale gas and other forms of "unconventional" oil and gas.
For example, we are assured that the United States, no longer dependent on Arab oil, will break its habit of intervening militarily in the Middle East, since what happens there will no longer matter to Washington. But this new era of cheap and plentiful energy from fossil fuels will also result, alas, in sky-high greenhouse gas emissions and runaway global warming.
These statements are also untrue, at least in the formulation given above, since they are based on quite mistaken assumptions.
The original error, on which most of the others are based, is the belief that "fracking"—hydraulic fracturing of underground formations of shale rock to release the gas trapped within them—has fundamentally transformed the energy situation of the United States. Huge amounts are being invested in the newer shale plays like the Eagle Ford formation in Texas and the Marcellus in Pennsylvania, but the numbers just don't add up.
Production of shale gas has soared in the United States (still the home to most shale plays) in the past 10 years, but it is only compensating for the decline in conventional gas production in the same period. Moreover, while the operators' calculations assume a 40-year productive lifetime for the average shale gas well, the real number is turning out to be around five to seven years.
That means that in the older shale plays they have to drill like crazy just to maintain current production—and since drilling is very expensive, they aren't making a profit. As Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson told a private meeting four months ago: "We're making no money. It's all in the red."
They are hoping to make a profit, of course, once the gas price recovers from the ridiculous level of $2 per million BTU that it fell to in 2009, when a great many people believed this really was a miracle. Four dollars per million BTU would do it for most operators, and even the highest-cost ones would be making a profit at $7. But it's clear that shale gas is no miracle that will provide ultra-cheap fossil fuel for the next 100 years.
In that case, the prediction that the United States will be the world's biggest oil producer by 2017 is nonsense. Even on an ultra-optimistic estimate of how much "unconventional oil" it can eventually get out of the shale formations, it will still be importing a large proportion of its oil in 2035.
At the peak of U.S. oil production, in 1970, it produced 10.6 million barrels per day. It currently produces 9.6 million barrels per day, and consumes 21 million bpd. It is preposterous to argue that it can close that gap by coming up with another 11 million bpd of unconventional oil at an economically viable price.
"Energy independence", if it ever comes to the United States, is likelier to come from a combination of conservation measures (like President Obama's regulation that will almost double the fuel efficiency of American-built cars by 2016) and an increased emphasis on renewables (wind, solar, et cetera.).
And the whole Middle Eastern business is a red herring, because the United States does not depend heavily on Middle Eastern oil. Most U.S. oil imports come from the Western hemisphere (Canada, Mexico, Venezuela) or from Africa (Nigeria, Algeria, Angola). Only 15 percent of its oil comes from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait, and virtually none from anywhere else in the Gulf. Whatever America's various wars in the region may have been about, they were not about "security of oil supply".
Which leaves the business about shale gas and oil pushing the world's greenhouse gas emissions over the top. They can't do that, because we are already over the top. We need only continue on our present course, without any growth in "unconventional" oil and gas production, and we will be irrevocably committed to 2 degrees C of warming within 10 years. Within 25 years we will be committed to +4 degrees C.
So why are we fed a daily diet of misinformation about energy in general, and shale gas in particular? Because a lot of people have something to sell.
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Jan 2, 2013 at 8:42pm
Very ironic for Gwynne Dyer of all people to say "So why are we fed a daily diet of misinformation about energy in general... Because a lot of people have something to sell." I agree with the statement but coming from Mr Dyer who pushes a lot of misinformation by claiming nuclear energy is the safe and viable way to go, it seems profoundly hypocritical.
John Matlock
Jan 3, 2013 at 9:26am
Some dozen years ago there was a big shale oil development project out in the American West. It was going to make us energy independent. At great expense they produced a few tank cars of crude oil. They shipped it to a refinery. A while later the refinery called back. "Don't ship us any more of that stuff, it won't go through our refinery (too heavy I presume)." It would take the construction of a new refinery, and due to the greenie people and the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) people there hasn't been a refinery constructed in America for about fifty years. Yes, shale oil is there, but don't bet the family fortune on it. The project has been long since abandoned. Energy independence is the politicians new "be happy, be happy, vote for me" phrase.
Jan 3, 2013 at 10:17am
Let's face it - there is no way to produce electricity that is completely environmentally friendly, clean and without some kind of drawback somewhere.
That being said, nuclear fission still gets my vote (until we can build space elevators and have solar panels in orbit that feed us constant electricity). You can power a city of 60,000 homes for a year on one rail car of uranium ore. There are issues with handling the resultant radioactivity, but they are comparatively minor (and almost always local) compared to the effects of green house gas emissions.
There would be issues with converting all our gas-burning cars to electric cars. It'd be expensive, and we need improvements in how we store that electricity (either better batteries or better fuel cells or something).
Is nuclear 100% safe? No. But then, nothing is. We can either give up producing electricity and do away with computers, tv, radio, movies, mass market magazines & books...or we can accept that there are going to be costs associated with living in a technological society and decide intelligently which costs we want to accept.
When you start looking at it that way, and when you factor all costs into the calculation (including costs for damage to the environment, because that will come back to haunt us sooner or later), then nuclear is a viable alternative that is technologically viable NOW, not some years in the future after some unspecified and wished-for breakthroughs.
Jan 3, 2013 at 11:46am
The David Suzuki Foundation states, in part, the following on nuclear power:
"Nuclear power is experiencing a revival due to growing concerns about climate change. The nuclear industry has reinvented itself as an environmentally friendly option, producing electricity without the air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions of coal, oil or gas.
But a closer look reveals nuclear power is neither an environmentally or financially viable option. Nuclear power creates radioactive waste for which there is no accepted method of safely managing or storing. It is also prohibitively expensive. The last plant constructed in Ontario, Darlington, was budgeted at $3.4 billion but ended up costing $15 billion when it was finally completed in the mid-1980s."
the whole post can be read at:
My feeling is that proponents of nuclear energy are being intellectually lazy in not recognizing the great strides toward producing lots of truly clean energy that Germany- with its energy-intensive economy- is making. If Germany can do it, so can others.
Jan 3, 2013 at 6:58pm
@ John Matlock
Just to correct you a little bit John your badly misinformed about refineries. The only part of your statement that is correct is that there hasn't been a new refinery built in North America for fifty years. You put that down to Nimbyism.
The truth is that there is a huge glut of oil available globally. That excess in oil faces a bottleneck in the production cycle and that bottleneck is refining capacity. That bottleneck is what keeps the prices high. That bottleneck is and has been quite deliberate and it has been engineered by your pals in big oil.
When the Irvings wanted to expand the refinery in St. John the project was killed off. When Imperial wanted to expand their capacity in Sarnia, again the project was killed off. The big money isn't in pumping oil, it's in refining it. And the big players aren't in a sharing mood.
Don't believe me? Google how many refineries in Texas and Louisiana are sitting idle. Google how many refineries globally have had fires and explosions and are now "too expensive to repair". Consumers are being manipulated by "big Oil" and this isn't going to stop anytime soon.
But don't make the mistake of blaming Nimbyism for the problem.
Jan 4, 2013 at 5:18am
Of course it's all nonsense! Energy independent? Having 100 years' worth of conventional gas (or shale), which diminishes your reliance on imported oil, is merely a temporary respite.
It's a non-renewable, finite resource. So whether it's 2 decades or a century's worth you've got--you'd eventually have to outsource your energy needs anyway.
I think the definition of "energy independent" should shift from simply having your own oil and gas reserves--to something much more stable and reliable,such as solar,wind,hydro-electric energies etc.
Jan 5, 2013 at 6:29am
Instead of unconventional oil/gas extraction the US should be investing in a national program of hydrogen from electrolysis from electricity generated by solar cookers in hot deserts of which they have a few. Possibly working with Mexico, Baja and all that. Minimal environmental impact - though not zero - and no greenhouse gas emissions. More than 100 years it would be infinite once up and running. I can't imagine a better investment nor better present to hand down to the generations. It would be the equivalent of the Manhattan Project or putting a man on the Moon. The technology is well understood, the challenge would be getting efficiencies up. But it would describe a generation and possibly save the planet, the ultimate mega-project: PROJECT EARTH.
Jan 5, 2013 at 8:28pm
I hope Ms. Dyer will take the opportunity to thoroughly review the headlines on E N E N E W S . c o m to see how the children of Japan and the people of Japan are suffering after Japan's nuclear-plant meltdowns.
Martin Dunphy
Jan 5, 2013 at 9:45pm
Ann: Thanks for your comment. For your information, Gwynne is not a Ms.
Jan 6, 2013 at 8:58am
As for the most green and virtuous Germany, they still get half their electricity from coal and that proportion looks set to rise now that they're decided to phase out nuclear. Choose your poison.


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Panel Discussion: Welcoming remarks by Ambassador Thoms on "Preparing for Deep Cuts: Overcoming the Gridlock in Nuclear Arms Control"
"Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this panel discussion in the German House! Today, the trilateral German-Russian-American "Deep Cuts" Commission will present its findings on how to make progress on nuclear disarmament and arms control. When the Commission drafted its report earlier this year, the situation with respect to disarmament and arms control seemed difficult.
The "gridlock" mentioned in the title of today's event was quite substantial. As you will recall, in June 2013 President Obama proposed a new disarmament round in his speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and we still await progress in this respect.
If the situation was difficult in 2013, it is even more challenging today.
We have all been following recent events on the Maidan in Kyiv, the Russian annexation of Crimea in clear breach of international law, the escalation of violence in Eastern Ukraine. Germany has worked hard with its partners to de-escalate this crisis, including through supporting the OSCE mission to Ukraine. The Geneva meeting was certainly a step in the right direction, but we need more commitment towards its implementation.
The fact that OSCE observers – among them four fellow countrymen - continue to be held hostage by armed separatists drastically underlines: This crisis is far from being over!
You might therefore ask yourselves whether this is the right moment to discuss future deeper reductions of nuclear arsenals.
But I would venture to say: the crisis testifies to the fact that we need this kind of trilateral dialogue today maybe more than ever.
Our discussion today will serve to illustrate the potential gains that could be derived from taking the disarmament agenda forward – and also the costs of failure if we don't make progress in this field.
This being said, I would agree that we are not likely to see any practical progress in the short term.
But for nuclear disarmament you need to be persistent. Arms control and disarmament will eventually be back on the agenda.
And we have to prepare for these better times today.
There are many reasons for this: One reason which I would like to highlight is article VI of the NPT. As the International Court of Justice spelled out in its landmark advisory opinion of 1996, it calls for the end of the arms race and for constructive negotiations leading to the elimination of nuclear arsenals.
Nuclear disarmament is, in the light of the NPT, more than just an option. It is an obligation incumbent not only upon the Nuclear Weapons states, but upon all States.
Furthermore, it is obvious that the NPT as the cornerstone of the international non-proliferation and disarmament architecture will come under enormous strain if we don't pave the way for substantial progress in disarmament.
Most experts predict this to be one of the key messages of the third PrepCom, and one of the key challenges for the 2015 Review Conference.
We need to think beyond the current crisis – and this is precisely what the Commissioners of the Deep Cuts Commission have done and will continue to do. They came up with a very insightful report which is currently being discussed in the capitals of the three partner countries.
I very much hope that its proposals on confidence-building measures, on arms control in the broader sense of the term, including conventional arms control, will receive the attention they deserve even in these difficult times.
I would now like to ask the Head of the German NPT Delegation, the German Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Ambassador Michael Biontino to chair the panel.
I would like to warmly thank the panelists, Steven Pifer, Götz Neuneck and Eugene Myasnikov for sharing their thoughts with us.
And I would like to thank you all for accepting our invitation and for enriching the debate!"


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IN THE next week or so the boardrooms of corporate Australia will be hit between the eyes with draft legislation designed to beef up the ATO's core arsenal - its anti-avoidance law - after suffering some big courtroom defeats that cost it more than $1 billion in lost revenue.
The draft legislation, which is designed to amend Part IVA of the Tax Act, will be tough, retrospective and controversial, and it will be released as the ATO searches for a new boss after last month's shock announcement that Michael D'Ascenzo would leave at the end of the year.
D'Ascenzo's replacement is expected to be announced within weeks, with speculation running hot that the government will break with tradition and make an external appointment.
A few names rumoured to be in the mix include chairman of the Board of Taxation Chris Jordan, former head of Treasury Ken Henry and Inspector-General of taxation Ali Noroozi. It is also believed that Rona Mellor is being considered for what is one of the most important and high-pressured jobs in the country.
Mellor, a senior official at the Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries with responsibility for the Biosecurity Services Group after serving as deputy CEO of Medicare Australia, would be well placed to run the ATO as she worked there for 20 years before leaving in 2006.
The reality is the ATO has a strong culture and it would be hard for an outsider with no ATO experience to hit the ground running at a time when the federal government needs to raise money, particularly as its mining tax is shaping as a revenue-raising flop.
To put it into perspective, the latest financial results for the government's chief revenue raiser, the ATO, reveal that it collected $301 billion in net tax, up 10.3 per cent from $273 billion in 2010-11, but 3.4 per cent below its 2011-12 budget forecast.
When the tax budget is below forecast it puts everything else out of kilter, which explains the flurry of announcements by the government designed to lift revenue. These include assigning the ATO another $390 million to help boost its revenue raising abilities; forcing big companies to bring forward their tax payments from quarterly to monthly to raise an estimated $8.3 billion over the next three years, and the introduction of a series of pieces of retrospective legislation to crack down on tax avoidance and plug loopholes.
The crackdown on big business is part of a global trend by governments to raise tax revenue, as the United States and eurozone debt crises squeeze government budgets.
Cranking up the scrutiny on big companies is a vote winner, particularly when it is aimed at companies that pay minimal tax, or whinge about the tax they are paying, such as multinationals engaging in elaborate transfer pricing rackets.
The decision to amend anti- avoidance law under Part IVA will have a profound impact on the ATO's powers, and that of business. Part IVA is the ATO's key weapon for fighting tax avoidance. However, after a string of losses in the courts, the ATO and the government decided that the 31-year-old law needed to be spruced up - fast.
The way Part IVA currently operates is there must be a transaction or scheme, such as a corporate restructure, that results in a tax benefit and the restructure was designed for the ''sole or dominant purpose'' of getting a tax benefit. If these conditions are satisfied, then the ATO can make a determination to cancel the tax benefit.
In recent cases, including the James Hardie case, the argument was used that the company did not get a tax benefit, because without the transaction it would not have entered into an arrangement that attracted tax. In other words, it applied the ''do nothing'' argument, which was accepted by the courts.
It followed a string of other defeats for the ATO in court cases over the past couple of years, including: Foster's, which cost it $390 million; BHP Billiton, which cost $550 million in lost revenue; AXA Asia Pacific Holdings, which cost it $383 million; and Macquarie, which cost it $95 million.
To this end, the federal government put corporate Australia on notice in March that it planned to make changes that could impact any transaction with a tax consequence.
This means that anything from mergers and acquisitions, divestments, corporate restructures, capital raisings, private equity or expansion offshore, could be impacted by changes to the law.
Clayton Utz partner Dr Niv Tadmore said: ''Part IVA is the ATO's chief anti-avoidance provision. It gives the ATO extensive powers … it was originally designed with two important safeguards: the tax benefit and dominant purpose tests. The reform is expected to neutralise the former … if you compare Part IVA to a video game, until 1 March you got to play with two lives and now you get only one.''
Tadmore said the ATO has lost many Part IV cases that it strongly believed it should have won. ''Once we have an upgraded Part IVA, the ATO will seek to identify and test the new boundaries,'' he said.
With an extra $390 million in funding - which it will need to turn into $2.5 billion in extra revenue - more honed powers and a federal election looming next year, the Gillard government looks set to increasingly use the ATO, big business and billionaires to claw back its ratings in the polls.


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PHILADELPHIA - A wild road trip ended with yet another league win for Penn (10-9, 3-2 Ivy) to set up one of the biggest Ivy weekends in years. Penn trails both Harvard (13-6, 4-1 Ivy) and Dartmouth (6-13, 4-1 Ivy) by one game for second place. On Friday, the Quakers tip off with the Crimson—a team they haven't defeated since 2004—and on Saturday, they host Dartmouth—the winningest program in Ivy history. Both games tip off at 7 p.m. and can be seen on the Penn Sports Network.
Saturday marks Penn's annual Play4Kay game, which raises money and awareness in the fight against breast cancer. Fans are enouraged to buy pink t-shirts at the game ($10) to support the Susan G. Komen Foundation and all ticket sales ($5) will go toward Penn's Rena Rowan Breast Center at the Abramson Cancer Center.
Catching the Games
Video and live stats will be available on the Penn Sports Network at PennAthletics.com. Twitter updates (@PennWBB) are also available throughout the contest. A complete recap and box score can then be found at PennAthletics.com shortly after the conclusion of each game.
In the Series vs. Harvard and Dartmouth
Friday marks the 70th all-time meeting between Penn and Harvard on the hardwood. The Crimson own a 48-21 edge in the series, including an active 17-game winning streak. The Quakers last defeated Harvard on Feb. 6, 2004, 73-72, in Cambridge. Penn has lost 11 straight home games to the Crimson, dating back to a 65-51 win on Feb. 9, 2001. Penn also trails Dartmouth in the all-time series. The Big Green have won 42 of the first 67 games, but the Quakers have won four of five and three straight, including two in a row at The Palestra.
About the Crimson
Harvard went 9-5 during a challenging non-conference slate and is off to a 4-1 start in Ivy play. They have posted wins over Yale, Brown and Cornell. Penn beat Brown and Cornell, but lost at Yale. The Crimson have the league's second-highest scoring offense at 68.6 points per game, but are second to last in defense at 64.4 points allowed. They lead the league in field goal percentage (.442) and three-point percentage (.371). They are also second in rebounding, and third in blocks, steals and assists. Christine Clark is second in the Ivy League with 16.6 points per game. Victoria Lippert (12.5) and Tami Fagbenle (11.9) also average double figures. Fagbenle is fourth in the league in rebounding and first in field goal percentage (.540). Clark is sixth in the Ivies with 54 assists and third in free throw percentage (.831). Lippert leads the league from the three-point line at 43.2 percent and charity stripe at 91.1 percent.
About the Big Green
Dartmouth faced one of the nation's toughest non-conference schedules which featured games against Syracuse, Marquette, Villanova and BYU. The Big Green went 2-12, but it paid off. They are 4-1 in Ivy play with wins over Brown, Columbia, Yale and Harvard. Penn also beat the Bears and Lions, but fell at Yale. The Big Green's overall statistics are slightly skewed due to the strength of their non-conference schedule. Against the Ivy League, they have the second-best defense (54.8 ppg) and rank second in field goal percentage (.425). In five Ivy games, they rank second in FG% defense (.336) and 3-pt defense (.250). They are also second in rebounding and steals, and have attempted by far the fewest threes in the league. Faziah Steen averages a team-high 12.2 points per game. Tia Dawson is third in the league with 7.9 rebounds per game and fifth in blocked shots with 20. Kaitana Martinez has 3.0 assists per game to lead the team.
Road Warriors
- Penn has not played at home since Jan. 23 against Temple.
- Dating back to last season, the Quakers have played eight straight Ivy league road games (5-3).
- Penn has won six of its last nine Ivy road games—two of the three losses came at the hands of Princeton.
- Outside of New Jersey, the Quakers are 7-2 in their last seven Ivy road contests.
- In that span, the Quakers swept two straight Ivy road weekends for the first time since 2004-05.
- Penn swept Columbia and Cornell for their first two-win trip through the Empire State since 2005.
- Prior to this run, Penn had not swept a single Ivy weekend since 2007 (at Yale and Brown).
- Penn has won three straight at Brown for the first time in school history.
Wild Trip
Last weekend was filled with rescheduled games, changed venues, hotel floods and three feet of snow for the Quakers. After their arrival in New Haven, Conn., a winter storm dropped three feet of snow and forced the game at Yale to be rescheduled on numerous occasions. The team hotel was nearly evacuated at 4 a.m. on the night before the game due to flooding, which was also a problem at Yale's home gym, Lee Amphitheater. An hour before tip-off, the court was deemed unplayable due to a leak in the roof and the game moved to the campus recreation center (Lanman Center). The Quakers then stayed in New Haven Saturday night and drove to Rhode Island on the day of the game at Brown. The team's twitter account (@PennWBB) documented it all in real time and provided up-to-the-second updates. Photos are available on PennAthletics.com and PennBball on Facebook, and a video of the trip is being produced as well. A blooper preview:
The Last Time...
It has been nine years and 17 defeats since Penn last beat Harvard on Feb. 6, 2004 (73-72), but its been even longer (4,389 days) since the Quakers beat the Crimson at home—Feb. 9, 2001 (65-51). The last time Penn beat Harvard at The Palestra...
... the current Penn freshmen were in second grade.
... gas was $1.46 per gallon and a stamp was 34 cents.
... Ocean's Eleven was near the top of the box office charts.
... Apple released a device known as the "iPod".
... "Friends" was the most popular TV show.
... Destiny's Child had two No. 1 hits—Independent Women and Bootylicious.
... a good omen for the Quakers? The Baltimore Ravens were defending Super Bowl champions.
... Coach Laukaitis was a sophomore under Coach McLaughlin at Holy Family.
On the Defensive
Penn has been near the top of the Ivy League in most defensive categories since Mike McLaughlin took over as head coach three seasons ago. The trend continues this year. The Quakers rank second in the Ivies in scoring defense at 56.8 points per game and are third in field goal percentage defense (38.0%). In addition, the Quakers lead the league in blocked shots and turnover margin.
Block Buddies
Sophomore Kara Bonenberger and junior Courtney Wilson rank first and second in the Ivy League in blocked shots, respectively. Bonenberger has 28 this year and Wilson has 26 (though Bonenberger averages 15.3 minutes more per game). Both are nearing the single-season school record book. Most recently, Jess Knapp had 38 in 2010-11 which ranks sixth all-time at Penn. At their current pace, both players are set to pass that mark.
Penn Trends
At least one freshman has been in the starting lineup for the Quakers in 72 of the last 75 games ... Penn is 8-5 in its last 13 Ivy games ... Penn is 7-2 when leading at the half and 3-7 when trailing ... The Quakers have had fewer turnovers than their opponents in 15 of 19 games this season (9-6 in those games) ... The Quakers have outrebounded their opponent just six times this year, but are 6-0 in those games ... Penn has used the same starting lineup in 16 straight games ... Alyssa Baron has started 75 consecutive games for the Quakers ... Three different Quakers have scored more than 20 points in a game this season (Baron, Roche, Ray) ... Penn is 8-3 when allowing fewer than 60 points.
Climbing the Record Books
Junior Alyssa Baron now has 1,202 career points and is tied with Cheryl Rath for eighth place on Penn's all-time scoring list. Baron is eight points from matching Joey Rhoads for seventh and 15 points from reaching Karen Habrukowich in sixth. Baron became the 19th Penn women's player to reach 1,000 career points on Nov. 30. She is the third-fastest Quaker to accomplish that milestone (60 games) and the first since Biemer topped the landmark in 2008. Only Penn's all-time leading scorer (man or woman), Diana Caramanico (48 games) and Mandy West (52 games) were faster to 1,000 points.
In the Hunt
For the first time in awhile, Penn won't have to fight its way to the top of the Ivy League from the bottom. Penn has a winning record through five Ivy League games for the first time since 2004-05 when the Quakers started 3-2 and finished fourth at 8-6. In fact, this season marks the first time the Quakers have a winning record in the Ivy League at any point in the season since the 2005-06 season.
Lucky Sevens
Penn posted seven or more out-of-conference wins in back-to-back seasons for just the second time in program history (1999-00, 2000-01). Penn also won seven non-league games last season—tied for fourth-most in program history.
Two Penn Wins Would...
... be the first sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth since 2004 and the first at home since 2000-01.
... make the Quakers 12-9 overall and 5-2 in Ivy play.
A Penn Win Would...
... mark the first win over Harvard in 18 games or the fourth straight over Dartmouth.
... make the Quakers 11-10 on the year and 4-3 in Ivy play.
Two Penn Losses Would...
... make the Quakers 10-11 on the year and 3-4 in Ivy play.
... be less good than two wins.
Charge for a Cure!
For the third straight year the women's basketball team is dedicating its entire season to the fight against several diseases and the team needs your help. In its first two years, 109 donors have joined the "Charge for a Cure" program which helped the team raise nearly $7,000. Each month of the season will be devoted to help a specific disease with personal ties to the program—The Michael J. Fox Foundation, Go4theGoal, the American Cancer Society, The Dave Bryan Ride on Fund, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of America. At the end of each month, the coaches will total the number of offensive charges the Quakers have taken as a team and fans can pledge a donation per charge. This month the Quakers will be taking charges for ALS and the Dave Bryan Ride On Fund, but the team is turning to its fans to lend a hand in its efforts. Here is how you can help!
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Last Time Out
A weekend filled with rescheduled games, changed venues, hotel floods and three feet of snow, ended with a decisive victory. The Quakers posted the second-largest win at Brown in program history on a rare Sunday night Ivy League matchup, 65-48, at Pizzitola Sports Center. Four Quakers scored in double figures led by junior captain Alyssa Baron, who finished one rebound shy of a double-double with 19 points, three assists and a career-high five steals. From the start, the Quakers were in full control. Penn led 14-2 in the first six minutes, led by 11 at the break and by as many as 21 in the second half. A blizzard caused Penn's game at Yale to be rescheduled several times and then moved to the Lanman Recreation Center on campus. The Quakers were slower to adapt, fell behind by double digits, and a late run fell short in a 65-56 loss. Penn trailed by as many as 12, but got within three late in the second half. The Quakers had several shots to tie the game, but none fell and Yale crept away.
Up Next
A four-game Ivy homestand wraps up with games against Cornell (Feb. 22) and Columbia (Feb. 23) at The Palestra. Both games tip off at 7 p.m.
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The first, Terry Dunn, 25, of Baxter, was caught as he waited outside in the parking lot with the getaway car. Two other suspects were apprehended as they attempted to leave Target. They were identified as Dustin Burgess, 26, and Karla Montgomery, 24, both of Cookeville.
Further investigation revealed reportedly stolen merchandise in the getaway vehicle valued at more than $600 that was taken from the Walmart in Hermitage earlier in the day, Chandler said.
The getaway car was also prepared for a quick exit with the keys in the ignition and trunk open, waiting for the stolen goods, he said, adding officers also reportedly located marijuana roaches on Dunns person.
The recovered items were returned to the proper stores.
Mt. Juliet Police detectives said they believe that the three have been involved in previous thefts at the Target in Mt. Juliet and other stores in the area. The investigation is ongoing and further charges are pending.
The three were arrested and booked into the Wilson County Jail. Dunn is charged with
Theft of Property and Simple Possession Schedule VI. Burgess is charged with Theft of Property. Montgomery is also charged with Theft of Property.


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Adnan Oktar: Everyone should sincerely believe that Turkey is really on the right path, and will be a Super State. Turkey will be a very big state in a degree that has never happened in its history. It will be the leader of Turkish-Islamic nation. We are at the beginning of this historical mission. And, the Turkish nation is a nation that will rescue whole world from anarchy, terror, boredom and every kind of pain. This nation is a noble, dignified nation that has grown up with pain, and this nation has a soul that tends to govern this world to be useful for it. It seems that Allah has given this task to this nation, Insha'Allah. We will see this happening in a near future Insha'Allah.
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Turkey will be a Super Power
Joshua Walker, from the Transatlantic Academy Thought Center-USA, has said that Turkey will be a "Super Power" in the next 10 years. Walter spoke in the conference of The Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) and stated that Turkey's most visible change seems in the relationship between the civil and the army, moreover, the project of the "Democratic Development" is a "big historical step that tear down the taboos that would not be able to be spoken publicly at the intellectual level 10 years ago." Walter also stated that AK Party is the most reformist government of the history of Turkey, and they are acting towards the favor of the state, " All of these progress means that; In 10 years, Turkey will be a Super State in between regions."