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BUSINESS economists have been surprisingly critical of Julia Gillard's efforts to keep her promise to return the budget to surplus next financial year, but if I were her I'd have done much the same thing.
She, her cabinet and her econocrat advisers turn out to have a much better understanding of real-world macro-economic management than the know-it-all business economists.
Their repeated statements that the government's obsession with achieving budget surplus in 2012-13 is a ''purely political'' objective show how little they understand political economy.
In an ideal world - a rational world - it wouldn't be necessary for Wayne Swan and Penny Wong to turn the fiscal somersaults they did last week just to keep the budget's forward estimates pointing to a laughably microscopic surplus.
In such an imaginary world, it wouldn't matter if the budget's return to surplus was a year or two earlier or later than the year first projected. In such a world, the punters wouldn't imagine a surplus of $1.5 billion was a totally different animal to a deficit of $1.5 billion, instead of the same thing: a ''near-as-damn-it'' balanced budget.
In such a world, voters would not set the bar higher for Labor treasurers than Liberal treasurers.
In such a world, voters would laugh to scorn the efforts of such reliable witnesses as Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey, Andrew Robb and Barnaby Joyce to convince them all budget deficits are bad and Australia's public debt is mountainous.
Where were the business economists with their accusations of politicians being ''purely political'' when, almost from the first fiscal stimulus package, the Liberals began trying to inculcate their pre-Keynesian nonsense in the minds of an economically illiterate electorate?
I don't remember hearing from them. In fact, with the honourable exception of Saul Eslake, I can't remember ever hearing a business economist dare to criticise a Liberal government or opposition.
But take a shot at a Labor government, especially one that's out of favour with big business and looks on the ropes? Sure, why not. How could the boss object to that?
Labor's problem is not that it's had bad economic policies - its response to the global financial crisis was almost too successful for its own good; its carbon price scheme was compromised more by the reneged-on deal with Malcolm Turnbull than by the subsequent deal with the Greens - but that it can't explain itself, can't educate the electorate.
The present low levels of consumer and business confidence are a consequence of various factors, not just forebodings about the turmoil in Europe. Other factors would be fears about the devastating effects of the carbon tax and, after years of propagandising by the opposition and the Murdoch press, a lack of confidence in the government's ability to manage the economy.
In such circumstances, would it really be of no consequence for the government to be seen to have broken its promise to return the budget to surplus? Can you imagine how the opposition would carry on? Do you really think that would have no effect on confidence?
There may even be some truth in the government's argument that, in view of the global financial markets' concerns about sovereign debt, this is no time for our government to renege on promises to stop adding to government debt.
So much for the naive belief the government's concern to protect its reputation as an economic manager is ''purely political''. But wait, there's more.
If there's one lesson to be learnt from the problems in the United States as well as Europe, it's the difficulty governments have in keeping the two sides of their budget within cooee. We, of course, are exemplary by comparison.
Why have we exercised so much fiscal discipline? Because of our tight ''framework'' of rules and targets to guide fiscal policy. Rules and targets to which governments of both colours have adhered.
In an ideal world, governments would have no trouble exercising discipline over their spending and taxing. In the real world, governments have to give discipline a helping hand by drawing essentially arbitrary lines in the sand, then sticking to them.
Gillard's promise to achieve a surplus in 2012-13 is just such an arbitrary line. That line could be washed away by a tidal wave from Europe, of course. But sensible economists think twice before urging governments to cast aside their self-imposed commitments.


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Vietnamese Traditional Clothes
Vietnamese clothing culture is very diversified. 54 Vietnamese ethnics have many styles of clothing but each one has its own feature.
Ao Ba Ba (Ba Ba Shirt)
The Ao Ba Ba has a pair of silk pants and a long sleeved, buttoned – down shirt. The shirt will be somewhat long and split at the sides of the waist, forming two flaps. Especially, in the front of the shirt, there are typically two pockets.
Most of the population wear the Ao Ba Ba, the garment's simplicity and versatility has contributed to its popularity. Population wears it while laboring or lounging.
Modern versions allow countless different designs, colors, and embroidery, which have allowed the costume's transition into modern Vietnamese fashion as well
It made the costume's natural which presented in almost every aspect of Vietnamese life.
Ao Yem
Ao yem is a simple garment with many variations forms. Its basic form is a simple with a diamond or square-cut piece of cloth draped over a woman's chest with strings to tie at the neck and back.
Ao Yem is made from the various materials. It has a lot of colors based on person's rank and the occasion. In daily days, the women usually wore black or white Ao Yem but in the special occasions, brighter colors as red and pink could be chose. Indeed, the charming of the women in their "Yem Dao" has created the inspiration for many Vietnamese poets.
The bottom of most Ao Yem are v-shaped, there are different styles for the top of the garment, "Yếm cổ xây", or the deep v-shaped neck style, called "Yếm cổ sẻ" is the most popular. "Yếm đeo bùa" is another type of Yem has a little pocket within, where women often use to store a little musk or perfume.
Its origin is not sure, although many people said that it originated from the China, since in ancient China had a similar garment. The Ao Yem has existed since at least 12th century it is an essential part of the áo tứ thân costume worn by northern Vietnamese women. Different from other Vietnamese costumes in feudalistic Vietnam, áo yếm were worn as an undergarment by Vietnamese women in daily life, from peasant women toiling in the fields to imperial consorts.
By the 20th century, when the westernization came into Vietnam, more and more women abandoned the Yếm for the western bra in urban areas, although the Yếm is still worn in large rural areas.
Ao Tu Than
The Ao Tu Than can be regarded as one of the oldest enduring Vietnamese cultural relics. Vietnamese women wore it from early 12th century to the early 20th century. From the introduction of the Chinese Hanfu, clothing it was developed.
In the past, "Ao tu than", which is considered as "four-flapped dress", is a traditional dress usually worn by Northern people. It has some layers of gowns, the outer usually has a brown color and its lower part is divided equally into 4 flaps. The two front flaps are often tied together and with two sashes, wrapped around like a belt.
Ao tu than gradually became associated with the northern women when Vietnam expanded southward and different cultures began to emerge between the regions.
Ao Tu Than was often made by with plainer fabric in darker colors, it was the dress of the commoner women. While most the Ao Tu Than are extremely colorful, ancient Vietnamese preferred more muted colors.
It has many various forms, the basic Ao Tu Than includes:
The length of the Ao tu th Ao Tu Than reaches to the floor. It is open in the front, as a jacket. The tunic splits into two flaps at the waist: a full flap in the back (made up of two flaps sewn together) and the two flaps in the front are can be tied together or left dangling
Under the tunic is a long skirt.
Women often wear Áo yếm, an ancient bodice as an undergarment. It has various forms and colors, worn under the skirt and outer tunic
Vietnamese women often tied a silk sash at the waist as a belt
The dress tends to be extremely colorful, using different colors throughout the dress, from the tunic to the bodice and the skirt.
Ao Dai
In Viet Nam, the ao dai is the traditional dress for women. It was developed from Chinese court clothing in the 1930s; in 1954 it went out of fashion in the north and in the south in 1975. Nowadays, however, Ao Dai has become popularity in the South. In many schoolgirls it is the uniform. Besides, the ao dai is worn by shop assistants women or who have a higher social status.
The ao dai is regarded as an elegant, yet demure, garment. The long wide – legged trousers are worn under a high necked, long-sleeved, fitted tunic with slits along each side. Traditional Ao Dai has the outfit's pants reach to the soles of the feet. Days by days, the dress tunic has changed. It has grown shorter and shorter until now it's length is just under the knees. The ao dai can also be identified by its mandarin-style or boat-neck collar. In the past, girls wear only pastel colored or white garments while the either dark or bright tunics will be worn in their marriage.
Nowadays, in marriage day, the bride usually wears "Ao Dai" in red or pink with the dragon and phoenix and Chinese prints which designed in the "Ao Dai".
Historically, Vietnamese men dressed in mandarin style suits. With a tunic shorter and fuller than the ao dai, the man's class and social rank determined the suit's color a purple, namely suit is a high rank while blue denoted a low rank. Today the mandarin suit is only worn in the traditional dance of music performances.
Where to buy an Ao Dai?
You should find a Vietnamese seamstress. In Vietnam Towns (Little Saigon) there are a lot of the lager Vietnamese businesses especially grocery stores and video stores. There are many the name of a good seamstress at which you will be given the best advices to buy the best source for Vietnam silk fabric.
In general, Vietnamese clothing is very various; it is one of the outstanding features of Vietnamese culture. But the traditional Vietnamese styles are now affected by Western styles. They are worn mostly in the special occasions with the exception of the white Áo Dài commonly seen with high school girls in Vietnam.


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warm glow of its record setting launch of the BlackBerry Z10 in the U.K. and Canada last week. And even when things seemed bad for BlackBerry, there was a surprise ending. Back in December, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), which had originally announced that its 17,600 members were switching to the Apple iPhone and dropping their current BlackBerry model in a $2.1 million deal for Apple, had decided to give BlackBerry one more try and test BlackBerry 10 this year. But alas, there seems to be no such reprieve for BlackBerry with Home Depot.
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I am 38 years old and have undergone 12 surgeries in one year for breast cancer. It has been 2 years since the last surgery and my short-term memory has been severely affected. My ability to control certain mood behaviors, complete thought process, recall words, as well as mental focus has been altered. I am a paralegal in a large law firm and it is affecting my ability to perform. Can you recommend the type of doctor I should see for evaluation and the types of drugs that can assist with same, if any?
A variety of possibilities may be the cause of memory loss in your case. There could be cancer spread to the brain, antibodies from the breast cancer affecting the brain (paraneoplastic syndromes), complications form the surgeries including small strokes, medication effects, chemotherapy related white matter disease in the brain (leukoencephalopathy), delayed effects from radiation therapy (if any), cognitive effects from depression or anxiety, or some other cause completely unrelated to the surgeries or cancer.
I would bring these concerns up to your primary care doctor and oncologist (breast cancer doctor), and if they recommend referral, to have neuropsychological testing done. If that is abnormal, referral to a neuro-oncologist or neurobehaviorist or to a Memory Disorders Clinic may be in order. Treatment would depend on the cause of the memory issue.
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When Campbell Newman arrived in Port Moresby last month promising 150 Queensland police and emergency workers along with more than 100,000 AusAID-funded cattle he took federal government officials by surprise.
It wasn't an edifying example of how Australia should deal with its neighbours, especially given the row over immunity for the federal police sent to work in Papua New Guinea which hamstrung the bilateral relationship during the Howard years.
But it nevertheless did highlight how renewed political stability under the Peter O'Neill government has opened a window of opportunity for Australia to refurbish ties with its closest neighbour.
This is most evident in the Defence white paper which in effect paves the way for the army to shift what it sees as its hard-won developing country training skills from Afghanistan to PNG.
It says a lot about where the overall relationship had been that no Australian defence minister had visited PNG for almost a decade until
This is despite PNG being almost half of the potentially strategic defensive archipelago to our north, along with Indonesia.
The Australian government has diplomatically made little of the way the Australian Defence Force provided the backbone for the smooth conduct of last year's PNG election, paving the way for the country's own military to provide on-the-ground security without having to worry about logistics.
It was not without risk, as the post-election constitutional, legal and military stand-off showed, but it has now paid off as O'Neill uses his big majority and 30-month protection from a parliamentary no-confidence motion to mostly good use, focusing on long-term hard and soft infrastructure reform.
With that time almost half gone, no one is counting the chickens too early, but there is a sense afoot in the country that it is now better placed to manage the fruits of several big resources projects coming on stream.
Last year's stand-off could have ended much more violently, but one foreigner close to the action says the new establishment forces dealt with old-guard opponents skilfully by simply "ignoring them into irrelevance".
Security is now a big and basic business cost for resources companies in PNG, as is the pressure to provide at least some local infrastructure, and a lot more has been achieved on this front by foreign investors in recent years than the government.
But while it may be tempting to see private security as the best way to protect the country's most vital economic assets, the ADF's decision to substantially beef up its defence co-operation program reflects the view that its PNG counterpart must develop the capability and credibility to defend those assets. One reason is that it is all very well for private security companies to secure mines but PNG's maritime resources are equally valuable in the long term and can't be so easily secured privately.
And this and future governments won't have the respect of voters unless they are able to provide the basic environment for local people to be able to build the necessary small businesses in the wake of the bigger resources projects.
So a decade after PNG more than halved its then bloated, factionalised defence force in following the Sandline affair, the time has come for Australia to prepare for an increase in the size of the existing 2000-person force to reflect both the country's geographic challenges and a population growth rate which is high by international standards. This will be a hard sell amid so many other failed development priorities and the spectre of the military split last year but it should be in the longer-term interests of economic growth if the new soldiers are well-trained.
It is quite feasible in the short term for PNG to produce forecast double-digit economic growth rates from a series of enclave resource projects and new five-star hotels secure behind razor wire which is the face it increasingly presents to visitors.
But that won't work in the long term for its general population and certainly won't enhance Australia's broader sense of regional security. So a lot is at stake in whether the O'Neill government can take some concrete steps in the next two years towards stitching the country's enclaves together.
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Jenny Smithson and Eric Wolfe attempt to bind their souls together, but when Eric dies in a bitter fight, the sea takes his soul. He can only watch his home deteriorate over the decades--until a woman appears almost a century later. Her name is Miranda Burke, and only she can unlock him from his watery grave.
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The annual series features a variety of musical styles as well as programs for children and teens.
Tricia and the Toonies kicked off the series June 15 with a performance at Aquatore Park. It was followed by an music and arts fair at Town Square Park June 16, which also featured concerts by CODA and 33 Degrees North.
Bill and Katie Isles, an acoustic singer/songwriter duo, entertained concertgoers June 19.
Up next is a June 21 performance by Dance Moves Ballet. The performance is set for 7 p.m. at Town Square Park.
Other concerts in the Performance in the Park series include:
• June 26, 7 p.m., North Suburban Concert Band, playing show tunes, marches patriotic, pop and classic songs at Town Square Park.
• June 29, 10:30 a.m., Mary Hall's Show for Pipsqueaks at Aquatore Park.
• July 10, 7 p.m., Big Walter Smith and the Groove Merchant Band a dynamic blues, R&B and horn band playing at Town Square Park.
• July 13, 10:30 a.m., the Zoomobile from the Minnesota Zoo at Aquatore Park.
• July 17, 6 to 8 p.m., Family Fun Night at Aquatore Park.
• July 19, 6 p.m., a Mayer Arts Musical Theater performance at Town Square Park.
• July 19, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Wee Willie Polka Band at Aquatore Park.
• July 24, 7 p.m., Lehto and Wright performing Celtic/American folk rock at Town Square Park.
• July 24, 7 p.m., QC Dance performance at Town Square Park.
• July 26, 6 to 9 p.m., Teen Jam at Aquatore Park.
• July 27, 10:30 a.m., Sicks and Tones performing for kids at Aquatore Park.
• Aug. 2, 7 p.m., the Percolators performing danceable '60s-'70s rock, country, blues and polka at Town Square Park.
• Aug. 3, 10:30 a.m., Magic Maniac doing magic at Aquatore Park.
• Aug. 7, 7 p.m., the Dirty Shorts Brass Band playing a New Orleans style blend of Dixie, pop, jazz and blues at Town Square Park.
• Aug. 10, 10:30 a.m., the Bazillions entertain children at Aquatore Park.
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There are different correct answers to this questions. Deworming depends on the number, sex, breeding status and function of the animals and the climate (wet/dry/hot/cold). Even then, it is not an exact science and different answers can be valid. In general, baby goats are first dewormed at around a month of age, again at 2 months of age and regularly thereafter as determined by fecal analysis. With only two goats, getting wormer from your vet or a friend who also has goats would make sense.
The barber pole worm (Haemonchus contortus) is a roundworm and the most important worm of goats. Adult worms in the intestines produce eggs that exit in manure. Larva hatch from the eggs and go through several stages before they become infective to goats. Warm temperatures, moist condition and grass pastures are required for the larva to thrive. They die in cold, dry climate and on dirt without grass.
Haemonchus causes anemia.The name of barber pole derives from the red and white striped appearance. The red is blood. Check your goats for pale membranes best seen in the membranes around the eyes. They should be pink. If they are white, the goat is likely to have worms. You should have your vet do a fecal analysis for worm eggs several times a year to check your control program.
Young goats are the most susceptible and are generally wormed at one month of age, which is a week or two after they start to browse and get exposed to larva. The worms take about 3 weeks to mature so retreating in a month makes sense. Ivermectin is a good choice because worms generally do not acquire resistance to it. It is not approved for use in goats because of the expense of getting approval for minor species. However, it has been widely used since the drug was developed in the early 1980s. It is considered safe and effective. It is dosed at 1.5 - 2 times the sheep dose (0.2 mg/kg) or 0.4 mg/kg. Moxidectin, another avermectin, is also used commonly.
Coccidia is another important intestinal parasite of goats. Some coccidia live in the intestinal tract of goats without causing problems. They are normally kept in check by adult immune system. Large numbers are the problem and they cause diarrhea, weight loss and lack of appetite. Baby goats usually get infected within days of birth and are treated at about a month of age. Coccidia can multiply and cause problems in stressful situations. Good sanitation, feeding off the ground and dry quarters help minimize exposure. Trimethoprim sulfa and amprolium are reasonable treatments for symptomatic coccidiosis. There is no reason to treat adult animals unless they are symptomatic.
Meningeal worm or brain worm are another potential problem. This parasite is carried by white tail deer, passes out in manure and is picked up by snails/slugs. Goats are infected by eating the snails The worms migrate through the body and into the spinal cord and brain. Signs range from none to paralysis. Diagnosis is usually based on clinical signs and ivermectin is used for treatment.
Lung worm and liver flukes are other goat parasites that are generally less common, but can occur in some geographic areas.
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In the third quarter, 25 million tablets shipped. Of those, Apple has 57 percent of the market, and Android has 41 percent. This time last year, Android's share was at 29 percent, according to Strategy Analytics. Android's share has continued to grow, thanks to a string of products such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. With devices like the Kindle Fire HD (which use an Android fork counted as Android for the market share stats) and the forthcoming Nexus 10, we see Google and its Android allies battling to take even more market share from Apple.
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The Surface is great for students. It's easy to carry and easy to take notes on; one minute it's a tablet, the next minute it's your in-class laptop. Install the SmartGlass app and it can control your Xbox too.
Speaking of apps, platform partisans can fight about how many apps they have, but so what? This week, Google announced that its Play Store has as many apps as the Apple App Store: 700,000 apps. Awesome. But I need only 20 of them, and as long as the Microsoft Store has those 20, I don't see the overall number being a deal-breaker for Windows 8 or the Surface. After all, how many of those 1.4 million apps are worthless junk apps?
Give this debate a year and watch how many apps there will be in the Windows Store. And watch how much of the market share each platform claims. Apple will keep going down; over the next year, Google's will too. Microsoft will come out with more experience in this new fight, making it a stronger contender than Apple or Google likely expects. First Google goes down, then Apple sinks too.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas needs to choose whether he wants peace with Israel or Hamas, because he cannot have both, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday.
Netanyahu, at the outset of a meeting in his office with visiting Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, said that instead of moving peace forward with Israel, Abbas is moving toward reconciliation with Hamas.
"He must choose," Netanyahu said. "Does he want reconciliation with Hamas, or peace with Israel? Only one is attainable, not both. I hope he chooses peace, until now he has not done so."
Regarding efforts to negotiate a continuation of the diplomatic talks with the Palestinians beyond their April 29 deadline, Netanyahu said that every time the sides get close, Abbas adds new conditions "knowing that Israel cannot accept them."
On Tuesday, during a meeting with Israeli journalists, Abbas laid out his three conditions for continuing talks with Israel: that Israel release the fourth batch of Palestinian security prisoners, including Israeli-Arabs, and that none of them be deported; that Israel freeze all settlement construction; and that the first three months of the extended talks deal with the borders of a future Palestinian state.
Israel has rejected those conditions.
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Shortly after Netanyahu's meeting, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett responded to those reports, saying a Fatah-Hamas union would create a "terror government."
"Hamas will keep murdering Jews and Abbas will keep wanting prisoner releases," Bennett said. "Whoever thought of Abbas as a partner should rethink that idea."
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The LA Times looks at The Sandi Group, an American company cashing in building private fortresses for contractors in Baghdad, and begs the question: is anti-terrorist design really the way to achieve national security? [related: Defensive Walls in Baghdad are Canvas for Art, At the Border...]
Baghdad's Blast Walls Protect, Annoy
Concrete slabs shield foreign firms from bombs, but also disrupt traffic and look bad.
By Doug Smith and Saif Rasheed
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April 13, 2005
BAGHDAD  Standing side by side, dozens of 12-foot-tall concrete slabs loom over the median of an apartment-lined avenue near the Tigris River here.
The 100-foot-long barrier has sprung up to shield a side street from a potential car bomb. At the entrance to the street, more slabs stand next to a sandbagged guardhouse. Half a dozen guards, all carrying AK-47s and some wearing body armor, patrol the entrance.
This is not the Green Zone, the fortified district the U.S. military established in a bend of the Tigris River after the fall of Saddam Hussein two years ago.
The Sandi Group, an American company participating in a multimillion-dollar contract to advise the Iraqi government on law enforcement, has fashioned its own green zone across the river, one of more than 100 such private fortresses, large and small, across the city.
Although the U.S. military provides a safety cordon for the interim Iraqi government, the U.S. and British embassies and large contractors such as Parsons Corp. of Pasadena, many vulnerable foreign organizations do business outside its checkpoints.
When the insurgency's campaign of bombings and assassinations cast the city into a state of fear in mid-2003, it was up to the firms to provide their own security, spawning a private fortifications industry. Concrete blast walls, trucked around the capital in sections and hoisted into place by cranes, now surround many of the city's landmark buildings and lesser-known streets.
These compounds have angered and annoyed Baghdad residents, cutting them off from foreign offices and further obstructing the city's increasingly clogged streets.
"They closed most of the important roads," groused a cabdriver who would give only his nickname, Abu Sabbah. "Now the traffic is terrible. I think that the solution is to start removing these barriers and open some streets."
From a design and city-planning view, the walls are disastrous, said Mohammed Ridha, vice chairman of the architecture department at Baghdad University.
They have destroyed the city's continuity and are beginning to afflict the suburbs too, as homeowners, taking their cue from commercial interests, are blockading their houses, he said.
"When we need to improve the security situation of any building now, we put these blocks, any kind, any height, any amount of them," Ridha said. "We are feeling now these concrete blocks are reaching into our homes, so maybe we feel now we are alone in our homes."
The new architecture of fortification has a haphazard form that belies its careful organization. The concrete slabs, 4 or more feet wide and up to 18 feet high, are generally lined across an entry street between buildings whose facades complete the perimeter. At some hotel complexes, hundreds of slabs are strung together in sweeping arcs that swallow up lanes from major boulevards.
They were deployed without regard to aesthetics. The dull gray blocks are often out of kilter, tilting over curbs or anything else in their way, and usually enclose a few nearby dwellings and businesses.
Dozens of embassies outside the Green Zone have been fortified. Formerly posh hotels humbled by economic sanctions and war have remade themselves as hardened bunkers for news organizations unwilling to be hindered by the Green Zone's crowded checkpoints.
The twice-bombed Baghdad Hotel downtown, the Hamra Hotel and the Palestine-Ishtar complex  where the foreign media holed up during the war  are all fortresses today, built either privately or with U.S. funds.
Iraq's diverse political parties aren't immune to the need for security, either. Two compounds for the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, followers of Shiite Muslim leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, sit behind barricades on the banks of the Tigris south of the Green Zone. Each has been bombed, resulting in seven deaths of guards and bystanders but no party officials. Both camps were subsequently beefed up.
The Kurdish diplomatic corps and media, the Shiite Islamic Dawa Party, and former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party have fortified headquarters.
The proliferation of blast walls has fed Baghdad's always-active rumor mill. It is said that the Baghdad Hotel houses the CIA  a contention the U.S. denies  or Israeli entrepreneurs, or a former head of Iraqi intelligence now working for the United States.
Other rumors link a Kurdish company that manufactures blast walls to Israeli ownership. Disgruntled Iraqis also say that the demand for security walls has diverted concrete from construction projects, forcing contractors to supplement the country's historically ample supply with imports from Syria and Jordan.
True or not, the rumors blend with widespread animus toward the most flamboyant of Baghdad's blast walls, three miles forming a continuous rampart along the Green Zone's river frontage.
At about $600 per slab, even a modest "fort" costs tens of thousands of dollars to build.
Small armies must be recruited to staff the checkpoints 24 hours a day. The Hamra, which has a medium-sized compound, hired about 40 guards, all licensed by the U.S. military or the Iraqi Interior Ministry to carry automatic weapons.
To reach the Hamra, a block off the busy boulevard that leads to Baghdad University, a car negotiates a sharp turn to pull between a guardhouse and a 10-foot-high slab.
Before it can pass, guards with assault rifles must raise a crossing gate and withdraw a tire-ripping "dragon's tooth," a hairbrush of spikes welded to a sewer pipe.
Once past the guardhouse, the car zigzags around more slabs to a second guard, who inspects the chassis for bombs with a mirror.
The hotels, companies and embassies find a ready supply of guards among the 400,000 men put out of work nearly two years ago when occupation authorities disbanded the Iraqi army.
Between patting down pedestrians at the Palestine, a guard who declined to give his name for fear of losing his job said he was paid about $200 a month, far more than his former military salary, but not as much as guards for large firms such as American contractor KBR.
He said he needed the job to support his family, but he said he also took pride in doing work he believed would help stabilize his country.
In the regulatory vacuum of postwar Iraq, no city permits or inspections are required to establish a fort. A single property owner or well-heeled tenant can take the initiative. Usually, the added value of the security gives other apartment and business owners an economic incentive to go along.
"The leases of the houses inside this compound are now much more," said Mohammed Sadek Yassin, who owns a building inside the fortress guarded by Sandi Group. "These organizations and others are trying to rent other houses inside."
Inside the city's private blast walls, a kind of normal life goes on beside the comings and goings of foreigners. About 30 Iraqi families still live in the Sandi Group compound, Yassin said. Children play in dirty streets, women in black abayas carry shopping bags home from the market, and small businesses persist despite the obvious disadvantages.
The security is generally welcomed by Iraqis who live or work inside the walls, even if not with much cheer.
"I think it's really good for our safety," said Ali Ishan, an 18-year-old chef at Restaurant Happy Time in the Palestine-Ishtar complex.
But during the lunch hour, not a person sat at his cloth-covered outdoor tables.
"It's always that way since the walls went up," Ishan said.
Outside the walls, that ambivalence hardens into resentment.
"If you ask anyone, they say this is not acceptable to see these barricades in front of my shop," said Adil Mohammed, the manager of a storefront grocery across the street from the Palestine.
Besides harming business, he said, the walls are demoralizing and destroy the beauty of his city.
One day, the soldiers and the reporters will go. If they should leave a more peaceful society behind, Baghdad will have thousands of useless slabs to get rid of. Perhaps they'll just be thrown on top of the mounds of building rubble already strewn about.
But Ridha, the architecture professor, sees a brighter future. Architects around the world have found ways to incorporate concrete security structures into attractive designs, he said. With proper standards, Baghdad's blocks could be used effectively in buildings, public landscape and highways, without offending the city's rich heritage.
"It's possible," he said with a quizzical shrug.
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Major bananas news that will make you die! Lovable "Rachel Zoe Project" assistant Brad Goreski, aka Rachel Zoe's surrogate child/gay husband, is leaving her as of October 1. "I love Rachel and she's taught me everything I know … but there's a point where either I do it now or I'll never know what it's like to spread my wings and soar." Translation: Brad is tired of being the third wheel in Rachel's screwed-up business partnership/marriage to Rodger Berman. Yeah, she actually has a husband already. I wouldn't be surprised if Rodge encouraged Brad to leave so he could have Rachel all to himself and try to knock her up in her moment of grief—if she even has live eggs at this point. At least they didn't say that Brad was stealing sample clothes like Tay Tay.
Who knows if Rachel will ever recover from the loss of Brad. "We have a relationship that's not normal. I jump into bed with him and wake him up and we have these pow wows and he's like, 'Wow, I haven't brushed my teeth.' I don't want to hire somebody for the purpose of the show, we just got lucky. No one's ever going to be Brad to me."
I'm sure this wasn't the reaction Rodge was hoping for. Ten bucks says he's the next to go. [People]


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The Stark County Association of Realtors (SCAR) honored Marty Galentine with its 2012 Realtor of the Year award and Pam Travis with its Affiliate of the Year award during the association's 103rd annual installation celebration on Jan. 14.
The awards recognized their dedication, outstanding efforts and involvement in the real estate industry.
Marty Galentine, ABR, CRS, GRI, PMN, SRES, a Realtor with Keller Williams Legacy Group Realty, has been a member of SCAR for 33 years. She serves as chair of the association's Constitution, Bylaws and Policy Committee and is a member of the Past President's and Professional Services committees, having chaired or served on nearly every association committee.
She served as a SCAR director for four years before being elected secretary/treasurer in 2007, president-elect in 2008 and president in 2009. She also served as a director for the Ohio Association of Realtors (OAR) and as chair of three state committees. She is a member of the Women's Council of Realtors (WCR), serving as the Stark County chapter president in 1995, Ohio State chapter president in 1998 and as a national governor in 1999. In 2006, she was named CRS (Council of Residential Specialists) Member of the Year for the Ohio chapter and WCR Member of the Year for the Stark County chapter. She received the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Omega Tau Rho Award in 2000. She also holds the Foreclosure Intervention Specialist and Referral and Relocation certifications from the NAR.
Galentine served as a board member for the Domestic Violence Project Inc. for 13 years. A resident of Louisville, she and her husband, John, have five children and 11 grandchildren.
Pam Travis, the mortgage services manager with CSE Federal Credit Union, has been a member of SCAR for 33 years, having held a real estate and title insurance license, prior to her current position. She is a member of the association's Affiliate Committee, having served as committee vice chair in 2010 and was an active member of the Have A Heart Committee for 12 years.
She is a 24-year member of WCR Stark County chapter and served on the governing board for two years. In 2011, she was named Affiliate of the Year.
A member of Quota Club International of Canton, she currently serves as the board secretary. From 2006 to 2011, she served on the board of directors for CSE Federal Credit Union. She and her husband, Jim, have four children and five grandchildren.
The mission of the Stark County Association of Realtors is to enhance the ability and opportunity of its members to conduct their business successfully and ethically and to promote the preservation of the right to own, use and transfer real property. The association's website is www.starkrealtors.com.


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"We will get revenge for the way they celebrated in the County Ground, that's not a threat, it's a promise"
The wonderful words of Paolo Di Canio talking about the clubs neighbours up the A420 after another Town win on Tuesday night.
But before we look at the derby on Saturday there's the small fact that we are currently sitting comfortably top of the League Two table.
After an incredible run of results that's seen just 1 defeat in the last 21 league games and a record breaking 10 straight wins in League Two Town are now looking odds on for a return to League One at the first attempt.
And one of the main reasons for our impressive run of results has been the signings made during the January transfer window.
Of course before the new year Town were still riding high and picking up maximum points in most games but recently we've found two players that have taken our attacking football up to another level.
Paul Benson brings the same attitude that's been missing ever since Charlie Austin moved up north just over a year ago, he never stops running either onto through balls or just a ball cleared out of defence.
After just 2 goals in his first 7 games the striker has picked up 4 in his last 4 games and is making all the difference up front, I just hope Paolo sticks with Alan Connell as his strike partner for the rest of the season.
Because that partnership could turn out to be key as the season starts to draw to a close in the next couple of months.
And of course Luke Rooney has taken our performances up a notch with his skill, ability to get past his defender and most importantly his delivery into the box.
Also he gives Town two sides of the pitch to attack from, before Luke joined the club most teams playing Swindon knew that Ritchie was the only main attacking threat we had on the wings.
With Rooney in the first team it takes some of the pressure off Ritchie's shoulders and gives the team more attacking options.
When you look at all the money being thrown around now in the football league the fact we picked up Luke for a "low six-figure sum" is amazing, another great piece of business from Di Canio.
I don't think anyone can disagree that Ritchie, Ferry, Smith and Rooney is currently the best midfield line up in League Two.
Also huge credit has to go to Joe Devera and Oliver Risser who have both improved beyond recognition in the last month.
After poor starts to their Town career's they were subsequently dropped out of the first team, but have now been given a second chance by the boss and its great to see Paolo's faith in them is now being re-paid on the pitch.
It's a midfield that desperately needs to stick together over the summer if we are going to have any chance of more success next season.
After a brilliant February ours thoughts now move onto the incredibly important month of March, which starts with the A420 derby on Saturday and finishes with a date at Wembley and a home game against Bristol Rovers.
Tomorrow's game with the neighbours at the Kassam Stadium has been eagerly anticipated by both sets of fans for the past decade.
Oxford sold out the home allocation months ago and some Town fans queued up in freezing conditions during the night just to make sure they got a ticket for the huge game.
After watching Oxford come to the County Ground last August and earn the bragging rights with a 2-1 win revenge is certainly in the minds of the players, the manager Paolo Di Canio and of course the fans.
Sometimes as a fan it can be hard to put into words how you feel about a certain game/occasion but I think the late great football manager Bill Shankly said it best.
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that"
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In a Connecticut Mirror story published on Aug. 15, Dr. Bruce Koeppen, founding dean of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine and vice president of health affairs at Quinnipiac University, said there is a need for the program.
"The need for well-educated and highly trained physicians has never been greater," he said.
He told the digital news organization that the school, which is set to hold its first day of classes on Monday, "is poised to develop physicians who will become integral members of patient-centered health care teams, working closely with other health professionals to provide comprehensive care."
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April 7, 2011 BY John Kim
Over the 2011 NBA All-Star Weekend, Nike iD presented the Nike Zoom KD III iD Design Contest, in which Kevin Durant himself will hand-select and wear a fan-submitted design for Oklahoma City's April 10th showdown against the Los Angeles Lakers. In keeping with the LA setting, Kevin Durant has selected a clear Lakers-inspired colorway of his Zoom KD III, featuring a black pebbled leather upper, a purple Flywire panel and outsole, and yellow swoosh, iD text, and laces. A bit strange to be repping the colors of the opposing team, but keep in mind that Durant's AAU team the PG Jaguars has a similar colorway (remember the Zoom KD II colorway?). Check out the extra images below and watch for KD to wear these during the game this Sunday!
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Students and staff at Liberty Elementary School in the Nyack school district are holding an annual pajama drive to help less fortunate children stay warm and toasty on these chilly nights.
Wednesday, Nov. 27, is Pajama Day, when kids — and staff, if they like — get to wear pajamas or bathrobes to school (but no slippers, please, for safety) to celebrate giving back to the community.
Each Liberty student and staff member is asked to donate a brand new pair of pajamas that would fit a child in their grade. New socks and underwear will also be accepted.
Items brought to school through Nov. 27 will be collected at the morning program and in the classrooms and brought to the library. All items will be delivered to People to People on Monday, Dec. 2. Items received after Nov. 27 cannot be picked up or delivered.
Last year, the school collected and donated more than 200 pairs of new pajamas to the nonprofit People to People, based in West Nyack.
For more information, contact Library Media Specialist Nicholas Grasso at firstname.lastname@example.com or (845) 353-7255.


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Mr. Wrong Parent Guide
Parent Movie Review
Dr. Jekyll doesn't hold a card to the change of persona that Whitman Crawford (Bill Pullman) undergoes in Mr. Wrong. Whitman, the rich do-nothing son of a millionaire mother, happens to discover the lonely Martha Alston (Ellen DeGeneres) in a deserted cafe. Depressed at the prospect of forever being single, Martha is overwhelmed with Whitman's sensitive nature and handsome features. After dating a few times, everything seems great, until Martha discovers that Whitman hasn't quite been himself.
Heeding Martha's request to just be natural, he takes her to a store and starts stuffing cans of beer into their jackets. "Stolen beer tastes better," he quips as they race out of the parking lot. Upset, Martha wants to call the relationship quits, but a girlfriend at work explains that, "All men are horrible in their own way, you just have to learn to accept it." So Martha tries again. After one more day, she sits Whitman down to explain it's over. Whitman is so crushed he breaks his finger to show how much he loves her.
Whitman's compulsive nature takes over for the rest of the film, as Martha is subjected to physical and verbal abuse by both Whitman and his ex-girlfriend. Finally in the end, Whitman kidnaps Martha, drugs her, and takes her to Mexico where a church full of relatives and friends await the marriage. Only a bullet is able to bring things to a halt.
The first half hour of this film seems to hold promise for a lighthearted comedy about being single in your thirties, a concept which could provide a well stocked supply of funny moments. Instead the writers chose to use far less humorous scenes of abuse and harassment. With even the police refusing to help Martha, parents may want to be especially cautious about showing this movie to young girls, as it leaves a strong impression that women can expect to be victimized. With today's concerns about violence against women, you wonder why anyone would try so hard to make it seem funny.Updated March 10, 2009


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Model number is ***** Samsung 50" DLP 1080p.
We have had it for about a 1.5 years. The problem just started last night and we haven't tried anything yet.
What happens is we turn the TV on and it will stay on for 5 to 10 minutes and then it will shut off on its own.
This can often be caused by a lamp that is starting to go bad. as the light gets older it will draw more than it should. The safety circuit in the TV will shut it down when it detects a problem. There could be other parts that are no longer within the needed specifications but I suspect that replacing the lamp will correct the problem.
If replacing the lamp does not correct the problem these sets are assembled using the wave soldering process they are known for having cold solder connections. The safety circuitry shuts the TV set down when it detects a problem.
This model of TV has over 3,000 parts which include millions of transistors inside the integrated circuits. The capacitors will change value, leak and become defective. Resistors will change value and burn. Integrated circuits and transistors can go bad. This can cause other components to become defective, which can have a domino effect and cause other parts to fail. Replacing one defective part may make the TV operate for a short time but the part will fail again since if the parts that caused the failure to begin with are not replaced.
The only way to know for sure what is causing the problem, which parts are no longer within factory specs and for proper repair, all the electronics must be diagnosed by someone with the correct electronic test equipment and the skills to use the test equipment.
I wish I could tell you there was a quick fix or button to push that would fix the TV but that is not the case or the solution needed to get the TV operating correctly.If you wish to repair it yourself what type of electronic training do you have? What type of TV test equipment do you own? Do you own and know how to operate an oscilloscope?If you decide this is not something that you can do, I expect this repair will be about $150 to $350, depending on how many parts are found to be out of factory specifications. If the problem is a bad circuit board and if the board can be repaired or has to be replaced, a small TV repair shop often charges less for the repair than a large electronics repair facility.
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In a new Funny or Die video, the Sue Sylvester of 'Glee' loses her cool when her co-star won't stop singing while driving her to work in his 2003 cherry red Beetle.
Life imitates art for "Glee" stars Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison. Starring in a brand new Funny or Die video, Jane who is famous for her portrayal of Sue Sylvester loses her cool when she is carpooling to work with Matt, who plays her on-screen nemesis Will Schuester, and he just won't stop singing.
The horror begins when Matt turns on the radio and starts crooning the songs played from George Michael's "Faith" to Will Smith's "Wild Wild West". Every time Matt sings along, Jane changes the channel with hilarious explanations. To George's "Faith", she reasons, "Religious conversations make me uneasy," while to Eiffel 65's "Blue", she says, "I'm color blind."
Jane finally has it when Matt tries to sing the traffic report. Blasting her co-star, she asks, "Why do you have to sing everything like you just swallowed a pair of jazz hands?! You are a grown man in a 2003 cherry red Beetle singing Disney ballads!" And, to an unsurprising result, she loses her car ride. Before she steps out however, she makes sure Matthew knows how she feels about his Summer Rain tour.


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* Food prices up 19.95 pct annually as at Dec 5
* Reinforces case for tightening
* Risk of inflation spilling over to broader economy
By Manoj Kumar
NEW DELHI, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Indian food prices surged an annual 20 percent in early December as supply shortages hit, heightening expectations the central bank is set to tighten policy to stop a breakout of inflation in the broader economy.
Food prices are jumping because of shortages after crops were hit by the weakest monsoon rains in 37 years and then flooding in parts of the country, but the price rises come as the economy is picking up strength after a dip in late 2008 and early 2009.
Food prices rose 19.95 percent in the year to Dec 5, picking up from an annual 19.05 percent rise a week earlier, weekly data showed on Thursday.
"Seasonality in food prices is not playing this year. Processed food prices are rising. Prices of non-food manufactured products such as textile, cement and autos are rising or going to rise," Nomura economist Sonal Varma said.
"We are now at the turning point where supply-side inflation could into demand-side inflation. So inflationary expectations have to be anchored."
For a graphic on food and wholesale price indexes and policy rates, see: r.reuters.com/pag47g
For a graphic on food prices and their impact on headline inflation, see: link.reuters.com/jah86g
The data reinforced market expectations that the central bank would tighten policy as early as January.
The benchmark 10-year bond IN069019G=CC was steady at 7.68 percent after rising 49 basis points since late November, when data showing the economy grew an annual 7.9 percent in the September quarter, its fastest in 18 months, boosted the market's view for a policy tightening.
The one-year swap rate INRAMONMI1Y= was at 5.06 percent, below a 12-month high of 5.15 percent hit on Wednesday but still 58 basis points above a 2-1/2-month low hit in late November.
The government, which has expressed increasing concern at the rapid rise of food prices, said it may import supplies.
"Food prices are going up, this is an area of concern. We have to take some appropriate measures... but best could be done by augmenting supply through imports," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters.
Food prices are politically sensitive in India and the government is under pressure from opposition parties and allies to contain inflation, especially food prices which are hurting poorer sections in the country.
Monthly price data for November this week showed maufacturing prices rose an annual 4 percent, a sign the building economic recovery is allowing firms to pass on higher costs.
The annual wholesale price inflation, which stood at 1.34 percent in October, rose to 4.78 percent in November, and analysts said it could reach 8 percent by the end of the fiscal year in March, above the central bank's forecast of 6.5 percent.
The Reserve Bank of India cut its main lending rate by 425 basis points between October 2008 and April, slashed the cash reserve ratio and pumped cash in financial markets to shore markets and the economy up against the global financial crisis and slowdown.
Analysts expect the first step will be an increase in banks' cash reserve ratio (CRR) to drain funds from the market.
"By January, we are expecting 50 basis points increase in CRR. Policy interest rates may be raised in the January policy," said Nomura's Varma.
Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao has said that monetary policy was not the right tool to fix supply problems such as food shortages, but has also noted the risk the soaring food prices were factored into expectations for other prices, which would create inflationary pressures throughout the economy.
"I think the central bank has indicated that it is primarily a supply-side problem. I do not think monetary policy is an answer to this," said Abheek Barua, chief economist at India's No. 2 private sector lender, HDFC Bank.
"They will increase CRR only in January."
The central bank holds its next policy meeting in late January, but it can adjust monetary policy at any time.
It worked closely with the government last year to plan a joint response to reviving growth, and in recent months has signalled it was looking to exit is very accommodative policy.
"The RBI governor will do monetary tightening when he thinks it is needed. For that, I don't think he will be influenced by the finance ministry," said D.H. Pai Panandikar, president of independent think-tank RPG Foundation. (Editing by Alistair Scrutton, John Mair, Kazunori Takada)