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Hollywood Appeal May Help to Sell Cricket Franchises in U.S.
Hollywood stars such as Australians Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman are among the celebrities targeted by organizers of a new U.S.-based Twenty20 cricket competition to help sell six $40 million franchises.
Cricket Holdings America LLC, backed by the New Zealand and U.S. cricket bodies and Indian investors, is copying the approach of the celebrity-endorsed Indian Premier League as it builds toward the June 2013 start of the UST20 League.
"We want to combine Hollywood and Bollywood and integrate celebrities into this entertainment product that we're building," the company's Chief Executive Officer Neil Maxwell said in an interview. "There are many celebrities who understand the benefit of being aligned with a franchise in the U.S. market but also something that has a huge emotional connect to audiences outside America."
The Indian Premier League, or IPL, started in 2008, and competes with soap operas during prime time in the world's second-most populous nation. The eight-franchise competition, which counts Bollywood actors Shahrukh Khan and Preity Zinta among its ownership group, has a brand value of $2.92 billion, according to market researcher Brand Finance India. It agreed a 10-year broadcasting rights contract worth $1.6 billion with Sony Entertainment Television and World Sports Group.
Twenty20 is the newest and shortest form of cricket, with three-hour games punctuated by big hits, thumping music and cheerleaders attracting larger crowds than the traditionally longer forms, including Test cricket which can last five days. West Indies won the latest edition of the World Twenty20 championship, beating host Sri Lanka in the Oct. 7 final. The Twenty20 format was established in England in 2003.
Expat Targets
While cricket is the most popular sport in India, its appeal in the U.S., where a mature sports market is dominated by football, baseball and basketball, is limited to expats from traditional cricket nations including India, Pakistan, Australia and the West Indies.
"Cricket is the second-biggest sport in the world and it doesn't have a presence in the biggest broadcast, sponsorship, franchise market in the world, so it's a pretty compelling argument from that perspective," Maxwell said.
Organizers aim to play the matches at temporary venues in New York before setting the six franchises up in different U.S. cities. Maxwell said investors would typically be expected to pay $40 million over 10 years to secure a team that could compete for as little as one month in a year. An official tender process begins this month.
Earlier Attempt
American companies including PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) and Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN unit are some of the sport's biggest partners, and the U.S. accounts for 15 percent of cricket's income, according to the International Cricket Council's Global Development Manager Tim Anderson. That compares with India's 70 percent.
The U.S. also draws the second-highest number of visitors to the organization's website behind India. The sport is followed by 15 million people in the U.S., according to the ICC.
An earlier attempt to start a competition in the U.S. stalled when the ICC warned countries not to release players for the event because it hadn't been sanctioned by the U.S. board.
The month-long league will have a salary budget of $1 million for 15-member squads, of mainly foreign players. They'll each be able to secure two additional "superstar" players, Maxwell said. The Times of India reported that England batsman Kevin Pietersen earned $2 million for playing about half of the Delhi Daredevils' 16 games during the fifth season of the IPL this year.
'Brand Equity'
Four of the top five run-scorers from the World Twenty20 are among 196 who have endorsed the U.S. competition, said Maxwell, an Australian who's a board member of the Sydney Cricket Club and was the first CEO of the IPL's Kings XI Punjab. Some players from England and Australia are unlikely to be included in the competition because its start date clashes with the 2013 Ashes series between the two nations.
"There's lots of brand equity for the players," Maxwell said. "When you're offering three weeks for them and their families in New York it carries a lot weight."
Attracting Hollywood, and even some Bollywood performers, may help the league attract women and children, a key demographic for the startup, according to Maxwell.
"The IPL has challenged the soap operas in India in that 4:30 time slot when a lot of women sit down and watch," he said. "It did that by integrating Bollywood into the cricket product. From that learning we're very keen to build a similar structure."
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Much is written about saving the Corcoran, yet nothing is said ["Reinventing the Corcoran: Five experts' advice," Sunday Arts, Nov. 11]. The Corcoran's board of trustees urgently needs to take three steps: Appoint a respected professional director, return to a commitment to the American Collection, contemporary American art and D.C. artists; and raise new funds in order to fulfill the wishes of founder W.W. Corcoran "to promote and encourage the American Genius."
To do this, the Corcoran needs a new board that has less interest in making money and is "dedicated to art" — the words of the founder inscribed over the bronze entrance doors of the gallery.
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I the following I learned some lesson about Arabic understandment. Now I would
go back or push the car over the corner if I would want to risk break down.
We pushed it again over the corner and he drove back and i --- tried
it a nother time. But since he has another that he could not go that way
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was a problem with the wheel suspension. The driver seems to know
it and fixed it. All in all we break down six times and he always
fixed it again also the distance between failures was declining.
Remarkable is that now one was angry. Not the driver and not the passengers. We had a lot of fun and it was the most pleasant trip I had. No one spoke English and I could tell then with my little Arabic language knowledge things an supplement it with gestures. I learned that one was exporting fruits to Europe front Tunis-airport.
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Methinks The Manwhore Doth Tongue LeAnn Rimes' Face Too Much
"Wait, did you say you've been eating?"
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian were rumored to be getting a divorce recently because Eddie cheated on Brandi Glanville with LeAnn, so eventually that's going to be right. Except here they are sucking face at the premiere of The Best Man Holiday so Eddie looks like a family man and keeps scoring plum roles as the only white dude in a black romantic comedy. Which is my theory for why he hasn't cheated on LeAnn Rimes yet. Although, I'd also accept he found a way to make cocktail waitresses bodies land on a tarp thirty years in the past. I like to keep an open mind.
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Professional Antithesis July 29, 2010Posted by Jason in Insider's View Relapses.
Tags: Engineering, Profession
Is there a conflict between engineering education and the expectations of the business world? As we observe in real time the development of younger engineers in the workplace, it is difficult to perceive the bigger picture that evolves over several years. However, as we march along through the ups and downs, it pays to take a step out of line to assess our progress. As I've mentioned before, such an assessment often benefits from the perspectives of other industries.
This month's "second opinion" comes from a Harvard Business Review article by Richard Barker, a Cambridge University business professor, addressing the question of whether business management should be categorized as a "profession." Though tangential to the issues facing engineering — a long-acknowledged profession — it still raises some important questions that we will face as we continue developing our educational resources and industry leaders.
The article makes the case that general business management is not a profession in the traditional sense of doctors, lawyers, and engineers providing technical expertise to a trusting public. Typically, we depend on our respective professional organizations and government licensure to maintain minimum standards of competency. Barker points out that, without such a mechanism, there would be no market (at least not a very large one) for our services, since the public has no independent means of determining the quality of our expertise. There are only limited equivalents in the business world and no "certification" of general management skills, which precludes the professional designation.
What does this have to do with engineering? In expanding our Body of Knowledge, we have recognized that technical expertise alone is not sufficient to be considered a true professional. While Barker would likely agree, he notes that the soft skills necessary for good management are particularly incompatible with our traditional methods of imparting technical knowledge, from university admissions policies to evaluation of skills. Indeed, he says, "An academic grading system cannot reliably predict managerial ability." Further, we would probably all agree that it is possible to learn these skills, but that doesn't imply that they are "taught" as much as they are collaboratively developed in group settings with other students.
In expressing these realities of business management education and practice, Barker highlights some of the difficulties of incorporating them into a technical degree like engineering. Specifically, he notes the difference between teaching easily quantifiable subjects such as finance, accounting, or engineering versus assessing an individual's ability to be "more thoughtful, more aware, more sensitive, more flexible, and more adaptive" to the varied business environment. It is these latter qualities that are most valued by business leaders – if not by your peers, at least by your clients.
When viewing our engineering educational methods through the lens of business management attributes, it is no wonder that we struggle to develop the right mix of technical expertise and leadership skill. Though both can result from proper education, that education is unlikely to be limited to a bachelor's degree, or even to the extra master's coursework now being considered as a professional engineer prerequisite. Barker would likely approve of those states that require periodic professional development hours, saying, "business education is best delivered in doses throughout a career, rather than in a single shot at the beginning."
Whether we are considering formal education or workforce development on the job, we should remember that the desired management attributes are not simply supplements to the core technical expertise. They do not consist of additional coursework, but rather are the product of a significantly different mindset derived from breadth of experience, not depth of knowledge. Barker sums it up well by illustrating the contrast: "In general, the professional is an expert, whereas the manager is a jack-of-all-trades and master of none — the antithesis of the professional." Engineers benefit from our designation as professionals, but still must cultivate qualities that seem counter to our efforts to always have the right answer.
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Creating Smart Cities and Replicating Silicon Valley
He suggests that the innovation and success of California's Silicon Valley could easily be replicated in other cities or regions.
"There can be many Silicon Valleys. It is absolutely a reproducible model; it's not something in the water. You know, the history starts in the '50s. What basically happened in Silicon Valley is that you had strong research universities, a relatively liberal and creative culture, lots of reasons for young people to stay in the area -- and young people are the ones with the new ideas. Then you had the development of the venture capital industry.
What's interesting is that every 10 years someone writes an article about how Silicon Valley was responsible for the last innovation wave, but it will miss the next wave. Yet Silicon Valley has now been at the forefront of four or five successive tech waves and has proved itself remarkably resilient because of the combination of the universities, the culture, the climate, the capital. My point is that if you have all of those elements, you can have your own Silicon Valley wherever you want."


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Mumbai: The average premium per life insurance policy fell nearly 8% in fiscal 2012 over the previous year, according to a study by consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India released on Thursday.
The study on nine Indian private life insurers showed those more than eight years old managed to retain the ticket size of regular premium policies at around Rs.32,000 in fiscal 2012, similar to that of the previous year.
The younger insurers, on the other hand, saw a decline in the average ticket size of regular premium policies by nearly 16% from around Rs.34,500 in fiscal 2011 to about Rs.29,000 in fiscal 2012.
Among all distribution channels, bancassurance continues to dominate in terms of getting the highest ticket size policies, followed by broking and direct channels, said the study.
Unit linked insurance plans (Ulips) constituted 54% of the overall business mix of life insurers, with the rest being conventional and pure life insurance products. "As insurers gradually shift focus towards more traditional products and ticket sizes stabilize, players will need to find innovative combinations of channels, products and customer segments to achieve growth," Deloitte said in a press release.


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Lotuslander this was a wonderful observation and highly accurate. Its hard to type I'm laughing so much. Thanks.
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Lotuslander this was a wonderful observation and highly accurate. Its hard to type I'm laughing so much. Thanks.
:lol The reason Brandon made the comment about wanting to have kids someday is because the family jewels were getting smashed, and if it got really bad, B & N would have to adopt if they wanted little ones in the future.Quote:
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Did anyone notice when the twins started, the music changed to an upbeat silly tune. :lol
I didn't want to comment about those of us that watch the real show, and those of you that live in mirna land until I paid closer attention to what happened, so I downloaded the episode and watched the taxi clip several times.
Mirna and Charla both WALKED past Colin AND Christie who DID NOT have their bags on.
Mirna says while running to the cab, "We need to take the taxi!"
Colin calmly walks after her and calmly says, "Yeah, sorry this is our cab. This is our cab right here."
Mirna ignores him and gets into the cab while saying, "well you left him."
"No we didn't," Colin raises his voice, "we never !@#$ing left him, sorry.
A couple seconds pass, C&M don't budge.
"Our !@#$ is in the car, my bags are in the trunk!"
Mirna said something here, possibly to the cab driver, but Colin's voice is too loud so I couldn't hear, "Sorry, my !@#$ing bags are in the trunk"
Mirna finally responds with, "shh you don't have to yell," which btw Colin does not do again.
We finally hear Christie say, "yeah, hey we were holding him for us, no, no, get out that is so rude" while Colin says again, "our bags are in the trunk, he's not _____" <- couldn't hear this, I'm assuming he's talking about the cab driver
Mirna talks to the cab driver and while they FINALLY get out of the cab, Christie says "the audacity of these people"
As they walk past the trunk, Colin says "look, my bags are in the trunk!"
Charla responds with, "alright, go then, whatcha waiting for?"
Sometime later, Christie says, "I can't even get over that really, that is so rude!"
Then we get to hear what maniacs C&C are cos they asked C&M to get out of their cab. And of course, Mirna performed the very classy act of spitting in front of them.
Now, as for the "assault". Did anyone notice that Mirna CUT in front Brandon, Nicole, Marshall and Lance? SHE CHOSE to enter in the line they were using as an exit! Look at the width of the lines, they were only wide enough for one person to walk through and to make it worse, Colin had his bag on. Did Mirna expect the bars to magically seperate so she could go past Colin without bumping into him?
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Download? May I know where I can download previous episodes?Quote:
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I believe that it is illegal and not to be discussed here.Quote:
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Your whole theory of Mirna and Charla being all wrong hinges on this. If M/C didn't notice the bags weren't with them then they did nothing wrong in trying for the taxi.Quote:
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Why do you assume they noticed they didn't have bags on? Since C/C were at the correct location, wouldn't you assume they'd get out and stay there?
Once Colin confronted them it would have been nice if they'd gotten directly out of the taxi but I assume it was just a reaction like many of us would have. Once things got figured out they got out.
I wish I could get ahold of your feed. My Mirnaland feed includes Colin using aggression to try and control women. Makes me sick. Mirna's reaction was appropriate for this type of behavior. IMHO.
Nothing she should be proud of but in the heat of the moment totally appropriate.
LAGuy, too funny. But hey, the more TARs the better, right? Maybe they could put different "versions" of TAR on each night of the week, or on different channels. Then, you know me, being the ratings fanatic, I'd have charts of how The Moms night beat the The Twins night in the ratings. :)
Honestly, I'm not a fan of *either* C&C or C&M, so I just take all of this in and go, uh huh, to most of it. I think both Teams have some rather poor qualities being portrayed. But, I give them both credit for some smart moves. C&C have been nearly flawless on travel arrangements. And, C&M made the 'sneaky' earlier flight to Cairo, nice move.
I'm not hoping for either of those two Teams to make the final 3. My ep1 initial fave C&K -- I'm pulling for them to make it. And, somehow I'm hoping for The Moms to make it too. Other than those two, I guess I'd say The Twins or C&M -- with either one being sheerly for entertainment value.
Does anyone else fully expect Mirna to show up on one of the legs with an aluminum foil hat on, and tell us all that it helps to keep all the voices out? She just seems so odd at times. The hooker in Uruguay(?). The "you may have to stick your arm up the cow's ass". Just really odd. I sort of look past all of the conflict and enjoy the sheer madness of it all.
And those Twins. Has there been an episode (or even an individual task) that hasn't gotten them turned around in some way? And, the swimming to the PitStop. The we-don't-need-the-puzzle-pieces-we'll-just-point-randomly-and-head-there "plan". And, the poop allergy/fear/whatever last ep. [Did you notice it was not the *same* Twin with the poop remarks. The first one (at the goats) was wearing the black pants, the second one (at the dig) was wearing the tan pants] They are fun to watch. As the saying goes, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.
And, I have to admit that I was sort of pulling for The Brothers to make the final 3. Sure they were not portrayed the best. But, they are most definitely not the first Team in TAR history to quit. There was some earlier discussion in this thread as to whether Phil had indeed never gone out on the course. NO, he has not, all prior Teams had made it to him for removal.
But, others have quit.
* TAR1 - Nancy & Emily (mentally quit, but shouldn't have because they would've still been in it)
* TAR2 - Mary & Peach (checked out at the nasty tea drinking task, knowing they were last, eventually went on to RoadBlock, only to find clue directing them to PitStop instead)
* TAR3 - Tramel & Talicia (knew they were last, so stopped racing to eat and shop), and later Michael & Kathy were pretty darned close with their getting a hotel room for the night, but who knows those exact circumstances.
* And, from TAR4, if you remember the Amsterdam leg where our beloved ATCs were booted, Tian & Jaree came *this* close to quitting, and actually seemed a little disappointed to still be in it when they checked in.
I don't find what The Brothers encountered / did worse than any of those situations that have occurred in EACH of the prior Races. In fact, at least their quitting was actually due to a physical incapability to continue. The prior quits were all due to either mental exhaustion and/or we-think-we-don't-have-a-chance-so-let's-just-cruise-instead-of-pushing-on.
What is the physical limits that we would all say "okay, yes, they could not have gone on to the PitStop"? An actual broken leg? Being knocked unconscious? Surely there is some physical impairment that would make it okay, right? Who's to say whether Marshall was at or beyond that level? He had been slo-o-o-w-w-w-ing down for several days, obviously and visibly in excruciating pain. Eventually Lance was carrying both bags and doing all tasks.
And, for those that say why give up because he had to go somewhere from the dig site anyway, so why not to the PitStop? I haven't read any interviews to see if they discuss what happened after Phil booted them, but I would not be at all surprised if he received some assistance (ie carried in that chair, a stretcher, a wheelchair). The sheer thought of possibly having to go back out the way they came in to the dig site was probably horrifying. It took them for-ev-er to get there.
Well, they didn't know for sure that they were in the right location. C&C were the only ones that had an inkling of that since they were at the other airport first, but they still weren't sure since the other teams had not confirmed that they were in the right place, and C&C had been talking to them when C&M ran to the cab.Quote:
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As for not seeing the bag, so they didn't see the bag, that proves my 'theory' wrong? Actually, it's not so much a theory, as it is a replay of what happened from C&C fan's pov. Maybe a C&M fan can do a play by play as well so we can see it from that pov. Colin told them 3 times that it was their cab, before he even raised his voice. If someone is swearing at you, would you just sit there and not get out to see what was the matter?
I don't see Colin as anything except tempermental. C&C reminds me of me and my brother, except that I'm the tempermental one in the family and bossy to boot as the older sister, but does that mean I'm going to controlling in a relationship? I highly doubt it. I know I'm grasping at straws, but I really don't think Colin would hurt Christie and I think the insinuations that he would that I've been reading are crossing the line.


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Hertfordshire is the low-profile home county, not as celebrity-friendly as Surrey and Sussex, or as much of a magnet as Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire to affluent west Londoners.
Yet this 634-square mile swathe north of the capital contains some of England's loveliest villages. In our series looking at top London commuter options, we tip some of the best.
Where is it? In the Chiltern Hills, three miles from Tring and nine miles from Hemel Hempstead.
What it costs: about £400,000 for a two- to three-bedroom cottage. Four-bedroom family houses start at £800,000, and landmark houses with a bit of land are £2 million-plus.
The commute: Tring to Euston trains take from 35 minutes. An annual season ticket costs £4,920.
Schools: Ofsted rates the village primary "good". Excellent senior schools in Berkhamsted and Tring.
Who would it suit? Close to the National Trust's magnificent Ashridge Estate, walkers and riders love pretty Aldbury. There are two pubs, a shop, a post office and tennis courts.
And the downsides? Parking at Tring station can be a scrum.
Where is it? Five miles south-west of Bishop's Stortford.
What it costs: about £450,000 for a three-bedroom house, and from £1.5 million for a five-bedroom detached house with large gardens.
The commute: 39 minutes from Bishop's Stortford to Liverpool St.
Schools: a popular village primary. Who would it suit? Retired couples and young families enjoy village life and the good housing stock. Set in lovely open country, there are cute thatched cottages, Georgian manors, local pubs, a shop, tennis and football clubs and lots of fêtes and fairs. Little Hadham, the next village, has regular farmers' markets.
And the downsides? Single-track roads mean occasional traffic jams.
Where are they? A cluster of hamlets — Ayot St Peter, Ayot St Lawrence and Ayot Green — sits two-and-a-half miles north-west of Welwyn Garden City.
What it costs: £500,000-£750,000 for a three-bedroom semi; detached five-bedroom houses from £1 million.
The commute: 25 minutes from Welwyn to King's Cross. An annual season ticket costs £3,960.
Schools: Osted "outstanding" Codicote CofE Primary is nearby.
Who would it suit? Families and country-loving downsizers. There are three pubs, and a golf course and French restaurant at Brocket Hall.
And the downsides? These tiny villages are super-quiet and you have to drive everywhere.
4. BARLEY: Tudor buildings, two pubs, a shop, school, a GP surgery and 35-minute trains to King's Cross from Royston, 10 minutes' drive away. A two-bedroom period cottage would cost £300,000. A large five-bedroom detached house would be £1 million.
5. WHEATHAMPSTEAD: beside the River Lea, there's a strong community, an annual music festival, kids' clubs, a tennis club, wine club, two pubs, a café, useful shops and 39-minute trains to Blackfriars from Harpenden, three miles away. Three-bedroom houses cost £450,000-£550,000.
6. TEWIN: Set in the green belt near Welwyn, surrounded by ancient woodland and open countryside. "It feels like you're in the middle of nowhere despite being very close to Hertford and Welwyn Garden City," said Sally Noakes, head of Strutt & Parker in Harpenden. The village has a primary school, pub, post office and convenience school, Trains from Welwyn North Station, two miles away, take from 29 minutes to King's Cross. A three bedroom semi-detached house would start at around £400,000.
7. KIMPTON: An "incredibly friendly" village according to Lumley, with an annual horse show, a May Day festival during which the village all but closes down for three days of merry-making, and a new folk festival. There are more than 50 different societies to join and Kimpton (which is just up the road from Wheathampstead) also has a pub, a primary school, and a recreation ground. The station is at Harpenden five miles away. New build four bedroom houses are priced at around £550,000.
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Should the RBA be pleased with China's direction?
The Chinese government looks set to crank up its stimulus policies, and could even consider cutting interest rates, as growth in the world's second-largest economy shows signs of slowing.
Recent economic data, such as a weakening in manufacturing activity, have pointed to a slowdown and increased speculation that the central government would have to loosen fiscal and monetary policies if it wants to met its 7.5 per cent growth target this year. Chinese equities have been rising.
Analysts at Japanese broker Nomura said in a note: "Can growth stabilise without a major change of policy stance? We believe it cannot, as tight labour market conditions suggest that potential growth has already dropped to around 7 per cent or below.
"From a cyclical perspective, the cumulative policy tightening since mid-2013 will likely damage investment momentum in coming quarters unless the policy stance loosens."
The Chinese government has sought to pursue its long-term policy of reforming the country's economy and shifting it away from investment-led growth. But Nomura said it could turn back to its short-term goals if, as expected, the growth target for this year was not reached.
"When short-term objectives are challenged, the government usually shifts its focus toward promoting growth," the analysts wrote. "We have witnessed this 'two step forward, one step back' style of policy swings in the past."
The latest reading of manufacturing activity, from HSBC's March preliminary survey, showed the sector had shrunk for the third straight month. It also followed a fall in exports and weaker industrial output figures. Some economists have also revised down their outlook for Chinese growth.
Policy levers that the central government looks most likely to pull include cuts to banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) to boost growth amid high overall financing costs. Nomura's analysts are tipping RRR cuts of half a percentage point in the second quarter of this year, and further easing of half a percentage point in the third quarter.
Likelihood of interest rate cuts increases
The supply of credit through bank loans and total social financing was also expected to rise, and the likelihood of interest rate cuts was increasing, the analysts wrote.
Economists said the recent weakening of the yuan, while seen as being part of the People's Bank of China's attempts to punish speculators betting on the continued rise of the yuan, could also provide some relief to local exporters. At the same time, the weakening of the currency, which analysts believe was through the central bank's intervention in foreign exchange markets, has lowered domestic interest rates and made funding cheaper for borrowers.
Fiscal supply appears to be already receiving a boost, as Credit Suisse economist Dong Tao called the country's National Development and Reform Commission's approval of five railway projects the beginning of minor stimulus, with others possibly in the pipeline. The railways projects are estimated to cost about 142 billion yuan ($25 billion).
In the property sector, analysts said the central government might have given the slowing housing market a leg-up in its decision to allow local governments more flexibility in applying policies to fit their circumstances. China saw housing prices grow at a slower pace last month and the collapse of a real estate developer with more than half a billion dollars in debt has been interpreted as a sign of further financial stress.
Even so, the central government has said publicly that it would not resort to fiscal policies to boost investment, but instead focus on the quality of growth, Finance Minister
The word "stimulus" is being bandied around by analysts and economists, but do not expect Chinese officials to utter the word even as they loosen policy, said observers. Instead, changes in what they say are expected to be subtle.
Nomura's analysts said: "Policymakers do not want to give the impression they are embarking on wholesale easing, as it risks reigniting excesses in shadow financing, [local government financing vehicles], property and hot money inflows.
"We view this policy easing as similar to the easing in the second half of 2013, when total social financing rose in the absence of any government-announced major stimulus."
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Perfect for hooking up electronics in the kitchen, bathroom, outdoors or anywhere it might catch a spill, the power strips sell for $70 from the Wet Circuits site.
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Research in the Centre for Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths' Centre for Cultural Studies is a postgraduate teaching and research centre. A great deal of our research is in writing substantial works in cultural theory.
Recently published books include Luciana Parisi's Contagious Architecture (MIT Press 2013), Matthew Fuller's co-authored Evil Media (MIT Press 2012), and Scott Lash's co-authored China Constructing Capitalism (Routledge 2013). Bernard Stiegler, probably the world's leading media philosopher with some 20 books to his credit, was a part-time professor at the CCS for a half decade.
The work of Julia Ng, who joined our staff after completing a post-doc at Harvard, combines archival and philosophical sources on the relation of mathematics, literature and political philosophy, particularly in the work of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, and more broadly in Continental philosophy (in journals such as MLN (Modern Language Notes) and Philosophy and Rhetoric). Cultural Theory is thus a key focus of the centre and like all our research feeds directly into teaching.
We are engaged in practice and design-based research; for example the work of Graham Harwood, whose politically-infused conceptual and media art is commissioned by Tate and collected by Centre Pompidou amongst others, exemplifies art as a form of enquiry. We develop research with computer scientists, statisticians, architects, artists, global NGOs and urban planners.
We see research not just as analysis but as making. We see it, at the same time, as a political intervention in an expanded mode of action research. Our research "outcomes" are texts, technological art, novels, software, architecture/planning interventions, historical and literary texts, contributions to zine cultures, blogs and online forms, as well as books. We work in the areas of postcolonial study, philosophy, software studies, critical theory, subaltern studies, new media, technology and creativity.
The Centre for Cultural Studies has a focused research specialism in emerging global geo-politics as evidenced by Scott Lash's research on China.
We host the Digital Culture Unit, which brings together researchers at the Centre who have a special expertise in digital culture in the broadest sense. Here the focus of our research is using empirical, inventive and speculative methods to take part in and understand the changes computing is making to all forms of life. We have one of the highest concentrations of internationally-reputed scholars in the digital culture field in the UK making it ideal for both Masters and Doctoral students aiming to work in a research intensive environment.
CCS also co-hosts the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT), jointly governed with Sociology and co-directed by Julia Ng (CCS) and Alberto Toscano (Sociology). CPCT's work draws on those traditions that view the practices of critique and criticism as central to the definition of philosophy, and consider reflection on philosophy's complex relationships with other disciplines and forms of thought as constitutive of philosophical activity itself. The centre aims to create a space for rigorous intellectual dialogue and production which aligns with a trans-disciplinary orientation of philosophy, challenging rigid divisions between analytic and Continental, the contemporary and the historical, the theoretical and the practical, while emphasising historically marginalised areas of investigation.
At CCS we have seen, in just over ten years, some 40 PhDs to completion and have a community of over 100 postgraduate students presently enrolled. Our funded research projects have been world-leading initiatives, bringing substantial networks of scholars to the college, on Borders, Metadata, Emerging Global Economies, Global Culture Industries, and Software Studies.
Individual profiles
Dr Josephine Berry-Slater is editor of Mute magazine and works on the relation between art, aesthetics and biopolitics with a special expertise on culture and urban space. She is co-director of the Post-Media Lab, a European Regional Development Fund project, at Leuphana University, Germany.
Professor Matthew Fuller works in software studies, art, fiction and media and cultural theory. He currently holds a collaborative research grant from the ESRC analysing the material practices of code-sharing commons in large-scale software repositories.
Graham Harwood is part of the artist group YoHa. Exhibited internationally and winner of numerous awards, their work is often made with collaborators such as scientists, fishermen, miners, free software activists and midwives. A persistent concern of Harwood's work is the political, social and aesthetic effects of the relational database as a form of governance.
Dr Julia Ng works on Benjamin's mathematical revision of Kant, and on the idea of "posthumous life." Her new project on 'Mathematics, Philosophy, Literature' brings together literary and political theorists, philosophers and intellectual historians in discussion of the operations of the 'mathematical' in concepts of history, objectivity, power, and signification.
Dr Luciana Parisi's is interested in the philosophical and scientific theorisations of matter, cognition and perception in the context of digital culture. She works on Leibniz, Whitehead, Peirce and Deleuze. She focuses on cybernetics, information theory and computation, complexity and evolutionary theories. Her recent work addresses the tension between thinking, logic and automation and looks at the technocapitalist investment in artificial intelligence, biotechnology and nanotechnology.
Other staff researchers in the Centre include a number of visiting researchers, postdoctoral researchers and community activists. More details can be found in our Staff section.
Recent externally funded research projects
- ESRC Rising Powers: The Social Bases of Economic Change (2009-2011)
Professor Scott Lash of CCS, working in conjunction with Professor Michael Keith of Oxford University's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), was awarded one of eight ESRC network grants. Our project explored social externalities in China, India and Africa. Workshops took place in China in October 2010, India in February 2011 and London in June 2011.
- South x South London
This project supported Contemporary Africa on Screen, curated by CCS's Dr Jennifer Bajorek, and the South London Gallery, in partnership with Juma Bah, Community Action Southwark.
- BBC Sports Live! (2009-2013)
How did technologically minded football fans all over the world follow the Fifa World Cup, using all sorts of different media technologies, from radios to mobile phones? In our research project 'Sports Live! Mediated Liveness of Global Sports Events' we conducted ethnographic research in 11 countries: the UK, India, South Africa, Japan, Kenya, China, Tanzania, Nigeria, Brazil, US and Germany. This BBC (FM&T, Sport and Global News) funded research project is applied and straightforward: the result is a global ethnography of mediated sports consumption that explores liveness as a patchwork of practices, looking at their rhythms and their support through various technologies and social media. We worked with a team of 21 ethnographers. Principal investigators were Goetz Bachmann and Scott Lash; Hiroki Ogasawara was an advisor.
- Creativity Beyond Borders (2008-2010)
Professor Hutnyk was awarded an AHRC Beyond Text Research Network Grant to bring together researchers in India, the UK, Germany, Denmark and Sweden around the theme of Creativity Beyond Borders.
- Metadata in the Age of Ubiquitous Media (2007-2010)
The Centre for Cultural Studies was responsible for Project Two in Goldsmiths' Media Research Programme, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. This project researched and designed new metadata-rich applications on the internet in China, South Korea and the UK.
- Risk Cultures in China: An Economic Sociology (2006-2009)
This project formed part of the ESRC's World Economy and Finance Programme. Over three years (2006-2009) the project extended the Centre's work internationally, focusing particularly on the forms of social and economic change in contemporary urbanism in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
- Broadband: Interactive Media in a Cross-Platform Environment
In this project, funded by DTI/ESRC, Goldsmiths' Centre for Cultural Studies joined forces with three London based media companies to produce new forms of television, tailor-made for IPTV (Internet Protocol based TV). CCS researchers focused on how the partners worked together to make the programme; how a study-group of households used or viewed the programmes and IPTV in general; and interviews with technology experts about likely future developments in broadband and related media technologies.


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STORY — More than 70 people packed Story Woman's Club Wednesday night for a public meeting to discuss Sheridan County's proposed amendments to zoning regulations regarding management of riparian areas. Members of the community of Story requested that the meeting be held to discuss their concerns about the proposed regulations with county staff and officials.
Three streams in Story — North Piney Creek, South Piney Creek and Spring Creek — would be affected by the riparian regulations, meaning that Story is the community most likely to be impacted by the proposed amendments.
Primary concerns expressed by those present regarded property rights and whether the regulations would truly foster cleaner water since agricultural lands are exempt.
"We feel like the red-headed step children over here sometimes," one man in the audience said. "We feel like you're taking our land. We feel like we're losing control."
Since the meeting was not an official public hearing, participants were not required to state their name. Following an introduction of the proposed regulations by County Planner Mark Reid and County Public Works Director Rod Liesinger, those in attendance spent more than an hour asking questions "popcorn style" by raising their hands or standing up to be called on.
County officials, including county commissioners and members of the Sheridan County Planning and Zoning Commission, were present at the meeting to hear public comments and answer questions as needed.
Proposed changes
Riparian areas include all lands within and adjacent to rivers, streams and contiguous wetlands where vegetation is affected by the temporary, seasonal or permanent presence of water, according to the proposed regulations.
The zoning amendments would establish a minimum riparian buffer zone of 50 feet from the ordinary high water mark on either side of class 1, 2 and 3 streams in Sheridan County. As a variable-width buffer, it would also allow the county to enlarge the buffer zone 10 to 50 feet to account for steep slopes and as needed to accommodate additional riparian vegetation that extends past the 50-foot buffer.
The proposed regulations include an extensive list of exemptions that allow for agricultural activity, irrigation, recreational facilities, trails, stream restoration, mobile homes in existing mobile home parks, tree removal to provide defensible space against fires, limited building additions and limited new development.
In existing legal parcels where 50 percent or more of the total area is encumbered by the riparian buffer, development up to 5,000 square feet — the approximate size of two three-bedroom houses side by side — will be allowed in the riparian buffer zone. Building additions not exceeding 50 percent of the original floor area that are situated no closer to the stream than the existing building will also be allowed.
Reid noted the proposed riparian buffer zone is rooted in the county's Comprehensive Plan that was adopted in December 2008. Preserving wildlife habitat and riparian areas was one of five priority actions listed in the plan — which had significant public input.
At the meeting, Commissioner Terry Cram, who was a member of the Riparian Steering Committee, said that a survey taken in Story called Vision 2020 indicated that 66 percent of respondents did not want additional development along streams and at least 100 feet of buffer zone.
"Protection of water quality was a concern," Cram said.
The revised regulations will be considered by the Sheridan County Planning and Zoning Commission tonight and by the County Commissioners Aug. 20.
Resident concern
At the beginning of the meeting, Reid said that approximately 1,800 parcels out of a total 16,000 parcels in the county would be affected by the proposed riparian regulations. He was not sure how many of those parcels were located in Story.
Members of the audience had several questions about the regulations, most centering on property rights and how the county would determine extensions of riparian zones. Though attendees made no mention of immediate plans to develop land located near streams, many were concerned about future development and the perceived taking of land through restricting development.
Anne Ochs owns property on the corner of Spring and North Piney creeks. She said the regulations are being looked at as a taking of property without compensation. She cited a U.S. Supreme Court Case, Koontz vs. Saint John's River Water Management District, that ruled that governments that withhold development permits may owe compensation to property owners.
"That's going to be an issue down the road that will have to be looked at if these regulations are passed," Ochs said.
Ochs also said that many residents of Story have invested in their land and fear property values will be impacted by the regulations, impeding future sales in a negative way since they would not be able to guarantee that future buyers could build near the creek.
"I'm more concerned with the direction this is going," Ochs said.
"We've got great county commissioners," Ochs continued. "My concern is not with the way these county commissioners would handle these regulations. My concern is that years down the road we may have people that move in from out of state — say California — that may get themselves into an elected position and if these regulations are in place, what kind of access does that give them to the control of private property?"
Regarding the issue of whether people impacted by the regulations could receive tax compensation, Cram said he had researched a similar issue in regards to giving people an incentive to do a conservation easement and found that it would require a constitutional amendment to create a specific tax exemption.
"We can't create another tax bracket," Cram said.
Much of the rest of the discussion focused on residents desires to do whatever they want with their land and continue to make individual, voluntary efforts to care for the streams. Many residents said they wanted scientific evidence specific to Wyoming that proved riparian buffer zones were effective.
Reid said no studies specific to Story are available but that nationwide studies have shown riparian protection to be vital to protecting fish and wildlife and water quality.


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This is February.
February is the month that most taxpayers file their taxes. For me, February is psychotically rushed and invigoratingly busy. It's the month where my dreams are occupied by hot 'n steamy demons that resemble tax forms, publications, credits, instructions, and deductions.
Just the other night, in fact, I had a dream that I was helping some scientist tag spiders -- you know to track them much like you'd count sheep herds, habits, and whatnot. The scientist handed me a pile of bright orange tags and gruffly commanded me to tag the itty-bitty, eight-legged monsters. I looked down at these tags, and was taken a-back with horror because each of those tags was labeled with a giant 4562. This 4562 is the form needed to report and calculate depreciation and amortization.
Another night, one a couple of weeks ago, I dreamt that the current Egypt quagmire was all over the complexities of a Traditional to Roth IRA conversion. "It's too complicated!" One side said, while the other said, "We want it complicated!"
February is obsessively and all-consumingly commoving. I eat, drink, sleep, parent, exercise, drive, and get busy with taxes on the mind. I just can't turn it off.
I purchased a pair of running shoes on the internet, and while doing so remembered that the state of Colorado removed their use tax entry from their return this year, so taxpayers must actually file a separate form to pay their use tax.
I read a post from SkiBikeJunkie, one in the which he all hailed Detroit, and I sank into my chair because of the doom and gloom associated with helping people get their dad-gummed Michigan Homestead Tax Credit. Then I sank even deeper into that chair -- which, mind you, has a permanent indentation of my butt -- because Wisconsin's Homestead Credit is twice as murky. And three times as doomy and gloomy!
Someone mentioned an early retirement the other day, (Watcher, I believe) and I immediately thought of his social security taxability threshold. I don't know the guy. I know nothing of his retirement, and I certainly know nothing of his net worth, yet somehow I'm concerned with the taxable amount of social security he'll end up with at 65.
Any time I hear the number seven, I think of the 1099-R form that reports retirement income, and the distribution code entered in box seven of that 1099-R. Then I think about a "7" being normal, and a "1" being all about that extra 10% penalty, which then leads me to the W2 statement and box 12. Where Q is used to report combat pay, and W is for HSA contributions.
I looked at the Christmas card the other day, and it reminded me of how property taxes went down significantly this year, which ultimately led to an escrow refund that paid for said Christmas cards. Then I thought about Schedule L. And how it no longer adds the property tax deduction to the standard.
I also know of someone who lost their job and is currently withdrawing unemployment benefits. So immediately I tell them (without an inquisition of course) that they won't be able to deduct the first $2400 in unemployment income; that congress did away with the $2400 unemployment deduction and all unemployment is taxable again.
A work buddy from my former work-place phoned last Friday with the saddest of news. His wife had left him, and the big "D" was on the way. My first thought was not, "How did this happen? What will you do?! " It was, "Ah crap does that mean you'll need to file married separate for 2010? How will you split your dependents? How will you split your deductions?" He spilled his guts about particulars, and the only reassurance I could provide was, "Dude. Alimony is tax deductible."
On more than one occasion, I have gone to bed stewing over a particular problem, only to wake with a start after a few hours. I had finally realized that whats-their-name's Earned Income Credit was different than expected because half of the self-employment tax needed subtracting from the earned income.
And just three days ago, we started the day without any milk. Instead of thinking "I need to go for groceries," I thought about moving to Idaho because they have a grocery credit. And whence I fetched the milk at the grocer, a sign overhead said, "On Sale Today! Only 5.96." That's when I said out load to a local stranger that IRS publication 596 explains the Earned Income Credit. It also provides the necessary worksheets. Yes, worksheet(s). In the plural. Use Worksheet B if you are self employed.
Again, this is February. It turns me into a starry-eyed creature that either over-thinks stuff, or responds with a "Wait.... What...?"
I like this "Wait... What...?" business. Have you every tried it? I swear it gets you out of all sorts of commitments and responsibilities. When a neighbor says, "Can you carpool?" I can say "Wait... What...?" When asked about laundry, dishes, homework, and my current state of filth, I can simply reply with "Wait... What...?"
I think I'll try this "Wait... What...?" at work tomorrow. When Charles Go-Fer-Broke asks about his partial residency in Yonkers and New York City, I'll just say, "Wait... What...?" Then when Yolanda's Yodeling and Escort Enterprise -- which, let's face it, is a nonpassive activity partnership because of Yodeling Yancey -- inquires about her K-1 not jiving or even passing through to Schedule SE, I'll just say, "Wait... What...?
This is February. It's an entire month, where every nook and cranny of my tiny little mind is preoccupied with all things tax -- from the federal 1040 to Schedule F, and 42 different states. Every February is this nuts, and the nuttiness waxes exponential each year. Truthfully -- and just between you and me -- I like this nutiness. Business is good. The workload reduces itself to a simmer for March, then boils again for two weeks in April. When April comes and goes, the business is like a nice luke-warm bath tub. Relaxing. Soothing. Refreshing. Predictable. Planable.
This is when "Wait... What...?" will prolly turn into "Now... What...?"


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Christy Danko Graybeal, Ph.D., associate professor of education, teaches courses in mathematics education. Professor Graybeal received her undergraduate degree in elementary education and mathematics from Moravian College, her master's degree in mathematics from American University, and her doctorate in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in mathematics education from the University of Maryland. She is a former middle school mathematics teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools. She is especially interested in issues related to middle school mathematics teaching.


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Uncyclopedia:Pee Review/Mobutu Sese Seko
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I wrote this article a long time ago but have put a lot of work into it the last few days to make it so it wasn't stupid and unfunny anymore. I'd like to know if I came anywhere close to succeeding. Thanks all! StupidBunny 00:30, March 1, 2011 (UTC)
|From the beginning the jokes seem well timed, and the irony is clear and funny. Each line is not too subtle, nor do you bang the reader over the head with the punchline. That being said, I laughed but never LOL. Having lived in Belgium I know about King Leopold, but I think not too many people would even some historians, so maybe pointing out that he was a monster of colonialism might help (although it could perhaps still be funny without explaining it). Mentioning the childrens hands is grotesquely funny. The sired population sentence is funny but it seems incomplete. "Constant fear of being raped and murdered" seems to stick out in the article. Your other lines are subtle and subtly ironic, while this one veers too close to the horrific truth, and, again, seems to stick out. Perhaps there is another way to say it that fits in with your style in the rest of the article. "land which will be no longer called Zaire" is extra funny it was actually a LOL moment for me, but for me. you may want to touch on that in the intro for people who dont know about the renaming. almost LOL:mobutu good will fund, very funny. The chucky cheese tokens for me was well placed, I like absurd out of nowhere stuff, but it works for me in the article. I dont get the polonium in their sushi bit. Hutu tutsi was funny and so dark i tried not to laugh. The best paragraph of the article in my opinion is the authenticité which i dont think you should change. "hated his guts" also sticks out for me from the rest of the article, not as subtle as other lines. You might not like to hear this, but I think the Boxing paragraph adds a little too much to the article. Its the most story like, not as funny as the other paragraphs and doesnt add much to the rest of the article which is really about a tyranical leader not a boxer. A final paragraph about the end of the tyrants life could make this article superb. All of this being said, I really like the humour in the article, it did make me laugh a lot and a couple borderline lols and over all its really good and at times almost briliant irony. It is funnier than most of the articles on VFH right now in my opinion.
|Sorry, I think you are mixing two concepts. Is it a story or a parody of a wikipedia article. If you stick to the wikipedia article parody, which is 80 percent of your article, then the concept will be clear and make the article much better. It doesnt mean there cant be a story but adding narrative elements makes it too hard to see what it is you are trying to do (see prose and the boxing comment). That being said, you are consistant with the irony when talking about what Mobutu plans to do, why he does it and how it really happens (always failing). That Africa is a mess and nothing will change also comes through. Perhaps thats a good way to end the ariticle, he also washes away, but still nothing changes. I dont know, but it would make a consistant concept.
|Prose and formatting:
|As the concept seems to be wikipedia article copy, it might be good not to use intros to sentences such as "and so then" or "so one day" "or something like it". It blurs the article between story and wikipedia article parody. I think the article would do well to be one or the other and since most of the article seems wikipedia article copy it might be best to stick to that. "peace came quickly to" sentence is not grammaticly sound. It needs fixing. Apart from the few narrative elements that I dont think work well in the article I do think it was VERY WELL WRITTEN.
|Im a stickler for images, I dont know why, but I think they make or break an article. The urkle thing doesnt do it for me. Since the concept seems to be copying a history wikipedia article, it seems best to me to try to copy that as best as you can, and images of irritating urcle take away from the fact that you are talking about an arrogant vicious tyrant. Maybe putting images of someone who seems like a vicious arrogant tyrrant (exagerated as much as possible) will be more amusing. The bottom half of the images, there seem to be too much, and its cluttered. The currency image works, the free food (though maybe an ever more desolate photo would be funnier) and nelson mandela, but the palace photo in my opinion is clever but not funny. The currency is by far the best placed and captioned. You might want to think more about the captions.
|I add 10 to bring the overall article to 35 as I think it deserves it. I liked this article from the moment I read it, I think its clever, funny, has a concept waiting to be fully realised, makes great ironic humour out of a real tragic history and pisses on a historical tyrant in a good way which no wikipedia article could do no matter how critical they tried to write on evil characters. the article would be extra great if there was more consistancy with the tone of the article, the ironic humour, care with the images and perhaps rethinking the narrative leads at the beggining of some of the sentences.
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|Good luuuuuuuuuuuuck and thanks for making me laugh
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You know I'm a sucker for beautiful compacts, and this Dior Detective Chic Bronzer puts a new twist on the whole idea. This elegant little product is actually a bronzer compact disguised as an ultra-thin, faux-leather wallet. A little bit of detective work reveals a shimmery palette inside accompanied by a wide, flat brush. The four-toned powder is great to use as an all-over face highlighter or as a subtle dust for your eyelids. Not surprisingly, the D-emblazoned Detective Chic palette is a limited edition, so sleuth one out now for yourself or as a gift for all of your designer-obsessed friends. It's available here for $55.


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Blending Football + Art: Pablo Cánepa
Football and beer have been two in one since the beginning of time. Whether its at a game or at a bar, or at home on the couch. Beer is a global beverage that everyone enjoys, especially when a football match is being played. Uruguayan designer Pablo Cánepa puts his talents to use with his unique designs that he puts on Beer Bottles, giving classic teams their own beer brand.
Using a typographic style of art to bring bottles life. Along with simple but elegant color patterns that match the scheme of the team represented on the bottle. These designs range from very simple to a livelier look. For example, the Juventus bottle is very straightforward:
Compared to the Bayern Munich bottle, which has much more going on but still shows how the beauty of football can be showed in many different forms:
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The Sabbath, Pentagram and garage rock influences are still strong and clearly heard, whilst the actual songwriting and production became more defined. Key tracks such as "Chylde of Fire and Queen of Bees" are firm favourites by fans today and staple additions to the set list.
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The Israel Embassy invoked diplomatic immunity today to avoid an inquest into the death of its press attache, Major Mattityahu Sharon, which an Embassy spokesman called a clear case of suicide. Major Sharon was found dead of a pistol wound in his St. Johns Wood apartment Sunday. Police said there was no evidence of foul play. The Embassy spokesman said there was nothing to hide but that there was no point in causing further distress to Major Sharon's widow and family. The Major had been married only a week at the time of his death. His body was flown to Israel today for burial.


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Convicted felon charged in deaths on Kansas farm
OTTAWA, Kan. — A 27-year-old convicted felon was charged on Friday in the deaths of Kaylie Bailey, 21; Andrew Stout, 30; and Steven White, 31. Kyle Flack also faces charges in the death of the woman's young daughter, 18-month-old Lana Leigh Bailey.
Flack remained jailed after an afternoon court appearance.
Franklin County Sheriff Jeffrey Richards said the little girl is presumed dead, but he has not released details.
"We plan to continue until we get a full resolution to this case," Richards said.
Franklin County officials waited until they had identified Kaylie Bailey's body before requesting on Wednesday afternoon that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation issue an Amber Alert for her missing daughter.
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The body of Kaylie Bailey of Olathe was discovered on Monday at the Ottawa-area farm where she had gone with her friend Stout to drop off her daughter.
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Your engine was originally equipped with the block heater and the cold climate package. The block heater is located on the drivers side of the engine block in one of the freeze plug holes, the cord runs forward from there along the drivers side frame rail to the front of the engine compartment on the drivers side.
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Alle-Kiski roundup: Runs aplenty in Riverview softball win
Among Riverview softball's many high-scoring games this season, Monday's nonsection clash with Apollo-Ridge took the top spot.
Riverview and Apollo-Ridge combined for 26 runs as the host Raiders won, 18-8, in six innings.
Big offensive outputs in two innings — eight runs in the bottom of the second and six in the sixth — provided the Raiders (8-3) their cushion.
Kasey Deriggi and Taylor Killmeyer each drove in four runs for Riverview. Sadie Buchser and Ashley Bruni each tripled.
Taylor Dilick doubled, tripled and singled during a four-hit day for Apollo-Ridge (3-7), which scored in five of the six innings. Andrea Hancock homered.
Riverview has scored at least 10 runs in each of its wins.
Plum 10, Oakland Catholic 0 (5 inn.) — Jordan Seneca's two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning set the tone for Plum (8-2, 7-1) in the Section 2-AAAA win.
Seneca, Stella Pratt and Annie Workman each tripled, and Karlie Serakowski held Oakland Catholic (0-9, 0-8) to three hits.
Indiana 16, Freeport 6 (5 inn.) — Home runs by Alexis Roenigk, Emily Lindsey and Angela Ravotti failed to save Freeport (7-4) from a mercy-rule, nonsection loss to host Indiana (5-5).
Deer Lakes 11, Shady Side Academy 1 (5 inn.) — Becca Babincak homered, tripled twice, scored three runs and drove in three more for Deer Lakes (10-0, 9-0) in the Section 3-AA win.
Hannah Blinn also homered for Deer Lakes, Rachel Tanilli doubled and Katie Gozzard singled three times. Winning pitcher Tiffany Edwards struck out 12 and held Shady Side Academy (1-10, 0-10) to two hits.
Freeport 14, Ford City 12 — Freeport scored 11 runs in the second inning but had to hold on late for a key Section 3-AA win at Ford City.
Levi Negley, Matt Swartz and Dustin Koedel each had two-run hits in the second for Freeport (7-2, 5-2), and Negley and Swartz finished with three RBI each.
Justin Retzer had four hits, two runs and an RBI, and Mike Fennell had three RBI for Ford City (4-4, 4-3), which scored five runs in the bottom of the first.
Apollo-Ridge 6, Valley 3 — Apollo-Ridge (7-7) overcame an early deficit to down Valley (1-8) in nonsection play.
Valley's Jesse Iellimo drove in two runs with a single in the top of the second inning.
Ryan Ferguson doubled and drove in two runs for Apollo-Ridge, and Jarrett Geiger pitched a complete game.
Deer Lakes 11, Burrell 8 — Kevin Begley earned the win and went 4 for 4 with a double and two RBI for Deer Lakes (10-2, 8-0) in the Section 3-AA game.
Burrell (2-7, 2-4) had seven doubles during a 14-hit performance.
Plum 6, Penn Hills 3 — Plum (11-2) scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to avoid an upset bid from nonsection opponent Penn Hills (3-7).
Plum trailed, 3-2, heading into the bottom of the sixth when Austin O'Block doubled with the bases loaded to give the Mustangs the lead for good. Nick Stotler and Eric Bellasario also doubled for Plum, and Brian Albert singled three times.
Boys tennis
Section 1-AAA doubles tournament — Kiski Area brothers Thad and Tyler Paunovich qualified for the WPIAL doubles tournament after a third-place finish in Section 1. They defeated Franklin Regional's Rohan Hattangady and Rochan Ramesh, 7-5, 6-3, in the consolation match.
Section 3-AAA doubles tournament — Fox Chapel's Sid Rajupet and Ben Short placed second in Section 3 to earn a spot in the WPIAL doubles tournament. They lost, 6-4, 6-2, to Shady Side Academy's Alok Nimgaonkar and Chris Grubbs in the finals.


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Good Black Powder Rifle
If anyone is thinking about getting a quality black powder rifle, you should look into a Westgate. A lot of people say Ross Westgate makes some of the best rifles out there.
His rifles are used by competitive shooters all over the west coast, he makes some very high quality stuff at good prices, aswell as knives and powder horns. Here's a link to his video on youtube if anyone is interested, I thought it was pretty cool...
Enjoy, and happy shooting.
Guess you'll be banned for repeat advertising here too.
Not spam
Its not spam, its a legitimate post, (advertisement, yes) but nobody is double posting. You and I both know that its hard to keep business going in the present day economy, especially in small towns.
I have nothing to gain from the post, its not my business... but anything to help a fellow American make a living and exercise his right to bare arms is good enough for me in my book.
There's nothing wrong with commercialism as long as it isn't malicious or intended to harm someone. I know some people look down on advertisement, but if it was your business, you'd be singing a different tune.
No hard feelings, and may God bless America.
There should be no harm in making a recommendation for a brand of firearms in the appropriate forum group. That's what took place.
If there's something more I should know, please PM me.
+100 We need more firearms manufacturers and dealers in this country! What we don't need are more self-righteous know-it-all's to dictate policy and procedure to the rest of us.
At the time of his original post he was banned from several forums for repeat advertising. This is the only one I remember where is now.
Westgate (custom) Black Powder Rifles - Shooters Forum
Obviously, I was mistaken. :o
Still, are those Westgates so much better than any of the mass produced in-line muzzleloaders? It is hard to go wrong these days with an in-line and have any accuracy problems. What makes the Westgate better than the rest?
I'm a traditionalist, I don't own an inline. To me a muzzleloader is a sidelock replica of an historical firearm. I've never agreed that they should be part of the Muzzleloading season because of the obvious advantages they offer over a traditional percussion or especially a flintlock gun.
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