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Duncan goes down with an injury, the crowd is applauding. About 30 seconds later he gets up, they boo. It wasn't everyone in the crowd, but it was easily the majority.
Man I swear if we had Ray Allen BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. Great game right now.
Tolbert called them out too. Rightfully so.
Sixer fans did that in the first round when Prince went down with an ankle injury.
You should never be happy when a player gets hurt. Never. Thats just horrible. Especially Duncan, how can you be happy if he gets hurt? Thats one of the classier guys in the league.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
omg i am so shocked
no not really; they are people from seattle after all. go drink more coffee and shut the hell up.
But what a game though. These two games tonight epitomized everything I love about playoff basketball.
Not very classy by the Seattle fans, but the team is sure battling and playing with alot of heart.
Hell of a game!
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"
It would not surprise me if many of the people involved were not long time fans of the Sonics are only there because the Sonics have done well and are in the playoffs. Ya know, the guy at work who was never a _Insert Team Name Here_ fan as long as you've known him but has been buying great seats for the second half the season and has suddenly become very vocal about his love for the team. Yeah, that guy. Wouldn't surprise me a bit. Good fans don't wish injuries on their opponents, they wish technicals and ejections and maybe throw a beer or two. Wait, no, they don't throw beers either. Techs and ejections, 3 second calls, foul trouble, botched inbounds plays, all of that sort of thing is fair game, wishing for or cheering for injuries though, no.
I'm glad you qualified this by saying something about it being Duncan. Assuming it wasn't career ending, I would have cheered to see John Starks get injured, and I'm assuming I'm not the only Pacers fan that feels this way.Originally Posted by pacerfan2425
I still get upset thinking about the way some of the Wolverine fans acted around me when Michigan State's QB went down with a shoulder injury last fall. At that time I was really ashamed to be sitting on that side of the field. But you get over that sort of thing I guess and I'll be back up there again this fall.
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
Must have rained REALLY hard last night to put those fans in a bad mood.
It was a very physical series. Those fans are worse than Laker fans and that team is nothing but a bunch of sore winners and sore losers.... very bad sportsmanship I've ever seen.
Wolverine fans are dicks. My brother went up there to watch one of his friends that plays for Purdue, to watch the game at the Big House. He said Purdue family members were being spit on the entire time.Originally Posted by indygeezer
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try wearing maize and blue in columbus, ohio. Wolverine fans are choir boys......Originally Posted by TruWarier
It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.
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Q If I stay too long at my mom's house in Danville, I can expect that only a couple of far right cash lanes on the Benicia Bridge will be open late after 8 p.m. and traffic will be insanely backed up. Nobody cares what the issue is (too few toll takers be damned)! At $5 a toll per car, this seems moronic.
What is going on with our bridge dummies and how long do they intend for this to go on?
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Q A number of days in the last few weeks the Benicia Bridge has backed up in evening rush hour even though there are high-speed automatic toll lanes for FasTrak. It seems as though the pay lanes on the right are understaffed and do not have enough toll lanes open for those who do not have FasTrak yet. Are there plans to just eliminate the toll lanes like the Golden Gate Bridge has done? Or why don't they staff all the toll lanes during rush hour?
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Eventually, all toll takers will be removed but that is several years away from happening.
At the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, there are nine cash/FasTrak lanes on the right side of the toll plaza, but sometimes as many as six lack toll takers. Here's the current night schedule for cash/FasTrak lanes:
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Q While traveling on the Benicia Bridge, a.k.a the George Miller Memorial Bridge, something struck me as being odd. George Miller is still alive and kicking. Isn't the term "memorial" reserved for a person that is deceased? If this is true then why not just call the Benicia Bridge the "George Miller Bridge?" I would love an answer to this oddity.
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State rules say "a person being honored with a naming must be deceased, except in the instance of elected officials, in which case they must be out of office." Bridge officials interpret this as referring only to statewide offices, not members of Congress.
Q They painted numbers on the parking spots a few weeks ago at the North Concord BART station. I am guessing the free parking days are over. Do you have any information on when they are going to start charging and how much?
Ron Dodson
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Daily parking fees are re-evaluated every six months, based on the occupancy of the parking facility. Costs for permits and fees may either increase or decrease by 50 cents a day, depending on whether parking is above or below 95 percent capacity.
There is a daily fee maximum of $3 at all stations, with the exception of West Oakland, which does not have a cap and will go to $6.50 a day in July. And next month a 50-cent daily parking fee increase will be put in place at numerous BART stations.
Q Also I noticed the motorcycle stalls are not numbered at the Concord station. Free parking for motorcycles?
Ron Dodson
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Q I make a left turn on San Tomas Expressway from El Camino daily. There is only one lane for left turns and it can take six minutes for that turn. Can they increase the number of turning lanes?
Wasim Ullah
Santa Clara
A Three projects are coming to ease traffic concerns.
First, San Tomas will be widened from El Camino to Homestead Road to eight lanes, the San Tomas pedestrian/bike trail extension will go from El Camino to Homestead, and double left turns will be installed at San Tomas and El Camino in all four directions.
Net effect is that San Tomas from El Camino to Homestead will be under construction late this year.
Q I think the interchange at Lawrence/280/Stevens Creek is going to be worse than ever after the new Apple campus opens. It's always been a bottleneck but it is so much worse now, with all the new businesses that have popped up. Any plans for that to get fixed to allow more cars to exit 280 and Lawrence?
Cheryl Richey
A Yes. Apple will be building an additional northbound left-turn lane and a dedicated right-turn lane, resulting in two exclusive left-turn lanes, a shared through-left turn lane, a shared through-right turn lane, and an exclusive right-turn lane.
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ATLANTA -- Mere hours before this year's Taco Bell All-Star Selection Show on Sunday night on ESPN, D-backs slugger Paul Goldschmidt had a showing worthy of his first-place standing among NL first baseman in the last ballot update.
Goldschmidt reached base safely for a 27th straight game and muscled a two-run homer over the left-field wall against Braves starter Alex Wood in the third, providing the necessary support for Wade Miley's second consecutive gem in a 3-1 win that snapped Atlanta's nine-game winning streak on a sunny afternoon at Turner Field.
"It's still really no excuse to let the one guy in their lineup that you knew and had a good plan for beat you," Wood said. "It's baseball. It comes down to not letting their guy beat you. We let the one guy we had pointed out, Goldschmidt, beat [us]. He's a heck of a ballplayer, and Wade Miley pitched a heck of a ballgame. He's a great pitcher."
After the D-backs traded away veteran pitchers Brandon McCarthy and Joe Thatcher during the weekend, Goldschmidt and Miley guided a club that will debut its 11th rookie of 2014 in newly-acquired lefty Vidal Nuno on Tuesday to a much-needed victory.
Arizona pulled its road record to within one game of .500 at 22-23 with Sunday's victory, a respectable mark for a team that now needs to play better at home. The D-backs will try to improve their home record on Monday at Chase Field against the Marlins, whose 16 road victories are the second-fewest in baseball.
As the D-backs strive for growth in this tough season, Miley's turn on Sunday was a shining example. He pitched a gem his last time out, holding the Pirates to two hits over eight innings last Tuesday in a game the D-backs eventually lost in walk-off fashion.
But instead of letting that finish faze him, Miley gave up only one run on five hits in 6 2/3 innings on Sunday, issuing only one free pass and fanning eight in his first win since May 10. He has struck out 18 and walked one over his past 14 2/3 frames.
"That's what we want to see: more consistency out of him," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "He threw the ball well again."
Goldschmidt added: "He was a little inconsistent -- I'm sure that he would admit to that -- earlier in the year, but these last few starts have been really good."
Miley's lone free pass was a leadoff walk in the fourth to Justin Upton, who came around to score on former D-backs teammate Chris Johnson's RBI single. But Miley had drawn a leadoff walk of his own in the top of third and came home on Goldschmidt's 16th homer, which ricocheted off the foul pole in left field.
"I knew it probably had the distance, but it started fair and it was going," said Goldschmidt. "So that was one of the few times I was watching it, just to see what was going to happen, and I saw it hit the pole and come down, so I was pretty happy."
Miley was happy to receive the run support, but he was even happier that his trip back to the dugout only required an easy trot.
"It's kind of funny, I was on first and [first-base coach Dave McKay] was like, 'You've got to score on a ball in the gap,' and I looked at him like, 'I'll score if he hits it over the fence," Miley said while laughing. "It's pretty hot to be scoring from first on a ball in the gap, but it worked out."
But Arizona batters not named Goldschmidt continued to struggle. The first baseman recorded two of the club's five hits as the D-backs scored three runs or fewer for the eighth time in the past 10 games.
However, despite their offensive woes, the D-backs are 4-6 despite plating only 29 runs -- including a 10-run showing in Pittsburgh on July 3 -- in their past 10 games, continuing to hover around .500 at 29-31 since its 8-22 start.
And even though Arizona has won only one of its past eight series, the club is hopeful that halting Atlanta's recent tear is a sign of good things to come.
"They had won a bunch in a row, and for us to salvage this series and get that win, it was a good win," Goldschmidt said. "Hopefully, we can take a little bit of momentum from this game and carry it forward to tomorrow."
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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If the latest publication is any indication, the Brady Beauties are finally maturing.
This year, the light-hearted group of elder pranksters published a cookbook instead of the calendars that they put out in bygone years, which portrayed them on motorcycles or out behind the barn.
Their first calendar raised $9,000 for the Brady village library. It featured photos of five saucy cheerleaders and a trio of biker chicks, among other pictures.
Organizer Bonnie Glo Abushon, then 78, tossed out the idea of creating a calendar at a meeting of the Red Hat Society, a group with the sole purpose of enjoying life, no matter how the years stack up.
Their second calendar came out in 2008, with lots of biker babe photos. It benefited the Brady Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department.
We decided we are old and decrepit and we might need their help someday, Aubushon quipped at the time.
Each of the first two calendars covered 18 months and sold for $30.
A shorter, year-long calendar in 2011 featured 12 spicy photos, one for each month, set in Old West scenes near Maxwell.
Were beautiful women, we should be out there fluffing it, Aubushon told her friends.
In that calendar, the ladies bounced on horses, waved invitingly from a hay mow, attended a shotgun wedding and catted around the barn.
Aubushon said older women just want to be friends with one another, have fun and get things done.
When you get to be our age, you want to do something worthwhile," she said. "We dont want to sit at home and rock the rockers off the chair, we want to get going."
All photos for the calendar were taken at no charge by retired professional photographer Steve Anderson of Cozad.
This year, the more conventional cookbook is named Miles, Memories and Meals.
It came out in July and the first 250 copies are gone, leaving only 50, Abushon said Aug. 10 at a book signing in North Platte.
Recipes in the book span decades. There are recipes for appetizers, salads, side dishes, main courses and desserts. There is a 1939 recipe for barbequed raccoon and a 1900 recipe for sourdough starter, plus several from the 21st century.
There is also a World War II recipe for how to cook a husband. The first thing to be done is to catch him, the recipe says. Later, cover him with affection.
Historical home remedies for broken arms, burns, chest congestion, nosebleeds, wrinkles and hair loss are included.
To start the book, Gloria Marlin wrote an excellent history of the Lincoln Highway in conjunction with the 100th centennial of the highway. Abushons poems decorate several pages; so do some of the Burma Shave sayings that entertained motorists on fence posts along highways throughout the country until the early 1970s.
Copies of the cookbook are on sale at A to Z Books. This time the proceeds go to the Brady School Foundation.
In more normal times, the Beauties play bingo once a month... and joke around a lot.
"We have a ball," they said.
First published in the Aug. 14 print edition of the North Platte Bulletin.
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Big games in the SEC are usually won and lost on the line of scrimmage, which may very well turn out to be the case again in Baton Rouge on Saturday.
But heading into the Florida-LSU game, the real monster matchup is not necessarily the one between the big nasties up front. That distinction may belong to the fast, athletic guys in the back end of Florida's defense.
LSU's wide receivers vs. Florida's defensive back.
This is a game that could be won or lost in the secondary — Florida's secondary, where some of the SEC's best defensive backs will be trying to cover and contain perhaps the nation's most dynamic pair of wide receivers in the nation in Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr.
"It's a big challenge," UF senior safety Jaylen Watkins said. "They have athletic guys out there. They definitely go up and get the ball no matter if they are covered or not. (Quarterback Zach) Mettenberger is going to put it right on them and give them a chance to get it every time.
"We've got our work cut out for us this week. But this is what we look forward to as a secondary. I think it's going to come down to (how well we play in the secondary)."
The Florida secondary has been a strength on what has been, statistically, the best defense in the SEC this season. The Gators lead the league in pass defense (152 yards a game) and pass defense efficiency (81.2 percent) and are third in interceptions (eight).
Florida's pass defense will be facing its most daunting test of the season Saturday — and it's probably not even close.
Landry and Beckham have been dynamic, game-changing playmakers for the Tigers. They are the nation's most productive wide receiver tandem, combining for 77 receptions for 1,302 yards and 13 touchdowns. They are averaging almost 17 yards a reception. Beckham is also a dangerous return man and leads the nation in all-purpose yards (228.2 a game).
"Both those guys have got great top-end speed," UF defensive coordinator D.J.Durkin said Wednesday. "Both of them one-on-one are tough to cover. The No. 1 thing you see is they are competitive. They go get the ball. They're out there competing. Every ball that's thrown near them, they want to go get.
"Overall, both those guys are as good as anyone in the country. The competitiveness they play with is what separates them. We try to hang our hat on that on defense, in that we play tough, physical competitive football.
"We're going to try and make you earn everything you get. So, we respect that when you see it in guys you go against."
Watkins said Landry and Beckham are tenacious going after 50-50 balls, and they play a lot bigger than they are (Landry is 6-foot-1, Beckham is 6-0).
"They're not tall, but they can go up and get the ball like they're 6-3 or 6-4," he said. "When the pressure is there, (Mettenberger) is going to give them a chance to go get it."
With Florida liking to play a lot of press coverage in the secondary, the cornerbacks (Loucheiz Purifoy, Marcus Roberson, Vernon Hargreaves III and Brian Poole) are going to be in numerous one-on-one situations against the LSU receivers.
But UF coach Will Muschamp said the Gators will not play exclusively man-to-man coverage in the secondary.
"Defensive football is a lot like war," Muschamp said. "If you line up in the same spot, you're going to get blown up.
"You've got to be able to change some things up, play some split safety, play some middle field coverage, get your numbers right in the box and stop the run. Against a quarterback like Mettenberger and the talent they have at the receiver position, you've got to be multiple in what you do."
It's a difficult challenge, the biggest of the season so far, but one the UF defensive backs have embraced, Durkin said.
"Our guys are very competitive in the back end," Durkin said. "They watch film just like (the coaches do) and they understand what they're in for this week in terms of it's going to be a battle.
"Those guys they're playing against are very competitive and very talented, too. It's not that we need to change what we're doing, we need to be on our game and be really good at it and understand that we're going to be in for a battle. Our guys do, and I think they're up for the challenge."
The battle in the back end may be the biggest of them all Saturday.
Florida's secondary will be tested at LSU
Big games in the SEC are usually won and lost on the line of scrimmage, which may very well turn out to be the case again in Baton Rouge on Saturday.


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Lowrie, Punto nearing rehab stints for A's
HOUSTON -- A's shortstop Jed Lowrie played catch on Tuesday for the first time since going on the disabled list with a fractured right index finger, an encouraging sign that may mean he's close to a rehab assignment.
"Hopefully, if that goes well, then maybe we speed things up with him," manager Bob Melvin said. "He's been doing everything he can to stay game-ready with taking ground balls. I know he's been doing some one-arm swinging in the cages. So today's a big day in how fast we move forward with him."
Lowrie is eligible to come off the DL on Thursday, but it seems more likely the A's will have him back sometime next week during a homestand that begins Monday.
Another rehabbing infielder, Nick Punto, is making equally significant improvement from a right hamstring strain, which has shelved him since the beginning of the month. He, too, could be sent out on a rehab stint soon.
"Everything's going well," Punto said Tuesday. "The running is that final step. Being able to go 100 percent, that's the key. I feel like I'm pretty close, maybe 90 percent. We're trying to take it day to day, not look too far ahead, but I do feel like I'm getting close."
"If we can take a few days with him and get him running to the point where we're comfortable with potentially getting in a game or two," said Melvin, "that's something we want to do sooner than later because the month's running out here pretty quick."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The performance-enhancing drug questions had to come at some point for Baltimore Orioles' All-Star first baseman Chris Davis. Major League Baseball's home run leader denied use of performance-enhancing drugs to Dan Connolly of The Baltimore Sun, but he went a bit of a different route in doing so.
Instead of answering the question and moving on to the next, Davis said he would rather talk about the issue instead of brushing it off.
MORE: Chris Davis regains form in O's win | Home Run Derby lineup change
"I actually would prefer to talk about it because everybody is thinking in the back of their minds, 'A guy can't go from being this terrible to this good,'" Davis said. "But I think the biggest thing has been the consistency of contact and playing every day."
In 2012, Davis's first true full season in the major leagues, he hit 33 home runs for the surprise Orioles. He's already notched 34 before the 2013 All-Star break and still has three games to go against the Toronto Blue Jays at Camden Yards before the first half ends.
"I think it sucks that guys in our day and age have to answer for mistakes that guys have made in the past. But it is part of it," said Davis. "That's what happened when Major League Baseball started addressing the issue. We knew we were going to have to deal with it."
Davis has dealt with the questions multiple times before through multiple different avenues from national figures and even Twitter followers.
The first time around on Twitter, Davis responded with a firm "no" when a follower tweeted him about his potential use of PEDs.
This time around with Connolly, Davis went into further detail.
"I have never taken them. I have no reason to. I've always been a power hitter. With me, I think the biggest thing was the consistency of the contact," said Davis. "When I was making contact, I was always hitting for power. I'm a guy that likes to work out a lot. I'm a guy that used to eat whatever I wanted to, but I started getting into my mid-20s, I've been seeing that change. So I've been taking better care of my body. I have a pretty strict diet. But I've never taken (performance-enhancing drugs). I haven't felt the need to.
"People are going to believe what they want to believe. Whether they like me, whether they hate me. Whether they want to see me do well or they want me to fall flat on my face. I mean, I've taken tests. I've passed all my tests," Davis said. "I have never taken PEDs or steroids or whatever you want to call it. That's the way it is. And I think it is unfair to accuse a guy that there's nothing that leads to me doing it but speculation. But, at the same time, you are entitled to your own opinion."
Davis could have experimented with PEDs as a minor leaguer in an attempt to make the major leagues, but he said he was "oblivious" to the concept because of the fact he was an above-average minor leaguer.
"It was something I was really oblivious to because I didn't really struggle in the minor leagues," he said. "And, to be honest, the thought of it kind of makes me cringe. I know there are a bunch of different ways to do it, but I can't imagine putting something like that in my body because eventually it's going to have a bad side effect. And as careful as I am about what I eat and the supplements I take, I feel like, consciously, I just don't think I would let myself do that. But I never really felt like I needed it. I was blessed since I was a little kid with a lot of strength. I was never one of those guys that was like, 'I want to be the strongest ever.' I was just concerned with my own strength."
In Davis's opinion, Roger Maris's 61 home runs in 1961 is the true single-season record. Orioles hitting coach Jim Presley said Davis should get accolades because he's put up the monster numbers naturally.
"Back in the day, in the steroid era, guys were hitting 70 or whatever they were hitting. And this guy is doing it naturally," Presley said. "They are testing this guy every couple weeks. And what's he's got and what he's done on the field is a testament to what he does in the offseason, in the weight room and to his conditioning program. That's a testament to him."


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"I started out as a painter, and I'd always add purple to other colors to give them depth and richness," designer Peter Vaughn says. "Lavender reflects light well, which is why you see it all over Scandinavia. In the depth of winter, it's a very cheerful color to walk into."
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Mommy Monday: Raising Smarter Kids
Lynchburg, VA -In a study of six year olds, children breast fed regularly as infants scored 5% higher on IQ tests than those who were not.
Every parent wants their child to be successful in school. They can start by limiting time spent on video games.
Students who play more than two hours of computer or video games a day tend to score almost 10% lower on school exams.
Staying fit isn't just for physical health, it also helps kids do better in school. According to a Temple University study, overweight middle schoolers have lower GPA's, more detentions, and worse attendance than kids at a normal weight.
Also, learning to juggle can improve children's cognitive ability.
Researchers from Yale University found learning difficult perceptual motor skills like juggling raises the volume of gray matter in young brains by 3%.
Whether someone attends preschool can also play a role in their future success.
In a recent study, people who went to preschool were 52% more likely to graduate high school as well as more likely to own their own home by age 27.


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The establishment press is just now acknowledging the idea that our government has been spying on us, even though credible witnesses and whistleblowers have offered documentation for years.
I had myself photographed in front of the site last September (see at LibertyUnderFire.org).
The networks and Congress seemed shocked at the revelation, but Congress had to authorize the $2 billion facility expenditure for Bluffdale and a similar amount for a sister NSA facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Wired magazine front-paged this story a year ago last April when it wrote: Deep in the Utah desert, the National Security Agency is building the countrys biggest spy center. Its the final piece of a secret surveillance network that will intercept and store your phone calls, emails, Google searches
(Watch what you say).
Noted author James Banford, one of Americas leading authorities on the National Security Agency, then wrote, Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the worlds communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks
"Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication," Banford continued, "including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital pocket litter ("The NSA Is Building the Countrys Biggest Spy Center. Watch What You Say.")
The project is code named Stellar Wind.
In the scheme of things, launched in 2004 under the George W. Bush Administration, but vastly expanded under Barack Obama, the NSA Bluffdale facility will house all electronic information in the world.
That is why it is being equipped to hold a Yottabyte of information. A Yottabyte is 1,000 Zettabytes (the number 1 followed by 24 zeros --1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
So Bluffdale is primarily a storage facility. The philosophy is that the more data, the more telephone calls, the more email, the more encrypted data that you have the more patterns that youre likely to discover.
The NSA Oak Ridge facility houses the super computer, installed in 2006, capable of finding patterns and printing them out in milliseconds in a process code named brute force.
The goal was to advance computer speed a thousand fold, creating a machine that could execute a quadrillion (1015) operations a second, known as a petaflop the computer equivalent of breaking the land speed record.
With upgrades the computer, called jaguar for its speed, it clocked in at 1.75 petaflops, officially becoming the worlds fastest computer in 2009, is housed in Building 5300.
There 318 scientists, computer engineers, and other staff work in secret on the cryptanalytic applications of high-speed computing and other classified projects. (Cryptome, March 16, 2012, NSA Decryption Multipurpose Research Facility).
NSA Whistleblower William Binney said, "Domestically, they're pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you're doing. So the government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it's a very dangerous process."
He estimated that one telecom alone was sending the government an "average of 320 million logs every day since 2001."
So, when the Los Angeles Times reported on June 6 that Government is tracking all U.S. phone calls, that The National Security Agency has stored data on calls to and from nearly every American for 7 years in search of patterns suggesting terrorist activity, and that officials still say that they are not eavesdropping, it is still a lie, a matter of public record, and thus old news.
It is great to see the establishment press catch up. Now who authorized these millions of unconstitutional warrantless wire tapes on you and your friends and who signed off on funding the billions of dollars for these facilities?
Will the Congress catch-up too, investigating what should have been looked into years ago?
Not unless you push them.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, see www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
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They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world – and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization.
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I'm having all sorts of trouble with the sports.ws Trash Talk page. First it posted everything to the ABA league board (have NO idea how that happened) and now it's not posting my Omri Casspi evidence. So I'll just post it here in case it doesn't eventually work over there...
Omri Casspi is clearly a perimeter player. With Kevin Martin's return, he'll likely receive less minutes overall, perhaps a loss of some at SG. While he started a number of games at SF, when Westphal would go with bigger wings (like Nocioni or Donte Green) in the lineup, Casspi would be moved to SG.
Has Casspi spending 13% of his floor time at SG. His personal PER for the position is 19.8 while his opponents is 9.9. The second best 5-man unit (and four of the top 10) have Casspi at the SG. http://www.82games.com/0910/09SAC7.HTM
GF http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas.../players/4628/
And if you look at the stat splits, they include a "As Starting G" category http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...28/splits.html
NBA Fanhouse
"Guard-Forward" http://nba.fanhouse.com/players/omri...edTab=snapShot
FOX Sports
"Guard-Foward" http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/player/omri-casspi/663913
Yahoo! Sports
"Guard-Foward" http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4628
Bleacher Report
"With the 23rd pick, the Kings took guard Omri Casspi from Israel. ESPN.com called Casspi "a very tough, scrappy, slashing player." http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...-and-toughness
Scores Report
"With Evans, Martin and Casspi, the Kings have a nice (albeit perimeter) core to build around" http://www.scoresreport.com/2010/01/...tin-backcourt/


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Treatment of Androgenetic Alopecia in Males and Females (LLLT)
This study has been completed.
Apira Science, Inc.
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Apira Science, Inc.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 18, 2011
Last updated: July 11, 2016
Last verified: July 2016
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Low Level Laser and Light Therapy system configured in a novel product called the TopHat 655 system, for promoting hair growth in males and females diagnosed with androgenetic alopecia of the head.
|Androgenetic Alopecia
|Device: TopHat 655 rejuvenation system Device: Laser and/or Light Hair Rejuvenation System
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Growth of Human Scalp Hair Mediated By Visible Red Light Laser and LED Sources.
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: androgenetic alopeciaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Apira Science, Inc.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Percentage Increase of Terminal Hairs from Pre-treatment, Baseline Count [ Time Frame: After 16 weeks of therapy ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Sham Comparator: Red Incandescent light source
Device: Laser and/or Light Hair Rejuvenation System
A red incandescent light source replaces all lasers and light emitting diodes.
|Active Comparator: TopHat 655
Device: TopHat 655 rejuvenation system
TopHat 655 system is to be applied every other day for 16 weeks for a pre-programmed time period
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of androgenetic alopecia
- Fitzpatrick Skin Phototypes I-IV
- Norwood-Hamilton IIa to V for males and Ludwig I or II for females
- Active hair loss within the last 12 months
- Willingness to refrain from using all other hair growth products or treatments
- In overall general good health as determined by the physician investigator
Exclusion Criteria:
- Photosensitivity to laser light and non-laser LED light operating at 655nms.
- Malignancy in the target treatment area
- Other forms of alopecia of the head
- Past medical history of a collagen-vascular disease, thyroid disease or other cutaneous or systemic disease that seriously effects the scalp
- Unwillingness to remove hair replacement products during the therapy sessions
- Using any medications deemed to inhibit hair growth as determined by the physician investigator
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01437163
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01437163
|United States, New Jersey
|Adolfo Fernandez-Obregon, MD
|Hoboken, New Jersey, United States, 07030
|United States, New York
|Peter S. Halperin, MD
|New York, New York, United States, 10065
|Raymond J. Lanzafame, MD
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14617
|Jeffrey A. Sklar, MD
|Woodbury, New York, United States, 11797
Sponsors and Collaborators
Apira Science, Inc.
|Study Director:
|Raymond J. Lanzafame, MD
|Raymond J. Lanzafame, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Peter S. Halperin, MD
|Peter S. Halperin, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Adolfo Fernandez-Obregon, MD
|Adolfo Fernandez-Obregon, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Jeffrey A Sklar, MD
|Center for Aesthetic Dermatology
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Lanzafame RJ, Blanche RR, Chiacchierini RP, Kazmirek ER, Sklar JA. The growth of human scalp hair in females using visible red light laser and LED sources. Lasers Surg Med. 2014 Oct;46(8):601-7. doi: 10.1002/lsm.22277. Epub 2014 Aug 13.
|Responsible Party:
|Apira Science, Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01437163 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 18, 2011
|Last Updated:
|July 11, 2016
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alopecia Areata
Hair Diseases
Skin Diseases
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
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I am currently reading Shaila Catherine's 'Wisdom wide and deep' where she descripes the meditation teachings of the Ven. Pa-Auk Sayadaw.
I am to some degree familiar with the meditation teachings of the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw, but I am new to Pa-Auk Sayadaw's methods. I am wondering if anyone has experience with the meditation instructions as laid down in Chapters 15 and 14?
Is that a common practice for experienced meditators? And is that also something Mahasi Sayadaw taught in his advanced instructions?
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Through Twitter, the wardens will give the public a first-hand look at what happens on a typical bay patrol with wardens doing boating safety checks and enforcing fishing regulations among other duties. The digital ride-along will likely include some added excitement since it will be during spring break.
Throughout the afternoon and evening, the agency's technology game warden and another commissioned officer will join game wardens in Galveston County and continuously tweet what happens.
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Here's a look into vocal recording with house music vocalist Robert Owens using Logic at UK based Point Blank music school. I really enjoy watching other people record.
"Robert Owens (born 1961) is an American contemporary R&B and house-music vocalist best known for his work with the Chicago house group Fingers Inc. in the mid-1980s. As a solo artist, he has placed several songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, two of which hit #1: "I'll Be Your Friend" (1992), and "Mine to Give" (2000, a collaboration with Photek)." – Wikipedia
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Swimming teacher Katie Cookson has thanked everyone who came to the aid of her lurcher/wolfhound cross Arthur after he was hit by a car near Seend.
Arthur slipped his lead and ran away while Ms Cookson was walking him on Sunday, March 2.
Ms Cookson said: "He is six months old and full of spirit. I don't know what got into him, but he just took off. I spend ages trying to find him but without luck."
Police officers PC Sarah Pulman, from Chippenham, and PC Hazel Anderson, from Corsham, were driving through Seend on their way to a training day at police headquarters in Devizes when they came across an incident in Seend.
PC Anderson said: "We saw somebody hit something, then we realised it was a dog and got out of the car.
"We weren't in uniform but we requested a local vet to deal with it, as it didn't want us to move it. It was snarling at us whenever we tried to get close.
"We kept it comfortable until the vet was able to come out and get it. They sedated it at the vet's and it was chipped so they were able to reunite it with its owner.
"It's not the sort of thing we're used to dealing with, but I'm just happy we could help."
Arthur was taken to Estcourt House Vets in Devizes where his broken leg was put in a cast.
Ms Cookson said: "I was resigning myself to the fact that I'd lost him but when the vets rang I was overjoyed. He is a lovely boy.
"I cannot thank the vets enough for what they did for him. I didn't have any direct contact with the police officers who helped Arthur but I would like to extend my thanks to them too."
Ms Cookson is so impressed with the spirit that Arthur has shown that she has made him the mascot for her swimming classes.
Arthur is still undergoing treatment but it is thought he will make a full recovery.


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Usually unemployed in the season of cold
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Chicago Teachers Strike Could Offer a Lesson on Performance Evaluations
As the strike of 26,000 members of the Chicago Teachers Union nears the end of its first week—and possibly its end entirely as word filtered out that a deal might come shortly—the contentious debate may appear to be solely a local matter. But there are certain elements of the largest U.S. labor strike this year that extend far beyond the borders of the Windy City, particularly the argument over performance evaluation.
Performance evaluation "is a nationwide issue—and it's an issue that is not going away," said Norm Solomon, a professor of management at the Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University in Connecticut. "I don't think anybody should be surprised that this issue is coming to the fore. The key thing to any evaluation system, particularly in a collective bargaining situation, is to have some buy-in by the union, a sense that this is fair.
"Right next door in Wisconsin, look what happened with the evisceration of public sector bargaining," he said, referring to sweeping reforms the state made last year after a contentious battle. Teachers are sensitive to that fact and people are nervous."
Indeed, it is a perceived lack of fairness that caused Michael Rusin, a teacher at Chicago's Lincoln Park High School, to label the evaluation system as "rigged" in a commentary for HuffPost Chicago. Rusin argued that the 1-to-4 rating system for evaluations made it nearly impossible for teachers to reach a four, the highest rating, but all too easy for them to drop to a one.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has acknowledged that teacher evaluations and rehiring issues are the two main stumbling blocks to a deal, but he told the Chicago Sun-Times that both matters are "not strikeable."
On Sept. 12, district negotiators made public a proposal to revamp their original evaluation system that the union said could have put nearly one-third of all Chicago Public School teachers in line for dismissals.
CPS did not respond to a request for comment.
A science teacher at one of Chicago's magnet high schools, who asked that his name not be used, compared the difficulty of evaluating teachers to judging the ability of a pediatric dentist who teaches kids how to take good care of their teeth.
"Lo and behold, six months later they come back with 30 percent more cavities because [they didn't brush] at home," he said. "So is he a bad dentist with no control over what the kids do out of his office?
"Teachers have kids in their schools for only part of the day. There are so many things we can't control outside of the class."
The teacher noted that the economy probably played a large role in the first Chicago teachers strike in a quarter-century.
"When we had a pretty good economy, businesses may have been able to afford to give workers good pay and benefits," he said. "In a bad economy there are cutbacks, and workers can only do so much."
And it's not only urban school districts such as Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., that have faced labor unrest. In the Lake Forest High School district north of Chicago, where medium family income is close to $200,000 and the average teacher makes $106,000 annually, teachers there staged their first strike over pay, a proposed two-tiered wage system and a school board request for teachers to begin paying part of their own insurance coverage.
"Given the economic constraints on all levels of government, unfortunately there are indeed signs of troubled days ahead for public sector labor relations," Solomon said.
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The Current Account Deficit and the US Economy
Testimony before the Budget Committee of the United States Senate
The Problem
The huge and growing international trade and current account imbalances, centered on the US external deficits and net debtor position, represent the single greatest threat to the continued prosperity and stability of the United States and world economies. They could at any time trigger a large and rapid decline in the exchange rate of the dollar that would initiate sharp increases in US inflation and interest rates, bringing on stagflation at a minimum and quite possibly a deep recession.
Even in the absence of such a crisis, continued failure to address the imbalances constructively will inevitably lead to a costly and perhaps wrenching adjustment of the US and world economies. They could also lead to a disruption of US trade policy, threatening the openness of the global trading system.
The only effective US policy response to the problem, as its critical contribution to the needed global solution,1 is a conversion of our present (and especially prospective) budget deficits into modest surpluses à la 1998-2001. The possibility of a sharp dollar fall is in fact the greatest short-term risk now emanating from our budget deficits and provides the most compelling reason for urgent action on them. I am very pleased that the Senate Budget Committee today, and the House Budget Committee last week, are addressing these international dimensions of our fiscal position and urge you to take forceful action to correct both our internal and external deficits before it is too late.
The Current Situation
The US current account deficit reached $850-875 billion in 2006. It has exceeded annual rates of $900 billion in a couple of recent quarters, including the latest for which full data are available (the third quarter of 2006). It now accounts for about 7 percent of GDP, more than double the previous modern record of 3.4 percent in the middle 1980s (as a result of which the dollar dropped by 50 percent against the other major currencies over the three-year period 1985-87).
Our external deficit has risen by an average of $100 billion annually over the past four years. It has climbed by an annual average of $80 billion for the past nine years. The trajectory, as well as the level of the imbalances, is clearly unsustainable.
There are a few signs that the sharp and steady rise of the US current account deficit may be leveling off. Excluding the impact of much higher prices for oil imports over the past year, the aggregate deficit is largely unchanged. Our trade imbalance with Europe has declined modestly, due to a pickup in European growth and the lagged effects of the substantial decline of the dollar against the euro in 2002-04. Our exports have risen about twice as fast as our imports over the past couple of months for the first time since the late 1980s, after the sharp dollar fall of the previous three years. (That currency adjustment, combined with the recession of 1990-91, virtually eliminated our external deficits in the early 1990s.)
The Risks to the US Economy
Even at their present levels , however, our current account deficits and external debt pose unacceptable risks to the US economy and US foreign policy. A country that spends more than it earns has to finance its deficit just like an individual who spends more than she or he earns. Hence the United States must attract capital inflows of almost $4 billion from the rest of the world every working day to finance our current account imbalance. In addition, the United States makes large investments around the world that average between $500 billion and $1 trillion per year. These investments too must be offset by capital inflows so our total international funding requirement is on the order of $8 billion every working day.
As a result of these pervasive deficits, the United States has compiled a net foreign debt that reached $2.7 trillion at the end of 2005 (the latest date for which full data are available). An even more important number is our gross foreign debt of almost $14 billion because this measures the huge stock of dollar assets held around the world, most of which could be converted into other currencies or assets at almost any time.
Our payments to foreigners on our net foreign debt are surprisingly small and have in fact just recently turned negative. This is because US investors, especially direct investors, earn much more on their holdings abroad than foreigners earn on their holdings in the United States. This "net investment income" item will continue to deteriorate steadily in the future, however, adding further to the annual current account deficits and generating a lasting reduction in American incomes as we transfer a rising share of them to the rest of the world.
The major risk that the external deficits and debt pose for the United States, however, stems from the potential sharp reduction, or even elimination or reversal, of the very large net capital inflows that are required to finance them. Such a cutback would immediately lead to a decline, perhaps very large and very rapid, of the exchange rate of the dollar. This would in turn push up the prices of imported goods and services and domestic products that compete with them. Interest rates would rise by at least as much as inflation, and probably by much more as the Federal Reserve tried to check further inflationary pressures that would result from additional depreciation of the dollar. The equity and housing markets would inevitably fall, perhaps sharply, in response. The economy would slow and perhaps drop into recession.
It is impossible to quantify, with any precision, either the magnitude or timing of these events. We do know, however, that a very substantial correction of the US external deficit, including via a very large decline of the exchange rate of the dollar, is inevitable unless all economic history is repealed. Several reasonably reliable relationships can be invoked to suggest the possible course of events:
- Every decline of 10 percent in the trade-weighted average of the dollar tends to increase US inflation by about 1 percentage point, especially if it occurs when the economy is operating near full employment as at present.
- The dollar is currently overvalued by at least 20 percent, and perhaps considerably more, even if the adjustment goal were "simply" to cut the current account deficit in half from its present levels (on the view that a deficit of 3-3½ percent would eventually level off the rate of net foreign debt to GDP and thus be sustainable).
- Hence the inevitable dollar decline, especially if it were to occur precipitously, could double the present inflation rate of 2-3 percent to at least 4-6 percent.
- This would in turn push interest rates up from their current level of about 5 percent to 7-8 percent, and plausibly under some scenarios even into double digits for a period of time, tilting an economy that is already softening considerably in the direction of outright recession.2
My own judgment is that the US economy is more likely to experience a soft landing rather than a hard landing from the present imbalances. The fundamentals of the US economy remain strong, and there is no incentive for capital flight out of the dollar. The economies of Europe and Japan, while recovering to some extent from their recent prolonged stagnations, do not offer sufficiently attractive investment opportunities to prompt huge shifts from the United States. There is very little, if any, risk that foreign central banks or other official entities would sell dollars abruptly for political reasons; doing so would sharply reduce the volume of their (large) remaining dollar holdings and, even more importantly, any such actions would run directly counter to their overriding missions of fostering economic and financial stability in both their own countries and internationally. If the dollar were to start plunging, the G-7 and other relevant countries (e.g., China and some other Asians) would in fact surely agree to joint intervention in the currency markets to buy dollars and hence limit the damage to all their economies.
On the other hand, a number of factors point in the opposite direction and toward the risk of a more brutal correction. As noted, the US deficit is twice as large as its previous record-after which the dollar declined over three years by more than 30 percent on average and by more than 50 percent against the other major currencies (DM and yen). The present imbalance has been building up for more than a decade, compared with the five-year runup to the previous peak. The US economy is now at, or very near, full employment so a fall in the dollar would pass through more fully and more quickly into inflation and interest rates. (The substantial dollar decline in 2002-03 did not have such effects, because we were just recovering from the recession of 2001 and there was still considerable slack in the economy.) The economy is now softening, probably to growth of less than 3 percent for 2007, so a severe external shock could push it into recession.
Potentially even more important are two key structural factors. First, the United States is piling its present external deficits onto the world's largest debtor position. Our imbalances of the 1980s began when the United States was still the world's largest creditor country and, in some sense, "used up" the net asset position accumulated over the previous half century or more. We have no such cushion today.
Second, the creation of the euro provides a true international financial alternative to the dollar for the first time in a century. The dollar has dominated global finance since the decline of sterling in the early twentieth century, largely because it had no real competition. No other currency was based on an economy or capital markets anywhere near the size of those of the United States. The creation of the euro eliminates the dollar's currency monopoly, however, because the economy of Euroland is almost as large as that of the United States while its international trade and monetary reserves are even larger. Indeed, euro bonds have attracted more international investment than dollar bonds for the past two years and global holdings of euro currency now exceed those of the dollar. Hence the euro presents, for the first time in modern history, a true alternative to the dollar for footloose international investment that might previously have moved into dollar assets or that might already be invested in dollars.3
It is essential to recognize that the US economy will experience significant adjustment effects when the imbalances correct whether the "landing" is hard or soft. As our current account deficit declines, hopefully by at least 3-4 percent of GDP, a similarly increased proportion of domestic output will be sold to foreigners rather than consumed by Americans. Thus domestic US demand will have to rise more slowly, eventually declining as a share of GDP by 3-4 percent. It would be undesirable to limit private investment as a part of this process since doing so would undermine the long-term growth potential of the economy. Cutbacks in private consumption, which would permit an increase in private saving, would help but cannot be counted on since there are no policy tools that are reliably effective in promoting such a shift.
The Policy Implications
Hence the central policy response to the unsustainable international economic position of the United States must be conversion of the budget position of the Federal government, over the next few years, from today's deficits of 2-3 percent of GDP to modest surpluses à la 1998-2001. Such a shift would both reduce domestic demand by the needed 3-4 percent of GDP and cut our requirement for foreign financing by a like amount.
Renewed growth of the budget deficit, by contrast, could trigger a hard landing. Under present circumstances, larger budget deficits would almost certainly lead to larger external deficits (as they did in the 1980s). Even more importantly, the implied lack of financial discipline in the United States might be the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" of confidence in the dollar and prompted foreign investors (and perhaps many Americans too) to move into other currencies.
Fiscal consolidation has been forced on the United States by external events on at least three occasions in the postwar period. In the late 1960s, the escalating gold and sterling crises finally convinced Congress to pass President Lyndon Johnson's import tax surcharge to help finance the Vietnam War. In the late 1970s, the Carter Administration and Congress had to tighten budget policy sharply when we experienced the hardest landing to date of the dollar and the US economy-to double digit inflation for three years, interest rates that rose about 20 percent, and the deepest recession of the second half of the 20th century. In the late 1980s, the G-7 countries would agree to stabilize the dollar after its sharp three-year fall only when the United States agreed to start reining in the large budget imbalances of that decade. It would be far superior on this occasion to take preemptive action that, in light of the magnitude and duration of our external deficits and debts, could be far more damaging than any of these previous episodes.
It must be noted that there is no automatic link between the US budget and current account deficits. The external imbalance in fact soared anew during the late 1990s while the budget was moving into surplus (because domestic investment was running at postwar highs and continuing declines in private saving offset much of the reduction in public dissaving). In theory, there could be some offset to increases in public saving achieved by budget improvement via reduced private saving (though the two have tended to move in similar rather than opposite directions in the United States in recent decades).
The deficits were much more closely related throughout most of the 1980s, however, when both reached their previous record highs and required substantial adjustment. The external deficits would probably be much larger today had the budget not improved so dramatically during the 1990s. The tax cuts and large spending increases of the early years of this decade clearly worsened the United States' external position, by further reducing national saving, and played central roles in pushing it to today's precarious levels. Indeed, less expansionary fiscal policy in recent years would have reduced the need for tightening of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve and produced a weaker dollar that would have strengthened our current account. Budget correction would almost surely promote external adjustment under current circumstances, perhaps by around one half of the improvement in the budget itself.4
Trade policy is not the topic of this hearing but I would note, before closing, that the creation of new US barriers to imports of goods or capital would be a wholly inappropriate response to our trade and current account deficits. It is historically true that large US external deficits and the dollar overvaluations that help spawn them have been the best predictors of resistance to open trade policies, because they shift the politics of US trade policy in a restrictive direction. As indicated throughout my statement, however, these large imbalances are a macroeconomic problem that require macroeconomic (including exchange rate) remedies and for which new trade barriers would be ineffectual. It would be particularly counterproductive to discourage inflows of direct investment or any other forms of foreign capital, which we must continue to attract as long as we run (even a reduced level of) current account deficits, as might well be the result of some of the current proposals for "reforming" the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and US policy in that area more broadly.5
There are strong reasons to convert the current, and especially prospective, US budget deficits into modest surpluses without appealing to these international aspects of the issue. But the vulnerability of the US economy to large and prolonged reductions in foreign capital inflows, especially if such shifts were to occur abruptly, surely counsel that we "put our house in order" as promptly as possible. I am delighted that the Committee is assessing these issues as part of its deliberations on the fiscal situation and hope my analysis will help persuade you to adopt an aggressive stance to sharply improve its prospects over the coming budget cycle.
Dr. Bergsten has been Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since its creation in 1981. He was previously Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (1977-81) and Assistant for International Economic Affairs to the National Security Council (1969-71). The latest of his 37 books is as co-author of China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower, prepared jointly by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Institute for International Economics and published by Public Affairs Press in March 2006.
1. China is the largest surplus country and also has a crucial role to play in the adjustment process. See my testimony on that topic of January 31, 2007 to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
2. Martin Neil Baily, "Persistent Dollar Swings and the US Economy." In C. Fred Bergsten and John Williamson, eds., Dollar Overvaluation and the World Economy. Washington: Institute for International Economics, February 2003.
3. See C. Fred Bergsten, "The Euro and the Dollar: Toward a 'Finance G-2?'" In Adam S. Posen, ed., The Euro at Five: Ready for a Global Role? Washington: Institute for International Economics, April 2005, especially 30-35.
4. There is a wide range of estimates of this relationship, but they tend to cluster around 50 percent. The main outlier is the Federal Reserve, and its much lower estimates are explained and criticized in William R. Cline, The United States as a Debtor Nation. Washington: Institute for International Economics, September 2005.
5. Edward M. Graham and David M. Marchick, US National Security and Foreign Direct Investment. Washington: Institute for International Economics, May 2006.


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Nikolic accused of intimidating, abusing witnessPatrick Bartley
Published: November 30 2012 - 2:34PM
DISGRACED jockey Danny Nikolic was accused on Thursday of contempt of court after it was alleged he intimidated and abused another Racing Victoria steward during a break in his appeal to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal (VCAT) hearing.
Barrister Philip Dunn, QC, for Racing Victoria, accused Nikolic of being ''seriously out of control'', claiming he made intimidating and provocative comments to a witness waiting outside the appeal hearing.
And the embattled rider may also face more charges from Racing Victoria authorities at the conclusion of the appeal hearing over the alleged threats to former Tasmanian steward Wade Hadley. Nikolic is also before the Magistrates Court in the next few weeks on assault charges.
He is appealing against a two-year disqualification for allegedly threatening RVL chief steward Terry Bailey at Seymour this year.
Dunn said the banned jockey sat next to Hadley, who had previously given evidence against him and allegedly said: ''You're going up in the world, aren't you?''
Having received no response, Nikolic then allegedly said: ''I think you're going up in the world, let's see where you end up.''
He then allegedly called Hadley a ''f---ing fine specimen of a human being''.
Later in the hearing the Caulfield-based jockey denied the allegations and claimed that Hadley had made the initial contact and he had merely responded.
Nikolic claimed that Hadley told him: ''Things are not going well in there for you.''
Dunn said: ''That is an outright and disgusting lie.'' He added that Nikolic twice made ''gun sounds'' as he walked past Hadley during a break in proceedings.
Dunn then said to Nikolic that he had ''a real problem, a mental problem''.
Nikolic rejected the suggestion.
The court is understood to be seeking security footage from outside the VCAT building after the alleged intimidation threats by Nikolic to Hadley.
In evidence before VCAT, Hadley said he was shocked and felt threatened by Nikolic.
He told Judge Michael Macnamara he tried to ignore Nikolic during the encounter, to which Nikolic allegedly responded: ''You can't even make f---ing eye contact.''
Hadley also gave evidence on Thursday that Nikolic had made insulting comments to him after he gave evidence at a previous session of the hearing.
He told the hearing that as he left the witness box, Nikolic had leant forward in his chair and said, ''You're a disgrace'', as he walked past.
At the initial Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board hearing Nikolic rejected allegations that he had used other abusive language towards Bailey at Seymour.
But he admitted at his appeal hearing on Wednesday that he had used the language alleged, although he denied making the threats that led to his disqualification.
The hearing has been adjourned to December 11 when closing submissions will be made.
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This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/horseracing/nikolic-accused-of-intimidating-abusing-witness-20121129-2ahwk.html


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Noval Black
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91 pts.Wine & Spirits: April 1, 2010
Christian Seely recently introduced this wine in New York as a rethinking of the super-premium, multivintage Porto style. Black replaces LB, Noval's former entry in this range, and uses top-quality fruit to create a soft, accommodating texture. The aromas are purple-black while the flavors are pure black-cherry. Acidity spices it up and adds to the juiciness of the finish. It's plump in the middle and supple all the way through, ending on fruit-skin tannin and a touch of chocolate from oak. At the level of many of the region's best LBV's, this wine may become a staple for a new generation of Port drinkers.
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90 pts. The Tasting Panel (Anthony Dias Blue): June 30, 2010
Rich and dense with chocolate and ripe cassis, dried plum and spice; balanced and lively with long, concentrated flavors. A modern and surprisingly affordable port.
Decanter: December 1, 2010
Introduced by Christian Seely, managing director of Noval owner AXA, as "my non-vintage," this wine is fairly new to the UK market. Deep in colour, closed on the nose, quite dense, not much flesh but big, bold and peppery in style with a long, powerfully tannic finish. This qualifies as a Reserve Port in all but name. Drink now.


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This pigment creates glowing shadows with interesting granulation.
An inorganic pigment, it is considered transparent, non-staining (or low-tinting) and ideal for glazing methods. Cobalt Violet's ability to create soft edges, to lift and to mix readily makes it a valuable contribution to watercolor palettes.