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"It was like watching someone in an emergency room take their last breaths. There is nothing you can do, and it takes an emotional toll," Mahnaz Khazen said, recalling the days leading up to the government's seizure of HarVest Bank of Maryland on April 27.
Khazen, who spent the better part of a year raising money to recapitalize the Gaithersburg thrift, said she is still stunned that all of that hard work amounted to nothing.
The founder of U.S. Immigration Investment Center, a San Jose, Calif.-based firm, was part of a larger group of HarVest officials and local investors trying to raise $16 million to shore up the bank's reserves.
But their efforts fell short. And regulators swooped in April 27, turning over $145.5 million in deposits, $95 million in loans and $6.2 million in other real estate owned by HarVest to McLean-based Sonabank.
Khazen knew it was coming down to the wire. Once Harvest's capital reserves fell below 2 percent of its total assets in February, regulators gave the bank 90 days' notice that it was in jeopardy of falling into the government's hands.
Troubles at HarVest had been brewing for some time. A soured portfolio of mortgages purchased from Countrywide Home Loan in 2006 caused the bank to hemorrhage money for several years. Regulators hit the bank with an enforcement action in 2010, pressing officials to boost capital and reduce the amount of delinquent loans on its books.
Yet Khazen felt there was still a chance the bank could be rescued. She had raised $5 million through an immigration program, known as EB-5, that grants visas to immigrants in exchange for an investment of $500,000 to $1 million in a U.S. company. Khazen had taken an interest in HarVest with the hopes of creating a case study on the successful use of EB-5 in recapitalizing distressed community banks.
HarVest had the benefit of being in a healthy market and having a team diligently working to raise capital. In late 2010, Mehrdad Elie, a former banker, pledged to buy $5 million in common stock, if HarVest could raise the remaining capital. Other investors, including Rockville financier Robert Senko, also floated money to the bank.
Toward the end, Khazen rustled up another group of investors to buy some of Harvest's $25 million in troubled loans. All that was needed was another $5 million. Another group of investors came to the table with that amount last month, only to withdraw the offer 10 days later.
"It was heartbreaking because it was impossible to bring in another investor in such a short amount of time," Khazen said. Officials from HarVest declined to comment for this article. "We were at the maximum investment allowed by regulators and couldn't add another dime."
Khazen is exploring investments in 15 other community banks around the country, including three in the Washington area whose names she would not disclose. She said there are over 500 foreign investors on the waiting list to participate in the EB-5 program.
"HarVest was a huge learning experience," Khazen said. "We are going to make sure we participate in banks that have raised 75 percent of the capital they need, and we would be the last leg."
To date, there have only been three bank failures in the Washington area since the downturn. Suburban Federal Savings Bank in Crofton shuttered in January 2009, while Greater Atlantic Bank of Reston went down that December. Sonabank scooped up the assets and deposits of Greater Atlantic, with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. agreeing to share in any losses.
This time around, the agency did not put the same offer on the table. FDIC spokesperson LaJuan Williams explained that the number of loss-share agreements have simply waned as there have been fewer failures.
Sonabank was one of five bidders on HarVest — the FDIC has yet to disclose the list of all the applicants. The bank acquired the assets and liabilities of HarVest at a $27.3 million discount, which President R. Roderick Porter said gives Sonabank some "flexibility to charge off or sell the [troubled] loans at discounts."
Chief executive Georgia Derrico said that the HarVest branch network in Montgomery County would likely build upon the success of Sonabank's location in Rockville. With HarVest's assets in hand, Sonabank now has a total $720 million in assets and $610 deposits.


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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been a subject of keen interest in neuroscientific circles for several years, turning up in studies of conditions ranging from central hypoventilation syndrome to obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia -- a range of disorders uncannily parallel to those produced by mutations in the "Rett gene," MeCP2. In 2003, two groups found that MeCP2 regulates BDNF transcription, but sorting out the complex relationship between the two proteins has been quite challenging. New studies from the labs of Michael Greenberg at Children's Hospital Boston and David Katz at Case Western School of Medicine have begun to shed light on the interplay of MeCP2 and BDNF. Because Rett syndrome (RTT) develops during early childhood, when sensory experiences normally stimulate the development of synaptic circuits, some researchers hypothesized that the fundamental defect in RTT is a failure of synaptic plasticity or maturation. Early support for this hypothesis came from studies showing that MeCP2 expression normally increases as neurons mature. Conversely, RTT patients and mice lacking MeCP2 suffer defects in synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, all of which are dependent on experience – so there is some link between experience and the change in neuronal function it would normally produce that is missing when MeCP2 is not functioning properly. Zhou et al. (Greenberg lab) have found at least part of that missing link. In a paper just published in Neuron, they show that increases in neuronal activity result in phosphorylation of MeCP2 at a particular residue (S421) which, in turn, increases transcription of certain genes, including Bdnf, that are required for experience-dependent brain maturation.
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Link ID: 9512 - Posted: 06.24.2010
But OHSU researcher says jump in BDNF, neurogenesis may not be beneficial PORTLAND, Ore. – Exercise enthusiasts have more reasons to put on their running shoes in the morning, but an Oregon Health & Science University scientist says they shouldn't step up their work-outs just yet. A study published today in the journal Neuroscience, journal of the International Brain Research Organization, confirmed that exercise increases the chemical BDNF – brain-derived neurotrophic factor – in the hippocampus, a curved, elongated ridge in the brain that controls learning and memory. BDNF is involved in protecting and producing neurons in the hippocampus. "When you exercise, it's been shown you release BDNF," said study co-author Justin Rhodes, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU's School of Medicine and at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Portland. "BDNF helps support and strengthen synapses in the brain. We find that exercise increases these good things."
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Link ID: 4307 - Posted: 06.24.2010
Results Hold Possibilities For Treating Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's Disease HOUSTON, Jan. 18, 2002 – New research from University of Houston scientists may lead to techniques for jump-starting the faulty "wiring" in damaged nerve cells, and suggests possible avenues for treating spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. University of Houston scientists studying how spinal nerve cells in chicken embryos develop and function have found that chemicals called growth factors play a key role in regulating how embryonic nerve cells acquire the ability to start processing information. "In some cases, when nerves are damaged or succumb to neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Parkinson's, they don't die, but they quit working and may actually revert to an immature embryonic-like state," says Stuart Dryer, a neuroscientist in the department of biology and biochemistry at UH.
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 7: Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior; Chapter 11: Motor Control and Plasticity
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 13: Memory, Learning, and Development; Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 1397 - Posted: 06.24.2010
St. Louis, – A tiny change in the cells of patients with neurofibromatosis (NF) seems to contribute to formation of aggressive tumors and could help explain why the disease — which predisposes patients to develop tumors — affects people in different ways. Reporting in the January 2002 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis describe a small, molecular variation in some tumor samples taken from neurofibromatosis patients. "Neurofibromatosis is a common, inherited genetic disease that affects about one in 3,500 people," says principal investigator Nicholas O. Davidson, M.D., professor of medicine and of molecular biology and pharmacology and director of the Division of Gastroenterology at Washington University School of Medicine. "The gene responsible spans a large region of chromosome 17, but we have found that a very small change in the NF gene's messenger RNA can inactivate the final product of this gene, a protein called neurofibromin."
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 7: Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior
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Link ID: 1290 - Posted: 06.24.2010
By Roberta Friedman Scientists know that small variations in certain genes can predispose people to cancers or heart disease. Now researchers are starting to show a direct, quantifiable effect on learning traceable to these types of genetic influences: single-nucleotide polymorphisms. A difference in just one amino acid in a protein might explain why some people learn new motor skills faster and reach higher levels of performance. The protein, called brain-derived neurotro�phic factor (BDNF), is a key driver of synaptic plasti�city, the ability of the connections between brain cells to change in strength. This plasticity is an important factor in learning, explains neurologist Janine Reis, who led the study at the National Institutes of Health. According to Reis, this finding offers the first evidence that slight variations in BDNF's structure affect learning ability. Volunteers with one type of BDNF learned faster and performed better at a task in which they had to grip a handle more or less tightly to move a computer cursor through a sequence of targets. Those with a different variant never reached the skill level acquired by the faster learners. (The researchers excluded people who play video games.) Other groups have found that the BDNF version that Reis linked with poorer acquisition of skills is associated with reduced function of the hippocampus, a brain region involved in motor learning. © 1996-2009 Scientific American Inc.
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 11: Motor Control and Plasticity; Chapter 7: Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System; Chapter 13: Memory, Learning, and Development
Link ID: 12714 - Posted: 06.24.2010
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Researchers here in collaboration with a group in California have discovered that a protein normally thought only to be a component in the immune system actually plays a key role in regulating neurotransmission in the central nervous system -- the CNS -- as well. The protein, tumor necrosis factor alpha, or TNF-alpha, has long been known to be a key player in controlling cell death but this new finding offers new insights into how cells interact within the human nervous system. Understanding this new role of TNF-alpha may provide researchers with possible new approaches to treating illnesses such as dementia, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, epilepsy and spinal cord injury. The report was published in the latest issue of the journal Science.
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 18: Attention and Higher Cognition; Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 14: Attention and Consciousness; Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 1761 - Posted: 03.26.2002
Researchers studying learning disabilities associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, or NF1, have traced the problem to excessive activity of a crucial signaling molecule and have successfully reversed the disabilities in mice by giving them an experimental drug. The findings provide hope that these learning problems may one day be treatable in humans. This study provides the first clear picture of what causes learning impairments in NF1, says study author Alcino J. Silva, Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). NF1 is a genetic disorder that affects about one in every 4000 people. Patients with the disorder have an array of symptoms, including benign tumors called neurofibromas and light brown spots on the skin called caf�-au-lait spots. About half of the affected individuals have cognitive disabilities, which typically include problems with spatial learning (which affects organization and other abilities) and reading. The study appears in the January 16, 2002, electronic edition of Nature* and was supported in part by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 7: Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior
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One place in Connecticut where ice is welcome this winter is shaping up to see action, as crews put finishing touches on an outdoor rink at Rentschler Field in East Hartford for "Whalers Hockey Fest 2011. "
Events kick off on Thursday (Feb. 10,) leading up to the February 19th "Harvest-Properties.com Whale Bowl," featuring the Connecticut Whale and the Providence Bruins," and a game between Hartford Whalers and Boston Bruins alumni, all on an outdoor rink at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.
The public will be able to skate on the ice Tuesday, Feb. 22.
College, high school, junior and prep school games on the outdoor ice will lead up to the "Whale Bowl." The University of Connecticut men's and women's ice hockey teams will play an outdoor double-header Sunday, Feb. 13, with the men facing Sacred Heart and the women taking on Providence. Click here for details.


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SEATTLE — Recent buyers of new condominiums in Seattle are likely familiar with what can be a stressful, cutthroat process.
It typically goes like this: The buyer registers at the development's Web site and is invited to an informational meeting at a sales center with other potential buyers. Next is a scheduled appointment at which the buyer must decide whether to commit, or risk losing the opportunity.


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Someş River, Hungarian Szamos, river, one of the most important in Transylvania, northwestern Romania. It has two headstreams: the Great Someş, which rises in the Rodnei Mountains and flows southwest, and the Little Someş, which rises in the Apuseni Mountains as the Someşu Cald and Someşu Rece and flows northeast. The two headstreams flow rapidly out of the mountains to meet at the town of Dej in the Transylvanian Basin. From there the river follows a zigzag course toward the northwest to enter the Tisza (Tisa) River in Hungary after a course of about 250 miles (400 km), including either headstream. Between Dej and the Tisza, the Someş is joined by several tributaries. The city of Satu Mare is located on the Someş.
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CalWORKS Academic Counseling Services
Located at Imperial Valley College, Hector Lopez Building #100
What is CalWORKs?
The California Work Opportunities and Responsibilities to Kids Program (CalWORKs) . Imperial Valley College Counseling Program works in collaboration with the Imperial County Department of Social Services CalWORKs. This is a categorically state funded program.
To Be Eligible for CalWORKs:
CalWORKs Benefits Include:
Academic counseling is provided to orient students in CalWORKs Program and inform them of their rights and responsibilities and to determine if student is eligible to get help to pay for books, transportation and child care in order to complete their educational goals at IVC. If the Imperial County Department of Social Services, CalWORKs approves the Educational Plan, the hours in school count for CalWORKs participation.
Students in this program receive a Student Educational Plan for their educational goal; including general education to transfer and preparation that may be required. Student also receives assistance with petitions to repeat courses, readmission, financial aid petitions or other requirements that may be necessary as a student.
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Release Date: 03/04/2014 |
Album Rating: 3.5Originally posted here: http://thesonicsensory.com/2014/04/03/wolves-like-us-black-soul-choir/
Feedback would be awesome as always.
Excellent review my friend, that should go without saying. Really liked your summary/last sentence as well, seems to encapsulate your review very well. I'm super jealous of how you can write such concise, three paragraph reviews. I think I've only written one three paragraph review in my life, don't know how you do it so well.
Album Rating: 3.5Thanks Judio, appreciate it man. Yeah, I mean I think it's just how my mind is wired when I write about music. I like some in-depth reviews (yours, oranges, and klap's come to mind off the bat), as they are interesting and provide more insight. I think I just enjoy cutting off the fat because I have a tendency to write in unnecessarily flowery language.
Ah alright, cool that your mind works like that. I sometimes feel like my reviews are overly-long but I always have a problem cutting stuff that I don't see at essential to the review. In any case, I'll try to learn something from your reviews and make mine more concise in the future.
Album Rating: 3.5Cool, man; it's always fun to experiment with slightly different styles of writing, so let me know if you end up trying to write a shorter review. My only advice is to initially choose an album that you don't have much to say about (or an EP) to write a review on, and then you can go from there.
Will do, I'll definitely give it a shot.
cool review
Album Rating: 3.5Thanks, dude! I appreciate it. You heard this?
nah, post hardcore is scary genre tag for me, never quite sure what I will get out of it
Album Rating: 3.5It's more riff-driven melodic rock than anything, to be honest. No screaming or breakdowns in this release, so you could potentially enjoy it (if you're afraid of the heavier side, that is).
Great review as always, Mark! I envy your ability to review so many new albums in such a short period of time.
Album Rating: 3.5Thanks dude, haven't really been doing that until this year. With a glut of promos, it was pretty easy for me to just focus on stuff from 2014. I have plans to review about four in the next weeks, so we shall see how that works out lol.
Hmm. Promos?
Album Rating: 3.5From The Sonic Sensory (in addition to other unsavory measures that I resort to sometimes lol).
Ah. Figures. I've still been conflicted over whether or not to join.
Album Rating: 3.5Understandable, dude. If you have any qualms, just let me know.
Thanks, man. You think I'd dig this one?
Album Rating: 3.5Yeah, I def think it's worth a shot. I like it quite a bit.
Always a pleasure to read your reviews sig, POS'd. Might need to check this, from what you've written I think I might dig this.
Digging: Russkaja - Energia!
Great stuff Mark, definitely enjoyed the review! One small think I noticed you're missing the word "is" at the end of the first sentence In paragraph 2 ;)
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Light devices are always nice–especially when you have to carry them around for long periods of time. So budding moviemakers are sure to appreciate Panasonic's announcement today that it's releasing two of the world's lightest high-definition camcorders: the HDC-SD10 and the HDC-TM100. Each weighs only half a pound, but has a powerful 16x optical zoom and the ability to record in full, 1,920-by-1,080 (1080p) HD.
The HDC SD10 records on an SDHC/SD memory card and the HDC-TM10 records onto both 8GB of integrated memory and an SDHC/SD card. Both cameras include the new Advanced Optical Image Stabilizer (OIS) function, which detects and corrects for hand-shake about 4,000 times per second, helping ensure clear, stable shots even you're zoomed in tight on a subject. The camcorders also have Intelligent Auto (iA), which automatically chooses the most suitable Scene mode for the conditions in which you're shooting; and Auto Focus/Auto Exposure Tracking, for maintaining focus and exposure even while a subject is moving. Both camcorders are compatible with Panasonic's VIERA Link and with VIERA Image Viewer for quick and easy playback on a compatible HDTV.
Both camcorders will be available in September 2009, with the HDC-SD10 priced at $549.95 and the HDC-TM10 priced at $599.95.


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Patterning of ounds and gestures in human languages; analysis in generative phonological framework. Prerequisite: LING 450.
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Basic concepts in phonology: typical phonological processes and generalizations; alternations; phonemes and allophones; rules and rule ordering; choosing an underlying representation
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Lectures revolve around brief readings from the textbook (Hayes Introductory Phonology) and talking about the homework problems. Lots of emphasis active rather than passive learning -- students do a lot of problem-solving.
Recommended preparation
Linguistics 450/550 (phonetics) or equivalent.
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One project on the language of the student's choice plus lots of problem sets.
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Everything on our menu is made fresh with wholesome ingredients. From breakfast to lunch, soups, sandwiches, baked goods, deli items to go and a large selection of the best bagels around, Siegel's Bagels Menu will satisfy. Menu selection available at both Cornwall and Granville Island locations, except not all sandwich selections are available at Granville Island. Prices may vary at each location.
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San Jose police are hoping someone will recognize the man at the top of this article.
He was the victim of a violent beating on June 9, but so far no friends or relatives have come forward.
Myung Shin Oh, 46, has not regained consciousness since being attacked by unknown assailants.
Police said they responded to a report of a verbal confrontation that ended in an assault just after 1 p.m. June 9. Police found Oh beaten and unconscious under a Highway 87 overpass between San Fernando and Santa Clara streets.
According to witnesses, the victim was having an argument with at least one person prior to the assault, but the person ran off and has not been caught.
Initially, although Oh was found near a homeless encampment, police said judging from his clothing and grooming, he was not homeless. They have since listed him as homeless.
Even though the attack happened 11 days ago, police said they haven't received any calls from friends or family looking for the man. His doctors say they need to find his family because they need to start making decisions about his treatment.
Anyone with information about the this case, the suspect, or the suspect's whereabouts, is urged to contact Detective Castillo #3303 of the San Jose Police Department's Assaults Unit at (408) 277-4161.
Persons wishing to remain anonymous may call the Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at (408) 947-STOP (7867), or may visit: http://svcrimestoppers.org/, and may be eligible for a reward.


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The Biblical Astronomer is the quarterly publication of the The Association for Biblical Astronomy. The Biblical Astronomer consists of articles pertaining both to the Holy Bible and astronomy. As such, articles may relate purely to Scripture, or purely to astronomy, or to the astronomy of the Bible.
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To find a specific article or topic, it is best to use the Index of all issues PDF file. PDF files are searchable. One may also see the contents of a particular issue that way. Indeed, columns such as "Panorama" and "Readers' Forum" are only listed by those names in each issue, whereas the Index lists each topic.
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Baidu is the Google of China, commanding an unprecedented 63% of the search engine market share with over 4 billion searches in Q4 of 2011.
Before you get excited on the prospect of marketing through Baidu, there is a lot to understand about this major search engine overseas:
What is Baidu, Should I Care?
Baidu was founded in 2000 and has since become the major search engine within China. Their search index has grown to more than 700 million websites while their internal network which uses the Baidu Union partner platform (think: Google Adsense) has grown to more than 230,000.
In terms of opportunities, Baidu has much of the same offerings as Google here in the Western world.
Baidu has a very large advertising network consisting of P4P (pay for placement), ProTheme (contextual links for subscribers of the service), Baidu TV (video advertisements), Baidu Union (search box, toolbar, and sponsored links).
Should you care though? Perhaps. The Eastern world is emerging with technology and has a lot of untapped opportunities compared to the stiff competition in the West; placement in a major search engine such as Baidu can have great returns through their advertising network and doing proper SEO for the search engine.
However, one hurdle to overcome is that the search engine is in Chinese which definitely makes it difficult to mass translate your existing content and product offers for the platform.
Implications with Baidu
Here's where things start to fall apart:
- Baidu has an "illegal" PPC advertising platform that doesn't just stop at ads in search results but actually allows companies to buy contextual listings (as in, you can il-legally buy #1 position). This may sound like a blessing but can raise some major legal implications down the road due to unfair business practices.
- Baidu has patented a "DNA copyright" technology which automatically scans files uploaded by users (and businesses) and will remove them if they break copyright law. Despite your best efforts in creating original content, your products and content may be taken down simply because of China's extreme angle on censorship.
China has one of the strictest policies about online information and place many firewalls and blocks on many websites the government deams inappropriate for their citizens. Your business may fit but it's very risky considering the swing decisions made by the Chinese government.
What do you think? Do the rewards outweigh the risks?


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In mediabistro's new weekly video series Media Beat, TVNewser columnist Gail Shister speaks with HDNet's Dan Rather, who'd just returned from his 11th reporting trip to Afghanistan. In the first part (parts II and III will air tomorrow and Wednesday), Rather talks about the changing landscape in broadcast news, where he spent more than four decades. And how, after all those years yes, he's gotten on the Twitterwagon.
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Former Vice President Al Gore, who sold Current TV to Al Jazeera a few weeks back, is about to make a round of TV appearances. The appearances are ostensibly tied to the release of his new book The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, but viewers should expect the Current TV sale to play a big part in the conversations.
Gore is currently slated to appear on NBC's "Today" and CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" on Tuesday, and "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart Wednesday.
The appearances are particularly interesting, as Gore trashes television news in the book, as noted by New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani.
He also complains that "virtually every news and political commentary program on television is sponsored in part by oil, coal and gas companies — not just during campaign seasons, but all the time, year in and year out — with messages designed to sooth and reassure the audience that everything is fine, the global environment is not threatened, and the carbon companies are working diligently to further develop renewable energy sources."
Such remarks serve to remind the reader of a business deal Mr. Gore recently made that has ignited charges of hypocrisy and greed: selling Current TV (a channel he helped to found in 2005) for an estimated $500 million to Al Jazeera, the influential Arab news giant, which is financed by the government of oil- and gas-rich Qatar. Mr. Gore, who will reportedly make about $100 million from the deal, describes Al Jazeera in this book as "feisty and relatively independent."
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My persuasive nature made my 90 year old grandma reveal that her
grandfather had had sexual relations with his daughter and produced a
child (the child died at about 6 months)! Grandma had not spoken of it
for 70 years - that was the worst bit and also all the old people in the
village knew !
1) I felt very bad as I wasn't sure this was the kind of info I wanted
out of my genealogy! - but then it would have gone to the grave
2) Grandma felt bad because she couldn't believe she had told her grand
daughter but
3) when I told my dad he just shrugged and said he knew 'they' were a
'funny lot' anyway !
Moral of the story - You will never know how people will react but you
need to be able to react with them to comfort / sooth / reassure / get
the hell out of there! You have to be ready to open a can of worms.
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Leaked: Windows 8 build 7955 videoBy Emil Protalinski 17 comments
The video, courtesy of the German website WinFuture, shows many features we have already seen in leaked screenshots: a new logon screen and a new user icon menu in the taskbar. The leaked video of Windows 8 may be short (less than three minutes), but it's the first of many to come.
We reported on the first leaked Windows 8 build earlier this week but we warned our readers that it was very old and from Milestone 1. The build string is purposefully hidden in this video, but it's clear (not just from the higher number) that this is a significantly later build. Sit tight as the leaks will definitely keep coming â after all partners now have access to Windows 8 builds on Microsoft Connect â and we'll make sure to keep you in the loop.


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Convert .MSG files to multipart MIME messages (mbox).
WWW: http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/mail/msgconvert/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install msgconvert
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pkg install msgconvert
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SHA256 (msgconvert-20060330.pl.bz2) = a225d64962190730f35689fff1d04cd76d0115705a906194eba9480163017e0d
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Rely on bsdtar to autodetermine the format of the distfiles when possible
For a while now bsdtar is able to autotermine compression and archive format.
Let's then use tar directly instead of piping to tar.
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- Remove SITE_PERL from *_DEPENDS
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- Remove unneeded dependencies which is in perl-5.8.9 dist
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- Update to 20060330
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Approved by: krion@
* reflect renaming on CPAN File-Spec to PathTools
+ add devel/p5-PathTools, remove devel/p5-File-Spec
+ update dependencies for all affected ports (make them unconditional),
bump PORTREVISION for these ports
module was renamed
* reflect renaming on CPAN PodParser to Pod-Parser
+ add textproc/p5-Pod-Parser, remove textproc/p5-PodParser
+ update dependencies for all affected ports (make them unconditional),
bump PORTREVISION for these ports
* for all changed ports make dependencies on File::Temp, Digest::MD5,
Storable unconditional
* remove 'CONFIGURE_ARGS= INSTALLDIRS=site' from Makefile's
(this variable is forced by bsd.port.mk now)
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* update POE-API-Hooks to 1.05
* make portlint happy (clean IGNORE, convert spaces to tabs and so on)
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- set p5-PodParser as a conditional dependency
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Convert .MSG files to multipart MIME messages.
PR: ports/47398
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Published: May 12 2005 18:48 | Last updated: May 12 2005 18:48
Humanitarian aidThe World Food Programme, the United Nations agency that is keeping millions of North Koreans alive with food aid, on Thursday dismissed western speculation of mounting internal opposition to the communist government.
Richard Ragan, based in Pyonyang with WFP, the west's biggest presence in the communist autarky, told a Washington conference that he had seen no evidence that mounting economic and outside pressure were loosening the grip on power of North Korea's rulers.
"My sense is that the government is firmly in control of the situation," he said, giving a rare insight into conditions inside the country. Recent reports that North Koreans had defaced public portraits of Kim Jong-il, the nation's leader, were "patently absurd", he said.
Mr Ragan's assessment is unlikely to be welcomed by hardliners in the Bush administration. Hawks in Washington have argued against holding negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear arsenal. They argue that only a change of regime and not the weak accord reached with the Clinton administration in 1994 is likely to lead to disarmament.
The Bush administration reaffirmed on Thursday that its food aid to North Korea was not conditional on resolving the nuclear stand-off. The US, which with Japan and China, is the North's main donor of food, has not announced aid so far for 2005, however.
The WFP maintains the largest presence of any international organisation in North Korea with five regional offices.
The security establishment within the regime tried to impose tighter controls on the WFP and non-government organisations last September but international pressure from key donors forced Pyongyang to rethink its position, Mr Ragan said.
Mr Ragan, a US citizen, described how private markets had opened across the country, not just in Pyongyang, since the government publicly acknowledged their existence in 2002.
Changes had also led to decentralisation, with provincial officials more amenable to the WFP than the central government.
But relaxation of price controls had led to 100 per cent inflation and severe hardships for civil servants and industrial workers whose wages have remained static. He gave the example of a retired teacher on a pension of 800 to 1,200 won a month, less than $1 at the unofficial exchange rate. One kilogramme of rice costs 600 won.
The UN agency fed 6.5m people last year in North Korea, nearly one-third of the population, as the isolated state sought to recover from the famine of the late 1990s which killed an estimated 2m to 3m people. Without new contributions, the WFP will only be able to feed 3m people this summer.
Japan, the main donor last year, has suspended its contribution because of a dispute over Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea.
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Another Irish adventure for couple behind video sensation
THE Canadian couple whose honeymoon video shot in Ireland became an internet sensation are set to visit again, courtesy of Tourism Ireland.
Stephen and Shannon Parker recorded more than 16 hours of footage in Ireland during their three-week trip in May.
The pair edited the video to create "A Fortnight Plus Half – An Ireland Adventure" that quickly went viral online and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times since being shared on social media site Reddit.
The couple have now been invited by Tourism Ireland and Air Canada rouge to return to Ireland to continue their adventure in 2014, or at a time that suits them.
The video, which is almost 20 minutes long, documents the pair's 2,653km journey around the island, taking in Dublin and Belfast as well as counties Antrim, Derry, Galway, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Tipperary and Wicklow.
It features footage of architecture, coastline, waterfalls, mountains and traditional music sessions.
It also incorporates footage of the food they ate and features the challenges of navigating in a foreign country and driving on the 'wrong' side of the road.
Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said the video showcased the best of the country. "Their video is a superb showcase of the island of Ireland from the dramatic beauty of places like the Giant's Causeway and Connemara National Park, to the rich history of our heritage properties like Dunluce Castle and Dunguaire Castle, which also manages to convey the friendliness and the warm welcome people receive when they come here," he said.
"It's a fantastic compilation of some of the very best things to do on holiday in Ireland, which will surely inspire other travellers around the world to come and experience the destination."
The couple are both from Toronto, but their families have connections to Ireland. Shannon's family come from Limavady in Northern Ireland, while Stephen's hail from Dublin.
Tourism Ireland will help Stephen trace more of his roots here, in advance of the couple's next visit.
Irish Independent


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text: This little number was inspired by racers wanting an out-of-the-way place to keep an active Spot beacon. It's also nice for other lsmall stuff you want close by hand. Loosen the bungees and stash a wet rain jacket or leg warmers quickly underneath the pocket. Flat - Gusseted flat style pocket with water resistant zipper. Ideal for thin objects but can expand enough to fit an ultralight wind jacket. Fabric is either diamond ripstop fabric (shown in picture) or coated nylon.


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Jumps in new home development and construction costs have builders worried that their sales prices are outpacing buyer incomes.
Dallas-Fort Worth new home prices in the first quarter hit a record high of $244,113, according to Dallas-based housing analyst Residential Strategies Inc.
And with costs such as building lots, lumber and labor rising rapidly, the outlook is for more price increases in new homes throughout 2013.
"Builders are reporting that they have increased housing prices $20,000 to $50,000 in some submarkets," Residential Strategies principal Ted Wilson said Thursday morning at a seminar for local builders.
"They are raising prices not to make more money but to keep up with the pass-through price increases they are facing."
Wilson said that lot prices in North Texas are up as much as 60 percent and lumber prices are 30 percent to 50 percent higher than a year ago.
If it wasn't for the near-record low mortgage finance costs, many buyers couldn't afford the housing being built in D-FW, he said.
"The homebuyer can now purchase almost 31 percent more house today than he could three years ago because of the drop in mortgage rates," Wilson said. "The drop in the mortgage rate is helping to mask the inflation many homebuyers are now experiencing."
More construction
Residential Strategies reports that first-quarter new home starts were up about 30 percent from the same period of 2012. The analyst is predicting that local builders will start between 20,000 and 21,000 homes in North Texas in 2013.
That's still less than half the number of houses that builders constructed in the area in 2006.
"The housing recovery is in full bloom this spring," Wilson said. "Starts are up 46 percent from the market bottom" in 2009.
The biggest rise in local home starts has been in houses priced above $300,000.
"The $300,000 to $500,000 category continues to see what we think is astounding growth," said Residential Strategies' Cassie Gibson. "Year-over-year growth was about 40 percent in this price range."
These more expensive houses account for about 1 in 4 homes being built in North Texas, she said.
Under $200,000
Starts of homes under $200,000 have grown at less than half the rate of pricier properties. This price range once accounted for more than half of the D-FW starts each year, but it's now down to about a third of total construction.
"Many submarkets are reaching historic highs in terms of the average and median home prices," Gibson said. "The market will need help in the way of rising household income levels.
"There obviously is a ceiling to how high prices can rise, and in some areas the market may be close to reaching it," she said.
Homebuilders worry about their ability to keep passing on cost increases to the consumer.
"It's the biggest concern of all builders right now," said Dustin Nelson, president of David Weekley Homes' D-FW division. "I think when the lending market for residential developers opens up a little bit more, they won't have to get the lot price increases they are asking today.
"Whether that happens fast enough for us not to stall, I have no idea."
Builder Bruno Pasquinelli, CEO of CB Jeni Homes, said the price for lots in prime North Texas subdivisions has doubled or more in the last few years.
"If the mortgage rates were to swing up a couple of percent, it would be a little difficult for us," Pasquinelli said. "The new homes in this area have been so affordable over such a long time that the market can probably withstand this, but it can't go on indefinitely."
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BROWNFIELD (Special) Services for Juanita Scarbrough, 72, of Brownfield will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Brownfield Funeral Home with the Rev. James Harris officiating.
Cremation is under the direction of Resthaven Crematory.
She died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2000, in Brownfield.
She was born Dec. 3, 1927, in Butler County, Ala. She married Warren Otha Scarbrough in 1947 in Alabama. He died Jan. 1, 1996. She moved to Brownfield in 1948. She was a cook for the Terry County Jail.
Survivors include three daughters, Sue Sharp and Ann Glogowski, both of Brownfield, and Jeanne Montalto of Fort Worth; a son, Rocky of Brownfield; a brother, John C. Boykin of Baldwin, La.; two sisters, Jeannette Londoree of Mobile, Ala., and Edith Milberger of Florence, Ala.; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
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Radlett started their Herts Premier Division campaign in style with a comprehensive 213-run win at Sawbridgeworth.
The visitors were put into bat first and opener Kabir Toor chipped in with a useful 26.
Fraser Crawford and Shane Burger enjoyed a superb 168-run partnership for the third wicket. Burger was eventually dismissed for 77 while Crawford notched an exceptional 127 off 106 balls.
This left Radlett on 246 for four but solid unbeaten scores of 26 from Chad Barrett and 39 from Rob Clements helped the visitors finish their innings on 314 for five.
Sawbridgeworth had no answer to Radlett's bowling as they slumped to 93 for seven.
Charlie Mann impressed taking four wickets as the hosts were dismissed for 111 in 31.3 overs.
Radlett are due to entertain Hemel Hempstead Town in their opening home game this weekend.
Radlett Seconds slumped to a 43-run defeat to Ickleford in Division Two.
Their opponents were dismissed for 88 in 44.1 overs but Radlett failed to take advantage of this as they were all out for just 45 inside 20.5 overs.
The Thirds also fell to a 120-run defeat against Harpenden Thirds in Division Five.
Radlett Fourths crashed to a nine-wicket defeat against Old Albanian Seconds in Division Seven.
Meanwhile Shenley Village were unlucky not to win their Division One opener at home to Luton Town & Indians.
Shenley scored a total of 259 for six from their innings. In reply, Luton were on the brink of defeat but survived on 131 for nine.
Shenley Village visit Broxbourne this weekend.


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Meeting China's Next Leader
Both the U.S. and China will go through leadership transitions in 2012. Whoever leads each country, a U.S.- China relationship based on mutual interests and mutual respect will remain as important to our security and economic interests as it has been since President Nixon's epochal trip to Beijing 40 years ago this month. This week, Xi Jinping, slated to be China's next president, visits the U.S. to build relationships with government and business as well as boost his standing at home. The trip represents another installment in the Obama administration's successful Asia policy, which has put "U.S. relations with China on a better footing than in many years." Rebalancing American attention and resources to the Asia-Pacific as the U.S. winds down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan remains a core part of that policy. As Washington slows military budget growth, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, says current force structure is sufficient to provide for America's role in securing East Asia.
China's heir apparent focuses on building relationships in America and consolidating power in China; wide range of issues on the table. Xi Jinping's visit is focused on building relationships between the presumed incumbent Chinese leader and America. As the Congressional Research Service explains, "The fact that Xi is the heir apparent to China's current top leader, Hu Jintao, who is scheduled to retire in the coming year, makes this more than an ordinary vice presidential visit. Xi's trip is designed to help him build relationships with American policymakers and legislators and introduce himself to the American business community and the American people on the eve of his becoming China's top leader. As important to the Chinese side, the trip could also play an important role in helping boost Xi's stature back home… If all goes as the Chinese leadership has planned, seven to nine months after Xi returns to China, he will be named to the top position in the Chinese Communist Party, General Secretary. He is expected to be named State President in March 2013. Barring the emergence of serious splits in the leadership, he is expected to hold both posts for two five-year terms. Xi is also on track to become the head of China's military, perhaps as early as this year." As ABC News explains, "The administration has a long list of topics to discuss with Xi, everything from trade, to the military, to human rights," which will be discussed at meetings with President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton and Defense Secretary Panetta in Washington before Xi heads to Iowa and Los Angeles during the rest of his American tour. [CRS, 2/6/12. ABC, 2/14/12]
The Xi visit represents another forward-looking part of a successful Asia policy. Forty years after President Nixon took the long view and re-opened U.S. ties with Beijing, in this month's cover story in The Atlantic longtime China watcher James Fallows credits the Obama administration with "putting U.S. relations with China on a better footing than in many years, a task that has to be among the very most important for any president of the early 21st century." Fallows writes: "Much like Nixon's approach to China, I think [the administration's Asia strategy] will eventually be studied for its skillful combination of hard and soft power, incentives and threats, urgency and patience, plus deliberate—and effective—misdirection… the strategy was Sun Tzu–like in its patient pursuit of an objective: reestablishing American hard and soft power while presenting a smiling 'We welcome your rise!' face to the Chinese. 'It was as decisive a diplomatic victory as anyone is likely to see,' Walter Russell Mead, of Bard College, often a critic of the administration, wrote about the announcement of the Australian base. 'In the field of foreign policy, this was a coming of age of the Obama administration and it was conceived and executed about as flawlessly as these things ever can be.'" [James Fallows, 3/12]
America's role as a Pacific power is not in question – strong enough for our interests, steady enough with slowing budget growth not to alarm. As AOL Defense's Colin Clark reported last month, "The complexities of the United States diplomatic and military relationships with the People's Republic of China were on full view today as the U.S. Navy's leader said he does not need a bigger force to manage our presence in the western Pacific. Adm. Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, told several hundred people that the Navy has roughly 50 ships in the western Pacific on any given day and that is enough. Greenert told the event, organized by the Center for New American Security, that there is no 'big naval buildup in the Far East' and the nation's new heightened strategic focus on the Pacific won't affect actual operations. At the same time, Greenert noted that 'this area is vital to the United States. We know that.'" [Colin Clark, 1/10/12]
What We're Reading
The Syria military intensified the bombardment of Homs in what activists are calling the heaviest shelling in days as the U.N. human rights chief raised fears of civil war.
Police and protesters clashed in Bahrain ahead of the one-year anniversary of uprisings.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a Yemeni election committee office in the southern port city of Aden one week before an election to replace departing President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Representatives of militias from western Libya announced they had established a new federation to prevent internal strife and allow them to move towards further reform.
Three explosions shook Bangkok injuring four along with an Iranian national who is the purported perpetrator.
The UK released Abu Qatada, a Jordanian-born cleric described as an inspirational figure to some of the 9/11 hijackers.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced that Japan has paved the way to restart two inactive nuclear reactors for the first time since the nuclear crisis in Fukushima.
Turkmenistan's President was re-elected with 97 percent of the vote in what some are calling a rigged election.
Moody's downgraded six European countries as anxiety mounts over the region's debt crisis and struggling economy.
Argentina's transport workers union announced a boycott of working on British flagged ships due to tensions over the Falklands Islands.
Commentary of the Day
Der Spiegel chronicles Europe's waning confidence over the Greek debt crisis.
Steve Chapman outlines why attacking Iran is a bad idea.
The Christian Science Monitor's editorial board hopes President Obama and China's Xi Jingping can establish a good working relationship.


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The U.S. Coast Guard captured public attention last February by declaring that it is cutting back its drug e nforcement activities by 55 percent. Tle reason, say Coast Guard officials, is a shortage of funds. Tle program being cut has been extremely effective and popular and last year confiscated 13,000 pounds of cocaine and arrested 624 drug smugglers. What is c urious is that while the Coast Guard is strapped for funds to fight drug smugglers, it seems to have plenty to continue providing its non-emergency towing services free-of-charge to wealthy yacht owners out of some of the same ports where drug abatement a ctivity has been sharply curtailed. In addition, it maintains buoys and other navigational aids rather than contracting out that entire function to the private sector. And it owns prime real estate in many ports.
What the Coast Guard apparently is doing is holdingits vital drug- interdiction programs hostage as it tries to get more funds from the Reagan Administration and Congress. Unfor- tunately the Reagan Administration, in requesting an additional $60 million to restore Coast Guard anti-drug services, has allowed itself to fall into a trap laid by Congress and agency bureaucrats who wish to bust last year's budget summit agreement. ,
Shutting the Washington Monument. The Coast Guard is resorting to a budget tactic known as'The Washington Monument Ploy." This is an all too common game of political blackmail where an agency, when faced with budget cuts, claims that it will have to eliminate its most valu- able or popular services. The National Park Service, for instance, might threaten to close down the W a shington Monument if Congress points its budget knife in the agency's direction. The aim, of course, is to trigger a public outcry that forces Congress to retreat and allows,the agency to keep all its money. By insisting on slashing meat, federal agencies have found that they often escape from the need to trim fat. This is what the Coast Guard is doing. In response to a mere 5 percent reduction in its $2 billion budget, the Coast Guard is slashing over half of its drug patrols. Tle Coast Guard should not b e allowed to use America's justified concern with the drug problem as a ruse to preserve its budget. Rather than requesting more money, the Reagan Administration should be pressing Congress to allow an overhaul of Coast Guard priorities, permitting the Coa st Guard to introduce user fees, speed up contracting out, and sell its real estate, using resulting savings and revenues for anti-drug sinaggling activities.
Much of the blame for this artificial Coast Guard budget crisis must rest with Congress, however. Last yea 'r lawmakers redirected $ 100 million of the Coast Guard's budget to low priority transportation programs, such as Amtrak and parochial Federal Highway Administra-
tion road projects. They did this with the intention of later passing a $100 mi llion supplemental appropriation that would give the Coast Guard all of its original funding request. Last year's budget summit agreement, however, confers to the President absolute veto power over such ad- ditional spending measures. Congress can only pa s s a supplemental if the President declares a budget emergency. Under no circumstances should the President do so. If the Coast Guard must have more funds, Congress could raise $300 million per year easily by imposing user fees on commercial and recreation a l boaters for its non-emergency services, as proposed by the 1983 Grace Commission and in 1984 by the General Accounting Office. In addition, it could raise millions of dollars immediately by selling valuable land holdings - if only Congress would allow i t to use this money for improved drug interdiction. But Congress preferred to in- vite Coast Guard bureaucrats to plead poverty and hold drug enforcement hostage to more funds. Unfortunately, the Administration is willing to do so.
Common Tactic. Yielding to Coast Guard pressure, the Department of Transportation (DOT) recently requested Congress to "reprogra&'$60 million of DOT funds from such agen- cies as Amtrak and the Federal Highway Administration to the Coast Guard budget. But was- teful spending in t hese other DOT agencies should be canceled through a presidential rescission request, not by shifting the funds to the Coast Guard. Moreover, this action in es- sence would reward the Coast Guard for using the "Washington Monument Ploy." It also reflects the White House's failure to take firm action against Executive Branch agencies that resort to this ploy. The result: the tactic has become very common.,
Representative Richard Armey, the Texas Republican, has won majority support for his amendment to the recently passed House Budget Resolution. It would require the Coast Guard to transfer to the private sector all non-emergency rescue operations in known drug smuggling areas. All resulting budget savings would be used to expand Coast Guard "law enfor- cem e nt, military readiness, and emergency search and rescue functions." In a time of budget restraints, the Armey Amendment allows the Coast Guard to use its resources for the most im- portant national needs, pressuring the agency to return to its primary res p onsibility of enforc- ing the law and ensuring the safety of the seas, rather than serving the special interests of the boating industry. The Reagan Administration thus should prohibit the Coast Guard from spending any more money on non-emergency search a n d rescue activities until it fully reac- tivates its drug enforcement program. The White House should reprimand the Coast Guard for exploiting the nation's drug crisis as a way to avoid trimming the Coast Guard budget. And the White House should order the Coast Guard to restore full funding to drug interdiction and to exercise sound management skills to pare fat and inappropriate functions from the Coast Guard budget. Stephen Moore Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs
F or further informatio n: Philip E. Fuder, Jr., "Privatizing Coast Guard Services," Citizens for a Sound Economy Issue Analysis No. 7, November 22,1985. President's Private Sector Commission on Cost Control, Task Force Report on Pfivatization (Washington, D.C.: Government Print ing Office, April 1983), pp. 181-197. General Accounting Office and Congressional Budget Office, "Analysis of the Grace Cominission's Major Proposals for Cost Control," 1984, pp. 212-214.


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For me, Friday was all about the evening's event: the BubbleQ .
In a massive, white tent on the beach, Moet & Chandon sponsored a tasting with top NYC and Miami chefs and Al Roker. [Al was hobbling when I saw him in the media area earlier that evening, I don't know why]. I never saw what Al's team was "cooking"; it looked like a photo op for the paying customers.
Upon entry, very tanned and tight young men stood holding magnums of champagne.[Too bad none were holding Balthazars!] Poor things, they were still standing when I left; they asked to go home with me. I didn't know where I'd put them all so I politely declined.
Patrons stood in long, curving lines for small plated portions of goodies; I did not indulge of course. I did giggle though when a woman asked Tom Colicchio if he could introduce her to...Tom Colicchio. To which he replied, "I am Tom."
Jeffrey Chodorow was wandering around, looking displeased. Not surprising given the recent Kobe Club reviews and rebuttals.
And I had a brief chat with Michael Luboff, Executive Chef of Mohegan Sun . When asked if Mohegan accommodates special requests and special needs in their massive casino, entertainment, dining and hotel/spa complex, he replied: "People email us all the time and we can take of every request, no problem. We're like a mom and pop outfit. Even though we're big, we can handle special needs; we do it all the time." Excellent to know!
I met a few other chefs to whom I will be talking and hopefully reviewing their restos in the coming weeks. Mainly about BBQ. Boy oh boy, I can't wait!


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Memphis entered the Battle 4 Atlantis as one of four ranked teams in possibly the most impressive in-season tournament field this year.
Following a pair of losses, the Tigers are just trying to get one win before they leave the Bahamas.
No. 19 Memphis will face Northern Iowa for the first time in the tournament's seventh-place game on Saturday.
After being overwhelmed by VCU's 3-point shooting in a 78-65 opening-round loss on Thursday, Memphis (2-2) had no answer for Minnesota's Andre Hollins in Friday's consolation semifinal. The Tigers lost 84-75, and surrendered a career-high 41 points to Hollins - the most points scored by one player against Memphis since 2005.
The Tigers allowed the Golden Gophers to shoot 51.0 percent, with Hollins, a Memphis native, going 12 of 16 from the field and 5 of 5 from 3-point range. Memphis remains without an impressive win this season, only defeating North Florida and Samford.
"All the criticism and blame always fall on me as it should," said coach Josh Pastner, whose team started 6-5 last year before finishing 26-9. "But there is no need to push the panic button. This is just part of the journey. We still have a chance to be scary good with all the talent we have."
The Tigers hit 57.7 percent of their shots in the first half but went cold in the second, shooting 35.1 percent. Hollins outscored Memphis 9-3 in the game's final 1:14. Memphis also faltered at the free throw line late, going 5 for 12 in the second half after hitting 9 of their 10 foul shots in the first period.
"We had chances down the stretch but we turned the ball over and missed a load of free throws," Pastner said. "Boy, did that bite us in the butt."
The Tigers did get a career-high 15 points from D.J. Stephens, who set a personal best with three 3-pointers and also recorded seven rebounds. Memphis had better luck from the perimeter as a team, going 5 of 11 after hitting 12 of 41 (29.3 percent) in its first three games.
But Pastner will need better play from starting point guard Joe Jackson, who scored two points in seven minutes Friday.
"Joe's going to be better than that," Pastner said. "We know he will be better. I believe in Joe and he will snap out of it."
Northern Iowa (3-2) gave No. 2 Louisville all it could handle in a five-point loss Thursday but was blown out by Stanford 66-50 Friday.
The Panthers struggled with their shots, going 17 of 46 and hitting 6 of their 22 3-point attempts. Leading scorer Deon Mitchell - who entered the tournament averaging a team-best 17.7 points - was again held in check, scoring nine. He was 2 of 10 for six points Thursday.
Northern Iowa also committed 16 turnovers against Stanford, which the Cardinal converted into 26 points.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer on Wednesday announced that a major sporting event is coming to the newly reconstructed Citrus Bowl.
The announcement was made outside the Citrus Bowl.
The new game, dubbed the Cure Bowl, will debut December 19, 2015, and will feature teams from the American Athletic and Sun Belt conferences. The game will benefit breast cancer charities.
The Citrus Bowl is currently under a $200 million makeover and is scheduled to be completed by late November for the Florida Classic.
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Mar 23, 2011
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I just filled up on some lunch and I'm ready to jump into the next session entitled, Information Architecture for the Modern Website, which, explains how to design a website that meets the needs of the social, real user.
Shari Thurow is the founder and SEO Director for Omni Marketing Interactive. You can follow Shari on twitter at @sharithurow.
Thurow continued with "broad and shallow is better than narrow and deep," when referring to prioritization.
Web thesaurus compendium is a great tool for keyword research.
According to Thurow, Mayo Clinic is a great example of information architecture at its finest. Navigation labels are KEY, and as you can see, they're everywhere on this website.
Search engines treat embedded text links differently, Embedded text links have more value. Make sure to know your categories and dates.
Blog titles and heading should have keywords. Headlines appear in social media sites (you absolutely have to think ahead of time). That being said, choose your acronyms wisely. Make sure the target you are talking to understands what you mean! Real time search can turn in to long time benefits.
Principle of front doors- assume that everyone doesn't come through the home page (65% of people). "You have to have links in place to compensate when those links disappear [from the blog home page]," Thurow explains.
According to Thurow, websites having 102 – 104 links on a page are ranking the highest in search engines.
It's all about the 'Principle of Choice.' If the user only has one choice, they'll feel threatened, however, if the user has too many choice it all becomes white noise. It's best to meet in the middle – four links are good, but no more than 13. If there are more than 13, people will start to get frustrated. Split it up!
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France has revealed the existence of two more journalists taken hostage in Syria, after the prime minister identified them in a radio interview, apparently by mistake.
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I´m 24 years old and I´m living in Berlin. I love travelling and I hope to find a lot of people with my same interests on CS.
I´m easygoing and generally laid back, might be shy at first but it doesn´t last long.
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DUNEDIN A couple of weeks of intensive field work around the bag does not a major-league first baseman make, but Adam Lind has not looked at all out of place so far.
After a couple of seasons as a DH and as a left fielder before that, Lind is coming back to the position he played as a kid and in college. Theres a steep learning curve involved and the true apprenticeship wont begin until hes in game situations but he relishes the challenge.
I just feel so much more valuable to the team right now, even though we havent even played a game yet, said Lind Tuesday. The work Ive been doing, with everyone chattering ... Escobar, Hill, Ive got a good group of guys out there who wont let too many bad things happen.
Lind and Edwin Encarnacion have both been working at first in a group that includes the main characters who will be on the field with them all season. Aaron Hill at second base, Yunel Escobar at short and Jose Bautista at third. As a unit, they engage in 30 minutes of up-tempo fielding practice every day.
Its definitely different than hanging out in the outfield, said Lind. I feel good. Im just trying to get into a solid rhythm. I dont know a whole lot yet but I can tell I have good footwork and timing sometimes and sometimes I dont.
Mike Mordecai, the Jays roving fielding instructor, worked with Lind over the winter and is still involved in his transition in spring training.
Once he gets up in the stadium, gets accustomed to his surroundings there and starts seeing the ball under different circumstances, open or closed, day games, night games, his reactions will get a little bit better, said Mordecai.
Where Lind stands and how much, and where, he needs to improve will start to become evident when the games begin later this week.
Thats the final step: See what happens when we have baserunners and are holding people on, said Lind. See how I throw on cutoffs and relays or for double plays.
We havent even been out there yet with real hitters. Youve got all the different quirky spins that can happen off the end of the bat. Weve got 30-some games and I probably wont get every scenario because you never do in this game, but hopefully Ill get to experience a lot of the things that can happen at first base.
It is not all going to be smooth sailing. It cant possible be, given all the demands of the position coupled with Linds inexperience. Nobody is expecting him to remind us of Don Mattingly or Steve Garvey or even Lyle Overbay. He just needs to make the routine plays consistently.
His attitude still remains the same as it was the first day we presented it to him, said manager John Farrell. He remains fully confident that hell make this transition successfully.
The game speed will dictate a little bit more of that.
Lind also believes that playing a regular defensive position will help him at the plate, especially coming off a season that did not measure up to his own standards.
I havent hit at this level, said Farrell, but I think its a very rare individual that can be a productive hitter when he does have down time. In this case, Adam has the chance to go out and contribute in a game on the defensive side.
Theres a sentiment on the coaching staff, particularly by (hitting coach Dwayne Murphy) who feels that being on the field is going to be a definite benefit for him.
Despite the uncertainty that surrounds this experiment, the Jays still have a security blanket in Encarnacion. His problems in the field have not been with his glove. He can pick the ball with anyone. The only reason hes been found wanting at third base has been his erratic arm.
At first base, he will be required to throw less frequently and in drills this spring, he is making all the plays with his glove. So if Lind needs to take some time to adjust, Encarnacion will be a more than adequate backup. That said, the betting here is that Lind will survive and thrive.
Hes had a crash course but hes handled it really well, said Mordecai, who played 11 seasons with the Braves, Expos and Marlins.
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In the last three articles, I've been walking you through the creation of an end-to-end BlackBerry application that will serve as a mobile front-end to my Knowledge Base sample web application.
In the third part of this series, I finished the areas of the application that store and retrieve data from the device's memory. Together with storing data on the device, the ability to use the network is vital for most applications. Today, I will be showing you how the application will communicate with its server-side service.
But first, let's do a little refactoring.
Yes, after working with the Options class for a while, I decided that, since it not just deals with application settings, a better name for it would be DataStore. "DataStore" better explains the intent of the class.
There is a plethora of information regarding HTTP connections. I will leave most of it out of this article, and focus only on what's strictly needed for our application to be able to send HTTP requests and consume HTTP responses.
Two things I should mention are the javax.microedition.io.HttpConnection interface, which defines the necessary methods and constants for an HTTP connection, and javax.microedition.io.Connector, the Factory class for creating connections.
For my networking tasks, I have reused and adapted some code that I obtained from the existing BlackBerry sample code online. The bulk of the HTTP handling code will conform to contracts defined in two separate interfaces, HTTPTransport and HTTPTransportListener.
HTTPTransport is an interface that defines the methods for creating HTTP requests.
* Defines the methods to send HTTP requests.
public interface HTTPTransport {
public void send(final String requestMethod,
final String URL, final String requestData);
public void send(final String requestMethod,
final String URL, final String requestData,
final String[] headerKeys, final String[] headerValues);
public void setHTTPTransportListener(HTTPTransportListener t);
public void removeHTTPTransportListener();
KbHTTPTransport is a helper class which can make HTTP requests by implementing the methods defined in HTTPTransport. KbHTTPTransport will notify an attached HTTPTransportListener with the response to the request. HTTPTransportListener is an interface that defines the methods a class must have in order to process the response from an HTTP request.
So far, the only place in the application where there's a need to send HTTP requests is the Articles Screen. Implementing HTTPTransportListener enables our Articles Screen to process HTTP responses:
public void processResponse(final int HTTPResponseCode, final String data) {
UiApplication.getUiApplication().invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run()
switch (HTTPResponseCode) {
case (KbHTTPTransport.NOT_IN_COVERAGE):
Dialog.alert("Not in coverage.");
case HttpConnection.HTTP_OK:
// TODO: Check all the http error codes you are interested in.
// for example HttpConnection.HTTP_FORBIDDEN
Dialog.alert("There was an error with the request.");
From the multiple formats for transmitting serialized data over the net, namely XML, binary, etc., I decided to send and receive data in the form of strings, where the contents of a response are a custom-formatted strings that represent a list of articles.
A formatted list of articles would look like this:
where the sequence "^~^" separates the fields of an article, and the sequence "~^~" separates one article from the next.
Notice how this is a pretty simple format that is both easy to use and light in terms of the number of characters transmitted (think about how verbose XML is).
The parseResponseData() routine is where we de-serialize the response string and create a list of Article instances.
private void parseResponseData(String data) {
// Parse out each article from the string data
// Format: id^~^title^~^dateCreated^~^author^~^
//tag1,tag2,...^~^contents~^~<NEXT RECORD>
Vector articlesVector = new Vector();
int index = 0;
int length = data.length();
while (index != -1 && index < length - 1){
if (index == 0) index = -1;
Article article = new Article();
article.id = data.substring(++index ,
index = data.indexOf(FIELD_SEPARATOR, index));
index += 3;
article.title = data.substring(index ,
index = data.indexOf(FIELD_SEPARATOR, index));
index += 3;
article.dateCreated = data.substring(index,
index = data.indexOf(FIELD_SEPARATOR, index));
index += 3;
article.author = data.substring(index,
index = data.indexOf(FIELD_SEPARATOR, index));
index += 3;
String tags = data.substring(index,
index = data.indexOf(FIELD_SEPARATOR, index));
article.tags = StringUtilities.stringToWords(tags);
index += 3;
article.contents = data.substring(index,
index = data.indexOf(RECORD_SEPARATOR, index));
index += 2;
articles = new Article[articlesVector.size()];
At this point in time, I need to be able to test my networking code without the presence of the server side code (it doesn't exist yet). In order to achieve this, I have built an implementation of HTTPTransport called MockHTTPTransport, which creates different kinds of responses that simulate the scenarios that could occur when working with HTTP requests – timeouts, failed authentication, etc.
class MockHTTPTransport implements HTTPTransport {
private HTTPTransportListener listener = null;
MockHTTPTransport() { }
public void setHTTPTransportListener(HTTPTransportListener t){
listener = t;
public void removeHTTPTransportListener(){
listener = null;
public void send(final String requestMethod, final String URL,
final String requestData){
send(requestMethod, URL, requestData, null, null);;
public void send(final String requestMethod, final String URL,
final String requestData, final String[] headerKeys,
final String[] headerValues) {
// Since this is just for testing purposes,
// in here we will return a list or articles,
// as if we had just gotten them via an http request.
private void createArticlesListResponse() {
// Create the articles.
Article[] articles = new Article[15];
Article article;
for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
article = new Article();
article.id = String.valueOf(i);
article.title = "Dummy article " + Integer.toString(i);
article.author = "doej";
article.contents = "This is a test article";
article.tags = new String[] {"tag 1", "tag 2", "tag 3"};
article.dateCreated = "01/01/2008";
articles[i] = article;
String FIELD_SEPARATOR = "^~^";
String RECORD_SEPARATOR = "~^~";
//Create the the simulated response data
//with the information from the articles.
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < articles.length; i++) {
article = articles[i];
StringBuffer tags = new StringBuffer();
for (int j = 0; j < article.tags.length; j++) {
tags.append(article.tags[j] + ",");
// Remove the last ","
tags.deleteCharAt(tags.length() - 1);
// Format: id^~^title^~^dateCreated^~^author^~^
//tag1,tag2,...^~^contents~^~<NEXT RECORD>
response.append(article.id + FIELD_SEPARATOR +
article.title + FIELD_SEPARATOR +
article.dateCreated + FIELD_SEPARATOR + article.author +
FIELD_SEPARATOR + tags + FIELD_SEPARATOR + article.contents +
int httpResponseCode = HttpConnection.HTTP_OK;
// Introduce a delay to simulate latency.
try {
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {}
The next article of this series will be dedicated to the server side of the application. On the server side, I will put together the code to handle incoming HTTP requests, retrieve information from the database, and send responses back to the application on the BlackBerry device.
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)


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as Rwada burns the world watches with disgust
only to close there eyes when bullets flare
bodies cover the earth beneath dust
As the people of Somalia wither away
like plants without feed
the rich wash there mouth with golden pearls
Africa will forever bleed
why are they being ignored
to be murdered and raped
straved by a society
that refuses to but food on their plates
As the people of Congo
disappear like raindrops through the wind
their wounds will stay forever open
for they feed on there own skin
is the world blinded
or is it that they refuse to see
how can they turn there backs on them....us
how can they refuse humanity
ten thousand
one million
a billion
what number claims genocide
how many will have to die
before hate is identified
why's the holocaust over
and millions of Africans die every day
could it be the color of our skin
thats causes the world to take a look the other way
why's a continent allowed to die
while the rest of the world reconsructs
how can the world live with our cries
when will they look beneath the dust......
The world is watching Africa
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Posted 08 May 2005 - 06:51 AM
Great poem, but I don't think this is the right section...
Or are you aiming to start a debate with the poem?
Or are you aiming to start a debate with the poem?
Posted 12 May 2005 - 08:41 AM
Amazing isn't it, instead of spending money on food and medicine for third world countries like Africa were too busy shelling out for uranium tipped shells.
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Bars, Lines, & Pies!
Welcome to Bars, Lines, & Pies, a dynamic math program designed to build graphing skills in students, while showing them the relevance of math in their lives. Developed by The Actuarial Foundation along with Scholastic, the graphing lessons and activities inside involve engaging, real-world examples about the environment and recycling. We hope you enjoy this great new program!
In the lessons and activities for this unit, students will create, apply, and analyze pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.
Lesson 1: Peering into Pie Charts
Lesson 2: Bar Graphs: A Statistical Skyline
Lesson 3: Looking Through Line Graphs
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Family Activity 1: Subtracting Waste = Adding Trees: Read All About It!
Family Activity 2: Water: How Much Do You Consume?
Family Activity 3: Energy Equations for the Future
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Reproducible Activity 1: Peering into Pie Charts
Bonus Activity 1: Recycling by the Numbers: It's Easy as Pie
Reproducible Activity 2: Bar Graphs
Bonus Activity 2: Water Conservation: What Are the Winning Numbers?
Reproducible Activity 3: Looking Through Line Graphs
Bonus Activity 3: Tap the Math Facts Behind Bottled Water