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At least one person has died with one army official saying as many as six people had lost their lives, and several people had been wounded.
The prime minister and president are said to be unharmed.
Both men took office following elections last September deemed to be the first fair such vote for 42 years.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, an academic and civic activist, beat the incumbent in a run-off vote to become president.
He then appointed his close associate, former businessman Abdi Farah Shirdon as prime minister.
The new government is trying to rebuild the country after 20 years of conflict.
One of its biggest challenges is the al-Qaeda-aligned Islamist group, al-Shabab, which still controls large areas of rural southern and central Somalia.
Details of what exactly happened are not yet clear, but the attacker appeared to have been close to the entrance to the sprawling compound known as Villa Somalia that houses both the president's and prime minister's offices.
One guard told Reuters news agency that one soldier had died and two others wounded, but a military official told AFP news agency that six people had died and several had been injured.
"The bomber was sitting near a perimeter wall and detonated himself in the midst of a group of security forces," the official, Abdukadir Ali, told AFP.
No-one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
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According to a report from Bruce Levine, Alfonso Soriano would accept a trade from the Cubs … but only to a contender.
Alfonso Soriano addressed the trade rumors Friday at the convention and said he would only accept a trade that works out well for him and his family. Soriano likes playing for the Cubs and is comfortable with the team.
Soriano has a full no-trade clause in his contract.
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Fidel Castro resigned as president of Cuba in February 2008 at the age of 81, thus ending his 49-year tenure as the country's unrivaled leader. His younger brother and longtime minister of defense, 76-year-old Raúl Castro, was elevated to the presidency, which thereby formalized the transfer of power that had initially occurred in July 2006 when a serious stomach illness forced Fidel to relinquish power on a provisional basis. While younger officials, such as economic czar Carlos Lage and Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque, remained in prominent roles, expectations of generational change were dampened when Raúl appointed 77-year-old José Ramón Machado, a top communist apparatchik, as the new first vice president and named 72-year-old Julio Casas the new minister of defense. Though officially retired, Fidel remained active by writing provocative columns about international affairs in the Cuban newspaper Granma; although Fidel never appeared in public, he remained in the public eye through the release of a small number of carefully selected photographs and video clips.
During his inauguration speech, Raúl hinted that the government would embrace a limited path of economic reform under the banner of the Communist Party, and in March 2008 the government approved a series of new economic measures. These included lifting a ban on the ability of ordinary Cubans to buy consumer electronic goods, such as DVD players and cell phones, and dropping a stricture that prevented Cubans from staying in the country's top tourist hotels. After introducing a plan in April that allowed thousands of Cubans to receive titles to their homes, the government eliminated salary caps and raised pensions for the country's more than two million retirees. The state also began to allow market forces to take root in the agricultural sector by permitting farmers to select crops and to play a larger role in making decisions about land use. In late August and early September, however, Cuba was struck in rapid succession by major hurricanes Gustav and Ike; more than 100,000 homes were damaged, and 30% of the country's crops were destroyed. The government estimated that storm damages would exceed $5 billion and forecast an extended period of food crisis and economic downturn. As a result, Cuba was unlikely to match the 7.5% growth rate achieved in 2007, and the pace of economic reform was crippled.
Cuba reported that its top trading partner in 2007 was Venezuela ($2.7 billion), followed by China ($2.5 billion), Canada ($1.4 billion), and Spain ($1.2 billion). The U.S. (in the fifth spot) ranked among Cuba's largest trading partners, owing to a record $582 million in all-cash sales from American food producers to Cuba; the deal was made possible by a loophole in the U.S. embargo approved by Congress in 2000.
On a political level, U.S.-Cuban relations remained frozen through much of 2008, symbolized by the two countries' inability to agree on the terms of hurricane relief assistance following the onslaught of Gustav and Ike. U.S. authorities offered Cuba $5 million in emergency aid, but the Cuban government rebuffed the offer and instead called for the lifting of the U.S. embargo. U.S. presidential election victor Barack Obama called for increased dialogue between the U.S. and Cuban governments and favoured lifting restrictions on the travel of Cuban Americans to visit family members in Cuba. In November Russian Pres. Dmitry Medvedev paid a visit to Cuba, sightseeing with Raúl Castro and later meeting privately with Fidel. The following month President Castro, making his first official foreign trip since assuming office in 2006, traveled to Venezuela, where he met with Pres. Hugo Chávez.
Popular disaffection with the Castro government came to the fore in January following the release of a videotape that showed computer science student Eliécer Ávila at a town hall forum sharply questioning government policies in an encounter with the National Assembly president, Ricardo Alarcón. Shortly thereafter, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez surged to worldwide attention with her ironic and critical musings about the Cuban reality on her popular blog Generation Y. Internet access on the island remained tightly controlled, however. In August, Cuban punk rocker Gorki Aguila was arrested for the crime of "social dangerousness," sparking an outcry among the country's youth. The number of political prisoners dipped slightly, from 234 to 219, during the year.


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Man gets life for murdering woman
A callous conman "motivated by sheer greed" has been jailed for life for stabbing a wealthy woman to death in her flat, hiding her body in the boot of a car and spending her money on the high life.
Rakesh Bhayani, 41, was sentenced to a minimum of 27 years at the Old Bailey for the murder of Carole Waugh, said to have been a lonely woman who worked as an amateur escort and who believed that he was her friend.
Her money was squandered on high living in casinos and top West End hotels, with thousands of pounds spent on gambling, alcohol and prostitutes.
Sentencing Bhayani, Mr Justice Wilkie said he "ruthlessly targeted" Ms Waugh and "left her body to rot".
The murder and subsequent dumping of the body was done with "greed, callousness and total lack of any regard" for her, the judge said.
Ms Waugh, 49, died at her flat, where she lived alone, in Marylebone, central London.
Her body was placed in a bag which was carried to a car. The vehicle was initially stored in a central London car park, then left in a rented garage in New Malden, south-west London.
Police described Bhayani as "a confidence trickster who murdered her with the sole intention of stripping her assets and the belongings she had worked hard for".
The murder arose "out of an argument about money", while the judge described Ms Waugh as a "risk taker and manifestly vulnerable to conmen".
Mr Justice Wilkie said: "Without a second thought, you calmly and comprehensively set about stealing her identity. You took steps to ensure her body would not be found for a sufficient time."
Bhayani embarked on the complete "asset stripping of her persona", the judge said.
Ms Waugh's family were in court for the sentencing and heard the murder was "not premeditated or pre-planned".
Mr Justice Wilkie sentenced Bhayani, of Chamberlayne Avenue, Wembley, to life with a minimum of 27 years in jail.
The judge said Bhayani's actions in persisting with the fraud after killing Ms Waugh were "breathtakingly wicked".
"Your compulsion to feed your addictions to risk-taking and gambling and your amorality and selfishness overwhelmed any notion of decency or restraint," he added.
As well as the life sentence, Bhayani was given six years for perverting the course of justice, six years for conspiracy to commit fraud and 40 months for three counts of fraud - all of which are to run concurrently with the life sentence.
Co-accused Nicholas Kutner, 48, of no fixed address, was jailed for a total of 13 years - seven years for perverting the course of justice by concealing the death, and six years for conspiracy to defraud.
Police said the pair lived a "champagne lifestyle".
The judge said Bhayani was the "instigator and chief organiser of the fraud", and they spent Ms Waugh's money on "hotels, casinos and escorts".
The court heard that the two conmen used Ms Waugh's identity to defraud banks and other institutions, within three months, of more than £250,000 worth of assets.
The court heard earlier that Bhayani had a "deep-seated and unavoidable addiction to gambling".
The judge said Kutner was in the flat when Bhayani murdered Ms Waugh and was then on board with the actions to conceal her death and thwart the investigation into her murder.
He said the concealment of Ms Waugh's body was "a job for two people" and they were both "motivated by sheer greed".
Before the sentencing, a statement from Ms Waugh's family was read out in which she was described as "loving, supportive and great fun".
The statement, signed by her brother, Christopher Waugh, spoke of the "disbelief, dismay, darkness" as the family had to "face our worst fears" in the wake of the murder.
"Why would the authorities not take her disappearance seriously?" the statement asked.
The court heard that five days after Ms Waugh's funeral, her mother collapsed and later died "broken-hearted", unable to understand how and why the tragic events unfolded.
The statement said the family always looked forward to Ms Waugh's visits, "especially Mum".
"She was loving, supportive and great fun. Her home visits were memorable.
"She always had great stories to tell. She turned these stories into adventures.
"For Mum, who rarely ventured out of the county of Durham, these stories were an insight not only into Carole's life, but into the world as a whole. London, Libya, Australia, Italy, Dubai (to name but a few) were all brought to life by Carole.
"We all looked forward to Carole's visits, especially Mum. They would plan shopping trips - nothing special but real quality time between a mother and a daughter.
"Happy days indeed," the statement said.
Detective Chief Inspector Justin Davies, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command (HMCC), said Ms Waugh's murder was "the senseless killing of a woman who put her trust in people she thought were her friends".
He said: "Bhayani clearly had no intention of friendship with Carole.
"Bhayani is a confidence trickster who murdered her and stripped her assets and the belongings she had worked hard for.
"Both men are compulsive liars who have deceived and defrauded their own families, friends and acquaintances throughout their entire adult lives. They went to extreme lengths to defraud Carole.
"Her body was placed in a boot of a car and left for months in car parks and a lock-up garage. Both men did not waste any time in spending her money, using it to buy gold, use prostitutes and live a champagne lifestyle.
"While Carole's body lay undiscovered, they showed no regard for her family, who they knew were desperately seeking to trace her.
"Ms Waugh was a wealthy woman; her years of hard work both in the UK and abroad were squandered in matter of three months.
"They took almost everything she worked for with exception of two bracelets which remained on her body. These were difficult to prise off her wrists and I have no doubt, if able to, they would have taken these items too."


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Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 | 12:37 p.m.
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Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, is sponsoring legislation that would require the state to issue a driver's privilege card to undocumented immigrants and other Nevadans who don't want to jump through the stricter identification hoops for a true driver's license.
The driver's privilege card could not be used for identification but would allow undocumented immigrants and others to drive legally and obtain liability insurance, Denis said.
"In 2006, I did the research and I was ready to do a bill draft request, but I didn't have enough support to do it," Denis said. "So, it's never been tried officially before now."
Denis's Democratic co-sponsors for the driver's privilege card include Assemblyman Steven Brooks, Assemblywoman Irene Bustamante-Adams, Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz, Assemblywoman Lucy Flores and Sen. Ruben Kihuen.
No Republican co-sponsors have signed on to the proposed legislation.
Denis said issuing driver's privilege cards to undocumented immigrants is a safety issue, not an immigration issue. Still, the notion has been controversial in other states, as opponents argue immigrants who broke the law to come to the United States shouldn't be granted the privilege to drive.
Denis contends the ability to drive legally would prompt more undocumented immigrants to obtain insurance, increasing safety for all motorists.
"This really is an issue about safety," Denis said. "We've had a lot of hit-and-runs that occur because of individuals driving without a license.
"So, the concept is basically giving somebody permission to drive. This isn't just about undocumented individuals. Some people are here legally on a visa and normally wouldn't be allowed to get a license. Or maybe there is a citizen who wouldn't want to go through the process now for the driver's license with all of the requirements under the Real ID act."
Denis said Gov. Brian Sandoval expressed support for the concept in a brief phone conversation with Denis.
"He is good with the concept, he just needs to see the details," Denis said.
"I think that we are going to get Republican support on the issue. If you really look at it, the true issue is a safety issue."
Mere weeks after Hispanic voters played an influential — and growing — role in the 2012 election, state lawmakers are jumping on policy issues seen as favorable to the Latino voting bloc.
Last week, Sandoval backed a state policy that allows the DMV to issue driver's licenses to young immigrants brought to the country illegally who are eligible for a deportation reprieve through Obama's deferred action program.
The leadership of the Senate Republican caucus also expressed support for that policy.
Denis' driver's privilege legislation is modeled after a similar law originally passed in Utah in 2005. That state recently passed amendments requiring immigrants to submit fingerprints and criminal background checks to renew or obtain a card — restrictions that Denis said he isn't entirely supportive of.
Denis also said Nevada would have to work out protections for immigrants worried that such a card would help Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials identify and deport them.
"That's something that came up in Utah and they were able to work out," Denis said. "ICE just can't come in and do that. ICE doesn't normally do that anyway. For me, we are going to have to have some kind of assurance that this is not going to happen."


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It's not exactly "Give Me the Damn Ball!" that old autobiography by Keyshawn Johnson, the outspoken former New York Jets receiver. Yet each week, Seahawks wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh spews more dissatisfaction with his first season with Seattle.
"I just got to get these coaches to realize, throw me the ball," Houshmandzadeh said yesterday, another variation on a public request he's had for weeks.
"Maybe I've said it too much," he said. "I just got to show them now."
Houshmandzadeh was the prime free-agent receiver last spring, finally available for king's riches after seasons of 90, 112 and 92 receptions with the Cincinnati Bengals the previous three years — the most in the NFL in that span.
He has 27 catches this season, 10th in the league, months after he signed a five-year contract that is believed to be worth $40 million with $15 million guaranteed.
That's his fewest receptions through five games since 2005. The Seahawks host Arizona tomorrow.
Around the league
•Washington could be without Pro Bowl left tackle Chris Samuels for the remainder of the season. Samuels suffered a stinger last week and already has a narrowing of the spine.
•Detroit QB Matthew Stafford (knee) is questionable for the Lions' game.
•Pittsburgh running back Rashard Mendenhall is expected to start against the Browns after a day off with flulike symptoms.
•New York Jets wide receivers Jerricho Cotchery and Brad Smith are doubtful to play against Buffalo after missing a third straight day of practice because of injuries.
•The NFL fined Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis $25,000 for two separate plays, including a helmet-to-helmet hit on Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco. After the game, the boisterous receiver used his Twitter account to ask NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for leniency.


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I play WMV files on Media Player Classic (works better than VLC for WMV)
I had version 184.108.40.206 from the K-Lite Codec Pack.
But recently the playback started to get jumpy/hashed instead of going smoothly (I don't know how to explain and I hope you know what I mean).
I decided to install Media Player Classic HomeCinema v1.1.604.0.
When I open a file from the player it now plays fine.
But when I try to open a file from the explorer, MPC opens but then it says "File Not Found"
Can someone please help me.
My OS is XP Pro SP2
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right click on what you want to open. select open with. choose program/browse. navigate to where you installed mpch. select the .exe, and close. it should now be able to locate the program to open the file with.
I had the same problem and I solved it by:
1 Open Folder Options under Tools in Windows Explorer.
2 Select the File Types tab
3 Scroll down and click on the file type (in my case it was m2v)
4 Click Advanced
5 Click New
6 Under Action enter "Play with MPCHC" (without the quotes)
7 Click Browse, locate and 'open' the program (mplayerc.exe)
8 Click OK
9 Click OK
10 Close Folder Options.
After doing the above, when you right click the file you should have the option "Play with MPCHC" in the dropdown."Shut up Wesley!" -- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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I have had this problem with Media Player Classic on several computers. What happens is that when you associate the file type, say MOV, with MPC, Windows creates the line "C:\Program Files\MplayerClassic\mplayerc.exe" %1 where %1 means the file being clicked. For some reason that does not work with MPC but if you enclose the %1 in parenthesis the command will work: "C:\Program Files\MplayerClassic\mplayerc.exe" "%1".
'Hope that helps.
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Originally Posted by fontana
I have found a fix. I have tryed alot of thing reccomended on alot of other fourms about this same problem. None worked for me, then I saw that the Media player Classic was located in
"C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mplayerc.exe"
but when I associate the file type for avi with MPC-HC windows creates the following line
"C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mplayerc.exe" "%1"
Notice windows created the wrong line. It shouuld have created the line:
"C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mplayerc.exe" "%1"
but it created
"C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic - Home Cinema\mplayerc.exe" "%1"
So for a quick fix I went to My Computer> C drive> Program Files and renamed MPC-HC with Media Player Classic - Home Cinema. And It has fixed it. I can now play my avi files using MPC-HC
If you can't be bothered reading the ubove then follow the instructions below:
1: Locate C:\Program Files\MPC-HC (or where ever you installed MPC-HC)
2: Rename the folder 'MPC-HC' to 'Media Player Classic - Home Cinema' (without the quotes)
3: Check if it works
4: If it dosn't then read everything ubove, it's all I can do to help.
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By Emily Sorensen
There's some new royalty in town, with the crowning of Poway's 2013 rodeo queens Saturday night.
Eleven contestants from Poway and around San Diego county competed for three queen titles, Young Miss, Junior Queen, and Senior Queen at the pageant, held Saturday at Midland Elementary School. Serving as Poway's new rodeo royalty are Senior Queen Rachel Owens-Sarno, Junior Queen Jessica Phillips and Young Miss Sarah Hans.
While usually an annual event, outgoing queens Brittney Phillips, Bridgette LaHaye and Halie Winder have been serving for two years.
The hopeful queens were judged in three different areas: horsemanship, the contestant interview and the pageant itself. The girls competing ranged in age from 23 all the way down to 10 years old.
The road to rodeo queen is two-three month process, and includes weekly meetings and regular horsemanship practices. "Rodeo knowledge is extremely important," said Owens-Sarno.
Owens-Sarno, 20, who has previously held three other rodeo queen titles in Ramona, Lakeside and the Bull's Only rodeo, has been competing for six years. Hailing from Lakeside, she is a student at Grossmont Community College and hopes to someday be a horse surgeon.
Phillips, 16, is a junior at Ramona High School. She is the younger sister of outgoing Senior Queen Brittney Phillips, and has been riding for most of her life. Phillips has also competed in junior barrel racing. Having her sister as the outgoing Senior Queen is a blessing to Phillips, who said that Brittney has been a big help to her. "I definitely can't get away with anything," Phillips said. "She helps a lot."
Sarah Hans, 12, of Ramona, is a seventh-grader at St. Michael's School in Poway.
As Poway's new rodeo queens, Owens-Sarno, Phillips and Hans will act as "PR to the sport of rodeo and the community of Poway," said Phillips. "We want to bring people to the rodeo." Their duties will include news interviews, school visits, and carrying the sponsor flags at the Poway Rodeo.


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by Allie Silver
I vaguely remember being a young teenager, standing in a pitch-black room watching the ceilings open up like a floodgate to let out water and confetti that welcomed a large cast of personalities that flew around the room while banging on drums. Nearly ten years later, that production of De La Guarda that enchanted me as a child in New York City sticks in my memory like a faded dream. I even have the program guarded away in my childhood bedroom.
During college I came to Buenos Aires to study, and almost immediately I felt a connection to this city. Its people, its idiosyncrasies, it opened up a part of me that was waiting to be unlocked. Studying radio and film, I became deeply entrenched in the music scene, and was most intrigued by the younger generation's modern approach to traditional South American music. I was most intrigued by an artist named King Coya, who weaves organic northern folk rhythms with electronic technologies. I was completely seduced by this fresh combination of the old and the new, and I returned to my radio program in Chicago with an enormous stack of new music that I studied religiously.
When Fuerza Bruta arrived to the United States it was recommended to me as an Argentine production. The previews I saw made me flashback to that childhood memory of De La Guarda and I slowly began to learn why. I discovered that De La Guarda was the predecessor to Fuerza Bruta, that its creator Diqui James was a longtime friend and collaborator of Gaby Kerpel, aka King Coya, who composed the music for both productions. That that initial enchantment with De La Guarda was the beginning, although unbeknownst to me, of my love affair with Argentina.
During its run in Chicago I immediately sought out a contact for the director Diqui James, and was fortunate enough to speak with him about the show that breaks all the rules of theater, bringing out everyone's inner child.
Allie Silver: Tell me about your background growing up in Argentina, your involvement with De La Guarda and La Organización Negra, how did your work in alternative sensory theater come to be?
Diqui James: Well I was very lucky to make it out of high school. It was exactly the moment when the dictatorship ended in Argentina. It was a very bad time in Argentina. Everything was forbidden. So when I was about 19 there was a big cultural explosion, especially in Buenos Aires. I started learning acting and became involved with a group called La Organización Negra, which was named after all of the black lists. The late 80s was a very good moment culturally because we were working with artists from different backgrounds. The organization we created was really dark and violent, and we began doing things in order to interact with the audience. We were writing on the walls, playing with fire. We wanted to do something new. But the organization was a little too young, a little to anarchist, we wanted to sell tickets and some members of the group didn´t like the idea of selling art, so in 1993 La Organización Negra split and with a few of those people De La Guarda was formed.
That is the great thing about Fuerza Bruta. It´s has been a long time coming. We have a team of people that have worked together since we were very young. For more than 20 years and so we understand one another. We have a lot of fun together. When I was a kid to think that I´d be in New York or Chicago, coming from Buenos Aires, it was something I never expected. And now being able to do new shows, it´s really a lot of fun.
I saw De La Guarda before when I was much younger, and want to know what is the difference between De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta? How is Fuerza an evolution upon what you were working on with De La Guarda?
With De La Guarda we said, let´s throw our bodies in the air. Let´s write on the walls. Let´s fly over the audience. It was that same spirit of celebration and craziness. Then I started to work thinking about the sets. The set pieces and the machinery. The interaction between the performers, that intimacy between the performers and the audience, that was going to create the theatric reality. With De La Guarda we create shows in different periods, lots of pieces put together over time. This is one piece. That´s the main difference.
What speaks to me is these beautiful visuals, and the actors interacting with the machinery compared to the music by Gaby Kerpel. What is that process like working with Gaby because when I listen to the music I can´t help but think of the images, and when I look at the images I can´t help but think of the music, everything has been so well blended together. So what comes first, the music or the images, or is it all done together?
One very important thing is that Gaby and I have been working together since 1985, 25 years, so we learned to do all of this together. That is very important. And another thing is that my job is doing the action and the images, and I don´t feel it is finished until the music is done and Gaby feels the same way. He can´t imagine the music without the visuals. When we start working, I say think of a running man. He has to run really hard, then stall and run again and we talk about the feeling of it, and maybe a little detail like lets work with another dancer, a noise, and while I start to work on the technical aspect he works on the music and then we come back together.
I can tell him anything. If the music is shit I´ll tell him. I mean what he does is always great but it might not always be right for the show. And he doesn´t get mad. He understands me and that is a great thing. And when I ask him to do something he will tell me if it´s cheesy or stupid, and usually he´s right. He understands what I mean, even if I´m not a musician, he understands how I think.
And I like that feeling that the visual without the music can be anything, and the music without the visual is really good. He leaves a space for the music, and I leave a space for the show.
One of my favorite scenes was the Murga dance scene. What struck me personally what that the first time I saw it (in Chicago) it made me think immediately about Argentina. It´s a very Argentine experience. But I took some American friends and they loved it. How does the show work around the world? What part of it is an Argentine experience and what part of it is one human celebrating with another?
The murga is a part of our culture. It was born in Buenos Aires. I took that movement and we broke it down. When they do the Murga they are walking in the streets for two hours, and you can´t do that dancing. The movements, the spirit, it is all still there.
I didn´t really realize that it was an Argentine show when we were working on it. We thought we were unique. You don´t see shows like this in Buenos Aires. But when you go to Chicago or to Asia, you realize that it is extremely Argentine. Maybe a French guy or someone from New York City wouldn´t ever be able to create something like this. It´s the approach. Like in Argentina you can break things when you are happy. That doesn´t happen everywhere. Somewhere else you´d break things out of anger. I´m so happy that I want to break everything. That's the show, a big celebration.
I read an interview from Mexico, and the interviewer asked how the people would relate to the show. To me if feels really Latin American. Like you are at a fútbol game or something, that moment of scoring a goal. You think that a Latin American audience will relate to that kind of emotion. But in the US and in Taiwan the show broke records for how many people went to see it. How do people react?
The further away the culture, the bigger the reaction. How do you explain to the Taiwanese what the hell is Fuerza Bruta. That is the big moment. When people get there and they feel a great connection. It makes me very emotional, I wouldn´t even be able to say hello to them on the street, there are so many differences between you outside of the show. But once you are in the show it´s like you´ve known the audience forever. I´m really grateful for that.
When I started theater I wanted to do something that anybody could understand. I hate that stigma that theater it is only for people that read Shakespeare, people that already know everything. I want the people that are cleaning the theater to enjoy it. There are a lot of people in Argentina that don´t have access to the theater, there is a lot of theater in Buenos Aires, but only for a very small social class. I wanted to do something that everyone could understand. We started with that concept. And in the end we ended up with something that anyone from any culture could understand because we were trying to break those boundaries. And in a way we found out that you could go to Japan and they would understand what you were saying. I´d say that what we do is very primitive. It is theater before literature. Before story took over. It is a very primitive approach, but also very modern.
I think it´s really interesting visually to experience this very childlike show that is also really high tech, and adding the music which has this tribal element that gets your heart pumping mixed with the electronic music. How do you bring all of those ideas together?
We wanted to be simple with the language and the way that the show talks. Try to be as simple as possible. You can come from anywhere, from any religion, culture, be a kid or a grown-up, you could study theater all your life. When we went to London, this lady that was a director of Shakespeare theater in London for 20 years talked about it very emotionally. And then the guys that clean the theater in Buenos Aires, we told them to come with their families. The first time in their life that they´ve gone to the theater and they love it. That´s a lot. When you reach those two extremes. That´s what I want to do.
There is an audience that tries to make a narrative story. They want to figure it out. You always say there isn´t a story. It´s an experience. What would you say to that audience that wants to see the show, what do you want people to get out of it ?
There is a story. The thing there isn´t one story. I don´t want to tell my story because it´s not the only one. It´s like a painting. I don´t want to know what Van Gogh was thinking when he painted. If I knew it will break my heart because it will contradict the story I´ve imagined. If you tell people what the story is, you close doors. Everyone has to have their own story. There are people that need that story, and that´s ok but I don´t have one for them.
For the moment I think we are halfway to something big. This language that we use. It´s very powerful. Every time I feel like we get closer and closer to something, I don´t know what but we are getting closer.


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PITTSBURGH, April 25 (UPI) -- Garrett Jones and Pedro Alvarez socked back-to-back homers Wednesday and the Pittsburgh Pirates bested Colorado 5-1 to gain a doubleheader split.
Colorado's Jhoulys Chacin (0-2) had matched the Pirates' Charlie Morton (1-1) with scoreless frames until the fifth inning, when the Bucs erupted for five runs to put the game away.
After Nate McLouth and Andrew McCutchen each drove in runs, Jones golfed a pitch deep into the right-field bleachers for a two-run shot and Alvarez followed with a solo homer off the right-field foul pole.
Morton dominated Colorado on one run over seven innings, surrendering six hits and only one walk while striking out two for the Pirates, who bounced back from a 2-1 loss in Wednesday's first contest.
Chacin finished by allowing five runs on eight hits over five full frames.
Ramon Hernandez provided the only RBI for Colorado, which dropped the rubber match of a rain-delayed three-game set at PNC Park.


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Laura, founder and Chief Executive Officer, is a leading advocate and researcher in advanced transportation, with particular expertise in transportation systems, sustainability and safety, and vehicle/system modeling and analysis.
After completing degrees in engineering and comparative literature at Yale University, she worked at the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), managing their vehicle electrification projects, including the Smart Garage Charrette and Project Get Ready. Next, Laura joined the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to develop planning for regulatory strategy for electric vehicles and energy storage. Laura's work at StreetLight is an extension of her graduate studies at UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in Energy Engineering, and the author of several publications about vehicle electrification and sustainable transportation. In 2013, Laura was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 and was the recipient of the International Transport Forum's Young Researcher of the Year Award.
Paul Friedman (Board, CTO)
Paul, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in engineering and product management of business intelligence, analytics, database architectures and Big Data technologies. He has started three successful software companies and built four successful engineering teams that delivered scalable SaaS analytics applications.
Previously, Paul has served as a software engineer at the MIT Media Lab, DEC, and Oracle. He later co-founded and served as Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Architect at Stanford Technology Group (acquired by Informix), Supplybase (acquired by I2 Technologies), and Purisma (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet). Paul has a MS and BS in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kara John Selke (VP of Strategic Partners and Privacy)
Kara has unparalleled experience in developing businesses that rely on strategic licensing and partnerships for geospatial data. Most recently, Kara served as SVP of Intellectual Property and Privacy for DMTI Spatial, the leading provider of SaaS and hybrid cloud-based geospatial business intelligence in Canada. Prior to DMTI, Kara was in marketing, data relationships and management roles at Navitrak and NAVTEQ. She is a certified licensing professional, and holds a JD from Concord Law School.
In addition to her experience in data licensing and partnerships, Kara is a global leader in the field of data privacy. She holds several certifications in privacy protection procedures by the IAPP and is a Privacy by Design Ambassador. Kara also co-founded the Center for Geospatial Law and Policy. Kara holds additional degrees from Boston University and Clark University.
Neil Vaz (VP of Engineering)
Neil has over 15 years of experience in software development, covering enterprise SaaS applications, data analytics, and database systems. Before joining Streetlight Data, he spent 8 years at Purisma (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet, and later SAP), where he led the Engineering team, delivering multiple product releases. As an early member of the team there, he also developed some of the core algorithms in the product.
In addition, Neil has worked at i2 Technologies, Tandem Computer and Informix Software. He has a B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Shirin Oshidari (VP of Sales and Services)
At StreetLight Data, Shirin is responsible for sales and business development across all market segments. She brings over 30 years of experience and a track record of success in new market penetration and expansion, customer acquisition, and partner network development. Shirin joins StreetLight from Autodesk, where she worked for 16 years and led the company to establish four new industries: Retail, Hospitality, and Commercial and Residential Construction. Most recently, she served as Head of Sales of Autodesk's Additive Manufacturing group, where she helped to launch and commercialize the company's new software tools for 3D printing. Her career began in project management software sales for Kelar, Primavera, and later, Buzzsaw, where she helped a broad range of engineering and construction firms adopt technologically advanced project management tools. Shirin holds a BS in Computer Science from Mills College, and a Certification in Finance Training for Executives from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Matt Orfuss (VP of Finance)
As Vice President of Finance, Matt Orfuss spearheads StreetLight Data's accounting, financial planning, and corporate development operations. He has a twenty-year track record of success in a broad range of finance roles, with expertise in business management, acquisition, due diligence, and senior management advisory. Prior to joining StreetLight Data, Matt served as Senior Finance Manager for Calypso Technology, Inc., a capital markets enterprise software company that was recently acquired by two leading private equity firms.
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Catherine's experience spans a wide range of technology companies. Before joining StreetLight Data, Catherine did business development and marketing at SK Telecom Americas, where she helped launch GridMaven, a comprehensive communications network management platform for the US utility market. She has spent time in a variety of strategy and business development roles, including on Walmart's sustainability team. Catherine began her career focused on consumer products and materials, working with Cradle to Cradle® design firm MBDC and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Catherine holds a BS in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University, a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Roy Seto (Senior Director of Engineering)
Roy has an extensive background in software engineering with a longstanding interest in building scalable systems that started during his days hacking code for distributed clusters as an MIT undergrad. Before StreetLight Data, he worked at Oracle for 19 years, where he served as a Software Architect and later as a Senior Director. Roy's accomplishments at Oracle include creating the analytics systems that track development metrics for the flagship Fusion Applications product line and leading a team that built a service to host millions of file versions. Roy was instrumental in automating Oracle's first private cloud for development operations, and he contributed to Oracle's transition to cloud applications products. Roy earned a MS and BS in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Winnie Chan (Senior Software Engineer)
Winnie has 13 years of experience in software engineering, healthcare information technology and full-stack web application development. Prior to StreetLight, she spent 3 years at MedeAnalytics, as part of the team developing the Patient Access Intelligence product for hospital clients. Earlier in her career, Winnie spent 8 years at EFI developing embedded systems that interface between copiers and printer drivers. She also has experience in healthcare imaging. Winnie holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Austin Shieh (Senior Software Engineer)
Austin is a 2013 graduate of the University of California Berkeley, where he received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Over the past few years, Austin has worked in QA for CSRWare, a sustainability supply chain and energy management software start-up and done QA and programming for Good Work Systems, a company building new mouses and foot pedals for the gaming industry. While completing his degree at UC Berkeley, Austin also was a member of the Alpha Phi Omega, the community service fraternity.
Bo Huang (Senior Software Engineer)
Bo has over 20 years of experience in software engineering across a variety of industries. For the past decade, he has focused on back-end application development for the insurance industry. He first began working in this space upon his arrival in the Bay Area, initially at SelectQuot and its subsidiary, Integrated Insurance Technologies. Through acquisitions, Bo then worked at SkyWare Software and, most recently, in the Insurance Data Exchange group at Oracle. Before insurance, Bo did software engineering for Bright Ocean, which provides services to Chinese telecom companies, and eLong.com, one of China's oldest travel planning and booking websites. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology.
Kimberly Gische (Manager, QA and Support)
Kimberly's career has spanned more than 20 years at several successful technology companies in the Bay Area. Her experience includes all aspects of software development, with a more recent focus on Quality Assurance and Customer Support. Prior to joining Streetlight Data, Kimberly spent 9 years at Purisma (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet, and later SAP) where she was initially a member of the QA team and later built and led the Escalated Support Group. Her previous experience includes developing and supporting lab tracking software for a genomics lab at PE Genscope/Celera Genomics/Applied Biosystems, as well as honing database skills while working in linguistics at Oracle. Kimberly studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.
Curt Thye (Sales Director, Mid-West)
Curt Thye is a dedicated, results-driven business development leader with over twenty years of experience in sales and sales management. He is based in the Denver, Colorado area where he leads StreetLight's sales activities across the Mid-West helping consulting firms and public sector agencies succeed with their transportation modeling, planning and engineering initiatives. Curt's has experience with a broad spectrum of technology, big data and software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, spending more than ten years at AutoDesk in a variety of roles focused on engineering, architecture, and construction. Most recently, Curt served as Sr. Director of Strategic Accounts at Dodge Data & Analytics, a leading construction industry data analytics and intelligence provider, where he led a forty-person team to over achieve long-standing retention and profitability objectives.
Thorsten Bach (Director of IT and Operations)
Thorsten has 20 years of experience in strategic and operational planning and has been involved with SaaS environments since their inception a little over 10 years ago. Over the course of his career, he has overseen the successful integration of new infrastructure during company acquisitions and has architected a number of scalable and efficient procedural systems. Prior to StreetLight, he was the Technical Program Manager at Honeywell Smart Grid Solutions where he delivered significant process improvement in IT and security. Earlier in his career in the role of Director of Operations and Support at Telecommunications System (TCS), Thorsten was a founding member of the Network Security Advisory Team, which oversees standardized security implementations across all TCS business units. At TCS and the biotechnology company IKnowMed, he managed significant infrastructure growth by building highly qualified and efficient teams in operations, QA and support. Before delving into the technology industry, Thorsten co-founded and served as the CEO of a music video company in Germany.
Youhong Huang (QA Engineer)
Youhong brought with him years of QA experience across three software companies when joining StreetLight Data. During his time working for leading software and service providers, including SAP (SAP EIM) and Microsoft Visual Studio at Microsoft (Visual Studio), he managed high priority support cases and worked closely with development teams in feature, performance and automation testing. Like others at StreetLight, Youhong was a part of Purisma, serving as the Senior QA Engineer. Youhong received his Bachelor of Computer Software from Tsinghua University in Beijing and now lives in Vancouver with his wife and young son.
Kim Harrison (Strategic Account Executive, South East)
Kim began her data career as an Account Manager for a Dun and Bradstreet Company (Market Data Retrieval) and then spent twelve years at Acxiom as a Client Executive, supporting financial industry and partnerships, and generating millions of dollars in revenue. Kim then ran her own company, Marketing-Q, providing database solutions for seven years. Most recently she worked in business development at Soffront (Enterprise CRM solutions). Kim has a BA in International Trade from UC Davis.
Paul Ruggeri (Strategic Account Executive, North East)
Paul Ruggeri brings more than three decades of business development experience to StreetLight Data, where he serves as Strategic Account Executive for the Northeast US and Canada. He works closely with consulting firms and public sector agencies to support their transportation planning and engineering initiatives. Prior to joining StreetLight Data, Paul spent nearly 15 years as the founder and manager of his own business development firm, IceLighter, which provided outsourced sales services to a broad range of information technology companies. He began his career at IBM, where he worked as a systems engineer and as an account representative. Paul holds a bachelor's degree in Social Studies from Salem State University.
Mikey Alexander (Senior Software Engineer)
Mikey Alexander is an entrepreneurial software engineer that brings nearly thirty years of programming experience across multiple industries to StreetLight Data. Prior to joining StreetLight Data, he spent eight years at Purisima, which was later acquired by SAP. On the side, Mikey also helped to launch, grow, and sell a successful family business that simplified the financial aid application process for college students. His career began at Atari Systems, where he developed nine profitable sports arcade games. Mikey holds a B.A. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Tori Clifford (Director of Marketing)
Tori brings a passion for sustainability and cleantech to StreetLight Data. Previously, she was Director of Marketing for YGEA Holding Company, where she spearheaded marketing initiatives across North, South, and Central America for three separate solar power firms held by the company. Tori has also worked as an independent marketing consultant for a range of solar power and energy efficiency clients. Her career began at Sunrun, a pioneering solar-as-a-service provider that is now publicly traded. Tori holds a dual BA with Distinction in History and Politics from the University of Virginia.
Neal Bowman (Sales Engineer)
Neal Bowman comes to StreetLight Data from the transportation industry, and brings expertise in both project management and business development. Prior to joining StreetLight Data, he worked for over five years at Quality Counts, a traffic data collection firm. He was responsible for research and development of new technology as well as technical sales. Neal worked closely with private engineering firms, local governments, and state DOTs across the US to deploy sophisticated traffic monitoring systems, including the design of complex Bluetooth origin-destination deployment methodologies. Neal earned his BA in Sociology and Black Studies from UC Santa Barbara.
Joanathan Lim (Sales Engineer)
Joanathan brings a highly analytical mindset to her role as sales engineer at StreetLight Data thanks to over five years of experience as an economic and financial planning consultant. Prior to joining StreetLight, Joanathan worked in Merrill Lynch's wealth management group. She also provided business and financial planning guidance as a consultant to retail companies such as To-Go Ware, Fearless Chocolate, and an Italian olive oil company. Joanathan received a BS in Accounting from San Francisco State University and a MS in Finance from University of San Francisco.
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Martin Murray brings a strong commitment to educative, consultative sales to StreetLight Data. He is passionate about learning new skills, especially those that help him explain complex software platforms to prospective clients. Prior to joining the team, Martin completed an intensive 18-week coding bootcamp to learn the basics of Ruby, Javascript, CSS, among other coding languages. Previously, he worked in sales at two Bay Area technology start-ups, Iron.io and Wandera. Martin began his career at Citrix Systems, where he helped to bring new Citrix products such as ShareFile to market. Martin, a North Carolina native, holds a B.A. in Economics from NC State University.


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Regional Mobility and Geography
Larger countries should have a higher degree of interregional mobility of labor. A model of regional migration is calibrated for the U.S. and Europe in order to asses the importance of this effect. The model is able to replicate the observed patterns. By reversing the sizes, the mobility patters of U.S. and the European countries are also reversed. This observation implies that the increase in effective size associated with the European Union will transform Europe in to an optimum currency area. The methodology used to approximate the recursive problem may be of independent interest.
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CoHosting with Buck on Pass The Buck Talking Horses. lol
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LANHAM, Md. (CBSDC) — Monday's deadline for NFL teams to use their franchise designation came and went without the Washington Redskins making a move.
After placing the franchise tag on tight end Fred Davis in 2012, the Redskins opted not to do so a second time.
Only eight teams used franchise tags, with the Dallas Cowboys being the lone NFC East to do so. The team tagged linebacker Anthony Spencer Monday afternoon at a cost of $9.619 million.
Tagging Davis, who is receiving from a torn left Achilles' tendon, would have cost the Redskins $6.45 million against an already tight 2013 salary cap.
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For those that hate bleeding heart liberals...
Do you also agree that corporations are people too?
I think many republicans stand by that statement.
if corporations are people, Romney should stand trial for murder.
and there's a few corporations I would like to see executed.
Nope, but you shouldn't hate till you're 88!
You gals remember bleedingheart? She was awesome!
Is this a jump off another post or something? I'm not sure what context we are discussing.
But I'll answer anyway. I don't hate any 'group' of people. I do, however, hate some individuals, and it has to do with behavior that negatively affects me, not their political stance.
And are we talking about corporate personhood? I mean, I kind of feel like corporations are a collection of people who are working together to get stuff done. But so are Unions. So I think if you put political limitations on corporations, the same should be put on Unions...to be fair. Don't get me wrong...I hate our politicians being bought, but I blame the politicians for being bought over the corporations for buying.
Bleeding heart liberal is a misnomer. Most liberals are not generous, except with others peoples stuff.
This is just my opinion on what has happened here on the whole corp is a person gig. They are not.
This whole push for corp as a person came from the strong Dem union influence. The Repubs didn't really have that. It seem unions are exempt from a lot. So, this stretch that corps are people got the polical dorks some balance they think they needed.
Children are a blessing and are never inconvenient.............


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Well, let's give Gene Chizik credit for this: If Saturday's 38-0 loss to Georgia proved anything, it's that if the Auburn coach was going down, he was going down in style. Like they have most of the year, the Tigers were overwhelmed from start to finish, as the Tigers got beat down in most unceremonious way possible.
For Georgia, the victory was just about as easy as they come, as the Dawgs quickly turned the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" into a one-way beat down. Aaron Murray played quite possibly the best game of his season finishing with 208 yards and three touchdowns and freshmen running backs Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall each rushed for over 100 yards and scored a touchdown for Georgia. The victory improved the 'Dawgs to 9-1 on the year.
Speaking of the victory, the win also sealed Georgia's second straight SEC East Championship, and a trip to play Alabama in the SEC Championship Game December 1. To their credit, Georgia could've laid down after an embarrassing loss to South Carolina on October 6, but instead bounced back with four straight victories including a signature one against Florida and a definitive one Saturday against Auburn. Right now, Georgia is playing as well as any one-loss team in college football and depending on how things shake out, they could be a BCS title contender because of it.
But while the story on the Plains Saturday was about Georgia winning the East, the story behind the story was the embarrassing loss for Auburn in a season filled with them. On the year, the Tigers are now just 2-8 overall and 0-7 in the SEC, with their only victories coming against UL-Monroe (in overtime) and New Mexico State. Yikes! They've got remaining games with Alabama A&M, and a trip to Alabama, on Thanksgiving weekend. Given the way Alabama lost on Saturday, you've got to think they're salivating at the chance to take on their rivals.
Of course with the loss, it also brings us one day, and one game closer to the end of the Gene Chizik era at Auburn. The simple truth is that the coach has been skating on thin ice for weeks, and it has been presumed since probably a loss to Arkansas back on October 6 that Chizik would be out at the end of the season. We heard rumors this week that Auburn officials are already making plans to axe him after the season, and frankly, the timing makes sense. The buyout in Chizik's contract comes down a few hundred thousand dollars every month, and will be at a nice round $7.5 million come December 1. If it weren't for that buyout, Chizik might be unemployed already.
And when he does get fired, it really will bring to a close one of the most unique coaching careers of anyone we've seen in the sport.
Look, we already know how much Cam Newton altered the trajectory of Chizik's path at Auburn, but let's also not forget that this team won eight games as recently as a year ago, and also won eight games in his first season on the Plains back in 2009 as well.
That's also why it would've taken a truly pathetic effort this year from Auburn this year for Chizik's name to even be associated with the hot seat this year, only that's exactly what we've gotten. Auburn has been pathetic offensively basically since opening night against Clemson, and were equally pathetic on the other side of the ball Saturday as well. Chizik was once known as a "defensive mastermind," only this was now the third time in four SEC games which his defense has allowed at least 38 points.
It was also the final nail in Chizik's coffin.
He might not get fired for another few weeks, but if he hasn't already started to update his resume, it might be time.
For all his opinion, analysis and insight on college football, please follow Aaron on Twitter @Aaron_Torres.


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Gargiulo Inc., one of Florida's largest fruit and vegetable wholesalers, will pay $215,000 to settle sexual harassment lawsuits on behalf of female Haitian workers at its tomato packinghouse in Immokalee.
Their supervisor had subjected them to repeated unwanted sexual advances and retaliated when they complained.
Only a handful of sexual-harassment lawsuits have ever been filed on behalf of female farm workers. Maybe that's why Gargiulo had no written policies on sexual harassment or retaliation in place at the time of the incidents. (It has them now.)


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Do they get much better than this?
Yours for ONLY £350!
Do they get much better than this?
Yours for ONLY £350!
Dear lord.!
intense tracer Mk1?
Love the front brake cable!
LOL good find
Kevevs - Member
intense tracer Mk1?
Careful Kevevs. That's close on blasphemy!
Is it a Orange 5 ?
Mmmmm... Rhubarb and custard.
Looks agile...bet it could handle the rough well
That is an Apollo Vendetta from about 2001. Don't know what the wheels are from though...
I kind of want it. Maybe, sort of.
Looks like a sintesi bazooka swing arm
Ronald McDonald - your bike is ready!
So it was a very cheap full suspension bike now fitted with:
Suspension seat post
Large sprung comfort saddle and a gel cover
Now let me guess.... The owner has a serious case of bottom grapes?
Microchipped incase of theft
Seriously they'd be doing you a favour if they nicked that,
'The Ray Charles school of Bike thievery'
I want those wheels. Not in red though, obviously.
Found em - click
Magnesium Bicycle Wheels is our newest product and different with traditional wheels. The wheels is made of magnesium alloy, which is the the lightest among all of the metals that are used in transportation tools to improve potential speed of them, moreover, it
is also of tenacious, shock-absorbing, environmental concept, radiation proof and
fashionable, let you enjoy the comfortable and happiness during riding, show your
stylish taste as well!
2nd edit: 1.6Kg per wheel
Still want 'em
the wheels are radiation proof. thank god for that.
That answers the what wheels for Chernobyl question..
Edinburgh? That Cynic-als latest project?
Like the wheels.
I don't think that is a brake cable. It's a proper retro pull rod
I loved the wheels even before I learned of their radiation-proofness. Now I cannot resist.
Is that this Santa Cruz Bronson everyone is raving about...
So I guess that's a 22in frame with 29er wheels?
Mmm, Niche.
Stone t' crows!!!
Obviously the suspension is crap with bouncy saddle , gel cover and a suspension seatpost
I think the mistake is £350 is meant to be 350 lb.
SWEET Christ!!!
Some things just have timeless beauty!
There is no God :'-(
It can handle the rough well.
Kevevs - Member
intense tracer Mk1?
Powder Spraying: White, Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Bule
They've reinvented the wheel AND the visible light spectrum!
That cable to the front brake looks nice and tight!
perfect for Ronald, McDonald guy.
You could start a stable of them:
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Online Labor Demand down 77,800 in October
-- Advertised vacancies basically flat for the last five months (since May)
-- 2012 average monthly gain is 41,000 with over half of the gain in the first quarter
-- Haver Analytics: The HWOL press release time series (over 3,000 series) is available on Haver Analytics
Oct 31, 2012, 10:00 ET from The Conference Board
NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Online advertised vacancies fell 77,800 in October to 4,735,600, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine® (HWOL) Data Series released today. The October number is in line with the number of advertised vacancies in May 2012. The Supply/Demand rate stands at 2.5 unemployed for every vacancy. In September the number of unemployed was 7.3 million above the number of advertised vacancies, down from 11.8 million at the end of the recession in June 2009.
"The average labor demand for the last five months (since May 2012) is neither up nor down but basically flat," said June Shelp, Vice President at The Conference Board. Nationally the gains and losses over the last five months netted out to a very weak average of about 4,000/month. There have been some bright spots recently with construction occupations — up 16 percent since May — while labor demand since May has been flat in occupations as varied as Management, Health Care Practitioners, and Office workers and other occupations (Healthcare Support and Sales workers) have shown declines. The flat national increase belies strength in some States including Idaho and Michigan, which both increased 10 percent, and Florida, with a 9 percent increase in labor demand for the five-month period.
Recent Changes for States
In October, online labor demand declined in 39 of the 50 States in the U.S. (Table 3). However, all States but Vermont (which is down) and Rhode Island (no change) were above last October's levels. Many States posted gains in the last five months, May to October 2012, though the national average was flat. Large States in the South with the largest gains in labor demand in the last five months included Florida and North Carolina (up 8.7 and 8.8 percent, respectively), and Texas and Georgia, up 4.7 and 4.6 percent. In the West, Arizona was up 15.8 percent in the last five months while California and Colorado rose 5.7 and 6.2 percent. Slow or declining labor demand in other large States over this period included Pennsylvania (down 1.8 percent) and Ohio (down 3.5 percent), while New York in the East and Illinois in the Midwest were basically flat.
Online labor demand in the South fell 26,300 in October (Table A) with Texas posting the largest decrease, 5,900, for a cumulative 2012 increase of 42,100, or 13.7 percent. Next was Virginia with an October decrease of 4,000 and a ten-month increase of 16,500, or 12.1 percent. Florida dropped 3,900 in October for a year-to-date increase of 23,700, or 9.9 percent. North Carolina fell 1,800 for a cumulative 2012 increase of 17,800, or 15.2 percent. Maryland lost a mere 400 for a year-to-date gain of 10,300, or 9.9 percent. Georgia posted the only October gain, 1,700, for a year-to-date increase of 14,000, or 12.0 percent. In October among the smaller States, Louisiana rose 1,900, Tennessee gained 200, South Carolina dropped 2,100, and Arkansas fell 100.
In the Northeast labor demand fell 23,400 in October. New York led the drop with a decline of 7,600 for a cumulative 2012 gain of 18,800, or 7.4 percent. New Jersey was next with an October drop of 5,400 for a ten-month increase of 9,600, or 6.7 percent. Massachusetts lost 4,400 for a year-to-date increase of 12,700, or 10.0 percent. Pennsylvania fell 4,100 for a cumulative gain of 9,700, or 5.5 percent, so far this year. Among the smaller States in the Northeast, October labor demand decreased by 1,500 in Connecticut; 1,300 in Rhode Island, and 600 in New Hampshire and rose 200 in Maine (Table 3).
Online labor demand in the Midwest dropped 18,100 in October. Ohio experienced the largest decrease, 9,300, for a cumulative 2012 increase of 12,800, or 7.6 percent. Missouri lost 1,500 for a 2012 gain of 6,400, or 7.5 percent. Wisconsin and Illinois both dropped 1,200 in October. Wisconsin's year-to-date gain was 2,400, or 2.5 percent; Illinois' was 20,100, or 12.7 percent. Michigan fell a mere 100 for a ten-month gain of 17,500, or 14.1 percent. Minnesota experienced the only October increase,100, for a 2012 gain of 12,200, or 11.2 percent. Among the smaller Midwest States in October, Indiana fell 1,900; North Dakota dropped 600; and Kansas gained 500.
Online labor demand in the West rose 7,700 in October. Arizona led with a gain of 6,000 for a cumulative 2012 gain of 14,800, or 18.6 percent. Colorado rose 5,300 in October for a cumulative gain of 17,300, or 20.3 percent, for the year. California, the largest State, gained 1,200 in October and was up 67,300, or 14.5 percent, in the first ten months of 2012. Washington State rose 1,000 in October and is up 15,800, or 15.3 percent, this year. Among the smaller States in October, Oregon and Utah dropped 400 and Nevada fell 500.
The Supply/Demand rates for the States are for September 2012, the latest month available for state unemployment data. The number of advertised vacancies exceeded the number of unemployed only in North Dakota, where the Supply/Demand rate was 0.63. The State with the highest Supply/Demand rate is Mississippi (5.31), where there were over five unemployed workers for every online advertised vacancy. Note that the Supply/Demand rate only provides a measure of relative tightness of the individual State labor markets and does not suggest that the occupations of the unemployed directly align with the occupations of the advertised vacancies.
- In October 12 of the largest metro areas posted decreases in labor demand
- About 1/3 of the largest metro areas have supply/demand rates below 2, indicating that there are fewer than two unemployed workers for every online advertised vacancy
In October, 12 of the 20 largest MSAs and 27 of the 52 metropolitan areas for which data are reported separately posted decreases in the number of advertised vacancies.
A number of the largest metro areas have shown strength in online advertised vacancies since the official end of the recession in June 2009. Twelve have posted increases of over 100 percent: Detroit (up 143 percent), Minneapolis-St. Paul (up 139 percent), Cleveland (up 129 percent), Nashville (up 123 percent), San Jose (up 121 percent), Milwaukee (up 116 percent), Columbus (up 116 percent), Charlotte (up 112 percent), Indianapolis (up 112 percent), Denver (up 108 percent), Louisville (up 107 percent), and Birmingham (up 101 percent).
Seventeen MSAs had Supply/Demand rates in August 2012 (the latest available data for unemployment) lower than 2, indicating there are fewer than two unemployed for every advertised vacancy (See Table 6). Washington, DC continues to have the most favorable Supply/Demand rate (1.05) with about one advertised vacancy for every unemployed worker. Oklahoma City (1.17), Minneapolis-St. Paul (1.21), Boston (1.29), Salt Lake City (1.41), and Columbus (1.45) had the next lowest Supply/Demand rates.
Metro areas in which the number of unemployed is substantially above the number of online advertised vacancies include Riverside, CA with over seven unemployed workers for every advertised vacancy (7.48), Sacramento (4.09), Las Vegas (3.71), and Miami (3.69). Supply/Demand rate data are for August 2012, the latest month for which unemployment data for local areas are available.
In October:
- 16 of the 22 major occupational groups in the Standard Occupational Classifications (SOC) posted drops while 6 increased
- Among the top 10 occupations Food Preparation and Serving Related occupations were up 16,000
- Sales and Related occupations dropped 35,500
Occupational Changes for the Month of October
Among the largest occupational groups, Food Preparation and Serving Related occupations posted an October increase of 16,000 to 198,200 largely due to higher demand for First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Food Preparation and Serving Workers.
Demand for Healthcare Practitioners and Technical occupations rose 3,100 to 609,500 and was led by an increase in demand for Family and General Practitioners and Registered Nurses.
Sales and Related occupations experienced the largest October decrease, dropping 35,500, or 5.3 percent, to 635,500. In the Sales category the decrease included lower demand for First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Retail Sales Workers.
Other categories with October declines in labor demand included Computer and Mathematical Science, down 8,700 to 593,800; Business and Financial Operations, down 6,400 to 273,700; and Installation, Maintenance, and Repair, down 4,100 to 167,200.
. . . thus far in 2012
Ten months into 2012 the slowdown in labor demand in recent months has impacted all of the two-digit occupational categories. Eleven, or half, of the 22 categories have lost ground in the last five months with the number of advertised vacancies in October below the May 2012 labor demand. These categories are Production; Food Preparation and Serving-Related; Healthcare Support; Architecture and Engineering; Education, Training, and Library; Legal; Computer and Mathematical Science; Life, Physical, and Social Science; Transportation and Material Moving; Office and Administrative Support and Farming and Fishing. However, all but two of the categories are still above their January 2012 levels. Production is roughly in line with the January level while the October level for Health Care Support occupations is 8,400 below the monthly demand in January.
Production Occupations
The monthly demand for Production workers has slowed in the last six months, and the October level of 136,600 is in line with the online advertisements for workers in January 2012. The number of unemployed workers remains well above the number of advertised vacancies with nearly 6 (5.7) unemployed for every advertised vacancy in September, the last month available for unemployment data.
Construction Occupations
Labor demand for Construction occupations, while down slightly in October, has continued to rise throughout 2012. In October demand was 92,600, almost 18,000 above the January 2012 level. The number of unemployed relative to the number of advertised vacancies has continued to improve, but it is still challenging for the unemployed looking for work. In September, the latest month for unemployment data, there were over 13 unemployed for every available ad. This is significantly better than the situation in June 2009, when there were 46 unemployed for every available ad in construction.
Computer and Mathematical Occupations
Labor demand for computer and mathematical occupations has declined over the last five months. However, the situation is markedly different from the situation for Production workers and Construction workers. In October the number of advertised vacancies outnumbered the unemployed looking for work in computer or math jobs by five-to-one, in sharp contrast to the situation for Production jobs where there were almost six unemployed for every ad and Construction where there were over 13 job seekers for every advertised vacancy.
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For more information about the Help Wanted OnLine database delivered via Haver Analytics, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or navigate to http://www.haver.com/contact.html. For HWOL data for detailed geographic areas and occupations not in the press release, please contact email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Like The Conference Board's long-running Help Wanted Advertising Index of print ads (which was published for over 55 years and discontinued in July 2008), the HWOL series measures help wanted advertising, i.e. labor demand. The HWOL data series began in May 2005. With the September 2008 release, HWOL began providing seasonally adjusted data for the U.S., the nine Census regions and the 50 States. Seasonally adjusted data for occupations were provided beginning with the May 2009 release, and seasonally adjusted data for the 52 largest metropolitan areas began with the February 2012 release.
People using this data are urged to review the information on the database and methodology available on The Conference Board website and contact us with questions and comments. Background information and technical notes and discussion of revisions to the series are available at: http://www.conference-board.org/data/helpwantedonline.cfm.
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Current Food Needs: Stay Tuned!
Mission Statement: The Jackson Cupboard provides essential, nutritious food for our community members in need.
Nuestra Mision Es: La Alacena de Jackson (Jackson Cupboard) ofrece esenciales, alimentos nutritivos para nuestros miembros de la comunidad que lo necesitan.
The Jackson Cupboard is a foodbank that opened its doors in 2001. It is a non-political, non-religious organization. We are proud of the fact that we operate solely by a volunteer board and staff. There are no paid positions. Our foodbank operates off of 100% private donation; we receive no government funding. Last year 95% of monetary donations were used to purchase food for our clientele. In 2014 the Jackson Cupboard had 3,401 visits by people in need of food. We are grateful to the Jackson Hole community and grocery stores for the generosity they have provided. All client information is strictly confidential.
Free Food Friday! Starts every Friday at 10:30 am
Please help Teton County reduce food waste. The public is invited to help us reduce food waste by collecting perishable foods that our clients were not able to use. Grab whatever you will eat, and keep it out of the landfill!
The Jackson Cupboard is open to individuals
and families in need of assistance:
– Monday & Thursday: 4:00 pm-6:00 pm
– Wednesday: 10:00 am – noon
Deliveries may be dropped off:
– Mondays from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
– Thursdays from 10:00 am – noon
Individuals and families in need of food may come to the Jackson Cupboard 3 times without a referral. After 3 visits they must obtain a referral from one of the following Social Service agencies in the valley:
These agencies will review the individual's situation and discern how long they should receive food from the Jackson Cupboard.
Old Bills/Community Foundation
All donations are tax deductible.
Items that are most often needed include:
To volunteer, contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mike Randall – President
Amy Brooks – Secretary
Amy Wierda – Treasurer
Shirley Craighead
Kathy Cummings
Alison Dunford
Therese Metherell
Evan Molyneaux
Cathy Poindexter
Jim Ryan
Paul Vogelheim
Thanks for visiting the Jackson Cupboard! Don't hesitate to stop by.
Mailing Address:
Jackson Cupboard
P.O. Box 1622
Jackson, WY 83001
The Jackson Cupboard is located in the basement of St. John's Church at 170 N. Glenwood Street in Jackson.
Enter near the Browse N Buy parking lot.
The Jackson Cupboard is a private 501(3) (c) non-profit. Our tax ID number is: 56-2376387


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Title: "Graphene nanopore sensor for DNA sequencing"
Speaker: Chaitanya Sathe, Grad Student with Prof. Klaus Schulten
Inexpensive and fast methods to sequence the genome of individuals using nanopore technology revolutionizes modern medicine. The basis for using nanopores, drilled into a silicon membrane, to sequence DNA is to drive a DNA strand electrophoretically through the pore sandwiched between two electrolytic reservoirs. The flow of ions passing through the nanopore are altered depending on whether an A,C, G or T nucleotide is passing through the pore. Thus, in principle the sequence of the DNA strand can be discerned by recording the ionic current. The thickness of the membrane used to make the nanopore presents a fundamental limitation to the physical dimension that can be resolved. Typical solid-state membranes are too thick and usually fail to recognize single nucleotides on a DNA strand. Graphene is a sub-nanometer membrane, comprising of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, with remarkable electronic and mechanical properties. The thickness of a graphene membrane (3 ) is comparable to the vertical stacking distance between base pairs in the DNA (3.5 ) making graphene an ideal candidate for DNA sequencing. Resolving at the atomic level electric field-driven DNA translocation through graphene nanopores is crucial to guide the design of graphene-based sequencing devices. Molecular dynamics simulations, in principle, can achieve such resolution and are employed to investigate the effects of applied voltage, DNA conformation and sequence as well as pore charge on the translocation characteristics of DNA. We demonstrate that such simulations yield current characteristics consistent with recent measurements and suggest that under suitable bias conditions A-T and G-C base pairs can be discriminated using graphene nanopores.
Title: "Atomic-Scale Evidence for Strong Carrier Scattering at Graphene Grain Boundaries"
Speaker: Justin Koepke, Grad Student with Prof. Joe Lyding
Graphene is a two-dimensional of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, possessing phenomenal electronic, mechanical, and thermal properties. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth on polycrystalline Cu foil as a method to grow wafer-scale graphene is interesting due to the ability to grow predominantly monolayer graphene and transfer it to other substrates. However, CVD graphene growth on Cu foil is non-epitaxial and results in many rotationally-misoriented grains. Simulations and transport measurements indicate that the grain boundaries (GBs) formed between these rotational domains impede carrier transport. Our scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/S) results show atomic-scale evidence of carrier scattering from these graphene GBs. Our measurements corroborate the aperiodic GB topologies seen in recent TEM studies and the lack of epitaxy in graphene CVD on Cu. Our STS results clearly show a shift in doping due to the presence of the GBs forming barriers from ~ 20 meV to 0.20 eV. The length scale of the doping shift is ~ 1-2 nm. The superstructures observed adjacent to the GBs and confirmed with tight-binding calculations indicate strong intervalley carrier scattering from the GBs. The decay length of these electronic superstructures is on the same order as the doping shift, pinpointing the source of the scattering off of the potential barriers that the GBs induce. These results clearly identify the GBs as a source of strong carrier scattering in polycrystalline graphene, explaining why CVD graphene films have lower overall mobility and higher resistance than exfoliated graphene.
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