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Johannesburg - An elephant at the Balule Nature Reserve in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, has killed a reserve worker after killing his brother the week before, it was reported on Monday.
Nelson Bango was searching for the elephant which killed his brother William, when it attacked him on his motorbike at around 17:00 on Monday, The Star newspaper reported.
"Nelson stalled the bike and then tried to run from the elephant, but after 100 metres the elephant caught him, and to our immense horror killed him," Balule chairperson Anthony Dott told the newspaper.
William was trampled and gored to death while laying a water pipe close to owner Steven Hearne's camp.
"We are shocked that this bull has killed another of our workers, and we find it unbelievable that William's brother was the victim," said Hearne.
"Nelson had barely returned from his brother's funeral."
After William was killed, the reserve reportedly used a helicopter and trackers to find the bull and kill it. They searched for a week without any luck.
According to the newspaper, following Nelson's death, the reserve redoubled its efforts to kill the bull. They eventually found it around 11:00 on Tuesday and the elephant was killed from the helicopter.
The game reserve believes that growths on the elephant's trunk may have caused it discomfort, and that it could have been treated aggressively by humans in the past. It was also in musth, a period of hypersexuality and aggression caused by hormones.


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The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters and the Dixie Bluegrass Boys will perform at New River Community College's Fiddle, Banjo, and Dance Club Jamboree on Saturday, January 8. The show will begin at 6:00 p.m. in Edwards Hall at NRCC in Dublin.
The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters band takes its name from the original Galax based Bogtrotters, who won the first ever Galax Old Time Fiddler's Convention in 1935. The modern-day old-time group includes Leon Frost, mandolin; Jesse Morris, bass; Eddie Bond, fiddle; Dennis Hall, guitar and John Ellis, banjo. The band has played at festivals across the U.S. and also participated in the Friends of American Oldtime Music and Dance Festival in Gainsborough, England.
The Dixie Bluegrass Boys is a traditional bluegrass band that has been in existence for over 30 years. The band members are Mark Hudson, vocals and guitar; Larry Hall, vocals and banjo; Timmie Martin, vocals and fiddle; Dewey Farmer, vocals and mandolin and Jerry Steinberg, bass.
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By terming the considerations behind the Afzal Guru's hanging 'political', certain politicians have let the nation down. It is time we realise that the matter of country's sovereignty is above partisan politics.india Updated: Feb 11, 2013 21:09 IST
Afzal Guru's hanging will give the victims' kin some closure
This refers to the report Afzal Guru hanged at last (February 10). The hangings of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Amir Kasab and Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in a gap of two-and-half months will send a strong message to the world that India will not tolerate terrorism at any cost. There's no doubt that by letting the law takes its course, the government has shown that India is committed to upholding the rule of law. Though many politicians are questioning the timing of Guru's hanging, this culmination of a legal process will bring a sense of closure to the families of those who fell to the bullets of the terrorists on the fateful day and have been waiting for justice for the past 11 years.
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By terming the considerations behind the Afzal Guru's hanging 'political', certain politicians have let the nation down. It is time we realise that the matter of country's sovereignty is above partisan politics. To suggest the decision was taken because the government wanted to divert attention from burning issues facing the country would be imprudent.
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All 20 analysts surveyed by Reuters last Thursday forecast that the Banco de Mexico would hold its key lending rate at a historic low of 3.00 percent.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged but dropped a strong hint that it could raise them at its next meeting in December.
Mexican central bank policymakers have suggested they could lift borrowing costs, once the Fed hikes, in order to support the country's peso currency, which has hit successive record lows this year on prospects that higher U.S. interest rates will sap demand for higher-yielding -- but risker -- emerging markets securities.
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I recently turned 16 and I have been looking to get emancipated since I was 15. I have done a lot of research on the subject and I meet all of the Indiana requirements. I found a way to graduate several years before I was meant to and I am already a student in college. I have saved about 10,000 dollars which will be enough for covering rent over a 12 month period as well as fully furnishing my apartment. I have a steady job working with my mother and make over enough to pay for my monthly cost of living. I save about 10% of my income and I have a very solid financial plan that would allow for unexpected expenses as well as if I was to be fired and could not find work for several months. I do not currently live separate from my mother and my family would not approve of my being emancipated. But it is something I feel like is necessary because of family issues and my need for independence from them. I am inquiring on the likely-hood of my individual case being approved. I do not want to go through all the drama from the action and not reap any reward from it.
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New Delhi: Varun Gandhi's poster war on the BJP is not dying anytime soon.
In a move which is indicative of things to come in Uttar Pradesh, BJP UP chief, Kesav Prasad Maurya, has reprimanded around 18 workers who were active in putting thousands of posters of Varun Gandhi all over Allahabad, where BJP's high-profile National Executive meet was held from June 12 to 13.
Apart from this, a show cause notice has been issued to two active workers of the party and a report has also been sent to BJP national president, Amit Shah.
This came soon after the news that Varun Gandhi, the Sultanpur MP, had left Allahabad at around 2.30pm and had not waited for a dinner meeting with BJP president Amit Shah, along with MPs from Uttar Pradesh that was scheduled post the prime minister's rally.
Though people close to Varun Gandhi tried to downplay the event stating that this was just another gathering and since the information came late and they had already made the reservation to Delhi, his not coming to the meeting has not gone down too well with the party.
A BJP MP who was part of the meeting said, "Several MPs came all the way to Allahabad especially for this meeting. If a person of stature of Varun Gandhi skips a meeting which is attended by Dr Krishnagopal, Amit Shah, Murli Mahohar Joshi, general VK Singh, et al, on the pretext that his tickets were booked before, it doesn't look convincing."
Another BJP MP from UP, on condition of anonymity, said: "The character of the party has changed a lot in the last three years and the kind of assertion which is being made by Varun Gandhi is definitely not going down well with both state and central leaderships. He is making it worse by skipping these kinds of meetings to which a lot of importance is being attached by the party high command, especially Amit Shah."
What is making matter worse for Varun Gandhi is the kind of response he is getting from the BJP state unit, especially from the eastern UP side.
Already a miffed UP BJP chief, Keshav Prasad Maurya, had send a report to party headquarters on how Varun Gandhi had been transgressing his limits by interfering in other issues.
Sources said that Varun was told to take permission from the party before hosting any programme outside Sultanpur, which is his parliamentary constituency. But the matter doesn't quite end here.
Sources have told that in the dinner meeting with the UP BJP MPs, the Allahabad MP – Shyama Charan Gupta – told Amit Shah and others present in the gathering that Varun Gandhi was getting his posters plastered all over city and was projecting himself as the CM candidate. Gupta also said that when he protested, "Varun's supporters threw eggs and tomatoes" at his house.
However, it is not that Varun Gandhi doesn't have any support going for him. But even here, people who are supporting him are in the cold storage of the party.
BJP MP, Shatrughan Sinha, who had come to attend the National Executive meet on day two, praised Varun Gandhi and called him a "dynamic young leader of UP whom people loved a lot".
Sinha said: "I know Varun personally. Whether he is a CM face of the BJP, it will be decided by the parliamentary board."
However, according to top sources in the BJP, the party is not very enthused by this open and aggressive stand taken by Varun Gandhi. They say that in the middle of all the permutations and combinations of fragile caste calculations being worked out by the party, an aggressive demand to be made the CM candidate is the last thing that the party is looking for.
They also say that this thing sends a negative message to the party cadre and people at large that all is not well within the party.
Though the party high command dismisses these incidents as having zero electoral impact, they still admit that these issues are something which could have been completely avoided.
As per the top tier of the BJP, it should be work that should be speaking for itself and not the posters.
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Palpable fear seems to have gripped the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, ahead of the upcoming re-run election, as the All Progressive Congress, APC, has responded to a latest statement from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State.
Recall, that the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State Chapter, Felix Obuah, had on Sunday, November 20, alleged that the APC, and some of its leaders in Rivers State, were plotting the arrest of PDP members in the State, as a result of the forthcoming re-run elections, scheduled for next month.
Reacting to the party's statement, the APC, in a press release signed by its Spokesman, Chris Finebone, considered the statement by the PDP Chairman, as a "revised strategy by the PDP, to provide cover for their ongoing project of planting incriminating materials in homes, and offices, belonging to notable APC leaders in Rivers State, and have them incarcerated with the connivance of hired Security Officers, as was done in the botched matter concerning No. 12, Isiokpo Street D/Line, Port Harcourt, recently."
Part of the statement reads: "it is indeed very clear, that having bungled its attempt to rope in a notable APC Chieftain, Hon. Emma Chinda, and others, in a purported printing of INEC materials, which was planned, executed, and orchestrated by the PDP, the latest accusation that APC is planning the arrest of PDP members, is only a clever-by-half strategy, to create a façade for the Gestapo-style project of the PDP, which recently suffered its first setback, between No. 12 Isiokpo Street, and Government House, Port Harcourt.
"Having decided to continue with their evil machinations, the PDP, and Governor Wike, are now raising the accusation of possible arrest of their members, in anticipation that their plans may suffer further setbacks, which may result in some of their members directly driving the project to be arrested by eagle-eyed security agents, who may have put them under security watch, after their first bungled attempt."However, very disturbing, but not surprising, is the mention of Sen. Magnus Abe, and Dr. Barry Mpigi, as some of the APC leaders behind the fictional plan to arrest PDP leaders."We believe that this can only be an extension of the morbid fear by Governor Nyesom Wike, and the PDP, for these notable APC leaders in Rivers South-East in particular, and Rivers politics in general."It must be said that the towering political stature of Senator Abe, and Dr. Mpigi, has been a source of sleeplessness for the Governor, and his party."It is very difficult for the APC, to help the Governor, and his party, over their looming electoral resounding defeat by Abe, and Mpigi, on December 10, or any other date."Governor Wike, and his party, must deal with their indwelling fear by themselves, and leave APC alone."The PDP in Rivers State, must learn to abandon its warped, and crooked concept of politics, and learn to play by the rules."Making fetish of their fear for Senator Abe, Dr. Mpigi, and the APC, cannot be helpful to Governor Wike, and the PDP – not now, not in the future", the APC noted.
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"Today's unveiling of the Cray XE6 supercomputer marks a significant milestone for the company, as we launch an entirely new high performance computing system built on years of innovation and hard work by Cray employees company-wide," says Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. "This is an exciting day for the company and for our customers around the world who have been eagerly awaiting the new Cray XE6 supercomputer—a system capable of scaling to more than a million processing cores. We are proud to have already secured more than $200 million in contracts for this system and are even more excited about our opportunity to give researchers, scientists, and engineers around the world a next-generation tool for solving next-generation problems."
A number of leading HPC centers worldwide have signed contracts with Cray to purchase Cray XE6 supercomputers, formerly code-named "Baker." These centers include the Korea Meteorological Administration and the United States Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Cray also won a contract to provide three Cray XE6 supercomputers to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, and the U.S Army Engineer Research and Development Center as part of the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program. Additional Cray XE6 supercomputer customers include the National Nuclear Security Administration (in a joint partnership with Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which is the managing agent for the High-End Computing Terascale Resource (HECToR) project located at Scotland's University of Edinburgh, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through a partnership with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The XE6's new Gemini interconnect is designed to change and improve how Cray supercomputers move data across the system, according to the company. Designed to support multi-core processors with a 100-fold improvement in messaging rates and a three-fold reduction in latency, the Gemini interconnect also includes hardware support for a global user address space.
Upgradeable from a Cray XT5 and Cray XT6 system, the Cray XE6 supercomputer also features improved network resiliency, a mature scalable software ecosystem, and the third version of the Cray Linux Environment, which was announced in April.
The Cray XE6 supercomputer is expected to be available early in the third quarter of 2010.
For more information, visit the Cray XE6 supercomputer page.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.


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Review for ICAN, International Cancer Advocacy Network, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Nonprofit organizations in general are a great way to gather community service volunteer hours. However, ICAN is much more than your typical Nonprofit organization. Working with all the members of ICAN for over two years now, I can personally say that this organization, from top to bottom, is filled dedicated, compassionate individuals who share a common goal - improving cancer treatments worldwide.
Marcia, Regina and all the other members of ICAN have spent countless hours helping a tremendous amount of people battle and beat their cancers, and I could not give this company a stronger recommendation.
Cancer can be considered the disease of our new generation, and when I first started working for ICAN I was fascinated by it. Moreover, I was interested in the amount of research going into the discovery of new treatments and cures for this terrible illness. However, what was lost was the step in between research and the implementation of new treatments. While new breakthroughs are coming in at an enormously high rate, there is only so much that oncologists can keep up with and keep their patients informed about. This is what ICAN does, as we serve to educated both patients and physicians on the newest research in every field of cancer.
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Football Tigers Featured on Colts UpClose
May 21, 2011
May 21, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "We're working on getting better every day as a team," DePauw University head football coach Robby Long says as his squad prepares for the 2011 season. Long and his Tigers were featured on tonight's edition of Colts UpClose, which airs on Indianapolis CBS affiliate WISH-TV. The segment shows the team in spring drills.
"There's a lot of little individual successes that go into" making improvements, adds Long, whose team won its first nine games on its way to a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship and automatic bid to the NCAA Playoffs. "We want to win football games as a team and we know that every day that we come out here and work hard on this grass that we've got to improve."
In a segment recorded a few weeks ago, Long tells Wil Hampton, "We've got 75 guys here working out here in the spring, getting ready for next year."
The piece is embedded above, or see it here: [Download Video: "Tigers Prep for 2011 Football Season" - 8818kb].
Learn more about Colts UpClose at the program's Web page.
The Tigers open the 2011 football season September 3 at Rose-Hulman. For more information, including rosters and historical information, visit the team online.
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OAKLAND, CA — Police were in the process of arresting about 100 Occupy Oakland protesters for failing to disperse Saturday night, hours after officers used tear gas on a rowdy group of demonstrators who threw rocks and flares at them and tore down fences.
Police Sgt. Christopher Bolton said the arrests came after protesters marched through downtown Oakland a little before 8 p.m. Saturday, with some of them entering a YMCA building.
Meanwhile, about 100 police officers surrounded City Hall while others were swept the inside of the building to see if any protesters broke in.
More help from other police agencies was also on the way, with busloads of Alameda County sheriff's deputies arriving in the downtown area late Saturday.
The nighttime arrests came after 19 people were taken into custody in Occupy Oakland protests hours earlier.
What really happened:
Oakland police used tear gas and "flash" grenades Saturday to break up hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters after some agent provocateurs dressed as protesters started throwing rocks and flares at officers and tearing down fencing in order to facilitate the illusion of the necessity of forceful riot police response.
From Reddit:
For the internet, here's a first-hand account of Occupy Oakland on 1/28/2012, because the news never tells the full story. I'll tell you about the street battle, the 300+ arrests, the vandalism, the flag burning, all in the context of my experience today. This is deeper than the headlines. No major news source can do that for you, but Reddit can.
Read more: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/p1m34
From ABC showing media bias:
Watch a live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland


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High School NorCal Championships @ Boggs Mountain
by Hellyer • May 1, 2013 • mtb
The solid performances at Boggs reset the overall team standings in both divisions to where they were prior to the Laguna Seca race. Drake and Redwood surged back up at the expense of Salinas and Tam High, who had to step back out of the top three. On the D2 side, Santa Cruz Comp regained the lead position, notching the Spartans back down to second as Branson bubbled back into the upper end of the results. The more things change…
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Team Standings from Boggs Mountain Classic
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Clinton announces Israel Hamas ceasefire
Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to a truce to halt the fighting in Gaza, the Egyptian Foreign Minister anounced tonight.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, Kamel Amr said that the ceasefire — agreed after intensive international negotiations brokered by Egypt — would come into effect from 9pm (1900 GMT).
The agreement was confirmed in Jerusalem by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, who will hold his own press conference later tonight.
Mrs Clinton described it as "a critical moment for the region" as Egypt's new government assumed a role of "responsibility and leadership" to help broker the truce.
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New York Downed 5-4 By Chicago - Robert Parnell Takes Loss
Chicago got a 5-4 victory over New York on Saturday, with Kerry Wood earning the victory and helping Cubs moneyline bettors cash out.
The Cubs were a +108 underdog in the win. The combined score went OVER the total, which closed at 8.5.
Chicago got 7 innings from Randy Wells, who gave up 2 earned runs on 7 hits, while striking out 3. Kerry Wood earned the victory, while the Cubs got 2 RBIs from Aramis Ramirez in the win.
New York got a 7-inning outing from Chris Capuano in the loss. He gave up 1 earned run, 1 walk and 5 hits in his time on the mound, while Lucas Duda had 2 hits in the loss for the Mets.
The battle of the bats favored New York as they had 10 hits, while Chicago only had 9.
Carlos Marmol pitched the final 1 inning for the save. He struck out 2 and allowed 0 hits in his outing.


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7-15-2013- An Ethan Drive resident reported that someone fraudulently utilized her email address to contact her financial advisor about her account balances. The victim indicated that three separate emails were sent from her account.
7-16-2013 – At 11:45 p.m., during a check of borough parks, Patrolman Andrew Diamond heard loud voices coming from Jaycee Park. Upon investigating the loud voices further, he observed a 16-year-old male and two 17-year-old juveniles consuming alcohol. They were released to their parents.
7-18-2013 – Patrols responded to an attempted burglary at 127 Gales Drive. The victim reported that she had just returned from vacation and stated that someone had attempted to pry her door open while she was away. The detective bureau responded to process the scene and is currently investigating this report.
7-19-2013 – A Madison Avenue resident reported that he received a scam phone call from someone posing as his grandson. The caller posing as his grandson indicated that his car was damaged while he was at a bachelor party and he needed $1,900. Someone then came on the telephone line and indicated they were a lawyer. The scammers advised the victim to respond to CVS and send a MoneyGram to them to cover the damages to the vehicle. The money gram was sent to a location in Delaware. The scammers then attempted to contact the victim back to attempt to get $2,300 to pay for property damages. Before sending money a second time he was able to verify that his grandson was at work and was not involved.
7-20-2013 – At 1:01 a.m., Patrolman Michael Hand located an intoxicated 16-year-old male lying on a table in Veteran's Park. The juvenile was released to his parents.
7-21-2013 – Patrolman Joseph DiParisi arrested Corrine Lawson, 25, of Plainfield on an outstanding warrant out of Scotch Plains Municipal Court. The warrant was located during a traffic stop on Mountain Avneue. She was also issued a summons for an equipment violation.
7-22-2013 – Patrolman David Rodriguez arrested Edmond Hagen, 49, of Berkeley Heights on an outstanding child non-support warrant out of the Union County Sheriff's Office. Mr. Hagen was turned over to the Sheriff's Department.
7-24-2013 – Patrolman Andrew Diamond arrested Jamaal Wells, 21, of Newark on an outstanding warrant out of East Orange. The warrant was located during a motor vehicle stop in the parking lot of a Central Avenue business.
7-24-2013 – Detective Sean Bubb charged James Jacobs, 38, of Brooklyn, N.Y. with theft. The charges stem from an investigation from June 13 on a report from CVS Pharmacy that Mr. Jacobs was involved with stealing $4730.28 in merchandise, primarily cold medication, from the store with two other individuals. Further charges are pending the identification of the two other individuals involved.
7-25-2013 – Patrols responded to Our Lady of Peace Church on a report of criminal mischief. It was reported that a stained-glass door was cracked and is believed that an item was thrown at it.
7-28-2013 – Patrolman Michael Scuorzo arrested Alex Wolfson, 20, of Roseland on an outstanding warrant out of Newark. The warrant was located during a motor vehicle stop on South Street, where she was a passenger. The driver of the vehicle, Jonathan Perez, 25, of Newark was issued a summons for driving while suspended.


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- September 22 down the years
When the wheels came off Mansell's title hopesWhat happened on this day in Formula One history?
- Drivers:
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- Jacques Villeneuve
Another Nigel Mansell championship bid ended in heartache as well as semi-farcical circumstances at the Portuguese Grand Prix. Starting the race from fourth on the grid, Mansell drove superbly to take the lead. But during a pit stop, one of his tyres was not fitted properly, came off the car and began bouncing down the pit lane. With Mansell gesticulating frantically, his Williams mechanics ran to his car to attach another wheel. Mansell emerged 17th and broke a string of lap records to battle his way back up to sixth only to be black flagged and disqualified for illegally having mechanics work on his car in the pit lane. He drove into the pits, got out without a word to his team and headed tearfully back to his motorhome. "I just don't believe it," he said. "I've done everything I can and just don't know what else I have to do."
With four drivers within eight points of each other, the penultimate grand prix of the season at Canada's Mosport Park was going to be a tense affair. Emerson Fittipaldi started on pole with Niki Lauda's Ferrari alongside, but Lauda soon moved into the lead, braking the lap record four times before he piled into a guard rail on the 68th lap, Fittipaldi going on the take the win. The result meant he was level on points with Clay Regazzoni who finished second, Jody Scheckter, who had crashed on the 49th lap when his brakes failed, seven points back in third. The race started 45 minutes late after a power failure which blanked out the entire area.
The Spanish Grand Prix was dominated by Mercedes who took the first three places, the win going to Rudolf Caracciola. Achille Varzi, who had started on the front row in his Auto Union, was forced to retire after a stone smashed his windscreen and cut his face; he resumed after medical treatment but soon after was forced out for good with transmission problems.
Sir Henry Seagrave, who was a household name in the 1920s after setting three land speed records and the water speed record, was born in Baltimore on this day. Raised in Ireland and educated at Eton, after distinguished service for the Royal Flying Corp in World War One, he took up motor racing, becoming the first Briton to win a grand prix in a British car. He won the 1923 French Grand Prix and the 1924 San Sebastian Grand Prix in a Sunbeam automobile, and after a further win at Miramas, he retired to concentrate on speed records. He was the first man to travel over 200mph in a car and the first to pass 100mph on water. He was knighted in 1929 and died the following year when his boat crashed while breaking the water-speed record on Lake Windermere.
Jacques Villeneuve produced what the Guardian's Alan Henry described as "one of the most breathtaking overtaking manoeuvres seen all season" to pass Michael Schumacher on the outside of a turn on his way to victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix. "It was fun," he said. "I told the team before the race I thought we could do it. They said they would come and pick me out of the guard rail if I tried." Villeneuve's win kept the championship alive, denying Damon Hill who needed to win to make sure of the title. The key moment came when Villeneuve got past Hill at the final pit stop. "I was pretty shocked to see him coming out of the pits ahead of me," Hill admitted. "He was flying and there was no way I could keep up with him."
Born on this day was British driver Ian Raby who only had a brief racing career in Formula One which ended in tragedy. Raby started his racing in the 500cc Formula 3 in 1953 before he switched to sports cars. Less than two years later, Raby returned to single-seater racing and raced in Formula Juniors before buying a BRM and competing in F1 but failed to score a single point. In 1966, Raby returned to Formula 2 racing. The following season he suffered a big crash at Zandvoort in Holland and died from his injuries four months later.


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Chapter 1
- Canada's Economic Action Plan is a two-year $62-billion plan to boost confidence and support the economy in response to the deepest global recession since the 1930s.
- Implementation of the Economic Action Plan is on track and delivering results to Canadians.
- In its first year of implementation, the Economic Action Plan has delivered over $33 billion in stimulus to the economy.
- All of the jobs lost during the recession in Canada have now been recouped, with nearly 430,000 jobs created since July 2009.
- On average, the Economic Action Plan is estimated to have boosted Canada's gross domestic product (GDP) growth by 1.5 percentage points per quarter since the second quarter of 2009.
- In 2010–11, the Action Plan is on track to deliver a further $22 billion in federal stimulus spending, complemented by $7 billion in stimulus funding from provinces, territories, municipalities and other partners.
- Funding for the Action Plan in 2010–11 is 98 per cent committed.
- Canadians are benefiting from permanent tax relief. As well, an estimated 4.6 million Canadian families benefited from the temporary Home Renovation Tax Credit.
- The Government is providing exceptional support for the unemployed, with total Employment Insurance (EI) payments up by over $5 billion from 2008–09. Enhancements to EI continue to flow to unemployed Canadians.
- Economic Action Plan funds have been
committed to over 23,000 projects across the country. Of these, close
to 22,500, or 97 per cent, have begun or have been completed.
- The Government has committed all of the funding available under the $4-billion Infrastructure Stimulus Fund towards approximately 4,000 projects across the country. About 99 per cent of the projects are underway or completed.
- Almost all of the $500 million made available under the Recreational Infrastructure Canada program has been committed to almost 2,000 projects across the country, over 1,900 of which are already underway or completed.
- Over 9,000 projects are underway or completed to improve social housing and First Nations housing across the country.
- Under the Knowledge Infrastructure Program, 56 projects have been completed and work has begun on more than 420 additional projects.
- The Government is actively managing the Economic Action Plan to ensure effective delivery of stimulus.
- The Government is committed to winding down the stimulus as the economy recovers and returning to budgetary balance over the medium term.
Canada's Economic Action Plan has helped Canadians through the worst global recession since the 1930s and is now contributing to a solid economic recovery. However, global economic growth remains fragile and, at home, too many Canadians remain out of work. The continued implementation and completion of the Economic Action Plan will help ensure the strength of the recovery in Canada.
We will stay on this course. Completion of the Economic Action Plan is this Government's focus. Today's report indicates 98 per cent of all Economic Action Plan spending for 2010–11 is committed. More than 23,000 projects have been committed to, with close to 22,500 completed or underway.
Our priority remains creating jobs for Canadians and we are delivering. Nearly 430,000 jobs have been created in Canada since July 2009, more than were lost as a result of the global recession.
We will continue with this focus on jobs and growth as we complete implementation of the Economic Action Plan. Once the Plan is fully implemented, we will continue to lower taxes and promote practical, workable and affordable ideas as we follow through on our plan to return Canada's finances back to balance over the medium term.
At their June meeting in Toronto, Group of Twenty (G-20) leaders were in broad agreement on the need to follow through on delivering existing stimulus to strengthen the international recovery.
— G-20 Declaration, Toronto Summit, June 27, 2010
They also recognized, however, the need to wind down fiscal stimulus going forward, and committed to fiscal plans that will at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016. Budget 2010 laid out a plan that goes beyond this commitment, bringing Canada's finances back to balance over the medium term—well before any other Group of Seven (G-7) country. As part of this plan, the Government will follow through on the "exit strategy" built into the Action Plan by allowing temporary stimulus measures to end as the economy recovers.
— G-20 Declaration, Toronto Summit, June 27, 2010
Canada's Economic Action Plan
The implementation of Canada's Economic Action Plan continues to be timely and effective. The Action Plan protects Canadian jobs and incomes by delivering a $62-billion shot in the arm to the economy (Table 1.1). Taxes have been reduced, EI benefits have been extended for the unemployed, thousands of infrastructure projects are underway across the country, significant support has been provided for science and technology, industries and communities, and extraordinary actions have been taken to improve access to financing. The Economic Action Plan is an investment in jobs now and in our future prosperity.
— International
Monetary Fund (IMF),
Canada: 2009 Article IV Consultation, May 2009
The Action Plan is:
- Reducing the Tax Burden for Canadians: Providing Canadians with significant, permanent personal income tax relief and Canadian businesses with the lowest overall tax rate on new business investment among the major industrialized economies.
- Helping the Unemployed: Providing more resources for EI benefits to support those who have lost their jobs and providing the training required to help Canadians get the additional skills they need for the jobs of tomorrow and to get back to work. This includes providing additional benefits to long-tenured workers. It also includes providing support to Canadian workers participating in work-sharing arrangements and to the self-employed.
- Building Infrastructure to Create Jobs: Providing new infrastructure and housing funding to create jobs across Canada and ensure Canada emerges from the economic downturn with a more modern and greener infrastructure, as well as an expanded capacity to provide affordable housing to lower-income Canadians. These projects are benefiting workers and the economy across the country. The Economic Action Plan has also provided additional support to the housing sector through the Home Renovation Tax Credit.
- Creating the Economy of Tomorrow: Improving infrastructure at colleges, universities, federal laboratories and research facilities, introducing additional support for graduate students and internships, and supporting research and technology leadership in Canada.
- Supporting Industries and Communities: Supporting local economies and protecting jobs in regions, communities and sectors that have been most affected by the economic downturn.
- Improving Access to Financing and Strengthening Canada's Financial System: Ensuring the continued stability of the Canadian financial system and improving access to financing for Canadian households and businesses.
— Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Economic Survey of Canada 2010, September 13, 2010
|Dollars Spent1
|Stimulus Value
|(millions of dollars—cash basis)
|Reducing the Tax Burden for Canadians
|Helping the Unemployed
|Building Infrastructure to Create Jobs
|Creating the Economy of Tomorrow
|Supporting Industries and Communities
|Total federal stimulus measures
|Assumed provincial and territorial actions
|Total Economic Action Plan stimulus
Totals may not add due to rounding.
1 Includes estimated values for tax reduction measures.
Canada had the strongest fiscal position in the G-7 at the onset of the global recession, which allowed it to respond quickly and forcefully to stimulate the economy and support Canadians through the worst of the recession (Chart 1.1). Indeed, the policy response set out in Canada's Economic Action Plan is one of the largest stimulus packages among G-7 countries.
largest fiscal stimulus plans in the G-7
Canada's Economic Action Plan Is Supporting the Economic Recovery in Canada
Canada's Economic Action Plan provided a large, timely and targeted response to the global crisis, with stimulus totalling more than $62 billion over two years. The Action Plan has had a strong positive impact on the Canadian economy both during the recession and over the recovery to date.
The Action Plan, combined with Canada's strong fundamentals, including a sound financial sector and strong corporate, household and government balance sheets, allowed Canada to weather the global recession better than most other industrialized countries. Indeed, the recession in Canada was less pronounced than in any other G-7 economy (Chart 1.2).
— Pier Carlo Padoan,
OECD Chief Economist
April 8, 2010
during the global recession
The Economic Action Plan is supporting a solid economic recovery in Canada, which began in the third quarter of 2009. Following strong growth of 4.9 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 5.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2010, real GDP increased by 2.0 per cent in the second quarter of 2010 (Chart 1.3).
an economic recovery
The recovery in output has led to a recovery in jobs in Canada. All of the jobs lost during the recession in Canada have now been recouped, with nearly 430,000 jobs created since July 2009, which represents the trough in employment (Chart 1.4). The Economic Action Plan has strongly supported this jobs recovery.
— Warren Lovely,
Macro Strategy Group,
CIBC World Markets Inc., July 14, 2010
As a result of strong job creation, the unemployment rate in Canada fell from a peak of 8.7 per cent in August 2009 to 8.1 per cent in August 2010. This is significantly better than what private sector economists were expecting early in the recession. In early 2009, some private sector economists were forecasting the unemployment rate to peak at as high as 10 per cent.
The labour market recovery in Canada contrasts sharply with labour market developments in the United States, where employment remains well below pre-recession levels. The U.S. unemployment rate is also near a 27-year high and remains above the Canadian unemployment rate—a phenomenon not seen in nearly three decades.
also supported a recovery in the labour market
Canada's labour market has also performed better than its G-7 peers, with Canada being the only G-7 country to have posted significant positive employment growth since June 2009 (Chart 1.5).
stronger than in any other G-7 country
a Strong Job Market
The Government's strong policies have contributed to significant job growth in Canada. Since January 2006, employment in Canada has increased by close to 950,000, the strongest performance of any G-7 country by far over this period.
- Nearly 430,000 jobs have been
created in Canada since July 2009, with the result that all of the jobs
lost during the recession have now been
fully recouped.
The economic recovery in Canada has been supported by significant increases in government investment in infrastructure, largely reflective of investments provided in the Economic Action Plan. As of the second quarter of 2010, government capital investment was over $6 billion higher than it would have been had it followed the trend prior to the implementation of the Action Plan (Chart 1.6). This is in sharp contrast to the U.S., where government investment in infrastructure has remained broadly stable over the past two years.
IMF, World
Economic Outlook Update, July 2010 and
OECD, Economic Outlook No. 87, May 2010
is supporting the recovery in Canada
The Economic Action Plan also helped individuals through the worst of the recession by providing tax relief and support for the unemployed. These measures also had a positive impact on consumer and business confidence and contributed to the rebound in private domestic demand—the sum of consumer and business expenditures—which has underpinned the economic recovery (Chart 1.7).
underpinned the economic recovery
As a result of Canada's solid economic performance over the recovery to date, economic output has now virtually returned to pre-recession levels. Canada is the only G-7 country to have virtually recouped the output lost since the start of the recession (Chart 1.8). Canada is also the only G-7 country to have nearly recouped private domestic activity lost since the start of the recession.
during the recession—the best performance
in the G-7
Canada's Strong Fiscal Position
Canada was able to respond quickly and forcefully to the recession with a large and comprehensive package of stimulus measures, without putting at risk the country's long-term fiscal position. Canada's fiscal position continues to be recognized as one of the strongest in the world.
— IMF, World Economic Outlook, April 2010
The IMF expects Canada's total government deficit this year to be about half of the average for G-7 countries. Going forward, the IMF expects Canada to be the only G-7 country to return to fiscal balance by 2015. By comparison, it projects that other G-7 countries will record deficits in that year averaging 5.4 per cent of GDP, with deficits ranging from 1.7 per cent of GDP in Germany to 7.3 per cent of GDP in Japan (Chart 1.9).
to return to budget balance
Responsible fiscal management in the years prior to the recession resulted in significant reductions in Canada's net debt levels in the years leading up to the crisis. Canada's total government net debt-to-GDP ratio fell from 70.3 per cent in 1995 to a low of 22.6 per cent in 2008, the year of the onset of the economic crisis.
The IMF expects Canada to put its net debt burden back on a downward path by 2013—sooner than any other G-7 country. Indeed, Canada's total government net debt-to-GDP ratio is projected by the IMF to decline to 30.4 per cent by 2015, by far the lowest among G-7 countries (Chart 1.10).
By comparison, the IMF projects that Germany will have the second lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G-7, at around 75 per cent in 2015, more than double that of Canada's, while that of France, the United Kingdom and the Unites States are projected to hover around 85 per cent. Japan and Italy are expected to have net debt-to-GDP ratios well above 100 per cent by 2015.
On average, the IMF projects G-7 countries' net debt-to GDP ratio to reach 93.7 per cent by 2015, twice its 2000 level and nearly three times Canada's projected level that year.
remains the strongest among G-7 countries
Timely Implementation
Canada's Economic Action Plan provides $62 billion over two years to help protect and create jobs and invest in future prosperity.
In its first year of implementation, over $26 billion of Action Plan support has been released into the economy in the form of federal stimulus spending or tax reductions. When combined with a further $7 billion in stimulus from provinces, territories, municipalities and other partners, a total of over $33 billion has been provided to Canadians as a result of the Economic Action Plan.
Stimulus Provided Is Larger Than Dollars Spent
The Sixth Report to Canadians on Canada's Economic Action Plan implementation includes information on stimulus provided in 2009–10 based on actual dollars spent. However, this approach generally underestimates stimulus flows for infrastructure-related projects, as funds paid out to provinces, territories, municipalities and third parties generally do not reflect the full stimulus achieved.
In particular, amounts paid tend to lag the economic impact of fiscal stimulus since payments are typically made when claims are received. Federal payments flow to recipients (such as provinces, territories and municipalities) only once defined portions of projects are completed and claims are submitted. Upon receiving complete claims, the Government of Canada pays within 30 days. In many cases, entire projects may be finished before a claim is submitted. This results in the amount of funding provided at any given time significantly lagging actual work done and stimulus provided.
In the estimate of the job impact of the Economic Action Plan to date (see annex), this issue has been addressed by using an alternative measure of stimulus flowing into the economy, where available: individual infrastructure project start and end dates have been used to estimate funds flowing, under the assumption of a linear flow of economic stimulus from project start to end. This information is available for approximately three-quarters of project-based infrastructure spending.
In addition, provincial/territorial/municipal leverage assumed in the Economic Action Plan is generally lower than the leverage reported by our partners.
Incorporating both of these adjustments increases the estimated global value of the 2009–10 stimulus by $2.1 billion, from $33.1 billion to $35.2 billion, inclusive of provincial/territorial leverage.
for Which No Claims Have Been Received
Provinces, territories and municipalities typically receive invoices from the contractor(s) carrying out the work at periodic intervals or, in some cases, only when the project is complete. These governments then submit claims for costs incurred to the Government of Canada. As a result, there is a natural lag between the time when the work is being undertaken, to when a province/territory/municipality is billed for the work, to when they conduct their due diligence review of costs, to when a claim is actually submitted to the Government of Canada for reimbursement. This is a normal situation for infrastructure projects involving multiple partners.
Based on reports from recipients, there are more than 1,600 projects under the $4-billion Infrastructure Stimulus Fund and over 130 projects under the $500-million top-up to the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund that are underway or completed, but for which no claims have yet been submitted.
The implementation of the Economic Action Plan is on track. 98 per cent of the 2010–11 funding for the Action Plan is committed and will be spent in this fiscal year—an estimated $22 billion in federal stimulus for the Canadian economy.
The support to the economy has been timely and has helped to protect jobs during the global economic recession. The Government will continue to monitor the roll-out of the Action Plan to ensure that remaining stimulus is supporting the recovery as planned.
|Dollars Spent1
|Stimulus Value
|Stimulus Committed
|(billions of dollars—cash basis)
|Reducing the Tax Burden for Canadians
|Helping the Unemployed
|Building Infrastructure to Create Jobs
|Creating the Economy of Tomorrow
|Supporting Industries and Communities
|Total—federal support
|Assumed provincial and territorial actions
|Total Economic Action Plan stimulus
Totals may not add due to rounding.
1 Includes estimated values for tax reduction measures.
Implementation Is on Track, With 97 per cent of Committed Projects Underway or Completed
Over the past 17 months, a great deal has been achieved. Elements of the Economic Action Plan that are directly controlled by the federal government are fully in place. For example:
- The Government delivered over $3.7 billion in additional support for the unemployed in 2009–10 and is providing a further $5.4 billion in 2010–11.
- Canadian businesses and over 260,000 Canadians have benefited from enhanced work-sharing arrangements, preserving jobs that might have otherwise been lost.
- Canadians are benefiting from significant new personal income tax reductions that have provided relief, particularly for low- and middle-income Canadians.
- The enhancement to the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) is fully implemented. Canadians were able to benefit from this enhancement when they filed their 2009 income tax returns. WITB recipients will continue to benefit from the enhancement in 2010 and future years when they file their income tax returns.
- An estimated 4.6 million Canadian families benefited from the Home Renovation Tax Credit, which ended as scheduled on January 31, 2010.
- Most federal infrastructure projects are well underway, with a significant number of projects completed.
The Government has also secured agreements over the past 17 months to enable provinces, territories, municipalities and private sector partners to implement measures for 2009–10 and 2010–11 that are a shared responsibility. Provincial and territorial governments are delivering:
- Enhanced training programs.
- Significant infrastructure and social housing spending.
Economic Action Plan funds have been committed to over 23,000 projects across the country, of which 97 per cent have begun or have been completed. Projects underway or completed include:
- Over 7,700 provincial, territorial and municipal infrastructure projects, including about 4,000 Infrastructure Stimulus Fund projects, over 1,900 Recreational Infrastructure Canada projects and about 1,200 accelerated Building Canada projects.
- Almost 1,900 projects to renovate and repair federal buildings.
- Over 300 projects to enhance the accessibility of Crown-owned buildings for persons with disabilities.
- More than 475 projects to improve infrastructure at colleges and universities across the country.
- Over 215 projects to modernize federal laboratories.
- Over 9,000 social housing and First Nations housing projects.
- 270 projects to improve small craft harbours.
- Close to 1,600 projects to assist communities hardest hit by the recession through the Community Adjustment Fund.
- 119 cultural infrastructure projects.
- Over 200 projects to upgrade facilities at National Parks and National Historic Sites.
- 88 First Nations infrastructure projects.
Managing the Plan
Implementation is on track. The Government is actively managing the Economic Action Plan to maximize benefits for Canadians and to ensure that the Plan is having an impact now and in areas where it is needed most.
The Government will continue to work with provincial, territorial and municipal partners to ensure that stimulus funds are effectively delivered.
Winding Down the Plan
In the short term, the Government is focused on finishing the job of implementing the Economic Action Plan. The Government will also continue to monitor economic developments closely and will take action as necessary to protect the recovery. However, it is also important that the stimulus wind down as the recovery becomes more secure, in order to ensure that the federal government's fiscal position is sustainable and that the budget is returned to balance over the medium term.
— John Manley,
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Canadian Council of Chief Executives, at the
Euromoney Canada Forum 2010, Toronto, April 22, 2010
Budget 2010 outlined a three-point plan to return the federal budget to balance over the medium term:
- First, the Government will follow through on the "exit strategy" that is built into the Economic Action Plan by ensuring that the temporary measures end as the economy recovers.
- Second, the Government announced targeted measures to limit the growth in direct program spending. These savings will build over the medium term as the recovery becomes more secure.
- Third, the Government is undertaking a comprehensive review of government administrative functions and overhead costs in order to identify opportunities for additional savings and improve service delivery. It will also continue with and augment a number of review processes already underway.
The Government's three-point plan will allow the deficit to fall sharply over the medium term. As a result of the expiration of the Economic Action Plan and measures in Budget 2010, the deficit is projected to decline by almost half from $53.8 billion in 2009–10 to $27.6 billion in 2011–12, and by two-thirds to $17.5 billion in 2012–13. By 2014–15, the deficit is projected to be $1.8 billion (Chart 1.11).
to a sharp decline in deficits and a return
to balanced budgets over the medium term
This approach underscores the Government's fundamental belief that the private sector is the engine of growth and wealth creation. The role of government is to provide the infrastructure, programs and services for a prosperous economy and society at levels of taxation that are competitive and sustainable for the long term.
The following chapter provides a detailed review of progress achieved in each of the six areas of the Economic Action Plan.
Canadians are invited to monitor the progress of the Economic Action Plan on the Government's website, www.actionplan.gc.ca.


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December 1-13 Astrology gifts us with support to improve our lives.
December, thank goodness Mercury is no longer retrograde. My computer was in the shop 3 times in 3 weeks. I had to have "Skype" removed. It kept making my computer crash (it's an old reconditioned PC). Yesterday, while driving, a piece of wood, which I tried to avoid, flew under my car and broke the muffler system. I got that replaced. What else? Speakers. I just bought for the computer are sputtering. Returned them. Went to another shop and bought speakers and they are sputtering. The problem is with my computer. Yikes! I won't buy a computer until Mercury goes direct. A friend said she would give me her computer after it is wiped clean professionally because she is getting a new one after Mercury turns direct.
December 1 Mercury will be awkwardly aspecting Uranus which finds you a bit too blunt. Venus is aspecting Jupiter which brings about over eating and other indulgent behaviors, unchecked. It can be a fun time for partying, no doubt. Mars is in a challenging aspect with Jupiter known to find you overextended, going too fast. That usually means you have to go back and correct the job you did in a hurry.
December 1-2 the Sun in Sagittarius is opposite Jupiter in Gemini, until midnight December 2. Watch out for the tendency to over estimate your talents. This could find you expecting to win (gambling). This aspect also might find you over indulging in sweets and alcohol and feeling sickly later on.
December 5-6 the Sun is nicely aspecting Mars encouraging you to take initiative and not sit back and wait to hear about a job, or the government official who said they'd call you back. Call them now.
December 6 Mars is uncomfortably aspecting Neptune which causes vague fears to get in the way of taking necessary action. Something seems to be confusing and you'd rather not deal with anything too complicated. You could wait for the New Moon, December 13th, can you wait that long?
December 7 Venus is in a challenging aspect with Uranus. You could create your own fashion statement out of the non-conformist mood you're in. Artistically this is what you've been looking for.
December 8 Saturn & Neptune are clashing which tells me there is something dishonest taking place on a wide scale. This would be the perfect day for boycotting the companies that are against labeling GMO's to keep us in the dark when we purchase our food.
December 9-11 Mercury is in a rugged aspect with Neptune. A time of confusion and misunderstandings, for sure.
December 10 Mercury will enter Sagittarius remaining in this fiery sign until December 31. We tend to be outspoken and impatient.
December 12-14 Mercury will be making a positive aspect to Uranus, in Aries. Your mind is quickened and excited about the release of outdated beliefs that no longer suit you. You're ready to learn something stimulating.
December 13-31 looks pretty good, how awful could December 21 be? Not bad. Saturn in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn are in a positive aspect, helping us to put into motion deep profound truths that have always been true. The door to understanding the mystical realms are open.
December 13 the New Moon takes place at 3:42 a.m. with the Sun and Moon at 21 degrees of Sagittarius. The new energy rushes in and stays until the next New Moon, January 11. Thus we have the energies released that are to be with us on the infamous date: December 21, 2012. This New Moon has nothing threatening being set off. In fact it looks like a time of increased awareness. Uranus turns direct, having been retrograde since July 13, 2012. Uranus while direct offers movement towards progressive innovations which are more easily received. The planet Uranus is the only planet turned on it's side in it's orbit of our Sun. Uranus is unique. In astrology it represents taking a giant step out of the conventional role we as individuals play in society. Then…trusting intuition no matter what the rational logical mind says. Trusting intuition, and then acting on that. No right or wrong. Learning from experiences. That's Uranus.


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J.M. DeMatteis has always been an excellent writer at odds with the conventions of his genre. In superhero comics, it is commonly accepted that might makes right, and a fist to the jaw solves all problems, yet his body of work reveals a thoughtful, philosophical writer with a conviction to loftier ideals. Now, deep into his comics writing career, The Life and Times of Savior 28 may well be J.M. DeMatteis's last word on superheroes.
Originally conceived over twenty years ago as a Captain America Story, The Life and Times of Savior 28 shows what happens when a longtime patriotic superhero decides to denounce his previous life and embrace pacifism. Savior 28 is assassinated early in the story (that's not really a spoiler-it's shown on the cover of issue #1), and the rest of the story is narrated by Savior 28's former sidekick, Dennis McNulty, now an old man. Through flashbacks and anecdotes, we see the lies, legends, and half-truths that make up the legend of Savior 28, and that led to his fall. We see how his own ego and grandiosity put him on a collision course with the U.S. government, his fellow superheroes, and finally with the man who was like a son to him. We see him branded a traitor, we see him die, and we see a quiet redemption in the aftermath.
Mike Cavallaro is the artist for The Life and Times of Savior 28, and he proved to be an excellent choice. His style is similar to Michael Avon Oeming, and reminiscent of classic Marvel artists like Sal Buscema or Ron Frenz, which makes this look that much more like the last issues of a long-running "real" superhero series.
The Life and Times of Savior 28 is a story about how lofty dreams too often fall before harsh reality, and how we build up our heroes only to tear them down. It is also a story that couldn't have possibly been as good with Captain America, and one that is that much better for having formed for a few extra years. It is really, really good, and you should check it out.
The Life and Times of Savior 28 is currently available in single issues numbered 1 through 5. The collected trade paperback will be available in December and is available to order from IDW publishing in the October 2009 PREVIEWS, page 267 (ISBN: 978-1-60010-576-0).


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SAO PAULO, March 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian retail sales rose unexpectedly in January on strong demand for food, fuel and furniture, reinforcing expectations that the central bank will keep raising interest rates to contain inflationary pressures.
Sales volumes rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent in January from December, government statistics agency IBGE said on Thursday, defying a median forecast of a 0.3 percent drop in a Reuters survey of 29 economists.
The rebound from a weak holiday season reinforced the robustness of household demand as Brazil's unemployment rate remains near record lows. That has kept consumer prices rising faster than the central bank's target for over three years.
Central bank chief Alexandre Tombini has led a push to raise the country's benchmark lending rate by 350 basis points in the past year, and many expect another hike in April.
"This data makes us think the central bank will in fact carry out an increase of at least 25 basis points, and the possibility of another increase in May isn't out of the question," wrote Andre Perfeito, chief economist of Gradual Investimentos in a Thursday note.
Sales of fuel and home goods drove the retail expansion in January, but neither recovered fully from December's drop. Supermarket sales extended three straight months of growth.
January's retail sales jumped 6.2 percent from a year earlier, the IBGE added, more than the 4.6 percent median estimate in the Reuters poll. Forecasts ranged from a gain of 1.8 percent to a jump of 7.2 percent.


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Guest: NSA surveillance program is where big data and privacy clash
Big data and civil liberties are at odds in the debate over the NSA surveillance program, writes guest columnist Alex Alben.
Special to The Times
THE controversy raised by Edward Snowden's revelations of the vast NSA program to track email contacts and phone conversations has revitalized an important debate about the proper balance between protecting American lives and protecting our civil liberties.
Congress and the Obama administration now seem poised to act on the issue, but the path forward will be as murky as the spy methods employed to capture data.
The NSA surveillance debate echoes an earlier brouhaha over Internet privacy. In January of 1999, Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy observed that on the Internet, "You have zero privacy anyway. ... Get over it." McNealy was referring to criticism of the user-ID features of Intel's Pentium III chip.
Despite McNealy's warning, as the Internet evolved over the next 15 years, eager adapters continued to hand over data to websites, Internet service providers and other application providers.
The industry attempted to self-regulate with some degree of success, but the privacy policies of Web companies allow a broad swath of uses of personal information voluntarily provided by users. It's no secret that 99 percent of Internet users simply click through the consent to privacy terms in order to enjoy the benefits of various products.
Unwittingly, as we feverishly adopted new technologies and devices, we created digital footprints without fully appreciating how such data might be stored and used.
Internet companies have always been quick to point out that users, who supply personal data on sites such as Yahoo and Facebook, can disable cookies in their Web browsers.
Yet the true extent of data mining and tracking of Web-browsing habits is little appreciated by most Internet users, even when it is disclosed in the fine print of 30-page privacy policies. Abandoning snail mail and landline telephony created the conditions for a surveillance society where our daily communication could be recorded and read by entities given sufficient access.
"Big data," a term that refers to using high-powered computing to analyze vast amounts of digital data, uses algorithms to decipher globs of seemingly random data points. Scientists will use many of these techniques to tackle climate change, global epidemics and other critical problems. Business will utilize big data to more deeply understand trends and consumer habits.
Smart political organizations, like the 2012 Obama presidential campaign, will utilize such data to target voters with messages and get-out-the-vote operations. Like all new technologies, specific inventions will benefit society and also pose new and unpredictable threats.
But now, big data has been harnessed in the service of finding patterns that can reveal potential threats to our security without a public debate over costs and benefits. To pose a crude calculation, how many lives saved per year justifies the vast surveillance of our email metadata and phone conversations — 5, 50, 500?
While the government assures us that these methods are necessary to capture would-be evildoers, the secret nature of these investigations prevents us from learning if the surveillance was necessary to achieve the national-security outcome.
In a sense, part of the problem is inherent in the technology. Unlike phone wiretaps that require examination of specific connections between Suspect X and his or her associates, big data requires a vast funnel of data from a universe of users in order to identify meaningful patterns that might give rise to suspicious behavior.
The Obama administration has one hand tied behind its back in defending the NSA program, which began in the first term of President George W. Bush. The more specific details it divulges on thwarted terrorist attacks, the more the program and ongoing investigations are compromised.
If the public had more trust in the role of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to act as an impartial arbiter of surveillance requests, the program would enjoy more support.
As it is, The Associated Press reports that the court, created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), considered 1,789 government surveillance requests last year and failed to approve only one.
Consensus is building around serious proposals to revise the FISA court, either by expanding the number of judges or mandating a representative for the public interest in such secret proceedings. In the current system, only a government representative is present to make the case before the judge.
The proposed public advocate would report findings on a regular basis to Congress and even to civil-liberties groups. Of course, critics will contend that such a public advocate will become a captive of the FISA process and fail to exercise true independence.
Ultimately, this debate between transparency and national security comes down to trust. Those who believe our elected officials and public servants in agencies such as the NSA and CIA are seeking to protect the public will come down on the side of allowing surveillance programs that rely on big data.
Those who distrust government and see the potential for abuse in all cases of general data collection will want to scrap the entire system and accept the risk that some threats, which could be exposed by data tracking, will fall through the cracks.
A dozen years after 9/11, the tide is turning back toward more resolute protection of our private communications and more transparency around judicial decisions that authorize the government to read our messages.
At minimum, the FISA process needs to be opened up to meaningful oversight by a variety of observers who can advocate for the public interest in protecting privacy. We can't live in a permanent state of Orwellian diminution of personal freedom, even if that makes us safer.
Alex Alben is an author and high-tech consultant, based in Seattle. Email firstname.lastname@example.com


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To describe Justin Bibbins in one word is easy: Leadership.
In a game of 6-foot or taller giants, the speedy, 5-foot-9 senior guard has dominated the opposition, and his play has helped steer Bishop Montgomery into the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs.
Heading into their first-round playoff game at Chino Hills tonight, the Knights (22-4) will rely on Bibbins and junior Stephen Thompson Jr. as the lone players with playoff experience.
"This is going to be the first playoffs for some, so I have to go out there and be positive so they can know that we're still going to battle," Bibbins said.
It's that attitude that has been one of the last lessons he's learned at Bishop Montgomery. Balance being hard on yourself with keeping the team's morale high.
"He's very critical of himself, but he's learned how to internalize it and stay positive for his team," Knights coach Doug Mitchell said.
Mitchell and assistant coach Kareem Mutrie have worked with Bibbins on it and the results have been, well, positive. It showed this year when the Knights won the Trevor Ariza Tip-off Classic at Westchester by defeating the host Comets in the final.
"(Westchester coach) Ed (Azzam) said after the game that (Bibbins) wouldn't let you lose. He just kept coming and coming," Mitchell said, "He wasn't playing great early in the game, but with his will, he made a bunch of plays down the stretch."
Bibbins, who has committed to Long Beach State, and his ability to take over games has propelled the Knights to several wins. He had a triple-double against Crespi in the championship game of the Mission Prep Classic in December.
Against Serra, he helped spoil their senior night with 12 points and eight assists and he helped Thompson go off for 30 points in the Knights' win.
His play in big games has been a hallmark of his career at Bishop Montgomery. Mitchell noticed it in Bibbins' freshman year when he had key baskets in the Knights' double-overtime playoff loss to eventual CIF Division III-AA champion La Canada,
"You could see in the big games that he'd step up and step forward," Mitchell said.
Bibbins pointed to another growth moment in his sophomore year. Against Crespi in the Division IV-AA playoffs, he had 29 points, including 13 in the fourth quarter. Although the Knights lost 73-69, Bibbins said he knew what he would have to do to be better.
"After that game I knew I had to get in the gym and just work more and work harder to be the best I can be," he said.
It carried over to his junior year, during which he had another big moment. His two free throws in the final seconds helped to defeat Redondo 60-58.
Needless to say, stepping up this year was second nature for Bibbins. He merely applied what he learned from teammates like Tyler Harvey (now at Eastern Washington), Lamond Murray (Pepperdine), Ognjen Miljkovich (Eastern Washington) and Larry Taylor III.
"They were great leaders and have been since I came here. It was helpful so I can step into the position and know what to do," Bibbins said
It's a lesson he has passed along to Thompson, who will carry that mantle next year.
"He helped me step up and see how to be a leader next year in just being vocal and a second coach on the court," Thompson said.
Bibbins, who is calm and measured with his words, is quick to also credit his parents for instilling discipline, humility and respect in him at an early age. It helped dealing with his father as his first basketball coach until he was 10.
"He was harder on me than any other player." Bibbins said of his father.
It served him well for dealing with another demanding coach in Mitchell. His older brother Brandon, who played at Bishop Montgomery before moving to The Master's College, also served as an example of not being intimidated by taller players but attacking them.
It's a message that will carry the Knights against a long, athletic Chino Hills team that features UCLA commit Lonzo Ball. Yet in typical Bibbins' fashion, he deflected talk about matching up with Ball to focus on what the team had to do.
"They like to shoot a lot of shots and play fast-paced. We just need to handle it, rebound the ball and contain them," Bibbins said.
It's another lesson in leadership 101 — focus on the team and the rest will follow. And for Bibbins, he's learned it well.


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