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LIMA, Peru, APR. 26, 2001 (Zenit.org).- The papal nuncio in Peru has defended Opus Dei in the face of recent press attacks closely linking the personal prelature to political power within the country.
Some press reports have also insinuated that Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, a member of Opus Dei and the primate of Peru, collaborated in the deadly military operation that ended the Japanese Embassy siege in 1997.
In an official statement, the papal nuncio, Archbishop Rino Passigato, rejected "some affirmations published in certain written media," in which the work of the Opus Dei in the country is attacked and distorted.
"In deploring the unjust attacks, opposed to truth, toward an ecclesial institution, the apostolic nunciature manifests its recognition of the apostolic work, which, since 1953, the Opus Dei Prelature carries out throughout the length and breadth of Peru, and requests all Catholics to respect brothers, who are members of the Opus Dei Prelature, and their apostolate," the statement stresses.
Archbishop Passigato said, specifically, that the Opus Dei Personal Prelature "is an institution of the Catholic Church, erected by His Holiness Pope John Paul II, through the apostolic constitution ´Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei,´ on the 28th day of November of the year 1982."
A personal prelature is a special-purpose jurisdiction headed by a bishop and consisting of secular priests and deacons and open to lay people willing to dedicate themselves to its apostolic works.
The nuncio quotes the 1982 apostolic constitution, pointing out that "from its beginnings, in fact, this institution has made efforts, not only to illuminate with new lights the mission of the laity in the Church and human society, but also to put it into action; likewise, it has made an effort to put into practice the doctrine of the universal call to holiness and to promote, among all social classes, the sanctification of professional work."
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text: Hi there! My name is Chris and I'm from Kitchener, Ontario. I'm a long-time sampler of smoked meats, but have just got my very own smoker. I have a Napoleon Apollo vertical water smoker - very similar setup to the Weber Smoky Mountain. Anyways, I tried to do a dry run today, and I need some assistance. I used the Weber chimney starter to get a chimney full of lump charcoal going. I might have dumped the charcoal a little prematurely because the smoker only got to about 250 before pooping out after 30 minutes. So in addition to premature charcoal dumping, I wondered if I wasn't using enough charcoal. So I got another chimney full ready and dumped it on the charcoal that had already been poured in. Got the temp up to 275-ish (all vents wide open), and maintained that for an hour and a half. I closed all the vents halfway to see how well it holds to 225-250. But shortly after that, the fire went out again. What am I doing wrong? Also, how hot should a smoker get with all vents open fully and all levels of cooking grates on? Thanks!!!

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Hometown: North Oakland, California.
The lineup: Squadda B and MondreM.A.N.
The background: Main Attrakionz were on the December 2011 cover of Spin magazine (along with Odd Future, A$AP Rocky, Clams Casino and several more, but they seem destined to not mean much over here, as they lack the shock(ing) charm of OF, the single charismatic focus of A$AP or the auteur appeal of Michael Volpe. That would be a shame because, banner headlines aside, Oakland's Most Blunted, barely 20, are knocking out a ton of great music seemingly at the rate of a new mixtape every other month, with as many as eight to date already to their name, including solo diversions from the two (count 'em) members and assorted collaborative projects.
They've got their own in-house producer in Squadda B, but one of their most frequent collaborators is the above-cited Mr Casino, renowned maestro of the hazy, torpid ambience, the astral studio fog. Still, even when old CC's not at the helm, the stoned-to-say-the-least sound they tend to go for is the spaced-out, dreamy variety, blissed-out and melodic, slow and psychedelically intoxicating, the crisp clatter of 808s, sped-up chipmunk vocals and/or samples of indie faves such as Glasser adding to the creamy, opaque sonics and trippy atmospherics. They're calling it cloud rap – which captures its fluffy, billowing textures well enough – as well as lo-fi/bedroom rap, although to our uneducated ears it sounds expensive, perfectly lush and, well, just perfect.
The great John Calvert over at the Quietus has branded this type of miasmic rap confection Nu-Tang Clam, which is neat. Of all the mixtapes bearing Main Attrakionz's name, the one to download first is 808s & Dark Grapes II, which has earned them attention in not just Pitchfork and Fader et al but the New York Times. It's got a similarly somnolent mood to the Kanye album the title spoofs, although what they're commenting on in the lyrics remains unclear – lack of clarity possibly being the point, to accompany the gorgeous murk that is the production. Bossalinis & Fooliyones Pt 2 sets the ethereal tone, club music doubling up as headphone nirvana with its overdubbed harmonies and ricocheting handclaps. Diamond of God keeps things blissful and billowy, with a female vocal sample that is either an R&B girl or Liz Fraser of Cocteau Twins. Chuch is yet more lo-tech lavishness, chillwave ODing on purple drank: Balam Acab meets Bone Thugs N Harmony, Peso-like in its otherworldly prettiness. That man A$AP makes a cameo on Take 1, the apotheosis of MA's narcotic loveliness, blurring those ancient east-west battle lines forever, like 2Pac never happened. And this is their free stuff! What are they going to produce when they get paid?
The buzz: "These guys got crazy swag" – ihiphop.com.
The truth: Rap's dead? We can't remember when it was so alive with possibility.
Most likely to: Roll a blunt.
Least likely to: Appeal to fans of James Blunt.
What to buy: MA are recording their debut album, Bossalinis & Fooliyones.
File next to: Clams Casino, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Mobb Deep, PM Dawn.
Links: mainattrakionz.com.
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Quick - next day - delivery.
They have lots of positive reviews and comments from other customers.
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Scaramanga have a wide range of what seemed like handmade products: leather notebook, leather bags, old wooden boxes and lots of different gifts.
I was after a casual leather messenger bag/man bag that I could use for work and for going out or travelling.
After searching on Google I came across Scaramanga at www.scaramangadirect.co.uk.
They had quite a few styles and lots of sizes.
The large pictures showing the bags were clear and show the sizes compared to each other and how they would look on both men and women.
They had a lot of useful reviews, which overcame any worries I had about buying from a shop I had heard of before.
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Although Surf's Up serves 16 types of subs, the cheese steaks put it on the shoreline map. Fifty percent of its business is cheese steaks.
The Baileys' cheese steaks start with hearth-baked hoagie rolls delivered fresh daily from D'Ambrosio's Bakery in Philadelphia. The steak is wafer-thin sirloin tip that they chop finer than at Pat's and Geno's in South Philadelphia -- the mecca for cheese steak lovers. But forget the Cheez Whiz Pat's uses -- the Baileys stick with white American. Hot peppers? Surf's Up chops them. "You put the meat in first, then the veggies and seasoning, then more meat on top," confides June.
But the secret? "It has to do with all the love that you put in it," she says.
Making pizzas, 19-year-old Patrick Howard of Poolesville, Md., is one of two dozen kids the Baileys hired this season. He started here at 14 while staying summers at his grandfather's beach house. His older brother, Andrew, worked here first. Jockeying six pies in the Baker's Pride pizza oven next to him is his twin, Cliff Howard.
Kristie Figgs, 17, stuffing subs, is working her third summer. The high school senior from Roxana, Del., says the job pays well -- for first-timers, $6.15 an hour, more for the 60 to 70 percent who return. But it's the social scene she likes: "You meet new people every year. Old friends come back. We hang out together outside of work."
All of the Bailey children cut their mustard at Surf's Up -- cleaning tables, sweeping floors, making subs. Their youngest, Danny, 24, helps run the joint and is heir apparent. Their "right-hand man," Billy Lewis, 24, in his 11th year here, is like another son and bosses the kitchen.
"You come in here on a Saturday, right? All the women come in and they're all in their bathing suits," says Billy, a Bethany Beach native, explaining why he's coming back again next summer despite starting his own construction company last year.
Running a beach biz is fun, the Baileys say, but it's not as much fun as people think. Among the chief misconceptions: that you make enough money from March through September to take off the rest of the year and that you get to hang out at the beach.
Earlier this summer, when the Baileys made a visit to the beach with their granddaughter, "that was the first time in 20 years," says Mickey.
So how many subs do they make in a season? "Oh, jeez, in a season? I don't know," says Mickey. "We don't count them. This is a ma-and-pop operation."
Maybe 200 a day? "Oh, yeah," he says, like that would be nothing. He concludes that they make more than 500 in a day, maybe close to a million over 20 years. But June interrupts: "We weren't making 500 subs a day in the beginning. It took a long time to get to where we are. And here we are."


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Siemens to Showcase Joint PLM and Production Systems Solutions for Machine Tool Industry at EMO Milano 2009
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Siemens will exhibit an exclusive combination of PLM software and production systems and equipment at EMO Milano 2009. The combined solution will be presented by Siemens PLM Software and Siemens Drive Technologies Division. EMO, a trade fair held once every two years for the world production of machine tools, systems, robots and automation products, will be held from Oct. 5 10 in Milan, Italy.
The software portfolio of the Siemens PLM Software presentation at this year's EMO focuses on the workpiece-oriented process chain between the initial idea for the product and the finished piece. The software fully covers the requirements for sophisticated PLM tasks across a range of industries, beginning with product development using CAD/CAM systems and the generation of programs for parts via optimization of the post processor and the CNC parameters, and extends to online and offline simulations for controlling and optimizing the manufacturing process on the PC.
Siemens PLM Software and Siemens Drive Technologies are leading the way by bringing the virtual and the physical worlds together to provide significant competitive time-to-market and productivity advantage to our customers the machine tool builders and the machine end users, said Dr. Helmuth Ludwig, president, Siemens PLM Software. Now more than ever, manufacturers across all industries need tools to enhance productivity, competitiveness and profitability, and Siemens solutions, which connect the virtual and physical worlds, deliver the tools to enable right the first-time manufacturing, improved utilization of equipment and enhanced product quality.
Siemens PLM Software will exhibit its Virtual Machine technology, a complete one-to-one copy of a machine tool on a PC with full virtual Sinumerik® controller functions and machine tool simulation that will provide added value to both the end-user and the machine tool builder. This new technology will maximize machine tool productivity by eliminating the need to use the physical machine for non-production tasks. The Virtual Machine delivers the next generation of shop floor NC programming validation and off-machine set-up preparation and checking which reduces the errors and setup time while transforming the way in which machine tools are built and utilized.


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Tyrone's stunning X Factor mum Rachael reveals heartache behind telly performance
A COUNTY Tyrone mum is walking tall as an X Factor hit — overcoming the heartache of her country music singing husband walking out on her.
Millions saw brave and beautiful redhead Rachael McCauley dramatically win a much-needed third 'yes' vote from Sharon Osbourne on The X Factor last night.
The 26-year-old Strabane stunner had been criticised by head judge Gary Barlow, who told her "there are so many bad habits in there" and said "No".
Viewers then saw Sharon Osbourne saying 'yes' to the Strabane stunner's performance of the ballad Lean On Me.
But the wife of Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy told the mum of one that she was "not expecting great things" from her in the next heat.
Speaking exclusively to Sunday Life, the former Miss Teen Ireland beauty pageant winner revealed the extraordinary drama that telly viewers didn't
get to see on The X Factor last night. Rachael, from the Bready area of Strabane, said that she had initially divided the judges with her first song, Fields of Gold.
Both Louis Walsh and Nicole Scherzinger said 'yes'. But Gary Barlow and Sharon Osbourne said 'no'.
It was only after the ex-Pussycats Dolls singer pleaded for her to be given another chance that Rachael won a reluctant Sharon over with a second song, Lean On Me.
Speaking to Sunday Life, a relieved Rachael said that her nerves had got the better of her.
"During the first part of the audition I was talking and telling them about my life and how it hadn't been easy. Everything was going well.
"Then when I opened my mouth to sing, I could hear the nerves in my voice. I was almost suffocating with them."
But Rachael said that it was the thought of a special young man in her life which kept her going.
"My son Oran, who is six, was there. He has ADHD [attention deficit hyperactivity disorder]. It was quite difficult to keep him entertained.
"But looking at him before I went to sing and thinking about him kept me going."
Rachael revealed that she has had a turbulent personal life.
She won the Miss Teen Ireland beauty contest when she was 14-years-old. At the age of 16, she toured with Westlife as part of two girl-two boy pop group No Way Out.
After winning a £2,000 talent show prize at the age of 17, she told her parents that she wanted to take a break from her A-Level studies to visit her aunt in Florida.
But after a few days in Orlando, "free-spirited" country music-loving Rachael took a Greyhound bus to the music city of her dreams — Nashville in Tennessee.
Within hours, she met an aspiring country singer-songwriter outside world-famous music venue Tootsie's Orchid Lounge.
Said Rachael: "I met a guy who lives in Nashville who was originally from Arkansas.
"I went along to a gig that he was doing and we became really really good friends. Within a few hours he got me a job selling cowboy boots and cowboy hats.
"I ended up marrying him three weeks later! I was out there eight months and then we came home."
The country singing couple had son Oran as they both tried to carve out careers on the local music scene.
Rachael made it as far as the live heats of RTE's The All-Ireland Talent Show in 2009.
But she revealed that her runaway bride fairytale ended in heartache three years ago.
Said Rachael: "I don't really want to give his name because he disappeared three years ago. He walked out and never came back.
"He is quite talented and basically he just got carried away with the buzz of it all. He decided that family life was just boring and that I wasn't for him."
But resilient Rachael has bounced back to rebuild her life with boyfriend Steven and son Oran.
Winning a place in the next round of The X Factor is filling her with hope that this may finally be her time to step into the spotlight and succeed.
Said Rachael: "Before this, it has been like I almost get there but not quite.
"The competition I won when I was 17 before I went to Nashville was called Almost Famous. That has been so true and such a curse in my life.
"Every time it seems to be within my grasp, I just seem to slide.
"I have been raising my son and trying to find better ways of raising him because of his condition.
"I am doing the best that I can."
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My wife has been to the doctor and we recently found out she has a bladder infection.she is also 5 months pregnant.2 nights after the doctors appt she started having really painful abdominal pains.im just trying to get some ideas of things i can do to help the pain go away.i've already purchased cranberry juice because i heard that helps and she has already been given medication for it,but im just looking for something else maybe someone else has tryed that really worked for them.Thank You
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Take the medication as prescribed and she should feel better within 24 hours.
Cranberry can ease the symptoms, but won't clear it by any means.
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she can drink lots of water, 6-8 glasses a day. unsweetened cranberry juice. cut down on sugar and caffiene. She can try rocking a little when she goes to the bathroom to make sure all of it comes out. the baby's head can sit on the bladder and keep it from draining properly. try rocking forward after emptying it to see if more comes out. abstain from intercourse until it has been treated and she should always make sure to urinate before and after when you do have sex. while being treated, just blot it dry with toilet paper then wipe front to back the rest of the time to prevent it from recurring. just use water when washing because harsh soaps and scented sprays and powders can make it worse. make sure undies stay as dry as possible at all times (women often have a lot of discharge and maybe some leakage of urine during pregnancy so pantyliners that are breathable can help with this - make sure they are changed often). well fitting, not tight undies that are breathable cotton. never hold in your urine; when you need to go, go as soon as you can.
my doc said i could take tylenol for the pain and discomfort and that helped me a lot. she should make sure to take all of the antibiotics prescribed even if she is feeling better after a day or two.
i hope she is feeling better very soon. i know they are very uncomfortable and painful. mine went away very quickly once it was being treated and hasn't come back since. good luck.
* just wanted to add, i'm not saying you should take tylenol, just that my doc said it was okay.
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drink lots of water and she has to take her medicine
i had a bladder infection a week ago when i went into the lab for blood work they found out i had one
but its gone now
ooh and drink cranberry juice and stay away form orange juice
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cranberry juice does help to ease the pain but the only thing that will actually work will be the meds she's been given, i felt better the day after i started to take mine
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America to Washington: "We Have a Problem"
Tikkun Magazine, November/December 2010
Who can forget the low-key, understated report from Jim Lovell that something was amiss as Apollo 13 circled the moon -- "Houston, we have a problem"? Lovell's problem was serious, the likelihood of a solution remote, and the lives of the astronauts saved only through messy, jury-rigged solutions and the personal bravery of key players.
Recent election cycles remind me of Jim Lovell's report from Apollo 13. Washington is mired in bitter personal partisan battles. Republicans are, by most estimates, likely to improve their position in both houses of Congress with a "repeal and replace" argument that Washington is "out of control" and must be stopped a mere two years after the electorate voted for "change."
The likelihood of a solution to this hyper-partisanship seems remote in the short term. Fueled by a national round-the-clock media/blogosphere and fluid "independent" campaign financing moving from race to race, Republican and Democratic candidates are forced to focus on fundraising from their respective base voters and getting them out to vote -- even as more Americans self-identify as independents. The two-party system seems itself to be lurching out of control and unable to respond thoughtfully to the pragmatic, problem-solving center of the political spectrum.
Progressives argue that the current partisan bitterness was the product of an "Obama as president" who did not deliver on the inspirational promise of "Obama as candidate." Conservatives will argue that this bitterness is the product of Democratic leadership ramming an Obama agenda down their throat without adequate consultation.
Both views are, in my opinion, incorrect. There is something more deeply wrong with our current political system. Obama has delivered exactly what he promised during the 2008 election campaign -- a stimulus program and health care, education, and financial reform. What he did not deliver, and could not be expected to deliver, was a speedy economic recovery to the economy timed to the election cycle. The Republicans argue that the Democratic stimulus failed to keep the unemployment rate at a promised 8 percent and thus that the nearly $1 trillion stimulus was Democratic overspending that is adding to an already alarming budget deficit.
Are the Republicans countering with a more sensible economic plan? No. They have made a calculated political judgment that frustrated, out-of-work voters want to "stop" further ineffective, debt-creating meddling in the economy and that just saying no will advance their political position. And the Republican political strategy appears to be working.
This strategy mirrors the strategy employed by the Democrats after the election in 2004 when then-President George W. Bush proposed to stabilize the looming insolvency of the Social Security system by allowing beneficiaries to allocate a small percentage of their Social Security savings in personal accounts that could be invested in the stock market. Democrats argued that President Bush was "privatizing" Social Security and putting pensioners at risk of losing their life savings. So, while Bush's proposal was a positive and relatively modest reform, the Democratic strategy to refuse to negotiate any Social Security reform was a calculated political judgment that voters wanted to "stop" any meddling with Social Security. The Democrats' strategy worked: they took back the Congress in 2006 and extended their majority in 2008.
Net, each party has calculated that its political interests are best served by stopping the initiatives of the other party and then accusing that party of incompetence or ineffectiveness.
Is there no room in Washington for the pragmatic, problem-solving, bipartisan centrists?
Most sustained, progressive transformations in American policy have been bipartisan -- the 1960s Civil Rights Acts were drafted in Republican Senator Everett Dirksen's office and received support from both parties. The World Wars and the Cold War of the twentieth century were waged in the environment of a bipartisan foreign policy. Health care reforms -- Medicare, Medicaid, and the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit -- were adopted by significant congressional majorities.
If the moderate middle of the political spectrum is dying or dead, and if each party gains by stopping or reversing the policies of the other party, this country is in for a revolving "repeal and replace" mentality every four to six years. The Congress will simply become a game of who can best throw sand in the gears of the governing party's work.
Maybe America will be better served by divided government that puts both parties in charge. Then, America can hopefully look to the personal political bravery of centrists from both parties to work out the messy bipartisan compromise that will produce a sustainable policy on the critical issues facing the country.
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Rick Perry decided Wednesday not to quit the presidential race but to press ahead to South Carolina, site of the first Southern primary on Jan. 21, despite a dispiriting fifth-place finish in Iowa.
While Perry will participate in two debates this weekend in New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Tuesday, the governor confirmed Wednesday that he'll spend nearly all available time and treasure on the Palmetto State.
"South Carolina is a place where I feel very comfortable," he told reporters as he left his Des Moines area hotel and headed for Austin to regroup.
It was a sudden and surprising switch for Perry, who canceled events that had already been scheduled in South Carolina and told supporters he would go back to Texas to re-evaluate his campaign. But his mind was made up to continue before he even left Iowa, and it "wasn't a hard decision," Perry said.
His Republican opponents "are all insiders that have spent years and years in Washington," he said, and he relishes going to South Carolina where "there will be serious conservatives that understand" what he called the country's urgent need to cut federal spending.
A person close to the campaign said that Perry's family very strongly urged him to continue his presidential bid. Perry surprised supporters — and some on his own staff — by announcing his decision on Twitter. With a photo of himself in jogging attire and the declaration: "Here we come South Carolina!!!"
Later, Perry's son, Griffin, said the decision came after the governor took a jog in Iowa early Wednesday and huddled with his wife, Anita.
"Dad had a run today and cleared his head. He and mom talked, and we're in and onto South Carolina," Griffin Perry said.
Supporters and political observers there said Perry brings assets, such as folksy ways and a record of service as an Air Force pilot, to the uphill fight he faces after his dismal showing Tuesday night in Iowa's Republican caucuses.
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Glenn McCall, one of South Carolina's two representatives to the Republican National Committee, said "it's the right timing and right climate" for Perry to potentially succeed in the state. He said Perry still has lots of work to do but that the Texan's skill at one-on-one campaigning would serve him well in South Carolina.
"He's one of the ones that could peel off a lot of votes," said McCall, who's neutral so far in the race.
Former South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson, who is leading Perry's effort in the state, acknowledged Perry's underdog status but added that the Texan has the record and demeanor to make a comeback. He said that Perry's resume on job creation remains unmatched and that the governor's military background could prove especially important.
"That record of service means a lot to us in South Carolina," he said.
Dawson brushed aside concerns about the campaign's viability and organization and said that South Carolina voters are an independent bunch, heedless of the opinions of other early primary states.
However, political scientist Scott Huffmon of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., said that while Perry is a Southerner and a vocal Christian conservative, he faces a big hurdle after the lackluster results in Iowa.
"South Carolinians have their beliefs and preferences, but they update those preferences with the reality of the tests in Iowa and New Hampshire," said Huffmon, who also runs the Winthrop Poll. "Perry's trying to bypass a real test of viability and appeal straight to emotion. It's a lot to overcome."
The person close to the Perry campaign said the Texas governor will more strongly emphasize veterans and decorated war heroes in South Carolina, where John McCain relied on strong support from service members to win the 2008 primary.
Perry campaign deputy press secretary Catherine Frazier, asked to confirm that, said, "He's been putting an emphasis on veterans and our heroes in the military, and that message is going to continue."
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In recent days, Perry bought TV ads criticizing congressional earmarks sought by former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who galloped to a virtual tie in Iowa with GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.
Santorum is expected to receive heavier scrutiny and to be hobbled by his lack of a national campaign organization — factors that may have figured into Perry's decision to press on. Frazier declined to comment on that.
"This is about Governor Perry, [who] has been 100 percent in this race, and he's going to be 100 percent in the race moving forward," she said.
The governor brushed off a question about whether he doubts the staying power of Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who finished a close third in Iowa.
"I'm not worried about anybody else," Perry said. "I'm going to delineate and characterize the differences in the candidates, and there are huge differences."
Perry, who entered the fall with a $17 million war chest, may have resources to run TV ads hailing his "outsider" status.
Politico, citing sources, reported Wednesday that Perry has $3.5 million in campaign cash. Perry spokeswoman Frazier, though, declined to comment on how much money Perry has left.
Christy Hoppe reported from Des Moines, Iowa; Tom Benning, from Columbia, S.C.; and Robert T. Garrett from Austin.


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Where is the content? Where is the comment?
Illustration has become entrenched in navel-gazing and self-authorship, says Lawrence Zeegen. Obsessed with its own craft, it has withdrawn from society's big debates to focus on the chit-chat of inner sanctum nothingness. It's time for the profession to stop pleasing itself and engage with the world outside
Outside David Shrigley's Brain Activity show at the Hayward Gallery, London. Photo: Siobhan Watts
Illustration has become entrenched in navel-gazing and self-authorship, says Lawrence Zeegen. Obsessed with its own craft, it has withdrawn from society's big debates to focus on the chit-chat of inner sanctum nothingness. It's time for the profession to stop pleasing itself and engage with the world outside
If you've crossed Waterloo Bridge recently, you've seen it. Fight The Nothingness is the rallying cry proclaimed by a billboard-sized hoarding hanging from the side of the Hayward Gallery – a made-large David Shrigley artwork that utilises his trademark hand-rendered type alongside a clenched fist, drawn in his own unique naïve illustrative style. Shrigley's Fight The Nothingness says everything and says nothing– a call-to-arms or bland sloganeering, a statement of intent or another vacuous dictum? Shrigley, a some-time illustrator, cartoonist and animator is an artist, and as an artist has the responsibility, and opportunity thanks to the Hayward, to pass comment on our society. However, viewed in a microcosm, Shrigley's mantra could be seen as a wake-up call to contemporary graphic art and illustration, a discipline he has always been keen to distance himself from.
Just across the river from Shrigley and the Hayward Gallery, and yet conceptually a million miles away too, Somerset House launches Pick Me Up 2012, now in its third year, featuring the 'newest, coolest and most exciting talent in the graphic art world'. Here is an opportunity for the discipline to take on Shrigley's battle cry and fight the nothingness; stake a claim into new territories, challenge preconceptions, perceptions and conventions. But is anyone listening? Who outside of the cozy world of graphic art and illustration is stepping inside to sample the goods? And once inside, what is there to be discovered? Are we offered much more than contemporary eye candy? Are we offered much more than mere nothingness?
Illustration is, once again, in real danger of returning to its role as the cottage industry of the creative industries. The allure of the digital now over, the discipline has seemingly retreated into an analogue world of craft-driven aesthetics, where polite pleasantries are exchanged between illustrator and audience; an audience primarily comprised of other illustrators, albeit both student and professional.
Where is the content? Where is the comment? It's all about the materials, rather than the message. It's all about the quantity rather than the quality. It's all about design doing rather than design thinking. It's all style over content, function following form. Illustration has withdrawn from the big debates of our society to focus on the chit-chat and tittle-tattle of inner-sanctum nothingness.
Late last year's announcement and launch of the Olympics Artists posters featuring gems by Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Martin Creed (below) was decried nationally and internationally by graphic designers – how could such an opportunity be missed to commission the great and the good of the UK's contemporary graphic design community?
Big protest noises from graphic design, yet deafening silence from graphic artists and illustrators. A prime example of a discipline so entrenched in navel-gazing and self-authorship that as another glossy new tome of back-to-back, jam-packed illustration arrives hot-off-the-press to take pride of place on the coffee table, it is clear that the discipline remains unable to peer over the fence at a world outside it's own garden.
So where does illustration go next? How does the discipline move forward? If the subject has stalled, isn't interested in reflecting upon the big issues or commenting upon the here and now, where is the future for the graphic arts? With today's practitioners forging increasingly independent career trajectories, less dependent on commissions from within the creative industries and more focused on the creation of artefacts - prints, books, 'zines, clothing, bags and badges – what drives a make-do-and-mend economy to step up and trade up? If social comment doesn't float the boat, could big business fly the kite? Could the deciding factor in determining illustration's future reside in a more pro-active and business-focused attitude being taken on by the sole-traders of the discipline?
A recent lecture by Barcelona-based illustrator and graphic artist Javier Mariscal, hosted by Central Saint Martins in January, showcased the work of this master of the drawn line; yet as staggering as the work itself was the breadth of work. Mariscal, interestingly a one-time official artist for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and adept at running a creative studio as a successful business, presented an immense body of work; project after project, commission after commission for a vast array of international clients – from hotel chains to fashion retail companies, from banks and financial institutions to bars, restaurants (Tragaluz shown above) and furniture manufacturers. Each and every large-scale project presented was evidence of large-scale thinking, all emanating from a studio led with passion and vision by this illustrator with a big personality and unbelievable self-belief.
But the studio model isn't a new model, it is just a very rare one that works well – think Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast at Pushpin Studios in 1950s New York (Bad Breath anti-Vietnam War poster, 1967, above), think George Hardie and Bush Hollyhead at NTA Studios in 1970s London, think Kiki and Loulou Picasso at Bazooka in 1970s Paris. Of course, there are models of good practice in the 21st century too, but the best of what is happening appears to be in home-grown niche publishing ventures – Nobrow, the London-based independent publishers of beautiful books by illustrators; Ditto Press, print-publishers specialising in digital and analogue print for illustrators and graphic artists, and then there's Landfill Editions, Panther Club…. Where are the illustrators, studios and collectives coming from with a will to transcend the discipline of graphic art and explore the potential for working with and communicating to a wider audience?
Peepshow Collective, interestingly not that new – having set up in 2000 – but cool and exciting nevertheless, take up their 10-day residency at Pick Me Up 2012, following in the footsteps of Rob Ryan in 2010 and Anthony Burrill in 2011. But will they seize the opportunity to promote more than mere polite graphic sloganeering? Can Peepshow, through the presentation of their event, The Museum of Objects & Origins, take up the Shrigley challenge from across the Thames and Fight the Nothingness? And if they can, will anyone other than the new, cool and exciting be watching and listening?
Lawrence Zeegen is dean of design at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. David Shrigley: Brain Activity is at the Hayward Gallery until May 13. Pick Me Up is at Somerset House from March 22 to April 1
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Danilo Perez, Panamanian composer and jazz pianist hits pay dirt and walks away with pure gold in this exceedingly refreshing collection of world music themes interwoven with jazz motifs. Each song features memorable performances. The songs are lyrical and enjoyable. There are ten songs in the collection. Some are composed by Danilo Perez, and other composers are represented.
Among the songs are such imaginative pieces as "Native Soul," "Gracias a la Vida," "...till then," "Overjoyed," "Trocando em Miudos," "Improvisation on Red," "Paula C," "Rabo de Nube," "Fiddle and the Drum," and "Vera Cruz." The song, "...till then," written by Danilo Perez and Lizz Wright, is one that will long linger in the jazz listening audience's ears. Like all the songs in this collection, each is a special showcase for the remarkable piano stylings of Danilo Perez. Perez plays with a sensitive touch, the notes clear and vivid sound pieces, much like an intricate and colorful puzzle with everything accurately in place.
These songs are intricate. Each one tells a sound picture. Each one expresses a jazz motif. Each one is unique and enjoyable listening.
If you have not heard this young composer before, this is a fine example of his talents as a pianist and an introduction to his jazz compositions. Danilo Perez has that certain touch of class which places him squarely among the top young jazz pianists performing and composing today.
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Funding: NEESR-SG; Understanding and Improving the Seismic Behavior of Pile Foundations in Soft Clays PI; M. Muraleetharan; Award #0830328
Pile foundations are an integral part of many civil engineering structures. The seismic behavior of pile foundations is a very complex problem with interactions between soils (solid skeleton, pore water, and pore air), piles, and superstructure. This complexity is further exacerbated when weak soils such as soft clays and liquefiable loose sands surround the pile foundation. The behavior of pile foundations in liquefiable sands has been studied extensively; however, similar investigations for soft clays or seismic response of piles in improved soils have been rarely performed. The current seismic design practice calls for avoiding inelastic behavior of pile foundations by restricting their lateral displacements because it is difficult to detect damage to foundations following an earthquake. Limiting the lateral displacement of a pile foundation is relatively easy to achieve in competent soils. In the case of weak soils, the current practice is to use an increased number of more ductile, larger diameter piles that are difficult to design and expensive to construct. An innovative, and perhaps more cost-effective, solution to this problem is to improve the soil surrounding the pile foundation. For structures undergoing seismic retrofit with existing pile foundations in weak soils, in certain instances, improving the soils may be the only option to improve the seismic behavior of the foundation. This technique is not widely used in seismic regions due to lack of fundamental understanding of the behavior of improved and unimproved soils and the interactions between them as well as with the piles during earthquakes. As a first step in a long term objective of understanding and improving the seismic behavior of pile foundations in all weak soils, the proposed research will focus on soft clays. Soft clays are quite prevalent in earthquake prone areas of the U.S., but have received little attention from the research community.
Following are some of the unanswered research questions that have to be addressed before ground improvement can be used as a viable option to enhance the seismic response of pile foundations in soft clays in routine design practice: (1) What are the effective techniques for improving soft clays around pile foundations for both seismic design and retrofit? (2) How can we analyze, simulate, and design pile foundations in soft clays with ground improvement for earthquake loads? (3) How do individual piles and pile groups, with and without ground improvement, behave during seismic events and how can we validate our analysis and simulation tools and designs? And (4) how can we translate our understanding into a useful design methodology to benefit the broader earthquake engineering community?
The intellectual merit of this work is that the above mentioned research questions will be systematically addressed using a multidisciplinary team consisting of structural and geotechnical engineers and industrial partners who have extensive experience in ground improvement techniques and seismic design of pile foundations. Innovative centrifuge and full-scale field tests using NEES facilities and equipment, simplified analysis methods, and sophisticated fully coupled simulation techniques will be utilized to understand and improve the seismic behavior of pile foundations in soft clays. The research results will be translated into a useful design methodology and tools that will benefit the entire earthquake engineering community immediately as well as influence the long term practices. Simple analysis methods will serve the immediate needs of the industry while sophisticated simulation techniques are expected to show the limitations of the simple analysis methods and impact the long term industry practices.
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Showcases are great PR opportunities with the customer and friends (other stakeholders). We want the showcase to be meaningful for the customer and we want the customer to be engaged. So we rehearse a few times to come up with the smoothest running order and an entertaining narrative for demonstrating the stories.The running order for today's showcase has Tom kicking everything off, then handing over to Gus, and onto Muz with Gordon following up in the home straight.


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There have been a couple instances (that come to my mind) where there was the need to do some work after creating the broker factory. Sometimes there is a necessity to ensure single threadedness @see (PersistenceProviderImpl.postBrokerFactoryInitialization(...)), other times we need to perform some additional configuration / initialization after the BrokerFactory has completed (openjpa.InitializeEagerly=true).
I recently ran across a problem with the second case. In AbstractBrokerFactory.ctor(...) we attempt to create a broker even though the subclassed BrokerFactory hasn't able to execute it's constructor.
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I propose that we need a postCreationCallBack method on the BrokerFactory interface. This will be a single place that Bootstrap can drive this 'after creation ish' work.
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This is an useful suggestion. The other usage of such post-initialization method hooks can be leveraged to construct some critical internal data structures (e.g. MetaDataRepository) that are often immutable after initialization. One can initialize these structures with thread guards and then drop the guards for entire lifetime. This pattern will provide an opportunity to scale/perform faster in multi-core environment.
JPA does provide indicators such as <metadata-complete> etc to make such pattern.
My previous commit will regress
OPENJPA-1491. Refactoring some code right now to take that problem into account.
@Pinaki – Great point, but I want to keep this JIRA focused on properly designing the infrastructure for post creation callbacks and moving existing dependent code.
I opened OPENJPA-1694 as a defect for us to be more intelligent about when we can eagerly load metadata. Perhaps when doing this work we will discover that there are other cases where it makes sense to remove some of the laziness of OpenJPA for the sake of scalability.
Closing this JIRA as the original issue has been resolved. Will handle problem with the DataCacheManager initialization with


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America's legal system is shifting into high gear to punish the Catholic Church for the sexual misdeeds of its priests through multimillion-dollar lawsuits.
What first caught the public's eye as a criminal trial of an abusive priest has become a snowballing mass of civil lawsuits by victims similar to suits brought against asbestos companies, big tobacco and fen-phen manufacturers. It now seems inevitable that jury awards and settlements will soar to the point that dioceses will go bankrupt and church property will be sold to pay these judgments. The news last week that Chicago Cardinal Francis George may sell his stately residence in part to help pay for sexual abuse settlements makes it clear that this process is underway.
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But before the courts move in for the kill, we ought to ask whether a legal system devised to punish and deter evildoing corporations was ever meant to bring a religious institution to its knees. Should the Catholic Church really be treated the same way, in the eyes of the law, as Philip Morris?
Even asking the question will be seen by some as making excuses for the church. I don't intend that. The actions of abusive priests are inexcusable, as are the actions of the higher-ups who moved bad priests from parish to parish. It is easy to understand why abuse victims would want to be compensated under this country's uniquely generous civil justice system.
But the Catholic Church is not the same as a company. For starters, the First Amendment treats religious institutions differently, barring any law "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion. A legal regime that shutters churches may violate that command, taken literally.
Think also of the money a church takes in, the funds that these lawsuits seek as compensation for abuse victims. It is easy to be cynical about money-hungry churches and televangelists. But from the point of view of donors — those of us who put a few dollars in the collection plate every Sunday — that money is meant to support the church's mission, its good works, its power to redeem, or any one of many other religious causes.
When we donate to a church, we are not buying a pack of cigarettes or a Ford Pinto. Those worldly purchases are made with the full knowledge that part of what we pay constitutes the manufacturer's profit margin. Firms that do wrong — commit torts, as lawyers say — can pay their victims through those profits or by raising the price of their products.
But, as leading tort law expert Victor Schwartz asks rhetorically, "What is a church supposed to do? It can't raise the price of Bibles."
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Instead, a church's insurance costs will rise astronomically. Soon, it will start shutting down services and selling property.
Those services also distinguish churches from corporations. Society increasingly relies on religious institutions for social services, not to mention schools. Companies provide valuable jobs, of course, but bankrupting a company does not have the same social consequences as shutting down churches. For this reason, most states used to have charitable immunity laws that made it difficult to sue churches. If you broke a leg inside a church, you were out of luck. Massachusetts still has such a law on the books, and it has been invoked in the latest scandal.
Bankruptcy for the deep-pocketed Catholic Church may seem too far off to worry about. But if there is anything certain about America's tort system, it is that once it finds vulnerability, it keeps digging. New victims come forward. New causes of action are found. Already, decades-old settlements with the church are being dusted off and re-litigated in light of new information about long-serving priests. There is truly no end in sight to the litigation the church faces.
In 1964, the Supreme Court placed limits on lawsuits that threatened the existence of another institution protected by the First Amendment: the news media. In New York Times v. Sullivan, the court decided that to protect aggressive news organizations from bankruptcy, it should be difficult for public officials to win libel suits over unfavorable and even inaccurate stories. That solution does not translate easily to the crisis facing the Catholic Church; while hard-hitting journalism is an integral part of a free press, protecting abusive priests is not necessary to the free exercise of religion.
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But other alternatives should be examined, including some kind of compensation fund or mediation system that would modulate the financial damage to the church. It may also be wise in this instance to look mainly to the criminal justice system to punish wrongdoers, rather than civil lawsuits. Sending abusive priests and their superiors to jail targets the problem more precisely, and won't put the church out of business.
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Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who is always dressed to kill, this time around, found herself in a rather embarrassing situation. The young lady suffered a wardrobe malfunction recently.
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Being profitable in the bottled water and water treatment industry is becoming increasingly difficult because of competition and tighter margins. If your company isn't moving forward and seeking new ways to cut costs and increase efficiency, you can expect rough roads ahead. Utilizing mapping and automated telephone reminder (ATR) technologies not only allows your business to cut costs, but also provides a value-added service for your customers to help separate you from the competition in this commodity-driven market.
Mapping is a component in most modern water dealer software that allows you to quickly and efficiently route all bottled water or salt deliveries, service and even sales. Your customer list can be automatically resolved to latitude and longitude coordinates based on each customer's service address. If there is no physical address or the customer is on a new road, you can simply pull up the map and manually tell the software where that customer is located. The mapping system should be completely integrated into your software.
Exporting and importing data back and forth is too cumbersome and inefficient. Additionally, the integration should allow you powerful functionality such as viewing the customer's balance, adding a reminder to call the customer, or scheduling another service call—all while viewing the customer in the mapping portion of your receivables program. This mapping system also should be completely integrated with your call management or customer relationship management systems, if possible. If your software employs a "paperless office" system, you will want to tie it directly to mapping so that you can quickly and easily reference sales quotes, contracts or past service call documents without jumping to a different screen or different "module" in your software.
The best mapping technology is designed to help you reroute all of your delivery routes in a matter of hours instead of months. This is made possible by the software "mapping" your delivery customers (automatically placing them on a map). The software will also color-code the customers according to their current route, driver, next delivery date or dozens of other options.
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There are several ways to implement ATR technology. The older systems may utilize a modem and a standard phone line. This obviously can be expensive if you have long-distance calls to make within your territory. This can be minimized by running the ATR in the evening when rates are lower. More advanced technology has started utilizing Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. This is the same technology promoted by Vonage for your home phone line. It provides unlimited outgoing and incoming calls every month for a flat fee because it utilizes the Internet to actually place the phone calls, so there are no long-distance charges. Just make sure your Internet connection is fast and reliable enough to provide a crisp, clear message. You may test the quality of your broadband connection through www.testyourvoip.com to determine if VoIP technology will work for you. A score of 3.8 or higher is preferred.
For some very odd reason, an alarming trend has started in the software industry called "modularization." This trend makes your life as an end-user very difficult because a poorly designed interface makes one program, and all its modules, actually act like three or four or more separate programs. For instance, to access service records, you have to go to the "service module" and type in the customer's name. Then, if you want to get information about the same customer's balance, invoices or billing, you have to go to the "billing module" and retype the name to access the billing information.
Your ATR and mapping "modules" should not work this way. They need to be completely integrated to provide the benefits your business requires. For instance, one way to increase revenue is to provide more services to your customers, such as regular cooler swaps, filter changes, or general maintenance and clean-up. Using your mapping program, you can target a specific area of your territory, circle all the customers who need some sort of recurring service, and then automatically generate a list for your ATR to contact. When you need to contact customers because you performed an internal reroute to keep costs (and their prices) down, your ATR should tie directly to the mapping system you used for the reroute to help you more professionally notify customers.
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(BPI) Advertising spending in the United States will grow at a slower rate next year, but fears of a downturn are exaggerated, Universal McCann forecaster Robert Coen said.
Coen, who has been tracking worldwide ad spending for almost 30 years, told the UBS Warburg media investment conference Monday that after the strongest ad market in 16 years in 2000, growth will be a more modest 5.8% next year.
He predicted that total U.S. ad spending across all media will have grown 9.8% in 2000 — the strongest advance since 1984, when presidential elections and Olympic Games also combined to send spending spiraling.
This year's growth would take total advertising spending in the United States to $236 billion, with 20% growth in cable TV networks, an 18% advance in national radio spending, and an expansion of 12.5% in spending at the four major broadcast networks.
The forecast 5.8% growth next year would take total U.S. ad spending to slightly less than $250 billion, Coen said.
Analysts are divided on the extent of a likely slowdown in advertising next year, with some fearing that a dramatic slowing in overall U.S. economic growth could end an eight-year streak of rising ad spending as a percentage of gross domestic product.
Since the 1991-92 recession, ad spending as a percentage of GDP has risen to 2.4% from 2.1%.
Coen predicted the slowdown in spending growth in the United States will be partly compensated by stronger ad spending in foreign territories, led by continued expansion in Europe and rebounds in Asia and Latin America.
Overseas spending should advance 6.5% next year, taking total foreign spending to $244 billion, Coen said.
He also forecasted that Internet and retail advertising will ease next year but said spending from the automotive, telecommunications and computer sectors will remain strong.
Matthew Doman writes for The Hollywood Reporter.