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Washington (CNN) -- Five years after the financial crisis, the debate over whether some of the biggest banks in America are "too big to jail" is causing tensions among prosecutors and regulators.
As federal prosecutors in Manhattan finalized their investigation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for failing to blow the whistle on Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff, the question arose: What happens if federal prosecutors file criminal charges against the bank?
The answer was stark at a meeting in recent weeks in Washington between prosecutors and the bank's chief regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Prosecutors asked for assurance that charging the bank wouldn't lead to regulators starting proceedings to revoke the bank's charter, according to people familiar with the discussions. Prosecutors thought forcing the bank to accept a guilty plea could serve as a deterrent. But they also feared that if regulators moved to pull the bank's license, it could lead to destruction of the nation's largest bank and potentially the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. OCC officials said they could provide no such assurance, the people familiar with the discussions said.
On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced a deferred prosecution agreement with JPMorgan, under which the bank would pay $1.7 billion in restitution to victims of the Madoff fraud. The bank agreed to improve its anti-money laundering practices and other changes over the next two years to avoid facing criminal charges.
CNNMoney: JPMorgan's expensive Madoff reckoning
OCC officials also announced a settlement with the bank, levying a $350 million penalty -- money which goes to the U.S. Treasury. The regulator also ordered the bank to improve its internal programs that are supposed to flag suspicious transactions.
Bryan Hubbard, an OCC spokesman, said, "I can't comment on discussions between agency officials." Spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District declined to comment.
Tensions between regulators and prosecutors
Prosecutors complain that when they push for tougher penalties, regulators warn of consequences that could mean damage to the U.S. economy. Regulators say they are required by U.S. law to pull banking licenses if banks are convicted of criminal charges.
Hubbard said Tuesday that federal law requires the regulator to initiate proceedings that could lead to revoking banking charter if a bank is convicted of banking law violations. "DOJ independently decides whether to pursue criminal charges and prosecution against a bank for criminal violations of [money-laundering] statutes. The OCC does not make recommendations regarding criminal prosecution."
At the same time, there's public clamor for consequences against big banks blamed for reckless practices that led to the global financial crisis from which much of the world is still recovering.
The result is that highly profitable banks pay large settlements and move on. JPMorgan alone is the subject of up to a dozen investigations by federal prosecutors.
An official close to the discussions said the result is a "conundrum where bad guys get away" with crimes.
Attorney General Eric Holder, in a moment of candor at a 2013 congressional hearing, said, "I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy."
After much criticism, he returned months later to another hearing and said he wasn't implying that some banks are too big to prosecute: "Let me make it very clear that there is no bank, there's no institution, there's no individual, who cannot be investigated and prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice."
Criticism for settling cases
Holder's department came under criticism in 2012 when it settled for $1.9 billion in an investigation of British banking giant HSBC, which for years allowed drug cartels and countries subject to sanctions to launder money.
The tension between regulators and prosecutors showed at a news conference in Brooklyn in which then-Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer spoke of fears of collateral damage to the U.S. economy as the reason for not charging HSBC. Thomas Curry, head of the OCC, told reporters his agency couldn't be tougher on HSBC because prosecutors weren't going after the bank.
At Tuesday's news conference on the JP Morgan settlement, Bharara again took tough questions from reporters on why there wasn't a tougher stance against the bank and its bankers.
"You have to consider consequences such as employees being laid off, the bank failing. ... You have to consider consequences such as innocent shareholders losing substantial value. You have to consider the possibility that regulators will take action against the charter of the financial institution," Bharara said.


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A central Florida woman has reunited with her son almost 36 years after giving him up for adoption.
ORLANDO — A central Florida woman has reunited with her son almost 36 years after giving him up for adoption.
The happy reunion took place Thursday at Orlando International Airport, where Andre "Dre" Knight arrived from Los Angeles on a one-way ticket to meet his mother, Robin West. He said he'll go back home when the time is right.
Knight embraced his mother in the airport's baggage claim area. "I'm speechless," he said. "This is the best day of my life."
West, who lives in Malabar, told Florida Today (http://on.flatoday.com/11hMWZC) she was 15 when her baby was born.
"There is a God, because this is really kind of like a miracle in my life," West said.
They reconnected by phone about a month ago after Knight's girlfriend, Andrea Bennett, found West on the Internet. Knight recalls pulling up West's Facebook page and seeing a photo of someone with eyes like his. He became cautiously excited. Then, he noticed the name listed as West's mother matched the grandmother listed on his birth certificate.
Right away, music became a common link. Knight, a music producer, learned that West is a singer-songwriter and that her father was a pianist and her grandfather played saxophone.
Next, he had to figure out how to contact her. He chose Twitter. At 4 a.m. Florida time on April 28, he sent a tweet, introducing himself as a music producer interested in talking to her.
Hours later she called and left a message that she would call back later.
When she did, he broke the news.
"You know Robin, I've been waiting on you to call for a long, long time," he told her. "My name is Andre Knight and I was born in 1977 in New York City. Robin, I'm your son."
After a brief silence, she said, "My son, my son, you found your mama."
She also has a 15-year-old grandson. Knight said that now he'll be able to answer his son's questions about their heritage.
They talked for hours. His adoptive parents even sent West a photo album for Mother's Day.
Now they plan to move forward.
"As long as we've got time left on this side of the earth, there's always time to make things right," Knight said. "That's where I'm at right now. I'm really at peace."

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Princeton-based energy company NRG Energy Inc. announced today a deal that will see the Pennsylvania Convention Center powering its facilities with a portion of renewable energy beginning in 2014. Financial terms were not disclosed.
According to the announcement, PCCA selected NRG Business Solutions as its electricity provider following a competitive procurement process. The Convention Center's electricity usage, which is estimated at 26,525 million kilowatt-hours annually, will include 25 percent renewable energy as part of the recent agreement. The partnership announcement comes as the Convention Center prepares to host Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Nov. 20-22, the world's largest conference dedicated to green building.
The two-year contract calls for renewable energy to support the Convention Center to be purchased by NRG Business Solutions in the form of Green-e Tier 1, renewable energy certificates, the company said in a statement.


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Tonight on Sounds of FilmBy Angelo on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 6:39pm
Tune into Sounds of Film this Thursday at 6PM for an exclusive interview with legendary American Civil Rights leader, Reverend Jesse Jackson. Also on the program is Two-time Academy Award Winning Composer of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Howard Shore, who has worked extensively with David Cronenberg, Peter Jackson, Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton.
STEVE LIEBERMAN THE GANGSTA RABBI LIVE ON WUSB, Tuesday, December 30th 2014 from 7-9pmBy Why Anything Radio on Sat, 12/20/2014 - 9:52pm
On Tuesday, December 30th, sub.rad's DJ Ev and Mark from Why Anything Radio bring you The Return of Long Island's own Steve Lieberman, The Gangsta Rabbi. Live on Air and streaming live at http://www.wusb.fm/
This "fearless" "outsider musician" has been compared to Frank Zappa and Wesley Willis, was profiled multiple times in Newsday, has shared the stage with Weezer at Madison Square Garden and opened for such notable acts as Andrew W.K. and The Misfits.
Holding top spots on SoundClick and MP3.com, with a career spanning five decades and more than 60 releases to his name, and being the only heavy metal Orthodox Jewish act ever signed to JDub Records, Steve Lieberman is an undeniable legend and his impact on the music scene has been felt far and wide.
Tonight's Sounds of Film Presents...By Angelo on Thu, 12/11/2014 - 11:39am
Tune into Sounds of Film this Thursday at 6PM for an exclusive interview with the award-winning director of HBO's Regarding Susan Sontag, Nancy Kates. Also on the show is Signe Baumae, who directed the animated festival hit, Rocks in my Pocket.
The Sounds of Film, hosted by Tom Needham, is the nation's longest running film-themed radio show.
The program presents a unique mix of film news, interviews and music, Recent guests include Kurtis Blow, composer Mark Isham, Wendy and Lisa, Jesse Ventura, Dr. Cornel West, Run DMC's Daryl McDaniels, Billy Joel and Peter Fonda
Dialogos Radio: Kati Marton, Thursday at 1:30PM!By Funk Master Fuhlexa on Thu, 12/04/2014 - 9:57am
This week on Dialogos Radio, the Dialogos Interview Series will be featuring a groundbreaking and exclusive interview on a topic which has rarely been discussed openly in Greece. On our program this week, we will be interviewing longtime ABC News and National Public Radio journalist Kati Marton, author of "The Polk Conspiracy: Murder and Cover-Up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk." This book presents the true story behind the murder of journalist George Polk in Greece in 1948, in the midst of the country's civil war, and the cover-up which followed, by the right-wing government of Greece at the time, with the collaboration of the intelligence agencies of the United States and Britain.
Kill the Messenger director on the Sounds of FilmBy Angelo on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 10:18am
Tune into a special edition of the Sounds of Film this Thursday evening at 8 P.M.for an exclusive interview with Focus Features' Kill the Messenger's director, Michael Cuesta. Host, Tom Needham, will be speaking with Michael about his new film about the controversial journalist, Gary Webb, who reported about the CIA's role in cocaine trafficking.
The show will also feature a special interview with Antonio Sanchez, drummer and music composer of the critically-acclaimed film Birdman starring Michael Keaton.
The Sounds of Film is the nation's longest-running film-themed radio show. For over 26 years, the show has featured a unique mix of film music, news and interviews. Recent guests include Billy Joel, Big Daddy Kane, Dionne Warwick, Peter Fonda, Jesse Ventura, Academy Award Winner Barbara Kopple and Red Hot Chili Pepper's Cliff Martinez.
Live Local Music Marathon on WUSBBy Angelo on Wed, 11/26/2014 - 7:23pm
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Line-up for this Sunday's Local Music Marathon!
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12/6 - MBB at Princeton - 4:15 PM
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As a group, option sellers tend to be efficiency oriented. Always attuned to maximizing odds, sellers key toward being efficient, and efficiency often can mean getting the most bang for your buck.
To option sellers, that means collecting big premiums.
There are many ways to bring in higher premiums for the options you sell. Leaning toward a more risk-averse stance, not all of these methods are advocated all the time. However, taken as a whole, these techniques will provide a solid primer and a broad arsenal for generating the maximum amount of premium for your account when you write options.
1. Sell naked
Spread positions have merit, but for pure premium collection, there is no way to get bigger premiums — and realize those premiums more quickly — than selling naked positions.
While the word conjures up images of being exposed to too much risk and thus discourages many investors from exploring it, naked option selling can be done responsibly and effectively. It's the cornerstone of the option-selling philosophy.
While naked risk must be managed more closely than covered risk, you are doing yourself and your portfolio a disservice if you do not consider selling naked in at least some situations. It's the power play, the strong side sweep and the right hook in an option seller's arsenal.
2. Sell strangles
Selling strangles is a popular option strategy. While not ideal for hard trending markets or breakout moves, selling strangles (selling a put and a call in the same market) can be an amazingly versatile strategy. It can be deployed in a wide variety of market conditions and has a magical effect on boosting your premium: Doubling your premium collected while reducing your margin requirement (as a percentage of that premium).
For instance, selling the put may bring in $500 premium and carry a $1,000 margin requirement. Selling the call may do the same. But selling them at the same time brings in the same premium but lowers the margin requirement. Thus, selling the put and call together brings a greater return on invested capital.
As a bonus, selling a strangle also comes with some built-in risk temperance. A move against your call is at least partially offset by gains in your put (and vice versa). Thus, a strangle can be a flexible way to build account premium quickly.
3. Sell closer to the money
While not the first choice for collecting higher premium, selling options with strike prices closer to the current market will increase the premiums you collect (see "The money's in the money").
For the risk-averse trader, this may be troubling because the closer you sell to the money, the better chance for your options to go in the money — a place no option seller wants to be. But, moving a strike or two closer sometimes can make a big difference in the premium you collect, especially in markets where deep out-of-the-money strikes are available and fundamentals support your position.
For instance, if coffee is at $1.50 per pound, it probably isn't going to make a big difference from a risk standpoint if you sell a $2.90, $2.80 or $2.70 call. But it could make a noticeable difference in the premium you collect. In this type of situation (all strikes are deep out of the money), selling the closer strike can make sense.
4. Sell more time
This is a more conservative method of collecting higher premiums than selling closer to the money: Sell options that are further from their expiration date. The more time left on your option, the higher the premium you can collect.
The tradeoff is that you have to wait longer for the option to expire. Many traders do not have the patience for this. Others feel that selling more time allows a greater window for something to happen in the markets that moves against your position. If you want to reduce the chances of something happening in this sense, know your fundamentals and seasonals. Sharp moves can happen in any market. However, they are less likely to occur in markets where fundamentals do not support them and often are limited to specific seasonal periods.
Selling more time can be a slow path to higher returns.


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I applaud Google's move. However...
Netflix will have faster access to Google fiber customers because they have chosen to colocate their servers at Google's data centers. This is just another way to prioritize traffic for people who are willing to spend money-- the difference is that they're spending money on servers rather than bribing a cable provider.
It's a much better solution than greasing the palms of the cable companies to be sure. However, it will still have the net effect of favoring established companies who can afford to do colocate servers over startups who probably can't afford this setup.
Landgrab.net has been doing that with Risklike maps online for many years. In addition to both real and fantasy-world maps, they have user-generated ones for things like a coffee cup and a cat's digestive system.
Market value is defined by what investors are willing to pay, not by whether that investment pans out. Even in an irrational market, which the DotComBubble 1.0 certainly was, market value is defined by what people are willing to pay. Investors should be allowed to make bad decisions if they want to.
I don't believe that Goldman misrepresented eToys to investors in any way. It's probably true that Goldman misrepresented the market value to eToys. You can't really blame Goldman for people being stupid.
Republicans may have backed away from SOPA and PIPA, but that won't swing most younger voters toward the Republican party.
Younger voters are heavily driven by social issues, and they tend to be much more liberal in their social outlooks than older voters are. Given the choice between a Republican who is anti-gay/anti-choice and and anti-SOPA, or a Democrat who is pro-equality/pro-choice and pro-SOPA, most young people will choose the Democrat.
Computers have been playing world-class backgammon for over 15 years: http://www.research.ibm.com/massive/tdl.html
Zynga is eville. That's not news.
A few years ago, eMusic decided to change their plans. Before the change, the price was $19.99 for 90 downloads per month. The new pricing was $19.99 for 75 downloads per month. Other plans had similar drops, but this is the one I remember.
They grandfathered in their existing customers, but tried very hard to get us to switch to the new plan by asking us to "upgrade" our accounts. There was absolutely no value added with the new pricing, and it was purely a downgrade, yet we got fairly heavy pressure to agree to the new pricing.
I canceled my account a while ago, after the genre of music that I prefer got completely overrun by trash masquerading ad substance.


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Alvarado wins Web.com Tour's first Brasil Classic
Alvarado wins Web.com Tour's first Brasil Classic
Apr. 08, 2013
SAO PAOLO, Brazil (AP) — Chile's Benjamin Alvarado shot a 2-under 69 on Sunday to win the Web.com Tour's Brasil Classic by one stroke at the Sao Paulo Golf Club.
Alvarado, the third-round leader, finished at 19-under 265 and edged South Africa's Dawie van der Walt (66) and by two over American Kevin Kim (68). It was the Web.com Tour's first event in Brazil.
"I'm just speechless," he said. "I don't have the words to explain how I feel."
Alvarado, the first player from Chile to win in the Tour's history, found out just last week that he got received a sponsor exemption into the tournament. Now the former Arizona State standout not only has Tour status through 2014, he also took a big step toward the PGA Tour next year.
"I was just hoping to get into the top-25 this week so I could go to the next tournament," Alvarado said. "In the game of golf, you never what's going to happen."
His first-place check for $121,500 moved him to No. 2 on the money list through the first five events.
Alvarado began the day up by three and without a bogey for his last 45 holes.
"I was a little bit conservative, yes," he said. "I had so much on my plate. It's different when you're trying to catch a player than when you have the lead. I started feeling nervous on the last four holes. Dawie was playing very good.
"He didn't miss any shots all day and that was tough for me."
It set the stage for a dramatic finish at the downhill 398-yard, 18th hole. All three players attacked the pin with short irons and though Alvarado was only 12 feet away, he was still the first to putt. A birdie would end things.
"I was shaking so bad over that putt," he said.
Alvarado missed, which opened the door for the 30-year old van der Walt, who faced an 8-footer to tie, but fell just short.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to life in prison and given jail terms of up to 17 years to other defendants after they were found guilty of subversive activities, state-run Vietnam Television said on Monday.
The verdict follows a series of harsh punishments handed down for dissent in the communist-ruled country, at a time of reported political infighting among the leadership centered on how to reform the economy and tackle management problems at big state firms that have led to piles of bad debt.
The People's Court of Phu Yen province gave a life sentence to Phan Van Thu, head of a group that wanted to establish a new government in Vietnam, the television station said in a news bulletin.
Jail terms of between 12 and 17 years were handed to others in the case, the television station said without elaborating.
"Their action has seriously violated the laws," it said.
People's Police newspaper, which is run by the Public Security Ministry, said Thu and others had built up their forces in a tourist resort in the central province of Phu Yen from 2004, printing a number of anti-government documents until they were arrested in February 2012.
Thu had spent time in prison for anti-government activities in the late 1970s, the newspaper said.
In January, 13 political activists were found guilty of anti-state crimes and sentenced to prison, a ruling condemned by rights activists as part of a crackdown on dissidents.
Late last month, police arrested human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan in Hanoi after he wrote an article criticizing the Communist Party, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2013 published on Friday.
"The Vietnamese government is systematically suppressing freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, and persecuting those who question government policies, expose official corruption, or call for democratic alternatives to one-party rule," the rights group said in its report.
The government has made no comment on the report.
Among other cases, on January 24 security forces detained a blogger in the northern province of Hung Yen and took him to a mental institution, according to a letter to Vietnam's leaders from the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights.
Last week, the authorities deported Nguyen Quoc Quan, a U.S. national of Vietnamese origin, after keeping him in prison without trial since April last year.
Quan was accused of subversion and of being a member of Viet Tan, an outlawed pro-democracy group based in the United States, Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan said.
Quan's trial, scheduled for January 22, was dropped and he was freed on January 30, the Viet Tan group said.
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Wymark Hutterite Colony (Vanguard, Saskatchewan, Canada)
WymarkHutterite Colony near Vanguard, Saskatchewan, was founded in 2012 as a division from the Vanguard Hutterite Colony. In 2012 the Wymark Hutterite Colony was a Lehrerleut colony. The minister was Ed Entz and the manager was Dave Waldner.
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Location: Vanguard, Saskatchewan (coordinates: 50.050278, -107.839444 [50° 03' 01" N, 107° 50' 22" W])
Address: Box 867, Swift Current, SK S9H 3W8
Telephone: 306-773-7290
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|June 2013
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Best Hair in the City
Love Jennifer Hudson's hair, weave, wig, whatever. Am all over it. Jennifer plays Carrie's assistant in Sex and she also has two upcoming film projects slated for release – Winged Creatures and the Secret Life of Bees with Dakota Fanning. Ugh.
Hudson is also working on her debut album scheduled to drop in September. If she's smart, she will NOT be asking Andre Leon Talley to style her video.
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It seems Ducati is willing to put its label on just about anything these days, boats being no exception. And when this press release hit our inbox this morning phrases like "you've gotta be f*ing kidding me!" echoed off the walls of our still unfurnished office. But in all honesty when we opened the email and saw pictures of the red & white Cigarette Racing boat, we perhaps regretted our initial impression.
Straight out of a Miami Vice episode, the 42′ hull of the Cigarette Racing 42X Ducati Edition Racing Boat is pure white with red accents and Ducati logos. We're not that into the ocean boat racing thing, but boy have they come a long way from what little of the 1980's we remember. While we'd probably never own such an impractical machine (motorboats are cheating anyways), we certainly wouldn't turn down a chance to romp around for a day in this 42X Ducati Edition speed machine, what with its dual 1,100hp Mercury Racing engines (that's 2,200hp for the mathematically challenged).


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Vivian Sidney Marcy Cummings was born July 17, 1914, in Mount Vernon, Wash. She died Sept. 19, 2009.
Vivian lived in Nebraska, then moved to Idaho, where she met her husband of 55 years, Barney. Together they worked in many states, including Arizona, California and Montana.
Vivian traveled to these states often with Barney. After he died in 1988, she was able to continue traveling to such places as Hawaii, Alaska and a cruise through the Panama Canal.
Vivian resided in Hood River for 34 years. During her stay here she was very active in St. Mary's Catholic Church, including the Altar Society, the Country Store and mending or sewing whatever was needed. She also participated in Loaves and Fishes and sewed Christmas stockings for many, many years which were given away.
She enjoyed her work with the church, family, sewing everything from altar cloths to square-dance dresses, fishing, reading and traveling. She enjoyed beating family and friends at cribbage. At the age of 88 she learned how to use a computer and send e-mails.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, Sept. 25, at 1 p.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1501 Belmont Ave., Hood River. Rosary was held Thursday, Sept. 24, at Anderson's Tribute Center. Vault interment will be at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.
Vivian was preceded in death by her husband, A.G. "Barney" Cummings, and her granddaughter, Sandra.
She is survived by her children: Eugene (Oma), of Roseburg, Ore., Joan Farley (Lloyd), of Phoenix, Ariz., and Paul (Renee), of Hood River, along with nine grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, 10 great-great-grandchildren and her cat, Sylvester.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary's Catholic Church or Hospice of the Gorge in care of Anderson's Tribute Center (Funerals, Receptions, Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit www.andersonstributecenter.com to sign the family guest book.
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Feb 07, 2013
Monday's men's and women's basketball doubleheader vs. Quinnipiac has been postponed and will not be played on Monday night. Due to the continued campus clean-up and today's freezing rain the decision has been made not to play on Monday night.
A time and date to make-up the games will be determined and posted on CCSUBlueDevils.com as soon as it becomes available.
All tickets pre-purchased for all games will be honored at the new date and time.
Please check CCSUBlueDevils.com for the most up-to-date schedule information.


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Lee Klinger Lesser
Lee Klinger Lesser studied Sensory Awareness with Charlotte Selver for 33 years. She has been leading workshops since 1976, both in English and in Spanish, in the United States, Mexico and Canada with artists, business people, early childhood educators, health professionals, people in wheel chairs, teenagers in juvenile detention, therapists, Zen students and veterans. In 2007, she co-founded Honoring the Path of the Warrior: Tools for Returning Veterans on the Journey Home (HPW), which is under the fiscal sponsorship of the San Francisco Zen Center. HPW offers mindfulness and meditation retreats to veterans who have served since 2001 or in the Persian Gulf.
For most of her life, Lee has been engaged in a process of social change along parallel paths: Offering classes and workshops in Sensory Awareness, practicing Zen Buddhism and working towards equity and social justice for young children and their families through the field of early childhood education. She has a M.S. in education and leads workshops nationally on family support, diversity, and social and emotional development. Each of the different arenas of her work is focused on creating change, facing obstacles and finding opportunities for connection and presence.


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I've already seen it twice, now, and I cannot recommend this movie highly enough. I STRONGLY suggest you go and see it!
While the advertisements may paint it as just an action movie, this would be a terrible misunderstanding of what a powerful, moving, beautiful, and intelligent film it is. From the finely crafted cinematography, the achingly haunting music, to the slow, tender acting between Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, this movie will stay with you and haunt you.
The premise of the movie is simple enough: Ryan Gosling is a stunt-driver and handyman who acts as a wheelman for criminals by night. He promises to show up to any location, and give you five minutes to do whatever you are going to do, no more or less. After that, he will take you anywhere you need to go to escape. He does not engage in the criminal activity, nor does he carry a weapon. He drives. In the course of his "normal" life, he meets and begins to fall in love with the woman who lives down the hall form him in his apartment building. Her husband, newly released from prison, is into some nasty men for a lot of money and the Driver (who remains unnamed throughout the film) agrees to help him pay off this debt, for the sake of the woman he loves and her son whom he has grown fond of. After this, everything spirals out of control, and the Driver must make the choice between his future and the future of the woman he loves.
This brief description does nothing to adequately describe the movie. Drive is not a fast-paced action movie, though it does have action, and some of the most brutally violent sequences in a film thus far this year. Yet, these moments of action and violence are very few and far between , which makes them all the more tense and nerve-racking. The film feels starkly realistic, with the Driver displaying his skills at evading pursuit more through cunning than speed. In fact, the movie opens with a car "chase" where the Driver spends as much time parked as he does moving the car. He evades pursuit by stealth and planning. This is why the film succeeds so well, as it's an action movie that we can believe in, and this keeps us in fear for our knight and his maiden for we know that battling mobsters and hitmen is not something one engages in and survives for long. It makes for a powerfully tense movie where even scenes of complete stillness make for taut and nerve-racking excitement.
The film has a second identity, however, as a love story. There are no sex scenes, and only one kiss, yet the tender feelings between the Driver and his neighbor Irene are evident in every glance and easy smile. These sweet moments, which mostly occur in the first half, make the rest of the film truly jarring, as we have grown to care so much for the Driver and his lady love that we cannot help but wish the action-oriented and violent second half didn't exist. It's a rare action movie that makes us actually dread the coming action, wishing that our hero could only find peace and happiness, even if it cost us entertainment value.
The duality of the film is best captured in a single scene, where the Driver and Irene ride an elevator down with a third man that the audience knows to be a hitman sent for the Driver. Our hero notices the gun immediately and we expect this to turn immediately into a fight scene, but instead the Driver pauses to turn to Irene, the camera zooms in only on them, and the lights dim except for the one light illuminating their faces as they share their first kiss. This sweet, beautiful, and haunting moment has no sound or music, it is dead quiet, and as soon as the kiss breaks the Driver turns and attacks the hitman in one of the most brutally violent scenes I have seen in a movie all year, or possibly in the past two years. It's a horrifying moment, and this best describes Drive...a tender love story that must be interrupted by the brutality of the real world, which will not leave it in peace.
This is also a movie for people of intelligence who like to think. Everything (including the music) is carefully chosen and displayed with hidden messages. The Driver is like a knight, in many ways. He seems chivalrous, silent, dashing, and courageous to the damsel...but the reality is that knights are brutal warriors who engage in intensely violent lives. The elevator scene shatters the illusion for Irene, as she sees her knight for what he really is. The Driver's iconic and cool jacket is his armor, the gloves are his gauntlets, the mask is his helm, and the car is his steed.
The soundtrack of the movie is absolutely stellar and the lyrics are all highly relevant to the meaning of the movie. The song that will stick with you the most is "A Real Hero" by College. In a moment of happiness very early in the film the song plays in the background, and then it plays one more time near the end of the movie. It's worth noting the main lyrics in the song are
"And you, have proved, to be
A real human being, And a real hero"
First it mentions he has proved to be "a real human being" and then "a real hero". The first time we hear the song is his first "human" moment in the movie, and we hear the song again at the end. He is a human and then a hero.
EVERY bit of this film is filled with meaning like this, EVERY song has meaning like this.
Drive is an intelligent, haunting, beautiful, powerful, moving masterpiece of a film and it is by far my favorite movie of 2011. I STRONGLY recommend you go see it as soon as you possibly can. Just sit back and enjoy the film for what it is the first time you see it, but the second time you go you should look for every nuance and hidden truth behind the veneer.
I loved this movie. Ryan Gosling is simply amazing in this. It deserves Best Picture consideration and Gosling deserves Best Actor consideration.
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Quite an artistic way of film making, I usually don't like art or artistic movies, but this one is great. I was very pleased to have seen it.
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Never even heard of this movie before. Just finished watching it. Great movie. Thanks!
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I'm glad you all liked it I'm always worried people will be really turned off by movies that I love, but I'm happy to see the good responses!
Yeah, finally a true hero story, without superpowers. Finally a get-away driver who drives a car, not a spaceship like in Fast and Furious or Transporter... Normal, down to earth story.
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This Historically Speaking column is the second in a series featuring Grady Whitman and written by Carolyn Krause drawing on the oral histories found in the Center for Oak Ridge Oral History.
This Historically Speaking column is the second in a series featuring Grady Whitman and written by Carolyn Krause drawing on the oral histories found in the Center for Oak Ridge Oral History.
Ohio-born Grady Whitman was an aspiring engineer who received training in the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers. In March 1944 he ended up in Oak Ridge in an Army barracks with maid service. At first he thought he was on another Army reservation, until he learned that the Secret City had many civilians.
A member of the Army's Special Engineer Detachment (which had 1,250 people), Whitman worked with members of the 9218th Special Services Group at the Y-12 Plant in 1944-45. Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project (which developed the war-ending atomic bomb), and his deputy, Col. Kenneth Nichols, created this group.
They were pressed to bring in more engineers, chemists, physicists, and other technically trained people to satisfy the contractors they selected — DuPont, Eastman, and Union Carbide. They recruited college-aged men with technical expertise who happily took these jobs in Oak Ridge and Los Alamos to avoid fighting in Europe, where many American combatants died.
Whitman saw Gen. Groves a few times at the Y-12 Plant, where Whitman worked as a leader on the project to produce uranium enriched in fissionable U-235 using calutrons.
"He used to come marching through the control rooms at least once every few months, with his entourage following him," Whitman told Steve Stow in an oral history interview at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where Whitman later headed a program to study irradiated steel sections of reactor vessels subjected to realistic conditions.
"Groves was a portly man. He never smiled and he walked along, looking like so-and-so. He had no idea that I existed, even though I was in the Army," Whitman said.
Besides Gen. Groves, Whitman saw Nobel Laureate Ernest O. Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley.
"The calutron was Lawrence's baby," Whitman said.
"That's why he and his colleagues were interested in observing the operations of Y-12's calutrons. And some of Lawrence's graduate students came here at special times and gave us instruction on advanced calutron design and operation." (Calutron is a shortened form of California University and cyclotron.)
Two of Lawrence's graduate students whom Whitman met were future Nobel Laureates Luis Alvarez and Edwin McMillan.
A key component of calutron technology is the electromagnet. Positively charged ion beams from a vaporized sample of uranium are accelerated and deflected by magnetic fields. The heavier U-238 beam is bent less than the U-235 beam, so the ions of different masses end up in separate collectors. Uranium-235 was the nuclear fuel for the first atomic bomb detonated during World War II.
The copper Y-12 possessed was never used for the electromagnets because there was not enough. Copper was in short supply in wartime America.
"Groves decided that the amount of copper that would be required would have to come from South America, but the government was worried about submarine interception and the supply of ore," Whitman said.
To provide windings for the Y-12 electromagnets, massive amounts of silver were borrowed from the U.S. Treasury Department's storage facility at West Point, N.Y. A Treasury Department official there said, "We sell silver in Troy ounces. How much do you want?"
The answer: "We need about 15,000 tons of silver!"
The metal was shipped to Allis Chalmers in Milwaukee, where it was rolled into ribbons and wound into coils for the Y-12 electromagnets.
"I knew one of the guys in charge of recovering the silver," Whitman said. "There were silver bus bars on top of each calutron unit. When workers drilled holes in the bus bars and put in the bolts, an armed guard picked up the shavings." All the silver was returned in the 1960s.
To fully exploit each large electromagnet, 96 calutrons were arranged around it in a large oval "racetrack." There were five Alpha racetracks; the Beta tracks each had 36 calutrons. "Was safety compromised?" Stow asked Whitman.
"Well, Y-12 was a pretty dangerous place with its high voltages and strong magnetic fields," Whitman said. "Although safeguards were there, you had to be very careful. There was a great urgency for production of nuclear fuel.
"Y-12 workers could cut some corners. And, there were accidents. One guy who worked for me had to go into calutron tanks between the magnetic poles for some reason, and he came out screaming. He had been in the Italian campaign and had been discharged from the Army."
The strong magnetic field tugged at the shrapnel in his right knee, causing considerable pain. The field could make wristwatches quit functioning, pull out women workers' bobby pins, and stop a maintenance man with a nail in his shoe from taking another step. Regular steel hand tools could not be used safely between the magnetic poles.
"We used beryllium and copper tools," Whitman said. "If you were to enter the magnetic field with a tool made of a ferrous material, it could chop your fingers off."
In spring 1945 a colonel told Whitman and his colleagues who had worked night and day for two years: "We're about to see the fruition of our work. We want you to make every effort to increase the output and we can reduce the quality a little bit." Whitman told Stow, "We ran like that for three months. I mean, just hammer and tong. And, that was the material that went into the Little Boy — the Hiroshima bomb."
Whitman and his colleagues had produced enough enriched uranium for one bomb, but there was not enough left over for another one. Two additional bombs had been made of plutonium produced at the large Hanford reactors in Washington (based on pioneering work done in Oak Ridge).
Whitman learned about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, from Waldo England, his supervisor's boss, who may have heard about it on the radio. For Whitman, this monumental event was the culmination of work he was involved in at Y-12. He told Stow he knew he had been a part of the process to produce the atomic weapon.
How did he feel? "I was very proud," he said. "I lost a lot of friends in the war."
Thank you Carolyn for another great story from the oral history archives of the Center for Oak Ridge Oral History. — DRS


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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater
- Jacqueline Trescott, The Washington Post
After a decade of planning, design and construction, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater reopened October 25, 2010. The new building, designed by Bing Thom Architects, one of Canada's most renowned architectural firms, re-imagines this legendary theater and creates a cultural destination in Southwest Washington. With the opening of this new facility, Arena Stage is the second largest performing arts complex in Washington after the Kennedy Center and is a national center for the production, presentation, development and study of American theater.
Just as the founding of Arena Stage more than 65 years ago changed American theater, the new center secures the future of Arena Stage as both a national leader and a dynamic local treasure. The center features state-of-the-art technology and modern amenities; a centralized lobby with a vastly increased number of restrooms; readily available concessions and an onsite café; a reading area dedicated to students of American theater; easy access to all areas of the building for people with disabilities; and a beautiful outdoor terrace overlooking the Potomac with the Washington Monument in the background.
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- The $125 million multipurpose Next Stage Campaign to build Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is one of the largest in the United States for a regional theater. Philanthropists Gilbert and Jaylee Mead gave the largest single gift ever to an American theater with their naming gift of $35 million. Gifts for the Next Stage Campaign are still needed. Please click here for more information.
- The Mead Center is 200,000 square feet in size, making it the largest performing arts center to open in D.C. since the Kennedy Center, which opened in 1971.
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- As general contractor for the Mead Center, Clark Construction works on average 1,500 man hours per day to stay on track for the fall 2010 opening.
- The foundation of the Mead Center contains 14,000 cubic yards of concrete, enough to fill four-and-a-half Olympic-sized swimming pools.
- The design team drew inspiration from the jellyfish's transparency when designing the new complex's skin, which is fabricated with glass. There are approximately 370 panes, amounting to 35,000 square feet of glass that creates the "curtain wall" surrounding the building.
- The Parallam wood and insulated glass wall design on the exterior facade is the first attempt at this type of application in the United States. Each wood column that supports the building bears 400,000 pounds of load on average.
- The floor of the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle does not touch the adjacent walls. Instead, to ensure acoustic isolation, it sits on 20 separate isolation pads, each the size of a shoebox.
- Located at 1101 Sixth St., SW, Washington, DC, the facility is only one block from the Waterfront (SEU) green line Metro stop.


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Plague Inc. is my new favorite game. The goal of the game is to kill off the human race through disease. Pretty different, huh? Starting out, the only option to kill off humanity is bacteria. After the humans are eradicated with one type of plague, a new option opens up. There are seven different ways to kill off the humans. Each one has pros and cons to it. Some will transfer from person to person better than others while some may travel better through the air with ease.
Start off by picking a country to start infecting people. My recommendation is to start in Australia. Also, in the top right corner, it is possible to fast forward time so the game doesn't take as long to play. Popping the orange and red bubbles will produce DNA points. The points are used to "buy" upgrades to the disease. The upgrades will help the plague transfer faster or dodge a cure better.
What I found to work as a good strategy is to make the plague as infectious as possible then make it lethal. Adding the symptoms after it is super transmittable will make it less likely for a cure to be started early on in the game. Also countries will be less likely to close their borders. The more tame the plague is, the less likely it is to be noticed. Use the bars at the bottom of the screen when adding symptoms and making it more infectious. The meters will show how much more lethal one symptom will make the plague than another.
Sit back and watch the world try to fight off the end of the human race. As more people die, the progress of the cure slows because there are less people working to find a way to stop the plague. After the game is done, there is a rating of how well the task of killing everyone was completed. If desired, in-game purchases of are a possibility. For example, one of the purchases is to unlock the next plague option. All of the cheats can be earned by playing the game though.
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Logician and Romantic
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Location: Within my mind
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And Impossible is for people who like to hit their own heads with a hammer for pleasure.
|2012-10-14, 11:29
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Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
Now, preliminary review of of Psionics...
I decided that there is no benefit in fielding a Psionic Sniper. Squad Sight doesn't work with psionics, and in general a fully upgraded sniper does more damage with regular attacks.
Psionic Heavy might work, especially if she is too far away to hit reliably. Psionic would be a backup weapon when she can't get closer.
Psionic Assult is nice. The problem is that you might want him to shotgun enemies in the face instead. Being such powerful units means it could be better that you use your RunNGun. Okay as a Psionic but only if RunNGun is on cooldown.
Psionic Support is actually the best in my opinion. The use of assault rifles is reasonable but doesn't beat Psionic attacks. So when possible it would definitely be better to use Psionic when in Assult Rifle range. The normal weapon would be reserved only for fighting robots. Their 4 square bonus movement also made it easier to reposition for long rang Psinic assults where rifles have trouble hitting.
(In short, Support makes the best Psi Soldiers because the Rifle is such a mediocre weapon.)
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Personally I really like rifles due to their range I also use them on my assault classes until the last shotgun weapon upgrade.
It's July, my last KIA squad member was in April (I lost a total of eight squadies), lost four members of the council: Australia, Brazil, Argentina and France. I pre-planned the abandonment of the last three although I regret abandoning France. Australia leaving was unintentional but luckily it's a poor country anyway.
Really the key aspect of of managing classic mode is surviving the early game which is just plain brutal until you get the first armour (the one giving plus five health) In my game I went for lasers rifles first but in hindsight going for the first armour is better.
As for midgame you still get plenty of damage so I continuously run squads with two support members to heal up the damage. Not so coincidentally the two highest rank squad members are both support classes.
The one thing that really stands out are the terror mission which so far consists of waves of chrysalids. My tactics consist of turtling right at the starting area, ignoring the civilians and defending my squads members against the bugs and occasional zombie.
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Like you said, sometimes it's better to hit with a mindray than with the gun.
Another factor is the psi shield which is useful in desperate situations where your pinned down by many enemies and can save your guys.
Another is to protect your guys from psi attacks as well.
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I put off using the ethereal device for so long I got everything upgraded and I'm wading in cash with over 1k per month from the council lol :<
My squad's running plasma weapons and carapace, with 1 in psi armour, 1 in titan, 1 in archangel :L
only lost 2 countries from the council. Bumrushed the terror missions and managed to not get any operators killed XD
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I mean, I literally finished all Foundry and Research projects, so now all of a sudden Weapon fragments went from precious to useless.
Well, after creating one giant Workshop shown earlier, I now am in the progress of giving every base 2 Firestorms with EMP weapons (so they take turns being repaired) and 1 Firestorm with the fusion ball launcher for emergencies.
I am also starting a massive recruitment program for female soldiers with Iron Will boosted starting willpower of 50 or above. The massive cash reserve means I can hire 50 soldiers and then fire 95% of them three days later when they arrived.
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The annoying thing is, this game is NOT designed around mass firings. I have to click fire for every individual one at a time. Back in the original I can fire 30 people in 20 seconds.
(Is it really "firing" though? I mean, they got paid for showing up, then walk out of the HQ with a cheque for doing nothing...)
New tip for savescummers; If you want to guarantee a soldier be Psionic, here is what you do.
1. Save after a mission, and fast forward scanning the Earth hoping that no attacks or UFOs appear. If emergencies pop up, deal with it and save the game, then return to scanning until you find 10 days of uninterrupted peace.
2. If no emergencies pop up after ten days, load the save. Now, take your desired soldier and put her in Psi training. Save.
3. Fast forward 10 days and see if she is Psionic. If she failed, load the save, take her out of the Psi-lab, then put her back in. Save. Then repeat the fast-forward.
Every time your soldier get taken out of the lab and then returns, her probability of being Psionic is re-rolled. So in effect you are re-booting her test results. This works, as I say, only if you have 10 days of uninterrupted peace.
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The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 32
Just like that Expendables 2 scene.
My team now is
2x Assaults
2x Heavies
1x Support
1x Sniper
All using plasma-based weaponry and archangel armour. I know the Titan is the best armor but the Archangel armour gives a boost in accuracy and speed meaning you're guaranteed to score a hit and get from point a to point b faster. I usually had my Support use the Ghost armor cause it was cool with the cloak and all and the grappling but the archangel gets the point
Plus, with the archangel armor cover isn't necessary since I keep my guys close (and away from grenades) so firepower is optimized.
On that matter does anyone here bother using the SHIV units? I built the hover unit but I'm wondering if there's any point to it.
And the Sectopods are so damn annoying. I mean on this UFOs you shoot down I literally thought there was some factory pumping them out. On a supply ship that landed I had to fight through 5-6 of those monsters and my squad suffered heavy casualties (no deaths just really really bad wounds for 7-14 days)
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
A soldier with Iron Will and auto squaddie promotion starts with a maximum of 52 Will (40 default +2 normal increase + 10 maximum Iron Will bonus). Then using save scumming before a mission ends, I can make sure she gets the maximum 12 Will increase per level up.
This means creating a psychic monster who has a Will score of 124. Enough to make Ethereals quiver in fear. I can raise that further with the Mind Shield and the Psi Armour, turning her into a Biotic God.
If you worry about mind control, the Shiv is the only way to go.
|2012-10-15, 03:57
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
|2012-10-15, 05:31
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Secret Society BLANKET
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: 3 times the passion of normal flamenco
Also, taking a much needed emotional break from the game. Losing all of my best-ranked troops in a single Classic terror mission (freaking Chryssalids) leaving me with an entire barracks of all-injured guys from the previous mission and only two rookies active is a kick in the nuts. Never had that many of my men turned into zombies before
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Miria's #1 Disciple
Join Date: Apr 2007
I dunno, after getting familiar with the game, Classic actually feels fairly easy to me past the earliest levels. Playing Ironman Classic and have only lost 4 guys so far, and I have multiple max rank soldiers now.
Tried Impossible, and that is a step too far. Getting past the first mission alone is just wrestling with the RNG, doesn't matter how good you play it, it comes down to luck those first few missions till your troops get past the early ranks.
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My NY Mets sketchbook. I create an entry after each Mets game or commentary on the crazy stuff going on around the team.
Glad to see the Mets rebound after hit that iceberg! Love the art work Joe!
Thank goodness for Wright! Where would we be without him?
Wow. Just wow, Joe. Another win-win with this recap and us winning!


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I'd been on a big lingerie sewing kick in January using up my extensive stash of lingerie laces and elastics, and the first up here is a bra and thong set using some gorgeous (but flimsy) lace I'd bought from eLingeria.de a while back.
The bra is Elan 530 with modifications to the bridge and a lot of extensions to the back (pretty much all the reviewers comment on how short the back of this is compared to other bras!), and the thong is my own creation, with decollete elastic around the waist edge to stabilise the flimsy elastic.
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Meets on Sundays at Töölön Kisahalli (painin sali) and Wednesdays at Kalajärvenkoulu, Hiirisuontie 1, (Kalajärvi) Espoo (pieni sali).
Please contact us via email or chat before turning up for your first introductory training/viewing session. In addition to our own homepages, you can find us or our event listings on Eventbrite, Meetup.com, Google sites and facebook.
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- KungFu-JiuJitsu (Shorinjitsu) & Kali (/Escrima) to Lii-kan Jitsu & Kyusho (Martial Arts)
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All integrated into a more natural and flowing style of self-defense, with:
- Effective and realistic training in a modern style and school for modern day society.
- Expert and qualified instruction since 1987: More info on About US (http://www.liikanjitsu.club/liikanjitsuclub/aboutme.htm).
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Only through experience can you truly understand so, come with us and experience it for yourself. Come along anytime and join in the regular training with us, for which can you register for the training event on ourwww.meetup.com (http://www.meetup.com/) pages at: http://www.meetup.com/liikanjitsu-meetup . (Suomeksi: Meetup/LiikanJitsu (https://www.meetup.com/LiikanJitsu-Meetup/pages/20927433/Liikan_Ju_Jutsu_suomeksi)).
- We (the Liikan Jitsu club ry) currently train twice per week on Sundays and Wednesdays for which you can find more information and register on our Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/liikanjitsu-meetup) pages.
- urrently we also organise afternoon clubs for school kids (free if the school pays), for which, you can get more information (in Finnish) via the iltispuolustus (http://www.liikanjitsu.club/liikanjitsuclub/iltispuolustuskerhot.htm) page. Otherwise just drop us a line by email.
- Extra activities are occasionally organised or participated in, such as, Break-dancing and Parkour training with visits to specialist training centres, and, outdoor training and camps during the summer season
We can also organise professional Assault Awareness and Risk Management (http://www.mindsets.eu/courses-aarm.htm) (AARM) courses for the classroom provided by SeTs Freelancer (https://www.mindsets.eu/). These consist of personal protection (self-defence principles and some basic safety techniques), conflict intervention, security and risk management for the general public and security professionals alike, be they school kids, teachers or other employees at risk in the workplace.
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Membership application forms (MAF) and prices guides in both English (EN) and Finnish (SF), can be found on our Join us (http://www.liikanjitsu.club/liikanjitsuclub/Join-Us.htm) page or found by navigating the menu thus [contact us/join us] for other related information, such as our iltapäiväkerho programme for schools.
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I'd be grateful for feedback on a new draft article, Against Jawboning, coming out in volume 100 of the Minnesota Law Review. Here's the abstract: Despite the trend towards strong protection of speech in U.S. Internet regulation, federal and state governments still seek to regulate on-line content. They do so increasingly through informal enforcement measures, […]
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So this week I finished up my fall semester for the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, where I taught two sections of a course on American Political Economy—one for the undergraduates in the Ashbrook honors program, and an online master's section for high school teachers in the MAHG (MA in History and Government) program. (There's actually a photo of me on the website from the summer session, and boy do I need a haircut.) It was my first experience with online teaching, which is the new thing sweeping higher education these days, so I'm still getting used to it.
Among other things about the Ashbrook approach that separates it from ordinary coursework is the emphasis on original source material. There are no textbooks. It's more like the "great books" approach." Instead of reading about James Madison, we read James Madison. Anyway, one of the teachers in the program posted the following reflections on his FaceBook page:
"Four and a half years ago, I got a flier in my mailbox at school advertising a class from Ashland University's Master's program in American History and Government. Thinking that I would just use it for the professional development hours to renew my license, I applied for a class and got accepted. That summer, I spent a week at Ashland immersed in the most strenuous academic challenge of my life: cramming a semester's worth of graduate-level coursework into an intense week of seminars and reading assignments. I loved every minute of it. It's not hyperbole to say that from that point on, my life (and my teaching) changed in ways I could never have imagined.
"This year they started to offer webcam classes during the school year as well as their summer classes, and since I only had 3 left in the program I decided to sign up for them. Tonight, I finished my last class in the program. Assuming I passed the class and the comprehensive exam I submitted a couple weeks ago, I'll be graduating on the 15th.
"I've met truly remarkable people in this program, including students, professors, and the administrative staff. I could always count on the time spent there to rejuvenate my enthusiasm for teaching and excited to head back to school each August.
"Any former students of mine who always wondered why my class suddenly went from being generally easy one year to far more challenging the next, it's because of the intellectual awakening I had through this program and my desire to share that experience with you guys. I am incredibly happy to be finished with the degree, but I will thoroughly miss the friends and mentors I've met through it (and the opportunity to immerse myself in academic pursuits).
"I'm very thankful to have been blessed with this opportunity, and I'm looking forward to seeing where my professional career takes me next.
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fyp is a Debian for Freerunner based distribution which uses LXDE and Zhone on top. It is a FreeYourPhone.de community project.
Status: release 3.18 is ready
The main concept is the use of LXDE and Zhone which is embedded in the background and the whole is based on Debian/FSO as a subsystem. This distribution has the aim not only to be fully finger friendly, but also to give you a full featured desktop environment.
- completely fingerfriendly
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- it fits on the 256MB NAND flash
- download latest release
- flash the image and the kernel with NeoTool
- optional: make use of the latest patch
- AUX (short press) shows the keyboard
- Power (short press) suspends the Neo
- use the recommended Kernel
- make and use a swapfile on your µSD (warning: this may destroy the µSD card after uncertain time)
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June 25. 2014 8:19AM
MANCHESTER — The public beach at Crystal Lake was closed Tuesday due to elevated levels of E. coli bacteria, according to city health officials.
The elevated bacterial levels were identified in a routine water sample taken on Monday.
Samples taken at other locations on the lake were not elevated, health officials said.
The lake will be resampled today and the beach will reopen once the E. coli levels are found to be acceptable.


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Achalasia is a disorder of the esophagus, the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach. This condition affects the ability of the esophagus to move food into the stomach.
Esophageal achalasia
There is a muscular ring at the point where the esophagus and stomach meet, called the lower esophageal sphincter. Normally, this muscle relaxes when you swallow. In people with achalasia, it does not relax as well. In addition, the normal muscle activity of the esophagus (peristalsis) is reduced.
This problem is caused by damage to the nerves of the esophagus.
Other problems can cause similar symptoms, such as cancer of the esophagus or upper stomach, and a parasite infection that causes Chagas disease.
Achalasia is rare. It may occur at any age, but is most common in middle-aged or older adults. The problem may be inherited in some people.
Physical exam may show signs of anemia or malnutrition.
Tests include:
The goal of treatment is to reduce the pressure at the lower esophageal sphincter. Therapy may involve:
Your doctor can help you decide which treatment is best for you.
The outcomes of surgery and nonsurgical treatments are similar. Sometimes more than one treatment is necessary.
Complications may include:
Call your health care provider if:
Many of the causes of achalasia cannot be prevented. However, treatment may help to prevent complications.
Falk GW, Katzka DA. Diseases of the esophagus. In: Goldman L, Shafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 140.


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There is something about a puzzle which appeals to almost everyone, young or old. Perhaps it is the challenge to our thinking powers, the feeling that we must not be conquered by so small a thing. Perhaps our curiosity is aroused to see what mode of attack will succeed, by what clever device a puzzle may be solved, especially if its real nature is skillfully concealed.
Any good textbook in Arithmetic or Algebra or Geometry is sure to contain some stimulating problems, buy many more such problems, interesting and amusing, as well as instructive, lie a little off the beaten track.
Our course through the early years of mathematical study is apt to be rather clearly mapped out, resembling the plan of a European tour—so many days for London, so many days for Oxford, etc.; quite the right sights to see, but many tourists come home with no notion of the delightful sights which they have not seen for lack of time or lack of guidance.
This little book is meant to play the part that some of the more detailed or specialized guide books play for the tourist. You have made a trip through Arithmetic, but here are some sights you may have missed, something new about counting or division or decimals. Here are a few side trips, away from the main traveled roads, into some of the fields that border on your path through Algebra and Geometry. They are not the chief sights of such a journey, but they may add some pleasure and profit to your trip.
Next to an abundance of poetry stored in our minds, I believe that there are few things that add more to our ability to divert and enjoy ourselves than a good supply of mathematical puzzles.
Perhaps you have heard that Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland," was a mathematician. He was a poor sleeper, and used to amuse himself when wakeful at night by working out problems in his head. Some of these midnight amusements were published in a little book called "Pillow Problems." We might be made wider awake rather than soothed by thinking out problems in the dark but it is a fine thing to have some on hand for entertainment while one waits for a train or a dentist's appointment, or is shut in with a cold.
A professor of Zoölogy once told me that, if she were shut up in prison and could have only one book, she thought she would ask for a book of Geometry originals, because they would give her entertainment and keep her brain from getting dull.
Most of the mathematical books which are not textbooks are written for rather learned people, but this book is not written for the learned. All the mathematical knowledge that it calls for is Algebra and Geometry, enough to show you that those subjects can be very entertaining. One pleasant feature of mathematics is that we do not have to know a great deal about it in order to get amusement from it, and a still more pleasant one is that the farther we go the more we find to surprise and entertain us.
There are many different kinds of problems in this book. Anyone who has an interest in such subjects is sure to find something here to prove diverting, to furnish mental exercise, and to give a little notion of what may be found farther on along the mathematical road.
As I take up the various topics I mean to talk to you very informally, as if you were right here with me, putting questions to you which I hope you will try to answer for yourselves before you go on to see what I say in answer.
Perhaps some of the problems will prove to be posers. An occasional hint has been given, but it seems a pity to give too many and so to spoil your pleasure in wrestling with these puzzles. Answers to many of the problems are given, but on a different page, so that you need not see them unless you wish.
These pages contain only a few samples of what is to be found in the inexhaustible storehouse of Mathematics.Chapters


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