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just spied on fm: Bookbase is a gui front end to a mysql database of books. Records are keyed by ISBN. Could be useful for personal collections... would be nice to hook up to a cuecat reader with a z39.50 client. :) Hint: it won't build unless you have the mysql-shared libmysqlclient stuff installed.
from pyblio: "What's new? Improved Medline Query interface, added incremental search capability, small UI improvements, small fixes in the BibTeX and ISI format. You can get the source at the usual places."
from fm: "This version provides direct access to the medline database. It better interprets author names in the medline format. Accented characters are now filtered out of entry keys. It is now possible to generate bibliographies for APA publications. Selected keys can now be copy/pasted in a text editor. Miscellanous bugs have been fixed." Find it at its gnome home.
Citation Manager
Todd writes: "We've developed a new open source tool which provides some of the functionality of personal bibliographic databases like EndNote or Procite. Its working name is Citation Manager. It runs on the server side and provides a database which handles multiple sites and users. The project site is missing important things like, well, everything except a link to the source code repository and the test server... but people at Access liked it and I thought I'd let everyone else see what we're up to. I'll be working on expanding the site into something useful, but in the mean time people are welcome to play around with the test database."
from freshmeat, changes include: "Password encryption, clients can ask for passwords interactively, simplified user management, and changes to the client-server dialog protocol (old clients won't work with the new application server and vice versa). Precompiled Cygwin binaries are also available." Read more at refdb.sf.net.
from the pybliographer site: "It provides a new displayer for the entries, based on GtkHTML (if it is compiled in your gnome-python), fixes problems with author initials formatting and saving of referenced entries, and improves robustness on some points (file saving,...). Oh, by the way, use recode 3.5 exclusively. Later versions are a bit broken for use with pybliographer." The list announcement also mentioned new support for ISI.
from freshmeat: "RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for DocBook SGML and XML documents. This is an attempt to provide most of the functionality of commercial packages like Reference Manager or EndNote in a platform-independent tool, targeting DocBook rather than word processors." This version's changes include bugfixes, build improvements, better error reporting and output.
from the gBib site: "gBib is a user-friendly editor and browser for BibTeX databases. You can use it also to insert citations inside a LyX document." Written in C++ w/STL, which makes it unique among the existing citation managers, but lots of feature overlap.
Martha writes: "Thokbook has now been ported to MySQL and DBD::CSV (flat file pseudo-database). Try it out and send me feedback! Note: The database format has changed. If you created a database under version 0.01, you will have to destroy and re-create it."
from pybliographer-general, changes for 1.0.8 include fixed search, additional translations and documentation updates, and an improved bibtex parser. Go get it at the pyblio site.


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Procurement Services has been charged with the day-to-day responsibility of managing the program. An aggressive outreach program has been instituted to identify and establish business relationships with minority-owned companies. Prospective minority suppliers should contact Procurement Services to discuss possible business opportunities with the University.
To assist members of the University community in conducting business with minority-owned businesses, please use the link below to determine if there is a minority-owned business that can satisfy your requirements
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O'Hare travelers weather fog delays
Fog put a damper on travel plans for thousands of passengers at O'Hare International Airport Wednesday, but it wasn't an issue for the Hunt family en route to Buffalo from Batavia.
"So far, so good," said Deb Hunt as she waited in line at Terminal One with husband Don, son Nathan, 4, and 7-month-old Marissa. "This is the first time traveling with the four of us," the Batavia resident said.
"It takes planning," Don Hunt added.
As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 130 flights were canceled at O'Hare and more than 50 at Midway International Airport because of poor visibility caused by the morning fog. O'Hare was operating normally except for some regional carriers, but several airlines at Midway were still experiencing delays of up to 90 minutes.
The scene at O'Hare, however, was relatively calm for one of the busiest travel days of the year.
The Chicago Department of Aviation predicts 1.8 million fliers will head through the two airports between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27. Sunday should see the heaviest passenger traffic with more than 250,000 passengers expected at O'Hare and more than 78,000 at Midway.
Walter and Anne Smith left McHenry in plenty of time to meet No. 4 son, Peter, who was flying in from New Jersey.
The couple were a picture of calm amid holiday bustle, sitting with coffee and a book while they waited the arrival of the Seton Hall University sophomore's flight.
Both Smiths said they looked forward to some quality turkey time with their youngest over Thanksgiving.
"I like the time off," Walter Smith said.
"I like family coming home," Anne Smith.
Nationwide, about 43.6 million Americans will take a trip 50 miles or more from home over Thanksgiving, AAA projects. That's a slight uptick from 2011 when 43.3 million made a Turkey Day journey.
In Illinois, 2.1 million folks will hit the road this year, taking advantage of slightly lower gas prices averaging around $3.49 for a gallon of regular statewide.
Both the Illinois Department of Transportation and Illinois tollway are giving drivers a break by suspending construction over the Thanksgiving lull.
The tollway predicted that about 10 million vehicles will travel on its system during the holiday with the bulk of drivers on Wednesday.
The agency is now offering drivers a chance to follow individual toll roads on Twitter. For more information, go to www.illinoistollway.com/roadway-information.


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Laurel & Margo's Touch of Chartreuse
Love bright colors? Go for it if it's your thing, but use it sparingly so you don't get sick of it. That's the advice of Austin-based stylist Laurel Kinney, as told to Apartment Therapy in this recent House Tour. She admits it was a risk to install a chartreuse kitchen counter in her kitchen, but it works: "The rest of the kitchen was kept neutral it doesn't fight so much for attention and blends in nicely with the rest of the house's vibe."
Touches of green show up inside the cabinet cubbies, too, to draw the look together. Think you'd like to give it a try? Go for "Apple Martini" in Ceasarstone to get the look.
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And the winners are
First Place
Samuel Valorian
Second Place
Tromso Rostoff
Carmen is just an incredible embodiment of a Champion! She's a blast to RP with.
Dan'eth quietly hangs out in the background, everyone's shoulder to cry on. She's wonderfully played with her myopic and slightly paunchy self.
So many awesome players and DM's thank you for your hospitality!
I had forgotton how awesome it was to see Flenken in action.
Can I vote for Kice anyway? I am never left anything short of amazed.
I really enjoyed rubbing elbows with Ronan, Miranda, Ariana, and Mystrif (may your first name be damned). Looking forward to a great deal more.
Kudos to Tromso for some epic, hard working bard RP. Especially impressive as he stays true to the Tromso we all known and love/hate... and are grossed out by.
Enjoying the new character, Zach. The fellow may not know Avlis but he sure knows how to roleplay. Keep it up, dude!
Samuel. Homeboy still got it. Never lost it. Has to flaunt it.
Malulani jael MacMurray (MJ) - many people are good at having a story for their characters but MJ's personal events / stories, even the trivial ones, live long after they happen. Love it!
Kassaerth - In Game RP over other means, keepin' it real. The RP you do have IG with her is topnotch!
As usual, narrowing the field to two choices was delightfully challenging. I look forward to our voting each month as an opportunity to reminisce about all the great times that have been shared. Keep it up everyone!
I've really enjoyed watching Thalis progress in his search for power over the last month. He is a solid character with plenty of depth and personality, and a joy to play with. I look forward to abusing him plenty more in the near future!
Sammy V. Father of the Boom, Destroyer of Worlds.
Zach - The plucky pale fellow with a penchant for poignant questions.
Geris - The degree of thought this character puts into his surroundings means he is always of interest.
Latanya- The in-your-face, over-the-top, court jester/bartendress!
MJ - A ranger's ranger. I keep voting for her every month.
Has been the most welcoming of all players I've met. Every time we've logged into the same server as him, he's checked up on us, and helped with our character advancement. Both the player and the character are amicable, and regularly are outright hilarious.
I was almost going to give Kassaerth both my votes this time. She my favorite female Peler following druid Shahesk and I think deserves recognition. I decided however to spread the love around and recognize Har- er- Tromso as well.
Murdock is always interesting to pay attention to the expressions of, even if your characters aren't-- you can figure out what he's thinking based on what he does, and not because he tells you. Or sometimes not figure it out, but because that's exactly what he meant to do. He's great to roleplay around.
Ronan automatically creates such a presence both as a character and as a player that there's no doubt they know what they're doing and how they're going to get there. He's such a pleasure to talk to, as any character.
Fabello and Sammy have been worming their way into my character's lives lately, and in a good way. The three of our characters seem to be cultivating something of an avlis bro-mance which is simultaneously mildly amusing, and actually quite adorable and meaningful. Sammy, Fabello and my character have made an excellent combination this month, playing off of each other well and trading position of the lancer, the foil, and the mage who's blowing stuff up. Cheers guys!
Finally, this month can't be complete unless I mention Pleth and her super badass NPCs.
Technically not a character but the way Pleth has brought so many npc's to life has to be seen to be believed.
An ideal crabby old man. He provides an interesting perspective on the world of Avlis, and does so convincingly. The great part about him is that he can lead you into something with a smile, even when lacking his clerical abilities. My character now has to figure out how to deal with a brand new Harpinger subscription, thanks to this.
Kohav its just fun waiting to see what he will say next, he is a constant entertainment, and welcome challange to keep up with him. I always look forward to a wonderfull and funny RP session with him.
Tromso, He is Rude crude and a little selfish, well ok alot selfish, but that is all part of his charm, and add to it his willingness to help a friend and it makes him a pleasure to be around
Sometimes, when we get accustomed to seeing a character all the time, we forget how awesome they actually are. We take the excellent roleplaying in stride but don't notice it, so when that character goes through a major change or event, it makes us remember how amazing they actually are. Thienna is this character for me this month. A truly disturbing and incredibly well portrayed injury, the only reason why I did not vote for her is because it happened so late in the month.


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Today's Meditation
Read 2 Kings 18:1-6
[Hezekiah] held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following him but kept the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses.
-2 Kings 18:6 (NRSV)
When my son was about three years old, I brought him along with me to a men's accountabilitygroup meeting. At the start of the meeting, I noticed how close to me my son was sitting. In an unfamiliar place, surrounded by a room full of strange and therefore probably scary-looking men, he felt frightened and insecure. So he held on tightly to the only familiar person in that room -- his father. As long as Dad was near, he felt safe.
The way he clung to me made me think about the importance of our clinging to God. Second Kings, chapter 18, describes Hezekiah as a righteous king. He was successful and prosperous. But more important, Hezekiah clung to the Lord. I believe that is the secret to unleashing spiritual power in our lives.
Clinging to God may sound simple, but it's not as easy as it may seem. Humans have a propensity to be independent. After sitting close for about 30 minutes, my son slowly loosened his grip on me as he became more comfortable. But when we become comfortable spiritually, we may begin to depend on ourselves and our abilities and loosen our grip on God. We find ourselves working more and praying less. The secret to unleashing spiritual power in our lives is to maintain constant dependence on God -- clinging to God as if our life depended on it, never letting go.
Marc Villa-Real
(Antipolo City, Philippines)
Prayer: Dear Lord, teach us to cling to you as a child holds fast to its parent and to not let go. Amen.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are ending higher on Wall Street after several encouraging economic reports brought buyers back to the market.
Home prices jumped in April. Durable goods orders also rose and consumer confidence soared.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 100 points, or 0.7 percent, to close at 14,760 Tuesday. The Dow slumped 139 points the day before.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 14 points, or 1 percent, to 1,588. Telecommunications and bank stocks rose the most.
The Nasdaq composite rose 27 points, or 0.8 percent, at 3,347.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.60 percent from 2.54 percent late Monday.
The gains were broad. Four stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was average at 3.6 billion shares.


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The term mortgage refers to the legal device used for this purpose, but it is also commonly used to refer to the debt secured by the mortgage, the mortgage loan. With the advent of the mortgage backed securities, the market for mortgage loan has been growing quickly and is estimated as large as the Treasury debt market.
In most jurisdictions mortgages are strongly associated with loans secured on real estate rather than other property (such as ships) and in some cases only land may be mortgaged. Arranging a mortgage is seen as the standard method by which individuals and businesses can purchase residential and commercial real estate without the need to pay the full value immediately.
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We loved reading your responses to yesterday's question: What was the first garment you ever sewed? To add my answer to the bunch, my first garment was an extremely easy one-seam elastic-waist skirt made from red floral print fabric, of which I was absurdly proud. Thanks to everyone for participating! Our Day 10 winner is Betsy K., who said: "The first garment i ever made was a camp style shirt with my mom…it was a border print of sailboats. I think I was about ten at the time. I loved that shirt! I'm lucky, my mom (now 80) still sews and acts as my mentor." Awww, that's great, Betsy! We hope that you and your mom enjoy The Sewing Bible-Clothing and continue making many more garments together!
For Day 11, we have the lovely book The Gentle Art of Quiltmaking: 15 Projects Inspired by Everyday Beauty to give away to one lucky winner. Whether you're an established quilter or have been wanting to give it a try, this book has great ideas, helpful tips and inspiring photography. Now, I know that many sewists don't quilt and vice versa, but there are also plenty of us that like to dabble in many creative pursuits. So, to enter to win today's prize, we'd like to know: How do you identify yourself? Sewist? Seamstress? Fabric Artist? Crafter? Designer? Quilter? Something else entirely? Submit your answer in the Comments section below by tomorrow when we'll announce the winner!


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Oct 7 (Reuters) - Nick Folk booted a 43-yard field goal as time expired to lift the visiting New York Jets to a 30-28 upset road victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Monday.
The win pushed the Jets into a tie for second place in the AFC East with a 3-2 record, while Atlanta, top seeds last year in the NFC after posting a 13-3 record, dropped to 1-4 for the season.
The Falcons, given a second life thanks to a penalty on a failed fourth down attempt near the endzone, battled back to take a 28-27 lead with just under two minutes remaining after trailing 27-14 midway through the final quarter.
However, Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith drove New York from their own 20-yard line to the Atlanta 25 to set up the game-winning field goal.
Smith completed 16-of-20 passes for 199 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions in a mistake free performance.
Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan hit 36-of-45 throws for 319 yards and a pair of touchdowns. (Reporting by Larry Fine in New York; Editing by John O'Brien)


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Manchester police search for man who robbed West Side TD Bank branch
September 02. 2014 2:29PM
MANCHESTER -- Police are looking for a man who robbed TD Bank on the city's West Side late Tuesday morning.
The bank robbery at 293 South Main St. happened at 11:25 a.m. and the robber reportedly fled on foot.
According to police, the teller said the robber came to the counter and handed her a note demanding money. He did not display or mention a weapon, and was able to flee the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The man is described as a white male with short, gray hair, wearing glasses, a baseball hat, a striped, collared shirt, khaki shorts and black boots.
Police ask anyone with information to call them at 668-8711 or Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040.


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Greenpa asked me to talk about how we cook in the summer, and that's a very good subject to talk about – what does a woman who "dances with wood" and cooks on a wood cookstove all winter long do in the summer? Well, part of the answer is that when we're lazy, we use the electric stove that came with the house. Now from an environmental standpoint, electric stoves are a pretty lousy option. Using electricity to create heat mostly means burning coal in the US. Now my family purchases renewable electricity and also my region uses a fair bit of hydro-power, but that's something of a grey area in a state where functionally there is not enough renewable energy to meet the demand for it – ultimately someone is burning coal if we're using our local renewables. So even though there's a case for our electric usage, we try to keep the electric stove use to a comparatively minimum. As Greenpa himself has written, choices of fuels for cooking are complicated.
We do a number of things to keep inside temperatures down. First, we eat cold food as often as possible in hot weather – salads, sandwiches, cut up fruit for dessert, hummus and bean dips, cold legumes, etc… During winter our "default" (ie, I'm too lazy to think about anything creative) meal is often soup cooked on the back of the stove or baked potatoes with steamed greens and some kind of sauce. In summer it is large salads with a mix of whatever greens and veggies are in the garden, and various other stuff – fruit, cooked beans or lentils, cheese, hardboiled eggs or what have you.
Next, when we do cook, we build summer fires in our wood cookstove when the temperatures are reasonable. What you want in a summer fire is a very small, hot fire that heats mostly directly above the firebox. I'd tell you how to do this, except my experience is that it is very different with different types of stoves – it is one of those things that I learned to do by practice, and it is very hard to explain exactly how it works – what you want generally is a lot of small pieces of very dry wood, and to aim your draft so that almost no heat is going towards the oven. This is somewhat different in my Waterford Stanley than in a friend's Pioneer Maid or an older stove that another friend has, so I'm not sure I can usefully explain how to do it.
But what if you want to bake? Well the trick then is to do your cooking very early in the morning or at night, and to watch the weather forecasts. Our woodstove oven can take four loaves of bread at a time, so I do eight loaves at a shot (most people probably don't have six sons who eat like Huns in their house and may have to bake less often ;-)), starting the fire at 5:30am when we get up (if you were a night person, you could do it at night, but I'm too sleepy to remember to take bread out of the oven on time at night). Where we live you can often also count on a day in any given summer week that is cool, rainy and dreary enough that a fire is not a horrifying idea, but that's certainly not true everywhere – and it isn't even true here during the hottest part of the summer.
I do as much cooking ahead as possible early in the day, and as much as possible ahead on cool days if the forecast looks hot. I try to think ahead about meals whenever possible, so if I'm going to run the cookstove I'll be cooking beans for the next day's tacos, boiling potatoes for salmon cakes at lunch and making dessert for the day after tomorrow if I can pull it off. It doesn't always work, but whatever I can do ahead of time (as long as it is the sort of food that holds up), I do.
We have a very good solar oven – The Global Sun Oven – that I use whenever the weather is sunny enough to get temperatures up. In hot places, these are perfect substitutes for the oven in many ways. Consider Chile's log of her sun oven usage. Up here in upstate NY, we can't do that all year round, but there's much we can do that is worth doing. I try to have my sun oven in use every day that it is possible, and am at least heating hot water for tea and cooking in it. We use it a lot to hardboil eggs, cook beans, steam potatoes and for any recipe you'd use a crockpot for. I do bake in it occasionally, but it doesn't do well with bread – biscuits or cookies are more viable. Still, even far northerly folk like us can save money, electricity and heat in the house with one of these – they are usable here into mid-October most years, and as early as mid-April, although most years (this one excepted) I can't bake reliably until late May.
We do some outdoor cooking – we have a propane grill and every year we make a small firepit for open outdoor fire cooking. I will admit that we do the latter more for the kids than to save heat – it is really about the fun of cooking things over open flame and modelling fun stuff like dutch oven campfire cooking, rather than being a significant energy-saving practice for us. A fair number of the things cooked on it are also ummm…not the most sustainable, in that I do feel that as long as they are available, kids need occasional summer infusions of S'mores. Something about carbonized marshmallows and chocolate stains says "childhood" to me. We do use them for good stuff, though – for example I love roasting peppers and eggplant in late summer over an open flame. Nothing else tastes that good.
Our rocket stoves are also in summer use for when one wants a quick cup of tea, a boiled egg, etc… I don't have a large one right now that can really make a dent in the quantity of cooking that a variable household of at least 8 requires. It is on my to-do list for this summer – something along the lines of this:
That's actually the limitation of most of this – with the exception of open-fire stew and hard boiled eggs in the sun oven, I just don't have ENOUGH cooking equipment to really feed my fairly large household plus the guests we have regularly (summer interns, friends, family visiting, etc…) That's one of my upcoming projects – another sun oven, and a bigger fire pit, and some other infrastructure for larger scale outdoor cooking, so we can move things outside more.
My eventual goal is an Earth Oven like this:
We had a very primitive one some years ago, but it fell to a combination of weather and goats climbing on it, and I really want to build one under shelter in a goat-free location, but I never seem to get around to it. But it is in the plans…
If I had to do entirely without the fossil fueled items (electric stove, propane), I'd want the rocket stove and the earth oven badly enough to actually get them done – which means I should just get them done. I'm putting them on my "take seriously" summer project list now. Also on my dream list is some kind of summer kitchen – even a sheltered spot with a pump, my earth oven and the rocket stove. So far, it has just never made the high part of the project list.
So how about you? How do you cook and keep the heat out of the house?


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One of the most useful features of the N900 (at least for me) is the ability to sync the phone with a PC using the Nokia PC Suite. Unfortunately the PC Suite supports synching only over a USB cable or Bluetooth (actually, the latter doesn't even work for me...), requiring the phone to be next to the PC for the sync to work. This is a shame, as the N900 can be connected to the same WiFi network as the PC, so they can communicate over the network, and also, theoretically you might even want to sync your phone with a remote PC over the Internet.
Reverse-engineering the PC Suite and adding network support is highly impractical. Instead, I suggest a different approach. We already have a package called "usbip", allowing to share USB devices the network. It is currently used to allow the N900 to use USB devices connected to a remote PC. I suggest using it the other way around - Installing the server on the phone and the client on the PC, so the PC will have a virtual USB port with the N900 connected, allowing them to synchronize.
The PC side of the usbip package can be left as is - No changes are needed at all. We will need to modify the server (the phone side) as usbip was planned to run on a USB host in order to share a connected device, rather than running on the device itself. Still, I think this won't be impossible to accomplish and will benefit the community.


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I've moved!!
Finally!! It only took me 4 months to get it under way, but I've FINALLY got my site somewhat set up! I figured the first thing that I would get up and running would be my makeup blog since that was the whole reason I paid for the hosting and the domain! Anyhoo, I went ahead and imported my old posts from my blogger account so if there was any information you all wanted from my older posts, you could just access it from there instead of jumping back and forth between pages. I'll be putting up the other sections of my site gradually, but in the mean time, at least my blog is up and now I can start blogging again! Feel free to leave any suggestions or comments! I can't wait to get back into the swing of things again! Thanks for being so patient!
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MRI technologists, on the other hand, operate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners to create diagnostic images on special film. They must inject patients with contrast dyes so that the images will show up on the scan. The scanning equipment uses overlapping magnetic fields in combination with a contrast agent, in order to produce images that a physician can use to diagnose medical problems. Beyond degree major requirements, you may consider Southern State Community College online certificate courses as a complementary elective.


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Good, Cheap Wall Art: Typography Prints Roundup
Need a pick-me-up in your office or home? Prints with inspirational quotes are a favorite in our house tours (and also on Pinterest!). Call it mantra japa or call it repetitive positive thinking — these prints can help you steer your day in a productive direction.
1."Work Hard, Stay Humble" print from The Motivated Type in London, $12.00
2. Ian Coyle's Letterpress newsprint, "Work Hard and Be Nice to People"
3. Coco Chanel Inspirational Print from Pink Milk Shake Designs, $18.25
4. Hand-cut 'Let it Go' Banner from School House Electric Company. $110
5. Doodle Dream It Inspirational Print from Made Just So, £15.00
6. Let The Sunshine In Print from Assemble Shop, $18
7. Thomas Jefferson, "A Little Rebellion Now and Then Is a Good Thing" print from Folio Creations, $35
8. "Do More Nothing" Inspirational Print by Forever 500 Francs, $35.37
9. Be Yourself Oscar Wilde Print, from Maridee Studio, $22
10. Eames Pleasure Print from Unique Seeker, $25
(Images: as linked above).


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BOSTON (Reuters) - Biogen Idec Inc's agreement to buy Elan Corp Plc's interest in the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri gives Biogen full control of a product that is poised for further growth and ends a long partnership that has often been contentious.
Analysts have speculated for several years that Biogen could acquire Elan to take control of Tysabri. The current agreement, under which Biogen will pay Elan $3.25 billion in cash plus royalties, gives Biogen the asset it is most interested in while leaving Elan with money to spend on acquisitions and to develop its pipeline of experimental drugs.
"With this deal Biogen does not have to deal with Elan's pipeline baggage," said David Ferreiro, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co.
Still, analysts expressed some surprise that Biogen has chosen this moment to double down on Tysabri. The company is poised to launch a new MS drug, BG-12, at the end of March. The drug, if approved, will be sold under the brand name Tecfidera. It is expected by many investors to become the leading treatment for the disease but is set to lose patent protection in the mid to late 2020s.
"By that point, BG-12 could be the dominant MS therapy. And then it will suddenly go to zero," said Mark Schoenebaum, an analyst at ISI Group.
Oral drugs such as BG-12, also known as small molecule drugs, are easier to replicate than complex, large molecule biologic drugs such as Tysabri that are given by infusion. Schoenebaum said he and many other analysts have believed that for this reason Biogen has wanted to acquire Elan's portion of Tysabri.
"Tysabri is a long duration asset that will never face true small molecule-like erosion," Schoenebaum said, adding that since Tysabri is far more effective than BG-12, "Biogen has taken a step toward filling in the post-BG-12 P&L."
Biogen's chief executive, George Scangos, said in an interview that the timing of the deal was a matter of happy coincidence.
"We've been talking to Elan for a while about how to restructure the relationship in a way that would be beneficial to both companies," Scangos said. "We are doing it now because the interests of both companies are aligned."
The deal also ends a partnership that Scangos described as "cumbersome" but that others say was often hostile.
In 2009, a U.S. judge ruled that Elan had breached the collaboration agreement with Biogen over Tysabri after Elan agreed to sell an 18.4 percent stake in itself to Johnson and Johnson and gave J&J an option to acquire a half share in Tysabri.
Elan's chief executive, Kelly Martin, sounded ebullient about the Tysabri sale.
"You can do a lot of things with $3 billion," he said in an interview. "We are not necessarily restricting ourselves to one therapeutic area or one type of clinical asset. We will not be restricted to our past, which was by and large neurological."
As part of the deal, Biogen will make future payments to Elan amounting to 12 percent of global sales of Tysabri for the first 12 months. After that Biogen will make payments of 18 percent on global sales of Tysabri up to $2 billion and 25 percent on annual sales that exceed $2 billion.
Geoff Porges, an analyst at Bernstein Research, said the transaction would generate around $400 million in annual cash flow for Elan, "and will probably sustain that company's operations for many years."
Tysabri is widely considered the most effective drug for multiple sclerosis, but it has been linked to a potentially deadly brain infection known as progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML. It is currently approved to treat patients who do not respond to, or cannot tolerate, alternative therapies.
Biogen has since developed a test, however, that can predict with high accuracy which patients are likely to develop PML and which are not, removing much of the anxiety among physicians and patients that has curbed growth of the drug since its introduction in 2004. It was temporarily withdrawn after several patients developed PML but was reintroduced in 2006 with stricter safety warnings.
Last month the Weston, Massachusetts-based company applied to U.S. and European regulators for the right to market the drug for newly diagnosed patients who have tested negative for antibodies to the JC virus, thought to be the cause of PML. About 40 percent of MS patients are JCV negative, the company said.
Biogen already makes the injectable drug Avonex for newly diagnosed patients and competes in this segment of the market with drugs from Pfizer Inc and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. BG-12 will compete with an oral drug from Novartis AG that is currently on the market. Other drugs for the disease are waiting in the wings.
Total sales of Tysabri in 2012 rose 8 percent to $1.6 billion. Analysts on average expect sales of the drug in 2013 to rise to $1.86 billion and to $2.34 billion in 2015.
Biogen's MS drugs account for about 30 percent of the roughly $12 billion global MS market. Scangos said he expects that share to rise to "well north of 30 percent."
In addition to increased revenue generated by full ownership of Tysabri, Biogen hopes to expand the patient population for which the drug can be used.
It is currently approved to treat patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, which accounts for about 75 percent of the patient population. Biogen is also testing the drug in patients with secondary progressive MS, which typically follows the relapsing-remitting form, the company said.
Oppenheimer's Ferreiro is not optimistic, however, about the prospects for Tysabri in secondary progressive MS.
Biogen said the transaction will add 20 to 30 cents to its net earnings per share in 2013 and 50 to 60 cents to its adjusted earnings per share.
The company's shares rose 2.3 percent to close at $160.98 on Nasdaq. Earlier in the day they rose as high as $167.35.
Reporting by Toni Clarke in Boston; Additional reporting by Padraic Halpin in Dublin; editing by Carol Bishopric and Phil Berlowitz


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The author who ignited the King Buck controversy weighs in on Boone & Crockett's final ruling that the buck is not a world record.
By Duncan Dobie
In May of this year, 25-year Boone and Crockett Club official measurers Ron Boucher of Vermont and Craig Cousins of Wisconsin were dismissed by the B&C Club for publicly endorsing the Johnny King buck as a typical 6×6. Ron Boucher had been petitioning the Club to panel score the King buck for the past few years. In late 2010, as a member of the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club, he had officially measured the rack as a potential typical world record. You might say Craig Cousins was a victim of collateral damage.
Having never seen the King buck or been involved in the debate about its score in any way, Cousins attended the Madison Deer and Turkey Expo in March in his capacity as a 25-year measurer for both B&C and the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club. The rack had been brought to the scoring area at the show by Marlin Laidlaw, a respected measurer with the Buck and Bear Club. Laidlaw, a long-time advocate for the deer being recognized as a typical, was hoping to show the rack to two B&C Club representatives that were also attending the show, Justin Spring and Richard Hale. Up to that time, only one B&C official from the main office had ever seen the rack in person. (Jack Reneau had examined the rack in Pennsylvania back in 2007 and declared the right G-3 to be abnormal, thus starting a firestorm of controversy. Subsequent decisions about the rack and the point in question by members of the records committee were all based on photographs, and photos can be very deceiving.)
As soon as Marlin Laidlaw, Jay Fish and hunter Johnny King heard that representatives from B&C would be attending the Expo, they had high hopes that B&C might be willing to take another look at the rack after a year of heated debate as to whether or not its right G-3 tine was typical or abnormal. They were both disappointed when the two B&C officials refused to discuss the issue in any capacity.
Cousins did look at the rack when it was brought back to the measurer's section and placed on a table. Later Hale asked him what he thought about it. "It's a typical 6×6 all the way," Cousins answered honestly. Within weeks, Cousins was no longer a B&C measurer. During his 25 year career, Cousins had scored over 4,000 animals, mostly whitetails. He had scored over 1,000 whitetails for the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club and had been responsible for having 164 trophy animals entered in the B&C records.
Like so many people who had been involved with Johnny King's plight before him, Cousins was not about to give up. I interviewed him shortly after he was released from the Club. Amazingly he held no animosity for his sudden dismissal. "The B&C Club is a great organization," he told me. "I love it and what it stands for. To be a good scorer, you have to have character, desire, interest and the will to serve. I think I was a good scorer, but a man has to stand up for what's right. Ron Boucher was right on the money. The King buck is typical all the way."
Cousins later borrowed the King rack from owner Jay Fish. During the summer of 2012, he made a compelling 30-minute Video/DVD outlining in great detail a strong argument for why he thought the King rack was 100 percent typical. His argument was based on rules for scoring whitetails as outlined in the 2000 and 2009 B&C measurer's manuals. (Go to Deer and Deer Hunting's web site to see the Cousins video in its entirety.) After his dismissal in May, Ron Boucher had been corresponding with B&C records committee chairman Buck Buckner by mail in his continued efforts to have the Club reconsider the plight of the King buck.
Cousins sent a copy of his well documented video to Jack Reneau and Buck Buckner. Apparently Buckner was impressed enough by the video to show it to the entire rules committee composed of some 32 members. Although the rules committee had voted against having the King buck panel scored on two previous occasions, it now changed its ruling and recommended that the rack be panel scored. That recommendation was then passed up to the executive board. After five years of resisting constant requests to rescore the King buck, the executive board also voted to panel measure the rack.
On August 27, Jay Fish received a letter from Buck Buckner informing him of the Club's decision to panel score the rack sometime in mid September. The date was later set for Saturday Sept. 22. During several subsequent phone conversations with Jay Fish and Ron Boucher, Buckner assured both men that the rack would be measured by four unbiased scorers and that the process would be fair in every way. Jay agreed to drive the rack to B&C headquarters in Missoula, Montana, for the Sept. 22 scoring.
"From the start, I was concerned that the Club might try to impose some new rules on the King buck that had never been in effect before," Jay said. "Buckner kept assuring me that the deer would be scored by all rules that were in place as of the time the deer was first scored in early 2007."
One reason for Jay's concern regarding any change in rules stemmed from the fact that in the recently published all-time record book, Records of North American Big Game, 13th Edition, a puzzling rule change for scoring whitetail antlers appeared on page 748 in the back of the book along with several drawings. In reference to common base points, it stated: Both points are normal only if they are matched with normal points on the other antler and only if both points are lined up on the outside of the main beam.
"We wanted to make darn sure the rack would be scored by the rules in the 2000 and later revised 2009 measurer's manuals," Jay said. "Throughout this controversy, B&C has changed its opinion several times as to why it believed the right G-3 was abnormal, and we certainly didn't want any surprises at the panel scoring in Missoula."
"Historically any rule changes have always been made in the updated measurer's manuals, and never in the all-time record books," Ron Boucher says. "That's why it was so strange to see this rule change tucked away in the back of the book, especially after all of the disagreement regarding the King buck that had taken place since 2007. It was almost as though the Club had written-in that new rule specifically to apply to the King buck."
Missoula Debacle
Jay Fish and Johnny King presented Johnny's rack to Buck Buckner and Tony Schoonen, B&C chief of staff, at 8:45 a.m. on the morning of Sept 22 in front of B&C headquarters. Jay, his wife and son, Johnny King and Nola Lebrecht had just driven through the previous Thursday night for 25 hours straight to reach Missoula by Friday afternoon.
"We talked a little very amicably and I asked Buckner what the ground rules for the scoring were going to be," Jay said. "Buckner replied that the rules in the scorer's manual would be used. Then he added there might be other rules that weren't in the manual."
"What are you talking about?" Jay asked.
Buckner mentioned the rule changes in the 13th edition of the record book.
"But those rules weren't in effect in 2007 when the King buck was originally scored," Jay argued.
Buckner insisted that B&C had been using those rules since 2000.
Jay pulled out a copy of the 2000 measurer's manual. "They're no such rule changes in this book," he told Buckner.
Buckner replied that the Club hadn't had time to put the new rules in the 2000 measurer's manual. But he insisted they had been in use for that long.
Jay pulled out a copy of the revised 2009 measurer's manual. "They're not in here either," he stated.
Buckner had no reply. He finally said he wasn't sure which rules would be applied. Then he added that every new measurer that had gone through measuring school since 2000 had been taught the new rule. (Note: Later on, Jay Fish and Ron Boucher called a number of highly respected official B&C measurers around the country and in Canada. To the man, each measurer stated he had never heard of any new rules and they had not been taught in any scoring schools since 2000.
Jay had prepared a short letter for all parties to sign stating that the rack would be scored by all rules in effect as of the 2000 measurer's manual.
"I felt like if Buckner was sincere in saying the deer would be scored as fairly as possible it wouldn't be too much to ask him to put it in writing. We took the rack inside the building and talked to Tony while Buckner went to show the letter to some other B&C officials. When he returned, he said, 'I'm not going to sign this letter.'
"We just want to know what rules we will be going by," Jay said again.
"I'm not going to sign it," Buckner repeated. "I'll call this whole thing off right now if you want me to."
"I wasn't about to call it off at this point," Jay said. "So I told Buckner we would not accept any ruling based on rules made after 2000, and told him to go ahead with the scoring."
Around 1:30, Jay received a call that the panel had finished scoring the deer. Jay and Johnny King went back to B&C headquarters and sat down with Buck Buckner and Tony Schoonen in a conference room.
"We scored the rack as a typical with two non-typical points," Buckner told Jay. "It scored 180 as a typical and 217 as a non-typical."
The score sheet was on the table but it turned face down. Jay and Johnny never saw the figures.
As stated in B&C's press release posted a short time later: The panel determined the third tine on the right antler arises from the inside edge of the top of the main beam, and also arises partially from the base of an adjoining point, thus establishing it as an abnormal point. With this confirmation, two of the rack's tines must be classified as abnormal points resulting in an entry score well below the current World's Record.
Was the panel fair and unbiased as Buck Buckner had promised? Let's examine the facts as objectively as possible.
"Buckner assured me on the phone that he was going to appoint four unbiased scorers to make it as fair as possible," Ron Boucher stated. "He didn't stick to those words. Of the four measurers he chose, two of them – Paul Webster of Wayzata, Minnesota (former president of the B&C Club), and Fred King of Bozeman, Montana – were on the records committee both times the King buck had come up for a vote in the past. And both times they had voted against the deer. They were biased to start with so how can you call that fair?"
The two other panel measurers were Victor Clark of Reno, Nevada, and Larry Cary, of Spokane, Washington.
"All four panel measurers are veteran B&C scorers and have impeccable credentials," Ron continued. "They've each served on a number of panels in the past and I've served on previous panels with all of them. They are great men with the highest integrity. Yet I'll never be able to understand how they came up with the ruling they did.
"Why have rules in the measurer's manual if you're not going to follow them? The G-2 and the G-3 points definitely do not intersect, partially or otherwise, we've proven that numerous times, and the G-3 does not grow to the inside of the main beam. We've also proven that. This is the weakest argument they could have made, yet the Club seems determined to twist and bend their own rules to fit their agenda. This whole unfortunate controversy boils down to one thing: Jack Reneau made a mistake six years ago and the club absolutely refuses to admit that mistake. I feel bad for Johnny King, Jack Reneau and the B&C Club. This thing has damaged the Club's reputation tremendously.
"Another thing: The B&C rule book clearly states that a measurer cannot serve on a panel more than three times during his career. This was the sixth time that Fred King had served on a panel. Because of the fact that he had voted against the King buck twice before and the fact that he had already served on five previous panels, he should have never been appointed to serve on that panel."
Was it a fair panel? There is no question that all four of these men have been fiercely loyal to Jack Reneau and have had close ties to the B&C Club hierarchy for many years. It's also interesting to note that three of these men are from the west. There are dozens of highly capable scorers in the east and Midwest who deal with whitetails almost on a daily basis. Why weren't one these measurers chosen?
Journalism Vs. Sensationalism
When Dan Schmidt, editor of Deer and Deer Hunting, first learned that the King buck was to be panel scored, he called Buck Buckner and asked him if a representative from the magazine could be present at the scoring. Buckner told him no, saying that it was going to be a very private affair with no press present. Buckner assured him that the press would be duly informed about the outcome.
When Jay Fish and Johnny King arrived in Missoula for the scoring, they were surprised to see representatives from Outdoor Life and Field & Stream at B&C headquarters. Shortly after the King buck was panel scored, an article with photos appeared on Outdoor Life's web site written by P.J. DelHomme. The article was highly slanted against Jay Fish and made disparaging remarks about him. It also made several erroneous statements. DelHomme would have done well to check his facts before writing such a story.
In his story DelHomme says, "After King killed the buck, he had a B&C measurer examine it, not because of the questionable tine, but because a bullet from his hunt had hit the base of the rack. When King went to drag the buck, the antler came clean off. Not getting a clear answer, King met with Jack Reneau who said the deer could be scored with the broken antler, but the right tine could not be scored as a typical point."
Contrary to DelHomme's statement, after KIng shot his buck, he was encouraged by many people to get it officially measured. Like many hunters, King knew next to nothing about B&C scores or record deer. But at the urging of many people he did take the rack to official Wisconsin B&C measurer John Ramsey, and Ramsey came up with an astounding score of 218 4/8 net typical B&C points (225 7/8 gross). Ramsey told King that his buck had a potential world record score, but the question of the broken main beam had to be resolved by B&C before the entry score could officially be processed. Johnny King later met with Jack Reneau to address that problem, and it was at that time that Reneau informed him that the right G-3 was an abnormal point. Ramsey was instructed to change his score to reflect Reneau's ruling, thus giving the deer a score of 180 inches instead of 218.
In his story, DelHomme stated, "Fish reportedly bought the buck from King for $35,000 — thinking it would be a new world's record. But that gamble didn't pay off."
Contrary to the image that B&C and now Outdoor Life have tried to portray of Jay Fish as being one of those less-than-human antler collectors and money grubbers who is only in it for financial gain, Jay is a hard-working taxidermist, sportsman and deer hunter who loves to take his son hunting and who happens to have a passion for big antlers. Buying the King rack was never a gamble. Jay may be a lot of things but he's not stupid. For him, as well as for passionate antler collectors everywhere, buying the King rack was like buying a one-of-a-kind piece of fine art.
The first time he ever saw the King rack at the Madison Deer and Turkey Expo in 2007, he fell in love with it. He told Johnny "I'm going to buy those antlers from you some day." And he did – two years later. He also bought the deer's sheds. At the time he bought the antlers, he promised Johnny that he would continue fighting for the deer, since in his opinion and the opinions of dozens of other knowledgeable people the scoring of the deer had been grossly mishandled.
In his story, DelHomme described Jay Fish as "red faced and angry and not a happy camper" after the final score was announced. DelHomme wrote, "Fish refused to speak with me, and with a huff, his entourage was out the door."
The reason Jay refused to speak with DelHomme is because he felt like he had been grossly wronged. No media was to be allowed, yet here was Outdoor Life wanting a statement. Jay had contacted Outdoor Life several times in the past about the plight of the King buck and the magazine had never shown any interest in getting his side of the story. Jay later learned that Outdoor Life had posted a story on its website the day before the panel scoring saying something to the effect, "Stay tuned. We'll having breaking news on the King buck tomorrow."
Outdoor Life was very obviously playing favorites with B&C and vice-versa, and this is very disappointing. It's also highly unethical. So typical of the mainstream media these days in national and political affairs, this is not journalism; it's National-Enquirer-style sensationalist at its very worst. You expect this type of shoddy journalism from the mainstream media, but not from a legendary publication like Outdoor Life.
There is also a question about photo rights. Dave Hurteau of Field & Stream posted a 15-photo series on the Field & Stream website outlining in detail B&C's argument as to why the G-3 is abnormal. These photos were apparently taken as the rack was being scored. This is certainly a violation of previous B&C rules, and Jay Fish did not give anyone permission to use private photos regarding a private panel scoring session with his rack. The panel scoring should have been between him and the Boone and Crockett Club, and no photos should have been released to anyone without his permission.
The character assassination of Jay Fish, Johnny King and Ron Boucher by various B&C officials and now by Outdoor Life and Field& Stream is inexcusable. Outdoor Life certainly made no effort to get both sides of the story.
"Technically it was not a legitimate panel anyway since three out of the four measurers had served on at least three panels previously," Ron Boucher says. "What's more, Jay Fish asked Buck Buckner if the panel was going to use the John Ramsey score sheet as a starting point for its panel session and Buckner didn't even know who John Ramsey was. B&C certainly had no intention of using Ramsey's score sheet although long-time protocol has always dictated that the entry score be used as a starting point.
"Here's the bottom line: Today's deer aren't changing as Buck Buckner mentioned in his statement to Outdoor Life. B&C is changing by manipulating the rules and imposing new standards. The King buck is as normal a deer as any 6×6 typical buck taken in the last 100 years. God intended for that right G-3 point to be a typical point. That's the way it grows. It just happens to be a little shorter than its match on the other side. It may not be as perfect as its match, but it is typical nonetheless. It's easy to call that point a typical point and that's why so many measurers do. You really have to stretch the envelope and look for excuses to call it abnormal."
Want more of the story of the hunt that landed the amazing King Buck? Duncan Dobie profiles Johnny King's wild hunting tale in his new book Legendary Whitetails III.
Legendary Whitetails III provides snapshots of 40 of the greatest whitetails ever taken, including the King Buck. It tells the back-story, shows the actual score sheet and other critical details. As former editor of North American Whitetail, author Duncan Dobie knows the details behind all these deer and uniquely qualified to tell their story. Antler replicator Klaus LeBrecht has worked with each rack and has produced unique photography to show readers the full scope of these magnificent antlers. Be the first to get Legendary Whitetails III and add it to your collection today!


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Heads to consider scrapping six-week summer break
Head teachers are to investigate the benefits of scrapping the six-week summer holidays.
Proposals to spread holidays more evenly through the year were discussed at the NAHT union conference.
Its leader Russell Hobby questioned whether the current 13-week term structure was healthy for staff, arguing changing it could reduce stress and cut holiday prices for families.
But head teachers wanted more evidence of the benefits of such changes.
The government gave academies and free schools in England permission to vary term times earlier this academic year.
This is due to be extended to all state schools next September.
Support from head teachers means schools would be more likely to make changes to term times.
'Ready to drop'
The move also comes after Education Secretary Michael Gove toughened up rules on parents taking their children out of schools at term times for family holidays.
Now this is only allowed in exceptional circumstances with many parents complaining they face high prices for holidays in peak season.
Mr Hobby said: "One of the things that I'm concerned about is whether the current structure of holidays is also healthy for the people who work in schools as well.
"It seems like, at the end of term, everyone is ready to drop and that actually, not reducing the amount of holiday but distributing it more evenly across the year might be one solution to that."
He added: "However, we don't have any particular liking for every school going its own way.
"We would like to see local or regional co-ordination, but at that point you could also have the opportunity to have a staggering of holidays around the country.
"So if different parts of the country within local authority boundaries or regional boundaries had slightly different holiday times I think that would ease the pressure on the prices of holidays as well."
He said the change would take away some of the excuses that both parents and teachers made about missing school days.
Admissions queues
Mr Hobby was talking at his association's annual conference in Birmingham, where an "education manifesto" of proposals for the next General Election was adopted.
A draft version said: "We propose more frequent, shorter holidays (adding up to the same overall number), staggered across the country on a regional basis to reduce the holiday price premium."
But this will now be qualified by a proper study into the benefits of the changes and the impact on children's learning.
The document also calls for disadvantaged pupils to be allowed to jump school admissions queues. Under the plans they would be given priority over other potential pupils by virtue of being on a very low income or benefits.
If adopted by political parties it could lead to a major change in school admissions and may radically alter the character of some schools.
The thinking behind it is that presently many disadvantaged families are effectively priced out of the catchment areas of good schools by high house prices. This means it is harder for poorer children to attend the better schools.
Mr Hobby says: "Looked-after children currently get priority in admissions.
"What if we extended this right to all children on free school meals, who could automatically go to the head of the admissions queue for any school their parents chose?
"At a stroke, this would limit the house price barrier to good schools and secure more firmly the comprehensive principle of education."
The NAHT resolved to carry out an impact assessment of the policy before presenting the arguments before the main political parties.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "More parents and children have the choice of a good school place thanks to our reforms - the number of children in failing secondary schools has fallen by a quarter of a million since 2010.
"Academies and free schools can already give priority to those children eligible for the pupil premium while maintained schools are able to apply to the secretary of state to do the same.
"The new admissions code is clear that all school places should be allocated in a fair and transparent way."


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Forum Post: Confronting the Growing National (In)Security State
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Confronting the Growing National (In)Security State
Wednesday, 26 June 2013 09:24 By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers , Truthout | News Analysis
The national security state dominates US foreign policy and now increasingly domestic policy. It has become a behemoth, a monster with an insatiable appetite that both looks for opportunities to expand and creates reasons to justify its expansion. Driven largely by profit and geopolitical positioning to control the world's resources, the national security state may finally be overreaching to the point that people are seeing through the myth of "they hate us for our freedom" and realizing that we are all being duped.
The United States is stuck in a cycle that it created by decades of military intervention, war and economic hegemony. This has created a self-fulfilling prophecy of growing insecurity that fuels the demand for more security. As real and perceived threats against US security result in a national security response of more military, more spying and more intervention, the consistent response abroad is more threats to the security of Americans and attacks on the US military and transnational US corporations. Reaction by the United States is inevitably more security state violence. And the cycle continues to spiral.
Real feelings of insecurity have been used to scare people in the United States into accepting the growing erosion of our civil liberties. We are taught to treat each other as potential terrorists and to be on the lookout for threats. We are accustomed to being complicit with gross invasions of our privacy as a trade-off for greater "security." But this is an illusion, as is the idea that if someone is not doing anything wrong, then this state of hypervigilance doesn't affect them.
Now these illusions are being exposed. Four years ago, Pfc. Bradley Manning was arrested for leaking documents on the wars and US foreign policy that showed crimes, unethical behavior and abuses of power. The government reacted harshly, held him in solitary for one year and sought to make an example of him to frighten others from coming forward. These actions showed how the government will abuse its power to cover up its own misbehavior. But rather than deter, this abuse has led to more leaks.
As Glenn Greenwald writes, "The more they overreact to measures of accountability and transparency - the more they so flagrantly abuse their power of secrecy and investigations and prosecutions - the more quickly that backlash will arrive." In the more than three years since Manning's arrest, there have been multiple leaks, including perhaps the most important, the recent leaks by Edward Snowden. Intimidation is not working.
And the national dialogue is changing. Just as these whistleblowers had hoped, people are questioning whether the national security state is justified and just whose interests it represents. Coalitions of organizations are forming to demand greater transparency and accountability, and serious questions are being asked about the effects of a privatized security state on democracy and the broader interests of the public.
The Dangerous National Security Spiral
Wars and military interventions occur out of the Office of the President, which has become an imperial presidency that does not wait for Congressional or UN approval. Fred Branfman, who exposed the illegal bombing of Laos and the targeting of civilians by the United States during the Vietnam War, says that since 1962, the United States has killed 20 million human beings, the vast majority of them civilians, more than any other country in the world during that time period.
This mass slaughter of people, and the displacement of an equal number who were forced to flee their homes and often their countries, continues no matter who is president. No doubt part of the problem is the mirage democracy and managed elections in the United States which limit our choices, but the bigger problem is the institution of the executive branch, the vast military and intelligence apparatus, and ongoing foreign policy that emphasizes intervention and domination rather than diplomacy. These institutional forces need to be changed if we are to have any hope of redirecting US relations with the world.
Branfman describes part of the dangerous cycle of the national security state: "And today's U.S. executive branch policies pose an even greater long-term threat to U.S. strategic interests, not only abroad but at home. The evidence is overwhelming, including the statements by several dozen U.S. national security experts cited at the end of my recent piece, that U.S. leaders are not protecting national security but rather weakening it as never before."
They are weakening security by creating more enemies every day. Branfman points out that the Joint Strategic Operations Command (JSOC), essentially a team of assassins operating on a global scale, is active in 60 countries. Obama has used drones in many countries, most with which the United States is not at war. This remote-control policing of the globe is increasing hatred against the United States. A 2011 Pew poll shows 74 percent of Pakistanis, 130 million people, regard us as their enemy. Branfman points out, "It makes no national security sense to be at war with 1.8 billion Muslims."
Numerous officials have made similar points; retired General Stanley McChrystal says every civilian the US kills creates ten enemies. Who are these security-state-created enemies? The tens of thousands families, friends and neighbors of people killed in drone strikes or held without trial in Guantanamo Bay or other secret prisons. They include the vast numbers of people under drone surveillance and threat of attack in numerous countries in Africa, the Middle East and East Asia. Also, this includes the people threatened with full-blown war as the United States moves from the destruction of Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya and now to Syria, with Iran and North Korea in its sight and under threat, and even China being encircled militarily in Obama's Asian pivot. The undermining of democracies throughout the world adds to the problem, especially in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, countries that have broken from US empire. The United States does not become more secure by turning the people of the world against us.
As a result of this ongoing policy of intervention and domination, the US security state apparatus has grown dramatically. This security state includes not only government agencies but thousands of corporations that are hard to distinguish from the government. The merger of corporations and state is evident in the intelligence gathering apparatus, each entity sharing information with the other. For example, a recent leak from Edward Snowden on British intelligence's seizure of virtually every worldwide phone call and Internet activity, reveals that it shares the information with 850,000 outside contractors, as well as the NSA.
There are important legal and moral issues that challenge all of these policies, but Branfman points out, the security state apparatus is "also endangering us, undermining security and creating enemies." Further, "It is our government that is endangering our national security, not the whistleblowers."
The security state is becoming more insecure itself as people in the United States learn about the extent of domestic and global spying. This creates a potentially volatile situation. Branfman says that "No president has done more to create the infrastructure for a possible future police-state" than President Obama. Branfman sees three ways that this infrastructure could be used to escalate to a full police state that would destroy our democratic ideals: (1) another 9/11 type attack, (2) domestic unrest due to the economic collapse and growing inequality; and (3) global disruption due to climate change. These are all very real possibilities and one interesting thing about each – current government policy not only fails to solve or minimize these problems, it actually makes each worse.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — American warships in the eastern Mediterranean Sea remain ready to strike Syria if ordered, but impending cuts in the defense budget will make that kind of operation far more difficult in the years to come, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Wednesday.
Mabus said that even now fewer ships are going to sea, fewer Navy pilots are flying and fewer Marines are training because of the automatic, across-the-board cuts that would slash more than $50 billion from the 2014 defense budget and $500 billion over 10 years. And he warned that if those reductions continue, the military response could be compromised in future crises like Syria.
"Whatever course of action our nation decides to take on Syria, I do know this: The maritime options are flexible and they are significant and they are swift and they are sovereign," Mabus told an audience at the National Defense University. "But unless we act to address the damage of continuing resolutions and sequestration, they are options which may be limited or just not available in the future."
His comments came on the heels of President Barack Obama's order Tuesday that the military must maintain its presence in the Mediterranean to keep pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad and to be ready to strike if needed. The military decision is in conjunction with efforts to forge a diplomatic solution that includes putting Syria's chemical weapons under international control.
The two-pronged U.S. strategy is aimed at deterring Syria's use of chemical weapons on its own people. The administration says that a chemical weapons attack launched by the Assad regime in the suburbs of Damascus last month killed more than 1,400 civilians, including at least 400 children.
The Navy presence currently includes four warships armed with dozens of Tomahawk missiles, a Navy amphibious assault ship carrying Marines and two aircraft carrier strike groups — numbering as many as 10 ships — in the broader region.
While the Navy has routinely kept warships in the Mediterranean, including as part of an effort to provide missile defense for allies and U.S. interests in the area. But, budget restrictions have already forced the military to cut the number of aircraft carriers permanently in the region to one. The second one is only there temporarily because of the ongoing tensions in Syria.
Mabus said Wednesday that the persistent Navy presence in the Mediterranean gave Obama the flexibility to have forces ready quickly to launch strikes without having to move troops and ships in from distant bases. That flexibility, he said, "will almost certainly be compromised and diminished" as the budget cuts continue.


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Had Simantha been virtually alive and kicking, staff and physicians would have been able to try their hand at saving her life by performing a virtual cardiac procedure using new technology. Chances were good that she would have died during training in order teach the staff how to handle a crashing patient. None of that was able to happen thanks to intricate technology and its flaws.
SimSuite, the 35-foot bus travels year round and stops at hospitals and medical centers in the hopes of training the staff on the latest treatments for lesions in coronary arteries that are difficult to treat due to their location or size.
"This is a great way for staff to get hands-on training without a real patient on the table," said Chris Mitchelli, field clinical educator. "We can simulate an emergency."
Dr. Karthik Sheka, interventional cardiologist at PMC, was on hand to test out the new technology but never got the chance.
"All of the devices coming out now are much more advanced than before. It is something that you don't want to try out on a patient so this is a great idea to get the practice," he said. "There are always risks and complications with procedures such as this so you are able to play around with your options on a simulated patient.
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JACKSON, Miss. Entergy Mississippi says it has completed its $206 million purchase of a Jackson power plant.
The unit of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. bought the plant from KGen Power Corp. of Houston on Friday. It also completed the $253 million purchase of another KGen plant in Malvern.
"This is a sound investment and an important part of our commitment to meet the growing energy needs of our customers now and in the future," Entergy Mississippi Chief Executive Officer Haley Fisackerly said in a statement. "This facility is highly efficient and uses clean-burning natural gas, a fuel in abundant supply today in Mississippi."
Purchase of both natural-gas fired plants had been delayed by a U.S. Department of Justice inquiry into whether Entergy illegally manipulated the power transmission market in its four-state territory of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
Justice officials said they believed Entergy acted to block competitors such as KGen from selling power profitably, but said Entergy could buy the plants because their purchase would not affect competition much.
A Mississippi residence using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month would pay an additional $1.65 a month to finance the plant, Entergy has told regulators. However, Entergy plans to use KGen's Jackson plant to replace an older gas-fired plant three miles away that burns gas only half as efficiently, saving at least $3 million a year in fuel costs. So customers may come out ahead.
The two plants raise to seven the number of generating facilities Entergy has bought from independent generators. Those independent companies rushed into the South in the 1990s at the prospect of power deregulation. But they ran into trouble when natural gas prices spiked before plummeting, and when they couldn't sign long-term contracts to sell power.
Entergy has been able to buy the plants cheaply because of independents' distress. The KGen units are half as expensive as a new gas-fired plant Entergy is building near New Orleans.
Houston-based KGen offered to sell the plants to Entergy in 2009. It plans to dissolve once it distributes the proceeds of the sales to investors.
Entergy Mississippi provides electricity to more than 437,000 customers in 45 counties on the western side of the state.
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Officials: 3 arrested after 'stash house' found
$19,000 seized during arrests
Officials: 3 arrested after 'stash house' found
$19,000 seized during arrests
MARION COUNTY, Fla. —
An early Tuesday morning search warrant in Marion County led to three arrests, and all are accused of playing at least some role in the drug trade, officials say.
Police said they targeted a so-called "stash house" in Dunnellon.
Images: 3 arrested after 'stash house' found
Officials said Rubin Jones Jr., Charles Thomas Jr., and Joseph Vickers were arrested after what they found in the home on McKinney Avenue.
The charges against the men vary, but inside the house authorities said they found both crack, powder cocaine and prescription pills.
Agents said they also seized nearly $19,000 in cash and three guns.
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Generally, it seems that when people think about high-tech automotive components, they tend to think of things that are more along the lines of things silicon-based.
But arguably, companies like Brembo, as in the innovative company that produces brakes for a wide variety of automotive products, with some of the leading cars among them (e.g., Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4, Lexus RC F Sport, McLaren 650S, Corvette Z06), are as technologically sophisticated as any out there.
And so it is surprising yet satisfying to learn that Brembo is investing $100-million to build a new foundry for cast-iron brake discs. . .in the U.S. Specifically, in Michigan.
While many companies have outsourced things like foundries, Brembo is going to be building one that will have an annual output of 80,000 tons of brake disc castings. The plant is expected to go into production in 2017.
It is all part of a strategy for more vertical integration. When announcing the new foundry, Alberto Bombassei, Brembo S.p.A. chairman, said, "The increasing number of global platforms being built by vehicle manufacturers prompts us to seek the best possible integration between the different stages of the value chain, replicating the integrated production model that we have adopted for some time now in our facilities in Italy, and recently in Poland and China."
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looks like standing in a dumpster while wearing crocs was the second bad decision he made
looks like standing in a dumpster while wearing crocs was the second bad decision he made
Originally Posted by jerome
my vote would be for draft anything. im sure geio and 24 would do a great job running either.
i'd play a draft league, either twdt or twl or whatever you want to call it.
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draft league seems like the most feasible option right now, agreed.
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I would like to see a twdt/twl hybrid.. Call it TWL/DD (Trench Wars League/ Draft Division) 3 Captains of each squad are excluded from drafts . The rest of players can be drafted on any team. Each Team gets 4-5 picks for the draft. I'm sure some l33ts will not like this but.. please accept this for the integrity of a good season. If players aren't willing to do this then twdt is all we will have left forever as options for interesting competitive seasons ...
TWDT to boost up activity, create the neccesary hype so people get active. Announce TWL signups starting during TWDT and re-launch TWD for squads to compete for their place in TWL. TWDT would end when summer holidays begin and TWL would begin after summer, mid August for example.
Based on the amount of squads formed or active in TWD during summer we could figure out if we can do "real" TWL or if we need to improvise something. For improvising, if needed, we could make couple squads on draft basis for TWL where the focus would be to make the squads competitive at least on some level so they won't get stomped by the stacked squads.
Just my 2 cents.
2 close 2 summah afk
has it been decided that dt is happening and is geio or 24 running it? someone should start signups as the game has been more active recently and it's going to take a few weeks to get all the signups b4 it should start
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http://wegotstoned.blogspot.com/Originally Posted by HeavenSent
You won't have to wait another 4 years.
There wont be another election for president.
Obama is the Omega President.
So what's the status?
but, a question remains: Water u WArin. Wat was Billee Warin before he Left my Vents ???
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Cres> ?
Cres> its mine now.
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paradise> Dewin? Ill take that. using that now
destruct <> u welcum
thix> Lol this shit is ban hannah's.
cripple> ?
paradise> ?
Cres> You can keep that one.
as much as I love the game and all, unfortunately I do not have the time or the motivation to step up right now.
Best thing we could do is beg/pay Ogron to host it.
TWDT is going to be the league which is going to be ran by Henry Saari, Geio and myself. Stay tuned to the TWDT section of the forum for more information over the next couple of days.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is failing to collect the tax it is owed and is in danger of missing key targets that need to be met to reduce the government's staggering debt pile, the European Union warned on Monday.
An EU task force helping Greece overcome the financial crisis that brought it to the brink of bankruptcy said Athens still has trouble dealing with old, outstanding tax claims. With 2 months to go in 2012, it was still about a billion euros behind the EU target of recovering €2 billion ($2.6 billion).
In a report it said Greece made only 88 audits of large taxpayers, well short of a 2012 target of 300, and 467 of "high-wealth individuals," below a 1,300 target.
Overall, EU Vice President Olli Rehn said Greece was nevertheless tackling problems "with determination and resolve."
Greece has been surviving on rescue loans from its partners in the 17-country eurozone and the International Monetary Fund since 2010.
The creditors agreed just last week to pay out the latest batch of loans after agreeing a series of debt relief measures, such as lowering the interest Greece has to pay on the loans and the completion of a bond buyback scheme.
Ratings agency Moody's warned that Greece's debt remains unsustainable despite those measures.
The continuing drop in Greek economic output, the agency argued, made it "unlikely" the country would be able to control its national debt "without further reduction on principal." That would mean that Greece's existing creditors — mainly other euro governments and the IMF — would have to take a cut on their loans, something they have so far ruled out.
In the short-term, the disbursement of the next batch of loans will keep Greece from going bankrupt and triggering more turmoil in financial markets.
Athens will get a total of €49.1 billion ($64 billion) between now and March, with €34.3 billion paid up front in a transfer that a Greek government official said was completed late Monday. The official only spoke on condition of anonymity, not being authorized to discuss the issue with media.
In return for the money that will see Greece through the winter months, the country had to commit to further austerity measures, including more spending cuts and tax increases that are set to extend a recession that started in late 2008.
With unemployment topping 25 percent, the government on Monday extended a freeze on the repossession of most primary homes through 2013.
Taxation is a particularly tough issue to deal with. "The Greek Tax administration is falling short of targets and is not well placed to meet end-2012 benchmarks," said the quarterly report from the EU task force, which aims to help Greece implement its reforms.
The report did insist that the new government of Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was strongly committed to an overall reform of the tax system.
Last week, the Greek government proposed legislation for a simplified tax system by which people earning more than €42,000 ($55,000) per year will now be taxed at a new top rate of 42 percent.
For years, Greeks have been complaining about the uncertainty created by an ever-changing tax system, arguing it undermined compliance and revenue.
Tax evasion has long been a major problem in Greece and other countries hit by the financial crisis.
In Spain, where tax fraud is rampant, as much as €90 billion ($115 billion) is lost each year to tax fraud — the equivalent of the country's national debt, according to Spain's main tax inspectors' union.
Tax evasion of all types in Italy every year totals about €240 billion ($300 billion), or 15 percent of the country's gross domestic product of €1.6 trillion ($2 trillion), tax police estimate. The sum amounts to more than a third of Italy's yearly total receipts from tax — €676 billion ($860 billion), according to 2011 figures from Eurostat.
Casert reported from Brussels.