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Anyone here familiar enough with SARBANES-OXLEY to tell me if 128 bit SSL based encryption for file transfers (FTP) will satifsy or do you start with the IPSEC route and avoid SSL altogether?
I searched the rules (not line for line, used an index) and find vague guidelines but nothing
I just really want how SOX defines, not general opinion on encrypted file transfers.
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HARTSVILLE, SC — Coker moved to 11-12 on the year with a convincing 16-5 victory over Shaw University Thursday afternoon in collegiate baseball.
Shaw (5-7) went ahead 2-0 in the second inning with the help of a pair of Coker errors and a balk. CC got one run back in the bottom half of the inning on an RBI groundout by Willie Loverde which plated Brian Nally.
The Cobras took control of the game in the third inning with three runs. Conrad Deese scored two with a RBI single and, after stealing third, scored on a sacrifice fly from Justin Sims.
The floodgates opened in the fifth inning as Coker scored three runs, added five in the sixth, and three more in the seventh to make it 15-3. Shaw started the eighth with two walks and a single and scored two runs with a one-out single by Travis Salley, who'd already blasted a solo homer in the seventh. Pitcher Phil Lemoine got out of the inning by inducing a double-play ball from Avery Bryant.
In the bottom of the eighth Brian Johanson singled and came around to score on a RBI groundout by Eric Losten to complete the scoring. Seth Weinberg earned the win for Coker, pitching three innings of one hit ball. Travis Wilson took the loss for Shaw.
Deese finished going 2-4 with two RBI and two runs scored and Johanson went a perfect 2-2 with two RBI and a run scored. Losten scored four runs and Sims drove in three, while Ben Kershner picked up two hits, drove in a run and scored once.
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Kings shut out at home again
Cory Schneider and the Vancouver Canucks handed the defending Stanley Cup champions their second straight shutout loss.
Schneider made 20 saves en route to his sixth NHL shutout, Mason Raymond scored in the first period, and the Canucks beat the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 on Saturday for their third straight victory.
"It was a close game, and not a lot of offense exchanged both ways, but we'll take it any way we can get it," Raymond said. "We didn't have a lot of shots, but I thought we played well defensively for the most part."
The Kings, coming off a 2-0 home loss to Dallas on Thursday in which they had 40 shots, were blanked for the third time this season. It is the first time they have been shut out in consecutive games since Feb. 16-18, 2012, when they sustained a pair of 1-0 home losses.
"That's a team that plays with a lot of confidence," Schneider said. "After what they accomplished last year, I'm sure they feel like they're in every single game – and they have the talent to do so. They kept coming at us and didn't stray away from their game plan.
"They got pucks deep, crashed the net and tried to get shots through. But we were just very good defensively."
Before these two blankings, the Kings were averaging four goals a game at home.
"We're not making it hard enough on the opposing team's goaltenders," captain Dustin Brown said. "We've gone through spurts this year where we've scored a lot of goals, and it was just a result of getting the puck to the net with bodies at the same time. The power play has been a big source of our offense, and we had only one shot (on two opportunities)."
Schneider has played the last three games for the Canucks, facing 88 shots and allowing only three goals. His other shutout this season was on Jan. 26, when he made 30 saves in a 5-0 victory at Anaheim.
"I feel like I should be and where I can be," Schneider said. "It's nice to have consecutive efforts in a row like that. When you have a good one and then a bad one, it's a little frustrating.
"You can't sit on that and pat yourself on the back. You have to keep doing it, and that's the challenge of playing a lot of games."
The Canucks, who maintained their share of the Northwest Division lead with Minnesota, scored the only goal at 11:06 of the first period.
Jordan Schroeder took control of the puck in the Canucks' zone and made a two-line pass to Raymond, who got a step on rookie defenseman Jake Muzzin and slid his eighth goal between Jonathan Quick's pads.
"I think Schroeder is maturing more all the time and he has great vision," Raymond said. "His ability to find those little holes to pass the puck is remarkable.
"That was the difference in the game today, because it enabled me to get a breakaway."
About 6 minutes into the second period, Canucks captain Henrik Sedin was leveled by Drew Doughty along the boards in the neutral zone, and Kings forward Jordan Nolan kept digging for the puck while it was pinned under Sedin.
A scrum broke out and Kyle Clifford ended up with a roughing penalty. The Kings had a short-handed scoring bid, but Schneider slid across the crease to rob Trevor Lewis after a setup by Mike Richards.
"As soon as he went to his backhand, you could see that he was thinking pass," Schneider said. "I sort of sensed the other guy coming on the backdoor, and I got a good push over. I felt it hit me, but I didn't really know where it went. I just tried to get across and get as big as I could."
Quick (10-10-2) made a similarly spectacular save on Vancouver's Keith Ballard about 2 minutes before the second intermission, sticking out his left leg to deny his one-timer from in front. Last year's Conn Smythe Trophy winner as playoffs MVP faced only 13 shots.
"I wouldn't say we played bad. We just didn't find a way to win the game," Kings center Jarret Stoll said. "Every team's got good goaltending. This league's all about that and low-scoring games."
The Canucks, who lost to the Kings in the opening round of last year's playoffs, won two of the three meetings this season and lost the other in a shootout.
"We've taken five of six points against them, which is great," Schneider said. "We'll enjoy it now, but right now we're more focused on finishing off this road trip by getting a win (Sunday at Colorado)."
NOTES: Nine players have scored Vancouver's first goal in its last nine victories. … Canucks D Alex Edler began serving a two-game NHL suspension he received for charging Phoenix goalie Mike Smith behind the net on Thursday. … The Kings begin a five-game road trip Monday night against the league-leading Chicago Blackhawks, who beat them in their other two meetings. … The Canucks were 0 for 3 on the power play and are 1 for 43 over their last 15 games. They came in 15 for 113, the second-worst percentage in the NHL.


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Wankmeister cycling clinic #14: Getting ready
October 5, 2012 § 6 Comments
Dear Wankmeister:
Have you ever noticed how some people are always fucking getting ready? But they're never ready. I got a buddy always wants to race but it's like, not this weekend, I'm not quite ready and shit. What's up with that?
Foot tappingly,
Ready Freddie
Dear Freddie:
One of the greatest blues heavies of all time did an album called "Getting Ready." The irony is that Freddie King was already the fuck ready. He took another drag on the cigarette, stubbed it out in the ashtray, plugged in the fucking guitar and laid down some immortal fucking tracks.
"Getting ready" doesn't mean waiting until you're perfectly fit, on the upside of the power peak but not over it, at the ideal weight, have the right amount of base miles, completed enough training rides, logged enough hours going around the trees and hopping aboard without racking your nuts.
That shit's not "getting ready." It's putting shit off because you're a chickendick wanker. So tell your buddy to pay the entry fee, pin on a fucking number, and toe the line. "Almost ready" is "never."
Dear Wankmeister:
I've wanted to do bicycle racing all year. But I'm a triathlete. We sign up for stuff like a year in advance. Most of the bikers I know don't decide if they're going to do a race until the morning of, usually after checking the weather report or calling around to see who else is going. "Early planners" might make up their mind the night before. WTF?? I'm more methodical than that and need time to get ready physically and emotionally. Help!
Theresa Trigal
Dear Trigal:
How long does it take you to whip off your underwear and straddle your man after a night of fine wine, fine dining, and a new pair of crotchless panties?
That's how long it should take you to "physically and emotionally" be ready for a bike race.
About Tensecondsly,
Dear Wankmeister:
Thorough preparation is key. It is highly irresponsible of you to suggest that people simply "line up and race." Down that path lie injury and madness. Especially since your readers tend to be older, rash decisionmaking without a solid base of fundamentals is reckless. You should be ashamed. Preparation + Dedication = Readiness. Memorize the formula, please.
Internet Coach Bill
Dear Internet:
Wankmeister is indeed ashamed, but it's because of some indiscreet photos that are floating around on the Internet that purport to show me in a chicken suit butt chugging wine from a box. My readers are of all ages, and are already well down the path to madness. Racing their bike will only get them a tad more quickly to the money shot, which is explaining to friends and neighbors why they're in traction after trying to do what the neighbors call "riding your bicycle and winning a prize."
Don't worry, though. Your scam where you bleed insecure wankers dry with exorbitant training plans over a multi-year period so that they can be "ready" for their first race is safe with me.
Dear Wankmeister:
I've never done 'cross, but it looks fun. I've actually never even done a normal bike race, but I borrowed a pal's bike and rode it a couple of times up and down the driveway. Am I ready to enter the next race in the SoCal Cross Prestige Series?
Freddie Fracture
Dear Freddie:
In certitude,
Dear Wankmeister:
I'm sorry but your philosphy is stuppid. If your not ready your not ready and the only way to know your ready is having everything be ready your fitness and bike and the right course etcetarra. Jumping in before the gun has cocked will get you a stitch or nine in no time.
Helen Reddy
Dear Helen:
"Ready" never happens in bike racing, although I understand that in the country music business during the early part of your career every dude with $20 and a back seat did in fact get Reddy.
Something's always all fucked up in bike racing. You're sick, you're fat, you're a newbie, you're creaky, the field is too fast, the course is too hilly or not hilly enough or too technical or too long or not good for a rouleurspruntertimetrialistclimber like you, your equipment sucks, whateverthefuck it is, you're never ready.
General George B. McClellan wasn't ready, either, when he marched his stupid fucking Army of the Republic around in circles while Robert E. Lee tore the Union a new asshole because even though he had the men, the materiele, the plans, and every military advantage known to mass killing, McClellan was missing the integral part.
A backbone.
Same with Hooker and all the other yahoos until Grant came along. Grant wasn't ever fucking ready. He just whiskeyed up every morning and marched forward until he cleaned up the nasty nest of racist, slaving, buttfuck Southerners like a wasp's nest going into the maw of an industrial ShopVac.
He didn't slap down the rebellion because he was ready. He slapped it down because he moved his armies into position and started killing people.
There's a message there for you somewhere. Go dig it out.
Dear Wankmeister:
I once read that "ready" is the enemy of "do." What does that mean?
Stompy Nubbins
Dear Stompy:
It means you should quit preparing, which is just another word for "excusifying," which probably isn't even a word.
Come out for the race on Sunday. So what if you're scared and unfit and wet behind the ears? So is half the fucking field.
What you'll find out is what people find out the world over when they finally throw a leg over and roll out from the start line: You're as ready now as you'll ever be, and the corollary, you're also as ready as you'll ever need to be.
Sack up.
§ 6 Responses to Wankmeister cycling clinic #14: Getting ready
Thanks Wanky,
I've been wanting to do this race for three years and never been "ready": http://www.fullmoonvista.com/2012_Cobbs_Hill_Race_Flyer.pdf
I'm out of shape and have been off th bike for the better part of a month. My chain is rusted on my old cross bike and it has fenders and street tires on it. Plus I've never run over a barrier, and I certainly am not going to do one of the flying re-mounts.
So I signed up right after I read this.
Dear Wanky,
After reading your "No excuses Perspective" Fuck it, I'm ready to pound some dirt!
Someone got a 'cross bike I can borrow?
So, thanks for all of the inspirational, get-off-your-ass-and-do-it, posts lately. Had a great time feeling like you do at the exact moment right before you get dropped in a road race for thirty minutes. Was the last finisher to complete all 6 laps, so everyone behind me crashed, abandoned, or got pulled. Fucking awesome.


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When farmers and agribusiness leaders seethe over newspaper reporting of agriculture, I get a bit defensive. I want to defend my profession.
I spent my journalism career years as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Arizona. I had wanted to be a journalist likely from the first time I picked up a newspaper and found ink smeared on my fingers after reading through it. I was actually a newspaper carrier through high school and still laugh when I recall the dozens of times my district manager would find me sitting on a bundle of fresh Dallas Morning News editions at 5 a.m., reading the paper. "Throw the papers, Harry, and then read it!" All I have ever wanted to do is be a journalist because it seemed the most exciting profession in the world. To me it still is.
Fortunately, the principles of balanced, unbiased reporting were instilled in me by veteran journalists who valued those principles above all. It is not easy to keep personal bias out of a news article. I have written articles about real dunderhead newsmakers — be they mayor, sheriff, crook, politician, farmer, industry leader, or president. Yet, I worked hard to keep my bias out of those articles. Commentaries are different.
Without sounding too pious for my age, more than a few of the newspaper articles about agriculture, and many other subjects as well, seem to be written these days by reporters who apparently ignore basic principles. I am sure the writers are intelligent journalists who have somehow lost their principled way. At least I hope they someday will understand the principles of balanced, unbiased reporting if they stay in the business.
I will always be in awe of good journalism, be it a news article or a commentary. Philip Bowles of Bowles Farming, Dos Palos, Calif., is an avid, discerning reader who often shares what he uncovers. He e-mailed me an article he rightfully described as "refreshing." It appeared in one of agriculture's least loved newspapers. It is from Los Angeles Times Food Editor Russ Parsons, a newspaper journalist for 30 years. It is about what Parsons calls a "national conversation about food" that has become "two armed camps deeply suspicious of one another shouting past each other."
"On the one side, the hard-line aggies seem convinced that a bunch of know-nothing urbanites want to send them back to Stone Age farming techniques. On the other side, there's a tendency by agricultural reformers to lump together all farms (or at least those that aren't purely organic, hemp-clad mom-and-pop operations) as thoughtless ravagers of the environment," writes Parsons.
In the next decade Parsons would rather see "a more constructive give-and-take, the start of a true conversation." He offers up a few ground rules for both farmer and urbanite to move that along.
Here they are:
• "Agriculture is a business. Farming without a financial motive is gardening. Not only do farmers have expenses to meet just like any other business, but they also need to be rewarded when they do good work. Any plan that places further demands on farmers without an offsetting profit incentive is doomed to fail.
• What's past is past. Over the last 50 years, American farmers performed an agricultural miracle, all but eliminating hunger as a serious health issue in this country. But that battle has been won, and though those gains must be maintained, the demands of today – developing a system that delivers flavor as well as quantity and does it in an environmentally friendly way – are different.
• Food is not just a culinary abstraction. No matter how much you and I might appreciate the amazing bounty produced by talented, quality-driven farmers, we also have to acknowledge that sometimes food is well, just food. So when we start dreaming about how to make our epicurean utopia, we also have to keep in mind that our first obligation is to make sure that healthful, fresh food remains plentiful and inexpensive enough that anyone can afford it.
• There's no free pass on progress. Just because you've always farmed a certain way does not mean that you are owed the right to continue farming that way in the future. The days of a small or medium-sized farm making a decent profit growing one or two crops and marketing it through the traditional commodity route are long past. The world is changing, and those who can adapt are the ones who will be successful.
• The world is not black and white. The issues facing agriculture today are much more complicated than lining up behind labels such as "local" and "organic" no matter how praiseworthy they might seem in the abstract.
• No farm is an island. That's not literally true, of course; there are several island farms in the Sacramento Delta. But even there, farmers have to remember that they're living in an ever-more crowded state where their actions affect others. Assuming that what happens on your land is nobody's business but your own just doesn't work anymore.
• Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Holding out for an unattainable dream may mean losing a chance at a more easily realized goal. At the same time, just because an idea may not be the perfect answer, it doesn't mean that there aren't benefits to it. A completely locavore diet is, well, loco, but buying as much locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables as you can is just common sense.
• Quality is more expensive than quantity. Farming fruits and vegetables that are not just healthful but also have great flavor takes a lot of time and work and usually means not growing as much as a neighbor who doesn't focus on flavor. So when you're shopping, don't begrudge a good farmer a little higher price — that's what it takes to keep him in business.
• You don't climb a ladder starting at the top rung. In a system as complex as our food supply, change is evolutionary. Remember long-term goals, but focus on what's immediately achievable. Any argument that begins, "All we have to do is rewrite the farm bill," is probably decades, if not centuries, from reality. But there are plenty of small things we can do now to start us down that road. Don't assume that those who disagree with you are evil, stupid or greedy. And even when they are, that doesn't relieve you of the responsibility for making a constructive and convincing argument.
• What's political is also personal. If you believe in something, you should be willing to make sacrifices to support it, even if it's expensive or inconvenient. Wailing about farmers who use pesticides and then balking at paying extra for organic produce is hypocritical because the yields in organic farming are almost always lower. On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with doing the best you can whenever you can — as long as you're willing to accept compromises from the other guy too.
• Finally, and most important: Beware the law of unintended consequences. Developing tasteless fruits and vegetables was not the goal of the last Green Revolution; it was a side effect of a system designed to eliminate hunger by providing plentiful, inexpensive food, but that also ended up rewarding quantity over quality. We should always keep in mind that when we're dreaming of a system that focuses on the reverse, we run the risk of creating something far worse than strawberries that bounce."
Wish I had written all that.
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In America, religious liberty is disappearing, or at least that is what Denny Burk would have you believe. In a recent article, Burk lambasted the United States government - as well as the American people for their apparent disinterest - for committing "the most egregious violation of religious liberty that [he] has ever seen." What was this "most egregious act"? That Hobby Lobby - a for-profit business that is owned by a Christian family - will be fined $1.3 million dollars per day for breaking the law. The story truly is that simple, but not nearly that short.
"This is the most egregious violation of religious liberty that I have ever seen. The United States Government is forcing these Christian business owners to pay for abortion inducing drugs in their employees' insurance plans. It doesn't matter that the law violates their religious liberty to conduct business in a way that is consistent with their conscience." - Denny Burk
On March 23 of 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. On June 28 of 2012, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the constitutionality of the ACA. This means that the ACA is the law, period. Part of the ACA was a requirement that insurance plans fully cover contraception, and this is the issue.
The owners of Hobby Lobby, who are among the Faithful, filed a lawsuit on September 12 of 2012 opposing the ACA because they would be required to provide the "morning after pill" and "week after pill" in their insurance plan. To be clear, the morning-after pill is not, as claimed by Burk and countless other Christians, an "abortion inducing drug". The morning-after pills do not - I repeat, do not - terminate an established pregnancy. To say that again, morning-after pills do not end an implanted pregnancy. Instead, morning-after pills prevent pregnancy by: 1) delaying or preventing ovulation, 2) blocking fertilization, and 3) Preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus (and no, if the egg has not implanted in the uterus then the woman is not pregnant).
There are only three morning-after pills that have been approved by the FDA: Plan B One-Step, Next Choice, and Ella. Please note that the "week after pill" referred to by the owners of Hobby Lobby is actually Ella, which can be taken up to five days (120 hours) after unprotected sex. The "abortion-inducing" drug that Burk referred to is RU-486 (mifepristone), also known as the "abortion pill", which does terminate an established pregnancy. Of course, the Affordable Care Act does not cover RU-486 or other drugs that are actual abortifacients, meaning drugs that actually terminate an implanted pregnancy. Facts like this, however, are disregarded by Burk and the owners of Hobby Lobby because facts are irrelevant.
Consider the following statement released by the owners of Hobby Lobby - the Green family - through The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty:
"The Green family has no moral objection to the use of preventive contraceptives and will continue its longstanding practice of covering these preventive contraceptives for its employees. However, the Green family cannot provide or pay for two specific abortion-inducing drugs. These drugs are Plan B and Ella, the so-called morning-after pill and the week-after pill. Covering these drugs, as the government is forcing them to do under the threat of $1.3 million penalty per day, would violate their most deeply held religious belief that life begins at conception, when an egg is fertilized. The FDA-approved government birth control guide clearly states that these two drugs, the morning-after pill and the week-after pill, may prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the womb, thus aborting the fertilized egg."
The issue here is belief, not facts. If it were only about the facts, it would be simple because the facts are quite clear regarding the Affordable Care Act:
Hobby Lobby is a for-profit business and, while the owners are self-proclaimed Christians, this does not give them the right to operate outside the bounds of the law. No one is forcing the Green family to recant their belief that "life begins at conception, when an egg is fertilized", which means that their religious liberty is still fully intact.
What the Green family and Denny Burk are concerned with is not the loss of religious liberty, it is the loss of religious tyranny.
At some point after abandoning their cognitive abilities, the Faithful mistakenly equivocated religious liberty with religious tyranny. They adopted the attitude that, simply because they believed something to be true, the whole of American society must accept and abide by it. In the minds of the faithful, their religious liberty trumps individual freedom. Therefore, when it comes to the issue of same-sex marriage, it is wrong because they believe that it is wrong and, because they believe it is wrong, individuals should be stripped of their freedom to marry their partner of choice, lest a man be allowed to marry a goat. Homosexuality? Wrong, and because it is wrong, individuals should be forced into reparative therapy and "homosexual acts", such as sodomy (an act which many, many heterosexuals enjoy), should be outlawed, lest a man be allowed to fuck a goat. Contraception? Wrong, and because it is wrong, women should and must be denied the ability to make decisions about their own health, lest women taste freedom and demand equality.
"The first line of the Bill of Rights says this: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Obamacare prohibits the free exercise of the owners of Hobby Lobby. Who's next?" - Denny Burk
Burk attempts, in his twisting of the first line of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, to end his article with a powerful statement of support. (Note that this is not the first line of the Bill of Rights as Burk claims, which should cause you pause when considering his interpretation.) His effort, while impassioned, is a failure
of epic proportions. The Affordable Care Act does not prohibit the Green family or their right to exercise their religious beliefs in any way. They are still free to hold whatever religious beliefs that they want, and to exercise those beliefs in any way that they so choose. They can participate in a Pro-Life rally, they can still sell Bibles in their store, they can still attend church services whenever they are able, they can pray whenever they like, they can evangelize to their hearts content, and they can praise the name of Jesus until they lose their voice. The religious liberty of the Green family, as well as all of America, is wholly intact.
What people like Denny Burk attempt to do with their fabricated outrage is distract you from the real issue: individual freedom. You see, their religious liberty requires that you sacrifice your individual freedom on their alter of belief. Simply because the Green family believes that "life begins at conception, when the egg is fertilized", well, you have to embrace that belief as well. Never mind the fact that the Green family has no clue whether or not an egg has actually been fertilized and is being blocked from implantation, they want the right to deny you the right of contraception coverage. The Faithful want their religious liberty even if it means denying you your individual freedom, your personal liberty.
The Faithful are not interested in religious liberty, they are interested in religious tyranny.
They want America to be a theocracy.
They are America's Taliban.
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33 to NothingA downtown NYC garage band is on the edge of breaking-up as the lead singer and his boyfriend are also breaking-up. With the incessant pull of adulthood becoming harder to ignore, is it even worth staying together? Open run. THE WILD PROJECT, 195 E. 3rd St. 212-352-3101. $25.
Buckle My Shoe, or Terror FirmaA musical presented by Theater for the New Citys Street Theater. It will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs and confront complex social issues through childrens allegories with children as the heroes. Thru Sept. 16; Sat. & Sun. at 2pm. 212-254-1109. www.theaterforthenewcity.net. Free.
Concord, VirginiaA monthly series in which Peter Neofotis unfolds the saga of one Blue Ridge Mountain town from the end of the 19th century thru the 20th. There is a gypsy story, a sodomy trail, secrets and more. Tues. at 8pm, call for details. DIXON PLACE, 258 Bowery, bet Houston & Prince Sts. 212-219-0736. www.theatermania.com. $12.
The Further Mis-Adventures of the Mystic Renaldo TheOff-color humor and stupidity mixed with a flawed search for the meaning of life meet art house musical cabaret and film noir with no pretension about being totally pretentious. Fri. & Sat., Sept. 7 & 8 at 8pm and Sept. 14, 15, 21, 22 at 10pm. DIXON PLACE, 258 Bowery, 2nd floor, bet Houston & Prince Sts. 212-219-0736. www.dixonplace.org. $12, $10 students & seniors.
Measure for Measure: Provide Your Block & AxeA fresh look at one of William Shakespeares most mysterious plays. Part of the Straight from the Source Festival. Thru Aug. 25; Fri. & Sat. at 8pm; also 7pm & 9:30pm on Sat., Aug. 18 & 25. MANHATTAN THEATRE SOURCE, 177 MacDougal St., bet W. 8th & Waverly. www.theatermania.com. 212-352-3101. 212-501-5741. $18.
Pandora20 international variety acts with live music. Open run. THE BOX, 189 Chrystie St. 212-352-3101. $15-$75.
Removable PartsA theatrical series of love songs about voluntary amputation that asks the question: In the name of love, how far might you go? The songs and banter, inspired by psychiatric case studies and online research, take a sideways look at amputees, devotees & wannabes. Sept. 6-9 & 12-15 at 7pm. HERE ARTS CENTER, 145 6th Ave., one block below Spring St. 212-352-3101. www.here.org. $20, $15 students.
Smith IslandA multi-media, rock, docu-drama featuring Zelda Zardoz, a paranoid schizophrenic running away from her innermost demons. Zelda aspires to reach redemption, but she gets lost along the way until she is finally imprisoned by her own tragic existence. Thru Sept. 14. BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 Bowery. 212-614-0505. $10.
WalmartopiaVicki Latrell, a single mom and Wal-Mart employee, speaks out against her companys working conditions and finds herself and her young daughter jettisoned to 2036, into a future where Wal-Mart dominates the entire world. Open run. MINETTA LANE THEATRE, 18 Minetta Lane. 212-307-4100. $65.
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Judea Pearl, Daniel Pearl's father, writes in today's Wall Street Journal about the dismaying extent to which terrorism has become an accepted political tactic in the seven years since his son was beheaded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed–who boasted of Pearl's murder to the "cheers of sympathetic jihadi supporters" and may, before long, be put on "trial" to the cheers of millions worldwide.
Mr. Pearl fingers a number of those responsible for legitimizing terrorism–American and European universities, Jimmy Carter, our national and international media. He mentions Samir Kantar, whose triumphant visit to Iran we wrote about here and here, but has been studiously ignored by the mainstream media.
Pearl does not include the Obama administration in his list of those responsible for legitimizing terror–fair enough, it's only been two weeks. But, with the "war on terror" relegated to the history books and Obama making friendly overtures to the leading sponsor of terrorism while apologizing for America's "anti-Muslim" history, that omission may be soon prove to be more hopeful than realistic.
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Severe colds and various unidentified virus infections are often referred
to as `flu', and some authorities would argue that this is incorrect, and
that true influenza is a much more severe infection, appearing in widespread
epidemics, often at intervals of approximately ten years. Bacterial secondary
infections are the greatest risk of `true' influenza, and were responsible
for the thousands of deaths in past epidemics. The use of antibiotics has
dramatically reduced such deaths, although the very young and the elderly
are still at risk & a really severe infection of this kind may be one
of the situations in which the use of antibiotics is sensible. In this case,
don't stop the herbal treatment, it can only be beneficial and will not
conflict with orthodox drug treatment.
Actions indicated for the processes behind this Disease
Anti-microbials will help the immune system combat the
viral infection and help avoid secondary infection
Diaphoretics help with the symptoms of feverishness and support the
body cope with the raised temperature.
Anti-catarrhals will ease the symptomatic discomfort so characteristic
of this problem. However, avoid trying to `dry up' the overproduction with
herbal de-congestants for the reasons explored elsewhere.
Expectorants are called for in one of their varieties if there is
the development of secondary problems in the lower respiratory system.
Lymphatics are indicated if there is any development of swollen glands
or known history of such problems.
Bitters help deal with the debility that often follows such viral
Nervines can be found useful in dealing with high fevers and associated
Hydrastis canadensis
Echinacea spp.
equal parts
2.5ml of tincture taken every 2 hours
Eupatorium perfoliatum
a strong infusion drunk hot every hour. Follow
the advice given above for the common cold if the symptom picture calls
for it.
equal parts
2.5ml of tincture taken every 2 hours
a strong infusion drunk hot every hour. Follow
the advice given above for the common cold if the symptom picture calls
for it.
Anti-microbials (Hydrastis canadensis, Echinacea spp.)
Diaphoretics (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
Anti-catarrhals (Hydrastis canadensis, Echinacea spp.)
Lymphatics (Echinacea spp.)
Bitters (Hydrastis canadensis, Eupatorium perfoliatum)
Eupatorium perfoliatum : also diaphoretic and anti-catarrhal
Gentiana spp. : aids the digestion in a number of ways and doesn't
taste too bad
Hydrastis canadensis : also anti-catarrhal and generally tonic
Marrubium vulgare : also expectorant and anti-catarrhal


text: Do you need to know how your property is zoned, or where you can put your new fence? Now you can access zoning information, plats, or Engineering record drawings in the Development & Permitting Center section of the City website.Click on the Record Search button the the left side of the page. Once there, you must accept the disclaimer and you will have access to all the electronic files the City currently has. Questions? Call the Planning Department at 972-205-2445.


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Betty Ticho
Co-founder of L.A. County epilepsy group
Betty Ticho, 89, a social worker who co-founded the Los Angeles County Epilepsy Society and served as its executive director for 30 years, died May 29 at Santa Monica Hospital of complications from recent surgery, said her niece Beth Bentley.
The organization now known as the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angeles was founded in 1957 by what Bentley called "an intrepid group of volunteers" who hired Ticho to run what became a full-fledged nonprofit group. Its mission was to educate the public about the neurological disorder and support those afflicted with the disease with resources such as medical treatment, employment opportunities and social programs.
With a background in psychiatric social work with military veterans, Ticho understood the obstacles faced by people with brain injuries and disorders. And she used her charismatic personality to dispel antiquated notions that associated epilepsy with mental illness or the supernatural. She also was an effective fundraiser and administrator.
She was born Dec. 18, 1920, in Louisville, Ky., to Frank and Sara Tullis and moved with her family to Chicago as a teenager. She was an accomplished pianist and served as fashion editor of a student magazine while attending the University of Chicago. After earning a bachelor's degree and a master's in social work, she married Harold Ticho in 1947.
They soon moved to Los Angeles and she worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Los Angeles until helping to start the epilepsy society.
She and her husband divorced in the 1960s, and she retired in 1987.
Stuart Gavert
Hair stylist known for coloring techniques
Stuart Gavert, 53, a well-regarded hair stylist known for his innovative approaches to hair coloring, died June 14 of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, according to publicist Angela Jones.
Gavert, who opened the Beverly Hills salon Gavert Atelier with his business partner Cody Kusakabe in 1998, created the hair coloring for "Twilight" film stars Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson. His celebrity clientele included Christina Applegate, Christine Lahti and Shannon Doherty, but many budget-conscious consumers also sought him out for his trend-setting hair coloring techniques using non-ammonia formulations.
Born Nov. 14, 1956, and raised in Pasadena, Gavert was a fixture at Umberto in Beverly Hills before opening his own salon. He trained many hair colorists who work at high-end salons in the Los Angeles area, and he also had interests in salons in New York and Asia.
Sue Avery
Longtime reporter at L.A. Times
Sue Avery, 71, a Los Angeles Times reporter for nearly 30 years who wrote primarily for the paper's San Gabriel Valley section, died May 26 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena after a battle with cancer, said her brother, John.
Avery worked at The Times from 1965 until retiring in 1993. Her stories in the 1970s mostly focused on schools and issues facing women. She later covered local elections, the Tournament of Roses, and wrote news and features about Pasadena, Arcadia, Duarte and other cities covered by the paper's San Gabriel section.
She was born Sept. 18, 1938, in San Francisco and graduated in 1960 from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in history. Before coming to The Times, Avery worked as a reporter for the Associated Press in San Francisco.
Peter Brunette
World-renowned film historian
Peter Brunette, 66, an internationally known film historian and critic who specialized in Italian cinema, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack in Italy while attending the Taormina Film Festival for the Hollywood Reporter, the trade publication reported.
Brunette, who taught film studies and was director of the film studies program at Wake Forest University, also wrote for the New York Times, Boston Globe and other publications.
He had attended and reviewed from the Cannes film festival in May and was spending the summer in Europe at various film festivals.
Brunette was the author of several books on film subjects including Italian directors Roberto Rossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, among others.
Born Sept. 18, 1943, in Richwood, W.Va., Brunette studied English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees. He received a doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He taught English and film studies at George Mason University from 1975 to 2004 before moving on to Wake Forest.
Bill Dixon
Jazz trumpeter and composer
Bill Dixon, 84, an avant-garde jazz trumpeter and former professor at Bennington College, died Wednesday at his home in North Bennington, Vt., according to the E.P. Mahar & Son funeral home. He had been in failing health for some time.
Dixon, a composer who was part of the New York City jazz scene in the 1960s, taught at the Vermont college from 1968 to 1995 and later toured extensively in Europe.
He played alongside Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, William Parker and others who organized musicians and composers to try to improve their working conditions.
Born Oct. 5, 1925, in Nantucket, Mass., Dixon grew up mainly in New York City, where he studied trumpet at the Hartnette Conservatory.
John Bucalo
, a thoroughbred jockey who started riding in the 1930s and later became a trainer, died Saturday after a long illness, according to Hollywood Park. Bucalo, a Baldwin Park resident, was 93.
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Eloise Warren Shivar, 95, of Carolina House and formerly of Woodsway Drive, died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at Thomasville Medical Center.
Eloise Warren Shivar, 95, of Carolina House and formerly of Woodsway Drive, died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at Thomasville Medical Center.
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church by the Revs. Dr. Ray Howell III and Tommy Wilson. Burial will follow at Forest Hill Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday at the church.
Mrs. Shivar was born March 27, 1917, in Sampson County to William Henry Warren and Fronie Butler Warren. She retired from Dixie Furniture after 28 years of service and was a member of First Baptist Church. Her husband, George Byron Shivar, preceded her in death as well as her brothers, William Allen Warren, James Edward Warren, Douglas Warren and Loyd Warren, and her sisters, Odell Turner, Lora Wells and Kathleen Keele.
She is survived by her daughters, Elaine Alexander and husband Hubert of Lexington, Carol Lamb of Edmond, Okla., and Brenda Bost of Spring Hill, Tenn.; her brother, Albert Warren of Grand Prairie, Texas; her sister, Lunelle Monette of Maysville; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, HVAC Fund, P.O. Box 436, Lexington, NC 27293.
Davidson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.


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July 07. 2014 10:49PM
On Baseball: Three Fishers named all-stars
Liz brilliant as Fishers win twinbill opener; second game suspended
Three New Hampshire Fisher Cats will be working through this year's Eastern League all-star break.
Relief pitchers
Dustin Antolin
Randy Boone
, and second baseman
Jon Berti
were named to the Eastern Division all-star team, which will face the Western Division all-stars on Wednesday, July 16 in Altoona, Pa. The rosters for each team were announced Monday.
Antolin, 25, is in his second season with the Fisher Cats and entered Monday night's game against New Britain with a 3-3 record and a 2.66 ERA. He began the season by allowing six runs in his first six games, but has surrendered one run in his last 19 innings (14 appearances). He was Toronto's 11th-round selection in the 2008 draft out of Mililani (Hawaii) High School.
Berti, 24, entered Monday's game leading the Fisher Cats in batting average (.262) and stolen bases (26). He also ranked second on the team with 30 RBIs and 41 runs scored. Berti, who is in his first season with the Fisher Cats, was the Blue Jays' 18th-round selection in the 2011 draft out of Bowling Green State University.
Boone, 30, is in his fifth season with the Fisher Cats and moved into second place in the franchise's career wins list (18) when he earned the win in Sunday's victory over Trenton. Boone has a 2.67 ERA with nine saves and 29 strikeouts this season. Toronto selected Boone in the seventh round of the 2007 draft out of the University of Texas.
The all-star teams were selected through fan voting along with selections from media personnel, club field personnel, and Eastern League administrators. Each Eastern League team is represented by at least three players, including at least one pitcher and one position player.
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THE Portland Sea Dogs, Boston's Double-A affiliate in the Eastern League, had five players named to the Eastern Division all-star team: pitcher
Brian Johnson
, pitcher
Henry Owens
, second baseman
Sean Coyle
, infielder
Derrik Gibson
and catcher
Blake Swihart
• Coyle was hitting .355 (71-for-200) with 11 home runs and 47 RBIs through 59 games this season. He entered the season ranked as Boston's No. 30 prospect, according to Baseball America.
• Gibson, who has played both the infield and outfield this season, ranked ninth among Eastern League players in hitting ( .321) through 65 games. The Red Sox selected Gibson in the second round of the June 2008 draft.
• Johnson, who joined the Sea Dogs on May 2 from High-A Salem, is 7-1 with a 1.73 ERA (12 ER/ 62 1/3 IP) in 11 starts. Baseball America had Johnson ranked as Boston's No. 14 prospect at the start of the 2014 season.
• Baseball America ranked Owens, 21, as Boston's top pitching prospect and No. 2 prospect overall when the season began. He leads the Eastern League in wins (12), ERA (2.21), strikeouts (111), complete games (three), shutouts (two), WHIP (1.03), and average against (.183).
• Swihart, 22, is hitting .294 (80-for-272) with 16 doubles, nine home runs, and 44 RBIs in 71 games this season. He also leads the league in throwing out attempted base stealers this season (25-for-47).
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THE Fisher Cats began Monday night's game having won four in a row and 10 of their last 11. New Hampshire had also won nine in a row at home. The franchise record for consecutive home victories is 10. That record was established in 2004, when the team played at Gill Stadium. … Shortstop
Kevin Nolan
entered Monday's game with 15 hits in his last 33 at-bats (.455). … After playing five games against New Britain, the Fisher Cats will play five games at Portland before the all-star break. … Tonight's probable starters are New Britain's
Tyler Duffey
(3-2, 4.41) and New Hampshire's
Daniel Norris
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Golf course's suit targets Northern Pass accordBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 06. 2013 12:32AM
Tucked in the foothills of the White Mountain National Forest, with panoramic views of the Cannon and Lafayette mountains and other 4,000-footers, Owl's Nest Resort & Golf Club's appeal is grounded in the beauty of its natural surroundings.
Now, owners allege in a lawsuit filed last week, the 18-hole championship golf course is threatened with extinction by the prospect the Northern Pass power line project will get the permits necessary to slice through the course and residences that are the lifeblood of the 650-acre resort in Campton and Thornton.
Public Service of New Hampshire and its parent company, Northeast Utilities, unveiled plans in October 2010 to use the easement to build Northern Pass. The project would carry 1,200 megawatts of Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid.
No work has been done on the easement PSNH negotiated and obtained on Owl's Nest's property in 2007. But PSNH's announcement of its plan has brought land and housing sales to a standstill, said Thomas Mullen, who owns Owl Street Associates LLC with his business partner, Walter E. Lankau Jr.
PSNH spokesman Michael Skelton said neither the utility nor Northern Pass Transmission have been formally served with the complaint.
"If there are legitimate legal issues that deserve consideration, the court is the proper forum for that discussion, not the newspaper. We believe, however, that the 2007 Easement Deed provides PSNH with clear legal rights, and we will respond to the issues in the legal proceeding," Skelton said in an email.
Annual sales of land, houses, townhouses and condominiums, which hit $3.59 million and $3.194 million in 2008 and 2009, respectively, have been stuck at zero since 2011, Mullen said Friday.
"We have not sold a single property.... We can't survive without selling real estate," Mullen said.
"No one will buy the property. The threat of Northern Pass looms so large and casts such a shadow over this property that nobody will buy it," he said.
Mullen, Lankau and Owl Street Associates LLC filed a civil suit Tuesday in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill against PSNH, Northern Pass Transmission and Northeast Utilities. The suit asks the court to grant an injunction to stop the utilities from making claims over the property and settle "once and for all that they are claiming rights they do not have," said Hopkinton attorney Arthur B. Cunningham.
The suit seeks a jury trial.
In 2010, Owl's Nest Resort & Golf Club was appraised at $23 million and employed about 70 people, Mullen said.
"I'm hearing appraisal numbers now of $2 million to $3 million," he said. The resort is "way behind" on its mortgage and faces foreclosure. It owes about $380,000 in property taxes, and only about 30 people work there.
"It's been devastating. I'm about to turn 70 years old. I have put every penny I own into keeping Owl's Nest afloat in the last few years, as has my partner," Mullen said.
"If something doesn't happen pretty quickly, we are going to bite the dust here because we can't keep the place open," Mullen said.
At issue is the 2007 easement PSNH obtained on the property. According to Cunningham and Mullen, PSNH approached Owl's Nest owners in 2006 seeking to relocate the 14,000-linear-foot easement it held on the property on which it ran electrical power lines on a set of 43-foot wooden utility poles.
Mullen said PSNH assured him any new development in the renegotiated easement would be to the same scale as the existing poles and agreed to add language that would preserve the aesthetics of the resort.
But the agreement not only significantly expanded PSNH's rights to build transmission towers up to 135 feet, it also gave PSNH rights to build below, on and above ground, install piping and use the area as a construction staging site, Cunningham said.
"They told him they weren't going to make it bigger, but the easement agreement gave them rights way, way beyond" what typically were contained in easements that dated back to the early 1950s, Cunningham said.
"We will have to do discovery on when this plan started for Northern Pass," Cunningham said. "The contention here is they came to him to renegotiate this deal and got all these additional usage rights and did not tell him what the plan was. We are going to ask the court to restore the rights that existed prior to this new easement."
Speaking generally, Skelton noted PSNH "has a long history of working successfully with neighbors along our rights of way on agreements that allow them to use the property for activities that don't affect the transmission or delivery of electricity. We believe that existing power line rights of way can coexist, as they have for many decades, with neighboring homes and businesses, such as golf courses."


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Stockton, CA
Jane Caberos Aban
March 1, 1926 - January 30, 2013
Jane Caberos Aban, age 86 of Stockton, CA, passed away on Wednesday,
January 30, 2013 in Sacramento. She was born on March 1, 1926 in Ormoc; Leyte,
Jane was the second of three children. She married Romeo Aban in the Philippines and had six children. She enjoyed watching Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, cooking, gardening and spending time with her grandchildren.
Jane will be remembered by her loving children: John (Rose), Maria Igel (Jack), Romeo Jr., Oscar (Nella), Robert (Lori) and Richard (Karen). She is also survived by 18 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren. Predeceased in death by her parents, brother Frank, sister Anacleta and beloved husband, Romeo.
Relatives and friends are invited to a graveside service for Jane at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery, 719 E. Harding Way Stockton, CA 95204. Visitation: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at DeYoung Memorial Chapel, 601 N. California Street, Stockton, CA 95202 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.


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After lighter conversation topics about Jon Bon Jovi's seemingly ageless good looks, his band's longevity and his rock star lifestyle, Katie Couric asked the 51-year-old Bon Jovi frontman about his daughter's shocking heroin overdose last November.
"Worst phone call ever," Bon Jovi said about learning that his 19-year-old daughter, Stephanie Bongiovi, had been taken to the hospital after a heroin overdose in her dorm room at Hamilton College in New York.
"She's doing great," Bon Jovi said of his daughter. "The problem is much more prevalent than I knew," he said. "I cannot get over how many people I've met that said 'my son' or 'my daughter.'"
"There is a lot of pressure on kids these days," he said.


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Manchester police heroes: 'What it boils down to is it's the job'By PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 06. 2014 9:53PM
MANCHESTER — Temperatures were hovering in the low 30s on the afternoon of March 5, 2013, when a case worker called police to report a client intended to drown herself in the Merrimack River.
Immediately, police and firefighters were dispatched to the river, which was roaring because of an early snowmelt.
"The river was pretty high and flowing pretty good," recalled Officer Michael Dunlap.
He arrived at Arms Park about the same time as Officer Richard Valenti. They saw the woman immediately, about 15 to 20 feet from shore, up to her neck in the roiling, bone-chilling water.
The 20-year-old made her way out of the water about 20 feet from shore and then sat on top of a boulder.
Dunlap ran back to his patrol car to get a "rescue disc" — a bright orange disc attached to a rope — to throw to the woman, hoping she would grab onto it so they could pull her to shore.
Valenti said they threw the disc to her a couple of times, but it quickly became apparent she had no strength to grab onto it.
"She was clawing at it," Dunlap said. "Unfortunately, she had been in the river so long she had no dexterity in her hands."
Dunlap, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force who just retired from the Air National Guard after a combined 23 years of service, said he had cold weather training while in the military. He said it appeared the woman was suffering from hypothermia.
Valenti, who has had training to deal with individuals suffering from mental illness, tried to speak to the woman.
"She wasn't really responding to anything," Valenti said. "It was just she was so cold. There was no way she was going to be able to physically even hold onto it."
"We looked at each other and said, 'We're going in,'" Dunlap said.
Together, they made their way out to the boulder, picked up the woman, and carried her through the rushing waters to shore where other officers, firefighters and an ambulance were waiting.
"Her skin was cold like a piece of ice," Dunlap said. "She couldn't even stand."
Dunlap said neither he nor Valenti thought about the danger they put themselves in that day and don't consider themselves heroes.
"What it boils down to is it's the job," Dunlap said. It's what a police officer does, he said.
"She survived, thank God," Valenti said.
The Union Leader Hero Awards honor New Hampshire residents who have risked their lives in the previous year to save or attempt to save the life of another person.
The program is sponsored by Citizens Bank and presented by the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Recipients of the 2014 Union Leader Hero Awards will be honored at a ceremony at 3 p.m. May 13 at the State House in Concord. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is requested.
For more information on the program or ceremony, contact Community Relations Manager Shannon Sullivan at 206-7833 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Global leaders in academia, government and business will convene April 29 to May 1 at Suffolk University for enriching and engaging discussions on the changes transforming today's financial sector during the Third International Business Complexity and Global Leader Conference.
The three-day conference, co-hosted by the Center for Business Complexity and Global Leadership at the Sawyer Business School and Suffolk University Law School, boasts a robust agenda focusing on the radical changes in social, economic and technological systems that are connecting and interlocking the financial sector into a single, complex and fluid system.
As little as 10 years ago separate firms and markets functioned within their own towers, but today, with the advances in big data, "all the financial firms are interdependent,' said Professor Greta Meszoely, the director of the center and one of the conference leaders.
It is not enough to evaluate the risk of a single firm. The risk of that firm's connections must also be brought into the equation, she said. "The sum of the parts does not create the whole." Rather, it is micro elements of the system that drive scenarios once unthinkable in the past, she said.
Traditional tools and technologies are failing to integrate the vast changes transforming this paradigm.
The conference, "Rethinking Policy and Practice in Today's Financial System," will create debate on the fundamental relationships of social, economic, political and technological models that now drive the financial sector while at the same time balancing the need to identity and mitigate risk within these emerging scenarios that are no longer driven by linear expressions.
Speakers include:
- Kathleen C. Engel, Associate Dean for Intellectual Life, Suffolk University Law School
- Joe Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist, TD Ameritrade
- Alex "Sandy" Pentland, director of MIT's Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program
- Luciano Pietronero, professor of Physics, Sapienza – Università di Roma
The conference will be held April 29 to May 1 at Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont St., Boston. Registration is free and open to the university community as well as to the public.


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Glen Rosentrater, 82 - June 12, 2013Glen Rosentrater, 82, of Arnold passed away Wednesdayday, June 12, 2013, surrounded by family and friends at the Callaway Hospital.
Services will take place at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 17, at the Tallin Church, south of Arnold on Highway, with the Rev. Gene Purcell officiating. Burial will be at the Arnold Cemetery with military honors by the American Legion Post No. 130 and VFW Post N. 6157.
A visitation will be conducted at the Arnold Funeral Home on Sunday, June 16, from 2 to 7 p.m. with family present from 5 to 7 p.m.
Rosentrater was born March 15, 1931, at Arnold. He graduated from Arnold High School, and met his wife Ruth Woodward while on a double date with his brother, Paul, and later wife Nola Leach, also from Callaway.
Throughout their nearly 60 years of marriage, Rosentrater and his wife resided south of Arnold on a farm, except for two years while he served with the U.S. Army.
In the mid 1980s, he began driving the school bus for the Arnold School District and continued for 25 years.
Rosentrater was a loving husband, dad, grandfather and great-grandfather who loved his family and a challenging career of farming, according to family members.
His was involved as an elder at the Tallin Church, showing hospitality to visiting missionary families and home Bible studies.
Rosentrater was preceded in death by: his parents, Albert and Agnes Rosentrater; sister-in-law, Nola Rosentrater.
Survivors include: his wife, Ruth; brother, Paul; his legacy of three children, a daughter, Sandra (Rob) Mandeville, and sons—Craig (Jo) and John (Jerolyn); five grandchildren—Ryan and Kari Grigg, Lucas Rosentrater, Amy and Joe Buehler, and Claire and Alexander Rosentrater; five great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Tallin Church Missionary Fund, c/o Tallin Church, 41140 Rd. 788, Arnold, NE 69120.
Arnold Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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|2013-01-02, 11:19
|Link #3561
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
China is making products for major Western companies. But they haven't got a Chinese Brand that they can be proud of. They need a Sony Walkman. They need a Nintendo NES. A product made by a local company, that made a splash and is desirable. China need a famous company.
It is telling that most people don't know who actually makes ipads until there is industrial dispute or some other bad news.
But yeah, back to America... America just needs to decide that they need protectionism back. That all the huge corporate profits don't mean anything if the tax is dodged and not enough local jobs are created. Protectionism WORKS. Yes, it is inefficient. It means a company can't take advantage of differences in policy between nations and get more money than they could have just locally. But a private company being "efficient" does not benefit a nation by default.
Free Market made people rich. But you can't control where the money flow to. "Trickle Down" Economics technically worked... It just trickled from rich Western companies into the pockets of Chinese labourers. This is the fact of it. Now, the Chinese deserve prosperity as much as any other human society, but I just think a government should take care of their own population first.
|2013-01-02, 11:25
|Link #3562
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
And the general income divide isn't helping the domestic consumption much in China; alongside the current inflation this end smells like an economic collapse.
|2013-01-02, 11:38
|Link #3563
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Age: 32
|2013-01-02, 11:44
|Link #3564
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
Americans buy things. They need to buy them, but they also have no jobs to support the spending. Corporate Taxes isn't going to give people jobs, only industries could. I guarantee Obama is willing to sacrifice Revenue if it means jobs; after all, isn't that what a Stimulus is meant to do?
Yet, if you don't set up trade barriers, most stimulus money would first flow to International Corporations, then exiting the country to the manufacturing centres elsewhere.
|2013-01-02, 11:45
|Link #3565
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
Didn't one of the amendments say Americans reserve the right to freedom of consumption?
|2013-01-02, 11:57
|Link #3566
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Age: 32
|2013-01-02, 12:00
|Link #3567
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
Import Tariffs is the main way trade barriers work. It has existed for centuries. You make a product more expensive to import, thus making local production more competitive. Japan has a massive rice import tax, thus their local rice industry survives and is self sufficient in feeding the nation.
If a corporation decided they are not going to sell stuff in America at all because of import tariffs, then they lose out on the entire USA market. It opens up the chance for a local entrepreneur to fill the gap. Yes, it would mean the goods produced would become more costly to buy; but the idea is that people would have jobs and thus could afford them.
Using Japan as an example, their rice price is higher than elsewhere in the world. But the population understands that their food security is worth it. That they need to keep their farmers.
Free Market does two things; it makes the Giant Corporations pay out huge bonuses, and the wealth trickles down to the labourers who actually make products. But as soon as a nation realised that they are not making anything anymore, they should know that they are no longer benefiting from the Free Market.
|2013-01-02, 12:14
|Link #3568
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
A free market does more than two things. Please realize that the U.S. consumer has been better off by having access to low cost goods. Your idea of protectionism and tariffs will make everything more expensive. So in a world where the U.S. is struggling and will need to tighten its belt .. you will also make everything more expensive simultaneously. Remember, cheap labour and cheap cost of goods .. is great for the U.S. consumer.
|2013-01-02, 12:26
|Link #3569
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
Both the GOP and the Dems want to "Grow the Economy". No disputes there. But the mistake is to think rich corporate profits equal jobs.
When people make products, they are paid. These same people can then use their wages to buy products. Trade barriers means the local products are cheaper in comparison, so more people buy local. This then encourages sales and thus, increase local production jobs. And the spending keeps moving the money around, which is the very definition of a stimulus.
Government money spent within the country is not wasted at all; that money will come back one way or another. The only Spending that is wasted is on money that escapes to other nations.
What is happening right now is that all the government spending is leaking overseas. All those modern prosperous Chinese are created due to the generosity of the US government.
Yes, cutting spending is important. But it is about cutting spending that leads nowhere. Giving tax breaks to corporations who aren't forced to employ American labour in exchange, is money thrown away. Tax breaks are meant to be a REWARD for helping the country, not free gifts.
Buying local goods means someone gets to receive a pay-check. And that person can then use that money to buy local. And so on. Local Employment is worth the price, literally.
|2013-01-02, 12:40
|Link #3570
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
Anyways .. ultimately this is a debate with very complex economic concepts, that I won't pretend to know the absolute answer to, but it's not so simple as can be resolved simply with the word protectionism.. There are significant unforeseen consequences to any and every policy, let alone whether protectionism will make the situation better or exacerbate the problem.
|2013-01-02, 12:40
|Link #3571
blinded by blood
I'm not for banning free trade by throwing up trade barriers, but I'm all for eviscerating the tax code to remove the loopholes commonly abused by corporations to avoid paying any taxes.
I'm also for offering massive tax breaks for any company that maintains all of its operations in this country. Throw them tax breaks for hiring American workers working at American job sites. Don't use negative reinforcement--Saintess already showed what very bad things can happen if you threaten the corporations.
Instead, offer them incentives to do all of their business at home. While food and weapons are of strategic importance, so are microprocessors. A lot of the world's silicon comes from TSMC, though almost all of Intel's fabs are located in the US. However, there's something neat about the US--we've got lots of flat empty space. Fabs and other factories are huge and take up lots of horizontal area (unlike office buildings).
|2013-01-02, 13:02
|Link #3572
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
I guess my point is this; one way or another the government is going to spend money trying to get more jobs for its people. I am suggesting that both positive and negative incentives could work, to ensure that the goal is achieved.
Guess the question is if you care about cutting spending more. If you want to cut spending, then increase tariffs and change current tax breaks to require American production. If you don't mind increasing spending, you can reward additional tax breaks for American manufacturing.
Negative Trade barriers doesn't increase debt, but can cause temporary revenue loss as companies re-adjust around. Positive Trade barriers cause short term guaranteed revenue loss via additional tax breaks, but it is less shocking to the economy.
I say do a little of both. That's sort of how I view things personally.
|2013-01-02, 13:48
|Link #3573
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
Oh, and this is my last words on the complexity of economics: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...46#post4497746
|2013-01-02, 14:22
|Link #3574
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
There! The ultimate solution to gun crimes - one violent shooter at any one time. There can even be a state-owned company by the name of Omni-Consumer Products that manufacture export versions in different languages.
|2013-01-02, 14:27
|Link #3575
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 42
|2013-01-02, 14:42
|Link #3576
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
@China/Japan Comparisons: It's important to remember that the success of Japanese industry in the past is not purely down to cheap labour costs (though they certainly helped). It was much more due to the fact that certain Japanese companies had developed much extremely efficient production methods. As an example from a book I'm reading, in 1989 European cars on average required ~36 man hours to be assembled. In the US, where companies were already copying the Japanese, it was 24. In Japan? 16.
The reason Japanese companies kicked ass at producing cars was simply because they were much better at producing cars then any of their competitors. There method of manufacturing is well known as "lean manufacturing".
As for China, I don't know how their factories compare to others, and how much of their cheapness is purely down to wages. But if the success of their industry is purely down to wages, then long term they're doomed. Other countries that have relied on cheap wages usually end out with shoddy products and bust companies, ultimately. This happened to Korea in the 80s, and they shaped up and started copying Japanese production methods. Whether it will happen in China is another matter.
@Free Trade: Protectionism has 2 very bad consequences for the country where it's implemented:
1. It harms consumers in that country as a whole. Everyone has to pay more for the tariffed goods.
2. It preserves innefficient companies and industries, and prevents them from being exposed to outside influences, which otherwise might lead them to innovate and be internationally competitive themselves. Industries in protectionist countries are doomed to never see their products sold in the wider world, because they're just not good, or too expensive compared to better foreign products.
It can keep those companies alive in the short term, but ultimately they'll only fall further behind.
Not only that, but Free Trade does not necessarily mean that companies industry will leak out from the country. All else being equal, local production is always more efficient then distant production. There's less shipping costs, less items in transit (tying up capital), less inventories required. It's only when other countries are anti-competitive (say by enacting subsidies) that this balance is messed up. In that case it's right for the countries to enact tariffs to redress that balance.
So to go to the NYC subway example. It's entirely likely that if NYC gave Kawasaki a long term contract, Kawasaki would not have in the long term shipped all the trains and maintenance parts from Japan. They would have set up local production in order to make these savings. But with tariffs(or worse, import limits), they're less likely to even bother to bid on US contracts, as setting up shop in america will be much more expensive and difficult, as they won't be able to rely on supplies from Japan while they're gearing up New York operations.
So ultimately, under protectionism NYC is more likely to end out with inferior, more expensive American trains, NYC may be robbed of a potential new industry (Japanese style train manufacturing), and the people of New York have to put up with more taxes and a worse subway system.
Now there are times when protectionism is necessary, but those times, in my opinion, are very rare.
|2013-01-02, 16:11
|Link #3577
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
I understand that protectionism cause inefficiencies. However I am not suggesting a complete stonewall; only restoration of past trade barriers.
The fact is it isn't the government's job to maximise the profitability of an industry. The government should only care about its people, and thus the employment picture. I simply believe that manufacturing in general is as much of strategic importance as the specific weapon and food sectors. And thus the goal is not to give corporations money/taxcut to do anything they want, but to offer incentives that has a marked beneficial effect on the nation.
One way, as suggested earlier, is to only offer Tax Cuts for local manufacturing. Because since the tax cuts were created specifically aimed at growing the local economy, it should be spent on ONLY growing the economy. Not to enlarge the end of year bonuses of the executives.
|2013-01-02, 16:24
|Link #3578
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
More efficient industries, in a correctly functioning economy, will lead to lower prices for consumers, higher wages in those more efficient industries and greater prosperity for all.
So, what benefits industry and productivity(but not cronies!) is very much in the best interests of the citizenry and country as a whole. After all, don't we all want to be more prosperous?
Free Trade in general leads to greater productivity, and better goods and services being available to individuals. Trying to "protect" your industry often just ends out coddling it, and maintaining their worst impulses. Rather then improve themselves, industries will instead try to lobby the government to put up more trade barriers, to their own benefit but the collective loss of society as a whole.
After all, how would you feel if you wanted to buy a clean reliable Toyota, but because of tariffs it's too expensive for you. Instead you end out buying a rickety error prone Chevy and look on in envy at Japan and their slick cars that for mysterious reasons (IE tariffs) you just can't afford.
If anything, protectionist policies favor the plutocratic elite, not normal workers.
However, like others I don't believe "Free Trade" goes as far as to make it easier for companies to move their production off shore and evade taxes. Likewise, there's no problem with using positive "enticements" to encourage companies to open up new factories. But it shouldn't be preferential, Japanese companies should be just as able to avail of such opportunities as American companies.
|2013-01-02, 16:50
|Link #3579
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
Quite simply, an industry that isn't even in the country has an efficiency of zero in promoting jobs. No local industries = no efficient industries. It doesn't matter how efficient the Chinese factories are; they are still in China and doesn't count.
America is careful about who they sell their military tanks to. If only they are just as careful about who they give tax cuts to as well.
|2013-01-02, 16:58
|Link #3580
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Jam tomorrow beats margarine today, in their narrative.
Protectionism has its own problems. But I can certainly see the temptation.
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|A billboard campaign urging the Texans to draft Johnny Manziel is underway in Texas.
The neighborly thing to do -- not to mention the easier and cheaper thing -- would be for Tony Buzbee to simply knock on Houston Texans owner Bob McNair's door and let him know he'd like to see the club draft quarterback Johnny Manziel.
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That billboard, and reportedly others just like it, has gone up in the Houston area as part of Buzbee's campaign to keep Manziel's prolific talents in the state of Texas. A foxsports.com report on Buzbee's efforts cites the Galveston Daily Times with the fact that Buzbee and McNair are indeed neighbors. The Texans hold the No. 1 overall pick for the 2014 NFL Draft, May 8-10. If the club doesn't draft a quarterback, one option would be South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, whom McNair has already discussed as a possibility. He's also said the Texans could be open to trading the pick, although the team has a clear need at the quarterback position.
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Alyce LaGasse's family came from New Bedford, Massachusetts. I found this on the Internet about a picture taken in 1912.
Alfred Benoit was a sweeper in a mill in New Bedford. He lived at 191 North Street in the city.
He was a prime example of the abuse of children as laborers. He was 11 years old.
Many children did not get an education because they were forced to work at too early an age.
Alfred Beniot, 191 North St. Sweeper in Bennett Mill, in spinning room #2 has been there two months; seemed to be 11 yrs. old. Alfred recorded as 12 years old. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts, January 1912, Lewis Hine.
I found Alfred's picture on this site…
Alfred and I are not related, but he is somewhat related to Alyce.
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