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U.S. Equal Employment
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Source One Staffing Assigned Women to a Known Hostile Work Environment and Engaged in Sex Stereotyping When Making Job Assignments, Federal Agency Says
CHICAGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") filed a class lawsuit yesterday alleging that Source One Staffing, Inc. ("Source One") assigned female employees to a known hostile work environment and retaliated against two female employees who reported that their supervisor was making sexual advances toward them. The EEOC also claims that Source One categorized jobs as "men's work" or "women's work" and assigned employees accordingly.
John Rowe, the EEOC's district director in Chicago, said the agency's investigation uncovered direct evidence of sex stereotyping in Source One's job assignment practices. "Title VII prohibits employment agencies from failing or refusing to refer employees for temporary job assignments because of their sex," said Rowe. "This includes a duty not to comply with discriminatory requests from its clients for workers of only one sex."
The EEOC filed suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement with Source One through its statutory conciliation process. The case, EEOC v. Source One Staffing, Inc., No. 11-cv-06754, was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, and has been assigned to Judge Robert M. Dow, Jr. and Magistrate Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert. Supervisory Trial Attorney Gregory Gochanour and Trial Attorney Grayson S. Walker will litigate the case on behalf of the EEOC.
John Hendrickson, the EEOC's regional attorney in Chicago, said, "Employment agencies must exercise caution when sending workers on temporary job assignments. When a temporary worker is harassed, Title VII requires both the staffing agency and its client to take corrective actions. A staffing agency cannot continue to send women into a known hostile work environment or place blind trust in its client to remedy the situation. Our investigation suggests that Source One ignored reports of sex harassment and then retaliated against two women whose complaints were too loud to ignore."
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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New "agri-centers" will provide products and services by the bundle.
Every farmer knows the routine well: a trip into town means at least a half-dozen stops to sufficiently make a dent in his to-do list.
On the way, he'll stop at his neighbor's home to pick up some bags of seed, then it's on to the chemical dealer for some preemergent.
He'll stop by the elevator to pick up some information about a new high-amylose corn that should command a hefty premium, then pass by the implement dealer to look at a yield monitor that his neighbor just bought. He'll go by the local county office to put in a request for some soil testing, and while he's there, he'll strike up a conversation with an agronomist about a new type of root rot that seems to be prevalent.
He has heard about GPS mapping, so if he has time, he'll stop by the local fertilizer dealer, who just started offering the service, and find out how it works. He has also been thinking about contracting with someone for crop scouting, and he could sure use some return-on-investment advice from someone other than his "somewhat tight" banker.
Yes, today farmers and their pickups rack up a lot of miles.
But in a few years, a farmer will be able to do all that, and much more, with one stop. What Sam Walton did for the American consumer, agri-centers will soon be doing for the farming community, according to several experts attending a dealer conference in Kansas City, MO, sponsored by Novartis Seeds.
"The line between crop production and crop protection is starting to disappear," says Kevin Steffey, University of Illinois entomologist. "The blending is becoming more obvious."
Solution providers. Bundling of services starts with putting chemicals and seeds under the same roof, which many dealers have already done. But it doesn't end there. Add to the formula value-added services, such as input advice, product knowledge and historical data collection. In fact, Rob Stouffer, a GPS consultant in Lee's Summit, MO, told dealers that they must "become a solution provider, not just service providers."
Solutions from the agri-center certainly will include GPS. Satellite maps will be overlaid, producing valuable tools that can be used for decisions about nutrient inputs, variable seeding rates or crop selection, Stouffer says. Year-to-year yield comparisons will be available at the push of a button, because the company will store critical historical data.
Chad Hertz, owner of Hertz Farm Management, Waterloo, IA, says some of the local co-ops in his area are beginning to follow portions of this business model. "They sell chemical, seed and fertilizer and have an agronomist that can do scouting. You can knock out three or four things with one visit," he says. "A lot more companies are saying, We'll be part of your management team.'"
With these services comes assistance in decision-making, not just promotion of a particular brand. "Today, dealers will sell you what's in their program. In the future, I think we'll see a stepped-up level of professionalism, where they don't just sell product, but they sell knowledge and product," Hertz says.Another part of the bundling formula in the future may be money. "They'll sell you the products, the chemicals, then they'll sell you the money," Hertz says. And to get a loan, a farmer must have crop insurance. Guess where that may come from? "With this type of arrangement," Hertz says, "they're controlling all the options outside the weather. And if they sell crop insurance, they can take care of that too."
Experts on board. Steven Heidrick, head of seed sales and seed treatment for Boettcher Enterprises, Beloit, KS, says he sees a day when dealers selling certain types of genetically enhanced products will have to be licensed by the government. "The USDA could in the future require licensed agronomists, or require some sort of agronomy training, due to biotech seeds and herbicides," Heidrick says. This will put more agronomists or certified crop advisors on staff at agri-centers, a move Boettcher Enterprises is already implementing at its three dozen outlets in Kansas and Nebraska. "Most of our managers are agronomists or have agronomy training," Heidrick says. This will allow such agri-centers to offer crop input advice, return-on-investment calculations and educational seminars.
Heidrick also thinks that agri-centers will be involved with direct contracting of specialty crops. "Say a company needs several hundred thousand bushels of white wheat for pasta. We could be the go-between. We'd get information out to the farmer and answer questions," Heidrick says. Such a crop, which would draw a premium, would require a specific type of ground, thereby requiring analysis provided by GPS. Seed, chemicals, service and marketing help would come from one source ~ the agri-center.
Heidrick predicts that in the future, soil testing, grid sampling, seed cleaning, herbicide screening and seed treatment will be offered in one location. And don't be surprised, he says, if certain types of equipment, such as yield monitors, show up on the product shelves.
For the farmer, one-stop shopping can also lead to some enticing incentives. If he purchases seed, chemicals and various types of services from one supplier, that company could offer him sizable discounts. "I see program package deals coming down the road," says Hertz. "We already see that happening in some cases - they call them `systems.'"
Bundling may not necessarily mean dealing with just one business. Hertz says that noncompeting companies may form strategic alliances in order to produce one-stop shopping. A seed dealer, for instance, could partner with a custom applicator and a certified crop advisor to get the necessary parts of the formula.
Bundling will offer the advantages of convenience, time savings, improved advice and services, and dollar savings, but Hertz also sees the other side of the coin. "In order to be this one-stop shop, your dealer probably rolled in a few of his competitors," he says. "Now who's the only game in town?"
He says farmers who rely on agri-centers to store their historical crop data are entering a valuable relationship, but what happens if they want to switch services? It would be difficult to make a change. "It takes away some of the farmer's flexibility and independence," Hertz notes.
Risky business. A movement toward one-stop shopping, of course, puts the independent seed dealer and the independent chemical dealer at risk. Many are farmer/dealers, such as Dwayne DeTar, owner of Triple D Seeds, Coffeyville, KS. DeTar sells Novartis seeds, plus he raises and markets his own certified wheat seed. He is keenly aware that one-stop shopping may someday threaten his business. "I've asked myself if I need to be looking at that (bundling). If that's necessary for my business to survive, then I guess I'll have to."
He's banking on personalized service, hands-on experience with the seeds he sells and repeat business to keep him around. "Farmers buy seeds a little more personal than other inputs," he says. "There's lots of brand loyalty, lots of dealer loyalty."
Yet he concedes that the mega-mergers among agri-business giants could be a force to be reckoned with. "It depends on if we get down to only three or four seed companies in the future," he says. That would put pressure on seed dealers to add chemicals to their product line.
In today's competitive environment, customer service is often the key distinguishing factor. As long as bundling provides options, rather than backing a farmer into a corner, its reach could become widespread - or at least as far as one roof can cover.

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Now we're having the hottest summer ever!! Oh my goodness, it's super hot
and you easily get sweat just in a five minute walk (even at nights!!)
There might be no way to avoid that but this side-opened jumpsuit helped me
a little.
But even so, why do we miss summer so much when it ends anyway??


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Microsoft to hire 4,000 in UK
Apprenticeships and more
Microsoft has pledged to create 4,000 new jobs in the UK, with the bulk of them to be reached through apprenticeships.
"In 2011, Microsoft expects its Britain Works programme to generate 4,000 new jobs, in addition to the 9,000 new jobs created since launch in 2009," said Microsoft UK's managing director Gordon Frazer in a statement on Downing Street's Number10.gov.uk website.
PM David Cameron applauded the pledges by Microsoft and 18 other companies, which he obtained after talks with industry leaders. "We can only get our economy back on track by creating a climate in which the private sector can grow and develop," he said, "creating jobs and opportunities for people across the country," he said.
Retailers dominated the pledge group, though other industries were also represented. Sainsbury's, for example, pledged to create 6,500 jobs this financial year; Tesco said it was "well on track to create 9,000 jobs" during the same period; ASDA, 7,500; and Morrisons, 7,500 – the latter's pledge added a torturous turn of the Queen's English when it said the company was "committed to the skilling of our new recruits."
Also part of the mix were Centrica, 2,600; Jaguar Land Rover, 1,500 at Halewood; McDonalds, 3,000; and Shell, Toyota, and others an unspecified number.
In his statement, Microsoft's Frazer conflated apprenticeships with jobs, saying that Britain Works "creates new jobs in the form of highly skilled apprenticeships and opportunities for entrepreneurs to start new businesses."
A Microsoft spokeswoman attempted to clarify Frazer's statement, telling ZDNet UK that "4,000 full-time jobs will be created by Microsoft through apprenticeships, which will result in full-time paid employment in a new job, and through the [Microsoft] BizSpark scheme, which helps software start-ups succeed."
"Its time we looked forward to a positive, strong, confident Britain," said Cameron. ®


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The problem with creating a flexible tool for modelling emission and absorption is that there have several free parameters affecting real spectra, including: source luminosity, distance, reprocessor column density, ionization parameter, and geometry. By geometry we mean covering fraction around the source, which affects emission, and covering fraction across our line of sight to the source, which affects absorption. With the xstar2xspec tables you should be able to model a wide range of choices for this, but there is not a unique one-to-one mapping between the values of these physical parameters and the values used in running xstar and constructing the tables.
The free parameters which can be varied when running xstar2xspec include the abundances, column density, gas density, and ionization parameter. These all have a straightforward intepretation as physical parameters. The emitter normalization and geometry are not uniquely determined, owing to the ambiguity between source luminosity and distance.
It is helpful here to be very specific, at the risk of being repetitive. The procedure followed by xstar2xspec in making tables is: (i) Generate a sequence of command line calls to xstar (this is done by the tool xstinitable); (ii) step through the calls to xstar; (iii) for each one calculate the appropriate xstar model; (iv) and then take the spectrum output of the model (the file xout_spect1.fits) and convert it to the right units and append it to the fits table (xout_aout.fits, xout_ain.fits, or xout_mtable.fits). The last step (iv) is done by the tool xstar2table. The conversion is as follows: xspec wants a binned spectrum in units model counts/bin for atables. If this is denoted , and the luminosity used in calculating the xstar grid is then
which can be rewritten:
and is the fractional energy bin size.
The meaning of this quantity and the normalization can be better understood if we consider how xspec works in more detail. Xspec calculates the model count rates per bin by multiplying the vector with the response matrix and multiplying by a normalization factor :
The observed count rate is calculated from the physical flux recieved by the satellite :
Then it's easy to see that if the shape of the model fits the observations and
Now, if the astronomical X-ray source actually resembles the physical scenario assumed by xstar, i.e. if it consists of a shell of photoionized material surrounding a point source of continuum with covering fraction then , where is the actual specific luminosity emitted by the shell, and is the distance to the source. Then
And, if we have gotten the model exactly right and (which implies that ) then
If, on the other hand, the shape of the emitted spectrum is right but the luminosity of the astrophyscial source is different from the luminosity used in calculating the xstar model then and
which can be inverted to find the things on the right hand side if you have a fitted value for .
So, for example, if your atable model fits to the data with a normalization=1, let's say, and you used luminosity=1 in creating the table, then this would imply that your data was consistent with a full shell illuminated by a luminosity of 10 erg/s at a distance of 1 kpc, or it also could be a shell illuminated by a luminosity of 10 erg/s at a distance of 1000 kpc.
For another example, let's say you know the distance to the source is 1 kpc and the luminosity is 10, but the best fit has an emitter normalization of 0.1. This would suggest (to me) that rather than a full sphere, the emitter only subtends 10 of the solid angle around the source.
Obviously, the column density of the emitter is important also. If you don't know the column density, then a shell of column density 10 cm illuminated by a 10 erg s source will probably have very similar emitted X-ray spectrum to a shell of column density 10 illuminated by a 10 erg s source. If there are absorption features in the spectrum, then they may constrain the column density.


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Travelers TuneBy Shoutaro Takahashi
Ben Folds' Island Retreat
Ben Folds' Island Retreat
Maps are great for studying and finding where to go, but my map book is one of a kind. It's hand-made, a bit weathered, and some parts are laminated. What makes it special are the signatures and notes from world famous musicians scribbled all over it. While interviewing them, I asked each a simple question: Where is your favorite place to visit? I hope you'll enjoy these travel tips from some great artists and find some interesting insights hidden in the answers.
Ben Folds is a rock musician who mainly plays the piano. His guitar-less sound is popular in Japan where I met him just before I left to the States to travel the country in a rental car. With his beautiful wife next to him, he marked some of his favorite places that included the Grand Canyon, Death Valley National Park, New Orleans, the recently devastated city famous for Cajun music and Jazz, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina—Ben's hometown.
He also enthusiastically included Mackinac Island on Lake Huron Lake (one of the Great Lakes). Cars aren't allowed on this tiny island. It has a small town American charm and a number of horse-drawn carts still running in the streets. It was too small to find on my map, but he excitedly marked the area with a red and blue pen. Since my rental car wasn't permitted on the island, I wasn't able to make it there. Maybe next time!
Guitarless Bands that Rock!
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five (Toshiba EMI)
Piano rock? People were shocked when this album came out 10 years ago but it's still selling well with great songs like "Jackson Cannery."
Ben Folds
Songs For Silverman (Sony Records)
His newest, and second solo album, goes on sale this year. It has blissful sound with some cool tracks listeners will enjoy.
Hopes and Fears (Universal Records)
The first album from a new band that became a hit last year. Nice melodies with a British sound but with some added punch. I think it would be even better with some guitar licks.
Death From Above 1979
You`re A Woman, I'm A Machine (Victor)
This base and drum rock band has a hardcore sound. Although there are many guitar-less bands, this one features a guitar-like sound. Are you sure they are playing a base?


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UnNews:Obama meets Lama, explains capitalism
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
18 July 2011
WASHINGTON -- US President Barack Obama held a White House meeting yesterday with the Dalai Lama, a fellow Nobel Peace laureate who also received the award for doing absolutely nothing. The meeting was held mere minutes after China threatened to nuke the entire continental U.S. unless Obama called off his invitation to the Shangri La Rebel Alliance (SLRA) leader.
The Tibetan spiritual leader was already in Washington before meeting with the president - otherwise how could he meet with the president in Washington without being in Washington already? Don't be a fool! In any case the SLRA leader was in Washington for an 11-day Buddhist ritual called Voidism - which could just as well have lasted for eternity. Thousands of rebel Tibetans joined a 76th birthday celebration Wednesday for the Dalai Lama, who recently retired from his leadership of Tibet's rebel alliance, the SLRA.
Obama explained to the rebel leader how capitalism works in America, as he had understood it from his Wall Street sponsors. Obama restated U.S. policy that it does not support Tibetan independence, a goal that the Dalai Lama has often said he couldn't really care less about.
A Chinese crackdown led the Dalai Lama to flee into exile in India where he has been living in luxury since 1959. China says he's welcome to return if he drops his peaceful life in India and accepts Tibet as a part of China.
One hour before the Dalai Lama's arrival, the Chinese Foreign Ministry urged the White House to cancel the visit.
"We firmly oppose any foreign official to meet with the Dalai Lama in any form, human or animal!" Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement posted on the ministry's website. "And we will obliterate any such offenders!
"We warn the U.S. side to honor its serious commitment that recognizes Tibet as part of China and opposes the Shangri La Rebel Alliance," Hong said.
The White House seems to have called the Chinese bluff, although Obama kept the meeting low-key, closing it from Fox news reporters and photographers.
Meanwhile the Chinese embassy in Washington released a partial transcript taken off a secret recording device, which was hidden on the person of the Dalai Lama by Chinese agents. The transcription reveals the essence of their conversation, as follows:
Obama: "Greeting, your highness, ah, I mean, your holiness, welcome to the land of liberty...here in America we are at liberty to cheat and bankrupt our fellow men and women."
DALAI LAMA: "Ohhh! Thank you velly much, Excellency, I happy to be hea!"
Obama: "You are aware that the Chinese government has objected to my meeting with you?"
DALAI LAMA: "Nooo, that is velly bad! Chinese are sooo rascals."
Obama: "Oh, I'm well aware of that, after all, we are their biggest customer as well as biggest employer in the world. They supply us with goods and services and we print SDRs for them to file."
DALAI LAMA: "Humm? What is SDR?"
Obama: "Ahem! Ah, your highness, an SDR is a piece of paper with printer ink on it."
DALAI LAMA: "Whaat? Paper and ink?"
Obama: "Well, they're Special Drawing Rights, you know, an IOU, it's how we pay the interest on all the 1.4 trillion dollars of US bonds they hold of our national debt."
DALAI LAMA: "Bond? What is US Bond? Bond is British, no?"
Obama: "Oh, no! That's just a fancy way of saying SDR, they're also IOUs."
DALAI LAMA: "But... how, I mean...?"
Obama: "Your holiness, I can read your mind. Well, it's simple, we print bonds, you know, paper and ink. And then we pay interest on those bonds with SDRs, which are also paper and ink. So we pay our IOUs with more IOUs. Pretty smart, don't you agree? From nothing we produce printed-paper and then we trick the Chinese into taking this paper for their valuable goods and services."
DALAI LAMA: "But, what happen when China want to spend bonds or SDRs?"
Obama: "Well, that's the beauty of it. It's not just China; it's the whole world, specially the Middle East. We take all their oil and give them printed-paper, SDRs."
DALAI LAMA: "But, what happen when World want to spend bonds or SDRs?"
Obama: "Haaa! I'm glad you asked. When the world gets around to redeeming our bonds and SDRs, then we'll just call, 'time out!', then bankrupt the dollar, leaving the world in ruins. After that we'll print new SDRs, and start all over again."
DALAI LAMA: "Hummm? Umm, please excuse me, Mr. President, I must be going..."
Obama: "Why? Where are you off too, highness?"
DALAI LAMA: "To China, because I can see they own your solly ass!"
President Obama last met the Dalai Lama in February 2010.
- Staff "President Obama Meets With the Dalai Lama at the White House as China Objects" Fox News, July 18, 2011


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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Executive producer Robert Kirkman says "The Walking Dead" won't flash back to explain how the Georgia-set show's zombie outbreak began.
Starring Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Chandler Riggs and David Morrissey as people trying to escape legions of the undead, the series recently wrapped its Season 3 mid-season finale.
Asked if the show will backtrack to fill in how the outbreak started and the main characters escaped, Kirkman told TVGuide.com, "I don't find that to be interesting at all.
"In zombie fiction, you see the outbreak, you see the first days and the craziness in almost every other story told in this realm. I'm very proud of the fact that, for the most part, 'The Walking Dead' has skipped over that part," he said. "Go watch Zach Snyder's 'Dawn of the Dead' movie to see the early days of this, or 'Shaun of the Dead' does it really well."


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The Cotton Club: There's a new place that's about to open (supposedly) on Via Espa�a, just below the El Panama Hotel. It's called the Cotton Club and there are a couple of questions I have about this place. First of all, according to a source in the immigration office, they have not handed out any new "alternadora" visas since the new director Ricardo Vargas took over. Their line is that he inherited the system as it is and is doing the best he can to manage things the way they are, within the confines of existing law. Perfect. Party Line. Got it. But then how is the Cotton Club going to open, I ask? If, according to existing law, the "alternadora" visas can not be transferred from one club operator to another then are there going to be any "alternadoras" working at the Cotton Club? Or are they all going to be Panamanian hookers? Remember that one of the main reasons they went after the Midnight Club (supposedly) was because their "cupos" for the "alternadora" visas were assigned to the Life Girls club but the sign out front said Midnight Club. And, if the guys at immigration are right and no new "alternadora" visas have been issued for the Cotton Club, then what's going on? Lovers of transparent government want to know.
Smell the Farts in Church: The other thing is that the Cotton Club is only about 200 meters from La Iglesia Del Carmen in Panama City. And someone told me (remains to be verified in Panamanian law) that you can't have a whore house within like 500 meters of a Church. According to this picture, the Cotton Club can't open in this location. And who are the owners of the Cotton Club, anyway? Is there any chance that the raid against the Midnight Club (which is practically right across the street, just a little further away from the church) and the opening of the Cotton Club are related? Whatever. Just more questions I have about this industry in Panama.
Why Should I Care? I don't. The guys that care are the rest of the club owners who don't want to see another option come open. Every owner in town wants to be the only guy operating in what is now a very competitive business. The owners "steal" the girls from other clubs by offering them better working conditions or chances to earn money. And the girls know where the guys go, and they go where they get the best payday. And here's the kicker - the club owners who are following the rules (law) and playing the game the "right" way have the biggest complaints about the clubs that are not operating legally. For example...
Check Out The "Felice" Club: Not for the faint of heart. It's in Santa Ana just up the street from Nelson's on the corner. Again, I did my best "dumb wandering Gringo" routine and the table guy filled me in on the place in thirty seconds. They have rooms upstairs where the girls live and they will go for $15 bucks a pop. There's no cover and national beers at $1.25 a bottle. Have a great time. There are places like this, low end whore houses, all over town. They are in the worst parts of town in places you really don't want to go unless you know what you're doing. But most of them don't have any kind of permits or permissions to be working in the sex business but they've been there forever and have paid off all the right people decades ago.
10% Entertainment Tax: The government gets 10% of every $30.00 glass of champagne that you buy a stripper. Betcha didn't know that one. In Las Vegas there are more than 180 strip clubs and most of them are open 24 hours a day. They charge $7.00 bucks a beer, and of every beer they sell .70 cents goes to the gub'ment. The Panamanian government should have a huge fiscal incentive to make sure that all of the hookers are on the books because they would make a whole hell of a lot more money in taxes. The increased revenue would more than make up for any additional costs required for manpower, etc. It would be a money-maker. Shake it for La Patria, baby...
So, How Many Hookers Are There, Anyway? Excellent question. And, no one knows the answer. There are about 1,000 registered sex workers all over the country, including foreign "alternadoras" as well as Panamanians who are registered to work in massage parlors and the like. But there are an estimated 4,000 hookers who are "independents" or working off the books. They are not registered or required to go to any kind of health screening or education. For the most part they are either Panamanians or foreigners who have been through the system a couple of times and they know there are significant fiscal incentives to remain off the books, and little down-side if they don't.
Busted For Being A Hooker? It's an administrative process, not criminal. That means there's no chance of jail time if you're caught. A cop can catch you getting some action in the middle of Parque Porras and the worst thing that will happen is a $20 fine from the "corregidoria." Have a great day. C'ya next time. All of the corregidores have seen the hookers who routinely work in their areas of responsibility, especially the Panamanians who can't be deported. The point is this - there's not much of a down side even if they get busted, and in any case the chances that they will get caught are slim in any case.
What Does It Cost to Be Legal: Short answer, about $250 bucks a month. That's the total cost for a girl to be on the books, pay her dues and fines, go to the clinics, get the visas, etc. And that's not counting the cost of clothes, those black leather boots with the 6" spiked heels and the short red mini-skirt. Independents just need a cell phone and a pad to work from. They advertise in the "personals" section of all the major newspapers and turn tricks like it's going out of style. OK, this is a test. I'm going to see how many cell phone numbers I can come up with in ten minutes on the Internet for hookers in Panama. Ready? Go!...
- Go figure - The first one I run into is for the ladies, on Encuentra24.com an add for a "tall black guy, athletic, will only make house calls or to hotels. 6509-7283" There are a bunch of adds on Encuentra24.
- Classified Ads: Aim High, shoot low. If you would like to check out the ads currently running in "La Critica" just follow this link go to straight to the adult section. There are currently 26 listings, mostly independents working off of a cell phone who will come to you.
- This Counts: Call 6628-7526 for the "Tienda Divertida" sex toys store. This counts because they apparently have a home delivery service, and if you're too embarrassed to go out and buy that 12" model that takes two "D" batteries then they will scoot that sucker right over to your door, no questions asked.
- Back To The Hookers: Check out The Oasis Club for a quick massage. More about this place later.
That Was Ten Minutes: No kiddin'. I didn't even really have to try. It's not like they're hiding or anything. As part of my deep and probing research into this subject I wandered over to the center of gravity for Panamanian hooker-dom, Via Veneto. I walked around the inside of the casino for awhile, then walked out of the front door of the hotel and headed for Via Espa�a. I had barely cleared the Dunkin Donuts, and doing my best to look like a gringo who had been in town for about thirty seconds, I was approached by the guy who sits on the stoop in front of the Oasis Club, handing out cards and dragging people in to get a "massage." I asked "what kind of a place is it, a bar or what?" Yeah, there's a bar. Come on in and have a good time. The funny part is that when I followed the dude into the massage parlor there were two people there in the entrance who are supposed to be the "meet and greet" people to steer you through the process. They were both talking on the cell phone, and this was the side of the conversation I could hear:
- "Yes sir. It's $30 an hour for the massage. You pay that up front and then head into the back with the girl of your choice."
- "Like I said, sir. You pay here at the front desk and then you head into the back with the girl, so the cost of the massage is paid up front. Then later, you know, whatever happens between you and her is up to you."
- "I really can't say. Like I said whatever you two work out is up to you."
- "About $75 for full service, less for anything else. All-right. Great. We're open all night. Looking forward to seeing you."
Independent Confirmation of my In-Depth Journalistic Investigation: Just had to check their website under "prices" and there it is, all laid out. Not hard at all.
- Stop by The Oasis on Via Veneto or call The Oasis for in-room delivery at 264-4785 or 264-1351 to get the best value for your dollar. We offer the lowest prices for basic and full-service massages in the city, not to mention some of the most beautiful ladies to entertain and please you.
- $30.00 Basic massage
- $50.00 Full-service massage from 11:30am - 2:30pm (Lunch Time Special, must be requested to apply)
- $75.00 Full-service massage after 2:30pm
- $80.00 Full-service massage in your hotel room
- $100.00 Full-service massage with 2 girls in our place.
- Get a $5 discount of any full-service massage after 2:30pm by printing out our coupon! We accept cash, travelers checks, American Express, Visa and Mastercard
What? You Want to Stamp my Passport? Any of the girls who come to work as "alternadoras" get a big, fat stamp in their passport which basically screams "hooker" to the world. Many times girls will show up at a place to work but not want to have their passport stamped and they want to work off of the books. That exposes the owner to the same kinds of problems that the owner of the Midnight Club had with a bunch of Colombian "tourists" working as independents under his roof.
That's It For Now: It's late and my eyes are getting blurry. This is a subject that deserves my full attention for awhile, just because if Panama did it right they could turn this place into a real magnet for the "entertainment" industry. And doing it wrong leads to dumb wandering gringos (or gringas) who get caught up in the wrong crowd and end up doing 20 hard in La Joyita. Just ask Debra Ann Ridgley who was having a lot of fun with her nice new Colombian friends that she met at the casino. Caveat emptor is always in effect, and even more so for the intrepid international sex traveler.
Copyright 2007 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. As usual, go ahead and use whatever you want, just please give credit to the original source. Salud.


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Kids Hilarious Notes To The Tooth Fairy
One of the sweetest things about young children is there belief in things like Santa, the Easter Bunny, and of course the Tooth Fairy.
And what's even cuter is when they decide to write to them!
This collection of letters highlight not only kids honesty, but for some of them, their strong desire for some big cash in exchange for their teeth!


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If you do not wish anonymous information about you to be used in such a way, please let us know.
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We make every effort to give the best service possible to everyone who attends our practice.
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Starting a catch all thread for any happenings with No Coast / No Hope here. Things have been slow, we've taken a back seat to constant distro stock and are doing our best to focus on releasing more tapes. But as with the new year and the new forum we have also made our first distro update in sometime.
*Deterge tapes sold out*
E. Roth - Vermin Zine (Not pictured above, crucial print material)
Streiber/E-Saggila - "Streiber/E-Saggila"
Whitewater - "Independent Council"
Harbour District-"(44.626070,-63.559752)"
Braeyden Jae - "Less Fucked/Familiar Spaces"
Resign - "Among Trees"
Autumn Pool - "Balm In The Night Air"
Matt Harrison - "Paper Knife" Zine
Matt Harrison - "Silt" Zine
Matt Harrison - "Living Rooms" Zine
Ruptured - Nasturtium
AIDS Victim / Support Unit - Split
Wastelanders - Cosmic Despair CD
"Take as Needed" Zine - Shea Hardacre
CLOTTING - Broadcasts of Perturbation C30 (Second Press)
Heart of Palm - "Demo" C30 (Second Press)
Alex York - Ossein Rind C40
Forever Grey - Autumn Calling
Vaaults - S/T CS
Control Group - Demo
Mon.Ark Ammo - Retribution Current (LAST COPY)
Deterge - Civility CS
Collhge Notra - Dame de Jamhour (Koufar/Deterge Split CS)
Killer Bug - Shitsuke LP
Limbs Bin - "Bliss Tech" Flexi
Xome/Boar - Split LP
Dromez/Developer - Tour Exclusive Split
Invertabit - Bug Powder Junkie C17
Citizen 2-13/ Diaphragmatic - Split C64
Plague Mother/Citizen 2-13/Invertabit/Dan of Earth - Milwaukee Noise Punks 2xCS
Citizen 2-13 / Noise Child Slavery - The Pesticide Tapes C40
Daniel Rizer - Contaminated Time
Jason Crumer - Stare at the Devil
Matthew Reis - "Malignant Slumber" Zine
Rowlands_Bobby - "For" Zine
Fleeting Breathe - Solving C40
Crawling Yeast - The Sickness of Nature
Boar/Eric Witt/Bullshit Market - Winter Tour Tape
Edwin Perry Manchester - Secret Passageway
Barren Couples - S/T
Plagues/Total Hatred - Split
Blessed Sacrifist - Timeless Losers 3" CDR
Rush Falknor - Conglomerate CDR
(Apologies that list is not in any specific order.)
NCNH03 will be in production shortly and is a live compilation tape featuring: MONOWOLF, EDWIN PERRY MANCHESTER, CLOTTING W/ SKYLER ROWE, CULLED, RUSH FALKNOR & BARREN COUPLES. More details and info soon.
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Should We Care About Art?
During my time at art school, I took part in many group critiques of student artwork. Twenty or so of us would tack our best efforts on the wall, and then everyone would take turns criticizing them. At one such …Read More
Building with Conviction
Wherever people come together to worship God, whether it be on a desert island or in a burgeoning metropolis, whether it be on the plains of Africa or in the cold winter of Siberia, people are concerned to worship Him …Read More
Jerusalem and Athens
What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens? Much in every way. On the negative side, we would do well to remember that the citizens of God's city, like those in the city of man, are still sinners. Though we …Read More
Beauty & the Gospel
In the modern era, beauty is unavoidably tied to the simplistic concept of "prettiness," like that found in greeting card poems or velvet paintings of lighthouses. In truth, beauty is far more. Beauty reveals the gamut of human experience. True …Read More
When Christianity Shaped the Arts
Christians today often talk about influencing the culture through the arts. This often means, in practice, Christians letting themselves be influenced by the culture through the arts. In the seventh century, though, we see Christianity as a powerful imaginative and …Read More
The Author of All Beauty
Why do Christians need to be "recovering the beauty of the arts," as R.C. explores in his series by the same name? Because beauty, like truth, belongs to the children of God, and we have lost our grasp …Read More


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2. 'The Five-Year Engagement'
We have high hopes for this romantic comedy because the long-delayed to-be-married couple is played by Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, who we want to be married in real life. Also, it actually looks funny, as opposed to, say, 97 percent of all rom-coms. Out Friday.
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Upcoming holiday events
• The Gingerbread House Workshop will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. Sign up at the circulation desk at the library. Registration will be one gingerbread house per family to decorate with space available for only 30 families. Registration will begin Oct. 18.
• Habitat for Humanity Tree Decorating Contest trees will again be displayed at the Solon Public Library. Entry forms are now available at the circulation desk. The library staff requests that trees be brought to the library no earlier than Nov. 10. All paid entries must be at the library by Nov. 15.
• The Friends of the Library are preparing for the annual Holiday Sale to be held the first weekend in December. Order forms for the jar mixes and the poinsettias are now available at the library or on the library website. Order forms are due by Nov. 21. There will be two sizes of poinsettias in five different color options. Joyce's Greenhouse in North Liberty will once again be the supplier. The old favorites will be featured in this year's jar mixes. Included are mocha coffee, three soups, three bar mixes and a new peanut butter chocolate chip loaf.
• Santa will be visiting the library during the annual Holiday Sale. He will be appearing from 10-11 a.m., so bring the kids and your camera for some up close and personal visiting with Santa Claus.


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Death of man in Mexico raises constitutional question in U.S.
MATAMOROS, Mexico — In a case that could become a legal landmark, the family of a Mexican man who was shot dead from across the Rio Grande in July is seeking justice in U.S. courts.
The family of Juan Pablo Perez Santillán says he was killed by a Border Patrol agent, one of six people shot by agents from the U.S. side since January 2010, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Border Patrol is investigating itself in the July 7 incident but has not acknowledged an agent killed Perez Santillán. It concedes that two agents fired across the river in self-defense that morning.
The gist of his family's argument is that an action that originated on U.S. soil falls under U.S. law, even if the result ended with a death in Mexico. In it and similar cases, plaintiffs' attorneys argue, there was unlawful deadly force that violates protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
The lawsuit comes as civil rights groups are in outcry over 20 deaths and serious injuries by Customs and Border Protection officials in the past few years.
The Homeland Security Department, at the request of 16 members of Congress, is launching an inquiry into its operations.
"There was a time when Border Patrol was not in the jurisdiction of homeland security," plaintiff's attorney Marc Rosenthal said. "You have the Patriot Act that applies today at this point, and other regulations apply, to put (agents), what you might say, quasi above the law. They're considered more untouchable now."
Court documents say Perez Santillán, 30, of Matamoros was helping undocumented immigrants swim the narrow international boundary to get to Texas. His older sister, Juanita, says he was cutting twigs for fuel to cook the tamales she and their mother sold by the riverside.
"Shot right through the heart," his sister said in Spanish, eyes welling. She said witnesses at the scene heard agents shouting, "Let the dog die."
"I want that there is justice and help to support his children," she said. "They say that we're animals. But really, on the (U.S.) side, if you kill an animal, they care more."
Perez Santillán's family is seeking justice in U.S. civil court, under the U.S. Constitution, for monetary damages paid by U.S. federal agencies.
Rosenthal isn't the original lawyer in the case, and he said it's not clear whether Perez Santillán was involved in illegal immigration, although the family's previous lawyer conceded in the court records that he was smuggling immigrants that day.
"Firing a weapon across the border into another sovereign nation is an act of terrorism, irrespective of what the intents and purposes are," Rosenthal said. "In these circumstances, some people are trying to get into the country. To kill them is illegal; that's murder."
Customs and Border Protection generally does not comment on pending litigation, though spokespeople repeatedly have highlighted the dangers of being on the line against warring and notoriously ruthless smugglers.
"CBP law enforcement personnel are trained to use deadly force in circumstances that pose a risk to their lives, the lives of their federal law enforcement partners and innocent third parties," CBP spokesman Michael Friel said.
Assaults against agents reached 1,097 in fiscal year 2008, and since have trended downward as ranks have increased and crime and apprehensions have decreased. There were 555 reported assaults in 2012. Rock throwing against agents declined from 769 reported incidents in 2008 to 249 for the fiscal year ending in September.
"I think you have to look at the context of what's going on there, and there's a lot of violence being perpetrated by people either on the other side of the border or coming across the border," said Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "Border Patrol agents are out there very often in life-threatening situations. They have every right to defend themselves and defend the people of the United States."
But human rights groups are alarmed at the number of lives being lost in the name of immigration enforcement.
In Oct. 25 testimony before the United Nations, ACLU policy advocate Brian Erickson spoke of a "misleading national narrative that criminalizes migration" and has led to "extensive abuses and a culture of near impunity."
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks prompted a fast buildup of federal law enforcement on the southern border that critics say led to a loosening of hiring standards and an escalating culture of deadly violence.
One victim was 15-year-old Sergio Hernández-Güereca, who was shot in Mexico by an agent in El Paso. A Justice Department inquiry concluded that agent Jesus Mesa didn't act inconsistently with CBP policy or training. A U.S. district judge dismissed civil cases in the matter against agents and the federal government.
Houston lawyer Bob Hilliard, the attorney in the case, has taken it to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and said he's prepared to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Whether the agent acted in self-defense should be a jury question, he said.
"It can never be that he gets to decide for himself, you know, judge, jury and executioner within 20 seconds."
"It's just a hole in the constitutional interpretation to date," he said. "Right now we have literally a venue vacuum that you can step inside of, pull a weapon and murder a Mexican citizen and then you just argue either justifiable homicide, self-defense, whatever you argue."
"It seems like the default philosophy has been and now has settled into the life of a Mexican is not as valuable as a life," Hilliard said. "That is the unspoken undercurrent of so much of what's going on on the border. And that slope is so slippery."
The constitutional question enthralls legal experts.
"The Supreme Court has held that the Fourth Amendment does not apply for actions outside the U.S., and excessive force claims are brought under the Fourth Amendment," Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law expert at the University of California at Irvine, wrote in an email.
Since the alleged deadly force originated in the U.S., Chemerinsky responded: "That makes it a truly fascinating case and certainly not a situation covered by Supreme Court precedents."
Michael Steven Green, a law professor at the College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, said the Hernández-Güereca case against the agents could prove easier to get overturned than Boumediene vs. Bush, the landmark Guantanamo detention case in which the Supreme Court sided with detainees.
In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that Mexican drug defendant Rene Martin Verdugo-Urquidez did not have U.S. constitutional protection in the search of his home in Mexico, Green noted.
"The Guantanamo case suggests that the Supreme Court is more receptive to the extraterritorial application of the U.S. Constitution now, and in any event (these cases) involve actions by the defendants in the U.S.," he said. "It's an interesting case."


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New research describes key function of enzyme involved in RNA processing
Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a cellular mechanism that is critical in maintaining normal cell function. In their work, the researchers led by Eckhard Jankowsky, PhD, researcher and associate professor in the Center for RNA Molecular Biology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, examined the function of TRAMP, a protein complex involved in the processing of RNA or ribonucleic acid within the cell. They identified a key function for the protein Mtr4p in a process that initiates the degradation of select RNAs, a necessary step in preserving normal cell function.
The research findings appear in the June 9 issue of the journal Cell in a paper titled "The RNA Helicase Mtr4p Modulates Polyadenylation in the TRAMP Complex." Dr. Jankowsky is the senior author.
Cellular function requires a multitude of different types of RNA that need to be correctly processed and assembled into functional complexes.
"RNA that is improperly assembled, defective, or no longer needed, looks very similar to RNA that is being used," Dr. Jankowsky said. "So, improperly assembled, defective, or no longer needed RNA can readily interfere with ongoing processes. To avoid this, there are several very efficient RNA degradation pathways, and one of these is initiated by TRAMP."
The TRAMP complex identifies the RNAs slated for degradation and tags them with a stretch of adenosines, one of the four nucleotides of which RNA is made. The number of adenosines in the tag has to be limited, because RNAs with too many adenosines are no longer recognized as targets for degradation.
Dr. Jankowsky and the team of researchers that included Huijue Jia, a graduate student at the School of Medicine, and Jim Anderson, associate professor of Marquette University, a key collaborator and instrumental figure in the discovery of the TRAMP complex, studied the molecular mechanism how the TRAMP complex marks RNAs. TRAMP is comprised of the enzyme poly(A) polymerase Trf4p, the Zn-knuckle protein Air2p, and Mtr4p, a RNA helicase. Helicases unwind helices, but in TRAMP, the researchers found, the helicase Mtr4p controls the number of adenosines added.
In their paper, the researchers detail how the helicase controls the number of the adenosines that are appended. Mtr4p counts the number of adenosines (between four and five) that have been appended by the polymerase, and then adjusts the polymerase activity accordingly.
"Our work explains an important step in the mechanism by which cells mark RNAs for degradation in the nucleus," Dr. Jankowsky said. "Appropriate tagging is critical for cell function."
The research, which took place in Dr. Jankowsky's lab in the Center for RNA Molecular Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, establishes a basis for future research to examine the steps between tagging RNA and the actual RNA degradation by other enzymes that are involved in this process.
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Other sources
- Key function of enzyme involved in RNA processing describedfrom Science DailyFri, 10 Jun 2011, 2:30:21 UTC
- New research describes key function of enzyme involved in RNA processingfrom PhysorgThu, 9 Jun 2011, 17:30:35 UTC


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Possible that I'm misunderstanding the concept of irrational numbers, but seems like the term nonrational would be much more clear. Why is "irrational" more clear than "nonrational"?
UPDATE: Just to be clear, it would be true to say the terms "irrational numbers" and "nonrational numbers" have the exact same meaning, and neither is something the other is not, correct?


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While plenty of places claim to be accessible to people traveling with their pets, anyone with a large-breed pup can tell you many of those same venues are the first to say no if you're showing up with a dog larger than a guinea pig. With all of the high-end shopping and fine dining associated with a typical vacation along Florida's Paradise Coast, I was pleasantly surprised when a recent getaway with our Labrador uncovered a number of big-dog options.
Activities: The Naples Botanical Garden offers canine-accessible walks three days per week on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays for a couple of hours each. Their walking paths are wide enough to accommodate large breeds, with benches and water bowls available throughout the garden. Their outdoor café area has seating suitable for excitable pooches as well, featuring chairs that are bolted down to the tables themselves with sturdy poles for attaching the industrial-strength leashes necessary for traveling with a bigger breed.
There are also pavilions and other infrastructure where you can stop to read a book in the shade when Buster needs a break from sun and stimulation. In fact, this botanical garden in particular has a noteworthy number of art features that come with seating areas for extended enjoyment. The cost for this particular canine experience is $7.95 per dog plus the regular $12.95 admission for each accompanying adult. Welcome biscuits are provided upon entry.
If shopping is how you prefer to indulge your pampered pooch, there are a number of pet boutiques in the area. One of note is Fergie's Closet. The venue offers specialty canine accessories and items such as doggie sunglasses, bedding, hand-made attire, food treats and more. It's a fun little shop that's worth the stop.
My own canine isn't exactly into bedazzled collars and coordinated clothing. She's more of a water splashing, trail sniffing and wriggle in the mud kind of girl. It's just how she rolls. Don't get me wrong. She was all over the chew toys and canine jerky. She just wasn't interested in attire and accessories. If your dog appreciates that type of experience however, you'll definitely want to spend some time perusing the custom outfits and canine day beds.
Attractions: Keewaydin Island allows pups to pounce, splash, roll and explore nearly eight miles of deserted white sand beach. A barrier island between Marco Island and the city of Naples, it serves as a sanctuary for recreation and wildlife with roughly 80 percent of its land mass remaining undeveloped. The beach is only accessible by boat. If you are traveling by one with your pooch, then you're good to go.
If not, boat rentals can be booked through Naples Bay Resort for $199 per day throughout the week, providing a hundred dollar daily savings over their regular weekend rate. With the ride to the island an additional source of outdoor enrichment for your pet, and the fact you can spend the whole day on the beach with your rambunctious four-legged friend; this is one of the best value activities in the area.
The boats come with a cooler you can stock with goodies, and the beach is a popular spot for firing up small portable grills and propping up umbrellas. Considering large-breed travel experiences are as hard to come by as they are, this is a memory-making day that your children and dog will remember for years to come. There is no fee to access the Keewaydin Island recreation area.
Ten Thousand Islands Marsh Trail is a free-to-the-public option open to hikers and hitched canines. Part of the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, it allows hikers to explore a portion of the 35,000 acres of sanctuary that host mangrove habitats, peregrine falcons, bald eagles and manatees. The refuge is also home to a variety of sea turtles including green, loggerhead and Kemp's ridley. The trail is a little more than two miles round trip, with paved parking available at the trail head. Plan on about a 30 minute drive from town.
Accommodations: Naples has a Red Roof Inn Plus+ and Suites property which welcomes bigger dogs with no additional pet fee. Premium rooms average $75 and come with extra space, a microwave and small fridge for storing snacks and simple meal items. A dog run area with benches and bag stations, and outdoor barbecue pits with picnic tables are also available so Rover doesn't have to spend all his time indoors.
If you're in a position to upgrade, an extra $30 will score you one of their suites, which comes with a fully-outfitted kitchen, separate living and dining area and a screened porch. It's basically a furnished one bedroom apartment. We found this to be the best option, as finding restaurants where our Labrador can be successful is hit or miss when we're on the road. She also needs to decompress after a public outing, and enjoying some down time while we whip up lunch or an early dinner usually does the trick.
Theriault is a best-selling author, avid traveler and a veteran in the field of international teaching. Her latest book entitled "Teach Anywhere," advises new and experienced educators about overseas employment, international evacuation tips, and inexpensive lessons which can be implemented anywhere from refugee camps to regular classrooms.


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It's not that the National Cotton Council of America isn't accustomed to walking a tightrope — it's been trying to harmonize the interests of cotton merchants and producers for more than 60 years. But the Council's latest death-defying act — figuring out how to juggle slowing the growth of China's textile exports to the United States with its newly voracious appetite for cotton — would test the mettle of even the most skilled high-wire artist.
In the short time since it became a member of the WTO, China has become the leading exporter of textile and apparel products to the United States. The sharp rise in imports — more than 600 percent in some categories — has cost U.S. textile workers hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Meanwhile, drought conditions in China have forced its textile mills to look abroad for cotton. Its purchases of 1.5 million bales in October helped push New York cotton futures above 80 cents for the first time since the mid-1990s.
"China is the 2,000-pound gorilla as far as the cotton trade is concerned," Craig Brown, the NCC's vice president for producer affairs, told members of the Mid-South chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association.
Brown noted that the Council has raised numerous concerns about the lack of compliance by China with its promises to buy 3 million bales of U.S. cotton annually for its textile mills. That has included imposing cumbersome neps and short fiber quality requirements on raw cotton imports.
"You may question our concern about China's import policy as they are currently importing cotton," said Brown. "Our concern pertains to their raw cotton import policy when they don't necessarily need foreign stocks. We have so far had good success with Ambassador Robert Zoellick's willingness to raise these concerns."
On the domestic front, the Council has joined with the American Textile Manufacturers Institute and other textile groups to try to persuade the Bush administration to enforce the safeguard provisions in China's WTO accession agreement.
"Our textile industry has made a case for four instances where surges have taken place in Chinese imports," he said. "Our government has agreed to consider three of the four, and the administrative process is under way. We are encouraging Congress to urge the president to act promptly on these complaints.
"This will be even more important as we approach the phase-out of the Multi-Fiber Agreement, which will eliminate all quotas between WTO signatory countries in 2005."
China's failure to honor its WTO accession commitments is not all that surprising. "Many trade experts claim that China is famous for signing agreements and then negotiating them as they are implemented," one observer notes.
Analysts say China could purchase at least another 1.5 million bales of U.S. cotton before the latest flurry of buying is over. That would bring the current total to 3 million bales or almost half the amount U.S. textile mills are expected to buy this year.
Those numbers are a dramatic reminder of the challenges the cotton industry faces.
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Isaiah Thomas recorded his first career triple-double with 24 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists as the Sacramento Kings came back from double digits to beat the Washington Wizards, 117-111, in overtime on Tuesday.
DeMarcus Cousins and Rudy Gay also scored 24 points apiece for Sacramento, with Cousins ripping down 14 boards to help the Kings snap a two-game skid.
Marcin Gortat contributed a 19-point, 14-rebound double-double for the Wizards, while Bradley Beal also scored 19 and John Wall tallied 14 points with eight assists before fouling out in the extra session.
Dwight Gooden added 18 points off the bench for Washington, which had its two- game winning streak snapped.


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Topic: Gentle Giant announce Boba Fett KustomZ
early days but jus spotted this
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d. KustomZ?
The first few KustomZ pieces were delayed a bit, so the additional pieces will be pushed out as well. There are a couple really nice designs in the works currently. Including a Boba Fett.
heres the current range -> https://www.gentlegiantltd.com/catalog/search/type/13
cant wait should be a real interestin piece !!
1st look could be at sdcc but no earlier
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Bitcoin is a decentralized P2P electronic cash system without a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the cryptographic keys to their own money and make transactions directly with each other, with the help of the network to check for double-spending. Bitcoins, usually denoted by BTC (i.e. '144 BTC'), can also be exchanged for traditional currencies like US dollars.
The Bitcoin network runs on peer-to-peer networking, digital signatures and cryptographic proof to make and verify transactions. Nodes broadcast transactions to the network, which records them in a public record of all transactions, called the block chain. A block is a record of some or all of the most recent Bitcoin transactions that have not yet been recorded in any prior blocks. In order to preserve the integrity of the block chain, each block in the chain confirms the integrity of the previous one, all the way back to the first one, using hashing.
New bitcoins are generated by the network through the process of mining. Mining involves inserting a new block into the current block chain, this is difficult because it requires generating a valid hash (in this case a large integer).
A variation in difficulty is achieved by requiring that this integer is below a certain threshold - the data in the block is perturbed by a nonce value, until the data in the block hashes to produce an integer below the threshold - which takes a lot of processing power. The threshold is set by the number of people currently mining for bitcoins so as to achieve a general speed of about 1 block every 10 minutes.
The official Bitcoin application can be installed with the bitcoin-qt and bitcoin-daemon packages, available in the official repositories.
How to get Bitcoins?
There are a variety of ways to acquire bitcoins:
- Accept bitcoins as payment for goods or services.
- There are several services where you can trade them for traditional currency.
- Find someone to trade cash for bitcoins in-person through a local directory. To find traders near you, you can use bitcoin.local or a bitcoin map.
- Participate in a mining pool.
- If you have very good hardware, you can solo mine and attempt to create a new block (currently yields 25 bitcoins).
For those who are just getting started, you can visit the Bitcoin Faucet to get some free coins. For more details and other ways of making Bitcoins see We Use Coins.
The basic concept of Bitcoin mining is that there's a little chunk of each block that contains meaningless random data. Bitcoin miners take all the data in the current top block, shuffle up that random chunk and calculate the hash of the whole thing, repeating this until they obtain a valid block. While hashes are easy to reproduce, they're impossible to predict and they seem to function completely randomly, so the miner has no way of predicting what chunk of random data will produce what hash.
Mining requires the use of a miner, which is program used compute the required hashes and thus to create Bitcoins. To learn more about mining please read this article.
There are several Bitcoin miners in the AUR:
- Bitcoin CUDA — Version of the official Bitcoin daemon with CUDA support (for Nvidia GPUs).
- CGMiner — Multi-threaded multi-pool CPU miner.
- https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer || cgminer (Note: use cgminer-gpuAUR for GPU mining as it's version was the last to support it).
- cpuminer — Multi-threaded CPU Miner.
- Phoenix Miner — Efficient, fast, modular, python-based, OpenCL GPU miner.
Sample config file
An example of a configuration file for bitcoin-qt can be seen below. Make sure to set the mode of the file to
600 using:
# chmod 600 ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
# bitcoin.conf configuration file. Lines beginning with # are comments. # Network-related settings: # Run on the test network instead of the real bitcoin network. #testnet=1 # Connect via a socks4 proxy #proxy=127.0.0.1:9050 # Use as many addnode= settings as you like to connect to specific peers #addnode=220.127.116.11 #addnode=10.0.0.2:8333 # … or use as many connect= settings as you like to connect ONLY # to specific peers: #connect=18.104.22.168 #connect=10.0.0.1:8333 # Do not use Internet Relay Chat (irc.lfnet.org #bitcoin channel) to # find other peers. #noirc=1 # Maximum number of inbound+outbound connections. #maxconnections= # JSON-RPC options (for controlling a running Bitcoin/bitcoind process) # server=1 tells Bitcoin to accept JSON-RPC commands. #server=1 # You must set rpcuser and rpcpassword to secure the JSON-RPC api #rpcuser=user #rpcpassword=password # How many seconds bitcoin will wait for a complete RPC HTTP request. # after the HTTP connection is established. rpctimeout=30 # By default, only RPC connections from localhost are allowed. Specify # as many rpcallowip= settings as you like to allow connections from # other hosts (and you may use * as a wildcard character): #rpcallowip=10.1.1.34 #rpcallowip=192.168.1.* # Listen for RPC connections on this TCP port: rpcport=8332 # You can use Bitcoin or bitcoind to send commands to Bitcoin/bitcoind # running on another host using this option: rpcconnect=127.0.0.1 # Use Secure Sockets Layer (also known as TLS or HTTPS) to communicate # with Bitcoin -server or bitcoind #rpcssl=1 # OpenSSL settings used when rpcssl=1 rpcsslciphers=TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!AH:!3DES:@STRENGTH rpcsslcertificatechainfile=server.cert rpcsslprivatekeyfile=server.pem # Miscellaneous options # Set gen=1 to attempt to generate bitcoins gen=0 # Use SSE instructions to try to generate bitcoins faster. For muliple core processors. #4way=1 # Pre-generate this many public/private key pairs, so wallet backups will be valid for # both prior transactions and several dozen future transactions. keypool=100 # Pay an optional transaction fee every time you send bitcoins. Transactions with fees # are more likely than free transactions to be included in generated blocks, so may # be validated sooner. paytxfee=0.00 # Allow direct connections for the 'pay via IP address' feature. #allowreceivebyip=1 # User interface options # Start Bitcoin minimized #min=1 # Minimize to the system tray #minimizetotray=1
Other clients
There are other clients available for BitCoin.
- Armory — Client with features for advanced users. It uses information from the satoshi client (bitcoin-qt) for communication with the bitcoin network.
- MultiBit — Light-weight client that focusses on being fast and easy to use.
- https://multibit.org || multibitAUR
- Electrum — Light-weight client that relies on cloud servers to scan the blockchain.
- http://electrum.org/ || electrumAUR
See also
- Official Bitcoin website
- Bitcoin.it wiki
- Bitcoin forum
- IRC Channels on Freenode :
- #bitcoin - (General Bitcoin-related)
- #bitcoin-dev - (Development and technical)
- #bitcoin-otc - (Over The Counter exchange)
- #bitcoin-market - (Live quotes from markets)
- #bitcoin-mining - (GPU mining related)


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