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Israel, Norway, Holland and Australia vs ... Carlo Kopp
It isn't just the Israelis, either. Norway has recently gone for the F-35, rejecting the well-thought-of Scandinavian Gripen alternative. So has Holland. The Australian government stands firm, for all the fulminating that Dr Kopp and his allies have done in the Aussie press. The British MoD has its concerns about the F-35, but they relate more to the issue of the jumpjet B version, equipped as a patrol fighter, being able to bring its weapons back to a carrier deck - not to matters of stealth and combat puissance.
Whenever anybody is allowed to know about the F-35 in any detail, they typically decide that it's the best buy available on the Western market, which probably tells us something. As far as Dr Kopp's standpoint goes, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that the Raptor will ever be exported to anyone: he is arguing for a "solution" that isn't on the table. He might be right when he paints Russian air-combat tech as vastly superior to almost anything produced anywhere else, but it seems very unlikely - even back in the palmy days of the Cold War, when the Soviet design bureaux had almost unlimited resources, their products were typically overhyped**.
This is not to say that the F-35 programme isn't deserving of criticism. Nobody can really put a finger on what an F-35 costs, for instance - most of the customers seem to be hoping to hold their orders until well into the production run, when it should become quite cheap. Unfortunately, somebody has to buy the first hundred planes or so, or the promised affordable ones may never appear. Whoever does is not to be envied, as these aircraft will be very expensive for what they are - and won't be as good as later upgraded ones either.
One might argue that Lockheed should simply take a loss on the early planes in order to get things moving - they could afford it, and would make the money back later - but funnily enough the firm remains reluctant to do that. Defence contractors always prefer financial burdens and risks to be carried by taxpayers, not themselves. One can also complain of Lockheed and the F-35 programme office's behaviour on other grounds: they are certainly prone to making exaggerated and inconsistent claims.
There are also a lot of criticisms offered of the F-35's performance, generally on the grounds that it won't be able to mount raids against enemies on the level of China or above. This seems fairly silly to an outsider, but in the rather odd defence-aerospace world it is regarded as a valid criticism. After all, if we went about accepting that we won't have wars with major nuclear-armed nations, why, you'd hardly have any lovely new jets at all.
And in fact, this seems to be the true reason why the F-35 is so disliked in the aerospace world: because if it is even close to what its makers say it is, it has a fair chance of putting almost every other Western fighter make out of business. The F-35 contains more advanced tech than anything except the Raptor, and it seems very plausible that the US forces alone will wind up buying huge numbers. This will drive the price down, offering unbeatable value for export customers.
There will be very little reason for any government in the world with any money to buy any other tactical jet. Outfits like Saab, Dassault, the Eurofighter consortium et al will have to subsist on crumbs or nothing at all - and thus will have less to spend on development of amazing new ideas.
This is the real reason why those who love the richness and diversity of the Western military aerospace industry really dislike the F-35: because it could lead to a serious contraction of that industry. Massive F-35 sales could see the Western nations and their friends spending a lot less money on fighters, and most of it going on just one relatively affordable and boring plane. Sweetman, indeed, describes this as a monopoly.
This is why military aerospace analysts tend to give so much play to a fairly marginal figure like Dr Kopp - because he's the most highly-qualified person willing to bash the F-35 in public. And the F-35 is a bad thing for the military aerospace world.
Those who like jet fighters for their own sweet sake, who take an aesthetic pleasure in advanced engineering, or who believe that diversity is key to technical strength, will find much to sympathise with in that viewpoint. And who knows, maybe the free and fairly-free-ish nations of the world really do need to maintain a huge, expensive, diversified body of engineering and technical talent focused principally on high-end air combat.

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The USF/ICC Transformation Order requires price cap carriers that accept the state-level commitment for universal service support under Connect America Phase II to offer broadband at speeds of 4 Mbps/1 Mbps to all supported locations and at least speeds of 6 Mbps/1.5 Mbps to a number of supported locations by the end of the fifth year. The Commission directed the Wireline Competition Bureau to design the forward-looking cost model so that it ensures that the "most locations possible" receive broadband at speed of 6 Mbps/1.5 Mbps or greater at the end of the five year term.
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- The ABC Coalition has argued that carriers that receive Connect America Phase II support will generally choose to build or maintain fiber-to-the-DSLAM networks rather than build new fiber-to-the-premises networks. How specifically should the Bureau determine what fraction of locations would reasonably be required to receive speeds of at least 6 Mbps/1.5 Mbps? Would it be appropriate to calculate the number of locations likely to receive speeds of 6 Mbps/1.5 Mbps when the network is engineered to deliver at least 4 Mbps/1 Mbps to the most distant supported locations? What assumptions should be made regarding the gauge of the copper and the maximum copper loop length?
- Connect America Fund et al., WC Docket No. 10-90 et al., Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 26 FCC Rcd 17663, 17726, 17735, paras. 160-62, 187 (2011) pets. for review pending sub nom. In re: FCC 11-161, No. 11-9900 (10th Cir. filed Dec. 8, 2011) (USF/ICC Transformation Order).
- Letter from Robert Mayer, Vice President, Industry and State Affairs, United States Telecom Association, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, FCC, WC Docket Nos. 10-90, 05-337 at 1 (filed Oct. 23, 2012) (ABC Coalition Ex Parte Letter).


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GIANTS: Henry Hynoski to have knee surgery
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. >> The New York Giants may have to start looking for a fullback.
Starter Henry Hynoski will have surgery Friday to repair his medial collateral ligament and a chip fracture in his left knee. The three-year veteran was hurt Wednesday on the second play from scrimmage during an 11-on-11 drill in an organized team activity.
"I am going to set my mind to being ready for the first game of the regular season," Hynoski said Thursday. "They said that is not an unrealistic goal, and I will do everything in my power to be ready for the start of the season."
The Giants also announced Thursday that veteran wide receiver Ramses Barden had re-signed. The third-round draft pick in 2009 became a free agent after last season.
Hynoski was the only fullback on the roster at the workout Wednesday. Veteran tight end Bear Pascoe has played some fullback for New York in recent seasons. Hynoski, who was used mostly as a blocking back for Ahmad Bradshaw in his first two seasons, had five carries for 20 yards last season. He also caught 11 passes for 50 yards and a touchdown in his second season as starter.
The Giants signed Hynoski as an undrafted free agent in 2011. The former Pittsburgh product earned the starting job when Madison Hedgecock failed his physical and was released.
Barden has 29 receptions for 394 yards in his four seasons, but no touchdowns. His best game was a 36-7 win over Carolina last season, when he had nine catches for 138 yards in his only start.
"I'm happy to be back," he said. "This is where I wanted to be and now I'm here. I was out there listening to the calls, getting back into the rhythm of the cadence, enjoying the camaraderie and absorbing everything. I remember everything; I've had four years to soak it all up. I'm happy to be back on the field.
"I feel great. I expect the best."
A broken ankle in 2010 forced Barden to miss the final seven games and the first seven weeks of the following season.


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Without spoiling more than I already have, a post over on the Fable II dev blog indicates that players disappointed by their particular ending can find solace at Knothole Island's mysterious resurrection shrine.
Before you continue on, I warn you....this post could very well ruin the ending of Fable II for you, but it wouldn't be my fault. Blame Sam Van Tilburgh over at the Fable 2 Development blog, who name checks us in the post where he draws readers' attentions towards one particular bullet point on the Knothole Island page. "Unravel the mystical secrets of the resurrection shrine." Now what could that possibly mean, Sam?
Now I'm not going to spoil Knothole Island for you either, so while I can't really say a thing (or the infamous PR police will hunt me down and kill me to death), I think it'd be fair to say that you won't be playing Knothole Island without a trusty friend on four legs....
I actually shed real tears of joy just now. Damn you, Molyneux.
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Jenifer Lewis turns up everywhere. After launching her career in the Broadway play Eubie, the Missouri-born dynamo turned her attention to TV, winning roles in A Different World, Murphy Brown, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Strong Medicine, among other top shows. Meanwhile, she added big-screen credits, like Sister Act, What's Love Got to Do With It? and recently Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, not to mention lending her considerable vocal talents to the animated features The Princess and the Frog and Cars 2.
She is also the mother to Charmaine, whom she adopted through the Los Angeles chapter of the Big Brother/Big Sister Program, and an active supporter of finding a cure for breast cancer and HIV/AIDS.
This fall she plays the role of Pearl in NBC's new series The Playboy Club, which premieres Sept. 19 at 10 p.m. It's set in the early 1960s, when the legendary Playboy Club in Chicago became one of the most sought-after status symbols of the time and was frequented by some of the decade's biggest mobsters, politicians and entertainers, like Tina Turner and Sammy Davis Jr.
The Root caught up with Lewis on the phone in Chicago, where The Playboy Club is being shot.
The Root: Tell us something about Pearl. What kind of woman is she?
Jenifer Lewis: She's a warm and savvy African-American woman with a lot of sass. We African-American women are colorful people, and that's how I play her. She works as the seamstress for the Playboy bunnies. It's a pivotal role in the series — they all come to her with their secrets.
TR: What prepared you for playing Pearl?
JL: My life. My mother was a domestic, who got off welfare to hold a job. She wanted to improve herself. That's exactly what Pearl has done.
TR: Did you do any research on the period of the Playboy Club?
JL: I read a lot about African-American women in the '60s, like Rosa Parks, who was also a seamstress. I read a lot about the civil rights movement, the people on the front lines.
What a time! Kids today have no idea. I tell my daughter, "Look at a picture of Mandela and see whose shoulders you are standing on. See how fragile they are and honor that."
TR: Do you sing in the series?
JL: Absolutely. In a few episodes.
TR: Most people in show business either act or sing or do comedy. But you do all three. How did that happen?
JL: I was given a gift, and it's a gift that I've honored all my life. I never wanted to become just one thing.
TR: What did it take to succeed?
JL: I never gave up. I never quit. I've been a leader all my life, from elementary school to president of my class to excelling at college. I had a dream, and my dream sustained me. I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way. I was like a meteorite. I wanted to become a star. It's been quite a journey.
TR: When did you know you wanted to perform?
JL: Straight out of my mother. I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.
TR: What are some highlights of the last few years?
JL: I performed at Carnegie Hall. I sang for 60,000 people in Dodger Stadium — the applause was like a lion's roar. I met Michelle and President Barack Obama and Oprah all at the same time.
TR: Speaking of Oprah, you opened up to her about five years ago about your being bipolar, and you have since spoken out about the illness and produced the one-woman show Bipolar, Bath and Beyond. When did you first realize you were bipolar?
JL: I have been bipolar all my life; I just didn't know it. From childhood I experienced extreme highs and extreme lows, including anger all the time, irritability and reckless behavior. But it wasn't until two close friends died of AIDS and I went into therapy because of my depression that I began to understand what I had been suffering from for so long.
TR: Why did you go public?
JL: I wanted to help others who might be suffering from the same condition and not know it. There's a terrible taboo about mental illness in the African-American community, and because of it many people never get help. I think that the more people come out and talk about their problems, the easier it is for others. I have been in therapy for 17 years. There's no shame in my game.
TR: Why do you think you got better?
JL: Because I've spent all these years in therapy working through my chaos. I choose to get better. You have to want it to get it.
TR: By the way, how did you get this great role of Pearl?
JL: They just called and asked me to do it. No audition, which is practically unheard of in television. I'm honored.
TR: Love life?
JL: Of course. I'm seeing Arnold Byrd, a retired first sergeant. We've been going together for 2 1/2 years. We're having a great time. I'm happy in my life. I'm at peace.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Lewis appeared on Broadway in Dreamgirls and Ain't Misbehavin'.
Valerie Gladstone, who writes about the arts for many publications, including the New York Times, recently co-authored a children's book with Jose Ivey, A Young Dancer: The Life of an Ailey Student.


text: Its pristine finish, sharp lines and sober palette place Alexandre Cabanel's Albaydé at the heart of academic excellence. Indeed, the Montpellier-born Cabanel – a Prix de Rome winner in 1845 – was one of the last ardent academicians, determined to maintain the Académie's strictures and hierarchies in the face of the radical challenges to it posed by, among others, Gustave Courbet. The subject is drawn from Victor Hugo's Orientalist poem 'Fragments of a Serpent', where the poet lusts for 'the lovely doe-like eyes of Albaydé'. In a manner that owes much to Ingres's languid nudes, Cabanel has depicted the lethargic figure of Albaydé as an object of visual pleasure, and also as an allegory. Albaydé was prepared as part of a triptych, the theme of which was the precariousness of the passage from youth to adulthood. Albaydé represented youthful innocence gone askew. It is compelling that she is depicted as a seductive, if dishevelled Oriental courtesan, in a space suggestive of the Islamic lounge, a harem and an opium den.


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Healthy & Delicious: Roasted Pepper Halves with Bread Crumb Topping Recipe
Healthy and delicious recipes from Serious Eats
Editor's note: On Mondays, Kristen Swensson Sturt of Cheap, Healthy, Good swings by these parts to share healthy and delicious recipes with us. Take it away, Kristen!
Having just moved and unpacked the kitchen (finally), my husband and I wanted to celebrate with a somewhat fancy meal. Or, at least as fancy as our remaining 32 boxes of various files, vases, and odd-man-out blankets would allow.
In my book, "fancy" connotes "multiple courses" and/or "something with gold leaf." Since I have no idea where to buy the latter in my new neighborhood—or anywhere, really—we opted for the former. This meant a prepared appetizer, a main course of leftover pizza, and a commemorative beer to punctuate the merriment.
Subsequently, we baptized our new stove with this, Lidia Bastianich's Roasted Pepper Halves with Bread Crumb Topping, from Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen. It's simple to prepare, yet impressive enough to elevate the most pedestrian of meals, up to and including a cold slice of pepperoni pie.
The peppers act as both flavoring agent and serving vessel, making it lighter than most breaded hors d'oeuvres. The Parmesan adds a savoriness, while the red pepper flakes provide the heat. Steaming it in chicken broth makes everything didn't-need-a-knife tender.
To make the dish lighter, divide the peppers into thirds or reduce the breadcrumb topping by 33 percent. The prescribed quantities make quite a lot, so no one will miss the extra.
Here's to new homes and fancy-but-not-complicated appetizers. So far, so good.
- Yield:6
- Active time: 15 to 20 minutes
- Total time:50 minutes
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 red or yellow bell peppers
- Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup fine, dry bread crumbs
- 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan
- 3 tablespoons parsley, chopped and divided
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup low-sodium chicken stock
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 375ºF. Drizzle 1 tablespoon olive oil over the bottom of a 9x13 glass baking dish. Halve peppers lengthwise. Remove stems, seeds, cores, and ribs. Place in baking dish cut-side-up and drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Sprinkle with salt.
In a small bowl, combine bread crumbs, Parmesan, 2 tablespoons parsley, thyme, and red pepper flakes. Stir to combine. Fill peppers evenly with crumb mixture. Pour chicken broth in bottom of dish and cover tightly with tin foil. Bake 20 minutes. Remove foil and bake until peppers are completely tender, about 10 minutes longer.
When time is up and peppers are tender, remove from oven. Move peppers to serving plate and spoon juices on top. Top with remaining 1 tablespoon parsley. Serve.
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A new contender in the communications world has received the green light to sell mobile high-speed Internet on a wholesale basis. On Wednesday the Federal Communications Commission granted LightSquared permission to open its satellite and base station networks to a wide variety of mobile broadband partners. The move introduces the prospect of new, innovative 4G services across the country, among them under-served rural areas.
LightSquared calls the application grant the "essential building block for our network as we build out to meet the rigorous construction timetable that the Commission has made a condition of our authorization."
Indeed, the company has signed on to a rollout schedule of its Long Term Evolution terrestrial service that will offer coverage to at least 100 million Americans by December 31, 2012, another 45 million by December 31, 2013, and 260 million all told by December 31, 2015.
Strings attached
LightSquared is the creature of mega-investor Philip Falcone, who saw gold in the company's predecessor, SkyTerra Communications. Since 1996 the latter has operated two geostationary satellites that blanket much of the western hemisphere with voice and low-speed data coverage—one licensed in the US and the other in Canada.
Satellite communications are much more expensive than terrestrial mobile. So with the FCC's blessing, Falcone's Harbinger Capital Partners investment group acquired SkyTerra, and brought in Nokia Siemen to design the LightSquared network, install equipment, and manage the operation, which will consist of about 40,000 cellular base stations covering 92 percent of the country.
Suddenly SkyTerra was transformed into a competitive player in the mobile broadband landscape, able to offer "dual mode" services (satellite and base station broadband).
The FCC attached some interesting conditions to the acquisition. Among them, Harbinger promised that SkyTerra would not enter into a deal to make its 1525 to 1660.5 MHz band spectrum available to any entity that happens to be "the largest or second largest wireless provider" in the US, without receiving prior Commission approval.
Those unnamed providers would be AT&T and Verizon, who now rake in over 60 percent of mobile wireless sector revenue, according the FCC's latest mobile competition report.
On your way, connected
So this new venture is poised to offer wholesale mobile broadband to a host of players who could operate quite independently of the big telcos. The LightSquared idea is to partner with entities that want to market their own products complete with a network to connect the devices.
"The game designer can now market his game along with the bandwidth to play it," the company's YouTube video explains. "Hospitals can create their own wireless networks. Manufacturers can sell their laptops already hooked up to high speed Internet. National mass retailers can send you on your way already connected."
There is still one more hurdle. LightSquared will have to ensure that its services don't interfere with GPS systems by organizing a "working group" with various federal agencies "to fully study the potential for overload interference to GPS devices and to identify any measures necessary to prevent harmful interference to GPS."
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Oracle Airlines Data Model Implementation and Operations Guide describes best practices for implementing a data warehouse based on Oracle Airlines Data Model.
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When you make your own pasta, you will always end up with some scraps, even more if you make ravioli. You can easily recycle this leftover pasta to make maltagliati, meaning "poorly cut" in Italian, which was traditionally meant as food for the poor. We are way past that, and today you can enjoy rich texture and amazing flavor of your pasta without the social stigma ;-)
Plain muffins
Nothing says "hello autumn" like a batch of fresh muffins or cupcakes! :-) With this simple recipe, you gonna whip them up in no time, and they will be a perfect base for more fancy muffins with fruit (I love muffins with dried plum bits), chocolate chip muffins, caramel-stuffed ones or double-or-triple-chocolate ;-) Or savory ones: paprika, tomato, herbs, sunflower seeds, etc. It all starts with this recipe.


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Distance learning courses at William James College allow students to learn with great flexibility. Our online programs offer courses that can be taken "anytime/anywhere" as long as students meet the weekly deadlines. This type of learning environment is essential for students who work full time, have family obligations, or for various other reasons cannot come to campus to learn. It is important to note, however, that with great learning flexibility comes additional responsibility. To be a successful distance learner, students should be aware of the unique learning styles and techniques that are essential in an online course.
This short quiz addresses some of these characteristics, and will allow you to better evaluate if distance learning at William James College is right for you. Please write down your responses to each of the 10 questions.
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- Not 100% comfortable, but willing to learn
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- Within a few weeks so I can review what I did
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http://mmajunkie.com UFC featherweight Mackens Semerizer (6-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC) is angling for a summer fight, but his plans are not yet set.
Brian Butler, Semerizer's manager, today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that the Mackens most likely will fight in August. However, a rumored matchup with Yuri Alcantra at UFC 134 is not a reality at this point.
Two major events could host the Team Curran fighter: UFC 133, which takes place Aug. 6 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, or UFC 134, which takes place Aug. 27 at HSBC Arena in Rio De Janeiro.
Additionally, a third August event, expected to be UFC on Versus 5, is rumored for Aug. 14.
Butler said that while opponents are being discussed for Semerizer's return, a date is not set in stone. He declined to name the opponents under consideration.
Semerizer recently made a successful transition to the UFC from the shuttered WEC with an impressive first-round win over "Bruce Leroy," otherwise known as Alex Caceres of "The Ultimate Fighter 11" fame. Semerizer dominated the Floridian on the mat and coaxed a tap-out from a rear-naked choke.
Semerizer's win likely saved him from the chopping block after three consecutive losses in the WEC robbed him of momentum earned with a surprise upset over Wagnney Fabiano. That victory came in his debut with the lighter-weighted promotion nearly three years ago.
"Mack is looking good right now, and we feel that in his last two fights he has been able to really showcase the type of fighter he is," Butler said. "We look forward to see who the UFC will match him with next."
For the latest on the UFC 134 card, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.


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Notwithstanding some of the successes of the Financial Planning Coalition in pushing forward the fiduciary battle in Washington, requiring all advisors to act in the best interests of their clients is still an uphill fight. Nonetheless, the fiduciary movement seems to be gaining momentum, from coming regulations from the Department of Labor to reforms in 401(k) plans to the scrutiny of regulators in the aftermath of debacles from Stanford to Madoff. But what happens if the fiduciary fight is won over the next few years? Does that mean the public is now protected? Perhaps not.
It doesn't really help to ensure that advisors act in the interest of their clients if there's no assurance that advisors have the actual knowledge, skills and expertise to craft appropriate recommendations and deliver the right solutions to clients in the first place. In other words, protecting the public is not just about fiduciary. To restore the public's trust in advisors, the fight must be about competence, too.
The inspiration for today's blog post comes from a recent conversation I had with Knut Rostad, president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, about what's next for the financial planning profession, and the financial services industry at large, when a fiduciary standard is eventually implemented. True, the fight for fiduciary is not over yet, and it may take several more years, but ultimately I believe the delivery of advice will be regulated according to a fiduciary standard. Which raises the question: then what? As I told Knut, I believe the next great frontier will be competence.
After all, the reality is that it doesn't really help the public for all advisors to be subject to a fiduciary standard where they must act in their client's best interests and minimize or prudently manage conflicts of interest if there is no assurance that the planner has the competence to craft the right recommendations and deliver the right solutions in the first place. It simply means that when the public gets bad advice that leads to bad results, it will be due to the advisor's ignorance or incompetence instead of his or her greed or self-interest.
If we ultimately wish to establish consumer confidence in financial planning, we need a standard that applies not only fiduciary principles pertaining to acting in good faith in the interests of clients, but that also substantiate the competency of the individual to deliver quality financial advice.
Notably, some suggest that a true fiduciary standard should actually incorporate the concerns of competence into the standard itself. For instance, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard's mission includes "Act prudently – with the care, skill and judgment of a professional" where "skill [...] of a professional" would certainly imply a competence requirement.
Yet in practice, this is applied unevenly in the profession. For instance, the stated primary [fiduciary] focus of the Financial Planning Coalition is "protecting consumers by ensuring financial planning services are delivered to the public with fiduciary accountability and transparency" (emphasis mine) without specifically articulating competence. Similarly, the FPA's Standard of Care requires that services must be delivered with the client's best interests first and in good faith with full and fair disclosure of material facts and management of all conflicts of interest, yet competence is not stated as a requirement to meet the standard of care.
On the other hand, NAPFA's Code of Ethics does explicitly stipulate competence as a fundamental requirement with which members must comply, and the CFP Board's Code of Ethics includes competence as one of its core principles (and of course, the CFP Board seeks to fulfill this by providing a designation that establishes such competency).
Ultimately, I believe that the financial planning profession must and will evolve to a standard similar to that of NAPFA and the CFP Board, where competency is explicitly acknowledged as a requirement to be a professional and deliver advice to the public. In turn, this means the next frontier in protecting the public is to determine what the appropriate minimum standard for competence should be. Is the CFP certification the appropriate standard, as is implied by the requirements of both NAPFA and the FPA to be a certificant in order to be classified as a "practitioner" member?
It's also worth noting that in a world where all planners are subject to a fiduciary standard—at least as it pertains to acting in clients' best interests and minimizing or prudently managing conflicts of interest—planners themselves may push competence to the forefront as a way for the best to differentiate themselves from the rest, since "being a fiduciary" itself would no longer be a differentiator.
In other words, winning the fiduciary fight could actually be bad for the current marketing plan of many advisors; in a future where building trust with clients is no longer simply about demonstrating more integrity than the competition (because everyone is subject to the same fiduciary standard), marketing that demonstrates more knowledge, expertise and credibility will be necessary to earn a prospective client's business.
The bottom line is that the profession's efforts to protect the public will shift in the coming years. Eventually, the fiduciary fight will be won. However, the end result will not protect the public, but simply shift the fight from ensuring that advisors act in the interests of their clients to trying to ensure that advisors have the competence necessary to deliver the right advice in the first place. The final frontier will be to establish a unified standard that incorporates both the client-centric focus of fiduciary and the requirement for professional competency.
So what do you think? Is competence the next frontier after fiduciary? Should competence be incorporated more directly into the fiduciary standard? What is the appropriate standard for competence? Is it the CFP marks? Should it be a lower standard that is more inclusive? Or a higher standard that is more exclusive?


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Sarah Bloom Raskin is deeply interested in the economy's effect on everyday life, a driving force in her work to keep Marylanders from being scammed, foreclosed on or caught up in a bank failure.
That consumer focus caught White House attention. Raskin, Maryland's top financial regulator, is one of three nominated Thursday by President Barack Obama to fill empty seats on the powerful Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
She would join at a fraught time for the Fed, which has been criticized for paying too little attention to consumer issues. As the country struggles out of the hole dug by the 2008 financial meltdown, the central bank is fighting to defend its pre-crisis handling of monetary policy — and to come out the other end of financial reform with more regulatory authority rather than less.
Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, is the best known of the nominees. And Peter Diamond, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has White House connections — he co-wrote a book about saving Social Security with the administration's Office of Management and Budget director. But Raskin would bring some Main Street cred to the board, observers say.
"In the aftermath of the financial crisis, there's been greater scrutiny of the Fed's role as a regulator — what should they have caught earlier, what missteps can be avoided in the future," said Greg McBride, a senior financial analyst with Bankrate.com. "So this is a nominee that adds a lot of strength to the lineup from a regulatory standpoint."
Raskin, a Takoma Park resident, has many fans in the state. The Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition named her its consumer advocate of the year in 2009. Foreclosure-prevention activists said she was a key player in the 2008 push to give homeowners more time and notification before lenders can schedule an auction. On Thursday, banks in the state praised her tenure, particularly the effort she spent getting to know each of them when she came on board in 2007.
A number of federally chartered banks in Maryland are converting to state charter so they will be regulated by her division of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
"It's because of the reputation she's developed for her office: strong oversight but accessibility," said Kathleen Murphy, chief executive of the Maryland Bankers Association. "And that's what we need these days."
Raskin, whose nomination must be approved by the Senate, declined to comment. She would have to leave her state job to join the seven-member board, which influences interest rates, oversees part of the country's financial system and is charged with helping the nation contain financial risk.
Raskin, 49, majored in economics at Amherst College — her senior thesis was about monetary theory — and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986. She spent several years as banking counsel to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, the committee that confirms Fed nominees.
Before taking the $115,000-a-year state regulator job, Raskin worked for several companies, including Promontory Financial Group, which advises banks. Alfred H. Moses, Promontory's co-founder and chief operating officer, said Raskin got to see the inside workings of banks as she helped them fix problems and avoid collapse.
He said he's not surprised that she is well liked by consumers and bankers alike.
"She has that touch," Moses said. "She understands you can't have one without the other."
Her work as a state regulator has brought her before Congress to testify on financial issues. She told the Congressional Oversight Panel last year that she hopes the crisis will bring "a renewed understanding that the concentration of financial power and a lack of transparency are not in the long-term interests of our financial system, our economic system or our democracy."
"She has always wanted to make a difference where complicated economic theory meets the reality of everyday life," said state Sen. Jamie Raskin, who met her at Harvard and married her in 1990.
Under her leadership, Maryland's financial regulation division has targeted foreclosure-rescue scam artists, championed legislation that closed a loophole that payday lenders were using to charge steep fees and shone a spotlight on a quietly collapsing debt-collection law firm.
The housing slump and credit crisis continue to topple financial institutions nationwide, but none of the 64 banks, trust institutions and credit unions that Raskin regulates has failed.
Anne Balcer Norton, director of foreclosure prevention at St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center in Baltimore, said the state's financial regulation division "was kind of sitting on the sidelines" before Raskin arrived.
"She's really moved that ahead, so not only is it relevant but it's pushing forward," Norton said.
John Ryan, executive vice president of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, the association of state financial regulators, thinks Raskin would help make the Federal Reserve more relevant, too.
"She really has a ground-level, grass-roots perspective," Ryan said. "We need a Fed that's not just focused on Wall Street."
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, said the Fed justly deserves some of the criticism it is getting about its lack of attention to the frenzy of lax mortgage lending that helped throw the country into a severe recession.
"They gave short shrift to consumer regulatory issues," he said.
Raskin had been rumored for weeks to be a leading candidate for the Fed board. Her husband said she kept her own counsel about it, "so I've been reading the newspapers like everybody else, trying to figure out what's going on."
"It's very exciting," he said. "She's been urging me since law school to read one of her textbooks on macroeconomics, so now I'm going to have to do it."
Raskin said his wife applies her passion for economics to home as well as work. She's a voracious coupon-clipper and price-comparison shopper. And she put their three children — ages 13 to 17 — on a strict allowance system that would make a monetary policy theorist proud.
"She has some complicated formulas about how much each kid should get," her husband said.
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: Graduated from Amherst College in 1983 and from Harvard Law School in 1986
: Husband, Jamie Raskin, a state senator; daughters Hannah, 17, and Tabitha, 13; and son, Tommy, 15


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Potentially misleading figures about barristers' earnings were released by the Government to justify its cuts to legal aid, the statistics watchdog has warned.
In a critical letter to the Ministry of Justice, the head of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), Sir Andrew Dilnot, said the department had effectively neglected lower estimates of barristers' average earnings in favour of higher calculations of £84,000 a year.
Figures published by the MoJ in January represented the mean fee income from public funds for full-time barristers, where any barrister with a fee income of less than £10,000 is excluded, the UKSA said. Calculations also included VAT, which barristers must pay to the taxman , and expenses such as travel costs.
Explanatory notes "critical to understanding of the statistics" made it clear the figures did not represent the earnings of individuals; however, the watchdog found they are not "clearly referenced" in the release.
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said: "This embarrassing slap-down shows that, when ministers attempt to use figures to support their flimsy arguments and policies, they can't be trusted.
"If the statistics which the Tory-led Government is using to justify massive upheaval to legal aid are dodgy, then serious questions are raised. Is it any wonder that those who work in the justice system believe that you can't trust anything the Ministry of Justice says?"
Ministers released the figures a few days before barristers and solicitors staged their first walkout in protest at cuts to fees.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling is pressing ahead with reforms in a bid to slash £220 million from the legal aid budget by 2018/19.
Ministry of Justice officials have previously argued hat the final reforms reflect many of the changes barristers and solicitors have asked for and also introduce measures to support lawyers through the period of transition.
In his letter addressed to courts and Legal Aid Minister Shailesh Vara, Sir Andrew said: "The statistical report focuses on the 'fee income' of barristers but does not clearly define this term.
"The commentary talks in places about the 'earnings' of barristers.
"This is potentially misleading as the 'Important notes to the data' make it clear that the statistics do not represent the earnings of individuals.
"Information about items included or excluded from the estimates of fee income - for example, VAT and disbursements - is also presented in the notes but the report makes no attempt to quantify the impact of the treatment of these items.
"The notes are critical to understanding of the statistics but they are not clearly referenced alongside the data table.
"The report also presents mean and median measures, but does not advise users about the appropriate use of these different measures."
Hundreds of lawyers marched on Westminster earlier this month in protest at the cuts while thousands of barristers staged a second nationwide walkout.
Nicola Hill, president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association, which organised the march and walkout last week, said: " This comes as no surprise to those fighting to save criminal legal aid.
"The Ministry Of Justice repeatedly states that the cost of legal aid is far higher than the statistics show.
"Another worrying aspect of this casual approach to facts and figures can be seen in government claims about the amount of savings that need to be made in the criminal justice system.
"The MoJ has consistently ignored year on year savings for the last ten years as a result of falling crime. We would like to engage with a Lord Chancellor who deals in fact not fiction."
An MoJ spokeswoman said: " We stand by the figures we used.
"Whether the mean or median figure gives the best representation of typical fee income is open to statistical interpretation.
"We also published the full range of fee incomes received by barristers in 2012/13, including both the mean and median fee income figures and underlying source data, to be as transparent as possible.
"This is all publicly available on the Government's website. We agree that this fee income is not the same as individual earnings, and this was stated in the statistical report we published on January 2."
Nigel Lithman, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, which also organised the march and walkout last week, said: "The Criminal Bar Association has been battling with the Ministry of Justice over its statistics for more than a year.
"We claim that the need to cut our fees is not made out and the figures issued are misleading.
"We also claim that the figures of the average earnings of member of the Criminal Bar have been grossly exaggerated in a manner to make the public hostile towards what they are encouraged to regard as an overpaid profession.
"Prior to a day of national protest by the Bar, the MoJ chose to issue the fanciful figure that the average earnings were £84,000 per annum.
"For some reason they ignored the lowest earners, included VAT and excluded expenses.
"They chose to slew the figures. The true figures were the Criminal Bar earning no more on average than £34,000 before tax and many on far less.
"Our cries went unheard, until now.
"But it seems the concerns are taken up by the UK Statistical Authority who begin to take the MoJ to task for potentially misleading us.
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This is a true story that happened last week. I've changed the names and locations to keep the people involved annonymous though.
My friend James was in Jacksonvillie FL the other night. He was attending a business reception of some sort. It was one of those events where everybody stands around and talks with one another with a brief interlude of some persons of greater or lesser dignitariness patting one another on the back. You need four hands when you are at these events what with limited places to put things down while eating, drinking, shaking hands and exchanging business cards. The last being more or less than the point of attending such events.
Anyway James is less than gifted as a mingler but his job requires him to attend such events from time to time. Not unusually for him he got confused on the way there and ended up parking a goodly distance from the event. After walking a couple of blocks he decided to leave his car where it was since he finds walking less stressful than driving. Whether some greater force was involved in his decision is left for the reader to decide. If there is one.
The event was noisier than most and due to fatigue (from a very early flight not from the walk which was actually invigorating) his mingling was below par even for him. On the other hand they had shrimp and really tender roast beef on small pieces of bread. After the remarks, he circled the crowd a few more times. Deciding he could call it a night he headed back to his rental car.
Halfway back to his car he met Sammy. Sammy was a scrawny looking white guy in his mid 40's with a really impressive set of tattoos who asked James for some money. James has a policy of not giving money to pan handlers but there is nothing hostile about it. Not having any further agenda for the night he perked up and asked Sammy if he was hungry. This is James method for distinguishing professional pan handlers from people that he might be able to help out a little. Sammy indicated that he was quite hungry. He was banned from the nearby convenience store so James took his order and went in and bought him a sub and a Coke.
Before chowing down Sammy asked if he could borrow Jim's phone to call his aunt in Chicago. He had to leave her a message. James would have preferred to take Sammy to a restaurant, but there was none nearby so they just stood on the sidewalk and chatted.
Sammy had been having a hard time. He was having a hard time finding any work. He was living by the railroad track and had been recently beaten up pretty badly. As the story developed it became quite clear that Sammy would be a lot better off if he could be with his aunt.
Sometimes its just real clear what needs to be done. So James drove Sammy to the Greyhound station and bought him a non-refundable ticket to Chicago. He watched him get on the bus and then phoned the aunt to let her know he was on the way.
He was worried about Sammy spending 20 plus hours in transit with no money so he gave a few bucks to go with the tooth brush, mouth wash and snacks that he bought him for the ride. The next day he was worried that the money might have been a bad idea because Sammy confessed while waiting for the bus that he would have drank the price of a bus ticket if James had given it to him rather than buying a ticket for him. The ride to Chicago involved a couple of bus changes. So James called the aunt one more time and ended up talking to Sammy who is very grateful to be off the street.
James is still processing the experience. He wants to cultivate a spirit of detached generosity. On the other hand he wants to share his joy in the whole experience. It is just possible that he saved Sammy's life. He is hoping Sammy doesn't screw up again, but - I don't know.
So what does this have to do with St Patrick's Day. This year I started San Patricios Against Hunger, because I think that Americans of Irish descent should remember that they are quite likely descended from famine refugees and should celebrate by making donations to hunger fighting charities. The approach James takes towards panhandlers is an extension of the principal. The point is not to just stop enabling alcohol abuse, but to substitute a positive life affirming act.
We'll see what happens in June.


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Retailers and merchants hang their hopes on Black Friday, but they equally look to Cyber Monday. It's not just shoppers' work computers; mobile technology is taking center stage in online shopping's biggest day of the year. Photo: AP Images.
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... the the ... CyberMonday should set a new record for online sales this year one optimistic sign for the first time more than half of U S consumers said they shop online the weekend after Thanksgiving ... Steve prisoners' president of PriceGrabber daikon e joins us to discuss CyberMonday Stevie morning good morning thanks for joining us today thank you so you know my big question by doing the numbers comes first and perhaps one point five billion right CyberMonday versus last year won a quarter billion but he's a decent job ... now ... the question mobile ... write what and how how is that the mobile revolution changing the way you know were looking at phones were using apps were not using the weather ... what is the impact on an ... online shopping has been due to sheer this is your too many ships not only the shift from our offline online ... but on on line from your laptop and PC ... right to mobile ... PriceGrabber will see about a quarter of our sales this holiday season come for mobile devices both phones and tablets what was that due to the landscape because ... you that if people are using native apps on their phone ... is that end up ... in how me ask you actually have on your phone your you may get you may get the Amazon asking me if even half right but maybe their whole bunch of other websites that to date have really ... carried on doing a lot of web surfing a lot of price comparison maybe people don't wanna do on their fall ready to that's right I think the phone is really being used now for priests checking ... in for store locations ... and research is being done on tablets in offline devices ... um but a lot of people are still using the wool from mobile web on their phone it's not all ETFs ... is is in your talk a little bit about showrooming where ... I go into a store ... I just a cat scan the barcode to see how much that same item and costly online shore and a how is that impacting our traverse this is um that's been a very hopeful cross but you know the real research is really a big trend for PriceGrabber is that over ninety percent of consumers are starting out by researching online before they go to the store and even potentially showroom ... so it starts online go to the store and it was a catalyst or orphanage aam on okay interesting now ... I urge the thing is happening here ... of move but when we speak about CyberMonday an online sales is not necessarily ... online ... retailers that are having Amazon is number one right but the key of the future the TV the other big retailers are ... a Wal-Mart despite our good friend and Apple well-known brick and mortar rounds up to that which is which is kind of interesting and now I'm curious Cyber Monday is it ... actually the biggest online shopping day of the year or is it just needs to marketing ... given that everything is a marketing gimmick Rite Aid actually was in a marketing gimmick to start to really start to retire from last week if you think about it now it's the unknown ... kickoff that Wednesday in the Thanksgiving ... and finally finishes up so early this Wednesday ... it started out as a clever way to continue this for holiday sales on Monday when is the largest on line shopping behavior is because in previous years it was that the large someone was was Khona the first week of December but it's ... I guess it's been getting earlier and earlier you know what's really interesting is cyber Monday is the biggest Monday ... but the next largest ... on line shopping day will be next Monday ... and the third-largest shopping day will be the following Monday that mine was in the holiday season so the big on line shopping ok and and talk about what was the biggest challenge for PriceGrabber in this environment in order to ... get consumers on two-year site purses ... you know going into a product search ... well and that's really the number one thing ... is that the increasingly less for five years all searches ... all purchases of started a search and subterfuge percent of the search starts with you ... so comfy like PriceGrabber really has to find a way essentially ... to earn a spot in consumers' minds between Google and Amazon ... in you do that by aggregating great time to ... write in terms of product reviews expert reviews merchant reviews ... providing some good images of the products and and and a broad network of retailers and merchants to get consumer choice around where to buy Rangers place convenient and trusted that Penn ... State they so much for joining Academy


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Special Airs Immediately Following "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" Season Finale Airing at 8pm et/pt
Two-Part Reunion Airs Sundays, October 6 and 13 At 8pm et/pt
NEW YORK - September 24, 2013 - Bravo Media's "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" wraps up its fifth season with a 90-minute event starting with the season finale airing on Sunday, September 29 at 8p.m. ET/PT. Immediately following at 9p.m. ET/PT, is a special "Watch What Happens Live One-on-One with Teresa and Joe Giudice," where Andy Cohen sits down exclusively with the couple for the first time since their indictment to set the record straight. Andy asks the questions on everyone's mind including everything from who they think would be best to raise their four children if they are found guilty, to if they are in denial over the entire process and Joe's thoughts on possibly being deported. For a clip of the season finale, go to: http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey/season-5/videos/confronting-pennys-husband
Then, on Sunday, October 6 at 8p.m. ET/PT during the 90-minute Reunion Part I, everyone's favorite Garden State ladies, and visits from Joe Giudice, Joe Gorga and Kathy's sister, Rosie, come together to discuss some of this season's most talked about moments. From Melissa and Teresa's honest feelings towards one another to the current state of Teresa's relationship with her brother, Joe, and the cast trips to Lake George and Arizona, the group reflects back on the antics from the season. Dr. Venus Nicolino, "Dr. V," also drops by to see where relationships stand since the cast's trip to Lake George.
On an emotionally charged Reunion Part II, airing on Sunday, October 13 at 8p.m. ET/PT, Teresa and Joe open up about the indictment charges they are faced with; Rosie candidly shares her experience on the show, and the rest of the ladies discuss their overall sentiments on this season.
"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" is produced by Sirens Media, LLC for Bravo. Rebecca Toth Diefenbach, Valerie Haselton Drescher, Lucilla D'Agostino, Jackie Stemple and Lenid Rolov serve as executive producers.
"Watch What Happens Live" is produced by Embassy Row for Bravo. Michael Davies, Deirdre Connolly and Andy Cohen serve as executive producers.
Bravo is a program service of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBCUniversal cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BravoPR.


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July 4 is an especially deadly day for teen drivers. It's is also the start of the busy season for America's car thieves.
The news comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has found that July and August are the most popular months for auto theft. And so, LoJack Corporation and the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators have launched a nationwide education effort called National Vehicle Theft Protection Month.
Like most education projects, this one involves reminding the public about the prevalence of car theft and showing drivers how to avoid becoming victims. And in today's graphically oriented world, nothing says "education" quite like an infographic. This one put together by LoJack has some interesting facts to share, such as:
- A vehicle is stolen about once every 43 seconds.
- Only about 56% of stolen vehicles are ever recovered.
- The average loss for owners is $6,159.
- Car theft costs Americans a total of $4.5 billion each year, but less than half of all shoppers — 49% to be exact — are very concerned about it.
- The most popular vehicles for thieves are — in order — the Honda Accord, Honda Civic, and Toyota Camry, with Chevrolet and Ford pickups close behind.
- Drivers on the West Coast are more likely than other Americans to be the victims of car theft (but then, you already knew that).
Our take
We're always a little wary about awareness campaigns put together by companies that stand to benefit from those efforts. Case in point: it makes perfect sense that LoJack would participate in National Vehicle Theft Protection month, since the education campaign likely to drive sales of the company's aftermarket vehicle tracking systems.
That said, we'd never argue that auto theft is a good thing, and we do our best to remind readers about ways to keep themselves and their cars safe. What's more, LoJack has some good advice for car owners that shouldn't be overlooked — like never programming your home address into your car's GPS system. (Or at least not labeling it as Home.)
For those and other pointers, check out these handful of helpful videos. If you've got others, leave them in the comment section below.
This article originally appeared on The Car Connection.


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Dialogue Should Not Legitimize Assad
Foreign Minister Davutoglu, many experts are indicating that the divide between the supporters and opponents of the Assad regime within the region is increasingly running along sectarian religious lines. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states have spoken out against Assad staying in power. In contrast, the Shiite dominated states of Iran and Iraq and also the Lebanese Islamist militia Hezbollah support Assad. In the light of these circumstances, can one now speak of a religious conflict?
Ahmet Davutoglu: I would say absolutely not, because it is not a war between Sunnis and Shiites. It is tension, a problem between a dictatorial regime and the people. For example, in Egypt or in Libya there were Sunni leaders. We were still against them when they tried to oppress people in these countries. In the region, the general problem is not sectarian. It is a problem between people and Cold War structures – authoritarian regimes, dictatorial regimes.
And in the case of Syria, it would be unfair to say this to many Alawites, who are fighting against the regime – who are in the opposition. There are many representatives of Alawites, Christians, Druze working in the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and on the ground fighting against the regime. So it is not a sectarian war, and it will not be a sectarian war.
The regime, however, wants to make this a sectarian war in order to consolidate certain groups around it. There may be some sectarian intentions, which are harmful for our region, but for Turkey it is not a sectarian issue and in essence, in reality it is not sectarian.
You are critical of the idea of dialogue between the Syrian opposition and the Assad regime. What are your reservations?
Ahmet Davutoglu: There were several attempts to convince Assad to enter into a dialogue in 2011 and 2012, beginning with Turkey, then Kofi Annan and other players. But Bashar Assad rejected the opposition outside Syria and claimed that this opposition is terrorist in nature. So will he recognize the opposition, the Syrian National Coalition, as the new player in Syria? Without recognizing the Syrian National Coalition or the opposition, what kind of dialogue will it be? It cannot be a dialogue if Bashar Assad claims that all these people are terrorists.
Secondly, should a dialogue be taking place, this dialogue should not be legitimizing Assad's authority. This image will legitimize Assad's power and give the wrong impression. And then who is accountable for 60,000 people being killed? Hundreds of thousands of people are refugees and millions of people are internally displaced persons. Who is responsible for that?
Thirdly, the objective of the dialogue should be to set up an interim government. And then there should be a basic understanding that this government will have full executive power, which means Bashar Assad should be ready to deliver all his power to this authority. Otherwise, the dialogue will achieve nothing. We are not against dialogue, but the substance and contents of the dialogue should be well defined.
Your own country, Turkey, has experienced impressive economic development in recent years. And in terms of foreign policy, Turkey has also made a name for itself. How do you see Turkey's future role in the Middle East?
Ahmet Davutoglu: Of we course we never claimed any role in the region. We have our own experience, one that everyone in the region and in the international arena describes as a success story. Why is it a success story? Because of democracy, because of economic development and because of an active foreign policy.
Without reform in a country, you cannot change the mentality – you cannot change the politics or the economy. Therefore, we are supporting all reform attempts in our region. We are supporting the newly elected governments and presidents in our region. We don't take any sides. Whoever comes to power by the choice of the people, these are our counterparts and we will support them.
Recently, we gave a $500-million (370 million Euro) soft loan to Tunisia, and a $2-billion soft loan to Egypt for economic development. We established joint economic, high-level strategic council meetings, and intergovernmental meetings. Why do we do this? Because we want to share our experience in health, in communication, transportation, energy policies, good governance and democratic reforms so that we can help. This is not an imposition, this is not dictating anything. But this is our duty to help our brotherly nations in our region to ensure the success of their reforms.
In May 2010, Israeli security forces stormed the ship Mavi Marmara, which was carrying aid to the Gaza Strip, in international waters. In response, Turkey recalled its ambassador from Israel and diplomatic relations reached a low point. How are Turkish-Israeli relations today?
Ahmet Davutoglu: We have been very consistent in this. Israel killed our civilians in international waters. And Israel is accountable for this killing. It is a crime and for the past three years, we've been calling for three conditions to be fulfilled: an apology, compensation and allowing us help Gaza – the end of the blockade.
Of course, if these conditions are being met, relations could be normalized. But if the regular army is killing our civilians and does not apologize as if they have the right to kill anybody in international waters – this is unacceptable. We will never improve or normalize relations if these three conditions are not being met. If they are being met, of course we will normalize relations.
Interview conducted by Kersten Knipp
© Deutsche Welle 2013
Qantara.de editor: Lewis Gropp


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"I've lived here all my life, never seen anything like it... By the time we had the National Weather Service on the phone, it had already happened."
October 2, 1858: The 1858 San Diego hurricane was a very rare California hurricane. It is the only known tropical cyclone to impact California as a hurricane, although other systems impacted California as tropical storms. The storm caused damage to many homes and other constructions in San Diego. San Pedro experienced heavy rainfall, El Monte experienced high winds that damaged its corn crops and trees, and Los Angeles and Visalia experienced large amounts of rain but low wind. A later estimate stated that if a similar storm happened in 2004, it would have caused $500 million in damage.
September 4–7, 1939: The remnants of a hurricane brought over a year's worth of rain to parts of southern California
September 25, 1939: The 1939 California tropical storm, also called the 1939 Long Beach tropical storm, El Cordonazo, The Lash of St. Francis was a tropical cyclone that hit Southern California in September, 1939. Formerly a hurricane,[1] it was the only tropical storm to make landfall in California in the twentieth century... The flooding killed 45 in Southern California, although some of these may be attributable to the rain immediately before the tropical storm. At sea, 48 were killed.[1] The National Hurricane Center only attributes 45 deaths to this system.[7] Six people caught on beaches drowned during the storm. Most other deaths were at sea. Twenty-four died aboard a vessel called the Spray as it attempted to dock at Point Mugu. The two survivors, a man and a woman, swam ashore and then walked five miles (8 km) to Oxnard. Fifteen people from Ventura drowned aboard a fishing boat called the Lur. Many other vessels were sunk, capsized, or blown ashore.[6] Many low-lying areas were flooded. The Hamilton Bowl overflowed, flooding the Signal Hill area. Along the shore from Malibu to Huntington Beach houses were flooded. Throughout the area, thousands of people were stranded in their homes. Streets in Los Angeles proper were covered with water, flooding buildings and stalling cars. Flooding in Inglewood and Los Angeles reached a depth of 2 to 3 feet. Construction on a flood control project in the Los Angeles River's channel by the Army Corps of Engineers was stopped by the flooding. In Long Beach windows throughout that city were smashed by the wind. At Belmont Shore, waves undermined ten homes before washing them away. Debris was scattered throughout the coast. Agriculture was disrupted. Crop damage in the Coachella Valley reached 75%.
September 1970: Tropical Storm Norma was the fourteenth named tropical cyclone of the 1970 Pacific hurricane season. The storm formed off the coast of Mexico and intensified rapidly, peaking as a strong tropical storm on September 3 before starting a weakening trend which saw it dissipate before making landfall on Baja California. While the storm never made landfall, the remnants from the storm fueled the Labor Day Storm of 1970, which caused floods in Arizona that resulted in heavy damage and loss of life. The rainfall from this storm broke records, mostly for 24-hour rainfall totals. Despite not being tropical when the damages were done, Norma is considered to be the deadliest system in Arizona history.
September 10–11, 1976: Hurricane Kathleen was a tropical cyclone that caused destructive impacts in California. On September 7, 1976, a tropical depression formed; two days later it accelerated north towards the Baja California Peninsula. Kathleen brushed the Pacific coast of the peninsula as a hurricane on September 9 and made landfall as a fast-moving tropical storm the next day. With its circulation intact and still a tropical storm, Kathleen headed north into the United States and affected California and Arizona. Kathleen finally dissipated late on September 11... Damage in the United States was considerable. California received record rainfall, with over a foot of rain falling in some areas. Flooding caused catastrophic destruction to Ocotillo, and six people drowned. Flooding extended west; railway tracks were destroyed in Palm Desert and high winds and severe flooding were recorded in Arizona. Overall, the damage total was $160 million (1976 USD) and 12 deaths were attributed to the storm.
October 1983: Tropical Storm Octave was considered the worst tropical cyclone in the history of Arizona... In Arizona, the highest rainfall total was 12.0 in (300 mm) at Mount Graham. In Tucson, flood waters were reportedly 8 ft (2.4 m) high. Throughout the state, excessive rainfall caused many rivers to overflow. After the rain ended, the Santa Cruz, Rillito, and Gila rivers experienced their highest crests on record. Five towns – Clifton, Duncan, Winkelman, Hayden, and Marana – were almost completely flooded. In Marana, many homes were submerged, forcing residents to be evacuated. Over 700 homes were destroyed in Clifton. In addition, 86 of the town's 126 business were heavily damaged due to the flooding. Around 3,000 buildings were destroyed due to Octave. A total of 853 houses, mobile homes, and apartments were destroyed while 2,052 others were damaged. About 10,000 people were temporarily left homeless. Damage in Arizona totaled $500 million (1983 USD), which was above the preliminary estimate of $300 million. Fourteen people drowned and 975 persons were injured. Elsewhere, Octave was responsible for $12.5 million in damage in New Mexico.
September 25–26, 1997: Hurricane Nora was only the third tropical cyclone on record to reach Arizona as a tropical storm. Nora was the fourteenth named tropical cyclone and seventh hurricane of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season. The September storm formed off the Pacific coast of Mexico, and aided by waters warmed by El Niño, eventually peaked at Category 4... In the United States, there were no direct deaths blamed on the hurricane. However, the California Highway Patrol attributed three or four traffic fatalities in southern California to the weather.[15] Damage totals in the United States are not fully known, although media summaries of Nora included a loss to agriculture preliminarily estimated at several hundred million dollars, and at least one study places the figure at $150–200 million (1997 USD).[16] It is estimated that $30–40 million (1997 USD) in damage to lemon trees occurred.[17] Although Nora was significantly weakened, near hurricane-force winds were observed at the Dixie National Forest in southwestern Utah, where strong gusts sheared off the tops of large trees.


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Posted in response to a question regarding the similarity of Kellogg and Western Electric colors. The set on the left is Kellogg and the one on the right is WE.
Most companies followed the lead of Western Electric, as they were backed by market research studies and had lots of market power.
When WE changed the color list in about 1957 or 58, the others quickly followed.
The similarities can be seen in the chart on the "Phones In Color" page of my site at http://www.paul-f.com/color.htm.