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Why visit Amsterdam?
Because the city notorious for its smokin' bars and edgy Red Light District is now a hub for hip design – without losing its free-living attitude.
Local hotspot
De Hallen, a converted 19th-century tram-shed in the up and coming Oud West district. It's now a hotel, with boutiques, cool bars and restaurants.
You probably didn't know
Amsterdam has its very own elected Night Mayor, an officer who acts as a negotiator between the city's nightlife community and the ever-watchful authorities.
Suggested reading about Amsterdam
The Light of Amsterdam: A Novel (David Park, 2012)
Things to do in Amsterdam
With his new pan-Asian venture Happyhappyjoyjoy, chef Jasper Julius has created an Amsterdam ode to backpacker days. Local design agency Concrete has whipped up an interior reminiscent of Bangkok's hawker stalls, and the mussels in XO sauce are an expression of Jasper's love for Hong Kong cuisine.
Quartier Putain
Located just off the Oudekerksplein, site of the oldest church in Amsterdam, Quartier Putain is a coffee house with its own hip hop record-label. (One example of how hip the Red Light District is becoming.) As its French name implies, Quartier Putain is situated in a former brothel. Nearby is the associated Red Light Radio station, broadcasting from a neon-lit window.
Tunes Bar
Posh G&Ts laced with improbable ingredients (such as liquorice stick) have become a feature of Amsterdam's flourishing bar scene. The Tunes Bar, in the luxury Conservatorium hotel, prides itself on having started the trend. when you fly to Amsterdam, take time to explore the rest of this heritage building, lavishly remodeled by star architect Piero Lissoni a few years back. Appropriately for this moneyed neighbourhood, it was once a bank.
Situated on the site of a former tollbooth, Tolhuistuin is a cavernous club in the blustery Noord district of Amsterdam (a short, free ferry ride from round the back of Centraal Station). Since Amsterdam is one of the most densely populated cities in Europe, all-night venues are a rarity because of noise concerns, but THT's relatively isolated location means the party rarely stops.
Ace&Tate is one of a host of independent, ethically-minded fashion brands started by outrageously good-looking young Amsterdammers. They manufacture robust and beautiful sunglasses and specs, most selling under the €100 mark. Their recently-opened flagship store is in the postcard-perfect Negen Straatjes ("Nine Streets") district, where vintage boutiques sit cheek-by-jowl with dinky cafes.
Modern Dutch design is prized the world over for its quirky flair and smart simplicity. Marcel Wanders (of brand Moooi) is so famous he has been dubbed "the Lady Gaga of Dutch design." Taking home one of his life-size horse-shaped lamps may be problematic, but you can at least enjoy a coffee and a "bitterbal" (meatball snack) at his nearby hotel, the Andaz Amsterdam.
A few years ago, plans for an enormous, white extension to Amsterdam's modern art museum the Stedelijk were greeted with raised eyebrows. But now, when you travel to Amsterdam it's hard to imagine the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum without their avant-garde neighbour, nicknamed "the bathtub" for obvious reasons. Innovative new director Beatrix Ruf is a champion of video art and has even given over the museum's social media accounts to artists on occasion.
Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder
Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder (literally, "Our Lord in the attic") is an exquisite 17th-century canal house in the middle of the Red Light District in Amsterdam, with a secret Catholic church nestled in its roof. It dates from the time when Amsterdam was a destination for religious refugees and is emblematic of the city's tradition of pragmatic tolerance.
Events to look out for whe you fly to Amsterdam:
- Grauzone Festival (January)
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- World Press Photo (May)
- Holland Festival (June)
- Amsterdam Gay Pride (July/August)
- Unseen Photo Fair (September)
- Amsterdam Dance Event (October)
- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (November)
- Amsterdam Light Festival (December/January)
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Infield Free Agents, Talk to Contact ep58
Episode 58 of the Twins baseball podcast, Talk To Contact (@TalkToContact), is now available for download via iTunes or by clicking here.
- Cody is back with Paul and Eric this week to talk Twins baseball. The off-season is in full swing with qualifying offers out to free agents, the world series parade over and the 2013 no longer visible in the rear-view mirror. We discuss which, if any, infield free agents make sense for the Twins before we are joined by special guest, ESPN 1500 Minnesota Twins beat writer Brandon Warne (@Brandon_Warne) to discuss what he thinks the Twins need to do this off-season, what it means to write under the ESPN banner and his experiences following the team this past season. This week we take a look at Twins minor league prospect and 2nd round 2013 draft pick Ryan Eades.
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Aug 2013
Miss USA and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
In 2013, more than 22,000 American women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer with no reliable early detection test for the disease. September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, a recognized time for people to learn more about the risks, symptoms and need for increased attention on the issue. Miss USA Erin Brady will take on teal next month to raise awareness about important needs for ovarian cancer such as research funding, improved health care practices and life-saving protocols.
Starting Sunday, September 1, Brady will Turn The Towns Teal in South Windsor, Connecticut by pinning teal ribbons throughout the community in an effort to prompt other cities to do the same and draw attention to the cause. The non-profit national awareness campaign has already succeeded in encouraging 36 cities in the country to turn their town teal. Brady will also speak at the opening ceremony.
The Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA) has invited Miss USA to Capitol Hill on September 17th to join doctors, activists and experts who will discuss legislation that improves quality of life and access to care for ovarian cancer patients. Brady will speak in front of federal policy makers as a voice for women with ovarian cancer and fight for policies that help support them and their families.
Various brands will also raise awareness throughout the month and Brady plans to be a model for one of them. Belabumbum loungewear's limited edition's new campaign for September is all about "Supporting Women from Top to Bottom" by creating a comfy, teal camisole and panty set with 100% of the proceeds going to Ovarian Cancer National Alliance. To get your matching set, visit http://www.belabumbum.com/ocna.
To help support Miss USA and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, take the Teal Challenge! Brady has started her own online event that will raise funds for OCNA and you can too. Donate to her page or register to take the Teal Challenge yourself as a Team Miss USA member. Your donation is tax deductible and every dollar helps! For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/1cl7uD1
Aug 2013
#DreamDay Commemorates Martin Luther King Jr.'s infamous "I Have a Dream" Speech
Olivia Culpo, Miss Universe 2012, along with several other celebrities and dignitaries around the world including Bill Gates and the Dalai Lama express their dreams for the future for NBC's #DreamDay. What is your dream?!
Click here to view Olivia's dream for the future.
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Olivia Culpo Way in Cranston, Rhode Island
Cranston's City Council approved a resolution adding the beauty pageant winner's name to Albert Avenue, which runs the length between Broad Street and Narragansett Boulevard in Edgewood.
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Miss USA 2013, Erin Brady is taking the Teal Challenge to support women with ovarian cancer. This is an online event that raises funding for the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance's programs.
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In January, CNET ran an article titled "Time for vendors to stop foisting IE onto consumers" which asks "Why the hell do Adobe CS4 help and Lightroom geotag links launch Internet Explorer? It's not even my secondary browser, much less default."
According to Andy Rahn, an engineer on the Lightroom team, there is no bias toward which browser is invoked from Lightroom, we simply look to the operating system registry for what the user has defined as the default browser. That's not to say this always works correctly. There may be issues with certain browsers registering with the operating system correctly as the default browser.
In a follow up with the individual who originally reported the problem on Twitter, it sounded like the issue may be specific to Google Chrome and the Vista 64-bit operating system. Google released an update yesterday that includes changes that include: "Fixed several problems with making Google Chrome the default browser on Windows Vista."
If you're experiencing applications not launching the correct browser, try setting the default browser manually.
[Update: Stephen Shankland posted an update: Adobe's default-browser advice worked for me. Thanks to Stephen for working with us to track down this issue and post additional details. – JT]


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(a) Not later than 4:30 p.m. on the 10th day prior to the close of filing in elections involving Territorial offices, the Chief Election Officer shall issue an election proclamation.
(b) The proclamation shall contain a statement of the time and places where and the purposes for which the election is to be held, and a designation of the offices and the terms thereof for which candidates are to be elected. It may also contain any other relevant matter including an offer of rewards for the detection and conviction of offenders against the election laws. The Chief Election Officer shall cause the election proclamation to be published at least once in a newspaper or bulletin of general circulation not later than the 10th day prior to the close of filing.History: 1977, PL 15-42 § 1.


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At least one person picked all six winning numbers in Wednesday night's $425 million Powerball jackpot, California lottery officials said.
The winning numbers — 1, 17, 35, 49 and 54, with a Powerball of 34 — were worth $425.3 million after no one won during Saturday's drawing.
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Riedel, Georg (d. 1616)
Georg Riedel (Ruedl), a Hutterite elder, chosen preacher on 19 January 1579, at Pribitz and chosen elder on 14 March 1599, at Niemtschitz and Pochtitz. In 1610, he was deposed from his office on account of the "disgraceful and seducing art of alchemy" and laxity in performing his duty. He was then admitted as householder at Pellertitz, but because of his offensive attitude he was expelled on 16 July 1612. He died at Pribitz on 1 April 1616.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 500.
Wolkan, Rudolf. Geschicht-Buch der Hutterischen Brüder. Macleod, AB, and Vienna, 1923: 446, 459, 519-23.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Die älteste Chronik der Hutterischen Brüder: Ein Sprachdenkmal aus frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit. Ithaca: Cayuga Press, 1943: 580, 596, 679 ff.
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Dozens of New York City public schools have submitted petitions to the New York City Department of Education asking to be exempted from the uniform curriculum soon to be required for most of the city's schools. By the beginning of April, these schools should learn whether or not they will be added to the list of 209 successful schools allowed to continue with their own reading and math curricula. Schools not on the list must adopt the new, system-wide comprehensive instructional approach mandated by the Department of Education to bring coherence to the schools and to ensure that all the city's schoolchildren progress in reading, writing, and math. (See my February column, "Shaking Up the School System," for a description of the proposed curriculum changes and other recent reforms.)
Exemptions for the 209 schools were based on academic achievement, including improvements in student performance, and student need. Chancellor Joel Klein and the Department of Education looked at school results on city and state tests, but they also took into account schools' percentages of special education students, English language learners, and students in poverty. Schools not making the list as well as specific programs within schools wishing to be considered for exemption were permitted to petition for a waiver of either the literacy portion or the math portion of the new core curriculum or both. Those petitions had to be filed by March 3.
Anticipating objections to the consequences of creating a "top-200" list based only on test scores, Klein and the Department of Education factored in student need so as to bring diversity to the list of exempted schools. In spite of this, they have been accused of relying too heavily on test scores and, therefore, of skewing the list toward largely white, middle-class schools and leaving out schools that serve a more academically diverse student population. Parents and staff from some of the middle-class schools who thought they had been bumped from the list by lower-scoring schools serving higher needs students have also registered frustration and disappointment. Many of these schools have reportedly taken action so that they will be added to the list.
Drawing a line between successful schools and others in New York City is a risky enterprise, despite the clear logic and political necessity of saying that schools already achieving need not be forced to change. Nevertheless, there had to be some worry about the reaction of stakeholders in schools not put on the list, no matter how constructive the consequences. And that reaction has been sharp. Parents, students, and school staff from schools not selected have expressed anger and anxiety about the consequences of not making the list. Without the endorsement, parents and students worry about the quality of their school; and administrators fear they will lose the confidence of middle-class parents who bring valuable resources to schools but can opt to send their children elsewhere.
Though the now-required math, reading, and writing programs are similar to those already in use in a number of the city's successful schools, many school communities are concerned about the changes they represent. The Department of Education has not been able to avert fears about "cookie-cutter" classrooms and overly scripted teaching.
The new curriculum mandate is especially worrisome to those schools that identify themselves as "progressive" or "alternative" and see the programs as a threat to a specific educational philosophy and practices they consider successful. They believe that the imposition of this new curriculum will prevent their schools from offering the type and quality of education their students need and their families expect.
On March 26, parents and other representatives of schools throughout the city that are members of the Progressive Education Network of New York (PENNY) demonstrated in front of Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of the Department of Education. Objecting to the narrow use of standardized tests and other statistics to measure schools' success, they advocated for the development of a new definition of "successful" schools which recognizes their schools' work with diverse populations of students. They believe that any imposed curriculum deprives teachers of the independence they require in order to develop their own curricula in response to the needs, interests, and abilities of their students. "We want autonomy that allows us to continue with small class sizes, bridge classes, parental and child involvement in all aspects of the school. This can't be boiled down to a single curriculum," said Carol Barton, a Muscota New School and Computer School parent. Few of the schools represented by the Progressive Education Network of New York were included on "the list," but they are hoping to secure waivers so that their schools' work can continue unimpeded.
Similarly, in the face of a uniform curriculum and district restructuring, parents, school staff, and administrators are fighting to preserve the alternative high schools superintendent position. The district that runs a number of high schools designed to meet the special needs of target populations of students -- gifted and talented, at risk, and special education students; drop outs; newly arrived immigrants; incarcerated youth, and pregnant and parenting teens -- is scheduled to be eliminated and its schools absorbed into regional superintendent districts.
Adequate Funding for New York's Schools: A Community Conversation on What Our Students Really Need to Succeed.
On April 3, from 6:30 to 9 pm, at Campus Magnet High School Auditorium, 207-01 116th Street, in Cambria Heights in Queens, and on April 30 from 6:30 to 9 pm in the IS 44 Auditorium, 100 W. 77th Street, in Manhattan, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (where I work) and the New York State School Boards Association will play host to public meetings as part of an independent costing-out study being undertaken to determine the actual costs of ensuring that all New York students can meet Regents Learning Standards. Come to learn more about the study and to provide input on the challenges of schools in your community and on the programs and services that children need to succeed.
Public Hearings of the Senate Task Force on School Governance
March for Public Education: Pre-K Through Post-Grad
Public education this year faces grave challenges to its ability to secure adequate funding so that the academic gains that have become evident in recent years can be sustained. If you're concerned about the future of public education, then mark your calendar for Saturday, May 3 for a march on Albany for public education. The event begins at 1 pm at the Empire State Plaza in Albany and is sponsored by the state Education Conference Board, the Higher Education Conference Board, and a host of others, including parents, teachers, school superintendents and administrators, school boards, college students, and community groups. The gathering is intended to be the largest event in support of public education Albany has ever witnessed. It comes two weeks before statewide school budget votes.
Jessica Wolff is a public school parent and Director of Policy Development at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a not-for-profit coalition working to reform New York State's education finance system to ensure adequate resources and the opportunity for a sound basic education for all students in New York City. The views expressed are her own.


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Earlier this week, the chairman of the London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Hugh Lanning, became the first foreign activist to fall prey to the controversial "BDS ban" law, just a few days after it was approved. The law, passed by the Knesset on March 7, prohibits the granting of entry visas or residency rights to foreigners who are advocates of the non-violent BDS movement.
Lanning was detained at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport overnight on March 12 and deported the following morning. Since becoming PSC's chairman in 2009, he had been able to travel freely to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories a number of times.
They do see us as a threat and I don't think they know what to do," said Lanning in a tweet after the event.
This case is just the tip of a huge iceberg. In fact, such bans are not new. Stretching as far back as 2011, hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists who took part in the "Flytilla" campaign, with the intention of congregating in the West Bank, were barred from entering Israel.
In September 2016, Brigitte Herremans, a peace activist and charity worker who is the Middle East policy officer at Belgian Catholic charities Broederlijk Delen and Pax Christi, was detained, interrogated and finally deported at Ben Gurion airport. Her political views alone were purportedly an indication of a threat to the security of Israel.
Palestinians and foreign nationals of Arab descent are often denied entry to Israel, while other foreigners have previously faced a similar fate based on their support for Palestinian rights and BDS, even if their position is entirely non-violent.
Inspired by the South African Anti-Apartheid movement, the BDS movement wants Israel to stop building settlements in the West Bank, recognise and redress the balance of rights of Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, while advocating for the right of return for Palestinians as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
In a bid to put pressure on the Israeli public and institutions, its strategy is to boycott Israeli companies and institutions complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, discourage investment and call for sanctions until Israel complies with international law, halts illegal settlement construction and ends its occupation of territories seized in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Some observers have argued that Israel's breach of the right to free speech and freedom of movement could actually become a catalyst for bolstering more support for the BDS movement. A statement from the PSC said:
If Israel believes that by introducing these draconian undemocratic laws it will intimidate its critics into silence, it is mistaken. The PSC will not stop raising its voice to highlight the systematic violation of Palestinian human rights in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself."
A new report issued by the United Nations this week broke new ground by declaring Israel has established "an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people as a whole".
It even encouraged governments to "support boycott, divestment and sanctions [BDS] activities and respond positively to calls for such initiatives". The report has already caused a backlash from the Israeli government, and the head of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), which published the report, resigned shortly after its release following pressure from the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
While such tactics risk further isolating Israel from the international community, the political status quo in Israel indicates that such measures are likely to escalate in a bid to quell dissent, both inside and outside of Israel.
Conflating the tactics of BDS with anti–Semitism provides the Israeli government with the pretext to label this movement as a security threat. Israel's Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan established a new anti-BDS task force in August 2016, boosted by a budget of NIS 120 million (almost US$32m) to crack down on what he sees as attempts to delegitimise Israel.
Simone Zimmerman is one of the many Jewish-American activists who recently spoke out against Israel's travel ban.
I am not a member of the BDS movement, but I believe that BDS is a legitimate, non-violent tactic and I personally support economic and diplomatic action and pressure against the occupation. I don't know, do you think that makes me an enemy of the state?" she said in a video published by Haaretz.
Basically what [the law] does is it creates a travel ban based on your political opinions. I was always taught to be very proud of the robust democracy in this country, and I think banning people based on their political opinions is not a sign of a very robust democracy."
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Here's a late entry for the most heroic dog of the year
A blind man and his guide dog were struck by a subway train in Manhattan on Tuesday after the man lost consciousness and they tumbled on to the tracks. Both escaped without serious injury.
Cecil Williams, 61, told The Associated Press from his hospital bed that he was on his way to the dentist during the morning rush hour when he felt faint on the 145th Street platform. His guide dog, a black Labrador named Orlando, is trained to protect him from going over the edge.
"He tried to hold me up," Williams said.
Witnesses said the dog was barking frantically and tried to stop Williams from falling, but they both fell to the tracks when Williams fainted.
The train's motorman slowed the subway cars while witnesses called for help. Williams and Orlando were struck, but not badly hurt.
"The dog saved my life," Williams said. He also was astonished by the help from emergency crews and bystanders on the platform.
Emergency workers put him on a stretcher and pulled him from the subway, and made sure the dog was not badly injured.
Police said both Williams and the dog were taken to a hospital where they were expected to recover. Williams says he is not sure why he lost consciousness, but he is on insulin and other medications.
Orlando will be rewarded with some type of special treat, Williams said, and will be given plenty of affection and scratches behind the ears.
Williams, of Brooklyn, has been blind since 1995, and Orlando is his second dog. The lab will be 11 on Jan. 5, and will be retiring soon, Williams said. His health insurance will not cover the cost of a non-working dog, so he will be looking for a good home for him.
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For more than 20 years Aboriginal health worker Peter Crombie has dedicated his life to improving outcomes for his people, sometimes in desperate circumstances.
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For the Indigenous communities of Far West New South Wales, Peter Crombie is a reassuring presence.
In his role as Broken Hill Health Service's Aboriginal Education Officer, Mr Crombie is the first point of contact for many needing hospital support.
"I sort of look after the Aboriginal patients and people who come into the hospital," Mr Crombie explained.
"They come in from Menindee, Wilcannia, Ivanhoe, some from Tibooburra, we sort of look after those as inpatients and some outpatients who come in."
Born and educated at Wilcannia, Mr Crombie has been a quiet achiever for the Indigenous community, never seeking acknowledgement for the near 20 years he has worked in health support services, the last five of those years attached to Broken Hill Base Hospital.
"I just love looking after our people when they come into the hospital and knowing that I am doing something really good for them," Mr Crombie said modestly.
"Even with the doctors and all the nurses, I feel, you know, really gives me a good feeling when I sort of know that I can help people like that in that job."
While Mr Crombie is reluctant to be recognised for the work he has done, there is no doubt that his skills and commitment are highly valued by colleagues, particularly his knowledge of Indigenous culture.
"Peter's actually helped to develop that strong link for people from a different culture and from our oldest civilisation here in Australia," Broken Hill Health Service's Discharge Planner, Janet Daley said.


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The magnitude-3 quake hit shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday and was centered a mile southeast of the Marina del Rey neighborhood.
Quakes this size are typically too small to cause damage.
Police dispatchers in Santa Monica, Inglewood and Culver City said they felt the quake, but have not received any calls from the public.


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My new break barrel air rifle's barrel won't break open for cocking and loading.
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Thinking of paid and unpaid opportunities beyond your blog? Here are highlights from a Q&A with four freelance writers on WordPress.com.
Earlier this year, we talked to four professional writers about the freelance life, getting paid to write, and writing for free and exposure. If you missed it the first time, be sure to read this roundtable, full of great advice for new and aspiring writers in particular.
Here are highlights from the Q&A:
Give us a breakdown of your typical day.
Every day is different. I start by reading the New York Times. I listen to BBC World News or two great WNYC radio shows, The Brian Lehrer Show and The Leonard Lopate Show, from which I get story ideas and learn about the world.
I start work by 10:00 am — I'm not a morning person! If I'm working on a story, and usually several at once, I'm seeking sources, conducting interviews, writing, reading, or revising the pieces and answering questions from my editors.
Like most working writers, I spend a lot of time marketing my skills to new clients and checking in with former ones to see if they can use me again. I research story ideas to gather enough detail to pitch them. I pitch ideas to editors and check in on earlier pitches. I also work on longer-term projects, like ideas for nonfiction books, fellowships, and travel.
I end my workday by 4:00 or 5:00 pm and turn off the computer. Setting boundaries between work and the rest of my life allows me to come back to it refreshed and recharged.
— Caitlin Kelly, veteran reporter and feature writer
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How do you divide your time between paid and unpaid writing?
Writing fiction comes first, even though it doesn't pay — yet. I do my pen-for-hire work in the afternoon.
When I was more concerned with income than I am now, I was lucky and found freelancing jobs through networking. It helped that I had three salable skills: good writing ability, research skills, and medical knowledge. I did a lot of technical writing for major medical centers that was both interesting and lucrative. Now, jobs come to me, and I only take those that both interest me and pay well.
— Deborah Lee Luskin, award-winning novelist
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Writing for free is one of the many evils in today's world. There was a piece in the New York Times by Tim Kreider, where he made the case that writers should insist on getting paid. It made sense for established writers, but wasn't practical advice for unknowns in today's internet-dominated world. As I said in my piece in the Huffington Post, "Why I Write for Free," literary agents and publishers want you to have a huge internet following before they're willing to take a chance on you. If you're not a celebrity or well-known, you have to build an audience, and often the only way to do this is to write for free.
— Kristen Hansen Brakeman, writer and essayist
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If you get in the habit of "writing for exposure" early, then you'll find ways to justify writing for exposure regularly. Write on your own blog if you want to write and develop your "brand" or identity for yourself…rather than someone else.
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BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska utility that owns the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant wants to show off the progress that has been made toward preparing the plant to restart.
The Omaha Public Power District plans to give media tours of the plant Tuesday on the eve of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's next public meeting about the plant.
OPPD officials say they've made significant progress, and they believe the plant 20 miles north of Omaha could be ready for restart before the summer heat. Fort Calhoun has been shut down since April 2011.
NRC spokeswoman Lara Uselding says the utility has addressed less than half of the more than 450 items on the restart checklist for the plant.
Regulators say they won't let the plant restart unless they're confident it is safe.


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WOONSOCKET, R.I., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) has extended its innovative Pharmacy Advisor™ program to cover an additional five chronic conditions, including asthma, breast cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, and osteoporosis. The condition-based program alerts pharmacists when patients are not adherent to their medication regimens or have a gap in care, allowing them to intervene with patients and communicate with their physicians in real time. Before this program extension, the Pharmacy Advisor program had focused on patients with diabetes or cardiovascular conditions, with more than 3.8 million interventions conducted to date.
It is estimated that medication nonadherence costs the U.S. economy nearly $300 billion annually. Studies suggest that poor medication adherence is linked to chronic conditions, and that medication persistence – the length of time a patient continues to take a prescribed drug – tends to be low for those with chronic conditions. Research also suggests that the design of medically appropriate regimens for individual patients can play a role in improving costs and outcomes associated with adherence,1 and that intervention by pharmacists can reduce gaps in care.2
"We are delighted to extend Pharmacy Advisor and its benefits to patients managing medications associated with additional chronic conditions," said Troyen A. Brennan, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of CVS Caremark. "Pharmacists play an important role in the coordination of care for individuals living with chronic conditions and understand how critical medication adherence is in supporting their patients."
In addition to improving medication adherence, Pharmacy Advisor directs members with chronic conditions to existing disease management programs where they can obtain additional support.
"Pharmacy Advisor not only improves quality of care for individuals with chronic conditions by providing an additional layer of support, it also addresses the important systemic challenges of health care costs related to medication nonadherence," said Jon Roberts, President of CVS Caremark's Pharmacy Benefits Management business. "Extending the program to cover a broader range of chronic conditions expands our ability to support even more patients on their path to better health, while reducing the burden of cost associated with medication non-adherence for patients with these conditions."
About CVS Caremark
CVS Caremark is dedicated to helping people on their path to better health as the largest integrated pharmacy company in the United States. Through the company's more than 7,400 CVS/pharmacy stores; its leading pharmacy benefit manager serving more than 60 million plan members; and its retail health clinic system, the largest in the nation with more than 600 MinuteClinic locations, it is a market leader in mail order, retail and specialty pharmacy, retail clinics, and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. As a pharmacy innovation company with an unmatched breadth of capabilities, CVS Caremark continually strives to improve health and lower costs by developing new approaches such as its unique Pharmacy Advisor program that helps people with chronic diseases such as diabetes obtain and stay on their medications. Find more information about how CVS Caremark is reinventing pharmacy for better health at info.cvscaremark.com.
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1 New England Healthcare Institute (2009).Thinking Outside the Pillbox: A System-wide Approach to Improving Patient Medication Adherence for Chronic Disease. NEHI Research Brief, August 2009.
2 Brennan et al. (2012). An Integrated Pharmacy-Based Program Improved Medication Prescription and Adherence Rates in Diabetes Patients. Health Affairs. 31(1).
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There's one safe bet in Hollywood: If a studio can remake a movie, it will.
In just the last few years, audiences have showed up to re-watch "Batman," "Fame," "3:10 to Yuma," and "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3." The list goes on.
So eventually, one could argue, a remake of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" will be coming to a theater near you.
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And if it ever does, it will have Matthew Broderick's support.
In a recent interview with Cinematical, the original Ferris Bueller said he wouldn't want to be involved with any potential remakes, but he would still give the project his blessing.
"It would be fine. I would be perfectly happy for somebody to do that. They just redid Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway. I never got to see it, unfortunately, because I was doing a play. And that was a little strange to think of, just to be in an age where something can be revived or reinvented. But I found myself only wanting them to succeed. It was disappointing that it didn't last longer," Broderick told Cinematical.
The 47-year-old actor added that he would most likely turn down any cameos, saying, "I probably wouldn't enjoy that. I would rather leave what we did as our thing."


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If you're using Blogger (Blogspot) platform, you probably want to backup your content unless you really trust the Blogger (Blogspot) which hosted by Google won't screw up your content. Do they have a backup as well? I really don't' know. Have you ever think about your blog has been hijacked one day? In case you don't know, there are quite number of Blogger's blogs have been hijacked. You may face a risk to lost all your content in your blog.
Recently I found a tool called "Blogger Backup Utility". It is in Beta releases. Thanks to gduncan411 who are actually doing this for free. You can backup all your posts and comments in your blog. In case of you lost some of the posts or all the posts, you can restore them using this tool. Of course, I don't hope to use the restore feature one day but who knows?
For the "Save posts as (format)" option, I think we better choose "Atom, One File Per Posts" rather than "Atom, All posts in a single file". I think I read it somewhere if you choose "Atom, All posts in a single file" the restore feature may not work.
Since this tool is BETA, don't expect this tool is completely out of bugs. Every software has bugs. One of the things I found not working is the "Save Comment" feature. If I redirect my feeds to feedburner the following error happens:
Error looking for comments, retrying (0)
Error looking for comments, retrying (1)
Error looking for comments, retrying (10)
I've already filed a report and hopefully this will be fixed in the next release. According to some of the discussions, if you don't redirect your feeds to feedburner it should be fine. I haven't tried this yet and I think I will just wait for the fix in later release. As for now, I will just backup my posts without comments.
One final note, the "Images or Pictures" are not able to backup yet at this moment. So you may want to download again for complete features of this tool in future.
Download "Blogger Backup Utility" here. Click the release tab for the latest release.


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Phishing attacks on enterprises can be calamitous in terms of compromised networks or damaged brand names, and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), which aggregates and analyzes phishing trends data worldwide, offers some of the best insight from industry into what's occurring globally in terms of this cybercrime. The following list of frequently asked questions about phishing is derived from the APWG's April report that covers the period July-December 2012 worldwide.
Q: How many phishing attacks occurred in the second half of last year?
A: There were at least 123,486 unique phishing attacks worldwide. This is more than the 93,462 attacks that APWG observed in the first half of 2012. This is due to an increase in phishing attacks that leveraged shared virtual servers to compromise multiple domains at once.
Q: How many unique domain names were involved in the phishing attacks?
A: Due to the shared virtual server hacking, the attacks used 89,748 unique domain names -- up from the 64,204 domains used in for the first half of 2012. In addition, 2,489 attacks were detected on 1,841 unique IP addresses, rather than on domain names, a trend that has remained steady for three years. None of these phishing attacks were reported on IPv6 addresses though.
Q: How many of these domain names were maliciously registered by phishing attackers versus the number of domains that represent hacked or compromised ones on vulnerable Web hosting?
A: Of the 89,748 unique domain names, the APWG identified 5,835 domain names that APWG believes were registered maliciously by phishers. This number is down significantly from 7,712 identified in the first half of 2012, a downward trend that's occurred since the count for maliciously registered domain names stood at 14,650 in the first half of 2011. The other 83,913 domains were almost all hacked or compromised on vulnerable Web hosting. The overall use of subdomain services for phishing fell from 14% to 8% of all attacks. Phishers continue to use "URL shortening" services to obfuscate phishing URLs but such use involved only 785 attacks in the second half of 2012. Over 65% of malicious shortened URLS use for phishing were found at a single provider, TinyURL.com.
Q: What top-level domains (TLDs) are the most popular for registration by phishers?
A: 82% of the malicious domain registrations were in just three TLDs: .COM, .TK (Thailand) and .INFO. PayPal is the most targeted brand, with 39% of all phishing attacks aimed at PayPal users. .COM contained 48% of the phishing domains in the APWG's data set, and 42% of the domains in the world. Thailand's .TH domain, which accounts for just over half of the world's malicious registrations made in the .TK registry, continues its high ranking as it has for several years, and it suffers from compromised government and university web servers, according the APWG.
Q: What were the top registrars worldwide used by phishers to purchase domain names?
A: 21 registrars, several of them in China, accounted for 79% of the domains registered maliciously (a total of 2,991). These were Shanghai Yovole Networks; Chengdu West Dimension Digital technology; Hang Zhou E-Business Services; Jiangsu Bangning Science; Intenret.bs; Beijing Innovative; 1API; Bizcn.com; Directl/PDR; Hichina Zhicheng; Melbourne IT; Xin Net technology Corp; Regsiter.com; Name.com; Fast Domain; eNom Inc.; OVH; GoDaddy; Tucows; 1 and 1 Internet AG.
Q: What's being seen in the trend toward mass break-in techniques?
A: Instead of hacking sites one at a time, the phisher can infect dozens, hundreds or even thousands of websites at a time, depending on the server. In the second half of 2011, APWG identified 58,100 phishing attacks that used the mass break-in technique, representing 47% of all phishing attacks recorded worldwide at that time. In February 2012, attacks of this nature started up again, peaking in August 2012 with over 14,000 phishing attacks sitting on just 61 servers. Levels declined in late 2012 but are still high. These attacks, according to APWG, "turn compromised servers at hosting facilities into weapons" because hosting facilities contain large numbers of powerful servers with the type of network access that supports large amounts of traffic. This break-in tactic against virtual-server farms offers the attacker significantly more computing power and bandwidth that scattered home PCs.
Q: What more is evident about the link between shared hosting environments and phishing?
A: In late 2012 and into 2013, the APWG saw increasing use of tools targeting shared hosting environments, and particularly WordPress, cPanel and Joomla installations. For example, beginning in late 2012, criminals hacked into server farms to perpetrate extended DDoS attacks against American banks. In April 2013, there were brute-force attacks against WordPress installations at hosting providers in order to build a large botnet. Tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of these shared servers have been cracked by such techniques. Access and use of these boxes is then metered out in the criminal underground for all sorts of activities, including DDoS, malware distribution, and phishing. It all highlights the vulnerability of hosting providers, the software they use and weak password management. Rod Rasmussen, president and CTO at Internet Identity and co-chair of the APWG's Internet Policy Committee, says unpatched open-source software is a popular target with attackers hitting the hosting providers that make the software available to their customers.
Q: How long do live phishing attacks typically last these days?
A: The average "uptime" as of the last half of 2012 was 26 hours and 13 minutes. The median uptime was 10 hours and 19 minutes -- said to be almost twice the historically low uptime of five hours and 45 minutes achieved in the first half of 2012. According to the AWPG, the longer a phishing attack remains active, the more money the victims and target institutions lose. The first day of a phishing attack is believed to be the most lucrative for the phisher. The virtual-server-related attacks tended to be mitigated more efficiently if only because they prompted many complaints to the hosting providers that were impacted.
Q: The APWG points out that malicious domain registrations remained under 10% of all phishing domains for the last three quarters of 2012. Any idea why?
A: Some factors may be contributing to the trend -- reputation services are blocking domains and subdomains quickly, registrars and registries are more responsive to malicious registrations and have better fraud controls, and phishers may be relying more on automated scripts to exploit large numbers of Web servers using known vulnerabilities.
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security. Twitter: @MessmerE. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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This story, "FAQ: Phishing Tactics and How Attackers Get Away With it" was originally published by Network World.
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Welcome to Tour Star
Bob Brown, and Brett Crawford, who are no strangers to the fishing tackle industry, and are known for new innovative product designs, formed TOUR STAR PRODUCTS in January 2011. Bob has been in the industry since 1983, and has worked for Daiwa Corporation, Mitchell Reels, and All Star Rods until it was sold in 2004. Bob has since been assisting American Rodsmiths Rods as a consultant until November 2010, where his innovations received several industry awards. Brett was the owner and innovator behind All Star Graphite Rods, America's Finest Graphite Rods, until selling the company in 2004. Bob and Brett are back together now to bring the industry the latest Rod Grip designs, and give the fishermen the rod actions they know and love for freshwater, and light saltwater fishing.
Is to bring new and innovative products to anglers at a fair price. In today's economy, anglers need to be more frugal in their spending, and purchase rods, and grips with multiple functions. Our 2011 product line- up offers the latest in rod grip designs, and some new and innovative rod actions, with some rods that have "Stood the Test of time". It's no secret that All Star had some of the best rod actions ever made. The WR1 for example, was the finest Worm Rod ever designed; well you can bet your hat that we are bringing some of these actions back. Our "NEW" TOUR STAR WR1's are now 6'11" and probably the finest rod ever built. The past 28 years of listening to you the fisherman, has taught us what you want in a rod, and we are offering what we believe is the most versatile, and functional rod line up of any rod company. We believe you will find your next favorite rod in this offering, and always feel free to drop us a note if you have any questions about our rods or grips. We learn from our customers, and do our best to fill your needs.
TOUR STAR PRODUCTS in Association with WINN, Inc. is offering THE FIRST REPLACEABLE FISHING ROD Grips New DRY-TAC materials designed that performs as well in wet conditions as it does when dry. All TOUR STAR RODS will be equipped with the new DRY-TAC grips, and they will be offered to fishermen to upgrade their favorite rods with ease. These new grips allow anglers better feel, increased accuracy in casting, a better gripping surface for casting, and fighting fish. The new DRY-TAC grips are just plain more comfortable than conventional cork, and best of all stay tacky whether they are wet or dry. Wait until you fish all day in the rain, you will be amazed!
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Before Beginning…
Galatians is the only Pauline letter written as a circular letter to various churches of a geographical region rather than an urban center. The old territory of Galatia comprised a large central and northern area of Asia Minor. The Roman province of Galatia, to which Paul probably refers, included some of the cities, such as Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe, in which Paul worked, according to Acts.
Paul's tone in the opening lines of Galatians is defensive and emotional, shown by the absence of the usual prayer of thanksgiving following the address, which is a common characteristic of Paul's letters. Paul sees the problem in the Galatian communities as a great threat not only to his own reputation and mission but to the gospel itself. Other missionaries, whom scholars commonly call "Judaizers," came into Galatia after Paul and claimed that Gentiles must follow some aspects of the Jewish law, including circumcision, in order to be fully Christian. Perhaps they said that Paul taught the fundamentals, and they would now give the Galatians the full Christian message. They were undermining Paul's authority and the sufficiency of faith in Christ that Paul preached. Consequently, he writes heatedly to convince the recipients that he has the full truth. From the emotional tone of chapters 1 and 2 , he passes to the complex biblical demonstrations of chapters 3 and 4 , finally into the ethical teaching of chapters 5 and 6 .
The issues of freedom and faith, diversity of teaching and different understandings of the gospel message, and the relationship of Christianity to Judaism are as important to us as they were to Paul's addressees in Galatia. Yet today's reader of Galatians must see past the combative tone of this letter, the circumstances of its writing, and the historical context in which Paul first developed his dichotomy between faith and works. These tasks are well worth the effort if we are to understand this important epistle of Paul. It is also essential to realize that this letter in which Paul talks the most about freedom is also the letter in which he most identifies with the cross of Christ. Freedom is for the sake of service.
Jews and Gentiles in the Pauline Churches
We cannot adequately comprehend Galatians without recognition of an important historical issue that was at the basis of Paul's missionary perspective. That issue involves the relationship between Judaism and the infant church that struggled to integrate the non‐Jews or Gentiles into a new "Israel of God" (Gal 6, 16 ), and between Jews and Gentiles in that church. Although this may seem like a remote issue unrelated to the problems the church faces today, it is actually quite relevant for us with our increasing ethnic diversity and ecumenical concerns. The question of "Who shall belong?" had to be resolved differently than it was in Judaism, where circumcision was the sign of initiation, and obedience to the Mosaic Law signified membership.
Those Christians who were already ethnically and religiously Jewish saw the message of Jesus largely within the context of Judaism. Indeed, Christianity might have remained as a sect within Judaism had it revolved only around belief that Jesus was the Messiah. Early Christianity, however, was almost immediately open to the conversion of the Gentiles (sometimes called the "nations" or the "pagans" in translations). We must also remember that before his conversion to Christ, Paul the Pharisee was so zealous for the observance of the Law that he persecuted the church (Gal 1, 13 ). According to Acts, Paul obtained authorization to hunt down and bring to trial in Jerusalem those fellow Jews who had become convinced that Jesus was the Messiah (Acts 9, 1–2 ). As a strict Jew, Paul had perceived along with many others that the message of Christ was a threat to Jewish claims to a unique access to the one true God through the covenant. The Pharisaism to which Paul belonged already was open to Gentile membership, based on the universal vision of the later prophets, especially Second and Third Isaiah, but with the requirement that they convert to Judaism. After Paul had accepted the messianic identity of Jesus through revelation and had begun to proclaim it as a missionary ( 1, 15–16 ), he held the conviction that this new movement must be able to absorb both Jews and Gentiles, but in a new way. His own special attraction, based on a personal revelation, was to preach the gospel to Gentiles, an attraction that he says the leaders in Jerusalem accepted ( 2, 7–9 ). Through his pastoral experience, he had come to the conclusion that the only way to integrate Jews and Gentiles fully into the churches was to eliminate the need for conversion to Judaism on the part of the Gentiles.
In other words, Paul reassessed, as a result of his vocation, the role of the Jewish Law to which he had always been devoted. In light of his God‐given vocation to preach the message of Christ to non‐Jews, Paul began to see the Law as superseded. According to the Law as it was then understood, the Gentiles had been excluded from salvation. Through Christ, Paul taught, they are included‐and on their own terms, not as converts to Judaism. As a result of a revelation from God, Paul identified himself as an apostle to the Gentiles. Consequently Paul felt as committed to the Gentile mission as he ever had felt formerly with regard to the Jewish Law.
The Gentile mission, however, did not begin with Paul. Stephen (see Acts 6 ) and others, including Peter (Acts 10 ), had preached to Gentiles and baptized them before Paul. Nevertheless, not all of the early Christian leaders felt the same degree of freedom from the Jewish Law as Paul did. Nor did everyone agree that Gentiles who were becoming part of the church should neglect the prescriptions of the Jewish Law. Peter and James, for example, who were recognized Christian leaders, both felt that some observance of Jewish Law should be required of the Gentiles. James was a very significant figure in the Jerusalem mother church. Peter, of course, was one of the Twelve and a leader of the Jerusalem community as well as a known authority in the predominantly Jewish Christian community at Antioch. Representatives from James apparently were preaching at least a minimal observance of Jewish Law and gaining a significant hearing among the Gentile converts (see Acts 11, 1–26; Gal 2, 1–10 ).
The matter was confusing for several reasons. Christianity incorporated the monotheism and the high ethical principles of Judaism, which were very attractive to many Gentiles. The appeal of these basics of Judaism made more reasonable the position of those who "Judaized" (a verb Paul uses only in Gal 2, 14 , where it is translated "live like Jews"). The "Judaizers" claimed that Gentiles should fulfill some basic requirements of the Jewish Law, particularly circumcision and some dietary restrictions, in order to demonstrate that they had actually converted from pagan ways. But from the beginning of the Christian preaching, faith in Jesus crucified and raised from death by God had been the only requirement for baptism. Even Peter testified that the Gentiles, like the Jews, were saved through faith and that "God shows no partiality" (Acts 15, 9; Gal 2, 6 ). Paul vehemently opposed any additional requirements for the Gentiles. He believed that these additions would, in fact, constitute deviation from the firm conviction that salvation is a work of God accomplished through grace that is accepted by faith in Jesus as the Christ.


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Captain Serious will be without his more dynamic sidekick for the next few weeks.
Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane, the fun-loving and super-skilled alter ego of captain Jonathan Toews, could miss the rest of the regular season after being hurt Wednesday against the St. Louis Blues.
Kane suffered a lower-body injury when he fell awkwardly after being hit by Blues forward Brenden Morrow midway through the second period. Kane didn't return to the game and, afterwards, Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said the high-scoring dynamo would miss at least three weeks, maybe even the rest of the regular season.
"We'll see," Quenneville told reporters when asked if Kane would play again before the end of the regular season, which ends April 13. "It was a freak play. It can happen. We've been fortunate most of the year. We'll deal with it.
"He's a special player. We'll work our way through this. It's a huge loss for us."
Kane leads the Blackhawks in scoring this season, with 29 goals and 40 assists in 69 games.
Future Hall of Fame goalie Martin Brodeur knows where blame lies for the New Jersey Devils losing Zach Parise to the Minnesota Wild.
The Organization. Or, reading between the lines, general manager Lou Lamoriello.
"We had plenty of chances," Brodeur said on NorthJersey.com. "We had two years to talk to him and figure out something and we waited and waited and it was too late. When you know you have an athlete that is going to be a game breaker and he's going to be one of the top players (available) and the rules are free agency comes a lot younger than it used to, you have to make commitments.
"You see around the league some of the guys, the (Steven) Stamkos and etc., they don't wait. They get them done. And we let him walk to free agency. That's a decision of the organization, regardless of it was financial at the time with the ownership that we had, but he was our property for a long time and we lost him."
Two years earlier, the Devils signed Ilya Kovalchuk to a 15-year, $100-million deal. Kovalchuk retired from the NHL after the 2012-13 season and signed with St. Petersburg of the KHL.
The Columbus Blue Jackets got a little tougher with the activation of forward Jared Boll off injured reserve.
Boll missed more than half the season, 45 games, after tearing a tendon in his ankle in late November. Boll has played just 21 games this season, recording one goal and 38 penalty minutes.
"It's been a long four months," Boll said, according to the Columbus Dispatch. "I'm excited. I'm nervous. I want to get back out there."
The Blue Jackets also sent goaltender Anton Forsberg to Springfield of the AHL. Forsberg had been playing with Modo in Sweden.
The Tampa Bay Lightning signed University of Alaska-Fairbanks forward Cody Kunyk to a one-year contract. Kunyk, the WCHL player of the year, had 22 goals and 21 assists in 37 games this season ... The Washington Capitals signed Michigan Tech goalie Pheonix Copley, a free agent, to a two-year contract. Copley went 10-13-6 with a 2.51 goals-against average and .911 save percentage in 30 games this season ... The Anaheim Ducks called up forwards Emerson Etem and Rickard Rakell from Norfolk of the AHL. Etem was a first-round pick in 2010 while Rakell was a first-rounder in 2011 ... The Nashville Predators called up forward Calle Jarnkrok from Milwaukee of the AHL. Jarnkrok, who was acquired from Detroit March 5, has five goals and two assists in five games with the minor-league team ... The Chicago Blackhawks signed free-agent forward Matt Carey of St. Lawrence University to a two-year contract. Carey had 18 goals and 19 assists with St. Lawrence this season.
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Even Sony Isn't Sure What the PlayStation 4 Will Look Like
The reason Sony didn't show the exterior of the next-generation PlayStation 4 console at Wednesday's presentation was because the console hasn't been completed yet, according to Sony's worldwide studio president Shuhei Yoshida.
"The console hardware isn't finished, but we thought this was a really good time to show our games," Yoshida said in a roundtable discussion with journalists Thursday morning.
Yoshida says he understood consumers were frustrated by the absence of the new console at Wednesday's reveal, but said Sony had specific plans for its next move. Instead, Sony revealed some of the stats of the inside of the console, as well as detailed information about the console's redesigned controller.
When asked if Sony knew what the outside of the console looked like in a finalized state, Yoshida said the company did not.
While Sony's announcement focused on the impressive specs and features of the console, there was a lot Sony wouldn't talk about at the event or during meetings with reporters. Since the PlayStation 4 isn't due to launch until Holiday 2013, Sony still has a few months to finalize its plans.
Image courtesy Sony Computer Entertainment America.


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First I would like to point out to Think or Swim (TOS), who has done a terrific job in the past, that should they not get their act together in the near future that there are other charting services available. Price freezes are not acceptable, nor is having to rebuild all your charts each and every morning.
After spending more than half an hour just getting my charts back, we can now see that equities have risen to the top of the current downchannel, the dollar is down strongly, bonds are down strongly, and both oil and gold are up.
For those who missed the economic reports and discussion in yesterday's thread, the data was all BAD, but came in slightly better than expected and that got spun into something that it wasn't. Consumer Confidence is still in the gutter, the Chicago PMI was down a very large amount, and the Case-Schiller Home data showed slow price growth, but that is based on sales that occurred PRIOR to the government stimulus ending and does not include sales that have fallen off a cliff since. The cheerleading only leads to larger disconnects from reality. That's right, take two Prozacs and consult with your private marketing expert in the morning, you'll feel better about it.
The worthless MBA Purchase Applications Index supposedly rose 1.8% in the past week – gee, what happened to those wild 30% weekly swings? This index is not based in anything, it is simply a marketing tool to spoon disinformation to the public, I repeat their nonsense only so that you know what others are being shoveled:
The Mortgage Bankers Association's purchase index rose 1.8 percent in the August 27 week, only a slight increase from a very low level which the report says points to no improvement for new home sales in August nor existing home sales for September. On the refinancing side, the index is up 2.8 percent to a 15-month high as borrowers take advantage of even lower mortgage rates. The rate on the average 30-year loan dropped 12 basis points in the week to 4.55 percent.
The Challenger Job-Cut Report showed that the amount of announced mass layoffs fell from July's 41,676 to 34,768 in August. This report is echoing that the bulk of the layoffs are now coming from government. That is fitting with what is expected for wave C as the desire to provide stimulus grows weaker.
The ADP Report for Private Payrolls fell from July's +42,000, to August at -10,000. You would think that a 52,000 drop in private payrolls would be a negative for the market, but no, stocks are higher. I give this report little credence as it is notoriously different than the government's numbers which will be out this Friday. I look at the ADP report as a set up… it sets the expectations so that the real trade gets reversed out from those who act on this one. The consensus for Friday's number is that it improves from -131,000 to "only" -80,000... we'll see.
ISM Manufacturing and Construction Spending are released at 10 Eastern this morning.
Yesterday did produce a 6th Hindenburg Omen. Once again the number of new lows expanded against higher stock prices. Interestingly, the number of new lows on each touch of the SPX 1040 support area has been lower. This could be interpreted as a positive divergence, and I know that some people see it that way, I do not. I see it as basing for the next move lower. Each run up from the 1040 area has been weaker than the prior and that action has produced a descending triangle with a flat base. Those normally pressure the flat base until it breaks. However, this morning it looks like we are going to open above that triangle, so we'll have to watch today's action which may indicate that a higher level wave is occurring especially if we exit the current down channel as seen in the 30 minute SPX chart below:
We are also now clearly making a small rising wedge in the futures. You can see those clearly in the DOW and S&P futures below in what I could recreate in my charts this morning:
I'll leave you with some words from an old sage who I respect immensely, Richard Russell. My only critique is his thinking on gold as money, otherwise his big picture view is spot on:
Richard Russell:
Bear markets exist for the purpose of exposing and eliminating the greed, the corruption and the fraud that thrived in the preceding primary bull market.
To my mind, the biggest fraud of the last fifty years has been the rise and acceptance of fiat "money." For that reason, I expect fiat money to meet its end before this bear market breathes its last. Judging by the size of the top, this could be the biggest bear market since the '30s. I believe this bear market means to take us back to basics and truth. That alone implies the end of central bank-created money and the rise of gold and probably silver. It may also end that immoral inflation machine, the Federal Reserve. Wall Street and its bankers now run the nation. That too will end.
The history of money in the US is a legend of lies, manipulation, immorality and greed. I think this bear market will end those lies, one way or another.


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WASHINGTON – Chief executives for the largest U.S. companies are more optimistic about sales over the next six months and plan to add more workers.
The Business Roundtable says its April-June quarterly survey found 32 per cent of its members expect to expand payrolls in the next six months. That's up from 29 per cent in the January-March survey. And 78 per cent expect their sales to increase. That's up from 72 per cent from the previous survey.
Consumers have kept spending this year, despite an increase in Social Security taxes. That's helped the economy grow at a modest pace.
Still, most of the CEOs don't expect growth to accelerate. They forecast growth of 2.2 per cent this year, about the same as first quarter survey.
The group represents leaders of the 200 biggest U.S. companies.


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Barclays was hit with a record $469.9 million fine by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which also fined four of its former traders for manipulating energy rates in the western U.S. from late 2006 to 2008.
Bloomberg reported late Wednesday that FERC assessed a $435 million civil penalty, as well as ordering the bank to show cause why it should not also surrender $34.9 million in profit from its activities. It also proposed an individual penalty of $15 million for trader Scott Connelly and $1 million each for three colleagues.
"We are disappointed by the action that FERC took today and strongly disagree with the allegations made by FERC against Barclays and its former traders," Mark Lane, a Barclays spokesman, said in a statement. "We believe that our trading was legitimate and in compliance with applicable law."
FERC is also investigating energy trading by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank, and in February it created a division within its enforcement office specifically to police the markets.
According to FERC, the traders were willing to incur losses in the next-day electricity markets so that they could improve Barclays' positions in the InterContinental Exchange. The filing said in part, "Staff concludes that Barclays' conduct constitutes, at a minimum, recklessness," the traders knew their actions were "likely unlawful," and that they ignored warnings from Joseph Gold, a Barclays' managing director.
FERC also said that the actions cost other buyers and sellers in energy and financial markets approximately $139.3 million.
In a notice issued April 5, FERC said the four traders—Connelly, Daniel Brin, Karen Levine and Ryan Smith—allegedly coordinated to manipulate electricity markets. Connelly should suffer the larger penalty "as the leader of the manipulative scheme," the regulator said.
Barclays and its former traders have 30 days to respond. In Barclays' statement, Lane said the bank will "vigorously defend this matter."
Reuters reported earlier Wednesday that Barclays had disclosed the FERC investigation as well as another by the Justice Department and the SEC.


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excerpt from Patrick and his Spiritual River blog;
always a practical, real life view of recovery...
Now as I progressed in my recovery and started to learn some new things and have some different experiences, this whole "balance" thing started to creep into my life. Looking back, I can see that I had a fear of losing my obsessive focus, and I though that allowing some balance and variety into my life might cause me to relapse. This turned out to be false, and achieving some level of balance has turned out to be a very healthy thing for me today.
I like to talk about the holistic approach to recovery and I think that holism is a key to long term sobriety. If you are just getting clean and sober though, a laser focus on not picking up a drink or a drug and concentrating on all things recovery will probably serve you well. Certainly many who have relapsed in early recovery could say that they did not focus heavily enough on recovery. I also believe the strategy of overwhelming force helps validate these ideas.
Early recovery = focus.
Long term recovery = balance.


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