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Ali, Frazier, Foreman, De la Hoya, Patterson and now Shields all have succeeded at Olympic Games.
By Leland Stein III
LONDON – US men's Olympic boxers have won a record 108 medals. But since David Reid took gold at Atlanta in 1996, only one US man — Andre Ward, in 2004 — has taken the Olympic title.
The list of pugilist that has taken the sweet science by storm over the years after achieving Olympic glory is simply legendary.
Any list will have to start with Floyd Patterson (1952), Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali) in 1960, Joe Frazier (1964), George Foreman (1968), Sugar Ray Leonard (1976), Leon Spinks (1976), Michael Spinks (1976), Pernell Whitaker (1984), Mark Breland (1984), Evander Holyfield (1984), Riddick Bowe (1988), Roy Jones Jr. (1988) Oscar de la Hoya (1992), and David Reid (1996).
There are others that found noteworthy success as professional fighters like Ray Seales (1972), John Tate (1976), Howard Davis (1976), Leo Randolph (1976), Steve McCrory (1984), Frank Tate (1984), Meldrick Taylor (1984), Tyrell Biggs (1984), Henry Tillman (1984), Michael Carbajal (1988), Ray Mercer (1988), Andrew Maynard (1988), Chris Byrd (1992), and Antonio Tarver 1996).
All of the above mentioned Olympians medaled at their Olympic Games and went on to successful professional careers.
Fast forward into the 2000 and anyone can see something has happened to USA Boxing. In fact, the 2012 Olympic Games is the first in history where the US men did not medal in any of the weight classes.
It took the US women to hold the boxing torch. In the first Games where women were allowed to participate in boxing, out of the three weight classes US women won two medals. Marlen Esparza won a bronze medal as a flyweight and Claressa Shields won the USA's only boxing gold medal.
Shields' historic gold was the first US gold since Ward. Olympic boxing gold has been hard to obtain for the US. That makes 17-year-old Shield's remarkable win over two world champion women on her way to gold even that more impressive.
How does USA boxing get back on track? Are the mix martial arts diluting the talent pool? Surly the allure of college and professional football has taken away the Ali's, Frazier's and Foreman's in US Boxing.
Another problem is that the USA Boxing names trainers, but the trainers that have worked with the fighters cannot be in their corners at the Games. Who knows the fighters better than the men and women that train them? No one!! And as the sweet science continues to grow internationally the fighters are getting better and better.
For example, I was watching a young lady from Ireland (Katie Taylor) fight for lightweight gold and in her corner was her father, who has trained her since she started boxing. The Irish Olympic officials told me, "Why would we put anyone else in her corner?"
I looked at the Americans and they have people in their fighter's corner that simply do not know the fighters they are charged to cajole.
The US Olympic Committee is also disappointed by boxing's medal-less men's team. USOC CEO Scott Blackmun offered no specifics, but it's clear the governing body expected more from US fighters, who left the Olympics empty handed for the first time in team history.
''We're going to sit down and take a hard look at why we are where we are, and make some changes,'' Blackmun said. ''I don't want to say anything beyond that.''
The US men's team, the most successful in Olympic history, lost nine of its last 10 bouts in London. USA Boxing has been criticized for a sharp decline in recent years, along with the fact that the coaching staff was not in place until just about a month before the games opened.
''We're disappointed in boxing,'' Blackmun said. ''We want to do better, particularly in men's boxing. By saying disappointed in boxing, I don't mean in the people. I mean, we're disappointed that we didn't do better in boxing, because I know that we can do better and we have to focus on how we do that.''
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When school teachers, police officers and other government employees retire, their pension systems should provide them with the retirement income they were promised. Government pension systems should make conservative, risk-adverse investments, so that an additional burden does not come crashing down on taxpayers.
Unfortunately, some government systems are making risky, speculative investments that put the future of employees and taxpayers at risk. They are investing in initial public offerings (IPOs)--financial instruments that historically have been poor investments. In Michigan, seven government pension funds have lost $10 million investing in Metropolitan Realty Corp., and two Detroit plans lost nearly as much some state, and continued investing in Income Opportunity Realty Trust.
When a loss of this magnitude--nearly $20 million--occurs it is time to reevaluate the existing government pension system. We must not only ask how these catastrophes occurred, but how we can avoid similar tragedies in the future.
Government systems operate like private pension plans in some respects. Money is set aside for employees, and applied toward their retirement. The system's money manager invests in various stocks, bonds, mortgages and other financial instruments. The goal is to earn a rate of return sufficient for the retirement needs of employees.
There is one important difference, however, between government and private plans. In Michigan, disclosure requirements for government plans are virtually non-existent. A school teacher, police officer, or other government employee cannot check the quarterly, or even annual, performance of the system they are enrolled in because the state legislature has never mandated such a requirement. A government plan may be squandering its principal, or it may be charting a prudent financial course. In either case, the public has no way of knowing.
Why would a government pension manager invest in a risky, speculative instrument like an IPO? Dr. Porter Wheeler of the Jefferson Group, an economic research group in Washington, studied the performance of 3,186 IPOs after they were brought to market between 1980 and the decade's end. By the end of 1989, Dr. Wheeler found that only 58 percent of the IPOs were even listed on a public stock exchange. Only one-third had a market price above their initial offering price.
The other 42 percent of IPOs simply disappeared from the market. Among this group, about half went out of business or became too small to be listed on a stock exchange. The other half were merged into other companies.
IPOs definitely fall outside the parameters of what one would call a "blue chip investment." So why did government pension managers invest in Metropolitan Realty Corp. and Income Opportunity Realty Trust? Good questions but there are few real answers. In the case of Metropolitan Realty, the law firm of Thomas Lewand, a powerful figure in Michigan politics, was retained by the New York brokerage firm issuing the stock. Lewand's law firm profited from the issuance of the Metropolitan Realty Corp. IPO, and was later retained by the company as legal counsel.
While this was occurring, the seven government pension plans were losing $10 million. The state Department of Treasury, Detroit, Wayne, and Macomb counties paid $10 per share for the Metropolitan Realty Corp. IPO in 1989. Today, the stock is trading for $5 per share.
The value of Income Opportunity Realty Trust stock has declined even more dramatically. In 1985, two Detroit pension systems--General Retirement and Police and Fire--paid $20 per share for the Income Opportunity Realty Trust IPO--a $15 million investment. In 1989, the two Detroit plans sold when the stock was trading for $7.50. Today, the stock is trading for a mere $1.50.
Perhaps the most ironic aspect of this spectacle is that Detroit's government pension managers were trying to purchase 100 percent of Income Opportunity Realty Trust's stock in 1989 before they liquidated their position. Had they been successful, the system's losses would have been tens of millions of dollars.
Apparently, some government pension managers have forgotten that nobody spends someone else's money as carefully as they spend their own. One way to remedy this problem would be to set investment parameters for managers to follow. For example, municipal insured income funds can only invest in safe tax-free municipal bonds rated AA or higher. Why not set similar investment parameters for government pension plans in Michigan? A good place to start would be to ban them from purchasing IPOs.
Lack of public disclosure allowed the S&L crisis to avalanche into a multi-billion dollar albatross around the necks of taxpayers. We should prevent a similar financial disaster in Michigan by requiring government pension systems to report their holdings and performance on an annual, or even quarterly basis.
Government should be subject to the same disclosure requirements that it imposes on the private sector. School teachers, police officers and every other government employee have a right to know how their pension system is performing.
Finally, why not take public disclosure one step further and require government pension managers and their financial associates to place their personal investment holdings in blind trust? Government power requires checks and balances or it will lead to private abuse. By not requiring managers to place their holdings in blind trust, the government is leaving the door open to potential abuse.
The stakes are high--the retirement income of tens of thousand of public employees, and the financial well-being of taxpayers--for these reforms to be overlooked. Continuing down the current path of lax regulation of government pension systems in Michigan invites another disaster.
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Using customer insights and better analyses for better decisions. Custora's Head of Product Management Jordan Elkind discusses how forward-thinking retailers use customer insights to analyze strategic
Custora CEO and Cofounder Corey Pierson gives an introduction to the day's events for CARMA 2019 by talking about why its existentially important for retail organizations to be holistically customer-c
"Data Uncorked: Using Customer Insights & Testing for a Stellar Customer Experience" Jennifer Kalmakis (Director of Customer Engagement, Custora) sits down with Lindsey Knowles, VP of Marketing, Winc
In this fireside chat, Ben Grant (Head of Customer Success, Custora) speaks with Stacy Fierstein (VP Marketing, Vince.) and Julian Ellin (VP E-Commerce, Vince.) about how their organization pivoted fr
In this fireside chat, Richard Kestenbaum (Forbes contributor, partner at Triangle Capital) and Robin Lewis (Founder and Editor of The Robin Report) discuss the future of the retail store and retail o
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The two biggest names at Friday's Titan Fighting Championships 18 event faltered with co-headliners Jens Pulver and Jake Rosholt both suffering losses.
Pulver simply was outworked. Rosholt, though, simply made a mistake after dominating his bout.
The fights were part of HDNet's live broadcast from Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan.
Pulver (24-15-1), a former UFC champ fighting for the fourth time since coming out a retirement following an unsuccessful run in the WEC, scored takedowns on 140-pound Missourian Brian Davidson (7-3). But without an edge standing or on the mat, Davidson ultimately locked in a fight-ending rear-naked choke at the 4:04 mark of the opening round.
Davidson's quick start may have caught the MMA notable by surprise.
"It was his night," said Pulver, who's now lost seven of his past nine fights. "I'm not going to take anything away from him. … He came out like an animal."
But despite the loss, which snapped Pulver's recent two-fight win streak, the 36-year-old isn't ready to cave to the calls for retirement.
"I die alone," he said. "At the end of the day, we all die alone. … I'll retire when I want to."
Meanwhile, Rosholt (11-4), a late addition to the card, thoroughly dominated his 200-pound catchweight fight with John Ott (9-8).
Rosholt, a UFC vet and former NCAA Division I national wrestling champion, scored takedowns with ease while slicing and dicing his elbow's face with elbow strikes.
Ultimately, though, Rosholt connected with an illegal knee to Ott's badly bloodied face while the fighter still had a knee planted on the canvas. Dazed and unable to continue, Ott earned the dubious victory via disqualification due to the illegal strike.
"Let me assure you: It wasn't on purpose," said Rosholt, who had built a four-fight win streak following a surprise 2009 release from the UFC. "His hands came up, and I thought his knee came up."
The former Oklahoma State stud and Team Takedown staple has to hope the mental lapse doesn't derail his plans for a return to the UFC.
Rosholt's younger brother, heavyweight Jared Rosholt (3-0), fared a bit better and scored a 97-second ground-and-pound TKO of Kirk Grinlinton (2-3). The former NCAA Division I All-American wrestler now has earned stoppages (including two submissions) in all three of his pro outings.
Also picking up a victory on the Tian Fighting 18 event was Bellator vet Rudy Bears (13-7), who scored a first-round submission of Strikeforce alumn and fellow welterweight Darryl Cobb (5-3).
The full Titan Fighting 18 pro-fight results included:
- Brian Davidson def. Jens Pulver via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 4:04
- John Ott def. Jake Rosholt via disqualification (illegal strike) – Round 3, 4:23
- Rudy Bears def. Darryl Cobb via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 3:30
- Jared Rosholt def. Kirk Grinlinton via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 1:37
- Bobvia Cooper def. Nick Budig via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
- Joe Wilk def. Jesse Zeugin via submission (D'arce choke) – Round 1, 3:36
- Sean Wilson def. Deryck Ripley via submission (toehold) – Round 1 2:00
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Verizon's Versatile VoIP Hub
The Verizon Hub is designed to replace a standard family phone with what the company describes as a "communications command center in the home."
Verizon Wireless this month launched the Verizon Hub, a touch-screen home VoIP system that the company describes a "communications command center in the home"and which is designed to supplant the traditional home phone with a wide range of additional functionality.
The device itself, designed by OpenPeak Inc., consists of a base station with a 7-inch color touch screen, and a cordless handset with a 1.8-inch screen. Its priced at $199.99 after a $50 rebate. Additional handsets are available for $79.99 each. Voice service costs $34.99 a month for unlimited calling in the U.S. and Canada plus unlimited messaging to and from Verizon Wireless phones.
John Broten, Verizon Wireless director of VoIP consumer products, says the idea is to integrate the best features of a wireless phone with those of a home phone. "Were really trying to reinvent the home phone, and bring to the kitchen counter a suite of products thats much different than the phone that folks have become accustomed to over the years," he says.
Simplicity and convenience
In doing so, Broten says, the aim wasnt to put a fully functioning PC in the kitchen, but instead to "deliver a set of features that brings some simplicity and convenience to the household and helps them manage their day and manage their family with things that heretofore havent been on the home phonethings like text messaging, rapid search, and MMS messaging between wireless devices and the home phone."
While the Hub doesnt have a Web browser, Broten says, "It has a robust lineup of streaming content for pretty much all the players in the household, whether it be mom, dad, or kids, covering the range from sports and news to kids entertainment to recipes and things of that nature. So the thought here is to bring to the center of the household a device that brings content and functionality to help people improve their efficiency and their productivity in their daily lives in a way that they hadnt had before."
That means a wide range of V CAST streaming video options (news, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, food, and dining) as well as contacts, calendar, traffic, weather, movie listings, messaging, and visual voicemailwith the intention, Broten says, of continually adding more functionality over time. "We fully see this as a dynamic device, in that we can improve and add features and functionality to it as we grow the product and hopefully at some point in time well be in a position where third party developers may be able to build apps for the device," he says.
Ensuring call quality
The service requires a Verizon Wireless phone number and a wireless router, but it works over any home DSL or cable connection. Still, Broten says the call quality is excellent. "As an over-the-top service, there is in a technical sense no quality of service guarantee, because you are dependent on the other providers broadband," Broten says. "So while were not guaranteeing quality of service, the tests that weve done on our call quality on these devices is in a MOS score range equivalent to the PSTN."
And although the Verizon Hub was introduced soon after Verizon announced the imminent termination of its VoiceWing VoIP service, Broten says theres no connection between the two. "We had been been in the VoiceWing space for four plus years, and the VoiceWing service was not fully integrated into the telecom side of the business product suitethere were a number of outsourcing components to itso rather than continue with that offer structured the way it was, we decided that there were other ways to tap that market of which we believe this device is one," he says.
Ultimately, Broten says, it all comes down to the tag line that Verizons using for the device: the Home Phone Reinvented. "Its the first device of its kind in the market so it puts in play a whole household experience that really is new for us in the wireless space," he says.
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A few weeks ago I turned on my television set. I have been a faithful viewer of the news Eric Wilson brought into my home and many others. When I turned it on the second night I noticed he was not there again. I kind of put two and two together and felt he was gone.
What I read in the paper said he was fired, and it was really too disturbing to me. I believe WREX lost a very good news announcer. I thought it was very unprofessional the way it was done.
Eric, you deserve more than $50,000 and I wish you luck. When you have something good, you don't break it, which I felt was done here with Eric.
Eric, you will go far because you are an excellent reporter; you gave us what we wanted, news. Sorry WREX, you lost. I will say that since you have fired Eric it makes me wonder how you treat your other employees. Since you have fired Eric, I will never watch your news on WREX as I feel you have made a big mistake! Good luck, Eric!
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A smallish Lutherville strip mall is the setting for
, a casual fine-dining restaurant with a Puerto Rican influence brought by chef-owner Rudolfo Domacasse who's worked in several notable Baltimore-area kitchens. We loved dinners there but had never tried the lunch menu. We were pressed for time but were in the neighborhood and decided to risk a slow-food experience.
11:59 a.m.
We arrive and within five minutes we had drinks and a pretty good idea what we'd order. I like the concept of the club sandwich, but I stopped ordering them eons ago because they often came over-breaded and either under-filled or packed with second-rate ingredients. At finer restaurants, I tend to want to go with something a bit less prosaic. I ordered the club ($12) this time because the smoked chicken called to me and past experience with Restaurant Sabor suggested this kitchen would present a good example of the classic sandwich.
My dining companion ordered the fish and chips. The fish on this day was tilapia at the market price of $14. She opted for "batitas" — sweet potato fries, while I went with what I presumed would be the more mundane papitas — regular old fries. Sabor also offers a carb-avoidance choice of greens with choice of dressing, a welcome option if you want to lighten your lunch, but at Sabor, resisting the fries might be pushing the discipline thing a bit far.
We didn't order starters partly because the options were soups or salads and mostly because we were in more than a normal hurry to enjoy lunch and skedaddle off to urgent business in another county. Which leads me to Sabor's interior.
Sabor's deep warm colors, tapestry wall coverings and draped ceiling perimeter, along with low interior lights that back the natural light from its large windows give the dining room an intimate feel. But the restaurant also touts its community-table setting, and for me the mix feels weird. Acoustics may play a role. The few tables that were seated while we were there were two or three yards from us in any direction, but I could clearly hear conversations, details, whole sentences, and I wasn't trying.
12:23 p.m.
The entrees are delivered. It's no small feat to justify 12 bucks for a club sandwich. Sabor comes as close as anyone. The smoked chicken was delicate and savory, the bacon thick and the bread thin, light and toasted golden. All layers, including cheddar, lettuce and tomato, were carefully proportioned. But the fries nearly stole the show. They were light, crisp and generously seasoned with truffle salt. I'd asked for ketchup before I tried them. By the time our server brought it, I'd decided ketchup would be an insult.
The sweet potato fries also shoved their way toward the top, full of fresh batitas flavor that too often doesn't survive the process of making their exteriors crisp.
The tilapia was a welcome and well turned out alternative to cod. Same with the batter. It formed a crisp balloon around the fish without a trace of clingy, uncooked batter. Nothing wet or heavy about it.
12:39 p.m.
We could have paid our bill and left very contented. But remember, I'd overheard the dessert selection. Given Sabor's treatment of a club, fish and fries, what might it do with creme brulee and apple crisp? Curiosity got the best of us.
The answer: the dreamily light custard, made on premises and speckled with those little black seeds that signal true vanilla goodness, was sublime, as good as I've ever had. The caramelized sugar coating was, on the other hand, too thick for my taste and overwhelmed rather than complemented the cream. I ate around it.
A blessed scoop of ice cream mitigated the apple crisp's exceptional sweetness, to which even the spiced apples contributed. We practically had to force ourselves to eat it all. But we did and weren't a bit sorry, just a tad sugar-rushy. The desserts were $8 each.
Greetings and service add a family feel to Sabor, not over-the-top at all, but there's a definite sense of comfort and welcome here that you tend not to get at trendier upscale houses. Our server was relaxed and genial, in keeping with the casual-fine dining atmosphere Sabor advertises.
12:56 p.m.
We finished and checked out, having taken longer than we expected because of the temptation of dessert. Not a bad way to mess up a busy schedule.
Sabor doesn't serve alcoholic beverages but you can take your own; if you forget, there's a handy liquor store just a few doors down from the restaurant.
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08-Sep-2001 -- 44N001W and 45N001W are quite typical views of the "Landes" landscape: a flat area with exploited pine trees over fern and bramble.
We visited 44N001W coming from Morcenx. Leaving south-west, we first used the small road linking Garrosse to Le Bouscat. At a small water tower, shown on the Michelin map, we turned north on a dirt track and left the car at a point 200 meters from the confluence (N44°00.053 W001°00.132).
Both of us, accompanied by Leda, Christian's daughter's dog, who had some trouble jumping among the bramble and bushes, went to the spot.
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This set includes a custom Olivewood 20mm Super Silvertip hair shaving brush, Double Edge (DE) safety razor and chrome stand. Super Silvertip knots have natural soft white tips that give the knot a luxurious feel. Super Silvertip is the highest grade Silvertip I carry and is an upgrade over my Super Badger and Standard Silvertip Badger. If you want the best, Super Silvertip is what you want. The knots are nicely packed and they have good backbone. The shaving brush is 5 1/4" tall. The DE Safety Razor head components and tail piece are chrome. The DE Safety Razor is a 3 piece stamped steel design. The two piece head unscrews from the handle for blade replacement. This entry level DE razor provides a non-aggressive shave that is good for either the new or experienced wet shaver. If you're new to wet shaving and are looking for a cool little razor this is a perfect fit for you or your loved one. The handle with DE Razor head is 4 1/2" long (2 ounces). The custom set pictured is the set you will receive.
The shaving set's finish (Cyanoacrylate--i.e., Superglue) is durable, highly polished and cannot be penetrated by water. When using the brush, you can get the handle as wet as you want during use and not worry about the wood being damaged. To maintain the finish you just need to wipe it dry after each use. Don't buy a handmade shaving set unless you know exactly what is used for the finish. I make hundreds of custom shaving accessories each year and this is the only finish that will last for years in the tough shaving environment.
My shaving sets are made one at a time by me at a pace that allows for the crafting of a unique and beautiful addition to your home or collection. These brushes make great gifts for those hard to get men and women in your life.
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(CNN) — Countries in northeast Asia remained on edge Wednesday amid warnings from U.S. and South Korean officials that North Korea could carry out a missile test at any point.
Japan has deployed missile defense systems around Tokyo, some Chinese tour groups have canceled visits to North Korea, and U.S. radars and satellites are trained on an area of the Korean east coast where Kim Jong Un's regime is believed to have prepared mobile ballistic missiles for a possible test launch.
After weeks of belligerent threats and provocative gestures from Pyongyang, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is fragile.
Adm. Samuel J. Locklear, the top U.S. commander in the Pacific, said Tuesday that he couldn't recall a time of greater tension in the region since the end of the Korean War in the 1950s.
Before the two controversial long-range rocket launches that North Korea carried out last year, the reclusive regime gave ample warning to the world. But it is keeping everyone guessing about what it might do this time around.
"According to intelligence obtained by our side and the U.S., the possibility of a missile launch by North Korea is very high," South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said at a parliamentary hearing Wednesday, according to the semiofficial South Korean news agency Yonhap.
He said the missile in question is a Musudan, an untested weapon that he said has a range as far as 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles). That would mean it could reach as far as Guam, a Western Pacific territory that is home to U.S. naval and air bases and where the United States recently said it was placing missile defense systems.
After any launch, U.S. satellites and radars in the region would be able to calculate the trajectory of missiles within minutes and quickly conclude whether they are on a test path headed for open ocean or potentially headed for land areas such as Japan.
The United States and Japan would then have to decide whether to try to shoot the missiles down, U.S. officials say.
A launch without warning?
Yun said he was basing his assessment on South Korean and U.S. intelligence. On Tuesday, a U.S. official said that the American government believes a test launch could happen at any time and without North Korea issuing a standard notice to commercial aviation and maritime shipping that would warn planes and vessels to stay away from the missile's path.
The official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the information, cautioned that most of the information comes from satellite imagery, so it's impossible to reach a definitive conclusion because the United States cannot gather information on the ground.
He said the launch could be "imminent" but also cautioned that the United States "simply doesn't know." Based on what the United States has seen, the belief is that the missiles have received their liquid fuel and are ready for launch.
Speaking at a Senate Armed Services hearing Tuesday, Locklear said the U.S. military would not want to shoot down a North Korean missile whose trajectory would send it into the open sea. But he said if the missile's path appeared to threaten a U.S. ally, such as Japan, interceptor missiles could be used to try to bring it down.
Japan's deployment of missile defenses in Tokyo follows similar measures taken ahead of the North's rocket launches last year.
Since the U.N. Security Council voted last month to impose new sanctions on Kim's regime over the latest North Korean nuclear test, Pyongyang has kept up a steady flow of words and acts that could give the impression of a nation heading inexorably toward conflict.
On Tuesday, it advised foreigners in South Korea to secure shelter or evacuate the country in case of hostilities on the Korean Peninsula, the latest in a string of ominous warnings.
It also kept more than 50,000 of its workers from an industrial complex jointly operated with South Korea, which had been a key symbol of cooperation between the two countries.
'Holiday atmosphere' inside North Korea
But on the same day, state media published articles that described festive events and international visits, suggesting a much less fraught situation inside North Korea.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that various sporting events were happening or scheduled to take place to mark the 101st anniversary next week of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea and the grandfather of Kim Jong Un.
"The ongoing sports tournaments make the country seethe with holiday atmosphere," KCNA said. Kim Il Sung's birthday, known as the Day of the Sun, is a major public holiday in North Korea.
The planned events include an international marathon Sunday in Pyongyang in which runners from North Korea and other countries will participate. KCNA also noted Tuesday the arrival by plane in North Korea of a delegation from the Japan-Korea Society for Scientific and Educational Interchange.
Such visits sit strangely alongside the North's warning last week to foreign diplomats in Pyongyang that it wouldn't be able to guarantee their safety in the event of a conflict.
Some North Korea watchers have observed that the regime's domestic propaganda has focused recently on efforts to promote economic development, while the bellicose threats appear targeted primarily at a foreign audience.
Varying levels of concern
The angry rhetoric has also failed to alarm South Koreans, who have lived through decades of North Korean bombast. Residents of Seoul have continued to go unflappably about their daily business.
"South Korea has been living under such threats from the past, and we are always prepared for it," South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae told CNN on Wednesday. He called the current climate "a very ordinary situation."
"North Korea may launch missiles at any time, and our military is fully prepared for it," he said.
But the North's fiery words appear to have had an effect on the American public, with 41% of those surveyed saying they see the reclusive nation as an immediate threat to the United States, according to a recent CNN/ORC International poll.
That's up 13 percentage points in less than a month, CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
"If North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wanted to get the attention of the American public, his strategy is starting to work," Holland said.
Andrei Lankov, a professor of history at Kookmin University in Seoul, noted the varying levels of concern in an opinion article for The New York Times published Tuesday.
"The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here," he said.
The tense situation does appear to have prompted some Chinese tour groups to call off upcoming trips to North Korea.
Hong Lei, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said Wednesday that some agencies and tourists had canceled plans, but he said the Chinese-North Korean border continued to operate normally.
Western tourism agencies that organize visits to North Korea haven't so far reported any changes to their activities.
A troubled industrial zone
The most tangible signs of disruption are in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, the manufacturing zone on the North Korean side of the border where more than 120 South Korean companies operate.
Last week, the North started blocking South Korean personnel from crossing the border back into the complex. And this week, it said it was pulling out the more than 50,000 North Koreans who work inside the zone and temporarily suspending activities there.
It had blocked the border crossing previously, in 2009, but pulling out the workers was a new step.
As of Wednesday lunchtime, only a few hundred South Koreans remained inside the complex, according to South Korean authorities, down from more than 800 before the North started restricting entry.
Also on Wednesday, South Korea accused the North of carrying out a wave of cyberattacks that paralyzed the networks of major South Korean banks and broadcasters last month. It is the first time that Seoul has formally pointed the finger at Pyongyang for the hacking, which affected more than 48,000 computers.


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Did you know there was a very secret payload on board the Dragon spacecraft, the first private spaceship to reach orbit and return safely to Earth? SpaceX didn't reveal what it was until today. The answer is deliciously funny.
It was a wheel of cheese! SpaceX CEO originally dropped a hint that if you liked Monty Python, you would enjoy the payload. The wheel of cheese is an ode to a skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus, where John Cleese tries to order cheese from a cheese shop that has no cheese. And we're sure there was some useful scientific testing that necessitates cheese too. [Universe Today via Geekosystem]


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Traditional wisdom dictates that a client's allocation to equities should decline as he or she gets older, but in a session at the IMCA annual conference on Monday, Michael Kitces asked if that was more tradition than actual wisdom.
Kitces said there were two fundamental questions clients asked about safe withdrawal rates: how much they can spend without worrying about the market, and how much they need to save to spend a certain amount.
The average withdrawal rate is 6.5%, but as Kitces pointed out, using the average rate will by definition fail 50% of the time. You shouldn't care about the average as much as the lows, he said: "How bad does it get if your timing is bad?"
Kitces pointed to several historical market events that led to the commonly accepted 4% safe withdrawal rate: the credit crash of 1907, the market crash that led to the Great Depression in 1929 and the dramatic "stagflation" of the 1970s. A retiree during those events could have safely withdrawn 4%, thus the 4% rule.
However, following those events, markets returned to similar levels each time, suggesting that the withdrawal rate just has to be low enough for retirees to get through the crisis before the markets return to normal, Kitces said.
Kitces suggested a strategy to create retirement income: at retirement, annuitize the bond portion — or part of it — of the client's portfolio. The annuity provides income for the near term, while the rest of the portfolio continues to grow.
Under this strategy, a client's equity allocation increases, but Kitces found that portfolios with higher equity allocations fared better than those with an allocation that decreased over time. He examined the effect of several factors: mortality credits in the annuity, sequence risk and rising equities.
He found that mortality credits actually hurt the client until he or she had been retired for at least 30 years, suggesting that the benefit was not from the annuity, but from the great allocation to equities.
He said that there was already 20 years of research that shows the traditional decreasing equities allocation is not as good as many people think it is. A 1996 paper by William Bengen found that declining equity reduces the maximum safe withdrawal rate, but at a 1% decline per year, it may be a reasonable tradeoff if it makes the client more comfortable.
A 2007 paper by David Blanchett tested more than 40 different glide paths and found that a static equity allocation did at least as well if not better than a declining equity glide path.
Kitces noted that neither of these papers tested a rising equity glide path, so he conducted his own study. He tested 121 glide paths with a 4% and a 5% withdrawal rate to measure the probability and magnitude of failure.
Using historical average capital market expectations, Kitces found that a declining equity glide path performed the worst. A static glide path performed better and the rising glide path performed best of all. In fact, he found that the ideal glide path started at about 30% of the portfolio allocated to equities, rising to about 60%.
He noted that he's still researching how long the glide path should be, but that it should begin before retirement. If an advisor wants to adopt this strategy for a client who is already retired, Kitces said, "Do the same thing you would for a client who is over-risked."
Kitces recommended that advisors who adopt a rising equity glide path start with half the allocation a client is comfortable with and move up. That way, they never have more equities than they're comfortable with. It also means the equity allocation is smallest at the pivotal point—when the portfolio is largest and stands to lose the most.
Kitces tested the rising equity glide path against sequence risk, too, and found that a smaller allocation to equities earlier helped because if returns early on are bad, rising equities dollar-cost average into cheaper stocks; and if returns are good early on, it doesn't impact how much money they client has to live on, only how much he or she can leave on. "You only die with quintuple your wealth, rather than septuple," Kitces said.
He added that this strategy works best with clients who use a moderate withdrawal rate. He also warned that liquidating too much into cash can be too much of a drag on return.
Kitces continued, "Good results early on mean you're so far ahead, a bear market has no effect. You already do dollar-cost averaging in the accumulation phase. It works just as well in retirement."
This theory naturally brought up the question of target-date funds: Does this mean they're a time bomb waiting to go off? Kitces said that depends on whether they are "to" or "through" funds. "To" TDFs that go flat on equities before retirement might be "OK," he said: since they have already wound down their equity allocation to zero, you can still implement a suitable rising equity glide path.
"'Through' funds are more concerning," Kitces said, because clients enter retirement with a too-aggressive allocation that declines when it should start more conservatively and increase.
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Disney Princess The Last Princess Standing
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I saw the some users do this in the past so I thought I'd start it up again, since their forums are completed:
Winner: Belle
Order of elimination:
- Aurora
- Ariel
- Rapunzel
- Jasmine
- Snow White
- Tiana
- Cinderella
- Mulan
- Pocahontas
Winner: Merida
Order of elimination:
- Ariel
- Pocahontas
- Belle
- Rapunzel
- Aurora
- Snow White
- Cinderella
- Jasmine
- Mulan
The rules of the game are simple; each princess starts out with 10 points each. Each person subtracts one point from a princess, and each person adds one point to a princess. The next person in line takes the amount of points from the previous post and does the same: subtracts and adds. Official Disney Princesses only.
Snow White: 10
Cinderella: 10
Aurora: 10
Ariel: 10
Belle: 10
Jasmine: 10
Pocahontas: 10
Mulan: 10
Tiana: 10
Rapunzel: 10
Merida: 10
You can submit a banner for a princess' death or the winning princess at your leisure! You can even submit a game banner for the forum.
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A recent Sherlock special dropped on January 1st, and kind of set the show's kingdom of subscribers ablaze in widespread fits of puzzled fascination, when policeman Philip Anderson somewhat contemptuously calls Sherlock a psychopath.
Hold the phone, what now? Quick on his feet as ever, Sherlock responded:
"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research"
"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research"
Um. Okay.
The folks at Business Insider acted quick on this unanticipated vaguely alarming revelation and asked James Fallon, a neuroscientist at the UC Irvine School of Medicine who specializes in studying psychopaths. Fallon then passed along the question to his close associate, Michael Felong, a doctor who specializes in internal medicine out of Temecula, California, who claims a great interest in Sherlock Holmes to boot. Well the word coming from these guys is that the character of Sherlock, as penned by Doyle, is indeed a psychopath.
Why is Sherlock a psychopath?
Though he's a man who has a god-like intellect, unparalleled brilliance, Sherlock Holmes also continually displays a complete and utter lack of emotion for other people's feelings; and in spite of this, he tends to win over the affection of those around him (Dr. Watson being a prime example), which portrays charismatic psychopathic traits.


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For years, the unusual shape of the building site in the 1400-block of Howe, in the shadow of the Granville Street Bridge, stymied developer Westbank. Site restrictions, including a 30-metre setback from the bridge, left only a triangular chunk of land measuring just 6,000 square feet.
And that, as architect Bjarke Ingels said Thursday, was too small for a condominium tower.
Ingels, of Danish company Bjarke Ingels Group, with offices in New York and Copenhagen, approached the problem differently.
If the intent of the city's regulation was to provide a minimum setback from the bridge for residents of a tower, what would happen once you rose 100 feet above the bridge? Residents would be well above the bridge sightlines.
If that was the case, then a design solution would be to start the building on a triangular base and slowly change the form into a rectangle as it climbed higher.
The simple and elegant design freed up the upper building envelope for development. In essence, it found unused developable space in thin air.
"Behind any rule or regulation, there is intent," Ingels said in an interview. "There is the letter and the spirit. If you understand the spirit, then there might be ways of addressing those concerns that are the underlying reasons why the code is the way it is.
"In order to bend or break the rules, you have to master the rules. We don't believe so much in the idea of thinking outside of the box. We try to find all the space available within the box — maybe like bending the membrane of the box without destroying it."
Ingels said the unique design came out of the very first meeting his architectural firm had on the project, which is now known as Vancouver House.
The distinctive 52-story residential tower, with 407 condominiums and 95 rental apartments, is being built by Ian Gillespie's Westbank Projects Corp. and is expected to be finished by 2018.
The project includes public art on the underside of the Granville Street Bridge in the form of backlit photographs in lightboxes and a spinning 18th-century chandelier by artist Rodney Graham.
Although Vancouver House has been called a twisting tower, Ingels doesn't describe it that way. He says it is an expanding tower that spreads out to fill the building's rectangular footprint as it rises.
The striking form comes out of a practical response to the site, Ingels said. There is also the added bonus that the design not only increases the amount of space by 50 per cent, it also creates more valuable units with views and sunlight.
"I think there is this misunderstanding that creative people should run wild," said Ingels.
"We always say: give us all the parameters. Criteria that you get at the beginning of the process become like ingredients you can cook with. Criteria that come at the end become like obstacles or show-stoppers."
Ingels was in Vancouver for the media preview of Gesamtkunstwerk. Pronounced Geh-ZAHMPT-kunst-verk, it's a German word that means a total work of art where everything is considered and chosen so that all the parts work together to achieve whatever effect is intended.
The exhibition records the seven-year process of designing and developing Vancouver House and how the tower fits in with the development of Vancouverism, a residential building form that matches a thin vertical tower with a horizontal podium of townhouses. Vancouver-style residential towers are now being built all over the world.
Trevor Boddy, the exhibition's curator, dates the beginning of Vancouverism to a pencil drawing from 1955 by Arthur Erickson when he was an architecture professor at the University of B.C. The sketch shows twisting, 30-storey, terraced towers in the West End and Kits Point and a bridge linking UBC with West Vancouver.
Boddy said the drawing is being shown publicly for the first time.
"This is an amazing anchor drawing," he said. "I think the key ideas of Vancouverism were anticipated in this single sketch."
The exhibition Gesamtkunstwerk at 1460 Howe is free. It's open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. to Sunday, May 18.


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First Taste: The McRib Is Back
Would you like fries (or onion rings or chicken tenders) with that?
They say that smell is the sense most closely tied to memory. Anyone who has ever smelled an ex's perfume can attest to that. When I opened the McRib box, the smell brought to mind my mother's Oldsmobile station wagon; the barbecue sauce reminded me of its burgundy velour interior. It was when I took the first bite, though, that I remembered exactly how long it had been.
The Serious Eats team emailed me last week with news that the McRib was coming back, on Election Day, November 2nd. (Those who read my column forwarded me similar news.) I wrote the McRib re-release date onto my calendar.
Rumors circulated this week that the McRib had been released early in certain locations. A reader confirmed that it was, indeed, available in Brooklyn and Queens. After confirming with the restaurant via telephone, I spent the entire subway ride trying to remember how long it had been since I'd last had a McRib. Sixteen years? No, that's how long it's been since the Pirates were above 500. Ten years? No, longer than that. When I ordered one, the cashier (noticeably younger than I) asked me, "Have you ever had one before?" I said it had been ten years, at least.
The scent brought my mom's old car back to mind. But that didn't seem right; she'd gotten rid of that in the late 1980s. When I bit into it, the crunch of the onion, mixed with the sauce brought the Flintstones movie to mind—Rick Moranis and John Goodman and a Flintstones-McDonalds promotion. The Flinstones was released in 1994; 16 long years ago.
The McRib has popped up from time to time since then, but it's hardly changed—hoagie-style bun, rib patty, onions, pickles, and their tangy barbecue sauce. The bun looks exactly like Burger King's bun for their chicken sandwiches, and tastes similar, too; a slight top crust, a light interior. The pickles are standard issue, but the white onions are long half-moons with a distinct onion taste and crunch. The rib patty tastes more like pork than plenty of fast-food meats, and it's complemented nicely by the barbecue sauce, which is different from the normal dipping sauce—a bit more tangy, less sweet, and more spice and smoke.
Worth All the Hype?
When people talk about the McRib, they're so often talking about nostalgia. And really, nostalgia might be the biggest thing McDonald's has going for it—memories of birthday parties and ball pits and Happy Meal boxes; The Grimace, the Fry Guys, and the Hamburglar.
Can anything live up to the memories of childhood? When I got to the end of my McRib, my heart sank. Not because I was finished, but because it didn't blow my mind. I remember it being tastier and meatier; I remember mouthwatering barbecue sauce. Sixteen years is a long time; maybe my palate has just evolved. I think the idea of the McRib is better than the McRib itself. I would've loved to have tracked down an early release and delcared, "The McRib is back!" But I can't.
I wish this were just a kink that the McD's kitchen could work out, like the new restaurant that needs a few weeks to get into a groove—but it's fast food, and that's hardly the case. I recommend that McRib fans still check them out; they aren't here to stay, and who knows when they'll be back, or where. But don't expect the second coming.
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Michelle Obama appeared on "The View" Tuesday morning to share her views on gardening and healthy eating, and to talk about her new book, "American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America."
The first lady said she never had a garden of her own when she was growing up on Chicago's South Side. She said she was inspired to grow a garden on the South Lawn of the White House because she was concerned about her daughters' diets.
"If you could grow a garden, it would be pretty visible and maybe that would be the way that we could begin a conversation about childhood health, and we could actually get kids from the community to help us plant and help us harvest and see how their habits changed," she said.
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Obama said she doesn't think of herself as a "classic" first lady, having never seen a first lady hula hoop or do the Dougie. She also broke ground with the first vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt's victory garden in the 1940s.
On the show, Obama also addressed rumors that she might go the way of former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "I have no interest in politics, never have, never will," she said.
Instead of pursuing politics, Obama said she is sticking to her own passions. Her book, out today, includes pointers for gardening at home, recipes from White House chefs, and pictures and stories about her efforts to promote fresher foods and healthier diets — especially for children.
And as for critics who say that the government shouldn't have a place in people's stomachs, Obama agrees.
"We are not going to solve this problem with government telling people what to do," she said. "But what people do need, parents in particular, they need information. They need a community that's helping them make the decisions that are right for them."


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The Ludlow Massacre in 1914 was an important event in American history. A major tragedy, it fueled the growing worker's rights movement and helped result in the 8 hour work day we enjoy today.
We have included several images as well as an assignment requiring students to retell the story in their own words.
For more on this era check out our:
US History PowerPoints
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- America Becomes a World Power: Imperialism
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IP network multipathing (IPMP) provides physical interface failure detection and transparent network access failover for a system with multiple interfaces on the same IP link. IPMP also provides load spreading of packets for systems with multiple interfaces.
All network configuration is done in the global zone. You can configure IPMP in the global zone, then extend the functionality to non-global zones. The functionality is extended by placing the zone's address in an IPMP group when you configure the zone. Then, if one of the interfaces in the global zone fails, the non-global zone addresses will migrate to another network interface card. A shared-IP zone can have multiple IP addresses, it can be part of multiple IPMP groups, and a given IPMP group can be used by multiple shared-IP zones.
In a given non-global zone, only the interfaces associated with the zone are visible through the ifconfig command.
See How to Extend IP Network Multipathing Functionality to Shared-IP Non-Global Zones. The zones configuration procedure is covered in How to Configure the Zone. For information on IPMP features, components, and usage, see Chapter 30, Introducing IPMP (Overview), in System Administration Guide: IP Services.


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I have heard about zentangles from watching Scrapbook Memories. They showed the basic examples, but I love the more detailed zentangles and can't wait to get my book this Friday. I wish I had it today because, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow.
Zentangle works fine on ATCs. Thanks for this episode.
Can't wait to get started. Looks like soooo much fun
Love the Zentangles! I am forever doodling so this looks like fun!
Thanks for sharing the nice ideas.
Great tutorial! I am a Certified Zentangle Teacher, and I'm always looking for new ideas for my classes. Using templates or stencils to draw shapes is a wonderful idea. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Wow! This is perfect for the not so perfect doodler!! I always felt like I had to be perfect with my lines but with this it allows you to be free to make little mistakes and still look good! I love this!
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This is so much like the Mandala designs ... Lovely !
I agree with Cynthia. I learn much more effectively by watching. Don't stop the webisodes. I love this one about doodling.
I didn't realize that their was an official name for my doodling! But what inspiration and ideas to pull all those cool pens out again! Thanks Ladies.
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The Maryland Kennel Club is in West Friendship MD this weekend for two shows. Today's final featured Patti Widick Neale and the Irish Setter, GCH CH Northwoods First Reign, the Whippet, GCH CH Artemis Hypnotic Opium SC, the Doberman Pinscher, GCH CH Sharjets Starr Catcher CD RN CGC, the Norfolk Terrier, GCH CH Yarrow Venerie Ticket To Ride, the Toy Poodle, GCH CH Smash Jp Sakura, the Bichon Frise, GCH CH Vogelflight's "Honor" to Pillowtalk, and the Briard, GCH CH Deja Vu Mia Cool As A Cucumber.
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It was the smallest among them taking the BIS, the Toy Poodle, Sakura. The Briard, Dill, took home the Reserve. It's the second of the year for Sakura and handler Kaz Hosaka, equaling their 2012 record already.


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TNA has released the preview for tomorrow night's live episode of Impact Wrestling at the Sears Centre Arena in Chicago, Illinois. The show will be centered on the aftermath from Sunday's Lockdown pay-per-view event, which saw Bully Ray capture the World Heavyweight Championship from Jeff Hardy. Plus, AJ Styles is scheduled to resurface following his recent absence.
Preview Thursday's IMPACT: LIVE from Chicago on SpikeTV - Lockdown Aftermath!
This Thursday, March 14, "IMPACT WRESTLING" will be LIVE on SpikeTV as we return to Chicago and the Sears Centre Arena on March 14. Chicago's Sears Centre Arena was home to "Bound For Glory 2008" setting, at the time, the highest TNA attendance record.
- Thursday's huge IMPACT will feature the aftermath of the Lockdown event! Tune in for footage and news as the fallout continues on SpikeTV!
- Not only did Bully Ray win the World Heavyweight Championship in the main event at Lockdown, but he shocked the wrestling world by revealing he was the President of the Aces and 8s all along! The new World Champion - along with his Aces and 8s - will be at Thursday's LIVE IMPACT! How will Hulk Hogan and his daughter Brooke react to what happened? Will Bully Ray and The Aces have hell to pay on Thursday - or are they about to completely dominate TNA and IMPACT WRESTLING?
- Team TNA was triumphant in the Lethal Lockdown match, as Sting led his warriors in a win over The Aces and 8s - but with Bully Ray now champion, the Aces are stronger than ever!
- Plus, Thursday's LIVE IMPACT will feature the return of AJ Styles! The question is, what will AJ say to the wrestling world after his recent disappearance? What does his future hold - and what is the story behind the recent footage captured by TNA cameras?
All this and much more on SpikeTV! Tickets are on sale at the Sears Centre Arena box office and at www.SearsCentre.com. (Doors will open on Thursday, March 14 at 6 p.m. and bell time at 7 p.m.)
Source: ImpactWrestling.com


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British Go Journal No. 40. February 1978. Page 13.
Comentary: David Mitchell.
A clash of style and temperments in every respect. Frank May plays very slowly, thinks hard, and mixes excellent, imaginative moves with some very indifferent plays. David Mitchell is the best lightening player in the country and frequently takes only a fraction of his clock time. He plays with a combination of intuition and quick calculation. If he doesn't find a move obvious, he may not see it till after the game, which can be a handicap. He had an excellent tournament, losing only to Fujino in round 3 and in round 7 to Macfadyen. Commentary to this game is by David Mitchell.
Black: David Mitchell, 3d
White: Frank May, ?d
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Gwyneth Paltrow has thanked fans for their support following her announcement that she and husband Chris Martin are separating.
The actress took to Goop and her lifestyle site's weekly email to offer thanks to supporters standing by her and her "consciously uncoupled" husband.
The thanks came in the form of a post script below her usual introduction, followed by a recipe for cooking chicken three ways.
Gwyneth wrote: "P.S. CM and I in deep gratitude for the support of so many," and added a little heart at the end.
The 41-year-old actress announced their split on Goop, avoiding the word 'divorce' and attracting criticism for using the New Age term "conscious uncoupling" instead.
Gwyneth and the frontman for Coldplay married in 2003 and have two children.


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Under the cover of 5 million other illegal aliens living in this country, Obama granted amnesty to himself on November 20, 2014.
There go all the lawsuits, including Larry Klayman's lawsuit requesting Obama's deportation. And the failure of Sheriff Joe to put his information up front, like he promised, means all of his "work" has been misrepresented and was not put forth in a timely manner. Whatever he and Zullo "had" doesn't mean squat now. Interesting that Sheriff Joe now wants to file a lawsuit on Obama's executive amnesty, with Larry Klayman, and no mention of Obama's illegal alien status. The "Joe" is playing right into the distraction campaign. Like others, this is a cover up the amnesty debacle with some other action that was long overdue.
Forging a selective service card, for example, eliminates any possibility that the forger can hold ANY executive office in the government of the United States. The proof was there, but all the attorneys focused on hitting individual, low level employees with fraud, gabbing headlines and funding from otherwise sincere people who put their faith in attorneys claiming to have a smoking gun.
And Congress? Don't even get me started. Their excuse for not impeaching Obama now of course is a lame one…"have you met Joe Biden?" That was Trey Gowdy's line which is another cute trick and deception.
We have already won the battle against Satan and his minions; its just now a matter of how many millions will die before Satan is finally thrown in the lake of fire.
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Food is necessary. But since everyone is able to cut something out of their diets there is no particular food that humans absolutely have to eat out of necessity. It is a senseless, then, to say that corn is necessary and deer steak is not, since both are foods.
As for your other argument stating that by eating vegan helps you attain a morally higher ground as you are not involved in intentional harming or killing of such animals - so are meat eaters. Meat eaters don't necessarily want to kill animals.
.I'm an animal lover myself, having taken up zoology as a side hobby
\Even the argument that deaths of animals in vegan agriculture are accidental, compared to the purposeful killing of an animal is flawed. Alright there can be a difference between intentionally stabbing someone to death and accidentally hitting someone with your car. Yes, the intentional murder is worse, but involuntary manslaughter is a crime too.
So why is involuntary manslaughter an offense when committed against a human, but involuntary animal slaughter is morally neutral?
That only makes sense if you believe that the death of an animal matters less than the death of a human.
heliona wrote:Ask away by all means. Unfortunately, TORC is very quiet at the moment, so there's not many people to come up with ways of explaining things better than me.
We, collectively, have 'killed the rabbit'
redrobot wrote:We, collectively, have 'killed the rabbit'
so a 10 year vegan is the same as a man who has bacon for breakfast. no. you are reasoning in absolutist terms. you are saying that because i am a little bit tainted (i have a linoleum floor and eat vegetables from agri business) all my efforts are worthless. do you seriously believe that?
Your arguments assume what they need to prove: namely that eating animals is antithetical to the laid back society of the hobbits. You haven't done so.
The antebellum South is mythologised as a laid back agrarian society, despite slavery.
You haven't even proved your underlying argument that it is wrong to eat animals.
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redrobot wrote:The antebellum South is mythologised as a laid back agrarian society, despite slavery.
first ive heard of it.
redrobot wrote:You haven't even proved your underlying argument that it is wrong to eat animals.
i guess you have to ask yourself whether you think causing pain and death to sentient beings is wrong or not.
Watch/read Gone With the Wind, among others.
As I'm not a pacifist I don't think that causing pain and death to undoubtedly sentient beings is necessarily wrong.
You haven't even proved that animals are "beings" in any philosophical sense.
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and do i have to do that to win the argument? is that the level you live on? do you have to prove to yourself that your mother is a being before you go visit?
That does not make meat-eating 'wrong'.
redrobot wrote:That does not make meat-eating 'wrong'.
it is wrong if you do not believe in causing pain and death to other creatures. it is not wrong if you think that is ok. you think that is ok. this gives me a particular perspective on your personality that has been barred by the mods.
it is not "wrong".
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The United Nations and a coalition of partners today launched a comprehensive approach to fighting malaria, a disease which – despite tremendous advances – still kills an estimated 660,000 people each year and poses a major challenge to development.
With the participation of world leaders gathered in New York for the 68th General Assembly, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched the Multisectoral Action Framework for Malaria, which calls for greater coordinated action among different development sectors to tackle the disease, which exacts its deadliest toll in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Framework identifies actions to address the social and environmental determinants of malaria, and calls for current malaria strategies to be complemented by a broader development approach, according to a UNDP news release.
"Malaria is a disease associated with lack of socio-economic development, poverty, marginalization and exploitation. Each of these dimensions has roots beyond the health sector – so a multi-sectoral response is essential if we are to free the world from the burden of malaria," said Rebeca Grynspan, UNDP Associate Administrator.
According to UNDP, stronger global health partnerships and greater funding in recent years have already resulted in unprecedented progress, with a 25 per cent decrease in global malaria deaths. Forty-three countries have seen malaria cases decrease by more than 50 per cent.
Factors that increase vulnerability to malaria infection, however, often lie outside the health sector, involving housing, education, urban planning, agriculture, transportation and other areas, UNDP said.
For that reason, the RBM coalition and UNDP conducted consultations among more than 70 experts from a variety of sectors to develop an operational roadmap for identifying key steps, expected outcomes, and capacities needed to integrate malaria control into broader development processes.
"The Multisectoral Action Framework for Malaria will guide the global response to malaria in coming years as we develop the next phase of the Global Malaria Action Plan as well as the post-2015 agenda," said Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership.
Targeted by the current development framework, the Millennium Development Goals and identified by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a top priority under his second mandate, malaria affects all aspects of development, costing Africa alone some $12 billion in lost productivity each year, according to UNDP.
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Three weeks ago, I wrote a column on these pages calling on conservatives to do more than simply talk about how much they revere the Constitution, but to justify and reinforce that reverence with serious, intellectual, logical arguments.
"What conservatives really need to do is more than just be right about reverence for the Constitution. That is only half of what is necessary," I wrote, "We need to prove that we understand why we are right about that reverence."
At the time it was a somewhat esoteric exercise directed at members of my political party, offered as generic advice. I was, at the time, broadly referring to civil protections like the Second Amendment and religious liberty, but recent events have brought that somewhat heady argument directly into the real world.
Without understanding why the individual provisions in the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, are important, the document becomes nothing more than a set of rules which are free to be ignored if they become inconvenient.
Sadly, in the immediate aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, a number of Republicans immediately proved the necessity of the argument I had been making.
After spending years lecturing Democrats and the American public about the need to "obey the constitution" and blaming our lack fidelity to our founding document for virtually all the ills of modern society, too many in my party immediately began ignoring that which they have claimed to revere.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is an American citizen. The crime to which he is accused was conducted on American soil. The degree to which we hate him, and are disgusted by the violence and horror he and his brother allegedly brought upon Boston shouldn't matter. He is protected by the Constitution, and should be afforded his right to remain silent, given a trial in civilian court by a jury of his peers, and provided with counsel (hopefully at his own expense).
Several Republicans disagreed. They believe that Tsarnaev committed a terrorist act, and that the nature of his crime means, somehow, that he should not be afforded those rights and should instead be deemed an "enemy combatant", subject to military justice.
The reasons that these Republicans, and even some Democrats wanted to do this was pretty simple. If guilty, Tsarnaev is among the most vile, contemptible, evil people to gain the public's attention in a long time, and they want to guarantee his conviction and punishment. Denying him a right to remain silent, right to counsel, and other civilian protections would make that a lot easier.
But justice isn't about ease, and protecting the civil rights of American citizens – even those with recently awarded citizenship – is not a matter of convenience or a blasé consideration.
Thankfully, the Obama administration has announced he will not be charged as an enemy combatant.
If American society is as just and righteous as it likes to fancy itself as, these are critical things that can not be lightly tossed aside.
It should be a terrifying prospect, particularly to a conservative, to allow a government to disrespect the rights of its citizens, simply because that government has decided they are guilty of something. We can not hand out summary justice on the head of a drum and call ourselves a free society.
Think about it, an ultra-powerful government wants to pacify an outraged public and has an easy scapegoat, makes the decision that somebody is guilty, and gives itself the authority to ignore the rules meant to restrain their ability to abuse that power, and then quickly acts as judge, jury and executioner?
Those are hallmarks of the regimes we claim to abhor. How can any political ideology that reveres the Constitution support such a thing?
Yes, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a figure worthy of our contempt. But a desire for revenge should never replace the desire to do justice.
Thomas Paine once said, "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
The Founders, which conservatives worship, were full of such wisdom. Benjamin Franklin said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
These are philosophies to which I subscribe. If we lower ourselves so quickly and easily to disregard the Constitution as an act of convenience, we don't deserve our own liberty, and those who would terrorize us win.


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Your watch keeps track of your overall level of activity throughout the day. This is an important factor whether you just aim to be fit and healthy or you are training for an upcoming competition.
It is good to be active, but when training hard, you need to have proper rest days with low activity.
The activity counter automatically resets at midnight every day. At the end of the week (Sunday), the watch provides a summary of your activity showing your average for the week and daily totals.
From the watch face display, swipe up or press the lower button to see your total steps for the day.
Your watch counts steps using an accelerometer. The total step count accumulates 24/7, also while recording training sessions and other activities. However, with some specific sports, such as swimming and cycling, steps are not counted.
In addition to steps, you can tap on the display to see estimated calories for the day.
The large number in the center of the display is the estimated amount of active calories you have burned so far. Below this you see the total calories burned. The total includes both active calories and your Basal Metabolic Rate (see below).
The ring in both displays indicates how close you are to your daily activity goals. These targets can be adjust to your personal preferences (see below)
You can also check your activity over the last seven days with a swipe to the right. Tap the screen or press the middle button to switch between steps and calories.
You can adjust your daily goals for both steps and calories. While in the activity display, tap and hold your finger on the screen or keep the middle button pressed to open the activity goal settings.
When setting your steps goal, you define the total number of steps for the day.
The total calories you burn per day is based on two factors: your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and your physical activity.
Your BMR is the amount of calories your body burns while at rest. These are the calories your body needs to stay warm and perform basic function like blink your eyes or beat your heart. This number is based on your personal profile, including factors such as age and gender.
When you set a calorie goal, you define how many calories you want to burn in addition to your BMR. These are your so-called active calories. The ring around the activity display advances according to how many active calories you burn during the day compared to your goal.
The instant HR display provides a quick snapshot of your heart rate. The display shows your heart rate over ten minutes as a graph, along with an estimation of your hourly calories consumption rate and your current heart rate.
To view instant HR:
The daily HR display provides a 12-hour view of your heart rate. This is a helpful source of information about, for example, your recovery after a hard training session.
The display shows your heart rate over 12 hours as a graph. The graph is plotted using your average heart rate based on 24-minute time slots. In addition, you get an estimation of your average hourly calorie consumption rate and your lowest heart rate during the 12-hour period.
Your minimum heart rate from the last 12 hours is a good indicator of your recovery state. If it is higher than normal, you probably are not fully recovered yet form your last training session.
If you record an exercise, the daily HR values reflect the elevated heart rate and calorie consumption from your training. But keep in mind that the graph and consumption rates are averages. If your heart rate peaks at 200 bpm while exercising, the graph does not show that maximum value, but rather the average from the 24 minutes when you hit that peak rate.
Before you can see the daily HR display, you need to activate the daily HR feature. You can toggle the feature on or off from the settings under Activity. If you are in the activity monitoring display, you can also access the activity settings by keeping the middle button pressed.
With the daily HR feature on, your watch activates the optical heart rate sensor on a regular basis to check your heart rate. This slightly increases battery power consumption.
Once activated, your watch needs 24 minutes before it can start display daily HR information.
To view daily HR:
If you wear your watch while sleeping, it may not track your heart rate the entire night. The watch goes into hibernation mode which also turns off the optical heart rate sensor if you do not move for an extended period of time.


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Joe McElderry has revealed he would like to sign up for Strictly Come Dancing.
The singer and songwriter has already enjoyed wins on three reality shows - The X Factor, Popstar To Operastar and most recently Channel 4's winter sports contest The Jump - and admitted he would like to tackle the dancefloor next, reported Digital Spy.
He said: "I would love to do something like Strictly Come Dancing. That would be great fun - that would be so much fun.
"I'm a bit of a frustrated dancer so that would be nice. But yeah, other than that, if they (reality shows) come along and it's something that you fancy doing, then I'm always open to do them."
Joe said when it comes to picking reality programmes he is always looking to learn something.
"These kind of shows - when they come up, when you get asked to do them, I always look at the shows and think, 'Am I going to learn something from it, and am I going to be showing progress in it?' because that's what I want to do," explained the 22-year-old.
"With this show (The Jump), we were all pushed out of our comfort zones, all doing things - it was productive. So if there was something else that comes along that would be productive [I'd consider it]."
Joe won The X Factor in 2009 and was the champion of Popstar To Operastar in 2011. Earlier this week he beat journalist Donal MacIntyre to be crowned the winner of The Jump.


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