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To skip ahead to the conclusion, you see below the new avatars NMA has developed for their U.S. characters. They are introduced at the end of the video as the new Mr. and Mrs. America. But why not take two minutes to see the buildup of how NMA created them.


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For authentication purposes it works great, I can search for a user and validate the definition in the people picker.
But in the alerts dialog, something strange appends. I can search for users, but if I'm defining another user other then myself Sharepoint says that the user does not have an email defined.
Does anybody know how to solve this situation.
I manage to improve this a bit. The first problem was that the people picker had the display name as the identity claim, changing this to email solved the problem of SP saying the user didn't have email.
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Motorola Mobility is continuing their global roll out of the Motorola Xoom 2 family of tablets. This time around, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark are getting some Motorola love with the release ...
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Motorola continues to launch their devices into new markets, with the latest being the arrival of the Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition in Turkey.
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The Motorola Xoom 2 has been with us in the UK for a few months now, albeit only in WiFi only flavor. Today though, Motorola has made available the 3G + WiFi variants of both the Xoom 2 and the smal...
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The Motorola XOOM 2 will be available in Brazil starting March 16. It's exactly the same tablet we've come to know and love over the past few months, only now it'll be in South America...
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Motorola this morning announced that its Xoom 2 tablet -- the 10.1-inch version, that is -- is now available in Israel. You can get it today on Cellcom and will hit Orange in the next few days. It l...
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Desperation built. And built. For the Penguins, it was a matter of holding off the hard-charging Toronto Maple Leafs after twice leading by two goals. For Penguins center and team captain Sidney Crosby, that included clawing at the stubborn black tape on the blade of his stick so he could replace it -- a personal ritual -- and take part in the shootout. With the fresh tape finally in place, Crosby, the Penguins' second shooter, lofted a shot over Maple Leafs goaltender James Reimer for a 5-4 win Saturday night at Air Canada Centre. "The tape wouldn't come off," Crosby said. "I was getting a little worried. It's the only stick I had. I was afraid I was going to have to take the shootout with no tape on my stick. I was lucky enough to get the tape on my stick and ready to go." Crosby also was fortunate that he was OK after getting upended and sent into the boards by Toronto's Cody Franson in the third period. "I think he was just trying to lie down to block the pass," Crosby said. "My feet kind of got caught up. I got some air time."


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Catching up: some photos from Bergen and Hardangerfjord
I've been in Trondheim for three or four days now (it's hard to tell, for reasons that will soon become apparent!) It's very easy-going here — as much as it's possible to be in Norway. I get the feeling that there's some underlying tension. Perhaps it comes from having such a barren country, where only a tiny portion of the land is cultivatable. Maybe it's true that money can't buy you happiness. Or maybe it's just the ever-fuggy weather — Britain gets a lot of rain, but 'tis a mere smattering compared to west Norway.
Anyway, the last few days have been a revival of, er, the student lifestyle. Booze, bitches and BREAD — a loaf of bread is all you need, baby! Bread for breakfast, bread for lunch, bread to soak up the alcohol at four in the morning…
The weather has been pretty shit, and there's no quick-and-easy view of the fjord here (Trondheimsfjord), so we've mostly hung about indoors; I've been sorting photos and playing video games. We've been hanging by day and partying by night. Do you have any idea how fun drunken Guitar Hero is? With singing, drumming and guitaring? We're still not sure if alcohol actually improves our skills, or just the perception thereof — but overall it definitely helps.
These photos aren't from Trondheim though (I've hardly taken any here — too busy being social (I know!)) — they're of Bergen and Hardangerfjord. The sun has made a few hour-long appearances over the last couple of days, and the snow is melting, so... if the improvement continues, we're hoping to hit some scenic views in the next few days… here's hoping!
I think you'll find these photos quite pleasing, however.
(Unlike the Faroe Islands, trees are all over the place, obscuring my view of the fjords…!)
(Check the fog in the middle! It's rising out of the snow…)
(Again, check out the mist/fog rising off the ice on the lake! Also, kinda cool how half the lake is frozen, and half isn't)
(Not sure if I like this one. The blues are nice — as is the 'dusk' feeling.)
This last one is my favourite… for now! It's also the star of 52 Weeks!
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He took out Osama bin Laden.
Surprisingly, for a politician who campaigned on domestic issues, Obama's presidency has been more successful outside the United States than at home. As commander-in-chief, he's bringing home troops from Iraq after eight years of war, and his special forces killed Osama bin Laden, Public Enemy No. 1 of the American people. Moammar Gadhafi is now dead, too. Americans have noticed: A November NBC poll gave Obama a 52 percent approval rating on his handling of foreign policy.
"Libya to me is an example of President Obama seeing the need for military intervention in a country and saying that the United States will help, but we will not lead," says Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. "We will be supportive and we'll turn to our NATO allies. It was a cooperative effort with European nations and the Arab League, which is significant."
Lampe has worked on political campaigns in Mali, Kosovo, Belgium, England and Mexico in the last two years. Everywhere he goes, he finds the United States held in higher regard than it was during George W. Bush's administration.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...nial-on-libya/ Mitt Romney criticized Vice President Biden on Friday for directly contradicting the sworn testimony of State Department officials during Thursday nights vice presidential debate, picking up on GOP attacks leveled at the vice president in the hours since the exchange. Hes doubling down on denial and we need to understand exactly what happened as opposed to just having people brush this aside, Romney told a crowd gathered outside an auto dealership in Richmond. When the vice president of the United States directly contradicts the sworn testimony of State Department officials, American citizens have the right to know just whats going on. Biden said that we were unaware of security concerns in Libya. On Friday, White House officials clarified Friday that the vice president was speaking for himself and President Obama. State Department officials, they said, had not passed on requests for more security. Romney credited his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), for his debate performance, calling the lawmaker thoughtful, respectful, steady, poised, the kind of person you want to turn to in a crisis. Referring to Biden later, Romney said: The other candidate of course just attacked. The American people are looking for answers, not attacks. Romneys decision to zero in on Bidens comments regarding the attack last month at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi guarantees that Republicans will continue attempting to chip away at the Obama administrations foreign policy record in the closing weeks of the campaign. - Ed O'Keefe |
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They Asked if They Could Eat the Body
The story of Nottingham Galley and what happened three hundred years ago on Boon Island.
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The captain reluctantly gave his consent, and the crew held a brief funeral for their friend. Then they beheaded him, cut off his hands and feet, and threw the parts into the sea. The body was quartered like a side of beef and cut into pieces. Because they had no fire to cook him, the men were forced to eat the ship's carpenter raw. A few crewmembers objected due to their religious beliefs, but they, too, eventually relented. It was that or die.
The night was the sort sailors dread. Whatever the cold North Atlantic could throw at the Nottingham Galley it did. A gale drove the British merchant vessel through a dark tunnel of hail and rain and snow. The seas raged all around, lifting the 120-ton ship into the low clouds and then dropping it forcefully down again.
The fifteen-man crew had been fighting the weather ever since they shoved off at Killybegs, Ireland, on September 25, 1710, bound for Boston. Heavy with a load of dairy products and cordage, the Nottingham Galley had spotted land along the Down East coast in early December and set a course for Massachusetts Bay. But the weather grew worse, and for days they could see little but their own decks and rigging.
By the night of December 11, the snow was driving, the winds were blowing gale force, and visibility was virtually nil. The captain, a Royal Navy veteran from Nottingham named John Deane, ordered the sails reefed and a man forward to look out for hazards in the gloom. Somewhere between 8 and 9 p.m. the captain went to the bow to examine conditions for himself. And it wasn't long before he spied breakers to port. Deane ordered the ship to cut hard to starboard, but it was too late. The boat came to a sudden, crunching halt, hitting a ledge with "great violence," as the captain recalled later. Waves began to slam the side of the heavy vessel, each time forcing it down onto the rock. Deane told his men to cut the mast and see what they could find to drop it on.
"The weather was so thick and dark that we could not see the rock, so that we were justly thrown into consternation at the melancholy prospect of immediately perishing in the sea," he'd write in a bestselling account of the tale.
The captain told the strongest swimmers to see if they could pull themselves out onto the ledge they'd hit and then went below to gather money, papers, brandy, and ammunition. But he found "the ship bulging, her decks opened, her back broke, and her beams gave way, so that the stern sunk under water. I was, therefore, hastened forward to escape instant death." He bolted for the deck and followed his men, jumping off the ship into the black.
Many Mainers know what happened next. The wreck of the Nottingham Galley is one of the most renowned shipwreck sagas ever, holding its own with any chronicle of survival and despair. "A British historian told me this story was as famous a seafaring tale in the first half of the eighteenth century as the mutiny on the Bounty became in the second half," says historian Richard Warner, who wrote the introduction to Boon Island, Kenneth Roberts' novel about the incident. What separated this story from so many others, however, were the grisly events that unfolded among the castaways who were stranded on a small rock six miles off York for almost a month in winter.
Even in more modern times the story of Boon Island, the name of the tiny isle the Nottingham Galley hit, still resounds. Kennebunkport's master of historic fiction, Kenneth Roberts, sold thousands of copies of his rousing 1955 account. Contemporary lighthouse lovers hear the tale when they inquire about the unique light on the island, Maine's tallest beacon at 137 feet, which is now under the care of the Rockland-based American Lighthouse Foundation. University of Maine students studied the Nottingham Galley and helped raise cannons and other artifacts from her in 1995 when it looked like those cannons might be looted by unscrupulous divers. The guns made it to the Maine State Museum in Augusta, which is preparing an exhibit around them.
As is often the case, though, most people have heard only part of the story. There's more to this dark episode — which happened exactly three hundred years ago this month — than most know.
Captain Deane barely made it off the boat before the sea claimed her, and when he did he was desperate to find firm ground. "I threw myself with all the strength I had toward the rock; but it being low water, and the rock extremely slippery, I could get no hold . . . every crash of the sea fetching me off again."
When he was finally able to scratch his way onto Boon Island, Deane was amazed to find that all of his men were accounted for. They set about searching in the dark for some sort of shelter from the winds and water, but found the rock "so small and inconsiderable that it would afford none." Thus, the group hunkered down as best they could and waited for the light to rise in the east and show them just how bad their situation was.
When the new day dawned the men had two objectives — explore their new home and look for anything they could salvage from their demolished ship that might help them against the elements. The former was easy — Boon Island was not much of an island at all — more a large rock. It was entirely exposed, with no vegetation or outcrops to provide any sort of cover, and it was all of a tenth of an acre, three hundred by seven hundred feet, barely rising out of the sea. At its very tip the isle was just fourteen feet above sea level. Any seaman knew that in another storm the water could easily rise that high, submerging the island.
While they were looking about, the men discovered a few pieces of canvas sail and wood fragments from their ship jammed into crevices. These they used to make a tent that all the men could crawl into. That was the only good news, though. The other wood they collected was too wet to ignite, providing no relief from the bitter cold, which from that first day began to eat away at exposed flesh.
Captain Deane was fairly certain he knew where they were because he could see the mainland. For the first few days, the men held out hope that a fishing vessel would pass by and see their tent, on top of which they tied a flag. They lay inside the meager structure in quarters so cramped they had to roll over as a unit if anyone wanted to relieve the pressure of rock on their side. After three days, they began to cut their boots off, fearing that they'd lose their feet otherwise. "Many whose legs were blister'd, pull'd off Skin and all, and some the nails of their toes," recalled Captain Deane.
The first death came on day two. The ship's cook could take no more. They laid him where the sea could carry him away. And, though no one admitted it at the time, the desperate men were already harboring cannibalistic thoughts. They had no food other than rockweed, three small cheeses, and boot leather. There was no "mentioning eating of him, tho' several with my self afterwards acknowledged, had Tho'ts of it," wrote the captain.
The sailors of the Nottingham Galley were not the only castaways Boon Island had known. Indeed, so many ships have hit the ledges of the island it seems cursed. That was how the island was first discovered — another English vessel, the Increase, ran aground on it in 1682, stranding four men for thirty-one days. Lucky for them, they made landfall in July, when the temperatures were not deadly, seagulls were laying eggs, and fish were biting. The crew spied smoke from a native ceremony atop Mount Agamenticus and signaled back with a fire of their own. Rescuers arrived shortly thereafter.
Groundings of this sort became so common that, according to legend, local fishermen left a cache of food on the island to help the misfortunate souls who would inevitably become marooned there. Some say this "boon" is the source of the island's name.
"It's dangerous because of the rocks that are just below the surface of the water not far from the island," says Wendy Starkey, a York attorney who swam from the Nubble to Boon Island to raise money for the preservation of southern Maine lighthouses in 2006 and knows the area well. These ledges extend out like arms underneath the water, grabbing at the hulls of vessels that venture too close. "It's not that it's a curse," Starkey says, "boats just don't do well when they run onto shoals."
In 1799 Congress appropriated four hundred dollars for the construction of a lighthouse to warn sailors away from the island, and a wooden tower was built. It lasted five years before being overwhelmed in a storm. A beacon was put in place shortly thereafter and three of the workers died when their boat overturned as they pulled away from the island. A new light was erected, and this, too, was washed away in 1831. Today's light was built in the 1850s as the tallest in New England, and the imposing granite tower has managed to stay in place for more than a century and a half, despite its keeper's house being demolished in a storm in 1978.
Even with the state's largest beacon atop it, Boon Island continues to take its toll. In 1921, two fishermen were rescued after spending almost four days in an open boat just off the island. A fisherman was lost nearby in 2000, and that same year, two boaters went missing after their sixteen-foot powerboat overturned. Just last March a kayak was found floating near the island, but the Coast Guard suspended the search for its New Hampshire owner after combing four hundred square miles.
From Boon Island the mainland can be seen on the horizon, and this proved maddening for the men of the Nottingham Galley, almost taunting them. They decided that reaching that distant shore was their best hope for salvation and began constructing a crude vessel using reclaimed timber, investing a great deal of their limited energy in the effort. Two men set off for the mainland upon it and were never seen again.
Despairing when no rescuers appeared, the men began to construct another vessel. They had found a hammer among the wreckage and used stones to serrate the blade of a cutlass, making it into a saw. Freezing temperatures meant the men were only able to withstand a few hours a day outside the tent, but they finally finished the raft, and around the twenty-first of December, the captain and a crewman waded it out into the sea and hopped aboard. But the "swell of the Sea heav'd her long shore, and overset her upon us, (whereby we again narrowly escap'd drowning and stav'd our poor boat all to pieces," remembered Deane later). Not only did they lose their second boat, but also their precious tools.
This was almost too much for the men to bear. "We were now reduc'd to the most deplorable and melancholy Circumstance imaginable, almost every Man but myself weak to an extremity, and near starved with Hunger and Cold; their Hands and Feet frozen and mortified, with large and deep ulcers in their legs."
Their hopes were elevated after about a week, when they saw three boats, "about five leagues from us," as Captain Deane would write. The men were elated, certain they were saved, sure that some of their wreckage had washed ashore and search parties were out looking for them. But they weren't seen and saw no more ships.
Christmas came and brought with it a small gift — a seagull. The men stoned it and for the first time in weeks were able to gnaw on meat. Perhaps this small sustenance gave them the hankering for more flesh, because days later, when the ship's carpenter died of starvation, they made the unthinkable decision to eat him.
"After abundance of mature thought and consultation about the lawfullness or sinfullness on the one hand and the absolute necessity on the other, judgment, conscience, etc, were oblig'd to submit to the more prevailing arguments of our craving appetites," the captain wrote.
He and his mate, Christopher Langman, abstained for the first night, "but next morning complied and earnestly desir'd to partake with the rest." The others took to the meat heartily, to the dismay of Deane. "I found they all eat with abundance and with utmost greediness, so that I was constrain'd to carry the quarters farther from the tent (quite out of their reach) least they shou'd prejudice themselves by overmuch eating, as also expend our small stock too soon."
Unbeknownst to the castaways, the wreckage of their raft — and the body of one of its pilots — had indeed washed up on the mainland, and search parties were sent out to find where they came from. Locals knew where to look, and twenty-four days after the Nottingham Galley went aground, a rescue vessel pulled up at Boon Island. Its crew was horrified at what they found. They made an extrication plan, and eventually the men were ferried to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The dark tale of Boon Island didn't end when the men reached the mainland, though. Even as they were recuperating in Portsmouth, the survivors began to give depositions. Dean was first, writing, "Protest," a legal document in which he described the circumstances of the wreck and his version of the grievous events that followed, while his crew were convalescing at a local tavern.
Deane's story is largely what most remember of the event today. First mate Christopher Langman, who had been at odds with the captain at various times during the ordeal, was still too weak to read Deane's document thoroughly and signed his name alongside the signatures of the rest of the crew.
When he got his wits back, though, Langman quickly repudiated the captain's account and wrote his own, making a deposition before a justice of the peace in Portsmouth. His testimony was corroborated by two of his fellow sailors, the boatswain, Nicholas Mellen, and seaman George White. Langman accused Deane of intentionally grounding the ship for the insurance money that the owners, Deane and his brother, would receive.
And he said the captain had even tried to lure privateers into taking the ship — twice — on the crossing, and that Deane had assaulted Langman when he tried to stop him from hitting the shoal.
These were bold accusations, and it's unclear how seriously they were taken by authorities. When Deane returned to England, he published a book about his travails: A Narrative of the Sufferings, Preservation, and Deliverance of Captain John Deane and Company: In the Nottingham Galley of London, castaway on Boon-Island, Near New England, on December 11, 1710.
"It sold very well, and it was reprinted several times," says historian Richard Warner, who has written a novel based on the life of Captain Deane.
Soon after, Langman came out with his own book in which he vilified Captain Deane. It was he who "propos'd the sleying and eating of the Carpenter's dead body," Langman wrote, "and told us, It was no Sin since God was pleas'd to take him out of the World and that we had not laid violent Hands upon him." The mate cast the captain as the hungriest of cannibals, maintaining that " . . . the Captain's Pretensions of being moved with Horror at the Thought of it, are false, for there was no Man that eat more of the Corpse than himself. . . . "
Like Kenneth Roberts, who called Langman "a liar and a coward," Warner doesn't think much of the mate's account. "The idea that anyone would intentionally run aground on Boon Island in the middle of winter," Warner laughs, "I don't think it holds any water at all. Most of the other people that were there at Portsmouth when they landed — a lot of them sea captains themselves — rallied around Deane. His reputation was even promoted by [renowned moralist preacher] Cotton Mather." Warner figures Langman saw how well Deane's book was selling and saw an opportunity to "make mischief and a lot of money."
But Deane's reputation was tarnished both by the wreck and the ensuing controversy, and he didn't do himself any favors when he disappeared, running off to become a lieutenant in the Russian navy. Three years after Boon Island, he was given his first command — to take a fifty-gun man-o-war from Archangel to the Baltic — in the winter. By the time his ship docked in Trondheim, Norway, half his crew was dead, raising even more questions about his abilities. After winning many medals for the Russian navy he turned on the Czar and returned to the country as a British spy. He died at the age of eighty-one in Britain.
None of the rest of the crew of Nottingham Galley ever returned to the sea. And to this day no one is certain which cannibal was more honest — captain or mate. Was Deane a hero? Was Langman a liar? Were the men right to eat their comrade? Where lies the truth? It's awash
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The Maine State Museum in Augusta will exhibit artifacts recovered from the NOTTINGHAM GALLEY for three months beginning December 11, 2010, the 300th anniversary of the wreck. See www.mainestatemuseum.org for exhibit hours and directions.
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The second Amendment has nothing to do with owning a gun for hunting, collecting or going to the rifle range. The right to bear arms meaning has not changed since 1791. The amendment was and is the right for the citizens to have the means to protect themselves from an overreaching federal government or a foreign invasion by a hostile enemy. I would recommend that an assault weapon would be the most efficient means to reach that goal.
The following paragraph is from a explanation of the second amendment to the Consitution by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story who was appointed by the author of the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson. It doesn't get any clearer than this !! The term rulers means the Federal government.
"The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. Th...e militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers with which they are attended, and the facilee means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
The militia means a citizen's militia not a federal militia controlled by the governing powers that may be the ones overstepping their legal control over it's citizens.
I support the 2nd Amendemnt. But I do not support assault weapons in the general population. Your argument also applies to grenades and machine guns; yet they are outlawed.
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While a flood of cash from the Bank of Japan has turbocharged the stock market in recent weeks, a new dose of fiscal spending is just kicking in, said Yoshihide Suga, the chief cabinet secretary—a kind of combination of chief of staff and top spokesman.
"We put together an extra budget and passed it in parliament but its implementation has barely started," Mr. Suga said, adding that the regular budget for the current fiscal year from April 1 is now slated for approval on May 15. "As soon as possible, we want to put in place conditions where such spending feeds into the real economy."
The fast pace of policy announcements is intended to keep Japanese voters engaged until national elections scheduled for July. Mr. Abe's Liberal Democratic Party has a comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament following its landslide victory in December elections, but it is still a minority party in the upper house. Whether it can achieve a similar result in the coming upper house elections will determine the strength and longevity of the government.
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Mr. Suga, 64, is surprisingly soft-spoken considering his role as the government's chief spokesman. But his uncompromising style and demand for hard work make him a feared presence in the prime minister's office, where he is credited for helping making Mr. Abe's administration run remarkably smoothly in its first few months—a sharp contrast to a series of mistake-prone prime ministers whose terms lasted barely a year. It has also been much more effective than Mr. Abe's own first administration, which ended in 2007 after just a year, following a series of gaffes and scandals.
A famer's son from a northern prefecture who worked his way through college, Mr. Suga has spent much of his political career serving as an aide to powerful politicians. He is known to be among the most-trusted deputies of Mr. Abe, a scion of one of Japan's most prominent political families.
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Now that the government has created the "intended results" of its monetary easing steps—the first arrow of Abenomics—it will focus its efforts on realizing the benefits of fiscal spending—the second arrow.
Pushing aside criticism that hefty fiscal spending would send the already heavily indebted nation into a sovereign debt crisis, the Abe government has pledged well over ¥10 trillion ($100 billion) in fiscal spending between the extra budget for last fiscal year and the regular budget for this year. Some of the money is now being allocated to local governments and then passed on to individual projects, including generous amounts earmarked for traditional pork-barrel projects such as road and bridge construction.
Mr. Suga offers a glowing assessment of the administration's monetary policy steps, whose goal, he said, is "escaping from deflation caused by rapid appreciation of the yen." Under Mr. Abe's choice of central bank governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, the BOJ has adopted drastic easing steps, featuring the doubling the amount of money circulated in the economy. Financial markets have welcomed the policies by sending stock prices 50% higher and pushing the yen to a four-year low of nearly ¥100 against the dollar.
"We had many study sessions with economists known as reflationists and prepared ourselves," Mr. Suga said, referring to the school of economists seeking to end the debilitating deflation that has gripped Japan's economy for more than a decade. "Still, we weren't sure if we'd see intended results. But things turned out as expected, just as we learned at study sessions with Mr. Abe in the middle," he said.
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"Dude, pass the Pinot."
This is a statement rarely heard where guys gather across America. Walk into any bar, join any football party, or attend any poker game and you'll see that the average dude is not consuming wine. Pilsners are preferred over Pinots and talking about NAPA means the auto parts store. This post is for the dudes you know. This series of posts aims to provide the basic wine information to the NASCAR watching, Dale Earnhardt loving, Budweiser swilling, Copenhagen chewing, Hustler reading man! "Why should I know about wine?" Well, dudes, I'll give you three good reasons.
1) Success
At some point in life you'll experience some success. You'll find yourself at a restaurant celebrating your engagement or job promotion. You may even find yourself entertaining work clients at a fancy dinner. These scenarios and more may require you to have a little knowledge of wine. There is nothing wrong with beer but it seems that in certain scenarios, even for dudes, beer just won't do.
2) Stupidity
No one likes to look stupid, especially dudes. Failing to bench press at least your body weight, not knowing the difference between a carburetor and a manifold, and not understanding how a batter who swings and misses at a third strike can still make it to first base can all make you look stupid. Showing up for Thanksgiving dinner at your in-laws with a bottle of Two Buck Chuck or ordering a White Zinfandel at a fancy dinner party will make you look equally stupid. You don't need to be a Sommelier (or even know how topronounce it) to order intelligently.
3) Sex
It is no secret, dudes like sex, especially sex with girls. Girls, more often than not, enjoy wine. Nothing says romance like a candle light dinner with two bottles of Bud light! NOT! Romance is home-made chicken parmesan, candles, flowers and a bottle of Sangiovese or a great Cote du Rhone blend. Studies even say that women who enjoy two glasses of wine per night have better sex! Do you need a better reason to learn about wine.
Dude! Listen up! I understand that beer is your best friend. You don't wait for wine-thirty. The song doesn't go "God is great and wine is good." No-one in college plays wine-pong. I'm not saying you should give up your trusty stout. Wine knowledge is only helpful if you think you'll ever experience success, if you don't like looking stupid, and if you like girls and sex. Think about it…if you agree, stay tuned for the next post in this series.
Life is meant to be enjoyed with friends. There is nothing better than sharing a glass of wine, coffee or even beer with a friend.
The Dude's Guide to Wine
- In Part One we explained three reasons all guys should know a little about wine
- In Part Two we explored the basics of grapes and their general characteristics
- In Part Three we talked about the experience of wine tasting (swirl, smell, sip, savor)
- In Part Four we uncover the struggle of ordering wine at restaurants and buying in stores
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By Ben Simons 21 Dec 2009
Great post. I was just thinking about some funny beer/wine juxtaposition scenarios this weekend, so this post fit right in. I think you are spot on. Every guy should know at least a little about wine, and the three reasons that you mention here are perfect examples of why.
By Seattle Wine Gal 21 Dec 2009
The wine industry needs to lighten up and have some fun. Well played Josh!
By Ed Thralls 21 Dec 2009
Nicely done… I still can't bench my weight, especially if it keeps going up as it does this time of year… and good points for all dudes.
By Randy Watson 21 Dec 2009
Funny post! I love the fact that you're trying to break down the walls between beer dudes a winos!
By drinknectar 21 Dec 2009
thanks everyone for your support on this post. I'm looking forward to writing parts 2-4. Had some interresting conversation with 'dudes' in a bar over the weekend, good stuff!
By RichardA 22 Dec 2009
I am the rare sort, the guy who brings a couple of bottles of wine to my local poker game. Though almost everyone else drinks beer, a few sometime do drink a glass of the wine I bring. And one of my poker buddies recently held a wine party at his house.
And several years ago, I transformed a group of new friends I met from beer drinkers to wine drinkers. They used to get together once a week, and usually drank beer. When I joined the group, I brought wine with me. Eventually, others started bringing wine until now, everyone brings a bottle of wine with them each week.
By drinknectar 22 Dec 2009
Richard, that is awesome! Wine drinkers have evolved to a higher state of awareness. Keep up the evangelizing work as a disciple of wine.
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By Wendy 06 Jan 2010
What? You cannot tell me you've never played wine pong! You are missing out!
But, in other news, I am glad you wrote about this. More guys need to get over their hang ups on wine. From a cultural aspect, it's something most are unfamiliar with and/or have a irrational fear that it will make them appear effeminate. And because it's uncharted territory, I think a lot of guys are afraid of looking stupid so they hide behind the guise it's effeminate (whether they truly ascribe to that principle of thinking).
It would be nice if a guy could pick out a nice bottle of wine to share with me.
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All of the internal strife in this nation can be directly attributed to Obama's programs. Obama and the Democrat party have worked for years to create three classes of people, the lower class, the welfare and professional unemployed, the takers in other words. The middle class, the working people, raising the families, paying the taxes supporting this country, and the upper class, the employers of the middle class. Whenever there is a class system, there is always class envy. They (the government) wants this class envy environment because it takes the focus off of what they are doing, all of this is facilitated by the NEWS Media covering up and cleaning up after Obama's messes.
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Gauge | 20 Gauge |
Metal Condition | Barrel bluing is strong overall with scattered freckling and small spots of oxidation. Receiver retains a good deal of mostly blues and violet case coloring mixed with gray patina. All action screws show evidence of turning. |
Stock Dimensions | LOP: 14", DAC: 1 1/2", DAH: 2 3/16" |
Sights | Metal front & Ivory(?) mid bead |
Gun Library | East Hartford, CT |
Stock | Checkered walnut with Prince-of-Wales grip |
Trigger | Double triggers |
Status | available |
Fore End | Checkered walnut, splinter-type |
Manufacture Date | The serial number in the 146000 range indicates that this shotgun was builr by Hunter Arms in 1936. |
Weight | 6-1/2 lbs. |
Choke | Fixed chokes - Improved Cylinder & Modified |
Bore Condition | Both bores are bright but show signs of leading |
Chamber | 2 3/4" - Ejectors |
Barrel | 28" |
Wood Condition | The forend and stock are structurally sound, but have been refinished at some point in time. The stock is chipped at the toe and the buttplate is also damaged. There is evidence that the stock was once removed from the action. |
Butt | Serrated, black plastic buttplate (chipped at toe) |
Description: A fine example of a 1930's production L.C. Smith Field grade gun by Hunter Arms of Fulton, NY. Most of the darker case colors remain and the barrels still hold a strong blue with scattered speckles of oxidation and freckling. The stock has a small chip at the toe and has been sanded and refinished in the distant past, but the bores are bright and the barrels ring true.
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Sustainable mining is an oxymoron. Environmentalists will tell you this. Mining—coal to limestone—takes away forests, devastates mountains and leaves the land pockmarked. It also destroys livelihoods of people and displaces them. Worse, modern, mechanised mining takes away livelihood based on land but does not replace it with local employment—all estimates show that direct employment in the mining sector has fallen sharply. It provides wealth, but not for local development.
Bureau of Energy Efficiency says it is likely to meet Plan target. Experts say claims far from truth
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage (MWS&D), Sri Lanka and Colombo based NGO, Lanka Rainwater Harvesting Forum (LRWHF) organised a three day training programme in Colombo on 'Urban Rainwater Harvesting' for Srilankan government officials between 27th and 29th April, 2011.
It is now well recognised across the world that wealth generated by the mining sector comes at a substantial development cost, along with environmental damages and economic exclusion of the marginalised. This has also been exhaustively documented in India. In fact, the major mining districts of India are among its poorest and most polluted. Considering the negative externalities of the mining sector, new policies and practices are being explored and implemented across the world to ensure that mineral wealth can be converted into sustainable development benefits for local communities.
The dialogue on sponge iron industry organised in Kolkata, West Bengal on February 11, 2011 by the Centre for Science and Evnironment (CSE) saw participation from affected people, NGOs, media, industry and academicians.
The dialogue on sponge iron industry organised in Rourkela, Odisha on Januray 22, 2011 by Centre for Science and Evnironment saw participation from affected people, NGOs, media, industry and the Odisha State Pollution Control Board.
CSE, in collaboration with Ekta Parishad, conducted a roundtable in Rourkela (Kalunga) on the MMDR (draft) Act 2010. The objective was to expose the direct stakeholders like affected people and grassroot level NGOs to the draft act and the special provision of 'profit sharing'. The meeting was attended by stakeholders from the states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand. The meeting opened with a presentation from Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general, CSE on the provisions of the act and what they might imply.
Note by the Centre for Science and Environment, based on extensive research published in its book, Rich Lands, Poor People: is 'sustainable mining possible?
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Sunita Narain, director, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi I am honoured to deliver the 12th K R Narayanan Oration 2008. It is a special occasion because our former President K R Narayanan was a very special person. Most of us, who knew President K R Narayanan, will remember him as an erudite, compassionate, thoughtful politician, who knew his mind and stood by his beliefs. We will remember him for his integrity and for his intellectual might.


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MO1450TW - Avanti 1.4 Cubic Foot Electronic Microwave with Touch Pad - White
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Cook meals for the entire family with ease when you use the Avanti 1.4 Cubic Foot Electronic Microwave with Touch Pad (MO1450TW). This large microwave can hold up to 1.4 cubic feet of food, making it easy to cook a large meal in just a few minutes. The 1,000 watts of cooking power allows you to cook large meals fast and more thoroughly than microwaves of lesser watts, meaning that you can feed your family in less than 30 minutes of cooking time!
Nine (9) preset cooking programs enable you to cook snacks and meals with one simple touch of the button, and these set programs can cook foods such as popcorn, potatoes, pizza, beverages, frozen dinners, and reheat several other dishes in just minutes. The easy-to-use electronic control panels make is simple for anyone to operate this microwave, meaning you won't need to hassle to learn how to work the oven. An electronic kitchen timer lets you know when your foods are done, while the kitchen clock can give you the time of day whenever you need it to. Ideal for any kitchen, this microwave oven will be sure to keep your family full and fed off of delicious foods for years to come.
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The holidays will surely be filled with joy when your dog receives the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer PetHoliday Flattie Rudolph/Clarice Dog Toy; detailed with a festive red holiday scarf. Let him toss, tug and gnaw at the toy until he finds the squeaker housed internally for added fun!
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The daily posts are finished.
After today I am done showing off, no more working Sundays. I won't have to work at all now that you won't be getting status reports. When I got to work Dan and I spent 10 minutes staring at the boat and decided that the best move would be to make all the hatch frames. The lobster tanks could have been worked on but it will be easier to finish the inboard edge of the tank if the hatch frame is completed first. Two of the frames needed to hold 15" X 24" hatches and the middle frame needed to house a 24" X 24" hatch. The aft frame also needed accommodations for a smaller square hatch to access the propeller clean out tube. After getting all the tools and fasteners that I was going to need, I assembled the frames on the work bench. That is glossing over a project to the highest degree. The actual measuring, cutting, clamping, drilling, and screwing are kind of a brainless task. I'll just skip to the end. Four final cuts and the frames fit in the boat. None of them are fastened down, just set in place for the sake of this photo. By getting these frames done the crew should be able to crank the work out on Monday.
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Dearborn Police continue to investigate the shooting death of 20-year-old Joseph Orlando of Dearborn as well as the disappearance of a Romulus woman, who is believed to be in danger in connection with the man's homicide.
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Police continue to investigate the shooting death of a 20-year-old male Family Dollar store worker and the disappearance of a female co-worker believed to be in danger in connection with the man's homicide.
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Del Ray Cafe
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Maybe it was due to the fact that there was a large Easter Brunch crowd but it took quite some time four our waiter to show. My husband and I have enjoyed dinner here before and thought it would be a great place to try for brunch. My son ordered a salad from the "starter" menu and it showed up with his entre so he told the server he had wanted it before. The server gave it back to the waiter who then came hovering around telling us that he should have been told it was to be served before - one would think that the purpose of a "starter" is just that. My son said they could package it up and he would take it with him just because it was getting a bit uncomfortable for us sitting there with the waiter slowing down the whole process.
I cannot say enough good things about the food and especially the brunch here. The staff is great (with the exception of one of the hostesses who seems a bit overworked and surly, but don't let that dissuade you!) and very good at accommodating requests. The croissants are amazingly fresh and buttery and the use of a lot of local organic ingredients shows through in the food. A cute neighborhood spot that I hope will be around for years to come. Pleasantly unpretentious for such good food. Bright and sunny and comfortable. Did I mention the food is awesome?
adorably nestled in del ray, del ray cafe is a true gem. delicious french pastries galore (omg the chocolate croissant) and a nice array of brunch items (the salmon benedict was truly divine--best hollandaise sauce i've ever had) with some foodie-tastic options (pork belly!) as well. we waited a bit for our table to be ready even though we had a reservation, but the neighborhood is so quaint and the sun was shining, so we didn't mind much. the service was impeccable and the prices are so reasonable.
And the first time ws excellent. Brunch the first time and celebratiing Mom's Day for dinner. Enjoy!
Had a great brunch. Food to be excellent, fresh, and great space. Room we were seated in upstairs was a bit noisy, but probably largest room; will ask for other seating next time. But, food and service made up for it. Will definitely go back to try more delicious food options didn't get to try this time.
We loved the relaxed feel of this place. It was great for our "girls night out". We all ordered something different and everyone was pleased with what they ordered. We would definitely like to come back to try additional choices on the menu. Service was very friendly and very efficient.
Fantastic food and kid friendly for brunch. Only downside is at least 1 item on order is always wrong. 4-6 people usually in group, so not too bad, though.
Staff kindly arranged our table on first floor to accommodate baby carriage and elderly guest in our party. Handicap access and convenient parking space in rear. Favorite appetizers were lightly battered squid, soft-shelled crab, and escargot. Favorite entree was the daily special red snapper. Extensive wine list (bottles only). Desserts and espresso coffee were spectacular! Friendly service, accommodating of our taking photos with new baby. Learned that the father of two brothers who were serving works at the same international agency in North Africa as one of our guests. What a small world! Our guests enjoyed discussing the menu and ordering in French. Children's menu is special because of the many, healthy offerings.
We have never had a bad experience at Del Ray Cafe and can't wait until the next time we go! We typically like to bring out of town guests here because it is quaint and we are always able to get a table through OpenTable. The atmosphere reminds me of a place you would find in Charleston, SC...The service is wonderful and they are go out of their way to please you. We had six people in our group and everyone got something different off the brunch menu and every single person cleared their plates. Amazing!
We had a variety of diners - my three-year-old, my aunt with particular taste, my highly-sensitive-to-salt mother, my corned-beef-hash husband - we all loved our food. Portions look a little small at first but turns out, the portions are perfect. We all had enough to eat and didn't have to be rolled out of there. Menu has terrific creative interpretations of traditional brunch favorites. Creative enough to be interesting, not so "foodie" to be intimidating. Space is a little tight and noise bounces around a lot. Coffee could be hotter. Servers were very attentive and friendly, food was terrific, kid brunch menu was great. We will definitely go back!
Delicious, cozy, great ambience as before!! Definitely go!


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The Real Deal 201: All-questions (podcast)
We answer questions about iPads, Xboxes, and Windows 7 sleep blue screens.
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I'm among the many who will purchase an iPad on April 3. I'm not some huge Apple fanboy, but I did have a hand in a successful iPhone app last year and plan on creating more this year. I'll need an iPad to test it out and show it off.
But I'm also in lust with Microsoft's Courier. It drives me nuts that I know someone here in Seattle who has one and won't let me anywhere near it. Bastard.
Then there are the dozens of other devices about to hit. Make no mistake … Read more
Earlier today, Apple released another update to the iPhone SDK for the iPad, bringing the current version of that SDK to 3.2, beta 4. The update follows one released several weeks ago.
We have not yet heard about any new features in beta 4, but these details will likely surface soon. (In the meantime, take a look at what beta 3 had to offer.)
This OS release appears to be updating approximately every two weeks, a pattern similar to that of the iPhone OS 3.0 launch in 2009. If the pattern continues, you can expect a firmware update … Read more
The minds at Acer think your laptop is too thick, so they're reportedly working on a couple of things to make future laptops thinner. And I mean thin. Victoria Beckham thin. Sandra Bullock's chances of winning an Oscar thin.
The company is thought to be going about this size reduction in two ways. First, the speculatastic notebooks would do away with that pesky plastic around and behind the LCD screen, according to DigiTimes. Instead, the screens would be made with a new type of reinforced glass with no need of a casing, trimming a little more than one-third … Read more
While we still don't know when Hewlett-Packard's Slate will be for sale, thanks to two new videos, we certainly know more about how HP feels about Apple.
Just hours after Apple revealed the first iPad commercial, HP has followed with a pair of video demos showing off its own touch-screen tablet, the Slate.
The first video, embedded below, feels remarkably similar to Apple's own ad, just sped up and with backing music that's a little harder-edged than Apple's usual choice of cutesy indie pop. Like the iPad as well as iPhone and iPod Touch ads, the demo features just the screen and a pair of hands swiping and pressing the Slate's screen. The similarity between the demo videos of the two competing devices is made easier considering that the iPad and the Slate also look a lot alike. Check out the video, and you can judge for yourself:
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Why would Apple launch its iPad campaign March 15, as was rumored by some, when it could launch during the Oscars? This is Apple, not Snapple.
It seemed so necessary the iPad would receive its official TV push as other glamorous objects of adoration displayed their wares.
What is remarkable about the ad is that there is nothing remarkable about it at all. It is very neat, but very standard communication from Apple.
Yes, there is the music: "There Goes My Love" by Danish band The Blue Van, a tune that will soon be downloaded quite often on … Read more
As the Apple iPad and its A4 chip get ready to ship on April 3, the competition is not standing still--and, by all appearances, there's plenty of it.
As reported back in January, the A4's central processing unit, or CPU, design, as it stands now, is thought to be based primarily on technology from U.K.-based ARM. Linley Gwennap, who is the president and principal analyst of The Linley Group, believes the A4 uses a fairly common ARM CPU designed by Intrinsity and manufactured by Samsung.Where Apple, instead, may have chosen to enhance the A4's … Read more
I want to believe this story--if only because customer service is such a lamentable part of commercial life these days.
Admittedly, this is a tough story to confirm or refute. But the Apple chasers at 9to5Mac, who seem more like 24-7Mac to me, write that no less a customer satisfaction expert than Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been answering iPad customer queries.
Oh, alright, apparently he did it once.
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Make private companies happy. Don't worry about the environment. Stop fretting about long-term sustainability. Forget renewables, property concerns, the safety of our water and air. Make private companies happy.
This was the 43rd president's message to the current administration at the DUG East conference held by the shale gas industry on Thursday.
With characteristic bluntness, George W. Bush spoke his mind on energy policy to several thousand oil and gas executives gathered in Pittsburgh at an exclusive luncheon on Wednesday.
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Aussie imam says global warming is Allah's revenge
Aussie imam says global warming is Allah's revenge
Sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Melbourne mosque that "out-of-control secular scientific values" have caused environmental disaster.
"The fear of Allah is not there," he told a recent meeting. "So we now have a polluted earth, a polluted water, a wasteland. The prophet told you hundreds of years ago, 'Look after the water'."
Omran didn't say whether, in addition to the western infidels he lives among, his remarks were also directed at the billionaire Middle Eastern oil producers who share his faith.
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The point was to call ZOG out as someone who only picks at other people's positions with the same tired old "religion" and "chicken little" epithets while never once having the courage to articulate a rational, coherent and complete position of his own. Sadly he seems more reluctant to do that than to leer and jeer at people.
Your cut 'n' pasted response is a start, I suppose, but it would be much more interesting if you put it into a usable context, or at least plain english. i honestly have no idea what it's saying. But presumably Hansen can rationalize a coherent position on AGW, despite or because of the information presented above. So should ZOG, so should you. Otherwise, we're just slinging contextless, cherrypicked "facts" at one another, and that does no good. Neither does base namecalling, which is all I've ever seen from ZOG.
You can't disprove a negative assertion, anymore than you can't prove giant talking rabbits exist. The burden of proof is on you -- not him.
"After all, you wouldn't want me to take your assertion on faith, would you?"
Odd you should say that, since that's exactly what you are demanding of everyone else, regarding your own assertions. Get back to us once you've "proved" human-caused global warming is true.


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HOK has submitted plans for a 2,800m2 residential development above a Crossrail access shaft in Holborn
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