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Stocks to Sell #1: iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ)
Click to Enlarge In 2013, Japan's stock market benefited enormously as the Bank of Japan's aggressive quantitative easing policy fueled weakness in the yen and provided a tailwind to exporters.
Now, the opposite trend might be set to occur.
When investors go into "risk-off" mode, the yen typically strengthens — a trend that indeed has begun to emerge in the past week. The potential impact of the stronger yen is visible in the underperformance of exporters such as Toyota Motor (TM) and Sony (SNE). These worries contributed to a sharp, 4.7% selloff in the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ) in just the three sessions ended Monday.
Now, the EWJ chart indicates more weakness might be on the way. The ETF has broken through both its long-standing lower support line and its 200-day moving average, and it stands to fall further if there is any additional weakness in risk assets. Another potential catalyst for a downturn is the increase in the national sales tax, set to go into effect April 1.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A trickle of recently-launched commodity-linked funds in Japan is set to swell in coming years as stodgy savers, pension funds and regional banks search for higher returns beyond the usual mix of bonds and equities.
Money managers looking to offer more commodity asset products to customers are eyeing a share of an estimated $20 trillion pool of investment funds -- or 1.5 times U.S. GDP -- held by retail investors, life insurers and corporate pension funds.
Less than 1 percent of that money is now invested in commodity-linked products. But a growing number of local exchange traded funds (ETFs) are stirring up interest, fund managers say.
ETFs are popular with Japanese investors who feel comfortable with "toushin", or investment trusts, said Kentaro Obata, head of the asset management division of Astmax, Japan's top commodities fund manager.
"Interest in commodities-linked products has been clearly growing from asset management firms, securities houses and regional banks, especially since the start of the year," Obata said.
"This tells us that commodities are more widely accepted by retail investors, a trend that will spread to institutions."
ETFs can hold stocks or future and physical contracts and trade at unit prices like a mutual fund against an underlying value.
The asset value of Japan's ETF market stood at about $24.63 billion by the end of last year, according to a January report by U.S. hedge fund BlackRock Inc, which ranks it at the top of the Asia-Pacific region, despite being just 3.5 percent of the United States, the world's No.1 market.
Two ETFs tracking TOCOM futures were launched on the Osaka Securities Exchange this month -- the Mizuho Gold ETF, and the NF Platinum Index.
Mizuho Asset Management President Shinichiro Tanaka said his company was keen to offer more commodities-related mutual funds, or ETFs, in the future to retail and institutional investors.
"We still believe commodities are an effective asset class, which investors can hold to diversify," Tanaka said. "We hope to see our ETF grow to 10 billion to 20 billion yen in one year."
Even as investors seek to widen their options, new flows into commodity investments are expected to be modest at first.
"Many pension funds must cut back heavy exposure to stocks in order to achieve risk diversification," said Mitsuhiro Arakawa, an executive consultant at Russell Investments in Tokyo.
"I expect in the not-too distant future that pension funds will make small investments in commodities, with visible changes seen in about five years from now."
Corporate pension funds hold 60 to 70 trillion yen, or $666 billion to $776 billion in assets and on average hold around 40 percent in bonds, both domestic and foreign, and about 30 percent in stocks, Japanese and foreign.
The pension funds are normally ultra-conservative on portfolio choices because of internal allocation rules that specify four large, liquid assets -- Japanese government bonds, foreign government bonds, Japanese stocks and foreign stocks.
But the same Japanese institutions have recently shown more risk appetite by investing in hedge funds and funds of hedge funds and a surge in commodities trading is seen as the next wave globally.
Firms have already ordered consultant studies on commodity investment options and are making tentative buys, one money manager said.
"We are receiving more queries from institutionals, such as regional banks, about commodities with some buying funds, although the investment amount is small," said Ryosuke Okazaki, chief investment officer at ITC Investment Partners Corp.
"Japanese commodities investment in portfolios is close to zero now but that means there is a huge pick-up in terms of percentage change. This trend is irreversible."
ITC Investment this month launched Japan's first fund that allows exposure to contracts such as gold futures on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange, the country's largest.
Last year, ITC Investment launched a mutual fund aimed at profiting from NYMEX crude oil futures.
The next decade will see many funds moving as much as 20 percent of their holdings into alternative investments including hedge funds, funds of funds and managed futures and commodities,a money manager said.
"There is a renewed focus on assets that have little correlation to traditional alternative assets, such as real estate," said Tatsuro Karitani, senior manager at DIAM Co, an equal joint venture between Mizuho Financial and Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co.
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Motion Industries, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Co., has named Ellen Holladay senior vice president Information Technology and director of Operational Excellence. According to Bill Stevens, president and CEO, Holladay will continue to serve as chief information officer in the company's Information Technology Group as she leads the company's Operational Excellence Program. Holladay has previously served Motion Industries as vice president of Information Technology, director of Software Systems, and director of the MIS Department. She joined the company in 1990 as manager of Systems Planning.
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After three weeks, Calgary's resale housing market is showing strong, solid sales growth in November compared with a year ago.
According to the Calgary Real Estate Board, total MLS sales in the city of 991, between November 1-21, are up 4.65 per cent from the same period last year.
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Tobacco firms lose health warning fight
Tobacco companies have lost their fight against the imposition of tough new health warnings on products in the European Union.
The companies were challenging the legality of the warnings.
The decision on Tuesday, by the EU's highest court, means the terms "light" and "mild" are banned.
Under the ruling, health warnings must cover 30% of the front of cigarette packets and 40% of the back.
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg made its decision after British American Tobacco (BAT) and Imperial Tobacco challenged the Tobacco Products Directive.
It ruled: "The court upholds the validity of the (EU) directive on the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products.
"The ban on using certain descriptions on tobacco product packaging, such as 'light' and 'mild' applies only to products marketed within the Community and not to those exported to non-member countries."
UK smokers could see bolder warnings on products from autumn next year. Cigarette packets may also eventually carry graphic images to illustrate health risks.
The ruling will also limit the actual amount of nicotine in products.
In a separate move, the English Royal College of Physicians called for a body to be established to regulate tobacco and nicotine products.
The RCP said the products killed 120,000 people a year in the UK, but were less controlled than food and drugs.
BAT said the EU ruling raised concerns about the body's regulatory powers.
Michael Prideaux, BAT's corporate and regulatory affairs director, said: "We have always supported reasonable, fact based regulation and we hope that in the future the Commission will regulate in a balanced way with proper consultation.
"We seek to maintain the rights of our adult consumers to receive full information about our products without having to suffer fallout from the Commission's crusade against the tobacco industry."
The court backed EU law in every respect except in regard to applying EU standards to export tobacco products.
Liz Buckingham, a spokeswoman for Imperial Tobacco, said: "We are very disappointed that all other aspects of the directive remain valid.
"We believe it imposes unreasonable measures with no supporting evidence that they will be effective."
Public health
Clive Bates of the organisation Action on Smoking and Health told BBC News Online: "This gives the all-clear for big, bold, bleak warnings on cigarettes.
"It also signals the end of misleading labelling on packets, which is one of the biggest con-tricks of all time."
Dr Sinéad Jones, director of the British Medical Association's Tobacco Control and Resource Centre, said: "Every day Europe's doctors come face to face with the suffering and death caused by tobacco.
"Smokers have the right to clear, accurate information about the health effects of tobacco, and to be protected against misleading claims that some cigarettes are safer than others."
Dame Helena Shovelton, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation said: "Using terms like ¿mild¿ and ¿light¿ on cigarette packets is utterly misleading and has led young people especially to believe that certain brands of cigarettes are less harmful to lung health.
"Thank goodness this madness will now be put to an end. Tobacco cigarettes are not safe in any shape or form and this message needs to be made crystal clear. "
Last week, EU health ministers banned tobacco advertising on the radio, in newspapers and on the Internet.
MEP Julian Maaten said the court had struck a blow for public health.
"The industry took us to court as usual and yet again has had to bite the dust.
"From today onwards, Europe is more advanced than any other part of the world in combating tobacco addiction."
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Rapper 2 Chainz was reportedly robbed on Sunday evening for his signature gold chains and wallet, despite being surrounded by an entourage of 14. TMZ reports that San Francisco police responded to a shots fired call at around 4:30 p.m. and found the rapper had been the apparent victim of an armed robbery.
The SFPD claims that police surveillance video shows the rapper having his chains taken, which is odd since Tity Boi posted a video on Vine just hours ago with himself wearing the jewelry. The rapper captioned the video, "Close but no cigar."
Rumors that Chainz was shot also began to spread online Sunday night, but artist performed at Summer Jam just hours after being robbed so that rumor appears to be just that. "Ya'll believe everything", the rapper responded on Twitter after being asked if he had been shot.


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Forest Adventures
August 2, 2014
Suddenly it's August! I haven't abandoned this little internet space of mine, I promise. It's just that summer has been so full, and although I've been writing and reading like crazy, most of my writing has been accomplished in a casual spiral notebook that I keep in my backpack and take with me wherever I go. And really, most of my efforts have gone into simply recalling events from the day rather than anything profound or thoughtful. I'm giving myself a break from thinking too hard.
But if you want to know what I've been up to, I've been spending a lot of time playing outside. Mostly in the forest. Last weekend, Matt and I drove out to his parent's house, and trekked a mile or so down through the forest to the creek where we set up camp. We got there early on Friday (though not early enough), and left late Saturday evening so Matt could get back in time to turn in an assignment for class.
The camp we chose had been used before by Matt's family, but it must've been years since they were there last because everything was overgrown. We had to start from scratch, digging out a new fire pit, collecting firewood (note to self: take a hand saw next time rather than a hatchet), and generally getting things ready so we wouldn't have to scramble in the dark. When we were done, we went out to the creek and swam around for a few hours, trying to ignore the crawdads and the nibbly bottom-feeder fish that were just a little too curious about our feet and legs.
By five o'clock, we were exhausted and ready for dinner, so we got a fire going and made some grub. I've never done the camp cooking thing before, but it was fun, and the hot food was delicious. I made hot cocoa, but I was especially fond of hot tea, and would've drank gobs of it had it not been for the fact that we FORGOT TOILET PAPER.
We slept roughly in a two-person tent. Actually, I was almost sure I wouldn't fall asleep at all, but the next thing I knew it was light outside the birds were chirping. After breakfast, Matt and I dug out my Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast book and trudged around the forest identifying (and eating) berries. Don't worry, we only ate the ones we knew were safe: the red huckleberries, thimbleberries and salal berries. Everything else I just took pictures of so I could try to identify later. Speaking of which, any idea about these orange-red berries with the lily-like leaves, these white berries or these Oregon-grape-like berries?
Needless to say, we'll be going back out there again and often. As often as possible, really, nd maybe next time we'll bring a fishing pole.
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That looks soo nice, time away in the woods is so refreshing!ReplyDelete
sounds like a great weekend…and next time I predict the first thing you'll be packing is a good supply of toilet paperReplyDelete
Aside from the minor issues, sounds like a great time! The white berries look like they could be snowberries. I think the last berries are Oregon Grapes, aren't they? I don't know what the red ones are. Malformed gooseberries, maybe? :)ReplyDelete
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Forecasters expect prolonged cold wave
Another blast of arctic air has settled into the mountains and forecasters are expecting a prolonged cold wave.
Low temps the next two mornings will run 15 to 20 degrees below normal and will combine with high winds to create bitterly cold conditions.
The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Advisory for Macon and surrounding counties beginning at 6 p.m. this evening through 11 a.m. Friday.
A special weather statement was issued by the National Weather Service saying the cold weather will result in high demands for electricity across the region and power outages may result.
Those who require electricity for heating or medical equipment should consider backup heating or electrical sources.
In your home, consider allowing indoor plumbing fixtures to drip to prevent frozen water pipes.
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I am without doubt still, and unashamedly, a Street Fighter 2 fan, fifteen years after I discovered it. I remember walking towards the arcades, with the three pounds I'd saved from my school lunch money, by starving myself all week, because I was so unbelievably adamant that I was going to learn the dragon punch...at twenty pence a go, it gave me a fair few stabs at it. Ok, I was a geek!
Since the release of the original Street Fighter 2 game, there has been a wide variety of variations on the same theme, such as: Street Fighter 2 The World Warriors; Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition; Street Fighter 2 Turbo; Street Fighter 2 The new Challenges and the list goes on...that's before we've even approached the subject of Street Fighter 3, 4 and Marvel vs Capcom.
The anniversary Edition collaborates versions: World Warrior, Championship Edition, Turbo Hyper Fighting, Super and Super Turbo. You can pick from all sixteen characters, although its strength lies in its ability to link editions together. For instance, you can have Cammy from Super against the World Warrior version of Ryu, this is something that hasn't been approached before. Playing against the computer can sometimes prove itself to be a little tough, even for the hardened Street Fighter gamer and alterations in the game level don't seem to make any difference what so ever. Its saving grace is within versus mode as it's great fun mixing opponents from different versions. You do have the option of changing the game speed (not quite as fast as black belt edition) and its slick, near arcade perfect graphics leaves its predecessors far behind. I feel that although Capcom have obviously spent time linking editions together in versus mode, you are left restricted to Super Turbo Mode against the computer, this can prove a little frustrating.
Even with some obvious flaws, this particular version of Street Fighter 2 remains my favorite. I feel that this is the nearest you will get, on the Playstation 2, to the arcade version. As Fighting games go, Street Fighter will always stand head and shoulders above the competition.
On the twenty ninth of August, 94', from the depths of the Manchester Music scene, Oasis' debut album, 'Definitely Maybe' arrogantly swaggers forward. At a time of political and musical change, Oasis dictates the future, within their bold new shining light and genre...Brit pop. With the Brother's two-fingered approach to life, it's unsurprising that critics have chartered the Shark filled waters of Noel and Liam Gallagher's relationship to be turbulent. This takes nothing from the importance of the Musicology and enticing lyrical complexity, embedded deeply within Definitely Maybe's Wall of sound.
First out on center stage, with its arms folded behind it's back and chin jutting to the sky, is 'Rock and Roll star'. Powerful and uncompromising in its approach, this energetic and confident start to the album sets the scene for others to follow. 'Supersonic', 'Columbia' and 'Bring it On Down' show a similar trend, beautiful distorted guitars and upbeat drums that make you feel like you're part of a scene. The anthem 'live forever', ironic with hindsight, is the most memorable track of the album, and some would say their careers. Noel Gallagher is famously quoted as saying that it only took him four minutes to complete the track. 'Cigarette's and Alcohol', with it's crunching opening guitar riff, brings an honest viewpoint of 90's Britain. The album then concludes with 'Married With Children', simplistic within its compositional attributes although poignant to everyone.
The album is a reflection on Working Class life within the early 1990's. I can still remember seeing them live in Bournemouth, a cigarette hanging out of my mouth, and a beer in hand...it was incredible. But part of what pulled so many people towards Oasis, would eventually be their down fall. Definitely Maybe is not just an important album because of its music, but it also signified a change in political power and public thinking...not unlike that of the Beatles in the 60's


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CLEARWATER — While Saturday's Ironman World Championship 70.3 saw course records set in the men's and women's fields, local age groupers did their best to set personal records.
More than 1,250 finished the 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride and 31.1-mile run. Among them were several dozen local triathletes.
Finishers included Daniel Chechele, 49 of St. Petersburg, 4:35:24; Robert Repp, 22 of Palm Harbor, 4:46:06; Christina Noordstar, 32 of Tierra Verde, 4:46:27; Rob Boos, 39 of Belleair, 4:48:48; Robert Maue, 40 of Clearwater, 4:49:44; Larry Witt, 44 of Palm Harbor, 4:57:47; Jason Trieloff, 39 of Clearwater, 5:06:14; Owen Clifton, 46 of Tarpon Springs, 5:08:36; Tony Scott, 45 of St. Petersburg, 5:14:37; Thomas Jensen, 45 of Clearwater, 5:21:40.
Additional age groupers included Jennifer Sullivan, 43 of Safety Harbor, 5:27:35; Darren Harris, 47 of St. Petersburg, 5:42:38; Dave Orlowski, 53 of Clearwater Beach, 5:54:02; Melissa Dipple, 48 of Tierra Verde, 5:54:02; Tye Gruss, 42 of Largo, 5:55:17; Theresa George, 44 of Dunedin, 6:09:22; Francis McDermond, 31 of Pinellas Park, 6:11:11; Carol Ardell, 53 of St. Petersburg, 6:14:04; Jenna Casper, 33 of St. Petersburg, 6:15:37.
Rounding out the field were Franklin Clark, 39 of Safety Harbor, 6:18:06; Chris Steffen, 19 of Pinellas Park, 6:19:35; Diane Berberian, 50 of Clearwater, 6:20:38; Clare Kelley, 53 of St. Petersburg, 6:21:35; Sofia Bereza, 59 of Clearwater, 6:44:25, Bill Kolar, 61 of St. Petersburg, 6:56:34.
Road runners
Tarpon Springs residents Scott Stolz, 48, and his wife, Joan, 47, traveled to Healdsburg, Calif., for a half-marathon on Oct. 25. Both ran a 1:54:44. Joan Stolz finished sixth out of 63 in her age group, and overall the Stolzes finished 239th and 240th out of 1,100 runners. It was their first half-marathon.
Several Pinellas County residents headed to Nokomis on Sunday for the Sarasota Senior. The event was a qualifier for the State Senior Games championships that will be held in Cape Coral on Dec. 9-11.
The races contested were the 5K and 10K time trial events, with the top five finishers in each five-year age group qualifying for the state championships.
Local qualifiers included John Sinibaldi Jr. of Seminole in the 50-54 age group. He took first in the 5K and second in the 10K. Mike McCollum of Largo placed third in the 60-64 age group.
Sandy Scott of Seminole, the current state champion and state record-holder in both events in the 65-69 year age group, also won gold medals. Chuck Kleim of St. Petersburg placed first in the 5K and second in the 10K in the 75-79 age group.
In the women's division, Rose Marie Ray of Seminole took home gold in the 5K and 10K.
College update
The University of Florida's women's cross country team was runnerup at the Southeastern Conference Championship in Starkville, Miss., this month.
The Gators were led by Ali Crabb, a sophomore from St. Petersburg, who finished fifth overall with a time of 20:42.57 for the 6K race.
Pinellas County residents J.P. Ahterholt, a supervisor with the city of Clearwater's Recreation Department, and Skip Maxell, co-owner of the Clearwater's Double Barrel Surf Shop, led the charge at the second annual 22-mile Causeway to Causeway Paddle on Florida's East Coast.
Atherholt and Maxwell placed fourth and seventh overall with times of 4:20:04 and 4:46:38. Atherholt placed first in the Unlimited Paddleboard Division; Maxwell, fourth.
Et cetera
Blake Arnold, 14 of St. Petersburg, finished first in his age group and eighth overall with a time of 17:42, at the 5K run to benefit the Arthritis Association at The Pier on Oct. 30.
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My Dog is Shivering or Trembling
Like humans, dogs shiver or tremble for a wide variety of reasons. They will most commonly do it when they are cold, hungry, anxious, or frightened. Some dogs will do it if their blood sugar is dangerously low or immediately prior to having a seizure. Some of these are fairly alarming reasons, so it is best to try to figure out the reason why.
What to Look For
Evaluate your dog's overall health first by mentally reviewing your dog's past few days, including his appetite, thirst, and bowel and bladder habits. Assess your dog's current environment for temperature, comfort, stress, and potential or perceived threats. Finally, perform an overall body evaluation like the one described in "My Dog Is Stiff" [not available online].
What to Do
Ask yourself the following questions to ascertain how to proceed:
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The research team uses well-aligned carbon nanotubes and fly ash, a recycled waste product, for producing the smart paint. When mixed, the resulting paint demonstrates a property analogous to cement, making it suitable for adverse conditions. Since fly ash is the major raw material used for producing the paint, the product has superior durability and its cost is mere 1% of that of existing inspection techniques.
The researchers have developed and tested a prototype, and their results have confirmed the effectiveness of the novel paint technology. Saafi believes that the team is now able to demonstrate the effectiveness of the smart paint on a larger structure. The paint can be applied by simply spraying onto any types of surfaces and the attached electrodes can sense structural damage prior to failure occurs.
According to Saafi, the monitoring system comprises a wireless sensor network wherein wireless communication nodes that have power harvesting and warning functionalities are interfaced with the paint to remotely monitor any unnoticed damage like micro-cracks in large structures such as wind turbine concrete foundations. Saafi added that the combination of the smart paint and the wireless monitoring system decreases the maintenance costs of these larger structures, while optimizing their safety.
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Over priced but worth it on a rare occasion, food is always delicious and the desserts are top notch
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Great food. Very generous portions. Just remember to save room for pie. It definitely lives up to its reputation.
Good value. Great service. Excellent food.
Gray Brothers is the place to go for colossal comfort food in the Indianapolis area, from mountainous mac & cheese to mouth-watering meat loaf and delicious pies. As seen on Man v Food.
If you like eating at the nursing home, you'll love it here!!
Best fried chicken in Indiana and chocolate pie to die for
Black people sit in the back, damn this place is white.
The delicious hysteria of having to choose among so much good-looking food is a state of mind known to cognoscenti as cafeteria anxiety.
Good food chicken lives fried potatoes macaroni and apricot pie.
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Wombat's Top 4 Favourite Markets in Berlin
Spring has almost sprung in Berlin and what better way to celebrate the sun than to spend a hungover Sunday afternoon roaming around buying second hand goodies. And let me tell you, there is no better way to cure a throbbing headache than walking back to the hostel with a freshly squeezed orange juice in one hand and a broken accordian in the other.
Berlin has quite a few markets on offer depending on what you're in to. This is a list of our favourites here at Wombat's.
1) Mauerpark Flohmarkt (Sundays 8am – 6pm)
Located an easy 15minute walk from Wombat's, 'Mauerpark' (literally translating to 'Wall Park' – it runs along one of the few remaining sections of the wall in the city) is easily one of the biggest and most famous fleamarkets in the city. You can spend hours wandering through endless stalls selling all kinds of things from locally manufactured clothing to second hand watches to organic produce.
It can get pretty packed and busy though…so when the crowds are too much for you, grab a beer, have a lie down on the grass and listen to some of Berlins most eccentric street musicians doing their thing. If you're lucky, you might even get the chance to see the 'Bearpit Karaoke' in full swing. If you've ever wanted to butcher your favourite popsong outdoors in front of 400 people. Mauerpark is the place for you.
2) Flohmarkt am Boxhagener Platz (Sundays 10am – 6pm)
Smack bang in the middle of hipster suburb 'Friedrichshain' is the small but extremely popular fleamarket on Boxhagener Platz. Join the 20-somethings on their way back from the club. Parents with their children and some of Berlin's most stylish residents trawling through a huge amount of second hand books, records, furniture, clothing and other knick-knacks.
3) Turkish Market at Maybachufer (Tuesdays and Fridays 11am – 6.30pm)
'Angebot angebot angebooooot!' Every Tuesday and Friday, Kreuzbergs Maybach Canal comes alive with the sights and sounds of Turkish produce sellers offering visitors to the market the best deals on kilos of oranges/tomatoes/apples etc. etc. etc. It is not for the faint hearted – usually a huge bustling swarm of tourists, locals and families bargaining with shop-owners. Towards the end of the market though, one can relax with a crowd of other exhausted market-goers. Sitting along the banks of the canal eating Turkish breads and dips and listening to street musicians.
4) Fleamarket at Rathaus Schöneberg (Saturday & Sunday 8am – 4pm)
Held in front of the Town Hall in district 'Schöneberg' (where John F Kennedy made his famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech) this fleamarket has more of a local character where Berliners come to buy and sell their Bric-a-Brac. Sellers sit under tarpaulins and sell all kinds of random things out of cardboard boxes. If you have the time to trawl through all the rubbish, it can be totally worth it. But don't forget…haggle!!


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Debt and Product Market Fragility
This paper studies the interplay between corporate leverage and product pricing when liquidation is costly for customers. I develop a model which illustrates that highly leveraged firms can enter a vicious circle in which financial distress and sales drops are re--enforcing. There is a "good'' equilibrium in which the firm is in good financial shape. However, when leverage is excessive there is also "bad'' equilibrium in which consumers' pessimistic perceptions about the firm's financial health become self-fulfilling. Moreover, whenever the "bad'' equilibrium exists the "good'' equilibrium is highly fragile in that a small shock can trigger a spiral of sales drops. I show that the firm can avoid the "bad'' equilibrium by not fully exercising market power (i.e. cutting prices) and reducing leverage. The model sheds light on why highly leveraged companies often face severe sales drops and how price cuts and debt restructurings can help to restore customer confidence.
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Billy Campbell and Clea Duvall are set to co-star opposite Christina Ricci in Lifetime's movie about one of the most famous murder trials in American history. Directed by Nick Gomez and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the film tells the story of Fall River, Mass., resident Lizzie Borden (Ricci), who finds herself on trial for the brutal axe murders of her father, Andrew Jackson Borden, and his second wife, Abby Durfee Gray Borden, at their family home. She was acquitted though no one else was ever charged with the crime, which has remained unsolved. Campbell will play Borden's attorney, Andrew Jennings, while Gersh-repped Duvall will play her sister Emma. Judith Verno executive produces.
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Aside from Scott Foley becoming a regular on Scandal, this is the best news of the day.
Did this movie just write itself? Or are they shooting 120 blank pages and making it up as they go along?
I had the pleasure to work on this set for three days…. Christina Ricci proved herself to be a real sweetheart….


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Melbourne - Ferrari's Fernando Alonso topped the timesheets in the first free practice at the Australian Grand Prix on Friday as reliability problems saw the new Formula One season open with a whimper rather than a bang.
The twice world champion Spaniard posted a lap of one minute 31.840 seconds with half an hour left in the 90 minute session and held his half-a-second lead over McLaren's second-placed Jenson Button in brilliant sunshine at Albert Park.
After a winter testing in which teams struggled to come to terms with the new turbocharged hybrid engines, drivers spent much of the session cooling their heels in the garages, while technicians tinkered.
The biggest surprise of the session was trouble for Mercedes, who arrived Down Under optimistic after a promising winter testing.
Having batted away the favourites to win the season-opener tag, Lewis Hamilton was left fuming when his car stopped at turn nine of his installation lap just five minutes into the session.
With the vehicle hauled off by a tow-truck, the 29-year-old Briton walked back to the paddock without taking his helmet off and suffered the indignity of being stopped by security before retreating into his team's tent.
Mercedes later issued a statement clarifying that his car had come to an automatic halt triggered by an oil pressure alarm, but said they needed to investigate the fault further.
Mercedes-powered Williams fared better, with Valtteri Bottas posting the third-fasted time and his new team mate Felipe Massa shrugging off a radio malfunction to be fourth quickest.
Red Bull, who endured a dismal winter testing, had an encouraging first session, with new driver Daniel Ricciardo finishing fifth ahead of reigning quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel in seventh.
Hamilton's team mate Nico Rosberg was sixth for Mercedes, while Kimi Raikkonen, taking his first run for Ferrari since returning to Maranello, was ninth after eighth-placed McLaren debutant Kevin Magnussen.
Lotus waited until 20 minutes left in the session before making an appearance, with driver Pastor Maldonado rolling out of the garage, but he managed only an installation lap before taking a skid through some gravel and coming to a halt in pit-lane.
He and team mate Romain Grosjean were among five drivers that failed to post a lap time, suggesting plenty of work to be done before the second practice session later on Friday.
1. Fernando Alonso (ESP) Scuderia Ferrari 1min 31.840sec
2. Jenson Button (GBR) McLaren Mercedes 1:32.357
3. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Williams 1:32.403
4. Felipe Massa (BRA) Williams 1:32.431
5. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull Racing 1:32.599
6. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes 1:32.604
7. Sebastian Vettel (GER) Red Bull Racing 1:32.793
8. Kevin Magnussen (DEN) McLaren Mercedes 1:32.847
9. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Scuderia Ferrari 1:32.977
10. Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA) Toro Rosso 1:33.446
11. Nico Hulkenberg (GER) Force India 1:33.533
12. Sergio Perez (MEX) Force India 1:33.855
13. Daniil Kvyat (RUS) Toro Rosso 1:34.272
14. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX) Sauber 1:35.578
15. Adrian Sutil (GER) Sauber 1:36.445
16. Jules Bianchi (FRA) Marussia 1:40.859
17. Max Chilton (GBR) Marussia 1:46.922
18. Marcus Ericsson (SWE) Caterham
19. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes
20. Kamui Kobayashi (JPN) Caterham
21. Pastor Maldonado (VEN) Lotus
22. Romain Grosjean (FRA) Lotus


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Charlotte walks into the bedroom and immediately disappears into the bathroom. "Lucas is asleep."
Cooper rolls on his side and smiles at his wife. "Good."
She nods and few minutes later, she joins Cooper in bed. She lets out a breath as she gets comfortable, scooting closer to him.
Without warning, he lowers his head and presses his lips against hers in a warm, not-so-delicate kiss. He pulls back and she barely has a chance to react to the first one before he kisses her again.
She swallows. "What was that for?"
"Because you amaze me more and more everyday and because I love you." He pauses and skims his thumb across her cheek as he tucks her hair behind her ear. "Not many people would be able to or would willingly take care of five kids, two who aren't even theirs biologically and three who are newborns, but—you amaze me." He kisses her again and inches closer to her, running his hand up and down her side. "I'm lucky. I got lucky. You're a wonderful mother, Char."
She blinks.
"I know this wasn't what you wanted, which makes all this even more amazing." He pauses. "I love you, I love you so much, and I'm glad the kids get to grow up calling you momma. I really do."
She smiles and wraps her arms around him. She's holding back tears now, her bottom lip quivering.
He holds her tight against him and lets out a breath.
"That means a lot, Coop," she whispers. "It came out of nowhere, but it means a lot." She laughs and tilts her head back.
He lowers his and closes the gap between their lips. He breaks the kiss and smiles. "It didn't come out of nowhere. I've been thinking about all this for a while, but seeing you with Lucas just now, made me want to tell you now."
"I'm glad you did. I actually needed to hear that, especially from you." She slides up against him, rolling onto her side and resting her head on his chest. "I love you too and you're a great daddy—but I never thought you would be anythin' less."
He reaches over and shuts off his bedside lamp. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight," she whispers back, closing her eyes and drifting off to sleep in his arms.
He stays awake for a little while longer, but eventually, he falls asleep.
A few days later, Charlotte's walking down the hallway to her office, but stops in front of Cooper's door. She hears giggling and the familiar sound of pillows flying through the air. Her curiosity gets the better of her and she knocks. She opens the door and smiles. "What is goin' on in here, boys?"
Cooper stops mid-movement and twists his mouth. "Just some harmless fun." He pauses. "They don't have school today and I don't have any patients until later."
Mason hits his dad in the stomach with a pillow and looks at Charlotte. "You want to join us, momma?"
"Sorry, fella. Unlike your daddy, I actually do work when I'm here."
Cooper tosses a pillow at her. "I do work. I said I didn't have any patients until later."
She catches the pillow and throws it back at him. It hits Lucas in the head instead. She swallows. "Sorry, buddy."
Lucas pops up and runs at her, hitting her in the legs with a pillow. "Now we're even." He giggles and runs back over to Cooper, collapsing on top of him.
"Do I need to get a babysitter in here to watch you three kids?"
Cooper twists his mouth and turns his head towards his wife. "Hey!"
She laughs. "Have fun—be careful," she warns, before heading down the hallway.
Later that night, Charlotte's cleaning up after dinner. She has Emmett cradled in one arm, listening to him coo, while she scrubs down the counter. Isabelle and Dylan are entertaining themselves in their swings, Lucas is sitting at the kitchen table, coloring, and Mason is in the living room playing Wii with Cooper. She can hear the arguing and laughing from her post at the sink.
Lucas slips off the chair and walks over to Charlotte. He tugs on her pant leg a couple times. "Momma?"
She blinks and squeezes the sponge, her movements ceasing. She swallows and turns her head slowly, titling it down to look at the little boy, who is smiling at her, his blue eyes wide, as he waits for a response.
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Ayer Rajah could be Singapore's Silicon Valley
FINALLY, Singapore will have its own hub for start-up companies that thrive from the buzz and shared advice of having like-minded outfits around them.
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FINALLY, Singapore will have its own hub for start-up companies that thrive from the buzz and shared advice of having like-minded outfits around them.
It could eventually become the Republic's own Silicon Valley.
The likely move to formalise this centre is one of eight recommendations of the Entrepreneurship Review Committee (EnRC) to foster entrepreneurship here. The recommendations were released last week.
In recent years, excitement over start-ups here has increased. Seed funding, primarily from the Government, has led to many start-ups being founded.
Last year, about 20 start-ups were acquired by various corporations - the ultimate acid test of business success. The largest was the sale of online video streaming portal Viki to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten for a reported US$200 million (S$318 million).
A hub for start-ups will help build on this success. Not only is the start-up hub proposal timely, but it should also be anchored by Block 71, amid lush greenery in the Ayer Rajah industrial estate.
Block 71 has already become an unofficial start-up hub, as it is home to more than 100 start-ups, from chapati maker Zimplistic and online travel portal Flocations, to incubators such as NUS Enterprise and tech accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator.
Not a week goes by without a talk, hackathon or an event being held there.
People who want to know about start-ups in Singapore naturally converge at Block 71.
I am privy to discussions on the start-up hub as I am a member of the EnRC.
Suffice to say that the Government is firm on developing the area into Singapore's Silicon Valley, home to the world's largest start-ups, venture capital firms and angel investors.
The Ayer Rajah Valley - a name I, not the government agencies, coined - ought to be the start-up hub. It is ready-made, thanks to Block 71.
Having a place to call home is good. But issues still remain.
A quick peek into history: Block 71, a former flatted factory owned by JTC Corporation, began as a special scheme three years ago under the Media Development Authority (MDA) to offer lower rental rates to interactive digital media and gaming start-ups. It also offered space to start-up incubators and venture capitalists.
MDA has 58 tenants including incubators in the five floors it manages. JTC runs the other two floors, also occupied by start-ups.
A few months ago, fears emerged that the precious start-up community in Block 71 would be destroyed when rumours surfaced that the MDA would not renew their three-year leases ending in March this year.
With a long list of start-ups waiting to rent space at Block 71, MDA wanted to turn some tenants out so that others may enjoy the preferential rental rates.
But the MDA delivered a surprise hongbao to its 58 start-up tenants. It informed them last week that their leases will be extended for a year.
A great move from MDA. But what next?
Block 71 will continue to have a scheme of special rental rates for new start-ups.
But who gets to stay and who will get the axe? Will the venture capitalists funding the start-ups have a say? Or will this be the job of bureaucrats?
These issues need settling.
One day, hopefully not too far in the future, Singapore's own Apple and Google will emerge from the Ayer Rajah Valley.


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Thompson adds Christian leader to Florida team
Christian conservative leaders nationally are torn between the various GOP front-runners. But Fred Thompson announced a key local addition to his Florida team Friday.
Barbara Collier, leader of the Christian Coalition in Broward County and local co-chair of the Bush-Cheney 2004 effort, joined the former Tennessee senator's campaign as a Broward County grassroots organizer.
In neighboring Palm Beach County, lobbyist Anita Mitchell and activist Bill Hall jumped on board. (Full details from the press release below.)
McLean, VA -- Senator Fred Thompson's presidential campaign today expanded volunteer organizations in Southeast Florida, naming county leadership positions and grassroots leaders in Broward and Palm Beach Counties.
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Sometimes I don't know what to say to a hurting friend.
A few hours into the process of emptying my friend's home, the movers carried out her wedding portrait, "You want this to go with us, or are you taking it separately"?
Separately, because of the divorce that was how she'd be living her life now. Separately, that realization hit hard as she sat down to call me.
She said, "I don't know what to do with this portrait, Lysa. What do you do with the things that have no place anymore?"
I didn't want to give her a cliché, response. All I could say was, "I'm crying with you. I don't have answers, but I do have prayers."
Each time I prayed, I wrote my prayers out for my friend. Then I gave them to her. I wanted her to have them to read on those days where she was just too spent to pray on her own.
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Nigeria's largest church network, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has called for prayer and fasting for the safe release of 230 teenage school girls abducted last week.
"'The CAN leadership, especially our president, has called that all Christians pray and fast [on Friday, April 25] because of the security situation in the country: the recent bomb blast in Nyanya in Abuja, and then the abduction of students in a girls' secondary school in Maiduguri, and all the challenges of security that are going on," the Rev Musa Asake, the General Secretary of CAN told World Watch Monitor.
"The security people are doing their best, the leadership of the government is doing their best, but these things seem not to have an end. So the leadership of CAN feels, now let's talk to God. So the CAN President says God has answers to everything. Let's go to Him in prayer."
The local chapter of the CAN in Borno State, where the girls were abducted, also decreed three days of prayer and fasting.
On Monday, April 14, at around 10 p.m., suspected members of Boko Haram swooped into Chibok in seven Hilux Toyota pick-ups. While some of the attackers set government and other buildings ablaze, others went to the senior secondary school where they overpowered the security guards before herding at least 230 of the female students onto trucks, and drove the girls (who were between the ages of 16 and 20) deep into the nearby Sambisa forest.
Chibok is a Christian enclave in the predominantly Muslim Borno State, in North-Eastern Nigeria and most of the affected families are members of EYN Church (Church of the Brethren). So for many, the abduction of the schools girls is an attack against Christians.
"Such an attack where girls were taken away has never taken place. Even recently when they [Boko Haram militants] attacked a federal government college in Buni Yadi, the boys were killed but the girls were told to go away and leave the school. They never took them away. This is the first time they are taking such a number of girls in a school. So we are assuming they did so because most of the girls are Christians," says a local church leader, whose identity could not be disclosed for security reasons.
State Gov. Alhaji Kashim Shettima first announced that 52 girls had escaped, leaving 77 still missing. But the head teacher at the school, Asabe Kwambura, refuted his claims and said parents reported 230 girls were abducted, with 40 having escaped. All schools in the state were closed due to the insecurity.
The federal government has challenged Borno security agents to do everything possible to rescue these girls. Shettima has since offered a reward of 50 million Naira (about $50,000) for any information leading to the rescue of the girls. But this is not enough to calm parents' anger, and criticism of the military's handling of the crisis is mounting. It particularly angered them that the governor visited in a convoy of more than 50 vehicles, but then said he lacked resources to tackle the kidnappers.
Speaking through a senator accompanying him because he himself was too emotionally upset at the parents' distress, the governor's message was, "You should know our limitations here in the state concerning the security deployment. It is very obvious that neither the governor nor I has control over our security. We can only plead with the federal government to assist us. But be assured that we are doing our best to see that these girls are freed in one piece."
The parents have been very confused and have been wondering why the government has been delaying in doing something about it.The affected families feel hopeless and most of them are focused on praying, hoping that God will do a miracle.
The Rev. Samuel Dali, president of EYN Church, spoke to World Watch Monitor a week after the kidnaps: "We haven't heard anything that the government is planning. Even some in the state government who are supposed to direct us are starting to complain that the Federal government needs to do something. We just hear people saying we need to do something, we need to do something, but we just don't know what needs to be done."
Some parents have decided to take things into their own hands, and have pleaded with Boko Haram to release the girls, in vain. Others have also ventured into the Sambisa forest to look for their daughters, without the support of the military.
About 60 km into the forest, locals advised them not to proceed any further because it was too dangerous, as Boko Haram is equipped with much more sophisticated weapons than the sticks and machetes the parents were carrying.
"We call on President Goodluck Jonathan to take the necessary measures to free our children. We really feel neglected. I am convinced that if these abducted girls were their own daughters, they would have done something," a grieving father of one missing girl told World Watch Monitor.
"We call on the kidnappers to listen to our cry and sorrow and let our children come back home," he added in despair.
A worker with Open Doors International, which partners with churches in Northern Nigeria, added: "The abducted girls will most probably be responsible for cooking and cleaning for the insurgents. But there is every possibility that these children could be forcefully converted to Islam and married off to members of the group or other Muslim men."
So far the affected parents have not received any psychological or medical assistance. Moreover, the girls who escaped have been already recalled to sit their examinations again. Some parents accused local authorities of attempting to prevent these escaped schools girls from retelling their ordeal to the media.
Meanwhile, the thoughts of the stunned Nigerian nation are with the girls who still remain in the forest. One commentator described to the BBC the mood of the nation as one of "present, continuous agony."
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We are headed to Southern California to be with family for Thanksgiving. Tommy is coming home from school and we are going to celebrate his birthday, too.
No one's life is perfect. But we can be grateful for the almost perfect parts. Wishing you and your family a beautiful, warm and cozy Thanksgiving!
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Gandhi has sent a message to Palestine from the "Rajputana", on which he is travelling to England to attend the Indian Round Table Conference in London, says a report appearing to-day in the London "Jewish Times", in which he says: Palestine is sacred to Jews, Christians and Moslems from of old, and I therefore appeal to all Palestinians to maintain the sanctity of their land, and its liberty, which is based on the unity of all races, and to maintain also their religious spirit, and equality and justice for all the inhabitants of the country.
The message is significant in view of the fact that Shaukat Ali, the chief Moslem delegate to the Indian Round Table Conference, and the head of the Indian Caliphate movement, is also travelling on board the "Rajputana", and that it has been reported (in the J.T.A. Bulletin of the 4th. inst.) that Shaukat Ali was intending to utilise the opportunity afforded him by travelling with Gandhi on the same boat, to try to enlist his interest in the cause of the Palestine Arabs, and to secure his support, in return for certain concessions by the Indian Moslems to the Hindus, for his scheme for the restoration of the Caliphate, with its seat in Jerusalem. The London press has remarked in this connection on the fact that when Shaukat Ali, coming from Jerusalem, boarded the "Rajputana" at Port Said, he and Gandhi embraced affectionately and kissed.


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Technology Power and Control Wheel
The Technology Power and Control Wheel is modeled after the original Power and Control Wheel developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, MN. The Technology Power and Control Wheel is an attempt to provide specific examples of ways technology is used in the context of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
The wheel helps to illustrate tactics perpetrators use and the dynamics of abuse. The center of the wheel illustrates the abuser's central goal, which is to maintain power and control over the victim. Each spoke of the wheel represents a different tactic that an abuser can use to maintain this power and control. The wheel's rim, which holds everything together, symbolizes the way that an abuser will use physical or sexual violence or the threat of it in order to reinforce the power of the other tactics.


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Wisconsinites urged to vote in Tuesday's primary
Wisconsin's single statewide primary election tomorrow pits five candidates for the top education leader, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Other primary elections will take place in municipalities across the state for offices such
as city aldermen. There are also nine circuit court judge races in nine different counties
which will be narrowed down on Tuesday.
Close to home, a primary is slated for the Village of Hammond president post. Candidates are Vince Trudell, Tom Kinney and Eric Arthur.
"Unlike 2008, when there was a presidential preference primary in February, Tuesday's
primary election focuses only on state and local races," said Kevin Kennedy, G.A.B.
Director and General Counsel. "Nevertheless, there are very important races on the
ballot. We encourage all Wisconsin voters to participate."
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction - a non-partisan constitutional officer
elected every four years - leads Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction (DPI),
which oversees public schools and libraries in the state. The DPI was established in
1848, the year Wisconsin became a state.
Registered candidates for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction race are:
Tony Evers, Madison
Rose Fernandez, Mukwonago
Lowell Holtz, Beloit
Van Mobley, Thiensville
Todd Price, Kenosha
"While non-partisan primaries may generate lower voter interest, we expect at least a
ten percent turnout tomorrow," said Nat Robinson, Elections Division Administrator.
"Recent similar primary elections have turned out voters at rate of between six and
twelve percent."
A 10 percent turnout would be approximately 430,000 voters. New state residents or
voters who have recently moved should remember that they may register on Election
Day at their polling place, Robinson added.
Wisconsin has uniform polling place hours: 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Voters who are
unsure of their polling place location or their registration can use the State's Voter
Public Access website - at https://vpa.wi.gov - to check information online, or contact
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Mesherle Trial Shows: The System Is Guilty! Oscar Grant Was Murdered!
The Mesherle Trial: Cop gets off with compromise "involuntary manslaughter" conviction. The System Is Guilty! Oscar Grant Was Murdered! Meanwhile, Cops Mandate A Great Skeedaddle, As Hoards of Peaceful Protesters Descend on Oakland. "Peaceful, Legal" Bobble-heads, and Mainstream Media Emphasize Isolated Violence To Suppress Legitimate Protest.
Oakland, Thursday, July 8th 2010 --
"I AM," shouted the speaker at the Oakland protest of the verdict in the trial of ex-BART cop Johannes Mesherle; "OSCAR GRANT!" roared back the crowd at 14th and Broadway.
The cold-blooded killer of Oscar Grant had just gotten off with an involuntary manslaughter conviction, in a trial in LA. After less than 2 days deliberation, a jury with no black members cleared Johannes Mesherle of 2nd degree murder, and cleared him of voluntary manslaughter. They settled on the weakest compromise charge, involuntary manslaughter, enhanced by use of a gun. Mesherle could get felony probation, or perhaps 14 years in state prison, at the judge's discretion, when sentencing happens in August. Oscar Grant's family was outraged.
"My son was murdered," said Grant's mother, Wanda Johnson.
And so he was. As everyone in Oakland knows by now (although the facts are less well known elsewhere due partly to media blackout), Oscar Grant III, an Oakland grocery worker and father of a young daughter, was shot at point blank range, in the back, while he lay face down on a BART (subway) platform, by BART cop Johannes Mesherle on New Years Day 2009. While Mesherle's partner, the since dismissed Tony Pirone, held Grant down with both hands and a knee on his neck, Mesherle stood up, pulled his gun, and fired directly down at Grant.
The facts were indisputable, since, in actions reminiscent of the early Black Panthers' practice of monitoring police behavior on the streets of Oakland, several BART patrons had recorded the events on cell phone video and submitted them to local media. The video images helped spur mass protests in Oakland, and forced the hand of the DA, who made Mesherle the only Bay Area cop ever to be charged with murder for an on-duty killing. Then, the trial was moved out of Oakland to LA, because a cop allegedly couldn't get a fair trial in the city he was supposed to "protect and serve."
Taser or Gun? Mesherle Makes A Decision
Mesherle's defense at trial was that he meant to fire his Taser at Grant, not his gun. Yet he said after the shooting, to several others over many days, that he "thought he [Grant] was going for a gun." Clearly, this is a defense of an intentional shooting, since Tasing a person holding a gun would likely cause the gun to discharge. Shooting someone who's going for a gun makes more sense. Importantly, Mesherle never once told anyone that he had mistakenly pulled his gun when he had meant to fire his Taser at Grant. Furthermore, the Taser is a lot lighter than the gun Mesherle carried. The gun was on a different part of his belt, and unlike the Taser, the gun had safety mechanisms that had to be dealt with before it could be pulled.
As if all that wasn't enough, it was revealed at trial that Grant had photographed Mesherle pointing his Taser at him only moments before the shooting! Thus Mesherle had drawn his Taser on Grant, holstered it, and then drawn his gun only a minute or two later to shoot Grant. How could this have been an "accident"? Despite all this, the "accident" story succeeded in saving another killer cop--one of many who have ended the lives of young black males--from a murder conviction.
"Peaceful, Legal; Peaceful, Legal" ...Oh Shut Up!
Oakland police may have gotten the Mesherle trial off their radar screens with the move to LA, but they knew they couldn't ignore the community reaction to the verdict. Protesters planned a rally outside City Hall on the day of the verdict; but it seemed most of the preparation--by city authorities under Mayor Ron Dellums, community and religious leaders, and police--went into protecting a few windows in downtown Oakland. The message that virtually blared from local newspapers and media in the week or so prior to the verdict was, with only light "translation:" "To hell with outrage over the murderous crimes of a racist criminal injustice system! We just want the victims of the system to keep their protests peaceful and legal!"
The main perpetrators of violence in the community, the police, went into OT heaven with their "peaceful, legal" program, called "Operation Verdict." Weeks in preparation, "Operation Verdict" meant that downtown would be turned into a prison camp controlled by cops. Whole sections of the freeway coming into Oakland was sealed off so that police from the Highway Patrol, Alameda County and other jurisdictions--which underwent special training in advance with Oakland PD--could pour into downtown unhindered by civilian traffic. Downtown freeway entrances were also blocked to keep protesters from getting onto the roadways.
Cops Mandate Great Skeedaddle, As Peaceful Protesters Descend
Building managers in downtown were instructed to evacuate everyone from their offices at 4 PM, just as the verdict was to be announced, according to reports on local Pacifica Radio KPFA. Blocks from downtown, where I was just after 4, you could see the result of this "great skeedaddle"(1). People in shops along Telegraph Avenue were remarking on the excess traffic as hundreds, perhaps thousands, jammed the streets to get away. Many more clogged BART entrances near 14th and Broadway to escape the hordes of violent youths who were (presumably) about to descend on the city center to make mayhem.
I and two friends were among the hundreds who did "descend" on the town to protest this racist injustice of a verdict, only to find--amazing!--a peaceful protest! Arriving around 6:30 PM or so, we had to pass through a phalanx of cops, who had the whole city center completely sealed off, between about 12th and 15th streets, along Broadway. Earlier, an altercation had occurred in which protesters briefly confronted police, and then were allowed to take over the now empty streets.
"Oakland Says: GUILTY"
Once inside this makeshift ghetto in a boarded-up, deserted downtown, we joined what was a spirited, vibrant rally. A large colorful banner, hung from lampposts, proclaimed: "Oakland says: GUILTY!" The fully integrated and totally Oakland crowd of 1,000 was angry at the verdict, but welcoming and friendly. Two guys were playing chess on the asphalt, and they were still there an hour later.
Lack of an adequate sound system meant that most of the crowd was out of earshot of the podium. I heard a few of the speeches, including many who conveyed the message of "peaceful legal." "Don't follow the outside agitators," and "don't get involved with those anarchists," were all-too frequent refrains. These comments were met with some murmurs of support, but by far the biggest roar of approval went to the young black speaker, immediately following one of these "peaceful-legal" bobble-heads, who said, "How could protesting racist injustice make you an 'outside agitator' anywhere?! The police are the real outside agitators! You need to watch out for them--they are the ones who threaten us, the communities of Oakland!"
Watch Out: "Outside Agitators" Agitating...
"Outside agitator" is an old refrain--I was called that myself once, even though I lived locally, in Oakland, then as now--which is used to slander and taint legitimate protest. In the week or two after the police murder of Oscar Grant, in January 2009, protests filled the streets of Oakland. Over 160 people were arrested on various trumped up charges--including journalist JR Valrey (Block Report, KPFA/Pacifica Radio)--but the police obtained no convictions. Then as now, the City's biggest concern had nothing to do with yet another killing of a young black male by police, but with protecting property. Then as now, some windows were broken, and some fires set in dumpsters, etc. Then as now, screams of horror rise up from business owners.
Tonight's great "crime," happened after the rally was shut down on orders from the City at 8 PM, as darkness descended. No one was hurt but, oh dear, some window breaking and looting took place. The "victim" was the "Foot-Locker," a major shoe store chain on Broadway at 14th that somehow missed getting its window boarded up in the week prior to the verdict. Somebody smashed in a metal grate, and then broke the window. Shoes and t-shirts went flying through the air to the waiting crowd. A few youth made off with shoes and shirts, struggling to conceal their loot. Apparently a bank window was also smashed. Police stood by in their rows, guarding all exits, while this went on.
At a certain point the police declared an unlawful assembly and moved in, arresting some 50 or so youths. Though not a witness to the arrests, I suspect the cops ignored the two or three actual window breakers, and detained mostly innocent people, just as they did in 2009. News on local stations later that night went overboard emphasizing the "violence," while underplaying the earlier peaceful rally. They also neglected to mention that all the reported incidents took place in a one or two-block fishbowl. Police had the area surrounded the whole time, and provoked protesters, first with instructions to stay on the sidewalks, and later with a squeeze play of pushing and shoving. As if to force every last drop of so-called "news" out of this, the last broadcast I saw showed one car driving by on Broadway at about 11:30 PM, while the newscaster proclaimed with satisfaction, "OK, traffic is beginning to flow again now"!
Dellums Says, "Keep Calm, the Government's On Our Side"
While in 2009 Mayor Ron Dellums had (safely, not threatened by anyone) roamed the streets talking to youth who were out to protest the police killing of Oscar Grant, this night in 2010 he chose to stay sequestered in a special "Operation Verdict" security bunker. Flanked by cops, he tried to calm things in advance by promising, at a 5 PM press conference, that he didn't like the verdict either, and he would work with the family on a hoped-for civil rights prosecution by the Justice Department! Thus the old myth that somehow the US federal government, the greatest purveyor of violence on the Earth, is a friend of black people, is once again dragged out, under Obama. And who better to do the dragging-out than Dellums, who has shown all along that he cares more for property than for the murderous actions of his own [or BART's] cops?
But no federal government, whether Democrat or Republican, is going to magically reverse the crimes of the racist injustice system in this country, even in one case, like that of Oscar Grant. No civil rights prosecution will bring Oscar back. But more than that, Grant was the victim not just of one out-of-control cop, but of a system that's out of control. The system that legally maintains the death penalty even for the "factually innocent;" that lets cops off with a slap on the wrist, if that, while black people are "legally" shot to death all the time off camera; and that violates its own precedents to frame those it considers its political enemies, such as journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal--that system is out of control.
That is, the system is out of our control, the working masses who make the things people need, and produce the wealth that the Wall Street tycoons love to squander. It is in control for our enemies, the capitalist ruling class. It's their system, not ours... no matter who's president. And their system can't be "reformed;" it must be overthrown.
High-Priced Shoes To Sell, Or ...Revolution?
But what about the window-breaking and looting? Is that a rebellion against the system? Or is it a way to get some high-priced shoes to sell?
However it's thought of, what is important here is the sadly ineffective nature of this response to the murder of an unarmed black man by police, and to the crimes of the racist injustice system as a whole. The "power" to break a window is not doing us any good right now. We need a different sort of power, the power that can only come from a disciplined, working-class mass movement, one which relies on its own strength, not on anarchist fantasies--and not on the Democratic Party or US federal government!
While numerous black community organizers, socialists and other radicals worked on organizing this protest, and spoke at the rally, they still lack the organized mass power that is needed to overthrow the true perpetrators of violence, the ruling-class. Despite the over-the-top paranoia of "Operation Verdict"--and despite the raid on the Foot-Locker--business does still go on as usual. The working people seem to have (temporarily!) lost their ability to bring the wheels of production to a stand still. But the power to do so--and the power to remake society into one that is truly color blind and just--is still there. What we need now is a multi-racial, working class revolutionary movement that can bring that power to life, a power for human life, for liberation of all peoples, for the planet.
[Chris Kinder is an Oakland resident, socialist, and member of the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal]
(1) The so-called "Great Skeedaddle" took place in the middle of the Civil War, in 1860s Savannah, Georgia, in the heart of the Confederacy. Rumors that Union troops were landing out on the Georgia Sea Islands sparked a panic amongst the slave-owning aristocracy, whose glorious vacation mansions still line the streets of the old town. Rather than face the hated Yankees, they packed up their carriages and high tailed it out to their plantations, which were well inland. Hence, "The Great Skeedaddle."
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Saturday Jul 10th, 2010 1:12 PM
Up here in Portland hardly anyone even knows who Oscar Grant is... so when there was a solidarity protest action the general public assumed that it was just the 'usual suspects' protesting Portland cops again. It was also somewhat difficult to come up with a good, short verbal response to curious passers by about the situation, consequently I think most of the people we passed only heard about half of the story.
Then after the action had ended with a cop shop damaged and three arrests, there was virtually NO media whatsoever even about that- obviously the local media powers that be understand that news about our little event would have clued the larger public into the situation in LA and Oakland.
Saturday Jul 10th, 2010 2:14 PM
I was showing the news of the verdict to a coworker who attended school in the bay area. We're working in Los Angeles right now. She hadn't heard at all, but was interested when I showed a few bits of the relevant evidence, and how they were hyping the expected riots so much.
Yes - it definitely shows the effectiveness of the two groups helping keep his case in the public via demos at BART. I believe there have been several police shootings since that time which we have already forgotten


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MORE than 200 industry chiefs from across the North West attended a forum designed to promote business in South Lakeland.
The South Lakeland Economic Forum event was organised by South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) in partnership with online publication, North West Business Insider.
Business people, funding experts and SLDC officials told the forum that there is a huge amount of support available to firms looking to locate, grow or start up.
Participants learned about council's Local Plan which has identified 20 key sites for business development across the district. They agreed that the way forward is to focus on promoting South Lakeland's strong and diverse economy.
Audience members, who were mainly from the Greater Manchester and Merseyside areas, heard from speakers representing BAE Systems, Cumbria Tourism, Barclays, Lake District Estates, Russell Armer Homes, GSK, Lakeland, Hawkshead Relish, RGF growth programme, the Herdy Company, the North West Fund, Kendal College and Siemens Subsea.
SLDC chief executive, Lawrence Conway, said: "We've seen a huge amount of positivity in the forum and people have told me it has led them to think differently about investing in the area.
"The event has been an excellent display of the confidence and ambition that there is in South Lakeland. We have the skills base, the transport infrastructure, the environment and the people. We're keen to promote the business opportunities in South Lakeland to as many people as possible."
Managing director of Lakeland Ltd, Sam Rayner, said: "Business in South Lakeland is fantastic. As a local family, we wanted to stay here. Our family believes in the quality of the people and the work ethic is worth a great deal.
"We have a history of great start-ups that have become significant players.
"We will soon be opening a new distribution centre in Kendal. My advice to other businesses is if you need space, think ahead."
Cllr Jonathan Brook, portfolio holder for strategic growth, said: "There is a real buzz about business in South Lakeland at the moment. We've got the complete range from multi nationals to small and medium sized businesses.
"Our planners are talking to businesses about specific sites that are available for development. The sites present tremendous opportunities for businesses.
"We're working with schools, colleges and universities to help bridge the skills gap.
"Our Economic Development team can offer practical help – we want businesses to get the message that South Lakeland is open for business."
SLDC leader Peter Thornton added: "It's fantastic to see so many people with big ambitions.
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Head of operations at Cumbria Tourism, Richard Greenwood, said: "From a tourism industry perspective, 2013 was much better than 2012. There is a feeling of optimism but we need investment to create more jobs. We need to do even more on the marketing side to let people know what is available."
The forum also hosted the premiere of the new Invest in South Lakeland video, a short film featuring a variety of successful companies in the Lake District.