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Friday, May 2
First Friday Art Walk: Peruse new art in local galleries from 5 to 9 p.m. throughout St. Augustine. The event is sponsored by Art Galleries of St. Augustine, an organization of fine art businesses in the area. Go online at staugustinegalleries.com
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The St. Augustine Gallery, 113 King St., 808-0662: Meet artist Isaac Knight, a famous Highwaymen artist, from noon to 9 p.m. May 2, and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 3. A PBS Highwaymen movie will be on screen at this location at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 3. Other Highwaymen paintings also will be on view.
Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, 137 King St., 825-4577: "When Rock use to Roll" is the title and inspiration for new works by Mark Moran, the featured artist this month. The exhibition is a homage to this signature genre of music during its hey day. Moran give his take on this period in colorful paintings. An opening reception will be from 5 to 9 p.m. during the art walk.
130 King Fine Art & World Treasures, 130 King St., 829-8280: The Communities In Schools, AmeriCorps St. John's Reads Program is proud to celebrate AmeriCorps Week by presenting art work of current members, alumni, and St. John's County students during the art walk at 130 King Street Fine Art. Local AmeriCorps participants provide reading tutoring services to students in kindergarten through third grade. Community members are invited to join in recognizing National Service participants in their local county. Donations of a new or used children's book will be collected. For more details, call Tami Hays at 819-6389.
J. Alexandra's Fine Gifts and more, 806 Anastasia Blvd., 827-1735: Showcasing art by RB Hunt Elementary students, bright and colorful paintings and pottery will be on display during the art walk.
Saturday, May 3
Boots & Badges: St. Johns County firefighters and crimefighters will compete in softball, flag footballs and volleyball games from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Treaty Park. Live music by blues music Conrad Oberg and country music star Craig Hand will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children's activities include face painting, sack races, magic show, a rock wall and bounce house. Chicken dinners, hamburgers, hotdogs, popcorn and sno cones will be available. This free event is open to the public. Proceeds will benefit Dreams Come True of N.E. Florida.
Antique Tackle Collector show: Find antique lures from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mark Lance Armory, 109 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine. Call 725-0785 for more information.
Sunday, May 4
Community chorus concert: The St. Augustine Community Chorus presents its annual Masterworks Concert at 3:30 p.m. at Ancient City Baptist Church, 27 Sevilla St. This year's program is "A J.S. Bach Festival." Tickets are $10 in advance and are available at The Joyful Cork, Anastasia Books and the Bank of America locations at the Cathedral Place, the Ponce de Leon Mall, Moultrie Plaza and the Anastasia Publix Plaza. Tickets purchased at the door are $15. Call 471-8402.
Art demo: Connie & Michael Hansen discuss how to make outrageously artful and functional pin-hole cameras from everyday odds and ends, at 2 p.m. in The St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St., downtown St. Augustine. Admission is free. Call 824-2310 or go online at www.staaa.org
Monday, May 5
Cinco de Mayo celebrations
Sea Oats Caffe, 1075 A1A Beach Blvd., in Anastasia Publix Plaza, 471-7350: A Mexican buffet dinner will be served from 6 to 9 p.m., with two-for-one mexican beer, sangria and margaritas. This event is a kick-off for Friday night siestas with mexican food, beginning May 16 from 6 to 9 p.m. and continuing each Friday after that date.
St. Augustine Beach Front Resort, 300 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 471-2575: "Surf for the Cure," will benefit the National Kidney Foundation, withe Cinco de Mayo celebration from 6 to 11 p.m. that includes food, live bands, raffles, door prizes, pinatas, mexican hats, bull fighters, tequila, cerveza and other activities. A $5 donation will be taken at the door.
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There are players that come around once in a generation. We know it. We can feel it. And we can tell it when we see them. Bryce Harper is one of those players. He was called up for his "impact bat," and we soon found that to be an understatement -- he has an impact on just about every aspect of what happens on the field. He runs, he hits, he has power and he has a cannon for an arm -- and you cannot help but watch what he does whenever he is in action.
If it was only left up to what happens on the field, he could be doing this 25 years from now on his way to a Hall of Fame induction, but it takes mastery of the world "off the field" to really last.
Ability alone is not what makes a player succeed for generations in the game. It is his maturity, wisdom, adaptability and a knack for being able to navigate the game beyond the game that makes a player "can't miss."
The game itself will ultimately be the least of Bryce Harper's or any newly minted big leaguer's challenge. You can work in the cage to nail down your inside-out swing. You can take an extra groundball to make sure you field a base hit correctly to give yourself the best chance to throw out the lead runner. But it is not so easy to figure out how to deal with the press or the dating world once the clear-cut rules of the game are not in play.
Young players who are already enjoying success stand out, as they should. Harper, at 19, is getting rave reviews for just about every aspect of his game. In less than a week, he has Cy Young candidates pitching him carefully, and he has baserunners thinking twice about running on his arm. After one series, he was thrust in the No 3 hole in the lineup, marking him as the best hitter on the team.
Yet young players often come with big question marks about their game. Will Giancarlo Stanton learn to have a better plan at the plate? Will Mike Trout need a bigger home run game? Will Matt Moore throw enough strikes? But the bigger question mark is what could have been answered before they arrived in the big leagues. It comes in the opportunity they often miss when they rocket through the minor league system.
When a team makes a monster investment in a draft pick or a top free-agent signee, there is a lot of incentive and pressure to rush them to the big leagues. It is much easier to advance these players after a hot month from one level to the next. Now many top prospects fly through the minor league system as if it is spring training, not a learning opportunity.
What you learn in the minors is how to pass certain tests. Lessons gained by being expected not to just succeed for a short period at each level, but to succeed at each level with all the ups and downs that come with a full season. If a player advances after every hot month, it is hard to see how he will truly handle the whole roller coaster. And Major League Baseball is nothing short of a roller coaster.
Seasons season players. They help players learn how to cope with the inevitable down season. Perpetual success is not reality; it is a myth waiting to come crashing down, and it is too easy to take snapshots of a player and find his best moments to advance his progress. He may be that good, he may be way above his level, but it helps to learn how he'll react if he gets bored. It helps to know if he stays humble with his teammates or if he makes good adjustments the third time he sees a pitcher in July. Does he appreciate the opportunity?
That is not to say a great talent can't arrive at 19 and play until 39 with Hall of Fame credentials. Certainly we learn coping skills from much of what happened in our life beyond the field, but there is nothing more humbling than playing a full season anywhere, even when your opinion or your skills say you should be two levels above where you are presently playing.
Consistency is the cornerstone of greatness. And to have it for 162 games takes time. Time to learn how to deal with slumps. Time to learn how to deal with long bus rides when exhausting travel saps your energy. Those times tell your story just as much as those times when you hit the ball over the light tower.
When you look at Gordon Beckham of the White Sox (still only 25, by the way), you see a hitter struggling to find his mojo. He has done a fantastic job mastering the defensive side of second base, but his bat hasn't quite come around. But he also shot through the system after 233 minor league at-bats, arriving quickly and with high expectations. Once Beckham struggled, it was foreign territory for him (he hit .397 with 24 homers for Georgia in 62 games the year he was selected No. 8 overall in 2008). He never had dealt with being lost at the plate for an extended period of time with expectation right in his face, something that happens to every player many times over a long season. It is a lot to ask for him to learn to cope with the lack of success after he has long been in the big leagues. More stressful for him is that it is happening on the front page of everything.
The beauty of baseball is that it will reveal who you are no matter what. So time will certainly tell about Mike Trout, Bryce Harper and the next wave of the future. They certainly have done a lot to earn their opportunities. But as my GM Ed Lynch told me when I came back from winter baseball in Puerto Rico with a MVP trophy in my hands. "Do it again, here, during a full championship season." And once I did and fought the ups and the downs of a long season, it helped me deal with those nasty stretches years later in the big leagues. That is why with some players, you ask, "How did that guy stay in the big leagues so long?"
They stayed because they had to learn a lesson that could be a great help to these super-talented players. They learned to perform well with everything a season brings to them long before the big leagues. And that experience may be the best way to give them the tools they need to meet those lofty expectations.


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The fun and very enthusiastic cast and creators of Syfy's "Caprica" were in NYC this week and stopped by The Paley Center For Media for a preview screening of two new episodes followed by a panel discussion and Q&A for the eager fans in attendance.
Alessandra Torresani, a recent AccessHollywood.com Rising Star, has the task of playing not one, but sometimes three different versions of her character Zoey Graystone on the show, including one that inhabits a robotic Cylon prototype (and precursor to the more advanced model later seen chronologically in "Battlestar Galactica"). And Allesandra told me before the screening that she is appreciative of the rave reviews she has received for her stand out performance on the show, as well as "Caprica's" inclusion on Entertainment Weekly's "10 Best TV Shows on Now" list.
"Any recognition from anyone I think is great… It's all wonderful," she said.
And she made a point to make mention her recent Access Rising Star status.
"I take that proudly. I think that's fun," she said with a big smile.
Esai Morales, who portrays Joseph Adama, revealed he has been somewhat of a jokester on the set of the show, which has been described as a family saga with a science fiction backdrop.
"I am an irreverent person because I don't think we can take ourselves too seriously. When you do, you lose perspective," Esai explained. "So we goof [off] when we can. If the scene is really deep and heavy, some actors don't like to be bothered. On the other hand, other actors don't want to dwell on that moment until the cameras roll. I can be a goofball and get serious,"
Allesandra said she liked keeping it light in between takes too.
"Between him and Sasha Roiz, they keep it funny. [I'm] usually running around, being obnoxious and they're making fun of me. It's great," she laughed.
Both Esai and Sasha (who plays Sam Adama, brother to Esai's Joseph Adama on the show), were taken aback after reading the script to the finale of "Caprica's" first season.
"Our finale is unbeliable," Sasha revealed. "It's so powerful that I remember me and Esai calling each other after reading the script. We were both absolutely floored by how it ends."
Esai said the season finale script made him emotional.
"The finale drove me to tears on various occasions," he said. "What happens is so profound and out of the blue. [It was] so unexpected it took my breath away."
Allesandra revealed that secrets from the finale could get out if the wrong person finds her recently lost cell phone.
"They didn't tell me 'til the day before because they know I Twitter everything. And they're like 'You're gonna say something.' And the real problem is I took some pictures that would reveal a lot and I lost my phone yesterday," she said.
Thankfully, so far nothing has surfaced online from her phone pics collection.
Mark Stern, Executive Vice President of Development of Syfy, was expectedly a bit tight-lipped when asked about any news regarding the recent rumors of another show to be set in the dark world introduced to us in "Battlestar Galactica," but he was not completely unforthcoming
"There ARE rumors… [rumors] that I started, I think," he laughed. "I really can't talk about it yet as much as just to say that we are developing other properties that come out of that world.
"It's such a rich world. I think if 'Caprica' is kind of the prequel to 'Battlestar,' where it is how you led up to the Cylon War, and 'Battlestar' is the post-Cylon War, there is a whole section in between the two," he said. "There's about 50 years in between the two worlds to explore. That's as far as I can go."
Towards the end the panel Q&A later in the evening, Executive Producer Ronald Moore addressed the question of whether the conclusion of the show's storyline has been mapped out.
"We don't know right now exactly where the endpoint of "Caprica" is going to be. You can pick out about a half dozen pretty significant landmarks [between where we are now and the beginning of the 'Battlestar' mini-series], that are potential ends to the show," he explained. "But I think what we will probably decide somewhere along the line [is] what is the organic place for this part of the story to end rather than trying to get it to some historical marker up ahead."
"Caprica" airs on Syfy at 9PM on Fridays.


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Jenkins cast an upbeat tone before and during his 45-minute State of Dallas County remarks, delivered to about 250 people at the Hilton Anatole. He said the address was organized by several Dallas County chambers of commerce.
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Later, Jenkins touched on Parkland and its quest to pass an inspection that will determine whether it will continue receiving federal funds.
"I think Parkland has made some tremendous strides," he said. "And I have no doubt that it will pass inspection."
Jenkins said he believes the search for a new CEO at the county hospital is progressing, adding that he'd like to see the new chief be someone "who can continue to take us forward."
But he acknowledged that the job could be a tough one.
"Being the CEO of Parkland is a lot like being county judge or the mayor — and I think school superintendents are learning this, too," Jenkins said. "There's a public communications side to it, a counselor side to it, a minister side to it."
Jenkins also reiterated a point made several times throughout the spring by county officials: Thus far this year, Dallas County has had no reported human cases of West Nile virus. Nearly two dozen people in Dallas County died after being infected last year by mosquitoes. The county has an aggressive battle plan ready to go this year.
Jenkins closed his remarks by telling the group that while things are good in Dallas County, there is still much to be done. But he said things are on the right track.
"Government can't do everything, but it can do something," Jenkins said. "But the engine that makes Dallas County go is you, the people."


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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
We're getting closer and closer to our next Disney vacation, and I am so excited!!
I've checked us in for the Cruise and at Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa, FastPass+ selections have been made, ADRs are all confirmed, everything is coming together.
I need this so badly, it's been far too long since I've visited the home of my heart.
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@XFire, awesome find
You gotta love that Peke, in her own kind words basically said, I'm happy that you worry about your friends Lala-sama, BUT DAMMIT BITCH GET YOUR REAR IN GEAR AND YOUR TITS OUT OF THEIR FRITZ BECAUSE YOU GOTTA GET YO MAN BACK SON!
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Also ironic that now Yabuki focuses on Lala after her nipple gets sucked by Rito by "Accidentally Falling" on her.
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There will be an extra chapter of TLR released on Shueisha's new android/IOS app Jump Live. It should come out at the end of this month if I'm not mistaken (or is it the next one?). Not sure what the censorship policy will be.
They're really working Yabuki to the bone. First the extra chapter in SQ.19, now this... I hope he won't overwork himself.
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Maybe the special will be about Lala upgrading her pleasure phone into an iPad
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some have problems to draw 30pages in a month.... but he has like 2x as much to do :P he sure is superhuman.... maybe his daughter will help him out :P
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Hello to all! I discovered TLR 2 week ago and between both mangas and episodes it took me this long to get up-to-date.... (and i also read almost every post in this thread.... god you are an hilarious bunch!)
You can now add me to the mass of people obsessed with this awesome work!
Since we have a lot of time to kill till the next chapter i want to share a few things that seems to have been overlooked:
1) I don't remember well the only image shown us of the Deviluke Queen but doesn't she look suspiciously similar (especially the hair) to ADULT NEMESIS?
2) Ren and Run are of the royal family of Memorze.... where the heck are their parents? I doubt they would completely forget the prince/princess of the planet....
For my last point i need to put a premise: i assume that Yabuki/Hasemi won't suffer a lobotomy and monumentally screw their work like so many others mangakas have done in the past.....
3) Are Rito and Nemesis SELECTIVE IDIOTS???
Rito still fawn over Haruna and gives just passing thoughts about the Harem Plan despite the best efforts of Momo, and Nemesis actually decided to mess with Momo and the Harem Plan "claiming" Rito for herself......
Did they actually forget about a certain side character called GID LUCION DEVILUKE???
The very moment Rito leaves Lala they can kiss the Earth and their lives goodbye! The only reason Gid relented the first time was because Lala wanted to have a different start with Rito, but in this case she would be heartbroken, with an heartbroken Momo on top too! (And i can totally see Momo saying something like "Oh daddy, about that girl that is trying to steal Lala's fiancee.... she can change every part of her body any way she want..... thought you might find it interesting...." )
They can say or do whatever they want but in the end RITO WILL MARRY LALA....
And since Lala wants her friends along for the ride, the only possible ending is a True Harem.
The only question still up in the air is who will be a part of it..... (and i seriously hope Nemesis WON'T be part of it..... she is sexy as hell but her entire mindset is opposite of the one required for an harem.... not to mention that the "openly perverted" slots in the harem are well and truly covered by Momo and Mea, she would be redundant)
Jeez, first post here and already a wall of text....
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Hello and welcome!
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As for Rito, yeah he won't leave Lala, and lately he also started to show a tiny bit of a backbone (IT WAS EFFING TIME! ), but if he doesn't start to reject more forcefully the "you are my pet" idea (and/or Nemesis doesn't cut down on the teasing) Momo might very well go to Gid to eradicate the problem in the bud....
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The plot to blow up the earth was a pretty hollow one when it was actually going on and has since become even more of one since all his children have massive amounts of friends on Earth. it was more of a father polishing a shotgun to scare the living hell out of his daughters boyfriend and Lala did not take it well when she found out he was threating to do so and it was resolved way back in ch 48 of TLR .
Also if I remember a large part of the reason Yabuki-sensei went to a monthly format instead of weekly is to take care of his young daughter and given that was over 3 years ago the situation has likely improved as I think she would be school age now.
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Dietrich Neumann, professor of the history of art and architecture, has been named a recipient of the Berlin Prize by the prestigious American Academy in Berlin, Germany. Neumann is among 26 scholars, writers, journalists, artists, policy experts, and one composer to be named to the Academy's 16th class. The Berlin Prize affords fellows the time and resources to pursue independent study and engage with their German counterparts and with Berlin's vibrant academic, cultural, and political life. The Berlin Prize includes a monthly stipend, partial board, and residence at the Academy's lakeside Hans Arnhold Center. Most fellowships last for one academic semester and are privately funded.


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I Ezra Ide of Lehman, Luzerne County and State of Pennsylvania, Farmer, do make and Publish this my last will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.
As to what worldly Estate it hath pleased God to Intrust me with, I dispose of the same as follows
And at first I direct that all my debts and funeral expenses be paid out of that part of my Estate that I give to my son William H. Ide and I hereby empower my Executors to carry the same into effect
Also I direct that a fair valuation or appraisment be made by three juditious Neighbors of all my Estate including my household furniture after being signed with their names, that a copy of the same shall be given to each of my Executors
Also I do direct that the whole of my household furniture (except such articles as I may will to my children) shall be the absolute property of my beloved wife if she shall be living at the time of my decease. Also one Cow & Eight Sheep shall be hers, the land not to be disposed of however to any person or persons except to my son William H. Ide,
And I do direct that the South half of the house from top to bottom and all my farm be and remain the property of my beloved wife during her natural life,
And I will and bequeath to my son William H. Ide the North ____ of my house from top to botton and all my personal Estate which is not willed to another, and all my farm and Real Estate shall be his after his mothers decease.
And I will that he pay all my debts and legacies according to this my last will,
And I will and bequeath to my Son Nathan Ide Three hundred dollars to be paid to him by William H. Ide as follows, viz:
One hundred dollars when he is twenty two years of age, and One hundred when he is twenty three years of age, and Seventy five dollars when he (Nathan) is twenty four years of age, without interest, and twenty five dollars in work towards building Nathan a house.
Also I will Nathan the Steer Calves that he is now raising and, a Home in the house, until he arives at the age __ twenty one years, and if he chooses to work with William the year eighteen hundred and forty three, he is to have one fourth of what the ___ raise. Nathan must not make William cost in less time than two years from my decease.
I will and bequeath to my Daughter Susan Ann Ide One hundrd dollars worth of furniture to be in a Cow and two Beds and other household furniture by William H. Ide when She is twenty years of age, and I will that She shall have a home in my house until She is of an age,
And I will and bequeath to my grand daughter Sarah Ann Major, (daughter of Lucinda Major) twenty five dollars in a Cow or Bedding besides all that her Mother left her, all of which are to be given to her at the age of Eighteen years, the twenty five dollars to be paid by William H. Ide and the property that her Mother left to her to be taken care of by my Executors and delivered to her at the age of Eighteen years. She must also have a Common Education and two good suits of Clothing, my wish is that Sarah Ann Major have a home in my house until She arrives at the age of Eighteen years, and if She should not live to want the property that I will her I direct that is be given to her Brother William Henry Major.
And I do hereby make and ordain my beloved wife and my son William H. Ide Executors of this my last will and testament, and lastly my express will and desire is, and I do hereby order and appoint that if any differences and despite ___ questions or controversy shall arise and happen concerning any gift, bequest or other matter or thing in this my will given and Bequested, expressed or contained, that then no suit in law or equity or otherwise shall be brought, commenced or prosecuted for and concerning the same, but the same shall be referred to the award, order and determination of two Neighbors one appointed by my oldest son, and the other by my oldest daughter, and if they wish the two thus appointed may choose a Third, and what said Arbitrator or a Majority of them shall order, direct or determine therein shall be binding and conclusive to and on all and every person or persons therin contained.
In witness whereof I Ezra Ide the Testator have to this my Will written on one sheet of paper set my hand and seal this first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
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I typically don't watch the Oscars, but I have daughters who do. Being in Israel, they have to wait until morning to see who won what. And we live in an apartment, and my office is the kitchen table.
So when Matthew McConaughey won best actor, I jumped over to take a peek. And let's be honest: M.M. is the epitome of cool. He makes Fonzie look like a nerd. He is kind to fans and recently fell over a guardrail seeking to take selfies with adorers. I like him.
In his acceptance speech, he shared, "First off, I want to thank God, because that's who I look up to. He's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human hand. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates."
Facebook lit up. Twitter went nuts! Believers were thrilled to see McConaughey mention the G word in Hollywood's most holy temple.
I hate to be a party pooper, but I wasn't that impressed. Don't get me wrong—it is a whole lot better than saying, "I want to thank Satan," or, "Let's face it—I did this all on my own. There's no God."
Still, the word God is nebulous. The God of the Bible actually has a name—Yahweh. The question is, to whom was Matthew referring? Man, if he had said, "First off, I want to thank Jesus," that would have been different. That is firm. That is clear. Jesus is the Messiah who died for our sins. But the word God can refer to an idol or another religion or simply be an acknowledgment that He is there. Again, that's very different from actually knowing Him.
McConaughey went on to say that his hero is himself in 10 years. That was a little weird. Martin Luther King Jr., Billy Graham, George Washington—those are heroes. Actors play them in movies, but they are not them. Actors are not heroes. Idols, yes. Heroes, no.
Then he said, "To my father, who I know is up there right now with a big pot of gumbo, he has a big lemon meringue pie over there. He's probably in his underwear and has a big can of Miller Lite, and he's dancing right now. To you, Dad, you taught me how to be a man."
Don't get me wrong. I was moved by the man's love for his dad, but to envision heaven as a place where men walk around in their underwear drinking beer gives us a little bit of a glimpse of McConaughey's God. I'm not hatin' on the man—nor do I think drinking a beer is a sin. I am just saying that we should be praying for his salvation, rather than assuming a brief mention of God in Hollywood is the fruit of salvation.
Now, if McConaughey had broken out into song, singing, "My Eye Is On the Sparrow" like award-winning backup singer Darlene Love did—well, that would have been something. She seemed to exude the presence and was determined to be a witness. This was the moment Twitter should have been blowing up over!
To be clear, only God knows what is in a man's heart, and I am not here to judge McConaughey's salvation. I am simply saying that if we are getting goose bumps because an actor mentions the word God, we have set our sights way too low.
Ron Cantor is the director of Messiah's Mandate International in Israel, a Messianic ministry dedicated to taking the message of Jesus from Israel to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). Cantor also travels internationally teaching on the Jewish roots of the New Testament. He serves on the pastoral team of Tiferet Yeshua, a Hebrew-speaking congregation in Tel Aviv. His newest book, Identity Theft, was released April 16. Follow him at @RonSCantor on Twitter.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 outsells iPhone 4S
According to an analyst from BusinessInsider, the iPhone 4S has been outsold by Samsungs's flagship device last month in the United States on 3 of the 4 major carriers. The only service provider to sell more iPhone's than SIII's is AT&T, Apple's bosom-buddy.
This is the first time the 4S has been defeated in sales since October 2011. Michael Walkey from Canaccord Genuity discovered that the iPhone's crown had been taken by apparently conducting 'channel checks'.
Don't expect this Android supremacy to last for too long, however, as Apple is expected to release its next gen iPhone in less than two weeks, as invites have just been sent for its – previously only rumored – September 12th event.
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TYT: What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs?
"The government in Portugal has no plans to back down. Although the Netherlands is the European country most associated with liberal drug laws, it has already been ten years since Portugal became the first European nation to take the brave step of decriminalizing possession of all drugs within its bordersfrom marijuana to heroin, and everything in between. This controversial move went into effect in June of 2001, in response to the country's spiraling HIV/AIDS statistics. While many critics in the poor and largely conservative country attacked the sea change in drug policy, fearing it would lead to drug tourism while simultaneously worsening the country's already shockingly high rate of hard drug use, a report published in 2009 by the Cato Institute tells a different story. Glenn Greenwald, the attorney and author who conducted the research, told Time: "Judging by every metric, drug decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success. It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country."
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/151635/ten_years_ago_portugal_legalized_all_drugs_--_what_happened_next
Cenk Uygur discusses the study and what we can learn from it.
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Fri Jul 20, 2012, 07:35 PM
phantom power (25,966 posts)
1. "are we going to learn from facts?"
Do we even have to ask?
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Fri Jul 20, 2012, 09:18 PM
Warren DeMontague (80,695 posts)
2. Thanks for this.
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Sat Jul 21, 2012, 09:45 AM
mdm646 (19 posts)
3. Drugs?
The war on drugs has very little to do with drugs. Drugs are just the enabler for an out of control prison system. Think of the cost in jobs if we quit putting people in prison for drug related "crimes." Think of the reduced requirement for taxes. You have to remember the "War on Drugs" has never been about drugs, it's about power, politics, and money.


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Yesterday, after a long and difficult wait, my husband got the final pathology report from his surgeon; no cancer!
With this milestone behind us, it now feels 'safe' to write about the experience (a bit superstitious, no?) and it's surprising effects on my fitness and nutrition.
A quick recap, since I haven't really blogged about what's been going on.
In early August, hubby was admitted to the hospital, diagnosed with severe anemia and received several blood transfusions. Tests were ordered to determine from where the blood was being lost. Both endoscopy and colonoscopy ('top' and 'bottom' of the digestive tract, respectively) were normal but a CT scan revealed a suspicious looking mass somewhere in the small bowel.
A subsequent biopsy was inconclusive and we were told that the tumor had to come out regardless of what it was. The surgery would be 'exploratory' with possible outcomes including 'gastrointestinal stromal carcinoma', some other lesser known bowel cancers and 'duodenal polyp' (go ahead, Google them; I did). The pancreas may or may not be affected and the bowel may need to be re-sectioned. Estimated time in hospital, eight to 10 days, with another six to eight weeks recovery at home.
Despite the urgent sound of the potential diagnosis, surgery was not scheduled until the 7th of October (and we live in Canada, home of excellent access to medical care…).
We did our best to fill the rest of the summer with holidays and fun activities with the children, but the possibility that life might change dramatically for our family was never far from our thoughts.
With the help of friends and family (thank you all!), I did what I, and all moms, do best; take care of everybody, everybody else that is. All through the countdown to the surgery date, the operation itself and the seven-day hospital stay. Concerned with staying positive for my husband and children and trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy, I failed to take care of myself.
I missed my workouts, even though a quick visit to the gym (or even better, the yoga studio) would have certainly made me feel more energetic. I gave in to convenience foods, serving frozen pizza and takeout for dinner when I was too rushed to cook. I soothed my worries with baked goods, chocolate and wine.
I fell off my health and fitness wagon (tight jeans don't lie; by the way, that's not me in the picture, it's the model at on the Miss Me site).
Now that things are back to normal (or what passes for normal in my house), I need to get back on track. Be more mindful of what I put in my mouth. Be more diligent about my workout schedule (last week was awesome!). My timing couldn't be more perfect.
Tiffany and Gale have a new round of their '2 week no added sugar challenge' starting today, November 1st. Coincidentally, Kirri announced a '30 days without chocolate challenge' that starts today as well.
I'm in and I'm in! Both are exactly what I need to jumpstart my nutrition salvage. What better way to get over Halloween and start preparing for the upcoming holiday season. I figure that the first two weeks will be a cinch; since chocolate has sugar in it, I won't even be tempted (ha!). Double dipping, as it were, without the nut butter and chocolate chip calories.
Unsure whether it's for you? Check out this and this and this post about my last round of 'no sugar' and I bet you'll change your mind! Feel free to leave your comments below!
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Our weekly NBA power ranking, from worst to first. Who would have imagined Yi Jianlian would be starting on a Top-10 team at any point this year?
30. Washington Wizards (2-12) — You might not have noticed in your Thanksgiving post-turkey and stuffing stupor, but the Wizards are awful.
29. Memphis Grizzlies (4-13) — Ten losses in their last 11 games, including dropping one to the Thunder in front of 93 faithful Memphis fans. Can they hook up some kind of exchange program with Coach Calipari, borrowing Tyreke Evans for a month while the Tigers get Mike Conley?
28. Oklahoma City Thunder (2-16) — Right now we can't have them behind the Grizzlies, but fully expect OKC to be back at #30 sometime soon. In conjunction with the Lakers, we could be looking at a historic season with one team winning 70 games and another team losing 70 games.
27. Sacramento Kings (5-14) — Six losses in a row. As bad as their defense is, perhaps it's time to let Shelden Williams out of the box. He's got six fouls to give away and everything.
26. Golden State Warriors (5-12) — Did we say bad defense? The Warriors are getting reamed to the tune of 116 points a night during this current six-game skid.
25. Los Angeles Clippers (3-13) — It doesn't bode well for Chris Kaman that the Clips look better without him, i.e. Saturday's win over the Heat where Z-Bo dropped 27 and 13 and Camby had 12 boards and four blocks. Or maybe it does bode well, 'cause it means he'll get traded to a better team.
24. Minnesota Timberwolves (4-11) — Things have been kind of looking up for the Wolves lately, which makes Corey Brewer's season-ending ACL tear that much worse.
23. Charlotte Bobcats (5-11) — MJ made his mandatory once-a-month personal appearance for Saturday's loss to the Celtics. But for all we know he was there merely to check in with Ray Allen, one of his Jordan Brand endorsers.
22. Milwaukee Bucks (7-12) — Not that anyone noticed, but Michael Redd is back. He scored 20 in a loss to the Cavs, the team's fourth L in a row against four '08 Eastern Conference playoff teams.
21. Philadelphia 76ers (7-10) — Four losses in a row, each one seemingly uglier than the last. And did you notice how this is the second consecutive week we've used "ugly" or one of its forms in the Sixers' write-up?
20. Indiana Pacers (6-10) — Lost amongst Danny Granger's All-Star bid and a frustrating string of narrow losses has been the play of Troy Murphy. He's putting up 10.7 points and 10.9 boards, and notched back-to-back 21-point, 14-board lines against the Mavs and Rockets last week.
19. New York Knicks (8-8) — Jacking up 49 shots in his last two games, Al Harrington is probably loving the trade. Who cares if he's going to the Lottery again?
18. Atlanta Hawks (10-6) — So much for that Joe Johnson "NBA's Leading Scorer/MVP Candidate" campaign. Dude fell off the "visible superstar" map faster than MIMS.
17. Chicago Bulls (8-9) — There's literally no reason to watch this team other than Derrick Rose.
16. Miami Heat (8-9) — If they are in fact looking to deal Shawn Marion, he's got a few favorable showcase games coming up on the schedule. Golden State on Monday (run-and-gun), Utah on Wednesday (versus European doppleganger AK-47), and OKC on Saturday (terrible team itching for a vintage Marion night).
15. Detroit Pistons (10-6) — After what was supposed to be a statement win over the Cavs on Nov. 19, the Pistons have been getting worse. In the five games since, their only wins have come against the Knicks and Bucks.
14. Toronto Raptors (8-8) — They could be just as heavily represented at this year's All-Star Weekend as they were last year: Bosh starting in the main event, Calderon in the Skills Competition, Kapono in the Three-Point Shootout … maybe we can get Anthony Parker, Tracy Murray and a Canadian-born WNBA player in that Shooting Stars thing.
13. San Antonio Spurs (9-7) — Parker's back, Manu's back, Duncan's still Duncan. For Spurs fan, the season just started for real.
12. New Orleans Hornets (9-6) — Surprisingly inconsistent. As good as they looked against the Nuggets on Thanksgiving, they looked decidedly average/bad against the Blazers the next night.
11. Dallas Mavericks (8-8) — Let's throw the L.A. game out the window, because seriously, who's beating the Lakers at home these days? In that case the Mavs have won four straight and Jason Terry is starting to run away with Sixth Man of the Year, averaging 20.1 points a night and leading Dallas in scoring four of their last five games.
10. Utah Jazz (11-7) — Jerry Sloan is the Mike Shanahan of NBA coaches. He's been with the same team forever, he always looks like he's having a miserable day, and he is to power forwards what Shanahan is to running backs. To wit: In Carlos Boozer's absence, Paul Millsap has posted 20-10 numbers in three of Utah's last four games.
9. Portland Trail Blazers (12-6) — Unstoppable at home, sitting at 7-0 with respective 40-piecings of the Heat and Bulls under their belt. Greg Oden is settling into a nice 10-point, 12-board, 3-block rich man's Tyson Chandler-type groove.
8. Phoenix Suns (11-7) — Dwyane Wade dropped 43 points on them Friday. Then Devin Harris went for 47 on Sunday. Looking at the schedule this week, Chris Paul, Jason Kidd/Jason Terry, and Deron Williams have to be licking their chops.
7. New Jersey Nets (9-7) — There's no end in sight for the Devin Harris Buckets Brigade: Wizards, Wolves and Sixers on the slate this week, Knicks and Raptors next week. Who would argue with Devin being an All-Star right now? And by the way, Vince Carter is dropping just under 24 points a game, too.
6. Houston Rockets (11-7) — Between Yao's endless list of critics, the people who watch T-Mac waiting for him to get hurt, the players who would secretly like to punch Ron Artest in the face, the rest of them who would secretly like to punch Shane Battier in the face, the bitter playground vets jealous of Skip, and the pencil-necked geeks at Joey Dorsey's gym who hate him for hogging the mirror, does any team have more haters than the Rockets?
5. Denver Nuggets (12-6) — Notice how no one's talking about Marcus Camby anymore. Nene (14.9 ppg, 7.2 rpg) and Kenyon Martin (13 ppg, 6.8 rpg) have done their share to compensate.
4. Orlando Magic (13-4) — Why is nobody talking about them? Orlando has won nine of its last 10 games, the last three without their starting point guard. Without looking it up, we'd confidently say no team in the NBA has a frontcourt trio as productive as Dwight Howard (21.8 ppg), Hedo Turkoglu (17.3 ppg) and Rashard Lewis (18.2 ppg).
3. Cleveland Cavaliers (14-3) — There won't be as big of a media circus when the Knicks come to Cleveland on Wednesday, just a good ol' beatdown. Subplot: Ben Wallace can watch David Lee grab 15 rebounds and wonder where the years went.
2. Boston Celtics (16-2) — Eight wins in a row, but they lose points for a close call against the Bobcats. And remind us, how exactly have the 'Cats managed to get Boston's number?
1. Los Angeles Lakers (14-1) — Still winning (seven in a row) and still making it look like practice. Kobe is sitting out fourth quarters left and right, Gasol and Bynum seem to have figured each other out, and Lamar's not rocking the boat despite his contract year/sixth man situation. If only Trevor Ariza could shoot, Sasha Vujacic could defend, Vlad Radmanovic wasn't insane and NBA TV would stop showing that Jordan Farmar tropical island yoga special, things would be perfect.


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Joining people in 52 countries and hundreds of cities worldwide, residents concerned about genetically modified foods will hold a protest march Saturday morning in downtown Las Vegas.
Their aim is to raise awareness about modified foods and to convince elected leaders that products made with genetically modified organisms, known as GMOs, should be labeled, organizer Angie Morelli said.
Saturday's will be the second anti-GMO march in Las Vegas. The first, in May, drew 2,500 people to Las Vegas Boulevard, temporarily shutting down the Strip and gaining national media coverage.
Morelli isn't sure how many will show up this time. However, she has received about 500 RSVPs from people who say they will attend. Sunday night, she and other volunteers painted protest signs inside Triple B, a club at 6th and Fremont streets, where marchers are expected to meet around 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Once gathered outside the club, marchers will hear two to four speakers, Morelli said, before heading to the U.S. District Courthouse at 333 Las Vegas Boulevard South. The route will take them east two blocks to 8th Street, south two blocks to Bridger Avenue, then west three blocks to the courthouse. They expect to spend 10 minutes there taking a photo before heading north two blocks along Las Vegas Boulevard back to Fremont Street.
"The goal is to create a community event where everybody can get together and share ideas, even recipes for non-GMO meals," Morelli said. "We all have this frustration and we want a way of releasing it and doing something positive about it. That's what this march is all about."
Morelli said she sought but didn't get support from other downtown businesses, including the Downtown Project, known for promoting community in its $350 million downtown redevelopment effort.
Downtown Project's website does not mention the march. Emails from Downtown Project employees to march organizers, shared with the Sun, say that while the Downtown Project empathizes with the cause, they don't want to "be part of a march against another company."
Monsanto, known largely for its genetically modified corn, is considered the main target of protesters, which is why the event is also billed as the "March Against Monsanto."
"I think this is a case of people wanting us to be all things to all people, which we just cannot be" spokeswoman Kim Schaefer wrote.
Morelli said there is no other event to be held in Las Vegas "more representative of its community."
"These are grandmothers, mothers, parents, children," she said. "This fight specifically is targeting all demographics. This is the most community-related event in the city. It isn't just for people who have a special interest; it's all of our interests."
The march does not get mentioned, either, in a freely distributed magazine called Downtown ZEN, which stands for Zappos Employee Newsletter. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is a Downtown Project partner.
However, while not mentioning the anti-GMO march, the magazine does support another community-oriented event, the Walk 'n' Roll 4 HIV/AIDS, a walking/biking fundraiser to benefit several Southern Nevada HIV/AIDS organizations.
Walk 'n' Roll is set to register participants at 8 a.m. on Jackie Gaughan Plaza, 600 Fremont St., a half block north of the spot anti-GMO marchers are organizing.
Capt. Shawn Andersen, chief of Metro Police's Downtown Area Command, said he doesn't expect any problems during the relatively brief march and the crush of people resulting from both the march and the fundraiser. Then again, he isn't sure how many will show up.
"When it was snail-mail and phone calls, you had a good idea of how many people would show up for something like this, but now you're on Facebook and Twitter, and you just never really know," he said. "You could wind up with 250 people or 3,000."
Joe Schoenmann doesn't just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group's embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.


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I hope you got gold:
In essence, the Fed now will print money to buy as much as $900 billion in U.S. government bonds through June—an amount roughly equal to the government's total projected borrowing needs over that period.
You are going to take a 20% pay cut whether you like it or not.
I find it humorous that people are mad about Obamacare and TARP while they are a drop in the bucket compared to what the Fed does on a regular basis without any congressional approval at all.
In case you don't understand the article, when the Fed buys government bonds, this is essentially the same thing as printing money.
New money is created by debt being issued from the treasury and then being bought with money out of thin air by the Fed.
The Treasury prints up T-bills, hands them to the Fed, and the Fed prints up dollars which it hands back to the Treasury. The amount borrowed in this case is enough to fund the entire government's operations through June.
Of course, you as the tax payer are liable for the interest on that debt, which will be extracted from your hide at the point of an IRS gun.


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Shortage of raw materials for EU tanners
COTANCE Presidency calls for official monitoring of the critical shortage of hides & skins on the EU market that drives prices to unsustainable levels
The COTANCE Presidency met on April 3, 2013 in Bologna under the chairmanship of Mr Rino Mastrotto (Rino Mastrotto Group, Italy) on the sidelines of the Lineapelle Fair, Europe's largest Leather Fair. They expressed high concern on the developments on the raw materials market. Availability of certain essential raw materials is vanishing at an increasing speed due to rising extra-EU export levels of hides and skins and prices that are reaching unprecedented levels. Those most affected are the hides and skins to be destined for the World's top fashion and high-end industries, the brands that make the prestige of Europe. They depend on the quality leathers that are the speciality of EU tanners.
European tanners, already enduring the credit crunch in the Euro zone, witness the proliferation of export restrictions on raw materials in most resource-rich countries and the drain of Europe's own raw materials. They find it intolerable that public authorities continue to ignore the gravity of the situation. It is high time for taking the necessary measures capable of redressing this situation that is taking hostage a leading industrial sector in Europe. Failure to do so could compromise seriously the competitiveness of Europe's leather sector, the cradle of the creation of wealth and employment in the leather value chain.
European Platform for Chemicals
COTANCE is a founding member of CheMI.
CheMI is a platform for downstream users of chemicals in manufacturing industries. It works as a channel for the downstream users in article producing industries to represent their interests and aims at contributing to the successful implementation of REACH.
CheMI was established in 2003. Its members are trade associations representing a variety of sectors and comprising approximately 400.000 companies and 7 million employees, for a turnover of more than € 670 million. CheMI constituency consists mainly of SMEs.
These are the internal rules of its functionning.
CheMI's Position Statements and further information on the CheMI Platform can be obtained by visiting this page.
Labelling of leather
COTANCE calls on the European Commission not to delay the procedures for regulating at EU level the use of leather terms and the labelling including origin of leather products within the current legislature
The COTANCE Council met on February 18, 2013 in Brussels under the chairmanship of President Rino Mastrotto (Rino Mastrotto Group, IT) reviewing among others progress on one of its priority policies: the legal protection of the term Leather against abuse and mis-descriptions. This is a matter on which the international leather community is looking for authoritative solutions coming from Europe.
In this respect COTANCE has engaged in an ICT supported Campaign aiming at regulating at EU level the lawful use of the term leather and the uniform composition labelling of leather products on the model of the EU Footwear Labelling Directive. Last 30 July 2012, COTANCE President Mastrotto with his colleagues in the Presidency received from Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani assurances on the taking up of this objective.
As a result, the Commission Staff Working Document on POLICY OPTIONS FOR THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE EUROPEAN FASHION INDUSTRIES — 'WHERE MANUFACTURING MEETS CREATIVITY' (SWD(2012) 284 final/2) adopted on October 5, 2012 states that "… while the labelling of textiles and footwear (including leather footwear) is regulated at EU level, no EU legislation covers the labelling of leather and leather products as such.", and indicates that "The Commission will therefore explore the need for and feasibility of labelling in the field of leather and leather products at EU level."
Access to Finance
COTANCE calls on the European Commission to look into the worsening of the market conditions for EU Tanners' hides & skins supplies and access to finance
The COTANCE Council met on February 18, 2013 in Brussels under the chairmanship of President Rino Mastrotto (Rino Mastrotto Group, IT). The review of the state of trade in Europe's leather industry reveals some positive features in certain sub-sectors such as top fashion and automotive while others are still struggling with the reduction in the overall demand for leather, such as furniture. The most recurrent complaint among all delegates was the worsening of the market conditions for the supply of the industry's raw materials and the consequent price peaks in certain types of hides and skins. Paradoxically, calfskins have become more expensive than meat.
European Tanners regret the lack of action of European authorities in addressing the adverse economic effects of the progressing critical shortage of raw materials on open markets that drive prices to unsustainable levels. The shortage of raw materials on the European market is due to export restrictions set up by major producing third countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, India or Pakistan, and the exponential increase in the exports of EU hides and skins resources to competitors. The issue is well known to European authorities as it has been evidenced and documented in the relevant DG Trade Leather sector Market Access Committee. The recent Commission Staff Working Document on POLICY OPTIONS FOR THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE EUROPEAN FASHION INDUSTRIES — 'WHERE MANUFACTURING MEETS CREATIVITY' (SWD(2012) 284 final/2) adopted on October 5, 2012 says: "… Today, more than ever, global competition for raw materials is increasing. … Prices of hides and skins are at their highest level in nearly a decade, with demand greatly exceeding the shrinking supply. ... Consequently, action at EU level will be developed to secure undistorted access at fair prices to the raw materials the fashion industries need. …
Meeting with Commissioner Tajani
The COTANCE Presidency meets Industry Commissioner and Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani
On July 30, 2012, Industry Commissioner and Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani received in Brussels the recently elected COTANCE President Rino Mastrotto. President Mastrotto headed a small delegation composed by COTANCE Vice-Presidents Muirhead, Roselló and Mercogliano as well as COTANCE Secretary General Gonzalez-Quijano.
This encounter between the governing body of the European Leather Industry and the Member of the European Commission in charge of Industrial Policy served to underscore the leadership of European leather producers, notably in key areas of sustainable development, as well as their crucial role in technical, fashion and luxury value chains. With a turnover of some 8 billion Euro, a positive trade balance, worldwide best environmental practice and social accountability standards, European leather is a key player at global scale and in global value chains, representing some 15-17% of global leather trade in value.
Vice-President Tajani is to present later this year a Communication on Industrial Policy outlining the policy objectives and initiatives that aim at strengthening the competitiveness of European industry. The European Commission is also to address aspects of the customs union and the internal market, and enter into further Free Trade negotiations with third countries.
Campaign for Leather
COTANCE launches its Permanent Leather Promotion Campaign
That's Life, That's Leather!
After offering in Shanghai the licensing of its Campaign material free of charge in the newly established Executive Committee of ICT, COTANCE decided, in its Bucharest Council meeting of September 26, 2012, the institution of a Permanent Leather Promotion Campaign under the slogan "That's Life, That's Leather!".
Created in 2004, the COTANCE Campaign "That's Life, That's Leather!" proved that effective communication to the general public on leather does not need to be prohibitively costly and that even less wealthy leather trade associations can possibly sustain effective activities in one of their core competences: the defence and promotion of leather.
The 2004 Campaign was developed as a "postcard-exercise" where images of the omnipresence of leather in our lives testify to the usefulness of the material and the emotions that it engenders in people. The permanent COTANCE Campaign now launched in Bucharest intends to build on the success of the past and to develop a combination of traditional and internet based communication tools.
Leather trade associations can join the Campaign by subscribing a simple licence agreement and possibly a voluntary financial contribution.
COTANCE invites leather sector operators to sponsor this initiative.


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David Mayhew's advanced statistics for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East-West combined Autolite Iridium XP 150 at Iowa Speedway.
Earlier this season, Bobby Santos used the bottom groove en route to a victory at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Saturday, Santos used that same groove en route to winning once again.
D.J Kennington won the E3 Spark Plug Pole Award for the Pinty's Fall Brawl at Jukasa Motor Speedway.
D.J Kennington (No. 17 Castrol Edge Dodge) set the quickest lap in NASCAR Pinty's Series practice for the Pinty's Fall Brawl at Jukasa Motor Speedway.
Christopher Bell (No. 4 SiriusXM Toyota Tundra) won the UNOH 175, his seventh victory in 47 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) races.
Kevin Harvick posted the second-fastest single lap in Happy Hour practice for the ISM Connect 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with a speed of 131.515 mph.
Martin Truex Jr. posted the fastest single lap in Happy Hour for the ISM Connect 300 with a speed of 131.647 mph.
Noah Gragson (No. 18 Switch Toyota Tundra) won the Keystone Light Pole Award for today's UNOH 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) with a lap of 131.811 mph.
Ross Chastain will reach a career milestone this weekend at Kentucky Speedway. Saturday night's VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 will be his 100th NASCAR XFINITY Series race start.
It was survival of the fittest tonight at Kentucky Speedway. It was also a daring four-wide move that included Austin Theriault on a late-race restart that paid off handsomely for the Fort Kent, Maine driver.
Justin Allgaier (No. 7 BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevrolet Camaro) had the best 10-lap consecutive average speed in the XFINITY Series final practice for the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, KY.
Ryan Preece (No. 20 Hurricane Relief Toyota) tops the speed chart in the Final Practice session for the XFINITY Series VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, KY.


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TEL AVIV (Jul. 4)
One person was injured when an improvised bomb exploded and set fire to the public lavatories in the Natanya central bus terminal at noon today. The victim, not identified, was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The damage was reported to be slight. Police detained several suspects at the scene of the bombing.
Syrian gunners shelled Israeli positions in the southern Golan Heights last night. A military spokesman reported that a number of mortar shells were fired from the region where the Israeli, Syrian and Jordanian borders converge. The fire was returned. No Israeli casualties were reported.


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Treaty Guide to Treaty No. 8 (1899)
Treaty No. 8. The first of the northern treaties covered an area of 324,900 sq miles and represents the most geographically extensive treaty activity undertaken. It comprises what is now the northern half of Alberta, the northeast quarter of British Columbia, the northwest corner of Saskatchewan, and the area south of Hay River and Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories.
Read a historical interpretation of the treaty in Treaty Research Report: Treaty Eight
Look at a typed transcript of the Treaties Eight text.
View a map of Canada in 1899 (PDF 2,056 Kb).
Find more resources in Bibliography by Treaty: Treaty Eight
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A Closer Look at Profits
As companies release their second-quarter earnings figures, it's still tough to gauge the true health of the corporate sector. According to the latest filings of companies in our flash profits sample, corporate profits were down 30% compared with a year earlier, which was a weak quarter to begin with. But take out AT&T and Lucent Technologies Inc.--which accounted for $20.6 billion in losses all by themselves--and the remaining 123 companies were up by 14%, more than expected.
The confusion in the profits numbers reflect the crosscurrents in the economy and the financial markets. On the one hand, there's plenty of bad news. Stock markets are still way down in the U.S. and abroad, and the scandals have touched some of the country's largest banks. Telecom and energy companies are in trouble no matter where you look, technology companies are reducing their forecasts for the rest of the year, and many large corporations may be forced to start putting money in pension funds for the first time in years.
However, despite the drumbeat of negative news, there's still some reason for cautious optimism about profits in coming quarters. The key is that by cutting workers and boosting productivity, companies seem to be taking the steps they need to trim costs and increase profits going forward. In recent days, Lucent, General Electric, SBC Communications, and Intel have all announced job reductions. And economic growth, while not stellar, remains positive.
While the news is still dominated by corporate scandals and huge bankruptcies, it may be time for shell-shocked investors to start paying attention to profits. Earnings are by far the biggest influence on stock prices. In the bear market of the 1970s, for example, corporate profits adjusted for inflation were basically flat, and so were stocks. Conversely, the stock boom that started in 1995 was preceded and accompanied by a major-league runup in profits.
The same connection holds today. It's no coincidence that earnings per share peaked in the first quarter of 2000, just as the market hit its high and started downward. Only when profits start to rise, on a sustained basis, will the stock market recover.
Of course, after all the reports of financial hocus-pocus, investors are understandably wary of earnings figures being put out by corporations. But with all the attention given to corporate accounting these days, CEOs are going to be much more reluctant to adopt the sort of aggressive accounting practices that they used in the past. That trend toward honesty will be reinforced by the requirement that, as of Aug. 14, CEOs must certify their financial reports as being honest and correct.
As a result, there's a reasonable chance that these numbers will be cleaner than they have been in a long time. When published earnings start to rise, that's a good sign for investors.


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Professor Ian Tonks
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Leading Refereed Journal Papers
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BA, MA, PhD
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Professor of Finance
Key Research Interests:
Pensions, directors trading
Research Interests
Ian Tonks' research focuses on pension economics; fund manager performance; corporate governance; directors' trading and market microstructure. He has published in leading finance, accounting, economics and management journals. He has previously held positions at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, the London School of Economics and has held visiting positions at: Bank of England (Senior Houblon-Norman Fellow); Financial Services Authority (ESRC Business Fellowship); University of British Columbia, Canada; Solvay Business School, Brussels; City University Business School; ENPC, Paris; and LSE Summer Schools in Moscow and St Petersburg. He has acted as a consultant to a number of commercial and regulatory organisations including the London Stock Exchange, the Competition Commission, and the Financial Services Authority, and has advised the Department of Work and Pensions, Bank of England, Financial Conducts Authority, and the House of Commons Select Committee on issues in pensions. He was a member of sub-panel 19 Business and Management for REF2014, is vice-chair of the Conference of Professors of Accounting and Finance, and is a member of ESRC GAP Panel C.
PhD Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of pensions and corporate governance.
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Leading Refereed Journal Papers
Rossi, A., D. Blake, A. Timmermann, I. Tonks and R. Wermers, 2017, Networks and Pension Fund Performance, forthcoming, Journal of Financial Economics.
Joyce, M.A.S., Z. Liu and I. Tonks, 2017, Institutional investors and the QE portfolio balance channel, forthcoming, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Bessler, W., D. Blake, P. Lueckoff and I. Tonks, 2017, Fund flows, manager change and performance persistence, forthcoming, Review of Finance. DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfx017.
Blake, D., T. Caulfield, C. Ioannidis & I. Tonks, 2017, New Evidence on Mutual Fund Out-Performance: A Comparison of Alternative Bootstrap Methods, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Vol. 52, No. 3, June, pp.1-21. DOI: 10.1017/S0022109017000229.
Cannon, E.S., & I. Tonks, 2016, Cohort mortality risk or adverse selection in annuity markets?, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 141, Pages 68-81. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.07.002.
Blake, D., T. Caulfield, C. Ioannidis & I. Tonks, 2014, Improved Inference in the Evaluation of Mutual Fund Performance using Panel Bootstrap Methods, Journal of Econometrics, 183(2): 202-210. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2014.05.010
Blake D., Rossi, A., Timmermann, A., Tonks, I. & Wermers, R. 2013. Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry. Journal of Finance, 68(3): 1133-1178, DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12024.x.
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Liu, W. & Tonks, I. 2013. Corporate Expenditures and Financing Constraints Imposed by Pension Fund Status. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 75(2): 235-258, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012 .00693.x.
Gregory, A., Jeanes, E., Tharyan, R. & Tonks, I. 2013. Does the stock market gender stereotype corporate boards? Evidence from the market's reaction to directors' trades. British Journal of Management, 24(2): 174-190, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2011.00795.x.
Cannon, E. &Tonks, I. 2013. The Value and Risk of Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: International Evidence. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 80(1): 95-119, DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2011.01456.x.
Gregory, A., Tharyan, R. & Tonks, I. 2013. More than Just Contrarians: Insider Trading in Value and Glamour Stocks. European Financial Management, 68(3): 1133-1178, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2011.00608.x.
Gregg, P., Jewell, S. & Tonks, I. 2012. Executive Pay and Performance: Did Bankers' Bonuses Cause the Crisis? International Review of Finance, 12(1): 89-122, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2443.2011.01136.x.
Tonks, I. 2010. Discussion of Trade or not to trade: The Strategic Trading of Insiders Around News Announcements. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 37(3-4): 369-407, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2010.02201.x.
Tonks, I. & Liu, W. 2009. Alternative Risk-based Levies in the Pension Protection Fund for Multi-employee Schemes. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 8(4): 451-483.
Ellul, A., Shin, H. & Tonks, I. 2005. Opening and Closing the Market: Evidence from the London Stock Exchange. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 40(4): 779-801, DOI: 10.1017/S0022109000001976.
Tonks, I. 2005. Performance Persistence of Pension Fund Managers. Journal of Business, 78(5): 1917-1942, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1325410.
Cannon, E. & Tonks, I. 2004. UK Annuity Price Series 1957-2002. Financial History Review, 11(2): 165-96, DOI: 10.1017/S0968565004000125.
Cannon, E. & Tonks, I. 2004. UK Annuity Rates and Pension Replacement Ratios 1957-2002. The Geneva Papers, 29(3): 371-393, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0440.2004.00293.x.
Snell, A. & Tonks, I. 2003. Trading Costs of Institutional Investors in Auction and Dealer Markets. Economic Journal, 113(489): 576-597.
Hon, M. & Tonks, I. 2003. Momentum in the UK Stock Market. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 13(1): 43-70.
Acker, D., Horton, J. & Tonks, I. 2002. The Impact of FRS3 on Analysts Abilities to Forecast Earnings per Share. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 21(3): 193-218, DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4254(02)00049-2.
Acker, D., Stalker, M. & Tonks, I. 2002. Daily Closing Inside Spreads and Trading Volumes around Earnings Announcements. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 29(9&10): 1149-1180, DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00465.
Matatko, J., Gregory, A., Tonks, I. & Friederich, S. 2002. Stock Price Patterns around the Trades of Corporate Insiders on the London Stock Exchange. European Financial Management, 8(1): 7-30, DOI: 10.1111/1468-036X.00174.
Thomas, A. & Tonks, I. 2001. Equity Performance of Segregated Pension Funds in the UK. Journal of Asset Management, 1(4): 321-343, DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jam.2240025.
Tonks, I. & Cannon, E. 2008. Annuity Markets. Oxford University Press.
Other Outputs
Cannon, E.S., I. Tonks, & R. Yuille, 2016, The Effect of the Reforms to Compulsion on Annuity Demand NIESR Economic Review, No. 237, No. 1, R47-R54. DOI: 10.1177/002795011623700116.
Cannon, E., R. Stevens & I. Tonks, 2015, Price Efficiency in the Dutch Annuity Market, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 14(1): 1-18. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474747213000279.
Blake, D., A. Rossi, A. Timmermann, I. Tonks & R. Wermers, 2015, Decentralization in Pension Fund Management,Journal of Investment Management, 13(3): 35-36.
Institutional investor portfolio allocation, quantitative easing and the global financial crisis (with M.A.S. Joyce and Z. Liu), Bank of England Working Paper No. 510, September 2014
Compulsory and Voluntary Annuity Markets in the UK, (with Edmund Cannon). In Securing Lifelong Retirement Income: Global Annuity Markets and Policy, edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, John Piggott and Noriyuki Takayama (Oxford University Press, 2011), Chapter 10, pp. 171-196. ISBN 978-0-19-959484-9.
Submitted responses to policy consultations: House of Commons Select Committee on Work and Pensions inquiry into Pension Protection Fund and Pensions Regulator (July/August 2016); FCA Asset management market study, February 2017; DWP Consultation on Security and Sustainability in Defined Benefit Pension Schemes, May 2017.
Cited in major policy speech by Mario Draghi (President, European Central Bank) at Watchers XVI Conference (11 March 2015) on adoption of quantitative easing in Euro Area.
Work on annuities cited in FCA Occasional Paper No. 5 "The value for money of annuities and other retirement income strategies in the UK" (December 2014).
Quoted in DWP White Paper Better Workplace Pensions: further measures for savers (Cm 8840) (March, 2014).
Advised HM Treasury on proposals to abolish compulsory annuitisation (August, 2010).
Cannon, E. & I. Tonks. 2011. "Annuity Markets: Welfare, Money's Worth and Policy Implications" Netspar Panel Paper No. 24, June, 101 pages.
Blake, D., Cannon, E., & Tonks, I. 2010b. "Ending Compulsory Annuitisation: quantifying the consequences" , Report for Pensions Institute, September 2010, 70 pages. ISSN 1367-580X.
Blake, D., Cannon, E., & Tonks, I. 2010a. "Ending Compulsory Annuitisation: what are the consequences" , Report for Pensions Institute, July 2010, 28 pages. ISSN 1367-580X.
Cannon, E. & Tonks, I. 2009. Invited submission to House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee inquiry concerning "Tackling Pension Poverty Today in Great Britain", TPP07, March 2009.
Cannon, E. & Tonks, I. 2009. "Money's worth of Pension Annuities" , Department of Work and Pensions Research Report No. 563, ISBN 978-1-84712-492-0, February 2009, 88 pages.
Cannon, E. & Tonks, I. 2006. "Survey of Annuity Pricing", Department of Work and Pensions Research Report No. 318, ISBN 1-84123-958-5, March 2006, 135 pages.


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Cylinder Rotation Colt vs everything else.
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Fascinating and thought-provoking discussion.
As an S&W guy, I have always accepted that revolvers turn "the right way"...because that is all I have ever known.
As I learn more, I can now see that Colt built SA revolvers that turned "the other way" and when they started building DA revolvers, it was natural that they turned "the same way".
I had never stopped to consider the implications of the direction of cylinder rotation as an advantage/disadvantage (when Colt used that direction in the SA revolver, the whole "turning in to" was a non-issue) ...Colt's later use of the "same direction" rotation was the natural way to go.
Anyone remember how Chrysler/Mopar cars of the 60's used to use LH threads on the wheel lugs of the two LH wheels? It was supposed to prevent those wheel lugs from loosening...makes sense in theory, but in practice, it ended up with a bunch of frustrated customers (who could not remove a flat tire) and a number of broken studs (by people who persisted in trying to loosen the lug nuts by turning them the "wrong way" until they snapped off.)
Similarly, the whole "rotating into the frame"
good, and may bear some additional thought, although 100+ years later, I cannot see that any advantage has been proven one way or another.
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