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She was born to parents of Spanish descent in Lima, Peru, at a time when South America was in its first century of evangelization. She seems to have taken Catherine of Siena (April 29) as a model, in spite of the objections and ridicule of parents and friends.
The saints have so great a love of God that what seems bizarre to us, and is indeed sometimes imprudent, is simply a logical carrying out of a conviction that anything that might endanger a loving relationship with God must be rooted out. So, because her beauty was so often admired, Rose used to rub her face with pepper to produce disfiguring blotches. Later, she wore a thick circlet of silver on her head, studded on the inside, like a crown of thorns.
When her parents fell into financial trouble, she worked in the garden all day and sewed at night. Ten years of struggle against her parents began when they tried to make Rose marry. They refused to let her enter a convent, and out of obedience she continued her life of penance and solitude at home as a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. So deep was her desire to live the life of Christ that she spent most of her time at home in solitude.
During the last few years of her life, Rose set up a room in the house where she cared for homeless children, the elderly and the sick. This was a beginning of social services in Peru. Though secluded in life and activity, she was brought to the attention of Inquisition interrogators, who could only say that she was influenced by grace.
What might have been a merely eccentric life was transfigured from the inside. If we remember some unusual penances, we should also remember the greatest thing about Rose: a love of God so ardent that it withstood ridicule from without, violent temptation and lengthy periods of sickness. When she died at 31, the city turned out for her funeral. Prominent men took turns carrying her coffin.
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We just received two batch of brand new ukuleles and cases in the last few days... and the good news is that prices are really low even before your coupon is applied.
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You ask why?
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Yes, and we also have strongly disliked wound strings on the ukulele.
Aquila has made it possible to totally replace any wound string on any ukulele... even the two wound strings on baritone ukes
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The Red Series is basically a high tech product made with an elastic Nylgut's version added with heavy copper powder in order to increase the specific gravity of the string.
The secret of the best bass strings is always high elasticity and high density of the material.
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We continue to be the first dealer in the USA to have these new Aquila products. We have a limited supply, so place your order now.
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MIA is fucking retarded for flipping off the cameras. She wants her fan's help. With what? She chose to do that. so deal with it. And give me an apology. Stupid bitch.
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I don't understand the hype they're getting. It's bad EDM with Sleigh Bells vocals.
Lindsay Zoladz's wallet got a little fatter with this review. Her reviews are always off...
It's funny what we choose to give a pass to. I expected Lorde would be massacred here but she seems to be getting a warm reception.
This /\ /\ /\. I thought I would to have to confess her as a guilty pleasure.
Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls
Damn. 4.5
Is it really that bad?
The National/Warpaint - 4/21 - Moody Theater
Mogwai - 4/24 - Emo's
Cloud Nothings/The Men - 4/26 - The Mohawk
Austin Psych Fest - 5/2 - 5/4 - Carson Creek Ranch
King Khan & the Shrines - 5/30 - The Mohawk
Cut Copy - 6/21 - Stubbs
Swans - 6/27 - The Mohawk
Boris - 7/29 - The Mohawk
I enjoy it but I can't really defend it either...
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The music is not aggressively bad or embarrassing (though some of the lyrics are); it's a different kind of bad album, what the AV Club would call an "least essential album," "records whose very existence baffles us, from pointless remix projects to blatant cash-ins to celebrity vanity projects."
The songs are all just so second-string compared with and reminiscent of the last batch that you question the necessity of releasing them. The fact that it lumbers past 70 minutes like the previous album did doesn't help its case either. It was a chore to finish.
Remember how the common complaint last time was "these songs are great, but they really could have been edited down to single length"? Well this time, they really could have been edited down to single length without the added benefit of being particularly great.
I enjoyed Lorde's album, too. I think the song writing is a tad immature but I'm willing to overlook a lot of that because, you know, she's 16. I'm looking forward to more of her output, perhaps after she gets her heartbroken or becomes jaded in other ways. She's very talented and I hope she explores her more creative side rather than falling into the presumable pressure of creating nothing but easily-digestible radio-friendly pop songs (and yes, I know, it does take talent to write quality pop songs). 7.3 is pretty fair for this album.
8.3 for SubRosa - I can live with that
7.6 for Motörhead - pretty high for an average Lemmy release but ok
Since when does Pitchfork review Motorhead?
I like this link for the discussion in the comments about Pitchfork's early years. "Early 00s Pitchfork is one of the most fucked-up, damaging legacies in music."
I forgot to mention this a few weeks ago, but the BNM for DJ Rashad's Double Cup is extremely well-deserved. Juke/footwork can get very repetitive very quickly, but, just like on his two EPs from earlier in the year, Rashad manages to experiment with the genre's basic framework enough to keep things interesting for almost all of the album's 50+ minutes.
Well, they got this one wrong.
Pitchfork also gave a Kanye West album a perfect 10. So, you know. Perspective and all.
The National/Warpaint - 4/21 - Moody Theater
Mogwai - 4/24 - Emo's
Cloud Nothings/The Men - 4/26 - The Mohawk
Austin Psych Fest - 5/2 - 5/4 - Carson Creek Ranch
King Khan & the Shrines - 5/30 - The Mohawk
Cut Copy - 6/21 - Stubbs
Swans - 6/27 - The Mohawk
Boris - 7/29 - The Mohawk
Well, I think MBDTF's score was about .6 points off. That's a lot for Pitchfork's number scale ya know
4/17 Pixies @ Pappy & Harriets
4/26 Desert Daze @ Sunset Ranch Oasis
5/26 Panda Bear @ Pappy & Harriets
7/11 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ The Shrine Auditorium
I'm not even sure why Pitchfork deserves its own thread
4/17 Pixies @ Pappy & Harriets
4/26 Desert Daze @ Sunset Ranch Oasis
5/26 Panda Bear @ Pappy & Harriets
7/11 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ The Shrine Auditorium


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The difference is the direction the stems turn.
I'm in the process of a bathroom reno. I'm reusing the Kohler deck mounted tub faucet that was on our old jacuzzi tub on our new soaker. From the perspective of sitting in the tub the hot and cold was reversed on the original tub since we bought the house. Now that I've remounted the faucet my plan was to just correct the supplies so hot would be on the left. The valve body that was originally on the left (from the perspective of sitting in the tub) is labeled 'Cold'. Is there actually a difference in the two different valve inerds?...or is this label just for reference? If I physically flip the valve assy 180 degrees i would have the supplies lined up w the label but the handles would be swinging the wrong direction. Thanks!
The difference is the direction the stems turn.
Ok, then I shouldn't have any issues if I just switch the supplies.
Still seems odd to me that Kohler would label the stem that turns counter clockwise towards the tub as cold...as that stem would be the one on the left hand side.
It is a "standard" that cold "lever" handles turn CCW to close, but you do not specify whether it is closing or opening when you turn yours CCW. But it is also a matter of application. On a flat deck the cold is CCW to close, but if it is wall mounted, then CW is preferable, otherwise heavy handles can cause it to open by itself. And while CCW stems "usually" have a left hand thread, some Kohler CCW stems have a right hand stem screw. a simple way to determine which way to rotate the handles is to "pull lever handles toward you to turn on the valve", and rotate round handles CCW to turn on both hot and cold. Even this is a generalization, however, because many specialty manufacturers send out their faucets with left and right hand lever handle stems, even with round handles, because it is easier and cheaper to stock a single version.
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Thanks all, in this case the factory 'cold' labelled valve turns CCW to open (flat deck install). Regardless, I swapped the supplies so the hot would be on the left (connected to labebeled 'cold' on the valve body...CCW to open). I've since ran the tub to check for leaks flush out any flux and it flows just fine. I get the same flow rate when running each valve independently so it appears for my situation that the only difference is the directions the valves turn. Thanks again,


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Ready to play the "Great Piggy Bank Adventure?" How about a round of "Mindblown Life?"
These are just a couple of titles of the increasingly visible electronic games and apps promising to help children and young adults become financially literate. T. Rowe Price, the purveyor of the "Great Piggy Bank Adventure," is planning to introduce an app related to its game in May.
What is less visible is any serious measure of whether these activities do the job—whether they do, in fact, help young people learn to make smart financial choices. And with teenagers and young adults having to contend with the rising cost of college and the growing complexity of financial markets, this is more than a minor issue. Are financial literacy games a useful tool, or just another way for parents to spend money?
"This is the million-dollar question," said Annamaria Lusardi, a professor of economics and accountancy at George Washington University's business school and an expert on financial literacy. "People are spending a lot of money on these applications and programs, and they are not doing evaluations of them. I cannot tell you out of all these programs what works and what doesn't."
The final report of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability has also bemoaned the lack of information about financial literacy teaching tools. "The number of financial education resources to choose from is overwhelmingly large, " the council said in its final report to President Barack Obama. "At the same time, quality and efficacy indicators are sorely lacking and there is no clear relationship between the quality of a program and its availability."
Overall, though, there are indications that the games and apps may be having little effect. A major study of financial capability, published in 2009 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority found that young adults were twice as likely as those over age 30 to incorrectly answer a simple question about the impact of inflation. And Lusardi told a congressional panel on April 24 that an update of the study, not yet published, "shows no improvement in the level of financial knowledge between 2009 and 2012."
(Take a look at FINRA's financial quiz here.)
Of course, the shortcomings of financial literacy games are not the only reason for financial illiteracy among children and young adults. Numerous surveys, like a recent one by Citigroup's community development arm and Parenting magazine, show that parents do a poor job of talking to their kids about money.
Also, programs in schools seem to vary widely in their effectiveness. (Of course, this may be because many of these so-called programs consist of a single high school course. That approach probably wouldn't work very well on math or science capability either.)
It's also true that some of the financial literacy games do appear to be somewhat beneficial. T. Rowe Price has studied the effect of the "Great Piggy Bank Adventure" on young players, and says two-thirds of the children responding to the survey said they had set goals for their money, and 73 percent of the young respondents said they changed their saving and spending behaviors.
"The sample sizes weren't huge, but we think it's directional and shows we're on the right track," said Mark Robinson, T. Rowe Price's corporate social responsibility manager, who also oversees the company's financial literacy initiatives.
But Lusardi said more often than not, the games may be reaching kids who are more likely to be financially literate in the first place.
"A lot of these applications may preach to the converted. Right now, the financially literate students are disproportionately white males from college-educated families," she said.
T. Rowe Price, for example, found that while about half of the parents making use of the "Great Piggy Bank Adventure" had incomes under $75,000, about 30 percent had incomes of more than $100,000, and over one-third had a graduate degree.
Lusardi said that the best place for financial education is in the schools. "Financial literacy is a scientific topic. I don't know how much science there is behind these applications. Normally we have trained teachers do this stuff, " she said. "I love games. I think they should be part of this. But if it's in the school, it's a lot more systematic. Financial literacy is no different from any other topic. It belongs solidly and squarely in the schools. Then we'll be able to equip this new generation for this changed world."


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Antidisestablishmentarianism (listen to British sample , American sample ) is a political position that originated in 19th-century Britain. The position opposes proposals for the disestablishment of the Church of England, meaning to remove the Anglican Church's status as the state church of England, Ireland, and Wales.
The establishment was maintained in England, but in Ireland the Church of Ireland (Anglican) was disestablished in 1871. In Wales, four Church of England dioceses were disestablished in 1920, subsequently becoming the Church in Wales.
The question of disestablishment of the Church of England is still current, often tied with the position of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom as "Supreme Governor" of the Church (see Act of Settlement 1701).
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The word is notable for its unusual length of 28 letters and 12 syllables. It is one of the longest words in the English language.[1] It is commonly believed to be the longest word in English found in major dictionaries, excluding coined and technical terms.[1] It rose to the public consciousness in the United States via a popular television show in the 1950s The $64,000 Question, when a young contestant correctly spelled it to win. A slightly longer but less commonly accepted variant of the word can be found in the Duke Ellington song "You're Just an Old Antidisestablishmentarianismist",[2] although the correct construction of that word would be antidisestablishmentarianist (without the -ism) or antidisestablishmentarian.
The word construction is as follows (the numbers succeeding the word refer to the number of letters in the word):
- establish (9)
- to set up, put in place, or institute (originally from the Latin stare, to stand)
- dis-establish (12)
- to end the established status of a body, in particular a church, given such status by law, such as the Church of England
- disestablish-ment (16)
- the separation of church and state (specifically in this context it is the political movement of the 1860s in Britain)
- anti-disestablishment (20)
- opposition to disestablishment
- antidisestablishment-ary (23)
- of or pertaining to opposition to disestablishment
- antidisestablishmentari-an (25)
- an opponent of disestablishment
- antidisestablishmentarian-ism (28)
- the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment
J. E. Littlewood pointed out that the word is all "form" apart from the Latin stem sto.[3]
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- Longest words in English
- Antiestablishmentarianism
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- List of long place names
- Nominalizations in the English Language
- ^ a b What is the longest English word? Oxford Dictionaries Online
- ^ ELLINGTON, Duke and Eminems song Finally Famous Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music
- ^ Littlewood's miscellany p.165 ISBN 0-521-33702-X
- Adrian Hastings, Church and State: the English Experience (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1991.)
- Antidisestablishmentarianism in the Online Etymology Dictionary
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CANBERRA, Australia, July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited (ASX: EOS) has executed agreements with Hyundai-WIA, a Korean corporation, relating to the joint development, marketing, production and support of remote weapon systems.
Under the agreements, Hyundai-WIA will produce remote weapon systems [RWS] in Korea. Initially these will be drawn from the current EOS product range, but the parties expect new and upgraded RWS products to issue from joint development programs in the near term, to address emerging global market requirements. The collaboration will draw heavily on the deep technology and production capabilities of both companies.
The EOS Defence Systems sector is concentrated on the development, marketing, production and support of remote weapon systems [RWS] for global markets.
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"EOS is now a major step closer to a business model adapted to volatile global demand during a sustained period of unpredictable government budgets. The partnering arrangements deliver production capacity which is scalable at low cost, and simultaneously improves production quality, market access, fixed costs and delivery risk."
The arrangements with Hyundai are similar to those announced 19 May 2010 when EOS and Northrop Grumman Corporation agreed to jointly develop, produce and support RWS for the USA and certain export markets. Those arrangements included EOS and Northrop Grumman teaming to compete for the US Army CROWS program requirement for RWS.
In December 2011 EOS announced amended collaboration arrangements with the re-location of EOS' own RWS capabilities in the USA from Tucson, Arizona to Huntsville, Alabama. This places them alongside those of Northrop Grumman to allow EOS and Northrop Grumman to address even more efficiently RWS opportunities in general, and CROWS requirements in particular. The CROWS program award by the US Army is expected by October 2012.
EOS now has completed agreements with partners in both the USA and Northern Asia to produce, support and enhance its RWS products. These partners have significant investments in scalable production capacity and the incremental cost of adding RWS capacity is relatively small. Importantly, these plants have the necessary infrastructure for production of modern military equipment, including next-generation systems for quality management, record-keeping, government accounting and supply chain management.
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As pressure on Australian manufacturing industry increased over the past two years due to currency appreciation and labour market constraints, EOS has migrated to a production approach where its Australian plant in Queanbeyan has retained only around 65% of its historical scope of work. EOS expects improved competitiveness and market access will support sales growth and offset the effect of transfer of some production activities offshore.
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EOS' space division is as a provider of technology, products and services to support space surveillance and space debris management, including space collision avoidance. EOS's laser tracking systems and computer technology can track small orbiting debris objects with great precision – while its space ablation technology and systems could potentially allow future de-orbiting of space debris objects.
EOS has around 120 employees, principally based in Canberra (Australia), Tucson (Arizona), Huntsville (Alabama) and Singapore.
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Shapley wrote:jamiebk wrote:I have an icon set up for the stream at home, but I don't think it logs me in as a member (and I don't know if that matters to B.com) They may want to keep track of what memebers log in etc. Anyway, I switch computers a lot and can't do this on each one...so, I have to log in, except for home.
You could copy the address onto a thumb drive, and then link to it from whatever computer you are using at the time.
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A new research method using a smartphone app reveals that people are often stressed out and miserable at work, according to The Wall Street Journal. This doesn't exactly shock me. After all, there's a reason people get paid salaries to work. But I wish the coverage had dwelled longer on this point from the very last paragraph in the Journal article:
Respondents with very low incomes tended to have a much less negative reaction to work. That may be, Mr. Bryson said, because their options outside work "are not very nice. . . . In that sense, they may as well be working."
I suppose it's true that very poor people have less attractive leisure options than middle-class people. But at the same time, very low wages seem to me to be correlated with jobs that are unpleasant in other ways. In the United States, at least, the labor force participation rate is correlated with education - which I'd always taken to be a reflection of the superior labor market options available to people who qualify for higher-paid, higher-status jobs. One possibility that comes to find is that this is simply a spurious result generated by some kind of flawed research method. But if not, it deserves more investigation.
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The financing regulations imposed on the Center by public funding did not allow for much leeway in the Center's fiscal planning and expenditure, consequently this led to the establishment of the Schloss Dagstuhl Center Foundation. This makes it possible to react flexibly to unforeseen challenges.
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While vowing to "stop the challenge" from China over the chain of islands in East China Sea, whose Japanese ownership is "non-negotiable," Japan's next Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his first post-election press conference recognized that "China is an indispensable country for the Japanese economy to keep growing."
As a result, he went on, "we need to use some wisdom so that political problems will not develop and affect economic issues."
Beijing apparently thinks that Mr. Abe wants to square the circle.
Indeed, China claims the sovereignty of the archipelago, consisting of five islands and three reefs they call Diaoyu (Senkaku for the Japanese), as a matter of historical fact whose earliest record dates back to 1403 at the time of the Ming Dynasty. And ever since the territorial dispute erupted a few months ago, China had amply demonstrated that it would not de-link economic dealings with Japan from serious political problems in Sino-Japanese relations.
Japan has seen that already. In the first 11 months of this year, Chinese purchases of Japanese exports have been falling at an annual rate of more than 10 percent, and their decline has significantly accelerated in the last three months. Sales of Japanese cars in China were plunging in October and November at a rate of 48 percent. Japanese direct investments in China have virtually ground to a halt, and Japanese companies operating in China are complaining about increasing red tape and regulatory delays.
Japan's Strong Recession Dynamics
It is not clear how this substantial weakening of Japan's business in China can be stopped, let alone reversed, while the current standoff continues. But it is quite clear that declining sales to China are amplifying a broad-based downturn of the Japanese economy.
Recently published gross domestic product (GDP) numbers for the third quarter show that there was some life left only in public investments, a mere 4 percent of Japan's aggregate demand. The key growth engines representing 90 percent of the economy – private consumption, residential investments, business investments and exports – were either nearly stagnant or in a free fall compared with the third quarter of last year.
(Read More: What Will Save Japan's Economy?)
Japan's deepening recession is under way. The most recent business survey, published in mid-December, finds that business sentiment continued to worsen during the fourth quarter as a result of falling exports, rising yen and flagging domestic demand.
This trend is unlikely to be turned around by an 880 billion yen package to help small businesses. Even the announced fiscal stimulus of 5-10 trillion yen ($59 billion to $119 billion) may not do much to prop up an export-oriented economy with structurally weak household consumption and residential investments.
(Read More: Global Growth Woes – Here Is Where the Blame Lies)
Pushing the Bank of Japan to print more money to weaken the yen and to raise inflation target to 2 percent has an equally uncertain policy outcome.
Assuming that the Bank of Japan agrees to manipulate and debase its currency - and that Japan's trading partners acquiesce in such a move - an avalanche of yen liquidity could bring down the exchange rate. But to raise inflation from its present rate of -0.4 percent to 2 percent – and to keep it there – would require a sustained overheating of the Japanese economy, with strongly rising capacity utilization rates and demand pressures in labor and product markets.
(Read More: Is Bank of Japan Already Dancing to Abe's Tune?)
That, too, might be possible, provided there is a fundamental change in the composition of Japan's aggregate demand – a structural shift away from an export-driven economy to spending patterns dominated by domestic demand. How likely is that over any (politically) relevant policy horizon?
Economic Fallout of the Border Dispute with China
I have long argued that Japan should reduce its excessive dependence on exports, even though I understood that such a change might not seem compelling to Japanese policymakers. What is more difficult to understand though is the fact that Japan developed a veritable addiction to Chinese markets, despite thorny territorial issues and security concerns. Last year, Japanese exports to China accounted for one-fifth of its total exports, and more than one-third of its exports to Asia.
Japan will now find it very difficult to diversify export sales, and to reduce its dependence on such a huge volume of business, without serious damage to growth, employment and large segments of its industries.
And then there is a political deadlock: Mr. Abe says he wants to conduct "persistent dialogue" with China on issues - disputed islands - he considers "non-negotiable," while Beijing wants these islands back as a matter of its sovereign rights.
There is not much room for dialogue there. Especially since the respective ownership claims are so strikingly different.
Writing in the French newspaper Le Monde on November 9, 2012, Ichiro Komatsu, Japan's ambassador to France, says that Japan decided to "annex Senkaku (Diaoyu) islands to the national territory in January 1895, after its investigations since 1885 proved that these islands were terra nullius (land belonging to no one)," without any sign that they were administered by China's Qing Dynasty. Historians would also say that Japan took possession of these islands after it defeated China in the first Sino-Japanese War from August 1, 1894 to April 17, 1895.
The Chinese are not denying that these islands were taken away from them by Japan, but Beijing has historical records, including Japanese maps from 1785, showing that these islands had always belonged to China. Earlier this month, China also sent to the U.N. a geological survey showing that "the continental shelf in the East China Sea is the natural prolongation of China's land territory."
Clearly, this is a tough territorial dispute where the "persistent dialogue" Mr. Abe is promising seems unlikely to produce a solution acceptable to Beijing and Tokyo.
Putin, Black Belt Judoka, Wants "Hikiwake"
Japan also has real estate issues with South Korea and Russia.
Problems with Russia involve significant economic consequences, but they are far less serious than the Japan's standoff with China, where a trade volume of $340 billion is at stake.
Referring to an 1855 agreement on trade and borders, Japan wants Russia to return four South Kuril Islands (which Tokyo calls Northern Territories) the Red Army took toward the end of WWII. Moscow has been administering these islands ever since, and maintains that they are part of its sovereign territory.
The result is that Russia and Japan never signed a peace agreement following WWII, because Japan poses the return of the four islands as a condition for such an agreement and for closer economic and political relations with Russia.
Mr. Putin wants to break the deadlock. In an interview he gave to Asahi Shimbun on March 2, 2012, he said that Russia and Japan should divide these four islands, and, with a score of 2:2, it would be just like a draw ("hikiwake") in a judo contest. He also promised that he would summon Russian and Japanese experts to a negotiating table and give them the martial arts command "hajime" (begin). True to his word, he apparently did that because there is now a Russian-Japanese working group studying the issue.
Here is also an interesting aside. In the same interview Mr. Putin mentioned that it took Russia and China 40 years to settle territorial problems along their 4000-kilometer border. Talking about that long and difficult process, he said that the more the Sino-Russian ties grew stronger, the easier it became to find solutions to seemingly intractable frontier questions. And a message to Japan: this year, he went on, the Sino-Russian trade is expected to hit $100 billion, while trade with Japan is still hardly more than one-third of that.
Love Thy Neighbor
Japan's problems with South Korea are even more complex. Not only are there territorial disputes over the Takeshima (Dokdo for Koreans) Islands in the Sea of Japan, but there are also Mr. Abe statements denying that Korean and other Asian women were forced into sexual slavery during WWII.
Similarly, South Korea, and some other countries in the region, take a dim view of Mr. Abe's stated belief that the Japanese military aggression in WWII was not a crime. A promised military buildup and a change of Japan's pacifist constitution are also being closely watched by Japan's neighbors.
South Korea's President-elect, Park Geun-hye, has reacted already. In her first major post-election speech she pledged to work for "greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history." Clearly, Mr. Abe's rumored move toward a more conciliatory approach to the island dispute would be well received in Seoul. That would also provide a friendlier setting for his presence at Ms. Park's inauguration on February 25.
(Read More: Can South Korea's New President Keep 'KOSPI' Pledge?)
Investors are fully aware that Japan's tensions with its neighbors have an important economic dimension. Japan's economic interests would therefore be best served by calming things down, starting with China, and seeking an acceptable modus vivendi with countries involved in its territorial disputes and perceived as presenting longer-term security threats.
Investment climate for Japanese assets would also improve if Mr. Abe wasted no time on belligerent rhetoric. His priority is to show that he has an effective plan to fix the economy – which he does not have at the moment – and that his diplomacy with China can bring that huge market back on stream for Japanese industries. Mr. Abe's first major electoral test is less than seven months away. On July 11, 2013 voters will go to the polls to elect the upper house of the Japanese parliament.
Michael Ivanovitch is president of MSI Global, a New York-based economic research company. He also served as a senior economist at the OECD in Paris, international economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and taught economics at Columbia


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We are hoping to take a self guided trip in Wisconsin. We would like to rent bikes there, but can't find a rental car with a bike rack available. Any ideas?
If you could rent a van or SUV you may be able to load the bikes inside the vehicle.
Information on this forum is old, but one guy says that Enterprise has bike racks. I recommend giving them a call. From their website it says they have ski racks, but doesn't mention bike racks. Might be worth giving them a try.
Most newer rentals have rear seat passthru. Take the front wheel off and you should still have one rear seat available for a passenger.
Some places rent folding bikes, which would remove the need for an external rack.
I would have thought with a few rachet packing straps you could place the bikes upside down on the roof, secure the handle bars to the frame (so they won't turn) then secure the bikes through the rear door or window (front window as a last resort).
As a disclaimer I have never seen this done but secured right it should work just like a roof rack and not damage the paint (but hey I reckon the rental company wouldn't check the roof). If the car has basic roof racks you could rig something pretty good up.


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