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From Boeing's facility in St. Louis—"Customers need innovation, ideas and affordability. They want more capability at the right time and the right price," said Chris Chadwick, President and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, speaking as Boeing was preparing to attend the Farnborough airshow in July. He stated that the company's general attitude was now to take a holistic view of the international defense market, but that overall the company had improved its international sales position: "The backlog in international sales was 12-15 percent range previously; it is now in 25-percent-plus range and has retained a top line revenue position." Currently Boeing Defense, Space and Security is roughly at 35 percent backlog being non-U.S. and around 28 percent of revenue.
Chris Chadwick. Photo courtesy Boeing
Keeping the Boeing helicopter portfolio current and continually attractive to international buyers is one of the challenges that Boeing is facing with aircraft that were originally de-signed in the last century.
Chadwick emphasized that the demand for rotorcraft worldwide was still high and that Boeing's V-22, AH-64 and CH-47 were all modernized and competing well in the international sales arena: "The challenge for Boeing's rotorcraft is to keep building capability into its products. More capability for less cost is what the market now wants in the current fiscally challenging environment," he said.
"Most non-recurring costs are behind us on the rotorcraft platforms," added Chadwick, indicating that the continuing sales of the recent upgrades [AH-64E and CH-47F] at a steady rate meant that the company's rotorcraft business had remained "strong and successful: "Look at Chinook and the great opportunity [we have had] to keep evolving the CH-47's technology."
The simple fact is that heavy FVL is out there quite a way, he noted. "A lot can happen be-tween now and then. Keep existing product line healthy and growing the capability. We have become world class in giving more capability in this more-for-less world where they can't afford the risk on new starts."
He also indicated that sales into regions that previously only had little or no experience of Boeing's aircraft was having an effect on countries around them. "Saudi [Arabia's] procurement of F-15 and Apache woke up a lot of people in the region because they bring a lot of capability," he said.
Regarding Boeing's commitment to R&D projects, Chadwick said that three or four years ago, it became obvious that pressure was rising on U.S. defense budgets. What had resulted now, he said, was a need for "top line stability, bottom line affordability." Within Boeing, the way to respond had been to make the whole organization more efficient and productive. "We have taken out $4 billion of costs, with a challenge of taking out another couple of billion going forward."
Boeing Chinook CH-47. Photo courtesy Boeing
Talking of his company's partnership with Sikorsky in a compound coaxial design [SB>1 Defiant] over the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR TD), which will compete with Bell Helicopter's V-280 Valor tiltrotor, he reemphasized that the V-22 was still a solid investment in capability, particularly for the U.S. Marine Corps and international customers considering it.
But in the search for a potential model for a Future Vertical Lift (medium) design, he said that the decision to partner with Sikorsky was a longer-term commitment "to move beyond today's platforms." And that would be a different mission to today's V-22 mission profile, he added.
Regarding Boeing's attendance at Farnborough next month, Chadwick said that it was important to keep the dialogue with international customers fresh and to understand how they were evolving and even rebalancing in line with the world's changing social as well as defense/security needs. He revealed that the commercial side of Boeing was playing an important part in helping the defense side of the business get access to customers.
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WASHINGTON - Stocks of hospital companies rose sharply Thursday after initial reports said the Supreme Court had upheld the individual insurance requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
HCA Holdings stock rose 8 percent, and Community Health Systems stock also rose 8 percent.
Stocks of big insurance companies dropped sharply when the ruling came out shortly after 10 a.m. EDT, then climbed back somewhat. They were down about 1 percent, roughly the same as stocks in the broader market.
Stocks of drug companies and medical device makers were also slightly lower.
Chief Justice John Roberts announced the court's judgment, which allowed the law to go forward with its aim of covering more than 30 million uninsured Americans.


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Hope College Nursing Grads Achieve Perfect Pass Rate for Second Year | Health
HOLLAND – Hope College Nursing continues to be among the select group of programs nationwide whose graduates have achieved a 100-percent pass rate on the profession's national licensing exam.
Every Hope nursing graduate who took the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) during 2011-12 (December and May) passed on the first attempt. It is the second year in a row that 100 percent of the program's graduates have done so.
The most recent reported state and national averages were 90 percent and 88 percent respectively. According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing's program report, only six percent of all nursing-education programs nationwide achieved a 100-percent pass rate between April 2011 and March 2012.
"We are extremely proud of our nursing graduates," said Dr. Susan Dunn, associate professor of nursing and chair of the department. "Such an exemplary pass rate on the nursing licensure exam can be directly attributed to the high caliber of our Hope students, the excellence of the Hope faculty and the terrific experiences offered to our students in clinical agencies throughout West Michigan."
According to the NCSBN's report, only 125 of the nation's 1,871 nursing-education programs achieved a 100-percent rate between April 2011 and March 2012.
Hope is one of 51 programs offering a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree among the top 125 in the report. The total of 125 also includes 65 programs that offer an Associate degree and nine programs that offer a Diploma in nursing.
The department of nursing at Hope began in 2002, although nursing education at the college goes back another two decades. From 1982 through 2003, Hope and Calvin College operated a nursing program jointly before creating their own, independent programs.
The program is approved by the Michigan Board of Nursing and is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
Students begin studies in the program as sophomores based on completion of prerequisite classes as freshmen. The major includes coursework on campus as well as multiple field placements, the latter spread across six specialty practicum courses, a research practicum, a family health course and an internship. Area clinical sites have included Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Holland Hospital, the Ottawa County Health Department, Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, Spectrum Health and Zeeland Hospital.


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Batch Two. Beer Drinkin' and Award Announcin'
Whatcha all doin' this weekend?
Hey, who shrunk Rado?
The Robe Gnome looking for his next home.
A previous Robe winner and a previous Robe loser.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When you find a deck under a bridge, throw a deck party.
The party goers.
The pooches - Rado.
Time for the awards
The envelope, please.
The handing over of the robes.
Tao's stand in for the podium.
Gnome headed north.
Um .... the ... yeah. Be sure you don't miss the zany antics next year.
Until then ....
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Apres Robe Race Festivites
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I'd like to order two Lunas, please.
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Jp either getting Ornery, or telling it like it is...
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Who let the travelocity gnome loose?
- Saturday, 09 July, 2011
- Jule Gust said...
So, when is the 2012 race? Are you guys organizing it? I've heard rumblings on Professor Paddle about a specific date, but only nebulous info as to who is supposed to organize this. Reason I'm asking - we want to top our three potential local races with a triple cascade crown that comes with swag!
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TUSCALOOSA | It's a new day for public education in Alabama, Thomas Bice, superintendent of the state Department of Education, said Tuesday in Tuscaloosa. State leaders are seeking to step outside outdated federal requirements to improve the education of Alabama's children. The state should focus on pre-kindergarten education and utilize project-based learning while investing in school personnel, he said.
TUSCALOOSA | It's a new day for public education in Alabama, Thomas Bice, superintendent of the state Department of Education, said Tuesday in Tuscaloosa.
State leaders are seeking to step outside outdated federal requirements to improve the education of Alabama's children, Bice told more than 350 educators and counselors at the seventh annual "Doing What Matters for Alabama's Children" conference held at the Bryant Conference Center.
"We are beginning to see diminishing returns from (the) No Child Left Behind (Act of 2001), and the inaction of Congress gives us a great advantage," Bice said.
Congress has not reauthorized No Child Left Behind, which was scheduled for renewal five years ago. Bice said Congress' inaction opens the doors for states to move away from the program, which required states to develop assessments in basic skills and give assessments to all students in all grades in order to receive federal money.
The ultimate goal of No Child Left Behind was that 100 percent of public school students would be proficient in math and reading by 2014.
But, instead, Bice said that over the past decade, students have been taught to pass standardized tests measuring their proficiency in math and reading, and they haven't necessarily learned the skills they need.
Alabama now has the opportunity to move forward and think about education in new ways, Bice said.
The state should focus on pre-kindergarten education and utilize project-based learning while investing in school personnel, he said.
During his presentation Tuesday, Bice outlined "Plan 2020," in which state and local school leaders will focus on new ways of educating children, supporting school professionals and supporting school systems.
The objectives of the plan include:
Ensuring that students perform at or above proficiency academically.
To make sure that students must show continuous improvement.
Guarantee that every student graduate from high school.
As part of that plan, the state school board has voted to allow school systems to apply a waiver to certain regulations or restrictions, if the rules prove a hindrance to helping students thrive, he said.
The state Department of Education is also asking the state Legislature to spend $12.9 million a year for 10 years to fund pre-kindergarten education.
Investing in pre-kindergarten instruction and offering the program to Alabama's 4-year-olds will improve the quality of education, Bice said.
He added that pre-kinderarten is especially important for Alabama's at-risk children, who are often already behind academically by the time they reach kindergarten.
The superintendent said that a study has shown that a statewide pre-kindergarten program will decrease the number of high school dropouts and lower the number of incarcerations.
Bice said that without the statewide pre-K, the state will pay more than $2 billion in crime, law enforcement and costs for inmates in the correctional system.
"We are at a decision point," Bice said. "Do we spend $129 million for pre-K, or do we spend $2 billion forever?"
Research has shown that there is a 17-to-1 return for investment in every dollar spent on pre-kindergarten education, Bice said.
"We can no longer wait to make this shift, knowing what the learning potential is of these students," Bice said.
He said that educators will soon be able to chart their own course and expect more of the children because of it.
Bice said he felt like a new teacher on the first day of school.
"I'm so excited about what this could mean for education in Alabama."
The "Doing What Matters for Alabama's Children" conference was sponsored by Tuscaloosa's Promise, Challenge 21 and the Tuscaloosa County Children's Policy Council. The annual conference hosted more than 350 educators and counselors from around the state to learn how to build stronger communities for families.


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Well Hello! It certainly has been awhile since I have posted any photography on this blog. AS posted awhile ago, I have another blogger I try and update regularly with blogs and pictures ( mostly concert). I have been without internet here and there due to the company's modem going out a lot. Hopefully it is working for good now! So I can fully get back into posting on all my blogs regularly again. Anyway, this is a recent shot I took of the windmills out in the country near Ellsworth, IL.
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Meet me in Denver in August
August is a big month for conventions in Denver.
The International Association of Firechiefs comes in with 15,000 the week before the National Democratic Convention.
The Dems bring in 35,000 Aug. 25-28.
The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) invades with 30,000 the week after.
That's 80,000 in three weeks.
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Sightems: "West Wing's" Bradley Whitford at the final performance of "Our House" Saturday night at the DCPA. Seems his neice, Molly Ward, had a lead in the show as an agressive TV anchor. Earlier in the run, Whitford's wife and Ward's aunt, "Malcolm in the Middle's" Jane Kaczmarek, caught the show … Ch. 9's Cheryl Preheim had a baby boy, Joshua, her second, the morning team announced Saturday … John Elway and posse having dinner at Jing Saturday night … About 2,000 are expected at Project C.U.R.E.'s March 5 luncheon for Margarita Zavala, First Lady of Mexico, with a VIP reception the night before at Steve and Neyeska Mut's Cherry Hill's manse
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Hey everyone and happy Tuesday! Sorry I missed you last week, I was sick something wicked: 101 fever, body aches, chills–the whole nine yards. It's going around, so I guess that means fall and winter are finally coming to the south, right? Yay, I'm tired of 90 degree days! I'm ready to load up the fireplace, cuddle up in my warm winter pajamas and scrap the nights away! To get you in the fall state of mind, this week I am spotlighting the color challenge hosted by JoyLynn of Blue Heart Scraps and she's chosen a color palette perfect for the new season! Take a look:
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John Goodman leads push for St. Louis blues museum
ST. LOUIS | Actor and St. Louis County native John Goodman is helping lead a push for a National Blues Museum in St. Louis.
KMOX Radio reports that the TV and movie star appears in a YouTube video posted Monday pushing for the museum that would sit in downtown St. Louis.
Goodman says in the video that the museum would be a fitting tribute to the city's blues legacy and the musicians who got their start in St. Louis, including Ike and Tina Turner, Miles Davis and Chuck Berry.
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The writer of the letter to the editor, "Rush preys on 'suckers'" (March 14), has it exactly backward.
I am sorry the writer feels the need to resort to name-calling.
As a Rush Limbaugh fan, I am quite capable of thinking for myself and remember the first time I heard Rush on the radio.
I remember it so vividly because it was the first time I heard someone articulate on the air from a powerful media outlet my thoughts on affirmative action (a more accurate term would be preferential hiring based on factors others than qualifications).
Someone actually thought and felt as I did on this issue.
I felt liberated.
It was during the next several years I learned just how far left of center the mainstream media were ... and are today.
Rush Limbaugh simply voices for me and millions of others what we already think and feel.
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Normally we associate demolition with the destruction of beauty, but in San Francisco recently, a massive bulldozing led to just the opposite.
Construction crews there demolished a $4.2 million home not to make way for a new mega-mansion, but to open up the skyline and create a garden for a wealthy couple that owned a nearby $19 million home who felt their views had been tarnished by the neighboring property, according to NBC News.
The couple, Clark and Sharon Winslow, bought the knock-down after its original owners fled, and it fell into foreclosure, according to the Marin Independent Journal. It had been valued at $7.1 million prior to being auctioned off.
The Winslows were reportedly happy to regain the panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate Bridge, and their neighbors were pleased with the demolition as well.


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Marie Rudel Portner 1897-1999
Marie Rudel Portner was born Maria Magdalene Rudel, in Fessenden, North Dakota, April 23, 1897. She was the ninth of twelve children of Simon and Dorothea Rudel.
The Rudel family traces its roots back to Germany. Jacob and Johanna Rudel, married in the area of Wuerttemberg, Germany, in 1795, had a first son Wilhelm (b. 1796). He was born in Germany, but died in Arzis, a Bessarabian town in southern Russia (today southern Ukraine). With his wife Johanna, he probably moved to Russia in 1829. Like many other German farmers, they migrated to southern Russia following the invitation of Catherine II. Their only son Friedrich (b. 1833) and his wife Wilhelmina (b. 1836) had fourteen children. The sixth child was Simon, born in Arzis in 1856.
Simon migrated to the United States in 1877, marrying another immigrant from Bessarabia, Dorothea Weber (b. 1865), in Scotland, South Dakota, 1882. The lived near Tripp, South Dakota, where their first six children were born. In 1882 and in 1883, the purchased land from Dorothea's brother Jacob and mother Dorothea. The farmed this land until 1892, when they purchased land in North Dakota, also from Jacob. In 1893, they moved to Oshkosh Township, Wells County, North Dakota. That first year, they lived in a sod house, but soon built a more permanent home. Besides working and living on the farm, they were active, devout German Baptists. Simon is listed on the document for the incorporation of the German Baptist Church of Fessenden. They lived either on the farm or in Fessenden, farming until retirement and moving to Spokane, Washington, in 1920. Simon died there in 1941. Dorothea died the next year, after returning to North Dakota.
In Simon and Dorothea's honor, their daughter Marie created an endowment to support the preservation and study of the Germans from Russia culture and heritage.
Marie graduated from Fessenden High School in 1917, and then she attended Valley City State Teachers College. She earned a First Grade Elementary Certificate in 1919, and she taught in North Dakota at West Norway Township, Wellsburg, and Heimdal. She then moved to Spokane, Washington, to be with her parents. She earned her Second Grade Elementary teacher certification in Washington, in 1920. In Spokane, Marie met O. H. Portner. Hal was an electrician working on the duplex shared by the Rudels. Marie married Hal on November 30, 1922, and soon moved to Los Angeles. In California, they bought and developed property in the Alhambra area. There, a Portner street was named after them. Eventually, they moved to Las Vegas. There in Nevada, Hal became an electrical/plumbing inspector for the city and the county. He was interested, also, in land development at a time that Las Vegas grew. He was also active in the Shriners, and Marie was a lifetime member of the Order of Alhambra Eastern Star #269. They were known in Las Vegas for their many charitable contributions.
Marie was widowed in 1972, and she died in 1999, at the age of 102, in Las Vegas. But her commitment to her parents and her ancestors lives on through her generosity.
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Verbum Eccles. (Online) vol.33 no.1 Pretoria 2012
The Church mission relative to socio-political issues in Francophone Africa
Kalemba Mwambazambi
Department of Practical Theology and Missiology, PRACTEMUS, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
The Church mission relative to socio-political issues in Francophone Africa requires a paradigm shift in both practice and teaching. To revitalise the Christian mission and pave the way for the positive transformation of Francophone Africa, a method review and mission strategy is relevant. The Church's mission is to create disciples, to evangelise people, bring them to a deeper faith, promote truth, justice, peace, reconciliation, reconstruction, development and defend the poor and oppressed. Thus, people should always be central to the Church's commitment regarding evangelism and social advancement. This article has provided a missiological overview of the Christian mission to gain a better understanding of the role of the Church in Francophone Africa today.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady silenced Tebowmania with a record-shattering performance.
Brady threw six touchdown passes, five in the first half, putting the New England Patriots into the AFC championship game after roughing up Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos 45-10 Saturday night.
The Patriots (14-3), winners of nine straight games, will host either Baltimore or Houston next Sunday for a spot in the Super Bowl. Saturday night's romp snapped a three-game postseason losing streak, two of those at Gillette Stadium, and lifted the Patriots to the verge of their fifth Super Bowl appearance in 11 seasons. They've won three of those.
"We came in and started fast and it was a big win for us," said Brady, who even got off a 48-yard punt on third down.
From the first snap, this was a mismatch. The Patriots were not going to make the same mistakes the Steelers made against this team.
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A nation transfixed by Tebow tuned in Saturday to see if he had more heroics in store for Brady and company. He had nothing left as the Patriots made this must-see TV only for those who live in New England.
With New England up 42-7, the fans began their derisive Teeee-bow chants. On the next play, the Broncos quarterback was sacked for an 11-yard loss — one of five sacks for New England's 31st-ranked defense.
"We went out and played very hard and good things happened," defensive tackle Vince Wilfork said. "A great team win."
And so ended one of the season's most exciting story lines — one that began when Denver was 1-4 and made Tebow a starter. The one-time third-stringer promptly won six in a row and seven of eight, with a string of stunning comebacks.
"I was really proud of what he showed and where he brought this football team," coach John Fox said. "We're a work in progress."
That surge ended with a 41-23 home loss to New England, and the Broncos dropped their next two, backing into the AFC West title.
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Denver couldn't cover or tackle All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski, who tied a postseason mark with three touchdown catches, all in the opening half. Brady toyed with the Broncos (9-9), throwing more TD passes than Tebow had completions (three) in the first 30 minutes.
"We were playing complementary football, and it was awesome," Gronkowski said. "Obviously, you can't start off the game any better than that."
Brady's sixth TD was to his other tight end, Aaron Hernandez, as the quarterback tied Steve Young and Daryle Lamonica for the most in a postseason game. The two-time league MVP moved to third place in career touchdown passes in the playoffs with 36, trailing Joe Montana (45) and Brett Favre (44).
Brady was 26 for 34 for 363 yards and Gronkowski made 10 catches for 145 yards as the Patriots gained 509 yards in all.
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I am a mother of three young children and my oldest has autism (6-years-old). We are thinking of moving to the states but I was wondering what states have an insurance plan that insures autism therapy? And how much of it is covered? Do you have to pay for Medicare to get these services, if so how much?
Several states have enacted legislation requiring private insurance companies to include coverage of autism spectrum needs, including Pennsylvania, Hawaii, South Carolina, Arizona, Louisiana, and a few others. Florida has coverage with some limitations. Coverage is under consideration in Ohio.
It would be important to check Internet resources for the states you may be considering because some have exclusions for employers of fewer than 50 individuals, for example. If you search the websites of the Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks, you can get more detailed information.
The Autism Society of America has prepared state profiles in a systematic format that describe what action has been taken or is under consideration on a state-by-state basis. www.autism-society.org/ (Search "autism insurance coverage") In addition, "… some self-insured companies, including Microsoft and Home Depot, pay for autism behavior therapy."
Federal laws can make additional requirements. President-elect Obama has publicly stated support for national legislation that would require autism coverage in all states, so more changes may take place in the next few years: In his presidential campaign statement on Autism Spectrum Disorders, President-elect Obama committed to bringing autism insurance reform to the entire nation. It stated that Obama and Biden "will mandate insurance coverage of autism treatment and will also continue to work with parents, physicians, providers, researchers, and schools to create opportunities and effective solutions for people with ASD."
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Robert Barham announced the following opening to recreational and commercial fishing in portions of state inside and outside waters east of the Mississippi River effective immediately today June 9. A precautionary closure of this area was issued April 30. To date, no oil has been documented in this area.
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The open waters of Breton and Chandeleur Sounds as described by the double-rig line in LA R.S.56:495.1 south of 29 degrees 37 minutes 54 seconds north latitude near Curlew Island will open effective immediately today June 9, 2010. The area south and east of Baptiste Collette Bayou will remain closed.
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The state's territorial seas east of the Mississippi River south of 29 degrees 37 minutes 54 seconds north latitude near Curlew Island and north of 29 degrees 21 minutes 32.7 seconds north latitude near Baptiste Collette Bayou will open effective immediately today June 9, 2010. .
Precautionary closures of recreational and commercial fishing have been implemented based on the best information the Secretary of the Department receives from field biologists, staff and trajectory models from NOAA.
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Harden, Jennings named NBA Players of the Week
New York, NY – Houston Rockets guard James Harden and Milwaukee Bucks guard Brandon Jennings were named NBA Players of the Week for games played Oct. 30 through Nov. 4.
Harden, who was acquired by Houston from Oklahoma City days before the start of the regular season, led the Rockets to a 2-1 mark by pacing the league in scoring with 35.3 points per game. Harden had 37 points, 12 assists, six rebounds and four steals in his Houston debut on Oct. 31, becoming just the fourth player in the last 25 years to post at least 37 points, 12 assists, six rebounds, four steals and one block in a single game.
Jennings led the league in assists (13.0) and the Eastern Conference in steals (4.0) per game as the Milwaukee posted its first 2-0 start to a season since the 2005-06 campaign. He posted a double-double in two straight games for the second time in his career and knocked down the game-winning 3-pointer against the Cavaliers on Nov. 3.
Other nominees for the conference honors were New York's Carmelo Anthony, Miami's Chris Bosh, Orlando's Glen Davis, Golden State's Carl Landry, Los Angeles Clippers' Chris Paul, San Antonio's Tony Parker, Cleveland's Anderson Varejao and Charlotte's Kemba Walker.


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Last month I decided to try something new here at Wheat-Free, Meat-Free and offer a monthly cookbook giveaway. Each month I am going to forage through the cookbook shelves at Old Saratoga Books, our used and rare bookstore, and pick a cookbook to give away to one of my loyal readers. All you need to do is leave a comment at the end of this post to enter.
The first winner is one my gluten-free blogging buddies, Carrie, the Ginger Lemon Girl. The scientifically-exact method of winner determination was the following: I asked Dan to pick a number between 1 to 9 (the number of contest entries I received) and he chose #7 because that is his childhood baseball hero Mickey Mantle's number and his adult softball hero's number, our daughter Amy. Carrie was lucky number 7 and will be notified of her win of Tassajara Cooking posthaste. Check out her blog, if you haven't already, to get many excellent and tasty recipes. She is an adventurous and occasionally Daring Baker, which is something I aspire to someday. Congratulations Carrie!
For the June Cookbook Giveaway, I am offering a copy of English author Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Dishes from Around the World (NY: Pantheon, 1982). This is a great all-purpose cookbook for soups, appetizers, main dishes and side dishes using fresh produce, all with an international flair. With the garden season underway, I thought this would be a seasonally-appropriate cookbook to get us all thinking about new ways to use up the vegetable bounty when it kicks into high gear.
I will come up with another random way of choosing a winner from the comments posted below on July 1st, so don't all try to be number 7. Good luck everyone....
Sunday, June 1, 2008
May Cookbook Winner and June Book Giveaway
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Sounds good...enter me please. Thank you.
karin56381 (at) gmail.com
- Sunday, 01 June, 2008
- Johanna said...
can you please enter me - I wish I could just drop in and browse about your shop - have just found a copy of rose elliot's first cookbook in 1965? - still to try it out but she has such great recipes
- Monday, 02 June, 2008
- royalflax said...
(that was hypnotic, I'm sure!) :)
- Monday, 02 June, 2008
I collect cookbooks of all kinds, so this would be a cool win!
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Cuando la Historia se olvida, se corre el riesgo de repetir los errores del pasado.
Existe un lugar en el mundo donde todavía hay espacio para los campos de trabajo forzoso, campos donde se experimenta con armas químicas en la población reclusa, y por existir, existe el tan temido como negado Campo 22, donde viven presas hasta 50.000 personas por el simple hecho de pensar diferente, aún hoy existe un lugar en el mundo donde disentir acarrea delito, y donde hay un precepto penal versado en la Responsabilidad Colectiva, donde tanto tu familia como tus vecinos son tan culpables como tu de los crímenes ideológicos que cometas por disentir de la línea oficial que marca el gobierno, el único estado leninista-marxista donde el poder se hereda y no se elige...
Bienvenidos a Corea del Norte.
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that North Korea holds approximately 200,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps, and that 400,000 people have died in these camps from torture, starvation, disease, and execution. These reports, in the context of estimates that North Korea has allowed between 600,000 and 2,500,000 of its people to starve to death while its government squandered the nation's resources on weapons and luxuries for its ruling elite, suggest that North Korea's oppression and politically targeted starvation of its people collectively constitute the world's greatest ongoing atrocity, and almost certainly the most catastrophic anywhere on earth since the end of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979.
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The National Security Agency (bowibu) runs most of the camp system. Others are operated by the inmin pohan seong, a/k/a anjeon bu, or Peoples' Security Agency. Excluding local Anjeonbu and Bowibu offices, most of North Korea's concentration and labor camps fit into one of the following classifications:
1. The vast kwan-li-so political prison camps.
2. Labor reeducation camps, or kyo-hwa-so.
3. Regional collection and labor-training camps.
This list is certainly not exclusive. Witnesses have described a number of other kyo-hwa-so and regional prisons and camps that I have not yet located. I update this page periodically as I locate additional sites and witnesses confirm that they are what I believe them to be.
1. Political Prison Camps, or Kwan Li So
This page constitutes the first published delineation of the boundaries of North Korea's largest political prison camps, known as kwan-li-seo in Korean. Outsiders know of six such camps:
* Camp 14, at Kaechon, in central North Korea
* Camp 15, at Yodok, in east-central North Korea
* Camp 16, at Hwasong, in northeastern North Korea
* Camp 18, at Kaechon, across the river from Camp 14
* Camp 22, Hoeryong, in extreme northeastern North Korea
* Camp 25, Chongjin, also in the far northeast.
With the exception of Camp 25, which is built in a "penitentiary" style, each of these vast camps consists of hundreds of square miles. Most of the prisoners are incarcerated for political offenses. Pursuant to Kim Jong Il's guidance to "root out class enemies for three generations," family members of persons accused of political crimes are also sent to concentration camps or labor camps.
All of the kwan-li-so camps are located in remote areas, protected by electrified fences and guard posts. The penalty for attempting to escape is death. Until March 2008, only portions of these camps were visible to Google Earth viewers. Recent additions to Google Earth's high and medium resolution coverage of North Korea now make it possible to delineate these camps more-or-less completely.
Despite reports of the use of an experimental gas chamber and experimentation on human subjects at Camp 22, there is no evidence that the camps engage in industrial-scale extermination operations such as those at Auschwitz. What we know of the camps' brutal conditions suggest that they are comparable to those in the Nazi camps at Mauthausen and Buchenwald, which largely killed through a combination of exhaustion, disease, starvation, and arbitrary brutality.
The camps do not exist merely to punish and isolate potential dissidents; they are also the foundation of the North Korean regime's system of domestic terror. The system enforces obedience and suppresses thoughtcrime by threatening not just the life of the dissenter, but also the lives of his loved ones, according to Oh Gyeung Seob, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute:
"The National Security Agency conducts surveillance to generate fear during the process of uncovering, investigating, punishing and purging political prisoners. Prison camps create more fear by treating existing political prisoners inhumanly," he explained, connecting the security forces and prison camp roles in totalitarian North Korea.
Particularly, he explained, "The North Korean system is structured around the fear spread by the existence of political prison camps, meaning that public political opposition from citizens is impossible. Every person and the people around them are harmed by the system of guilt by association; therefore they suppress their political opposition of their own accord.
The camps may also play a role in the regime's nuclear weapons development. Because of the proximity of one camp, Camp 16, to North Korea's nuclear and missile testing sites at Cape Musudan, forced labor from that camp may also be connected to North Korea's WMD development (see this page for Google Earth images of North Korean nuclear sites).
One can begin to grasp the immensity of the camps' size and cruelty, and to corroborate least some of what the witnesses have told us, by comparing their accounts with the strikingly clear imagery of Camp 22, where the excellent resolution makes it possible to identify individual people in the satellite imagery. The imagery of Camp 16 is also relatively clear; however, no survivors have emerged to describe the camp's conditions and population, despite reports of a mass escape from that camp in December 2006. Images of the camp had never been published until I published these images at this site in February 2007.
"The Hidden Gulag" published some images of all of the kwan-li-so except Camp 16, but did not map their perimeters. It also published this map showing the locations of the larger camps. I made this overlay of that image on Google Earth:
Kwan-li-so 14 & 18
Camps 14 and 18 lie on opposite sides of the Taedong River. Camp 18, on the south bank, appears to have a much larger prison capacity. On the north bank, conditions in Camp 14, the so-called "life imprisonment zone," are said to be far worse.
All of Camp 18′s boundary fences are visible on Google Earth. The camp's main industry appears to be coal mining. It was not possible to delineate the northern boundary of Camp 14 with certainty, but because the visible boundaries generally follow high ridge lines, and because roads do not cross the camps' boundaries without passing though easily identifiable guard posts, it is possible to make an educated guess of where the more remote boundaries lie.
Kwan-li-so 15
Camp 15, also known as Yodok, is described in detail in survivor Kang Chol-Hwan's memoir, "The Aquariums of Pyongyang." Kang was sent to Yodok with his parents and grandparents at age nine.
Kwan-li-so 16
Less is known about Camp 16 than the other camps, possibly because it lies adjacent another North Korea's most closely guarded secrets: the Mt. Mantap nuclear test site and the Musudan-ri missile test site.
Recently, Kang Chol Hwan, now a journalist for the South Korean newspaper, The Chosun Ilbo, published a story alleging that Camp 16′s prisoners are used as forced labor in the tunnels at the test site. Because it is impossible to confirm the actual conditions at either Camp 16 or the Mount Mantap test site, however, the report relies largely on rumors.
Images of Camp 16 were first published on this site in January 2007, following unconfirmed reports of an escape by 120 prisoners. After reading the report, I remembered that I had previously found a large compound in the same area, surrounded by the same distinctive guard posts and fence lines that I had seen around other camps. It was then that I created the overlay of North Korea using David Hawk's map, which confirmed the location exactly:
Camp 16′s boundaries are relatively easy to delineate, although they appear to have shifted in some places. Some overgrown fence lines are visible along the camp's periphery. What appear to be additional fence lines cut through the camp's interior. The most carefully guarded side of the camp is adjacent to populated areas. There are fewer guard posts adjacent to North Korea's nuclear test site to the west and a remote forest area to the north.
Kwan-li-so 22
Camp 22 is particularly infamous for the experiments said to be conducted on human subjects there. It is clearly one of the largest camps by population, although estimates of 50,000 prisoners would appear somewhat overstated based on the number of visible barracks huts, and in light of former guards' estimates that approximately 30 prisoners live in each hut.
You can see more images and witness testimonies of Camp 22 here.
Kwan-li-so 25
If my educated guess is correct, these are the first published photographs of Camp 25, at Chongjin:
According to the Korean Bar Association's 2008 White Paper on Human Rights, Camp 25 is also built in a penitentiary style. The prison is also the factory where prized Kalmaegi (seagull) bicycles are made. Although no witness has yet provided positive confirmation that this site is Camp 25, several former residents of Chongjin who were the subjects of Barbara Demick's book "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea," stated there was a prison called the "Suseong Camp" in this vicinity. One former resident reported that on one occasion, a group of prisoners from the Suseong Camp was executed in downtown Chongjin. Another confirmed that at least according to local rumor, the prison was also a bicycle factory. My thanks to Ms. Demick for re-interviewing her subjects at my request.
2. Labor-Rehabilitation Camps, or Kyo Hwa So
Labor-rehabilitation camps, or kyo-hwa-so, are usually built in a penitentiary style with perimeter walls and guard towers, and hold populations of up to 10,000 political prisoners, economic criminals, and ordinary criminals. Increasingly, as in the case of Camp 12 in Chongo-ri, they are the final destinations for North Koreans who are caught trying to flee the country, often after being repatriated to North Korea by Chinese authorities. In the past, kyo hwa so were used to "rehabilitate" prisoners though labor. Increasingly, however, the conditions in kyo hwa so are so harsh, and the food rations so insufficient, that many prisoners cannot survive for a year there.
Some images of confirmed and suspected kyo-hwa-so follow. Click on the images to enlarge them.
[Camp 12, Chongo-ri]
[Camp 1, Kaechon]
[Previously Unidentified Prison, south of Sinuiju, Not Confirmed by Witnesses]
3. Collection Camps and Labor Training Centers
These facilities are usually under the control of local security forces commanders. In the 1990′s, when famine first swept North Korea, millions of North Koreans fled their homes in search of food. Many starved by the roadsides or around train stations. Others were arrested by the authorities for being away from home without travel permits and were put in local collection camps, sometimes called "9/27″ camps for the date Kim Jong Il issued an order to detain these hordes of starving vagabonds. Officially, these camps are known as collection centers (jip kyul so) or labor training centers (ro dong dan ryeon dae). Since North Koreans have learned to survive by creating a black market in food, the famine has subsided into a state of constant hunger, though some no doubt still starve or die of opportunistic disease.
Today, these regional camps are increasingly used to punish North Koreans for economic crimes, such as unauthorized trading in food. According to a recent Washington Post report, these local detention centers have become "a system of extortion" to enforce the state's monopoly on the supply and distribution of food and enrich the state's security forces through their arbitrary power of life and death.
North Korea's infamous penal system, which for decades has silenced political dissent with slave labor camps, has evolved into a mechanism for extorting money from citizens trading in private markets, according to surveys of more than 1,600 North Korean refugees.
Reacting to an explosive rise in market activity, North Korea has criminalized everyday market behavior and created a new kind of gulag for those it deems economic criminals, according to a report on the refugee surveys. It will be released this week by the East-West Center, a research organization established by Congress to promote understanding of Asia. [....]
The fundamental finding of the new report is that North Korea has reinvented its Stalinist-style gulag, which had focused on repression of political opponents. A network of smaller labor camps, Haggard and Noland say, is now aimed at controlling and collecting money from the broader population.
"The classic political gulag still exists, but increasingly labor camps are used to extract bribes," Noland said. "My impression is that bribery and extortion have become very important to the livelihoods of local government officials." [Washington Post, Blaine Harden]
That report is available here. It describes a system in which members of the security services use widespread fear of the camps to shake down citizens who depend on illegal markets to provide for their families now that the state has ceased to provide for them. Although the regime continues to try to stamp out private markets, those markets now provide most of the calories that sustain the lives of the people and prevent the return of famine. The state uses the camp system to terrorize its subjects and hold the command economy together:
The system snares economic criminals for brief terms in makeshift labor camps where inmates often witness executions and deaths from torture and starvation, according to the report.
"People witness truly horrible things and are soon released back into the population," Noland said in an interview here.
Revolving-door incarceration has spread fear of what goes on inside the camps, he said, creating "tremendous incentives for people to pay bribes to avoid them." [....]
The changing penal system appears to be successful in keeping the lid on any significant domestic opposition to Kim Jong Il and his government, the report found, even though market activity has sharply increased the access that ordinary North Koreans have to foreign media.
Inside North Korea, a majority of people do not dare complain or joke about the government, the survey found. It also found that fear was especially acute when it came to discussing their "Dear Leader," as Kim is known. Only 8 percent of the refugees said that people spoke freely about him.
The East-West Center report concludes that the fear of the camps works. The North Koreans surveyed no longer believed the regime's arguments that external security threats made it necessary for them to starve and suffer, yet the regime has managed to maintain "a highly atomized society in which barriers to collective action are profound." The survey also found that North Korea's detailed system of political loyalty classifications is linked to the the camp system. Broadly, the regime classifies North Koreans as "core," "wavering," or "hostile" citizens. The targets of the arbitrary extortion described in these new reports tend to be members of the latter classifications, most likely because the state discriminates against them in its allocation of food rations and gives them no alternative but to depend on markets.
These local detention centers are often difficult to identify in satellite imagery. From above, they may not have distinctive characteristics. This is one of them, the Sinuiju Detention Center:
How I Identified the Camps in Satellite Imagery
I located some of these sites on Google Earth using the coordinates supplied in David Hawk's "The Hidden Gulag," published by the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. I located other camps simply by scouring Google Earth for distinctive characteristics and confirming the locations with information provided by from friends, contacts, and the internet. More recently, I have begun working with human rights organizations that have researchers in Seoul who can interview North Korean witnesses and confirm the site locations. That process is still ongoing.
The boundaries of North Korean concentration camps are identifiable through distinctive characteristics they share. In most cases, it is possible to identify the general area where they are sited from the accounts of witnesses, particularly from those who authenticated the sites in David Hawk's previously published images. A careful observer of the clear imagery of Camp 22, for example, can easily learn those general characteristics. My examinations of Camp 22 familiarized me with the layout of a typical camp and its fence lines, which are their most distinctive feature from above.
Common sense and experience give other clues: anyone who has ever worked on a ranch know that barbed wire fences have to run in straight line segments, do not run in curves, and must be braced at their corners. That makes a fence line easily distinguishable from a road.
The most distinctive sign of a camp's fence line is the placement of guard posts and guard towers at regular intervals. Guard posts and towers are usually found along camp boundaries adjacent to where prisoners live and work. They may not be present along the camps' more remote boundaries. These images, of the western side of Camp 22, were taken on a clear day and provide exceptionally good resolution. Even the wire is visible.
Where roads enter the camps, there are large guard posts to control traffic. This example image shows the main gate of Camp 14, on the north bank of the Taedong River, upstream from the capital of Pyongyang:
At this image, at Camp 22, a group of people can be seen standing in the courtyard of the camp's southwestern gate. While we will never know who these people are, one can reasonably infer that they are prisoners being brought in (our best information is that prisoners are seldom released from Camp 22).
Otherwise, roads and trails do not cross camp boundaries, and any suspected camp boundary that intersects a road, trail, or path, has most likely been abandoned and moved. The clearance of much wider lines generally indicates a power line rather than a camp boundary. Any line that runs between populated areas is more likely a power line.
The camp's fence lines usually follow ridge lines. Except in very remote areas, vegetation is usually cleared from using trees to climb over fence lines. This makes well-maintained fence lines easy to spot in forested areas, particularly in winter time images. In populated areas, trees may have been cleared from the land outside the fence, but the area inside the fence will still be thickly forested. I speculate that the camp authorities prefer to leave the trees there, along the fence line, to screen the camp from outside observation. Here, for example, is the western side of Camp 22.
In more remote areas of the camps, fence lines are less well maintained and much more difficult to identify. That is complicated by the fact that fence lines at some of the camps appear to have shifted over the years, meaning that one must identify the current fence line among a number of alternatives. In addition, some camps, especially Camp 16, appear to have internal fence lines dividing different parts of the camp from each other.
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Regrettably, there has been relatively little media interest in North Korea's concentration camps as press coverage has concentrated on the WMD proliferation and diplomatic aspects of the North Korea story. Arguably, however, the story of the camps provides some essential perspective on the pathology of the North Korean regime without which those other stories cannot be fully understood.
David Hawk, in cooperation with the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, is in the process of producing an update to "The Hidden Gulag," which I expect will make extensive use of Google Earth imagery. I first showed Mr. Hawk these images in 2007, and in 2008, I provided him and the Committee dozens (if not hundreds) of images of the camps and other locations of interest. I expect that some of those images will have a prominent place in Mr. Hawk's research and his final presentation.
"My" images of Camp 22 — I hesitate to say they're "mine;" really, all I did was find the locations and take screen shots — were also featured in two Senate floor speeches by Senator Sam Brownback, in which he criticized the State Department's efforts to sideline human rights in its negotiations with North Korea (see here and here).
More recently, the film producer N.C. Heikin has released a documentary, entitled "Kimjongilia," which played at the Sundance Film Festival.
You can see more Google Earth imagery of places in North Korea of military and political interest at this page. To keep current on events relating to North Korea, you can always subscribe to the One Free Korea blog.
Update 3/2012: If this shocked you, wait till you see how the Associated Press is portraying daily life in North Korea these days.
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Corea o cuando la Historia se repite sin que hagamos nada
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Todos los campos de trabajo forzoso de corea, numerados y localizados en esta imagen;
La extensión real del Campo 22,
Y una imagen de detalle del interior de exte inmenso campo de tortura y exterminio,
con los edificios de que está compuesto detallado;
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Otro campo, el 15, con sus difusas fronteras, y sus construcciones.
Y por último, una imagen del edificio principal del 22.
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Otros campos fotografiados con sumo detalle, se pueden observar las diferentes estructuras y complejos, y a que esta dedicado cada edificio.
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Campos de trabajo detectados con Google Earth = Propaganda, eso no se diferencia ese arriba de cualquier carcel en otro lugar del mundo.
Cuando empezó el hilo pensé que se iba a hablar de Guantánamo.
Cuando empezó el hilo pensé que se iba a hablar de Guantánamo.
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Guantánamo es una cárcel, Corea del Norte es una cárcel-estado, y la diferencia es ínfima pero relevante. De todas formas, ese no es el tema, el tema es que todavía hay lugares en donde está penado el pensamiento político diferente.
Si no le das credibilidad por el simple hecho de la proveniencia de las fotos, entonces te quedas con el envoltorio, no miras realmente el fondo del asunto.
Si no le das credibilidad por el simple hecho de la proveniencia de las fotos, entonces te quedas con el envoltorio, no miras realmente el fondo del asunto.
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Yo pensé que se iba a hablar de EEUU. El país más poderoso y más analfabeto del mundo.
Que presumen de democracia y después financian golpes de estado fascistas. O de ISRAEL, perro fiel de los yankees, que llevan masacrando al pueblo palestino desde hace más de 60 años. O MEXICO, donde la vida de las mujeres, me refiero a CIUDAD JUAREZ, no vale ni un céntimo. Llevan violando y asesinandolas desde hace muchos años y nadie hace absolutamente nada.Se sabe incluso que hay gente gorda implicada. Eso sin contar con las guerras de mafias que asesinan en las calles a diario a cientos de personas.Controlan barrios, comisarias,supermercados, gasolineras etc.
O ESpaña, dónde estan acabando con los derechos de los trabajadores, que se han conseguido gracias a muchas personas que han pagado con cárcel o con su vida el "estado de bienestar" que teniamos hasta hace bién poco. Contratos basura, despidos cada vez más baratos, sindicatos comprados,banqueros cómplice de los gobernates de turno corruptos. Abusos de empresarios con más horas, menos sueldo, condiciones laborales cada vez peor y encima si protestas vas a la calle.No te indemnizan para ellos poder tener sus Mercedes y BMW etc.
Seguridad social de pago. Les van a dar la sanidad a los amigos del PP para que ellos se hagan multimillonarios. Y nosotros sin embargo, hablando de un país que está a 22.000KMS de nuestra casa. :bailador:
Que presumen de democracia y después financian golpes de estado fascistas. O de ISRAEL, perro fiel de los yankees, que llevan masacrando al pueblo palestino desde hace más de 60 años. O MEXICO, donde la vida de las mujeres, me refiero a CIUDAD JUAREZ, no vale ni un céntimo. Llevan violando y asesinandolas desde hace muchos años y nadie hace absolutamente nada.Se sabe incluso que hay gente gorda implicada. Eso sin contar con las guerras de mafias que asesinan en las calles a diario a cientos de personas.Controlan barrios, comisarias,supermercados, gasolineras etc.
O ESpaña, dónde estan acabando con los derechos de los trabajadores, que se han conseguido gracias a muchas personas que han pagado con cárcel o con su vida el "estado de bienestar" que teniamos hasta hace bién poco. Contratos basura, despidos cada vez más baratos, sindicatos comprados,banqueros cómplice de los gobernates de turno corruptos. Abusos de empresarios con más horas, menos sueldo, condiciones laborales cada vez peor y encima si protestas vas a la calle.No te indemnizan para ellos poder tener sus Mercedes y BMW etc.
Seguridad social de pago. Les van a dar la sanidad a los amigos del PP para que ellos se hagan multimillonarios. Y nosotros sin embargo, hablando de un país que está a 22.000KMS de nuestra casa. :bailador:
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Otro día hablaré del caso contrario, de una monarquía de corte medieval con un rey con poderes absolutos, donde fue el rey el que instauró la democracia en contra de la opinión de su pueblo, cuando lo normal es que sea algo que gane el pueblo derrocando a sus tiranos, y no que sea el tirano el que la instaure en contra del pueblo.
Parece un chiste o un cuento, pero este pequeño reino se haya enclavado en la cordillera del Himalaya, y existe.
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A little investigative journalism can go a long way, and Moses Avalon has turned up something rather curious: the numbers that the RIAA uses to talk about "sales" are actually just numbers relating to shipments. The gist of it is pretty simple: the RIAA has their own tracking system based on units shipped, while Nielsen Ratings bases their Soundscan tracking system on actual barcode-scanned purchases. The problem is that Soundscan shows a 10% increase in music sales when comparing the first quarter of 2004 to 1Q 2003. Yet, the RIAA insists that music sales are down. Avalon suggests that sales aren't down, only shipments are. How can that be possible? Simple: in the past, the RIAA always shipped considerably more units than were sold. Why the change? Retails stores simply want less inventory, so they order less, even though they are selling more.
Roger Goff, an Entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles confirms that, indeed, retail has reacted this way in the Post-Napster era. "Retail used to buy 10 weeks-worth [of records] and now they realize, in most cases, they don't have to carry more than two weeks-worth." In other words, retail has adapted to more of an "on demand" model (similar to the Internet) as opposed to the, accepting-tons-of-product-shoved-down-the-pipeline model record companies imposed on them in the past.
In other words, the supposedly woeful state of CD sales isn't all that woeful after all. Retail outlets have been working hard to keep up with online competition, and part of that has meant following the rule of Dell: don't have inventory if you can avoid it.
The problem is, if this report is correct, then something seriously wrong is afoot. If more units are being sold and fewer units are being shipped, then that means the total cost-per-CD is actually in the RIAA's favor. That is, with all things being equal, more sales and fewer shipments ads up to more profit than before, because there's less overrun and less returns from retailers who can't move product. Thanks to Jack for sending this in.


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Literal Nickname Battle Royale: NL Central
From civic landmarks to colorful clothing items to fauna both fierce and docile, the 30 MLB clubs own a diverse set of nicknames. What if each team was represented not by human baseball players, but by the literal thing it's named for?
Here are the rules: Just like in real MLB, each team gets 25 "players." But unlike in real MLB, the players are not playing baseball -- they are playing a no-holds-barred battle royale in however large an arena is necessary to hold them. We'll examine who would reign supreme in each of the six divisions, and finish with determining an overall champion. Today: the NL Central. Previously: the NL West.
Let's start by discussing one of the most intriguing teams in this literal nickname throwdown: the Cincinnati photons vibrating between ~620-740 nm in the visible spectrum of light. The simple presence of red light might not seem very dangerous to you, but tell that to the U.N. and its Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons.
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation can cause quick, permanent eyesight damage if it's strong enough, and this would be particularly harmful to the St. Louis eight-inch-long red birds, to whom vision is crucial for safe flight. Since their size is overstated on the St. Louis logo anyway, they wouldn't have gotten very far regardless.
The blinding light probably does not augur well for the Milwaukee producers of beer either. If they've been sampling their product (as you'd expect them to), they are probably not going to have the wits to avoid it before they can't see. At this point, they'll completely lose their sense of balance, which has probably been rapidly deteriorating anyway. Where the red menace reaches its end, though, is with the Chicago juvenile mammals of family Ursidae. While they may be young, they are still very strong. And even if they were blinded, bears would still have their primary sense -- tremendous smelling abilities that may be greater than those any other mammal -- at their disposal while they find the light source and crush it.
But come on. Even fully-grown bears wouldn't have a chance against the Pittsburgh robbing, plundering criminals on the high seas. Land animals might not be their typical competition, but buccaneers are an adaptive lot. If years of swashbuckling, probably-extremely-historically-inaccurate pop culture have taught me anything, it's that pirates will ravage anything in their path and do it with wit, panache and a steely glint in their eye. Say ahoy to your Literal NL Central champions.
-- Dan Wohl / MLB.com


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