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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge said he found it "stunning" to hear Monday that federal budget woes could delay the start of a terrorism trial for Osama bin Laden's son-in-law.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan's comment came as he set deadlines for lawyers to submit pre-trial arguments regarding Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who pleaded not guilty last month to charges that he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaida's top propagandist after Sept. 11.
The charismatic al-Qaida spokesman was shown in early October 2001, sitting with bin Laden and current al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in what became a heavily watched propaganda video. Prosecutors say he had called on every Muslim to join the fight against the United States, declaring that "jihad is a duty."
Ghaith, who was brought to the U.S. last month, was handcuffed as he was led into a courtroom Monday. The handcuffs were taken off before he listened through headphones to an Arabic translator.
Kaplan said he was considering starting the trial as early as September, drawing protests from defense lawyers who said the 5.1 percent across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration required all public defenders to be furloughed for more than five weeks by the fall.
"It is extremely troublesome to contemplate the possibility of a case of this nature being delayed because of sequestration. Let me say only that," the judge said, pausing before adding: "Stunning."
The judge left open the possibility that the trial may not begin until next year.
Defense lawyers said they expected to ask the judge to toss out a 22-page statement Abu Ghaith provided after his Feb. 28 arrest in Jordan.
They also said they were likely to seek a change of venue. The federal courthouse in lower Manhattan is located just blocks from the World Trade Center complex.
Efforts to change the location where a trial is held or to challenge post-arrest statements have been unsuccessful in previous terrorism trials in Manhattan.
The single notable exception occurred when the Obama administration announced it was going to conduct a civil trial in New York for Khalid Sheik Mohammad, who has claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, and four others, only to return the cases to military tribunal proceedings amidst an uproar over security concerns.


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'A Savannah Anthology' writing contest
Entries are needed for the 2013 issue of "A Savannah Anthology." The writing contest is open to residents of Georgia and South Carolina.
Fiction and non-fiction entries up to 5,000 words will be considered. Deadline for the contest is midnight Aug. 15. Entries must be submitted through the Savannah Authors website using the template and biography sheet available. There is an entry fee of $10 per entry.
The first place winner will receive $100, second place $50 and third place $25. Certificates of merit will be given to those receiving honorable mention. The contest is a project of Savannah Authors, a Savannah-based writing group. More information about the contest may be found at savannahauthors.org.
For more information, contact Alice Vantrease at 912-308-3208.
Sleep apnea seminar July 25
Lowcountry orthodontist Frank Barbieri will host a seminar about sleep apnea and its effects on overall health from 9:30-10:30 a.m. July 25 at the Lakehouse. The seminar, "Snoring and Sleep Apnea: The Silent Killer" is open to all Sun City residents.
Barbieri opened an office last year to help patients suffering from snoring and sleep apnea at The Heritage Medical Center on Hilton Head Island.
July AARP driver safety courses
The AARP driver safety 4-hour class will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Hidden Cypress and a 6-hour course will be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 27 at Pinckney Hall. Learn how to deal with the realities and dangers of driving as people age. Find out about new laws, changes in the law, gated community and insurance requirements and to best deal with road reconstruction issues.
For insurance certification please bring your driver's license, your AARP number and lunch. The cost is $12 for members and $14 for non-members. For more information, call Joyce Tartow at 705-5692 or email firstname.lastname@example.com or sign in Pinckney Hall.
May River to perform 'Johnny Mercer & Me'
The May River Theatre Co., Inc. will perform "Johnny Mercer & Me" at 8 p.m. Aug. 9-10, 16-17, 23 and at 3 p.m. Aug. 11, 18, 25. "Johnny Mercer & Me" explores the tormented life of popular American songwriter and singer John Herndon.
The play is a look at fame, the limitations of love and the struggle of women in a male-dominated world.
Reserve seating can be purchased from July 15 through Aug. 23 by calling the box office at 815-5581. Box office hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All tickets are $25. General information about the May River Theatre can be found at www.mayrivertheatre.com or by calling 705-3833.
Volunteers in Medicine needs volunteers
Bluffton-Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine seeks volunteers. As a clinic that provides free healthcare to the uninsured, the services include general medical, gynecology, diabetic care, nutrition counseling, patient assistance programs and more.
The clinic is in need of additional doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, and administrative personnel. Qualified volunteers are needed to add to the staff. To volunteer, contact Karen Lavery at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 706-7090.
Mighty 8th Air Force dinner Tuesday
The 8th Air Force Historical Society monthly dinner will be held at the National Museum of the Mighty 8th Air Force in Pooler on Tuesday. A cash bar opens at 5:30 p.m. with dinner beginning at 7 p.m.
The guest speaker will be Ashley Lester, president of the Bonaventure Society, Children of the American Revolution in Savannah. She will be entering the seventh grade at Arnall Middle School in Newnan, Ga. Lester will speak about the wreath project at the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetary. Dinner costs $15, tax and tip included. To make reservations, call Betty Smith before Sunday at 912-920-2956.
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina summer performances
• "Chicago" will be performed at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina through July 28.
The Tony award-winning musical smash hit "Chicago" is one of Broadway's most popular and thrilling musicals of all time! This tale of greed, murder, corruption and show biz. Tickets are $44 for adults and $31 for children under 15. Tuesday-Saturdays the show begins at 8 p.m. There are 2 p.m. Sunday matinees on June 23, July 7 and 21. Shows start at 7 p.m. on June 30, July 7 and 28.
Call 842-ARTS or go to tickets.artshhi.com for more information about purchasing tickets. The arts center is located at 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head.
• Bee Gees Tribute Band "Stayin' Alive" will perform Aug. 7-9 at 8 p.m. "Stayin' Alive" is the quintessential tribute band to the Bee Gees, capturing the excitement of live performance. They offer the songs and sights of a full Bee Gees play list, singing blockbusters such as "Night Fever," "Jive Talkin,'" "How Deep is Your Love" and "Stayin' Alive." Tickets are $43 for adults and $33 for children ages under $15.
The show will take place at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head. For more information, call 842-ARTS or go to www.artshhi.com.
• Masters of Motown will be performed Aug.29-30 at 8 p.m. Some of the most iconic names in the history of popular music were discovered in the early 1960s in Detroit, better know simply as "Motown." The show is a celebration of these artists, their music and style. Hits from the Temptations, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Four Top and more will be performed. Tickets are $44 and may be purchased online or at the box office.
For more information, call 842-ARTS or go to www.artshhi.com.
Palmetto Bluff concert series
Palmetto Bluff will host monthly music concerts for the public on July 23 and Aug. 27.
Palmetto Bluff's waterfront 'Village Green' will again be the concert venue. Earl Williams Band and Shrimp City Slim will provide the music.
Admission for each event will be $25 per vehicle at the Palmetto Bluff gate which will open at 5 p.m. Music begins at 6:30 p.m. Food and beverages will be available for purchase at the concert. Attendees are asked to bring their own lawn chairs and blankets. There are no advance ticket sales.
For more information, go to www.PalmettoBluff.com and look under "Events" or call the main number at 757-3333.

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Rihanna & Chris Brown: Gansevoort Hotel Departure
Rihanna and Chris Brown make separate exits out of the Gansevoort Park Hotel on Wednesday evening (October 3) in New York City.
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Kenneth Feinberg, an attorney who managed the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, speaks at a news conference in Boston on April 23 as Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick listens at right.
He's called "the umpire."
Blunt yet sympathetic. Good with a calculator under pressure. Loves doing pro-bono work as a hobby. Because of all of those attributes, arbitration attorney Kenneth Feinberg is asked again and again to take on the awful task of putting price tags on pain, suffering and even human life.
Feinberg, 67, has managed compensation for families damaged by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Aurora movie theater massacre and the Virginia Tech shooting. He's worked with asbestos sufferers and waded through BP's oily mess.
Now, he will divvy up monies collected by the One Fund for Boston Marathon victims and their families.
"You know the book 'In Search of Excellence?'" asked Bobby Epstein, who attended the University of Massachusetts with Feinberg 50 years ago and was also a teenage summer camp counselor with him. "When you meet Kenny Feinberg, your search for excellence is over.
"The only thing we talk about is a hair piece, that's all," Epstein, the president of a Norton, Mass.,-based beverage company, joked.
Epstein says Feinberg's unique career -- which requires a delicate mix of empathy and calculation -- is hard to grasp.
"It's impossible," said Epstein, 68, who lives in Boston. "I was in his office in Washington one day when the Virginia Tech people, the parents, came in. My God, I was crying, and I didn't even know who they were. ... How he sleeps at night, how he can live with it -- he's an amazing individual. The country is lucky to have him."
Feinberg to Boston victims: 'Lower your expectations'
Feinberg doesn't sleep much at night: Four or five hours at most, Epstein says. It may be even less now, as he commutes from his Bethesda, Md., home up to Boston to manage the One Fund.
"Whatever we do with this fund is inadequate," Feinberg said at a town hall-style meeting he set up for marathon victims and their families in Boston last Monday. "Everyone, please lower your expectations about this fund. If you had a billion dollars, you would not have enough money to deal with the problems with these attacks."
The One Fund, set up by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino after the bombings on April 15, has collected $29 million in donations so far. More than 200 people were injured in the marathon bombings; three people lost their lives there, and an MIT officer was killed by the suspects days later.
Feinberg must calculate how much each person is entitled to, factoring in horrific realities such as the number of limbs a victim lost.
He's doing it for free, and has told victims he plans to distribute all the money by June 30.
Placing a dollar amount on a life or an injury may sound heartless, but Feinberg, who is rehearsed in hearing victims' stories, brings sensitivity to his work, say those who have worked with him.
"He's the umpire, the mediator, the resolver," said John C. Coffee Jr., a law professor at Columbia University in New York who has known Feinberg for about 20 years. "He can listen, and he's a people person."
Feinberg's first break in large settlement cases was in 1984, when he was appointed to distribute money from a $180 million settlement for Vietnam veterans who were suing the makers of Agent Orange. In his late thirties at the time, Feinberg was chosen by Judge Jack Weinstein because of his knowledge of toxic tort litigation and because he was highly regarded by big-name politicians, including Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, who he worked for in the 1970s, first as an assistant, then as chief of staff.
"Kennedy was like a second father to him," Epstein said. "Kenny was a pallbearer [at his funeral]."
Heightened security, empty streets, and memorials mark the the days after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Since then, calls for jobs of this sort have come in regularly, including from George W. Bush's administration, which asked him to manage the 9/11 victims' compensation fund — a $7 billion fund hastily created by Congress in the days after Sept. 11, 2001, paid for by taxpayers, that made Feinberg the sole decision-maker of how much each claimant received. Victims and families who accepted money could not sue the airlines whose planes were used in the attack, and not all victims' families were willing to play ball.
"'We have to discover what really happened that day. We will get in a lawsuit what the CIA knew, what the FBI knew, what the administration knew,'" the families said to him, Feinberg told "60 Minutes" in a November 2003 interview. "I say to them, 'You're not going to get any of that in a lawsuit.'"
Around 98 percent of the 5,562 family members of the more than 2,700 who lost their lives worked with the fund and avoided litigation, Epstein said.
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Boston is a totally different case. Money isn't being handed out to prevent lawsuits.
"One benefit here in Boston, in Aurora, or Virginia Tech, you're not waiving rights. This is a gift, in effect. This is money that's been donated in private," Feinberg told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on May 2.
The cash that victims get in Boston can go straight to medical bills, which is part of why Feinberg spends so much time mapping out how much money each victim in a tragedy should receive, as opposed to just dividing the amount equally by the number of claimants.
"Last Saturday night, we were together, and he said, 'People have burns, and that will go away. Some people lost limbs and their lives will never be the same.' It's half a million bucks to go through the life cycle of a prosthetic device. You gotta change the house around," Epstein said, adding that Feinberg takes the extent of the injuries and the person's earning capabilities into consideration, among other factors.
Despite all of Feinberg's best efforts to make fair estimates for how much each victim or victim's family is owed, there is always backlash. Some people tell him he hasn't delivered enough money to them; others tell him it's unfair their tragedy hasn't been recognized with a fund.
"Dear Mr. Feinberg, my son died in Oklahoma City, where's my check? Dear Mr. Feinberg, my daughter died in the African embassy bombings from the terrorists, where's my check? Dear Mr. Feinberg, my son died in the first World Trade Center bombing in '93 committed by the very same people -- why aren't I eligible?" he told "60 Minutes" in 2003, quoting letters he has received from grieving families.
Back to his Boston roots
Through his latest assignment, Feinberg is returning to his roots. A Brockton, Mass., native who speaks with a Boston accent, he got his undergrad degree from UMass in 1967. Three years later, he got his law degree from New York University, despite being involved in theater at UMass and briefly considering a career in acting.
Feinberg is a managing partner at his own firm, which has Washington and New York offices, but he has been involved in the biggest class action and mass tort lawsuits -- broader civil suits involving many victims -- over the past four decades, to the point where his name is synonymous with large settlements, Coffee, the Columbia professor, says.
His claims have ranged from a defective contraceptive device to the government's TARP allocations during the economic downturn.
"He is not necessarily the greatest legal scholar who can give you the perfect multifaceted model for dealing with the problem, but he's got the instinct to get people to agree, to recognize that their self-interest is in something that is reasonable, rather than litigating for eternity," Coffee said.
The married father of three and grandfather plans on retiring in Martha's Vineyard -- if he ever retires.
A spokesperson for Feinberg said he was too busy commuting from his Maryland home to Boston to be interviewed for this story. He's also too busy for hobbies, his friend, Epstein, says.
"This is his hobby. He's not a golfer, a fisherman, a tennis player," Epstein said.
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Cheers filled the streets after a Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured alive but wounded Friday night — following a day-long manhunt that shut down the city.
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March 7, 2013
Incident Respons in a Cyberwar context and Responsible Disclosure
- This chaptermeeting will be about Incident respons in a cyberwar context and responsible disclosure.
- 18:30 - 19:00 Registration
- 19:00 - 19:15 Welcome & Updates
- 19:15 - 20:00 Incident Respons in a Cyberwar context - Dennis Lemckert
- 20:00 - 20:15 Break
- 20:15 - 21:00 Disclosure - Lex Borger & André Koot
Incident Respons in a Cyberwar context
Cyber Warfare is the new buzz in the IT security. However, is War to compare with today's interconnected world? Are breaches in Integrity, Continuity and Exclusivity similar to an attack on a state?
Disclosure, Prevention is better than to cure
In this presentation we explain what the background was behind our request to CPB to perform research of the Diagnostics for U case. We discuss recent incidents in healthcare (Henk Krol, the Groene Land Hospital), and the effects of the announcement for the companies involved. We will also discuss the practice of Responsible Disclosure (the initiatives of the NCSC and others) and the arise of Responsible Disclosure (Leak October and other hacks) and how companies can ensure that information is sufficiently protected against privacy leaks using data identification and classification.
Dennis Lemckert
Dennis Lemckert is active in the IT world for almost 20 years. 12 Years thereof, he's operating in or around the IT security world. Some roles that at the time he has completed are: Pentester, Security Auditor, Security Architect, Incident Analyst, Security Analyst and Security Advisor. During that time, Dennis has developed a no-nonsense approach on how to build, deliver and maintain secured environments. However, telling others how to do something well, leaves Dennis little time to play with the latest and cool tools, so he spends most of his time writing documentation, both technical and non-technical, giving awareness training, providing training to both technical staff and management and analyzing and improving incident processes.
Lex Borger
Lex Borger is a consultant at Ideas to Interconnect (I-to-I). He has more than 20 years of experience in information security and system security. He was involved in the development of control systems, where he learned to apply security from within. Gradually he broadened his view of information security to the entire field. Most of his experience he has gained in the United States of America. Lex is editor of the journal PvIB "Information"
André Koot
André Koot's Security Consultant with expertise in Identity Management and Access Control. He is also editor of the PvIB journal "Information", trainer and lecturer at the International Management Forum, member EXIN examination committee, NL Chapter Board member CSA and Advisory Board member IDentity.Next. Previously, André worked for the IRS, and Unive VGZ.


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20 Apr High Levels of Opium and Heroin Detected in Very Young Afghan Children
A team of researchers hired by the US State Department has found staggering levels of opium and heroin in Afghan children as young as 14 months. "I think we've opened a can of worms," said Bruce Goldberger, one of the University of Florida scientists heading up the study, who spoke exclusively with Brian Ross for a report airing on World News with Diane Sawyer and Nightline tonight.
"This was just totally unexpected. No one has ever seen this type of exposure in young children. It's never been documented. And it's laying a foundation for drug abuse for a whole generation," he said.
Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross of ABC News report that this first-ever look at household exposure to opium and heroin is not yet complete, but State Department officials and contractors shared preliminary findings exclusively with ABC News in hopes of drawing attention to a problem they say has been largely overlooked. The researchers said what they uncovered is both shocking and tragic.
Their field testing of homes of known drug users found that small children, even infants, have been passively exposed to heroin and opiates by the adult users in their homes. Some have inhaled dangerous quantities of second-hand smoke. Others have ingested traces of the drugs settling all around them, coating their pillows and blankets and leaving a film atop carpets and furniture. The chronic exposure is leading to levels of addiction rarely seen in children so young, the researchers told ABC News. If the problem is left unaddressed, they said, the consequences could be dire.
"This is a doomed generation of children," Goldberger said. "These children are classic opium or heroin addicts. They crave the drug. If the drug is withdrawn, they go through withdrawal."
Goldberger said he believes similar levels of narcotics in the bloodstream of pregnant women may help explain why Afghanistan has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the world.
How many children are affected is not known. U.S. officials said 2005 estimates that there are 900,000 drug users among Afghanistan's 30 million people are outdated—and that the numbers of heroin and opium users in particular have grown dramatically. So far, the samples collected by teams of American scientists have only been focused on answering the question of how adult drug use impacts children in the home.
A former top U.S. Drug Enforcement official who helped the scientists gather hair, blood, and urine samples from homes around the country told ABC News that his teams found high levels of addiction flowing from one generation to the next. A fact sheet prepared by the State Department has some of the raw numbers: In 31 of 42 homes where adult addicts lived, children tested showed signs of significant drug exposure.
Both American and Afghan counter narcotics officials said this is a new problem for the country. Afghanistan has for many years been a primary source of opium for the rest of the world. But only in recent years, as refugees from war fled to Pakistan and Iran, did a significant number of Afghans start using the drugs themselves. When they returned home, they brought both drug use and its noxious byproducts back with them, said Doug Wankel, who spent decades as the DEA's top man in Afghanistan and is now based in Kabul for the U.S. consulting firm, Spectre Group International.
Compounding the problem, Wankel said, is that the drug traffic originating in Afghanistan has changed, with more opium being converted into heroin before it leaves the country's borders.
Now, he said, "you've got enough heroin available to more than meet the demand of the international market… You actually have supply creating demand in a place like Afghanistan."
Dr. Mohammed Zafar, an Afghan counter narcotics official, confirmed that his country "did not have such a problem as we have it presently." And he said his government has few resources to fix it. "We have a very limited drug specialization centers, which is not enough for the drug population of Afghanistan which is more than one million," he said.
U.S. State Department officials have begun to establish drug treatment facilities in the most hard hit parts of the country. The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs has established three programs in Afghanistan for addicted women and children, and expect three more to open their doors within the next month. An international team that includes World Health Organization officials and experts from Johns Hopkins University and the Medical University of Vienna have designed the first-ever treatment regimes for young children.
But U.S. officials say there remain an array of challenges in treating a population that has be resistant to the physical and psychological rigors involved in kicking such highly addictive drugs.
Wankel said he believes the growing rate of addiction will increasingly prove to be a challenge for American troops who are attempting to stand up a police force and dissuade Afghans from becoming radicalized.
"It plays well into the hands of those who want to continue insurgency, certainly corruption, criminality," he said. "It's a serious, serious problem."
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FRIDAY, May 1, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say a lifetime of problems with getting a good night's sleep could be in store for any child diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The study of 281 children, aged 10 to 17, who had been diagnosed with ADHD, found that regardless of the severity of that condition, they were two to three times more likely to have short-term or lifetime issues with insomnia or nightmares than peers without ADHD. They were also more likely to experience night terrors, teeth grinding and snoring.
Treating the sleep disorder may help ease ADHD, as the conditions tend to share symptoms, say the investigators, whose work appears in the May 1 issue of Sleep. In fact, lack of sleep can cause problems with attention span, behavior and performance -- hallmarks of ADHD.
"In some patients with ADHD, symptoms are caused or exaggerated by primary sleep disorders, and therefore treatment of the sleep disorder will improve ADHD symptoms," principal investigator Dr. Susan Shur-Fen Gau, an associate professor at National Taiwan University's College of Medicine and Public Health, said in an American Academy of Sleep Medicine news release.
Gau and her colleagues said children with ADHD should all be screened for sleep disorders and related conditions, so treatments can begin. Otherwise, these sleep problems coupled with ADHD would put them at a higher risk for other problems, including use of stimulants and psychiatric disorders.
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NORWALK, Ohio --
Coming off a season where he ran away with the AMSOIL Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car title, set records and won nearly every round of competition he entered, Gallen's 2012 campaign was much rockier and featured a drama that simply did not exist when the team was light years ahead of the field in 2011.
After all most of the other teams had learned to play for second when the familiar purple and gold "Poverty Stricken" machine pulled into the lanes. But this year was different.
Sure he anticipated a few bumps along the way, what with a brand new 1977 Monza machine replacing the championship winning Vega from the year before, but this was different. Some of the change could be blamed on new cars blues, some could certainly be attributed to an increase in competition, but whatever it was, it wasn't getting Gallen in victory lane.
"With the new car, new body, new front end yeah, we struggled to get balance on the car and we struggled with consistency," the two-time Nitro Jam champion explained. "We simply had some new car blues. It was silly things like oil lines breaking and other oddball problems. And then for the last few months I have been suffering with some disc problems in my neck and at best I have been running on five cylinders, but my guys hung in there and really gave this team their all and they have to be commended for that."
Despite all of the problems with the new car the team still emerged victorious at the CarSafe Northern Nitro Jam in Michigan by holding off Mike Savage and the "Candies & Hughes" team to pick up their second championship in a row. While not as flashy as the year before, Gallen's 2012 title run proved that this team is capable of anything even when faced with extreme adversity.
"This year has been a real struggle, but my crew proved that even with adversity they are still the best out there," Gallen said. "To pick up the slack is my car chief John Benigini. Four years ago he had never even smelled nitro and now he is the best car chief out there and I would not race without him, period. Jake Slater, 14 months ago he was riding his bike by my shop and when I returned from Bowling Green I asked for some help and he never left. He has even convinced his brother Clark to become part of this madness. Add in Steve Timosyski and those four guys are critical to this operation and they have put in countless hours to make this car the best out there.
"Then you have Bob Rosetty who spent the winter building us a state-of-the-art Monza body by hand and produced a real piece of art that has held up to all of the abuse we could throw at it. While he campaigns two Funny Cars of his own, he still manages to be there through thick and thin. Again, I couldn't do any of this without my incredible crew."
But it wasn't an easy road by any stretch of the imagination.
Random parts failures and other car problems plagued the team with fast laps, but no wins early in the season. To make matters worse, a few rare oil downs frustrated the "Poverty Stricken" team and left them wondering what was needed to turn the corner.
But at the Pittsburgh Nitro Jam in May Gallen finally broke through with his first win of the season against IHRA legend Dale Pulde driving the famous "War Eagle" Trans Am. But following a western swing Gallen simply could not attend, the points tightened up and for the first time in over a year someone else sat atop the AMSOIL Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car standings.
"The first half of the year was frustrating to say the least, but we were able to get some of the kinks worked out while running against some heavy hitters," Gallen said. "We were still very fast, but we couldn't close the deal."
When Gallen returned to competition in July at the MOPAR Nitro Jam Nationals in Grand Bend, Gallen needed to have a big weekend to get back on top and that is exactly what he produced. Gallen went to both finals, splitting with Greg Jacobsmeyer to give his team a narrow 13 point lead entering the final race of the year.
"It was much different going into the last race because last year we had it all sewn up so we could swing for the fences," Gallen said. "This year we only had a 13 point lead so we had to be a little smarter in our game plan."
To make matters worse Gallen had a devastating engine fire just a few days prior to the season finale that left the team struggling to get the car ready. But with it all on the line Gallen laid down the quickest and fastest lap during round one to advance to the final and seal his second championship in a row.
"The only real consistency we experienced this season was the Nitro Jam fans. They are the best. Even with rain delays the fans are always so involved. With the economy we are so thankful these great fans spend their hard earned money to come out and support us," Gallen said. "And of course my biggest hero in the pits is my wife Ashbey. She has put her own dreams on hold to allow me to chase mine and I love her for that. We have five children ranging from 31 to three, Kelly, Kristen, Peter, Tyler and Ayden. They might get shortchanged while dad is racing all over the country, but they have no complaints as they know how much I love it.
"This sport, I don't know what it is, it gets in you. Myself, the crew guys, it just drives you to be competitive and want to be the best. You put that helmet on and you turn into an animal and that is why I love racing."
While Gallen still has plans to attend a few more races in 2012, his primary focus will be on perfecting the "Poverty Stricken" Monza and getting it back to dominating fashion as the team continues to gain notoriety around the country as one of the best nostalgia Funny Car teams in the entire sport.
"This championship would not have been possible without the love and support of my family, crew, friends and sponsors," Gallen said. "TJ Rebert of Ford 8&9, Pete Politashaus of Zacs Hamburgers, Funny Farm Fabrication, Mickey Thompson Tires, Redline Oil, Boninfante Clutches, Autolite Spark Plugs and everyone that makes this car go fast."


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Today's newsflash is that you can't believe every health claim you read on a pill bottle, which is one of the reasons I think it's smart to count on food for your vitamins instead. And although nutritional science waffles on what's good and bad for us, I think we can agree that it's always nice to see presumably-health-promoting-and-also-delicious foods smiling up at us from our plates. Probiotics are a current darling of the health-food scene, which pleases me because I always like when my favorite foods come into vogue (hello, dark chocolate!). Sandor Katz emboldened me to ferment my first batch of sauerkraut two years ago, and since then, in the secret world of off-blog cooking, I've continued the science experiments of fermentation in bubbling jars in the fridge and basement. Continue reading
Tomato Peach Balsamic Jam
The upside of seasonal eating has gotten enough play. Today we turn to its darker side. To the part of eating seasonally where summer ends and I am supposed to set aside perfect peaches for pumpkin soup and root vegetables. What kind of solace is that, I ask?
In the coming weeks I'll settle in, I know, remembering the unexpected heights that Brussels sprouts can reach and that miso-roasted squash and kale salad. I'll even delight in planning our vegetarian Thanksgiving menu. Eventually.
But for today, let's talk about holding onto those peaches for as long as we can.
This recipe is the love child of this sweet tomato jam and this savory peach jam. It was inspired by a tomato and peach salad we ate all summer and a tomato and peach gazpacho served in the cafe of my favorite bookstore. And like all my good jam ideas, I later learned that Marisa had it first.
This jam is equal parts peaches and tomatoes by weight, but the result is more sweet than savory; the umami notes of tomato and balsamic add just a whisper of intrigue. As you'd expect, it's most at home alongside a soft cheese or spooned over a piece of salmon, but it's no slouch in a sandwich or vinaigrette either.
Breakfast (or Anytime) Bean Bowl
Yesterday we woke to a mist hanging low among the trees and houses, and when it lifted autumn had come. Our breath rose in puffs around us as I walked the kids to school, and later in the sunshine the highest branches glowed amber and gold as if newly gilded from above.
You need some warmth in your belly on days like these, and this bean bowl is a fortifying way to start the day. It's inspired by the menu at the Beachcomber Cafe in Trinidad, CA—a wintry place most days of the year, so they know warm-you-up food.
For a real indulgence, start with a homemade pot of beans. I know I've already sung the praises of the ojo de cabra beans pictured below (from Rancho Gordo), but white beans or black beans make a fine substitute. With black beans, of course, you can go the cilantro and salsa route; with white beans I love parsley and tomato jam. The only essential ingredients are beans, a soft-cooked egg, and a cold day.
Zucchini Relish
At 2 a.m. I was still in the kitchen. Peach jam in the canner, tomato jam out of the canner, three trays of fruit leather in the oven, tomatoes and peaches in the dehydrator, prepping zucchini relish. This is what I always forget in those dreamy, carefree spring months when I plant my garden or sign up for a CSA (or, this year, do both): The harvest season is also a season of all-out frenzy.
This recipe is here to help. You will find both emotional and practical relief as you reduce two truly gargantuan zucchini to five tidy pints of the hot dog relish you remember from childhood.
Pile it onto a field roast sausage with that better-than-ketchup (and I don't say that lightly) tomato jam and a beery mustard, and you'll almost forget about the boxes of ripe pears in the basement still awaiting your attention.
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Grilled Fava Beans
For the most part I'm a lazy cook, which is why I don't get along too well with fava beans.
If you have it in you to shuck the beans from the pod, simmer them briefly and then peel each and every single bean, more power to you. You are now ready to make some elegant little appetizer that will be gone in two bites, like this fava bean and arugula crostini or that fava and ricotta bruschetta. (That second recipe recommends having a friend do the work for you, which is at least a step in the right direction.)
If you don't have it in you to do all that work, this recipe is for you. It neatly foists the labor of excavating the tender beans straight onto your guests, providing a lively to start to your dinner party as your guests roll up their sleeves and forge a camaraderie based on their mutual amazement at your laziness. Provide a tiny bowl of good salt for dipping the beans, napkins, and a bowl for discarded pods and bean skins. Continue reading
Artichoke and Rosemary Pasta
Our artichoke harvest has been meager so far this year: one lonely bud. The girls' enthusiasm to eat it buoyed it straight from the back yard onto this week's menu, where it was luckily joined by a larger bag of artichokes from our CSA.
I always end up feeling that artichokes are worth the work, don't you? I usually take the easy way out and steam them in eighths, but at least once a year I roll up my sleeves, clear my counters, and set to work cleaning and slivering artichokes for this recipe. When you're done, the deep, haunting flavor of any passable artichoke is magnified by caramelization, teased out by rosemary, and slathered across a gorgeous pile of pasta. I confidently assert that this recipe is worth the hour it takes.
Here's a decent photo tutorial showing the steps for reducing a healthy-looking artichoke to a very-tasty shadow of its former self. You can use artichokes of any size for this recipe–baby artichokes won't have the thistle-blossom choke in the center, but if you use a larger artichoke you can just scoop out the choke with a paring knife or grapefruit spoon as you go. Thinking of the task as meditative rather than repetitive helps.
Whatever you do, be sure to save the meaty outer leaves that you peel off. I usually steam and serve them separately, but Elise of Simply Recipes offers the even-better idea of simmering them to make a broth. I like the idea of getting three dishes from my bag of artichokes–this pasta, a plate of cold artichoke leaves with dipping sauces, and a steaming bowl of pillowy cheese ravioli floating in artichoke broth. I'll try that next time and report back. Waste not want not, and all that.
p.s. After all that, the kids refused to eat the pasta, of course. The leaves, which remained in recognizable artichoke form, were as popular as ever.
Weekend Scrambled Eggs with Croutons and Herbed Cream Cheese
If you have a long weekend coming up (and I hope you do), perhaps you're looking forward to it for the same reason I am—three opportunities, three days in a row, to enjoy an unhurried breakfast. What luxury!Truth be told, these scrambled eggs only take five minutes longer to prepare than the standard sort, an investment that might even be thinkable on a weekday. But those five minutes yield excellent returns: they give you a little crunch, a little creaminess, and a lot of herbaceous wake-up in your bowl. And yes, it's really just scrambled eggs and toast, but if you have never crouton-d your toast into your scrambled eggs you are in for a nice surprise. Continue reading


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A Defense of New England "Courtship"
A couple of weeks later, in the 1 June issue, printer Nathaniel Phillips (1756-1832), a Boston native who once worked for Isaiah Thomas, ran a response from "Modestia." That writer identified herself as one of the newspaper's "Female Readers" and said:
Courtship, or an intimate correspondence with Gentlemen of liberal and honourable sentiments, stimulated by principles of generosity, and conducted by the rules of decency, forms the mind to virtue, and renders an agreeable harmony, collected by the friendly hand of social acquaintance, and promoted by a universal coalescence in the order of nature; while it refines and meliorates that unpolished refractory spirit, and animates the torpid stupor which keeps the different sexes at a distance.Well, that took a turn toward the nasty halfway through, didn't it? Since the essay from "The Reformed Bundler" had first appeared in a newspaper in New Hampshire, its author probably didn't see that response. But someone local did.
In what attitude the objects of this charming confederation is placed while assembling the endearing faculties of the soul; or what shall be the particular topic of their conversation I shall leave to their discretion to digest who are to act on this Hymenial stage—and leave the Reformed Bundler to triumph in the halo of his stupendous performance—esteeming his directions and counsels, with his torrent of frightful ideas, as regardless as the dying howls of a wretched hermit suffocated in his own filth.
While I am writing this, MOLL BELIAGRE and IRIS THORNBACK, accompanied by a Female-Man, part of their own species (who had been graduated at a BROTHEL) are trumpeting thro' the street, the eclat of the Reformed Bundler, in adulation of his superlative genius, by which horrid clarion I was just about to consume my piece had not AMANTIAE and the CHAST DIANA entered my chamber, giving it their approbation—whose virtuous hearts can affix energy to every innocent Female Composition.
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The Holy Sundae Graal, makes 2 graals.
First make one basic batter that is divided into three batters (about one cup in each) which you then add flavor to. Peel about 2 rhubarb stems and cut them into cubes. Put them into the freezer until deep freezed then thaw them carefully under some hot running water. Any cold pieces of rhubarb will make the Rhubarb ice cream lumpy. The process of freezing rhubarb and thawing it like this makes rhubarb a really great ingredient in the raw dessert kitchen. You'll get a wonderful summer-flavor! And the ice creams doesn't have to be deep freezed, only slightly firmer. The important step is to let the Pecan-Lemon Ice cream get firmer so you can pipe it!
The Basic Ice Cream Batter
• 180 g or 1 1/2 cup Cashews
• 1 1/2 cup Water
• 3 tablespoons melted virgin Coconut oil
• 100 g or 0.5 cup of melted Cacao butter
• 1 pinch of Himalayan salt
• 1/4 teaspoon real Vanilla or liquid Vanilla
• 4 tablespoons Agave nectar
• 1 teaspoon Sunflower lecitin
• 3 tablespoons of Lucuma
• 1 teaspoon of Lemon juice
Slowly melt the Cacao butter in a water bath or in a dehydrator. Grind the Cashews into a super fine flour in a blender. Add all the ingredients except for the Coconut oil and blend until completely smooth. Then add the Coconut oil and blend for maximum 15 sec. Divide the batter into two bowls, about 1 cup in each. Continue with the Pecan-Lemon Ice cream.
The Pecan-Lemon Ice cream
To the blender add:
• Zest from 2.5 organic Lemons (about 0.5 teaspoon + 1/4 teaspoon of zest).
• 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
Blend until incorporated. Now make the pecan crumbs:
• 0.5 cup Pecans
• Cinnamon to taste
Put into a food processor or coffee grinder to grind the Pecans into crumbs. Add the crumbs to the Lemon Ice cream and stir by hand. Pour into a low container and let it chill in the freezer for about 30-40 minutes. It needs to be hard enough to be put into a pastry bag. Otherwise you can just put the Pecan-Lemon ice cream on top with a spoon. Stir the ice cream every now and then. You will se how it gets creamier and creamier by the minute.
Observe: If you want to pipe a swirl using a pastry bag, chose a large tip, and make the pecan crumbs rather small. Too big crumbs can get stuck in the tip, causing severe frustration to any perfectionist out there ;)
The Chocolate Chip Cacao Ice cream
Wash the blender and add one cup of the Basic Ice cream Batter into the blender. Add:
• 2 tablespoons of raw Cacao
• 1 tablespoon of Lucuma
• 1 tablespoon of Mesquite
Blend to incorporate. Don't put the Cacao ice cream into the freezer just yet. Now make the chocolate chip!
• 50 g or 1/4 cup melted Cacao butter
• 2 tablespoons raw Cacao
• 1 tablespoon Carob
• 1/4 teaspoon real Vanilla
• 2.5 tablespoon Agave nectar
• add some Cayenne powder to your liking (optional)
Slowly melt the Cacao butter in a water bath. Transfer to a bowl and add the rest of the ingredients. Stir by hand. Put a thin layer of the melted chocolate into a container to be put into the freezer. Save 2 tablespoons of the melted chocolate for decoration on top of the sundae. When the melted chocolate is hard, take it out of the freezer and brake it into small pieces that you put into the Cacao Ice cream, stir and put it into the freezer. Continue with the last ice cream!
The Rhubarb Ice cream
Wash the blender and ad the last cup of Basic Ice cream batter to the blender. Add:
• 70 g or 0.5 cup cubes of Rhubarb, deep freezed and thawed
• 0.5 teaspoon of Spirulina (if you have your spirulina in form of tablets, you can crush them between two spoons)
Blend to incorporate. Transfer into a container and put into the freezer to harden a bit.
Assemble: First pour some of the melted chocolate in the bottom of the glass to get a nice color effect. Then add the Rhubarb Ice cream, the Cacao Ice cream and finally pipe the Pecan-Lemon ice cream on top. Add the melted chocolate and sprinkle some pecan crumbs. Now dig in and enjoy!
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Quote:Just curious, can anyone give me a breakdown of what, say, a typical drill weekend would be for an Infantryman or MP of the Army National Guard (I'm getting ready to switch from Active Delayed entry to the Guard)?
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The maker of the popular game Flappy Bird took the app from online stores, saying that its popularity had ruined his life.
Nguyen Ha Dong, the Vietnamese developer who created the viral Flappy Bird, tweeted on Saturday he would ax the game within a day and "I cannot take this anymore."
By Sunday, the game was gone from iTunes and Google Play, according to InformationWeek. The free game was downloaded more than 50 million times.
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Nguyen told the Verge that the game, which relied on ad revenue, was making $50,000 a day in mobile ads. Others also said that Nguyen had been accused by some for copying parts of games, including Nintendo sending Nguyen a cease-and-desist letter. Flappy Bird had some similarities to Super Mario Bros, but Nintendo said it had no intention of suing Nguyen.
Despite the reports, Nguyen said that he hasn't stolen anything nor did his killing off of his creation stem from legal problems. Previously he said that the game was successful, but "...it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it."
Can't a developer change his mind?
Flappy Bird's rise was quick and 50 million downloads means a heck of a lot more technical questions and requests. We think Nguyen was going crazy answering emails and requests and probably needed a break.
Perhaps he'll hire a few more people and open up shop again in the future.


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Over the years, Street Photography has taken a much larger role in my personal photography. There is no question that the Fujifilm cameras I've been using since November 2012, are definitively responsible for that!
Since Fujifilm announced the new 23mm f2 lens a few months ago, it has quickly taken over from the 35mm f2 in becoming my new favorite Street Photography lens.
Sadly the 35mm f2 has been neglected since the announcement. Time to do so something about this!
The image below of 3 African ladies walking along two Pakistani men, shows how much of a multi-cultural place Dubai really is! Standing on a footbridge, I was especially attracted by how the shadows added the extra dimension to the shot.
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- Fujifilm X-T2 with the 35mm f2 lens
- ISO 400, f8, 1/180s
- Lightroom CC for RAW file development; used Camera calibration Classic Chrome and then converted to Black and White
My best Street Photography work can be found in their respective Colour and Black and White galleries.
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Veteran NFL running back Chris Jennings was clocked at 147 miles per hour by state troopers in Ohio.
The football player, who had just been released by the New York Jets, was more than 80 miles per hour above the speed limit of 65. He was driving a 2004 BMW in the Sunday incident on Interstate 77 in Guernsey County. Jennings was also driving with a suspended license, according to Lt. Anne Ralston, Public Information Officer for the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Jennings is due to appear in court on Wednesday, according to Fox 8 News.
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Jennings, who did not play in the league last year, previously played for the Cleveland Browns. He was signed in January by the Jets, but cut as the team winnowed its roster down for the start of the season. While with the Browns, Jennings was arrested in 2010 in Cleveland after getting into a fight outside a downtown bar.


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According to Deadline, Columbia Pictures recently reviewed the screen tests of several potential Peter Parkers for director Marc Webb's unnamed Spider-Man reboot (which is known around these parts as Spider-Man: Begin Again). The following young actors threw their hat in the ring:
- Jamie Bell (Tintin from Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn)
- Anton Yelchin (Star Trek)
- Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass)
- Andrew Garfield (David Fincher's upcoming Facebook movie The Social Network)
- Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, who was previously deemed out of the running)
- Alden Ehrenreich (Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro)
Also, Frank Dillane (Tom Riddle from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) and Michael Angerano (Gentlemen Broncos) are apparently on the studio's final list. It's however unclear whether Angerano tested, and Dillane has apparently declined to study at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Columbia is expected to announce the next Peter Parker soon. Your correspondent is crestfallen to see that Don Glover is not among the finalists.


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Dacono's dispensaries can re-open, residents decided in a special election Tuesday night.
The vote struck down a citywide ban of medical marijuana establishments, with 59 percent of voters supporting repeal. The percentage is comparable to the statewide support last November for Amendment 64, the constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana use statewide.
According to preliminary totals, 384 residents voted to repeal the ban while 258 residents voted to uphold it.
About 26 percent of registered voters took part in the mail-ballot election.
"It's been a long four months, but we're glad the residents of Dacono were given the opportunity to decide whether they wanted our center in their community," said Karen Nab of Dacono Meds, the largest of the three dispensaries forced out by the ban. "We're disappointed by the low turnout of votes, but ecstatic that the majority of those who did vote, voted in favor of allowing us to return."
The ballot issue allows up to three dispensaries in Dacono and sets business standards that they have to meet. The three that operated before the ban — Dacono Meds, Mary Jane's Medicinal and Green Medicals — will have the first chance to apply for a business permit.
Nab said Dacono Meds needs some time to raise money and get through the application process, but that the business does plan to return.
"We've missed our patients, so it'll be great to open our doors again," she said.
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All photos: Chris Chen
Miles off the radar of popular music during the early '80s, Trouble Funk energized their D.C. home with the sound of go-go music, an uproarious blend of swinging, up-tempo '70s funk and a '60s-style horn section. The band formed in 1978, and the lineup coalesced around drummer Emmet Nixon, percussionists Mack Carey and Timothius Davis, guitarist Chester Davis, bassist Tony Fisher, trombone players Gerald and Robert Reed, trumpeter Taylor Reed, keyboard player James Avery, and saxophonist David Rudd. Trouble Funk earned a loyal fan base for their notoriously can't-miss live act, a raw, party friendly version of dance and funk with few songs but plenty of extensive jams organized around audience-friendly vocal tags and call-out hooks.
The first go-go record released outside of D.C., Trouble Funk's 1982 debut Drop the Bomb appeared on Sugar Hill, the same label then championing early hip-hop. (The two styles had very similar origins, in the breakbeat culture of urban block parties.) Though the band's second album, In Times of Trouble, appeared only on the local label D.E.T.T., Trouble Funk earned national distribution with a prescient concert record, 1985's Saturday Night (Live from Washington, D.C.), released through Island. After taking the live act nationwide and even worldwide (they played the 1986 Montreux Jazz Festival), Trouble Funk returned in 1987 with the boundary breaking Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There, featuring sympathetic heads like Bootsy Collins and Kurtis Blow. It was a bit of a stylistic misstep, however, and Island released the group from its contract. Undeterred, Trouble Funk kept on grooving around the city, playing often, even into the '90s, for nostalgic party goers as well as the musically curious.
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Is your investment portfolio more like a roller coaster with no exit strategy, just going round and round and up and down, arriving right back to where it started? Don't just go along for the ride, use a managed approach to limit downside risk and to capture gains. Incorporating a managed approach to risk with standard portfolio management methodologies will put you in the driver's seat. Some common portfolio strategies that many of you are familiar with are diversification, buy and hold, stop losses, and the last and least effective strategy that many of you may be using, I like to call management by loss aversion behavior. Using a managed approach to risk within any portfolio strategy is easier with the proper tools.
Managing Risk With A Diversification Strategy
Managing portfolio risk through diversification is usually achieved by investing in a variety of equities that are negatively correlated such as large cap stocks, commodities, emerging markets and global equities. Recently though, it's becoming more difficult to achieve this type of diversification as correlations aren't constant and many global markets are becoming more similar to U.S. markets.
Reviewing sector risk is a good way to manage risk when using a diversification strategy. Investors can allocate funds to equities in leading sectors which are experiencing lower risk within the overall economic environment. There are many tools available for measuring sector risk including a free tool called the SmartStops Risk Ratio (SRR)™, useful in identifying the magnitude of risk by sector. For example as of March 26th, 2012, the healthcare sector on SmartStops Risk Ratio (SRR) is showing a 30% risk factor meaning 30% of equities in this sector are in an above normal risk state. If we further research using this tool, we find that the telecommunications sector has a 64% risk factor, meaning 64% of equities in this sector are experiencing above normal risk. In this scenario, an investor could rotate out of the telecommunication sector and focus on the healthcare sector, selecting individual healthcare stocks that are currently in the normal risk state.
Many investors choose individual stocks with either a growth or value objective in mind. Growth stocks are corporate stories with rising sales and profits and usually dominate their marketplace. For example, if you buy a stock for its growth potential, review the risk possibilities through data and risk charts. Data might include new information regarding large expenses allocated to expansion, often called "return on invested capital". Return on invested capital measures whether companies can find profitable projects to inject future growth. A value objective focuses on underpriced bargains which investors expect will return to a "normal" state. A risk chart with re-entry trigger points provides valuable information for knowing when to buy an underpriced bargain.
And don't forget the number of stocks that you should be holding in your portfolio to assist with risk reduction. In today's markets, it takes even more positions to achieve a lower risk based on diversification alone. According to Rodney Sullivan, editor of The Financial Analysts Journal, "as recent as 1997, whereas it used to take 20 stocks to eliminate most of the likelihood of enduring more risk than the market as a whole, today, it takes 40 stocks to diversify."
Managing Risk With a Buy and Hold Strategy
Investors have been taught for years that a buy and hold strategy for portfolio management is guaranteed to outpace the market when comparing rates of return. However, the amount of risk a stock is experiencing has no relation to time and holding the stock for an extended period of time does not eliminate the risk associated with that particular stock. To best manage for risk, if you're using a buy and hold strategy, one must know when a specific stock is experiencing unusual risk and be willing to sell. Putting your hard earned money to work in a stock that has a normal risk state will achieve higher returns in the long run. On a risk chart provided by SmartStops, if you were invested in Netflix, Inc (NFLX) prior to 2011 and had sold at any of the 6 alert signals from Dec. 2010 until Jul 26, 2011, ranging in price from $184.92 to $262.85 per share, you would have saved yourself from a significant loss. Today, the share price is still hovering around the $120 range. Within the buy and hold strategy, without managing for risk, you would have just ridden that roller coaster down and then hopefully back up again.
Managing for NFLX risk, you could have exited the ride at the first risk alert, waited for the ride to bottom out, and then repurchased at the reentry price (triggered at $81.00 on Jan 5, 2012), thereby increasing protection on your NFLX capital and significantly increasing your returns.
Managing Risk With a Stop Loss Strategy
Managing an investment portfolio using a stop loss strategy is effective. The difficulty lies in correctly identifying the optimum exit points. Choose an exit too close and you could be exiting prematurely and an exit choice too far away gives up significant gains before your protective exit triggers. Optimized exits should be tailored to each individual equity, taking into account its daily volatility and current trading pattern. SmartStops publishes updated optimized exits each market day and through its BrokerLink service, maintains stop loss orders with broker partners such as TD Ameritrade and TradeKing. Using an automated risk assessment decision tool that intelligently adjusts each day for the optimal exit and re-entry points manages risk effectively and more profitably.
Managing Risk With Loss Aversion Behavior Strategy
Managing a portfolio using loss aversion behavior is not a very effective strategy but one that many investors utilize. When purchasing a stock, we often become not only financially invested in the equity but also psychologically invested. As a result, we view the act of selling this equity as an admission of guilt of a poor decision. Instead, we often look for information to validate our initial buying decision, even in the face of losses and overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
By trying to find information that confirms the buying decision, investors discount other meaningful information and often hold the loser position hoping for a rebound. Investors could eliminate the loss aversion behavior by taking the emotion out of the investment and relying on analytical tools for direction. SmartStops is one of the few companies offering an automated risk assessment decision tool that notifies investors when a stock is experiencing unusual risk. With the information gained in the risk alert, the investor can then do further research and make a rational, timely decision based on facts and not on emotion.
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It may be awhile before the full extent of the damages to area golf courses is fully known.
But it isn't pretty. And some tracks will not open again this summer.
Kananaskis Country golf courses will not reopen this season after taking on large amounts of water.
"It is with a heavy heart that we announce Kananaskis Country Golf Course is closed for the 2013," general manager Darren Robinson wrote on the club's Facebook page on Sunday night.
"While we cannot measure the damage until the waters of our rivers and creek beds receded, it will be some time before the courses (Mt. Kidd and Mt. Lorette) will be playable."
Robinson announced full refunds will be given to all with a confirmed tee time.
While no official word has been levied on the 2013 fate of Inglewood Golf and Curling Club, Glencoe Golf and Country Club, Cottonwood Golf and Country Club, Redwood Meadows, Valley Ridge and McKenzie Meadows, each of those courses had pictures of extensive flooding posted on various social media sites.
"The Mighty Redwood is still standing, she is toughing it out," tweeted Redwood Meadows golf (@redwoodpgapro) on Friday. But pictures of epic course damage were tweeted on the same account on the weekend.
Inglewood may have been the hardest hit; photos on the club's facebook account showed rapids running over the ninth green, the 10th hole completely under water and the Bow flowing under the clubhouse stairs. It would seem like a long-shot for them to get open anytime soon.
"What we saw Friday, I guess, I didn't know what toexpect," said the course's general manager Jason Stanier. "As we wentout an assessed the back nine (Sunday), we were able to get out and look at theback nine, and for the most part it's intact."
The front nine, however, took on the brunt of the damageas Stanier said the No. 2 and No. 8 greens had large trees resting on them, andall of the trees lining the river on No. 9 fairway have all been washed away.
"Literally, the front nine became part of the (BowRiver)," Stanier said, saying that his crew was hoping to assess thedamage on the front today. "It was flowing just as fast as any parts ofthe river. It's hard to tell until we're out there if there's much. There mightbe a hole entirely gone, I'm not sure."
Stanier said the clubhouse, pro shop and maintenancebuilding all took on some damage, but that all the water inside those buildingshad receded and clean up had begun.
Members and staff of the club, Stanier said, areunderstandably saddened by the turn of events, but have offered their servicesto do whatever it takes to help the club get back on its feet.
Despite all that's taken place, Stanier remainedlight-hearted and positive about the course, which was first constructed in1932. He says his team will do whatever it takes to give Calgary golfers aplace to play as soon as they can. During the flood in 2005, the front ninealso took on massive damage, but the entire course was able to get up and runningin under three weeks.
"It is a possibility for our front nine," headmitted when asked if the club will shut down for the rest of the year."But, I'm confident that we'll have nine holes, we might have 12 holes, wemight have 16 holes at some point this year. I bet we have the back nine(ready) in a month. . . We're going to try and provide something for ourmembers and our public players that want to play what's left."
McKenzie Meadows is in similar dire straits, with social media photos showing much of the course under water.
However, Blue Devil, situated just to the south in the lowlands of the Chaparral Valley, seems to have made out with more minor damage as this tweet sent out by "better off than many courses along the river.River must drop a few feet.We can get to work and have you swinging in no time."
River Spirit took on some water but is pressing on, announcing on Saturday they were reopen on a modified 18.
The Golf Canada Calgary Centre was also affected by the flood over the weekend. The property contains arguably the city's most popular driving range along with a Par 3 course and an 18-hole putting course. According to a release by Golf Canada on Friday, facility officials will wait until it is safe to get back on the premises to survey the damage. Updates on the centre can be found at golfcanadacentre.ca.
Calgary's golf community has remained tight-knit, as some of the teaching professionals who give lessons out of the Golf Canada Calgary Centre have been offered places to continue teaching at other golf courses and driving ranges around the city.
Brody Mark is the Calgary Herald's golf writer. You can e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter -@yycgolf.


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Big news! The legendary They Might Be Giants will be releasing their new album "Nanobots" on Lojinx in the UK & Europe!
John Flansburgh and John Linnell have together perfected their deliriously catchy, original sound over the past three decades. The two-time GRAMMY winning Brooklyn originals' first release on Lojinx is the Nanobots EP, a 3-song taster of the album scheduled for release in March. Blending the band's signature storytelling, sly humour and duelling horns and also features cover art by famed designer Paul Sahre.
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Montessori stencils are generally made of metal, and are expensive. Metal, of course, is a logical material for a Montessori stencil. Montessori philosophy avoids the use of plastics, but a paper or cardboard stencil not only wouldn't be nearly capable of withstanding average wear, but it also wouldn't have the kind of high, very stiff edge that gives support to the child's pencil without becoming worn down over time.
Expensive, though...yeah. I'm saving up for a microscope for the girls, and I wouldn't dream of buying stencils. Good thing that I own a Cricut! I've used my Cricut to make everything from paper dolls to patches on my pants to felt board figures--pretty much everything EXCEPT scrapbooking.
Even on the Cricut, cutting matboard is a stretch. But with a little more effort you can make a perfect stencil, and matboard is the perfect material. It's very stiff and very sturdy, yet inexpensive, recyclable, and doesn't require so much fussing that if you wreck a stencil you feel angst about tossing it and trying again.
To make a matboard stencil, you will need:
- Cricut with the cartridge that you want. I'm using the 50 States cartridge to gradually make the girls an entire set of 50 states stencils. Any kind of geometric shape would also be very fun and useful.
- Cricut deep cut blade and deep cut blade housing. It's VERY easy to switch these out on your Cricut.
- matboard pre-cut to the appropriate size. I cut my matboards to approximately 8"x10", with the stencil being at least an inch smaller on all sides than the matboard that contains it.
- X-acto knife and self-healing cutting mat.
2. Press the matboard face-up on the sticky mat, and load it into the Cricut. Manually set the paper size as a little smaller than the real size of your matboard, to prevent the Cricut from cutting the stencil too close to the edge of the matboard. Remember this exact paper size, however.
3. Set the size of your shape so that it is at least an inch smaller on its widest side than the size of your matboard.
4. Turn on the multi-cut function.
5. After the Cricut finishes its cuts, re-set the paper size exactly the way you did in step four, and re-cut the stencil, again using the multi-cut function.
6. Unload the mat and, using the x-acto knife, finish cutting out the last little bits that didn't completely cut in the Cricut.
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'Katrina: After the Flood'
The New York Times sent Gary Rivlin to Baton Rouge and New Orleans, days after the storm, to cover Katrina as an outsider. Rivlin's instincts had him looking forward "to the mess ahead. Eventually the flood waters would recede. How would New Orleans go about the complicated task of rebuilding?" This carefully researched, beautifully written book describes that process from then until now.


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Architecture Alumni honored in the 2014 AIANY Design Awards
POSTED ON: March 11, 2014
AIA New York's annual Design Awards Program recognizes outstanding architectural design by AIA New York Chapter members, New York City based architects in any location, and work in New York City by architects around the globe. School of Architecture alumni were counted amongst the honorees for the 2014 AIANY Design Awards. All winning work will be exhibited in the Design Awards exhibition at the Center for Architecture beginning April 24, with an opening reception from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. The exhibition will remain on view through June 13.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, led by Elizabeth Diller (AR '79), Ricardo Scofidio (AR '55) and Charles Renfro, received the Urban Design Honor Award for Zaryadye Park in Moscow, Russia.
Toshiko Mori Architect, led by Toshiko Mori (AR '76), received a Merit Award in the category of Architecture for the House in Ghent located in Ghent, NY. The firm was honored with a second Merit Award in the category of Projects for the Sinthian Cultural Center and Artists' Residence in Senegal.
OBRA Architects, led by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee (AR '97), received a Merit Award in the category of Projects for the Sanhe Kindergarten in Beijing, China.
A complete list of awardees and winning submissions can be viewed here.


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You're looking at work by a young man just out of art school, and just into an enthusiastically liberated gay life.
Every work we see in Polaroids: Mapplethorpe was made by a man younger than 25. Robert Mapplethorpe would have turned 63 in November of 2009, had he not died twenty years ago at 42. We can compare the work in this exhibition to later work, but not to late work. Portraits of beautiful young men made by an aging Mapplethorpe don't exist; we're never going to see autumnal self-portraits in which the artist observes and records his own sagging flesh. Instead, we have an exhibition that is full of breathless, excited discoveries about art, seeing, the manipulation of seeing, and the scrutiny of young, beautiful people.
It's easy to see that this young man is an art student: you can watch Mapplethorpe discovering how to build on the work of the past. You could take your Western Art History survey textbook with you and find references all through the exhibition. Mapplethorpe uses a direct reproduction of Michelangelo's Dying Captive in his own work, The Slave, and quotes the pose again in other work (Randy). He places Manfred in a Renaissance architectural niche. Without direct quotations, I saw young, muscley Caravaggio angels, dreamy androgynous Pre-Raphaelite musicians, and languid odalisques from paintings by Ingres. Helen Marden's Bats looks like something straight out of Henry Fuseli. Mapplethorpe's portraits of a bony and hollow-eyed Patti Smith recall the works of the short-lived Viennese expressionist Egon Schiele. Exhibition organizer and Henry Art Gallery Director Sylvia Wolf pays particular attention, in her excellent catalogue essay, to the Renaissance depictions of St. Sebastian: beautiful, nearly nude, bound hand and foot, and painfully pierced with arrows through and through.*
The young art student is plainly dazzled with the power of his own body and those of his friends and lovers; and with the power of making images of those bodies. Mapplethorpe takes obvious joy in seeing and in manipulating seeing; in veiling and unveiling; in looking good and in looking bad. The models are posed, certainly, but it's easy to imagine the picture having been taken and the young models and photographer pursuing the theater off-camera.
Between 1970 and 1975, Mapplethorpe made about 1500 Polaroids. Looking at the exhibition, which includes 90 works, it seems as if he spent six years sketching in the studio and then turned around and made mature and polished museum work for the next fourteen years. The apparently offhand Polaroids could hardly be more different from the better-known polished, sculpted, dust-busted Hasselblad photographs. Those seem carved in stone; these are the product of the photographer's entanglement of photography with quick, flirtatious, and intimate theater.
In the past, artists never intended their preparatory drawing to be exhibited, as Seattle Art Museum currently reminds us in their Michelangelo exhibition, Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti. It is said that Michelangelo burned most of his drawings and other preparatory work before his death, so that his art would seem to have come from genius rather than labor.
Our appreciation and enjoyment of Mapplethorpe's sketch-like Polaroids rests on our relatively modern interest in the personality of the artist and how it is revealed in process as well as finished product. Charles Baudelaire's well-known 1859 definition of modernity, "the transient, the fleeting, the contingent," might as well have been written to describe the sketchy nature of Polaroid photography in general, and this exhibition in particular.
Is the work shocking? Yes – it's shockingly small and shockingly beautiful. I'd only seen the work in reproduction, and then you never know. Between 1970 and 1973, Mapplethorpe used a Polaroid Model 360 camera, which made prints 3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in.; between 1973 and 1975 he used a Graflex camera with a Polaroid back, which produced prints 4 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. The actual work is so small that it challenges our assumptions about museum decorum: you have to get within inches to see details; you have to get your nose up to the glass or you don't get the experience of the work.
From looking at reproductions in the exhibition catalogue, I had no idea how beautiful the photographs are. Beginning with his early collages, Mapplethorpe used fabric as a veil in front of his subject; the Polaroids often include some sort of veiling or backdrop. With experience, the artist learned how to use the Polaroid's characteristics to achieve similar effects. As Wolf explains, "Mapplethorpe's use of natural light, the silver content of black and white Polaroid print, and the shallow depth of field of the particular camera he used give these image a broad tonal range and exquisite softness." Those qualities, especially the warm silver tones, make the work look almost Victorian (Mapplethorpe collected Julia Cameron, among other nineteenth-century photographers). The portrait of Marianne Faithfull is an obvious example, but the real punch comes when that same broad tonal range and exquisite softness is applied to the tougher images of gay bondage, for example.
I wish it were possible to see this work without knowing anything about the photographer, or his exhibition history. Biography can take over our perception of the work, and when it does, we lose something – a way of looking at the work as a physical object; a way of incorporating the work into ourselves rather than back into its maker.
We often hear that artists "express" themselves through their art. It's worth remembering that they also intentionally lose themselves in the same process. In his essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," T.S. Eliot wrote that "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." I think that's a key to this exhibition; we're watching the artist find himself and lose himself at the same time. As Mapplethorpe said, "When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind the camera. I forget I exist."
*All citations of Sylvia Wolf come from her essay, Polaroids: Mapplethorpe, from the 2008 exhibition catalogue, Polaroids: Mapplethorpe (New York: the Whitney Museum of American Art), 2007. Published by Prestel Verlag, Munich, Berlin, London, and New York.
— By Victoria Josslin