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Giro d'Italia 2015: Stage 21 preview
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So it's over, but it's not as simple as just going home, switching off forgetting about it. You have to collect your thoughts, and your notes, and then debrief. You need to figure out what worked and what didn't, and what ideas you can introduce that might improve performance down the line. You also need to examine your own performance, because only by doing that do you improve.
After four weeks on the road you realise just how exhausted you are, but there's always a long list of stuff that needs doing. You've been on the move every day for a month and now your back to your home, your wife, your own bed. I wouldn't say it's an easy adjustment to make though. The first couple of days are always a bit strange, but at the end of the day that's the cycling life…
Moment in time
To conclude our gallop through Giro history, we're winding it all the way back. The 1909 race, the one that started it all, was just eight stages. It was actually a tour of northern and central Italy, because the south (Naples aside) had neither the roads nor the demographics. There was no point trying to flog newspapers to people who couldn't read them and the south was overwhelmingly illiterate.
They rode alternate days back then, because the Gazzetta itself only came out every other day, and the stages lasted an eternity – the first, from Milan to Bologna, was 397km. The thinking behind such epic distances was twofold. First, it meant they reached more towns and cities, and second, the mind-boggling distances captured the public imagination. They consequently bought more papers and so it rolled on.
Those who finished the final leg into Milan became instant celebrities. However, they were in the habit of issuing protests against one another and this was a case in point. Runnerup Carlo Galletti tried to have overall winner Luigi Ganna thrown off for various infractions and the jury was duty-bound to investigate. It therefore took two days for the final results to be ratified, but Galletti was barking up the wrong tree. Ganna had won fair and square, at least insofar as such a thing was possible. Which it probably wasn't, but there we go.
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Annual Tribute To Ancestors
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On Saturday, June 9th, from 12 Noon to sunset, the 18th Annual Tribute to Our Ancestors of the Middle Passage will be held on the boardwalk at West 16th Street (Ancestors Circle) in Coney Island, Brooklyn, the site where some of the earliest slave ships once docked.
Sponsored by Akeem Productions and the People of the Sun Middle Passage Collective in conjunction with Medgar Evers College, this annual tribute is in remembrance of the tens of millions of Africans who, after being kidnapped from their homeland, died during the voyage across the Atlantic – the Middle Passage – and their bodies were plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, which was to become the largest African burial ground in the world.
"Our mission is to educate people about what happened during the Middle Passage," said Tony Akeem, head of Akeem Productions. "A lot of folks don't really understand. We want them to walk away with information about what their ancestors endured."
Prayers for all ancestors will be begin at exactly 12 Noon so that they take place simultaneously with other gatherings carrying out this same rite around the world. This year special tributes will be made to Rosa Parks, Sean Bell, Carlton Engleton, James Brown, Ed Bradley, Louise Bennett and Medgar Evers' own Alana Archer, as well as to all other recent ancestors.
Following the drumming tribute, there will be speakers such as the noted Dr. Mary Umolu and Ali Abdul Perez, interspersed with singers, drummers, dancers and other cultural presentations by Shanto, Something Positive, Epiphaney, Osagyefo, Ngomo, Crown Heights Youth Collective, Kowteff, MEC Drama Club, Ruhamah, and The Lola Lewis Creative & Performing Arts Studio.
The event will culminate in the final Ancestral Offering, during which the Ancestral Drummers will lead the assembled people to the water's edge where each person will place flowers into the Atlantic Ocean, the largest African burial ground in the world.
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California chief information security officer Mark Weatherford writes on federal cyber-security.
What is it about Georgia governors?
They love farming -- and technology. Jimmy Carter introduced himself to the U.S. in the mid-1970s as a humble peanut farmer from Georgia, who also worked with nuclear energy when he was in the Navy. Current governor Sonny Perdue was raised on a farm, worked as a veterinarian and ran an agribusiness before becoming governor.
Perdue was also an early adopter of PCs as a businessman and has expressed a strong desire to use IT to modernize state government while taking it to the next level in driving efficiencies and productivity. He has also expressed frustration with the gap between IT's potential and its inability to deliver services cost-effectively and securely.
So I wasn't surprised to hear the governor directed CIO Patrick Moore and Chief Operating Officer Jim Lientz to take an unconventional approach and consolidate IT operations through a mega-outsourcing agreement with IBM and AT&T. The eight-year, $873 million deal puts the job of running Georgia's IT infrastructure and telecommunications in the hands of two of the nation's largest technology vendors.
There are few large-scale, public-sector outsourcing projects. All of them have run into challenges. What separates winners from losers? To use a cliché, the devil is in the details. Problems don't get solved by simply outsourcing them. The fact that three of Georgia's c-level executives are strongly involved makes for an interesting story, and we have a revealing look at Georgia's actions from Moore and Lientz in this issue's cover story.
A change has taken place in Michigan and it's reflected in our lineup of columnists and bloggers. Dan Lohrmann, formerly the state's chief information security officer (CISO), has become chief technology officer. Dan's not afraid to take on new challenges, so it seems natural he would broaden his horizons in the fields of government and technology. As a result, Dan's column will now cover infrastructure and innovation. He'll do the same with his blog.
Taking Dan's place covering security is Mark Weatherford, CISO of California's Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection. Weatherford recently moved to the Golden State after serving as CISO of Colorado. He received accolades from the IT security industry for his public- and private-sector work and has written for numerous industry publications. Now he's helping state CIO Teri Takai set security policies, standards and procedures. You can find Weatherford's first column in this issue and you can read his blogs on our Web site.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France is expected to reject tough rules proposed by Europe to curb the riskier activities of banks, after months of lobbying by the industry.
The draft rules to be unveiled next month will focus on banks' proprietary, high-frequency and algorithmic trading, sparing market-making - the buying and selling of securities on behalf of clients, according to two sources briefed on the government's position.
"Market-making is not being considered as a risky or speculative activity," one of the sources said.
French President Francois Hollande is therefore steering towards rejecting a call by the European Union's Liikanen Commission last month for most market-making and trading activities to be ring-fenced from mainstream business.
Banks like BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) and Societe Generale (SOGN.PA) have been lobbying against any restrictions that could give foreign rivals such as those in the U.S. an advantage. Talks between banks and government officials ended this week.
Banks are concerned that the rules will add costs and complexity at a time when the industry is only just recovering from a year-long drive to restore investor confidence by selling assets and cutting staff.
"We are convinced that (market-making) is something which is a solid economic client-related activity...In our mind, what is speculative is very limited," BNP Chief Financial Officer Lars Machenil told analysts earlier this month.
Hollande, who swept to power in May on a promise to separate banks' risky activities from those deemed useful to the economy, is juggling rising unemployment and a slump in poll ratings as he attempts to narrow France's deficit and lift competitiveness.
The government is due to unveil the final draft law in mid-December and parliament could still change or reject the proposals.
"The government knows market-making is vital to the economy," one of the sources said.
Proprietary trading, where banks take risks in financial markets with their own money, is under the spotlight because it can expose banks to big losses.
Around 5 to 10 percent of capital-markets revenue in 2011 was estimated to be proprietary-related at BNP and SocGen, the two biggest investment banks in France. That is a combined 500 million euros to 1 billion euros ($635.6 million-$1.3 billion).
The banks have cut back proprietary trading in anticipation of tougher rules.
The challenge is deciphering what is a proprietary trade and what is a market-making position.
"I think the temptation for the regulators is to put it all in the risky basket and then leave it up to the banks and their lobbying efforts to see what to take out again," said Yohan Salleron, fund manager at Mandarine Gestion in Paris.
Both BNP Paribas and Societe Generale earn an estimated 250 million euros in annual revenue from high-frequency trading, which is also expected to be restricted as part of the draft reform package.
High-speed electronic trading is also being scrutinised by regulators across the world after the "flash crash" of 2010 - which saw U.S. stocks inexplicably sink in a matter of minutes - and this year's near-collapse of market-maker Knight Capital after a software glitch.
"The authorities are worried about algorithmic trading, too," a banking source said. "It's difficult to show how it benefits the economy."
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The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSDby Anand Lal Shimpi on August 30, 2009 12:00 AM EST
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All Indilinx Drives Are Built Alike
G.Skill, OCZ, Super Talent and Patriot all sent their Indilinx MLC drives in for review. If you take the drives apart you see that most are the very same on the inside, despite differences externally:
From Left to Right: OCZ Vertex Turbo, OCZ Agility, Patriot Torqx, G.Skill Falcon and Super Talent UltraDrive GX. Only the Super Talent drive uses a different PCB design.
Even the packaging doesn't appear to vary much between manufacturers; that part I don't really understand. All that seems to change is the artwork on the outside.
There are some minor differences between drives. Patriot ships its Torqx with a 2.5" to 3.5" drive bay adapter, a nice addition. The Torqx also comes with a 10 year warranty, the longest of any Indilinx based manufacturer. OCZ is next with a 3 year warranty, followed by Super Talent and G.Skill at 2 years.
Indilinx is still a very small company so it relies on its customers to help with validation, testing and even provide feedback for firmware development. As far as I can tell, every single Indilinx customer gets the same firmware revisions. Some vendors choose to rename the firmware revisions, while others do not. OCZ calls its latest stable firmware 1.30, while G.Skill, Super Talent and Patriot call it 1571.
The Indilinx Barefoot controller (right), powered by an ARM core.
Of all the Indilinxites, OCZ and Super Talent work closest with the controller manufacturer. In exchange for their help in manufacturing and validation, OCZ and Super Talent also get access to the latest firmwares earlier than the rest of the manufacturers. Ultimately all manufacturers will get access to the same firmware, it just takes longer if you're not OCZ or Super Talent.
You no longer need to use a jumper to upgrade your firmware, provided that you're already running fw revision 1275 or later. If you have a previous version you're pretty much out of luck as you need to upgrade to 1275 first before upgrading to anything else, and none of the manufacturers make it easy to do. Some don't even offer links to the necessary firmware you'd need to jump to 1275. Thankfully pretty much anything you buy today should come nearly up to date, so this mostly impacts the original customers of the drive.
Performance, as you'd expect, is the same regardless of manufacturer:
There's normal variance between drives depending on the flash/controller, that's why the OCZ Vertex is slower than the Patriot Torqx here but faster than the Super Talent UltraDrive GX. The manufacturer and size of the flash has more to do with determining performance. Samsung is used on all of these drives but the larger the drive, the better the performance. The 256GB model here will always be faster than a 128GB drive, which will always be faster than a 64GB, etc...
All of the drives here use the same firmware (1571) except for one of the Super Talent drives. That drive is using the beta 1711 firmware with TRIM support that was pulled.
When it comes to the best overall package, I'd say Patriot's Torqx is the nicest for a desktop customer. You get a 3.5" adapter bracket and a 10 year warranty (although it's difficult to predict what Patriot's replacement strategy will be in 10 years).
The Patriot Torqx bundle, complete with a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter.
Prices vary a bit between manufacturers, although most of the more expensive drives here have a $30 rebate to bring their prices in line:
|Price for 128GB
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|OCZ Agility
|OCZ Vertex
|OCZ Vertex Turbo
|Patriot Torqx
OCZ does do some unique things that the other manufacturers don't such as deliver an overclocked drive (Turbo) and a drive with slower flash (Agility). There's a Mac Edition of the Vertex, unfortunately it's no different than the regular drive - it just has a different sticker on it and a higher pricetag.
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albor - Friday, June 18, 2010 - linkHi,
try RamDisk Plus 11 from SuperSpeed.
I use it on Xp pro 32 bit with 30 GB OCZ Vertex and 8 GB RAM. All above 3.2 GB is configured for swap and temp. Works perfectly and no visible SSD performance degradation after about 10 months.
Greetings. Reply
jmr3000 - Thursday, August 23, 2012 - linkwould explain to me how did you install it?
the ssd as a second drive or did u install all the program on the ssd and use the hhd as a second?
thanks in advance!
jm Reply
marraco - Friday, August 13, 2010 - linkSWAP file is one of the most important speed bottleneck on windows.
it writes frequently to disk, so consumes the read write cicles of the disk, reducing his useful life.
But you are not buying space storage when you buy SSD. You are buying speed, so it makes nosense to buy an expensive SSD, and then remove from it all the activities that need the speed and are bottlenecks.
you buy a SSD to do the fastest SWAP. keep it on SSD.
Also, drive indexing permanently does a lot of reads, but it does not matter if the disk is fast. Drive indexing is like a little local google. If you disable it, and then search for all the files with a given text on it, searching the entire disk takes longer than just read an indexing.
Those activities consume the useful life of the disk, but at the time the disk gonna need replacement, (5 years, maybe), this disk gonna need replacement anyways, and new SSD gonna be dirty cheap, so it makes no sense to disable swap, temp files, and indexing.
On other side, prefetch, superfetch and defrag most probably are better disabled under SSD. Reply
jimlocke - Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - linkPehu, I know this much after your posting, but I was curios what you ended up doing for swap.
8GB of RAM almost seems like swap may not be needed, unless you have several memory-hogging apps open.
Hope you still like your SSD. I'm looking at getting one soon, and agree this was an excellent article!
-Jim Reply
krumme - Friday, October 9, 2009 - linkFirst: I submit to the importance of random 4k for ssd.
Second: Over the years I have highly valued the articles of Anand. It is remarkable to see such detailed and enthusiastic information.
Now I have a few questions, following the general impact of this work.
Some observations first:
Following an article at Toms of a ssd article the 6 of September. The author was called a "Moron", primarily as the random 4k synthetic bm was missing. The author was giving a different opinion on the indilinx vs intel, in the desktop sector, compared to Anand, giving more weight to transfer vs iops.
In an discussion about a Kingston V-series review, one said that he would take the indilinx ssd any day because it was "750 times faster" – an argument based on iops.
Another remark I have read several times is: "The Intel x25-M g2 is the only drive to get".
Another is: "I would like to buy the Dell xx, but it has an Samsung controller so its of no use".
I think it is time to stop, and make sure there is reason in what is happening for normal desktop use.
Do we have blind test where to tell the difference between the Intel, Samsung and Indilinx?
What is the actual real world bm fx. Win7 boot times for the 3 controlers?
There is something called good enough. When is 4k random read/write time enough, to not notice any subjective improvement afterwards in win7? Could it be fx. 10M/s?
The ssd is the best thing happening since 3d gfx, but I think we should enjoy what is happeing right now, because this time, could be the turning point where we soon are focusing on small differences.
Anyone knows what´s the next big thing?
bebby - Friday, October 30, 2009 - linkRandom 4k and its relevance for desktop use is really the main topic for me, too.
If I assume that I only use the SSD for the OS and software and save my data on other, much less expensive HDDs, I doubt very much that this discussion is worth it. The Samsung SSD then suddenly looks not so bad at all and much cheaper...
The next big thing for me would be an OS starting up in 5 seconds, like the OS we had in the 90s...making SSD obsolete. Reply
bebby - Friday, October 30, 2009 - linkRandom 4k and its relevance for desktop use is really the main topic for me, too.
If I assume that I only use the SSD for the OS and software and save my data on other, much less expensive HDDs, I doubt very much that this discussion is worth it. The Samsung SSD then suddenly looks not so bad at all and much cheaper...
The next big thing for me would be an OS starting up in 5 seconds, like the OS we had in the 90s...making SSD obsolete. Reply
marraco - Friday, August 13, 2010 - linkI agree completely. I think that human beings can nottice the difference between a hard disk, and a non bad SSD, because the difference is too large, but over "good enough", it does not matter much if the SSD is 2X or 4X faster in 4Kb random R/W.
But mine is just an opinion, and I don't have good data to test it. I would like to read an article with repeatable testing on human perception. Reply
SimesP - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - linkI haven't read all 254 comments (yet) but I'd like to add my thanks to everyone elses for the comprehensive and illuminating article. This, along with the previous AnandTech SSD articles have increased my understanding of SSD's immensely.
Thanks again! Reply
ClemSnide - Friday, October 2, 2009 - linkAnand,
A couple of guys from HotHardware.com pointed me at your SSD article, and it allowed me to make an informed decision. Thanks!
I wanted to speed up one game in particular (World of Warcraft) as well as routine OS tasks and web browsing. I think an SSD will do a bang-up job on at least the first two. The one I decided upon was the OCZ Agility 60 GB, which offers some growth room; I currently have 40 GB on my system drive. I know the Intel has better numbers, but I was able to get the OCZ for $156 after a rebate, which translates to decent performance at a price I can justify. (For the curious, it's available from TigerDirect for $184, and OCZ is giving a $30 rebate.)
Even though my system build is still months away, this should be usable on my old clunker as well. Very nifty! Reply


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Plaintiffs claimed that defendant hacked into one of the plaintiffs' email accounts during the litigation to get an advantage in the case. The court entered severe sanctions against defendant for doing this — it struck his answer. In litigation, that is like declaring plaintiffs the winners.
Defendant had argued to the magistrate judge that his mental illness (bipolar disorder) caused him to hack plaintiff's email account out of fear for his security. Defendant even presented expert testimony from a psychiatrist to support the claim that he lacked the mental state to act in bad faith.
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DREAM protesters hurt their cause
What were they thinking? We'll probably never know. But from their actions, we can figure out who they were thinking about. Themselves.
Young illegal immigrants brought here as children and raised in this country — the so-called DREAMers — are often just as self-centered as some of our homegrown kids. Why not? They've been marinating for years in the same juices of disrespect, narcissism, entitlement, arrogance and contempt for authority. It's all about them. Many teens and "20-somethings" worship the holy trinity of Me, Myself, and I. The immigrant kids are no different.
Even so, heads are still shaking in the Latino community over the embarrassing spectacle that recently marred the House Judiciary Committee's long-anticipated hearing on immigration reform. Just seconds before committee members were supposed to hear testimony from San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, three young people who were sitting in the back of the room stood up and declared themselves at the top of their lungs: "undocumented and unafraid." They were quickly escorted out of the room for disrupting the proceedings.
Undocumented and unafraid, eh? They got it partly right. They forgot unsophisticated and apparently unconcerned with hurting their own cause.
And what exactly is their cause? They didn't say. They were so busy announcing themselves to the world that they never got around to declaring what they wanted. Mostly, it seems, they wanted attention.
Presumably, the protesters want lawmakers to create a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented. We know this because DREAMers haven't exactly been shy in making their demands. And this isn't just about three people. Some of their outbursts have happened all over the country. A lot of us agree on the need for a path to citizenship. What's odd is that the three protesters thought that showing contempt for the members of Congress — Democrats and Republicans — was a good first step to getting there.
Instead of embarrassing themselves, why not just let the elected officials talk — and embarrass themselves? That is especially true of Republicans, who don't seem to have come up with a new argument against legalizing the undocumented in the last 20 years.
Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, asked: "How do we avoid creating an incentive for people to continue to come here?"
Here's my answer: "Dear Congressman, if you really don't want more people to come to the United States illegally, the solution is simple. Go back to your district and call a town hall meeting of soccer moms, housewives, ranchers, farmers, owners of construction firms, restaurants and hotels and tell them to stop hiring illegal immigrants. Problem solved."
Whether they intended to or not, these rowdy youngsters also wound up showing disrespect for Castro, who had been invited to offer his opinions on immigration. There is the message for our youth: "Want to get on the evening news? You can go to Stanford University and Harvard Law School, get elected mayor of a major U.S. city, and deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Or, if all that sounds like too much work, you can simply pick up a sign and make a scene at a congressional hearing. Either way, the camera will find you."
In the end, the protesters looked foolish and pitiful. They also came across as selfish and reckless — that is, willing to play games with what some say is the best chance that the undocumented have had in decades to legalize their status. They might have jeopardized support for the whole deal, and they didn't seem to care a bit.
And spare me the argument that this was somehow in keeping with the great American tradition of civil disobedience. Not so. Civil disobedience is about defying an unjust law and then accepting the punishment. That means submitting to authority, not rejecting it.
This unfortunate tantrum was more in line with the actions of the petulant Florida teenager recently sentenced to 30 days in jail for cursing and "flipping off" a judge. The ill-mannered Penelope Soto later offered a tearful apology to the judge, who dropped the contempt-of-court charges and vacated her jail sentence.
So when will the immigrant protesters apologize for their outburst? It'll never happen.


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Bonnie Holmes-Gen: On Pollution and Air Quality in America
Bonnie Holmes-Gen is the Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy at the American Lung Association in California (ALAC). At the ALA, Ms. Holmes-Gen is responsible for advocating the public policy concerns of ALAC before the California Legislature and state agencies such as the California Air Resources Board and the California Energy Commission. She specializes in air quality and environmental health issues including: global warming and AB 32 implementation; heavy-duty diesel pollution; alternative fuel and zero emission vehicle programs; electricity generation and air pollution; indoor air pollution; and statewide and local air pollution control programs.
Q: What did the 2014 State of the Air report find about current state of air quality in California and the U.S.?
A: Too many people are breathing unhealthy air in Los Angeles, and throughout the country. While real and steady progress has been made, there is still a lot of work to do. Los Angeles continues to top the list of cities that have the worst ozone pollution. The bad news is that we continue to get failing grades in the L.A. region, but the good news is there's been a tremendous amount of work to reduce pollution. The investment and control measures that have been implemented have made a big difference. Over a third of the ozone pollution has been erased because of our state, federal and local control measures.
What is the difference between Ozone pollution and Particle pollution?
Ozone is an irritating gas – it actually causes burns on lung tissues like a bad sunburn. It's a corrosive gas and can cause health problems the day you breathe it in and long after. Ozone pollution contributes to worsening of respiratory illnesses, triggers asthma attacks, and has even been linked to heart attacks, strokes and can cause premature death.
We considered particle pollution one of the most dangerous pollutants. These tiny particles are a mix of ash, soot, metals and chemicals, and are a fraction of the size of a human hair. These tiny pollutants are breathed deep into the lungs they pass through into the bloodstream and affect the heart and other organs. Tiny particles have been linked to heart attacks and strokes, they've been linked to cancer including lung cancer, they cause asthma attacks, and these tiny particles have also been linked to delayed lung growth in children.
What laws and regulations will make the difference in the future?
We're moving in the right direction, and seeing some steady reduction in pollution in Los Angeles and across the state. But we do need to take some important steps because transportation sources are the majority of our pollution problems. We really need to focus on how we can ratchet down dramatically on transportation pollution if we're going to achieve our standards. That means we need to transition to zero emission and near zero emission technologies and fuels. In the passenger car sector, we need to move to battery electric, fuel cell, other zero emission cars as quickly as we can. In terms of the heavy duty sector – trucks, buses, and the ports – we also need to move to zero emission and adopt the cleanest sources we have available.
We're actually supporting some legislation by Senator [Kevin] de leon (D-Los Angeles), SB 1275, and also by Senator [Ricardo] Lara (D-Long Beach), SB 1204. This package of bills is geared towards putting a million electric vehicles and near zero emission trucks and buses on California roads, and to do all of that in the next decade, and to ensure that all income levels benefit from clean transportation technologies. We need to do more of what we have been doing, [like] with California's strict emissions standards on cars and fuels, and we need to make this transition to zero emission.
What can the individual do?
We need to grow healthier in terms of our community planning, and pay attention to what individuals can do in terms of changing individual patterns of getting around. Everybody can make a difference in their community by driving less and embracing cleaner, zero emission transportation options that are out there. If someone is buying a new vehicle, consider a battery electric, plug-in hybrid or fuel cell vehicle, or even just a cleaner conventional vehicle. Everybody needs to be focused on reducing emissions from the cars they drive and finding other ways to get around.
We can conserve in our home and reduce energy usage. This helps to reduce emissions from the power sector. Reducing wood burning is important because wood smoke contributes to winter time peaks in particle pollution, so people should consider investing in cleaner natural gas or electric fireplaces that don't emit particles and don't harm health. Supporting community efforts to plan for smarter growth, more transit focused growth, is another action people can take.
Kareem Maddox – Kareem holds an A.B. in English from Princeton University, and loves narrative of all kinds. He splits time between a tech firm and a National Public Radio affiliate station in Los Angeles.


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No amount of heavy techno music can make life better for the Colonial Marines in Aliens Vs. Predator.
As an Alien player, I feel sorry for the Colonial Marines. After all, the game is called Aliens Vs. Predator, not Aliens Vs. Predator Vs. Colonial Marines. Aside from being far too long a title, they simply aren't the stars of this show, existing as the control group in this giant, deadly experiment. One race gets stealth, one can run over walls and ceilings, and the third? Hell, we'll give him a gun and a human voice to scream with. That should do nicely.
Poor Colonial Marines. Look on the bright side! I wouldn't kill you if you weren't so damn tasty!


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Reggie Orchid necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
EchoBoomers Burger Creations
My name is Reggie Orchid. I helped build the Jasons deli Brand of restaurants for the last 23 years. I have always had a dream of starting my own chain, and now I am seeing that dream manifest. EchoBoomers Burger creations is a fast casual restaurant that resides in the segment that was invented by the demands of the EchoBoomers. This generation demands quality, chef driven products that are laser focused on quality, and they don't mind spending a little more for this product. They want flavor, customization, in a non pretentious environment, and they want to stay within value price points. EchoBoomers will encompass all of these elements in an environment with an open, performance kitchen, customized salad station, fresh food made from scratch ingredients that are meticuloulsly prepared. I am 45 years old, and have 3 small children and a beautiful wife that share my vision. My dream is not only to create a healthy business for financial stability for them, but to create a culture that will allow for people to grow and thrive.
I would consider it an honor if you would create a unique, humanically driven logo for my dream.
The first EchoBoomers will reside in a high traffic, heavily dense demographic with a significant amount of professional offices, retail synergy, and strong residential demographic. I am targeting a lunch/ dinner clientele, accessible to all demographics and psychographics.
I will keep the requirements simple.
Clean, simple and relevant. No burger pictures (there is much more on the menu), just wonderful font, 2 color at the most, with something that really catches the eye and says "we've got to try this place!"
I picture the E and the B capitalized. But feel free to create.
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An Edsel, Not an Empire
The Edsel name became synonymous with failure back in 1957, when the Ford Motor Company launched a "new concept" of a car named after the then chairman's father, Edsel Ford. It bombed like no car has before or since. In 1999, Tina Brown, in cahoots with the disgusting Harvey Weinstein, launched Talk magazine with a million-buck grand-opening extravaganza on some island off Manhattan. Talk became an Edsel in no time, with Weinstein shutting it down after only one year. Both the Edsel and Talk used Madison Avenue hucksterisms to stir up excitement before the final product appeared. Both proved the old adage about fooling all the people all of the time to be correct. Mind you, Detroit has been lying to Americans since the first horseless buggy. Compared to European and Japanese cars, American ones are unsafe and expensive to run. It took a Lebanese-American to expose the lies with Unsafe at Any Speed almost 40 years ago, but still Detroit lies and covers up.
Which brings me to the Bush presidency: it looks like an Edsel—brilliant presentation followed by total failure. But it's doing its best to cover up the mess. As Patrick Foy wrote in his newsletter, "Call it what you will, but Washington is hitting the wall in Iraq." If only those Fifth Columnists who advised George W. Bush to go in head first would read history rather than policy papers. Back in 1920, Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, fresh from overseeing the debacle of Gallipoli, was hard at work implementing the Balfour Declaration and creating client states for England. We are now paying the price for Churchill's criminal shortsightedness. The neocons may lack Churchill's breeding, but they are just as arrogant, short-sighted, and cynical as old Winnie. (He at least had the excuse of his father's syphilis.) Here's Margaret MacMillan in her opus, Paris 1919: "When the Cold War ended in 1989 and Soviet Marxism vanished into the dustbin of history, older forces, religion and nationalism, came out of their deep freeze. Bosnia and Rwanda have reminded us of how strong those forces can be. Today, some argue, resurgent Islam is the menace. In 1919, it was Russian Bolshevism."I guarantee you that resurgent Islam will also vanish into the dustbin of history as long as Uncle Sam minds his own business and stays out of the backyards of people who wear towels on their heads. If the Saudi kleptocrats wish to finance Islamofascists to preach death and destruction to infidels, let them—as long as they don't do it in Michigan. As my friend (I am the godfather of one of his children), the brilliant historian Niall Ferguson, writes in Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Americans won't admit to being an empire, as the U.S. only came into being by violently seceding from someone else's empire. But, like it or not, we are becoming a sort of empire, if only because we exercise a hegemonic influence both culturally and economically the world over. This is fine, as long as we don't muck around in the affairs of other countries.
Patrick Buchanan has said it time and again, we are a republic, not an empire, and we should behave as such. If only George W. Bush had read Lawrence of Arabia, rather than Wolfowitz of Mesopotamia, he would have known that Lawrence recruited many a man to fight against the Turks, all of whom eventually turned against the Brits once the hated Johnny Turk had been sent packing back to Istanbul. That history repeats itself is a cliché, but a hell of a good one.
Britain's empire lasted a long time because nation-building back then required time and patience, something the American electorate will not put up with. The Brits sent generations of civil administrators overseas, generations who went native and stayed native. Ferguson reports that out of 43,683 undergraduate registrations at Yale in 2004, only one student majored in Near Eastern languages. How does one infiltrate an Islamist cell when one speaks only English and can't live without McDonald's for more than a week?
Not that these details ever bothered those who helped launch this disaster. Remember the Iron Chancellor's famous remark that the Balkans were not worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier? Well, Iraq is not worth the life of a single American soldier, especially an American Marine. Saddam was a threat to Iraq, not to Uncle Sam. Not even to Israel, as it turns out, but try to say this to the Israeli Lobby. As Frank Johnson wrote in the London Spectator, the neocons have been making mischief for more than a hundred years. He compares the present motley cabal of Wolfowitzes and Feiths to Lord Milner, the governor of the British Cape Colony in South Africa. Johnson writes, "Milner's Iraq was the Boer republic of Transvaal." He set out to convince the prime minister, Lord Salisbury, that the Boers were a threat to Britain, as ludicrous a claim as the WMD hoax a century later. It would be a cakewalk, or a slam-dunk, according to Milner. Over 22,000 British dead and three years later, Salisbury found out what neocon really means. Now it's Bush's turn. Unless he cleans house, his will be the Edsel presidency.


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Brewers' four-game win streak snapped in extras
Gallardo has quality start, but 11 men are left stranded
MILWAUKEE -- Yovani Gallardo continued his string of quality starts, but Brewers hitters left him stranded.
An offense that has scored in bunches on the road is sputtering at hitter-friendly Miller Park, where Brewers batters went hitless in nine at-bats with runners in scoring position Tuesday on the way to a 12-inning, 2-1 loss to the Padres.
Gallardo allowed a run in seven innings for his fifth quality start -- six or more innings, three or fewer earned runs -- in as many outings. Three Brewers relievers -- including losing pitcher Alfredo Figaro, who was in his third inning when San Diego's Chase Headley hit the go-ahead home run -- provided efficient relief. All that was missing was the one clutch hit that the Brewers have been getting on the road.
"It takes a lot to keep the lineup that we have to one run," Gallardo said. "As far as being a pitcher, we know the guys can hit. We know the guys are going to hit. You just have to keep us in the ballgame and wait for that to happen."
The Brewers are still have the best record in baseball at 15-6, but that includes a 9-1 record on the road while scoring a Major League-best six runs per game. At home, the Brewers are averaging just shy of 2.4 runs per game.
Opposing pitching has played a part. Three of the Brewers' four opponents at Miller Park -- Atlanta, St. Louis and San Diego -- are among the top six the National League ERAs. Milwaukee is in that group, too.
"It's a good hitter's park," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "We'll hit here."
Gallardo was the standout on a long night. By holding the Padres to one run on five hits in a season-high seven innings, the right-hander lowered his ERA to 1.42. That's the best ERA in a five-man Brewers starting rotation that features four pitchers below 3.00.
The only Padres run against him came in the fifth inning, when the Padres tore a page from the Brewers' own playbook by executing a safety squeeze with pitcher Ian Kennedy at the plate. Gallardo bobbled the ball as he tried to flip it home.
"I think I would have been able to get him there at home, but it hit the palm of my hand and kind of bounced off," Gallardo said. "I was a little frustrated about that, but if you have runners on, it was big just giving up that one run. It could have easily gotten away. It could have been a huge inning." He escaped by retiring Everth Cabrera on a called strikeout and Will Venable on a line drive that struck Gallardo's right leg. Gallardo threw to first base in time for the out and remained in the game for two more innings after that.
"It got the side of my knee, a little bit towards my quad," Gallardo said. "If I was going to get hit, it was the right spot to get hit on. I was still able to go out there and finish those innings."
Milwaukee tied the game in the bottom of the fifth against Kennedy, who briefly called for an athletic trainer when his right calf cramped on ball 2 to Brewers second baseman Scooter Gennett. Kennedy remained in the game, and three pitches later grooved a fastball that Gennett hit for a solo home run.
"I kind of babied a couple of pitches to Gennett, so I'm kind of mad at myself for that," Kennedy said.
It was Gennett's first homer of the season, and the only blemish on Kennedy's strange pitching line. He allowed one run on four hits in six odd innings, throwing 73 pitches in the first three frames, and only 27 pitches in the next three. The Brewers left six men on base in the first three innings, including three in the third when Khris Davis was caught looking at strike 3.
"I think we had some good ABs off him, but didn't put enough good ABs in a row to make it hurt," Davis said. "He threw the ball well. We just didn't string them along."
Later in the game, the Brewers also stranded runners in scoring position in the ninth and 10th innings. Davis made the final out of the 10th when he flew out to center field with the winning run at second base. Two days earlier, his homer beat the Pirates in the 14th inning.
"I was excited for the opportunity again," Davis said. "I was just looking to put a good swing on it, and the swing was there. I got the pitch I wanted to hit. I just didn't get the barrel to it because it got in on my hands.
"These losses, they hurt, because you feel so good in so many of them."
The Brewers could feel good about Gallardo, whose strikeout rate is at the lowest point of his career but is off to his best start, at least in terms of ERA. In 2009, when Gallardo was 23 years old and coming back from knee injury, he was 3-1 with a 2.86 ERA through his first five starts while striking out 34 batters in his first 34 2/3 innings.
This year, he has 23 strikeouts in 31 2/3 innings, but his ERA is more than a run better. He has pitched at least six innings and surrendered two or fewer earned runs in all of his 2014 starts, including one run or fewer in three of them.
"I've just been consistent these starts that I've had so far," Gallardo said. "That was one of my main focuses in Spring Training, and I've been able to do that. It's a matter of keeping it going throughout the year."
Against the Padres, Gallardo succeeded by keeping the Padres out of the air. Sixteen of his 21 outs came via ground balls (13) or strikeouts, plus three flyouts and one runner picked off second base by Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy. Only one of Gallardo's outs after the second inning came in the air.
"That's the plan," Gallardo said. "I think for myself, that's important. It's going to keep your pitch count down when you get early swings form guys."


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Today I went to Chevron (convenience store) and purchased some Vanilla Coke (the bottles were $.50 each, so I decided to go through with it. Besides, at a restaurant named Chili's they have had it for years. I think it tastes pretty good.
I used to drink Mt. Dew every day, but now it... just doesn't taste good any more. I tend to switch between Coke and Pepsi now, going with whatever I can afford.
I also like some wine coolers ever other month or so.
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Between the non-stop Black Friday ads and premature Christmas displays, it's easy for folks who don't work at Hallmark shops to forget about Thanksgiving. While I try to avoid traditional holidays celebrations (which reminds me, check out my blog next week to read about my commemoration of America Recycles Day!), Thanksgiving is one of the few I even acknowledge.
Of course, there's the all day gorgefest that usually starts with eggs Benedict and home fries for breakfast and ends with a midnight trip to the kitchen for leftover turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes, but there's something to be said for a day that encourages us to be grateful.
I am most appreciative for my friends and family and my health. I am also thankful to call Jacksonville home. I dedicate this post to everyone who complains about living on the First Coast—and remind them that moving is always an option.
1. One of the biggest complaints about Jacksonville is there's nothing to do. Clearly, these people have never opened a Folio Weekly (have you seen our calendar of events?); visited Jax Events', Downtown Jacksonville's or Visit Jacksonville's websites; or (shameless plug alert!) listened to my weekly events wrap-up on WJCT's First Coast Connect. There's always something to do if folks would stop complaining and start paying attention.
2. How many times have you heard someone bitch about Jacksonville traffic? Clearly, these people have never been to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York City or Boston. People in live in those cities know traffic. As a matter of comparison, D.C. commuters spend an average of 67 hours a year sitting in traffic, while Jacksonville drivers are idle for 11 hours a year. In fact, we are ranked 45th in traffic congestion in the country.
3. I've never understood why people grumble about the humidity in Florida. Sure, it's unpleasant to start sweating two seconds after you walk outside inthe summer, not to mention drive in a sauna on wheels. But guess what? We have it pretty good. In fact, we aren't even close to being the most humid city in the country, according to The Weather Channel. That honor goes to—you guess it—Quillayute, Wash. with an annual average of relative humidity of 83.5 percent, followed by Mount Washington, NH at 83 percent and Astoria, Ore. at 78.5 percent. Jacksonville's is 53.
4. Speaking of weather, who isn't sick of it raining all of the time in the summer? Well, newsflash, our average annual rainfall of 52 inches is way below that New Orleans (64), Pensacola (65) and Mobile (67). Don't you fell "all wet" now?
Crime, education, parking Downtown, construction, the Jacksonville Jaguars ... I could go on ane on with the things I hear locals bitch about every day and have plenty of facts to "prove" that Jacksonville is a great place to live but there's no convincing haters.
WIth that, I wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. And please feel free to complain about this post.


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Spiced turkey burgers
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 10 mins
Turkey isn't just for Christmas you know! The kids will love these, and for the grown ups, they're low fat, too
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Easily doubled / halved
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal318
- fat9g
- saturates2g
- carbs26g
- sugars2g
- fibre2g
- protein34g
- salt0.95g
Save to My Good Food
- 500g turkey mince
- ½ red onion, grated
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 2 tsp Madras curry powder
- handful chopped coriander
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
Sunflower oil
Sunflower oil is made from pressing sunflower seeds and extracting the oil. It's usually…
- 4 burger buns
- salad and mango chutney or lime pickle, to serve
The same shape, but smaller than…
In a large bowl, mix together the turkey mince, onion, garlic, curry powder, coriander and egg yolk with a little salt and pepper. Combine well with your hands, then shape into 4 flat burger patties.
Heat the oil in a frying pan over a high heat, then cook the burgers for 5 mins each side or until cooked through. Toast the cut sides of the burger buns. Place the salad on the bottom halves of the warm buns, then top with the burgers and chutney or lime pickle.
Recipe Tip
TipIf you prefer, you can make up your own Madras curry powder using 1 tsp each ground coriander, cumin and garam masala and ½ tsp chilli powder.
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Comments, questions and tips
8th Mar, 2017
Tried these last night. Followed the tip of making my own Madras Powder, the flavour of the spices and corriander hits you at first bite, anything with an Indian flavour goes down very well with me so these were absolutely delicious. In a change to the cooking method, I fired the burgers for about five mins on each side then finished them in the oven for twenty mins at 200C as per another recipe !!
26th Apr, 2016
Really enjoyed these - I had to sub parsley for the coriander as I dont care for it. I had read so many comments about them not cooking through so i think I cooked them a bit too long and they were slightly dry so next time I'll cook for less time. I also made 7 rather than 5. These tasted even better the next day (as with most curry things) and I had them in a wholemeal wrap with minty yogurt and salad for lunch!
20th Nov, 2012
I was looking for something different to do with the turkey mince I had bought. These were lovely! I'm really picky about burgers, and was a bit worried the curry flavour would be overpowering but it really isn't. Everyone who ate these commented how nice they were and the mango chutney goes perfectly!
27th Feb, 2016
My 6 year old son (& husband) loved them and had them twice for dinner and lunch! I used WHOLE EGG plus two tablespoons of breakfast OATS (keeps burgers moist & healthy). Mixed mango chutney with (greek) yoghurt (yummy & healthier sauce). Served in pita bread and added some sag aloo I made with leftover boiled new potatoes, frozen spinach, onion, garlic and a tsp of curry paste. It is a winner!


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Apple is expected to unveil the iPad 3, the next generation of its popular tablet, at a San Francisco event on March 7.
Apple announced the event on Tuesday, sending an invitation with the tagline, "We have something you really have to see. And touch." Although Apple hasn't specifically said the event will be to unveil the new iPad, the invitation shows a finger touching an iPad, and the iPad launch has been long rumored for early March.
Apple has given no specifics on what features the new iPad will include, although rumors have included a Retina-display screen, a faster processor, a better camera and a bigger battery.
The iPad 2 came out a year ago. The starting price was $499 and $629 for 3G.
If the iPad 3 is released, the cost of an iPad 2 will likely be discounted.
The Apple invite asks reporters to come to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10 a.m.
We don't know when the new iPad would be available for sale. Sales of the iPad 2 launched nine days after the Apple announcement.
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Black Star Correspondent's Award
Black Star News Southern Africa correspondent Sifelani Tsiko was recently crowned Information, Communication and Technology Reporter of the Year at the 2006 National Journalistic and Media Awards.
Tsiko won the award for his in-depth and well-researched article on the need to promote African languages on the Internet as a strategy of preserving them from becoming extinct.
"African languages are often regarded as inferior and I am glad Tsiko you have managed to raise an important issue which needs to be taken seriously in the wake of the dominance and the globalizing influence of the English language," one of the judges said.
He was singled out as the only journalist who has managed to consistently write on science and technology issues which most scribes shied away from.
In February this year, Tsiko was named winner of the prestigious RTG/Environment Africa Environmental Reporter of the Year 2006 award. The NJAMA awards were organized by the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ).
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Competition was stiff and the judges said the quality of entries submitted was very high.
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Petite actress Hayden Panetierre is convinced she and her fiancé, boxing giant Wladimir Klitschko, will have perfectly normal children together – because they're opposites in so many ways.
The 5-foot-2 star and the 6-foot-6 heavyweight boxing champion announced their engagement last month, and she admits their wedding plans have prompted some thought about what their kids will look like.
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Cole v Ontario (Health and Long-Term Care) : Challenging the funding limits to live in community settings
The applicant, Ian Cole, is a middle-aged man with a severe intellectual disability who lives in the community. To live in the community, Mr. Cole depends on the receipt of nursing services. The primary source of funding for the nursing services is his local Community Care Access Centre (CCAC). The maximum funding for nursing services is set out in a regulation made under the Home Care and Community Services Act, 1994. At the time the application was filed, funding was available for nursing services to a maximum of four visits per day.


text: Chairmen would wield enormous power and influence if GOP Rep. John Boehner becomes speaker. By Richard Sammon, Senior Associate Editor October 8, 2010 Republicans aren't only anticipating winning back the House. They are presently planning the details and leaders of an energized new majority team, should they win the gavels back in the midterm election. Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, the presumed speaker-in-waiting if the GOP wins control, is fast assembling a likely roster of chairmen to develop legislation defining the party's agenda on domestic policy, taxes, defense and foreign policy.Boehner would be a different speaker in style and strategy than Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has wielded much direct power and influence over the Democratic House. For starters, Boehner promises to decentralize control, spreading the power of legislative and policy influence. Instead of a small leadership circle directing the agenda, committee chairmen would be empowered to develop their own legislation, working the particulars and the overall planks of major bills and hearings that would be called. Though a Democratic Senate and White House would probably block many initiatives of a GOP House, likely Republican chairmen are already planning an aggressive strategy. Sponsored Content Appropriations. Rep. Jerry Lewis of San Bernardino County, Calif., is the senior Republican and a former chairman of the committee. He'll play one of the most central roles in budgeting and spending matters for the GOP. A long-time promoter of Pentagon spending, look for Lewis to block likely attempts from both sides of the aisle to make large cuts in defense. In a budget showdown, which is very likely next year, Lewis will insist on a near freeze in domestic spending, minus defense. Ways and Means. Potential contenders to head the tax writing committee include Dave Camp of Michigan, Eric Cantor of Virginia and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. All are rising stars in the GOP camp, and whoever gets the post is sure to work hard to make the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 permanent, even in the face of a veto threat from the Obama administration. Also a possibility: Wally Herger of California, who has long pushed for simplifying the tax code. Central in the committee's work will be entitlement reform and health care law changes -- each a tall order to pass. Advertisement Energy and Commerce. Texans Joe Barton and Ralph Hall are at the top of the list, although Barton may have ruined his chances by defending BP after the Gulf disaster. Either would aggressively pursue expanded domestic and offshore oil and gas exploration. Agriculture. Rep. Frank Lucas, a 16-year member of the House and a former farmer and rancher from Oklahoma, would be chairman. He supports the main farm subsidy and price support programs and would try to shield them from being targeted by budget hawks for deficit reduction next year. He'd also develop the next huge farm bill, most likely in 2012 with expansions in crop insurance, rural development projects and agriculture research. Oversight and Government Reform. As chairman, Darrell Issa of San Diego, another rising star in the party, would use the committee's power to launch several investigations into the Obama administration, particularly relating to industry bailouts and economic stimulus spending decisions. Armed Services. Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon of Los Angeles is likely to get the nod. McKeon has long been the go-to guy on Capitol Hill for large defense contractors, including many located in southern California. McKeon and Lewis of Appropriations have long been close colleagues in the House. They'll each have a hand in directing billions of dollars in defense spending. Advertisement Rules Committee. David Dreier of northern Los Angeles would head the panel that sets the parameters for all floor debate in the House. Dreier is a reliable conservative vote and one of Boehner's most loyal colleagues. He's also a major fundraiser for the Republican Party. While he often shuns the national media spotlight, Dreier would be one of the most powerful members of a GOP House, helping steer legislation, strategy and debate from a committee perch that has outsize influence, despite the often quiet and less-reported way it operates.


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7 U.S.C. 1a, 2, 6b, 6c, 6d, 6g, 6h, 6k, 6l, 6o, 7, 12a, 21, and 23, as amended by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, appendix E of Pub. L. 106-554, 114 Stat. 2763 (2000).
(a) The term
(b) [Reserved]
(c) The term
(d) The term
No futures commission merchant, retail foreign exchange dealer, introducing broker or any of their associated persons may directly or indirectly effect a transaction in a commodity interest for the account of any customer unless before the transaction the customer, or person designated by the customer to control the account:
(a) With respect to a commodity interest as defined in any paragraph of the commodity interest definition in § 1.3 of this chapter, specifically authorized the futures commission merchant, retail foreign exchange dealer, introducing broker or any of their associated persons to effect the transaction (a transaction is "specifically authorized" if the customer or person designated by the customer to control the account specifies—
(1) The precise commodity interest to be purchased or sold; and
(2) The exact amount of the commodity interest to be purchased or sold); or
(b) With respect to a commodity interest as defined in paragraph (1) or (2) of the commodity interest definition in § 1.3 of this chapter, authorized in writing the futures commission merchant, introducing broker or any of their associated persons to effect transactions in commodity interests for the account without the customer's specific authorization;
Each Commission registrant, except an associated person who has no supervisory duties, must diligently supervise the handling by its partners, officers, employees and agents (or persons occupying a similar status or performing a similar function) of all commodity interest accounts carried, operated, advised or introduced by the registrant and all other activities of its partners, officers, employees and agents (or persons occupying a similar status or performing a similar function) relating to its business as a Commission registrant.
Each branch office of each Commission registrant must use the name of the firm of which it is a branch for all purposes, and must hold itself out to the public under such name. The act, omission or failure of any person acting for the branch office, within the scope of his employment or office, shall be deemed the act, omission or failure of the Commission registrant as well as of such person.
(A) Arises out of any transaction executed on or subject to the rules of a designated contract market,
(B) Is executed or effected through a member of such facility, a participant transacting on or through such facility or an employee of such facility, and
(C) Does not require for adjudication the presence of essential witnesses or third parties over whom the facility does not have jurisdiction and who are not otherwise available.
(ii) Arises out of any retail forex transaction (as defined in § 5.1(m) of this chapter).
(2) The term
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(1) Signing the agreement must not be made a condition for the customer to utilize the services offered by the Commission registrant.
(2) If the agreement is contained as a clause or clauses of a broader agreement, the customer must separately endorse the clause or clauses containing the cautionary language and provisions specified in this section. A futures commission merchant or introducing broker may obtain such endorsement as provided in § 1.55(d) of this chapter for the following classes of customers only:
(i) A plan defined as a government plan or church plan in section 3(32) or section 3(33) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 or a foreign person performing a similar role or function subject as such to comparable foreign regulation; and
(ii) A person who is a "qualified eligible participant" or a "qualified eligible client" as defined in § 4.7 of this chapter.
(3) The agreement may not require any customer to waive the right to seek reparations under section 14 of the Act and part 12 of this chapter. Accordingly, such customer must be advised in writing that he or she may seek reparations under section 14 of the Act by an election made within 45 days after the Commission registrant notifies the customer that arbitration will be demanded under the agreement. This notice must be given at the time when the Commission registrant notifies the customer of an intention to arbitrate. The customer must also be advised that if he or she seeks reparations under section 14 of the Act and the Commission declines to institute reparations proceedings, the claim or grievance will be subject to the pre-existing arbitration agreement and must also be advised that aspects of the claim or grievance that are not subject to the reparations procedure (
(4) The agreement must advise the customer that, at such time as he or she may notify the Commission registrant that he or she intends to submit a claim to arbitration, or at such time as such person notifies the customer of its intent to submit a claim to arbitration, the customer will have the opportunity to elect a qualified forum for conducting the proceeding.
(A) The designated contract market, if applicable and if available, upon which the transaction giving rise to the dispute was executed or could have been executed;
(B) A registered futures association; and
(C) At least one other organization that will provide the customer with the opportunity to select the location of the arbitration proceeding from among several major cities in diverse geographic regions and that will provide the customer with the choice of a panel or other decision-maker composed of at least one or more persons, of which at least a majority are not members or associated with a member of the designated contract market, if applicable, or employee thereof, and that are not otherwise associated with the designated contract market (mixed panel), if applicable: Provided, however, that the list of qualified organizations provided by a Commission registrant that is a floor broker need not include a registered futures association unless a registered futures association has been authorized to act as a decision-maker in such matters.
(ii) The customer shall, within forty-five days after receipt of such list, notify the opposing party of the organization selected. A customer's failure to provide such notice shall give the opposing party the right to select an organization from the list.
The CFTC recognizes that the opportunity to settle disputes by arbitration may in some cases provide many benefits to customers, including the ability to obtain an expeditious and final resolution of disputes without incurring substantial costs. The CFTC requires, however, that each customer individually examine the relative merits of arbitration and that your consent to this arbitration agreement be voluntary.
By signing this agreement, you: (1) May be waiving your right to sue in a court of law; and (2) are agreeing to be bound by arbitration of any claims or counterclaims which you or [name] may submit to arbitration under this agreement. You are not, however, waiving your right to elect instead to petition the CFTC to institute reparations proceedings under Section 14 of the Commodity Exchange Act with respect to any dispute that may be arbitrated pursuant to this agreement. In the event a dispute arises, you will be notified if [name] intends to submit the dispute to arbitration. If you believe a violation of the Commodity Exchange Act is involved and if you prefer to request a section 14 "Reparations" proceeding before the CFTC, you will have 45 days from the date of such notice in which to make that election.
You need not sign this agreement to open or maintain an account with [name]. See 17 CFR 166.5.


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Everything you need to know about security restrictions and baggage rules at London City Airport.
London City Airport is committed to processing passengers as quickly as possible. Passengers are advised to allow additional time for security processing, particularly during peak times. We appreciate your understanding.
Security at the airport isn't just about screening your bags, find out how we work with The Metropolitan Police and Project Servator.
Baggage rules vary between airlines and the type of ticket purchased. You are advised to check baggage rules with your airline before arriving at London City Airport.
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All cabin baggage will be X-ray screened.
Place laptops and large electrical items separately in a tray after removing outer casing or sleeve.
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Place any liquid items, correctly bagged, into the tray.
Pushchairs are subject to hand search and walking aids will be X-ray screened.
Wheelchairs will be thoroughly searched.
New Guidance from the Department for Transport from August 2018
We recommend that all food and powders should be packed in to hold baggage wherever possible. These items can
obstruct images on x-ray machines, leading to additional manual bag checks. This may cause delays at security.
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It is perfectly safe to carry your photographic equipment through security. Our x-ray machines won't harm your film or camera. The British Photographers' Liaison Committee (BPLC), has fully approved our hand luggage x-ray inspection systems as safe for all normal film types (up to and including ISO 400) as well as for digital storage media.
Specialist film (ISO 800 and above) can sometimes be affected – but the effects are barely noticeable to the naked eye and do not become clearly visible until film is exposed around 32 times. We are able to make special arrangements for photographers carrying professional film (ISO 800 and above). Please contact us or your airline before travel.
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The company known for the last 30 years as Strang Communications is rebranding itself as Charisma Media beginning Feb. 1.
The name change correlates with a series of recent corporate shifts, including relaunching the company's flagship magazine and renaming its book division. Founder and CEO Steve Strang says the moves not only position Charisma Media for growth in the digital age, but also undergird the organization's purpose of inspiring people to radically change their world through the diversified resources the company produces.
Charisma Media is best known for its magazines such as Charisma, Ministry Today and Christian Retailing. But its book group, now called Charisma House, has grown rapidly in recent years with 10 books on the New York Times best-sellers list and has become the largest part of the company. The Spanish group, called Casa Creación, was the fastest-growing part of the organization in 2010. And the company is moving boldly into digital products that include a free Charisma News app, electronic books, many e-newsletters, a robust website and digital editions of its magazines that have readership in the top tier of digital magazines nationally.
In his column in the February issue of Charisma, Strang explained the name change this way: "Charisma is our strongest brand. It refers not only to spiritual gifts but also to our calling and passion to serve God and the church. Media signifies the diversified ways we can communicate—not only in print through magazines and books, but also online, via apps and the myriad of other digital vehicles."
A new Charisma Media logo has been designed and shows the initials CM as a flame in a pot of oil, signifying the flame of the Holy Spirit. The corporate website has been relaunched as charismamedia.com, and a new sign will be erected in front of the company headquarters at 600 Rinehart Road in Lake Mary, Fla. The company's other well-known brands such as Charisma magazine, Ministry Today, Christian Retailing, Creation House and Casa Creación in Spanish will remain the same. However, the entire book division will now go by Charisma House instead of Strang Book Group.
Long recognized as an innovator, the company has become known as the leading charismatic/Pentecostal publisher in the world. Multiple industry leaders and distributors have acknowledged it as the premier publisher of charismatic titles and health books from a Christian perspective.
Many of the company's staff have been recognized for excellence in various ways, mostly through the Evangelical Press Association and the Florida Magazine Association. The Spanish Evangelical Products Association named Casa Creación Publisher of the Year four years in a row. The company also recently had five books sell more than 1 million copies—most recently 23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Weise and Heaven Is So Real by Choo Thomas. The company staff also reflects the ethnic diversity of the church market it serves, with 43 percent of the staff being considered "minority."
In 1975 Strang, then a 24-year-old newspaper reporter, persuaded the leaders of megachurch Calvary Assembly in Winter Park, Fla., to start a small magazine called Charisma. After rapid growth the magazine spun off on its own within six years into the company now called Charisma Media. Since that time, Strang's wife, Joy, has helped him as co-owner to build the company, serving not only as Chief Financial Officer but also in other strategic roles, such as heading up the current rebranding process.
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Strang Communications Rebrands Itself as Charisma Media
Dear Jonathan,
I am Vimala from OM Books Foundation, Secunderabad, India sent an email order to Strang Communication to the email ID of Rebecca Barker but there is no response. If Strang Communicatin has rebranded as Charisma, who should I contact for reply for my mail. Please respoind.


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KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan - As the sun began to set on the snow-capped mountains of the Afghanistan--Pakistan border, Soldiers huddled together to discuss their upcoming mission.
While an infantry platoon leader lays out the mission's details, a young infantryman begins to check his weapon. Through a gritty smile he says, "This is the best job in the Army."
Every Soldier has their own reason for enlisting into the U.S. Army.
Spc. Michael T. Burnette decided to serve his country for many reasons and very few for himself.
In November 2010, Burnette selflessly decided to leave behind college and do something that would better the quality of life for his wife and future family.
Following his grandfather's footsteps and many other family members, he left his home during a time of war.
"I can't imagine doing anything else," said Burnette. "I want to do 20 years in the Army as an infantryman."
Brunette is now deployed to Afghanistan as a weapons team leader assigned to 2nd Platoon, Company A, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).
Although the young Soldier is doing what he loves, his career didn't begin as he would've scripted it.
Burnette was off to a rough start when he first learned of some horrifying news shortly after arriving at Fort Campbell,Ky.
"They found a tumor in my leg the size of a soft ball," said Burnette.
Being forced into an unwanted situation, he refused to lose sight of his goal of being a Soldier and infantryman.
He would not allow his brief career to end this way.
"I had to have surgery on my leg," said Burnette. "Through it all, I made up my mind I was going to deploy with these guys, however."
After his surgery, Burnette was forced to face the hard truth. If he was to deploy with the Rakkasans, seven months of intense rehabilitation would be needed.
Needless to say, he was not without determination.
"It was painful," said Burnette. "But I made up my mind and I was going to deploy with my guys and I wasn't going to be told no."
Never losing sight of his goal, Burnette never let the pain keep him from leaving with his comrades.
After months of hard work and dedication to his unit and his fellow Soldiers, Burnette was cleared to deploy with the Rakkasans to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in September 2012.
While in the midst of all the struggles, Burnette never forgot why he enlisted during his initial struggles.
"During my rehabilitation I reminded myself: 'you're doing this to better your future family,'" said Burnette.
At that time, Burnette and his wife were without children. However, when he returns from his current deployment, he will meet his daughter for the first time.
"I cannot wait to meet her," said Burnette. "It is going to be amazing to hold my wife and daughter for the first time."
Even though he faces the second half of his deployment away from his now larger family, he plans on staying the course he set out for himself.
"I still plan on retiring from the Army," said Burnette.
Even though he has his long-term goals set, he hasn't forgotten about doing what he can in the short-term.
Already in his brief career, Burnette has earned his expert infantrymans badge. An award that is highly coveted within his career field.
Currently, while deployed, he is preparing to go before the promotion board soon after he returns home.
"I'll be eligible for promotion in March," said Burnette. "I'm hoping I go shortly after we get back."
Along with obtaining a promotion, Burnette has several other goals in mind, too.
"I would like to go to Ranger school," said Burnette. "I'm also considering the Green to Gold program to become an officer. Though, only if I can stay as an infantryman."
Mid-way through his deployment, often the time when many begin to doubt their decisions, Burnette doesn't waiver.
Standing tall with a smile, Burnette says, "Like I said before, this is the best job in the Army. I love it."


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