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Below is an article on "where is the plane now," and a video from CNN.
(CNN) -- The aircraft that Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger heroically landed in New York's Hudson River began its long ride Saturday to an aviation museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Airbus A320, sans its wings and tail section, left a warehouse in Harrison, New Jersey, for the journey south, according to Shawn Dorsch, president of the Carolinas Aviation Museum.
"It's very hard to miss," Dorsch said of the fuselage. "It's not covered."
The museum has invited the 155 crew members and passengers from the "Miracle on the Hudson" incident for a June 11 arrival reception, at which Sullenberger is the scheduled keynote speaker, Dorsch told CNN.
On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 left LaGuardia Airport and ran into a flock of geese that damaged both engines, forcing the crew to make an emergency landing in the frigid Hudson.
Rescuers quickly reached the aircraft and found passengers standing on its wings. Everyone was rescued.
Sullenbeger, who retired in March 2010, and other crew members became instant celebrities.
J. Supor & Son Trucking and Rigging Co. in New Jersey has donated the considerable cost of transporting the aircraft, Dorsch said. About 40 vehicles are in the entourage, which reached Rutgers University later Saturday.
Because the rig's height won't allow the plane to go under older interstate bridges, some of the move will be on other highways, where wires and some stoplights will have to be temporarily moved, Dorsch said.
The plane will be shown off at the Charlotte museum's main hangar.
"It will be on display almost as soon as it arrives," Dorsch said.
US Airways and Airbus mechanics will reassemble the aircraft, including its wings and tail section. Much of that work will be completed by the fall.
Sullenberger's uniform, passenger belongings and other artifacts will be part of the display, he said.
The cabin will look much as it did during the flight, Dorsch added.
Between 30,000 and 35,000 visitors visit the museum annually. Dorsch expects that number will triple within 18 months of the exhibit's opening. Most of the flight's passengers still live in the Charlotte area, he added.
The incident represents the height of technical achievements in safety and human heroism, the museum president said.
Dorsch recalled taking the next flight after Flight 1549 and seeing the plane in the Hudson River.
"I was thinking, 'That could have been me,'" he said.


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We will cover how to search effectively on EBSCOHost, how to access articles from at home as well as on-campus and how to save your searches. Some of the databases we will examine include Education Research Complete, Medline, CINAHL and PsycInfo.
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Western blot analysis of the indicated amounts of DMEM/FBS and BSA using BSA (D1C8Q) Rabbit mAb.
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Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml gelatin, 50% glycerol and less than 0.02% sodium azide. Store at –20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.
For western blots, incubate membrane with diluted primary antibody in 5% w/v nonfat dry milk, 1X TBS, 0.1% Tween® 20 at 4°C with gentle shaking, overnight.
NOTE: Please refer to primary antibody datasheet or product webpage for recommended antibody dilution.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
Load 20 µl onto SDS-PAGE gel (10 cm x 10 cm).
NOTE: Loading of prestained molecular weight markers (#13953, 10 µl/lane) to verify electrotransfer and biotinylated protein ladder (#7727, 10 µl/lane) to determine molecular weights are recommended.
NOTE: Volumes are for 10 cm x 10 cm (100 cm2) of membrane; for different sized membranes, adjust volumes accordingly.
* Avoid repeated exposure to skin.
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Reprobing of an existing membrane is a convenient means to immunoblot for multiple proteins independently when only a limited amount of sample is available. It should be noted that for the best possible results a fresh blot is always recommended. Reprobing can be a valuable method but with each reprobing of a blot there is potential for increased background signal. Additionally, it is recommended that you verify the removal of the first antibody complex prior to reprobing so that signal attributed to binding of the new antibody is not leftover signal from the first immunoblotting experiment. This can be done by re-exposing the blot to ECL reagents and making sure there is no signal prior to adding the next primary antibody.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalently purified water.
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revised June 2016
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BSA (D1C8Q) Rabbit mAb recognizes total bovine albumin protein. The antibody does not detect human albumin. Note: For best results, avoid reagents that contain BSA.Species Reactivity:
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White Sox were the team awarded the claim on Manny, according to MLB source. Strong indications Rangers & Rays also claimed him.
The Chicago White Sox on Friday were awarded the claim on Manny Ramirez, according to a source monitoring the waiver wire.
No National League team put in a claim on the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder. But two other American League teams claimed Ramirez, and strong indications are those teams were the Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays. The White Sox were awarded the claim because they were the AL contender with the lowest winning percentage. …
Now the Sox and the Dodgers have until 12:30 pm CT Tuesday to work out a deal for Manny.
UPDATE: Merkin's analysis:
One school of thought is that the Dodgers will wait until the last moment to decide on a trade, letting another weekend pass to see if they remain in contention for a National League playoff spot. The Dodgers entered Friday's action sitting in fifth place in the NL Wild Card race but only five games behind the top spot.
Paying the $4.5 million to Ramirez for one month of service — basically $1 million more than left-hander John Danks is earning for the full 2010 campaign — would seem like a prohibitive cost. But the White Sox play 16 of their final 22 games at U.S. Cellular Field, including four against the Red Sox from Sept. 27-30, and the presence of Ramirez could increase the daily gate.


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If you're even partially engaged with TV Twitter, you might have noticed a weird conversation bubbling up over the past week centered around potatoes. Well, not just any potato, but one particular potato, and the mysterious person who licked it.
When Syfy's supernatural-western series Wynonna Earp unveiled its Season 3 trailer at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, last week, it was unlikely anyone involved with the show could have predicted the reaction to follow. But as someone who was in the room when the trailer dropped, I can definitively state that the reaction to the potato was instantaneous.
While the shots of the show's heroine, the demon killer Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano), riding a mechanical bull got cheers, and although the glimpses of the supporting cast running to kick some serious demon butt elicited excitement, the laughter at the moment an unknown person dramatically licked a potato was the clear stand-out moment from the trailer, as fans who were equally amused and confused simultaneously began wondering, "WTF?" After the trailer was sent wide, the rest of the fandom joined in on the fun, tweeting each other and the show's creator Emily Andras about their thoughts and feelings about the potato. And trust me, they had plenty to say.
"Who licked the potato?" is #20gayteen's version of "Who shot J.R.?" #WynonnaEarp pic.twitter.com/eeH6JKhkti— Bridget Liszewski (@BridgetOnTV) June 9, 2018
If the potato isn't in the credits we riot. #WynonnaEarp— Megan Smith 🥔 (@Nuutmeg) June 12, 2018
Calling now that my first cosplay from #WynonnaEarp Season 3 is the person who licks that potato in the trailer. 👅 🥔— Cat Zimm (@cimzim) June 9, 2018
As it stands, not a day goes by that a potato tweet doesn't somehow appear in my Twitter timeline — and I'm not even deep in the online Wynonna fandom, having only recently binged the show on Netflix. But you know what? I am not complaining! There is something so pure and unabashedly silly about this potato mystery that I find myself deeply invested. There are so many things that stress me out on a daily basis, and it's nice to even temporarily distract myself with an issue in which the stakes are low but the suspense is so high. Just look at how much these people care abut this potato!
So the science geek in me is thinking that the proper way to lick a potato to get maximum taste is to hit the back of your tongue, not the tip. #wynonnaearptrailer #WynonnaEarp #WynonnaEarpSeason3 @MelanieScrofano @DominiqueP_C pic.twitter.com/HSxNtKf6sE— Jenny D (@ellenprice40) June 9, 2018
You've been blessed by the Wynonna Earp Pride Potato. Retweet for good luck. pic.twitter.com/qYrS3CPqoA— Marisa (@Hot4Haught) June 12, 2018
I can just see it. People bringing potato's to cons to get them signed 😂😂😂 #WynonnaEarp— Rachael' ⚓ (@RachWoods97) June 9, 2018
Don't tell me that it's not just a little bit contagious. C'mon, who licks a potato?! And WHY? The people demand answers!!!!
EVERYBODY'S FREAKING OUT ABOUT BLOOD AND KISSES BUT I HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE POTATO LICKING#WynonnaEarp #RenewWynonnaEarp— Earpnado (Liz) (@earpnado) June 8, 2018
It doesn't look as though Andras will be spilling the secrets about the spud anytime soon, so we may just have to wait until Season 3 premieres Friday, July 20 at 9/8c on Syfy. In the meantime, if you want to join this amazing community of potato-licking aficionados and sleuths, you can catch up on the first two seasons of Wynonna Earp on Netflix.


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CRUD(Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations form the foundations of most enterprise applications and in Java there are various APIs designed to deal with such operations. This post explores CRUD operations in the context of Google App Engine using the JPA(Java Peristence API), JDO(Java Data Objects) and another low level API provided by the Google App Engine.In addition to relying on Spring MVC framework to illustrate these operations. Read the entire post at the Digital Sanctum blog entitled 'Google App Engine for Java: CRUD Operations with JDO and Spring MVC': http://www.digitalsanctum.com/2009/07/02/google-app-engine-for-java-crud-with-jdo-spring-mvc/
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As Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson lets the gas tank leak and adds fuel to the fire with Beanie Sigel and Jay-Z, the rapper also has to fight his own battles as his issues with Rick Ross and Triple Cs are far from being a memory.
Recently, Rick Ross spoke on the sales of 50 Cent's latest offering, Before I Self Destruct, which sold close to 160,000 copies in its first week. After viewing what appear to be disappointing numbers for an artist with such a caliber as 50, Ross proclaimed that he was able to bury the G-Unit general.
Never willing to let any punch slip through, Jackson revealed news through an interview with DJ Whoo Kid about how Ross tried to take a play from his book when he contacted Tia and tried to find a means to get at 50's baby's mother.
"They actually, indirectly, tried to contact my son's mom. They would have only shown up somewhere for me to have them shot at that point."
The rapper continued to flex his muscle by stating that the rap game doesn't take away from his past and the fact that he could quickly slip back into the mentality that raised him when he was without a deal and did not have the fame and fortune that he rests on now.
"Then we gonna stop rappin and start doing the sh*t. If they think that ain't real, then they should try it. That's just that. I tell them, constantly, don't expect me not to go where I come from. That's gonna be nice and comfy for me so you gonna have to figure out how to adjust your sh*t. My car is already bulletproof. Everything is already in order for that."
He also added that with all of the heat coming his way, he finds it interesting how everyone is fully aware of where he rests his head at, but nobody bothers to come knock at the door and come in.
"While we getting ready to go through those circumstances, and I don't live in Connecticut, that's just the house, and that one got motion sensors and cameras all kind of sh*t, so go ahead. Why everybody got my address and ain't nobody stopping by? Get busy then. I done said everything that I can think of."
Referring to himself as a Hip Hop president, Jackson stated that there are consequences for all actions and that every shot fired will be fired back.
"I'm like Obama. The president gotta kiss hands and shake babies. You can kill the president. It's hard to get away with it. So I use my resources. I ain't even worried about it, it's too late for that."
As the page turns, the story only gets better between 50 Cent and all of his enemies in the rap world. Hopefully things can remain on wax and the chapters will only be told through a story and not spill out onto the streets. #ShoutOut HipHop Wired


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Google released its first TV commercial for the highly popular Nexus 7 over the weekend.
Everyone is raving about how awesome it is, so we thought we'd chime in and agree.
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Only Donald Trump can seemingly turn an act of charity into the plague.
The single largest contributor to the Donald J. Trump Foundation — as listed on 990 forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service — is denying it gave $5 million to the coiffed one.
World Wrestling Entertainment, which now just goes by the WWE, distanced itself Wednesday from Trump, amid The Donald's promise to pay $5 million to the charity of President Obama's choice if the commander-in-chief releases all of his college and passport records.
As much as the Stamford-based branding machine likes to say it's a publicly-traded company, the WWE is Vince and Linda McMahon, the latter of whom is pitted in a tight race for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut.
The press shop at the WWE didn't do the wrestling matriarch any favors, however.
"WWE has not made any donation to the Donald J. Trump Foundation," WWE's Brian Flinn told Hearst Newspapers Wednesday evening. "However, as I understand it, the Vince and Linda McMahon Family Foundation has donated $5 million in total to the Donald J. Trump Foundation."
Flinn said that Trump's foundation had incorrectly filled out its IRS-990 forms and that the WWE would be contacting "The Apprentice" star to remedy the error.
A spokesman for McMahon's campaign denied that the candidate or her husband, who succeeded her as the company's chief executive in 2009 when she first ran for the Senate and lost, gave to Trump's charity.
The Smoking Gun website was the first to report that WWE was the top contributor to Trump's foundation, characterizing the man who fancied himself as presidential material as a cheapskate.
WWE did confirm to Hearst that it paid Trump $1 million to appear in 2007 during its marquee event, WrestleMania 23, where The Donald shaved Vince McMahon's head in the ring.
UPDATE: The WWE clarified Thursday that Vince McMahon indeed gave $5 million to Trump, not the company or the couple's foundation.
The "birther" angle probably doesn't play too well in blue Connecticut, which is poised to be in the win column again for Obama, who won the state by 22 points four years ago.
Despite the McMahons giving $150,000 to the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future, McMahon's campaign recently released a television ad encouraging Democrats and unaffiliated voters to split their ballot for the Republican Senate nominee and Obama.


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Asparagus! A magical word that gets my juices going. This is the King of Vegetables (we all know why it's not queen); it's seductive, sensuous, provocative. It doesn't warrant heavy-handed treatment: melted butter over the tips, a squeeze of lemon, a sprinkle of rock or sea salt, a grinding of pepper if you must or a good dollop of Hollandaise and I'm a very happy bunny!
The season is just too short and although you can get imported 'gus, it just isn't a patch on the British variety, especially asparagus from bonny Scotland. Buy it as soon after picking as you possibly can, as the sugars start to turn to starch it isn't as sweet (it's still magnificent though). I never buy the foreign intruder; it lacks that essential flavour that our own home-grown spears have.
To get the best from this vegetable, either steam it (don't immerse the tips) or griddle it. I prefer the latter and the recipe I've chosen is simplicity itself. Serve it as a starter with the poached or boiled egg or as a side dish. The ham seasons the asparagus really well so back off on the salt. But whatever you do, don't throw away the trimmings; great for making stock for a soup or sauce. I use it as a base for a spring vegetable risotto, with baby broad beans and frozen petit pois.
For each person
6 stems of asparagus, no thicker than your middle finger
2 slices of air-dried ham
Oil of choice
1 soft boiled or poached egg
Trim the first inch from the base of each spear. Gently wash the stems to remove any grit and dry on kitchen roll.
Cut each slice of ham into three long strips and wrap around the asparagus starting about ½ inch below the tip. Lightly drizzle with oil.
Heat a griddle pan until it is hot and pop in the spears. Turn down the heat as the ham colours. Cook for about 4-5 mins and test to see if it's cooked by piercing the stem with the point of a sharp knife, if it has a little resistance then it's done.
What else is in my basket?
Lamb, duck. sardines, sea trout. New potatoes, watercress. Elderflowers, gooseberries.
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Eugene Grasset, the popular 19th-century Swiss graphic designer, dabbled in a multitude of disciplines such as ceramics, furniture, tapestry, jewelry and stamp design. One of the rarely mentioned Grasset treasures is the italic he designed in 1898 for use in two of his posters.
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We stockpiled much of our high-grade gold and silver concentrates produced during the quarter in preparation for pouring Doré bars in our new Doré facility, which we began commissioning at the end of the quarter and which increased our unsold inventories. We recorded a $(0.03) per share loss which was contributed by unsold concentrate inventory as a result of stockpiling the high-grade concentrates for the Doré facility process. These inventoried ounces are planned to be processed and sold during the fourth quarter as Doré bars.
AndeanGold Announces Resignation of Executive Officer and Default Status
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 4, 2015) - AndeanGold Ltd. (TSXV: AAU) (BVL: AAU) ("the Company" or "AndeanGold") wishes to announce that Mr. David Cross, CGA, has resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company effective as of July 27, 2015. AndeanGold would like to thank Mr. Cross for his service to the Company over the past several years.
Further to this matter, the Company also announces that it is now in default of complying with the continuous disclosure filing requirements with respect to its Financial Statements (Part 4 of National Instrument 51-102: Continuous Disclosure Obligations) and its Management Discussion and Analysis (Part 5 of NI 51-102) for the year ended March 31, 2015. The filing of those statements is now expected to take place before September 29, 2015. In the interim, as requested by the Board of Directors of the Company, the British Columbia Securities Commission ("BCSC") has issued a Management Cease-Trade Order ("CTO") dated July 30, 2015. The Company has already commenced the process of identifying and appointing an interim Chief Financial Officer to oversee and complete the final steps in its on-going audit procedure.
About AndeanGold Ltd:
Our operating strategy is to fund ongoing and long-term development with operating cash flows. With limited development spending planned in 2015, the Company expects to use operating cash flows to pay-down a debt obligation coming due on January 31, 2016 and to refinance the balance of the obligation.Here's an idea of the cash they're generating. Forget cockamamey "operating cash flows" and look at the real numbers that are accounting standards, such as operating earnings...
After incorporating first half production results, the Company has revised its targeted 2015 production to 40,000 to 50,000 payable ounces of gold, from both Briggs and Pinson Underground. The consolidated average cash cost of gold is expected to be between $850 and $950 per ounce sold, and the consolidated average all-in sustaining cost (AISC) is expected to be between $950 and $1,050 per ounce sold in 2015.In fact, in the first half of 2015 the average cash cost has been $1,075.50/oz and the AISC has been $1,282/oz. That means to even get down to the top end of the ATN guidance range, they'll have to produce gold at a cash cost of $823.50/oz for the second half of 2015, or the AISC will need to be $813/oz. Why don't you just stencil "Shareholders Are Dumbasses" on my forehead and be done, guys?
2) The gold/silver ratio to stay high, by which we mean 1/70 or above. It can spike down briefly under that along the way, but I don't expect it to trend down meaningfully. When they call silver "the poor man's gold", the real message is "the choice that poor people make". Semi-on-topic, I'd definitely hold gold miner stocks over silver miner stocks this year.
Expansion of Toromocho Postponed3 August 2015
The metallurgical problems that Chinalco faces at Toromocho are coming to an end. The Chinese mining company announced a few days ago that it had reached full production capacity, but the delay of almost 20 months in getting there (the mine was inaugurated in December 2013) has forced it to suspend indefinitely its operation growth project, in which it was going to invest U$1.32Bn.
"The company is losing money. Because of that, it hasn't given us a date for the expansion project", said the Vice Minister of Mines, Guillermo Shinno. The Toromocho expansion project was due to begin its construction in January 2016, according to the chronogram of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem).
The high concentrations of arsenic in the deposit (a penalty mineral for copper refineries) has been the main obstacle for the Chinese mining company. "Chinalco made a bad plan. Its engineers thought that coper mineral with lower levels of arsenic wasn't far from the surface, but in fact it was much lower down", explained the Vice Minister.
From Mining Weekly:
SocGen says miners' output costs have dropped more than expected
I laughed. Whole thing here.Miners' output costs have dropped more than industry consensus due to lower energy prices and weak emerging market currencies, a report by Societe Generale showed, suggesting metals prices have further to fall before miners are forced out of business.
How mining companies will react to the new new normal
I've been sent three "stress testing the gold miners" fundamentals analyses published by brokerages this week (the best was from RBC and for what it's worth, Tahoe Resources and Semafo came out best) and I've read at least a dozen "gold miners in trouble at $1,100/oz gold" articles that sometimes take a look, other times are akin to the guy with the "End Of The World" sandwich board on the city street corner. And when those anal ysts have a theme, they're sure to thrash it to death. It's called justifying paychecks. However, one thing I can guarantee in the face of this very important and wholly objective scientific numbercrunching is the reaction from the miners. We're about to hear from a whole bunch of mining executives working at the larger and the medium-scale producers who are going to tell us that in fact things have changed and they're perfectly profitable at U$1,100/oz gold these days, plus how they're "stress tested" down to a thousand and all those suits in cubicles are being overly pessimistic.
What then happens, given a level gold playing field, is that the lapdogs anal ysts writing their pseudocritiques fall into line and start saying nice things about the miners (recall they care more about the people running these mining companies than their brokerage clients), shares recover at least some of the recent losses as bargain hunters move in to snap up the value. That re-rate remains in place right up until they discover that the mining bosses were talking about operating costs and not total costs, or total costs and not all-in sustaining costs, or All-In costs and not all-in sustaining costs. Whichever way it is, the new buyers discover one or two quarters down the line that the money made at the mine is having great difficulty in reaching the bottom line of the P+L. All very strange and perplexing, I'm sure. Unless of course gold recovers in the meantime and then we're all saved. Cynical opening riff complete, I'll now turn the irony spigot towards other targets.
In Phædrus' "Church of Reason" Lecture In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig relates a lecture delivered by his alter-ego, Phædrus. At the time the lecture was written, Phædrus was struggling with a problem he had with his students' perception of university. The University was at that time in danger of losing its accreditation and students seemed concerned that if it did, the university would cease to exist. The "Church of Reason" lecture was delivered by Phædrus to explain to them the true nature of university. One student remarked that the State Police would move onto campus to prevent the University from losing its accreditation. This made it clear to Phædrus that there was a fundamental misunderstanding of what comprises a University and the lecture was an attempt to explain the proper meaning of 'University.' The following is an excerpt from chapter 13 of the book.
The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It's a state of mind which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people who traditionally carry the title of professor, but even that title is not part of the real University. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself.In addition to this state of mind, "reason," there's a legal entity which is unfortunately called by the same name but which is quite another thing. This is a nonprofit corporation, a branch of the state with a specific address. It owns property, is capable of paying salaries, of receiving money and of responding to legislative pressures in the process.But this second university, the legal corporation, cannot teach, does not generate new knowledge or evaluate ideas. It is not the real University at all. It is just a church building, the setting, the location at which conditions have been made favorable for the real church to exist.Confusion continually occurs in people who fail to see this difference, he said, and think that control of the church buildings implies control of the church. They see professors as employees of the second university who should abandon reason when told to and take orders with no backtalk, the same way employees do in other corporations.They see the second university, but fail to see the first. (Pirsig, 1999, p. 150).
Phædrus goes on to describe the role of the professor within the University through an analogy of a minister within a church.
After these explanations he returned to the analogy of the religious church. The citizens who build such a church and pay for it probably have in mind that they're doing this for the community. A good sermon can put the parishioners in a right frame of mind for the coming week. Sunday school will help the children grow up right. The minister who delivers the sermon and directs the Sunday school understands these goals and normally goes along with them, but he also knows that his primary goals are not to serve the community. His primary goal is always to serve God. Normally there's no conflict but occasionally one creeps in when trustees oppose the minister's sermons and threaten reduction of funds. That happens.A true minister, in such situations, must act as though he'd never heard the threats. His primary goal isn't to serve the members of the community, but always god.The primary goal of the Church of Reason, Phaedrus said, is always Socrates' old goal of truth, in its ever-changing forms, as it's revealed by the process of rationality. Everything else is subordinate to that. Normally this goal is in no conflict with the location goal of improving citizenry, but on occasion some conflict arises, as in the case of Socrates himself. It arises when trustees and legislators who've contributed large amounts of time and money to the location take points of view in opposition to the professors' lectures of public statements. They can then lean on the administration by threatening to cut off funds if the professors don't say what they want to hear. That happens too.True churchmen in such situations must act as though they had never heard these threats. Their primary goal never is to serve the community ahead of everything else. Their primary goal is to serve, through reason, the goal of truth. (Pirsig, 1999, p. 151).
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School Choice, Realpolitik, & Brookings
Jay Greene has responded to my review of the new Brookings Institution school choice report which he co‐authored, raising a crucial issue for the education policy and research communities. Jay points out that the report is a work of realpolitik rather than scholarship, and as such contends that it must find a compromise between the policies best supported by the evidence and those that have a real chance of being implemented. He makes the related argument that incrementalism is the only realistic path to success.
I agree with Jay that it's good for analysts to find ways of improving current policy even when the ideal policies are not politically feasible. But these realpolitik recommendations must be clearly distinguished from the ideal policies themselves. Analysts should report both viable compromise reforms AND ideal policies, explaining to policymakers the likely costs and risks associated with the compromises–the reasons why they are inferior. Failing to do this leads to two serious problems:
First, presenting only the compromises robs the public and its elected representatives of crucial information, making it more difficult to build support for the ideal policies and leading to guilt by association when the compromise policies prove disappointing for reasons that should have been — but were not — clearly laid out in advance.
Second, when analysts don't present their ideal policies and the evidence (if any) on which they are based, there is no way for the public or policymakers to judge the wisdom of their realpolitik compromise recommendations. This is particularly problematic when the analysts' recommendations conflict with what the available evidence shows to be ideal policy.
As to the need for incrementalism in U.S. policy reform, the evidence is not entirely one‐sided. The Emancipation Proclamation did not give slaves a 50 percent share in themselves, rising gradually to 100 percent over time. When women won the franchise, it was not at a discounted rate — one female vote equal to 1/3 or 1/2 of a male vote. They won the right to vote outright. Prohibition was not undone gradually, with beverage categories being re‐legalized in order of alcohol content. I'm sure we could think of other major policy shifts in U.S. history that were not incremental.
In all of the above cases, major social movements were necessary to win the day, and if scholars and advocates who knew better had championed only half‐measures instead of the policies they knew to be right, it surely would have delayed the eventual victories. Scholars who know what kind of school choice is necessary to best serve children should clearly advocate such policies, especially in any context in which they also offer any interim recommendations they deem more politically feasible.
And even if we grant, for the sake of argument, that all school choice policies must be incremental, there are incremental policies already in existence that are highly consistent with ideal policy. Existing scholarship donation tax credits such as those in PA, FL, RI, etc., and personal use education tax credits such as those of Illinois and Iowa, are expanding organically over time. Eventually, as that expansion continues, they could be combined and thus ensure universal access to the education marketplace without needing to impose regulations on private schools that the research shows to be intrusive and counterproductive. By contrast, it is hard to see how introducing federal regulation of virtual schools (a Brookings Report recommendation) moves us close in the direction of the minimally regulated parent‐driven markets supported by the evidence.
So, yes, let's be realistic in our policy recommendations, but let's also be clear about the ideal policies indicated by the empirical evidence, so that policymakers and the public hear a consistent message about where we need to go.


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After three years of collaboration, five regulators on Tuesday approved the Volcker Rule, 100-plus pages of rules and regulations at the center of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. The Volcker Rule primarily prohibit banks from engaging in proprietary trading as well as owning, sponsoring, or having certain relationships with a hedge fund or private equity fund.
The rule was adopted jointly by the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The Fed and FDIC unanimously voted to adopt the rule, while the SEC passed it by a 3-2 vote. The two Republican SEC Commissioners Michael Piwowar and Daniel Gallagher voted against the rule. Piwowar, who joined the agency in August, told CNBC at the ICI Global Trading and Market Structure Conference in London recently that he would vote against the proposed rule in its current form. "The devil's in the detail," he told CNBC. "The question for me has always been: How do you define the terms?"
All five agencies proposed the same common rules in 2011 and 2012. Those proposals generated more than 18,000 comment letters.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the final rule, as part of Wall Street reform, "makes sure big banks can't make risky bets with their customer's deposits" by making "it illegal for firms to use government-insured money to make speculative bets that threaten the entire financial system, and demand a new era of accountability from CEOs who must sign off on their firm's practices." He encouraged Congress to provide the regulators with adequate funding to "effectively and efficiently" implement the rule.
SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White said in a statement that the Volcker Rule "is central to the framework put in place by the Dodd-Frank Act to promote the financial stability of the United States in the wake of the financial crisis."
To carry out the mandate of Section 619 of the Dodd Frank Act, "the final rule seeks to focus U.S. banks and their affiliates on customer-directed activities, and to prevent the risks to U.S. taxpayers that can flow from proprietary trading and investments in private funds," White said. The final rule "has been written to carry out these objectives while maintaining the strength and flexibility of the U.S. capital markets by allowing both domestic and foreign financial firms to continue to participate meaningfully in those markets where they are permitted to do so."
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., released a statement that approval of the Volcker Rule was "a key milestone in the full implementation of Wall Street reform," adding that these trading restrictions "will help improve the integrity of our banking system."
The final rules become effective April 1, 2014, however the Fed has extended the conformance period until July 21, 2015. The rule will apply to large bank holding companies but not to community banks with less than $10 billion in assets that don't participate in activities listed under the rule.
Like the Dodd-Frank Act, the final rules provide exemptions for certain activities, including market making, underwriting, hedging, trading in government obligations, insurance company activities, and organizing and offering hedge funds or private equity funds. The final rules also clarify that certain activities are not prohibited, including acting as agent, broker or custodian. The compliance requirements under the final rules vary based on the size of the banking entity and the scope of activities conducted. "Banking entities with significant trading operations will be required to establish a detailed compliance program and their CEOs will be required to attest that the program is reasonably designed to achieve compliance with the final rule," according to the SEC. Independent testing and analysis of an institution's compliance program will also be required.
As White explained, the final rule "faithfully and strongly implements the statutory prohibitions on proprietary trading by U.S. banks and their affiliates and the limitations on the ability of such entities to sponsor or invest in hedge funds or private equity funds, called 'covered funds' in the rule."
As to market making and underwriting, White said the rule "takes a measured, tailored approach to market making and underwriting activities as statutory exceptions to the prohibition on proprietary trading." Permitted market making activities, she said, "can include trading in a wide variety of financial and derivative instruments, including those for which there is relatively limited liquidity, but only provided the firm is ready, willing, and able on request to provide quotes and respond to trading interest on both sides of the market."
The prohibition on proprietary trading does not apply to all transactions entered into by a foreign bank and its foreign affiliates. "The final rule will permit these entities to engage in certain limited proprietary trading activity with U.S. firms, but only if the risks of such trading activity are held and managed outside the United States," White said. "Foreign banks will, for example, be able to conduct cleared transactions through U.S. exchanges and with unaffiliated, regulated U.S. market intermediaries, she explained.
As to the scope of covered funds, the final rule also fulfills the statutory goal of limiting the ability of U.S. banks and their affiliates to sponsor or invest in hedge funds and private equity funds. "The Dodd-Frank Act defined a 'hedge fund' and 'private equity fund' by reference to regulatory exemptions that are commonly used by such funds," White said. "The proposal carried forward this definition of a "covered fund," and included certain commodity pools and foreign funds as well."
But White said that adoption of the final rule is just the beginning. "Our work… does not end with today's rule. We begin a new phase of monitoring and responsive engagement to ensure that the Volcker Rule is a strong, workable framework that achieves the objectives set for us."
Consistent with the agency's experience in other rulemakings, she said, "questions will arise following today's action, some of which will require clarification. We must be alert to both unintended impacts and regulatory loopholes as we move forward."
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Johnny Borrell has described his former Razorlight bandmate Andy Burrows as "middle of the road" in a new interview.
Burrows joined the band as drummer in 2004 before leaving in 2009. He later performed with We Are Scientists and is currently working with Tom Odell on the singer-songwriter's second album.
Speaking to Noisey for a new interview in which he discussed the rise and fall of 2000s indie music, Borrell said: "Razorlight started as a really energetic, fun band. We had a drum 'n' bass obsessed maniac named Christian [Smith-Pancorvo] on drums, and we played a lot of squat parties at 3am. But, being in the industry changes a band by definition."
"After the first album, what were we meant to do – continue with some faux-idealisation of something gritty, aggressive and cool? I found that whole thing completely fucking bogus. Christian left, Andy [Burrows] joined, and we made what I still consider to be a really quality pop-rock album."
"I think the second Razorlight album definitely opened the way for a flood of mediocrity in UK music," Borrell added. "In my defence, though, people think of Razorlight as some kind of Johnny Borrell solo project, but it was always collaborative. I rate the drummer Andy Burrows. He was a great drummer with a melodic ear – but if you want to figure out who was taking Razorlight in which direction, then maybe have a listen to what we're each doing now. I'm playing psychedelic blues-tango, and his stuff is so middle of the road it's got more white lines than Liam Gallagher in 1997."
Elsewhere in the interview, Borrell said that The Libertines "turned into a self-referential tabloid pantomime" and that The Ordinary Boys "contributed to landfill indie by devaluing music with the worst of celebrity bullshit".


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Get ready for a C.E. Falk III vs. Kyle Larson rematch.
Denny Hamlin invited the two drivers who became embroiled in the must-see finish of Speedweeks to drive in the Denny Hamlin Short Track Showdown in April.
Larson spun leader C.E. Falk III coming out of the final turn to win the inaugural Battle at the Beach on Monday night. The finish sparked debate about whether the 20-year-old Larson, considered NASCAR's next big star, should have been penalized for intentionally wrecking Falk.
Falk finished third. He was furious at the end and said he got "monster-trucked." Larson tweeted, "not my proudest moment in racing."
The finish had big names in all of auto racing talking and tweeting. Hamlin noticed and extended the invite to Larson. Felk is a former winner in the event, slated for April 25 at Richmond International Raceway.
The race serves as a fundraiser for the Denny Hamlin Cystic Fibrosis Research Lab at the Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU. Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch, Darrell Wallace Jr., and Michael Waltrip will race against some of the best Late Model stock car drivers in the region.
While the last-lap spin got plenty of attention, Hamlin said wrecking another driver was uncalled for in NASCAR even though it happens in the developmental series.
"There is no payback to be had because it's just a one-off race and he knows he don't have to answer to that guy the next week," Hamlin said. "That's why you don't see it in the Cup series and on down with the guys that run regular, because they know that if they take some guy out, he's going to get it right back the next week."


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Getting Personal
This story appears in the October 1997 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
When you provide employees with e-mail, you facilitate more than productivity, camaraderie and efficient communication. You also provide them with an easy way to disparage or harass their coworkers, disseminate tasteless humor, and reveal company secrets to your competitors. E-mail messages have become a gold mine of evidence in lawsuits over charges such as sexual harassment because deleted messages can often be recovered.
Given the risk, you need to be aware of the types of messages that are floating around on your e-mail system. Employees often believe their messages are as private as personal letters sent through the U.S. mail. Indeed, some employees have sued their employers for reading their e-mail, claiming a violation of privacy. While courts so far have sided with the employers, it's best to remind employees routinely that their e-mail messages are subject to company scrutiny.
Illusion Of Privacy
The problem, says Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, attorney Johanna Armstrong, is that e-mail instills a deceptive sense of privacy. An employee sits down at a computer terminal with no one watching, types a message and sends it with a click of the mouse. The recipient uses a password to access the system and reads the message in the seclusion of his or her cubicle. It feels a lot like reading a letter sent through the mail, a method protected by federal law from unauthorized tampering.
"What employees don't understand," Armstrong says, "is that e-mail is not at all like the U.S. mail but is more akin to posting a message on a public bulletin board for all to read." Messages intended for one co-worker can mistakenly be broadcast to everyone in the office. Messages people thought they deleted can be retrieved and used against the company in court.
For the protection of your employees as well as your business, establish a policy restricting your e-mail system to work-related matters. "A good e-mail policy not only confirms the corporate e-mail system is for business use only," Armstrong says, "but also dispels the deceptive aura of privacy."
While there's no harm in an occasional friendly note, office e-mail has often taken a nasty turn. Disgruntled employees have sent messages purportedly from corporate officers, announcing new company policies. Others have downloaded trade secrets and sent them to competitors or used e-mail to defame co-workers. The anonymity of e-mail allows employees to disseminate racial slurs, send sexually explicit messages, or even set up a distribution system for illegal drugs.
To avoid abuses and keep tabs on what's circulating through your office, you need to be able to monitor e-mail. This doesn't mean reading every message. In fact, says Kenneth R. Shear, general counsel for Electronic Evidence Discovery in Seattle, it's better not to be too thorough. "You don't want to take on the role of system monitor," Shear says, explaining that employees might then hold you responsible for not discovering such problems as sexual harassment conducted through e-mail. Shear advises asking employees to notify their supervisor if they see something offensive in an e-mail message. For general monitoring, available software can check, for instance, if there are a lot of graphics on your system when your company doesn't deal with graphics. You might also use key-word searches to check for inappropriate messages.
A Losing Battle
The problem for employers is that an increasing number of employees, believing that even in-house e-mail should be for their eyes only, are suing employers for violating their privacy. For instance, a regional operations manager for a major food company sometimes communicated with his supervisor from home through the company's e-mail system. Some of his messages were, in the company's view, inappropriate and unprofessional--to the extent that they led to his termination. The employee sued, noting that he had relied on assurances from the company that e-mail would be confidential and would not be intercepted and used against him.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed the lawsuit. The judges explained that an employee cannot reasonably expect messages on the company e-mail system to be private, even if the company says they will be. Moreover, the court ruled, "the company's interest in preventing inappropriate and unprofessional comments or even illegal activity over its e-mail system outweighs any privacy interest the employee may have in those comments."
Other courts have reached similar conclusions. Even in California, which recognizes especially strong privacy rights, employees have not succeeded in proving such claims. "The courts appear to be heading toward allowing companies to monitor e-mail," Shear says. That's only common sense, he adds, because "how can you do business if you don't have access to your own system?" (Although the Electronic Communications Privacy Act forbids the intentional interception of electronic communications, reading what's on your own company's system normally doesn't count as an interception--although reading correspondence to an employee from outside the company might.)
Fair Warning
Employees who understand that their e-mail might be monitored will, if they value their jobs, be less likely to use it inappropriately. Begin with an official policy stating that company e-mail is for business use, not personal, and that e-mail messages are subject to random monitoring. In a memo or training session, explain the reasons for the policy. You can even give your employees a daily reminder by having a statement of the policy appear on the screen every time they log on to their computer. If they've just been reminded that their boss might read their e-mail, they'll be less likely to send out inappropriate messages.
The law in this area is murky enough that e-mail could be construed as the equivalent of a telephone conversation, and some states require permission before listening to an employee's phone conversation. Accordingly, Shear advises obtaining employees' consent to monitor their e-mail every time they log on to the system. At the end of the on-screen policy reminder, inform employees that by proceeding to use the system, they've given their consent to have their messages monitored. Those who want privacy--to the degree it's obtainable for electronic communication--can sign up for e-mail at home.
Contact Sources
Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, 525 N. Woodward Ave., #2000, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304, (810) 433-7200, ext. 7554
Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc., 1215 Fourth Ave., #1420, Seattle, WA 98161, firstname.lastname@example.com
Steven C. Bahls, dean of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, teaches entrepreneurship law. Freelance writer Jane Easter Bahls specializes in business and legal topics.


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Friday, March 11, 2011
Forebear Friday – John Q. Adams
John Quincy Adams had a successful and adventurous life, but then, his family had already established a culture of adventure. His great- grandfather was a founder of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, he and wife Submit being the first settlers. John's grandfather, Martin Adams with his brother, were among the founders of Newport (then Duncansborough), Vermont, and Martin was a Revolutionary War patriot.
John Q., the son of Abial Adams and Irene Gray, was born 12 Jul 1831 in Newport, Vermont, the sixth of sixteen children. At the age of 16, he moved himself to Burlington, Vermont, to attend college, supporting himself and paying tuition by teaching school. He did this for two years, and then returned to the house of his father. The following year, in 1851, he made his way to Stephenson County, Illinois, and decided to try his luck in the California Gold Rush, heading west in 1853. He spent five years there, after which he returned to Stephenson county with $1,000 and purchased a 240 acre farm in Florence township. He married Julia Van Brocklin, daughter of Florence township pioneers Conrad and Harriet Van Brocklin. About 1900, he was engaged as a store keeper, but otherwise farmed and worked as a carpenter.
He sold his farm in 1901, and relocated to Sutherland, O'Brien County, Iowa. His wife died in 1905, and he in 1907. They were both buried at Waterman Cemetery, just outside of Sutherland.
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If you were alive in the 80s, you almost certainly have a Jean Michel Jarre album lying around your house. Lately, Jean Michel Jarre has turned his musical hands to another domestic certainty: the iPod dock.
Of course this being Jean Michel Jarre, things have to be a little different. How about 3.3 metres tall and 400kg different, along with a purported price of £350,000?
Described by the Jarre Technologies press release as "half machine, half work of art", the massive iPod dock was shown off on the Jarre stand at IFA in Berlin, so we moseyed on over to take a look.
Essentially it's a huge version of AeroSystem One, Jarre's £700 pillared iPod dock, but is so tall that you need a ladder to dock your iDevice.
Jarre said: "AeroSystem One is the result of my thinking and technical research and AeroDream One, launched here, its most elevated - literally - and amazing manifestation so far. It's fantastic, but it's no fantasy."
Okay, so it is described as a prototype, but the details also tell us that it packs in HD multi-directional sound. Unfortunately the stand was ghostly quiet when we arrived, with no sign of a single laser anywhere.
Slightly out of the limelight on the Jarre stand were the AeroPads One and Two, a pair of docks designed for the iPad (but also supporting iPhone and iPod).
AeroPad One will set you back €499 whilst the larger AeroPad Two is an impressive €699. Both will be available from February 2012, pre-orders open now on Jarre Technologies' website.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below...


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The Sun editorial board is prone to making stupid and inane statements, but the blanket statement that "Iraq had no nuclear, chemical or biological weapons nor any prospects for building them at the time of the invasion" ("Home for Christmas," Dec. 2) may be the stupidest and most easily refutable ever written.
UN experts confirmed in 1986 that Iraq had contravened the Geneva Convention by using chemical weapons against Iran.
On March 16, 1988, Iraq dropped bombs containing mustard gas, Sarin and Tabun on the Kurdish city of Halabja. Estimates of the number of civilians killed range from 3,200 to 5,000, with many survivors suffering long-term health problems.
Chemical weapons were also used during Iraq's "Anfal" offensive (1987-1988), in which an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Kurdish villagers were killed or disappeared. According to International aid groups and subsequent trials, Iraq carried out more than 40 poison gas attacks on Kurdish townships from April 1987 until 1988.
Is it The Sun's contention that the Kurds were simply "faking it"? Are all of the chemical weapon attack photos available online doctored images? Or does The Sun believe that the Iraqi troops used up their entire supply of chemical weapons, then ate the instructions for making more, rendering them incapable of "having any prospects for weapons in the future"?
It's disgraceful that The Sun would so quickly write off tens of thousands of dead Iraqis, and so quickly excuse the regime that did it, ignoring mountains of evidence to the contrary.
There are Iraqi children alive today whose parents were killed by chemical weapons, and for The Sun to pretend that it didn't happen is both disgusting and reprehensible.
Seemingly unbeknownst to the editors, it's actually entirely possible to write an editorial pontificating against the rationale for the Iraq war without including asinine statements.
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TOKYO - The Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" isn't a mere cross-cultural adaptation but more a tribute to the universal spirit of great filmmaking for its star Ken Watanabe.
"I was convinced from the start that this will be an original Japanese movie in its own right," said Watanabe, who has become the go-to Japanese actor for Hollywood.
Watanabe was happy Eastwood welcomed the idea of the remake, and they kept in touch. But, once the shooting began, he was focused on delivering what director Lee Sang-il wanted in the new movie, not an easy re-interpretation.
"What I cherish as my joy is that sense of purpose we shared with Clint as people working hard on a film," Watanabe said before departing for the Venice Film Festival, where the Japanese film will premiere Friday.
The remake turns the tables on Eastwood, whose stardom originated in spaghetti Westerns, the European films depicting the American West which often remade samurai films and were influenced by Japanese directing styles. The 1964 classic "A Fistful of Dollars," starring Eastwood, was a retelling of auteur Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo."
Eastwood's "Unforgiven" was released in 1992 and earned four Oscars, including Best Picture. The Japanese remake, which opens in its home country Sept. 13, keeps the original's title, characters, themes and plot: an aging, reformed warrior picks up his weapon - a sword rather than a gun - to help prostitutes who want revenge for abuse.
The landscape changes from the sandy Old West to the freezing, sometimes-snowy island of Hokkaido in the 1880s, setting a different ambience. Instead of a shootout, this film's climax is a bloodily cruel choreography of swordsmanship.
Eastwood's original was stunning when it came out for defying the stereotypes of cowboy movies, where the gun-slinging good guy triumphs over the bad guys, but instead raised fundamental questions about what was really good versus evil, according to Watanabe.
The remake examines those issues further, reflecting psychological complexities and introducing social issues not in the original, such as racial discrimination.
"It reflects the modern age. People are stifled, burdened and suffering to survive," Watanabe told The Associated Press, appearing more relaxed and younger than in the movie.
"The original was simple and straight-ahead. The new version is more problematic. It's as though all the characters are writhing in thick mud," he said.
Watanabe, 53, has become sought after in Hollywood since appearing alongside Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai" in 2003. He starred in Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima" and co-starred in "Inception" and "Batman Begins."
"I find him very impressive, of course," film critic Leonard Maltin said in an email to AP.
While Watanabe takes Eastwood's starring role in "Unforgiven," veteran Akira Emoto plays the sidekick previously portrayed by Morgan Freeman. Yuya Yagira, named best actor for "Nobody Knows" at the 2004 Cannes film festival, plays the younger, troublemaker cowboy. Koichi Sato plays the villainous sheriff, the role that earned Gene Hackman a supporting actor Academy Award in Eastwood's film.
Watanabe also is set to be in the 2014 "Godzilla" remake, as well as in the upcoming Martin Scorsese film, "Silence," based on Shusaku Endo's novel about the historical persecution of Christians in Japan.
He shrugs it all off.
His switch to U.S. movies has proved refreshing, delivering that feeling of starting from scratch. He loves feeling like the new kid on the block, reliving that same uncertainty and thrill when he started out in the movies in his 20s.
And that's important for an actor and something he can bring back to Japanese movies, too, he said.
"Actors are always afraid of ending up like overcooked old soup over time. What's risky is that you don't realize this has happened, and you just get thick and boring," he said.
"Going abroad was like getting a new pot to cook everything again. I was a rookie, a new self. And they were asking me: Who are you?"
Watanabe stressed he was proud of the legacy of Japanese films, a legacy he has helped create in a career spanning more than three decades, following legends like Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai.
Kei Kumai, the late director of "Sandakan No. 8," said he knew instantly that Watanabe was destined for stardom when they met in the 1980s, recognizing that he boasted the same power to focus that characterized Mifune.
"He possessed that charm only stars have, the power to attract people," Kumai wrote in his 1996 memoirs.
Watanabe's success highlights the long-lasting power of the Japanese movie industry. The U.S. raked in $10.8 billion a year at the box office, China $2.7 billion and Japan $2.4 billion, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
Watanabe stressed he has gone to Hollywood as a Japanese actor, and nothing else. That's critical for his identity, he said.
Sometimes he worries the old glory of Japanese movies may be fading. He hopes his "Unforgiven" might help win over new foreign fans.
After working with Eastwood on "Letters From Iwo Jima," Watanabe liked the intuitive way the American director worked, leaving so much to the actors, often not even rehearsing.
Once toying with the idea of directing, Watanabe says after "Unforgiven," he's convinced again of his true calling.
"I don't think I can ever get that cruel," he said of its director Lee, with a laugh.
Lee demanded multiple takes from his actors, despite the freezing weather, and hung Emoto on ropes for hours and clubbed him with a real stick to film one scene.
Still, Lee had only praise for Watanabe's acting.
"Ken never waffles. Regardless of the situation, regardless of the colors of the place he finds himself, he is always rooted solid," Lee said in a statement.
"His role must speak through his back. It's not when he is saying his lines. He speaks after he has finished talking, when he is listening to someone else, when he is silent."
Link for "Unforgiven" trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vgj3gwo01Pf4


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I was asked yesterday to contribute to an online symposium at National Review Online about the implications of the Supreme Court decisions on marriage. Here's my contribution:
From a legal standpoint, the Supreme Court's decision on DOMA is extraordinary and far-reaching. Our entire legal history and tradition regarding marriage continues to be dismantled. Nobody can know what will come from redefining thousands of federal statutes and regulations — wherever the words "marriage" or "spouse" appear. It will take decades to know the ultimate legal consequences.
But there is a deeper meaning. We have been engaged in a great struggle for the soul of our society, and the souls of individuals. The battleground has been over the nature and significance of marriage, and why people should choose marriage as the centerpiece of their lives. We have long been contending against a hostile culture.
This task will go on, regardless of whatever the law might be. Families, schools, and churches will all continue to teach the authentic meaning of marriage — one man, one woman, lifelong, faithful, and inherently oriented to having children. But the terms of engagement have dramatically changed. The Court's ruling will make our mission more difficult, by branding the real meaning of marriage as mere bigotry, hatred, and irrationality.
In a way, though, this may enable us to become more effective teachers. The big lie at the heart of the Supreme Court's decision — that same-sex relationships are the same as real marriages — cannot ultimately gain sway over the hearts of people. It is false, and deep in our hearts we know it. And it will only highlight the contrast between the false values of a corrupted society and legal system, and the true virtues of authentic, loving married couples.
The law is a great teacher, and this Supreme Court decision teaches a lie. But the truth about marriage will continue to be attractive to people, who always prefer truth to lies.
Many of the other contributors took a "it's not as bad as it could have been" approach. I'm not convinced. The expansive, dismissive language of the majority opinion — claiming that bigotry alone supports laws defending real marriage — will certainly be used by future litigants to attack the laws of the states that have not yet gone over the edge. Same-sex "marriage" advocates have already begun predicting that it will only be a matter of five years before they will succeed in overturning all those state laws.
The language of the decision will also be used in the public square to shape the debate, by branding us as the equivalent of racists. Soon, the media won't even try to obtain and present our side of the story. There won't be much of a debate, if only one side is allowed to show up.
The Court's ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act will also shape the implementation of a wide range of federal laws, which reach far into every recess of American life. Think only of ERISA (which governs employee benefit plans and pension plans) and the Affordable Care Act (which governs health insurance plans), and you can see how significant will be the redefinition of "marriage" and "spouse" under federal law — every benefit plan, and every health insurance plan, will likely have to cover benefits for same-sex "spouses".
The potential for conflict with religious liberty and conscience rights will be just as severe as with the HHS mandate.
Likewise, we can easily see a time when the IRS will play a role. When it scrutinizes the policies of organizations that seek (or already have) tax exempt status, what will happen when it finds that an organization "discriminates" against same-sex couples in employment, benefits or services? Will "discriminatory" churches be denied tax exempt status, or have it stripped from them? Remember, the old saying, "the power to tax is the power to destroy".
While I continue to be optimistic that people will see through the lie in the Supreme Court's decision, as an attorney I'm pessimistic. People will still choose authentic marriage, and we will continue to teach about it, and call people to it. But from a lawyer's perspective, it's very difficult to see a future that is free of continuing legal and social pressure and conflict, all designed to make us conform to the new view of marriage, and punishing us if we fail to do so.
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Political activists have been claiming that the state�s new voter ID requirement is voter suppression. They say that many people lack a driver�s license or other forms of identification; so, the complaint goes, those folks won�t be able to vote.
To the editor:
Political activists have been claiming that the state�s new voter ID requirement is voter suppression. They say that many people lack a driver�s license or other forms of identification; so, the complaint goes, those folks won�t be able to vote.
I know exactly what they mean. Only my experience took place at medical offices. Last week, I had my blood tested and underwent a CT scan.
In both places, I was required to show a driver�s license � or, I assume, some equivalent form of identification � just as North Carolina voters will have to do in 2016.
Fortunately, I was able to do so. But that got me to thinking about how often I, or almost anyone, has to show identification in today�s world.
On a recent vacation, I had to show ID to rent a car and board an airplane � I would have needed ID if I decided to take Amtrak instead. I�ve had to show ID to buy beer, when it is obvious and undeniable I am way, way over 21 years of age.
Twice here in the Triangle I�ve had to show a driver�s license just to look around at fitness centers. Not to use the equipment, mind you, but just to look around and see if I might want to join.
It�s hard to imagine someone without ID. A quick Google search will list many other activities that require some form of identification. This includes using the social safety net. To get a Social Security card, you must provide ID. Then to collect those benefits, a new law mandates that you receive your payments electronically. But the Patriot Act requires you to show identification to open a bank account, which is what you need to get electronic deposits.
State authorities say that to apply for Medicaid you need to bring an array of documents, including but not limited to:
n Identity documents for each individual applying for Medicaid/NCHC.
n Certified birth certificates or other proof of citizenship/alien status for each individual applying for Medicaid/NCHC.
n Social Security cards, Social Security numbers or proof that you have made an application for a number from the Social Security office, for each individual applying for Medicaid or NCHC.
n Most recent bank statements.
In short, people need ID to take part in society. People without identification are hampered from getting medical care, social services and other basic amenities of life. Someone who can�t produce basic ID is therefore far outside the mainstream of society. If there are such people, they really need help.
If our friends on the left really cared about the truly needy, they would welcome the chance to provide these essential documents to those who need them. And they have about three years to do so. That shouldn�t be too hard.
But the left doesn�t talk about helping the needy get ID. That offers two possibilities: Either there are no such people; or the left doesn�t really care about helping the needy, but only about using them to play political games.
Let�s just keep that in mind. Providing proof of identity is something doctors� offices, pharmacies, airlines, welfare offices and many other places demand; it�s not too much to ask it of voters. And if activists really care, they need to mobilize a drive to make sure everyone in North Carolina has an identification card.
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Editor�s note: Jim Tynen is communications director of the Civitas Institute in Raleigh.


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Officials say a helicopter crashed on Pikes Peak during an Audi commercial shoot today, injuring four. The helicopter was shooting the Driverless Audi TTS. Medical crews are en route, but having difficulty reaching the victims by helicopter. UPDATE.
In June, Audi reported they'd be bringing the driverless TTS to Pikes Peak in Colorado for a full test of their new vehicle on the challenging course. The helicopter filming them, an Aerospatiale according to KKTV, was recording the TTS when it went down.
Reports indicate the pilot is in critical condition and the three other passengers are injured. The crash is apparently right below the summit of Pikes Peak, making it difficult for medical crews to reach them.
UPDATE: Audi of America released the following statement:
Audi is saddened by the helicopter incident that took place this morning near the summit of Pikes Peak. Today's film crew was shooting a test run of the "Autonomous Audi TTS Pikes Peak," a joint program between Audi, the Electronic Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, and Stanford University. The goal of the project involves ascending Pikes Peak autonomously without a driver behind the wheel to demonstrate the capabilities of advanced driver assistance systems and GPS. The car was not involved in the incident.
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A Couple Leaves their Jobs to Build a House of Windows in the Mountains of West Virginia
For their very first date, photographer Nick Olson took designer Lilah Horwitz on a walk in the mountains of West Virginia. While chatting and getting to know each other during a particularly scenic sunset the two jokingly wondered what it would be like to live in a house where the entire facade was windows, so the sunset would never be contained within a small space. Where most people would file the idea away as a dream or maybe an item at the bottom of a bucket list, the newly minted couple were a bit more aggressive. Less than a year later the two quit their jobs and embarked on a road trip starting in Pennsylvania to collect dozens of windows from garage sales and antique dealers. A few weeks later they arrived in West Virginia and built the glass cabin in the exact same spot where they envisioned it on their fist date. Filmmakers Matt Glass and Jordan Wayne Long of Half Cut Tea caught up with Horwirz and Olson to learn more about the construction of the building and their unusually strong commitment to following through with their artistic visions.


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The Semantic Web proposes a framework for establishing a "web of data", analogous to the "web of documents" of the World Wide Web. It envisions a series of interconnected ontologies, underwritten by formal languages such as OWL and RDF. The problem of co‑ordinating disparate ontologies has led to the development of various ontology matching approaches. However, as these approaches are algorithmic they cannot make use of background or tacit information about the ontologies they examine — information only available in the broader social context in which ontologies are created and used. In many practical knowledge management scenarios, such information is vital in understanding the costs, feasibility and scope of ontology alignment projects. Prior to undertaking the detailed task of concept‑to‑concept mapping between two ontologies, it is therefore useful to ask: are these ontologies broadly commensurable? This paper presents a framework for describing and comparing cultural information about ontologies, developed as part of a joint project conducted by RMIT University and FujiXerox Australia, "Towards the 'Semantic Web': Standards and Interoperability across Document Management and Publishing Supply Chains". The framework is intended for practitioners to use as a tool to arrive at better estimates and assessments of the scope of work required to develop an adequate translation between two or more ontologies. The framework has been piloted as an online software toolkit, which is presented to a small group of participants. After using the software, participants complete an evaluation, which elicits quantitative and qualitative feedback on both the framework and the software. The paper presents the results of the pilot testing process, along with some considerations of how the framework might be further improved.
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