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The Remote Sensing Applications Department of Eurosense presented a poster (available here) regarding one of their on-going projects called «REDDiness» at the 3rd Luxembourg Earth Observation Day (LEO). The event took place on the 16th of March 2012, at the Domaine Thermal in Mondorf-les-Bains. It was co-organized by the Public Research Center - Gabriel Lippmann, the Luxembourg Space Cluster and the Grand-Duché de Luxembourg.
LEO is a one-day regional conference which intends to «increase the awareness among users and service providers (
) about the potential that space technologies offer in the domain of environmental monitoring and management». It gathers professionals from academic organizations (Université Catholique de Louvain, University of Ghent), governmental institutions /agencies (Skywin), international and European organizations (e.g. UNESCO, ESA), as well as professionals from the private sector (Deloitte).
This years conference focused on 3 topics: Environmental monitoring and management: Remote sensing techniques for environmental management. Water resources management: Integration of space technologies for water quality management and flood modeling when associated with hydrologic and hydraulic models.
Agriculture and forest management: Development of earth observation data processing methodologies and tools for classification and retrieval of biochemical properties of crops and soils.
EU-funded and led by EUROSENSE, REDDiness falls into the 3rd topic and aims to support Central African countries in EO-driven forest monitoring of forest degradation: a hot issue in the international climate change negotiations. As implied by its name, REDDiness literally means to be ready for REDD-Plus, which stands for Reducing carbon Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in developing countries (Plus = forest conservation, carbon stock enhancement and forest management).
Supported by a user requirement analysis done during the first phase of the project, EUROSENSE and its partners are testing the effectiveness of different types of satellite imagery (radar and very high optical satellite imageries) to detect forest degradation within 2 study sites: one in Gabon and one in the Republic of Congo. The results accuracy will be supported by extensive field measurements relying on two local partners (the MEF and CINAF).
Additionally, REDDIness intends to build the technical capacities of Central African countries in negotiations on REDD-Plus with required experience relevant for measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) forest changes and associated carbon emissions. More information about REDDiness on: http://reddiness.eu/
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What's around VITEHOUSE, Rome
- In Rome City Centre
- Via del Corso - 1 min walk
- Piazza di Spagna - 5 min walk
- Trevi Fountain - 6 min walk
- Spanish Steps - 8 min walk
- Pantheon - 8 min walk
- Via Veneto - 9 min walk
- Piazza Navona - 10 min walk
Getting around
- Rome (FCO-Fiumicino - Leonardo da Vinci Intl.) - 46 min drive
- Rome (CIA-Ciampino) - 44 min drive
- Rome Piazzale Flaminio Station - 15 min walk
- Rome Termini Station - 27 min walk
- Rome Euclide Station - 7 min drive
- Spagna Station - 7 min walk
- Barberini Station - 11 min walk
- Flaminio - Piazza del Popolo Station - 14 min walk
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Key facts
- 6 apartments
- Check-in time 3 PM-8 PM
- Check-out time is 10 AM
Required at check-in
- Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
- Government-issued photo ID may be required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- No parking
Payment types at the property
Other information
- Smoke-free property
The manager
Speaks: English, French, Italian.
At the property
- English
- French
- Italian
In the apartment
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Flat-screen TV
- Free WiFi
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Kitchen
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
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All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.Guests must contact this property in advance to reserve cribs/infant beds.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3.50 per person, per night, up to 10 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 10 years of age.
- Cleaning fee: EUR 90 per accommodation, per stay
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Early check-in can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 15 (subject to availability)
Late check-in after 8:00 PM can be arranged for an extra charge (amount varies)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Are pets allowed at VITEHOUSE? Sorry, pets aren't allowed. Is parking offered at VITEHOUSE? Sorry, there's no parking at VITEHOUSE. What are the check-in and check-out times at VITEHOUSE? You can check in from 3 PM to 8 PM. There's a charge of EUR 15 for early check-in (subject to availability). Check-out time is 10 AM. Are there restaurants at or near VITEHOUSE? Yes. Nearby restaurants include Life (1-min walk), Le Grotte (1-min walk), and Palatium Enoteca Regionale del Lazio (1-min walk).
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Unfortunately, patterns are forever disappearing or links changing.
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Chocolate Fondue Fountain
Shellie from craftbits.com contacted me to let me know she's got this super cute free pattern coming out in November.
The really good news is that she gave me permission to share the pattern with you all right now.
There's also kiwi fruit, banana slices and strawberrys to dip into the chocolate fountain.... yummo!
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Sunday, 26 September 2010
Squirrel Amigurumi
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Adorable Aliens
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Lund, Lars (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The Greenland infrastructure for the airborne traffic uses Kangerlussuaq, Søndre Strømfjord, as hub. New scenarios may change that, and one possibility is the construction of a large airport at Nuuk with a 3000 m runway. The trunk line will then be between Copenhagen and Nuuk. In that case the village Kangerlussuaq will be abandoned. The paper analyses the size of the economic gain to Greenland of such a change. Using official statistics and information collected for the investigation a description is made of the employment structure and the income earned in the trades represented in Kangerlussuaq. It is then discussed to which extent people do tasks that will still be needed with the new structure and to which extent they will be set free to go into alternative production. The last possibility is regarded as a saving or as an increase in resources for Greenland, and the estimate is that this gain will amount to around 40 percent of the contribution to GDP in Kangerlussuaq. The saving is modified a little by the need of some new investments in Nuuk, mostly for housing. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7507
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Leth Hougaard, Jens; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.; Østerdal, Lars Peter (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study the optimal management of evolving hierarchies, which abound in real-life phenomena. An initiator invests into finding a subordinate, who will bring revenues to the joint venture and who will invest herself into finding another subordinate, and so on. The higher the individual investment (which is private information), the higher the probability of finding a subordinate. A transfer scheme specifies how revenues are reallocated, via upward transfers, as the hierarchy evolves. Each transfer scheme induces a game in which agents decide their investment choices. We consider two optimality notions for schemes: initiator-optimal and socially-optimal schemes. We show that the former are schemes imposing to each member a full transfer to two recipients (the predecessor and the initiator) with a constant ratio among the transfers. We show that the latter are schemes imposing full transfers to the immediate predecessors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9701
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Ghiglino, Christian; Tvede, Mich (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7548
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Sørensen, Anders (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Welfare ranking of policy instruments is addressed in a two-sector Ramsey model with monopoly pricing in one sector as the only distortion. When government spending is restricted, i.e. when a government is unable or unwilling to finance the required costs for implementing the optimum policy, subsidies that directly affect investment incentives may generate higher welfare effects than the direct instrument, which is a production subsidy. The driving mechanism is that an investment subsidy may be more cost effective than the direct instrument; and that the relative welfare gain from cost effectiveness can exceed the welfare loss from introducing new distortions. Moreover, it is found that the investment subsidy is gradually phased out of the welfare maximizing policy, which may be a policy combining the two subsidies, when the level of government spending is increased. Keywords: welfare ranking, indirect and direct policy instruments, restricted government spending JEL: E61, O21, O41 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7581
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Blomgren-Hansen, Niels (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In most countries labor is organzed in cooperating skill-speci c unions rather than in industrial unions or separately bargaining skill-speci c unions. Within an extremely simple model of a small open economy facing imperfect competition we show that this way of organizing labor can be explained as the outcome of rational (optimizing) behavior on the part of the unions and the employers. Organizing labor in local industrial cartels (regardless of skill) or a single economy wide cartel results in a real wage level that is inappropriately low both from the point of view of labor and the society as a whole unless labor has close to monopoly power in the wage setting process. Organizing labor in local or economy wide skill-speci c unions may result in a wage level that is too high. In addition, a labor market organized in non-cooperating unions is likely to be unstable. This dilemma calls for a compromise: A cartel of cooperating, independent skill-speci c unions. The degree and the form of the cooperation depend inter alia on the bargaining power of the employer, the number of skills and competing rms and the rigidity with which the unions enforce lines of demarcations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7599
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Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7636
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Evidence from Unexpected Inheritance due to Sudden DeathAndersen, Steffen; Meisner Nielsen, Kasper (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We use a natural experiment to investigate the impact of participation constraints on individuals' decisions to invest in the stock market. Unexpected inheritance due to sudden deaths results in exogenous variation in financial wealth and allows us to examine whether fixed entry and ongoing participation costs cause non-participation. We have three key findings. First, windfall wealth has a positive effect on participation. Second, the majority of households do not react to sizeable windfalls by entering the stock market, but hold on to substantial safe assets—even over longer horizons. Third, the majority of households inheriting stock holdings actively sell the entire portfolio. Overall, these findings suggest that participation by many individuals is unlikely to be constrained by financial participation costs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8169
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Bennedsen, Morten (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7563
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Mayer, Wolfgang; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Why do donor countries give foreign aid? The answers found in the literature are: (i) because donor countries care for recipient countries (e.g. altruism), and/or (ii) because there exist distortions that make the indirect gains from foreign aid (e.g. terms of trade effects) to be larger than the direct losses. This paper proposes a third answer to the above question, namely that aid is determined through the domestic political process of the donor country. The paper demonstrates how foreign aid affects the donor country's income distribution and how, in a direct democracy, the majority of voters might benefit from foreign aid giving even though the country's social welfare is reduced. JEL Classification: F35 Keywords: foreign aid, politics, majority voting. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7488
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Risager, Ole (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Price-earnings ratios are part of the toolkit that is used for assessing the valuation of individual firms on the stock market as well as the entire market itself. This paper presents consistent P/E series for the liquid Danish shares adjusted for share buybacks. The results show that over the period from 1969 to 2003, the average (trailing) P/E equals 13.5. The P/E reaches its lowest level in 1980, which is likely to be due to a soaring oil price, high wage increases and interest rates approaching 20 percent. Notwithstanding optimistic equity pricing also in Denmark in the late 1990s, the upturn in Danish valuations was more moderate than in the US. The correction that sets in subsequently reversed essentially the gains in the Danish P/E in the 1990s. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7620
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Separating the Impact of Dual Class Shares, Pyramids and Cross-ownership on Firm Value Across Legal Regimes in Western EuropeBennedsen, Morten; Meisner Nielsen, Kasper (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent policy initiatives within the harmonization of European company laws have promoted a so-called "principle of proportionality" through proposals that regulate mechanisms opposing a proportional distribution of ownership and control. We scrutinize the foundation for these initiatives by analyzing the use of instruments to separate ownership from control across legal regimes in a sample of over 4,000 publicly traded firms from 14 Western European countries. First, we confirm the negative impact on firm value from disproportional ownership structures previously established in a sample of Asian firms by Claessens et al. (2002). Second, we show that dual class shares have a larger and more significant negative effect on firm value than pyramids and cross holdings. Third, we find that the impact of disproportionality and the underlying instruments is inversely related to the level of investor protection. Thus, dual class shares and pyramids substitute legal protection in countries with inadequate investor protection. Fourth, we find no evidence of a significant effect of disproportionality instruments on earnings performance. Finally, we discuss policy implications of these findings in relationship to the process of harmonization of the European capital markets. JEL classifications: G30, G32, G34 and G38 Keywords: Ownership Structure, Dual Class Shares, Pyramids, EU company laws. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7544
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Blomgren-Hansen, Niels (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7618
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Lund, Lars (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Abstract: The balance of payments of Greenland has special features due to an important current transfer, bloktilskud, from Denmark. The trade balance does not exhibit a deficit of this order of magnitude but comparison of the bloktilskud and the deficit is difficult as official figures are available for the merchandise trade only. Figures for services are missing. However, guesses about the size of a deficit in the services' trade do not easily discard the impression of a large surplus on the current account. Over a ten year period it is suggested that accumulated surpluses could be twice the level of Greenland's GDP. This seems unlikely, but the available data raise a puzzle that ought to be addressed as it nourishes suspicion of unobserved accumulation of wealth. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7550
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a welfare-theoretical approachOlai Hansen, Bodil; Keiding, Hans (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7489
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Junge, Martin; Severgnini, Battista; Sørensen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The role of product and marketing innovation for productivity growth is addressed using survey and register data for the Danish economy. It is argued that marketing and product innovation are complementary inputs and that innovation activities are skill-intensive. It is found that product and marketing innovation in skill-intensive firms results in significantly faster productivity growth than in unskilled-intensive firms that introduce this combination of innovation activities. More precisely, an increase in the share of educated workers of one percentage point, increases productivity growth by around 0.1 percentage point in firms with product and marketing innovation. In addition, it is found that firms that engage in product innovation but not in marketing innovation or the other way around do not demonstrate a growth effect from their innovation activities. It is also found that product and marketing innovation has an independent role in productivity growth that cannot be attributed to organisational changes, even though the majority of innovative firms engage in this latter innovation type. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8468
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Andersen, Torben M.; Skaksen, Jan Rose (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance* In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier goods trading is equivalent to increased mobility of employment across countries and thus a change in the trade-off between wages and employment faced by wage setters. While the effects of product market integration on the trade-off between wages and employment in general is ambiguous, it is shown that product market integration works like a general improvement in productivity via the specialization it allows through trade. Unambiguously, real wages and employment and welfare improve upon reductions in trade frictions, and therefore workers are better off irrespective of whether the market power of unions is enhanced or muted. JEL Classification: F15, J30, J50 Keywords: trade frictions, wage formation, employment, welfare gains URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7506
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Andersen, Torben M.; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we set up a two-country general equilibrium model where trade unions have wage bargaining power. We show that a decrease in trade distortions inducing further product market integration gives rise to specialization gains as well as a labour market reform effect. The implications of the specialization gains are similar to an increase in labour productivity, whereas the labour market reform effect is similar to an increase in the degree of competition in the labour market. Wages, employment and welfare increase as a result of further product market integration. It is interesting to note that the labour market reform effect of product market integration is achieved despite an increase in the wage level. JEL Classification: F15, J30, J50. Keywords: Trade frictions, wage formation, employment, welfare gains. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7655
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Hansen, Bodil O.; Keiding, Hans (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We consider a model of commercial television market, where private broadcasters coexist with a public television broadcaster. Assuming that the public TV station follows a policy of Ramsey pricing whereas the private stations are profit maximizers, we consider the equilibria in this market and compare with a situation where the public station is privatized and acts as another private TV broadcaster. A closer scrutiny of the market for commercial television leads to a distinction between target rating points, which are the prime unit of account in TV advertising, and net coverage, which is the final goal of advertisers. Working with net coverage as the fundamental concept, we exploit the models of competition between public and private price and quantity in order to show that privatization of the public TV station entails a welfare loss and results in TV advertising becoming more expensive. Keywords: TV broadcasting, imperfect competition, Ramsey pricing, welfare comparison. JEL classification: L11, L82, L33 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7501
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Ahsan, Syed M.; Tsigaris, Panagiotis (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7503
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Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture capital backed innovation. JEL Classification: D82, G24, G28, H24. Keywords: venture capital bank finance, matching, moral hazard, public policy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7658
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Costumeshoes brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 24 Designs von 10 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We sell high heel shoes of every height and design from low heels to prom shoes to high 8 inch platforms.
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We have two new lines of heels that are very Retro that we want to promote on our front page.
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There are two lines of shoes we are promoting - Betty Page Shoes (that we don't have a logo for) and Pinup Couture (see the attached graphic of their logo).
We want the text to say: Glamorous and Retro Betty Page & Pinup Couture Shoes Have Arrived!
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Have fun and thank you for submitting your design!


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• Try a budgeted bill. Instead of your bill fluctuating every month, you may be able to receive an average monthly bill by calling your utility company. That way, you can better budget the monthly expense so that it doesn't go way up or down.
• Switch bulbs. You can easily change regular lights to fluorescents. These bulbs may cost a little more initially, but over the course of a year they will cost less to use and be much more budget-friendly.
• Not in the room? Turn it off! Double-check to make sure all lights are turned off when not in use. Always get into the habit of turning lights off when you leave a room or leave the house. If you tend to forget, you may want to consider setting lights on an automated timer.
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by Paul Armentano
Senior Policy Analyst
NORML | NORML Foundation
Preclinical data recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation demonstrating that cannabinoids may spur brain cell growth has reignited the international debate regarding the impact of marijuana on the brain. However, unlike previous pseudo-scientific campaigns that attempted to link pot smoking with a litany of cognitive abnormalities, modern research suggests what many cannabis enthusiasts have speculated all along: ganja is good for you.
"Study turns pot wisdom on its head," pronounced the Globe and Mail in October. News wires throughout North America and the world touted similar headlines -- all of which were met with a monumental silence from federal officials and law enforcement. Why all the fuss? Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon found that the administration of synthetic cannabinoids in rats stimulated the proliferation of newborn neurons (nerve cells) in the hippocampus region of the brain and significantly reduced measures of anxiety and depression-like behavior. The results shocked researchers -- who noted that almost all other so-called "drugs of abuse," including alcohol and tobacco, decrease neurogenesis in adults -- and left the "pot kills brain cells" crowd with a platter of long-overdue egg on their faces.
While it would be premature to extrapolate the study's findings to humans, at a minimum, the data reinforce the notion that cannabinoids are unusually non-toxic to the brain and that even long-term use of marijuana likely represents little risk to brain function. The findings also offer further evidence that cannabinoids can play a role in the alleviation of depression and anxiety, and that cannabis-based medicines may one day offer a safer alternative to conventional anti-depressant pharmaceuticals such as Paxil and Prozac.
Not only has modern science refuted the notion that marijuana is neurotoxic, recent scientific discoveries have indicated that cannabinoids are, in fact, neuroprotective, particularly against alcohol-induced brain damage. In a recent preclinical study -- the irony of which is obvious to anyone who reads it -- researchers at the US National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) reported that the administration of the non-psychoactive cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) reduced ethanol-induced cell death in the brain by up to 60 percent. "This study provides the first demonstration of CBD as an in vivo neuroprotectant ... in preventing binge ethanol-induced brain injury," the study's authors wrote in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Alcohol poisoning is linked to hundreds of preventable deaths each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control, while cannabis cannot cause death by overdose.
Of course, many US neurologists have known about cannabis' neuroprotective prowess for years. NIMH scientists in 1998 first touted the ability of natural cannabinoids to stave off the brain-damaging effects of stroke and acute head trauma. Similar findings were then replicated by investigators in the Netherlands and Italy and, most recently, by a Japanese research in 2005. However, attempts to measure the potential neuroprotective effects of synthetic cannabinoid-derived medications in humans have so far been inconclusive.
Of all cancers, few are as aggressive and deadly as glioma. Glioma tumors quickly invade healthy brain tissue and are typically unresponsive to surgery and standard medical treatments. One agent they do respond to is cannabis.
Writing in the August 2005 issue of the Journal of Neurooncology, investigators at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute reported that the administration of THC on human glioblastoma multiforme cell lines decreased the proliferation of malignant cells and induced apoptosis (programmed cell death) more rapidly than did the administration of the synthetic cannabis receptor agonist, WIN-55,212-2. Researchers also noted that THC selectively targeted malignant cells while ignoring healthy ones in a more profound manner than the synthetic alternative. Patients diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme typically die within three months without therapy.
Previous research conducted in Italy has also demonstrated the capacity of CBD to inhibit the growth of glioma cells both in vitro (e.g., a petri dish) and in animals in a dose dependent manner. As a result, a Spanish research team is currently investigating whether the intracranial administration of cannabinoids can prolong the lives of patients diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.
Most recently, a scientific analysis in the October issue of the journal Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry noted that, in addition to THC and CBD's brain cancer-fighting ability, studies have also shown cannabinoids to halt the progression of lung carcinoma, leukemia, skin carcinoma, colectoral cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer.
Cannabinoids & Neurodegeneration
Emerging evidence also indicates that cannabinoids may play a role in slowing the progression of certain neurodegenerative diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's Disease). Recent animal studies have shown cannabinoids to delay disease progression and inhibit neurodegeneration in mouse models of ALS, Parkinson's, and MS. As a result, the Journal of Neurological Sciences recently pronounced, "There is accumulating evidence ... to support the hypothesis that the cannabinoid system can limit the neurodegenerative processes that drive progressive disease," and patient trials investigating whether the use of oral THC and cannabis extracts may slow the progression of MS are now underway in the United Kingdom.
But what about claims of cannabis' damaging effect of cognition? A review of the scientific literature indicates that rumors regarding the "stoner stupid" stereotype are unfounded. According to clinical trial data published this past spring in the American Journal of Addictions, cannabis use -- including heavy, long-term use of the drug -- has, at most, only a negligible impact on cognition and memory. Researchers at Harvard Medical School performed magnetic resonance imaging on the brains of 22 long-term cannabis users (reporting a mean of 20,100 lifetime episodes of smoking) and 26 controls (subjects with no history of cannabis use). Imaging displayed "no significant differences" between heavy cannabis smokers compared to controls, the study found.
Previous trials tell a similar tale. An October 2004 study published in the journal Psychological Medicine examining the potential long-term residual effects of cannabis on cognition in monozygotic male twins reported "an absence of marked long-term residual effects of marijuana use on cognitive abilities." A 2003 meta-analysis published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society also "failed to reveal a substantial, systematic effect of long-term, regular cannabis consumption on the neurocognitive functioning of users who were not acutely intoxicated," and a 2002 clinical trial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal determined, "Marijuana does not have a long-term negative impact on global intelligence."
Finally, a 2001 study published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry found that long-term cannabis smokers who abstained from the drug for one week "showed virtually no significant differences from control subjects (those who had smoked marijuana less than 50 times in their lives) on a battery of 10 neuropsychological tests." Investigators further added, "Former heavy users, who had consumed little or no cannabis in the three months before testing, [also] showed no significant differences from control subjects on any of these tests on any of the testing days."


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The blue dragon that is seen on the black knight shield.
Also, please bring back the Black Knights.
Please make a set where the Black Monarch on his (never before released) blue dragon goes one-on-one with the Dragon Master King (the guy with a blue leg and a black leg) on his green dragon.
The Black Monarch IS the ghost, but due to his passing the current Monarch is the guy who first wore the euro armor and pivoting visor.


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$18.2 million of the Holland & Knight money will go to victims of Ponzi scheme
Blue-chip law firm Holland & Knight will pay $25 million to settle a suit over its ties to Sarasota Ponzi schemer Arthur Nadel.
The firm and the Nadel receivership announced the settlement Tuesday afternoon, a deal that will provide the largest source of cash to date for investors who lost $162 million in Nadel's scam.
Investors will get $18.2 million, with the balance of the settlement going to Tampa law firm Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel and Burns, which was hired to handle the case on a contingency basis.
"This may be less than some were hoping for, but is still a significant win for the investors," said Sarasota attorney Morgan Bentley, who represents a number of Nadel's victims.
With the settlement, Nadel receiver Burton Wiand will have gathered about $53 million for the receivership, or about a third of investors' losses. He has authorized $131 million in claims.
If approved by the court, the Holland & Knight settlement will be the largest for investors in more than three years.
The lawsuit against the law firm, filed three years ago, claimed Holland & Knight knew about -- but failed to report -- illegal activities at the Scoop Management hedge funds operated by Nadel in downtown Sarasota.
The influential and politically connected law firm ignored, or missed, numerous signs that could have exposed Nadel's scheme and protected investors, according to the lawsuit.
Wiand said the settlement began taking shape after the two sides held a two-day mediation earlier this month. "We began to narrow the gap and finally reached an agreement," he said.
If there are no protests or complications, Wiand hopes to have the money in hand in November and distributed to investors before Christmas.
Holland & Knight, which was paid less than $500,000 for its work with Nadel, Wiand said, had steadfastly maintained its innocence. As part of the settlement, it did not admit to any wrongdoing.
"The settlement represents a compromise by the firm that reflects its consideration of various factors, including the substantial costs and investment of firm resources required to continue the litigation involving the funds," firm general counsel Michael Chapman said in a statement.
Wiand said he was confident about prevailing at trial, which was to begin in October in Sarasota Circuit Court.
"It's clear Holland & Knight disputed the allegations, but after proceeding with litigation for about three years, I think the handwriting was on the wall," he said.
U.S. District Judge Richard Lazzara still must approve the settlement. The judge also will be asked to bar any other claims by investors or others against Holland & Knight and its attorney, Scott MacLeod, who also was named in the suit. Objections to the deal must be filed by Oct. 1.
Wiand, the receiver since Nadel's scheme collapsed in January 2009, said Holland & Knight prepared various private placement memos that were used to entice investors into the hedge funds Nadel operated with partners Neil and Christopher Moody, as well as Nadel's management firms.
But the firm failed to disclose that Nadel was a disbarred attorney who had been sanctioned for taking a client's money in New York.
It did not insist on the common checks and balances found at most investment firms, allowing Nadel to maintain a "veil of secrecy" in the operations of Scoop Management and the funds, said the lawsuit by attorney Guy W. Burns.
"Holland and Knight failed to discover that Nadel had been operating a fraudulent investment program, even when a cursory examination and review of his activity would have revealed his illegal activities," the suit said.
The settlement would be by far the largest reached by the Nadel receivership, which has collected about $35 million so far from Nadel-Moody assets,investors who received false profits, and lawsuits.
Giant investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. had been the source of the previous largest settlement, when it paid $9.85 million last year to resolve claims over its handling of Nadel's hedge-fund trading.
Wiand also is suing Wells Fargo Bank, whose predecessor, Wachovia, allegedly allowed Nadel to set up secret bank accounts used to siphon off funds.
About 350 investors in May received checks totaling $26 million in the first distribution of funds from the receivership. That represented about 20 percent of their approved claims.
Nadel, dubbed a "mini-Madoff," bilked investors in what prosecutors called a classic Ponzi scheme. He died in April at age 79 while serving a 14-year sentence in North Carolina.


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Kibsey came into the final round tied for first with King teammate Richard Powell (Hixson, Tenn.) and freshman John Scott (Glasgow, Scotland) at one-under-par. The Winnipeg, Manitoba native held on to his lead shooting an even-par (70) and a two-round total of 139 (-1).
"It certainly feels great to win," said Kibsey. "I was comfortable on the course today. I went out there to play each shot, one at a time, while in the back of my mind knowing if I play my best I have the ability to win [the tournament]."
Scott and Powell both fell off the pace but still finished with top-10 performances, ending with rounds of 75 and 80, respectively. Josh Bamberger (Waterloo, Ontario) regrouped from his first-round 74 and improved his second-round score by six strokes, shooting a two-under par (68) to finish in a tie for second place in the tournament. He improved by four strokes on the back-nine alone from day one to day two, and nailed three birdies alone in the final nine of Tuesday's round.
"Josh [Bamberger] and Adrian [Kibsey] have been leading this team for two years now," said Head Coach Brian Kamm. "With their senior leadership, taking everything we have been talking about for two years and putting it into play we're not only winning tournaments now, we are preparing this program's future."
The Tornado not only saw two individual medalists but also took home the team tournament victory. King (565) shot more than 25 shots better than the next placing team, North Greenville University (591). Milligan (596) finished third out of the seven-team field with Erskine (602), Lincoln Memorial (608), King's secondary team (623) and Hiwassee rounding out the competition. This is the second team tournament victory of the season for the Tornado. The men won their opening season tournament at North Greenville in September.
Other notable performances on the final day include freshman Ross Maietta (Bexley, England), who had a seven-shot improvement from his first to second round score card. Maietta (151) shot a 72 (+2) on the final day to lead the King secondary team and finish in a tie for 12th overall.
The Lady Tornado finished second of five teams in the tournament with a two-round total of 668. The team improved by two shots from their first round score but could not overcome Erskine, who took the title with consecutive team rounds of 334 (668). Esther Gandarias (Madrid, Spain) medaled with a second place overall finish (82-79-161) and led the Lady Tornado both days. Gandarias was in position to earn first place honors but lost the lead after the final hole to individual winner Brittany Baker (159) of Milligan. Gandarias had a three-stroke improvement from day one to day two, the second-highest improvement next to Baker.
"The ladies played solid and played the course well," said Kamm. "We've been really hammering the women's team, challenging them more and more each week. It is starting to pay off now and the team is really responding."
King featured two top-5 finishers on the ladies' side. Cortnee Young (Cleveland, Tenn.) joined Gandarias inside the top-5 with a two-day score of 166 (83-83). Anna Walker (Marion, Va.) finished inside the top-10 tied for eighth place (84-86-170). Kerby Jones (96-96-190) and Chelsea Gammon (95-109-204) rounded out the King women's score card.
"The golf course played wonderfully," said Kamm. "The course was in great shape, greens were firm and fast which makes this tournament play like a PGA Tour event. The players do not get to play under these conditions very often so it was a real treat for them to play the course as it was. It really forced them to have to think through the course rather than play to the pin."
The King men's team will compete in their final tournament of the fall season at Lincoln Memorial University on Oct. 17-18. The women's team has completed their fall season with the conclusion of the King College Invitational.


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I thought it might be fun to look at the best season-opening performances in recent NBA history. So far as I can tell, this list will no in any way help anyone win their 2011-2012 fantasy basketball league, but it's a fun diversion while we wait for our teams to start their seasons.
I've poured through every team's first game of every season going back to 1986-1987 to find these gems and ranked them from a fantasy perspective, meaning an extra block or steal is worth a lot more than an extra point. These are the stat-stuffin'est, category-fillin'est games out there, the games I'd have been happiest to have in my line-up at the dawn of a new fantasy season. Without further ado, here's the list:
Finally we've found something Michael is good at.
Will anyone new join this list in 2011? I don't know. The important thing is, after weeks and weeks of waiting, we're about to find out!


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Hall candidate: Fred McGriff deserves better
- Fred McGriff had 10 30-homer seasons and eight 100-RBI seasons, finishing with 493 homers
- The only players with more home runs than McGriff not in the Hall have been linked to steroids
- McGriff, the model of consistency, was never MVP and never had an eye-popping season
(Editor's note: USA TODAY Sports is publishing sketches of the top Hall-of-Fame candidates on this year's ballot. It is an intriguing group, ranging from players with first-ballot accomplishments marred by the cloud of performance-enhancing drugs to unsullied players nearing the end of their 15-year eligibility. The Baseball Writers Association of America will announce Jan. 9 who, if anyone, accumulates the 75% of the vote necessary for induction.)
Fred McGriff
Position: First base
Career: 1986 to 2004; Blue Jays, Padres, Braves, Devil Rays, Cubs, Dodgers
Year on ballot: 4th
Why he should be inducted: Because his consistency was remarkable and long-lived. As McGriff neared the end of his career, he stood in the clubhouse among his Chicago Cubs teammates and was asked what aspect of his career made his most proud.
"I haven't changed over the years," he said, smiling. "I'm still the same size."
That was his message in an era becoming increasingly marred with steroid suspicions. The taint never got to McGriff and, while nobody can say for certain anyone was clean, McGriff's 493 career homers look far better than when he retired amidst 500 becoming less of an automatic number for the Hall.
He twice led the league in homers, was a five-time All-Star, had 10 30-homer and eight 100-RBI seasons. The only eligible players with more career homers who are not in the Hall are Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa.
Why he shouldn't be inducted: Because he was never the best at his position in his era. He never finished higher than fourth in MVP voting, never hit more than 37 homers in a season, never drove in more than 107 runs. At first base, those numbers don't rise above a usually strong crowd of peers.
Even with his longevity, McGriff's WAR is 48.2, 48th all-time among first baseman and below others who have been passed over the Hall, including John Olerud, Will Clark and Keith Hernandez.
Numbers don't lie: McGriff tops Hall of Famer Willie Stargell by 18 homers, 10 RBI and two batting average points; trails Stargell by three points in OPS.
Verdict: McGriff's support slipped in his second year on the ballot, but got up to 23.9% last year. That's a long climb but not impossible over the 15-year ballot time. He compares favorably to Jeff Bagwell in many respects and could be a Jim Rice-type case.


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(( Picture it.))
We're leaving London
and the lines are merging round baggage claim like a multi colored snake on
Why the hell do people dress up nicely to fly? They are only going to get wrinkled,
crinkled, smelly, and ugly anyhow.
We're standing in line.
The crazy twisting disquieting eternity of a line.
Passports, boarding passes, carry on bags, lotions in
plastic, and Mr. Liverpool needs to show his green card since he is termed an "Alien."
Half way through the grueling process, a police officer edges
into the winding line with this little mutt of a dog.
His black and white tail is wagging wildly and you can tell
he loves his job, wants to kick some passenger ass.
Suddenly, I get an image of that movie, Midnight Express,
where the Turkish police find hashish on this dude and triple hell breaks
loose. He ends up in a Turkish prison
for most of his adult life.
So, this little mutt is sniffing luggage, carry on bags,
purses, feet…
He is smelling his way round the endless lines seeking out hashish
& bad stuff that passengers should not be bringing on airplanes or
Everybody gets a big giggle out of the little mutt.
Isn't he cute? Isn't
he adorable? I wonder how much he gets
paid for sniffing?
After half an hour, he makes his way toward us.
Sniff. Wag. Sniff.
Then he begins circling round my carry on bag like he has
mad cow disease.
"What you have in there?"
The police officer asks snottily.
I unzip my bag.
"Nothing." I say.
"What's that?" He points.
Shit. Shit. Daaaaamn It.
I'm such a dork.
"H-h-half a sandwich."
I mutter idiotically, terrifyingly.
"Does it have meat in it?"
"No, just avocado. Oh, yeah, and some lettuce."
I wonder why he wants to know.
"I have to confiscate that, Miss." "He stands with his hands crossed over his chest. "Now."
I observe Mr. Liverpool shaking his head from the corner of
my eye & hear my son whisper to my other son–
"It just had to be mom, didn't it?"
The officer scribbles something about the sandwich on my
boarding pass and all of us end up in a back room where the bad people go
because every single piece of our luggage needs to be x-rayed now.
Perhaps they presume I have more avocado sandwiches, or god
forbid, bologna sandwiches.
Mr. Liverpool
is still shaking his head right to left—left to right.
"It had to be you." He says again.
"Don't say one more word."
I warn. "Not one more solitary
After an hour, we're allowed back into line with the other
law abiding citizens.
I notice the little mutt is jumping up and down the police
officer's leg because my avocado sandwich is sticking out of his pocket.
"I bet I know what he's having for dinner tonight." My son laughs, nudging me.
Moral to the story: Don't save the other half of your sandwich
until later. Eat it all. Savor it all.
Love it all. Life is too short,
dumb ass
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"Let us define a plot. We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. 'The king died and then the queen died,' is a story. 'The king died and then the queen died of grief' is a plot. The time-sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it. Or again: 'The queen died, no-one knew why, until it was discovered that it was through grief at the death of the king.' This is a plot with a mystery in it, a form capable of high development. It suspends the time-sequence, it moves as far away from the story as its limitations will allow. Consider the death of the queen. If it is in a story, we say: 'And then?' If it is in a plot, we ask: 'Why?' That is the fundamental difference between these two aspects of the novel. A plot cannot be told to a gaping audience of cave-men or to a tyrannical sultan or to their modern descendant the movie-public. They can only be kept awake by 'And then – and then -' they can only supply curiosity. But a plot demands intelligence and memory also."
~ EM Forster, Aspects of the Novel.
I'm enjoying Forster's book of lectures, which I've dabbled with before but never read cover to cover. Obviously he's snobbish about the movie-public above, and he's writing in 1927 when clearly elaborate plotting was to be found all over the screen. I wonder when Forster had last been to the flickers? But I also wonder if the pure story he speaks of, that which requires nothing from the viewer but expectation of the next stimulating event, really exists except as a sort of platonic ideal.
(Also, I've also felt that the word STORY had a grander sound than the word PLOT, so I'm almost inclined to reverse Forster's terminology, but that would get confusing. So, in his terms a story is a linear sequence of related events, whereas a plot is a structured sequence of causally related events.)
The first STAR WARS certainly depends a lot on the appeal of pure story. Alec Guinness, frowning at the poor dialogue and hackneyed characters, was on the point of discarding it, he says, when he realized he wanted to know what happened next. And if that were so, he further realized, the thing had a shot at being successful. Wisely, as it turned out, he agreed to be in it.
But STAR WARS is plotted. At the beginning, we meet the robots, we see the princess captured, we escape with the robots and meet the hero. His path eventually brings him into contact with the princess, and he rescues her. This is all linear, and we use the robots as POV characters to pull us through the different strands of the story. But Lucas also cuts away from them to action involving the villains and the princess. This is so that we are reminded they're in the film — and so that we can anticipate the adventure which will occur when the different plot threads weave together. If the film were mere story, it would be enough to simply follow the robots to Luke, then follow Luke. No doubt when he meets Leia and Darth we'd be surprised, because we'd have forgotten they were in the film, but from a STORY point of view that would be fine. In Hitchcockian terms, Lucas defuses that surprise in favour of suspense, which gives greater value over a longer period of screen time.
So if even STAR WARS uses plot mechanics, can the plotless film be said to exist? Even the most moronic video-game movie uses goals, often in a kind of treasure-hunt scenario. The constant succession of stimulating action sequences satisfies those who only require visceral excitement, but a causal connection has been established, a purpose to all the striving and strife. Critics who describe the modern action spectaculars as plotless are usually responding to a surface impression rather than really analysing how the things function. Such films tend to use very flat characterisation (to use Forster's term: but even flat characters, he notes, have their uses) and any development or alteration of these characters is usually unconvincing and rote (because the screenwriters are following the Syd Field road map rather than feeling the landscape with their own senses). But plot is something they all have, usually extending even to the TWIST, where a goodie turns out to be a baddie or apparent salvation turns out to be a trap.
Forster's own example is the Thousand and One Nights, which is odd because you can't hook a "tyrannical sultan" merely with a string of interesting events — for him to keenly anticipate further developments, you need to engage his intelligence with puzzles, something needs to be at stake. If the hero is buried up to his neck in sand and the tide is coming in, you can't be concerned unless you visualize what is supposed to happen next.
For a narrative in which memory and anticipation and intelligence are irrelevant, you kind of have to look to FELLINI SATYRICON — and the result is far more avant-garde, and a way far more interesting, than STAR WARS. Anticipating what will happen next will get you nowhere, because what happens next is always going to be whatever Fellini thinks would be most delightful or strange. Occasionally narrative questions are produced, dangled, and very occasionally answered, but actual dramatic tension is really beside the point. Forster complains that mere stories like Walter Scott's often drag in death or marriage to provide a totally arbitrary conclusion, but Fellini's non-ending is even more abrupt — he essentially just abandons the story. He does it beautifully, and makes us feel that the ensuing scenes are lost to history, and his inconclusive conclusion is more profound than Lucas's Leni Riefenstahl borrowings could ever be, or were ever intended to be. THAT'S a story — as Homer Simpson once put it, "just a bunch of stuff that happened."
But I wonder what Forster would have thought of it?
I don't know what he'd have thought of this, either — but it's the source of my post title. The late Kenny Everett as Cupid Stunt, on and with Michael Parkinson.


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49ers Bring Back Guard Adam Snyder on 2-year Deal
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers have signed guard Adam Snyder to a two-year contract, bringing him back to the franchise after a year with the Arizona Cardinals.
The NFC champion Niners already have a steady offensive line intact to protect quarterback Colin Kaepernick, so Snyder might be fighting for playing time in his return.
Arizona released the 31-year-old Snyder last Monday after taking two players at his position in the draft. He started 14 games for Arizona last season.
Also Monday, San Francisco hired former NFL wide receiver Ronald Curry as an offensive assistant coach. He played for the Oakland Raiders when 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh was an offensive assistant with the team.
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Esteemed Ahl-al Sunnah scholar Mr. Mehmet Talu: ''I do believe that I would be able to see Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) myself ''
ALTUG BERKER: By the leave of Allah we are now waiting for the awaited Mahdi of the End Times. It is 1431 according to the Hegira calendar, in reference to the hadith which states that "the lifespan of my ummah would not exceed 1500 years"
MEHMET TALU :Yes.
ALTUG BERKER: There is a 70 years-time for the completion of the lifespan of the ummah and for the realization of the signs of the day judgment. Should we be waiting for Hazrat Mahdi at the moment, Master?
MEHMET TALU : There are some specific information I have personally attained, there are some certain information, how should I say it, according to some inspirations I have inside I believe that the arrival of the Mahdi (pbuh) has approached and that I will see him personally by the leave of Allah.
ALTUG BERKER:MashaAllah, there is something else that I am curious of Master; is there a lesson or a sentence that you could pass on to us from esteemed Highness Mahmud Efendi about Hazrat Mahdi (as)?
MEHMET TALU: His Highness the Efendi, may Allah leave him on top of us.
ALTUG BERKER:Amin.
MEHMET TALU: I could say that much; His Highness of course, do believe that Mahdi (as) would come and when I had shared this information with him, and he is my Master, when I shared that information he had confirmed them. For instance when I said the time is approaching he said "Insha'Allah", I mean he hasn't said no there is a lot of time for that.
ALTUG BERKER:Masha'Allah.
MEHMET TALU: And from that, from his saying Insha'Allah and not saying no, I believe that the time is very near.
ALTUG BERKER: Masha'Allah Master, if you could grant me the opportunity I have one more question, we have very little time, should we want to have the Islamic Union right away?
MEHMET TALU: We are obliged to want the Islamic Union for all times. I mean Muslims should always be in unity. But where are they going to be in unity? In Islam , in the command of Almighty Allah; for that to happen everyone should obey Almighty Allah and His Messenger (saas).
ALTUĞ BERKER: Thank you very much Master, May Allah be pleased with you, thank you very much.
MEHMET TALU: And I thank you and ask Almighty Allah to deem this short program we have had instrumental in attaining goodness
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ESSAY- Monster's bail: What Grandma said about global finance
I remember Grandma clearly:
"I don't care what anyone else is doing."
"If it sounds too good to be true, it is."
"What goes around, comes around."
Unfortunately, as the burgeoning destruction of our financial system illustrates, she is again right on the, well, money– even though it's been 30 years since she dearly departed.
With the bailout passing Congress, following the federal buy-out of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, we are all paying for the liars who took sub-prime mortgages and the con men who sold them– regardless whether we borrowed money we never intended to pay or took golden parachutes for running a company into the ground or threw money with disregard that prompted Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen to hiss a generation ago, "A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
At something like $2,300 a head, we citizens are bailing out the people who've been running the three-card Monte of financing because, if we don't, they tell us the whole house of economic cards will collapse as the money men run around like headless chickens– another of Grandma's sayings.
I don't pretend to understand an economy in which two-thirds of its value is consumer spending. Or a mortgage lender that only backs three percent of its loans with hard cash. These questions– How do you lend money you don't have? And how do you keep buying when little is coming in?– are beyond my limited financial ability, but they are certainly concepts that Grandma would have fought tooth and nail.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke must be right that the financial panic must stop. But in the long run, as a society, I think we need to listen again to Grandma and the other "old wives" who once taught basic lessons for living.
If we continue to bail out those who learned from President Clinton's bully pulpit that "it's not what you know, or even who you know, it's what you can get away with" – which was then taken to the foreign policy extreme by President Bush– that, even if this bailout works, what goes around in our society will indeed come around someday.
And I submit someday soon.
There were plenty of people a decade ago who were clearly saying that allowing subprime mortgages, and then bundling and selling them like stocks, was a disaster waiting to happen. Even more in the banking world were saying that excluding Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from the reserve rules which have prevented panics for seven decades would lead to another panic.
But politicians seeing "what's in it for me" opportunities– and what was in it for them were the votes of people seeking "what's in it for me"– kept allowing the rules to bend until the chickens should be "coming home to roost."
Except that we're bailing them out.
We seem to have forgotten the old wives' concepts in order to become "The Smartest Guys in the Room" – as a book about Enron put it – without any hint of personal responsibility. And we've coined phrases like "greed is good," "democratizing luxury," and "conspicuous consumption" in other affronts to the old wives' attitudes.
Author Robert Bly points out humans are the only animals that store their instincts in stories and through evolving business stories– from Humphrey Bogart's Sabrina to Tom Cruise's Risky Business to Mike Judge's Office Space– we can see today's "everyone is doing it" – as the ultimate relativist rationalization.
Besides finance and politics, where we have Democrats William Jefferson, with a $90,000 bundle in his freezer, and Charles Rangel finally admitting the killings he's made in renting his off-shore vacation home, and Republicans Ted Stevens getting $250,000 in free home repairs and Duke Cunningham already in prison, we can see the destruction of Grandma's attitudes everywhere.
We have D.C's tax office riddled with scammers and our own state governor dismissing the most rational transportation policy because "That's logical and therein lies the problem."
We have celebrities, Paris and Nicole, providing nothing of value to society yet enjoying "first name" coverage, and we have rappers singing how tough it is in the 'hood with $100,000 in gold bling around their necks.
In business, with manufacturing jobs fleeing the country like scared rabbits, we have executives ensuring their golden parachutes have more air than corporate survival. Lehman Brothers, while collapsing, was negotiating multi-million dollar exits for their high mucky-mucks.
In sports, we have Manny Ramirez dogging it in Boston– ask any Red Sox fan– to escape a contract which paid him $10 million a year and rush to Los Angeles where he's playing, again, with the talent God, or nature, gave him. No doubt, his demanding more money, he'll say: "I love the game so much I'd play it for free."
During this financial crisis, the question in a 2007 book, Are We Rome? should be especially pertinent, I submit, except that we should remember it took three centuries for Roman to collapse.
We seem determined to do it in three generations.
Randy Salzman is a former journalism teacher at Virginia Union University and a transportation researcher who lives in Charlottesville. This essay first appeared in Style Weekly.
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We do seem to have lost any understanding of the concept that "hard work gets you ahead," haven't we?
But how can any society go back to the old ways?
I find it ironic how incensed people are over the "taxpayers" bailing out big corporations who at least gave us something for our money. Lots of people made lots of money on the run up and got out. Lots of others who will get some great deals as the stores have to un load inventory.
Perhaps you should be mad at the real thieves: The GOVERNMENT. They spend your money, your kids and grandkids money and still take more through new taxes and feesevery chance they get. They never have enough! They do it in the name of "public good". Why can't the government figure out a way to save in the good times and use that in the bad times like the rest of us. That "bailout" isn't anything compared to all the waste our governemnt has within it's ranks.
They should hold hearings about that.
Why doesn't anybody ever ask WHY it costs 20 million dollars to widen a road when there are only 4 guys working on it while we try and go to work?


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Cara Delevingne, the model whose face seems to be everywhere, will compete with Edie Campbell and Sam Rollinson as this year's British Model of the Year.
They were among the nominees announced Tuesday by the British Fashion Council for its annual awards.
Victoria Beckham is up for favourite brand and red-carpet designer. Also nominated for red-carpet designer are Antonio Berardi and Erdem. The other nominated brands are Burberry and Alexander McQueen.
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More than 300 industry insiders choose the winners, who will be announced Dec. 2 at a ceremony at the London Coliseum.


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I want to create something timeless.
I started taking photos on a whim, but soon realized...
I want to create photos that have worth to people.
I started working in a studio at a ceremonial hall, where I worked with over 400 groups a year.
I loved studio work, but I wanted to be free and creative with my photography.
Which is which is why I moved to the city area,
where I work with about 150 shoots a year, doing wedding ceremonies and pre-wedding photos.
It was nice belonging to a group and meeting so many new people at my previous work,
but leaving behind time-constraints and being more creative with my work was important to me.
And a very important mentor said to me...
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Redoubles focus on stand-alone growth opportunities
CHICAGO (July 21, 2009) -- Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) today announced that, effective immediately, it is terminating its pending offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of NRG Energy, Inc. common stock at a fixed exchange ratio of 0.545 of a share of Exelon common stock for each share of NRG common stock.
Exelon took this action in light of the proxy vote results announced today at the NRG annual meeting.
"The NRG shareholders have spoken, and Exelon will move on. We wish NRG and its owners well," said John Rowe, chairman and chief executive officer of Exelon.
The Company said it believed it could have been successful in completing the transaction, but it was unwilling to raise its price to a level that would undermine Exelon's own value proposition.
Rowe added, "Now we can redouble our focus on Exelon's stand-alone growth opportunities. We have the nation's largest low-carbon nuclear fleet, and our plan to expand our nuclear output through uprates provides even greater upside from carbon legislation. We believe our long-term growth proposition remains the best in the industry."
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This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include those discussed herein as well as those discussed in (1) Exelon's 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K in (a) ITEM 1A. Risk Factors, (b) ITEM 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and (c) ITEM 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data: Note 18; (2) Exelon's First Quarter 2009 Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q in (a) Part II, Other Information, ITEM 1A. Risk Factors and (b) Part I, Financial Information, ITEM 1. Financial Statements: Note 13; and (3) other factors discussed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by Exelon Corporation, Commonwealth Edison Company, PECO Energy Company and Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Companies). Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release. None of the Companies undertakes any obligation to publicly release any revision to its forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release.


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I have been giving the Boy Scouts of Troop 68 a small Christmas present each year for 30 years. It is not a very big present, just something to make the season a little more fun, and to give the Scouts a little something to look forward to during our troop Christmas party. Gifts in the past have included balls, fire starters, water bottles, and small lunch coolers. It is easier to find things these years with a small troop. It was tough finding something when we had forty members in the troop. Have you ever tried to find 40 of something in a store? You should see the look on a checkout person's face when you bring two shopping carts full of red four-square balls to the counter.
This year I had to push my gift giving up a couple months, to last night's troop meeting. You see, the gift is something the Scouts can use at this weekend's troop outing. On Saturday, the troop will be traveling to three different cities to play one of their favorite games, disc golf. Many of the Scouts did not own a disc made for the game so that became this year's Christmas gift from me.
I came up with the idea when I noticed on the scoutstuff.com website that there was a closeout going on of the leftover 2013 National Jamboree merchandise. Disc golf discs were going for 50% off the regular price which brought to price down to $4.98 per disc. That is the cheapest price I have ever seen on discs. And they were discs made by Innova, one of the main manufacturers of supplies for the sport, so they were not some cheap unknown brand name discs. I ordered three sets for myself and one midrange disc for each of the Scouts.
The Boy Scouts seemed to like the gift. There was various colors to chose from so instead of having a free-for-all and stampede to see who would get what color I started with the newest member of the troop and worked my way up to the Scout with the longest membership. Seniority did not count this time. I also told the boys to write their names on their discs in case that get lost on the course, and so that we know whose disc is whose when we play a game.
Saturday is the big tournament day. The troop will start at the Albany disc golf course, move to St. Joseph for the second game, and end at Riverside Park in St. Cloud. It is going to be a long day. There is going to be a lot of throws. And I would bet there is going to be a lot of very tired Boy Scouts crawling into their sleeping bags Saturday night.
Does your troop play disc golf?


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Hi there, challenge participants! I just wanted to dash off a quick post to let you know that we are changing venues. I have created a new community reading site which will be the home of all my long term and perpetual reading challenges (and any other reading challenges I might dream up).
The new site is called Gather Together and Read. You will find all challenge info pertaining to The Stephen King Challenge in the page dedicated to the challenge...found in the sidebar menu.
While you're there, check out the new perpetual reading challenge I just kicked off, 13 Ways of Looking at The Lifetime Reading Plan. I hope you will consider joining me for that as well.
If you have any questions about the new site, click the contact me button in the sidebar over at teh new site and send me a message.
Thank you for being a participant of The Stephen King Challenge!


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John Kochman has joined the acquisitions team at Cohen Media Group and will work alongside evp Gary Rubin.
Kochman most recently served as US director of Unifrance and began his career in Paris representing Metrocolor London Laboratories.
He moved into film sales in 1986 as the London-based head of European sales for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, oversaw sales at MK2 Productions and served as deputy head of international sales at StudioCanal.
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|Training in the rain -- the track flooded but
luckily my spikes still had traction to sprint!
The phrase "When it rains, it pours" was spoken to me recently when I strained my adductor and wasn't sure if I would be able to race in our 2012 U.S. National Team Trials. Yes I've had a string of bad luck per se, but I refused to see it as having anything to do with weather analogies. My simple reply was that it's the reality of rehabbing a major surgery. Part of the reason I am blogging for TeamUSA.org is to give the inside perspective on a major reality for Olympic athletes - injury.
In September of 2011, after a summer of pain-filled training, I learned that the labrum in my left hip was torn and would need complicated surgical repair, with questionable outcome. This injury is extremely common in bobsled, where our lives are spent squatting and sprinting, putting the hip in so much loaded flexion and extension that if you have an impingement of the bone (which 80% of the population does), eventually that labrum will tear. I chose to put off surgery and compete the full season in order to maintain my rank and sled allocation, looking forward to having it fixed right after world championships.
Now that season… that was raining-gone-pouring. An injury certainly does not magically get better if you decide to bobsled the hell out of it. Some injuries you can work hard to keep functioning, but this was a deterioration that affected performance more and more each week. It was a vicious cycle of enduring pain only to under-perform my potential. I thought constantly about the book My Losing Season by Pat Conroy. It occurred to me that though I had accomplished what was thought impossible by qualifying a third U.S. sled for the 2010 Olympics and finishing 5th, that perhaps my greatest challenge yet would be redefining my sense of self in dealing with repeated failure.
Somehow, some way, every week I believed I could win. It was quite incredible actually, having the audacity to believe in myself and get fired up to race week in and week out, only to be devastated when for one reason or another the results weren't there. If something isn't working, you make a change. I tried every different approach I could think of. The problem is, when you are an intense competitor, losing can hurt so bad it starts to manifest physically, further deteriorating the body. The week of last season's world championships, the culmination of our season and a win I had rehearsed in my mind since the day the location was announced, I spent in the hospital with severe dehydration and abdominal pain. It was the perfect worst ending to the most physically and emotionally draining season of my life.
Needless to say, surgery didn't provide an instant magical fix. It was a grueling rehab underscored with the constant worry that I wouldn't be ready in time for trials. I ended up racing that trials race this year, it obviously wasn't the first time I gutted something out in the name of competition. But when two females are trying to accelerate a 180 kilo sled as fast as possible, it is extremely evident in the push time when one of them isn't healthy.
The thing about high-level athletics is that there will always be something. ALWAYS. When you test the body's limits day in and day out in the name of getting better, you live like you're treading water with a weight belt, trying to make just enough positive gain to offset the random breakdowns pulling the body down. One thinks of Olympic athletes as the picture of health, but the reality is that of pushing your body to such extremes that you are constantly sick and hurt.
And so here I am, competing on America's Cup, back where I started the beginning of my bobsled career five years ago. It's a chance to get not just my body, but my mind right again. Winning the races in Park City, Utah was an important step in repairing the thought process of competition while I finish off the rehab on my hip. It's definitely roughing it – self-funding with a lot of extra grunt work – but it takes me back to all of the things that made me fall in love with this sport in the first place and took me to the Olympics in 2010.


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nagerous wrote:Official team:
1) nagerous
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3) safariguy5
4) gcwca
AmphibiousRodent wrote:With the last game of the first round coming along slowly, I went ahead and started the semifinals game between Topchider and Legion New and Old. Because Topchider has three players and Legion has four, Snowgun will sit this one out. Good luck people.
AmphibiousRodent wrote:Congratulations, guys. And good tournament everybody. I think the actual attrition part would have come more into play if I'd managed to get 16 teams.
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fferrero necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 90 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Sersomedia - http://www.sersomedia.com (The website is not finished yet)
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You can free your mind with this desing and work around the concepts of social, people, marketing, internet, fresh, modern and PROFESIONAL.
We want something unique of a kind, nothing slightly similar to the designs out there.
We are an Argentinian start up so I will provide the name, slogan and some words. Anyways, if you want to create new lines to see how it fits, that's great! I'll translate them, or I'll change them to fit my ideas and language, of course, this text won't be too much due to it's just stationary. (I mean, if you come up with some needed things according to your criteria, that's perfect to put them in english!)
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Office of the First Presidency
March 26, 2013
Sister Karen Marie Hollander
Plot #229 Short Road
Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa
Dear Sister Hollander:
You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the UTAH ST. GEORGE MISSION. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period of 18 months.
You should report to the Provo MTC on Tuesday, 3 September 2013. You should prepare to teach the Gospel in the English language. Your assignment may be modified according to the needs of your mission president.
You have been recommended as one worthy to represent the Lord as a minister of the restored gospel. You will be an official representative of the Church. As such you will be expected to maintain the highest standards of conduct and appearance by keeping the commandments, living mission rules, and following the counsel of your mission president. As you devote your time and attentions to serving the Lord, leaving behind all other personal addairs, the Lord will bless you with increased knowledge and testimony of the Restoration and of the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Your purpose will be to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. As you serve with all your heart, might and strength, the Lord will lead you to those who are prepared to be baptized.
The Lord will reward you for the goodness of your life. Greater blessings and more happiness than you have yet experienced await you as you humbly and prayerfully serve the Lord in this labor of love among His children. We place our confidence in you and pray that the Lord will help you become an effective missionary.
You will be set apart as a missionary by your stake president. Please send your written acceptance promptly, endorsed by your bishop.
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Upton and Longo Fought like true Brothers
Come on people, families fight. Can you honestly tell me that you do not fight, even as adults with your siblings when you get together about the little things, or if something annoys you? Honestly can you really play that naïve that your family situation is always crystal clear with no down moments or frustrating elements. If so, then you are definitely a made-for-Television family drama in the making. That is why the recent B J Upton/Evan Longoria dust-up really doesn't get me all up in a lather here.
The Tampa Bay Rays have portrayed their clubhouse as a bit of a family unit in recent years. A bit of a fraternity of brotherhood which each members having their own good and bad elements that play out during the season. With that in mind, a family can argue and tussle and all is forgotten within minutes. Then why again is this recent argument so vital to the Rays? First off, it clears the emotional air and puts the game back into prospective for all involved. The disagreement came after a costly mistake that netted the winning run, but was not the cause of the loss.
You have to ask yourself, if Upton's long drive would have been to the left 3 feet and gone out for the Walk-off victory, would this display ever have happened? Would Evan and B J hugged it out on the field after he crossed Home Plate, or would it never have surfaced at all? Common sense tells you it was a heat of the moment event, and one that Longoria needed to get off his chest. Because of the closeness of Upton and Longoria, the event might have been amped up a bit, but the true emotions and actions and reactions show that this was not staged or contrived in any possible way.
Did Upton really do some that was so wrong? Upton is used to working with All-Star Carl Crawford in Leftfield, and might have made an error in judgment to expect Matt Joyce to get to that ball before him. Upton made a critical mistake by going into a trailing role during the play assuming that Joyce was racing for the ball. That kind of mistake does happen when you are beginning to work with another outfielder. That same moment was bound to happen sometime, it just materialized at the wrong time for either Upton or Joyce to hold D-Back hitter Rusty Ryal's to a double. Families seem to forgive mistakes, the media does not.
And who knows, if Longoria had attended the Rays Season Ticket holder party on Sunday night ,maybe Upton and Longo would have signed autographs back-to-back as the issue was over and done with. But then again, that is what you do as a family. You fight, argue, and make your point, then you forgive, forget and again bond back into that protective family unit…..Or that is at least what the Brady Bunch did.
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That reminds me why I like Longoria so much. He's a leader.
Not sure Longo is a true leader in that clubhouse yet, but he is well in his way to establishing his MLB legacy.
The Upyon situation was a feud between friends. It did not have the passion or skill of rallying his team, but that comes with experience. And having Carlos Pena as an example of that leadership will be istrumental to his future leadership stature on the Rays…or elsewhere.
Rays Renegade
That dude was clearly jogging. Good for Longoria for calling him out.
I agree with you it was not a 100% effort, but disagree that it needed to be Longo to get in his face like that.
He could of said it from a different angle than right in his face, which prompted the dugout showdown.
You can go up to some one,sit next to them and ask if they hustled without causing a meltdown within eyesight of the cameras.
That is what a true leader does….He doesn't draw attention to his motives or talks but leads besides the player, not in front of him yelling.
Rays Renegade