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Yet another report is out showing how the trade deficit is costing us millions of jobs and hurting our economy. This report has specific numbers: between 2.2 million and 4.7 million U.S. jobs, between 1 percent and 2.1 percent of the unemployment rate and a gross domestic product increase of between 1.4 percent and 3.1 percent.
These are real numbers that were carefully calculated. This is a real problem that is hurting people, hurting small and mid-sized companies, hurting communities, hurting our tax base and hurting our ability to make a living in the future. And there are real solutions available to fix the problem.
If you saw the movie "Roger & Me," you saw what happened to Flint, Michigan when GM's executives moved the jobs out of the country. That movie showed what a trade deficit does. "Roger & Me" came out in 1989 and was really only a small, local look at what was coming to much of the country. In the decades since then, the problem spread to entire regions. This is not some economic dislocation due to changes in the economy; this is regional and even national devastation that doesn't have to happen and that no country should tolerate.
The trade deficit is huge. It transfers around $1 billion a day out of our country. For those well-to-do elites so worried about the budget deficit instead of American jobs, factories, industries and our ability to make a living in the future, the trade deficit increases our budget deficit by between $78.8 billion and $165.8 billion.
New Report From EPI
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute, "Reducing U.S. trade deficit will generate a manufacturing-based recovery for the United States and Ohio," written by Robert E. Scott, Helene Jorgensen, and Doug Hall, shows that:
The U.S. goods trade deficit could be reduced by between about $190 billion and $400 billion over the course of three years (modeled in this paper as having started in 2011) by eliminating global currency manipulation. Without any increase in federal spending or taxation, the United States would reap enormous benefits. As this paper explains, over three years a reduction in the U.S. goods trade deficit of this magnitude would:
- Create between 2.2 million and 4.7 million U.S. jobs (equal to between 1.4 percent and 3.0 percent of total nonfarm employment)
- Reduce the national unemployment rate by between 1.0 and 2.1 percentage points
- Create about 620,000 to 1.3 million manufacturing jobs (27.5 percent of all jobs created by eliminating currency manipulation)
- Increase U.S. GDP by between $225.0 billion and $473.7 billion (an increase of between 1.4 percent and 3.1 percent)
- Shrink the federal budget deficit by between $78.8 billion and $165.8 billion (reductions that would continue as long as the trade balance remained stable), as growth in output expands tax receipts and reduces safety net payments
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown: Multinationals "like the system the way it works."
On a Thursday call to discuss the report and efforts to fix the problems, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said that currency manipulation is the largest single cause of our trade deficit. He added,
"Our nation's record trade deficit is more than just a statistic: it affects real jobs in important industries. When industry and the government get tough on cheaters and enforce our trade laws, America wins. That's why we need to act now on the recommendations published in this new report—and stand up for Ohio's workers and businesses."
On the call I asked Senator Brown who in America is on the other side of this – who is encouraging (i.e. paying) Republicans to block things like the currency manipulation bill. Brown replied that in the last 20 years large companies have followed a different manufacturing strategy to move manufacturing to China and sell back into the U.S. The large multinational companies have benefited, always very large companies. "They like the system the way it works," he said.
The companies get less expensive labor, less environmental and worker safety regulation, and the currency advantage. It works for these multinationals, and House Speaker John Boehner is listening to them. There is this economic benefit to them, at the expense of smaller companies, companies in the supply chain, American workers and their communities.
The Cause
The trade deficit is caused by one-sided trade agreements that were agreed to because, as Senator Brown referred to, they benefit a few already-wealthy interests in our country. But like when you sell the farm for a bunch of cash now, these trade deals give away our country's manufacturing ecosystem, lack of enforcement of even those agreements, mercantilist policies in other countries that we do not respond to, violations like currency manipulation and subsidies of various kinds to strategic industries.
Currency manipulation alone is costing us between 2.2 million and 4.7 million U.S. jobs and between 1.0 point and 2.1 points of the unemployment rate. Right now.
A "Shot In The Arm" For Economy
Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing said of the report,
"Eliminating our trade deficit would be an incredible shot in the arm for the U.S. economy. We are pleased the EPI report sheds light on this overlooked deficit. We commend Sen. Sherrod Brown for his leadership in working to grow manufacturing jobs in Ohio and the rest of the nation, and we look forward to working with him to enact common-sense solutions."
Fixing currency manipulation would go a long way toward solving the problem. Currency manipulation is the single biggest factor in our huge trade deficit. According to the EPI report, currency manipulation by China and as many as 20 countries is responsible for between $190 billion and $400 billion of our trade deficit, in a single year.
From the EPI report, "Reducing U.S. trade deficit will generate a manufacturing-based recovery for the United States and Ohio,"
Fully eliminating the goods trade deficit requires implementing policies that will help restore demand for U.S. goods and boost supply-side supports. As detailed in this paper, such policies include:
- Greatly expanding investments in manufacturing R&D and technology diffusion programs
- Providing public financial support to small and medium-sized manufacturers
- Developing school-to-work job training systems for non-college-educated workers, including apprenticeship programs modeled on Danish and German models
- Developing new trade policies that support fair, balanced, and sustainable trade
- Planning and implementing manufacturing and traded industry strategies, including establishing an institution akin to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry
- Making massive investments in infrastructure, for example by meeting the United States' $2.2 trillion worth of infrastructure needs over the next five years
- Greatly expanding public and private investments in green and renewable energy technologies
Such steps could lead to the complete elimination of the U.S. goods trade deficit, which would allow U.S. manufacturing to recover most or all of the market share and employment lost since the late 1990s.
Why Act Now?
From the EPI report:
Why now is the time to act
The leading role played by manufacturing in the nation's recovery from the Great Recession underscores the urgency of addressing the more than decade-long decline in manufacturing employment. Between February 2010, when U.S. employment fell to its lowest point, and October 2012, the nation created 504,000 manufacturing jobs, which constituted 11.1 percent of the 4.5 million jobs created in that period (BLS 2012a). But manufacturing employment declined slightly between July and October 2012. The recent slowing of U.S. manufacturing employment growth, evident also in Ohio and the Midwest, was expected as federal spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 wound down. The slowdown suggests that further growth in manufacturing will require additional demand stimulus.
Read the entire EPI report here.
See Also
Here are just a few recent articles and posts looking at this problem:
FT: How Berlin and Beijing tilted world trade,
Chinese bond-buying, he writes, is matched by increases in the supply of US bonds because Washington has boosted the fiscal deficit to counter the effect of jobs going abroad. If Chinese bond-buying falls, it will be because there are fewer savings to export, and that will happen only when China boosts consumption, creating demand for, among other things, US goods. US unemployment will fall and so will the fiscal deficit.
Ralph Gomory at Huffington Post, Jobs, Trade, and Mercantilism - Part I - Facing Reality
Our nation's continuing massive trade deficits are destroying important sectors of American industry and eliminating desperately needed jobs; yet balancing trade is not even on our government's agenda. This is happening because we are not facing reality, the reality that we are not living in a free trade world but that we are dealing with countries that practice mercantilism.
If we continue to turn a blind eye to this reality, we will become a poor nation.
[. . .]
Our global corporations do not wish to see the negative impact of their actions; they are profiting from the present situation, even if the country is not. They make their goods cheaply abroad aided by foreign subsidies, manipulated exchange rates, and cheap labor, and then import them very profitably into the U.S.Wall Street is lined up with the global corporations because it too finds the present situation profitable.
Michael Stumo at Trade Reform: Germany uses VAT for export competitiveness. We don't.
An increased VAT does several things.
* imports are part of the tax base, i.e. imports fund the domestic government;
* exports receive VAT refunds, so they are cheaper;
* allows reduction of other taxes, which is why other countries' corporate tax rates, for example, are lower than the in the U.S.Twenty one percent of China's national government revenue is from border taxes. When imports pay over one-fifth of the taxes, the reduces the burden on domestic citizens and businesses, and enables them to subsidize exports in several ways including VAT rebates and other means.
The bottom line is that a VAT is a powerful tool to use for trade competitiveness.
Scott Paul at USA Today: Obama's second term foe - China,
What did we get in return for this deal? A trade deficit with that country that keeps shattering records ($295 billion in 2011, $290 billion through November 2012), fueled by a glut of artificially cheap imports that are swamping stateside competition. But it's hard for working families to benefit from the modestly lower prices on the shelves of retail chains when household incomes have been drastically reduced by the loss of a steady paycheck.
W. Raymond Mills at Trade Reform, Moving Towards Balanced Trade
... unbalanced trade requires cash to move from one country to the other. This can lead to problems if the cash needed to complete the transaction becomes scarce in the trade deficit country. It can also cause problems for the trade deficit country because domestic production of goods and services are the source of national wealth, as Adam Smith said. Sending money overseas to pay for exports (net) means that domestic production has not kept pace with domestic consumption – a situation that weakens the wealth creating capacity of the trade deficit country. Unbalanced trade is a beggar-thy-neighbor activity. Each nation should seek to avoid become a habitual trade deficit country.


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Counter-Strike – Source Cheats
Counter-Strike – Source
Cheat Codes:
Submitted by: RM
During gameplay, press ~ to display the text prompt and type in sv_cheats 1.
Press ~ and enter one of the following cheat.
Result Code
Spawn indicated item – give [name]
16,000 cash – impluse 101
Toggle bot AI – bot_stop [0 or 1]
Allow bot to join game for indicated team – bot_add_ct or bot_add_t
Kill all bots – bot_kill
Toggle bot using pistols only – bot_pistols_only [0 or 1]
Toggle bot using snipers only – bot_snipers_only [0 or 1]
Bot automatically follows you if you do not
give them orders – bot_auto_follow
Bots will not do mission objectives and will
expect humans to do it – bot_defer_to_human 1
Kick all bots from game and leaves humans to play – bot_kick
Bots use only knives – bot_knives_only
Bots have a prefix in their name – bot_prefix [prefix]
See where bot is going – bot_show_nav
Weapon hits nearest enemy – sv_clienttrace 99999999999
Skulls fall from sky – impulse 99
Change skin – settings
Spawn props – props!
Third person – view thirdperson
Larger crosshairs – cl_crosshairscale 50000
Stable crosshairs – cl_dynamiccrosshair 0
Change C4 detonation time – mp_c4timer [number]
Clear walls – mat_proxy 2
Flying bodies/objects – phys_pushforce #
Fly around the map without taking damage – noclip
Moving numbers that show player shadows – r_shadowids 1
Alter gravity to # setting – sv_gravity #
Invisible walls – mat_wireframe 3
Enable wireframe player models – r_drawothermodels 2
Hide stats at bottom of screen – net_graph 0
Thirdperson in CSS:
As you all maybe don't know what thirdperson is, I will explain short. Thirdperson
is when you can see your full character. First person (when you only see your hands
and gun). Here comes the point. Start CSS normally and click 'create new server'.
choose any random map and SPECTATE when you join. Open up the console and write
'sv_cheats 1' then you write 'bot_stop' (afftecting the bots so they won't move
anywhere, only duck) and join. write in your console 'thirdperson' and you will
see something pretty amazing. Leave the bot-server and join your favorite servers.
It's not so easy to control your aiming when you're in this state, because you've
been playing with hands and gun from the beginning. Have fun, smile and kill some
Getting onto tall boxes without boost:
Buy a frag grenade and stand next to the box that you want to get on. Throw
the grenade opposite the box from you onto the floor. Jump, press against the
box, and you will be boosted very high. If timed correctly you can get yourself
on the box at a cost of 40 HP.
Press ~ during playing to activate console. Then write NOCLIP. You'll be able
to walk in the air and move through buildings! (Note: in order for the cheat
to work, sv_cheats must be turned to 1)
AK47/M4A1 tip:
These rifles are almost completely useless while moving. While strafing left or
right, quickly press the opposite direction and fire. The first bullet always
hits the crosshair (first two bullets for the m4) so always try to aim for the
Crosshair tips:
Type cl_crosshairscale 50000 in the console. This makes headshots easier.
Changing cl_dynamiccrosshair to 0 disables the crosshair from moving.
Grenade Throw – Weapon Swap:
Getting caught by the enemy weaponless after having just released a grenade
can become… well, frustrating. However, if you press Q just after release,
you will flick out your gun straight after throwing the grenade. It takes
some practice, but it's well worth it.
Efficient Grenade Throwing:
To get the maximum range on a grenade, run forwards in the direction you are
throwing it to increase the maximum throw distance.
Easy headshots:
Type bind "mouse1;click" "mouse;click2" "s" shoot;kill at the console window.
You will auto headshot almost every time. If you do not auto headshot, simply
click again.
Weapon names:
Use one of the following entries with the "give" code to spawn the indicated weapon.
Note: They must be activated while there is nothing in your hand.
Weapon Code
M249 (heavy machine gun) – weapon_m249
TMP (silenced SMG) – weapon_tmp
M4A1 (silenced rifle) – weapon_m4a1
Desert Eagle (Night Hawk) – weapon_deagle
HE grenade (high explosive) – weapon_hegrenade
AWP (magnum sniper rifle) – weapon_awp
P90 (gun with 50 bullets per clip) – weapon_p90
Scout (weakest sniper rifle) – weapon_scout
Glock (terrorist default pistol) – weapon_glock
AK47 (terrorist default rifle) – weapon_ak47
Bullpup rifle – weapon_aug
Magnum sniper rifle – weapon_awp
Counter-terrorist pistol – weapon_elite
Clarion 5.56 – weapon_famas
Weakest pistol – weapon_fiveseven
Flashbang grenade – weapon_flashbang
D3AU – weapon_g3sg1
IDF Defender – weapon_galil
Terrorist pistol – weapon_glock18
HE grenade – weapon_fraggrenade
Pump shotgun – weapon_m3super90
Weak SMG – weapon_mac10
SMG – weapon_mp5
13 round pistol – weapon_p228
Weak sniper rifle – weapon_scout
Krieg 550 – weapon_sg550
Krieg 552 – weapon_sg552
Easy wins:
Buy the following in order to do it properly: shotgun (any kind), smoke bomb, Kevlar
and helmet. You will also need lots of teammates. Play as a terrorist. Command your
teammates to follow you. Go directly to the tunnel going to bomb site A. Shoot your
opponents immediately. After doing that, have the bomb carrier immediately plant the
bomb. After the bomb is planted, throw a smoke bomb into the wooden door. Stand beside
the door and make sure you cannot be seen by your opponents. Use your shotgun to shoot
opponents that come inside the door.
More ammunition:
Play as a terrorist and on a server where you can pick up weapons with no ammo. When
you pick one up when you are terrorist and it has some ammo, keep the gun. Try not to
use any ammo/. When the round ends, drop your pistol and keep you main gun (usually an
SMG like the MP5/40 or the UMP 77). On the next round you will get your pistol back,
but it will be equipped with more ammo. If you check your main gun, you will notice
that it to will be equipped with more ammo.
* Use the following trick to avoid being caught defenseless after throwing a grenade.
Press Q just after releasing a grenade. You will flick out your gun immediately after
throwing the grenade. Note: This requires some practice.
* To get the maximum range on a grenade, run forwards in the direction you are throwing
Strange formation:
Enable the wc_create code at the console window. Then, go outside of the de_weedwood
map. Look in the distance, and you should see a plot of land with rocks. Go to it. Some
of the effects there are very interesting.
Cheat Code:
Submitted by: Mashuq Wolverine Tyson
if you are the host of the game so then first activate cheats by writing "sv_cheats 1"
then type one of these cheats for good result:(before of every cheats type "sv_cheats 1")
cl_crosshairscale 12000 – for better aim
noclip – for better speed
notarget – for invisible
god – for god mod
impulse 101 – for 16000$ money
try every cheats it works.
Really easy and fun win:
Submitted by: tarique nadeem
start normally and choose the map dust 2.play as terrorist.all you need to buy is a krieg
552. ti costs about $3100 but its worth it. then stand on the edge of the starting area,
near the barrier and look at the double doors. the kriege 552 zooms in if you right click.
right click and point at the door. count how many counter terrorists go left.(on the very
first round and a few other times they come through the double doors which makes it easier.
just stand at the starting point, zoom in and take them out one by one)if no ct goes on the
left, they will surely come by the second double doors(on the righ corner of the map) or by
the lane (above and on the right side of the double doors) if mosts ct go on the left, you
go on the right using the lane. if most ct goes on the right, you go on the left by using
the tunnel (use the left side entrance) dont expect either to be empty, but take them out
anyway. never call for back up unless you really need it because your backup may block your
aim or even shoot you by mistake. after you plant the bomb, its best to plant the bomb then
to call for backup because you will need all the help you can get.by the way, its a lot
more fun if you waste some rounds to make it a bigger challenge
Counter-Strike:Source Non-Steam:
Custom settings:
Sudhanshu Warfighter
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hey friends I think you all have downloaded new version of CSS by noSTEAM.
I have a hint for that. You have seen that you can't change player's name,
Clan Tag and Cutscene after starting game. U can do it by opening rev.ini file
in game directory. Open it and change player name, clan tag and Set Start
Screen=False to True. Now start the game then see what happens!!
Contact me for more help and hints.
Type /bind p "chooseteam;menuselect 6;menuselect [1 or 2];menuselect 2" at the console
window in v1.1 or greater. Note: Enter "1" for the terrorists or "2" for the
counterterrorist sides. After dying, press P.
Easy headshots:
Type bind "mouse1;click" "mouse;click2" "s" shoot;kill at the console window.
You will auto headshot almost every time. If you do not auto headshot, simply
click again.

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About half of all children will exhibit a heart murmur at some point, but in many cases, the condition is harmless, Dr. Gira Morchi, a cardiologist at CHOC Heart Institute, tells "American Health Journal."
A heart murmur is a whooshing or swooshing sound made my blood flowing through the heart, Dr. Morchi says. The sound's intensity, loudness and location can help differentiate between a normal and abnormal murmur, she adds.
Learn more about heart murmurs in "American Health Journal," a television program that airs on PBS and other national network affiliates that reach more than 30 million households.
Each 30-minute episode features six segments with a diverse range of medical specialists discussing a full spectrum of health topics. For more information, visit www.discoverhealth.tv.
Gira Morchi, M.D., completed her medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H. She completed her residency training in pediatrics at Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, R.I. and completed her fellowship program in pediatric cardiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center/The Children's Hospital in Denver.
Get more information about referring patients to CHOC, including a referral information directory, services directory and referral guidelines.


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OCEAN CITY- The Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department's winter boys' basketball league continued this week with a full slate of games at Northside Park. The following is a quick look at some of this week's action:
(bullet) Atlantic General 37- Fresco's 18: Tyree Henry led all scorers with 18 points while Sonny Furst added nine for AGH. Thomas DiBuo led Fresco's with eight points.
(bullet) Atlantic Physical Therapy 39- OC FOP 35: Brian Ford scored 17 points, Khaleed Collick scored 11 and Jay Musgrove added nine to lead APT in a tight game. Joey Turcol scored 15 and Zachary Cordrey added 11 for the FOP.
(bullet) Bonfire 48- Red Sun 45: Mike O'Neill scored 16 points, Brandon Storm scored 10 and Joe Flounlacker added eight as the Bonfire beat Red Sun. Marcus Pitts scored a game-high 23 points for Red Sun and Josh Mercer added 13.
(bullet) Berlin Optimists 30- OC Parrotheads 24: The Optimists got balanced scoring from Matt Kinsey (10), Cedric Pabich (8) and Ben Davis (6) to edge the Parrotheads. Max Mariner scored a game-high 11 points in the loss.
(bullet) Phillips Crabhouse 76- OC Rec Boosters 27: Josh Kleinstuber went off for 32 points, while Sam Cannon scored 16, Tim Roberts scored 14 and Greg Ray added 10 as Phillips routed the Boosters.
(bullet) OC Rec Boosters 26- PNC Bank 14: Devin Waters led all scorers with 24 points as the Boosters topped PNC Bank. Three players, Ryan Stone, Gavin McVicker and Lucas Weber each scored four points for PNC in the loss.
(bullet) Park Place Jewelers 22- Dr. William Allen 19: Colton Edmunds led Park Place with 12 points while Kevin Beck added eight. Jack Rosenberg led Dr. Allen's team with six points.
(bullet) Rox Weddings 40- Shenanigans 22: Dryden Brous scored 17 points, Sean Corcoran added 13 and Jake Bloseveren pitched in eight as Rox Weddings prevailed.
(bullet) Belair Road Supply 37- OC Rec Boosters 19: Matt Kristick led all scorers with 16 points as Belair Road Supply topped the Boosters, who were led by Chris Leitgeib's eight points.


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Nole Djokovic was the last man standing after a week of upsets and injuries at the Masters Series Rome. He beat Stanislas Wawrinka 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on the Italian dirt.
About Wawrinka's getup at the trophy ceremony, Randy "Sky" Walker wrote, "Ugh!" Those Adi Dassler tributes aren't exactly for such a grand occasion, I guess.
It's deep: The clay season is totally up in the air, with the men in the top seven spots having no more than two clay titles a piece: Federer, Estoril; Nadal, Monte Carlo and Barcelona; Djokovic, Australian and Rome; Ferrer, Valencia; Nalbandian, the Copa Telmex. Davydenko (Miami) and Roddick (Dubai, San Jose) have none. So who is going to take Roland Garros?
Insert me here?
Dinara Safina had a crazy week, taking out Justine Henin (Trivia: who was the last woman to beat Justine Henin and possibly forced her retirement from tennis?), Serena Williams and then Russian Elena Dementieva 3-6 6-2, 6-2 in the final.
Elena in Yonex. This is the same pink that she wore during the Australian Open but just in a different cut; this one has pleats. <3
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[Answer ID: 14643]
Why restricted shared folders are not shown in WebAccess A Android application?
If shared folders are restricted and the default user account (user name and password setting ) are stored in application,
the application will use the default account which does not have the permission to access shared folders.
If the default account has no read permission, in such case the restricted folders will not be listed in the application.
To access the folders, you have to log in with user account which has read write access to shred folders.
1. |
From NAS list select the LinkStation. (*) |
2. |
Next, click the Menu button, then tap [Log in]. |
3. |
Enter the username and password to access the shared folders. |
* To see edit default username and password settings, in step 1 above HOLD the icon for the settings screen.


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Bangui, Central African Republic, Jan 9, 2014 / 02:01 am
As the refugee situation in the Central African Republic continues to worsen, Catholic Relief Services says it is working to help displaced persons and to encourage a peaceful resolution to the violence.
"The humanitarian consequences have been horrendous," Helen Blakesley, Catholic Relief Services' regional information officer for West and Central Africa, said Dec. 7.
"The country was already extremely poor, but with the violence now many hundreds have died, thousands have been injured. Many thousands have fled their homes in fear of their lives and have had to camp out in makeshift shelters in cramped unsanitary conditions," she said in a report for the U.S.-based relief agency.
The Central African Republic was torn by war from 2004 to 2007. Violence again broke out in December 2012, followed by a March 2013 coup.
An estimated 935,000 people have been displaced, including half the population of the national capital of Bangui, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports. Nearly 60 percent of the displaced are children. Some of the displaced are hiding in the bush.
French and African Union troops have tried to restore order. Reuters reports that the interim president Michel Djotodia, who took power in the coup, is planning to step down.
Amid the violence, relief agencies are working to help refugees. "Catholic Relief Services has stood with people in need," Blakesley said.
She said the agency has distributed food vouchers and is supporting religious leaders "to spread the message of reconciliation." It is also supporting thousands of displaced people by working with its partners in Caritas Internationalis, a global network of Catholic relief agencies.
The Central African Republic is among the world's poorest countries. The U.N. has said the country is in danger of becoming a failed state.
Christian and Muslim Central Africans have had a history of peaceful relations, but the latest conflict has caused some religious divisions.
Blakesley voiced hope that peace can be restored. "The Muslims and Christians have been pulled into this escalating situation beyond their control, and they really need our help," she said.


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By Kam Williams
While Selma's Academy Awards stock plummeted in the wake of allegations of historical inaccuracies, that of American Sniper simultaneously skyrocketed, thanks to both booming box-office returns and very positive word of mouth. However, Sniper probably had too much ground to make up to catch Birdman, the early favorite in the Best Picture sweepstakes.
I envision Birdman garnering four awards overall, followed by The Grand Budapest Hotel, with three. The only other multiple winners will likely be Boyhood, Whiplash and The Theory of Everything, at two each.
Faithful readers will remember that a year ago, yours truly accurately predicted the results in 21 of 21 categories (I skipped the short films), so anyone who used my picks in their office pool fared pretty well. However, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Besides forecasting the winners below, I also suggest which nominees are the most deserving. Furthermore, because some great performances are invariably overlooked by the Academy entirely, I also point out those who should've been nominated.
The 87th Academy Awards hosted by Neil Patrick Harris will air live on ABC this Sunday, February 22nd at 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT.
Best Picture
Will Win: Birdman
Deserves to Win: Selma
Overlooked: Nightcrawler
Best Director
Will Win: Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)
Deserves to Win: Ava Duvernay (Selma)
Overlooked: Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
Best Actor
Will Win: Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Deserves to Win: Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Overlooked: Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
Best Actress
Will Win: Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Deserves to Win: Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
Overlooked: Jennifer Aniston (Cake)
Best Supporting Actor
Will Win: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Deserves to Win: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Overlooked: Rick Garcia (Nightcrawler)
Best Supporting Actress
Will Win: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
Deserves to Win: Emma Stone (Birdman)
Overlooked: Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year)
Best Original Screenplay:
Will Win: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo (Birdman)
Deserves to Win: Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler)
Overlooked: Paul Webb (Selma)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Will Win: Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)
Deserves to Win: Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
Overlooked: Peter Landesman, Gary Webb and Nick Schou (Kill the Messenger)
Predictions for Secondary Categories
Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Foreign Language Film: Ida
Documentary Feature: Citizenfour
Cinematography: Birdman
Costume Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Production Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Film Editing: Boyhood
Makeup and Hairstyling: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Original Score: The Theory of Everything
Best Song: 'Glory' (Selma)
Sound Editing: American Sniper
Sound Mixing: Whiplash
Visual Effects: Interstellar


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Posted by Heidi Schwartz
Leading automotive companies are beginning to believe in the global economy again, but have yet to commit fully to implementing aggressive growth strategies, according to Ernst & Young's seventh Capital Confidence Barometer for the automotive industry.
Of the 147 automotive executives surveyed, 52 percent view the global economy as improving – up from just 22 percent six months ago. And 63 percent report a positive sentiment for global economic growth, the highest level in two years and almost triple that of six months ago.
In addition, 83 percent of respondents expect growth in the global economy in the next 12 months, leading 45 percent of companies to plan for the hiring of new talent in 2013 – up from 22 percent in October of 2012.
Conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Ernst & Young Capital Confidence Barometer is a bi-annual survey of senior executives from large companies around the world.
"Credit availability continues to improve and corporate cash balances remain high, but the Barometer shows that while executives are trending toward an investing agenda, most are keeping it low risk," said Jim Carter, Americas Automotive Transaction Advisory Leader for Ernst & Young.
While 54 percent of respondents feel credit availability is improving – the highest level in two years – more than half point to cash as the primary source of deal financing over the next year. This is another indicator of the cautionary mindset many executives in the industry have.
Mergers & acquisitions
Seventy percent of respondents expect global deal volumes to improve over the next 12 months; and 33 percent expect their own company will pursue one or more acquisitions in the same timeframe. This is largely driven by the availability of higher quality opportunities and an appetite for growth amidst stabilizing production volumes. Almost four out of five executives expect these deals to be greater than $50 million.
But while companies appear poised for growth, many are still relying on the organic growth plan and cost-control strategies that saw them through the worst part of the economic crisis.
"The current generation of corporate leaders has been rewarded for its conservative instincts, but we may be nearing the point where this sustained caution itself becomes risky," adds Carter. "Valuation levels and sentiment suggest there is a window of opportunity to seize first-mover advantage in a market gaining momentum."


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Google+ is seen as the facebook no.1 rival. Though it's still on beta but I want to know What features do you think it lacks?
APIs to allow you to hook into it from other applications.
Like Facebook, it has a very confusing interface and a lot of 'features' that are unintelligible and poorly presented.
One of the major features Google+ lacks is search. The existing user search box could be expanded to search posts too, with the ability to see results from each of your individual Circles, as well as a stream of public results from the whole of Google+.
I would also say they can integrate Google reader with Google+ which will help to further spread content which someone posts on their G+.
There should be also a save as draft feature. Many people type full length text and it will be good for them to have a save as draft function.
Google+ features are complicated. It also doesn't allow photo tagging.
I'm surprised we haven't seen some sort of advertising involving Google plus. Google was a pioneer of sorts in the monetization of their search engine and they have not really done anything like that with their social platform.
There was a little blip back in 2012 where they featured a button on the bottom of brand pages briefly saying that you could promote your plus page in search with adwords but apparently it wasn't active.
This post talks about it,
It does allow photo tagging. In fact, I think Google+ is smarter than Facebook when it comes to identifying a person's face for tagging. It even provides good guesses of who the person in the photo might be. Try it!
In my opinion, we won't be seeing ads on Google+ any time soon. Google+ is going to provide the social layer on top of all the information on the web that Google has indexed. By adding a social layer, its search results (Google's primary source of revenue) are going to become much more relevant and by knowing the social graph of its users, they can even collect information such as how many degrees away are you from a specific topic or interest. All these will turn into more targeted search ads for users.
Think of Google+ as an intent generating platform while Google Search is the one doing intent harvesting (and thereby making all the money for Google). Also, why would Google introduce advertising to its social network when many of its users are coming to Google+ simply because they are tired of all the ads that they are seeing on Facebook?
I might be wrong but I just think that Google far from desperately needing a direct revenue stream from its social network as compared to Facebook. What do you think?
I think you have hit the nail on the head. The introduction of Google Plus complements the Authorship program. Both are evidence that Google is distancing itself from more traditional ranking methods and searching for a way to better tie together quality content creators with users of its platform. These two elements make it that much more difficult (if not impossible) to game the results that users are served.
When I say I'm surprised that they haven't introduced advertising, I was more eluding to the thought that they hadn't provided users (especially business users) with an easy paid way to promote their presence on Google plus. I don't think they need the revenue but it would be a nice feature to have.
Indeed Google plus lacks people, and the feel is cold, unlike Facebook that feels very friendly. I cant explane why. It
s just a feeling.
First off, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, etc are more competitive with Facebook than Google+ ever was. Google+ is dead on arrival because it brings nothing new to the table. Facebook everything Google+ does and more - not only that but Facebook has a strong following already.
I agree, but I find it easy to create a page profile in Facebook rather than G+, I am confuse to use its features. I got lost most of the time when trying to join in communities and they have fewer people compared to Facebook.
Now a days G+ does not lacks it too have all feature compared to social networks,face book support more apps obviously G+ not this may be the lacking problem
Appeal, Crowd, features that can attract more users to stick on it such as games, useful apps, quizzes, etc…
Facebook = Focuses on connecting you with your existing friends and your relationships with them.
Google Plus = Helps you build new connections, find interesting people and discover content that can surprise and delight you.
i think google plus is still not very popular in masses, it is more popular among professionals. Facebook has a wider user base.
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In a piece I wrote called, Christopher Hitchens, "God is not Great" author, is not really an atheist, I state just that--Hitchens is not an atheist.
I defend my analysis from the starting point that atheism means "no god."
In a slanderous attack on my motivations, a priest of atheism named Austin Cline accused me in a headline of "misleading," and "fibbing." One can read his unsatisfying ad hominem attackhere.
In order to justify his libelous falsehood about my motivations, Cline must prove that I am incorrect:
a) in defining atheism as the belief that there is "no god"
b) in calling Christopher Hitchen an atheist.
In the video one can hear Christopher Hitchens assert that he cannot rule out a "prime mover." God is common parlance for the more philosophical term "prime mover." By Hitchens own explicit comments, he is not certain about the issue of a prime mover.
Cline is confusing skepticism with atheism.
Cline is attracted to the sensational, as his unsubstantiated personal attack in a headline on my character demonstrates. He is attracted to the aesthetic of atheism, and is not willing to give up his personal powerful association with the term.
But atheism as an assertion--"no god"--is not defensible according to uncertainty principle which belies our absolute inability to both observe and report back on this issue of the prime mover.
Therefore, Cline has pulled a fast one, and is conducting a smear campaign against me, based not on a philosophical argument, but on a semantical one.
The only way Cline can defend his insulting comments towards me, as one "dispassionate about the truth," for example, is if he can somehow do two things:
1) redefine atheism to mean "no god and maybe god." (skepticism)
2) redefine atheism so that it is now the same word as agnosticism.
This is semantics, and is not the basis of an intelligent debate. If atheism cannot mean "no god" then the English language has no word for this very old concept. Nonsense. Skepticism is not the same thing as atheism.
Cline says nothing except to accuse me of "errors," and "lies" and all kinds of unsavory things.
His irresponsibility is emotional, unreasoned (he says nothing! except that I am dishonest) and a testimony to the illogical religious-like faith a professional atheist like Cline must employ to defend his inverted religion against more reasoned criticism.
Cline's religion is his disregard for the uncertainty principle, which leaves us--Hitchens included--unable to make conclusions, such as atheism or theism, about the ineffable and unknowable.


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With hundreds and hundreds of different mics on the market—at all levels of the price-point spectrum—narrowing down your choices and picking the best ones for your studio can be a serious challenge.
Left: A great dynamic mic is essential for capturing great guitar tones and the Shure SM57 is the go-to dynamic for many recording engineers.
Middle: A ribbon mic like the R-121 from Royer Labs provides a warm, rich tone that can stand alone or be combined with either a dynamic or condenser mic for a "composite" tone.
Right: Using a condenser mic like the Rode NT1-A is a good option when you want sonic detail and wide frequency response.
Here we are with the sixth installment of our ongoing discussion on how to best equip your studio. We've now reached the point where we need to talk about capturing your guitar signals. And that means microphones! With hundreds and hundreds of different mics on the market—at all levels of the price-point spectrum—narrowing down your choices and picking the best ones for your studio can be a serious challenge. So first, let's break down the huge pool of mic options to three broad categories, based on how they work.
Dynamic Mics. Dynamic microphones work kind of like a speaker in reverse. Sound waves strike a diaphragm inside the mic and cause it to move back and forth. The diaphragm then moves a coil of wire that's wrapped around a magnet, which generates an electrical current. Simple, durable, and effective for potentially loud sources like electric guitar cabinets, dynamic mics also tend to be quite affordable. Providing a thick and punchy sound, dynamics are often the first choice of many engineers for capturing the electric guitar, both in the studio and onstage.
Condenser Mics. A condenser microphone has a thin diaphragm that moves back and forth in response to sound waves. Located next to a charged plate, the moving diaphragm and plate create a changing capacitance (condenser is another word for capacitor) that represents the sound waves as voltage. Condenser microphones generally offer wide frequency response, meaning they cover the full spectrum by capturing low and high frequencies. They're sensitive mics, so they aren't as rugged as dynamics, but the trade-off is that they can be more responsive. Condenser mics often have switchable polar-patterns, which allow you to change how the mic responds to sounds that are off axis (not coming into the front of the mic). This makes them more versatile since you can control how much outside sound will bleed or leak into the mic while you are recording.
Because of the way they operate, condenser microphones require a power source. Depending on the mic, the power source can be internal batteries, external power from a dedicated supply, or supplied from your mixer or preamp in the form of phantom power—which is carried over the microphone cable.
The condenser category can be further subdivided into small-diaphragm and large-diaphragm microphones. Smalldiaphragm condensers tend to work well on acoustic instruments (such as steelstring and nylon-string guitars), while large-diaphragm condenser mics are a popular choice for vocals, piano, electric guitar, and more.
Ribbon Mics. Ribbon mics are conceptually similar to dynamic mics. They use a stretched, corrugated strip of metal (the ribbon) that's suspended in a magnetic field. Sound waves move the ribbon, and this creates a voltage that flows out of the microphone. Ribbon mics were some of the earliest microphones on the scene and they have the advantage of responding with a sound that's very pleasant to the human ear. They provide warm top end without harshness, full lows, and rich midrange. However, they generally don't have the detail of a condenser mic or possess the ruggedness of a dynamic.
So which type of mic is best for recording the electric guitar? All of them! Each may offer a tonal option that's ideal for a given guitar sound. The only real way to know is to try each and determine which one sounds best for the particular sound you are recording. If that's not an option, then you need to look at a few other factors. One key factor to consider is the other potential sound sources you may record with the microphone. If you can only have one mic and it needs to cover a lot of bases (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, percussion, etc.), then I would recommend a large-diaphragm condenser mic. But if your one mic will only be used to record guitar cabs, then a dynamic microphone will serve admirably. Countless records, including many of the classic recordings we all know and love, have been made with only a Shure SM57 for the electric guitar. Would I want a ribbon mic as my only microphone? In specific situations, yes. If I know that my guitar tone works well with a ribbon and I'll only be recording that particular tone, sure, a ribbon would be a fine choice.
The best possible scenario is to have a choice of mics, which is why commercial studios have a huge selection available for their clients. Having multiple mics on hand provides two important benefits. First, you can choose the mic that sounds best on a particular cabinet or guitar by matching the tone and response of the mic to the sound you are capturing. Second, you can create what I call "composite" guitar sounds by simultaneously placing two or more types of microphones on the same amp. For example, you might place a condenser for detail and wide-ranging response, a ribbon for a warm and rich sound, and a dynamic for a punchy, thick tone. When it's time to mix your tracks, you can then combine and balance the individual sounds from each mic to create the overall sound you want.
Be sure to check back next month, when we'll continue our discussion of microphones and the rest of the "capture" part of your studio rig!
Mitch Gallagher is the former editor in chief of EQ magazine. He's written more than 1000 articles and six books on recording and music technology, and has released an instructional DVD on mastering. His upcoming book is entitled Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Electric Guitar Sound. To learn more, visit mitchgallagher.com.


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Whole wheat sourdough bagels
The best bagels I've ever had were not from New York or New Jersey, or even Philadelphia. They came from a tiny bagel shop in Winston-Salem, NC. I'm not even sure what it's name was; we just called it, "The Bagel Place."
There's no doubt, though, they made the "real thing". Beautifully chewy water bagels with the traditional toppings: plain, poppy seed, garlic, onion, sesame -- and, of course, all the newfangled kinds as well: cinnamon raisin, asiago cheese, chocolate chip, tobacco.
Just kidding about tobacco, of course, though when you live in the hometown of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Corp., the aroma of tobacco tends to permeate the air, especially if a storm is coming in, because the wind changes direction and blows directly over the cigarette factories outside of town.
Tobacco winds or no, the bagels were delicious, and have formed my ideal for what a bagel ought to be. Of course, I may have been a bit biased. I met the baker contra dancing, and he became a good friend: Joe Bagel, we called him. He taught me that bagels should be boiled and then baked good and hot.
I've never had any luck, however, finding a 100% whole wheat bagel that tasted ... good. All the whole wheat bagels I bought had a strong bitter aftertaste, a taste that I now know comes from using whole wheat flour that's less than fresh. And more often than not, they were even more dense than a bagel ought to be.
I've tasted some better whole-wheat bagels recently, but they're not 100% whole wheat. So I decided to see if I could make a decent bagel from fresh whole wheat flour. For inspiration and instruction, I looked to both Reinhart's Bread Baker's Apprentice and Hammelman's Bread. I also thought that sourdough might help - it always seems to do so with everything else. The end result is up above. I'm happy to say tha they were, indeed tasty. In fact, my wife didn't know they were whole wheat until I mentioned it to her after she'd eaten breakfast!
As I'd feared, they were not as chewy as I'd like -- need high-gluten flour for that. I think, perhaps, I'll try adding some vital wheat gluten the next time around to see if I can increase the chew factor. Anyway, here's how I made them:
Overall formula
- Whole wheat flour: 100%
- Water: 60%
- Salt: 2%
- Diastatic malt powder: 0.9%
- Pre-fermented flour: 30%
- Whole wheat starter: 220 grams at 60% hydration
- Water: 195 grams
- Whole wheat flour: 320 grams
- Diastatic malt powder: 4 grams
- Salt: 9 grams
- Optional: 1 Tbs baking soda or enough Malt Syrup to turn the Boiling Water the color of tea.
Start the night before you want to bake. Combine the ripe starter with the water and knead them together until the starter is very soft and the water is milky. Add the flour, salt and malt powder. Mix until it turns into a dough. The dough will be dry -- like any dough, if you poke it enough, it'll feel a little tacky, but you don't want any more tackiness than that. It'll be tough to knead, but nonetheless, give it a good 300 strokes. Stiff as it is, a small piece of the dough will form a translucent windowpane when it's fully developed, just make sure you turn the piece of dough in a circle as you stretch it.
Once the dough is developed, form it into a ball, cover it, and let it ferment for about an hour at room temperature. It will not rise much in that time.
Divide the dough into six pieces and shape each piece into bagels. I chose to use the old-style shaping described in Bread. Flatten each into a rough rectangle and then roll them up tightly, after which they need to be rolled out (by hand) into 6 to 8 inch ropes. Wrap the rope around your hand and then seal with your palm.
Once they are shaped, cover them and let them proof at room temperature for another hour. To see if they're ready to proof, use what Reinhart calls "The Float Test": just drop one bagel gently into a bowl of water. If it floats after 3 seconds or so, it's ready! Dry the test bagel off gently and put them all on a cookie sheet that's wither lined with parchment paper or lightly dusted with cornmeal or semolina flour. Cover with plastic and pop them in the fridge.
The next morning, preheat the oven and a stone, if you've got on, to 500 degrees F and put a big pot of water on to boil. Once the water is good and boiling, add the optional ingredients to the water, if desired. The baking soda acts as a sort of low-grade food-safe lye, and gives the bagels a nice shiny sheen. The malt syrup adds color and flavor. You can add both if you wish, but the water will foam as the acid in the syrup and the baking soda react. What's most important is the boil itself.
The bagels will float. Boil them for about 1 minute on either side. When boiled, you may then top them with seeds, salt, garlic, whatever suits your fancy. I like poppy seed, myself. My wife prefers garlic.
Once they've been boiled and topped, they're ready to bake. I baked mine right on my stone for about 18 minutes, and then let them cool for 10. Have cream cheese and lox ready at hand.


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Joe Francis -- Quincy Jones Is LYING ... 'I SWEAR On My Life'
Joe Francis Quincy Is LYING 'I SWEAR On My Life'
"Girls Gone Wild" honcho Joe Francis swears ... Steve Wynn threatened to end his life -- telling TMZ, Quincy Jones just LIED on the stand about Wynn's alleged murder plot in order to protect the casino mogul.
As we reported, Quincy testified moments ago -- insisting he never saw an email from Steve Wynn detailing a murder plot against Francis. Quincy said he never even heard Wynn threaten Francis.
But Francis believes Quincy is in Wynn's back pocket -- telling us, "[Quincy] is lying for Steve Wynn. I swear on my life, God strike me down, that I am telling the 100% truth in this matter."
He adds, "The fat lady hasn't sung yet."
Francis' lawyer is cross-examining Quincy this very moment.
As we reported, Quincy was subpoenaed to testify in Wynn's defamation suit against Francis, in which Francis has claimed Wynn threatened to have him buried in the desert over a gambling debt.


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"Large R-charged Sectors of the Ads/CFT Correspondence."
Background:While a senior at Princeton University, Heckmans research centered on the AdS/CFT correspondence a recent proposal that the physical states of a five dimensional gravitational theory are dual to operators constructed from large matrices of quantum fields in a four dimensional gauge theory. Extending recent work by other researchers, Heckman reconstructed the energy spectra of certain strings on the gravitational side of the correspondence in terms of purely gauge theoretic quantities. Probing other regimes of the correspondence, Heckman also showed that the microstates of small and nearly supersymmetric charged black holes can be reconstructed both from strings in ten dimensions as well as operators in four dimensions. This work is currently being finalized for publication. At Princeton, Heckman received the physics department's Kusaka Memorial Award for undergraduate research and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. Heckman received his A.B. in physics from Princeton in 2004 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy physics at Harvard University.


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In my former life, I spent my money on me. I dressed up. I went out. I spent enough cash on dinners with friends to open my own restaurant. But since becoming a mom, those days are a faint memory viewed through a fog of baby powder and crocodile tears. My money goes to Baby Gap and Target.
But what if? What if I could be this new mommy me, and still salvage a little of my former adventurous self while squirreling away some money in the old diaper bag?
That kind of mental leap requires more than a few baby steps.
So I begin by heading to the Rockefeller Park Greenhouse, a balmy respite from the gray winter we've had. I'm hoping the tropical air will clear my head and prime me for a day of my former favorite pastimes: shopping, eating, shows.
This free attraction on Cleveland's East Side has plenty of admirers — even a Friends of the Greenhouse club — but this morning I'm the first of the day's visitors, allowing for some much-needed alone time. Four female statues, one to symbolize each season, stare mutely at one another across the greenhouse's grassy mall. The outdoor gardens are silent, waiting for spring.
As if enchanted by the quiet, I step into a mini cathedral teeming with life and take a deep, humid breath. The two-story anteroom is dripping with vines and leafy greens. A path through the greenhouse leads me to a Century Plant cactus the size of a hippo, rubbing arid shoulders with a dozen other varieties of desert beauties.
Wandering through here, I realize, is cheaper and quicker than schlepping to yoga class. I feel calm and centered, less scatterbrained than I have in months. With this newfound focus, I'm ready to try my hand at the version of shopping that fits my new persona: bargain hunting.
At Unique Thrift on Cleveland's near west side, the parking lot is filling up before the place even opens. Early-bird shoppers are poised for the hunt, ready to swoop in for the day's best deals. New merchandise is constantly rotated onto the racks, and each Monday the entire store is 50 percent off to make room for new goods. Today's savings are marked on a big board hanging overhead. Items with blue and yellow tags are half off.
I wander through the packed aisles, overwhelmed by piles of merchandise stacked on top of each clothing rack in this warehouse of used stuff: a mishmash of tablecloths by the changing rooms, well-loved board games piled atop the children's clothes aisles.
A sign advertises the store's "treasure hunt experience," and I nod in silent agreement. It's a hunt all right — and suddenly I'm inspired. A lime green T-shirt I pluck from the hanger (slogan: "Go Green with Gumby"!) is full price, but with a green tag that reads just $1.49, I still manage to purchase it with pocket change.
Now I'm in the mood for digging. I steel myself for Sweet Lorain, but when I get there I realize how unprepared I am. The 8,000-square-foot tribute to the stylishly secondhand is crawling with people. The displays cover every inch of the space: a rainbow of colored lamps hanging from the ceiling and mod furniture arranged, Ikea-style, into faux living rooms.
I pine after a $550 orange-and-brown retro couch, and check out a bowl filled with black-and-white portraits of somebody else's mom or brother, labeled "instant relatives" and marked at 50 cents apiece. My brain starts whirling with mathematical formulas as I calculate how much money I can drain from my bank account.
Then, I remember: baby steps.
Luckily, my stomach grumbles before I can reach for my wallet, and I realize it's time to head downtown, where my nightcap awaits. I'm meeting a friend for dinner and catching the Broadway musical Memphis at PlayhouseSquare. We're starting on a high note at chef Zack Bruell's newest place, Cowell & Hubbard.
It's easy to spend money on Bruell, who favors a swashbuckling, extravagant approach to cuisine that uses only the best ingredients. But even peasants can feast at happy hour from 4:30 to 6:30 each afternoon, and again from 9 p.m. until the restaurant closes.
The menu is svelte, just five $7 dishes. But Cowell & Hubbard's bar food ranges from pork belly and pickled vegetables wrapped in lettuce cups to fried shishito peppers with homemade fried pork skins. We even duel for the slices of fingerling potatoes under a perfectly seared scallop with a to-die-for truffle vinaigrette.
We finish the last of our $5 drinks, a glass of Cava for me and the daily cocktail special for my friend (a play on gin fizz), pay our bill ($50 with tip for three shared appetizers and two drinks apiece) and step into the evening air. The Palace Theatre marquee, with its light bulbs dazzling the streetscape, gives us our first taste of the opulence to come. Inside, we're enveloped by marble and red velvet. Built at a cost of $3.5 million back in the '20s, it was the most expensive of the district's theaters. Today, we're practically stealing our way in to a Broadway show at $20 a person thanks to PlayhouseSquare's Smart Seats ($10 Smart Seats in the balcony are also available, for a wider range of shows beyond Broadway productions).
Our seats in row JJ are near the back of the theater's main level, but also close to the middle aisle. We can see the stage beautifully, and I smugly wonder how much seats like this would cost at the New York City production.
But my smugness soon disappears as I get caught up in the atmosphere of live theater. It makes me feel so connected, to the audience members next to me sharing in my emotions, and to the actors up on stage doing everything with no second takes or do-overs.
As the applause dies down and the lights come up for intermission after an emotional first act, I see my theater date has tears in her eyes. I've been so focused on saving money — and reliving my old, carefree lifestyle — that it's taken me until now to realize the real joys in life are the things you can't put a price on, from the new baby in the house to the time spent with old friends and the emotional connection with a story acted out before your eyes.
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• 4 legs of lamb
• salt, pepper
• 1 tablespoon clarified butter
• 3 shallots
• 1 clove of garlic
• 14 small carrots
• 500 ml dry red wine
• 1 bay leaf
• 400 ml lamb stock
• 2 tablespoons soft butter
• pinch of sugar
• ½ - 1 teaspoon cornflour
• 100 g grapes
Braised leg of lamb with carrots and grapes
Serves 4
Preparation time: 50 min. + 2 h baking time
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 °C (top/bottom heat). Season the lamb with salt and pepper. Heat the clarified butter in a suitable roasting dish, fry the lamb on all sides at a medium temperature for about 10 minutes. In the meantime, peel and chop the shallots, garlic and two carrots.
2. As soon as the lamb has taken on a beautiful brown colour on all sides, add the diced vegetables and sauté. Pour in the red wine, add the bay leaf and bring the liquid to the boil. Pour in the lamb stock and cover the roasting dish with baking paper cut to size.
3. Place the roasting dish in the pre-heated oven on the second shelf from below for approx. 2 hours, turning the legs occasionally. The lamb is ready as soon as the meat is tender and easily falls off the bone.
4. About 30 minutes before serving, peel and wash the remaining carrots. Grease a wide pan with butter, add the carrots, season with salt and a pinch of sugar and cover with a little water. Cover the carrots with a piece of baking paper cut to size, bring to the boil and cook until al dente. Remove the baking paper, turn the carrots over and completely boil down the liquid. As soon as the liquid has evaporated, the carrots will start to fry. Make sure they only take on a little colour and do not become too dark.
5. Remove the cooked legs of lamb out of the broth and keep them warm in the oven at 100 °C. Pour the broth through a fine sieve into a saucepan and boil down to 300 ml. Mix the cornflour with 2 - 3 tablespoons of water, stir into the boiling sauce and thicken lightly. Wash the grapes, separate them into small bunches and add to the lamb in the oven.
6. Arrange the lamb shanks, carrots and grapes on plates, coat the shanks with the sauce and serve with rosemary potatoes.


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Good Girl
A Love Unexpectedly Novel
A Love Unexpectedly Novel
By: Lauren Layne
New York Times BESTSELLER • Lauren Layne brings all the unpredictable heat of Blurred Lines to an all-new cast of characters! Country music's favorite good girl is hiding away from the world—only to find herself bunking with a guy who makes her want to be a little bad.
Jenny Dawson moved to Nashville to write music, not get famous. But when her latest record goes double platinum, Jenny's suddenly one of the town's biggest stars—and the center of a tabloid scandal connecting her with a pop star she's barely even met. With paparazzi tracking her every move, Jenny flees to a remote mansion in Louisiana to write her next album. The only hiccup is the unexpected presence of a brooding young caretaker named Noah, whose foul mouth and snap judgments lead to constant bickering—and serious heat.
Noah really should tell Jenny that he's Preston Noah Maxwell Walcott, the owner of the estate where the feisty country singer has made her spoiled self at home. But the charade gives Noah a much-needed break from his own troubles, and before long, their verbal sparring is indistinguishable from foreplay. But as sizzling nights give way to quiet pillow talk, Noah begins to realize that Jenny's almost as complicated as he is. To fit into each other's lives, they'll need the courage to face their problems together—before the outside world catches up to them.
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"What time did you say this chick was arriving?" Finn asks around his cigarette.
"Tomorrow morning," I say, rapping my toe against a funny-looking floorboard and wincing when it buckles.
"Huh." Finn exhales and looks out the window.
I know that tone. "What?"
"Seems she might have gotten here early," he says, a second before the quiet afternoon erupts with the sound of my dog losing his mind, mingled with the shrill piercing yap of a much smaller dog.
Finn shrugs and nods. "There's a girl outside."
"Sh*t," I mutter as I head toward the stairs, dodging the two broken ones.
Ranger's about as good a dog as they come, wouldn't hurt a fly. But he's a big dog with a big bark, and one serious weakness: gleefully humping smaller dogs. He's a rescue, and though he was fixed after they brought him in, he'd already gone through canine puberty, or whatever. He's still got the fierce urge to hump, although it's more habit than hormones.
I exit out the front door just in time to see my big brown Lab leap forward, his clumsy paws finding the shoulders of a blond girl who lets out a shriek, holding a cat above her head like that scene from The Lion King.
"Ranger, no! Down."
I run forward, my hand finding the collar of my dog and yanking him backward as I search the ground to find the source of the small-dog barks still piercing the air.
Then I register that the sound is coming from above, and realize . . .
The cotton ball isn't a cat.
That orange piece of fluff is a dog, and Ranger is apparently in love.
"What the heck is wrong with your dog?" the girl says as she slowly lowers the puffball from over her head, cradling the hideous little monster against her chest as it continues its high-pitched bloody-murder yips.
"At least my dog is actually a dog," I say, staring in horror at the pointy face of a canine that could fit in one of my hands. "I've seen dust bunnies bigger than that thing."
"Dolly's a Pomeranian," she says, setting a hand on top of the monster's head. "She's supposed to be this tiny."
"Well, Ranger's a Lab. He's supposed to be this normal."
"He attacked me," she says, giving Ranger a wary look as his tongue hangs out the side of his mouth, his eyes locked lovingly on Dolly.
"He didn't want you, he wanted the . . . dog," I say, forcing myself to acknowledge that the creature in her hands might be part of the canine family.
"For what, dinner?"
I don't respond, because now that the crisis is averted, I've managed to shift my attention from the dogs to the girl, and . . .
Holy sh*t.
I'm not sure I've ever been sucker-punched by equal waves of lust and disdain before.
Jenny Dawson is hot as hell.
I knew that going in, but up close she's even more mouthwatering. Her white skirt is short and tight, her legs long and toned.
She's wearing some billowing pink top, so I can't get a good look at what's happening there, but it doesn't really matter. I've always been a legs man, and I can't stop looking.
The legs are a 10.
The face is a 10.
And the long blond hair spilling over one shoulder definitely begs to be spread over a man's pillow. My pillow.
And yet even as my c*ck says yes, my brain is saying hell no.
Gorgeous as she is, she screams diva from the pink toenails to the sky-high stiletto sandals and all the way up to the carefully made-up face.
I just turned my entire life upside down trying to get away from a woman exactly like this one, so this is definitely a look, don't touch situation.
But I'm looking. I'm definitely looking.
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Over the centuries, artists in a wide variety of media have employed many approaches to the creative process, ranging from the philosophical to the mechanical to the virtual. This course unravels some of the mysteries going on inside software used for art and music. It looks at ways of breaking things apart and sampling and ways of putting things together and resynthesizing, and explores ideas for creation. This course does not teach software packages for creating art and music. The course complements ART 2701 and MUSIC 1421.
When Offered Spring, Summer.
Distribution Category (LA-AS)
- Understand, manipulate, and design algorithms and other processes for creating music and other art forms. Specific techniques may draw from stochastic, iterative, algebraic and geometric methods, amongst others.
- Have a degree of understanding of the design process —idea, formulation, specification, implementation, testing to refinement — and the development of effective interfaces.
- Have a basic understanding of the basics of probability, group theory, basic programming, feedback systems, sampling, and synthesis with emphasis on building applications via assisted process control (principles of simple programming).
Six Week Summer. Combined with: CS 1610, ENGRI 1610, PMA 1640, PSYCH 1650
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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I would like to ask you about your opinion on the following scheme of combining a master key and a nonce and stretching the result to the full 256-bytes RC4 key.
- Master key $K_m$ is a pre-shared secret of length $M$ bytes
- nonce $K_n$ is sent unencrypted and is of length $N$ bytes
- both $K_m$ and $K_n$ are chosen to be high-entropy strings
- the $i$-th byte of the resulting key would be $K[i] = (K_m[i \bmod M] + K_n[i \bmod N]) \bmod 256$
The period of the string $K$ is $LCM(M,N)$, so I would choose the $M$ and $N$ such that $LCM(M,N) \ge 256$.
Is there anything obviously wrong with this scheme?
PS: This scheme would be used on an 8-bit micro-controller embedded system. Limited speed/memory prevents me from using a more standard method.


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Part of the husband's family is located in the US as well. In Matter of O-J-O, the BIA considered "not only the length of residence, but also the degree of integration into American society and the strength of the attachments to friends and community." We were sure to include evidence of our client's ties to the community.
We included detailed information about the couple's courtship, which began in 2002, and their marriage, which took place in 2009. We provided a lot of documentation regarding the economic situation in Mexico along with the kidnapping and drug trafficking epidemic. The packet included well over 300 pages of evidence.
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The Master of Science in Accountancy with a concentration in Professional Accounting will prepare you for a career in public accounting, corporate settings, or government enterprises. This widely respected program offers a rigorous course of study taught by top tax and accounting professionals with expertise in a broad range of topics.
Founded in 1974, LIU Post's School of Professional Accountancy holds the proud distinction of being the first independent school of professional accountancy in the nation.
Learn from faculty members who are proven pioneers in their field and bring real-world experience into the classroom, and study curriculum that incorporates the latest technology and software applications in the digital accounting and taxation fields.
Network with NYC's leading firms through our extensive internship program, and meet accounting professionals face-to-face during our campus events. Our graduates are recruited by the "Big Four" global accounting firms as well as international, national, regional, and local accounting firms, corporations, and government agencies.
The M.S. in Accountancy is registered by the New York State Education Department to qualify for a one-year reduction of the experience requirement for CPA licensure. It is intended for those individuals who have completed an undergraduate degree in accounting at an accredited college or university and who wish to fulfill the 150-hour requirement.
Course | Credits |
ACC 742 Financial Statement Analysis or ACC 709 Corporate Financial Reporting | 3 |
ACC 750 Advanced Accounting Information Systems | 3 |
ACC 753 Advanced Assurance Services and Computer Auditing | 3 |
TAX 760 Tax Research or TAX 726 Tax Strategies for Management Decisions and Planning | 3 |
Total credits required | 12 |
Professional Accounting Concentration - 9 credits required from the following:
Course | Credits |
ACC 720 Not-for-Profit Entity Accounting | 3 |
ACC 754 Fraud Examination | 3 |
ACC 760 International Accounting | 3 |
ACC 790 Accounting Seminar | 3 |
Other 700-level accounting or taxation courses with approval of graduate advisor | 3 |
Total credits required | 9 |
Course | Credits |
Graduate course electives taken with the approval of the graduate advisor | 9 |
Total Credits Required to complete the program | 30 |
This course involves the study of authoritative pronouncements on accounting principles that guide reporting financial position, results of operations, and changes in cash flow. It includes case studies and analysis of published financial reports. The purpose of this course is to attempt to bring theory and practice closer together through application of concepts and methods of accounting.
On Occasion, 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of the accounting for government and other nonprofit organizations. The course focuses on the various governmental funds and group of accounts of these public entities. In addition, attention is given to other nonprofit organizations such as colleges, universities and hospitals.
On Occasion, 3 credits
This course provides a survey of analytical tools and techniques used to evaluate financial statements. Financial and corporate reports are analyzed for solvency, quality of earnings, investments, and forecasting implications. Emphasis is placed on ratio and trend analysis for the detection and interpretation of strengths, weaknesses and problems areas.
Annually, 3 credits
Information Systems
This course provides an advanced examination of accounting information systems
(AIS). It includes issues relating to the design and development of AIS with emphasis on the software selection process, hands-on experience in designing accounting information systems using a data base approach, various considerations during the systems development life cycle, and the impact of new and emerging technologies on AIS applications and controls.
Bi-Annually, 3 credits
This course provides an advanced review of assurance services and an in-depth
analysis of computer auditing. Students study current and emerging applications
of assurance services, including information systems assurance. The course also
focuses on the collection and evaluation of evidence using statistical sampling
techniques and hands-on computer assisted audit tools and techniques (CAATTs).
Annually, 3 credits
The nature of fraud, elements of fraud, fraud prevention, fraud detection, fraud investigation, design and use of controls to prevent fraud, and methods of fraud resolution are examined in this course. The role of fraud examination to perform a variety of antifraud and forensic accounting engagements including, but not limited to, investigating suspected fraud, investigating assertions of fraud, developing fraud loss estimates and performing acquisition due diligence are also considered.
On Occasion, 3 credits
Current trends in accounting and the accounting profession are analyzed. A review of relevant pronouncements, exposure drafts and discussion memoranda issued in accounting and auditing is conducted. New developments are examined for their significance to the practicing accountant.
Prerequisite: Completion of required
Accounting Core
On Occasion, 3 credits
This course will provide the participant with an in-depth analysis of the code, regulations, rulings and cases go time-value of money concepts and required adjustments for changes in accounting methods. Materials are introduced via lecture, open class discussion and review of selected case studies.
Annually, 3 credits
A detailed study of the gift and estate tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code is covered. An introduction to the income taxation of trusts and estates is also provided.
Bi-Annually, 3 credits
This course includes an examination of how taxes impact the business environment
and affect management decision making. Using a planning approach, students learn how to adapt to constantly changing tax rules and assess their future impact. The objective of the course is to provide the student with a framework to assess and predict how taxes affect business activities and participants, including customers, suppliers, employees, investors, and competitors. M.S. in Taxation students and M.S. in Accountancy students in the taxation concentration may not receive credit for this course.
On Occasion, 3 credits
In-depth analysis of "Nexus," Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act, the unitary principle, the multi-state taxes compact regulations and P.L. 86-272. Various landmark Supreme Court decisions pertaining to multi-state taxation are discussed. Emphasis is placed on New York State Income, Franchise and Sales Taxes for those entities doing business in New York State.
Bi-Annually, 3 credits
Sources of legislative, administrative and legal precedents are discussed. Utilization of IRS publications, tax reporters, and judicial and statutory authority is explained. An introduction to computer-based tax research tools and techniques is included. Several research projects using these materials are required. Written and oral techniques for presenting research results are discussed. The presentation of three written research papers is required. This course is taught primarily on a distance learning basis. Assignments are prepared on and submitted via the Internet and weekly discussion board questions are discussed. The participant must have access to a computer with Internet access.
Annually, 3 credits
Among topics considered are preparation of tax returns, due dates and extensions, techniques for gathering information and preparation of returns, statute of limitations, tax examinations, appeals procedures in the IRS, request for rulings, collection matters, tax fraud, and professional responsibility of taxpayer's representatives.
Bi-Annually, 3 credits
This course reviews the tax aspects of corporate formations, including corporate characteristics, transfers to controlled corporations, corporate capital structure, the income tax calculations for corporate entities and elections. Topics covered include corporate stockholder relationships, corporate distributions, corporate redemptions and partial liquidation, accumulated earnings, and personal holding companies.
Prerequisites: TAX 620, TAX 760
Annually, 3 credits
Coverage includes reorganizations, recapitalization, acquisitions and disposal of assets, mergers, acquisitive and divisive reorganizations as well as corporate tax attributes.
Prerequisite: TAX 771
Bi-Annually, 3 credits
This course deals with the principles and mechanics of consolidated returns including eligibility, computation of consolidated tax liability, inter-company transactions, inventory adjustments, basis of property, net operating losses, earnings and profits and separate return limitations.
Prerequisite: TAX 771
On Occasion, 3 credits
A study of Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code and regulations pertaining to that Subchapter. The tax problems associated with partnership formation, operation, liquidation and distributions are covered. Acquisitions of a partnership interest, problems associated with a partner's guaranteed payment, optional basis adjustment of partnership property and other current materials are examined The tax ramifications of Limited Liability Companies (LLC) and Partnerships (LLP) are discussed.
Prerequisites: TAX 620, TAX 760
Bi-Annually, 3 credits
This course is an in-depth study of the federal tax ramifications of operating the S Corporation. The election, operation, termination and special rules associated with the S Corporation status are examined. Tax planning for the S Corporation is also emphasized.
Prerequisite: TAX 771
Bi-Annually, 3 credits
In general, this course covers estate planning techniques for the individual. The course includes study of the factors to be considered in planning an estate, including life insurance, trusts, specific legacies, provisions for protection of a going business, and estate and gift tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, especially with respect to marital deduction, powers of appointment, exemptions and jointly owned property.
Prerequisite: TAX 625
On Occasion, 3 credits
In this course, the tax laws governing the creation and operation of tax exempt organizations are studied. Compliance requirements governed by the Internal Revenue Service are also reviewed.
Prerequisites: TAX 620, TAX 760
On Occasion, 3 credits
This course is an in-depth study of ERISA. The course is geared towards an understanding of the pension and profit-sharing rules required for plan qualification. Emphasis is placed upon the establishment of a qualified plan for both incorporated and unincorporated forms of business.
On Occasion, 3 credits
This course covers the taxation of United States persons investing or doing business abroad and nonresident aliens and foreign corporations having nexus with the United States. Topics covered include, among others, the foreign tax credit, Subpart F income, controlled foreign corporations, tax treaties, sourcing rules and expatriate taxation.
Prerequisite: TAX 771
Bi-Annually, 3 credits
Current trends in federal taxation are analyzed. Tax cases, rulings and new
developments are examined for their significance to tax practitioners.
Prerequisite: Completion of required taxation core.
On Occasion, 3 credits
Directed independent reading and research projects in an area selected by the student with the approval of a faculty member sponsor. The student is expected to prepare a substantial integrative written report at the conclusion of the semester.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Director of the School of Professional Accountancy.
On Occasion, 3 credits
This course examines the current legal environment of business and how it affects the decision-making process for managers of business enterprises. The topics covered include ethics, contracts, torts, intellectual property, international transactions, employment agreements, real property, consumer protection, forms of business organizations, and debtor/creditor relations.
On Occasion, 3 credit
This course examines basic accounting concepts and methods and their significance to management and other users of financial statements. Topics include an introduction to fundamental accounting concepts; the measurement and reporting of income, financial position, and cash flows; and the measurement and reporting of assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity. Ethical issues are considered throughout this course.
Every Semester, 3 credits
Students are required to maintain a 3.0 cumulative grade point average. If the student does not maintain this standard, the school's Academic Standing Committee will review his or her performance and will make a recommendation concerning the students' potential to complete successfully the Master of Science program to the Director. The Director makes the final disposition on such cases.
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