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Kristen Bell's future baby bond had her a bit nervous while she was pregnant with daughter Lincoln — sure, a baby was cool and all, but would she love the little one as much as she loved her dogs?
She shared her feelings at the time with now-husband Dax Shepard, and more recently with Flare, telling the magazine in its December issue, "I kept saying to him in all sincerity during my pregnancy, 'I just don't know how I'm going to like her as much as I like the dogs.'"
She was serious, she said, because she really — like, profanity-producing really — loves Lola, a corgi-chow mix, and Mr. Shakes, a corgi-Chihuahua. Not to mention her late Lab, Sadie, whom she rescued while volunteering at a Rancho Santa Fe shelter post-Hurricane Katrina; she lost Sadie last year at age 17.
"I love people the more I know them, and I didn't know her. It could've been a water bottle in my belly, that's about how connected I felt to her during my pregnancy," said the "Veronica Mars" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" actress, 33, who appears next in the animated film "Frozen," out Nov. 27.
The new mom, who opted for an epidural at the last minute during delivery, said the maternal instinct kicked in about 24 hours after Lincoln was born: "My hormones reset, and they reprogrammed my feelings about her." Now Bell feels fiercely protective of her baby's privacy, as she is of her day-to-day relationship with her husband, despite any back-and-forth they might share occasionally on Twitter.
"I would really not like to see the aftermath of the first person who tries to take a picture of Lincoln," she told the mag. "There are going to be a lot of stitches."
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- U.S.-based company discovered its computer systems were being accessed from China
- Company's own employee gave access to Chinese programmers he personally outsourced
- Employee, known as "Bob", seen as "someone you wouldn't look at twice in an elevator"
- "Bob" earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, paying Chinese firm $50,000 a year
Call it an amazing example of entrepreneurship or a daring play of deceit.
After a U.S.-based "critical infrastructure" company discovered in 2012 its computer systems were being accessed from China, its security personnel caught the culprit ultimately responsible: Not a hacker from the Middle Kingdom but one of the company's own employees sitting right at his desk in the United States.
The software developer is simply referred to as "Bob," according to a case study by the U.S. telecommunications firm Verizon Business.
Bob was an "inoffensive and quiet" programmer in his mid-40's, according to his employee profile, with "a relatively long tenure with the company" and "someone you wouldn't look at twice in an elevator."
Those innocuous traits led investigators to initially believe the computer access from China using Bob's credentials was unauthorized -- and that some form of malware was sidestepping strong two-factor authentication that included a token RSA key fob under Bob's name.
Investigators then discovered Bob had "physically FedExed his RSA token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday," wrote Andrew Valentine, a senior forensic investigator for Verizon.
Bob had hired a programming firm in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang to do his work. His helpers half a world away worked overnight on a schedule imitating an average 9-to-5 workday in the United States. He paid them one-fifth of his six-figure salary, according to Verizon.
And over the past several years, Bob received excellent performance reviews of his "clean, well written" coding. He had even been noted as "the best developer in the building."
A forensic image of Bob's workstation revealed his true work habits and typical day:
9:00 a.m. -- Get to work, surf Reddit, watch cat videos
11:30 a.m. -- Lunch
1:00 p.m. -- Ebay
2:00 p.m or so -- Facebook and LinkedIn
4:30 p.m. -- Send end-of-day e-mail update to management
5:00 p.m. -- Go home
The Verizon investigation suggested Bob's entrepreneurial outsourcing spirit stretched across several companies in his area -- netting him several hundred thousand dollars a year as he paid out about $50,000 a year to his China-based ghost writers, according to hundreds of PDF invoices also discovered on his work computer.
Verizon's Valentine told CNN via e-mail that Bob "was in fact terminated at the conclusion of the investigation."
Presumably Bob's Chinese helpers were as well.

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The College of Mount St. Joseph's nursing program received a 10-year accreditation for its baccalaureate and master's degree nursing programs from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). A 10-year accreditation is the maximum number of years that CCNE awards. CCNE is an independent accrediting agency that manages the accreditation of nursing colleges in the United States.
"This accreditation is significant because after a rigorous investigation, CCNE determined our bachelor's and master's degree programs in nursing meet the high-caliber criteria used to designate nursing schools," said Sue Johnson, dean of health sciences at the Mount. "Employers know a nursing degree from the Mount turns out top-notch nurses who become health care leaders in their specialties."
CCNE's report showed the Mount meets all four accreditation standards. The Mount's BSN program had a 95.45% pass rate on the NCLEX this year. The Masters Graduate Entry Level in Nursing (MAGELIN) program has a six-year NCLEX pass rate of 97.80%. The Mount's health sciences learning lab, which opened in May 2010, enables faculty to teach more real-life lessons to smaller groups, increasing the amount of hands-on learning. The lab includes a high fidelity simulation lab using SimMan 3G technology, an IV simulation room, a 12-bed station updated skills lab that mimics the hospital room of today.
"Nursing is a growing career field and a BSN offers many opportunities for career growth," Johnson said. "Nurses who receive a superior education and are career-ready by the time they graduate, are the gold standard for what employers like to find, and what patients expect for their care."
The Mount's nursing program continues to grow as well. The Mount now offers more graduate degrees for nurses including a master of science in nursing (MSN) with a nurse educator and administration track and a doctor of nursing practice (DNP) with an administration and advanced practice track. In addition, the Mount's successful RN-BSN program will begin to be offered in an online format in May 2013. The Mount is currently accepting applications for the MSN and DNP tracks for fall 2013.
The College of Mount St. Joseph is an undergraduate and graduate Catholic college that provides an interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional curriculum emphasizing values, service and social responsibility.


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Pandora, the popular online music streaming service, filed a 10-Q this morning describing in more detail how it's handling the massive influx of mobile advertising revenue it booked in Q2 2012.
The context here is that Pandora has still not figured out how to sell ads profitably, and the company has repeatedly posted net losses. Nonetheless, it is probably one of the five biggest mobile ad businesses in the U.S.
Pandora previously told investors that mobile ad revenue increased by 86% to $60 million in its fiscal Q2 2013. Total revenues were $101 million. Today, the company disclosed the downside of all that. Here's the summary:
- A 112% increase in the number of ads delivered.
- A decrease in the average price per ad of approximately 27%, due in part to the mobile ad mix.
- An increase in Pandora's sales force by approximately 80% year-over-year
In other words, Pandora hired more salespeople, and sold more ads—but at a huge discount from the prior year. It's incurring greater costs to make lower dollar sales.
All that explains what we told you on Aug. 30, which is that revenue per listener hour is in decline at Pandora. That's a crucial metric for the company, because every listener hour generates song royalty expenses that Pandora does not control.
As a result, Pandora has altered the language in the " Business Model" section of its 10-Q to warn that the ad revenues are not keeping up with the increased mobile listenership (see page 16):
… our content acquisition costs increase with each additional listener hour, regardless of whether we are able to generate more revenue. As such, our ability to achieve and sustain profitability and operating leverage depends on our ability to increase our revenue per hour of streaming through increased advertising sales across all of our delivery platforms. To date, we have not been able to generate additional revenue from our advertising products as rapidly as we have been able to grow our listener hours on mobile and other connected devices ...


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ARCLoad was built to load any Linux kernel on any SGI/ARCS machine. Therefore, it currently supports:
- SGI Indy
- SGI Origin
- SGI Indigo2 R10000
- SGI Octane
ARCLoad does not support any filesystems. Conversely, it can load the kernels (and also its configuration file) from any place the PROM can access. Therefore, kernels are not loadable from ext2 partitions; they are loadable from xfs/efs partitions on some machines; they are also loadable from the DVH (disk volume header). ARCLoad can also load kernels from a TFTP server, so a network-based install is possible.
Configuration file
The text configuration file is named 'arc.cf' and loaded from the place pointed to by the 'SystemPartition' environment variable. ARCLoad reads the file and executes it in order. The configuration file is structured into options that can be nested. Comments begin with a '#' and are discarded (duh).
An option looks like this:
feature1 feature2 { # code for any of the features }
The code inside the braces will be executed only if any of the features listed are found in the current feature set. Think of the option as an alternate syntax of a conditional statement. Therefore,
feature1 { feature2 { # code for both features } }
realizes an AND Boolean operator.
There are several statements allowed both inside the options and outside them. All statements are terminated with a semicolon (';'). They will be executed in-order. The list of valid statements is given below:
Performs hardware autodetection. The current feature set will be replaced with the autodetected one. Detected features include: software architecture (ip22, ip27, ip28, ip30, ip32), SMP-ness (smp, up), console type (serial, video), video resolution for graphics console (video=AAAxBBB) and CPU (r4000, r4600, r4700, r5000, rm5200, rm7000, r10000, r12000).
comment "Something to be displayed...\r\n";
Comments are displayed when the list option is given. They allow writing self-documenting ARCLoad configuration files.
description "Option description";
Descriptions are displayed with the names of respective options when the list option is given.
image "filename"; image system "/filename"; image absolute "filename";
Sets the kernel image to be loaded. If "filename" is empty (""), the option is deemed to be unsupported. The system option directs ARCLoad to prepend the contents of 'SystemPartition' to the filename, while the absolute option exists only for completeness as it is the same as default.
append "arg1" "arg2";
Appends arguments to the kernel command line.
options "arg1" "arg2";
Replaces the kernel command line with the given arguments.
If any kernel image is assigned during the configuration file parsing, ARCLoad will attempt to load the image. Otherwise, it will signal an error and return to the interactive PROM command line.
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ARCLoad can be found at Skylark's site. Building it requires only a single setting in the Makefile: the MODE. If it is set to M64, a 64-bit ARCLoad binary will be built (for ip27, ip28 and ip30). If it is set to M32, a 32-bit ARCLoad binary will be built (for ip22 and ip32). It is possible to place those binaries under the names of 'sash64' and 'sashARCS', respectively; in this case, it will be possible to use the Install New Software option in ARCS PROM to run the appropriate binary on any SGI machine.


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When Carlos Felipe decided to shop for the ultimate night's sleep, he headed to the New Jersey showroom of Hollandia, an Israeli manufacturer that creates custom beds running as much as $35,000. And sure enough, Felipe, a sales representative, found plenty of appealing features and options, from the adjustable bed frame powered by German-made motors to the hypoallergenic, antimicrobial latex mattress (the cover is "treated with aloe vera for a soft feel," Hollandia boasts). But the accessory that most caught Felipe's eye was designed to help him rest easy in a different way. It was a small safe, good for holding a few valuables or gold coins, ingeniously built into the base of a bed -- a modern-day answer to the idea of stashing your savings under a mattress. A duly impressed Felipe plans on using it to store his wife's jewelry and some extra cash: After all, he asks, what thief would look for such valuables in the frame of the bed itself?
In an era marked by financial turbulence, it's probably not surprising that safes have become a popular commodity, with some manufacturers, retailers and installers reporting sales increases of as much as 40 percent from a few years ago. But the bigger eyebrow-raiser is what has happened to those iconic gray-steel boxes of yore: They've undergone an extreme makeover -- or several of them. Taking the place of those old square combination jobs are a range of custom safes, from boutique showpieces to decoy models for the family den -- not to mention the truly offbeat (a hideaway lockbox resembling, ahem, a pair of men's underwear) and the seriously safe (an in-home vault with a price tag of more than $100,000). And that's not even getting into the ever-broadening array of color choices (champagne marble, anyone?) "None of our safes should be hidden in a closet," says Markus Dottling, principal at Dottling, a German specialty-safe manufacturer whose museum-worthy designs can cost more than the average American house.
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One thing that isn't driving the safe boom, apparently, is crime. Indeed, U.S. burglary rates have been plunging for years. Still, experts say that many savers and investors feel a lingering sense of insecurity in their finances -- a hard-to-shake fear borne out of the jolting recession and, at times, wobbly recovery -- which is helping to spur the new safeguarding mentality. Tyler D. Nunnally, founder and CEO of Upside Risk, an Atlanta firm that researches investor psychology, says sticking tangible assets in a safe can be a natural reaction to volatility in the markets. "People dislike loss twice as much as they like gains," he says. "They want to protect what they have." Growing numbers of these fearful types simply don't trust their banks to protect them: In a Gallup poll last year, a record-high 36 percent of Americans said they had "very little" or "no" confidence in U.S. banks. (In 2008 and 2009, when the financial crisis was peaking, that figure stood at 22 and 29 percent, respectively.) And growing concern about identity theft has made some people more eager to keep their assets in a form they can see and count, says R. Brent Lang, an investment manager in Surrey, British Columbia: "By acquiring one password, someone can wipe out all your digital wealth," he says.
Still, it says something about the resilience of the American consumer's mentality that even when purchasing an item associated with all sorts of negatives (theft, fire, global economic collapse), more buyers are demanding products with a little flair. "When somebody is building a $100,000 custom closet, they don't want a safe that looks like it belongs in the back of a delicatessen," says Robert Tompkin, president of Prestige Safe, a high-end New York manufacturer. That sentiment has fed the growth of an incongruous industry, where financial paranoia meets a willingness to pursue a little luxury. When firearms collector Gary Hansen looked for a safe to store his $100,000 trove of rifles and pistols, he found out he could customize the interior so that his wife could also use it to store her jewelry -- in velour-covered drawers, no less. The cost? Around $7,500, but Hansen says the his-and-hers combo saved him from a lot of squabbling. "I knew it couldn't just be a safe for 'Gary's guns,'" he says.
If there's an irony to this safety seeking, it's that the trend makes the stewards of most people's money -- their financial advisers -- throw up their hands in frustration. "It's all based on fear and the failure to look long-term," says Mark Matson, founder and chief executive of the Cincinnati investment firm that bears his name. Matson and others find themselves stating the obvious: You can't earn anything on a $100 bill that's sitting in storage. Even advisers who are bullish on gold generally don't like bullion or jewelry because it represents the commodity in its most illiquid form; it will take at least a trip or two to the local pawnshop or jeweler to cash in those coins and bracelets. Finally, when you put your savings in a safe, you can forget about collecting insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. if it actually does get stolen.
The safe industry doesn't take exception to arguments like these -- but theirs is not to question the logic of their growing customer base. For the market in general, the sweet spot remains what you find at the local Home Depot or Wal-Mart: plain combo-lock safes that sell for as little as $50. But even in this broader segment, there's room for innovation and styling. For example, SentrySafe, the nation's category leader, has rolled out a line of pink safes in support of breast-cancer research. The company has just come off the best year in its eight-decade history, with the help of products like these and customers like Jessica Savage, an advertising executive in Rochester, N.Y. Last November, Savage bought two of the pink safes at a charity event. Her 5- and 6-year-old daughters are fanatical about the color, she explains, and she thought the safes would be a good place to store the girls' papers, such as birth certificates and passports, along with keepsakes. "I call them treasure boxes," she says.
The more valuable the treasure, the more complicated the box. For Richard Krasilovsky, owner of Empire Safe, a New York retailer that's been in business for more than a century, that means an emphasis on customization: A safe can be designed to fit into any space -- beneath a staircase, inside a closet -- with appropriate finishes and fronts (say, European ash burl wood), and interiors can be crafted to suit the needs of the buyer. There's also a steady market for James Bond worthy "diversion" or "decoy" safes -- like those fronted by bookcases or curio cabinets. Customization has its costs, certainly. Krasilovsky says a job can run $3,000 and up -- way up, especially for the small coterie of customers who want a safe that can stand front and center as an objet d'art. Need a secure place to store your cigars? Dottling, the German manufacturer, suggests its $23,000 Colosimo safe, a tabletop model that's billed as "the smallest high-security safe in the world." "It's a toy for big boys," says owner Markus Dottling.
Pessimists like precious metals collector Don Magnus, though, aren't looking for toys; they want their safes to be simple, bulky and Armageddon-ready. "I'm worried about the banks crashing," says Magnus, who's keeping his stash of gold and silver bullion in a $200 home safe, bolted to the concrete floor of his basement. By his estimate, gold will climb to $5,000 an ounce, and in a financial panic, consumers won't get access to their bank accounts for a "long period of time, if ever." After a nasty one-two punch in recent years -- a bad hurricane near his home, then the financial crisis -- North Carolina contractor Pat Brabble spent $9,500 on two plain but very large safes, including one "you could fit five people in," he says. The safes hold gold, silver and cash totaling about $7,000 in value, Brabble says. He's also holding on to about 50 bottles of Jack Daniels. "I don't drink," he says, but "if things do fall apart, I've got something I can trade with."
For their part, security experts say that a more expensive or elaborate safe is not necessarily a safer safe. Most take a dim view when it comes to "diversion" concepts, because they often rely more on trickery than on, say, state-of-the-art locks. "You don't replace security by obscurity," says Christopher Falkenberg, president of Insite Advanced Security Management in New York. Antique safes -- a hot-selling category -- pose a different issue in that they tend to be built less sturdily than high-end safes today. Guy Zani Jr., an antique safe collector and dealer in New Port Richey, Fla., who owns about 100 safes, notes that some highly prized 19th-century safes are made with wood. "You could take a fire ax and go right through the side," he says.
But modern safes have their own issues as well: For example, custom or other small-production safes often reach the market without undergoing the rigorous testing for theft and fire common to off-the-shelf models. At the same time, ratings pose other problems. Retailers say they confuse many buyers, who fail to understand that just because a safe is rated for fire, it doesn't mean it's theft-proof, and vice versa. Underwriters Laboratories, a certification group that rates safes for fire and theft protection, agrees there's a degree of misunderstanding: "People think a safe is a safe," says John Drengenberg, the group's consumer-safety director. And even a top-rated safe isn't impenetrable. As the ratings imply, all a better safe does is buy more time -- whether it's time in a fire or time at the mercy of a burglar with a crowbar.
That said, the pros in the field generally agree that you're better off safe than sorry -- and that many folks are more likely to use a safe if it's attractive. Which is precisely the way Zani, the safe collector and dealer, feels about the vault in which he stores his "mad money" (about equal to a house payment or two). It's a safe he considers a true work of art: an 1867 model with a hand-painted exterior covered in 22-karat gold leaf. Zani estimates the safe is worth $10,000. But it's also a mini-fortress, protecting his stuff behind nine layers of steel plate. (The door alone weighs 500 pounds.) "It's the difference," he says, "between buying a Lexus and buying a Dodge Dart."


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The web is often blamed for the prevailing language decay and plagiarism we see today. Thanks to Facebook, and Twitter, internet slang usage is on the rise. People write "dnt" instead of "don't" and "wer" instead "where" thinking "tat tey r" saving their valuable time. Most of us utterly disregard punctuation and proper verbiage.
Hank Moody, once rightly quipped,
Internet is a medium for a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with other bunch of stupid people with a pseudo language which is much worse than what the Caveman used to speak.
I once worked with a guy who wrote, "I hv wrked on…" on his official resume. This got me to into thinking, are we truly addicted to the Internet slang that we can't keep it out of our professional lives anymore? I was looking for a way out, and then I stumbled upon Grammarly. It promises to save us out of this misery. Can that even be possible? That is exactly what we are going to find out today.


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Governor Daugaard Signs Bill Deleting Offensive Terms
PIERRE - South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed a bill updating language in state laws referring to people with intellectual disabilities.
The governor says the bill eliminates outdated and offensive references in state law such as "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded."
When the law takes effect July 1, new language will use terms such as "intellectual disability" and "individual with an intellectual disability."
Daugaard says South Dakota needs to join a nationwide movement to promote respectful language. He says the bill promotes the dignity and humanity of South Dakotans with intellectual disabilities.
State Human Services Secretary Laurie Gill says changing offensive language in state law is a major step toward honoring the dignity of people with intellectual disabilities.
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This has got nothing to do with make up, but I was very shocked to hear about the death of Heath Ledger, at a very untimely 28 years old. As of yet there is no official reason for his death.
It was with his performance in Brokeback Mountain that I became a real fan of his; he was masculine but sensitive, cool but emotional in his performance. I was looking forward to seeing him as the joker in the upcoming Batman film too…
I can't imagine how his parents are feeling, not to mention his ex, Actress Michelle Williams and his two year old daughter, Matilda Rose.
RIP Heath.


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Re: Boba Fett vs Superman
Superman is nigh-invincible. I don't know how easy it would be for Boba to get Kryptonite.
Actually it couldn't be that hard, I mean they did just find a mineral somewhre on Earth with the same chemical composition as kryptonite. I don't remember all the facts, but its out there, just google it.
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South Dakota Senate Endorses Needs-based Scholarship Plan
PIERRE - The South Dakota Senate has endorsed a plan to create a new scholarship program that would award money based on students' financial needs.
The Senate voted unanimously to keep the idea alive by sending a bill to the House of Representatives.
The bill originally provided that $5 million would be placed in a trust fund so interest earnings could support scholarships. The bill has been changed to spend only $1, with the idea that money will be added once the Legislature decides how much money is available.
The bill's main sponsor, Senate Republican Leader Russell Olson of Wentworth, says South Dakota is the only state without a scholarship program based on financial need.
He says state money would be added to private donations and university funding to pay for scholarships.
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VATICAN CITY — Here is the Vatican text of Pope Benedict XVI's remarks during a visit with religious leaders of Galilee in the auditorium of the Basilica of the Annunciation:
Dear Friends,
Grateful for the words of welcome offered by Bishop Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo and for your warm reception, I cordially greet the leaders of different communities present, including Christians, Muslims, Jews, Druze and other religious peoples. This encounter provides me the opportunity to thank personally members of the Druze community for kindly desiring to take part in the funeral of my predecessor Pope John Paul II, whose visit to this region in 2000 stands as a testimony to our enduring desire to strengthen friendship between Druze, Catholics and people of all religions in Galilee.
I feel particularly blessed to visit this city revered by Christians as the place where the Angel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit. Here too Joseph, her betrothed, saw the Angel in a dream and was directed to name the child "Jesus". After the marvelous events surrounding his birth, the child was brought to this city by Joseph and Mary where he "grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him" (Lk 2:40).
The conviction that the world is a gift of God, and that God has entered the twists and turns of human history, is the perspective from which Christians view creation as having a reason and a purpose. Far from being the result of blind fate, the world has been willed by God and bespeaks his glorious splendor.
At the heart of all religious traditions is the conviction that peace itself is a gift from God, yet it cannot be achieved without human endeavor. Lasting peace flows from the recognition that the world is ultimately not our own, but rather the horizon within which we are invited to participate in God's love and cooperate in guiding the world and history under his inspiration. We cannot do whatever we please with the world; rather, we are called to conform our choices to the subtle yet nonetheless perceptible laws inscribed by the Creator upon the universe and pattern our actions after the divine goodness that pervades the created realm.
Galilee, a land known for its religious and ethnic diversity, is home to a people who know well the efforts required to live in harmonious coexistence. Our different religious traditions have a powerful potential to promote a culture of peace, especially through teaching and preaching the deeper spiritual values of our common humanity. By molding the hearts of the young, we mold the future of humanity itself. Christians readily join Jews, Muslims, Druze, and people of other religions in wishing to safeguard children from fanaticism and violence while preparing them to be builders of a better world.
My dear friends, I know that you accept cheerfully and with a greeting of peace the many pilgrims who flock to Galilee. I encourage you to continue exercising mutual respect as you work to ease tensions concerning places of worship, thus assuring a serene environment for prayer and reflection here and throughout Galilee. Representing different religious traditions, you share a desire to contribute to the betterment of society and thus testify to the religious and spiritual values that help sustain public life. I assure you that the Catholic Church is committed to join in this noble undertaking. In cooperation with men and women of good will, she will seek to ensure that the light of truth, peace and goodness continue to shine forth from Galilee and lead people across the globe to seek all that fosters the unity of the human family. God bless you all.
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Governor Dannel P. Malloy today submitted a request for a presidential emergency
declaration in the wake of Friday's historic winter storm.
"As we
continue with the recovery from this historic winter storm, I am asking the
federal government to provide us assistance with this process," said Governor
Malloy. "If granted, this declaration would provide much needed help to our
If granted, the emergency declaration will provide for direct
federal assistance, including possible snow removal equipment and personnel,
power generation, and other commodities. An emergency declaration does not
provide federal disaster funding. Because it appears that most if not all
counties have received record or near record snowfall, it is anticipated that a
preliminary damage assessment will be conducted to determine if those counties
are eligible for a major disaster declaration.


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Model: Getzen 3850
Finish: Lacquer
Mouthpieces: Sparx 2C
Build Quality / DesignLike the Mike Vax series trumpet, the quality and fit and finish of this cornet is beautiful. I tried a silver plated version, but ended up going with the lacquer finish version, with the copper bell. The copper bell is a beautiful contrast to the lacquer and nickel finish. The style reminds me of my Getzen Copra Temp super deluxe from the 1960s. Unlike the Mike Vax, it does have amado water keys, and has an extra one in the last turn before entering the 3rd valve. Slides are awesome as smooth as always. The first and third triggers help on intonation and are very easy and comfortable. Again, tried a few different professional cornets, and this cornet plays better than some of the more expensive shepherd crook cornets out there. (Besson, Schilke, Bach, Kanstul) A great performer at a great price. Getzen case is good, but kind of has a tight fit when the cornet is inside. Makes me think if the latch failed it would pop right open. Im figuring that over time the inside of the case will compress down a little.
Intonation /Tone / Sound
I tried out the Lacquer, Silver plated versions. I ended up with the Lacquer version, as I though it had the "darkest" tone on any of the two I played. Might just be physcialogical, but it does seem to sound darker to me. Have now played a few concerts with this horn, and really like the dark sound in Sousa/Clarke type arrangements. I did try a few different mouthpieces with it, and ended up with my Sparx 2 mouthpiece to get the fullest sound with this cornet. A very full sound, and very classic cornet sound at least for me.
A 9.0 out of 10. Would have a perfect 10, except for the valve issue that I had due to the red rouge gunk in the horn that my local store fixed. Overall, this was the fullest sounding cornet that I was able to find during my searching over the past 2 months. Intonation is very good in all registers when not the 1st and 3rd valve triggers take care of that. As I stated in my other review of my Mike Vax trumpet, this further reinforces my belief in sticking with a great horn manufacturer. As other US horn makers go to China (over there striking work force) it keeps reminding me to deal with a small, family owned and operated business. Finally, this was a great early Fathers Day present, but now my wife (also a trumpet player) now wants to use it in the same concert. Imagine having to switch horns with your wife during a concert
Finally, dont think this horn is outrageously expensive. Do yourself a favor and call around to find the pricing on this cornet. It was not nearly as expensive as I thought it would have been.
I would recommend anyone looking for a new cornet, try this one out.
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Being able to trace a family's locations helps one to find additional records in a location one might not have already considered. For instance, I was always told that my dad's maternal uncle, Bill Mertena, and wife and children moved from Lake Charles, Louisiana, to Washington well before I was born. I knew that he lived in Olympia, Washington, when I was a teenager and up until the time he died in 2001. However, I did not know that in between Lake Charles and Olympia he had actually lived in Seattle, and possibly Spokane, as well. I was reading his obituary and read that he had worked for the Associated Press in Spokane, Seattle, and Olympia between 1963 and 1987. I then found a birth announcement for his youngest daughter in the Seattle Daily Times at GenealogyBank, which gave his address in Seattle in 1966.
So what exactly is my problem? Well, some sources, such as a city directory or the birth announcement, list an exact street address. Some sources, such as a sibling's obituary, list only a city and state as the residence, and some only list the state as a residence. If the source does not specifically give the street address of the residence, but other sources in the same timeframe do, can I use the source that does not give the address as a citation for the residence fact that includes the street address? In other words, can I create a residence fact that states "Person A lived at 123 Main St. in Seattle, Washington" and cite the 1930 and 1935 city directories giving the address, as well as the person's sibling's obituary from 1933, which lists the residence only as Seattle, Washington?
I think it is reasonable to think that if the person lived there in 1930 and 1935, then surely he lived in the same house when his sibling died in 1933. However, we don't know for certain, because there is always a chance that the husband and wife had separated and maybe were living apart temporarily, or that the family owned multiple houses that they moved between frequently.
Currently, this is what I have as residence facts and source citations in my RM database for Uncle Bill (as both of his spouses are still living, their names have been removed to protect privacy):
1956: 102 East Beech St, Sulphur, Calcasieu, Louisiana (Source: Lake Charles City Directory) (This was the home of his parents)
1957: Westfork Rd., Westlake, Calcasieu, Louisiana (Source: Lake Charles City Directory)
1958: 102 East Beech St, Sulphur, Calcasieu, Louisiana (Source: Lake Charles City Directory)
1959-60: 914 S. Division St., Lake Charles, Calcasieu, Louisiana (Source: Lake Charles City Directory)
1963-2001: Washington (Sources: 1) 2001 obituary published in The Olympian, which listed three cities of residence in Washington from 1963 until 1987; and 2) his brother Tony's obituary published in the Lake Charles American Press in 1998, which listed his residence simply as Washington state)
Jan 1966: 637 N.W. 84th St, Seattle, Washington (source: daughter's birth announcement published in the Seattle Daily Times)
1967-2001: Thurston County, Washington (Sources: 1) Death certificate listing his length of stay in Thurston County as 34 years; 2) His mother's obituary published in the Lake Charles American Press in 1986, which specifically lists his residence as Olympia; and 3) His father's obituary published in the Lake Charles American Press in 1989, which specifically lists his residence as Olympia)
Oct 1986: 113 E. 18th, Olympia, Thurston, Washington (Source: Divorce certificate)
Oct 2001: 4931 Sunrise Beach Rd. NW, Olympia, Thurston, Washington (source: Death certificate)
It looks like I have been using separate facts to cite each event more precisely, but that causes a little bit of clogging on the Edit Person screen and Individual Report. As you can see, lots of these dates overlap with other dates. Hmm...what to do?
I think the facts for 1957-1960 are fine, since there is a one-to-one correlation between the fact and the source. Each source lists the exact street address. When we get to 1963, it gets a bit more complicated. We know from his obituary that he worked for the Associated Press in Spokane, Seattle, and Olympia from 1963-1987. However, we don't know exactly what years he lived in each city. He likely moved to Olympia around 1967 and stayed there until his death, according to the death certificate. This means that he likely lived in Seattle and Spokane between 1963 and 1966. We know he lived in Seattle in January 1966 when his daughter was born.
One option would be to delete the facts that do not list specific addresses, but then we lose a lot of quality information that may get buried in the source documents. It's good information to know that he moved to Washington in 1963. It's also good information to know that he moved to Thurston County around 1967. It's good information because it helps narrow down the search for other types of sources, such as vital records, newspapers, city directories, church records, etc. My plan is to delete the fact types for the general residences, but then put the information about dates moved to Washington and specifically to Thurston County in the Notes section of the fact types listing specific addresses.
This is what I have added to the notes of the residence fact from January 1966:
His obituary states, "From 1963 to 1987 he wrote for the Associated Press in Spokane, Seattle, and Olympia, with most of that time spent reporting from Olympia on state government." This means that he likely moved to Washington in 1963. It is not clear exactly what city he moved to in 1963. His daughter's birth announcement states that he lived in Seattle in January 1966.This is what I have added to the notes of the residence fact from Oct 2001:
His death certificate lists his length of stay in Thurston County as 34 years, which would suggest that he moved there in 1967. This makes sense, as his son's marriage license lists his birthplace as Olympia, Thurston, Washington. His son was born in March 1967. His daughter's birth announcement published in the Seattle Daily Times in January 1966 lists his residence as Seattle. Therefore, it makes sense that he moved to Olympia sometime between his daughter's birth in 1966 and his son's birth in 1967. His divorce certificate from 1986 lists his residence as Olympia, as do both his parents' obituaries from 1986 and 1989. His brother's obituary from 1998 lists his residence only as Washington state, though it is likely that he lived in Olympia, since he still lived there at the time of his death in 2001.I think this will work for me for now, but I am open to other suggestions. Please let me know if you have any ideas!!!


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Paul Krugman notes Ireland is still "hailed as a success" (right up there with Latvia), when there was never anything about in Ireland's austerity policies — or the whole Eurozone embrace of austerity — that anyone could truly call successful. Not with a straight face, anyway. And, from the perspective of a Keynesian like Krugman, it's true. Compared to, say, Iceland, austerity in Ireland looks like a catastrophic failure.
But when it comes to austerity, "success" is totally in the eye of the beholder.
Look at Ireland through the eyes of an austerity hawk. Then you'll see the kind of success that gives people like the folks at the Heritage Foundation a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Keep in mind where austerity has brought Ireland thus far.
I keep an eye on news about Ireland's economy, because it's regularly held up as an example we should follow here. At least in the headlines. Read a bit deeper, and it's a different story. Take, for example, a recent New York Times article about Ireland and austerity.
In my browser, the header for the NYT article blares, "Ireland's Austerity Hailed As Example of Financial Survival." The headline tells a somewhat different story: "In Ireland, Austerity Is Praised but Painful." Deeper into the article lies the truth: Ireland's austerity is praised, painful, and not working.
… Ireland may be "playing a good-boy role and not making noises like the Greeks," but it hasn't been rewarded with anything resembling a recovery. In consumer-driven economy, a 3.8 percent drop in retail sales — even on basic goods, like textbooks, shoes, clothing, etc. — does not a recovery make. If anything, Ireland's working- and middle classes are being squeezed even tighter. One nursing assistant whose salary has been cut told the reporter "a lot of people are just trying to get by week to week."
And the result? There have been signs of improvement, but not enough to solve Ireland's problems through austerity alone. The problems that led Ireland to seek a bailout haven't gotten noticeably better. Growth forecasts for 2012 have been cut in half, to less than 1 percent, in part because of the austerity policies, which the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin called "reminiscent of policy during the Great Depression, when a mounting crisis was confronted by an orthodoxy that resulted in great poverty that could have been avoided."
It's not going to get any better, because austerity is also costing Ireland a generation's worth of "brain drain." The article says 40,000 have fled the country for better futures elsewhere. That exodus of mostly students and construction workers in 2008 may have kept unemployment in Ireland lower than it has been. But now, the article says, high-skilled professionals are pulling up stakes and leaving the country, taking their families with them.
Think about that. Instead of "playing the good-boy role" and bearing the burden of the bailout as demanded of them, Ireland's working- and middle-classes are getting while the getting's good — taking their earning power and revenue-generating potential with them. So, Ireland's austerity policies have effectively reduced its best hope for increased revenues and recovery: Irish people who are working, buying goods and services, and paying taxes.
Now, to people like Krugman and myself, this sounds like a nightmare. This is not an economy that's turning a corner, so much as an economy that's circling the bowl.
As Krugman said in his post, this is like calling Latvia a success. And it is, depending — once again — on how you look at it. That last link leads to a Naked Capitalism post to which Krugman linked, which explains how Latvia and other Baltic states have "discovered a new way to cut unemployment and cut budgets for social services": make conditions miserable enough that people of working age decide to get the hell out of Dodge. Ireland's already headed in that direction, so if Latvia's a success then Ireland is well on its way to becoming the next global economic success story.
So, then, what does that make Iceland? Krugman posted a chart last week comparing Latvia's real GDP to Iceland, and pointed out the 24 point spread between the two. Why such a big difference? Krugman explained what the austerity doctrine sweeping Europe, and threatening own economy, requires.
But it's worth stepping back to look at the larger picture, namely the abject failure of an economic doctrine — a doctrine that has inflicted huge damage both in Europe and in the United States.
The doctrine in question amounts to the assertion that, in the aftermath of a financial crisis, banks must be bailed out but the general public must pay the price. So a crisis brought on by deregulation becomes a reason to move even further to the right; a time of mass unemployment, instead of spurring public efforts to create jobs, becomes an era of austerity, in which government spending and social programs are slashed.
This doctrine was sold both with claims that there was no alternative — that both bailouts and spending cuts were necessary to satisfy financial markets — and with claims that fiscal austerity would actually create jobs. The idea was that spending cuts would make consumers and businesses more confident. And this confidence would supposedly stimulate private spending, more than offsetting the depressing effects of government cutbacks.
We've already seen what the austerity doctrine has done for Ireland. Iceland, as Birgitta Jónsdóttir explained, went another route.
If the 99% want to reclaim our power, our societies, we have to start somewhere. An important first step is to sever the ties between the corporations and the state by making the process of lawmaking more transparent and accessible for everyone who cares to know or contribute. We have to know what is in that law sausage; the monopoly of the corporate lobbyist has to end – especially when it comes to laws regulating banking and the internet.
The Icelandic nation only consists 311,000 souls, so we have a relatively small bureaucratic body and can move quicker then in most countries. Many have seen Iceland as the ideal country for experimentation for new solutions in an era of transformation. I agree.
We had the first revolution after the financial troubles in 2008. Due to a lack of transparency, corruption and nepotism, Iceland had the third largest financial meltdown in human history, and it shook us profoundly. The Icelandic people realized that everything we had put our trust in had failed us. One of the demands during the protests that followed – and that resulted in getting rid of the government, the central bank manager and the head of the financial authority – was that we would get to rewrite our constitution. "We" meaning the 99%, not the politicians who had failed us. Another demand was that we should have real democratic tools, such as being able to call directly for a national referendum and dissolve parliament.
The result Krugman explained, was that Iceland managed to "limit the rise in unemployment and the suffering of the most vulnerable," and survived with its social contract intact, because it let the banks go bust and bailed out its citizens. How are Latvia and Ireland "successful" compared to this? It depends on how you define success. As I wrote last summer, every time I hear Ireland's austerity called "successful" I'm reminded of when George W. Bush called the Iraq war a "catastrophic success."
The current economic crisis may be a result of conservative failure, with catastrophic results that have impacted most Americans in one way or another. But I think there's a better way to describe it, by borrowing phrases from a former president and best-selling author: What's happening in Ireland and here in America is really a "catastrophic success" for something called "Disaster Capitalism."
… Catastrophic success isn't necessarily concerned with executing a planned destruction of a system. It can refer to the successful exploitation of a crisis or catastrophic event — engineered or otherwise — to achieve a particular end. The destruction may be engineered, but it may just as easily be the result other actions or conditions, and even natural disasters.
Catastrophic success is, in a sense, what happens when the total failure of a system in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs, is the desired goal. That pretty clearly defines what's happening in Ireland right now — the total collapse of an economic system, in which many Irish citizens are experiencing total and irrecoverable loss. That pretty clearly defines where we're headed if our political leaders don't act to reverse current trends.
Total destruction of a system, including the people's level of trust in the system, is a success if the destruction is exploited to achieve desired end — in this case, a restructuring of the economy to the disadvantage of the working- and middle-classes, widening economic disparities and further concentrating wealth into the hands of a narrow few. The result is precisely the "ruthlessly divided world" Klein describes, with its "unapologetic partition between the included and the excluded, the protected and the damned."
"Success" for Austerity measures like those enforced in Ireland, and those conservatives want to inflict on Americans, isn't measured the way we might think. Austerity's "success" isn't measured by how much it grows the economy or lowers unemployment, or how much relief it offers to middle- and working-class families.
Austerity isn't supposed to work for the middle- and working-class. Austerity isn't supposed to work for the 99%. Austerity, if it works as the people who designed it intend, is supposed to fail the 99%. It's "success" is measured by that failure.
The current fad is to declare that austerity, in the form of slashed budgets, slashed jobs, a slashed tax based and so on will magically produce the opposite of all those things, as wealthy benefactors rush in to spend all the new money you have given them, create jobs creating new products nobody can afford to buy, and, I don't know, start rebuilding infrastructure out of the goodness of their hearts. It is never clear, and nor is it honest: it is predicated on the danger of the Scary Deficit Monster, who was not at all scary during the time he was being fed by these same politicians and think-tank prophets, but who, like any false god, just happens to hate all the same things that his worshippers do.
In this case, the Scary Deficit Monster hates helping unemployed people, hates regulations (regardless of whether or not they save money), hates government in every form save the military, and especially hates it when well-off citizens are asked to pay the same rates they did a few decades ago, back during the dark, nearly apocalyptic 1980s or 1990s. That is damn nuanced policy for a mindless, frothing Deficit Monster, but it is consistent: the Deficit Monster hates anything Democrats might want and just happens to love all the ideas of the Heritage Foundation, etc., etc. And why not? Even a Deficit Monster ought to love its mother.
By that measure, Ireland is a success, and Iceland is a failure. As for the U.S., if the jury is still out, it's because of global movements that are determined to resist austerity's catastrophic success.
On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: "We exist!" Taking into account the comments of statesmen, scientists, politicians, military officials, bankers, artists, all the important and attended to figures on this planet, nothing caught the year more strikingly than those two words shouted by massed Russian demonstrators.
… And who could blame them for shouting it? Or for the wonder? How miraculous it was. Yet another country long immersed in a kind of popular silence suddenly finds voice, and the demonstrators promptly declare themselves not about to leave the stage when the day — and the demonstration — ends. Who guessed beforehand that perhaps 50,000 Muscovites would turn out to protest a rigged electoral process in a suddenly restive country, along with crowds in St. Petersburg, Tomsk, and elsewhere from the south to Siberia?
In Tahrir Square in Cairo, they swore: "This time we're here to stay!" Everywhere this year, it seemed that they — "we" — were here to stay. In New York City, when forced out of Zuccotti Park by the police, protesters returned carrying signs that said, "You cannot evict an idea whose time has come."
And so it seems, globally speaking. Tunis, Cairo, Madrid, Madison, New York, Santiago, Homs. So many cities, towns, places. London, Sana'a, Athens, Oakland, Berlin, Rabat, Boston, Vancouver… it could take your breath away. And as for the places that aren't yet bubbling — Japan, China, and elsewhere — watch out in 2012 because, let's face it, "we exist."
Everywhere, the "we" couldn't be broader, often remarkably, even strategically, ill defined: 99% of humanity containing so many potentially conflicting strains of thought and being: liberals and fundamentalists, left-wing radicals and right-wing nationalists, the middle class and the dismally poor, pensioners and high-school students. But the "we" couldn't be more real.
This "we" is something that hasn't been seen on this planet for a long time, and perhaps never quite so globally. And here's what should take your breath away, and that of the other 1%, too: "we" were never supposed to exist. Everyone, even we, counted us out.
Austerity's "catastrophic success" can still be turned round, as long as there's still a "we" to speak of.


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Dogma (sometimes plural, dogmas) is a set of central religious beliefs, whether written as divine doctrine or not, that are typically held to be beyond question. In rare cases the term dogma may also apply to ideology or simply philosophy. The term dogmatic is often used to describe those who oppose rational argument, and who hold a very fundamental set of beliefs based on their religion.
Central dogma by religion[edit]
- Islam — Qur'an
- Judaism — Torah
- Christianity — Bible
- Wicca — The Wiccan Rede and Rule of Three
- Hinduism — no central dogma
- Shintoism — no central dogma
- Pastafarianism — The 8 "I'd really rather you didn'ts" (satirical)


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- 50 days after Easter
- Greek: pentecostes, fiftieth
- Birthday of the Church
- Pascha rosatum
- Pascha rossa
- Pfingsten
- White Sunday
- Whitsunday
Feast which commemorates the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, and takes its name from the fact that it comes nearly fifty days after Easter. It was a Jewish festival, and has been observed in the Christian Church since the days of the Apostles. It is often called Whitsunday (White Sunday) from the practice of giving solemn Baptism on that day in early centuries, the candidates being attired in white baptismal robes.
- "Pentecost". CatholicSaints.Info. 8 September 2018. Web. 16 June 2019. <>


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[Editor's note: this is a follow up to our breaking news story on the B.C. government's Jumbo Mountain Resort Municipality announcement on Nov. 20.]
Reaction to the B.C. Government decision to create a Mountain Resort Municipality for the controversial Jumbo Glacier Resort was swift, with criticism coming in from numerous directions moments after the B.C. Liberal government announced the decision.
Norm Macdonald (NDP), the MLA for Columbia River-Revelstoke, where Jumbo is located, characterized the announcement as a "giveaway of public lands in the Kootenays." He noted the BC Liberals were making the decision just six months before a general election.
He pointed to opposition from the Union of British Columbia Municipalities, who in September of this year opposed an amendment made to the Local Government Act earlier in the year that allowed the government to create the Jumbo Mountain Resort Municipality.
"I've not spoken to anyone outside the BC Liberal party who thinks that this legislation makes sense," Macdonald said. "To create a town where there are no residents, to appoint a council that may never face election, and do this with no real possibility that a resort will be built is ridiculous. But a small group of Jumbo supporters are getting their way on this one: transferring control of public lands into private hands.
"One has to ask why the BC Liberals would press forward with this designation at this time. This resort will never be built, and after more than a decade, the developer has not been able to find an investor," Macdonald continued. "It's a shocking mismanagement of the powers that have been vested in this government and is indicative of just how far this government has strayed. There is no one that can say this move today is in the public interest. It's a tremendous abuse of power that voters in this area will reject."
He said the resort does not make economic or environmental sense and noted opposition from the Ktunaxa First Nation, who announced plans to apply for a judicial review of the decision to approve Jumbo Glacier Resort.
The Ktunaxa plan to file the review in the B.C. Supreme Court in Cranbrook on Nov. 30. "Ktunaxa have been on record as being opposed to this resort since it was first proposed, principally on the spiritual importance of the Qat'muk area for Ktunaxa people, as well as the concerns for the protection of wildlife populations, biodiversity and water quality."
East Kootenay environmental organization Wildsight also panned the move. "This decision flies in the face of democratic land-use decisions, overwhelming public opposition, grizzly bear science, First Nations spiritual claims and opposition from the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM)," said Wildsight program manager Robyn Duncan.
"Land-use decisions should be made locally," she said. "This process is an end-run around the local democratic process and it ignores the advice of the government's own grizzly bear biologists, who have said that the Jumbo Glacier Resort would threaten the viability of grizzly bears in the Purcell Mountains."
In a Nov. 20 press conference, Minister Bennett said the province would spend $260,000 in 2013 on the resort municipality, including salaries. He avoided direct questions about other expenses that provincial taxpayers would bear for the municipality, saying it was a good investment. "This is not unusual for a province to assist a new municipality in its first year," he said. "At end of 2013 we'll take a look at where the resort is at and we'll make a determination about whether there are sufficient funds for the mayor and council to continue with its work and we'll make a decision then. I'm not going to preclude additional funding from the ministry."
Bennett announced the mayor of the municipality would be Greg Deck, and councillors are Nancy Hugunin and Steve Ostrander. Hugunin is a well-known local entrepreneur, mother and grandmother, and serves as the Kootenay Regional Chairperson for the BC Ski Association. Ostrander, a retired professional forester, is currently a director for the Columbia Valley Food Bank, the Lake Windermere District Lions Club and the Columbia Headwaters Community Forest Initiative.
Bennett was hopeful the new, three-person council would be successful. "We'll keep a watch over how they do business. I've got a lot of faith in all three of them," he said. "Towards the end of 2013 we'll make a decision as to whether or not we're going to re-appoint the current mayor and council or whether we're going to appoint somebody else."
He said the letters patent for the municipality say the town must have an property assessment roll of $30 million before an election – or by 2017, depending on what comes first.
"We believe this is the right thing to do for British Columbia," Bennett said. "The news here is that we have an opportunity to have a ski resort created in British Columbia that will be unparalleled anywhere in North America. Guaranteed snow at Christmas. What other ski resort in North America can say that? Guaranteed natural snow at Christmas time. Five large glaciers to ski on. There is no ski resort like this in North America. This can be a game changer for us."


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Fed tapering intentions muddy USDGBP outlook
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has a problem. He wants to talk interest rates into staying at low levels, but is doing so against a backdrop of the US Federal Reserve quantitative easing tapering intentions. If he really is committed to this course of action it may mean having to take actions that will be bearish for GBPUSD.
Mark Carney's big idea for the Bank of England's monetary policy is to offer forward guidance on interest rates giving businesses and households an assurance that the cost of money will remain low for years. This is designed to give those sectors more confidence to invest and therefore stimulate economic activity.
But it hasn't worked so far. UK government bond yields have instead taken their cue from US Treasuries, which have been rising on the prospect of the US Federal Reserve slowly withdrawing its $85 billion a month bond buying programme.
GBPUSD support zones around 1.5400. Resistance clustered around 1.5700
UK monetary policy finely balanced
The UK economy has had a few good months and if the recovery is sustainable then it may be able to absorb higher 'real' interest rates and therefore no intervention might be needed from the Bank of England. For GBPUSD that's a neutral to bullish scenario.
On the other hand if the recovery turns out to be little more than a mirage, and the Fed does go ahead with tapering, then the Bank of England will have to do more than just talking, it will have to act. Under those circumstances it is likely to unleash more quantitative easing to drive down bond yields, which influences the cost of credit to the rest of the economy.
The next few months will be crucial for GBPUSD as it becomes evident whether or not the UK's economic recovery is sustained and ditto the US one, which will dictate if Fed tapering goes ahead or not.
The other issue for GBPUSD is Carney himself. He's new and the forex markets are yet to get used to his style and while they're figuring him out a certain amount of uncertainty will linger.


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The seat of the World Bank in Paris hosted on May 22-23, 2008 an important meeting: the fourth edition of The World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities. The conference was attended by eminent scholars and leaders, among whom Professor Salim Al-Hassani, FSTC Chairman of the Board, who presented a keynote lecture on Innovation in the Islamic World: Learning from the Past to Design the Future. We present hereafter the abstract of this lecture to share with our readers this illuminating concept of assessing the value of Muslim Heritage as intellectual capital in a historical perspective. The complete text of the lecture will be published in the proceedings of the meeting.
Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani*
In the frame of The World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities, Professor Salim Al-Hassani, FSTC Chairman of the Board, presented a keynote lecture on the theme:
Innovation in the Islamic World: What can we learn from the past, to design the future.
The fourth edition of this series of conferences organised by the World Bank was held at the World Bank Office in Paris on May 22-23, 2008. It was co-organised by The European Chair on Intellectual Capital/PESOR, the University of Paris-Sud And The World Bank.
Below we give a summary of the lecture that Prof. Al-Hassani's presented in this conference:
This presentation will demonstrate, using 3D animations of past key S&T inventions reconstructed in virtual space from manuscripts, how knowledge revolution of early Islam was the result of a self propelling organically growing culture which combined economic and religious incentives. A vibrant knowledge-based society lasted for hundreds of years despite political and religious turbulence. The concept of faith (Iman) as input and beneficial knowledge and deeds ('Amal saleh) as output became the engine driving individuals, male and female, to invent, innovate and achieve scientific and economic progress.
Examples of such achievements which still influence our modern homes, schools, hospitals, towns, markets and other aspects of our lives, were researched in the UK and some findings are demonstrated by the 1001 inventions project (see www.1001inventions.com).
Unfortunately, in contrast with this highly original creation of science, technology and culture in Islam for several centuries, there is a period of about 1000 years missing from Western educational systems. Almost in every subject taught in schools, there exists a jump from the Greeks to the Renaissance, usually referred to as the "Dark Ages" (see Fig. 3-4).
Figure 2: History of science and civilisation as taught in educational systems.
Figure 3: History of science and civilisation as it should be taught.
This amnesia affects the minds of present and future generations and distorts their attitudes and perceptions of the role of other cultures, particularly the Muslim one, in designing and building the present civilisation.
Figure 4: Professor Salim Al-Hassani speaking next to Jean-Eric Aubert, Chairman of World Bank Institute.
It is hoped that this presentation, will inspire communities, the young generation in particular, to emulate the great men and women inventors of the past to express their, personal and national aspirations by doing useful work to improve the quality of life on this earth.
For Muslim communities, the concept of "Beneficial Deeds" ('Amal saleh) suggests itself as the gate through which a new "Islamically compliant" Knowledge-Based Paradigm may emerge. Some suggestions for the Muslim communities and countries to take in their drive towards a Knowledge-Based Society:
Figure 5: Another view of the meeting.
Figure 6: Front view of the meeting.
- The development of a strategy for a paradigm shift towards a Knowledge-Based Society requires resolution of a number of challenges. One major challenge would be to understand the "Socio-Genetics" of the society and then to suitably customise concepts like commercial value to knowledge, knowledge economy, science-based society, innovation, intellectual capital and property, entrepreneurship, value of intangible assets and life-long learning economy.
- Start a cultural movement amongst the youth to celebrate the great past inventors and knowledge scholars, in theological, social and physical sciences and to express their religiousness through useful deeds in society. The theological scholars (Ulema) need to expand the concept of 'Amal saleh (Benficiail Deeds) to incorporate all acts which improve the quality of life.
- Enhance and expand the traditional charitable (Waqf) and social philanthropy institutions from confinement in religious and relief programs to embracing wide educational reform, life-long socio-economic entrepreneurship projects, science and technology activities and expanding mosque buildings to incorporate activities of learning, IT provisions, and recreational socially beneficial activities.
- Enrich all subjects in the schools curriculum with material from such sources as the 1001 Inventions book, posters and websites such as www.1001inventions.com and www.MuslimHeritage.com.
- Celebrate past Muslim inventions and inventors by establishing Knowledge Discovery Centres, Knowledge Corridors, Thematic Shopping Malls, Thematic Parks, Edu-tainment Centres, Thematic Towns, Villages and Accommodation Centres and Hotels, Healthy Internet Social Networks, Thematic Clubs, Knowledge Clubs, participation in knowledge international competitions, Prize awarding bodies to reward excellence in beneficial deeds and to promote social entrepreneurship.
- Ensure that Universities have an integrated function within the society in teaching, research, consulting and life-long learning. In particular, introduce university venture companies to take research findings into the market with appropriate and administrative legal structures.
*Professor Salim T. S. Al-Hassani is the Chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSCT), Manchester, UK.


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10 of the Most Powerful Female Characters in Literature
[Editor's note: In celebration of the holidays, we're spending the next two Tuesdays by counting down the top 12 Flavorwire features of 2012. This post, at #12, was originally published March 3rd.] Since March is Women's History Month, we've been thinking a lot about the women who have had positive and lasting impacts on our lives — and perhaps not surprisingly for a bunch of literary geeks like us, we've realized that many of them are fictional. For all the hullabaloo about the dearth of strong female characters in modern culture, thankfully there are some wonderfully powerful, kick-ass maidens that have inspired us with their strength, self-discovery, and incredible brilliance over the years. Click through to see our list of ten of the most powerful female characters in literature, and then be sure to pipe up with your own suggestions — we've chosen the ten who resonate most deeply with us here, but since there are many more than ten strong ladies in literature (thank goodness), we want to know which ones blow you away on a daily basis.
Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre
One of the earliest representations of an individualistic, passionate and complex female character, Jane Eyre knocks our socks off. Though she suffers greatly, she always relies on herself to get back on her feet — no wilting damsel in distress here. As China Miéville wrote, "Charlotte Brontë's heroine towers over those around her, morally, intellectually and aesthetically; she's completely admirable and compelling. Never camp, despite her Gothic surrounds, she takes a scalpel to the skin of the every day."


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