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We are currently away on holidays in the beautiful Okanagan. I am seriously stunned at how beautiful this country is: a platter of different landscapes to enjoy.
I just finished reading a great and inspiring book that I would highly recommend: Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint In The Kitchen, by Kate Heyhoe. It goes beyond the basic requirements of leaving less of a damaging "cookprint", namely – shopping locally, eating organic food, buying sustainable food – and suggests ways to take being environmentally responsible in the kitchen to a whole new level. I found it very inspiring. I don't know that I will ever be able to implement all the ideas, but like eating healthy, little decisions every day can substantially change our impact on the earth. Here are some highlights of the interesting topics she covers:
1. This is an ongoing conversation I have with myself and others…Should I buy organic? Or local? But the local is not organic. But the organic is not local. Which is healthier? Which is better for the environment? Tricky business! Kate suggests that being an Ecovore requires a certain fluidity, and ability to have this ongoing discussion, making decisions as situations are presented. Obviously the ideal would be local organic food, but if you are buying from a small local farm, that may not be certified organic(which is an expensive certification for a small farm) but the food doesn't have to travel very far…then local is maybe a better choice than organic. Little judgement calls all the time.
2. Eat less meat, more plants – This is an obvious one. I know many people aren't interested or ready to drop meat completely from their diet, but there is definitely no reason why we shouldn't eat LESS meat. Maybe for you that means planning one meat free dinner/week. We are not strictly vegetarians but in my family we probably only eat one dinner/week that DOES have meat in it. Interesting fact: The daily food and water resources required to feed one cow exceed the daily amount of milk produced by that cow. A single cow produces 120lbs of waste PER DAY and approx 100 gallons of methane per day. They produce more methan emissions than a car!
3. Small Changes: Switching to a totally local diet = driving 1,000 miles less per year. Replacing red meat and dairy with chicken/fish/eggs for one day per week = driving 760 miles less per year. Switching to vegetables one day per week = driving 1,160 miles less per year. Switching from the average American diet to a vegetable based one = driving 8,000 miles less per year!!!!!!! Can you believe those numbers?
4. Water preservation – Water is a non renewable resource, meaning that the water we have on earth is all the water we will ever have on earth. We cannot produce more of it. This is why we have to be careful not to pollute it and compromise the quality of it. Here is the amount of water required to create a SINGLE serving of the following foods: steak = 2,607 gallons, chicken = 408 gallons, milk = 65 gallons, rice = 36 gallons, lettuce = 6 gallons, tomatoes = 3 gallons. Clearly, reducing our red meat consumption is a great way to reduce our impact on the earth. If you eat one less beef meal each week, you'll save: 40,600 gallons of water, 70,000 lbs of grain, and prevent the emission of 300,000 lbs of carbon dioxide each year.
5. Food Waste – Americans generate 1 lb of food waste per day for every adult and child. Americans throw out 27% of all food available for consumption. JUST 5% OF THE WASTED FOOD IN THE USA COULD FEED 4 MILLION PEOPLE/DAY. Can you even believe that? This just absolutely horrifies me. While millions of people are dying of starvation, we are destroying the earth with our over-consumption.
There are definitely some regular green practices I am already fully committed to: eating as much local/organic/sustainable food as possible, using only green household cleaners, recycling and buying recycled products, buying food from the bulk bins, shopping at Farmer's Markets. There are many many more though, that I would like to try to take it to the next level. While Kate offers so many great ideas on how to make changes in the kitchen, here are a few that I think are practical steps that I am going to implement immediately:
1. use passive cooking techniques ie)bringing water to a boil, and then removing it from the heat after a few minutes and letting the very hot water continue to cook things. (where appropriate)
2. more commitment to using small appliances than the oven when possible. More energy efficient.
3. organizing a "small appliance swap"! I think we all have small appliances we don't use often enough to keep, but just throwing them out is bad for the environment…so…let's swap! I think my milkshake maker and second coffee maker need to find a new home. Sounds like a fun reason for a party!
4. Using reusable cloth napkins. The washing/drying is less energy than the garbage created from paper ones.
Bottom line: I highly recommend this book and think it is actually do-able, written in a non-judgmental and inspiring way, and totally practical. I really do believe that we change our lives in the small decisions we make every day. I would love to hear your ideas on how to decrease your "cookprint" on the earth!
If you would like to learn more about the topic, check out the book or check out Kate's website: http://www.newgreenbasics.com


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Holiday gift books for the fashionista
If the style maven on your list doesn't need another cashmere sweater or a fur vest this year, why not indulge her with a thick coffee table book about fashion? Here are three to consider, as well as alternate choices in each of the categories.
The Divine Diana
Biographers can't seem to get enough of Diana Vreeland, starting with "Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel" by Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Abrams, $55). At 4.7 pounds and 256 pages, this glossy tome covers a half-century in the life of the legendary fashion editor. At Harper's Bazaar from 1936 until 1962, and then at Vogue until 1971, Vreeland globetrotted in search of style and how to translate it for her audience. After leaving the magazine world, she went on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and staged impressive shows. Hundreds of photographs help tell the story of the Parisian-born fashion diva and her relationships with photographers, models and celebrities of the day. She "discovered" Lauren Bacall and put her on Bazaar's cover in 1943; and she had the first photos of Jackie Kennedy and family in the White House. The author, who never got to meet her subject, is married to Vreeland's grandson Alexander and also produced a documentary film on Ms. Vreeland. She pays tribute to a subject equally as fascinating as those to whom Vreeland devoted her many issues.
Looking for more on her? Check out "Diana Vreeland An Ilustrated Biography" by Eleanor Dwight (Harper Design, $29.99)
Dresses for sucesss
Fashion lovers will enjoy flipping through "100 Unforgettable Dresses"
by Hal Rubenstein (Harper Design, $35). Full of frocks from movies, the runway and red carpet, this compedium of style from the past 80 years or so is both entertaining and enlightening. He cites iconic looks such as Julia Roberts' red gown from "Pretty Woman" and Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's." TV is included, too, with Sarah Jessica Parker wearing Versace couture from Paris"Sex and the City" episode (photo above by provided by HBO, Courtesy of Everett Collection)
If picking out a wedding dress is on your list, check out: One more: "It's all about the Dress: Savvy Secrets, Priceless Advice and Insipiring Stories to Help You Find 'The One'" (Grand Central Life & Style, $27.99)
It's the year to look back at the evolution of glossy fashion mags:
"Vogue: The Covers"
By Dodie Kazanjian (Abrams, $50)
4.4 pounds, 272 pages
The fashion industry is always one to judge a book by its cover, so it had to be hard to figure out what to put on the front of the book depicting the top covers from its 120 years. The image chosen was Lisa Fonssigrives by Irving Penn in 1949 — a year before they married. Kazanjian has long covered art for the magazine and provides insightful tidbits about Vogue's history. The first photograph was used on the cover in 1932– an image by Edward Steichen — and they never went back to illustrations. Until the mid-1940s, the logo's cover script changed regularly. Model Beverly Johnson was the first African American model to appear on Vogue's cover, in 1974, and became a trailblazer because of it.
A bonus: book owners might not be as tempted to pull out one of the 500 color illustrations for framing after learning that there are five ready-to-frame prints in a wax envelope attached to the inside back cover of the book.
One more: "Harper's Bazaar: A Decade of Style" by Glenda Bailey (Abrams, $65)

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Q—How many baseballs do the Phillies use in a season?
Tom: "For an entire year, spring training through the season, the Phillies use on the average 3,000 dozen baseballs. That just covers the major league team, not the minor leagues."
Q—Will Jamie Moyer be back with the Phillies next year.
Hewbyrd: "Jamie has indicated he is going to talk with his family and then make a decision. You are correct in that he did a great job for the Phillies. He did exactly what Pat Gillick had hoped."
Q—Why was Charlie Manuel brought back?
Sam T.: "Pat Gillick was quoted in the Inquirer yesterday: 'I think overall that Charlie has done a very good job because one of the things that I think is very, very important is that he keeps the players in a right frame of mind to go out there day in and day out. I think that's very important. I think he keeps players in a great state of mind.'
In Charlie's first two seasons, the Phillies have won 173 games. Only one other manager in Phillies history, Pat Moran won more (181, 1915-16). Credit needs to go to Charlie. One other point, when the Phillies had that horrible June, Charlie didn't panic. He remained positive and stressed to the players the importance of staying focused. The players responded."
Q—When will the National League MVP be announced and what are Ryan Howard's chances?
Karol: "Awards are normally announced the first week after the end of the World Series. Voting is done by the end of the season by baseball writers so the postseason doesn't have any bearing. Several prominent media personalities, including ESPN.com's Jayson Stark, ESPN's John Kruk, Jeff Brantley and Steve Phillies and SI's Jon Heyman, have already stated publicly that Howard should win. Chase Utley's year should also have him in the mix."
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I don't beleive Ryan Howard is eligible for a pay raise this year.
Will he get one anyway? Be a crime if he didn't….
Do the Phillies have any interest in Aramis Ramirez. I think he would be a perfect hitter to bat behind Ryan Howard. He would also solve their third base problem.
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A clumsy scullery boy finds solace in a place known only to him and his God in this charming story of the ninth-century saint, Euphrosynos, commonly known in Orthodox tradition as "The Cook." Author Catherine K. Contopoulos easily links the feelings of contemporary children with the feelings of this legendary character'a self-conscious, awkward boy who leaves his loving family and the taunts of his neighbors to find a niche in the kitchen of a monastic community. Readers will hurt when neighbors make fun of a confused Euphrosynos at the local cheese shop, laugh and then tremble when an austere monk slips upon Euphrosynos' newly mopped floor, and find an oasis of peace as Euphrosynos prays in his solitary cave. They also will learn lessons of perseverance, humility, and dependence upon God as they are naturally drawn into the story. Contopoulos achieves these goals with language that a child will understand.
Her marvelous account is illustrated by Chrissanth Greene-Gross' soft, yet vibrant, realistic images that will engage children and warm their souls. SVS Press is pleased to welcome this new author and illustrator in this volume, which is most appropriate for children ages six to ten.
Author Catherine K. Contopoulos is a freelance writer who lives in Hackensack, New Jersey with her husband and daughter. This is her first children's book.
Chrissanth Greene-Gross is an award-winning portrait artist and sculptor, who explores her passion for the marriage of word and image in this, her first children's book. Chrissanth lives in Millwood, New York with her husband and three children.


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if anyone can or would help, we will be out at young park again tonight, TONIGHT the 4th, spraying ivy. please come if you can, the tourney is less than three weeks away and there is plenty of tree line.bring a sprayer if you have it. 10 bucks at home depot if you don't have it. Mike Keizer now's your chance.it will give you a great chance to see all the work that's been done. you won't be sorry.
there will be plenty of shanks and plinko ricochets to be had
Cant wait for this course to open!!!! Number one it is very close to my home. Number two it looks like it will be very technical course and very fun.
i HOPE this is not another YATES ... we have enough KIDDIE COURSES!!! good luck with the grass cuz its to soon for foot traffic... ill be checking it out soon since its a block from my sisters house n perfect for the KIDS...
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Jeffrey Cortland Jones
Davis' Cross Roads, 2011
Enamel on acrylic panel
24 X 24 inches
Davis' Cross Roads, 2011
Enamel on acrylic panel
24 X 24 inches
Today is a big day for my husband, Jeff. You might know that he is a painter, and today he is in NYC for the opening of his first exhibition there! His work is being shown at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts as part of her summer invitational. He has been represented by Kathryn for over a year, but this is the first time his paintings have been included in an exhibition at her gallery. And I'm so incredibly proud of him.
I really wish I could be there for the opening, but I'm at home with the kids. But I have to tell you that we're having big days of our own around here. Aidan lost his first tooth in the middle of the night. Today is quite a big day for both of my favorite boys, for sure...
The exhibition runs through August 10, which just happens to be Aidan's birthday. Don't you just love these little moments of synchronicity?


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Been wondering what a Range Rover Evoque would look like if VW built it? Behold the Volkswagen Cross Coupe, which combines all the disadvantages of a sports coupe — poor vision, a tiny interior — with all the disadvantages of an SUV — inferior fuel economy, huge proportions — to create a vehicle that's less desirable than either.
In addition to previewing a future SUV/Coupe abhorrence and more refined design, the Cross Coupe concept is also previewing a new plug-in hybrid AWD drivetrain configuration that actually sounds pretty interesting, even if it's not ready for production yet. There's two electric motors - one front and one rear - capable of distributing their 133 LB-FT of torque and 114 HP front-to-rear. They do so not through a long drive shaft, but by the individual motors, which can send their power to one another via cables. This frees up the space traditionally reserved for that drive shaft to be used to house the lithium ion batteries; an arrangement that optimizes the center of gravity.
There's also a TSI direct-injection, turbocharged gasoline motor that produces 147 HP, kills polar bears and will likely be the powertrain of choice when the Cross Coupe reaches production in the near future.
The Cross Coupe is also significant because it's the first vehicle to be shown that uses VW's new "Modular Transverse Matrix" or "MQB platform. Slightly larger than a Golf, yet smaller than a Tiguan, expect the MQB to underpin a wide variety of future VWs, some of which may even do what the Cross Coupe can't - be big inside and small outside.


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OK, class—today we'll review a fine example of political science at work in the real world: the hotly contested race for California's new 30th Congressional District.
It pits two long-time Democratic incumbents—Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman—against each other.
Thrown together in a single district by California's fledgling Citizens Redistricting Commission, only one can survive to return to Washington.
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Gene Maddaus of the LA Weekly described the race as a battle "to determine which bald, Jewish Democrat who voted for the Iraq War will continue to represent the San Fernando Valley."
In some respects the election is a referendum on style and approach versus substance. But it's more than that.
It's another go-round in a debate that has defined American politics for well over 200 years: What exactly does "representative" mean? How does—should—a "representative" represent his/her constituency?
Eighteenth century political philosopher Edmund Burke framed the "trustee" model of representation.
Constituents "entrust" their elected officials with sufficient autonomy to make Big Decisions, which favor the greater public good but might rub against the short-term interests of the representatives' own constituents.
The flip side of representation is the "delegate" model, which instructs elected official to carry out only the mandates given to them by their electorates; representatives serve solely as an "instrument "of their constituencies' will.
Arguably, the "trustee" candidate in the 30th CD race is Howard Berman and the "delegate" is Brad Sherman. Berman is described in The Almanac of American Politics as "an active legislator on all manner of issues"—from national concerns such as foreign policy and immigration to intellectual property rights, an issue of direct importance to his Hollywood constituents.
Sherman has been far more visible in his home district (which accounts for over 50% of the new district, according to the California Target Book) and he boasts of holding over 150 Town Halls (Berman has just recently begun that ritual in earnest).
The wizened scribes of the political blog CalBuzz have observed that Sherman is "not regarded as a serious player in Congress. He's a constituent guy."
In fact, that is one of Sherman's own major selling points.
He's spending much of his time and energy portraying Berman as what is currently that most dreaded political animal—"the Washington Insider."
Indeed, Berman has been embraced by almost every Democratic heavyweight, including most of the California Democratic Congressional delegation, as well as some high visibility Golden State Republicans.
For Bermanites, that's a testament to the Congressman's success in using his legislative skills both here and Inside-the-Beltway.
The Sherman camp reads the tea leaves differently. They point to Berman's Washington ways as a sign he's "out-of-touch" with the district's constituencies. Elsewhere, that charge has been a powerful one against incumbents in this virulent election year.
When the smoke clears—probably not until November what will influence voters more? Style or substance? Which approach to governance will the voters of the 30th CD embrace? The candidate as "trustee" or as "delegate"?
However Valley voters decide, I agree with CalBuzz: "Who defines the race, wins the seat."
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe is senior fellow at the USC Price School of Public Policy and the political analyst for NBC4.
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When we build bridges we try to build them to serve the purpose and to last as long as they can. But they are not everlasting and usually when they fail they do that while in use, which makes them tragic. Read more about famous bridge failures.
The first bridges appeared as an inspiration from Nature itself. In time, we advanced our technology and built bridges out if different materials and in different shapes for different purposes. Still, some of the earliest still stand today. Read more about interesting bridge history.
Improvements in technology allow us to tame the Nature to our liking. We build larger and longer than before and with that we leave mark on the Earth. Bridges are just one of those marks and, as the time goes, we build them longer and longer.
Since the ancient times bridge building was improved and there are today many different types of bridges. To classify them we look how they are built, what physics holds them in one piece and what are the materials of which they are made.


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For advisors changing broker-dealers, financial assistance in the form of forgivable loans is standard procedure for regional broker-dealers and wirehouses, but less common in the independent channel. Wirehouses commonly offer up to 300% of trailing 12 months' production. In the independent channel, for those firms that even offer forgivable notes, the amounts are typically in the range of 10% to 20% of trailing 12 months' production.
The new disclosure rule will not apply to incentives totaling less than $50,000. While that figure might look reasonable at first glance, applying a static amount as a guideline fails to differentiate between large and small producers.
For example, in the independent channel, forgivable note money is intended to cover initial transition expenses and potential downtime during the transition (one to three months) of their book of business. A large producer may have 1,000 ACAT transfers, which between qualified and non-qualified accounts can average out at $100 per ACAT transfer. This activity alone equates to a $100,000 expense.
Still not accounted for are registration costs, business cards, stationery, staffing costs for transition paperwork and for those coming from a wirehouse to an independent firm, the added expense of setting up an office. If regulators had even a shred of common sense, they would apply the disclosure rule to a percentage of trailing 12 months' production with a 30% cap, which would represent a fair percentage to justify coverage of transition expenses and production downtime. Anything above that 30% threshold could be considered more than transition needs and therefore in need of disclosure.
Transition money is market driven. As the demand for quality reps increases, transition money typically increases to sync to that demand. Government regulators have a history of disdain for private sector industries that make large sums and are thus imposing greater scrutiny. However, when the tables are turned, those same regulators are resistant to disclose anything of what they spend or how they spend it.
Case in point: the $787 billion in economic stimulus, which we were told would spur the economy and create jobs, was spent mostly to fund existing government jobs. At the start of the 2008 recession only one person made $170,000 or more in the Department of Transportation. Just 18 months later, 1,690 employees made more than that amount. The Agriculture department is another spending behemoth, with a budget totaling more than the net incomes of all the nation's farmers.
This new compensation disclosure rules demonstrates the grind of government regulators telling us to "do as we say, not as we do." It's getting tiresome.


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I have a web application client built using ArcGIS Server Manager which is currently showing a single map composed by three data layers. The map data are provided as a map service by my ArcGIS Server 10.1 instance.
My task is to provide the map's users a way to download the full map locally as a shapefile (e.g: zipped) via her/his web browser.
I was hinted to read here and to build a geoprocessing service to accomplish the task. I decided to write a specific toolbox myself using Python, then publish it as a geoprocessing service on my ArcGIS Server instance and finally include it into my web application.
Can you point me towards any third-party (meaning: non-ESRI) code sample to start me up?
I can find no examples other than the ones in ESRI's support website!


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You know when you see the clock-tower of the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, and you can't stop thinking about how it looks like some mad early twentieth century monarch of a minor Balkan state?
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
You know when you see the clock-tower of the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, and you can't stop thinking about how it looks like some mad early twentieth century monarch of a minor Balkan state?
Posted by John Finnemore at 4:39 pm
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- Lothiriel said...
I think I'll concentrate on both of those things, if you don't mind. And congratulations, by the way!
- 7:39 pm
- Élyssa said...
Hooray indeed, congratulations! And love that the drawings are back, you seem in particularly fine form in that department.
- 7:56 pm
- Timothy said...
Congratulations on the Double Acts, John. I particularly liked Hot Desk and The Flock of Tigers. I wish you all the comic success and lots of buns for tea.
- 11:41 pm
- Unknown said...
Congratulations on the nomination! Well deserved. I hope it wins.
My partner loves EFPL, probably even more than I do. He asks me to put it on almost every morning, and he does it with a high-pitched 'what are you passionate about?'.
- 1:34 am
- Claire Y said...
I will keep fingers crossed for you, John. (I don't think crossing some other things [eyes, for instance] would go very well for me.)
Also, thank you for sharing your doodles/art with us through the Holiday season. I look forward to seeing what will come up next (and the day after that, and the one after that, etc.).
- 8:27 am
- Doro said...
Once it's seen, it is hard to unsee.
I'll add Edinburgh and Tuttlingen to my list of low budget finnemore-pilgrimage. I hope as globalisation goes on the whole tour becomes a thing.
- 10:06 am
- Tealin said...
Haha! That's brilliant.
And congrats on the nom for Pony Lovers! All of Double Acts deserves more recognition, in my opinion, but until I'm the one handing out radio gongs, I can only tell you that on here ...
- 11:30 am
- Kirsty said...
That is so cool!
And congratulations on the nomination. I liked the change in relationship between the characters when it became apparent what the actual situation was - the woman suddenly went into mother mode.
- 11:41 am
- lilian.thigh said...
I have never found a tower so endearing, and congratulations!
- 12:11 pm
- Unknown said...
Couldn't see it and then, couldn't unsee it lol.
- 4:26 pm
- slepkane said...
This is simply glorious.
- 1:08 am
- Laura said...
There's a photograph of a clothes basket on my washing powder box that looks (when I don't have my glasses on) like a frog. So if you are crazy to see such fine visions, then so am I.
Also, English for Pony Lovers is my favourite Double Act... that is to say, it's in my top six
- 9:14 am
- Philippa Sidle said...
I live near-ish to Edinburgh, and will never be able to view that particular piece of architecture in the same way again...
Congratulations on the nomination! I love all the Double Acts and have listened to them all many many times, but I think that Pony Lovers and The Goliath Window are my favourites. Pony Lovers because the personalities of the two women are so strongly delineated and the shift in the dynamic between them is so cleverly done. Goliath Window because it's so moving and because it's a fine example of something that simply couldn't be done to full effect if it wasn't on radio.
Pony Lovers seems to be the only one that doesn't have any discernable link, however tiny, to the others. The only thing I could think of was that Griselda in Hot Desk says that her mother is German. Clearly her mother can't be Elke, since Griselda was obviously brought up in the UK, but perhaps Elke is her aunt or something?
Have I missed something? Do I think about these things too much...?
- 2:12 pm
- Unknown said...
This is utterly splendid.
- 12:05 am
- Ponygirl Fi said...
Hahaha. I now cannot unsee that, every time I go into town.
And congratulations
- 12:27 pm
- Claire Pugh said...
This made me chuckle...A lot!
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It's a bewildering time here.
Nancy Pelosi is the hawk urging military action. Britain refuses to be our poodle. The French are being less supercilious and more supportive militarily. Republicans are squeamish about launching an attack. Top generals are going pacifist.
The president who got elected on his anti-war stance is now trying to buck up a skittish Congress and country about why a military strike is a moral necessity. Donald Rumsfeld doesn't want to go to war with the Army that Chuck Hagel has. John Bolton is the dove who doesn't think we should take sides, or that it matters "what the intelligence shows." Once more, we're vociferously debating whether to slap down a murderous dictator who has gassed his own people, and whether we have the legit intel to prove he used WMD.
Many around President Barack Obama are making the case that if he doesn't stand firm on his line in the sand, having gotten so far out on a limb, he'll look weak and America will lose face and embolden its foes. The secretary of state is arguing if the dictator had nothing to hide, why was he so reluctant to let in U.N. inspectors?
In many ways, Syria is an eerie replay of Iraq, but with many of the players scrambled and on opposite sides.
Just about the only completely consistent person is John McCain, who's always spoiling for a fight.
Once more, we see the magnitude of the tragedy of Iraq because the decision on Syria is so colored by the fact that an American president and vice president took us to war in the Middle East on false pretenses and juiced up intelligence, dragging the country into an emotionally and financially exhausting decade of war and an identity crisis about our role in the world.
W. was so black and white, as he mischaracterized and miscalculated, that he ended up driving America into a gray haze, where we're unsure if our old role as John Wayne taking on the global bad guys is even right.
We now actually have a president who understands the difference between Sunnis and Shiites. But our previous gigantic misreadings of the Middle East, and the treacherous job of fathoming which sides to support in the Arab uprisings -- are the rebels in these countries the good guys or al-Qaida sympathizers? -- have left us literally gun shy.
It should not be so hard to reach a consensus on trying to prevent President Bashar Assad from killing tens of thousands and making refugees of millions more, with chemical weapons and traditional ones.
But the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Tuesday dramatically showed how our misjudgment on Iraq infects our judgment on Syria.
A panel of top Obama officials who don't even agree themselves about what to do in Syria did their best to stick to White House talking points, arguing against what Secretary of State John Kerry called "armchair isolationism," as they were grilled by skeptical, and sometimes hostile, senators.
Kerry and Hagel both voted as senators for the authorization to invade Iraq and then came to regret it; Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress last spring that he was uncertain if the U.S. "could identify the right people" to give arms to in the Syrian opposition.
But there was the trio trying to help the president make his case that American credibility is too big to fail.
"After the fiasco of Iraq and over a decade of war, how can this administration make a guarantee that our military actions will be limited?" asked Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M.
Indeed, Kerry showed how slippery the slope is when he answered a question by Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who opposed the Iraq invasion but supports a Syrian smackdown.
When Menendez asked Kerry if the administration would accept "a prohibition for having American boots on the ground" as part of a resolution authorizing force in Syria, Kerry replied: "It would be preferable not" to "have boots on the ground." Then came the "but."
"But in the event Syria imploded, for instance," Kerry said, "or in the event there was a threat of a chemical weapons cache falling into the hands of Al Nusra or someone else, and it was clearly in the interest of our allies and all of us -- the British, the French and others -- to prevent those weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of the worst elements, I don't want to take off the table an option that might or might not be available to a president of the United States to secure our country."
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chided Kerry: "I didn't find that a very appropriate response regarding boots on the ground."
Realizing he had been undiplomatic, the top diplomat retreated from his scary hypothetical immediately, saying "Let's shut that door now as tight as we can."
It's up to Obama to show Americans that he knows what he's doing, unlike his predecessor.
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Nate Zelinsky, pictured on his wedding day two years ago with his wife, Mandi, has a collection of 20 guns.
DENVER — Fishing guide Nate Zelinsky tallies the firearms in his personal collection: six hand guns, eight shotguns, four rifles and one "home-defense shotgun."
That's 19 — and 20, if you include the 9-millimeter weapon carried by his wife, Mandi.
"I have a firearm close at all times," said Zelinsky, who lives near the foothills town of Conifer, Colo., 30 miles southwest of Denver. "A gun is a part of my life. As an outdoorsman, it's something I have as a tool."
On the plains below, in a suburban home not far from the site of Friday's Aurora theater shootings, certified public accountant Stephanie Lidke watches her infant daughter while she lists her guns: there are at least 10, she says, including the two .40 caliber pistols that she and her husband, an HVAC technician, are permitted to carry and conceal.
"When we found out we were pregnant, we bought a crib and a stroller and a gun safe," Lidke said. "We don't have guns to kill human beings. That's not our goal. It's a privilege to be able to protect your family."
These are two faces of America's gun owners, and they happen to live in Colorado. They span white collar, blue collar — and, in Zelinsky's case, camo collar.
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Stephanie Lidke, an accountant who lives near Aurora, Colo., and her husband own at least 10 guns.
"We're your neighbors, your co-workers and your friends," Lidke said. "We're moms and dads. We're responsible, ethical and educated."
They're also fed up with the way some gun-control advocates and media members clump all firearm owners into a single, fringy-sounding "gun culture" — which is like saying, Zelinsky adds, that every person who owns a motor vehicle is part of a homogenized, think-alike, drive-alike "car culture."
And now, interest in guns is expanding — swiftly. In the three days following the Friday's mass shooting at a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," nearly 3,000 Colorado consumers were approved for gun purchases after passing instant criminal background checks — 39 percent higher than Colorado's rate of firearm purchases during the two previous weekends, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
"Foot-traffic wise, we've had a lot more people in the store who are interested in looking at what's out there, considering their options," said Brad Lightner, general manager of the Firing-Line, an Aurora gun retailer that offers more than 1,500 firearms plus a practice range. "Many are here for home defense."
For some Americans who have never owned guns — or who haven't fired or even touched one — there is a deep cultural chasm when it comes to understanding why anyone would seek to possess a single firearm, much less 10 or 20. That gap, widened as well by sharp philosophical and political differences, is hardly a new phenomenon.
But ask Zelinsky or Lidke to break down the various facets of their ample gun collections and you'll hear rational purposes that stretch from sport to safety to a simple appreciation of vintage handicrafts.
"I have a .45 (caliber) handgun and a shotgun for home protection," Zelinsky said. "I hunt with a long-range rifle, a 300 Ultra Mag. The biggest one I carry in the woods, for bears, is a .454 Casull (handgun). The shotguns are probably the most important becauseI have many more situations with wildlife than I do with people. Every single night, we have this young bear that's been tearing up the neighborhood. When I leave for work, probably 50 percent of the time I walk to my truck, it's me and the bear, and we come to terms every morning."
Down in the city, Lidke explained: "We have 12- and 20-gauge shotguns for bird hunting plus a 30-aught-six (rifle) and a 7-millimeter (rifle) for large game — those are tools to help feed our family. We have a Taurus .41 (magnum revolver), which is our bear gun for protection in the woods when we're backpacking or camping. We have antique guns handed down from my husband's great-grandfather, all hand-carved from sitting around a fire at a hunting camp."
The two .40-caliber Springfield XD handguns that Lidke and her husband are permitted to conceal and carry "are more for personal protection. I had a little girl in February so it just became even more important to us to protect her, if necessary."
The need to pack extra security seemed to be feeding the recent sales spike in Colorado, according to firearm retailers like Lightner. The day after the midnight cinema shootings that left 12 people dead and more than 50 people wounded, 1,216 Coloradans were approved for gun purchases following background checks — 880 more than the number approved on the same day one week earlier, according to CBI data. The Firing-Line also offers classes that help qualify gun owners to apply for conceal-and-carry permits in Colorado, one of 49 states that allow guns to be covertly toted by licensed individuals.
"Sign-ups indicate we'll have a few more people taking the training course," Lightner said. "If you're going to carry concealed on the streets, that is another level of responsibility. It's a big step. Obviously, I wouldn't recommend it for everyone and we don't. But for somebody who is interested in being able to defend themselves if an emergency should arise, that will give them at least some of the tools to do it with.
"For myself, I don't carry 100 percent of the time. It's a problem — I mean as far as comfort goes. When you go certain places, it's not practical. (Colorado movie theaters don't allow permitted carriers to bring guns onto the premises). For most of us, we don't want to be heroes. In fact, you don't even want to put yourself in that position. But I'll tell you what: if you are in that position, for whatever reason, you can try to better the situation."
Long before the mass tragedy in Aurora, gun sales were soaring nationally. In 2011, federal investigators performed a record 16.4 million instant criminal background checks on potential gun buyers — 14.2 percent more than 2010, FBI figures show.
Many gun owners, including Zelinsky, sniff the strong scent of political panic in that retail rush — namely that if President Obama is elected to a second term, his administration may push legislation to limit or restrain firearm ownership.
"I would say 80 percent of the people I know own way more (firearms) than me," Zelinsky said. "I mean, you walk into their gun-safe rooms or their garage, you really think they're going to some kind of war. But it's not for crazy reasons. They're just worried it's not going to be around.
"Get them while you can, buy them while you can, that's the thinking behind it."
And that fear, Zelinksy says, has truly revved the market for used guns — often weapons without attached ownership records, meaning authorities don't know who currently has them or where they're located.
"People just don't want anything with paperwork so if there ever was a crazy situation where somebody is saying: 'Hey, we're taking away the guns,' (many used-gun owners) want something that's non-traceable," Zelinsky said.
"It's unbelievable, the sale of used firearms just in the market, and not retail. You can have an older, beater pistol and you can sell it (privately) for more than what it costs on the shelf just due to the fact that you have no paperwork behind it."
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Should the Government Stop Outsourcing Code Development?
Information technology is increasingly everywhere, and it's the same technologies everywhere. The same operating systems are used in corporate and government computers. The same software controls critical infrastructure and home shopping. The same networking technologies are used in every country. The same digital infrastructure underpins the small and the large, the important and the trivial, the local and the global; the same vendors, the same standards, the same protocols, the same applications.
With all of this sameness, you'd think these technologies would be designed to the highest security standard, but they're not. They're designed to the lowest or, at best, somewhere in the middle. They're designed sloppily, in an ad hoc manner, with efficiency in mind. Security is a requirement, more or less, but it's a secondary priority. It's far less important than functionality, and security is what gets compromised when schedules get tight.
Should the government -- ours, someone else's? -- stop outsourcing code development? That's the wrong question to ask. Code isn't magically more secure when it's written by someone who receives a government paycheck than when it's written by someone who receives a corporate paycheck. It's not magically less secure when it's written by someone who speaks a foreign language, or is paid by the hour instead of by salary. Writing all your code in-house isn't even a viable option anymore; we're all stuck with software written by who-knows-whom in who-knows-which-country. And we need to figure out how to get security from that.
The traditional solution has been defense in depth: layering one mediocre security measure on top of another mediocre security measure. So we have the security embedded in our operating system and applications software, the security embedded in our networking protocols, and our additional security products such as antivirus and firewalls. We hope that whatever security flaws -- either found and exploited, or deliberately inserted -- there are in one layer are counteracted by the security in another layer, and that when they're not, we can patch our systems quickly enough to avoid serious long-term damage. That is a lousy solution when you think about it, but we've been more-or-less managing with it so far.
Bringing all software -- and hardware, I suppose -- development in-house under some misconception that proximity equals security is not a better solution. What we need is to improve the software development process, so we can have some assurance that our software is secure -- regardless of what coder, employed by what company, and living in what country, writes it. The key word here is "assurance."
Assurance is less about developing new security techniques than about using the ones we already have. It's all the things described in books on secure coding practices. It's what Microsoft is trying to do with its Security Development Lifecycle. It's the Department of Homeland Security's Build Security In program. It's what every aircraft manufacturer goes through before it fields a piece of avionics software. It's what the NSA demands before it purchases a piece of security equipment. As an industry, we know how to provide security assurance in software and systems. But most of the time, we don't care; commercial software, as insecure as it is, is good enough for most purposes.
Assurance is expensive, in terms of money and time, for both the process and the documentation. But the NSA needs assurance for critical military systems and Boeing needs it for its avionics. And the government needs it more and more: for voting machines, for databases entrusted with our personal information, for electronic passports, for communications systems, for the computers and systems controlling our critical infrastructure. Assurance requirements should be more common in government IT contracts.
The software used to run our critical infrastructure -- government, corporate, everything -- isn't very secure, and there's no hope of fixing it anytime soon. Assurance is really our only option to improve this, but it's expensive and the market doesn't care. Government has to step in and spend the money where its requirements demand it, and then we'll all benefit when we buy the same software.
This essay first appeared in Information Security, as the second part of a point-counterpoint with Marcus Ranum. You can read Marcus's essay there as well.
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The critically acclaimed British drama LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX premieres Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. (check local listings) on PBS.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Monday Madness, Tuesday Scramble and Wednesday not Wordless
I think they have found John 's Will, the father of John, George, Henry, Margaret, Mary and others.
Now to stay calm until it arrives that is the madness part.
Tuesday's news was just as enticing, more information on my HOFFMAN-HUFFMAN lineage.
I listen to the young ones who say they can not wait, they want instant gratification and I remember
writing a letter, sending in the mail with stamps and envelope for reply and waiting and waiting.
The computer can spoil one. But obviously more data has surfaced on this family. I also have
learned to look deeper and trust intuitiveness when doing research. I used to toss it out as rubbish.
I did an evaluation of the ways I have successfully gotten information. Ironically, hard work always pays
off in some form sooner or later. But checking my files says that intuitiveness has given me more
results than average probably.
It is like when the hairs on my arms stand up, I know something is up. When I go researching at the
libraries, I have a goal in mind and try to stick to it. But sometimes an aisle calls or a book says "Check
Me." It is interesting that I always come up with something not expected.
Do you think my ancestors are speaking to me? I absolutely do believe that. Hank JonesI need to send
you more stories.
Wordless Wednesday it is not because today, I found some of the older generation of family and
even had someone that offered to copy and send me some Wills. I told her I owe her a steak dinner.
She did not want payment.
Wondering if my blogging on them woke them up to help me.??????
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I wouldn't be surprised if they did, Susi!ReplyDelete
Hey Susi, glad to see that you're making some headway on your family research.ReplyDelete
I still need to send you the info that I have on mine. I still haven't figured out how to share Ancestry.com info with other members. I'll try again later to see if I can figure that out.
Enjoy your day,
This is great news! Susi... I guess I should get back to working on hubbies, but I have been having so much fun with my own genealogy!ReplyDelete
I am so glad for you!
Have a great day!
Yep....they are speaking to you. Mine speak to me often!ReplyDelete
I absolutely believe in intuition (but only hand-in-hand with the reasoned stuff — which IS what you said).ReplyDelete
That is awesome Susi! Congratulations on a great week! I love seeing when one of us has such great news to report! Thanks for sharing, it fuels the fire!ReplyDelete


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MLS player salaries 2014 released by Major League Soccer players union: Where the Colorado Rapids stack up
Well, it's not exactly pay like the Broncos are used to.
Or the Nuggets, Avalanche or Rockies.
Major League Soccer's player's union on Thursday released the 2014 compensation for all of its players in the league, showing the Colorado Rapids' total base salary for 2014 — as of April 1 — is $3,015,558, with guaranteed compensation totaling $3,488,900.82. That second number for each player is "annual average guaranteed compensation," which, according to the players union, "includes a player's base salary and all signing and guaranteed bonuses annualized over the term of the player's contract, including option years."
For context, the Rapids play Toronto FC on Saturday in Canada. That team's two premier players, Michael Bradley and Jermain Defoe — both of whom are the two top paid players in MLS — each draw $6 million in base salary, meaning Toronto pays two players nearly four times as much as Colorado's entire base payroll. Both players enjoyed time playing overseas in Europe before coming to MLS.


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I took this picture the day after Christmas . I was playing dominos with my mother, when I noticed the light hitting just right on her wedding day picture. A very small simply framed b&w shot from a random off the street commercial photographer in San Francisco where my parents were married without ceremony as my father went off to war. Not an unusual set of circumstances for a couple of Iowa farm kids who fell in love in high school and took what came their way. I was born in San Francisco two years after this 1942 picture.
For 59 years these two had the most amazing relationship. For real. Alan and Maryanna met at Moville High School. She fell in love with him because he was tall, handsome AND he had a car she says. Oh yes, their parents became friends too, lived nearby, had same life. So how many reasons do you need?
My father passed right in this house on Christmas day 2000, family gathered to say goodbye, about a year after my mom and I got into this now 12 year old super competitive dominos marathon. We keep score. In detail. She is 6 games up after all this time. We are a game playing family, with me losing most games most of the time. I travel the world. Lots of adventure. Yet hanging here, with family, is THE place to be. I have never missed a Christmas at home, often leaving "important" assignments to do so.
Right after I took this shot, my mom said "Oh David, you had better move that picture out of the light. It might fade".
I don't think so mom, I don't think so.


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Amazing work!! I love it!! Thanks for sharing this art.
Cheers from Barcelona!
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Amazing work!! I love it!! Thanks for sharing this art.
Cheers from Barcelona!
Very Good!!!!
Hell, that timelapse video was plain fun to look at!
Thank you very much for sharing.
The way you used Paul's technique of inserting mesh shapes on the face is done so well! I appreciate how well you made the teeth-like spurs on the sides of the face. And the beard of pointed teeth-like barbs are really well thought out and executed. Thank you for sharing all these shots. They are great to see.
Wow... Top Row is such a huge honor for me!! Thanks for the support everyone!
I will be adding more soon.
Yeah I actually use Dynamesh and Qremesher a lot now. Mainly for Teeth and Fingernails when I need them.
Due to the way our pipeline is set up I stay away from drastic topology changes when ever possible though,
so Dynamesh and QRemesher get more attention in my personal work that's for sure!
Thanks for watching!
There have been a handful of characters that have needed the entire Upper Torso w/arms.
I do end up sculpting a lot of hands cut off about mid-way up to the elbow though.
Much in the same way I approach the facial morphs. Sculpting the human hand first
from reference, then adding a Creature Layer on top that we can morph between.
The timelapse took ~4 nights to put together after work, I'm really glad to hear people enjoying it.
I was worried at first because it was originally 20 minutes of footage (already sped up from zbrush)
I knew I needed about half that length to get people to actually finish it.
Rather than cutting anything out, I upped the speed by 200%, which worked out pretty well with my music
of choice.
Great work, very effective. I really hope the series survives for a while. Thanks for the insights.
brilliant!! gg for the top row!!
Beautiful work, sir. It's creepy, effective and superbly executed. Thanks for posting that comparison shot with the two versions of the saber-tooth face. That was really illuminating. I'm following your lead and checking out that book.
Great Stuff!
have to admit that am actually following the series and
now seeing your pictures, rly great work ... keep it up
Great work! :tu:
cool! Great to see who's behind the stuff. I love that show, one of my favs lately!
Great job guys, this is one of my favourite shows on TV...
Thanks for all the positive comments everyone! I'll try and answer individually tomorrow.
Here's a few renders before I go to sleep. Straight out of BPR.
Kimura the Assassin from the Season 1 Finale.
I had about a day and a half to sculpt him due to deadlines.
waooo fantastic
Hey! I was also being tested for that job position, and can now see why I didn't make it - top notch work! Congrats! :tu:


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The Hull brothers created bluepoint in late June after leaving MSSB, where they had been institutional consulting directors with Graystone Consulting, according to Dynasty, which develops and integrates wealth management services for independent advisors and is based in New York. The Barron's magazine 2012 top advisor list for Wisconsin ranks Michael Hull's Graystone office in Madison as the No. 4 advisor in the state, at $3.83 billion in total assets, with a typical account size of $95 million.
"Patrick and I are excited to be launching bluepoint," Michael Hull said in a statement, referring to his brother, Patrick (left). "The ability to comprehensively address the needs of our clients without external conflict or pressure is in the best interest of both our institutional and ultra high net worth clients. We have built an exceptional business over the past 20 years. Creating bluepoint sets us above and beyond what we have been able to do in the past, and is the best plan for our clients now."
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On May 25, the Honduran press corps took to the streets of Tegucigalpa and four other cities to reject the growing levels of violence against members of the media. Many marchers donned yellow-and-black t-shirts emblazoned with the words: "Killing journalists will not kill the truth."
It was an impressive show of solidarity but in the aftermath, a question hung in the air: what took them so long? Though the pace of attacks and killings of reporters picked up dramatically after a 2009 coup ousted the country's president, last month's march was the first nationwide protest by journalists.
Due to political and drug-related violence as well as widespread impunity, Honduras, a nation of 7.5 million people, is one of the most dangerous countries in the region for journalists, CPJ research shows. At least 14 journalists have been killed since President Porfirio Lobo took office in January 2010. The systematic failure of Honduran authorities to investigate these crimes has frustrated any attempt to solve the murders, CPJ said in a letter sent to Lobo in December.
The climate is so intimidating that reporters told CPJ that they don't dare probe deeply into crucial issues like drug trafficking or government corruption. Many print reporters have removed their bylines from their stories. Tiempo, a San Pedro Sula-based daily newspaper that consistently criticizes the government, has shut down its investigative unit due to safety concerns. Some reporters claim the only safe way to tell the truth about Honduras is to write a novel.
"Everyone feels vulnerable," said Mavis Cruz, director of the news program Noticias a la Hora on Radio Libertad in San Pedro Sula. "There have been so many abuses against journalists and there is almost total impunity." But rather than coming together to face this crisis, Honduran journalists are deeply divided and suspicious of one another.
Besides damaging the country's democracy, the June 2009 military-backed coup that ousted leftist former President Manuel Zelaya fractured the national press corps into opposing camps, according to Juan Carlos Rodríguez, a general assignment reporter for Tiempo in San Pedro Sula.
Journalists in favor of the coup or who work for media outlets that supported Zelaya's ouster are known in Spanish as golpistas or "coup-backers," while those who opposed it have been pigeon-holed as resistencia, or part of the political resistance.
Rodríguez says that when "resistance" journalists are attacked or killed, the news receives scant attention or comment from pro-coup media--which includes most of the country's major television, radio, and print outlets.
By contrast, the May 15 killing of Ángel Alfredo Villatoro, a prominent radio host and close friend of President Lobo, has been headline news for days. Indeed, it was the killing of Villatoro, one of the country's best-known journalists, which prompted the Honduran press corps to temporarily set aside its differences and stage the May 25 nationwide protest, according to Karina Interiano, who anchors the Noti6 TV news program on Channel 6 in San Pedro Sula. Journalists in Tegucigalpa did participate in a smaller march in December after the murder of reporter Luz Marina Paz Villalobos. They were beaten and tear-gassed by soldiers and police, according to press reports.
Honduras is one of the world's most violent countries. A 2011 United Nations report found it has the world's highest per capita homicide rate, with 82.1 murders per every 100,000 inhabitants.
As CPJ noted in its Journalist Security Guide released this year, professional solidarity is important in situations in which local journalists face sustained risk. "Perhaps the best step journalists can take in such environments is organizing themselves first in their newsroom, then with other journalists and news organizations within their city or region, and ultimately across their nation," the guide states. Groups such as Colombia's Foundation for a Free Press and the Brazilian Association for Investigative Reporting have played valuable roles in curbing attacks on journalists.
In Honduras, adding to the mutual suspicion among reporters is the fear that they are being spied on by colleagues who may be passing information to security forces. These journalist/informants are known locally as orejas, Spanish for "ears." The scenario is especially chilling because many reporters believe that some of the attacks on journalists have taken place with the tacit approval or complicity of the country's police and military.
"Lots of journalists are corrupt and receive payoffs," Cruz said. As she spoke in a hotel restaurant, a reporter suddenly approached the table, uninvited, to greet her. Later, Cruz whispered that the reporter probably doubled as an informant.
These tensions add to the regional rivalries that have long existed between reporters in Tegucigalpa, the capital, and those based in San Pedro Sula, the country's industrial center and largest city. Even within news organizations, there's often a lack of solidarity, reporters told CPJ.
Rubén Escobar, an editor at Tiempo in San Pedro Sula, told CPJ that his supervisors have failed to hold a single meeting to discuss the deteriorating security situation and have neglected to provide any guidance or training to help reporters protect themselves. "I have taken some courses in personal security but I did that myself," Escobar told CPJ.
And trying to bring rival reporters together to work out their differences is getting more difficult due to the spiraling violence. Escobar said that reporters in San Pedro Sula rarely meet after work for drinks or dinner anymore because that could expose them to shootouts between gang members or drug lords. "These days if I want to have a few beers I buy them at the supermarket and bring them home," he said.
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Abstract: In many OECD countries, a seller has a right to reimbursement of VAT (RVAT) she has paid on goods sold, but for which she has not yet received payment. Such reimbursement of VAT on receivables is economically inefficient. It leads to: * Distortion of credit markets, by subsidizing direct credit at the cost of financial intermediaries. * Price discrimination, by subsidizing buyers with low creditworthiness. * A less efficient collection of bad debts, as trade with bad debts is made extremely expensive. The finance literature presents several "good" arguments in favor of trade credits, e.g. transaction costs and asymmetric information. In contrast RVAT is an economically "bad" argument for trade credit. It is a subsidy that leads to inefficiently high use of trade credit. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7193
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A TV personality. A syrupy smooth voice on the radio. A long-running game show host.
And, of course, a winning smile to ring in the new year. Every year.
Few growing up in the last century didn't welcome 'America's oldest teenager' into their living rooms.
Dick Clark suffered a heart attack on Wednesday. And, after several attempts to resuscitate him, died in a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 82.
Clark's fame didn't come overnight. It began in 1945, as a mail room clerk at a New York radio station. From there, he made the improbable leap to weatherman. And onward to the station's news announcer. Moving onward and upward at a Philadelphia radio and TV station, Clark found himself a substitute host at an afternoon teen dance show called 'Grandstand'.
Well, you know where that ended up -- its name changed to 'American Bandstand,' Clark became its full-time host.
And the show's first guest when it went national?
Elvis Presley.
On our Facebook page, readers wasted no time in chiming in with their favourite Dick Clark memories.
"Watching American Bandstand as a kid..and my parents letting me stay up to watch the NYE show," wrote Sandra Smith.
Neil Clements' favourite memory?
"Spending Saturdays at my grandmother's was never complete without watching American bandstand and checking out the latest American music. I saw my first rap act on that show."
"He brought only happiness to people in his career," added Mike McManus.
"The man who brought to us American Bandstand...need I say more?!" Audrey Murray wrote.
Probably not, Audrey. But Dick Clark did so much more in a career that spanned half a century.
And he leaves an indelible imprint on the future. Clark was the creator and longtime host of "New Years' Rockin' Eve" -- an event that brought families together in front of the TV since its inception in 1972. When he suffered a stroke in 2004, he was forced to retire from the show. But that didn't keep Clark from making annual appearances, ushering in the new year with his trademark smile.
Certainly 2013 won't be the same without Dick Clark.
And the past?
Perhaps reader Cherie Parker Johnson expressed it best, when she wrote:
"Dick Clark's passing saddens me. It's like losing a part of my youth. Me - Saturday mornings - Dick Clark - American Bandstand - Tony Orlando and other incredible entertainers made tons of cherished child and teen memories!"
Here's how the news of his death hit the Twitterverse: