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Growing uncertainty swirls around Afghanistan's economic climate as the country inches closer to December 2014, when U.S. and international combat troops are expected to withdraw from an increasingly unpopular war. Many Afghans believe the end of the war also means the end of international investment in their country.
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Ace Hardware has become the first American business to announce a partnership with an Afghan corporation to open a franchise in the war-riddled country.
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Well-known for her rapport with artists, Houston has hosted hundreds of interview sessions and Marquee Member concerts. She also serves as Executive Producer of the FUV Live concert series, books the annual Holiday Cheer for FUV concert, and produces annual benefit CDs of performances from WFUV's Studio A.
After years as a popular midday host, Houston shifted her on-air presence to create 'The Whole Wide World with Rita Houston,' which airs Friday nights from 6-9pm, showcasing her famously wide-ranging taste in music and often featuring live sessions with artists from around the globe.
Out of the studio, Houston was instrumental in the "Required Listening" series of shows at the Bottom Line in Manhattan's Greenwich Village (R.I.P.), showcasing new and underappreciated artists for an eager audience. She also served as host of the "In Their Own Words" series there as well, renowned interview-and-performance evenings with influential songwriters talking about their ideas and influences.
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Michael Hasenstab of Franklin Templeton delivered the opening keynote address on Wednesday at the Morningstar Investment Conference, and his message was simple: emerging markets are not monolithic.
"To talk of emerging markets as uniform makes no sense," said the chief investment officer of global bonds for Franklin Templeton's fixed income group. As an example, he displayed a slide showing the wide range of 2013 returns for individual countries, with Hungary as the top performer and Indonesia as the worst performer: "Look at the variance," he suggested, in terms of both performance and fundamentals.
Taking a longer view, he used Mexico as an example. "Is it the 1990s? Not in Mexico," where today the country has a credit line that enables it to navigate volatile asset flows. "It's one of our largest investments," he said, with an economy tied to the reviving U.S. economy, and said Mexico's improvement has been "impressive." Many EM countries have delevered, he pointed out; even Ukraine only has a 40% debt-to-GDP ratio.
Hasenstab had another message for investors worried about countries' debt-to-GDP ratios. "If you're concerned about debt in the U.S. and Eurozone, you should be petrified about Japan's debt."
While many market observers have been focused on the Fed, they should be looking at central bank actions worldwide. "What's driving the emerging markets? Central banks," he said, especially the Bank of Japan, which is set to print $1 trillion as part of the Abenomics' "tripod" policy, which includes QE, structural reform and fiscal consolidation. "But only QE is working," he said.
Japan is now running both a trade deficit and a current account deficit, and the BOJ's QE "could be looked at simply as debt monetization, where one arm of the Japanese government" is helping out another arm. That $1 trillion, he worries, will be sending a "wall of liquidity" into Asia.
Speaking of which, Hasenstab then focused on China, where the investment-consumption mix is changing. Mao's "one-child" policy is now beginning to show itself in labor shortages in China, which has led to real monthly wage increases since the early 2000s. Higher wages, he said, leads to higher consumer spending, even though Chinese workers are big savers. That consumption will become a "larger, more stable share" of China's GDP, serving as a "growth anchor for China."
He counseled that China economy watchers should look at labor and wage dynamics, not other measurements of the economy, as indications of where the country is headed. President Xi of China is moving to liberalize interest rates, which will allow more capital to flow to the private sector, which in turn will yield "less quantity, but higher quality of growth."
China also still needs massive investment in its infrastructure to support its rapid urbanization process, including railways. He displayed a slide showing the nascent subway system in the city of Chengdu and compared its relatively paltry system with the sprawling Tokyo subway system. The point: to build a large city, the mass transit system must be large and broad enough to support the residents and businesses of that city.
Concluding his presentation, Hasenstab spoke of what Franklin Templeton's bond portfolio managers are attempting to achieve: how to deliver positive returns in a negative period for bonds. There are three sources of potential alpha over time in a global bond portfolio: the yield curve, currencies and sovereign credit. The strategies his team is taking including holding very short duration bonds, and on sovereigns, "going more global," such as increasing its exposure to Korea.
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I'm not actually sure whether this is a VB.net problem or an ESRI problem...but given the number of really odd ESRI quirks I've encountered, my money's on the latter...
I have a piece of code in an Add-In toolbar that creates an update cursor from a spatial query and cycles through the results checking feature length and deleting features below a certain threshold. I don't think that's too relevant, but just in case...
My problem is that when I run the code independently of the IDE (i.e., just from ArcMap) OR when I run the code from the IDE (Debug-->Start Debugging) without breakpoints, this block of code does not execute. If, however, I place a breakpoint after the cursor is retrieved and run the code from the IDE, this block of code executes just fine. The results are HUGELY different depending on whether I've put a breakpoint there or not.
Has anyone encountered a situation like this? Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong? I've tried deleting the add-in, cleaning the solution, restarting my computer, and rebuilding, and it does not help.
Edit: Here's the code block:
curSubs = fcSubBasin.Update(Nothing, False)
ftrSub = curSubs.NextFeature
Dim pOutline As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.IPolyline, pTopoOper As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.ITopologicalOperator
Do While Not ftrSub Is Nothing
Using pComReleaser3 As New ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.ComReleaser
curStreams = modUtilities.PerformSpatialQuery(fcStreams, ftrSub.Shape, ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.esriSpatialRelEnum.esriSpatialRelContains)
'figure out which is the longest
pDataStats = New ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.DataStatistics
pDataStats.SimpleStats = True
pDataStats.Field = strLengthFld
pDataStats.Cursor = curStreams
pStats = pDataStats.Statistics
dblMaxLength = pStats.Maximum
curStreams = Nothing
End Using
Using pComReleaser3 As New ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.ComReleaser
'first, delete all straggler segments - little bits of stream that are a result of the delineated boundary not perfectly matching
'the nodes of the stream network
curStreams = modUtilities.PerformSpatialQuery(fcStreams, ftrSub.Shape, ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.esriSpatialRelEnum.esriSpatialRelContains, method:="Update")
ftrStream = curStreams.NextFeature
Do Until ftrStream Is Nothing
'only keep the feature if it's the max length we just figured out
If ftrStream.Value(intLengthFld) < dblMaxLength Then
End If
ftrStream = curStreams.NextFeature
curStreams = Nothing
End Using
Using pComReleaser3 As New ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.ComReleaser
'next, delete any segments that happen to coincide perfectly with the subwatershed boundaries; they were created by intersect but would
'not have been caught by the polygon contains above
pTopoOper = TryCast(ftrSub.Shape, ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.ITopologicalOperator)
If Not pTopoOper Is Nothing Then
pOutline = pTopoOper.Boundary
curStreams = modUtilities.PerformSpatialQuery(fcStreams, pOutline, ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.esriSpatialRelEnum.esriSpatialRelContains, method:="Update")
ftrStream = curStreams.NextFeature
Do Until ftrStream Is Nothing
'delete any stream segments that coincide with the subwatershed boundary
ftrStream = curStreams.NextFeature
curStreams = Nothing
End If
ftrSub = curSubs.NextFeature
End Using
curSubs = Nothing
REVISED INFORMATION: After further investigation I've discovered that what's actually happening is that while I'm stepping through the debugger, the spatial query works properly. When I am not stepping through the debugger, it does not. I am using ESRI's spatial query snippet as below (with very small tweaks), passing relation 'contains' to select line segments that are within polygons. The line feature class is the result of an intersection with the polygon feature class immediately prior to this, so all lines should fall within a polygon. However, when I am not stepping through with the debugger, several of the lines are not selected. Does this clarification offer any additional ideas?
Public Function PerformSpatialQuery(ByVal featureClass As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.IFeatureClass, _
ByVal searchGeometry As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.IGeometry, _
ByVal spatialRelation As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.esriSpatialRelEnum, _
Optional ByVal whereClause As System.String = "", _
Optional ByVal method As String = "Search") As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.IFeatureCursor
' create a spatial query filter
Dim spatialFilter As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.ISpatialFilter = New ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.SpatialFilterClass()
' specify the geometry to query with
spatialFilter.Geometry = searchGeometry
' specify what the geometry field is called on the Feature Class that we will be querying against
Dim nameOfShapeField As System.String = featureClass.ShapeFieldName
spatialFilter.GeometryField = nameOfShapeField
' specify the type of spatial operation to use
spatialFilter.SpatialRel = spatialRelation
' create the where statement
If whereClause <> "" Then 'added the 'optional' in the function statement and this if-then to make the whereClause optional
spatialFilter.WhereClause = whereClause
End If
' perform the query and use a cursor to hold the results
Dim featureCursor As ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.IFeatureCursor
If String.Equals(method, "Search", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) Then
featureCursor = featureClass.Search(spatialFilter, False)
featureCursor = featureClass.Update(spatialFilter, False)
End If
Return featureCursor
End Function


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The Web is the defacto foundation for the enterprise. That's why business applications used in the enterprises today should come from the same standards-based infrastructure as todays web, an environment that is truly elastic. Yet that's not what's currently happening. Many SaaS-based business applications and intelligent decision support systems, for example, don't necessarily communicate with one another using the most agile and elastic technology, therefore these SaaS applications are missing the last mile of elasticity and they remain isolated and largely untapped within the enterprise. Siloed systems create inconsistency, inaccuracy, and inefficiency across the business.
Only a handful of people are thinking about this next step in true enterprise integration — this necessary evolution demands that each part of the business is integrated into a single cohesive unit. And the solutions that exist don't bridge the gap well enough, often adding bloated, "cloud-washed" versions of legacy enterprise applications.
Developers and engineers at forward-thinking companies must demand modern solutions that are built to last and embody the lean, entrepreneurial spirit of the Web. Every company is different, and solutions must reflect that differentiation, to enable growth at the pace that the organization demands. Both business users and IT require smart, standards-based technology that's not just accessible to a computer science doctorate, but to all of the business.
The New Demand: 'Give Me Data, and Make it Snappy!'
A new need is being born from this evolution of enterprise applications in the form of SaaS — businesses need to seamlessly and quickly share data across the enterprise regardless of where the data resides. Elastic integration is what the cloud truly needs to facilitate this demand.
Integration solutions have been available for some time. But these tools were built for structured data within the confines of a firewall. In the long term, maintaining integration between modern, SaaS-based apps and traditional ERP systems using legacy integration tools is impossible. IT will always be at least one step behind business needs. These new SaaS apps need the power to quickly connect to data (and enterprise security and access control models) and to morph as the business environment changes.
A CIO colleague relayed a SaaS and integration scenario to me that he's experienced as CIO of more than one large public company, a scenario that many CIOs with whom I counsel on integration challenges agree is true for them as well. The story goes as follows, the business owners come to IT and ask for "a website for such-and-such" and essentially the alleged website winds up carving out some minor functionality of a large ERP system, but it does it more efficiently, say for example, cloud-based talent management or compensation management as SaaS carves functionality from on-premises HRMS or ERP systems. These business owners with the power of SaaS and a credit card, are able to "take revenge on IT" by purchasing an app.
Armed with a URL, a username and a password they start an innocent "revenge of the business" purchase. What ensues only a brief few weeks later is a request for data access to core systems, which can take months, in the best case. In the worst cases, the "revenge of the business" app has been operating in a silo or even worse the vendor who supplied the app goes out of business and then there is a more critical data and support issue. This is a recurring saga and the way to head it off at the pass, is to give CIOs and their IT teams the means to rapidly and securely provision SaaS apps with data and governance.
The key is to get ahead of the problem, and use an equally agile and distributed data model that you can provision with a url, username and password, that inherits your existing security and access control and governance model — data integration at the speed of business.
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With rapidly evolving business models, an agile enterprise business must implement inherently social and collaborative features within their business processes and applications. Cloud technologies facilitate a community of empowered developers and that partnership breeds creativity using software solutions that are customized for the business. In this way, developers and CIOs are able to innovate.
A truly web based infrastructure must be built on a lightweight yet powerful 100 percent RESTful distributed architecture, which supports massive scale, Internet speed, and stateless connectivity. This liberates the organization and enables agility — users, infrastructure, and data can be anywhere and they simply synch with each other as opposed to requiring months of complex manual coding to achieve brittle integration that requires constant maintenance anytime something changes or needs to be updated (versioning, patching, etc).
How will IT achieve this? The truth is that enterprises will always have data that sits both on-premises and in the cloud. The trick is to integrate data across these two planes in a way that is fast, flexible, and scalable, so that a variety of data types can be processed – big, relational, semi-structured, or unstructured — and delivered in a variety of ways including batch, event-based or streaming, by intelligently shipping functions or data of any volume — no matter where the data resides, in a flexibly controlled and distributed manner. This is what we call elastic integration.
The beauty of the Web is its usage of simple elements like HTTP to manage data transport – the largest distributed platform on the planet. The same architectural principles can be applied to the enterprise in order to maximize your resources.
For example, a browser-based, visual configuration environment saves time and encourages wider adoption. With this sort of "dashboard" approach, project teams can get a huge head start with a shared portfolio of reusable and modular integration resources. And with systems like SnapLogic, which works with a visual designer, IT pros can quickly build integration pipelines that read and write data to and from any cloud or on-premise system — without manual coding. Once complete, every integration pipeline is instantly available as a Web service and never needs versioning or updates, ever.
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Alvin O. Converse
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Al Converse served on Thayer School's regular faculty from 1963 to 2000. Before that he taught chemical engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia. Then Converse found himself attracted to the broad nature of Thayer's engineering sciences program: "I liked Thayer School's engineering sciences approach and its stress on creative engineering design."
In addition to spearheading Thayer School's research program in the use of enzymes to convert biomass to ethanol, Converse was instrumental in shaping the School's curriculum during the 1960s. He has taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level in transport phenomena, chemical reactor design, and energy conversion. "There is a great deal of overlap between the various fields of engineering," said Converse. "At Thayer School we've had a unique opportunity to develop courses that are important to many different fields."
Chemical engineering; reactor design; enzyme and chemical kinetics; cellulose hydrolysis; energy technology.
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University 1954
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware 1959
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware 1961
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Selected Publications
- "Renewable energy in the US, is there enough land?" Accepted for publication in App'd. Biochem. Biotech. (2007)
- "The impact of large-scale energy storage requiresments on the choice between electricity and hydrogen as the major energy carrier in a non-fossil renewables-only scenario". Energy Policy 34 (2006) 3374-3376
- with Xia Li and Charles Wyman, "Characterization of molecular weight distribution of oligomers from autocatalyzed batch hydrolysis of xylan", App'd. Biochem. Biotech. 105-108 (2003) 515-522
- with Gray, M. C. and C.E.Wyman "Sugar Monomer and Oligomer Solubility", Appl'd Biochem. Biotechnol., 105-8 (2003) 179-193
- Bioresource Technology 81 (2002) (109-116)
Selected Patents
- Cross-flow process for the production of decomposable soluble products from a slurry of solids (6,632,286)
- Cyclone reactor (4,818,295)
- Process for hydrolysis of biomass (4,556,430)
Professional Activities
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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High school students who catch up on sleep over the weekend do worse on attention tests in school than kids who don't get extra shuteye, according to a new study from South Korea.
Researchers say the findings suggest "sleep debt" accumulated during the week might be taxing the teens' intellectual resources.
"It's like a bank -- they are on constant, huge sleep overdraft," Dr. David Gozal, an expert in childhood sleep problems at the University of Chicago, told Reuters Health.
"If this is the way you manage your credit card, you will be bankrupt very soon," Gozal, who was not part of the study, said.
On average, the Korean teens -- some 2,600 high school students -- only got five hours and 42 minutes of sleep on weekdays. During the weekend, however, they added nearly three hours of shuteye per night, based on questionnaires.
Those who slept more on weekends -- indicating they were sleep deprived during the week -- did worse on computerized attention tasks in class, Dr. Seog Ju Kim of Gachon University of Medicine and Science in Incheon and colleagues found.
Although their results don't prove that lack of sleep is to blame, they could not be explained by differences in age, sex, depression or snoring, the researchers report in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Attention problems were not tied to the number of hours teens slept during the week, however. Gozal said that makes sense because some children may thrive on little sleep, whereas those who don't will try to catch up on their sleep debt over the weekend.
To Gozal, the findings are just one more piece of evidence showing that cutting back on sleep can take a toll on youngsters -- even if they're spending the extra waking hours doing homework.
"Attention and executive function is the first step of academic success," he said. "There is enough evidence from animals that shows the need for sleep is not something we can circumvent."
Gozal explained that while Korean students might be getting less sleep than their American peers, sleep has also become a scarce commodity in the U.S. -- among teenagers, adults and even babies.
According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, school-age children and adolescents should sleep at least nine hours per night, although some do fine on less.
"In a society that is very driven by academic performance," Gozal said, "a child or adolescent that needs to catch up on sleep during the weekend is probably a child at risk."
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Patricia Medici, Chair of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group (TSG) and Charudutt Mishra, a member of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group are two of the three winners to be awarded the Golden Ark Award in 2008.
Patrícia Medici, Coordinator of the Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative (LTCI) in Brazil and Chair of the IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group (CBSG) and Charudutt Mishra, member of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group are two of the three winners of the Golden Ark Award from the Golden Ark Foundation in the Netherlands.
The goal of the Golden Ark Foundation is to promote the conservation of species of wild animals and plants. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation has established the Golden Ark Award, a prestigious conservation award, which rewards and funds individuals for their internationally outstanding species conservation efforts. The Golden Ark Award honors creativity, leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of species conservation, and aims to stimulate award winners to sustain their dedicated work.
In September 2007, 69 conservationists from 40 different countries worldwide were nominated for the Golden Ark Award. Ten of the nominees were short-listed for the second phase of the selection process, and three of them were selected as the winners of the award. Patrícia Medici was nominated by the Dutch Foundation Zoos Help of the Dutch Federation of Zoos, a long-term supporter of Patrícia's tapir conservation efforts in Brazil. Charudutt Mishra from , works on Himalayan wildlife with a strong focus on the snow leopard.
The other winner of the Golden Ark Award 2008 was Michiel Hötte from the Netherlands, a pioneer in Amur leopard conservation in Russia. Award winners will receive €50.000 as a contribution to their conservation work. Patrícia, Charudutt, and Michiel will be the definite winners of the Golden Ark Award when they receive it during the Golden Ark Conference at Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, on the 14th of March, 2008.
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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake DF Rich Balchan underwent successful surgery to repair a dislocated left shoulder on Thursday in Salt Lake City. The surgery was performed by team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Andrew Cooper at Salt Lake Regional Hospital. Balchan will miss four to six months.
Balchan dislocated his shoulder twice in the first 13 minutes of the RSL Reserves' 1-0 win over the LA Galaxy Reserves at America First Field on April 28. He received treatment and continued playing after suffering the first dislocation, but had to come off after suffering a second dislocation minutes later. This is Balchan's second left shoulder surgery in the last several years.
The 11th overall pick in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft, Balchan signed with Real Salt Lake this preseason after spending his first two years with the Columbus Crew. The Indiana University product dealt with other injuries at the start of the 2013 season and has not made any appearances this year for the RSL first-team. He has five MLS Reserve League appearances – including two starts – and a start in a friendly match this year.
Real Salt Lake will return to MLS action this Sunday, when it will close its three-game road trip with a match against Western Conference foe Chivas USA at the Home Depot Center. Sunday's match will kickoff at 8:30 p.m. MT and will be broadcast live on CW30, ESPN 700 AM and 102.3 La Gran D FM/1600 AM.


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Our thoughts & prayers are w/ the family of Ofc Stephen Arkell & our #Brothers & #Sisters@BrentwoodPD#NH#RIP#Heropic.twitter.com/cp7LKiIVpN— Hanover Police (@HanoverPolice) May 13, 2014
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"Another police officer arrived and entered the home, but was driven out by gunfire," Foster said. New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan paid tribute to Arkell in a statement.
An explosion later blew off part of the roof of the two-story house in suburban Brentwood according to video seen on WMUR-TV. The house was on fire at the time.
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In our explorations into parts and parts replacement, we often mention the service manual. While there are certainly a large part of the monkeywrenching public who would throw directions to the wind, instructions can be a good thing when it comes to things like working brakes and wheels not falling off the car. Finding the service manual can be half the battle. Read on for a few tips for locating the books for everything from a 1971 Ford Pinto Rallye to a late-model Honda That's.
Making the Books
There are more or less two kinds of books when it comes to automobile repair. The first and most expensive are the factory service manuals. These are the same books the guys and gals at the dealership use to fix errant connecting rods or chase faulty electronics. If you're behind the wheel of something more or less modern, then the factory service manual may be the only option. Next in line are another kind of service manual. Companies like Haynes and Chiltons use factory service manuals along with cameras to dismantle then reassemble automobiles to produce their own repair books. These are usually geared more towards the shade free mechanic. Finding a service or repair manual is much like finding a car.
The Dealer
The first and most expensive option is to step up to the parts counter at the dealership. If the owner's manual in the glovebox has the same year on the cover as that magnetic calendar on the fridge, then forking over a pile of cash may be the only option until some time passes. This is usually a fairly painful financial experience. Forgo the tru-cote and ask for a copy of the factory sevis or repair manual instead.
Made of Wood
Call us crusty, but we still cling to this antiquated idea that a bookstore is still a good place to find books. Bookstores that specialize in motorized interests are a good place to find a service manual for that old SIMCA, oil-spewing NSU, or Fiat 500 stored in several five-gallon buckets in the backyard. There are even bookstores that specialize solely in automobile factory service manuals! Not surprisingly a number of these booksellers have something called a computer to help reunite books and car owners.
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Summer means the return of flip flops and swap meets. The factory issue service manual and NOS windshield wiper knob for that '63 Plymouth Fury are out there. Don't just hit the automotive swaps. Branch out into flea markets and garage sales and keep your eyes open for a dog eared copy of the Chevy II twin-book set. Sometimes a book can garner interest in potential car purchases. Warning! A sawbuck plunked down for a seemingly harmless service manual can result in countless thousands of dollars sunk into project cars.
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Thai clashes leave at least four dead as Prime Minister faces charges
Bangkok: Thailand's anti-corruption commission announced it will charge Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra with neglect of duty as riot police and anti-government protesters clashed in Bangkok on Tuesday, leaving a policeman and three others dead and dozens injured.
The commission will summon Ms Yingluck to appear before it next week over her role in a controversial rice farm subsidy scheme that has cost Thailand billions of dollars.
If found guilty Ms Yingluck, Thailand's first woman prime minister, could be removed from office.
Government officials say the commission's action is part of what they see as a judicial coup orchestrated by powerful figures in Bangkok.
Ms Yingluck, who chaired a body that oversaw the scheme that has left Thailand with huge stockpiles of unsold rice, denies any wrongdoing and says the scheme was established to benefit farmers.
The commission's announcement came as new violence erupted when protesters resisted the most forceful effort yet to reclaim protest sites across the capital.
Gunshots and explosions rang out after police attempted to remove barricades that protesters had erected near a bridge near key government offices.
The government said that a grenade was used against the police and that tear gas was fired by protesters – not the police.
Police said 24 of its officers were among those hurt.
"I can guarantee that teargas was not used by security forces. The forces did not take teargas with them," said National Security Council chief Paradorn Pattanathabutr.
One of the dead protesters was shot in the head.
Some protesters claimed that police snipers were deployed in locations hours before the violence broke out.
At least four of the injured were police.
After intermittent gunfire police withdrew from the area.
Dozens of protesters then overturned and smashed police vehicles.
One abandoned vehicle with weapons inside was lifted away by protesters using a fork lift.
"Police are killers," a young man yelled as he attacked a vehicle.
Uthi Bencharit, a factory worker, said the shooting started "all of a sudden from the police side" but there were also what seemed to be firecrackers from the protesters. "I think the police wanted to flex their muscles," he said.
Asked whether he believes the unrest will get worse, he said: "I hope not. I think the military will eventually step in. I don't think they can let things go on like this."
Protest leaders accused police of using weapons against their movement they claim is peaceful.
"We insist that we will remain in the seized areas because we don't want the cabinet and prime minister to return and use their barbaric powers," said Ekanant Prompan, a spokesman for the protesters.
Earlier Tuesday about 100 protesters were arrested during a police operation to reclaim the Energy Ministry.
Security officials said 15,000 police had been mobilised to clear protest sites in an operation they called "Peace for Bangkok Mission."
The operation came after talks between senior police and protest leaders had collapsed amid renewed acrimony in a conflict that in broad terms pits one elite group of Thais backed by Bangkok's middle class with another group backed by exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is Ms Yingluck's sister.
The protesters have been rallying since November in a campaign to force the powerful Shinawatra family from politics and set-up an unelected body to run the country for up to two years.
The violence brought to 13 the number of people killed since the protests began after the government attempted to pass an amnesty bill that would have allowed Mr Thaksin to return from exile without having to serve jail time for corruption.
Labor minister Chalerm Yoobamrung said on Monday that if protesters did not leave protest sites at key government buildings police would move to reclaim them this week.
Larger protest sites remain unaffected so far in Bangkok's business and shopping districts.
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Lindsay Murdoch is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia's top award for journalistic excellence. Lindsay is a former correspondent based in Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin. In 1999 he covered the tumultuous events in East Timor, and in 2003 he covered the Iraq war while embedded with US Marines.


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Canadian-based Chariot Carriers has issued a recall for some bicycle trailers and conversion kits. Recalled trailers have serial numbers from 1205-xxxx to 0710-xxxx (representing manufacture dates December 2005 through July 2010) located the left side on the frame.
Recalled conversion kits have hitch arms that attach the carrier to the bicycle with model number 2010053 printed on a label attached to the aluminum tube next to the warning label. The bracket on the carrier is known as the Versa-Wing 2.0 ("VW2").
Older conversion kits without a label, but with a release push button located where the hitch arm inserts into the carrier, are also being recalled.
The bicycle trailer's hitch mechanisms can crack and break, causing the trailer to detach from the bicycle. This poses an injury hazard to children in the bicycle trailer.
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The company has received 2 reports of incidents in Canada. No injuries have been reported.
Health Canada has not received any reports of incidents.
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Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled bicycle trailers and bicycle trailer conversion kits and contact Chariot Carriers for a free repair kit which the consumer can install.
Consumers can receive a repair kit by contacting Chariot at 1-800-262-8651 between 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's website (www.chariotcarriers.com).
Approximately 41,000 of the recalled bicycle trailers and 64,000 of the bicycle trailer conversion kits were sold in Canada. The recalled trailers were sold from December 2005 through August 2010. The recalled hitch arms were sold from October 2002 through August 2011. Manufactured in Canada.
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Except that the concept of "church marketing" makes my stomach turn, this is awesome:
"Africa is, indeed, coming into fashion." - Horace Walpole (1774)
Except that the concept of "church marketing" makes my stomach turn, this is awesome:
It's Buy Nothing Day. In a society that does things as pointless as this, it's time to step back from the madness.
Today I've posted a series of pictures from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. They are just a few of the haunting images that are coming out of the horrific situation there, shot by amazing photographers whom I hope won't be mad at me for posting their pictures. These are pictures that capture the Congo that I know, one where suffering and hope exist side-by-side, one where the absurd site of a soldier in drag is followed by one of a mother carrying a baby on her chest and a heavy load of branches on her back.
Abandoned and orphaned children eat at the Don Bosco orphanage in Goma. Don Bosco is housing about 1,500 people who have fled the war.
(Photo: Walter Estrada, AFP, via The Big Picture)
Pregnant women wait in line for birth kits at an IDP camp in the eastern Congo. Getting a birth kit means that these mothers will be able to have some measure of disinfection when they deliver, including a clean blade to cut the umbillical cord so they won't have to share.
(Photo: Reuters, Finbar O'Reilly. Via The Big Picture.)
( AP Photo: Jerome Delay; via The Big Picture)
As always, you can help victims of the Congo crisis by donating to the work of Heal Africa. A little goes a long way.
Was November 4, 2008 a critical and realigning election?
"Ngarambe Rukambika, 49, is accompanying his son of nine months to Masisi hospital. His son was shot in the legs during an attack on their village in which his wife was killed and family dispersed." - BBC
Yawn. I'm so bored watching Tech embarrass itself that we might as well go ahead and do the Sunday this & that now:
Today is, of course, the second most important football game of the year. And I'm not talking about the hoopla up in Norman. No, today is the 125th edition of The Game, the third-longest running rivalry in college football.
"So..., my dad used to be in the Klan, and he still gets the newsletter."
This is the best argument for limiting the franchise I've ever seen.
Thank goodness, the UN Security Council agreed today to send 3,000 extra troops to the DR Congo! This is great news, and if they can 1) get a country or two to commit those troops and 2) get those troops on the ground before May, will really help to protect more civilians there.
In the annals of fear-mongering by the far right, this has to be among the more amusing things I've seen.
Charlie Rose's show on Thursday night will be about the Congo, and my friend and fellow researcher Severine is one of those interviewed. Set your DVR or watch it online; it will be very informative.
The Texas State Board of Education is meeting to consider science curriculum standards today and tonight. Since the SBOE is controlled by far right-wing extremists who believe that facts are opinions, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that they're going to decide on something crazy that forces Texas public schoolchildren to learn religion in the science classroom. (I should add that many of them homeschool their children, however, they still think they should get to decide what your children learn.) But state law requires them to hear a heck of a lot of testimony from anyone who wants to speak before they can make an official decision.
A text from Mizboyd:
I've mentioned the precious girls my friend Foster Mom parents on this blog before. This afternoon at 3, those sweet girls are going to get some very tough news. It's the right thing, but it's going to be an impossibly painful day for them, one that they will remember for the rest of their lives. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
Obama: already stirring up controversy.
Protegee and her baby niece found their mother. Thanks be to God.
Wow. Didn't see this one coming AT ALL.
Here's a fantastic piece on how Texas Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot.
Focus on the Family chose to focus on politics instead, and it's costing them.
Thanks to David for pointing out this neat map of the correlation between cotton-growing areas of the old Confederacy and pro-Obama voting behavior.
It isn't very often that all three of our teams win in one day. All I can say is, "Bulldog, bulldog, sic 'em, horns!"
"Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have pushed rebels back 5km (three miles) at the front line north of the eastern city of Goma.
Poor, white Southerners voted against Barack Obama in overwhelming numbers, and they did it because of his race. As this article argues, in doing so, it's quite clear that they've made the south - and the Republican Party's Southern strategy - largely irrelevant in national politics.
[As another scholar argued], "...it hasn't worked to vote Republican over the past 30 years in the hope for a Supreme Court that would vote to reverse Roe v. Wade."
My friend Jess and her colleagues are trying to eat on the budget of an American who's on food stamps as part of the Food Stamp Challenge. They each have to get through the whole week on $29.35. Total. Check out their blog on the challenge here. What you'll learn is that it's virtually impossible to eat a healthy diet when you're poor. And that's a problem.
My heart cannot take much more of this. Picture 27 is where I broke.
Well, it's been a full week since Barack Hussein Obama was elected president of the United States of America, and so far, there are no reports of horsemen making mischief, collectivization of farms isn't progressing at all, and Iran hasn't hit Israel with a nuclear bomb. If that doesn't make for a successful transition, I don't know what does.
"The population of Kiwanja is crowded around the MONUC base. Conditions are deplorable. There are no latrines, very little water, no food. Around 15000 people are crowded up to the barbed wire outside the MONUC base. They are begging for help. But the new authorities refuse to allow distributions of humanitarian aid. They have destroyed completely the IDP settlements, and there is not a trace of anything that was left when the fugitives scattered last week.
"Hortance recorded some interviews with mothers and young people. People want to go back to their homes, but they are very afraid. Fear dominates over hunger and the very real danger of cholera. The Mayi Mayi are 15 kms north, and 20kms away on the Ishasha road to the north east. That's really not very far, so the calm is superficial. We can read anxiety and despair on the faces of these people."
Click here to donate to Heal Africa's relief efforts in North Kivu.
Also, over at Inspired to Action, I've posted a way you can help end the financing of these wars, simply by sending an email. Please take a second to check it out.
A good question for supporters of California's Proposition 8.
Remember these kids?
They're treating cholera cases at one of those orphanages this week.
Click here to donate to cholera relief efforts in Goma.
{Photo: Uriel Sinai, Getty Images)
Oh, I've been waiting for this case. It would've been more fun if it'd been a giant Buddha on the lawn of the Texas capitol, but whatever.
South African singer Miriam Makeba passed away today after she collapsed at a concert in Italy last night. Known as "Mama Africa," Makeba was the first African woman to win a Grammy. She sang on Paul Simon's Graceland tour and countless others. Exiled by the racist apartheid government in South Africa for more than thirty years, she was a key figure in the anti-apartheid struggle, and her music was full of life. Here's the last song Mama Africa sang. It was one of her biggest hits, probably because it's pure joy:
Over at Inspired to Action this week, we've been focusing on the problem of human trafficking. Be sure to check out the posts on the subject, ranging from an interview with Sara Groves and Charlie Peacock to a post on the work of the International Justice Mission.
I completely agree with everything Dave Barry says about civility here. And the postscript.
Everything's gotten worse in the eastern Congo:
This one made me weep. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
A little more election-based fodder:
The more I learn about what happened at Baylor this week, the more disgusted and embarassed I am. You can watch some of Baylor's finest explain exactly what happened, and you can see the bonfire of Obama paraphernalia here.
Well, Baylor issued a response to the racially-tinged incidents that occurred on campus last night after Obama's election, including a noose-like rope that was hung from a tree. I trust interim Baylor president David Garland, and I know he takes this seriously.
Actual titles of emails that landed in my inbox in the last 24 hours:
Mercy me, I nearly fainted at all the angry rhetoric from some of my Facebook friends and acquaintances last night. Obama gets elected and all of the sudden we're facing imminent threats of a planned economy, gay abortionists, the second coming of Christ, and half our school teachers moving to the conservative hotbed that is Canada. You'd think it was the end of the world.
Being as we here at Texas in Africa are very interested in providing a public service whenever possible, now seems as good a time as any to launch a project we've been thinking about for awhile now: The Texas in Africa Apocalypse Watch 2008/09. That way, whenever you see a sign that the Obama administration is about to push America over the edge, you can report it here. We'll keep a log of all the plagues of frogs and locusts, rivers of blood, and changes in the color of the moon that are apparently inevitable, so keep 'em coming!
Seriously. I joke, but some of my friends really do believe this kind of rhetoric. And while I certainly believe that there are legitimate reasons to disagree with many of Barack Obama's policy positions, cavalierly throwing around terms like "socialist" and "antichrist" represents a fundamental failure to understand the meaning of those words or the way the American political system operates.
The record will show that I've already gotten on my soapbox a time or two about how bad the theology underlying the Left Behind fiction series is, so I'm not even going to dignify the antichrist nonsense with a response. Besides, according to what Dawson McAlister told us at a conference at Shades Mountain circa 1993, the antichrist will be Russian. ('Cause that's in the Bible, right next to where it says that puppy dogs go to heaven.)
As for "socialism," look. A taxpayer-funded bailout of corporations is not socialism, nor is a proposal to give tax cuts and credits to the middle class and working poor while raising the tax rate on the wealthy. It isn't a "redistribution of wealth" anymore than any other kind of government spending that doesn't benefit everyone in our society is. Socialism occurs when a country institutes a planned economy, puts tight controls on market prices for goods and services, and often uses force to accomplish those ends.
Nobody in the Obama administration will advocate collectivized farming.
Second, those who do and don't like Obama's policies both need to remember that presidents fail to secure their major legislative agendas about 80% of the time. Even in one-party government (which I agree is dangerous and almost always leads to corruption), presidents still have to contend with 535 outsized egos in order to get anything done.
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition," wrote James Madison in Federalist 51. He designed a brilliant system that does just that. It sets up 537 people who are used to getting their way against one another, and forces them to compromise on policies that are best for the most Americans. That means, among other things, that no president, no matter how popular, can do everything he or she wants or promises to do in four or eight years. Remember Bush's bit plans for privatization of Social Security and immigration reform? How about Hillarycare, or Reagan's plan to cut spending that resulted in a huge deficit? Even if Barack Obama wanted to do all the crazy things his critics accuse him of (And, to be 100% clear, he doesn't want to do those things. Stop relying on unsubstantiated rumors and look at the facts), our political system won't allow it to happen.
I'm pretty sure that the fate of the republic is secure. Most of Obama's job will be cleaning up the mess the Bush administration made by restoring the powers of the presidency and vice-presidency to their constitutional limits, rebuilding America's relationships with our historic allies, and figuring out what to do in Iraq. But let us know if you see something funny, m'kay?
Election updates and analysis are aplenty this morning:
Burnt Orange Report says that control of the Texas House depends on the count of provisional ballots in the District 105 race. The two candidates are currently separated by a margin of 25 votes. As of now, the D's appear to have picked up four seats, including that of Diana Maldonado in Round Rock.
President Mwai Kibaki has declared today a national holiday in Kenya.
When we went to see Obama speak in Austin in January, our little group was next to this woman and her son. He was maybe three or four years old, and of course couldn't see, so people around her took turns holding him up. It was way past his bedtime when Obama finally took the stage, I'm sure.
Those of you who think your vote doesn't count should take note of my old classmate Tom Perriello's race in Virginia. He's currently leading by about 500 votes, with 7 precincts still to report.
Well, the news we've all been waiting for: the numbers are in for Floyd County, Texas. With 100% of precincts reporting, 70.8% went for McCain and 28.9% went for Obama.
McCain loses Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. He cannot win now. There's just no way.
I love to vote.
"I left the house at 8 am. It makes my children anxious when I leave. My oldest son, Jean-Felix, who is six years old, has refused to eat. He is afraid all the time that the soldiers will break in. He asks, "When will the war end? When can I go back to school?" Even if some shops are open again in town, the schools have not re-opened. The stalemate could flash back into war at any minute, so parents are afraid to let their children out of their sight.
"My wife is also anxious when I leave; she is finding it hard to feed us. No fresh food has come into town because no one will risk sending their truck out past the multiple army check points. The depots are not open, for fear of looting; a sack of beans is selling for 80$. A few Rutshuru traders got their trucks into the humanitarian convoy yesterday, bringing some vegetables and bananas to the market.
"I took a car and drove out of town to Kayaruchinya, a health center just north of the airport. There's not much traffic about because people don't want to risk their car or motorbike being requisitioned by the military. What a contrast to the usual scene of bumper to bumper vehicles, with the cloud of motorbike taxis weaving in and out like mosquitoes.
"The scene in Kanyaruchinya breaks my heart. There must be around 10 000 people crowded round the health centre. They are despondent, sitting in lines, waiting for someone to bring them help. The scenes of yesterday are fresh in their memory. Two children were crushed to death underfoot by adults in their rush to grab a handful of biscuits. These people have been waiting in the torrential rain, and the sun, without shelter, without water, since Tuesday. Kanyaruchinya is at the foot of the volcano: there are no wells, no streams, and no piped water in this vast expanse of black volcanic rock.
"I look for the camp manager to see how HEAL Africa can help. These people came from the Kibumba camp, but no one has seen their manager since they fled; there is no one to orgnaise an orderly distribution. UNICEF is preparing for a distribution of rations again today; Mercy Corps is bringing in water with a tanker. All I can do is pray: May God multiply these rations – they are insignificant for such a crowd; and that is what causes a stampede...
"Since the beginning of this fresh round of fighting, our hospital with 150 beds has received 42 war wounded civilians, 27 of them from Wednesday and Thursday. I am so sad to see a little five year old girl, whose face and chest is completely burned. She just happened to be passing by a group of youngsters who had collected bullets around the edge of the army camp. They were playing with them, burning them, and some cartridges were still live. This little girl happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, when the live bullets exploded in the fire.
"Bernard Kouchner and David Milliband arrive around 4 o'clock. It's pouring torrential rain. European security forces are all over town; we don't know where these two are going, or where they are staying or who they are seeing. But their arrival is a glimmer of hope for us. We are convinced that our town was saved by the outcry in the world, pushing these big powers to get involved.
"It's evening, and I'm going home after the rain. I can see some Goma people straggling back into town. These are the ones who fled to Sake on Tuesday. And then there are the new arrivals, the people who have been on the run all this year. It's pitiful to see mothers spreading their tattered cloths on the bare black rocks of Goma, and huddling against the wooden walls of houses, surrounded by their hungry children. They are begging for food. When I talked to some of them this morning, their one question was: When can we go home? Many of them have been living like this since April, with no help. They have survived by digging other people's gardens in return for a share of food. If there will be no more fighting, they want nothing more than to go home.
"Back at home, I am so thankful for our meal of beans and rice. It comes from the stock we bought back in October. Always the same thing, but at least we have food on the table. The neighbourhood is quiet. There are many patrols of military police, and anyone suspected of thieving will be shot. So everyone stays inside, under voluntary curfew: no one comes out for fear of being mistaken for looters.
Photo of an injured baby in a Rutshuru hospital: Getty Images/Uriel Sinai
Hi, my name is Texas in Africa, and I am not a single-issue voter.
Here's an example of such an argument from Focus on the Family. (If you think I'm unfairly explaining the line of reasoning here, please leave a comment so I can clarify.)I think this is an incredibly irresponsible way to vote.
ESPN reports that Phillip Fulmer will step down as Tennessee's coach at the end of this season.
In a reminder that some things are more important than poorly-called football games officiated by apparently blind referees, I'm happy to report that a UN aid convoy will cross the rebel lines to help the estimated 250,000 displaced Congolese who are trapped there and who have received little to no aid in the last week.
Here's word from the folks at Heal Africa. Dr. Jo and Lyn Lusi are featured by the BBC today. Joseph Ciza, mentioned below, is a good friend and contact who more-or-less saved my research project when I wasn't sure what to do. He is fearless and will go anywhere to talk to anyone about ending the rape epidemic. Please keep him, his family, and his safety in your thoughts and prayers.
In a couple of days, I'll be posting on a practical effort you can be part of to help change the situation in the Congo in a lasting way. Please check back then.


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The National Trust has just made another small step towards making its collections more accessible: our object database, including fine and decorative art, furniture and household and estate parafernalia is now available online as National Trust Collections.
This is very much a work in progress. Although almost three quarters of a million items are currently available online, more are still being added and we will probably end up with closer to a million.
Some records are more extensive and complete than others, but several people (of which I am one) are constantly checking and improving descriptions and adding images. We thought it would be better to show you what has been recorded so far, warts and all, rather than wait until everything is perfect.
So do let us know if you spot anything that can be improved – either by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or by contacting me.
Equally, we hope you will enjoy browsing the collections and discovering the beautiful, weird and wonderful objects lurking in the various historic houses of the National Trust. If you have a specific research interest there are various ways you can search, such as by historic house, by object category, or by date. Happy treasure-hunting!


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Political Life on the Hawaiian Islands
In Barack Obama's home state of Hawaii, contradictions rise with the tides.
Oct. 18, 2008 -- Sometimes being a journalist is a tough, tireless and, at times, dangerous job.
But then sometimes you get an assignment to cover a story that sends you to beautiful tropical islands where you trade shoes for sandals, monitor glare for sunshine and hurried showers for dips in the clear blue ocean.
If you are "Good Morning America Weekend's" Bill Weir that is.
Somehow Bill managed to nab the most coveted assignment on ABCNews' 50 States in 50 Days project: Hawaii.
But all is not surf and sun in Barack Obama's home state. While there, Bill found that Hawaii boasts a complex and proud history and is watching closely as one of its own attempts to change the future.
It has been more than a century since American sugar plantation owners led an overthrow of the Queen of Hawaii. By the time statehood arrived almost a half century ago, there were so many American "haolies" that any Hawaiian protest was drowned out by parties in the street.
But after years of development, the natives got restless, and this summer a simmering movement made news when a group of radical secessionists broke into the Iolani Palace in Honolulu.
James and Grace Akahi claim that their bloodline makes them the rightful King and Queen of Hawaii. They travel on their own homemade passports and they are suing the government for $100 trillion.
But such secessionist vigor is balanced on the islands by an equally fierce patriotism and belief in democracy. It is a land of contradictions, where minority opinions compete because everyone is a minority. Hawaii has the highest mixed-race population of any state.
And it is here that a half-black, half-white kid named "Barry" came of age before the world knew him as Barack Obama.
The Obama camp is so confident that Obama's statesmen will vote in his favor, they don't run ads on the island.
Brian Schatz, chairman of the Democratic Party in Hawaii, told "Good Morning America" that the numbers speak for themselves.
"We went from 2-3,000 people normally showing up to our caucuses to 38,000 people," Schatz said.
"I know people who registered to vote that have never voted in their life," said Kauai resident Tracey Schoembaum. "I watched the debate for the first time, believe it or not."
Much like the Republicans in Alaska, a majority of the democratic volunteers in Hawaii are not bothering trying to sway votes in their own state, but will spend the remaining days cold-calling voters in the swing state of Nevada.
Well, that and enjoying the gorgeous Hawaiian sunsets.