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I SLEPT WITH... ALL THE MAKURA NO DANSHI BOYS and I LOVED it!!!!!! It was SEVERAL of the best nights of my life!!!!!!!!! Everyone should sleep with ALL THE MAKURA NO DANSHI BOYS because THEY ARE great in bed! PS Don't worry boys there's a sleeping waifu for you too if you aren't interested in these boys~See full review
I was on the edge of my seat wondering just where these marching giraffes were going to end up! Their journey was a delightful one to wittness. I had no clue that they would actually get somewhere in the end! It was a great adventure for sure! Can't wait for a sequel! There is much potential as to where else these marching giraffes can march to!See full review
For my Anime-Planet Secret Santa This is one of the "best" cult anime classics I've ever seen! (haha no not really) One day a boy, Sho, finds a device and accidently activates it! Turning him into a GUYVER!! Now he must face off against similar "creatures" known as Zoanoids! An evil company called Chronos is pulling the strings! Can Sho survive this nightmare?? That's really all this short ova is about! I find it funny that this series has been remade 3 times to tell... See full review
This is a wonderful short love story between a man and a women set in Feudal Japan times that get torn appart. She takes drastic measures at the end and SHAMPOO appears!Beautiful art and a touching story indeed!See full review
This movie is about kids going underground looking for treasure and they find a nest of crazy hobo's!The kids are annoying at times but the rest of the interesting unique cast is worth sitting down to watch this short 40 minute movie.Graphics aren't too hard on the eyes but the noses will probably piss some people off since they are all bright pink in colour. The music though is quite delightful and really makes you remember that you are sitting down to watch a fun childrens adventure movie.Nothing special but a pretty fun watch :DSee full review
I wish a giant chicken would take me around a city unknown to me like this lucky girl. I can only imagine right now all the awesome hilarious adventures we would have. Anyway, this is a cute little short about going to Kobe, Japan. I hear it's nice there and the video does make a point of pointing it out. Aside from that it's not very good but the chicken man won over my heart.See full review
I look at this ova as the creators wanted to stop drawing space so much and start after a lush interesting planet enviroment. I think they had a lot of love for the Star Trek Movie IV as well. (the one with the whales) lolNot much else to say honestly. If you need another random Basara adventure after the main series check it out.See full review
Macross 7: The Galaxy is Calling Me is the worst macross installment. The only thing that is good about this movie is it isn't real movie length of 2 hours. It was only 30 minutes and my brain hurt through all those minutes. The child that was introduced in this movie was one of the most annoying little brats I have seen in anime. He also brought a weird pervertedness to the movie that was very out of place and awkward.Adds nothing new to the series so you won't miss much if you skip it. And believe me you should skip it.
I SLEPT WITH HINAKO and I LOVED it!!!!!! It was one of the best nights of my life!!!!!!!!! Everyone should sleep with Hinako because she's great in bed!See full review
Out of all three arcs, by far the third was the best. But the most enjoyable for me was the first. I enjoyed the story more and while I'm all for weird art that's where the third arc lost points for me. None of the arcs were visually eyesores. Each had their own unique style to them and definitely added to the story they were telling. I can see how some people would be offended by the very abstract style of the last arc though. The characters were very well thought out and played there parts to the best they could. Some had more depth to them but overall all the characters were... See full review
This show takes an interesting look at old Japan but makes it not very interesting tossing in womens rights and baseball.... yeah i dunno. I really enjoyed the character designes though. Very eye pleasing even though it wasn't really anything special. I kinda feel weird that it made me think of A League of Their Own. Expecially when someone would start to cry i would always picture Tom Hanks shouting "THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!" XDYeah ummm anyway if you like baseball shown in a slice of life kind of way this is a nice quick... See full review
This show was kinda love hate for me. It took the magical girl type and made it a little bit more interesting but not enough to make it really good. I honestly don't know what they could have done to make it better but something needed to be there. It always felt like i was on the edge of fail or amazing every episode and i just got meh.There was one really annoying song that they played over and over and over again and it really drove me bonkers having to listen to it. :|Very interesting that the lead girls were underwater dwellers yet weren't mermaids!I suggest if you like magical girls and are looking... See full review
I really can't even begin to say what this anime was really about or what even happened. It's all very fuzzy which is never a good thing after you watch a show. It tries to cash in on ecchi but fails. It tries to be heavy on magic use, but fails again. none of the characters were interesting or unique.... more fail....This show was more confusing than anything because you weren't given information about anything it seemed and it was just annoying to watch. Stay away from this one... you have a better chance at enjoying chaos;head.... :|See full review
Sometimes an anime about a school club can be good and interesting. But when it's a pretty boring club and none of the characters are interesting and more annoying than anything it tends to fail. Such is the case with this show. I can't really say what you would be better off watching as this type of anime is not my cup of tea but i do suggest staying away from this one. As it's nothing you haven't seen before and boring on top of that.See full review
This started out ok. I hate harems so i was suprised i was actually enjoying it. But around ep 8 or so they decided to completely change the direction of the anime and completely ruined it trying to be something that it wasn't. I was very disspointed as i thought i finally found a harem i could sit and enjoy... boy was i wrong... my rating is a 5 because i did enjoy it for most of the anime but it was totally ruined by the sudden "plot twist"See full review
I picked this up not expecting anything special. Slice of life has never really caught my attention for new shows but i'm happy to say this one was worth the watch. It started off pretty slow and meh like but quickly started to make me giggle joke after joke after gag.There was one episode in particular that i loved.... and this is weird cause i generally dislike singing in anime... yup it was a musical episode. there was nothing special about it but every song sung was hilarious to watch and hear. ... See full review
I wasn't ever expecting much from this show and i'm sad that i was correct. Although it did give me false hope that it would actually be good as the first 2 episodes were quite funny. It then turned into the same things over and over again for another 10 episodes. I'm not sure how all these shows can get made let alone be so popular since they are a dime a dozen and you'll be lucky if you find one good one in that group. The chick with the glasses really pissed me off. i'm all for unique character design but when it gets to the annoying part where everytime i saw her i wondered why she had such huge glasses... See full review
This show was a wonderful watch for me. it took many elements that have been done before, put them all together with a little bit of new stuff added in there and it was actually good. Everything about this show i enjoyed. sure there were a few plot holes here and there but i was willing to forgive them by the amazing cast. Each character brought something unique and special to the story. Right down to a small character like a taxi driver. Good or bad you wanted to root for everyone of them.I highly recommend this if you like dark interesting stories that don't really show you anything different from what... See full review
This show was so boring... I mean i knew what i was getting into with it as it's a Shoujo-ai anime at an all girls school. So i was expecting Maria sama with different characters. I can't believe this show actually made Maria sama look good... Yes while both had whiny, bitchy characters. Aoi Hana turned up the drama and waterworks past the dial limit. It was very annoying to watch a girl crying every episode about whatever crisis was occuring at that very moment. It was very easy not to pay attention for 10 mins and still figure out what was going on.. even if nothing really happened for the majority of the... See full review
I had NO idea what i was getting into when i started this anime. All i knew about it was that it had ecchi in it. While yes i got ecchi.... LOTS OF ECCHI. I also recieved.... odd fetishes, a very strange plot about shocking depressed people to make them "happy" again. A hentai show within this anime with very odd scenes... one male with a baseball bat.... boobs... lots and lots of boobs... naked ones... panties gallore.... and peeing.... wait what?Yup this show had lots of peeing in it.... i have about 10 more pictures... and could have taken moreThis anime will leave you going WTF a lot and... See full review
This is one adorable tale of a little girl who tries hard no matter what is happening. Her dad is basically a mobster. Her mother a very uptight but tender lady yet this family does not live together because of inner difficulties. Suprise Suprise. There's an interesting use of cats and dogs in this anime that is sure to make you giggle whenever you see them on screen.There's actually nothing really special about this movie at all. The art, and music are all average. The characters is where it shines. They are nothing but amazing. Right down to the random side characters. This anime will tug at your heart... See full review
Everything about this show is so average and so predictable. The characters are so silly and you just can't help but to laugh or facepalm at what happens on screen. The plot while a great idea but it isn't explored much and it's more just about ecchi and love triangles that don't even go anywhere. The animation and music aren't bad or good they are just average. If you are looking for just a fun old school romp in the funny/ecchi catagory this is a great short watch and you won't loose any... many ;) braincells!See full review
I went into this expecting mediocer stuff. but i got an amazing story about robots and how humans react to the situation the future has brought them. These robots are called Boomers and they look, feel, and do everything like a human can do. Suprisingly being from the earlt 2000's it has a lot of sex in it. A lot of the Boomers they had hanging around were sex "slaves" or whatever. Anyway the story is rather cliche being humans don't overly like the Boomers and murders start occuring. While people on both sides of the love/hate of Boomers fight over the rights of them. The characters in this anime... See full review
Hello lion king! lol i know the japanese series came first but yeah XD there's people in this one though!!! That are in search of a special stone.*snore* hahaThis is pretty much man vs. nature. man wanders into the jungle and starts building roads and shooting animals where ever they wish. it's actually pretty brutal and not really for kids eyes imo LOLElephants are kinda the bullies of the jungle which is a little weird for me cause well i love elephants and them being kinda bad and mean is well... just weird to me haha.Watching all the little animals running around having a good time (when not being... See full review
This was boring to sit through for the most part. Nothing really interesting or new happened (ok i lied one very interesting thing happened :P) but it felt more like the same old blaa blaa that bleach is oh so good at doing.The animation is what kinda makes this worth sitting through. It's nothing too overly special but it still looks oh so perdy. I have a soft spot for the music in bleach even though it's nothing new and is almost always overused... but the songs are oh so catchy!!!Anyway this movie wasn't bad but it wasn't good either. it's gets a huge meh out of me and well if you are still watching or... See full review
Gore, boobs, and lesbian tendancies. oh yes and a whole lot of screaming ICZER-ONEI'm still not 100% sure what i watched here but what i did it was kinda interesting.... The music... oh wow... it wasn't terrible but it was very intrusive. it was ALWAYS playing and totally being in the way.You know there really wasn't much to this anime but boobs and gore. There was some fighting but it wasn't really anything interesting, the gore was OMG wow are they really doing that and a lot of tentical action. which is well funny.If you are a fan of girls fighting something and the animation is dated i suggest you check... See full review
This one I found to be quite hilarious! There is no limit to how many times i can watch episode 6 in the second half of the episode. DEATH CATS!!!!!Nobue was my favourite character. Probably cause she's the oldest and just really wants to be a kid again. The smoking aspect of her I really enjoyed even though I hate smoking. I think it just made her her to me and it fitted the character perfectly. Miu was the most annoying character but still had her moments. She was made out to be the annoying one for a reason and fitted the role perfectly. I wouldn't have had her any other way! I would re watch this... See full review
This movie was simply amazing. The art, music, characters and story was just wow. I haven't enjoyed something like this in quite sometime. It was just amazing experience that if you haven't seen it yet you should go out and get it. Of course you gotta like love stories to really enjoy the beauty of this one. But maybe you don't either as it was quite the trip through this movie. The lead female was simply amazing. I couldn't have asked for a better way to tell her story than the way she did. I really have to watch this one again as it deserves rewatches over and over again.See full review
I wish I could say I had good things to say about it but I don't. It's suppose to be another comedy/slice-of life. All I got from it was the slice-of-life... Which is the least favourite genera for me as I've hated the majority of the ones I've seen with a few exceptions of course. Like with music every genera has something good to offer. You just gotta find it. If you like art. More so drawing. You'd might like this one. It did have a few laughs but not nearly as many as I would have liked. None of the girls I found to be interesting at all which made it worse while watching cause i generally... See full review
Mmmmmm what can I say about this one.... Don't bother with it perhaps? :P Unless you really REALLY love Shounen-ai. Cause I can see how people who really like watching those anime would like this one. Hell I like watching that stuff but this one just didn't do it for me. Cat boys in chains are generally amusing to me and enjoyable the the one in Loveless was rather annoying and very unlikeable to me. Like most anime it was made before the manga was finished thus resulting in a shitty outcome. So I'll probably be picking up the manga someday to see what really happens at the end. Or at least give me a... See full review


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- Receptivity to library involvement in scientific data curation: A case study at the University of Colorado Boulder
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- Increasingly libraries are expected to play a role in scientific data curation initiatives, i.e., "the management and preservation of digital data over the long-term." This case study offers a novel approach for identifying researchers who are receptive toward library involvement in data curation. The authors interviewed researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and, after analysis, created eight design "personas." Each persona represents an aggregation of researcher attributes and can be used to target strategic relationships for nascent or emerging data management initiatives. These personas are applicable to any academic library seeking to provide data curation support., published
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- Lage, Losoff, Maness
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- The flight plan of a digital initiatives project, part 2: Usability testing in the context of user-centered design
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- Purpose – To provide the results of research to evaluate the usability of a University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries digital initiatives project that provides online access to historical Aerial Photographs of Colorado. Design/methodology/approach – This paper describes usability testing conducted as a part of a user‐centered redesign. The three stages of the evaluation – a requirements analysis, a heuristic evaluation, and user testing – are explained and the findings are discussed. Findings – The usability testing revealed the needs of the project's target user group and identified issues with the interface that will be addressed in its redesign. It has also contributed to the larger understanding of how researchers use digital Aerial Photographs and their preferred methods of access and desired functionalities. Practical implications – Results from the study will be used to guide the redesign of the Aerial Photographs of Colorado digital library and can be generalized to add to a broader understanding of the usability requirements for a digital library of geospatial materials. Libraries providing a digital collection of geospatial materials may use these findings to inform design decisions. Originality/value – Much research has been done on the use and evaluation of digital libraries, but few articles have reported on usability studies of online collections of cartographic materials similar in structure to Aerial Photographs of Colorado. It is hoped that these findings will be instructive to librarians designing and evaluating similar digital libraries.
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A twenty-something-year-old couple allegedly had a 36-year-old woman turning tricks for them in Abbington Crossing Apartments, according to an Albemarle police release. An anonymous caller tipped off police.
Pablo Castro, 28, and Sandra Morales, 22, have both been charged with one felony count for receiving money or other valuables for the purpose of unlawful sexual intercourse. He's being held on $10,000 bond; Morales has a $5,000 bond.
Gisela Martinez, 36, was charged with one count of prostitution, a misdemeanor, and released. She told police she was brought to the apartment in the 700 block of Lords Court from Washington to service men.
In June 2009, Albemarle police busted another prostitution ring on Commonwealth Drive that employed a woman from D.C.
"I don't know if it's coincidental," says Sergeant Darrell Byers.
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Now that's not nice silly Cville liberals. I thought the whole "feel good" vibe was to coddle your neighbor, peace, love and harmony....
Are the two perps legal??? If so, deport.
Oh, and if not, then deport FASTER!
Heh. Heh heh... you said: "conTITuents". Get a job...
Dawg, I agree with you. I'd even go as far as to say that prostitution is a victimless crime (as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult), and shouldn't be illegal at all.
billy wonka , Drugs, Wonak?
Palin/Cantor. dum dum dum 20-12
I agree with Whateva! Deport!
I'll bet I wouldn't try in earnest. Can you tell me what a tongue in cheek post looks like?
It's hard out here... D@*n Al gore!!
@AJ, Charlottesville has always had prostitutes, home grown and from Washington. Nothing has changed.
According to a recent survey most clients of prostitutes or "johns" are conservative republicans.
"most johns are conservative republicans"
I guess you know more about it than the rest of us. I didn't realize that prostitutes performed exit polls (poor pun intended) but again I bow to your obviously superior, perhaps even intimate knowledge of the business.
How does Biff know they're not American?
The whole "liberal" thing is to help those less fortunate than yourself - If you are looking for tags, I think "Christian" fits better than "Hypocrite". In any case, why do you feel that bashing liberals has anything to do with this news article ?
The Charlottesville we moved for is slowly changing.....and not for the better.
Atleast she was released and not put in jail. These women don't willingly get involved with prostitution. The bail should be a lot higher for the men who were profiting from this crime.
Oh yes they do.........this woman could have walked away anytime.
They just don't get it.
They aint' American cause they don't look American. How much info do you need to make a judgement about somebody? Dang
"Authoritah November 18th, 2010 | 11:20 am
According to a recent survey most clients of prostitutes or ââ?¬Å?johns" are conservative republicans."
Perhaps that is because the aren't f-ing their contituents.
Good katch...........you are a grate Amerikan
He looks like one mean S.O.B. I would not want to cross paths with.
"Sex ring" ??? A married couple and with one employee? I guess that's the Redneck-Charlottesville version of a "sex ring." Or the Hook's lame attempt to titillate readers (pun intended)!
They're just here doing the jobs the rest of us consider beneath us. Thank God for illegals! If you don't like it, then step on up, get a glass cane and fur coat and pimp it up.
Soooo....why do they both get charged with the same thing, but the guy's bond gets arbitrarily set twice as high as the lady's? Is it a legally accepted tenet that men are just worse than women?
After reading this repartee, I'm cancelling my subscription to The Washington Post.
They're takin our jobs!
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@Biff Diggerance, I'll bet you can't tell me what Americans look like.
Another fun-loving couple of MBA graduates from good-ol' Hoo-vee-yay, plying their skills acquired at the business school.
I've always been suspicious of the Moe Howard look, and this just confirms it. And the fact that he ain't American is just icing on the cake. Consider me non-silly, albeit badly-informed.
Hey, those are hardworking entrepreneurs! Isn't that the American way?
I just hope the woman providing the "services" was getting a decent cut of the money.
At least prostitution is only a misdemeanor. It really ought to warrant no more than a traffic ticket. Given the state of the economy, look for more women to be out there as "freelance" prostitutes.


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Undergraduate Exhibition shows students' range of scholarly interests
Undergraduate Exhibition shows students' range of scholarly interests
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Freshman John Swab's interests have taken him far during his short time at Penn State. His research on the impact of streetcars on the historical growth of Baltimore won the freshman award at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Undergraduate Poster Exhibition, and he was one of the few freshman students to join more than 240 others from across the University to present his findings at the University-wide Undergraduate Exhibition in the HUB-Robeson Center.
He credits his late grandfather for leading him to his interest in the subject. The duo used to spend many holidays building miniature trains and wooden cities.
"Somehow that's manifested itself in my interest in geography," Swab said. "I've always found that interesting, that idea of how the world operates."
Swab started researching Baltimore's history when he took a geography class as part of his high school's International Baccalaureate Program. Until the time came for Swab to look at colleges, he hadn't thought he would come to Penn State. His dad is an alumnus, but his mom is a Boston College alumna.
"Back when they both went to school, the schools were big rivals," he said, noting that he used to side with his mom during friendly family rivalries. "But when I started looking for schools that had geography programs, I saw that Penn State has a very highly ranked geography program. I met some of the faculty, and I just thought, 'Ok this is definitely where I want to go to school.' It just clicked, and I love it."
Swab's research shows suburban growth of the city between the 1850s and 1920s, and its changing shape until the final piece of land was annexed in 1918.
"As these streetcars develop, some people are beginning to speculate on the land, and you have this switch from this idea of urban growth where the city can't grow up anymore because building materials aren't that good," he said. "You can't get any more land within the city because it's already in use, so you have to go out and build another street and build more houses."
Instead of traditional single-family homes on one-acre lots, Swab said Baltimore grew street-by-street in the form of row homes, eventually engulfing separately named towns that were once on the outskirts of the city. "You would never today think of those as suburbs because they look exactly like any other part of the city," he said.
A human geography major and a Schreyer Honors College scholar, Swab says he is happy to share his research — including at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' no)Boundaries Graduate Student Conference in March — and also to debunk a common assumption about it.
"People always say, 'Oh, you're going to make maps all your life,' but that's not true. Maps are a critical part of geography, but to say they're the only part, that is definitely not the case," Swab said. "For me, human geography involves the process of looking at people and how they interact with the environment. Not talking about how they physically change or alter it, but more about how humans are spread out on the face of the planet and how the things that they do in those environments interacts with other humans in other areas."
Nature plus nurture
Junior Rhoda Moise, who also presented at the exhibition, embodies her interests through her research and campus involvement.
Moise, a Schreyer Honors College scholar majoring in biobehavioral health (BBH), conducted a nine-week research project through the McNair Scholars program at Penn State, which sponsors undergraduate students from traditionally underserved backgrounds whose goals are to teach and research at the collegiate level.
"I'm interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in public health, so I'm going to capitalize on any opportunity to present. It gives students an opportunity to share their research as well as critique other students. That experience is paramount."
— Rhoda Moise, junior, Undergraduate Exhibition 2014 presenter
Moise worked with Emilie Smith, a professor of human development and family studies, to explore the relationship of children's participation and connectedness in after-school programs to problem behavior.
"I'm interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in public health, so I'm going to capitalize on any opportunity to present," Moise said of the Undergraduate Exhibition. "It gives students an opportunity to share their research as well as critique other students. That experience is paramount."
Overall, her research found that the more involved and connected children in grades two through five felt to their programs, the less likely they will be to use alcohol, tobacco products and marijuana, or to be delinquent.
"A lot of studies have looked specifically at attendance, but we realized through our studies that it's more than that," Moise said. "You can go every single day, but not be engaged. How connected are you to the peers, the program, the staff?" The overall conclusion was to promote programs that allow students to build self-awareness, she said.
Moise came to Penn State as a biology major with the intention of going to medical school because she wanted to help people.
"I realized that I need some type of edge," she said, which led her to discovering the biobehavioral health major. "I really like the interdisciplinary approach because it's not just 'Is there a presence of a pathogen?' — it's also the mental state, the environment. I really liked the prevention and proactive measures of health that BBH offers.
"That shifted my gears from wanting to go to medical school toward wanting to do research," she added, "and to pose those questions that no one has asked or has answers to."
Moise has gotten involved on campus in other ways beyond her research, too. She's a education member of HealthWorks, a peer education/outreach program in University Health Services.
She's also a scholar advancement team volunteer, serving as an ambassador for the Schreyer Honors College, and is involved with the National Council of Negro Women, advocating for women on campus through philanthropy, prosperity and promotion of educational values.
"All of those encompass my ultimate vision of combatting health disparities, specifically for underrepresented populations," she said.
This was Moise's second year presenting at the exhibition.
Finding energy
Like Swab and Moise, curiosity and interest drove Danhao "Spark" Ma to seek out undergraduate research opportunities and get involved early in his collegiate career.
When starting his studies at Penn State Altoona, Ma sought out physics professor Kofi Adu.
"My first semester with him, I learned how to prepare carbon nanotubes," which are tiny pieces of carbon rolled up, Ma said. "After that semester, he taught me how to think through the research process. We started to think, 'How can we apply this material in the real world?' "
Adu and Ma worked to combine the nanotubes with superconductors — less resistive materials — in order to enhance the superconductive material's ability to function at a higher temperature.
"By applying the carbon nanotubes, we changed the properties of the materials to make it more adaptive," Ma said. "We successfully increased the superconducting temperatures by almost 20 percent."
During his sophomore year, Ma participated in the Undergraduate Exhibition with a poster explaining the carbon nanotubing research and won first place in the physical sciences category.
"That was really encouraging for me," Ma said of the prize, adding that the experience is what encouraged him to choose an energy engineering major. "To present the work and to share it with professors around the whole University was really exciting, and I really appreciated the opportunity because I got the chance to meet different people. The judges' comments were really helpful."
He worked with other student researchers to submit two additional posters that also took home prizes that year.
"To present the work and to share it with professors around the whole University was really exciting, and I really appreciated the opportunity because I got the chance to meet different people. The judges' comments were really helpful."
— Danhao "Spark" Ma, senior, Undergraduate Exhibition 2012, 2014 presenter
After publishing a journal article on the carbon nanotubing findings in Physica during his junior year, Ma set his sights on returning to the Undergraduate Exhibition this year, where he won the first place University Libraries Award for Information Literacy and took third place overall in the physical sciences category. He presented a poster detailing ultrahigh-power supercapacitors using flexible and self-assembled carbon nanotube electrodes, which — simplified — can be thought of as powerful, flexible batteries.
Ma explained that the supercapacitors he's working on with researchers at Penn State aim to harness the higher energy quality of a battery combined with the faster speed of a conductor. That research led to the idea that these supercapacitors could have a different, more functional structure than in the past, which is what Ma's poster will focus on.
Ma, now in his senior year, helped the team of researchers establish their own "self-assembly techniques" to cut out the less conductive binders that are normally part of superconductors. Initial findings on this research were published in the "Journal of Physical Chemistry" in January.
After establishing those techniques, the team is now working on solid-state supercapactiors, which are lightweight and flexible and don't require the heavy steel casing that batteries do. The supercapacitors are six-dimensional, meaning they have high power, have sufficient energy, have flexibility, are lightweight, work at a safe temperature and have the capacity for easily increased voltage.
"After we did some research on carbon nanotubes, I transitioned to the University Park campus and got in touch with another professor who was a collaborator with my professor in Altoona," Ma said. "We're trying to develop energy storage systems, which could harvest small-input energies like solar power or your heart pulse."
Ma said that in the long range, the supercapacitors could save money and wasted energy and could have many uses, such as for watches or in devices for soldiers working in rural areas without an energy supply.
He has been working on the new research at University Park with Clive Randall, a materials science and engineering professor and the director of the Center for Dielectric Studies, and Ram Rajagokapalan, a research associate in Materials Research Institute who joined the Department of Engineering at Penn State Dubois this year.
Originally from Shanghai, Ma came to the United States to participate in an exchange program in Atchison, Kan., as a senior in high school. That year, Ma presented a poster in the Kansas State Science Fair and found his calling.
Having lived in a small town and in an environment where he was immersed with English speakers to perfect his own language skills, Ma felt comfortable starting his college experience at Penn State Altoona before moving to the University Park campus. He entered the Schreyer Honors College his junior year through the Gateway admission process.
"I really like the 2+2 program," Ma said. "I started from a small campus and learned a lot of basics. I really learned a lot of fundamental knowledge for my junior and senior years here."


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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only column that started its day off with a Dole Cameo #3066, a Chiquita #4011, a Lucerne 2113007727 and a New Zealand enza Royal Gala #4173.
Nothing like a bar code to start your day. That's what we always say.
Well, we hate to run off any more visitors, but we have another true story that comes from a retail store near you. Seems some shoppers – and we can't say where they're from because it might anger their sensitive little souls – were chatting it up with a clerk and commenting about the low level of water in the Dillon Pond.
ATTENTION SUMMIT UP READERS! WE INTERRUPT THIS JOKE FOR A LITTLE HISTORIC BACKGROUND SO THE JOKE MAKES SENSE TO EVERYONE. AHEM. The reservoir was built in the early 1960s to serve the municipal water needs of Denver. The townsite of Dillon – now called Old Dillon – rests at the bottom of the reservoir. All the buildings were moved or destroyed before water was allowed to inundate the area.
"We have come here every year for 50 years and we have never seen the water so low," the man lamented. "Why, at low tide, you can almost see the church steeple."
Low tide? The … church steeple?
We thinks it's the Old Dillon Car Shoppe and Bakery.
We here at Summit Up are addicts of all sorts – cookie munching, coffee guzzling, beer swilling, Internet surfing and shopping among them. We don't count gambling, although many partake. But now we might just have to.
Maybe we're a little ahead of the times – perish the thought – but the WallStreet Insider said it was nearly three years ago insiders there discovered (drum roll) the online gambling industry.
This announcement begs the question: Where the heck have they been?! Why, we first became aware of online gambling in 1987, when we found a Web site that accessed the darkest gambling dens in Chicago. We've been there ever since!
Anyway, officials at the Insider say they are "constantly perusing various industries to get an inkling as to what opportunities we believe to have great potential." While surfing the Net, they discovered a company that makes software for online gaming!
"Just what we were always hoping for: a ground-floor opportunity!" the Insiders wrote in an "urgent" fax to Summit Up. "We believe this industry will most definitely be Wall Street's next Pot-of-Gold!" In the microscopic print at the bottom of the press release, they've written, "The publisher has relied on information provided by well-known, reputable sources and although believed to be true, can not guarantee the accuracy of such information."
Well, we believe it! So we're calling 1-800-SUC-KERR, asking for report No. 1150, and jumping on the eGaming bandwagon! Woo-eee! We'll put $50 on Lucky Seven!
The folks of the Inside-Out Dishwasher want to encourage everyone to get out there and grab a cow bell this Saturday. And ring it LOUD. The folks at Saturn, who are sponsoring the infamous Saturn Cycling Classic, want to set a North American record by distributing 7,500 bells and having people ring them in unison for 10 very long minutes.
We suggested if they want volume, too, they should visit any of the fine child care facilities here in Summit County, but that wasn't exactly what they had in mind.
And then we learned of another world-record-breaking event: A mass breast-feeding in Berkeley (Boulder West), Calif.
Seems that volunteers from the Bay Area Lactation Association (put that one on your resume!) marched 1,135 mothers and their nursing infants from a park to a nearby theater for the mass nurse-in, hoping to educate people about the importance of public nudity – no wait! The importance of breastfeeding – yeah, that's it – while at the same time breaking a world record set earlier that week by a bunch of women in Australia. You want volume, Saturn? One thousand, one hundred thirty five squalling babes enough for you?
Only in Berkeley. Or Boulder. Or Sedona, Ariz. Perhaps in Eugene, Ore. Never in Greeley.
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They are determined, energetic and headstrong, which bestows them with an air of self-mastery, calm and strength. They are actually rather stern and quite authoritarian, ambitious and apt to acquire a certain amount of power. They are active and hardworking and are quite capable of taking on and assuming responsibility. These are passionate women (although they can appear a little frosty) who only really feel good about themselves when they are fully invested in a project that motivates them, where they prove themselves to be efficient, organized and practical. They are relentless in their efforts and quite perfectionist, but realistic and insightful at the same time, and are extremely capable managers and organizers. They are in possession of sound judgement and an analytical mind, although they can be a little too grounded at times. Myrtie and Macha are courageous and resourceful. They hate injustice and are capable of violent reactions when they suspect inequity. Rather short-tempered, they can lack tolerance, despite their best efforts to be open and conciliatory. They have a fine sense of friendship and are sure to be there when they are needed. Generous, helpful and sympathetic, they are attentive listeners who generally give wise and sound advice. As little girls, they are energetic and resourceful. Very eager to please and be liked in return, they are capable of great efforts in order to keep the peace and enjoy a harmonious relationship with their parents. They hate arguments and aggression, although they can sometimes be the cause of explosive situations. They are much more emotional and sensitive than they let on, and often conceal their tenderness behind a hard, abrupt attitude.
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They aspire to union and association, and are particularly apt to work in collaboration. They need a healthy emotional environment and security to be able to give the best of themselves. They are often sensitive to beauty, esthetics and art; and are generally intensely preoccupied with their love life. However, things aren´t that simple where love and romance are concerned: with the karmic 2 and 6, they tend to be extremely demanding and elitist. Furthermore, because they are inclined to be bossy, they tend to set the tone and don´t always realize how high handed they can be. They are often confronted with difficulty making decisions, and there could be some tough choices.
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Seductive creatures, Alexandrina and Ismat have definitely got plenty of charisma and seek to communicate and express themselves. Adaptable, amenable, lively, upright and honest; they don´t appreciate a life of routine which they find very drab and dreary: instead they need action, fantasy and excitement! Because they tend to be impatient, they often give up at the precise moment that they achieve their goals; and this is actually because for them, the thrill is in the chase and the lure of the unattainable is what drives them; but once their objective has been reached and demystified, it quickly loses its appeal. This attraction to the unknown is the reason why they enjoy travel and discovery so much. They are extremely emotional characters, which can be quite overwhelming for them and their nervous system can be a weak spot. Their cyclothymic nature can make them prone to extremes in mood: they could be laughing one moment but in tears a few minutes later. They are a strange combination of shyness, wariness (especially during the first part of their life), vulnerability, low self-esteem and audacity... which can entail a certain amount of inner conflict! However, if their sociocultural environment is favourable, they could live in harmony with the vibrations of their master number 11; in which case they would have high aspirations and a considerable ascendancy over others, with the promise of a very bright future. As children, they are fragile, particularly timorous and heavily influenced by the family environment. Rather undisciplined, they don´t have much time for work or restriction and will only make an effort if their interest can be aroused and there is something in it for them. With such vivacious and gifted children, it is essential to nurture their artistic and creative streak, as well as their talent for learning other languages.
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Alexandrina and Ismat aspire to love and seek an intimate relationship (though things aren´t always easy due to the karmic 2), pleasure and the comfortable privacy of home. They enjoy day-dreaming about exotic paradises, however they quickly start missing the warmth and cosiness of their homes once they are far away... Emotionally, they are fiery and passionate, but romantic at the same time. They crave security, and without love in their lives they could easily become melancholy or depressed. However, they can be rather disconcerting: imaginative and eccentric, open, friendly and shameless libertines one minute and closing up like a clam the next; joy twisting itself around into sadness, passion followed by complete indifference - with ice around the edges. Only a very special kind of man would stand a chance at figuring them out...
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Maine Zumba jury watching explicit videos
Man charged in Kennebunk prostitution ring
The jury in the trial of an insurance agent charged with promoting prostitution watched a video Thursday showing a sexual encounter between a Zumba fitness instructor and a man who left cash on her massage table.
Jurors also viewed video chats suggesting defendant Mark Strong Sr. was familiar with the encounters, including clips in which fitness instructor Alexis Wright discussed birth control and scheduling of clients. The chats occurred via Skype with Wright in the seaside community of Kennebunk and Strong in his office 100 miles away in Thomaston.
Prosecutors said they had multiple sexually explicit videos but showed jurors only a single 45-minute recording that showed Wright making chitchat with an older man who arrived and immediately began undressing. After their sexual encounter, she used disposable wipes to clean up, escorted the man to the door and then spoke to another man, presumably Strong, at the other end of the Skype chat.
Police computer expert Frederick Williams told jurors the video was recovered from a device belonging to Wright and that Strong's computer had 45 snapshots made from the same video.
He also described recovering a ledger from Wright's computer with entries from Oct. 5, 2010, through Feb. 13, 2012, the day before police raided her home, office and Kennebunk studio.
He also found a key that described a variety of sexual acts, and those matched with the sex acts - and a $250 payment - with the alleged client shown on the video seen by jurors. One ledger entry showed a payment of $500 for a sexual encounter, Williams said.
Strong, 57, of Thomaston, faces 13 counts that relate to promoting prostitution. A judge previously dismissed 46 counts of invasion of privacy over prostitution clients who were said to have been videotaped without their knowledge.
He and Wright have pleaded not guilty. She'll be tried at a later date.
The videos depicted a routine in which Wright and Strong chatted via Skype before she took a moment to ensure the video camera was hidden before alleged clients entered her office and Zumba studio. "OK, here we go. I'm locking my screen," she said as one client arrived.
On another video, she talked about scheduling conflicts, saying she had time for two one-hour sessions while the man believed to be Strong suggested she could make time for three 45-minute sessions.
"Maybe, but I'd be pushing it," she said.
Strong contends he had an affair with 30-year-old Wright and helped her launch her Pura Vida dance studio in Kennebunk, but his lawyer has said he was unaware of any paid sex. Prosecutor contended the videos proved he was familiar with the details of Wright's business.
Jurors showed little reaction as they watched the 45-minute video on a large screen. One looked away during parts of it, one fiddled with an eyeglass case, another twiddled his thumbs and several stole glances at a clock as the video showed the two engaging in sex acts.
On the video, Wright talked to the man about his business, his dogs and her classes. She politely rebuffed him when he said he'd like to spend more time with her. "I have new classes starting today and I have to run errands. Next time you'll have to not wait until the last minute to call me," she said.
After the man dressed, he asked, "How much is the rate now?"
She responded that it was $250 for 45 minutes.
After the man dressed and left, the video showed Wright picking up the money.
The prostitution scandal attracted international attention last fall after it was reported that Wright had ledgers indicating she made $150,000 over 18 months and had more than 150 clients, some of them prominent.


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Two New Vessels Coming Online to Groundfish Fisheries in May
Harvesting of wild Alaska pollock, the nation's largest commercial fishery, is under way in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska for 1,387,146 metric tons of the whitefish, up 3.8 percent over last year's allowable harvest.
A year ago the total allowable catch was 1,335,944 metric tons, with the harvest measured at 1,207,726 metric tons, the second highest since 2007 when the TAC was 1,481,317 metric tons and fishermen brought in 1,408,66 metric tons.
The Pacific cod TAC for this year is 320,600 metric tons, down from 326,701 metric tons in 2012. In 2011, when in which the cod TAC was 293,050 metric tons, the highest since 2007, fishermen harvested 300,559 metric tons.
Genuine Alaska pollock, a member of the cod family, average 1.5 pounds to 2 pounds in weight. It is a popular ingredient in more than 1,000 consumer products worldwide, from value-added seafood meals and breaded products such as fish sticks, to fish and chips and surimi seafood products.
Alaska cod, a flaky textured whitefish with a slightly sweet flavor, average 5 to 10 pounds, and are also adaptable to most cooking methods, from baking and poaching to deep-frying for fish and chips.
Data compiled by the McDowell group in Juneau for the Alaska seafood Marketing Institute notes slightly lower average prices per pound this year, as the market offerings include a big increase in the supply of Atlantic cod. The global supply of Alaska pollock is also much higher than it was in 2008-2009, and cod prices have fallen significantly in Europe.
The financial meltdown also had an impact on cod prices in 2009, the latest date for which they are calculated; the threat in Europe still looms, and ex-vessel prices have not come up much since then, said Andy Wink, a seafood analyst with McDowell.
But the Euro has actually gained value against the dollar in the last three to four months, so it's pretty close to what it was last year at this time. "That's good, since it's good for Alaska seafood when our buyer's currencies are strong," he said.
Right now frozen pollock fillets from Alaska sell for 10 cents to 20 cents premium per pound over twice-frozen Russian product, and the big question is whether Marine Stewardship Council certification will affect that price premium. Alaska's pollock is MSC certified and certification of the Russian product is now pending.
One big unanswered question is whether MSC certification, if it happens at all, will affect that price premium.
The At-Sea Processors Association announced on Feb. 11 plans to file an official objection by day's end challenging MSC certification of the pollock fishery in the Russian Sea of Okhotsk. APA is a seafood trade association comprised of six companies participating in a number of MSC certified fisheries, including Alaska pollock, Pacific hake, Pacific cod and Alaska flatfish. APA serves as the fishery client for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska pollock fisheries.
"Our position is that we have invested a lot in the MSC program over the last 10 years and it is important to us that fisheries that get certified (as sustainable by MSC) really meet the standards, to protect our investment in the program," said Jim Gilmore, public affairs director for APA. "While some of our concerns were addressed, most were not," he said.
Back on Sept. 28, 2012, APA made lengthy comments on the draft report issued by Intertek Moody Marine on the Russia Sea of Okhotsk pollock fishery, on several issues. These included objections to the lack of independent or verifiable catch statistics.
Meanwhile, in shipyards in Tacoma, Washington and Ketchikan, Alaska, shipbuilders were working to complete two new groundfish fishery vessels scheduled for delivery by the end of May.
At the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. of Tacoma, the Northern Leader, which will be the biggest longliner in the world by volume, is also the first Z-drive, diesel-electric fishing boat ever produced. She was launched at 5:27 a.m. on Jan. 26, said Jonathan Platt, vice president at Martinac. "We have to deal with the tides," he said.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-WA, heralded that launching, calling it a tremendous accomplishment for Martinac and its workers, and good economic news for Pierce County, Washington. "The launch of the Northern Leader is another proud step in the 89-year history of Martinac building ships and creating jobs in the Puget Sound," she said. "I was proud to write and spearhead the passage of Congressional legislation in 2010 that supported the construction of the Northern Leader. We look forward to building more state-of-the-art fishing vessels right here in Washington State and supporting the growth of our maritime economy."
The Northern Leader, to be home ported in Kodiak, is being completed now while in the water, since it was too large to finish up indoors.
The vessel, primarily a cod vessel, is owned jointly by the Alaska Leader group of Lynden, Washington, and the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp., will be 184.3 feet long, 42 feet wide and have a depth of 18.75 feet. She will be capable of carrying 1,000 tons of fish, Platt said. "She will pay out 45 miles of line and drop a hook every four feet, so about 76,000 hooks." The hook drop will proceed over a period of seven to eight hours, followed by a slower turn around, to pick up the line over a 16 to 18 hour period, he said.
"The people building this boat are very progressive, savvy and they are not only the owner, they fish these boats, and they are a terrific customer for us," he said.
The Northern Leader is an extremely efficient diesel electric vessel, with everything on the boat run by generators, Platt said.
The environmentally friendly vessel design allows for full utilization of the targeted fish species by using equipment with minimal environmental impact on the ocean's ecosystem, while maintaining the lightest possible operational fossil fuel footprint, according to Jensen Maritime, Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm, which designed the Northern Leader.
"We are proud of the innovation we've been able to infuse into the design of Northern Leader," said Jensen's Johan Sperling, vice president, in a statement issued by the company in December. "We know that commercial fishermen operate in some of the world's harshest and most isolated environments, which can create extremely hazardous working conditions.
"To counteract the dangers and increase the comforts for the crew, we have designed a vessel that will keep them safe from harm, while capitalizing on the small seasonal window they have for harvesting their catch. The vessel's 'green' features will also help sustain Alaska's fish population, and thus their livelihood, for years to come," he said.
The Northern Leaderwill have 38,000 cubic feet of freezer hold representing a frozen production capacity of 1,867,000 pounds, making it one of the largest capacities of any longliner vessel. It will also be capable of fishing 76,800 hooks using a Mustad Autoline Super Baiter simultaneously and will have a daily freezing capacity of 153,000 pounds of headed and gutted product.
With a fuel capacity of approximately 136,000 gallons, its propulsion will be powered by two Schottel Z-Drive rudder propellers of 1,000 kilowatts each and a 300-kilowatt Schottel tunnel thruster. The diesel generating system will be provided by NC Power Systems of Seattle and consist of four Caterpillar C32 gensets rated at 715 kilowatt each, one Caterpillar C-18 genset rated at 425 kilowatts each, and one Caterpillar C9 genset rated at 238 kilowatts.
In Ketchikan, meanwhile, Alaska Ship and Drydock has been in construction for the Alaska Longline Co.'s new factory longliner Arctic Prowler since March of 2012.
The vessel will be 136 feet in length, with a breadth of 41 feet, depth of 26 feet 3 inches, and draft of 15 feet. Freezer capacity for the Arctic Prowler will be 16,300 cubic feet.
Plans are to deliver the new vessel in May, said Doug Ward, a spokesman for ASD, a Vigor Industrial company that is managing ASD under a 30-year operating agreement with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority.
The Arctic Prowler, which will operate in the bering sea and Gulf of Alaska, is a steel hulled vessel also designed by Jensen Maritime Consultants. It will be the fourth vessel in Alaska Longline Co.'s fishing fleet, featuring an auto-line, circle-hook baiting system and state-of-the-art freezing system for Pacific cod, sable fish and turbot. It will be the first vessel completed in ASD's state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot assembly hall, which can accommodate ships up to 250 feet, with a maximum capacity of 500 feet.
The assembly hall has an adjacent five-story production center designed to minimize material flow and maximize efficiency. Randy Johnson, ASD's vice-chairman, characterizes the project as a great example of government and industry working together to create employment and investment opportunity in Alaska.
"The partnership between ASD and AIDEA has allowed the creation of a new and invigorated industry in Ketchikan," Ted Leonard, executive director of AIDEA, noted last August. "This true public/private partnership has resulted in the development of a state-of-the-art facility that has created and continues to create new jobs in the region and new opportunities for the state."
The next phase of improvements scheduled for the Ketchikan Shipyard will include a $10 million steel fabrication shop to be completed late this summer.


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As Interstate 4 goes, so goes Florida, and maybe the country.
Oct. 2, 2008 -- In the swing state with the biggest electoral prize in the country, Interstate 4 could be the road to victory.
I-4 cuts across Central Florida from Tampa to Daytona. It divides the reliably Republican north and west from the heavily Democratic Miami area.
I-4 is the battleground.
"We are the fastest growing region in Florida," said Aubrey Jewett, an associate professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. "And because we have so many newcomers, they are not always necessarily so set in their political ways."
Unlike parts of the state with older voters who've generally got their minds made up, Central Florida is made up of many young groups who aren't registered with either party. The combination of demographics and new voters makes the area especially volatile.
There are 2 million new voters in Florida since the 2000 election, many of whom are spooked by the Wall Street meltdown.
The fastest growing demographic of new voters in Florida is Hispanic. Puerto Ricans, who compose a large part of the Central Florida mix, have tended to lean Democratic. But many have been swayed in recent elections, making them a crucial swing vote.
"One other issue, of course, that Hispanics care a great deal about in Central Florida is immigration. For a while, earlier this year, that was a burning issue," Jewett said. "That's kind of faded as the economy and the war in Iraq and other things seemed to be the big issues."
Polls show that Florida voters now are most concerned about the economy.
At the Tomato Express Supermarket, which specializes in products from South America, business from last year has fallen 35 percent.
Stella Siracuza, the supermarket's owner for 17 years, says that as her customers face financial stress and cut back on purchases, she feels the strain of rising costs and lower profits.
"It's very, very real for me and very real for my customers," Siracuza said. "Something has got to be done and I just don't see that's happening fast enough. I'm feeling the economy go down. I'm feeling it in sales. I feel it in my customers and I don't see anything happening fast enough."
The slowdown has shifted Siracuza's political inclinations this election cycle.
"I was a Republican, and I turned Democrat this year," she said.
Lakeland, a prosperous agricultural town halfway between Tampa and Orlando, is also facing rough financial times. Bob and Judy Shields fear they'll have to delay retirement.
"The mess that we are in right now, especially what's happened over the last couple of weeks with the bailout and everything else, I put most of the blame on the Republican Party," said Bob Shields, who is registered as an independent.
"I want someone who's a leader, who's going to be able to work with both parties to bring them together to be able to come up with some kind of remedy for the situation that we're in," he added. "I don't think anybody, any one person, has the perfect answer."
In Tampa, at Cox's Seafood, owner Faye Ann Cox's sales reflects the economic crisis. Her customers are buying more low-priced fish like salmon and tilapia, and less snapper and grouper.
Cox said she is worried about the state of the economy and her business. Though she was leaning towards Obama, now she thinks she'll vote for McCain. But Cox and other Floridians want to hear more from both candidates about how they will help small business stay afloat.
"I'm 60 years old, and they're telling me with my retirement that I'm losing in the stock market -- that if you've got 10 years to wait, it'll come back," Cox said. "Well, I might not have 10 years."


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Cyprus reworks divisive bank tax, delays vote
NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Cypriot ministers scrambled to revise a plan to seize money from bank deposits before a parliamentary vote on Tuesday that will either secure the island's financial rescue or threaten its default.
The weekend announcement that Cyprus would impose a tax on bank accounts as part of a 10 billion euro ($13 billion) bailout by the European Union broke with previous practice that depositors' savings were sacrosanct. The euro and stock markets fell on concern the euro zone crisis was reigniting.
Before Tuesday's vote, which is too close to call and would send reverberations across the currency zone if lost, the government was working to soften the blow to smaller savers by tilting more of the tax toward those with deposits greater than 100,000 euros ($130,000).
The decision to target bank accounts stunned Cypriots, and police sealed off parliament in Nicosia as about 400 people staged a noisy protest outside, aggrieved that their small island of one million people should be singled out for such treatment.
Angry demonstrators honked horns and waved placards reading "Hang the Banksters, Hands off People's Savings" and "Merkel go home and stay."
Residents emptied cash machines over the weekend. The move also unnerved depositors in the euro zone's weaker economies and investors feared a precedent had been set that could reignite turmoil that the Bank has calmed in recent months with its pledge to do whatever it takes to save the euro.
The government says Cyprus has no choice but to accept the bailout with the levy on deposits, or go bankrupt.
A Cypriot source told Reuters the introduction of a tax-free threshold for smaller bank deposits - maybe up to 20,000 euros - was under discussion but not yet agreed.
The parliamentary speaker said debate on the bank levy would be delayed until noon EDT on Tuesday to buy more time to build consensus. Banks, shut on Monday for a bank holiday, will remain closed on Tuesday and Wednesday to avert any panic.
The euro zone has indicated that changes would be acceptable as long as the return of around six billion euros is maintained.
"It is up to the government alone to decide if it wants to change the structure," European Central Bank policymaker Joerg Asmussen, who was pivotal in the weekend negotiations, told reporters in Berlin.
"The important thing is that the financial contribution of 5.8 billion euros remains," he said.
On the streets of Nicosia, ordinary Cypriots blamed European leaders, especially German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"We are hugely disappointed by our so-called European partners. They have hurt the credibility of the banking system and the country's dignity," said Andreas Evangelou, 52, who said savings to put his son through university would be taken.
"They are treating us like guinea pigs," said Takis Georgiou, 49. "The government has lost its credibility in the eyes of the people. We'd be better off leaving the euro and returning to the pound, we don't want to end up like Greece."
Protesters had inked the word "No" on the palms of their hands. "Europe is for its people and not for Germany," one placard said.
On markets, the euro fell before recovering some losses. European stocks dropped two percent before recouping most of the lost ground - denoting only modest levels of concern - with banks taking the heaviest blow.
"The most important question is what would happen the following day if the bill isn't voted," bank governor Panicos Demetriades told parliament.
"What would certainly happen is that our two big banks would need to be consolidated. This doesn't mean that they would be completely destroyed. We will aim for this to happen in a completely orderly way."
Brussels has emphasized that the measure is a one-off for a country that accounts for just 0.2 percent of European output.
The worst fear is that savers in other, larger European countries become nervous and start withdrawing funds, although there was no immediate sign of that on Monday.
"If I were a saver, certainly in Spain or maybe Italy, I think I'd be looking askance at these measures and think this could yet happen to me," said Peter Dixon, global financial economist at Commerzbank.
Cyprus's banking sector, which attracts money from Russians, dwarfs the size of its economy and has been severely hurt by exposure to its much larger neighbor Greece.
Moscow is considering extending an existing 2.5 billion euro loan to help bail the island out and said the fact it had not been consulted about the bailout could come into play.
"We will consider the issue of restructuring of the loan taking into account our (future) participation in the coordinated actions with the European Union to help Cyprus," Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters.
President Vladimir Putin criticized the bank levy as setting a dangerous precedent.
"Putin said that such a decision, should it be made, would be unfair, unprofessional and dangerous," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
In Serbia, where many saw Cyprus as a haven for money during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic, some with accounts there showed signs of concern.
A Belgrade physician, who gave his name as Nebojsa, said he had 270,000 euros in a Cyprus account. He refused to identify himself as Serbs are not allowed to keep bank accounts abroad.
"I will go (to Cyprus) this week to collect money from a friend who is authorized to take care of my savings there," Nebojsa said. "He had already emptied my account as soon as rumors about the new tax started. I will stash my money it somewhere, I will probably get a safe deposit box."
Approval in Cyprus's 56-member parliament is far from a given: no party has an absolute majority and three parties say outright they will not back the tax.
A source close to the consultations told Reuters authorities were hoping to cut the tax to 3.0 percent from 6.7 percent for deposits under 100,000 euros.
Even that effectively rips up the protection savers thought they enjoyed on insured deposits up to that limit. The rate for deposits above that would then be jacked up to 12.5 percent from 9.9 percent.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, a conservative elected just three weeks ago, said in a TV address that the tax was an alternative to a disorderly bankruptcy. It was painful, but "will eventually stabilize the economy and lead it to recovery."
Savers who lost money would be compensated by shares in commercial banks, with equity returns guaranteed by future revenues expected from natural gas discoveries, Anastasiades said. But many legislators remain unconvinced.
"Essentially parliament is called to legalize a decision to rob depositors blind, against every written and unwritten law," said Yiannakis Omirou, speaker of parliament and head of EDEK, the small Socialist party. "We refuse to subscribe to this."


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The Oil and the Glory
Blackbeard's return
For some years — and long before the Gulf of Mexico spill — Big Oil has seemed to be in existential peril. These gargantuans have been starved of new resources and wrong-footed by state-owned oil companies like China's Sinopec and Malaysia's Petronas, which are also competing around the world for drilling rights. At stake has ...
For some years — and long before the Gulf of Mexico spill — Big Oil has seemed to be in existential peril. These gargantuans have been starved of new resources and wrong-footed by state-owned oil companies like China's Sinopec and Malaysia's Petronas, which are also competing around the world for drilling rights. At stake has been not only Big Oil's good health — after all, how many people really care whether Chevron or Shell thrive, apart from their shareholders? — but also the power of nations. It's part of the narrative of the rise of the East, and the decline of the West.
Which brings us to the brouhaha that's descended upon Washington this week, and a Gulf of Mexico oilfield called Blackbeard.
Two days ago, a Florida congressman named Cliff Stearns made a seemingly throwaway reference to the well in a congressional hearing. But the remark was more important than it seemed: It was a window into how the rest of the West's oil giants hope to transcend BP's unprecedented catastrophe, and hold off their own descent.
In a cover story for BusinessWeek last year, I recounted the story of Blackbeard: In 2005, Exxon Mobil set out to drill the reservoir 28 miles off the Louisiana coast, which required what was at the time the world's deepest well, some 32,000 feet below the seabed. Estimates were that the field might hold more than 1 billion barrels of oil, which, if accurate, would make Blackbeard a supergiant — or an "elephant," in industry argot. In addition, a successful well would prove out an entire new oil frontier in this part of the Gulf. That generated much excitement as the oil industry watched Exxon's progress.
But what really got the industry talking was 18 months later when, after the company had spent an estimated $180 million drilling to just 2,000 feet from the target depth, Exxon halted the operation and walked away. Insiders told me that rig hands reported a natural gas "kick" that shook the platform, and spooked company management.
That was the first act of the drama. The second act came a year and a half later when a wildcatter named Jim Bob Moffett, co-chairman of the small Louisiana-based company McMoRan Exploration, walked in with his own crew. Moffett said Exxon had misread the situation, and proceeded to drill straight through to target depth. When he was done, he crowed that he had found at least half a billion and perhaps several billion barrels of oil. I quoted one oil analyst who said that Exxon simply "didn't have the guts" to complete the well.
In Tuesday's congressional hearings, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, sitting next to his contemporaries at Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, threw BP to the wolves. Tillerson spoke for Exxon, but also effectively for the others, when he said his company "would not have drilled the well the way [BP] did."
The reason for this club expulsion is that BP has jeopardized the only remaining advantage enjoyed by Big Oil as it competes against state-owned oil companies for scarce oil resources: its supposed technological superiority. If Big Oil is robbed of that ace, it has no cards to speak of. Though the super-majors would retain plenty of oil and natural gas assets on their balance sheets, they would be challenged to replenish the reserves they produce every year, and thus would rapidly wither away.
Exxon's decision at Blackbeard adds meat to Big Oil's attempt to hold onto this high ground — it projects the notion that the super-majors are the responsible operators on the oil patch.
In the BusinessWeek story, I quoted Thomas Hamilton, a former executive of both BP and Exxon, and an original investor in the Blackbeard project who was critical of Exxon's performance. Today, I e-mailed Hamilton, and he agreed that Exxon's caution looks better in hindsight. He said:
It is their huge balance sheet that allows them to operate as risk-free as anyone in the industry. If you don't have such a strong balance sheet, you are forced to take on more risk to compete.
Not that Wall Street appears to notice. BP's share price surged in early trading today on the back of his handshake deal with President Barack Obama yesterday, which suggested that Washington would not seek to wipe out the company, as some had feared. Yet BP is far from out of the wilderness, and remains in danger of being broken up after the spill is repaired (everyone hopes) in August.
But Exxon, too, is faring poorly in this regard. Even though it has the smallest Gulf of Mexico operation among the super-majors, its share price has plunged along with BP's since the April 20 spill. It is trading near its 52-week low.
Since Exxon doesn't grow and pays miserly dividends, I still wonder why anyone would invest in the company. But that is a subject for another day.
For now, look for Blackbeard to emerge as a well-worn talking point as Big Oil defends its right to survive.


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The Foreign Bureau: WSJ's Global Video News Update
We explore the most pressing video stories from around the world in a segment called The Foreign Bureau. We track the Pakistan earthquake, Iran's leader, Syrian rebels and an odd Japanese child-rearing trend. (Photo: Getty)
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... this is Bryan Quinn form here ... but with his province powerful seven point seven magnitude earthquake on Tuesday introduced houses to rubble killed over two hundred people ... it also appears to create a new island in the Arabian Sea ... sixty feet high two hundred fifty feet wide hundred feet long ... scientists are short of the modern rock outcrop things will remain in place or subside back into the sea ... so was that look like when Iran's new leader meets with the Western to get a ... it looks like it's ... what U S President Barack Obama in Iranian President Hassan Rohani did cross paths ... French President Francoise will want to meet with honey on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Tuesday ... part of what many are calling a thaw in relations between Iran in the West ... the two headed into a forty minute closed door meeting focused on Iran's nuclear program and the Syrian crisis ... the ... the groups inside Syria continue to release figures purporting to show that they're on the attack ... various groups battle the regime are also struggling amongst themselves for the soul of the recovery ... Tuesday the rebel alliance that includes the U S designated terrorist group as well as several factions backed by Western powers ... call for a unified Islamic governance structure ... with the Western world's big peers in the crash ... the issue ... with the opposition ... finally well this is a creative child rearing ... to go down to the euro the shrine in Tokyo ... where a rather unusual annual ritual has been growing in popularity for the last five years ... ABB's are brought into agreeing by demand justice sumo wrestlers while the referee yells at them ... all in an attempt to get them to cry as much as possible ... the priests year see this as a baby's cry is said to be innocent and your ... getting them to cry will ensure their health and strength as they grow ... this is been the foreign ... been been BdB BdB ...


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Director Carlos Saura's Carmen develops a fictional story revolving around the rehearsals of Georges Bizet's opera about the brash and colorful cigarette factory woman and her dalliance with the soldier Don José, and eventual love for Escamillo, the bullfighter. Saura introduces exciting flamenco dance scenes and a love story between Antonio (Antonio Gades), the choreographer of the opera, and the actress playing Carmen, Laura del Sol. Joan Sutherland and Paco de Lucía also perform segments from Bizet's 1875 opera. The mix of magical choreography, rousing flamenco dances, and operatic insertions as well as the tongue-in-cheek parodies of the French opera and foreign stereotypes of Spaniards keeps most viewers well entertained throughout. Saura's Carmen won an award for Artistic Contribution and for Technical Achievement at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983, another award for Technical Achievement at the 1983 Venice Film Festival, and the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 1984 British Academy Awards. It was the second in a trilogy of films choreographed in a similar style by Antonio Gades.~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
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PdFLeaks: Journalism, Free Speech, DDOS and Internet Freedom [UPDATED]
BY Micah L. Sifry | Sunday, December 12 2010
Yesterday's symposium on Wikileaks and internet freedom was like a great jazz concert. We got an all-star array of great musicians who know how to play from a score that is being written in real-time; we heard many great solos, some improvised and some carefully planned in advance; and at times we even heard the ensemble start to gel like a well-rehearsed band. There were discordant notes too, and maybe not enough of them given how hard the music really is.
I highly recommend replaying the event (it's archived here in two parts) and paying close attention to what each speaker said; when you're listening in real-time and trying to also ingest and participate in the backchannel conversation on Twitter (or IRL, which made a quiet but great resurgence yesterday) it becomes hard to take it all in. Now, hopefully, there will be a continuation of the conversation online, here and on other blogs.
A few thoughts to help move that ball forward. For starters: A friend of mine and Andrew's who attended the event, who has deep experience in the world of journalism, raised three questions in an email that I thought worth sharing, along with my preliminary responses.
1. Is what WikiLeaks has done journalism, and thus entitled to protection?
Yes, in my humble opinion, what Wikileaks is doing is journalism. They are editing the raw leaks and working with partners who are adding context. What is innovative about what they're doing is they're offering sources a new way of exposing inside information to public view. That is important and needs to be protected. At the same time, as Carne Ross said eloquently yesterday, "When you have information you have power, and with power comes responsibility." For the health of an open society, we definitely want a Wikileaks that is more transparent and accountable to the public than the one we have now. However, given how sovereign states--especially so-called "great powers" who want to have "spheres of influence" and maintain "ways of life" that are unsustainable--respond to fundamental threats to their monopoly on information, a Wikileaks can't be fully transparent if it wants to survive. In any event, as Mark Pesce brilliantly argued, it's not likely that we're going to get a "responsible" Wikileaks, and far more likely that something far more disruptive to the current order--a distributed and unstoppable system for spreading information--is what is coming next.
2. Does the DDOS response of Anonymous et al constitute vengeful anarchic lawlessness – or is it understandable civil disobedience?
Personally, I believe nonviolent civil disobedience is a very powerful weapon and generally support people who try to practice it. But I am not sure that it is at all wise to go try to defend free speech by suppressing other people's speech, which is what a DDOS attack does to the target. I think I agree with Bob Wyman (of Google, though he didn't mention that about himself) who spoke from the audience and said that anything that attacks the network should be opposed. A sit-in at the doors of the New York Times doesn't prevent the Times from publishing online, but a DDOS attack would. People who don't like Amazon or Mastercard or Paypal for what they did to Wikileaks should organize boycotts, or sit-in at their corporate headquarters. UPDATED: (after reading Deanna Zandt's longer nuanced discussion of this issue.) Or make a donation to Wikileaks, as I did last week to protest the crackdown on them. (You may to hunt around for an online path, but they're there. Or mail a check!)
3. Is it sensible to trust companies to determine who is permitted to publish on the Internet?
In a word, no. Perhaps the government made a mistake when it privatized the internet backbone. On the other hand, we also seem to have a problem with government allowing free speech online too! (In that respect, the most worrisome thing about the events of the past week is discovering that when push comes to shove, the US government is prepared to act like other repressive societies in trying to choke access to information online that it doesn't want people to have.) But the truth is that the distributed nature of private online services today has, so far, protected Wikileaks' freedom of speech. So perhaps rather than expecting particular companies to be courageous, what we need to worry about more is that there will always be enough alternative choices available that no one can effectively be suppressed.
More to come...