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Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) is a branded play company dedicated to fulfilling the fundamental need for play for children and families through the creative expression of the Company's world class brand portfolio, including TRANSFORMERS, MONOPOLY, PLAY-DOH, MY LITTLE PONY, MAGIC: THE GATHERING, NERF and LITTLEST PET SHOP.
From toys and games, to television programming, motion pictures, digital gaming and a comprehensive licensing program, Hasbro strives to delight its global customers with innovative play and entertainment experiences, in a variety of forms and formats, anytime and anywhere. The Company's Hasbro Studios develops and produces television programming for more than 180 territories around the world, and for the U.S. on Hub Network, part of a multi-platform joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK).
Through the company's deep commitment to corporate social responsibility, including philanthropy, Hasbro is helping to build a safe and sustainable world for future generations and to positively impact the lives of millions of children and families every year. It has been recognized for its efforts by being named one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" and is ranked as one of Corporate Responsibility Magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens.


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Gone south? Where is Terry Holland's oversight?
Ask most Virginians between the ages of 30 and 40 who the governor is, and they'll probably know the answer. (Although they may have had to stop themselves from answering, "Chuck Robb.")
Formative years are very– well, formative– and some things aren't easy to let go. Ask many Virginians who coaches UVA basketball, and Terry Holland might be their answer (or their prayer).
Sorry folks, but having ended his coaching and administrative career on a high note at Virginia, Holland took his talents to Greenville, North Carolina, seven years ago. But it seems the man who coached UVA to two Final Four appearances and– as Athletic Director and Special Assistant to the President– orchestrated Scott Stadium's $86 million expansion and construction as well as the expansion of the aquatic and tennis centers may have left his skills and instincts in Charlottesville.
The NCAA just placed Eastern Carolina University on a one-year probation for academic fraud. A tennis player who worked as a tutor wrote papers and did other academic work for four ECU baseball players, for which she was paid $10 a page, an offense in itself. As ECU's Athletic Director, Terry Holland can be commended for reporting the violations to the NCAA.
But his legendary good judgment failed him nonetheless. According to North Carolina television station WITN, "East Carolina University students say they're shocked but not surprised by the discovery."
For the second time in two years, ECU students are not surprised by unsavory goings-on at their school. Last year, students were "not surprised by the arrest of rapper Wiz Khalifa and several of his group members on marijuana charges because they say that's what their music is about." Students apparently were not surprised ECU booked Wiz Khalifa for a performance in the first place, but seeing how Ludacris had played the school the previous month, why would they be? (I leave it to you to investigate whether either Ludacris' or Wiz Khalifa's lyrics should have given ECU pause.)
Just a few months before Wiz's arrest, ECU made Playboy's list of the top-10 party schools for the second time. That dubious reputation has led students and faculty to repeatedly voice their concerns in the school's paper, The East Carolinian. But it's one thing not to be surprised when a performer who raps about marijuana is arrested for possession; it's quite another not to be surprised by student-athletes paying to have their schoolwork done for them.
If the students weren't surprised, how could Terry Holland be floored by the news? ("I was dumbstruck," Holland answered when questioned about the NCAA's punishment.) But he must have been, considering how quickly he and the athletic department, once they learned of the situation, dismissed or suspended the offending players. (How they remain students at the school is a question for the administration.)
It seems unimaginable that the man who spent decades shepherding UVA athletics could be blindsided in a much more intimate athletic environment and at a school that may no longer be "Easy-U," but still struggles with a less-than-stellar reputation.
Terry Holland, we thought we knew you.
And a more specific note about Virginia basketball: rumors are swirling around phenom Justin Anderson after he rescinded his verbal commitment to Maryland. Will he opt for Virginia Tech? Will he come to UVA?
Anderson recently visited Charlottesville, so that's a good sign, right? Granted he visited the same week he said exams were his first priority, but who cares about a little inconsistency? (At least he's consistently inconsistent; apparently his defection from Maryland was news to them.)
Watch it, Cav fans, you're drooling. Anderson still has a year of high school left and is already teetering on the edge of LeBron James-hood. Pull this kid back from the edge before he plunges headlong into the ego-abyss.
Justin Anderson may be a five-star forward, but an invitation to attend the University of Virginia is priceless. As you croon sweetly in Anderson's ear, don't let him forget it.
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Paparazzi have snagged the first images of the cyborg enforcer from the upcoming RoboCop remake, giving us a peek at the reborn Alex Murphy. But the all-black body armor looks a bit familiar.
ComingSoon posted two photos taken on the RoboCop set. I wonder, is this Dark Knight getup the only version of RoboCop we'll see in the new movie? Or will we get something a bit more akin to the silver, more robotic original?
First Look at the New RoboCop! [ComingSoon via Bleeding Cool]


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We're delighted to introduce the latest addition to the Continental family: the Continental GT V8 S Black Edition. This exclusive special edition, available both as coupé and convertible, is designed to emphasise the sportier, more contemporary edge of the GT V8 S.
For bold effect, the body colour chosen by the customer will be complemented by high gloss blackware, which replaces the brightware usually on the exterior. Black Components create dark accents on the lower fender, the door and rear bumper inserts as well as on the door handles. The radiator matrix and surround, front and rear lamps are dark tint and feature black bezels.
A contemporary edge inside and out
For the exterior aerokit, customers can choose from four striking accent colours – St James' Red, Beluga, Hallmark or Cyber Yellow – for the front splitter, side skirts and rear diffuser. The door mirrors can also be specified in the same matching colour as a cost option. To complement the striking exterior, customers have a choice between black or red calipers for the Black 21" Elegant wheels. Black 21" 5-spoke directional wheels are available as part of the Mulliner Driving Specification.
The interior reflects the exterior, with accents in Pillar Box Red, Porpoise, Beluga or Cyber Yellow on the centre bow and the GT Design seats by Mulliner. If customers choose the Mulliner Driving Specification, the Sports single-tone three-spoke steering wheel and the Mulliner Design seats with diamond quilting will be finished in corresponding colour contrast stitching.
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The Continental GT V8 S Black Edition offers a thrilling driving experience. The 4.0 litre twin-turbo charged V8 engine produces 528 PS so Continental can accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 4.5 seconds.


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7 Mouthwatering Thanksgiving Side Dishes Your Family Will Eat Up
Traditionally, the turkey is the star of Thanksgiving. But a truly memorable, well-rounded, belt-loosening, nap-inducing meal features a stellar supporting cast as well.
They're side dishes, not a sideshow. They don't have to be sad and forgotten. A simple spin on the traditional can make unexpected and delicious things happen. Here are just seven (out of the gazillions of recipes online) mouthwatering Thanksgiving side dishes that will leave your family and friends with clean plates, expanded waistlines and huge smiles.
Best Ever Green Bean Casserole
Anyone can put mushroom soup and onion crisps on green beans and bring them to Thanksgiving dinner. This year, we dare you to make your green bean casserole stand out in a crowd by using Alton Brown's Best Ever Green Bean Casserole. Real onions, real bread crumbs and a unique variety of spices will make your green beans the fanciest and tastiest veggies on the table. (And you can even add bacon. Bacon!)
Mascarpone Mashed Potatoes
Of course, it's not Thanksgiving dinner if there aren't mashed potatoes. But these aren't just any mashed potatoes. The Mascarpone Mashed Potatoes recipe includes cheese—lots and lots of mascarpone cheese (we admit we'd push the envelope and use more than is called for). This recipe lists russet potatoes, but rumor in the kitchen is that Yukon Gold potatoes make the best mashed taters, so you may want swap those in. Just keep the amounts the same.
Cornbread and Sausage Stuffing
Another staple of Thanksgiving side dishes is the stuffing. This year, why not try something a little different than just pouring a box of croutons into the big bird. Go with Martha Stewart's Cornbread and Sausage Stuffing recipe. The delicious pairing of cornbread and sausage is sure to be a hit (don't forget to follow one of Martha's tasty cornbread recipes to get started). Cornbread, sausage and sage blend together for the kind of dressing everyone will gladly get stuffed on.
Classic Sweet Potato Casserole
Sweet potatoes never get enough attention. Despite having marshmallows on top, they still play second fiddle to their non-sweet cousins. Even nice veggies finish last, apparently. But not this year, when you present Southern Living's Classic Sweet Potato Casserole. You can't go wrong when you're topping your sweet potatoes not only with marshmallows, but also with cornflakes, chopped pecans and brown sugar. It's the dessert before the dessert (in case you get full, doze off and don't make it to pie time).
Cran-Citrus Chutney
Then there are the cranberries, the neglected stepchild of the dinner. You can change all that this year. First, don't dump your cranberries out of a can creating a pile of can-shaped goo. Second, follow this recipe for Cran-Citrus Chutney. Third, get major applause from your family and guests. The good news is, frozen cranberries work as well as fresh ones in recipes (so you can stock up now), just make sure you let them thaw. This sweet and tangy side dish will definitely bring some much-deserved love back to the cranberry.
Squash Casserole
After putting new twists on standard Thanksgiving sides, you should also add a few non-traditional dishes—particularly this Southern Living Squash Casserole. Squash will love being cooked with two kinds of cheese, fresh herbs, breadcrumbs and French-fried onions, and your family will gobble (heh) it right up. Why should green beans get all the onion-casserole glory? And why should squash be merely a decorative centerpiece? We can't think of a reason. This dish is a must-have.
Spinach and Cheese Puff
With all there is to eat on Thanksgiving, it's important to warm up beforehand. You have to get your buds and bellies ready to take it all in. We recommend having your family start off with Martha Stewart's Spinach and Cheese Puff. It's cheesy and good, but it also has spinach in it so it's got some nutritional value too. Everyone can have a little bit to get started, or you can serve it with crackers as a crowd-pleasing spinach-dip appetizer. Turkey? What turkey?
List of recipes described above:
- Best Ever Green Bean Casserole: Cooking Channel
- Mascarpone Mashed Potatoes: AllRecipes.com
- Cornbread and Sausage Stuffing: Martha Stewart
- Classic Sweet Potato Casserole: Southern Living
- Cran-Citrus Chutney: Food Network
- Squash Casserole: Southern Living
- Spinach and Cheese Puff: Martha Stewart


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Planck at a glance
ESA's microwave observatory
Named after the German Nobel laureate Max Planck (1858-1947), ESA's Planck mission is the first European space observatory whose main goal is the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – the relic radiation from the Big Bang.
Observing at microwave wavelengths, ESA's Planck observatory is the third space mission of its kind. The first two, COBE and WMAP, were American. Planck is measuring tiny fluctuations in the CMB with unprecedented accuracy, providing the sharpest picture ever of the early Universe — when the cosmos was only 380 000 years old. This will allow cosmologists to zero-in on theories that describe the Universe's birth and evolution.
Planck is measuring the fluctuations of the CMB with an accuracy set by fundamental astrophysical limits. In other words, it may be impossible to ever take better images of this radiation than those obtained from Planck.
The spacecraft is equipped with a powerful telescope and two instruments operating at radio to sub-millimetre wavelengths. A sophisticated cryogenic system keeps their detectors at temperatures close to absolute zero.
Planck will measure the fluctuations of the CMB with an accuracy set by fundamental astrophysical limits.
Launch: 14 May 2009 on board an Ariane 5 from ESA's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch took place at 15:12 CEST. Planck was launched along with Herschel, ESA's infrared space observatory.
Status: In operation.
Journey: Planck was launched with ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory. Herschel separated from the upper stage of the launcher 26 minutes after launch and Planck followed 2.5 minutes later. The two spacecraft now operate independently. The upper stage set both spacecraft onto a trajectory that led them to orbits around the second Lagrangian point (L2), situated about 1.5 million km from Earth in the direction opposite to the Sun.
Orbit: Planck operates from a Lissajous orbit around L2, the second Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system, with an amplitude of
Telescope and instruments: Planck carries a 1.9x1.5-m telescope, with an effective aperture of 1.5 m. It focuses radiation from the sky onto two arrays of sensitive radio detectors, those of the Low Frequency Instrument and those of the High Frequency Instrument. Together they measure the temperature of the CMB over the sky, searching for regions very slightly warmer or colder than the average.
A sophisticated cryogenic system keeps the instrument's detectors at temperatures close to absolute zero.
Wavelength coverage: Planck observes in nine wavelength bands, from one centimetre to one third of a millimetre, corresponding to a range of wavelengths from microwaves to the very-far-infrared.
Launch mass: About 1.9 tonnes.
Dimensions: Approximately 4.2 m high and 4.2 m wide.
Ground station:ESA's deep space antenna in New Norcia.
Planned lifetime: Routine observations are planned to last until November 2011, allowing the whole sky to be surveyed four times. After this, the LFI instrument will continue operating for an additional year, providing more information to help astronomers interpret the CMB data.


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Before pulling guard in an MMA bout, a fighter must weigh the many risks before the possible reward.
During a recent World Victory Road Sengoku Raiden Championships 12 bout
between featherweights Yuji Hoshino and Nick Denis, one competitor
figured it was worth it.
Would he regret the strategy?
Each week HDNet and MMAjunkie.com release a new and exclusive fight from
the ever-growing HDNet Fights video library. Stunning knockouts, slick
submissions, shocking finishes and legendary brawls are the norm for
this weekly feature. And Hoshino vs. Denis is no exception.
Hoshino (16-7-7 at the time), a longtime Pancrase fighter, made his WVR debut in November 2009 and snapped a nine-fight undefeated streak with a first-round knockout of Marlon Sandro. The well-rounded Japanese fighter looked to right the ship against Denis (9-1) at the May Sengoku event.
The former King of the Cage bantamweight champion returned to WVR after a second-round finish in the 2009 Sengoku featherweight grand prix, as well as a pair of subsequent knockout wins in his native Canada.
Would the knockout artist add a Hoshino victory to his resume, or would the Japanese fighter pick up a win on his native soil?
Check out the embedded clip for the answer.
Each week MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) and HDNet Fights (www.hdnetfights.com) team up for "HDNet Fights Video Vault," which offers a new and unique video from the organization's ever-growing fight library. The weekly feature is a continuation of a long-standing partnership between MMAjunkie.com and HDNet. For more information on HDNet, which broadcasts more MMA events than any other TV outlet, visit www.hd.net.


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A medical expert looked jurors in the eyes Wednesday and told them that Michael Jackson's doctor committed 17 flagrant violations of the standard of care for his famous patient and was directly responsible for the death of the King of Pop.
Conrad Murray Trial: Who's Who, Coroner's Report, Testimony Timeline
Dr. Steven Shafer's testimony Wednesday in Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial included a video re-enactment of the proper administration of propofol, the drug cited in a coroner's report on Jackson's death. The video depicts the drug being administered in a surgical setting.
When asked about Murray's relationship with Jackson, Shafer described it more like an "employee-employer" relationship rather than a "patient-doctor" relationship.
Local news from across Southern California
"'Yes' is what an employee says," Shafer said. "'Yes' is not what a doctor says to a request from a patient that is not in the patient's best interest."
Shafer testified that he believed Murray had 17 distinct egregious violations of standard of care in his treatment of Jackson.
Four of those 17 violations were unconscionable, Shafer testified.
"He was not putting Michael Jackson first. He was putting Dr. Murray first," he said.
The prosecution asked Shafer for his opinion on Murray allegedly not calling 911, but instead leaving voicemails for members of Jackson's staff when the pop star died.
"A physician would not call and leave a voicemail for somebody when a patient had arrested," Shafer said. "I almost don't know what to say, that is utterly inexcusable."
In court papers filed late last month, prosecutors wrote that the Columbia University professor had strong words about Murray's care of Jackson. Prosecutors wrote that Shafer said "there is almost nothing in Murray's care of Michael Jackson that reflected the actions of a trained physician."
Shafer wrote guidelines and warnings that are included with every bottle of propofol. Prosecutors claim Murray ignored those warnings by giving Jackson the anesthetic in the bedroom of his rented Holmby Hills mansion.
Shafer told jurors he is not charging for his work on the Jackson case, in part because he wants to restore public confidence in the medication and doctors.
"I am asked every day in the operating room, 'Are you going to give me the drug that killed Michael Jackson,''' Shafer said. "This is a fear that patients do not need to have."
Other medical experts have echoed Shafer's concerns about Jackson's care.
A cardiologist testified last week that Murray's treatment of Jackson, especially the administration of the powerful anesthetic propofol, before the superstar's death deviated from general standards. During the trial's first week, a medical equipment executive said Murray lacked the proper monitoring equipment for the administration of propofol.
Shafer is likely to provide more details about the drugs in Jackson's system on the day he died, June 25, 2009.
Murray is accused of administering the fatal dose of propofol, a drug usually used in a surgical setting, then failing to properly monitor his superstar patient.
Defense attorneys claim Murray left Jackson's side for just a couple of minutes. The doctor told investigators during an interview two days after Jackson's death that he was trying to wean Jackson off the drug the pop star called his "milk."
The drug was administered after a restless night during which Jackson pleaded for something to help him sleep, Murray told investigators.
Toxicological testing done by the coroner's office determined that Jackson's death was caused by acute propofol intoxication, with "benzodiazepene effect'' as a contributing condition, a deputy medical examiner testified last week.
If prosecutors wrap up their case Thursday, the defense might begin its case Friday.
Editorial Note: Associated Press writers Linda Deutsch and Anthony McCartney contributed to this report.
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I have always had a problem with following the crowd. Where other teens would wear the "in" styles, I fought to do my own thing. My love for the Beatles did not develop until well past the time all the other girls were screaming at them. I liked Elvis until he got popular. So, while I have had a blank mind lately for posts, and I find myself checking out the Daily Post at WordPress, I am loath to use their ideas.
It seems to be less loathsome to scroll back a few days and use those ideas. Like eating. Which is always on my mind, lately. So, here I go again.
What food would I eat if I could have anything I wanted?
Photo from konocook.blogspot.com
I am not sure how much of this craving is the melted butter but I have not had lobster tail in over twenty years. I do not like shrimp at all, but I have loved lobster tail.
My second choice would be prime rib but I have to tell you that the longer I am on the Vegan diet the less appealing a slice of medium rare prime rib is to me.
Who would I eat it with? That's is just too easy. I would like to say the Dahlai Lama.
He looks like a jolly fellow, but I think that I would be tongue tied around him. It would be a quiet meal. So, my choice:
Now, that was just too easy to pass up.


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Webinar Series: Sustainable Energy in Humanitarian Settings
Productive Uses of Energy (PUE) in Humanitarian Contexts - This webinar will provide an overview of different types of PUE activities in displacement settings, followed by two case studies from Kenya and Rwanda. SELCO Foundation will introduce the topic and Practical Action and Energy for Impact will then share their experiences and lessons learned from Rwanda. SNV Kenya will discuss their market-based approach from Kenya. Read more...
Thurs 29 Oct at 11:00 a.m. CET (Registration link)
Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) are organizations which provide financial inclusion to the poor strata of the population (excluding the poorest). There are innumerable typologies of organizations acting as MFIs: commercial and development banks, saving groups, cooperatives and NGOs with non-profit status. These institutions can provide micro loans with favourable conditions to the urban and rural poor. MFIs are considered one of the best ways to decrease poverty and enhance development; therefore they most often adopt a development financial model.
Thanks to the spread of internet accessibility and mobile devices amongst the population in developing countries, and due to better access of finance for the poor, micro financing has been booming worldwide.
Due to the variety of profiles of MFIs, it is challenging to define an absolute micro financing model. Usually, non-profit organizations are financed by donors and in order to provide micro credits, they first need to loan money from financial institutions. This double loan system, does not guarantee a constant availability of funds and the interest rate for the final debtor is high. Conversely, classical financial institutions, which decide to enter in the micro financing business, have the advantage to rely on existing infrastructures, the know-how and their own capital. Different than non-profits, which work on local level, formal financial institutions (FIs) lack the physical connectivity to poor people. Therefore, they need to find an alternative way to check the credit worthiness of farmers and to find substitutes for collateral. Furthermore, due to the innumerable transactions and the small amount of money dealt, micro loans barely cover the transaction cost faced by formal FIs.
In general, MFIs offer quick loan disbursement, frequent repayment rates and customized loans, which imply an intensive personal relationship between lender and borrower. Micro financing loans range usually between 4 and 12 months and they need to be repaid either with monthly, weekly or even daily rates. Typical loans from MFIs range between 100 and 300 USD. However, with the entry of for-profit FIs, the loan's range has increased substantially, allowing farmers to purchase capital intensive farming equipment such as SPIS.
MFIs offer loans both to a single famer as well as groups of farmers. Planting Model Group are established specifically for the purchase of SPIS and allow farmers to obtain higher loans. Group members provide a guarantee for each other: if a farmer fails to repay his debt, the other members are responsible to take it over. Just farmers, who trust each other, are willing to form Planting Model Groups. Similarly, in India, Joint Liability Groups consisting of 4-10 members are formed for the purpose of availing bank loan on individual basis through group mechanism against mutual guarantee. Generally, the members engage in a similar type of economic activity and offer joint undertaking to the bank that enables them to avail loans.
Due to the variety of the institutions involved in the micro financing business, the requirements that farmers need to meet in order to obtain a micro loan vary considerably. It is, therefore, necessary to check the data requirements requested by the individual FIs in the other chapters of this module.
Nevertheless, a list with the most common documents necessary to obtain a loan are as follows:
Micro financing allows social inclusion but does not always alleviates poverty, as expected. In fact, high interest rates, which on average are around 37% and can reach 70%, can make poor people even worse off.
As commercial banks are more likely to be financial partners of big farmers, so MFIs have mostly SMEs farmers as customers with limited financial means and no collateral. Similarly, Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) are owned, managed and run by its members to provide a source of fair loans and reasonable rates of interest.
Sometimes MFIs and SACCOs are confused between each other. Here same main differences between these two institutions:


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New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI): The Supreme Court today extended till June 16 its order staying the trial in a disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa by a Bangalore court.
"Interim order to continue till next date of hearing. List the matter for final hearing on June 16," a bench comprising justice J S Kehar and C Nagappan said.
The bench also asked the vigilance department of Tamil Nadu to file its response by next Friday.
The bench issued notice to Jayalalithaa on a separate petition by a DMK leader seeking impleadment as a party to the plea filed by the Tamil Nadu chief minister before the apex court.
The counsel for the Tamil Nadu chief minister said that the claim petitions of five separate individuals, staking ownership right over certain property which have been listed as assets of Jayalalithaa, have been heard by the Bangalore trial court.
Earlier, the apex court had stayed the proceeding against AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa for ten days in the Bangalore trial court.
The court, however, had said that the civil proceedings, pending before the same trial court in Bangalore, will go on.
The civil proceedings relate to the plea of various companies alleging that some of the properties, shown as part of the disproportionate assets of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, actually belonged to them.
The apex court had on May 13 said it was not inclined to stay the trial in the Bangalore court in the DA case against Jayalalithaa and others.
It, however, had allowed the Chief Minister to withdraw the plea and move the Karnataka High Court.
The Chief Minister had sought a stay on the trial till the lower court decides the plea of Lex Property Development (P) Ltd, a Chennai-based firm.
The company had claimed that the properties, which have been attached by the authorities as 'benami' holdings of Jayalalithaa, in fact, belonged to it and said this plea be decided first before the lower court proceeds with the trial in the assets case.
The court had allowed the company, which has separately challenged the attachment of properties, to cross examine the witnesses who may file certain documents.
The disproportionate assets case was shifted to Bangalore in 2003 following a Supreme Court directive on a petition alleging that a fair trial was not possible in Chennai during her tenure as Chief Minister then.
Jayalalithaa faces charges of accumulation of over Rs 66 crore worth of assets disproportionate to her known sources of income.
Besides Jayalalithaa, V K Sasikala, V N Sudhakaran and J Illavarasi are also facing trial in the case.


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Reasonable hockey fans have spent much of the past week sticking up for Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn of the Nashville Predators. Barry Trotz benched both forwards for game three of the Western Conference semifinals after they missed curfew, and then he benched them again for game four. It seemed like Trotz's treatment of the two had something to do with their Russian heritage, as Larry Brooks argued. The stereotypical Russian hockey player is a vodka-swilling, chain-smoking, floppy-haired pretty boy, and so they get away with less than their North American counterparts.
We bring all this up by way of regaling you with what allegedly happened with the Canadian national team over the weekend in Helsinki:
MTV3, the official broadcaster of the world hockey championship, reported on its website that Getzlaf, winger Corey Perry and a few other Team Canada players were involved in an incident with drunken Finnish fans following their Saturday night overtime loss to the United States.
Getzlaf was alleged to have waved his fist at the Finns and said that "you do not want this" of his fist.
Another report said proclaimed himself as "the captain of the Anaheim Ducks" and that he "threatened to knock everyone out in three minutes."
This, just like Radulov and Kostitsyn boozing 'till the wee hours in Scottsdale, Arizona, is hilarious. But of course the old-school culture uses one incident to indict a nation of hockey players and the other as snickering fodder. Sure, the IIHF World Championships aren't the Stanley Cup playoffs, but, then again, the Nashville Predators aren't exactly Team Canada. We say: carouse on, hockey players of the world. Do your thing.
Getzlaf in alleged Helsinki club incident [QMI, via LFP]


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Within only a few days after discovering a native parasitic fly that may reduce kudzu bug numbers significantly over time, Alabama Cooperative Extension System Specialist and Auburn University Researcher Xing Ping Hu has discovered a local egg-parasitic wasp.
This finding — the first discovery of an indigent wasp that parasitizes eggs of the exotic kudzu bug — could prove to be a game changer in the fight against this invasive species, Hu says.
Along with the earlier finding of a fly that preys on kudzu bug adults, Hu says the discovery of this parasitic egg wasp doubles the frontline of defense using natural enemies to fight this exotic pest.
"This local parasitoid wasp has demonstrated a high capacity to reduce significantly the populations of kudzu bugs in soybean fields," she says.
The discovery was made by Hu's research assistant, Auburn University graduate student Julian Golec, during a routine investigation of kudzu bug damage in a soybean field.
Hu says kudzu bugs are no different than any other insect species introduced into a new area. Figuratively speaking, entering an area with no known local predators is like drawing a lucky lotto number: the species thrives and its numbers mushroom as it develops into a full-blown invasive species, often wreaking havoc within its new environment.
"That's why they become invasive in the first place," Hu says. "They have no natural enemies to balance the ecosystem."
"It's as if they're saying, 'No one can mess with me so I can do what I want.'"
On the other hand, an incoming species draws an unlucky lotto number if it enters an environment teeming with natural enemies. In such cases, the species' numbers may spike for a few years until local predators respond to the new species.
In the case of some invasive species, such as the red imported fire ant, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has stepped in to identify predators from the invasive species' native habitat that could be introduced to reduce their numbers.
Often an expensive process
"This typically is a long, labor-intensive and expensive process that requires laboratory studies to ensure that this predator is not only capable of surviving in its new environment but also that it preys only on the targeted invasive species and doesn't attack native species," Hu says.
"Even if the species overcomes these laboratory hurdles and is introduced, it's often an open question whether it can survive in sufficient numbers to make a difference."
That is the reason why Hu is excited about the discovery of the local predatory wasp species. The discovery of this species, along with the fly species may ultimately prove to be less expensive methods for reducing kudzu bug numbers.
During his field investigation, Golec noticed black masses within kudzu bug eggs — something that immediately caught his attention because these translucent eggs are normally characterized by a pinkish or yellowish tint. Even more intriguing: These black masses appeared to be moving.
He suspected that he had discovered evidence of a local predatory wasp that finds kudzu bugs suitable repositories for its own eggs — a hunch subsequently confirmed through follow-up investigation.
"Using a high-speed camera, the wasps were recorded and observed under microscope as they emerged from these parasitized kudzu bug eggs," Hu says. "The male wasps emerged first, guarding the parasitized eggs until the females came out."
The female wasps emerge sexually mature.
As soon as the wasps emerge from the eggs, they mate and the females immediately begin laying eggs, repeating the cycle.
The parasitic rates of parasitized eggs turned out to be especially high.
Aside from confirming that there is yet another local predator of kudzu bugs, Hu says these wasps exhibit higher levels of parasitism than the recently discovered flies. Egg parasites typically are more effective predators than species that prey only on adults, she says.
In fact, preliminary field investigations reveal that more kudzu eggs than not appear to be parasitized by the wasps— evidence that the kudzu bug populations that emerge in the future may not be as large as they have in the past.
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Bernstein, Childress, Force: International Heroes
NHRA legends Kenny Bernstein and John Force and NASCAR team-owner Richard Childress were dressed to impress for their inductions into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame Thursday evening at the Speed Channel Dome adjacent to Talladega Superspeedway.
And for Childress, the black-tie ceremony was a lifetime removed from his first wide-eyed tour of the
sprawling Alabama facility.
"In 1969, that's where I got one of my biggest breaks," said Childress, whose NASCAR career accelerated during a driver's strike that threatened the high-banked, 2.66-mile trioval's first race – the infamous Talladega 500 – on Sept. 14. When NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. was forced to look for replacement drivers in the face of safety concerns voiced by series regulars, Childress saw opportunity and signed-on.
"I remember going over to the Hall of Fame with Don Naman and just looking around and thinking, 'Man, these are real heroes in here,' " said Childress, 66, now one of NASCAR's most successful and wealthy team-owners. "To be able to go in this year is really, really special for me and my family. In racing, everybody sacrifices. And families sacrifice a lot."
Childress warmed-up for his IMHOF induction with a similar ceremony during the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame awards gala at Texas Motor Speedway last month. Childress was presented the Bruton Smith Legend Award given to individuals who have made a lasting impact on motorsports.
"When I started, I didn't think I'd be alive today," said Childress, one of NASCAR's top independent drivers in the early 1970s who switched his number from 96 to 3 in 1976 in tribute to Junior Johnson, "The Last American Hero." Childress never won in NASCAR's premier series as a driver, retiring in 1981 with six top-five and 76 top-10 finishes and a career-best of third (1978).
But Childress had the business savvy to hire Dale Earnhardt in 1981 for the first of their two stints together; the friends went on to win six of Cap E's record-tying seven Sprint Cup titles. Richard Childress Racing also has posted four Nationwide Series titles and a Camping World Truck Series crown. RCR was the first organization to win titles in the Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck series.
"Anytime you can receive any type of award in this sport it's very meaningful…quite humbling for me,"
said Childress, whose off-the-track interests are highlighted by his award-winning Childress Vineyards in Lexington, N.C. "I didn't get here (alone)…it's all about the people with me. Anytime I receive an award I'm receiving it for the people that's worked with me over the years – drivers and everyone else."
Fittingly, RCR posted its landmark 100th Cup victory at Talladega in October 2011 with Clint Bowyer. In addition to current Cup stars Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Paul Menard, Childress is focused on the budding NASCAR careers of grandsons Austin and Ty Dillon. Austin, the 2011 Camping World Truck Series champion, has graduated to the Nationwide Series for RCR. Ty, the 2011 ARCA champion, has replaced his older brother in the Truck Series.
"They're definitely going to keep me in it a lot longer," said Childress, a longtime partner with Chevrolet Racing. "Really proud of their accomplishments…and they want it bad. They know they have to perform and they've got to win races and championships to keep a job in this business.
"And I don't have any plans to go anywhere. Now I'm kind of getting re-fired-up, re-energized just watching them and hanging with them. I love this sport. You know, I'll be in this sport until they run me off or I do something and they run me off. Maybe I'll only come to a few races some day _ the old clock ticks on all of us. I'm hoping to be around quite a few more years and watch these guys keep racing for championships."
Bernstein and Force are the 10th and 11th NHRA inductees into the prestigious Hall, which features among its members a distinguished roster of drivers from all segments of motorsports including
Earnhardt, Mario Andretti, Richard Petty and A.J. Foyt Jr. Previous NHRA inductees are Mickey Thompson (1990), Wally Parks (1992), "Big Daddy" Don Garlits (1997), Don "The Snake" Prudhomme (2000), Shirley Muldowney (2004), Joe Amato (2005), Bob Glidden (2005), Warren Johnson (2007) and Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins (2008).
Bernstein was not only a gifted driver but also a pioneering businessman, headlined by his 30-year sponsor relationship with Budweiser. He remains the only team-owner to have collected wins in each of America's three major motorsports series: NHRA, NASCAR and CART (Indy-car).
"The festivities surrounding the International Motorsports Hall of Fame are fabulous, and we couldn't be any more proud and honored to now be a member of this elite group of motorsports luminaries," Bernstein said. "In 1979 in an NHRA event in Baton Rouge, La., John Force and I faced-off in the final Funny Car round. It was one of the first times either of us had made it to a final round, and here we were racing each other.
"It's ironic that 33 years later, we are both standing on this stage for this momentous occasion. If you had asked me in 1979 where we saw ourselves in 33 years, we never would have guessed our path would have led us here. John has been a good friend for all these years, and we're pleased to have reached this destination together."
A six-time NHRA world champion, Bernstein earned 69 national event victories and became the first to win world titles in both Top Fuel and Funny Car. He earned the title "King of Speed" after becoming the first driver to break the 300-mph barrier in Gainesville, Fla., in March 1992. Bernstein retired from NHRA as a team-owner at the end of last season.
"It's also an honor to share the stage with Richard Childress," said Bernstein, 67, who was presented for induction by NHRA announcer Bob Frey. "We were first introduced in 1980 by R.J. Reynolds motorsports boss Ralph Seagraves when Richard and Dale Earnhardt sewed up a championship at Riverside International Raceway. When we began fielding a NASCAR team several years later, Richard was the man who was always available to help me and give me direction, and for that we have been eternally grateful. It's great to reconnect with Richard tonight.
"My son, Brandon, who has been a part of our racing operation for many years, is here tonight along
with our special guest Larry McReynolds, who was our NASCAR crew chief for many years. We are proud that they are here to share the evening with us. Lastly and most importantly, I want to thank my wife, Sheryl, for standing by my side and working shoulder-to-shoulder with me for the past three-plus decades. She has been responsible for a great deal of my success, and we couldn't have done it without her."
Force has dominated NHRA Funny Car racing since the early 1990s and owns records for victories (134), No. 1 qualifying positions (139), elimination round-wins (1,102) and world championship titles (15). In 1996, he was named Driver of the Year for all of motorsports and became the oldest NHRA champion in 2010 when at 61 he earned his most recent world championship in a dramatic comeback effort. NHRA President Tom Compton presented Force for induction.
"You can't talk about your career without leaving someone off of the list," said Force, 63. "I don't want to miss anyone, but there are key people that helped me get into the Hall of Fame tonight and one of the major people was (crew chief) Austin Coil. Without Austin, there is no way I am here accepting this honor. I also have to thank my wife, Laurie, for putting up with me. I always tell people she loves me, but she just doesn't like me. We used to sleep in the cab of a truck and she did everything from writing my first contracts to most importantly raising our three amazing daughters: Ashley, Brittany and Courtney.
"In the early days, my oldest daughter, Adria, would help out wherever she could and now she and my son-in-law, Robert Hight, help me run this company. I still think back to the early days with Uncle Beavs and Dave Condit; we were a mess, but we loved to be at the track. I always wanted to be like Prudhomme and Garlits and Kenny. That was my dream, and to be here shows you what an old truck driver can do if he puts his mind to something and he has a lot of help from some really smart people."
Force recently won the 2012 season-opening O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals presented by Super Start Batteries in Pomona, Calif., in his familiar Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang. "Brut" Force sits seventh in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series point standings.
"Castrol has been with me almost this whole ride, and I am proud to represent them as well as Ford, AAA, Mac Tools, BrandSource, Traxxas and Freightliner plus every sponsor that has ever been on my race car," Force joked. "We are all going into the Hall of Fame tonight. For the NHRA, this is big to have me and Kenny go in together and I could not be prouder.
"I am so honored that it is hard for me to say how much this means to me. We have won a lot of races and championships, but I always just wanted to put on the helmet and hear the roar of the crowd. I am going to keep on racing until someone tells me I can't do it anymore, and then I am going to go on tour. I also want to thank the media. They used to write stories about me just because I was crazy and caught on fire all the time. Thank you for every interview and every story. I have been a very lucky man."
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Co-ops report early enrollment successes and expansion plans
The Affordable Care Act's nonprofit co-op health plans, which see themselves as the rebel alliance battling established insurers, have signed close to 300,000 members and are set to expand into three new states next year, officials say.
Starting from zero in October, New York's Health Republic Insurance has enrolled more than 50,000 policyholders, said John Morrison, who just stepped down as founding president of the National Alliance of State Health CO-OPs. That's among the best results so far for 23 nonprofits created by the health law.CoOportunity Health in Iowa and Nebraska has also signed up more than 50,000; Colorado HealthOP, close to 9,000.
Co-op bosses were in Washington for a NASHCO meeting this week and talked to reporters afterward.
Created by the health law to increase insurance competition and innovation, co-ops face big challenges as they try to build businesses from scratch while expanding access to care and embracing the chronically ill. The law prohibits them from using their federal startup loans to advertise. Not all of them recovered as well as CoOportunity Health from online problems that initially frustrated shoppers.
But co-ops present snapshots of progress while emphasizing their community ties and scrappy marketing against giants such as Blue Cross plans, UnitedHealthcare and Humana.
Competing against Anthem BlueCross BlueShield (owned by WellPoint), Maine Community Health Options locked up 80 percent of the market in that state for plans offered through an online exchange to individuals and small businesses, said CEO Kevin Lewis. Kentucky Health Cooperative fought Humana and Anthem to win 61 percent of the business in that state, said CEO Janie Miller.
And that was on Louisville-based Humana's (revenue of $41 billion last year) home turf, she pointed out.
"They have a few more employees than I do," Miller said. "We believe we're the health insurance plan of the people."
In many cases co-ops are selling high-benefit platinum plans rather than the less-expensive bronze or silver policies expected to win almost all the business - even to younger consumers, officials said.
"Everybody said, 'Oh, we'll have these bronze plans and everybody will take the cheapest plan,'" said David Lyons, CEO of Iowa and Nebraska's CoOportunity Health. "We have more people enrolling in our platinum plans than we do in bronze."
So far co-ops have won between 15 and 20 percent of the total signups in the their 23 states, Morrison estimated. Open enrollment for 2014 ends March 31.
By adding competition and lowering prices, the community-run cooperatives will save billions for the consumers and taxpayers paying for insurance, Morrison said. Premiums in states with co-ops are 8.5 percent lower on average than in states without them, he said. While that relationship doesn't prove cause and effect, "nobody's offered another explanation for why that might be true," he said.
Three co-ops are jumping borders. Montana Health CO-OP is setting up business in Idaho.Minuteman Health in Massachusetts is moving into New Hampshire. Kentucky Health Cooperative will start selling in West Virginia.
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"Like I said, interesting but thin data," CoOportunity Health's Lyons said of the sign-up results. "Give us another year and we'll be able to figure out what all this means."
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Parisian women finally 'allowed' to wear trousers
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Women in Paris have been officially banned from wearing trousers since 1799. However, France's Minister for Women's Rights (pictured, wearing trousers) has revoked the law calling it a "museum piece."
An archaic by-law banning Parisian women from wearing trousers has finally been repealed 214 years after it was originally introduced.
The November 1799 decree stipulated that any woman wishing to wear men's clothing in the French capital had to seek official permission from the city authorities.
It was amended two times a century later, when women were given the freedom to don "pantalons" [trousers] if they were "holding the handlebars of a bicycle or the reins of a horse."
The decree was passed when the working class fashion of wearing long trousers (as opposed to the aristocratic knee-length "culottes") became a symbol of the French revolution. The rule therefore symbolically barred women from the revolutionary rank and file, known at the time as the "sans-culottes".
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In 2010, a group of Green Party lawmakers began a campaign to get the absurd by-law, held in the archives of the Paris Prefecture [police headquarters] and technically still in force, struck off permanently.
The group faced surprising resistance from the prefecture, which considered the effort "removing a piece of judicial archaeology" a "waste of time".
A fresh application for the decree to be officially removed from the prefecture's official documentation was made in 2012 by a member of parliament for the opposition UMP party.
This time, the request was taken seriously, and the 1799 law was last week officially confirmed null and void.
French Minister for Women's Rights Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said the rule was "incompatible with the principles of equality between men and women that are written into the constitution, as well as in France's European engagements."
"Because of this incompatibility, this by-law is implicitly repealed," she added. "It has absolutely no legal effect. The document is nothing but a museum piece."
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Mavericks break 6-game skid 103-94 over Wizards
Vince Carter scored 23 points, O.J. Mayo and Darren Collison each added 15 to help the Dallas Mavericks break their six-game losing streak with a 103-94 win over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night.
When the Wizards, who are now 4-25, took a 14-point lead early in the second quarter, Dallas, which had arrived in Washington in the midst of its longest skid in nearly 14 years, rallied. They trailed by four at the half, and then outscored the Wizards 35-19 in the third quarter to take an 83-71 lead.
The Mavericks were ahead 99-84 with 3:28 to play, but Washington scored eight straight to cut the lead to seven, but Carter, making just the second start of the season threw down an emphatic dunk with 1:11 to play to make it 101-93.
Six players scored in double figures for Dallas. Chris Kaman scored 12 points and Shawn Marion had 11 points with a season-high 14 rebounds. Dirk Nowitzki played in just his fifth game since returning from right knee surgery and added 11.
Bradley Beal equaled a career high with 22 points for the Wizards. Emeka Okafor had 14 and 11 rebounds. Martel Webster also had 14.
Dallas arrived in Washington in the midst of its longest skid in nearly 14 years. The Mavericks hadn't been losing close games. Just one of the six losses was by fewer than 10 points, and were by an average of 19 points, and were by an average of 19 points.
NBA champs just two seasons ago, Dallas hasn't missed the playoffs since 2000 and looked to be a team in turmoil. Coach Rick Carlisle was so upset after Sunday's 25-point loss to San Antonio, he threatened suspensions to underperformers, a threat he dismissed before the game. He did institute a dress code for team charters, banning sweat suits and insisting on at least business-casual attire.
The Wizards outrebounded the Mavericks 20-8 in the first quarter as they took a 29-23 lead and ended a 10-0 run with a 37-23 advantage with just over two minutes gone in the second quarter. Dallas clawed back in the game by scoring seven straight to end the first half down 52-48.
Just before Washington left the court, coach Randy Wittman took reserve center Kevin Seraphin aside to hector him for allowing Kaman three easy baskets late in the half.
NOTES: Dallas recalled G Jared Cunningham from the D-League, but he was inactive as was C/F Brandan Wright with a quad strain. ... The Wizards gave out bobbleheads depicting Beal. ... Washington has lost six in a row to the Mavericks. ... While the Mavericks were introduced, the strains of "Hail to the Redskins" were played.


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Communism and the 1%
By Barbara Stängl
Communism in its end stage is a classless and stateless society. This ideology has never in fact been implemented to the final stage, where the state as such would have 'withered away'. The states ruled by communist political parties themselves rather define themselves as socialist states. Karl Marx has divided the working class from the capitalist class, in that it can be said that he too was a global player serving the system in that he adhered to propagating and intensifying already existing inequalities, same as Obama or Merkel, which is essential for any kind of ideology to work: divide & conquer. This holds true whether one is speaking of the system/ideology of democracy, totalitarianism, socialism, capitalism or communism.
Communism was utilized by the Elite to further the chasm by way of placing it as a threat to democracy and 'its values' of free market, freedom of speech and a free media. What was stated to be a planned economy on the communist/socialist side was opposed to a market-based economy – both only paradigms, both not working for the majority, both not based on the principle of what is best for all.
As mentioned above, and specifically in the example of the Soviet Union, there never was communism according to Marx' definition nor a communism that in the actual sense of the word focused on the community, as all being equal and being given an equal opportunity to live life to its fullest potential. It was again a sort of dictatorship, where the subordinated beings had to do all the labor and the top 1% were able to profit, to have it all and live the 'happy life'.
The problem was the economic focus on heavy industry at the expense of consumer goods, oftentimes resulting in shortages of vital products or even famine, and to cover up the mismanagement of the government in their 5-year plans, militarism and propaganda were used in a widespread manner. These means and measures of manipulation and suppression had been so obvious to the 'democratic side' of the iron curtain at the time of the Soviet Union, but there was also this strange inability or rather unwillingness to see the parallels in the capitalist system that we hold in such great esteem.
As a side note here, both the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Federal President of Germany Joachim Gauck had held close connections to the then GDR before coming to represent the German people through their respective positions or rather placements. Gauck is supposed to have been a resistance fighter in the GDR, but received a lot of privileges there that would not ordinarily have been awarded to resistance fighters. The same situation with Merkel who had the privilege of going to Moscow to study which is only granted to people who are loyal to the 'Einheitspartei'. So the point I want to make here is that there's something going on behind the scene we're being shown of two opposing ideological systems, where one is a threat to the other, the idea being utilized to justify the channeling of vast amounts of money into military, armies and means of defense, which the CEOs, leading political and other string-pulling figures benefit from immensely.
So, we're being taken on quite a ride here. The solution is to educate people on how ideologies are being used within the power principle of 'divide and conquer' to brainwash and manipulate people to make do with the direst of living conditions with hard, tedious or repetitive labor and little pay or no job at all where the ideology of capitalism is lived or the opposite where one has to juggle 2-3 jobs concurrently on a daily basis to survive, because the pay one is given for one job does not suffice to get by on at all. People have to be told who benefits from the information that is being propagated, so one is able to see the intent behind the disinformation.
For one, panic and desperation can be avoided because one does not fall for incomplete and misleading information. One will not be misguided so easily and will learn to apply commonsense. Politics and the media are in the hands of the financing and private banking sector, that is to say the individuals behind it, and these have usurped politics and media to maintain the status quo that is serving them so well. This is the dimension of educating people, one step to be taken toward change.
A fundamental model that is to be implemented, namely the platform presented within/as LIG, the Living Income Guaranteed, which suggests the nationalization of resources, where, however, the profit will be used to create social equality by providing a guaranteed living income for shelter, food, electricity, clean water, education and internet for voting and communication/a means of participating and getting vital information, local and global news for all. Provided with such a basis on a world scale one will be able to choose a living/an occupation according to one's actual creative abilities and build a business to make more money that provides them with some luxury as well.
For those that are already working for a business firm or company there should be a minimum wage that is double the Living Income which means that if people get a Living Income of 15 dollars per hour, the minimum wage for work should be 30 dollars. This would create the incentive for people to educate themselves and take on more responsibility in the professional areas in the application of technological advancements and know-how on a highly skilled level.
The benefits are real equality on a lived basis, where there is happiness through being guaranteed a life in dignity, with real improvements in the job situations because money does not come from abusing the laborers and their workforce, but from the nationalization of the essential resourcing corporations. Education toward professional skills and access to internet for everyone will bring forth entrepreneurial endeavors and will eventually increase the overall power of acquisition which will support the entire society's well-being. Education of how our mind works, together with a sound financial basis will also improve the relationships between individuals as greed and competition will decrease and one is more ready to meet one's neighbor on an eye to eye level. Starvation will be a thing of the past and health issues will be able to be dealt with from an early onset because the financial means will be available to all, which means everybody gets an equal chance toward happiness and self-realization for real, which adds up to a lived statement of 'true communism' in the actual sense of the word, where each is treated as an equal part of the community of mankind on the principle of the common good being life – which is to be supported equally by all as one.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
African Hunter
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Pink Ivory Hunter
Blade: 440 C hardened to 59Rc,double ground, OAL 9" Handle: Pink Ivory and Ebony with nickle silver guard,spacers and butt cap. Pink Ivory, also known as umNini or umGoloty, is treasured as a rare, exotic wood. It grows predominantly in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The tree is protected and can only be felled by a very limited permit. Years ago, pink ivory was the royal tree of the Zulu kings. The wood is very hard and heavy and it has a very fine grain, which allows a high polish. Ebony is also a very hard and dense wood and excellent for knife handles. It grows in Ceylon, India, Sri Lanka and Western Africa. Please click on picture to enlarge.
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
Ivory and Damascus Pocket Knife The blade and bolsters are made of Norris Raindrop Damascus. Damascus steel was a type of steel used in Indian and Middle Eastern sword-making, originally based on wootz steel, a steel developed in South India before the Common Era. These swords are characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water. Such blades were reputed to be tough (Wikipedia) The beauty and serendipity of Damascus seem to be endless. The scales are elephant ivory one of my favorite materials to work with. Ivory has been valued since ancient times for making a range of items of which knife making is one of them. The thumb stud has buffalo horn inlay. The blade has Roman Knot file work on and is honed to a sharp resilient edge. Please click on knife to enlarge.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Clip Point Hunting Knife
This is a sabre grind clip point hunting knife. The sabre grind is a strong edge format. The bevel starts around the middle of the blade, and proceeds flatly towards the edge. It features a mirror polished blade 72" blade stock and 1/8" blade depth, hidden tang construction. The handle has a nickel silver guard and pommel and is made of amber, oosik, spalted mapel and copper with black and nickel silver spacers. Blade length is 5 1/8" OAL is 9 3/4" Click on picture to enlarge
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Get pumped for UO Wushu's first demo of the year – Duck N2 the Rec!
What it is: The overall event is an open house for the Student Rec Center that runs from 3-5pm on 9/20, so it's a great opportunity to learn more about the team and the Rec Center in general. We hope to see you there!
Date and Time: Thursday (9/20), 3-3:45pm
Where: Main stage (located in the three-court gymnasium)
We'll also have a table set up, so feel free to stop by and grab one of our lovely flyers and/or chat with team members and this year's captains.
In addition to Duck N2 the Rec, keep an eye out for flash demos around campus during Week of Welcome (9/20-9/22). Also, be sure to check back soon for:
– Updated practice times and location/s
– Club Sports Open House info
– Membership registration info (Org Sync)
– The coordinates for the portkey to Pallet Town
One last thing for all returning members: Welcome back! We hope you had a great summer and we wish the best in school, training, and accomplishing your dreams!!!
UPDATE: Below is our Duck N2 the Rec Demo.


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For reasons that I'm sure are my fault but may also have to do with their placement in an unlit corner of the PlayStation Network's digital store, I've not been able to recommend a PlayStation Mini to you. These little games are playable on PS3's, PSPs and Vitas. They're little, like the iPhone games I enjoy. But I've had none to recommend.
Today, I've got one.
It's called Velocity. It's cost $5. It's good!
The game is a vertically-scrolling space shooter along the lines of Ikaruga, but with two twists: 1) you can scroll the game faster, to move things along and beat time goals and 2) you can teleport your ship to otherwise-unreachable parts of the playing field as you try to kill or collect everything in the level that needs to be killed or collected. Watch the trailer above to see all of this happening.
I've been playing Velocity on my Vita, though the game isn't officially in the American Vita store yet. No big deal. I got it on my PS3, plugged my Vita into the PS3, transferred it over and have been enjoying it since then.
Go get it, PS-people.
(Confession: I was supposed to stop ignoring Minis in 2010. I don't know what happened. I... got an iPhone?)


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It feels a bit like being at a magic show, watching David Schatz hold a light or smartphone feet above a power pad to demonstrate how magnetic resonance wireless technology can charge any device over distance.
Slideshow: On-the-Go Power: Mobile Chargers Keep Your Devices Alive
Schatz, director of business development at WiTricity in Watertown, Mass., can even show off the wireless "room of the future," where lamps, cell phones - you name it - can all be powered through the air, no matter where they are in the room.
WiTricity, however, won't be selling any of the wireless products it demonstrates. Instead, the company's future is in selling licenses for others to use its patented designs to build products. WiTricity has few, if any competitors, for its flavor of wireless charging, which it calls highly resonant wireless power transfer.
"They were one of the first to showcase this resonance wireless power transfer, which offers greater distances between coils versus inductive charging, which requires tight coupling between transmitter and receiver," said Jason dePreaux, a principal analyst for the Power & Energy Group at IHS Research. "My impression of WiTricity is that they're keeping it very open [for the market]."
China-based 3DVOX Technology claims it successfully developed a "3D Power System" in March 2012 that -- from a single 1.5-foot by 1.5-foot box -- can power an entire room full of electronics. The company claims its Widely Magnetic Field Launching and Focus Magnetic Field Receiving technologies are powerful enough to magnetically resonate power over many feet.
Inductive vs. resonance wireless charging
To date, products on the market have been built around magnetic induction charging techniques, which require that a mobile device be in contact with a charging surface, such as a charging pad. The leading charging pad supplier has been Duracell's Powermat technology.
Resonance charging like WiTrcity's allows an enabled device to be placed up to several feet away from a power source for charging.
Resonance charging is based on the same transmitter/receiver coil technology as magnetic induction, but it transmits the power at a greater distance. So, for example, a mobile device could be charged when laid next to a laptop with resonance charging capability or, in the case of WiTricity, it could be charged from feet away.
Lots of possibilities
The consumer product possibilities are endless for WiTricity's technology, from office desks and kitchen cabinets with embedded wireless chargers to pads buried in concrete that can charge electric cars parked in home garages and parking lots. WiTricity has even built a receiver for a solar panel, which eliminates the need to have any wires pass through a roof.
Imagine a wireless television, fed both power and media content (using Bluetooth) wirelessly. WiTricity has one.
Medical devices could also be powered with the technology WiTricity offers. For example, artificial heart pumps today must be hardwired to a battery pack worn by a patient. Wireless charging could be less invasive, helping to avoid infections in the areas where wires pass through a patient's skin.
During a recent visit to WiTricty by Computerworld, Schatz demonstrated how a new prototype wireless charger called "Prodigy" can power a device from about 10 inches away. The black, oval-shaped Prodigy charger looks much like any charging pad told in stores today and sells for $995. It is essentially a demo kit for engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs who would use it to develop their own charging products.
Schatz showed how a black rubber pad he called a "repeater" can boost a charging signal to make charging over greater distances viable. (The charging distance with a repeater is about two feet.)
Just like the powered wireless charger, the rubber repeater has a copper coil embedded in it, but its coil is passive -- it doesn't have to be plugged into anything. "Repeaters are a structure that allows the energy to hop over distance without have to add any energy to it," Schatz explained.
While the copper coils embedded in repeaters today are made of wire, Schatz said they the coils can also be printed on a flat sheet like any printable circuit. WiTricity has already produced printed coils and demonstrated them in smartphones without adding any thickness to the device. The printed coils can also be used in household products as common as shelf paper in a cabinet.
Using a wire-based, shelf-paper repeater, Schatz demonstrated how under cabinet lighting could be installed without wires, or how commercial soap products, such as Tide laundry detergent boxes, could be illuminated from within to draw a shopper's attention in a store.
WiTricity's technology can also charge directly through solid objects, such as wood or Formica surfaces. To demonstrate, Schatz held a charging pad beneath a wooden conference table, proving it could power a light atop the table. It is this technology that holds the promise of wireless charging embedded in desks and other furniture.
The wireless charging market
A recent report from Pike Research estimates that worldwide revenues from wireless power devices will exceed $15 billion by 2020, and that systems based on highly resonant wireless power transfer will account for more than 80% of the total market. WiTricity holds the fundamental patents related to highly resonant wireless power transfer in its portfolio of over 270 granted and pending patents worldwide.
Both magnetic induction and magnetic resonance charging use copper coils: a transmitter coil and a receiver coil. Alternating current in the transmitter coil generates a magnetic field, which induces a voltage in the receiver coil.
WiTricity's main competitors are companies such as Duracell, with its Powermat technology, as well as products that carry the relatively new Qi certification. While Qi products are limited to wireless power pads and near-proximity resonance charging, they do allow multiple devices to be charged on a pad at the same time, regardless of positioning.
For example, Qi-certified wireless charging vendor Fulton Innovation has power pads that accept up to three devices anywhere on a charging pad using magnetic inductive technology.
"And, I have to place a device very precisely on a charging pad. If it's off by 5 millimeters, it doesn't work," Schatz said, referring to Qi-standard products.
The Qi (pronounced "chee") standard was developed by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). Qi, which enables inductive or pad-style charging and short-distance (1.5cm or less) magnetic resonance charging, is widely supported by more than 120 companies who've been developing certified products. The list reads like a who's who of electronics, from LG Electronics and Sony Corp. to Nokia and Verizon Wireless.
Schatz believes Qi-certified products will not catch on because there's little advantage to charging a smartphone or other mobile devices on a pad or over miniscule distances. "They've been trying to push that technology for a few years," he said. "Go to a store and buy a charging pad, and you'll see that it's not really all that useful."
But Qi is not the only wireless charging specification out there.
The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), backed by Qualcomm and Samsung, this week said its technical working committee has approved a more flexible wireless power specification that will allow consumers to charge their mobile devices on a variety of compatible surfaces using inductive and short-distance resonance wireless charging.
A4WP claims the specification will make it easier to charge electrical devices embedded in furniture, machines and vehicles. The technology comes from Qualcomm's acquisition earlier this year of a company named WiPower. WiPower claims its wireless charging has a longer range than Qi: up to 45mm, or about 1.7 inches.
The Qi standard wireless AC transmits to a device at a distance ranging from 5mm to 40mm (about 1.5 inches) from the power source.
Yet another wireless charging vendor, New Zealand-based Power by Proxy, today announced it acquired the key wireless power patent portfolio from the University of Auckland via its commercialization company UniServices. The portfolio includes 122 patents for portable consumer electronics devices, semiconductors and batteries.
Power by Proxi's co-founder and CEO Greg Cross said devices using the Qi specification require precise placement on a charging pad, while his company's "loosely-coupled" wireless technology allows multiple devices to be recharged at the same time, regardless of the position on an induction pad.
Unlike other wireless charging vendors, Power By Proxi got its start four years ago selling large-scale systems for commercial industries such as construction, telecommunications, defense and agriculture. For example, one product is a wireless control system for wind turbines. "As we've started to work with market analysts over the last couple of years, there's an increasing recognition that the potential size of the industrial components market is at least as large as products in the consumer electronics market," Cross said.
Power by Proxi is now focusing efforts on the retail market with miniaturized devices that fit inside a AA battery.
In contrast, WiTricity's technology offers charging from feet away.
To date, few companies have offered wireless charging at distance. In 2008, Intel Labs demonstrated chip technology that could wirelessly charge mobile devices. Intel's Wireless Charging Technology (WCT) would let a user charge a smartphone wirelessly from a notebook PC by placing it right next to the device. Last month, Intel announced a partnership with Integrated Device Technology Corp. (IDT) to develop chipsets for WCT products. Products using the chipsets are expected to arrive in 2013, Intel said.
Fujitsu had also announced it would be shipping magnetic resonance-based wireless charging systems this year. This week, however, a Fujitsu spokesperson said there was nothing new to report on the technology.
Distance debate
Menno Treffers, chairman of the Wireless Power Consortium, said that, in general, the distance a wireless charger can emit power roughly mimics a charging coil's diameter. So, for example, a 10-inch coil would be able to charge a device up to 10 inches away.
According to Treffers, charging capability "drops off a cliff" beyond a distance equal to the size of the coil. Power by Proxi's Cross agrees, and even said anyone trying to sell a room full of wireless power or saying it will be as ubiquitous as WiFi is being "dishonest."
"We don't think it's an efficient use of power or a safe use of power," Cross said. "We don't think it will be possible for a whole bunch of reasons: the size of the coils required to broadcast power at long distances, the levels of efficiency will quickly drop down to 10% or less. You can broadcast wireless power over six feet, but the amount of power received will be less than 10%."
Schatz, however, scoffed at naysayers.
For example, another of WiTricity's charging kits for developers -- the WiT-2000 -- is designed to transfer energy over distances ranging from less than a centimeter (directly on the surface of the charging pad) to distances totaling several tens of centimeters.
"We can demonstrate where a 10 centimeter coil can operate over 20, 30, 40 centimeters," Schatz said. "He is correct that when things are closer together they can be a bit more efficient, but they can still be efficient enough and very useful when they're at a longer distance."
This story, "Power Play: Wireless Charging at a Distance Arrives" was originally published by Computerworld.
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