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Over the past several weeks we've been discussing my favorite mutual funds. These funds were selected based on an in-depth, in-house analysis; last week I shared my favorite picks in currency and equity long-short funds.
Continuing on with my mutual fund picks, this week we'll discuss my fund picks in Market Neutral, Real Estate and Commodities.
Market Neutral
Before we proceed, let's discuss the difference between market neutral and long-short. A long-short fund can go to either extreme. With market neutral, the idea is to hold enough short positions to offset the risk of the long positions, in essence creating a "market neutral" effect. The S&P 500 has a standard deviation of 15 to 20 compared to 4.5 to 5.5 in the market neutral category. The long-short category is riskier than market neutral with an average standard deviation of 10 to 12.
My favorites here are Arbitrage I (ARBNX) and Merger (MERFX). Both funds have done well relative to their peers and their risk-return profiles have been good. Both are managed by a team and have lower-than-average expense ratios. Merger (MERFX) is mostly concentrated in the Americas while Arbitrage (ARBNX) has over 10% invested in Asia. Overall, I prefer Arbitrage I. Arbitrage did especially well after the tech bubble burst and only lost 0.55% in 2008. Management has been in place for the past 5.5 years.
Real Estate
Even though some do not consider real estate to be an alternative investment, I'll include it here anyway. Over the years I've looked for a good ETF to fill this spot, but my search always leads me back to the Nuveen Real Estate Secs I (FARCX) fund. Despite losing slightly more than 34% in 2008, FARCXranked in the top quartile in its category. In fact, it has ranked no worse than the top half of its peer group in every year since 2002. In 2005, '06, '08, and '10, it ranked in the top quartile. This fund has a very good risk-return profile, a low expense ratio, and management has been in place for more than seven years.
This is an exciting category as you can invest in specific commodities or in an entire basket. This is a place where ETFs dominate. You can buy corn, gas, oil, gold or just about anything you desire. My choice here is Greenhaven Continuous Commodity Index (GCC). This ETF invests in a diversified basket of goods which includes cotton, wheat, coffee, sugar, silver and more. GCC has a good risk-return profile, low expense ratio and management has been in place for 4.5 years.
NOTE: I have been out of commodities since mid-2011 due to the forecasted global economic slowdown. In general, this was a good decision, though some commodities have done well since then thanks to the drought.
To view all my picks, I invite you to peruse my 2012 Fund Picks home page.
Next week we'll conclude this series. Until then, thanks for reading and have a great week!

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Auburn, CA…The Placer County Air Pollution Control District is now seeking applications for their 2013 Clean Air Grant Program. The goal of the program is to incentivize emission reducing projects, in Placer County, not otherwise required by law. The open application period begins January 1 and will close at 5:00 pm on February 28, 2013. Applications will be available on our website or in person, during this time. The deadline for application submittals is February 28.
The District has approximately $950 thousand available for eligible projects, such as heavy duty diesel on-road (>8500 lbs. GVW) and off-road (> 50 hp) repowers, retrofits, and replacements (which are not currently subject to State emission compliance deadlines within the next three years), public education, and other innovative concepts to reduce criteria air pollutants.
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With my trips to Atlanta nearing a monthly consistency, one would think that I have cultivated a long list of eateries that I would like to visit. While that is true in some respects, where I choose to eat is usually the result of a group consensus, a coupon, or sheer convenience. It's that last situation that led me, Jennifer, and Aaron to Wild Ginger.
After a delightful Thanksgiving in Jackson, Jennifer and I were back in Atlanta and hoping to find something for dinner. Even though Atlanta has a metro population more than quadrupling that of Jackson, it's still a bit of a challenge finding something decent to eat late on a Sunday night. In an effort to find something open and to further her collection of points, Jennifer turned to Open Table where she ran across a Thai restaurant named Wild Ginger. Located next to the 285 perimeter, it seemed like a viable option. With only the opinion of Food Near Snellville to go on, the three of us descended on the visually unassuming Wild Ginger.
While we were deciding what to order, Wild Ginger provided a complimentary bowl of shrimp chips.
I'm not sure why they did this because this basket was inhaled by the three of us. They took up valuable space that could have been later occupied by menu items.
Soon enough, the appetizers began rolling in, starting with the Nuer Daad Daew or Thai Beef Jerky.
It's everything I love about Thai food condensed into jerky form. Each piece was dry, stringy and overloaded with ginger, garlic, and a fine helping of salt. Combined with the moderately spicy hot sauce, this jerky was addictive.
With multiple rolls on the menu, it should come as no surprise that we ordered a few different types. First was the Wild Ginger Thai Curry Roll.
Surrounded by a crispy skin, the interior was full of cabbage and a pleasant curry flavor.
The classic Thai Spring Roll was the second of the pair.
Unlike the shrimp in the Thai Curry Roll, the chicken actually have a major role in the taste of this spring roll.
Our last appetizer was one I don't normally associate with Thai menus.
Filled with plenty of garlic and basil, these were a fitting end to the appetizers.
Recently I've become quite enamored with the Thai condiment of prik nam pla or nam prik pla, so I was curious to see how Wild Ginger made theirs.
They certainly had the spiciness down to a science. A little taste of this sauce was a mixture of spice, salinity, and just a subtle pungency from the fish sauce.
The first entrée to the table was Pad Thai.
While I enjoy Pad Thai, it's a particular favorite of Aaron and it was a good sign when this dish was up to his expectations. I was a fan of the tamarind flavor but disappointed in the components of the dish. The shrimp and chicken were nice, but where was the tofu, dried shrimp, or ground nuts?
Pork Pad Prik Khing was our next entrée.
The long beans and peppers were a very nice feature of the dish. With plenty of pork, vegetables, and a very nice sauce, this was an all around pleasant dish.
A consistent member of any Thai menu, an order of chicken Larb also made an appearance.
This was everything you could want in an order of larb. Each bite was juicy, meaty, and a satisfying mixture of peppers, limes, and salt.
While I may not have been suffering the pains of 285 traffic like Food Near Snellville, I was equally as pleased with the food at Wild Ginger. The wait staff was friendly and helpful and their offerings were quite tasty. One thing I found refreshing about Wild Ginger was the originality of the menu. It seems like almost every Thai place in Atlanta shares the same menu; the same dishes, the same design, the same odd sushi portion, all just arranged slightly differently. That uniformity leaves Wild Ginger with a bit of an edge on the competition, at least in my book. Even without the differences in menus, Wild Ginger was an excellent choice for dinner and one I'll keep in mind next time I make a late arrival into Atlanta.
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Josh Robertson is an editor at Playboy, so, as you'd probably expect, he spends a lot of time looking at pictures of naked women. This discerning eye, and a journalist's skepticism, has brought him to a conclusion: soccer star Ronaldinho's "girlfriend" appears to be a complete fake.
Remember Ronaldinho's girlfriend? The one who supposedly kept him up all night with sex and PlayStation? Robertson's little investigation casts serious doubts about whether she's anything but a PR creation.
She picked the wrong Playboy editor to punk, I tell you what. There's no competent news story I can find tying Ronaldinho to Alexandra Paressant. (The Sun doesn't say how its interview with her came about — she probably just called the paper up and asked to talk to a reporter.) Some sites show a picture of Ronaldinho being lovingly tackled by her as he stretches on the pitch. Problem: The tackler's name is Sheila Soares. Ronaldinho or not, does she even exist? I say no.
Another example of how soccer has not exploded in the United States: We do not invent fake girlfriends for our soccer stars. Instead we just do that for Tom Brady.
Ronaldinho's Imaginary Girlfriend [Josh, Editor, MySpace]
Well Worth Losing The World Cup [Deadspin]


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The Plan for Quebec: Communist State? By Otto Kretzmer, Sunday, 16 April 2006, is originally a French post entitled "Le plan pour le Québec" at the blogspot "Le Complot Contre Le Québec" (The Plot Against Quebec).
English translation by Kathleen Moore for Habeas Corpus Canada, together with brief additions from other articles of Mr. Kretzmer, for a fuller picture.
In translating this article, I take no position on religion, except to attempt to convey the concerns of the article's original author, Otto Kretzmer; and except to acknowledge absolutely the Constitutional nature for French Canadians of their entrenched right to their historic Catholic religion.
Separate Quebec from Canada? No!
Separate All of Canada from High Finance? Yes!
The idea of separatism in Quebec has been part of a communist plan to overthrow Quebec and Canada. With a foothold in Quebec, communism could take all of Canada as well. Independence is a communist-Marxist strategy to take power in a country. We have this example in a number of countries: separations in Vietnam, in Algeria, in Biafra, in Korea, in Bengla-Desh, in Pakistan, etc.
The Canadian Council of Protestant Churches, with its headquarters in Toronto, published a small brochure in 1969 entitled "Quebec's Impending Fate Communist State?" (Le Québec deviendra-t-il un Etat communiste?) It is quite useful to re-read these extracts in 2005; we will therefore quote a few paragraphs from that brochure.
[Re-translating into English, for lack of a copy of the brochure:]
"The most militant Zone in Canada for communist activity is the Province of Quebec. The first goal adopted at the convention of the Communist Party of Quebec held in Montreal in 1967, was: "The establishment in Quebec, in Canada, and in the entire world, of a socialist society, and finally of a communist society.
Noting that their goals accord with the efforts of other revolutionary communist groups throughout the world, the convention proclaimed:
"This is an institution of the internationalism of the international proletariat, a science that the Communist Party of Quebec adopts proudly and which will guide us in our battle."
The December 1967 Communist Manifesto of Quebec is an appeal to militants to establish first, a socialist state, by armed revolution if necessary, so as to finally arrive at communist dictatorship.
The Communist Party of Quebec declares in its Manifesto:
"The Communist Party of Quebec is the Marxist-Leninist Worker's Party."
This declaration has great significance. It identifies the Communist Party of Quebec with a tentacle of the World Communist Party, guilty of massacres, and the worst criminal atrocities against the peoples it has subjected to slavery. It represents the butchery of a hundred million persons whose only crime was to express their confidence in our democratic way of life, or who questioned the right of a small minority to impose their absolute will on the great majority.
This communist Quebec Manifesto sets out a plan of political and social action. This plan includes a new federal constitution, and a new constitution for Quebec, the right to self-determination for Quebec, and the privilege to separate from Canada if necessary."Separating Quebec from the rest of Canada is thus a plan of the Communist Party of Quebec, a plan announced in their Manifesto, a communist plan of conquest for Quebec and for the whole of Canada. Do not think that communism is dead and buried, even if some countries have succeeded in liberating themselves from this infernal slavery. Communism seeks to foment revolutions in countries to weaken the strength of their peoples, and to finally arrive at a world communist government. The Parti Québécois enters into the plans of the Communist Party of Quebec.
False Patriotism
The separatists say they are ardent defenders of the French language, of our culture, of our Quebec identity. However, they dissociate our culture from our Catholic faith transmitted by our ancestors. They are hardly concerned with the safeguard of Catholicism in Quebec. Their goal is to permanently annihilate it. These ardent "independentists" preach patriotism to us in every key, but they themselves work to achieve an atheistic and anticlerical communist plan, whether they know it or not.
In the name of false patriotism, they carry the Quebec people toward separation, which will spawn a bloody revolution, a civil war. Separatism flows from socialist-Marxist ideology. Those who fight the battle for separation in Quebec are not patriots, but veiled communists.
Marxist Constitutions
A great deal is heard about the preparation of a new federal constitution and a new constitution for Quebec*, about the "right to self-determination for Quebec", a certain "sovereignty". These changes correspond strangely with the 1967 Manifesto of the Communist Party of Quebec. Will Ottawa itself contribute to separating Quebec from Canada? Is the provocation of a civil war a part of the plot? Is the desire to establish atheistic, Marxist and communist constitutions in Quebec and in Canada to lead us into a tyrannical world government?
Canada and all the Provinces are the slaves of Big Business. This is the real problem. Our governments, from the biggest to the smallest, are weighted down with public debt. When will they break loose these chains of banker dictatorship and stop genuflecting at the feet of the money men to borrow numbers? The thing to be changed in the federal and provincial constitutions is to detach Canada and the Provinces from High Finance, our common enemy. The law which empowers banks and private institutions to create money must be abolished.
It is also important to realize that the concept or the word "communism" is employed as a mask for the New World Order, which was begun by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and continues unabated up to the present.
The energies and the idealism of the working people are used by the protectors of such revolutions – the Big Bankers – to demolish what has been created methodically by generations before us. At the price of blood and destruction, the power of the Bankers is expanded and consolidated, whereas, the proletariates increasingly find themselves worse off than they were at the start. They face the prospect of nothing less than slavery.
In my first article, (says Kretzmer) I described without proving it, that it [communism] is the separatist movement, whether in Quebec or in any other part of the world. As for Quebec separatists, I personally knew a member of the FLQ, Charles Gagnon, who had always been a communist. I don't know what has become of him, because I lost touch with him ages ago.
There have been various separatist movements in Quebec, but I am going to focus above all, at first, on the RIN and its former President, the now deceased Pierre Bourgault. The anglophone reader or anyone who doesn't know the history of Quebec will indeed be surprised by certain facts and certain declarations. That is expected, it's normal.
All those organizations that mobilized the "Parti-Pris" and the "Révolution Québécoise" magazines as the front line of their advance, used the nationalism (including the respectable nationalism) of the French Canadians to launch the communist revolution in Quebec.
For these organizations, separatism – one should more properly say: "the tactic of independence" is only a means to their ends, a "Trojan horse" at the service of the aspirations of Moscow (or of Peking!) to a world hegemony. By way of illustration, let's see what we can read on this subject in the September, 1964 issue of "Révolution Québécoise":
"Just as every imperialist war must be transformed into a civil war to overthrow the power of the culpable ruling classes, in the same way EVERY nationalist movement must be transformed into a socialist movement to liberate the working classes" (page 35)
We know that excellent Christians have been deceived by the RIN-PQ-BQ* and their false gloss of patriotism. However, other than Mister Bourgault who repeated to all who would listen that an "independent" Quebec would be socialist, the apologia that one reads in the Marxist magazine "Révolution Québécoise," as made by the RIN's official publication, L'Indépendance (November 1964, p. 7), must provide sufficient reason to all true patriots and Christians of Quebec to oppose the PQ-BQ-RIN by total refusal, in both words and acts. Here is an excerpt from the official mouthpiece of the RIN, L'Indépendance (November 1964):
A new magazine just came out: "Révolution Québécoise," run by Pierre Vallières (a former Felquist {FLQ terrorist), who left the team of "Cité Libre" – Pierre Elliot Trudeau was part of the team at Cité Libre – to participate in the building of a free city up to the measure of our era: the one that a (liberated!) Quebec will form tomorrow in which all property will be absolutely redistributed (!!). This magazine (Révolution Québécoise) is an addition to the several avant-garde magazines born in Québec the past few years, and must take its place on the bookshelf of every independentist whose heartfelt desire is to be informed on the economic and cultural problems of Québec."
The official magazine of the RIN-PQ-BQ* thus suggests that every independentist read a review which is self-identified as communist-Leninist. It therefore seems futile to insist on pointing out, when it's so easy to recognize, the ideology which has inspired the RIN-PQ-BQ each in its turn. However, it is necessary to return to the subject in order to examine, more closely this time, the RIN, the "Rassemblement Pour l'Indépendance Nationale" (the Rally for National Independence).
Pierre Bourgault, the former President of the RIN, toured Quebec. He was received officially in some towns, in some Catholic seminairies, and he even held public meetings in a well known Dominican monastery in Montreal. Here, then, is the gist of it.
The RIN and the Revolution
In its October 10th, 1964 edition, the Montreal daily newspaper "Le Devoir" published a long article on page 4 under "Reader's Opinion" entitled: "The Independence of Quebec" ("L'indépendance du Québec"). This article permits us to trace the goals pursued by the RIN-PQ-BQ. To be clear, and to keep it short, we have taken the liberty of extracting only the most significant passages from this article. Here they are:
"Independentist parties and movements, which are proliferating in Québec, endorse opposing theories, according to which they describe themselves as left or right. Some of them claim to be the champions of independence; but in studying their writings we perceive that their real ultimate goal is revolution via the scientific socialism of Karl Marx. To drive us to this goal, they use as "research themes and as battle cries: socialism, secularism and independence". I refer in particular to the magazines Parti-Pris and L'Indépendance, the latter being the official organ of the RIN.
In support of this grave accusation, here are a few typical excerpts, which are merely a fraction of those we could cite. A special edition of Parti-Pris was published on September 1st, 1964. The "manifesto" begins with a report of Marx on the Revolution; then, at page 12, we read:
"Independence, which was a goal, becomes a preliminary, a necessary step in the revolutionary conflict which exceeds it and amplifies it".
We will see that the realness, the authenticity of the independentist idea resides in the political thought and practise of the Left." (page 23)
IT WAS AT THE RIN THAT THE WORD "REVOLUTION" WAS FIRST DECLARED ITSELF". (page 25)
"Trained in the school of Sartre, which is that of Marxism-Leninism, we are agreed upon the necessity to use, as research and battle themes, socialism, secularism and independence." (p. 36).
"The recognition of the RIGHT to believe that religion is an evil" both follows and precedes the tirades of the priests." (p. 30).
L'Indépendance – the magazine of the RIN, and Parti-Pris (2) get along very well, even if, for public consumption, they keep a certain distance between them. For example, in Parti-Pris the current President of the RIN, Mister Pierre Bourgault, published his political and electoral program on December 3rd, 1963. But, it is in the July 1964 issue of L'Indépendance at page 2, 2nd column, that we read:
"It is time to recall that independence is a means that must bring us to social and working-class revolution. The revolutionary party that achieves independence will, for example, abolish the two-party system…" (p. 6).
Then we will publicly recommend, and above all accomplish, the separation – the great work – of the spiritual from the temporal, of the Church from the State" (p. 2)."
This extract may seem long to some readers, but it was necessary. It reveals the communist parentage of the separatist movement in Québec and the place occupied within it by the RIN-PQ-BQ.
Tactics of the RIN
In December of 1964, Mr. Bourgault returned from a "thrilling tour" of Québec. That's even the title of the article he wrote in RIN's magazine that same month. In that article, he declared, most notably:
"Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency."
How do we interpret this? An about-face? A conversion?
No: because "past violence" is not denounced "in the name of principles", which is to say in the name of the immutable commandments that come from God, or by reference to genuine ethics, but solely "in the name of efficiency." Yesterday, violence might have been useful, today, No!! Because we [I mean, the RIN] ]have perceived that the Quebec people still have a solid ethical sense in this era, and that, accordingly, recourse to the mere idea of "violence" is unpopular. And on account of this, it undermines the work of the RIN. But tomorrow? Tomorrow, maybe, violence could be used. All depends on the greatest efficacy.
And then the bombs flew just about everywhere and we had the tragic murder of Pierre Laporte.
To show how well anchored was the thought of Mister Bourgault in the realm of the communist dialectic, it would be useful to quote two extracts from an article on "The True Nature of Communism" by Jean Daujat:
"Most of our contemporaries," writes Mr. Daujat, "have no idea how to react to communism because they don't know it, which leads them into it, or allows them to be used by it. They are especially totally led astray by the perpetual contradictions of the communists, who often say and do the opposite today of what they said and and did the day before, which induces one and another to marvel at how they have changed their ways. This non-comprehension of Marxism has grave consequences …
" … Because, for such a philosophy (Marxist), the only consideration that counts is material power, efficacity; the only rule is to say or to do whatever the moment requires, more efficacious and more powerful. There is no place for truth, for good, or for justice to intervene.
Whatever a true communist says or writes is never the teaching of a truth, which is something that makes no sense to him, but propaganda to carry off an action: it will consist not in saying what is true, but whatever more efficiently serves the action to be exercised.
It is therefore absurd to say, as some do, that one can collaborate in an action practised by communists without adopting Marxist doctrine. Because communism is not at all the teaching of a doctrine, but the action exerted by the communist himself." (Jean Daujat: The True Nature of Communism)
"Past violence is detrimental to our present action," writes Mr. Bourgault, "and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency." This simple phrase can tell us a great deal about the philosophy of the separatist movement. Did not Lenin write: Marxism must take account of living reality, precise facts, and not cling to a theory of yesterday. Our doctrine is not a dogma, but a rule of action (Lenin, Works XXIV).
Who Was Pierre Bourgault?
In May of 1964, Mister Pierre Bourgault publicly confessed his agnosticism in MacLean's Magazine (p. 44). He renewed this public confession on television networks; he reaffirmed it at Alma in Lake Saint-Jean to the regional press; and finally at Valleyfield over the airwaves of the local radio station.
During this interview granted to the Valleyfield press on November 17th, 1964, a journalist read to Mister Bourgault what the Vatican Council had ruled in respect to agnosticism:
"If someone says that the only true God, our Lord and Creator, is unknowable in the light of reason through the things he has made, that he be excommunicated."
To which Mister Bourgault replied:
"I could be wicked and answer you like Jean-Paul Sartre: Je ne communias déjà plus!" [Literal translation: I will no longer take communion]
Let us not forget that one day or another, every man, every ideology, every social institution or human society must speak for or against the Church. The separatist movement chose its side and it has never sidetracked. Let's re-read attentively the extract reported in L'Iindépendance (July 1964). The official mouthpiece of the RIN writes:
"Then we will publicly recommend, and above all accomplish, the separation – the great work – of the spiritual from the temporal, of the Church from the State" (p. 2) What are we to think?
The Christian citizen naturally knows that it is not society, but man, which has an immortal soul. It follows from that fact that society (along with its government) is made for man, and, that man is made for God. In this light, the suggestion of the separatist movement which says "publicly recommend, and above all accomplish, the separation – the great work – of the spiritual from the temporal, of the Church from the State" cannot but recall the famous statement of Lenin: "God is the personal enemy of communist society."
To impose "the separation – the great work – of the spiritual from the temporal, of the Church from the State" upon a human society is at basis to compel a man practically to separate his body from his soul, because one is temporal and the other is spiritual! And it is not because they want to establish a simple distinction between the spiritual and the temporal, but they demand a great separation, a break, and "above all," "to accomplish this" does not go without violence nor terrorism. Lenin made no effort to hide it when he said:
"Millions of excrements, defilements, violences, sicknesses, pestilences, are much less to be feared than the most subtle, the most refined, and the most invisible idea of God! God is the most personal enemy of Communist Society."
The vehement opposition of Holy Pope Pius Xth to this doctrine is well explained thus:
"[translation of Kretzmer's French:] that it is necessary to separate the Church from the State", he wrote, "is an absolutely false thesis, a very pernicious error. Based, in effect, on this principle, that the State must recognize no religious practice, it is first of all gravely injurious for God; because the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and he maintains them in existence just as he does us. We owe him not only our private worship, but public and social honor."
One thing must be clarified: secularism – or secular humanism – is a recognized religion according to a judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States. When the Liberals and the free-thinkers gild the pill for us, in speaking to us of pseudo-neutrality, they knowingly lie. Neutrality exists nowhere in the universe. These are the refrains of the Quebec Secular Movement which have given the order to the Governments of Quebec and of Canada to remove ancestral rights, rights conferred by the Constitution, concerning the teaching of Catholicism and Protestantism in Quebec schools.
The Quebec Secular Movement is also behind homosexual marriage or civil union. The Quebec Secular Movement is the true gouvernement du Québec, not the useless Quebec Legislature, stuffed with hypocrites who love to shake hands, appear in public and fly around in limousines.
The RIN, to give to its position the semblance of orthodoxy, readily spreads the idea among its members that it is necessary to liberate religion from politics; in fact, it proposed exactly the opposite: to "liberate" politics from religion! And that's called secularism. But, secularism is a religion called Freemasonry.
"In the lives of states themselves," writes Pope Pius XII in this regard, "the strength and the weakness of men, sin and grace, play a capital role. The politics of the 20th Century can't ignore it, nor admit that one persists in the error of wanting to separate the state from religion in the name of a secularism that the facts have not been able to justify" (Christmas, 1956).
No! "The Catholic Church will never allow itself to be enclosed within the four walls of the temple! The separation of religion from life, and of the Church from the world, is contrary to Christian and Catholic doctrine!" (Pius XII).
It is therefore easy to see that the revolutionary doctrine of the separatist movement is "contrary to Christian and Catholic doctrine"; which is, because of this fact, "an absolutely false thesis, very gravely injurious for God, Creator of Man and founder of human societies". And, it is rigorously logical to conclude that every devoted Catholic must make it his business to put his hatred for error and his love for truth into open battle in full light of day, against such an ideology!
I will conclude by reporting the public declaration (just one among many) of Mr. Bourgault, published in La Presse, of which he was then an Editor, on February 3rd, 1964 (page 17). It's a report of a meeting held the previous evening of February 2nd at the Champagnat school.
"These cryptic zones proliferate, cryptics of centralization, of bilingualism, but also cryptics of betrayal, of intermediate bodies, of bishops and of embezzlers of public funds."
Mister Bourgault thus quite simply lumps together the bishops and the embezzlers of public funds, which has nonetheless not prevented him from being received by certain of our Catholic colleges. The former president of the RIN was a man who disliked – as he readily admitted – mixing religion with politics, nor with his own life, yet he never shied away from vilifying the Church in its own public assemblies!
What is the real goal of the separatist movement?We have seen clearly, despite the distance these two movements prudently kept between them, (to assure the efficacy of their action upon the public) that the RIN closely pursued the same goals as the Marxist team of the Parti Pris.
"Seeking means capable of achieving the Revolution, Marx found misery", wrote Rosenberg. Without a doubt, had he lived in Quebec in 1965, Marx would have found "independentism". And the question returns: What is the real goal of the separatist movement?
The answer: "It is time to recall" as written in the July 1964 issue of L'Indépendance, "that independence is a means that must bring us to social and working-class revolution".
And there it is. The real, the only, goal of the separatist movement! And it is not by chance that this is the goal of the World Communist Party: Stalin declared to the 7th world congress of the Comintern:
"All the detours, all the zigzags of our policy have but one goal and one goal only: world Revolution!"
Once again, it is clear that a true Catholic must not join the ranks of the separatist movement, if he really wishes to remain Catholic.
[Summarizing]: A Few Statements from the President of the RIN
With respect to the Quebec people:
"Give me 5% of the Quebec population, and I'll take it where I want because the other 95% are sleeping."
– Pierre Bourgault at Alma, in the church basement of St-Sacrement on November 2nd, 1964
"Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently returned. This people had no need of directives to affirm its French pride in the face of the whole world".
– Pierre Bourgault
Concerning terrorism:
"But, if Michelle Duclos preferred the cause of the blacks, I understand her. As for me, if I were a black, I would have long ago made them all jump"
– Pierre Bourgault, February 21st, 1965, Paul Sauvé Arena
Concerning social ethics:
"Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency."
– Pierre Bourgault in L'Indépendance December 1964
Concerning religion:
"I could be wicked and answer you like Jean-Paul Sartre: Je ne communias déjà plus!"
– Pierre Bourgault in an interview taped on November 17th, 1964 at Valleyfield at the local radio station
Concerning his adversaries:
"These cryptic zones proliferate, cryptics of centralization, of bilingualism, but also cryptics of betrayal, of intermediate bodies, of bishops and of embezzlers of public funds."
– Pierre Bourgault, 2 February 1964, Ecole Champagnat
"Because the truly socialist parties have never been able to seize power in any country whatsoever except in the course of a civil war"
– said "Parti-Pris", coming to the point.
Let me say it again, clearly. "Parti-Pris" was a communist magazine. Moreover, they did not hide this and they wrote openly of it in their September 1964 edition:
"Marxism, to which we ascribe, is not a catechism, but above all, a method of analysis and of work required for us put it into operation in Québec."
Which is why Mister Bourgault, past president of the RIN, published his "political and electoral programme" in a magazine which openly advertised itself as Marxist-Leninist.
This ideal of a break between the spiritual and the temporal is the core of the Revolution (with a capital "R"). It is very instructive to read what Stalin had to say in this regard:
In realizing such a separation (of Church and State) and in proclaiming freedom of religion, we have at the same time reserved to every citizen (read: to the Communist Party) the "right" to fight for this conviction through propaganda and through unrest… against all religion" (Voprosy, Leninism, Leningrad 1932, pp- 285-286).*
We are seeing it ever more clearly, the secessionist movement and the Communist Party are converging toward one and the same goal: the Revolution.
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* Dr. John Laughland considers that the European Union essentially embodies Marxist ideology ("The European Union: a Marxist Utopia?". Quebec "separatist" parties have, for decades, attempted not to "secede" by referendum, but to extract a mandate to negotiate the imposition on Quebec and on all of Canada of the EU system. The EU system therefore appears to be the veiled communist system, emerging progressively. The use of Quebec to force the system onto all of Canada would then result in a new Marxist "federal constitution, and a new Marxist constitution for Quebec". See my blog post of 14 October 2009: "Sarkozy Scamming Quebec's Hoodwinked Separatists". KM/HCC.
* "PQ" is the acronym for Parti Québécois, a Quebec provincial "party" founded formally in 1968 by communist, René Lévesque (it was actually planned by others), and typically labeled "separatist" by press and media. However, "separatist" is a misnomer. The platform of the Parti Québécois has always been to impose the European system on all of Canada in place of Confederation. "Separatism" is merely a threat of UDI (unilateral declaration of independence) to destroy Canada, as blackmail to force the rest of Canada to accept the European system. Therefore, Mr. Kretzmer's understanding of the Quebec Communist Party Manifesto appears to be on the right track: the attempt by Lévesque in 1980, and then by Jacques Parizeau in 1995 is to impose a new, ultimately "Marxist" Constitution on Quebec, and on all of Canada: the European Union system. A 1991 interview with Parizeau and then-Premier of Quebec Robert Bourassa shows that both are already quite conversant with the notion of a common North American Parliament. Bourassa, a "Liberal," a label Canadians have been trained to identify as "fighting against separatists", actually passed a law in 1991, Bill 150, compelling a referendum for Quebec to secede by a fixed date in 1992. That law, however, was blackmail to attempt to force all Canadians to accept so-called "amendments" to the federal Constitution presented as the Charlottetown Accord to "keep Quebec in Canada". But, in reality, the proposed amendments were a ruse to appear to harmonize Canada with "international law" that emerged from the Badinter Commission during the overthrow and breakup of Yugoslavia. Had Charlottetown passed, Quebec would have "seceded" and used UDI to force the EU system on Canada. I wrote about this in my 2008 Federal Elections newsletter: "NO ONE TO VOTE FOR Federal Elections – Canada"
When former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev visited Britain in 2000, he described the European Union as "the new European Soviet." Others, including former Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, American Charlotte Iserbyt and Lithuanian-American Vilius Brazenas, equate the EU system with the basis of a nascent world Soviet system. Still others identify the EU as being essentially Marxist in ideology ("The European Union: a Marxist Utopia?" by Dr. John Laughland, Online publication date: 2011-04-20).
* "BQ" is the acronym for Bloc Québécois, a so-called 'federal' 'separatist' party founded in approximately 1990 when a handful of mostly former Liberals and former Conservatives who had crossed the floor two to five months earlier to sit as independents, crossed the floor again inside Parliament to sit — we are told — as 'separatists'. However, the agitations of this party since its founding have been designed to help get Quebec out of Confederation by intimidating Canadians into accepting the European system in lieu of threatened "break-up". Again, it is a misnomer and thus misleading to call these parties "separatist". They are not "separatist". They are communist parties hiding behind separatist ideology.
Like the Parti Québécois, the Bloc Québécois wants a European-style union. Their recent past leader, Gilles Duceppe, admitted on camera on 30 April 2011 that he wants "a good constitution, like they have in Europe". He wants a North American Union including a "sovereign" Quebec. In other words, the communists have targeted all of North America, and apparently they have counterparts in the U.S.A. who are ready and willing to give it to them, though this would necessitate the overthrow of the U.S. Constitution, Congress and the White House.
In this respect, it is worth noticing that there is a "secession" movement in the USA at precisely the same time that Duceppe is making this declaration. It is called the "Tenth Amendment Movement" by which 38+ States have filed formal declarations intending to 'secede' from their federal government and destroy the USA because of federal encroachment on States' constitutional rights. I wrote about this in my blog post of 27 June 2011, "Taking America Down for Globalism in the Name of Patriotism"
* "The official magazine of the RIN-PQ-BQ" — I now don't know what Mr. Kretzmer means. "BQ" appears to refer to the Bloc Québécois which arrived on the scene as of 1990. The Bloc could therefore not have been involved in the 1960s with the RIN and the PQ. Was it a typographical error to have included the BQ in the Kretzmer article? Or does BQ stand for still something else that I'm not yet aware of?
Gilles Duceppe, recent former leader for over 20 years of the "separatist" Bloc Québécois (an illegal party in the federal Parliament) was a colleague of FLQ terrorist leader Charles Gagnon. Duceppe wrote for Gagnon's communist magazine En Lutte ! (Struggle!). See my translation "Has the Far Left Hijacked the Quebec Sovereignty Movement?" under my general title: "Communist Links of the NDP and the Bloc Québécois".
As Mr. Kretzmer notes above, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was part of the team at the magazine, Cité Libre. In fact, he was a co-founder of it with fellow Communist Gérard Pelletier. More importantly, Trudeau and other important federal figures in the "Quebec secession" scheme, including Gérard Pelletier, Jean Marchand, and René Lévesque, were also a part of the in-crowd at Cité Libre and, thereby, all were colleagues of BOTH of two major FLQ terrorist leaders, Pierre Vallières, who acted as Director of Cité Libre in the early 1960s around the time Vallières met Gagnon, who also worked at Cité Libre for Trudeau and Pelletier, and the FLQ bombings began in Quebec.
René Lévesque set up rather than founded the Parti Québécois, a fake "separatist" party designed to impose the EU system on Canada disguised as Quebec "sovereignty", upon advice to do so from Trudeau, Pelletier, Marchand, and other federal ministers in the Lester Pearson Cabinet on a "secret committee" hosted in Montreal in the 1960s by Power Corporation of Canada. Power Corporation has a penchant for hiring communists, and I shall write a post on that another day.The FLQ had been set up by Fidel Castro, who met Belgian immigrant to Montreal, Georges Schoeters during Castro's visit to Canada on 26 April 1959. Castro later brought Schoeters to Cuba where he trained him to organize the FLQ. Castro also trained some of the terrorists handpicked by Schoeters. In the photo at left, we see René Lévesque, the year before he entered politics with the Liberals, interviewing Castro on the very same day that Castro linked up with Schoeters. FLQ terror would be the springboard and the pretext for a "political" settlement of the "complaints" of the FLQ about conditions in Quebec.
Had it been Lévesque who originated the idea of the "separatist" party which would fight it out with the rest of Canada in negotiations after a referendum, that would be sufficiently odd, given Lévesque's link to the man who set up the FLQ in the first place: Castro. However, it was a group of mostly Liberals, federal ministers from Quebec in the government of Lester Pearson, who decreed that a "separatist" party should be erected. Those men included, notably, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Gérard Pelletier and Jean Marchand, all three recruited by Pearson to "fight separatism". But, strangely, the "separatist" party they decided should be set up to "fight separatism" in a referendum, actually had as its platform the "negotiation" of the European Economic Community (EU) system to replace Confederation. This is the very system viewed today as increasingly Soviet, and as Marxist in nature. Who would decree that a "separatist" party be set up so that "separatism" could be "fought" in a referendum? A secret committee of Power Corporation of Canada would, and did, in 1967, led by Claude Frenette, then-President of the Liberal Party, with close ties to Trudeau, and a Power Corp. executive and right-had man to Paul Desmarais, Sr. Power Corporation in 2010 is headquarters of the Rhodes Scholarships for Quebec (a free education in the pushing of world government). And more importantly, Power Corporation is a founding member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives which authored the Building A North American Community report of 2005 outlining the creation of a North American Community on the pretext of the September 11th, 2001 "terrorist attacks", and published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the U.S. branch of the network involved in the Cecil Rhodes society, and whose "sister institute" in Canada is the Canadian International Council (CIC), on whose Board and Senate we find Power Corporation.
Again, despite the steadfast complicity of press and media pretending that Quebec, led by "separatists," was attempting to "secede," the real subject of the referendum was not secession, but the imposition on all of Canada of the EU system. René Lévesque ultimately "founded" that "separatist" party, the Parti Québécois, which has been used ever since to attempt to force the European Union system onto Canada in place of Confederation.
Castro's trip to Montreal on 26 April 1959 (when he connected with Schoeters) was organized by Raymond Daoust, a criminal lawyer, according to the caption under the same photo (above) in a biography entitled René Lévesque – Un enfant du siècle 1922-1960, by Pierre Godin. It is unclear whether Daoust was working for the mafia at that time; however, Daoust is ultimately identified as a lawyer for the Vic Cotroni mafia family and also in circumstances suggesting that he, himself, was a part of the mob. In 1963, when twenty-three FLQ terrorists were picked up and charged, some of them, including Raymond Villeneuve, hired criminal lawyer Daoust to conduct their defense. It is therefore quite odd that Daoust should have organized Castro's trip to Montreal on the very day in 1959 when Castro connected with Schoeters, who was used to set up the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorists; and that Daoust himself, three or four years later – at which date he is known as a lawyer for Cotroni – would end up defending some of the terrorists, one of whose leaders – Pierre Vallières, is a colleague of Trudeau, and of the two other man recruited by Lester Pearson to join the Liberals to "fight" these same terrorists whom they call "separatists" …. although, they are clearly not "separatists" but communists. And in the process of "fighting" them, he, Trudeau, the defender of Canada, will facilitate their attempted imposition of what is apparently the economic basis of a world-wide communist system: for the 1980 referendum proposes to replace Confederation with the European Economic Community system, which today we see as the European Union with special status at the U.N.
Saturday, 3 September 2011 9:42 a.m.
Republished on Sunday, 22 April 2012 in "No Snow in Moscow", WordPress.


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It was Timmy being Timmy.
"Tim wasn't a bad person. I'm very clear on that,'' said coach Claude Julien. "He's a person that had his views, and was pretty strong in his own views at times. But never a bad person. That's why a lot of times, we didn't feel he was a distraction. He was just a guy that thought differently. I know a lot of times guys would say, 'You know what? As long as he stops pucks, we're OK with it.' That was the consensus of our players in the dressing room.''
On Thursday, Thomas's Bruins career ended with his trade to the Islanders for a conditional second-round pick in 2014 or '15. On Friday, Thomas's former coach and ex-teammates reflected on a goalie whose on-ice brilliance and off-ice quirks made him one of the most unique players in Bruins history.
"I have a lot of respect for Tim Thomas and what he's accomplished,'' said Julien. "As a player, a two-time Vezina goalie, MVP in the playoffs, Stanley Cup champion — he's done a lot. Even for those who view him differently as a person, I never had an issue with Tim. Tim was one of those guys who had his own thoughts and his own ideas. As a coach, you run into that all the time. There's different personalities in that dressing room now that I deal with. That's what you've got to learn as a coach. You respect everybody for what they are. It doesn't mean there weren't times we talked about our differences. But we always worked it out.''
Krejci was one of Thomas's closest friends on the team. During warm-ups before each game, Krejci and Thomas passed a puck prior to line rushes. Nathan Horton now fills the puck-passing role Thomas once held.
Despite his friendship with Thomas, Krejci acknowledges the goaltender cut his ties with the organization once he declared his intention not to play this season. The two have not talked since they said their goodbyes at the conclusion of the 2011-12 season. Tuukka Rask, Krejci said, is now the No. 1 goalie that Thomas once was.
"We got along well,'' Krejci said. "He was a great goaltender. I'm sure he still is. He's done a lot for this organization. He was a big part when we won the Cup. He was a good guy in the room, as well. He knew his role. He decided to take a year off, and that's when Tuukka got the No. 1 spot. He's been doing amazing. So, we no longer miss Timmy right now.''
According to a source familiar with the situation, the Islanders had until Friday to become cap compliant above the $44 million floor. Under the post-lockout transition rules, teams could be under the floor if a player was under suspension. The Islanders had suspended Lubomir Visnovsky for not reporting to the team after the lockout, and he carries a $5.6 million annual cap hit. Because of the transition rules, the Islanders were permitted to be below the floor by the margin of Visnovsky's number.
It was partly because of uncertainty regarding Visnovsky's suspension that the Islanders acquired Thomas and his $5 million annual cap hit. Visnovsky is no longer under suspension, and the Islanders are comfortably over the floor. Yet general manager Garth Snow still proceeded with the Thomas trade to achieve greater cap flexibility.
With Thomas officially out of the picture, one of management's primary tasks will be to re-sign Rask. Bill Zito, Rask's agent, also represents Thomas.
Rask is playing on a one-year, $3.5 million contract. His performance this season has reinforced the Bruins' estimation of his status as one of the league's sharpest goalies. On Thursday, GM Peter Chiarelli acknowledged he will initiate negotiations with Rask during the season, but talks have yet to begin.
The benchmark is Carey Price's six-year, $39 million contract. If Rask continues to perform well,
he could ask for an extension in Price's range. Another comparable is fellow Finn Kari Lehtonen, who despite his injury history was re-upped by the Stars for five years at $29.5 million, beginning in 2013-14.
Given those comparables, Rask could ask for at least $5 million annually over five years. It would be a significant raise.
But Thomas is an example of why paying goalies is worth the investment. At the time, Thomas's four-year, $20 million extension looked like an overpayment. In retrospect, given Thomas's play, the contract was fair for both sides.
"Everyone knows he was a huge part of us winning the year that we did,'' McQuaid said. "He always competed and he always enjoyed himself when he was playing. When you scored on him in practice, he wouldn't be shy to let you know that he didn't appreciate it. I'll definitely remember his competitiveness.''
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Drinker Biddle & Reath on Thursday held the first of a series of conference calls for advisors on regulation, discussing the controversy over proposed brokerage window rules and how the election could affect the fiduciary debate.
Fred Reish, partner and chairman of the financial services ERISA team at Drinker Biddle & Reath, said on the call that the firm's "Inside the Beltway" calls will likely be a quarterly event.
Thursday's call focused on the Department of Labor's proposed fiduciary requirements regarding brokerage windows. Question 30 on a controversial Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) had made several statements that "immediately generated reaction from the private sector," Reish said.
The bulletin, which was released on May 7, contains a number of controversial statements, Reish said. First, it states that "[a]lthough the regulation does not specifically require that a plan have a particular number of designated investment alternatives, the failure to designate a manageable number of investment alternatives raises questions as to whether the plan fiduciary has satisfied its obligations under section 404 of ERISA."
Second, the bulletin states that if "significant numbers of participants and beneficiaries" select nondesignated investment alternatives, plan fiduciaries have an "affirmative obligation" to determine whether it should be treated as a designated alternative.
Finally, if a plan holds more than 25 investment alternatives, the DOL will only require that fiduciaries make the necessary disclosures for at least three of the investments. Fiduciaries would also have to make disclosures for investments that have at least five participants and beneficiaries.
Question 30 is a "good example of how the Department of Labor has become activist," Brad Campbell, a lawyer with Drinker Biddle and former head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), said on the call.
"Part of the bipartisan backlash [against Q&A 30] is due to the process used," he added. The guidance went "against the tenor" of rulemaking. "You don't want rapid action in rulemaking. You want a process where people can respond."
Two months after the DOL issued the bulletin with the contentious Question 30, they issued a revised bulletin, FAB 2012-02R, that eliminated the question and replaced it with Question 39, Reish said.
The new bulletin effectively eliminated several significant fiduciary requirements that were not provided under current law but had been included under Question 30, such as the requirements to have 'a manageable number of investment alternatives,' monitor for 'significant investment through a brokerage window' and to provide participant disclosures for any investment selected through a brokerage window by at least 1% of participants, AdvisorOne reported on July 31.
"In short order, we won that battle," Campbell said of the changes.
Another topic discussed on the call was the DOL's proposed rule to expand the definition of fiduciary.
"The DOL is clearly trying to capture advisors who don't see themselves as a fiduciary but the DOL would like to see them as such," Campbell said. He added that although he doesn't expect much movement on the proposal until after the election, should President Obama be re-elected, we would see a reproposal that looks only slightly different. He doesn't expect "wholesale changes, but minimal accommodations to the most vocal critics."
If Mitt Romney is elected, however, Campbell expects the proposal will disappear entirely. "I have no reason to believe [Romney] has a high priority for this rule."
Sen. Robert Portman, R-Ohio, took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal on Thursday to argue against undecided financial rules that came about due to the Dodd-Frank Act.
"After three years of bureaucratic excess, the Obama administration has been quietly postponing several multibillion-dollar regulations until after the November election," Portman wrote. "Those delayed rules, together with more than 130 unfinished mandates under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law, could significantly increase the regulatory drag on our economy in 2013."
He referred specifically to the fiduciary rule and noted that a study conducted last year by the Oliver Wyman Group found the rule could raise retirement account minimums and reduce access to investment advice for 7.2 million IRA holders. "Even the Labor Department was unable to show that the rule's illusory benefits outweigh its substantial costs," he wrote.


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After a recent UFC release, veteran Phil Baroni (13-13) returns to the cage on March 25 to take on Nick Nolte (3-2) at Titan Fighting Championships 17.
Officials today announced the middleweight fight.
The event, which airs live on HDNet, takes place at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan., the usual home for Titan events.
Titan Fighting is a Kansas City-based organization that recently hosted the HDNet-televised Abe Wagner vs. Tim Sylvia fight.
Baroni, whom the UFC release following a Jan. 1 loss to Brad Tavares, is stuck in a three-fight losing skid and his lost six of his past nine fights, which included stints with Strikeforce, EliteXC and Cage Rage. But in early January, Titan officials announced they had signed the notable to a multi-fight deal.
"This is a very important fight for me and my preparation has already begun," Baroni stated. "I cannot afford to be anything but my best. Nolte is a very game opponent and has to see this as an opportunity to get a big win. I'll do whatever it takes not to let that happen, and I look forward to putting on a show in Kansas City and winning over the fans with my exciting fighting style. I plan on setting up shop in Titan, and that means taking Nolte's ass out in KO fashion."
Nolte, a Kansas City-area fighter, went 7-3 as an amateur before making his pro MMA debut in early 2009. The one-time Strikeforce and Bellator fighter recently scored a second-round submission victory over Lee Werr at a regional event in Kansas.
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I want to write an essay with the title "Difference between Hard Work and Smart Work".
- By "hard work", I mean continuing the work with old ideas without thinking up new ideas, and working all the time to solve a problem.
- By "smart work", I mean innovating new ideas and trying to solve a problem within a short period of time.
Would 「重労働とスマートな仕事の相違点」 be the correct way to express this in Japanese?


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Caring about others faciliates our happiness: this is a way we can summarize a working paper published on http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-038.pdf by researchers Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James, Michael I. Norton
From the abstract: this research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). Analyzing survey data from 136 countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct experiments within two very different countries (Canada and Uganda) and show that spending money on others has a consistent, causal impact on happiness. In contrast to traditional economic thought—which places self-interest as the guiding principle of human motivation—our findings suggest that the reward experienced from helping others may be deeply ingrained in human nature, emerging in diverse cultural and economic contexts.
These kind of researchers are very beneficial in terms of being more aware. What about a research concerning how dedicating time to people facilitates our happiness as well?


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text: Last January, researchers suggested that the wrinkles that form on fingertips after a long soak might help humans and other primates better handle objects in wet conditions. A new study has failed to reproduce those results. Researchers had 40 volunteers—sometimes with dry hands, other times with wrinkly, wet ones—grab 52 items (including small and large glass marbles, rubber balls, and brass weights), one item at a time, with their thumb and forefinger and then pass each object through a 5-by-5-centimeter hole. In some tests, the hole was 45 cm above the table top; in the others it was 75 cm. On average, volunteers with wrinkly fingers completed the task no more quickly than their dry-handed counterparts, researchers report this week in PLOS ONE. Results of two other tests—one designed to test feeling in the skin of the fingertip on the index finger, the other designed to assess sensitivity of nerves in the underlying tissues to vibration—suggested that water-wrinkled fingers were no more or less sensitive than dry, smooth ones. Altogether, the researchers contend, the work suggests that skin puckering doesn't provide any evolutionary advantage. Maybe wrinkling is just an odd side effect of extended immersion, they say. Although the new study's test of dexterity wasn't quite the same as the one used by the team reporting last year's findings (those tests used fewer objects overall and included glass marbles and lead fishing weights), the new research used twice as many volunteers and therefore might be considered more reliable.


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Earlier today we had a problem logging into a database that had just been created automatically.
When on the actual box (Linux)
sqlplus schema/pw, i.e. a local connection, was fine, though, it was occasionally impossible to do anything once connected. Otherwise, whether using a session on the box or not
sqlplus schema/pw@db did not work at all.
tnsping and DNS testing revealed nothing and there was no problem in
The Listener was accepting the connection but not handing it off to the database. This was confirmed by using
tail -f on the listener log and watching it accept the connection. There is a logon trigger on the database that inserts the user details / time etc into a table, but this doesn't have any indexes and there cannot have been any locks.
We finally traced the issue. There was a conflict in the file that creates the temporary tablespaces for the database. It resulted in there only being 5MB of tempspace instead of the normal 25GB. Disabling the logon trigger and then adding the additional temporary tablespaces, sorted everything out. There were some sessions already running that would have been using some of this tablespace.
Apparently Oracle requires some temporary tablespace in order to accept an incoming connection. The specific version used on this DB was 9i, though I think this applies to all.
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The Bradbury Pound is the UK equivalent to the US Greenbacks: 'government' or 'treasury' rather than 'bank' money.
On 18 November 2013, Austin Mitchell MP tabled Early Day Motion 748: 100th Anniversary of the Bradbury Pound. MPs can now show their support by signing it. The more signatures, the more likely the media will take an interest. Eventually, it may become a Parliamentary debate.
UK Column published this video with Justin Walker, together with this online petition.
Green Credit for Green Purposes is exactly what is possible with the Bradbury Pound!
To go even deeper into the historic significance and economic relevance, please note:
- the Economic Research Council published Government Debt and the Creation of Credit – with the Bradbury Pound as its cover – in 1981
- John Bradbury and Thomas Paine is a 6,000 word article by the author of History of Usury
- Warmongers, Newspapers and the Ruling Class is another historic article by the same author that links WWI with the Bradbury Pound.
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