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Why would President Obama willing choose to go over the fiscal cliff?
Obama already knows that such an event would create an economic drag in the next year of nearly 4% as the various taxes and mandated spending cuts sap economic strength. After four years of effort, bailouts, incentives and programs to keep the economy afloat - what incentive would there be to willingly go over the "cliff?" It is an interesting question.
According to the American Council For Capital Formation here are the following impacts to the overall economy:
Real GDP- Increasing the current capital gains and dividend tax rates shows noticeable negative effects on the U.S. economy compared to the Baseline in the shorter run. In this simulation, real GDP growth decreases 0.1%, on average, per year, which equates to a $79.2 billion decrease per year over the 2013-17 time period. The results are similar in longer time period: Between 2013 and 2021 period, real GDP decreases $80 billion on average, per year.
Consumption Spending- Consumption spending is also weaker, averaging $155 billion lower per year between 2013-2021. Between 2013 and 2017 time period, the decrease in consumption is a little over $122 billion.
Employment- In the capital gains and dividend tax increase simulation, the job impact is worse between 2013 and 2017 period. The economy ends up losing 380,000 jobs on average per year. In the longer period, 2013-21, the loss is 344,000 per year. Nonfarm payroll jobs show a large loss of 561,000 persons in 2015 and then smaller losses in subsequent years.
Capital Spending- Spending for business investment declines when tax rates on capital gains and dividends revert back to pre-Bush levels; on average $20 billion yearly between 2013 and 2021. The decrease is smaller for the shorter term, 2013-17, $17.9 which is 1.1% lower than baseline.
Savings- At a higher tax rate on capital gains and dividends, saving decreases according to the Flow of Funds by an average of 0.1 percentage points per year in the 2013-2021 period.
Financial Indicators- Both the S&P 500 Price Index, and S&P 500 Earning per Share, decline when the top tax rates on qualifying dividends and capital gains are increased compared to the Baseline. The index declines by an average of 16% and the S&P 500 Operating EPS is down an average of $1.6 over 2013-17. Between 2013 and 2021, the index declines by an average of 14.5% and the S&P 500 Operating EPS is down an average of $2.
Federal Government Budget Receipts- Higher taxes on capital gains and dividends significantly harm the economy and job growth and suggest that the increase in federal tax receipts may not be a worthwhile tradeoff. Despite all that damage to the economy, the overall impact on the budget deficit is only $7.3 billion annually between 2013-2017 and $70.4 billion between 2013-2021 when the dynamic effects on economic activity and induced decreases in tax receipts from the higher tax rates are reflected.
If the ACCF is correct in their assumptions then the negative impact to the economy, and financial markets, will be somewhat severe. With this scenario in mind it is not a far stretch to come to the conclusion that President Obama is playing a very well-conceived chess match and the "fiscal cliff" could well be his move to checkmate the Republican controlled House.
While the "fiscal cliff" is not an immediate economic death sentence, as has been stated by the White House, the negative impacts of rising taxes and sharply reduced government spending will seriously erode economic prosperity. For the average American they will see unemployment rise, the nascent housing recovery fail, incomes fall and their personal standard of living come under attack. The drag on consumption and economic growth will lead to declines in the financial markets further deteriorating the "wealth effect."
This economic pain, combined with a well-planned media campaign blaming the Republican's for their failure in averting the crisis, will fuel the ire of the voters come the next Congressional election. With Republican's lack of adequate messaging, or media support, it is very likely that the majority of House Republicans will lose their seats to Democratic opponents.
"Check Mate"
While this idea is entirely conjecture the end result would be a fully Democratic controlled government. Such a shift in control would allow President Obama to achieve his goals of:
- Elimination of the debt ceiling.
- Additional stimulus and bailout programs.
- Additional expansion of the social welfare fabric.
- Substantially higher taxes on the "wealthy" to redistribute wealth.
- Greater expansion of Government regulation and control.
- Full implementation of ObamaCare
These goals are not new, of course, as these issues have been at the heart of his administration since he took office. However, it has been the Republican controlled House that has thwarted further expansion of Government controls over the last two years. By forcing the "fiscal cliff" and blaming the Republican's effectively - the block could be potentially removed.
The use of economic pain to expand governmental control of a nation is not a new concept. It has been a tool successfully used many times in history. With an economy that is currently dependent on financial support from the government the only "bad guys" in this situation are those trying to take that support away.
The reality that "taxing the wealthy" does not increase revenue or promote economic growth is lost on the 80% of Americans that are economically uninformed and are just struggling to maintain their current standard of living. In their world the cost of living keeps going up while the personal incomes have declined. For the bulk of America it still remains "Bush's" fault that their current situation is not as good as it was once, regardless of their personal irresponsibility, and the Democratic media machine will effectively point the finger of blame squarely at the Republicans.
The path over the "fiscal cliff" is bad for the economy, the average American family and the stock market. However, for the White House, going over the "cliff" is the next move in this elaborate game of chess which will clear the path towards completing Obama's long term objectives of complete socialization of the American economy.


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Members of the newly formed Municipal Bonds for America descended on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to protect the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds, as lawmakers have signaled muni bonds' tax-exempt status may be threatened in fiscal cliff and tax reform negotiations.
"This is a very real possibility that near-term efforts to address the fiscal cliff could include a cap on the municipal bond tax-exemption, leading to higher borrowing costs for state and local governments nationwide," Mike Nicholas, CEO of Bond Dealers of America and an organizer of the new Municipal Bonds for America coalition, told AdvisorOne in an email message. "This is not just a tax on wealthy investors, it's a tax on everyone."
A coalition of municipal market professionals representing dealers, issuers and local leaders launched Municipal Bonds for America on Oct. 10. The group is a national coalition committed to protect the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds.
"Tax exempt municipal bonds are well understood by investors and issuers and have been a successful financing tool throughout the century," said Municipal Bonds for America Co-chairman Ken Williams, when the group launched. "Policy makers should not try to fix what isn't broken; a tax on tax-exempt bonds ultimately shifts more burdens to local governments."
Nicholas, who previously spent 10 years as managing director at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and as a vice president at The Bond Market Association, added that "Taxpayers in every state and at all income levels benefit from public infrastructure–schools, roads, bridges, sewers–financed by tax-exempt bonds."
The group announced that MuniBondsforAmerica.org will serve as an online resource for Municipal Bonds for America members, members of Congress, congressional staff, and the media to access data on municipal bonds, issue papers, case studies on the effectiveness of municipal finance, and other information.


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In a session that at times struck as Shakespearean tragedy, Doubleline Funds' Jeffrey Gundlach took to the stage for the opening keynote Tuesday morning at IMCA's annual conference in National Harbor, Md.
Punctuating his comments with quotes from the bard, Gundlach offered sobering testimony about the current debt and deficit crisis in the United States and abroad.
"At the beginning of the last decade, federal employees had an average salary and benefits worth $76,000, compared with $45,000 for the average private sector worker," Gundlach, Morningstar's fixed income manager of the year in 2006, told audience members. "Today, it's $126,000 in pay and benefits, which is now double what the average private sector worker makes."
There is "no such thing" as the government creating jobs, he bluntly stated. Federal employees, net-net, do not pay taxes, they just refund part of the tax money that is given them as salary, which has little to do with actual wealth creation.
"As the debt grew to $200 billion, no one really noticed," Gundlach explained. "When it got to $400 billion, no one really noticed. Then it got to $500 billion and people started to notice, but then Dick Cheney said not to worry about deficits. Today, it's in the trillions."
He recounted failed efforts to rein in spending, noting that each time it was tried bond yields fell and the economy was negatively impacted.
"Last summer we went through the debt ceiling fight, which was very high profile. But it's actually been raised two times since, which was kept on the down-low. The last time was supposed to take us through the election, but we won't make it and something will have to be done in the fall, which will be very interesting."
He then moved to a discussion of the widening wealth gap, one that began in 1980 with so-called "voodoo economics." Noting an age of prosperity from 1949 through 1979, he said that beginning in 1980, productivity went "through the roof" but hourly wages remained static, with much of the benefits of productivity going to the wealthiest individuals.
"We actually saw negative movement in the lowest quartile and an explosion of income in the top quartile," he added. "The last time we saw that was in the 1920s when we also were taking on large amounts of debt. One fundament rule I have for investing is that bull markets create wealth through cooperation. Bear markets are characterized by a lack of cooperation and wealth destruction. We don't see much cooperation presently."
He pointed to the fact that in 1975, 45% of women with children worked. Today, 71% of women with children work, which he said was symptomatic of a lower standard of living for the middle class.
"Government is struggling to keep up, but it only comes up with random solutions that seem to be arrived at by simply spinning some giant wheel," Gundlach said. "But I'll bet dollars to doughnuts we will see tax increases soon in this country. As far as spending restraint, 80% of the population opposes cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, so that's very difficult politically."
In the presentation's only real ray of hope, Gundlach noted the country has been in this situation before. In 1940, tax receipts were only a tenth of the national debt, meaning if interest rates went to 10%, tax receipts would all go to servicing the debt. In the 1950s, that ratio was lowered to 1:2.
How did we do it?
"Massive tax increases," Gundlach said, before adding that in 1980 we "rolled the rock all the way back down the hill again."
"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," he said, quoting from the third act of Julius Caesar.
He then began a discussion of stimulus action and the markets, noting the artificial nature of the stimulus in propping up asset values.
"I compare the S&P 500 to the Shanghai index; I think the Shanghai market is one of the most important in the world for equities by proxy of what China's economy is doing. When you compare the two, Shanghai is drastically weaker. The same goes for emerging markets and of course Europe. What we're seeing is that the S&P 500 is pretty much living on stimulus."
So when will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates?
"The Fed can no longer do what it once could, which is to take preemptive strikes against inflation," he said. "They will stay low for as long as we are in this debt morass. Jobs have snapped back less and less since the late 1980s. Do you think it might have something to do with this debt experiment we're in? What do you think I think the answer to that question is?"
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(CNN) -- A report released Thursday commended the government for developing plans and stockpiling antivirals after the avian flu scare but warned that gaps still exist and that the health system may not be prepared in a more severe outbreak.
Stockpiling and planning helped in the response to the H1N1 virus, says a report released this week.
The Trust for America's Health, the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation also listed 10 lessons from the H1N1 outbreak and 10 recommendations. Among them were a call for continuously updating and restocking the national vaccine stockpile, boosting the capacity for vaccine development and production, and reinforcing health care systems.
Nearly 20,000 cases of the H1N1 virus have been confirmed worldwide, with more than half of the cases from the United States, according to the World Health Organization.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported, as of Thursday, 11,468 probable and confirmed U.S. cases and 19 deaths from the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu. About 2.5 percent of the cases resulted in hospitalizations.
Health officials have warned that the H1N1 outbreak is not over, with more deaths being reported.
On Wednesday, Connecticut and Michigan both confirmed their first H1N1 deaths; both individuals had underlying illnesses, according to state health authorities. All 50 states have confirmed cases, but flu activity seems to be declining in the nation as a whole, according to the CDC. See map of H1N1 flu activity »
1. Investments in pandemic planning and stockpiling antiviral medications paid off.
2. Public health departments did not have enough resources to carry out plans.
3. Response plans must be adaptable and science-driven.
4. Providing clear, straightforward information to the public was essential for allaying fears and building trust.
5. School closings have major ramifications for students, parents and employers.
6. Sick leave and policies for limiting mass gatherings were also problematic.
7. Even with a mild outbreak, the health care delivery system was overwhelmed.
8. Communication between the public health system and health providers was not well coordinated.
9. WHO pandemic alert phases caused confusion.
10. International coordination was more complicated than expected.
Source: Pandemic Flu Preparedness report
During the summer, the agency will take steps to better prepare and coordinate with health systems, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC's interim deputy director for the Science and Public Health Program. Scientists are keeping close attention to the Southern Hemisphere as the flu season begins there.
According to the Pandemic Flu Preparedness report, the H1N1 outbreak showed that the "investment the country has made in preparing for a potential pandemic flu has significantly improved U.S. capabilities for a large scale infectious disease outbreak."
"One of the lessons in this is that everyone was concerned about the avian flu [H5N1], and biology played a trick on us," said Jeff Levi, the executive director of Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit organization that focuses on public health. "It was a different form of the virus that became widespread. Most of the preparation around H5N1 is totally transferable to H1N1."
Avian flu was "a wake-up call for the world that serious influenza threats exist" and resulted in better test kits, diagnostic tests and emergency exercises, Schuchat said.
"There has been a lot of payoff from worrying about the bird flu," she said. "A lot of lessons have been learned that put us in better shape to be prepared right now. We have a lot more work to do to make sure we're as well-prepared for the fall."
After the avian flu scare, county health departments started preparedness drills, said Dr. Christian Sandrock, a physician in infectious diseases at the University of California Davis Medical Center and a deputy health officer for Yolo County, California, who specializes in disaster preparedness and emerging infectious diseases.
"A lot of things we worked on then seemed far-fetched but worked really well," Sandrock said. "They had mock pills we sent around for years, and we would practice. Then, when it was the real thing, it was just like the drills. So it married what was spent and what we trained on."
The report also said the H1N1 outbreak "revealed how quickly the nation's core public health capacity would be overwhelmed if the outbreak were more widespread and more severe."
Many public health departments do not have resources to carry out pandemic flu plans or respond to a severe outbreak. Laboratory testing is days to weeks behind the on-the-ground reality. Hospitals, which are already overcrowded on a daily basis, don't have the capacity to treat large numbers in an outbreak.
The report evaluated "what policy changes, what investments might be needed, what policies need to be adapted to better prepare us in months ahead, because it's likely to be resurgent in the fall," Levi said.
The report recommended that the federal government provide guidance on hospital capacities and sustain the public health work force, despite tough economic times. Read the entire report
It credited national public health officials with effective communications by having daily briefings and conveying a consistent message about good hygiene and coughing and sneezing etiquette.
"This is where planning paid off," Levi said. "They were sending a clear message. The public was informed about what we knew. The public was warned that the recommendations may change as the situation evolved. ... I think they were appropriately alerting the public. I think the response was quite balanced."
One of the challenges was communicating the latest H1N1 information to physicians and health care providers. Although public health departments were in contact with the CDC, some medical practitioners didn't receive guidance in timely fashion.
So those practitioners "start calling public health departments or send patients to the emergency department, or they're getting lab tests when they don't need to," Sandrock said. "What happens is, there's a surge of patients. That could've worked better. It wasn't a complete catastrophe."
Better real-time information is needed to track the outbreak, said David Fleming, director and health officer of Seattle and King County, Washington, a report co-author. National statistics were about one to two weeks behind what was happening.
"If this virus returns, it's going to return in differential and unpredictable way," Fleming said. "There's going to be a jigsaw of epidemics around the country."
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Better polish your jackboots and practicing goose-stepping because Canada is in the grips of a democracy-hating, military-glorifying, censorship-loving right-wing reactionary.
Or so implies columnist Lawrence Martin, who recently warned about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's brand of "right-wing nationalism."
Martin says Harper's brash ideological style "contributes to fears of his being a dangerous reactionary."
And yes that does sounds kind of scary.
But keep in mind that branding Conservative politicians as right-wing reactionaries is a common tactic among certain elements of the Canadian media, for whom anyone to the ideological right of Fidel Castro is automatically catalogued as a modern-day version of Attila the Hun.
So before we accept Martin's thesis and assume Prime Minister Harper is getting fitted for a medal-bedecked military uniform, let's go through his argument point by point.
The Glorification of the Military. Martin argues this is "the new cornerstone of Harper nationalism." Martin contends the prime minister "boasts proudly that Canada is now a warrior nation" and uses every opportunity to salute the armed forces. Well first off, most true fascist-types don't glorify the military, they glorify war and violence. Has Harper done this? Not as far as I can see. Yes, unlike former Liberal prime ministers who disdained and degraded our military, Harper respects the history and traditions of our armed forces. But if that's right-wing nationalism, then so is every Remembrance Day commemoration.
A Strict Law and Order Regime. According to Martin, the "government's omnibus crime bill and jail-building program, and its hard line on drugs have pushed our criminal justice system further to the right." Here I am more sympathetic to Martin's case. Harper, for political reasons, has gone overboard when it comes to his Dragnet-inspired "law and order" crusade. But is this really dangerous "right-wing nationalism" or just run-of-the-mill conservative populism? And don't forget left-wing governments have their own version of a "strict law and order regime" in which they use draconian laws to go after people like gun owners and smokers. Does that mean lefties want to impose a Soviet-style dictatorship?
Message Control. "Information control" is central to right-wing nationalism, says Martin who notes how the Harper government has imposed savage message discipline in Ottawa. And it's true, Harper wants strict control over how the government message is relayed to the public. Yet that's a political communications strategy, not an ideological attack on information. Harper is not closing down newspapers, or censoring news reports or putting people in jail who disagree with him. This is why Martin and other columnists are still free to fear-monger to their hearts content.
Flag-Waving Populism. Martin says, "The Conservatives are melding war and sport to appeal -- Don Cherry style -- to the masses." Hmm, if Don Cherry really epitomizes dangerous right-wing nationalism somebody better tell the CBC.
Anti-Democratic Instincts. Martin, like many leftists, bemoans how the Harper government has bullied "its way through democratic barriers." He notes, for instance, the government imposed closure and time limits on parliamentary debate. OK fine. What about a few years ago when the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois tried to topple the duly elected Conservative government so they could set up an unelected ruling triumvirate? So maybe other parties also have an anti-democratic instinct.
Less Tolerance. "Progressives" always like to brand Conservatives as intolerant, which ironically sort of betrays their own intolerance. Anyway, Martin says the Harper Tories are right-wing nationalists because they are "less inclined toward multiculturalism" than previous governments. Is this really scary? I mean, "Less inclined towards multiculturalism" doesn't exactly sound like the motto for the National Front. In fact, you could probably find a lot of Canadians from all ethnic backgrounds and from all ideological stripes who are less inclined toward multiculturalism than previous governments.
Anti-Intellectualism. Martin writes, "In appealing to their populist base, the Conservatives boast of going by gut instead of erudition." Yes, this is called politics. All parties do it.
The Smearing of Opponents. According to Martin, the Harper Conservatives "make frequent use of it with manslayer attack ads and demonization of critics." Yes, this too is called politics. All parties do it.
Anti-Labour Bent. Martin says the Tories like to bash unions. Well considering big union bosses in the public sector like to use their monopoly power to hold consumers hostage, that union bosses use forced union dues to promote a radical left-wing agenda, and that union bosses often use bullying tactics on picket lines, I'd say they could use a good bashing every once in a while.
Cult of the Leader. Right-wing nationalism, says Martin, requires the elevation of the leader's status. Hence, the Conservatives have ordered civil servants to change the nomenclature from Government of Canada to the "Harper government." Is this really a leadership cult? When giant portraits of Harper appear in city squares, when children must sing his praises at the beginning of a school day, when Ottawa is renamed "Harperville," that's when I will worry about a leadership cult. (I would say, however, that there is a Harper leadership cult within the Conservative Party. But that's a different story.)
So you see, Harper is not as scary as advertised.
Now I realize that Harper is not a cuddly guy; he can be tough-minded, vindictive and ruthless. And he certainly practices a Genghis Khan style of political warfare.
But none of that means the prime minister is out to rebrand Canada as some sort of "Northern Reich." He was elected democratically, he is operating within the law, he will ultimately have to answer to the people of Canada in the next federal election.
So lefties need not worry.
Indeed, if anyone should be concerned it is Canada's ideological conservatives. After all, since coming to power Harper has made government bigger not smaller, he has increased spending instead of cutting it and plunged the country into a sea of red ink.
In short, when it comes to fiscal issues, Harper has acted and talked a lot like a Liberal.
Now to me that's scary.


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29-February-2012 - Walnuts May Boost Memory and Improve Cognitive Function: New Results from Landmark PREDIMED Study
Kaley Todd, MS, RD
Folsom, California, USA – Do you recall what you ate for breakfast today or dinner last night? According to new research, you may have a better chance of remembering if you include walnuts. Recent findings published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease report walnut consumption in a Mediterranean diet is associated with better memory scores and cognitive function. The results suggest that antioxidants present in walnuts and other Mediterranean dietary patterns may help counteract age-related cognitive decline and reduce the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease.
This cross-sectional study evaluated whether antioxidant-rich foods from the Mediterranean diet were associated with better cognitive performance in a subsample (447) of elderly participants (aged 55-80 years) from the landmark Spanish PREDIMED study – a dietary intervention trial in asymptomatic individuals with high cardiovascular risk. The researchers evaluated the intake of various foods and performed neuropsychological tests to assess cognitive function in relation to diet, and analyzed the urinary excretion of polyphenols as a biomarker of daily intake of antioxidants.
The study reported regular consumption of walnuts, but not of other nuts, was associated with better working memory. The investigators believe that the high polyphenol (antioxidant) content found in walnuts may be one of the key elements in helping to preserve cognition and fight age-related cognitive decline. Coffee, virgin olive oil and wine were also associated with better cognitive scores.
Study investigator and author Dr. Emilio Ros, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, affirms the "future study of the nearly 7,500 participants of the PREDIMED trial will provide firmer evidence regarding the potential of the Mediterranean diet and its components (among them walnuts) to reduce the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's." An estimated 5.1 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and although there is no known cure, research continues to uncover the role dietary patterns can play in the development and progression of the illness.
Walnuts are a nutrient-dense whole food that not only provide antioxidants, but also alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), the plant-based omega-3 fatty acid. These nutrients offer anti-inflammatory properties and protect brain cells from oxidative damage. Previously reported research by Dr. Abha Chauhan: Head, Developmental Neuroscience Lab, NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, showed walnuts to have protective effects against oxidative stress and cell death caused by beta amyloidal protein (Aβ), the main component of amyloid deposits and senile plaques in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.According to Dr. Chauhan, "Collectively, the findings of our previous studies and the current study by Dr. Ros' group suggest that a diet with walnuts may reduce the risk of dementia in the elderly population. This may be attributed to a unique combination of anti-amyloidogenic, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of walnuts."
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Discovery of new planet similar to Earth
An international team of astronomers has found a planet, orbiting around another star, which is more similar to Earth than any other found to date.
This ground-breaking discovery of a new extra-solar planet, or 'exoplanet', has been made by scientists searching for Earth-like planets that are capable of supporting life.
Altogether 160 exoplanets have been found since the first was discovered in 1995, but all of them have been very different to those found in our Solar System. This new planet, which is only about five times bigger than Earth, is the smallest exoplanet ever found orbiting a star.
Designated 'OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb', this exoplanet is around 25 000 light-years away from Earth, close to the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
It has an orbital period of 10 years and is about three times as far from its parent star as Earth is from our Sun.
The new planet was found using the 'microlensing' technique by the leader of the RoboNet microlensing planet search, Prof. Keith Horne of the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He described this technique as the 'fastest way to find small cool planets down to the mass of Earth'.
"If we can deploy robotic telescopes at additional sites in the southern hemisphere, we can expect to find several more cool planets every year, which could include the first detection of extra-solar Earths," commented Malcolm Fridlund, study scientist for ESA's Darwin mission.
"This is a very important discovery. It is the first planet which is likely to be 'rocky', or similar to the composition of Earth, Venus and Mars, as opposed to gas giants of the Jupiter type. Planets of the terrestrial type are of course the 'holy grail' for those who search for life in the Universe," Fridlund added.
ESA is also involved in the Corot mission to be launched later this year. This will search for planets which 'occult' their parental stars. A planet like OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb found closer to its star would be easy for Corot to see and this discovery makes it even more probable.
"For ESA it also implies that missions like Darwin will be more likely to succeed in their quest to study true Earth-like planets in detail," explained Fridlund.
Notes for editors
The first details of this discovery are made in the 25 January edition of the journal Nature.
ESA's Darwin is intended to search for Earth-like planets, the most likely places for life to develop; it will survey 1000 of the closest stars, looking for small rocky planets.
Darwin will be a flotilla of four free-flying spacecraft that will search for such Earth-like planets around other stars and analyse their atmospheres for the chemical signature of life.
Corot, due for launch at the end of this year, will be the first mission capable of detecting rocky planets, several times larger than Earth, around nearby stars. Corot is led by the French space agency CNES.
ESA joined the mission in October 2000 by agreeing to provide the optics for the telescope and to test the payload. As a result of the collaboration, scientists from ESA's Member States will be given access to the satellite's data.


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Sangu River Travel (Thanchi to Remakri), Bandarban, Bangladesh
Sangu river is very mysterious hill river in Bandarban, Bangladesh. Video Location: From Thanchi to Remakri Para. "Thanchi" is an upazilla/thana in Bandarban district in Bangladesh. "Remakri para" is a "Marma" tribal village situated over a hill named "youn" From Remakri para you can go to Nafakhum waterfalls, Leikkhon Mrong Waterfalls, Bat Cave, Baghai Pathor (Tiger Stone) by trekking. This will be very adventurous and thrilling travel for anyone.


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What Do CEOs Think Of Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Did you know that 16 percent of CEOs say that they use social media as the top way that they engage customers?
But this is just the very tip of the iceberg – CEOs expect their use of social media to more than triple in the next five years, rising to 57 percent of all chief execs.
In the largest study of its kind undertaken, IBM conducted more than 1,700 in-depth, face-to-face interviews with CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders from around the globe, detailing their social media findings in the following infographic.
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Vancouver geologist Mark O'Dea was working as a consultant in the mining industry in 2000 when opportunity knocked.
Rob McEwen, the founder and then-chief executive of Goldcorp, had hit a roadblock in his quest to find the gold he suspected lay hidden on the company's Red Lake, Ont., property. Inspired by the open-source software movement, McEwen posted all the geological data for the property online and offered more than $500,000 US in prize money to the geologist who could find the treasure.
"I had familiarity with the belt, and I kind of went all-in," O'Dea said.
The young geologist delved into the data for about two months, full-time, and submitted his entry.
A year later, while prospecting for copper and gold in India — and suffering from a nasty bout of dysentery — O'Dea received word he'd placed second, he recalled with a laugh. He won $80,000 for his efforts.
"It was the richest I ever felt," O'Dea said during a recent interview at his downtown Vancouver office.
Fast-forward 13 years, and O'Dea is at the helm of a cashed-up mining group, Oxygen Capital, advancing gold projects in Nevada, Turkey, Burkina Faso and Ontario.
His latest exploration play, Laurentian Goldfields, feels a bit like full circle — Laurentian's flagship project is in the Red Lake district and McEwen is one of the company's largest shareholders.
The same year O'Dea picked up "silver" for giving McEwen golden geological intel, he founded Fronteer Gold — a $1-million shell company at the time — to explore for precious metals in Turkey, Nevada and Newfoundland and Labrador. Fronteer found uranium — not copper or gold — in the latter jurisdiction, where he'd worked for the Geological Survey of Canada as a university student, and spun the project out into Aurora Energy Resources.
The 2008 financial crisis hammered commodity markets and the junior mining sector, but O'Dea and his team persevered. Aurora was sold to Paladin Energy in 2010 for $260 million.
But O'Dea's big score came a year later when he sold Fronteer Gold and its Long Canyon, Nev., project to Newmont Mining for $2.3 billion.
That transaction was key to the formation of Oxygen Capital, a fully integrated mining house with skill sets that span the full spectrum of the mining continuum from exploration to development to construction and operations.
Call it O'Dea 2.0.
The idea, he said, is to leverage skills and expertise on a team made up of geologists and others from the Fronteer team as well as new talent. Large mining companies were stung by a "bigger is better" mentality that led to cost overruns and billion-dollar writedowns, and are no longer opening the vault to acquire junior mining companies and their projects.
"We felt we had an ability to access capital and capture opportunities that were either under the radar or deeply undervalued and in need of a fresh start," O'Dea explained. "A platform like this is an efficient way of doing it."
The two cornerstone companies in the group are Pilot Gold, spun out as part of the Fronteer deal with exploration projects in Nevada and Turkey, and True Gold Mining, which is developing a high-grade gold mine in Burkina Faso. O'Dea and partner Don McInnes also recently sold a controlling interest in a privately held northern Quebec nickel project to Royal Nickel in exchange for shares — "It looks like we're in the first inning of a bull market in nickel."
As a kid who worked on his grandfather's cod boat off the coast of St. John's, Nfld., O'Dea grew up exposed to the elements. He now lives in Deep Cove with his wife and three young children, and navigates the storms of the junior mining sector from his West Coast base.
And it's been a stormy few years. When O'Dea sold Fronteer Gold in February 2011, the mining bull market had returned, albeit briefly, and the bellwether S&P/TSX Venture Exchange was trading above 2,300. The Venture is now barely above 1,000 as cash-starved junior mining companies eye a marijuana pivot and risk-averse investors chase yields or returns in high-flying tech, biotech and financial stocks.
But O'Dea's Oxygen companies have stood out for their ability to finance projects in one of the worst bear markets in decades, raising about $130 million over the past 12 months. A "ruthless" focus on the best projects has been key, O'Dea said.
"You really want to focus your efforts on the highest-probability projects, the ones that really look and smell and feel like they have the potential to be mines one day," he said.
Mining major Teck Resources is the joint venture partner on Pilot Gold's two Turkey projects as well as an 11.5-per-cent shareholder of True Gold Mining. True Gold has also attracted investment from a rather unorthodox source — Liberty Metals & Mining, the mining fund of Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual, True Gold's largest shareholder with a 19.5-per-cent stake.
"Finding unconventional pools of capital has been a big focus of our groups over the last year, with the traditional resource funds under such heavy redemptions and with not a lot of powder to invest in new deals," O'Dea said.
O'Dea was a bit of a globetrotter even before he got into mining — a mountain bike trip through New Zealand and Australia ended with a PhD from Monash University in Melbourne, and almost led to a job in academia.
His wanderlust has also led to mining opportunities in remote corners of the globe. On May 22, True Gold held a groundbreaking ceremony at its Karma mine project in Burkina Faso. The high-grade, low-cost mine will be a series of shallow open pits that should provide 400 direct jobs over a minimum 8.5-year mine life. The country could certainly use the economic boost — it's ranked 177 out of 182 on the United Nations Human Development Index, which measures life expectancy, education and income.
Pilot Gold has also been active on the exploration and acquisition fronts. It recently purchased Cadillac Mining and its small gold project in western Utah, and announced the discovery of a new copper-gold porphyry at one of its Turkey projects.
A falling gold price has been part of O'Dea's challenge — the precious metal has plummeted to $1,300 from highs above $1900 in late 2011. He believes gold will eventually surpass that mark, but won't predict the timing.
"Inflation's ultimately going to come, interest rates are going to go up and we're going to see a reversion back to the monetary connection that gold has in people's psyche," O'Dea said. "People are going to want to protect their capital and own real assets, and gold's a real asset."
Selective investing in the unloved junior mining sector during a bear market can pay dividends for investors with patience, O'Dea contends.
"Investors need to give the resource sector another shot here, they really do. There are great returns to be made, when you look at how beat-up and undervalued it is. There's really deep value in the sector right now."
While he's doing deals on the Pacific coast, the busy mining mogul stays connected to his Atlantic roots through a just-completed summer cottage he built with his family on St. Mary's Bay on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula.
"It's a place of solitude and a retreat."
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The release in late September of a Moody's Investors Service sector profile of long-term care insurance (LTCI) was filled with doom and gloom, and seemed to predict the demise of the offering itself.
Coming on the heels of some rather pessimistic predictions about LTCI feature availability from John Ryan of Ryan Insurance Strategy Consultants in Greenwood Village, Colo., (See "Too Much of a Good Thing?" Investment Advisor, September 2012), the report was nevertheless far more downbeat than Ryan had been about the future of the product. For advisors and clients who may be wondering whether LTCI is really on the way out, Moody's sounded a cautionary note that warrants a closer look—while an industry trade group spokesman was considerably more upbeat.
The sector profile provided Moody's assessment of some of the problems experienced by the industry as it sought to regain its footing after an apparent stumble into what turned out to be very expensive coverage—for the insurer. Now the expense is headed in the direction of the consumer, with rate increases having gone through a shocking rise in 2011, and the shoe may be on the other foot.
Although meant to correct a problem, the report says those rate increases have themselves become a problem—because of their effect on the market. John Hancock put through increases, Ryan reminded, ranging from 18% at the lowest to 90% at the highest, with the average coming in at around 44%. "The Hancock rate increase really shocked a lot of advisors," he said, "and it shocked a lot of insurance companies, too. [Actuaries at other insurers were saying,] 'What do they know that we don't know?'"
Insurers had to do something. Boxed in by rising medical costs on one side, lower-than-expected lapse rates on another, and record low interest rates on a third, companies did the only things they could: exit the market altogether, as had Unum (group market) and Prudential (individual market), among others; eliminate or cut expensive features such as the lifetime benefit and the inflation protection rider; raise rates to levels that would restore profitability; or turn to hybrid products that offer a combination of life insurance and a limited LTC benefit.
However, the Moody's report pointed out that even as insurers are constructing better-priced policies, they may be shooting themselves in the foot, either by turning off potential buyers or by being told by regulators that they can't continue to raise rates—or, as Ryan suggested, being told by regulators once interest rates rise that they will have to give back some increases.
"Because it affects the elderly, the people we want to take care of most," Ryan said, "the Hancock rate increase was […] outrageous. I don't think they had any idea the damage they did by raising premiums 90% all at once."
Ryan added that there is a very real possibility that sales will further decrease; currently, he said, they are either flat or down from what he has seen and heard in the marketplace. The Hancock rate increase, he said, so stunned anybody thinking of buying a policy that "they said, 'There it is; they're just going to do that to me, so I'll self-insure.' That, or they're buying less coverage." He went on to say that, while people are still buying, many who might otherwise do so now regard getting priced out of the product as a bigger risk than lacking coverage at all.
Jesse Slome, executive director for the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance (AALTCI), disputed the idea that sales were down. In a statement at the end of September, Slome said, "Despite the departure of several leading insurers, sales of long-term care insurance through multilife plans as well as on an individual basis are increasing. The need has not diminished and the desire by consumers to have some protection in place is higher than we've ever seen."
In an interview, he repeated that view, saying, "People are buying LTCI every day," and defending rate increases. "You have historic low interest rates, you have increasing reserve requirements, and you have a regulatory environment where states are […] saying, 'We won't allow you to increase premiums,'" he said. "So what's an insurance company to do? Lose money?"
One thing that is true, however, is that higher prices mean fewer potential customers. "When you raise prices, you shrink the size of the market of people who will buy your product," said Slome. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, he explained. "This is not an elastic market," he said. "What that means is that if Genworth has a million policyholders and Hancock has a million—they're not looking to double that next year. So the market for LTCI has always been defined, and in the current environment, the definition just becomes a little clearer."
Moody's says that the exit of some companies from the market, further concentrating remaining business in the hands of just a few companies, could also be a threat to the long-term survivability (no pun intended) of the market. But Slome took issue with that as well.
"Their analogy would be the same as calling Porsche a failed car company because they cannot make Porsches available for everybody who drives a car," he said. "They can't, and they choose not to. LTCI is the same way. More people are buying and applying. Now, yes, fewer people can and will afford the premiums, but at the same time you've got a stock market that's hitting new highs. It's not like nobody has money inAmerica."
Drawing on what he saw in the disability insurance market as it gradually repriced or did away with more expensive features, Ryan said he would recommend that LTCI buyers not "waste time getting anything lower than a 90-day waiting period, [anything longer than] a five-year benefit period and [anything higher than] 3% compound inflation protection, because they will probably get priced out of it." Those are the most common features, he explained, targeted by rate increases. In addition, they could consider contingent nonforfeiture provisions, so that if another 90% increase should come down the pike, at least they could salvage some coverage rather than forfeit all premiums paid.


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The MAK is a museum and space of experimentation for applied arts at the interface of design, architecture, and contemporary art. Its core competence lies in a contemporary exploration of these fields aimed at revealing new perspectives and elucidating discourse at the edges of the institution's traditions.
The MAK focuses its efforts on securing an adequate recognition and positioning of applied arts. It pursues new approaches to its extensive collection, which encompasses various epochs, materials, and artistic disciplines, and develops these approaches to compelling views.


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The Bravest Man I Ever Knew
Jan 09, 2009
Today, the calendar on JKRowling.com marks another birthday, but for us here at Leaky, this marks a day meant for reflection, remembrance and perhaps even celebration of a character who so vividly filled the pages of the Harry Potter series. To some, this character will remain a nasty, unpleasant man, a villain, others love and adore this complex and fascinating character who still merits long discussion in our fandom. To Harry, he was, quite simply, the bravest man he ever knew.
Happy Birthday, Severus Snape!


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The 15 Types of People Who Play Draw Something [VIDEO]
Draw Something, the Pictionary-like game for iOS and Android whose parent company was recently aquired by Zynga, is the addiction that keeps on giving.
Everyone from talentless hacks to professional artists can play, which sometimes leads to frustration. The above video details several types of players — from the over detailed, to the terrible drawer, to the people who just refuse to buy more colors.
After watching this video, you tell us: What kind of Draw Something player are you?


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Writer/director Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, just opened in limited release this weekend, marking only the fifth film released by the auteur in an almost 40-year career. To say Malick takes his time in choosing and editing projects is an understatement. But the director's trademark lag between productions may now be a thing of the past. Last year, Malick shot his follow-up to Tree of Life, a romantic drama starring Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem, Rachel Weisz, Barry Pepper and Olga Kurylenko. While details on the plot are extremely hard to come by (typical of a Malick film), a bit more information has been unveiled about the drama.
Previously referred to as Burial, the untitled drama is a love story described as being even more experimental than Tree of Life, a film that has drawn some polarizing responses given its lack of narrative and expansive reach for greatness, despite winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Someone who has seen footage from Malick's follow-up stated that the director's trademark meditativeness "is there in spades." Even more interesting, though, is the fact that Malick has alerted his production crew to keep the summer and fall open to possibly shoot another film this year. Hit the jump for more.
The Affleck-starred drama shot in a small town in Malick's home state of Oklahoma last year (see set photos here), but 24 Frames' report states that there have been at least two sets of reshoots requiring the actors to fly to Paris this past March. Tree of Life star Jessica Chastain also recently revealed that she visited the Oklahoma set of the film last year and shot a small role, though given Malick's penchant for forming—and sometimes completely restructuring—his films in the editing room, who knows if Chastain's role will remain in the flick once it hits theaters.
Footage from Malick's Tree of Life follow-up is currently being shown to foreign buyers in order to secure distribution, and compounded with the report that Malick may be shooting yet another film this year could signal that the director is just about finished working on the drama, meaning audiences may get to see the film as early as next year. However, this could also well mean that Malick is putting the romantic drama aside while he shoots his next film, with the intent to return to working on the Affleck-starred film after photography wraps on his other film. That would be very bad news bears, as a release could be even further off than previously assumed.
Nonetheless, we should be happy that Malick is becoming so prolific as of late. The director waited 20 years to follow-up Days of Heaven with The Thin Red Line, and The Tree of Life is releasing while he's already got his next film in the can. Though the fact that Malick has alerted his crew to keep their schedules open this year doesn't guarantee that he's shooting another film so soon, it's definitely a good sign. We can assume that he at least has another script either completed or nearly ready to go. Whether he decides to actually shoot it is another question altogether.
In addition to The Tree of Life and his romantic drama, Malick has also been working on a documentary-like Tree of Life companion piece entitled Voyage of Time. Comprised of a lot of material shot for the natural history sections of Tree of Life, the IMAX film is expected to be a "history of the universe"-type flick, narrated by Brad Pitt. Producers Bill Pohlad and Dede Gardner recently revealed that new footage will be shot for Voyage of Time, and that it's very much still in the works. The Tree of Life is currently in limited release, and is expected to go wide on July 8th.


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Blame the ghosts…
If you're frustrated that we've lost the first two games of the series, perhaps you can blame the ghosts at our hotel. OK, I guess you can't really blame them, but there are many who think that the Pfister, where the team stays, is haunted. A quick google search of "haunted" and "pfister" brings up all sorts of funny stories.
In fact, Rick Monday told one on the air the other night that Kenley Jansen isn't staying at the team hotel because last year, his teammates pulled a trick on him and tied fishing wire to the curtains of the hotel so that they could make them appear that they're moving when he got back to the room late at night. Years ago, Adrian Beltre also used to believe that the hotel was haunted and could never sleep when we were in town.
Of course, since 2001 the Dodgers are 19-12 in Milwaukee, so it's hard to blame the first two losses on the ghosts.
Meanwhile, I've stayed there several times and never encountered any ghosts but then, perhaps they don't mind front office folks. It's actually a unique hotel that's pretty cool looking so if you're ever in town, check it out.
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hey hey
Blame Frank & Ned.
Whatever the case is, Dodgers need to step it up!!! C'mon guys, lets do this. X) WE LOVE L.A!!
How scary…and funny I would of not slept either. Well hopefully they are friendly ghosts if not just call the Ghostbusters! Now let's concentrate on busting some Brewers butt!
The Pfister is a great hotel. Seemingly every team that comes to Milwaukee stays there because its the nicest place in town.
Frank, sell the Dodgers to somene who can afford to buy players and give them back the dignity they so deserve as well as their fans. You're a disgrace and so is your ex-wife!
Maybe the hotel isn't haunted but it seems as something is haunting the Dodgers.
I like most of us would like to stick a "Pfister" right up Frank's you know what.
That might chase a few ghosts away too.
Speak about teams that are pitching oriented our, this team of ours is 1000% pitching.
Blame the ghosts…indeed. When I hear Vinny pitching a cool give-away, I get sad that no one wants to come anymore. This whole thing is inside out.
Pretty good road trip so far.
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Well I hope the Dodger offense can continue the phenomena of being much more successful when Kershaw's on the mound or he comes up with at least a complete game shutout, so we can at least salvage a game here.
Nice 11th HR by "R" Bar.
Blame Frankrupt and his idiot GM and manager
kpook, I am impressed that Vinny just keeps plugging along pushing all the promo's and inviting fans to come out and watch the Dodgers. He does it the same way no matter what. He never sounds discouraged, seldom sounds bored (as do Charlie and Rick on the radio once in a while).
Just as I figured. They'd score for Kershaw.
The Dodgers need to win 7 more games to avoid 100 losses.
I hope they do it – those 100 loss years are very tough!
I hope to get an avatar or whatever it's called, soon. I have a friend who'll help me with it. I want a closeup picture of me in an LA cap. My face and cap only.
To celebrate his 600th home run, Jim Thome is giving $20K in charity money to the Twins, and 10K each to the Indians, Phillies, White Sox and Dodgers for their affiliated charities as well. What a class act!!!
Class act, indeed. Unfortunately in the Dodgers case it will probably buy Frank a couple of haircuts. Charitable giving is so commendable, unless it goes for the wrong cause.
Is Frank gone yet? I don't know what's more depressing, Frank McCourt or the Stock Market………………
Let's see, what's more depressing? A black hole of oppressing doom, where all hope is lost and money disappears into who-knows-where, …………..or the stock market?
Incidentally, our conclusion at Outside the Dodgers is:
Josh, if you REALLY would rather play with Twitter and Facebook, fine. But this blog is just about ready to have dirt thrown over it and a tombstone erected. If you can't keep it going, please find someone with the time, energy, and passion. Do you want EVERYBODY to abandon?
Heck of a game.
I wish I had more to say, but I don't feel that I really do. Just hope that one day soon, the owner will come to the realization that not only is he dragging the Dodger's name through the mud, but his children's name, and his father's memory.
What a selfish jerk. Willing to throw everyone who's ever cared about him under the bus, and for what? He's even ruined the dead author Frank McCourt's name. But that's nowhere near as bad as ruining his father's name, and his kids will have to deal with snickering whenever they have to say their last name. Maybe they can become the "Ochocincos" or the "World Peaces" so they can leave Frank to sink on his own ship, once the U.S.S. Internal Revenue Service does to him what Queen Elizabeth's fleet did to the Spanish Armada.
I hear he's really nice when you meet him, though.
NSB, I too have wondered how Frank and Jamie could seemingly have so little regard for their children by making their affairs so public and by their apparent disregard for their reputation as people. It is shameful.
WOW, Wasn't that an undodgerlike game tonight? I hope they have some runs left for the rest of the week. Like I always say, the offense perks up when Kershaw's on the mound. But tonight they hit like it was the '70s. I'm glad they didn't blow that 13 run lead in the 9th. I got scared when Kuo came in. BUT like old times he set them down. Isn't it great to win a series off the Cardinals? I'm wondering if Dem Bums will bring their brooms tomorrow.
Don't look now but they did.
I never, Never, NEVER thought I'd say this, but can we schedule the rest of the Dodgers' season to be played in St. Louis?
No we can't but imagine the Dodgers have suddenly came out of this offensive funk they've been in for over a year. I think we have the pitching to compete, if this team can hit the way they have lately, no telling what could happen. I just hope I don't get my hopes up too high.(Ha,Ha)
I wouldn't mind a pleasant surprise, heh. If the team was able to find their way to the playoffs, they'd have earned it, and would belong there as much as anyone else.
and they'd have one of the greatest months of any ballclub in history, maybe even better than the '27 Yankees over their best 30 days.
That would be the stuff dreams are made of, after all we've been through ("we" being the fans, the team, the concession/souvenir workers/ushers).
The reality is pretty depressing, but reality's highly overrated anyway. Reality has no place in baseball fandom, otherwise the Yankees would be the only team with any fans.
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Musical Offerings presents Music on the Move: Contemporary at the San Antonio Museum of Art on Monday, March 28 at 6 and 8 p.m. These concerts put the audience and musicians in the galleries of SAMA. Here is what their web site had to say about the two performances:
Musical Offerings and the San Antonio Museum of Art continue their musical tour series with a trip through the Contemporary Art collection. The performance features works for percussion, violin, viola, cello and baritone, including newly commissioned works by Alice Gomez and Jay Weigel as well as works by Michael Daugherty, Leonard Cohen, Michael Colgrass, John Cage and Philip Glass. All musical selections are closely tied to art works in the Contemporary Galleries. The audience will also have a rare opportunity to hear Harry Bertoia's Sound Sculpture, Partition of Sound.
Musical Offerings has commissioned two works for the concert: San Antonio composer Alice Gomez's composition complements Luis Criz Azaceta's Oklahoma 4, an assemblage that memorializes those who perished in the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City. Gomez's work, Aftermath for percussion and violin, is dedicated to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Jay Weigel, New Orleans composer and Executive/Artistic Director of the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, arranged his opera I Was Here for the Musical Offerings ensemble. The performance of I Was Here, which tells the story of a young man, Jeffrey, who was stranded in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, responds to Missi Smith's Some Kind of a Wheel, a painting that reflects on the aftermath of Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. Jeffrey's words are sung by baritone Owen Duggan.
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Aftermath for percussion and violin by Alice Gomez
I Was Here by Jay Weigel
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Strung Out for violin and marimba by Philip Glass
Diamond in the Rough by Michael Daugherty
Living Room Music by John Cage
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
The musicians are Sherry Rubins, Percussion; Alice Gomez, Composer; Owen Duggan, Baritone; Joan Christenson, Violin; Allyson Dawkins, Viola; and Joshua Boulton, Cello.
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I'm an REU student who has just recently been thrown into a dynamical system problem without basically any background in the subject. My project advisor has told me that I should represent regions of my dynamical system by letters and look at the sequence of letters formed by the trajectory of a point under the iteration of my map.
He claims that it's a common result that if two points share the same sequence, then this sequence of letters is periodic. I've asked around among some of the other students, and they said that this is sometimes called symbolic dynamics, but none of them remembers this sort of result. I've also searched the internet, but it's possible that my google-fu is weak, since I didn't find any answers that way.
To go one step further, there are obvious cases where it is false- take $S^1\times I$, and encode the regions as $A$ corresponds to $[0,\pi)\times I$ and $B$ corresponds to $[\pi,2\pi)\times I$ with map $f(x,y)=(x+1\mod{2\pi},y)$. Obviously any two points $(x,y)$ and $(x,z)$ with $y\neq z$ will have the same sequence, but since 1 is an irrational multiple of $2\pi$, the trajectory will never be periodic.
I'm interested in the general theory and common techniques applied to the question:
Represent a dynamical system by associating symbols with regions of the space. When is it true that if two distinct points's trajectories have the same sequence of symbols, then the sequence of symbols is periodic?
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Ron Bess Exits Havas Worldwide
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Bess, the Chicago-based North American president of Havas Worldwide, is leaving the agency after more than nine years. He joined as regional director of what was then Euro RSCG in May 2004 and assumed the top job in North America in July 2009.
Andrew Benett—a man of many hats at the agency—will absorb Bess' responsibilities. Benett rejoined the shop as global president in January and assumed control of the New York office in June.
Other executives who have disappeared from agency organization charts recently include David Eastman, who last served as North American CEO at JWT; Robert LePlae, who was global CEO at Arnold; and Durk Barnhill, who was New York CEO at Saatchi & Saatchi. Eastman's exit coincided with the promotion of Peter Sherman.
The Havas move comes amid a global review of creative responsibilities for three Reckitt Benckiser brands that the agency handles (Air Wick, Finish and Clearasil) and after a big win for the New York office (Liberty Mutual). Havas Worldwide is defending in the Reckitt Benckiser review, as RB is the agency's largest global client.