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Shop Gains Efficiency through Machinery, Software Pairing
By pairing a multitasking machine with new Esprit CAM software from DP Technology, Von Ruden Manufacturing was able to increase its efficiency and compete with companies of a larger size.
For drive component manufacturer Von Ruden Manufacturing to sustain high-quality part production while competing with companies many times its size, efficiency is mandatory for success. By pairing a Mori Seiki multitasking machine with Esprit CAM software from DP Technology, the company reduced process development time and increased part quality.
Von Ruden Manufacturing (Buffalo, Minn.) has designed and produced drive components for 68 years, beginning in 1946 with right-angle gear boxes and parallel-shaft speed reducers. Today, the company's full-circle services include the manufacture and distribution of a complete line of hydraulic motors, gear boxes, brakes and tool products, along with accessory items such as valves and overhung load adapters. Furthermore, the company makes all of the gear components for nearly every product it produces. The 49-person staff and 50 CNC machine tools primarily serve the agricultural, construction, printing and industrial industries.
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Understanding that time is money, Von Ruden purchased a Mori Seiki NT4250 multitasking machine in 2008 to increase its production efficiency. However, the company still needed powerful CAM software to program its new complex machinery. "At that point, since we were advancing in the machine technology, it was time for us to try something we hadn't tried before," Mr. Anderson says of the new CAM software, a selection that was ultimately directed by the machine tool itself.
For several years, DP Technology (Camarillo, Calif.) has partnered with Mori Seiki, which translates to Mori Seiki factory-certified Esprit post processors and Mori-specific Esprit customer support. More recently, and in line with the merging of machine tool builders Mori Seiki and DMG, Esprit was selected as a partner in the DMG Mori Qualified Products Program. The program was created to facilitate the technology acquisition process by providing users with a single, optimized source for manufacturing equipment. Noting this partnership, Mr. Anderson decided to give Esprit a try.
The company's primary reason for investing in Esprit was to reduce its process development time from design to product release, says Steve Geurts, operations manager. The CAM software enables complete utilization of all the part geometry, as established in Von Ruden's CAD package, to reduce time spent on part program and G-code development. In fact, even more time is saved as the manufacturing engineers become more proficient within Esprit, he says.
"Once you have a few parts under your belt, you don't have to program a new part from the ground up every time," says Frank Matz, manufacturing engineering coordinator. "The geometry can be completely changed from the previous part, and Esprit will read the solid model and adjust accordingly."
The company's five programmers found that the software made it easy to retain the integrity of CAD data, process retention and more. "For our multi-axis Mori Seiki NT4250, Esprit was the obvious choice," Mr. Matz says. With the integration between SolidWorks and Esprit, solid models import seamlessly so there is no need for data duplication on the CAM side, unlike when using other CAM packages, he says.
While some of its products may not require the tightest of tolerances, others hold a tolerance of just one or two tenths. Likewise, many parts at Von Ruden require multiple operations to complete. "Our strategy here, through continuous improvement activities and investing in technology, is to reduce this number, Mr. Geurts says.
Paired with robust software, implementation of multitasking machinery often translates to time savings in the form of a reduction in the number of operations—in many cases taking five or six operations down to just one—in addition to improved part quality and a reduction in part loss from machine setups.
Take, for example, Von Ruden's driven tool product line, which encompasses both driven and static tooling for the machine tool market. The company initially designed it to meet its own needs because other companies' tooling, design and service performance was inadequate, says Brandon Anderson, president and owner of Von Ruden. He soon found out that its customers wanted the same. Before acquiring the NT4250 and Esprit, the company's live tooling required 8 hours of setup time, four operations across several work centers and 7 days of processing. To top it all off, each setup resulted in a significant amount of scrap material. Now, parts can be completed in a single machine, which cuts setup time by 95 percent. In addition, projected lead times were reduced from 8 weeks to fewer than 3, and scrap has been nearly eliminated.
Using Esprit enables the company to save and reuse machining processes, bolt-hole patterns, pocketing and more. It also makes it simple to import a solid model from Solidworks, orient the part to the machine axis and program right from the solid part, says Julie Weege, manufacturing engineer. "Having the graphic on your computer to visually see any crashes is the best thing since sliced bread," she says. "I cannot wait to become more efficient on this software and figure out the little tricks and shortcuts."
For Mr. Geurts, knowing that Von Ruden will be supported if technological and mechanical glitches occur was an important element of choosing the CAM package. "If we ever have an issue, I know I can reach out and get a resolution."
How One Shop Machines Advanced Ceramics
Years of trial and error combined with the appropriate machining technology allow this company to produce custom parts made of alumina, zirconia, boron nitride and other advanced ceramic materials. One example of key machining technology is a five-axis machining center used exclusively to produce the complex, tightly toleranced geometry that fire-hardened workpieces require.
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How to Pick a Brand Name
Whether you choose to pick your business's brand name on your own or seek brand-naming assistance from a professional marketing firm, involve your own business team in the brand-name-picking process:
- List the attributes you personally want to reflect in your brand name.What aspects of your brand promise would you like your name to advance? What words define the character you want your name to convey?
- Bring together a group of trusted employees, colleagues, or friends and family, and ask them what kinds of names come to their minds for your brand.This reaction focuses you on the brand essence, attributes, and character that seem true to those who are most involved with your business.
- Decide who will actually decide on your name.Will the final choice rest with a single person or with the team? Will it require a unanimous vote, or will the majority rule? Will one person have veto power?
- Involve all whom you want to have a say in the naming process.Make sure that all who participate in the process understand the reasons behind the name being presented.
When it comes time to actually name your brand, get ready to spend some time and even some money, especially if your brand's going to span a large market area, compete against major brand names, or support a major vision that will take decades to achieve and therefore will live long into the future. This is one decision that you want to think through, rather than use the first name that comes to your mind.
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Georgia Power warns of phone scam
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By Carla Caldwell, Morning Edition Editor
Georgia Power is warning its customers that thieves claiming to represent the company are phoning to say bills are overdue and demanding payment, reports WRDW-TV in Augusta.
The utility says it does not call or visit customers to ask for personal or financial information such as a credit card, debit card, banking information, or Social Security number.
Georgia Power says if an account is past due, customers receive an automated phone message advising to contact the company.
Jeff Freehof, who owns the Garlic Clove restaurant in Evans, Ga. told WRDW he received a fraudulent call.
Freehof said the caller told him he owed $1500 and that a disconnect crew was on the way. He said he told the caller there was a mistake and that he always pays his bills on time.
The caller said there had been a computer glitch and that the payment had been kicked back and was being returned. To settle the bill, Freehof would need to purchase a pre-paid debit card and provide the card numbers over the phone, the caller said.
Skeptical, Freehof started asking questions. "I said what time period is that for and he said that's for the last 3 months and right there I said scam," said Freehof.


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Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino on Tuesday picked a western New York sheriff critical of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's stance on gun control to be his running mate.
The selection of Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss could help Astorino appeal to the GOP's conservative base and voters in rural New York. Moss has been an outspoken detractor of the tougher gun laws Cuomo championed last year.
"Sheriff Moss is among the best and the brightest this state has to offer," Astorino said in an announcement posted online.
Astorino said he wanted "an Albany outsider" to help him clean up the state.
Moss, 46, joined the sheriff's office in 1989 and worked in patrol and investigations before being elected sheriff in 2005. He is African-American and currently serves as president of the New York State Sheriffs Association.
Moss has criticized the so-called SAFE Act passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Cuomo last year, saying that the new rules haven't increased public safety. The law bans the sale of high-capacity magazines and many semi-automatic firearms and requires those who already own such weapons to register them with authorities.
"I don't go out and campaign or cheer that I'm not going to enforce the law," he told the Elmira Star Gazette this month. "I can tell you that as the sheriff, the SAFE Act on my list of priorities is at the bottom. We have a lot of things going on in this county that need my attention and the SAFE Act really isn't one of them."
Chemung County is home to 89,000 people and is located in New York's Southern Tier along the border with Pennsylvania.
A message left for Moss was not immediately returned Tuesday evening. Astorino said Moss would speak at the Republican Party's nominating convention, set to begin Wednesday in Westchester County where Astorino serves as county executive.
Cuomo, a Democrat, is expected to announce his own running mate soon now that Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy has announced he will not seek another term. Democrats will hold their convention next week on Long Island.
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There are many topologies on the algebra $B(H)$ of bounded operators on Hilbert space:
the weak, strong, ultraweak (also called σ-weak), ultrastrong (also called σ-strong), and some more...
Luckily, the weak and strong topologies agree when restricted to $U(H)\subset B(H)$.
Similarly, the ultraweak and ultrastrong topologies agree on $U(H)$.
Is it true that the weak and ultraweak topologies agree when restricted to $U(H)$?
A generalized sequence $a_i$ is weakly, strongly, ultraweakly, ultrastrongly convergent if:
• $\langle a_i\xi,\eta\rangle\to\langle a\xi,\eta\rangle\qquad \forall \xi,\eta\in H$
• $a_i\xi\to a\xi\qquad \forall \xi\in H$
• $\langle (a_i\otimes 1)\xi,\eta\rangle\to\langle (a\otimes 1)\xi,\eta\rangle\qquad \forall \xi,\eta\in H\otimes \ell^2(\mathbb N)$
• $(a_i\otimes 1)\xi\to (a\otimes 1)\xi\qquad \forall \xi\in H\otimes \ell^2(\mathbb N)$,
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Lock One Community Arts is a grass roots non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to bringing professional performances and great art experiences to the Auglaize, Mercer and Shelby County region. Started by three New Bremen families in 2001 and now led by volunteers across all our communities, Lock One Community Arts' purpose is to enrich the lives of our communities with entertaining and inspiring art experiences.
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The Army is shopping for storage virtualization technology to help manage its data center consolidation plans.The Army's Product Director Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services is gathering market research for a total storage solution that will help ALTESS better manage the life cycles of its storage subsystems.
What's more, ALTESS officials want to avoid dependency on specific brands for storage subsystems in keeping with the Army Data Center Consolidation Plan, according to a request for information published on FedBizOpps.gov.Currently, the shared ALTESS infrastructure includes approximately 674 terabytes of formatted capacity provided by multiple storage subsystems. These storage subsystems are used by several dozen Defense Department and Army organizations.
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"While the anticipated growth of formatted capacity is expected to be
subjectively high, external factors, including political factors, make
it infeasible to determine a growth rate estimate with any confidence," according to the RFI. "For historical context, the shared ALTESS
infrastructures formatted capacity has increased over 800 percent in the
last four years."
ALTESS officials want a storage virtualization system that can address a wide range of requirements, such as:
ALTESS officials also seek a system that is interoperable with storage subsystems from IBM, Hitachi and NetApp and can communicate with host computers running Solaris, Microsoft Windows, VMware and Red Hat Linux operating systems and Brocade Fibre Channel switches.At the same time, the storage system has to be produced by a single manufacturer, not a combination of items produced by multiple manufacturers, ALTESS officials said.
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Interesting, they want all the features and flexibility and then at the end they say not a combination of items produced by multiple manufacturers!If that is the case, it must be software only and the obvious place to look is at a storage hypervisor as defined in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_hypervisor
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February 10, 1999
Dear Commodity Pool Operator:
The Division of Trading and Markets ("Division") of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") is sending this letter to all registered commodity pool operators ("CPOs") to assist them and their public accountants in complying with Part 4 of the Commission's regulations under the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEAct") in connection with the preparation and filing of a pool's annual financial report.
National Futures Association ("NFA") and Commission staff reviewed more than 1,000 commodity pool annual reports for 1997. Most of the reports were accepted as filed with no further action being required. In other cases the staff sent letters to CPOs requiring either that the reports be corrected and re-filed or that certain deficiencies be remedied in 1998 filings. In order to improve the quality of the reports filed for 1998, CPOs should take special note of the deficiencies discussed below. These are the most common filing deficiencies found by staff.
In preparing for the audit of 1998 financial reports, CPOs and their accountants should review Section 4.22 of the Commission's regulations that discusses the requirements for year-end reports. They should also review the AICPA's Practice Aid, Audits of Futures Commission Merchants, Introducing Brokers, and Commodity Pools.1 Chapter 8 covers the Commission's regulations and the Division's advisories and interpretations concerning CPOs. This chapter also contains illustrations of pool financial statements and appropriate disclosures.
If a pool is operating pursuant to a claim for exemption under section 4.7 of the regulations, the annual financial report is not required to be audited, but still must be presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and filed with the Commission and NFA within 90 days of the pool's fiscal year-end. The cover page of the annual report should state that it is a Rule 4.7 pool with a legend consistent with section 4.7(a)(2)(iii)(C).
I. Deficiencies in Annual Reports Filed with the Commission and NFA
For each of the topics noted below, the applicable regulation is noted. In the case of pools operating pursuant to a claim for relief based on regulations 4.7 or 4.12, the applicable regulations are shown in brackets and italicized.
1. Filing reports in a timely manner For each pool that a CPO operates, regulation 4.22(c) [4.7(a)(2)(iii) or 4.12(b)(2)(iii)] requires the CPO to provide an annual report to investors, to the CFTC (2 copies), and to NFA within 90 days of the pool's fiscal year-end. CPOs are strongly encouraged to file one additional copy of the annual report with the appropriate CFTC regional office2, which is ultimately responsible for determining whether or not a report has been filed.3 If a CPO needs an extension of time to file a pool's annual report, it should make such a request to NFA before the due date of the report and file a copy of the request with the Division's Washington headquarters office. The request must comply with the requirements of regulation 4.22(f), which are set forth in Appendix A to this letter.4 These requirements are discussed in CFTC Advisory No. 87-1 (CCH ¶23,481). Except in the case of "funds of funds," extensions are granted only upon a showing of unusual extenuating circumstances. Moreover, extensions of more than 45 days are rarely, if ever, granted.
Regulation 4.22(c) further requires that a CPO must notify the Commission by the end of January if it did not operate any commodity pools during the preceding year.
2. Disproportionate share of net income Regulation 4.22(e) requires the Statement of Income (Loss) included in the pool's annual report to "itemize...management fees, advisory fees, incentive fees, interest income and expense." CFTC Interpretative Letter No. 94-3, Special Allocations of Investment Partnership Equity (CCH ¶25,943), describes the procedures for reporting special allocations of partnership equity from limited partners to the general partner. These special allocations must be recognized in the same period as the net income or other basis of computation; classified in the income statement as either an expense or a special allocation of net income; separately reported in the statement of partnership equity; and deducted in the computation of net performance and rate-of-return information. The Interpretative Letter also applies to pools filing under Regulations 4.7 or 4.12.
Staff found that these special allocations were often only shown in the statement of changes in partners' capital or discussed in notes and were not being reported on the face of the income statement in accordance with regulation 4.22(e) and Interpretative Letter No. 94-3. To provide meaningful disclosure, the income statement of a commodity pool must show an investor the amount available to all investors, net of preferential allocations.
3. Information concerning net asset values Regulation 4.22(c)(2) requires that a pool's annual report include the following information: either the net asset value per outstanding participation unit in the pool as of the end of the current and preceding fiscal years, or the total value of each participant's interest or share in the pool as of the end of the current and preceding years. This information need not be included in the annual report for a Rule 4.7 pool if it has already been provided in a separate 4th quarter report to participants and is not required for a pool with a Rule 4.12 exemption.
Staff found that Net Asset Value information was frequently missing. Indeed, one quarter of all deficiency letters sent by staff to CPOs cited missing Net Asset Value information.
4. Oath or affirmation by CPO Regulation 4.22(h) [4.7(a)(2)(iii)(A) or 4.12(b)(iii)(A)] requires that each annual report include a signed oath or affirmation that, to the best knowledge and belief of the person signing on behalf of the CPO, the information in the report is accurate and complete. Below the signed oath or affirmation there must be typed the name of the individual signing, the capacity in which he or she is signing, the name of the CPO, and the name of the commodity pool. The person signing must be the chief executive or chief financial officer of the CPO, a general partner of the CPO, or a sole proprietor CPO.
Staff found that the oath or affirmation was frequently missing or there was no signature on the line provided for a signature. Many CPOs incorrectly believe that the oath is required only with the regulators' copy of the financial report. A signed oath, or a copy thereof, is required to be distributed with every copy of a financial report, including those to each participant or potential participant.
II. Subsequent Events
Regulation 4.22(c)(5) [4.7(a)(2)(iii)(3) or 4.12(b)(2)(iii)] states that a pool's annual report must contain appropriate footnote disclosure and further material information as may be necessary to make the required statements not misleading. The staff interprets these regulations to require that significant changes in performance between the date of the financial statements and their issuance to investors be reported in notes to the financial statements. "Subsequent Event" disclosure is also required by the Statements on Auditing Standards Nos. 1 and 12 (AU Section 560).
III. Fund of Funds Considerations
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of "fund of funds" arrangements, in which one pool ("investor pool") invests its assets in another pool ("investee pool") rather than directly in futures, options or securities. In some of these arrangements, the investor pool has invested a significant amount of its assets in one or more investee pools. The degree of investment raises financial reporting issues for these investor pools. Regulation 4.10(d)(5) defines a major investee pool as one to which the investor pool has allocated at least ten percent of its net assets.
Investor pools, like all other pools, are required by Regulation 4.22(c)(5) [4.7(a)(2)(iii)(A)(3) or 4.12(b)(2)(iii)] to include appropriate note disclosures and any other material information in each annual report.
The Division staff believes that, at a minimum, an investor pool should disclose the following information with respect to each major investee pool:
(i) name of the pool;
(ii) carrying value of the investment;
(iii) liquidity information (such as limitations on withdrawals from the investee pool); and
(iv) summary income statement information required under Regulation 4.22(e), including information on fees paid (expressed in dollars) by the investee pool to the investee pool's CPO and CTAs.
The above information should be disclosed to investor pool participants so that they are aware of the nature of their pool's investments in investee pools.
IV. Organization Costs
Organization costs are costs associated with the formation of a pool and are typically incurred before commencement of its business activities. Typical of these costs are those incurred in connection with:
(i) preparing a limited partnership agreement, operating agreement and other governing agreements for the pool;
(ii) registering and making required filings with state regulatory bodies; and
(iii) entering into contractual agreements between the pool and other parties, such as the pool's general partner or trading advisors.
In 1998, the AICPA issued Statement of Position No. 98-5, Reporting on the Costs of Start-up Activities. The SOP requires that organization costs be expensed as incurred and that unamortized costs be written off and reported as the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle. However, for those entities meeting criteria specified in Paragraph 23 of the SOP, costs incurred and deferred before June 30, 1998 should continue to be amortized over the remaining life of the original amortization period, or a shorter period if the expected period of benefit is reduced. Such entities must meet all of the following criteria:
(a) the entities' specialized accounting practices include accounting for substantially all investments at market value or fair value;
(b) the entities' shares, units, or ownership interests are issued and redeemed at net asset value; and
(c) the entities' shares, units, or ownership interests were sold to independent third parties (for example, parties other than founders, sponsors, and investment advisors) before June 30, 1998.
Occasionally, a limited partnership agreement of a pool provides that organization costs be repaid to the pool's general partner from the pool's interest income. In such a case, the amounts should not be netted, but shown separately in the statement of income.
V. Confidential Treatment Under FOIA
CPOs are reminded that, pursuant to Commission Rule 145.9, requests for confidential treatment of Annual Reports under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") must
(i) be in writing;
(ii) specify the grounds on which confidential treatment is being requested (for example, that the material would reveal "confidential commercial or financial information.");
(iii) be clearly marked "FOIA Confidential Treatment Request," and contain the name, address and telephone number of the submitter of the information;
(iv) accompany the material for which confidential treatment is being sought (such as the Annual Report); and
(v) state the length of time for which confidential treatment is being sought.
The original of the written request must be sent to the Assistant Secretary of the Commission for FOI, Privacy and Sunshine Acts Compliance. A copy of the request should accompany the material (in this case, the copies of the Annual Report sent to the Division of Trading and Markets.) If the Annual Report is later requested under FOIA, the submitter (in this case, the CPO) will be required to provide a "detailed written justification" for the confidentiality request. In order to ensure that the CPO can be contacted in the event of a FOIA request, the CPO should notify the Assistant Secretary of any changes to CPO's name, address or telephone number.
If a CPO or its accountant has questions concerning the reporting rules, they may contact the following staff members:
Ronald A. Carletta
John S. Dixon
Bob Agnew
Thank you for your attention to these matters.
Very truly yours,
Henry J. Matecki
Acting Chief Accountant
Regulation 4.22(f) states the following:
(1) In the event the commodity pool operator finds that it cannot distribute the Annual Report for a pool that it operates with the time specified in paragraph (c) of this section without substantial undue hardship, it may file with the Commission an application for extension of time to a specified date not more than 90 calendar days after the date as of which the Annual Report was to have been distributed. The application must be made by the pool operator and must:
(i) State the name of the pool for which the application is being made;
(ii) State the reasons for the requested extension;
(iii) Indicate that the inability to make a timely filing is due to circumstances beyond the control of the pool operator, if such is the case, and describe briefly the nature of such circumstances;
(iv) Contain an undertaking to file the Annual Report on or before the date specified in the application; and
(v) Be filed with the Commission prior to the date on which the Annual Report is due.
(2) The application must be accompanied by a letter from the independent public accountant answering the following questions:
(i) What specifically are the reasons for the extension request?
(ii) Do you have any indication from the part of your audit completed to date that would lead you to believe that the commodity pool operator was or is not meeting the segregation or recordkeeping requirements of this Part 4?
1 The Practice Aid (Product No. 006600) can be ordered by calling the AICPA at 1-888-777-7077.
2 CPOs in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin file with the CFTC's Chicago Office; CPOs located in other states east of the Mississippi River and those located outside of the U.S. file with the New York office; and CPOs located in states west of the Mississippi River file with the Kansas City office.
3 If a pool ceases operations during the year, an audited report must be provided within 90 days of the permanent cessation of trading, but by no later than 90 days after all funds have been returned to pool participants.
4 Pursuant to NFA Rule 2-13(c) and Schedule E1-h, as approved by the Commission, requests for an extension of time should be filed with NFA.


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Former Irish prime minster John Bruton on Ireland's low corporate tax rate and whether Ireland would consider leaving the EU. Photo: Associated Press
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LANCE ARMSTRONG, BRANDED a drug cheat by the US Anti-Doping Agency, has taken another battering from former teammate Tyler Hamilton, who has alleged institutional doping at the US Postal Service team.
Hamilton made the claims in his book entitled "In The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups and Winning at All Costs", extracts of which were published in The Times, in which he lays bare the doping culture he witnessed in the sport.
Hamilton said he and Armstrong's former team were "two years ahead of what everybody else was doing" in terms of doping.
The American also accused his compatriot and 1998-2001 teammate of devising an elaborate plan to have his gardener and odd-job man "Philippe" deliver vials of banned blood-boosting drug EPO, codenamed Edgar, during the Tour de France to make sure no team member could be caught out with it in their possession.
Hamilton said in his book: "We were standing in Lance's kitchen when he lined out the plan: he would pay Philippe to follow the Tour on his motorcycle, carrying a thermos full of EPO and a prepaid cell phone.
"When we needed Edgar (EPO), Philippe would zip through the Tour's traffic and make a drop-off.
"Simple. Quick – in and out. No risk. To be discreet, Philippe would be supplying only the climbers, the ones who needed it most and would provide the biggest bang for the buck: Lance, Kevin Livingston, and me. Los Amigos del Edgar.
"From that moment on, Philippe wasn't Philippe the handyman anymore. Lance, Kevin, and I called him Motoman," Hamilton said, adding that Livingston had never commented publicly on doping matters and did not respond to interview requests for the book.
Hamilton added: "Lance practically glowed when he told me about the plan – he loved this kind of MacGyver secret agent stuff. The French could search us all day long and they'd find zero. And besides, we felt sure that most of the other teams would be doing their own version of Motoman. Why wouldn't they?
"Lance had come back from cancer; he wasn't about to sit back and hope things worked out; he was going to make it happen."
The latest raft of allegations follow USADA's announcement that Armstrong would be banned for life and his results since 1998 — including seven Tour titles won from 1999-2005 — expunged due to "numerous" anti-doping violations, including playing a role in trafficking and administering performance-enhancing drugs to other athletes.
The agency's move followed Armstrong's own announcement that he would no longer seek to clear his name through independent arbitration.
'They weren't drug tests!'
Armstrong, who has vehemently denied doping during his career, has questioned USADA's authority to ban him, and the UCI has demanded a full account of the agency's findings.
Hamilton poured scorn on the drug testing carried out, however, saying: "They weren't drug tests. They were more like discipline tests, IQ tests.
"If you were careful and paid attention, you could dope and be 99 percent certain that you would not get caught. They've got their doctors, and we've got ours, and ours are better.
"Better paid, for sure."
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Funnyman Vince Vaughn, 40, and wife Kyla Weber, 32, are expecting a baby following their wedding in early January, a source confirms exclusively to In Touch magazine. Last September, Vaughn said after spending years as a bachelor, he was ready for his life to be about other things — even a baby! "It's the first time that I really want to have kids," he said.
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It's Holocaust Memorial Day. I'm thinking about how we can build bridges between past and present, by telling individual stories, by giving back to the people who were swallowed up in that terror their names, their faces, their uniqueness.
Frieda Linder-Kornweitz, from Vienna, died aged 31 with her daughter Karin (aged 7) at Auschwitz, December 1943 (http://jewishtraces.org/plus-quun-nom-dans-une-liste-frieda-linder-kornweitz/)
Sulamite-Solange Ast, age 18, died with her younger brother Marc and their mother, at Auschwitz in 1943. Their father survived.
Sometimes we just have a name, sometimes a photograph and fragments of a life. And sometimes from the darkness a voice emerges that is so vivid that as you read you hear it, you hear the urgency, the passion, the despair and you want to reach out. Helene Berr's is such a voice.
Her diary describes her life in Paris between 1942 and 1944. It wasn't published till 2008, but since then it has become an essential document of the Holocaust and specifically of the Occupation of France. After the Liberation, her fiance and surviving family members circulated the manuscript amongst themselves, but eventually it was offered to the Shoah Memorial, published to great acclaim, and since then has been translated into 26 languages. It's inspired an exhibition at the Shoah Memorial , which uses Helene's story and her words to illuminate some of the darkest corners of those dark years.
Hélène has been called the French Anne Frank, but whilst both kept journals which have become key documents of the Holocaust, and both died in the last weeks before Liberation, they're very different. Others have noted the parallels between the publication of her journal, and the discovery of the manuscript of Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise.
However, these comparisons don't do justice to the remarkable and unique qualities of this diary. Hélène lived in the heart of Occupied Paris, walked its streets wearing the yellow star, worked with Jewish orphans, played music, fell in love. And she wrote this poignant, vivid and impassioned account of the events she witnessed, 'pour ne pas les oublier, parce qu'il ne faut pas oublier', setting herself the task of recording everything, giving the unfolding tragedy its full weight, showing it raw, naked, without distortion.
16 April 1942
S said 'The Germans are going to win the war'. I said 'No!'. But I didn't know what else to say. I was conscious of my cowardice – the cowardice of not standing up in front of him for what I believed – so I shook myself – I exclaimed 'But what will become of us if the Germans win?'. He shrugged: 'Bah! Nothing will change '. I knew what he would say. 'There will always be the sun and the water'. I was all the more irritated because deep down, at that moment, I felt the supreme pointlessness of all these arguments, in the face of beauty. And yet I knew that I was falling under a malign spell. … I forced myself to say: 'but they won't let everyone enjoy the light and the water'. Happily, this phrase saved me. I don't want to be a coward.
8 June 1942
My God, I had no idea it would be so hard. I was so brave all day. I held my head high, and looked people straight in the face, when they averted their eyes. But it's hard. …. This morning I went out with Mother. Two kids in the street pointed at us, saying 'Hey, have you seen? Jews'. But otherwise things seemed normal. … A young couple were waiting, I saw the woman point me out to her companion. I heard her say. 'It's heartbreaking'. On the bus there was a woman, probably a domestic servant, who had already smiled at me before getting on board, and who turned serveral times to smile; a smart gentleman stared at me: I couldn't interpret the stare, but I looked back proudly.
18 July 1942
I felt guilty, that there was something I hadn't seen, this reality. This woman, her sister who has four children has been taken. The evening of the round-up, she hid, but unluckily went back up to the concierge just as they came to find her. Mme Bieder is like a hunted animal. She's not afraid for herself. but she's terrified that they'll take her children from her. …. At Montmartre, there were so many arrests that the streets were blocked. The faubourg Saint Denis is almost deserted. They're separating mothers from their children. I'm recording the facts hastily, so as not to forget, because we musn't forget.
31 January 1944
I used to quote, not long ago, a phrase from a Russian play: 'We shall rest, Uncle Vanya, we shall rest'. It meant the sleep of the tomb. But more and more I say to myself that only the dead escape this persecution; when I hear of the death of a Jew now, I think, 'they're out of the reach of the Germans'. Isn't that horrible? We hardly weep for the dead any more.
15 February 1944
Why then does the German soldier who I pass in the street not attack or bother me? Why does he often hold the train door for me, or say 'Excuse me' if he blocks my way? Why? Becuase people don't know – or rather they don't think any more, they're just about whatever they've been ordered to do right now. But they don't even see the incomprehensible illogic of holding the door open for me, when tomorrow they may send me to be deported, and yet I will be the same unique person. … Also no doubt they don't know everything – one atrocious characteristic of this regime is its hypocrisy. They don't know all of the horrible details of the persecutions, because there's only a small group of torturers, and of Gestapo who are implicated in it. Would they feel it, if they knew? Would they feel the suffering of these people dragged from their homes, these women separated from their flesh and blood? They're too brutalised for that. And then they don't think – I always come back to that – I believe it's the source of evil and the thing on which this regime bases its power. Annihilate personal thoughts, the reaction of the individual conscience, that's the first step to Nazism'.
Cultured and intelligent, a student at the Sorbonne until the anti-semitic laws prevented her from continuing her studies, 21 year old Hélène begins her journal in 1942 with an account of her visit to the home of poet Paul Valéry, who's signed a copy of a book for her. She is 'overwhelmed with joy'. At this stage, the war is, in a sense, just background noise. Even so, even this early on, she senses a chasm opening up between her life, and that of her non-Jewish friends. Little by little she is overwhelmed as she grasps the reality of what is happening around her, and the last words of her journal are a quotation from Macbeth 'Horror! Horror! Horror!'
Hélène constantly questions herself. Should she try to get away, or stay in Paris? She asks herself why, knowing what her fate is likely to be, she's done nothing to avoid it. She understands that the danger is increasing: 'There aren't many Jews left in Paris, and it's the Germans who are arresting people now [rather than the French police], so there is less chance of escaping, because we won't be warned.' She believes, nonetheless, that to flee would be a defection, an act of bad faith.
In January 1944, Hélène writes 'Will I make it to the end?'. After several months of moving around each day and staying with different friends, she and her parents went home, for just one night. That's where they were arrested, on 8 March.
They were taken to the Drancy transit camp, and then deported, on Convoy 70 to Auschwitz, where Antoinette Berr was gassed on 30 April, and Raymond Berr was murdered in September. Hélène survived for more than a year. She was moved to Bergen-Belsen in November, where she was killed, just five days before the camp was liberated.
She so nearly did make it to the end.
- Berr, Hélène, Journal, 1942-1944 (Paris: Tallandier, 2008)
- Bracher, Nathan, 'Des Considérations inactuelles au cœur de l'Occupation: Le Cogito à rebours d'Hélène Berr', Modern & Contemporary France, 18, 1 (2010), 17-32
- Bracher, Nathan, 'Éthique et esthétique dans le Journal d'Hélène Berr', L'Esprit Créateur, 50, 4 (2010), 150–63
- Jaillant, Lise, 'A Masterpiece Ripped from Oblivion: Rediscovered Manuscripts and the Memory of the Holocaust in Contemporary France', Clio, 39, 3 (2010), 359-79
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- Sinder, Henri, 'Lights and Shades of Jewish Life in France, 1940-2', Jewish Social Studies, 5 (1943), 367
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Bill retaliating against US moves ahead in Russia
Russian legislators have given initial approval to a bill that would impose sanctions on Americans accused of human rights violations.
The measure, whose first reading in the lower house of parliament passed by a vote of 431-2, is a response to an American bill that President Barack Obama signed into law later Friday.
The U.S. measure opens new export opportunities for Americans wanting to do business in Russia. But one section would punish Russian officials accused of human rights violations.
The Russian bill does not specify what criteria would be used to assess human rights violations, but Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said targets could include people who abuse adopted Russian children and people responsible for the creation of secret prisons.
Soon after Obama signed the U.S. bill into law, the ministry issued a withering statement calling it "odious" and "blatant interference in our internal affairs."
Speaking to reporters in Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell rejected Russia's attempt to turn the tables at the U.S.
"I think it stretches the imagination to see an equal and reciprocal situation here," Ventrell said. "The issue of adoption is one that we've worked very hard with the Russians. Something that we've looked at carefully, but we just reject any attempt at this trying to make a reciprocal comparison."
The U.S. law is named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who was arrested by police officials he accused of a $230 million tax fraud. He was repeatedly denied medical treatment and in 2009 died in jail. Russian rights groups accused the Kremlin of failing to prosecute those responsible. Moreover, the officials that Magnitsky accused of fraud went on to be promoted.
Ventrell said that Moscow's attempted reciprocity came "sadly instead of taking action to bring justice for Mr. Magnitsky." "We continue to call on Russia to investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible for the crimes committed against Mr. Magnitsky," he added.


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A few years ago, a bunch of activist-types and a bunch of prayer-warriors got together to create a prayer book with the goal of bringing together the Bible and the newspaper. We were all convinced that prayer and action cannot be divorced from each other, and that Jesus and justice have to kiss. So we formed a team of liturgy experts, church leaders, grassroots organizers, and justice activists, and we all began plotting goodness together. After a long and expectant labor, we just gave birth to a little book and web resource called Common Prayer.
Common Prayer is a book for folks who love God and want to make the world a better place. Whether you are over-churched or under-churched, a proud evangelical, a recovering evangelical, or not evangelical at all; whether you are high-church, low-church, or no-church; a skeptic or a Pentecostal; whether you are a political activist, political agnostic, or a political misfit; whether you have found a community or have burnt out on community -- we had you in mind as we created Common Prayer.
Common Prayer is a tool to help the whole church pray together.
It's for families to use together, for small groups, even for whole congregations. It's for students to use in their dorms and for co-workers to gather around on a break at work. We hope that this little project will help communities, nonprofits, movements, and ministries breathe together as one -- knowing that we can do more together than we can on our own.
There are morning prayers for each day of the year where we look at "This Day in History" and remember landmark events like Rwanda's genocide, Mandela's release from prison, the bombing of Nagasaki, the assassination of Oscar Romero. It is a way of remembering history together -- both the glimpses of heaven that we want to celebrate and the terrible things we dare not forget.
Common Prayer also has a midday prayer folks can pray together at work or school. They are simple enough to memorize. And there are evening prayers for each night of the week so families and small groups can say goodnight to God and to each other. Throughout the book we recommend books and films. We also suggest some holy habits to try out. And the whole thing is sprinkled with original artwork, new icons for a new day.
Common Prayer is also about discovering new heroes -- not just applauding folks who have died in wars, but celebrating people who have lived for God and suffered for goodness. We list a hundred or so "saints" throughout the year, reminding us of some of the heroes and she-roes of the faith. And just because hymnals are in danger of extinction, it doesn't mean we should stop singing. We've complied about 50 of the greatest hits of the church from the centuries and put them into a little songbook. You will find old spirituals and freedom songs, classic hymns and sing-a-longs, Taize chants and timeless benedictions. We're not just talking about classic '80s CCM, but stuff that's from the 800s -- songs and prayers that have lasted through the centuries.
Maybe you can tell -- we're excited. Dozens of people have been working together on this project for years. Common Prayer is a labor of love by communities, for communities. So we want to celebrate it together in our communities and in yours. During the first week of December, more than 150 Common Prayer Parties are scheduled in communities across the United States and in 12 other countries. Folks will gather to pray and sing together as the Christian community around the world starts our new year ('Advent,' we call it). 1,000 folks will be able to take home free copies of the book. So, please consider yourself invited.
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The Ruby programming language, which has become popular as the basis for web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, contains serious security flaws that could allow attackers to take over an organization's web server, according to the Ruby development team.
The "disturbing" flaws, which were disclosed on Friday, could affect nearly any typical Ruby-based web application, according to Thomas Ptacek, founder of security firm Matasano.
The five bugs affect Ruby version 1.8 up to 1.8.7-p21 and version 1.9 up to 1.9.0-1, according to the Ruby development team.
Users can remedy the problem by upgrading to a patched version of Ruby, developers said, with patches available on the Ruby language site.
Popular websites such as Twitter, Scribd, Hulu and the Facebook application Friends for Sale use Ruby, along with the Rails framework, to deploy sophisticated features.
At least three of the published vulnerabilities are easily exploitable and allow normal Ruby code to corrupt the memory of the standard interpreter MRI, Matasano's Ptacek said in an advisory on Friday.
"They involve integer handling errors in the native code backing Ruby's Array, String, and Bignum classes," Ptacek wrote. "These are core classes in Ruby, and don't depend on the libraries or extensions that programs load."
He said organizations running Ruby-based web applications should upgrade their servers as soon as possible.
"Why is this so disturbing? These vulnerabilities are likely to crop up in just about any average Ruby web application," he wrote. "The conditions under which the vulnerabilities are exploitable depend on the Ruby programs you are running. But don't gamble. Update as soon as you can."


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UFC middleweight Chael Sonnen won't break his silence just yet.
Sonnen has been understandably quiet since reports first surfaced that he failed a California State Athletic Commission-administered drug test prior to his impressive challenge of Anderson Silva's title at August's UFC 117 event.
On Tuesday, "MMA Live" host Jon Anik Tweeted that Sonnen would appear on the ESPN2-broadcast show to address the situation. Today, Anik told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio) that would no longer be the case.
"I regret to inform you that Chael Sonnen will actually not be on the show tonight," Anik said. "Unable to join us. I hate to have to tell you guys that."
Sonnen has been the subject of much discussion and speculation since the CSAC confirmed that "a sample from Sonnen's Aug. 6 drug test came back with a high T/E (testosterone-to-estrogen) level, which is indicative of anabolic steroid use."
Sonnen's manager, Mike Roberts, said Sonnen plans on appealing the finding, though his client has yet to speak publicly on the matter.
While Sonnen was presumably advised to reschedule the appearance, Anik refused to speculate the exact reason for the last-minute cancellation.
"I don't really know why, and anything that I'd be throwing out there, too, would really just be speculating," Anik said. "I can tell you that Chael very much wanted to break his silence on 'MMA Live' and made very effort to put himself in a position to do so. For whatever reason, he's not going to be on today's show.
"I don't know if it's because the appeal situation is fluid and maybe making an appearance on a high-profile media show would be something that might hurt his case. Maybe something he said live could be used against him. I don't know the reason he's not going to be on but certainly a disappointing reality for us when we arrived here this morning to tape the show."
Meanwhile, UFC president Dana White today addressed members of the media following a pre-event press conference for UFC 119. The UFC boss admitted he was disappointed in Sonnen but said he would leave all punishment up to the CSAC.
"Am I disappointed?" White asked. "Yes, absolutely. But if you guys realized how much bad [expletive] I put up with on a daily basis, you almost start to get numb to it. So you move on, and Chael is going to face the consequences and go before the commission, and we'll work things out."
"The big misconception that Dana White runs the athletic commissions couldn't be further from the truth. So I have to sit back and see what's going to happen with Chael Sonnen."
Anik said tonight's "MMA Live" episode will still attack the Sonnen situation from all angles, and SI.com reporter Josh Gross will join the program to share his thoughts on the controversy.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, KY (CNN) - Surveillance video captured some dramatic moments in a Kentucky courtroom as an inmate tried to escape custody. A Jefferson County official said the suspect had already had his time before the judge when he attacked a deputy.
So, he was being kept in a holding cell. But when police tried to get another inmate out of the same holding cell, the suspect charged the door and pushed another deputy back.
The two stumbled into a courtroom, where court officers quickly piled on the inmate.
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'I didn't want to, I swear' – Man Kills Therapist And Blames It On Schizophrenia (PICTURED)
Six years after slashing a psychotherapist he'd never met to death with a meat cleaver, David Tarloff stood before a judge and pleaded for mercy Friday, saying he was tormented for decades by what felt like a running battle in his head between God and Satan.
"I didn't want to do this, I swear to God," he said. "But I thought all these bad things were going to happen."
Tarloff was sentenced to life in prison for killing Kathryn Faughey and seriously wounding her officemate, capping a case long fraught with questions about his mental health and the grief of two families.
On one side of the courtroom sat about a dozen of Faughey's relatives, including some siblings who have attended each of the roughly 95 days of court in a case rocked by two mistrials. On the other sat Tarloff's brother, Robert, who when he testified at Tarloff's last trial became emotional and cried.
Even state Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin said the case was so tragic he couldn't find it in himself to be angry. Instead, he talked about his own family's similarity to the Faugheys' and his certainty that the slain therapist was now experiencing "the most gleeful existence possible."
Tarloff, 46, never disputed killing Faughey and wounding her officemate, Dr. Kent Shinbach, in February 2008 in their Manhattan office. Tarloff had intended to stick up Shinbach — a psychiatrist he hadn't seen in 17 years — in hopes of getting his ATM card and withdrawing tens of thousands of dollars. Tarloff then planned to grab his sick mother out of a nursing home and take her to Hawaii.
Defense lawyers Bryan Konoski and Frederick Sosinsky argued that the often hospitalized, frequently delusional Tarloff should not be held criminally accountable for the bloodbath. But prosecutors said despite his psychiatric condition, Tarloff — whose doctors had found him to be obsessed with religion — behaved deliberately and knew he was doing wrong.
Tarloff was diagnosed with schizophrenia while in college. Over the ensuing years, he reported seeing the "eye of God" on a kitchen floor and thinking he was the Messiah, medical records show. Forever fearful that bad things would happen if he contradicted God's will, he prays to God even for permission to turn over in his bed, he said Friday.
On the night of the attack, "I had a thought that came into my head that I interpreted as coming from God. God said, 'David, your mother is going to die unless you kill Dr. Shinbach,'" he said Friday. "I felt that I was getting a command to go and do what I did."
His plan took a turn when he walked into the office and encountered Faughey. The eldest of seven siblings raised by a widowed mother, she worked her way through college and graduate school to a family-first doctorate, her brother, Owen Faughey, said.
"If given a chance, I know our sister would have helped" Tarloff, he said.
Instead, Tarloff slashed Faughey 15 times with a meat cleaver, fractured her skull with a mallet and seriously injured Shinbach when he tried to intervene.
"Doctors Faughey and Shinbach devoted their careers to helping people who have mental illnesses, making this cold-blooded attack all the more tragic," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in a statement Friday.
Tarloff was initially found mentally unfit to stand trial. Then he was declared competent, but his behavior deteriorated during jury selection in 2010 and he was found incompetent again for a time. A trial last year ended in a hung jury. In March, he was retried and convicted of murder and assault. The jury rejected his insanity defense.
Owen Faughey said after the sentencing that he hoped prison officials treat Tarloff compassionately.
So does Robert Tarloff.
"Now that justice has been served for his crime, justice needs to be served for David — he needs to be cared for" in prison, he said.
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Pre-orders are officially being taken today for the Tata Nano in India at an MSRP of 100,000 rupees (just under $2,000). That makes the Nano officially the cheapest automobile in the world.
The on-road price will be a little bit higher, probably around $2,400, once you factor in excise duty, education fees and road tax, along with transportation cost, local taxes, insurance and registration fees and "a lifetime parking fee" (applicable in some locations).
The five seat basic model will be powered by a 624cc gasoline engine and does away with superfluous items like airbags but can be be optioned up, it will also launch in Europe with a slightly larger, more luxurious model in 2011. The car is launching into one of the strangest sales markets ever faced, with pent up demand for the car at a fevered pitch in India, but an overall depressed auto industry. Tata is not expected to be able to meet demand for the "1 lakh car" after being forced to used an alternate production site when its West Bengal factory faced violent protests from rural farmers.
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The American Urological Association estimates that prostate problems will affect about 5-10% of men at age 30 to over 90% by the age of 85.
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2 pit bull puppies abandoned in Lancaster street
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Photos show two pit bull puppies about 5 weeks old abandoned in a bird cage on a Lancaster City street without food or water.
"I would like to see the person who this this. It makes you very angry," said Tracy Mendenhall, with the Lancaster SPCA.
A veterinarian with the Lancaster County SPCA says the puppies suffered from severe mange and their immune systems were damaged to the point that the decision was made to put them to sleep.
"We were advised by our vet that euthanasia was probably the best outcome. They had some other health issues and concerns," said Mendenhall.
Now the attention has turned to finding who neglected and abused them.
"We're just starting to get some leads," said Karen Dinkel, animal cruelty officer.
It was after dark Sunday night when a neighbor found the puppies in the bird cage on the sidewalk at the corner of Green and Shippen streets.
A worker for the organization for the responsibility and care of the animals was notified and brought the puppies to the SPCA.
"We're seeing a lot more abandonment. I don't know if it's the economy or people don't understand the responsibility of owning a pet," said Dinkel.
A reward is being offered for information leading to the person responsible. The SPCA urges anyone who can't take care of a pet to do right by them.
Susan Martin of the SPCA is putting up $250 of her own money toward the reward. She said others have called to offer reward money as well.


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Interesting article. "Fashion is the world's second most polluting industry, exceeded only by oil." Yikes!
However, "taxing" companies for producing carbon is not the solution. The solution or at least something that would alleviate the problem goes completely against the nature of the business itself (which is to churn out new clothes every second) and it involves, obviously, all participants of the chain: from the governments, to the designers, companies, producers, manufacturers, suppliers and of course the consumer.
Yes, it is a positive step. It's at least some form of acknowledging the environmental impact of the company and creating funds to help reduce their own emissions. It's more than most companies are willing to do. But as the article says, it needs to be a much wider set of initiatives.
And back to the consumer, the only real "solution" (or a huge part of it) lies in each and every human being becoming more conscious of what they buy and how much they buy. How much do we really need? Nobody needs to renovate their wardrobe every season (despite of what magazines tell you). It's a problem deeply rooted in education and culture, the praise of the new. The culture of conspicuous consumption, shop! shop! you need this!, you need that! (specially Christmas and every commercial holiday of this nature).
Companies produce what people want to buy. That's why you keep seeing those Louis Vuitton monogram bags and their imitations. Unfortunately, furs are more popular than ever, yet again, because the demand from the final consumer has risen considerably in the past years. If people don't buy it, companies won't produce it. No one wants to have unsold merchandise in their shops. As simple as that.
Ahh!, but buying less, consuming less, investing on good quality, lasting garments that weren't made by a kid in a poverty stricken 3rd world country, goes completely against their profitability. It doesn't matter on which end of the spectrum you shop, whether it's high end or high street. Like I said, it's unnatural for an industry that is based on "newness", and change. The "must- haves", the "it" bag, the "trends"...
The truth is, the only way to be truly sustainable would be to never, ever buy a piece of clothing again. And obviously this is unrealistic (doable, but unrealistic). However, we can be more conscious, of what we buy, how we produce, etc. What is the point of creating if it implies so much destruction? This involves of course, a different mindset with much broader and true holistic view of us as a society, as whole planet. And we're not just talking about clothes here anymore.
We are in times that need profound reflection and redefinition on every level. We are at the verge of disastrous climate change, and the fashion industry, as one of the most powerful and influential on earth, has not only the potential but the responsibility to create and promote sustainable change. Creation and newness has to be geared towards embracing all these environmental, social and ethical issues. If all these brilliant creative minds and forces came together to do this, combined with our individual awareness, imagine the magic.


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Dozens killed, wounded in airstrike near Damascus
A Syrian warplane blasted a gas station near Damascus Wednesday, killing and wounding dozens of people and igniting a huge fire in what could be one of the bloodiest attacks in weeks during the 22-month civil war.
Activists said a single Russian-built MiG fighter fired a missile that hit the gas station, setting off an inferno in the eastern suburb of Mleiha. Black smoke billowed from the site. An amateur video posted online showed charred bodies and gruesome carnage at the scene.
Mohammed Saeed, an activist who visited the site, said the missile struck as drivers waited in line with their cars at the station. Syria has been facing a fuel crisis, and people often wait for hours to get gasoline.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human said "tens of people were killed or wounded." At least 10 bodies were seen in an amateur video.
"Many of the people who were there were killed," Saeed said via Skype. "Body parts could be seen on the ground."
He said the missile fired by the MiG warplane caused a crater a meter (three feet) deep.
An amateur video showed several vehicles on fire and a cloud of smoke rising into the air. The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.
It was unclear why the Syrian military targeted the gas station. There have been clashes and shelling in nearby areas in the past days.
Saeed said there were two other air raids in the nearby suburbs of Maadamiyeh and Deir al-Asafir.
"Since yesterday the raids have been very intense," Saeed said.
In the north, rebels attacked a sprawling air base Wednesday as the opposition expanded its offensive on military airports in an attempt to sideline a major weapon in the hands of President Bashar Assad's forces.
The Observatory said the rebel assault on the Taftanaz base was preceded by heavy shelling of the area, and the fighters appeared to be trying to storm the facility. Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman described the attack as one "of the most intense" on the airfield.
In the past few weeks, Syrian rebels have stepped up their attacks on airports around the neighboring province of Aleppo, trying to chip away at the government's air power, which poses the biggest obstacle to the opposition fighters' advances. As its control of large swaths of territory has slipped over the past year, the government has increasingly relied on its warplanes and helicopters to strike rebel-held areas.
Several past rebel attempts to capture the Taftanaz base have failed.
The Observatory said Syrian army helicopters were helping defend the airfield against the rebel assault. It said four rebels were killed in the clashes around the base, and one helicopter was hit by rebel fire.
The Observatory said the rebels attacking Taftanaz base included members of Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated with al-Qaida and branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. The group's fighters have been among the most effective on the rebel side in their battle to oust Assad.
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The Observatory also reported that eight shells struck the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the capital forcing some of the residents to flee the area that is mostly in the hands of rebels.
Anti-regime activists say more than 45,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011. Since then, it has evolved into a full-scale civil war with scores of armed groups across the country fighting regime forces.