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Orange Is the New Black author Piper Kerman was in town Wednesday to keynote a benefit for the Council on At-Risk Youth. Since the publication of her bestselling prison memoir, which led to the popular Netflix series, Kerman has become a leading advocate for criminal justice reform. We spoke with her on the morning before her talk.
Austin Chronicle: You're going to speak to a group of people who work with kids who are at risk of possibly ending up on a path to prison. What message do you have for people who work with at-risk kids?
Piper Kerman: Well, the Council on At-Risk Youth has been doing their work for a long time and they have great, great success and an amazing track record to show for their work with kids who are most at risk for being pushed to the margins of society. And when I say the margins of society, there's nothing more marginal than putting somebody in prison or jail.
Everywhere I go in this country, when I talk about my own experience and my own perspective on our criminal justice system, folks ask, "Well, what's to be done? How can we not have the biggest prison population in human history?" There's so much room for reform you can almost start anywhere, but I think the most important place to start is at the beginning of the system and at the beginning of the journey for many individuals. So I talk about sentencing reform to have more common-sense sentencing, and I talk about under-the-radar things like public defense, the fact that not everyone's Sixth Amendment rights [the right to a speedy trial] are really realized.
And the third thing I talk about is about being truly transformative in terms of having a criminal justice system that looks really different, and a much smaller prison population is juvenile justice, and the way that we treat kids in the system. We know that frequently when we put a kid in a juvenile prison while another kid who committed the same offense is kept in the community but gets the discipline and also the help that they need, that kid is much more likely to go forward and be successful.
The kid that we put in juvenile prison is more likely to go forward and commit more crimes in the future. So we know the incarceration of children is not a solution, and that's why organizations like the Council on At-Risk Youth are so important, because they take kids who are really struggling and they help them get on a much better path. So I think everyone can see that not only is that important for those individuals, those young people, but it yields dividends for us as a community, because the cost of helping a kid through an organization like the Council on At-Risk Youth is very low – it's $750 per youth per year, as opposed to $125,000 a year for Texas taxpayers to lock up a child.
AC: Wow.
PK: That is no joke. And so, again, the real dividend though, is that when those kids are on a better path and they're not going to be involved with the criminal justice system as adults, that's equally as important as that very significant cost differential.
AC: Well you have certainly studied Texas' prisons and juvenile justice system.
PK: Well you know Texas has done great things. I mean, as much as Texas has a reputation as having doubled down really hard on prisons, Texas has also done important reforms in recent years, which have significantly reduced the overall prison population with no increase in crime. We've done the same thing in New York where I live, which is a very different place from all perspectives [laughs], including political, but I just think it's so important to remind folks that this can be done, because the size of our prison population is not a reflection of our crime rates; our crime rates are very low and they've been low for a long time. So the things that Texas has done to – my understanding is that Texas has reduced its prison population by as much as 20 percent, which is huge. And again, with no increase in the crime rate, so that is really, really important stuff in terms of saving taxpayers' money, in terms of having more bountiful and productive communities out here on the outside.
AC: And we're all about saving taxpayer money in Texas.
PK: Well if we're going to spend any taxpayer money, let's spend it on productive things and not on prisons and jail cells.
AC: Yes, exactly. Now, you're situation was a little different, you went to good schools, you were on a path to success … how do you identify those women or girls who might someday be susceptible to criminal behavior? How do you intervene? Is it even possible?
PK: Oh, it's definitely possible. There are three key things that we know really drives women's involvement in crime. And sometimes they overlap. Substance abuse – we know that a huge percentage of women in prison or jail have a substance abuse problem. Mental health – either mental illness or mental health problems – so 75 percent of women and girls in the system suffer from mental illness of some form. And perhaps the most significant or central problem is that 80 to 90 percent of women and girls in the criminal justice system report the experience of sexual abuse or other physical abuse as part of their personal history. So if we actually address all or any of those three issues out here in the community we would see far fewer women and girls in prisons and jails.
Making sure that actual victims of sexual abuse or other physical abuse get the help they need much, much earlier in the game is probably the number one thing, because so often the mental health issue and the substance abuse problems follow along after that kind of victimization.
And those are the three things that consistently drive women's involvement in crime.
AC: I don't know how many times you've testified before Congressional committees but I did see one video clip of you testifying on the need for mental health programs in women's prisons. Have you seen progress or any hint of progress in that area?
PK: I would say that we've seen progress in the sense of much wider acknowledgement of this being something we need to correct. The three biggest providers of mental health care in this country are Rikers Island, the Cook County Jail, and the L.A. county jail. So three large, municipal jails are the three largest providers of mental health care. I think across the board you get agreements that that's a mistake; it's not as though correctional officials want to be responsible for providing mental health care to the community – that's not their job, that's not their role, and yet they're thrust into that role. It's going to take – back to this question of how do we spend the tax dollars we choose to spend – investing those dollars in the community in mental health care would make a lot more sense than investing in prisons and jail cells because, as anyone would tell you, including every prison warden in this country, a jail cell doesn't make a mentally ill person healthier and better.
AC: So true. Are you familiar with a report that was released last month by the University of Texas Law School Human Rights Clinic that detailed the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons?
PK: I have not read the report but I've heard about the report.
AC: And it sounds like a no-brainer, putting air conditioning in Texas prisons. There've been several heat-related deaths in state-run prisons just in the last three years. I was wondering if this comes as a surprise to you and whether you've found similar circumstances in other states.
PK: I can't comment specifically on the report's contents, but I know I've heard of very inhumane conditions in places like Arizona, which has some of the same physical conditions as perhaps part of Texas. I think that folks should keep in mind that people feel like prison should be horrible – prison is horrible – no one should imagine that prisons and jails are not punitive. But the problem is this: 95 percent of the people in our prisons and jails – and I think actually the number is probably higher – are coming home someday to our communities.
So if we design our prisons and jails to be these very brutalizing places, then we will have people coming home from prisons and jails who have been brutalized; and their crimes vary – as we all know we put a lot of nonviolent offenders in prison in this country. But if prisons and jails are designed to brutalize people who are then dumped back onto the street after having had those experiences, that is not a recipe for public safety.
AC: How did your prison experience – you were there for just over a year – how did that make you a better person?
PK: I think the most important thing for me is that I've been an extremely fortunate person my entire life. I come from a middle-class home, which was safe and stable; my parents were school teachers – they're retired now; I was fortunate to have a top-quality education, then I went to a private college and continued to get a great education. No one can ever take your education away from you.
So when I went into the criminal justice system and sort of traversed it – and I'm talking about the whole process, the court system and the prison system, I just was stunned and shocked by the things that I learned. I think that we have a lot of very important American ideals around fairness and our thoughts and imagination about how the criminal justice system works. But the reality is very different, and if you are not as fortunate as I, if you come from a poor community, a poor family, a vulnerable community, you are going to have a very different experience than what I had, in terms of being able to afford a lawyer, in terms of how you may be treated, in terms of whether you have something like a top-quality education to draw down on and so, I could not walk away from that experience. So even though we think that every American should be equal in a court of law, that's just not how it plays out.
Instead of being a bastion of equality, our courts are a crucible of inequality, and that's the number one thing that I think about every single day. Even though I was lucky enough to only spend one year in prison, there are other women who I was doing time with whose lives were different in many respects than mine.
Of course, anyone who goes into prison can tell you that finding common ground is the single most important part of survival in that setting. And so that is something that is also real important in that it was not actually hard for me to find common ground with all these other women I was doing time with because we all have a shared humanity.
AC: Good point. I was going through your book last night and I was reminded of one chapter [Mothers and Daughters], since Mother's Day is coming up, where you describe the relationships between women and the different roles that women take on once they enter prison, and wow, you just super nailed it.
PK: Thank you. I think that is fundamentally the single most important thing we talk about women in prison especially the relationship between mother and child. And that's true whether it's the child or whether it's the mother who's locked up. It's just very profound and very important.
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If you smoke, the findings of this new study will make you at least think about quitting, and hopefully throw those cancer sticks where they belong: in the trash can, once and for all.
We all know smoking delivers numerous health horrors: cancer, premature aging, gum disease, lung disease, Alzheimer's Disease, heart disease...the list goes on and on, with too many other well-known afflictions to mention.
But Now There's a New One to Add to this Blood-Curdling List
A new study has linked smoking with the thinning of the cortex, the brain's outer layer.
Neurologists have long known that the cortex is known to thin as a person ages.
However, that problem seems to be accelerated in smokers. This part of the brain is where functions such as memory, language and perception take place...and a thinning cortex is associated with cognitive decline.
In the study, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers looked at health data and MRI brain scans of 244 men and 260 women with an average age of 73.
Some of the people in the study were current smokers, some were ex-smokers, and some were nonsmokers.
The brain cortices of the current and ex-smokers were thinner than those who had never smoked before, researchers found.
But the good news: People who did smoke but quit the habit seemed to "partially recover their cortical thickness for each year without tobacco use," study researcher Sherif Karama, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry at McGill University, said in a statement.
However, Karama did add that even though researchers saw signs of recovery, the process seemed to be slow, and the former smokers' cortices were still thinner than those who never smoked.
Previously, research out of the University of California, Los Angeles, showed that smoking during young adulthood seems to thin a particular part of the brain cortex, called the insula.
The insula plays a vital role in decision-making and monitoring internal states; it's also the part of the brain with the highest density of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, meaning it has a strong role in tobacco dependence.
But Many People are Still Not Getting the Message
The findings come at the same time as those of another study that examined health data from nearly one million people over approximately 10 years, showing that in the U.S., tobacco is to blame for five new diseases and 60,000 deaths a year, the New York Times reports.
The five conditions found to be newly-linked with tobacco use include kidney disease, infection, intestinal disease from blood flow problems and heart and lung diseases that, before, were not previously linked to smoking.
"A substantial portion of the excess mortality among current smokers between 2000 and 2011 was due to associations with diseases that have not been formally established as caused by smoking," the authors of the study, which appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, wrote.
"These associations should be investigated further and, when appropriate, taken into account when the mortality burden of smoking is examined."
So, once again, the message is loud and clear.
Smoking delivers no real benefits that can't be found in far less lethal ways...but it can be a serious risk to your good health and even your life.
If you smoke, at least consider cutting down.
Better yet, quit!
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Two U.S. F/A-18 jet fighters bombed artillery of Sunni Islamic extremists in Iraq on Friday, escalating America's military involvement more than two years after President Barack Obama brought home forces from the country.
Obama on Thursday authorized "targeted airstrikes" if needed to protect U.S. personnel from fighters with ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State. The U.S. military also could use airstrikes to prevent what officials warn could be a genocide of minority groups by the ISIS fighters.
Though the United States is supporting Iraq militarily, there won't be U.S. combat troops on the ground, and it ultimately will be up to the Iraqi government and security forces to resolve the ISIS threat, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Friday.
"There will not be American troops returning to Iraq in a combat role," he said, repeating what Obama said in an address Thursday night.
"As commander in chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq," the President said.
Meanwhile, a senior Kurdish official told CNN that ISIS militants captured Iraq's largest hydroelectric dam, just north of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. According to the official, the militant fighters have been using U.S.-made weapons seized from the Iraqi army, including M1 Abrams tanks.
There had been conflicting reports about who controlled the dam on the Tigris River, with heavy fighting under way between ISIS fighters and Kurdish forces, known as Peshmerga. U.S. officials have warned that a failure of the dam would catastrophic, resulting in flooding all the way to Baghdad.
In other fighting, an Iraqi airstrike killed 45 ISIS fighters and injured 60 Friday in the northern town of Sinjar, the country's state-run National Media Center said.
Sinjar is the town that ISIS raided last weekend, causing members of the Yazidi minority there to flee into surrounding mountains without food, water or shelter and prompting concerns of a potential genocide. The Yazidis are of Kurdish descent, and their religion is considered a pre-Islamic sect that draws from Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism.
U.S. flights prohibited
Other signs of a growing regional conflict: The Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice prohibiting U.S. airlines from flying through Iraqi airspace "due to the hazardous situation created by the armed conflict."
The developments showed that the lightning advance by ISIS fighters across northern Iraq this year has become a battle for the nation's future and overall stability in a part of the world wracked for decades by periodic war.
French President François Hollande strongly condemned ISIS attacks against the Iraqi population and vulnerable minorities such as Yazidis and Christians and called for the international community to respond.
"France is ready to take its part," Hollande said in a statement from his office that called for the European Union "to take an active role very quickly" and put in place all the necessary assistance to respond to the crisis.
U.S. warplanes patrolling the skies over northern Iraq have a "green light" to go after perceived ISIS threats to the Kurdish capital, Irbil, or to minority populations, said deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.
Airstrikes are also possible to help Kurdish forces end the siege by ISIS in the northern Iraqi mountains, where tens of thousands of Yazidis have sought refuge, Earnest, the White House spokesman, said Friday.
ISIS fighters have surrounded the Yazidis on the ground below.
"If there can be American military might that can tip (the) balance, we'll look for an opportunity to do that," Earnest said.
Laser-guided bombs
The first strike involved 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a "mobile artillery piece" used by ISIS at about 6:45 a.m. ET Friday, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said.
It came in response to an ISIS advance this week on what officials call U.S. interests in Iraq's Kurdish region in the north. The militants took towns from the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Before the onslaught, the region had been the most stable in Iraq and a cooperative ally of the United States. U.S. military advisers and consular personnel are stationed in Irbil.
The mobile artillery battery hit Friday was based outside Irbil, Kirby said.
Kurdish pleas
In announcing his airstrike decision Thursday night, Obama said the militants would get hit "should they move towards the city."
Kurdish leaders have been pleading for the United States or NATO to buttress their forces against ISIS from the air. The President seems to have heard their appeal.
"We do whatever is necessary to protect our people," Obama said, adding, "We support our allies when they're in danger."
Before Obama spoke Thursday night, two U.S. military cargo planes airdropped 5,300 gallons of water and 8,000 meals onto Mount Sinjar, where some Yazidi children had died from dehydration.
The British government said Friday it would support the U.S. humanitarian effort and planned airdrops of its own.
Meanwhile, the United Nations in Iraq was "urgently preparing a humanitarian corridor to allow those in need to flee the areas under threat," said Nickolay Mladenov, the special representative to the U.N. secretary-general.
He welcomed the "cooperation between the Government of Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Government and the international community to help prevent genocide and fight terrorism," according to a U.N. statement.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday repeated the administration's concerns about genocide.
The militants' "campaign of terror against the innocent, including the Yazidi and Christian minorities, and its grotesque targeted acts of violence show all the warning signs of genocide," Kerry said Friday during a televised press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. "The stakes for Iraq's future could not be more clear," and "for anyone who (needs) a wake-up call, this is it."
ISIS has executed people who don't share their fanatical interpretation of Sunni Islam and posted videos of their killings to the Internet. "Convert to Islam or die" is the militants' ultimatum to those captured.
They also have beheaded victims and placed their heads on spikes to strike terror in the population, a senior administration official said.
Already, the Obama administration is rapidly funneling weapons to Iraqi forces. Factories are operating seven days a week to produce them, a senior administration official said.
The administration has pushed for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated regime to be replaced by an ethnically more inclusive government
GOP senators want more U.S. action
But two Republican senators said in a statement that the President's actions do not go far enough. And the United States should not wait on Iraq to pull together before Washington takes action.
Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina want to see U.S. forces take the fight to ISIS.
"It should include U.S. airstrikes against ISIS leaders, forces, and positions both in Iraq and Syria," their statement read.
The Iraqi air force bombed a number of ISIS targets on Thursday night, said Qubad Talabani, deputy prime minister of the Kurdish regional government. He told CNN the strikes killed at least two of the group's emirs.
At this point, the United States has hundreds of military personnel in Iraq, including advisers sent in recent weeks to coordinate with Iraqi and Kurdish military officials in response to the ISIS rampage. The USS George H.W. Bush and other Navy ships also are in the region, and the FA/18s in Friday's initial strike came from the aircraft carrier.
ISIS fighters have captured armored vehicles and other military hardware from Iraqi forces in a lightning sweep through the north earlier this year.
The militant group's name, Islamic State, reflects its goal to establish a Sunni caliphate stretching from Syria to Baghdad. After establishing the religious state, the group envisions expanding it throughout the world, and analysts warn of Americans and Europeans with ISIS returning home at some point to bring the battle.
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Jaco de Swart is Ph.D. candidate in the History and Philosophy of Science at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Vossius Center for History of Humanities and Sciences. His research revolves around the historical development of the dark matter problem.
His interdisciplinary research project is supervised by dr. Gianfranco Bertone from astroparticle physics (GRAPPA), prof. Jeroen van Dongen from history of physics (IoP / Vossius Center), and prof. Erik Verlinde from theoretical physics (IoP).
Current aspects of his research include:
History of Dark Matter
How did we find out that 85% of the matter in the universe consists of a yet-undetected form of mass, now known as 'dark matter'? Although the stakes in finding a solution to the problem of dark matter are very high, the complex history of this issue has been quite ill-understood.
Philosophy of Dark Matter
Despite having probed an immense parameter space for the last 40 years, the dark matter hunt has only resulted in null-results. This makes the case of the dark matter problem serve as an excellent entry into understanding how evidence and argumention function in the astrophysical sciences.
Oral History Interviews
Jaco has interviewed several scientists central to the history of dark matter. Transcripts of these interviews will soon be available at the American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives. Interviewees include: Jim Peebles, Jerry Ostriker, Morton Roberts, Alar Toomre, Ed Turner, Neta Bahcall, Jim Gunn, Richard Gott, Scott Tremaine, Paul Schechter, David Spergel, Enn Saar, and Jaan Einasto.
2019 | Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study
2017 | Visiting Scholar, Tartu Observatory
2015 | Visiting Student, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2014 | Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Princeton University
2016 | MSc Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam
2013 | MA Philosophy (w/ Hans Radder and Martin Stokhof), University of Amsterdam
2011 | BA Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
2010 | BSc Beta-Gamma (Major: Physics, w/ Anne Kox), University of Amsterdam
2014 | Grant-in-Aid of the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics
Invited Talks
2019-06 | Philosophy of Astrophysics, Complutense University Madrid
2019-02 | Dark Matter and Modified Gravity, RWTH Aachen
2019-01 | Joint Astroparticle Physics Colloquium, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2018-12 | Stockholm-Amsterdam-Paris-London Meeting in Astroparticle Physics, King's College London
2018-06 | HEiKA Symposium 2018, University of Heidelberg
2017-12 | Topical Lectures, Nikhef Amsterdam
2019 - | Science and Life of Albert Einstein, University of Amsterdam
2016 - | Interdisciplinary Bachelor Projects (Supervision), University of Amsterdam
2015 - | Philosophy of Science, University of Amsterdam
2012 - | Turning Points in the Natural Sciences, University of Amsterdam
2016 - | Member of the Faculty of Science PhD Council, University of Amsterdam
2014 - | Member of the External Advisory Board of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam
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Purple Jacob's ladder - barely started and - is this called Trip around the World? I don't know - but I'm adding more outside the black border, just to make it larger.
I need to make more string blocks to bring this to a good size - and I'll be working on the Grandmother's Flower Garden for a while.
I haven't decided what to do next with the cream and burgundy - it's not very big. My daughter is posing on a quilt that will go to a charity when it is done.
These pinwheels will likely go to a mission when they are done. I just got more white for Christmas so I can continue with them now. The other pinwheels are one block of 9 that are complete in a HST sampler that's been hanging around for years. I think I want at least 12 blocks in that one.
These are a series of breast cancer wall hangings that I'm not certain of the future of. The Dresdens are huge. I just came into the grey needed to continue with them.
I also have a mini log cabin and a paper piecing project that I don't have any pictures of. My 2014 Aurifil challenge is 2 months behind. Is that a UFO yet?


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The SkyRoll Roll-up Garment Bag Carry-On
SkyRoll Roll-up Garment Bag
My brother loves the SkyRoll Garment Bag. He brought it for a wedding last weekend and was ranting and raving about its quality and its ability to keep suits from wrinkling. He thinks he's better than me cuz my weekend bag was shaped like a sack.By the way, on the trip, I accidentally sweated on my bag and made a joke about how sweaty my sack was. It was totally appropriate.And ladies, I know you want to see my sack…so here it is.
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This SkyRoll roll-up garment bag, designed to protect tailored clothing and prevent wrinkling, is perfect for the traveling businessman. It's roll-up functionality is the best way to minimize wrinkling, making this bag an ideal option for air travel. Because suits are rolled instead of folded, wrinkles are minimized. It works as a two-part system: a garment bag that wraps around a hollow cylinder compartment (see video).
- The only carry-on garment bag that lets you gently roll (instead of folding) your clothes
- Carry more clothing in less space (more compact than bulky garment bags)
- Meets airline carry-on luggage rules
- Perfect for short business trips or weekend getaways when you don't have time to wait at baggage claim.
- 2 large reinforced compartments are located within the cylinder that the garment bag wraps around: 1 water-proof for toiletries and 1 for shoes or other items.
SkyRoll Dimensions
SkyRoll measures 22″ long x 9″ in diameter (to see how big the SkyRoll is compared to the Furry Jerk, click here). The detachable garment bag measures 47″ x 22″ and has room for about two suits. It weighs four pounds empty. Made of extra tough 1200 denier ballistic fabric.
How to Use the SkyRoll
- First remove the shoulder strap and place SkyRoll on a bed or other large flat surface.
- Un-clip the 3 ending clips and unroll the garment bag. Next un-clip the 2 starting clips and detach the garment bag from the cylinder. Now you can pack each separately before rolling them back up.
- Unzip the doors at each end of the cylinder to gain access to the interior space. Load shoes, toiletries, etc. into either end of central cylinder. The cylinder is divided in half so you can have shoes on one side and clothes on the other, or clean clothes on one side and dirty on the other, for example.
- Unzip the garment bag and open it to load suits, dresses, or other large garments. After loading, zip it up and place ties, or small items in the mesh pockets on the inside of the garment bag.
- Once you are finished packing the cylinder and garment bag, attach the garment bag to the cylinder with the two starting clips. Roll the garment bag tightly around the central cylinder and secure it with the 3 ending clips. Tighten the adjustable straps on the ending clips to keep the garment bag from moving while you travel.
- Clip the shoulder strap back onto the "D"-rings at each end of the cylinder and you are ready to go.
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Bank of America says pump the brakes on structured-credit risk
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Signals are flashing red in the structured credit market, according to Bank of America.
Credit analysts at the bank are warning that structured credit products are entering a new "risk-off" phase as a number of market indicators imply caution is warranted.
"We turn more defensive on securitized products and underweight on agency" mortgage-backed securities, BofA analysts including Chris Flanagan and Alexander Batchvarov wrote in a note. "Risk-off phase likely has started."
The diminishing appetite for risk among investors should spill into wider investment-grade corporate spreads. That will likely bleed into higher-rated structured products, such as mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bank remains neutral across the rest of the sector.
Key indicators of the trend are the 10-year Treasury yields, the spread between two-year and 10-year Treasuries, rate volatility and investment-grade corporate spreads. The BofA analysts also said that U.S. stocks appear to have peaked compared with the Shanghai Composite Index, and mean reversion shows this may be the start of underperformance of American equities versus Chinese counterparts.
"All of these appear likely to have turned in recent weeks, and are now poised to extend moves in the most recent direction," the analysts wrote in the Aug. 10 note. "August should provide good conditions to tactically position for curve flattening, lower rates and wider spreads."


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Night Lights: Camberwell to New Cross at Night, a set on Flickr.
This photo set is the 83rd in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began last May, and after my recent publication of a series of photo sets from last July, featuring a journey through the East End to Stratford and the Olympic Park, on the eve of the Olympic Games, I thought it was time to return to the present — and also to publish some photos taken at night. For the previous photos, see here, here, here and here — and here for my journey around the perimeter of the Olympic Park.
As a result, I'm posting here a set of 15 photos I took at night a few days ago, during a journey from Camberwell to my home in Brockley, in south east London, after collecting my son from an art class organised by Southwark's schools and the South London Gallery, and then escorting him to Denmark Hill station, to catch a train home. A month ago, in a set entitled, "Mostly Camberwell, At Night," I published photos from a variation on this journey — from Brockley to Camberwell and back — although on that occasion I travelled back home through East Dulwich, and it was raining. On Tuesday, when it was dry, I cycled through Peckham instead, taking in a few council estates on the way — in Camberwell, Peckham and New Cross. Read the rest of this entry »
Mostly Camberwell, At Night, a set on Flickr.
Recently, I've been posting a variety of photos from my visit to the US in January, to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 11th anniversary of the opening of the prison (see here, here, here and here), my more recent visit to Brighton for another Guantánamo event (see here and here), and the huge protest in Lewisham on January 26 to save the hospital from butchers in NHS management and the government (here and here). As a result, I have rather neglected my project to record the whole of London by bike, which I began last May, although I continue to cycle and photograph the city, and now have an unpublished archive of at least 10,000 photos, which, realistically, will only be made available if I make the project into something more formal than it is at present. Any advice on this — leads, contacts, funders — is most welcome.
To make amends for my distraction regarding my London project, I'm posting my 75th set of London photos, which features photos I took at night just two days ago, and I'll follow up soon with other London sets, interspersed with more photos of New York from my US trip, and a last set — for now — of Brighton. Read the rest of this entry »
Real London: New Cross, Bermondsey and the Old Kent Road, a set on Flickr.
"Real London" is a short-hand, of course, for a London that is not the shiny one of glass and steel built and sold by property developers, and bought by those in the top few percent of earners — as well as by foreign investors. It is a world of workers, some of whom live in their own houses, having secured mortgages before the boom that began in the late 1990s, and often well before that, when it was still affordable for working people to take out mortgages and be able to repay them. Others live in social housing, built by local councils and run either by the councils or by housing associations, or, less frequently, owned or owned and managed by co-ops, and others have to cope with the increasingly greedy, unregulated private rental market . And amongst them, of course, are the unemployed — part of the current total of two and a half million unemployed people in the UK as a whole. According to the London Skills and Employment Observatory, 1.38 million people are currently either unemployed or "economically inactive" in London, and the unemployment rate is 8.9 percent.
These workers and homeowners were, perhaps, on salaries between the median and the average — currently £14,000 and £26,000, as I discussed in my article, The Housing Crisis and the Gulf Between the Rich and the Poor: Half of UK Workers Earn Less Than £14,000 A Year — but whereas in the past it would have been possible for a household on average or below average wages to buy a house, now it is completely impossible.
As I explained in a recent article, Unaffordable London: The Great Housing Rip-Off Continues, on a multiplier of three times earnings, which was how the housing market functioned before the Blair and Brown boom years, a couple buying a house in London for the average price — £388,000 — need a combined income of nearly £130,000, or something slightly less plus a whopping great deposit. Read the rest of this entry »
Real Life in South London: A Journey through Nunhead, Peckham, Walworth and Borough, a set on Flickr.
Since I began my project, ten weeks ago, to cycle the whole of London by bike, armed only with a camera, I have managed to become quite familiar with the whole of south east London, Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs, and the banks of the Thames — on the north from London Bridge to the Royal Docks, and on the south from Blackfriars Bridge to Thamesmead, as well as travelling to Stratford — in search of the Olympics — and back, and in this latest set, taken a few weeks ago on a bike ride into central London from south east London — to be followed imminently by a rainy set of photos from the City of London — I found some parts of south east London I had never found before — in Nunhead (in the London Borough of Lewisham) and Peckham, Walworth and Borough (in the London Borough of Southwark), and some that were familiar, which I came across in a largely unplanned manner.
The parts of London I have covered in the last ten weeks are, I concede, only a fraction of this vast metropolis, but the dozens of journeys I have undertaken have made me fit, and have stretched my eyes and my mind, which had become cooped up after six years of researching and writing about Guantánamo and the "war on terror," and after the 21 months that I have spent railing against the cruelty and myopia of the Tory-led coalition government, which, through an obsession with destroying the state and privatising whatever was not already privatised by Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown, has initiated a savage and deluded age of austerity. Read the rest of this entry »
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It's almost time. Friday Matt Clement said something with confidence. Then Curt let loose 102 pitches in one of his last appearances before the regular season starts, striking out ten. Next? Keith Foulke makes his second consecutive lights-out appearance. And just this afternoon Josh Beckett aired it out for six, with Craig Hansen shutting the door. We don't put much stock in Spring Training results, as the games don't count and the lineups are all over the place, but it is at least worth noting that the Sox' heavily question-marked pitching staff seems to be rounding into shape. There's no way of knowing how healthy everyone will be over the long haul — we're placing no bets — but at least it looks like there will be a very strong runner in the blocks when the starter's gun is fired.
Stretching it Out
Ten strikeouts are nice, but wasn't it against a triple-A team? And didn't he give up 5 runs?March 27, 2006, 1:41 pm
Sure. Hence the "we don't put much stock in results". The key item that I gleaned was that Schilling threw 102 pitches, and was stronger in the 6th than he was in the 1st. Though I have no sense of whether his pitches were darting all over or if his control was spectacular, it's good to see Schilling back in the position to throw lots of pitches, which means his endurance is up and his ankle must be feeling better.March 27, 2006, 1:51 pm
Other pressing matters: The Yanks have optioned Kevin Thompson and Kevin Reese to Columbus, leaving the fifth outfielder/utility slot open for Bubba Crosby. That's nice for Bubba; sort of. It could mean a lot of playing time, if there are injuries or when those in front of him need to rest. Or that time could be intermittent. There's no escaping the fact, however, that he was outplayed this spring by Thompson and Reese, ether of whom would likely provide more pop (by a considerable margin) off the bench. They'll both see consistent time in the minors. If they catch fire, and Bubba struggles in his here-and-there at bats, expect to see one of the boys in the bigs, and quickly. Or perhaps a front-office move to bring in someone from outside the system. But not Matt Lawton.March 27, 2006, 1:53 pm
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To get shiny and smooth hair seems therefore after shampooing. Natural hair conditioner can in the form of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar massage into the hair.


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If you are looking for some really fun ideas for an amazing star wars birthday or star wars games for May 4th Star Wars Day, you have to check this out! This is the party themes we did for my sons 10th birthday.
Birthday Party Ideas
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- Tangled Party Theme
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No matter what theme you choose, here are 20 Ways to Make Birthdays Extra Special.
Star Wars Birthday
It seems like every kids has a star wars birthday theme at some point. I mean it's a classic! Here are lots of fun Star Wars themed food, homemade Star Wars cake, and lots of Star Wars games for kids of all ages.
Star Wars Cake
I was super excited about the star wars birthday cake I came up with this year! I made two 9×13 cakes to put side by side for the base. These were covered with my homemade buttercream frosting and marshmallow fondant which I used black food coloring with edible glitter rolled into it. It looked so cool! (the millennium falcon is also made out of homemade marshmallow fondant)
For the death star cake I used a ball cake pan again covered with the butter cream frosting and grey tinted marshmallow fondant. Then I cut sections of darker grey marshmallow fondant and pressed a toothpick into it at different places to give it the death star look.
Hint: You will also want to make sure you have a cake board!
We put the cake on our party table.We used a black table cloth and this backdrop for effect. We converted pool noodles into light sabers with duct tape, used black sharpies to draw on the storm trooper faces on white balloons, and made light saber napkins along with these star wars plates.
Star Wars Games
Our star wars birthday party games were a big hit!
First, we had kids build their own blaster "aka marshmallow shooter" out of pvc pipe. It was pre-cut and they could assemble it anyway they liked. Then we had various colors of duct tape for kids to decorate their weapons. Each kid got a bag of mini marshmallows for ammunition.
Then we gave each of the Jedi's their own light saber. I made these using these light up party sticks (picture a pool noodle that lights up / various modes to choose from) with a duct tape handle.
The young Jedi practiced using their light saber in some drills including keeping the storm trooper balloons in the air.
Jedi Training Academy Obstacle Course
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And what would a party be with out a Darth Vadar Piñata!
Star Wars Birthday Party Food
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Space Ghost
Space Ghost, real name Tad Eustice Ghostal, was hired by Hanna-Barbera to be a superhero. With his sidekicks Jan, Jace, and Blip (the token monkey), he fought villains in outer space.
In more recent years, he became a talk show host on Cartoon Network. Reruns of his talk show are now broadcast on GameTap and Adult Swim's site, as well as having a good film career.
Early Life[edit]
Space Ghost was born in the year 1941. During his childhood years, the young Space Ghost would often be picked on be several of his classmates. They often called him "Paleface", "Loser", "Dweeb", and "The pale kid who sits in the back of the class by himself because nobody likes him", among other things. His evil twin brother, Chad Ghostal, was usually the leader of the group of kids who would pick on him. Chad looks identical to Space Ghost except for his facial hair.
Space Ghost wasn't able to grow his first chin until his 47th birthday.
Career as a Superhero[edit]
Space Ghost's career as a superhero began in 1966. His adventures were recorded and aired on television alongside the cartoon Dino Boy in the Lost Valley during Saturday mornings. The show only aired until 1968. In the 1980's, he and his sidekicks were brought back in a new series temporarily to television to fill in an empty time slot.
Council of Doom[edit]
In the final six episodes of the original series, Space Ghost battled the "Council of Doom" (which consisted of Moltar, Zorak, the Black Widow, Metallus, Brak, and Creature King). Space Ghost encountered other superheroes that would later have their own shows. Creature King sent a space ape to fight Space Ghost, and Jace used the phantom cruiser to run him over and put both of them in a time warp, sending them to a prehistoric world. Mightor viciously slaughtered the space ape, and Space Ghost went back to the present-day using his power bands.
After the Creature King's death, Zorak encased Jan, Jace, and Blip in a capsule and sent them through space to Earth where they landed in the ocean where he intended for them to drown, but Moby Dick brought them to the surface. Zorak managed to get away.
Another time, Moltar went to the planet Quasar to kill Space Ghost. The Herculoids helped Space Ghost beat the living shit out of Moltar. And lastly, after causing irreversible brain damage to Brak and escaping from the Black Widow, the council used a negative transportation ray which sent Space Ghost to some magical world where he was attacked by the Flaming Sultan. Luckily, some genie saved him and sent him back to this dimension.
After they defeated the Council of Doom, the show was cancelled after a video of Jan and Jace performing incestuous acts surfaced.
Talk Show[edit]
Desperate for work, in 1994, Space Ghost, who'd became a crack head living under the spaghetti roads of Atlanta, Georgia, answered an ad for a talk show host for an upcoming show on Cartoon Network. He was hired, along with his former adversaries Zorak and Moltar, to be the host of the new talk show. The show is shot and broadcast from Space Ghost's studio (Ghost Planet Industries) on the Ghost Planet.
Due to his withdraw from the crack and alcohol, he would often think some of the first guests were other superheroes and usually opened the interview by asking them about their superpowers. His interactions with guests were painfully awkward, and often hostile. It was often hard to tell if guests were aware of the nature of the program on which they are appearing. To add to the confusion, Space Ghost would often yell out hateful slurs directed toward Harvey Birdman at random times.
At one point, Space Ghost sues former sidekicks Jan, Jace, and Blip claiming that they were slandering his good name with their prank calls into his show where they'd blame him for, "leaving them in interstellar gases, the path of incoming laser rays, and unearthly atmospheres that stunted their growth." They countered sued for back wages and damages stemming from emotional distress, mental cruelty, and for preventing them from receiving an education. Both sides dropped the charges after the teens and the monkey's lawyer, Dr. Nightmare (Attorney at Law!), killed himself.
Zorak was his band leader, and his producer, Moltar, worked for Space Ghost as punishment for their crimes. They often proclaim their hatred for Space Ghost. Space Ghost often bends Zorak over his keyboard and spanks him with his spank ray while Moltar records it.
Spin-off show[edit]
In 1995, after an equal rights group threatened to sue Ghost Planet and Cartoon Network for discriminating against the mentally-retarded, so a variety show starring Space Ghost, Zorak, and Brak. Why did they hire Brak? Simple, he was the only retard Space Ghost knew. The show was cancelled after four seasons. The network released a statement reading:
- "We can not bear to continue this mindless drivel. Go ahead you goddamn civil and ethic rights groups! Sue us, pussies!!! We don't care if we lose all of our money, asshats!! The goddamn show is cancelled, and Brak is never coming back!"
The equal rights group apologized for making a retard be on T.V. It wasn't until late 2000 that Brak made a return to television.
In 1997, Moltar launched Toonami. Sadly, Toonami was cancelled in 2008 because Cartoon Network executives decided they needed to make room for the "excellent" live-action programming they created. Toonami was briefly revived on March 31, 2012 on Adult Swim in honor of April Fool's Day. The joke was on Adult Swim as fans demanded that the network #BringBackToonami permanently. On May 16, Adult Swim announced that #ToonamisBackBitches (Toonami's back, bitches!) and will return May 26, 2012 @ Midnight ET.
Fall from Fame[edit]
Unfortunately, after a semi-successful 10 year run, his show was cancelled in 2004. By this point in history, Space Ghost had helped launch the careers of Conan O' Brian (a fellow late night talk show host), the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (who have had much more successful careers than Space Ghost could ever imagine), and his wife Bjork. Sadly, after his show was cancelled, Bjork left him for his evil twin brother, Chad.
He was quickly evicted from his apartment, in which he'd just gotten his cable connected. This caused him to revert back to his alcohol and crack addict ways.
Desperate for more work, Space Ghost took on any work he could get. He appeared on various episodes of Perfect Hair Forever, usually as food for Bear. He even began releasing season boxsets of his talk show. After being a car salesman in Wisconsin for approximately two months during the Winter of 2005, Space Ghost went back to William's Street and began living as vermin, surviving by stealing food and drinks from the refrigerator, stealing methamphetamine from the employees, and sleeping in the rat infested walls.
Return of His Show[edit]
As one can imagine, having this constant fear of having their meth taken away from them greatly scared the executives at Cartoon Network, so they offered to bring back his show, but only on Time Warner's GameTap website. Space Ghost interviewed many video game officials. When he interviewed Peter Moore during E3 '06, Space Ghost agreed to be the executive producer of a dermatology game for teens currently titled "Wash Yo' Goddam Face, Son!" It was to be released for the XBox 360 in mid-2009. To celebrate, Space Ghost and Peter dropped it like it was hot. This caused many viewers to vomit all over their monitors, which apparently dropped the shows viewership in half.
Sadly, after flashing his sexy nipples repeatedly, Space Ghost's talk show was cancelled due to low-viewership, despite being the only T.V. show on the site.
Space Ghost was last seen being dragged through the Appalachian Mountains in north Georgia by a bear. His body has not been recovered, though authorities have received information the scientist Dr. Weird was seen wearing his face like a mask as he did a little kooky-dance. The validity of this unsupported, however.
Where he is Now[edit]
Today, he's sober and has been in a few films. His first was The Aqua Teen Movie released in 2007, during his spyraling deeper into drugs. Giving Space Ghost a chance, they gave him a cameo, and a "Damn good one he had" said Meatwad Ghostal's co-star in the film. He is set to make an apperence in sequel titled: Death Fighter the summer of 2012. He is also going to portray Batman when they re-do the franchise as well as being in a Justice League of America film.


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With some regularity, my husband arrives home to find me enjoying a glass of wine. Chalk it up to work stress if you like (some days I do), or it could just be because people everywhere have enjoyed fermented beverages for a long, long time – and I'm no exception. While the atmosphere, decor, and dress may have changed over the centuries, people like to gather together and enjoy food, drink, and entertainment. Today we indulge in a variety of settings – a casual beer with friends at the local watering hole, or a wine tasting party at someone's home, or checking out the hot new martini bar (although in the interest of transparency, that won't be me – not a martini gal, I've discovered). I'd encourage you all to add a mead tasting to your list of must-try alcoholic experiences.
In fact, mead is considered the ancestor of all modern fermented drinks. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, to see the popularity of modern day mead growing, with meaderies following rapidly in the footsteps of wineries and breweries to take advantage of the rising interest in their product and the art and science behind it.
Last year, I wrote about Far Friar's Meadery, located in Newcastle, Maine, and this year during my visit to Maine, I had the opportunity to visit Maine Mead Works for the first time. Located on Washington Ave in Portland, it's easily accessible for both tourists and locals. Founded in 2007 by owners Ben Alexander and Carly Cope, Maine Mead Works uses Maine ingredients (as much as possible) and also leverages good ol' Mainah wisdom – that handcrafted is better than mass-produced, and quality is better than quantity (hence their small batch approach).
We had the opportunity to try a large number of traditional and flavored meads during our visit, as well as a few sparkling versions. Maine Mead Works emphasizes crafting a modern mead that is dry, crisp, and has a balanced finish. Like Fat Friar's mead, the more traditional dry and semi-sweet meads carried strong honey notes on the nose. As I've become more familiar with mead, I find I can also appreciate it more. I enjoyed the dry mead, but I liked the flavored varieties best of all. From my perspective, honey mead creates an ideal base from which to add flavors like lavender, strawberry, and cranberry, as Maine Mead does. I could easily envision a summer afternoon on the deck, enjoying a chilled glass of the strawberry or lavender mead, while cranberry was clearly a holiday season indulgence.
In conclusion, a visit to Maine Mead Works is highly recommended. While we weren't able to stay for the facility tour, I'm sure that would be well-worth experiencing as well. You can also check out their cocktail recipes page for fun ways to mix with mead.
Happy holidays, all!


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Pokémon Stadium 2 is a stage for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, based in (as its name suggests) the Pokémon universe. The basic layout of the stage is essentially unchanged from Super Smash Bros. Melee's Pokémon Stadium, save for a major graphical upgrade, including a huge space between the crowd and the stadium. The name of this stadium might be a reference to the game Pokemon Stadium 2 for the Nintendo 64. As with the original Pokémon Stadium, every so often, the stage transforms to represent a certain Pokémon type (see "Elements" below). However, unlike its predecessor, Pokémon will occasionally appear in the background.
A stage such as this has never been seen in any Pokémon game. There have been flat areas where trainers would do battle, but they were always inside buildings called 'gyms'. There have been some outside areas, in stadiums such as the one seen here, but the battle area was always on the ground, and never suspended in the air. The two floating platforms have never been seen, either. There have been gyms with a theme based on a Pokémon type, such as rock or electric, and the scenery would change to match the theme. However, the exact arrangements in this stage have never been seen in a Pokémon title. A possible source of inspiration for both this stage and its Melee Stage predecessor is the Pokémon anime television show, in which type-transforming arenas featured during the Pokémon League.
It is unconfirmed as to which region exactly the stage is set in, but reasons can be found for each region in the mainstream games.
- Kanto: The original Pokémon Stadium was set in Kanto.
- Johto: The N64 game introduced the Johto region's Pokémon to 3D, and may have been set in Johto itself.
- Hoenn: The Generation Three battle theme Wild Pokémon Battle! (Ruby/Sapphire) is the only "true" battle theme to appear on the stage. The theme originates from the Hoenn region.
- Sinnoh: The stage stars a number of Sinnoh-only Pokemon. In addition to this, the Brawl stage Spear Pillar originates in Sinnoh.
Comparing to the background (skyscrapers), it may be Saffron City or Celadon City of Kanto, Goldenrod City of Johto, Lilycove City of Hoenn, or the Fight Area/Battle Frontier of Sinnoh. It may be a mix, if the buildings seen are from various cities/regions. Alternatively, it may be White City from the game Pokémon Stadium 2 or Black City from the recently announced Pokemon Black and White Versions in the region of Isshu.
Songs in My Music
- Pokémon Main Theme
- Road to Viridian City (From Pallet Town/Pewter City)
- The Pokémon Center
- Pokémon Gym/Evolution
- Wild Pokémon Battle! (Ruby/Sapphire)
Songs in bold must be unlocked
There are four possible stage transformations, each of which represents a particular type from the Pokémon games. While this feature was in the Melee version as well, the types represented in Brawl are all new. Whenever the stage transforms, the layout of its platforms changes, and in some cases the very physics of the game becomes altered as well. There is no specific order that these elements appear in - the stage transformation is completely random and it is even possible for the stadium to change into the same type twice in a row. However, the stage always begins on the standard arena and has to revert back to its normal state before transforming again. The elements are as follows:
- Electric: Has two conveyor belts near the edges on the stage, both rotating outward. The two platforms are replaced by three platforms in varying locations, either above the center of the stage, above either conveyor belt, or very high above the center of the stage.
- Flying: Fans in the ground create an updraft that enhances all characters' jumping abilities and delays falling time drastically. Characters flung upward have a much higher chance of being Star KO'ed. The updraft only extends above the platform. Both floating platforms disappear, giving the stage a Final Destination style layout.
- Ground: The layout changes to a large mound of dirt and a hut built into a tall rock. The hut provides two platforms, the lower one being longer and curved, and the higher one being short and flat. No physical effects are added.
- Ice: Makes all platforms and surfaces extremely slippery, so characters are more likely to trip. A hut can be seen in the background, and the two standard platforms are replaced by two icy platforms that slope inwards slightly.
A new feature in Pokémon Stadium 2 is the guest Pokémon who appear in the background of altered stages. They have no effect on the battle itself, but provide a nice addition to the scenery.
- Electric: Electivire and Magnezone
- Flying: Drifloon, Hoppip, and Skarmory.
- Ground: Cubone and Dugtrio, as well as mysterious fossil.
- Ice: Snorunt and Snover.
Easter egg
In the Stadium's Ice mode, there is a cabin in the middle of the stage. Hidden in the cabin is a poster of a kitten, and what looks like the Wii Hint Cat on the same poster. It is unknown whose kitten is pictured on the poster, but it is rumored to be Masahiro Sakurai's.
- It is widely believed that the Flying transformation of Pokémon Stadium 2 is based on the Valley Windworks from the Sinnoh region. The inclusion of wind turbines is the main reason people think this. To further back up the theory, the rare Pokémon Drifloon makes a guest appearance here. In Diamond/Pearl, the Valley Windworks was the only location where a Drifloon could be encountered.
- Unlike the Melee Pokémon Stadium, characters fly in front of the screen in the background when Star K.O.'ed. In the original one, you fly behind the screen.
- In the original Dojo screenshot of the Flying element of the stage, Drifloon and Hoppip are shown much farther away then in the final version of Brawl.
- When using Marth's neutral special attack, Shield Breaker, in midair on the Flying stage, Marth will fly across the screen the way he is facing.
- When playing as Wario or Wario-Man, using a fully charged Wario Waft on the wind stage will result in an instant star KO.
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text: Only two out of several hundred mainstream UK equity funds have beaten the FTSE All-Share index in every rolling five-year period since 2000, according to research by FE Trustnet. In my latest Money Makers podcast, I talk to one of them, Richard Hallett, the little known but impressive manager of the Marlborough UK Multi-Cap Growth fund. To hear what he thinks now, you can listen here or (if you are a subscriber) read the full transcript in my subscription-only Investment Reader newsletter, together with my latest Notebook pieces.


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European stocks are set to be dominated by events in the U.S. next week, as the Federal Reserve is likely to cut rate cuts further and the big three U.S. brokerages deliver earnings to volatile markets.
"The market is pricing in a 75 basis point cut (from the Fed), anything less then that … is going to be disappointing," Patrik Schowitz, European equity strategist at HSBC, told CNBC.com adding that earnings from the likes of Bear Stearns, , Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are more of an uncertainty.
Doubts over the investment houses intensified Friday as Bear Stearns called on emergency funding from the Fed after its liquidity position deteriorated due to a cash crunch.
The intraday equity movements around these results and the Fed decision could be very hard to predict, according to Schowitz, and investors should "prepare for a volatile week."
Even established sector patterns can't be trusted, Schowitz said, but financial stocks will remain a bellwether for overall market sentiment and lead the major European indexes higher or lower as they are bought or sold.
Meanwhile, troubled UK bank Northern Rock will be back under the microscope at the start of next week as Ron Sandler, the man put in charge after its nationalization, will attempt to satisfy European regulators and repay billions of pounds to the UK government.
On Wednesday investors should get more insight into the Bank of England's monetary policy, as the central bank publishes minutes from its recent meeting, where UK interest rates were left on hold.
European earnings will also add to the week's events, with industrial gases and engineering company Linde and building equipment distributor Wolseley reporting numbers.
The trading week will be cut short as Friday is a public holiday. European markets will re-open after the Easter break on Tuesday March 25.


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The life and legacy of late Tony Award winner Barbara Harris, known for her roles in the Broadway musicals On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and The Apple Tree, will be celebrated October 2 at The Green Room 42.
The Oscar-nominated actress, who appeared in Freaky Friday, Robert Altman's Nashville, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Who Is Harry Kellerman, and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, for which she received a 1972 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, died August 21 at the age of 83.
The 7 PM tribute concert will include shared memories of long-time friends and colleagues (both in person and via video) with video montages of rarely-seen footage of Harris on stage.
Expect selections from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Apple Tree, Nashville, Freaky Friday, and A Thousand Clowns.
Featured artists are Nicholas Barasch, Kerry Ipema, Michael Cummings, Justin Henry, John Charles McLaughlin, Lindsay Morgan, Cherish Myers, Vanessa Pereda-Felix, Jason Pintar, Cassandra Sandberg, Jana DeBusk, and Adam Elsberry.
Proceeds benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, an organization that became and remained dear to Ms. Harris after losing close friends to the epidemic. Nicholas Barasch directs with music direction by and Kerry Ipema.
Tickets, priced $20-$45, can be purchased here.


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By the faultless logic of CE manufacturers, if you can't ship, just keep adding features. To wit: the Notion Ink Adam is now going to have A-GPS, 802.11n support, and even include Unreal Engine support for some hot gaming action using NVIDIA's Tegra graphics chip. Slashgear, however, is optimistic and expects a January 2011 launch date.
While we want to believe, this feels like a standard throat-clearing before a big announcement of availability in Slovakia and India and then a sudden disappearance off of everyone's radar. What would Best Buy rather sell? The Dell Streak or the something that reminds people of grandma's button basket?
How excited are you about the Adam? Sound off.


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National money transfers, from one Malaysian account to another, are handled in the same way as in other countries, too. Usually commission fees of up to 2% apply to such a transaction.
When in comes to international transactions, they are usually a bit more expensive. Additional costs such as transfer charge and receiving fees apply.
In order to perform an international bank transfer you have to provide the name of the receiving bank, the account number and the account holder, the SWIFT code and the IBAN number of the receiving bank. Such a transaction usually takes 5-7 workdays.
A considerably faster, yet much more expensive, service is provided by Moneygram (via Maybank) and Western Union (for instance via CIMB Bank). Check the web sites for locations of the respective agents and take personal identification with you when making the transaction.
For sending more than RM 10.000 overseas in one transaction, approval from Malaysia's central bank is required.
Currency specialists
If you are doing international transfers very frequently you should consider consulting a currency specialist. They can usually transfer your money free of charge and offer you a better exchange rate on each transfer.


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Marxism, Dalrymple explains, answers several needs.
- It has its arcana, which persuade believers that they have penetrated to secrets veiled from others, who are possessed of false consciousness.
- It appeals to the strongest of all political passions, hatred, and justifies it.
- It provides a highly intellectualised rationalisation of a discreditable but almost universal and ineradicable emotion: envy.
- It forever puts the blame elsewhere, making self-examination unnecessary and self-knowledge impossible.
- It explains everything.
- It persuades believers that they have a special destiny in the world. For disgruntled intellectuals, nothing could be more gratifying.
Yet the socialist reality is
- lies
- enforced ignorance
- characters formed in an atmosphere of suspicion
- compromise with evil
- toadying
- self-abasement
Dalrymple once met a Marxist who told him that the level of dialectical debate in Moscow was so much higher, and so much wider in scope, than in Western Europe or North America. Dalrymple's reply was:
If only you could fix your mind on something important, like selling cosmetics or life insurance.
He notes that communist ideas, or prejudices,
live on in those countries where Really Existing Socialism, as the dialecticians used so elegantly to put it, has never been experienced.
In Britain,
the Marxist hatred of profit subsists happily with a Jane Austen-like coyness about where one's money actually comes from. In Jane Austen, Trade is ungentlemanly; in Marx, it is wicked; in British literary circles, it is both. Given the nature of the output of British literary circles, this wouldn't matter very much, except for the fact that the attitude has filtered down into the rest of the intelligentsia, and is nearly universal in the public service.
Unlettered whizzkids earning a fortune in the City
particularly excite ire (and envy); I have had many arguments in the doctors' common room about the necessary and constructive part banking and trade play in any modern economy, irrespective of the existence of dishonest bankers and traders.
But the attitude persists,
the disdainful — and essentially snobbish — attitude that unites them with Castro and Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and Ulbricht, Lenin and Kim Il-sung. Any activity that is neither directly productive nor concerned with the welfare of 'the people' is parasitic.
The consequence of the philosophy
may be seen on the shelves of any communist supermarket or in any East European field piled with rotting potatoes.
A semi-literate Marxism is
the unchallengeable orthodoxy in British teacher-training colleges and colleges of further education. Here the politics of grievance are assiduously fostered, with 'analyses' of the exploitative nature of capitalist society, which causes the oppression of almost everyone except men in top hats. It is difficult to believe that something of this ideology is not communicated to children, and in my daily work I am often 'accused' by young patients of having a good job, as if personal activity had nothing to do with it and my privilege and their deprivation explained all.
Socialism continues to exert a strong influence in poor countries. Liberation theology, for example, is
Pravda with the word God thrown in.
There is a stifling orthodoxy among intellectuals about the origins of poverty. Poverty for them
is the dialectical opposite of wealth: we are poor because you are rich, and you are rich because we are poor. It is a destructive idea. Poverty is the result of exploitation and nothing else: the world is Marx's Victorian England writ large. The global economy is a cake, and if Europe (the bourgeoisie) has a large slice, Africa (the proletariat) must have a small one. The immiseration of the workers in Marx is paralleled by the immiseration of continents, and has the same causes.
That poverty is the natural state of Man, and that
it is the ascent to wealth that needs explanation (Adam Smith asked the right question), never occurs to the embittered intellectuals.


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Diaconal Sunday - February 23, 2020
Celebrating witness expressed through service (diakonia) and leadership offered by the ELCIC's diaconal ministers.
Sunday, February 23 is Diaconal Sunday, the day the ELCIC celebrates the witness expressed through service (diakonia). Through our baptism all Christians are called to share God's word and to serve our neighbours in Christ's name. It is also a day to recognize and give thanks to God for the men and women who serve in official calls as deacons in our church.
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It's never too late to start a fantasy draft. Or to make a career change.
I think my humour sense is broken. I only uttered one vague chuckle and that was at the poke-skit...
It's that or the show is really starting to lack in funnies. Either or, I guess.
aww poor magnemite
Well... someone's been mistreating that little lump of metal...
I want to know how that bisons and oranges game works though.
lol 158 when did that happen.
Love this show!
"Who's throwing pokeballs?"
Pokemon skit was the winner here. Also...that girl was SMOKIN' hot.
My favorite part was the throwback to the Flying Circus. At least that's what it looked like.
You know, I'm enjoying the show, but I actually like your shorter sketches better. The "Angry Matts" was my favorite, and I think "Poke-Job" could have been shortened a little. I like the show though! Still funny!
The treatment of that strategy guide for Pokemon Yellow was utterly appalling.
I don't think I've ever been so mortified by the treatment of a book.
Poor Magnemite, long since he's been in for a anti-rust therapy.
Liked the little magnet shrug at the end.
Not the best. The last line was good and the magnemite was well animated which made it slightly amusing in its actions... but otherwise quite a dull episode. And the first sketch had a couple of chuckles but didn't think the acting was very good there. However plus points for the cute girl; aagh, my one weakness...
Thank god i was not the only one that noticed that >.>
Btw what was spoofed in the short skit? angry birds?
Not their best episode in my opinion(and yes a girl asking if she looks fat is a trap).
I agree with this, if that had happened to my crystal one, well it doesnt bear thinking about.
OT: the pokemon sketch was pretty good, I think the style should be short and sharp personally. Some of these sketches drag on I feel,
maybe i just didnt get anything here, i dont now nothing bout basketball or pokemon ( Pac-Man its pronounced Pac-Man.) so i cant even say if it was good.
Loved the Angry Birds joke (assuming that's what it was), also as already said, Pokeskit was fuckin' balling.
The boss guy just stealing the fifty bucks also made me laugh.
Not as funny as previous ones... Still I'll keep watching.
To be honest,it was the first thing I noticed.That may be rather sad.But god she was hot.Costume helped.A lot.
Loved the pokemon skit.The show does always seem to have one stronger skit,with the others not being quite as good.Then again,I did like the basketball one too,it just wasn't as good as the pokemon scene.That may be because of Lyra.
My only problem is that with people in cosplay it is even harder to guess the age of that person.
I wasn't feeling it this week guys, sorry.
Me and my bro thought it was spoofing the banana bomb from worms: armageddon. The sound he makes was spot on =D
No kidding. I was like "Stop trying to be funny guys, show the girl again". :D
And the name of the short skit is "Angry Matts" in the credits. :)
i like how he walked away with the 50 dollars.
good show guys
How do you guys do this, your show isn't all that great, but it's good enough to keep me coming back for more.
Your show isn't very funny but I think you just need time to evolve, for example, I think you're trying way too hard to be funny but at least you guys have your heart in the show, you can tell by the AMAZING sets you guys produce. I think you should work on the scripts a little more, your problem is you all great at punchlines, but you try way too hard to make every line the punch line (intentional or otherwise) and it kind of kills the experience.
Set up a situation, make it feel real, then add some parody and a punch line, you only need one punchline to make a successful video. Just remember the build up to the punch line can be more entertaining than the punchline it's self.
Try to be subtle with the build up(something I've noticed you're not very good at.) People are more likely to laugh if they care about the characters all your characters are just empty shells, this can be fixed simply by giving them a name, one people are going to remember or randomly adding insignificant backstory like "I think your distaste in women stem from that one time you went to the park and that girl kept looking at you, you thought she was hitting on you and so you walked up to her, quite nonchalant and tried picking her up but in reality she was looking at you because she just hated your indecent and rather see-through fishnet shirt." It's completely unnecessary to the overall skit but it gives the character depth and by giving a character depth people care more about your characters and if they care about your characters they're more likely going to laugh at the punchline.
If uberfriendship have the time, watch some LoadingReadyRun not just to enjoy it but to study it, they have some of the most well written, funniest smartest comedy on the internet and I think they're a fantastic guide on 'how to make comedy'.
I hope you guys read this and put it in to consideration as this is purely constructive criticism because I'd really like to see you guys grow as a group, you all have such incredible potential and I hope that in time you become better and people begin to appreciate you more.
is that the SKIfree Abominable snowman on her monitor???
Nice use of CG!
I don't know how you people complaining about how this wasn't funny. I thought it was a well put together episode, and I spent a lot of time laughing at the entire skit.
This passes as humor around here? I think the standard is set much higher by Zero Punctuation. It really annoys me how funny people think these are when you can find better humor anywhere. What kills it is the over acting. None of these actors have any natural screen presence and come across as very self conscious. Just because they reference games and are pandering to nerds, doesn't make the jokes funny at all. The reason these things don't get better is because people keep kissing its ass in the comments section so the creators aren't held to a higher standard.
The non-sequitur made me do a "WTF?" But when he split and blew the house to bits, I laughed out half-chewed gummi bears. Great, now I need a napkin :P
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First half wasn't funny. Maybe because I don't follow basketball. Soon picked up when I saw that girl! The pokemon part was brilliant.
It's A Trap D: Also...whose Ratata?
Gah. You ninja.
I wish she'd give me a
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