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The big headlines out of Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) are all about the company's pending breakup. And for good reason. But, as an investor, you have to look past the headlines and ask if this change is for the better -- or worse.
What's going on?
Over the last few years, Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld has been shifting the aluminum giant toward specialty products and away from commodity products. That's been a good decision overall, because specialized products, like jet engine parts, generally have higher margins and growth prospects. For example, the company expects the aerospace market to grow at around a 9% annual rate over the next few years. Older, commodity-like businesses such as producing soda cans, meanwhile, are only expected to expand in the low single digits.
But this transformational split is about more than that. Essentially, Alcoa is breaking up into an aluminum company and an aluminum products company. One will create the base material, a commodity, that the other uses to make unique products. That's all in-house today, in what's known as vertical integration.
To give you a sense of the internal shift that led to this, roughly 80% of the company's growth spending this year has gone toward specialized products. Meanwhile, Alcoa continues to idle or close base metal facilities around the world. That's been the basic trend for several years and this big split is pretty much the culmination of years of effort.
So Alcoa is, in one move, shifting away from the vertically integrated model. The specialty parts business, what Alcoa is calling the "Value-Add Business," will have to buy aluminum from another company and the old Alcoa, dubbed the "Upstream Business," will have to find new customers to buy its aluminum. Clearly, the two will have a relationship after the break up, but that's the big-picture takeaway on this split.
Looks good to me!
Right now this looks like a great move, at least for the value-add business. That's because aluminum prices, like so many other commodities, have been floundering under the weight of global overcapacity. And, yes, it's China that's a big part of the problem. This means that the upstream business has been facing weak markets while the value-add business has increasingly been able to charge more for its products.
And it just gets better for the value-add business after the split because it can start to shop around for the cheapest aluminum instead of having to rely on an in-house supply, regardless of the cost. But the upstream business will be left selling a commodity product competing largely on price. If you extrapolate today's market into the future, it sounds like the value-add business is getting the better deal here.
But aluminum is a commodity. What happens if -- perhaps when -- prices kick back up? The currently struggling upstream business will be in for a windfall. The value-add business, however, will be dealing with cost headwinds that are largely out of its control. That suddenly becomes a much bigger risk without the upstream business in the fold.
But is it good?
Controlling supply is why companies vertically integrate in the first place. For example, Nucor (NYSE:NUE) is one of the largest recyclers in the United States, recycling 19 million tons of scrap steel in 2014. Scrap is a key input for the steel giant. It's also been investing in plants to make direct reduced iron in house, which is an alternative to scrap, despite low commodity prices. Nucor is, essentially, working toward greater control of its key input costs even though those costs are low today.
Alcoa is going the opposite direction. That could turn out to be a great call for the value-add business over the near term, but it poses a big question mark over the long term. It's worth noting that Nucor's conservative business model has allowed it to increase its dividend for 40 years. Alcoa's dividend, meanwhile, was gutted in the recession, going from an annual $0.68 a share to just $0.12, and it hasn't budged since.
Alcoa and Nucor are different companies in different industries, of course, but they both deal with commodities and specialty products. Although Alcoa may be making the right choice for its specialty products business today, it might end up regretting the loss of control down the line. As an investor, you'll want to keep this soon-to-be-increased risk in the back of your mind when deciding whether or not to keep a broken up Alcoa in your portfolio. If you decide you like the integrated model better, you might want to consider a switch.


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"The Abominable Bride" is an episode that is a bit unfocused but comes together at the end and never stops being fun. It more than makes up for the end of Season 3 and even the overall message of the internal mystery is powerful too and is timeless, which is something Moffat usually doesn't cover in his episodes. I'll get into more of the details later but this episode was a trip (in more than one way) and for non-spoiler thoughts, is well worth checking out.
The episode was directed by Douglas Mackinnon and written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Spoilers ahead
The episode takes place in Victorian England where Sherlock is seeking to solve the case of the Abominable Bride who killed herself but has come back from the dead and is hunted down her husband and other evil men. All is not as it appears to be though as even the story is meta.
The Pros: Cinematography – The cinematography is beautiful per usual, which one thing that has been true of even the weakest episodes of "Sherlock." There is great use of freezing the frame and using the London fog to cast mystery and shadow and with it an element of horror which lended strength to the narrative both main and meta. Suzie Lavelle did a great job.
Soundtrack – The music continues to be one of the strongest parts of this series and plays into the mystery, horror and self reflection that really defines this episode and the series at it's best when it is at it's strongest. David Arnold and Michael Price did a wonderful job.
Dialogue – The dialogue is snappy, sharp and natural and fit the characters beautifully. This was an episode that didn't drag because the writing kept things moving, especially in how the different characters interacted.
Characters – Characters have always been the strongest part of the show and the Special is a shining example of this. Though there are some glorified cameos I won't really mention since I don't really feel the cameos got exploration.
Mary – Mary is fighting for equality in England and she is the one who discovers the organization that created the Abominable Bride. It is wonderful seeing her front and center and I hope she becomes part of John and Sherlock and that they become a trio. Amanda Abbington once again does a fantastic job.
Moriarty – Andrew Scott is back, though it is only in Sherlock's mind palace as we learn part of his plan was to trap Sherlock inside his head as he really did die and wanted to bring Sherlock down with him, like he did in the story of the Reichenbach Fall. In the end he fails to account for Watson though and it is his downfall as within his mind Sherlock is able to realize that Moriarty is not alive and that all of this was a ploy to trap him so that his final attack on the world could go forward.
Mycroft – Mark Gatiss is my favorite Mycroft and in this we see the tender side of his relationship to Sherlock as he was there to pull Sherlock out of his addiction and cared for him. We also see a fat Mycroft in the past (and how he looks in the stories and novels) which is a treat. He never stops being Mycroft though and we see him team up with Mary to help and protect John and Sherlock. Gatiss truly owns this role and he gets great character development this episode.
Watson – Martin Freeman's Watson gets some wonderful character development in this as in the past we see that Sherlock uses how Watson sees him in order to solve cases and build himself up and that Watson truly is smart and has learned a lot from Sherlock. He saves Sherlock from his mind Moriarty and helps him wake up as well as solving the Abominable Bride case with him and his wife Mary. He is a great character as always.
Sherlock – Benedict Cumberbatch really owns this role and is a natural Sherlock Holmes. I really liked seeing his Victorian self solving the case and them actually dealing with the dangers of his addiction as it takes him going under to solve the case of the Abominable Bride and realize that Moriarty is dead but he put things in place in case that ever did happen. His arc is learning to accept help and letting go of his addiction to needing a case or drugs to feel alive. It's very well done and Sherlock actually grows over the course of the episode.
Equality and Justice – The suffragette movement is addressed and the fact that some of them are using the Abominable Bride for justice against evil men. It's really cool as it uses the sexism of Victorian society to show how far we've come and how far there is to go.
Letting Go and No Longer Alone – Sherlock's arc is letting go of Moriarty in his mind and accepting his death and accepting the love from his friends….that his brother, John and Mary are there for him and that is how he can defeat and has defeated whatever has come his way. No longer the superhuman, he is now human.
Okay/Pro: The Ending – We know now that Moriarty truly is dead but he put something in place for when he does die and now it is up to Sherlock and John to solve it. I liked them talking in the past, it was some of the best John and Sherlock moments…and Sherlock did get some great monologues. I'm doing it as okay since it took Sherlock overdosing to get there.
Okay: The Bride – The organization the Bride is a part of is wonderful, but the bride is a plot device and never fully grows beyond it. She isn't a bad plot device but a plot device is not a character. Lestrade had the same problem.
Lestrade – Graves does a good job with what he's given but he's just kind of there to give Sherlock the plot to solve. I would have liked to see more with him as he's never given the chance to fully be his own character.
This was a favorite episode and clearly showed that Gatiss and Moffat are back in their game when it comes to this show. I was disappointed with Series 3, especially in it's treatment of Mary in the finale and how the kill was handled, as well as the villain being one note…but this got back on track. Sherlock has always been about the characters and this episode showed once more why we keep coming back to this show and what drew us to the stories of Sherlock Holmes in the first place.
Final Score: 9.4 / 10

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It is Sunday, August 2, 2015, 2 a.m. A loud and urgent knock wakes me up. I am disoriented. There is hardly anyone staying here. Who could it be and have they got the wrong door? Ravi is fast asleep. I wake him up to go see who's at the door. It is the grounds keeper. He is frantically waking every one up.
It's been raining all night. Heavy rains are causing streams of water to come down the mountain around the house like a turbulent river. The lady owner is scared. I'm scared. Ravi takes our headlamps and goes with the grounds keeper to see what's happening. There is nothing that can be done though, other than wait for the rain to subside. We go back to sleep, but I wonder what this will mean for our trek tomorrow.
Our breakfast is prepared by the young woman who served us last night. I have tea and fried bread with jam. We are ready at 7 a.m. as the pony man requested. He shows up at 8 a.m. and loads up the pony. We leave at approximately 8:30 a.m. This will be the longest day yet. We are at lower altitudes now, so it is not as much of a challenge as will be the river and the hot sun.
We are able to keep up with our pony man this morning. We trek together on and off with another group of porters and ponies and donkeys. Later on, the same group of younger porters will adopt us as our pony man doesn't want much to do with us. We reach our first river crossing which will require us to take off our shoes. I take off my boots and socks and stand there not sure how to proceed. The river is about 100 meters wide here, not too deep, up to our knees.
We see a group crossing from the other side, and the guide from across the river noticing that we're not sure which way to tackle this crossing, motions to us to move to another spot and start there. We go for it. The river is ice cold. The stones hurt my feet. We make it across, and put our shoes back on. We keep going.
The trail is flat and we are focused on pushing it to the next obstacle. We get to another river crossing, and this one can't be figured out without guidance. It's wide. It's turbulent. Our pony man jumps on a donkey to cross the river. We are left behind. The group of young porters is also crossing, and they give us a hand. Literally, we all hold hands and make it across. The strength of the river just can't be underestimated. One wrong move, and it will take you down and away.
We keep pushing on to get to Markha as quickly as possible. There is another huge river crossing we encounter. The group of young porters takes us on a shortcut over the mountain. Well, we don't have to risk drowning, instead we will practice being mountain goats on a non-existent trail on the side of a steep sandy slope. One of the guides "wills" me through this hike. I just follow him, don't think, and do what he says. Ravi is braving it on his own.
After this, I am pretty sure I have had enough and have earned a night of rest. But, we're not finished yet. We are met with another river crossing. It is noon and the river is high. There is a group of high school girls lined up for crossing. There used to be a bridge here, but it's gone. The group's guide is taking two girls at a time to cross the river. It has worked with a few girls, but it's getting harder as the river gets higher and he – tired. Before they reach the other side, one girl gets pulled in by the river. She gets pulled out to safety.
The guide returns to get two more girls, tries the same approach, and again, one girl gets pulled in by the river. And although she gets pulled out to safety, it is making the other girls scared. I feel like I'm watching a car wreck in slow motion. Things are getting tense. Ravi and I watch on. We still have to cross too. It is past noon and as the mountain glaciers melt in the sun, the river progressively increases in might and turbulence.
The young group of porters who helped us along the way is also here. They pitch in to help. They get some rope out and get it stretched across the river to assist in the crossing. The girls are here from a high school in the U.K. with a couple female teachers and one male guardian. The male is a mountain guide back home. He is also getting concerned about the safety of his group.
Ravi gets involved and suggests a way to cross the river by traversing it sideways. It works with some close calls. Some girls are crying. I am almost crying. I still have to cross. The local guide in charge of the crossing is bleeding from his knee now. He slipped in the river and cut it on a rock. He is resting near me and shivering badly.
All the men assisting with the crossing are thoroughly exhausted, but all the girls have crossed now. I am going next after the two lady teachers. They are walking sideways while holding onto the rope. We are spaced apart, and seeing them make it to the shore, I am confident I will be okay. My shoes are on. My day pack on my back. I start off slowly and carefully. There is a man in the middle holding the rope. As I try to pass him, I let go with one hand.
And before I have time to realize what just happened, I am turned around 180 degrees by the force of the river facing the direction she wants to go. The river is up to my thighs. Sandy and turbulent. Immediately, I am on my back, but holding on to the rope. The flow of the river is so strong, she almost pulls off my pants. I hear people talking, frantically trying to help me stand up, but I can't. I am being pulled out by hands I have never met. I am in shock, but aware enough to be concerned about being naked from the waist down. Everything is happening so fast. But finally, I am on my feet on solid ground.
The girls are so nice, asking me if I need anything and offering me water. My crossing must have been the most dramatic, probably because it was the last, and everyone was watching my slow motion car wreck. The last to cross is one of the porters on a horse with our packs and duffel bag on it. The horse is moving erratically but the porter mounted on top of him gets them across safely. I take off my wet boots, wring out my socks and put it all back on. I will be trekking in my wet boots. But, it is hot, so it is not so awful. Also, I almost died. So, wet socks and shoes are nothing.
We trek along with the girls on a narrow and sandy path at a slow pace for a couple hours. The sun is shining on. The girls will rest in a small village now. Their teachers feel they have suffered enough. I agree. I was done a long time ago today, even before this near death experience. We are another 2-1/2 hours away from Skyu. We will keep going, mostly because we have a pony man who likely wouldn't wait for us.
After a short break and goodbyes with the girls' teachers and guides, we move toward Skyu. Unfortunately, we are not done with the river crossings. I just go in with my shoes now. I can't think, so I don't. Just keep moving. Up the rocks and down into the river. More rocks. More river. It's so hot. I am so tired. Maybe even delirious. My body is still walking. We reach Skyu before sunset, ready to collapse.
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As his hometown presidential hopeful Marco Rubio fumbles for a coherent response to ISIS and his state's attentions have been riveted to the Charlie Crist-Rick Scott slugfest, Jeb Bush has mostly kept his head low in Coral Gables. But if Dubya's hermano isn't 100 percent running for president just yet, he's sure starting to act like a guy on the brink of declaring.
Just this week, Bush has headlined a heavy hitter GOP fundraiser in Tampa and announced plans to visit several key primary states. CNBC, meanwhile, talked to his inner circle and reports today that "Bush is almost certain to run."
See also: Jeb Bush Is "Thinking About" Presidential Run but Might Have Too Many Shady Business Ties
Of course, Bush has spent the past eight years as a perennial GOP dark horse, with Republican strategists forever whispering in his ear about taking back the White House.
A few things have presumably held him back. For one, his wife, Columba, is reportedly unhappy with the idea of moving back into the political spotlight. There's also his long, unsavory trail of business deals since leaving elected office more than a decade ago that could complicate a political run.
But all signs lately are pointing to Bush moving past both those roadblocks.
Yesterday, Bush started a string of planned high-profile fundraisers in Tampa, where a lineup of heavy hitter Republican donors gathered for an event chartered by Floridians for a Senate Majority, a group backing a slew of GOP Senate hopefuls around the country.
The event isn't Bush's only chance to rub shoulders with the GOP's financiers. He'll be headlining another gig in key primary battleground South Carolina next month, and will soon roll on to Kansas and North Carolina.
What's it all add up to? CNBC reports that although Bush won't make a final call until November, his friends and allies are increasingly sure he'll throw his hat in the ring.
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One person who met with Bush recently told me the former governor spoke passionately on foreign policy and economics and sounded very much like someone who plans to mount a presidential campaign. This person said Bush's main concern remains the impact of a campaign on his family, particularly his wife Columba, who does not like politics or the limelight.
Jeb isn't so fond of Chris Cristie as a moderate candidate, CNBC says, and thinks libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul would be an "electoral disaster" if matched up with likely Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton.
So if everything plays out predictably, America, another Bush-Clinton showdown in 2016 is looking more and more likely. Yay democracy?
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Soundboard app with eleven super sexy audio clips of lesbians making out on the other side of your bedroom wall. It'll be like the lesbians next door never moved away. This is one app we really hoped wouldn't be banned because it is so useful.
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Looks like Ask Bjørn Hansen has been bitten by the bad customer service at Netgear. While I do somewhat understand they feel they are building a product for home or SOHO users, but seriously who turns off their switch or router at home? That's right only when it hangs.
I've never been a big fan of Netgear products, but based on this wonderful word of mouth marketing I'm sure to stay far away from them. They could really use some help from someone like Seth Godin, specifically I think they need to read this post.


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Davidson, James M. (2015). "A Cluster of Sacred Symbols": Interpreting an Act of Animal Sacrifice at Kingsley Plantation, Fort George Island, Florida (1814-1839). International Journal of Historical Archaeology 19(1).
Davidson, James M. 2014. Deconstructing the Myth of the "Hand Charm": Mundane Clothing Fasteners and Their Curious Transformations into Supernatural Objects. Historical Archaeology 48(4).
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(FOX, February 9-August 24, 2002)
CinéGroupe, Tom Lynch Company, LEGO Group
Matthew Ewald – Nicholas Bluetooth
Marie-Marguerite Sabongui – Allegra Zane
Sam Magdi & Michael O'Reilly (voice) – Jens
Jeff Hall & Georges Morris (voice) – Euripides
Claude Giroux & Walter Massey (voice) – Nepol
Randy Thomas – Samuel "The Stranger" Bluetooth
Derrick Damon Reeve and Steven P. Park & Ian Finlay (voice) – Gorm
Sean Devine – Bala
Karen Cliche – Lind
Tara Leigh – Queen Riana
It's hard to imagine a time for LEGO before everything truly was awesome, but in the early part of the 21st century the company was on a steady decline towards bankruptcy. The market was changing and LEGO was slow to adapt. It began making moves to try and correct this by bringing in a new generation of innovative designers to oversee their set creations and began acquiring licenses to hit franchise properties like Star Wars and Harry Potter.
|Allegra with the map.
In 2001, LEGO decided to enter the growing build-a-figure market by creating a toyline tying into and financing a new upcoming science fiction program: Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension. Created by Thomas W. Lynch, the series focused on average teenager, Nick Bluetooth (named for Danish king Harald Bluetooth and originally named Christian by Lynch, played by Matthew Ewald), who had been having strange dreams about a completely different place. He was given an electronic map that led him to a spaceship called the Egg that took him and his best friend, Allegra Zane (Marie-Marguerite Sabongui), to the Outer Dimension—the place from Nick's dreams. It turned out that Nick's father, Samuel (Randy Thomas), had created the Egg and had adventures in the Outer Dimension where he met Nick's mother, Queen Riana (Tara Leigh). He was brought to the Outer Dimension to help stop the invasion forces of the sinister Gorm (performed by Derrick Damon Reeve and Steven P. Park, voiced by Ian Finlay), a former royal advisor who was banished and spent his time amassing a huge army and conquering various worlds; leaving a wasteland in his wake. However, in order to conquer Galidor, Gorm must find and assemble a shattered key that will open a gateway to that world.
|Promo shot of Euripidies, Allegra, Nick, Jens and Nepol by the Egg.
Aiding Nick was Jens (performed by Sam Magdi, voiced by Michael O'Reilly), the chief royal scientist whose original plant body was destroyed by Gorm resulting in his being placed into a robot body; Euripides (performed by Jeff Hall, voiced by Georges Morris), a frog-like creature called an Amphibib who was the royal scholar capable of using telekinesis and generating heat through his staff; and Nepol (performed by Claude Giroux, voiced by Walter Massey), a blue-furred Siktari that was shrunken by Gorm and could run at great speeds or freeze things with his spear. Riana would appear in holographic messages only Nick could see to provide cryptic guidance on his journey. Eventually, Lind (Karen Cliche), a Galidorian that could dissolve into a purple gel and was trained by Gorm to take his place in the royal court, would join the team. Aiding Gorm was Tager, a being with mind control abilities; Caliphonic, the leader of the Aquarts; and Bala (Sean Devine), a cyborg bounty hunter. Gorm's primary army was composed of Boges; human-sized bug-like creatures that could fly.
In the Outer Dimension, Nick discovered he gained a special ability: the ability to glinch. Glinching meant he was able to channel an energy that allowed him to shapeshift parts of his body to resemble those he had come in close contact with, temporarily gaining whatever skill was associated with them (such as super strength with Jens' robotic arms). Gorm also possessed this ability, but to a lesser extent than Nick necessitating his use of a device to increase his power. This glinching ability was used to explain the core aspect of the toyline, where the character's body parts could be swapped for others. While Nick and Gorm, and to an extent the Egg, which was revealed to be partially sentient, were the only ones on the show who could do this, all of the characters in the toyline were able to be mixed and matched. It was a simplified version of their more-successful BIONICLE line.
Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension debuted on FOX on February 9, 2002. It was one of the last programs to debut as part of the Fox Kids programming block, which was replaced by the 4Kids Entertainment-produced FoxBox that September. Along with LEGO, the show was produced by CinéGroup and the Tom Lynch Company. The series was filmed digitally to reduce the time required to add in the computer-generated imagery. It was also filmed in a wide aspect ratio, although only the previews were broadcast as such. The series was written by Lynch, along with Chad Fiveash, Damian Kindler, Erik Saltzgaber, Jonas E. Agin, Tom Chehak, Alex Epstein, Shari Goodhartz, Vijal Patel, Terry Saltsman and James Patrick Stoteraux, with music composed by Andrew R. Powell.
Unfortunately, Galidor failed on two fronts. Not only did the show underperform in the ratings, but the toyline was selling poorly. This was due in large part to LEGO's miscalculation of making the toys incompatible with other LEGO sets and doing away with the construction style they were best known for. Only 15 of 17 planned sets were made before sales saw the line cancelled. Without the toys to draw revenue from and the ending of Fox Kids, Galidor ended on a cliffhanger after two seasons; which aired without a break in between. Reruns would air on ABC Family following its conclusion.
To promote the series, a set of five toys and a mini comic book were included with McDonald's Happy Meals that year. Nick, Jens, Euripides, Nepol and Gorm were all present with fully interchangeable parts. LEGO also published a single issue for a proposed comic book series, Galidor: Danger in the Outer Dimension. A poorly-received tie-in video game was developed by Tiertex Design Studios for the Game Boy Advance and released by LEGO Interactive and Electronic Arts in October of 2002. Asylum Entertainment was developing a version for PlayStation 2, GameCube and PC with an early 2003 release date, but financial instability caused them to cancel the game and lay off the development team. A flash game was also featured on the Fox Kids website. One of the toys, the Kek Powerizer, featured a built-in game that could be controlled by moving the toy's limbs in certain ways. It also had a special sensor that allowed it to interact with the show when it was on by playing sounds, screen animations and activating new missions for the game.
Although LEGO eventually rebounded, the blunder with Galidor almost pushed the company over the edge. It wouldn't be until 2010's Hero Factory that they would again attempt a tie-in television series to one of their toy lines. The Galidor concept was eventually reused for the Ben 10: Alien Force toyline, which met with similar success (or lack thereof). Galidor was later mentioned as a location in the Guardians of The Galaxy: The Thanos Threat series of shorts and was seen as a t-shirt worn by Rufus McCallister in The Ninjago Movie Ninjago City set.
"Identity" (2/9/02) – Nick receives a map on his birthday that leads him and Allegra to a ship that takes them to the Outer Dimension.
"Euripides, Please" (2/16/02) – Nick, Allegra and Jen search for Euripides, a Aphibib philosopher who can show them how to read the map.
"All for One, One for Nepol" (2/23/02) – Nick meets the warrior Nepol and Vilda, Gorm's henchwoman who collects slaves to become part of Gorm's army.
"Bouncing Off the Walls" (3/2/02) – Nick finds but is unable to acquire the first key fragment.
"Dust til Dawn" (3/9/02) – The team runs into a problem when they locate the key.
"Belonging" (3/16/02) – Nick and Allegra are a little homesick and Nick discovers his team are plastered on wanted posters.
"A Crack in the Map" (3/23/02) – Nick's friends must save him when he's sentenced to 30 years of community service after a dumb mistake.
"Seeing is Just Seeing" (3/30/02) – The team finds the secret hideout of infamous break-in artist Colash, and Gorm finds them.
"Truth, Lies and Videotape" (4/6/02) - Jens' old friend Britta has the next key fragment, but she believes Gorm is good and alerts him to their presence.
"Just Because You're Paranoid" (4/27/02) – Nick plans to expose Gorm on television, but Gorm jams the signal and ends up damning him and his team instead.
"Frozen Feud" (5/4/02) – The next key fragment is located in the icey home of Euripides, which necessitates him and Allegra to find a special plant that will keep them warm.
"Relativity" (5/11/02) – The team deals with attacks from the Boges and snow beasts while retrieving crystals to repair Nepol's goggles.
"It's Déjà vu All Over Again' (5/18/02) – Nick believes he found a nest of key fragments, but that's put on hold when Gorm has Allegra kidnapped.
"The Road to Kek" (5/25/02) – Allegra manages to escape and get a message to Nick to tell him that Gorm's defenses are weak, but that appears to be nothing more than a trap.
"A Room with No View" (6/1/02) – As the team continues to come for Allegra, Gorm uses illusion technology to make her believe her adventures were just a dream.
"Escape from Kek" (6/8/02) – Gorm finally captures the team and wants Nick to join him in rebuilding the Outer Dimension.
Season 2:
"Pieces of Nick" (6/22/02) – Nick is forced outside of the material world and Allegra decides bringing the Egg back to Kek will bring him back.
"A Tale of Two Nicks" (6/29/02) – A Nick from another reality is pulled into theirs and because two of them can't exist in the same one Nick begins to fade out.
"Go for the Bronze" (7/6/02) – The next key fragment ends up being in the grand prize of a fierce battle competition.
"State of the Art" (7/13/02) – Bala manages to download the map and the next key fragment, putting Nick's crew into a race against his.
"The Great Glinch Switch" (7/20/02) – The final key fragment is located on Earth, but Tager steals the Egg and all of their fragments before they can go after it.
"Mr. Tager Goes to Earth' (7/27/02) – The team heads to Earth for the last key fragment, and Tager uses his mind control powers to send everyone after them.
"Area 51" (8/3/02) – Nick sets out to rescue Euripides from a secret laboratory and discovers that Lind is trying to do the same.
"Recalling the Past" (8/10/02) – As the team reminisces over their adventures, Nick reveals to them how Allegra is an important member of it.
"The Gates of Galidor, Part 1" (8/17/02) – The team locates the Gates of Galidor where their enemies wait to take them down.
"The Gates of Galidor, Part 2" (8/24/02) – As Lind confronts Gorm, the team discovers Nick's father's secret laboratory which may hold the solution to all their problems.


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The Hamdan case is back and yet again it offers an opportunity to explore a crucial aspect of the law of war.
Salim Hamdan was one of the first individuals charged before the U.S. Military Commissions. His challenge to the commissions' jurisdiction went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which concluded that the commission did not have jurisdiction over his case because, inter alia, the commission violated Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. A four-justice plurality concluded that the inchoate offense of conspiracy was not a violation of the international laws of war that the Bush Administration was entitled to prosecute before a military commission.
After Congress passed the MCA of 2006 in response to the Hamdan decision, Hamdan was tried before a military commission for conspiracy and providing material support to terrorism. Ironically, the military jury acquitted him of conspiracy and only found him guilty of material support. He was sentenced to 5.5 years, transferred to Yemen, and subsequently released due to time served.
Although his sentence has long since been completed, his appeal of his conviction for material support is ongoing. The D.C. Circuit is now hearing the case, which is of immense importance between material support for terrorism is a key charge in both civilian and military commission cases against alleged terrorists.
The U.S. government has filed its brief in the case, and the document contains an interesting choice of language. (Analysis by Steve Vladeck here). In the past, the U.S. government has argued that material support for terrorism is a violation of the international law of war, and therefore punishable by military commission. However, the latest document exclusively uses an alternate formulation: material support for terrorism violates the U.S. common law of war, which the brief defines rather cryptically as "U.S. common law traditionally applied in wartime." The question is what that phrase really means and why it was used in this case.
The phrase "common law of war" is rather uncontroversial, and harks back to Ex Parte Quirin. Here's how the Supreme Court defined it there:
The law of war, like civil law, has a great lex non scripta, its own common law. This "common law of war" (Ex parte Vallandigham, 1 Wall. 243, 249) is a centuries-old body of largely unwritten rules and principles of international law which governs the behavior of both soldiers and civilians during time of war. Winthrop, Military Law and Precedents (1920), 17, 41, 42, 773 ff.
However, Quirin never uses the phrase U.S. common law of war, and this new term of art appears to be made up. I know of no previous U.S. federal or state case that uses this exact term. If it appears anywhere else, I would appreciate knowing its provenance.
The shift from "international" to "U.S." common law of war, if we are to put a coherent gloss on it, must mean something like this: what U.S. courts have interpreted the international law of war to be, in particular in the form of past practice before previous military commissions. In that sense, although U.S. common law of war does not represent international law per se, it does represent a kind of precedent that might have stare decisis value. Or more aptly, the U.S. common law of war, in the form of past practice, represents a gloss on international law that Congress was certainly entitled to rely on when it passed the Military Commissions Act, pursuant to its "Define and Punish Clause" power, and codified material support as a crime.
In other words, Congress' decision, if consistent with the U.S. common law of war, was presumably reasonable and therefore should not be disturbed by the judiciary, absent unambiguous evidence that Congress clearly erred when it exercised its "Define and Punish" function. But what if the past practice was wrong? Or what if past practice was based on previous international law which has, in the interim, significantly evolved or changed? Can we continue to prosecute before a military commission a violation of the law of war that the international law of war no longer recognizes as a crime? This seems like an odd -- or at least uncomfortable -- result.
That's my best guess on the significance of the phraseology. If anyone has a better idea, I would love to hear it. Either way, I would not be surprised if the Hamdan case goes back to the Supreme Court again.


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There is an interesting future Strange Horizons article to be written about the history of Doctor Who books, starting with the three 1960s publications, continuing through the series of novelisations of broadcast stories published by Target between 1973 and 1991, and then on to the more adult Virgin and later BBC and Telos books, coming back in the end to the current run of Ninth and Tenth Doctor books, which seem again to be aiming at a younger readership. In particular, the Target books were essential to the body of lore of Doctor Who fandom; they were the only resource we had to turn to for our collective memory, especially for those stories we missed the first time round due to being away that weekend or not being born yet. Certainly I was a regular borrower of the volumes from my local library, and later, they became a sink for pocket money. However, this is not that article.[1]
In this article, I examine the Doctor Who books of Ian Marter, who wrote more novelizations of broadcast stories than anyone except Terrance Dicks and, uniquely, came to the process not as a writer but as an actor. Target aimed to get the authors of the original television stories to do their own novelizations—not always possible, given the demands of other work, and not always desirable, given the different skills required. As a result, there were some writers who got the task of writing plenty of Doctor Who books. The most prolific of these was Dicks, who had been closely associated with the television series, most notably as script editor for the program during the five years when Jon Pertwee played the Third Doctor. . . .and again, there is another Strange Horizons article to be written contrasting Dicks's often formulaic approach to the novelizations with his capacity for originality displayed in some of the other spin-off fiction.
Ian Marter, born in 1944, was a graduate of Oxford University and had worked as a stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic—supposedly the oldest continuously operating theatre in England—as well as having a supporting role in a 1973 Doctor Who story. Before Tom Baker was cast as the Fourth Doctor in 1974, it was expected that the new star of the show might be somewhat older—Pertwee had been in his fifties, as had the show's first star, William Hartnell, when he played the role—and that a male regular companion might be needed for action scenes. The role of Harry Sullivan, a British naval doctor attached to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) was therefore created, and the part went to Marter.
His slightly twittish but courageous character was well regarded by viewers as a foil for the new Doctor and established companion Sarah Jane Smith, played by Elisabeth Sladen. However, Tom Baker—who, at the age of forty, was the youngest Doctor so far—proved well able to cope with action scenes, so Harry Sullivan was written out after the first few stories, last appearing in December 1975. Over the following few months, Baker and Marter wrote a script together for a Doctor Who movie featuring the Doctor and a villain called Scratchman, who was to have been played by Vincent Price. But this project ran into the sand, Baker concentrated on his television role, and Marter moved to other projects.
At this time, it could not be assumed that any particular Doctor Who story would eventually be available in written form. Marter's first book was only the sixth of the Tom Baker stories to be published (Terrance Dicks having written all but one of the other five). As noted above, Target started publication of Doctor Who novels in 1973, ten years after the first television broadcast, which aired the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. Target's rate of output was modest at first, 1973 seeing the reprinting of three stories first published in the 1960s, seven new novelizations appearing in 1974, another seven in 1975, and ten in 1976.
Marter's first two Doctor Who books, Doctor Who and the Ark in Space (1977) and Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment (1978), were both based on stories broadcast in 1975 in which Marter himself had appeared as Harry, and there's a corresponding emphasis on the character. It is weaker in the former, a story of alien insects infiltrating a far-future space station where humanity lies dormant, waiting for the earth to become inhabitable again, although Harry very much provides the viewpoint in the first chapter as we are introduced to the Doctor, Sarah, and the futuristic setting. It's more prevalent in the latter, following directly after The Ark in Space in broadcast order, where the Doctor and friends spoil the plans of the eponymous aliens to invade the Earth.
The very first Doctor Who novel published, David Whitaker's Doctor Who in An Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (1964), had told the story in first-person from the viewpoint of the First Doctor's companion Ian Chesterton. This was in the days when it was not expected that anyone would ever see the Daleks again, and so it was easier to play around with the format for what was expected to be a stand-alone book with no other surviving media backing it. By the late 1970s, however, repeats in the summer had become normal procedure, so the novels had necessarily to stick more closely to the original broadcast version. In any case, it would be very difficult to write any Doctor Who novel from a first-person point of view; television requires multiple viewpoints, and restricting it to a single character means all kinds of narrative gyrations, as even Whitaker found in 1964, despite having a freer hand. If Marter was tempted to write these two from his own character's viewpoint, he was wise to restrain himself.
Marter both added and subtracted from the story as broadcast. He removed, somewhat surprisingly, most of the humorous lines of dialog, such as the Doctor's line from The Ark in Space: "Well, my doctorate is purely honorary, and Harry here is only qualified to work on sailors." It is, of course, a joke on Harry's character, but perhaps Marter just felt the line didn't work as well on the page as it does on the screen. It's also a bit surprising that the unusual link between the two television stories—the Doctor and his companions travel to Earth via transmat beam—was dropped in favour of the more standard journey in the Doctor's TARDIS.
He added, however, some simply superb descriptive passages which one really regrets were not realised on-screen. Sometimes it's just little things, like the Doctor opening a door on the space station by thinking at it. At his best, there are some much longer sections: Harry gets almost an entire chapter to himself exploring the Sontaran spaceship, a passage completely absent from the television story, which had only two episodes as opposed to The Ark in Space's four, so some padding was required. There's also Sarah's journey through the ventilation duct, through the mass of Wirrrn—another thing added by Marter is an extra "r" in the name of the monster insects—and the nightmares inflicted on both Sarah and Harry by the Sontaran experimenter. He also adds graphical nastiness and violence. One character's head explodes, revealing the Wirrrn within. Another's body is "burnt to a colourless crystal." The fight between the Sontaran and the Doctor is realised in considerable detail.
Basically, if your attention is suddenly held by the prose in one of Marter's novelizations, it's a fair bet that it's something he added. Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment makes a below-average DW story into a well-above-average DW novel. Doctor Who and the Ark in Space is a really good read, to the point where Andrew Wrixon at the Doctor Who Ratings Guide blames Marter for making him unable to enjoy the original television version as much as he does the novel.
The Sontaran Experiment was the last story featuring Marter on screen to appear in print—apart from The Ark in Space, the others were all written up by the inevitable Terrance Dicks—and he went on to write seven more novelizations for Target, both catching up from the earlier Doctor Who stories shown before Target started publishing the novelizations and keeping up with the most recent broadcasts. Alas, Marter's next four books were much less impressive efforts than his first two. The standard Target novelization (i.e., by Dicks) just ran through the script in 120 or so pages with a bit of extra description, and Marter did not venture very far beyond that model in what might be called his middle period.
The Ribos Operation was the first in the 1978-79 season of six stories about the Doctor's quest to reassemble the Key to Time, and introduced fellow Time Lord Romana as the Fourth Doctor's new companion. Marter's 1979 novelization rather lacks the television version's abiding sense of cold; the setting is a snowy city on a chilly, medieval planet. The initial set-up between the Doctor and Romana is changed substantially, and not for the better; Marter's version has her arrival as a total surprise, unlike the broadcast version where the Doctor is forewarned, and puts the two characters on a more equal footing, but somehow doesn't sparkle the same way as the broadcast version's clash of egos between Baker's Doctor and Mary Tamm's Romana. The final battle is indeed much more gory in the book, but that's to be expected from a Marter novel.
The Enemy of the World was the one story of the Second Doctor's famously monster-filled 1967-68 season that did not feature monsters, instead pitting the Doctor and companions Jamie and Victoria against a would-be dictator of near-future Earth who happens to be the Doctor's exact double. This was nonetheless published rather early for a Second Doctor story, in 1981—the sixth of Patrick Troughton's twenty-one stories to become available in hard copy. This was the first time Marter had tried to squeeze a six-episode story into 127 pages, so obviously some cuts were necessary, but the result feels very jumpy, and the book does not really add to the story, which itself is not highly regarded among fans. The various deaths by shooting are, of course, more gory than on screen; the funniest dialogue from the screen is, of course, cut by Marter from the novelization. It does have a rather striking cover, though.
The 1982 Fifth Doctor story Earthshock famously, shockingly, killed off the Doctor's companion Adric in battle with the Cybermen. While the descriptions in early chapters of people being melted into puddles of liquid by androids seem like yet another gruesome addition of detail by Marter, in fact for once his novelization, published in 1983, stuck pretty closely to the original broadcast version—indeed more so than for any of his other novelizations. Unfortunately this does also emphasise the numerous flaws in the plot—not, of course, Marter's fault but among many crimes which must be laid at the door of the television script's author, Eric Saward. Why are the Cybermen hiding on the spaceship? Why aren't their weapons as good as their androids'? How did they get the bomb onto Earth in the first place? Faced with this material, Marter did a barely adequate job of the novelization.
Doctor Who—The Dominators (1984) is a better book, but this is not saying much. It is based on a very over-padded five-episode story, the first in Troughton's final (1968-69) season as the Second Doctor, with companions Jamie and Zoe helping to ward off the invasion of the peace-loving planet of Dulkis by the eponymous Dominators. Marter has made it a bit less dull and injected some of the missing chemistry between the two Dominators themselves . . . and made them both over two and a half metres tall! He does capture Zoe and Jamie rather well here, the latter better than in Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World. But again, faced with such unpromising material to work from, the result is rather uninspiring.
Somehow Marter managed to find his creative spark for his last three novelizations, which are all cracking good reads. The Invasion, also from the 1968-69 season, also featured Jamie and Zoe, and concerned Cybermen invading a near-contemporary London; it also brought back the character of Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart as the Brigadier in charge of UNIT. This was an eight-part story when first broadcast, cut down for Marter's 1985 novel to 160 pages, so a rather extreme compression. But somehow, Marter makes it work as he failed to with his previous Second Doctor stories; he had better material to start with, true, but the plot is somewhat easier to follow in his novel than in Derrick Sherwin and Kit Pedler's original script. The villainous Tobias Vaughn, briliantly brought to life by Kevin Stoney on screen, is actually better in some ways here, with several hints that he has already become more—or perhaps less—than completely human, and his change of heart at the end of the story, when he turns on his Cyberman former allies, more consistently portrayed as a fanatic changing targets rather than as the human being brought to his senses whom we saw on television. At the same time, no written description can possibly convey Stoney's sinister drawl, now available to all on a recently released DVD. There is also, unusually, an injection rather than a subtraction of humour by Marter, with a running joke about the awful tea in UNIT headquarters.
But here we must take a break for Marter's 1986 novel taking his broadcast character ten years forward, Doctor Who—Harry Sullivan's War, as it is on the spine, or The Companions of Doctor Who: Harry Sullivan's War, as the front cover has it, or just plain Harry Sullivan's War, as it is on the title page. This was the second officially published Doctor Who spin-off novelization not based on a television story—the first being the long-forgotten Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma, published earlier the same year—and so could be said to be at the start of the long chain of spin-off fiction passing through the Virgin New and Missing Adventures to the BBC Eighth Doctor, Past Doctor and New Doctor Adventures, but also including the Big Finish audios and climaxing, if that is the word, in the 2006 television series Torchwood.
Alas, we start to understand why Marter was never otherwise able to sell original fiction.[2] It was startling to learn on page four that, in this book meant to have a contemporary mid-1980s setting, NATO headquarters is located in Geneva—a fairly trivial detail to readers who do not have my professional interest in either NATO or Geneva, but symptomatic of a lack of focus throughout. Harry Sullivan, meant to be an experienced military doctor working on top-secret biological warfare, seems to have no idea about elementary security precautions. There are cameos from the Brigadier (now retired) and Sarah Jane Smith, and some nice bits with a recurrent Van Gogh motif, with a climactic fight on the Eiffel Tower, but basically, it doesn't make much sense.
Forward—or, in some ways, back—to the really good stuff now. Marter's last two books, Doctor Who—The Reign of Terror (1987) and Doctor Who—The Rescue (1988), equal and surpass his best earlier ones, in somewhat different ways. Both feature William Hartnell's First Doctor, and both were published over twenty years after the stories were first broadcast but long before either was commercially available on video, so were both effectively the most canonical versions of the stories accessible to fandom.[3]
The Reign of Terror was the six-part story which ended the very first season of Doctor Who back in 1964. It features some gruesome implied violence, which Marter was uncharacteristically subdued in writing up, apart from the historically accurate detail of Robespierre having his jaw blown off just before the end of the story. The whole atmosphere of a Paris living under horrible oppression is well conveyed; as with any Doctor Who story, the main characters get split up to follow different bits of the action, but Marter conveys very well their panic and disorientation in this dangerous environment, as he failed to do in Doctor Who—The Dominators. Purists will feel robbed that the Doctor's rather charming speech about destiny at the end of the last scene has been replaced with some banter between him and Ian Chesterton, but it really is one of those cases where what worked on the screen would not have worked so well on the page. It also has absolutely the best cover of the ten books.
Ian Marter died suddenly on his 42nd birthday, 28 October 1986, having completed and partially revised Doctor Who—The Rescue. His last is probably his best book. The Rescue was a rare two-part story, broadcast in 1965, intended purely to introduce the first new companion to join the show since its beginning: Vicki—one of two survivors of a spaceship crash on an apparently hostile planet, though one which the Doctor claims to have visited before, in an untelevised adventure. For once, the printed page is superior to the screen. Maureen O'Brien, aged 21, could never really pass as the young teenager that Vicki was meant to be; Marter is not restricted by the actor's appearance. The monsters of the planet were among the least compelling aspects of the original television story; again, Marter can just make them up and indeed actually brings in more. We get loads more banter between the Doctor and Ian, with Marter putting comic dialogue in rather than taking it out. And the entire story is topped and tailed by reports from the rescue ship which is supposed to be coming for Vicki and her fellow-survivor, so that one feels that this planet is one that fits into a wider history.
So, who knows what Marter might have delivered had he lived? Certainly some more novelizations—there were still a couple of dozen left when he died. Perhaps Peter Darvill-Evans and Rebecca Levene might have knocked him into shape as a contributor to the Virgin series. Perhaps, like Noel Clarke who played Rose's boyfriend Mickey in the 2005 and 2006 series of Doctor Who, and went on to write an episode of Torchwood, he would have been a contributor to the New Who phenomenon. Going by what we have, the quality would have been uneven, but at his best, Marter was very good. Sadly, we'll never know.
[Editor's Note: Images of book covers in this article are courtesy the Doctor Who Image Archive. Our thanks to Steve Hill for this resource. Larger images are available by clicking on the covers.]
[1] Resources for such a study can be found in Tim Neal's On Target site and Sarah Hadley's Target Practice site.
[2] His other published fiction included the book-of-the-film of Down and Out in Beverley Hills, and as Ian Don the books-of-the-films of Baby, Splash, My Science Project, and Tough Guys. It may not be a tragedy that the four books he apparently wrote about the Gummi Bears were never published.
[3] We should also note that several of the episodes here discussed—two of six in The Reign of Terror, two of eight in The Invasion, five of six in The Enemy of the World, and sadly none of The Dominators—were wiped by the BBC in the process of tidying up their archives, so survive only as soundtrack and as Marter's novelizations.
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Borka – What Sticks
Borka's debut EP on rx:tx. What Sticks is a versatile eight track collection, done with an "old to the new" ethic. Both contemporary synthesized clichés and old school samples are pasted together, revealing Borka's strong affinity to hip hop beats.
CD package design and package concept by Nina Vrhovec.
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USATF Truck & Fan Festival
USATF Truck
Join USA Track & Field as they hit the road to promote the sport and its athletes. Stop by the Truck to learn more about USATF's programs, meet professional athletes, shop at USATF's Mobile Store, and participate in contests and other fun activities.
Be sure to visit the USATF Truck for all the latest authentic USA Track & Field apparel and gear. Or visit the Online Store to check it out now!
Fan Festival
The Eugene 08 Festival is a celebration of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Track & Field and will include live entertainment and activities in the area outside Hayward Field. Admission is free.


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Getting into Real Estate Investing
Real estate dealings involve huge amounts of cash so you are skeptical that it should not lead you in a problem. So if you think you are keen to handle such kinds of pressures then being a real estate investor could be a great career for you.
As said by RJ Palano – a leading real estate investor, there is nothing right or wrong in the business, all you need to be is innovative and keep good connections. One needs to have good knowledge about the laws of the place as the real estate change from place to place so the documentation needs to be in perfect order. Another aspect is, one needs to have loads of patience. We have to be prepared that sometimes the deal might take loads of time, in fact several months and yet at the end of the day it might not even happen. All one needs to keep oneself self motivated and always on the move and work on closing the deal if not this then definitely some other one. One unsuccessful deal should not be the cause for another unsuccessful one.
One needs to be a great talker and a people's person. One should have the convincing power where you should be able to persuade your clients to go ahead with the deal and make them believe that the deal is the best thing for them. You should be a good talker and should be talking sense where people should be willing to trust you. One must attend seminars and have discussions on the real estate market trends and get an idea of the market around you. Consulting Books and articles by eminent authors like Bob Grant, Donald Bren, RJ Palano and many others can be a further guide when one is in the real estate investment business.
At the end of the day Sky is the limit, you are your own owner, manager and boss. All one needs is the winning streak and the zeal to excel. Follow the simple rules and see the results coming to you.


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This yeast is an insane wort attenuator. Napoleon will destroy the sugars in your saison and farmhouse beers – even the ones in which most brewer's strains have no interest. When all is said and done, Napoleon produces very dry, crisp beers with nice citrus aromas. Yeast settling times can be long, usually requiring filtration for bright beers.
Temp: 65-78F, 18-26C // Flocculation: Low // Attenuation: 77-83%
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You can waste your lives drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them – Shonda Rhymes
I understood that one of my missions in life is empowering the inner voice of women. We all have a special and unique voice that nobody else can take away from us. Each of these voices have a special mission and I will do my best to motivate you and inspire you to pursue your dream, or I should say your mission, your plan.
I would like to help women to pursue their dreams, I strongly believe that we can all be successful in our own special way we just have to cross our boundaries maybe drawn by society or most probably by ourselves. Every woman should have the chance to live to the fullest. Every woman as a special power sometimes just she didn't discover it yet or she forgot.
Empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors is essential to build stronger economies, achieve internationally agreed goals for development and sustainability, and improve the quality of life for women, men, families and communities.
WOICE – Women & Voice Program
Woice is a program for Women to Empower the voice through Vocal Techniques, Vocal Therapy and Vocal Improvisation.
Woice a special place for women where our voice, our real voice can be heard without any judgment. it's a space where women can take a break from their roles and responsibilities and dedicate more time to themselves.
Woice is a safe cloud where women have the opportunity to discover their natural voice, where they can learn how to use it and control it. Woice it's a space where when our voice with other's voices are together we can feel stronger in one empowered big Woice.
Woice let us express all our emotions blocked inside of us, in all their different colors. Woice helps you to relax, gives you space to take it out, laugh, cry, fear, anxiety and willing to shout it out. Our voice biggest desire is being completely naked and free!


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I just began eating lamb in Iceland this past December. Seven months later, you'd have sworn I was in utero looking like Pebbles with a lamb shank. Minus the red hair.
A juicy lamb burger with bright notes of parsley, chopped scallions, garlic, curry, and cumin, pan-fried and topped with creamy mint yogurt sauce and crunchy red cabbage. Such a happy marriage of flavors.
In other news, tomorrow I'm flying to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. Daniel plays in the tournament every year and I…well…I lie in the sun. And pretend to be Doug in "The Hangover"- semi-successful on that front. The first time I went to Vegas was my senior year of college. Daniel, Justin, and another of our guy friends, me, my sister, and our best friend, Sabrina. Essentially the cast of "Friends" but much more obscene. It was such a fun trip. And oddly enough, none of us quite operates under the notion of "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," so we've got a trash bag full of tales to tell and retell and then tell again. Bless our children.
We've gone to parties at Pure, the Palms, and Tao, visited most of the casinos, stayed at Caesar's Palace, the Rio, and now the Venetian. Lots to do in Vegas. I think the key to avoiding that feeling of "I'm unclear as to whether that woman in front of the Tropicana is actually a gentleman" and "Hey, is that a scantily-clad thirty-something or a prostitute?" is to take Vegas for what it's worth. In all reality, it can be a very swanky place. Lots of luxury and even grandeur. There are beautiful casinos, five-star hotels, pools, and most importantly, some of the best restaurants in the country. It seems like every celebrity chef has opened a bistro or a lounge in the City of Sin. And the weather, as far as I'm concerned, is sublime. Hot, hot, hot, but without humidity. Gives me a chance to take off my semi-permanent wool socks for a minute.
I'm thrilled to be going this year because Daniel and I always have the best time. We've got tickets to Cirque de Soleil "O" on Friday night. Last year we saw "The Beatles: Love" and, for lack of a better word, loved it. I'll be blogging throughout, so keep your fingers crossed that I come back without a shaved head, 2 1/2 Chinese symbols inked on my neck and forearm, and a marriage license. All very possible. But in a worst case scenario, here are my hopes: that I would look half as good with no hair as Demi Moore did in "G.I. Jane," have 2 1/2 tattoos of symbols that actually mean what I intend them to (one being "cookie monster" and the other- "friend to dogs"), and Leonardo DiCaprio as my husb… you get the picture.
Have you been to Vegas? Did you like it?
For the Lamb Burgers (makes 1 burger)
- 4 oz fresh ground lamb
- 1 TBSP minced scallions
- 1/2 TBSP minced fresh parsley
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- dash each- salt, pepper, cumin, curry powder, cayenne pepper
For the Minted Yogurt Sauce
- 2 TBSP greek yogurt
- 2 tsp minced fresh mint
- dash each- salt, pepper
- pinch garlic powder
Combine all burger ingredients in a bowl and mix well with your hands.
Form into a patty and grill for about 5 minutes per side. You can also pan fry them with a teaspoon of olive oil for about 6 minutes per side.
In a small bowl, stir together the yogurt sauce ingredients and refrigerate for 10 minutes to let the flavors blend. Serve on top of your freshly grilled burger.


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Natural here and Natural there, Natural products EVERYWHERE! Over the past few years, dozens of brands have released new and improved products targeted for naturalistas. But we all know that everything that's "made" for you, isn't for you. However, Organic Root Stimulator is definitely one of the day 1s. I remember fondly of when my mom would use their products on my hair as a little girl. So when I found out that they were creating a new NEW naturals line, I had total faith that their products would not disappoint. ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals is a full product line infused with ghee butter, an Ethiopian secret to softer, healthier looking hair. Rich in vitamins A, D, K2 and E, and anti-oxidants, ghee butter is the ideal solution for restoring vital moisture for dry, frizzy hair.
Check out the entire product line below!
ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals Butter Bliss Sulfate Free Shampoo cleanses the hair without stripping its natural moisture. SRP $7.99.
Directions: Wet hair thoroughly. Apply a generous amount and work into a rich lather. Rinse and repeat shampoo as needed. Rinse hair thoroughly and towel dry.
ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals Buttery Smooth Conditioner imparts nourishment to combat dry, frizzy hair. SRP $7.99
Directions: After shampooing, apply a generous amount of product to hair. Gently massage
thoroughly into hair strands. Comb through to detangle hair and let sit for 3-5 minutes. Rinse hair completely and towel dry.
ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals Butter Milk Styling Lotion restores hydration. SRP $7.99
Directions: Use on wet or dry hair. Apply sparingly in small sections to fully coat each strand of hair. Do not rinse out. Use to moisturize, soften and define natural hair.
ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals Butter Rich Co-Wash serves as a cleansing conditioner. SRP $7.99
Directions: Apply to wet hair. Saturate strands completely. Use fingers to gently detangle and separate strands. Lightly massage scalp. Rinse thoroughly. Repeat as needed.
ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals Butter Whipped Leave in Conditioning Crème is an intensive leave-in conditioner. SRP$5.99
Directions: Apply to towel dried hair. Work a generous amount of product into hair beginning at the roots to the tips. Comb through for even distribution and let dry naturally. Do not rinse.
ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals Butter Crème Styling Smoothie delivers moisture and elongates curls. SRP $9.99
Directions: Use on wet or dry hair. Section hair and apply sparingly in small sections to fully coat each strand. Style as desired.
ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals Butter Glaze Gel Soufflé provides shine and defines curls. SRP $9.99
Directions: Use on wet or dry hair. Apply sparingly in small sections to fully coat each strand. Do not rinse out. Perfect for all of your natural styles.
ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals Hydrating Hair Butter moistens and conditions the hair. SRP $9.99
Directions: Rub a small amount of product in hands and smooth on dry hair for added moisture and shine. Apply to dry or damp skin for all over hydration.
The combination of nourishing olive oil, hydrating coconut oil and ghee butter, is a proven recipe to deliver stronger and healthier-looking hair. ORS™ Olive Oil for Naturals is available at select retailers across the country, including Walgreens and Sally Beauty Supply. For more hair care news and tips, please visit www.oliveoilnaturals.com or connect on social media at www.facebook.com/orshaircare and @ORSHairCare on Twitter and Instagram.
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Through 4/5, Bath and Body Works has one of their popular sales running! Buy 3 body care products, and you'll get 3 body care products for FREE.
There is no coupon code required for this deal, so you can use code PICKED4U to save an additional 20% off online purchases! That should make for some great prices on these body care products.
Let us know what you're able to grab! This would be a great opportunity to pick up some Mother's Day gifts or Easter basket items.
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Women avoid sex for a variety of reasons, including relationship issues, a real headache, fatigue and lack of desire. It is easier for them to fake it and get engaged than for a man, but a low libidio – whether prompted by time of month, menopause or disinterest – may be remedied with a pill in the future. A female version of Viagra, the pill men take to arouse interest, could have a partner female version coming soon. However, its efficacy is questionable.
The little blue pill may soon have a pink counterpart. Flibanserin, which would be sold as Addyi, was approved on Thursday, 18-6, by an advisory panel of outside experts recommending approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The move was hailed by women's organizations as a step toward sexual equality by with a female counterpart to the widely prescribed Viagra possibly coming soon. However, others question whether the clinical studies really indicate that the pill is effective or if the panel and FDA are reacting to intense lobbying from the manufacturer, Sprout Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Sprout's lobbying and publicity campaign, called "Even the Score," has been trying to guilt the FDA into approving the medication, which has been rejected by the FDA twice already, on the basis of discrimination. Their Web site notes that there have been 26 drugs for sexual dysfunction in men approved by the FDA (41 including generic versions); none have been approved to date for women.
The company and FDA acknowledge that millions of women suffer from various type of sexual dysfunction. Susan Scanlan, chairwoman of the "Even the Score" effort noted, "Yesterday's decision by the FDA Advisory Committee was a validation of…this very real need." She also claimed that the decision supports the science behind flibanserin.
Testing of the drug, however, did not show a strong effect on libido. Three clinical trials of the "female Viagra" produced consistently lukewarm results. Prior to taking flibanserin, the women in the study had, on average, two or three "sexually satisfying events" each month. Once they began taking the drug, the number of sexual events they experienced did increase, but only one event more per month than women who got placebos in the trial experienced. Both groups claimed they felt more desire, which the people getting the actual drug just slightly higher on questionnaires than those given a placebo.
The medication also created side effects, including low blood pressure and fainting. The side effects were not commonly experienced, but the critics maintain they — along with the lack of significant improvement in desire shown by the testing — are the reasons the pink pill has not been approved.
Michele Orza, a consumer representative on the advisory committee, was one of the people who has voted against approval. She maintains that women with low desire "deserve better" solutions.
One women who appeared at the approval hearing talked about how much low sexual desire is affecting her life and marriage. She argued that even a modest improvement would be welcomed. It should be noted, however, that her appearance and travel costs were paid from by Sprout and that she was not involved in the clinical trials.
When asked why flibanserin should get approval this time given the two prior rejections, Sprout leader Cindy Whitehead said it was "really putting the patient voice at the center of it." It would be nice to believe Sprout has women's best interests in mind. The reality is that there is big money involved. Pfizer Inc., which manufactures Viagra, and Eli Lilly & Co., which makes competitor drug Cialis, reportedly had $3.98 billion combines in sales last year. Sprout did not even develop the pink pill. Boehringer Ingelheim did, but gave up on the medication and sold the future rights to Sprout after the first FDA rejection.
If flibanserin does get FDA approval this time, many do believe other more effective drugs will follow, particularly if the market is ripe. So, whether the pink pill being touted as the "female Viagra" is effective or not, the dialog about female sexual problems is likely to soon lead to a better solution coming in the future.
By Dyanne Weiss
New York Times: 'Viagra for Women' Is Backed by an F.D.A. Panel
Bloomberg: 'Female Viagra' May Be More Marketing Than Science
CNN: 'Female Viagra'? Women should be able to choose


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How Can the World Improve the Lives of Women and Girls by 2030?
COPENHAGEN, May 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – With women and girls facing discrimination and violence in every part of the world, the United Nations last year committed to work towards gender equality in the next 15 years as part of a new set of global goals.
Key participants attending the fourth global Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen were asked what they thought were the most important actions needed to improve the lives of women and girls by 2030.
The Women Deliver conference, billed as the largest women's event in a decade, is being held from May 16-19, organised by a global advocacy organisation fighting for girls' and women's health, rights and wellbeing.
PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UN WOMEN – "Addressing the issue of prejudice against women that is present in all societies is important for all of us no matter what country we come from. We have under-invested in ending these deep prejudices … and need to look again at traditional laws that discriminate against women. At a macro level we need to make a change so women are looked at as solution providers for the family and the economy and not as dependents."
JULIA GILLARD, CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION – "The under-education of girls is one of the most pressing social issues of our time. When we educate our girls, we see reduced child deaths, healthier children and mothers, fewer child marriages and faster economic growth. And yet, 63 million girls are not in school. This is unacceptable. We need to move beyond well-meaning but scattered advocacy and toward helping countries to build strong education systems that deliver quality education to all students."
MARGARET CHAN, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION – "I want to see women – all women – move to the pole position in the race for sustainable development. For that to happen, the world has to not just stop leaving women and girls behind. It means putting them out in front. Ensuring they are where discrimination and violence can no longer hold them back. Where they can get the education and employment opportunities they deserve."
BABATUNDE OSOTIMEHIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND (UNFPA) – "By 2030, all women and girls must be able to enjoy their rights to live free of violence, coercion and discrimination, to control their destinies and fertility, and to play a full and equal role in building society and ending poverty. More than 220 million women still cannot get modern contraception. Each day, more than 800 women still die during pregnancy or childbirth, and more than 37,000 girls under 18 are married. How can the world develop if we exclude half the population?"
HELLE THORNING-SCHMIDT, CEO OF SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL – "Despite tremendous progress, girls are still not receiving the same opportunities as boys. At both the global and national level, legislation and policies must be put in place to support women and girls. This includes eliminating harmful practices such as child marriage, female genital mutilation, and all forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence. Girls and women must have access to quality affordable healthcare and education. However, to achieve any of this, we must change attitudes about the value and rights of women and remove gender-based barriers and discrimination."
HELEN CLARK, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE UN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME – "We must get more women into decision-making positions, not only because this is the right thing to do but because women decision-makers bring forward issues which previously were not adequately addressed. We must remove structural barriers to economic empowerment, such as unpaid work and the inability to own land or access credit. Finally, we should invest in women and girls as active agents of positive change. Closing gender gaps in labour markets, education, health, and other areas reduces poverty and hunger, improves the nutrition and education of children, and drives economic growth and agricultural production."
MABEL VAN ORANJE, CHAIR OF GIRLS NOT BRIDES: THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP TO END CHILD MARRIAGE – "We cannot achieve gender equality if we don't end the harmful practice of child marriage which affects 15 million girls a year. While progress has been made, more needs to be done. Firstly, everyone has a part to play: it requires a multi-sector approach, involving the health, education and economic sectors. Secondly, we must address the root causes of child marriage – poverty, conflict and gender inequality. Thirdly, we need to work with civil society organisations who understand the country context and have strong relationships in communities."


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Month: September 2011
Gone. But Not Forgotten.
This was an old frontier tombstone in the ghost town of Frisco, Utah, West of Milford, out in the boonies about 20 miles. It was a lawless town with the reputation of being a widow-maker.
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TORONTO, April 17 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index reached its highest in nearly six years on Thursday after positive U.S. economic data drove gains in the price of oil, which in turn lifted shares of the commodity's producers. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed up 53.87 points, or 0.37 percent, at 14,500.39. Six of the 10 main sectors on the index were higher. (Reporting by John Tilak; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), Delano Seiveright says emerging reforms in the United States and Europe relating to cannabis are exactly what Jamaica needs to benefit from the lucrative medical marijuana industry.
Seiveright, who recently returned from Great Britain where he joined some 80 panelists from countries across the globe at a Cannabis Europa Conference, said the stakes are too high for Jamaica not to be prepared to be a huge part of an estimated US$100 billion global medical marijuana market.
He said it is also important that the traditional local growers are given the opportunity to transition into the medicinal cannabis sector, where they are able to position themselves to capitalise on "what will be an inevitable boom".
"We are all here on the strength and hard work of our traditional growers. Those are the growers who ensured that we have a brand Jamaica, in relation to cannabis and we as a body (CLA) will be doing all in our power to ensure that those who still operate in the traditional industry can transition into the legal cannabis industry," Seiveright added.
He said that in a number of states in the USA and also in Canada, medicinal cannabis has already taken on a life of its own and has been generating billions of dollars annually towards those economies.
"We see what is happening in the United States where Illinois just became the latest State to legalise marijuana," Seiveright said.
"A number of US attorneys general have also been lobbying the United States Treasury Department to loosen banking laws that are hostile to cannabis growers. As our Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw, keeps saying, Jamaica cannot afford to miss this boat," he said.
Minister Shaw, at a function in Montego Bay, St. James, recently, said that in addition to being in solidarity with the US attorneys general, the Jamaican Government will be using all its diplomatic channels to lobby the United States Treasury Department to deal with the problem of de-risking, so that "our cannabis farmers can have access to services from our local banks".
Seiveright said his visit to England has only served to reaffirm his belief that Jamaica can be a pioneer for cannabis reform globally.
"Everyone is coming around to the benefits to be had from being a part of medicinal cannabis," he said.