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Vitamins are essential nutrients for swine. The trend toward complete confinement swine production, however, has focused more attention on the need to supplement practical rations with adequate dietary sources of vitamins. This guide will help swine producers overcome vitamin deficiencies in rations. It is a summary of important aspects of vitamin requirements of swine, with emphasis on meeting the needs of hogs fed practical swine rations in Missouri.
Vitamins are specific chemical compounds or organic nutrients whose major function is to regulate body processes. Vitamins do not form a part of the animal's tissue and are required in smaller amounts than other nutrients such as protein, calcium, phosphorus, carbohydrates and fats. Each vitamin functions in a particular way, and the function of the various vitamins in the body differs widely.
As a starting point, feed manufacturers and hog producers should use the National Research Council's (NCR) "Nutrient Requirements of Swine" as a basis for vitamin supplementation.
Table 1 lists the Missouri vitamin recommendations for growing pigs on a nutrient added per ton basis. All of these recommendations are above 1988 NRC requirements.
Table 1
Missouri recommended vitamin additions per ton of feed (growing-finishing pigs)
The vitamins swine producers need to pay particular attention to when formulating practical growing swine rations in Missouri are the following: A, D, E, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, choline and B12. In addition to these vitamins, the following are needed but are generally in adequate amounts in Missouri rations for growing pigs: K, C, biotin and folic acid.
Table 2 lists recommended vitamin additions for breeding swine. Recent research indicated sows receiving supplemented folic acid have larger litters farrowed. With sows in complete confinement, adding folic acid along with choline and biotin at the levels shown seems justified.
Table 2
Missouri recommended vitamin additions per ton (breeding swine)
Vitamin needs of swine are met either from that contained in the feed or from synthesis in the body of the animal. Determinations have been made of the vitamin content of many swine feeds. These are average figures and, in some cases, are influenced drastically by the method of harvesting, processing and storing.
Vitamin A
Vitamin A functions in the growth of both skeletal and soft tissues of the body: in vision, reproduction and disease resistance. Vitamin A does not occur in plant products but the plant pigment carotene can be converted to vitamin A in the intestinal wall of the pig. Yellow corn is the only cereal grain that contains significant amounts of carotene. Forages are good sources of carotene, but they are seldom used in today's practical rations. One milligram of B-carotene is equivalent to 500 IU of biologically active vitamin A for the pig.
Good sources of carotene or vitamin A are found in yellow corn (although 60 percent may be destroyed in several months of storage by light, high temperature, air, etc.), green forages, sun-cured legumes, dehydrated alfalfa meal, cod-liver oil and fish oils. Both carotene and vitamin A are readily destroyed by the following:
For these reasons on a practical basis, we should assume that pigs in dry lot receive very little, if any, vitamin A in their diets.
Weak, malformed, blind and eyeless pigs may be farrowed by sows deficient in vitamin A.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D functions in the pig's body to increase the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from the intestines. It is necessary for good bone growth and calcification. Vitamin D2 sources include sun-cured hays, irradiated yeast and dehydrated alfalfa meal. Sources of D3 include fish-oils and fish meals and formation of D3 in the skin by sunshine. Swine exposed to sunshine in the summer should not need dietary vitamin D. During the winter months and in confinement rearing, it is important that rations be supplemented with vitamin D.
Vitamin E
Vitamin E is required for normal reproduction and growth. Common swine feeds are good sources — green pastures, cured hay, alfalfa meal, whole grains and germ parts of grain. In Missouri, vitamin E deficiencies are not common, but as a safeguard, it can be added cheaply in a premix.
Deficiency symptoms have been diagnosed in some of the northern midwest states. Michigan State University has reported several vitamin E — selenium deficiencies in swine herds. In areas where selenium levels are low, reports of vitamin E shortages have been more common.
There is a definite relationship between vitamin E and the trace mineral selenium. Adding recommended selenium levels reduces the need for vitamin E. Apparently selenium is needed for good use of vitamin E. Loss of vitamin E in normal feeds due to handling and storage, less use of pasture and alfalfa meal, and extensive use of some drugs are believed to contribute to the vitamin E deficiencies in some herds.
Trace mineral selenium can be added legally to rations at a level of 0.3 part per million. This should reduce problems from marginal vitamin E levels.
Vitamin K
Under ordinary circumstances vitamin K is supplied in adequate amounts in normal swine diets and the microbial synthesis in the intestines. The major function of vitamin K is its blood clotting role.
From time to time, cases are reported that seem to indicate a shortage of vitamin K in swine rations. The presence of mold in feed has been found to interfere with normal use of vitamin K by pigs. In Nebraska studies of moldy feed, the addition of 2 grams of menadione sodium bisulfite per ton corrected vitamin K deficiency symptoms in affected pigs. Check moisture levels at the time grains are stored and again in the spring and process to reduce mold risk.
With normal feeds vitamin K should be adequate in Missouri swine rations, but it may be included where mold is present or past experience indicates a need for additional vitamin K.
Water-soluble vitamins
Vitamins generally are classified according to solubility. The four vitamins discussed (A, D, E and K) are fat-soluble, and the remaining mentioned are water-soluble. Of the latter group, biotin, vitamin C and folic acid generally are not of practical concern in growing swine rations because adequate amounts appear to be synthesized by the animal. Thiamine and vitamin B6 are supplied in more than adequate amounts by the feed in normal swine rations. Recent research shows an increase in pigs per litter from adding folic acid to sow rations.
Table 3 lists clinical and sub-clinical symptoms of vitamin deficiencies. Some of these are more specific than others. Some deficiencies don't occur on practical swine rations. However, studies have been made using semi-purified rations that are lacking in specific vitamins, and deficiency symptoms have been determined.
Table 3
Symptoms of vitamin deficiency in swine
Producers buying complete mixed feeds or commercial supplements to feed with home-grown grains generally must rely on their company to provide adequate amounts of vitamins. Those formulating and mixing complete rations need to pay particular attention to meeting vitamin needs. Missouri recommendations are that vitamins that are short of borderline in feeds should be provided in a commercial vitamin pre-mix at levels shown in Tables 1 and 2.
Vitamin pre-mixes don't add much to the total cost per ton of feed, and there is less chance for error providing these vitamins in this form rather than relying on average amounts of feed, particularly with variations in processing and storing and changes in management of hogs.
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The banana is the most popular fruit in the country, and apparently the most popular fruit among publishers this year. Two new books detail the history of the fruit itself and the torrid past of the banana industry, which is dominated by the ubiquitous, oppressive United Fruit Company. With similarly ambitious titles–Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World and Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World–the books promise not a dull, compulsory soup-to-nuts account of the subject but a tale of corporate skulduggery, an irreversible lesson in agricultural folly and a musing on the banana's place on our collective palate. A reader may be forgiven for wondering whether the story of a simple, unassuming fruit could provide such intrigue. Have Peter Chapman and Dan Koeppel bitten off more than they can chew? No, for as both authors demonstrate with convincing arguments, the impact of United Fruit's banana on multinational corporate malfeasance, current agricultural practices and food consumption patterns is no small, sweet-smelling thing.
Chapman's scope is narrower and more direct than Koeppel's. A British reporter who has been following United Fruit since the 1970s, when he wrote his thesis on the company at the University of Sussex, Chapman has written an impressive indictment of a deeply flawed corporation. And there's no shortage of material here; United Fruit (known now as Chiquita) was truly a terrorizing company–a kind of Halliburton, McDonald's, Nike and Archer Daniels Midland all rolled into one. United Fruit set the precedent for the propaganda, exploitation and imperialism of modern-day corporate plunderers.
In many ways, United Fruit was the original agribusiness–if an accidental one. The seeds of the company began with Minor Keith, a young Brooklyn entrepreneur who ventured into the Costa Rican jungle in the 1870s to build a national railroad. The project cost more than 5,000 workers their lives but birthed a successful side business. In cleared areas of the jungle Keith planted banana cuttings to sell to the workers and eventually to an American schooner captain who hooked him up with Andrew Preston, the Boston importer with whom he would officially launch United Fruit in 1899. Their timing was good, as Americans were beginning a love affair with the exotic fruit that seemed the quintessence of upper-class privilege.
United Fruit was not the first company to introduce the banana to Americans, but it was the most successful in making it widely available. As the American appetite for the fruit grew, so too did the corporation's appetite for market dominance. Pursuing profits and fleeing diseases afflicting their crops, the United Fruit men skipped from one country to the next in Central and South America, perfecting their pattern: strong-arm their way in; destroy natural habitat to make way for banana plantations; enslave the native population in low-wage, dangerous servitude; suppress labor movements; watch their banana crops fall prey to blight; spray the groves with toxic pesticides that also poisoned the workforce; and, when spraying failed, abandon the land for greener pastures on which to inflict their "progress." This explains why countries in the region came to be known as "banana republics," a term first coined by O. Henry in his 1904 novel Cabbages and Kings. The behavior also earned the company an enduring nickname: El Pulpo–the octopus. And no wonder: By the late 1920s, United Fruit was an international conglomerate, outstretched tentacles everywhere. The company owned 1.6 million acres of land, employed 67,000 workers and did business in thirty-two countries. It was worth more than $100 million and would stop at nothing to keep business humming.


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High School Basketball: Contrast of styles when BG visits Trinity
Although Manchester Central is the only unbeaten boys' basketball team in Division I, there are several teams within striking distance of first place hoping Central stumbles down the stretch.
Bishop Guertin of Nashua (10-1), Trinity of Manchester (9-1) and Merrimack (9-1) are the Division I teams with one loss, and BG will play at Trinity tonight in what looks like the best game on the NHIAA menu. Trinity beat BG 50-46 in last year's Division I championship game.
BG, which upset Central in last year's quarterfinals, has won three games by three points or less this year. The Cardinals have been getting consistent perimeter scoring from
CJ Boykin, John Noon, Kyle Gavin
Jack Zimmerman
. Boykin made a last-second shot to give BG a 70-68 victory over Winnacunnet of Hampton in its most recent game.
Wenyen Gabriel
, a 6-foot-7 center, and 6-foot-4 forward
Carmen Giampetruzzi
give Trinity a strong inside game. Trinity's lone loss came against Central (77-60).
It's the first half of a crucial two-game stretch for BG, which does not play Central during the regular season. BG will play at Merrimack on Tuesday.
"I've seen BG play," Central coach
Doc Wheeler
said. "Their point guard (Boykin) is real talented. He killed us last year in the quarterfinal. Very explosive player. They've got three or four other guys who really shoot the three-ball well, so it'll be interesting to see their outside game against Trinity's inside game.
"Carmen and Wenyen are really starting to put up some big numbers. I think that's what it's going to boil down to — an inside game versus an outside game."
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THE WAIT was longer than expected, but the inaugural
Frank Monahan
Basketball Showcase will be held Sunday at Bishop Brady High School in Concord.
The event, which was originally scheduled for Dec. 15 but was postponed by bad weather, features three games: Lee Academy (Lee, Maine) vs. Notre Dame Prep (Fitchburg, Mass.), noon, and Kennett (Conway) vs. Bishop Brady (Concord), 1:30 p.m., and Jean-de-Brebeuf (Montreal) vs. Brewster Academy (Wolfeboro), 3 p.m.
Monahan, who served as Merrimack College's men's basketball coach from 1970 to 1980, also coached at both Bishop Brady and Concord High. He guided Bishop Brady to three straight championship games, and the Class I title in 1997.
After Monahan died of a heart attack in 2000,
Marshall Crane
Billy Collins
, both of whom played for Monahan at Bishop Brady, helped form the Frank Monahan Foundation, which raises money to help youth through sports and education.
"The money raised from the event is used for athletics and academics in local communities," Crane said. "The goal is to help provide and create opportunities for kids."
Brewster Academy shooting guard
Jared Terrell
(Oklahoma State), Brewster Academy small forward
Jonah Bolden
(UCLA), Notre Dame Prep point guard
Daxter Miles
(West Virginia) and Notre Dame Prep shooting guard
Detrick Mostella
(Pittsburgh) are among the players who have committed to Division I schools.
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THE Pinkerton Academy of Derry and Londonderry boys' and girls' teams will play their second doubleheader of the season Tuesday night at Pinkerton, and the Pinkerton boys and Londonderry girls will each be without their best player.
Luke Rosinski
, a 6-foot-7 sophomore forward, has missed the last two games with mononucleosis and may be out for the remainder of the regular season.
"His eardrum burst (earlier this week) because of the fluid and that's a side effect of mono, but my understanding is that's a good thing because when the fluid drains out that can speed up his recovery," said Pinkerton coach
Pete Rosinski
, who is Luke's father. "I don't know when he'll be back, but I know he's weak now. I think a best-case scenario would be three weeks."
Without Rosinski, Pinkerton dropped a 70-41 decision to Londonderry when the teams met on Jan. 31.
Londonderry point guard
Aliza Simpson
is still recovering from a hairline fracture in her right leg and won't play Tuesday. Londonderry coach
John Fagula
said Simpson will visit the doctor early next week and it's possible she could return to practice by the end of next week.
"She's off crutches, and that's a good thing," Fagula said. "We don't want to rush her back too quick. We're hoping she gets in for a few games before the tournament."
Londonderry is 2-1 without Simpson, who has committed to play at University of New Hampshire next season. Simpson did not play when Pinkerton beat Londonderry 53-49 in the first meeting.


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MINOX APO HG 10x43 tested by Craig Boddington
An old name in optics. MINOX is very much back on the radar with a very cool scope and a pair of premium binoculars.
A Birding Interview about high grade binoculars - American Birding Association, May 2010
As Director of Sales and Marketing/Outdoor Channels for MINOX Sports Optics and formerly Vice President of Sport Optics for Leica Camera Inc. (NA), Terry Moore is a recognized authority on high-quality sports optical equipment, including "glass" designed for the steadily growing birding market. Born and reared in Oklahoma, Moore exhibited an early interest in the outdoors and pursued schooling as a field biologist before focusing on business. His career grew from part-time work in a camera store to sales and sales management in the consumer photographic industry. In 1995, he established Leica's Sport Optics Division. An enthusiastic birder himself, Moore has traveled extensively in the pursuit of this passion.
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Last May, New York signed on to an immigration enforcement program that allows local police to share with federal authorities the digital fingerprints of anyone arrested in the state. The program -- called Secure Communities -- is designed to find and deport undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes like murder, kidnapping and threats to national security.
"New York has a public safety interest in identifying and deporting serious alien defendants from state prisons and jails," said John M. Caher, director of public information for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), in a written statement.
According to Caher, DCJS's Acting Commissioner Sean Byrne signed the program's memorandum of agreement, which effectively green-lighted Secure Communities in New York, in order to grant localities the option of participating.
"While we are very cognizant of the civil rights of immigrants, we are equally cognizant of the fact that this State [sic] is a premier target for terrorism," said Caher. "[Byrne] did not think it would be responsible to deny localities the option of participating in this initiative if they were inclined to do so."
The Secure Communities program began its phased rollout two years ago in locations where ICE found "[criminal aliens] are most likely to reside." Currently a total of 33 states have opted into Secure Communities (the remaining 17 projected to be add by 2013), but states along the southern border with Mexico along with Florida, Virginia, and Maryland have the highest concentrations of activated Secure Communities juridictions.
The federal program admittedly casts a wide net by collecting and verifying the biometric information of "all individuals and booked into custody" in an apparent effort to avoid racial profiling but local immigrant rights leaders say it has resulted in a sweep of all immigrants, not the just dangerous ones. They say Secure Communities has led to the detention and deportation of immigrants who were arrested for minor offenses or who were not even charged with a crime.
The New York Times reported, "the national average of Secure Communities deportees with no criminal records was about 26 percent, but that figure also varied wildly around the country. It was 54 percent in Maricopa County, Arizona, whose sheriff is notorious for staging indiscriminate immigration raids. In Travis County, Texas, it was 82 percent."
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records obtained by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network through a Freedom of Information Act request, 79 percent of individuals deported through the Secure Communities program from October 2008 through June 2010 had no criminal record or were arrested for minor offenses like traffic violations.
"The Department of Homeland Security can inform the local enforcement agency that they should not release that person, even if there are no charges or the charges have been dropped, so that they can start deportation proceedings," said Angela Fernandez, executive director of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights.
Fernandez and other immigrant advocates, including State Senator Jose Peralta, are calling on Governor David Paterson to withdraw New York from the program. They worry it will discourage undocumented immigrants from seeking police assistance in emergency situations.
"You create a lot of fear in the streets where no one's going want to talk to the police," said Peralta, whose Queens district includes the immigrant-dense neighborhoods of Corona, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. "Because, why should they? If anything happens and there's an altercation, if they get arrested, then they're finger printed and that information goes directly to ICE. So it becomes a very dangerous tool."
With Governor Paterson not running for reelection, immigrant leaders see an opportunity for him to take the controversial step of removing New York from the program before the end of his term.
They feel Paterson has shown himself to be sensitive to the issue of immigrant deportation during his tenure, and believe that revoking Secure Communities would be a suitable swan song.
"If Governor Paterson has not rescinded the memorandum of agreement before his term is up, it will really obscure the legacy that he has built that has been an incredible legacy that has supported communities of color and immigrants," said Fernandez. "It will be the headache of the new administration if this agreement is not rescinded."
Andrew Cuomo's campaign issued a statement expressing concern about Secure Communities.
"We cannot afford to scare our neighbors out of contacting the authorities to report a crime simply because of their immigration status. We also cannot afford the financial burden of doing the federal government's job."
The statement concluded by saying that the Democratic candidate would "closely review" the program as governor.
Carl Paladino, on the other hand, has not commented on Secure Communities, but in an interview last month, the Republican candidate stated he supports deporting undocumented immigrants.
Since May, all New York sheriffs have been able to implement Secure Communities in their localities. No community in New York has started sharing digital fingerprint data with ICE, but according to advocates it could happen at any time.
Feet in Two Worlds is a project of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School that brings the work of immigrant and ethnic media journalists to public radio. Catalina Jaramillo contributed to this story.
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"The latest round in a long-running battle over how evolution should be taught in Texas schools began in earnest Wednesday as the State Board of Education heard impassioned testimony from scientists and social conservatives on revising the science curriculum," as The New York Times (January 22, 2009) reports.
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You will certainly need a fan to cool off after seeing Salma Hayek's new film, "Americano."
Hayek, 45, shows off her slim and smoldering body as the sensuous stripper Lola with a dark past.
In the French film written and directed by Mathieu Demy, who also plays the lead role of Martin, Hayek is deported to Mexico. When Martin learns that his late mother left something for Lola in her will, he goes to Tijuana to search for her, but things take a turn for the worst once he arrives in Mexico.
Entertainment gossip sites such as The Daily Mail UK and Enelbrasero.com are reporting that the movie was released last year in France and was also screened at the BFI London Film Festival last fall.
This isn't the first time that Hayek stars as a sexy vixen. Who can ever forget those curves back in 1996 when she played the Vampire Princess in "From Dusk Till Dawn?"
But Hayek revealed last year she wasn't always the stunner she is today.
In an interview on BBC's "The Graham Norton Show," Hayek said she wasn't always as vivacious and self-confident as she is today, The Daily Mail UK reports.
The "Puss in Boots" star says she was so desperate to be more appealing that she even asked Jesus Christ for his help.
"I went to a church that had a saint that was supposed to do a lot of miracles," Hayek said. "I put my hands in the holy water and went: 'Please Jesus, give me some boobs.'"
Hayek got what she wanted -- and a little more.
The buxom beauty will soon be starring as the iconic La Doña María Félix in a biopic film, which will be produced by Oliver Stone. She is also starring with Demian Bichir in "Savages," coming out later this year, and is in production filming "Grown Ups 2."


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I just wanted to share with you, that i got the newest catalyst driver working on F12, by following a simple guide to downgrade the Xorg.
I know its not an ideal fix, but its really great to finally get rid of some of the unfixed bugs in F11. And if/when fglrx works on F12 native xorg, it will only take 2 minutes to upgrade to the normal xorg version again. So why stay with F11 when you can use this fix and enjoy 3d-acceleration on F12!
I have been running F12 all day with no problems-
Just follow guide and install newest catalyst. I did not even need to enable SWCursor or any other nasty tricks.
xorg-RPMS for 64bit systems: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~sse/...und-bin.tar.gz
Compile your own with srpms: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~sse/...und-src.tar.gz
This document may provide you with a work-around to get
AMD/ATI's Catalyst drivers running with Fedora 12.
It was tested with a recent AMD/ATI Raedeon HD5000 series
graphics card and lead to a reasonably stable system with
3D acceleration. Most OpenGL applications seem to work as expected.
Activating desktop effects, however, locked up KDE (may be for
some unrelated reason). So your mileage may vary.
== before you start ==
A word of caution: following the steps in this document may leave
you with an unusable system. Before you start, backup your data and
if you follow the steps in this document, make sure each step
completes sucessfully.
= Problem description =
Installing a recent version of the proprietary AMD/ATI Catalyst
drivers (e.g. release 10-2 or release 10-1) fails on Fedora 12.
The installer seems to run successful, but start of the X-server
fails with some message:
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol:
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.
= What causes this problem? =
Somewhere during the transition from the releases 1.6 to 1.7,
the Xorg server developers have decided to hide server-internal
programming interfaces from loadable modules. To enforce this,
a more strict control over exported symbols is established.
This is usually a good thing to do. However, in the case of
the AMD/ATI proprietary drivers, this does break compatibility
and leaves Fedora 12 users with no support of recent drivers.
= How to fix the issue? =
The most desirable resolution would clearly be to adopt the Catalyst
drivers to the new API. The developers at AMD/ATI, however, have not
yet been able to fix their driver code to use the new interface (see [http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1696#c45]).
This is nothing unusual either, and given the successful launch of
a state-of-the-art family of graphics cards, with dozens of variants
and vendors these guys surely have some items on their
todo-list before that. So, there might not be any clean and ideal
solution to that issue soon.
= How to work around meanwhile? =
The idea is to replace the X server shipped with Fedora 12 with the
version from Fedora 11 which works with the API the AMD/ATI Catalyst
drivers expect. The official Fedora 11 packages, however, have some
dependencies which cannot be resolved on Fedora 12.
Please be aware that if you decide to do this surgery,
you are on your own. You should not complain about anything broken
in either Fedora 12 or the Catalyst drivers unless you have
verified the issue exists in a clean, supported system.
Said that, the following steps might get you a reasonably stable
system until the official driver supports Fedora 12:
== prepare your system ==
* install Fedora 12
* install available updates.
* install some package required by the installer
yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc gcc-c++ make autoconf automake
* reboot to activate the proper kernel
* download the [http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...5&lang=English proprietary AMD/ATI Catalyst driver]
* download (or prepare, see below) [http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~sse/...und-bin.tar.gz recompiled versions of the Fedora 11 X server packages]
* untar the recompiled versions of the Fedora 11 xserver packages:
tar xzf ATI-Catalyst-workaround-bin.tar.gz
With the default Fedora 12 installation options, this should get you to a
working system with the Fedora 12 native driver providing some
(unaccelerated) X display.
The next step starts at the default (graphical) login-screen.
== downgrade and configure the X server packages ==
* press CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to the text console VT2.
* login as root
* change the current runlevel to 3 so that the X server gets terminated.
This will present you another console prompt at VT1:
init 3
* press CTRL-ALT-F2 to get back to your root session at VT2.
* uninstall any xorg-x11 drivers:
yum erase xorg-x11-server-common xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-drv-*
* downgrade to Xorg 1.6.1:
rpm -Uhv ATI-Catalyst-workaround/rpms/xorg-x11-*.rpm
* install the proprietary AMD/ATI Catalyst driver.
sh ati-driver-installer-10-2-x86.x86_64.run
Follow the menu and accept the defaults.
If successful, the installer finishes with a
'Finished, Installation complete!' message.
IMPORTANT NOTE: it is crucial that the installer finishes
successful, otherwise starting the server may lock up your
system. A typical reason for failing might be that you have
not completed all of the preparation steps (e.g. installing
the development packages and rebooting the system).</b>
* create an initial configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and change it to fit your needs:
aticonfig --initial
* edit /etc/yum.conf and add the following line:
exclude=xorg-x11-server-common xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-drv-*
This blocks any updates of the packages we had to uninstall
using the 'yum erase' command.
Using drivers written for the newer X-server internal
interface is not a good idea.
For example, updating to the evdev driver shipped with Fedora 12
will not work with this downgraded server and will
leave you without any working input devices.
== restart the X-server ==
You may be lucky by just changing the run-level back to 5:
sync; sleep 3; sync; init 5
On the author's machine, a reboot was neccessary, probably
for the proper kernel modules to get loaded or because
the graphics card was in a strange state from earlier experiments.
But after that, most things worked as expected.
= Preparing your own packages =
Recompiling your own packages is a bit tricky, as Fedora 12 provides some
more recent library versions of the X libraries. These seem to
break compilation of the 1.6.1 X-server so the following steps
might work for you too:
* install a clean Fedora 12 base system (in the package
customization step of the installer, deselect all options and
tick the 'customize now' radio button; then deselect all
packages in all groups).
* install available updates (kernel) and reboot
* install the usual development packages (rpm-build, gcc, gcc-c++, autoconf, automake, make)
* install the source RPMs from Fedora 11.Trying to rebuild the RPM fails for a lot of dependencies.
* satisfy the non-X11 dependencies from the Fedora 12 repository.
* satisfy any X11 dependencies (libX*) from the Fedora 11 repository. (luckily, it worked).
* fix the compilation errors (you may [http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~sse/...und-src.tar.gz use the source rpms provided] to skip this step).
* install the resulting rpms following the instructions above.


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Mark Bowden's long-awaited (by me) book on the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis — Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam — was released this past Tuesday. Bowden is of course the former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter and author of distinguished books including Black Hawk Down. I spoke briefly with Bowden this past November in connection with the first excerpt of his book in the Atlantic, and it was evident that his forthcoming book is based on the same kind of exhaustive research that made Black Hawk Down so riveting.
We previewed Bowden's book in two posts linking to the excerpts that have run in the Atlantic. The December issue of The Atlantic featured an excerpt from the book on the hostages' Christmas in captivity. The April Atlantic featured a second excerpt as its cover story. The Atlantic has set up a special page for the excerpt, loading interviews adjacent to the text and providing many links to related materials.
At that time I asked Bowden if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — the president of Iran — was involved in the hostage seizure. Bowden told me that his reporting establishes that Ahmadinejad was one of the central figures in the student group that planned the seizure and took over the American embassy; he was identified as one of the group's ringleaders by every one of the dozen or so hostage takers Bowden interviewed in Tehran in 2004 before Ahmadinejad became president. Bowden's book thus could not be more timely. (The Atlantic has set up an Iran page as the hub site for Atlantic articles on Iran. All of the Atlantic's articles have been moved from behind the subscriber wall, including the excerpts from Bowden's book.)
Today's Wall Street Journal carries Reuel Marc Gerecht's review of the book (subscribers only): "Radical Islam's eruption." Gerecht worked as a CIA agent in Iran; his review is of great interest in its own right. Reading the review, I am amazed by how much news Bowden has found to report on this subject, how much we have yet to learn about it:
Mr. Bowden is pre-eminently a storyteller, not a theologian. He has a sensitive eye for both people and places. This talent isn't an easy thing to exploit with the Iranian hostage crisis since Mr. Bowden is essentially giving us a variation of prison literature, where the solitary internal struggle must compensate for the unchanging scenery. Yet he accomplishes his task sublimely well — the book is suspenseful, inspiring, mordant and, perhaps most of all, affectionate toward those who had to endure such trying circumstances. He shows unfailing respect for the hostages, many of whom gave him extensive, intimate and at times embarrassing access to their memories. Mr. Bowden lets you feel, above all else, the fear and anger of the Americans during their long imprisonment.
This is perhaps the most striking and underreported part of the hostage crisis: how angry the Americans became toward their jailers. Some of the Americans were treated very roughly indeed — periodic beatings, mock executions — and they lived with the constant fear that in the end they were going to die. But the Iranian actions led to ever more American defiance.
John Limbert, an academically trained, Persian-speaking diplomat — who probably has the softest heart for Iran among the hostages — is in solitary confinement in the city of Isfahan, 200 miles from Tehran, after the failed Desert One rescue mission. (President Carter, after long delay, had sent fuel-tanker planes, gunships and helicopters to recapture the embassy; in a night-vision-goggle debacle set into motion by a sandstorm, a helicopter and a plane collided in the desert; the aborted the mission left the burnt remains to be toyed with by revolutionary clerics.) Mr. Limbert has no idea regarding the whereabouts of his compatriots until an Iranian guard, whom he is tutoring in English, asks him the meaning of the words "raghead," "bozo," "mother-" and "c-sucker." "Limbert laughed," Mr. Bowden writes. "It warmed his heart. Someplace nearby, his captors were still coping with the United States Marine Corps."
Mike Howland, a Persian-speaking security officer marooned in the Foreign Ministry, starts to wander naked around the building at night, to show his disrespect for those who were keeping him in confinement and to give him an advantage if spotted by bashful Iranian guards. Anticipating an eventual rescue mission, Mr. Howland cleverly figures out a way of sabotaging his guards' guns.
The most brazen and hard-edged of the hostages is Michael Metrinko, a street-wise former Peace Corps volunteer and Persian-speaking diplomat who declares war on the gerugangirha, the hostage-takers. Using his vast knowledge of Persian culture, psychology and slang, Mr. Metrinko fights back. Beaten repeatedly, held in solitary confinement, hooded, tied up and denied food, he never stops searching for means to annoy and emasculate his captors. At one point he tries to derail the interrogation of an Iranian friend before him by baiting his interrogators to beat him (he succeeds). Even on his last day of captivity, on the bus to the airport, Mr. Metrinko verbally lashes out at a guard's offensive behavior by making a very Persian reference to the guard's mother and the procreative act; he is again beaten and then thrown off the bus. (A last-minute intervention by Iranian officials gets him on the plane to Germany.) Throughout, Mr. Metrinko is a proud, outraged man whose anger grows more intense precisely because he loves Iran so profoundly.
To verify some of Mr. Bowden's reporting, I sent an email to Mr. Metrinko, who is now working in Afghanistan. A short, rough, not particularly handsome fellow, Mr. Metrinko remarked that he hoped that this book, like Mr. Bowden's "Black Hawk Down" (1999), would become a movie. He really wanted Brad Pitt to play him, since "that's the way I would really like to remember myself." Mr. Pitt should be so lucky as to play such a part.
How is it possible that we have not heard these stories before?


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The week in review
Worst week for clubbing: Twenty-one people are killed when club-goers stampede to the exits in a Chicago nightclub February 17. And at least 97 people die in a Rhode Island nightclub on February 20 when pyrotechnics from a heavy metal band ignite.
Worst murder: A Crozet woman is stabbed to death and her house is set on fire February 19 with her three children inside; her three-year-old son also dies. Four teens from her neighborhood are arrested February 22.
Worst medical screw-up: Duke University Hospital transplants a heart and lung of the wrong blood type into a 17-year-old girl who later dies.
Best two weeks for hardware stores: First a run on duct tape and plastic sheeting and then on shovels suggests that Lowe's and Home Depot may be the best investments in a pre-apocalyptic America.
Worst local hits in the Virginia state budget: Pat Michaels' state climatologist office loses $10,170, Larry Sabato's Center for Politics is shorted $47,600, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities loses $103,480 and UVA's O'Brien Center for Excellence in Urology sees $270,000 dribble away, reports Bob Gibson in the Daily Progress.
Worst state in which to be innocent and convicted of a crime: Virginia, which limits the introduction of new evidence to 21 days after conviction, has extended it to a whopping 90 days.
Best show of appreciation: Five General Assembly leaders receive tins of caviar from the "Grateful Millionaires of Virginia" for repealing the estate tax that will cost the state around $78 million while it benefits one percent of the population, according to a Virginia Organizing Project press release.
Best news for Virginia citizens: The General Assembly adjourns before it can do any more damage.
Worst wrong turn: A truck driving the wrong way on U.S. 29 in Madison County kills a woman in a head-on crash.
Worst road rage: Angry motorists beat a VDOT snowplow operator in Stafford County, and hurl ice at a VDOT supervisor in Spotsylvania County on February 18.
Best perp walk photo: Donna Somerville, the Orange County woman accused of murdering her husband, is captured by Progress photog Andrew Shurtleff in a striped jailhouse ensemble and cuffs but not shackled, as the Albemarle couple sentenced to eight years for 16 misdemeanor counts were recently.
Best outlook for the Brown Schools: Its purchase by Psychiatric Solutions of Franklin, Tennessee, promises to put the chronic human rights violator out of its misery.
Worst view in Lee Park: James H. Snow, 51, is arrested for indecent exposure February 19 after whipping it out in front of a woman around 8:45pm, the Progress reports.
Best obituary: Ninety-one-year-old UVA archivist and professor emeritus Francis Berkeley's, which notes, among many accomplishments, that Berkeley was responsible for restoration of the Rotunda to its Jeffersonian origins with the Dome Room and oval rooms.
Best school board decision for swimmers: Albemarle County makes competitive swimming a permanent high school sport.
Worst fraternity on PETA's cruelty-to-animals list: Charlottesville-based Kappa Sigma, already in trouble with PETA for the 1999 bashing of an opossum by the Middle Tennessee State chapter and the 2002 strapping of fireworks onto the back of a turtle by the University of Missouri-Rolla chapter, draws its third strike February 7 when seven members of the Davidson College chapter lure a mother goose from her family with bread crumbs and beat her to death with a golf club. PETA wants the chapter disbanded.
Worst sign of impending doom: Ntelos, the Waynesboro-based telecommunications company, misses $24.6 million in interest payments that were due February 18.
Worst flashback to the Artist Formerly Known as Prince: The Virginia Film Festival announces "$"is its theme this year.
Worst snow legacy: Potholes everywhere.


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Ship's flag, news bulletins among D-Day items up for auction in New York
A U.S. flag from one of the thousands of Allied ships that delivered troops and supplies to the Normandy beaches is among the hundreds of D-Day and other World War II artifacts being auctioned in New York City, a day before the 70th anniversary of the history-changing invasion.
The auction at Bonhams in Manhattan on Thursday also features rare print-outs of the original series of hourly Dow Jones news bulletins with some of the first reports of the fighting on France's north coast on June 6, 1944. The tattered 48-star American flag that flew aboard the U.S.-built LST 493 and the Dow Jones documents, both owned by World War II collector Rodney Hilton Brown, have pre-sale estimates of $12,000 to $18,000.
The auction also includes battlefield souvenirs, innovative wartime technology, rare documents and photographs from the war's European and Pacific theaters.
Among the higher-priced items for sale are the original designs of the Mulberry harbor, the massive structures the Allied ferried across the English Channel to use as temporary ports on Normandy's coast. The British innovation allowed quick resupply and reinforcement of the assault troops after they started advancing inland. Sketched in pencil by engineer Hugh Iorys Hughes, the nine drawings have a pre-sale estimate of $70,000 to $100,000.
"Every object in the June 5 WWII sale has an incredible story to tell," said Tom Lamb, Bonhams' business development director for the books and manuscripts department in New York. "They bear witness to the war's unparalleled turmoil, and testify to the bravery of many individuals as well as entire nations."
More than half of the 350-lot auction is owned by Brown, a military historian and collector who also owns the original 12 1/2-foot-tall version of the sculpture depicting the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima. Inspired by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's famous image of the event, Felix de Weldon made the stone monument seven years before his larger bronze of the flag raising was installed in Arlington, Virginia, as the Marine Corps War Memorial. The original statue failed to sell during a February 2013 auction at Bonhams.
Brown, a 71-year-old Army veteran, began collecting World War II items as a 10-year-old canvassing his Philadelphia neighborhood, telling homeowners he was collecting items from the war.
"They'd say, `Great, take them out of here," Brown said in a telephone interview.
Brown, founder and owner of the New York-based War Museum, said it was fitting to put his items up for sale on June 5 because June 6 was the day "the greatest invasion in history took place." He points out that the Dow Jones printouts from various news sources that historic day are particularly rare since they were usually tossed away or used for "ticker tape" parades.
"Somebody knew enough to clip out and save the D-Day bulletins," Brown said. "It's a unique document. I don't believe there's another one in existence."


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Shopping for a kids apps is quite a different thing than deciding which film to add to your Netflix queue, even more so when you're loading up the iPad before that last-minute road trip. For example, you know they'll love Tangled and to avoid Mars Needs Moms at all costs, but do you know whether they will prefer Tap Farm to Brick Breaker, or if either is age appropriate? The great thing is, many kids' apps are free, in which case caveat emptor isn't relevant—you can download to your heart's content. But for those paid apps, there is more . . . parental hesitancy. So without further ado, here are 10 recommendations for iPad apps they'll love, put through their paces by real, living children ages 2 to 13.
Also check out our picks for Best iPhone Apps for Kids and Best iPad Apps for people of all ages.
Apps Just For Fun (Read…Mindless)
Plants vs. Zombies$6.99
A favorite among tweens, Plants vs. Zombies is unnervingly addictive. The objective is simple, keep the brain-munching undead at bay by putting pansies and other botanical items between them and your home. This app has gotten so much buzz, it's now available on Nintendo DS!
Fruit Ninja$0.99
We know from experience that 11-year-olds love anything with the word Ninja in it, and Fruit Ninja is no exception. Your kids will play against each other to see who can get the highest score by simply slicing fruit that is hurtled into the air in half with a samurai sword, whilst trying to avoid bombs. This silly little app is not the most addictive on our list, but from a parent's perspective, that's not a bad thing.
Angry Birds$0.99
We would be remiss if we didn't include one of the most popular Apple apps in the entertainment category on our list. It's simple: A pack of strangely cute but seriously P.O.ed birds are out for vengeance on a group of pigs that made omelettes of their offspring. They hurtle themselves, with your help, over obstacles and at variable trajectories to break through the pigs' fortresses and exact revenge. The latest iteration is Angry Birds RIO, which is basically the same game as Angry Birds with some new characters from the movie. Everyone in our focus group loves this title, the 2-year-old and 13-year-old alike.


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I'm a first time bunny owner by a series of fortunate events.. My boyfriend's mother moved out of state and did not want to take her rabbit with her. We also have her two dogs that she "should" be coming back for by the end of this month. Hah.
Anyways, I am now owned by a strange rabbit. He was raised with a dog.. yeah, i don't know how that worked out. Don't really want to know. He was in a smallish cage on pine bedding and being fed whole apples and ice burg lettuce along with a loooot of pellets.
So, I did what any self respecting animal lover would do and got him set up in a nice NIC cage (that was fun to make!), got him on Oxbow (his owner didn't even leave any food for him to eat..), a large litter box, aspen, and hay. It was so strange to see him not eat his hay at first.. guess Timothy isn't his thing (I'm allergic to it anyways, haha), but now he loves oat and orchard grass! He's a silly little boy and doesn't quite understand what it is to be a bunny but he's learning. The first time he popcorned was fantastic to see and just yesterday he was binkying around so quickly he hit the wall.
Anyways! Presenting Mister Bunington (anyone know what sort of rabbit he is? He looks like a dark gray, almost black, but his under coat is a very light grey, and clearly he looks brown in certain light), eater of jeans and the gracious master of MyBoyfriend'sRoom Manor.
And his residence, I've since redone it a little, moved things around. He leaves the wires alone when he's out of the cage, but we're going to cover them as soon as the next paycheck comes in.


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Shamrocks roll over Fowler
The Ionia girls basketball team led the whole way Tuesday night, but had to fend off multiple Lakewood runs to earn a 46-32 victory over its rival.
Taylor Bovee led the Bulldogs with 15 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. Sarah Swartz finished with 12 points and seven boards, while Anna Riccius scored 11 points.
The Vikings were paced by Emily Kutch's double-double of 17 points and 11 rebounds. Brooke Wieland finished with seven points, while Liz Campeau pulled down five rebounds and Ellie Reynolds finished with two assists.
Ionia (10-5) will play host to Haslett on Friday night.
Lakewood (5-12) will take on Corunna at home Friday night as part of Winterfest.
St. Pats 55, Fowler 21
FOWLER — The Shamrocks jumped out to an 18-4 lead Tuesday night en route to their 12th Central Michigan Athletic Conference win.
Courtney Dixon finished with a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead St. Pats. Jennifer Bosworth finished with nine points and four assists.
The Shamrocks (16-1, 12-1 in CMAC) will play host to Potterville on Feb. 15.
Portland 31, P-W 26
WESTPHALIA — Raider senior Kelsey Spitzley finished with nine of her game-high 18 points in the fourth quarter Tuesday night to lead Portland to a five-point victory over the Pirates.
Along with her 18 points, Spitzley finished with eight rebounds and two assists.
Nikki Green scored 10 points for the Lady Raiders, while Maddie King finished with three.
Joanna Klein led P-W with 12 points, while Marlena Klein finished with seven points and nine rebounds.
Portland (31-3) will travel to Williamston on Friday.
P-W (12-4) will head to Potterville on Thursday night.


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Can your first or second grader tie his shoelaces? Catch a ball? Wield a pencil correctly? These seemingly little milestones are more important than many parents realize, according to a study of more than 8,000 school-age kids in Finland. Having difficulty with these skills is a sign of poor motor function, an increasingly common problem that goes hand in hand with the childhood obesity epidemic. The study, which first looked at weight, height, physical activity, and motor function at age 8, then the academic achievement of the same kids at 16, found that poor motor function may indeed set a child on a path to poor grades.
Plus: Fitness Milestones, Age by Age
What's the connection? A number of studies have found (and it makes perfect sense), that overweight kids are behind in assorted physical skills—they're simply not getting as much practice as the rest of their peers. The link to academic performance has also been clearly proven—overweight kids get poorer grades plain and simple. That relationship is more complicated, but many experts surmise that overweight kids have lower self-esteem, which then plays out in the classroom. And it's easy to see the domino effect at work here: a child who is having trouble with motor skills as a preschooler gravitates toward less physical activities, weight gain ensues, confidence dips.
Plus: Guide to Motor Skill Delays
But you needn't panic—this doesn't mean a kid who can't master his laces is doomed. One challenging task does not a delay make. Parents need to watch for a combination of similar symptoms and keep tabs along with their pediatrician. And if they do, it's an easy fix. Early intervention therapy for motor skills is available free of charge if a child is showing signs of delay. By kindergarten many of these kids have caught up to their peers, and if they haven't, public schools will continue to provide assistance.
Are you concerned about your child's motor development? Leave a comment.


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George Clooney - No
George Clooney has been fascinated with the Islamic world for a while now – his movies Three Kings and Syriana come to mind. But conversion talk really began with his rumored relationship with Fatima Bhutto, the 27-year old niece of Pakistan's assassinated Prime Minister Mrs. Benazir Bhutto. The National Inquirer ran the story, describing Ms. Bhutto as a "brainy foreign beauty" and sent newspapers across the Subcontinent into a tizzy of speculation. While never confirmed, it's not hard to see why Clooney would find Ms. Bhutto appealing, for both the "exotic" aspect as well as her political dynasty. But being an international playboy is one thing; converting to a religion quite another. Still, Clooney almost does the beard as well as Liam Neeson.


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Skip to comments.Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment Introduced in Senate
Posted on 02/13/2013 11:20:57 AM PST by EXCH54FE
Senator John Cornyn, as well as all other 44 Republicans in the Senate, introduced the balanced budget consitutional amendment today in the Senate.
"With more than $16 trillion of debt, including nearly $6 trillion since President Obama took office, we are facing nothing short of a fiscal crisis. Everyone agrees that our nation is on an unsustainable path, but unfortunately as we saw last night, President Obama is incapable of tempering his appetite for more and more spending," says Cornyn in a statement.
"We must set effective limits on spending and taxes, and require a balanced budget. Families across Texas have to balance their checkbooks and live within their means, and there is no reason their government should operate any differently."
The senator's office explains what the amendment would do:
Requirement to Balance the Budget. With limited exceptions, the federal budget must be balanced. Presidential Requirement to Submit a Balanced Budget. Prior to each fiscal year, the President must submit to Congress a balanced budget that limits outlays to 18 percent of GDP. 18 Percent Spending Cap. With limited exceptions, Congress must limit outlays to 18 percent of GDP. Supermajority for Tax Increases. Establishes a new supermajority requirement for net tax and rate increases. Supermajority to Raise the Debt Limit. Establishes new supermajority requirement for an increase in the debt limit.
Goin' nowhere........
Even if it were going somewhere.. it wouldn't matter because any such amendment would have to have an out in case of a national emergency.
And the first time they needed more money... they would simply declare an emergency.
Perpetual 'emergency'...........
This won't amount to a fart in a hurricane.
Will the fiscal crisis result in a civil war?
Plus, beside being derelict in duty and accountability-averse, Congress doesn't abide by the Constitution anyway, making an amendment toothless in action. This is nothing but smoke from the usual suspects.
We have officially been in a national emergency since 1933 or so. At least, that was the justification for various laws still in effect before SCOTUS back when. If they'd ever come before SCOTUS again you probably wouldn't need to bother defending them, but that hasn't happened, so officially we've been in an 80 year emergency.
Some spending is done by the Fed independently. For instance, the no-string bailouts that lead to all those phony executive bonus scandals which people wanted to fix by illegally violating their contracts. This doesn't add to the debt, but it is gubmint spending and does impoverish us that much further.
The best thing Cornyn could have done to balance the budget was to do a better job in the 2012 elections as head of the GOP Senate campaign to get more Republican senators elected. He made a complete mess of that. Now he plays to the audience with this. Don't get me wrong — I'd love this to happen, although I'd set that 18% number at 10% or 15%. But you are right — it is going nowhere.
The best thing Cornyn could have done to balance the budget was to do a better job in the 2012 elections as head of the GOP Senate campaign to get more Republican senators elected. He made a complete mess of that. Now he plays to the audience with this. Don't get me wrong — I'd love this to happen, although I'd set that 18% number at 10% or 15%. But you are right — it is going nowhere.
Snowball's chance in h.....
Looks like he's revisiting the balance portion of cut, cap and balance
Good point, and I stand corrected that Congress is 100% (directly) to blame for the spending. That said, the Fed is a creation of Congress. Congress, being accountability averse, has a practice of creating agencies and other entities that it can point fingers at.
Only when the freebies are cut off............
Just remember, the GREEKS DON'T HAVE GUNS..............
"the Fed is a creation of Congress"
True, and I suppose ultimate culpability is traceable to it. Same goes for the mountains of administrative law built up by the executive branch, of which Congress washes its hands and each department of which SCOTUS encourages to be their own extra-congressional congress.
ALL budgets where liabilities equal assets are "balanced"; any budget otherwise is unbalanced, and prima facie evidence of an error in the books...or hankie-pankie.
A "balanced budget" has nothing to do with borrowing or going in to debt or otherwise "deficit spending"; nor with having a surplus of some sort, as long as it is itemized, and both ledger sheets add up to the same total.
What they need is an amendment requiring that ALL spending and income be "on the books"; and that the books be kept in accordance with "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles".
They won't balance the budget without the amendment, and they won't balance the budget with it because you know it's going to have some sort of escape clause that will give them an excuse not to make the hard decisions.
8 years too late delta bravos.
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|2012-09-25, 16:26
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Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
|2012-09-25, 19:49
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
I don't think I misunderstand their corporate culture.. We had classes dedicated to it in business school. What you're describing about loyalty and lifetime employment however are mostly a thing of past or at least fading, well at least in the news, Forbes and other publications. Job security worldwide, including in Japan, is at an all-time low.
And, what I'm describing is actively pursuing personal achievements and initiative, with feelings, status and position completely set aside. It may sound reckless, but we're not talking about minor wage increases and menial promotions, gotta fight for that next step up the ladder..
I was being a tad facetious about the whole "Fired in Japan" comment, cause I'd arguably be potentially fired at other companies in North America and Europe too if I were ever under the supervision by typical middle management
EDIT: And no one has responded on what the costs of good suiting is in Japan yet!
|2012-09-25, 20:26
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Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
If you put promotion first, it means you're just as likely to use more nefarious means to get ahead as just. I don't think an organisation should reward such naked ambition. Employees need to be primarily driven by the company mission, while the company compensates them well enough to lead satisfactory and secure lives, in proportion to the success of the company as a whole(and not to the seniority of the employee within the company).
Employees primarily motivated by wage increases will work to increase their own wage, not to improve the service the company provides.
Though, I might be something of a radical...
|2012-09-25, 20:32
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
I'll tell you, and it may be horrid to hear, but sometimes you have to go around your own managers/supervisors/bosses even to accomplish your "customer first" philosophy.
Heck, forget bureaucracy.. I've worked with incompetent CEOs and CFOs for companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars that belittle their own employees, drive their companies into bankruptcy and still collect a "parachute" of several million dollars.
EDIT: Getting back on a topic more directly Japanese related, hm.. 70,000 yen so.. About US$900 for a low-end "quality" suit is actually not much different. That's +/- what a Boss suit goes for around here. Is that made-to-measure or off the rack?
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|2012-09-25, 20:37
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Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
They're all GMs in the making.
|2012-09-26, 02:54
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
I'm very content with the laid-back casual feel of office life in US.
However, you don't have the right to diss my own people, only I do!
Else I'll start calling you Spanish! (isn't that the worst insult to a Brazillian? )
|2012-09-26, 10:54
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Brazil - São Paulo
Age: 26
But I didn't mind to diss your own people. I'm just not fond of how things work over there. But then again, I'm not very fond of large organized societies as well.
|2012-09-26, 13:25
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
So, a couple of pages back we were talking about Japanese Food and a dearth of good non-sushi Japanese restaurants around. So, just to make you all jealous (other than those who live in Japan ), here's some pictures of my lunch!
This cost me all of about US$15.00. The owner gave me a small complimentary appetizer (salmon skin and sea cucumber marinated in soy sauce and mirin) and I ordered the teishoku
|2012-09-26, 14:15
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
I stick to freelance at SMEs, although there are a number who undercut employees to retain profits, they aren't as slow and incompetent as the leaders of the Big Corps I have worked for.
And it is utterly pathetic to see their offices laced with cliched posters.
|2012-09-26, 14:28
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dai Korai Teikoku
That being said, my suits cost around $1,500, being made by family friends.
|2012-09-26, 18:23
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Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
I have a pretty good suit I got from Syms for ~ $150. Though admittedly, I can't say it's necessarily the most comfortable thing ever, but it looks fine.
Sad they went out of business, perhaps that suit was too good value.
Personally, I'd be pretty freaked out to be wearing something so expensive. Would have to be careful next time I eat a burger...
|2012-09-26, 19:00
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
@RRW - Set meal with grilled mackerel, pickled veggies, steamed egg, pickled radish cubes, rice and miso soup! I had to ask to be served the soup with my meal, otherwise they bring it out with the appetizer salad
PS: I'm typing away on an iPad at a bar, so pardon inaccuracies! Apparently I'd rather talk to all of you! (than drink!?)
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|2012-09-29, 16:34
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Tokyo Akiba Shop Lets Visitors Sleep (Platonically) With a Woman
|2012-10-02, 13:21
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
So, coming home to the massive condo developments here in Toronto and being a high-rise condo dweller myself .. I was struck at the amount of older and low-rise apartments in Tokyo.
What's the reason why there are no massive condo farms there?
It would significantly increase average living space per capita.. Common answer I hear is earthquakes, but there ARE high-rise condos in Roppongi Hills and high-rise office buildings elsewhere?
|2012-10-02, 13:30
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dai Korai Teikoku
1. Banks are being stingy with loans, meaning unless one is going to shell out big money from their own pockets, building such high rise buildings would be prohibitively expensive, especially with the unstable economic situation.
2. Maintenance/taxes are much higher for high rise buildings.
3. Given that the birth rate is rock bottom, do you really need the extra living space?
The above are the more important reasons, with various lesser ones including supposed mental problems associated with high rise buildings and such.
|2012-10-02, 13:40
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
^ Hm, I guess it's simply not economically feasible then if you can't get project financing.
The way it works here is that developments are generally marketed intensely prior to financing and permits ever being issued and banks don't fund until the projects are ~70-80% pre-sold. That being said, property values were much lower here and developments were usually in re-zoned lands that had otherwise been neglected: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityPlace,_Toronto
I was just musing on these thoughts and was wondering how much people would pay monthly to live in ~600-700 sq. ft and have amenities like a concierge and a pool? Bring down the cost of "urban yuppie living" as it were, since even relatively poorly paid staff accountants live that lifestyle here. It could be a profitable venture depending on what the cap rates are in Japan currently.
|2012-10-02, 13:43
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dai Korai Teikoku
Another thing to consider is that Canada has a stable growth rate from immigration, thus making it economically viable for there to be high rise condos in the first place. Immigration is concentrated in the BC Lower Mainland and Southern Ontario, so there is a strong demand to build relatively cheap high rise buildings to accommodate the population and leave room for other amenities.
|2012-10-02, 13:56
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
My vague musings/thoughts were surrounding the fact that:
1) interest rates in Japan are low if you can actually get financing;
2) there's a dearth of affordable modern condo buildings;
3) savings rates in Japan have declined but there is still a significant amount of accumulated assets generating negative real returns, and
4) those assets would seek investments offering safe stable positive returns if possible
If you could get financing to build such a development, and if there's demand, the real investment "bang for the buck" in this thesis would be to convert the project and fund it via a REIT structure for those seeking positive yield. With cap rates in the 7's (I think) a tax-efficient investment structure offering even 4-5% returns should be pretty attractive I would think.. Or maybe not, who knows? Just random thoughts..
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"Opening night of our production of 'Willy Wonka' was a huge success! We played to a sold-out audience, and with both veteran and new JCT actors and crew, we felt proud of all the hard work we had done over the last two months in order to present this show. With a backstage, at times, full of Oompa Loompas, it was amazing how everybody understood the importance of keeping quiet and still, while fellow actors performed on stage only steps away and crew members moved set pieces into place, maneuvering them adeptly around the seated actors. We were there to help one another, to be patient and to await our moments in the limelight.
"First of all, we have an interesting make-up of people in this play. Out of a cast and crew of 50 people, we have 10 families who have at least two members in the cast and crew, some with three members and some with the entire family involved. We have a father and son who actually play father and son in the play, and our cast is comprised of people from 7 to 81 years of age, with a 6-year-old in a cameo role.
"Children and adults, once again, have been working together towards a common goal – the play. But in between, the lessons everybody has been learning about community spirit, being a team player and forming intergenerational bonds is what JCT is all about. All of us felt passion on opening night, and as far as I am concerned, that is what all of us will carry forward into our everyday lives.
"Please forgive the following mundane expression, the laughter and applause we received last weekend was the icing on the cake resulting from a process that began weeks ago."
"Willy Wonka" completes its run this weekend, with performances tomorrow and Saturday night at 7:30 and Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets are available at Baker's Pharmacy, The Secret Garden, Conanicut Marine Store and Cathryn Jamieson Salon. Watch for the Golden Ticket hidden inside your Wonka intermission candy.
We asked, "What on this coming Thanksgiving holiday are you thankful for?"
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Marlene Murphy: My health and family.
Kim Froberg: A healthy family.
Bob Horan: My health.
Sherri Messinger: My family.
Meghan Rice: My family and my job.
Chris Beye: That I have a job. Bonnie Jamison: I'm thankful for my health.
Marian Gaviola: My friends and family.
Joey G.: Having such great friends and living on Jamestown.
Chris Crawford: The surroundings in my life, and knowing that I'm going to have a Thanksgiving. There are many others not as fortunate.
Kudos to Jamestowners who contributed some 1,700 pounds of food to the annual Scouting for Food drive. Boy Scout Troop 1 Scoutmaster Jim Archibald said, "Thanks to all, next year, we go for a ton." All donations are stored at the St. Mark food pantry and are distributed to needy islanders.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The long-term unemployed in Alabama will be among the first to feel automatic federal budget cuts scheduled to take effect Friday.
A spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Labor says federal officials have advised the department to prepare for a cut of 9% to 10% in unemployment benefits for Alabamians who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state unemployment benefits and are now getting the extended 37 weeks of federal benefits.
Spokeswoman Tara Hutchinson said the unemployment cuts are supposed to take effect Sunday and will affect 16,000 people. The federal benefits are administered by the state Department of Labor. The average benefit is $202 weekly and the max is $265.
The White House estimates Alabama will lose $472,000 for the remainder of the fiscal year.
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The once-delayed Formula One race planned for Hudson County's waterfront has landed on the circuit's 2014 calendar, though it once again has an asterisk next to its date.
The World Motor Sports Council confirmed its official schedule today at a meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Listed among its 21 dates is the Grand Prix of America at Port Imperial, scheduled for June 1, which would feature a 3.2-mile street course in Weehawken and West New York.
"The entire Grand Prix of America team is thrilled to join the 2014 FIA calendar and we look forward to bringing world-class Formula One racing to New Jersey," chief promoter Leo Hindery, Jr. said in a prepared statement. The FIA refers to the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, the international governing body for auto racing and parent of the motor sports council.
But the calendar date also is marked with an asterisk and "provisional," as it was on the 2013 schedule before the inaugural race was postponed last October. The asterisk, which also appears next to a November race in Mexico, is noted as "subject to the circuit approval."
Representatives for Grand Prix of America did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the calendar.
Reported funding shortfalls and construction issues led to the initial postponement, while leading to many of the same doubts this year. But organizers in New Jersey have been optimistic recently: last week, reports said the Grand Prix of America had submitted an official application to a U.S. governing body and secured a spot on the 2014 calendar.
The race has brought great anticipation since first being announced in late 2011, with expectations of drawing more than 100,000 to the three-day event. This year's race was meant to kick off a decade of consecutive Grand Prix events on the Hudson waterfront with the New York City skyline as a backdrop.
Organizers and state officials have repeatedly said the race will receive no government subsidies. They've also projected it will generate more than $100 million in annual economic benefits for New Jersey and New York.


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Text: Colossians 1:15-23, Romans 5:1-11
For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment, Christ died for the ungodly.
- Romans 5:6, HCSB
Confession: the She Reads Truth team is completely and enthusiastically addicted to Post-its. From the tiny kind for flagging pages of a book, to those colorful and ubiquitous 3"x3" squares, to the huge pages that magically turn any wall into a giant whiteboard—we love them all. The amazing gals who keep our office running use sticky notes in many Very Official SRT Processes. Me, I just use them because I'm super forgetful. If something is important, please write it on a neon piece of paper and post it right in front of my face. Then do it again tomorrow, please and thank you.
As I approach this season of Lent, I'm in need of big, bright Gospel post-it note. My mind and body are tired, my heart is numb, and I just feel… forgetful. Disconnected. Distracted. Remind me what we're doing here again, Lord? Remind me of who You are. Remind me of what You've done.
Maybe you know this feeling of Gospel detachment, where you have to squint hard to see what you know is true. In my own squinting last week, the Holy Spirit brought me to this passage in the first chapter of Colossians. It's packed with Gospel reminders!
Lord, remind me of who You are.
He is the visible image of the invisible God.
He is the firstborn of all creation.
He is the One by whom everyone and everything else were created.
He is the One for whom it was all created.
He is the One who holds all things together!
He is the head of the Church.
He is the beginning.
He is the dwelling place of all the fullness of God.
Lord, remind me of what You've done.
He reconciled all things to Himself.
He reconciled you to Himself!
He reconciled me to Himself!
He made peace through the blood of His cross.
The Holy One who possesses all the glory of God stretched out His body of flesh to become the Way that brings us back to the Father.
Friends, the season of Lent is about coming near to the cross of Jesus. Only at the Cross will we see the full weight of our sin. Only at the Cross will we see the full height of His glory. Only at the Cross will we grasp the full joy of our salvation. At the Cross we see clearly what is true.
We're so excited to walk with you over the next 47 days as we travel through three phases of reading and prayer together—
We will Return, kneeling daily at the cross of our Lord.
We will Repent, mourning the depth and reality of our sin.
And we will Remember, tracing the path of Christ on His journey to the Cross.
We will take a long, hard look at our sin, and we will grieve at the sight of it. And we will lock our gaze on Jesus, the One who rescues us from death and despair! We'll follow the instructions of 18th century Scottish minister Robert Murray M'Cheyne when he said, "For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely."
You and I aren't the only ones who tend to forget. In this same passage from Colossians, Paul warns the Church not to "shift from the hope of the gospel." If you, like me, feel you've shifted a bit off of Gospel center, join me in asking our heavenly Father to bring us back to Him. Let's ask Him to go with us, before us, and behind us on this Bible-reading journey we'll begin tomorrow.
Lord, we are a forgetful people. May this Lenten season cause us to remember your glory and our sin, our guilt and your cross.
Jesus, we are the broken ones. May we know we've been washed clean, brought close, and made whole.
We are faithless wanderers and You are the faithful Father. Guide us through these weeks in your Word and show us more of You.
Jesus, keep us near the Cross. May it be our glory ever.
Jesus, Keep Me Near The Cross
Fanny Crosby, 1869
Jesus, keep me near the cross,
There a precious fountain
Free to all, a healing stream
Flows from Calvary's mountain.
In the cross, in the cross,
Be my glory ever;
Till my ransomed soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.
Near the cross, a trembling soul,
Love and mercy found me;
There the bright and Morning Star
Sheds His beams around me.
Near the cross! O Lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day,
With its shadow o'er me.
Near the cross I'll watch and wait,
Hoping, trusting ever,
Till I reach the golden strand,
Just beyond the river.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Jun 2007 20:13 UTC
There have been some interesting developments in the Haiku/BeOS world the past few weeks. Firstly, SkyOS developer Peter "Darkness" Speybrouck has been working on accessing SkyFS/BeFS partitions from Windows. Secondly, Opera 3.62 runs on Haiku. Lastly, if you have an Intel Mac, you can use VMware Fusion to run Haiku in Mac OS X; Haiku does not support EFI, so this is your only chance of running Haiku if you own an Intel Mac.


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- eco
- comfort
- sport
- sport-plus
- individual
A mode for every mood, and for every driver in you.
DYNAMIC SELECT dials in the car's performance character with the tap of a console button. The throttle, shifting, chassis and more sharpen in Sport mode, ease up in ECO. There's even a mode you can set up as you like.