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Jerry Brown Line One Spectra Hollow Core Fishing Line is a spliceable hollow core fishing line. The ability to splice the line allows the angler many options including the ability to insert monofilament leaders into the hollow core to produce a wind on leader free of terminal tackle. In addition, the ability to splice the line negates the need for knots. This is of critical importance because line unions are the weakest points between the angler and the fish. Jerry Brown Hollow Core Spectra is a round braided line, which may also be tied using the Uni-knot system, the San Diego Knot, as well as the Bimini Twist, and the Spider Hitch Knot. Braided line to monofilament unions may be achieved using the loop to loop approach, surgeons knot, or the Uni To Uni line union.
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Jerry Brown is a true gentleman and an important contributor to the history of sport fishing. An experienced chemical engineer, with a passion for fishing, Jerry Brown's contributions to the use of Spectra fibers in the development of fishing lines have played an important role in modern sport fishing as we know it.
Since 2002 I have been recommending Jerry Brown Line One products to all my customers. Like my customers, I expect quality, reliability, and performance in the products I invest in, Jerry Brown Line One has never let me down, lines that I originally purchased in 2002, I am still using today.
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Jerry Brown Line Spectra Fishing Line Buyer's Guide: How To Select Jerry Brown Braided Spectra Fishing Line
Jerry Brown Spectra Braided Fishing Line is made from Spectra Fibers. The use of Spectra on fishing lines has revolutionized fishing lines as we know them. Unlike monofilament, Jerry Brown Spectra Fishing Line has zero stretch, and excellent abrasion resistance. The lack of stretch makes Jerry Brown the ideal fishing line for setting hooks in deep water, this is why it has rapidly become the number one choice for spooling Kristal, Dolphin, and other electric reels for deep drop fishing applications. In addition, Jerry Brown Spectra Fishing Line is used for offshore deep sea big game sport fishing applications, when species such as Marlin, Wahoo, Tuna, Sailfish, Dolphin aka: Dorado, Mahi Mahi, and Swordfish are sought. The lack of stretch allows for quick setting of the hook. When used with circle hooks, Jerry Brown Spectra Fishing Line facilitates the release of Sailfish, Marlin, and Swordfish boat side.
Jerry Brown Line One Spectra Braided Fishing Line falls into two categories:
* Jerry Brown Hollow Core Spectra Braided Line
* Jerry Brown Non-Hollow Line Spectra Braided Line
Selecting Hollow vs. Non-Hollow Jerry Brown Fishing Line
Jerry Brown Hollow Core is more expensive than it's counterpart, Non-Hollow, therefore it is important to have an understanding of what application the line is going to be used for. First and foremost it is important to understand that Jerry Brown Hollow Core is NOT flat! Most anglers picture Hollow Core as a flat line. In actuality, Jerry Brown Hollow Core Line is round, and may be tied through the use of the Uni-Knot or the San Diego knot. The advantage of hollow core is that it may be spliced through the use of threading, loop splicing, and reverse latch needles.
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Jerry Brown Hollow Core's main advantage is it's ability to be spliced. As we all know the weakest link in fishing is knots, as well as terminal tackle. The use of hollow core eliminates the need for knots. In addition, Jerry Brown Hollow Core may be opened with a loop needle, and monofilament, wire, or fluorocarbon may be inserted inside to create a wind on leader. Loops may also be created to attach terminal tackle, such as ball bearing swivels and snaps when needed. Another advantage is the line to line splice, which allows the angler to add line to a spool without using a knot. This is of particular interest to anglers who deep drop the depths for bottom species such as tile fish, snapper, wreck fish, grouper, as well as daytime swordfish. In cases where 100 or 200 yards of line is cut off, Jerry Brown Hollow Core allows the angler to splice in the line without a knot. In the long run this provides a cost savings because the entire reel does not have to be re-spooled. Longevity of Spectra braided lines greatly exceeds the life of monofilament nylon lines. Jerry Brown Spectra fishing lines will last for years. And NO, it does not have to be "cleaned"! Once the line is on the reel, normal reel care will suffice.
Jerry Brown Non-Hollow Fishing Line is less expensive, because it is non-hollow it is not spliceable, therefore all connections are done using traditional methods. I recommend Jerry Brown Non-Hollow Spectra line for use on fishing kite reels, spinners, and for applications where the use of hollow core does not merit the extra expense.
Jerry Brown Fishing Lines are available in the following colors: White, Hi-Vis Yellow, Green, and Blue. Spool sizes range from 150 to 2500 yard spools. Line sizes range from 10 LB Test to 200 LB Test, Hollow Core is only available in 60 through 200 LB Test. There are larger sizes available, however due to line diameter and the resulting spool sizes, these are best ordered via phone (954) 263-6177.
Jerry Brown Decade Multi-Color Hollow Core Spectra Braided Fishing Line
Jerry Brown's new Decade Multi-Color Hollow Core Spectra Braided Fishing Line is a multicolor line that features 10 colors that change at 10 yard intervals, allowing for a visual counting of line as it is put out. As with all Jerry Brown products, the new Decade Multi-Color Hollow Core Spectra Braided Fishing Line is spliceable and suitable for threading monofilament wind on leaders.
Jerry Brown Decade Multi-Color Hollow Core Spectra Braided Fishing Line is suitable for use in all types of both freshwater and saltwater fishing applications.
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How To Spool Jerry Brown Line One Spectra On Your Fishing Reel
Corrosion Prevention:
Unlike other fishing lines braides Spectra® line has a very long useful life, years, unless damaged. Whiles Spectra fibers are unable to cause reel corrosion, salt can. Contrary to popular belief, spools made of aluminum are not corrosion proof, aluminum can pit. When it comes to anodizing, the process often is more for looks than for longevity in regards to corrosion resistance. To protect your aluminum spools, it is a good idea that you wax and buff the empty spool with carnuba wax before putting the line on. Waxing the surface of the spool, and the spool body, provides added protection. A quality wax will seal the porous surface of aluminum, providing protection against salt penetration, and the corrosion that will follow.
Commencing the spooling process:
Before starting, make sure that you have a freely rotating spool of line and that there are no under wraps. An under wrap can create a major problem, creating a pseudo drag that will create sufficient friction to break the line, as well as "digging" into the spool, eventually getting stuck, and resulting in line breakage. Once the process has commenced, if the above error is not corrected immediately, the result will be wasted line, and the process will have to be re-started. If you are 20 yards into the process, no biggie, but if you are into it for a couple of hundred yards, you have a totally different situation.
The best way to prevent the under wrap issue, is to assure that an under wrap is not present. This is accomplished by removing a portion of the line from a spool, and then taping the end of the remaining line to the side of the spool so that an under-wrap is less likely the next time you take line from that spool. If you have a free lining spool, then an under wrap is not an issue. Making sure before you start the process, is by far the most correct, safest, and most advisable method.
Line Slippage:
Contrary to popular belief, braided Spectra line will not slip. When the line is tied correctly to the spool, braided Spectral line will grip the spool tightly. The use of a uni-knot, or San Diego knot, will assure a tight grip of the Spectra unto the reel. Always leave a long tag end when completing the knot. The tag end can then be laid across the arbor. Once the tag end is in proper position, spool the first layer of spectra using a close side by side technique, using about 6 LBS of tension. This will wind the line tightly, and slippage will not occur. Once you do this, pull on the line, and you will see that the line will not slip.
Excessive criss-crossing must be avoided. Criss crossing creates voids, which eventually causes the line to "dig in". Spectra line may be spooled when dry or wet, as it makes absolutely no difference in the tightness of the spooling, nor does doing it wet prevent any issues. Wet line makes it more difficult to apply the necessary tension needed to provide tight spooling. This obviously occurs due to slippage when the tension is applied. Should you wish to use the wet line process, use fresh water. The last thing you want is to have salt exposure from the bottom up.
Line winding machines:
The most important thing to remember when using a line spooler is speed. The use of high speeds will create more friction, friction generates heat. As we all know, heat and plastics are not the best of friends. When spooling Spectra, if you have a 2 speed reel, use the lower gear, it will be a slower spooling, however it will generate less friction, and less heat. When spooling Spectra braided lines, you can't be in a hurry. Cutting corners, will surely result in disaster.
One issue that is important to prevent is the bunching of line on the sides of the spool. When spooling, make sure that the line is even from side to side. When the line bunches up on the sides of the spool, a total nightmare can result when a fish is hooked and line payout is quick. Such an event can cause the line to bind, increasing the drag, and eventually locking down, the line breaking, or the rod and reel coming clear out of your hands.
Due to the different Spectra colors, when done using an electric line winding machine, one should clean and blow off the colored dusts that will be left over after a reel is spooled. Not doing so, may inadvertently add color to your line that it never had!
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Line Counters
The accuracy of line counters vary greatly. Depending on the mechanism, those that rely on a positive gear drive provide for good accuracy, while those that have a wheel that rides the spool that contains the line your purchased, DO NOT. Wheels slip, and during that slippage, yards come and go. While this is of concern to those who retail line, this is not a major concern to the end user. A full reel is afterall, a full reel. Counters which use the wheel, tend to be less accurate when higher spooling speeds are used.
Once the process is complete, the line on your reel should feel "tight", hence a solid feel to it. If it feels soft, or "squishable" that is not good. Line that doesn't have the solid feel to it, will dig, and disaster will soon follow. To avoid this, one should apply the necessary tension during the spooling process.
One of the best techniques to apply tension to the spool is by using a a knitted glove and using that to apply tension to the line, as it is going into the spool. The hand with the knitted glove is placed on the line that is being spooled onto the reel, not on the plastic spool that the line came in. Those using the 2 person method, may have the 2nd person that is holding the plastic spool apply pressure to the sides of the spool, while holding the rod or axle that the plastic spooling is rotating on.
Spooling Spectra line onto the reel is the first and most important step in assuring the performance, reliability, and longevity of Spectra braided fishing line. Paying close attention to this important process, will assure that your Jerry Brown Spectra Fishing Line will provide you with a long and trouble free life.
Splicing Monofilament Line onto Hollow Core Spectra:
Here is a basic ratio of hollow core Spectra line class to monofilament line class. This guide may be used to determine which size hollow core you need to splice the line class monofilament you wish to use for your wind on leader. Please note that monofilament line diameters vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, therefore the guide below is based on average monofilament diameters:
For 40 LB test Hollow Core you may use 10 LB test, but not more than 25 LB test mono
For 60 LB test Hollow Core you may use 20 LB test, but not more than 100 LB test mono
For 80 LB test Hollow Core you may use 40 LB test, but not more than 130 LB test mono
For 100 LB test Hollow Core you may use 40 LB test, but not more than 130 LB test mono
For 130 LB test Hollow Core you may use 60 LB test, but not more than 200 LB test mono
For 200 LB test Hollow Core you may use 80 LB test, but not more than 300 LB test mono
If you have any questions, or need assistance, please feel free to call or email me. I may be reached at (954) 263-6177


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One evening my wife was doing clothes and she noticed the clothes had been on 1 minute left in the cycle for well over 15 minutes. When she hit the power button to stop the cycle, everything stopped as it should have, however, the door did not unlock. After playing with it for 5 minutes or so of turning off then on, trying to cycle start it, turning the power off for a while, then restarting it, I decided to manually open the door via the switch underneath the panel.
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So, I was thinking that maybe it really was the control panel, and I promptly bought another one. Now this is where it gets interesting. When the new part came, I put it in accordingly and now, I have a new set of issues. The control panel is blank and now only beeps twice regardless of what where the knob is or button pushed. It does NOTHING but wait, theres more. Now , as soon as I plug in the unit, the pump runs, and wont stop! I cant let it run, because it will burn up my pump, it somehow thinks theres water in the unit! So, now my old units display worked great just not talking to my locking mechanism, the brand new control panel doesnt work and making my pump believe its in the days of Noah. What is going wrong???? Also the lack of information on what the inverter does, has me scratching my head wondering if that could be it as well? PLEASE HELP!!!
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I let it sit unplugged overnight. Came back to it and plugged it back in around 11AM. And immediately the door locked and the display read "---" as it was supposed to. It appears the new control panel had to get adjusted to it's new home first. =)
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Clarkson University alumna Irene V. Hodor '99 of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., was recently awarded the prestigious Distinguished New Engineer Award by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), a national not-for-profit educational and service organization that empowers women to succeed and advance in engineering. Hodor majored in civil engineering at Clarkson's Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering.
The Distinguished New Engineer Award honors women engineers who have been actively engaged in engineering, demonstrated outstanding technical performance, and have had no more than 10 years of cumulative engineering experience.
Hodor was given the award based on her career at Exxon Mobil, where she has been employed since she graduated from Clarkson. She is currently a maintenance section supervisor, where she is responsible for executing more than $30 million of annual work and for overseeing the progress of a recently implemented efficiency program.
A member of SWE since her first year at Clarkson, Hodor has served as several positions in a short period of time. As she has moved around the U.S., Hodor has continued to take leadership roles in SWE, including positions as the Region F student coordinator while in Boston, the Region E student coordinator and Baltimore-Washington Section representative while in northern Virginia, and her current position as the FY08 president of the Los Angeles section while living in California.
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The bigger the giant, the harder the fall. So who here is the bigger giant? Sure, we've been following Andy Murray much more closely over the last few years and he's been in multiple Major finals, but what about Li Na? She's arguably one of China's biggest athletes. And should we remind you that Britain's population is about one twentieth of China's?
Here's the bigger question: Who will fall longer and harder? As we told you yesterday, neither player has won a match since their semifinal victories at the Aussie, but can either top ten player pick up the pieces and start anew? (Fact: the two were a combined 16-8 on clay last season.)
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A group of governments in Southwest Colorado is appealing to the federal government and Colorados legislators for help ensuring completion of a tax dollar-funded project to increase broadband access across the state.
The Southwest Colorado Council of Governments has sent two letters to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration requesting the agency do its part to guarantee that Eagle-Net Alliance, a state intergovernmental entity, complies with terms of a $100 million grant awarded in 2010.
The grant, which was funded by the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, directs Eagle-Net to connect more than 170 communities throughout the state with a 1 gigabit fiber-optic or microwave Internet connection.
The council of governments sent a first letter in November outlining concerns about the projects progress in Southwest Colorado, and when it didnt receive any response, it sent a second, more-pressing letter earlier this month.
The (Southwest Colorado Council of Governments) is very concerned that western Colorado, especially the southwest region including Silverton, will continue to receive little if any benefit from the Eagle-Net project, the letter said. Given that approximately 70 percent of the grant has been expended and the Colorado rural communities of the Western Slope continue to lack the fiber infrastructure, we feel a change in both the Eagle-Net leadership and project scope are necessary.
The letter was a last resort after the council of governments tried to communicate with Eagle-Net officials on multiple occasions, said Bayfield Mayor Rick Smith, who manages another regional broadband Internet project, the Southwest Colorado Access Network, for the council of governments.
The $4 million grant-funded Southwest Colorado Access Network project aims to build a regional telecommunications network that will link communities in Southwest Colorado with high-speed broadband service.
The regional network is progressing parallel to Eagle-Nets work and hopes to hook into the statewide projects broadband highway to provide the connections between communities, Smith said.
Linking into Eagle-Nets network always was the logical choice because its mission and funding is specifically geared toward building the middle-mile connection between communities, Smith said.
The Southwest Colorado project will move forward even if Eagle-Net doesnt finish its work in Southwest Colorado, but it will have to tap various private providers to help piece together the middle-mile link, he said.
The council of governments has reason to doubt that Eagle-Net will complete the project by August, when the grant term ends.
Earlier this month, the federal government suspended Eagle-Nets $101 million grant. In a Dec. 6 letter, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration acquisition and grants office, which administers the grant, notified Eagle-Net of the suspension, saying it had failed to comply with certain consultation and approval requirements.
The administration had specific concerns with the adequacy of the environmental assessment that allowed the project to move forward and with Eagle-Nets consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the State Historic Preservation Office and appropriate Native American tribes. It also cited doubts that Eagle-Net properly secured all required permits from various other federal agencies.
The suspension of the award forced all of Eagle-Nets work to a halt until it submits the required paperwork and comes back into compliance with the grant. Thus far, it has spent about two-thirds of its grant money and also is two-thirds complete with its work.
Though Eagle-Net has publicized that its core network is active, Patrick Swonger, Eagle-Nets regional community representative, said there remains a major gap in the connection ring between Durango and La Veta Pass near Walsenburg.
But the entity remains optimistic that it will finish connecting all 170 Colorado communities and already has contracts out on much of the work, Swonger said.
Eagle-Net already had planned to pause its construction work during the winter, so the grant suspension wont make a major dent in its time line, said Cody Wertz, spokesman for Eagle-Net.
As for the connection to Silverton, Eagle-Net always planned for extension of fiber to Silverton to happen in 2013, Silverton Town Administrator Jason Wells said.
Wells is holding out hope that Silverton finally will see a fiber-optic connection next year, though he knows there is reason for skepticism.
The (council of governments) has been attempting to work with Eagle-Net since it was awarded the grant, but it has been a challenging history as we have attempted to collaborate and coordinate, he said.
The build to Silverton wont be cheap or easy, which has made such a connection difficult to make in previous years, he said.
Weve gotten rolled on this issue in the past, so everyone is still a little shell-shocked, Wells said.


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insomaniacal wrote:However, this isn't a totally nutcase scenario. During WWII, when Americans would set up makeshift Airforce bases on very primitive islands, the locals thought they were Gods. Upon returning some years later, they were again treated as Gods, and the local had attempted to build Airplanes out of sticks, twigs, and rope to emulate the "Gods" they had seen. If we have a modern example of something like this happenstance, is it so far fetched to think that an ancient civilization did the same thing, but tried to emulate Aliens?
Where did you learn that? I've never heard of it before . . .


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OMAK Pedestrians and motorists are being advised of a couple basic rules of the road in the wake of three pedestrian-vehicle crashes earlier in the week.
For pedestrians: Look both ways before you cross. For motorists: Watch out for and yield to pedestrians.
In the most serious of the crashes, two Omak teenagers were treated at Mid-Valley Hospital after being struck by a vehicle as they tried to cross U.S. Highway 97 near the intersection with Engh Road.
Kenneth L. George and Bret A. Stevens, both 15, were struck by a vehicle driven by Omak resident Kaitlin W. Keitzman, 18, at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, a report by Omak Police Department officer Darren Duncan said.
They both suffered minor injuries.
Keitzman, who was not injured, was traveling north on the highway when the two boys ran across the road. George and Stevens were cited for failing to yield to traffic.
Witnesses said there was not enough time for Keitzman to stop and the boys were not in the crosswalk, Duncan's report said.
The crash dented the fender and broke the windshield of Keitzman's vehicle.
In another Tuesday crash, a 57-year-old man suffered a minor ankle injury at 7:58 p.m. when a vehicle door hit him on Sawtell Road east of Oroville, Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said.
In the third incident, a woman was bumped by a truck at 3:15 p.m. on North Second Avenue near the Okanogan post office. She was not injured.
"Basically, the best rule for pedestrians to look before you cross, because not everyone will stop in a vehicle, even if it is the law," Rogers aid.
For drivers, "it's just common courtesy," he said. "If you see someone is trying to cross the street, stop for them. You can't be in that much of a hurry to let someone walk across the street without fear of getting hit.
"Also, when you're driving, stay alert. People do just walk out because it is a crosswalk and if you are not paying attention, something terrible could happen – and has."
Under state law, drivers must stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian or bicycle to cross the road within an unmarked or marked crosswalk when the pedestrian or bike is within one lane of the portion of the road being used by the vehicle.
At the same time, "no pedestrian or bicycle shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk, run or otherwise move into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to stop," the law continues.
Pedestrians crossing a road outside of a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection must yield to all vehicles.
Fines double if the infraction is within a school, playground or crosswalks speed zone
Disabled persons are allowed to enter the road from curb ramps and cross the road within or as close to the crosswalk as possible.
Pedestrians also are not allowed to cross outside of a marked crosswalk if there are adjacent intersections at which traffic control signals are in operation, or in an unmarked crosswalk where signs prohibit crossing.
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This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
At the edge of the South China Sea, the metropolis of Hong Kong flickers and glows, its iconic skyscrapers like molten columns, the bay reflecting all the cool blues and fuchsias of the city's desire. With little available flatland and the most skyscrapers in the world, Hong Kong is so dense with buildings, up to a hundred stories high, that they rise from the mountainsides as if full of helium. Hong Kong is a floating city: It floats between worlds, on fluctuating currency exchange rates and IPOs, real estate speculation, and the yuan of Chinese mainlanders, who come in droves on a wave of new wealth. It floats over the sedimentary layers of its past: the ancient fishing village, pirate haunt, former British colony. Now a Chinese special administrative region, it is being remade yet again under diamond pressure. And increasingly this city of over seven million inhabitants floats on a growing sense of unease, a discomfort that stands in direct opposition to the heady, auspicious days when Hong Kong was one of Asia's great business capitals.
What has cast the Hong Kong of once giddy acquisitive desire into a deep paranoia, of course, is the new China, the second largest economy in the world, which has become the shadow, the inference, the chimera, and the overlord in every conversation here. Mistrusted at every turn. Looked down upon—and up at in awe. You can feel the vapors of this unease everywhere in the city, like the mist that rises from the harbor or from steaming streets at dawn, a mix of confusion and fear and the sharpening premonition of erasure.
"If you want to see capitalism in action, go to Hong Kong," economist Milton Friedman is credited with saying. Yet to idealize the city today as a free market paradise, thriving in its 15th year after the British handover to China, is to sorely oversimplify, if not misconstrue, the darkening forces at work here. It's to miss the tensions and tectonic shifts beneath the glitzy financial center that Hong Kong shows to the world. In the city underneath, one finds asylum seekers and prostitutes; gangsters with their incongruent bouffants; thousands of Indonesian housemaids who flock to Victoria Park on their precious Sundays off; and those barely scratching out an existence, people crammed into partitioned apartment blocks of "cage houses" the size of refrigerator boxes. While Hong Kong's per capita gross domestic product ranks tenth in the world, its Gini coefficient, an index that measures the gap between rich and poor, is also among the highest.
Hong Kongers say their city reinvents itself every few years, citing the ever morphing skyline as one visible example. "We feel all of these great changes, but we don't know how to name them," says Patrick Mok, the coordinator for the Hong Kong Memory Project, a $6.4 million effort to address Hong Kong's identity problem by creating an interactive website of old objects and photographs. "The pace of the city is too fast for memory."
Yes, Hong Kong is changing again, but into what and molded by whom?
A short walk from the tony designer stores along Canton Road and the opulent Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui district, a rundown, 17-story building called Chungking Mansions spreads over a block—home to 4,000 people who constitute an international brigade of buyers and sellers. They can be found at all hours under neon glare, ferreting through this world of no-frills hotels, restaurants offering African stews and Indian curries, and shops that sell everything from whiskey in a glass to saris and prayer mats.
Gordon Mathews, an American anthropologist who's studied and written about Chungking Mansions for the past six years, says 130 nationalities embark here each year, hoping to do big business in what he labels "the ghetto at the center of the world." When it was first built, Chungking Mansions was the domain of Chinese immigrants, who moved up and out. Today "this is more a Third World gentlemen's club," says Mathews, who estimates that 20 percent of the cell phones in use in sub-Saharan Africa pass through here. "This is probably the most important building in the world for low-end globalization," he says.
Hong Kong was built on this sort of global trade, owing its birth to opium, which may explain why to this day the city blurs the line between its legal and extralegal activities. When British traders arrived by frigate in the 1800s, looking to swap an embarrassment of Indian opium packed in wooden chests, they spied the granite island that would become Hong Kong on their way up the Pearl River estuary to Guangzhou.
Then came the First Opium War in 1839: The Manchu empire ordered a halt to the trading of "foreign mud" by the "outer barbarians," confiscating over 20,000 chests of opium and destroying them in public; the British retaliated, bringing their naval forces within a hundred miles of Beijing before a cessation of hostilities.
The superintendent of trade, a man named Charles Elliot, negotiated for the seemingly worthless Hong Kong, believing its deepwater harbor might prove a boon but leaving the imperialists back home in a swivet—Why not farther up the coast?—and prompting Queen Victoria to admit bafflement at "the unaccountably strange conduct of Charles Elliot," while joking that her daughter should bear the title of princess of Hong Kong. Under British rule shanties gave way to granite buildings, a colonial infrastructure grew, and a city began to take shape on the shores of a booming harbor, one that acted as a transit point for trade with China.
It was the reaction to China's communist revolution of 1949, however, that transformed Hong Kong into a center of industrialized capitalism. Faced with Mao Zedong's nationalization drive, Chinese industrialists pulled up roots and reestablished themselves in Hong Kong, and a wave of refugees poured in, looking for work. A robust capitalism emerged, turning the city into a prodigious exporter of goods and a place of such unregulated ease that it invited money from all comers.
In time Hong Kong built its glowing skyscrapers—some by world-class architects like I. M. Pei and Norman Foster—as well as its more problematic housing estates, while behind its modern facade, social ills like prostitution, drug dealing, smuggling, and gambling continued to proliferate.
Chungking Mansions is a measure of how much has changed. "There's not much illegal except the illegals working here, many of them seeking asylum," says Mathews, who believes that the Mansions is where Hong Kong partly fulfills its promise, echoing back to an older version of itself from the 19th and 20th centuries: the melting pot, the open port, the unfettered global bazaar. "It is the truest encapsulation of what Hong Kong was, is, and could be."
In a Chungking Mansions curry shop, I meet a man who says he is Pakistani and asks to be called "Jack Dawson," after Leonardo DiCaprio's character in Titanic. He says he was threatened in his former country and came to Hong Kong without proper papers. He raised a bit of capital and began selling phones, and now he moves disposable "14-day phones," pulling down $60,000 a year. Gesturing to the stuffy hallway thronged with people coming and going, Jack Dawson says, "This is my land of dreams."
On Lockhart Road, in the Wan Chai district, the scene in a cramped lobby of a dilapidated building feels tense to say the least: male teenagers playing video games on their phones and suited men anxiously shifting from foot to foot, avoiding eye contact, all waiting to ride upstairs. When the elevator door draws open, one tribe of men glides out, while this tribe shuffles in—and up they go. Each floor of the 20-story building includes half a dozen thin-walled apartments offering one-woman brothels, barely masking the racket of the ministrations within.
During the 1980s human trafficking was facilitated by triads—criminal gangs who define themselves by dialect, profession, and political affiliation—who imported sex workers to Hong Kong in speedboats. The triads began as criminal secret societies in more lawless times but rose to prominence in the 1960s and early '70s during Hong Kong's golden age of corruption. The violent triad films of John Woo reinforced the concept of gangster as hero while highlighting the jagged dichotomy that still lingers over the city: In the gleaming towers the money flows on a white-collar stream of speculation and profit, while in the boiling, overcrowded streets, triads knife, blast, and amputate civilization until it lies bleeding on the brink of demise.
The truth today is much fuzzier—and less dire. Some triad-related criminal activity, such as the illicit drug trade, has shifted to the mainland. And the triads of today, says Alex Tsui, a former anticorruption official, no longer carry the vestiges of loyalty and patriotism that spurred some of the conflict. Rather, everything has been reduced to business. With profits in the offing, triads are more willing to collaborate with each other, resolving their differences around a table rather than in the streets. They run bus lines and dabble in interior decorating, while still holding on to everyday thuggery. But the lines have blurred. The children of the triad brass go to fine colleges and find their fulfillment in new iPads rather than in street bullying. High-level gangsters are more interested in their investment and real estate portfolios, or in buying racehorses, than in risking their lives in a bloody shoot-out.
"What some realized was that if you break the law in Hong Kong, you go to jail," says Tsui. "But if you go about 20 miles away, to Shenzhen and the mainland, you have carte blanche." Adds triad expert Kent Lee, "Those who've stayed aren't as violent and are more profit-oriented now."
Changes in the law have also minimized the triads' hold on the underground economy. Today prostitution is legal in Hong Kong, with restrictions designed to keep it from the public eye and ordinances in place to shield sex workers from triads or pimps who attempt to profit as middlemen. Not that the law isn't broken, but it's ushered in a new era that has brought an influx of sex workers from mainland China, in numbers that have made policing the trade difficult.
Now entire apartment buildings, unmarked from the outside, provide floor after floor of single-room apartments filled with sex workers, who advertise their services on Internet sites where they are rated by their customers, who in this building, on this day, will pay $60 for 40 minutes.
Upstairs, I find a woman willing to talk, if not give her name. "After paying rent, I make over $100,000 a year," she says in a Betty Boop voice, standing in a pink negligee of plunging décolletage in a room with floor-to-ceiling mirrors and a wet bathroom floor after yet another shower between clients. "Since doing this work, I've bought three apartments for my family," she says proudly.
Doing the math, one realizes that, for better or worse, she's a busy woman. And comparing this world to the misguided Hollywood portrait of exotic seediness and found love conjured in a film like The World of Suzie Wong ("With you, it's different," Suzie, the prostitute, tells William Holden's character. "I feel something in heart."), one also realizes that the most intimate act is just another transaction in a city of transactions, a service rendered in 40-minute clips, money exchanged, investments employed, money made to make more money—and sent back home to the family on the mainland.
In no other month does the ghost of China loom over Hong Kong more than in June. The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown—June 4, 1989—is Hong Kong's own symbolic 9/11. Coming as it did in the years just before the handover, the massacre of hundreds of protesters sent a chill howl through the colony, casting the Chinese government as a jackbooted police state willing to go to extremes to crush any claim to freedom of expression.
In the fashionable Causeway Bay district of the city, on the concrete plaza in front of Times Square, Sam Wong, 22, stands beneath massive banner ads of George Clooney sporting an Omega watch and supermodels striking sexy poses. Wong wears a white T-shirt that reads, "Freedom Now!" in English and a declarative headband reading, "Hunger Strike!" in Chinese.
Already stick-thin with a spray of stubble on his chin, Wong is 24 hours into his 64-hour hunger strike to mark the Tiananmen anniversary. He is joined by 18 other youthful protesters in an improvised tent city replete with brochures and sing-alongs that include lyrics calling for China to be more democratic and to release imprisoned political dissidents.
Shoppers stream past, barely taking note. Yet the evening before, a large group of mainland tourists stopped to watch a documentary about Tiananmen Square, viewing scenes of the massacre under a JumboTron of movie trailers. Afterward a group stayed to talk, some claiming they'd just learned for the first time what actually happened, others politely questioning what they took to be the protesters' antigovernment version of events. "We're not afraid of people with different ideas," says Wong. "We're worried that the police will overuse their power and arrest us, that they'll squelch our right to free speech."
This is an idea that gets expressed repeatedly in Hong Kong these days: the unpredictability of the authorities, who many believe are simply puppets for the hidden intentions and directives of their masters in Beijing. Despite China's promise of "one country, two systems," which guarantees Hong Kong's right to an autonomous political and economic system until 2047, residents cringe at the specter of China's control, limiting the freedoms and freewheeling ways of the past, imposing its will, subsuming what is quintessentially different about Hong Kong, and recasting the city in its image.
Leung Kwok Hung—a leading pro-democracy activist and legislative council member known as Long Hair, for the hippie mane that falls between his shoulder blades—rails against what he sees as a growing prohibition against free speech. "The police kowtow to Beijing, because if you say no to what the Communist Party wants, you're saying no to your career," he says. "But that extends to government officials too, and the tycoons who own the media or want to do business in China. More and more, we're becoming too passive. Half the media won't even report on our protests."
Clad in a Che Guevara T-shirt and listening to Richie Havens in his book-lined office, Long Hair says he's been arrested nearly 20 times over the years, convicted a dozen times, imprisoned four times. He is trying to defend what he considers the most important parts of Hong Kong's identity: free expression, a free media—all of which were taken for granted under the "positive noninterventionism" of British rule and are now feared to a greater or lesser extent by the Chinese Communist Party. Because Hong Kong is neither autonomous nor a full-fledged democracy, Long Hair senses a dangerous vacuum. But on his best days, he believes that Hong Kong is an important bastion of civil liberties and, if put to it, capable of standing up to China.
Last year's June 4 protests—the only ones allowed in all of China—seemed to carry extra gravitas given the uproar over the detention of a Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, whose provocative work and social protest caused him to run afoul of the communist government. (He was arrested and accused of tax evasion while boarding a plane for Hong Kong.) There were agitprop demonstrations on East Point Road: A man inviting people to scribble their protests on Post-it notes that were then attached to his body; a woman lighting an herbal powder on her palm, then blowing the flames out just before they burned her flesh.
Tens of thousands gathered in Victoria Park for a candlelight vigil. Organizers claimed 150,000 attended, while the police estimated half as many. The urgency of the protest was underscored by a profusion of T-shirts, banners, and buttons reading, "Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?" There were songs ("We're the new youth, and there won't be fear") and speeches, and a video screen showing messages taped by mothers of Tiananmen Square victims, calling for remembrance and strength. It was, by turns, heartrending, melodramatic, utterly compelling, and weirdly hopeful, but what made it most poignant was the real sense among the protesters that what happened at Tiananmen might indeed one day happen in Victoria Park, that they in fact might be next.
Afterward a group of young protesters cleaned the park, thoroughly scrubbing the pavement, using paint scrapers to bring up the candle wax. There was no rowdiness, no spontaneous call to march or occupy or throw Molotov cocktails. This was protest, Hong Kong-style, polite, temporary, fervent until the goodbye, then strangely complacent and without final provocation.
In the emptying park after the evening's protest, I met a man with a red fan, wearing aqua blue shorts. He carried a bag with leaflets and brochures, some extolling the pro-democracy movement or calling for the release of imprisoned political dissidents, including Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and Falun Gong members. "The Communist Party hates me," he proclaimed.
Part of a landowning family in China, he'd moved to Hong Kong in 1951, at the age of 17, to escape Mao Zedong's rule. Some of his uncles had been imprisoned, while another uncle had become an official in the Communist Party. "Our family has lived all sides," he said. He'd retired from the jewelry business in his 50s and since then returned once a month to his home village in Guangdong Province. "I scold the communists," he said, "and preach Hong Kong's form of democracy." What was he going to do with all the pamphlets in the bag? "Bring them back to China," he said.
If Hong Kongers are subtly exporting their political ideas to China, it's the mainlanders who have buoyed the city with their buying power, especially after it was crippled by the bird flu epidemic in 1997 and the SARS crisis in 2003. "The Rolex store at Times Square sells 200 watches a day, mostly to mainlanders," declares Francis Cheng, a leading event planner for some top brands in Hong Kong and personal assistant for Pansy Ho, the socialite and billionaire who runs the MGM China gambling empire. Where it was once Hong Kong that sent food packages to China in its time of need and supported the Chinese real estate market through investment, the tables have turned: It's China that helps keep Hong Kong afloat these days, the mainlanders flocking to the metropolis to buy its real estate and goods, often in cash, since credit cards still account for only a fraction of retail purchases in China.
"Growing up, we felt superior to the Chinese," says Cheng. In Hong Kong people joke about how the mainland's nouveau riche visit fine restaurants and insist that their wineglasses be filled to the brim. In one case a mainlander is said to have toted a bag of cash into a fancy boutique and blurted, "Where's the most expensive stuff?" Stories like these support the long-held stereotype of the mainlanders as ah chan, or country bumpkins, but as Cheng points out, today the city's nine Gucci stores have long lines in front, a trail of seemingly endless demand. "There'll always be the next group of mainland farmers who've made it big," he says.
This shift in economic power has exacerbated Hong Kong's identity crisis, to the point where it is now the mainlanders who refer to their Hong Kong brethren askong chan, or Hong Kong bumpkins. The University of Hong Kong's Public Opinion Program reports that in recent surveys, most residents view themselves first as Hong Kongers, not Chinese, underscoring a growing resentment toward mainlanders, who were referred to in a Hong Kong newspaper ad as "locusts" swarming the territory. Nearly half the babies born in Hong Kong's reputable hospitals last year belonged to mainlanders, spurring protests by Hong Kong mothers worried that, in this auspicious Year of the Dragon, when birthrates are sure to spike, the already overtaxed Hong Kong hospital system will be unable to handle its own.
At a Dolce & Gabbana store recently, Hong Kong residents were banned from taking pictures in front of the store's window display. In response, over a thousand Hong Kongers gathered in the street in front of the store to demand an apology, while venting pent-up frustration that they were being treated as second-class citizens in their own home.
Tensions are building, layer upon layer in the floating city. "Visitors see Hong Kong as the emerald city on the mountain," Alex Tsui says, "but it's an ailing city. The head is not working right. The limbs don't work. The footwork is off."
Back at Times Square, Sam Wong approaches the end of his hunger strike so groggy and fatigued he takes refuge in a tent, holding his head and closing his eyes as the endless stream of oblivious shoppers comes and goes. He feels someone must stand up to China, though he will be glad when it's over.
Night falls; the buildings are lit, lined like candles. The ferries churn in the bay. The planes glide overhead like silver pterodactyls, the streets a river of consumers. Hong Kong, city of a hundred cities, seems as restless as it ever was, morphing once more.
"People are shocked when I show them pictures of the rice paddies that were here in the 1970s," says Patrick Mok, the memorykeeper. "Then, we lived in the streets, in the open-air markets and stalls. Afterwards, everything moved indoors, into the malls, behind closed doors, in air-conditioned spaces. We're not sure who we're becoming now, but we can feel ourselves disappearing."


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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Philip Seymour Hoffman is starring in a new Showtime comedy series about a middle-aged man's pursuit of happiness.
The series, titled "Happyish," co-stars Kathryn Hahn and Rhys Ifans, the premium cable channel said Thursday.
Hoffman, an Oscar-winning actor for 2005's "Capote," is among a number of big-screen stars choosing to work in television as well.
Billy Bob Thornton, who's starring in an upcoming FX series "Fargo," inspired by the Coen brothers movie, said this week that TV has eclipsed movies as the place for sophisticated fare.
"Every actor is interested in television right now," Showtime President David Nevins told the Television Critics Association on Thursday. "The level of long-form (series) storytelling is very seductive for the talent right now."
Showtime also announced a new drama, "The Affair," starring Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson. Nevins said the show's intimate approach is in contrast to a TV series trend of bigger and splashier.
During a subsequent Showtime panel on the Matt LeBlanc comedy "Episodes," cast members were asked if actors really prefer TV or actually pine to work in movies.
"I can't get a movie," replied LeBlanc, the former "Friends" star who plays a fictional version of himself in "Episodes."
"Same here," said actress Kathleen Rose Perkins.
LeBlanc then added that "great writing is coming back to television" and he considers it an honor to work with writer-producers David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik, who created the witty satire about Hollywood and two fish-out-of-water British writers, played by Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan.
"Episodes" is in its third season and has been renewed for a fourth. "Happyish" and "The Affair" will air in the next year but air dates have yet to be set.


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This warm and toasty sandwich is a delightful combination of sliced pork and mushrooms. Topped with melted cheese and arugula, it is hearty and delicious.
1 tbsp. olive oil
1⁄2 cup white mushrooms, sliced
Salt and pepper, as needed
4 oz. roasted pork loin, sliced
1 ciabatta (or sourdough) roll
2 oz. fontina cheese, sliced
1⁄2 cup arugula
Truffle oil (optional)
1. In a small sauté pan, heat oil until hot, but not smoking. Add mushrooms and cook until nicely browned, about 4 min. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
2. Cut ciabatta in half. Cover one half with pork slices and top with mushrooms.
3. Cover mushrooms evenly with cheese and place in oven. Place top half of bread next to sandwich. Warm sandwich until completely heated through and cheese is melted.
4. Remove from oven, and top with arugula, and if desired, a drizzle of truffle oil. Cover sandwiches with top half of ciabatta and serve immediately.


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NOVA "Hunt for the Supertwister" A NOVA camera team chases storms across the Midwest to capture hair-raising footage of destructive twisters in action. The show focuses on the multi-pronged efforts of two University of Oklahoma scientists to improve the forecasting of twisters - one that uses supercomputers to model virtual tornadoes, another that sends out storm-chasers to gather live data from real storms.G
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Secrets of the Dead "Airmen and the Headhunters" Dayak tribesmen of Borneo, known for taking the heads of their enemies, rescue a U.S. bomber crew, shot down over the Japanese-occupied island during World War II. The tribe feeds and protects the crewmen, then leads them to the base of a British special ops officer and Australian commandos. The program features interviews with a surviving crew member, Dayak tribespeople, and Japanese and Australian veterans.G
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Life In Cold Blood "Dragons of the Dry" From iguanas emerging from a tropical swamp to a face-to-face encounter with a monitor lizard in the Australian desert, David Attenborough traces lizards' colonization of the Earth. The first step was the evolution of hard-shelled eggs, and he searches out examples around the world of how lizards protect their eggs and young. Part 3 of 5G
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Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Virtual supermarkets may be coming soon to a transit station near you.
People do any number of things while waiting on the platform for the next subway or commuter train. Some pre-walk to position themselves at the best station exit for their destination. Some just mindlessly pace. The ones who used to look down the track every few moments for the next train now look at the digital arrival times every few moments instead. Some take pictures of rats.
And, as of earlier this month, some Philadelphians have been able to shop for groceries. The online grocer Peapod introduced virtual storefronts at select SEPTA stations throughout the city. While awaiting a train, users can download the Peapod app, peruse the items in front of them, and scan the barcode of anything they'd like to purchase. The groceries are delivered to their homes later that day.
Philly marks the idea's American debut, but a number of international cities already have similar services. Woolworths has placed virtual storefronts at the Town Hall Station in Sydney, Australia, and displays from British retailer Tesco were installed last year in South Korea. If three is a trend, you just got trended.
So far, Tesco's storefronts are the most impressive of the bunch. While Peapod's displays will be stuck on traditional advertising boards, Tesco has filled multiple panels of platform doors with its digital supermarket aisles. The company reports that online sales in Korea are up 130 percent since the storefronts were implemented. Here's a look at Tesco virtual shoppers in action:
(One perplexing thing about the displays is that multiple items of the same product are offered. Verisimilitude is clearly the aim here, but it still kind of seems like a waste of space. Would you rather choose between the same exact two pretend Nestle Quik bottles, or ditch one to make room for a phantom Bosco? Unless of course the milks have different expiration dates; in which case, criticism withdrawn.)
Peapod operates in 24 U.S. cities, so success in Philadelphia could theoretically mean expansion to places like Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. Of course there are some problems to address. On subway-heavy transit systems like New York's, Internet connection is spotty or non-existent (though more stations are getting wired everyday). Finding space for the storefronts might also be challenging. American cities don't have the platform doors that Tesco appears to use in South Korea. That leaves wall space, much of which is already occupied by existing advertisers or system maps.
On the plus side, it opens up a world of opportunity for wags to use the phrase "express line."
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An excerpt from Jeff Speck's Walkable City Rules, a step-by-step guide to fixing America's cities and towns.


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Elizabeth Peyton
Artstor is actively collaborating with a wide range of living artists and estates of modern artists. An especially productive collaboration with the contemporary artist, Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) has resulted in the addition of over 170 works to the Artstor Digital Library. Best known for her stylized figurative portraits of friends, pop celebrities, and historical figures, Peyton creates small-scale, intimate portrayals that reflect her own style, as well as those of her subjects. Her work is characterized by slender figures with idealized, androgynous features, similar to fashion illustration. While her most typical medium is oil paint, Peyton has also created works on paper with colored pencil, charcoal, ink, etc. Examples of both are available in Artstor, depicting notable figures such as: artist David Hockney; musicians Kurt Cobain and Liam and Noel Gallagher; actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Chloe Sevigny; historical figures Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte; and various members of the British Royal family.


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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Christian clergy from Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil-majority north have asked the U.N. Human Rights Council to push for an independent international inquiry into alleged atrocities in Sri Lanka's civil war.
A letter dated Monday and signed by 133 Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist pastors and nuns said the government lacks the will to resolve causes of the conflict on its own.
Both the government and the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels have been accused of serious human rights violations during the quarter-century-long war, especially its final stages. According to a U.N. report, tens of thousands of civilians were killed in just the five months before fighting ended in 2009.
Last week, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Sri Lanka has failed to investigate reports of atrocities, and that opposition leaders are still being killed or abducted.
"We are convinced that the root cause of these problems is a lack of political will," the letter from the clergy said.
"Hence, it is our firm conviction that technical assistance from the U.N. in the form of training, advice, financial and material support will not suffice." They called for an international, independent commission of inquiry.
The U.N. rights council last year passed a resolution urging Sri Lanka to investigate human rights abuses, as the country's own war commission had recommended. The clergy asked the council to pass a new resolution noting a lack of progress by the government.
The clergy said that they have observed key recommendations from the war commission being flouted, including power sharing, release of political prisoners, dealing with disappearances, returning private land occupied by the military, lifting restrictions on the media and giving people the freedom to commemorate their dead.
The letter said the government is also engaged in systematically destroying the identity of the Tamil people by undermining their political, religious, cultural and land rights in areas where they live in majority.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa this month ruled out giving Tamils greater political autonomy. That goes against the war commission's recommendation and appears to back away from the president's own long-stalled promise to empower the ethnic minority as part of the country's reconciliation process.
The clergy also said they want U.N. officials alleged to have failed to protect civilians at the height of the war to be held accountable. The world body acknowledged last year that it took inadequate steps to save civilian lives, calling it a "grave failure" on its part.
The human rights council is to begin its sessions later this month, and Sri Lanka is likely to face questions on implementing the war commission report.
The United States reiterated Tuesday it will introduce a resolution on Sri Lanka at the council for a second straight year, and urged a full accounting for what happened at the end of the civil war.
"We continue to be deeply concerned by allegations of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Sri Lanka," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at a Washington news briefing.
Associated Press writer Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.


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STOCKTON –Stockton police officers were busy on foot late Sunday night and early this morning.
STOCKTON –Stockton police officers were busy on foot late Sunday night and early this morning.
At 8:52 p.m. Sunday, officers observed what they believed to be a traffic collision near the intersection of Bianchi Road and Pacific Avenue just north of the Calaveras River and attempted to contact the drivers.
Both drivers fled, one on foot, and he was caught after a short foot pursuit. The other driver fled in his vehicle, leading officers on a two-minute, two-mile chase reaching speeds of 80 miles per hour. The vehicle became disabled and that driver attempted to flee on foot. He too was caught by pursuing officers.
Arrested were 19-year-old Alexander Rangel for driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest and 20-year-old Angelo Zamora for failure to yield, driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest.
At 1:45 a.m. today, officers responded to the Manchester Avenue-Monterey Avenue neighborhood just south of University of the Pacific on reports of a suspicious person.
They located a suspect carrying computer equipment. He fled when they attempted to contact him. Officers caught him after a short foot pursuit. A 16-year-old male was arrested for burglary, possession of stolen property and resisting arrest.


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To say that U.S. rice producer groups are upset about their crop being left out of the recently concluded U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement would be an understatement. Livid is the more operative term.
Leaders of the U.S. Rice Producers Association and USA Rice Federation, the two groups representing U.S. rice farmers, tried to show restraint, but the comments they made after the announcement of the Korean FTA on April 2 had an edge.
"This is a bad precedent for all future free trade agreements," said Carl Brothers, senior vice president at Riceland Foods and chairman of USA Rice's International Trade Policy Committee. "Monday's decision by the administration to agree to the exclusion of rice in the Korea agreement will likely encourage other countries to expect similar treatment."
"Monday's action is the latest example of the importance of the farm safety net for U.S. agriculture," said U.S. Rice Producers Association Chairman Dan Gertson, a Texas rice producer. "Denying market access benefits to crops like rice is antithetical to free trade agreements. U.S. agriculture deserved better."
Rice farmers weren't alone in their unhappiness over the agreement. Cattlemen expressed their displeasure over Korea's refusal to reopen its markets to U.S. beef in the FTA. U.S. automakers also said the agreement didn't do enough to allow more U.S. cars into the country. (Korea ships one-fourth of the autos it makes to the United States.)
American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman said his organization would not support passage of the Korean FTA until new World Organization for Animal Health-based guidelines for the sale of U.S. beef to South Korea are in place.
"We appreciate the efforts of the U.S. Trade Representative in advocating the interests of U.S. agriculture," said Stallman. "Yet, we remain cautious on the final beef outcome and will closely monitor the actions of Korea and its regulatory process over the next 90 days."
Reports said U.S. negotiators seemed more focused on winning an agreement that could be presented to Congress before President Bush's trade promotion authority expires in July than on listening to U.S. farm and automaker groups. TPA requires Congress vote such agreements up or down without discussion or amendment.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson's criticism was more pointed. "The lack of progress on gains for American beef and rice trade in the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement causes me to question the deal's overall benefits," Peterson said in a statement released by the committee.
"Despite all indications U.S. beef poses no health threat, the Korean government continues to block our imports, and after 10 months of negotiations, the interests of American rice producers were discarded entirely. If failure to reach a satisfactory outcome on such major issues is the best we can expect from significant bilateral trade agreements, American agriculture is left to wonder if these negotiations are worth the effort at all."
Press reports said the agreement was being hailed in Seoul as a major victory for lame-duck President Roh Moo-hyun, whose popularity ratings in South Korea — just over 20 percent — are lower than those of President Bush in this country.
Some observers said they saw the agreement as vital if South Korea, Asia's third largest economy, was to become competitive and grow. But opposition parties said they would remember any presidential candidates and members of the National Assembly who support the ratification of the agreement in the next elections.
In the United States, Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he would block the agreement until South Korea lifts its ban on U.S. beef immediately.
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In regards to US refiners still being priced for good times, in my view as per EV/Capacity analysis. If you have a bullish near term view on their industry, think we're going back to 2006-2007, then fine. The point I make is that if you think we're going back to a 1999-2002 environment, then US refiners such as VLO, TSO, HOC, and FTO still look a bit overvalued despite their massive declines this year. Original refiner piece here.
Yes, but they always have liquid assets such as these. I compare these companies to their own history. Thus in the past they had additional liquid assets as well. There will be some difference, but will it actually be realized? And might it be enough to overcome their high current valuation vs. their capacity, relative to their own valuation history? Or might this liquid asset value just fall with oil prices/ product prices. I think it is not dependable from an investment standpoint to try to add this value and then depend on it as your investment case.
Comment Excerpt: Using complexity adjusted capacity might improve clarity given complex refineries trade at a premium.
Comment Excerpt: One thing you're missing, is that these companies have a lot of "liquid assets" such as oil and refined oil products. In VLO's most recent 10Q, they listed their inventory as including $4.5 billion of refinery feedstocks and products. In addition, the market value of LIFO inventories exceeded their carrying costs by $7.6 billion. So there's another $12 billion in enterprise value that is not reflected in your numbers, although I'm sure this value is smaller since oil prices have decreased since their 10Q report was issued due to falling oil prices.
The key point of the piece, is that we are comparing companies by a single metric, and comparing them to themselves in the past. It gives I think a clear understanding of relative value to their own histories. Once we try to start guessing what their inventory values will be, and what they were expected to be in the past, for each year from 1998 until 2008, we start adding a ton of variables with a lot of room for error.
There are other assets I have not included in the analysis, which I explain in the piece. Such as pipelines and retail operations. But they had other assets in the past, so to some extent we're comparing like to like.
The point is simply that if we just value capacity, which is the lions share of the value behind US refiners, and just compare this metric to where they have traded in the past (and in the past they had retail assets, other liquid assets as well, so its pretty much a like to like comparsion), then it seems to me very clear that these haven't bottomed out and are still priced for a pretty strong outlook since their EV/Capacity's are above the highs of many years in the past.
Then the next question then is what your call on the cycle is. If you do indeed believe we are returning to 2006-2007 in the near future, then the refiners might be cheap. But if you think we're going to 1999-2002, or something similar, then probably they are still a bit overvalued.
I also haven't, yet at least, done a complexity adjusted capacity. I explain in the piece why I haven't, though I admit it would be useful. Basically, its based on a lot of estimates, and my goal here is to first keep it simple. If something looks cheap by my pretty austere valuation, then it will be even cheaper once we heap on other harder to value assets and adjust above average facilities, which actually all four of these players have. Note that we would have to adjust their capacity in the past as well, so to some extent it would be a wash. (though upgrades to facilities might help the current valuation a bit)


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A little background:
This is my 3rd child. My first had a major bottle preference and eventually, after months of struggling, went to day time pumping/bottles.
My second was a great nurser, no troubles, just a little bottle training needed.
Now comes #3. He is 4.5 months old. Despite my experience, I have felt like joining LLL the past month or so because things never felt quite right. He nursed in his own unique way from the beginning, but it was working, so we went on. Things seem to be getting harder. He's not gaining weight well. He resists feeding, both bottle and breast, but will take if he is hungry enough, just not large amounts (max 4 oz).
Now that I've learned about his poor weight gain from 2-4 months, I'm seeking help. He won't nurse in public well, but he tried at the LC and took in 5 cc... My supply has dipped a lot, never a problem with the other two kids. In fact, I tend to have major oversupply in the beginning.
I watched him nurse today, and his chin moves up and down, but it didn't feel like he was really "getting it." Sometimes I feel like he is lifting his body and drawing his face into my breast, trying to take in the whole thing practically, while his feet squirm. Tonight, I bottle fed for 15 minutes and he took in a whole 1.5 oz in that time, tongue clicking the whole time.
Does this sound like he could be tongue tied? I'll try to post a picture, but it's not great. It's from a few months ago, but I'll try to take another tomorrow.


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WILMORE, Ky. -- The men's basketball team dropped their second game at the Asbury Zweifel-Pritchett Classic as they lost 97-75 to Union. Obinna Agomo was the leading scorer and top rebounder for Greenville as he posted 14 points and nine caroms. Jonas McBride and Andy Traeger each tallied 13 points.
Markeith Brown passed out six assists and collected two steals in his first start of the season.
The Panthers only trailed by seven points at halftime but were outscored by 14 in the second half.
The game concluded the 2010 portion of the schedule for Greenville as they enter the holiday break with a record of 5-3. They return to action on Tuesday, Jan. 4, at Spalding.


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Are you experienced? At bidding? Well you need to be quick. If you are a Jimi fan then you need to get here asap as they have a brilliant selection of Jimi's stuff from the 1960s which only has a few hours left to go. Flip through the gallery to see what's up for grabs. The guitar has a starting …
Trend alert – 60s mod monochrome black and white shirts, trousers and more
One of the likely big trends in women's wear for next is year monochrome black and white. Think Bridget Riley, op art, stripes of varying lengths, maybe a bit of dogs tooth too. Apparently stripey op art style dresses by the likes of Marc Jac0bs are predicted to drip on down to the High St. Chances are that the mod monochrome look will also have an influence …
Levi's go green with WasteLess S/S13 jeans collection
Green is the new black over at Levi's, who've just revealed the WasteLess jeans range for Spring/Summer 2013. Revealed at a slick launch bash at London's Farmiloe Building in Farringdon, Brandish went down for a sneak peak at the new eco-freindly denims. Each pair of Levi's WasteLess jeans is made from a minimum of 20% post-consumer recycled content, roughly 12 to …
A|X Armani Exchange Autumn 2011 collection & DJ residency
There is definitely something debonair about the A|X Armani Exchange Autumn 2011 collection. A mix of blazers, plaid shirts, vests and jackets with elbow patches it looks like they've taken inspiration from the British gentry.
The Fair Isle knit: Get the Look
The past few weeks have seen snow shut down half the country, and unfortunately it is only the beginning of the cold weather. As you know, if you are going to keep warm at this time of year, its all about the layers. From thermals to snoods, they keep you staying warm and staying fashionable. A big trend so far …
Cheap Monday Vintage Wash Denim Jacket.
This denim jacket from Cheap Monday typifies the brand. A good price, beautiful fit and little details which are just cool. The skulls on the buttons are awesome. Available from End Clothing.
Stabo Bivvy Trousers: lets go tenting
Rugged, outdoor clothing is becoming a theme, at least this week. My new favourite site/e-newsletter the fabulously-named Urban Daddy has turned up perhaps the ultimate in outdoor clothing: trousers made from old tents. Military WWII tents to be precise, so as well as protecting you from the elements you'll be wearing a piece of history.
With a relaxed fit, the trousers are cut long so you can roll them to fit and each pair comes with unique marks, flaws and patched holes as evidence of their authenticity. They also come as shorts! The waxed cagoules are rather gorgeous too, modeled on a real fisherman and all.
High-end chinos breathe life into khaki
Chinos have in recent times experienced something of a role change – from bland slacks favoured by American tourists to fashion item, worn high on the ankle as a foil for brave colours and occasional irony. In a recent twist, the quality of the garment itself is changing. I'm seeing a lot of high-end chinos out there, suggesting that the £20 Uniqlo, utilitarian numbers are being replaced by the high thread count, near-sateen of the designer chino. As the summer sales commence and prices are slashed, there's every opportunity to find the perfect pair. Here are two of the best to measure your sales finds against.
Leather-look shorts:Ancient Rome meets Berlin
As shorts continue to be major fashion news for men, the search is on for something that bit different. Oak NYC can usually be depended on to turn up something surprising, and with these leather-look shorts by Petar Petrov they're definitely in the game for wildest shorts of the summer. Actually 100% cotton but in a glossy, leather-like finish, the combination of shiny, fetishistic fabric and the pleated, tailored style is genuinely fresh. Perfectly paired here with gladiator sandals, I'm just hoping the model has appropriate facial hair – this look is all about Roman centurion at a Berlin leather bar.
Legs get ready to rumble! Cool cycling trousers for a hot summer
Cycling through Bloomsbury last night, I was struck by the sheer number of other cyclists on the roads. Seriously, it's like the bicycle M1 there in rush hour. When budgets tighten and the weather brightens (sorry), cyclists come out to play, so it looks like summer is definitely set to be based around 2 wheels. And for that, you need the right outfit.
Gallery: Summer Shorts
Summer is most definitely here, at least for today and if you're sweltering under the heat of some office trousers we feel your pain. Actually we've got our legs out, sorry.
Take a look at our guide to this summer's shorts, we've trawled the internet for the best in short trousers to keep your legs cool and your outfit stylish without a toggle, cargo pocket or zip in sight. There's something for everyone from denim to tailored and also floral pair you'll love, honest!
White jeans: only in summer
Summer is definitely fashion's silliest season, when you can throw (some) caution to the wind and don styles you wouldn't normally be seen dead in. With this in mind, how about some white jeans? Instantly reminiscent of Club Tropicana-era Wham, act up the Euro playboy with a strong-coloured V-neck T-shirt from American Apparel (lavender, pink, mint) and a floral print. These jeans from Acne break the pristine mold by adding horizontal rips at the thigh, whilst with these hibiscus-print espadrilles who needs a Hawaiian shirt? With a liberal splash of Kouros you will be ready to tear up the dancefloors of Europe .. just don't forget to pack the Vanish stick.
Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair's 'Favourite Jeans': 3 looks in one!
Here at Brandish we love a bit of versatility, which is why these jeans by Fifth Avenue Shoe repair are so perfect. At the top the fit is like a pair of oh-so-current roomy pleated pants, the anti-fit of these jeans also allows for a bit of drop-crotchness, whilst the legs actually taper down to the ankle. The interesting cut lends itself to many styling possibilities: but the genius touch is that the stretchy fabric (a quality, soft, stretch twill) allows the hem to be pulled up the leg to wear them as a slouchy cropped pant. At least three looks in one! The lovely detailing – like the 'whiskering' at back of knees also adds value. So, despite a hefty $279 dollar pricetag (plus shipping), they're still a choice item.
Wishlist: Claude Grant Cropped Trousers from Oak
For the British, summer is a time of seaside, (dubious) sun and 99p ice creams. It can be hard to find the perfect sun 'n' sea outfit and I won't bore you with details of the economy but, basically, we should all be investing in classic investment fashion pieces.
Just Do It: DIY Project #1- Cartoon Trousers
With a month long holiday in India coming up, I knew I had to get some stand-out holiday wear. I thought about the different eras of recreational wear and began racking the (fashion) history books for inspiration- jumpsuits, capri pants, high-waisted slacks, kaftans, tunics, dungarees…the list goes on. But then, as with all moments of fashion genius, America's Next Top Model came on the telly and I was reminded of the genius that is Jeremy Scott.
Shorts: options for SS09
If you're off on your first break of the year somewhere warm shortly you may be considering short trouser options.
UniQlo @ Selfridges
Affordable quality pedallers UniQlo are making your shopping experiences that little bit easier by opening a concession in Selfridges Oxford Street. Being UniQlo the space is one of the more colourful parts of Selfridges, looking similar to a Pantone reference book which is in no way a bad thing. The move is designed to introduce the brand to a whole new demographic of buyers and really sets their move into the UK and Worldwide markets in stone. The concession being markedly smaller than any of their stand alone stores, carries an edited menswear collection including their premium ranges, still being competitively priced especially when compared with the other brands that Selfridges stock. The store opened last Monday so get yourself down there and have a shoofty.
Jeremy Scott x Ksubi In-store this March!
In the later months of last year, the Brandish team began to see previews from the Jeremy Scott Loves Ksubi denim collection.
Now, upon Lady Gaga wearing the orange love-heart suit in Sunday Times Style magazine, we are pleased to tell you that the line will be in-stores this March.
More trouser options: joggers and (gulp) the drop crotch sweatpant
Further to my post about new trouser shapes yesterday, the drop crotch has definitely arrived. East London was awash with them at the weekend (mostly looking ace) and a quick search of the interweb reveals that Oak – New York's directional boutique/web store – have sold out of the now-cult Corpus drop crotch sweatpants a couple of times over.
Baggy trousers: the return of pleated pants
Fashion, as we know goes in cycles. Thus after a good few years of thigh-constriction thanks to the skinny jean, the newest shapes for mens trousers this Spring seem to be all about giving us space to breathe. Whether carrot, balloon, wide-leg or harem the look from waist down is all about having some extra fabric to move in.


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As is well known, "camp" in Latin is castra, neuter plural decl2. This also means "forts" and is often found referring to Roman army camps.
(1) Is it the only word usable when referring to a few travellers making an ordinary unfortified night camp?
(2) In postclassical and mediaeval Latin, how often is the wrong form castram, castrae found? Some people have likely made that mistake, because castra got into the Anglo-Saxon language as sēo ceaster = "the (Roman) town", feminine singular, from which "-chester" and similar at the ends of some English placenames.


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We are looking for cafes that can facilitate their own Teemo Cup and Rise of the Champions tournament. Is your cafe ready to be the next League of Legends battleground? Nominate your cafes now as venue for the next Teemo Cup and Rise of the Champions tournament.
To nominate your café as the venue/organizer for the Teemo Cup or Rise of the Champions, they must satisfy the following requirements: • Internet café must have the manpower to facilitate or organize the tournament by themselve • There must be at least 20 PCs able to run League of Legends properly
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