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Activist Post: Is Communism the New Capitalism? Six Fortune 500 Companies Move HQ to China.
Is Communism the New Capitalism? Six Fortune 500 Companies Move HQ to China16 Jul
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America Plunging to Bankruptcy While DC Plays Politics as Usual16 Jul
Eric Blair — Activist Post: America Plunging to Bankruptcy While DC Plays Politics as Usual.
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Is Military Spending Saving or Enslaving?16 Jul
Michael Edwards — Activist Post: Is Military Spending Saving or Enslaving?.
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Using Local Organic Cooperatives to Defeat Globalists16 Jul
Eric Blair — Activist Post: Using Local Organic Cooperatives to Defeat Globalists.
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A Brutal Case of Backwards Justice in America16 Jul
John Galt — Activist Post: A Brutal Case of Backwards Justice in America.
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10 Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased16 Jul
Activist Post: 10 Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased.
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Economic Hitmen Come for Their 'Pound of Flesh' in New Jersey16 Jul
Activist Post: Economic Hitmen Come for Their 'Pound of Flesh' in New Jersey.
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Banksters are Coming for Your Retirement Next16 Jul
Eric Blair — Activist Post: Banksters are Coming for Your Retirement Next.
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The Cybersecurity Directive Goes Viral16 Jul
Michael Edwards: Activist Post: The Cybersecurity Directive Goes Viral.
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Celente Says Populists Will Break the False Left-Right Political Paradigm16 Jul
Activist Post: Celente Says Populists Will Break the False Left-Right Political Paradigm.
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2nd Amendment Protection
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- Bill Hicks Sadly, he wasn't around long, but his comedy was both slapstick and incisive . . . and inflamatory. Everything from conspiracies, to the nature of reality, and the love of smoking
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U.S. soybean production is projected at 3.2 billion bushels, up 236 million from 2008-09, according to USDA in its May 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.
Soybean oil used for biodiesel production is projected at 2.2 billion pounds, up 300 million from the 2008-09 estimate of 1.9 billion. Soybean ending stocks are projected at 230 million bushels, resulting in a relatively low stocks-to-use ratio at 7 percent.
The U.S. season-average soybean price for 2009-10 is projected at $8.45 to $10.45 per bushel compared with $9.85 in 2008-09.
Global soybean production is projected to increase 14 percent to 241.7 million tons. Argentina's crop is projected at 51 million tons, up 17 million from last year. Brazil's crop is projected at 60 million tons, up 3 million from 2008.
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PLACER COUNTY — Heavy rain, pounding waves and plenty of snow in the mountains are all in the forecast as Northern Californians brace for a weekend and a holiday of wintry weather and travel delays.
As one storm system moved through the region Saturday, a second, more powerful system was expected to hit the area Sunday, forecasters said.
Wetter conditions and stronger winds will hit the East Bay and South Bay on Sunday, according to Carolina Walbrun of the National Weather Service. But, a slight reprieve in the rain will start Monday, just in time for Christmas.
However, another system will close in on Northern California on Tuesday afternoon, Walbrun added.
"The system on Tuesday will not be as strong as the one (on Sunday)," she said. "But there will be rain and there will be snow" in the mountains.
The first storm drenched the region, dropping more than an inch of rain in Redwood City in a little more than six hours early Saturday, said National Weather Service forecaster Diana Henderson.
The weather caused at least hourlong delays Saturday at San Francisco International Airport but was affecting mostly regional flights, airport duty manager Shannon Wilson said. Arriving flights were being delayed up to three-and-a-half hours Saturday evening, and about 12 flights had been canceled because of a change in the direction of prevailing winds that closed two of four runways, she said.
At Oakland International Airport, delays were reported to be roughly 40 minutes.
For those traveling to the mountains, the weather also caused some delays.
Heavy snow and wind forced the closure of Interstate 80 Saturday afternoon through Donner Pass for about three hours after a series of spinouts.
The California Highway Patrol began diverting eastbound traffic off the freeway in Colfax and stopping traffic in Truckee around 9:30 a.m. Both directions reopened shortly after noon.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the interior mountains of Northern California, with snow accumulations of up to 5 feet possible by Sunday night. Visibility could be as low as a quarter-mile at times, with wind gusts up to 50 mph.
Highway 50 to Lake Tahoe has had no lane closures.
Along the beaches, waves up to 16 feet were expected. Forecasters urged people walking along beaches or jetties to watch for large breaking waves.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact Daniel Jimenez at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at Twitter.com/djmreports. Contact Katie Nelson at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her at Twitter.com/katienelson210.


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STOCKTON - Just a decade ago, Donald Ruiz was building his dream home - a 1,740-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath castle on West Hazelton Street in Boggs Tract.
STOCKTON - Just a decade ago, Donald Ruiz was building his dream home - a 1,740-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath castle on West Hazelton Street in Boggs Tract.
It was everything he and his wife, Gloria, wanted: a fireplace, custom cabinets and floors, a specially designed patio and yard. Next door, Donald Ruiz also built a second home for his daughter.
This week, both came tumbling down.
"I saw my house, with the claw hitting the roof, and I felt really sad. I felt it in my heart," Gloria Ruiz said. "I kept saying, 'Oh my God.' But I'm happy. We got out from under an upside-down mortgage."
Donald Ruiz called Hazelton a "community within a community."
The Ruizes haven't moved far, just around the corner to Sonora Street. "We love this neighborhood," Donald Ruiz said. "People are nice. There's not much crime. Everybody looks out for one another. We're anchored down."
They made the move as part of the first stage of a three-year, $196 million construction project known as the Highway 4 Extension. Sixty right-of-way property parcels, 40 of them residential, need to be cleared through eminent-domain proceedings.
The work will transform Boggs Tract.
No one in the neighborhood was surprised by the demolition - informational public meetings started years ago - but that didn't take away this week's bittersweet experiences.
The one-mile project has partners in the California Department of Transportation, the San Joaquin Council of Governments, the city of Stockton and county government.
The freeway extension will provide big-rig trucks and automobiles a straight shot from Interstate 5 and the Crosstown Freeway to the Port of Stockton. Right now, vehicles wind their way along surface streets.
At least two businesses aren't going quietly.
Located a half-mile east of the Boggs Tract residential neighborhood are Mel's Auto Dismantlers and Debco Auto Wrecking Inc. They sit side by side on Navy Drive. Both are multigenerational businesses that have been around for decades.
"They're trying to steal what a little old lady and man took 50 years to build," said 30-year-old Adam Bedford, whose great-grandfather founded Debco in 1962. "We're going to court. They're trying to take everything from us - and they've only offered us $1,000."
The state is obligated to offer at least $1,000, even if environmental cleanup is involved and exceeds the value of the property.
On an adjacent site, Mike Davis said his dad's 25-year-old dismantling business received the same offer.
"It kills me. We have to fight," said Davis, 43, born and raised in Stockton. "This is my life. I was planning to operate this business for my livelihood and keep it as a family business." He said his father, Mel Davis, 73, is worrying too much about what is happening.
Debco sits on five acres. Frank Bedford, Adam's uncle and the wrecking yard's sales manager, was frustrated and angry Wednesday.
"This is a freeway to nowhere," he said. "Why won't the state offer us fair market value? Four years ago, we had our business appraised at $1.25 million. I've worked here 35 years, my whole adult life."
Both companies have hired law firms and plan to oppose the takeover.
"Our right-of-way department has been working hard to come up with amicable resolutions with as many property owners as possible," said Chantel Miller, a spokeswoman with Caltrans. "And if we're in litigation, we don't comment."
Kevin Sheridan, project manager with the Council of Governments, said, "The state has a process (to deal) with contaminated soils. It involves deducting the amount deemed for cleanup from the value of the property."
Actual freeway construction isn't scheduled until next spring and it will take about three years to build the new stretch of elevated freeway.
Sixty-year-old Evelyn Williams Ary will have a front-row seat. She lives at the west end of Hazelton and her home was spared from demolition. She was watching this week as familiar homes came down - and childhood memories came back.
"It was kind of emotional. My dad purchased our property in 1947," Ary said. "Those houses have been there forever. I can name each person who lived on that street.
"I live in the next block. They missed us. I'm going to watch this freeway being built from my living room window."
Ary and Gloria Ruiz, also 60, starting in kindergarten, attended Washington Elementary School together. The two women stood near each other this week watching while Hazelton Street houses were torn down.
"We once had a cable man come by our home, and say it looked like someone picked up our house in north Stockton and dropped it down in Boggs Tract," Ruiz said.
"I felt like I was living in that movie, 'Out of Africa.' My husband put lights on the arches in the backyard. We had a banana-leaf fan and blue tile in the patio. There were flowers and a Chinese maple tree."
Those are memories now. Donald and Gloria Ruiz each admitted it's time to move on with their lives and build a new future on nearby Sonora Street.
Being able to stay in Boggs Tract has been important to the couple married 42 years.
"We've been here all our lives," said Donald Ruiz, retired at 64. "We know everybody in the neighborhood. My wife was in love with that house when I built it, but, you know, you can't stand in the way of progress."
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or email@example.com.


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PORTSMOUTH — A home care aide accused of taking rare jewelry valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly client in Maine is also facing drug possession charges in New Hampshire.
According to court documents, police found drug paraphernalia and bags containing an assortment of more than 130 pills when they searched the home of 30-year-old Jocelyn Dowey, of Rye, earlier this year.
At the time, Dowey was identified as a suspect in the theft of jewelry from an elderly Kittery, Maine, woman she was hired to assist as a residential aide. Dowey was arrested in February after police questioned her about the missing jewelry and allegedly found at least $10,000 worth of stolen jewelry in her possession.
According to court documents, three Rye police officers and two from the Kittery Police Department executed a search warrant at Dowey's home on Feb. 26, after it was believed she was responsible for the jewelry thefts.
They allegedly found ambien, oxycodone, morphine and diazepam pills inside her residence, for which Dowey had no prescription. She has been charged by Rye police with receiving stolen property and possession of controlled drugs. She is scheduled to undergo a probable cause hearing at circuit court in Portsmouth this month.
Dowey faces separate charges in Maine pertaining to the stolen jewelry. She was indicted on Thursday, May 9, on a single charge of Class B felony theft, and arraigned again in York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine, on Aug. 31. If convicted, she could face a prison sentence of up to 40 years.
Police in Kittery began investigating Dowey after they were contacted by the victim in February. The woman, a jewel collector, reported as much as $500,000 worth of jewelry was missing from her home.
She told police she suspected Dowey might have stolen the items while working in her home during the past year, according to an affidavit filed by Kittery Police Sgt. Steven Hamel.
Later that day, Hamel contacted a jewelry store in Portsmouth and asked the clerk to look up the shop's sales records. The clerk reported Dowey had been selling "substantial amounts" of jewelry to the store, according to the affidavit.
Kittery police questioned Dowey the next day, and she allegedly admitted to stealing a gold ring from the elderly woman's home and hawking it in January, but denied taking anything else.
The next day, Hamel interviewed the Portsmouth store clerk who paid Dowey for the ring. She remembered that Dowey had presented her with several "large, valuable gems" in January, including some "museum quality" pieces, according to the affidavit.
She drew pictures of some of the gems from memory, and recalled offering Dowey $10,000 for one of the items, according to the affidavit. She said Dowey declined to sell it at that price, and that Dowey informed her she had researched the value of several items on the Internet.
Later that day, police contacted Dowey and arranged to meet her at her apartment at 4 Port Way in Rye to discuss the investigation. During a taped interview, Dowey allegedly admitted to stealing a second item — an opal — from the elderly victim, and offered to retrieve it from a nearby shed.
Hamel and another officer accompanied Dowey to the shed, where they discovered "numerous pieces of jewelry, gemstones and other rarities" inside a box, according to the affidavit.
The victim inspected the items seized from Dowey's home and identified "hundreds of items" that allegedly belonged to her among the collection, including small and large gems. She estimated their value at $231,000.
Police also invited the jewelry store clerk who was involved in the January transaction to view the items seized from the shed. The woman said Dowey had previously shown her several of the jewels when she visited the store on Jan. 31.
On Feb. 26, police executed a full search of Dowey's home and allegedly found additional jewelry that was reported stolen, according to an affidavit filed by Rye Police Officer William Blais.
The items included a blue/green opal with a naked woman on it, which was valued at between $20,000-$30,000, a black and "fire blue" opal valued at the same price and a brown "Yowah" opal valued at $2,000.
Police allegedly found a wooden case inside Dowey's bureau that contained two glass pipes with marijuana resin, a pill container and a pill crusher. Also found in the bureau were a digital scale and a jar stuffed with clear plastic sandwich bags, each labeled with the name of a drug, the dosage, and the price, according to the affidavit. They allegedly found 131 pills, spread between a pill bottle, a Tic-Tacs container and loose bags.
Dowey was arrested by Kittery police and charged with theft of items valued at up to $10,000, a Class C felony. The charge was subsequently upgraded to a Class B felony based on the results of an appraisal, which confirmed the alleged stolen items were valued at more than $10,000.
"It's been a lengthy case," Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh said earlier this month. "It involves a lot of other police agencies, and it shows a lot of great teamwork that's been going on between police. We all are really talking about what we can do for the victims to try to help them out."
Home care aide accused in theft of jewelry in Kittery faces drug charges in Rye
PORTSMOUTH — A home care aide accused of taking rare jewelry valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly client in Maine is also facing drug possession charges in New Hampshire.


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The Record: Overall 9-1-0 Big West 1-0-0
This Week's Schedule
Wednesday, October 16th
#22 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. UC Riverside Highlanders
7:00 p.m. at UCSB's Harder Stadium
Saturday, October 19th
#22 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Cal State Northridge Matadors
2:30 p.m. at CSUN's Matador Soccer Stadium
On The Right Foot
With its 2-1 victory over Cal State Fullerton this past weekend, UC Santa Barbara took its first step in defending its Big West Conference Crown, opening league play at 1-0-0. The Gauchos controlled the game for most of the match, taking a 1-0 lead in the 35th minute off of Drew McAthy's eighth goal of the season. Fullerton tied the game at 1-1 with under ten minutes remaining in the match, capitalizing on a lapse by the UCSB defense. After a red card to Gaucho midfielder Brandon Meeks with just under five minutes to go in regulation and overtime looming now being man down, it appeared UCSB was going to have a repeat of last week's match against LMU. But with two minutes remaining in regulation, freshman defender Alan Keely went coast-to-coast through the entire Titan team, setting up Rob Friend's game-winning goal at 88:15.
The Big Guy
After what was quite possibly his biggest goal of the season, senior forward Rob Friend was named Big West Player of the Week for scoring UCSB's game-winning goal against perenial conference power Cal State Fullerton. The award is Friend's first of the year, and the third of his Gaucho career. He currently leads the Big West with 11 goals on the season, and is eighth in the nation averaging 1.10 goals per game. Adding in his three assists, he also sits atop the conference with 25 points, averaging 2.50 points per game, also eighth in the country.
Our Player Of The Week
Although freshman defender Alan Keely did not receive any Player of the Week recognitions from any publications or organizations, we in the UCSB Athletic Media Relations office have tabbed the Dubliner as our Player of the Week. In an excellent display of speed and ball control, Keely set up, rather, was almost entirely responsible for Rob Friend's late game heroics. Taking the ball from inside the Gauchos penalty box with two minutes remaining in regulation, Keely took matters into his own hands, driving the field, through the heart of Fullerton's midfield, and down to the Titan's touch-line. Then, in a veteran type move he made the smart play, dishing the ball off to Friend just in front of the net rather than taking the shot himself. It gave Keely his second assist of the year and the Gauchos their ninth win of the season.
Riverside Ripple
UC Riverside enters this week's match tied a top the Big West standings with Santa Barbara, sporting a 1-0-0 league record. Although the Highlanders overall record stands at 3-5-3, three of their losses have come against teams that were ranked in the top-25 at some point this season, while one of their ties came against No. 23 Hofstra. The Highlanders are led by sophomore goalkeeper/midfielder Luc Harrington with three goals in the field, and a conference best 5.83 saves per game average between the posts.
No Intention Of Leaving
Now that the Gauchos have burst onto the national scene, they have no intention of leaving as they continue to climb the ranks. Boasting the NCAA's top ranked offense for the fourth straight week, currently posting 3.40 goals per game average, UCSB improved to No. 22 in the NSCAA/adidas Coaches Poll, up two spots from last week. Santa Barbara's highest ranking came from Soccer Times, which tabbed the Gauchos as the No. 18 team in the NCAA.
The Boys On Defense
It seems that the goal-scorers and the assist men are the one always getting all the credit. Well, this week UCSB's defense is going to get some recognition for doing what they do best, defend. Sophomore Jon Apilado, freshman Alan Keely, sophomore Tony Lochhead comprise a defensive unit that, in the last eight matches, no team has scored more than two goals against them, and that only happened once. Over that span they have held their opponents to an average of less than nine shots per outing. giving up just six goals for a team goals against average of 0.74. A lot of the credit also needs to be given to the play of the Gauchos' defensive midfielders, senior Dan Young, sophomore Nate Boyden, and junior Darren Doi are more often than not given the task of marking up against the other team's top offensive players. It is this type of defensive play, coupled with the Gauchos' outstanding offense, that allows for Santa Barbara's Big West best +2.3 goals per game scoring margin.
Northridge Notes
Picked to finish fourth in the Big West in a preseason poll by the conference's head coaches, Cal State Northridge is showing to be better than a fourth place team. Currently with the conference's second best overall record behind the Gauchos at 7-2-1, the Matadors drew a 1-1 tie earlier this season against No. 7 LMU, the only team to have beaten UCSB this season. Northridge on the road presents the Gauchos with one of their toughest challenges of the year. The Matadors defense is ranked 13th in the nation with their opponents averaging just 0.66 goals per game.
Regional Ranking
NSCAA Far West 5th
National Rankings
NSCAA/adidas Coaches Poll 22nd College Soccer News 20th Soccer America 24th Soccer Times 18th
Rank in the Nation...Statistically Speaking
1st Scoring Offense
3.40 goals per game
9th(t) 34 Total Goals
5th 0.900 Won/Loss %
1st Most wins to start the season (8 games)
Memo Arzate
1st 1.22 assists per game
2nd(t) 11 Total Assists
3rd Assists in a game (3) - twice
Rob Friend
8th(t) 1.10 goals per game
8th 2.50 points per game
11th(t) 25 Total Points
UCSB Leads The Big West In:
Shots 210
Shots per game 21.00
Points 104
Points per game 10.40
Goals 34
Goals per game 3.40
Assists 36
Assists per game 3.60
Scoring Margin +2.3
Big West Statistics
Points Per Game (rk)
1. Friend 25 2.50 (1)
2. McAthy 17 1.70 (2)
3. Arzate 13 1.44 (3)
Deering 13 1.30 (4)
8. Young 9 0.90 (8)
Goals Per Game (rk)
1. Friend 11 1.10 (1)
2. McAthy 8 0.80 (2)
3. Deering 5 0.50 (3)
5. Young 4 0.40 (5)
Assists Per Game (rk)
1. Arzate 11 1.43 (1)
2. McGill 5 0.71 (2)
5. Deering 3 0.33 (8)
Friend 3 0.43 (8)
Jones 3 0.33 (5)
Kubota 3 0.33 (8)
Goals Against GAA (rk)
3. Kennedy 11 1.23 (3)


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Many of the high-profile pieces of the puzzle for the Tigers, especially on offense, are still in high school. Miles admitted the game won't really be a true representation of what next season will look like.
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Sen. Warren Rudman's passing is being mourned by both Democratic and Republican officials.
Former New Hampshire Attorney General and Republican Gov. Stephen Merrill said, "Senator Rudman set the standard for the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office. He instituted modern trial practices and modern hiring practices. He had a national reputation among his peers and is still spoken of today at AG meetings. He will be sorely missed."
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This year, the big list of who's naughty and nice won't come from Santa. The International Labour Organization has published its Global Wage Report 2010/11. It's another reminder that workers should expect no glad tidings in the coming year as the recession continues to snowball around the globe.
It wasn't all bad news. Wages are generally on an upward trendline. But in its analysis of national wage data sampled from 115 countries and territories, the ILO reports:
growth in average monthly wages slowed from 2.8 per cent in 2007, on the eve of the crisis, to 1.5 per cent in 2008 and 1.6 per cent in 2009. Excluding China from the aggregate, the global average wage growth drops to 0.8 in 2008 and 0.7 in 2009....
In particular... since the mid-1990s the proportion of people on low pay – defined as less than two-thirds of median wage – has increased in more than two-thirds of countries with available data.
The range of countries that have seen a growth in low-paid workers span the spectrum of "development," including "Argentina, China, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, the Republic of Korea, Poland and Spain." Paradoxically this growth in the low-wage labor force will be met with Europe's onslaught of harsh austerity measures, which economists predict will not only shred the safety net but also deepen the overall economic contraction (meaning more misery for ordinary people).
Some countries, however, might be getting smarter about rejiggering their economies with a combination of organized labor power and aggressive fiscal policy. For example, the ILO says, departing from policies tried by governments in response to earlier economic crises, half of the surveyed countries this time around "have adjusted their minimum wages either as part of the regular minimum wage review process or with the aim of protecting the purchasing power of the most vulnerable workers." Building on the baseline of economic security provided by government, the ILO finds, "Wages are better aligned with productivity in countries where collective bargaining covers more than 30 per cent of employees."
The United States saw a significant drop in real average weekly earnings from 2007 to 2008, followed by an uptick going into 2009, which the ILO attributes largely to falling consumer prices (increasing relative purchasing power). The U.S. sits near the top of the ILO's list of industrialized countries in terms of the portion of its workforce comprised of low-paid full-time workers (about a quarter of the U.S. labor force compared to six percent in Sweden, for instance).
On both sides of the Atlantic, the oft-maligned public sector again appears to be better shielded from recessionary woes. In most of the surveyed European nations, "nominal earnings in the public sector have risen faster – or fallen less – than earnings in the private sector." Earnings rose faster in the U.S. for state and municipal employees than for private sector employees from March 2008 to 2010.
But the budget axe looms over civil servants. The ILO says "this trend may be reversed in some of the countries that have implemented austerity measures to contain public debt and/or which have signed recent agreements with the IMF."
In this recession, the bigger they come, the harder they fall. The "advanced" countries that helped drive markets over a cliff have spiraled downward while meeker economies have stayed afloat, according to the wage report. Though global average wages grew substantially over the past decade, the increase was unevenly concentrated:
while wage growth slowed but remained consistently positive in Asia and Latin America, other regions such as Eastern Europe and Central Asia experienced a dramatic fall. Advanced economies experienced a drop in the level of real wages which fell in 12 of 28 countries in 2008 and in seven in 2009.
For the "emerging economies," the psychological ramifications of feeling as though your nation is moving up as opposed to toppling over, are reflected in a new Gallup poll showing economic optimism clustered in less wealthy countries.
Yet the U.K. Guardian's analysis suggested that the global downturn could be a great leveler of sorts. On one hand, writes Vittorio Longhi, the recession will inevitably have an acute impact on the most impoverished, least educated, least politically empowered workers. Relegated to the "3D's" ("dirty, dangerous and demanding" jobs), these are often women, youth, ethnic minorities and members of otherwise marginalized communities.
Still, there's nothing like a crashing economy to concentrate officials' minds on designing a better safety net. Countering the EU's "austerity" mantra, the ILO identifies key areas where lawmakers can coordinate social and labor policies to boost recovery and reduce inequity.
The researchers recommend that on top of a government-mandated wage floor, "there must be a system of wage policies which benefits all workers, irrespective of wage levels, union membership or employment status." For workers higher on the economic ladder, that means stronger collective bargaining and organizing rights at work, especially in "non-standard" sectors like domestic workers. Wage supplements like tax credits need to work in tandem with minimum-wage guarantees to prevent employers from ruthlessly driving down wages.
The ILO report also notes that labor policies cannot be designed in a vacuum. While certain principles of decent work hold true universally, like the benefits of unionization, local patterns of racial, gender and ethnic discrimination must also be addressed to ensure a just recovery.
On that front, the U.S. remains a case study in the shameful entanglement of economic, racial and gender inequalities. Meanwhile a disillusioned underclass has spiraled into virulent jingoism and wingnutty theatrics amid increasing confusion over the root causes of the crisis. Once-privileged citizens of the U.S. and European economies will understandably feel dispirited during this holiday season. But the global wage report suggests it's possible to envision other ways overcoming the economic storm, as long as workers don't get mired in the politics of self-defeat.


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Jamaica is preparing to abolish a slavery-era law allowing flogging and whipping as means of punishing prisoners, the Caribbean country's justice ministry said Thursday.
The ministry said the punishment hasn't been ordered by a court since 2004 but the statutes remain in the island's penal code. It was administered with strokes from a tamarind-tree switch or a cat o'nine tails, a whip made of nine, knotted cords.
Justice Minister Mark Golding says the "degrading" punishment is an anachronism which violates Jamaica's international obligations and is preventing Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's government from ratifying the U.N. convention against torture.
"The time has come to regularize this situation by getting these colonial-era laws off our books once and for all," Golding said in a Thursday statement.
The Cabinet has already approved repealing the flogging law and amendments to other laws in the former British colony, where plantation slavery was particularly brutal.
The announcement was welcomed by human rights activists who view the flogging law as a barbaric throwback in a nation populated mostly by the descendants of slaves.
"We don't really see that (the flogging law) has any part in the approach of dealing with crime in a modern democracy," said group spokeswoman Susan Goffe.
But there are no shortage of crime-weary Jamaicans who feel that authorities should not drop the old statutes but instead enforce them, arguing that thieves who steal livestock or violent criminals who harm innocent people should receive a whipping to teach them a lesson.
"The worst criminals need strong punishing or else they'll do crimes over and over," said Chris Drummond, a Kingston man with three school-age children. "Getting locked up is not always enough."
The last to suffer the punishment in Jamaica was Errol Pryce, who was sentenced to four years in prison and six lashes in 1994 for stabbing his mother-in-law.
Pryce was flogged the day before being released from prison in 1997 and later complained to the U.N. Human Rights Committee, which ruled in 2004 that the form of corporal punishment was cruel, inhuman and degrading and violated his rights. Jamaican courts then stopped ordering whipping or flogging.


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|2011-12-08, 18:55
|Link #21381
#1 Akashiya Moka Fan
depends on the part of the last two episodes... I do admit, Inner trying to imitate the rest of the girls( you know which scene that is) was pretty awesome
on a side note, we did all get a case of "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" in the last episode... oh the painful irony
|2011-12-08, 21:57
|Link #21383
Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
Everything from the 2nd half of the 12th episode on needs to be redux and not just becuase I still have a healthy bit of rage for the end of ep 12... >.> *borrows Yukari's voodoo dolls*
Tsukune: ... I can't...I just can't imagine that Omote is gone ... forever ...
Inner: *looking at Tsukune, a slightly pained look on her face* **Why does he pine for Omote so...? Aren't I more than enough? Does my strength and beauty count for nothing?** Tsukune...Omote was just a part of me - of me. The Akashiya Moka you see before you was the one who got sealed, not the other way around.
Tsukune: ... But wasn't she a part of you?
Inner: **Oh how I want to kick him for his obstinance! But ... I can't... not this time... not for this. Because, I miss her too...** *chuckles sadly* I wonder, Tsukune, if I should ever disappear, would you miss me as much as you miss Omote...
Tsukune: *turns pale* ... Do you mean...!?
Inner: *chuckles again* Fear not Tsukune, I don't plan on leaving here voluntarily any time soon.
**She turns to look out over the forest but her eyes are sad and she does not speak much after that...**
Tsukune: Little did I know, that was the last time that I saw Inner Moka... She disappeared some time after supper. No one knew where she had gone. I thought that I knew despair when Omote disappeared right in front of me... It was nothing like when I found out that Inner too, had been taken from me as well...
|2011-12-09, 01:33
|Link #21384
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Poland
Age: 32
So, I hope that Ikeda won't take you're idea into consideration Tempest
Speaking about Inner Moka, I hope that she will have some role near the conclusion of the current arc, and won't be simply reduced to the Damsel in Distress role that she currently has (as Outer Moka). Of course, all of that depends on how Alucard's awakening is going to be resolved along with the breaking of Moka's Rosario...
Well, considering what the breaking of Moka's Rosario means, I still think that Tsukune will come at the last possible second and prevent Moka's Rosario from being completely broken, but of course there is still the possibility that Ikeda would want Outer Moka to disappear (naturally, as an independent personality, since I believe that she will still be a part of the "real Moka's" personality), but naturally, it doesn't mean that it will be a smooth transition - but I think that the possibility of both Moka's merging in the current arc is pretty small, because Alucard being fully awoken, before Tsukune arrives there, would mean that we won't see him fighting Akua - and after such a huge build up to that fight, I doubt that Ikeda would do something like, not making Akua and Tsukune fight each other.
|2011-12-09, 03:12
|Link #21385
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"Let me join in, too."
"Is it like, um, like this?"
"Um, it looks kinda difficult."
As for the Rosario breaking, I also doubt it'll happen here. I honestly don't see the purpose of Alucard awakening now, because the group is woefully underpowered for the task of destroying him. I've seen the theory that Akasha would manifest after the group arrives (and hopefully after Akuha is defeated) and essentially becomes the "weak spot," per se. Kill her, and you kill Alucard, so to speak. I sincerely hope that's not the case, because I doubt they'd be able to kill Akasha, let alone Alucard. And Moka would never agree to such an insane plan, which I say is not Akasha's style. I'd expect such madness from Akuha or Gyokuro, but not the legendary Shinso. If it doesn't happen that way, I'll be elated. Can't wait to find out. Until then...
|2011-12-09, 09:36
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Noctis Labyrinthus
Age: 27
We are going to see a very happy Moka X Tsukune ending, unless Tsukune turns out like Issa and decides to have all the girls, and thats become a possible ending to since the girls have decided to stay with Tsukune, mostly Mizore, Kurumu and Ruby, i wonder about Ling-Ling Wong though
|2011-12-09, 10:06
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After all, chapter 23 quite obviously pointed out her feelings on that matter, and there has been nothing suggesting that Inner Moka's point of view on the matter of polygamy has changed...
On the matter of Alucard, I might add that allowing him to awaken, even if Tsukune and the rest of the gang managed to escape from Fairy Tail headquarters in one piece would effectively neutralize all the chances of achieving coexistence between humans and ayashi, since let's face it, if Alucard attacked and destroyed one of the human cities, not only the entire world would learn about the existence of monsters, but also assume that all of the ayashi have hostile intentions against the human race, which would lead to an outbreak of a full ayashi - human war, since even if some of the ayashi races wanted to achieve coexistence with humans, they are obviously going to counter attack in the fear of being wiped out by the humans.
Furthermore it would turn this series into a full blown shounen, since I doubt that Tsukune and the rest of the gang would be able to enjoy a peaceful life at Youkai Academy, with a full blown war going around them, which would definitely make R+V less popular then it currently is.
Of course, there is still the possibility that Alucard's awakening would cause the Fairy Tail HQ to crush and fall into the ocean. but that would be a pretty anticlimactic way of dealing with him - the same could be said about Alucard being weakened to the point, where the current Tsukune and Inner Moka would be capable of defeating him and since I can't find any logical explanation on how they could prevent Alucard from wiping out the human world in the instant, when he is going to be awakened, the most logical thing that the author could do (in my opinion) is not allow Alucard to be completely awoken, either because Tsukune is going to appear in time to interrupt the ritual or because of some other reason (in my opinion, the most logical thing that would destroy Gyokuro's plans is the fact that Tsukune also has Moka's (Akasha's ) Shinso blood in his veins)
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|2011-12-09, 14:39
|Link #21388
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Noctis Labyrinthus
Age: 27
On the matter of Alucard, here is my impression on how the final showdown will take place. Alucard's awakening causes the FT HQ to crash outside none other than Tsukune's home city where the heros must defeat Alucard in order to prevent him from destroying the city.
|2011-12-09, 15:51
|Link #21389
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In other words, both of them or nowhere close to be capable of defeating Alucard, and like I said, it would be pretty anticlimactic, if Tsukune's and Moka's powers would suddenly rise to Alucard's level, or Alucard's powers would be lowered to Moka's and Tsukune's power levels. Basically, if something like that occurs it wouldn't be an example of good writing skills, since no matter how Ikeda justifies it, Tsukune and Moka being capable of currently defeating Alucard would still be an a**pull, which isn't a good thing
Not to mention, like I have been saying earlier, it's definitely too early for the manga to end, and, since I doubt that the author is going to introduce us to someone who is even stronger then Alucard - at least I don't want this series to turn into another Dragon Ball in terms of power levels, where the characters would be capable of bursting an entire planet with a flick of their fingers (After all, it has been already mentioned that Alucard is capable of destroying the entire human world) - it most likely means that Alucard is going to be defeated near the end of the manga, when the characters are going to find some way to defeat him.
So, as usual, I don't think that you're theory is going to actually happen in the manga, Shinso Tsukune - at least not in the current arc
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|2011-12-09, 17:49
|Link #21391
Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
Lol, Chris, that dialouge was meant for the anime, not the manga! I wrote that so instead of the 'retrieve the rosary to seal Inner to get Outer back', a plot point that left a horrible taste in my mouth, I wanted to change it to retrieve Moka - period. It's a much more belieable reason to fight Daddy Starbucks.
|2011-12-09, 20:00
|Link #21393
Senior Member
That thought crossed my mind too... However, the only youkai that may have the possibility of getting separated from Alucard is Akasha. I don't think any others can be since they would all be part of Alucard now since they had been simmering inside it for 200 some odd years up to Akasha's "sacrifice". So, the only way to defeat it, may be a long drawn out battle of the group "destroying" it piece by piece like what Akasha's kicks were doing to it. Though, I'm sure if Akasha and some powerful allied worked at it, they could've whittled Alucard down enough to deal a death blow eventually. But i think to quickly deal out that kind of damage quickly would be to have Alucard BE ground-zero of a nuke blast or similarly powerful force.
|2011-12-10, 02:21
|Link #21394
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Regarding Akasha and the rest of the dark lords, I'm quite sure that they haven't got enough power to damage Alucard to the point, where Tsukune and Moka would be capable of killing him - after all, if they haven't managed it 200 years ago, I doubt that they would be capable of doing it now, especially since Akasha (most likely the greatest damage dealer among the 3 dark lords) has most likely been seriously weakened after she stayed inside Alucard for the last 6 years.
That being said, I'm quite sure that Alucard still has some weak points due to his Shinso vampire heritage, which hasn't been neutralized by him absorbing so many different kinds of ayashi, while the obvious vampire weaknesses like water, probably won't work on him, but apparently Shinso vampires (due to their similarity with ordinary vampires) have a lot of other weaknesses that haven't been fully explained yet - after all they aren't known for being monsters with the most weaknesses for nothing, and I'm quite sure that some of those vampire weaknesses are still effective on Alucard - the problem is to find out, which vampire weakness is the most effective one on him (If I have to put my guess, I would say it would be some Holy Relic - after all I doubt that Akasha has been carrying that sword - visible in chapter 32 page 9 of the second season, just for show - after all she doesn't need any weapons to beat someone up, unless that sword is some Holy Relic that is effective against Alucard.)
|2011-12-10, 20:23
|Link #21395
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Brazil
that sword must have some meaning but i don't think it's was like this...
and i think that everyone is thinking that alucard is something like a god i admit that i think like this too but i really think that tsukune and cia. have strenght enough to finish that guy, i mean, tsukune is stronger than akua now and maybe even gyokuro,we saw that he has the power to destroy everyone with a single punch, just like akasha kicks, so he might take her place at this part while the rest take the part of the other two,just my opinion.
|2011-12-10, 23:19
|Link #21398
Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
Well, we have to give credit to the Dark Lords - they took on a full powered and fully awake Alucard and sealed/put him to sleep, with Lady Akasha putting the finishing touches on the deal.
And as much as Tsukune has developed, he is not anywhere near Gyokuro's league - she ripped a pillar from it's foundation and tossed as if she pulled a stick out of the ground and threw it javalin-style. Besides, she can probably sense people so well, she can probably read the youki flowing through a person and 'predict' what they'll do based off of that - not unlike what Teresa of the Faint Smile could do in 'Claymore'. Not saying that's what Gyokuro can do, I'm just stating the possibility of that ability coming into play.
|2011-12-10, 23:33
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|2011-12-10, 23:50
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In other words, I believe she is a lot stronger then what chapter 43 provided us with, and even Tsukune commented on that in the same chapter, by saying "Such power" and being visibly strained after he smashed the pillar Gyokuro has thrown.
All of that is telling me that if Gyokuro has been serious, Tsukune and the rest probably wouldn't be able to escape from that room, but of course for the purpose of the story, Gyokuro had to underestimate them, letting them have a chance in rescuing Moka.
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81st INTERPOL General Assembly
5-8 November 2012 - Rome, Italy
This year's INTERPOL General Assembly opened with a ministerial meeting bringing together justice, security and home affairs ministers from some 100 countries. The theme for discussion was 'Challenges for police facing contemporary criminal violence'.
Police chiefs and other senior law enforcement officials from around the world discussed critical challenges for police in responding to current and developing criminal phenomena and shared best practices based on national and international experience.
The General Assembly is composed of delegates appointed by the governments of member countries. As INTERPOL's supreme governing body, it meets once a year and takes all the major decisions affecting general policy, the resources needed for international cooperation, working methods, finances and programmes of activities. It also elects the Organization's Executive Committee. Generally speaking, the Assembly takes decisions by a simple majority in the form of resolutions. Each member country represented has one vote.
El Papa recibe a los líderes de la comunidad mundial de las fuerzas del orden y alaba los esfuerzos de INTERPOL para combatir la delincuencia
La francesa Mireille Ballestrazzi, primera Presidenta de INTERPOL
INTERPOL, con la ayuda de Canadá, pone en marcha un instrumento móvil mundial para combatir los delitos sexuales contra menores
La Asamblea General de INTERPOL, en una reunión histórica celebrada en Roma, pide mayor colaboración para combatir la delincuencia
La declaración ministerial de INTERPOL busca forjar estrategias para luchar contra los nuevos aspectos de la violencia actual
INTERPOL y el comité organizador de Qatar 2022 lanzan una iniciativa para la seguridad de los grandes acontecimientos deportivos
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Dr Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union
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Assemblyman John Ceretto and State Sen. George Maziarz are working with the City of Niagara Falls, the Department of Environmental Conservation, the Board of Health, and local public officials to protect the health and safety of Niagara Falls residents in light of reports of rat infestations in certain parts of the city. While the causes of these conditions are unclear, Ceretto and Maziarz are working to uncover the reasons for this problem so that a solution can be found.
"I have talked to the people living in these rat-infested places, and they simply want this problem to be solved," Ceretto said. "While the causes are not clear at the moment, we must begin the process of finding out why this is an issue so that we can find a long-term and permanent solution.
"People will not come to Niagara Falls if we have a rodent problem, which affects our economy. We have to find out why this is happening and fix it. I am working (with) the city, the DEC and the Board of Health to find a solution and deliver the clean living environment that the people of Niagara Falls deserve."
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- If your logo is wiiiiiide, consider also making a square version that will be used for the wiki (hey look at that square logo space over there...), for twitter, facebook, etc. Digitalman2112 21:20, 22 February 2012 (CST)
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Here's my 2 cents: Da3v's crappy drawing
The thinking behind it: Sadly, I lack Cope's skilz/genius with the tools that I help make, and since JBC already has his own logo that I kinda like, it would be weird to ask for his help on this thing. That said, imagine if you will: Outer perimeter 1/3 circular saw blade teeth, 1/3 gear teeth, 1/3 volume knob pointer with tic marks and an "11". The interior is a transistor symbol with the base replaced by a variation on the "caution laser" symbol and the collector replaced by a rake lockpick. The number of teeth would need to decrease significantly for this to lasercut/screenprint well, maybe 3-4 of each?
Another take on Da3v's logo - it still needs teeth and volume, but it's a start: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6712699/da3v1.png
(-or, maybe it doesn't need teeth. I like it! -D )
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This one is still a concept in progress, thrown together quickly before our last member meeting. The three main elements are a gear, a lightbulb, and a flask to represent "making," "ideas," and "lab." I'm not married to the font or anything, but was looking for a rounded sans-serif that's open-sourced. I'm open to alternatives.
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Black on white: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6712699/familogo1w.png
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2013 Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT Will Be Presented to Stanley Micklavzina
A faculty instructor at the University of Oregon Physics Department, Micklavzina has served a very active role in AAPT for many years, organizing sessions, presenting workshops and demonstrations that support his love for physics education. A member since 1984, he is one of the founders and a Past President of PIRA and has authored several articles for The Physics Teacher. He has served on the Committee on Science Education for the Public, chairing the committee from 2008-09, and has also served on the Bauder Fund Committee and is again currently serving on both committees. Notably, he produced and directed the Demonstration Shows at the 2008 AAPT Summer Meeting in Edmonton, Alberta and the 2010 AAPT Summer Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Micklavzina is publicly known as the engineer of "Science Circus," an annual event that promotes science to the public. Designed to entertain and educate community members of all ages, physics concepts are presented and entwined with performance styles that opens the audience's minds up for a new level of understanding.
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"This is welcome news for the fruit and vegetable industry in states such as California because new cargo securement regulations are threatening to impose time-consuming additional requirements on the transportation system for such crops," said Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference Executive Director Russell Laid.
These regulations are being implemented by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) as part of the effort to harmonize cargo securement among North American countries and are based on the North American Cargo Securement Standard Model Regulations. The new regulations have been in place since 2004 for interstate motor carriers but concern arose in California recently when they were applied to intrastate commerce. Most such perishable crops only move a short distance from harvest to processing. Issues have also arisen with other agricultural commodities such as chili peppers in New Mexico, hay in Nevada, and apples in Washington state.
In response to the concerns of industry, the California Highway Patrol set up a process for obtaining an intrastate exemption to the general cargo requirements on a short-term basis. This process will require a substantial amount of data reporting from motor carriers and it will be necessary to build a case for a long-term exemption and possible reform of the federal rules. The next step in the process is to conduct engineering tests in a laboratory setting to prove that the strength of the current securement methods used in hauling this cargo is adequate according to DOT standards.
"We are very grateful for the funding provided by DOT to conduct this study since we understand that it is an essential part of the process of ensuring that our methods of hauling are secure to protect our cargo as well as our fellow road users," said Joe Antonini, of Antonini Fruit Express in Stockton, Calif., who has been leading efforts from the industry perspective.


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Aldermen want city to keep parking rights at Millyard, Pearl StreetBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 20. 2013 11:51PM
MANCHESTER — An aldermen's committee has approved requests for proposals (RFP) for two downtown parking lots, while insisting that any city-controlled spaces in the projects be left to negotiations.
The RFPs concern the Pearl Street parking lot, off Elm Street north of Bridge Street, and the Bedford lot in the Millyard. The city currently owns and operates both as pay lots.
A Massachusetts developer has proposed building a student housing tower at the site of the Pearl lot, along with a 700-space parking garage. Earlier this month, the aldermen narrowly voted to reject selling the lot to the developer in favor of issuing an RFP. The developer originally offered $900,000 for the lot.
Parking was a key component of the RFPs reviewed by aldermen on Tuesday. As drafted by the city solicitor and finance director, the document for the Pearl lot stated that the city "reserves the right to purchase an easement for 250 to 350 parking spaces for $7,500 per space for public parking at its sole discretion."
Should it seek to purchase 330 spaces, the current capacity of the Pearl lot, the city would have to pay $2.6 million. This figure was daunting for several aldermen.
"I question how the city is going to afford it at this point," Ward 1 Alderman Joyce Craig said. "And I know it could be higher. The language (of the RFP) should focus on office or residential first, and parking secondarily."
The city used the $7,500 a space figure to calculate the price of the easement for the 68 parking spaces at 1155 Elm St. it sold earlier this month to the building's owner, who sought the spaces to accommodate its new tenant, insurance company Anthem.
Finance Director Bill Sanders said the cost per space for an easement in a new garage could very well be higher than $7,500. At the same time, he said the city could command higher prices for covered parking, bringing in more revenue for the city. The Pearl lot currently generates about $150,000 annually.
The aldermen on Tuesday voted to strike from the RFP the language concerning the amount the city was willing to pay for parking spaces.
They also voted to have the document indicate the possibility for a larger building footprint for the Pearl lot by discontinuing adjacent streets, and to hire a consultant to assist with the evaluation of the proposals.
The final RFPs are expected to be presented to the full board for a vote at its meeting Sept. 3.
Parking demand is even greater for the Bedford lot, which is relied on by employers and residents in the Millyard. The RFP scaled down the number of spaces once discussed for a garage at the site, which is considerably smaller than the Pearl lot, to 300-400 spaces.
"It's difficult to see 700 spaces," Sanders said. "We wanted to give the developer an opportunity to bring down parking and put more office or residential above it."


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We saw a terrific evening of fights last night at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The main event featured local middleweights Caleb Truax and Matt Vanda; I previewed their bout here. We had a table in the interior section of the arena near the ring. You needed credentials to get there, like at a political convention:
Our guests included a professional boxer and a long-time fight fan who formerly covered Minnesota boxing for UPI, so it was fun to get their informed views as the fights progressed. There were seven bouts altogether, of which we saw six.
The crowd of around 5,000 was interesting, to say the least. In another sign of the times, everyone was wanded on the way in. Vanda reputedly belongs to a motorcycle gang in East St. Paul; I don't know about that, but quite a few of his supporters do look the part. At one point during the main event, a skirmish apparently broke out between Vanda and Truax partisans. We were struck by the number of women in the crowd–I assumed it would be 70/30 men, but it was more like 50/50.
Between bouts we were visited by some notables of the local boxing world. The gray-haired guy in this photo once went the distance with Ray Leonard; his nephew, also in the photo, is a pro boxer and a friend of ours:
It was hard to get good pictures because of the low light, but I kept trying. This was one of the preliminary bouts; one of our guests fought the guy on the right to a draw:
Another undercard bout: the "African Assassin," on the left, won this one:
The boxing was good, if sometimes crude, all night. But the main event was a thrill. One of our guests, a former amateur boxer who has followed boxing closely for quite a few decades, called it one of the best fights he has ever seen. We were rooting for Caleb Truax because he is a friend of my son; most of the crowd was pro-Truax, although Vanda had plenty of supporters too. Truax was pretty clearly the better boxer, but Vanda is a beast. He is heavily tattooed and, despite being near the end of his career, in superb condition. He looks ferocious: nicknamed the Predator, he prowls his corner before the fight and between rounds, staring down his opponent. He appears indifferent to being hit. In the photo below, Truax is in the red trunks with his back to the camera:
Truax won the early rounds, but Vanda, undeterred, came back strongly. During the 8th he absorbed a furious barrage from Truax and paused long enough to point skyward with his right glove in a show of defiance before launching a counter-attack that had his fans cheering. By the ninth, the whole convention center was roaring. The unnaturally tough Vanda, showing little effect from the pounding he had taken for eight rounds, staggered Truax. By the end of the round, Truax was hanging on. The tenth and final round was non-stop action–the whole fight was, really–as the crowd roared for three minutes. At the end, the boxers were slugging it out toe to toe. The fight ended to enthusiastic applause for both fighters.
Truax won a unanimous decision, but we, and I suspect most of the crowd, walked away shaking our heads at Vanda's almost unbelievable toughness. If, as Vanda said, this was his last fight, the long-time local favorite went out in style. As for Truax, his record now stands 21-1-1, with his only loss to former world champion Jermain Taylor, and he likely has a future as a ranked middleweight.
So, what did we think of our first live boxing event? It was sensational. The two women at our table who weren't sure what they would make of live boxing found themselves cheering raucously. For just about as long as I can remember, observers have been proclaiming the demise of boxing, but there is no sporting event that compares, in my opinion, with the excitement of a good boxing match, witnessed live. It is no wonder that the sport continues to have its fans.


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I'm a big fan of the comic but I have never really liked One Piece animation. Don't know why perhaps I find it somewhat annoying (I blame Toei). But I still try to recommend it to the people who likes such a titles as Naruto and Bleach. KF has done wonderful job with in it. It's good that there is more and more OP fans, there aren't that many as there should be. Most of the people I know are turned off by the first episode, why isn't it about luffy's past (damn you Toei ).
I love Kuro arc, isn't it somewhere near episodes 10 - 15. Kuro is such a badass villain and there is 1,2 Jango in it. Plus Usopp & Going Merry Gou is introducted.
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its kinda.... not really....... good......
but K-F was and still is great.
the best thing i like about K-F is the Special Fonts for skills.
even tho i saw upto latest episode in like 4 days.
|2004-12-04, 11:14
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Join Date: Jun 2004
I do think the animation needs to improve quite a bit... if it were like the animation in the new opinion that would be great.
But one reason why One Piece manga is soooo much better than the anime(both are still good) is the OP filler.... like Apis...
|2004-12-04, 13:05
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Join Date: Nov 2004
As for why I like One Piece...
I've always liked quest/adventure stories. In the beginning, I thought perhaps the formulated way most of the arcs play out would get stale, but so far, they haven't. Instead, the mystery, the intrigue, the overall scale of the story grows and becomes even more interesting.
It's hilarious at times. I don't think I've laughed so hard watching One Piece than any other anime I've seen. But every now and then I get misty eyed, too.
The real strength of the story is the characters, though. I love all of them (that I've met so far). The fun is seeing how all the characters will eventually reach their ultimate dream. And then there's kick-ass battles.
|2004-12-04, 19:08
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I´m from Sweden ^_^
The thing is, Usopp doesn´t really have a big dream..
I mean, they all have big scale dreams, and reasons to join the gang. But not Usopp.
Luffy: Wants to become the Pirate king, a very great achivment.
Zoro: Wants to become the worlds best swordsman, which is indeed hard. Joined after Luffy saved his life.
Nami: Wants to draw a map over the whole world, and i bet the only piece she´s missing is Grand line. Joined (for real) when Luffy saved her village from Arlong.
Sanji: Wants to find All Blue. Joined to follow his dream, and because Zef basically wanted him to.
Usopp: Wants to become...a brave warrior? Joined because...he wants to be a pirate?
But i guess there will be changes in the Usopp department now, the manga has a perfect situation for it ^_^
|2004-12-04, 20:21
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Hey that's actually a pretty big achievement for Usopp, considering that he's a chicken at heart.
I don't remember exactly but I liked OP pretty much right from the start, Luffy's just so whacky. Yes he can be annoying at times, but his responses are often so funny. That's one of the things I like best about OP, the whacky characters and humor. I didn't think the Apis arc was that bad, but it seems I better not dwell on that too much or a lynchmob may be coming my way. At least Usopp got to show off with a genious cannonball shot.
|2004-12-04, 23:39
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I´m from Sweden ^_^
I like everything One piece ^_^
But, the filler arc just seemed..stupid..A bit like the latest Naruto one.
I mean, after the Mr. 1 battle, Zoro said "Now i´m a man that can cut steel" or something, but in the filler, he cut steel like it was nothing.
Also, that wind thingie fruit seemed stupid..Most movie/filler fruits seem to be kinda stupid =/
The marines were extremly weak -__- I know they are supposed to, but still...
All in all, it was better then certain fillers, but far from the usual One Piece class ^_^
|2004-12-05, 03:14
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Join Date: Nov 2004
I haven't read the latest manga chapters, so I really don't know what's going on there yet. I don't like looking ahead to spoilers.
|2004-12-05, 07:42
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Seems to me that once people know that an arc is filler (since they know about the manga) they tend to try extra hard to find reasons why it's no good. If other arcs were regarded with similar scrutiny it's possible you could find just as much reasons against it. The only valid reason against it I have seen mght be the steel-cutting thing (I'd have to check, can't remember it). Generic marines are always weak, and there are plenty of weird/stupid fruit powers. I didn't know the Apis arc was filler when I watched it and didn't think it was too bad, although in retrospect it was indeed less interesting than other arcs.
|2004-12-05, 11:04
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I´m from Sweden ^_^
I didn´t read the manga until i came to the current stop in K-F...
So, i didn´t know it was filler either.
But still, Luffy..Slingshot or something took out around 250 or so marines, Zoro cutting steel, the Talk-to-animals fruit and the wind-throwing fruit were, IMO, pretty stupid.
But the thing i noticed the most, it wasn´t as funny as the usual =(
|2004-12-05, 12:27
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The first few episodes are really boring, but afterwards it starts to get better, once they've gone through all the main chracter's past (although interesting it does get bit boring) then it really picks up and becomes addictive to watch. But they do have the odd rubbish episode.
It is definitely fun to watch
|2004-12-05, 12:32
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Anime/Manga Tensai
One Piece to me is cool because of the characters themselves, I mean the character development in that show is just absolutely breath-taking. I mean even so-called wimpy characters like Usopp or Chopper or even Nami are protrayed so beautifully, you can't help but love them!!!
Also the fights, I mean all the fights to me were just stunning and amazing. Especially when Luffy fights, because when you see Luffy fight you know it's going to be one hell of a show.
Oh, and you should always look out for Usopp fights as well because in nearly every single one of his fights, Usopp makes a grand speech that will have you at tears.
|2004-12-05, 17:12
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Join Date: Nov 2004
I didn't know the Apis arc was a filler when I first watched it either. It still bored me. Maybe the characters seemed a little off. And it was more like the Luffy and Apis show. I did get a little teary-eyed at one point, though.
|2004-12-06, 17:15
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Newsboys Concerts
The Newsboys were in Spokane last night for the God's Not Dead tour! Were you there? Here are some photos from the event:
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If you missed last night's concert, come on out to Kennewick for the Newsboys, Building 429, and Luminate on tour!
Thursday, October 4 at 7 P.M. Doors open at 6 P.M. at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.
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