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VATICAN CITY- If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI's private papers is Exhibit A.
The pope's own butler stole sensitive internal letters to the pontiff and passed them off to a journalist, who then published them in a blockbuster book. The butler did it, he admitted himself, to expose the "evil and corruption" in the Vatican's frescoed halls that he believed was hidden from Benedict by those who were supposed to serve him.
And if that original sin weren't enough, the content of the leaks confirmed that the next pope has a very messy house to clean up.
The letters and memos exposed petty wrangling, corruption and cronyism at the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
The dirt ranged from the awarding of Vatican contracts to a plot, purportedly orchestrated by senior Vatican officials, to out a prominent Catholic newspaper editor as gay.
Ordinary Catholics might not think that dysfunction in the Apostolic Palace has any effect on their lives, but it does:
The Curia makes decisions on everything from bishop appointments to church closings to marriage annulments and the disciplining of pedophile priests.
Papal politics plays into the prayers the faithful say at Mass since missal translations are decided by committee in Rome.
Donations the faithful make each year for the pope are held by a Vatican bank whose lack of financial transparency has fueled bitter internal debate.
And so after 35 years under two "scholar" popes who paid scant attention to the internal governance of the Catholic Church, a chorus is growing that the next pontiff must have a solid track record managing a complicated bureaucracy. Cardinals who will vote in next month's conclave are openly talking about the need for reform, particularly given the dysfunction exposed by the scandal.
"It has to be attended to," said Chicago Cardinal Francis George. With typical understatement, he called the leaks scandal "a novel event for us."
Sandro Magister, the Vatican analyst who most closely follows the comings, goings and internecine feuds of Vatican officials, said the "disaster" of governance began unfolding in the 1980s, in the early years of Pope John Paul II's pontificate.
"John Paul II was completely disinterested in the Curia; his vision was completely directed to the outside," Magister said in an interview. "He allowed a proliferation of feuds, small centers of power that fought among themselves with much ambition, careerism and betrayals."
"This accumulated and ruined it for the next pope," he said.
Benedict was well aware of the problems, having spent nearly a quarter-century in the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. But he never entered into the Vatican's political fray as a cardinal — and as pope left it to his No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, to do the job.
Bertone, though, became a lightning rod for division within the Curia. A canonist, he had no diplomatic experience coming into the job, and the main battle lines drawn in the Curia today come down to his loyalists and those still loyal to his predecessor Cardinal Angelo Sodano. Taken as a whole, the leaked documents seemed aimed at undermining Bertone.
To be fair, the Vatican under Benedict made great strides on some internal governance fronts: The pope insisted on greater financial transparency, and the Vatican passed a key European anti-money laundering test last summer.
He also insisted on a Vatican trial, open to journalists, for the butler who betrayed him. And as cardinal, after priestly sex abuse cases bounced for years among Vatican offices, the former Joseph Ratzinger took them over himself in 2001.
And very early on in his papacy, Benedict made it clear there was no place in the priesthood for men who sought out power. In a May 2006 homily to newly ordained priests, Benedict warned them against "careerism, the attempt to 'get ahead,' to gain a position through the church, to make use of and not to serve."
Some analysts speculate that the revelations from the leaks at the very least accelerated Benedict's decision to resign.
Benedict's biographer, Peter Seewald, asked Benedict in August how badly the scandal had affected him. He replied that he was not falling into "desperation or world-weariness," yet admitted the leaks scandal "is simply incomprehensible to me," according to a recent article Seewald penned for the German magazine Focus.
The Holy See's bureaucracy is organized as any government, though it most closely resembles a medieval court — given that the pope is an absolute monarch, with full executive, legal and judicial powers.
There's a legal office, an economic affairs office and an office dedicated to the world's 400,000 priests. Three tribunals tend to ecclesiastical cases and a host of departments take up spiritual matters: making saints, keeping watch on doctrine and the newest office created by Benedict, spreading the faith.
In the end, though, the real power lies with two departments: the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the secretariat of state, which can block virtually any initiative of another office.
"Who is influential isn't so much dependent on what your office is or your title but whether you have access to the king, or in this case the pope," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, author of "Inside the Vatican," a bible of sorts for understanding the Vatican Curia.
The same could be said for any executive branch. But in the case of the Vatican, there's a difference.
"Obama can fire anybody he wants from his Cabinet," Reese said. "When you make someone a bishop, you make him a bishop for life. When you make him a cardinal you make him a prince of the church. What do you do with a cardinal (who doesn't work out)? He can't go to K Street and get a job as a lobbyist."
Bishop Charles Scicluna, who worked with the pope when he was at the doctrine office, said the problem with the Curia is that the power is so great — and so close by.
"I think sacred power, with all its trappings, is probably one of the most seductive things in the world if you don't approach it with the right spirit," he said in an interview.
Though it's open to interpretation, Benedict's final homily as pope could be read as a clear message to the cardinals who will choose his successor.
Two days after announcing he would resign, a weary Benedict told his flock gathered in St. Peter's Basilica for Ash Wednesday Mass to live their lives as Christians in order to show the true face of the church — a church, he said, which is often "defiled."
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said it was wrong to interpret the pope's words as being directed at the Vatican Curia, saying the pope's message was intended as a call for unity among all Christians, a priority of his as pontiff.
"Differences and diversity of opinion are part of the normal dynamic of any institution or community," Lombardi said. He said the way the Vatican's governance problems are often described "do not correspond to reality."
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Gold traders are the most bullish in three weeks as investors' bullion holdings rose to a record on mounting speculation that central banks will add stimulus to bolster economic growth.
Fourteen of 26 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to rise next week, nine were bearish and three were neutral. Investors boosted holdings in exchange-traded products to an all-time high of 2,585.1 metric tons yesterday, valued at $142.4 billion, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Hedge funds' bets on a rally are near the biggest in more than a year, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data.
Central banks from Europe to China to the U.S. have pledged to do more to boost economies. The yen reached a four-month low versus the dollar this week on speculation the Bank of Japan will further expand stimulus and the Federal Reserve said it plans to continue buying bonds. Gold rose 70 percent as the Fed bought $2.3 trillion of debt in two rounds of quantitative easing from December 2008 through June 2011.
"The whole economic situation is going to get worse rather than better," said Thorsten Polleit, chief economist at Degussa Goldhandel GmbH, a precious metal trading and investment company in Frankfurt. "Paper currencies have already lost their function as a store of value and it's getting worse. People are increasingly putting their savings into precious metals."
Gold Prices
Gold rose 9.5 percent to $1,712.95 an ounce in London this year, advancing for a 12th consecutive year, the longest winning streak in at least nine decades. October's average of $1,749 is set to be the third-highest month ever. The Standard & Poor's GSCI gauge of 24 commodities lost 1.2 percent since the start of January and the MSCI All-Country World Index of equities climbed 9.5 percent. Treasuries returned 1.4 percent, a Bank of America Corp. index shows.
The BOJ, which holds a policy meeting Oct. 30, will consider raising its asset-purchase program by 10 trillion yen ($125 billion) to 90 trillion yen, the Nikkei newspaper reported yesterday. The Fed said Oct. 24 it will maintain $40 billion in monthly purchases of mortgage debt and probably hold interest rates near zero until mid-2015. The European Central Bank has said it is ready to buy bonds of indebted nations and China approved a $158 billion subways-to-roads construction plan.
Some investors buy bullion as a hedge against inflation and a weaker dollar, and the metal generally earns returns only through price gains, increasing its allure as interest rates decline. Inflation expectations measured by the break-even rate for five-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities jumped 33 percent this year and reached a 16-month high in September.
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WASHINGTON, U.S. - A prominent cyber security firm has alleged that hackers linked to the Russian government have been launching brazen attacks on the U.S. Senate.
Unmasking a massive and potentially dangerous campaign led by the Russian hackers group called Fancy Bear, the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro said that the campaign including brazen attacks has lasted several months.
According to the report released by the firm, Russian government-aligned hackers who had penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate.
Trend Micro said in its explosive report released on Friday that the Fancy Bear group, whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is still busy trying to gather the emails of America's political elite.
Feike Hacquebord, a security researcher at Trend Micro Inc. said in the report, "They're still very active — in making preparations at least — to influence public opinion again. They are looking for information they might leak later."
So far, the government wing responsible for the upper house's security, the Senate Sergeant at Arms office has not made any official comments on the report.
Hacquebord explained that the report was based on the discovery of a clutch of suspicious-looking websites dressed up to look like the U.S. Senate's internal email system.
He said that he cross-referenced digital fingerprints associated with those sites to ones used almost exclusively by Fancy Bear, which the Tokyo-based firm calls "Pawn Storm."
According to the report called 'Update on Pawn Storm: New Targets and Politically Motivated Campaigns, "In the second half of 2017 Pawn Storm, an extremely active espionage actor group, didn't shy away from continuing their brazen attacks."
It noted that the hackers, starting in June 2017, set up phishing sites mimicking the Active Directory Federation Services of the U.S. Senate.
It said, "The real ADFS server of the U.S. Senate is not reachable on the open internet, however phishing of users' credentials on an ADFS server that is behind a firewall still makes sense. In case an actor already has a foothold in an organization after compromising one user account, credential phishing could help him get closer to high profile users of interest."
Previously, Trend Micro drew international attention when it used an identical technique to uncover a set of decoy websites apparently set up to harvest emails from the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign in April 2017.
Discovery made by the company came two months later by a still-unexplained publication of private emails from several Macron staffers in the final days of the race.
According to Hacquebord, that discovery was significant as the rogue Senate sites — which were set up in June and September of 2017 — matched their French counterparts.
He said, "That is exactly the way they attacked the Macron campaign in France."
For years now, the cybersecurity firm, Trend Micro has followed Fancy Bear and its global activities - so while attribution is extremely tricky in the world of cybersecurity, considering hackers routinely use misdirection and red herrings to fool their adversaries, the company's latest revelation leaves little doubt about its authenticity.
Rik Ferguson, one of the Hacquebord's colleagues at Trend Micro even confirmed, "We are 100 percent sure that it can be attributed to the Pawn Storm group.
While Trend Micro, like many cybersecurity firms, refuses to speculate publicly on who is behind such groups, referring to Pawn Storm only as having "Russia-related interests," the U.S. intelligence community alleges that Russia's military intelligence service pulls the hackers' strings and a months-long Associated Press investigation into the group.
It draws on a vast database of targets supplied by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks and has determined that the group is closely attuned to the Kremlin's objectives.
This, however, isn't the first time that Fancy Bear has targeted the Senate.
An analysis conducted by the Associated Press, of Secureworks' list reportedly revealed that several staffers there were targeted between 2015 and 2016, including Robert Zarate, who is currently the foreign policy adviser to Florida Senator Marco Rubio; Josh Holmes, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who now runs a Washington consultancy; and Jason Thielman, the chief of staff to Montana Senator Steve Daines.


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Where's the progress?
In reading Patrick Lowry's editorial in the April 30 edition of The Hays Daily News, I was struck that once again I was hearing that any person with religious beliefs was just going to have to accept what society was offering as the new norm. Removing social stigma from certain behaviors and practices has been happening for some time.
The changing and evolving of society and what is acceptable has left many questions.
Since accepting living together without marriage, has there been less domestic violence -- or more? Since accepting children being raised outside of marriage, are there fewer kids in unstable and unsafe environments -- or are there more? Since accepting birth control and abortion as a way to eliminate unwanted babies, is there less abuse and neglect of children -- or is there more?
These are just a few examples of unanswered questions. After almost two generations of evolving on social issues, shouldn't our "progressive" society be showing some progress?
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The South African Government has published a guide to the management of estuaries with clear, often step-wise, indications of how the management plan should be developed. As the Kariega and Bushmans Estuaries are so important to all members of the full spectrum of our communities, Sustainable Seas Trust (SST) is holding an information and discussion session on 28th May, in the Kenton Town Hall at 17:00. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate.
- 17:00 Tony Ribbink (SST). Welcome
- 17:05 Fanie Fouche (TBC). The challenge of managing estuaries in the Ndlambe Municipality with a focus on Kariega and Bushmans.
- 17.25. Prof Janine Adams An Introduction to Estuary Management Plans.
- 17:55 Prof Nadine Strydom Estuaries in crisis
- 18:00 Discussion
- 18:30 Snacks and drinks
Fanie Fouche (Deputy Director: Community Protection Services Ndlambe Municipality) is well known locally for his positive contributions to caring for the Ndlambe Ecosystems, his writing for the local media to promote conservation and he also writes children's books. He was instrumental, perhaps the strongest driving force, in ensuring that Ndlambe won second prize for the cleanest municipality in the Eastern Cape. Fanie is highly knowledgeable about our local estuaries and needs to lead the processes in developing management plans. Fanie is doing his best to attend, but fears he may not be able to.
Janine Adams is a professor at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Her specialist research field is on coastal ecosystems; their functioning, conservation and management. Current research focus areas are the freshwater requirements of estuaries, water quality management of coastal habitats and responses to climate change. Her past research has successfully linked science, policy and management through extensive collaboration and networking with universities, institutes, communities and government departments.
Nadine Strydom is an Associate Professor in Marine Biology at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. She specializes in coastal fishes and their larval stages. Her particular research focuses on coastal fish nursery areas for which the estuaries play a significant role. She has worked on many estuaries of South Africa, including a programme with SST at Keiskamma (Hamburg).


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November 11, 2011 ... already felt footsteps of the winter, it was a bit cold even in Osaka, where is always one of the hottest area all around Japan. Yup of course, it was no problem. DJAMRA could make a live house named Nakatsu Vi-Code hotter and more of passion. Theyd announced they played upon the one-man (one-project?) stage, with their side projects or musical mates. Wondered how their progressive (partially traditional) stage should go on ...
A large snowman at Osaka Station ... an extra pic.
Upon 19:00 DJAMRA landed upon the stage with such a cool appearance.
DJAMRA had landed finally!
They (at first, as a quintet) played aggressively the intro of "Rolling Tiger" ... suddenly the audience had been knocked down!
Shinji KITAMURA (alto saxophone)
Akira ISHIKAWA (guitar)
Takehiko FUKUDA (keyboards)
Akihiro ENOMOTO (drums, percussion) with "coloured" glasses :P
... And Masaharu NAKAKITA (bass), the leader of Ahonoko ... err ... DJAMRA.
As usual, aggressive Shinji and cool Akira, and coloured glasses Akihiro behind them.
Fantastic Takehiro and funky Masaharu (he calls himself "Wai" ... Osakan "me").
The quintet launched 5 pieces on the former stage as follows:
1. Rolling Tiger
2. Dictator
3. Neo Skin
4. The Cave
5. Civilization
Masaharu talked kinkily and funnily upon some intermissions.
Ouch, a bit bungled ... sorry all (he might say?).
And Sayaka, the sixth Djamrer, followed them, with her another standard jazz project named SJB.
Sayaka KAWADA (trumpet)
SJB, a traditional jazz music combo
A female avantgarde dancer YANGJAH had done an eccentric but graceful dance, to an improvised play by Shinji and Masaharu ... addictive, sensual modern visual / auditory art.
E. Ce. O., a unit by Mika USHIO (voices) and Akira (guitar) shot wonderful acoustic songs.
E. Ce. O. ... Mikas voices were beautiful, powerful, and amazing.
And after that, the "Sextet" DJAMRA stood upon stage again, firstly with Mika. They, surprisingly, played an acoustic jazz song "Mizu No Uta (Water Song)" and a traditional jazz one "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" (surprising, quite surprising!).
Sayaka and Mika, twin mademoiselle power.
The sextet played six or more titles on the latter stage:
6. Mizu No Uta (w/ Mika Ushio)
7. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (w/ Mika Ushio)
8. Kamihitoe
9. Time Flies Like An Arrow
10. Zetsuen Doon
11. Club / Crub
12. Komurakaeri
13. Pierrots Foot Goes Into Convulsions (Encore)
DJAMRA the current sextet ... a progressive jazz rock treasure box from Osaka.
Please check their artist page in Progarchives too.
Thank you for reading my report about DJAMRA in Nakatsu Vi-Code. ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾̃̾)۶
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Coinciding with the Ryder Cup that gets under way Friday in Chicago, it's time for the eighth annual McPherson Cup, which this year will be contested at Turkey Creek Golf Course.
The competition has been hotly contested in recent years, despite the fact Turkey Creek holds a 5-2 lead in the series. Except for one year, there has been plenty of suspense.
Last year's matches came down to the final group, as Turkey Creek's Alan Porter and Gary Hess both won singles matches to secure a 17 1/2-14 1/2 Creek victory.
Matches will be played both Saturday and Sunday, with the opening-day action starting at 9 a.m., in which various formats are played, while Sunday's play, which starts at noon, features singles play only. There are both handicap and scratch matches.


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The first time that Agha Shahid Ali, the great Kashmiri poet, spoke to me about his approaching death was in April of last year. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to remind him that we had been invited to a friend's house for lunch and that I was going to come by his apartment to pick him up. Although he had been under treatment for brain cancer for some fourteen months, Shahid was still on his feet and perfectly lucid, except for occasional lapses of memory. I heard him thumbing through his engagement book and then suddenly he said: "Oh dear. I can't see a thing." There was a brief pause and then he added: "I hope this doesn't mean that I'm dying…"
Although Shahid and I had talked a great deal over the past many weeks, I had never before heard him touch on the subject of death. His voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. I mumbled something innocuous: "No, Shahid–of course not. You'll be fine." He cut me short. In a tone of voice that was at once quizzical and direct, he said: "When it happens I hope you'll write something about me."
I was shocked into silence, and a long moment passed before I could bring myself to say the things that people say on such occasions: "Shahid, you'll be fine; you have to be strong…" From the window of my study I could see a corner of the building in which he lived, some eight blocks away, where he'd moved to be near his sister, Sameetah, after learning of his tumor. Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh, and it was then that I realized that he was dead serious.
"You must write about me," he said.
By the end of the conversation I knew exactly what I had to do. I picked up my pen, noted the date and wrote down everything I remembered of that conversation. This I continued to do for the next few months: It is the record that has made it possible for me to fulfill the pledge I made that day.
I knew Shahid's work long before I met him. His 1997 collection, The Country Without a Post Office, made a powerful impression on me. His voice was like none I had heard before, at once lyrical and fiercely disciplined, engaged and yet deeply inward. Not for him the mock-casual almost-prose of so much contemporary poetry: His was a voice that was not ashamed to speak in a bardic register. I could think of no one else who would even conceive of publishing a line like: "Mad heart, be brave."
In 1998 I quoted a line from The Country Without a Post Office in an article that touched briefly on Kashmir. At the time all I knew about Shahid was that he was from Srinagar and had studied in Delhi. We had friends in common, however, and one of them put me in touch with Shahid. But we were little more than acquaintances when he moved to Brooklyn. Once we were in the same neighborhood, we began to meet for occasional meals and quickly discovered that we had a great deal in common. By this time, of course, Shahid's condition was already serious, yet his illness did not impede the progress of our friendship. And because of Shahid's condition even the most trivial exchanges had a special charge and urgency: The inescapable poignance of talking about food and half-forgotten figures from the past with a man who knew himself to be dying was multiplied in this instance by the knowledge that this man was also a poet who had achieved greatness–perhaps the only such that I shall ever know as a friend. He had a sorcerer's ability to transmute the mundane into the magical.


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He lent his name to an entire period of history and is considered one of the greatest statesman of the ancient world. But who was Pericles — general, orator, citizen? Vincent Azoulay's PERICLES OF ATHENS offers a balanced look at the complex life and afterlife of the legendary "first citizen of Athens" who presided over the birth of democracy.
PERICLES OF ATHENS is reviewed in the Telegraph and given five stars! Iona McLaren calls the book " a masterfully crisp study."
In this compelling critical biography, Vincent Azoulay provides an unforgettable portrait of Pericles and his turbulent era, shedding light on his powerful family, his patronage of the arts, and his unrivaled influence on Athenian politics and culture. He takes a fresh look at both the classical and modern reception of Pericles, recognizing his achievements as well as his failings while deftly avoiding the adulatory or hypercritical positions staked out by some scholars today.
From Thucydides and Plutarch to Voltaire and Hegel, ancient and modern authors have questioned the great statesman's relationship with democracy and Athenian society. Did Pericles hold supreme power over willing masses or was he just a gifted representative of popular aspirations? Was Periclean Athens a democracy in name only, as Thucydides suggests? This is the enigma that Azoulay investigates in this groundbreaking book.
'Azoulay's marvellous study should revive [Pericles],' says McLaren.
You don't have to travel to the Parthenon — a project that Pericles himself initiated — to hear his story. View the introduction of PERICLES OF ATHENS here.
While we have you on your way back to ancient times, may we suggest one must-have for your trip? The BARRINGTON ATLAS OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD is your window to the ancient world's geography. This map re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa.
Unrivaled for range, clarity, and detail, these custom-designed maps return the modern landscape to its ancient appearance, marking ancient names and features in accordance with modern scholarship and archaeological discoveries. Geographically, the maps span the territory of more than seventy-five modern countries. Chronologically, they extend from archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire.
And now, you can pack all of this in your pocket through the BARRINGTON ATLAS OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD app for iPad.
The app is reviewed by the New York Times Book Review, where Jude Biersdorfer calls it "impressive" and "engrossing." She continues:
Available in book form since 2000, this impressive tome has been converted into an engrossing iPad app. Spanning 16 centuries, it includes the text from the print edition and all 102 maps, now as high-resolution images that fill the screen….Getting lost here is educational.
Learn more about the BARRINGTON ATLAS app and download it for yourself for a round trip ticket to 1000 B.C.
Friends, Princetonians, countrymen, lend me your ears. What exactly is this thing that we can "the humanities"? Who among us knows what "philology" is? Bonus points if you do!
Many today do not recognize that word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as religion, history, culture, art, archaeology, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word?
In PHILOLOGY: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university.
Sunil Iyengar reviews PHILOLOGY in the Washington Post and writes:
Deft intellectual history…As Philology illustrates, more generous spirits — call them multidisciplinary research and learning — have always presided over the pursuit of the humanities. Even in earlier guises, the humanities never had it easy. Then as now, they had to contend with turbulent times and changing social and political pressures. But given all that philology has unearthed, we should honor its legacy, as Turner does in his definitive study.
Preview PHILOLOGY by reading Chapter One here.
Art work credit: "Pericles Pio-Clementino Inv269 n2" by Copy of Kresilas Jastrow (2006). Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.


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Use Virtualbox to Host Your Own Site, Mirror Your Tumblr or Wordpress
We've discussed some of the best blogging platforms and web hosts, but if you want to really control your data, why not roll your own server at home, and then use it as a dashboard to manage and re-post to sites like Tumblr and Wordpress? All you need is Virtualbox. Maymay shows us how it's done.


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In the interest of stirring up trouble to no good end, I present a fairly obvious and uninspiring idea for how the desktop should look in Windows 8. That is, yes, please, give us a full-screen Metro-style Start screen with its full-screen apps, and make that the default on tablets and other small devices. But why can't the Windows desktop really be "no compromises" for those of us with big screens and powerful desktop PCs? That is, why can't we run traditional Windows applications and Metro-style apps, but in this environment as floating windows, side by side?
Update: Far too many people have misunderstood this post. Allow me to clarify. I'm not suggesting that Microsoft should abandon it's Start Screen/Metro stuff. That's ludicrous. What I'm saying is that Windows 8 will have a Start screen and a desktop. And that the desktop will still be the primary UI for people on desktop computers with large displays. Given that, why not bring some Metro goodness to the desktop? Was this really not obvious?


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Riddle Brook Elementary School staff helps prepare boy for TV ad appearance
BEDFORD - Thanks to the help of those that care for him, a Bedford first-grader has been cast in a national TV ad.
Seven-year-old Carter Murai has Down's Syndrome, and his parents weren't sure he'd be considered for the part in a Care.com ad that began running last week.
A friend of the family had seen an ad that sought a child with Down's Syndrome and the Murais took a chance.
"I wasn't sure how well he was going to do with all of these lights and cameras," said dad Marc, of Carter's audition in a Boston studio. "But he did fine."
Carter was cast in the ad for babysitter and nanny search company Care.com. When it came time to practice his lines, though, Marc said Carter had some difficulty.
"He would speed through them really fast, you couldn't really understand what he was saying," he said.
Carter's speech teachers at Riddle Brook Elementary School came to the rescue, offering him a technique that would help.
The words of Carter's lines were written on long strips of paper, and those coaching Carter would point to the words he would have to say, thereby controlling the cadence and speed of the words.
"After doing that for a couple of days, he was able to do it," Marc said.
Christine Bowman, a speech and language pathologist at Riddle Brook Elementary School, said helping Carter practice for the commercial helped to reinforce the lessons he'd been learning at school.
"He's a fast talker. He works a lot on his sound production, as well as his speed," Bowman said.
Bowman said the special education team at Riddle Brook works with Carter throughout his day to reinforce his speech production, and preparing for the commercial gave him a concrete goal.
"It was a really nice opportunity for him to put his strategies into place for something that was meaningful to him," she said.
Once Carter mastered the lines, a childhood rite of passage complicated things further - Carter lost his two front teeth, just before filming was set to begin.
"We were worried he wouldn't be able to enunciate at all," said Marc, and again, Carter's speech therapists came to the rescue.
"They worked with him again, and he did great," he added.
In the commercial, Carter added some words in sign language, which he had been using since he was a baby.
"It was neat to see him speak the lines and be understood, but also to see him throw the sign language in," said Marc.
Bowman said the staff was happy to hear about Carter's role in the ad.
"We thought it was very exciting," she said. "He's such a great, engaging little boy."
Marc said Carter, who loves to dance and perform, has been enjoying seeing himself on TV, and that it wouldn't have happened without the help of the Riddle Brook staff.
"They're really dedicated in what they do," he said. "And this is just a great example of how successful these children can be with school programs."


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I have done this challenge twice already and have no new original photos of my asparagus. It is only in season here beginning May, perhaps April. However, my cat loves his asparagus coloured kibble sticks.
I have done this challenge twice already and have no new original photos of my asparagus. It is only in season here beginning May, perhaps April. However, my cat loves his asparagus coloured kibble sticks.
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JOEL wrote:bigstrads wrote:JOEL wrote:ahhh well guess i'll have to go to cyber space and search for sf3
That will be fun..............are you turning into a racist little c*nt as well then JOEL?
Actually, if you google "sfsfsfgiants" he has got profiles all over the place, the main one being a yahoo thing...........I feel like destroying it with spam.
I know its sad that I have searched for that but you know me, I dont forgive very often, and especially not if the person has no concept of what they did wrong, isnt sorry about it..........ohh, and if that person is a racist waste of skin and organs.
Bigs come on man , i dont think I'm racist...well I like red meat as opposed to white meat as far as my dinner goes
Dude, come on.................I was actually asking that, hence the "wink" smiley thing...............you may be a republican but your not racist.
xbay wrote:That picture looks like it's a porno. The storyline is probably... TMC comes to fix a broken pipe or something and notices the two hot girls. He then sneaks in their closet while they're undressing. He then pulls down his pants and does you know what. One of the girls wants to change so she opens the closet for some clothes and they catch TMC hiding. You know what happens from there...
I know what happens!!!...............TMC apologises and politefully declines the offer, as its just not his thing. ...............he was actually jacking off to the pictures of the hulking men the girls have on their wall.
Ps: I think its hillarious how this thread has gone on for 3 pages now............without ONE mention of what it was intended for.


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Avenging Spider-Man #1
- Story by
- Zeb Wells
- Art by
- Joe Madureira
- Colors by
- Ferran Daniel
- Letters by
- Joe Caramagna
- Cover by
- Joe Madureira
- Publisher
- Marvel Comics
Spider-Man's newest ongoing is, to all intents and purposes, a modern reworking of "Marvel Team-Up." Telling stand-alone Spider-Man stories in which the character is joined by some of his Marvel Universe buddies, the premise of the book is serviceable, if not particularly exciting. It could go either way. Ultimately, it comes down to who the creators are and whether they can keep you interested. But with creators like Zeb Wells and Joe Madureira on board, it's pretty clear which way most people will fall on it.
With no disrespect meant to Wells' story and script, there's no doubting that this is an art-led book. Joe Madureira's legacy to the comics industry may have been half a decade of anime-imitators and an unfinished creator-owned series, but seeing him in action again reminds you exactly what the fuss was about in the first place. He simply gets superheroes. Big, expressive action. Pages so full of energy you lose your breath just reading them. Jameson has never looked so enraged, the Red Hulk has never looked so huge, the Mole Man never so cowed.
Of course, it's Spider-Man whose name is on the title, and Madureira doesn't disappoint with his interpretation: an ultra-expressive rendering of the character, all body language and slapstick, with shades of early Mike Wieringo. If there's any criticism of the book, it's that the there simply isn't enough Spidey in it, but even that is compensated for by some amazing splashes and spreads, particularly a double-page spread of moloids attacking the New York marathon.
It's also important to note that the coloring, by Ferran Daniel, is an integral part of what makes this book look so good. We saw, with "Ultimates Vol. 3," what happens to Madureira's artwork when he's paired with the wrong collaborators: a book that looks muddy and sluggish. Here, the pages are bright and bold, allowing Madureira's strengths to shine. It's all the more true on the included digital copy. If I didn't know better, I'd almost say it was designed to be backlit from day one.
As for Wells' contribution to the book, we can at least say this: he knows when to stand back and let someone else have the spotlight. There's plenty of comedy in the script, but the story is thinner than a Macbook Air. Wells has wisely packed the book with big visual moments and allowed his artistic collaborators to do their stuff. His contributions are perfectly fine — there's a throwaway poster gag (which we can assume is Wells') that made me laugh out loud — and he makes the best of a relationship between the lead characters that hasn't really fleshed out thus far, but Wells distinguishes himself as a good choice of writer because he never feels at odds with the artwork on what is, after all, an artist-driven project.
Usually, I think defending a star rating in the body of a review is a little too meta, but in this case I feel it's worth discussing. This isn't a 5 star comic in the sense that it's the next "Sandman" and everyone should have a copy on their shelves. It isn't. It's a pop comic. A firework, not an atom bomb. But with art this good and writing this entertaining, you can't fail to enjoy it — and that's a 5 star experience however you look at it.


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The Village People at their induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008
Photo: Valerie Macon/WireImage.com
The Week In Music: The VPs Wonder Y
If you're wondering why a company name change has caused a well-known vocal group to react, perhaps the answer is "Y not?" The YMCA is changing its name, and of course the Village People have weighed in. After more than a century and a half, the YMCA is updating its name to the Y, which reflects the nickname used by club members, but removes three-quarters of the title of a longtime disco staple. "We are deeply dismayed by today's announcement from the YMCA that they feel a name change and a rebranding are in order after 166 years. Some things remain iconic and while we admire the organization for the work they do, we still can't help but wonder Y," said the V People in a written statement. Could be they're also worried the U.S. Navy will update its name.
Here's a left-of-center way for musicians to get some ink: by getting inked. Inked magazine has released its music issue and it features the tattoos of Avril Lavigne, Ozzy Osbourne, Florida punkers Against Me!, and Atlanta-based turntablist DJ Montay, among others. Apparently Miley Cyrus' new ear tattoo didn't rank. But for those considering, beware. Ozzy, who knows a thing or two about the pharmacological effects of numerous substances, has some sage advice in his Q&A in the issue. When asked if people get tats for the endorphin rush, he replied, "That's bulls***. It's called pain. I don't really like pain. Pain and me don't get on. I can take it because I'm macho, but when it gets to a part of my body where it really hurts, I'm like, f***in' hell!"
In fashion news, Courtney Love has started a haute couture blog all about…her. The appropriately named What Courtney Wore Today finds Ms. Love (and some of her surrogates) giving detailed, and surprisingly expletive-free, descriptions of her daily wardrobe. Turns out "CLC," as she's referred to often in the blog, wears Givenchy sandals to bed, Tom Ford sunglasses in her hotel rooms, and favors "unacceptable dangling ciggies," though the cigarette is about the only item for which she doesn't drop a brand name.
Bono is back, and with new and improved parts. U2 had to cancel a run of concert dates this summer due to the singer sustaining a condition known as sudden partial paralysis. Bono says he is fully recovered and the band announced that dates have been rescheduled for summer 2011. "I can sit. I can stand. I can move around a bit. Feeling strong, feeling confident," Bono said. "And I'm ready — rebuilt by German engineering, better design I'm told — and I'm going to be fighting-fit next summer in the U.S."
The King is also back…but for one night only. Fans nationwide can relive the legend of Elvis Presley with Elvis On Tour: 75th Anniversary Celebration, a special in-theater event on July 29 at select theaters featuring more than 25 songs chronicling his multi-city 1972 series of concerts and showcasing rocker Elvis, gospel Elvis, ballad Elvis, and even kung fu Elvis. The presentation will also feature rare and never-before-seen footage and an exclusive retrospective from Priscilla Presley. Tickets are on sale now, but caveat emptor: "talent subject to change."
MTV's favorite animated music video-critiquing duo, Beavis and Butt-Head, may also be making a comeback to the primetime airwaves. According to a Reviewniverse report, show creator Mike Judge is currently outlining 30 new episodes of the iconic animated comedy. If seen to fruition, the show will keep its signature washed-out look and air in its original format, except the duo will now take on a new generation of music videos. This means that the Bieb could be at risk for scrutiny from the Beav...hehe...hehe.
Susan Boyle is trying to find the next Susan Boyle. The singer enjoyed much success in 2009 in placing second on "Britain's Got Talent" and releasing her quadruple-platinum, chart-topping debut album, I Dreamed A Dream. Now she is ready to let you dream a dream with the launch of Susan's Search, a contest that will allow one lucky fan to record a duet with her on her next album. Do you have the goods to impress Susan? View a sample entry and upload your video to her YouTube channel.
The B-52s sang about the "Summer Of Love," but could they have recorded a tune about all the love that's in the air this summer? Country songstress Carrie Underwood tied the knot with her hockey player beau Mike Fisher over the weekend, and sources say her dog took part in the festivities, dressed to the nines in a pink Swarovski Crystal-encrusted tuxedo. Then there's guitarist Carlos Santana, who proposed to his girlfriend, Cindy Blackman, onstage during a concert last Friday in Chicago. "Being in love is a gift from the universe, and the spirit and vibrations that come with it are infinitely powerful," said Santana. Let's hope she doesn't turn out to be a "Black Magic Woman." Queen of the daisy dukes Jessica Simpson also made love news as she was spotted celebrating the Fourth of July with former New Orleans Saints tight end, Eric Johnson in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. "She was wearing shorts and big shades," says bartender Ben Brewer. "She did look absolutely stunning." Well, that's good news.
Katy Perry's "California Gurls," featuring Snoop Dogg, stays atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a sixth consecutive week, while Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie," featuring Rihanna, retains the top spot on the iTunes singles chart.
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Gamecock quarterback Connor Shaw has been honored by the Southeastern Conference for his performance in South Carolina's 38-35 win over Tennessee Saturday.
The 6'1" 207 pounder from Flowery Branch, GA had his most productive day as a Gamecock signal-caller, completing 22-of-32 passes for a career-high 356 yards and three touchdowns in the game.
He added 33 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries on the ground.
His scoring passes covered 33, 26 and 24 yards as the Gamecocks rolled up 510 yards of total offense, the sixth-highest total in the Steve Spurrier era at Carolina.
For the season, Shaw has completed 106-of-160 passes for 1,338 yards with 12 TDs and eight interceptions.
In the Tennessee game, he also reached 1,000 career rushing yards (1,001).
South Carolina (7-2, 5-2 SEC) has a bye-week before taking on the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday, November 10 at Williams-Brice Stadium.
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Things that sparkle and shine tend to get noticed. Take packaging for instance. When a consumer is torn between two items that serve the same purposes and cost the same amount, what might be the deciding factor in their purchase? It could come down to what the product looks like…and metallic inks and pigments help the ordinary stand out from the crowd.
Although metallic inks represent only a small segment within the printing industry, it is one segment that focuses on performance and really can be impacted by changes in fashion and personal preference.
"A lot of the demand relates to whether metallics are the popular colors at the time," said Dave Hunt, regional sales manager, U.S. southeast, U.S. Bronze Powders, Inc.
"The market is generally growing," said Jane Lawrenson, marketing manager at MD-Both. "Silver has been a tremendously popular color starting in the millennium year and continuing today. The trend for ink makers to 'buy in' their metallic ink requirements is increasing, allowing them to concentrate on their core business."
Improvements in the performance aspects of metallic inks have driven market growth. "The market for metallic inks is now growing at a faster rate than the ink industry average," said Oliver Crowhurst, director of business development, graphic arts, Eckart America. "This is attributable mainly to recent improvements in performance that have capitalized on the fact that metallics were underutilized due to poor performance."
Working Together
Developers of metallic inks and pigments most likely face more challenges than do manufacturers of conventional products. Pigment suppliers must be concerned with brightness, while high gloss and rub resistance are at the top of an ink manufacturer's priority list. It appears that, as in other market segments, the best way to eliminate hurdles encountered during production is cooperation between ink manufacturers and pigment suppliers.
"For metallic pigments to be successful, Eckart has realized that very careful attention must be paid to the formulation and manufacture of the inks," said Mr. Crowhurst. "This process must ensure integrity of the metallic particles during manufacture and for the commercial life of the ink. The media in which the metallic pigments are dispersed include water, solvent-based solutions of wide ranging viscosities, and monomer/oligimer systems; Eckart has developed technologies to provide stability in these systems while ensuring optimum printing properties. In summary, the improvement of metallic inks for the graphic arts industry is dependent on the cooperative development efforts of pigment and ink technologies."
"Manufacturing metallic pigments is very capital intensive, requiring expensive plant and equipment in order to atomize, mill and classify through to the final grade of bronze or aluminum flake required," said Ms. Lawrenson. "This process requires the input of mechanical and chemical engineers."
In terms of metallic pigments, the focus is on brightness.
"The big challenge of manufacturing metallic pigments is making them brighter than they currently are at particle sizes necessary to run in offset printing," said Mr. Hunt. "We've been able to produce very bright pigments at 3-4 microns, but we are still pushing to make them brighter."
As performance requirements increase, Eckart has developed a research program focused on metallic pigment development.
"Metallic pigments are produced by atomizing and ball-milling techniques that were essentially unchanged for many years. Being based on metals (copper/zinc for bronze pigments; aluminum for silver), the pigments are quite reactive compared to organic pigments and their shape, size and density characteristics provide many challenges in formulating and printing," said Mr. Crowhurst. "Eckart has a multi-faceted research program whose aim is to fundamentally revolutionize the metallic pigment industry, ranging from process improvement to radical new pigment design."
Performance Properties of Metallic Inks
The challenges faced by ink manufacturers correspond more directly to the overall performance requirements demanded by the intended end-use markets of metallic inks.
According to Michael Bauer of Carl Schlenk, performance characteristics sought in metallic inks are good printability, gloss, rub resistance and shelf life.
Areas of concern for metallic ink manufacturers include runability – getting metallic inks to run on more substrates; absorbent properties – manufacturing metallic inks that obtain good hold-out with quick drying times; and water pick-up – performance and printability improve with less water pick-up.
"Metallic inks, though very specialized, are used on conventional presses and are subject to the same performance requirements as conventional inks," said Ms. Lawrenson. Increasing press speeds, alcohol-free fountain solutions (for offset), smaller anilox cells (for flexo) all have caused changes to be made in metallic ink and pigment formulation and manufacture. The main obstacle to metallic inks achieving the same print performance level as conventional inks is the large particle size of metallic pigments which can be as much as several hundred times larger than conventional organic pigments. Also, metallic pigments are much more reactive than conventional pigments, which imposes severe restrictions in raw material selection of resins for ink vehicles. These problems have been largely overcome by improvements in both resin/vehicle and pigment technology.
"Today's metallic pigments are more tightly classified (narrower particle size distribution) and of smaller particle size than previously," continued Ms. Lawrenson. "Raw material selection for ink vehicles still requires extensive testing and screening (especially for UV/EB inks) but the palette of potentially useful materials is growing."
Another focus of ink manufacturers is increasing the types of substrates the ink can print on. "With metallic inks, the focus is on developing one generic metallic ink that works on a variety of different substrates," said Mr. Hunt.
End-Use Markets
Packaging continues to represent the largest consumer of metallic inks, although other segments also depend on metallic products for a sharp appearance.
"End-use seems to be mainly concentrated in packaging, but the greeting card industry still uses a fair amount of metallics," said John R. Whalen, vice president, marketing, Kerley Ink.
"There are many end-use segments, including packaging, publication and commercial, covering oil based, water-based and energy curing metallic inks," said Ms. Lawrenson. "All have shown good growth as gold and silver continue to be popular colors."
New Products
With only a few players in the metallic market, new product development will be driven by the needs of their customers.
"Eckart has a particularly progressive approach to bring new products to the market that is borne out of the need for improved products," said Mr. Crowhurst. "The year 2000 has witnessed the development and/or introduction of several new high performance water base, UV and solvent-base Roto Star liquid ink products and the particularly successful Metal Star paste ink products."
New from Kerley Ink is its Metallix line of metallic litho inks. Available in rich gold, pale gold and silver, Metallix inks "show a truly amazing sheen when printed, and have excellent ink/water balance, low misting and perfect viscosity for no misting or dripping," according to the company.
Mr. Hunt said U.S. Bronze Powders has introduced a new offset/sheetfed metallic ink. "Solo-Met IV offers improved runability, brilliance and less water pick-up then Solo-Met III," said Mr. Hunt.
"Schlenk has launched only recently a series of high-performance aluminum and bronze metallic products," said Mr. Bauer. "We are consistently aiming at optimized economic performance as well as environmentally friendly products."
MD-Both has developed two new offset bronze pigments that have been made available with the use of advanced pigment milling and classification techniques, according to the company. According to the company, MD-6224 provides excellent metallic brilliance together with improved gloss levels and covering power, while MD-6327 delivers increased color strength, excellent gloss levels and exceptional covering power.
Whether you are talking about inks or pigments, pricing will always be an issue. Especially in the metallic ink market, pricing will continue to impact the market as we enter 2001.
"Value sells," said Mr. Whalen. "Just like a few other ink markets, metallics have grown quite competitive. The more cheaply you price your product, the quicker it sells - provided you deliver a product that performs up to the customer's expectations. Kerley is focusing on delivering excellent print performance with our Metallix inks, but we're not placing Metallix at the bottom rung of the price ladder."
Mr. Hunt said the metallic pigment market will be more affected by pricing than its ink counterpart. "Even though it is more likely that we will see a price increase in aluminum pigments in 2001, it will most likely not effect the offset metallic ink market, only the pigments. Speculation of price increases for bronze pigments and paste are based on the copper comex market which is speculating a 20 to 30 percent increase in the year 2001."
A product shortage could also impact the price of aluminum pigments. "We are seeing a shortage in the aluminum pigments market," said Mr. Hunt. "Product demand is higher than the suppliers' capabilities. There has been a rise in demand for metallic pigments for manufacturing of powder coatings, which has been taking away capacity designated for metallic inks. We are more likely to see price increases for aluminum pigments instead of bronze pigments."
"Aluminum feedstock prices have increased significantly and capacity is very tight, mainly driven by the tremendous increase in silver used in automotive," said Ms. Lawrenson. "There have already been price increases in aluminum pigments and we expect this to result in an increase in finished silver ink prices."
Whether pricing will remain stable or not appears to be something no one knows for sure. It looks like the ink industry will just have to wait and see how things pan out.
"The pricing of metallic pigments and inks has been very stable over the last several years," said Mr. Crowhurst. "While Eckart has deferred any price increase of its products, I believe that some may be expected for 2001 in line with the industry average."


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Update: After reading Herb Greenberg's outlook on Take2's rejection, one has to re-examine if Zelnick cares about GTAIV more than money. Mr. Greenberg provides a perspective of Take2 and ZelnickMedia placing themselves before shareholders. The core issue still stands, though, and that is some gamers do not want to see GTA IV and subsequent titles in the series produced by EA.
In the interest of sharing some thoughts on the recent offer by EA to Take-Two this post has been created. Maybe we could say thank you Strauss Zelnick, executive chairman, and the rest of the Board of Take-Two for declining EA's offers. At least they stand behind their product when facing a monopoly. EA is not helping the game industry progress forward in terms of innovative and quality games, it seems they only see green. Do they seek GTA IV or do they just want a monopoly on sports titles? This could be an awakening for them.
Therefore, we offered to initiate discussions with EA on April 30th, 2008 (the day after Grand Theft Auto IV is scheduled to release). We believe this offer demonstrated our commitment to pursuing all avenues to maximize stockholder value, while we believe that EA's refusal to entertain this path is evidence of their desire to acquire Take-Two at a significant discount, whereas we believe this value rightly belongs to our stockholders.
Plainly stated, Mr. Zelnick politely and firmly says thanks, but no thanks. If Zelnick is in it only for money, that may be so, but something may be different about it. It is possible that he has a greater focus of excellence and money is only a byproduct of his drive, but time will reveal the truth. Back in March, he did say, "I'm much more interested in growing the business than in selling it, to be clear. I would say for the next five to seven years this is a terrific time to be in the video game business."
After reading the press release a message jumped out: The company has faith in their product. Producers and developers with faith in the product will evolve video games to greater levels. How do you feel about this offer by EA? All comments will be appreciated.
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see ! all they talk about is GTA GTA GTA.
and they want is the "Grand Theft Auto" name ! they can make their own GTA like Saints Row


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* Ready-to-use CARBOB gasoline stocks highest in four weeks
* Production drops, but no lower than a year ago
* Gasoline stocks down only 231,000 barrels on West Coast
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Oct 11 (Reuters) - California's refiners increased their stockpiles of gasoline by more than 5 percent last week, despite a drop in production that fuelled an unprecedented spike in prices, state data showed on Thursday.
Total inventories of specially made ultra-clean CARBOB fuel rose to more than 5 million barrels for the first time in four weeks, although supplies were still 8 percent lower than a year ago, according to data from the California Energy Commission for the week to Oct. 5, which was one day after prices peaked.
It said refiners produced 6.3 million barrels of the fuel, 5.6 percent less than a week before, but about the same as last year. Total refinery runs dipped by just 1.3 percent.
The data, which is in line with broader federal government figures released earlier in the day, sheds new light on the record surge in California's wholesale gasoline prices last week, when spot market premiums surged by more than $1 a gallon and pushed retail rates to over $5 in some places.
The figures generally support the idea that unexpected refinery outages triggered a brief bout of panic buying in a market already tight due to low inventories. Traders also say that a shortage of summer-quality fuel exacerbated the problem as many refiners were already stocking up on winter-grade fuel. The data doesn't break down gasoline by specification.
"CARBOB was tight, all other grades of gasoline were well supplied," said one trader, who asked not to be identified.
But the rise in stockpiles also shows that supplies were not uniformly tight, potentially spurring more questions from politicians who are calling for a federal investigation into possibly nefarious trading during the period.
The slight drop in utilization corresponds with a glitch at Exxon Mobil Corp's 149,500 barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery in Torrance, California, which accounts for nearly 8 percent of the state's capacity. On Oct. 1, the refinery suffered a blackout that traders say spooked the market. Operations are only now resuming in full.
CARBOB premiums have tumbled this week just as quickly as they rose, aided by California Governor Jerry Brown's decision on Sunday to allow an immediate switch to "winter-blend" fuel that refiners can produce more readily.
On Thursday, gasoline's differential in the Los Angeles wholesale market rose just 4.5 cents to 45 cents, only a bit higher than a month ago. The premium had surged to as much as $1.45 last week, the highest on record.
Earlier in the day, the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) weekly supply and demand report showed that refiners in the PADD 5 region, which includes California, Washington and Oregon, as well as seven refineries in Alaska and Hawaii, saw their total utilization rate dip by 1.2 percentage points to 83 percent. That is the lowest rate since May, but still up from near 77 percent a year ago.
It also showed that net production of finished motor gasoline by refiners and blenders actually rose last week to 1.57 million barrels-per-day, suggesting that other plants may have compensated for any outages.
Overall, West Coast (PADD 5) gasoline stocks fell just 231,000 barrels last week to 26.4 million barrels, according to the EIA. It was the lowest level since mid-August, one week after the Chevron Corp refinery in Richmond -- the state's second largest -- lost its main refining unit.
Because of California's specific fuel qualities, gasoline produced in nearby states cannot be sold in the state's gas stations. California refiners also export to Mexico gasoline that does not meet the state's stringent standards, which may have further distorted the weekly government data.
Throughout the week, traders said the shortages were concentrated in the Los Angeles area and seemed to affect one refiner, Tesoro Corp , which was caught in a "short squeeze" by its competitors.
"That's a weekly change in inventory and doesn't address some physical players getting caught short that did lead prices up," said another trader.
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Noboru Aoi was not happy with Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai ("There's No Way My Sister Is That Cute"). After learning the email address of the light novel's writer, Tsukasa Fushimi, the 32 year-old Aoi sent email after email—over five hundred in total. In them, he threatened the writer's life.
The suspect apparently wrote things like "Die, poser", "I'm going to find out where you live", and "I'm make you regret this." He also supposedly sent an email threatening to slice off Fushimi's head. It seems that Aoi was upset over how the Gothic Lolita character Ruri Goko was portrayed in There's No Way My Sister Is That Cute. Police in Tokyo arrested Aoi for threatening the writer, and the suspect has apparently confessed to authorities.
There's No Way My Sister Is That Cute, which has spawned a manga and two anime, follows a high school student and his 14 year-old sister, who is into magical girl anime and erotic video games.
「好きなキャラをないがしろにした」 ライトノベル作家を脅迫 容疑の男逮捕 [Sankei via ANN]


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Three weeks ago, Bob Dick toughed his way through a 90-minute total knee replacement without the aid of anesthesia, choosing to stay awake through the chisel and the buzz of the electric saw.
When he reached Duke University Hospital, he started breathing deeply, a signal for his body to relax. Next he held his thumb and forefinger together, imagining a walk around the pond at his Chatham County home. Then he told himself, "Now it's safe to go into a comfortable learning trance."
So began Dick's surgery by hypnosis, which he describes as being so trouble-free that he hardly realized it happened. He had nerve-blockers reducing the pain throughout the surgery, but his deep relaxation techniques made "going under" unnecessary.
"It's the closest thing to magic I know," said Dick, a 72-year-old psychologist. "I knew it was there. I just wasn't paying attention to it."
Dick's self-administered treatment is a rare but increasingly common alternative to general anesthesia, in which a patient is made unconscious through inhaled gases and intravenous drugs.
In 1957, Dr. William Saul Kroger demonstrated hypnosis on a breast cancer patient in New York, gaining notice in Time magazine.
In 2006, British television broadcast a patient having hernia surgery without any drugs, lulled into his inner peace.
In April, Guinean singer Alama Kante sang her way through throat surgery to keep doctors from damaging her vocal chords – a feat aided by hypnosis.
While anesthesia is widely considered safe, it carries the small risk of stroke, heart attack and death, especially in older adults or those with a serious medical history, according to the Mayo Clinic.
With this in mind, and knowing that anesthesia can mean a longer time in the hospital and in recovery, Dick decided to try the method he's long employed in his own practice.
"And I wanted to show off a little," he said.
The key comes from understanding what hypnosis is and isn't. Popular culture typically portrays the procedure being conducted as the patient watches a metronome or a watch, listening to a heavily accented doctor chant, "You are getting sleepy ..."
But to Dick, hypnosis is something practiced every day. A person engrossed in a movie or book is actually in a sort of trance. Someone meditating, praying or "zoning out" at work is using the same techniques that go into hypnosis.
As a young psychologist in the early 1970s, he studied for a week in Arizona with Milton Erickson, a psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis. Rather than instructing patients with a direct order, Erickson would offer suggestions, much like Dick's own: "Now it's safe to go into a comfortable learning trance."
In his own practice, he refers to it as an altered state of consciousness, an intense form of concentration that can change what the mind perceives. Also, he stresses that a patient can't be forced into a trance, only willingly led.
"I don't hypnotize people," Dick said. "I can't. I can't hypnotize anybody but myself."
He tried it during a colonoscopy, which didn't work as well because the doctor asked him if it hurt, which focused his mind on the pain.
But hypnosis worked well for the cataract surgeries on both eyes, in which he was able to focus deeply enough to avoid seeing the knife.
But knee replacement took longer, and Dick practiced for two weeks ahead of the procedure, 30 to 45 minutes at a time. He also watched a YouTube video showing the operation, so he knew what noises to expect.
With surgery, "The anxiety is just as bad as physical pain," Dick said. "I didn't even know they'd started."
Three weeks afterward, Dick had shed both walker and cane, recovering quickly. He hopes to be driving in a week and back to his semi-retired practice, encouraging his clients to relax.


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Liège – Seraing- 198km
Highest point: 606m
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Made to measure for Gilbert
This rolling stage touches on the Ardennes but is nothing as tough as the Liège-Bastogne-Liège one-day Classic run through the same terrain. The sprinters should be able to stick in the peloton all day but many of them are likely to struggle to remain in contention on the long and fairly steep drag up to the finish. Rising for more than 2km at an average of 5 percent, it is sure to suit the race's puncheurs. Chief among them, of course, is Philippe Gilbert, for whom winning here on home ground and taking the yellow jersey would make his year. Gilbert is sure to have an eye on Liquigas-Cannondale powerhouse Peter Sagan.
Sean Yates: "It's lumpy and in Belgium. Omega-Quick-Step could be in yellow with Tony Martin after the prologue and will want to protect that and bring it to a sprint. That would play into our hands for Cav."


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Some comments by Brazilians participating in protests across South America's biggest country:
"The government is to blame for this mess because of the corruption and taxes. (President Dilma Rousseff's) response hasn't been appropriate at all — where is she?" - Inacio Pinheiro, 41, newsstand vendor in Sao Paulo.
"People are taking advantage of this situation to loot and vandalize. The police have responded in the only way they can when faced with such violence." - Iron Pereira e Silva, 35, Sao Paulo taxi driver.
"Our politicians have drivers and all sorts of other comforts, but everyone who takes public transport knows it's horrible. I take the subway and the bus everyday, and both are so crowded that sometimes I have to wait for 45 minutes to finally be able to get on. The situation is absurd." - Viviane Jophilis, 27, university student protesting in Rio de Janeiro.
"My nephew is 12, and the whole family scrapes money together so we can pay for a private school for him, but it shouldn't have to be like that. He should be able to get a quality education at a public school." - Thiago de Oliveiro Albino, 26, radiology technician protesting in Rio de Janeiro.
"I support the movement but we can't have this destruction. It's cowardice. Dilma has been too slow to make the tough decisions a situation like this demands. She needs to call the army to protect sites during protests." - Romoaldo Sousa, 55, beekeeper in Brasilia.


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Metascore®Universal acclaimbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
When was the last time you saw a blockbuster that was impeccably executed and simultaneously thought-provoking, audacious and unnerving while consistently being fun and entertaining?
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Bale again brilliantly personifies all the deep traumas and misgivings of Batman's alter ego, Bruce Wayne. A bit of Hamlet is in this Batman.
Christopher Nolan's latest exploration of the Batman mythology steeps its muddled plot in so much murk that the Joker's maniacal nihilism comes to seem like a recurrent grace note.
At two hours and 32 minutes, this is almost too much movie, but it has a malicious, careening zest all its own. It's a ride for the gut AND the brain.
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Excellent sequel much darker, more violent than the first.
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Parents need to know that although this sequel to Batman Begins is an excellent movie, it's also much darker and more violent than the first one. Remember: Not all Batmen are created equal. Even though this movie is about a comic-book character, neither it nor its flawed hero and villain are aimed at younger kids or appropriate for them. The film is loaded with intense action, from bombs and bullets to martial-arts fighting and hand-to-hand combat. In addition to the hard-hitting action, expect some drinking and a bit of sexuality. And The Joker's nightmarish appearance has the potential to frighten viewers of all ages. Much of the movie's buzz surrounds actor Heath Ledger's excellent work in that villainous role -- his final completed part before his January 2008 death from an accidental drug overdose.
Messages: Extensive discussion of the rule of law versus the rule of force; police and political characters who work within the system are contrasted with the vigilante Batman. Political and police corruption are featured prominently in the plot. The thematic idea of order versus chaos also figures prominently in the film.
Role models: Batman is ostensibly the champion of justice, but his methods can get pretty iffy, and many characters wonder just how different he is from the "villains" he tracks down. The Joker is pure anarchy -- he embraces chaos for chaos' sake and doesn't flinch at hurting the innocent to accomplish his goals.
Violence: Extensive, intense violence, including (but not limited to) shootings, stabbings, fistfights, explosions, rocket attacks, grenades, and more. A thug is slammed face-first onto a pencil that's stuck in a table; an underling has an explosive device sewn into his body and then detonated; a hallucinogenic "fear drug" is used as a weapon; dogs are unleashed on victims; a man is set ablaze; cars crash; characters are bound in rooms full of explosives; live grenades are placed in the hands and mouths of hostages; two boats full of passengers are threatened with bombs on-board; suicide bombs are used as threats; knives and guns are brandished. Several characters have extensive facial scarring, either from knives or fire.
Sex: Some kissing; someone walks in on a couple (standing up and fully dressed), and it's clear they've been fooling around; bikini-clad women are shown.
Language: Words used include "ass," "hell," "damn," "goddamn," "balls," "son of a bitch," and "oh my God."
Consumerism: Tie-in to vast quantities of related merchandise. Minimal; the Lamborghini brand is mentioned, and Budweiser products are visible.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Cocktail party scenes show adults drinking champagne, liquor, and beer, mostly in the background. Some scenes take place in bars.
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The winner of of Matt Grant's heart on The Bachelor: London Calling, Shayne Lamas, is getting her own reality show on the E! Network. Shayne and Matt broke up last year due to rumors Matt wanted to marry her for a green card and that Shayne had allegedly cheated on him.
Leave it to Lamas will follow the former Bachelor star and the rest of her family as they live their Hollywood lifestyles.
We can expect to see some major drama on the show as it will feature Shayne's dad — Lorenzo Lamas, as well as Shayne's brother — AJ Lamas. It is alleged that Shauna Sand, Lorenzo's fourth wife and a former Playboy model, allegedly slept with AJ, her 18-year-old stepson a while back. It should make for interesting TV to see how the family deals with this tidbit of info.
Shayne's half sister Dakota Pike, their mom and Lorenzo's ex-wife Michele Smith, will also make appearances on the show. The show is being produced by Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss.
Leave it to Lamas is set to premiere Sunday, October 11 at 10:30pm ET –immediately after The Girls Next Door's sixth season premiere.
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My parents are close to retirement and very heavily leveraged. Do you have any advice on how I can help motivate them to succeed financially?
Dear Jack,
I appreciate your concern for your mom and dad, but I'm not sure you can motivate anyone to do something. Sometimes people don't have motivation because they've lost hope. In turn, it's that sense of hopelessness that keeps them from moving forward. I think in these situations the best you can do is to show them hope. And one of the best ways to do that is to share your own story. You can also examine the numbers with them to show that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't always an oncoming train.
I do this a lot with callers on my radio show. After we look at the pieces of the puzzle together, I might show them how they can pay off $50,000 of debt in a year's time. Most of these people aren't bankrupt; they're just plain scared. So there's a lot of power in that little word "hope."
Sit down with your parents and let them know how much you love them and want them to enjoy their retirement. See if you can find out how much income they have versus the amount of debt they've piled up, then begin to formulate a step-by-step plan. Show them how they can begin to get traction and free up their money by living on a budget and getting out of debt. You can even offer to be their counselor or accountability partner.
You want them to be safe and secure in their retirement, and they deserve some dignity after working hard all their lives. So, in my mind, hope is the best thing you can offer. Motivation is a different story. That has to come from within. You can't really motivate the unmotivated.
Dear Dave,
What do you think about rent-to-own housing? I'm not sure we're financially ready to buy yet, but we don't like giving money to landlords. Is rent-to-own a wise compromise?
Dear Mike,
I wouldn't recommend getting mixed up in a rent-to-own situation. I don't think it's a wise compromise, and it's also the kind of deal that works out well for the landlord, not the buyer.
If you're not financially ready to purchase a house, then you need to get your life in order before you take on a major commitment like becoming a homeowner. Get your debts paid off, get an emergency fund of three to six months of expenses in place, and save up for a down payment of 20 percent. I know it'll take some time and it might be difficult, but that's what I'd recommend.
Buying a home when you're broke, or trying to trick the system with a rent-to-own deal, usually doesn't work. I spent a lot of time in the real estate business, and I still own several properties. I don't do these deals because statistically the majority of people who rent to own never end up owning the property.
Take my advice and go slow, Mike. When you buy a home, you want it to be a blessing, not a burden!
* Dave Ramsey is America's trusted voice on money and business. He's authored four New York Timesbest-selling books: Financial Peace, More Than Enough, The Total Money Makeover and EntreLeadership. The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 6 million listeners each week on more than 500 radio stations. Follow Dave on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.


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This special brings together the best, the brightest, and the pioneersof one of America's most popular and enduring indigenous musical styl es. Bluegrass music, born and bred in the hills of Appalachia in the 1930's, has survived and thrived through the various cycles of pop music trends, and is now enjoying an unprecedented renaissance due to the phenomenal success of the movie, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the yearning for a return to the basics, the spirit and soul of authentic American roots music.
This program is unprecedented in the history of bluegrass and in the history of modern public TV. For the first time, the legends are brought together with the stars of traditional country music and a new generation of bluegrass performers - all on the same stage, all on the same night. The live concert took place in January 2002 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville - the original home of the Grand Ole Opry, and the national birthplace of Bluegrass music.
Host Ricky Skaggs, considered by many the musical son of the acknowledged Father of Bluegrass Bill Monroe, welcomes a Who's Who of Bluegrass music today: Country icon Vince Gill; superstars the Dixie Chicks; legends Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley and the Del McCoury Band; andthe new generation represented by Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Trav is Tritt and Nickel Creek, plus the first bluegrass song to win the prestigious Country Music Association song of the year, "Man of ConstantSorrow," from the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. Each artis t shines in a spontaneous environment of live-on-tape performances, with one-of-a-kind collaborations, revealing backstage moments, and excerpts from the final interview with the late Bill Monroe.
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- KQED Life: Mon, Jan 14, 2013 -- 5:00 AM