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I need someone to upload 150 on YouTube channels, with: title, description, keywords.
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March was the deadliest month so far in Syria's two-year-old civil war, as rebels pressed their offensive throughout the country, seizing a provincial capital for the first time and launching attacks on other fronts.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 5,896 civilians and combatants died last month, surpassing the 5,400 deaths the observatory recorded in August, the previous high-water mark. The observatory logged 3,893 deaths in February.
Death tolls reported for Syria's conflict are thought to be largely incomplete. A U.N.-funded study that attempted to collate death reports from a variety of sources concluded in January that at least 60,000 people had died in the conflict by then, at a time that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had recorded 46,000 dead.
The observatory, which reports deaths as civilian, rebel, government soldiers and unknown, is considered to keep the most authoritative running tally. Examining its reports on a monthly basis provides a clearer picture of the war's trends than daily news accounts of the horrific violence do.
March's numbers reveal the extent to which better-equipped rebels on the offensive have changed the war's complexion. While virtually the same number of civilians died in March as in February – 1,780 versus 1,770 – rebel and government forces suffered far greater casualties. Rebel deaths totaled 1,720 in March, compared with 1,128 in February, a 52 percent increase, while Syrian government forces lost 1,281 in March, a 29 percent increase over the 994 reported in February.
That dramatically changed the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths. In March, civilians accounted for 30 percent of the dead; in February they were 45 percent.
"Rebel actions now frequently involve multiple units, and many rebel units are heavily armed," said Jeff White, a defense analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a research center in the U.S. capital.
White said he thought that new weapons, particularly Croatian arms purchased by Saudi Arabia and shipped to the rebels with American approval, were responsible for the apparent increase in combat deaths.
The most dramatic sign of that increase was rebel deaths, a likely reflection of the new aggressiveness with which they assaulted government positions in Syria's north and east.
The rebels, led by the al Qaida-linked Nusra Front, seized the capital of Raqqa province in March and surrounded other government positions in the province. Rebels also overtook government positions in Deraa province in Syria's south, near the border with Jordan.
It wasn't possible to determine from the observatory's statistics how many rebels had died in Raqqa or Deraa during March. But the massing of rebels probably made them easier targets for Syrian aircraft, which remain the government's key advantage over the rebels.
White said the number of airstrikes reported by anti-regime activists had remained flat last month, with an average of 21 sorties daily.
He said the rebel gains also might have been helped by a reduction of government troops in those areas.
The change in the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths also may reflect the dynamics of a population that's increasingly on the move. Millions of people have become refugees within Syria, and aid agencies warn that the numbers will only increase.
Raqqa city, for example, is the largest city under rebel control. The population of the city, once home to 250,000 people, had soared to as many as 750,000 as people fled to it from other parts of Syria. Then, as the rebels approached, most of those people fled. They still haven't returned, and Raqqa's population now is estimated at about 100,000.
Many think that the scale of the killing in Syria is wider than reported. The U.N. now says it thinks that the total number of dead has surpassed 70,000, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has recorded more than 60,000 deaths since the uprising began in March 2011.
On its Facebook page, the observatory cautions that its figures don't include "thousands of forcibly disappeared persons in the regime's detention centers" or "the hundreds of kidnapped members of the regular forces and others taken captive by rebels."
The group said it had been difficult to document suspected government sympathizers killed by rebels as well as casualties among pro-regime militias, which it estimates may number as many as 12,000 people.
The Syrian government doesn't release casualty figures for the military, and paramilitary organizations are playing a wider part in the war now than they did at its outset.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has begun documenting the deaths of non-Syrian fighters who've joined the rebels' ranks, tallying 25 deaths of fighters from other Arab or Muslim countries among the 1,720 dead rebels in March, about 1.5 percent.

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Ben Bernanke's term as chairman of the Federal Reserve expires one year from Thursday. Sometime between now and then, he's likely to take his foot off the gas pedal of financial stimulus that is helping to fuel the still-weak U.S. recovery and begin tapping on the brakes.
First appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006 and given a second four-year term as chairman by President Barack Obama, Bernanke hasn't signaled whether he'd like a third term as head of the nation's central bank if Obama pressed him to stay.
But speculation abounds that the former Princeton economics professor is ready to call it quits.
The central bank under Bernanke has kept interest rates ultra-low for more than four years.
At the same time, the Fed has effectively been printing money to buy hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgage-backed and U.S. Treasury securities, further holding down rates and pumping new money into the economy.
Many economists credit such policies for helping to keep the deepest U.S. downturn since the Great Recession from being far worse.
But the chief danger of such easy-money policies is inflation.
It's been tame so far, but at some point it's bound to roar back -- which is why a time will come for Bernanke and fellow Fed members to begin to unwind years of financial stimulus by halting the bond purchases and raising interest rates again.
No one knows just when -- but it probably won't be at the two-day Fed meeting that began in Washington today.
Instead, the Fed is expected to push on with its efforts to spur growth so long as economic inflation remains in check and unemployment stays so high.
Janet Yellen, the vice chairman of the Fed, is seen as most likely to be offered the top position by Obama if Bernanke retires.
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I am due to start teaching a short product design course at some point and I am preparing the materials. It will be my first time so I am a bit nervous about it.
It would be great to hear any input for newbies regarding the preparation of a short course, pointers on how to be a good tutor, and any ideas to put together short design tasks. It will be a postgrad course for 25-30 year olds possibly with experience in design but not in ID.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Aug 2010 22:28 UTC
You know, I really like America and its citizens. Beautiful country, lovely people, nothing but good experiences on my end. However, like everyone else, the US has its problems, and one particular annoying one is the power of lobby and interests groups. I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that the RIAA and NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) are asking Congress to mandate FM chips in all portable devices - cell phones, mp3 players, PDAs, everything. Wait, what?
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NOVA "Separating Twins" Abandoned shortly after birth at an orphanage in Bangladesh, twin girls, Trishna and Krishna, are joined at the head and have little chance of survival. Aid workers take them to Australia where they spend two years battling for life before doctors can attempt a marathon separation surgery to allow them to live separate lives.G
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Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session In 1983, legendary blues guitarist Albert King and "little Stevie," the "skinny kid" who sat in when King played in Texas, combine legendary forces in this joint performance for the TV show called In Session. The performance includes short audio segments of the banter between King and the late Vaughan and is the only known recording of the two musicians together. Songs include "Stormy Monday," "Pride and Joy," "Blues at Sunrise," "Match Box Blues" and "Don't Lie to Me."G
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Human Spark "Becoming Us" Beginning in the caves of the Dordogne region of France, Alan Alda witnesses the spectacular paintings and carvings that date back some 30,000 years. Although it is an area peopled by Neanderthals for hundreds of thousands of years, Alda learns that Neanderthals are tenacious and resourceful, but produce no art. Those who painted the caves were strikingly different, possessing the "human spark." Part 1 of 3G


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13 Fun, DIY Halloween Crafts for Kids
Now that I've taken the year off of work to stay home with my girls, I've been on the hunt for fun activities to entertain my preschooler while I'm otherwise occupied with my baby. I usually try to involve her in whatever I'm doing - she loves to help with the dishes, vacuum, and assist with diaper changes, and we seriously have the best tea parties, but when I'm nursing a distractible five-month-old I need to bring out the big guns - arts and crafts. She's really into Halloween this year, so I've rounded up some spooktacular crafts that I think will fit the bill. Here are thirteen of my favorites:
1. Haunted House Halloween Cut-Out: Sarah Jane
2. Magnetic Haunted House DIY (Free Printable): A Lovely Lark
3. DIY Monster Claws: The Southern Institute
4.DIY Light-Up Cereal Box Spooky Houses: Handmade Charlotte
5. Acorn Pumpkins: All Dressed Up
6. Fill-in-the-Jack O'Lantern Faces Chalkboard Activity: The Artful Parent
7. Play Felt Pumpkin Patch: A Lovely Lark
8. Trash Bag Spiderwebs: How About Orange
9. Halloween Paper Bag Puppets: Make and Take
10. Paper Pumpkins: Scottsdale Moms Blog
11.Pasta Skeletons: Martha Stewart
12. Halloween Advent Calendar: Coterie
13. Toilet Paper Tube Halloween Creatures: Apartment Therapy
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I'll kick it off with my answer:
For me it is a number of factors:
1) Practice. As both a consultant and corporate warrior at different times C77 has given me space to hone my language, practice conveying points quickly an clearly, convincing others, acknowledging other's points. It has seriously helped me to navigate in my job better.
2) Recruiting. Seeing so many portfolios has been helpful to know the watermark out there. It is no surprise that the last 4 people I hired were all core77 posters. Most of the people I've interviewed either have logins or read the boards. More people just read along than you think. I interviewed someone from a large global automaker an he said they all read the boards but don't post because of their corp. policies. Anyway, having the opportunity to help people shape their portfolios has always been helpful.
3) Personality. I'm and older brother. I think joking around a bit while giving lots of advice is just part of my personality. I've always been more of a 2 way communicator than a one way communicator. Writing a blog post can be tedious to me. Writing 10 forum posts comes easy! I can do it in the nooks and crannies of time between meetings, or after I throw down a sketch as a break.
4) Community. There isn't much sense of a physical design community in the modern world we live in. I believe our profession absolutely needs a place were designers can be designers. Where we can talk about best practices, bat ideas around, and just nerd out. Having first started posting here when I worked for a 5 person firm, then a global footwear company, then a global strategic design firm, now a CE company, the boards have always connected me to designers outside my workplace and industry. It was key in making sure I never became overly focused on one industry or workplace.
5) Giving back. Now that I've gotten all of that from the boards, it would feel selfish to not give it to others in return. We help make this a place were the above 4 things happen. It frustrates me to see a promising student learn a bunch with some help from the boards, get a job, and move on without doing the same for others. Realistically though that is just reality. I try to be somewhat consistent so people know there are always a few people they can hope for a response from.


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crog wrote:Stryker,
Forget the windup, althou7g I ahve not met aleft student for a while if you want to PM me what U do and what sort of job u are looking for I hire alot of grads for John holland if that is in your field.
Maybe I can give you a leg up.
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I fed that into babel fish for a translation and my computer started to smoke
my son sends SMSs to me in plain english, and to his mates in pure gibberish


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The midsize Nissan sedan favored by Mexicans in LA as the most stylish, impressive ride that one can have. Similar to black people with older Cadillacs, Mexicans turn these moderately priced family sedans into show cars, with flashy rims, illegal tints, and RIP Lupe *Baby Angelita* Lopez 1983-2007 decals on the back window.
"Eyy, Marysol's been hating on me ever since I got my Altima. I mean, yeah, I gots moon roof and leather, but I'm still Carlita from the block!"
by carlitafromtheblock July 29, 2009
A Mid-sized family car that is made by Nissan. The Altima came into production in 1992 and is known for its great handling. It has the most HP in its class and it owns skylines even on its worst days. The Altima comes with 150 hp stock, in 2000 it came with 155. In the year 2002, the V-6 altima came with 240 HP. Thus making it a Japanese supercar.
My mom drove me to school in a Nissan Altima, now I drive it because I am a pimp.
by Osama August 04, 2003
Nissan's family-sized sedan that, since the early '90s, has become a much more stylish and powerful up to date. It is very poplar for both practicality and performance, ranging from base model trims to the fairly new and very fast SE-R. Traditionally seen as a just another four-door, the Altima has developed into a luxurious, full-sized sports sedan.
by L'Italiano Vero January 19, 2006
A mid-size family sedan that has been modded by people into some pretty sick-ass rides. Definitely not a supercar (supercars are pretty much limited production by definition), but at the same time not a ricer.
Driving around San Diego, CA, will give you some sick examples of the Nissan Altima.
by Oscar or Something April 27, 2008
Old Latin for "Feared". Mostly used on a kid's middle name. Most "Altimas"s show no emotions, or act it out. They tend to be really shy. However, they seem to be able to get along with anyone.
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To meet area demand, TSTC West Texas adds 20 new slots to fall ADN program
Texas State Technical College West Texas is now accepting students into the Associates Degree Nursing (ADN) program this Fall for the first time. Traditionally, the college has had only two entrance periods per year. Due to of the high demand for qualified nurses, TSTC West Texas will take in additional cohort of 20 students this fall.The ADN program is a fast-paced Associate Degree Nursing Program that serves a 26-county rural area of West Texas. TSTC West Texas works hand-in-hand with healthcare industry leaders to train highly qualified nurses. There is a significant and growing need for registered nurses in the West Texas region and throughout the State of Texas. In 2008, TSTC West Texas, in collaboration with Ranger College (RC) and Western Texas College (WTC), established a LVN to ADN program for licensed vocational nurses seeking an Associate of Applied Science in Nursing (AASN) Degree. The accelerated, hybrid program may be completed in 12 months. Upon successful completion of the program, the AASN degree will be conferred by Texas State Technical College. The graduate nurse can then take the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses (NLCEX-RN). Upon passing the NCLEX-RN, the graduate will be issued a state license to practice as a Registered Nurse. The LVN to ADN Program is approved by Texas Board of Nursing. The program is further approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.Applications are being accepted now through June 28, 2013. Apply at westtexas.tstc.edu and click on nursing button at the bottom of the homepage.


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A BlankTV Premiere Presentation:
My City Burning - "The Great Escape"
BlankTV and I Scream Records are proud to present the new My City Burning video for "The Great Escape", off their debut album "Lone Wolves" (I Scream Records, 2010).
This video was shot and produced by Carlo Oppermann and Ambitious Films (Comeback Kid, Terror, Parkway Drive) and features special guest appearances by members of: Sick Of It All, Blood for Blood, Agnostic Front, Biohazard, Cancer Bats, Death by Stereo, Death Before Dishonor and First Blood.
Ever since their founding in 2006, MY CITY BURNING from Amsterdam has taken the European hardcore scene by storm. Even before releasing their first full-length, MCB's healthy DIY ethic and furious live reputation didn't go unnoticed, landing them numerous high profile shows with well-established bands such as Machine Head, Hatebreed and Poison The Well.
MCB's first full-length album was recorded with Germany's acclaimed producer Kristian "Kohle" Kohlmannslehner (A Traitor Like Judas, Crematory, Final Prayer, One Bullet Left and many more). Those three weeks in the studio finally resulted in "Lone Wolves", an intense 27-minute rollercoaster ride filled with grooves that will make your head bang, thrash metal riffs that will make your face melt, and vocals that make you want to break something. About working with MCB, Kohle says: "I felt inspired again as these guys really push the envelope and make you want to give it your all. The result, I believe, is a very sexy recording with some incredibly strong material. This definitely is one of the strongest up and coming HC/Metal bands that I have worked with over the last years"
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Riccitiello questions Activision's long-term viability as he tips Battlefield to beat Call of Duty
Battlefield could be on the cusp of usurping Call of Duty from the FPS throne, according to former CEO John Riccitiello.
"The one thing I know most about now is Battlefield and CoD and I feel pretty confident that EA's got better cards," the putspoken exec told Games Industry.
But the last billion dollar brand created from scratch in this industry was Skylanders. Is the next billion-dollar brand going to come from Activision? I don't know. But if it does then they can sustain the loss of leadership in the field of shooters."
He didn't leave it there, though. Riccitiello also outlined a situation in which Activision could end up in big trouble.
"There's one scenario where they ship a new MMO, it replaces WoW, Call of Duty stays at the top of the charts, Skylanders goes from strength to strength," he added. They do a couple of things with their licenses, everything goes fine.
Then there's a scenario where WoW continues to decline, Battlefield takes the mantle from CoD, Skylanders proves to be a flash in the pan and Activision proves to be a shitty company at that point. What's been fascinating watching Activision over the last few years is that I've heard that mentioned before, about them not being the company they could or should be. They've pulled off some notable successes."


text: "That the Arizona License Plate Commission tried to censor pro-lifers while allowing other groups to have license plates was clearly discriminatory," stated Fr. Pavone. "It's reassuring that a federal court has declared that pro-lifers have the same First Amendment rights as everyone else. Priests for Life has vigorously promoted Choose Life license plates and urges pastors to work with their people and their state legislators to adopt them."Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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Big Tech has Big Problems, but More Regulation Will Only Hurt Consumers
Big Tech has Big Problems, but More Regulation Will Only Hurt Consumers
Big Tech has long faced calls for more regulation, and as their companies have grown, so has the pressure. Now those demands are coming from within Silicon Valley itself. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told Axios that, though he supports the free market, it's only a matter of time before Big Tech is restricted. "We have to admit when the free market is not working. And it hasn't worked here," Cook said. "I think it's inevitable that there will be some level of regulation." Indeed, a newly released Axios poll found that 55 percent of Americans "fear the federal government won't do enough to regulate big tech companies." That figure is up 15 points over last year.
The problem is that, if implemented, such regulations would only entrench existing firms and hurt consumers.
As Axios notes, Big Tech regulation has become "a rare topic uniting Republicans, Democrats and Independents." In August, Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, floated the idea of turning tech giants into public utilities. On the Left, writer Richard Eskow went even further by calling for companies like Amazon and Google to be nationalized. The young right-wing firebrand Charlie Kirk recently advocated that Google be classified as a monopoly and anti-trust law be brought to bear against it.
It's understandable why so many across the political spectrum have an uneasiness about Big Tech. After all, it has an immense amount of power, especially in regard to stored information.
But increased regulation will only empower Big Tech and leave it less accountable than before. The "revolving door," through which officials move between government and the private sector, allows businesses to heavily influence regulation. Sometimes they'll even advocate that regulation be increased as a means of ensuring that the new regulations work to their advantage. When groups like Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, whose members already pay employees "well over the minimum wage," advocate for an increase in the minimum wage, it's not out of benevolence toward workers. They want to force their competitors to pay more in the hope of driving them out of business. In economics, this is known as regulatory capture, an idea developed by Nobel laureate George Stigler.
Another tactic is making the regulatory hurdle so high that it ensures new competition and smothers startups in the cradle. A startup in someone's basement can't afford an army of lawyers to navigate through reams of regulations like Google and Facebook can.
Historically, Big Tech has been hands-off when it comes to lobbying, but that's starting to change and the numbers show it. In 2017, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple spent over $50 million on lobbying, a 32 percent increase for Facebook and a 51 percent increase for Apple. In fairness, that's much less than other industries spend on lobbying—but as talk of regulation increases, expect to see Big Tech kick up its lobbying even further and for its competition to get squelched.
In a free market, companies only have the power that consumers give them when they make their consumption choices. Google, Facebook, and Amazon are huge and powerful because so many choose to utilize their services. Economist Ludwig von Mises called this "consumer sovereignty," writing, "The captain is the consumer. Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that." No matter how large a business is, if it doesn't give consumers what they want, it will eventually falter. Just look at Nokia. In 2007, the company controlled almost 50 percent of the world's smartphone market. By 2013, that number had fallen to less than 5 percent. Such a drastic change in fortunes occurred because consumers chose to make it happen—and because other companies innovated more to attract them.
But if Big Tech becomes entrenched and protected from competition through regulation, the consumer's power over them is diminished. It's a recipe for decreased innovation and customer service. Big Tech is kept on its toes by the fear of becoming the next Nokia, which is why they spend tens of billions of dollars every year on research and development. There will be far less incentive to do so if they know that they're safe from potential upstarts supplanting them.
Big Tech has big problems, but increased regulation will only lead to more lobbying, less competition, and less innovation. Consumers have given Big Tech its power, and as long as there are competition and alternatives, they also have the power to take it away. Let's hang on to that control rather than demanding that the government exercise it for us.
Republished with permission from the author.
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The Atlantic's "Take" on Mainstream and Behavioural Economics
The Atlantic's take is that Mainstream economics has many problems, as others have noted. They think that college students should be exposed to some behavioral economics in their economics classes. Their conclusion is thus:
Making behavioral economics compulsory isn't a cure-all for the ills of the economics discipline, but doing so would go a long way in encouraging students to think about building economic models around actual human beings rather than around the caricature that is Homo economicus. If there's a deeper lesson to come out of the behavioral revolution, it's that the vagaries of human behavior make it very difficult to model as a pure science, and economists have a lot to learn from other disciplines, including other social sciences and the humanities. This may mean a dose of humility for economists, but it would enrich both the education that their students receive and their prospects of making positive change in the real world.
Piketty Urges Higher Taxes in Response to French Tax Revolt
Less than 10 years ago, many European nations suffered fiscal crises because of a combination of excessive spending, punitive taxes, and crippling debt.
The crises have since abated, largely because of direct and indirect bailouts. But the underlying policy mistakes haven't been fixed.
Indeed, the burden of government spending has increased in Europe and debt levels today are much higher than they were when the previous crisis began.
Unsurprisingly, these large fiscal burdens have resulted in anemic economic performance, which helps to explain why middle-class French taxpayers launched nationwide protests in response to a big increase in fuel taxes.
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, capitulated.
But some have suggested that Macron's problem is that he wasn't sufficiently bold.
I'm not joking. Led by Thomas Piketty, a few dozen European leftists have issued a Manifesto for bigger government.
We, European citizens, from different backgrounds and countries, are today launching this appeal for the in-depth transformation of the European institutions and policies. This Manifesto contains concrete proposals, in particular a project for a Democratization Treaty and a Budget Project… Our proposals are based on the creation of a Budget for democratization which would be debated and voted by a sovereign European Assembly. …This Budget, if the European Assembly so desires, will be financed by four major European taxes, the tangible markers of this European solidarity. These will apply to the profits of major firms, the top incomes (over 200,000 Euros per annum), the highest wealth owners (over 1 million Euros) and the carbon emissions (with a minimum price of 30 Euros per tonne).
Here are the taxes they propose as part of their plan to expand the burden of government spending.
I'm surprised they didn't include a tax on financial transactions.
And here's a video (in French, but with English subtitles) explaining their scheme.
To put it mildly, this plan is absurd. It would impose another layer of governmentand another layer of tax on a continent that already is suffocating because the public sector is too large.
I'm not the only one with concerns.
In a column for Bloomberg, Leonid Bershidsky points out why he is underwhelmed by Piketty's proposal.
The reforms proposed by Piketty and a group of intellectuals and politicians — notably Pablo Iglesias, leader of Spain's leftist Podemos party — include the creation of a European Assembly. It would have the power to shape a common budget and impose common taxes…Piketty advocates four measures that would collect a total equivalent to 4 percent of Europe's GDP… What is being proposed is essentially a return to the fiscal policies of the 1970s, which provoked Astrid Lindgren to write her satirical essay "Pomperipossa in Monismania." In 1976, the children's author was confronted with a tax bill of 102 percent of her income. …Hit them with new taxes and watch them flee to the U.S. and Asia. They won't stay like patriotic Lindgren, whose essay helped to topple the Swedish government in 1976. And no amount of government funding…will repair the damage that envy-based taxation can wreak on economies already finding it hard to innovate.
Let's not forget, by the way, the many thousands of French households who also have suffered 100 percent-plus tax rates.
But let's not digress.
Writing for CapX, John Ashmore explains why Piketty's plan will make Europe's problems even worse.
…a group of politicians, academics and policy wonks spearheaded by…French economist Thomas Piketty…have put their names to a new Manifesto for the Democratisation of Europe. …For the most part, the manifesto reads like a souped up version of the kind of policies we've heard time and again from leftwing politicians. …The details of today's 'manifesto' make Labour's Marxist Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell look like a moderate centrist. Where Labour advocate putting corporation tax back up to 26 per cent, Piketty and co want it hiked to 37 per cent. And while we Brits spent plenty of the Coalition years discussing whether income tax should be 45p or 50p in the pound, the Manifesto goes all guns blazing for a 65 per cent top rate… these measures are projected to raise 800bn euros, equivalent to four times the current EU budget. …that would be a huge transfer of power, not from the rich from the poor, but from taxpayers to politicians.
A 65-percent top tax rate? At the risk of understatement, that's a recipe for less entrepreneurship and less innovation.
Moreover, based on America's experience during the Reagan years, it's safe to say that actual tax receipts would fall far, far short of the projection.
But the higher spending would be real, as would the inevitable increase in red ink. And it's worth noting that the Manifesto proposes to subsidize the debt of bankrupt welfare states. Very much akin to the eurobond scheme, which I pointed out would be like cosigning a loan for an unemployed alcoholic with a gambling addiction.
P.S. During my recent trip to London, I repeatedly warned people that a real Brexit was the only sensible choice because the European Union at some point will fully morph into a transfer union (i.e., a European budget financed by European taxes). It was nice of Piketty to issue a Manifesto that confirms my concerns. Simply stated, the United Kingdom will be much better off in the long run if it escapes.
P.P.S. Let's not forget that Piketty's core argument for class warfare has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked. Indeed, only 3 percent of economists agree with his theory.
Originally published at International Liberty
Vox Continues to Sell the "Benefits" of Socialism
Vox is whooping up the wacky notion that "sex was better under socialism." Tell that to Romanian women forced to undergo monthly gyno exams to outlaw abortions because the government proclaimed in 1985 that "the fetus is the socialist property of the whole society… Those who refuse to have children are deserters." Women's reproductive lives were part of centralized economic planning, especially "policies to make better use of the population as a factor of production" by "stimulating an increase in birth rates."
This policy was endorsed and subsidized by the World Bank, which is currently touting itself as the friend of women.
Read the full article at JimBovard.com
PayPal Censorship Is Not Limited to Online Provocateurs
Too Much Partisanship in Washington? No, Too Much Bipartisanship!
Washington is once again gripped by the specter of a government shutdown, as Congress and President Trump negotiate an end-of-year spending deal. A main issue of contention is funding for President Trump's border wall. Sadly, but not surprisingly, neither Congress nor the administration is fighting to cut, or at least not increase, spending.
Federal spending has increased from 3.6 trillion dollars to 4.4 trillion dollars since Republicans gained control over both chambers of Congress in 2014. Some may try to defend congressional Republicans by pointing out that for two years the Republican Congress had to negotiate spending deals with President Obama. But federal spending has increased by 7.5 percent, or over 300 billion dollars, since Donald Trump become President.
A big beneficiary of the Republican spending spree is the military-industrial complex. Republicans have increased the "defense" budget by eight percent in the past two years. President Trump and congressional Republicans claim the increases are necessary because sequestration "decimated" the military. But Congress, with the Obama administration's full cooperation and support, suspended sequestration every year but one, so the planned cuts never went into full effect. Congress and Obama also "supplemented" the official military budget with generous appropriations for the Pentagon's off-budget Overseas Contingency Operations fund. Spending on militarism increased by as much as 600 billion dollars over the amounts allowed for under sequestration.
President Trump has proposed reducing the projected military budget for fiscal year 2020 to 700 billion dollars. This would be a mere two percent cut, yet the usual voices are already crying that this tiny reduction would endanger our security. If history is any guide, the military-industrial complex's congressional allies and high-priced lobbyists will be able to defeat the president's proposed reductions and convince President Trump to further increase the military budget.
This huge military budget has little or nothing to do with America's legitimate security needs. In fact, as candidate Trump recognized, America's military interventions in the Middle East have endangered our security by empowering terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda.
While the warfare state has been a big beneficiary of the Republican spending spree, the GOP has hardly neglected the welfare state. Domestic spending has increased seven percent since 2016. Except for a half-hearted attempt to repeal Obamacare and some food stamp reforms that were included in and then dropped from this year's farm bill, Republicans have not made any effort to roll back or even reform the welfare state.
The farm bill, which Congress is expected to pass this week, will spend as much as 900 billion dollars over the next ten years. Much of that spending will be on taxpayer subsidies for wealthy farmers and even "farmers in name only."
Trump's budget deals have been supported by the majority of Democrats. Even those who have called for the president's impeachment are more than happy to vote with him when it comes to increasing spending and debt. These Democrats are the mirror image of 1990s Republicans who made a big spending deal with President Clinton while simultaneously trying to impeach him.
We suffer from too much bipartisanship when it comes to the welfare-warfare state. This bipartisanship has resulted in a national debt that is rapidly approaching 30 trillion dollars. This will inevitably lead to a major economic crisis. The way to avoid this crisis is to replace the bipartisan welfare-warfare consensus with a new consensus in favor of limited government, peace, free markets in all areas including currency, and auditing then ending the Fed.
In the Eyes of the State, We are All Russian (Bots) Now
Last September a very informative paper was published by the neoconservative Atlantic Council. In connection with this institution are such important public figures as Collin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger. The paper, written by John T. Watts, summarizes the main conclusions drawn at this year's Sovereign Challenges Conference in Washington, DC. The text allows for a deep look into some of the minds of the American elite and their allies. Its reading is therefore highly recommended. The inclined reader, however, should sometimes overlook empty phrases and distracting rhetoric to get to the heart of the matter.
At its core, it's about maintaining power. According to Watts, the big problem is "disinformation", which is disseminated through new and alternative media. It destabilizes public institutions and in the worst case undermines the sovereignty of the state. This must be prevented.
Neoconservatives are fully aware that any state system ultimately depends on the trust of its citizens. Trust is the basis for the functioning of state institutions. New communication technologies, however, have increasingly enabled "extremist ideological" currents to spread their toxic messages and deprive people of confidence in existing institutions. It is precisely this loss of trust on the part of citizens that endangers the sovereignty of the state.1
The flood of information in the Internet age plays a decisive role because it makes targeted "disinformation" by small but well-organized groups possible in the first place. It leads to exaggeration, isolation and one-sidedness within one's own "echo chamber". According to Watts, the sudden availability of large amounts of information can overburden a society. Too much useless and qualitatively inferior information can lead to isolation and polarization. People specifically select their sources of information and limit themselves in the process. They even have to do so in view of the many alternatives available to them. But in doing so, they tend to rely on those sources that confirm and reinforce their own prejudices.
In order to underline the potential seriousness of the situation, Watts refers to Nate Silver's book The Signal and the Noise, in which a parallel is drawn between the invention of the printing press and the advent of the Internet. This analogy was also taken up by the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson in his recent book The Square and the Tower.2 Both authors recall that the invention of printing not only made Luther's Reformation of the Christian Church possible, but also provided a powerful means of communication for many populist and, from today's point of view, deterrent movements. Here, for example, one can refer to the witch hunts of the early modern period. After Luther's Reformation, Europe was also plunged into centuries of religious wars. Is something similar threatening us today in the age of the Internet? It is clear that also today existing hierarchies and power structures are questioned and start to falter. This usually leads to the old elites giving their all in order to maintain their privileged position.
But first it has to be clarified who is really behind the specter of "disinformation". Watts refers not only to all sorts of "conspiracy theorists" like "truthers," "chemtrailers" or "anti-vaxxers", whose political and social impact can really be doubted, but also to Islamic terror groups or the Russian secret service, which is said to have influenced the outcome of the American presidential elections through such powerful social networks as Facebook.
At this point, however, we should pause for a moment. Is interference in the political affairs of other countries an exclusively Russian phenomenon? No. This has always been the case everywhere, especially on the part of the USA in recent history. So, if the Russian secret service is behind targeted disinformation, can the American establishment really free itself from it? Here, too, a clear no. Think, for example, of the deliberate manipulation of public opinion before various military interventions in the Middle East.
For Watts it is simply about which narrative dominates and determines public opinion. Truth is an elastic term, he claims. The question is merely: "Whose truth?" So, it is nothing but a power struggle. From this point of view disinformation is merely a truth deviating from one's own truth and must be fought against. One's own truth becomes the disinformation of the opponent. Therefore, according to Watts, new gatekeepers are needed in the modern flow of information. The prevailing opinion must be brought back on track.
The good thing, however, is that Watts is wrong. Truth is not subjective. It is, if at all, very limited in elasticity. And if it turns out that the hitherto so dominant narrative of the American establishment has overstretched the truth at one point or another, it is a blessing that modern communication technology makes it possible to point this out critically and effectively. We can only hope that technology will always stay one step ahead of regulators and gatekeepers – and that citizens will ultimately trust the narrative that is closest to the truth.
- 1. The loss of trust is reflected, for example, in this year's Edelman Trust Barometer: Global Report. Interestingly, India, for example, has a higher trust index than the USA.
- 2. The interested reader is referred to Dr. David Gordon's review of Ferguson's book.
The Corporate Debt Market: Is It Teetering on the Edge?
Jeff Peshut answers the question that has been widely discussed in the media lately: Is There Really A Corporate Debt Bubble That's Ready To Burst?
To unravel the mystery, Peshut compares movements in the Rothbard-Salerno TMS monetary aggregate with movements in corporate business debt from 1978 through 2017. At the end of 2017 corporate business debt stood at $29.1 billion or about $10 trillion above its post-crisis trough at the end of 2009. TMS reached its cyclical trough of $5.1 trillion at the end of 2006 and increased to $13.1 trillion, a breath-taking increase of 156.9%, by the end of 2017. For the sake of comparison, during the housing bubble TMS increased by "only" 70%, from $3.0 trillion to $5.1 trillion from 2000 to 2006. The year-over-year (YOY) rate of growth of TMS has precipitously fallen from over 7% in 2016 to less than 4% at the end of 2017. The huge increase in the money supply from 2009 onward would certainly lead us to suspect that there is a systemic overvaluation of asset markets that will sooner or later come to a bad end. But the trillion dollar question is, of course: When?
With respect to the corporate debt market, Peshut gives us a cogent ad informed forecast. He finds that in the last three complete credit cycles, from 1994 through 2009, the trough in the YOY growth rate of TMS has preceded the trough in the YOY growth rate of corporate business debt by about three years in each case. Given this three-year lag, even if TMS has already reached its trough, Peshut concludes that claims that the corporate debt bubble is about to pop are premature and the more likely scenario is that the bubble bursts in 2021 or 2022.
Austrians Should Pay Attention to the "Replication Crisis" in Scientific Research
Austrian economists should take an interest in the so-called "replication crisis" in science, which is affecting primarily the field of psychology, but is likely under-recognized in other social sciences—and in economics in particular.
Over the last several, an increasing number of reports have highlighted the fact that scientists are frequently unable to replicate the results of prior experiments in psychology, even when those experimental or correlational studies were conducted and analyzed according to commonly accepted methods. The magnitude of the problem was made concrete in a 2015 Science paper by lead author Brian Nosek. Replication rates, in terms of statistical significance or effect size, were only between 25-50% (depending on the particular field of psychological study).
The doubts raised by Nosek and his collaborators are metastasizing to other human sciences, including medicine. Reports of poor research reproducibility are now appearing routinely in scientific journals. Interestingly , in the context of such a replication study pertaining to the social sciences and published this past August, it was discovered that scientists are able to predict a priori with a high degree of accuracy which particular result will be replicated and which will not!
A perhaps even more startling study was just published last month. Nosek submitted a very rich data set, taken from the 2012-2013 soccer season, to 29 different teams of statisticians for analysis. The question to be answered by the statisticians was whether a darker skin tone increased the likelihood that a player would receive a red card. The variability in the methods chosen and in the results obtained was astounding, especially since, at one point in the process, the teams of analysts were encouraged to compare notes and give each other feedback.
We interviewed Nosek on our podcast about his work. It was a fascinating conversation. As an empiricist, he remains hopeful that, perhaps through greater transparency, sharing of data, and collaboration among scientists, the replication crisis will resolve itself. And he expects that the resolution will occur while preserving the standard theoretical assumptions of empiricism.
I'm not so "optimistic," and I suspect that the crisis will be protracted. But I am hopeful that, over time, social scientists will come to recognize and accept that certain types of knowledge can only be obtained by human judgment, rather than by measurement—provided that the judgment and reasoning proceed logically from a basis of reasonable assumptions. This is a good opportunity for Austrians to showcase their methodological alternative to the scientific world
Trump is the Rare Honest Politician about US Debt
Once again Donald Trump's presidency has done a great job of highlighting the hypocrisy and delusion of the beltway bubble.
A recent story from the Daily Beast reports that Trump is frustrating advisers with his apathy towards the current trillion dollar deficits coming out of Washington.
Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt.
Sources close to the president say he has repeatedly shrugged it off, implying that he doesn't have to worry about the money owed to America's creditors—currently about $21 trillion—because he won't be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes even more untenable.
The friction came to a head in early 2017 when senior officials offered Trump charts and graphics laying out the numbers and showing a "hockey stick" spike in the national debt in the not-too-distant future. In response, Trump noted that the data suggested the debt would reach a critical mass only after his possible second term in office.
"Yeah, but I won't be here," the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt.
Trump's lack of concern for the debt should hardly be surprising. As a candidate, he boasted about his desire to preserve various entitlement programs while simultaneously promising significant increases in military spending – a promise he has delivered on. Left unsaid in the report is that the goal of at least some of Trump's advisors was undoubtedly to encourage the president to embrace some form of tax increase. We know, for example, that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has encouraged Trump to embrace a VAT tax in the past, a policy that would be particularly damaging to America's low and middle class.
What's all the more comical, however, is the resulting jeering from DC pundits and political enemies acting as if Trump's view on the debt is some radical new threat to American stability. On the contrast, all Trump is doing is being honest about the views held by almost everyone that has served in Washington the past several decades. While politicians from both parties love to give lip service to "fiscal responsibility", the closest thing we've come to meaningful action on budgetary restraint was the budget sequestration of 2013. Of course those cuts to future spending increases (not to be confused with actual spending cuts) came into place simply because of the inaction of federal legislators and faced instant bipartisan condemnation.
This isn't the first time that Trump's truth telling over the debt has thrown opposing politicians and pundits into a tizzy. On the campaign trail, Trump was accused of threatening financial Armageddon when he suggested that America could default on its debt. What should be obvious to anyone who has paid even passive attention to American politics is that US default is inevitable. The only question is what form will it take.
One of the greatest myths in DC is that America has never defaulted on its debt, something repeated not long ago by Fed Chair Jerome Powell in a Congressional hearing. Of course this is simply absurd.
As James Grant and other financial historians have explained, the federal government has defaulted numerous times in its history, the most recent of which occurred when Richard Nixon closed the gold window. In that case, the out of control spending, led by the Vietnam war and LBJ's Great Society, led the US to default on its obligations to foreign governments, repaying their loans with dollars valued at far less than the $35 per ounce they were promised.
This form of monetary default may be the future of the dollar, an outcome that Ron Paul has long warned us about.
Another option, one that Murray Rothbard advlocated, is simple debt repudiation. As he wrote in 1992, when US debt was a quaint $4 trillion:
I propose, then, a seemingly drastic but actually far less destructive way of paying off the public debt at a single blow: outright debt repudiation. Consider this question: why should the poor, battered citizens of Russia or Poland or the other ex-Communist countries be bound by the debts contracted by their former Communist masters? In the Communist situation, the injustice is clear: that citizens struggling for freedom and for a free-market economy should be taxed to pay for debts contracted by the monstrous former ruling class. But this injustice only differs by degree from "normal" public debt. For, conversely, why should the Communist government of the Soviet Union have been bound by debts contracted by the Czarist government they hated and overthrew? And why should we, struggling American citizens of today, be bound by debts created by a past ruling elite who contracted these debts at our expense? One of the cogent arguments against paying blacks "reparations" for past slavery is that we, the living, were not slaveholders. Similarly, we the living did not contract for either the past or the present debts incurred by the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington.
Rothbard goes on to suggest that a more traditional debt restructuring – similar to what Trump touched on during his campaign – could also be an option if outright repudiation was considered to be "too draconian."
The government is an organization, so why not liquidate the assets of that organization and pay the creditors (the government bondholders) a pro-rata share of those assets? This solution would cost the taxpayer nothing....The United States government should be forced to disgorge its assets, sell them at auction, and then pay off the creditors accordingly....This combination of repudiation and privatization would go a long way to reducing the tax burden, establishing fiscal soundness, and desocializing the United States.
Peter Klein has also written on the absurd hyperventilating in the beltway when such an idea is ever suggested:
[T]he idea that the US can never restructure or even repudiate the national debt — that US Treasuries must always be treated as a unique and magical "risk-free" investment — is wildly speculative at best, preposterous at worst. Every other borrowing entity — individuals, business firms, and governments — has the option of renegotiating interest payments and even defaulting on loans. It is hardly an extraordinary event, even for sovereign borrowing — that's why lenders charge a risk premium beyond the return they require to compensate for time preference.
There is lots of evidence on private, corporate, and sovereign defaults, and the results are hardly catastrophic. Depending on the circumstances, the benefits of reducing debt can exceed the costs of harming the borrower's reputation and thus increasing the costs of future borrowing. Anyone who has been through a personal or corporate bankruptcy knows this.
At the end of the day Trump's views on dismissal of US debt illustrate is another example of short-sighted economic thinking. It's absurd, however, to treat this as some radical change from his more "dignified" and "respectable" predecessors. Instead, just like his views on tariffs, monetary policy, and defense spending, Trump's real sin is simply being a continuation of the status quo on these issues
The difference is that Trump says out loud the part politicians are supposed to keep quiet.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Mike Moustakas homered to lead off the 13th inning, lifting the Kansas City Royals to a 7-6 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday.
Moustakas homered to right on an 0-2 pitch from Chance Ruffin (0-1), who had not pitched in the majors since 2011.
Louis Coleman (3-0), the eighth Kansas City pitcher, retired the only batter he faced in the top of the 13th.
Kansas City rallied from five runs down and led 6-5 in the ninth inning before Raul Ibanez homered off Greg Holland into the Mariners' bullpen with two outs to tie the score. It was Holland's first blown save since May 6 to end his streak of 31 consecutive saves.
Billy Butler went 5 for 5, matching his career high in hits for the Royals, while Emilo Bonifacio went 4 for 6 for his first four-hit game since July 4, 2009.


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WNY native blamed for failed get-out-the-vote app that some tie to Romney's loss
WASHINGTON – To hear Mitt Romney's supporters tell it, "Project ORCA," billed as a one-of-a-kind Web app aimed at targeting voters in the swing states to make sure they voted, would take a big bite out of President Obama's chances for re-election.
"There's nothing that the Obama data team, there's nothing that the Obama campaign, there's nothing that President Obama himself can do to even come close to what we are putting together here," Dan Centinello, a 28-year-old Lancaster native and deputy political director for the Romney campaign, told volunteers on a training call in late October, according to the Huffington Post.
But by midday on Election Day, ORCA was, as many bloggers have noted, a beached whale.
Struggling to cope with thousands of Romney volunteers trying to use the program to identify voters and get them to the polls, the system crashed, leaving Romney headquarters in Boston unable to keep track of its own "ground game."
Two weeks later, many on the political right say Project Orca's failure was a key factor in Romney's loss – and some are blaming Centinello for it all.
For proof, just go to www.dancentinello.com, which is definitely not Dan Centinello's official website.
"Dan Centinello, College Dropout and the Man Responsible for Project ORCA (aka. the Man Who May Have Cost Mitt Romney the Presidency in 2012)," says the website, whose URL, or Internet address, was registered by Domainsbyproxy.com, which hides the identity of the person or persons behind it.
Some political pros say the website's contention is a gigantic and malicious stretch – in part because it's unclear exactly how much responsibility Centinello bears for the disaster, which Romney insiders aren't discussing.
"I don't think [the website] is fair at all," said Eric Frenchman, who ran online advertising for the 2008 presidential bid of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. "It's kind of sad."
Still, political scientists contacted for this article said the collapse of Romney's get-out-the-vote effort probably cost the Republican ticket plenty of votes where it mattered the most.
"I doubt that it would have made a difference in the outcome, but the election would have been much closer," said James E. Campbell, chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University at Buffalo.
Centinello, who had attended Canisius College, told The Buffalo News last summer that he was working 20-hour days poring over data and "microtargeting voters." He did not respond to requests to comment for this article.
Former Romney campaign officials and Zac Moffatt, the campaign's top digital consultant, also did not respond to messages.
But much of the Project ORCA story has been told by Romney volunteers who witnessed the meltdown firsthand.
The problems predated Election Day. Some volunteers never got the instruction packet that was to include all the information they needed, such as the polling place they were supposed to staff.
"Either this whole thing was a farce, or they didn't know what they were doing," said a Romney volunteer from North Carolina who never got her packet and who asked not to be identified by name.
Meanwhile, John Ekdahl, a Romney volunteer and blogger from Jacksonville, Fla., got his packet the night before the election. But it didn't say he needed a poll-watching certificate. So when he showed up at his assigned polling place, the people staffing the polls asked him to leave.
Other volunteers made it to the polls but were left helpless after ORCA crashed. "ORCA very well COULD have been amazing, let me report in real time, to GOTV [get out the vote]," Shoshanna McCrimmon, county captain for Romney in Bland County, Va., tweeted on Election Day. "Unfortunately, lots of us couldn't log in."
Worse yet, the Romney campaign had no backup plan in place – in case ORCA failed – to revert to the traditional paper "strike lists" of voters who had voted and those who had not.
On top of that, Eckdahl and others who have probed the system's crash noted that ORCA wasn't even fully tested before Election Day.
"To be the Republican nominee and not have all the bells and whistles worked out long before Election Day is just mind-boggling," said Frenchman, the former McCain digital adviser.
The scope of ORCA's problems became clear in the days after the election, and the right-wing blogosphere was livid about it all.
"The Romney campaign's Project ORCA collapsed," Erick Erickson wrote at RedState.com. "They might as well have called it Shamu because it bit the leg of the campaign and wouldn't let go."
Meanwhile, Joel B. Pollak of Breitbart.com contrasted the ORCA meltdown with the Obama campaign's smooth-as-silk operation. For example, it posted three volunteers at each Virginia polling place and had no trouble keeping track of who had voted and who had not in each precinct. The Obama campaign also used a Web-based app, but it appears to have operated flawlessly.
Pollak also contended that because the election was so close in the key swing states of Florida, Virginia, Ohio and Colorado, all that each of the Romney volunteers in those states would have had to do was get 20 additional Romney voters to the polls in order for the Republican to win the election.
"There was, in fact, massive suppression of the Republican vote – by the Romney campaign, through the diversion of nearly 40,000 volunteers to a failing computer program," Pollak wrote.
Meanwhile, Lara Brown, an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University who has closely studied the election results and election polls, noted that Romney underperformed in Ohio's rural counties – a fact that might be tied to the ORCA failure. She said she doubted that ORCA cost Romney the election, but added: "Is it likely that it had a substantial effect? Yes."
It's unclear how much responsibility Centinello should bear for all the troubles. Romney volunteers such as Ekdahl noted that Centinello was personally answering emails about ORCA in the days leading up to the election – an indication that he might have taken on a task that no one staffer could ever perform, given that 37,000 volunteers were expected to work with the system.
"My knee-jerk reaction was that he was the problem," Eckdahl said. "But now I think it was more widespread than that. He was given the task of running something that was unmanageable for one person."
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G6005, Revised January 2012
Success in growing fruits in home plantings largely depends on the type or cultivar selected. Midwestern growing conditions — cold winters; frosty or rainy springs; hot, dry summers — make it difficult to grow some of the well-known fruits. Every gardener should be realistic and discriminating about what fruits to plant. Many problems with winter injury, diseases and insects can be avoided by choosing a fruit cultivar that is well adapted to your site conditions.
Performance of fruiting plants depends in part on how well their growth requirements are met. All fruits require full sun and adequate spacing for optimal crop production without shading. Also, fruit plants almost always require irrigation during July and August. For raspberries, plant growth is often limited by intense summer heat. In contrast, blackberries can be injured by low winter temperatures. In spring, buds on nearly all fruit trees are susceptible to frost. Thus, low areas or "frost pockets" should be avoided, as cold air settles in these sites. Rainfall near cherry harvest frequently causes fruit cracking.
Nearly all Missouri soils are low in phosphorus and may require adjustment of the soil pH before planting. Most fruits perform well at 6.0 to 6.5 pH, but blueberries require acidic soils at 4.8 to 5.2 pH. Thus, a soil test taken before the planting season is recommended. Although some plant nutrients can be added annually, others such as phosphorus or sulphur are best incorporated into the soil before planting to minimize root disturbance and enhance nutrient uptake after planting.
Beginners tend to plant more fruits than they need or want. A few trees or plants will provide a family with needed fresh and preserved fruits if given proper care.
Table 1. Expected yields of fruits for mature producing plants that are given proper care.
Many fruit cultivars are protected by plant patents. Thus, these cultivars must be obtained from a nursery. Grafted fruit trees, especially those with a dwarfing rootstock, produce a crop at a younger age. Semidwarf fruit trees are often crowded in small spaces and become difficult to prune and harvest. Most fruit trees grown from seed produce differently from their parents in fruit type and quality.
Small fruit plants produced from tissue culture or cuttings purchased from reputable nurseries are desirable, as they should be disease-free. Plant material supplied from existing plantings (by cuttings or division) may perpetuate disease problems.
Nurseries choose specific dwarfing rootstocks that are best suited to the aboveground growth of the cultivar. For apples, rootstock choice is usually limited to dwarfing or semidwarfing types. Because dwarf trees produce heavy crops at a young age, they require support to prevent the aboveground part of the tree from breaking. Use an 8- to 10-foot post buried 2 feet into the ground for support. Tie the main trunk or central leader of the tree to the post using pliable material to prevent tree girdling.
Dwarf pear rootstocks are unavailable for planting in Missouri.
Peach, plum, cherry and apricot trees are naturally smaller than apple at maturity. Although dwarf trees are available for the stone fruit, they are often problematic.
Requirements for pollination vary among kinds of fruits. The majority of apple, pear, sweet cherry, plum, blueberry, black currant and elderberry cultivars require cross-pollination. Two different cultivars that bloom at the same time can be used for cross-pollination. Tart cherry, European (blue) plum, peach, nectarine, apricot (with a few exceptions), grape, raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, gooseberry and red currant cultivars will bear acceptable crops with self-pollination. Thus, several cultivars of self-pollinating crops are not needed unless prolonged summer harvest of fruit is desired.
With any woody perennial fruit plant, development of a strong vegetative structure before fruiting is important. Thus, during the first growing season and the following year, remove all flowers or fruits from the tree or bush. This practice is critical for apples, pears, peach, plum, cherry, grape and blueberry. In the third growing season, allow the plant to produce a light crop. Thereafter, adjust the crop annually to balance fruit and foliar growth.
Flowers and fruits naturally thin themselves at specific times. Unpollinated flowers often drop in the spring. Small, immature fruits drop naturally early in the growing season. Fruits that are diseased, infested with insects, or moisture-stressed also often drop prematurely. Even so, most trees produce an abundant crop of small fruits at harvest. Thus, to increase fruit size at harvest, ensure a crop for next year and prevent limb breakage, thin developing fruits (less than 1/2 inch diameter) annually after the danger of frost has passed. For apples, remove all fruits in a cluster, leaving only the largest one. For peaches,thin fruits to one every 8 inches along the branches. Preferably remove small, misshapen or damaged fruit. Other types of fruit trees require thinning only when a heavy crop is produced. Thinning by hand is desirable to selectively remove fruit, but when hand-thinning becomes impractical, fruit can be knocked off with a rubber hose. The crop load on grapevines is generally adjusted during pruning, leaving enough buds to prevent overcropping.
All fruits are susceptible to insect pests and disease organisms. Often, apples, peaches and grapes are productive only under the careful use of a regular spray program. Spraying at specific times throughout the growing season is necessary because many pests attack different fruits multiple times. Protection of the foliage and bark is also necessary to maintain healthy and productive plants.
Certain fruit cultivars are susceptible to problems that cannot be prevented by cultural practices or spraying. For this reason, some well-known cultivars are omitted from the following list. For example, cultivars of pear such as Bartlett, Comice and Anjou are very susceptible to fire blight and not recommended over more tolerant cultivars.
Birds often damage cherries, blueberries and elderberries. Although cumbersome to handle, netting is available to exclude these pests from plants.
The following cultivars are suggested on the basis of vigor, productivity, climatic adaptability, fruit quality and relative freedom from the most destructive diseases. Wherever practical, several cultivars of each kind of fruit are listed to help satisfy personal preferences.
Several European and Asian pears are susceptible to fire blight. This bacterial disease often kills blossoms, shoots, branches and young trees of susceptible cultivars. Only fire blight-resistant cultivars are recommended for planting in Missouri, and they require a second cultivar for cross-pollination. Some Asian pears have a thin peel and are very susceptible to disease infection after hail. For optimal fruit quality, pears should be picked while firm and green and ripened indoors for several days at about 70 degrees F.
The major factors in selecting peaches for home use are cold hardiness, disease resistance and season of ripening. After severe winters, oozing cankers may form on lower portions of the trunks and severely injure or kill trees. Spring frosts may eliminate fruit for a growing season. Plant peach trees on high ground and in well-drained soils only.
Nectarine trees are almost identical to peach trees in appearance, growth habit and cold hardiness. Fruits are smooth and are smaller and more difficult to grow than peaches. They are generally more susceptible than peaches to low temperature damage and bacterial spot. Their flesh is firm, and they must be quite ripe to be freestone. Not all nectarines have been adequately evaluated under Missouri growing conditions. Performance will vary by area.
Apricots are, unfortunately, the first fruit trees to bloom in the spring. Frequently, fruit buds or blossoms are killed by low temperatures. In central Missouri, apricot trees crop in two of seven years of production. The glossy foliage makes a nice ornamental tree, however, and a crop of fruit is considered a bonus.
In Missouri, European plum trees generally bloom later and crop more reliably than Japanese plum trees. Japanese cultivars require cross-pollination, and their flowers are more susceptible to low temperature injury than other types. Thus, Japanese plum trees perform slightly better in the warmer, southern part of the state.
Sour cherries are reasonably well adapted to Missouri but should be planted only on soils that drain quickly after rainfall. During humid or rainy conditions, brown rot is problematic. Sour cherries are more tolerant of low temperature injury than sweet cherries. Trees are self-pollinating.
Sweet cherries are marginal fruit trees for Missouri. They must have a well-drained soil. The best soils in Missouri are the river hill (loessal) soils. River hill soils also provide the best spring frost protection by draining cold air away from the trees. Sweet cherries usually bloom early enough to be damaged by spring frosts or freezes unless they are planted on excellent sites. Most sweet cherries need cross-pollination for fruit set (with the exception of the self-pollinating types listed below), so two or more different cultivars must be planted. Fruit tends to crack when rainfall occurs near harvest, and brown rot is often problematic.
Self-pollinating types
Cross-pollinating types
Table grapes with seeds
Wine grapes
Seedless grapes
Strawberries are easily established, but fungal diseases and rainfall during harvest are problematic. Weed control is a major task when growing strawberries. Everbearing or day-neutral cultivars fail to produce a good crop in warm Missouri temperatures.
Late midseason
Native blackberries are prevalent throughout Missouri but generally have small, seedy fruit. Sterility is problematic and may be transmitted to non-native cultivars. Infected plants bloom profusely, but no fruit sets. Plants infected with sterility should be removed — roots and tops — and burned. Plant only disease-free plants in another location. Because semierect and trailing blackberries are more susceptible to low temperature injury than erect-growing types, they are not recommended for planting north of Interstate 44. Erect-growing cultivars do not require trellising.
Primocane (fall) fruiting cultivars such as Prime-Ark, Prime-Jim and Prime-Jan suffer from severe summer heat stress and perform poorly in Missouri.
All raspberries require well-drained soil to avoid root rot, and plants often suffer from summer heat stress. Black raspberries are susceptible to anthracnose and cane blight. Purple raspberries generally have larger fruit than black cultivars. Black and purple raspberries grow more vigorously and require more pruning than red-fruited cultivars. To maximize a single harvest of large fruit, prune all canes of fall-fruiting or primocane-fruiting red raspberries just above the soil surface during the dormant season.
Blueberries require an acid soil (pH 4.8 to 5.2). Before planting, incorporate sulphur to lower the soil pH, if necessary, and incorporate peat moss into the planting hole. After planting, use ammonium sulfate fertilizer to maintain a low pH. Use an organic mulch over the row, and irrigate routinely during dry periods. Use netting over a structure to enclose plants and prevent fruit loss from birds.
The gooseberry, though not especially popular, is worth considering because of the small amount of care and space required. Plants are adapted to a wide range of soils. Improved cultivars such as Welcome, Pixwell and Invicta produce berries twice the size of most native plants. Gooseberries are used mostly for pies.
Currants generally prefer a cooler growing region than Missouri but will produce a crop most years. Black currant cultivars, including Blackdown, Consort and Crusader, require cross-pollination. Red Lake and Cherry Red currants are self-fertile, but under hot, humid conditions, fruit will drop. Currants are used for beverages, jams and jellies.
Large cymes (multibranched fruit clusters) are harvested from shrubs in July and August when all berries are fully colored. Missouri cultivars include Wyldwood and Bob Gordon, but others such as Adams, York and Scotia are available. Yields are improved with cross-pollination. Bacterial leaf spot, borers, mites and sting bugs may be problematic. Elderberries are used fresh in pies and beverages, frozen or dried.
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Olympus's new Micro Four-Thirds camera is based on a wish list from photographers in Japan, and the result is an interchangeable-lens model that shoots quickly, withstands water, and boasts outstanding maneuvers in the dark.
Olympus took the wraps off its latest Micro Four-Thirds camera today--its eighth compact interchangeable-lens camera overall, but the first model not to be part of the company's Pen series. Instead, the 16-megapixel Olympus OM-D E-M5 is the inaugural entry in the company's new OM-D line.
Although the new camera's sensor is the same size as that of previous Pen and Panasonic Lumix G cameras (17.3mm by 13.0mm), it's a revamped version of the Live MOS sensor. Olympus says that, thanks to the redesigned sensor, the OM-D E-M5 offers the fastest autofocus speed of any interchangeable-lens camera on the market, DSLRs included.
Olympus is positioning the OM-D E-M5 as a "wish list" model resulting from user feedback in Japan, where the company says mirrorless models account for nearly 50 percent of interchangeable-lens camera sales. Based on customer requests, the OM-D E-M5 is built to meet high demand for a rain- and dust-resistant body, an interchangeable-lens camera with an integrated eye-level viewfinder, and good low-light performance.
The camera has been completely redesigned from the inside out, with a dust- and splashproof magnesium-alloy body that's slightly bigger than anything Olympus has released in its Pen line. Keep in mind that "splashproof" does not equal "waterproof"; the OM-D E-M5 can handle rain and spray, but it isn't designed to be submerged underwater. Aesthetically, it's modeled after the Olympus OM-4 SLR from the mid-1980s, a 35mm film camera.
The OM-D E-M5 has a 1.4-million-dot eye-level viewfinder with a 120-fps refresh rate above its Micro Four-Thirds lens mount. Olympus claims that the camera offers improved noise correction throughout its ISO range, which caps out at 25,600.
Beyond those core "wish list" specs are a number of equally enticing in-camera features and hardware. In addition to the aforementioned fast autofocus speeds, the camera offers a 4.2-frames-per-second burst-shooting mode with continuous autofocus (or 9 fps with AF set on the first shot), plus 1080i video recording at 60 fps with automatic correction for rolling-shutter effect. It also has body-based image stabilization due to a five-axis sensor-shift system built to correct pitch and yaw rotation, as well as an adjustable 3-inch touchscreen OLED display that complements the camera's physical controls for focusing and shutter release.
One key similarity between the OM-D E-M5 and Olympus's Pen series of interchangeable-lens cameras is the inclusion of several "Art Filter" presets that apply special effects to images and video as you shoot them. On top of holdovers such as the Miniature Mode and Toy Camera effects, new filters include a black-and-white version of Olympus's ominous-looking Dramatic Tone filter (which you can now also use in movie mode for a Darren Aronofsky, Pi-style look), an Echo effect that creates visual trails behind moving objects in video mode, and a Key Line mode that makes photos resemble comic-book drawings.
One thing that's missing is a built-in flash, although a detachable flash is included with the camera. The camera's hot shoe and accessory port also hosts older flashes, microphones, and other accessories from the Pen line.
Also on the "wish list" that Olympus's research provided was a greater variety of Micro Four-Thirds lenses, specifically in the areas of fixed focal length and high-end glass. The company hopes to address that demand with three new lenses also announced today, all of which are compatible with Olympus's Pen series, Panasonic's Lumix G series, and the new OM-D line.
The only zoom lens of the three is the M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-50mm F3.5-6.3 EZ, which will be available as a kit lens with the OM-D E-M5. Like other Micro Four-Thirds cameras, the OM-D E-M5 has a focal length multiplier of 2X when a lens is attached, meaning that the new zoom lens will have an effective focal range of 24mm to 100mm in 35mm film equivalent when mounted.
Still in development are two new prime lenses that are slated to be available by the end of the year. The faster of the two is the M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm F1.8, with a wide aperture that the company says is built for fast-action shooting and portrait photography. The M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm F2.8 is a dust- and splashproof macro lens with a minimum focus distance of 7.5 inches. Olympus has not yet announced pricing or availability for these two prime lenses.
Due in April, the Olympus OM-D E-M5 will be available in black or white, and it will cost $1000 for the body only--a price that puts it up against midrange DSLRs rather than most interchangeable-lens compacts. It will also be available in two kit configurations: with a 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 lens for $1100, and with the new 12-50mm F3.5-6.3 lens for $1300.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/249372/olympus_omd_em5_a_mirrorless_camera_built_to_compete_with_dslrs.html
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The Best of Skate Fate - Soft Cover
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Unleashed upon the skateboarding world from 1981 to 1991, Skate Fate was the first and longest-running homemade, photocopied skate zine. Published by GSD and jam-packed with hilarious interviews, corrosive articles, breath-snatching photography, vibrant artwork, twisted cartoons, clever ads (both real and fake) and the latest news, quotes and slang, it was all spontaneously laid out with ultra-vivid graphic design then urgently slammed into the mailboxes of fellow enthused skaters and zine makers all over the United States. Just in time for the 30th anniversary, GSD unveils The Best of Skate Fate, a mega-thick, 320-page, stark black-and-white book bursting with the most crucial content culled from the pages of nearly all 76 issues of this legendary zine. It's delivered to you fresh from the pre-computer era, when pens, pencils, paper, glue, tape, triangles and T-squares were the tools of the trade. Scanned directly from the original master layouts, it all looks better than ever! Exclusive full-length interviews delve into the minds of skateboarding icons Neil Blender, Steve Caballero, Steve Claar, Bill Danforth, Claus Grabke, Jeff Grosso, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi, Marty Jimenez, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Corey O'Brien and Gavin O'Brien, Chris Miller, Stacy Peralta, Rob Roskopp, Billy Ruff, Skate Rat, John Smythe (Craig Stecyk), Kevin Staab and Tod Swank. Articles like "Xerox Scuzz" and "A Sketchy History of Skate Fate" explore the 1980s skate zine phenomenon in detail, while Neil Blender's cartoons featuring Mark Coonson and friends will leave you paralyzed by laugh attacks. Galleries of Skate Fate covers, logos, hand-drawn ads, a Skate Fate collector's guide and so much more wrap it all up. Now is the perfect time to crack open The Best of Skate Fate--a vital, surreal window into the most creative era skateboarding has ever known. Note: This is a soft cover edition. Check out the hard cover! http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2374362 The pages of this book are printed on non-glossy, cream colored (off white) paper.
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- Publish Date Jul 21, 2011
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Fine publications about skateboarding, including The Best of Skate Fate book, the first four issues of Skateboarder Magazine from 1964-'65, and Neil Blender and Stacy Peralta's book, First, I Used to Build Giant Thorns.


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Rick Pitino is taking on another rebuilding project.
The only men's college basketball coach to lead three teams to the Final Four has agreed to coach the Puerto Rico national team next summer in the FIBA Tournament of the Americas with an eye toward qualifying for the 2012 Olympics.
"It's a tall order and that's why I'm taking it," the Louisville coach said Monday. "If they were already in (the Olympics), I wouldn't do it. Their backs are to the wall."
Puerto Rico must finish in the top two in next summer's tournament to travel to London in 2012. Pitino met with Dallas Mavericks guard J.J. Barea and Miami Heat point guard Carlos Arroyo – both Puerto Rico natives – in Miami on Sunday to gauge their interest and came away impressed.
"These guys, playing for the national team is the biggest thing in the country," Pitino said. "They are very, very passionate about it and that was a major factor for me."
Puerto Rico last qualified for the Olympics in 2004, finishing sixth in a tournament that included a win over the United States.
Pitino is not the first high-profile American coach to pursue this course. Former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson unsuccessfully tried to get Mexico into the 2008 Olympics, and longtime NBA coach Del Harris led China to an eighth-place finish in the 2004 Olympics.
Though he has no international coaching experience, Pitino doesn't expect a difficult transition. He plans to bring the uptempo system he's used with great success at Providence, Kentucky and Louisville to Puerto Rico.
"They're a lot similar to the way we play," he said. "They get up and down the floor quickly."
Pitino and Louisville director of operations Ralph Willard will select the rest of the 12-man squad.
Willard played a vital role in bringing Pitino and Puerto Rico together. Puerto Rico basketball official Joel Katz, who played at Syracuse in the 1980s while Willard was an assistant under Jim Boeheim, reached out to Willard to ask him if he thought Pitino would be interested.
Initially, Pitino was skeptical. He had so little knowledge of the Puerto Rico basketball hierarchy he joked he thought federation president Carlos Beltran was the outfielder for the New York Mets who goes by the same name. He invited team officials to watch the Cardinals practice to get an idea on whether he would be a good fit.
"We told them how we would organize things and it just went from there," Pitino said.
Other than a per diem, Pitino will not receive compensation for taking the job. There are, however, other benefits.
He plans to have the national team practice in Louisville against the Cardinals next summer before taking both teams to the Bahamas for a round-robin tournament. NCAA rules allow programs one foreign trip every four years, and Pitino called the 10 practice days that accompany the trip invaluable.
"We're going to be able to play against the national team 2-3 times and play against NBA-type players," he said. "That's going to be great for our incoming freshmen."
Pitino doesn't anticipate preparations cutting into his recruiting time. The Cardinals have already locked up four players for the 2011 freshman class and could have the 2012 class locked by the spring.
He joked the only Spanish he knows are the words uttered by former Louisville stars Francisco Garcia and Edgar Sosa and doesn't expect there to be any sort of communication barrier.
"They understand their backs are to the wall as players and they've got to finish in the top two to qualify for the Olympics," he said. "It's very similar to Kentucky in the fact everybody there is so passionate about basketball. It will be a great challenge."


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Earlier in the evening, reports said that two victims underwent surgery and were receiving further medical treatment in the Kosovska Mitrovica Health Center. But of them - identified as Savo Mojsić - in the meanwhile succumbed to his injuries. The third Serb - a member of the Kosovo police, KPS - is said to have sustained light wounds. The situation in the ethnically divided town is described as tense. The incident happened around 20:00 CET in the ethnically mixed neighborhood of Brđani. Kosovska Mitrovica is divided by the Ibar River into its northern, mostly Serb part, that also has Bosniak and ethnic Albanian neighborhoods, while no Serbs live in the southern, ethnic Albanian part. Eyewitnesses said that the three Serbs were attacked by ethnic Albanians. http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=11&dd=09&nav_id=77258
Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović: "investigation should be carried out"KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović urged Wednesday evening EULEX to take over the investigation into the attack on three Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica. He added the investigation should be carried out by EULEX rather than the Kosovo Police Service (KPS), and that the motives of this, as he put it, terrorist act should be revealed as soon as possible. Bogdanović, who is on his way to Kosovo where he will attend the funeral of the Serb man who was killed last night, told Tanjug that it was very important to carry out an efficient probe and to arrest the perpetrators given that murder of one and wounding of two Serbs had raised tensions, which were already high for months in northern Kosovo. Stressing that the attack deserved the most severe criticism and that it was yet another among the incidents in the last few months, the Serbian minister urged Serbs not to react to provocations by Albanian extremists and called on KFOR and EULEX to focus on neuralgic points in the north, where there was a constant threat of inter-ethnic conflicts, rather than on the administrative crossings. "The attack shows that (ethnic) Albanian extremists are using every opportunity to use violence against Serbs, and that years of lack of punishment have resulted in an increase of their violent acts," Bogdanović stressed. The minister called on the international presence in the province to take all necessary measures to secure basic human rights of people in the north of the province, such as the right to personal and property security. http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=11&dd=10&nav_id=77263
But Kosciusko Metric Mayor Kristine Pantić stated today that "everybody knows" the Serbs were shot by members of the paramilitary ROSU unit, but that everyone was "keeping quiet about it". Pantić said the murder was "inspired" by international officials, and announced his municipality will sever all ties with KFOR.http://www.b92.net/Eng/news/.php?Ty=2011&mm=11&dd=10&Navy_id=77263
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"Smart, reliable and way ahead of the curve … a must and invaluable read."–Peter Biskind(Down and Dirty Pictures Easy Riders, Raging Bulls)
"He writes with an element that any good filmmaker employs and any moviegoer uses to fully appreciate the art of film – the heart."–Alejandro G. Inarritu(The Revenant, Birdman, Amores Perros)
"Nothing comes close to HE for truthfulness, audacity, and one-eyed passion and insight."–Phillip Noyce(Salt, Clear and Present Danger, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Dead Calm)
"A rarity and a gem … Hollywood Elsewhere is the first thing I go to every morning."–Ann HornadayWashington Post
"Jeffrey Wells isn't kidding around. Well, he does kid around, but mostly he just loves movies."–Cameron Crowe(Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky)
"In a world of insincere blurbs and fluff pieces, Jeff has a truly personal voice and tells it like it is. Exactly like it is, like it or not."–Guillermo del Toro(Pan's Labyrinth, Cronos, Hellboy)
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Benjamin C. Tundis, 71, of South Kingstown, died Friday at home. He was the beloved husband and companion of Cheryl (Charpentier) Tundis for 29 years.
Born in Johnston, he was a son of the late Carmine and Viola (Rinaldi) Tundis. Mr. Tundis was a carpenter for the Carpenters Local 94 Union for many years. In his spare time he kept busy with several projects including building his own boat and the house which was his residence. He enjoyed reading, working on the computer, and riding his Harley Davidson Motorcycle.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Benjamin Tundis Jr. of Oldsmar, Florida and Jeffrey Tundis of Warwick; a stepson, Jason Michaud of Palm Springs, California; a sister Norma LaPrade of Sun City, South Carolina, and a brother Edward Tundis of Rhode Island.
A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Friday at the Avery-Storti Funeral Home, 88 Columbia Street, Wakefield. Burial will follow in New Fernwood Cemetery, Kingston. Visiting hours are Thursday 5-8 p.m.
The family kindly requests in lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Home & Hospice Care of RI 1085 North Main Street, Providence, RI 02904-9826. For guest book and condolences, verystortifuneralhome.com


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4513.0 - Higher Criminal Courts, Australia, 2000-01
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Higher Criminal Courts Dealing With Defendants Faster: ABS
Australia's Higher Criminal Courts were, overall, one week faster on average in finalising defendants in 2000-01 than in the previous year, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
The median time taken by Australia's Higher Courts to finalise defendants was 21 weeks in 2000-01. The largest decrease was in New South Wales with a 9 week (26%) reduction.
For defendants who had their cases finalised in the Higher Courts during 2000-01:
Media please note:
For the first time, ABS has published experimental data showing offences and penalties associated with defendants who were proven guilty or acquitted. For all States and Territories, further development work is required in order to improve the quality and coverage of the data. The ABS is continuing to work with the relevant bodies in each jurisdiction to achieve these improvements.
Further details are in Higher Criminal Courts, Australia 2000-01 (cat. no. 4513.0).
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