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Remarks of Antony M. Merck
CommissionerFederal Maritime Commission
Containerisation International 3rd Annual ConferenceGlobal 2000
March 22 and 23, 2000
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
The principal body of law administered by the Federal Maritime Commission is contained in the following statutes:
1.The Shipping Act of 1984 (as amended by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 "OSRA");
2. The Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988;
3. The Controlled Carrier Act of 1978; and
4. Section 19 of the Merchant Maritime Act of 1920;
The Shipping Act of 1984 as amended by Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 ("OSRA")
In essence OSRA reduces role of the federal government and allows greater flexibility between shippers and ocean carriers. Implicit in these changes, and explicit in the stated purposes of the Act is the placing of greater reliance on the market place. That said, however, anti-trust immunity was retained. I will return to that topic in my discussion of pending U.S. legislation.
I would like to concentrate on three topics in examining life after OSRA that are applicable in general: tariffs, service contracts and agreements. I will then return to the transatlantic.
Section 8 The Shipping Act of 1984
The most significant change to tariffs brought on by the OSRA amendments is that common carrier and conference tariffs are not required to be filed with the Commission but rather must be made accessible electronically by remote access. The legislative history tells us that the new privatized tariff system was to be free of government constraints as to design as long as the system assures integrity as a whole and provides an appropriate level of public access. The Senate Committee that reported out the bill also indicated that tariff information should be simplified and standardized. Therefore, the FMC's previous Automated Tariff Filing and Information System (ATFI) is no longer in current use and regulations have been promulgated concerning the statutory requirement of accessibility and accuracy.
The FMC has conducted an audit of a sample of carrier published tariffs to examine accuracy and accessibility and found a number of deficiencies. First let me say that there seems to be a divergence of opinion between carriers as to the usefulness from a business stand point of publishing an accurate and accessible tariff. Some see it as a marketing tool using the power of the internet to reach the widest market, whereas others, see it as giving competitors the ability to see what rates they have to beat and would rather do business without an accessible and accurate tariff. Besides the application of the Act, some have questioned the importance of tariff requirements at all since so much cargo is carried under service contracts anyway. The FMC is charged with enforcing the law and our audit has found that by far most published tariffs comply with it but there are also many which are deficient.
Therefore, earlier this month the FMC made a public announcement and will issue a letter of its intention to enforce its regulations regarding accessibility, specifically that published tariffs provide: adequate user instructions, retrieval capabilities, historical information, and capable software. With regard to accuracy, we will enforce regulations regarding current bonding and licensing information, and accuracy of rates in effect. We intend also to issue an advance notice of rule making as to what is a reasonable fee for access to a carrier tariff system. According to our audit, fees vary from a low set up or minimum fee and a few cents a minute to as much as $449 per month with a three month minimum.
A finally point about tariffs and one that is telling to me. As the Commission has looked at service contracts we find that a large portion of them refer to tariffs and incorporate many provisions and rates by reference. Therefore, accuracy and accessibility are relevant not simply holdovers from the bygone days when all tariffs were publicly filed with the Commission.
Service Contracts
Section 8(c) of The Shipping Act of 1984
An individual ocean common carrier or an agreement between ocean common carriers may enter into service contracts with one or more shippers. Each contract is required to be filed confidentially with the FMC but a concise statement of the essential terms must be published and made available to the public in a tariff format. The essential terms that must be published include: the commodity, volume, duration, and origin and destination port ranges. The rate is not an essential term that must be published.
Prior to May 1, 1999 when OSRA took effect the essential terms of service contracts were filed publicly and similarly situated shippers could demand identical terms. Abolishment of the "me too" provisions and the ability of the parties to keep the rate confidential was intended to foster greater competition and resulting efficiency.
Service contracts are filed with the FMC through an internet based electronic mail system that is intended to be user friendly and reduce regulatory burden and expense. We have been flooded with contracts. Since last May, 104,000 contracts and amendments were filed which is a 128 increase over the same period the year before.
It is estimated that 85% of liner cargo is carried pursuant to a service contract rather than a tariff. Only the FMC has the service contracts and we intend to examine developments in service contracting trends in rates and services.
In general, we want to know whether there are innovative and creative approaches, and confidentiality. Some have predicted "clever contracts" with service performance clauses, rewards and penalties based on performance, equipment availability or document completion. Evidence of "customized" not "standardized" service contracts will indicate OSRA is succeeding in doing as intended: placing greater reliance on the market and one on one negotiations.
Sections 4, 5, 6, and 7 of The Shipping Act of 1984
As was the case prior to OSRA ocean common carriers may enter into agreements but there are several changes. One of the most important and timely relates to voluntary service contract guidelines. Congressman Hyde asked that his Committee be provided with copies of discussion agreement voluntary guidelines for service contracts.
Voluntary Service Contract Guidelines.
OSRA Section 5(c)(3) provides that agreements may not prohibit or restrict members from negotiating service contracts with one or more shippers, and may not require members to disclose the terms and condition of service contracts. In addition agreements cannot adopt mandatory rules affecting a member's right to negotiate and enter into a service contract. Where voluntary guidelines relating to service contracts are included in an agreement it must be stated that members do not have to follow them.
As of October of last year 10 sets of voluntary service contract guidelines had been filed mostly by discussion agreements and covering almost all US trades. Voluntary service contract guidelines covering the European trades have not been filed because the European Union authorities do not allow service contract guidelines.
Some discussion agreement members have expressed a willingness to share information to establish a standard for terminal charges, free time, demurrage, credit terms, etc. Guidelines that pertain to non commercial or administrative matters would seem fairly benign.
But the current service contract guidelines also appear to be used primarily to facilitate discussion agreements regulation of the rates of members individual service contracts. To the extent they prove effective and the degree of confidentiality is reduced, such guidelines reduce service contract flexibility and are an obstacle to innovative commercial negotiations. This result would be contrary to OSRA's intended purpose of promoting competition. Will they be permitted under OSRA?
Some service contract guidelines seem to attempt to restrict members from entering into service contracts by stating they will not actively seek service contracts and if a shipper asks for a service contract the carrier will endeavor to bring the shipper to the discussion agreement office.
Even though "voluntary" do such guidelines not to engage in service contracts "restrict" a member from engaging in negotiations for service contracts with shippers and thus constitute a violate of Section 5(c)(1)? Perhaps as long as the guidelines include the caveat "voluntary" they may not run afoul of the law. But if the guideline is solidly adhered to so that shippers are denied the opportunity to sign service contracts it may be considered a substantially anti competitive agreement. If by reducing competition it produces an unreasonable reduction in transportation service or an unreasonable increase in transportation cost there may be a violation of Section 6(g).
In other words, voluntary guidelines may pass the word test if sprinkled liberally throughout with the term "voluntary" but the more significant measure, the economic test, where the inquiry is anti competitiveness brought about by lock step adherence to voluntary guidelines is more likely to be where the battle is fought.
Transatlantic Trades.
The transatlantic is unique primarily because of its EU regulations in addition to FMC regulation. Voluntary service contract guidelines covering the European trades have not been filed because the European Union authorities do not allow service contract guidelines. However the Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement's (TACA) model service contract rate matrices developed to accord with European regulations have been provided to the Commission.
Since 1995 and the settlement of FMC Fact Finding 21 TACA has been required to offer individual service contracts but until OSRA these were effectively governed by the agreement. Since OSRA and in anticipation of its effective date, the number of conference service contracts has fallen from 400-500 a year to 4 which presently exist. Further, today there are at least 700 service contracts signed by individual TACA members.
In general terms, rates in both east and westbound transatlantic trade have fallen to historically low levels. In our view this is due to increased competition from new carrier entry, former conference members competing as independents, and increased intra-conference rate competition, and US and EU regulatory changes.
The FMC has underway an OSRA impact study and even though the Act took effect less than a year ago it seems to be of timely concern. Whether its provisions are having the benefits envisioned are no doubt on the minds of those involved at Congressman Hyde's hearings today. In addition the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has advised us of its intention to hold a hearing in early May on the effect of OSRA.
The short answer is that we do not yet know but I ask the question of everyone in the industry with whom I speak. Whether they be shippers or carriers their answers are positive. Even Ocean Transportation Intermediaries (OTI) who cannot under OSRA enter into confidential service contracts seem to be more concerned with doing business than finding fault with the law.
I have mentioned some of the major legislative changes introduced by OSRA: individual service contracts with confidential rates, voluntary guidelines, and published rather than filed tariffs. In our study the effect of these changes will be gauged in an industry with growing concentration (through global alliances, mergers, and acquisition); discussion agreements which involve a greater number of carriers; increased trade growth; and an expanding role of Asian carriers.
We believe the key issues in the study are:
1. Service Contracts. Have OSRA's service contract provision resulted in a major or only a limited increase in customized service contract terms, improved services, significant changes in shipper carrier relations, increased commitments by shippers and more competitive rates. A central premise of OSRA is that removal of traditional conference authority to regulate members service contracts will lead to customized service contracts with individual lines at rates which reflect market conditions. By an analysis of service contracts filed with the FMC, interviews with industry representatives, and rates studies we intend to quantify the answer to that question.
2. Agreement Activity. Since OSRA are conferences and discussion agreements able to effectively limit capacity or support higher than market rates? As I mentioned the terms of agreements will be "voluntary" but an analysis of market share, capacity, utilization, new entry data, and contract rates will hopefully help determine whether there is an unreasonable level of cartel type behavior.
3. Effect on OTI's. The commercial environment involves greater use of contracts and the most crucial essential term is no longer publicly available. The OTI community may be consolidating and experiencing competitive advantages unrelated to OSRA. This and the inability of OTI's to enter into service contracts will be carefully examined.
4. Published Tariffs. The final key issue in our study will be the accessibility and accuracy of published tariff of which I have already spoken.
Anti-Trust Immunity
Free Market Antitrust Immunity Reform (FAIR) Act of 1999
Section 7 of The Shipping Act of 1984 as amended by OSRA continued the exemption to permit ocean common carriers to obtain anti-trust immunity for certain concerted actions among themselves subject to FMC filing and review.
Congressman Henry Hyde, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has introduced legislation abolishing anti-trust immunity for ocean common carriers and subjecting them to the anti-trust laws of the U.S. The bill is fairly succinct. It proposes to amend the Shipping Act of 1984 by striking Section 7(a)(3), (4), (5), and (6) thereby removing anti-trust immunity from agreements pertaining to marine transportation and services. The bill does continue immunity for marine terminal operators.
I do not believe the FMC should support Congressman Hyde's bill because:
a. The policy underpinnings of anti-trust immunity remain sound;
b. the current state of the market is healthy and competitive;
c. the pro-competitive provisions of OSRA are only just in place; and
d. there is a need for closer economic analysis.
Anti-trust immunity is not just for adequate carrier rates but also to ensure an adequate and efficient supply of ocean transportation. It allows carriers to share assets and coordinate operations but still preserve separate competing commercial and marketing activities. It also allows carriers to address serious price volatility caused by overcapacity, trade imbalances and seasonal fluctuations. To abandon anti trust immunity, a policy shared in varying degrees by our trading partners would cause regulatory uncertainty and conflicts of laws questions. It would also accelerate consolidation in the industry and one must question who would be the beneficiary of that: well run efficient carriers or those carriers with the highest government support?
The state of the market is healthy and competitive and the industry is not using its anti trust immunity privilege to exploitive effect. This is indicated by the fact that rates are at historically low levels, many individual service contracts are in effect, and the traditional rate setting conferences are declining in favor of discussion agreements. While discussion agreement members have higher market share and the possibility of anti competitive behavior by setting general rate increases and service contract guidelines, this is being closely watched by the FMC to see that it is not unreasonable under the Act or frustrates the law's intent.
Carriers do not have unlimited anti trust immunity. The Shipping Act has stringent prohibitions in Section 10. In addition, Section 6(g) allows for review of agreements to see if there is an unreasonable anti competitive effect. Under OSRA agreements cannot restrict individual carriers from entering into confidential service contracts.
Finally, there is a need for closer economic analysis. The Hyde bill strikes out a section of a statute in effect for less than a year. It was five years in the making and was a compromise that built upon an already existing complex and comprehensive statutory scheme. Though the FMC's agency wide impact study is not complete, we have received few complaints concerning OSRA and anecdotal reports of its success. It is too early to change it.
Other than the proposed Hyde bill I am aware of no future developments in US legislation which specifically relates to the FMC. However, as much of the existing legislation which we administer relates to international relations it seems appropriate to mention developments occurring on a much larger stage. President Clinton has sent to the Congress proposed legislation to allow Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with The Peoples Republic of China (China). It is linked to the President certifying to Congress that the terms of China's accession to the WTO are at least equivalent to those agreed between the United States and China on November 15, 1999.
The terms of that agreement were only made public last week. I think that if, when examined, those sections relating to maritime services and distribution, are found to be severely restrictive despite public announcements to the contrary, it will be detrimental. Also, I have heard of no breakthrough from bilateral talks on maritime issues between the U.S. Maritime Administration and China which concluded earlier this month.
International Relations
In international relations the efforts of the FMC are directed in three areas: combating restrictive foreign laws and practices which disadvantage U.S. interests; policing the pricing of foreign government controlled carriers; and reducing conflicts with trading partners over shipping regulation. It does so pursuant to authority found three of the statutes that it administers.
Section 11(a) of The Shipping Act of 1984Foreign Shipping Practices
Originally passed in 1988 the Foreign Shipping Practices Act was amended by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 and its provisions are now incorporated into Section 11(a) of The Shipping Act of 1984.
Section 11(a) provides the Federal Maritime Commission with authority to investigate the laws and practices of foreign governments, foreign carriers, and others providing maritime services in a foreign country which result in conditions that "adversely affect" United States carriers and do not exist for carriers in the United States.
Section 13 (b) (6) of The Shipping Act of 1984Concerted Action
If the FMC finds that a common carrier acting alone or in concert, or a foreign government has unduly impaired access of a U.S. documented vessel the Commission shall take action it finds appropriate including suspension of tariffs or withholding clearance.
Both of these sections of the Act protect US carriers.
Section 19 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920
Section 19 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is more expansive and authorizes and directs the Commission to "make rules affecting shipping in the foreign trade ... in order to ... meet special conditions unfavorable to shipping in the foreign trade ... which arise out of or result from foreign laws..." A broad range of U.S. interests are protected: all carriers serving our trades and also shippers who have an interest in competitive service and choices in the market place; and other U.S. maritime companies including intermediaries and terminal operators. The "conditions unfavorable to shipping" include carriers' ability to service a trade and activities integral to transportation systems such as inter-modal services, agency services, and cargo solicitation.
The restrictive practices which Section 19 protects against have been broadly defined and the Commission is empowered as an independent agency to act unilaterally to impose sanctions. The FMC cannot negotiate or make an agreement with a foreign country but it can, using the rule making process of Section 19, receive comments from all affected parties and engage in consultations with executive agencies.
In August 1998, the FMC began a proceeding to investigate whether the laws, rules or policies of the Government of the People's Republic of China (China) might have an adverse impact on U.S. shipping and warrant action under Section 19 or The Foreign Shipping Practices Act. The FMC sought information from interested parties.
The responses indicted that Chinese laws and regulations discriminate against and disadvantage U.S. carriers and other non-Chinese shipping lines. For example, non-Chinese carriers are barred from opening wholly-owned companies or branch offices in China in the area where carrier's ships make monthly calls; they are barred from performing a number of vessel agency services for themselves; there are restrictions on their freight forwarding services; and they must obtain government permission before beginning or changing vessel service.
There are also proposed rules under consideration that could result in the disclosure of confidential service contract terms and further restrict non-Chinese carriers' ability to offer multi-modal services in China.
The FMC issued further demand orders to China Shipping Container Lines, a new Chinese government carrier in our trades, and A.P. Moller Maersk, which acquired Sea-Land's substantial U.S. flag China services. The response of China Shipping Container Lines is under review. I understand that the response of Maersk is expected to be received very shortly.
Section 9 of The Shipping Act of 1984 Controlled Carriers
OSRA amended the controlled carrier provisions of the Shipping Act of 1984 to provide generally that no government owned or controlled carrier may maintain rates in its tariffs or service contracts below a level that is just and reasonable. The rationale is that a controlled carrier may operate without a commercial motive and, therefore, acutely distort the market.
The definition of a controlled carrier was broadened to include a carrier owned or controlled by a government regardless of registry.
Three prior exceptions available to controlled carriers were deleted:
(a) subscribers to the OECD code, (b) the rates of a controlled carrier that was a member of an agreement, and (c) rates in trades between the U.S. and the country of the controlled carrier. The only exceptions that remain are where the controlled carrier is that of a state entitled to "most favored nation" status or where the trade is served exclusively by a controlled carrier.
Section 9 gives the Commission authority to "prohibit the publication or use" of controlled carrier rates if found to be unreasonable. In determining whether rates are reasonable the Commission is required to take into account whether the rates are below a level that is fully compensatory against actual costs or "constructive costs" meaning the cost of another similar carrier in the same trade.
Except for service contracts the rates and charges of a controlled carrier may not, without special permission of the Commission, become effective sooner than 30 days after the date of publication.
Ocean common carriers, with the exception of controlled carriers, are permitted to reduce their tariff rates effective immediately upon publication. Controlled carriers are subject to a 30 day waiting period.
In 1998 the Commission granted China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO), a "controlled carrier" owned by the government of China a limited exemption from the 30 day waiting requirement and allowed it to decrease its tariff rates to levels that would meet or exceed its competitors with no waiting period.
In March of 1999, COSCO, petitioned the Commission for an exemption to this provision of the Act. COSCO's petition and comments are currently before the Commission. The Commission has broad discretion and under the Section 16 of the Shipping Act of 1984 may grant an exemption if it finds that (1) it does not result in a substantial reduction in competition and (2) it is not detrimental to commerce. However, both Commission precedent and the legislative history of the Act make it clear that the exemption power should be used to ease regulatory requirements in relatively narrow circumstances not undo broad aspects of the Shipping Act's statutory scheme.
The previous limited exemption met the commercial need of COSCO to match declining rates without having to wait. Whether a complete exemption will undo the legislated statutory scheme and, in fact, effectively amend the Act, is a question. The present exemption may constitute a ceiling to FMC discretion.


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The Wyoming Catholic Register, now published once a month by the statewide Diocese of Cheyenne, is shutting down, a victim of the worsening economy.
The newspaper, established in 1952, had a circulation of 18,000, according to the Catholic Press Association's 2009 directory. There are about 49,000 Catholics in the diocese.
According to a story published in the Casper Star-Tribune daily newspaper, the diocese may try a periodic bulletin to reach the faithful. The newspaper's closing, the story added, is part of a diocesewide reorganization, according to Father Michael Carr, diocesan administrator; the diocese has been without a bishop since Bishop David L. Ricken was installed as bishop of Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., last August.
Click here for the Casper Star-Tribune story.

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Explore the continued fraction: 2+3/(2+3/(2+3/2+...)) What do you
notice when successive terms are taken? What happens to the terms
if the fraction goes on indefinitely?
Which rational numbers cannot be written in the form x + 1/(y +
1/z) where x, y and z are integers?
The problem is how did Archimedes calculate the lengths of the sides of the polygons which needed him to be able to calculate square roots?


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|2011-10-14, 12:07
|Link #30
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Clinton, Maryland
The first three dub actresses have been revealed:
Madoka Kaname - Christine Marie Cabanos (Azunyan, K-On!; Ika Musmue)
Kyubey - Cassandra Lee (Ritsu, K-On!)
Sayaka Miki - Sarah Williams (newcomer)
|2011-10-14, 14:07
|Link #31
Trio Finale!
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: New York
Cassandra fitting as Kyubey, which means that Ritsu is EVIL!
|2011-10-14, 20:34
|Link #32
Join Date: May 2007
Location: gs series
Age: 29
so look like really pushing the newer va on it & yet casting seem indeed we're looking at future generation of english va.
cabanos give already azusa & squid girl yet now madoka yea indeed another breakout english va on the rise.
lee as kyubey oh my yea it yubel all over again anyone remember she did big bad of gx s3 as yubel yea feel vibes on it.
williams still up & coming give only other known character is female with wacky squid heads design & shy/
hmm so i guess when rest of cast is reveal more newer va on it?
|2011-12-17, 02:46
|Link #37
Hmm, not a fan of Dub Madoka; I guess trying to sound cute is something really hard to get right in dubs.
Sayaka is the best voice in this dub imo, and Kyoko is good too.
Mami. Wut!
Kyubey is somewhat appropriate, meh.
And Homura, I'll never be satisfied with, but what can you do. I like Cristina Vee, but as Homura, I dunno.
|2011-12-17, 03:37
|Link #38
The Spear of Destiny
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: A place where the stars cross.
Age: 26
The dub doesn't sound too bad, but so far from what I'm hearing, the voice acting lacks some emotion or oomph to it. It overall sounds a bit forced, some girls worse than others. They need to sound a bit more natural.
Madoka got the cutesy voice, but needs more emotion. The part where she answers Homura's question...felt like she was reading off the script rather than acting it.
Sayaka seems to got her voice down. Doesn't sound as energetic as the original though.
Kyouko...well she sounded what I thought she would sound, like a tough girl.
Mami...sounds too old. Yes she sounds mature like in the original, but the original VA still made her sound like a middle school girl. Here? She sounds like in her 30s.
Kyubey is hard to judge since he only had one line and the overall nature of his character. The only thing I can say is he certainly doesn't sound androgynous anymore, but the english VA seems to have the tone down. He just sounds more like a girl now.
Now Homura...I can't exactly judge her yet since I need to see her emotional outbreaks as well as her stoic tone. But to me, Homura sounded too deadpan in the trailer. Homura's original VA made it so she sounded soft and cold, yet with a hint of emotion behind it. The English VA sounded like a robot to me.
But, I'll just have to wait till I actually get the BDs and see for myself before I lay down full judgement.
Last edited by Riga92; 2011-12-17 at 04:33.
|2011-12-17, 08:52
|Link #39
Senior Member
I listened to that dub trailer a few times. My initial impression was a bit negative, probably because Madoka's loud and squeaky "Rise and shine everyone!" hit me like a ton of bricks on the first couple go-throughs However, I found that on repeated viewings, the voices started to grow on me a bit.
I think that the characters were casted decently well. In other words, the voices seem to fit the personality of the characters.
Mami sounds a bit too old, but that is pretty much what an English-speaking Mami in her late 20s or 30s would sound like to me.
I think Madoka's voice actress came pretty close to nailing her, so that's good.
Madoka's parents sound good.
Sayaka should sound tomboyish in general but not with a husky/deep tone, and I think her voice actress did a good job of balancing that out.
Hitomi is spot on.
Kyouko is spot on.
Kyubey sounds fine.
Homura... I get the impression that the dubbing staff, or her voice actress, might have mistook her for some Rei-esque character. I agree with Riga92 on her so far. Still, the voice itself sounds right, it's just a touch too deadpan in delivery.
Anyway, I've heard better dubs, but I've also heard much worse. So I'll probably give this one a chance at least.
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All the stadium stories you missed since my last roundup while you were looking into anger management classes....
In San Diego, the Chargers will remain your San Diego Chargers, at least for next season. Surprising far, far fewer people than another team announcement one week earlier, officials with the Chargers and the Mayor's Office announced Monday that the team won't trigger the early-exit clause in its lease this year.
That will allow the two sides time to negotiate a financing plan for a $1 billion stadium in East Village. The Mayor's Office has said it will release a plan by March and put it to a public vote by November. The Chargers suggested Monday that the vote could slip to spring 2013, a standalone special election that could cost the city more than $3 million.
Of note: The Chargers said they would shelve their plan for a joint stadium-convention center, at least for now, because it didn't gain enough support. Mayor Jerry Sanders, for one, has insisted that a convention center expansion and a new stadium six blocks away should progress separately. Speaking of Sanders, he said in his clearest terms yet that the stadium plan his office issues won't include a tax increase.
Referring to the sound defeat he suffered at the ballot box last year when voters vanquished a temporary sales-tax increase he supported, Sanders said Monday: "You don't have to hit me in the head with a hammer twice."
A new stadium wasn't the only one on Sanders' mind in recent days. The mayor found himself mired in controversy over his decision to let Qualcomm change the name of the stadium temporarily to Snapdragon Stadium. Turns out that may have been illegal. Sanders stood by his decision to accept only $1,000 for city staff time in exchange for the right to rename the stadium, saying, "Any notion that we should have exploited the occasion to shake down the holder of the naming rights is absurd."
Still, the issue isn't going away. Voiceofsandiego.org quoted an expert Monday who estimated the company's name change was worth $125,000.
Meanwhile, momentum has slowed in the Los Angeles stadium efforts in recent months as AEG slogs ahead on its environmental impact report. The document could be done next month, but it remains an open question whether the National Football League wants a team in either AEG's proposed facility in downtown Los Angeles or in Majestic Realty's competing project in City of Industry. The New Yorker even detailed the disagreement between AEG and the National Football League in a new profile of AEG's two most powerful figures.
Apparently, AEG's discussions on its stadium haven't gone smoothly with Chargers owner Dean Spanos, either. Los Angeles Times columnist T.J. Simers reported a meeting between AEG owner Phil Anschutz and Spanos "did not go well." Seeing the column, Ben Higgins asked Spanos about it on XTRASPorts 1360.
"We have no interest in that downtown (L.A.) site or any sites up there," Spanos said at the 9:00-minute mark of the interview.
Setting aside followup questions about whether there might be a smidge of interest, either now or later, that is what Chargers fans have been waiting to hear for a while. In any event, as AEG president Tim Leiweke said in Simers' column: the Chargers, the Vikings, the Raiders and the Rams all face "moments of truth" in regard to their stadiums.
(In other words, keep those four teams on your shortest NFL in L.A. short list.)
Leiweke told Simers: "In this economy, do I believe all four entities will figure out a way to get a billion dollars from the public or private sectors? No, I don't believe it's going to happen. But it's not our place to determine which team isn't going to get their deal done. I'll rely on (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell to lead the charge there."
In Santa Clara, there were two significant developments in the San Francisco 49ers' drive for a new stadium. The team and the city of Santa Clara ended a four-year court battle with owners of a theme park Friday that resolved a major issue for the project: Where to put the stadium and adjacent parking area. It's going to cost the team $12.5 million, and the city will likely lose future revenue, too, the San Jose Mercury-News reported.
Don't feel bad for the team, though. It outlined ticket prices for its best seats at the new stadium the following day, and it seems the only cash flow problems will be on the fans' side. The team will charge up to $80,000 for rights to buy the best season tickets, and then those seats themselves will be two to three times comparable seats at the 49ers' current home in San Francisco, the aging Candlesick Park.
In Oakland, fans scratching their heads over the Raiders' late-season demise were left to ponder this: There was nothing new to report on the possibility the team might share a stadium with the 49ers (increasingly unlikely as the Santa Clara proposal advances) or the potential for a new stadium to replace one that opened in 1966. One reason why the team might not be pushing as hard as others for a new stadium? The Raiders didn't have a single television blackout all season, marking the first time since the team relocated to Oakland from Los Angeles way back in 1995 that every game sold out.
In Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton has set a Thursday deadline for government officials to submit plans for a variety of Vikings stadium proposals in Minneapolis and nearby Ramsey County. A similar attempt to speed up stadium planning last year fell flat.
Whether the Ramsey County plan, long considered the frontrunner because it had the Vikings' backing, survives the winnowing process remains to be seen. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune said team officials are re-examining spurned sites in the city.
In St. Louis, the question is whether the Rams' pursuit of head coach Jeff Fisher will be helped or hindered by Fisher's southern California roots. At issue is the potential that the Rams will be the team that occupies a new football stadium in Los Angeles in coming years. Is that something Fisher wants? Well, a reporter for the Post-Dispatch said that issue is the "only possible hangup," but another for Sports Illustrated notes that Fisher born in Culver City and was a star wide receiver for William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills before also excelling at USC.
A columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch weighed in on what he termed "a little Oliver Stone parlor game on what Fisher's decision could mean for the Rams' future in STL." His sense? That Fisher would take the job because it's better than the Miami coaching gig, not because it means anything for the Rams' potential to leave or stay. And that the "Chicken Littles" and the "Candy Landers" will still use the hiring to prove their point that all is ill/well in St. Louis.
In Jacksonville, the purchase of the team by Shahid Khan became official. The deal that was first outlined on a hotel napkin concluded Wednesday, and Khan used the ensuing media scrutiny to maintain what he has for weeks: The team's staying put. The Florida Times-Union reported that Khan "sounded as if the Jaguars will be in the family a long time."
"Absolutely," Khan said. "As a matter of fact, I told both my kids, 'If you sell the team after I'm dead, I'm going to haunt you forever.' "
In Buffalo, a new Erie County executive announced plans to hire a private attorney to help his administration start serious discussions over renovating Ralph Wilson Stadium.
One commentator for the Buffalo News met the news with approval, saying the count needs "someone who knows the pecking order of cities that covet teams and how to best tie the Bills to Buffalo. The people sitting with Ralph Wilson will know every rut and rock of that landscape."
The Bills likely want upwards of $100 million in taxpayer-funded stadium enhancements. The 2013 expiration date on the Bills lease gives the county a chance to tie stadium improvements to the terms of a new lease. That includes everything from length of the deal to–most importantly, given the fragile health of the 93-year-old owner–provisions that make it as financially painful as possible for the next owner to abandon Buffalo."
Some interesting points in that column. Some that Mayor Sanders may want to take to heart as he sits across the table from the Chargers.
In closing, there was some AFC West business news this past week. No, I'm not talking about the Broncos' upset of the Steelers Sunday. We all know (hope?) that the Patriots will end that team's season this coming Saturday.
No, I'm talking about this: An AFC West player finished 2011 second on the list of best-selling NFL jerseys. Most of you probably won't even need to click on the link to know who it is, but just in case.
As always, let me know what you thought and what I missed. And for more timely stadium coverage, follow me on Twitter @SDuncovered.


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Academic Integrity
Tracey Bretag
Academic integrity is an interdisciplinary concept that provides the foundation for every aspect and all levels of education. The term evokes strong emotions in teachers, researchers, and students—not least because it is usually associated with negative behaviors. When considering academic integrity, the discussion tends to revolve around cheating, plagiarism, dishonesty, fraud, and other academic malpractice and how best to prevent these behaviors. A more productive approach entails a focus on promoting the positive values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage (International Center for Academic Integrity, 2013) as the intrinsically motivated drivers for ethical academic practice. Academic integrity is much more than "a student issue" and requires commitment from all stakeholders in the academic community, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers, established researchers, senior managers, policymakers, support staff, and administrators.
The Adaptive Organization and Fast-Slow Systems
Torben Juul Andersen and Carina Antonia Hallin
Contemporary organizations operate under turbulent business conditions and must adapt their strategies to ongoing changes. Sustainable performance can be achieved when the organization engages in interactive processes that link emerging opportunities to forward-looking analytics. But few organizations are able to practice this consistently. Fast processes performed by managers at the frontline respond to ongoing environmental stimuli and slow processes initiated by managers at the center interpret events and reasons about updated strategic actions. Current experiential insights from the fast processes can be aggregated systematically to inform the slow processes of reasoning. When the fast and slow processes interact they can form a dynamic system that adapts organizational activities to changing conditions.
Appropriation of Value from Competitive Advantages
Andy El-Zayaty and Russell Coff
Many discussions of the creation and appropriation of value stop at the firm level. Imperfections in the market allow for a firm to gain competitive advantage, thereby appropriating rents from the market. What has often been overlooked is the continued process of appropriation within firms by parties ranging from shareholders to managers to employees. Porter's "five forces" model and the resource-based view of the firm laid out the determinants of value creation at the firm level, but it was left to others to explore the onward distribution of that value. Many strategic management and strategic human capital scholars have explored the manner in which employees and managers use their bargaining power vis-à-vis the firm to appropriate value—sometimes in a manner that may not align with the interests of shareholders. In addition, cooperative game theorists provided unique insights into the way in which parties divide firm surplus among each other. Ultimately, the creation of value is merely the beginning of a complex, multiparty process of bargaining and competition for the rights to claim rents.
Assessing the State of Top Management Teams Research
Steven A. Stewart and Allen C. Amason
Since the earliest days of strategic management research, scholars have sought to measure and model the effects of top managers on organizational performance. A watershed moment in this effort came with the 1984 introduction of Hambrick and Mason's upper echelon view and their contention that firms are a reflection of their top management teams (TMT). An explosion of research followed and hundreds, if not thousands, of manuscripts have since been published on the subject. While a number of excellent reviews of this extensive literature exist, a relative few have asked questions about the overall state and future of the field. We undertook this assessment in an effort to answer some key questions. Are we still making progress on the big questions that gave rise to the upper echelon view, or have we reached a point of diminishing returns with this stream of research? If we are at an inflection point, what are the issues that should drive future inquiry about top management teams?
Bureaucracy to Postbureaucracy: The Consequences of Political Failures
Mallory E. Compton and Kenneth J. Meier
Pathologies inherent in democratic political systems have consequences for bureaucracy, and they need to be examined. Limited in time, resources, and expertise, elected officials turn to bureaucratic institutions to carry out policy goals but all too often give public agencies too little support or too few resources to implement them effectively. In response to the challenges imposed by politics, public agencies have sought organizational solutions. Bureaucracies facing shortages of material resources, clear goals, representation of minority interests, or public trust have in recent decades adopted less hierarchical structures, exploited networks and privatization, and taken a representative role. In other words, the evolution of postbureaucratic governance institutions is in part a consequence of political incentives. Efforts to diagnose and resolve many of the shortcomings attributed to bureaucracy therefore require an accounting of the political processes shaping the context in which public managers and bureaucrats operate.
Business Groups as an Organizational Model
Asli M. Colpan and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
Business groups are an organizational model in which collections of legally independent firms bounded together with formal and informal ties use collaborative arrangements to enhance their collective welfare. Among the different varieties of business groups, diversified business groups that exhibit unrelated product diversification under central control, and often containing chains of publicly listed firms, are the most-studied type in the management literature. The reason is that they challenge two traditionally held assumptions. First, broad and especially unrelated diversification have a negative impact on performance, and thus business groups should focus on a narrow scope of related businesses. Second, such diversification is only sustainable in emerging economies in which market and institutional underdevelopment are more common and where business groups can provide a solution to such imperfections. However, a historical perspective indicates that diversified business groups are a long-lived organizational model and are present in emerging and advanced economies, illustrating how business groups adapt to different market and institutional settings. This evolutionary approach also highlights the importance of going beyond diversification when studying business groups and redirecting studies toward the evolution of the group structure, their internal administrative mechanisms, and other strategic actions beyond diversification such as internationalization.
Career Development and Organizational Support
Melinde Coetzee
The complexity of modern careers requires personal agency in managing career development and employability capital as personal resources for career success. Individuals' employability capital also serves as a valuable resource for the sustainable performance of organizations. Individuals' ability to proactively engage in career self-management behaviors through the use of a comprehensive range of self-regulatory capabilities, known as career metacapacities, contributes to their employability capital. Organizational career development supports initiatives that consider individuals' proactivity in light of conditions that influence their motivational states, and availability of personal resources helps organizations benefit from individuals who bring information, knowledge, capacities, and relationship networks (i.e., employability capital) into their work that ultimately contribute to the organization's capability to sustain performance in uncertain, highly competitive business markets. Career development support practices should embrace the individualization of modern-day careers, the need for whole-life management, and the multiple meanings that career success has for individuals.
Cluster Evolution
Nydia MacGregor and Tammy L. Madsen
A substantial volume of research in economic geography, organization theory, and strategy examines the geographic concentration of interconnected firms, industries, and institutions. Theoretical and empirical work has named a host of agglomeration advantages (and disadvantages) with much agreement on the significance of clusters for firms, innovation, and regional growth. The core assertion of this vein of research is that geographically concentrated factors of production create self-reinforcing benefits, yielding increasing returns over time. The types of externalities (or agglomeration economies) generally fall into four categories: specialized labor or inputs, knowledge spillovers, diversity of actors and activity, and localized competition. Arising from multiple sources, each of these externalities attracts new and established firms and skilled workers.
Along with recent advancements in evolution economics, newer research embraces the idea that the agglomeration mechanisms that benefit clusters may evolve over time. While some have considered industry and cluster life-cycle approaches, the complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory provides a well-founded framework for developing a theory of cluster evolution for several reasons. In particular, the content and stages of complex adaptive systems directly connect with those of a cluster, comprising its multiple, evolving dimensions and their interplay over time. Importantly, this view emphasizes that the externalities associated with agglomeration may not have stable effects, and thus, what fosters advantage in a cluster will change as the cluster evolves. Furthermore, by including a cluster's degree of resilience and ability for renewal, the CAS lens addresses two significant attributes absent from cyclical approaches.
Related research in various disciplines may further contribute to our understanding of cluster evolution. Studies of regional resilience (usually focused on a specific spatial unit rather than its industrial sectors) may correspond to the reorganization phase associated with clusters viewed as complex adaptive systems. In a similar vein, examining the shifting temporal dynamics and development trajectories resulting from discontinuous shocks may explain a cluster's emergence and ultimate long-term renewal. Finally, the strain of research examining the relationship between policy initiatives and cluster development remains sparse. To offer the greatest theoretical and empirical traction, future research should examine policy outcomes aligned with specific stages of cluster evolution and include the relevant levels and scope of analysis. In sum, there is ample opportunity to further explore the complexities and interactions among firms, industries, networks, and institutions evident across the whole of a cluster's evolution.
Corporate Boards and Performance
Jill Brown
In a new era of corporate governance defined by increasing shareholder empowerment, scrutiny from external stakeholders, and governance failures, there has been a movement toward redefining corporate governance models and the roles of boards. As a result, researchers and practitioners are left wondering what it means to be an effective board, and how a board can operate in the best interests of a firm's stakeholders in this current environment. Exploring the expanded roles and demands of directors grounded in shareholder and director primacy debates, as well as reviewing theories and contingencies that link corporate boards to task, group, firm, and enterprise-level outcomes, a research agenda is identified that might better identify the parameters of board effectiveness.
Corporate or Product Diversification
Margarethe F. Wiersema and Joseph B. Beck
Corporate or product diversification represents a strategic decision. Specifically, it addresses the strategic question regarding in which businesses the firm will compete. A single-business company that expands its strategic scope by adding new businesses becomes a diversified, multibusiness company. The means by which a company expands its strategic scope is by acquiring businesses, investing in the development of new businesses, or both. Similarly, an already diversified firm can reduce its strategic scope by divesting from or closing businesses.
There are two fundamentally different types of corporate diversification strategy, depending on the interrelatedness of the businesses in the company's portfolio: related diversification and unrelated diversification. Related diversification occurs when the businesses in the company's portfolio share strategic assets or resources, such as technology, a brand name, or distribution channels. Unrelated diversification occurs when a company's businesses do not share strategic assets or resources and do not have interrelationships of strategic importance. Companies can pursue both types of diversification simultaneously, and thus have a portfolio of businesses both related and unrelated. In addition to variations in the type of diversification, companies can vary in the extent of their diversification, ranging from business portfolios with very limited diversification to highly diversified portfolios.
Decisions regarding the diversification strategy of a firm represent major strategic scope decisions since they impact the markets and industries in which the company will compete. Companies can increase or reduce their level of diversification for a variety of reasons. Economic motives, for example, include the pursuit of economies of multiproduct scale and scope, whereby per-unit costs may be lowered through the increase in sales volume or other fixed-cost reducing benefits associated with growth through diversification. In addition, companies may diversify for strategic reasons, such as enhancement of capabilities or superior competitive positioning through entry into new product markets. Similarly, economic and strategic reasons can motivate the firm to refocus and reduce its level of diversification when the strategic and economic rationales for being in a particular business are no longer justified.
The performance consequences of corporate diversification can vary, depending on both the extent of the firm's diversification and the type of diversification. In general, research indicates that high levels of diversification are value-destroying due to the integrative and complexity-associated costs that administering an extremely diversified portfolio imposes on management. Nevertheless, related diversification, where the company shares underlying resources across its business portfolio (e.g., brand, technology, and distribution channels), can lead to higher levels of performance than can unrelated diversification, due to the potential for enhanced profitability from leveraging shared resources. Corporate diversification was a major U.S. business trend in the 1960s. During the 1980s, however, pressure from the capital market for shareholder wealth maximization led to the adoption of strategies whereby many companies refocused their business portfolios and thus reduced their levels of corporate diversification by divesting unrelated businesses in order to concentrate on their predominant or core business.


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I'm new here and interested in DNA methylation regulation. I use the EZ methylation kit to do treatment of bisufite, and then I stored my treated DNA at -80oC. Do someone have an idea that whether the proportion of methylation in bisulfited DNA will change with longterm conservation or frequent temperature changes (thawing for experiment)??? And have you tested it ? (I wonder the strand which contains uracil, it maybe unstable, so it's easy to break?)
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Lightweight Jamie Kavanagh (12-0-1, 5 KOs) will fight Salvador Garcia (14-6, 7KOs) at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California on Friday night in a contest scheduled for eight rounds. The fight will be televised on ShoBox: The Next Generation.
Kavanagh, who is co-managed by Freddie Roach (who is also his head trainer) and Steve Feder, was last in action on November 3 when he won a unanimous decision over the tough Ramon Valadez.
In this fight he will face Garcia, who is from Whittier, California and has not fought since October 2007. The 33-year-old has spent a lot of his career in and around the super bantamweight division, and he lost his last three fights before the long hiatus from the ring.
The Irish Voice caught up with Feder to find out how things are going in the Kavanagh camp.
"He is in fantastic shape. Sedano (Ruiz, Kavanagh's trainer from his amateur days who takes care of his day-to-day preparations) has really been focusing on his defensive work, not specifically for this opponent, but in general," Feder said.
Mexican lightweight Antonio Orozco was meant to be the first TV fight this Friday, but when he got injured the Kavanagh fight, which is being fought at a catchweight of 136 pounds, was promoted to the televised part of the show.
Ruiz will work the corner this weekend as Roach is busy helping prepare welterweight Ruslan Provodnikov for his title fight with Timothy Bradley on March 16. Feder is confident that Kavanagh can continue to make progress.
"What is important is for him to look good and to learn from every fight," added Feder.
While team Kavanagh is not taking Garcia for granted, if he emerges victorious and unscathed they hope to see him back in the ring at the end of April/start of May.
In other news, light heavyweight Seanie Monaghan told the Irish Voice on Monday that he is back in action on April 13 at Radio City Music Hall on the undercard of the Nonito Donaire/Guillermo Rigondeaux fight for the WBO and WBA super bantamweight titles.
Monaghan (17-0, 10 KOs) was last in action on January 19 at Madison Square Garden when he defeated Roget Cantrell by unanimous decision. No opponent has been confirmed as of yet.
Meanwhile, featherweight Patrick Hyland was an interested spectator at the Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut last Friday night where he saw IBF champion Billy Dib lose his belt by spit decision to Evgeny Gradovich.
The Dubliner lost to Javier Fortuna in a WBA interim title fight in December, but he is back in Marlboro, New York, training, though he has no official date for his next fight. Hyland had wanted to challenge Dib for his belt and it will be interesting to see what his next step will be.
Finally, according to boxrec.com, featherweight Allan Phelan (1-2) will return to action on May 4 at the Resorts Casino in Jamaica, Queens in a contest scheduled for four rounds.
The Kildare native lost to Micah Branch at the same venue in September but bounced back with a first round TKO win over Juan Guzman on February 16 in the Dominican Republic.


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It really is an irrelevant question. A better question would be whether a team with an unselfish lineup doing what it needs to do to score the runs it needs to win games. I think it's silly to think a team is going to win more games by striking out more.
Obviously, If you have hitters shortening their swing and protecting the plate with two strikes, you are still going to have hitters striking out. But if you can at least put the ball in play on a 3-2 count with one out and runners on first and third, and your manager is confident you can do so and sends the runner, you will score a run where you wouldn't if you are swinging as if you had no regard for the count. You can score a run in the inning with just a single, a walk and two ground outs even if the inning ends with a strike out. That actually kept the White Sox in the game for a while Wednesday night.
One of my pet peeves is the White Sox not scoring with a runner on third and less than two outs. It's not just the White Sox, but when I see it happening to other teams, it doesn't really bother me. Am I the only person here who is frustrated that the White Sox are striking out about 20 percent of the time this year when they come up with a runner on third and less than two outs?
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No. There are at least two of us.
Make it 3.
The other thing that bugs me. In a close game, a double to lead off an inning and the next hitter not attempting to hit the ball to the right side to get the runner to third with less than 2 outs.
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2017 Christmas Message from the Chair of the Board
My dear friends,
Once again, our Catholic community experiences the wonder of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph and the shepherds of Bethlehem, as they contemplate the newborn Child laid in a manger: Jesus, the Saviour.
On this day full of light, the prophetic proclamation resounds:
For a child has been born for us,
a son given to us;
authority rests upon his shoulders;
and he is named
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
Our Catholic community is busy with preparations to rejoice in the birth of Our Lord. Our schools, offices, and parishes gather in prayer, reflection and celebration. This is truly a joyful time of year during which we are reminded of the sanctity of life and the importance of faith and family in our day-to-day routines.
In the month of December, celebrations of our faith are all around us; there are school concerts, parties, liturgies, and other gatherings taking place across our school district. I congratulate and thank our staff for their dedication and enthusiasm in planning these celebrations for our communities.
In the midst of all of the joy and festivities, we must remind ourselves that Christmas is not just a time for celebrations and merry making; it is more than that. Christmas is a time for the contemplation of eternal things and reflection that this season can be a very difficult one for many, particularly those who are need.
Our Catholic traditions help us focus on the true meaning of the Advent season, and we display this by the virtue of charity and by selflessly giving to those who are less fortunate than us. We must always remember that the true spirit of Christmas is one of giving and forgiving. I ask each of you to please keep those in need of love, compassion and a safe place to live in your hearts and in your prayers.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we wish you and your loved ones the peace of Christ at this very special time of year. May your hearts be warmed by the love of Jesus and may you all experience the gift of faith and the blessing of hope during this holiday season. May you take time to rest and enjoy the precious moments that you are presented with as you celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A heartfelt Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you and thank you, once again, for your commitment and service to Catholic education.
Rick Petrella
Chair of the Board of Trustees
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Did this happen to anyone? Start your (completely justified) bitching here.
Did this happen to anyone? Start your (completely justified) bitching here.
I logged on 3 browsers at 11:20 and was able to get through on all of them. Albeit with 5 minutes before they sold out, but still made it.
Friday: Outkast, The Knife, The Replacements, Broken Bells, Girl Talk, Haim, Bryan Ferry
Saturday: Lorde, Empire of the Sun, Fatboy Slim, Nas, Kid Cudi, Sleigh Bells, CHVRCHES, Mogwai, Bombay Bicycle Club, Holy Ghost!, The Internet
Sunday: Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, Disclosure, Chance the Rapper, Starfucker, Superchunk, Poolside
Robert DeLong - The Independent - Jan 28
Mad Caddies - Slim's - Feb 8
St. Vincent - Fox Theatre - March 22
This happened to me last year, at the regular sale. There's nothing more frustrating than that. Had a bunch of browsers open today and got in super easy, even got a bunch of my friends tix from the browsers I wasn't using.
Isnt weekend 2 still available? Better then nothing.
Yeah weekend 2's still available, I went weekend 2 this year and it felt just as real as any other Coachella I've been to.
I actually do feel a little bad for some people who actually were completely prepared for presale and still didn't get a pass for weekend one. I haven't been on the boards since I got mine because I had to rush to work but I firmly believe they capped presale.
"Advance passes go on sale beginning this Thursday, May 17th, 2012 10:00 am PDT through the following Thursday, May 24th". Laughable.
I saw this coming but didn't quite want to believe it. Bad timing on this particular Thursday because I was armed with only a smartphone out in the middle of hicksville trying to deal with the traffic on shitty frontgate. End result was getting second choice (W2) passes after about an hour.
Will bitch about it for a day or two then take care of business this January or within a few weeks of the festival and get my weekend 1 wristbands.
Thats a kind of thing the person you're imitating would actually say. Well done.
I had forgotten about the start time, and noticed it pop up on my timeline on FB. Loaded up a window for weekend 1 and weekend 2 and was going to grab whichever came up first. W1 won, but I did the El Dorado teepee which is still available last time I checked.
->Coachella '05/'11/'13<- @popnwave on twitter.
Several friends up here in Vancouver got shut out W1 starting at 10am, couldn't do W2. Wary of secondary market.
might have something to do with browsers or maybe going from an iphone/ipad would help.


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Hi there, I'm new here and we have an 11 mo Cav named Beau. He's never been fully potty trained (had an occasional accident here and there), but recently he has been urinating everywhere, even on my bed.
I took him to the vet and he found tons of struvite crystals in his urine. The pH is off so despite the fact that he found no bacteria, he's treating him for a UTI to see if the crystals resolve. If not, we will do further testing.
Has anyone else dealt with this? Thanks!


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"Still, Firefox OS could have a big impact on the Web even if it never gains significant market share. By pushing the Web forward, Mozilla is helping to ensure that mobile websites will continue to be relevant even as developers create hundreds of thousands of proprietary apps. Firefox could lose the battle for the smartphone OS market but still win the war for open standards."


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Based on the comic book created by Archangel Studios and Christian Gossett, The Red Star is a battle action game that centers on three different main characters. Set in an alternate Russia (URRS) where technology, magic, and futuristic weapons are wielded by its Red Fleet Army, The Red Star begins with Sorceress-General Maya Antares and the search for her missing husband, Marcus. Features included different play styles and abilities from character to character, 10 upgradable weapons, melee combat, and two-person cooperative play.
The Red Star was originally to be released in 2004 by publisher Acclaim, but was unfortunately lost due to the company's bankrupcy. XS Games picked up the finished product for release in 2006.
Over the years, there have been a lot of comics that were turned into games. Some were good, some were bad, but for the most part, all of them were established properties with a wide fanbase. So it was a bit surprising when Acclaim announced that they would be making a game based on the comic The Red Star, the little known (except by graphic novel junkies like myself) comic by Christian Gossett, I was a bit stunned. Read More »
During E3, a strange thought struck me: Where were all the action games? I mean, there were plenty of "stylish hard action games." And lots of "Survival horror" action games. But straight, no-nonsense action? Very rare. It seems that every major action game needs a big story element or wacky gameplay gimmick to attempt to set it apart. What ever happened to action for the sake of, well, action? Sometimes I just want to blow things up, not rack up 90-hit air combos while leveling-up five weapons and trying to follow a half-ass story. That's where Acclaim Studios Austin's The Red Star comes in. Unlike many of its peers, this game doesn't dawdle and beat around the bush. It just delivers. Read More »
Arcade shooter fans used to rule the roost. Arcades and home consoles were filled with endless titles to storm through. Nowadays, they're treated more like chicken scratch. Companies don't find the genre "profitable" enough to donate a whole lot to putting out new entries. Acclaim is an unlikely savior, but it's stepping up to the challenge of not only publishing a new arcade shooter, but developing it. Internally. In the U.S. Shocking, isn't it? Read More »
When it comes to company game debuts, it's very difficult to surprise me anymore. I've been around the block a few times, and in this marketing-driven age unexpected treasures are getting rarer and rarer. With the death of the Dreamcast, the U.S. gaming market lost a lot of the spirit of quirkiness and experimentation. In today's climate, The Red Star seems like a total anomaly -- in a good way. A pleasant surprise, especially coming from an American studio and a publisher known best for games like Legends of Wrestling and Turok, it should heat up fans of games like Golden Axe, Ikaruga, and Contra -- and if Acclaim is right, an even broader audience than that. Read More »
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Release Date: Canceled
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We wanted to say thanks to everyone that visited us at the Maker Faire. We had a 10×10 booth filled with web-based projects – Scrolling LED Twitter Sign, Internet Controlled Donkey Kong, Power Monitoring, Dog Treat Dispenser, X10 Outlet Control, Temperature Charting and Logging, and an Interactive Message Center for the Serial LCD Screens. Our booth consumed 4 kWh over 2 days and peak power usage was 290 Watts.
Lots of people helped out to make it happen – thanks to OharaRP and thecapacity for working the LED sign. Maker Faire had some really interesting projects – underwater robots from Jesuit Robotics, a Giant LED display, Tesla Coils, Art Meets Science, cool stuff in the Maker Shed, and lots of people.
Here are some photos from Flickr of our booth before we got swarmed:


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The Basset was bred for hunting rabbits. The fact that his nose is so close to the ground makes this not only possible, but obvious. The Basset Hound is second only to the Bloodhound in trailing ability. He will hunt alone or in a pack. One theory about the Basset's origin is that French monks tried to breed a hound that would be slower moving (thus shorter legged) so as to be easily followed on foot. The Basset was brought to England in the mid 1800s, but it was not until 20-odd years later that the British became really interested in the breed.
The Basset is a sturdy animal, gentle of disposition and a devoted member of his family. Some consider the Basset Hound an ideal housedog.


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On the eve of the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani stepped up to give a short speech Monday at the Pakistani military's headquarters in Rawalpindi.
Kayani decided to use the occasion to announce the Army's position on the country's political climate. Pakistan has been rocked in recent days by the Supreme Court decision finding the prime minister in contempt, a ruling that the opposition is using to call for his resignation.
"We [Pakistan's leaders] should always act in such a way, that our self-respect and dignity is enhanced," said General Kayani, chastising the civilian government and civilian political atmosphere as a whole.
That the Army would feel free to comment indicates that the Pakistani military continues to put itself at the center of the country's political decision-making.
Military rulers have run Pakistan for the majority of the country's history, and wielded enormous clout behind the scenes even during ostensibly civilian administrations. In the immediate aftermath of the US raid on Abbottabad, some Pakistanis wondered if the civilian government could seize upon the military's embarrassment to establish greater control over the military. Aside from some small shifts, the answer a year later is no.
"When the raid first happened, the whole world was pointing fingers at [the military]," says Dr. Rasul Bakhs Rais, professor of political science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
"The international community was suspecting the Army of being in the know regarding Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. Locals were concluding that the Army was either incompetent or complicit. The right was angry that the Army let the US Navy Seals enter our sovereign territory. The leftists agreed, and added ... that Osama bin Laden's presence in an Army garrison town indicated that it was in bed with islamist militants," he says.
In the heat of that moment, defense analyst Ayesha Siddiqa identified the May 2 raid as a unique opportunity for the civilian government to curb the power of the military. It was an opportunity that Pakistan only held once before in 1971 when the military lost half the country in a war with India that led to the new state of Bangladesh.
Now, Dr. Siddiqa says, that ship has sailed.
"That was a very short window – no more than 48 hours, in fact. In hindsight, it leaves one wondering whether there was any window at all. To be honest, political forces were taken by surprise that day. I don't think they had a strategy that could deal with this opportunity," she says.
Small victories for the civilian government
There have been small victories for the civilian government. In January, a tense row erupted between the Army and the civilian government over a leaked letter from President Asif Ali Zardari to the US. The letter expressed concern in the wake of the Abbottabad raid that the Pakistani Army was looking to overthrow his government.
Amid the tensions unleashed by the leak, the civilian government fired its defense secretary, who was close to the Army. The government's rare show of defiance led to rumors of a coup that were finally dispelled when Parliament passed a resolution telling the Army to stay within its constitutional limits.
For the civilian government to have staved off a military coup shows some democratic resilience.
If the current government can continue to hang on until elections next year, it would become the first elected government in Pakistan's history to complete a full five year term in office. But it will have done so partly by not pushing the Army too far.
'the process is less than trustworthy'
In the critical days after the raid, the Parliament curbed criticism of the Army and ended up releasing a joint statement condemning the entrance of US Navy SEALs onto Pakistani territory, and demanding the establishment of a commission tasked with exploring the raid.
The commission has delayed publishing its report several times. Instead, information regarding the process and findings of the report have been leaked several times. "That in itself indicates that the process is less than trustworthy," says Siddiqa.
Leaked information has indicated that the commission is not willing to pin the blame on any one institution or individual. In one news report, published in the English-language Pakistani paper The News, a whole host of possible accused are listed, including "Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [provincial] government, the Pakistan Army, the PAF [Pakistan Air Force] , the ISI [the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency], and the Intelligence Bureau."
"To be completely honest, I don't even think it matters who sits on the commission. The Army is going to define the final outcome and control the results of the report," says Siddiqa.
Hamid Gul, the former director-general of the ISI, agrees.
"It would be interesting to see the final results of the report. But naturally, they would have to watch the national interest, since the country and the government would be pretty sensitive to the results of the final report. After all, elections are coming up," says Mr. Gul.
The military is now riding a resurgence of popular sympathy following a US cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops and an avalanche that buried more than 100 soldier near the Siachen glacier in the contested territory of Kashmir.
"There is no doubt that the May 2 attack led to some image bashing in the media and among politicians. But these recent events naturally result in a wave of sympathy," says Dr. Rais.


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8 Inspiring Ways to Use Tile
We usually associate tile with bathrooms and kitchens, where its easy-to-clean and durable nature make it a natural fit for walls and floors. But tile can also be a useful material for covering other high-traffic or heavy-duty areas like entryways, halls, and fireplaces.
- In Amy & Stephane's home, a hex tile foyer announces their address and sections off the entryway.
- Dehlia's bathroom is a great example of the big impact tile can make in a small bathroom.
- French company Novoceram makes tile that looks like wallpaper. It can be used to cover a hallway, living room, bathroom, or anywhere you'd like to use a wall pattern.
- The bathroom at Pierluigi Molteni's Plug-In House uses tile to make a statement. This geometric red and black pattern is by Lea Ceramiche.
- In Luciano and Marzia's bathroom, a little bit of high-end Bizassa tile goes a long way. The fixtures, by Philippe Starck, are another playful and high-quality detail. In a tiny bathroom, it's less intimidating to splurge on small details, since they become noticeable features.
- Roberta's bathroom is covered in reflective, patterned tile. Although it's a dark, dramatic look, the reflective finish helps to open up the sense of space.
- Jason's home is a good example of how tile can be used to divide rooms. In the open plan kitchen and living area, flooring helps to differentiate the two spaces from each other.
- Tile is a functional and beautiful material to use on a fireplace surround, since it's heat-resistant and easy to clean.
Photos: Abby Cook (1), Dehlia (2), Novoceram (3), Sarah Coffey (4-6), Jason Weinbeck / Greg Jansen (7), Heath Ceramics (8)


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"KDE 4 is seen by many to be the next big step on the free software desktop, while others think releasing 4.0 in its current condition was misleading and a mistake. Either way, it's an innovative release and inline with Fedora's goal of providing the latest and greatest free software it is set to be the default KDE environment in the next major release of Fedora. We caught up with two members of the KDE SIG to talk about the work they're doing to get it ready for release, their own opinions on the software and what they think about the progress made by Fedora in getting over its GNOME centric reputation."


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(This post originally appeared in October 2010.)
The poet Jane Hirshfield was last evening's guest of the college. As I read her work in anticipation of the visit, I found myself thinking of Rainer Maria Rilke, and in particular of the Duino Elegies, among my favorite poems.
"Does a poem enlarge the world,/ or only our idea of the world?" asks Hirshfield in one of her poems. She wrestles with the central paradox of artistic creation, a paradox that also concerned Rilke.
I recall reading somewhere that the painter Wassily Kandinsky could be transfixed, enraptured, by the sight of a collar button in the gutter. It is the nature of the artistic temperament to be acutely sensitive to the isness of things, what the photographer Edward Weston called "the thing itself." Hirshfield has a poem about a button ("It is its own story, completed," she writes). A button, a spoon, a blue mug. Tapioca, peaches, toast. The enrapturing insistence of the thing that exists independently of the artist who perceives it, even though we know that a thing cannot even be known to exist except in its perception. Still, the painter must paint and the poet must write because that too is part of the artistic temperament, but always there is an awareness of the unbridgeable distance between the thing and the expression of the thing.
"Why is it so difficult to speak simply?" asks Hirshfield in a poem. And in the very next poem she lets another artist answer:
"If you wish to move your reader,"Hirshfield continues:
Chekhov wrote, "you must write more coldly."
And so at the center of many great worksOne cannot, however, so easily escape the paradox:
is found a preserving dispassion,
like the vanishing point of quattrocentro perspective,
or the tiny packets of desiccant enclosed
in a box of new shoes or seeds."
But still the vanishing point"Only when I am quiet for a long time," writes Hirshfield, "and do not speak/ do the objects of my life draw near." Near, yes, but always that irreducible gap, that disquieting lacuna inviting the pronoun I.
is not the painting,
the silica is not the blossoming plant.
Of course, what Hirshfield is dealing with here is not just the problem of artistic creation, but really the central problem of philosophy. How do we know? And how do we know that we know? What is the relation of the perceived particular -- in all of its redolent, enrapturing isness -- to the abstract general? How can we grasp the thing itself without the intrusion of the transformational I?
Silence and speech: These are the mutually annihilating qualities that define our humanness.
"Are we, perhaps, here just for saying: House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate?" asks Rilke in the Ninth Duino Elegy. And Hirshfield:
I look at my unhandy hand,That is to say, to say. But Rilke adds: "But for saying, remember, oh, for such saying as never the things themselves hoped so intensely to be."
Shaped as the hands of others are shaped.
Even the pen it holds is a mystery, really.
Rawhide, it writes,
and chair, and marble.
Praise the world to the Angel, not the untellable; you
can't impress him with the splendor you've felt; in the cosmos
where he more feelingly feels you're only a novice. So show him some simple thing, refashioned by age after age, till it lives in our hands and eyes as a part of ourselves.
Tell him things.


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Dalton Freeman
|6-5, 285 lbs
|Pelion, SC
|High School:
|2008 - 2012
|Communication Studies
Had 171 knockdowns in a school-record 3,361 snaps over 53 games (49 starts) in his career ... tied for first in school history in starts and tied for fourth in games ... started each of the last 49 games at center ... two-time finalist for the Rimington Trophy ... two-time First-Team All-ACC selection (media), the first Tiger center to do that ... three-time Academic All-ACC selection ... four-time ACC Academic Honor Roll member.
2012: Permanent team co-captain ... one of six finalists for the Rimington Trophy ... one of 50 candidates for the National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award ... first-team All-American by AFCA ... second-team All-American by AP, Lindy's, Phil Steele, Scout.com, and Walter Camp ... honorable mention All-American by SI.com and Sporting News ... First-Team All-ACC selection (media, coaches) ... first-team All-ACC by CBSSports.com, CollegeFootballNews.com, ESPN.com, and Phil Steele ... second-team Academic All-American by CoSIDA; he became the first Tiger Academic All-American since 2001 and the fourth Tiger in history to be named an All-American on the field and in the classroom in the same academic year ... first-team Academic All-District by CoSIDA ... Senior Bowl invitee ... had 28 knockdowns in 959 snaps over 13 games (13 starts) ... had a team-high five knockdowns in playing all 89 snaps against #25 Auburn at Atlanta, GA on Sept. 1; named ACC Offensive Lineman-of-the-Week ... had two knockdowns in 36 snaps against Ball State on Sept. 8 ... had two knockdowns in 52 snaps against Furman on Sept. 15 ... had one knockdown in playing all 79 snaps at #4 Florida State on Sept. 22 ... had one knockdown in 75 snaps at Boston College on Sept. 29 ... had three knockdowns in playing all 93 snaps against Georgia Tech on Oct. 6 ... had two knockdowns in playing all 67 snaps against Virginia Tech on Oct. 20; named team offensive player-of-the-game ... had two knockdowns in 80 snaps at Wake Forest on Oct. 25 ... had two knockdowns in 60 snaps at Duke on Nov. 3 ... had one knockdown in 71 snaps against Maryland on Nov. 10 ... had two knockdowns in playing all 102 snaps against N.C. State on Nov. 17; named ACC Offensive Lineman-of-the-Week ... had two knockdowns in 52 snaps against #12 South Carolina on Nov. 24 ... had three knockdowns in playing all 103 snaps against #7 Louisiana State in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Dec. 31 ... Lombardi Award Watch List member in the preseason ... Outland Trophy Watch List member in the preseason ... Rimington Trophy Watch List member in the preseason ... Senior Bowl Watch List member in the preseason ... preseason second-team All-American by Lindy's ... #2 center in the nation in the preseason by Lindy's ... preseason fourth-team All-American by Phil Steele ... preseason First-Team All-ACC ... preseason first-team All-ACC by Athlon, ESPN.com, Lindy's, and Phil Steele.
2011: Honorable mention All-American by SI.com ... one of six finalists for the Rimington Trophy ... First-Team All-ACC selection (media) ... first-team All-ACC by ESPN.com and Phil Steele ... Academic All-ACC selection ... ACC Academic Honor Roll member ... had 41 knockdowns in a school-record 1,044 snaps over 14 games (14 starts) ... second on the team in knockdowns ... led or tied for the team lead among offensive linemen in snaps in every game ... graded 91 percent in 64 snaps against Troy on Sept. 3 ... graded 84 percent in 71 snaps against Wofford on Sept. 10 ... had four knockdowns in playing all 94 snaps against #19 Auburn on Sept. 17 ... played all 86 snaps against #11 Florida State on Sept. 24 ... played all 68 snaps at #10 Virginia Tech on Oct. 1; named team offensive player-of-the-game ... played all 82 snaps at Maryland on Oct. 15 ... graded 88 percent in 67 snaps against North Carolina on Oct. 22 ... graded 89 percent in playing all 67 snaps at Georgia Tech on Oct. 29 ... graded 88 percent with four knockdowns in playing all 90 snaps against Wake Forest on Nov. 12; named ACC Offensive Lineman-of-the-Week ... had six knockdowns in playing all 68 snaps at #13 South Carolina on Nov. 26 ... graded 91 percent with five knockdowns in 68 snaps against #3 Virginia Tech in the ACC Championship game on Dec. 3 ... had six knockdowns in 69 snaps against #22 West Virginia in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 4.
2010: Academic All-ACC selection ... ACC Academic Honor Roll member ... had 58 knockdown blocks in 811 snaps, second-most on the team, in 13 games (13 starts) ... allowed just two sacks all season ... led or tied for the team lead in snaps among offensive linemen in eight different games ... had an 80.6-percent average film grade, third-best on the team ... led the team in knockdown blocks in six different games ... led the team in knockdown blocks in four of the last seven games ... graded in the 80s in 10 games, including each of the last seven games ... had an 82-percent grade and four knockdowns against North Texas ... had seven knockdowns and a 77-percent grade at #15 Auburn ... had eight knockdowns and led the team in film grade (84 percent) at North Carolina ... had six knockdowns and an 82-percent grade against Georgia Tech ... led the team in film grade at Boston College (84) and Florida State (84) ... had seven knockdowns and an 80-percent grade against #23 N.C. State ... had an 80-percent grade and four knockdowns at Wake Forest in front of his father, who played for Wake Forest in the early 1980s ... won the Strength Training Award among centers for the spring practice.
2009: ACC Academic Honor Roll member ... had 44 knockdowns ... first freshman center to start for Clemson over the course of a season since 1943 (Ralph Jenkins) ... first-team freshman All-American by CollegeFootballNews.com ... named offensive Co-Rookie-of-the-Year along with Kyle Parker by the Tiger coaching staff ... Academic All-ACC selection ... first-team Freshman All-ACC by Rivals.com ... started the last nine games, his move to the starting lineup coincided with Clemson's six-game winning streak at midseason ... played 547 snaps in 13 games, with nine starts overall, all at center ... Clemson averaged 32.5 points per game and nearly 400 yards per game when he started ... had an 80-percent film grade in the win over #8 Miami, he had a season-high eight knockdown blocks in that game ... also graded 80 percent in the win over N.C. State ... played 25 snaps as a reserve against Middle Tennessee, then did not play against Georgia Tech in Atlanta ... played 11 snaps against Boston College and 12 against TCU in limited roles ... went into the starting lineup in a 38-3 win over Wake Forest and graded 79 percent ... had big game in win over Miami as stated earlier, then had 79 percent grade in a win over Florida State ... had season-best 85 percent grade in win over Virginia in the team's final home game ... had eight knockdown blocks against Georgia Tech in ACC Championship game when the Tigers had season-high 323 yards rushing ... played 47 snaps in the win over Kentucky and his 80 percent grade had a lot to do with Clemson's 180 rushing yards and the 21-13 win.
2008: Red-shirted ... ACC Academic Honor Roll member.
Before Clemson: Rated as the #13 offensive guard in the nation by Scout.com ... #16 offensive guard in the nation by ESPN.com ... #9 prospect in South Carolina and #13 offensive guard in the nation by Rivals.com ... finalist for Mr. Football in South Carolina ... Offense-Defense All-American Bowl Offensive Lineman-of-the-Year ... Shrine Bowl pick ... recipient of the Wendy's High School Heisman in South Carolina ... #8 prospect in South Carolina by SuperPrep ... #39 offensive lineman in the nation by SuperPrep ... All-American at offensive tackle ... three-time all-area, all-region, and all-state selection on offense ... two-time all-area and all-region pick on defense ... two-time region lineman-of-the-year ... offensive lineman-of-the-year by High School Sports Report and South Carolina Football Coaches Association ... winner of the Carolina Panthers Community Captain Award ... graded 92 percent while recording 67 knockdowns and 37 pancake blocks during his senior season ... tied for the team lead with 83 tackles along with 16 tackles for loss and six sacks ... all-region in track as a junior ... coached by his father, Ben Freeman ... recruited by Brad Scott ... chose Clemson over Colorado, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Penn State, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Personal: His father, Ben, played football at Wake Forest in the early 1980s ... graduated on Dec. 22, 2011 with a degree in communication studies ... born June 18, 1990.
*Courtesy Clemson Media Guide
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Hawkeynut wrote:Hmm, thanks for setting the facts straight. I guess not all mutual "Plan A" signings work out (so far). That being said, I don't expect Martin to have another bad season next year. I think he will have a bounce back year next season. I have a feeling it was more about pairings than individual issues.
Well, it was my understanding based on things said...so not necessarily facts. It's just how I viewed it, and still feel it went down. I agree that there's no reason to think Paul will have another awful season. There's good reason to hope he can bounce back.


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Maria's love of Effie deeply influenced those around her. When performing the simplest daily chores to help her sister, Maria reflected Pope Francis' description of living the call of Christian discipleship coming from Baptism. This happens whenever we reach out to the least of our brothers and sisters.
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