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Bermuda a big hit at Blockchain Week launch
Bermuda's pioneering work to regulate the global blockchain industry was praised by delegates to one of the world's largest cryptocurrency conferences, as New York celebrates "Blockchain Week".
David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance, accompanied by national security minister Wayne Caines, led a 20-strong delegation from Bermuda to Consensus 2018, a three-day midtown conference running from May 14 to 16 that has attracted more than to 8,000 delegates encompassing a wide array of industries and government entities. The island's contingent comprises members of the Bermuda Government, the Bermuda Monetary Authority, the Bermuda Business Development Agency, and industry, including several Bermuda law firms.
"It's gratifying to go to an event like the one today, when people already know what's going on in Bermuda," said the Premier, who also sat down with BBC Online, Bitcoin Magazine, and Coindesk, a news site specialising in virtual currencies, which also organises Consensus. "People we've met want to find out more about what we're doing, how we're moving forward. We certainly have a story to tell — and a very good one."
The Premier addressed a full auditorium of attendees before a midday panel on regulation, highlighting the island's quick progress to become a global hub for fintech enterprises and innovation through ground-breaking recent legislation to govern regulation of digital assets.
"The Government of Bermuda — all the way up to the Premier himself — is showing remarkable leadership in the blockchain space," said Don Tapscott, the keynote speaker, author, and executive director of the Blockchain Research Institute.
Mr Tapscott, a leading authority on the impact of technology on business and society, added: "Bermuda is attempting to figure out an environment that enables both an innovation economy and entrepreneurship, on the one hand, and protecting the interests of consumers and investors on the other. Our institute intends to collaborate much more closely with Bermuda in the future."
Bermuda delegates were deluged throughout yesterday by inquiries on setting up businesses and launching initial coin offerings from the island. Meetings were held in a Bermuda suite, where a networking reception also attracted entrepreneurs and technologists looking to leverage the island's respected regulatory environment and sophisticated infrastructure.
"It's impressive to see the volume of people who have come through our meeting suite," Sean Moran, the BDA's Head of Business Development, said. "It has been non-stop. I've talked to dozens of groups that want to launch their ICOs out of Bermuda; they want to establish service-provider companies in Bermuda that would help support the growth of our digital asset industry. "Everyone is excited by what they view to be a jurisdiction that would offer a positive and welcoming environment for new businesses in the blockchain space."
Consensus continues today, with the Premier slated for interviews with Nasdaq and Bloomberg Radio, among other media. The Bermuda group will also visit the New York offices of law firm Norton Rose Fulbright to give a presentation on Bermuda's economy and the island's innovative approach to business over many decades.
• For the Premier's remarks to the Consensus 2018 audience, click on the PDF under "Related Media"
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Manchester United are monitoring the situation of Southampton captain Jose Fonte after it emerged that Liverpool are considering another raid on the south coast club this summer.
Louis van Gaal has already been linked with a big-money bid for right-back Nathaniel Clyne, but could also move for a second Saints defender in the forthcoming transfer window.
According to the Daily Mirror the Portugal international is on the Red Devils' radar following an impressive 2014/15 campaign at St Mary's.
Fonte has been at the heart of one of the stingiest defences in the Premier League this season and his performances for Ronald Koeman's side have not gone unnoticed by the division's big-boys.
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The England international midfielder was one of three former Saints players that signed for the Reds at the end of last season, with Ricke Lambert and Dejan Lovren also completing switches to Merseyside.
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Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research recently compiled data from rural voters in 13 battleground states on behalf of the Center for Rural Strategies. These results show a dead-heat among rural voters through the month of October (46 Obama, 45 percent McCain) and represent a dramatic swing from McCain's lead among these voters in September (51 - 41 percent McCain) and May (50 - 41 percent McCain).
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- Sarah Palin also suffers significant erosion in this survey, falling from 48 percent positive, 33 percent negative in September (then, the most popular candidate in the rural battleground) to 40 percent positive, 42 percent negative currently.
- Obama's improvement is driven by rising voter concerns over the economy in the aftermath of the collapse on Wall Street. Voters prefer Obama (49 to 40 percent) on the economy, a 12-point net shift in Obama's favor since September.
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I thought today I would show you what products I use to style my hair naturally.
I actually have pretty curly hair, so sometimes it can be a bit of a problem with either frizz, or days it just doesn't want to curl itself properly, etc... You curly hair people know what I'm talking about here. Depending on the weather, I may let it dry naturally (usually only happens on hot summer days), or use a hair dryer to speed up the process when its colder out or I'm in a rush and don't want to look as if I just exited the shower. Having thick, curly hair means it takes hours to dry naturally unless its at least 25+ degrees outside.
To begin, here are recent pictures of my hair left alone. In these, I let my hair dry naturally (it's actually still a bit wet as you can see). At the end of this, I am going to show you guys a quick picture of how long my hair actually is when I blow-dry it straight and what I use for that - the length difference is crazy. (Click to enlarge these).
This all starts in the shower. To be honest, I've never noticed much difference between a "curl" shampoo and any other formulation, so I just use whatever I have on hand - lately thats been the Clear for Color and Damaged hair. Maybe I just haven't found any curl shampoo/conditioner combo thats great yet - but of the ones I've tried, my end results do not differ. When I'm in the shower I brush the conditioner through my hair with a wide tooth comb; when doing this, I make sure to comb my hair the way I would part it. When rinsing my hair I try not to tangle it up or anything a whole lot- Basically, my goal is to not have to brush/comb my hair once I get out of the shower. This helps my natural curls stay in together and not separate them too much.
Next, I just squeeze my hair with a towel to get any excess water out (my hair retains water really well, so this is crucial). I part my hair and depending on how I am going to dry my hair (naturally or not) depends on what goes on my hair.
Here are the products that I use.
Catwalk Curl Collection Curlesque creme
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Drying my hair naturally
Separate my hair into 4 sections (one on each side and 2 for the back). Apply very small amount of AG Recoil to hands, rub together, distribute onto section- repeat with each section. This is seriously the holy grail for naturally curly hair. It makes my curls even curlier and I can not rave about this stuff enough.
Afterwards, I apply a small (quarter sized) amount of Catwalk Curlesque to my whole head and just crunch my curls a little to encourage them to twist more. Thats it!
The reason I apply both products when letting my hair dry naturally is that I find my hair can get a little separated and frizzy without the Catwalk, but my curls are as bouncy without the AG; therefore, I feel I need both. I don't apply the mousse when I dry my hair naturally as I feel it leaves my hair hard and crunchy.
Drying my hair with a hair dryer
When drying my hair with a hair dryer I first apply the AG Recoil as I previously explained. After that is when I put a palm-full of Pantene Mousse all over my hair. Stick the Diffuser onto my hair dryer (EXTREMELY important) and flip my hair upside-down while drying it. I find flipping my hair over adds more volume to the roots. I always put my hair dryer setting to low (so yes, this can sometimes take a while) and carefully hold pieces of my hair so the blowing air doesn't cause the curls to separate too much (this is why the low setting is so important, otherwise it will end up frizzy). When its dry, I give it a shot of cold air with the hair dryer to seal it all in and voila! Done-Zo.
The Pantene Mousse doesn't leave my hair crunchy when I use a hair dryer - I can't really explain why; maybe because it's being tousled around more.
Just for fun
Here's how long my hair actually is when it is blow-dried straight (no flat iron was used in this).
All I really did for this was apply a small amount of Carols Daughters Smoothing Blow Dry Creme (smells like chocolate- yumm) and put a concentrator on my hair dryer. Section the hair off in 4 sections again, and use a paddle brush to follow the hair down the brush with the edge of the concentrator.
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Caledon OPP took part in a Lock it or Lose it campaign last month, and the findings revealed most people take care to lock their cars and keep valuables out of sight when parking.
The campaign, sponsored by the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP), encourages drivers to take precautions to protect their vehicles and contents from theft.
Members of the Community Response Unit and Auxiliary Unit were out visually checking vehicles that were parked in a variety of locations throughout Caledon March 11 and 12. Vehicles that were locked and did not have any valuables or keys in plain sight were given a passing mark. Vehicles that were unlocked, had valuables or keys in plain sight or windows open failed.
There were 819 vehicles checked March 11, and 657 (80.2 per cent) passed. The following day saw 602 vehicles checked, with 495 (82.2 per cent) passing.
Leaving vehicles unlocked or valuables in plain sight is an invitation for thieves, police warn. They want people to take the time to keep their property safe.
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My husband recently was with Lucas and my mother-in-law at her long-time neighbor and friend's house. The neighbor is a lovely woman, with a great sense of humor and not a mean bone in her body -- although Betty* is nearly 70 years older than Lucas, they happen to share the same birthday.
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My grandpa was Pearl Harbor survivor & received medals for his herorics after being straffed by Japanese pilots on the airfield. The first time I introduced Christian to him, they had a great talk. Later that day, I asked my grandpa what he thought of Christian & he said "he ain't too bad for a Jap." I loved that he was so honest about it. It's totally generational & for him (he didn't like Asians much after returning from Pearl Harbo... and w/good reason) situational. But I didn't try to correct him or tell him he shouldn't say things like that. Christian & I laugh about it to this day. Old people went thru life differently than us & we should be very thankful for that!
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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day puts me in mind of the science fictional locale of Jinx (Larry Niven's Known Space tales). The universe is stranger than we can imagine: that's Methone, right here in our own solar system. Another great image from Saturn's tiniest "moon", the Cassini orbiter.
Addendum: January 1975 Analog cover. See what I mean?
Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
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The solar system alone is stranger than we imagine. Agreed
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Every week we feature a fun and/or educational activity you can try at home or in the classroom. Valentine's Day has passed, and I bet you're wondering what to do with those old Valentine's cards besides just pitching them in the trash. Here are a few ideas, including this very creative recycled basket.
Recycled Valentine's Day Card Basket
Materials You'll Need:
- Template (downloadable)
- 14 used Valentine's cards
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- Hole punch or something to poke holes with
- Yarn or embroidery thread (in Valentine's colors)
- Fat embroidery needle or crochet hook (optional)
- Scissors
Photo credit: Pink and Green Mama
Trace the template on the cards: 12 side pieces and 2 bottom pieces, centering the best parts of the cards. Glue two sides together with the graphics facing outward on each side, including the two bottom pieces. Use a hole punch to punch sewing holes evenly (about 1/4 inch apart) around the edges of each piece. Sew the side pieces to the bottom, and finally sew the sides together.
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The U.S. Constitution
In the Constitution, electoral College elects the President, and there was a system of checks and balances and a system of federal courts.
In the Constitution, there were a system of federal courts, a supreme court and 2 Houses of Congress.
A majority in each house must pass a bill and the president must sign it before it becomes law.
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It created both a system of government shared by the nation and its states.
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The only way to amend the constitution was by having 3/4 of the state legislatures at a Constitutional Convention.
The U.S. Constitution gave the government power to raise an army, to tax, and to control trade.
The Bill of Rights was made up of the first 10 amendments.
The Articles of Confederation
In the Articles of Conderderation, there were no executive or judicial branches.
According to the Articles of Confederation, each state had one vote, and only the states had a system of court.
To decide on a president to preside over the Congress, they elected their own president.
In order to pass a law, 9/13 states needed to pass it, and the Articles of Confederation only had power to control the states.
To amend the Constitution, every state had to agree, and there was no power to raise an army in the Articles of Confederation.
In the Articles of Confederation, states were asked to send soldiers to make up the army.
There was also no power to tax and no Bill of Rights.
In the Articles of Confederation, the government could only ask the states for money, and there was no power to control trade going on between states or with other nations.
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Just had my second cigarette of the day. Well more precisely half a ciggy! I now have a headache and feel sick
Had set my quit day for Sunday (day 11 on Champix) with my partner but since the last smoke was so awful I may just make that my last puff....ever I will be so glad to be rid of this habit. Help me stay strong and give me a good kick when I need it


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I recently had the opportunity to take a look at Berkshire Hathaway's 2011 annual report. In that report it showed that Buffett and company invested in 11 companies by purchasing their common stock during the same year. Every single one of these companies had a market value where their company exceeded $1 billion. But out of all 11 companies, there has only been one where he's been adding to his position since the year 2005. The name of that company is Wells Fargo (WFC).
In all actuality, Wells Fargo is actually the second largest investment that Berkshire Hathaway currently holds. The total value of their investment is $13.7 billion. IBM is their third largest investment, and it values at $12.6 billion. While Coca-Cola is the largest investment of the company worth a total of $15.6 billion.
What you may not know is that Berkshire Hathaway actually took out their initial position in Wells Fargo in 1990. They spent a total of $289 million to purchase 5 million shares of the company. The position stayed stable from 1990 all away through 2004. Wells Fargo merged with Norwest in the year 1998, and the Wells Fargo stock was converted so one share actually ended up becoming 10 shares in the conversion. Ever since 2005, Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway have added to their Wells Fargo position on a relatively regular basis.
This is how it has all broken out:
- In 2005, they purchased 38.7 million shares at an average price of $30.58 per share. The total cost for this purchase was $1,183,000,000.
- In 2006, Berkshire Hathaway purchased 28 million shares at an average price of $33.65 per share. The total cost of this purchase was $942 million.
- In 2007, they purchased 85.2 million shares at an average cost of $33.64 per share. The total cost of this purchase was $2,886,000,000.
- In 2008, Warren Buffett bought 1 million shares of Wells Fargo at an average cost of $32.29 per share. So the total cost was a little more than $32 million.
- In 2009, Berkshire Hathaway was able to acquire 29.8 million shares at an average price of $19.67 per share. The total cost of this purchase was $586 million.
- In 2010, they chose to buy 24.7 million shares at an average price of $28.64 per share. This totaled $707 million.
- The 2011 share purchase was for 41.1 million shares at an average price of $28.42 per share. The total cost of this purchase was $1,168,000,000.
- Finally, in the first quarter of 2012, Warren Buffett purchased 10.6 million shares of Wells Fargo at an average cost of $30.85 per share. The total cost of this purchase was $327 million.
All of this information was gathered from Berkshire Hathaway's annual reports. Feel free to read through the annual reports on your own if you want to verify this information.
During the most recent annual meeting for Berkshire Hathaway, Wells Fargo was praised by Warren Buffett and he came right out and told us that it is one of his favorite investments. They're actually ranked among the US banking industry as number one in total market value being worth $176 billion.
This is true even though it is only the fourth largest bank when you add up its total assets. They actually have the most extensive network of branch banks throughout the entire United States of America, and they total 6200 retail branches throughout 39 states of the USA. They also serve one out of three homes in the USA, and they are the originator of one out of four home mortgages and they even service home loans more than any other bank in the industry.
One thing you might want to note is that Wells Fargo has stuck with its plan by narrowing its focus. It planned on developing its original mission of commercial banking, and it has succeeded wholeheartedly in this endeavor. They never changed course along the way by jumping into high risk investment banking. This was the downfall of a lot of their major competitors. They also stayed local, whereas many of the competitors expanded into Europe. This is a major problem for some of these banks since many countries in Europe are experiencing enormous challenges from a financial perspective.
Wells Fargo's assets are basically all in the US. A total of 97% of their assets are United States based, and 98% of their employees are also in the USA. They have a cross-selling strategy which they vigorously pursue, and they make it a point to get their existing customers to use additional products. This is a substantial part of their success, as the average customer of Wells Fargo actually uses around six products that their bank has to offer. This is much different from the way they operated where they only offered one or two in the 1980s.
Wells Fargo pulled in a net income of $16 billion in 2011. This is up from their numbers in 2008 where they only made 2.7 billion. They also made a major purchase in 2008, and they purchased Wachovia Bank for $15 billion during that year. This was a big addition to the bank because it expanded their presence in the South as well as the East in the United States. They were also capable of entering into brokerage services through this purchase since Wachovia is also the owner of A.G. Edwards. This gave them a much greater ability to cross sell more products to their existing customers.
The most important thing about Wells Fargo is their loan portfolio. It is in much better shape than the portfolios of their competition. Their net charge-offs were only 1.25% of their total loans of the first quarter of 2012. Bank of America's net charge-offs were 1.8% and J.P. Morgan Chase's net charge-offs were 2.19%. Citigroup was the worst at 3.19%.
There are many analysts expecting Wells Fargo to earn more than 10% per share over the next five years. The shares are currently valued at a reasonable 10 times earnings. This makes Wells Fargo a very attractive investment when you base it on risk/reward.


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BusNet is a sensor network to be built on a public transport system to monitor environmental pollution. BusNet uses only a few sensors mounted on public transport buses to gather data on air pollution levels in a large geographical area in contrast to a large number of sensors required in a conventional sensor network deployed for such a purpose. The public transport network also acts as the communication network in BusNet. Because only a few sensors are needed for the BusNet it is less costly to build and easy to manage. Even though we present BusNet with respect to one particular application the idea is generic enough to be used in other systems in which a large number of sensors can be replaced by a few moving sensors mounted on public transport vehicles.
Air pollution changes considerably in different areas of a city and even from building to building. Data gathered from a single point are not representative of air pollution levels in different parts of the city and therefore a large number of data gathering points spread over the city is needed. While for a small city it may be feasible to deploy such a system; it would be prohibitively expensive to deploy a system over a larger geographical area such as a large city or a country.
We observe that most countries have a public transport system that spans the country. Buses and train networks have central points (such as regional bus/train stations) from which regional transport networks span out. There are bus and train routes inter-connecting these regional stations as well as central hubs in capital cities. This forms a large public transport network. We propose to use several sensors mounted on the vehicles of the public transport system as a replacement for a network consisting of large number of sensors. These vehicle mounted moving sensors would be able to gather data that covers a large geographical area. When the buses arrive at bus stations, which also function as data collection centers, gathered data are transferred over a wireless link to the collection point. Data gathered in regional collection points are transferred to buses traveling between the regional centers and the main collection center. In this scenario the public transport system functions as a data delivery network as well as the data collection network. Therefore, it is quite different from vehicle assisted data delivery networks, where vehicles form an ad hoc network to deliver data.
In our system data travel in vehicles and also vehicles facilitate data gathering by hosting sensors. We assume that the gathered data are not required in real time in this particular application. We name this network BusNet and we have commenced building a prototype to be deployed using the public transport system in Sri Lanka.


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Synopsis: In This Boy's Life Tobias Wolf created an unforgettable memoir of an American childhood. Now he gives us a precisely and sometimes pitilessly remembered account of his young manhood – a young manhood that become entangled in the tragic adventure that was Vietnam. Mordantly funny, searingly honest, In Pharoah's Army is a war memoir in the tradition of George Orwell and Michael Herr.
First Line: "Some peasants were blocking the road up ahead.:
Random Quote: "Only when we finally took the town back, when the last sniper had been blasted off his rooftop, did I see what we had done, we and the VC together. The place as a wreck, still smoldering two weeks later, still reeking sweetly of corpses."
Review: I loved This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff so reading his memoir of his time in Vietnam was a no-brainer. It is well-written and tells of Vietnam in a succinct almost detached fashion that maximizes the available horror. In particular, Wolff's description of the impact of the Tet Offensive will haunt me to my grave in the way that Michael Herr's description of Hue has.
Wolff is less the soldier and more the writer throughout the book and you wonder how he got himself there. In many ways the book is about the search for self and for manhood and all the wrong places those searches can take you. Interspersed are stories of his family, his parolee father and his brother, academician and writer, Gregory Wolff. Wolff has a talent for relating the small detail that sets off a string of details that become a story before you know it's happened. Worth reading both for a deeper understanding of Vietnam and for a great example of good memoir writing.
Reading Challenges: Truth is Stranger than Fiction Reading Challenge, Book Awards Reading Challenge, 2010 100+ Reading Challenge, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 2010 War Through the Generation Challenge: Vietnam


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To Spielberg, With Love
Rating: **
Super 8 stands as a hazy nostalgia to that 80s classic, Spielberg made. The film was ET and it detailed on the relationship between a boy and a lost alien. In this film, Abrams brings his stereotyped alien in the midst of a group of teenagers making an indie zombie film. And then, a train crash forms an exciting narrative hook. But, when that fails to materialize any effort in the story, Abrams brings the US Air Force and their plans to evacuate the town.
Abrams tries to bring the effect he brought upon in his earlier production, Cloverfield. But, there was something wrong with that film too. The monster appeared everywhere the group went. It was as if the monster had a GPS access of just the group. Super 8's flaw lies in the scene where the 14-year old protagonist, Joe Lamb encounters the poorly animated alien. These kids are quite young when compared to the words they cuss.
Elle Fanning (Babel, Somewhere) appears as the saving grace for what could have been a movie with very little acting. There's also Kyle Chandler from the TV show Friday Night Lights, who is given a few scenes to dramatize with his beady eyes. Noah Emmerich's villainous appearance is quite nostalgic to those tough guy villains from the 80s.
With Spielberg as one of the producers, I was expecting Super 8 to be a reverie to the 80s films rather than one to his own work. Abrams has added several references to ET and Close Encounters of The Third Kind. Why oh why was the spaceship design that crappy?]
Is it just me or did anyone else notice that Joe's locket was the missing link to the spaceship?
Super 8 impresses with its thrilling set pieces. However, that tingling sense of nostalgia will remind you of better films you've seen. And yes, the kids in the 80s films didn't cuss that much.


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Thank you for highlighting Catholic Relief Services in your editorial "Americans Abroad" (7/30), as an agency that successfully addresses the Holy Father's concerns about global solidarity, and which partners with the U.S. government to encourage its efforts at reducing global poverty.
However, because of conflicting information in briefing materials I forwarded to you, the editorial incorrectly stated the agency's overhead expenses. Catholic Relief Services allocates 92 percent of its budget for overseas programming, not 82 percent.
All of us at Catholic Relief Services are sincerely appreciative of the continued support given to our agency in your magazine and of America's professional reporting on humanitarian issues around the world.
Holli Burge
Catholic Relief Services
Baltimore, Md.
Sure Grasp
The 40th birthday tends to be a watershed moment for many American males, including Thomas J. McCarthy (8/13). But that's just what happens when life is more than half over, when adolescent bloom has long since faded, when some heroes and some dearly held ideals have been found wanting, when some treasured goals have been depreciated by experienced reality, and when untested childhood faith is now less a comforting answer and more a challenging question. Yet in all of this emerging mid-life angst there is also God's invitation to let go of yesterday's emotional teddy bears and reach out, unafraid, for God's sure and saving grasp.
(Rev.) Robert J. Thorsen
Cincinnati, Ohio
Dot-Com and Tittle
I support the contention of the biblical scholar Joseph Jensen, O.S.B., (8/13) that current Vatican attempts to micromanage biblical translations (and thus biblical scholarship) with the flawed "Rosetta Stone" of the Nova Vulgata is insulting and risible. It is risible even to me, a 64-year-old layperson who has just finished two semesters of Hebrew at the local Quaker seminary, just to challenge myself. I not only learned beginning Hebrew, I also learned to use Hermeneutika's computerized Bible Works 4, which enables me to view biblical passages not only in Hebrew and Greek, but also in 20 other languages and 64 translations. I can compare the various English translations I have chosen, side by side with the Hebrew text. And I can also highlight each Hebrew word, review meanings of the word and how it is parsed and weigh the virtues of the various English translations. If Hermeneutika ever adds official translations of the Nova Vulgata to the program, even novices like myself will be able to compare the quality of the translations and also assess limitations, like those pointed out by Father Jensen and his fellow scholars. I think it is a bit late now for the Vatican to attempt, by academic compromise, to cloister Catholics from a multidimensional faith, experienced in competent biblical scholarship and emerging technology.
Ellen Conroy
Sherwood, Ore.
Close Scrutiny
Thank you for the scholarly and insightful article by Joseph Jensen, O.S.B., in which he convincingly illustrates how ill advised are some of the directives of Liturgiam Authenticam, especially the demand that Bible translations conform to the Latin New Vulgate (8/13). But will his voice be heard? One of the frequently quoted requirements from this new document is that the Creed be translated in the singular from the Latin, Credo in unum Deum; but the original Greek of the Creed, as formulated by the first two ecumenical councils of the church during the fourth century, is clearly in the plural. It would seem that a document that insists on literal translations would require that the Creed be translated from its original language, in the plural, as "We believe in one God." It is the Latin translation, not the English translation we now employ, that is not literal.
There is a further principle to be observed. When the Creed is part of a baptismal commitment or when it is the abjuration of heresy, it is properly expressed in the singular; but as a liturgical text to be proclaimed by the initiated faithful, it is properly in the plural. It would seem that this document requires close scrutiny and interpretation, especially by the diocesan bishops, who are "the governors, promoters, and guardians of the entire liturgical life in the church committed to them" ("Decree on the Bishops' Pastoral Office in the Church," No. 15, which is quoted verbatim by Canon 835).
Charles E. Miller, C.M.
Camarillo, Calif.
Role So Different
In "The Church and Psychiatry" (7/30), Dr. Ralph A. O'Connell notes well that in reference to psychiatry and religion, "questions about boundaries will always arise, questions of free will, immorality versus psychopathology." Yet fewer questions are likely if one realizes that the psychiatrist's role is very different from that of the priest-confessor. His task is not to establish guilt or innocence but rather to help the patient be more aware of his drives/emotions and the mechanisms he uses to avoid being straightforward with himself regarding them and his behaviors. Such emotional honesty with himself should help him be in a better position to engage more meaningfully with his clergyman.
In my view, we psychiatrists are not the philosophers we so often are thought to be. Rather, ours is a more humble task, one akin to a piano tuner's—through psychotherapy and at times with the aid of medications, we help the patient become a more emotionally well-tuned "instrument," who is in a better position to make reasonable decisions instead of being driven by emotional forces formerly unknown to him.
Donald J. Carek, M.D.
Charleston, S.C.


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Martin van Meytens (24 June 1695, Stockholm – 23 March 1770, Vienna), Dutch-Swedish painter best known for his portraits of Empress Maria Theresia of Austria, her family, and others at the Habsburg court. His clear, brightly-lit, precisely detailed style was exemplary of an Austrian "high-Rococo", and was very influential among his contemporaries. He began his artistic studies with his father, the painter Martin Meytens the Elder, who had moved from Hague to Sweden. The young artist went on to study in London, Paris, and Vienna, then lived and worked in Rome and Turin for some time. At the beginning of his career he painted enamel miniature portraits, but began working in oil around 1730, after having settled in Vienna. He became popular as a portrait painter with the Austrian aristocracy and in court circles. In 1732 be was appointed court painter, and in 1759 the director of the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts.


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(UNDATED) - Lawrence, Jackson, Monroe and Bartholomew Hunters received some good news - the number of antlerless deer they can take above basic bag limits during this year's deer hunting season has increased to 8.
A license is needed for each deer taken.
DNR Deer Management Biologist Chad Stewart says south-central Indiana is heavily populated by deer causing crop damage and an increased number of deer-vehicle collisions
Bonus antlerless county quotas were reduced in 19 counties and increased in four.
Determining bonus antlerless quotas is based on a variety of factors - crop damage reports, deer-vehicle collisions, deer-vehicle collisions per billion miles driven, and landowner and hunter surveys that measure individual satisfaction level with deer numbers per county.
"We also look at antlered and antlerless harvest and the proportion relative to each other, and we look at bucks killed per square mile of habitat," DNR deer management biologist Chad Stewart said.
Data collection starts immediately after each season's deer harvest numbers are tabulated.
Stewart develops his recommendations and provides the data to DNR district wildlife biologists for their input and recommendations. Indiana Conservation Officers also provide input.
Each recommendation is presented to a panel of administrators from DNR Fish & Wildlife and Law Enforcement. The panel reviews the three sets of recommendations to establish the bonus antlerless quota for each county.
If a county's bonus antlerless quota is changed, the new quota usually is left in place for a couple of years to evaluate impact.
"If you change it year to year, you don't have a good feel for the impact of those recommendations," Stewart said. "We want to see a trend manifest itself over a period before making additional adjustments."
As a result of the quota changes, 63 counties will be included in the 2014 late antlerless season, six fewer than in 2013. Only counties with a quota of 4 or above are eligible for the late antlerless season, which begins Dec. 26 this year.
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'Why everything you thought about COLDS is wrong!'
I wasn't sneezing nor coughing anymore when I read another follow-up of Jennifer Ackerman's new truths about colds: an adaptation written by Charlotte Dovey on yesterday's Daily Mail.
Let me remind you that science writer Melinda Wenner Moyer had highlighted the difference between the strength of our immune system 1) when preventing a cold and 2) while fighting the cold infection once it has been established. This distinction is essential when judging our immune system performance, as some factors such as vitamin C may prevent a cold better than stopping it.
So imagining that our immune system has failed to prevent a specific cold infection (because your daily routine didn't leave you time for healthier meals), let's have a look at some of what Jennifer Ackerman found out that compromised our basic knowledge about colds:
1) You can't catch a cold by kissing. Although this may surprise many people, a research at the University of Wisconsin Medical School has shown that the largest family of cold viruses rarely enters the body through the mouth. It appears to take as much as 8.000 times as much virus to cause infection from saliva than by other ways.
2) Staying indoors won't protect you. Firstly, because your computer mouse and your desk are amongst the greatest sources of cold viruses. Secondly, because winter drives people indoors, where it becomes easier for viruses to jump from one person to another.
3) On the other hand, socializing won't put you at risk. Did you know that people who socialize with many different people suffer fewer colds than those with smaller circles of friends? A wide social group contributes to a healthier lifestyle, which means that meeting a great variety of people does not increase your risk, as you may have thought.
4) Older people are not more vulnerable. Although they are risk-patients for many diseases, teenagers catch twice as many colds as people over 50 years old. The more colds you have been exposed to, the more antibodies you have developed to common cold viruses.
Scientists have discovered that our reception cells – those that "absorb" the viruses – as well as the amounts of inflammatory chemicals in our bodies differ from person to person. This explains why some people suffer more colds than normal. At the end of the day, it's all about where we are coming from. Or, in Charlotte Dovey's words: "blame your genes".


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Fantastic Four (2015)
I've gone into detail some of the problems this movie faced on my blog, and I can't help but note these problems are the reasons this movie will go down as a bad superhero movie and generally a train wreck of epic proportions. Despite the big budget, it feels like no one really tried making a good movie. However, it is not a bad-bad movie like say Steel or Catwoman, but surprisingly not as fun as the 2005 FF.
Did we really need a reboot for the FF franchise from Fox? Nope, but Fox was about to lose their rights to the property. So, they threw this movie together with an "in over his head" director at the helm. You got tons rewrites and re-shoots with the director sitting on the sidelines. Plus, you had a director that denounced him own movie just before it was released.
First act is pretty good, but the third act is a total mess. The movie is a compete and utter mess and you can see the duct-tape where the studio pieced together the various cuts of the film into one cut. Fox and Josh Trank butted heads in pre and post-production, and it shows all over this movie. Then Fox tried to do CPR on this movie without Trank.
I think Trank didn't have the chops to make a FF movie, and I only think Marvel has the knowledge to write a proper FF movie. Unlike the X-Men, the FF team works better in the larger superhero universe. (Sue Storm plays a role in the comic book version of Civil War.)
-Planet Zero: I found the alien planet to be fascinating in the first act of the movie, but it loses all coolness in the really bad third act. This origin has more in common to the Ultimate versions of the FF team.
-When they were kids: If the flashbacks to the two heroes was important to the story, why is there no payoff to them in the third act?
-The Third Act: The movie changes gears and the entire tone of the movie is different right down to the acting and dialogue. You can clearly see the moment when the actors stopped giving a shit. The dialogue, while not great, was okay up until the third act. It switches to the main characters telling us what they're going to do and spelling it out. You can see the actors not really giving a shit about the re-shoots, due to most of the re-shoots being done for the last act. The third act just harms this movie beyond repair because it makes zero sense compared to first two acts.
-Kate Mara's hair: You want to know where some of the massive re-shoot happened? Watch Kate's hair switch from real hair to a bad wig between shots and completely changes in the third act.
-Dr. Doom: What hell is Dr. Doom's motivation from his first appearance until the end? This is by far one of the worst and under-developed characters in the movie. If you're going to have a villain in your movie, why only have him be the main bad guy literally in the last ten minutes? I know that they were going for the Ultimate version of Doom, but at least give him a more compelling back story? What is up with the dropped blogger thing? Why did he return with the science team in the third act?
-Johnny Storm: At least the first two versions of Johnny Storm had personality. Here, Michael B. Jordan is given NOTHING to do. We don't even get to see his hot-hotheadedness and jokey nature. These things made Johnny Storm cool. Let's make Johnny Storm black, but we won't give him nothing else to do.
-Dr. Doom's super powers are to pop people's heads like balloons and manipulate rocks? : Yes, his super power is to move rocks around and throw them at the FF team. Huh? Was this power in the original script? Rocks seem to be a central theme in this movie even if the writers didn't realize it.
-good actors/bad movie: Yep most of the cast is very good, but the uneven script betrays them. However, the acting goes from being good to wooden in the third act. Nobody wanted to do those re-shoots.
-Miles Teller: Not bad as Reed Richards, but he is wasted.
Avoid this movie.
Grade: F+


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Liverpool is being invaded by swarms of diseased ladybirds.
Large clusters of the bugs have been spotted in homes across Merseyside as the insects bed down for winter.
While they may look cute, the foreign invaders - which have black wings instead of red - could pose a dangerous threat to the domestic species because they carry a sexually-transmitted disease, called Laboulbeniales fungal disease.
According to scientists, the disease will infect our native species, which is already under threat due to loss of habitat.
It is not yet known if the disease is harmful, but the UK Ladybird Survey says it could affect lifespan, or the number of eggs a female produces.
Known as Harlequin Ladybirds, the insects have flown in from North America and Asia, in search of hibernation spots.
Merseysiders have been sharing pictures of the swarms across social media and questioning why there seem to be so many this Autumn.
Twitter user @Loges1410 posted: "What is going on with all the ladybirds? Has anyone else noticed a dramatic increase in them?
"I'm scared to open my bedroom window out of fear of waking up with a group of them on my pillow."
Fellow Twitter user @jayniecakes added: "The daddy long legs & moths have died out, but am now getting Ladybirds coming in every time I open window. Isn't it a bit late in year?"
Part time primary school teacher Anne Williams said she had spotted 20 on her bedroom window and mum Heather Prescott said she saw several in Wavertree.
Liverpool blogger Adam Heath added: "Walking me dog on the fields then and there's a swarm of thousands of ladybirds never known anything like it."
Pest control advisors say the ladybirds cluster together to gather heat, but they are not harmful to humans.


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NIGMS has a postdoc training program titled "Intramural NIGMS Postdoctoral Research Associate (PRAT) Program". This amuses me no end. Someone on this grant is a PRAT.
This had me wondering on the twits: Perhaps they should have a program called "Graduate In Training (GIT) Program".
Then @michaelhoffman suggested:
@Odysseyblog Advanced Researcher Skills Education
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One could then progress from GIT to PRAT to ARSE...
Pretty much the system we currently have described in acronyms.
@SciTriGrrl @michaelhoffman Brain Analysis Systems To Augment Research Design.
— Odyssey (@Odysseyblog) March 11, 2016
@Odysseyblog @SciTriGrrl @michaelhoffman Or... Towards Wider Access to Translational Studies?
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Weekend visit to the farm Groblersdal Limpopo SA 18th to 20th of March 2011
First evening got 3 nets up and got 5 Barn Swallow and 2 Marsh Warbler before closing.
Next morning opened at 0530 and got a Red-backed Shrike among bucket loads of Red-billed Quelea and Southern Masked Weavers. Got a retrap Southern Masked Weaver from October 07 which was good, also a couple of Willow Warblers, both just finished moult.
That afternoon, took a drive round the game farm in search of Steppe Buzzards and was very surprised to find a young African hawk Eagle sitting in a Merula tree. Managed to get a trap down against the fence and the bird came in at once, only to sit on the top strand of the fence above the trap! eventually it dropped down on the other side of the fence! Now what I thought, but the bird just climbed straight through the fence strands (100mm apart!) and onto the trap where it got caught!
It weighed 1.850kg and probably a female, ringed it and set it on its way.
Later on still driving round the game farm, came across a Steppe Buzzard which came in immediately and was caught. The bird was a second year.
In the afternoon managed to get quite a few Kurrichane Thrushes including a 2.5 year old retrap. Other retrap were a Fiscal Flycatcher from 2008 and a White-bellied Sunbird from 2004, making it 6.5 years old!
Getting 3 Brown-hooded Kingfishers on the trot was interesting and wonder if there was a bit of local or not so local movement.
Saw a Spotted Flycatcher on the fence a couple of times with a ring on, probably one of mine from 2 years ago being the last time I got them here.
Managed to call a Levaillant's Cuckoo into the net area, but the thing was too wary as were a couple of Dideric Cuckoo, one even perching on the shelf string!
Saw a good thermal of 75 White Storks heading north with a couple of Steppe Buzzards among them. Also a hunting young Black-chested and a Brown Snake Eagle and a single White-backed Vulture.
Found a Genet in a tangle of vines in the tall Tambotie tree attracted many bulbuls and sunbirds.
1 African Paradise Flycatcher - 7 Cape White-eye - 5 Barn Swallow - 1 Lesser Striped Swallow - 2 Greater Striped Swallow - 1 Amethyst Sunbird - 2 White-bellied Sunbird –
1 Rattling Cisticola - 4 Willow Warbler - 3 Marsh Warbler - 1 Red-backed Shrike - 2 Black-cheeked Waxbill - 1 Cape Robinchat - 2 White-throated Robinchat - 2 Fiscal Flycatcher –
1 Cape Wagtail - 8 Dark-capped Bulbul - 8 Kurrichane Thrush - 1 White-fronted Bee-eater - 3 Brown-hooded Kingfisher - 1 Spectacled Weaver - 1 Steppe Buzzard –
1 African Hawk Eagle
Total 55 new birds and 5 retraps of 24 species
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An exclusive interview with Eric Wynalda
Daily Soccer Digest writer Doug Sibor chats with retired American soccer legend and Fox Sports broadcaster Eric Wynalda to discuss the state of U.S Soccer, Christian Pulisic and the top American soccer talent, Bruce Arena's USMNT hiring, World Cup 2018 and much more in this must-read exclusive DSD interview...
What do you think went right for the national team over the course of the past year?
If you go through the year in soccer, boy was it tumultuous to say the least. The positives are always the same, that we are gradually getting better as a soccer nation. When you look at the performances as a whole with the national team, this has what's kind of been happening lately: we lower our expectations, we over-perform, we get excited about it, then whatever tournament happens to be next it comes to abrupt halt in a very disappointing loss. In the Copa America, to lose 4-0 the way [the U.S.] did to Argentina disappointed a lot of people, and more recently the qualifier 4-0 loss to Costa Rica set off some alarms as well.
If I'm really going to take one positive away from this year, it's the arrival of Christian Pulisic. He started the year at 17 and is 18 now, and while we don't want to put too much pressure on him early there's certainly a lot of optimism about what he provides and what he's all about. We've never had this before. We've never had a young American player performing at an extremely high level with a team [Borussia Dortmund] that could possibly be considered top five in the world. Not to put it all on one kid, but he's the golden boy right now and I'm really looking forward to watching his future and watching him grow as a player. That's the one real bright spot I take out of the entire year.
Every generation tends to have a player to whom huge expectations are attached very early in his career. What is it about Pulisic, in comparison to someone like Landon Donovan and others, that separates him from others and where do you see him fitting in going forward in the global hierarchy?
The first comparison that people will make is that Landon [Donovan] also was in Germany with Bayer Leverkusen at a similar age and chose not to stay, whereas Pulisic has chosen to stay, but it was a different time especially in American [soccer] history when that all transpired with Landon. The difference with Christian in my eyes is that at a very young age—and Landon had a whole lot of poise too—he is wise beyond his years and has zero fear in his game. There's just no fear in him whatsoever.
Every play that he's involved in, whenever he gets the ball, he seems to make it better. He doesn't take the easy way out in life and he does not take the easy way out on the soccer field. That's respectable, and that's something where guys like me will take a look at it and say "there's something special about this guy," because he's constantly trying to have an influence on the game. Even if the play doesn't work out, he's right back at it 30 seconds later or 30 minutes later. He just doesn't seem affected by the failures within a game that can really smash your confidence.
Whether we want to call it "confidence" or just a way of thinking, there are a lot of things that our young players in the U.S. should take from the way Christian addresses his life and the game. He is everything I think we have been looking for, for a long time. He's going to be the hero of a lot of kids for a reason, and that's because he does it the right way.
Pulisic's rise has occurred at least in part because of his experience in the Dortmund youth system, and similarly there are many other young American players scattered in systems across Europe. Do you see this is becoming part of pattern, whether in 2017 or beyond, where these types of players become the next generation of national team players? And are these the guys to finally take the team forward?
The wheels are already in motion for guys like Cameron Carter-Vickers, Pulisic of course, and Emerson Hyndman. There are also guys like Matt Miazga, who started in the U.S. then took his game to Europe. The environment is the key; there's this overriding perception that Europe as a whole is a better environment than Major League Soccer. But the argument to that point is specific to each team. Each team has its own environment; we don't have an overriding theme that makes the New York Red Bulls the same as NYCFC. We have two different coaches with two different setups and are building two different cultures within their clubs, so sometimes you get lucky and sometimes the growth of the players is deterred by an unhealthy environment. That happens in Europe just as much as it happens in the United States, and the perception [otherwise] is sometimes wrong.
I do think that this next wave of players might very well be the product of their development in Europe. The challenge really is to create some environments Stateside that rival that and give our young players the opportunity to go to Europe if it's there and not force it, because if it's not there the onus is on us as a league and as a country to do everything we can to make sure that players are getting the right instruction and they're in the right environments and cultures here to ensure they have proper growth as a player.
That may be a "Jurgen Klinsmann" view; that perception was certainly his, that being in Europe was better than being in Major League Soccer. Because of that, we really only got to see the Emerson [Hyndmans], the Pulisics, the Fabian Johnsons, Jonathan Brooks, Bobby Wood, Alfredo Morales (who's actually doing really well but just got hurt). But there's going to be a change now, where maybe certain players within Major League Soccer or in developmental academies here will get a realistic opportunity to compete for positions on the U.S. National Team. That could very well be a guy like Benny Feilhaber—who's deep into his career—who might get a realistic chance with this coaching change. It's going to be an interesting transition from what Jurgen was trying to build to what Bruce Arena has now inherited.
Do you see guys with MLS experience like Feilhaber, Dax McCarty, and Sacha Kljestan making a major impact this year, especially considering they need guys who know how to compete in a CONCACAF-style environment in order to make the World Cup?
When there is a coaching change like this, everybody on the team has to prove it all over again. There is no complacency with anybody. And that's healthy, that's why a lot of people argue the point that the national team coaching position should only be in four year cycles. If you're constantly hearing the same voice or the same instruction, or maybe your performance wasn't the best but you're not feeling the pressure of someone trying to take your job because the coach has seemingly taken a liking to you, and then there's a coaching change, everybody is now standing straight up and trying to prove their point with a whole new set of eyeballs on them, which is good.
I will say this about Bruce Arena: he doesn't care about anything but winning. I won't say he doesn't care about development, but his job is very specific—and nobody in the United States understands that job better than Bruce Arena—which is to asses and select a team, to play and to win. That's it. That's the job. It's not to have opinions about what the Under 14s are doing in Frisco, Texas, which I think maybe could have been a huge reason for why Jurgen Klinsmann at times seemed to lose focus. Bruce Arena is laser-focused on one objective, and that's making the United States the best group of guys possible the next time they hit the field. There is no reason for him to take a player's past or relationship into consideration, and he's very good at that. I was coached by Bruce, and with him the bottom line is what is should be: I'm going to put the best guys on the field for the objective of winning the game in front of us.
He's very good at that, and he does not care where they came from. He doesn't have favorites; he's influenced by one thing only: good performance. And there are some guys in the U.S. National Team who are probably a bit nervous about their longstanding starting position because they need to prove to Bruce that they belong in that starting XI, or the [matchday] 18, or the 23 for that matter. Just because the other guy liked you does not mean that Bruce will.
Bruce is very good at recognizing form; somebody else might be viewed as a better player but he's unafraid to take a guy like Sacha Kljestan and put his ego aside and say "he's in better form right now, I'm playing him because I want to win. I believe this guy gives me the best opportunity to win today. Not next week, not next year, it's not about development, I don't care. I'm playing the team that's going to win." That's what I love about Bruce.
How does someone like Michael Bradley—whose 2016 was marked by poor form and a seemingly strained relationship with his coach—rebound under Bruce Arena? Or will there be a huge shift in the identity of the team going forward?
A longstanding track record can work both for and against you in a scenario like this. It's really healthy for Michael—who has not had the best performances lately—to hopefully find his game. If he doesn't find his game and Bruce Arena feels that he's not the best option and does put him on the bench for the first time in I don't know how long, probably eight years, that would be pretty amazing. I think he played more minutes for Jurgen Klinsmann than he did for his dad, to be honest. But the bottom line is that if [Bradley] is not cutting it right now, Bruce will not have any issue telling him that he's not good enough right now and has to figure it out.
You have to handle it as a professional, and Michael is a great professional. He's very serious and very dedicated. There are a lot of things you can appreciate about what Michael brings to the table, but that's the hard part about coaching (and management, for that matter): your job is to make tough decisions that are in the best interest of the team. If they're in the best interest of the team, no decision should be a tough decision; because if your job is to make us the best team and you got a guy and have to have a tough conversation with because he hasn't been on the bench for a long time and you have to be the one to tell him…that's the job! That's the job of the national team coach, or any coach for that matter. The tough decisions and the tough conversations that you have to have as a manager are what differentiate the good ones from the great ones.
That doesn't seem like something we'll have to worry about Bruce Arena shying away from.
Just you watch, Bruce will loosen [Bradley] up. If anything, he will give that kid a smile again. I was talking to somebody today about coaching and managing, and the way I'd describe it is you have to be a sponge. Everybody thinks the coach is the coach and the players have to be the sponge and learn from the coach. That's not how it works at the professional level. As the coach, you have to be the sponge. You have to take away the players' pressure, listen to their problems and take it all on your back. Bruce does that. Bruce doesn't create problems, he just basically takes them in, puts them inside his bubble, and says "let me worry about this for a while, you go play." That is what makes Bruce a tremendous manager in my eyes.
I've worked with him. We weren't particularly friendly at the beginning stages because of my role in the media (which is still that if something goes bad it's our job to talk about it), but he doesn't get caught up in that stuff. He's not going to call you and say "I didn't appreciate that," he's going to let you have your opinion and move on to the next question. That's the difference with Bruce, his response [to criticism]. Players appreciate that, because you do have pressure and you do have problems, you have issues or questions, and it's something that over the years he's proven to be very good at: telling players to take all their pain, problems, and alleviating that pressure and allowing them to go out and play the game to the best of their ability. I think Bruce's hiring might be extremely helpful when it comes to a guy like Michael Bradley, or even someone like John Brooks, who had an absolutely horrible game against Costa Rica. If you're John Brooks, you're thinking "Oh my God, [Arena] saw that, this guy is not going to start me. He's going to play someone else, he can't trust me."
Bruce will walk in and go, "Hey, I saw that game. Boy, were you bad. Try not to do that again." And the past is gone, because that's Bruce. He has a way of doing things and a way of speaking that is a calming influence on a team, and God knows we need that right now. We're going through a very tough phase, but the skillset that Bruce Arena possesses is the reason I am feeling very confident he can get us through a very difficult qualification stage.
Would you say that the ability to manage his players is a dramatic change from Jurgen and how he handled similar situations?
Bruce isn't going to throw anybody under the bus, if that's what you're alluding to. Criticizing the players after the Mexico loss didn't help Jurgen in any way, shape, or form. I think it was Bear Bryant who said "When something bad happens, I did it. When something good happens, you did it. When something great happens, we did it." That's how you address most press conferences.
I always loved that joke, "players win games, coaches lose them." It's definitely wrong, but once you get in that frame of mind and you're able to take on the responsibility of losses as a manager even when they're not your fault, even when it's clear that individual mistakes were the reason why you lost, it's not something that ever bodes well for the future with your team if you go into a press conference and say, "Well he blew it here, and he blew it here, and he blew it here, and that's why we lost. Next question." You'll lose the locker room in a hurry.
Is the U.S. going to qualify for the World Cup?
Yes. We still have to play Honduras, who's filled with a bunch of young, energetic talent that just went to an Olympic final, so let's not forget that. Honduras isn't a big country and if you just look at that and say oh, we should win that one, think again. We have to bring out A game. CONCACAF has its own unique challenges, but there are enough points out there to make it happen. That's all predicated on whether we can get our act together in the very near future, which is why I say "yes," because I believe the coaching change was the right move and the players will bring a different energy and mindset. That's bad news for everybody else. If we hadn't moved on from Klinsmann and were still talking about the "what ifs," I don't think we would have had the confidence to play the way we can play and be successful. So I think it's a good move.
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Music licensing company PPL has today (10 December 2013) announced an international contract with PI, an organisation responsible for the collective administration of performers' rights in Serbia.
PI will work with PPL to ensure that the performers represented by each organisation receive royalties for any recorded music broadcast or publicly performed in Serbia and the UK.
PPL's international service is dedicated to the active collection of money via agreements with other collective management organisations (CMOs) globally. The company now has 68 reciprocal agreements in place with music licensing organisations in 33 countries, ensuring that members receive monies when their repertoire is used in those territories.
Laurence Oxenbury, Director of International, PPL said: "We are delighted to be working with PI. Serbia has a long and rich cultural heritage and it is now home to numerous festivals such as EXIT, which annually attract a host of world-leading artists, placing the country at the heart of the European music festival scene. We are confident that together we can build a positive relationship that can help to drive revenues for performers.
"We are dedicated to developing strong partnerships with our overseas counterparts, something that is now more important than ever as performance rights continue to grow and be recognised as vital revenue streams for performers and record companies. Over the past ten years we have collected over £160million in international royalties and work continuously to increase that figure year-on-year, through a first class, industry leading service."
Aleksandar Cvetkovic, Director, PI added: "PPL holds the rights to a major catalogue of UK music, so it makes sense for us to be working together, given also that the UK is a major global exporter of music. We look forward to working together and building positively on this relationship."
Currently, the international agreements that PPL has in place represent over 90% of the total global value of performance rights for performers and record companies.
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While I'm not sure we should trust Jillian Michaels' ideas about diet pills -- actually, who can you trust when it comes to diet pills? -- her workout DVDs are clearly the real deal.
I've never tried the famous "30 Day Shred" program, but I can't tell you how many positive comments I've heard about it from friends, coworkers and fellow fans of "The Biggest Loser." Do "The Shred," and you will definitely get in better shape.
Jillian has a new DVD out today, called "Jillian Michaels: Yoga Meltdown." Which sounds kinda strange, because when I think yoga, I think calm. I think quiet. I think new age music, measured breathing and meditation. Not meltdown.
But this is Jillian we're talking about, so on second thought, meltdown doesn't sound all that strange.
According to the Amazon.com product description, the program combines hard-core yoga power poses with Jillian's dynamic training techniques. It includes two complete 30-minute workouts with a warm-up and cooldown. You begin with the Level 1 workout, which focuses on quickly flowing yoga sequences to burn "mega calories." Then, you progress to Level 2, which adds twists and balance poses for an even greater burn.
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Mahabubnagar (AP): TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday resumed his state-wide `padayatra` in Mahabubnagar district after a two-day break due to the death of senior party leader K Yerran Naidu.
Travelling through several villages in the district, Naidu said the party would launch a scheme to ensure clean and safe drinking water if it came to power in the 2014 assembly elections.
Hitting out at the state-ruling Congress government, he alleged that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and other ministers were camping in Delhi for a party rally at a time when the state was facing unprecedented rains.
The TDP Chief would be touring rain-affected areas tomorrow, party sources said.
Naidu took a break from his `padayatra` in Mahabubnagar district on last Friday to go to Srikakulam district in view of the death of Yerran Naidu in a road accident.
The TDP Chief launched his state-wide `padayatra` on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatama Gandhi, and it is scheduled to conclude on Republic Day.


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ROME (REUTERS) - Italian police said on Friday they had arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda militant accused of participating in a 2009 bombing in Pakistan that killed more than 100 people and providing shelter for another man suspected of planning a suicide attack in Italy.
The Pakistani man was arrested late on Thursday at Rome's Fiumicino airport, police on the island of Sardinia said in a statement.
They said the arrest was linked to a broader anti-terrorism operation in Italy in April, in which 10 people were detained and a further eight sought for arrest on suspicion of belonging to an armed group that had plotted attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Vatican.
The man arrested on Thursday was among the eight people, mainly Pakistanis and some Afghans, who were still being sought, police said.
They accuse the man, who was arrested after arriving on a flight from Islamabad, of having sheltered a suspected would-be suicide bomber in Rome and later in the Sardinian town of Olbia.
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said the government was increasing its level of alert for possible attacks and was extending police surveillance of potential targets.
Police released video of a man in a checked shirt being marched through the airport, and further footage of a bearded man being escorted out of a house into a police car.
The suspect is accused of having helped to organise a car bomb attack that killed more than 100 people in Peshawar, Pakistan in 2009.
European countries had been on heightened alert for possible plots before Friday's killings, following deadly attacks this year including on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Bardo museum in the Tunisian capital Tunis.
Last month, Italian police arrested a Moroccan man, who had reached Italy on a migrant boat, on suspicion of involvement on the Bardo attack. That arrest fuelled concerns that militants could hide among the thousands of refugees that cross the Mediterranean to Italy from North Africa.
A gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire at a Tunisian hotel on Friday, killing 28 people, including British, German and Belgian tourists, as they lounged at the beach and pool in a popular resort town.


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