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|Robin Hugh Johnson <robbat2 at gentoo.org>,
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|October 2006
|November 2007, June 2008, July 2008, October 2008, January 2010
|December 2009, January 2010
While Manifest2 format allows multiple hashes, the question of which checksums should be present, why, and the security implications of such have never been resolved. This GLEP covers all of these issues, and makes recommendations as to how to handle checksums both now, and in future.
This GLEP is being written as part of the work on signing the Portage tree, but is only tangentially related to the actual signing of Manifests. Checksums present one possible weak point in the overall security of the tree - and a comprehensive security plan is needed.
This GLEP is not mandatory for the tree-signing specification, but instead aims to improve the security of the hashes used in Manifest2 [GLEP44]. As such, it is also able to stand on it's own.
First of all, I'd like to cover the bad news in checksum security. A much discussed point, as been the simple question: What is the security of multiple independent checksums on the same data? The most common position (and indeed the one previously held by myself), is that multiple checksums would be an increase in security, but we could not provably quantify the amount of security this added. The really bad news, is that this position is completely and utterly wrong. Many of you will be aghast at this. There is extremely little added security in multiple checksums as noted by Joux [J04]. For any set of checksums, the actual strength lies in that of the strongest checksum.
Wang et al [W04] extended Joux's [J04] work on SHA-0 to cover MD4, MD5, HAVAL-128 and RIPEMD families of hashes.
For a general collision, not a pre-image attack, since the announcement by Wang et al [W04], the time required to break MD5 has been massively reduced. Originally at 1 hour on a near-supercomputer (IBM P690) and estimated at 64 hours with a Pentium-3 1.7Ghz. This has gone down to less than in two years, to 17 seconds [K06a].
If we accept a factor of 800x as a sample of how much faster a checksum may be broken over the course of 2 years (MD5 using the above data is >2000x), then existing checksums do not stand a significant chance of survival in the future. We should thus accept that whatever checksums we are using today, will be broken in the near future, and plan as best as possible. (A brief review [H04] of the SHA1 attacks indicates an improvement of ~600x in the same timespan).
And for those that claim implementation of these procedures is not yet feasible, see [K06b] for an application that can produce two self-extracting EXE files, with identical MD5s, and whatever payload you want.
Of the checksums presently used by Manifest2 (SHA1, SHA256, RIPEMD160), one stands close to being completely broken: SHA1; and another is significantly weakened: RIPEMD160. The SHA2 series has suffered some attacks, but still remains reasonably solid [G07],[K08].
To reduce the potential for future problems and any single checksum break leading to a rapid decrease in security, we should incorporate the strongest hash available from each family of checksums, and be prepared to retire old checksums actively, unless there is a overriding reason to keep a specific checksum, such as part of a migration plan.
Portage should always try to verify all supported hashes that are available in a Manifest2, starting with the strongest ones as maintained by a preference list. Over time, the weaker checksums should be removed from Manifest2 files, once all old Portage installations have had sufficient time to upgrade. Stronger checksums shall be added as soon as an implementation is available in Portage. Weak checksums may be removed as long as the depreciation process is followed (see below).
As soon as feasible, we should add the SHA512 and WHIRLPOOL algorithms. In future, as stream-based checksums are developed (in response to the development by NIST [AHS]), they should be considered and used.
The SHA512 algorithm is available in Python 2.5, which has been a dependency of Portage since approximately Portage 126.96.36.199.
The WHIRLPOOL checksum is not available within the PyCrypto library or hashlib that is part of Python 2.5, but there are multiple alternative Python implementations available, ranging from pure Python to C-based (python-mhash).
The existence unsupported hash is not considered to be a failure unless no supported hashes are available for a given Manifest entry.
A minimum set of depreciated checksums shall be maintained only to support old package manager versions where needed by historically used trees:
For the current Portage, both SHA1 and RIPEMD160 should be immediately removed, as they present no advantages over the already present SHA256. SHA256 cannot be replaced immediately with SHA512, as existing Portage versions need at least one supported algorithm present (SHA256 support was added in June 2006), so it must be retained for some while.
After the majority of Portage installations include SHA512 support:
Old versions of Portage may support and expect only specific checksums. This is accounted for in the checksum depreciation discussion.
For maximum compatiability, we should only have to include each of the old algorithms that we are officially still supporting, as well as the new ones that we prefer.
|Mauch, M. (2005) GLEP44 - Manifest2 format. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0044.html
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 by Robin Hugh Johnson. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0.


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In seventeenth century Leeds the houses of the rich and the poor existed side by side. The cottages of the poor were found in the yards and courts behind the houses of the richer occupants. A survey of 1628 reported on the houses in Briggate: 'The houses on both sides thereof are verie thicke and close compacted together, being ancient meane and lowe built; and generalie all of Tymber; though they have stone quarries frequent in the towne, and about it, only some of the richer sorts of the Inhabitants have their houses more large and capacious: yet all lowe and straitened on their backsides.'
The wealthy merchants built themselves fine houses – like Richard Sykes' house on Briggate, and Red Hall, built by Thomas Metcalf just off the Headrow. A timber-framed house, built about 1600 in Lambert's Yard, is still there to day. Information about the way that these houses were furnished is given in the wills of the occupants. For example William Dixon, who lived on Kirkgate and died in 1663, left a detailed inventory of the items in his house. In the parlour were: 'Two stand beeds and beeding and hingings at the side of one beed belongin to the same with one foot cheist. One cubbord, one saffe, three cheists, one trunke. One coverlette and eleven peces of puter. Fower quishings. Fower paire of sheets 5 pillabeares.'
The poor have left little behind them to tell us how they lived in the 17th century. We have to turn to documents like the Hearth Tax Returns to find out how many poor people there were. For part of the seventeenth century people had to pay the hearth tax according to the number of hearths they had in their houses. The tax was 2shillings per hearth. The 1664 and 1672 hearth tax returns for Leeds tell us that about two fifths of householders, only had one hearth, and would have been living close to subsistence level. They were the labourers, servants, journeymen and poor widows, like Widdow Edmundson, who was named in the hearth tax returns. A further two fifths of householders had two or three hearths, and could afford to live in greater comfort; they were the craftsmen, shopkeepers and clothiers of the town. The remaining one fifth of households had four or more hearths and were the wealthy clothiers, merchants, retailers, clergymen, professional men, landowners and gentry. They possessed varying degrees of wealth; John Cloudesley of Briggate had 8 hearths, and probably lived in considerable affluence. Some people were exempted from paying the tax and also from church and poor rates, because they were too poor, and did not own enough property to qualify as tax payers.
It was necessary, for the dignity and good name of the town for the leading townsmen to find ways of looking after the poor. A poor rate was levied on the inhabitants, and distributed by the Parish overseers of the poor. In 1662 the corporation devised a scheme to prevent begging, and to assess the poor law on a regular basis. The town was divided into 6 wards, each having an alderman to supervise the parish overseers.
Another way of providing funds for poor relief was through charitable bequests and donations. A Committee of Pious Uses was set up in 1620 to oversee the administration of the charities, and to make sure none of the money was misappropriated. The committee consisted of the vicar and twelve of the town's leading inhabitants. The documents relating to the town's charities were kept in 'a strong chest in the vestry of Parish Church, locked with Three Strong Locks, one of the keys to remain with the Vicar of Leeds the other Two with the Committee.' A chest like this is still in the vestry today.
The measures for providing for the poor were totally inadequate and became increasingly expensive for the wealthier townspeople of Leeds. It was thought that the cause of poverty was idleness, and that if people were forced to work then there would be no more poverty. So in 1636-7 the mayor, Richard Sykes, and other members of the corporation built a house to be used as 'a common Work-house soe commonly called a House of Correction for the Reliefe and setting on Worke the Poor of the said Parish of Leedes.'
The new workhouse was built on the site of the old free school at the junction of Lady Lane with what is now North Street. It did not end poverty in the town, nor did the inhabitants earn enough money to support the workhouse and care for the poor. Many of them were too old or ill to work, and there were younger people and children who were unable to find employment to keep them out of the workhouse. In 1662 William Morris, was appointed as master of the workhouse to make sure that the inmates were 'set on Work'. His efforts failed, and Thoresby, writing in 1715 says that the building was used as 'a hospital for the aged poor', as well as a workhouse where 'poor boys and girls are taught to scrible, a new invention whereby the different colours in the dyed wool are delicately mixed.' (Scribbling was a stage in the manufacture of woollen cloth.)
Another way in which the richer townspeople helped the poor was to build
or hospitals as they were called. The principle benefactor of the poor was John Harrison. Having built St. John's Church, and rebuilt the Grammar School, in 1653 he built two rows of almshouses, each with twenty apartments to house 40 poor women. The almshouses were endowed with a yearly income of Ł80 to give each woman a small pension and the means to maintain the houses.
Josiah Jenkinson built eight almshouses just near Boar Lane, to house 16 people. In 1673 he left instructions in his will that his trustees should 'place therein such impotent and aged persons inhabiting Leeds'. In 1673 Lancelot Iveson built three almshouses near the workhouse, to replace three old cottages in Kirkgate, which had been used as almshouses but had become derelict. According to Thoresby writing in 1715 there were two almshouses in Vicar Lane, and near the vicarage an old hospital, used as lodgings for the poor.
Despite the benevolence of the townspeople and attempts by the corporation to banish poverty with hard work there were still plenty of poor people on the streets of Leeds at the end of the seventeenth century, just as there were rich merchants building their grand houses in the town. There were also the gentry, the titled families, who lived outside the town, but influenced those who lived within it. One of these was Lord Irwin who lived at Temple Newsam House. He would have visited Leeds to see to his business interests, go to the races, or perhaps to a cockfight. Otherwise he lived in great luxury on his estate, an example of ultimate wealth and power to which the merchants of Leeds no doubt aspired.
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H.R.1397 - Employment Non-Discrimination Act112th Congress (2011-2012)
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RIM is hoping its reputation for superior security will smooth its path into wallet management as it gains Visa approval for the TSM platform that it is pushing to network operators.
Everyone planning secure NFC apps needs a Trusted Service Management (TSM) platform, but the four big SIM providers already have approved TSM platforms. This means that RIM will face an uphill battle for acceptance, though it may have an old advantage in the form of legacy enterprise deployments and love from the BOFHs.
Approval from Visa saw RIM's share price jump 6 per cent, though as NFC Times points out, such approvals are normally awarded to TSMs to be used by banks rather than network operators, and that the four big players in SIM provision all have approved TSM platforms on the market. Nevertheless, RIM is offering to manage content across secure elements, and thus take advantage of what hooks it still has into enterprise customers.
NFC, the Near Field Communications standard which permits pay-by-bonk and a host of other short-range apps, requires a secure element as well as a short-range radio, and ownership of that secure element is still in dispute. Google puts one into its Nexus handsets, and uses it to host pay-by-bonk with Google Wallet, while network operators prefer to put the secure element into the SIM and rent out space to bank, voucher schemes and the like.
RIM has long been a supporter of NFC, building the tech into its phones and embedding a secure element into every handset (as well as supporting the SIM-based one owned by the network operator). RIM's TSM will manage content across both secure elements, as well as supporting other devices, and RIM could be ideally placed to take advantage of some of NFC's more interesting capabilities.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Do you want Billy Butler?
Buster Olney mentioned Houston as a possibility, due to their "desperate need for credible hitters." I saw the note yesterday, and didn't think much of it, but now I guess it's something we can at least entertain for a morning.
Butler will be 28 next April, and was the Royals' 1st Round pick in 2004 (14th overall). He is owed $8m in 2014 with a $12.5m team option for 2015, or a $1m buyout. He's durable, having played in at least 158 games from 2009-2013, mainly because 150 of his appearances in 2013 came at DH.
Now, Houston does need more hitters, that's true. Butler is a career .298/.364/.459 hitter, but in 2013 posted his lowest OPS since 2008, his second season in the Majors, hitting .289/.374/.412 with 15 homers, 102 strikeouts, and 79 walks. He also grounded into 28 double plays, but that's perhaps not as important. Do the Astros need a hitter like that on the team? Sure, but do they need a guy who is basically limited to the DH spot where, ideally, Chris Carter can rotate in and out? Butler provided 1.4 WAR in 2013 (FanGraphs version), and his defense was rated at -16.1, so yeah, he's going to need to DH.
If it's pitching the Royals are looking for, the Astros (in theory, at least) have it. But it's the age-old question: Who would you give up for a DH-only hitter that forces Chris Carter into the outfield (presuming Singleton is ML-ready in 2014)? Would you make a deal for 2012 Billy Butler, who posted a 2.9 WAR and an .883 OPS? He's not great at baserunning, and bad at defense. But the numbers indicate that maybe Butler had a bad 2013 - and the Astros might try to capitalize on it, depending on what the Royals want in return.
Further reading: Billy Butler's Country Breakfast Doesn't Satisfy (FanGraphs),
Royals Willing To Deal Butler? (Kansas City Star)
11 comments:
Why would the Astros want two Chris Carters ... especially one that can't get in front of a fly ball?
- October 23, 2013 at 12:04 PM
let's trade for Jon Jay... Cards might re-sign Beltran and bring up Taveras... what would Jay cost in prospects?
- October 23, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Butler's OBP would be the thing I think that would catch Luhnows eye. A good average with a good walk rate and so so power isn't bad at all...until you look at his price tag and position. I think I'd rather keep our prospects.
John Jay would make a ton of sense if he's cheap enough! I friggin love watching that guy play! If we wouldn't have to give up any big pieces, I'd be all over that trade
- October 23, 2013 at 1:18 PM
- CLOrnelas said...
Butler brings stability and relative consistency that far outweighs his weaknesses. It seems like Singleton can't be worse in LF than Chris Carter, younger legs. If all they want is Wojo or other upper level low ceiling guys, I'm down.
- October 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM
- OremLK said...
I don't think we should presume anything about Singleton at this point. He might be ready at midseason. Or he might be a September callup. Or he might not make it up until 2015. Or he could continue to suck it up at AAA and prove to be a total bust.
Butler's contract ends after next season, so he shouldn't be a real impediment to Singleton either way. Worst case he forces Singleton to wait until September--not the end of the world for a 22 year old guy at AAA.
I'd guess if you added Butler you'd slide Carter over to play first base full time. It doesn't sound like a bad idea to boost the offensive production of the team. God knows we need a legit middle of the order bat, and if Butler returns to his career averages, he'd be pretty solid in that role.
- October 23, 2013 at 2:05 PM
His down year would have led our team in BA. His 102 stikeouts actually make him an elite hitter in our realm.
What would be really great is if he could force Carter into the outfield, FOR SOME OTHER TEAM!
Again, the DH's for the Astros this year hit .197 and had 200 strikeouts and an obp under .300. Do you think Butler would be an improvement? 1oldpro
- October 23, 2013 at 2:33 PM
Billy Butler? Don't they have plenty of one-dimensional players already?
- October 24, 2013 at 8:08 AM
I personally like Billy Butler. Solid player. He'd certainly add some stability to the lineup But I just don't see any chance of acquiring him w/o giving up something we'd later regret. Love the guy, but pass..
- October 24, 2013 at 12:38 PM
- Larry Luttrell said...
Yea, I was just talking about this story yesterday that the Astros should get Billy Butler. Trade Chris Carter, & a player to be named later.
- October 24, 2013 at 1:53 PM
Sure, why not? It would mark the end of brett wallace, and I'm all for that.
- October 24, 2013 at 4:32 PM
Still a little surprised that some people seem to think of Chris Carter as part of the picture going forward. He finally got that everyday job and confirmed exactly who he is - tons of Ks, some HRs and poor defense. Just because the team gave Brett Wallace 2000+ at bats doesn't mean they have to make the same mistake with Carter.
- October 25, 2013 at 4:02 PM


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For those in the United States hope you had a wonderful long Easter weekend. We had a relaxing three days, giving us a break from the hectic and sometimes crazy weekdays. The weather was perfect; not too hot or cold, accompanied with a beautiful sunshine that lifted the spirits up.
?For most part I stayed away from the kitchen; surviving many times on Maggi or takeout food. But on days when I cooked, I made something quick and delicious reminiscent of the carefree days of the past.?
Appe Huli is speciality of the Havyakas residing in the Yellapur, Sirsi, Sagar /Malnad regions of Karnataka. Think of this as a raw mango soup which has the flavour combination of spicy, sweet and sour. Serves well as side dish with plain hot rice, or with spicy pongal. In fact I would not mind eating this as a side dish for Rotis/Cahapathis.
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- ? tsp mustard seeds
- 1-2 dry red chilies (broken into pieces)
- 1-2 green chillies (slit)
- 4-5 curry leaves
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- A pinch turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp Jaggery (optional)
- Salt to taste
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- Wash the mango and chop the raw mango into cubes (along with the skin).
- In a sauce pan boil some water, add the chopped mango, salt and slit green chillies and continue until it is cooked.
- ?Let this cool. Do not throw the cooked water. Now remove the skin from the cooked mango pieces and mash the flesh well. (Note: I remove the green chillies and pulse it one time in a blender).
- Transfer this back to the cooked water and over the stove on medium heat. Add little more water turmeric, jaggery salt to bring to rasam consistency and boil.
- In a separate pan prepare a seasoning. Heat oil then add mustard seeds, urad daal, curry leaves, hing, and dried red chillies.
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A thorn to state representatives Gary Chism and Jeff Smith, both of Columbus, who introduced a bill to the Legislature Thursday that left many shaking their heads in bemused amazement. House Bill 490, also known as "The Balance of Powers Act," would allow the state to form a committee to assert "the sovereignty of the state."
Sovereignty? Really? The last time Mississippi had a Sovereignty Commission was in 1956, when the state Legislature decided to counteract the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that racially-segregated public schools were unconstitutional by forming a commission dedicated to the undermining of federal civil rights laws.
Chism says he presented the bill to combat impending federal legislation that would affect gun ownership and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare."
Chism said he believes the bill will die in committee, asserting that he presented it because he was asked to.
A lot of evil has been perpetrated under the guise of "just following orders," and while we're not painting this bill with that broad a brush, we do question the thinking of Smith and Chism.
For people across the nation with even a dim grasp on history, this smacks of both insensitivity to our state's troubled legacy as well as just plain mule-headed stupidity.
Chism's rush to distance himself from the bill is equally troubling. The time to walk away has passed. Now it's time to stand up and face the discordant music. As for Smith, he hasn't given an explanation at all.
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A rose to the directors and volunteers of Dream 365, who again put on a wonderful six-day event. Founders Learnard Dickerson, Lavonne Harris and Rev. Tony Montgomery provided the direction, but they share credit with a great team of volunteers and event sponsors.
Now in its seventh year, Dream 365 continues to be one of the classiest and most distinctive events in Columbus. The long weekend offered something for everyone, including a spelling bee, talent show and essay contest for kids, a spoken word and jazz evening and a breakfast with a keynote speaker. It takes a combination of inspiration and perspiration to make a program like Dream 365 a success. We thank all those involved for both their creativity and hard work. We can hardly wait to see what they have in store for us next year.
A rose to all of the folks -- too many to mention by name -- who helped make the 2013 Mississippi Theatre Association's annual festival, held last weekend on the campus of Mississippi University for Women, an unqualified success. The event brought about 500 high school students and their parents to town for the weekend. MTA officials raved about the reception provided not only by The W staff, but from the city.
A few roses of note go out to: William Biddy and staff (MUW's Department of Theatre), Nancy Carpenter and Elizabeth Haftek (Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau), Heather Rowland (Cook Elementary Fine Arts Magnet School), MUW Police Chief Danny Patton and his officers, Marideth Geuder, Nick Adams, Chris Jenkins, Anika Perkins and Janie Shields (MUW Office of Public Affairs), Brenda Caradine (Tennessee Williams Festival), the Columbus Community Theater and all the officers and division chairs of the MTA.
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Pretty scary........Next time I will be ready for them at my DOOR.......I remember a few years back I taped some Tv program and watched it later........I did this so that I can fast forward the tape on commercials.......As I had the remote Control in my hand I accidently Slowed the commercial instead of pressing fast forward........The commercial was 'Nuatregina'' (spelling?)..the soap alternative cleanser..........anyway,the woman using the cleanser becomes a demon face and then becomes a woman........I thought I was seeing things..I watched it again and couln't believe it!There are many if not all subliminal art used on tv.......that is why the Elders and Wise Monks tell us to avoid Tv.Elder Paisios said this about tv.......do not watch it....Glory be to God IX helen
mmmmm...so does this mean Paul is dead?....
I kind of hate to say this but young earth "creation science" began with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Real scientific research suggests that subliminal messages don't work at all.
Wheres this research?
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Judging by responses to our recent Question of the Week, readers overwhelmingly oppose changing federal regulations to allow airline passengers to use cellphones in flight.
Well, we always knew our letters-to-the-editor writers love when the Nanny State interferes with individual behavior.
I'm joking. I'm really surprised that so few letter writers stated the case for getting the government and airline companies out of the way, letting people talk on the phone during flights, and trusting they'll do it in a way that doesn't disturb others.
The man or woman in the next seat on a long flight could (and sometimes does) a lot of annoying things, but we don't think of outlawing them. Why should cellphone use be the exception?
Cell phones aren't banned in, say, restaurants, but loud or cringingly personal conversations don't happen so often that fellow diners take up petitions to pass laws against them. Why should airliners be different?
If the situation were reversed, and cellphone use had been permitted all along, would we be discussing a change in the rules to ban it? Probably not.
It's permitted in the European Union and some other parts of the world. This has not resulted in fistfights or, according to a 2012 study by the FAA, "any cases of air rage or flight attendant interference."
I know: A restaurant is different from an airplane. You can't walk out of an airplane.
But be honest — you've never walked out of a restaurant because Mr. Big Shot over there wouldn't shut up about his latest very important widget sale. (OK, I've considered it.)
Let's hope that, instead of going along with people's cynical reactions to the proposed easing of restrictions, the FCC, Federal Aviation Administration and airlines will consider the facts about the likely effect of cellphone use on planes.
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Maguire moved to the broadcast booth in the 1970s, working with NBC, ABC, and ESPN broadcasting NFL and college football games throughout his career. He served an announcer for four Super Bowls (XXIII, XXX, XXII and XXVII).
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Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon, It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future. Come and savor Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.
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- 02/07/2012
Does not translate well into an audible book
This book is one of those few novels that just don't translate well into an audible book. While I thought Stephen Hoye sounded good, and I thought the writing was exceptional, this book just did not work in audio format. I think the problem is that, in this novel, Ray Bradbury writing emphasizes extremely rich imagery...so rich and complex that hearing the words are just not adequate to catch it. Let me try to explain what I mean...when one reads the printed word, the content "sticks" better than when one "hears a speech". I struggled through the first couple of hours of this audio book, eventually I realized that I was just not engaged with the story...then i realized that there really was not much of a story here. This book is written as an "ode to summer and childhood", it main purpose of this book is to try to convey the memories and feelings that R.B. felt towards his childhood summers. As much of the content is "stream of consciousness" of a young boy imagining things, remembering things, and trying to describe things (as a young boy would describe them if they had a master's degree in English Lit). The rest of the content is "3rd person stream of consciousness" of an old man trying to describe their memories as a child. The result is simply too complex for someone to grasp and imagine simply from hearing the words...I think you have to actually read the words yourself to understand and get into this story. SO I gave this book 3 stars for performance and story, but a one overall because I felt that while either element was fine (even excellent) the overall effect of this audiobook fell flat due to this being the wrong medium to enjoy this novel.
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Happiness Machine!
I wish I had read this in my 20's. I plan to reread this every 10 years at least.
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The Summer of 28'
The magic and dark tragedy in the summer of 1928 seen through the eyes of Bradbury's alter-ego Douglas Spaulding. The audio performance is excellent. The story was nostalgic like somewhere in time, but rather a love story about growing up and the love of life as it passes you by. It's a good story but not really my cup of tea.
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- Kathy
- 29/11/2011
Taste of Summer.
I listened to this book, because both of my kids read each summer. Bradbury does a great job of capturing the feeling of summer. People of all ages can relate to the smell of cut grass, the taste of ice-cream on a hot day, catching fireflies, picking berries, and all the other typical events of summer. The vivid images in the book brought me close to the enjoyable summer days of my childhood. Dandelion Wine touches on some important aspects of life such as growing up and the reality of death. It was a good book, but at some parts it was difficult to remain interested. It would have been better if there was a little more organization and flow to the book. It was all over the place which at times made it hard to follow.
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- 06/07/2018
Ideal for adults who forgot how children think
This tale of summer vacation seen through the eyes of naive children will remind readers of the magical way of thinking youth offers, as well as the painful disenchantment of becoming self-aware. The vignettes of the town's distinct inhabitants gives Bradbury's world a sense of genuine life.
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- 24/09/2012
What made the experience of listening to Dandelion Wine the most enjoyable?
Ray Bradbury is from green town ( Waukegan Il. ). As I grew up there the story really hit home as I have not lived there for a great many years. As I listened to the story I found myself home again. As he spoke of all the surroundings I remembered them as if I were back there again. Green town has for all of these years as for the most part not grown up, the houses the lawns the streets will all take you back in time as they have never changed. It is to say time does and has stood still there. It to is my home town.
Have you listened to any of Stephen Hoye's other performances before? How does this one compare?
The author grew up and lived here and he presents the story in much of the way he had lived it. I was born and raised there as well. His views of the layout of the city and the goings on in Waukegan are just as he wrote of them. He really knows how to describe the actual surroundings so as to make you feel you are actually there.The book makes you feel right at home.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
I found nothing wrong with the narrator. He was able to speak clearly and with passion as if it was a story of his own life. He told the story in such a way it was hard to turn it off for the day.
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- Neejyah
- 08/06/2018
pronunciation too hard for non-native speakers
I'll choose another narrator as it was too hard for me to listen in the car
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- 26/05/2018
More short stories than a novel
This reads more like a series of connected short stories, a few powerful and riveting, but most banal, all read in a tone of reverence and awe that only sometimes makes sense.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls predate Constantine, and they still agree with our modern translations.
I don't want to start a debate on the Bible or what is contained therein, however if you want to really see what the Bible has to say about Witchcraft, it might be advisable to research the texts before Constantine and King James got their hands on them. One might be surprised at exactly what those text really say.
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Posted 19 April 2007 - 12:01 PM
I didn't lose my mind - I have it backed up on a disk ... somewhere
Posted 28 April 2007 - 01:40 PM
Choose your faith wisely, and dont be afraid to be honest with yourself. If something doesnt feel right, then don't use it. Remember, its a faith,not a fad. Don't think that the first steps to paganism are wearing all black, and wearing a pentacle the size of a hubcap.
Like I wrote above, this is all my opinion, and I'm not picking out anyone in particular, it's just how I feel.
Posted 28 April 2007 - 10:02 PM
I didn't lose my mind - I have it backed up on a disk ... somewhere
Posted 30 April 2007 - 04:53 PM
As Aloha pointed out, it is possible to merge the two, but the result is a hybrid, neither one nor the other
Posted 30 April 2007 - 06:54 PM
That's how i view it.
Edited by woebetide mourn, 30 April 2007 - 06:55 PM.
Posted 30 April 2007 - 10:32 PM
Lol, I'm just kidding.
You actually make a really good point, in that there are a lot of "pagans" and or "wiccans" who are in it because to them it IS a sort of fad.
It seems to be a phase a lot of teenage girls go through, too.
As a result I think it's difficult for a lot of peole to accept Wicca as a legitmate religion.
Now, I know this has been covered in another thread, but Wicca and Witchcraft are viewed by many, many people as two diffrent things. Wicca is a religion and Witchcraft is a skill and something that can be precticed within any religion.
With that in mind it IS possible to be a "Christian Witch," but based on Christianity's views on Witchcraft, I simply wouldn't recomend it . . .
Also, witchcraft tends to "borrow" from a lot of other religions and I'm sure that there are some out there who see Jesus as a deity to be "borrowed" and used as an interpretaion of their vision of the Devine. But if you call them "Christian Witches" then you have to have "Buddist Witches" "Native American Witches", "Egyptian Witches" "Roman Witches" and so on.
And yes, when an idividual is raised a Christian becomes disatisfied with that faith and moves on to another it IS difficult to completly abandon that faith, especially as an adult and especialy if your family is Christian. But it is a choice made by a lot of people.
Posted 30 April 2007 - 11:30 PM
Posted 30 April 2007 - 11:55 PM
My bad.
(ruin an argument with the truth will you, )
Posted 07 May 2007 - 10:02 AM
My father is a hard core catholic (I was so relieved that he took my conversion to wicca so well), but I know for a fact that he would NOT have been happy with me if I had decided use God as he understands him to be, as a focus of my worship while I was scrying, communicating with spirits and casting spells. He actually was going to join the priesthood when he was younger and even went to school for it (changed his mind, thankfully... and I say thankfully because if he HAD become a priest, my siblings and I would not exist...lol). I wouldn't have even tried the fusion of the two religions because of the hassle I would have gotten from RC's (my former religion) about mixing the two together. I never felt right with my former religion anyway, and stumbled across wicca in junior high, and I've stuck to it ever since.
Posted 17 May 2007 - 10:15 AM
Anyway, both Christ and the Rede teach, "Love all / Harm none," and in practice, Jewish angels are invoked during the famous big banishing rituals, and the Holiday tree (as well as the incongruous colored eggs during Easter) has adopted many pagan symbols. Generally Wicca is more an earth-worshipping religion, and that's easily included in respecting "All God's creatures," and if it's the patriarchal part that comes in conflict, then it's not that hard to include Shekina, or to consider that Abraham discovered a genderless single power "Jehova, that which is" that created the monotheism.
The Bible says not to consult fortune tellers and not to "suffer a witch to live" but that is, like, sooo last testament! I believe that was stuck in somewhere between disallowing the wearing of two different fabrics (which means polyester is out, taken literally and applied to the modern day where it's less practical,) and homosexuality. God isn't in favour of talents going to waste, (the word talent, I believe, comes from the very form of currency mentioned in a parable about investment) so psychics wouldn't necessarily be persecuted, but recognized as in possession of god-given abilities (and, okay, well, persecuted as aberrants, but I'm sure it won't be by any of the above mentioned deities' full sponsorship so much as a barbaric vestige that's the fault of society.)
In short: except for the world being too young yet for this to be accepted outside of isolated personal faiths, I don't see the conflict at all. But that's just my opinion (Chaote speaking, and my mother's hosting some missionaries who speak in tongues, have prophetic dreams, and don't know that they're habitual theurgists-- or at least they don't use the word "theurgy" but I almost faint with the sudden energy charge in the room every time they start with the "Let us put ourselves in the Presence..." so you understand where I'm coming from.)
Posted 18 May 2007 - 12:43 PM
"It's all the same"
I have found much comfort in this.
Posted 25 May 2007 - 06:29 PM
I know of people who's God and Goddess they worship are Jesus and Mary. They are't Christo-Wiccans though. They are either Christian Witches or just Wiccans. Witchcraft isn't a religion, it's a practice (craft) and you can pick your deities. Something doesn't taste right when someone wants to be both Christian and Wiccan. The traditions and practices and a lot of beliefs are different. So how you worship is pretty much all that one is changing since you can still worship the same people.
Which makes me believe that something is iffy. I agree with what someone said earlier, that it's probably just fear stopping someone from being one or the other.
And righto! It's pretty much all the same, just gone about differently. You eat your pizza with pepperoni and I'll eat mine with green pepper.
Yeah, blending of religions have happened but they've been put into a pot, some spices added, some spices taken out, and stirred untill something new popped out of it. Christianity you could say has already been into the pot with paganism. Being a Christian AND a Wiccan is just boggles my mind. I can't even fathom being of two religions (Judeo-Buddhism? Wicca-Candomble? Unitarian-Satantism?).
Posted 05 June 2007 - 02:57 AM
I have a heretic heart and I don't pray, I cast spells.
Posted 05 June 2007 - 11:20 AM
Our strength is what fills our hearts.
Posted 05 June 2007 - 02:55 PM
Erato, I just love your George Orwell quote. And that's me. I always asked too many questions, as a child, and still now as an old woman. We can't stop questioning. So my big question, when being told of some rule of the church was mostly, "What did Jesus say about that?" There was no answer. Then I grew up and read about church history and found my own answers. I kept everything of value to build my own spiritual life. Sorry, I'm going on and on to make a point (old people do this!lol) Back in the 60s when a movement came about and was labled "catholic pentecostals" and "catholic charismatics" I found a place to be which saved my sanity. (moved on since then) Don't let me write a book on this now! Everyone who's been raised christian of any kind has heard of the "gifts of the Holy Spirit". I believe everyone has a gift, or 2 or 3. Read them again and see how we all fit in, no matter what religion we are.
Ravenhecate, you seem to have a grasp of history. Now there's a scary subject. The history of the christian church, run by men of power, would want us to give up our will to them and forget that we have any of our own will ,and our own gifts.
YES! I believe we can be everything because of our gifts.
And, by the way, Jesus was a Jew and I wonder.....was he really trying to start a new religion or just show a WAY of life?
I voted YES
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In Oakland, the Occupy movement is at a critical juncture. A now-famous confrontation between demonstrators and police on October 25 involved tear-gas, less-than-lethal projectiles, and injuries to demonstrators. It also brought worldwide attention to the protest.
Last Wednesday, the city's first General Strike in more than half a century drew tens of thousands to the city, culminating in a march that shutdown the city's port. Despite the peaceful nature of much of the protests, violence and vandalism have dominated the headlines and clashes with police continue to shape the movement.
KALW's Holly Kernan sat down with reporter Ali Winston for the latest.
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HOLLY KERNAN: So, Ali, give us a quick history of Occupy Oakland and how it came to National Prominence.
ALI WINSTON: The camp started on October 10, almost a month after Occupy Wall Street began in New York City, and since then Occupy Oakland has grown into two camps of more than 150 tents in Frank Ogawa Plaza out in front of City Hall, and also in Snow Park, which is towards Lake Merritt. And it's quickly become the center of activism in the Bay Area.
The attempted eviction of the camp on October 25 brought Occupy Oakland international fame in late October. And it capitalized on being in the media spotlight by successfully pulling off the country's first General Strike since 1946, which also took place in Oakland. The strike shut down the Port of Oakland, which is the nation's fifth largest port, for most of the day on November 2. And, when I was at the port I spoke with one demonstrator named Michael Shane about his reasons for taking to the streets that day.
MICHAEL SHANE: We're out here today as part of the proletariat letting the 1% know we can shut down their production. We can get a gang of folks out here, we can call off work for the day, we can call off school and let people know that we are not playing around anymore. We mean business. We're gonna shut down your business, that's how we mean business.
KERNAN: Many of the local businesses were vandalized that night, not just banks that were targeted in the afternoon march. Local businesses are saying that Occupy Oakland is negatively affecting them, so what's happening with businesses?
WINSTON: Well there's no doubt that the occupation has changed the feeling of the plaza in downtown Oakland and it may be having a negative impact on some businesses in a city with some very serious economic problems.
Oakland's Chamber of Commerce and its business associations are dead set against a city continuing to tolerate Occupy Oakland, and they argue that the camp fosters a negative image of downtown Oakland, drives away customers. And that has even caused three major stores to cancel plans to lease spaces near Frank Ogawa plaza. The Oakland police officers association, for their part, has also criticized the occupation's effect on the business community and commerce.
On the other hand, this is a pretty slow part of the city after 5pm, and as a matter of fact, some businesses seem to be benefiting from the crowd. Some examples of these are the all night newsstands, De Laur's, the Pizza Man, which is across the street from the occupation, and the nearby bar, Radio Room, which actually pulled in $3,100 during the evening on the night of the General Strike. So they have all been doing steady business, perhaps in part due to their late hours and low prices.
KERNAN: So today four city council members are calling on the city to shut the camp down. Mayor Jean Quan has been back and forth in her support for the movement. What is she saying?
WINSTON: So the evening of November 2 really changed the political calculus here. Beforehand, city officials were really mollified by the reaction, by the international reaction, to the police crackdown on October 25, and they were very reluctant to criticize Occupy Oakland. However, the property destruction and the clashes with police that eclipsed the success of the General Strike led to a renewed press by Occupy Oakland's opponents. So the city council took up the issue of the encampment last Thursday at a special hearing and didn't come to any conclusion or decide on any action, however there does seem to be a changing tide in terms of elected officials support for the encampment. For example council member Desley Brooks, who actually supported the occupation and camped out during the first two nights, criticized the camp for not being able to control fringe elements who engaged in these acts of property destruction and so forth.
KERNAN: And now councilmember Brooks is one of those who is calling for the tent city to be shut down?
WINSTON: Yes, that's right. So Mayor Jean Quan, for her part, has also gone back and forth repeatedly regarding the city's tolerance for Occupy Oakland. In her public statements she has often said that Oakland is a city of the 99%, and that she supports a non-violent occupation and the goals of the broader Occupy movement. However, the disturbances that followed the Port of Oakland shutdown put serious pressure on Quan to crackdown on the occupation and she has given an ultimatum to the camp to support a resolution at the general assembly tonight declaring Occupy Oakland a non-violent space and condemning acts such as property destruction.
KERNAN: So what do you see as the next steps for Occupy Oakland? What do you think is going to happen?
WINSTON: A lot of the momentum that built up before the General Strike seems to have stalled, and that is due in no small part to the chaos that broke out late in the evening following the General Strike. There has been a lot of soul searching about the failed occupation of the vacated Travelers Aid Society on November 2.
KERNAN: That was a building that occupiers tried to take over?
WINSTON: Yeah, that's right, it's in downtown Oakland right north of the camp. So, participants are considering whether or not to declare Occupy Oakland a non-violent movement, or whether to support a diversity of tactics, to borrow a popular phrase used to support property destruction and direct confrontations with the police, among other direct action tactics.
KERNAN: Is that pretty controversial?
WINSTON: It's controversial but there's an ideological strain to it. I mean the property destruction and the "black bloc" that formed in downtown Oakland is a tactic commonly used by anarchists of the more insurrectionary variety.
KERNAN: It's also what is giving the movement a bad name for outsiders?
WINSTON: Yeah, it's giving the movement a bad name, but at the same time the occupation is a direct action tactic, so it's a very complex dynamic that the occupation is trying to work out amongst itself.
One tactic, one direct action tactic, that would fit under this diversity of tactics rubric that is supported by the general assembly, that has gotten approval, is the planned occupation of foreclosed homes throughout the city. This has gotten a lot of attention and business interests are also vehemently against that. So, much of the debate over the issue of these controversial tactics revolve around the black bloc. And this debate is kind of interesting considering that many of the people involved in that action, not all of them, were actually visitors to Oakland from other west coast areas, such as Olympia, Washington, Santa Cruz, and Modesto in California, which are communities where there are large anarchist elements as well. So going forward, the General Assembly is expected to vote on this proposal brought by many of Quan's allies of keeping the occupation non-violent tonight and condemning acts of violence associated with the occupation.
Now regardless of whether or not that passes, a growing number of city officials are joining city administrators Diana Santana and interim police chief Howard Jordan in their opposition to the camp. Another police eviction could be in the offering. Recently the Oakland Police Department cancelled all training days for its officers next week, which is going to free them up for a potential deployment such as the eviction that took place on October 25, and there is a lot of fear of violence and potential harm to individuals in downtown Oakland again if an eviction should take place.
Where do you think the Occupy movement is headed? KALW is using SoundCloud to collect perspectives on the Occupy movement from Bay Area residents. Tell us what's happening in your city and what you think about it. You can share it with us using your Android, iPhone, or iPad and the SoundCloud App. Directions are here.


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A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
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India's Air Pollution Woes
The World Health Organization's recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Assessment estimates that outdoor air pollution causes 620,000 premature deaths per year in India, a six fold increase since 2000. The main causes are growing emissions of particulate emissions (PM10) from transport and power plants. GBD in this analysis has ranked air pollution as the sixth most dangerous killer in South Asia and fifth leading cause of deaths in India.
Also, according to the WHO, across the G-20 economies, 13 of the 20 most polluted cities are in India and over 50% of the sites studied across India had critical levels of PM10 pollution. A recent rapid survey by Delhi based Center for Science and Environment revealed that almost 75% of respondents considered air pollution as a major cause of concern and as responsible for respiratory illnesses.


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Basil's Sales Kit
Inside this box is a Trojan mini-motor.
It could turn a normal bicycle
into a motorbike!
Basil used this kit
to show and sell the idea.
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When Basil went to other countries
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and sorting out technical faults.
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Take action for Tax Justice! Fight the legality of offshore tax havens by exposing them.
Did you know that most of today's multinational corporations and some of the world's wealthiest individuals pay NO taxes? If you're concerned about the national deficit, budget cuts, austerity plans, and billionaire bailouts—and you should be—then get involved.
To join in the action, choose a company's Cayman Islands certificate (200,000 of them here) and email the jpeg to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration: email@example.com or mail to the addresses listed here.
Examples of JPGs images to send to the IRS email email@example.com:
http://loophole4all.com/index.php?id_i=222956&id_e=253227&company=FACEBOOK+CAYMAN+HOLDINGS+UNLIMITED+IV http://loophole4all.com/index.php?id_i=233772&id_e=264440&company=GOLDMAN+SACHS+ART+LIMITED
Help to spread the meme of the Tax Action Day on April 15th.
Please share on your social networks! Suggested tweets:
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Or for those of you who want to do more, you can join Loophole4All and become a pirate, hijacking a Cayman company to avoid taxes. Order a certificate and Cayman Islands mailbox to extend a new form of protest against unjust laws.
It's easy—it's free—and it sends a powerful message to the corporations and individuals who have been taking unfair advantage of current, lax laws and avoiding billions in taxes.
Learn more:
Watch the full interviews with the major offshore experts for more insight about the offshore world, its origins, effects, history and other ugly truths. Beyond wealthy individuals, offshore centers are structural to the global economy:
Also note the final list of the damaging issues that the offshore world enables, assembled through the research and investigation made by Paolo Cirio. Beyond wealth, offshore business challenges the notion of law in our globalized world:
Others news from Investigations About the Offshore World:
Shocking new leak of the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and Singapore companies and trusts made the global media headlines:
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League One Notts County sack Keith Curle following poor run of form
Keith Curle has lost his job as Notts County manager in the wake of Saturday's League One defeat by Hartlepool.
Last Updated: 03/02/13 7:49pm
The identities of the Hartlepool goalscorers - Peter Hartley and James Poole - made headlines and overshadowed the fact it was the ninth time in 11 games County had failed to win.
But that statistic did not escape the attention of chairman Ray Trew, who has sacked Curle after less than a year with the club five points adrift of the play-off places, with Chris Kiwomya stepping in as caretaker manager.
County have also had six players sent off this season, and Trew said: "This obviously is not a decision that we have taken lightly and certainly not one that I have taken any pleasure in reaching.
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for Keith Curle both as a man and a manager. Since Keith first came in, just under a year ago, we have backed him to bring in the players that he felt could move Notts County on to the next level.
"However, recent displays have unfortunately not lived up to expectations and our poor disciplinary record this season has only further hampered our progress.
"Attendances at Meadow Lane have dropped in recent weeks and this has made this as business decision as much as a footballing one, because fans are obviously key to the club and their support is essential."
Curle's first-team coaches Colin West and Colin Lee have also left Meadow Lane.


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Small banks met a major setback Thursday.
A bill that would extend an unlimited guarantee program for certain non-interest-bearing transaction accounts through to 2014 on Thursday failed to obtain the backing it needed to move forward.
The program, which is set to expire Dec. 31, was created in October 2008 during the height of the financial crisis, for bank accounts used mostly by small businesses. Read about how lawmakers extended the program in 2010
Community banks and their lobby group, the Independent Community Bankers of America, have been pushing for an extension while certain large financial institutions and money-market funds could gain from its termination. The lobbyist for big institutions, the Financial Services Roundtable, has pushed for the program to be wound down. Read a comment from a community bank lobby group on the importance of extending the program to them
American Bankers Association CEO Frank Keating said in a statement that he is "disappointed" with the outcome. However, he added that America's banks are prepared. " Banks already have been communicating about the possible expiration of TAG and will work with their business customers to demonstrate the safety of their deposits," he said.
Sen. Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, raised a point of order against the bill, saying it violated the Budget Control Act. Backers of the bill in the Senate failed to garner the 60 votes needed to waive Toomey's point of order, on a 50 to 42 vote.
The failure comes after it looked like the bill was on its way towards passage in the Senate earlier this week. On Tuesday the bill passed a procedural vote with a strong margin of support — 76 to 20. However, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report notes that the drop in support Thursday was likely a demonstration by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell against "the Democrats tactic of not allowing amendments" and putting up the bill for a quick procedural vote. Of the 50 votes backing the measure Thursday, only two were Republicans. Read about how the bill passed a major procedural vote on Tuesday.
Now, it is unclear whether it can proceed in the Senate or the House, where the bill has tepid support. Regulatory observers note that there is a small possibility that the bill could be attached to some "must pass" funding or other legislation before the end of the year. Read a Heritage Foundation editorial urging lawmakers to phase out the guarantee.
"The Bill has very slim chances of becoming law. However, there is still the possibility that it could get attached to another bill, for example, a fiscal cliff bill," the Bank of America Merrill Lynch report said.
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Review: Good pictures and even better tunes
Sample provided by: Multimedia shop, Vienna
The N73 can be described in just a few words. It's a multimedia phone with an excellent 3.2 Mpix camera, good video mode and a great MP3 player. Oh yes, you can also use it to make phone calls with.
The phone itself, or the multimedia computer as Nokia likes to call it, comes with a 2 GB mini SD memory card, which should make it an excellent choice for music lovers. The sleek black body looks sexy and is very well made. The high quality screen is large and the keys are big enough for anyone's fingertips.
The N73 is powered by an OMAP 1710 220 MHz processor, which we have seen earlier in the Nokia E61 business phone.
What's in the box:
- Nokia N73 Music edition black
Nokia BP-6M (1100 mAh) battery
Nokia Connectivity cable CA-53 (USB)
Nokia AC-4 charger
Nokia NS-23 charger adapter
Nokia HS-23 classic stereo headset
Nokia AC-4 Stereo stereo headset
2GB miniSD memory card
Wrist strap
CD-ROM with Nokia PC Suite & Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition software
The phone comes with a 2 GB card, headphones, a corded remote control and a USB cable. The USB cable comes in handy, as with this phone you will probably connect it to your PC quite often to transfer images and music files. It has Bluetooth, but it's just too slow for high volumes of data, such as music and high resolution images. It measures 110x49x19 mm (HxWxD), which is quite reasonable for what's on offer, but it's not a tiny handset. The 2.4 in, 262k color display dominates the face of the phone and it manages QVGA resolution (320x240 pixels) . I guess we'll soon be looking at PC resolutions from a few years back on our mobiles.
Many of the important function keys are oddly placed on the sides of the keypad. On the left hand side we find the Menu key which takes us to the standard Symbian OS interface. Everything is simple and navigation is elegant, if you've had the chance to use newer Nokia models, you should be able to find your way around in no time. The key with the pencil symbol, controls the T9 predictive text input feature. You can reach the address book, calendar, camera and SMS menus by moving the central navi key in different directions. The N73 supports quad band GSM and dual mode 3G, and you can use dual mode 3G with 2.5G at the same time, although this does of course increase the battery consumption.
The Music Player and C (clear) buttons are placed on the right hand side. The MP3 player can alsobe used without the headphones, as the internal speakers work well and they're pretty loud compared to most other phones. Using some rough math we can estimate that 2 GB is enough for around 30 hours of MP3 music at 128 kbps. This should be enough for most users.


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Loui Eriksson fought off two defenders to get his stick on a rebound and jammed it in 3:03 into overtime to give the Dallas Stars a 5-4 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night.
Eriksson was being held back by a pair of Blue Jackets but reached for the puck as he was falling and whipped it past goalie Sergei Bobrovsky for the winner.
Cody Eakin had given the Stars a 4-3 lead with 6:24 left in regulation when his shot from the right wing handcuffed Bobrovsky, the puck trickling through his leg pads and across the goal line.
But the Blue Jackets once again tied it - for the fourth time - when Nick Foligno tossed a hard pass from the left short boards to R.J. Umberger, who scored from the right hash with just 1:34 remaining to force overtime.
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TAG Orientation @ Empire State College
TAG Orientation – Lou Grillo, Moderator - 9 to 9:30 am
Empire State College, 680 Westfall Road, Rochester, NY 14620, Room 159
The August Group is Rochester's Premier Face to Face Networking organization for professionals seeking career change. Learn how networking can be your most valuable tool to get you back to work quicker.
TAG Orientation is recommend before attending a General Session but is not mandatory. The Orientation includes Getting Started with The August Group, recommended Do's and Don'ts, and introduces you to the power of Networking.
You'll learn about our General Sessions, Power Networking Groups (PNG's), Career Fairs, other special events, and connections/partnerships with other professional organizations.
Orientations are held on the 2nd & 4th Monday and Thursdays of the month immediately preceding the General Sessions at Empire State College.
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meitaltlv necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 175 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
she- communication and business consultant.
he- security and technology expert.
we- gathered different experts in different fields.
together- opened a consulting & training services company
we are a young couple, living in africa for couple of years,
we are about to expand in AFRICA after spending few years in DR CONGO.
after years of work in africa, we created a concept for a company which will provide solution for many industrial sectors and companies.
example for idea behind the training(it will give you a clue about abilities of the company)
"There's no doubt that a cultural and social gap exists between african natives and the migrant workers who come from Western countries. The locals' exposure to a modern organizational culture is mostly primal, and so without learning and implementing the manners of action and the organizational culture the company performs by, their integration in management positions and as employees is almost impossible."
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Comparative Political Regimes: Consensus and Majoritarian Democracy
Matthijs Bogaards
Ever since Aristotle, the comparative study of political regimes and their performance has relied on classifications and typologies. The study of democracy today has been influenced heavily by Arend Lijphart's typology of consensus versus majoritarian democracy. Scholars have applied it to more than 100 countries and sought to demonstrate its impact on no less than 70 dependent variables. This paper summarizes our knowledge about the origins, functioning, and consequences of two basic types of democracy: those that concentrate power and those that share and divide power. In doing so, it will review the experience of established democracies and question the applicability of received wisdom to new democracies.
Counterfactuals and Foreign Policy Analysis
Richard Ned Lebow
Counterfactuals seek to alter some feature or event of the pass and by means of a chain of causal logic show how the present might, or would, be different. Counterfactual inquiry—or control of counterfactual situations—is essential to any causal claim. More importantly, counterfactual thought experiments are essential, to the construction of analytical frameworks. Policymakers routinely use then by to identify problems, work their way through problems, and select responses. Good foreign-policy analysis must accordingly engage and employ counterfactuals.
There are two generic types of counterfactuals: minimal-rewrite counterfactuals and miracle counterfactuals. They have relevance when formulating propositions and probing contingency and causation. There is also a set of protocols for using both kinds of counterfactuals toward these ends, and it illustrates the uses and protocols with historical examples. Policymakers invoke counterfactuals frequently, especially with regard to foreign policy, to both choose policies and defend them to key constituencies. They use counterfactuals in a haphazard and unscientific manner, and it is important to learn more about how they think about and employ counterfactuals to understand foreign policy.