The Balkans – a European Vietnam?
If we imagine the world as a chess board on which the great ones move their knights and pawns, we should remember that even the grand masters make mistakes.
Kosovo is on the chess board now – a small etude for the great powers. The latter think that the solution is a combination of two clever moves. And they do not notice the fatal geopolitical trap.
The world politicians of today stick to the school of the famous Zbignev Bzhezhinski, synthesized in his not less famous book "The Great Chess Board. The American Superiority and Its Geo-strategic Imperatives".
And since several of Bzhezhinski's schemes have proven true, the politicians probably do not see that one very important part has turned out to be wrong.
According to Bzhezhinski, obviously influenced by his Polish stock, Ukraine should have already been at enmity with Russia. In this case Russia would have been a secondary power, pushed to the border of Siberia.
One of the conclusions, perhaps, is that the Balkan conflicts will be localized. In fact, Bzhezhinski himself disregards this region.
What happened was just the opposite – the moment Ukraine separated, it started gravitating to Moscow, driven by economic and socio-psychological realities, which Mr Bzhezhinski underestimates. The tendency is not centrifugal but centripetal. Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are on the threshold of forming a political, economic and military union. Obviously, it cannot remain indifferent to the Balkan conflicts.
And if the West continues to overlook the fact that the tendency has gone wrong, this union could join Germany and France, resulting in a powerful Eurasian axis, which could change entirely the total world system. Such a change would be unexpected and unpleasant to the White House. The chess board of Bzhezhinski would turn upside down and the status quo established by Reagan, Thatcher, Miterrand and Gorbacev will collapse irretrievably.
The irony in the whole situation is that the Amercians themselves are about to put this process in motion. Fascinated by the schematic geopolitics, they are on the way to tread on the mine in Kosovo.
Kosovo itself is a typical historical fuse – there is a fundamental antagonism between two ethnic communities. The peculiar thing is that this territory is not a bomb in itself but a part of another, bigger bomb.
It is evident that contrary to the expectations of the West, the new world order finds it difficult to penetrate the Balkan peninsula. Whereas in West Europe the ethnic barriers fall and the state boundaries disappear, the Balkans produce new states, which establish new boundaries and accumulate fresh instances of enmity.
It seems that Europe enjoys a continental integrity only in the geographical sense. In the socio-political sense it is divided into two continents. Moreover, the West applies two different political approaches – it is bad to the bad ones and good to the good ones. And everyone knows where are the bad ones – here on this long-suffering peninsula. Or like the Bulgarians say, the carrot is there and the cudgel is here. The good cop is there, the bad one is here. While in the good Europe any re-tailoring of boundaries is impermissible, on the Balkans it is possible and even desirable.
The greatest world dramas began here, triggered by the principle of "the two Europes". The latter also made Stalin appropriate the continent, which later led to the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall.
A characteristic feature of this division is that where "the bad Europe" is concerned the West permits political decisions, which it would not accept at home. Integration, single currency and tolerance are in fashion in the West. No one puts a bee in one's own bonnet. Eastern Europe, however, still follows the so-called "divide-and-rule" principle. Maybe, this is a residue from the colonial thinking. What can be achieved through it, however?
It seems that with the help of Kosovo, the West wants to free Serbia from the Russian influence. Now, when Russia is weak it should be deprived of its last strategic point on the Adriatic Sea. In this way it will be locked between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. The Russian nuclear-powered submarines will not find a quay in the Mediterranean Sea and the Sixth U.S. Fleet will become the sovereign ruler.
Russia itself wants to use Kosovo as a trap for the self-confident West. If NATO launches a military attack on Serbia or at least deploys its troops there without the consent of Belgrade, it will sink into a "bog" like the Vietnamese one.
Following the old schemes, both sides considerably exaggerate the possibility for success. What will be NATO's gain if Russia is isolated from the Mediterranean Sea? It would have been strategic ten years ago. Now, however, it is only tactical and it is not worth the risks. Because Russia is no the USSR. It has been a long time since this country withdrew from the dominance of the world ocean by means of aircraft carriers and nuclear-powered submarines. Russia has already re-orientated its military doctrine to new and more realistic targets.
In the near future, its strategic military doctrine will be markedly defensive and dominated by the Earth-Space relation, which diminishes to a great extent the significance of the Adriatic point of support. Instead of the queen, the West gets a pawn. Is the loss of quality worth anything?
What will Russia gain if NATO attacks Serbia and occupies Kosovo? Indeed, if the West gets involved in a Balkan Vietnam, this could lead to the disintegration of the Alliance. On the one hand this could help Moscow set up a regional union and achieve its integration with part of Europe.
On the other hand, if Kosovo becomes a second Vietnam it could develop into a large-scale European conflict or even a world one. Russia will surely be involved. And this will happen at the most inappropriate moment for her. The country has not been so poor and weak for 80 years.
It appears that the West and Russia are ready to stake more than they could win. Then why do they fail to see the trap?
Maybe the political talents are also passed on through generations. And the previous generation was very pronounced – Thatcher, Reagan, Kohl, Miterrand and Gorbacev. They were the midwives who delivered history of the new European order.
The successors, however, obviously do not see that history does not need midwifes any more. And they always dream of Caesarian operations.
According to the Western scheme, Yugoslavia should have broken up and its parts should have embraced an entirely pro-West orientation. The break up happened but Serbia turned out to be a hard nut to crack. It could not create a strong pro-West opposition, which would be able to take the power. The country remained in the left political space in a frail coalition with Cherna Gora. Those who know the Balkans well could not expect anything else.
However, Serbia disrupted the scheme. It must be punished in order to fall into line. At this point the scenario becomes dangerously naïve. Belgrade will be forced to give a broad autonomy to Kosovo and to accept the three-year stay of NATO troops on its territory. During this period, Kosovo will establish its own administration, conduct a referendum and declare independence. Most European countries will recognize the new state and the Serbs will not dare to attack it.
And what if the Kozlodui nuclear power plant explodes?
The screenplay writers are obviously great optimists. They find it more realistic to expect the familiar Balkan fire, which would make Bulgaria's western neighbor a European Vietnam.
Probably in the 60s the presidents Kennedy and Johnson believed that the Vietnamese would become reconciled. Serbia is expected to do the same now. But the Serbs are disobedient and militant people, who are ready to take serious risks.
Nearly half a century ago, Hitler conquered the whole Europe. The French, the Belgians and the Czechs obeyed. But not the Serbs. They had a numerous partisan army and free territories.
In the case of Kosovo, the Serbs will treat every foreign soldier as an aggressor because they consider this province the cradle of the Serb spirit. This is the old Serbia, treasured in the hearts of all patriots. If NATO bombs Serbia and enters Kosovo by force, it should get ready for a partisan war.
What will happen to the governments of the United States and the other West countries when their young men start coming back home in coffins? Do they believe that they will remain in power?
Moreover, one act of NATO bombing could not destroy all Serb mobile missile complexes and war planes. It is logical to expect a counter strike directed to NATO troops as well as to one or another of the neighbors involved, namely Bulgaria and Macedonia.
A few bombs over Sofia and Skopje would not frighten Europe. But if the bombs hit the N-plant in Kozlodui (Bulgaria), a new European nightmare will begin.
In fact, the plant is the only hostage that the Serbs could take. The only real trump. It is naïve to think that they will not play it. Furthermore, Bulgaria is involved in the conflict without a specific binding contract with NATO.
The West, of course, hopes that Serbia will surrender and the bombs will be avoided. Past experience should at least raise certain doubts. Let us assume that at last Milosevic yields and NATO troops settle in Kosovo for three years. After three years another dispute will arise.
After three years – another conflict?
This period will allow Serbia to rest and muster strength for a new conflict. And Milosevic will lay down conditions as well. One of them will be the lifting of the embargo on Yugoslavia so that the Serb economy could achieve stabilization.
The next step will be a military intimacy with Russia. It is highly probable for Belgrade to join the union of Russia and Belarus. The Serb army will be equipped with Russian missiles SS-300. The Serbs in Bosnja and Kosovo will consolidate and will establish secret organizations for resistance.
Meanwhile, Belgrade will stabilize its international positions and will sign bilateral agreements with countries such as China, India and others.
After the lapse of the three-year period the troops of NATO will have to leave and Kosovo will become an autonomous province in Serbia. By no means an independent province, as the Kosovo Albanians want. If the military contract between Russia and Serbia becomes a fact and the latter has the missiles SS-300, which could reach the borders of five NATO states, the West would hardly insist on a referendum or on the sovereignty of Kosovo.
In the meantime, the atmosphere in the whole out-of-NATO Eastern Europe will change. Russia, for example, at present reminds of the Weimar Germany. There are signs of a radical change in the feelings of the broad masses in favor of the leftist nationalistic forces. One serious cataclysm will be enough to harden the traditional authoritarian and nationalistic cement.
This could be the humiliation of the brotherly Slavic Serbia. We should not forget that the Russian nationalism is inspired by the Pan-Slavism and that Serbia itself has been closely related to Russia for 150 years.
If NATO bombs Serbia, President Yeltsin will immediately fall from power. The Russian society will consolidate under the national flag in a few days. The economy will be militarized and revived. The Russian bear will wake up from the lethargy hungry and aggressive.
This cataclysm will immediately speed up Ukraine's re-integration in Russia and the West will face again the mighty East European super-power. As it is, at the moment 80 per cent of the Ukrainians want the restoration of the old union.
The same holds true for Slovakia but to a certain extent. Ignored by NATO and the EU, it could form a defensive alliance with Russia, its traditional brother, and thus become a strategic blade stuck in the heart of Europe. Then the West will realize that the integration of the Czech Republic and Poland in NATO is far from being a guarantee of its sound sleep.
Now or after three years, the military conflict in Kosovo is highly probable. And it cannot but drag into a war Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria not because any of them is willing to fight but because irreconcilable interests and claims will come out into the open.
The Albanians in Macedonia are waiting to see what will happen in Kosovo and decide whether to apply the same model or not. Bulgaria would not be happy if Macedonia breaks up into fragments or annexed to a Balkan country. At present, Bulgaria is equipping and training the Macedonian army.
In a word, the regional defensive union of Bulgaria and Macedonia is almost at hand. However, Bulgaria has its delicate regions as well. What would happen if the compact population of ethnic Turks along the south border of the country suddenly became inspired by the Kosovo example?
The answer is clear – a total war on the Balkans. Besides, the Bulgarian army is equipped with planes Igurovich - 29 and missiles SS-300, which could cause a lot of pain and suffering.
Only after the hot spot of the Kosovo crisis explodes, it will become clear how the other small players at the Balkan chessboard will group together. The cooperation with NATO makes Bulgaria, Macedonia and Turkey enemies of Greece. The friendship between Bulgaria and Turkey is cemented by the enmity between Ankara and Athens, but it could be blown up by the Turkish minority in the country. One more piece was needed to complete the puzzle.
All elements should fall in place so that the quantity will be transformed into quality. For example, the Berlin Wall would have hardly fallen in 1989 if Gorbacev had not become a secretary general, if the USSR had not sunk in the Afghanistan bog, if the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobil had not taken place as well as the technological blockade of the socialist block and the Star Wars program of Reagan.
The Balkan puzzle needed a real hot potato. And what ensued was the arrest of the Kurdish leader Ocalan.
All of a sudden, the Kurdish problem exploded. And it happened just now, when a very risky military operation is coming into view from the western part of the Balkans.
Ocalan's capture itself is a strategic mistake of Turkey, unless the country deliberately fans up its conflict with Greece and the Kurdish guerilla action. What could be the gain? If Ocalan is hanged, he will become something more than Levski (a Bulgarian national hero connected with the liberation from Turkish yoke) for the Kurds. His spirit will inspire and mobilize them for an uprising.
If reprieved, however, he will become a Nelson Mandela or a Georgi Dimitrov, the moral victor in the Leipzig trial. Not to mention the feelings in Turkey itself, which balances on the verge of fundamentalism.
Whatever the outcome, the Kosovo model will be before the eyes of the Kurds and Europe. If Kosovo becomes semi-autonomous, the struggle of the Kurds will enter a new and more effective stage. What will Turkey do? There is no alternative but a war with Greece and genocide in the Kurdish territories.
If something stands in the way of Turkey, it is Greece. The former cannot become a member of the EU because of the latter. Neither can it heal the Cyprus wound or solve its problems in the east. The worst thing is that Turkey is already in NATO.
The only solution is the following: Greece alone should give up its membership. The scenario is plain: Ocalan starts speaking; as a result Turkey declares Greece a terrorist country, which interferes in its internal affairs. At that moment NATO attacks Serbia, the Kurds make a riot again and Turkey crushes them by a total military operation. Following the example of Israel, it starts bombing the Kurdish military bases abroad i. e. in Greece. And why not all Greek military sites?
The United States distance themselves. Europe will be outraged. But no one will expel Turkey from NATO – it has a strategic significance.
Then Athens will drop its membership in the Alliance. Probably, this variant is acceptable to the USA since after 1989 Greece is no longer the last barrier in front of communism but a rather inconvenient ally.
That is how the small and at first sight negligible Kosovo will serve as a catalyst for sweeping changes at a distance of thousands of kilometers. Within weeks the world will set up the chessboard anew. And the Western strategists will be quite surprised by the consequences that they themselves have brought about.
What exactly will be the new arrangement?
So, the West is expected to perform a radical surgical operation in Kosovo, which will ease all contradictions accumulated over the last decades in this tightly packed region.
Do we notice, however, that the world does not have the guarantees of yesterday? The nuclear check is left without its structural basis, namely the rule of the two super powers. The most important European taboo is being discarded now - the sovereignty of the national frontiers.
Serbia launches a counterstrike against Bulgaria and Macedonia. One of the targets is the Kozlodui nuclear power plant.
The Kurds accept the model of Kosovo. Enraged by Ocalan's trial, they rise in revolt and declare Turkey a zone of permanent war.
Turkey bombs "Kurdish bases" in Greece. The two member-states of NATO start a military conflict.
Yeltsin falls from power and is replaced by a left-oriented nationalistic organization and a new Homeland Father. The militarization of Russia begins.
Civil wars in Bosnja and Macedonia.
The compact ethnic communities in Europe also want the model of Kosovo. This creates tension between most of the countries and destroys the European integration.
The Muslim minority in Bulgaria wants a change in the borders of the country. A total Balkan war breaks out.
The left nationalists come into power in Bulgaria and Romania and abolish all previous democratic gains. The two countries are on the threshold of civil wars.
A great disappointment in West European societies. The governments in Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy fall. Extremely conservative right-wing politicians assume power.
Unbelievable? When a conflict gets out of control one should expect precisely the unbelievable. As far as logical grounds exist.
Many of the listed events might not take place at all. Yet, even darker scenarios are possible, which have to do with nuclear weapons.
For example, Russia could use a total Balkan war for liberating Bulgaria again. In that case the conflict could spread all over the world.
Serbia joins the union of Russia and Belarus.
New autonomies and changes within the frontiers of several Balkan and European states.
France, Spain and the Czech Republic leave NATO. The Alliance breaks up.
A new European military and political union is established. The key figures are Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
The new union signs treaties with China and India.
An attempt to change the status quo in Indo-China.
An attempt to change the status quo in the Near East and the Persian Gulf.
These events and processes can unfold during a period of 20 or 30 years. There will be no winners in the end but only losers.
The worst losers will be the Balkan peoples. Europe will be seriously harmed as well. The United States will lose their position of an absolute world leader, especially if they get involved in a local conflict.
The age of Pax Americana, when the world peace was looked after by the White House, will come to an end.
In a more distant future the breaking of the unipolar model will pave the way for the dominance of Russia, China and India.
All countries, however, will lose a new world, in which the frontiers and autonomies will have no significance any more. If this world is given the chance, the local conflicts like the one in Kosovo will become senseless soon afterwards. Just like Europe forgot the wars over Elsass-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine).
In another system of coordinates, the world will start integrating and the national ambitions will die out. Internet, the modern communications, customs unions, common currencies and legislation will quickly make borders pointless.
This process could be reversed by the old notions, the old geopolitical structures and "divide-and-rule" methods.
It is high time that the West abandoned the scheme according to which Europe ends with Prague and Warsaw. It ought to accept the absurd fact that China, for example, is almost a European country. The Berlin Wall fell, Europe made a peaceful annexation in the east and the Balkan Peninsula suddenly found itself at the center of the world. This is the converging point of the interests of the USA, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and about the whole of the Near East. The Balkans are not Iraq. Exactly here the West should not do anything, which it would not do at home.
Unfortunately, the great world players still tolerate informal behavior on the peninsula. Here and there a bomb is dropped, here and there a border is shifted. Until the punishment of "the bad Europe" the does away with the world integration.
We see the Old Europe becoming more and more hardened in its egoism, erecting more and more walls. The United States, enthusiastic due to their victory in the Cold War and total supremacy, forget again the limits of power.
The old schemes motivate "the small players" in the Balkans as well. The Albanians consider themselves the oldest nation in Europe and because of that all others are indebted to them. The Serbs live with the ghost of Great Yugoslavia. The Turks are still seen approaching Vienna. The Greeks live with the empire of Alexander the Macedonian (who was not considered a Greek by their antecedents) and we, the Bulgarians are the greatest, the most cultured and the most wronged nation. If there had been at least a bit of justice in this world, Bulgaria would have bordered with France.
Since we live with the past, it will return. This time, however, it will be more sinister due to the technologies, the integration and the globalization.
In conclusion, it could be said that if the world players do not alter their approach, if they do not change the old structures which stifle the new processes, and if they do not exercise control over the latter, these very processes will cause a third European nightmare, which will remind of the frightful "Armagedon". Indeed, all this sounds absurd but it fits the mad 20th century.
If the West wants to restore the Balkans to "the good Europe", there is only one tested method. Half a century ago, the USA destroyed the long enmity on the Old Continent through the Marshal Plan. At that time the plan was offered to Eastern Europe as well but Stalin would not allow the new provinces to slip through his fingers.
It is high time that this plan be dusted. Since it succeeded in reconciling France and Germany why couldn't it help us?
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Title: Je suis partout
Subject: René Bousquet, Le Pays Réel, Jean-Pierre Maxence, Lucien Rebatet, French Third Republic
Collection: 1930 Establishments in France, 1944 Disestablishments in France, Antisemitic Publications, Defunct Newspapers of France, Far-Right Politics in France, Fascist Newspapers and Magazines, French Integralism, French Third Republic, French-Language Newspapers, Newspapers of the Vichy Regime, Publications Disestablished in 1944, Publications Established in 1930
Je suis partout (French pronunciation: , lit. I am everywhere) was a French newspaper founded by Jean Fayard, first published on 29 November 1930. It was placed under the direction of Pierre Gaxotte until 1939. Journalists of the paper included Lucien Rebatet, Alain Laubreaux, the illustrator Ralph Soupault, and the Belgian correspondent Pierre Daye.
In its very beginning, Je suis partout was centered on covering international topics, without displaying extremism, antisemitism, or even a consistently right-wing approach. However, the group of editors was heavily influenced by the ideas of Charles Maurras and the integralist Action Française, and the ideology quickly spilled into the editorial content, as the more moderate journalists quit in protest.
The paper became a staple of anti-parliamentarianism, nationalism, and criticism of "decadent" Third Republic institutions and culture, becoming close to fascist movements of the era, French and foreign alike. It clearly supported Benito Mussolini as of October 1932, when Italian politics were awarded a special issue. Je suis partout was favorable to the Spanish Falange, the Romanian Iron Guard, the Belgian Léon Degrelle's Rexism, as well as to Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists. From 1936, it also opened to Nazism and Adolf Hitler.
Despite its international connections, Je suis partout did not recommend copying over local origin in establishing a Fascist régime: "We will regard foreign fascism only through French fascism, the only real fascism" (14 April 1939). Thus, it held Jacques Doriot in esteem for his attempts to unite the French far right into a single Front.
The antisemitic rhetoric of the paper exploded after the Stavisky Affair and the attempted coup d'état introduced by the far right rally in front of the Palais Bourbon on 6 February 1934 (see: 6 February 1934 crisis). It turned vitriolic after the forming of the left-wing Popular Front government under the Jewish Léon Blum (1936). From 1938 on, Je suis partout matched the racist propaganda in Nazi Germany by publishing two special issues, Les Juifs ("The Jews") and Les Juifs et la France ("The Jews and France"). The extreme attack caused the publishers Fayard to cut links with the paper, and it was sold to a new board - which included the Argentine Charles Lescat (who was, according to his own depiction, "a fascist as genuine as he is calm"). Shortly before World War II and the German occupation in 1940, the paper was banned.
It was published again from 1941, and its ultra-collaborationist stances attracted the harsh criticism of Maurras, who repudiated the paper . Je suis partout triumphed as the voice of far right forces, and published unrestrained calls for the murder of Jews and Third Republic political figures: "The death of men to which we owe so many mournings... all French people are demanding it" (6 September 1941). It exercised an influence over an intellectual and young audience, going from 46,000 issues in 1939 to 250,000 in 1942.
Robert Brasillach was its editor-in-chief from June 1937 to September 1943 (he was to be executed for treason in 1945). Brasillach was believed to be too lenient, and was replaced with Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, brother of Jacques Cousteau. Cousteau aligned Je suis partout with the Nazi leadership, went against its roots by adhering to Nazi anti-intellectualism, and opened itself to advertising for the Waffen-SS and the Légion des Volontaires Français. Several of its editors joined either the Parti Populaire Français or the Milice. It continued to be published as late as August 1944 (the moment of the Liberation of Paris).
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The Winds of Mars
False-color image of channel-confined TARs in the Amenthes Rupes Region, Mars (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
On our own world, dust storms can carry sands from the Sahara around the globe.On Mars, immense dust storms worthy of a Mad Max reference and formations called Transverse Aeolian Ridges up to a meter tall are common sights. Unlike Earth, where we constantly see geoactive forces like water, ice, and volcanic activity changing the landscape around us, the only force we can see actively changing the landscape of Mars is the wind. With desertification increasing on our own planet dune fields in many locations are moving into existing agricultural areas. Might we eventually be living on a world where the impact of wind on the land is as great as it is on Mars? Can the windswept world of Mars tell us what life will be like someday here on Earth?
Gravel ripple wind-formed bedforms in Puna de Atacama, Argentina (de Silva et al., 2013)
Rover image of Transverse Aeolian Ridges (TARs) in Endurance Crater, Mars (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
Michelle Neely, a master's student in Geology and Geophysics studying under Shan de Silva, is investigating just that. By studying wind shaped formations called symetrical bed forms in the high desert of Argentina, which are the Earth's closest analog to the ridges formed by the winds of Mars, Michelle hopes to learn how wind processes work on both worlds. If terrestrial desertification leaves our Blue Planet looking a lot more like the Red Planet, this research will prove invaluable.
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Matt McConnell is from Midland, Michigan and received his undergraduate BS in Psychology and Philosophy at Central Michigan University. After graduating he spent several years in North Carolina. Most of this was at UNC working as a medical research lab assistant using mice as model organisms, but some of his work also involved cognitive research with Rhesus Macaques at a Duke University field site in Puerto Rico. Matt currently live in Corvallis, OR where he attends OSU as a graduate student in the History of Science master's program. He is taking Science Education as a related minor, with an emphasis in Free Choice Learning. His interests in History of Science and Science Education meet on the practice of Science Communication. Matt is currently co-host of the weekly radio show 'Inspiration Dissemination', in which graduate students discuss their personal journeys. Inspiration Dissemination is open to all graduate students and airs every Sunday evening at 7pm on 88.7 FM, KBVR Corvallis.
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USA 4 – 0 Mexico: Thoughts on a demolition
Posted by Eli Pearlman-Storch on January 25, 2012 at 11:30 am
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Mexico's World Cup qualifying victory clearly shook the US Women's National Team to their core. On Tuesday night, the US settled the score, reminding Mexico, and the world, that there is still an enormous gap in class between the two sides. Were at not for some shoddy finishing and a whole lot of five-alarm defending, the score line could easily have been doubled as the US controlled the match from the opening whistle and were rarely troubled throughout the 90 minutes.
A true 10 emerging
While it means less time for players like Alex Morgan, what coach Pia Sundhage's new formation allows for is Lauren Cheney to operate in her ideal position as a creative playmaker for the US attack. Protected by Shannon Boxx and Carli Lloyd, Cheney was free to run the show, spreading the ball to the wings, and working off of Abby Wambach to make the US offense tick. Compared to past formations where Lloyd and Boxx were required to provide chances, the new look US is markedly improved. This was easily seen based on not only the chances created but also the numbers the US got forward.
Domination on the wings
Carli Lloyd may win the headlines with her Johnny-on-the-spot three goal performance, but when it came to setting the table, and the tempo, Heather O'Reilly was without peer. Her speed and aggression were more than Mexico could handle and she spent 90 minutes carving them into pieces as she single-handedly commanded the right side of the pitch. On the world stage there are few who can match O'Reilly's combination of pure pace and technical superiority, but it is her intensity that make her so special. Never throttling down, O'Reilly came out guns blazing and didn't put them away until the game was well and truly secured.
Despite her unceremonious halftime substitution, Amy Rodriguez, who operates opposite O'Reilly on the right, was in top form as well. One of the fastest, most direct players in the US set up, Rodriguez has been allowed to drop deeper in the new formation, allowing her to face goal and run at defenders. Which she did, with aplomb. It was Rodriguez's driving run that created O'Reilly's goal, the second of the match, and the Mexican defense pushed numbers to cover her, leaving Wambach with more room to operate. Halftime subs are primarily used to reshape a team that is struggling. With the US in full-flight, Sundhage's removal of Rodriguez was at the least confusing and quite unfair to a player who had been strong through the first stanza.
Confusing changes
Despite the United States' first half superiority, Sundhage chose to make a halftime substitution and completely alter the team's formation. Sydney LeRoux replaced Amy Rodriguez, pushing the red, white and blue into a 4–4–2 and taking much of the wind out of the American sails. With Cheney moved out to the wing, the service to the front line slowed markedly and Mexico began to come into the game as they gained more possession in the midfield. Universal Sports commentator Brandi Chastain said that this was a faster formation for the US, but that was patently untrue, not least of which for the fact that Rodriguez could easily best LeRoux in a foot race. The real issue, however, stems from the fact that with LeRoux up front, the US became markedly slower in midfield and the American buildup play suffered. Sundhage had a chance to rectify the situation when Megan Rapinoe replaced Abby Wambach, but the US coach pushed Cheney up top to partner with LeRoux, again depriving the US No.12 of her best position on the field.
Defensive certainty
The injury to Ali Krieger was terrible news for a US defense that was already short on options, but the back four took to their task against Mexico with great energy and put in a masterful performance. Credit goes to Becky Sauerbrunn, who stepped off the bench to again prove her immense quality in the heart of the US defense alongside the ageless Christie Rampone, who remains one of the world's quickest defenders at 36 years of age. Rachel Buehler slid seamlessly to right back where she did not put a foot out of bounds in a sterling performance that also saw her directly involved in two of the US goals. Amy LePeilbet rounded out a unit that was never beaten on either wing and was able to limit Mexico to a few speculative shots from distance.
Solo insanity
Around the 60th minute, Hope Solo came up gimpy following an up-field clearance. Earlier in the first half, she was also seen stepping gingerly following a similar long ball. With the game thoroughly wrapped up, and an enormously experienced backup in Nicole Barnhart sitting on the bench, Sundhage did her team a disservice by not withdrawing Solo. It does not matter that Mexico didn't look to be troubling the US goal; that's even more reason to remove Solo and treat her injury. With a must-win match against Costa Rica on the horizon, and then hopefully a final against Canada or this same Mexico team to follow, the US coach took an extremely unnecessary risk. If Solo is unavailable for either match, US fans should look directly to the manager when assigning blame.
Top of the Match
Heather O'Reilly. See above. Put the US on the front foot and then kept them there the entire night. She was a class above. Carli Lloyd also deserves a share of the glory as her three goals but the game out of reach.
Struggler
Shannon Boxx turned in another stale performance for the US midfield Tuesday night. Her lack of pace is easily exploited by any midfielder who chooses to target her, but what is really concerning is her passing. She turned the ball over with nearly every attempted forward pass. Against a team whose best option was the counterattack, giving the ball away so cheaply in the center of the pitch presented Mexico with their best attacking opportunities and a better side would have made the US pay for many of her mistakes. There are a great number of potential replacements in the US system. Sadly, not a single one is on the Olympic qualifying roster.
The only thing that can stop this team from claiming their place in the Olympics against Costa Rica is the kind of complacency that Mexico took advantage of to snatch their first win over the US before the 2011 World Cup. But that won't happen this time around. Costa Rica is a far inferior opponent to Mexico and with no back door into the Olympic tournament, the US women will be looking to settle the matter quickly. If Costa Rica isn't at the peak of their game, they could become the third team to suffer a double digit defeat to a US Women's National Team that enters the semifinals in rampaging form.
Author: Eli Pearlman-Storch Eli writes about Philadelphia Union as PSP's beat writer, covering the games and going behind the scenes into the locker rooms. He also co-hosts the KYW Philly Soccer Show with Greg Orlandini. Email him at epstorch@phillysoccerpage.com. Follow him on Twitter @PSP_Eli.
I've always disliked Shannon Boxx' game. At first, I thought it was because she was one of the first to follow the team full of legends (the Mia Hamm-lead squad), but as it turns out, she's just not that good. She actually makes this team worse. I may even go so far as to dub her the female Jonathan Bornstein.
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Thanks for recognizing O'Reilly's game here. She was an absolute beast and by far the best player on the pitch.
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Weekly EconMinute—Household size
In this week's EconMinute, we're talking about household size.
This year, data from the 2021 Census is being released, giving us a detailed look into how the Canadian population is evolving and changing. Today, we examine trends in household size—the number of people per household in Canada.
Since the mid-19th century, the average household size in Canada has steadily decreased. From a high of 6.3 people per household in 1861, down to 4.3 in 1941, and to a new low of 2.4 in 2021.
Larger households were common in the 19th and early 20th centuries as families had many children, and intergenerational or extended family living was not unusual. Households of 5 or more people were the most common until 1976. After that, two-person households became the most common and included variations such as a couple living without children, a single parent and child, or two roommates.
There are a few factors contributing to the long-term shift to smaller households:
Canadian fertility rates have been declining—falling 18.6% since 1991—leading to households with fewer children.
Canadian divorce rates increased markedly following broadened divorce legislation enacted in 1968 and 1981—leading to single, larger households splitting into two, smaller households.
Healthier aging has meant more seniors chose to "age in place" rather than move to a nursing home or collective retirement community—leading to more 1-person or 2-person households.


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Ethical theories and nonhuman animals
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Animals used for food
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ST. GEORGE — The Dixie State University and the Trailblazers football program are mourning the loss of redshirt-senior football player Abraham Reinhardt, who passed away unexpectedly on Friday evening at Dixie Regional Medical Center.
This past season, Reinhardt earned first team all-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference honors at linebacker after he led or co-led the Trailblazers in three different defensive statistical categories. He recorded a team-high 79 tackles, including 47 solo stops and co-led the team with 13.5 tackles for loss. Additionally, Reinhardt collected 3.5 sacks and co-led the Trailblazer defense with three interceptions, including a 66-yard interception return for a touchdown at Adams State on Nov. 10.
Prior to his arrival to Dixie State, Reinhardt played two seasons at Riverside (California) City College, where he finished with 100 tackles and two interceptions in two seasons. Abraham is a native of Wailuku, Hawaii, and earned all-Poly All-Star, first team All-MIL and Special Teams Player of the Year honors as a senior at H.P. Baldwin High School.
There will be a candlelight vigil in honor of Abraham this Monday evening, March 25, at the DSU Clock Tower beginning at 8 p.m. In addition, an official GoFundMe account has been set up for the Reinhardt family and for more information, please visit DixieStateAthletics.com.
The Dixie State University community stands united to support the Reinhardt family while respecting their privacy during this difficult time.


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Injury of myocardial conduction tissue and coronary artery smooth muscle following brain death in the baboon
Experimental brain death was induced in 36 chacma baboons. In group A (n=17), brain death was induced with no pharmacologic or surgical manipulation. Group B (n=7) underwent bilateral vagotomy, unilateral left cardiac sympathectomy, or bilateral adrenalectomy before induction of brain death. Group C (n=7) underwent total cardiac sympathectomy. Group D (n=5) was pretreated with verapamil hydrochloride. Following induction of brain death, group A animals were maintained on a ventilator for a mean of 12 hr and 6 hr for the remaining groups. At the end of the experiment, the heart was excised, and tissue blocks were examined with light microscopy at (A) the atriaventricular node-bundle of His; (B) the major coronary arteries; and (C) myocardial tissue from the ventricular septum or left ventricular wall. In group A, 41% of the hearts showed histologic features of injury to the conduction tissue, 70% presented contraction band necrosis of the smooth muscle of the coronary arteries, and an incidence of 100% of the groups showed myocyte injury, more evident in the subendocardial area. In group B animals, conduction tissue injury was seen in 6 animals; the coronary arteries were not examined in this group; the incidence of myocyte injury was seen in 80% of the animals. Animals in groups C and D show no histopathologic injury in the conduction tissue (group A vs. C 2°<0.04), nor in the coronary arteries (group A vs. C P<0.002; group A vs. D PcO.Ol), preserving the myocytes (PcO.OOl). The cathecholamine storm associated to acute increment of the endocranial pressure at the time of induction of brain death induces major histopathologic changes in the myocardium, as a result of endogenous cathecholamines released inducing calcium overflow injury, affecting the conduction tissue, the smooth muscle of the coronary arteries, and the contractile myocardium. This can be prevented by calcium blockers or cardiac denervtion. © 1988 by The Williams and Wilkins Co.
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GLOUCESTER, Ont. — St. Joseph Corp. CEO Tony Gagliano says the company is in the process of purchasing a 16-acre parcel of land from the City of Gloucester, just outside Ottawa. In an interview yesterday, Gagliano said city council approved the sale on Tuesday night. The company intends to build a 200,000 sq. ft. facility into which it will consolidate the operations of M.O.M. Printing (acquired in February) and the commerical printing division of its Canada Communication Group (acquired in 1997). Gagliano said the new plant could be operational as soon as the first quarter of 2003.
MARKHAM — PLM CEO Barry Pike said yesterday in an interview that his company has undertaken significant internal restructuring efforts this year and will be in a strong position to catalogue operational procedures as required by ISO 9000 auditing bodies. The ISO 9000 series of quality ratings require that a company establish best practices throughout the production and/or service process, commit them to print in the form of manuals, and stick to them. Although it was only officially established in 1987, the origins of the ISO bureaucracy can be traced to World War II efforts to harmonize Allied ammunition specifications, notes ISO consultant Peter Merrill.
TORONTO — Cosgrove-Moore Bindery Services, which went bankrupt 15 days ago, will likely be sold in chunks. "No one has stepped forward [with an offer to buy the company]," confirmed bankruptcy receiver team member Ken Pearl of Deloitte & Touche. "Plan B" was being initiated yesterday: newspaper ads will appear in The Globe & Mail this week inviting bids on various lots of assets such as binders, work vehicles and office machines. The ads will also appear in papers in the Michigan area where Cosgrove had a presence. Pearl said only a "handful" of Cosgrove's 165 staff remain at the company's 136,000 sq. ft. facility on Birchmount Rd. The company's 17 folders, perfect binders and saddlestitchers have been idled. Should Plan B fail to liquidate all assets, Pearl said "Plan C" is a full public auction. The liquidation process is expected to carry on for the next three to four weeks, Pearl added.
TORONTO — Duncan Brown, who was acclaimed international vice president of the Canadian division of the Graphic Communications International Union on June 4, has also been appointed director of organizing for the GCIU throughout North America. The GCIU has 18,000 members in Canada and 120,000 stateside. Brown will oversee the GCIU's efforts to increase union membership in both countries. The appointment was made earlier this month at the GCIU's general board meeting in Washington, D.C. One area considered particularly ripe for organizing, unions leaders say, is new media companies.
TORONTO — Reliable Bookbinders owner David Johnson says he's not interested in purchasing Cosgrove-Moore Bindery Services, which went into bankruptcy on June 12. While Johnson said he might be interested in purchasing some of his old rival's equipment, he's concentrating now on the feasibility of U.S. expansion—something Cosgrove-Moore was examining before it went bankrupt. Johnson said a decision would be made on that matter by year's end. As for Cosgrove-Moore, CEO Carey Moore is no longer with the company. Receiver in bankruptcy Catherine Hristow of Deloitte & Touche evidently prefers not to return calls.
MISSISSAUGA — A saddlestitcher and three 2-colour presses have been sold off by Arthurs-Jones Clarke Lithographing. Seven workers were consequently released. While the company will keep its suite of cutters and folders, CEO Emilio Ciampini said time and money could be saved by outsourcing to trade binderies. As for the presses— a 29" 2-colour and two 40" 2-colours inherited when Clarke Lithographing bought Arthurs-Jones for $14.8 million 18 months ago—Ciampini said he originally envisaged that there would be enough 2-colour work to keep them fed. Turns out people want more colour these days, he said, and sending jobs through twice was "not practical." Ciampini said a U.S. broker bought the saddlestitcher for a client in Korea.
BOUCHERVILLE, Que. — Reynolds & Reynolds of Dayton, Ohio, has sold subsidiary printer Crain-Drummond with its Information Services Group (ISG) for US$360 million. The management-led buyout was announced Tuesday. Majority equity partner (90%) is Washington, D.C.-based The Carlyle Group, a private global investment firm with US$10 billion in equity positions in various companies including telecommunications, defense and information management firms. "It's a great piece of news for our North American organization," said Crain-Drummond CEO Mohamed Yacoub after the deal was signed.
MARKHAM, Ont. — Grenville Printing & Management Ltd. of Toronto is on the verge of buying deeply indebted, high-tech rival Nortec Colour Graphics, PrintCAN has learned. Grenville Printing president Bill Burke was not available for comment. Nortec CEO Shaun Bernard would neither confirm nor deny the rumour when contacted yesterday. "I'm under a veil of silence here," he said, adding that an announcement of some sort could be made within the next 10 days, following the completion of due diligence protocols. Bernard and three others founded Nortec last fall, with the bulk of it's estimated $10 million in sales coming from CD package printing. Millions were invested in Nortec's state-of-the-art CTP operation in Markham, with prepress, press and bindery digitally linked via CIP3 technology. Sources say Nortec's Heidelberg equipment suite—including a 10-colour perfector press, an 8-colour 29" and a 2-colour Speedmaster—had lately been operating at an unsustainable 30% capacity with Nortec unable to drum up sufficient sales beyond its music industry clients. A notice of intention to restructure operations was recently sent out to creditors. Secured creditors include Heidelberg. Sources say Grenville, which had commercial printing sales last year of about $20 million, is planning to move into Nortec's 50,000 sq. ft. Markham plant and will be the sole equity owner.
BOUCHERVILLE, Que. — The sale of package/label/forms printer Crain-Drummond—Canada's ninth largest printer with sales of $200 million last year—will likely be announced later this week, says CEO Mohamed Yacoub. Crain-Drummond is a division of Reynolds and Reynolds Co. of Dayton, Ohio, which decided in April to sell its Information Services Group (sales $1 billion) of which Crain-Drummond is a part. "We are down to the final strokes," Yacoub said during a recent interview. "We have the best bidder and we're trying to finalize that deal." Crain-Drummond was established in 1894.
TORONTO—Canada's largest trade bindery was shoved into bankruptcy on Monday by disgruntled creditor Bank of Nova Scotia which is owed $2 million. The bankruptcy proceeding was triggered late last week following the collapse of a $2.85-million bridge financing deal the company signed with Markham-based lender Century Services Inc. According to one source, the deal fell apart because Century slapped Cosgrove-Moore with additional fees to which the company objected. Century's Dale Duffy, who worked on the Cosgrove deal, declined to be interviewed yesterday. "I can't comment," he said when asked about the alleged fee-slapping. Cosgrove CEO Carey Moore was not returning calls yesterday nor was the receiver from Deloitte & Touche. Bankruptcy trustee Darryl McConnell of BDO Dunwoody said yesterday that the aborted "mezzanine financing" with Century represented an "adverse material change" with respect to Cosgrove-Moore and provided the Bank of Nova Scotia with a window of opportunity to make an application to a court judge on Monday to terminate the protective bubble Cosgrove had been enjoying since March 3 under section 69 of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. "The result was the deemed bankruptcy of the company," said McConnell. A source says Cosgrove had arranged an alternative financing deal but the judge's decision precluded its consummation. Sources say the company and its 150-plus employees, which had sales last year of $11 million, are finishing jobs on the floor but aren't taking on new work. The company may be sold as a going concern. Nearby competitor David Johnston of Reliable Bookbinders Ltd., is rumoured to have expressed interest in Cosgrove-Moore in the past, but he wasn't available for comment yesterday.
TORONTO—Richmond Hill, Ont.-based MGI Software and Toronto-based GIS Global Imaging Solutions have formed a multi-year partnership to deliver large-format digital printing solutions to businesses and consumers, including posters, prints and banners. Citing a study by CAP Ventures, the companies note that digital printing is expected to grow from $15.5 billion in 1997 to $47 billion by 2002—a growth rate that's five times higher than that of traditional offset printing.
CALGARY — More than 100 press operators and mailroom staff at the Southam-owned daily Calgary Herald will return to work tomorrow. Collective agreement negotiations between the Graphic Communications International Union and Herald management collapsed on May 2 when management declared a lockout. The GCIU went on strike a few days later. Talks resumed and were successfully concluded three days ago. The new four-year collective agreement accords press operators a 3% raise in the first year and a 2.5% raise each year thereafter. During the lockout, the Herald's Goss presses were operated by crews of replacement workers, plucked mostly from the Herald's management corps but also from other Southam-owned printing plants, one of which is rumoured to belong to the Ottawa Citizen. Herald publisher Dan Gaynor declined to confirm the Citizen link during an interview yesterday, saying only that "five or six" pressmen were recruited from off-site operations.
VANCOUVER — Creo Products announced earlier this week the purchase of Toronto-based Carmel Graphic Systems for about $12.5 million in cash and stock. The deal closed May 12. Carmel designs View-IT and Submit-IT proofing software which will be incorporated into the browser-based Prinergy InSite proofing and job-tracking system.
VANCOUVER — Business has been booming for Metropolitan Fine Printers but president and owner George Kallas was running out of space. Next to his 12,000-sq.-ft. plant was an 8,000-sq.-ft. tarp factory. When the owner declined Kallas' $20,000 offer to move operations so he could lease the space to accommodate his growth strategy, Kallas offered $30,000. The tarp maker accepted and about a month and a half ago, Kallas put the finishing touches on the building he gutted and converted into his post-press facility. "It was either them or us," laughs Kallas, who founded Metropolitan in 1977 and has grown it into the greater Vancouver area's ninth largest printer with sales last year of $11 million on 47 employees. Recent equipment upgrades include a $5 million 8-colour MAN Roland 700 with perfector and a used $750,000 6-colour MAN Roland 100. Kallas noted that he recently hired a pressmen and sales coordinator from now-bankrupt Hazeldine Press, and that he expects sales to approach $13 million this year.
VANCOUVER — Intense Software Inc., a Vancouver firm founded in 1995 which develops enhancement software for graphics companies using Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat programs was purchased last week by Creo Products for US$16 million (US$1 million in cash and 467,654 Creo shares valued at US$32.) Creo gains access to Intense's 50 distributors worldwide. Intense turned a profit last year on sales of US$1.35 million, said Creo investor relations officer Tracy Rawa. All Intense products will be rebranded with the CreoScitex marque.
MARKHAM, Ont. — If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. Innova Envelope, a division of Supremex, itself a division of gargantuan U.S. consolidator Mail-Well, has tabled an offer to buy out long-time rival Regional Envelope Products—and its parent company CML Industries— for approximately $30 million. The sale is pending review by the federal Competition Bureau, which should render a decision by August. Combined, the two companies would control roughly 75% of the envelope market in Ontario and Quebec, said Regional president and CML principal Gerald Charbonneau during an interview Tuesday. The rivalry began when Charbonneau resigned from Innova in 1987 and quickly launched Regional, which he sold a year later to CML, a publicly traded company which also owns Precision Papers Ltd., Transit Envelope of Montreal, Specialty Filing Ltd. and two Peterborough, Ont.-based companies— Regal Envelope and Specialty Paper. Last year, Regional's sales accounted for 76% of CML's total revenue of $46 million. Charbonneau said he was delighted with the premium buy-out offer. "We couldn't get much bigger in the Canadian market," he said, adding he'll stay in the printing industry but that a non-comp agreement precludes him from pushing envelopes.
CONCORD, Ont. — John Gagliano is coming home. Formerly VP and GM at St. Joseph Ottawa/Hull and St. Joseph M.O.M., Gagliano—brother of St. Joseph CEO Tony—returns to head office to become VP and GM of St. Joseph's showpiece Concord facility. He is succeeded by Rob Young, formerly Sr. VP of Sales and Operations at the Concord plant. Young, who speaks English and French and has lived in Ottawa prior to this promotion, will travel to Ottawa and return to Toronto on weekends. Tony Gagliano said the shuffle will increase the depth of experience at the management level. "You always want to strengthen your bench," he said.


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Michigan Candidate for Governor – "Brave Enough to Stand Against Sharia"
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In a world that nearly demands "Political Correctness", what politician would make statements that they understand the dangers of Sharia crimes; will take steps to educate their administration, the law enforcement under their jurisdiction, and anyone who is charged with handling abused women & minors or adjudicating laws affecting them? Wouldn't that be a step that could hurt their elect-ability? If you side with "Political Correctness", you would probably agree. Those of us that have raised the flag of concern, asked the hard questions of our candidates, and demanded they know the threats from Sharia are real would applaud whoever this candidate is, stand with them and push for that candidate's election!
So, who is that candidate that took that "brave" stand?
Michigan's current state Senator, Patrick Colbeck, representing Michigan's 7th district. He is running for Governor of Michigan in the 2018 elections. One of his potential opponents is a Sharia-compliant Democrat candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Senator Colbeck has studied and learned the history of Sharia, the Muslim Brotherhood, and their plan to take down America called "An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America, created 5/22/1991" [Arabic/English]. He not only studied it, he has seen it happening as a sitting State Senator and within his own community.
Now, it's the next step that makes this candidate so incredible. He not only took the time to educate himself about the threats, he stood before a MI community and presented what he learned, told them that he (if elected Governor) would stand against the threat of Sharia. Would demand his state is educated about what is an essential requirement to follow an ideology that states Sharia is the only "law of the land".
Candidate for Governor, Patrick Colbeck, told the citizens of Michigan he will do all he can to protect them from an ideology that requires the replacement of Constitutional law and sanctions crimes against women and children. He also signed a pledge to confirm he will do this. This is a candidate that will go against the "status quo" to protect and defend!
The videos with this article are the proof of his commitment. Please share this story and the videos to let everyone see the strategic importance of Patrick Colbeck's candidacy for governor of Michigan, no matter where they reside in America.
Patrick Colbeck, Explanatory Memorandum – Part 1
Patrick Colbeck, Law and Order Despite Sharia Pledge
The Pledge that was signed:
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A petition is circulating to pardon two good men: Steve and Dwight Hammond, who continue to sit in prison because radical environmentalists hate ranchers.
Please sign the petition, which begins:
"For decades agencies of the Department of Interior, namely the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), have deployed their administrative powers to punitively regulate and maliciously prosecute the Hammond family of Oregon in a thinly veiled attempt to drive them off their ranch, their historic grazing allotments and vested water rights."
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3% 10-Year Treasury Again In View
By: Kent Engelke | Capitol Securities
A 3.0% 10-year Treasury is again in view. To remind all, about two months ago the prospect of this benchmark was almost a certainty after a relentless climb from 2.4% at the start of the year. But a retreat ensued sending the 10-year as low as 2.72% in early April. Today, the yield is 2.92%, the highest in about eight weeks.
The accepted reason for the increase is greater than expected growth and inflationary pressures. I would like to add another… the massive impact of electronic based trading. The SEC states 99% of Treasury trading is done electronically utilizing algorithmic models.
I believe the next market crisis will not be an economic crisis, but rather a liquidity crisis. Liquidity is virtually absent given the changes in capital requirements and the inability of money center banks to take risk… aka hold inventories.
The regulatory entities are more concerned about speed of execution and risked based capitalization. Treasury trading has morphed electronically, which emphasizes speed, but not capitalization. What happens if there is a systemic event that causes a dramatic change in economic or monetary assumptions?
Liquidity is absent and prices could fall dramatically.
I vividly recall three periods of a radical change in sentiment… 1987, 1994 and 2008. In both 1987 and 1994, yields rose dramatically and 2008 yields fell dramatically.
What are the odds 2018 will be the inverse of 2008, but only on steroids given the lack of liquidity?
As noted many times, oil is at the highest level since December 2014, an environment few thought would unfold. Steel, aluminum, copper and lumber prices are surging, another unexpected event. Will demand pull inflation morph into cost push inflation?
Like many, I believe the secular bond bull market is over. However, I believe few have experienced a selloff in prices given that last one took place over 24 years ago. I read a statistic that average tenure of a bond trader is about 7 years and the number of bond professionals have dropped by over 60% because of technology; technology that I will argue does or cannot factor a systemic event.
As written before, it is all about speed of execution and market stabilizing forces are no longer available because of the long arm of government.
What will happen today?
Last night the foreign markets were mixed. London was up 0.44%, Paris was up 0.41% and Frankfurt was down 0.19%. China was down 1.94%, Japan was down 0.13% and Hang Sang was down 0.94%.
The Dow should open flat. The 10-year is unchanged at 2.92%.
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Shakedown shutdown
By Ken Leighton, Nov. 5, 2014
Griffin gave heart and soul, but "the San Diego music scene is tough."
Singer/guitarist Travis Wheeler recalls the first time his punk/metal band Stealth Jackson tried to play the Shakedown.
"The show was canceled because there was no electricity. It was, 'Sorry, no show tonight.' But it was a great place to play."
The Shakedown Bar
3048 Midway Drive, Midway District
(Has gone out of business since this article was published.)
Being the last band onstage on Saturday, October 25, Stealth Jackson now has the distinction of being the last band to play the Shakedown.
Shortly after that show, other bands that were booked to play the Sports Arena area club started calling around, looking for replacement gigs. They were told their November/December shows at the Shakedown weren't going to happen.
"There's not too much to say other than I tried my best," Shakedown owner/booker Anilee Griffin tells the Reader. "[I] Worked my hardest to keep it going, but the San Diego music scene is tough. We don't have much foot traffic so I relied only on music, but it wasn't enough. I gave it my heart and soul. It was never about money, just about supporting live music."
Before she took over the Shakedown, Griffin booked the talent for the Flying Elephant in Carlsbad. She oversaw the 200-capacity punk rock/rockabilly/metal bar for two years. Before that, the Shakedown was owned and operated by "Dead Ted" Thompson, who annointed the bar as a place for "Booze, Bikes, Bands, Broads, and Rods."
In years past, the location housed the Rhythm Lounge and a strip bar called the Doll House.
"I really liked the place," says L.A.-based talent agent Brando Von Badsville, who sent touring bands such as Gambler's Mark, Cold Blue Rebels, and the Quakes down to play the Shakedown. "If I lived in San Diego, I would have hung out there all the time. They really treated all their bands well." Von Badsville says that now he will probably call on Til-Two or the Soda Bar.
Stealth Jackson's Wheeler says he will miss the Shakedown partly for what it wasn't: a pay-to-play bar. He says the best model for a bar with live bands is to pay bands based on how many heads they get through the door, not paying for a block of tickets in advance.
Bassist Mike Muellenberg agrees. He plays bass in League of Liars, which played just before Stealth Jackson in that swan-song show. "A lot of bars expect the bands to come up with money up front. A lot of us just don't have the funds." He says the Shakedown didn't shake them down for pre-sales. "The Shakedown was a dive bar, but it was not as divey as some I've been in."
More stories by Ken Leighton
Rest in peace, Boss Lady — March 24, 2017
Throw Rag throw-down — Aug. 10, 2016
This man could shoot you — July 23, 2014
Another music venue pulls the plug — April 14, 2014
All shook down — July 31, 2013


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AUS Recruit embraces Office 365 and SharePoint Online with an award winning solution by GCITS
AUS Recruit, an Australian athlete promotion company, were growing fast. They knew they needed a better way to manage their athletes through every stage of their promotion process.
After an Office 365 Exchange Online email roll-out, GCITS and AUS Recruit turned to SharePoint Online to build a scalable, cloud based athlete management platform. The project was featured on Kochie's Business Builders, won an Australia-wide award, and gave AUS Recruit the peace of mind to scale their operations on a proven system.
This project was completed by the GCITS team as part of the Ozbizweb Group and won the Microsoft Australia Partner Award for Excellence in Small and Mid-Market Cloud Solutions. In 2016, Ozbizweb Group will be replaced by GCITS as the Microsoft Partner.
Who are AUS Recruit?
Founded in 2011, AUS Recruit are a Gold Coast based Athlete Promotion company that connects athletes in Australia and New Zealand with the US college system on sporting and academic scholarships. Ben Thiel and four core management staff coordinate a team of 13 recruit advisors located around Australia.
"We've grown strongly in the last three years, we currently have an office in Queensland, an Office in NZ and one in Los Angeles." Ben reports.
Recruit advisors identify and refer talented athletes to AUS Recruit, where they are assessed for eligibility, registered in the AUS Recruit system and promoted to the appropriate college coaches.
The requirements for qualifying and placing athletes in the US are strict and varied, and require the input and expertise of multiple staff members.
AUS Recruit's IT Challenges
In 2014, as word was spreading about the AUS Recruit program, Ben and his team were taking on more athletes than they could manage. Opportunities were being missed, information was lost and some athletes were being let down.
"Communication with my staff has been one of the biggest challenges, and the miscommunication and misinformation that gets sent around" (Ben Thiel)
AUS Recruit was using a POP3 email server for all staff. Ben recognised the value of keeping track of communication, and had configured a collection mailbox where all email was forwarded into a single inbox. Unfortunately, this did not work well.
"It was hard to keep track of where we were. We had different email on different computers, nothing synced, I didn't know if people had been responded to or not."
Ben and the team were using a spreadsheet synced on Google Drive to track the progress and info relating to all past and current athletes. The problem with the spreadsheet was that it was just a spreadsheet, it didn't alert anyone when things when wrong or deadlines were being missed. Ben found that a lot of his time was spent putting out fires due to administrative oversights. And then the syncing issues began.
"Because we've got staff all around Australia, we found it to be quite slow and we weren't always sure that the information uploaded would represent what someone else was looking at around the country."
With unsupportable growth due to an unsuitable management system and a dated email server, it wasn't hard for Ben to say yes when we demonstrated the features of Exchange Online.
"When Ozbizweb suggested that we change over, and look at Office 365, we jumped at the opportunity. ", Ben says.
Elliot Munro from GCITS discusses the rollout, "AUS Recruit were experiencing missing emails, inconsistent inboxes and no syncing of items between devices. We switched the email to Office 365's Exchange Online to resolve this and the email migration took place without issue. Soon after, we booked a time with AUS Recruit to demonstrate the other features of the platform."
Ben Thiel saw the potential of SharePoint Online's workflows and custom lists as a way to replace their problematic spreadsheet.
Operating in an industry with little competition was both a blessing and a curse for AUS Recruit. There was no line of business application that serviced their needs, anything they needed, they would have to build themselves or get developed. And for a young business, traditional software development was prohibitively expensive.
As it was the first time GCITS's Elliot Munro had engaged in this sort of work, an agreement was reached to build the platform at a reduced cost.
The Technical Details
Elliot Munro discusses how the project was implemented:
SharePoint workflows are used to automate repeatable business processes. We used workflows for assigning custom permissions to items for Recruit Advisors, and generating custom documents using Word Templates. We designed these workflows in close consultation with the customer. This had the twofold effect of getting Ben comfortable with the platform, and giving him an understanding of the capabilities for future feature requests.
We used an Access Web App to track the results of the Athlete Promotions phase of the AUS Recruit process. The Access Web App connects to the Athlete Database SharePoint List and filters it by athletes currently ready for promotion. The Access Web App is set up to support AUS Recruits existing promotions process. This allows the AUS Recruit team to stay up to date with the current communications between AUS Recruit Staff, US Coaches and Australian Athletes.
We set up an enquiry management system in SharePoint that collects all web enquiries received and collects the enquiries into a SharePoint list. Once an enquiry is received, a workflow runs which assesses the entered enquiry values to calculate an Enquiry Score. The Enquiry Score helps to ascertain the likelihood of the Athlete being successfully promoted, and is used by AUS Recruit management to assist in assigning the enquiry to the appropriate recruit advisor.
The end result is an easy to use cloud-based management portal, accessible securely from anywhere, with any device.
AUS Recruit's value stems from its proven promotions process, and SharePoint Online ensures that each athlete is taken through the same process from start to finish.
From the moment that an athlete makes an enquiry, to their trip overseas to pursue their dream of competing in the US College System, everything is tracked, automated, and the right people are involved at the right time.
The solution was featured on Kochie's Business Builders, and won us the Microsoft Australian Partner award for Excellence in Small and Mid-Market Cloud Solutions. See the videos below.
The featured solution on Kochies Business Builders
Our AUS Recruit solution wins a 2015 MAPA Award
Want to use the cloud to be more effective? Get in touch with us!
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Scientists say it is a fact the older you get the quicker time appears to pass by. It is something to do with having so many memories stored in the brain. So here we are again another year drawing to a close.
In trying to recall the events of 2016 or looking forward to 20217, I am reminded of an exchange in the film Casablanca. Humphrey Bogart is asked "Where were you last night?" He replies "That's so long ago I don't remember." The next question "will I see you tonight?" He replies "I never make plans that far ahead."
So the Rio Olympics are just a hazy memory to me. I have forgotten who won the FA Cup and I rack my brains to recall who won the Grand National.
I have not forgotten though the passing of so many famous faces gone too soon. Terry Wogan, Gene Wilder, and for me the saddest of all Leonard Cohen.
If a week is a long time in politics then a year is an eternity. Who could have predicted the turmoil and fall out following Brexit? A top Labour Politician kept referring to it as Breakfast during a Radio 4 interview. Our foreign secretary called it a Titanic decision. Who said satire is dead?
Nearer to home the quote of the year from a council meeting must be in July immediately after the referendum. A very true blue but passionate remain Tory stood up and announced "we are all Liberal Democrats now". Well our sensational by-election victory in Richmond will do very nicely thank you very much.
At this time of year we ought to remember the heroics of ordinary people. The passer-by who came to the aid of Jo Cox, our doctors and nurses who will be working over the festive season, our tireless emergency services, the ordinary citizen so many bringing comfort to others with little acts of kindness.
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New info about "Flock of Dudes"
We have more information about Flock of Dudes.
Levin recently wrote and produced "Flock of Dudes," whose director and co-writer Bob Castrone is a fellow Towson graduate. Jason Zumwalt, whom Levin met while working on a comedy show in New York, co-wrote the screenplay.
Chris D'Elia plays Adam, a 30-something who decides it's time to "break up" with his friends in an effort to be more successful with women. "Flock of Dudes" is based loosely on Levin and his friends' experiences as young, single New York writers. It took inspiration from Judd Apatow's "The 40-Year Old Virgin" and Todd Phillip's "Old School."
The comedy has assembled an impressive cast, including Ray Liotta, Hilary Duff, "Pitch Perfect's" Skylar Astin and Hannah Simone of "New Girl". Levin and his fellow filmmakers are now on the hunt for a distributor for the movie. Once they find one, they plan to promote it nationally and hold screenings in Baltimore.
"Fortunately, 'Flock of Dudes' was a script that, for a lot of the people we wanted, was something they really responded to," Levin says about assembling his all-star cast.
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Candidates must have completed Honours degree or graduation level for apply. Age should not be crossed 21 to 30 years, but freedom fighter's children get advantage more 2 years. The 40th BCS Circular 2018 will be published on March 2018. Candidate will get 40th BCS all circular step by step details this site Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) official website at www.bpsc.gov.bd. Candidates also found from our website too.
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In an alternative world where things that deserve praise are actually cherished, this artwork would win awards for being able to tastefully violate every rule of Illustration.
Notice how even though the top words run out of the frame, the 'new cd' text on the bottom right doesn't? That means @coketheloc was very aware of this- only adding to his cool. This, mixed in with the gang-sign he's holding up, expresses more than I could say about this gem.


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Q: Números primos en Erlang y la expresion Case estoy aprendiendo Erlang y necesito hacer una función que retorne la lista de los números primos entre L y O. Por ejemplo, si L = 10 y O = 20, tiene que retornar 11, 13, 17 y 19. El código es el siguiente, pero solo me retorna el primer número primo.
primes(L,O) ->
    case L =< O of
        true ->
            case prime(L) of
                true ->
                    primes (L+1, O),
                    L;
                false ->
                    primes(L+1,O)
            end;
        false ->
            false
        end.

Cómo hago para hacer bien la recursión  y que me devuelva todos los primos?
Gracias

A: Encontré la solución, basta con añadir una función con tres variables i que una de ellas sea la lista.
    primes(B, A) ->
    primes2(B, A, []). % Creem una funció que ja té inicialitzada una llista.

primes2(B, A, R)->
    case B =< A of
        true ->
            case prime(B) of
                true ->
                    primes2(B + 1, A, R++[B]);
                false ->
                    primes2(B + 1, A, R)
            end;
        false ->
            R
    end.

A: En caso que necesites otra solución sin usar una lista para almacenar los valores aqui te dejo algo que podría ser de utilidad. Tu implementación estaba bastante bien, el problema era cómo tratabas de imprimir los primos.
primes(L,O) ->
case L =< O of
    true ->
        case prime(L) of
            true ->
                io:format('~B~n',[L]), % esta es la forma en la que debes imprimir
                primes(L+1,O);
            false ->
                primes(L+1,O)
        end;
    false ->
        io:format('FIN~n',[])
end.

Saludos

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