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Property owner facing criminal charges in Hollywood raid wants to build hotel down the street
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He filed the plans two days before police served a search warrant at his other property
By Bianca Barragan, Jenna Chandler, and Elijah Chiland Updated Sep 13, 2018, 5:30pm PDT
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Two days before police raided his building on the Walk of Fame, Hollywood property owner Mehdi Bolour filed plans for a hotel project about a half mile away.
Bolour owns a real estate empire in Los Angeles and is named in new plans to build a 12-story, 168-room hotel on Hollywood Boulevard, near Highland Avenue.
Bolour is the president of Denley Investment and Management Company, founded in 1984. Along with his son David, Bolour, either personally, or through his company, trust, or various LLCs, own or has owned dozens of properties across Los Angeles.
His latest project, at 6751 Hollywood, would also entail repurposing an existing seven-story office building into 94 guest rooms. Messages left with Denley were not returned.
Plans for that project were filed Monday. Early Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Police Department served a search warrant at the former home of iO West comedy theater, finding that more than 60 people had allegedly taken up shelter there.
Bolour now faces criminal charges related to conditions at that property, which he has owned since 1994. City Attorney Mike Feuer said he was trying to prevent an "Oakland Ghost Ship fire from happening" in Hollywood.
Kerry Morrison, executive director of the Hollywood Property Owners Alliance, says Bolour was one of the first property owners she met when she started working at the organization more than 20 years ago.
In her experience, she says, Bolour hasn't had issues at his other properties. "I do believe that he was caught unaware by the situation," Morrison says.
In a complaint filed last week, Feuer accuses Bolour of not maintaining the building to city code, not installing smoke alarms and fire extinguishers, altering electrical wiring without a permits, and failing "to maintain in clean and sanitary condition and good repair the walls and ceilings of every room."
It won't be the first time he finds himself in court. In 2015, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ordered Denley and Bolour to pay $2 million in damages to Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise for "deficient HVAC system" and pest infestations" at the property the charter school leased from them.
Bolour holds some interesting properties in his portfolio. One of his current holdings includes the ornate Belasco Theater in Downtown LA; another is a former gay bathhouse on Ivar Avenue that in its heyday advertised "disco, movies, maze, arcade, pool table, bunk room, snack bar, TV, lounge, gym, steam, sauna, and everything else you'd expect."
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Q: Plot not aligned after adding plot legends The new GraphicsColumn function claims to have the ability to align the axes Align Frame Edges. It works fine for very very simple plots, but if one adds a simple thing such as plot legends to it, it will not work anymore. For example, a simple plot as below works:
 plot1 = ListLinePlot[{Range[10], Range[11, 20]},
   Axes -> False,
   Frame -> True];
plot2 = ListLinePlot[{Range[41, 50], Range[61, 115]},
   PlotStyle -> {Red, Black},
   Axes -> False,
   Frame -> True];
plots = {plot1, plot2};
GraphicsColumn[plots]

But once we added legends, things start to break down:
plot1 = ListLinePlot[{Range[10], Range[11, 20]},
   PlotLegends -> {"line 1", "line 2"},
   Axes -> False,
   Frame -> True];
plot2 = ListLinePlot[{Range[41, 50], Range[61, 115]},
   PlotStyle -> {Red, Black},
   PlotLegends -> {"line 3", "line 4"},
   Axes -> False,
   Frame -> True];
plots = {plot1, plot2};
GraphicsColumn[plots]

Mathematica really need to do something to catch up with Python in terms of visualization capabilities.

A: I always use Multicolumn for alignment. Using the same ImagePadding for all figures is crucial.
imgPad = {{20, 2}, {20, 6}};
plot1 = ListLinePlot[{Range[10], Range[11, 20]},
   ImagePadding -> imgPad, PlotLegends -> {"line 1", "line 2"},
   Axes -> False, Frame -> True];
plot2 = ListLinePlot[{Range[41, 50], Range[61, 115]},
   ImagePadding -> imgPad, PlotStyle -> {Red, Black},
   PlotLegends -> {"line 3", "line 4"}, Axes -> False, Frame -> True];
Multicolumn[{plot1, plot2}, 1]

A: Try with the following within the GraphicsColumn:  Spacings->-80

A: GraphicsColumn together with GraphicsRow and GraphicsGrid are a bit problematic tools. There is problem with determination of AspectRatio for resulting graphics. Moreover, the plot with legend is a combined object and therefore the aspect ration is another than for pure plots.
You should define the AspectRatio directly in both plots to obtain normal view.
plot1 = ListLinePlot[{Range[10], Range[11, 20]},
   PlotLegends -> {"line 1", "line 2"}, Axes -> False, Frame -> True,
   AspectRatio -> 0.6, ImageSize -> 400];
plot2 = ListLinePlot[{Range[41, 50], Range[61, 115]},
   PlotStyle -> {Red, Black}, PlotLegends -> {"line 3", "line 4"},
   Axes -> False, Frame -> True, AspectRatio -> 0.6, ImageSize -> 400];
plots = {plot1, plot2};
GraphicsColumn[plots, ImageSize -> 500, AspectRatio -> 0.6]

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Q: How to control differences between line and bar plot in Python? Changing the attribute kind = bar to kind = line changes the x-axis characteristics in Python. How can I get the same line chart?
This is the base code:
import pandas as pd

dataframe.plot(
  x = "Panel",
  y = ["Total A",
       "Total B"],
  ylim=(0, 15),
  rot = 90,
  kind = "bar"
)

The output using bar:

The output simply changing to line:

Why do I get only some labels and not all as in the first image?

A: Going into the pandas documentation, I saw that the keyword xticks is supported. To my surprise, the following works:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

#fake data generation
from pandas._testing import rands_array
np.random.seed(123)
n = 30
val1 = np.random.randint(0, 100, size=n)
val2 = np.random.randint(20, 40, size=n)
ind = rands_array(5, n)
df = pd.DataFrame({"A": val1, "B": val2, "Panel": ind})
print(df)

df.plot(
  x = "Panel",
  y = ["A", "B"],
  rot = 90,
  xticks=np.arange(df.Panel.size),
  kind = "line"
)

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Sample output:


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Food supplies the building materials to permit continuous cellular renewal and growth. Proteins form a major part of our structure.Proteins are amino acid polymers.
Food supplies the building materials to permit continuous cellular renewal and growth. Proteins form a major part of our structure. Proteins are chains of amino acids, specified in the DNA code. Proteins are amino acids linked together like beads on a necklace. The individual amino acids fall into two groups: the essential AA's, which must be ingested, and the non-essential AA's, which can be synthesized in the body and need not appear in the food. A total of 9 amino acids are considered essential, while another 11 or so can be synthesized from the essential amino acids.
Most of our body protein is recycled and we do well by ingesting very little protein. About 3% of the total body protein is recycled every day (approximately 200 grams). In a healthy adult, net protein loss in a day may be as low as 2 grams. Dietary requirements for protein increase with activity, growth, and protein losses, especially following injury or during illness. The average American diet supplies 11-14% of total calories as protein, or 25-300 gms/day. Protein digestion and absorption are generally efficient. A minimum average protein intake is approximately 25 grams.
Since all amino acids contain a nitrogen atom (N), protein balance is synonymous with nitrogen balance. When nitrogen intake exceeds nitrogen loss, there is net protein synthesis. Anabolism, or tissue construction, prevails. When nitrogen losses exceed intake, protein tissue is being broken down and catabolism prevails. Loss of protein-tissues occurs with malnutrition, following surgery, injury, and chronic illness. Adequate intake of energy molecules, both carbohydrate and fats, is said to "spare protein", permitting a small protein intake to maintain positive nitrogen balance. In metabolic studies, the total amount of nitrogen intake is compared with the total excretion of nitrogen to assess protein balance. Excess amino acids may be converted to fuel.
When amino acids are "burned" as a fuel, ammonia (NH3] is the waste product. Ammonia must be carried to the liver, converted to urea and excreted by the kidneys. One of the penalties of amino acid excess is ammonia excess, a potential cause of body malfunction following a high protein meal. The blood measurement of urea nitrogen (BUN) shows the balance between urea production by the liver and excretion by the kidneys. The BUN rises in kidney failure and serves as a measure of ammonia or nitrogen. In liver disease, reduced ability to synthesize urea leads to ammonia accumulation. Ammonia is neurotoxic and contributes to the syndrome of brain dysfunction in liver failure, hepatic encephalopathy. Patients with reduced kidney or liver function are required to restrict protein, since their ability to handle the nitrogen waste of oxidized amino acids is limited. Fluctuating levels of ammonia should be considered whenever brain function is abnormal. Some children are born with metabolic abnormalities in the handling of amino acids and ammonia. They often present with malfunctioning brains.
Proteins and Disease In the popular imagination, proteins are the safe and desirable components of food. Food products are often promoted by boasting of high protein content and protein is connected falsely with increased energy. In body- building fantasies increased protein turns into bulky muscles. Standard nutritional recommendations in Canada and the USA promoted meat, milk and egg consumption as protein sources. RDA levels for protein intakes tend to be excessive. The idea that proteins are agents of disease is foreign to popular nutrition and most physicians are unaware of protein disease.
2. Protein excess disease from impaired ammonia processing.
6. Prion diseases, proteins acting as infectious agents.
Molecular assembly and molecular disassembly are essential procedures of life. The synthesis of complex structures from a finite set of raw materials underlies the prodigious complexity of life on earth. Control of molecular behavior is achieved by an elite class of protein molecules. Enzymes know how to grab other molecules and break them apart or stick them together, according to the very specific blueprint, contained in DNA molecules. Enzymes themselves are made by other enzymes from the amino acids which food proteins provide. There are about two thousand different enzymes. The largest enzyme populations live inside cells where they are attached to molecular assembly structures. Other enzymes are secreted into body spaces as mobile chemical workers.
Many enzymes become popular after someone writes an article praising their wonderful abilities to manipulate molecular behavior - ingestion of the enzyme is usually recommended. Superoxide dysmutase is one popular enzyme which cannot be delivered by oral intake to the intercellular sites where it does its useful things. Ingested proteins tend to get digested, losing their information as shape and function, or, if they are not digested, tend to cause allergic reactions rather than functioning normally. The next development of molecular engineering will be vehicles to deliver enzymes to intracellular sites where they will be useful. Delivery vehicles may be physical structures or carrier molecules that protect the enzymes while directing them through the GIT, circulation, and filtering systems such as the liver and lungs.


An air to water heat pump is a very efficient device that uses heat in the ambient air for hot water production. Its heat energy output is about three to five times as high as the electricity input. The way it works is opposite to that of an air conditioning system: it uses a refrigerant cycle with a compressor and heat exchangers to extract heat from the ambient air and transfers this heat to water.
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In today's well isolated new build homes, a controlled ventilation system is required to ensure the hygienic exchange of air from the outside to the inside of the house. Stiebel's LWZ 604 Air System makes use of this ventilation system, giving it the dual purpose of distributing outside air throughout the building as well as carrying the heat emitted from DENSO's heat pump. Using air as a heat carrier eliminates the need for a water-based heat distribution system, as the volume of air circulating the house is sufficient to hold enough heating for the entire building.
Integral to the system is DENSO's CO2 Heat Pump which uses a refrigerant cycle with a compressor and heat exchanger to extract heat from the ambient air and transfer this heat to water at the start of the central heating process. Typically Heat Pumps use a synthetic refrigerant gas such as R410A, which has a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of 1725. DENSO's Air to Water Heat Pump was the first of its kind to use the natural refrigerant carbon dioxide – which has a GWP of just one.
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Lunch with James Gay-Rees at Ember's Yard, London
We meet the British film producer behind Senna, Amy and Supersonic for tapas at Soho's Ember Yard.
James Gay-Rees has a job that's easy to envy. The British film producer has been making documentaries for the past six years that focus on iconic and often misunderstood characters; and he has a subject list that reads like a who's who of modern-day popular culture.
From 2010's Bafta-winning Senna, to last year's highly acclaimed Oasis documentary, Supersonic, by way of the Oscar and Bafta-winning Amy, Gay-Rees has a way of elevating his subjects out of their field and into wider consciousness. He wanders into the packed Ember Yard in Soho with a lo-fi style and carrying a backpack. It offers a glimpse of the indie kid about him and is a little incongruous with his current status in the movie business.
Gay-Rees is hard to pin down. He's currently working on a project that involves Argentine superstar Diego Maradona, but for once he's not working. He's moving swiftly into holiday mode as his two teenage daughters are on a break from school.
No sooner has he sat down, he plunges head-first into a Kerouac-esque stream of consciousness, jumping from the joy at winning awards for Amy to his previous two wins for Senna, the documentary about the legendary Formula One driver.
Considering he only arrived from the US yesterday, he's remarkably chipper, giving the distinct impression of a man who's very happy with the way his life is going. Despite the usually low-key nature of the documentary genre, Amy was a huge success, both at the box office and with critics. The film chooses to focus on the rare talent of the artist, as opposed to the troubled icon depicted and hounded by the media. As you watch, it's kind of hard not to fall in love with her.
It's clear that Gay-Rees felt that, too, as his easy flowing patter gives way to a sadness-tinged rail against the media. Understandably, having two teenage daughters made Amy's story even more poignant for him, and he remains visibly affected by her story.
"On a wider level we all made her life intolerable because of the media feeding frenzy. That's why I spoke out at the Baftas. It's pretty obvious to anybody that the girl was in real trouble. We probably all said, 'Oh my God! What a train wreak,' but to go out of your way to sell more papers or to gain more viewers knowing that girl had a strong chance of dying… I don't care what anybody says, she was exploited by the media for commercial reasons. She wasn't just having a bad day. She wasn't putting on an act. It was totally brutal."
Amy's hard to watch and was a painful movie to make. Gay-Rees pauses, momentarily contemplating the doubts and difficulties that he and his colleagues went through making the film. In the process of their research the team interviewed more than 100 of Amy's friends, family members and management, the majority of whom were still processing their role in her journey and death.
Most of those close to Amy felt that the film had captured her essence, yet the most notable opponent of the documentary has been her father, Mitch Winehouse, who describes the film as a "one-dimensional, miserable and misleading portrayal of Amy". The film paints Mitch in a bad light and points to the fact that there were a select few around the singer who were doing very well out of her success and who, perhaps, dropped the ball in regard to getting her the help that she needed. Despite the backlash, Gay-Rees diplomatically avoids getting drawn further into the row. "I think in many ways he [Mitch] did what he thought was best for her; she was very difficult to manage. I'm not an expert but I believe they say that you can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped."
Unfazed by the negative feedback, Gay-Rees speaks with the unflinching confidence of someone free of self-doubt or guilt. "At the end of the day, any criticism we get doesn't really bother me 'cause I know for the large part we've opened people's eyes to her again. Here and in the US she'd become, for the most part, a joke and now people are like, "You know what. That joke wasn't funny and she was amazing." The film has re-energised her legacy in the right way, and if certain individuals want to criticise the movie then they aren't seeing the big picture; because that girl's seen in a different way now."
As our food arrives we discuss the difficulties of negotiating egos and expectations when making a documentary. I ask if it's easier to make a film about someone who's dead or someone still with us. Without missing a beat he tells me there are pros and cons to both as he throws me a cheeky look and says, "We must be mad, we're currently dealing with the Gallagher brothers and Diego Maradona: all very well-known and famously challenging people."
With the subject of ego firmly on the table, it's only a matter of time before the subject of Ronaldo comes up – Gay-Rees worked with the Portuguese superstar on the eponymously titled film in 2015. It's one of his documentaries that hasn't managed to make the leap from its core audience of football fans to reach a wider public, but Gay-Rees is a firm believer in the subject matter.
"I respect Cristiano because he's a really nice guy in reality, and the level of sacrifice and amount of pressure he wears from his family, himself, his friends, his team and his country is almost unbearable. To have the exterior toughness and inner strength to take everything that the world throws at him and go out there and deliver unbelievable statistics for 10 seasons in a row is amazing."
A series of tasty tapas plates have now arrived, and I realise that I'm racing through the food as quickly as Gay-Rees gets through anecdotes. Worried, I check that he remembers that we're sharing, as I note that I seem to have almost eaten my half of everything while, he, burdened with the task of answering my questions, is taking a considerably time longer. Ember Yard seems to be the kind of place where people like to linger over lunch, however, and I sense no hurry as he insists that adding food to the mix is the perfect way to get him to keep talking.
The unpretentious and down to earth Gay-Rees seems to be the antithesis of Hollywood frippery. The only clue to his level of work is an amazing capacity to speak at extremely high speeds while giving common sense answers and maintaining an impressive level of eloquence. Despite a decidedly English manner and liberal use of an expletive or two, his language is tinged by his time in the US. He has a tendency to finish his sentences with an Americanism or two, and is especially fond of an inflected 'you know?'.
In 2010 Gay-Rees set up On The Corner, a London-based independent production company, along with Asif Kapadia, the director of Amy and Senna. After a seven-year stint as a "dogsbody" in New York and Los Angeles, he searched "desperately for a writer, an idea" something that he could produce on his own. He eventually found the project: Exit Through The Gift Shop – a film directed by street artist Banksy – and moved back to London. The freedom of having his own production company put him in the enviable position of being able to make films about people he's passionate about and interested in, the most enigmatic of whom was Ayrton Senna.
A teenage Gay-Rees first became fascinated by Senna through his father, who worked as accounts director for John Player, sponsors of the Lotus car that Senna was driving in the early 1980s. His usually levelheaded father told stories of a mystical character who seemed to operate outside the usual laws of physics.
Ten years after Senna's death, Gay-Rees read an article commemorating the driver that echoed many of his father's words and decided to contact the family with a view to making a film about the iconic hero. "They'd turned down a lot of really big Hollywood directors as they were worried about the Hollywoodisation of his story, so the key to unlocking them was to say we'll do a documentary." Not having set out to make non-fiction, the fledgling production company found themselves on the path that would establish their brand as makers of serious, high-quality documentaries.
The 2011 film, Senna was a huge success at a time when documentaries weren't big currency at the box office. Even more surprising was that a film about a sport with little appeal beyond its fanbase could break box office records. The filmmakers had managed to tap into universal themes that chimed with viewers well beyond the world of Formula One.
When I reveal my own lack of interest in F1, but how I was enraptured by Senna, he laughs, explaining how, "Women love that movie. If I had a pound for every mum who'd come up to me at the school gates and said, 'My husband made me watch that movie and now I've seen it five times.' Senna is the classic Icarus figure, the one who flies too close to the sun. He's such a romantic hero 'cause it's not about the money for him… he was reaching for the stars."
Gay-Rees' most recent work, Supersonic – a documentary charting British rockers Oasis and their sharp (and notorious) rise to fame in the mid-'90s – has a romantic side to it, too, albeit in the guise of two lunatics from Burnage, Manchester. Noel and Liam Gallagher allegedly still can't be in the same room together, but both contacted Gay-Rees to document their story, as well as to wonder where all the rock and roll heroes have gone. Supersonic is a call to arms as much as it is a retrospective. It's a plea for some much-needed personality in the music business. The film opened late last year, and enjoyed instant success.
Gay-Rees is still chasing his own dream, and his stock in Hollywood is now considerably higher – an Oscar, Bafta and big box office will do that for a person. "I can have the meetings now that I couldn't have as a younger man," he says. But he's clearly not satisfied. "Not all the time," he adds hastily, "but I'm operating from a slight position of strength now rather than being a nobody."
However, it's still hard to imagine the affable man in front of me operating in the cutthroat world of movie production, and he admits a love/hate relationship with Hollywood. "As I've got a bit older, more experienced and less judgemental, I've figured out how it all works. It's not perfect but if you treat it with respect, it treats you with respect back. That said, as soon as you lose your sense of humour in Hollywood... you're done."
Words: Kaye Martindale / Images: Geoff Brokate
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First, let's meet Moloch. You remember him, right? The ancient god, the child eater, the demander of sacrifice, the villain in Ginsberg's Howl (and also real life) and now the personal antagonist of singer and songwriter Lucas Fitzsimons, who named his band the Molochs because he knew he'd have to make sacrifices to get what he needed, and because he always wanted a reminder of the Ginsbergian monster he'd be fighting against. And so this is how you make a record right now: you fight for every piece, and when Moloch takes apart your relationships and career potential and leaves you sleeping on couches or living in terrifying apartments and just about depleted from awful people involving you in their awful decisions, you grab a bottle of wine (and laugh at the cliché) and put together another song. And once you do that eleven hard-won times in total, you get a record like America's Velvet Glory: honest, urgent, desperate and fearless because of it.
The result is America's Velvet Glory, recorded with engineer Jonny Bell at effortless (says Fitzsimons) sessions at Long Beach's JazzCats studio. (Also incubator for Molochs' new labelmates Wall of Death and Hanni El Khatib.) It starts with an anxious electric minor-key melody and ends on a last lonesome unresolved organ riff, and in between comes beauty, doubt, loss, hate and even a moments or two of peace. There are flashes of 60s garage rock—like the Sunset Strip '66 stormer 'No More Cryin' or the 'Little Black Egg'-style heartwarmer-slash-breaker 'The One I Love'—but like one of Foster's and Fitzsimons' favourites the Jacobites, the Molochs are taking the past apart, not trying to recreate it.


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If you have been involved in a Stamford, Connecticut car accident case you should have a number of questions regarding your CT injury claim that need to be answered right away. In fact, you will need to know about all of the problems and pitfalls that lie ahead in dealing with the insurance company and the techniques they will use to try and pay you the least amount of money possible for your CT injury claim. Get those answers now from attorneys who have decades of experience in obtaining money damages for injured people. By way of example, here is just one such way that an insurance company will try and pay you less money for your CT injury claim and what you can do about it.
An increasing number of liability insurance companies have started using a new program with the goal of reducing the amount of money they pay you for your injury claim, for example, a motor vehicle accident. Under this new insurance program, insurance companies are offering very low settlement on all soft-tissue injury claims involving low-speed crashes and minor vehicle damage.
The new program is referred to as DOLF (Defense of Litigated Files) or MIST (Minor Impact Soft Tissue) cases. These injury claims typically involve a low-impact crash that results in minor property damage. The injured party typically receives injuries to the neck or back- what insurance adjusters refer to as a classic whiplash case.
One of the major factors that insurance company adjusters look at in these cases is the nature, extent and amount of property damage, because the insurance adjuster will allege that the less damage there is to a motor vehicle, the less significant of an injury the claimant will have suffered. Automobile and truck manufacturers are now making vehicles safer than ever and they are designed to have impact absorbing bumpers and other parts that do not evidence obvious outward damage to the vehicle.
Whiplash, or soft tissue injury, has been the subject of a great deal of medical and engineering research and study. Roughly one million whiplash injuries occur each year, many of which happen in low-impact crashes. Studies have shown that even in an impact at only 5 miles per hour, the sudden movement results in g-forces (gravitational and acceleration forces) that is high enough to turn the average human head into a 150-pound load resting on the spine. One study showed that the less a car is damaged in a collision, the higher the acceleration of the impacted vehicle and the greater the risk of injury to the spine. This is because a motor vehicle that compresses or collapses in a collision absorbs more of the force of the impact than one that remains undamaged. In other words, a low impact motor vehicle accident can result in significant life altering injuries despite the fact that a great deal of physical damage to the vehicle is not obvious.
So in order to improve the value of your injury claim, especially with an insurance adjuster who is using the DOLF or MIST program you can do one very easy thing. One factor that many insurance adjusters look at to determine if an impact was minor is the amount of the repair bill to fix the property damage to the motor vehicle. In other words, the amount of money that it costs to repair your car could have an impact upon the ultimate settlement value or jury verdict of your case.
So because property damage estimates can vary by hundreds or even thousands of dollars, you should take your damaged vehicle to the dealership for that make of your motor vehicle. Generally speaking, dealerships will charge more to repair your damaged vehicle than will the local body shop. You should also insist that new factory parts, not after market, reconditioned or used parts, be used to repair your vehicle. If the estimate to your vehicle is higher, you stand a better chance of defeating the DOLF or MIST strategy used by many insurance adjusters.
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What's it like to be a founder/CEO?
You won't be able to really appreciate your successes because you will be so obsessed with the next hill and doing what it takes to get to the next level… The hardest part about being a founder is not feeling what is good, what is working. Even if you can see it — what's working — you often don't really feel it. There's too much to do. It's too hard. The odds are too tough. It's easy to be a critic in general. It's even easier to be self-critical when you know everything that isn't working better than anyone else.
How can investors/board members add most value?
Help You Understand Where, When and Why You Are Doing Well. I find this is a rare trait in VCs (or board member) … but it's immensely valuable when you can get it, especially in things like SaaS where growth takes time. It's easy to be a critic. But the Great VCs can tell you, from experience, from similar company, when you are actually doing well — and why. This can help you understand when to Double Down. Sometimes criticism helps a founder, but usually, almost always, they are well ahead of you here. What most founders really need and don't get enough of is objective feedback into what is working — regularly.
Celebrate Your Victories – Properly. For Real. Doing a start-up is so hard, it takes so many pieces, so many victories, over such an extended period of time … it's so tempting to almost mechanically acknowledge a great milestone, and move on to the pie-eating contest the next day. If you don't find a way to celebrate your victories and your milestones of pre-success and success … it won't be any fun. At all.


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Mother saves her miracle baby from holocaust
By Tanya Debi
Renate Krakauer's parents, William and Charlotte, lost many of their relatives and friends that day.
"They came knocking on doors and dragged all the Jews out and they took them to the Jewish cemetery, where they had dug these deep pits," Krakauer said. "And they had people lined up, [naked]. They would line up at the edge of the pit in rows. First row, bang, bang, bang, bang, into the pit. Second row, bang, bang, bang."
The first German act of hatred against religious and political groups during the Second World War started in the autumn of 1939. It was the Nazis' systematic deportation and murder of Jews.
Renate Krakauer was born soon after, in March 1941, in southeastern Poland (present-day Ukraine). Her mother used to call her, her miracle baby.
"Most of the children who were born between 1939 and 1945 were killed or they starved to death or they were stabbed with a bayonet or they would be thrown into the wall," Krakauer said.
Instead, the Germans rounded up Krakauer and her family and dumped them in a ghetto. They rapidly ran out of food and barter to get food. Krakauer's mother knew that she had to get a job outside the ghetto. She left Renate with another woman, who had an infant.
Renate's mother had a cousin in the ghetto, Jacob, a scrap dealer, and he dealt with Germans, who had started a recycling company.
"The German head who had been doing business with Jacob for many years, nominated his Jewish friend as his deputy," Krakauer said.
Renate's mother used her connection with the scrap dealer to get a job as a slave labourer. However, things got worse. One day, Renate's mother arrived home to find the woman caring for her daughter feeding the meagre food ration to her own child.
"She didn't blame her," Krakauer said. "Her child was hungry too."
Renate's mother felt determined enough to survive that risked her own life to save her miracle baby.
"My mother slid out of the ghetto behind the broad shoulders of Jacob," Krakauer said. "(My mother) removed her white armband with a blue star, which was very gutsy because if anyone recognized her, she would be shot. … She ran three kilometres across town," where she left her daughter with another family.
Renate's mother returned to the ghetto for fear she would be recognized, but her baby was safe.
"My mother was a very courageous woman," Krakauer said, "and she saved my life."
By: Tanya Debi
Posted: Nov 11 2013 8:54 am
Filed under: Features
Topics: Holocaust • Second World War
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The legal institutions in Indian country revolve around four main entities: indigenous or traditional courts, general jurisdiction courts, appellate courts, and the Bureau of Indian Affair's Code of Federal Regulation courts. The National Survey of Tribal Court Systems (NSTCS) is the first complete enumeration of tribal court systems operating in the United States and gathers administrative and operational information from tribal court systems, prosecutors'...
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To improve the availability of data on crime in Indian country, BJS creates data tables containing information reported by tribal law enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and published in the annual Crime in United States (CIUS) publication. The tables include crime data for agencies that reported 12 complete months of data for the year, submitted by tribal law enforcement agencies and the Bureau...
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feature — Comments Off on On labour, the Ford administration proves quietly effective – so why doesn't anyone care?
On labour, the Ford administration proves quietly effective – so why doesn't anyone care?
Early last week, Toronto's library workers went on strike. Everyone assumed they would. The city and the library have been at each other's throats for much of the last year – through budget cuts and branch closures and threats of service reductions. The animosity between the library union and the Ford administration never quite got to the point of outright profanities and name calling, but it got pretty damn close.
If you had asked me on the weekend, I would have predicted a long and drawn out work stoppage. Libraries are vitally important to the city – especially when it comes to youth, seniors and low-income people – but their absence is less likely to cause an emotional response than, for example, a lack of garbage pick-up or reduced EMS response times. The city's negotiators had a lot of breathing room on this one.
Which is why this, as reported by the Toronto Star's Liam Casey, comes as a bit of a surprise:
Toronto Public Library workers have reached a tentative deal with the library board, according to its union.
The workers went on strike March 19, closing all 98 branches.
CUPE spokesperson Cim Nunn said the two sides have been meeting since the strike began and reached a deal through "long, hard work."
via Toronto library strike: Union and board reach tentative deal to end strike | Toronto Star.
And, lo and behold, it looks like the city has found common ground with much of Local 79, the city's inside workers. Yes, there's still work to be done with part of that union, but we're worlds away from speculation last summer that said the mayor would jump straight to a lockout, damn the torpedoes.
Like with the out-of-nowhere deal signed with the outside workers at CUPE 416 last month, these seemingly quick resolutions have got to be seen as a victory for the Ford administration. Contrary to the expectations of a lot of people who claim to have their finger on the pulse of things down at City Hall – including, um, me – the mayor has done reasonably well with labour, wringing the kind of concessions he promised without declaring bloody war on the public sector.
The unions deserve credit too, of course. What we're seeing now – speedy resolutions to labour issues, a willingness to concede on certain sticking points – is a tacit admission from union leadership in this city that they really screwed things up in 2009, when workers went on strike for 40 days before ultimately conceding and accepting a deal. The public sector seems to know that they need to rebuild political support. And so they're being conciliatory — often preemptively so. As far as workable long-term strategies go, this is the best the unions have.
Still, if Ford's been pretty smart on the labour file, he's been totally inept at turning that intelligence to his political advantage. While Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday and the negotiating team at City Hall have been knocking out deals with various Locals, Ford's been tilting at transit windmills and repeating the word "subways" so often he's probably broken an obscure Guinness record for word repetition.
With the subways/LRT debate taking all the headlines, Ford's done little to attach himself to the negotiations. Instead of holding press conferences and giving interviews trumpeting his ability to wring cost-saving concessions from city workers and open the door for the kind of contracting-out he promised in his campaign, the mayor has been almost invisible in this process.
You could make the argument that the mayor's invisibility has been a blessing for the city's negotiating team. Ford's not particularly well-liked by a lot of union members, and his comments – followed, inevitably, by his brother's comments – could serve only to add fuel to fire. The Fords have an uncanny ability to make any situation worse just by talking about it.
The other side of the coin, however, says that the mayor is a politician who's been taking a beating lately. He desperately needs some checkmarks in his "win" column. These labour negotiations could provide that. Yes, it makes sense to maintain some space between the mayor and labour negotiations, but there's a fertile middle ground between invisibility and overbearing involvement that would still allow Ford's star to shine in the wake of signed deals.
The only real explanation that makes sense to me is one that harkens back to an underlying theme through Ford's mayoralty: the mayor is simply understaffed. He doesn't have the resources in his office to effectively strategize on more than one issue at a time – they can't walk and chew gum at the same time. His advisors are hilariously ill-equipped to effectively manage policy and communication at the level demanded by Ford's position. They're obviously lousy at marshalling support at council and they don't seem to have many cards to play with the media either, except for with a few names at the Toronto Sun and on the broadcast side. Even simple tasks like ordering business cards or keeping up with municipal conflict of interest law have led to major (and public) screw-ups.
But, hey, they are pretty good at getting back to constituents who have problems relating to sizeable piles of dirt.
Ford's office has copped to the issue somewhat – there's money for a new position in the mayor's office in the 2012 budget. But that may be too little too late. Change needed to start soon after the Port Lands debacle. There have been at least a half-dozen debacles since then, with no sign of improvement. Meanwhile, Ford still lists slashing his own office budget as a major achievement.
But back to the labour issue: signed deals with all the city's major unions would stand as an undeniable success for the Ford administration. But it doesn't amount to much if his office isn't able to effectively communicate that success – and if  it all gets drowned out by the noise and controversy of other things.
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TTC union's no-strike vow recalls unfortunate history
TTC Union boss Bob Kinnear, who was awesome in As Good as it Gets, made a big show last week, making a public declaration that the TTC would not strike at any time during their upcoming contract negotiations. The current labour contract expires March 31.
Adrian Morrow:
In a bid to encourage the province to hold off on designating the TTC an essential service, the union representing transit workers vowed not to strike during upcoming contract negotiations.
At a news conference Thursday, Bob Kinnear, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, called for Queen's Park to hold more extensive public consultations before making a decision.
via TTC union vows not to disrupt service during contract talks – The Globe and Mail.
The essential designation issue is a tough one for Kinnear to play. From a strictly ideological perspective — the rights of the workers –, it's something that he has to oppose with every fibre of his being. But he knows also that it really wouldn't necessarily be that bad for TTC workers. (Kinnear actually sent out a phone message to union members a week back trying to stir up more opposition to the move amongst his members.)
I respect the public promise he's made here, as I do think it's important the province gives this issue the due consideration it deserves. Absolutely the worst possible outcome – for riders, for the city, for anybody – is an ill-suited half-measure, that sees only rush hour service on main line routes declared 'essential.' And I fear this might be what we get from the province, driven by politicians whose main concern is that Queen's Park station is open for business. This could allow a situation where future labour disputes lead to long-running disruptions of service on late-night and "low-ridership" bus routes, which is devastating for low-income people.
But Kinnear's promise is tough to take, even for those more sympathetic to unions. After all, it was only a couple of years back that he made a similar promise. And look how that turned out.
The full text of Kinnear's remarks is available via the Toronto Sun.


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Your artistic talent is great in this sketchbook you take us on a journey called "In 5 Minutes".
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Powerful stuff. I love the words and all the transfers together, telling a multidimensional story!


One of the products that debuted at the Global Pet Expo 2011, held last week in Orlando, Florida was the YardPup & Paw, advertised as 'the ultimate poop scoop.' I can't speak to whether it is the ultimate one or not, but I'll tell you what makes it different from the ones you've seen before.
Like several other pooper scoopers of the standing variety, the YardPup & Paw uses two tools, one to shovel or sweep the waste and the other a receptacle to hold the waste. The YardPup has two innovative designs, one in each of the tools.
First the shovel is multi-tonged, resembling a dog's paw (cute!), so it can scoop the poop up from several surfaces - not just grass, but rocky or cement surfaces.
Second, the triangular rim of the receptacle is designed as such so that a common plastic grocery bag can fit around it and be held in place by a fitted elastic cord, as seen below.
In the image below, we are spared the sight of dog doo, by the designer's substitution of Tootsie Rolls, but I think we can all imagine what the stuff looks like.
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool user of recyclable bags for poop picking up, so I can't tell you if the YardPup & Paw is "the ultimate poop scoop" or not. You be the judge. you can get it here.
That's all the poop that's fit to print for today!
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Market Manila - Hanger Steak with Caramelized Onions - Beef/Lamb, etc.
Feeling low in iron and zinc? How about some marinated steak that's been seared to a "blue-rare" then sliced and served with caramelized shallots? Trim the hanger steak to remove the "center muscle" and other chewy parts (you'll know what they are when you see them) and add some chopped garlic, dijon mustard, worcestershire sauce, olive oil, red wine vinegar, a little kikkoman, salt and pepper and let this sit, covered for say 30-40 minutes. Peel several native onions (small shallots) and keep them whole, then heat up a heavy pan, add some olive oil and brown the peeled shallots and toss them frequently. Season with salt and a bit of sugar to help the caramelization along. Add a few drops of red wine vinegar and remove the onions and set them aside.
Put the pan back on high heat, add a bit more olive oil if necessary, and when the oil is smoking hot, sear the steak and cook it for a few minutes before flipping it over. I was in a bit of a hurry, and cooked this steak perhaps 2-3 minutes short of rare. Let the steak rest for a few minutes and slice and garnish with the caramelized shallots and sprinkle with some chopped flat leaf parsley. Serve immediately. This was a super easy and delicious steak dish. It was a bit on the chewy side, but really flavorful and satisfying. A few of the largest pieces of steak were just a bit too rare and we returned them to the pan to sear the cut sides for a couple more minutes and they were served for seconds… Yum.
I have been wanting to cook hanger steak for my family (from all the Food network shows I watch) so I keep an eye out for it in supermarkets (I live in the south so it's South Supermarket, Shopwise, Rustan's or Metro for me). The beef section does not seem to have it unless it's there and both the meat person and I don't know it. Can I please find out if it is called another name or what is its Filipino equivalent? Thanks.


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Can We Trust the Taliban?
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By Alan W. Dowd
They came from Egypt and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Some were trained in bomb-making, some in hand-to-hand combat. Others were instructed in surveillance and reconnaissance. All of them learned the fine art of hiding in plain sight. They honed these and other skills in Afghanistan, where a fundamentalist group known as the Taliban had built a brutal, backward regime on the rubble of what the Soviet Union left behind. As they transformed their country into a torture chamber, the Taliban allowed Osama bin Laden to use Afghanistan as a terrorist campus—and a launching pad for his global guerilla war. On September 11, 2001, that war reached our shores.
Yet President Donald Trump's envoys have been negotiating with the Taliban, finalizing what the White House calls a peace process, laying the groundwork for a "phased" withdrawal, and were even preparing to host the Taliban at Camp David. Trump says he plans to keep 8,600 troops in Afghanistan. But he is, as ever, mercurial about that, noting that he will "make a determination from there as to what happens…we're bringing it down"—and bringing it down fast. Within 135 days of signing a deal, Washington will withdraw 5,400 troops. Yes, Trump announced that he cancelled plans for Taliban emissaries "to secretly meet" him at Camp David. But with the 2020 election looming, there will be a strong incentive to restart the talks, drawdown to a fig-leaf force, and campaign on peace and prosperity.
Given that more than 60 percent of the public wants to withdraw from the land that spawned September 11, Trump is undeniably in step with the American people in this regard. As Trump's predecessor liked to say, it's "time to focus on nation-building here at home." But if history is any guide, we will regret abandoning Afghanistan (again), trusting the Taliban and disengaging from the world around us.
We've been here before. After the Soviets quit Afghanistan in 1988-89, Washington's interest in that broken country declined dramatically. "As soon as the Soviets left Afghanistan, we turned our backs on Afghanistan," former Defense Secretary Robert Gates recalls.
In 2009, leaders in the region implored Washington to resist the temptation to withdraw and instead "build on learning from the mistakes of the past."
Neither the Obama administration nor the Trump administration showed much interest in learning from past mistakes.
Recall that President Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to withdraw from Iraq and made good on that promise in 2011. Obama always viewed U.S. involvement in Iraq as a problem to be corrected, rather than a commitment to be sustained. As former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laments, the Obama White House was "so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests."
The Pentagon consensus was that Iraq needed the U.S. military to sustain the upward trajectory of the surge, to keep an eye on Iran and to keep a lid on al Qaeda in Iraq (which had been eviscerated by the surge). Frederick Kagan, chief architect of the surge, explained that "Painstaking staff work…led Gen. Lloyd Austin to recommend trying to keep more than 20,000 troops in Iraq after the end of 2011." Before leaving his post as Joint Chiefs Chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen urged the White House to keep at least 16,000 troops in Iraq. "None of us recommended that we completely withdraw from Iraq," according to Gen. Martin Dempsey (Mullen's successor).
Predictably, without the steadying hand of the American military, sectarian tensions exploded; the window of opportunity for Iranian mischief widened; al Qaeda in Iraq reconstituted and rebranded itself as ISIS; Baghdad was nearly overrun; Yazidis, Shiites and Christians were massacred; and ISIS declared a jihadist state in the heart of the Middle East. Predictably, two years and six months after withdrawing American troops from Iraq, Obama rushed American troops back into Iraq.
"Under no circumstance should the Trump administration repeat the mistake its predecessor made in Iraq and agree to a total withdrawal of combat forces from Afghanistan," Gen. David Petraeus advises. "A complete military exit from Afghanistan today would be even more ill-advised and risky than the Obama administration's disengagement from Iraq."
His solution: "The U.S. must retain its own means to pressure extremist networks plotting against the American homeland and U.S. allies," which means "some number of American forces in Afghanistan, along with substantial enablers such as unmanned aerial vehicles and close air support." Without such a force, he predicts "full-blown civil war and the re-establishment of a terrorist sanctuary as existed when the 9/11 attacks were planned there."
Obama didn't listen to such counsel regarding Iraq, and Trump isn't listening regarding Syria and Afghanistan. This is no surprise. After all, Trump says, "Great nations do not fight endless wars." Similarly, Obama said he was "was elected to end wars." These twin sentiments have made for good politics, but they arguably reflect a misunderstanding of the commander-in-chief's role in the constitutional order—especially in a time of war—and America's role in maintaining international order. America has been engaged in "endless" missions in Germany since 1944, Japan since 1945, South Korea since 1950, Kuwait since 1991, Kosovo since 1999.
Regardless, elections have consequences, and there's something to be said about trying to end war and make peace. However, in unilaterally trying to end the wars of 9/11, Trump and Obama have ignored a fundamental truth of human conflict: The enemy gets a vote. As Gen. James Mattis puts it, "No war is over until the enemy says it's over."
That brings us to the issue of trust. To bring about a durable peace between two warring sides, one of two conditions must be met: Either one side concedes defeat (Imperial Japan on the Missouri), or both sides truly desire an end to hostilities (Sadat and Begin at Camp David).
The first kind of peace is a function of what happens on the battlefield, and is the byproduct of a simple calculus made by the party conceding defeat. The second kind of peace requires some modicum of trust between the warring sides. Neither condition has been met in Afghanistan.
The Taliban "controls or…contests almost half the country's 407 districts," according to U.S. military estimates. In addition, there are 20 foreign terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda and ISIS, at work in Afghanistan. Doubtless, some of them are collaborating with the Taliban. As Petraeus concludes, "The Taliban are far from defeated."
Moreover, the Taliban have given us no reason to trust them to make good on their promises. Even as they talked peace in Doha, Taliban militants launched large-scale attacks in Kunduz and Kabul. (The Kabul attack was, apparently, what got Trump's attention.) In late 2018, Taliban militants targeted and nearly killed the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. A Taliban commander recently said, "We will continue our fight against the Afghan government and seize power by force."
If that's not enough, consider the Taliban's record while in power and while trying to reclaim power: banishing girls from school, ordering Hindus to wear identity labels, destroying ancient Buddhist statues, summarily executing those belonging to opposing sects of Islam, depopulating areas controlled by ethnic minority groups, turning soccer stadiums into mass-execution chambers, burning people alive, jailing aid workers, beheading people for dancing, imprisoning foreigners who talked about Christianity, pouring acid on young women and teachers, using children to plant IEDs, making common cause with bin Laden.
How can we make a deal with people like that? Trump himself conceded as he cancelled the Camp David meeting, "What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position?" The answer can be found in the preceding two paragraphs. They haven't changed, and they won't change. To think a piece of paper or "peace process" will bring the Taliban into the political sphere and prevent them from doing the only thing they know to do is fantasy. Hopefully, the president now sees the Taliban for what it is.
Disengaging
Trump today and Obama before him are reflections of an America that is not just war-weary, but increasingly world-weary. Yet that reality doesn't justify their course of action. Leadership—especially on matters of national security—sometimes requires more than reflecting the national mood. There are times when a president is called upon to explain to the American people why they should follow a path they would rather not take. Think about Jefferson abandoning a policy of appeasement and instead waging war on piracy half-a-world away; Lincoln transforming the Civil War from a struggle merely to preserve the Union into a struggle to abolish slavery; FDR dragging America back onto the world stage; Truman arguing for open-ended engagement and global containment of Moscow; Reagan reviving the nation's flagging commitment to what Truman began; Bush 41 building support for the defense of Saudi Arabia and the liberation of Kuwait; Clinton wading into the Balkans; Bush 43 defending the surge.
America and its military have sacrificed much in Afghanistan—18 years; 2,435 dead; 20,516 wounded; around a trillion dollars. Trump, Obama and other well-meaning observers look upon these numbers and conclude that the costs are just too high—the costs of Afghanistan's rehabilitation, the costs of America's security, the costs of international order, the costs of engagement.
Without question, engagement carries heavy costs. The Cold War cost Americans 104,000 military personnel and $6 trillion. The war on terrorism has claimed 6,900 U.S. personnel and devoured $2 trillion in treasure.
Yet we hear little about the costs of disengagement: Nanking, Pearl Harbor and Auschwitz in the 1930s and 1940s; Korea in the 1950s; Afghanistan in the 1990s, which led to the maiming of Manhattan; Iraq in the 2010s, which gave rise to ISIS. And we often overlook the benefits of engagement. During the Cold War, U.S. engagement preserved free government, rehabilitated Germany and Japan, and transformed Europe from an incubator of war into a partnership of prosperity. During the war on terror, U.S. engagement has put the enemy on the defensive, prevented a second or third or fourth 9/11, forced the enemy to expend finite resources on survival, and pushed the battlefront away from our shores.
One of the hardest things for the American people to understand about the war unleashed by 9/11 is that, 18 years in, we are closer to its beginning than its end. To those who have been listening, this comes as no surprise. Just days after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush tried to brace Americans for "a lengthy campaign unlike any other we have ever seen." In October 2001, Adm. Michael Boyce, then-Chief of the British Defense Staff, posited that the war on terror "may last 50 years." By 2004, U.S. generals were calling the campaign against terrorism "the long war." Dempsey called the struggle against jihadism "a 30-year issue." Indeed, in its duration, geopolitical and geographic scope, ideological dimensions, and economic and human costs, the war on terror is more akin to the Cold War than other wars in American history. Regrettably, two successive administrations have failed to grasp this, and hence failed to explain this to the American people.
Instead, Trump laments that "We're almost a police force over there." Perhaps that's how we should look at Afghanistan. If America is unwilling to commit the resources to crushing the Taliban, then policing Afghanistan's stubbornly-ungovernable land seems a prudent fallback, especially given what Afghanistan has spawned. "The cost of retaining a few thousand troops in Afghanistan pales in comparison with the price the nation will pay strategically and economically if al Qaeda or ISIS rebuilds a terrorist platform there," Petraeus warns.
For a reminder of what that cost entails, take a look at the Manhattan skyline.
Alan W. Dowd is a senior fellow with the Sagamore Institute, where he heads the Center for America's Purpose. A version of this essay appeared in Providence.
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The new movie is out on DVD and bluray now, you can find a whole host of clips from the extra features if you hunt about online, but it's much easier to just get the DVD/bluray and enjoy it all together.
When you do get it one of the cooler exclusive versions comes from Target, who offer it in a model of the Enterprise!! Not on the DVD is an unfilmed scene which could have given William Shatner his much demanded cameo, you can read it as it was scripted on TrekMovie (glad they didn't go through with it myself, sounds very forced to me).


Heya guys. I'm going to be going through eastern Canada the next few days, and I was wondering how much wireless activity there was around there. I'll be doing some wardriving when I get there, but I'm also interested in hotspots and hotels with free wireless internet (I need to find one so I can stay there). Any info would be appreciated.


I am completely down right now. It goes beyond boredom. I can surf the 'net, read a book, watch a movie to cure that. My favorite is watching tv on the internet. I love when networks post tons of episodes of shows on their websites, so even shows I haven't watched I can catch up with. I thought about taking up knitting or crocheting or some other crafty pasttime, but then I had flashbacks of bedrest with E's pregnancy. I was determined then that I was going to learn how to knit. I figured I am a bright person and could figure it out, so I went on a frenzy. I got all of the stuff I needed, along with some how-to books, and started my attempt. Ha! That was not a good idea for several reasons. First, I don't take failure very well. I am a perfectionist, so if whatever I produced didn't come out looking like a commercially manufactured product, I would've died. Second, I am easily frustrated, and didn't handle it well when my first attempts at stitches came unraveled in my hands, over and over again. Third, I cannot leave a task unfinished. It does something to me. I have to finish what I start, right then and there. So the three of those combined made the attempt at knitting even more stressful than the boredom. I learned a lesson there. So then I got the idea, with this pregnancy, to make some of those fleece no-sew blankets. They're adorable, and seem easy: you just knot the fabric at the edges. So I looked at materials to make those and made a discovery: fleece is expensive. Well, it wouldn't be bad if my income were not drastically reduced right now, but it is, so that prohibited that experience. Any extra money right now needs to go to paying bills in advance, and getting baby stuff. That leaves me with books. Lots and lots of books.
And E. E does not get it, no matter how hard I try to explain. He wants his Mommy. The other day, they had some sort of skate party after school. I had no warning of it, whatsoever. We didn't even know where the skating rink was, but if I would have had notice, I could have planned ahead and sent him with J. I, obviously,cannot go. But I still tried. I found the rink, and tried to contact them to get info on when-where-how-etc. No answer. J was going to try to take him. Of course E made the raisin face, as we call it, where his eyes crinkle up and he really cries. He wanted not only to go, but for me to go with him. And yesterday he came home with one of those Scholastic book order forms, with an itemized list of what he wanted from it. This is sort of my fault. We have always had this little unwritten policy in the house: toys and video games come with a limit, as do dvd's. But books? If the kid wants books, he gets them. Books are good for you, are educational, and more. We don't limit books. But he wanted about $300 worth of books from this book order! I had to say no. I tried to explain that while mommy isn't working, we are on a tighter budget, and I may have to temporarily say no to some of the extras right now, but that it will not always be that way. That before he knows it, we will all be back to our old selves. He didn't buy it, and I think it was less about him understanding and more about my delivery. After all, I am starting to doubt if things will ever be back to normal. I doubt if I was very convincing. It breaks my heart not to be able to give him the things he wants, and this is made even worse by the fact that he just doesn't get it.
And J. Poor J. On two seperate occasions, I have had to call him home from school. We have one car, and they won't let me taxi him around, so he takes E to school in the morning then heads to his classes. So if my doctor or team of nurses see fit to send me somewhere, I have to either call him or call an ambulance. I'm not calling an ambulance. The result is that when they are overly cautious with me and send me to the hospital, J has to come home and take me. It makes me feel horrible. Then I try to talk myself out of feeling bad by rationalizing that this is his baby too. I have to deal with the pokes and prods, the needles and contractions and medications with their side effects. He can't be the one to do any of that. But he can be the one to have to take me where I need to go. I just know that if he fails a class, I will feel responsible. I shouldn't. He just has school. For years, I have juggled school, work, family with no problems. He should be able to handle school and driving me places. But this is me. I can't rationalize my way out of my feelings for some reason--I don't want to be a burden to anyone. And I have turned into nothing more than a burden.
Work--I shouldn't even care, but I have found myself being snubbed lately by coworkers. These are coworkers who, by the way, I have covered for on countless occasions. There was a period of time when we were so short-staffed at night that I would work as many as 7 12-hr. shifts in a week, not only to cover for people who were sick or out on leave, but also to pad the staffing so the ones who were there didn't have to work quite as hard. There was one period of time where we had three full-time night-shift therapists off on FMLA: one was sick and the other 2 had babies. I worked for them, and though I may have been grouchy and tired, I didn't complain. And I was in school full-time then, too. Now the tables have turned and I am the one out, and they won't even speak to me. Again, I shouldn't care, but I would be lying if I said I didn't. It makes me wonder how I am going to be treated when I return after all of this time off.
I guess I just feel a little alienated. J and E go to school all day, leaving me here with nothing but my thoughts. I'm bored and had my life virtually ripped out from under me. I'm under financial strain, when I am used to simply picking up extra shifts at work when money gets tight. That isn't an option now. Everything has changed, and I am feeling low, so these other issues feel a thousand times worse than they would have under normal circumstances. This, too, shall pass, I guess.


As economist John Williams of the website "Shadowstats.com" has observed, the payroll jobs reports issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) no longer make any logical or statistical sense. Ask yourself, do you believe that retailers responded to the very disappointing Christmas season by rushing out in January to hire 46,000 more retail clerks?
Whenever the price of gold in the futures market starts to rise, massive uncovered shorts are suddenly dumped on the market. As the shorts dramatically increase the supply of future contracts all at once, the supply overwhelms demand, and the price of gold is driven down despite the fact that the demand for gold in the physical market is strong.
Remember, the price of gold is determined in the futures market in which contracts are largely settled in cash and seldom in gold. The physical market is where gold bullion is purchased, not paper claims on gold for speculation.
On February 6, an attack on gold was coordinated with the announcement of the suspicious jobs report. The price of gold was hit hard with an avalanche of uncovered gold futures contracts dumped at the same time that the BLS released what can only be described as an incorrect employment report. The avalanche of paper contracts that were dumped onto the Commodity Exchange market (Comex)—both the trading floor and electronic trading computer system—took the price of gold down $39 in three hours, with most of the price hit occurring in the first 40 minutes after the jobs report was released.
The volume of contracts that traded after 8 a.m. on the Comex was unusually high for a Friday, running about 60% above Thursday's volume for the same time period. Such departures without cause from normal trading patterns are indicative of market manipulation, and Friday's price smash capped a week in which the price of gold was taken lower every day at 8:30 a.m. after the release of economic reports, most of which reflected a deteriorating condition of the U.S. economy.
Gold is a refuge in times of uncertainty.With yen, dollars and euros all being created at a faster rate than goods and services are being produced, with both stock and bond prices at bubble levels, gold is definitely an attractive refuge. Confidence in gold would pull money out of the rigged markets for financial instruments and make it more difficult to maintain the appearance that all is well. Attacking gold simultaneously with issuing a happy jobs report doubles the encouragement to remain invested in financial paper and to continue to hold the over-printed currencies.
The expectation is that more money will be printed. The prices of troubled sovereign debt have been bid unrealistically high because of expectations that quantitative easing by the European Central Bank will result in central bank purchases of the troubled sovereign debt.
In the U.S., auto loans worth more than 100% of the value of the car have been securitized and sold as investments. Borrowers whose trade-in value is less than their remaining loan can borrow more than the purchase price of the new car in order to pay off the old car loan. The lenders made their money on loan fees, but as defaults rise the securitized loans and associated derivatives will likely require a bailout like the securitized mortgages.
Paul Craig Roberts was assistant secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of The Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for BusinessWeek, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.


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Surpassing Henrik Larsson's Scottish top-flight total was of little consolation to Kris Boyd after Kilmarnock lost 4-1 to Dundee United.
The 30-year-old bettered the former Celtic striker's 174 total with United already 3-0 ahead at Rugby Park.
"It is a big goal personally," said Boyd. "But, at the end of the day, it is the team that matters and it's another disappointing result.
"You would have liked to have done it when you are winning the game."
Boyd had already broken Larsson's Scottish Premier League record of 158 goals when banging in five for Rangers in a 7-1 demolition of United back in 2009.
Now back at Kilmarnock, the striker recalled to the last Scotland squad has added eight in the new Scottish Premiership to surpass the Swede's total from the SPL and its predecessor, the Premier Division.
Boyd, who took 100 more games than Larsson's 221 appearances to reach the mark, admits that he will probably be able to look back on the goal with greater fondness once retired.
"It is another goal. But, in the end, we've been defeated again, which is disappointing after a great result last week," he said.
"But, on a personal level, you're paid as a striker to put the ball in the net and that's what "I've done. It was a good header."
By the time Boyd connected with a Jereon Tesselaar cross, United were already well on their way to matching the 5-2 margin of victory achieved against Kilmarnock a fortnight earlier in the Scottish Cup.
However, the striker believes that, once again, it was not a fair reflection of the play and that it could have been different result had Gabriel Reuben not been sent off after only 22 minutes.
The Nigeria midfielder was making only his third appearance since arriving at Rugby Park from Kano Pillars under previous manager Kenny Shiels.
He only made his debut after his agent publicly criticised present boss Allan Johnston and chairman Michael Johnston for not playing him.
Kilmarnock's team boss had responded by saying that Reuben had not proven himself worthy of even a place on the bench, only for the 23-year-old to impress sufficiently in his debut to retain his place for the next two games.
The jury will be back out again after he at first impressed against United with some cultured passing before a combination of clumsy and reckless tackling led to two yellow cards that will force him to sit out the next outing against Partick Thistle through suspension.
"The sending off kills the game, but the first 20-25 minutes we're well in the game," said Boyd.
"For the 10 players that were out there, it was a hard afternoon, especially against a team like Dundee United who like to get the ball down and spread it.
"Was it a sending off? Yes, probably, it was three fouls. Three fouls that got two bookings, so it is a red card by the rules."
Boyd could understand why some fans - there has been a campaign against the current regime - again voiced their anger, but he hoped the upcoming games against sides in the lower half of the table would give the team a chance to make amends.
"I think 4-1 flatters Dundee United again, but they are a top-six team and, right now, they are a million miles from us in terms of league position," he added.
"It is about the teams around about us and the next five or six games are massive for us if we are going to climb up this table."


Barrie, ON- The Ontario Hockey League in association with the Barrie Colts are pleased to announce today that Aaron Ekblad will be the first overall pick in the 2011 OHL Priority Selection, presented by State Farm.
Colts President Howie Campbell made the announcement at a press conference this afternoon in Barrie. The 2011 OHL Priority Selection is set for Saturday, May 7th beginning at 9:00 a.m.
Aaron will be a featured guest on the live 2011 OHL Priority Selection Draft Show, presented by State Farm. The draft show along with complete draft coverage is available at www.ontariohockeyleague.com.
On March 31, 2011, the Ontario Hockey Federation announced the results of the review by Hockey Canada in consideration of the application by the 15-year-old Ekblad, determining that the player is to be granted "exceptional player" making him the only 1996-born player eligible for the Priority Selection.
Ekblad becomes the first player since John Tavares in 2005 to be granted "exceptional player" status. Tavares was selected first overall by the Oshawa Generals and eventually became the first pick of the New York Islanders.
Ekblad, 15 years old from Belle River, is the 2011 Jack Ferguson Award winner as the player selected first overall in the OHL Priority Selection. He is just the second Colts player to ever win the award after Daniel Tkaczuk was picked first by Barrie back in 1995.
As a 14 year-old Ekblad led the Sun County Panthers to an ALLIANCE Championship title, and was named a First-Team All-Star at the 2010 All Ontario Bantam AAA Championships.
Last season Ekblad collected 34 points in 30 games played for Sun County before putting up 21 points in 18 post-season games.
Barrie Colts Head Scout and Director of Player Personnel Darrell Woodley is very happy to have Ekblad. "He's the complete package, a big defenceman who skates real well for a big guy. He's got great offensive skills and he's really committed to his own end, he's just an all-around type of defenceman, similar to a Chris Pronger type."
"He has very special qualities about him and he really is a great kid," said Colts Assistant General Manager Jason Ford. "He does so many things well-he really is everything you could ever want in a player."


The author evaluates the historical significance of the value of real estate in Montreal in the 1840s. Data constructed from notarial deeds indicates that property values in all parts of the city were high over the decade. An analysis of the importance of real estate investment by the author reveals that it was substantially more important for both capital accumulation and class formation within the city than was international trade. Prior to industrialisation, few working class and lower middle class families could afford the purchase of either a home or a workshop. He argues that property values and housing costs were so high relative to wages, they were a major reason contributing to the high levels of transience among the city's immigrant families and in part explains the rapid development of tenement housing in the wake of the city's great fire of 1852.
Sweeny, Robert C. H. "Land and People: Property Investment in Late Pre-Industrial Montreal." Urban History Review/Revue d'histoire urbaine Vol. 24, no. 1 (October 1995): 42–51.


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The Shenandoah Life Insurance Company is an insurance company based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.  Founded in 1916, the company operated until 2012 as a policyholder-owned mutual insurance company when it was sold to United Prosperity Life.  In 2012, the company was demutualized into a subsidiary of Prosperity Life Insurance Group, LLC.

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Shenandoah Life entered radio in 1940, when it signed on WSLS radio; the call letters stand for Shenandoah Life Station. An FM station followed in 1947.

The company launched Roanoke's first television station, WSLS-TV on Dec. 11, 1952. Shenandoah sold the station to Park Communications in 1959. Park sold off the radio stations, with the AM side becoming WSLC (now WPLY after several format changes) and the FM side becoming WSLQ.

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Police arrest suspect in connection with alleged murder-for-hire plot
Posted by The Argonaut | Dec 24, 2009 | News - Features, Santa Monica | 0 |
A 54-year-old Santa Monica man has been arrested by police for allegedly soliciting the murder of a former business associate.
Santa Monica police say they were able to foil the suspected murder plot and ensure the safety of the intended victim, who was not identified. Police investigators arrested Paul Harwood in his Ocean Park home at 11 a.m. Wednesday, December 16th in connection with the murder solicitation of his former business associate, Sgt. Jay Trisler said.
The two men had worked in a transportation business together that reportedly involved some lawsuits, Trisler said. The potential motive for the alleged murder-for-hire plot is under investigation.
Police received some information that led them to the suspect's home. Investigators served search warrants at Harwood's residence where they allegedly recovered evidence related to the plot as well a small amount of cocaine, Trisler said. No other suspects are currently being sought in this case.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has charged Harwood with two counts of solicitation for murder, one count of possession of cocaine and one count of manufacturing cocaine, Trisler said. Harwood is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, December 31st and his bail was set at $1 million.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact investigator Vince Gamache of the Special Operations Section at (310) 458-8455, Sgt. Robert Almada at (310) 458-8455, or the Santa Monica Police Department (24 hours) at (310) 458-8495.
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