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SYNOPSIS: Without proper accounting standards for corporate profits, options give management the incentive to pump and dump
"I would suggest to you that the single most important innovation shaping [America's] capital market was the idea of generally accepted accounting principles." So declared Lawrence Summers, then deputy secretary of the Treasury, in a 1998 speech. Mr. Summers urged troubled Asian economies, then in the middle of a disastrous financial crisis, to emulate American-style "transparency and disclosure."
Now America has its own problems with corporate accounting, exemplified by Enron. So will we follow our own advice? Will we provide investors with the facts they need to make informed decisions? Probably not. And that's bad news, because Enron's case, though extreme, was by no means unique.
For corporate America as a whole, 1997 was a watershed year. According to government statistics, overall corporate profits grew rapidly between 1992 and 1997, but then stalled; after-tax profits in the third quarter of 2000 were barely higher than they were three years earlier. But the operating earnings of the S.&P. 500 — that is, the profits companies reported to investors — grew 46 percent over those three years.
There are technical reasons that these measures of profits need not grow at exactly the same rate, but they have historically tracked each other fairly well. So why did they suddenly diverge? Surely the main reason was that after 1997 companies made increasingly aggressive use of accounting gimmicks to create the illusion of profit growth.
You see, corporate leaders were desperate to keep their stock prices rising, in an environment where anything short of 20 percent profit growth was considered failure. And why were they desperate? In a word: options. The bull market, combined with ever-more-generous options packages, led to an explosion of executive compensation. In 1980 chief executives at large companies, according to Business Week's estimates, earned 45 times as much as non-supervisory workers. By 1995, however, the ratio had risen to 160; by 1997, it had reached 305. C.E.O.'s wanted to keep the good times rolling, and they did: by 2000, though profits hadn't really increased, they were paid 458 times as much as ordinary workers.
The point here isn't that top executives are overpaid, though they surely are; it's that the way they are paid rewards them for creating the illusion of success, never mind the reality.
Still, that's exactly the kind of thing that accounting standards are supposed to prevent. What allowed our corporate emperors to hide their nakedness was a combination of poorly crafted standards, which I wrote about last week, and compliant auditors. Major accounting firms were all too happy to be deceived by corporate smoke and mirrors, as long as they got lucrative consulting contracts.
Time for reform? Not according to some people. Today the Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to take up a bill drafted by Paul Sarbanes, the committee's chairman, that would take some modest steps toward accounting and auditing reform. The bill has been endorsed by some of the most respected names in finance — people like Paul Volcker, the great former Fed chairman, and John Bogle, the famed investor. But Senator Phil Gramm, throwing his weight behind an all-out lobbying effort by the accounting industry, has made it clear that he will try to kill the bill.
I'd like to be nonpartisan here — really I would. And there are indeed Democrats who have gotten large contributions from accounting firms. But the current effort to prevent any meaningful accounting reform is explicitly a Republican initiative, one directed from the very top: The New York Times reports that Mr. Gramm is "working closely with the Bush administration" in his efforts to block the Sarbanes bill.
Let me repeat what I said last time: Honesty in corporate accounting isn't a left-right issue; it's about protecting all investors from exploitation by insiders. By blocking reform of a broken system, the Bush administration is favoring the interests of a tiny corporate oligarchy over those of everyone else.
One final thought: This isn't just a question of treating American investors fairly. Like the Asian nations before their crisis, the United States relies heavily on inflows of foreign capital, inflows that depend on international faith in the integrity of U.S. markets. The Bush administration may believe that investors have nowhere else to go, that the money will keep coming even if we don't reform. That's what Suharto thought, too.


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Billings trucking company looking for workers during driver shortage
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BILLINGS - The trucking industry has found a challenge finding drivers and one Billings company held a job fair to find people to help.
In nine years, this is the first time Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. in Billings has needed to hold a fair.
"There's been a bit of a truck driver shortage for a long time or at least been talking about truck driver shortages for a long time," said Michael Deneen, Old Dominion service center manager. "And COVID didn't help. Fortunately here at OD, we've been pretty solid on the hiring side. But I have seen the difference, you know, two years ago, where I would get 100 applicants when I have an opening, I only get 25 now. So yes, it's there. There's a significant difference."
Michael Deneen, Old Dominion Freight Line service center manager.
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Deneen said it's been a challenge to find qualified drivers.
"For whatever reason that might be, I mean, just less of them," he said. "And then everybody is trying to hire."
One applicant who did not want to do an interview, says Old Dominion is among the top companies for truck drivers
"From a driver standpoint it's a super neat job," Deneen said. "Get to see a lot of stuff and you're out there outside all the time. You're not, you know, trapped in an office. I enjoyed it when I was younger and did it. I would do it again. If I was younger I would take the same path."
Dineen talked about the trucking industry and the economy.
"Everything that you own a driver's touched somewhere along the line," Deneen said. "And we fill up all the stores all the warehouses, all the restaurants, all that food, clothing, all those products have to be trucked somewhere. Once COVID started, it's really been kind of a little bit of a roller coaster at the very beginning. Once the country really came back restocking everything and then trying to get all the goods from the manufacturer to the in-the-line users has been super challenging, and it's going to be a challenge for a while."

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June 1st isn't Groundhog day, but it certainly felt like it. On another awesome night of trivia, the same two teams that battle for the top spot week after week flexed their mental muscles and, once again, finished a step ahead of the competition. Yes, this has been happening week after week, and game after game. And, to some (mainly other teams), it may be getting old. To me, it just illustrates the incredible rivalry and level of competition we have at the World of Beer Arlington. So, congratulations to I'm Turning PLC (I Really Think So) and The Mouseaholics on their first and second place finishes in both trivia games. Your trivia dominance does not go unappreciated.
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The ethics of IdeaDinamica are expressed in every single work, but Il Tacco d'Italia (the Heel of Italy), directed by Marilù Mastrogiovanni, expresses its deepest essence.
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Pivot Your Way to a Better Life
Whether in love or your career, whether you control it or not, you'll probably pivot at least once in your life.
At some point during my third year of college, I started to suspect something wasn't right. The path I set out for myself for the prior six years wasn't quite satisfying me. A young man of many interests, the prospect of spending a lifetime focusing on being the best I could possibly be at one calling — teaching music — became unappealing.
Sure, teaching music is a wonderful path. The lasting impact teachers have on hundreds of lives is incomparable to most other roles and careers. I, however, felt strongly at that time that by following that typical career path and by putting as much of my life into my job as I expected would be necessary, I wouldn't have the kind of fulfillment I was looking for.
My first major pivot.
While in college, I pivoted my approach. After several attempts to fit a minor course of study into my schedule, I settled on a minor focused on nonprofit. It was a pivot that I now see as a good move because it helped shape the projects I take on today and gave me more paths towards living a life of doing important things.
The pivot is the key to not just success but survival. If you're a professional athlete, focus on sharpening your broadcast skills so you have an opportunity for a "second act" once you can no longer compete — especially if you aren't one of the few superstar athletes who could publish a memoir people would buy.
If you run a business, a pivot could be revolutionary. It's a fundamental change in the nature or strategy of the company. Nintendo is known for video games and gaming technology, but the company launched in the 19th century making vacuum cleaners and playing cards. The executives saw the birth of a trend very early on, and in 1966, turned to video games and never looked back.
It was a massively successful pivot.
There's nothing more pivotal than the life of a serial entrepreneur. Take one business to a certain point, exit that business through a sale or merger, and move onto the next project. In the same vein, I've seen people develop successful businesses, and once they've gone as far as they'd like to go, they've begun their next business selling other entrepreneurs on the ideas that led them to their initial success. "You, too, can be a success, just like me! I'll tell you how. Buy my e-book and take my online course!"
Adaptability is the key to a successful pivot.
Adaptability is one of the most important adult skills. If you're too set in your ways and not amenable to change, you can be guaranteed that life will pass you by, and if you're after happiness, it may prove to be elusive. You've got to be paying attention to today's trends, predicting the future, and have a keen awareness of your skills.
Tim Tebow's now a baseball player. A podcast company called Odeo became Twitter. Jessica Alba went from actor to entrepreneur — and if that's not a complete pivot, at least it's diversification.
Pivots in your personal life can be even more monumental. Moving out of a toxic relationship could be the best pivot for your long-term health and happiness. The list of famous relationship pivots is too long to include here.
Pivot successfully with five steps.
Here's how you can prepare for a successful pivot, and you can expect to have at least one major pivot in your life — more if you want to be as agile as possible, increasing your changes for success and happiness.
Are you ready to make a pivot in your life or career? These are five important steps.
1. Focus on being a generalist with as much enthusiasm as a specialist.
Take the time to explore your interests and learn about related areas. Although people no longer tend to work for the same company from the moment they can work to the moment they retire (or die), there still is a strong trend to stay in the same field. Often, a strong career requires a highly specialized degree, and that education takes a long time.
But a great education prepares students for adapting to the world, whatever it might bring. Use time in college to experiment with different paths, especially if you are talented in or passionate about a variety of fields. Gain experience working in areas you wouldn't normally consider. Practice solving problems of all types.
There's a danger when people become experts or become immersed in a narrow field. So many mortgage brokers — trained to be nothing more and without other marketable skills — found themselves out of work during the credit crunch period of the last recession.
Multi-faceted experience gives you a level of employability first of all, and beyond that, the potential to take your income into your own hands through building your own business, consulting, freelancing, or otherwise honing in on entrepreneurship.
2. Open your mind to new ideas.
It's possible you discover an important pivot by saying yes to interesting opportunities. While it's important not to distract yourself from the job you are doing, closing yourself off to signs that the world is changing around you will be disastrous.
Find interesting people — or anyone doing work in something that interests you — and ask questions. Get acquainted. Learn from them.
3. Guide yourself by a broad vision.
Corporate mission statements are often specific, and direct a company towards the type of work they do. Sometimes these mission statements change, but the overall vision remains the same.
Your vision should be broad. What kind of world do you want to live in? The answer to that can be your vision. And when you pivot, even if it's from one career path to another, it can still fit in with your vision of the future.
But don't feel bad if it doesn't. You're allowed to change your mind. You're allowed to follow a path that has no relation to the journey you started. That's an inherent benefit of being an adult.
4. Predict the future.
Easy right? It's not impossible. You don't have to be a fortune teller to get it right. You just have to pay attention to the little details, and have a good grasp on human behavior, using history as a guide.
Keep an eye on the world around you, because that's how you can learn to spot minute changes that signal the shape of the future. For example, not many people accurately predicted the latest economic recession with significant advance warning, but once the recession was apparent, it was relatively easy to figure out what some of the world's biggest concerns and trends were going to be in the coming years.
5. Plan your pivot as much as possible.
If you want to jump into the pool's deep end, you should probably know how to swim first. If you don't know how, you may struggle, and your basic need for survival may be the only force preventing you from drowning. Maybe.
Prepare with knowledge and practice, and your chance for survival increases. Reduce the risk of the pivot by doing research, talking to others who have made similar moves, and setting up your personal support system.
Your support system includes friends and family who want to see you succeed with the changes in your life. There will always be doubters, though. You may want to ignore them and remove negativity from your life, but that's not always the best idea. Even critics might have a perspective worth considering — not all, but some.
But you do need people who will cheer you on and provide moral support.
Create a timeline. And depending on whether you like the sink-or-swim challenge, either you give yourself no option but to keep trying until you succeed, or give yourself a back-up plan. Build that into your timeline, but don't be afraid to adjust or adapt — or pivot — as the needs arise.
Whether it's part of your plan or appearing by surprise, your life will include at least one pivot. Take control of your pivot with preparation and planning, and be ready to pivot at any moment. Look for the opportunities.
You never know what kind of success or happiness is out there if you move only in one direction and ignore your peripheral vision.
Pivot Your Way to a Better Life was last modified: January 13th, 2017 by Harlan L. Landes


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M-PESA Foundation to construct academy in Kiambu
We as government are happy to see these kinds of initiatives as they redefine our economic growth and provide new opportunities to the disadvantaged," said Deputy President William Ruto.
By KENNEDY KANGETHE, NAIROBI, Kenya, May 5 – The M-PESA Foundation is set to construct a state of the art, mixed boarding high school that will seek to provide a first class, unique education to gifted but economically disadvantaged children from all counties in Kenya.
The facility will boast first class sports, arts and cultural facilities, in addition to academic facilities and will include an indoor sports hall, a sports field, running track, swimming pools, squash courts, a music centre and a 500 seat auditorium.
The admission process kicks off from May to November targeting 80 students entering Form One in January 2016, with a progressive increment in subsequent years that will see the Academy take in up to 700 students over the next five years.
"The M-PESA Foundation has made some significant investments in existing educational institutions but investing in infrastructure alone is not a sustainable way of investing in education. We want to extend our impact by actively influencing the way that education is delivered," said Michael Joseph, M-PESA Foundation Chairman.
Beyond preparing students to excel in KCSE, the M-PESA Foundation Academy will redesign subjects taught so that they are delivered in diverse and excitable ways. It will equip the students with the skills and knowledge to seamlessly enter tertiary education or embark on their own business ventures.
"This investment by the M-PESA foundation, will rewrite the future of Corporate Social Investment. We as government are happy to see these kinds of initiatives as they redefine our economic growth and provide new opportunities to the disadvantaged," said Deputy President William Ruto.
The Foundation will continue to invest in large scale and transformative projects that have the power to impact Kenyan lives as it celebrates its fifth anniversary.
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Prior to becoming a professional filmmaker and actor, he was the keyboardist and lead singer in the three-piece rock band Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!
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Cowrote (with his brother, Jay) and starred in his feature-film debut, The Puffy Chair, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005 and went on to win a Feature Films Audience Award at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival.


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Made in Arts London is a not for profit enterprise originally founded by students, for students. Nested within Arts Students' Union at University of Arts London, Made in Arts London was established in 2012 by UAL students with funding from the National Union of Students. Initially designed as a sales platform for students to earn an income from their work while still studying, Made in Arts London now also provides crucial professional development, industry advice, networking and exposure for UAL students, giving them a vital foundation from which to enter the creative industry. UAL is Europe's largest arts education institution encompassing a huge range of creative courses over six colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. Our students and graduates are among the most respected in the world and Made in Arts London artists are already being collected by top art collectors worldwide.
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Updated: Apr 22, 2019 - 6:22 PM
Compiled with information from police, arrest warrants and witness statements (some times are approximate):
June 18, 8:30 a.m.: Ross Harris and his son, Cooper, leave the family's Marietta-area condo and head to Chick-fil-A for breakfast.
8:55 a.m.: After eating, Harris puts the 22-month-old into his rear-facing car seat in the middle of the backseat of his 2011 Hyundai Tucson. Harris then drives less than a mile to the "Treehouse" Home Depot office, where he works. His son's daycare center is not located here, but is instead about 2 miles away at corporate headquarters.
9 a.m.: Harris parks the SUV and goes in to work, leaving Cooper in the backseat.
Lunchtime: The exact time has not been specified. But while taking a break from work, Harris walks out to his SUV, opens the driver's side door and puts something inside. It's not known what he put in the vehicle and whether he had any contact with the child.
4:16 p.m.: Harris leaves his office, located at 2600 Cumberland Blvd., near Smyrna and Cumberland Mall. While driving from work to U.S. 41, Harris realizes his son is in medical distress, he later told police.
4:23 p.m.: After driving about a mile, Harris turns onto Akers Mill Road and makes a right turn into the parking lot of a shopping center. He then makes an abrupt right turn, stops the SUV and quickly gets out, leaving the driver's side door open as he gets his son out of the car.
4:24 p.m.: Witnesses at the shopping center watch as a frantic Harris tries to revive the boy, whose color is off and doesn't appear to be breathing. Harris is frantic and is screaming "What have I done? What have I done?" as bystanders start CPR on the boy, who is on the ground of the parking lot. Cooper's lifeless body is still in a sitting position, witnesses said. Police, already patrolling the area, and firefighters, arrive at the scene within seconds of a 911 call, believed to have been placed by Harris.
4:58 p.m.: Cobb County police spokesman Officer Mike Bowman confirms the toddler has been pronounced dead. A crowd has gathered on the sidewalks of the shopping center. Harris, police later confirm, is now in handcuffs and in the back of a patrol car because he refuses to cooperate with officers. The SUV and child's body are soon part of a crime scene investigation, and Harris is driven away.
5:45 p.m.: Just steps away from the little boy's body, Sgt. Dana Pierce tells reporters Harris told police he went to work, worked 7 hours, then left work and realized he had forgotten to take the child to daycare. Harris is taken to police headquarters for questioning, Pierce said.
10 p.m.: Harris is arrested and charged with murder. He is booked into the Cobb County jail.
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And that woman owner, of whom the Master's servant spoke, consequently stepped into the office of the Master.
"Yes, Master, I have," the woman owner said in a, by now, provocatively submissive tone.
The Master seemed to have noticed the great lengths to which the woman owner went in pleasing him; and he equally seemed immensely displeased with it.
"Bring it in then," the Master said in amplified overtures of impatience.
"Yes, Master," the woman owner said as he hurried off to the door of the Master's office to open it for what he said he'd brought to come in.
And what he said he'd brought, by direct order of the Master, was a moderately long line of fine women who were now entering the office of the Master silently, meekly and, without exception, with their heads plunged down into the moving shadow they cast onto the floor.
They were, also without exception, naked and kept in a pristine state of natural beauty. None had any make up on and none had shaven any part of their bodies before they were brought into the office of the Master.
Their armpits showed the vast irregularity of hair types that can be preserved only in this pristine state of natural beauty in which they had been kept for today's meeting with the Master.
Their thighs, too, hid an equally grand variety of pubic hair, which only the world of biology can naturally produce.
The Master saw this, as he looked at them upon their forming a moderately long line of fine flesh in front of him, and liked it tremendously. He even expressed his untamed content with the woman owner by blinking at him with a profound lack of chastity.
Then, the Master inspected each of these fine women, who had been keeping their heads plunged down into their prefixed shadow for fear they should know what the Master looked like, and finally chose from their moderately long line the one seemingly exhibiting the strongest inclination for all the types of natural body hair currently in existence.
When he had examined her thoroughly, he smiled pleasingly that his choice was, by far, the hairiest he'd ever seen.
The Master, pleased with the work of the woman owner, amiably dismissed him. With this peculiar tradesman gone, he returned to his chair at his desk and sank into it almost tired and distracted.
Now comfortably seated in his chair at his desk, the Master looked at the naked woman, who was still keeping her eyes hidden in the shadow born of the plunging down of her head into it lest she be revealed his true appearance, and secretly admired the pristine state of her natural beauty.
Then, he authoritatively cleared his throat and equally authoritatively told her to approach him. She obeyed him without hesitation and without any apparent revulsion to what she knew she was about to do.
It was only when she was within his reach that she raised her head and dared to look at the Master. It was only when she saw what the Master looked like that she began to feel more comfortable in such immediate proximity to the Master.
Then, the Master, happy with her general attitude, increased his theatrical authoritarianism and bellowed at her, in a neatly over-masculine tone, to kneel down in front of him and keep her head up and with much muscular tension in her neck. She, again, obeyed him without any sign of either hesitation or revulsion.
She had been staying in this half upright, half stooping position for quite a while when the Master finally showed his intentions for her. His plan was however unexpectedly simple.
"Now I want you to look into the floor again," the Master said.
"Yes, Master," she said while quickly reverting to the silent and meek posture she had when the woman owner brought her in.
"And now," the Master went on with his plan, "I want you to open your lips and loll your tongue out, but only slightly so," the Master warned her not to overdo any of his requests.
She barely lifted one lip off the natural wetness of the other; and through this imperceptible crack in the carnality of her lips she barely slipped the tip of her tongue out.
Then, with her head still plunged down into a shadow that wouldn't move with it any more, she lost all mobility and got stuck in this almost unnatural position.
She said nothing as she could say nothing while being under the Master's orders to say still, but she somehow managed to vibrate a full and glorious "Yes, Master" from all her being.
The Master saw this very high level of her participation in his fancies, and liked it tremendously.
Then, the Master leaned forward over to her face, which was assembled according to his instructions, and without hesitation or repulsion, he stuck his manly tongue out of his mouth and began, vigorously, rapturously, to moisten, in circular movements, the already drying tip of her tongue.
He was moaning in grotesque and baritone modulations and he was licking the slightly cracked roundness of her lips with the velocious ferocity of a masturbating dog.
She, too, was moaning and she, too, was licking in perfect accord with the Master and as a means by which she hoped she would sufficiently mask her inward, ever more convulsing, giggles.
"Now I want you to get up from your knees and lower your head exactly as you held it when you came in and resume the natural countenance of your face," the Master said when he had felt overwhelmingly bored with this.
"Yes, Master," she said out of his fancy-resulting saliva pool that had flooded and consequentially blocked every word she struggled to utter.
"Yes, Master," she bubbled from the transparent depths of the saliva pool that thought her lips were the mountainous shores it will be eating away at in the following fleeting aeons.
When the naked woman had gone out of the Master's office, the Master sank immensely into his chair at his desk; and immensely began reënacting both the lower and the upper lip; and the tip of the tongue tightly held in their midst.


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With just six days left in the regular season, it's getting tough to not look ahead to the playoffs. So today, let's do exactly that, with a ranking of the 10 best realistic first-round matchups that we could be on the verge of seeing.
Of course, your definition of "realistic" might vary, but let's draw a line in the sand at 10 per cent (based on the odds as calculated by Sports Club Stats). That means that some matchups won't make the cut, even if they're still technically possible and would be completely amazing. And yes, I'm talking about the Islanders and Rangers. Look, I'm still not over the way that all fell apart on us over the last few weeks.
Just give me a minute.
For the rest of the candidates, we'll be considering a variety of factors. We'll of course be looking for great hockey between two elite teams. A compelling storyline or two always helps. And any sort of rivalry or bad blood, recent or long-term, is a major bonus.
Granted, if you're a fan of a team headed to the post-season (hello, Americans!), you'd probably just prefer the easiest matchup possible and be done with it. But for the rest of us, here are the 10 best matchups to root for over the season's final week.
10. Detroit Red Wings vs. Tampa Bay Lightning – 38.2%
Contender status: Up until a few days ago, the Lightning looked like an Eastern favourite, but injuries to Steven Stamkos and Anton Stralman have devastated those expectations. Meanwhile, the Red Wings have their hands full just making it to the post-season.
Potential storylines: Can a team that went all the way to the final last year be considered a scrappy underdog this time around? Given the Lightning's injuries, they might have to be. Meanwhile, the Wings would have the sentimental story of trying to make a run in what could be Pavel Datsyuk's last season.
Rivalry factor: The two teams faced each other for the first time last year, in what turned out to be an excellent series in which the Wings nearly pulled off the upset. As an added bonus, there's always the Steve Yzerman factor.
Bottom line: It would be a matchup between two teams that a lot of us are writing off this week, one of which would be moving on to the division final.
Random clip to get you fired up: Niklas Kronwall launches himself at Nikita Kucherov, earning the suspension that kept him out of last year's Game 7.
9. Boston Bruins vs. Florida Panthers – 11.8%
Contender status: Um… well… anything can happen in the playoffs, right?
Potential storylines: Both teams have more likely matchups – the Panthers are at 43.9 per cent to face the Islanders, while the Bruins would be 38.9 per cent to get the Lightning. But we'll pair them together here because we want to get them both out of the way of some intriguing storylines. There's the Shawn Thornton factor, as the veteran enforcer faces the team he won a Cup with five years ago. Jaromir Jagr is a former Bruin, although that's not all that exciting because at this point he's a former almost-everyone. And maybe most intriguing, you get Roberto Luongo's rematch with the Bruins from the 2011 final.
Rivalry factor: Minimal, although there was some minor bad blood in a game a few weeks ago. They also met back in the 1996 playoffs, making the Bruins the only team the Panthers have ever beaten in the opening round.
Bottom line: Whoever they play, the Panthers are looking like a fun bandwagon team. Matching them up against a team that embraces the villain role as effortlessly as the Bruins would be a perfect fit.
Random clip to get you fired up: Can you feel that, Bruins? Can you feel it coming in the air tonight?
8. New York Islanders vs. Pittsburgh Penguins – 26.1%
Contender status: The Penguins have gone from early-season disappointment to one of the league's best second-half teams, and should get even better once Evgeni Malkin returns. The Islanders are sputtering, and don't even technically have their spot locked up quite yet.
Potential storylines: Take your pick. Both teams are racked with injuries. It would be the first playoff action in the Barclays Center, so we'd hear plenty about crowd noise and bad ice. And after six years behind the Islanders' bench, Jack Capuano could be coaching to save his job.
Rivalry factor: Plenty. As long-time division rivals, they have a playoff history dating back over four decades, including a surprisingly tight series in 2013. And of course, we also had all that nonsense from a few years ago.
Bottom line: The Islanders draw a tough matchup while trying to win their first playoff series in 23 years. Speaking of which…
Random clip to get you fired up: What else could it be? David Freaking Volek.
7. Minnesota Wild vs. Dallas Stars – 80.9%
Contender status: The Wild have struggled through a disappointing season, although they've been better since their February coaching change. The Stars are the most exciting team in the league, but questions linger over whether they have the goaltending to be considered true contenders.
Potential storylines: Wow, the high-powered Stars were dominating but Devan Dubnyk stood on his head and stole the series, who could have seen that coming? (Every Dallas Stars fan is nodding grimly right now.)
Rivalry factor: The two teams have never met in the post-season, but there's certainly some history here: The Stars used to be the North Stars, before abandoning Minnesota for Dallas in 1993.
Bottom line: This feels like a bit of karmic payback brewing, even if the two teams did declare that weird truce at the outdoor alumni game.
Random clip to get you fired up: Relive the magic of the underdog (North) Stars' stunning 1991 run in the delightfully tacky "Shining Stars".
6. New York Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins – 72.5%
Contender status: Strong. We've covered the Pens already. And while the Rangers have often looked like a flawed team, this is essentially the same core that's been to the conference final three times in four years, and they've still got Henrik Lundqvist.
Potential storylines: We don't yet know how long Marc-Andre Fleury's latest concussion will sideline him for. But if he's not ready to go for Game 1, we'd get a goaltending matchup pitting a five-time Vezina finalist against a rookie with barely a dozen NHL games under his belt in Matt Murray.
Rivalry factor: Excellent. This would be the third straight season that the two teams have met with the Rangers ending the Penguins' season in each of the previous years.
Bottom line: The Rangers' window has felt like it was closing for a while now, and Penguins seem like the sort of team that could finally slam it shut. But that goaltending matchup…
Random clip to get you fired up: Lundqvist and Sidney Crosby go nose-to-nose in 2010.
5. Chicago Blackhawks vs. Dallas Stars – 17.1%
Contender status: We've covered the Stars already and we'll get to the Blackhawks a little further down the list, but suffice it to say, it's high.
Potential storylines: Hey, remember when the salary cap forced the Blackhawks to trade one key veteran off of last year's Cup roster and watch another depart via free agency? Where'd those guys wind up again?
Rivalry factor: Partly due to the Stars' long stopover in the Pacific, the two teams have never met in the playoffs before. The regular-season meetings are usually feisty, though.
Bottom line: The series would feature two excellent teams that play very different styles. Can those styles win in the playoffs? We know one team's answer.
Random clip to get you fired up: An emotional Patrick Sharp watches as Hawks fans welcome him back to Chicago. (Don't expect the same treatment in April, Patty.)
4. Philadelphia Flyers vs. Washington Capitals – 60.2%
Contender status: The Caps have run away with the Presidents' Trophy, and will go into the playoffs as the prohibitive favourite to come out of the Eastern Conference. The Flyers have been a nice late-season story, but the standings say they won't have much of a chance here.
Potential storylines: Hey, we all love a good David versus Goliath story, right? And that's especially true if Goliath has a decades-long history of crushing playoff disappointments. As an added bonus, the Capitals' reputation for squandering big series leads means this one would bear watching right up until the final horn.
Rivalry factor: The two teams have been division rivals forever, including plenty of nasty moments in the 80s and 90s. They've met in the playoffs four times, most recently in a classic in 2008 that ended with Game 7 overtime. There's been plenty of bad blood over the past few years, including the Ray Emery/Braden Holtby incident. More recently, last week's matchup in Philadelphia was big kid hockey at its finest.
Bottom line: On paper, this would be a dominant favourite taking the first step on a long playoff journey against a team that should just be happy to be there. Don't count on it playing out that way.
Random clip to get you fired up: Future Flyers coach Craig Berube runs Don Beaupre in 1991, and eats a blocker for his trouble.
3. San Jose Sharks vs. Anaheim Ducks – 54.2%
Contender status: Higher than you might think. The Ducks' credentials have been well-established ever since they shook off a brutal start to emerge as one of the league's best teams. But the Sharks are a sneaky pick in their own right.
Potential storylines: We can't talk about the Sharks in the post-season without bringing up all those years of playoff disappointment for Joe Thornton and Co. Here, they'd be facing a team that already has one cap-era Cup to its credit and is built for another.
Rivalry factor: They've only met once in the playoffs, back in 2009 when the eighth-seeded Ducks shocked the Presidents' Trophy-winning Sharks in the opening round. But the regular season has featured plenty of nastiness as part of the three-team California rivalry that ranks as one of the league's best.
Bottom line: There's no doubt the Sharks would be underdogs. Then again, maybe that's what they've needed to be all along.
Random clip to get you fired up: Thornton and Ryan Getzlaf go right off the draw to open Game 6 of that 2009 series.
2. San Jose Sharks vs. Los Angeles Kings – 45.8%
Contender status: The Kings have been pretty good over the years. Pretty sure I read that somewhere.
Potential storylines: You'd get all the Sharks' baggage from the Ducks entry up above, with the extra weight of their devastating 2014 collapse against the Kings introduced. But don't overlook the goaltending battle, as Martin Jones faces the team that traded him away last summer. Or does he? With James Reimer in town, the Sharks look like a team that hasn't completely settled on one guy.
(As a side note, apologies to the Predators, who'll almost certainly get whichever of the Ducks and Kings don't face the Sharks and who are the only playoff team who didn't make this list anywhere. It's no knock on Nashville, a fun team in their own right that could absolutely make some noise. They just have the bad luck of being in the way of the Battle of California.)
Rivalry factor: They've faced each other three times since 2011, including a pair of seven-game battles that were both won by the Kings. Their meetings are usually heated, and this year's Logan Couture/Milan Lucic dust-up only added to that.
Bottom line: The Kings are two-time champs. But both times, they've done it after entering the playoffs with underdog status, which won't be the case here. How do they like being the hunted instead of the hunter?
Random clip to get you fired up: We've harped on the Sharks' playoff failures enough for now. Here's Thornton's all-but-forgotten OT winner from the 2011 series.
1. Chicago Blackhawks vs. St. Louis Blues – 82.1%
Contender status: The Blackhawks are the defending champs. The Blues are tied for the second-best record in the league. Yep, I'd say this one checks out.
Potential storylines: In one corner, you've got the closest thing the NHL has to a dynasty. The Hawks look vulnerable, battered by injuries and suspensions as they wobble towards a less-than-impressive finish. But they've been counted out before only to find a way. (And when that happens, sources tell me, their fans never let you forget it).
In the other corner, you've got a Blues team that's been a regular season powerhouse for five years but just can't seem to get over that playoff hump. This feels like a do-or-die season in St. Louis, one that could see everyone from Ken Hitchcock to the roster's core to the Zamboni driver on the hot seat with a loss.
Rivalry factor: A total of 11 lifetime playoff matchups, most recently in 2014. Toews versus Backes. The Sutter Brothers. The Norris Division. The St. Patrick's Day Massacre. Other than that, no, not much.
Bottom line: The road to the Stanley Cup goes through Chicago, and the champs are on the ropes. But do the Blues really have what it takes to finish them off?
Random clip to get you fired up: Jonathan Toews' gut-wrenching road winner in Game 5 of the 2014 meeting, one of four sudden death games in that series.


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Nikita Khrushchev
In 1951, Soviet pioneer Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States for a gathering with President Eisenhower. During his visit, he went to Hollywood and visited the twentieth Century Fox studio and met with a couple of well known on-screen characters. Issue started when Spyros Skouras, the leader of twentieth Century Fox and an enemy of socialist, said that Los Angeles was not keen on covering anybody yet would do as such on the off chance that it ended up vital.
Khrushchev in 1963
The announcement was made because of Nikita's notable proclamation about the Soviet Union covering private enterprise. Nikita lost his temper, saying that Spyros' announcement was an American endeavor to affront and criticism him. The feature of Nikita's visit came when US government authorities educated him that he would not be permitted to visit Disneyland in light of the fact that the group there represented a security danger to him. Nikita was offended about the clear absence of security, saying, "What do you have there—rocket take off platforms?
Is there a cholera pestilence down there? Have criminals assumed responsibility for the spot? Your police are sufficiently able to lift up a bull; doubtlessly they are sufficiently able to deal with criminals?" Unknown to him, the Los Angeles Police Department had a 73-page leaflet specifying only how to keep him verified during his stay in the US.
Conrad Schumann
Conrad Schumann was an East German cop who wound up prominent for hopping the Berlin fence and getting away into West Germany. Conrad was guarding the Berlin Wall—which was then only security fencing—on 15 August, 1961, when he surrendered. A horde of West Germans had been calling him, yelling: "Komm' ruber," signifying "come over."
Konrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on 15 August 1961.
After much thought, he discarded the cigarette he had been smoking and kept running toward the fence, purposely dropping his firearm as he jumped over. He at that point bounced into a West German police vehicle which promptly drove him away.Conrad's story and photo would fill in as a wellspring of publicity for West Germany. More than 2,100 East German troopers and cops later pursued his means, deserting when they had the chance.
The West Germans weren't generally inspired by Conrad himself. Rather, they were worried about the data they could get from him. He was allegedly "pressed like a lemon" by his West German cross examiners.
1988 Black Sea Incident
In 1988, United States cruiser USS Yorktown and a destroyer, USS Caron, cruised into Russian waters in Crimea. They were before long caught by two littler Russian frigates—Bezzavetnny and SKR-6, which requested them out of Soviet waters. The US boats would not leave, guaranteeing that they were in universal waters, and they kept cruising toward Crimea.
Soviet frigate Bezzavetny (right) bumping USS Yorktown
The Soviet Union asserted responsibility for 19 kilometers (12 mi) from its coast, while the United States perceived 5 kilometers (3 mi). The Soviet boats would not like to shoot rockets at the American boats, so they did the best thing they could do in that circumstance: They smashed into the ships. Bezzavetnny slammed into the USS Yorktown (presented above), hitting it on its port side and harming its spear launcher, helipad, and guardrails. SKR-6 additionally hit USS Caron on the port side, harming its body.
Two Soviet-worked MI-26 helicopters were likewise flying over the US ships, keeping two US helicopters from taking off. Every one of the four boats were harmed in the occurrence, in spite of the fact that there were no losses.
Oleg Penkovsky
Colonel Oleg Penkovsky was a top-positioning official in the Soviet Intelligence Services (GRU) who served as a government agent for the United States and Britain. It was Oleg who educated the United States about the nearness of Soviet atomic rockets in Cuba.
Photograph of Col. Penkovsky
He likewise gave the US itemized data about the Cuban dispatch destinations. He is credited with changing the course of the Cold War since he educated John Kennedy about the atomic warheads three days before they turned out to be completely utilitarian, giving Kennedy sufficient opportunity to make a move. He likewise educated the US that their atomic and rocket frameworks were better than those of the Soviet Union. Oleg spied for the United States and Britain since he felt that he was regularly insulted by other Soviet officials because of the way that his dad had upheld the dictator during the Russian Civil War.
He was captured by the Soviet KGB on October 22, 1962, and was condemned to death after a profoundly advanced preliminary. He was executed in May 1963.
Operation Able Archer 83
In November 1983, the United States and a few of its partners propelled Operation Able Archer, a war game. Despite the fact that the activity was a guiltless move by the Allies, it nearly made the Soviet Union dispatch atomic rockets at the US.
The US Pershing II missile
The activity included 40,000 NATO troops and a mimicked atomic assault on Finland, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Norway under the misrepresentation that they had been assaulted by Warsaw Pact nations. A few top US military officials and figures including the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the VP, and the president himself took vital jobs in the activity, which caused the Soviets to accept that it was a genuine attack.In reaction to the potential assaults, the Soviet Union furnished a few of their military air ship in East Germany and Poland with atomic warheads.
They likewise prepared a few rockets for propelling and sent their atomic equipped submarines to the Arctic district with the goal that they would not be assaulted by Allied powers. NATO watched every one of the arrangements made by the Soviet Union, however they thought the Soviet Union was likewise playing war games.
Checkpoint Charlie Standoff
Beside the Cuban rocket emergency, the nearest the US and Soviet Union came to beginning World War III was on October 27, 1961, when US and Soviet tanks confronted each other in Berlin, Germany. After World War II, the Soviet Union, UK, US, and France separated Germany into four districts, each constrained by one of the four nations. Berlin, which fell under the area constrained by the Soviet Union, was likewise partitioned into four districts, every one of which was additionally constrained by one of the four nations.
US M48 Patton tanks facing Soviet T-55 tanks at Checkpoint Charlie in October 1961.
After the Allies repelled endeavors by the Soviet Union to assemble the Berlin divider, Soviet and East German soldiers started denying Allied ambassadors access to Berlin. Issue started on October 22, 1961, when East German fighters prevented a US ambassador from going into Berlin. US general Lucius Clay at that point requested that the following US negotiator going into Berlin must do as such with a military escort. The following representative went through Checkpoint Charlie into Berlin with military escorts, in spite of the fact that the East German officers demonstrated some peaceful opposition.
General Clay at that point requested the organization of tanks at the checkpoint.Ten US M48A1 tanks and three M59 reinforced vehicles were sent to the checkpoint and were before long joined by Soviet tanks. Tanks from the two sides stayed like this for the following 16 hours with their firearms went for one another. The Soviets later pulled back one of their tanks, and the US did likewise. This proceeded until every one of the tanks left the checkpoint.
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NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM AUGUST 11 2016
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This symbolic gesturing by the wife of the Japanese PM also coincided with another event happened in Japan, in a recent televised address to the nation Akihito hinted at his possible abdication.The rare and unusual move by the Japanese monarch also came right after a hard-liner Japanese politician Yuriko Koike's recent replacement to moderate Yoichi Masuzoe as new governor of Tokyo early this month, Yuriko is a big proponent of close U.S-Japan ties and an advocate for Japan to acquire nuclear weapons.
Last month's arbitration on South China Sea in the Hague ruling overwhelmingly favored the Philippines against Chinese claims, Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop then later Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were among the first top politicians to claim the ruling as "final", "legally binding" and "in accord with international laws", the event has been widely interpreted by mainstream media in the West as a triumph of "global effort" to curb "Chinese aggression" in SCS, despite the fact the UN published a short article shortly after the ruling on its Chinese website stating the so called "Hague Court" is actually not part of the UN or any other international organizations. China knows better, which is why it has been calling the entire fiasco as a "farce" from the begining.
Tough the vocal Australian foreign minister whom grouped with U.S. secretary of state John Kerry and Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida to posture a unified stance on SCS against China during the recent Summit in Laos, she was also been caught holding foreign minister Wang Yi's hand as well as chattering with him at the dining table since she just happened to be sitting next to the Chinese FM, and when opposition defense sporksperson Stephen Conroy urged Australia to send naval and air forces to conduct "freedom of navigation" exercises along their American allies in light of recent Hague ruling, he was critisized by the FM as "highly irresponsible".
Signs of lack of cohesion among U.S. allies in the region occuring not only in Japan and Australia, but in the Philippines as well. Even more troublesome for the Americans is the new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte who has expressed willingness to mend ties with China on SCS issue even before the "Hague Court" ruled against China, as Duterte dispatched Fidel Ramos as his special envy to Hong Kong in a bid to mend ties with China last week, the former Philippine president was also instrumental in helping Arroyo ascending to the top office during whose presidency Philippines and China witnessed an improvement of their bilateral relations, which ensured a relatively speaking peaceful situation in the disputed SCS as the two sides agreed to share resources (worth noting is the fact a similar proposal was offered to the Japan by China during the same period in regard to disputes in the "East China Sea") before Arroyo was arrested on corruption charges back in 2010, after which the replacement Benigno Aquino III's administration saw a reversal to Philippine's relation with China and increased escalations in the SCS. Duterte has vowed to pardon Arroyo even before he was elected president, and on July 19th, only a week after the infamous "Hague ruling" against China, Philippines Supreme Court dismissed the case against former president Arroyo, then three weeks later, Ramos was in Hong Kong meeting with top Chinese diplomat Fu Ying, meanwhile, Duterte has twice accused U.S. ambassador Philip Goldberg of "meddling in Philippines affairs" and twice called him "son of a bitch".
The recent humiliating diplomatic defeat in the Philippines, a country they are bidding on to spark a military confrontation which would not only involve the Japanese but potentially lead to WW3 as blatantly 'warned' by George Soros last year seem to have blowed up in their faces. Just as the background behind SCS theatre is drastically changing, from that of potential "war" to "peace", potential trouble quitely looms over the "East China Sea" at the same time.
Yuriko Koike, newly-elected governor of Tokyo, is a member of the Nippon Kaigi/"Japan Conference", an "ultra-right" and "nationalist" faction wielding a great deal of influence over Japan's conservative government. Shintaro Ishihara, another "governor of Tokyo", who is also affiliated with the Nippon Kaigi and sharing similar views with that of Yuriko(also a proponent for Japan to develop nuclear weapons), played instrumental role in damaging Japan-China relation when he launched his campaign of "purchasing Senkaku/Diaoyu islands" under Tokyo city's name back in 2012, which violated mutual understandings reached between Japan and China for "cooperation in the East Sea", which both sides agreed to set the issue of Senkaku island aside and not making any unilateral provocations. And when Ishihara stated his desire to 'purchase' Senkaku islands he just happened to be in "Washington".
It seems someone is trying to stir trouble in the "East China Sea" even as the "South China Sea" fiasco is fizzling, given the 'post-war' Japanese monarchy's efforts at mending ties with China, one could not exclude the possibility Akihito's recent televised address was aimed at sending a "message" to Shinzo Abe, and his wife's subsequent Okinawa trip, Abe's "response"? Or, given that both highly symbolic events happened on the same day, were they actually "coordinated-effort"?
in any case, the overall geopolitical pattern seem to be American allies in the region are all internally fractured, these nations all seem to have been caught between the U.S. and China's intrigues and rivalry, and its precisely the plot theme in "The Secret City" starring "Fringe"s Australian actress Anna Torv, a new Australian TV series.
there is a 2013 Japanese film called "Human Trust" worth of mentioning, according to that film, the looted wealth of Asia in the form of gold bullions during WW2 was shared with America after the war, the two sides have been jointly operating a special Fund which gives them the power to control world economy for decades, until a Japanese renegade decided to use the Fund to help mankind at large instead of serving just few shadowy elites interests before he was stopped short and arrested by CIA agents. At the begining of the film, it subtly hinted at a certain connection between this special "Fund" and Japan's post-war miraculous economic recovery, the scandal of Lockheed Martin bribing Japanese Prime Minister, Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008, and "Fukushima disaster" in 2011, another tentative evidence that someone in Japan want to "divorce"?
"Or, given that both highly symbolic events happened on the same day, were they actually "coordinated-effort"?"
correction, Akie Abe visited Okinawa on August 6, still, Akihito and Abe are the ones worth paying attention to.
Emperor Akihito's intention of visiting China prior to "Fukushima disaster" back in 2011 would have potentially put Japan-China relationship on a different track, but even Akihito went ahead with the trip it wouldn't have been the first time for him since he already visited China back in 1992, where he used phrase like "deeply pained" when making reference to WW2 history, which may be seen as an "apology", but whats really worth pondering is the fact Akihito was not the first "post-war" Japanese monarch "interested in mending ties with China"
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back in 1978, after the "Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China" was formally signed in Beijing in August, then vice premier Deng Xiaoping paid a visit to Japan in October where he was greeted by Emperor Hirohito in the imperial palace, Deng told Hirohito, "the significance of this Treaty may prove to be beyond our expectations, what happened is in the past, we should focus on the future, to build a peaceful and friendly relationship between our two countries".
thats when Hirohito did something "odd", he did not simply follow a short speech script provided by the Japanese foreign ministry as usually he would, as he responded to Deng in an unusually casual manner "during the long history of the two nations, although there were unfortunate things happened, but just like you said, thats in the past. The two nations have signed the Treaty now, this is really a good thing. From now on, let peace and friendship between the two nations last forever."
Hirohito also expressed his desire to visit China to visiting Chinese delegations on number of occasions, in fact, even before the signing of the "Peace Treaty" in 1978, three years after Japan normalized relationship with China in 1972 (which happened the very next year after the PRC's historic returning to the UN in 1971) as the two countries were discussing on the creation of a "Peace Treaty", emperor Hirohito had for the first time, expressed his willingness to visit China during an interview with 'Time' magazine in 1975, when asked on the possibility of paying China a visit, Hirohito said "if the Peace Treaty is signed, to have the opportunity to visit China for me will be very pleasing, but this is a decision for the Japanese government to make."
Intriguing as it may be, Emperor Akihito was not the first "post-war" Japanese emperor who wanted to 'mend ties with China" by visiting the country, this often neglected(especially by the Western as well as Chinese medias) "Japanese tradition' can actually be traced back to the 70s, and to the very Japanese monarch who was actually responsible for the "unfortunate things" that happened during WW2 in the first place.
But given the amount of 'brainwashing' in the mainstream media(both Western and Chinese), when it comes to Sino-Japanese relations, the automatic assumption seem to be "Japan kicked China's ass", and thats all Japan is worth for when it comes to the history and relation between the two nations, but may be its actually 'more than meets the eyes.'
Okinawans who own the land measured in tsubos, are paid handsomely in rent by the DoD.
Someone's family I know well has been receiving $16,000.00 a month rent for the use of some of their land.
It is a very laid back place as opposed to the rest of Japan. There is also an awareness that much of the economy would tank when and if the US leaves the bases and facilities. As it is the young people have little to look forward to even compared to our own millenials!
Sakhalin pipeline project (2013 link with map):
http://www.2b1stconsulting.com/rosneft-and-exxonmobil-to-team-up-on-15-billion-sakhalin-lng-project/
DownunderET says:
The continuous amount of rapes by US military personal is something the Japanese will not tolerate. In one sense, the US military cannot seem to talk to their troops and tell them rape is wrong. No wonder the Japanese don't want that US base there, and I think the day will come when the front pages will read "Yankee go home".
Kahlypso says:
Rape is a part of War. Anonymous unaccountability and a big gun in the hands gives a certain feeling of enpowerment.
That it's hapepning in japan, shows more of a comment on the type of people they are letting into the army.
The Russians aren't stupid and would like to unload the Kuril Islands for long time. But this ongoing Okinawa base problem is giving them a nice excuse to be a referee in any Sino-Russian-Nippon settlement of their differences. As for the CSA it's continuing to dig it's own grave politically as usual. As for the Japanese PM wife if you believe that story there a bridge in Brooklyn that's for sale.
Pellevoisin says:
Russia plus Japan as a counterbalance to PRChina is the one to watch.
Russia has something in mind that I do not think is completely clear yet with regard to the disputed islands … I have a mild suspicion that Russia will propose to Japan that they will recognise Japan's rights with regard to the disputed islands claimed by the PRChina provided that the Japanese cede Russian-occupied Sakhalin Is. to the Russians and some of the minor islands return to Japan.


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About the most complicated thing is "cached positions", and even those are quite straightforward. So what's that all about?
A cached position is what the API returns when you don't need a live, "this is where the user is right now", position. Geo-lookups can be time-consuming, so sometimes you might opt for a slightly stale location instead of making the user wait for a lookup. You might also be helping the user to reduce battery life or bandwidth consumption.
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This week: María de la O Garrido.
It is collage in every sense. Juxtaposition not only of mediums (photography, sculpture, video) and materials (anything!) but of ideas too. I normally work with something that it's not working well in my life, in the world, the system, anywhere and explore critically the event, its causes and consequences. Then I transform my conclusions into sculptural installations. I try to laugh at it, I mean that I try not to be a victim of the chaos but fight it with laugh, I can say things and that is power.
I've been thinking about it and arrived to this memory that I didn't think of in ages. This happened when I was very young maybe six? My uncle Antonio brought me and my cousin Bruno to his studio that was on the top of a building where his family had an optician shop in my hometown in Andalucía (south of Spain). He was a psychologist and also a painter. Everything was full of canvases, bottles of paint and brushes, but only that, no furniture that I can remember only paint and light. He set up a little corner for us and I did a painting of Peter Pan with blue eyes, my cousin and me were obsessed by him at this point, truly believed that we really met him. I never thought of being an artist as something real people could do, but that was great, the studio, the solitude, the freedom, that was FUN. Probably since then, when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up I used to say "a supermarket cashier (because I loved the red light at the conveyor belt) or an artist".
Yellow, politics, gaps, what doesn't work, mistakes, the lack of something, the lack of money, subversion, desire, everyday data and dadá.
Time. Space. Time again. To have fun. And to remember that I make and do not produce.
At the moment I'm in Malta where will be doing an art residency and working on a group show at East Bristol Contemporary that will take place in the middle of April. I'm working in a new project that involves the power of Yellow! It's the beginning of this and I will be showing the first attempts of the project at the EBC show in Bristol along with other nice artists and it's exciting.
I spent an evening with Spanish artist Julian Baron a few weeks ago in London when he came to teach "The cage", an art workshop to visualize the housing crisis in Bristol. He was telling me about his future plans and the pedagogic part of his most recent work and once again it was very inspiring. He reminds me that not the whole art world is the same. Julian introduced me to the work of Ciara Phillips which I've been searching and following since then and very much dig into. I'm also enjoying the work of Beatriz Sanchez a lot, a Spanish artist who works with a variety of mediums (she is using plasticine for video works at the moment and I'm loving it). I find her work very fun and punk, makes me think yesss and long live low cost materials!


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Step No. 4: Remove the top of your hive. If a top bar variety, open from the back away from the doorway. Allow smoke to drift in moving the bees from the opening. Notice the ripened comb visible.
Step No. 5: Harvest combs of capped honey. When you harvest, cut the combs free with a sharp knife leaving a centimeter of wax cappings so the bees can rebuild.
Step No. 6: Clean honey comb of any bees. Remove any brood or pollen…prepare comb for pressing.
Step No. 7: Wash hands and arms and put on latex gloves. Press, crush firmly removing all honey from comb. Place remains in a bucket to later render wax.
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The legislative Joint Budget Committee Monday threw a lifeline to six Colorado school districts struggling with cash-flow problems because of proposed Amendment 61, Education News Colorado reports.
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The 16th Annual Antique Autos in History Park, presented by the Santa Clara Valley Model T Ford Club and History San José, will take place on Sunday, September 11, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. This event fills History Park (Kelley Park, 635 Phelan Ave., San Jose, CA) with stock antique autos, fire equipment, bicycles and motorcycles of all makes from 1900 to 1945. Early Lincolns will be featured this year. Also located on the grounds will be the Early Day Gas Engine and Tractor Association. There will be antique crafts demonstrated and antique collectibles displayed. Admission to the event is $5, and free for participants and HSJ members. For more information, contact Peder Jorgensen at pede[email protected] or 408-358-3398.


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Council's Long-Term Plan adopted
WAIROA District Council has adopted its 2021-2031 Long-Term Plan which describes its activities and the community outcomes it hopes to achieve over the next 10-years.
The Long-Term Plan process has been a two-year mission involving months of planning, design, development and engagement across activity areas and with different groups of people, including the community.
There were a number of firsts for the Council including completing the Long-Term Plan on time, the extensive and nationally recognised pre-engagement and engagement processes and a new user-friendly format.
Council chief executive Kitea Tipuna said over the last two to three months, group manager information and customer experience Kimberley Tuapawa had been providing councillors with staged details of the proposed LTP pre- and post- consultation (over 900 pages) before its adoption last Wednesday.
Prior to adopting the plan Council confirmed the changes recommended by Council's auditor.
The changes were around greater clarity and consistency of information and while they were not substantive changes, approving them confirmed council's responsibility and ownership of the document.
Group manager finance and corporate support Gary Borg said the information is the same - it is about clarity and consistency of information with the reclassifications better reflecting the content of the plan.
Modifications included the application of funding for renewals transferred from the levels of service category to replace existing assets category. The ability to borrow graph was replaced with a new graph showing a cumulative effect consistent with the final financial statements and the debt servicing graph was replaced to take account of debt repayments based on net debt per the financial statements.
Deputy mayor Hine Flood said while there was movement of the numbers the bottom lines did not change.
Mayor Craig Little congratulated councillors and staff for completing a quality document that came in on time.
Following the adoption of the Long-Term Plan, elected members passed the resolution to set rates for the next year, effective from July 1, 2021.
The rates resolution was another first – with 11 pages condensed to seven due to the new simplified rating system adopted by Council in January.
The uniform annual general charge was set at $433.80 (gst incl) per separately used or inhabited part of a rating unit.
Mr Tipuna said the rates were now much more simplified and reduced to six differentials compared to 52 before the rates review. The new differentials are for commercial, forestry, residential A capital value under $400,000, residential B capital value more than or equal to $400,000 more than or equal to $600,000 and residential C capital value over $600,000 and rural.
Mr Tipuna said seven months of consultation began with the rates review in late November followed by revenue finance and policy, pre-engagement and LTP consultation.
Council reviews its Long-Term Plan every three years, and if in Year two of the Long-Term Plan there is any major deviation Council would be required to consult and make changes via the Annual Plan.
Mr Tipuna said this might occur given the government driven reforms.