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I will respond to Dr. Clark's post seriatim.
1. This qualification is well-taken. Olevian is his own man, and has many things in his background influencing his theology, of which one of the more important influences is Calvin's teaching. This seems nuanced enough for anyone.
2. My argument is not really taking this form. I certainly do not mean to imply in the slightest that Clark has misread Olevian, as I am in no position whatsoever to judge on the matter, as Clark points out. All I really want to ask is this question: given Gaffin's and Garcia's interpretation of Calvin (not implying that it is true, merely positing that it is out there) as teaching union with Christ containing the duplex gratia, would Dr. Clark say that Olevian's doctrine of the covenant functions for Olevian in the same way that Gaffin/Garcia say that union functions for Calvin?
3. It might be that Garcia's answer to this question (and he would be in a better position to answer it: I have not read Venema's thesis) would be that the entire thesis is really his justification of his differences with Venema's analysis. I just throw it out there as something I could imagine Garcia saying. I am not implying that he would say it, or that it is necessarily a logical answer to the question.
4. I agree with Clark's examples that they are examples of anachronism. However, is asking Calvin (historically speaking) about union with Christ and its relationship to justification and sanctification anachronistic? To me, it does not seem so.
5. I can affirm almost everything in what Dr. Clark says here in relationship to the distinction of historical theology and systematic theology. And I am also grateful that he addressed my concern regarding separating the two. I don't have any problem with saying that HT and ST have distinct methodologies. My concern is that, ultimately speaking, truth is one. And I am (and I think Dr. Clark is also) seeking to honor that. That being said, the goal of HT, that of accurately describing the theology under examination, is not separated from describing any theology accurately, including Scripture's theology. Is there such a distinction between HT and ST that there is not some overlap? When we come to Scripture, for instance, are we not engaged in accurately describing the theology of Scripture? When it comes to Scripture, HT and ST are both seeking accurately to describe Scripture's truth. The problem here is that accurate description of a theologian (who is accurate to Scripture!) will also be an accurate description of Scripture. Of course, the methodologies of HT and ST differ. I do not mean to confuse the two. However, value judgments are inevitable. I do not believe that there is such a thing as complete objectivity. Of course there is absolute truth. However, our appropriation of it must be biased, hopefully by the biblical bias. We want to think God's thoughts after Him, and His thoughts are the only true ones.
6. I don't believe that I am transmuting "logically" into "temporally." Let me explain what I mean: it seems to me that justification is grounded on the righteousness of Christ imputed to us. Sanctification is grounded on the righteousness of Christ infused into us. It is the same righteousness, but appropriated differently (although faith is the instrument in both). This is part of the reason why I want to say that they are simul (does Clark agree that Calvin is saying simul?). The infusion is not based on the imputation. Rather, they are simultaneously given (justification in its punctiliar manner, sanctification in its progressive manner). This preserves the distinction between them without saying that they are separated. Now, I would never accuse any of the WSC profs of saying that justification and sanctification are separated (contra the writers of A Faith That Is Never Alone). But it seems to me easier to hold them together if they are given simul. This is not the reason why I hold this belief, but rather a practical ramification of it.
7. In phone conversations with Dr. Gaffin, the way he put it to me was that the doctrine of justification itself is the same among the Reformed and the Lutherans, but that the context of that doctrine in the loci is distinct. I still wonder if rapprochement between WTS and WSC is not possible exactly here: covenant functions for WSC the way union functions for WTS. Both seminaries seem to agree that something holds justification and sanctification together. One says union and the other says covenant. I bet almost anything there is a way to come together on this.
8. Pedagogy does not define the ordo salutis. I agree with that. And it is important to remember. My point is this: if sanctification is logically dependent on justification, then why not treat justification first? Is it not good pedagogy to make the ordo docendi follow the ordo salutis? Does this not happen in almost every systematic theology which we possess? In a sense, we are talking about form and meaning. The form that Calvin's Institutes takes means something. We know that the final edition of the Institutes was the result of great wrestling in the mind of Calvin to get the order and arrangement correct. That means, that in the mind of Calvin, treating sanctification first was the correct order for pedagogical purposes. Why? It seems to me that the Gaffin/Garcia model here can explain that. I would very much like to see Clark give an explanation for why this is.


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Steve's Talk at TESOL FrancePosted: November 5, 2011 Filed under: Talk | Tags: Aardman, Blind Date, Britain's Got Talent, listening, Lost, observation, ordering, personalisation, pronunciation, speaking, The Walking Dead, vocabulary, word cloud, YouTube 6 Comments
Thanks to everyone who came to my talk. As promised, here's the handout:
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This activity is based on the beautifully animated Aardman clip Blind Date. Apart from finding or downloading the clip, there's no preparation required. The activity starts off with a vocabulary game and finishes with storytelling. Between the two, students watch the clip, order the vocabulary and predict the ending. I've done this activity with several classes over the last few months and they've all really enjoyed it.
Steve's Talk at TESOL SpainPosted: March 14, 2011 Filed under: Film clip, Talk | Tags: Blind Date, Friends, Lost, personalisation, Pictionary, speaking, The Walking Dead, translation, vocabulary, word cloud, YouTube 1 Comment
Here's the handout from my talk at TESOL. Thanks to everyone who attended.

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Open a recent edition of Science or Nature, and you're likely to be bombarded with articles about a significant anniversary: ten years have passed since the announced completion of the human genome.
These articles tend to focus on how the genome is (or isn't) transforming medicine, science, or society. Sure, it sounds like a terrific milestone, but did it change anything about life in the lab?
I started graduate school back when the debate about whether to sequence the human genome began, and my research career ultimately benefitted from the technology that came out of the program. Most of what you'll read about the anniversary will involve grand perspectives and talk of "breakthroughs," and those are important, but I'd like to offer a grunt-level view of just how much the human genome project changed biology. This is a personal perspective, and any mis-rememberances or erroneous interpretations are my own.
One of my clearest memories, however, is that back when the project was first proposed, there were real questions about whether it would ever get off the ground.
Why bother?
My graduate career began at the same time that biologists and policymakers had kicked off a public debate about whether to sequence the entire human genome. The project would be an enormous undertaking in terms of funding, resources, and personnel, one that might pull federal funding from individual labs.
It was also a bit of a departure for biology, which hadn't known the big-budget science projects that were common in fields like astronomy and physics. Needless to say, allocating this much money to one idea made many researchers uneasy.
And it wasn't clear that such a project was even necessary. Over time, bits of the human genome were being filled in piecemeal without any grand, overarching project. Researchers studying human genes had walked slowly and painfully along chromosomes, filling in sequences as they went. Others cloned the human versions of genes found in other organisms. Some groups just randomly sequenced every piece of DNA that was made into messenger RNA.
Bit by bit, the most important parts of the human genome were being uncovered—I was certainly among those wondering if we really needed a huge and expensive project to sequence the whole thing.
Faith in the piecemeal approach turned out to be naive. Most of the human genome doesn't seem "important" by the criteria we normally use to judge these things, but there are key pieces of regulatory DNA, including some that's distinct to humans, scattered amidst all the noise. Without getting the whole genome, we would not have identified many of the sequences that help make us uniquely human. And we'd certainly have missed many things we didn't even know about back then, like the micro-RNAs that regulate genes.
Those worried about the cost were mostly brought on board with what seemed like a political compromise: we'd use all the major research organisms—flies, mice, worms—as test cases for the human genome, to better understand the challenges and improve technology. That way, most biologists would see some benefits from the grand project, even if they never looked at the human sequence.
It was a good sales pitch, though the human genome would end up being completed before the mouse.
An expensive gamble
Deciding to fund the project was one thing; actually figuring out how to do it was another. At the time, I was at the University of California-Berkeley, and the school was interested in getting in on the genome work (it never fully panned out for them, as many other genome centers eclipsed the school). As part of that interest, Berkeley looked to hire a faculty member who could do pioneering work in the genome.
Interview talks from potential hires were depressing. At the time, DNA sequencing was done by setting up reactions by hand and running the results on a gel. This process was followed by a couple of days in which the gel was used to expose a film, and the film was later read by hand.
Biologists could run a few gels per day, but it was pretty difficult for all but the most efficient to get more than a thousand bases of sequence per day. The human genome contained three billion bases. The math was ugly.
Some of that work would obviously lend itself to automation, but many researchers had the sense that we needed a completely new technology for DNA sequencing. Lots of people had ideas, a few of which still resurface today, but it wasn't unreasonable at the time to think that we had launched a project without knowing if or how we could even complete the thing
Eventually, these problems were solved through a combination of automation and miniaturization, along with a few clever twists on the existing sequencing method. Still, none of that was known when money was first committed to the project, making the whole thing something of a gamble.
Silence descends
Once the project was approved, it seemed to vanish. It's not that nothing was being done, it's just that the things that were being done—technology development, building the infrastructure to process and store the data, preparing everything needed to obtain the sequence—had little to no impact on most biologists. I was working in a fly lab at the time, and absolutely none of these developments changed the way things worked there.
But by the end of graduate school, changes did arrive—especially after the competition between the publicly-funded sequencing effort and the private project of Craig Venter really kicked off. Venter felt he had a better way of sequencing genomes, and he used the fly as his demonstration project. His method worked, and the fly genome was done (although it took fly researchers a few years to figure out what to do with it).
Venter's triumph ended up highlighting a significant difference in approach. The public project was creating an ordered array of DNA that matched the physical arrangement in the chromosomes, but snipped into small pieces that were easy to manipulate and sequence. That's what was taking up all those years where nothing was apparently getting done.
Venter thought he had found a way around that step, just sequencing at random and then lining the sequenced bits up afterwards with computers; hey, it worked for the fly genome.
As it turns out, Venter's approach worked reasonably well for making a rough draft of a vertebrate genome, at least with the current software we have for lining things up (Venter's wasn't as good as what we have now). But it doesn't appear to be good enough to push a project past the draft stage, at least for vertebrate genomes, which have a lot of repetitive DNA that lines up to thousands of locations scattered around the genome.
So, while the public project was criticized for its slow progress, it seems to have been necessary to reach the goals it set for itself. But Venter's aggressive approach and public sniping led to bad feelings, which were only partly smoothed over by the two parties getting together for a joint announcement.


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Taylor Swift's November 2012 Glamour Cover-Shoot Gallery
In six short years, Taylor Swift has gone from a precocious teen country singer to major pop star. In our November 2012 issue, the singer opens up about her career, friends, and latest "love story." Read an excerpt from the interview here, but first check out a few pics from her chic cover-shoot gallery below. Then pick up the complete issue on newsstands October 9, or download the digital issue right now!


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Not in San Antonio this time either.
Police: Missing Glenville teen left home to meet man she met online:
Man, 24, charged with statutory rape after being found with missing girl, 14, who ran away with him after they met online:
Authorities in Georgia have arrested 24-year-old Raymundo Aranda-Parra of Norcross, Georgia, and charged him with the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl that he met on MocoSpace. Police say that Aranda-Parra allegedly made a 229-mile trip from Norcross to Glennville where he picked up the girl and took her to a hotel back in Norcross. So that's more than 450 miles this assclown drove in order to get some underage tail.
Aranda-Parra is saying that the girl posed as a 19-year-old on the mobile gaming site which I'm sure will bring out all the creeper defenders. They'll ignore the facts in this case because facts would interfere with their agenda of trying to make sex with underage kids accepted. The facts are that Aranda-Parra already had a run-in with the girl's parents when he showed up at their house. I can't imagine that the girl's father wouldn't inform this scumbag at the time that his daughter was only 14. Not to mention that he took her to a hotel back in his hometown after secretly absconding with her from her house. In my opinion, he knew what he was doing and was probably fully aware of her true age. So take your "this girl is equally liable" crap and shove it.


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Nintendo of America will launch its slick eShop with very little new content for the Nintendo 3DS, leaning heavily on vintage Game Boy titles and games previously made available for Nintendo DSi, Wired.com has learned.
The downloadable games shop for the company's 3D handheld will become available after a June 6 3DS system update. While it will function significantly better than Nintendo's previous digital shopping efforts for its Wii and DSi consoles, the eShop will launch with just five new pieces of software: Three vintage 1989 games from the black-and-white Game Boy library, a 3D enhanced version of the classic 8-bit game Excitebike, and an interactive Pokémon strategy guide.
More than 350 titles from the library of games previously made available for the Nintendo DSi will also be available at launch, and the 3DS Internet browser will be included in the same system update.
Aside from the lack of new 3D titles, there's another thing gamers won't find: sale prices. "We believe strongly in maintaining the value of games," says David Wharton, director of eShop operations, a new group formed inside Nintendo of America in April to handle all digital sales. "The race to the bottom is not in the best interest of the game business."
To that end, Wharton says that Nintendo has set a rock-bottom price point of $1.99 for eShop games. Of the three Game Boy games available, Super Mario Land will cost $3.99, and Alleyway and Radar Mission will cost $2.99.
Some applications will be free, though. The Pokédex 3D application will be free forever, and Nintendo is giving away the 3D version of Excitebike for the first 30 days that the shop is online.
Wired.com got an early preview of the software, and found the eShop easy to navigate, with detailed search features that allow users to find and preview games. The eShop looks quite a bit like the 3DS' home menu, a scrolling "shelf" of square icons, each of which represents a category of games.
Wharton says his group has a lot of flexibility in determining what categories to display on the shelf—it could use the interface to promote all the games in the Mario series, for instance, or to push two-player games, games that start with the letter W, etc.
When you're trying to decide on a game, you'll be able to view up to six dual-screen screenshots and six dual-screen videos of each title. Nintendo has toyed around with the issue of whether to release demo versions of games, but Wharton did not show us any such functionality in the eShop demo.
If you already own games on your DSi, you'll be able to transfer them over to your 3DS, Wharton says. When the eShop goes live, a System Transfer application will be uploaded to the DSi shop. You'll download that to your DSi system, then use it to move the games over. Once you move the games over, they will be deleted from your DSi and left on your 3DS. If you have games on both a DSi and a DSi XL, you can transfer them all to a single 3DS, Wharton says.
The Game Boy games are simple ROM dumps of the classic titles with no tweaks. The only option players have is that they can view the games in solid black-and-white colors, or in the classic gray-and-green scheme that more closely mimics the original Game Boy's low-power display. (Wharton pointed out that Super Mario Land and Alleyway were two of the games that Wired.com editors asked for in a recent feature. True enough. Only 28 more to go!)
Nintendo says it will add games from the TurboGrafx and Game Gear consoles later.
3D Innovation in revamped Excitebike
The 3D Classics line is a different beast entirely. Excitebike is a "rebuild," says Wharton, programmed from the ground up without using the original NES game's code. While the motorbike racer plays just like the classic game, it also has a vastly improved track editor that uses both of the 3DS' screens for easy editing and lets you save 32 of your creations.
Most interestingly, it includes a use of the 3D slider that I've never seen before. When you adjust the slider, it doesn't just change the depth of the 3D effect. It actually changes the camera angle of the game. When you dial down toward the 2D setting, the camera zooms in and shows a closer view of the biker. When you make the 3D more intense, the camera pulls back to show a wide-angle shot of the stadium's bleachers far off in the distance.
Nintendo has never talked about the ability of the 3D slider to actually change a game's camera angles before, so this was a surprising moment that indicates far more functionality in that hardware feature than we originally surmised was there.
Pokédex 3D will be loved by Nintendo's army of Pokémaniacs. It is an intricately detailed list of the 150 new Pokémon creatures in the Black and White games that includes every scrap of data about them. Of course, it's not that easy: While each game will be seeded with 16 random Pokémon, to get the other 134 you will need to download them via Nintendo's SpotPass service or trade them with friends.
The eShop is certainly an improvement over past iterations, but it still lacks key features. First and foremost, although the lowest price for a game is $1.99, you can only add funds to your "wallet" in amounts of $5, $10, $20, and $50.
You can't create an account that saves your personal details and credit card information; you have to enter your card details each time you want to add funds. Besides being inconvenient, this means that games are still tied to an individual piece of hardware, not to a persistent user account.
There is no "redeem code" functionality at present. What this means is that unlike the iTunes store, PlayStation Network, or Xbox Live, 3DS won't have promotional codes that allow you to download a specific piece of software. This is one of the major ways Nintendo's competitors promote their digital games, by giving out codes to fans as contest prizes or as giveaways.
Additionally, it's how writers like me play games so we can review them before they're released. Wharton says Nintendo is working on figuring out some way to let writers review games before they come out so we can let you know which games to watch out for.
Nintendo is also making a tweak to when it releases eShop games. It will now send out the press release announcing new games on Mondays, but release the games on Thursdays. This will give gamers some heads-up as to what new software is arriving and give indie developers a window to do some promotion.
In short, Nintendo 3DS eShop is launching not with a bang but with a whimper. Three black-and-white games and one 8-bit remake, even though they are fan-favorite titles, remain a small substitute for new, original, 3D games. The selection might improve after a few months of releases, but for now there's nothing to get really excited about.
Nintendo points out that eShop is a "service, not a game" and that the company will update it with more robust features. We hope that the formation of a new eShop group within Nintendo of America signals that the company is doubling down on its efforts to sell games digitally, and that these necessary features will come soon.


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By RESHMA KAPADIA
There's a new acronym in the emerging markets world: MIST, or Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey. Will these countries unseat Brazil, Russia, India and China for the most interesting international investments?
There's a new acronym making its way around emerging-market investing circles: MIST, as in Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, and Turkey.
It's natural to wonder if there is any linkage between the countries other than that they make a catchy acronym. After all, some investors don't even consider South Korea an emerging market. Its gross domestic product per capita, a common measure of wealth, is seven times that of Indonesia. But there is at least one commonality: Strategists say these markets are part of the next group of important emerging-market players bubbling up in the shadow of Brazil, Russia, India, and China—the BRICs.
The recent buzz around the MISTs is undoubtedly driven by concerns surrounding the BRICs. That, and stock performance. While the MSCI BRIC Index is down 2% this year, MSCI Turkey is up 36%. Much of that difference can be chalked up to sector composition, says Kathryn Koch, Goldman Sachs Asset Management senior portfolio strategist. The BRICs, for example, have twice the commodities exposure of the MISTs, but the MISTs have twice the exposure to recent growth in consumer-spending activity.
This dynamic has helped Mexico, but it is favored now because Mexican shares still are attractively valued. The Mexican economy has grown more than expected, helped by exports to the U.S. Mexico is taking back the lead from China in manufactured exports. Labor costs are rising in China, and its economy is shifting more toward consumer spending. With the U.S. recovery, however tepid, offering a bright spot among the major developed markets, Mexico stands to benefit, given its close links to its northern neighbor.
Mexico is seeing its own improvements as well. Nomura economists expect Mexico to grow 3.7% this year, faster than Brazil's 1.9%. President-elect Enrique Peña-Nieto is expected to usher in a wave of reforms to boost growth once he takes office in December, including a possible change to the constitution that would let the private sector get involved in the oil-and-gas sector. These developments come against a backdrop of relatively controlled inflation.
Of course, those reforms may not go through, taking some of the excitement out of Mexico. If investor sentiment improves notably, it's also possible more money could flow into beaten-down markets like China. But one reason investors like Mexico is the number of high-quality, cash-rich companies, many of which are oligopolies and enjoy high returns on equity.
Take media giant Grupo Televisa (ticker: TV), which has a stake in Univision. Derrick Irwin, manager of the Wells Fargo Advantage Emerging Markets Equity fund (EMGAX), says low pay-TV penetration means there is still plenty of room for long-term growth. Will Landers, manager of the BlackRock Latin America fund (MDLTX), favors America Movil (AMX), because of the telecom provider's strong network and strong cash-flow generation. On the smaller end, there is Bolsa Mexicana (BOLSAA.Mexico). The country's stock exchange gets only 10% of its sales from stocks and has a 4.3% dividend yield.
Despite the Mexican fiesta, Koch says these markets aren't a replacement for BRICs (the term her colleague Jim O'Neill brought into the lexicon), but rather a complement. Together, the eight countries are expected to make up 60% of global GDP growth over the next decade, which keeps Goldman positive on the four MIST countries over the long run.
This article was published on BARRON'S Magazine.


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The Icono-Carts
BEYOND the bazaarlike clusters of good eatin' found in the city's frenetic major pods, there are the go-it-aloners, the quieter clusters, and the sturdy pioneers of bold new pods-to-be. Indeed, at the rate they're spawning across Portland, it would be best to keep your gate sturdily locked, lest you find someone serving up pasta, soup, or tacos a little too close to home. For the intrepid editors at Portland Monthly, the problem has been different—namely, keeping up (and keeping off what we've come to call cart-weight). As of press time, here are six of our favorite iconoclasts.
The People's Pig: Porchetta sandwich ($8)
Oven-roasted till it's practically turned to butter, the hazelnut-finished—and gloriously fat-laced—Tails and Trotters porchetta at the People's Pig is swaddled in a fresh, powder-dusted ciabatta roll from Fleur de Lis bakery. A drizzle of lemon adds some zip, as do extras like pickled carrots, serrano peppers, and cherries. Believe us: you won't make it back to the office without sneaking a bite. —BB
Wolf & Bear's: Falafel ($6.50)
It would be easy to pass by this solitary scratch kitchen without a second thought. Don't. Because unlike the bland, deep-fried versions of falafel that are all too common in Portland, Wolf & Bear's version, composed of sprouted garbanzo beans, is carefully grilled.Neatly swaddled in a warm pita and dressed with roasted red peppers, eggplant, salad greens, and homemade hummus and tahini, it'll ensure that you never pass by without contemplating a pit stop. —RR
PBJ's: The Joy ($5.50)
There's no substitute for the mood-boosting nostalgia of a good, old-fashioned peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich. Especially when it's "The Joy," which comes grilled on soft challah bread spread with organic, homemade almond butter, creamy chocolate ganache, and coconut. Or try any number of PBJ's savory options, heaped with toppings like gruyère, applewood-smoked bacon, or jalapeños. —Martha Calhoon
Namu Killer Korean BBQ: Pulled-pork sandwich ($5)
The sweet Korean short ribs and gingery kimchee here certainly warrant a visit, but the juicy, drippy, zesty pulled-pork sandwich will have you making a regular pilgrimage. The guilty pleasure showcases hormone-free Lonely Lane Farms pork, marinated for 12 hours, doused in a tangy honey-horseradish sauce, and served bursting from two toasted buns. The result finds a finger-licking balance between sweet and savory. —MC
NOTE: Namu Killer Korean BBQ has officially moved from SE 33rd & Hawthorne to SE 42nd & Belmont.
Eat This!!!: Black Angus brisket flatbread ($6.50)
You'd be wise to heed the chalkboard sign on SW Salmon Street that simply advises "Eat This!!!" And once you do, you'll happily discover a Ristorante Fratelli alum serving up "globally inspired" flatbread wraps featuring rotating, made-from-scratch combinations like pork loin with cinnamon apples, or the decadent Black Angus brisket with parmesan creamed spinach. Following an order has never been so delicious. —MC
Built to Grill: Gnocchi ($6)
A simple whiteboard above Built to Grill's window signals a new time zone: "We are an Italian Café, not a fast food trailer." That means your steaming order of fluffy gnocchi must wait its turn on one of the cart's two burners before being tossed in a white-wine butter sauce and garnished with sun-dried and roma tomatoes, roasted garlic, fresh basil, and shaved parmesan. Patience has its rewards—we promise. —MC


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by David Crane [email protected] On September 15 (2006), DefenseReview reported on Pinnacle Armor's SOV-2000 Dragon Skin panels passing all NIJ Level III test protocols and requirements for flexible armor systems (anti-rifle body armor). Well, SOV-2000 Dragon Skin has just passed another fairly tough ballistic test, this one performed by Dr. Gary Roberts, who has been following the Dragon Skin vs. …Read More »
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DefRev Update: Pinnacle Armor SOV-2000 Dragon Skin (NIJ Level III) Body Armor
by David Crane [email protected] In addition to recently passing the NIJ requirements for Level III Flexible Body Armor, Pinnacle Armor SOV-2000 Dragon Skin body armor (NIJ Level III) just passed some real-world ballistic testing by Dr. Gary Roberts, and we plan on publishing information on Dr. Roberts' results very shortly. So, stay tuned…Read More »
Dr. Sydney Vail's Report on LeMas BMT Ammo (Live Animal Tests)
Warning: This article contains graphic images of animial necropsies being conducted after live animal tests (ballistic tests) were performed with Le Mas BMT ammunition. "BMT" stands for "Blended Metal Technology", which is a trademark, not a description of bullet composition. Click on photos (below) to view them full-size. The following is a DefenseReview exclusive: The study of wound ballistics is based on …Read More »
Le Mas Ltd. Blended Metal Technology Ammo vs. ADS Transparent Armor: AFJI Video!
by David Crane [email protected] For the last couple of years, Le Mas Ltd. has been pitting their "Blended Metal Technology" ammo (made specifically for them by RBCD Performance Plus, Inc.) against American Defense Systems, Inc. (ADS)/A.J. Piscitelli & Associates, Inc.'s "VistaSteel" bullet-resistant glass, which is manufactured for them by Cardinal LG. Both companies have been engaging in this match-up at …Read More »


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Deloitte works with Greater Amman Municipality to improve internal management practices to deliver better services to residents of Amman has been saved
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Deloitte works with Greater Amman Municipality to improve internal management practices to deliver better services to residents of Amman
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10 December, 2015 -This week marks the completion of the CityPerform pilot project, a joint initiative by the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) and Deloitte Consulting that is striving to bring data to internal city management decisions to improve service delivery. Amman was chosen as the pilot city for this initiative. Under CityPerform, a delegation of US advisers from Deloitte undertook a 9-month project in cooperation GAM officials to improve service delivery.
"Decisions to manage services can sometimes be made without clear goals and the necessary data to inform our work," H.E Mayor Akel Biltaji noted. He continued: "Our collaboration with Deloitte has resulted in a standard, repeatable process based on international best practices."
CityPerform used data and information collected on a regular basis to monitor progress and drive decisions in achieving desired goals in solid waste management operations. The project has been loosely based on the world-renowned municipal management innovation that was popularized in the city of Baltimore in the United States called "CitiStat", which brings transparency to decision-making through periodic and regular accountability sessions.
Deloitte worked in close coordination with the Environment Directorate and Districts of GAM, the Mayor's office, and a variety of stakeholders -- both internal and external to the Municipality -- to identify challenges and opportunities, set goals, and develop a customized service delivery improvement plan. Deloitte conducted a sector analysis, developed a performance management framework with clear indicators and targets, provided training on accountability processes, and data analysis and visualization support. Staff capacity-building resulted in the formation of the "AmmanStat" team, a performance improvement team focused on sustainment and regular coordination of this data-driven process.
"Deloitte is extremely pleased to have such a committed partner in H.E. Mayor Biltaji and his entire GAM management team," remarked Kate Thompson, Deloitte Principal in charge of the project. "This project could not have achieved its ambitious objectives had it not been for the outstanding cooperation we have enjoyed with the GAM," she added.
To date, the pilot project resulted in a variety of accomplishments. A comprehensive analysis of current operations was developed, followed by identification of sector priorities and goals for improvement. This information was then used to measure performance with collection of field data. Data was then analyzed and a dashboard was developed to illustrate the data. The GAM undertook several interdepartmental meetings to focus efforts on how to efficiently use resources to provide quality services. The pilot project laid the foundation for a continuous process of measuring performance and making critical adjustments to solid waste management operations over time.
As the pilot concludes, H.E. Mayor Biltaji thanked Deloitte on the efforts undertaken in the Middle East and choosing Amman to help the City improve services provided to citizens. "Greater Amman Municipality is seeking, through initiatives like CityPerform, and other programs, to be a clean city, that is an accurate reflection of its inhabitants," the H.E. Mayor Biltaji noted. He added, "Through this model, the City hopes to realize results in improved and more efficient solid waste services, and apply the same model to other sectors gradually, for the sake of continued development and improvement of services provided to citizens."
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Feliksa Mieszczanska struck Saturday morning
Police are looking for the vehicle they say fled the scene after striking and killing an 86-year-old Salem woman crossing a street in front of her home.
Feliksa Mieszczanska was pronounced dead at a hospital after being struck just after 9 a.m. Saturday.
Police say they are looking for a dark-colored car, possibly a Honda or Mazda, seen speeding from the scene toward Swampscott.
It didn't even leave skid marks. The vehicle likely has some front end damage.
Family members remembered the victim as a devout Catholic who loved gardening. In fact, they think she was crossing the street to dispose of weeds she had pulled from her vegetable garden when she was struck.
Feliksa Mieszczanska lived with her sister, Laura, for their entire lives, according to the Salem News.
"I can still see her on the street. I saw her lying there," Laura Mieszczanska, 80, said. "I tried to call to her, but she didn't answer."
Feliksa Mieszczanska was one of eight siblings who immigrated to the United States from Poland in the 1960s.
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As someone who is usually, blessedly ignored for the most part by mosquitoes, I had been noticing an alarming increase in bites since the season started. Then I learned that pregnant women are considered more delicious to the little buggers, apparently because of the increased amount of heat and CO2 that we put off. Greeeeeaaat! I really don't like the smell of bug spray (not to mention, slathering oneself with DEET is none too good for ya, preggers or not), but can't seem to find a source for the beloved Skin-So-Soft of my youth…So, time to go au naturale with the tips in this article via Mother Earth News:
Grow Safe, Natural Mosquito Repellents
These natural mosquito repellents, such as mosquito-repellent plants and homemade mosquito traps, will help you have a less buggy summer.
By Ellen Sandbeck
Summertime, and the living is … too mosquitoey and itchy? It's a common complaint. And mosquitoes are not only a nuisance — they can also spread West Nile virus.
Wearing loose, light-colored pants and long-sleeved cotton shirts is helpful in fending off mosquitoes. On particularly muggy and buggy days, you can wear a head net, though sometimes that's more than one can bear.
For many people, the solution is to reach for a DEET-based repellent before venturing outdoors. DEET has been around for more than 50 years, and the Environmental Protection Agency has assured us this chemical is safe if "used as directed." DEET has been the standard against which all other repellents are measured — but is it really safe?
A 2001 review of 17 cases of suspected DEET toxicity in children concluded that "Repellents containing DEET are not safe when applied to children's skin and should be avoided in children. Additionally, since the potential toxicity of DEET is high, less toxic preparations should be substituted for DEET-containing repellents, whenever possible." In 2009, a French study reported that "Excessive doses of DEET could be toxic to humans and could cause severe seizures and lethality when combined with other active ingredients, such as pesticides." The French researchers (read their full report at BMC Biology) studied DEET's effects on insect, mouse and human proteins and showed that the chemical disrupted the action of acetylcholinesterase, a key enzyme in the central nervous system of insects and mammals — including humans.
The thought of slathering on a neurotoxin scares many of us, so the editors at MOTHER EARTH NEWS and I explored the research on natural mosquito repellents (there is a ton of it!) and put together this report on natural alternatives to DEET. To make our list of effective, nontoxic options, a natural mosquito repellent had to meet two requirements:
1) The material(s) involved needs to be "Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS), and be nonhazardous to people, pets and other non-mosquito living beings.
2) Repellents and techniques have to be scientifically proven effective.
After careful research, we landed on two attractive options: homegrown mosquito-repellent plants and homemade mosquito traps.
Natural Mosquito Repellents: What Works, What Doesn't
Almost everyone has seen newspaper or magazine ads for the "Mosquito Plant," a hybrid geranium (Pelargonium citrosum) whose very presence, according to the ads, will chase mosquitoes off of your patio. A search of the literature revealed no scientific evidence backing this claim. In fact, one research study conducted at Florida A&M University showed that mosquitoes were completely unfazed by these plants, landing readily on their leaves and feeding enthusiastically on human volunteers sitting next to the plants.
Garlic is another well-known "mosquito plant." Research shows that garlic does have a moderate repellent effect if rubbed on the skin, but there are more effective options available that also have a more pleasant odor. Eating garlic has not been shown to be effective at repelling mosquitoes.
Luckily, for those of us who prefer not to spray or rub ourselves with garlic or synthetic chemicals, several other plants passed repellency tests with flying colors and fleeing mosquitoes. Our top five mosquito-repellent plants — rose-scented monarda, lime basil, catnip, sacred basil and thyme — are detailed in "Grow Your Own Mosquito-Repellent Plants" further along in this article. All of these plants should thrive throughout most of North America and would make a lovely display on or near your patio or deck.
You can use these plants as natural mosquito repellents in two ways: First, rub the fresh leaves on your clothes and skin when you head outside, and reapply as needed. Second, grow them close to the areas where you spend time outside, and toss small branches of the plants on your patio before picnics or other gatherings. As you and guests stroll over the branches, mosquito-repellent scents will naturally waft into the air.
Homemade Mosquito Traps
Though female mosquitoes need a blood meal in order to lay eggs, both male and female mosquitoes are fueled by flower nectar and fruit juice, and exciting new research from Israel and West Africa has discovered how to take advantage of these facts. Homemade mosquito traps baited with sugar and fermented fruit juice reduced local mosquito populations by 90 percent. Here's how to make these mosquito traps at home.
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Set smashed fruit in the sun for a day or two before making the homemade mosquito traps to speed up fermenting. Drill or punch several 1/16-inch holes in the container lid (the small holes will let mosquitoes in while excluding beneficial insects such as bees). Next, mix the ingredients in the container. Put the ventilated lid on the container. Place the trap outside in a sheltered location where it won't get rained on.
Mosquitoes will feed on the sugary, fermented fruit juice laced with boric acid, which will kill them. We also found studies that showed that many mosquito species are attracted to the scent of jasmine, so try adding a couple of drops of jasmine essential oil to your mosquito traps.
North America is home to more than 100 species of mosquitoes, and some may be more attracted to these traps than others. As far as we have been able to determine, this type of trap has not yet been deployed in North America. As we went to press, we found additional details on another approach to homemade mosquito traps, which you can read in Low-Cost Homemade Mosquito Trap.
These traps and the natural mosquito-repellent plants probably won't make your yard totally mosquito-proof, but they should help — and they sure beat exposing yourself to a now-proven neurotoxin. If you give these techniques a try, let us know how they work for you by posting a comment at the end of this article.
West Nile Virus Status
Dramatic headlines notwithstanding, in 2011 there were only 690 reported cases of West Nile virus in the United States and 43 deaths from the virus. Only 20 percent of people who contract West Nile virus develop any symptoms at all, and, in most cases, these flu-like symptoms are mild.
Grow Your Own Mosquito-Repellent Plants
The following five plants produce effective mosquito-repelling volatiles, but they release these compounds in large quantities only when the leaves are damaged. Pick and crush a few leaves from any of the plants, then rub the crushed leaves on your skin and clothing to discourage mosquitoes. If you have large enough plants, you can use stems and leaves as "strewing herbs" on your patio.
Rose-scented monarda is a colorful perennial especially rich in geraniol, a compound that smells like roses. Turns out, geraniol is highly repellent to mosquitoes, according to an Israeli study published in the Journal of Vector Ecology. Scientists at the Morden Research Station in Manitoba, Canada, have developed monarda hybrids for commercial essential oil production. The extracted oil of their variety now sold as rose-scented monarda contains more than 90 percent geraniol. Geraniol is the active ingredient in some commercial natural mosquito repellents.
Lime basil (Ocimum americanum, also called "hairy basil" and "hoary basil") is a culinary and medicinal annual that's an effective repellent when burned and when grown nearby.
Catnip (Nepeta cataria) is a perennial in the mint family. Nepetalactone, the essential oil that gives catnip its distinct smell, is more effective than DEET at repelling mosquitoes, according to laboratory research conducted by Chris Peterson, an entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, and Joel R. Coats, former chair of the Department of Entomology at Iowa State University. Note: Some cats love catnip and some ignore it. If you have a catnip-lover, you may need to grow your catnip under a wire basket to keep your cat from killing the plant.
Sacred basil (Ocimum sanctum, also called "holy basil" and "tulsi"), an annual, has been used medicinally in South Asia for thousands of years. The leaf extract discourages mosquitoes from feeding, and the seeds, floated on water, kill mosquito larvae.
Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) is a low-growing perennial culinary herb. Researchers at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, found that thyme volatiles repelled mosquitoes as well as or better than DEET, and that thyme volatiles lasted as long as DEET.
NOTE: A section of this article that recommended planting of lantana to repel mosquitos has been removed after editors learned that some sources report consumption of the plant can be toxic. Our thanks to the readers who brought this to our attention. — MOTHER
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Tremblant Canada Cup DH #2
by Fred Belanger
Rain Wildcard in Laurin Victory
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(Montreal) - The traveling circus known as the Canada Cup stopped in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, for the 2nd stop of the 2005 series this past weekend, and although the same course as in the last 5 years awaited racers from across Canada, most were thrilled to be racing here. Weather would once again be a factor, reminiscent of the infamous Grouse Mountain World Cup of 2003. Although rain on Friday soaked the flat course thoroughly, Saturdays sun and heat, as well as Sunday mornings, left most people wondering if the forecasted rain would come.
Gondola troubles just as the pro women were headed up the mountain to warm up caused significant delays to the start of the entire Pro field, and emergency generators were fired up to very slowly finish uploading the passengers. Using a neighboring lift to get to the top, most of the elite field milled around wondering if they would be riding a dry course, or a wet course. In an effort to pass the time, a new sport, tentatively called Boulder Rolling developed, with such notable pro-men as Eric Cseff (Rocky Mountain), Luke Kitzanuk (Giant Canada), and Justin Brown (Norco Factory) rolling large boulders down the neighboring trail, in an effort to roll theirs the farthest. The uncontested Grand-Champion of the Tremblant Boulder Roll Championship was Stuart Cooper (Kona), whos rock rolling skills blew everyone away. His chiseled rock rolled well beyond his nearest competitor. It was to be a good day for this west-coast rider, as his actual race run netted him another podium appearance, clinching third place with a time of 4:49:78.
The rain did come, but not as menacingly as anticipated. Drops started to fall soon after the 1st elite man took the start, and a steady rain increased the slickness of the course. The story of the weekend would not be the rain however: it would be Eric Goss (Giant Canada) return, having walked away unscathed from what I reported last week as a broken vertebrae. Im stiff, but otherwise feeling pretty good Im just happy to be able to be doing this still, Eric said as he was headed out for a practice run on Saturday. And pretty good he must have been feeling, as he finished the day with the second fastest time of the day.
Although some may have put into doubt his winning ability given his questionable result at Canada Cup #1 in Bromont, Mathieu Laurin (Devinci/Daredevil) made an unmistakable impression on everyone in attendance when he tore through the finish line. His time was 8 seconds faster than then closest competitor (4:35.74), on what he described as a good run. Some may question, given his performance this week, his decision last week not to ask for a rerun after a timing glitch put into doubt the accuracy of his race result.
It would be important to note that the very talented Whistler local, Tyler Morland (Cove/Sram) finished 4th and has taken the Canada Cup Leaders jersey away from Luke Kitzanuk. Tyler was the 2nd to last rider to come down the hill, and as such rode a course that had been considerably re-soaked with rain. It was the course conditions that may have cost Luke Kitzanuk his leaders jersey, as a slide-out in a muddy off-camber turn down the final pitch cost him precious seconds.
In the womens field, a surprising finish netted Giant Canadas Danika Schroeter the win, ahead of World Cup podium finisher Fionn Griffiths (Norco Factory) of the UK. I had to pass two racers on the way down my run I bobbled as I passed one of the girls, but I dont think it cost me too much time. Im really happy, Danika said after getting to the bottom.
In the juniors, the man of the hour has got to be Andrew Mitchell (Cove Bikes/Smith/DangerBoy) who ripped the course apart, crossing the finish with the 3rd fastest time of the day, all categories combined. This young gun is turning some heads, and not just the ladies.
Mike Jones (Norco) ended up fifth this week, blaming my prediction of last week as a jinx.
Jean Martin Gagne, head guy at Intense Canada and On the Edge, won the party at the Ptit Caribou on Friday night, buying shooters by the bottle and closing the bar. I heard someone say that some tourist ladies may never be the same again.
Overheard in the line yeah, I think Laurins time at the top is over. These guys from out west (Morland/Biluk/Dewar) are riding way faster than him.
Im back heard from the mouth of one racer crossing the finish line about 30 seconds off pace.
The Tremblant course has remained essentially unchanged since 2005, with most sections being taped exactly the same. Id swear theyre leaving the posts up all year, or sinking the posts in the same holes. Granted, they did some maintenance on course this year in an effort to smooth out some of the more beat up sections
Props to the FQSC this week: the line-ups were drastically reduced, and the whole registration process went much smoother.
Next stop is Mont Ste. Anne for the National Championships. What I dont get is how we can have what is supposed to be the culmination of the season 6 weeks into it? It would be like having the Superbowl midway through the NFL season.
My man Eric Cseff in the top-10: Welcome back brother.
Marc Fontaine (SantaCruz), due to scholastic obligations, showed up on race day, pre-rode the course, and finished a respectable 26th.
When is there going to be a comprehensive analysis of results and downgrading of some of the elite men. We have 70 men at Canada Cups, and 20 of them constantly finish in the last 20. Some are not good enough to win sport, so what are they doing in Pro-Elite?
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State-by-state look at Iowa to Mid-Atlantic storm
Massive thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest are pushing toward the Mid-Atlantic states. Meteorologists warn that the line of storms could launch a weather event called a derecho, which is a straight-line wind storm spanning at least 240 miles. Here's a snapshot of what is happening, state by state:
National Weather Service authorities reported several small tornadoes and quarter-size hail as severe weather moved across northern Illinois. Meanwhile, airlines canceled more than 120 flights at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Wednesday night's White Sox game was postponed, along with Northwestern University classes and finals scheduled on its Chicago and Evanston campuses. Game 1 of the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup series was played at the United Center. Power outages: About 34,000 in northern Illinois.
Several northern Indiana counties remain under severe weather warnings. The strongest storms spanned from Gary to Fort Wayne. About a dozen flights were canceled at Indianapolis International Airport, most of them in and out of Chicago. Power outages: About 30,000 in northwest Indiana.
Weather service officials say two tornadoes touched down in northern Iowa, near Hampton in Franklin County. Another tornado was reported near Belmond in nearby Wright County. Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management officials say at least two businesses and a home were completely destroyed, but there were no reports of injuries or deaths. Power outages: About 1,400 in northern Iowa, near Mason City.
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In Ardmore, stormy weather halted the first round of the U.S. Open less than two hours after it began. Meanwhile, flights at Philadelphia International Airport were delayed an hour and a half to two hours.
Forecasters are warning that the storms could produce damaging winds and large hail on Thursday, and a flash flood watch is in effect through the evening. Federal agencies remain open, but workers are being allowed to take unscheduled leave or telecommute.
A partial roof collapse at a Wal-Mart in Lake Delton left two employees with minor injuries as heavy rain and high winds spread across southern Wisconsin. Street flooding was reported in parts of the village of Boscobel in Grant County.


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World-renowned chef, author and Emmy winning television personality Anthony Bourdain visits Peru in the next episode of "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," airing Sunday, June 2, at 9 p.m. ET. Follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.
Peru's bounty of fresh fish, roasted chicken, fiery chiles and sumptuous cacao packs so much flavor, it would be cruel not to share. Anthony Bourdain invited his best friend, world-renowned chef Eric Ripert to join in his culinary journey across this vast, varied and distinctive land.
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More and more Americans are flocking to Peruvian food and discovering a world of flavor beyond pollo a la brasa (rotisserie chicken). This diverse cuisine, with influences from Andean to Spanish, Japanese and Chinese to African and Italian, is quickly finding its rightful place in the national food scene.
Credit is due in part to Gastón Acurio, the country's most recognized chef, who acts as the unofficial ambassador of Peruvian cuisine with 34 restaurants in 14 cities worldwide, including the recently-opened La Mar Cebicheria in New York City. In 2008, Acurio, together with Apega, the Peruvian Society for Gastronomy founded Mistura. This 10-day food festival brings together street vendors, herbal stands and high-end chefs showcasing their most popular dishes and attracts over 300,000 every year.
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Long a fixture in liquor cabinets and bars in Peru and Chile, pisco is popping up in the United States amid an obsession with craft cocktails. From January to July 2011, export sales of the South American grape brandy grew to $2.3 million, up 139% over the same period in 2010, fueled by increased sales in the United States.
As pisco's popularity grows in the United States, its country of appellation remains a topic of dispute in South America. Pisco grapes are grown in Chile and Peru, and both Andean nations have adopted it as a national spirit. The dispute has played out in numerous decrees and regulations from both countries, with Peru claiming the historic upper hand and boasting a commitment to making it the old-fashioned way. The International Organisation of Vine and Wine has urged the two countries to make nice and work together toward a common solution. Mainly, the outcome has been aggressive international marketing campaigns from both countries. Read more.
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The developer who designed a six-story condo complex for S. Donald Sussman is suing the fabulously wealthy hedge fund manager and Maine media mogul, as well as the attorney representing Sussman in the deal, on grounds that he's been stiffed for work he did on the project before Sussman pulled the plug on it in January.
Kevin Bunker, of the Portland-based firm Developers Collaborative, is seeking more than a half million dollars for work he did on The Newbury Lofts, a project planned for the India Street neighborhood at the foot of Portland's Munjoy Hill, where Sussman and his wife, Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, have a residence.
Neither Bunker nor Tom Federle, the attorney Sussman hired to represent him in the development deal, returned my calls seeking comment. Bunker's attorney, Chris Chandler, declined to elaborate on the case.
Documents on file in Cumberland County Superior Court reveal that Sussman's approach to the $8 million project was remarkably cavalier. In a nutshell, Sussman allowed the Newbury Lofts condos to be designed, vetted by neighbors, approved by the city, listed for sale and reserved, with money down, by more than a dozen hopeful homeowners without having a signed agreement to actually build them or a determination that the project was even worth building.
In the meantime, Federle and Bunker haggled over fees, and Sussman threw wrenches into the plans — dithering over whether to "fast track" the project and courting a new architect in the middle of the process, while keeping one eye on other development opportunities in the area.
In addition to the half million or so Bunker is seeking, court documents include invoices for more than $525,000 due to others who worked on the project, including approximately $275,000 to Archetype, the Portland architecture firm. There is no indication any of those bills have been paid. Archetype principal David Lloyd, whom Sussman seemed willing to ditch in favor of an architect pal who expressed a passing interest in moving to Portland, did not return my call, either.
According to court documents, Federle asked Developers Collaborative to create a proposal for the project in November of 2011, and the parties signed a letter of intent to work together last March. Bunker claims his firm finished "pre-development" work on the project by May, including an analysis of its financial feasibility, and that Federle gave the project a green light based on that work. Federle denies knowing the pre-development work was done or approving the project based on a feasibility analysis, but — amazingly — he didn't put the brakes on it, either.
In an email to Federle last June, Bunker wrote that though they had initially agreed to "speculate" on one another while they "built up a relationship," he added, "I think we've done that, so it is not appropriate for me to be still 'working on spec' for much longer."
"I don't think your risk is beyond negligible," Federle replied, "as neither Donald nor I would leave you in the lurch."
So Bunker kept working on the project last summer, without a signed contract. As detailed in emails and text messages contained in the court filing, Bunker and Federle bickered during those months over how much each stood to make on the deal and how much risk each was shouldering. Bunker claims that Federle insisted he accept a deferred development fee "at the low end" of the "acceptable range" (5 percent of the development costs) so Federle could make a profit, too. Federle denies this.
"I have no interest in being at risk if you aren't," Bunker wrote in an email to Federle in August. "That was what made a ridiculous request [for a deferred fee] palatable in the first place."
When the Portland Planning Board approved the condo project last September, Bunker submitted an invoice to Federle for $175,000. But Bunker still had no signed contract, and as far as Federle was concerned, it had still not been determined that The Newbury Lofts were worth building. Sure enough, Sussman subsequently shelved the project, though court documents contain nothing to indicate why he or Federle believed it would not be successful.
This summer will mark five years since Sussman bought a residence in the India Street neighborhood and turned it into a luxury crash pad for he and Pingree to use when they're in town. Meanwhile, most of the other properties he bought in the neighborhood remain vacant and dumpy.
Sussman is behaving like an absentee slumlord. He needs to either get serious and build his condo project or sell his empty buildings to homeowners who would gladly fix them up and live there. Money is obviously not an obstacle.


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Parents of the Rutgers University student who committed suicide say "Sin needs to be taken out of homosexuality"
By Marianne O'Donnell Rock Center
(from the website of FaithinAmerica.com)
The family of a Rutgers University student who killed himself after discovering his roommate, Dharun Ravi, had spied on him is speaking out for the first time since Ravi's conviction of hate crimes earlier this year.
Tyler Clementi's parents, Jane and Joe Clementi, and his older brother James told Rock Center exclusively that Tyler was struggling with many issues before his death. But they believe Ravi's decision to spy on Tyler during a sexual encounter with another man in his dorm room played a role in the suicide. They also say they have changed their views on homosexuality in the wake of their son's death.
'Whatever underlying depressions or pains that were going on with [Tyler], that was straw that broke the camel's back and that was the thing that pushed him to the breaking point," James Clementi told NBC's Lester Holt in an interview scheduled to air Thursday, June 28 at 10pm/9c.
Tyler Clementi, 18, had just begun his freshman year at Rutgers University's Busch Campus in September 2010 when he asked Ravi, 20, if he could have their room for the evening. Ravi says he later went to a dorm mate's room and remotely activated a computer webcam. Ravi says the webcam briefly streamed live video of Clementi in an embrace with his date. Ravi then tweeted the following: "Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into Molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."
Clementi later told a dorm advisor that he had read that tweet, and another by Ravi that indicated he planned to spy on Clementi and his date again. A day later Clementi committed suicide.
"I think it was – it was the humiliation that his roommates and his dorm mates were watching him in a very intimate act and that they were laughing behind his back," said Jane Clementi. "The last thing that Tyler looked at before he left the dorm room for the bridge was the Twitter page, where Ravi was announcing Tyler's activities."
The Clementis have remained largely silent about Ravi's actions since he was named in a 15-count indictment last year that included invasion of privacy and hate crimes. He was not charged in connection with their son's death. A jury later found Ravi guilty on all counts, putting him at risk of years in prison. Instead, Ravi was sentenced to just 30 days in jail, 300 hours of community service and three years of probation. The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, which tried the case, is appealing the sentence.
Last week, Ravi walked out of a county jail after having served just 20 days. To the Clementis, the punishment was far too lenient. "I think the judge sent a clear message to other prosecutors," said Jane Clementi. "This isn't worthwhile. There are no consequences for these actions."
But the Clementis also say they realize their son was wrestling with demons unrelated to the spying incident. Just weeks before he left home to attend Rutgers he told his mother he was gay. She says the news "shocked" her, in part because of her strong Christian faith. Since then she says she's gone from "point A" in her beliefs "to point B."
"Was that point A, the point of "homosexuality is a sin?" asked Holt. "Well, yes," Mrs. Clementi answered. "And of trying to just accept it." She said she also realizes that Tyler may have misread her reaction during their conversation. He later texted a friend that his mother had rejected him after he came out to her.
"It just was like a dagger," Mrs. Clementi said. "And that took me a long time to process. Because I did not think I had rejected him." Now, Jane Clementi says she and her family are trying to help gay teens win greater acceptance through the foundation they've started in Tyler's honor.
Clementi's parents say they hope The Tyler Clementi Foundation will discourage cyber bullying and the notion that they themselves once held that homosexuality is a sin.
"Sin needs to be taken out of homosexuality," said Joe Clementi. "Our children need to understand – and adults need to understand – that they're not broken."


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Applies to: Exchange Server 2007 SP3, Exchange Server
2007 SP2, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Exchange Server 2007
Topic Last Modified: 2007-04-13
The selection of an inbound anonymous Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate occurs in the following scenarios:
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) sessions between Edge
Transport servers and Hub Transport servers for authentication
- SMTP sessions between Hub Transport servers for encryption only
by using public keys
For communication between Hub Transport servers, anonymous TLS and the public keys from certificates are used to encrypt the session. But the next authentication is Kerberos authentication. When an SMTP session is established, the receiving server initiates a certificate selection process to determine which certificate to use in the TLS negotiation. The sending server also performs a certificate selection process. For more information about that process, see Selection of Outbound Anonymous TLS Certificates.
This topic describes the selection process for inbound anonymous TLS certificates. All the steps are performed on the receiving server. The following figure shows the steps of this process.
- When the SMTP session is established, Microsoft Exchange
calls a process to load the certificates.
- In the load certificate function, the Receive connector to
which the session is connected is checked to see whether the
AuthMechanism property is set to a value of
ExchangeServer. You can set the AuthMechanism property on the Receive connector by using the Set-ReceiveConnector cmdlet. You can also set the AuthMechanism property to
ExchangeServerby selecting Exchange Server authentication on the Authentication tab of a given Receive connector.
ExchangeServeris not enabled as an authentication mechanism, the server does not advertise X-ANONYMOUSTLS to the sending server in the SMTP session and no certificate is loaded. If
ExchangeServeris enabled as an authentication mechanism, the certificate selection process continues to the next step.
- Microsoft Exchange queries the
Active Directory directory service to retrieve the
thumbprint of the certificate on the server. The
msExchServerInternalTLSCert attribute on the server object
stores the certificate thumbprint.
If the msExchServerInternalTLSCert attribute cannot be read or if the value is
null, Microsoft Exchange does not advertise X-ANONYMOUSTLS and no certificate is loaded.
Note: If the msExchServerInternalTLSCert attribute cannot be read or if the value is
nullduring startup of the Microsoft Exchange Transport service, instead of during the SMTP session, Event ID 12012 is logged in the Application log.
- If a thumbprint is found, the certificate selection process
searches the local computer certificate store for a certificate
that matches the thumbprint. If the certificate is not found, the
server does not advertise X-ANONYMOUSTLS, no certificate is loaded,
and Event ID 12013 is logged in the Application log.
- After a certificate is loaded from the certificate store, it is
checked to see whether it has expired. The Valid to field on
the certificate is compared to the current date and time. If the
certificate has expired, Event ID 12015 is logged in the
Application log. But the certificate selection process does not
fail and continues with the remaining checks.
- The certificate is checked to see whether it is the latest in
the local computer's certificate store. As part of this check, a
domain list is built for potential certificate domains. The domain
list is based on the following computer configuration:
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN), such as
- Host name, such as EdgeServer01
- Physical FQDN, such as EdgeServer01.contoso.com
- Physical host name, such as EdgeServer01
Note: If the server is configured as a cluster or for a computer that is running Microsoft Windows Load Balancing, the following registry key is checked instead of the DnsFullyQualifiedDomainName setting:
- Fully qualified domain name (FQDN), such as mail.contoso.com
- After the domain list is built, the certificate selection
process checks to find all certificates in the certificate store
that have a matching FQDN. From this list, the certificate
selection process identifies a list of eligible certificates.
Eligible certificates must meet the following criteria:
- The certificate is an X.509 version 3 or a later version
- The certificate has an associated private key.
- The Subject or Subject Alternate Name fields contain the FQDN
that was retrieved in step 6.
- The certificate is enabled for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/TLS
use. Specifically, the SMTP service has been enabled for this
certificate by using the Enable-ExchangeCertificate
- The certificate is an X.509 version 3 or a later version certificate.
- From the eligible certificates, the best certificate is
selected based on the following sequence:
- Sort eligible certificates by most recent Valid from
date. Valid from is a Version 1 field on the
- The first valid public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate
that is found in this list is used.
- If no valid PKI certificates are found, the first self-signed
certificate is used.
- Sort eligible certificates by most recent Valid from date. Valid from is a Version 1 field on the certificate.
- After the best certificate has been determined, another check
is made to determine whether its thumbprint matches the certificate
that is stored in msExchServerInternalTLSCert attribute. If
the certificate matches, the certificate is used for
X-AnonymousTLS. If it does not match, Event ID 1037 is
logged in the Application log. However, this does not cause
X-AnonymousTLS to fail.
For More Information
For more information about how certificates are selected for other TLS scenarios, see the following topics:


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Aaron Hernandez fiancee Shayana Jenkins indicted
Charged with perjury in investigation into death of Odin Lloyd
Shayana Jenkins, the fiancee of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was indicted on a charge of perjury, District Attorney Sam Sutter announced in a tweet Friday.
Jenkins was indicted on a perjury charge in connection to the investigation into the June 17 killing of Odin Lloyd in North Attleborough.
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Hernandez is facing first-degree murder and weapons charges in the death of Lloyd, a semi-professional football player from Boston who was dating the sister of Hernandez's girlfriend.
Sutter also announced the grand jury indicted Hernandez' cousin.
Tanya Singleton was indicted on a charge of conspiracy to commit accessory after the fact connected to the investigation Lloyd's death.
Singleton previously pleaded not guilty to contempt charges for allegedly refusing to testify before the grand jury that indicted Hernandez on murder charges.


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The DOS (denial-of-service) attack that crippled Twitter on Thursday is still affecting the micro-blogging service on Friday, the company said in a blog post.
Specifically, Twitter has had to take defensive actions that are preventing some third-party Twitter applications from communicating with the company's API (application programming interface).
[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and Security Central newsletter, both from InfoWorld. ]
In addition, many users can't post Twitter messages via SMS, as Twitter continues to defend itself against the attack, which the company described as "ongoing" in the blog.
"Due to defensive measures we've taken against the ongoing denial-of-service attack, some Twitter clients are unable to communicate with our API, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS," reads the blog post. "We are working as quickly as possible to restore our full service."
In another update posted later at around 2 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, this time in the company's main blog, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone called the situation an "adventure" and said the company has faced a variety of attacks over the past 24 hours that change "in nature and intensity."
Stone also reiterated that the attack is still ongoing, but that no data or personal information "of any kind" has been compromised.
The company is still working to restore access to third-party Twitter applications affected by the "defensive measures" taken by the company, which Stone acknowledged resulted in "overcompensation on our part." He didn't mention whether the problem with posting via SMS has been resolved.
"Denial of Service attacks are a known quantity on the web and they are not going away any time soon. Nevertheless, we can and will improve system response to these assaults such that they don't interfere with our normal, everyday Twittering," Stone wrote.
The DOS attack hit several sites, including LiveJournal and Facebook, but Twitter has been by far the most affected, as it went offline for hours on Thursday.
As speculation brewed over who is responsible for the attack, a blogger from the country of Georgia blamed Russia for it, saying it's an attempt to silence him, according to a report Friday in The Guardian.
The blogger, identified as Cyxymu, told the Guardian that he believes the Kremlin was behind the attack because he has been critical of Russia's policies and actions towards Georgia, specifically regarding the military conflict over the South Ossetia region.
"Maybe it was carried out by ordinary hackers, but I'm certain the order came from the Russian government," the blogger told The Guardian. "An attack on such a scale that affected three worldwide services with numerous servers could only be organized by someone with huge resources."
The blogger, who told the newspaper that his first name is Georgy and that he is a 34-year-old economics lecturer, said that the hackers sent hundreds of thousands of e-mail messages, falsely saying they came from him and asking recipients to visit his pages on Twitter, LiveJournal, and Facebook.
On Friday, a spokeswoman for Facebook told IDG News Service that Thursday's attack "appears to be directed at an individual who has a presence on a number of sites, rather than the sites themselves."
"Specifically, the person is an activist blogger and a botnet was directed to request his pages at such a rate that it impacted service for other users. We've isolated the issue and almost all of our users are able to enjoy the normal Facebook experience," she said via e-mail.
A source close to Facebook further told IDG News Service on Friday that the attack was aimed at a specific user based in Georgia.
In Friday's blog posting, Stone side-stepped this issue, saying that while the attack appears to have a "geopolitical" motivation, Twitter will not discuss the matter. "The open exchange of information can have a positive impact globally and our job is to keep Twitter services running reliably to the best of our ability," Stone wrote.
Another source told IDG News Service on Thursday that a portion of the service that redirects third-party-owned URLs to Google Sites or the Google Blogspot service also was affected for about an hour by the DOS attack.
"We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by a DoS attack yesterday, and are in contact with some affected companies to help investigate this attack. Google systems prevented substantive impact to our services," a Google spokesman said Friday via e-mail.
Twitter didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
LiveJournal declined to comment.


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PM: How does your wave-powered system work?
Mark Thomas: The Seadog Pump is essentially a mechanical conversion device. What we're doing is taking the energy resonant in the waves by having it flow through our device. When it flows through it, we're able to set up a circumstance where we can convert the wave's potential into mechanic energy. Once it's mechanical energy, we use that energy to pump water. At this point, the system is just a pump that is fueled by the waves.
Then we take that energy and pump the water to an elevated area--to the shore, or a platform like we're planning to do in the Gulf of Mexico. Once you've got the water captured, you can run it from the capture point and store it on natural cliffs, like those in California or Oregon or on shorelines in the European Union. Now, you've got pumped hydroelectric storage. When we can store seawater at an elevated level, we then have the ability to release it when demand is there--and now you've got electricity to match demand.
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The wind lease from the state of Texas gives us enough space to put in an 18-pump system. This takes up 75 feet by 150 feet. It's a very small piece that is enough to do our demonstration. It's kind of like the movie Kevin Costner did, Field of Dreams. If you build it, they will come. We have to have an ability to showcase to the world that we've got a solution using waves because waves traditionally have not had much success. There have been 2000 patents filed over the past 100 years and we don't even have a city of 40,000 people running on that highly dense fuel source. To me, that's a failed sector.
PM: Why has wave power failed so far?
MT: There are two simple, basic reasons. Number one is the corrosive nature of the environment. You have saltwater, seawater moving in a very disruptive fashion, so if you try to take an off-the-shelf traditional electronic component, hydraulic component and energy-generation system that you would run on land and put that in the ocean, you're going to have to protect it from the seawater ruining your equipment. Your costs go way up trying to protect it.
Let's assume you canister it somehow to protect it from the nature of the salt interfering with your hydraulics. The next problem is the intermittence of the fuel source. Waves move all over the world at different speeds--the smaller the waves, the more quickly they move; the larger the waves, the slower. There are 4 to 20 seconds difference in movements around the world. In California, I know the number is around 7 to 8 seconds between wave activities. The only time your wave-power machine makes energy is when the wave moves. So if it moves 7 seconds apart, you're shooting energy to shore via cables every 7 seconds. That's highly problematic for a utility. How do they use it? You can't store it. That's an inherent flaw in the process.
Where we break through is we're able to absorb the intermittences in the holding area because we're pumping the water into holding tanks. As you fill the tank, now you've got a full tank and you're able to absorb that intermittence in the tank. It's just gone.
PM: Why not use offshore wind turbines to pump the water?
MT: Offshore wind power's capacity is significantly less. Basically the fuel source you are dealing with for the Seadog is the movement of the ocean. That movement is there 90 percent of the time--when the waves are at a minimum height, an average height or a maximum height. Wind energy is available 20 to 25 percent of the time, normally. So the straight capacity factor differential is where we see the huge advantage for wave power.
Generally, if you look at an acre comparison in the same wave regime, wave power wins. In the Gulf of Mexico, offshore in southern Texas (in the Corpus Christi area) they did a wind lease at the Texas general land office and that lease was for a company that was going to do a 500-megawatt-rated wind farm. That 500 megawatts is their maximum nameplate capacity--that's as large as they could go, if the turbines ran all the time. This farm needed 62.5 square miles of land to generate a net 150 megawatts--the amount you get after you take 30 percent of 500 megawatts, in accordance to what the wind actually produces. And that's given the assumption that the turbines are highly efficient, because the technology is pretty mature. (Wind blades have been around for a long time, so they've got that method pretty well figured out, and there are not a lot of losses, efficiency-wise.) We took that same wave regime and calculated what we'd need if we replaced turbines with the Seadog pump technology: I could make the same energy in about 6 square miles versus 62 square miles. So our density is significantly higher than theirs. This is why wave is the direction we went.
PM: If your focus is on energy, why are you also running a desalination plant?
MT: [Fresh water] is a tangible product. I don't want to make bottled water a revenue stream--for the most part, it's a marketing project. I want to have a tangible, portable product made entirely from wave energy. With seawater filtered with energy from wave power filling corn-based plastic bottles, I have as close as you can get to environmentally friendly bottled water. Then I will take those bottles of water, put a jump drive with them and ship them to decision makers around the world to say, "Look, this is a tangible example that's portable of a successful wave-energy technology. Just look what we made with it." Now, if people want to buy the water--if they think it's a good thing--we'll sell it to them. But it's not our driving force: That's energy.
PM: What kind of desalination technology do you use?
MT: Everyday, off-the-shelf reverse osmosis.
PM: When you scale up your energy, as you plan to, will you also expand your desalination plant?
MT: If the municipal folks want more water we will first need to scale up the electrical generation. Municipalities go through huge amounts of water. Look at California, for example. California is in a water situation--they need fresh water out there. And they're looking at traditional desalination plants. For those, you've got to build new power plants to get the energy and that's all very expensive. If our cost is the same as theirs for the infrastructure, then it would be my depreciation against their fuel cost because we don't need fuel to run our system. The fuel cost at current [natural] gas prices is about $520 per acre foot. Mine is $187 because that's my depreciation over a 40-year life. So the opportunity for municipal water really makes sense in places like California.