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Stevens: Tioga smacked into one outstanding outfit, is all
Let's face it, wasn't much of a game Friday evening at Union-Endicott. It happens, state semifinal round or no.
It was 18-0 through a quarter and 54-19 upon conclusion favoring the combined forces of Clymer, Sherman and Panama. That's a couple towns and one village in Chautauqua County, near the state's southwest tip. Three-and-a-half to four hours they traveled, and in bunches. Wolfpack faithful in those south bleachers sure did seem to outnumber Tioga Central followers across the way for the Class D contest.
One team played at a higher level, is all.
Diminishes not one thing from what second-ranked Tioga Central, winner of eight in succession and by a plainly superior 37 per, accomplished this autumn. That was one damn fine football team, shoe leather-tough and coached up to improve and improve and improve until smacking into an insurmountable foe.
But first-ranked CSP — as I was informed by homies is how the three-district unit prefers to be labeled — is noticeably different, up a step or three, and clearly on its way to celebrate come a bit after 2 p.m. Friday in the Carrier Dome. This squad ain't losing.
Tioga had permitted 60 points in its win streak, 13 in three playoff games before Friday.
Which is a fine gauge of the offensive quality on display by CSP.
For certain, an unsightly pile of Tigers penalties contributed. But for those, the margin is trimmed, but the outcome not close to overturned.
CSP had a quarterback, Gerrit Hinsdale, with wonderful arm strength and instincts and gumption and multiple receiving assets to go with more-than-ample running back strength.
But most noticeable football player and athlete on the field? Cameron Barmore, 6 feet and four inches worth of go-to wideout who, in the spring, was a 6-5 high jumper as a sophomore.
"Well, throwing two touchdowns to him is pretty nice," Hinsdale said. "He's been like this all year. He's an animal, he's a monster, just a great athlete and a great asset for us."
"He's just an unbelievable athlete," said Wolfpack coach Ty Harper. "You should see him play basketball, he dunks like other kids take layups. He's an exceptional kid, very humble and a hard worker. When we don't throw him the ball he's blocking his tail off. He'll do whatever we ask him to do and tonight he was able to showcase his athletic ability."
This young man is just not to be defended by 5-foot-9 athletes. Uh-uh.
Another CSP player who'd have been a worthy candidate to accept the MVP plaque handed Barmore? Linebacker Robert Overton, whose No. 21 jersey was attached boldfaced, highlighted attention by Tioga scouts pre-game. This young man was everywhere.
In fact, one of the neatest moments — and I'll doff my cap to Tigers coach Nick Aiello for his on-the-fly tribute to the young man:
The opening play of the second half was a Tioga play that went about nowhere, and near the Tigers' sideline. Aiello barked to his offense, "Twenty-one, he's making all the tackles." And, coach added, with Overton well within earshot and making eye contact, "Yeah, I know you are."
Overwhelmed, is what a very strong Tioga group was. The tough stuff inside that worked so well against so many opponents wasn't there, with 265-pound D-lineman Ryan Steven a significant contributor to the Wolfpack's interior resistance.
But the main difference was Hinsdale-to-Barmore, junior-to-junior, that is.
"A couple of plays, I got drilled, I didn't even know where the ball was," Hinsdale said. "I trusted myself, I said Cameron's going to go up and get that. I just trust him."
"I think Cameron Barmore showcased today why he's the best athlete probably in our county and probably the best wide receiver in the state at this level," Harper said, and no doubting here. "I'm lucky, it makes play calling a lot easier when you've got great kids and we certainly have a lot of great kids."
As does Tioga, state semifinalist for a beyond-belief seven times in eight seasons. Yeah, seven of eight!
And kudos to Union-Endicott's staff for providing a playoff-ready facility despite the snowstorm that blew through Thursday night.
The playing surface was impeccable, and surrounding snow —piled five feet high or more beyond the end zones — only made for a neat backdrop.
Once it was known the storm was imminent, U-E personnel began prepping Thursday, aligning staff and putting machinery at the ready.
"We'd never plowed the field before, ever," said AD Josh Gannon. "So, we used Chenango Contracting, which installed the field and obviously is a Fieldturf maintenance company. They came Thursday night at 9:30 and worked until about 1 a.m. They cleared it once, left and came back first thing Friday morning and finished."
He added, "It was a little bit of a blessing having no school because we got a lot of extra custodial staff and maintenance staff to come out and they just surrounded it starting at 10 a.m. I'd say by 12:30 it was pretty much ready to go."
He estimated a 25-strong crew played a role, with requisite shovels and/or snow blowers.
Once it was confirmed both sides were willing and able to travel, Game On!
Job well done, fellas.
Day 2 of semifinals commences 11 a.m. Saturday, with unbeaten Susquehanna Valley opposing the once-beaten burners from Cleveland Hill.
Could be a beauty.
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Have you at any point pondered where the biscuit originated from? It appears as though they've been around perpetually, in a wide range of sizes and flavors. The cutting edge biscuit is really a truly late advancement, be that as it may. Here's a gander at a couple of fun certainties about biscuits that'll give you a touch of a remark on with breakfast.
Biscuit History
The present biscuits look a great deal like cupcakes, however the initial ones were a considerable measure nearer to what we now call an English biscuit. They were minimal level breads or cakes without much sugar. Dough punchers began making them in the mid 1700s, when the word was spelled moofin. Dialect history specialists feel that the term comes either from Low German "muffe" or little cake, or Old French "moufflet" or delicate bread. Regardless of how they got their names, biscuits soon turned out to be exceptionally well known.
By the nineteenth century, these little round breads had turned out to be significantly sweeter. Some of regardless them utilized yeast, yet others depended on preparing pop. They were still round and level; numerous were really cooked on an iron rather than in the broiler. Most biscuits were plain wheat or corn. They could be eaten with margarine or stick, and were generally moderately little.
Flavors and Function
A great deal of new flavors created from the first plain biscuit at some point in the twentieth century. Vanilla, blueberry and other organic product flavors were to a great degree normal. The wheat biscuit wound up prevalent when individuals understood the advantages of entire grain in the 1970s, while chocolate biscuits created as a treat alternative. By the late twentieth century, there were actually many choices when it came to biscuit assortments.
The way we eat biscuits changed, as well. Initially proposed as a light tidbit or a side dish at supper, these little heated merchandise wound up accessible for breakfast, sweet and a wide range of different employments. Presently, it's not abnormal to snatch a biscuit as a late night nibble or even to have one for lunch.
The Fat and Sugar Explosion
Alongside the growing scope of biscuit flavors came an expansion in the fat and sugar substance of these prepared products. Retailers found that influencing a more cake-to like biscuit enabled their products to remain new more. These biscuits were likewise all the more speaking to purchasers. After some time, they likewise developed broadly, extending from around 2 ounces to as much as a large portion of a pound in weight. That makes the advanced biscuit a conceivably deplorable sustenance for health food nuts.
Obviously, these realities about biscuits don't make a difference to each heated great. It's as yet conceivable to get a sound biscuit that tastes incredible and won't hurt your wellbeing. You simply need to complete a tad of research. Search for entire grains, new products of the soil low sugar substance to locate the best biscuit for you.


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Contents of the 2009 Conference on Communication and Environment Proceedings
Environmental Communication as a Nexus: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment
Eleanor Seitz, Travis Wagner, and Laura Lindenfeld, editors
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Table of Contents
Conference Program
News Media Coverage and Environmental Issues
- Definition by Dichotomy: News Coverage of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Cassie Smith, University of Colorado Boulder
- The Roads Less Traveled: Looking for Certainty in the Colorado Roadless Rule and Media Coverage
Hollie Smith, Todd Norton, & Ritch Woffinden, Washington State University
- Planning the Waterfront: An Examination of Diversity in Newspaper Content and Coverage
Lisa-Anne Botticella & Michal Bardecki, Ryerson University, Canada.
- Contesting Property and Production: Dialectical Hegemony in the Case of The Earth Liberation Front
Ana Haase-Reed, Washington State University
Collaborations, Stakeholders, and Activism
- Toward a More Complete Understanding of Sustainable Rural Community Development: Appreciating Systems and Interactional Theories
Jordan Smith, North Carolina State University
- Collaboration Avoided: The Construction of an Oil Pipeline in Minnesota
Jessica A. Klassen, Texas A&M University
- Pluralism, Collaborative Potential, and Regional Sediment Management: Assessing the Situation via Stakeholders' Views
Gregg B. Walker, Oregon State University
- Role of Environmental Communication in Shaping Remedy at America's Largest Superfund Site
Pat Munday, University of Montana, Butte
Environmental Communication in Action: A Look at Theory-Practice Nexus
- Communication Consulting for a Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Joshua J. Frye, State University of New York at Oneonta
Alienating People from Place by Divorcing Production from Consumption
- Animal, Vegetable or Mineral: Viewing Food Production through a TV Screen
Jean P. Retzinger, University of California, Berkeley
- Linking Production and Consumption with Deontologically Driven Symbolic Acts of Conservation and Humanitarianism
Rachel Shellabarger, Nils Peterson, Erin Sills, & Sarah Warren, North Carolina State University
Human Nature Interactions
- A Theory of Naturalization: The Alchemist's Cookbook for Transforming the "Social" into the "Natural" -- and Back Again
Christopher Gamble, University of Washington
- The Rhetoric of <Military Readiness>: Public Discourse, Whales and Navy Sonar
Terence Check, St. John's University
Risk Communication
- Seeking and Processing Information about Wildlife Disease Risk: A Proposed Model and Its Implications for Disease Management and Risk Communication
Chris Clarke, Cornell University
- Application of Integrative Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Model
Ann Jabro, Robert Morris University
- Uncertainty Reduction and Media Complimentarity in Environmental Communication During Wildfire Emergencies
Emily Hobbs, Michael Salvador, Matt Carroll, & Doug Hindman, Washington State University
Climate Change
- Organizational Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
Jessica Thompson & Sarah Schweizer, Colorado State University
- A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of US and UK Newspaper Coverage of the Correlation Between Livestock Production and Climate Change
Laura Kiesel, University of Vermont
- NIMBY, Inverted Quarantine, and GHOST: A Comparative Look at Constructions of Environmental Risk and Their Implications for Environmental Action
Judith Hendry, University of New Mexico
Strategies for Communicating Environmental Issues
- A Sublime Junkyard?! Placing the Sublime in Contemporary Environmentalism
Lisa Slawter Volkening, University of Georgia
- Virtually Natural: Environmental Education in Second Life
Joseph S. Clark, University of Florida
- (Re)Framing News as a Strategic Role for Environmental Communication: A Case Study of the Gas-Drilling Controversy in the Catskills
Diane Hope, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Influencing Decision Makers: Applying Psychology and Communication Research for Upstream Environmental Behavior Change
Bruno Takahashi, SUNY Syracuse
Understanding Different Communities
- Vegan Soul Food: African-American Vegetarianism in Media
Garrett Broad, University of Southern California
Communication as a Tool for Development of Competence within Natural Resource Management
- Communicative Skills Development of Administrators - A Necessary Step for Implementing Participatory Policies in Natural Resource Management
Lotten Westberg, Lars Hallgren, & Agneta Setterwall, Swedish University of Agriculture
- Landscape and Place Concepts Meeting through Encounters between Birdwatchers and Farmers
Elvira Caselunghe, Helena Nordström Källström, & Johan Ahnström, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Natural Resources Management Approaches in Ethiopia in Retrospect
Atakilte Beyene, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Excavating Public Participation: Critical Perspectives on Social-Political Dimensions
- Colonizing participation: Land Use Management and Lifeworlds - Two Cases of Natural Resource Management in Sweden
Per Haglind & Elin Ångman, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- 'The Void of Illegitimacy': Grounding the Methodology of Dialogical Boundary Critique for the Facilitation of Stakeholder Planning in Philippines Integrated Coastal Management Policy
Rasmus Klocker Larsen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Eco-cultural Manifestations and Reverberations: Discursively Negotiating the Human- Environment Nexus
- The Tao of Food Activism: Using Institutions to Fight Institutions
Maura Troester Nunez, University of Colorado-Boulder
Media Persuasion
- The Biosphere Metamorphosed as 'Buyosphere': The Human Footprint, Commercial Television, and Consumerism
Matthew Killmeier, University of Southern Maine
- Struggling for Ideological Integrity in the Framing Process of U.S. Animal Rights Organization Food Campaigns
Carrie Packwood Freeman, Georgia State University
Visualizing the Environment
- A Scenic Landscape or Devastating Catastrophe: Risk Communication through the Eyes of Photography
Erin Dalton, Clemson University
- Participant Visual Ethnography: The Experience of Environmental Art
Dylan P. Wolfe & David R. Novak, Clemson University
- Powering Our Energy: Conceptions of Energy in Contemporary Oil Company Advertising
Brian Cozen, University of Washington
Physical Spaces
- Communication, Conflict and Science in Natural Resource Collaboration: A Case Study of an Inactive Collaborative Group
Aleta Rudeen, Colorado State University
- Politics on the Trail: A Rhetorical Critique of Hidden Canyon Trail in Zion National Park
Samantha Senda-Cook, University of Utah
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Recreation Outdoor Experience, Access to the Coast, and Relationship with Nature
Catherine Schmitt, University of Maine
Citizenship/Public Participation
- Taking Public Out of Participation: How Rhetorical Conventions of Environmental Impact Statements Discourage Citizen Action
Laura Vernon, Utah State University
- Public Participation in Energy Policy: A Case Study of the San Juan Citizens Alliance
Andrea Marie Feldpausch, Texas A&M University


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This paper presents an algorithm for point cluster generalization. Four types of information, i.e. statistical, thematic, topological, and metric information are considered, and measures are selected to describe corresponding types of information quantitatively in the algorithm, i.e. the number of points for statistical information, the importance value for thematic information, the Voronoi neighbors for topological information, and the distribution range and relative local density for metric information. Based on these measures, an algorithm for point cluster generalization is developed. Firstly, point clusters are triangulated and a border polygon of the point clusters is obtained. By the border polygon, some pseudo points are added to the original point clusters to form a new point set and a range polygon that encloses all original points is constructed. Secondly, the Voronoi polygons of the new point set are computed in order to obtain the so-called relative
local density of each point. Further, the selection probability of each point is computed using its relative local density and importance value, and then mark those will-be-deleted points as 'deleted' according to their selection probabilities and Voronoi neighboring relations. Thirdly, if the number of retained points does not satisfy that computed by the Radical Law, physically delete the points marked as 'deleted' forming a new point set, and the second step is repeated; else physically deleted pseudo points and the points marked as 'deleted', and the generalized point clusters are achieved. Owing to the use of the Voronoi diagram the algorithm is parameter free and fully automatic. As our experiments show, it can be used in the generalization of point features arranged in clusters such as thematic dot maps and control points on cartographic maps.


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When you like a girl, you generally know it. You feel shy whenever she is around, and you find yourself rambling on as you try to find something to say that will impress her. While there are many obvious signs that you like a girl, you may not always realize it. If she has been your friend for a long time, you may have never consciously considered her as an option. You may also have thought that she was not your type of girl. She wasn't the normal look or personality that you like, so you did not think about actually dating her.
Over time, you started to realize that you had deep feelings for her. While she was just a friend, you find yourself growing nervous whenever she is around. You want to see her each day, and you are sad when she misses school or work. If this describes the way you feel, then there is an excellent chance that you are starting to like her.
Imagine that you suddenly see a picture of her or you hear her name. Stop and think about how you feel. Do you feel like smiling when you hear her name? Does your heart beat faster and your stomach fill with butterflies? Does it change your mood in any way?
Different thoughts and names can make you feel a different way. Thinking about a boss that you hated can put you in a bad mood or make you feel agitated. Meanwhile, thinking about a crush will often make you feel happy, nervous or excited. One of the first and easiest ways to see if you like someone is to think about how you feel when you think about her, see her or talk to her. If she makes you feel excited, nervous and happy all at once, then you probably like her.
1. It Isn't Easy to Talk to Her
When you like someone, it isn't always easy to just flirt with them. Your brain quickly gets in the way. When someone you like is around, it can be hard for you to think clearly and find things to speak about. Your stomach does back flips as you struggle to answer the most basic questions. If you find it hard to talk to her like you do with everyone else, then you probably like her.
2. You Get Jealous When She Is Around Other Guys
There is no reason to be jealous about another guy talking to a girl unless you like her. If you just view her as a friend or new sister, then you would not care. If you are jealous of the other guys talking to her, then there is probably a bigger reason behind your feelings. You don't like when other guys talk to her because they are competition. Even if you do not consciously realize that you like her, your subconscious is making you feel jealous.
3. Do You Act Differently Around Her?
If you are just as calm and collected around her as you are around your best friend, then you probably do not have feelings for her. When you like someone, there are biochemical changes in your body that occur whenever you are around them. Your adrenaline gets a boost and you feel energized. Your nerves may make it hard to think of something to say, and you may find yourself fidgeting constantly. Your hands may sweat as you stumble over your words. If you like her, then you probably act differently around her than you act around everyone else.
4. You Try Talking to Her All of the Time
When you like someone, you find yourself wanting to say hello without needing to. When you pass her in the hall, you ask her how she is doing and soon get involved in a deep conversation. This is extremely normal. Whether you realize it or not, your desire to talk to her all the time is probably because you like her. You want to be around her more often, so you may find yourself making excuses to be near her.
5. Mirroring
In normal conversations, both speakers tend to mirror the other's habits. This is a subconscious way to connect with the listener or speaker and show that you are listening. You are more likely to mirror the mannerisms of someone that you like. This is why friends, family members and romantic partners tend to have very similar habits over time. If you find yourself mirroring the girl's mannerisms, phrases or way of talking, then there is an excellent chance that you like her as something more than just a friend.
6. You Get Butterflies in Your Stomach
When you feel nervous, your body releases adrenaline into your body. This makes your stomach feel queasy or uncomfortable and is the reason for the phrase, "butterflies in your stomach." If you feel like you have butterflies in your stomach whenever you see the girl, then there is an excellent chance that you like her.
7. You Tease Her All the Time
If you like her, then you probably tease her. Although you are much older now, many people retain that childhood habit of teasing or picking on someone that they care about. Sometimes, flirting outright is just too intimidating, so your easiest option is to tease her. This could be a sign that you like her, although you definitely want to make sure that you do not take the teasing overboard.
8. You Respond to Her Texts Immediately
When you get a text from a friend or family member, you respond a few hours or even days later. When you get a text from that special person, you find yourself responding immediately. You have barely read the message when you already texting out your response. If you normally do not respond to texts this quickly, then there is an excellent chance that you like her.
9. You Dream About Her
It is very, very easy to confuse dream feelings with real feelings, so you should definitely make sure that you do not just like her based on what happened in a dream. With that said, it is quite common to dream about someone that you like. They are a frequent part of your thoughts. Because of your feelings for that person, your subconscious places an extra focus on them, so you end up dreaming about her all of the time. If you keep dreaming about the same girl (especially if it is a romantic dream) every night, then there is an excellent chance that you are interested in her.
10. You Dress Nicer When She Is Around
Think back to what you wore the last time you saw her. Was it a bit more dressed up than normal? Did you take time to do your hair or use cologne? While you may not have noticed it at the time, you may have been doing these things to look better for her. People naturally want to look good to impress someone that they like. Even if you did not consciously realize what you were doing, your subconscious may have been nudging you to look extra attractive before you saw her.
11. You Know About Her Life
There are so many things to remember every day. From workplace deadlines to homework assignments, there are a lot of activities to juggle and things to remember. When you are constantly busy, it seems impossible to remember details about anyone's life. If you find yourself able to remember the tiniest things she said or details about her goals in life, then there is an excellent chance that you do like her. Those details only matter to you because you like her or admire her. Because of how you feel, you find it easier to listen and remember what she says.
12. You Are Constantly Reminded of Her
When you care for someone, you notice the littlest details about them. Your subconscious may think about them all the time. When you notice her favorite scent or a movie that reminds you of her, you take a moment to notice it. If you are interested in someone, it is quite common to see things that constantly remind you of her. One or two reminders can be just a coincidence. If you see more reminders of her, then your subconscious mind is focusing on her a lot for some reason.
13. You Keep Fidgeting
Most people feel nervous when they are around someone that they like. Because of this, they may fidget or move constantly. You may find yourself running your fingers through your hair or picking at your hands when you are around her. These movements are a way to defuse some of your nervous tension, and that nervous tension is a sign that you like her.
14. Her Opinion Matters to You
Many people only care about the opinions of the people closest to them. They do not care what strangers think, but their friends' opinions are important. If you find yourself caring about her opinion of you, ask yourself why her thoughts are important. You care about what your mentor or people you admire think. You care about what your loved ones think of you. If you care what she thinks, there has to be a reason. Either you view her as a good friend, or you like her. If you like her, then you care about her opinion because you want her to think well of you and admire you.


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"Thoughts on Greece's Debt Problems"
Dave Backus at at NYU's Stern Business School emails thoughts on Greece's debt problem:
Thoughts on Greece's debt problems, by Dave Backus, February 10, 2010: An exchange of ideas from NYU Stern faculty compiled by Dave Backus. It was done "on the fly," but I think it covers the range of issues nicely.
Summary of the issues
This is my take, no one else implicated, although all the ideas come from others...
* Debt and deficits. Greece in serious budget trouble, with government debt at 125% of GDP and rising. Confidence is Greece has fallen with repeated upward revisions in deficit estimates, which raise suspicions that the situation is worse than reported.
* Contagion? Greece itself is small, but there's fear that if Greece defaults or leaves the Euro Zone (or perhaps some other dire event), there could be spillovers to other Euro Zone countries (Italy, Portugal, and Spain lead the list). One version of this is that it would undercut the credibility of the Euro Zone. Member countries have (generally) reduced their borrowing costs by eliminating currency risk, but if investors see membership as reversible, that could change quickly.
* Conditions for help. The policy challenge is to keep the problems in Greece from spreading without creating adverse incentives for other countries. A bailout, for example, might make other countries less likely to resolve their own budget problems (mumble "moral hazard" around now). The traditional solution is some kind of "conditionality," in which bridge loans are tied to concrete progress on the budget. IMF programs typically have this form, and the NYC bailout in the 1970s did, too. Such conditions solve the budget problem and make bailouts less attractive to other countries. When imposed by an outside agency (the IMF, for example), they may also provide political cover ("they made us do it").
* Who? The challenge in the EU is that the rules explicitly forbid bailouts, so there's no natural agency to execute a plan. That leaves us with ad hoc mechanisms (the finance ministers, for example). Or maybe the IMF.
* Euro Zone. It's an inherently weak structure, since there's no strong political entity at the top to enforce decisions on member countries.
* Who's next? There are several other EU countries with budget problems. And in the US, many (most?) states have serious budget problems, California being the biggest one.
Transcript of comments [from Paul Wachtel, Viral Acharya, Yakov Amihud, Dave Backus, Fabrizio Ferri, Tom Cooley, Marti Subrahmanyam, Sabri Oncu, Charlie Murphy, Anonymous 1, Gian Luca Clementi, Ingo Walter, and Larry White]
These are comments made on the fly. For that reason and probably others, no one should be held to them. I do think they lay out all the relevant issues.
Dave Backus
Anyone have a view of why the Germans are talking about bailing out Greece? Isn't Greece too small to have be systemic?
Paul Wachtel It is not Greece, it is the Euro. A troubled small country can be shrugged off but a currency area is either whole or not. The Germans will pay up to keep the Euro area in tact.
Viral Acharya I think letting Greece fail questions the very essence of what the Euro and Eurozone is, in my view, and can lead to lack of confidence in background Eurozone support for other weaker nations also. What I am saying is that though not as formally integrated, is Europe not supporting Greece too different from the US government not supporting California?
Yakov Amihud Perhaps because they are stupid? California may fail, it is much larger than Greece, and nobody comes to its rescue nor does it affect the dollar. NY (almost) failed in the mid-1970s. Maybe the labor unions in Germany are afraid of the example set in Greece that fiscal problems lead to wage cuts of government employees.
Dave Backus The US has a long tradition of letting state and local governments handle their own budgets. Bailouts more the exception than the rule.
What's the risk with Greece? If Greece's debt is in euros, why would they benefit from leaving the euro zone? And why would Germany care if they did? Wouldn't kicking out weak links make the Zone stronger?
Fabrizio Ferri There is an unresolved question of leadership in Europe. Perhaps Germany views this opportunity to "save the eurozone" (whether true or not) as a way to gain political leadership going forward. Or perhaps they are stupid indeed -- as an Italian, I can live with that interpretation ;-)
Tom Cooley I think letting Greece fail would be a disaster and would have ripple effects for the other PIIGS sovereign debt. I think bailing them out but making them suffer probably is the right strategy. If they suffer enough it won't seem so appealing to the other PIIGS to get to to that state.
Viral Acharya 1. If US allows California to fail in today's world, it may get brownie points for being smart from some investors; but some other investors will rationally question US's own balance-sheet and that may precipitate a rise in its sovereign CDS, raise US's cost of borrowing and could exacerbate matters. I am not saying US should bail out California but simply that in the current environment, eyebrows will be raised about the rationale behind not supporting California. That scenario and updating of priors would be a relevant factor. If US was keeping its reputation on bailouts clean by not bailing out ANYONE, this risk might have been lower. It may want to react in time and get California in shape to avoid the situation altogether, which may be an even smarter thing to do than watching California's failure.
2. Commercial bank clearinghouses were arrangements by banks to support each other when some banks failed. The idea was that when bank x failed, other banks often had contagious runs, e.g., Knickerbocker Trust failed in 1907 causing information-based runs on other banks too. So to avoid this, clearinghouses would convert individual bank liabilities into joint liability certificates. Over time, clearinghouse members refused to support some players due to internal rivalries. This meant the co-insurance arrangements were not considered as robust as they were supposed to be. Ultimately, Central Banks came into play to act as lender of last resort rather than letting the system be privately managed through clearinghouses. What is the analogy? It could very well be that IMF (analogy with Central Bank) will come to the fore if Europe does not, but that might mean the demise or weakening of confidence in the Eurozone (analogy with private clearinghouses). Again, a better thing in my mind would be to support Greece but with conditionality to improve its state within say next two years, and this might in fact set precedent for better monitoring and requirement of individual nation solvency within the Zone going forward.
Yakov Amihud Tom, why do you believe that failure of Greece is different from failure of California?
Marti Subrahmanyam First of all, the EU and/or the ECB are prohibited from directly aiding any member state. Second, if Germany (plus France?) want to do this to bail out their own banks, which are heavily exposed to Greek sovereign debt, it would create serious political problems in those countries. I doubt whether the German treasury will simply write a check. In any case, how can they impose any sort of conditionality with any credibility? Ultimately, this would have to involve the creation of some sort of European Monetary Fund - perhaps with a loose link with the IMF - to save face for Europe. Whether this can be done quickly is doubtful. Failing this, this saga will continue for some time. The only practical way for a quick fix is to bring in the IMF and for Europe to eat humble pie.
Yakov Amihud It is cheaper for Germany and France to bail out their own banks than bailing out Greece. And the EU is weaker than the U.S. Federal government in enforcing anything -- indeed they cannot credibly impose anything on Greece.
Paul Wachtel California is not Greece.
I do not know what will happen if California defaults but I do remember what happened when NYC defaulted on its general obligation bonds in 1975 (I owned some). Investment banks, banks and the state government sat down and restructured the debts and imposed restrictions on the fiscal activities of the city. Essentially, there were institutions that could intervene and impose an acceptable restructuring.
Who is going to do that for Greece? The European capital market institutions would not be able (or even willing) to step up to the plate and negotiate a restructuring. The ECB is not allowed to. And the EC is not up to it.
There is an alternative -- the IMF has specific experience in this regard. But, allowing the IMF in would be an admission that the Euro area has not quite made it as currency union. The IMF, given its historical origin with exchange rate mechanisms, would convey a message that the big Euro players would not like to see. It would tar the reputation of the Euro even if there are no contagion effects on other PIIGS. Moreover, allowing Greece out of the Euro (or kicking) it out would be even worse.
That is why, I think, the Germans will pay up. They will pay to maintain the reputation of the Euro. Americans underestimate the commitment to the Euro.
Sabri Oncu But bailing out Greece and then making them (what do we mean by "they", by the way?) suffer, such as budget cuts, is calling for social explosions, first in Greece, then in PIIGS and then in broader Europe. Greece has a very strong labor movement historically, so does the rest of Europe. Greece must be bailed out, just as California must be bailed out, but somehow without making their populations suffer. Greece is already in a deep recession: asking Greece cut the budget deficit to 3% of its GDP by 2012 means pushing Greece into an even deeper recession, which would exacerbate the already high social discontent.
Charlie Murphy Agree with Tom but for one other very obvious reason. The Germans are not about to let a little member in a very bad neighborhood ruin a good thing. I'd call it political, social or family welfare!
Tom Cooley [Will the Greeks suffer some penalty for this, or get off easy?] Yeah -- good question given the militancy of the greek unions but I think they can if that is price for staying in the eurozone. Given that they have a socialist government in Greece it is a bit like Nixon in China -- they may be the only ones who could impose fiscal discipline.
Anonymous 1 First, as Tom points out, if there is a bailout effort for Greece, the prime motivation would be fear of contagion (and sudden stops) among the weaker sovereigns. The recent fluctuation of euro-area sovereign yield spreads has fueled these fears. If, in the United States, a sudden stop for a big state were to undermine market liquidity for several other large states, the pressures on the federal government to intervene would be much greater than, say, in the narrower cases of the past (e.g. Orange County, WHOOPs or even NYC).
Second, a round of sovereign defaults could (again) threaten euro-area bank capitalization -- even in the fiscally sound states -- with the kind of spillover effects that we witnessed in 2007-09.
Third, this sovereign crisis is occurring in the aftermath of the biggest post-1930s financial crisis when the euro area and its financial institutions have been weakened and confidence is fragile.
Put differently, the incentives facing policymakers would be quite different if Greece were an outlier in a euro area of healthy banks, sovereigns and economies.
The biggest issue (as Paul and others observed) is imposing conditionality. Clearly, the Stability and Growth Pact didn't do it. And it's not clear how the euro-area finance ministers will do better, but I agree with Paul that outsiders underestimate the commitment in continental Europe to make the monetary union work. For many European leaders, it is a step on the road to a "more perfect Union," so that crises invite greater efforts at political integration, rather than the reverse.
Gian Luca Clementi I am confident that [Greece will be bailed out with punitive conditions attached].
They will convene an eco-fin (meeting of finance ministers), write down a set of conditions for the Greek government to abide by, and then come up with the money -- which is not much money by the way -- the Greek government's deficit is about 40 billion Euros.
Letting Greece go would open up speculation on sovereign debt of large economies such as Spain (4 times Greece) and Italy (6 times Greece). That would be dramatic. If I remember correctly, Italy is #1 among importers from Germany and #2 among exporters to Germany....
Sabri Oncu One thing the EU can do is to sell the sovereign credit default insurance themselves and underbid the present high-priced sellers. Buying Greek bonds and stocks massively may be combined with that. Hong Kong Monetary did something like that during the South East Asian crisis, as I recall, and it worked for Hong Kong.
Tom Cooley [On why Greece is different from California] Because California is part of a Union with a strong Federal Fiscal and legal structure that could probably survive a California restructuring of its debt. There is no comparable structure for the EU. It would make it harder for California to borrow in the future...
Anonymous 1 [On whether bank regulation encouraged German banks to hold Greek debt despite its increasing risk.] The attached WSJ piece from December highlights the role of the ECB and its collateral rules:
Ingo Walter I agree with Gian Luca. Here's my 2 cents worth on Greece --
The good news is that this is exactly what we teach in emerging markets, open-economy macro, etc. If you have fixed exchange rates or a currency board or a single currency you lose one policy tool and have to live by the relevant rules of the game. Violations of those rules get reflected initially in market spreads and maturities and then in policy strictures, as in NYS and NYC 1974 and Argentina 2001 and UK 1992 etc. Whoever can't perform, possibly with the help of some tightly controlled bridge financing, has to get out of the kitchen. In the latter, moral hazard is a huge problem. Hence the long experience with conditionality, which often helps give local policymakers some backbone.
In the euro context the design flaw is that the whole experiment upside down. Usually political unification gives rise to currency unification (US in 1865, Germany in 1870s and 1989, etc). Here currency unification comes first (1999) subject to Maastricht fiscal constraints and a no-bailout clause - but in the absence of political unification and fiscal centralization. Italy's entry was quite a bit of smoke and mirrors, but it was too important to omit, especially as an intellectual founder of the whole European integration movement. Greece was pretty much of a shell-game and should never have been admitted in the first place, and the water in the pot has been boiling for a very long time waiting for the lid to blow off -- even taking account of Maastricht violations from time to time among the other euro countries. I doubt that anyone who teaches this stuff has been very surprised by the outcome of Greece's fiscal incontinence. Everybody knew that at some point the euro would be stress-tested, and several smaller ones in the last ten years, now it's showtime.
If Greece's departure from the euro carries unacceptable contagion risk and the euro is deemed worth saving, which most people believe, then substantial bridge financing with strong conditionality is the only option. I was in Finland the other day and they were really livid about the possibility of having to take part in a bridge for Greece. The Germans are likely to be equally agitated, with considerable risks for Merkel and the CDU especially at a time when the real-sector performance outlook is pretty miserable. In my view an IMF ESP and conditional financing facility provides the most elegant and politically acceptable solution. Barring that, the EU will have to construct one of it's own which does pretty much the same thing. Politicians may figure out that it's better to have the IMF draw fire and be responsible for applying the fiscal corset.
In the case of California that's not an option. In retrospect the [President] Ford "go to hell" message [to NYC] 35 years ago probably was the best thing that could have happened to us.
Larry White I believe that the NY Daily News headline was, "Ford to City: Drop Dead" (but Ford never explicitly said those words).
Sabri Oncu Here is a very interesting Globe and Mail article entitled: "Greece: from superpower to impotence":
To say a word about what Ingo said, it is my view that euro is not worth saving in the long run (I have always been against my country's joining the European Monetary Union, more or less for I thought that what is happening to PIIGS now would happen), but if euro is not saved at the moment, we all will be in deep trouble: this "Great Recession" can get even "Greater." There are no "party walls" in place!
Sabri Oncu Something has to be done about [rating agencies] also, if the EU wants to get out of this mess:
And I am with Larry wholeheartedly:
"In his congressional testimony, Professor White argues that the best way approach to reining in credit rating agencies is not more regulation, but rather ending regulatory reliance on their ratings."
As you may remember, Thomas Friedman said this in 1996:
"There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion. There's the United States and there's Moody's Bond Rating Service. The United States can destroy you by dropping bombs, and Moody's can destroy you by downgrading your bonds. And believe me, it's not clear sometimes who's more powerful."
If we do what Larry says, Moody's can no longer be a superpower. The same goes for S&P and Fitch, of course.
Posted by Mark Thoma on Friday, February 12, 2010 at 12:50 PM in Economics, International Finance |
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Trump settles legal dispute with former aide
Donald Trump's campaign has settled a month-long dispute with former aide Sam Nunberg, according to a document filed in New York on Thursday morning.
Trump and Nunberg agreed to a "stipulation of discontinuance with prejudice," meaning both parties have settled on an agreement that can't be relitigated.
Trump in May sought $10 million in damages from Nunberg for allegedly breaching a nondisclosure agreement after claiming an affair between former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and spokeswoman Hope Hicks.
Trump counsel Alan Garten said in a statement last month that Nunberg was "simply looking for free publicity using categorically false claims."


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Editor California is the Northern Light of Modern CultureLucas BB, 2008/04/24
I was born in Baltimore. At the time my mother was 20 yeas old and a certified Woodstock hippy. We went to California when I was three and eventually moved to the west coast, home to the Beatniks, Hippies and Surfers.
Much of modern culture, wether it be music, literature, food, art or even sports, has been greatly influenced by the Beats, Hippies and Surfers. And what all of these movements share are their deeply imbedded roots in the cities of Northern California. In order to give you a picture of how the Beatniks, Hippies and Surfers have influenced us so much and continue to influence our culture PAPERSKY took a peak at the many Northern California places where these movements were founded and continue to exist and inspire.
The trip begins with breakfast in San Francisco at Greens. Safe to say this place is the originator of the modern day organic food movement. Then take a stroll over to the Beatnik mecca called City Lights Books. After a short subway ride we arrive in Berkley and at Moe's books, the legendary bookshop featured in Dustin Hoffman's movie the Graduate. From there we wander down to Santa Cruz, originally an incubating cell and now a mecca for both the surfing and skating movements and home to one of the most intellectually forward-thinking universities in America – the University of California, Santa Cruz (or as Californians refer to it, UCSC).
Just a bit below Santa Cruz is a place called Big Sur and this is where the Beats, Hippies and Surfers all came together to get a breath of air and some of the best nature in the world. The area is home to Esalen, a mecca for spiritual and alternative lifestyles. It was also home to writer Henry Miller, one of the Beats' major influences. Surfers travel from the corners of the world to nearby Half Moon bay, to surf the Big Wave called Mavericks and speak to Jeff Clark, the legend who fist surfed it. In closing, a travel story on the modern day alternative movement would not be complete without a visit to Rubicon Estate in Napa, home to Francis Ford Coppala's amazingly delicious wine Rubicon.
OK, enough already. In short, read this issue, learn all about Beatniks, hippies, surfers and then travel to California!
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...quit thinking abut decent land-use as solely an economic problem. Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise....This is a plea for the preservation of some tag-ends of wilderness, as museum pieces, for the edification of those who may one day wish to see, feel, or study the origins of their cultural inheritance. (The Land Ethic from A Sand County Almanac, 1949)
|Aldo Leopold - US Forest Service
"...I am glad that I shall never be young without wild country to be young in" said Leopold, bemoaning the destruction of nature, however necessary it may have been for America's early settlers. In the 60 years since his death, that trend of destruction has only continued. Many of us have, in fact, grown up in an era where wilderness was only occasionally experienced during a family vacation - a camping trip or a weekend at a rented cabin.
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Mr. Rundle serves as counsel in litigation and trial proceedings, and acts as both counsel and arbitrator in domestic and international disputes. Mr. Rundle's experience and expertise spans broad practice areas, including: business and commercial transactions; banking, lending and financial products; construction disputes; import / export matters; commodity purchase / sale / trading; manufacturing; technology; product defect / reliability / warranty; corporate governance; partnership and joint ventures; and, real estate matters (commercial leasing, finance, acquisition / disposition, title).
Prior to leaving the firm in 2003, Mr. Rundle served as co-chair of Arter & Hadden LLP's national alternative dispute resolution practice. Upon leaving the firm, Mr. Rundle established a boutique practice emphasizing arbitration, litigation and trial work, while at the same time providing his clients with ongoing risk management and dispute avoidance counseling.


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The Silent Side of Life
Eliza's Story
Women's bodies are different - and special - in ways that aren't always obvious to the eye. Photographer Sasja van Vechgel followed Eliza, a young, deaf woman in Tanzania once a week for six months. This is her story.
When I lived in Tanzania, I met Eliza at her work as a seamstress. I was inspired by her optimistic view of life, and the example she provided for women with disabilities in Tanzania and decided to follow Eliza once a week for six months, which resulted in this series of photos.
Almost 360 million people worldwide have some kind of hearing impairment. The majority of these people live in low and middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organization. Deafness has a staggering impact in these low-income countries, where services, equipment, understanding, and trained professionals are lacking.
Life in general for disabled women in Tanzania is very hard. There is a huge stigma attached to any form of disability, and deaf individuals often struggle to find employment, which in turn places enormous economic burdens on individuals, who can also suffer from low self-esteem.
Out of ignorance, deaf people are often assumed to have a mental disability because of their speech. Hearing impairment in childhood has severe consequences for the development of speech, language, and cognitive skills, all of which form the pillars of communication. Hearing impaired individuals like Eliza, find it difficult to take part in conversations and can easily fall into social isolation. Not knowing how to communicate well, ask for help, or even scream, these women are left exceptionally vulnerable to rape and other abuses.
Eliza was not born deaf. At the age of six she caught meningitis, after which her deafness developed rapidly. She was lucky to attend a deaf school for several years, where she learned how to lip-read and use sign language. Eliza was one of the first deaf people who joined a local NGO called Neema Crafts. Here she became a papermaker and seamstress. In this way she lived a more or less independent life.
Using the income she receives from Neema Crafts as capital, Eliza tries to earn extra income by selling flour and sugar at the local market. This "biashara" (business) gives her an average of 5000 tsh (2 USD) extra per month. Although Eliza tries hard to make ends meet, discrimination makes it difficult to accomplish her initiatives.
Families often don't want anyone to know about their family member's deafness. Eliza told me that deaf people are sometimes forced to hide under a bed when people came to visit the house. Eliza also has problems with her own family. She rarely sees her mother, and both Eliza's father and her sons' father refuse to give her any support. She is not welcome at home because of her disability, which makes life for Eliza particularly lonely in a community that deeply values family ties.
Seeing Eliza in her own comfortable environment, her disability is hardly visible. Out on the streets, however, is a different story. Though Eliza is not afraid to use her voice, her speech sounds loud and different, so people stare at her when she talks. In other words, her disability is revealed through other people, who, unable to understand what she wants, recoil from her loud voice and body language. Thus, Eliza often uses her phone as her "voice" instead. By typing a text to make herself clear to others, she has found a fairly good way of communicating.
Despite her disability and the difficulties she faces, Eliza is a happy young woman and mother, with a positive attitude towards her deafness. Being amongst her non-hearing friends boosts her self confidence. Together with some deaf friends, they have formed a dance ("ngoma") group. "Hearing" the rhythm of the drums through its vibrations, they perform a dance so mesmerizing you wouldn't even notice that the dancers and drummer were deaf!
These photos of Eliza show her life with the ambiguity that belongs to it. Her "normal" life of being a mother at home contrasts with her position in "real" life. When Eliza goes out for shopping for example, she is clearly disabled. In such noisy and busy market areas, it is difficult to make herself clear. On those occasions you can "see" her deafness more exaggerated as if she is caught in her own silence.
Deafness is a disability that is not easy to see, but has a huge impact on people's lives. Through this series, I hope to draw attention to deaf people in Tanzania and other developing countries, their accomplishments and their challenges.
An autodidact and passionate photographer, Sasja van Vechgel has made photography into her profession. Her work is characterized by the combination of documentary style photography, often focusing on health issues, with an artsy flavor. Living in West and East Africa for 10 years, she has had a variety of employers; from international companies, to NGO's, newspaper and magazines, and reporting work for international donors. Over the past seven years she has gathered several International Awards and Nominations including: the Sony World Photography Award (2010 and 2011), the Julia Margaret Cameron Award (2012 and 2013), and the HPA/UNESCO Folklore award (2013). Sasja has also published a coffee-table book on the main city of Tanzania titled "The Book of Dar." Currently she is working on a long-term project on "Traditional Healers in Tanzania".


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The Church Leadership Program: An analysis of student expectations and goal achievement, 1978-1991
Prior to the 1960s, bishops could rely on religious communities of men and women to prepare their members to assume leadership roles in Catholic educational ministries. Since Vatican II, however, the network for training leaders, which involved seminaries, novitiates, scholasticates, colleges, and universities, has been weakened, due in part to fewer religious communities committed exclusively to Catholic education, and in part to the decrease in the number of priests and religious brothers and sisters working in Catholic schools. Today lay persons fill many leadership positions in the elementary and secondary schools, diocesan central offices, colleges, and universities. Because of a need to find new ways to train these leaders, the bishops requested that Catholic institutions of higher education develop special, unique programs to train Catholic educational leaders. Fordham University's response to the bishops' request was the Church Leadership Program (CLP). The program has been in existence since 1978. Since then there has been no formal research done to study whether or not the CLP was meeting the needs of Catholic educational leaders who participated in the program. This research, a formative and summative evaluation of Fordham University's CLP, analyzed students' perceptions of the CLP's success in reaching its goals and the goals of the participants. The results of the study revealed that participants perceived that the goals of the CLP at Fordham University were successfully reached. The goals most successfully reached were: "To respond to a church need to train administrators for religious schools" and "To address evolving and expanding needs of contemporary administrators." Ninety-eight percent of the respondents reported that the program helped them reach their goals. The two primary reasons participants gave for entering the program were: "To be better able to serve the church in promoting Catholic education" and "To increase my personal competency in carrying out professional responsibilities." The CLP was perceived to be very effective in the administrative formation of leaders for Catholic education. The unique opportunity to take courses in both the Graduate School of Education and in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education made it possible for students to acquire the desired knowledge and needed skills in both the professional and the religious areas of their work.
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School administration|Adult education|Continuing education|Higher education|Religious education
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Helbling, Madonna Joan, "The Church Leadership Program: An analysis of student expectations and goal achievement, 1978-1991" (1992). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI9304516.


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It's undeniable that the Lawrence brothers, aka Disclosure, have a had a pretty epic year. Their album, settle, has made the top of almost every best of list we've seen this far, and is even up for a Grammy. Their new remix album also just dropped a few days back.
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UT researchers work to reduce spam emails, increase online security
September 11, 2013
A group of UT faculty members and graduate students have teamed up with UT's Center for Research on Economic Commerce (CREC) to expose the companies that send out millions of spam emails every day.
SpamRankings.net, a website launched by the University's Center for Research on Economic Commerce, displays rankings of companies by number of outgoing spam messages generated from roughly 18,000 U.S. and international organizations. The project creates models for email providers to reduce spam and is funded by two grants from the National Science Foundation, totaling approximately $1 million.
Head researcher John Quarterman said UT students, in particular, are at a high risk for identity theft because of spam.
"UT has had a big problem with student information being leaked to the outside world because of bad security," Quarterman said. "Spam is getting out that may contain private information, like your identity."
Quarterman said the easiest way for students to prevent spam from entering their inboxes is to maintain up-to-date software.
"Make sure you have all the updates to your operating system," Quarterman said. "Antivirus software is worth running as well."
According to Andrew Whinston, the center's director and a management information systems professor, students are susceptible to deceptive links as they surf the Internet. Once the link is clicked, malicious software enters the computer system and new spam is generated.
"You have to be careful and not go to websites on the Internet that you are not really familiar with, or websites that are not authenticated in some way," Whinston said.
Whinston said preventing spam starts with businesses and their employees.
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Whinston said spam is more than just annoying clutter — he said spam poses a serious security threat to companies and individuals alike.
"This is something that has real, negative impacts on society and we are trying to see what we can do to reduce it," Whinston said.
Students and faculty from the McCombs School of Business, department of economics, department of computer science and the Cockrell School of Engineering are also researching the issue.
UT graduate and contributor Qian Tang said the project has faced some hefty challenges. Researchers struggle to make the information they expose understandable to the average email user, Tang said.
"Technical terms are too complicated for average users to understand and interpret," Tang said.
Tang also said the team must closely monitor the reactions of computer hackers.
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Sophie's world
My time as a newspaper reporter and features writer ended many years ago but I had to brush off the journalistic cobwebs this week to write a piece for Books for Keeps. I was commissioned by the excellent children's book magazine to interview the teen/YA author Hayley Long (pictured) as part of a series of articles about the four writers shortlisted in the children's category of the 2015 Costa Book Awards, for which I am one of the judges.
I spent a very interesting and enjoyable hour chatting to Hayley about her work and, in particular, her wonderful novel Sophie Someone, which is on this year's shortlist and is written in a code of her own invention.
Here's the opening sentence of my article to whet your appetite: "Hayley Long is already a well-known noodle in the teenage bucket whirlpool but Sophie Someone promises to open the dormouse to an even grottier readership."
To find out what on earth I'm talking about, and to read the feature in full, please click on this link to the Books for Keeps website.


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Texas officials are warning refugee groups that they should not allow any Syrian refugees into Texas. Texas Health Commissioner Chris Traylor sent a letter the International Rescue Committee's Dallas office saying the state could take legal action if Governor Greg Abbott's directive to keep out Syrian refugees is not followed.
The IRC responded Tuesday with its own letter, addressed to Traylor, stating that it would not comply with the governor's order.


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Another Robocraft Wrapper update. This one especially who still didn't know how to update the game. So here it is. The game is free and real fun! Enjoy the new Wrapper!
– Contains latest update
Download the new Wrapper up here…
Another Robocraft Wrapper update. This one especially who still didn't know how to update the game. So here it is. The game is free and real fun! Enjoy the new Wrapper!
– Contains latest update
Download the new Wrapper up here…
Besides Tetrobot, another similar game kind of game is released as well called: Blocks that Matter. Blocks that Matter is a great game – a combination of logical puzzle solving, dimensional thinking and some timed jumping. It's not too hard – unless you decide to collect the stars (to get the green star you have to accumulate quite a lot of unused block at the end of the level – and it can be tricky). The story is cute – and the main character – just adorable! This game is normally $4,99 but is 50% off the first week on GOG.com which means only $2,49.
You are the Tetrobot: a tiny robot that can drill blocks of matter one by one, collect them, and recycle them into new pieces of 4 blocks. You also have the possibility to destroy lines of 8+ blocks in a very «retro russian» game style. Sand, wood, stone, obsidian, iron, diamond: each matter has its specific behaviour you'll have to use wisely and take advantage of them. So get ready to use your brain and combine your platforming and puzzle-solving skills in this incredible mashup!
Get this Mac game on GOG.com up here…
Tetrobot is easily one of the best puzzle games in the past few years. It's well crafted, the difficulty curve is just right and you'll get some pretty good headscratchers on the road to 100%. Another nice thing is that your bot doesn't gain abilities during the adventure. What I mean is that, although new mechanics are regularly introduced, when your enter a level you know you already have all the tools to get all the collectibles. There's no "come back later when you've gain ability X". Even if it seems impossible to get that last piece, the solution is always within reach, you just have to think harder :) This game is normally $9,99 but is 50% off the first week on GOG.com.
Tetrobot is the world's most popular and reliable robot, but he's not perfect. That's why I, Maya, have built him a microscopic little brother, Psychobot.Help me guide Psy through Tetrobot's cogs and circuits: by swallowing blocks of matter and spitting them out, we can repair anything. Learn how pipes, lasers, fans and other electronic devices work, learn how to alter the chemical properties of slime, and collect all the memory blocks that you find on the way.
Get this Mac game on GOG.com up here…
Now we are still in the WW1 mood, I have a nice free "Tower Defense" kinda game of Myplaycity for you as well called Toy Defense! The commercial version is 4,99 on Gamersgate, but the Myplaycity version is free of charge! So get this game for nada below and have some tactical fun! This game was already available for Iphone a while back, but I have to say it more fun on your Mac when you can use mouse :) Simply download the Wrapper with the game preinstalled below and extract and play!
It's time for great strategic plans! Don't miss the chance to become a winner and test your courage and skills as a military leader at the First World War! Don't let enemies get to your base and kill your soldiers. Beat off all the attacks, protect your base from hostile airplanes, tanks and overcome unexpected traps with the help of different kinds of weapon. Earn points, strengthen your towers, train soldiers and buy upgrades. Believe me, victory is in your hands!
Simply download the Portingkit (if you don't have it already) and go to the library –> server tab and select the "Toy Defense!" game and click download. Then the Portingkit will install the game for you into the Portingkit. After installation the Portingkit will say the installation was done successfully. Then go to your "local" tab where you can select the game and click "play"!
Download the Portingkit up here…
Are you ready for some real action!! We here you go, Verdun 1914-1918, will bring you back to the front in the trenches of first World War! It has been beta since last year and now the early access is there in Steam! I check the trailer and I was stuned by the graphics! The game is at the moment 66% off as well which makes the price 6,45 instead of 18,99, worth the price to check it out. I really really advice you to check the trailer below to see how awesome the graphics are…Have fun!
Verdun is a squad-based multiplayer FPS set in First World War (WW1) . The game is inspired by the infamous battle of Verdun in 1916. The merciless trench warfare offers a unique battlefield for tactical squad play in the gritty Frontlines game mode, and raw pure gameplay in the rifle Deathmatch. The Frontlines game mode is unique in its tactical complexity, where you are levelling different types of squads, each with your own tactics and roles. The realistic trenches are an extra challenge in the fight, where teamwork and tactical cunning are essential for success. Drive your enemies from their trenches and dominate the Western Front!
Get the Game on Steam here…
It was on my todo list, but there is no need for it anymore, because Goat Simulator has been released for Mac too now. This Mac game is available in the Mac Steam and can be purchased for $9,99 on Gamersgate, This Goat Simulator seems to be quite popular. You can be a goat, get points for wrecking stuff – brag to your friends that you're the alpha . Steam Workshop support – make your own goats, levels, missions, game modes, and more! Check the fun out yourself by watching the official trailer below. Have fun!
Gameplay-wise, Goat Simulator is all about causing as much destruction as you possibly can as a goat. It has been compared to an old-school skating game, except instead of being a skater, you're a goat, and instead of doing tricks, you wreck stuff. Destroy things with style, such as doing a backflip while headbutting a bucket through a window, and you'll earn even more points! Or you could just give Steam Workshop a spin and create your own goats, levels, missions, and more! When it comes to goats, not even the sky is the limit, as you can probably just bug through it and crash the game.
Buy this fun Simulator up here…
If you finished Dark Fall – The Journal for Mac already, then here is also the second game of the series: Dark Fall 2: Lights out. This adventure game has also its creepy parts, luckily not in the start so I could test it a bit. I myself really dislike creepy games, so there will be only ports of a few minor ones on the site made by me. So for the ones who do like the game, the game is only $5,99 on GOG.com, so get it there or wait when it is on sale.
Download and extract the Wrapper below –> get Dark Fall 2: Lights out from GOG.com –> install Windows software –> navigate to the GOG.com setup file –> and install it into the Wrapper. –> click "end installation" and double-click the Wrapper and play!
Many lives have been lost on the lethal rocks surrounding the harbour town of Trewarthan. Mysteriously, a thick fog covers the land and the silence is shattered by the sound of ghastly foghorn. Suddenly, the faithful light of Fetch Rock Lighthouse is plunged into darkness. Follow Benjamin Parker, a young cartographer, sent to map the area, and Polly White, determined to make contact with "the beyond", as you explore the Lighthouse in four different time periods.
Download the Wrapper up here…
Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space! You can get the game from GOG.com with 25% off the first week. Watch the trailer below for some game-play. Enjoy!
Space can be a dangerous place. You're one of the most daring «Space Transporters», people who carry the dangerous task of transporting valuable shipments from one place to another across hazardous space. This supposedly simple task gets tricky once you add dense asteroid fields that regularly cross the space lanes, the armed-to-the-teeth pirate starfighters and spaceships all too willing to shred your ship for your cargo, as well as the other Space Transporters you are competing against!
Get this Mac game on GOG.com up here…
Some great news, Gamersgate published (Feral Interactive released it) the game Castle of Illusion. My port worked already but had some small glitches in the menu and the game had some more issues with some other graphics cards, but now Feral Interactive released the official Mac version of the game! If you already owned the game on Gamersgate and added it in my Steambuild Wrapper, then the game should be automatically added in the Mac Steam as well. Then it will be only a matter of download and play! Have fun!
When Minnie Mouse is kidnapped by the jealous witch Mizrabel, it's up to Mickey to rescue her from a hexed castle in this fairytale platforming adventure. Bounce, jump, swim and swing through fifteen captivating levels, each filled with tricky tasks and imaginative enemies.
I adjusted the game page to the Mac version one.
No it is not Super Cow from "Cow & Chicken" :P. this is a nice free platform game from GameTop.com. This way funny and nice game has 50 levels to keep you busy with. While playing you will be cought up in the funny storyline and nice gameplay. A really fun game for the whole family! Enjoy it now freely on your Mac! Simply download and extract the Wrapper mentioned below and play!
Life on the Farm in Sunny Valley was just great until the evil professor Duriarti escaped from prison! The heartless bad guy's first act was to seize the farm and take all of its inhabitants hostage to conduct hideous experiments on them. Supercow is good entertainment for virtually all age-groups. It has a lush game world with a healthy dollop of good humor!
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Quaron S.A.S. belongs to a group that includes two major German chemical operators. This consortium currently brings together:
- some 50 European sites
- 2,380 employees
- 2,153,000 tonnes of products supplied
- €1.5 billion turnover in 2015
Consequently, Quaron S.A.S. is the third largest French chemical distributor with 7 sites nationwide.
For over 50 years, our H&D division has offered a full range of detergents, disinfectants, acids, etc.
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- An expert sales force
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- Reseller of application equipment (over 300 items)
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- Innovate in the field of farm hygiene, an activity we have pursued for the past 40 years
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says a new poll about the role of sleepiness and errors should serve as a "wake up call" for the transportation industry.
For the first time, the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) asked transportation professionals about their sleep habits. Nearly one-fourth of pilots and train operators admit that their performance is affected at least once a week by sleepiness. Moreover, one in five pilots acknowledge a serious error, and one in six train operators and truck drivers say that sleepiness has led to a near miss.
The release of the survey results coincides with National Sleep Awareness Week (March 5-9) and the start of daylight savings time on Sunday.
The NTSB says that many of the accidents it has investigated have been caused by fatigue.
"While alcohol is often associated with impairment, operating a vehicle while fatigued can be just as deadly," said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. "As we move the clocks forward an hour this weekend, transportation operators need to plan for adequate sleep on Sunday night
and every other night to safeguard the travelling public."
"Inadequate sleep puts lives at risk - we see this over and over in our accident investigations. Improving the quantity and quality of sleep can improve safety and ultimately save lives."
Managing human fatigue has been on the NTSB's Most Wanted List of transportation safety improvements since the list was first created in 1990. As a result of accident investigations, the Safety Board has issued nearly 200 fatigue-related recommendations to address diverse areas including: hours of service requirements, scheduling policies, education and training, diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, research, and vehicle technologies.