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CAPE CANAVERAL Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday postponed the final two missions of the space shuttle program until November and February due to delays preparing the last load of spare parts for the International Space Station.
Shuttle Discovery's launch on a cargo resupply mission will be postponed from September to November 1, under a plan approved by NASA managers.
Sister ship..., carrying the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer particle detector, is now set to fly on February 26 on the program's 134th and final mission.
NASA initially planned to retire its three-ship fleet by the end of 2010. Congress is, however, expected to give the space agency a $600 million cushion to ease its deadline pressures.
NASA has also managed to trim the program's $200 million monthly costs to extend shuttle operations into March 2011.
The United States is retiring the shuttles primarily due to high operating costs. The Obama administration is pushing for Congress to approve a controversial plan to fly astronauts on commercial spacecraft, freeing NASA to focus on developing bigger rockets and new technologies needed for future missions to asteroids, Mars and other destinations in the solar system.
NASA also had to pick launch dates that did not conflict with Russian, European and Japanese missions to the station or previously scheduled rocket launches and other activities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which provides critical support services for shuttle flights.
"There's so much traffic around the station it ultimately made the most sense to pick November 1," said NASA spokesman Kyle Herring. Discovery's delay, in turn, bumped... flight from November to February.
A proposal for an additional station cargo run on shuttle Atlantis, which will be prepared as an emergency rescue vehicle for the... crew, is pending, with a decision expected in August, Herring said.
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Experts had predicted when the crisis began that..., with its huge slice of the global drugs trade... would see more demand for loan-sharking.
But the report said mobsters had also been able to launder their earnings by buying up cheap assets and had found a cheap and willing workforce among the newly unemployed.
"In times of crisis the Mafia's money, even though it is dirty, makes people's mouth water," the report says.
... research arm... citing data from police, mob informants, magistrates, government agencies and its own network across the country, said the boom had been so strong that organized crime may target the... to launder its money.
"There is a risk the Mafia could take advantage of the difficulties of some large business groups who are undergoing a liquidity crisis to attempt to get into the stock market behind the scenes in a big way," said the report.
It estimated the mob's joint turnover last year at 135 billion..., topped by trafficking in drugs, people, weapons and contraband worth just under 68 billion... Second came "business" interests like public contracts, gambling, forgeries and supplying illegal labor at 25 billion..., then extortion and loan sharking at 25 billion...
Robbery and fraud represented just 1 billion... of the total business and prostitution brought in 600 million... The mob laid out 1.17 billion in wages and 2.75 billion on corrupting officials, invested 26 billion and laundered an estimated 19.5 billion, the researchers said.
Total "profits" ran to an estimated 78 billion... said there was a risk that with the prices of property, stocks and bonds and companies themselves brought down by the crisis, mobsters could use profits from recession-proof activities like drugs to "go on a financial shopping spree."
The group portrayed an increasingly sophisticated business environment, with mobsters diversifying away from traditional areas like public contracts, property and construction.
While the mob is still essentially clan-based... there was "a sort of criminal career" where a bodyguard could become a godfather, and in the slums...the child drug runners... grow up in gangs where "pushing is considered a real job giving them independent economic status."
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"Snarky" is a new word for me. I'm not sure what it means. Sometimes it seems to mean any public criticism of a person, as in, "If Hillary can't figure out what's happening in broad daylight [at the airport in Bosnia], how [expletive deleted] is she going to know what's happening at three a.m.?" Is that snarky?
Sometimes it seems to mean arguing publicly against another person's belief, or even his unbelief. Is that snarky?
St. Irenaeus did that.
These men falsify the oracles of God, and prove themselves evil interpreters of the good word of revelation. They also overthrow the faith of many, by drawing them away, under a pretence of [superior] knowledge, from Him who rounded and adorned the universe; as if, forsooth, they had something more excellent and sublime to reveal, than that God who created the heaven and the earth, and all things that are therein. By means of specious and plausible words, they cunningly allure the simple-minded to inquire into their system; but they nevertheless clumsily destroy them, while they initiate them into their blasphemous and impious opinions respecting the Demiurge; and these simple ones are unable, even in such a matter, to distinguish falsehood from truth. (Irenaeus, Against Heretics, Preface)
Is that snarky? How about this? Some people consider it downright anti-Semitic. (But it isn't; it's against the Judaizers in the Church.)
Many, I know, respect the Jews and think that their present way of life is a venerable one. This is why I hasten to uproot and tear out this deadly opinion. I said that the synagogue is no better than a theater and I bring forward a prophet as my witness. Surely the Jews are not more deserving of belief than their prophets. "You had a harlot's brow; you became shameless before all". Where a harlot has set herself up, that place is a brothel. But the synagogue is not only a brothel and a theater; it also is a den of robbers and a lodging for wild beasts. Jeremiah said: "Your house has become for me the den of a hyena". He does not simply say "of wild beast", but "of a filthy wild beast", and again: "I have abandoned my house, I have cast off my inheritance". But when God forsakes a people, what hope of salvation is left? When God forsakes a place, that place becomes the dwelling of demons. (St. John Chrysostom: Adversus Judaeos, HOMILY I)
St. Photios could be tough, too:
But you still do not wish to perceive over what sort of abyss into which you are cast and into what pits of the soul's corruption you are buried because you are not willing to be persuaded by Christ, or His disciples, or the Ecumenical Synods, or a rational method of reasoning, or by sacred and eloquent testimonies to humble your mind. You are buried. Rather, you reproach the common Lord. You accuse the noble mind of Paul, but you accuse falsely. You incite rebellion against the Holy and Ecumenical Synods. You ridicule the Fathers. You banish the true thoughts and the true intentions of your bishops and Fathers and consign them to the devil. You dismiss any remedy, are dumb to rational thought. Indeed, you completely overwhelm your salvation with dubious and passionate preconceptions. (St. Photios the Great, The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit, 94)
Is that snarky?
Even the Apostles could write very harsh things. Does this qualify as snarky?
They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire." (2 Peter 2:10-22)
Or this?
For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain. 12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." 13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth. 15 To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work. (Titus 1:10-16)
How about St. Paul's wish in Galatians, a double-entendre, that those who were demanding Christians be circumcized would "cut themselves off"?
But to encounter snarkiness par excellence, excoriation, condemnation, harshness unparalled, you have to read the letters Bernard of Clairvaux sent to the Pope concerning Peter Abelard. (I can't find them on the Internet, and no wonder. If anybody can, they're choice!)
I don't know. All I know is, whatever "snarky" may mean, he exemplified it. And, today, so do I.


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February 25, 2013
Overthinking It
PECOTA's Projected Risers
BP's PECOTA projections arrived two weeks ago today, offering answers to two of the most common questions asked each spring: Which players are expected to make major improvements, and which are big risks to head downhill?
We'll tackle five hitters and five pitchers whom PECOTA projects to make major gains today, then do the same for some of the biggest projected decliners tomorrow. One note: It doesn't take PECOTA to tell you that a player like Troy Tulowitzki—who missed most of last season after left groin surgery—could be in line for a big bounceback with better health, so this list is restricted to people who played full seasons in 2012.
Fielding stats aren't very stable from season to season, and PECOTA expects Francoeur's glove to be only a bit below average, which it has been for the bulk of his career. But even if he does return to replacement level, the Royals might still wish they'd kept Wil Myers: the Rays' future right fielder is projected to be worth 1.9 WARP as a rookie in roughly the same playing time.
Albert Pujols, Angels
After a disappointing first season in Anaheim, Pujols has been overshadowed by Mike Trout's rookie success and the Angels' latest ultra-expensive offseason acquisition, Josh Hamilton. But overlooking Pujols would be premature: the three-time MVP was the best player in baseball as recently as 2010 (and even better before that), and the stats he accrued in his St. Louis seasons still tell us something about what he can do today. Pujols showed he had plenty left after a slow start to last season, and a harder park for hitters made his raw stats look worse than they were. A return to peak Pujols production is too much to ask, but PECOTA foresees a partial return to form in his second AL season.
Dustin Pedroia, Red Sox
Jesus Montero, Mariners
Michael Young, Phillies
Ervin Santana, Royals
Jon Lester, Red Sox
Yu Darvish, Rangers
Derek Holland, Rangers
A version of this story originally appeared on ESPN Insider .
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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Anti Flashback MAC,Anti Flashback-Trojan MAC,Free tool Anti Flashback-Trojan MAC
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Flashback is a variant of the Tsunami Trojan for Mac OS X, and has so far infected over 600, 000 of them. Now you can check whether your Mac is infected with the Flashback-Trojan without resorting to manual removal in Terminal. For more information what Flashback does, including manual removal instructions, see the follwing:
Detection Names:
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Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.I connects to a remote site to download its payload; on successful infection, the malware modifies targeted webpages displayed in the web browser.
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- 1. Run the following command in Terminal:
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
- 2. Take note of the value, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
- 3. Proceed to step 8 if you got the following error message:
"The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info, LSEnvironment) does not exist"
- 4. Otherwise, run the following command in Terminal:
grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' %path_obtained_in_step2%
- 5. Take note of the value after "__ldpath__"
- 6. Run the following commands in Terminal (first make sure there is only one entry, from step 2):
sudo defaults delete /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
sudo chmod 644 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist
- 7. Delete the files obtained in steps 2 and 5
- 8. Run the following command in Terminal:
defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
- 9. Take note of the result. Your system is already clean of this variant if you got an error message similar to the following:
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Some Flashback variants include additional components, which require additional steps to remove. Please refer to our Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.K description for additional information and removal instructions.
Additional Details
Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.I is dropped by malicious Java applets that exploit the known CVE-2011-3544 vulnerability.
On execution, the malware will prompt the unsuspecting user for the administrator password. Whether or not the user inputs the administrator password, the malware will attempt to infect the system, though entering the password will affect how the infection is done.
If infection is successful, the malware will modify the contents of certain webpages displayed by web browsers; the specific webpages targeted and changes made are determined based on configuration information retrieved by the malware from a remote server.
On execution, the malware checks if the following path exists in the system:
- /Library/Little Snitch
- /Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
- /Applications/VirusBarrier X6.app
- /Applications/iAntiVirus/iAntiVirus.app
- /Applications/avast!.app
- /Applications/ClamXav.app
- /Applications/HTTPScoop.app
- /Applications/Packet Peeper.app
If any of these are found, the malware will skip the rest of its routine and proceed to delete itself.
Downloading the Payload
The malware connects to the following URL to download its payload:
- h t t p : / / 18.104.22.168/counter/%encoded_data%
Where decoded data follows this format:
- %hardware_UUID|%machine_architecture%|%kernel_version%|%encoded_data2%|
- %encoded_data2% is the MD5 hash of the following:
- %hardware_UUID%Jiangxi
- %is_user_daemon% is "1" if the process is running as the first OS X user account or daemon "0" otherwise
The filename and actual content of the payload depends on reply of the remote host. The reply is compressed and encrypted but the actual content follows this format:
- %encoded_filename%|%encoded_binary1_content%|%encoded_payload_config%| %encoded_binary2_content%|%encoded_png_content%
- Binary 1
Binary1 is more or less the malware's main component. In the sample that we analyzed, it hijacks CFReadStreamRead and CFWriteStreamWrite by creating an interposition to these functions. The malware modifies contents returned or send by these APIs. It targets the contents of specific webpages, as determined by config information returned by the remote host.
- Binary 2
Binary2 is basically a filter component that will load binary1 only into a targeted process. This is to avoid crashing incompatible applications and raising the user's suspicions. In the sample that we analyzed, it targets the Safari web browser.
Only after downloading the payload does Flashback.I proceed with infecting the machine. To do so, the malware prompts for the administrator password, as in the following screenshot:
The icon indicated by the red box in the screenshot is the PNG content returned by the remote host. This is dropped to the location '/tmp/.i.png' on the system. Since this image is controlled by the remote host, it can be changed any time the author deems necessary.
Whether or not the user inputs their administrator password at the prompt determines the type of infection the malware subsequently performs:
Infection Type 1
If the user inputs their administrator password, the malware will create the following files:
- /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.%decoded_filename%.png - contains %decoded_binary1_contents% and %decoded_payload_config%
- /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.%decoded_filename%.xsl - contains %decoded_binary2_contents%
The malware then creates a launch point, inserting the following line into "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist":
- <key>LSEnvironment</key><dict><key>DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</key>
This in effect will inject binary2 into Safari when the browser is launched.
If the malware was able to infect the system this way, it reports success to the following URL:
- h t t p ://18.104.22.168/stat_d/
If it failed to infect the system, the malware reports to the following URL:
- h t t p ://220.127.116.11/stat_n/
Infection Type 2
In cases where the user did not input their administrator password, the malware checks if the following path exists in the system:
- /Applications/Microsoft Word.app
- /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008
- /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011
- /Applications/Skype.app
If any of these are found, the malware again skips the rest of its routine and proceeds to delete itself, presumably to avoid infecting a system that has an incompatible application installed.
If none of the incompatible applications are found, the malware will create the following files:
- ~/Library/Application Support/.%decoded_filename%.tmp - contains %decoded_binary1_contents% and %decoded_payload_config%
- /Users/Shared/.libgmalloc.dylib - contains %decoded_binary2_contents%
The malware then creates a launch point by creating "~/.MacOSX/environment.plist", containing the following lines:
- <key>DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</key>
This in effect will inject binary2 into every application launched by the infected user.
For this infection type, the malware reports the successful infection to the following URL:
- h t t p : / / 22.214.171.124/stat_u/


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Yes. You can lighten up packaged mixes by trying lower-fat options in preparation. For example, use half of the oil called for in packaged pasta salad mixes, or try using low-fat or skim milk when making instant pudding. For packaged rice dishes and similar products, use only half the flavoring packet to cut down on sodium.
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I have wanted to research this for a while now, and I will at some point, but I'm pretty sure that if we were to figure out the Packers record for games in which Korey Hall has played, it would show that the Packers win considerably more games than when he is not on the field.
Korey Hall the key?
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November 27, 2009 at 2:15 am |
As someone who is a bit older than Korey, but the high schools we each wen to play each other in sports every year, and I am very proud he plays on the Packers. He isn't perfect, but he gets the job done. I'm not sure how many Idahoans have played for the Pack besides Jerry Kramer. I think from what I've seen the special teams have improved when he's been on them.


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Ender's Game Trailer: Harrison Ford Raises a Space Army
I hope you haven't grown weary of seeing young adult novels on the big screen, because we've got another one for you. Ender's Game is set in a future where humans are being dominated by an alien race and start training young teens to command their star fleets (it's kind of like kiddie Star Trek). The most promising student is Ender (Asa Butterfield), who enters Battle School and starts learning under the tutelage of a gruff colonel (Harrison Ford).
First of all, I can't believe how much Butterfield has aged since Hugo — his voice is much deeper, and he looks ready to kick some ass in this preview. In addition to that, this film looks pretty awesome. Not only are the visual effects exciting, but I'm also interested in the moral dilemma brought up in the trailer about training kids to be military leaders. Plus, the cast boasts many Oscar nominees (which this trailer is happy to remind you of). The film hits theaters Nov. 1, but you can watch the trailer when you read more.


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The women of The Talk took it all off for the Season 3 premiere. Co-hosts Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Aisha Tyler and Sheryl Underwood went makeup-free during Monday's episode.
The hosts weren't the only ones to go au naturel. Guest Jamie Lee Curtis also appeared without makeup.
The show started off with side-by-side photo comparisons of the ladies, allowing viewers to see the hosts' extreme make-unders — not to mention ample opportunities for self-deprecating humor!
Leah Remini: Sharon Osbourne got me fired from The Talk For being "ghetto"Underwood couldn't resist laughing as the before-and-after shots of her appeared on screen. "I'm glad you're applauding, but I'm more worried about scaring the children," she told the audience. Underwood also joked that the producers had put the wrong picture in the "before" slot, replacing the one of her in makeup with one of Rev. Al Sharpton.To see the other hosts' hilarious responses to their make-unders, watch the video below.


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Broken leg sidelines Broncos LB Danny Trevathan
The Denver Broncos will be without starting weakside linebacker Danny Trevathan for at least six weeks, the team announced Tuesday.
Trevathan was carted off the practice field Tuesday morning and was later diagnosed with a "tibial impaction fracture" — a break near the top of the shinbone, adjacent to the knee — the team said in a statement. Trevthan is expected to be back within six to eight weeks, making the team's Week 5 game against the Arizona Cardinals a legitimate target. The Broncos play the Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs and Seattle Seahawks before their Week 4 bye.
Even if Trevathan is able to return before midseason, this is a significant loss for a defense that was finally getting healthy.
Trevathan last season emerged both as a major playmaker (remember his fourth-quarter interception of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo?) and a leader. He is the player who wears the communication helmet to convey plays in the huddle.
Trevathan was one of the healthiest Broncos last year and provided a consistent presence when so many others were injured. Denver lost safety Rahim Moore, defensive end Derek Wolfe, defensive tackle Kevin Vickerson, outside linebacker Von Miller and cornerback Chris Harris over the final half of last season.
Brandon Marshall, a special teams contributor late last season, is expected to take Trevathan's spot for now. He'll join middle linebacker Nate Irving, a first-year starter at that position, and eventually Miller at outside linebacker. Miller will continue to be limited in the preseason as he recovers from offseason ACL surgery.
"I'm very confident. Confidence is a big part of this game, and I know I have the skillset; I have the mind to do it," Marshall told reporters Tuesday afternoon. "So it's just a matter of the opportunity. So if I ever have the opportunity, I will get it done."
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(Pocket-lint) - The Roberts Radio Vintage is the latest DAB from the British brand, following on from its hugely popular Revival radio and being launched as part of Roberts' 80th anniversary celebrations.
Sporting similar retro styling to the distinctive Revival model, the new Vintage blends a leather cloth finish with wooden effect side panels and at just £119.99, the Vintage offers nostalgic aesthetics for a fraction of the price of the Revival, so it won't break the bank. Unlike the Revival, which is available in a massive range of different colours and finishes, the Vintage will only be available in black.
The radio is also much more compact than the Revival and the fact that it includes a built-in battery charger is good news if you don't want your radio to be tethered to the mains all of the time. We found that the radio was also extremely lightweight so it's certainly suitable for portable use.
Along with a DAB tuner, the radio also includes an FM tuner - ideal for those in areas where DAB coverage is still unreliable. The Vintage offers unlimited station presets, along with a favourite station button. We didn't hear the radio in action, so we'll have to reserve judgement on the audio quality until we've had a review sample in.
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Compiled by Julia Friedman
Between June 2014 and April 2015, Dave Hickey posted almost 3,000 digital comments on social media, prompting nearly 700,000 words in response from art lovers, acolytes, and skeptics. Wasted Words is an unedited comprehensive transcript of these exchanges. This polyphonic digital discourse reveals the range of Hickey's strong opinions, as he embarks on a crypto-enlightenment project for the benefit of "dunces" and "pricks."
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|Dust Bunnies: Dave Hickey's Online Aphorisms June 2014 - March 2015
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Dustbunnies is an assemblage of "swept up" fragments that came from a vast digital discourse that took place in Dave Hickey's social media space between June 2014 and March 2015. During that time Hickey posted almost 3,000 comments, prompting nearly 700,000 words in response from art lovers, acolytes and skeptics. Wasted Words, the resulting volume, is an unedited comprehensive transcript of these exchanges. Its pendant publication, Dustbunnies, distills Hickey's richly aphoristic comments, extracted from various discussion threads.
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Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism:
Alexei Remizov's Synthetic Art
by Julia Friedman
The great modernist eccentric Alexei Remizov was a "writers' writer" whose innovative poetic prose has long since entered the Russian literary canon. Gradually expanding his working methods to make drawing an integral part of the writing process, during the 1930s and 1940s, Remizov created hundreds of albums that combined texts with collages and india ink and watercolor illustrations. (more)
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|Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev
Adele Marie Barker (Editor), Eliot Borenstein (Contributor), Julia Friedman (Contributor), Adam Weiner (Contributor), Elizabeth Kristofovich Zelensky (Contributor), Robert Edelman (Contributor)
With the collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s, the Russian social landscape has undergone its most dramatic changes since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, turning the once bland and monolithic state-run marketplace into a virtual maze of specialty shops—from sushi bars to discotheques and tattoo parlors... (more)
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"A Powerless Seeker: Merezhkovsky's Romance as Life-Writing" by Julia Friedman
The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its essence in an article that appeared on April 24, 1887, in L'Art moderne...
"The Writing-Drawing Continuum of Alexei Remizov," by Julia Friedman
"Elective affinities" - a notion originally borrowed by Goethe for his 1809 novel of the same title from eighteenth-century chemistry - here refers to the active role of the two partners in the relationship of the pictorial and the verbal...
In In Elective Affinities: Word & Image Interactions 6, 2008
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Another pretty sobering report on the state of small businesses. Take a look through the pages and I think you will find a big disconnect between what you see here and what is being trumpeted elsewhere. There is also a large disconnect from expectations and what actually transpires. I think that as long as our economy is at the point of debt saturation that disappointment will be the name of the game until the system is cleansed:
Three charts in this report stood out to me… This one shows a dramatic plunge in prices and that wages are being pressured:
This next chart shows the dramatic difference in planned versus actual prices. That's tough if you own and run a small business:
Next is a chart showing aggregate small business earnings, now down well over 40%. I took the liberty of drawing in a red zero line on this chart:
Plenty of other good charts and tables are clearly presented inside the report, a good study.
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(CNN) -- Joss Christensen led a U.S. clean sweep in freestyle skiing slopestyle at the Sochi Winter Olympics Thursday before paying an emotional tribute to his late father.
The 22-year-old Christensen dominated both the heats and finals, producing the two best runs on each occasion, to take the gold.
With Gus Kenworthy taking silver and Nicholas Goepper winning bronze, it was an all-American podium.
Christensen, who struggled to find his form after his father James passed away last August, came to the Games as an outsider and as the last pick on the U.S. team, but with scores of 95.80 and 93.80 in the final the Games debutant was an emphatic victor.
But his first thoughts were with his dad. "I wish he was here and I hope he is smiling down on me. I hope I made him proud. I did it for him," he said.
Christensen was also congratulated by Sage Kotsenburg, who won the first gold of the Sochi Games, taking the snowboard version of slopestyle Saturday.
"It's hard not to feel a lump in your throat when you here Joss' story," he said.
The United States has proved dominant in slopestyle, which is making it's debut in the Winter Olympics, winning three of the four golds on offer plus a silver.
German joy in luge
Meanwhile, German domination in the luge is total as the team completed a clean sweep of gold medals by storming to victory in the first-ever relay event at the Games.
Women's champion Natalie Geisenberger, men's gold medalist Felix Loch and doubles winners Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt combined for Germany's seventh gold to date in Sochi.
Nicknamed the "Bayern Express," the team proved unbeatable and finished over a second clear of silver medalist Russia, with Latvia in bronze.
China makes skating history
But there was an upset in the women's 1,000 meters speed skating competition as Chinese outsider Zhang Hong beat her more established rivals to claim her country's first victory in the event.
Zhang clocked one minute 14.02 seconds as an early starter and had to sit while 11 further pairs of skaters attempted to beat her time at the Adler Arena oval.
Ireen Wust of the Netherlands, the 3,000m gold medalist, came closest, but was over half a second slower in taking the silver.
Read: Sochi: Not your average Olympics
Fellow Dutch competitor Margot Boer took the bronze while fancied American pair Heather Richardson and world record-holder Brittany Bowe were only seventh and eighth.
China also came out on top in a chaotic women's 500m short track speed skating final, which was marred by a three-skater pileup.
Five-time world champion Li Jianrou stayed upright to take the gold but admitted fortune had been on her side.
"I believe it's a miracle. I always believe in myself. I skated like I do in my daily training. I'm lucky to get this gold medal," she said.
Britain's Elise Christie crossed the line second but was disqualified after officials ruled she had caused the crash.
Italy's Arianna Fontana, the bronze medalist from Vancouver in 2010, took silver with Park Seung-Hi of South Korea in bronze.
Bjoerndalen upstaged by new biathlon star
Martin Fourcade made it double gold in Sochi as he followed his 12.5 km pursuit triumph with victory in the 20 km individual biathlon event.
The 25-year-old is the first French athlete to win two golds at a Games since alpine skiing great Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.
Read: Is Mexican the most interesting competitor at Winter Games?
Germany's Erik Lesser took silver and Russian Evgeniy Garanichev won bronze on his 26th birthday, but there was disappointment for Norwegian veteran Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.
The 40-year-old failed in his bid to win Winter Olympic record of 13 medals when he finished in 34th after problems in the shooting section, where he picked four penalties.
"I wanted to show my rivals that I'm still angry," said Fourcade after his triumph, when asked if he was "focused" or "angry."
On a day when six golds were awarded, Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland won the women' s 10km classic style event in nordic skiing.
Read: Five favorite moments Wednesday at the Games
Kowalczyk, who started favorite, finished nearly 20 seconds clear of Charlotte Kalla of Sweden, with Therese Johaug of Norway in third place.
Away from the medal action, Russia's ice hockey men opened their campaign with a 5-2 win over Slovenia, while the United States thrashed Slovakia 7-1 and defending champions Canada beat Norway 3-1.
But there was disappointment for the host nation when figure skating hero Yvegeny Plushenko dramatically withdrew just before he was due to compete in the men's figure skating short program.
The 31-year-old had been personally congratulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin after helping his country to win the team gold Sunday.
A two-time Olympic champion, he was bidding to become the first man to win five figure skating medals at the Winter Games.


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A First... Two Legs For One VOR Stopover
A bit more than the usual stopover inshore racing, the new leg will run from Itajai out into the Atlantic to round Saint Helena, and then back, before the next leg to Newport Rhode Island.
"In effect now we have three stopovers in Brazil" said VOR CEO Knut Frostad. Leg one stops at Recife where the state of Pernambuco is sponsoring an entry. "We can now confirm a new entry from the state of Santa Catarina, and as usual, we like to base our legs around confirmed teams. We already had a stopover in Itajai at the end of the leg from Auckland, and to clinch the deal we've agreed to a long 'out and back' returning to port. This will make for a very prolonged venue party for visitors, but if any nationality can sustain those levels of partying, it's the Brazilians. Have you ever had a Caipirinha? Ever seen someone drink about 2 dozen of them in one sitting? I have. Not to name names, but don't go drinking with the Brazilian Olympic Team if you value your life and liver..."
Taking into consideration sailors' well-founded fears of a very slow leg across and back through the Doldrums, the race committee has reserved the right to allow the boats to use their engines for as much time as it may take to help the 3000+ mile traverse stay within the scheduled 10 days. "We can't have them just bobbing out there for weeks, if need be, we'll will impose strict horsepower limitations as part of the one design rules, one design propellers, possibly exact engines across the fleet, and then fire them up if the winds won't cooperate" added Knudson.
"Doesn't hurt, frankly that Volvo has a division that makes marine engines, so we will see some nice company cross-branding if the Doldrums really hurt the sailing. A win-win regardless, eh?".
Larry Writes a Check, "STFU" Program Gains Steam Worldwide
An animated Larry Ellison spoke to reporters after leaving city hall, saying "I'd just had it, frankly. My company employs tens of thousands of people, many here in the Bay Area. The mutlipler effect of our technologies in synergy with other tech giants has powered the Tech Boom that has added tens of billions of dollars in tax revenues and countless jobs."
"I spent tens of millions of my own money winning the America's Cup to bring it home to San Francisco Bay, one of the greatest, most spectator-friendly sailing venues in the world. The event is going to bring in millions in revenue and tons of jobs to the area. And yet this annoying little gnat whines about having been 'played' by the America's Cup, and fusses about a lousy 20 million. What a wanker. Not to be to flippant, but I have that much money in my couch cushions. Worth every dime to not have to hear him again. My lawyers have an ironclad agreement and Mr. Avalos will quite literally be sued into oblivion if he utters a single negative comment again until the event is over."
"I should have thought of this before. I've made lots of political contributions over the years, but now I think my money would be best spent buying silence from political cretins. I wonder how much it would take to get Sarah Palin to go hide in a bear cave for a few years..."
* In a related development, the STFU program has taken root in Europe, with English billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson paying a reported 30 million pounds to have David Cameron and George Osborne "put a sock in their pie-holes" according to a source inside the Virgin Group.
German industrialist and sailor Hasno Plattner, founder of SAP, has reportedly paid 3 milliion Euros "to never hear Angela Merkel speak another word about austerity budgets" which he claims, with ample evidence, are destroying Europe. "I'd have paid another million to videotape her eating a can of dog food, the same fate she's forced upon millions of pensioners across the continent, but she turned it down. She'd probably do it for 2 million. As George Bernard Shaw famously told a dinner date 'we've determined what kind of woman you are, now we're just negotiating the price' ".
Regrettably there have not been enough takers in the "Silence the Hound Dog" fund to get Silvio Berlusconi to shut up. "His fortune, his ego, and his contempt for anything remotely restrained and civilized have stymied our efforts" said a prominent Italian industrialist speaking on terms of anonymity.
Who Needs The 'X' Factor When Boats Are Being Assessed For The 'Taste' Factor
When we contacted the RORC Rating Office in Lymington, who jointly own and administer the IRC rule with UNCL in France, their official comment was that they were bound by international directives just like everybody else. However, a member of staff when pushed for confirmation, explained:
'We sometimes get applications from boats that have no taste in decor, are filthy dirty or are downright ugly; of course we also get some that are really, really nice. We think that pretty boats with nice upholstery should be encouraged, and the Taste Factor is one way of controlling what the boats on the race course look like.'
It has yet to be confirmed whether there will be a grandfathering clause in the new Taste Factor, but perhaps now is the time to give your boat a spring clean and order some new upholstery! It might also be wise to think pretty hard before applying those tasteless graphics, and if you're looking at purchasing a new boat, consider this: just how attractive is it?
You can find the IRC photograph guidelines here: http://tinyurl.com/irc-photo-guide
HPR To Embrace Wing Sails
"We will have to make some adjustments in how to measure and rate boats with wing sails, but I'm confident we can find the right solutions," said Bill Lee, legendary Santa Cruz-based ULDB designer and builder, and author of the HPR Rule. "What's important is that we retain our perceptive edge at being on the forefront of technology in the sport, something the America's Cup has provided for over a century, and we see this as being a great place to make the millions spent in current AC design more relevant to the mainstream of the sport."
"Yes, it would be a little different having these boats to race against," said Steve Benjamin, a founder of HPR and co-owner of one the latest HPR designs, the Carkeek 40 Spookie. "But this is a class dedicated to innovation and speed, so we welcome all design attempts to provide fast, close racing and inspire others to want to join in on the fun."
From the AC side, the move is also seen as important to give a place to apply the technology development by the few remaining AC teams, as well as employment opportunities for team members once the current AC cycle has finished.
"Who knows what's going to happen after this summer is over, Larry could decide to start playing golf," said Russell Coutts, CEO of Defender Oracle. "I'm all set for a while, but our team and the others will likely do a massive downsizing this Fall, and these guys will need something to do. Winged sails on high-speed offshore boats sounds like a perfect solution."
Harken Winches Go Glam
The Harken design team developed a complex pattern making element that, when added to their manufacturing process, allows them to create funky new designs on their winches. The first three patterns released in the fashion range are zebra stripes, leopard spots (in genuine fake fur effect) and a dazzling glitter finish.
The elements are interchangeable. If the mood of the yacht changes, simply take the winch apart as if you were servicing it, unclip the styled sections, and replace them with an alternative pattern or colour-way.
"Having listened to a number of requests from sailors, there is a proven need for personalising the look of our winch range," states Peter Harken. "We like to be at the forefront of the marine industry and when our engineers realised we had the manufacturing capabilities to style components of our winches, it was a no brainer to come up with some funky new designs." Harken's chief stylist, Toby LaRone, states his inspiration for our first three prints as from the early days of Harken in the late sixties and early seventies when glam chic was at the forefront of fashion. "I really felt it was a good fit for today's accessorized market. And why not put some jazzle on board!"
The Harken UK projects team specified the Zebra winches on T'rextasy, the new TP52 which is in build as we speak.
These glamorously innovative styles are available in sizes 20 - 70 and are available April 1, 2013. The design team continues their work on future style designs; neon fluorescent colour range and floral prints are coming soon.
Cutty Sark Burns Again
Fire broke out last evening on the most famous of all Clipper Ships, the Cutty Sark. This just months after completion of a restoration project costing over 50 million pounds from a fire in 2007 that nearly destroyed the iconic vessel.
Virtually the entire hull has been destroyed, with only the three masts left intact with most of their rigging in salvagable condition.
This second fire was not caused by workmen as in 2007, this one was from Mother Nature... and glass.
The historic vessel had been hoisted more than three metres above the ground at its riverside location.
This allowed a gallery, cafe and entertainment space to be created underneath.
The glass canopy was installed to protect the lower part of the ship and lets visitors walk beneath the hull.
But conservation groups have in the past criticised the canopy, designed by Eden Project architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, for obscuring the lines of the hull -- one of the ship's main attractions.
Local fire marshall Beauregard T. "Scruggs" McTavish, leader of a group that's protested the Cutty Sark project for years stated today the design itself caused the blaze.
"A warm day, glass canopy, glass saltshaker and a pile of napkins. Ever used a magnifying glass to start a fire? The concentration of sunlight through that horrid canopy focused on a near empty salt shaker which in turn focused on a napkin dispenser. Whoosh! Fire. We warned them that the glass canopy was going to be trouble. To say nothing about it being an insult to a fine vessel. All so that yuppie larvae could sip their half-caf skim milk caramel frappa-whatevers beneath the greatest ship that ever sailed the seas. Drink enough of that swill and your gender orientation will change, but I digress..." said Scruggs.
Sailor and architect Julian Harrap, who restored the SS Great Britain and has sailed the Atlantic five times, was equally scathing. "Why on earth hoick it up into the air? Why do you have to put these bloody great beams right through the middle of it, to damage the fabric of it?'
He suggests that now the best path given England's dire financial straits is the opposite tack of what went before:
"Last time we hoisted her up. This time, let's set the burned husk of the hull into the earth where it belongs now, to the ages. Leave the masts and rigging sticking up above ground, plant some grass and turn it into the UK's greatest and most interesting picnic area. Ban any restaurant or gift shop from within a hundred yards of the place. Bring your own picnic basket and blanket, return the ship to the working class in honor of those who toiled in its crew those many years ago. The cost would be about as close to zero as you can get for a project like this. A backhoe, guy wires and grass seed. We can sort it in a week."
There was at press time no comment from the Cutty Sark Trust.
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Demon Possessed Spinnaker?
Noted televangelist Pat Robertson, based in Virginia, USA, has taken a fair amount of criticism lately for telling a caller to his show that "Not all sweaters you get from a Goodwill store are demon-possesed" but also stating that "Can demonic spirits attach themselves to inanimate objects? The answer is yes. Your mother's just being super cautious so hey, it isn't gonna hurt you any to rebuke any spirits that happen to have attached themselves to those clothes."
Comments across the political and religious spectrum ranged from "barking mad, a complete waste of protoplasm" to "I think you'd be hard pressed to find any sane person who'd bother to cross the street to piss on his head if his hair was on fire" and the like.
But if a couple in Brighton are to be believed, Robertson may not be far off the mark. They claim that the spinnaker on their Contessa 32 is demon possessed.
Roger and Rita Fairbanks purchased their spinnaker at the Batley Townswomans Guild boat jumble last fall, and in every instance of sailing this spring, they have suffered from single, double and even a triple wrap.
"Batley had an issue with some gypsy 'travelers' inhabiting the space a week before the jumble. Fortunately unlike the recently cancelled Dorset Jumble, they cleared out without a legal nudge, but they appeared to be Romany, less trouble than the Irish in some respects, but this one old woman I recognized from their encampment came to the jumble, shrieked some undiscernable words and was wearing what looked to be AC/DC light-up devil horns. I believe she cursed everything there." said Rita.
"Without fail, this spinnaker wraps itself, rather diabolically I think, for it will do so in any wind condition. It's like it's mocking me. I swear I heard growling from the forward locker where we stow it, but Rita thinks that was just Basil, her pet rat terrier doing a bit of mousing... Funny, seemed like a much lower tone than that wretched little rodent can manage. It sounded like 'GET OUT'. The local vicar isn't too keen on exorcisms, I'm at a loss of what to do. Sail in a non-spinnaker class and bury this thing in a garlic patch with a cross and a Bible is my well-considered opinion".
J/70 New Olympic Class, Upsets Star Hopes
"Three hundred fifty boats sold across the globe in a very short period of time... that was a huge factor in our decision making process" said IOC President Jacques Rogge. "The class met the global criteria in, what, a month? Simply astounding growth."
The site of the racing for the class is also a shock: Copacabana Beach. "With a lifting keel, and class rules permitting a 2.5 hp engine, we can rope off a section of the beach and launch right into the surf. With the Stars we'd have to have had an army of volunteers and countless boat lifts." said long-time ISAF staffer Simon Forbes. "Our toughest decision will be how far offshore to hold the racing from the beach. Not for considerations of wind or tides... we need to keep the nearly all-male crews a bit away from the beach. We need to make sure they concentrate on sailing, and not so much the girls of Copacabana. Shocking perhaps that world class sailors could be distracted by stunning women wearing about 4 square inches of cloth, but such is the nature of our sport" added Forbes.
"But even a few hundred yards offshore, the natural arena there is such that literally hundreds of thousands of people will be able to view the sailing. Now we just need to get the IOC to permit advertising on the mainsails and spinnakers, and make sure ISAF gets a good cut of that action" said ISAF Secretary General Jerome Pels.
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The upcoming Broadway musical "Nice Work if You Can Get It" may have a familiar whiff to Connecticut audiences.
This new-old Gershwin show bears a striking resemblance to "They All Laughed" which was also marketed as a new-old Gershwin musical when it premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House in the summer of 2001.
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" — which stars Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick as a Long Island playboy involved with bootleggers — is written by Joe DiPietro, who also penned "They All Laughed" which was about a Long Island playboy involved with bootleggers. (Both versions share the same loose premise as the Gershwin's 1926 musical, "Oh. Kay!"
In a side note, "They All Laughed" was the second time Goodspeed went to the "Oh, Kay!" well. It produced an all-black version in the '80s, which later transferred to Broadway and was the last show produced by David Merrick.
"Of course we contributed to its development," says Michael Price, executive produced of Goodspeed Musicals, "but our deal had a time factor [in which to further develop the show]."
Theaters which initially produce a new show that goes on to be done elsewhere can receive a percentage of the profits as the show's original developer. "But it's not for us to claim now."
Christopher Ashley directed the Goodspeed show which Joey McKneely choreographed. James Ludwig and Marla Schaffel had the leading roles. Also featured were Donna English, Mary Beth Peil, Mark Lotito and Michael McGrath, who is now featured in "Nice Work" in the same role.
The Gershwin estate no doubt is eager to strike gold with another re-packaging of tunes from its catalogue, especially with the copyrights clock going tick…tick…tick. It's worked two times before. The first with 1983's "My One and Only" (based on "Funny Face") which has a nice Broadway run with Tommy Tune and Twiggy. The second was with 1992's "Crazy for You" (based on "Girl Crazy") which was a smash that starred Harry Groener.
But "They All Laughed" received mixed notices from the critics when it played Goodspeed in that fateful year od 2001 — though it had a good run in East Haddam, according to the theater's spokesman
Variety's Markland Taylor wrote that the production the show "can't make up its mind as to whether it's a 'new Gershwin musical' or a spoof of one…Joe DiPietro's new book is inferior to the Bolton-Wodehouse original, so what's the point? Ditto the new score, which is made up of too many mediocre Gershwin number…The results are not only tiresome but actively annoying in their invalidation of the Gershwins' genius."
Alvin Klein in the Connecticut edition of The New York Times: "The formula goes something like this. Pull out any old songs from a dead composer's trunk. A few newly discovered ones would assure scholarly and archival importance. But be sure to toss in a scintilla of standards that audiences can hum on the way into the theater…What DiPietro has concocted here is labored, contrived, often giddily right and in the end, very winning."
Malcolm Johnson of The Hartford Courant: "The ridiculous is sometimes amusing, of course, and Joe DiPietro's clumsy but lively reworking of 'Oh, Kay!' has bright moments, thanks, in large part, to its fine leads."
The Goodspeed production never moved on but there were stirrings over the years that the Gershwin Estate was trying to get another new pastiche going. Harry Connick's name was mentioned as the lead at one point — seemingly a better fit that his present role in "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" — and it would have been a nice match with O'Hara, whom he teamed with in the popular revival of "The Pajama Game."
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" begins previews March 29 and opens April 24 at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. The show is directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall (the Broadway revival of "Anything Goes"). Also featured in "Nice Work" is Judy Kaye, Jennifer Laura Thompson; Terry Beaver; Robyn Hurder; Stanley Wayne Mathis and Chris Sullivan.
I hope the Goodspeed folks at least get invited to the opening night party.
Photos by Diane Sobolewski, except for the chorus swimming photo and shot of Ludwig on Schaffell's lap by Stephen Dunn.


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A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments—the process that lets players buy and sell virtual items within a video game. But one lawyer says the patent in question could be KO'd by video games from the late 1990's.
The patent in question is US Patent No. 7076445 which claims to invent a payment system that lets users buy things "without interrupting the game." The patent's new owner claims the maker of a new generation of games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Barn Buddy are infringing its technology.
(MORE: Zynga Shares Jump on Facebook IPO Connection)
The patent owner may have a problem, however, if game makers can show that the payment system existed before 2000 when the patent application was filed. And several games from the 1990's may help them do just that.
Jim Gatto, who leads the Social Media, Entertainment and Technology team at Pillsbury law firm, says he is looking at QuizQuiz and other games made by Korean firm Nexon that may include a similar payment system. He also says multi-player role-playing games like Achaea are "of interest."
Gatto adds that games involving multi-player engagements and transactions grew out of virtual worlds designed in the 1980's by MMOG pioneer Richard Bartle.
(MORE: Yahoo Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Patents)
If the earlier games contain the same payment technology as that described by US Patent No. 7076445, then Facebook and the game makers can ask a court or the US patent office to declare it invalid.
In legal terms, earlier work—including video games—is known as "prior art" which is used to determine if a patent is indeed new and non-obvious. As patent suits have engulfed the technology sector in recent years, firms like Article One Partners have emerged that reward people who can provide prior art to knock out suspect patents.
The owner of the virtual payment is a shell company called Gametek LLC but for now it's not possible to determine who is behind the shell. The last year has seen the rise of leading patent attorneys going into business with hedge funds in order to sue companies that make products, a practice known as patent trolling.


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Boo, E., T. B. Ng, and P. G. Shankar. 2016. Effects of Incentive Scheme and Working Relationship on Whistle-Blowing in an Audit Setting. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 35 (4): 23 – 38.
This experiment illustrates the fact that organizations should carefully craft their whistleblower hotline policies so as to minimize the salience of retaliation risk. For example, instead of describing explicit protections from retaliation, the organization could explicitly describe the its commitment to ethical behavior. Furthermore, organizations may wish to publicize successful instances of employee whistleblowing as a means of increasing the availability of instances in which whistleblower retaliation did not occur.
Wainberg, J. and S. Perreault. 2016. Whistleblowing in Audit Firms: Do Explicit Protections from Retaliation Activate Implicit Threats of Reprisal? Behavioral Research in Accounting 28 (1): 83-93.
The findings from these two studies illustrate that the susceptible follower problem associated with these characteristics is pervasive, influencing two steps within the ethical decision-making process. Furthermore, the results suggest that more than one in ten individuals are vulnerable in ethical dilemmas.
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Kaplan, S. E., K. R. Pope, and J. A. Samuels. 2010. The Effect of Social Confrontation on Individuals' Intentions to Internally Report Fraud. Behavioral Research in Accounting 22 (2): 51-67.
The results of this study are important for audit firms to consider when designing their ethics and whistleblowing policies. The evidence indicates that auditors' are sensitive to power distance, and while no main effect for prior organizational response was found, prior research suggests that there are other costs associated with the perception that a firm does not respond to reports of ethical violations. Furthermore, it indicates that gender plays a role in an auditor's sensitivity to power distance, and that the perceived moral intensity of the violation, which influences reporting likelihood, is moderated by the position of the observer, relative to the perpetrator. The study highlights the importance of firm culture and the implementation and enforcement of effective whistleblowing and ethical polices on the likelihood of employees to report observed ethical violations.
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The proposal, which seeks the input of other government agencies as well as industry groups, could provoke the ire of Big Pharma, which has clashed with India over protection of intellectual property, price regulations for generic drugs, and compulsory licenses for costly medicines.
A panel formed under the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers has recommended setting up a committee to negotiate with drugmakers to fix prices of costly drugs used to treat deadly diseases such as cancer, HIV and hepatitis.
The proposal is the latest in a series of measures taken by India to make medicines more affordable for the country's 1.2 billion population.
"If we compare the per-capita income with the prices of patented medicines in countries like Australia or France, prices in India are comparatively high and hence, they need to be regulated," a senior ministry official told Reuters, declining to be identified because he was not authorised to speak with media.
Generic medicines account for more than 90 percent of India's $13 billion pharmaceuticals market. U.S.-based Abbott Laboratories has the largest share of the overall Indian drug market followed by India's Cipla.
The proposal, posted late on Monday on the ministry website, cites as an example the lung-cancer drug erlotinib HCL, sold by Roche Holding AG as Tarceva. In India, it costs 35,450 rupees ($660) for one month of 100 mg tablets, equivalent to 121,085 rupees in France and 121,650 rupees in Australia.
Based on per-capita gross national incomes, if the drug costs 35,450 rupees in India, its respective cost would be just 11,643 rupees in France and 10,309 rupees in Australia based on per capita income in the respective countries, the report said.
The Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India, which represents foreign drugmakers in India, did not reply to questions from Reuters.
"If stringent price regulations are enforced then latest drugs will not be made available in India," said Ameet Hariani, managing partner at Hariani & Co, a Mumbai-based law firm that advises drugmakers and other companies.


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Using 27 fresh-from-the-studio tracks, one of the world's biggest DJs has musically decoded his club capital for 2012. From across the electronic dance spectrum comes thermic audio from the likes of KhoMha, Mr Pit, Basil O'Glue, Rex Mundi, Elevation vs. Grube & Hovsepian and many others. It also features, exclusively, 'Bolandish'- Markus' incredible new track.
During the last weeks of 2011, via a dedicated video-cast, Markus Schulz revealed that the setting for his 2012 City compilation would be the sprawling electronic dancetropolis of Los Angeles.
On making the announcement, Markus said: "electronic dance music has blown up huge in the United States this past 12 months. One of the main reasons driving that is the scene in Los Angeles, where a new generation of clubbers are uniting with long-term fans and creating one of the most passionate scenes anywhere on the globe. I've played there many times in my career, at the Monster Massive festivals, the Electric Daisy Carnivals and 3 years New Years Eves at Together As One, and they've all been so memorable in their own way!"
Following the broadcast Markus began his musical mission to embody the dance-heart of one of the biggest cities on the planet and build a mix testament to it.
As is now the City series' custom path, 'LA '12' discs are opened by Markus himself, who infuses each mix with an atmospherically charged overture. Under his San Andreas Soundlab alias, 'Hollywood Boulevard' teleports the listener straight down into the early evening thrive of the iconic Tinsel-town sidewalk. As the sun starts to set, the rush of the passing traffic melts into long expectant synth sweeps, which, beat-free, beautifully capture the palpable anticipatory buzz of a long LA night ahead.
Danilo Ercole and Wellenrausch soundtrack this day-to-night transformation with their newest studio wares, 'A Man With Two Names' and 'Million Miles To Run'. Pushing 'LA'12' further down this potent, progressive freeway, the swirling strains of Nifra 'Dark Harbour' and the epically spacious 'Hyperfocus' from Mark Otten intoxicate the mix and ratchet its tension. As the tougher sounds begin to filter their way in with ever-greater frequency, so the clubbers pulse quickens. The auditory punch of Beat Service's 'Fortuna' produces a knockout moment, as does the unrestricted uprush of Styller's striking 'Quantum Mechanics'. Pushing Mix #1's mercury conclusively through the roof is the rolling thunder of 'Bolandish' – Markus' latest atom-splitter.
For just a moment disc 2 drops the drums out with the evocative, echoic 911 wail of 'Avalon'. Markus' tribute to the famed Hollywood club, the track plants you right outside its front door. One final glance back up at Capitol Records, etched against LA's night-black cityscape, and the whooping rush of Arnej's 'We Unite' sucks you into Avalon. From there 'LA'12' wholeheartedly and vociferously seizes control of your arms and feet. Through the concussive beats, shock-waving synths and digital discordance of tracks like, Elevation vs. Grube & Hovsepian 'City of Angels', KhoMha's 'Artemis', Aaron Camz 'Aqwa' and Mr Pit's purpose built outro mix of 'River of Hearts', it delivers LA's pitch-perfect audio expo.
If you've not clubbed the city before, this compilation will all-but secure the credentials for you. Capturing the pumped fission and pure passion that put Angelenos' feet on the floor all-year-round, it makes a compelling a case for the city's accession to nu electronic dance capital.
- San Andreas Soundlab – Hollywood Boulevard (Intro Mix Edit)
- Danilo Ercole – A Man With Two Names (Original Mix Edit)
- Wellenrausch – Million Miles To Run (Original Mix Edit)
- Klauss Goulart – Sweet Little Pepper (Original Mix Edit)
- Rebels Without A Cause & York – Red Violin (Original Mix Edit)
- Basil O'Glue – Doublespeak Effects (Original Mix Edit)
- Nifra – Dark Harbour (Original Mix Edit)
- Erick Strong vs Dart Rayne – Shamballa (Original Mix Edit)
- Mark Otten – Hyperfocus (Original Mix Edit)
- Danilo Ercole – Quasar (Original Mix Edit)
- Beat Service – Fortuna (Original Mix Edit)
- Styller – Quantum Mechanics (Original Mix Edit)
- Markus Schulz – Bolandish (Original Mix Edit)
- Markus Schulz – Los Angeles '12 (Full Continuous DJ Mix, Pt. 1)
- San Andreas Soundlab – Avalon (Intro Mix Edit)
- Arnej – We Unite (Original Mix Edit)
- KhoMha – Mind Gamer (Original Mix Edit)
- Rex Mundi – Shocking Blue (Original Mix Edit)
- Styller – All That Remains (Basil O'Glue Remix Edit)
- DNS Project – Recapture (Original Mix Edit)
- Mr. Pit – Pole Position (Original Mix Edit)
- Aaron Camz – Aqwa (Original Mix Edit)
- Omnia & IRA – The Fusion (Original Mix Edit)
- KhoMha – Artemis (Original Mix Edit)
- Rex Mundi – Opaque (Original Mix Edit)
- Elevation vs Grube & Hovsepian – City Of Angels (Original Mix Edit)
- Ercola feat. Annie – Follow Me (Rex Mundi Remix Edit)
- Mr. Pit – River Of Hearts (Outro Mix Edit)
- Markus Schulz – Los Angeles '12 (Full Continuous DJ Mix, Pt. 2)


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