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Clearwater Update
Work will soon be completed on a new, 21,000-square foot facility at Carpenter Field.
East of the clubhouse was a structure that contained four indoor batting tunnels. That's gone. In its place is a building that will house six indoor batting tunnels with climate control, a large gym, video room, and offices for athletic trainers and conditioning coaches.
With the new addition, the Phillies have the finest spring training setup in Floirda.
When the Phillies began spring training in Clearwater in 1947, they had one facility, a tiny clubhouse at Athletic Field. Heat was provided by a pot-belly stove. Players roomed together at the West Coast Hotel. Wives and cars were not permitted.
World Baseball Classic
USA manager Joe Torre has included two Phillies Alumnus on his coaching staff, Larry Bowa (bench) and Dale Murphy (first base).
Hall of Fame ballots are being distributed this week to members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Announcement of the 2013 inductee(s) will be made in early January.
With Barry Bonds, Roger Clemons and Mark McGwire on the ballot it will be a very interesting election process.
New Reading Name
The Reading Phillies are no longer in existence, in name that is. The Reading club is now known as the Fightin' Phils. Harry Kalas used to refer to the Phillies as the "Fightins'." He would like the new name.
Personally, surprised that Pretzels wasn't chosen.
More Free Agents
Friday is the deadline for clubs to tender contracts to players. One can expect another batch of free agents to hit the market. Deadline used to be in mid-December but it was moved up under the new basic agreement.
Phillies vs. Eagles
Since October 1, the Phillies have one win; the Eagles, zero.
Happy Birthday 26—Richie Hebner (65), Bob Walk (56), Brian Schneider (36) . . . 27—Al Raffo (71), Jimmy Rollins (34) . . . 28—Ken Howell (52), Sixto Jezcano (59) . . . 30—Shane Victorino (32)
Former Phillies scout Jimmy Stewart died on Saturday in Tampa, FL, at age 73. Condolences to his widow, Donna, and family.


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Beautiful Black HairStyles...
WOW WOW WOW... Got tears in my eyes I was soooo stunned at how incredible that hair looks! WOW! Thank you Neftis3d what an absolutely Winner this package looks to be, I cannot wait for Payday to get this one.
Outstanding to say the lease - my mind is buzzing with combinations I'll be doing using this hair and a few from AprilYsh to give me a style I've been imagining for a long time now...
Ikyoto Posts: 1,102
Luckily for me it is payday! I grabbed this and will be rendering up a fast test as soon as I can!
And BTW - the newer installs will point folks to the Read Me's that are hosted online now! Love the new format!
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/14633/startPost edited by Ikyoto on
MargyThunderstorm Posts: 46
Oh, this looks beautiful. Thanks for the heads up, I just bought it. :)
Ikyoto Posts: 1,102
Works really well with Genesis! Have to be careful with smoothing though - keep it REALLY low. This is just one of my characters and NO lighting at all. Put the hair to 100% short and fit Genesis and rendered.BBH01.jpg512 x 600 - 98K
patience55 Posts: 6,989
That was a fast 'in the cart you go'!
Also like the improved purchasing ... can choose 'just' the installer one wants ...
info for those that may want to know, pc installer about 81mb.Post edited by patience55 on
Ikyoto said:Works really well with Genesis! Have to be careful with smoothing though - keep it REALLY low. This is just one of my characters and NO lighting at all. Put the hair to 100% short and fit Genesis and rendered.
Positively stunning! Things are certainly starting to swing in the UP directions! This render is beautiful as far as quickies go! Oh I can't wait. I would have been able to get it if I'd been able to use my PC coupon, but it kept saying it was invalid... and I made sure there were no spaces before or after.
Oh well, I won't have to wait too long - in the meantime, I get to watch you guys play with this excellent addition to Daz3d's hair selection. Well done Neftis... hope you do another variation of it.
Like for instance, one with french braids halfway up, a ban and then the afro in the back. I've been wanting to do that style for a while. Or even, a smooth top so far the ban and then the afro curls.
Thankfully, there are enough other types like that where I can finally combine. Oh I'm so excited, come on folks, do some more!Post edited by MKeyes on
Skiriki Posts: 4,951
It is not DAZ Original item, so you can't use PC coupon for it.
Listed in the Menu of the store - should be - Daz Originals - why it isn't - I do not know... but it should be added. Let's hope there's a plan to make a Daz Original products page so we all know immediately where to PC coupons will work.
anikad Posts: 1,919
Wow those are gorgeous. Does anyone know how long it's on sale for? Pay day is not until the end of the month.
MJ007 Posts: 1,507
LycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
this is awesome, a much needed product, and a big thanx for the gen 4 support !!!
M F M Posts: 1,388
Is it supposed to come with metadata? ... I have only a single file in my downloadable list (14633_BeautifulBlackHairstyles_1.0_dpc.exe - PC)... or is this a feature of the new store? or are they (heaven forbid!) combining the metadata with the base file now?
adamr001 Posts: 1,322
Metadata is included in the base installer, the extra metadata installer is pretty much in case they decided to update the metadata.
RCTSpanky Posts: 803
A hairstlyle like this one was long overdue ... thanks for this style. It looks awesome. Hope we will see a male counterpart to his one soon. :)
Alisa Uh-Lisa Posts: 1,299
Had the same reaction - Gorgeous hair!
RawArt Posts: 4,769
I love it!
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Miss Bad Wolf Posts: 22,042
Can guys like Tyrese use this hair? all the promos show the hair on female figure. Sorry if that might be a dumb question.
DarkRiderDLMC Posts: 561Miss Bad Wolf said:Can guys like Tyrese use this hair? all the promos show the hair on female figure. Sorry if that might be a dumb question.
You might have to position it or tweak it, but yes they can.
Lindsey Posts: 1,731
Here's a quick render of M5 with the new hair. The lighting isn't the best, just one distant light with no shadows. It rendered pretty quick once it started.Black_Hair.jpg800 x 800 - 86K
patience55 Posts: 6,989anikad said:Wow those are gorgeous. Does anyone know how long it's on sale for? Pay day is not until the end of the month.
Today's newsletter says it's on sale 50% off until 6/25/
Angel1359 Posts: 0
LycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
I am sooooo going to need a Pam Grier morph for V4
Gone Posts: 816
Just wanted to show the Afro along with the previous Historical Curls.
Also, an observation. If you have more than 1 copy of Genesis in the scene before you put the Afro on, it will cause that copy of Genesis to "Fit To" the other copy of Genesis. You will need to change the fit back to none to put him back where he belongs.
This only happens with the hair. The cap does not cause this behaviour.HistoricalAfro.jpg800 x 800 - 310K
WhiteMyst Posts: 212
I love this hair!ebhr.jpg618 x 568 - 83K
MargyThunderstorm Posts: 46
I love this hair. It's really beautiful. Here is my first render. Original size: http://margythunderstorm.deviantart.com/#/d54jdjgPortraitsmall.jpg800 x 600 - 245K
mmalbert Posts: 342
Chiming in with another "thank you!" to Neftis for a great hair prop!NewHair.jpg800 x 800 - 431K
Got got got - hubby got it for me and now, I'm rendering... did a combo of hair to get this style I've been wanting for a while. This is really great, however - no telling how long this render is going to be - because I've done my lights...
Sooo... tonight, or tomorrow depending... I'll be able to show my girl! Wow Neftis... what a HIT this is!
Added amendment: Render...
Skyla Hair + Beautiful Black Hairstyles...NwGrl2012-1.jpg768 x 930 - 138KPost edited by MKeyes on
RenderScot Posts: 0
great looking hair had to get it as soon as i saw it - some great renders so far as well
working on a render just now :) warning not your typical one lolPost edited by RenderScot on
SlimerJSpud Posts: 1,364LycanthropeX said:I am sooooo going to need a Pam Grier morph for V4
ROFL! Me too. :lol: In the meantime, try some of the free gals from RenderCandy. Every time I ask a real lady about bringing back the Afro hairstyle, right after they tell me "No way!" I get, "So, you want to wear bell bottoms again, sugar?" :red:


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LOUISVILLE vs. MICHIGAN
Site/time: Georgia Dome, Atlanta/6:23 p.m.
Records: Louisville is 34-5, Michigan is 31-7.
Last meeting: Louisville leads 2-0, both by two points in 1997 and 1978. It is the first meeting between Cardinals coach Rick Pitino and Michigan since the 1993 Final Four in New Orleans, when he was at Kentucky and a Steve-Fisher coached Michigan team won 81-78 in overtime.
The coaches: A contrast in resumes. Pitino has been head coach at five different Div. I schools, plus the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. John Beilein also has made seven stops as a head coach but not quite as high profile: Erie Community College, Nazareth College, LeMoyne College, Canisius College, Richmond, West Virginia and now Michigan. Pitino, interestingly enough, was offered the Michigan job in 2001 and accepted it before his wife convinced him to renege and go to Louisville instead.
Louisville backcourt: The backcourt of Russ Smith and Peyton Siva is the quickest in college basketball, causing equal distress in transition and the halfcourt. With Kevin Ware, the primary backup, on crutches with his surgically-repaired broken leg, Smith played 36 minutes and Siva 34 on Saturday. Whether it was tired legs or the Wichita State defense, neither was lights out: Smith had 21 points on 6-of-17 shooting (and 5 of 12 from the line) plus five turnovers, and Siva was 1 of 9 for seven points.
Louisville frontcourt: Gorgui Dieng has used three of his four years of collegiate eligibility and is expected to enter the NBA draft early. "If he played like he did (Saturday)," Pitino joked, "it will be all four years." The 6-11 center from Senegal had no points, six rebounds and four fouls in 30 minutes, admitting: "I didn't have my A game." He'll need it against Michigan's Mitch McGary, particularly if McGary is able to find holes in Louisville's 2-3 zone. Wayne Blackshear and Chase Behanan start at forward, and neither is particularly explosive offensively, but that might be by design – to give the bench more oomph.
Louisville bench: This is where the Cardinals beat Wichita State, outscoring the Shockers 34-9 in bench points. Luke Hancock, a gritty junior forward whom Pitino calls "the toughest kid I've ever coached times 10," had 20 points on 6-of-9 shooting (3 of 5 on 3s). Forward Montrezl Harrell had eight points and four rebounds in 11 solid minutes of duty. The weakness without Ware is the backcourt, but walk-on Tim Henderson hit two huge 3s during their second-half comeback.
Michigan backcourt: Who's better: Smith and Siva, or Michigan's Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr.? Burke is the consensus national player of the year, and Hardaway Jr. is capable of putting up 30. But they're also better defenders than you'd think, holding Syracuse guards Michael Carter-Williams and Brandon Triche to a combined 13 points Saturday. Burke had just seven points and shot 1 of 8 against Syracuse after averaging 20.2 points during the Big 10 season. But can Louisville count on him having another dud?
Michigan frontcourt: Few players in the nation have made as much progress during the season than the 6-10, 250-pound McGary, who had two points in eight minutes of the regular-season finale against Indiana – and has averaged 14.1 points in seven postseason games (including 25 against No. 1 seed Kansas and 21 against VCU). He's a freshman, yes. But he also two months from his 21st birthday, having spent a year after high school at Brewster Academy. The more mobile Glenn Robinson III (10.9 ppg) and Nik Stauskas (11.2) provide a nice complement to McGary's bulk.
Michigan bench: Only one player on the bench averages more than 11 minutes per game: junior forward Jordan Morgan, who started 95 career games before McGary took over. He played just five minutes Saturday but drew a charge against Syracuse's Triche with 19 seconds left and had the game-sealing dunk. Freshman guard Caris Levert played 21 minutes against Syracuse, but no one else on the bench got more than five, which could be a problem against a Louisville team that sends in wave after wave of substitutes.
Xs and Os: Louisville at some point will extend its defense full court, for better or for worse. It's what the Cardinals do. "I think we can heat those guys up a little bit," Blackshear said. "We have been doing that to every team this year and it's been working." But also know this: VCU has one of the nation's most feared full-court presses and ripped Akron 88-42 in its tournament opener … and then got drilled 78-53 by Michigan. Louisville plays both a matchup zone and man-to-man in the halfcourt, but figure Pitino will start in the zone to keep Smith and Siva out of foul trouble. How well the Wolverines attack it, and how soon they force Pitino to abandon it, will be a huge factor. Beilein's two-guard ball screen offense is unique to Div. I, developed over decades toiling in lower divisions. The cuts and misdirection principles can be tricky to guard, and one reason why they're averaging 75.2 points.


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Marriage for gay and lesbian couples has been a hot button issue, most especially so in the 2004 election cycle when 11 states considered and passed referendums banning (in various ways) same-sex marriages. In 2006 an additional 8 states voted on marriage ballot measures, with only Arizona defeating the proposal. In all, 41 states have statutes defining marriage as "between one man and one woman", and 27 states have put that definition into their constitutions. Only five states currently have no law banning same-sex unions (MA, NJ, NM, NY, RI). In 2008, Florida will have a "defense of marriage" amendment (DOMA) on the ballot, while California is awaiting certification of a ballot proposal and Arizona may reconsider its 2006 initiative (currently awaiting state Senate approval). (An excellent summary of the status of same-sex marriage in the states is available here.)
Despite this overwhelming majority among other states, the California Supreme Court last week ruled that the state cannot constitutionally withhold the right to marriage from same-sex couples. (Text of the ruling is here. The LA Times initial report on the decision is here.) Supporters of gay marriage hailed the decision as a breakthrough for fundamental rights, in line with the same California Court's decision in 1948 striking down laws banning inter-racial marriage. Opponents of gay marriage argued the ruling puts the issue squarely back on the table for 2008 and confirmed the opponents argument that only constitutional amendments can prevent courts from overturning popular opinion on this issue. In 2000 California passed, by a 61%-39% majority, Proposition 22 affirming that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California."
California has one of the strongest domestic partnership laws in the nation, so the Court's decision has the effect of ruling that by withholding the designation "marriage", such domestic partnership laws still fall short of the equal treatment required by the state constitution.
The California decision follows the Massachusetts Supreme Court's ruling of November 18, 2003 which ultimately made Massachusetts the first, and so far only, state to legalize same-sex marriage. (Rhode Island law recognizes same-sex marriages from other states.) Subsequently, the state Supreme Courts of New York, New Jersey and Washington have each declined to find a constitutional right to same sex marriage. Four states have civil union laws providing full state-level spousal rights (CT, NJ, NH and VT) while six have domestic partnership laws that provide varying degrees of spousal rights (DC, HI, ME, OR, WA plus the California law at issue in this decision).
In light of the California decision, let's take a look at public opinion on same-sex marriage and how opinion has responded to past events.
A typical question asks "Do you strongly favor, favor, oppose, or strongly oppose allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally?" (This is the form used by the Pew Research Center polls. There is considerable variation in question wording, but most polling has used a similar dichotomy between favoring gay marriage or opposing it. I've collapsed "degrees" of support or opposition into a dichotomous measure for all polls.) The earliest use of such a question I could find dates back to September 1985, but it was not until 1992 that the question began to be asked regularly. There was a flurry of interest in the question following the Massachusetts ruling and during the 2004 election campaign.
If we rely on that first poll alone, in 1985 82% of the public opposed same sex marriage, while only 11% supported it. By the early 1990s, when the data become richer, opposition was at about 65% while support stood at about 28%. Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the federal "Defense of Marriage Act" in September 1996, but public opinion trends seem not to have noticed at all, neither rising nor falling around that time. By the week of the California ruling, May 15, 2008, opposition had declined to about 55% while support had grown to 40%. The net effect of some 16 years of public debate was a 10 point decline in opposition and a 12 point rise in support.
But that trend was not uniform. The Massachusetts ruling, and the 2004 election campaign, coincided with a sharp, if relatively short term, disruption of the previous slow but steady decade long shift of opinion. The Massachusetts Court decision placed the issue squarely on the public radar, and the 11 state ballot proposals in the 2004 election created the setting for public debate and political exploitation of the issue.
During the year from November 2003 to November 2004, opposition to same-sex marriage rose by five points, from 55% to just over 60%. Meanwhile support fell by about eight points, from 38% to 30%, then rebounded by a point or so by election day. (These shifts slightly predate the Massachusetts decision, probably reflecting the increased visibility of the issue prior to the Court's ruling.) The impact of these shifts and of the 11 referendums that were passed on the presidential election remains debatable. Initial punditry credited the referenda with helping defeat John Kerry, especially in Ohio. More careful subsequent analysis doubts much of an effect, however.
These sharp shifts in trend reversed direction immediately following the 2004 election, but took more than two years to return to pre-2004 levels. Support returned to 2003 levels in mid-2007 while opposition has only now, in May 2008, declined back to where it stood in mid-2003. Despite this slow recovery from the 2004 "shock", the 2005-08 trend lines make it clear that public opinion returned to its previous trajectory of slowly rising support and declining opposition in the aftermath of 2004. It is also interesting that the 2006 elections, with 8 states voting on referenda, made no discernible difference to the post-2004 trend. In part this may reflect the more limited number of states, but it also reflects some decline in the saliency of the marriage issue.
The California ruling, and the likely campaign over a proposition there to modify the state constitution this fall, will test whether increasing the salience of the issue will result in a replay of the 2003-04 dynamics, with opponents stimulated and supporters in retreat, or if the 2006 experience means that the issue is no longer the motivator it was in 2004. The 2003-04 data clearly show the potential for sharp changes when the marriage issue becomes extremely salient. That the fight will take place in the most populous state in the Union also guarantees national exposure. However, the fact that most states have already settled this issue through law or amendment, and that only three states (so far) are on track to have proposals on the ballot, means that the issue is more localized than it was in 2004.
Opinion now is not much different from where it was in mid-2003, so a similar reaction is possible but there may be an element of "been there, done that" as well. The novelty of the issue is surely much reduced now than it was five years ago, though the record of referenda passing in 7 of 8 states in 2006 certainly demonstrates that opposition to same-sex marriage remained strong even in a very pro-Democratic election year. (Wisconsin, for example, reelected a Democratic governor and flipped a House seat to the Democrats but also modified its constitution to ban same sex marriage or anything substantially equivalent to marriage.)
The big question is whether the marriage issue has any carry over to the presidential vote in 2008. Democratic politicians, including Senators Clinton and Obama, have tried to insulate themselves by opposing gay marriage. Instead, they support civil union or domestic partner legislation. Senator McCain opposes same sex marriage and opposes legal recognition of same sex partnerships, but also opposes a federal constitutional amendment. This line of debate, with both parties opposing marriage, but with Democrats willing to support some legal recognition short of marriage, reflects another way to framing the question, one that is significantly more favorable for limited rights for gays and lesbians.
(Note: This chart is scaled the same as the previous chart so the dynamics and time frame are directly comparable. The large white space prior to 2000 reflects the politically relevant point that in that time period the "civil union" option was not prominent enough to be included in polling questions.)
Beginning in 2004 (with one early exception in 2000), polling organizations began asking a question with three alternatives. The CBS News question wording is representative:
Which comes closest to your view? Gay couples should be allowed to legally marry, or gay couples should be allowed to form civil unions but not legally marry, or there should be no legal recognition of a gay couple's relationship?
When the "civil unions" option is added, opposition to gay rights drops significantly from about 55% to 40%. Likewise, support for gay marriage drops from 40% to 29%. The "comfortable" middle ground is then some 26% who are willing to support civil unions so long as they fall short of "marriage".
This "half a loaf" approach is acceptable to only some in the gay rights community, but it is precisely the politically acceptable position that Democratic politicians think can move them from the losing side of public opinion to the winning side. If we add supporters of marriage to supporters of civil unions, we get the chart below.
This is now a near mirror image of the balance of opinion in the first chart. Now about 53% support either civil unions or marriage, and a minority of 40% oppose any legal rights for gay and lesbian couples. By assuming supporters of marriage will not punish them for the expedient support of only civil unions, Clinton and Obama (and many other Democrats) have tried to turn a losing position into a winning one.
The remaining uncertainty is whether opponents of any legal recognition are more intense than the supporters of civil unions. If so, then opposition groups may still win the battle between intense minority and lukewarm majority. On ballot propositions, the record is strongly in favor of the opponents of marriage and in some cases of civil unions as well.
The Clinton-Obama position will certainly not win over opponents of any form of legal recognition for gays, but then they probably wouldn't win many such voters in any case (an exception is African-Americans, many of whom are quite opposed to marriage or civil unions.) Whether their position provides them popular support in response to attack ads on this issue remains to be seen.


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[Hook 1: Pharrell]
Sorry nigga, I'm tryna come home
Sorry nigga, I'm tryna come home
Well, the walls are talking to me
And I know you think I'm wrong
But sorry nigga, I'm tryna come home
[Verse 1: Pusha T]
Now when the phone start to click in, your words start to echo
Say you got to hang up but the man won't let go
Oh, my nigga say it ain't so
Now we speaking on some niggas that he say he ain't know
We used to steal dirt bikes, dodge raindrops
So close niggas thought we had the same pops
Graduated, gettin' money on the same blocks
But things changed and we ain't end up in the same box
Hear 'em whisper "it ain't adding up"
Giving you the jailhouse talk but you ain't mad enough
I never thought I'd be the last man standing up
I never thought I'd had have to question were you man enough
Long letters how the streets got the best of you
Telling all your cellies how come I ain't sitting next to you
Yeah, see I can read between the lines
So it's awkward when you call and I gotta press 5
[Hook 2: Pharrell]
Sorry nigga, I'm tryna come home
Sorry nigga, I'm tryna come home
I think the Feds are looking through me
Can't you hear it in my tone?
So I'm sorry nigga, I'm tryna come home
[Verse 2: Pusha T]
Got me tiptoeing through the conversation on our calls
Tryna act normal but the writing is on the wall
It's like I hear you smiling when you heard they hit the wall
But I just let it ride so I don't be the next to fall
(They say [?] been getting money while I'm gone
And wasn't he tryna holla at my bitch when I was home)
Nah, he selling cars, it'd be him and [?]
I'm just tryna offset what he was saying on my phone
Nowadays niggas don't need shovels to bury you
Pointing fingers like pallbearers how they carry you
So much for death before dishonor
Might as well have a robe and gavel like your honor
I just sit and wonder, play it by the numbers
When you ride like lightning then you crash like thunder
Seen your baby mama she ain't even know if she should speak
What the fuck is there to say knowing her king's now weak saying...
[Hook 1: Pharrell]
[Verse 3: Pusha T]
Let's talk real niggas, let's speak real, nigga
How many niggas you know snitching you ain't killed, nigga?
Covered his own tracks, he didn't care that
We had a legacy he killed, I got to wear that
Every move we ever made is getting starred at
I bet the man inside his mirror doesn't stare back
Break your heart when the man you call your brother
Be the same one that setting in motion all them undercovers
Called my mom mother, was at my graduation
When I signed my record deal you was my motivation
From great friends now it's no affiliation
Divided by the time he was facing
Once he told me that...
[Hook 2: Pharrell]


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A mother and her teenage daughter held against their wills after a gun battle injured two police officers were released Wednesday night and their captor was taken into custody to end an hours-long SWAT standoff in a Southern California neighborhood.
The tense situation began the afternoon before Thanksgiving when officers responded to a report of a 14-year-old girl being dragged by a man. Inglewood police described the attack as a case of domestic violence.
Those responding officers exchanged gunfire with the man, identified as 45 year-old Christopher Warsaw, who holed himself up in a home in the 10700 block of Fifth Avenue.
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SWAT teams in armored vehicles and other law enforcement agencies descended on the neighborhood, described by residents as a "quiet" and "nice" place to live.
Details about how the captor -- who police said has a criminal record -- was taken into custody and the hostages rescued were not immediately available.
The standoff ended about 9:30 p.m., some nine hours after it began.
Warsaw, who has a criminal history, was booked for attempted murder and was being held in lieu of $1 million bail, sheriff's officials said.
Earlier in the day, the shooter vowed not to be taken alive, a witness told NBC4.
"They were shooting back, but he was really shooting at them," Kimberly Edwards said. "He screamed out the window, 'I'll die for this. I'll die for this."
Law enforcement officials told NBC that one Inglewood officer, who was wearing a protective vest, was struck in the chest by the gunfire. Details regarding his injuries were not immediately available, but the officer was alert and conscious, officials said.
A second officer also was hurt, but it appears that she was not shot, officials said.
Both officers were initially taken to Centinela Hospital Medical Center. The officer shot in the chest was later transported to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and the other officer was released.
The family of the officer shot in the chest said their loved one may be out of the hospital in time to celebrate Thanksgiving at home.
"We're just glad the best was there," the officer's brother said, calling his sibling's colleagues a "band of brothers."
Inglewood police Lt. Oscar Mejia said two females were held hostage inside the home. It is believed the mother is the captor's ex-girlfriend.
Residents described a quick police response after hearing a barrage of gunfire.
"I heard what I thought were fireworks," resident Janice Wilson said. "Then I realized those weren't fireworks.
"I stepped out on my porch, and I could see the officers coming."
Aerial video showed at least 15 patrol vehicles in the area, and several officers and deputies were outside the house. The Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatched three ambulances and other personnel.
Video from the scene showed an officer carrying a child and escorting others away from the neighborhood, which was locked down during the standoff. Several homes were evacuated.
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This Blog focuses on Ancestor Stories, both the stories themselves about my family's ancestors and discussions of where they come from and how to prepare and share them. These stories may be non-fiction or fiction – we will always tell which is which, of course. Also see my KINNICK blog and The HOMEPLACE Series Blog, left sidebar, scroll down.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Wordless (Nearly) Wednesday - a 3rd GGMother
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How nice you have photos that old! You are very lucky!ReplyDelete
Not s lot, of course, but nice to have the few we do, for sure. Thanks for the comment! ;-)ReplyDelete
What a great photo! I think you win bragging rights for the oldest person photographed in a genealogy blog. I love that bonnet!ReplyDelete
Actually, there was an older one at:ReplyDelete
I have to thank you! I have been tracing my roots and I had no clue about my grandfather Lee Arnold Smith's family, until I came across your family tree history. Amazing! It is so good to know where I came from. Thank you so much for sharing! Laurel BrunkenReplyDelete
Thank you, Laurel. It is a comment like yours that keeps me going! My youngest daughter is going to Europe this fall, and one of her projects is finding out more about our Michael Smith - son of Beatrix, above. In fact, she called me from her home in Austin, just last night, and asked some questions, including about Beatrix!ReplyDelete
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Graphite & Camel - Adult Poncho
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This item is unique to TWG. Woven on traditional looms and handmade in Wales. Only a limited number of ponchos are made from each colour way. No two colours are ever repeated.
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In celebration of National Pig Day, here are four things you might not know about pigs.
In celebration of National Pig Day today, here are four things you might not know about pigs.
All in the nose
"Pigs have an amazing sense of smell," said Patty Anderson, the lead zookeeper for the Children's Zoo at Brookfield Zoo near Chicago.
"They're even better than dogs when it comes to smell. They're good at finding things and excellent at digging in the mud. Some pigs are used to sniff out a particular kind of mushroom, called a truffle, that is considered a delicacy. They grow underground and pigs smell them out and start digging for them."
Smarty pants
Anderson said that pigs are very smart animals.
"Pigs can be trained to do a lot of different things," Anderson said.
"Currently, our only trained pig is Harley. He follows his keepers around the yard and knows to touch different objects with his nose, and has learned to walk from his yard to the scale, which is about 100 yards away. He's probably 700 pounds now. If a 700-pound pig doesn't want to follow you, he doesn't have to."
Chow down
Anderson said that pigs gain hundreds of pounds during their first year of life due to a diet of pig chow — mainly corn and grain based food, along with fruits and veggies. When pigs are first born, they weigh between three and four pounds. By their first birthday, they can weigh more than 400 pounds.
"The chow is specifically designed for these animals," Anderson said.
"They also eat carrots, apples, lettuce — whatever we have extra. Almost everyone's favorite is banana."
Sitting in the sun
"Most people don't know that pigs can get sunburned," Anderson said.
"When people see them rolling in the mud, they think they are dirty animals, but really, they're very clean. They roll in the mud to cool off and have sun protection."
Anderson said that zookeepers put sunscreen on the pigs to protect their skin and ears on the first sunny day in springtime.
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Create! necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 194 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
(please see attached screenshot for the brand name)
I am the Creative direction for multiple sites. I think that the designers here at 99designs are pretty creative, so wow me with you good work!
We target areas geographically that receive rain fall and need a precise report of rain fall inches in their precise area.
**Screenshot of actual website is attached: http://99designs.com/launch/drafts/…ts/5637723
1. Professional font style. Like, but not limited to: Sans-Serif (examples: http://bit.ly/bnC6yy ) Times New Roman type font can be tried if desired .
Please be sure to make "rain" and "report" of the same size. This will show that its is "Rain Report" and not a "Rain" business. And "my" and ".com" can be subtle.
2. Some kind of picture that relates to maybe rain fall, rain drop, or rain measurement, or farm, etc doesn't have to be all. (raindrop or raindrops, report, ) just be creative!
some examples we like:
3. The typeface should be Simple, Fresh, Clean look. Web 2.0 ish and bold. We want something that stands out.
4. Please make sure the colors MATCH SITE COLORS, although a little lime green can be tested is wished :)
Icon pic can have a simple gradient or just a solid color.
1. No Cartoons - we want it to be serious, not cheap or childlike.
2. Nothing elegant or flair font type - we do not want to come across as being fancy.
**Required files:
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai .eps (CMYK)
Web file format - .png and layered .psd (RGB)
If you wish, feel free to download the demo background screenshot below to test your logo on if you wish. :)
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Colnago Master X-Light Art Decor, "Aged to Perfection"
Read the review of the 30th anniversary Colnago Master X-Light Art Décor here on www.cyclingnews.com. Some quotes: "aged to perfection", "super aggressive", "beautifully styled", "famous Art Décor paintwork", "a bike everyone should experience".
Shiny alloy parts would be nicer, yes?
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Earlier this evening, an attempted robbery occurred at Los Angeles-based game developer Robotoki.
"These two men attempted to rob robotoki tonight, unfortunately for them, I work late," tweeted Robotoki president Robert Bowling. He posted security footage of the incident on Instagram as well as a photo (below) on Twitter.
In security footage, that's Bowling leaping down the stairs.
Kotaku has reached out to Bowling and will update this post should he comment.
Robotoki is currently working on a post-zombie apocalypse title called Human Element for PC and home consoles.
Update: Bowling told Kotaku, "The LAPD took a report and footage. Detectives take over from here. Luckily surrounding businesses have security footage of the way they ran."
These two men attempted [@fourzerotwo]
I'll post photos of attackers, pls share. [@fourzerotwo]
To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft.


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The Heartwarming Reason Why This Man is Wearing a Pink Tutu
spot cool stuff WEBSITES
People react in all sorts of ways when they learn that their spouse has cancer. They cry. They hunker down to fight the illness. They get a renewed appreciation for life. They get depressed or empathetic or optimistic or angry (or all four at once). They panic, or expend great effort trying not to. They revolve to learn all they can about the illness. Eventually, they may become driven to become oncologists or to volunteer in hospitals or to donate to research projects.
Bob Carey surely had some of those reactions when his wife, Linda, was diagnosed with breast cancer. And to those he added another, more unusual, impulse: He wanted to photograph himself topless — in a pink tutu.


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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Dr. Benjamin Goluboff, Lake Forest College
Full, wait list only
Newberry Teachers' Consortium
This seminar will explore O'Brien's book, now a standard in high school and college curricula, in the context of the Vietnam war's tactical and social history, and against the backdrop of O'Brien's other works, notably If I Die in a Combat Zone, and Going After Cacciato. To what extent do these works reliably convey the history of the war? How do we understand their engagement with stories and the storytelling imagination? What are the best ways to teach these works to young people and other audiences?
Cost and Registration Information
Registration opens September 4, 2013.
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Culinary Arts, Baking and Pastry Arts, and Hospitality Management
The hands-on training you will receive at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College will provide you with the skills and knowledge to succeed in this very exciting and fast-growing field.
Why Choose a Career in the Hospitality Industry?
- The restaurant industry employs an estimated 12.8 million people, making it the nation's largest employer outside of government.
- The restaurant industry is expected to add 2 million jobs over the next decade, for total employment of 14.8 million in 2017.
Why Choose Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College?
- Our Hot Food Team won First Place at the American Culinary Federation National Junior Hot Food Competition in July 2007. They won Second Place in 2006. (See details under "Competition Information.")
- Our Culinary Arts and Baking and Pastry Arts programs are both accredited by the American Culinary Federation.
- You cannot beat community college tuition for value for a 2-year degree.
Degree Programs
- A.A.S., Baking and Pastry Arts
- A.A.S., Brewing, Distillation and Fermentation
- A.A.S., Culinary Arts
- A.A.S., Hospitality Management
Student Experiences
- Hands-on practical experience in our 39,000 square-foot building and renovated 1870s house, with 5 state-of-the-art kitchens, banquet room, 5 dining rooms, large demonstration hall and student-run lodge.
- Outstanding internship relationships with some of the finest restaurants, country clubs and hotels in the Southeast.
Successful Graduates
- Chief Operating Officer, Hampton Inn of America
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- Graduates of the Culinary Institute of America, Rochester Institute of Technology, Johnson and Wales University, and New England Culinary Institute.
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San Fernando High School
As one of the oldest high schools in the Los Angeles area, San Fernando High School is full of history, and can boast of some notable alumni including comedian Cheech Marin and musician Ritchie Valens. The school has had much success over the years in both the classroom and on the playing fields, and it can now add the success of a summer time car show to its history books.
The high school grounds played host to a car show and concert hosted by The San Fernando Valley's Oldies Car Club. Oldies took full advantage of the available space, and had show participants spread out throughout the high school. Over 600 participants lined up early on Sunday morning and braved the July heat wave to be part of the event. Car clubs from all over the Southern California area showed up to support the show. Multiple chapters of Old Memories Car Club lined the show grounds, along with quite a few of the other chapters of Oldies Car Club. Pachuco Car Club had members from the Oxnard and San Fernando areas showing their best, and even chose the show to debut a couple of new rides. There were quite a few clubs representing the Oxnard and Ventura area, including Viejitos, La Gente and Pueblos Unidos. The Majestics, Los Angeles, UCE, GoodTimes, High Class and Infiniti also showed up ng off their Sunday best. If you like Bombs, Lowrider bikes, motorcycles or radical show cars, this event had just about every type of custom on display.
There was plenty of entertainment scheduled for the day, including a concert and hopping contest. In between the musical acts, DJ Lalo kept everyone in good spirits with his music selections. As always there to represent in force at the show. There were plenty of vendors at the show selling everything including food, drinks and clothing, much to the delight of the spectators. The show ended with the trophy presentation, and many attendees walked home with awards, ensuring that a great time was had by all. If you missed the show this year, make plans to attend next year. You won't regret it!


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Travelling the world
Mouthwatering map: an illustrated guide to 35 New York City doughnut shops.
The case for safety: a hardshell glasses case sporting a vintage world map.
Beautifully illustrated stories from around the world by Miroslav Sasek – for young and old.
Wearable wanderlust: a dream in 24-carat gold for travels real and imaginary.


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Murphy hopes multihit game brings end to slump
LOS ANGELES -- Indians right fielder David Murphy smirked, because he knew the question was coming. It was inevitable that the subject of his prolonged slump in the batter's box would come up, considering he had just collected three hits in a rout of the Dodgers on Tuesday night.
When Murphy's offensive woes were mentioned, he did not miss a beat.
"Was I in a slump?" Murphy deadpanned.
Not only has Murphy been in a slump, the veteran outfielder called it probably the worst multiweek skid of his nine-year Major League career. Murphy experienced a trying season a year ago with the Rangers, but he said the recent period felt worse.
Needless to say, Murphy was relieved to have contributed three hits and two RBIs in Tuesday's 10-3 win for the Tribe.
"It's a breath of fresh air," Murphy said on Tuesday. "Every one of us have gone through slumps. And when you think you've reached the limit and you're not going to go through anything worse, something comes along that tops anything you've been through.
"Praise the Lord that I had a good night. I'm just going to continue to grind and hopefully I can stay consistent and get out of this thing for good."
Prior to his three-hit showing against Los Angeles -- marking his first multihit game since June 8 -- Murphy had been mired in a 1-for-44 slump, dating back to June 13. Between June 13-21, the outfielder had a career-worst 0-for-25 drought. Then, after getting a hit in his last at-bat against the Tigers on June 21, Murphy went through an 0-for-18 spell.
At the time of his last multihit performance, Murphy was batting .291 with a .790 OPS. Through 77 games entering Wednesday, the right fielder has a .250 average to go along with five home runs, 22 extra-base hits, 40 RBIs and a .694 OPS.
Indians manager Terry Francona said Murphy is one player he does not worry too much about.
"We're thrilled he got some hits," Francona said, "but Murph's a pretty tough kid. He understands the ups and downs of a season. I don't think he was thrilled about being 2-for-whatever, but he's too good. Those things go in streaks. He'll get hot."


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Contribute to the Next Pastor's Study Post
The Pastor's Study series of blog posts has been immensely popular—so much so that on the weeks I missed getting one posted, people on the Accordance forums would anxiously ask if the series was over. I've now run out of guest posts by individual pastors, but I want to keep the series going by asking a little less of a lot more of you. Are you a pastor who would like to contribute to the next Pastor's Study post but who doesn't have time to write a dissertation about your sermon-prep workflow? Then read on:
Most pastors don't have the money to spend on resources they'll never end up using, so I want the next Pastor's Study post to provide helpful advice on which Accordance resources you pastors have found most helpful. Specifically, I'm interested in the resources which have surprised you by becoming more helpful to you than you originally anticipated. So here's my question:
Have you ever bought an Accordance module you thought would be somewhat helpful, only to find that it has become one of your most valuable resources? Something you thought you would use occasionally which you now find yourself consulting all the time? If so, what are those modules and why do you think they have exceeded your initial expectations?
I asked this question on the forums over the weekend and have already gotten a couple of helpful responses, but I'm looking for more. You can add your own response in the comments on this post or in the forum thread I just linked to. All I ask is that you give me a brief description of why you originally purchased the module, how it has exceeded your expectations, and why you would recommend it to other pastors. Please also include your name and title as you would like it to appear in the blog post.
Thanks for your help.
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Ken Simpson
Hi, I bought and use Anchor Bible Dictionary all the time, with the NBD as a close backup. They are just brilliant resources. BDAG and BDB are always open and very useful, but I think the dictionaries are the winners for me.


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Green Dam Youth Escort
|In order to build a green, healthy, and harmonious online environment, to avoid the effects on and the poisoning of our youth's minds by harmful informations, and to avert punishing corrective actions upon the members of your family please refrain from illegal and subversive activity unkind to our society. To help in your accomplishing of this, the Ministry of Electronics Espionage Technology (MEET), Compulsory Civilization of Barbarian Tibetans Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and glorious Ministry of Finance, in guaranteed harmonious accordance with all legally recognized Government Procurement Law, has depleted CPC financial capital in acquistioning EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS to use "Green Dam" Green Online Filtering Software (hereinafter referred to as "Green Dam Youth Escort Service") along with related surveillance services so that the whole society may use it free of charge for 1 YEAR DURATION!.
Every citizen is one of China's children. Why not save money by
treating them as such?
Green Dam Youth Escort is a compulsory software package inspired by the children of China, so that while they are happily and productively using technology in state-run schools, the computers do not inadvertently expose them to the traumatic evils of pornography, let alone the horrors that would be wrought on the tiny mind if, one day, while consuming Western media, a child discovered that a family member or a playmate had been caught producing dissent. News of this person's treachery would kill the child faster than any collapsing poorly-built school in Sichuan Province ever could.
Not even the public broadcast of the filthy offender's arrest and subsequent execution in one of those Mobile Lethal Injection Centers, vehicles so popular among the youth these days, would ever be able to fully console them, for even the heroic visage of the Great Chairman is powerless to offset emotions caused by the treachery of a loved one.
Developed from scratch over many months of completely original, in-house labour on the part of Jinhui Computer System Engineering Ltd., under the supervision of the Dazheng Human Language Technology Academy at a paltry cost to the People of only 41.7 Million Yuan, Green Dam ensures that maintaining you and your child's compliance with China's often confusing technological restrictions has never been easier or simpler. No thinking is required, just a somewhat recent version of the popular and easy-to-use Microsoft Windows Operating System. Children with 64-bit Windows or systems that run on Linux will have to be responsible for their own treasonous thoughts. Above all, you must make sure your children run Internet Explorer: Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are innately designed to expose your children to hardcore pornography and feed them Western lies.
Installation could not be easier. By Ministry decree, a computer manufacturer will have to preload and install the software on every computer purchased for use in China. At the very least, they must include an automated setup file. So, illiterate or not, while you toil in the factories, your One Child will be well on his way to being a model citizen. He (we'll assume that you have carefully misplaced or neglected to death any accidental female offspring) will first want to get to know his two newest friends, animals who will be his closest companions and supervisors in cyberspace: Mao the Vigilant Butterfly, and Hu the Friendly Illicit Activity Monitoring Hare. They don't actually move or talk, as the software contractor said that would incur additional investment, but it is the opinion of the Party that pretending is a useful skill to learn at any age, especially in this current political clime.
|This product filters inappropriate contents on the Internet, but does not guarantee that all inappropriate contents are filtered or that all filtered contents are inappropriate.
Green Dam Youth Escort is not just for juvenile computer users!
Research has shown that the software can instill healthy moral discipline in adults as well.
Internet anonymity, pending further notice, is illegal. All political speech and MMORPG play, in particular, must be associated with your full legal name, valid address, and government issued unique identification number. Your use of online services can then be monitored as to the time you have spent using them.
This is done to combat the recent epidemic of Internet addiction and
to prevent accidental death by ensuring that all electronic discussion is safe and healthy.
Access Violations
- Accessing any site that is known to harbor conspirators and Western spies under the guise of "social networking".
- Accessing any site that hosts "casual games" without the intent to surrender your virtual earnings to the State.
- Accessing any site that allows the publication of arbitrary information, however trivial, including information in a condensed and human-indecipherable form, that is antithetical to wholesome Party beliefs.
- Accessing any site that permits the thoughtless dissemination of espionage materials and encourages the highly illegal and socially uncouth practice of flash photography in areas outside the privacy of the home.
- Accessing any site that is sympathetic to the tenets and practices of the devil religion.
- Accessing any site that argues for free quarter for China's newest Administrative Region or, more particularly, for mercy to be granted to the terrorist who claims to rule it.
- Accessing any site that preserves written works about similar religious extremists.
National Pride Violations
- Reading the online edition of Taiwanese newspaper or any other unpatriotic publication.
- Employing, on a regular basis, any search engine other than the quality homegrown giant Baidu.com, especially those that have shown flagrant disregard for our benevolent government's reasonable content guidelines.
Morally-Reprehensible Violations
- Viewing pornography, or similar materials of a mentally or socially unclean nature.
- Accessing any site that perpetuates disgrace by flagrantly defacing images of the beloved Chairman.
- Possessing, consuming, trafficking, perusing, or manufacturing a list, of any length, detailing the range of forbidden electronic activities outlined above.
Violators are summarily punished at the will and discretion of the party.
Fear not, with its first time offenders, China will be generous: the punishment is magnanimously lenient and fair,
typically only entailing reeducation through labor, which, incidentally,
is just one of the brutish terms from which this wonderful software will soon shield you.
Just like the tanks of the People's Liberation Army,
The Great Firewall of China was commissioned by the central government to protect you and your child, not hunt you down.
Though it boasts some features conducive to citizen surveillance - namely the ability to phone home whenever tasteless or potentially harmful incriminating data is found on your computer - it is intended to prevent rather than merely report your wrongdoing. For example, let us propose hypothetically that you are a farmer living in a rural area of China, and your daughter has been tasked by the schoolmaster to complete a report. At surface, there is nothing wrong with this. However, what if the schoolteacher has suspect political leanings against the Leadership and has assigned your daughter to compose a favorable report on a known enemy of the state? Instead of getting into trouble with the authorities, as would occur normally, your family would be lauded, because Green Dam would detect your daughter's Internet search on the suppressed subject, determine it to be injurious to the Socialist society, and duly log the event. Furthermore, Green Dam would heroically prevent her from seeing the hateful ideas on the page by replacing them with a pleasant picture of clouds as if all disagreement as to the course of our government had never existed, finally to report back to CPC monitoring offices, where a duly appointed official would be dispatched to the province to dispense the appropriate corrective action.
To perform such an invaluable protective service, it becomes necessary
that Green Dam create a log file of all of the pages that the user tries to access.
How could something as harmless and unintrusive as this ever be considered "breach of privacy"?
Baseless accusations have been levied at the software, alleging it is easier to defeat its supervisory functions than exist in harmony with them. There is a particular report, coming from a insignificantly small village, that claims a schoolaged boy has circumvented the incredibly complex security measures of this multimillion dollar system. His steps are reproduced here, and although we have not ourselves evaluated the workaround, the developers have assured us the idea is laughable.
- Navigate to C:\\Windows\\System32
- Find the file named kwpwf.dll and open it in Notepad.
- Change the contents to D0970714757783E6CF17B26FB8E2298F
- The master password is now 112233.
In accordance with common practice, however, the would-be "software cracker" was nonetheless brought in for questioning, evaluated by professionals, assigned to reeducation, and administered citizenship lessons in an undisclosed facility.
You may always of course use the included uninstaller to remove the software safely and completely, just be aware that
the National Government highly recommends that Green Dam Youth Escort is present in its full capacity on all computers.
|Are the allegations that this is a ripoff of an American product named CyberSitter true? I heard that not only did they blatantly copy the list of prohibited sites, but one of the company's press releases as well. As a subject of the Chinese government and a taxpayer, I'm asking: Did 41.7 MILLION YUAN of the People's money go towards paying some contractor to steal some preexisting commercial product?
—Cao Nimah
|Of course these claims are utterly false. You know as well as I that the People's Republic of China takes a hard line against software piracy. It would never knowingly contract with plagiarists and thieves, much less spend millions of dollars and years of development on little more than a knockoff of a bargain bin spy suite. I assure you that China has higher engineering and quality standards than those of some prying American mother attempting to wean her wayward husband off pornography. I'd like to us this opportunity to publicly point out also that the company is currently under intensive investigation and that the fact that their chief executive is the nephew of the Justice Minister will not prevent the administering of sanctions if they're found to have been partially at fault.
—Ying Peiwei
|Can we really do this? I mean, can we really expect the Chinese People to go along with us this time? It's the 21st Century! It's not like we can just go around shooting anyone who displeases us. Surely you will have to make concessions with this.
PS: And can a piece of censorship software really make China green? I don't see how electronic surveillance is environmentally friendly enough to save our blackened rivers or clear our sootclogged skies from decades of seriously polluting heavy manufacture...
—Pvt. Watyuhi Deng
|I am a noted pig farmer in my village and am known to have the juiciest sows for miles around. I have devoted my life toward feeding the People, but for some reason, when I was using this newfangled computer device to brush up on my husbandry and make sure I was altering the animal in the right place, I was blocked. On a related note, may much honor be upon the Ministry for recognizing the comparative advantage and wholesome harmlessness of "ebony porn" by allowing it to persist. I can only wish the government will take a similar stance on pale skinned redheads. They are my preference.
—Most humbly,
|Firstly, I would note that your manners and proclivities are most disgusting, very much befitting your rural upbringing. Were it up to me, the National Government would not tolerate your lewd and shameful actions with livestock animals. Sadly, the Party has neither the time nor the resources to prosecute every practitioner of your brand of crass bestiality. It is for a related logistical purpose that it is not feasible to manually catalogue every tasteless illustration available on the Internet. Consequently, it is left to Green Dam to recognize pornographic images by analyzing skin-pigmented regions and applying incredibly sophisticated facial recognition technology. It has recently been brought to the attention of our office that the software has some difficulty culling visual obscenity involving the inferior races and occasionally permits the unsightly display of their unfortunately engorged sexual organs. This is because we had not previously chosen to recognize them as human beings. A patch rounding out the feature recognition database will soon allow the software to recognize the full range of their dusky hues and mongoloid facial features. Temporary failings of an otherwise flawless software, however, are NOT to be construed as giving you permission to please yourself to this barbaric filth. Oh, and though you can be assured that we DO keep records of them, your "preferences" are none of our concern.
—Wang Kerr
|To those whose offices it may concern:
I know that as employees of the state we are expected to always display upright moral carriage and serve as a rigid example to the People by putting our faith behind Green Dam and installing the software onto our own computers, but hasn't this whole exercise gone a little too far?
This software has eaten my official report! I had worked hours on that!
Then I returned straight to the office and, with overdue diligence, began to compose my report in Microsoft Word, perhaps overzealously committing to record, with some unprofessionally undue measure of ardent zest, the exact gory details of the execution, in its emotional and visceral entirety. I trust I will not be reprimanded for boasting that in my humble opinion, it was my finest work to date. Anyway, I had just finished wresting control away from that damned AutoFormat and all there was left to do was to fill in the traitor's name in the field at the top. Anyway, as soon as I had typed the last character, the application closed on me because I had typed a restricted word! His name! Working overtime, I managed to resubmit a new draft, but it lacked a certain... something.
Hours of work, poetry really, finds itself lost thanks to this new annoyance. Can you please just send one of those worthless eggheads down here to remove this from my system? I promise I won't get angry this time.
—Lei Ying Lo
|For the past several weeks I have been trying to contact your non-responsive office! As a worldwide banana wholesaler I am FURIOUS that your Internet filter has scared off a potential client. I had a container ship full of bananas shipped all the way up from Manila, and now they are rotting in their crates because my contact couldn't see the digital pictures I had sent him. This is ridiculous that my merchandise would be labeled "obscene"! How are bananas obscene!? They are the most innocent looking food in the world!
—Fu Kiu
|Again it is my duty to remind you that when the People's Republic of China acquired usage rights to the "Green Dam Youth Escort" service, we signed a covenant with the manufacturer that would indemnify themselves and the state against any monetary damages sought by those directly or indirectly harmed, incriminated, or inconvenienced by the software. We cannot make exceptions, not even for our valued melamine wholesalers who are going through a rough patch of business at the moment. May I also remind you that if you examine your closing line more clearly, you would realize that this office does not serve your interests, at least, for the time being...
—Sum Tingwong
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Britten's War Requiem – 50 years on
A memorable evening in Coventry Cathedral
Britten surely missed a trick when his War Requiem was performed for the first time at Coventry Cathedral back in May 1962. Namely, why did he and his fellow organisers not think of staging the new work at the west end of the Cathedral rather than the east?
To explain… The backdrop for the War Requiem's famous premiere, performed to mark the consecration of the new Cathedral, was Graham Sutherland's enormous tapestry of Christ that hangs behind the altar. It's an impressive sight, yes, but by all accounts the area proved too cramped a space for such vast forces (soloists, huge chorus, symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra…). And, more to the point, the other end of the building would have given the occasion a far more powerful visual impact. Just think: orchestra and rows of singers alike in front of the huge West Window, behind which stand the ruins of the war-destroyed old cathedral itself. The ideal context for a work such as this.
Thankfully, the brains behind yesterday's 50th anniversary performance did think just that, and the result was one of the most visually arresting concert settings I can remember. Make that the most visually arresting. And an extraordinarily poignant one too.
Performed by the CBSO and CBSO Chorus under Andris Nelsons (left), this was always going to be one of the year's major concert dates, and tickets sold out long ago. It's also an event, however, that has been beset by more than its fair share of bad news, beginning with the withdrawal of baritone soloist Thomas Quasthoff late last year when he announced his retirement due to declining health. And then, just days ago, the death was announced of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang in that 1962 premiere. Last night's performance was dedicated to his memory.
Whether the work itself is a masterpiece is open to doubt – was Britten's anguish at the rehearsals of its premiere partly down to the realisation that he'd created something that was less than the sum of its considerable parts? That said, those parts are quite something, not least when in the hands of as insightful a conductor as Nelsons. Particular highlights came in the extraordinarily powerful Libera Me, and the shattering setting of Wilfred Owen's Strange Meeting towards the close.
Britten complained about the Cathedral's roomy acoustic, but Fischer-Dieskau himself told me in an interview just a few months ago that he thought it suited the work excellently. On balance, I'd side with the German. Yes, we did lose some detail, particularly in the more intricate solo passages by the excellent Mark Padmore (tenor) and Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone), but this was more than made up for by the assistance it gave to both the main choir and (placed at a suitably atmospheric distance at the east end) the CBSO Youth Choir. As one friend pointed out to me as we made our way out at the end, he's heard quite enough War Requiems lose their impact – the sense of space between performers is vital – thanks to an over-dry acoustic. No chance of that here.
But back to that backdrop. Time and again, the pathos of Owen's words from World War One was given added force simply by the sight of those cathedral ruins, the result of another global conflict just 22 years later. Of around 1000 buildings in Coventry city centre, just 31 were left in touch. It was a concert to move like no other.
Am I being melodramatic? Well, judge for yourself. The 50th anniversary concert was broadcast live in Europe and will be available on an Arthaus DVD later this year. If they have captured just a fraction of the impact of the occasion, I'd recommend it without hesitation.
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Gould's field goal lifts Bears over Redskins
Chicago, IL – Robbie Gould kicked the game-winning field goal from 57 yards out with 36 seconds left as the Chicago Bears edged the Washington Redskins, 33-31, in preseason action at Solider Field.
Jay Cutler threw for 122 yards on 7-of-13 passing and backup signal-caller Jason Campbell tallied 141 yards on 9-of-15 passing, while Matt Forte picked up 16 yards on the ground on four carries and Michael Bush ran for 21 yards and two touchdowns on five carries.
Brandon Marshall hauled in two passes for 61 yards and Devin Hester snagged two balls for 22 yards. Rookie receiver Alshon Jeffery caught three passes for 62 yards in the victory.
Rookie Kirk Cousins threw for 264 yards and three touchdown passes on 18-of-23 passing, while Robert Griffin III played the entire first half and tallied 49 yards through the air on 5-of-8 passing to go with 17 rushing yards.
A pair of star defensive players left with injuries for the Redskins, as linebacker Brian Orakpo exited in the first quarter with a shoulder injury and safety Brandon Meriweather came out with an injury to his left knee just moments later.
On the first play from scrimmage for the Bears offense, Cutler found Marshall wide open down the middle of the field for 41 yards. Bush then capped the efficient six-play, 82-yard march with a one-yard touchdown push to give Chicago the lead.
Late in the first quarter, the Bears defense brought down Griffin for a sack- fumble and got the ball back on the Washington eight-yard line before Bush ran behind his right guard for an eight-yard touchdown sprint.
Chicago extended its lead to 17-0 on a 45-yard field goal by Gould early in the second quarter.
Neil Rackers connected on a 28-yard field goal on the Redskins ensuing possession, capping a nine-play, 70-yard drive to make it 17-3.
The Redskins picked up their first touchdown of the game late in the second quarter as Brandon Banks took a punt 91 yards for the score to cut the deficit to 17-10, but Gould answered with a 28-yard field goal just before halftime to extend the Bears lead to 20-10.
Lorenzo Booker opened the second half with a big play for the Bears as he took the opening kickoff 105 yards for the touchdown and a 27-10 Bears advantage.
The Bears marched 55 yards in 10 plays on their next possession before Gould was good from 19 yards out to widen the lead to 30-10.
Washington answered with a 15-play, 68-yard drive that culminated in a five- yard touchdown strike from Cousins to Niles Paul, and the 'Skins quickly made it a one-score game on their next touch as Cousins connected with Aldrick Robinson on a 49-yard touchdown pass.
The Redskins completed the comeback late in the fourth quarter when Cousins capped a seven-play, 85-yard drive with a 20-yard touchdown completion to Donnie Briscose, giving the Redskins a 31-30 lead with 2:09 left.
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Vik Muniz | the artist
The artist Vik Muniz
Born 1961, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Lives and works in New York, USA, .
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There was dust from the first floor, which was very fuliginous, dark and greasy. On the top floor, there was some lighter dust. It was the hardest substance Ive ever worked with, because its disgusting. Dust is pieces of hair and skin. I think people scratch their heads a lot in museums; that gets mixed with the residue from the artworks themselves. Thats the ultimate bind between the museum visitor and the artwork of Vik Muniz.
Im a product of a military dictatorship, Vik Muniz said recently at his New York gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Company. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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Its said that Vik Muniz was born in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 1961; that his mother was a switchboard operator; that his father was a bartender; that hes read parts of Ovids Metamorphoses every morning since he was six. Around that age, he might have looked like this: …except probably in pajamas or perhaps naked, its hard to know. Vik says his grandmother taught him to read at a young age, but according to a system that identified complete words, not syllables or letters. That meant he consequently had trouble writing when he entered school, and during those first two frustrating years of schooling turned to a more universal language: drawing.


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Popular recording artists Kevin Kendle & Llewellyn come together to produce an exciting collaboration inspired by the mystery and legend that is Atlantis.
The listener is taken on an underwater journey to seek out the romantic and lost city of Atlantis. Outstanding performances including guest mermadic vocals by Juliana make this a must have album for all enthusiasts of inspirational music.
Track Titles
- Into the Deep
- The Lost City Part 1
- Lights of Atlantis
- Hidden Treasures
- The Great Crystal
- Mermaids of Atlantis
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Total Running Time: 49:03 mins


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To make this wreath you need the following:
*One 10" foam wreath
*Brown felt (about 3 sheets of 9" x 12")
*Glue gun
*Glue Dots
*Fall colored card stock and coordinating pattern paper (I used Jillibean Soup's new Fall line)
*Small and large buttons that coordinate with paper (my large buttons are from Stampin' Up)
*Ribbon that also coordinates with paper
*Scallop Punch (my favorite is from Stampin' Up)
To assemble the wreath do the following:
Cut approximately 7 strips of felt, 1.5" x 12" and wrap the foam wreath. Place a thin line of hot glue at the end of the felt to hold it in place. After the first piece of felt, add the next where the first left off and so on until the whole wreath is covered. Set the wreath aside.
To make the "flowers" cut three pieces of pattern paper, 3" x 9". Score each piece every inch or so (you can skip the scoring but it makes it much easier to fold the paper). Next fold each piece like an accordion. Staple in the center of the folded piece. Using your scissors cut off the ends of the folded paper, at an angle (see picture), now each end will be pointy, not straight. Next fan out the folded paper and use glue dots to hold in place.
Using a scallop punch, punch out three scallop circles from the pattern paper and glue a button in the center, using a glue dot. Next hot glue the scallops to the center of each of the paper "flowers".
Cut out six leaves, any leaf shape you like. I folded and or scored some of the paper before cutting out the leaves for added textured. Add a couple small buttons to the leaves.
Take your leaves and finished paper "flowers" and decide where you would like them on your wreath. Once you have decided, hot glue them to the wreath.
Lastly, take a piece of ribbon, loop it through the wreath at the top and hang where ever you like.
Enjoy! Let me know if you have any questions.
Just a couple more pictures of the finished wreath...
HAPPY Fall! :-)
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Chali-Rosso Art Gallery first opened its door in 2005 on South Granville's Gallery Row. After the collection has quadrupled in size the gallery had to look for a bigger location and moved to its current address, to the heart of Downtown Vancouver. The collection is primarily focused on graphic works of the most well known Modern Masters, such as Pablo PICASSO, Salvador DALÍ, Marc CHAGALL, Joan MIRÓ and Henri MATISSE. In addition, we also offer works by REMBRANDT van Rijn, Pierre-Auguste RENOIR, Edgar DEGAS, Édouard MANET, Andy WARHOL and a variety of others.
All of the artwork in our gallery is ORIGINAL, we do not carry reproductions of any kind. Each artwork is accompanied by meticulous documentation and certificate of authenticity thus assuring clients of the value of their acquisition.
Chali-Rosso Gallery stands behind all of its artwork as original, providing a life-time guarantee.
If you have questions about techniques or originality of a specific work, please ask us, we are happy to talk to you about topics related to the creation of particular works.
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Welcome To The World Wide Repeater Directory!
The RFinder (RepeaterFinder) Worldwide Repeater Directory is a steadily growing worldwide repeater directory including IRLP, Echolink, AllStar, DStar, MotoTRBO, and even Winlink information. We currently have over 175 countries in the directory!
Access to the World Wide Repeater Directory is provided by any version of the RFinder smartphone apps on Android, iPhone and iPad/iPod Touch, by subscription for $9.99/year. The same userid enables access from any version of the RFinder app, our browser interface (web.rfinder.net), or through a growing list of third-party memory programming applications such as RTSystems radio programmers and CHIRP open source software. One subscription, access to world wide repeater data from any computing device! We will be releasing Windows Phone and Symbian later this year as well as POI data for TomTom and Garmin GPS units. Again, one subscription, access from anywhere!
Radio Society of Great Britain partners up with RFinder!
The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and RFinder are pleased to announce a new business partnership agreement effective from the 1st August 2014.
The RSGB will be supplying the very latest UK repeater data for the RFinder which is a steadily growing worldwide repeater directory including IRLP, Echolink, AllStar, DStar, MotoTRBO, and even Winlink information. RFinder currently has over 175 countries and 50,000 repeaters in the directory. Access to the World Wide Repeater Directory is provided by any version of the RFinder smartphone apps on Android, iPhone and iPad/iPod Touch. The same user-id enables access from any version of the RFinder app, the browser interface (web.rfinder.net), or through a growing list of third-party memory programming applications such as RT Systems radio programmers and CHIRP open source software. One subscription, access to worldwide repeater data from any computing device on Windows, Linux, OS X, web, Android iPhone and soon on Windows Phone! RFinderPi, the open-source radio programmer for RFinder is based on Raspberry Pi, a "Made in Great Britain" product.
"The RFinder team is honoured to be RSGB's partner providing the very latest repeater information for the Radio Amateurs of Great Britain. We consider Great Britain the birthplace of so many advancements in radio over the past century and we look forward to working with hams "across the pond," says Bob Greenberg, creator of RFinder – The World Wide Repeater Directory.
RSGB is the voice of Amateur Radio for all Great Britain and is also a member society of the IARU (International Amateur Radio Union).
The World Wide Repeater Directory Partners with RAC and Canadian Amateurs!
Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) and RFinder are excited to announce a new business partnership agreement effective March 1. RAC endorses RFinder as the official Worldwide Repeater Directory for all Canadian Amateur Radio operators. We are working feverishly to update the repeater lists for Canada. While we have over a thousand machines in CA, without official coordinated lists we have to rely on you, the amateur community in Canada to help us create the first official accurate list of machines in Canada. Please update any errors either in the apps on Android or iPhone or at http://web.rfinder.net. Missing machines can be added at http://add.rfinder.net.
The World Wide Repeater Directory Invites Frequency Coordinators worldwide!
The World Wide Repeater Directory (WWRD) is the world's only geo-enabled repeater directory accessible using the RFinder family of repeater locators on Android, iPhone, web, and applications on Windows, Linux and Macintosh.
WWRD is inviting FC's worldwide to use the WWRD through RFinder/Web to help them do their job as frequency coordinators. RFinder/Web already shows repeaters on a map and we've been told by several FC's that being able to see the repeaters across borders is very helpful also. We are looking for a wishlist from FC's to build a special portal for FC's to have the tools they need to make frequency coordination easier. We already have FC's from several countries using RFinder/Web as a tool in their coordination activities.
To that end, Frequency Coordinators of planet Earth, here is your invite...go to http://www.rfinder.net/adminreg.html and request an ID. We will create your id and send you an email with a spreadsheet with the machines we have in your area of responsibiity after you have been approved. Please edit the list with what you have, update the range field and HAAT field if you can. We will be giving you tools in the future based on that information. You will be able to use RFinder/Web free of charge to maintain your list and use the mapping features. Again, please send your wishlist of features to firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you purchase the app for Android and/or iPhone, please use the same email/password as we will be adding features to RFinder that will be unlocked to your ID. We cannot give those out for free due to the licensing issues and upgrade issues on the App Store and Google Play. Your FC subscription will follow your app though.
If you prefer to give us your current repeater data in a spreadsheet instead of editing them on the web, please download this one and put them in there...http://www.rfinder.net/rfindersheet.xls. Email your list to email@example.com. We will load them ASAP and email you when done. Anyone can add individual machines at any time at http://add.rfinder.net.
Thank you all for your overwhelming support. This has been an exciting year.
73's de Bob W2CYK


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By Icaro Rebolledo| KF18 | Peru
Meet my new friend Piero and our new castle! We randomly met whilst I was running by the beach and he was just hanging out; yet we immediately identified a fundamental issue uniting us on that Saturday morning… WE WERE ON A MISSION TO HAVE FUN! After a failed attempt to find a football, I asked…"Do you know how to build sand castles!?"; his eyes brightened and I interpreted that as a clear sign that he was an expert at it! So, excited he replied…"No! But you must know!?!?". Well…I really could not remember me having ever lead a group of people or lead myself to build a sand castle!… but the pressure was on and I needed to perform! So, together we created what you can see (above) is a pretty solid sand structure with direct access to the beach!
Who would have thought this experience was going to, not only boost my self-esteem as I discovered a new talent, but also freshen my perception of my adventures in Peru so far.
For the past two weeks, I have been visiting people from mainly rural areas in Northern Peru, who have taken a loan with Kiva through the microfinance institution I am working at (this is called Borrower Verification process and some fellows are lucky enough to use their charm to get free apricots and vodka! See Ward's Apricots, Vodka, and Videotape: My introduction to Armenian hospitality). This 'micro-entrepreneurs' work in areas ranging from agriculture to construction or services (mainly restaurants or moto-taxis).Whenever I have had the chance to explore how they had come up with the idea, will and guts to set up their business, in every occasion the answer was along the lines of… "I thought about it and then I did it". How about that! A society that forces people to become entrepreneurs! Like me being 'forced' to discover my sand castle building skills to not disappoint a 5 year old. These people have no other option but to believe they must have some talent (whether inherited or freshly discovered and developed) and find the means to give their vision of the future a shape that helps them earn a living. To survive you need to create!
Historically our survival instinct as human beings has proven to be the engine of progress, ideas and inventions allowing people to live longer and ideally better. Yet, nowadays it may also be preventing us from tackling key issues such as climate change, with the assumption (and arrogance) that we'll figure out a way to survive when the problem becomes worse! Hence, for me it was refreshing to observe how characteristics such as creativity and entrepreneurship, which many in the developed world often strives to attain through reforms in education, express themselves so naturally and postively in places where we often assume education is precisely what is lacking most!
This is not to say that access to a more thorough education is not needed in many of these places or that the people I have met need no support! Indeed, poor education and poor civic culture is often highlighted as one of the top problems Peru faces. Material conditions can also be a problem; as I played with Piero by the beach in front our extravagant castle, I remember suggesting that probably his actual house was very nice as well to which he replied "No, it is not very nice because it is made out of sticks, mud and some cement". So, there is certainly a lot of potential for reforms and changes to improve the living condition of these people.
However, the visits have help me understand 'extreme poverty' in a context which is not defined by wealth or even happiness, but more by a state of peace (or lack of it as result of insecurity, hunger, poor health, lack of basic material resources, unemployment, etc). From this perspective, not one of the clients I have met appears to be particularly less 'at peace' than any person I know in Colombia, the US or Europe. In this sense, my experience so far has been extremely satisfying because it reassures me that the pursuit of peace, love and hope as something we can all attain and support! This whether it is through friends and family (See a Recipe for Peace and Love), through being proactive in achieving and helping other achieve their dreams (see kiva.org) or just by building sand castles which with hard work and imagination may become real in the future.
Icaro Rebolledo is a Kiva Fellow, working in Peru this summer with Kiva partner Edpyme Alternativa, a microfinance institution in Northen Peru. Find out how you can become a Kiva Fellow or just more information on kiva and microfinance in general on kiva.org.


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Twenty years of negotiations with North Korea have not produced a more cooperative regime. North Korea continues to brutalize its citizens and engage in missile and nuclear proliferation. It threatens countries near and far with destruction and periodically attacks South Korea. Most troubling, the North is now dangerously close to an effective nuclear missile capability.
South Korea is pushing for dialogue with the North, and the North this week signaled interest – accompanied by unrealistic preconditions, such as a cessation of American-South Korean military exercises. One has to be skeptical about future talks, not least because North Korea appears to have no incentive to change. Aid offers have never improved regime behavior. And a show of US military force has its limits since the North seems to believe it can hunker down and out-wait the Americans.
However, North Korea is vulnerable financially. Applying financial pressure has worked before and is more likely to create conditions for useful negotiations than the methods tried to date. Its demand that the United Nations lift newly imposed sanctions as a condition for talks illustrates its financial vulnerability.
North Korea is ruled by a family-based regime that resembles an organized crime group. The regime's major income sources are via illegal activities – nuclear and missile exports, illicit drug dealing, and counterfeiting cigarettes and US dollars for export. And the entire racket is run by a ruthless boss who rules by violence, manipulation, and intimidation.
Take away any organized crime group's financial lifeblood and it will fragment or implode – a point well recognized by US anti-organized crime statutes.
Money is everything to the North Korean regime. When North Korea modified its currency system in 2009 it caused such turmoil, even in the country's moribund economy, that the government – not known for publicly admitting fallibility – reversed itself and executed the official deemed responsible.
In 2005, under the administration of George W. Bush, the US Treasury sanctioned Banco Delta Asia in Macau for assisting North Korean money laundering. The Treasury declared the bank – at that time family-owned – off-limits for US companies and financial institutions. The Macao government then froze $25 million in North Korean money.
Banco Delta Asia severed its ties with North Korea, causing perhaps more fear within the regime than at any time since the Inchon landing of 1950, when UN forces reversed a string of North Korean victories and then moved to recapture the South Korean capital of Seoul. The crackdown on the Macao bank greatly worried other financial institutions cooperating with North Korea, some of which cut their ties with the North.
Yet, the Bush administration later inexplicably revoked the sanctions and returned North Korea's money – apparently in exchange for a North Korean promise to reenter negotiations, and nothing more.
Nonetheless, the Banco Delta Asia case shows what is possible. The US Treasury Department's financial intelligence capability is often excellent. A greatly expanded effort against North Korea's illicit finances would demonstrate that there are serious consequences to the regime's behavior.
The effort must be comprehensive and not rely on so-called "targeted sanctions," which have little effect. Any competent despot can evade them, especially if he doesn't mind abusing his own people, something at which North Korea's leaders excel. Besides financial sanctions, the US and allies can aggressively crack down on the North's other illegal activities, particularly illicit drug and counterfeit cigarette exports – major money-spinners for the regime.
This forceful effort against the underpinnings of the Kim Jong-un regime is not risk free. North Korea's leadership is mercurial, putting it mildly, and most of Seoul, South Korea's capital, is within North Korean artillery range.
But a far greater risk is a North Korea that has developed reliable missiles and nuclear weapons (obtained by brazenly flouting UN mandates). Then it can genuinely threaten Japan, South Korea, the United States and other nations it dislikes, and sell this technology to other unsavory regimes or terrorists. Preventing this is an objective that trumps everything.
Given the long-standing role of Chinese banks in handling North Korean money, a US Treasury-led effort against the regime's finances will require pressure on a normally reluctant Beijing. However, even China should be frightened over events in North Korea.
China was content for years to have North Korea as a buffer on the Korean peninsula – useful, too, for bedeviling the US and Japan. However, a nuclear armed North Korea with accurate delivery systems becomes as much China's problem as anyone else's. Beyond provoking a Japanese defense build-up that possibly includes a nuclear capability, any outbreak of violence in the region will interrupt China's foreign-investment and export-driven economy. The Chinese Communist Party depends on this economy to maintain tenuous internal stability.
Although no tears would be shed if the North Korean regime collapsed, this should not be the goal of pressuring the North Korean regime. Rather it should be to prod the regime to behave like a responsible country, obey UN sanctions on missile and nuclear development, and stop brutalizing its citizens. Do so and aid will follow, along with greater respect.
Until something is done to give the North an incentive to modify its behavior, another round of talks will accomplish little. Banco Delta Asia is a model worth revisiting.
Grant Newsham is a former US Foreign Service officer and is a long-time resident of Japan. In 2011-2012, he was a member of the World Economic Forum's Transnational Organized Crime Global Agenda Council.