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DOWNERS GROVE – Doug Truax said given the option next election, he thinks voters will find his record as an Army Ranger and business owner favorable over that of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin.
Truax, a West Point graduate and co-owner of Oak Brook-based Veritas Risk Services, announced his Republican candidacy last week against Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat in his third term.
He contrasted his business experience against that of Durbin, whom he characterized as a career politician.
"He's the past, the old guard," he said in an interview Monday.
Truax said he has focused priorities on tax reform, specifically lowering the corporate tax rate, closing loopholes and simplifying the code. Doing so would send a message of certainty to business owners and inspire growth, he said.
Truax also said he wants to see more power returned to the states and reduce federal spending.
"I think that, just as I've seen, many Illinois voters have seen the years and years of decline here in Illinois and around the country," he said. "No matter how you measure it, Illinois has been on a decline … and their policies have directly impacted what we're seeing. I think we can turn it around. We just have to have the right policies and the right leaders."
This is Truax's first venture into politics. He said he hopes to build a coalition of "independent-minded" Democrats, Republicans and young people frustrated with the slow economy.
"I know it's a big state, but it can be done," he said. "There will be a lot of people interested in this race. Especially as it proceeds further and people see I'm a viable candidate and that Dick Durbin getting re-elected is not inevitable."
Truax, a New Mexico native, said he has spoken with state and national Republican party leadership, but did not say what was discussed.
Durbin, 68, won his last three terms handily.
The general election is in November 2014.

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Supermassive black holes are often accompanied by two things: an accretion disk of matter in its death throws and a pair of relativistic jets that eject some of this matter in a last-minute pardon prior to its removal from the universe. While black holes are known for capturing every bit of matter or energy that gets too close, it has also been theorized that they will eventually stop growing. It is believed that these two phenomena—matter being devoured at the edge of the disk while being pushed away by the jets—form a sort of self-regulating system that keeps these monsters in check.
While this self-regulatory behavior is believed to be common in supermassive black holes, the extreme mass scales involved mean that the dynamics of the system occur on extremely long time scales, on the order of tens of thousands of years. However, if the black hole is smaller—on the order of a few solar masses—then the dynamics of these phenomena should operate on more earthly timescales, such as a few hours. It's worth checking, because if these phenomena are not detected in smaller black holes, then physics has a big problem on its hands, since the same equations describe both sizes of black holes.
Using seven years of observations by the Chandra X-Ray observatory, a pair of astronomers from Harvard have shown that the same physics hold true in both cases. As described in the current edition of Nature, they studied GRS 1915+105, a stellar mass black hole complete with relativistic jets. This object can be described as a microquasar, a small-scale version of an active galactic nucleus.
The astronomers have identified a dynamic balancing act taking place between the relativistic jets and a hot wind blowing off the accretion disk. GRS 1915+105 is a 14 solar mass black hole that is accompanied by—and is eating—a 0.8 solar mass star that orbits it every 33.5 days. Early observations of GRS 1915+105 found it to be something special: it was the first object ever identified to have matter leaving it with speeds that appear faster than light.
Given its significance, many observatories have focused on it and researchers have found over 14 distinct classes of energetic output thought to be the result of different types of disk-jet interactions. Using data from April 2000 through August 2007, the astronomers were able to observe five of the 14 classes of X-ray emissions, and were able to lump them into two general states—hard and soft. In the 11 distinct observations of GRS 1915+105 that were made over this time period, the duo identified five observations of the various bright, soft states, and six of the faint, hard-jet-producing states.
Using an examination of the emission spectra of GRS 1915+105 during these different states, the authors postulate that a broad Fe XXV emission line is produced when the "hard" X-rays hit the inner edge of the accretion disk. Through calculations, they were able to deduce the position of the inner edge of the accretion disk during this phase, placing it around 250 times the Schwarzchild radius of the black hole. During the bright, soft states, the inner edge of the accretion disk may lie as close as three Schwarzchild radii to the black hole.
Through these observations, the pair concludes that these emission lines originate in an accretion disk wind. For a wind to occur, some driving force must exist behind it, giving it a push. The obvious candidate in such a situation would be radiation pressure, but astrophysical calculations show that radiation pressure alone would to insufficient to impart enough momentum to drive this wind. The remaining push can, however, come from X-Ray heating and thermal pressure. Sample calculations confirm that a thermal driving force, assisted by radiation pressure, can successfully produce this mighty wind.
The researchers calculated that the wind is capable of carrying away approximately 10-8 solar masses worth of material each year. The rate at which the wind drives mass away from the black hole is interesting, because it is approximately the same rate of mass driven away via the relativistic jets. This is doubly interesting because it suggests that the black hole is able to maintain a balance of mass coming in and mass going out, regardless of the mechanism by which mass leaves the system—jet or wind.
The authors conclude by stating that these observations give "a strong indication that like their supermassive counterparts, stellar-mass black holes can regulate their accretion rate by feedback into their environments." They also reiterate the importance of the finding that the high intensity of the radiation field from the disk is able to re-direct the accretion flow away from the relativistic jet, and into the outward bound wind: "our results point to fundamental new insights into the long-term disk-jet coupling around accreting black holes and hint at tantalizing evidence of the mechanism by which stellar-mass black holes regulate their own growth." This reassures us that the equations that describe gravity do indeed work at the vastly different length and time scales that exist between stellar mass and supermassive black holes.
Nature, 2009. DOI: 10.1038/nature07680


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ORLANDO, Fla. – A central Florida judge has ruled on Tuesday that Casey Anthony must answer questions about the audio recordings she made after her murder trial acquittal in her defamation trial.
Zenaida Gonzalez is suing Anthony for defamation because she says she shares a similar name to the fictitious nanny who Anthony said kidnapped her daughter, Caylee, in 2008.
Anthony mentioned the recordings in her video diary, which was leaked back in January. It's not clear what the recordings will contribute to Gonzalez's defamation case, which is set to go to trial next year.
Meanwhile, Circuit Judge Lisa T. Munyon on Tuesday denied a defense motion to move Anthony's civil case out of Orange County.
Munyon wrote, however, that the motion could be revisited if a fair and impartial jury cannot be selected in Orange County within a reasonable time.


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For many C-level executives, statistics are often the basis of "proof" required in order to launch a social media campaign or ongoing social network marketing efforts. Everyone wants a ROI metric like conversion rates or response rates that prove the influence social networks have on consumer sales. Yet for every brand that waits for "proof" that social influences consumers to purchase their products or services, there are hundreds of their competitors engaging the same consumer audience, influencing sales for their brands, and creating a life time value metric that only comes with long term concerted marketing efforts within the social channels. What's a CMO to do? Here are some interesting statistics worth considering at your next big meeting. The revolution continues.
Social Media Usage
- Small Business: the use of social media has grown in recent years, rising from 12 percent in 2009, to 24 percent in 2010 to 31 percent currently Search Engine Watch
- Facebook Users: the ubiquitous social network of our times, so far, now has 750 million users Techcrunch
- Google Search: Google handles over 11 billion queries per month comScore
- Social Media Advertising: spending for advertising will quadruple from $2.1 billion in 2010 to $8.3 billion in 2015 Direct Marketing News
- Buying Habits: online users say they are more likely to buy from a brand that answers their questions on Twitter Techcrunch
- Mobile: 40% of US subscribers regularly browse the internet on their phone 60 Second Marketer
- Mobile Purchasing: 12.5% of all e-commerce transactions will be performed on a mobile phone by the end of 2011 60 Second Marketer


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Beef stir-fry with broccoli & oyster sauce
Nutrition and extra info
- Easily doubled
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal256
- fat12g
- saturates2g
- carbs10g
- sugars8g
- fibre4g
- protein30g
- salt1.78g
- 1-2 tbsp sunflower oil
Sunflower oil
Sunflower oil is made from pressing sunflower seeds and extracting the oil. It's usually…
- 200g beef stir-fry strips
The classic choice of meat for a British Sunday roast. Beef is full of flavour, as…
- 200g pack tenderstem broccoli
Like cabbage and cauliflower, broccoli is a brassica and is sometimes known by its Italian name…
- 1 onion, sliced
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- garlic clove, sliced
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
Heat a wok until smoking, pour in the oil then add beef. Stir-fry for 2 mins, then tip onto a plate. Add broccoli with a splash of water then cook until broccoli turns bright green.
Add the onion and stir-fry for 1 min, then add the garlic and cook for 1 min more. Pour in the oyster sauce and 125ml water. Bring to the boil and cook until reduced to a sticky sauce. Stir in the beef, along with any juices from the plate, then serve straight away.
Recipe Tip
TipBeef stir-fry strips are convenient, but for the best flavour, slice your own steaks instead. Put them in the freezer for 10 mins then cut into thin slices with a sharp knife.


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Cool Bedroom Paint Colors Photo
Hi, buddies. How are you going? I hope you are good as I hope. In this post, I will give you some inspirations for you. It is about Cool Apartment Presenting Fantastic Layout Design. Are you curious? Well, I will show you some inspirational pictures here. Let's have a look.
We begin from the living room here. We see glossy black wall here. The combination of white and black design can be found on the wall and the 'L' sofa. It is more awesome with some yellow cushions on the white sofa. Not too close from here, a dining area placed here. With black and white them of the dining set. The dining table is in cozy white, white some chairs are on black theme. Some flowers in a white vase and some black candlestick give charming and fresh nuance. The most I like in this dining area is the pendant lamp with circle space hanged in the air.
Other living room is designed in glass wall as the decoration. The sofa and some chairs are designed in black theme. The white rug on this room makes it more awesome. Then, other dining room looks so fancy with transparent dining set such as the dining table and some chairs. It is located near the kitchen with white kitchen cabinet. The bathroom is designed in black and white theme with a shower room inside. With the transparent glass wall, the shower room present near the sink.Read more »


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The ultimate makeover: Potato Dauphinoise
Crème fraîche, stock and semi-skimmed milk replace traditional ingredients to make this the healthiest Dauphinoise yet
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal232
- fat12g
- saturates7g
- carbs27g
- sugars3g
- fibre2g
- protein6g
- salt0.25g
- 1 tsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 150ml semi-skimmed milk
- 1 plump garlic clove, peeled and halved
- 4 thyme sprigs, plus extra for sprinkling
This popular herb grows in Europe, especially the Mediterranean, and is a member of the mint…
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 shallot, roughly chopped
Related to the onion (as opposed to being a younger version of it), shallots grow in clusters at…
- good pinch freshly grated nutmeg
One of the most useful of spices for both sweet and savoury…
- 1kg waxy potatoes (try Desirée)
The world's favourite root vegetable, the potato comes in innumerable varieties. A member of…
- 140g full-fat crème fraîche
- 75ml vegetable stock (Marigold bouillon)
- 1 tsp thyme leaves
- 25g gruyère or vegetarian alternative, grated
Gruyère is an undoubted pinnacle of traditional Swiss cheese-making, a culinary masterpiece as…
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Brush the oil over the bottom and sides of a 25 x 19 x 5cm ovenproof dish. Put the milk, garlic, 4 thyme sprigs, bay leaf and shallot into a saucepan. Bring just to the boil, then remove from the heat and add the nutmeg and a little pepper. Set aside to infuse.
Peel then slice the potatoes very thinly. Pat them dry. Layer half the slices in the dish, overlapping slightly, then season.
Strain the infused milk into a jug. Put the crème fraîche into a bowl, then gradually pour in the milk, whisking until smooth. Add the stock and thyme leaves. Return this liquid to the jug, then pour half of it over the potatoes in the dish. Layer up the rest of the potatoes, then add remaining liquid, the cheese and a grind of pepper. Sit the dish on a baking sheet and bake for 1¼-1½ hrs until golden and tender – test by inserting a sharp knife through the potatoes. Stand for 5 mins before serving, sprinkled with thyme sprigs.


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I focus on this app not to pick on the lack of security (mainly integrity and confidentiality) but rather to show the instrumental role that reverse engineering and black box testing plays in assessing the security of web-based and now smartphone-based applications such as Whatsapp.
Reverse engineering the Whatsapp app and studying the packets that the app exchanges with the server (black box testing) are two ways to be able to understand how the app works and its security features.
In a python-enabled Ubuntu box, we download the Yowsup library including the command line interface named Yowsup-cli. As mentioned in reference [1], you need to construct a configuration file preferably with phone number and an IMEI code belonging to a mobile phone that, first, you own, and, second, that you didn't use before for Whatsapp.
The command lines that reference [1] proposes are:
- Requesting a code
./yowsup-cli -c [yourconfigfile] --requestcode sms
- Registering with the received code
./yowsup-cli -c [yourconfigfile] --register thecodeyourreceivedinyourphone
- Modifying the config file with the received password as shown in
reference [1]
- And you are ready to send Whatsapp messages
./yowsup-cli -c [yourconfigfile] -s [destination phone number] "message"
Now some security related questions:
- The config file uses an IMEI code and a phone number. As long as someone has access to those two pieces of information, what prevents them from following these steps and sending messages?
- Why instant messaging attract a myriad of users and secured or hardened systems are not so attractive?
- Would it be worthy to research the crossroad between user friendliness and information security? Certainly!
The sites I used as reference to build this post are:
[1]- Whatsapp in Linux with Python by Alejandro Pernin.
[2]- The python code by Tarek Galal hosted in github.
[3]- The command line interface page by Tarek Galal hosted in github.
Happy (in)secure messaging!
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Family physicians have been front-line adopters of electronic health record (EHR) technology for the past decade, so it's no surprise that many FPs are ready, able and willing to push forward with the meaningful use (MU) of those EHRs as directed by CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
David C. Kibbe, M.D., M.B.A.
With stage one of MU well underway and stage two poised to begin early in 2014, AAFP News Now recently sat down with family physician David C. Kibbe, M.D., M.B.A., of Oriental, N.C., to discuss a key component of stage two -- "Direct exchange" of health information.
Kibbe is nationally recognized for his health information technology (IT) expertise. He is the president and CEO of the nonprofit organization DirectTrust and serves as a senior adviser to the AAFP on health IT issues.
Q. How would you define the term Direct exchange for family physicians?
A. Direct exchange is just like regular e-mail, but with an added layer of security and trust-in-identity operating behind the scenes. This makes Direct exchange of messages and attachments suitable for electronic sharing of personal health information. Put simply, this is a way for users of two separate EHR systems to send and receive information securely.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires that the transfer of such information remain confidential at all times and across geographic and health IT vendor boundaries.
Story highlights
- Direct exchange of health information is a key component of meaningful use stage two, which begins in January.
- Direct exchange ensures that the transfer of information is secure and confidential at all times, as called for by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
- Direct exchange will be integrated into upgraded electronic health record technology for 2014, and systems must be certified as to this capability.
Q. How is Direct exchange different from e-mail?
A. To engage in Direct exchange, physicians need a Direct e-mail address that looks something like this -- email@example.com -- that will be provided to them by their EHR vendor or the health information service provider that has partnered with the vendor. Direct e-mail users compose messages, attach files or documents, and send them to known Direct addressees just as they would regular e-mail.
The difference is that Direct e-mails are encrypted and signed before they go out onto the Internet.
Q. Explain how the Direct exchange of health information relates to MU stage two, which is coming in 2014.
A. When used by providers and hospitals to transport and share qualifying clinical content, the combination of that content and Direct exchange is now an integral component of MU stage two objectives and measures. For example, if a family physician refers a patient to a (sub)specialist and uses Direct exchange to provide a clinical summary to the (sub)specialist, he or she will be able to attest to having met one of the stage two objectives for transitions of care.
Physicians attesting for MU stage one or two in 2014 must use an EHR that is capable of Direct exchange and that meets the other certification requirements as directed by the ONC. This will mean a significant software upgrade for most physicians by mid-2014.
Q. What's the difference between health information exchange (HIE) requirements and Direct HIE requirements as they relate to MU stage two?
A. MU stage one focused on data collection in EHR technology; stage two is all about exchange of that data. In other words, HIE becomes a verb. Many of the stage two objectives involve moving data and information from the EHR to some destination, such as a public health immunization repository or a cancer registry.
Q. What are the three most important points for physicians to understand when it comes to Direct exchange of health information?
A. First, understand that Direct exchange will be integrated into upgraded EHR technology for 2014, and EHRs must be certified as to this capability.
Second, physicians will be able to use secure Direct exchange for a wide range of data and information communication needs with other physicians, health care professionals, patients and some payers. This can mean a significant reduction in a practice's paper, mail and fax correspondence with commensurate decreases in cost and mishandled care transitions.
Finally, physicians have some say in how their EHR vendors configure the Direct exchange services. Costs of services will vary vendor to vendor, so physicians need to communicate with their vendors about these issues.
Q. How important is the patient engagement piece of MU stage two, and how difficult will it be for physicians to comply?
A. Patient engagement is a very important aspect of stage two MU, and it will pose challenges to some physicians in terms of compliance. For one thing, practices must have a Web-based patient portal to comply with "view, download and transmit" requirements. And the portal must be able to send -- via Direct exchange -- certain health information documents, such as clinical summaries and visit notes, to patients who request this.
To meet the MU stage two patient engagement objective, patients must be able to view, download and transmit a summary-of-care record provided by the EHR technology to a third party of their choosing, and, importantly, 5 percent of patients must actually do this.
Q. Why should family physicians care about the electronic transfer of health information and secure messaging?
A. Aside from the requirements of stage two MU, family physicians care about continuity and coordination of care for their patients. Electronic messaging makes it easier for critically important health information to follow patients wherever they go in the patient-centered medical home neighborhood.
Q. What steps do physicians need to take now to prepare for MU stage two next year?
A. A couple of aspirin would be useful! Seriously, physicians should have already been preparing their practices for the new objectives and measures of stage two MU and working closely with their EHR vendors to manage the needed new features in their software to meet them. Remember, physicians who are not engaged in MU will face a 1 percent penalty in their Medicare payments starting in January 2015.
Q. What questions should physicians ask their EHR vendors related to Direct exchange?
A. Here are several:
- Has the new software version of the EHR for use in 2014 been fully certified for stage two MU, including for compliance with Direct exchange?
- When will the new software upgrade be available for installation? (Remember, attestation for three months of stage two MU requires installation of the upgraded software no later than July 2014.)
- Is the EHR's health information service provider accredited by DirectTrust, as required by the ONC, to meet the needed security and trust-in-identity features?
- What will Direct integration for both "transitions of care" and for patient "view, download and transmit" measures cost the practice?
- How can physicians find the Direct addresses of parties with whom they need to transfer information via Direct exchange?
Q. Are there any red flags physicians should be aware of when assessing their own EHR systems and in working with vendors?
A. Indeed there are. One would be a delay in software upgrade installation availability beyond the first quarter of 2014. Another would be the inability of a software vendor to identify dates for both certification and accreditation of the Direct exchange components of the upgraded version the practice will be using.
Q. How can the AAFP and other organizations help physicians work through this process?
A. Stage two MU is more complex than was stage one, and by a long shot. We need to help our members prepare for a smooth transition to their upgraded software and help them avoid attestation problems during the first year of stage two MU -- that is, during 2014.
Q. What's the most important takeaway point for family physicians?
A. Expect Direct exchange to be part of your EHR's feature set in 2014, and be prepared to use Direct exchange to the benefit of your practice and your patients.
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Twin-Vue Drive-In
15201 S. Figueroa Street,
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This opened on July 15th, 1949. Grand opening ad posted.
I worked at the Twin-Vue in 1963-1965, when it was owned by the Glenny family, who also owned the liquor store and lounge next door. Busy nights meant trying to guide cars facing northwest into stalls facing southwest. We ushers made spare change by washing windshields for tips before the show started. Also, since we charged by the person while the nearby Roadium charged by the car, there were always a few cars who left the entry line with multiple passengers – only to appear moments later with only one or two people, and a pronounced lower ride toward the rear.
You can see aerial views from a few different decades by entering the theater address on this site:
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Here is another ad from the LA Times:
Here is an October 1974 double feature, as advertised in the LA Times:
It's an industrial park. No trace of the drive-in.
As a child during the early 60's my dad would take the family to the drive-in on Friday's after he came home from work and got cleaned up. The Twin Vue was one of those drive-in's that I remember fondly. Some of the films I remember seeing there were Pollyanna and Flipper. Years later after joing the projectionist Local 150 I learned that the projectionist who first opened the Twin Vue also closed it. I also learned that because of the small and somewhat narrow lot, the Twin Vue was configured in such a way that the main screen tower was placed in the northwest corner of the lot and faced southeast so the headlight glare from the northbound Harbor freeway traffic would not be distracting to the audience had it been placed in the southwest corner but later a second smaller screen tower was positioned in the southwest corner of the lot along with car stalls and speaker poles. Most of the time it sat there unused. Only on those rare occasions when the main lot filled up did management open the smaller lot and ran the same picture on both screens using an inovative prism mirror system contained in a box in front of the lens of each of the two projectors that were facing the main screen tower. With the turn of a knob on the top of each box the same image could be simutaneoulsy thrown on both screens. However, this reduced the footlambert and the image lost some brightness on both screens. After too many complaints and refunds about the poor picture quality management stopped doing this. Now when the main lot filled up the second lot opened but arriving customers were told to park their cars so that it faced the main screen.
Well when I went to the Twin Vue in the mid to late 60's both screens were used to show movies
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I have photos of the Twin-Vue and that dreadful second screen; I'll have to look for them and scan them. The theatre was pretty trashy-looking for most of its existence; by the time the mid-1970s came (the last time I saw a film there), it was a real eyesore, as was the sad little Picador Restaurant right outside the front gate. All that's left of this part of old Gardena is the sign from The Condes' restaurant from down the street (you can find it at Universal Citywalk). There's now a McDonalds and a vocational school on the property, and, unlike in the days of the Twin-Vue, the freeway exits there and not down the street on Alondra. But it's still hard to pass by the intersection without thinking about that spooky old theatre and the old Dr. Pepper plant across the freeway from it.
One other person who remembers the Twin-Vue well is Bobby Rivers, host of "Top 5" on Food Network! I heard him mention it on last night's show! (Hey Gardena—-we were mentioned on telly)!!!
The Twin-Vue was one of the first ozoners, along with the Harbor DI in Harbor City, to disappear from the South Bay. It was very much as described when the theater was listed. My guess is instead of modifying the existing screen to accommodate scope they simply built a second one. The small screen sat rotting and was a terrible eyesore. No trace of this theater remains.
The last chain to operate the Twin-Vue Drive-In was Pacific Theatres. But before that Mann Theatres operated it. It was located at 15201 South Figueroa, Gardena, Ca. 90248.
The Twin-Vue Drive-In had a 492 car capacity.
What was the other screen used for?


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Common sense tells us that the only way to increase the value of
diamonds is to make them scarce, that is to reduce production.
Nothing is forever.
Except, maybe, Neil Diamond.
A topic of endless fascination, a major piece from The Atlantic, February 1982:
An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign
The diamond invention—the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem—is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond trade. Until the late nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few riverbeds in India and in the jungles of Brazil, and the entire world production of gem diamonds amounted to a few pounds a year. In 1870, however, huge diamond mines were discovered near the Orange River, in South Africa, where diamonds were soon being scooped out by the ton. Suddenly, the market was deluged with diamonds. The British financiers who had organized the South African mines quickly realized that their investment was endangered; diamonds had little intrinsic value—and their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity. The financiers feared that when new mines were developed in South Africa, diamonds would become at best only semiprecious gems.
The major investors in the diamond mines realized that they had no alternative but to merge their interests into a single entity that would be powerful enough to control production and perpetuate the illusion of scarcity of diamonds. The instrument they created, in 1888, was called De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., incorporated in South Africa. As De Beers took control of all aspects of the world diamond trade, it assumed many forms. In London, it operated under the innocuous name of the Diamond Trading Company. In Israel, it was known as "The Syndicate." In Europe, it was called the "C.S.O." -- initials referring to the Central Selling Organization, which was an arm of the Diamond Trading Company. And in black Africa, it disguised its South African origins under subsidiaries with names like Diamond Development Corporation and Mining Services, Inc. At its height -- for most of this century -- it not only either directly owned or controlled all the diamond mines in southern Africa but also owned diamond trading companies in England, Portugal, Israel, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland.
De Beers proved to be the most successful cartel arrangement in the annals of modern commerce. While other commodities, such as gold, silver, copper, rubber, and grains, fluctuated wildly in response to economic conditions, diamonds have continued, with few exceptions, to advance upward in price every year since the Depression. Indeed, the cartel seemed so superbly in control of prices -- and unassailable -- that, in the late 1970s, even speculators began buying diamonds as a guard against the vagaries of inflation and recession.
The diamond invention is far more than a monopoly for fixing diamond prices; it is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of wealth, power, and romance. To achieve this goal, De Beers had to control demand as well as supply. Both women and men had to be made to perceive diamonds not as marketable precious stones but as an inseparable part of courtship and married life. To stabilize the market, De Beers had to endow these stones with a sentiment that would inhibit the public from ever reselling them. The illusion had to be created that diamonds were forever -- "forever" in the sense that they should never be resold.
In September of 1938, Harry Oppenheimer, son of the founder of De Beers and then twenty-nine, traveled from Johannesburg to New York City, to meet with Gerold M. Lauck, the president of N. W. Ayer, a leading advertising agency in the United States. Lauck and N. W. Ayer had been recommended to Oppenheimer by the Morgan Bank, which had helped his father consolidate the De Beers financial empire. His bankers were concerned about the price of diamonds, which had declined worldwide.
In Europe, where diamond prices had collapsed during the Depression, there seemed little possibility of restoring public confidence in diamonds. In Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain, the notion of giving a diamond ring to commemorate an engagement had never taken hold. In England and France, diamonds were still presumed to be jewels for aristocrats rather than the masses. Furthermore, Europe was on the verge of war, and there seemed little possibility of expanding diamond sales. This left the United States as the only real market for De Beers's diamonds. In fact, in 1938 some three quarters of all the cartel's diamonds were sold for engagement rings in the United States. Most of these stones, however, were smaller and of poorer quality than those bought in Europe, and had an average price of $80 apiece. Oppenheimer and the bankers believed that an advertising campaign could persuade Americans to buy more expensive diamonds.
Oppenheimer suggested to Lauck that his agency prepare a plan for creating a new image for diamonds among Americans. He assured Lauck that De Beers had not called on any other American advertising agency with this proposal, and that if the plan met with his father's approval, N. W. Ayer would be the exclusive agents for the placement of newspaper and radio advertisements in the United States. Oppenheimer agreed to underwrite the costs of the research necessary for developing the campaign. Lauck instantly accepted the offer.
In their subsequent investigation of the American diamond market, the staff of N. W. Ayer found that since the end of World War I, in 1919, the total amount of diamonds sold in America, measured in carats, had declined by 50 percent; at the same time, the quality of the diamonds, measured in dollar value, had declined by nearly 100 percent. An Ayer memo concluded that the depressed state of the market for diamonds was "the result of the economy, changes in social attitudes and the promotion of competitive luxuries."
Although it could do little about the state of the economy, N. W. Ayer suggested that through a well-orchestrated advertising and public-relations campaign it could have a significant impact on the "social attitudes of the public at large and thereby channel American spending toward larger and more expensive diamonds instead of "competitive luxuries." Specifically, the Ayer study stressed the need to strengthen the association in the public's mind of diamonds with romance.
Since "young men buy over 90% of all engagement rings" it would be crucial to inculcate in them the idea that diamonds were a gift of love: the larger and finer the diamond, the greater the expression of love. Similarly, young women had to be encouraged to view diamonds as an integral part of any romantic courtship.
Since the Ayer plan to romanticize diamonds required subtly altering the public's picture of the way a man courts -- and wins -- a woman, the advertising agency strongly suggested exploiting the relatively new medium of motion pictures. Movie idols, the paragons of romance for the mass audience, would be given diamonds to use as their symbols of indestructible love. In addition, the agency suggested offering stories and society photographs to selected magazines and newspapers which would reinforce the link between diamonds and romance.
Stories would stress the size of diamonds that celebrities presented to their loved ones, and photographs would conspicuously show the glittering stone on the hand of a well-known woman. Fashion designers would talk on radio programs about the "trend towards diamonds" that Ayer planned to start. The Ayer plan also envisioned using the British royal family to help foster the romantic allure of diamonds. An Ayer memo said, "Since Great Britain has such an important interest in the diamond industry, the royal couple could be of tremendous assistance to this British industry by wearing diamonds rather than other jewels." Queen Elizabeth later went on a well-publicized trip to several South African diamond mines, and she accepted a diamond from Oppenheimer.
In addition to putting these plans into action, N. W. Ayer placed a series of lush four-color advertisements in magazines that were presumed to mold elite opinion, featuring reproductions of famous paintings by such artists as Picasso, Derain, Dali, and Dufy. The advertisements were intended to convey the idea that diamonds, like paintings, were unique works of art.
By 1941, The advertising agency reported to its client that it had already achieved impressive results in its campaign. The sale of diamonds had increased by 55 percent in the United States since 1938, reversing the previous downward trend in retail sales. N. W. Ayer noted also that its campaign had required "the conception of a new form of advertising which has been widely imitated ever since. There was no direct sale to be made. There was no brand name to be impressed on the public mind. There was simply an idea -- the eternal emotional value surrounding the diamond." It further claimed that "a new type of art was devised ... and a new color, diamond blue, was created and used in these campaigns.... "
In its 1947 strategy plan, the advertising agency strongly emphasized a psychological approach. "We are dealing with a problem in mass psychology. We seek to ... strengthen the tradition of the diamond engagement ring -- to make it a psychological necessity capable of competing successfully at the retail level with utility goods and services...." It defined as its target audience "some 70 million people 15 years and over whose opinion we hope to influence in support of our objectives." N. W. Ayer outlined a subtle program that included arranging for lecturers to visit high schools across the country. "All of these lectures revolve around the diamond engagement ring, and are reaching thousands of girls in their assemblies, classes and informal meetings in our leading educational institutions," the agency explained in a memorandum to De Beers. The agency had organized, in 1946, a weekly service called "Hollywood Personalities," which provided 125 leading newspapers with descriptions of the diamonds worn by movie stars. And it continued its efforts to encourage news coverage of celebrities displaying diamond rings as symbols of romantic involvement. In 1947, the agency commissioned a series of portraits of "engaged socialites." The idea was to create prestigious "role models" for the poorer middle-class wage-earners. The advertising agency explained, in its 1948 strategy paper, "We spread the word of diamonds worn by stars of screen and stage, by wives and daughters of political leaders, by any woman who can make the grocer's wife and the mechanic's sweetheart say 'I wish I had what she has.'"
De Beers needed a slogan for diamonds that expressed both the theme of romance and legitimacy. An N. W. Ayer copywriter came up with the caption "A Diamond Is Forever," which was scrawled on the bottom of a picture of two young lovers on a honeymoon. Even though diamonds can in fact be shattered, chipped, discolored, or incinerated to ash, the concept of eternity perfectly captured the magical qualities that the advertising agency wanted to attribute to diamonds. Within a year, "A Diamond Is Forever" became the official motto of De Beers. ......MUCH MORE
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Making OPEC and DeBeers look like glee clubs, the tinsel trade maintains a brutal price discipline that would be the envy of the Sinaloa or the Worldwide Parsley Producers cartels....
End of the Oppenheimer Era at DeBeers: Nicky Oppenheimer on What the Family Will Do With the $5.1 Billion
Commodities: Russia's Diamond Hoard Has the Potential to Crush the Diamond Market (or not)
The Next Bauble: Diamond Record Set at Christies Geneva
Paper Diamonds: How Do You Standardize Rocks So They'll Fit Inside An ETF Wrapper?
You Thought the Rio Tinto Red Diamonds Were Baubles, You Dismissed the 118 Carat 'Perfect' Being Auctioned Tomorrow as Crass, Perhaps Monsieur et Madame Would be Interested In...
...The Pink Star
Diamonds: Have You Been Depressed Since DeBeers Was Delisted? Hangdog Since Harry Winston Split? Cheer Up Bunky, There's Always Alrosa
Commodities: Russia's Diamond Hoard Has the Potential to Crush the Diamond Market (or not)
The Next Bauble: Diamond Record Set at Christies Geneva
Paper Diamonds: How Do You Standardize Rocks So They'll Fit Inside An ETF Wrapper?
You Thought the Rio Tinto Red Diamonds Were Baubles, You Dismissed the 118 Carat 'Perfect' Being Auctioned Tomorrow as Crass, Perhaps Monsieur et Madame Would be Interested In...
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Read a good article on Battlefield 3 GPU & CPU Performance over at Techspot.
The charts say one thing but the article explains why the charts may look the way they do.
In the end its what ever you use and how you set it up best to suit yourself.
If you dont have the top of the range gear it doesnt matter.
I've been playing on a laptop that has decent specs but nothing like my rig at home, but seems more than capable of running the game well.
Bang for buck the i5-2500K still holds its own.
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What are annulments for?
"Why do I have to go through this?" The question sums up many other questions people have about annulments, the way the Catholic Church says a marriage is ended.
"My fiance isn't even Catholic; why does he have to have his first marriage annulled? Other churches and religions recognize civil divorce; why not the Catholic Church? Isn't an annulment really just a hypocritical way for the church to let Catholics get around divorce? Why do I have to suffer the pain and humiliation of reliving my failed marriage?"
People seek annulments to resolve a civil divorce in the eyes of the church, to be free to remarry in the church, or to open the door to having an existing marriage blessed by the church.
The church believes it has the right to decide the validity of marriage because it also believes that when baptized people marry-Catholic or not-their marriage is a sacrament; hence the reason a civil divorce cannot, in the eyes of the church, end a marriage. The church also assumes the validity of marriages of non-baptized people. At the same time, the church is realistic and acknowledges that married relationships do end, and sometimes they end for definite and legitimate reasons.
The church teaches that when two people marry, both parties must be in a situation to make a good judgment about the important decision they are making. They must be reasonably free of serious emotional or psychological problems. They need to believe in the sacrament of marriage, and they must be willing to commit to marry for life, to be faithful, to be open to having children, and to care about their spouse. They must be able to enter into marriage without fear or deception.
If one or more of these conditions can be shown to have been absent for either or both of the spouses, the church can grant an annulment. An annulment does not say the couple did not love each other or did not have a marriage in other ways, or that their children were "illegitimate."
It does say the marriage was "invalid," legal-sounding language meaning the married relationship was never fully a sacrament and lacked something crucial from the beginning, something the couple never found and something that proved fatal to the marriage.
While each person's experience is different, taking another look at a failed marriage can help someone understand what happened and maybe come to terms with it a bit more. The process can also help a person deepen their understanding of the new marriage she or he is in or is contemplating. It can bring people closer to themselves and their past experiences, to their present spouse or spouse-to-be, and ultimately, through all these relationships, closer to God.
This article appeared in the June 2003 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 68, No. 6, page 41).


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I've done a lot of bitching about the lack of WYSIWYG functionality on Google Docs. Basically, you have never had any idea what your document is going to come out like when you need to print.
Now, I don't print many documents and it's annoyed the hell out of me, so I can imagine how frustrating it has been for those users who print most of what they writer. Indeed, it's annoyed me enough that I've recently switched to Buzzword for documents I write with an intent to print. But today I got excited when I discovered that Google had finally introduced a "fixed-width page view".
At first I thought, yes, Google Docs finally has gone WYSIWYG but alas, it took me a grand total of 30 seconds to work out that wasn't the case. I've not even had a chance to properly test it by printing out any documents but already I can see its a long way short of being WYSIWYG.
The first obvious flaw was that you can't see your document from a vertical perspective. Page breaks just look like a line splitting one long page. I then tried changing the margins on the print settings and my document didn't change at all.
And this is what the Google help says about the new feature: "Page view layout is an alternative way to edit your documents. As its name suggests, page view allows you to display your docs in the form of a page. Not only does it have a sophisticated look, but it also allows you to more easily visualize how a doc will actually look on paper."
More easily visualize? Nup, this ain't no WYSIWYG. Oh well, it's a start I guess.
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The 2012 elections undoubtedly will be decisive in American politics. With a president seeking re-election, a hotly contested field of Republican contenders for the presidency, the control of Congress up for grabs and a stagnant economy, American voters are ready to head to the polls, and so should HR professionals!
HR issues dominate the policy agenda. Making sure that your voice is heard is imperative to ensuring Congress enacts laws that make sense and help organizations better manage themselves.
So, what can you do? Let SHRM help you with these five simple steps:
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SUNY Canton Artist Exhibits at Saranac Lake GalleryThursday, July 8th, 2010
A SUNY Canton Faculty Member's new work blends layers of natural chaos with artistic design.
Matthew J. Burnett, an Assistant Professor in the College's graphic and multimedia design program, is currently displaying his most recent collaborative painting project "Clusterphobic" through July 26, at the 7444 Gallery in Saranac Lake.
His most recent work is about layers. Burnett and his colleague Scott Fuller have created a series of large-scale mixed media panel paintings inspired by the layering of beautiful or compelling patterns he's observed during time spent in the Adirondacks. Fuller is department chair of the Visual Arts program at St. Joseph's College in Maine and is an advisory committee member for SUNY Canton's GMMD program.
"We are constantly trying new ways to push the mediums we work with to new levels," Burnett said. "This body of work lends itself to innovation by its very nature. A natural occurring phenomenon like a pile of sticks, or the textures of a tree, can influence one of these pieces."
Fuller prepares the base layer by silk-screening repeating patterns to a large panel. On a separate panel, Burnett paints his own compositions and physically cuts away areas to create negative space. The two panels are attached together to create an overall unified composition of the two artists' work.
"We do not make matter, we collect and reassemble it," Burnett said in a description of the show. "We do not materialize new relationships, we enable new expressions of what we have experienced."
Also featured at the 7444 gallery is a community minded effort by Burnett and gallery director Todd Smith. The pair refurbished a vintage cigarette machine to dispense small pieces of artwork created by more than 20 regional artists. Each piece costs $1. The machine, loosely dubbed "Smokin' Art," is part of the burgeoning Saranac Lake Arts scene, and will be featured at various public locations during the "Third Thursday" celebrations. "Saranac Lake is becoming a hub of contemporary and traditional artists, and I'm proud to be a part of it," Burnett said.
For more about the artists, visit www.mattburnettpaintings.com and http://scottfullerart.com.
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I remember a lot of the old paper decorations in my grade school using these great colors.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Halloween Greetings
I remember a lot of the old paper decorations in my grade school using these great colors.
Posted by Rot at 8:11 PM
Labels: art, clip art, flickr.com, heth and ry, postcard, vintage
4 comments:
- Bob said...
Hey Rot, thanks for posting those postcards. As a reward for putting in about 120 hours at work in the past 2 weeks, my wife bought me a vintage Halloween postcard and made me pumpkin pancakes with cinnamon spice coffee for breakfast on Saturday (which I drank from my Halloween mug). I figured you'd appreciate the sentiment.
- July 12, 2009 at 9:14 PM
- Jason-v said...
Yeah those are the classics!!!
- July 12, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- The Captain said...
That is a huge collection! I wish I just had a handful of those cards.
- July 13, 2009 at 3:10 AM
- Rot said...
Bob, That's pretty sweet. : )
That's a GREAT saturday, man.
- July 13, 2009 at 6:35 AM
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For more on the remarkable Ms Martinez see the earlier post
- Nonagenarian American Indian linguist
Esther Martinez: 'A way to honor her spirit' Historical roadside marker celebrates Tewa linguist and renowned storyteller
11/8/2008 – 11/9/08
OHKAY OWINGEH — New Mexico honored Ohkay Owingeh storyteller and Tewa linguist Esther Martinez Blue Water (P'oe Tsáwä) on Saturday by unveiling a new roadside marker at the pueblo north of Española.
"It is an honor to have a marker that recognizes her contributions to her pueblo and to others," said Martinez, speaking to the large crowd gathered at the site along N.M. 68. "She was a person steadfast to the end."
The wooden marker is the second of 55 that will be installed around the state in recognition of influential New Mexico women. .. The marker program was conceived by three women — Pat French, Beverly Duran and Alexis Girard. They created the New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative and lobbied the Legislature to fund the project.
"As we drove around the state, we realized all the historic markers up and down the road were all for men," French said Saturday as she waited for the cutting of a silver ribbon around Martinez's marker. "This is to create a better balance."
Martinez, born in 1912, was known as an exceptional storyteller. Her family said she could use almost anything as the source of a good yarn, even everyday events. "My mother's stories had such life and character," daughter Josephine Binford said with a chuckle. "You could see what she described. When she spoke, it was like she cast a spell."
… Martinez received many national honors for her work in preserving the language and stories of her people. She taught Tewa in the Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo) schools for years and created a Tewa dictionary. She traveled widely to share stories with non-Pueblo people. She received the Teacher of the Year award from the National Council of American Indians in 1997 and a year later was given the Governor's Award for Excellence.
In 2006, Martinez was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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John Daly has more new song material.
Daly's wife has left him after doing time for a federal conviction, he injured his back, hip and pinky, and he took a free fall down the Tour money list. No reports on whether Daly's dog has died.
"It's been a tough one, with injuries and everything else going on," Daly told the Associated Press. "It's tough to play the game of golf when your family is not with you, and the injuries. It's one of those years when nothing has gone right."
JD has lost his exempt status on Tour but can look forward to one early season start: the Nissan Open has granted Daly a spot in the field at Riviera.
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Since the release of the 4S, developers and hackers have attempted to make Siri work on the iPhone 4 (and other older iDevices). While successful in installing the digital assistant, they weren't able to make Siri fully communicate with Apple's servers. But it appears that a group of Chinese hackers (the CD-Team) has successfully ported the full functionality of Siri to jailbroken iDevices – the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G in particular. Called H1Siri, the port – over a 100mb download – is found on Cydia via the Cydia.be and iphone3gsystem.fr/cydia repositories. While using Siri on your iPhone 4 is highly desirable no doubt, there are several red flags when it comes to installing the package. Aside from legality issues, this proxy hack involves sending your personal information to a third party server, which isn't exactly desirable to say the least. But if you still want to give it a try, a step-by-step tutorial showing you how can be found here. Below is a video of a youtube user running H1Siri on his iPhone 4.
Yesterday, 30 July evidently was D-Day for what could be the biggest security risk yet seen n Apple's iPhone. The vulnerability was discovered by Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner (æã'ã—ã"), who advise that any user who finds an SMS message which contains a sole square character should immediately turn their phone off. Apple have yet to patch this vulnerability which could allow, "someone [to] pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world".


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Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Rules
On May 25, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued its final rules to establish a new whistleblower program as required by Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act. The new rules are linked below. AICPA is analyzing the final rules and plans to work with policymakers regarding any ongoing profession concerns.
Dodd-Frank Act Section 922 requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish a new whistleblower program that will pay awards, subject to certain limitations and conditions, to whistleblowers who voluntarily provide the SEC with original information about a violation of the securities laws that leads to a successful enforcement of an action brought by the SEC that results in monetary penalties exceeding $1,000,000. The amount of the award is required to equal 10-30% of the monetary sanction.
In its proposed rule, the SEC would have allowed whistleblowers to report only to the SEC and bypass a company's internal reporting procedures that may be established by a company, even including the procedures that are required under Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The final rule calls for direct reporting to the SEC, but provides additional incentives to whistleblowers who report internally first.
The AICPA believes that it is good public policy, good corporate governance, and in the best interest of investors to ensure that allegations of financial reporting impropriety get to independent audit committees and auditors in a timely manner. The AICPA maintains that the SEC should implement the Dodd-Frank provision in a manner that ensures audit committees and auditors obtain information from relevant whistleblower complaints and avoid a rule that would bypass or withhold the timely sharing of complaints with them.
Additionally, Dodd-Frank Section 728 requires the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to establish a whistleblower program similar to that required of the SEC. While Section 922 of Dodd-Frank provides an exemption for auditors from receiving awards related to the SEC registrants, no explicit exemption was included relative to organizations under CFTC jurisdiction. The AICPA is concerned about the implementation of these provisions regarding CPAs and their staff.
The CAQ, Chamber of Commerce, and AICPA comment letters strongly urged the SEC and CFTC in final rules to, at a minimum, require concurrent whistleblower reporting to the entity and the respective Commission as a condition for an award. AICPA asked that the agencies extend the time for entities to report on potential wrongdoing to 180 days to allow more time for investigation of internal whistleblower reports (the SEC adopted a 120-day window).
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112th Congress
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises held a hearing on the whistleblower provisions on May 11, 2011 at which Robert Kueppers of Deloitte testified on behalf of the profession. A copy of his testimony is linked below.
Representative Michael Grimm (R-NY) introduced a bill, the Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011, H.R. 2483, to improve the Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions. AICPA worked closely with Congressman Grimm to insure that audit committees will receive timely information regarding whistleblower information that reasonably could impact the quality of financial reporting. The bill was voted out of the Capital Markets Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee on December 14, 2011. The AICPA sent a letter in support of the bill to all Members of the Subcommittee in advance of the markup.
Legislative Letter
December 12, 2011 AICPA letter to Members of Capital Markets Subcommittee
Final Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued its final whistleblower rules on May 25, 2011. The Commission's press release and link to rule may be found here.
May 11, 2011, Bob Kueppers, Deloitte & Touche, testimony on behalf of AICPA before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
Copy of Dodd-Frank Legislation
The law and all major Congressional actions leading to passage are available on the Library of Congress's THOMAS website by using the advanced search function and searching for H.R. 4173 by bill number under the 111th Congress.
Comment Letters
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AICPA's comment letter on the CFTC proposed rule
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Alhama de Granada is an old spa village in Granada Province.
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Bus from Torre del Mar or Vélez-Málaga - both easily reached from Málaga. Car hire from Malaga Airport and train station is also a good, cost effective option, the drive takes around 90 minutes. Car hire from Granada airport is also inexpensive, this drive takes around 40 minutes.
Get around[edit]
There is also a bus from Granada to Alhama that runs 4 times a day, check the times on the alsa website, last one is around 6.30 pm. Once in the town, everything you need is in walking distance: fresh fruit and vegetable shops, butchers, supermarkets, fresh fish shops, bars and restaurants.
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Windsurfing, horse riding, hiking, quad biking, go karting, mountain biking, cycling, kayaking.
Swimming in Lake Bermajales (10 km away) - the lake is surrounded by sandy beaches.
Swimming pools - there is an open air public pool in town with grassy areas for laying out and one at Pato Loco 3 km steady walk up the gorge. It costs a few euros to use either pool, both are only open in the summer months.
Winter sports - November to April, the slopes are 90 minutes drive away.
To get prices / arrange Windsurfing, hiking, quad biking, go karting, mountain biking, cycling, kayaking, abseiling or skiing contact Terry at Alhambra Rambler
Beaches - The Costa Tropical is a little over an hours drive away, Nerja and it's amazing caves is an hour and 10 minutes away.
There are two spas in the town, both have hotels attached with all the facilities you'd expect. One is at the bottom of the town Balneario de Alhama de Granada near the Roman bridge (20 minute / 3km easy walk, or 2 minutes in the car) and one is at the top - El Ventorro (30 minute / 4km steady walk up the gorge or 4 minutes in the car).
Balneario dates back to Roman times (1st century), the thermal waters are 47 degrees C, there is a hotel with a full range of treatments see or you can simply walk down to the river and sit in one of the warm pools for free, there is a small parking fee if you take the car.
Recommended reading list - before, during or after your trip
Ornament of the World - How Muslims, Jews and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain - Rosa Menocal
Driving Over Lemons - Chris Stewart
The Parrot in the Pepper Tree - Chris Stewart
South from Granada - Gerald Brenan
Guerra - Jason Webster
Al-Andalus - Jason Webster
Duende - Jason Webster
Ghosts of Spain - Giles Tremlett
The New Spaniards - John Hooper
Spain by the Horns: A Journey to the Heart of a Culture - Tim Elliott
It's Not About the Tapas - Polly Evans
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society - Chris Stewart
Muslim Spain and Portugal: Political History of Al-Andalus - Hugh Kennedy
Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook - Sam Clark and Sam Clark
Moro East - Samantha Clark
Spanish Lessons: How One Family Found Their Place in the Sun - Derek Lambert
The City of Granada - 45 mins drive
Granada is in the heart of Andalusia. One of a three key Moorish towns in Southern Spain, the others being Cordoba and Seville. It is situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, Beiro, Darro and Genil.
Of course Granada is world famous for the Alhambra Palace. It is one of the most renowned historical sites in the world. A trip to this part of Spain would not be complete without visiting the Palace. It is advisable to book tickets online to avoid disappointment it costs 12 euros for the day, there are a number of different ticket options available.
The town itself is well worth spending some time in. The Albaicin is the old Arabic quarter, a maze of winding alleyways and streets, with cafes and Arabic teterias (teahouses) with their cool, dark fragrant interiors they beckon visitors out of the bright sunlight, a place where you can treat yourself to sweet pastries and drink aromatic teas around traditional, three-legged sinya tables. There are fantastic shops selling rugs, lamps, mirrors, furniture, jewelry and clothes. As you climb the winding streets you are offered glimpses of the fabulous Alhambra on the opposite side of the valley. The locals say that, to understand it, you need to spend time in "el Corazon de su Corazon" - at the heart of its heart. Finding that heart, through it's maze of cobbled, winding streets, is not so easy. A great place to take photos of the Alhambra is in the plaza at the top of the hill (Mirador de San Nicolas Church) many people gather here every evening as the sun is setting, as it is such a good view and there is great soft orange light on the Alhambra.
Church of Santa Ana and Plaza San Nicolas. Half way up this hilly district is the 16th-centrury church of Santa Ana whose bell tower is a converted minaret. Nearby is an original, working Baños Arabes, beautifully restored with brick-vaulted ceilings, star-shaped skylights and wall mosaics. Narrow streets run between whitewashed houses called carmenes. These were homes built by wealthy Arabs between the 12th and 15th centuries who hid their prosperity behind high walls, but the gates and grilles reveal some wonderful secret gardens, geometrically-designed with Moorish patios, fountains and a profusion of fruit trees, plants and flowers.
Sacromonte the gypsies and flamenco guitarists Quarter. The Albaicin morphs into Sacromonte via a barely noticeable fountain, but the atmosphere subtly changes. This is the home of an ancient and still considerable gitano population from whose clans many of Spain's best flamenco guitarists, singers and dancers have emerged. The gypsies originally lived in caves carved out of the hillside – some still do, although the majority have been converted into attractive tourist apartments, restaurants and night clubs. The area still has an anarchic energy, fed by late-night flamenco zambras. Although there are a few bona fide flamenco clubs, sadly most of these once-spontaneous gypsy festivities have become blatantly contrived for tourists, with entrance priced at anything the gitaro hosts feel like charging in exchange for a quick show and a small sherry. But this is still a barrio well worth experiencing. During Semana Santa, when religious statues are paraded through the streets, the mix of incense, candles and singing creates a highly-charged atmosphere.
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There is a bustling market on a Friday morning, selling fresh local produce, plants, clothes and household stuff.
Fabulous locally produced olive oil, honey, almonds and wine is available to buy in many of the local shops and bars. Ventorro (at the top of the gorge) has a particularly good selection.
a small selection of local arts, crafts and post cards is available at the small tabac on the corner of Plaza Constitution.
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Bars & Restaurants
Top Square (Plaza de la Constitution)
There are around 38 bars in Alhama de Granada, pretty much all serve food, hot and cold drinks, Some of our personal favourites include:
Ochoa: classic Spanish rural bar, serving great rustic plates of food, local wine and draft beer. Run by Josephina and Paco. This place has very friendly service and in the colder months they place trays of hot olive wood coals (Braseros) under your table to keep you warm. Fantastic! Try a media plate of the Setas (fleshy mushrooms) and the calamari plancha (grilled squid) - both fantastic with a cold beer or drop of tinto verano (red wine and lemonade cooler).
Le Seguriya: proper sit down restaurant, run by Paco and Lola. Great food and relaxed atmosphere. There is a fantastic terrace overlooking the gorge and there are rooms available since it is also a "Hotel Rural".
Meson Diego: Great for 'menu del dia' served every weekday lunchtime - around 8 euros for 2 / 3 courses. The terrace is a suntrap, which is great for most of the year, but it can be a bit hot in summer, there is an air conditioned restaurant inside.
Bar Andalus: Also do a great 'menu del dia' served every weekday lunchtime - around 8 euros for 2 / 3 courses. Again catches the Sun.
Bar Gallega: modern bar, serving great and interesting tapas.
La Boega: Great, down to earth bar, with good breakfasts. Really good, generous tapas.
El Encutentro: Young modern bar that stays open until late.
El Tigre: Is the small bar in the corner of Calle Fuerte and Alta De Mesones. By the top corner of Constitution. In the summer season, they have control of a big space at the top of the square. Antonio the owner has a real flair for classic tapas with a twist.
Al Dente: A very good home made Italian pizza place.
La Crème: This is an ice cream and coffee shop. Also one of the best places in town to get a fresh loaf of bread.
Near the Lower Square
Churreria De Ascencion: Right on the main (Granada) roundabout - the sign over the door says 'Hamburguesa'. Specialize in churros, a sweet Spanish delicacy for breakfast, served in a big spiral of doughnut type thing - cooked fresh whilst you wait. You dip your hot chorros in an amazing, thick, real chocolate drink. An experience you must do at least once, be warned you may have to put the diet on hold for the day. Friendly staff and very clean bathrooms. You can also get a beer here later in the day. Hamburgers look pretty good too.
Bar Rincon: Is next to the childrens' play area in the bottom square, so is an ideal place to have a drink whilst the keeping an eye on the kids playing a few metres away. Rincon serves all the usual coffee, beer, wine food etc. and is very good.
Tasca Casa Marin: in a little street just behind the 2nd (Loja) roundabout. A little gem of a place specialising in fantastic Iberico ham and mature cheeses - a real foodie paradise.
Cafe 25: Our nineteen year old 'city wise' daughter loves this place. Quite loud music and I'm told the ice cream is great!
Rafa bar: Is the place where all the teenage kids hang out, table football and pool. Usually doesn't get going until 10.30 apparently.
Internet café: on Carretera Loja right hand side walking out of town, around 50 metres from the second roundabout.
Restaurants up the gorge by the small lake
El Ventorro: They serve very very good food in this restaurant it is 25 minutes walk from town up the gorge, or a 5 minute drive. There is a biggish menu, we had the menu del dia, which was excellent. They have recently opened a spa facility here, which is great. 15 euros for a couple of hours of steam, pool, jacuzzi etc... or treat yourself with a massage for an extra 15 euros. There is a half price day on Tuesdays. You will usually need to book ahead here as space is limited.
Pato Loco: Huge restaurant with a huge swimming pool, food is good.
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There is a good selection of rental properties on the owners direct website. Local hotels are relatively small but all adequate. There is one hotel with spectacular gorge views called Le Seguiriya. Just outside town there is a good hotel and spa with excellent restaurant called El Ventorro.
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NLRB v. INTERNATIONAL VAN LINES(1972)
Four employees of respondent refused to cross a picket line formed in connection with a union's organization campaign. Respondent thereafter advised the employees that because of their failure to report to work they were being permanently replaced, which was not true at the time of the discharges. When respondent refused reinstatement, charges were filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Concluding that the discharges were unfair labor practices under the National Labor Relations Act, and that the employees thereby became unfair labor practice strikers, the NLRB ordered unconditional reinstatement with back pay. The Court of Appeals reversed that portion of the NLRB's order, holding that the employees were not unfair labor practice strikers, who were entitled to unconditional reinstatement, but economic strikers, who were not entitled to reinstatement if the employer had substantial business justifications for refusing to rehire them. Held: The unconditional reinstatement of the employees was proper since their discriminatory discharges prior to the time their places were filled constituted unfair labor practices regardless of whether they were economic strikers or unfair labor practice strikers. Pp. 52-53.
448 F.2d 905, reversed in part.
STEWART, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C. J., and DOUGLAS, BRENNAN, WHITE, MARSHALL, POWELL, and REHNQUIST, JJ., joined. BLACKMUN, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, post, p. 53.
Peter G. Nash argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Griswold, Samuel Huntington, Patrick Hardin, Norton J. Come, and Linda Sher.
Norman H. Kirshman argued the cause for respondent. With him on the briefs was Louis R. Garcia. [409 U.S. 48, 49]
Briefs of amici curiae were filed by J. Albert Woll, Laurence Gold, and Thomas E. Harris for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and by Milton Smith, Jerry Kronenberg, and Gerard C. Smetana for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.
The respondent is a moving and storage company based in Santa Maria, California. In August 1967, Local 381 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America began a campaign to organize the employees of moving and storage firms in the area. By September 21, five of the respondent's employees had signed union authorization cards; it is undisputed that they constituted a clear majority of what would be an appropriate bargaining unit. Instead of demanding recognition by the respondent, the Union on September 21, 1967, petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for certification as the exclusive bargaining agent of the respondent's employees.
Shortly thereafter, on October 2 and 3, the Union held meetings where it was announced that the respondent had at first consented to a representation election but had later withdrawn its consent. It was decided at the October 3 meeting that all of the moving and storage companies involved in the Union organization campaign should be struck, and on October 4, picketing commenced at the respondent's place of business.
Four of the respondent's employees, Robert and Manuel Vasquez, Richard Dicus, and Salvador Casillas, were present at the respondent's premises on the morning when picketing commenced. They refused to cross the picket line. The next morning, Robert and Manuel Vasquez and Richard Dicus received identical telegrams [409 U.S. 48, 50] which read: "For failure to report to work as directed at 7 A. M. on Wednesday Oct. 4, 1967 you are being permanently replaced. [Signed] International Van Lines." 1 It is undisputed that at the time of the discharges, the respondent had not in fact hired permanent replacements.
Casillas sought reinstatement in late November, and the other three discharged employees made unconditional offers to return to work on December 12. At least as to these three, 2 the respondent refused reinstatement, claiming that it had at that point hired permanent replacements. The Union then went to the National Labor Relations Board with unfair labor practice charges against the respondent.
The Board determined that the labor picketing that commenced on October 4 was activity protected under 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 452, as amended, 29 U.S.C. 157, and concluded that the subsequent discharges of striking employees discriminated against lawful union activity and were unfair labor practices under 8 (a) (1) and 8 (a) (3) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. 158 (a) (1), (a) (3).
It is settled that an employer may refuse to reinstate economic strikers if in the interim he has taken on permanent replacements. NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., 304 U.S. 333, 345 -346. It is equally settled that employees striking in protest of an employer's unfair labor practices are entitled, absent some contractual or [409 U.S. 48, 51] statutory provision to the contrary, to unconditional reinstatement with back pay, "even if replacements for them have been made." Mastro Plastics Corp. v. NLRB, 350 U.S. 270, 278 . Since the strike in the instant case continued after the unfair labor practices had been committed by the employer, the Board reasoned that the original economic strike became an unfair labor practice strike on October 5, when the three telegrams were sent. The Board held the four employees to be unfair labor practice strikers and, accordingly, ordered their unconditional reinstatement with back pay.
The Board then sought enforcement of its order in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Court of Appeals agreed that the labor picketing was a lawful economic strike, and that the discharges of the striking employees were unfair labor practices. 448 F.2d 905, 910-911. Nevertheless, the Court of Appeals reversed the portion of the Board's order providing for reinstatement with back pay, 3 reasoning as follows:
Both the Board and the Court of Appeals have agreed that the labor picketing was a lawful economic strike, and the validity of that conclusion is not before us. 4 Given that hypothesis, the Board and the Court of Appeals were clearly correct in concluding that the respondent committed unfair labor practices when it fired its striking employees. "[T]he discharge of economic strikers prior . . . to the time their places are filled constitutes an unfair labor practice." NLRB v. Globe Wireless, 193 F.2d 748, 750; NLRB v. Comfort, Inc., 365 F.2d 867, 874; NLRB v. McCatron, 216 F.2d 212, 215. We need not decide, however, whether the Board was [409 U.S. 48, 53] correct in determining that the discharged employees assumed the status of unfair labor practice strikers on October 5, 1967, to reach the conclusion that the Court of Appeals erred in refusing to enforce the Board's order of reinstatement with back pay.
Unconditional reinstatement of the discharged employees was proper for the simple reason that they were the victims of a plain unfair labor practice by their employer. Quite apart from any characterization of the strike that continued after the wrongful discharges occurred, the discharges themselves were a sufficient ground for the Board's reinstatement order. "Reinstatement is the conventional correction for discriminatory discharges," Phelps Dodge Corp. v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 177, 187 , and was clearly within the Board's authority. 29 U.S.C. 160 (c).
It would undercut the remedial powers of the Board with respect to 8 violations, and subvert the protection of 7 of the Act, to hold that the employees' rights to reinstatement arising from the discriminatory discharges were somehow forfeited merely because they continued for a time to engage in their lawful strike after the unfair labor practices had been committed.
The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed insofar as it refused to enforce the Board's order that the discharged employees be reinstated with back pay. 5
[ Footnote 2 ] There remains some question as to whether Casillas, a part-time employee, was actually denied subsequent employment or whether instead there had been no occasion for the employer to use his services. The Court of Appeals remanded to the Board for a determination of this question - a determination that will affect the amount of back pay, if any, that Casillas is entitled to receive.
[ Footnote 3 ] The Court of Appeals also rejected the Board's finding of an unfair labor practice in the form of conversations between the son of the respondent's president and the employees, 448 F.2d, at 908-909, but this aspect of the judgment is not before us.
[ Footnote 4 ] The Court of Appeals construed the picketing as a strike for the purpose of forcing the respondent employer to agree to a consent election, 448 F.2d, at 910, and held this to be protected under the Act. The respondent disagrees. But since no timely cross-petition for certiorari was filed by the respondents, this question is not before us. Alaska Industrial Board v. Chugach Electric Assn., 356 U.S. 320, 325 ; NLRB v. Express Publishing Co., 312 U.S. 426, 431 -432; Morley Construction Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co., 300 U.S. 185, 191 . We therefore proceed on the premise that the Union was engaged in protected activity, while intimating no view on the merits of this portion of the decision of the Court of Appeals.
[ Footnote 5 ] The Court of Appeals remanded to the Board for a determination of whether Casillas had actually been denied employment subsequent to his request for reinstatement, and did not reach the propriety of the bargaining order entered by the Board. We leave these aspects of the Court of Appeals decision undisturbed.
MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN, concurring in the judgment.
The result mandated by the narrow factual situation presented in this case need not be automatically imposed [409 U.S. 48, 54] whenever an economic striker is discharged before being permanently replaced. Although the Court's opinion speaks only of permanent replacement as a justification for refusal to reinstate an economic striker, the Court has recognized in the past that, in addition to permanent replacement, other "legitimate and substantial business justifications" for not reinstating an economic striker may exist. NLRB v. Fleetwood Trailer Co., 389 U.S. 375, 378 -380 (1967). The Court is not faced in the present case with other "legitimate and substantial business justifications" because the employer, who bears the burden of proof, asserted only the permanent-replacement justification. The finding of an unfair labor practice here is not to be read, therefore, as necessarily precluding an employer from reliance on appropriate justifications other than permanent replacement.
Since the employer failed to show any business justification arising before the discharges, these workers enjoyed reinstatement rights when they were discriminatory discharged. I concur in the reversal of the Court of Appeals' judgment because preservation of the rights existing before the workers were discharged is the appropriate remedy to provide "a restoration of the situation, as nearly as possible, to that which would have obtained but for the illegal discrimination." Phelps Dodge Corp. v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 177, 194 (1941). [409 U.S. 48, 55]


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