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Monika Bittman—The vitality of artistic creation
Monika Bittman has wanted to be an artist ever since she was a little girl in Prague, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic. Today Bittman applies her creative eye and attention to detail in her work as a web designer at the Laboratory and on weekends spends as much time as possible painting in her Santa Fe studio.
Expressing herself artistically is a way to learn about herself and the world for Bittman. The upheavals of growing up in a Soviet-controlled country, defecting to the West in 1979 and subsequently emigrating to the United States have left her with a deep yearning for unhindered expression, harmony and peace, especially during her own creative experience.
"I took stock some years ago of how I approach art," Bittman says with a smile. "Instead of relying on my art training in Europe and my master of fine arts degree from the University of New Mexico, I try to free myself of my own biases, judgments and expectations. The only goal I set for myself when I'm in my studio is to be engaged and to create out of the vitality of each moment, my current frame of mind and the behaviors of the different materials I use. The process is joyous, full of discovery and humbling."
Several years ago a neighbor introduced Bittman to the Japanese sumi-e and Chinese ink-splash approaches to painting, both of which inspired her to become even more curious about the innate qualities of her paints and what she herself brings to each piece.
Painting at the Grand Canyon
Bittman's willingness to surrender a large part of her creative process to what shows up in the moment was tested last winter when she spent three weeks at the Grand Canyon as a National Park Service artist-in-residence.
"The Grand Canyon was both exhilarating and terribly challenging for me," Bittman explains, "because especially at first I found it difficult to resist the expectation that the canyon environment should be reflected in my art. It was not until the last week of my stay that I fully recognized that my creativity does not flow freely if I impose any ideas about the outcome."
Yet Bittman's art is highly evocative of the natural world. The paintings in her Space Series, for instance, look like careful renditions of Southwestern canyon landscapes. "By working with thin paint on small panels, moving them around and manipulating them, I allow the properties and dynamics of the paint to interact with gravity, time and me," Bittman notes. "I no longer 'paint' in a traditional sense but find that patterns emerge nonetheless that are reminiscent of larger structures in nature."
Bittman is silent for a moment. "The stillness of the vast, undisturbed canyon," she adds thoughtfully, "was affecting me on a deep level, showing me the ease of simply being and creating from within this ease."
At the Lab, Bittman works in the Information Resource Management Division's Communication Arts and Services group.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the Employee Spotlight articles are solely those of the featured employees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
To learn more about Bittman and her art, visit the Monika Bittman website.


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Tagetik Ranked #1 in 2011 BPM Pulse Survey Results
Performance Management competitor review shows Tagetik as the vendor with the highest overall customer satisfaction rating
Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business Intelligence, today announced that it has been rated #1 according to overall customer satisfaction per vendor in the "2011 BPM Pulse Survey Results" and related Competitor Review. This year's theme was: "The Quest for the Holy Grail of Performance Management".
This independent report by BPM Partners, the leading independent authority on business performance management (BPM) solutions, was conducted through an Internet-based survey from October, 2010 through March, 2011. The survey, now in its ninth year, includes input from hundreds of BPM end users from around the world and across all industries (in total, 360 valid responses were received). The purpose of the survey was to identify important trends in business performance management as well as specific perceptions of product vendors and service providers.
"While most vendors claim to have very happy customers, the reality is quite different. Performance Management can be challenging and unless the vendor has a robust product and strong support behind it, customers may not achieve their goals and satisfaction will suffer. That's why we believe the BPM Pulse customer satisfaction ratings should be a key consideration in the vendor selection process," commented Craig Schiff, President at BPM Partners, Inc.
"One of the reasons for Tagetik's growing international success into the Performance Management and Business Intelligence software markets is our ongoing dedication to customer satisfaction. This is clearly confirmed by this huge accomplishment: Tagetik ranked #1 among 9 vendors surveyed – included the three mega-vendors in the market – with a score of 4,70 out of 5 in customer satisfaction," explained Manuel Vellutini, Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik. "We pride ourselves to be a 'global boutique' software provider that has been able to differentiate from the giant BPM players' approach. Our mission is to stay focused on ever changing customer needs and be committed to their success, working closely with them to overcome their challenges as well as delivering the best solutions to the office of Finance."'Overall satisfaction per vendor' is the result of many parameters analyzed including product functionality, quality and performance, ease of use and implementation, customer support, product documentation, sales process and price value.For a free summary report, please visit: www.bpmpartners.com/bpmcentral_whitepapers.shtml
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The Columbus Crew have no intention of losing their grip on a third-successive Supporters Shield.
A 1-0 victory against the Kansas City Wizards at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Sunday cemented the Crew's place as the top team in the Eastern Conference, and extended the visitors' unbeaten streak against the Wizards to eight matches.
The Crew are now an unblemished 6-0-2 with 20 points this season, while the Wizards fell to 2-4-2 on eight points and are winless in their last seven matches. It was their first home defeat of the season.
Emilio Renteria scored the game-winner for the surging Crew, who earned their third win in eight days and second straight on a brief road swing against conference foes. The unmarked Venezuelan forward pounced on a Guillermo Barros Schelotto corner kick in the 64th minute and blasted a header past helpless Wizards goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen
The goal was the second in as many matches for Renteria, who tallied the final goal of the Crew's decisive 3-1 win over the New York Red Bulls on Thursday night to open the road swing.
Both sides were active in the first 10 minutes with Kansas City's Davy Arnaud testing Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer and the Crew called for three successive offsides. But Columbus beat the trap in the 10th minute, and Eddie Gaven found himself alone against Nielsen, but couldn't slip the ball past the Dane's outstretched legs.
The notoriously small field at CAB made it difficult for both sides to play the ball on the ground for extended periods, and 13 fouls were committed in the first 45 minutes compared to only three shots on goals.
Kansas City created their best chance just before first-half extra time. Midfielder Graham Zusi found space down the left flank and beat his marker before sending a low ball across the top the penalty area to Kei Kamara, who laid it off to an onrushing Arnaud. Although struck sweetly, the Wizard captain's blast skimmed the outside of the post and out for a goal kick.
Trailing at home and winless in its last six games, Kansas City pushed forward in search of an equalizer in the second half, and Kamara in particular was thwarted in the box multiple times by last-second headers by Columbus defender Andy Iro.
Kamara and late sub JoshWolff couldn't convert on the few chances they got as time wound down, and the Crew walked away with a familiar result, padding their lead in the Eastern Conference with next week's matchup against the Los Angeles Galaxy now on the docket.
The Wizards, meanwhile, face a two-game road trip starting next week at Real Salt Lake in desperate need of a victory to regroup.
Scoring Summary:
CLB -- Emilio Renteria 2 (Guillermo Barros Schelotto 2) 64
Misconduct Summary:
KC -- Ryan Smith (caution; Reckless Tackle) 35
CLB -- Emmanuel Ekpo (caution; Reckless Foul) 44
CLB -- Gino Padula (caution; Tactical Foul) 56
CLB -- William Hesmer (caution; Delaying a Restart) 89
KC -- Craig Rocastle (caution; Unsporting Behavior) 90
Columbus Crew -- William Hesmer, Jed Zayner, Eric Brunner, Andy Iro, Danny O'Rourke (Gino Padula 49), Eddie Gaven, Brian Carroll (Duncan Oughton 67), Adam Moffat, Emmanuel Ekpo (Emilio Renteria 59), Steven Lenhart, Guillermo Barros Schelotto.
Kansas City Wizards -- Jimmy Nielsen, Michael Harrington (Birahim Diop 87), Matt Besler, Jimmy Conrad, Jonathan Leathers (Craig Rocastle 80), Davy Arnaud, Jack Jewsbury, Graham Zusi (Josh Wolff 67), Ryan Smith, Kei Kamara, Teal Bunbury.
Referee: Alejandro Mariscal
Referee's Assistants: George Gansner; Thomas Supple
4th Official: Terry Vaughn
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November 8, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Second-year Head Coach Rachel Steele likes the competitive spirit and enthusiasm on Liberty University's gymnastics team this season.
"Everybody seems to be getting along really well, with positive attitudes," she said during an early-season practice at the team's gym in The Plaza. "They're really good about encouraging each other, and they're working really hard so far, which is great."
A total of 20 gymnasts made the team, up from 15 on last year's squad. Liberty opens its season Saturday at the Hokie Classic hosted by Virginia Tech.
"We've got a lot of freshmen coming in that have good gymnastics experience, so I'm looking forward to it," Steele said. "We're going to have six girls that are going to do all four events and a couple of them are individual event specialists (so) I think we're going to be able to have the maximum of eight people competing in each event."
Though the Lady Flames graduated Jill Wippermann, who placed sixth all-around at the National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs (NAIGC) championships last April in Minneapolis, Minn., they return her co-captain, junior Alyssa Frost, who also excels in all-around (balance beam, floor exercise, uneven bars, and vault), as well as junior floor and beam specialist JennyBeth Nicklow.
Liberty also has some promising new recruits, including Jessica Hogue, a freshman all-around gymnast who was the Level 8 YMCA national champion last year for her high school club in Seattle.
"It's been really fun," Hogue said. "It's looking great, I'm really excited. Everybody's really great to work with (and) Rachel's awesome."
She said the team features a wide variety of ability.
"We have skills all across the board," Hogue said. "There are some who are just starting and others who have been big-time Level 10s, but everybody's really supportive and wanting everybody to get new skills."
The team's fitness level is high after spending much of the preseason running and weight training.
"We're actually started the year out with a lot of conditioning and strength training, kind of like you would in the preseason of any other sport," Steele said. "Then we moved to basic skill work they need for each of the events, and started putting together our routines to fulfill all of their requirements in each event."
The Flames' men graduated their only performer from last year, Steve Lucia, but picked up five new gymnasts, enough to compete as a complete team.
"The minimum number that you need for a male team is three, and for women's it is four," Steele said. "We've got five (men) so that's a step in the right direction."
They will enter a select mix of the six men's events — vault, floor, parallel bars, pommel horse, rings, and high bar.
"A couple of these guys are going to do all-around and a couple of them are kind of like floor and vault specialists, so we'll have pretty good floor and vault teams," Steele said.
One of the all-around competitors is Jonathan Baldwin, a first-year student in the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
"I'm pumped," said Baldwin, who competed for one year as an undergraduate at Saginaw Valley State University. "I think I'm the oldest member on the team — I just turned 24 — so to be able to continue to do this as I get older is really exciting.
"I'm not at the Division I level, but I'm not a beginner, either," he added. "I'm somewhere in the middle. I've been doing a lot of floor, vault and some pommel horse, so I should be ready to go on those."
After coaching male and female gymnasts for three and a half years at a private club in Michigan, Baldwin has also volunteered to assist Steele in running practices.


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Normal-density materials have internal energy, which is the sum of the average energies associated to each of the degrees of freedom. Degrees of freedom can be described as vibrational, translational, and rotational. If you compress this material in such a way that matter cannot escape, you can detect energy escaping in the form of heat.
Now imagine an extremely high-density material such as a neutron star or black hole. I suspect it's not possible to describe the internal energy of (or anything about) an individual atom inside a black hole, since it's impossible to inspect beyond the event horizon, and since I assume that atoms don't exist in an distinguishable form there. But presumably the atoms had energy when they became part of the thing. How is that energy accounted for?


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Izzy Sagely, an outside hitter from Moorpark High School, is the first recruit for the 2013 season for the Chico State volleyball team.
A three-year starter at Moorpark, Sagely as a senior this fall collected 289 kills, 338 digs, 38 service aces and 20 blocks, earning first team All-Miramonte League and All-Ventura County Team honors.
A second team all-league selection during her sophomore and junior years, Sagely racked up career numbers including 695 kills, 815 digs, 123 aces and 51 blocks. She was a three-time winner of the Musketeers' MVP award and was named the team's Offensive Player of the Year in 2011.
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|All set for the Eisteddfod at the Llandow Airfield next week. NPRN:307839
However, the opportunity was taken to document the site of the forthcoming 2012 National Eisteddfod at the Llandow airfield in the Vale of Glamorgan, where the Eisteddfod Maes is taking shape. Flight restrictions within the controlled airspace of both Cardiff Airport and RAF St Athan nearby mean that the aerial photographer is reliant on the skills of the pilot to negotiate access for just the right aerial shots. The photographer has to work extremely quickly in such a busy zone!
Flying the week before the Olympics got started also allowed the Royal Commission to document key Welsh sites involved in the games for the National Monuments Record of Wales including the Wales National Velodrome at Newport, where Team GB were practising at the time of the photography, along with the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff the day before the Olympic football tournaments began. As with the recently acquired historic Aerofilms collection for Wales, these images will form a permanent record in the National Monuments Record of Wales of transient cultural and sporting events so important to Wales in 2012.
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The perfect live-aboard for a couple or single. Built here in Singapore by American Marine, she is the owners version with plenty of living space with large social aft deck and flybridge. She feels like a 59' instead of a 49' boat. The owners version layout gives two large cabins with a lot of nice space. The convertible dinette is down the same level as the galley and the saloon has plenty of seating. Large outdoor cockpit leads up to the even bigger flybridge.
Extensive work has been done on the machinery and cosmetics by the current owner with not too many engine hours added during the last few years of ownership. She has been to Phuket and back, up to Tioman and cruised to Bintan/Batam.
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Based on the same hull form as the sea-going Grand Banks 49 Classic, the Grand Banks 49 Motoryacht provides the ultimate in cruising comfort. Increasing the width of the aft cabin house to the hull's beam not only creates an immense owner's stateroom, it also creates an aft-deck lounge area.
The galley-down arrangement provides a very spacious main saloon. This layout has a dinette located across from the galley, making food preparation and serving easy and convenient. With the galley down, there is room for a large stateroom forward featuring twin V-berths, a separate head and shower stall, a hanging locker, and beautifully crafted dresser drawers.
The spacious aft cabin of the 49 Motoryacht especially stands out. Featured is an island king-size bed surrounded by exquisitely built dressers, a desk, a settee and two hanging lockers. There is room for two heads, one with a shower stall, one with a full size bath. All this added space and comfort of the 49 Motoryacht does not detract from its seaworthy, dependable performance.
The more powerful diesels (375hp each engine), confident that the extra speed is available when needed, yet appreciating the economy and comfort of throttling back to hull speed. With 6.5 feet of headroom and the full width of the hull, the engine room has plenty of room for performing routine maintenance and mechanical inspections.
Outside, the flying bridge gives the captain a commanding view and access to full instrumentation at the steering - navigation station. Storage and seating is abundant, and the deck is beautifully finished in teak. Storage deck boxes provide extra seating on the aft deck.
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So what will 2014 bring for me as I continue on my quest of building a genealogy business? What about personal goals? Any predictions for 2014? It's all here . . .
Business Objectives
One sign of a successful business, in my opinion, is one that is adaptable and can deal with change as a means of growth. In 2013 I spent quite a bit of my time – up to 50% – providing consulting services to clients. This advice was mainly focused on marketing and reaching the genealogy community.
In 2014, I've restructured my offerings to get away from hourly billings and more towards "products" that focus on content marketing. Examples include blog posts, articles, marketing copy, and webinar development.
I've come to the conclusion that I love to write and many of my clients agree that I write rather well. So that's where the focus is in 2014. In addition, writing is a good partner to the goal of "more passive income" which means "write it once and wait for the royalties." So where I can I am willing to forego an upfront payment and instead take an author or editor royalty on the sale of the finished product.
I've been fortunate enough to learn the ins and outs of self-publishing over the past year; to the point of having nine of my own e-books available for sale at Amazon. And I've translated my skills and experience in using the Amazon Kindle Publishing platform to edit and publish the entire Legacy Quick Guide series in Kindle format.
Look for more e-books from me and from other genealogy authors on the Kindle platform as well as other formats in 2014.
A big year for travel including trips to Australia, Burbank, Indianapolis, New York, Palm Springs, Richmond, St. Paul, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Sandusky, Southern Illinois, and local Chicagoland cities. Much of the travel will be related to genealogy conferences and speaking engagements. Given that I traveled over 50,000 miles in 2013, I may come close to doubling that amount in 2014.
Having delivered over 80 individual lectures in 2013, mostly in-person, I'm looking forward to about the same number for 2014. I'm happy to report that I've been able to greatly increase the number of webinars offered, especially to genealogy societies across the United States. This is an indicator, at least in my eyes, that more and more societies are comfortable with the concept of webinars and are using them to bring more speakers to their members at a better price point.
Personal Goals
I'm not done putting together my personal goals and some of them, frankly, are too personal to put in a blog. Taking better care of myself is an overarching goal which encompasses reducing my weight, getting more exercise and staying on top of chronic medical issues. Last year was a real eye-opener for me in terms of medical issues and I count my blessings each and every day that I can get up each morning on my own, dress myself, feed myself and earn a living.
One Word: Gratitude
Well maybe more than one word but I am so thankful that I'm pursuing my dream of running my own business and helping others learn more about genealogy and family history. Other words and phrases that I'll be using as my mantras for 2014 include:
- Gravitate towards good
- Stay glad
- Go big and go home (you can do both)
- Get out there
- Go far
And I'll focus on putting the "gee" back in genealogy. I hope that 2014 brings you all that you want and more not just in terms of genealogy but life in general!
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The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall appoint a committee composed of five members, who serve without pay, to advise the Office regarding matters of concern to employees under this chapter. Each member of the committee shall be an employee enrolled under this chapter or an elected official of an employee organization.
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Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.
1978—Pub. L. 95–454 substituted "Director of the Office of Personnel Management" for "Chairman of the Civil Service Commission" and "Office" for "Commission".
Amendment by Pub. L. 95–454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.
Advisory committees in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92–463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to this title.


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(WZZM) – The nation's top wide receiving prospect in 2014 is re-opening his recruiting.
Grand Rapids Christian's Drake Harris announced via Twitter Tuesday night that he's planning on only playing football in college and wants to look at more schools.
Harris, a 6-4 junior, committed to Michigan State last summer where he was to play both football and basketball. He tweeted Tuesday that he has not decommitted from MSU.
Ohio State head football coach Urban Meyer reportedly met with Harris this week in Grand Rapids and offered the star wide receiver a scholarship.
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The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) represents a critical first step in building this next-generation satellite system. Goddard Space Flight Center is leading NASA's effort to launch a satellite that will carry the first of the new sensors developed for this next-generation system, previously called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and now the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS).
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Elijah Eugene Cummings (born January 18, 1951) is the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, serving since 1996. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes just over half of Baltimore City, as well as most of Howard County. He previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates.
Cummings was born in Baltimore and graduated with honors from Baltimore City College in 1969. He later attended Howard University in Washington, DC, where he served in student government as sophomore class president, Student Government treasurer and later Student Government President. He became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
Cummings attended law school at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, graduating in 1976 and entering the Maryland Bar in December 1976. He practiced law for 19 years before first being elected to the House in the 1996 elections.


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The tractor team at New Holland shared a repeatable experiment with me during National Farm Machinery Show. The joke is that they have the New Holland AutoCommand CVT down to "an exact science"
The Exact Science Test Method: Reverse the tractor while having someone hold up the piece of paper in front of a beach ball on a cone. The precision requirement is to reverse the tractor without clutch or brakes while not knocking over the beach ball on the top of a cone.
It's described as maneuvering a 32,000 pound tractor with "the ease of a butterfly" without using the clutch or brakes on the tractor.
In the image below, a "newbie sales rep" was the one in the tractor seat and did this on his first try (inside a show arena!).
The trick is using a low set speed value and using the "Drive Pedal" or "Go Pedal" to precisely inch the tractor. Then when the Drive pedal is released, the tractor goes to power zero and does not move.


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In "Topological Gauge Theories and Group Cohomology", Dijkgraaf and Witten construct a 3-manifold invariant from a finite group $G$ and 3-cocycle $\omega$. I would think there is also an associated knot invariant, coming in particular from the twisted quantum double $D^\omega(G)$, but haven't been able to find a place where it is explicitly described or computed.
If it exists, could someone point me to the right reference? I would be interested in both a general construction and a specific example, for instance computing it in the case of $\mathbb{Z}_n$.


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Thoughts on Moscow Cloud
In what seems a rerun of Independence Day, a pale gold halo was observed over the Russian capital city's Western Dt. on last Wednesday. Meteorologists have concluded it as an optical effect, 'Several fronts have been passing through Moscow recently, there was an intrusion of the Arctic air too, the sun was shining from the west – this is how the effect was produced.'
We always want a logical explanation from what phenomenon say a rainbow or twister we see. But can we always reduce everything into cut and dried; or put away into pigeon holes? Flashing lights noticed in the sky or any other just because defied a simple explanation gave rise to far more bizarre ideas: UFO, alien abduction etc. We have never for once unearthed a foolproof evidence to support these.
There are two groups of people when it comes to the idea of exobiology or life on other planets. On one hand we do not accept the progress we as species achieved on our collective endeavors. This group cannot imagine man could achieve worthwhile since he is merely a cut above his ape ancestors. So his achievements owe to active help from some super-intelligent Aliens. Number of books have been written and lapped up by so many. Why so? We want to believe in something. OK pyramids are Alien- made to house men who, as X-rays reveal, were merely pharaohs in name and suffered from TB, Marfan's syndrome, bad teeth and so on.
Rest of us fall in the other group that foresees conquering other worlds and colonizing these. Here also I see wishful thinking overtaking good sense. We haven't conquered ourselves or our silliness. Who shall hand over kingdoms to us, some microbes or Aliens? Despite my skepticism we may still learn to reach outer planets by some technological marvel. But would we behave as gods or as men? My skepticism opts for the latter. We may even learn to become robots. That reminds me of a fellow who was sent by his father do medicine and ended up as a butcher's assistant in some meat packing factory.
We, coming to think of it, are funny creatures. The more chance we have to be rightly informed in this internet age, we are dying from misinformation. A symptom of this is the number of conspiracy theories we have to wade through at every turn.
Strength of two individuals coming together produces synergy and it grows exponentially. Thus one plus one is numerically two. But what they can achieve is however of a different league.
Having said the above in the interplay of several nations, tribes, individuals what is run off is progress, which is unlike anything that existed before. Somewhat like Moscow Cloud.


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Three Vashon wineries garnered a passel of medals in the Seattle Wine Awards earlier this month, considered the most prestigious wine recognition program in the state.
Palouse Winery, which buys grapes from Eastern Washington then makes its various vintages at a home-based establishment on the north end, won five awards, including three "double golds," the highest recognition offered. The sweep was the best to date for the small winery, which began producing wines commercially in 2005, said Linda Kirkish, who owns the winery with her husband George.
Double golds went to Palouse's 2008 Syrah, its 2008 Merlot Mystique and its 2008 Cabernet Franc.
"We're really excited," Linda Kirkish said. "We submitted seven wines and won five awards. That's a lot."
Another significant win was a double gold awarded to Maury Island Winery for its 2009 pinot noir, made by Island vintner Bill Riley with grapes grown on Vashon. Ron Irvine, owner of Vashon Winery and one of the region's leading wine connoisseurs, said the recognition breaks new ground in the region — marking the first time a wine made from Vashon grapes has achieved such high honors.
"To win an acknowledgement for one of our Puget Sound-grown wines is one of the biggest accomplishments, in my book," Irvine said.
Riley, for his part, said he was "ecstatic" to have won a double gold for his limited production of pinot noir. "These are big- time restaurant people. … They know wine, and they know Washington wine."
"I've put a lot of work into this place, and it's a confirmation that maybe it's worth it," he added.
But Puget Sound grapes still have a long ways to go before it has a solid track record in terms of producing good wine, he added.
"There's some good potential here. But the weather's doing some pretty strange things these days," he said. "It's just one year at a time."
Additonally, Irvine won a bronze for his 2006 "Anniversary Reserve Red," a Bordeaux-style wine.
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Beyonce Knowles is back and fiercer than ever. The superstar returned to the stage Friday night after a year-long hiatus.
Knowles, who gave birth to her first child, daughter Blue Ivy Carter, in January, wowed the crowd of 550 fans at the beachfront Revel resort in Atlantic City, People magazine reported.
"I gotta say," Knowles told the sold-out crowd, "it feels so good to be back home on stage," Detroit Free Press reported.
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The new mom and People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful Woman" performed hit singles such as "Halo," "Single Ladies" and "Run the World (Girls)" with her all-female band and 10 dancers, according to People.
Knowles dazzled in custom made Ralph & Russo designs.
"Beyonce wanted us to be really creative and create fun and edgy designs that had an ultra-glamorous feel to them," designer Tamara Ralph told People.
"Beyonce always delivers energetic performances and therefore we take into account the comfort and flexibility of each outfit and the ease of getting in and out of the pieces with quick costume changes," said co-designer Michael Russo. "It was an absolute pleasure to work with her to create exquisite pieces that dazzle on stage."
The singer's husband, Jay-Z, was on hand for Knowles' first performance in a series of four Memorial Day Weekend concerts, all at Revel.
In the behind the scenes video posted on her website, Knowles said she was excited but also nervous ahead of her first post-baby live performance. It's "like going back to my old job," she said.
"It's a little strange. But it's important that you don't lose yourself and you still have your own passions."
The new mom said her daughter was the inspiration behind the show.
"What I'm trying to say with this show is, yes, I had a baby, but I'm even more grounded," Knowles said in the video.
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Investigators are exploring potential links between Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an extremist group known as the Caucasus Emirate, sources tell Fox News.
The purported leader of the separatist and Islamic extremist group is Doku Umarov, a Chechen Islamic militant in Russia whose ordering of numerous attacks on civilians has earned him the nickname Russia's Usama bin Laden. The U.N.'s Al Qaeda sanctions committee has also cited Umarov for his alleged connections with Al Qaeda and other extremist groups.
The investigation is based on the contents of Tsarnaev's YouTube channel and his trip to Russia in the first half of 2012, which included stops in Dagestan and Chechnya.
Sources tell Fox that videos deleted from his YouTube account include a "terrorist playlist" and links to Vilayat Dagestan, which is associated with Caucasus Emirate.
The 26-year-old Tsarnaev was killed early Friday in a shootout with police. His 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured that night. They are suspected of placing two bombs along the marathon course Monday that killed three and injured roughly 180 others.
Investigators are now looking for potential ties including Tamerlan's email traffic, the posting of videos in support of an Islamist objective and whether there was person-to-person contact.
Sources tell Fox that Caucasus Emirate is one of several groups being investigated.
Caucasus Emirate was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department in 2011.
"The group uses bombings, shootings and attempted assassinations to provoke a revolution and expel the Russian government from the North Caucasus region," according to designation.
Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the department's coordinator for counter terrorism, said the designation was in response to "threats posed to the United States and Russia."
"The attacks perpetrated by Caucasus Emirate illustrate the global nature of the terrorist problem we face today," he also said. "We stand in solidarity with the Russian people in our condemnation of these deplorable terrorist acts."
Caucasus Emirate was also listed in March 2011 by the United Nations' Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee.


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vegan_rossco wrote:How was that tofu stuff dude? I'm gonna have to start eating more I reckon aha I've just noticed how big you've gotten by your avatar!! Mental!
I probably only have tofu once or twice a week, but when I do I love the stuff. Tastes kinda like what I remember omelettes to taste like ?!


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Vogue Knitting Live in New York was a smash! With attendance clocking in at 6,000 enthusiastic knitters, and classes at over 95% sold out, it was the knitting event of the year. Well, until September!
Vogue Knitting is doing it again in L.A. from September 23rd to 25th. With all the to-do about knitting celebrities, this one promises to pack even more excitement. In the words of Trisha Malcolm, Editorial Director of VK, "Expect just as much style, marketplace buzz, and the top names in knitting, but with the added luxury and star power that L.A. brings." For a peek at what VKLive in NY was all about, take a look at this short video with celebrity interviews, marketplace footage, and views from the classes and lectures.
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
Book Review: The Chilbury Ladies Choir, by Jennifer Ryan
Author: Jennifer Ryan
Release date: 23 Feb 2017
Publisher: The Borough Press
Genre: Fiction
Source: Review copy
Description: Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury change is afoot. Hearts are breaking as sons and husbands leave to fight, and when the Vicar decides to close the choir until the men return, all seems lost.
But coming together in song is just what the women of Chilbury need in these dark hours, and they are ready to sing. With a little fighting spirit and the arrival of a new musical resident, the charismatic Miss Primrose Trent, the choir is reborn.
Some see the choir as a chance to forget their troubles, others the chance to shine. Though for one villager, the choir is the perfect cover to destroy Chilbury's new-found harmony.
Uplifting and profoundly moving, THE CHILBURY LADIES' CHOIR explores how a village can endure the onslaught of war, how monumental history affects small lives and how survival is as much about friendship as it is about courage.
My thoughts: The Chilbury Ladies' Choir follows the lives of several different women of varying ages and from various backgrounds over the course of a few months during the Second World War. A young woman mourns a man who has left for the war, and wondering if she should let their childhood friendship turn into an engagement. His mother worries for him and wonders if she's going to lost a son now having lost her husband in the previous war. Someone looks to profit from the concerns of the village. Some learn to stand up for themselves.
All round, it's a story about the life of a small village and its trials. I liked seeing the clashes between the choir of women and the group of home front men who wanted to practice in the church at the same time as them. Some of the twists in the personal stories I think were quite predictable, such as the pregnancy of an unmarried woman (I won't tell you who) but other aspects kept me guessing.
I got this one a while back for review and read most of it on the beach and to me the book fit that sort of holiday mood. It's nice, sweet, and has some poignant moments. Jennifer Ryan has written a good book to read in a relaxing setting, a hug and a nice cup of tea in book form. I liked it, I'll recommend it, but I don't feel the need to reread it, so I'm giving The Chilbury Ladies' Choir 6 out of 10.
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Hollywood Talent Turns To Kickstarter To Escape 'Institutional Censorship'
from the exodus dept
In discussions about artists like Amanda Palmer using Kickstarter, plenty of people continue to insist that their success was made possible by their traditional industry backgrounds. We've already gone over lots of reasons why this is silly, most notably the fact that such artists do a lot of work and certainly don't coast on anything. But it also usually ignores the artists themselves, who more often than not clearly say that they are going it alone because traditional structures were holding them back. The fact that creators who have received some amount of benefit from labels/studios/publishers decide to move on anyway, and then see their careers grow, doesn't say less about platforms like Kickstarter, it says even more.
This sentiment is not limited to music, or to independent creators. Kickstarter is getting a lot of attention, and that's bound to attract bigger and bigger names. The latest, sent in by jtomic, is a feature film called The Canyons which involves some pretty serious Hollywood talent. The script is written by Bret Easton Ellis (author of American Psycho) and directed by Paul Schrader (as in, the guy who wrote Taxi Driver and the screenplay for Raging Bull). Ellis, Schrader and the producer are putting up a bunch of the money themselves and turning to Kickstarter for the rest—all because they want to escape the confines of Hollywood:
The film is a collaborative effort stewarded by former Lionsgate producer Braxton Pope as a response to the changing landscape of the film industry. Pope, Ellis and Schrader are partly financing the film themselves through Pope's new company Sodium Fox in order to maintain complete creative control of the distinct source material. According to Schrader, "We all experienced the frustrations of financing and institutional censorship. But now, with advances in digital photography and distribution, we can tell a story in the manner we choose. Movies are changing and we're changing with it."
They expand on this in the video, which includes some excellent comments from all three creators. Pope talks about how the Hollywood process encourages "groupthink" and makes it hard for a film to stay true to the artists' vision. Schrader and Ellis both compare the current revolution in film to that of a hundred years ago when the medium was in its infancy, and are clearly excited about the prospect of making a film without notes from meddlesome studio execs.
There are some pretty cool funding tiers too, many of which are unsurprisingly sold out. The cast itself is being largely crowdsourced through an online audition platform, netting undiscovered talent from around the world, and anyone who pledges at least $10 gets to vote on finalists. For $500, Ellis and Pope offered to watch your short film and share their honest reactions (with links) to their followers on Twitter & Facebook (all 10 slots for that one are already sold out). For $1,500 they'll do the same with a feature-length film. For $5,000, Ellis reviews your novel (again, sold out) or Schrader gives you notes on your script (a few left at time of writing). One lucky backer has already snagged the single $10,000 "De Niro's Money Package", which comes with a money clip autographed by Robert De Niro and given to Schrader on the set of Taxi Driver.
So there can be absolutely no doubt that these guys are using their momentum from the traditional Hollywood system to make this project possible—but I'm at a loss as to how that says anything good about Hollywood. I doubt any of these creators had any real need to finance a film themselves, but they saw a growing opportunity to go directly to their fans and make movies the way they really want to make them, and they jumped on it. That's not coasting on the past—it's embracing the future.
Filed Under: american psycho, braxton pope, bret easton ellis, hollywood, paul schrader, raging bull, taxi driver, the canyons
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Why does Babcock insist on playing the 4th line after a Leafs goal? It was a terrific play by Gardiner and JVR and then the Leafs lost the momentum with the play in their end for the next 30 seconds. Boyle skates like a tractor and Martin is slightly worse with the puck.
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Statins block an enzyme the body needs
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thereby lowering total blood cholesterol levels.
Statins may be
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All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor right away if you have hives.
Call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of a rare muscle problem called rhabdomyolysis:
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These common side effects may be bothersome but are not serious.
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If you have muscle aches when you start this medicine, tell your doctor. The aches may go away with time. Or you might be able to try a lower dose or a different statin medicine.
Be active and eat a cholesterol-lowering diet in addition to taking this medicine. Ask your doctor for advice on a diet that can help lower cholesterol. An example is the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet. For more information, see:
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant. If you need to take this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
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on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults
(Adult Treatment Panel III). JAMA, 285(19):
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Palak Paneer (Spinach and Cheese) with Naan
Spinach & Cheese
Thank you ejm! I was browsing your post on Palak Paneer and Naan and was inspired by your well documented process and delicious results. I have made Pita several times on the stone in the oven and they usually turn out well. I thought I would try the BBQ gas grill tonight. As you can see, they were a little thin in a few places but even the charred areas were tasty. My wife loved the spinach and cheese (firm tofu). The flavor of the cumin seeds was just subtle enough to be wonderful.
I will definitely make this again. Are there any egg plant mixes that go with Naan? I have had some canned egg plant from a middle eastern grocer that would be good on this.
I told my daughter about the Naan being the bread that fed people 5000 years ago. She thought I was cheating by not using a stone on an open fire.
No snickering on the burned spots now. This is my first time on the grill.


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|Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)
Part Number E17122-05
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The ZEROTOTAL command resets one or all subtotals of specified report columns to zero. You use the ZEROTOTAL command when you produce reports with the ROW command.
Note:ZEROTOTAL affects the results returned by the RUNTOTAL and SUBSTR functions.
ZEROTOTAL [{n|ALL} [column1 columnN]]
ZEROTOTAL with no arguments resets all subtotals in all columns to zero.
INTEGER expression that specifies one of the 32 subtotals (1 to 32) Oracle OLAP accumulates for each numeric column in a report. For the specified columns, this subtotal is set to zero.
Sets all 32 subtotals to zero for the specified columns. ALL is the default when there are no arguments. To reset all the subtotals to zero for specific columns, you must include ALL in the statement.
The column number of a report column. Column number 1 refers to the left-most column in a report, regardless of the type of data it contains. When you do not supply any column number arguments, Oracle OLAP sets the specified subtotal (or all subtotals) to zero for all the columns in the report.
Usage Notes
Initializing Column Subtotals
When you use the ROW command to produce a report, use a ZEROTOTAL statement at the beginning of the report program to initialize all 32 subtotals for all columns to zero. The REPORT statement automatically resets all subtotals to zero before producing output.
Resetting Column Subtotals
You can also use ZEROTOTAL in a report program when you only want to reset some subtotals or when you want to start accumulating new subtotals without inserting the subtotals accumulated so far. A subtotal is automatically reset to zero after it is accessed with the SUBSTR function in its own column. However, a subtotal is not reset to zero after it is accessed with the RUNTOTALRUNTOTAL function.
Example 10-177 Resetting All Report Column Subtotals
In a report, you want to show a dollar sales total, followed by a detailed summary of unit sales for each district. You also want to show a total for unit sales at the end of the report, but you do not want the dollar sales figures included in that total. After generating the total dollar sales, use ZEROTOTAL to reset all your subtotals to zero. Then when you use
SUBTOTAL(1) later in the report, it only totals the unit sales for each district.
Suppose you have these statement lines in your program.
LIMIT product TO 'Footwear' LIMIT month TO 'Jul96' TO 'Sep96' ROW 'Total Dollar Sales' ACROSS month: - DECIMAL 0 TOTAL(sales month) BLANK ROW 'Unit Sales' ZEROTOTAL ALL FOR district ROW INDENT 5 district ACROSS month: units ROW 'Total Unit Sales' ACROSS month: - OVER '-' SUBTOTAL(1)
These statements produce the following output.
Total Dollar Sales 607,552 581,229 658,850 Unit Sales Boston 3,538 3,369 3,875 Atlanta 4,058 3,866 4,251 Chicago 3,943 3,509 4,058 Dallas 814 824 867 Denver 1,581 1,532 1,667 Seattle 2,053 2,193 2,617 ---------- ---------- ---------- Total Unit Sales 15,987.00 15,293.00 17,335.00


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David Jacobson wanted to offer his credit union clients a sophisticated tool to help them make vehicle loan decisions. But his company, GrooveCar Inc., a $3 million supplier of automotive purchasing services that he founded in Melville, New York, lacked the financial and technical resources to buy or develop such a system. So the 43-year-old entrepreneur allied with a technology firm that had the right product and wanted to get into the credit union market. "They got us an amazing product that we didn't have to pay for," says Jacobson, who employs 17 people. "In return, they got relationships with credit unions all over the country."
A strategic alliance like Jacobson's, where two companies come together to accomplish a particular objective, is more than a supplier-vendor relationship. Alliances are on the rise, according to Gene Slowinski, director of strategic alliance research at Rutgers University, because they can give entrepreneurs and their partners access to technology, distribution and other valuables for less than it would cost to develop them in-house. Here's how to do it:
1. Seek an alliance that supplies something you can't make on your own and that has high profit potential. Alliances aren't good for opportunities offering standard profit margins, says Slowinski. "The reason is [that] you have to split the margin." The high management overhead makes alliances inefficient for obtaining something you can create yourself. "The energy, time and other resources required to coordinate with a partner are enormous--and underestimated," Slowinski says.
2. Pick your partner with the utmost care. "There is no recovery from selecting the wrong partner," says Slowinski. He recommends a framework for alliance discussion that leads you through questions about both sides' objectives and roles, resources and contributions, market and brand perceptions, financial risk and reward, intellectual property creation and ownership, and finally, the term and termination of the agreement.
3. Make it win-win, and deliver what you say you will. Alliances need to help both sides. "If it's going to benefit GrooveCar and not them, it won't last," Jacobson says. Having had experiences with allies who didn't follow through on promises, Jacobson is now careful to choose trustworthy partners and to always do what he says he will.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Has Been Able To Challenge Classification Of Documents For Forty Years; It's Just Never Done It
from the going-to-need-a-thorough-dusting-before-being-usable,-it-would-appear dept
More problems have surfaced related to the overseers that are supposed to be providing the oversight the NSA keeps pointing to while swiftly sweeping terabytes of data under its brand-new Utah rug. A few representatives have expressed their frustration about keeping the public in the dark, but have seen little opportunity to rectify the situation due to the relevant documents being classified.
Ali Watkins, writing for McClatchy, points out that these reps' hands haven't actually been tied this whole time.
Outspoken members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have said frequently that they wanted to warn the public about the National Security Agency's sweeping collection of telephone records but the program's highly classified nature prevented them from making public reference to the programs.Four decades without a single challenge being raised. That's rather odd (or obsequious, if you prefer), considering the provision was added with the intent of providing an adversarial avenue to prevent intelligence agencies from controlling the dialog. This addition was added as the Church Committee was replaced by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
That, however, is not the full story. Buried in the pages of Senate Resolution 400, which established the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1976, is a provision that allows them to try. Across those nearly 40 years, it's never been used.
The committee's failure to make use of the provision even once, critics say, underscores a problem with congressional oversight: Congress has proved unwilling to openly question the intelligence agencies' claims that something must remain secret.
Senators foresaw the likelihood of a conflict between the intelligence agencies and the legislative branch. The legislation that established the committee called for it to "provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States."If these senators saw the possibility of conflict 40 years ago and deemed it necessary to add in some balance, why has every representative since that point refused to challenge intelligence agencies?
As a part of this oversight, Section 8 of the resolution lays out a process by which a member of the Intelligence Committee may seek the declassification of information that he or she thinks is of public interest, even if the executive branch labels the material top secret.
"The select committee may, subject to the provisions of this section, disclose publicly any information in the possession of such committee after a determination by such committee that the public interest would be served by such disclosure," the section reads.
One reason is the Intelligence Committee itself, which has tended to take the side of the agencies or the administration. Back in 2003, Sen. Bob Graham challenged the classification of a portion of a report pertaining to the 9/11 attacks. Despite the fact that such challenges are supposed to be put to a vote within the committee, Graham received a letter back stating his request had been denied without a vote.
This problem continues to this day as the Senate Intelligence Committee headed by Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss has been more interested in coming to the NSA's defense and pushing through extensions of Bush-era policies with little to no debate. When the news first broke about the NSA's court order to Verizon demanding records on millions of customers, Feinstein and Chambliss said they'd known about the program since 2007. The problem is, many other senators didn't know, or didn't know the extent of the collections.
With representatives like Feinstein and Chambliss running interference for intelligence agencies, it's unlikely any such challenges would have survived a committee vote -- if they received one at all. But a larger problem is the fact that Senators themselves seem to be unaware such a provision exists, including one of the most vocal opponents of the NSA's programs, Ron Wyden.
Asked about the authority, Wyden confessed that he didn't know the provision existed. His Intelligence Committee colleague Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., also said he wasn't aware of it.Once again, we have an entity that the NSA points to as the all-important "oversight" being cut out of the loop by those heading up a committee that should, at least part-time, engage in an adversarial role. The Intelligence Committee's leaders have gone completely in the opposite direction, acting as a PR flack for the agency and holding as many cards as possible close to their chests.
If Feinstein and Chambliss were aware of this provision, they certainly never attempted to use it, much less inform anyone critical of the government's surveillance programs. Those heading up the House Intelligence Committee have withheld information from both long-term Congressmen and newly-elected representatives. It's not much of a stretch to believe the Senate Committee has done the same.
That the NSA uses the term "oversight" to grant its overreach an air of legitimacy is no small matter. It's very hard to believe the agency heads are ignorant of the protective wall these committee heads (both in the House and the Senate) have erected around them. But it's even more disturbing to find out this sort of behavior has gone on for nearly four decades -- that representatives aware of the provision allowing them to challenge overclassification have instead chosen to place the interests of these agencies ahead of the interests of the public.
The idea of a secret agency being "subject" to oversight has always been a bit of a joke. As more ugly truth has risen to the surface, the joke has morphed into a profane buzzword the agency tosses around as post facto whitewash to give all of its transgressions a thin sheen of respectability.
The real problem is that the committee and the agency's desires seem to be permanently intertwined. If 40 years have gone by unchallenged through regime changes and periodic bursts of "throwing the bastards out," it's unlikely the next 40 years will bring any remarkable changes.
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Few remember that Tupac and Madonna shared a brief romance in the mid-90s. In a newly unearthed letter from jail (where Pac was serving time for a sexual assault charge in 1995) Tupac opens with an apology: "I haven't been the kind of friend I know I am capable of being."
Portions of the letter (which is now up for auction) are redacted but Tupac wrote that while an interracial relationship could help Madonna's career, he worried about hurting his reputation in the eyes of black audiences.
"Can u understand that? For you to be seen with a black man wouldn't in any way jeopardize your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open & exciting," he wrote. "But for me at least in my previous perception I felt due to my 'image' I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was. I never meant to hurt you."
Inflammatory statements Madonna made in the press didn't make matters easier, Pac wrote:
"An interview where you said 'I'm off to rehabilitate all the rappers & basketball players' or something to that effect, those words cut me deep seeing how I had never known you to be with any rappers besides myself," he wrote. "It was at this moment out of hurt and a natural instinct to strike back and defend my heart and ego that I said a lot of things…Can you feel me?"
Tupac also explained that his missteps in their relationship reflected the faux pas of "a young black man with limited experience with an extremely famous sex symbol."
Ominously, the rapper added "I felt compelled to tell you…just in case anything happened 2 me." He also offered a final warning to the Queen of Pop:
"Please be careful Madonna. Everyone is not as honorable as they seem. There are those whose hearts bleed with envy & evil. They would not hesitate to do you harm! Let my 5 bullets be proof of that!"
Tupac's letter will go up for auction starting July 19 via Gotta Have Rock and Roll. Bidding will begin at $100,000.


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Equipment manufacturers reported sales increases and decreases in second quarter earnings.
The fitness segment of Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest, IL, which is comprised of Life Fitness and Hammer Strength equipment, had sales of $143.3 million, up 1 percent from $141.6 million in the second quarter of 2011. U.S. sales in the fitness segment increased by 11 percent, and sales in Europe decreased by 14 percent.
Cybex International Inc., Medway, MA, had a 5 percent decrease in second quarter 2012 net sales compared to the same period last year. Net sales were $30.8 million compared to $32.6 million for the corresponding 2011 period. For second quarter 2012, Cybex reported a net loss of $1.2 million compared to a net loss of $0.6 million for the corresponding 2011 period.
Net sales for Precor, Woodinville, WA, increased 11 percent in local currencies in second quarter 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. Amer Sports, the Helsinki, Finlandbased parent company of Precor, reported net sales for its fitness segment was EUR56.4 million (about $70 million) in second quarter 2012 compared to EUR45.9 million (about $57 million) in second quarter 2011.
Johnson Health Tech (JHT), Cottage Grove, WI, the parent company of Matrix, Vision, AFG and Horizon, reported figures for the first six months of 2012 rather than for the second quarter. Global sales for its retail and commercial brands increased by 14 percent while global sales for Matrix increased by 21.1 percent and North America sales for Matrix increased by 26.5 percent. JHT does not report actual revenue figures.