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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head in 2011, is writing a book about gun control. She plans to collaborate with her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, on Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence, which is set to come out in June. In a statement released by publisher Scribner, Kelly wrote, "As Second Amendment supporters and gun owners ourselves, we hope our book rouses the long-overdue conversation our country needs to make responsible changes to our gun laws so that no more precious lives are lost." Giffords and Kelly collaborated with Jeffrey Zaslow on 2011's Gabby: A Story of Courage, Love and Resilience, which told of Giffords' recovery.
- NASA is working with sci-fi publisher Tor to create "NASA-Inspired Works of Fiction." According to The Wall Street Journal, "The partnership pairs up novelists with NASA scientists and engineers, who help writers develop scientifically plausible story lines and spot-check manuscripts for technical errors." An unnamed NASA official told the Journal that in return, NASA gets "an innovative way to reach out to the public to raise awareness of what the agency is doing."
- Penguin Books India has agreed to withdraw Wendy Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History from sale in India and pulp the unsold and recalled copies to settle a lawsuit by a Hindu group. The lawsuit filed by Dina Nath Batra, the head of the Hindu educational group Shiksha Bacho Andolan, stated that Doniger's book presents a skewed view of Hinduism. In a court filing, Bathra claimed that Doniger, who is a professor at the University of Chicago, wrote the book "with a Christian Missionary Zeal and hidden agenda to denigrate Hindus and show their religion in poor light." He also accused Doniger of eroticizing aspects of the Hindu faith, writing, "Your approach is that of a woman hungry of sex." Penguin Books India did not respond to a request for comment.
- In a 1955 letter to his publisher, J.R.R. Tolkien writes that his friend the poet W.H. Auden disapproved of the romance between Aragon and Arwen in the Lord of the Rings series. Tolkien wrote that Auden "thinks Aragorn-Arwen unnecessary & perfunctory...I still find it poignant: an allegory of naked hope. I hope you do." The letter, which has never been published, will be auctioned by Bonhams in March.
- The Omnivore's Hatchet Job of the Year award has gone to A.A. Gill's review of Morrissey's Autobiography. The award, which celebrates incisive criticism and aims to "raise the profile of professional critics and to promote integrity and wit in literary journalism," comes with a golden hatchet and a year's supply of potted shrimp, the buttery seafood dish beloved of James Bond. In his review, which is up on the Omnivore's website, Gill writes, "There is an absence of music, not just in its tone, but the content. There are emetic pools of limpid prose about the music business, the ingratitude of fellow musicians and band members and the lack of talent in other performers, but there is nothing about the making of music itself, the composing of lyrics, the process of singing or the emotion of creation." He adds, "It is a heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability. It is a potential firelighter of vanity, self-pity and logorrhoeic dullness."
- On a related note, The New York Times asks writers Zoë Heller and Francine Prose "whether bad books should be written about or ignored." Heller writes, "Banning 'negativity' is not just bad for the culture; it is unfair to authors. A review, however aggressively unfavorable, is generally obliged to provide supporting evidence for its judgments. It is also published under a byline, signaling to all that it is the work of one fallible human being. This seems an altogether fairer and more accountable way of dealing with a book one deems 'bad' than banishing it, without explanation, from public notice."


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UBS pre-announces full-year and fourth quarter 2007 results
UBS will report a net loss attributable to shareholders of approximately CHF 4.4 billion for full-year 2007.
On 10 December 2007, UBS indicated it may record a net loss for full-year 2007.
UBS now expects to report a net loss attributable to shareholders of approximately CHF 4.4 billion for full-year 2007.
For fourth quarter 2007, the net loss attributable to UBS shareholders will be approximately CHF 12.5 billion. These results reflect weak trading revenues in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) business in the Investment Bank. FICC numbers will include around USD 12 billion (CHF 13.7 billion) in losses on positions related to the US sub-prime mortgage market and approximately USD 2 billion (CHF 2.3 billion) on other positions related to the US residential mortgage market.
UBS will provide further details on its financial performance on 14 February 2008, when it publishes its final full-year and fourth quarter 2007 results.
On 10 December 2007, UBS also announced a capital improvement program. Two elements of this - replacement of the cash dividend with a stock dividend and a decision to rededicate treasury shares for disposal - immediately contributed to BIS Tier 1 capital. During fourth quarter 2007, UBS reduced its balance sheet and risk weighted assets. This process included the sale of some positions at a loss. The combination of the fourth quarter result, the stock dividend, the re-issue of treasury shares and the reduction in risk weighted assets mean that UBS will report a BIS Tier 1 ratio of 8.8% as of 31 December 2007. This number does not take into account proceeds from the Mandatory Convertible Notes, which, if approved at the Extraordinary General Meeting on 27 February 2008, will further strengthen UBS's Tier 1 capital.

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UN Arms Trade Treaty Violates Second Amendment
There are few acts of government that contribute more to the rapid subjugation of its citizens than disarmament. Fortunately, resistance to the United Nations' plan to do just that is growing.
Earlier this week, The New American reported on a letter to President Obama penned by a bipartisan coalition of 50 senators informing the president that the UN's Arms Trade Treaty was dead on arrival in the Senate.
On Thursday, one of the signatories of that letter, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), shown, said that the international gun grab "violates the Second Amendment rights of Tennesseans and all Americans."
"I am opposed to any United Nations action that undermines our Second Amendment and threatens our country's sovereignty, and the Arms Trade Treaty that the Obama administration is considering does both," Alexander said in a statement published on his website.
"The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty violates the Second Amendment rights of Tennesseans and all Americans by failing to protect the lawful ownership and use of firearms. Agreeing to the treaty would also threaten our nation's sovereignty, as well as the U.S. Senate's constitutional role of advice and consent by allowing the U.N. to amend the treaty in the future."
Alexander's appraisal of the agreement is accurate. The treaty, signed in September on behalf of President Obama and the United States by Secretary of State John Kerry, contains provisions that would subject U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations and would substantially infringe on the right to keep and bear arms as protected by the Second Amendment.
First, the Arms Trade Treaty grants a monopoly over all weaponry in the hands of the very entity (approved regimes) responsible for over 300 million murders in the 20th century.
Furthermore, the treaty leaves private citizens powerless to oppose future slaughters.
An irrefutable fact of armed violence unaddressed by the UN in its gun grab is that all the murders committed by all the serial killers in history don't amount to a fraction of the brutal killings committed by "authorized state parties" using the very weapons over which they will exercise absolute control under the terms of the Arms Trade Treaty.
Article 2 of the treaty defines the scope of the treaty's prohibitions. The right to own, buy, sell, trade, or transfer all means of armed resistance, including handguns, is denied to civilians by this section of the Arms Trade Treaty.
Article 3 places the "ammunition/munitions fired, launched or delivered by the conventional arms covered under Article 2" within the scope of the treaty's prohibitions, as well.
Article 4 rounds out the regulations, also placing all "parts and components" of weapons within the scheme.
Perhaps the most immediate threat to the rights of gun owners in the Arms Trade Treaty is found in Article 5. Under the title of "General Implementation," Article 5 mandates that all countries participating in the treaty "shall establish and maintain a national control system, including a national control list."
This list should "apply the provisions of this Treaty to the broadest range of conventional arms."
Mark it down: If the treaty is ratified by the United States or if its provisions are enforced by executive order, within months the federal government (likely under the management of the Department of Homeland Security) would begin compiling a list of who owns, buys, sells, trades, or transfers any firearm, as well as the ammunition, parts, and components of those weapons.
After creating this database, the federal government would be required under the provisions of Article 5(4) of the Arms Trade Treaty to "provide its national control list to the Secretariat, which shall make it available to other States Parties."
That's right. The UN treaty demands that the list of gun and ammunition owners not only be in the hands of our own government, but be sent to foreign regimes, as well. This provision would guarantee that should an American owner of a legally purchased firearm decide to emigrate, he will be on the radar of the ruling regime in his new home.
Americans are right to recognize this registry as the first step toward confiscation.
Without such a registry, it would be impossible to monitor weapons transfers effectively because governments can't track weapons exchanges and transfers unless they know who has them to begin with.
Article 12 adds to the record-keeping requirement, mandating that the list include "the quantity, value, model/type, authorized international transfers of conventional arms," as well as the identity of the "end users" of these items.
In very clear terms, ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty by the United States would require that the U.S. government force gun owners to add their names to the national registry. Citizens would be required to report the amount and type of all firearms and ammunition they possess.
Section 4 of Article 12 of the treaty requires that the list be kept for at least 10 years.
Finally, the agreement demands that national governments take "appropriate measures" to enforce the terms of the treaty, including civilian disarmament. If these countries can't get this done on their own, however, Article 16 provides for UN assistance, specifically including help with the enforcement of "stockpile management, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes."
In fact, a "voluntary trust fund" will be established to assist those countries that need help from UN peacekeepers or other regional forces to disarm their citizens.
Despite these open and hostile threats to the right to keep and bear arms, there are many who believe that the Arms Trade Treaty would become the law of the United States if the Senate were to ratify the treaty.
While that is the process that the Constitution establishes for the implementation of treaties, fundamental principles of construction and constitutional law dictate that no treaty that violates the Constitution can become the supreme law of the land.
In the case of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty, there is no doubt that regardless of presidential signatures or congressional consent, this treaty cannot pass constitutional muster and therefore will never be the valid law of the land.
Unless, of course, Americans once again acquiesce to President Obama's assumption of illegal authority and relinquish their rights and weapons regardless of the reasons they should not do so.
Finally, citizens must understand a very important nuance of Secretary Kerry's assurance in his speech that the Arms Trade Treaty isn't about taking away freedom, "it is about keeping weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue actors."
Americans must remember that Kerry, Obama, and the UN consider gun owners to be "terrorists" and "rogue actors," thus subject to seizure of their firearms in the name of "international peace and global security."
For John Kerry and Barack Obama, the confiscation of weapons from civilians is an act of, as Kerry said when he signed the agreement at a press event at UN headquarters in New York, "advancing important humanitarian goals."
Senator Alexander and 49 of his colleagues recognize it as is a giant leap toward enslavement, however.
Lawmakers and their constituents determined to thwart the president's plan to disarm them would be wise to remember the words of George Washington, who said:
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.
[Source: New American]
The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama Administration, would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms. The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S. and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry on all private guns and ammo.
Astonishingly, 46 out of our 100 United States Senators were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power.
Here are the 46 senators who voted to give your rights to the U.N.
We have been betrayed. They need to lose their next election.
- Baldwin (D-WI)
- Baucus (D-MT)
- Bennett (D-CO)
- Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Boxer (D-CA)
- Brown (D-OH)
- Cantwell (D-WA)
- Cardin (D-MD)
- Carper (D-DE)
- Casey (D-PA)
- Coons (D-DE)
- Cowan (D-MA)
- Durbin (D-IL)
- Feinstein (D-CA)
- Franken (D-MN)
- Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Harkin (D-IA)
- Hirono (D-HI)
- Johnson (D-SD)
- Kaine (D-VA)
- King (I-ME)
- Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Landrieu (D-LA)
- Leahy (D-VT)
- Levin (D-MI)
- McCaskill (D-MO)
- Menendez (D-NJ)
- Merkley (D-OR)
- Mikulski (D-MD)
- Murphy (D-CT)
- Murray (D-WA)
- Nelson (D-FL)
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- Udall (D-CO)
- Udall (D-NM)
- Warner (D-VA)
- Warren (D-MA)
- Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Wyden (D-OR)
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by Chris Braithwaite
copyright the Chronicle 2-13-13
NEWPORT — Kate Kanelstein of the Vermont Workers Center was a bit apologetic when she sat in front of the camera during a statewide budget hearing Monday afternoon.
She had planned to bring several women who face the loss of their Reach Up benefits under the cutoff proposed by Governor Peter Shumlin.
But none of them could make it, she told the members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees who convened the hearing.
The women had encountered problems with child care, car troubles, sick family members, and one of them was in labor, Ms. Kanelstein said.
She used her few minutes on Vermont Interactive Television to read a statement from Reach Up participant Jess Ray of West Charleston.
But the explanations she offered the committee might serve as a quick summary of the problems that keep Reach Up participants, typically single mothers, out of the labor force.
Ms. Ray, for example, wrote that she is a mother of two, living with a boyfriend. "Combined, we get $770 each month. Our rent is $550 so after paying bills I usually end up with like $20 for everything else. I love to sew and want to be a seamstress, but I would do pretty much anything if I could get a job."
Ms. Ray went on the say that the arrival of her first child ended her career at a Barton nursing home five years ago. "I went on Reach Up for the first time because I didn't get any maternity leave with my job."
They left Reach Up when her boyfriend got a job, but returned in less than a year because the company went bankrupt, she wrote.
"Then we got off again when I got a job at Thibault's Market in Orleans but our car wasn't inspectable and we didn't have the money for the repairs so after about three months I couldn't get there and lost that job, too. As you can see we live on the edge and it's really hard to get stable…. Living in West Charleston without transportation makes it incredibly difficult."
"I also want to understand what you are basing these budget decisions on," Ms. Ray told the legislators. "Do you look at the real life situations of people in our communities? I think that is where we should start."
The decision in question is whether the Legislature should follow the Governor's wishes and, on October 1, cut off all families who have been in the Reach Up program for three years.
According to Chris Curtis, a staff attorney with Vermont Legal Aid, 1,188 families would lose their benefits in October, of a total of about 6,400 families on the program.
Of that total, as of September last year, 315 families with 775 family members are in the Newport district of the Department of Children and Families, which oversees Reach Up. Their benefits that month totaled $147,764, or about $470 a family.
The average Reach Up participant wouldn't be affected by a three-year cutoff. According to a state report, "the average amount of time that an individual in Reach Up receives case management services is approximately 24 months."
But people who know the program in Newport are worried about the impact a cutoff would have.
"My biggest fear is the children," said Mary Hamel, who runs a job site for Reach Up participants as associate director of employment and training for NECKA.
"Reach up is for families," Ms. Hamel said. "Cutting them off is taking away their rent money — the roof over a child's head. That concerns me."
It concerns Mr. Curtis too. People forced out of Reach Up may end up in the state's emergency shelter program, he said, and that is already "an exploding part of state government. What happens if you add another 1,200 families, just as the winter season arrives?"
Other branches of state government, including the Department of Corrections, may face a "ripple effect" from the Reach Up cuts, Mr. Curtis fears. "Are we really saving any money here?"
His estimate is that the cuts will save Reach Up about $6-million. "That's huge to the families," he said, "but to the General Fund it's a relatively small amount."
Mr. Curtis argues that the statistics show Reach Up works for most of the people who are forced to use it. "The state of Vermont has invested a lot of resources into making this bridge out of poverty," he argued. "Why would we blow up that bridge?"
Since she set up a Reach Up work site for NECKA in 2008, Ms. Hamel said, "we have seen many success stories."
NECKA provides jobs for 15 to 30 Reach Up participants, Ms. Hamel said. Some work at the Parent Child Center in Newport, as a receptionist or a maintenance worker. Others work at the cash register or keeping track of the inventory at NEKCA's thrift store in Newport.
Reach Up has other partners who provide jobs in schools, municipalities and with nonprofit organizations.
The jobs go to Reach Up participants who can't find work. They pay nothing (outside of Reach Up benefit payments) but aim to help the participants learn job skills.
Younger Reach Up participants fulfill their job requirement by going to school.
The Governor's proposal would permit families to take advantage of the full five years of benefits supported by federal block grants. But there would be interruptions. After three years, participants would be on their own for a year. Then they could sign up for another year, be left on their own for a year, and come back to the program for a fifth and final year.
Efforts to reach Paul Dragon, director of the Reach Up program, were unsuccessful. In his budget address to the Legislature, Governor Shumlin said "there is no better social program than a good paying job. We will not allow vulnerable Vermonters, such as those who are disabled, to fall through the cracks, but we will ask those who can work to get the training and support they need and get a job."
If the cutoff becomes law, Ms. Hamel said, "it will cause more homelessness, more hunger, more stress.
"I just don't think it's a great idea. Maybe it's a good idea to have a conversation about it, but I think it's a bad thing to take the Governor's plan seriously."
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Why are employers in China so awful? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Why are employers in China so awful? Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> China (Job-related Posts Only) View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Javelin of RadianceJoined: 01 Jul 2009Posts: 1187Location: The West Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:36 am Post subject: the lowlander wrote: Javelin of Radiance I'm no "apologist" for China, but being here for the past few years, and hearing about other people's negative experiences has caused me to reflect back and try to see how my own country and my own people treat foreign workers. Once again, you simply post China good/West very evil, without any evidence/links to support your accusations. To be honest, your post (as quoted above) sounds like genuine Chinese Government anti-Western propaganda. And I'm sorry, and I mean no personal offence, but once again, I do question your identity and your motivation for making your posts. And your motivation for posting what amounts to Fox style propaganda (US and West good, China bad) is what? Well, the thread you started where you claimed Chinese were racists is a clue to that motivation. At any rate, since you asked: http://harvestingjustice.org/sites/default/files/documents/7.2.a.6%20No%20Way%20To%20Treat%20A%20Guest%20H-2A%20Report.pdf Quote: In December 2008, Manuel was able to land an H-2A job picking oranges for a Florida contractor that provides labor for one of the largest citrus companies in the U.S. He was told hed be making $8.82 an hour. On arrival in Florida, he set out working long, hard days, sometimes 12 hours or more in the fields. But when his first paycheck arrived, Manuel learned that in order to keep his job he would have to kick back some of his promised pay to his employer. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-abels/fixing-our-wage-theft-law_b_1903524.html Quote: Wage theft hits low wage workers hardest. A 2009 study found that an incredible 76 percent of low wage workers in our nation's largest cities claimed they had been underpaid or not paid at all. Still, wage theft is everyone's problem. The Economic Policy Foundation found that U.S. workers annually lose $19 billion in earnings due to unpaid overtime alone. http://www.voanews.com/content/victims-of-widespread-wage-theft-are--136339038/150057.html Quote: Eight years ago, Mrs. Kim came to the United States from China to pursue her American Dream, but thanks to unscrupulous business practices familiar to many Asian immigrants working in low-wage industries, things went horribly wrong. Kim, who did not want to use her real name because she is still involved in litigation, began life in the U.S. preparing dumplings and side dishes at a Korean restaurant in Bergen County, New Jersey. The job went well for a few years. It was hard, but Kim was getting paid for her efforts. When I first started working, [the owner] agreed to pay me $600 per week, she said. Specific hours were not indicated, but she did indicate I would have to work over 12 hours per day. Though she worked as many as 17 hours a day, when the restaurants business started to decline, the owner began paying employees late or not paying them at all. Kim is suing her former boss for more than $40,000 in minimum and overtime wages that have been withheld and additional liquidated damages. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1049166--workers-call-for-tougher-labour-laws-to-end-wage-theft Quote: Kelsang had been out of work for two months and was desperate when she accepted a job last February at Babaz, a west-end Toronto fast-food restaurant that specializes in Middle Eastern food. She agreed to work for $10 an hour chopping vegetables, making falafels and operating the cash, even though she knew she would be earning less than Ontarios $10.25 minimum wage. But the Tibetan immigrant who has lived and worked in Canada for more than a decade was shocked when her first pay was delivered to her in cash without any paperwork showing payroll deductions and amounted to just $450. She was owed at least $700. When I asked when I would be getting the remaining amount, my manager said I would get it next time, says Kelsang, who doesnt want her full name used for fear of reprisals from future employers. But next time, it was the same. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/05/29/toronto-nanny-suing.html Quote: A Ugandan nanny who says she was paid a mere $100 a month over two years is suing her former employer for $195,000, in a case her supporters say highlights rampant mistreatment of low-income and migrant workers. Lilliane Namukasa says she came to Canada in March 2008 to work as a live-in caregiver for a family in Brampton, Ont. Her employment contract called for her to be paid $427.50 a week in regular pay, minus $55 weekly to cover her room and board, plus $17 an hour for any overtime, according to her statement of claim. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104087809 Quote: With the foreign-born making up half of New York's work force, labor officials say wage and hour violations are stunningly widespread, from upscale restaurants where bathroom attendants are paid only in tips, to the city's car washes, where inspectors last year found three-quarters did not pay minimum wage or overtime. There are likely thousands more just like this. There are some truly bad employers in China, one would expect to find them everywhere, but what goes on here in China pales in comparison to the nightmares migrant workers in the US and Canada are experiencing. And few people care to investigate and prosecute the evildoers, despite numerous laws that allow for that to happen. Why is this allowed to happen in these places? Personally I have a pretty decent job, but I'm leaving it soon. And when I do I'll post a 100% solid recommendation for the place on the forum, because I actually made it work and I enjoyed it.Last edited by Javelin of Radiance on Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:49 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top chinadadJoined: 29 Nov 2011Posts: 291Location: chengdu Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:48 am Post subject: Quote: China pales in comparison to the nightmares migrant workers in the US and Canada are experiencing. Has the state of EFL in China sunken to such depths that an argument is going on to try and prove that FT's are treated better than migrant manual and service laborers in NA - this is so funny!!!!! I thought you guys were wanna-be ex-pats - as such, you're of course treated a lot better than an itinerant Mexican fruit picker - but in the world of ex-pat living and working conditions I think, due to the very backward and mercenary nature of your Chinese employers, you're based at the very bottom of the league!!!!!Last edited by chinadad on Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:52 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top chinadadJoined: 29 Nov 2011Posts: 291Location: chengdu Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:57 am Post subject: Last edited by chinadad on Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:00 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top Javelin of RadianceJoined: 01 Jul 2009Posts: 1187Location: The West Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:58 am Post subject: Who are you talking to? Back to top chinadadJoined: 29 Nov 2011Posts: 291Location: chengdu Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:21 pm Post subject: Denim-maniac Quote: I also think its undeniable that China offers opportunity that is not always available in western countries. Please elaborate on this - and give examples. For example for every business man, of Chinese decent that has set up some kind of independent enterprise in the west - how many foreigners have done the same here???? In the field of education - so many highly qualified academics of Chinese origin working in western institutions of research and higher education - how many qualified teachers working in your schools - how many in any university?????? In art - when their work is critical and questioning - Chinese artists often set up exhibition in the west - do you find many western artists who challenge convention through free thinking being invited to exhibit or perform in China?????? Yes please tell me where this opportunity is - at least for the type of folk who come out here as FT's. I have a feeling that, without some niche specialist expertise, if you didn't make it in the west, then making it here, partly due to the type of local employer or business partners you have to work with, is going to be infinitely more difficult - but then you can always believe the streets are paved with gold. Back to top thatsforsureJoined: 11 Sep 2012Posts: 146 Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:04 pm Post subject: There are a lot of good-looking women. Back to top Denim-ManiacJoined: 31 Jan 2012Posts: 1238 Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 4:49 pm Post subject: @china dad - I've given 3 clear examples of people who have taken advantage of opportunities in China. I think I'll just bow out gracefully from this thread, and some of us will have to agree to disagree. Back to top chinadadJoined: 29 Nov 2011Posts: 291Location: chengdu Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 5:15 pm Post subject: Quote: @china dad - I've given 3 clear examples of people who have taken advantage of opportunities in China. I think I'll just bow out gracefully from this thread, and some of us will have to agree to disagree. A retired woman who opens a small art gallery - a guy who gets a job in construction (was this through being an FT - or is this an ex-pat contract type situation) - and a Chinese girl who gets to travel for medical company in Europe and South America. Hardly the kind of stuff that are the kind wow provoking revelations that would convince many that opportunity is greater in China than back home. If anything they sound so ordinary that they play more like stories about having achieved something - despite the fact that these folk live in China Back to top jibbsJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 452 Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:52 pm Post subject: DosEquisX wrote: You never hear about any good stories because those people are out having too much fun to post online. Do you really believe this? Back to top Lancy BloomJoined: 23 Nov 2012Posts: 126Location: Hong Kong Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:02 am Post subject: Chinese EFL employers are bad because they are following the party line. They are told what to say and what to think. Foreigners are the cause of all China's problems according to their leaders. If people fear you, then you are a good soldier and will be rewarded. Wage slavery is a global problem now. Governments promote it. The immigrant is the easiest to victimize. The Chinese English teacher is a threat to their system of mind control. Watch how students study in China. They must recite out loud when they study. This is so everyone is aware of what they are thinking. If you go to any recruiting company in China you will find a large staff of highly proficient Chinese English writers whose job is paint a rosy picture of how great it is to teach in big rice bowl. They sometimes fight with each other on this forum to get it unwanted post shut down. Teaching in English in China is WAGE SLAVERY. Back to top the lowlanderJoined: 10 Oct 2010Posts: 171Location: The Oort Cloud Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:35 pm Post subject: Javelin, Quote: Fox style propaganda .....ha ha ha.....as opposed to your CPC brand of propaganda......you really are a card!! Quote: There are some truly bad employers in China, one would expect to find them everywhere, but what goes on here in China pales in comparison to the nightmares migrant workers in the US and Canada are experiencing. Did that little gem come straight from a CPC indoctrination session? Sounds like something The Great Helmsman himself might have spouted!! Having read through the links you so kindly posted, it's obvious that the abuse mentioned occurs to either illegal immigrants (so no sympathy) or to legal immigrants who choose not to report abuse to one of the many government departments set up to help them. So no sympathy yet again. Must try harder mate. Back to top the lowlanderJoined: 10 Oct 2010Posts: 171Location: The Oort Cloud Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:32 pm Post subject: No Billy No Quote: It is good advice to regard all postings with a shaker of salt I would do the same with your's too, if I could actually understand most of them. Back to top NoBillyNOJoined: 11 Jun 2012Posts: 1762 Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:49 am Post subject: Quote: No Billy No Quote: It is good advice to regard all postings with a shaker of salt I would do the same with your's too, if I could actually understand most of them. lowlander, give an extra shake! Back to top choudoufuJoined: 25 May 2010Posts: 3325Location: Mao-berry, PRC Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 4:37 am Post subject: Lancy Bloom wrote: .... Teaching in English in China is WAGE SLAVERY. why are you fighting so hard to stay then? Back to top Lancy BloomJoined: 23 Nov 2012Posts: 126Location: Hong Kong Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:11 am Post subject: choudofu I get a contact drunk watching you gombei red label. But to tell you the truth I was hoping to get loved ones out but now I have resigned myself to knowing the wage slavery is everywhere. The GENIcoeficient isn't available in China. Don't need one there you can see it everyday. Every government Kow Tows to Beijing and all the multinationals. Teachers a pretty safe position to be in when things get nasty. As the bible says the weak shall inherit the earth. Just like the history of the Communist party and their overthrow of The Kouminftang 60 years ago. My real reason is that I like to watch anarchy. 50,000 demonstrated in Hong Kong against the Beijing Executive Officer two weeks ago. Taiwan same thing two days ago. 6 months ago over a 100,000 demonstrated in Hong Kong over Beijing plan to impliment it's national education curiculum to Hong Kong. Not everyone wants to be brainwashed. Don't drink too much superman it is the number one cause of diabetes in China. 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Ever since moving to Reno, there hasn't been much to be angry about.
Editor's Note: The Angry Singlespeeder is a collection of mercurial musings from contributing editor Kurt Gensheimer. In no way do his maniacal diatribes about all things bike oriented represent the opinions of Mtbr, RoadBikeReview, or any of their employees, contractors, janitorial staff, family members, household pets, or any other creature, living or dead. You can submit questions or comments to Kurt at [email protected]. And make sure to check out Kurt's previous columns.
Ever since moving to Reno two weeks ago, the Angry Singlespeeder hasn't had much to be angry about. Compared to Southern California, life here is slow, relaxed, friendly and quite enjoyable. Traffic doesn't exist. Road rage doesn't either. Riding is absolutely world class and can be found everywhere. Rocky, exposed high desert terrain? Check. Lodgepole pine forests with loamy singletrack? Check. Techy-tech riding up creekbeds lined with aspen trees and lush greenery? Got that too. Mile-long hike-a-bikes through drifts of snow at 10,000 feet so you can enjoy a 4,000 vertical foot descent? Yup.
No matter where you go, the snowcapped Sierras tower above with authority, as do thunderclouds that pour down hail and lightning as you fly fish beside the Truckee River and stare up at the awe of nature. The jewel that is Lake Tahoe takes whatever remaining stress or anger you might have in your bloodstream and completely flushes it out.
Even in a week that found me visiting the ER due to a benign spider bite that grew into an infected abscess, the ER was empty, clean and the staff was incredibly nice. As much as it sucks being in any ER getting an IV, that short two-hour visit was strangely pleasant. I'm still waiting for the ER bill, so I'm sure my brief respite of peace and happiness will abruptly end in a raging uproar of f-bombs as soon as I open the mailbox.
Not having any TV whatsoever and not having read any newspapers or news websites has also helped. Ignorance is bliss as they say, and not knowing the numbskullery that's going on with our government, society and the world at large is refreshing. I don't even know what crappy movies are in theaters right now.
Yesterday I accidentally went to the Yahoo! homepage and saw a headline that instantaneously pissed me off; "Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Tweet the Arrival of their Baby". Not only does it completely baffle me how these two wastes of skin get headline news for doing something that's done hundreds of millions of times every day, but these two morons felt it necessary to Tweet the arrival of their spawn? Poor kid. Poor, poor kid.
While I'm on the topic, Yahoo! has got to have the most annoying headline writers in the news business. And because I write for a living, it particularly grates my skin. Part of the reason why I got rid of my Yahoo! email – besides the fact that it got spammed 10 ways to Sunday thanks to budget cuts in their email security – is because the news headlines that popped up before I got to my email each time were rage inducing. I just went to the Yahoo! homepage and here are the top headlines:
"Chad Johnson's Unexpected Jail Visitor" – Who the hell is Chad Johnson? Maybe he got a conjugal visit? Why do we care?
"Bear mauls Alaska man who gave it barbeque meat" Sounds like he deserved it.
When you're exposed to this stupidity every day, you grow immune to it. But when you stop watching TV and reading news headlines, on the rare occasion you do, your sensitivity to the stupidity is magnified. Are we as Americans really so dumb that reading about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian procreating somehow stimulates our feeble and undereducated brains? Shouldn't we strive for more mind-expanding content? You know, like the dribbling diatribes of an Angry Singlespeeder?
One other thing that really gets me pissed – smartphones. Not necessarily the smartphone itself, but the toolbag that's operating the thing. Repeat after me – I'm not skilled enough to drive and dick with my smartphone at the same time. If I see one more friend of mine trying to drive and text at the same time I am gonna grab the phone and chuck it out the window.
There is ZERO excuse for playing with your phone while driving. In fact, I firmly believe the penalty for texting while driving should be more severe than drunk driving. The reason being that when you're drunk, you're literally impaired. You're not sober enough to make a sane and reasonable decision about not driving. When you're texting and driving, you have full mental faculties (not saying much for most people) and hopefully have enough intelligence to realize it's a bad idea. So yes, if you are texting and driving, you are a full-blown idiot and I hope you kill yourself before you kill someone else.
Besides driving, peoples' behavior with smartphones is comical. Next time you're in a public area, just look around and observe how many people have their heads down, absolutely hypnotized by this stupid device. Nobody talks to each other, and if they do, they're constantly distracted from the conversation by the pinging of new incoming messages. Nothing makes you feel less important than when someone is talking to you and starts picking up their phone to check incoming messages in the middle of your conversation.
See what you made me do? Before I wrote this I was at peace, now I'm all pissed off. Okay, that's enough. I gotta go for a long, hard ride. Hopefully I don't get run over by some driving-while-texting schmucktard.


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I mentioned last week that I'm starting a new job. What I may not have mentioned is that I'm commuting approximately 35 miles both to and from my job each day. Now, it's been some time since I've been a commuter. Oh, don't get me wrong. I love to drive. As a trooper I often put on 300+ miles per shift driving from one end of the district to the other. But there's one significant difference between those days and now: I wasn't paying for the petrol then.
At first I didn't think too much of it. I work longer shifts resulting in fewer days per week so I figured my GMC Jimmy and I would get along just fine. Besides being the coolest little SUV ever, there is another very endearing quality my Jimmy has. It's paid for. That's a very attractive characteristic.
I'd had Jimmy tuned up for the big commute. Clean oil. New air filter. Plugs and points checked out. So this week Jimmy and I head off at dawn like many other commuters. And I'm watching the fuel gauge with a critical eye. Then, a disbelieving eye. Then with a slightly bilious demeanor. The fuel was disappearing faster than Sour Cream and Onion Pringles do in my pantry. At four bucks a pop, the fuel costs will wipe out my book buying budget altogether.
So I happen to let the salesman who just sold us my son's car know that I might be in the market for something more fuel efficient for the commute to the city and keep the Jimmy for winter driving--or when Congress gets off their duffs and start looking for ways to boost the domestic production of oil. (Note to blog reader: I won't be holding my breath in the interim.)
The salesman calls yesterday.
"I think I have the car," he says. "It's being cleaned up as we speak."
"Cool," I reply, not getting too excited. I've been through this before.
"It's a Chevy Cavalier," he tells me.
Domestically built. Always nice to support the home team.
"Sounds good," I say noncommittally.
"It's a two door, bright red with a spoiler," he goes on.
"Go ahead," I prompt, thinking it sounds cute as a bug's ear, but reminding myself there's usually a catch.
"It's very fuel economical," he adds.
"And?" I query.
"It's got a stick shift," he mumbles.
"Uh, what was that?" I ask. "Come again."
"It's got a manual transmission," he repeats.
"Four on the floor," I mutter. The perfect car for my commute and it has four on the floor.
Now, don't get me wrong. I can drive a stick shift. In fact, I bought a vehicle with a manual transmission before I knew how to drive one and ended up attending Bullet Hole Bacus's School of Driving. That was back when my nickname was Parnelli--so named for a famous race car driver, Parnelli Jones. Yeah. I kinda had a bit of a need for speed back then.
I can drive a standard transmission. I just don't like doing it anymore. I enjoy the freedom and convenience of having one hand free to chat on the phone, sip a cup of coffee, or eat a slice of breakfast pizza on my morning commute. (All right. All three at the same time. Don't tell the authorities!) And the idea of driving in heavy traffic and constantly downshifting? Not my idea of a nice quiet drive before a busy work day--or at the end of a long shift.
But for curiosity sake I drive by the car lot on my way home from class last evening and there it is: a shiny red cute as can be car with cool wheels and that nifty spoiler.
I stare at it and picture myself behind the wheel. Okay, so I admit this is a little hard to do considering I have legs that go on for freakin' ever and this car looks like it was designed for Thumbelina. But in my mind's eye, I looked very cool in that car. Manual transmission or not.
So, I'm going out to look at the car later today to kick the tires--and kick the salesman for getting my hopes up only to burst my bubble with a stick shift and four on the floor. I may even take a test drive and try to convince myself driving a stick is like riding a bicycle. On second thought, in view of my recent experiences on two wheels, strike that comparison.
So how many of you drive cars with standard transmissions? Did you learn in driver's ed, teach yourself, or did some kind soul take pity on you and instruct you?
My children say I should go for it and get the Cavalier and I can teach them how to drive a stick, as well.
Hmm. Another strike against the little 'cherry'.
You know. It figures. Trigger Happy Halliday is on the hunt for the perfect guy. And me? I'm desperately seeking fuel economy.
It occurs to me that there is something very very wrong with this picture.
'Til next week, kick those tires and light those fires!
~Bullet Hole~
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Desperately seeking fuel efficiency!
I mentioned last week that I'm starting a new job. What I may not have mentioned is that I'm commuting approximately 35 miles both to and from my job each day. Now, it's been some time since I've been a commuter. Oh, don't get me wrong. I love to drive. As a trooper I often put on 300+ miles per shift driving from one end of the district to the other. But there's one significant difference between those days and now: I wasn't paying for the petrol then.
Posted by Kathy Bacus at 7:49 AM
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Due to annoying vision issues (like the almost total lack of depth perception), I don't drive anymore. But I never learned how to drive stick, so I'd never be able to even consider the cute little red car with a spoiler.
- July 17, 2008 at 9:31 AM
- Kathy Bacus said...
I keep waiting for the government to start up a commuter train system that will take us commuters to work and back home, Tori. That way, I could sit and read both ways and leave the driving to someone else!
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Terri Osburn said...
My father tried to teach me to drive a standard when I was 16. He gave up after one lesson. I was quite relieved. I'm sure I could do it if I really worked at it. But I don't want to. Like you, I don't want to have to work that hard at driving. Life is hard enough without having to shift or start off from a light without stalling my car.
Now, if you find a little red Cavalier that is an automatic, I'd go for it. I used to have one and I loved it. However, the newer ones have too much plastic in the engine so if you blow the head (sorry, can't think of how to say that where it doesn't sound dirty) then you can kiss the engine and lots of your money goodbye.
- July 17, 2008 at 10:03 AM
My first car ever was a '61 VW beatle my dad bought for me out of high school so I could go to work. He was going to teach me to drive a stick shift, but went on massive amounts of overtime. I taught myself by going up and down my parents driveway. Had a '81 mustang with a stick shift also. Fun, Fun car.
My husband has a diesel 3/4 ton dodge ram we use to haul our horse trailer. It's a manual, but I only drive it if I really have to. I have to sit up too close to the steering wheel. I'm only 5'2. But if I take it to work on the expressways here in the Detroit Area, nobody messes with me LOL
Sure do miss my little red VW
Linda C
- July 17, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Kathy Bacus said...
Thanks for giving me the 'heads up' on the Cavalier, Terrio (and that pun was intended!). I still can't believe I was crazy enough in my youth to purchase I car I didn't know how to drive!
I guess we'll see how it goes--and how badly I want to see myself in that hot little red car!
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- Kathy Bacus said...
Ooo! I love VW beatles, Linda!
And I can see why you'd be a bit nervous driving the Dodge Ram Pickup--and why you'd get some respect on the road when you did drive it.
I'd probably be crushed between two pick-em-up trucks with the tiny Cavalier. I'll feel like Fred Flintstone with my feet dragging on the road. I'm used to riding up high--not at the surface level.
The things we put ourselves through to save a buck.
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM
And me? I'm desperately seeking fuel economy.
It occurs to me that there is something very very wrong with this picture.
Console yourself with the thought you're more likely to succeed. ;)
- July 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- Keri Ford said...
I learned to drive on a standard. My mom taught and my first vehicles was an '89 Toyota pick-up. And talk about memory kicking in gear. My husband has a '98 Nissan (his work/hunting truck) that I drove the other day for the first time in about 2years. nothing to it.
Right now I'm in a gass guzzling '05 Toyota Tundra. Can't wait to pay it off so I can get in a cute little suv hybrid something.
- July 17, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Hummmm -- When I had a Nissan Stanza Wagon, with the cool sliding doors -- on both sides, it was a standard transmission. I really liked shifting for more power going up steep hills and I kept it for close to eight years. However, after all those years of sitting in bumper-to-bumper inch-along traffic of only 5.8 commuter miles, my left leg and foot got tired of keeping that clutch in. On a few steep hills, topped by a traffic light, I'd be the lucky one that had someone an inch away from my back bumper. I thanked my lucky stars for not living in an area with snow and ice. That said, I really felt like I was 'driving', though there were times I coveted a Jetson's autopilot vehicle.
- July 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM
A commuter train system would be great here in the boonies!
- July 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- Kathy Bacus said...
Console yourself with the thought you're more likely to succeed. ;)
Better not let Trigger Happy hear you say that, bookmobiler!
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- Kathy Bacus said...
Tundras are awesome trucks, but I can see the need for something more efficient, Keri.
And it's good to hear you had no problem driving a stick after two years away.
Maybe I won't humiliate myself too badly.
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- Kathy Bacus said...
See, that's my biggest concern, anon. The icy, snowy hills. Plus I think I'm just getting lazy. I don't want to have to work too hard to get from Point A to Point B. Traffic is already a bugaboo.
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM
- Kathy Bacus said...
I'd love to see a commuter train, too, Tori. I wish the powers that be would look into the feasibility of such a service.
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- Christie Craig said...
Ahh, Kathy,
I can drive a straight shift, but I just don't get very far. A few feet, then jerk, a few feet, then jerk.
I did drive one years ago, but let me tell you, it's not quite like getting back on the bike.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Crime Scene Christie
- July 17, 2008 at 12:43 PM
- Kathy Bacus said...
As I recall, I had more than a few 'whiplash' moments back when I was learning to drive a stick, Christie. That's what I'm afraid of. History repeating itself. Yikes!
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Every car except my first has been a standard. I currently drive a 1997 BMW Z3 convertable roadster that I bought brand new and hope to keep for another decade. Its a standard and there is no way I want to give up the control the stick gives me (I'm an acceleration junkie). My commute is 20 mile and 30 minutes each way, half stop and go traffic and half highway. And my baby get 30mpg. Some day my knees will get old and give out but until then sticks rule. .... Mo
- July 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM
- traveler said...
Better stick with automatic especially on hills, ice and snow. Also a Cavalier is not a recommended car.
- July 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM
- Kathy Bacus said...
Your wheels sound incredible, Mo. I can see why you're gonna stick with the stick until the knees give out. I'd no doubt do the same.
It's probably like anything else. Once you get used to driving a standard transmission, it's no big deal.
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 3:05 PM
- Kathy Bacus said...
Thanks,Traveler. I know a Cavalier isn't recommended on Consumer Reports, but it's just the cutest thing.
~Bullet Hole~
- July 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM
- catslady said...
My husband drives a '98 red cavalier but it's an automatic. It was my daughter's first car at 18 but here boyfriend ran into someone - just a ding in the front but the air bags went off (I hear they're touchy that way). They wanted to total it because it had high mileage but she was leaving for college that week so they didn't. Anyway in the meantime my husband bought a newer blue cavalier for himself but since our daughter was doing a lot more driving, they traded cars (boy did we get the raw end of that deal - 26,000 compared to 130,000 miles). My other daughter got one too and last year a girl who had her license one week ran a red light while talking on her cell phone - that one was totally totaled. Anyway it's a nice little car but I wouldn't want anything to do with a stick shift - I tried learning on a porsche many moons ago and forget it lol.
- July 17, 2008 at 9:39 PM
- Jana DeLeon said...
I hear ya, Kathy! I gave up my FX 45 - 15 mpg SUV for a Suzuki SX4 30mpg economy crossover - AND 0% interest financing. You have no idea what those words do to an accountant.
I also ride share with a co-worker that lives near me. We can't do it all the time but we figure we save at least one tank of gas a month each. Not bad when you consider the cost of a tank.
The perfect man can wait until oil prices fall. :)
- July 18, 2008 at 7:10 AM
- Gemma Halliday said...
If it makes you feel any better, I can't drive stick to save my life. And I drive a gas-guzzling SUV. Which means I'm walking a lot more places now.
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Customers Give Generously to Support "Pink Star" Restaurant Donation Program
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Sept 21, 2009 – CKE Restaurants, Inc. today announced it has reached its goal of raising $1 million for breast cancer programs and awareness through its "Pink Star" fundraising campaign. During the three-week, in-store fundraiser that began in April, guests at Carl's Jr.® and Hardee's® restaurants across the United States donated to the campaign in support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).
For each $1 donation, restaurant guests received a commemorative pink Happy Star® to personalize and place on a restaurant lobby display. This leave-behind piece combined the icon for both the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurant chains with the color pink to represent hope and awareness for the plight of those fighting breast cancer. Guests also received coupons to use toward future visits. SynqSolutions, Inc. of Atlanta donated the cost of all printed materials related to the Pink Star program.
The official check presentation ceremony will be held Mon., Sept 21 at 2:30 p.m. at Union Station in St. Louis, Mo. Executives from CKE Restaurants along with board members from both the Star Franchise Association (of Carl's Jr.) and the Independent Hardee's Franchise Association will present the $1 million check to Janelle Hail, CEO of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The check from this year's event will represent the single largest one-time gift given to the NBCF. The donation is slated to fund the NBCF's National Mammography Program. This program currently impacts 43 states across the country by providing free mammograms to underserved women nationwide through medical facilities within the network.
"Despite our country's economic situation, Carl's Jr. and Hardee's loyal customers gave generously in support of breast cancer awareness and the National Breast Cancer Foundation," said Andrew F. Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE:CKR), parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's. "It is truly a testament to the generosity of our customers, the dedication of our employees and the commitment of our franchisees. We are very proud of all of our restaurants, both company and franchise, whose enthusiasm over the past five years made it possible to reach for and achieve our $1 million fundraising goal."
The "Pink Star" program was initiated in 2005 by the Carl's Jr. franchise body, the Star Franchise Association and raised $175,000. Within five years, the total amount raised is now over $3.1 million. This year's tremendous donation was made possible by the efforts of more than 3,100 Carl's Jr. and Hardee's franchise- and company-operated restaurants across the country.
"CKE Restaurants, Inc. and their Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurant locations gave us their best effort this year and succeeded in reaching their $1 million goal," said Janelle Hail, CEO of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. "Since the 'Pink Star' campaign began, CKE Restaurants has significantly contributed to NBCF's mission to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and by providing mammograms for those in need. Thank you so much to CKE, Carl's Jr. and Hardee's for their continued support."
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This is going to cause Sick-o too explode with more "I hate real cops" rants.....
quote: "This is going to cause Sick-o too explode with more ââ?¬Å?I hate real cops" rants"Š.."
Why would it? Nothing that cops do surprises me any longer. Did you see where the Monroe, Ohio police chief recently shot himself in the leg after giving his daughter a gun handling safety course? A real rocket scientist, huh? Did you see the cop just sentenced in Chesapeake for stealing ammunition from his department? Did you see the three Norfolk cops just arrested for procuring false testimony, filing false police reports, obstructing justice, and perjury? How about the Oakland cop who just ran into a family head on while drunk in his patrol car and killed 3 members of the family? I could spew these examples all night long, but I think you get the picture.
A cop citing a husband for speeding his pregnant wife to the hospital didn't even catch my eye with all the other foolishness going on every day in the law enforcement community.
Here's a 4 or 5 page thread about this event. The discussion really seperates the sensible veteran offficers from the Rambo rookies running around out there off their leash.


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It was an up-and-down season for Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar, in which the team changed coaches twice and was not able to match the lofty heights it had reached in previous years. Lokomotiv started the season with four consecutive wins, but a home loss against ALBA Berlin combined with early bad results in the VTB United League caused the team to release head coach Sasa Obradovic. His assistant, Vlada Jovanovic, stepped in as head coach and Lokomotiv kept winning. The team finished the EuroCup regular season with a 9-1 record and finished the Top 16 with a 4-2 mark, but its two losses against LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne relegated it to second place the group. That set up a quarterfinals clash against UNICS Kazan without home-court advantage, which proved decisive. UNICS won Game 1 with authority and held on for a 69-65 home victory in Game 3. Jovanovic was fired and Bob Donewald led Lokomotiv to a fourth-place regular season finish in the VTB League. Zenit St. Petersburg eliminated Lokomotiv in the VTB quarterfinals to put a bitter end to Loko's season.
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Thomas J. Timoney, 83, formerly of Wyndmoor, a lawyer who had long been active in land preservation, died of a cerebral hemorrhage Dec. 30 at Foulkeways at Gwynedd.
Mr. Timoney was a partner in the firm of Timoney Knox, where he started as a clerk in 1950, and had been for many years a solicitor for the Springfield Township School District.
He had served for 52 years as a director of the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association, which recently established the 100-acre Timoney Preserve in honor of his decades of work in land preservation.
In 2005 Mr. Timoney was named Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce.
He was a member of the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and its Judicial Selection Committee, the Orphans' Court Rules Committee, and was past president of the Montgomery County Estate Planning Council, which presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
He also had received service awards from Lower Gwynedd Township and the Flourtown Fire Company.
He was a charter member of the Rotary Club of Springfield, which named him a Paul Harris Fellow in recognition of his long service to the club.
He was a past president of both the Artman Home in Ambler and the Timber Trails Community Association in Pocono Pines.
He served in the Air Force during the Korean War as a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Office at the Tachikawa Air Force Base in Japan.
He was a graduate of Springfield High School, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Mr. Timoney is survived by his wife of 57 years, the former Miriam Jacquette; daughters Joan, Ellen Melle, Judith, Susan and Leslie; sons Thomas Jr., Col. Paul Timoney, USMC, Patrick and Brian; sisters Dolores Shields and Sister Eunice Marie, IHM, and 16 grandchildren.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 5 at Seven Dolors Church in Wyndmoor. Memorial donations may be made to Aid for Friends, 12271 Townsend Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154, or at www.aidforfriends.org. – WF
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Richard T. Welsh, 69, of Chestnut Hill, a securities broker and advisor for more than four decades, died from complications of colon cancer Dec. 27, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
At the time of his death, Mr. Welsh was a senior vice president in investments at Wells Fargo Advisors.
He served as an infantry platoon commander and adjutant with the Third Marine Division during the Vietnam War and was promoted to captain. For his service, he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V" and several other medals and ribbons, including a Presidential Unit Citation.
He was a graduate of St. Joseph's Preparatory High School and St. Joseph's University.
A lifelong sailor, he kept a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay for 30 years.
Mr. Welsh is survived by his wife of 44 years, the former Mary Sue Haydon; sons Brian and Richard T. Jr.; a brother, Henry; a sister, Celia Creskoff, and two grandchildren.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 4 at Our Mother of Consolation Church in Chestnut Hill with interment in Cavalry Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to The Capt. Richard T. Welsh, USMC, Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, 121 S. St. Asaph St., Alexandria, VA 22314-3119. – WF
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Geometry of numbers was initiated by Hermann Minkowski roughly a hundred years ago. At its heart is the relation between lattices (the group, not the poset) and convex bodies. One of its fundamental results, for example, is Minkowski's theorem: If $L$ is a lattice in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $C$ a centrally-symmetric convex body, then $\mbox{vol}(C) \geq 2^d \det(L)$ implies that $C$ contains another lattice point than $0$.
While there was a lot of activity in the field until at least 1960, it seems that in recent decades not so many people are working on it anymore. One of the reasons could be that the field is somewhat stuck, or in Gruber's more polite words "It seems that fundamental advance in the future will require new ideas and additional tools from other areas." (see [1]).
I would like to know more about current research trends in the geometry of numbers. What are hot topics right now? In which areas was recently considerable progress achieved? Did maybe even the "fundamental advance", that Gruber mentions, take place?
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TS from Gubi is a collection of elegant coffee tables, designed by Danish-Italian design duo GamFratesi for the entrance and lounge areas of the Michelin-starred restaurant The Standard in Copenhagen. The designers drew their inspiration for the beautiful design from the 1930s building housing the restaurant: a round glass top stands on slender metal legs with eye-catching, intersecting rods. Place a large TS table in front of a sofa and a smaller version next to a lounge chair or be bold and mix and match different colours and sizes to create a cluster of tables.
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Astronomers have stumbled on a cosmic mystery surrounding some of the most beautiful objects in our galaxy.
New deep-sky images of the Milky Way's central core reveal picturesque butterfly-shaped gas clouds left behind by dying stars called bipolar planetary nebulae. And all appear to be mysteriously aligned with one another.
Planetary nebulae form during the final life stages of sun-like stars when their fuel runs out. In some cases, jets of hi-speed gas from the dying star sculpt the expanding gas bubbles into a symmetrical hourglass-shape. This type of stellar remnant is referred to as a butterfly nebula.
Using both the Hubble Space Telescope and European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope (NNT), researchers surveyed more than a hundred planetary nebulae in the Milky Way's central core region, and found that bipolar-shaped nebulae display a surprising alignment with each other.
"This really is a surprising find and, if it holds true, a very important one," said study co-author Bryan Rees, astronomer at the University of Manchester, in a press statement.
"Many of these ghostly butterflies appear to have their long axes aligned along the plane of our galaxy," he added.
For Rees and his team, the particularly perplexing part is that for all these butterfly nebulae to exhibit this kind of alignment with each other—despite their individual, unique histories and properties—their progenitor stars would have to have all been rotating perpendicular to the clouds of gas and dust that gave birth to them.
"The alignment we're seeing for these bipolar nebulae indicates something bizarre about star systems within the central bulge," explained Rees.
One hypothesis for this surprising alignment is that it may be directly tied to the origin of the strong magnetic field emitted by the Milky Way's bulge. Very little is known about how this magnetic field formed and evolved over time. As such, this quirky arrangement of planetary nebulae may very well help unlock some as yet unknown history of our own galaxy.
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