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Here is what my compiler is telling me: GeometryCalculator.java:20: error: constructor Sphere in class Sphere cannot be applied to given types;
Sphere sp = new Sphere(r);
required: no arguments
found: double
reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length
import java.util.Scanner; /** This is a test driver for the Sphere, Cylinder, and Cone class This approach is more object-oriented than the previous one because it clearly separates the duties of each class. */ public class GeometryCalculator { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Please enter the radius: "); double r = in.nextDouble(); System.out.println("Please enter the height: "); double h = in.nextDouble(); Sphere sp = new Sphere(r); double v = sp.getVolume(); double s = sp.getSurfaceArea(); System.out.println("The volume of the sphere is: " + v); System.out.println("The surface area of the sphere is: " + s); Cylinder cy = new Cylinder(r, h); v = cy.getVolume(); s = cy.getSurfaceArea(); System.out.println("The volume of the cylinder is: " + v); System.out.println("The surface area of the cylinder is: " + s); Cone co = new Cone(r, h); v = co.getVolume(); s = co.getSurfaceArea(); System.out.println("The volume of the cone is: " + v); System.out.println("The surface area of the cone is: " + s); } }
/** This class provides methods to compute the volume and surface area of a sphere. @author: @version: */ public class Sphere { /** Constructs a Sphere object with input: radius. @param aRadius the radius */ Sphereobject sphere = new Sphereobject(); /** Computes the volume of a sphere. @return volume of sphere */ public static double Computevolume(double r){ double Volume = 4/3*Math.PI*r * Math.pow(r,2); return Volume; } /** Computes the surface area of a sphere. @return surface area of a sphere */ public static double computeSurfaceArea(double r){ double SurfaceArea = 4*Math.PI* Math.pow(r,2); return SurfaceArea; } private double r; }
public class Sphereobject { public static void main(String[] args) { Sphere Sphere1 = new Sphere (); } }
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Although James Sokol, the owner of this knockout Mk6 GTI, might not want us to share this tidbit with the world, he's pretty OG. That's "original gangster" for those unaware, and it means he's an originator, and a damn cool one at that.
How OG are we talking? Well, his first car in high school was out of the movie Training Day. Yeah, a 1980 Pontiac Monte Carlo Low Rider with 13" Dayton wire wheels and all. So it should come as no surprise that when Sokol joined the VW scene, he'd apply the same mentality to the sophisticated German canvas.
"I was just looking for a reliable and safe daily driver when I bought my Mk6 back in 2010, but it didn't take long for the urge to tune it," he said.
The urge first came in the form of motor mods. You see, after his lowrider days he owned a heavily modified Lexus IS300 that made him appreciate the art of straightline speed. And it just so happens that APR was running a software sale one weekend, 500 miles into his GTI ownership - it would be a move that would change his course forever.
"I started with software but before long I was diving into a ton more motor mods," he said. Soon he added a Forge Motorsport Twintake, Twintercooler, aluminum boost pipes, bigger DV and wastegate along with a 3" custom stainless exhaust system from SPM and a Eurojet axle-back muffler.
When the first round wasn't enough, round two involved an AWE Tuning K04 Quarter Mile big-turbo kit that used GIAC stage 3 Race software. It was accompanied by a nitrous kit plumbed with a 50-shot of laughing gas.
The combination was said to be good for 405hp and 395 lb-ft when sipping 100-octane race gas. No matter how you cut the cake, this was a fast hatch.
Along the way, Sokol found plenty of time to introduce his green accent color. Like the green RS3 coil packs, green intercooler and intake piping, with plenty more under the hood. If you ask Sokol he'd joke it represents all the money he dumped into this creation, but if you ask us, it's green like the best color on a traffic light.
But James quickly realized "all-go and no-show" wasn't going to cut it in the VW world. It only took a few local shows for him to realize ultra-low was the way to go. "After attending some VW shows I realized the lower cars always looked better, so I added coilovers and wheels," he explained.
Since then, the green machine has seen no less than 12 different sets of wheels during its tenure. "I used to change wheels like I did my shoes. I easily tried more than a dozen different sets before I found my current wheels; these are keepers," he said with a grin.
Indeed they are keepers! They're one-of-one and before you recognize them from the fifteen52 VW Beetle at SEMA, they aren't the same rollers. These are ultra-exclusive three-piece fifteen52 Formula Split Classics with gold faces, polished lips and hardware, and black inner rims. The 18x9" front and 18x10" rears were wrapped in severely stretched Nitto Neo Gen tires.
Hiding behind the wheels are legit Porsche 911 GT3 six-piston front calipers with 350mm StopTech carbon-ceramic rotors. Out back, you'll find green powdercoated stock calipers with slotted StopTech rotors and stainless lines on each corner.
When coilovers wouldn't go low enough, Sokol turned to the dark side and chose air suspension. A special combination of Air Lift XL front struts, Slam Special SS-6 rear bags with Bilstein shocks and IDF lower rear control arms create the desired stance.
An Air Lift V2 digital controller runs the whole show, while an AccuAir five-gallon tank, Viair compressors and custom "Hardlines by Swoops" act as support staff to help this hatchback hit the deck. Of course, you won't get this low without notching the frame front and rear, so that happened along the way.
Life inside the green machine is bliss thanks to an ensemble that includes Sparco Chrono seats, a candy white Autopower roll-bar and rear-seat delete. The Schroth four-points are nice, but the Nardi flat-bottom leather wheel steals the show.
Lets not forget the retrofitted Audi RS3 shifter and other Euro parts like the R20 kick plates and floor mats as well. There are splashes of carbon inside, and hidden LEDs add a touch of class.
In the back, a custom subwoofer enclosure and the air-ride components make jaws drop whenever somebody glances inside.
The sweet sound of the exhaust pipes was rivaled only by the killer sound system within. It uses a Pioneer head unit to conduct the symphony, while Pioneer components and a 12" sub handle the reproduction.
The seemingly simple exterior features European R20 bumpers and side skirts, while other nuances include a shaved hood, emblems and more R20 parts like the front grille, headlights and tail lights. Then there are the lime green LED DRLs to compliment the Lamborghini-inspired Green Apple metallic matte vinyl wrap that boasts matte black accents.
Like anything that pushes the envelope, James has received plenty of praise, but there are always plenty of haters happy to pass judgment. "The funny thing is, I've had a lot of criticism for the car, especially the seats because they're not the most expensive ones out there, yet they're one of my favorite parts of the entire car. They might not be big bucks, but they fit me well and I drive it enough that good seats mean a lot," he added.
And drive it he does, as Sokol pilots his GTI to work five days a week, amassing more than 15000 miles each year.
Inevitably, not everything will be your taste, but there's something to be said for building your dream car and actually driving it. More power to you, James.
Owner: James Sokol
Location: Long Island, NY
Engine 2.0L four-cylinder TSI 16v with AWE Tuning Quarter Mile K04 Turbo kit, GIAC stage 3 software, painted Forge Motorsport Twintake, Twintercooler, aluminum boost pipes, diverter valve, wastegate, catch can with PCV block-off plate, coolant hose kit and throttle body hose, boost tap, nitrous oxide injection, BFI stage 2 motor mounts, Porsche 911 oil, coolant and gas caps, RS4 red top coil packs, washer bottle deleted, relocated battery, Sprint Booster race system, SPM 3" custom stainless exhaust, Eurojet R20 axle-back muffler, 4" polished tips, VEI senders for gauges
Drivetrain DSG automatic transmission, GIAC stage 3 DSG race software
Brakes Porsche GT3 six-piston calipers, 350mm StopTech slotted rotors f, painted stock calipers, 286mm StopTech rotors r, braided lines, Hawk ceramic pads, Motul fluid all round
Suspension Air Lift XL struts f, Slam Special SS-6 bags, Bilstein shocks, IDF lower control arms r, notched frame f&r, Air Lift V2 digital management on custom mount, AccuAir Exo mount and five-gallon aluminum tank, dual Viair 444c compressors, dual SMC water traps and check valves, custom "Hardline by Swoops", 3/8" black braided and aluminum air lines, black AN fittings
Wheels & Tires 18x9" ET34 f, 18x10" ET38 r fifteen52 Formula Split Classic three-piece wheels, gold faces, polished lips and hardware, black inner barrels, 205/40 R18 f, 215/40 R18 r Nitto Neo Gen tires
Exterior European-spec R20 bumpers and side skirts, shaved hood and emblems, badgeless R20 front grille, R20 black HID headlights, cherry red LED tail lights, LED DRLs and LED license plate lights, rolled front fenders, Green Apple metallic matte vinyl wrap with matte black vinyl accents
Interior Sparco Chrono race seats, Schroth four-point harnesses, Nardi black leather flat-bottom steering wheel, Momo hub, Audi RS3 shifter, R32 DSG pedals, R20 kick plates and mats, Safecraft Porsche GT3 extinguisher, Podi digital gauge kit with oil temp/pressure, boost/volt gauges in Mk5 steering wheel pod, candy white Autopower roll-bar, rear-seat delete with Braille 17 lb battery, carbon fiber trim, Euro headlight switch, LED interior lights, Euro dash cubby with air ride controller, ECS rear hatch release, VW first aid kit and ashtray light
Audio/Visual Pioneer AVH-X5500BHS head unit, rearview camera, 6.75" front and rear components, monoblock amp and 12" shallow-mount subwoofer in candy white fiberglass housings using BBS RS spike bolts, Dynamat Passport 9500ix, GoPro mount
Thanks Dena, Don, Rich, Pat & Franklin at Tuning Works, Greg "Swoops", Casey at PMG, Matt & Chris at fifteen52, Will at Bag Riders, Mike at Forge Motorsport, John at AWE, all my family & friends

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Month: August 2016
A Cosmic Hatred
A Cosmic Hatred
Bassem Eid offers a surprising angle on the Arab-Israeli conflict: "The first thing that we as Palestinians must do is to stop viewing ourselves as victims of the Israelis. This constant blame that our situation is the result of Israeli politics has brought us nothing and will continue to do nothing for us."
This is downright refreshing, even revolutionary. Change is impossible without accepting responsibility. The kneejerk reaction to blame others (even where justifiable) is a recipe for misery. It takes strength of character to acknowledge one's failings and move onto the hard business of fixing oneself, first and foremost, instead of giving that power to others by blaming them. Kudos to Mr. Eid.
Now, if only the rest of the Middle East felt that way….
Blaming Israel for everything – like traditional anti-Semitism that blames Jews for everything — permeates today's world, but especially Middle Eastern culture. Ironically, some of the soberest thinkers on this subject are Muslims. "I am an observant Muslim committed to combating Islamism," stated Dr. Quanta Ahmed, an outspoken British-Muslim physician, in a recent interview. "Islamism is a political totalitarian ideology, one of the central tenets of which is Islamist anti-Semitism."
She then adds, "There is a deep-rooted anti-Semitism… which is greatly fueled by Islamist ideology… which is actually in the philosophy of major groups… like Hamas and Hezbollah, who explicitly identify the Jew or Judaism as a 'cosmic' enemy, not just a mortal enemy."
Here she has hit the proverbial nail on the head: Islamists do not hate, persecute or murder Jews because of anything apologists and politicians imagine, such as alleged economic inequality or territorial disputes. They do so because of their ideology. Similar to the Nazi ideology, Islamism turns Jews into an evil, cosmic, supernatural force to be opposed at all costs.
Hundreds of stabbings of Jewish Israelis by young Palestinian Arabs over the past year are, at their root, natural outgrowths of the raw anti-Semitism spewed daily from places like the Voice of Palestine Radio teaching school children that killing Jews and dying in the process is a sacred duty. Many of the assailants (like Muslim terrorists in general) were financially well-off. It was ideology that drove their behavior.
"Is it any surprise that after decades of indoctrination in a culture of hate that people actually do hate?" Nonie Darwish, who was raised as a Muslim in the Gaza Strip, said of her birth-culture.
Sadly, thanks to what Dr. Ahmed calls an "incredibly ignorant marriage of Left and Islamism," presidents and pundits alike perpetuate the dysfunctional attitudes that plague the Middle East and which are exported to the West. They need to diagnose the problem soberly, which begins by having no illusions about the central role ideology plays in Islamist terror.
Be that as it may, we can only control what we can, which means living by our faith, growing our communities and continuing to serve as conduits for the "cosmic" good.
Yaakov Astor, Editor-in-Chief
This entry was posted in Jewish Thought, Zman Magazine and tagged anti-Semitism, bassem eid, Holocaust, islamist, islamist terror, knife intefada, Nazi, nazi ideology, palestinian authority, Palestinian terror, Palestinian terrorist, quanta ahmed, stabbing intefada, voice of palestine radio.


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Randolph's red glare
Playing mad in positive way is rookie's goal.
By Marcus Thompson II
Posted: 02/22/2009 09:02:01 PM PST
Updated: 02/23/2009 06:14:36 AM PST
A flip switches when Warriors rookie forward Anthony Randolph hits the court, whether in practice or in the games. Something starts bubbling inside, scrunching up his face. Something hijacks his psyche, making him angry.
He can't describe it and it's hard for him to label it. Competitive. Hungry. Intense. Perhaps all of the above.
Whatever it is, it made him slap a hard foul on Boston's Kevin Garnett and stare down one of his all-time favorite players — in Boston. It provoked him to scream at Houston center Yao Ming after he dunked on him — in Houston. It propels him to give his body for a block, a rebound, a loose ball, tempts him to take his man every time.
"I've got to watch myself sometimes, that's the thing I'm trying to work on now," he said. "You've got to play mad. I'm more aggressive when I'm mad. It's not that I'm mad at a person. I'm just trying to go out there and go hard. Sometimes, I can get a little bit too excited, too amped up. I've got to learn how to control it."
Whatever it is has its side effects, too. When Randolph doesn't control it, he can regret it. There were the fights and trouble he used to get into years ago. There was the time earlier this season that he elbowed rookie teammate Rob Kurz in the chin in practice. And there have many times he has turned the ball over trying to win the game with one play.
That's the daunting dilemma Randolph and the Warriors coaching staff face — how to
curb his passion without robbing his edge. The consensus is that if it's pulled off, Randolph is going to be one of the greats. Could even be — according to Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom — a Hall of Famer.
"I love his passion. I love his fire for the game," said Warriors swingman Stephen Jackson, who has dealt with a similar quandary. "That's something you can't teach. That's rare. ... He's going to have to learn, just like I had to learn, that it's a fine line between having too much passion and hurting your team, and having passion and helping your team."
One of Randolph's strengths and weaknesses always has been what he calls his "attitude." Certainly part of his edge comes from his rocky adolescence.
The oldest of three children — he has a sister, Ashley, and a brother, Robert — Randolph had to be strong when his parents were going through tough times (they are still together).
He's also dealt with death quite a bit. He lost two uncles, with whom he was close. A good friend and former girlfriend died in a car accident just before the draft.
On a smaller scale, a childhood filled with moves presented difficulties. Randolph grew up in Pasadena then relocated to Little Rock, Ark. He also spent his final two years of high school in a new place when his mother decided to move to Dallas.
His mother, Crystal, said the move to Dallas was hard on Randolph at first. She said he got a big head thanks to awe-struck coaches, and his grades weren't up to par. There also was the element of the streets with which to contend, too.
Through it all, Randolph emerged stronger, more so than his 6-foot-10, 210-pound frame suggests. He made it to college (LSU), his family is as strong as ever and he developed perseverance.
"I think he's done an admirable job handling it all," said Will Marsaw, Randolph's uncle. "He's learned where ever you go, you are going to have challenges. Where ever you go, you have mountains to climb."
Emboldened by his experiences, Randolph has a noticeable swagger on the court, where he boasts a superiority complex and a chip on his shoulder.
Because of his talent, Randolph — whose parents are former athletes who spent time in the Army — expects to dominate. After Wednesday's game, when he posted 14 points and 12 rebounds in 28 minutes against the Lakers, he acknowledged he was expecting to play that way all season instead of being patient.
Randolph is hell-bent on proving his ability. Having been doubted most of his career because of his slight build, he's on a mission to establish himself. That's why he challenges his heroes.
When he was in the eighth grade, he played a pick-up game at UCLA. Boston All-Star swingman Paul Pierce was playing, and Randolph scored a basket on him. By the time the story made it to school, Randolph had dunked on Pierce.
"I hyped that up all through school," Randolph said. "It wasn't a good dunk. It was a hard lay-up actually. ... When you get past all the white lies, it was probably just a finger roll.
"That's how I am," he continued. "It's kind of me gassing myself up to say that I can play with these guys. Doing something to get me hype, to give me a little extra boost to say I can play with these guys that I grew up watching and admiring."
Randolph's mom said her son always been fiery. He's always allowed his emotions bubble to the surface.
That face he makes — the one that, depending on the perspective, looks like he's crying, livid or irritated — has been the one he's been making since he was a boy.
"He wears all his emotions on his sleeve," his mom said. "He's so passionate about everything that he does. That's what gives him his edge. He's still young and he's got to find that fine line between bringing that energy, but not go overboard with it. Once he does that, he'll be fine."
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Tounkara at the double for Pirates
French striker Oumare Tounkara made a big impact on his first start for Bristol Rovers as he scored twice in a 4-2 victory at Dagenham.
The former Sunderland man, who arrived on a short-term deal at the end of February, helped John Ward's side to a fourth game without defeat.
The visitors stormed into a three-goal lead inside 20 minutes. John-Joe O'Toole - playing his last game of a three-month loan spell from Colchester - hammered high into the roof of the net from close range.
After just six minutes it was two-nil when Tounkara rounded goalkeeper Jonathan Miles and slotted into an empty net.
And Rovers made it 3-0 when Ryan Brunt played in Danny Woodards, who side-footed convincingly past Miles.
Dagenham grabbed a goal back after half an hour when Ben Strevens bundled home Gavin Hoyte's cross, though Medy Elito may have got the final touch as the ball crossed the line.
Tounkara registered his second goal in the 70th minute when he latched on to Woodards' header and smashed the ball home off a post from the edge of the box.
Three minutes later Dagenham substitute Jake Reed tapped home Femi Ilesanmi's cross to make it 4-2 but it proved mere consolation.
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Melaka River Cruise
The river was the main artery of trade for Melaka in its heyday when it was bustling with traders from all around the world.
Some buildings from that era still stand majestically by the river, which is also lined by old villages, or kampungs, and modern day buildings.
The 45-minute cruise is accompanied by an entertaining and informative commentary. And, for just RM8, it's a good bargain. See parts of historical Melaka, get a history lesson for next to nothing, and never break a sweat!
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|This is the article on manga chapter. For the volume, head to Brothers, Fight Together!!.
"Brothers, Fight Together!!" (兄弟、共闘!!, Kyōdai, Kyōtō!!, Viz: Uchiha Brothers United Front) is chapter 579 of the original Naruto manga.
Closing his hood and stating that he was an introverted person and as such it was unsettling to be stared at by so many people, Kabuto sends his snakes charging towards Sasuke and Itachi. The brothers are able to fend this attack off, however Kabuto uses this opportunity to hide in one of his snakes. Here, Kabuto reveals the abilities that he had gained from experimenting with Sasuke's former teammates: Karin's healing abilities (which derive from her being an Uzumaki), a similar ability to Suigetsu's Hydrification Technique as well as Jūgo's ability to absorb the forces of nature. After revealing that he had found and trained at the Ryūchi Cave — much to Itachi's shock — he narrowly dodges Sasuke's attack. Emerging from the snake's mouth he reveals that he had finally surpassed Orochimaru and was able to become a sage and declares that he was now a dragon after Sasuke calls him an imperfect snake like Orochimaru.


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text: MOVIES After Oscar, What Happens to Lupita Nyong'o? 5:00 AM PDT 3/27/2014 by Gregg Kilday FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Illustration by: Kirsten Ulve Even after winning the Academy Award, Nyong'o faces a challenging lack of roles for darker-skinned actresses; says one agent, however: "If she can find a franchise, a big crossover film, or if she's cast by a significant filmmaker, then she's golden." This story first appeared in the April 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. UPDATE: On June 2, it was announced that Lupita Nyong'o has joined the cast of J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII, which is set to hit theaters Dec. 18, 2015. THR reported in April that she was in talks to join the live-action/CG hybrid adaptation of The Jungle Book. She was a veritable awards-season Cinderella. In only a few short months, Lupita Nyong'o went from being a complete unknown to a red-carpet princess, applauded for both her impeccable fashion sense and her undeniable acting abilities. The 31-year-old -- who was born of Kenyan parents in Mexico City, raised in Nairobi and then graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2012 -- triumphed at the 86th Academy Awards, where she was awarded the Oscar as best supporting actress for her unflinching performance as Patsey in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. PHOTOS: Where The Oscar Took These Stars But now that the ball is over and the applause is dying down, what can Nyong'o really expect from Hollywood? While the stage would appear to be set for her to ascend to the A-list -- just as Jennifer Lawrence did after her best actress win for Silver Linings Playbook last year -- it's not that simple. For while there have been a handful of African-American actors, from Sidney Poitier to Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington and Will Smith, who have reached that status, there's never been a black actress who has become the equivalent of a Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie. Whoopi Goldberg came closest, following her best actress Oscar nomination for 1985's The Color Purple and supporting actress win for 1990's Ghost, but despite an occasional hit like 1992's Sister Act, she didn't maintain that momentum. Hollywood also flirted with Angela Bassett, Thandie Newton, Halle Berry and, most recently, Mandela's Naomie Harris, without ushering any of them into its very top tier. Nyong'o may have charmed Hollywood as she skillfully navigated awards season, but whether or not she's endeared herself to the larger public -- with just $56 million in domestic box office, 12 Years was an art house hit but no blockbuster -- remains an open question. "I don't think she has an audience -- not yet," says one studio executive. "And there are so few roles for women of color; those roles are just not being written." Further complicating Nyong'o's prospects is the fact that her dark skin challenges an industry prejudice that traditionally has favored black actresses and performers with lighter complexions. "Would Beyonce be who she is if she didn't look like she does?" asks TCA Jed Root talent agent Tracy Christian. "Being lighter-skinned, more people can look at her image and see themselves in her. In Lupita's case, I think she has two-and-half, three years. If she can find a franchise -- a Star Wars or a Bourne Identity -- a big crossover film, or if she's cast by a significant filmmaker, then she's golden, she'll have carved out a unique path for herself." Yes, she faces obstacles, agrees a prominent casting agent, but they are not insurmountable. "For someone who looks like her, with a distinctly black, African face, maybe she's someone who can change the direction for darker-skin actresses, actresses who are definitely not European-looking, but it may require some forward-looking director to push for her." It's an issue Nyong'o herself confronted head-on during Oscar week when she spoke at an Essence luncheon about how, when she was growing up, she prayed for lighter skin. She viewed her own complexion as "an obstacle to overcome" until, inspired by Sudanese-British supermodel Alek Wek, she began to appreciate herself. "I hope my presence onscreen leads other little girls on a similar journey [to] feel the validation of your own beauty inside and out," she said as many in the crowed dabbed at their eyes. The fashion world appears ready to promote her beauty, even if to some it seems exotic. She served as the face of the Miu Miu spring ad campaign and sat front row at the Calvin Klein Collection show with Anna Wintour during New York Fashion Week. And that could, in turn, force Hollywood to acknowledge her appeal. "Frankly," says Christian, "she's hot enough that she can play a love interest to a Caucasian leading man, and it won't be an issue. Lupita is to film and television what Obama was to politics. She made Hollywood feel good about itself. She was a little bit of 'we shall overcome' -- charming, young, gorgeous." Still, industry prejudices remain deep-seated. Todd Boyd, who teaches about race and pop culture at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, points to Berry's career as an object lesson, since Berry didn't fully capitalize on the best actress Oscar she won for the 2001 drama Monster's Ball. Instead, her follow-up film was the James Bond movie Die Another Day, which led to ongoing appearances as Storm in the X-Men series and 2004's disastrous Catwoman. If anything, he argues, Berry should have had it easier because she belongs to a line of lighter-skinned performers such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge that Hollywood has favored, offering them more glamorous roles than those that go to darker-skinned actresses, a line that stretches from Hattie McDaniel, the first black Oscar winner, to Octavia Spencer and nominee Gabourey Sidibe. "If it didn't benefit Halle Berry, who would seem to have, appearance-wise, the kind of package Hollywood likes, it's hard to imagine things are going to materialize for Lupita," says Boyd. But, argues Stephanie Allain, who recently served as executive producer on the Sundance hit Dear White People, "I hope we're really moving past that. I've met Lupita a few times on the circuit, and what fascinates me about her is her intellect." Nyong'o's already proving she's more than just a pretty face, possessing the sort of intelligence that attracts top directors. While at Yale, she played Shakespeare and Chekhov. And shortly before she jumped into the awards-season fray, the multilingual actress assisted on Bill Benenson's new film The Hadza: Last of the First, a documentary about a hunter-gatherer tribe living in Africa's Rift Valley, by helping to translate some of the footage shot in Swahili. STORY: How ABC's Diversity Casting Program Spotted the Oscar Winner Before She Was a Star "Everyone would love to sign her," says one top agent of the impression Nyong'o has made on Hollywood. "I've hardly been in a meeting with directors where her name hasn't come up. Right now, she should be having meetings with Spielberg and Scorsese. What she should do is just work with great directors." Nyong'o did have a small role as a British-accented flight attendant in the Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop, which was released the weekend before the Oscars, but she has not yet lined up her next film. Represented by Innovative Artists and D2 Management (her reps declined to discuss her next move), she was up for the part of Tiger Lily in Joe Wright's upcoming reimagining of the Peter Pan story, but that role instead went to Rooney Mara. And she has met with J.J. Abrams, fueling speculation that she could be cast in his Star Wars movie. Says Allain, convinced that Nyong'o has a promising future ahead of her, "She could play a neurosurgeon or somebody with Asperger's. I would imagine the opportunities that will present themselves to her will be varied and won't necessarily involve a superhero outfit, though she would also be awesome in that." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Gregg Kilday email@example.com gkilday


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Pandita's Book on a Kashmir Exodus
By Aayush Soni
Over 20 years ago, some 350,000 Hindus fled the Kashmir Valley to escape a separatist insurgency by the Muslim majority. A number of the valley's Hindus were killed by militants in violence at the start of the fighting in 1989 and 1990.
One of those who died was the brother of journalist and writer Rahul Pandita. Militants dragged his brother and two others off a bus and shot them dead. Mr. Pandita, then a teenager, had fled the Valley with his family.
In a new memoir, "Our Moon Has Blood Clots," Mr. Pandita writes about the scars that the exodus left on the Pandit community and why he may never be able to return home. He spoke with The Wall Street Journal's India Real Time about the book, published by Random House India and launched in New Delhi this week. Edited excerpts:
The Wall Street Journal: Why did you choose to write the book now?
Rahul Pandita: This is the first book I ever wanted to write and it's the reason I became a writer and a journalist. This has been brewing in my mind since the time I was in college between 1993 and 1996. But then I was young and my experience as a writer and a journalist was nonexistent. My language was very raw and crude.
I seriously started writing it from 2000 onwards. I found it extremely difficult to write because personal history was involved. I just put it away because it wasn't working and, at many levels, I wasn't sure about the kind of voice it should have. From 2005-2006, I ended up writing 'Hello Bastar' (a book on the Maoist movement) and co-authoring 'Absent State' (a book on insurgencies in India.)
This book always remained in the back of my mind, and in the last few years I've realized I've been getting more and more angry about the kinds of untruths being spoken about the circumstances that led to our exodus.
WSJ: What are those untruths?
Mr. Pandita: That the Indian state was responsible for the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, or the former governor Jagmohan, or because the Indian state wanted to deal with the majority community - the Muslims - more firmly. I think the essential thing I want to portray is that in 1989-90 there was a deep divide between two communities in Kashmir - the Muslims and the Pandits. And the Kashmiri Pandits became victims of the brutal ethnic cleansing which was perpetrated by the majority community backed by Islamist militants, not the other way around. That is one distinction that has to be made very clear.
WSJ: Does the Kashmiri Pandit community feel cheated by the political attempts to solve the 65-year long dispute between India and Pakistan?
Mr. Pandita: The biggest tragedy of this whole conflict is the betrayal at the hands of the majority community. All said and done, we faced what we did in 1989-90 for two reasons: for upholding the national flag and for upholding our religious identity. But once we were in exodus, no government bothered about the Kashmiri Pandits' rights from Rajiv Gandhi to the current political scenario. Today, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits are languishing in refugee camps and some are living below the Planning Commission's ridiculous definition of the poverty line. My fear is that, in the next few years, whoever is in power might have an agenda to push us back to Kashmir or enter into some kind of forced settlement.
WSJ: In the book, you describe how Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh tried to get you to join after the exodus but your parents barred you from doing so. When right-wing Hindu leader Bal Thackeray died in November, you put out a tweet acknowledging his support for the Pandits. What is your attitude to the Hindu right?
Mr. Pandita: As a journalist and writer, my attitude to any kind of extreme ideology is the same: I debunk them. Tweets are not about my work. The tragedy of the Kashmiri Pandit narrative has always been this overall bracketing with right-wing discourse and I wanted to get rid of that tag. Every Kashmiri Pandit is not an RSS supporter. Even if he is one, that does not take away, in any case, from what happened to us in 1989-90. These are two different things. The comment about Bal Thackeray was in my personal capacity as a Pandit. I think the whole community owes a lot to him because of the help and support he offered us. I never agreed with his personal politics.
WSJ: What kind of help and support did he offer the community?
Mr. Pandita: Some community leaders had approached Mr. Thackeray for help and we asked him to offer us some kind of reservation in colleges across Maharashtra because, as a community, we lay a lot of emphasis on education. That opened up a floodgate of opportunities for many of us. We went to engineering colleges and polytechnic institutes in Maharashtra and I think that helped many in my community to stand on their own feet.
WSJ: Is there still some hope among the Kashmiri Pandits for a better future? Or is there a sense of resignation that they will now be in permanent exile?
Mr. Pandita: I think we have no hope vis-a-vis the Indian government. A solution, if it comes, will have to come from the Kashmir Valley. But there is no possibility as of now. In the process of writing this book, I was thinking about my community and there were times when I really lost hope, especially with my generation who have seen a lot of financial insecurity and don't pursue scholarship. For them life is about moving from a two-bedroom house to a three-bedroom house. But while I was working on this book, I went to Jammu and saw a lot of determination in the next generation which was really surprising. Since the overall intellectual class of this country has not been interested at all in our story, we have to rise from within and tell our story.
Aayush Soni is a freelance journalist who lives in New Delhi. Follow him on Twitter at: @aayushsoni.
Follow India Real Time on Twitter @indiarealtime.
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Read about the family behind Leslies Boutiques, and see why buying USA made matters.
Leslies boutique makes a line of wet bags. These wet bags are a staff favourite, especially the wet dry bag. Unlike many other wet dry bags on the market, Leslies has a little gusset sewn into the dry bag, so it can hold so much more.
Leslies bags come in a great range of prints too, making them a fashion accessory and fun to carry.
Leslies is owned by Emily and John Murray. Emily and John also own Modern Natural Baby in Michigan. Their 5000 sq ft baby store is worth a visit if you are in that area. I have had the pleasure of spending face to face time with Emily and John at trade shows, and have gotten to know Emily very well via retailer Facebook groups of which we are both members of.
Emily and John have 2 boys, ages 6 and 3. They bought Leslies Boutique from its previous owner in January 2012, when they found out it was for sale. The bags were a popular item in their Modern Natural Baby store.
When they bought the business, sewing was being done in West Michigan. Emily and John live in Ferndale, just north of Detroit in South East Michigan, and they wanted their sewers closer by. When they went on the hunt for a new sewing house, they were continuously told it would be cheaper to produce in China. Finally they found a good company right in their tiny city of Ferndale. So all of their products are made right there where they live. All of their sewers are paid a fair wage. Emily says one of the best things about what she does is the fact she can manufacture her line of wet bags right here in the USA.


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CAPITOL HILL - Shahla Arasteh and Carla Babb contributed to this report.
CAPITOL HILL - The United States on Wednesday ordered its non-emergency employees to leave Iraq, as American lawmakers worried openly about a potential march to war with Iran.
The drawdown of personnel at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and America's consulate in Irbil comes as the Trump administration warns of potential threats against American forces in the Middle East from Iran or Iranian-backed proxies.
The move sparked sharp reactions on Capitol Hill.
"There are only two reasons for ordering their departure: we have credible intelligence that our people are at risk - or in preparation for military action in Iran," the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's top Democrat, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, said. "The Trump administration has not provided any information to this committee on the intelligence behind their decisions or what they plan to do in Iraq or Iran."
Menendez demanded the Trump administration bring the panel's members up to date on "any plans to go to war with Iran."
The committee's chairman, Republican James Risch of Idaho, said that he, personally, has been briefed on the unfolding situation in the Middle East and that a briefing of the full U.S. Senate was "in the works."
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The United States is not alone in curtailing activities in Iraq. Germany and the Netherlands say they are suspending military training operations in the country, although Berlin says it had no signals of its own that a threat against Western interests in Iraq was imminent. The Dutch government cited an unspecified security threat in curtailing its training operations.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday rejected a report that he is considering sending 120,000 troops to counter Iran, but didn't rule out deploying 'a lot more' soldiers in the future.
'I think it's fake news,' Trump said of a New York Times report that the White House is considering a plan to send 120,000 troops to the region.
'Now, would I do that? Absolutely. But we have not planned for that,' Trump said.
The Pentagon has already dispatched an aircraft carrier and nuclear-capable bomber planes to the region in the last few days, with a Patriot missile battery and a landing platform dock ship on the way. The Patriot system offers protection from aircraft and missiles, while the LPD carries Marines and the aircraft, hovercraft, or boats needed to put them ashore to fight in distant places.
Meanwhile, a senior officer in the U.S.-led military coalition combating Islamic State said Tuesday he had seen no greater recent threat to its troops in Iraq or Syria from forces backed by Iran.
'There's been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria,' British Maj. Gen. Chris Ghika told reporters at the Pentagon in a video conference from coalition headquarters in Baghdad. 'We're aware of their presence, clearly, and we monitor them, along with a whole range of others because that's the environment we're in.'
The statement was in contrast to comments from the Trump administration and the Pentagon, who have asserted for more than a week that they have detected potential Iranian threats against U.S. forces in the Middle East.
Such assertions face increasingly rigorous scrutiny from lawmakers.
"This seems like an escalation with no endgame," Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said, describing the pressure campaign on Tehran as "ham-handed" [clumsy].
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, meanwhile, pressed a Pentagon official on the constitutionally-mandated steps for America to go to war.
"Do you believe the president has the authority to wage war with Iran without congressional authorization?" Paul asked at a Foreign Relations Committee hearing. "Can we have a full-scale waging of war with Iran without congressional authorization?"
"Only the Congress has the responsibility, the authority to declare war," responded the Defense Department's deputy undersecretary for policy, David Trachtenberg.
Right," Paul said. "So the answer is [that] the president can't do it."


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Financial Supervision - briefing27 May 2009
by eub2 -- last modified 28 May 2009
The European Commission has adopted a Communication on Financial Supervision in Europe. The Communication proposes a set of ambitious reforms to the current architecture of financial services committees, with the creation of a new European Systemic Risk Council (ESRC) and European System of Financial Supervisors (ESFS), composed of new European Supervisory Authorities. Legislation to embody these proposals will follow in the autumn. The Commission also invites all interested parties to submit their reactions on the Communication before 15 July.
Is the new European Systemic Risk Council (ESRC) not just an example of the EU creating more institutions and bureaucracy?
There has been a worldwide understanding in the wake of the financial crisis that systemic risk has not been adequately monitored. Under the present arrangements, both at global and EU level, place too much emphasis is being put on the supervision of individual firms, and too little on risk to the financial system as a whole. Against this background, the US has announced a systemic risk monitoring body, within the Federal Reserve, and the G20 has announced the creation of the Financial Stability Board. The ESRC will play a key role as part of this global network to monitor systemic risk more effectively, in order to detect potential crises earlier and to mitigate their impact. It will therefore fill an important gap in financial supervision in the EU.
Surely the latest crisis has shown that systemic risks are global, so why not leave monitoring of systemic risks to the newly-created Financial Stability Board?
The existence of an internal market in the EU and EEA (1), and the increasing integration of EU financial markets, requires an EU-level institution to supervise and monitor risks to the internal market. The new body will of course closely liaise with the new Financial Stability Board, contributing to a stronger global framework for risk monitoring and more stable financial markets.
Why is it proposed to give central banks a prominent role within the European Systemic Risk Council (ESRC) (especially when London, outside eurozone, is the biggest EU financial centre)?
Central banks have always played a central role in the macro-prudential supervision and the ECB is at the heart of the EU monetary system and has wide ranging expertise in the macro-prudential field. It is therefore appropriate for the ESCB to have a prominent role in the ESRC. To ensure appropriate geographical coverage and a well-balanced composition, the Commission has proposed that the ESRC would also include the central bank governors of the 27 Member States, among other members.
Will the ESCB governors not be subject to conflicts of interest in the ESRC, given their competence for monetary policy?
Traditionally, most central banks have been entrusted with both monetary policy and ensuring financial stability. Historically, both competences have been carried out by a same body without conflicts. Any potential conflict of interest between these two objectives is outweighed by the advantage of having the expertise of a central bank available for macro-financial prudential supervision. Moreover, the ESRC will be a body distinct from the ECB. The ESRC will also have mechanisms for consulting all relevant stakeholders. Therefore, it is not considered likely that conflicts of interest will be an issue for the ESRC in its work. Moreover the activities of the ESRC will be accountable to the Parliament and of the Council.
The ESRC will have over 60 institutions represented in it. Is this not too cumbersome to be effective?
A broad representation of institutions within the ESRC is necessary to ensure a global macro-prudential perspective in the ESRC's risk assessments. The ESRC must include all those who have relevant information and expertise to contribute. These include the governors of national central banks, the new European Supervisory Authorities, and national supervisors. However, a small steering committee – consisting of the ESRC chairperson and vice-chairperson, two additional central bank members of the ESRC (one from a euro area Member State and one from a non euro area Member State), the chairpersons of the new European Supervisory Authorities and the Commission member - should be established to prepare and ensure efficient ESRC operations.
Why can't the ESRC address its warnings and recommendations to any institution , but only to the ECOFIN council or the European Supervisory Authorities?
In order to maximize the effectiveness of the ESRC's activity, simple and fast procedures are needed. The fact that all warnings and recommendations are channelled to the final recipients through either the ECOFIN Council or the European Supervisory Authorities will significantly simplify ESRC operations, avoiding the need to establish a burdensome and complex network of institutional relationships and a variety of different statutes and legal forms.
What concrete effect will ESRC recommendations have, if the addressee can simply decline to follow up by providing a justification for not complying?
The quality of the ESRC work will provide a significant moral incentive to follow up ESRC recommendations, or give convincing reasons to do otherwise The overall aim should be to ensure the smooth functioning of the key elements that make up the financial system. The ESRC therefore cannot oblige individual Member States or Authorities to act in a particular way, but it will provide, credible warnings and guidance as to the way to address potential risks.
Will the ESRC lead to a greater administrative burden for financial institutions and to risks to the confidentiality of information provided?
No. All data needed by the ESRC will be provided to it by the Authorities in the ESFS using information which they already possess, without creating extra burdens for financial institutions. Appropriate measures will be taken to protect confidentiality of information provided.
What status would the new Authorities have institutionally?
The existing financial services committees (the so-called "Lamfalussy level three committees") would be transformed into three European Authorities: a European Banking Authority, a European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and a European Securities Authority. These Authorities would be independent Community bodies set up by the European legislature, but they would not be EU institutions (the creation of new institutions requires a change to the Treaty). There will also be a steering committee to co-ordinate the work of the three Authorities and to replace the Joint Committee on Financial Conglomerates.
Why not allow the new system of colleges of supervisors to bed down before making further reforms to the supervision of financial undertakings?
Colleges of supervisors and the new European Supervisory Authorities are complementary parts of a comprehensive supervisory reform. Colleges of supervisors are at the critical to effective supervision of cross-border financial groups in Europe, and are being introduced for all such groups. The European Supervisory Authorities will complement supervisory colleges by ensuring that supervisory standards in the EU are of the highest quality for all institutions by, for example, helping to develop a single rulebook for financial services regulation. They will also provide a mechanism for ensuring supervisory colleges are consistent for each cross border group, and will be able to arbitrate when there is a lack of agreement between home and host supervisors within colleges. .
How is it possible to move supervision competences to EU level when the tax bill for saving failed financial institutions will remain with member States?
The financial responsibility of Member States in cases of financial crises is one of the reasons why supervision competences must remain at the national level, since the decision to intervene must be taken at the same level where the financial burden will lie. The new European Supervisory Authorities will have a role of arbitration, co-ordination and promoting harmonisation of rules, but not direct supervision, and so will not impinge on the fiscal responsibilities of Member States.
Why are you proposing that some specific pan-European institutions be supervised at the EU level?
It is logical that the level of supervision should follow the level of activity of institutions. Most financial institutions in Europe are domestic and will continue to be supervised by national supervisors. Cross-border institutions will be supervised by colleges of supervisors, with European Authorities having the power to arbitrate if necessary. Pan-European institutions, such as Credit Rating Agencies, which are regulated by directly-applicable EU law, are most efficiently also supervised at European level, as national supervisors would only have a partial view of their activity and reaching a common view across all EU supervisors would require an unnecessary degree of co-ordination among supervisors..
How will the new authorities be able to contribute to the creation of a "single European Rulebook" for financial services?
The new Authorities will not adopt rules themselves as such. However, they will play an important role in bringing about a common rulebook. They will be able to develop technical standards, which will be binding unless the Commission opposes them, and they will draw up interpretative guidelines to assist the national authorities in taking individual decisions. In addition, their arbitration decisions in individual cases of disagreement in colleges of supervisors will have a value of precedent (although ultimately, the Court of Justice will set the precedent in cases of appeals against the Authorities' arbitrations). One of the problems observed in the build up to the crisis was the inconsistent application of supervisory rules. A common set of rules lead to heterogeneous supervisory actions. The new authorities will play an important role to avoid similar problems in the future.
How will the new authorities be able to arbitrate between national supervisors which cannot agree, and on what subjects?
In the case of diverging opinions between national supervisory authorities, for example, in colleges of supervisors, the European Supervisory Authorities should facilitate a dialogue and assist the supervisors in reaching a joint agreement. If, after a phase of conciliation, the latter have not been able to reach an agreement, the European Supervisory Authorities should, through a decision, settle the matter. However, this would clearly be a last resort option as in most cases the respective national authorities should be able to come to an agreement in the preceding conciliation procedure. The framework for the exercise of this competence will be specified detail in the relevant sectoral legislation.
Is this the first step of a planned "Europeanisation" of all financial supervision in the EU?
No. Ninety-nine percent of financial institutions in the EU are national, and national supervision is appropriate for them. Even regarding the forty or so large cross-border banks (which account for a majority of the assets of banks in Europe), at this stage, the issue of national fiscal responsibilities means that supervision of individual firms must remain national. However, it is appropriate for financial stability and the internal market that rule-making and co-ordination of supervision is appropriately done at EU-level.
Why is the single European supervisor model not adopted (i.e., full centralisation of supervision at the EU level)?
A single supervisor would amount to a complete overhaul of the present arrangements and it is doubtful whether such an approach would be effective. Supervision has to be carried-out in close contact, on the ground, with the supervised entities. At this stage it is not realistic that over ten thousand financial institutions could be supervised at the EU level. For major cross-border institutions, moving supervisory responsibilities to the EU level would mean resolving all the issues related to burden sharing, which at this stage is not realistic. Furthermore, there is no evidence to support the idea that a single supervisor would do a better job than effective colleges of supervisors, working closely with European Authorities.
Would the three new EU authorities be de facto EU supervisors with authority over Member State supervisors?
Each European Supervisory Authority would have a board structure composed of the chairpersons from the national authorities. So Member State supervisors would be directly involved in setting the policies of the European Supervisory Authorities. Within the system, the European Supervisory Authorities would be responsible for defining the general supervisory policy to be followed on the ground by national supervisors, for fostering cooperation and consistency and for taking a selected number of decisions binding on firms which it is not appropriate to take at the national level. It is a system of partnership with clear responsibilities at the EU and national level.
What will be the role of the ESFS Authorities regarding crisis management?
The new European Supervisory Authorities will co-ordinate with national supervisors in crisis situations by facilitating co-operation and exchange of information between competent authorities, mediating where appropriate, and helping to define and implement the right decisions. However, flanking measures on burden sharing and early intervention in crisis situations will be essential to ensure the impacts of crises are minimised. This is why the Commission will in June 2009 adopt a paper on early intervention in crisis situations.
Won't binding rules undermine Member States' ability to protect financial stability?
There are substantial differences in the powers granted to national supervisors in different Member States, both in respect of what they can do by way of supervision and in respect of enforcement actions (including sanctions). The proposed system is aimed at ensuring that the rules which have been agreed upon at the EU level are consistently implemented and applied. It should be noted that in most Member States, crisis management and resolution are not supervisory tasks, and EU legislation does not harmonise restructuring measures. To reinforce Member States ability to protect financial stability the Commission is working on initiatives related to bank stabilisation and resolution framework in the EU.
Why three Authorities and not one, reflecting cross-sector integration in financial services?
Different Member States have chosen different models for national supervisory authorities, with one, two or three supervisors. However, the new European Supervisory Authorities will not be carrying out the same tasks as national supervisors, and experience regarding different supervisory structures in the member States cannot be applied directly to them. In addition, evidence which can be gathered from national experiences does not lead to the conclusion that one system is superior to the others. It is therefore prudent to maintain the sectoral model used for the existing European financial services committees, with three Authorities and an overarching steering committee, and review the experience three years after the entry into force of the European System of Financial Supervisors to evaluate if any structural changes are needed.
Where will the new Authorities be located?
The new Authorities will be created on the basis of the existing European financial services committees, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS), the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Committee (CEIOPS) and the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), also often known as the "Lamfalussy level 3 Committees". Therefore, their locations should be the same as the locations of these committees (i.e. London, Frankfurt and Paris respectively).
How will you make sure these changes have teeth without taking powers away from national authorities?
The European System of Financial Supervisors will be based on the principles of partnership, flexibility and subsidiarity. The focal point for day-to-day supervision would remain at the national level, with national supervisors remaining responsible for the supervision of individual entities, for example with respect to capital adequacy. For cross-border institutions, the colleges of supervisors which are being set up will be the lynchpin of the supervisory system. Moreover, Member State supervisors would be directly involved in setting the policies of the European Supervisory Authorities. The system will aim to enhance trust between national supervisors by ensuring, for example, that host supervisors have an appropriate say in setting policies relating to financial stability and consumer protection, thereby allowing cross-border risks to be addressed more effectively.
Will the authorities be allowed to undertake on site inspections of firms?
The focal point for day-to-day supervision will remain at the national level, so it will be the national supervisory authorities which will be responsible for on-site inspections. However, in order to build a common European supervisory culture and consistent supervisory practices, the new European Supervisory Authorities may participate in meetings of colleges of supervisors as observers.
(1) The European Economic Area consists of the 27 Member States of the EU plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Created in 1994 through an Agreement, it allows Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein to participate in the EU's Internal Market.
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Gawker has obtained photos of the famously unmaterialistic Mark Zuckerberg's new home in Palo Alto and it's nothing to write a status update about.
With five bedrooms and about 3,800 square feet, the property's biggest glam factor is that it's a few blocks from the Facebook headquarters. That, and the paparazzi-wannabe neighbors.
The location, not far from his old place, suits the workaholic Zuckerberg quite well, as he practically lives at the office. However, there's zero bling factor at the would-be bachelor pad. Even the basketball hoop is homely.
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Since 1965
2 Sites:
118,300 & 86,800 sqf
435 Employees
Exxelia Technologies (ex Eurofarad) was incorporated in 1965. It developed rapidly around its core business: the design and manufacture of complex passive components and precision subsystems: ceramic, plastic film and mica capacitors, filters, position sensors, slip rings and precision mechanics.
During the period 1965-1992, Eurofarad grew strongly through fourteen acquisitions, either of companies that dovetailed naturally with its own specialty, or buyouts of rivals. These acquisitions enabled the development of a consistent product portfolio.
Eurofarad became Exxelia Technologies in 2015.
Exxelia Technologies has two production facilities:
Chanteloup-en-Brie, on the east side of Paris. The site occupies 11 000m² (118,300sqf). The facility produces film and ceramic capacitors, filters, sensors and associated systems. It also houses the Quality, Logistics, Human Resources, IT and Purchasing departments.
Marmoutier, in Alsace, eastern France. The site occupies 9 000m² (86,800sqf) where it develops its business in film capacitors, filters, sensors, associated systems and precision mechanics.
Chanteloup Site Manager: Salvador Lamas
Marmoutier Site Manager: Pascal Budet
1 rue des Temps Modernes, 77600 Chanteloup en Brie, France
Tel.: +33 (0)1 60 31 70 00
Fax : +33 (0)1 60 31 77 17
105, rue du Général Leclerc, 67441 Marmoutier Cedex, France
Tel.: + 33 (0)3 88 70 62 00
Fax : + 33 (0)3 88 70 88 31 Exxelia Technologies Brochure


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Korres Abyssinia superior gloss colorant (50ml).
With pigment-lock technology that locks the color for professional results:
1)Glow & intense color
2)100% coverage of white
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Natural brightening complex with Abyssinia oil and vegetable keratin, works in two stages. 1) replenishes the necessary components into the deeper layers of the hair, 2) forms a protective film around the hair, protecting the color.
The hair is restructured, hounded and reflect the light giving shine and intensity in color.
The Sunflower extract, rich in natural antioxidants, protects the hair color from fading caused by the sun or frequent shampooing.
Net pigments give colors with absolute accuracy and offer tension in color. Thanks to the pigment-lock technology locks the color into the hair without the use of ammonia.
A controlled oxidation mechanism facilitates micro-pigments to enter easily into the hair because of very small size.
Inside of converting these micro-coloring pigment in large particles, which are encapsulated, providing bright color does not fade.
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What are ETFs?
Exchange-traded funds are one of the most important and valuable products created for individual investors in recent years. ETFs offer many benefits and, if used wisely, are an excellent vehicle to achieve an investor's investment goals.
Briefly, an ETF is a basket of securities that you can buy or sell through a brokerage firm on a stock exchange. ETFs are offered on virtually every conceivable asset class from traditional investments to so-called alternative assets like commodities or currencies. In addition, innovative ETF structures allow investors to short markets, to gain leverage, and to avoid short-term capital gains taxes.
After a couple of false starts, ETFs began in earnest in 1993 with the product commonly known by its ticker symbol, SPY, or "Spiders," which became the highest volume ETF in history. There are now estimated to be over $1 trillion invested in ETFs and nearly 1,000 ETF products traded on U.S. stock exchanges.
Types of ETFs
- Market ETFs: Designed to track a particular index like the S&P 500 or NASDAQ
- Bond ETFs: Designed to provide exposure to virtually every type of bond available; U.S. Treasury, corporate, municipal, international, high-yield and several more
- Sector and industry ETFs: Designed to provide exposure to a particular industry, such as oil, pharmaceuticals, or high technology
- Commodity ETFs: Designed to track the price of a commodity, such as gold, oil, or corn
- Style ETFs: Designed to track an investment style or market capitalization focus, such as large-cap value or small-cap growth
- Foreign market ETFs: Designed to track non-U.S. markets, such as Japan's Nikkei Index or Hong Kong's Hang Seng index
- Inverse ETFs: Designed to profit from a decline in the underlying market or index
- Actively managed ETFs: Designed to outperform an index, unlike most ETFs, which are designed to track an index
- Exchange-traded notes: In essence, debt securities backed by the creditworthiness of the issuing bank; created to provide access to illiquid markets and have the added benefit of generating virtually no short-term capital gains taxes
- Alternative investment ETFs: Innovative structures, such as ETFs that allow investors to trade volatility or gain exposure to a particular investment strategy, such as currency carry or covered call writing
How ETFs work
An ETF is bought and sold like a company stock during the day when the stock exchanges are open. Just like a stock, an ETF has a ticker symbol and intraday price data can be easily obtained during the course of the trading day.
Unlike a company stock, the number of shares outstanding of an ETF can change daily because of the continuous creation of new shares and the redemption of existing shares. The ability of an ETF to issue and redeem shares on an ongoing basis keeps the market price of ETFs in line with their underlying securities.
Although designed for individual investors, institutional investors play a key role in maintaining the liquidity and tracking integrity of the ETF through the purchase and sale of creation units, which are large blocks of ETF shares that can be exchanged for baskets of the underlying securities. When the price of the ETF deviates from the underlying asset value, institutions utilize the arbitrage mechanism afforded by creation units to bring the ETF price back into line with the underlying asset value.
Advantages of ETFs
The appeal of ETFs to individual investors is:
- Buy and sell any time of the day: Mutual funds, in contrast, settle after the market close
- Lower fees: There is no sales load, however, brokerage commissions do apply
- More tax efficient: Investors have better control over when they pay capital gains tax
- Trading transactions: Because they are traded like stocks, investors can place a variety of types of orders (limit orders, stop-loss orders, buy on margin) which are not possible with mutual funds
Disadvantages of ETFs
While superior in many respects, ETFs do have drawbacks, including:
- Trading costs: If you invest small amounts frequently, there may be lower-cost alternatives investing directly with a fund company in a no-load fund
- Illiquidity: Some thinly traded ETFs have wide bid/ask spreads, which means you'll be buying at the high price of the spread and selling at the low price of the spread
- Tracking error: While ETFs generally track their underlying index fairly well, technical issues can create discrepancies
- Settlement dates: ETF sales are not settled for 2 days following a transaction; that means as the seller, your funds from an ETF sale are not technically available to reinvest for 2 days.
Investing strategies
Once you have determined your investment goals, ETFs can be utilized to gain exposure to virtually any market in the world or any industry sector. You can invest your assets in a conventional fashion using stock index and bond ETFs, and adjust the allocation in accordance with changes in your risk tolerance and goals. You can add alternative assets, such as gold, commodities, or emerging stock markets. You can move in and out of markets quickly, hoping to catch shorter term swings, much like a hedge fund. The point is, ETFs give you the flexibility to be any kind of investor that you want to be.
What the future holds
Innovation has been the hallmark of the ETF industry since its beginnings less than 25 years ago. Undoubtedly, there will be new and more unusual ETFs introduced in the years to come. While innovation is a net positive for investors, it's important to realize that not all ETFs are created equal. You should investigate carefully before investing in any ETF, carefully considering all factors to ensure that the ETF you choose is the best vehicle to achieve your investment goals.


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Hugin Compiling Fedora
The hugin and enblend stable releases are part of default fedora, available via the Add/Remove Software menu. Note that there is no autopano-sift in fedora due to patent issues, but autopano-sift-C can be found in the RPM Fusion 3rd party package repository.
Otherwise, recent-ish hugin snapshots and other panorama-related software can usually be found at the fedora panorama repository. To subscribe just follow this panorama release link, use the Package Installer option, and each time you do a Software Update hugin will be upgraded to the latest snapshot.
If you want to compile hugin yourself, just follow the instructions in the INSTALL_cmake file, you will need these development packages (October 2009):
libpano13-devel zlib-devel libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel gettext-devel wxGTK-devel boost-devel cmake desktop-file-utils OpenEXR-devel gcc-c++ exiv2-devel glew-devel freeglut-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel
To actually use hugin you also need enblend 3.2 and perl-Image-ExifTool packages. autopano-sift-C or panomatic are useful to automatically generate control points.
rpm building instructions
The source RPM package contains an hugin.spec file which is both the build documentation and the script for an automated build (other linux packaging systems work basically the same way).
fedora configuration
First set up your fedora system for building rpms, install some packages (as root):
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install rpmdevtools
Using a normal user account create a build tree, by default this is ~/rpmbuild:
Get a source tarball of hugin
Either download the current stable .tar.gz file from sourceforge or get the latest from the subversion trunk:
svn co https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/hugin/trunk cd trunk cmake . make package_source
In future, you only need to update the source tree rather than checking out again:
cd trunk svn up cmake . make package_source
'package_source' is a Makefile target, targets are things like 'all' or 'clean' or 'install', this one just creates a tarball.
Get a hugin.spec file
Download an existing hugin .src.rpm file and extract the hugin.spec file file by running this command as a normal user:
rpm -ivh hugin-0.8.0-1.src.rpm
This should put the .spec file where rpmbuild expects to find it.
The next step is to put the .tar.gz where rpmbuild expects to find it:
..and run rpmbuild to create both the SRPM and RPMS at the same time:
rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/hugin.spec
This will fail, probably. You need to edit the .spec file to change the 'Version' entry to match the current number, add dependencies such as 'freeglut-devel' to the list of 'BuildRequires' that are missing, install any missing build dependency rpms, and try again.
Building with mock
'mock' is a more sophisticated system for creating RPMS, it is possible to build multiple architectures and create packages for different releases of fedora and redhat enterprise linux on a single fedora system.
Install mock as root and add yourself to the 'mock' group (use your user name, not 'myusername'):
yum install mock usermod -a -G mock myusername
Follow the instructions above for creating rpms, but just create the source rpm instead:
rpmbuild -bs ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/hugin.spec
Then you can build rpms from this src.rpm with mock like so:
mock -r fedora-11-i386 rebuild ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/hugin-2009.1.0-0.src.rpm
The first time you do this it will take a very long time while it downloads and assembles a 'virtual' machine, but subsequent builds will only take a few minutes.


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Analysis: Romney sharpens differences with Obama
By CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney, in describing nearly half of Americans as being docile dependents of the state, and saying it's a "foreign concept" for government to redistribute income, is outlining a philosophy that's not only sharply at odds with President Barack Obama's views. It's also difficult to square with the facts of how Social Security, Medicare, the tax code and scores of other institutions work.
Romney's claim that 47 percent of Americans won't take "personal responsibility," which he linked to their failure to owe federal income taxes, instantly crystallized his philosophical differences with Obama when the remarks came to light Monday.
Romney, trying to control the message amid widespread criticism, went further on Tuesday. He told Fox News that it's "an entirely foreign concept" for government to "take from some to give to the others."
The remarks echoed complaints often raised by conservative groups, including tea party activists, who denounce "redistribution of wealth."
But the remarks overlook basic facts, such as how the costly and popular Social Security and Medicare programs shift billions of dollars from younger people — who pay payroll taxes — to older people, who receive the benefits.
Similarly, the nation's progressive income tax system requires wealthy people to pay proportionately more, shifting some of their wealth to poorer people in the form of government services and welfare.
Federal excise taxes, along with sales taxes imposed by many states, work in the other direction, regressively. Because they are levied without regard to the payer's income, they take a disproportionately larger bite from poor people.
In the Fox interview, Romney took a calculated risk that most voters resent, or can be coaxed to resent, the government's redistributive role, even if millions benefit from it, and it's central to the entire federal system.
Some conservative activists, originally tepid about Romney, cheered his much-debate remarks about the "47 percent."
"The Mitt UNPLUGGED and UNPROGRAMMED by staff & `experts' won in biz & can win the presidency," said talk show Laura Ingraham via Twitter.
Romney's remarks sharpened his philosophical differences with Obama as the campaign enters its last 50 days.
Obama talks much more than Romney does about society's responsibility to help the needy. His it-takes-a-village approach depicts government as a force for good — not only for the downtrodden, but also for entrepreneurs who rely on public schools, roads, police and firefighters to build their businesses.
"We have some obligations to each other," Obama told CBS's David Letterman on Tuesday. There's "nothing wrong with giving each other a hand."
Romney often portrays government as an over-regulating, over-taxing nuisance that hampers hard-charging "job creators." In the secretly recorded remarks to Florida donors in May, Romney described nearly half of all Americans as people "who believe they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to take care of them, who believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."
He was referring to the roughly 46 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax, although many of them pay sales taxes, payroll taxes, and state, local and excise taxes.
"So our message of lower taxes doesn't connect," Romney said at the May fundraiser. "And so my job is not to worry about those people," he said. "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Democrats, and some Republicans, noted that these Americans include millions of elderly people, military personnel and working-class parents.
They also include a handful of very wealthy people. The IRS reported that, thanks to complex tax breaks, six of the 400 highest-earning families in 2009 owed no federal income taxes.
The week's events seem to be widening the philosophical gap between Obama and Romney.
In truth, both visions of America — as a society that cares for its elderly and downtrodden, and a society fueled by hard-working, self-reliant people trying to get ahead — have deep roots in the nation's history.
But recent events have made the two visions appear more at odds than they truly are.
The Great Recession of 2007-2009 contributed to big spikes in food stamp use, now about 48 million. The median U.S. household lost nearly 39 percent of its wealth from 2007 to 2010.
At roughly the same time, the tea party movement accelerated the Republican Party's shift toward a more solidly anti-tax posture. Refusal to raise taxes — even on the wealthiest Americans, and even in the name of slowing the federal debt's dramatic growth — has become a priority for many Republicans, especially in the House.
Democrats, meanwhile, note that federal taxes, as a share of the total economy, are at their lowest level in 60 years.
Some conservatives say the number of Americans receiving government benefits, and not paying income taxes, is alarming. Nearly half of all Americans receive some form of direct federal benefit.
More than a quarter of Americans are on Medicaid, 16 percent receive Social Security, 15 percent are on Medicare, and nearly 16 percent receive food stamps.
"When the number of people riding in the wagon outnumber the people pulling the wagon, how do you ever reform?" said Dan Mitchell, an economist for the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
Neera Tanden, head of the Democratic-oriented Center for American Progress, called that "a complete misunderstanding" of society. Americans, she said, "are the most religious, most hard-working people in the world. ... We are a nation of strivers."
The United States trails other industrialized countries, she said, "in the support that government provides to people. We are among the stingiest in the world."
In 1998, when he was an Illinois state senator, Obama told a college audience: "The trick is figuring out how we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody has a shot."
Obama and Romney are giving American voters one of the most clear-cut philosophical choices in recent presidential history.


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Joey Devine and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Few Years
Dr. James Andrews and his ground-breaking Tommy John surgical procedure has given many years of service back to Big Leaguers who may have otherwise been forced to retire. It has also provided many extra years of thrills for fans. Without the surgery, we don't have Strasburg. We don't have Adam Wainwright. We don't have A LOT of big time stars.
But, not everyone recovers as planned.
Enter, Joey Devine.
Despite the surname, his career path has been anything but. After a promising 2008 season where he went 6-1 in 42 appearances with a STUNNING .59 ERA, dude got kissed by the angel of shoulder death and was forced to have the highly effective surgery. Unlike most people though, two years later, he still hadn't recovered properly; and now, in 2012, it appears Mr. Devine has to have Tommy John surgery AGAIN.
If Devine ever makes it back to the Bigs, you bet I'm gonna stand and applaud his every appearance. For the fortitude it must take to stay focused, to battle back against such adversity, would surely require we all do so.
Unfortunately, the current situation doesn't look good. So I'm gonna pour out some liquor for his career.
Hang in there, Joey Devine. If it makes you feel any better, I know a Cantonese stripper named Joy Yee Divine. So every time I hear your name I chuckle. To myself, of course.
Hate me 'cuz I make it rain sometimes, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.