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The TRADE > News > Sifma welcomes NASD approval of consolidation of NYSE and NASD regulatory regimes
News January 23, 2007 12:59 AM GMT
Sifma welcomes NASD approval of consolidation of NYSE and NASD regulatory regimes
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has applauded the approval by member firms of the National Association of Securities Dealers (B+NASD) of the consolidation of regulation by the NASD and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
"This is a pivotal victory which will deliver a more effective and efficient regulatory environment – a win for investors and for the financial industry," says Marc Lackritz, co-CEO of SIFMA. "Firms of all shapes and sizes will reap the benefits of being overseen by a single regulator."
"The most recent figures available show that compliance costs have doubled in a three year period, to more than $25 billion in 2005, up from $13 billion in 2002," said Micah Green, co-CEO of SIFMA . "A single regulator, with one rulebook, one set of procedures and one set of examinations will eliminate regulatory confusion and reduce wasteful redundancy."
SIFMA has been a vocal advocate of a single self-regulatory organization since 2000. After NASD and NYSE Regulation announced the consolidation proposal in December 2006, some of SIFMA's individual sub-committees, including the Independent Firms Committee, Regional Firms Committee and Small Firms Committee endorsed the proposal, which may have influenced the NASD vote.
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Violence Moderate impact
Sex Mild impact
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Les Miserables is a French film in which a police officer, Stephane Ruiz, joins the local anti-crime brigade. The film is in French with English subtitles.
Thematic material includes racism, poverty and crime. A group of young men riot after their friend is hurt by police officers.
Violence includes clashes between police and large groups of young men. A boy is hit in the face with a rubber bullet, causing serious bruising, and a police officer is hit on the head with a bottle.
Sexual references include discussion of prostitution and use of the term "blowjob".
The film includes use of the words "c**t", "f**k", "pissing", "bitch" and "bullshit".
A police officer smokes a joint while quizzing women about drugs. There are also references to hash, cocaine and heroin.
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Coventry - Helen Humphreys
On the night of the most devastating German raid on Coventry, 14 November 1940, two women traverse the city and transform their hearts. Harriet, widowed as a young woman in the First World War, is firewatching on the roof of the cathedral when first the factories and then the church itself are set ablaze. In the ensuing chaos she bonds with a young man, very much like the husband she lost, who relies on her to find the way back to his home where he left his mother. On their journey through a hell of burning shops and collapsed homes, Harriet awakens to emotions she had long put aside. At home, the youth�s mother awaits his arrival and rethinks the circumstances that brought her to this city and her life raising her son alone. Ultimately, together these two women must face a world as immeasurably changed as their own selves. Coventry is about loss, remembrance, determination and resilience.
'�With stark, precise poetry, Humphreys builds a palpable, almost unbearable sense of inevitability and loss that echoes both John Hersey�s Hiroshima and Ian McEwan�s On Chesil Beach� - Kirkus starred book reviews, US
HELEN HUMPHREYS lives in Kingston, Ontario. Her previous novels, Leaving Earth, Afterimage and The Lost Garden, were published in the UK to critical acclaim. Leaving Earth won the City of Toronto Book Award in 1998, and Afterimage won the Rogers/Writers' Trust Award for Best Novel of the Year in 2000.
Publication date for Coventry: 30th July 2009
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Q: Missing something with Entity Framework for .NET 3.5? Is it not possible to have EF create the necessary entities when I have two related tables linked with a FK in .NET3.5SP1? I see where the checkbox to support this is disabled but it is available in .NET4.
I've got a DB that has only tables with relationships in it. I need to build a Silverlight app (SL4) that allows management of the data within this app. I can't use .NET4 on the server... only .NET3.5SP1 so FK relationship bit in EF4 isn't available to me. Looking to avoid building as much of the plumbing to get back to the DB from the SL4 app as possible...

A: Do you use Visual Studio 2010 and target .NET Framework 3.5 in your project settings?
If that is the case, I guess with "disabled checkbox" you mean the checkbox to include foreign key columns in the wizard for creating an Entity Model from a database. (This checkbox doesn't exist at all in VS2008 and when targeting .NET 4.0 in VS2010 it isn't disabled. Hence my theory about VS2010 with .NET 3.5.)
So, then there are relatively good news for you: This checkbox does NOT mean that no Entity relationships would be created from tables linked by foreign key constraints. They WILL be created, also in Entity Framework 1 (.NET 3.5). You only won't have scalar Entity properties which represent your foreign key columns. (This checkbox - only available in .NET 4 -, being checked, will include those properties in the model.) Instead you always have to deal with the referenced objects in your entities (check, if they're loaded, load them manually or include them directly in queries, and so on).
So you have a bit less comfort when working with relationships in the Entity model in .NET 3.5 but the foreign key constraints are still represented correctly and automatically created. Just let the wizard run and explore the generated Entity model.

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FootballFrom the Other Sideline
From the Other Sideline – Alabama (Extra Edition)
Ken Rogers is the Alabama beat writer for the Dothan Eagle. He also does analysis for BamaChannel.com. That's all I know.
1. What is the first thing that pops into the heads of Alabama fans when Auburn football is mentioned?
God, is Verne Lundquist doing the game? And no, he's not this week.
2. Are you an Alabama fan, and if so, why?
Nope, but if I was I wouldn't admit it. I didn't go to school there. I didn't go to Auburn. Now, being selfish, I know my newspaper sells more papers on Sundays after both teams win than after they lose.
3. What are Alabama fans' expectations for the Iron Bowl?
I don't want to speak for them, but I would think they expect to win the game.
4. Do 'Bama fans realize that they have beaten Auburn when they weren't supposed to and Auburn has beating Alabama when they weren't supposed to?
Actually, upsets rarely happen in this game. The team with the most playmakers almost always wins.
5. What are Alabama fans' expectations for the SEC Championship Game and the Sugar Bowl?
I don't know. If the SEC Championship Game goes the way they want to, Bama fans probably think Florida will play well in New Orleans.
6. Who are two generally unknown Alabama players that Auburn should look out for?
I would have said Mark Barron, but he's come too far to be unknown. I think one of the key guys is left tackle James Carpenter, who probably is their most improved offensive player. Defensively, I think safety Justin Woodall has quietly done a good job, but he'll be tested Saturday.
7. What is your prediction for the game?
I think Alabama will win, but I think Auburn is going to play well and make it a four-quarter game. The Tigers will make several big plays in the passing game. In the end, however, Alabama's ability to run the ball and stop the run make the difference. Alabama 31, Auburn 20
8. Where do you think Auburn and Alabama will end up in the post-season?
Alabama plays Texas in Pasadena and Auburn goes to Memphis.
9. Why do 'Bama fans think Nick Saban cares about Alabama at all? Don't they realize that it took the highest salary of any collegefootball coach at the time to lure him to Tuscaloosa?
I'd say he's provided a return on Alabama's investment.
10. Do 'Bama fans actually think houndstooth looks good or is it one of those things where they think it's ugly so it's funny to wear it?
Tough to debate that one.
11. Out of all of the 'Bama fans in the world, how many do you think have actually attended the University of Alabama, or better yet seen the inside of a classroom past the 8th grade?
Not sure. But they all seem to find their way to SEC Media Days in Birmingham.
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Oxygen submonolayers on Mo(112): structure and work function
A.G. Fedorusa, A.A. Mitryaev and A.G. Naumovets
Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospekt Nauki 46, UA-03680, Kyiv-28, Ukraine
a e-mail: fedorus.gm@gmail.com
Received: 7 August 2012
Received in final form: 9 October 2012
Correlation between the work function change and the structure of oxygen submonolayers on the Mo(112) surface are studied using low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and contact potential difference (CPD) methods. Oxygen was adsorbed at temperatures T = 78−300 K and thereafter the adlayers were annealed in a wide temperature range up to oxygen desorption. Temperature induced irreversible and reversible phase transitions are investigated. With coverage growth, formation of the monolayer proceeds through three first-order phase transitions, one of which is featured by a specific change in the course of the work function dependence on coverage. It is suggested that during this transition the oxygen adatoms may change their sites on the substrate from those of a short-bridge type to quasi-threefold ones, thus increasing their coordination number from two to three.
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2012
Interaction of oxygen with submonolayer beryllium films on Mo(1 1 2)
Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. (2014) 68: 21302
Adsorption of oxygen on Mo (112) surface precovered with beryllium: formation of overlayer and electronic properties
Irreversible structure transitions in Gd monolayers on Mo(112)
Metastable structures of Dy layers adsorbed on Mo(112) and their transformations
Lateral interaction in Be and Mg layers on the Mo(112) surface


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No I don't think it is normal, does not happen on my 7000, or the 6910.
Seems to me like it could be a sticky dirty valve.
Have you run a cleaning flush through it.


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Gen Discussion is ded and wth happened to Zaal?!
IKR Shouldn't Zaal be back?
Zaal is on vacation and I'm pretty sure he was to be gone for a week. I'm guessing he should return soon.
I did clearly say i was gonna be gone grom friday to monday. Maybe i was a little late when i got home. I left at 10:00, and its a 4-5 hour drive (Depending on weather (WHICH SLOWED US A TON. I MEAN, IT WAS JUST SO BAD, ITS GONNA TAKE FOREVER TO TELL, and depending on traffic to, plus another hour at lunch, then half an hour worth of stops along the way.
This is a popular river, yesterday morning, and yesterday afternoon/evening.
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Kuya J Restaurant is a Cebu-based restaurant showcasing different Filipino dishes that families have patronized through the years. They have a container vertical garden using pre-made plant containers that line one side of the restaurant wall.
May 26, 2014 in Container Gardening.
Founded in 1957, Perpetual Succor Hospital and Maternity is the embodiment of a life-long thanksgiving to Our Lady of Perpetual Succor for the successful birth of the founders' only offspring. The hospital has a container vertical garden lining the entrance to their basement parking.
Handuraw is a restaurant-events café in Gorordo Avenue that caters to local music talents and events. Handuraw has a container edible garden that grows basil, pak choi and radish – four of the main herbs used in their pizza.
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Contemporary Music, is wasting no time in making her dreams in the music business a reality.
musicians of Space for Lease, Bungalouski, and SABER.
well as managing the logistics of pulling off a successful show.
The Purple House Show will be bringing a psychedelic, funky vibe to Norman on Saturday, February 18th.


A toast is in order, but make it marshmallows instead of champagne.
Victor E. Sower was selected as one of only 15 college and university professors in Texas and only the ninth in Sam Houston State University history to receive the prestigious Minnie Stevens Piper Award.
Sower, 58, a professor of management in the Department of Management & Marketing, will receive $5,000 from the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation of Texas.
"To be selected as the SHSU nominee for the Piper Professorship award is a great honor," said Sower. "Actually winning the award is overwhelming.
"I believe that winning the award is more a testament to the overall quality of our university than to my qualifications as an individual faculty member," he said. "We have many faculty members throughout the University who are deserving of being named a Piper Professor.
"I am fortunate to work with such an able group from whom I have learned much and who by their example continually challenge me to excel in my work."
This is the second consecutive year that an SHSU professor has received the award. Last year Caroline Crimm, professor of history, was selected. Past SHSU Piper Professors include Hazel Floyd (1961), George Killinger (1968), Mary Frances Park (1981), Fisher Tull (1984), and current faculty members Ralph Pease (1987), Witold Lukaszewski (1991), and Rolando V. del Carmen (1998) in addition to Crimm.
Sower's educational background includes a bachelor's in chemistry, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, master's in business administration from Auburn University, and Ph. D. in operations management from the University of North Texas.
In addition to his many teaching accolades from students and colleagues, he lists 70 books, publications (refereed and non-refereed), manuals, chapters, cases, presentations, papers and grants.
He is one of only three SHSU faculty members to receive two or more of the three excellence awards given by the university each year. He won the Excellence in Teaching in 1996 and Excellence in Research in 2001. It would be no surprise if he someday joins James S. Olson as a winner of all three. His bio also lists 52 service involvements.
Sower sometimes uses unconventional tactics to get the attention of students.
About 10 years ago he sensed that one of his classes—probably before his reputation as an excellent teacher had spread on campus—was frustrated and angry. The class average on the first test was unusually low, which the students of course thought was because the test was too hard. Sower brought a bag of marshmallows to class, handed one to each student, and invited them to chunk away.
Then, with white smudges all over him, he gathered up the marshmallows and fired back. The message—learning is a two-way street. They were unhappy with him and he was unhappy with them. He would do his part if they would do theirs.
The marshmallow barrage turned that class around, and Sower didn't feel a need to use that tactic again until last year. This time it improved a first test below-average class score of 60 into a second test above-average 78.
He also teaches courses in the College of Business Administration in operations, management, purchasing, and international business. Before he came to SHSU in 1990 he worked for two divisions of the Tandy Corporation, with the Ampex Corporation, and with the U. S. Army Chemical Corps, in which he served as an officer for two years.
"Dr. Sower posseses a keen intellect, certainly a ready wit, compassion for the realities of life and perhaps most importantly, a personal discipline that transcends to his students in the form of surpassing the status quo," said former student Pamela J. Zelbst.
"It is simply not acceptable to do less than one's best if you are fortunate enough to be one of his students."


A CD burner is the informal name for a CD recorder, a device that can record data to a compact disc.
A CD-Bridge Disc (sometimes just called a bridge disc) is a compact disc (CD) format that includes extra information on a CD-ROM XA (extended architecture) track, so that the disc can be played on either a CD-i (interactive) player attached to a television, or a CD-ROM XA drive attached to a computer.
CD-i (Compact Disc - interactive) is the multimedia CD format specified in 1986 (in the Green Book).
CD-Magneto Optical (CD-MO) is a compact disc format that uses magnetic fields for data storage.
CD-R (for compact disc, recordable) is a type of write once, read many (WORM) compact disc (CD) format that allows one-time recording on a disc.
CD-ROM XA (Compact Disc - read-only-memory, extended architecture) is a modification of CD-ROM that defines two new types of sectors that enable it to read and display data, graphics, video, and audio at the same time.
CD-RW (for compact disc, rewriteable) is a compact disc (CD) format that allows repeated recording on a disc.
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a light-sensitive integrated circuit that stores and displays the data for an image in such a way that each pixel (picture element) in the image is converted into an electical charge the intensity of which is related to a color in the color spectrum.
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Do you wear your sleeveless dresses to work? How about out for happy hour? If so, pair one of them with a blazer or jacket. There are tons of styles of blazers for women, many of which look flattering and professional when worn over a dress. Opt for one with a hemline that hits at or above your hips along with a cinched waist for an instant hourglass figure. For chilly fall evenings, switch your blazer out with a cool, stylish jacket. Whether you're a cool leather jacket kind of lady or you prefer something a bit more polished, the overall effect will be trendy and sophisticated.
And speaking of sophisticated, layering a button-down blouse underneath your dress is another way to look polished and professional. Quick tip: Make sure the shirt is fitted so that it doesn't create any bulges or wrinkles underneath your dress. If you're feeling a bit more fashion-forward, pair your dress with a blouse that has a tie neck – the addition of the bow at the dress's neckline is charming.
If you like the idea of laying underneath your dress, opt for a fitted three-quarter- or long-sleeved tee. These offer a slightly more casual look, while keeping your arms warm and your outfit stylish. There are even flattering undershirts with sheer sleeves specifically made for this purpose! Keep in mind that layering underneath a dress works best when the dress has a high neckline – that way, the necklines of both garments won't clash.
Whatever outfit you're wearing, you can't beat the layering power of a cardigan. When pairing one with a sleeveless dress, you have a couple of options. For a more professional style, choose a fitted cardigan with a hemline that hits right at your hips. For a more casual weekend look, go for something long and loose. Feeling trendy? Wear a knee-length cardigan to stay fashion-forward this season.
Make a faux skirt out of your sleeveless dress by pairing it with a pullover sweater! Be careful with this, though. If the skirt of the dress is voluminous and you pair it with a bulky knit sweater, it could add the appearance of a few extra pounds. Instead, pair your heavier knits with fitted dress styles.
And finally, it wouldn't be fall without a few fashionable pairs of tights! Keep your legs warm by wearing tights under your sleeveless dresses. Complete the look with a pair of boots or some loafers, and you'll be ready for anything.


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class SVD(MF):
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Q: Java Odd Number Loop I am trying to output the first "x" odds, but I am clueless on how to stop the loop at the number that x is. For example... if you input 6, I want it to show 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11. However, my coding does it for all the odds.
import java.util.Scanner;

public class OddNumber {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    System.out.println("Please input a number.");
    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
    int x = keyboard.nextInt();
    int total = x*x;
    if (x > 0){
        System.out.println("The first 5 odd numbers are...");
    }
    if (x > 0){
        for (int i = 0; i < total; i++){
        if (i % 2 != 0){
            System.out.println(i+"");
        }}
    System.out.println("The total is "+total);
    }

        }

}

A: This is most efficient (based on the unusual requirements):
var oddNumber = 1;
for (int i=0; i<x; i++) {
     System.out.println(oddNumber);
     oddNumber += 2;
}

A: Something like this should work:
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        System.out.println("Please input a number.");
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
        int x = keyboard.nextInt();
        for(int i =1; i<=x*2; i++) {
            if (i%2!=0) {
                System.out.print(i+", ");
            }
        }
        keyboard.close();
}

A: int total = x*2;

instead of
int total = x*x;

A: For you loop you should use:
for (int i=0; i<x; i++) {
    System.out.println((i*2)+1);
}

A: Change your for loop to:
for (int i = 1; i <= x; i++){
    System.out.println(i * 2 - 1);
}

or an alternative:
for (int i = 1; i < x * 2; i = i + 2){
        System.out.println(i);
}

A: Your if (i % 2 != 0){
You can address it a few ways.
After that, you can:
 if (i != x){
    System.out.print(i+", ");
 }

OR, you can:
 if (i % 2 && i != x){
    System.out.print(i+", ");
 }

that will do both checks at the same time.

A: For odd numbers:
for(int i=0; i<number; i++)
   {
   i=i+1;

   System.out.println(i);
   }

For even numbers:
for(int i=1; i<number; i++)
   {
   i=i+1;

   System.out.println(i);
   }


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Margot Robbie to Star in Stand-Alone 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Film
ByJoshua Espinoza
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Margot Robbie has landed her next blockbuster role.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar-nominated actress is attached to star in the new, female-fronted Pirates of the Caribbean film. Sources tell the outlet the project is separate from the previously announced Pirates reboot being developed by Ted Elliott and Craig Mazin, as it will focus on an entirely different story unrelated the Jack Sparrow-led franchise.
The details of the film have not been revealed, but insiders say the script will be penned by Christina Hodson, who has written films like Unforgettable, Bumblebee, and the Suicide Squad spinoff Birds of Prey; the latter of which starred Robbie. Hodson has also reportedly been tapped to write the DCEU films The Flash and Batgirl.
Based on the long-running Disneyland ride, the Pirates film franchise kicked off in 2003 and has since grossed $4.5 billion worldwide. The Pirates reboot—which, again, is separate from the Robbie-led film—is expected to serve as a fresh start without its original star Depp. Sean Bailey, president of production at Walt Disney Studios, was asked about Depp's exit during a 2018 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Bailey seemed confident the franchise would do just fine with Deadpool and Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick taking the wheel; as we now know, the two would eventually step away from the project.
Stay tuned as more details about the project become available.
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Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Pet Bearded Dragons
January 11, 2022- the CDC reported investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Uganda. Forty-four people were infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Uganda have been reported from 25 states (AL (1), AR (2), CA (3), CT (1), FL (1), KS (1), LA (1), MA (1), MN (1), MO (1), MT (2), NE (1), NM (1), MO (1), MT (2), NE (1), NM (1), NV (2), NY (1), OR (3), PA (2), RI (3), SC (1), SD (2), TX (2), UT (2), VA(1), WA(4), and WI(4)). Fifteen people were hospitalized, and no death was reported.64% of the interviewed reported owning or touching bearded dragons or their supplies. On November 19, 2021, Oregon Health Authority collected samples from a bearded dragon in a sick person's home for testing. WGS showed that the Salmonella on the animal is closely related to bacteria from sick people. This means that people likely got sick from touching bearded dragons. WGS of the Salmonella from 44 people's samples and one bearded dragon sample did not predict any antibiotic resistance. @ https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/uganda-01-22/index.html
CDC: Salmonella Outbreaks Linked to Pet Bearded Dragons
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by Benjamin Fulford
from ReenaGagneja Website
The process of removing the cabal that has controlled most of the world for the past 300 years is almost complete, according to sources directly involved in the takedown.
The takedown is being done by the world's military, police and intelligence agencies. The group being taken down is the Thule Society, Skull & Bones Nazi conglomerate headed by George Bush Senior.
This group was trying to start world war 3 in order to reduce the world's population by 85% and start a fascist world government. Instead, they will be bankrupted and put in jail.
Evidence of the takedown is now becoming visible for all to see. For example the IMF, supposedly the world's lender of last resort, is saying they have no money to help the Euro. This is publicly available evidence that the post war power structure is ending.
The best way to understand what is happening is to take a look at this map:
This is a map of the real global economic situation.
It shows the cumulative current account surpluses and deficits of the world's countries. The countries that appear green on the map are the countries that have lent money to the countries that appear red.
This is money based on actual physical trade so it is backed by reality unlike the trillions and quadrillions sitting on bank books that were created through fraud.
What has happened is that the green countries that have real money stopped lending to countries still controlled by the fascists (the G6: Germany, the United States, England, France, Italy and their small group of slave states) starting in the fall of 2008. That is the real reason for the so-called Lehman shock.
Looking back, the titanic struggle for control of the global financial system and hence global power, has been dramatic.
The fascists countered the initial green attack by using fiat money to ramp up global oil prices. They also tried to create a starvation crisis by paying Western farmers with fiat money to grow "eco-fuel," instead of food. These efforts failed because the fascists no longer had a lock grip on the world's oil and food supplies.
The fascists also tried to renege on their debts by issuing a new currency they wanted to call the Amero.
This was rejected because the green countries rightfully said they did not want their hard-earned dollars to be devalued. Instead the green countries acted to preserve the value of their hard earned dollars by refusing to accept all dollars created inside the U.S. after 2008.
Evidence for this can be found in trade numbers showing such things as a year on year 77% drop in U.S. imports of Japanese cars or in the 90% drop in the Baltic Dry Index (the price of shipping).
This explains why the U.S. dollar has not collapsed despite the announced printing of countless trillions by the U.S. branch of the Federal Reserve Board. These dollars are simply not entering the international financial system although they are goosing the Dow Jones Index.
The fascists won a year' respite when they promised "change" under Obama. That ended in 2009 after Obama showed through his actions that he was part of the fascist continuum.
Since then the fascists have been acting like unemployed junkies, selling off anything they can and writing false checks to pay their dealer. For example, they melted down and sold giant silver machines used for the Manhattan project. They have also resorted to outright theft.
If you look at the green countries on the map you can see their targets. They attacked Japan with a nuclear tsunami weapon and an engineered nuclear crisis in order to try to extort (unfortunately with some success) money from Japan.
They also overthrew a few dictators like Mubarak in Egypt to steal their money (they got Mubarak's $70 billion slush fund). Then they invaded Libya to steal that country's oil and over $100 billion in assets. They also killed the members of the youth division of Norway's ruling party in order to try to extort that countries $1.5 trillion rainy day fund.
Since they are bullies who are too scared to attack countries that can defend themselves (Russia and China), the next targets of these extortionist thugs would appear to be weaker green countries like,
These moves have bought the fascists some time.
However, that time is quickly running out. Recent illegal maneuvers to push down precious metals prices will not help.
The fascists also tried to carry out a coup against the U.S. patriots in the Pentagon and the agencies by setting off nuclear bombs in New York and Washington. Instead these bombs were taken by patriotic forces and used to blow up the warehouse facilities of the underground bases the fascists were hoping to hide in after they started World War 3.
The bombs were set off in in a manner designed to prevent human casualties. Reports of 30,000 dead are false.
Sources in the KGB, the Pentagon and MI6 all confirm that the nuclear warhead used to trigger the tsunami in Japan and the two blown up underground in the U.S. were part of four warheads that were stolen from the Russian submarine Kursk. That means one more rogue nuclear weapon is still in their hands and probably located in Europe.
It is hard to know when the final take down of the cabal will proceed but the situation is now down to a few technical legal details. This is because the authorities that are taking down the cabal want to do everything legally and constitutionally.
However, the take-down has already begun. In addition to thousands of bankers who have already been arrested, some big fish are being targeted.
Public legal proceedings have already begun, for example, against,
Nikolas Sarkozy
IMF head Christine Lagarde
Putin, for his part, recently fired his long term finance minister Alexei Kudrin because he had been compromised by the fascists.
The Chairman of UBS was also removed because of his cabal connections. The fascists have also been trying to negotiate their way out of this situation.
George Bush Senior has contacted a senior U.S. White Dragon Society member and offered "all the money in the world," in exchange for "being left alone." Unfortunately for the Nazis, many of them have tried to cling to power too long and are no longer in a position to negotiate immunity for themselves.
White Dragon sources in the U.S. agencies say top cabalists like the last four U.S. presidents (George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama) will go to jail.
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exercises are meant to serve broadly as students' handbooks.
a. To improve the language proficiency of the students in English with emphasis on LSRW skills.
practical components of the English syllabus.
c. To develop the study skills and communication skills in formal and informal situations.
between them to mark stress and recognise and use the right intonation in sentences.
1. To make students aware of the role of speaking in English and its contribution to their success.
• Just A Minute(JAM) Sessions.
overall message of the text, draw inferences etc.
NOTE : The students will be trained in reading skills using the prescribed text for detailed study.
Universities Press (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2004.
1. Astronomy from LEARNING ENGLISH: A Communicative Approach, Orient Longman, 2005.
5. Humour from LEARNING ENGLISH: A Communicative Approach, Orient Longman, 2005.
7. Environment from LEARNING ENGLISH: A Communicative Approach, Orient Longman, 2005.
9. Inspiration from LEARNING ENGLISH: A Communicative Approach, Orient Longman, 2005.
with Exercises, Universities Press (India) Pvt. Ltd.,2004.
with Exercises, Universities Press (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2004.
* Exercises from the lessons not prescribed shall also be used for classroom tasks.
2. Basic Communication Skills for Technology, Andrea J Rutherfoord, Pearson Education Asia.
5. Everyday Dialogues in English by Robert J. Dixson, Prentice-Hall of India Ltd., 2006.
6. English For Technical Communication, Vol. 1 & 2, by K. R. Lakshmi Narayanan, Sci tech.
7. A Hand book of English for Engineers & Technologists by Dr. P. Eliah, B. S.
cooling, Law of natural growth and decay, orthogonal trajectories.
the type e ax , Sin ax, cos ax, polynomials in x, e ax V(x), xV(x), method of variation of parameters.
double and triple integrals – change of variables – change of order of integration.
Green's - Stoke's and Gauss's Theorems.
equations Partial fractions-Heaviside's Partial fraction expansion theorem.
3. A text Book of Engineering Mathematics, Shahnaz Bathul, Right Publishers.
1. A text Book of Engineering Mathematics, B. V. Raman, Tata Mc Graw Hill.
2. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Irvin Kreyszig, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd.
3. A text Book of Engineering Mathematics, Thamson Book Collection.
form – Rank - Positive, negative definite - semi definite - index - signature - Sylvester law.
False Position – The Iteration Method – Newton-Raphson Method.
Difference Formulae –Interpolation with unevenly spaced points-Lagrange's Interpolation formula.
– Fourier sine and cosine transforms – properties – inverse transforms – Finite Fourier transforms.
and final value theorems. Convolution theorem – Solution of difference equation by z-transforms.
1. Mathematical Methods, T. K. V. Iyengar, B. Krishna Gandhi and Others, S. Chand & Company.
2. Mathematical Methods, C. Sankaraiah, V. G. S. Book Links.
3. A text book of Mathematical Methods, V. Ravindranath, A. Vijayalaxmi, Himalaya Publishers.
4. A text book of Mathematical Methods, Shahnaz Bathul, Right Publisshers.
cohesive energy – Madelung constant.
function - Particle in one dimensional potential box.
conductors, semi conductors & insulators - Concept of effective mass of an electron.
Hysteresis curve - Soft and hard magnetic materials.
BCS Theory - Applications of superconductors.
Laser – CO2 laser -Semiconductor Laser – Applications of lasers.
1. Applied Physics by Dr. M.Chandra Shekar & Dr. P. Appala Naidu ; V.G.S. Book links.
2. Introduction to Solid State Physics by C. Kittel ; Wiley Eastern Ltd.
3. Nanotechnology by Mark Ratner and Daniel Ratner; Pearson Education.
1. Materials Science and Engineering by V. Raghavan; Prentice-Hall India.
2. Materials Science by M. Arumugam; Anuradha Agencies.
3. Solid State Physics by N.W. Ashcroft & N. David Merwin; Thomson Learning.
4. Materials Science by M.S.Vijaya & G. Rangarajan; Tata McGraw Hill.
5. Solid State Physics by P.K. Palanisamy; Scitech Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd.
6. Nano Materials by A.K. Bandyopadhyay, New Age International Publishers.
7. Applied Physics by P.K.Mittal; I.K. International.
8. Applied Physics by K. Vijay Kumar & T. Sreekanth; S. Chand & Company Ltd.
operators, expressions, type conversions, conditional expressions, precedence and order of evaluation.
statements, break, continue, goto and labels, programming examples.
functions, header files, C preprocessor, example c programs.
unions, typedef, bitfields, C program examples.
operations, error handling, C program examples.
queues in C using arrays and linked lists, infix to post fix conversion, postfix expression evaluation.
1. C& Data structures – P. Padmanabham, B.S. Publications.
4. Programming in C – Stephen G. Kochan, III Edition, Pearson Eductaion.
– series, parallel, series parallel, star-to-delta or delta-to-star transformation.
co-efficient of coupling series circuit analysis with mutual inductance.
Resonance – series, parallel circuits, concept of band width and Q factor.
currents in balanced systems – Calculations of active and reactive power.
analysis of Networks with independent and dependent voltage and current sources - Duality & Dual networks.
symmetry – 2 port network connections in series, parallel and cascaded – problem solving.
conditions - Solution using differential equation approach and Laplace transform methods of solutions.
design of various symmetrical attenuators.
1. Network Analysis – ME Van Valkenburg, Prentice Hall of India, 3rd Edition, 2000.
2. Networks, Lines and Fields - JD Ryder, PHI, 2nd Edition, 1999.
1. Engineering Circuit Analysis – William Hayt and Jack E Kemmerly, McGraw Hill, 5th Edition, 1993.
2. Network Analysis – N.C.Jagan and C.Lakshminarayana, B.S. Publications, 2006.
3. Electric Circuits – J.Edminister and M.Nahvi – Schaum's Outlines, TMH, 1999.
Perpendicular Electric and Magnetic fields.
Introduction to SCR and UJT.
2. Principles of Electronic Circuits – S.G.Burns and P.R.Bond, Galgotia Publications, 2nd Edn.., 1998.
3. Microelectronics – Millman and Grabel, Tata McGraw Hill, 1988.
4. Electronic Devices and Circuits – Dr. K. Lal Kishore, B.S. Publications, 2nd Edition, 2005.
and inclined to both the planes.
• To make the student learn a programming language.
a) Write a C program to find the sum of individual digits of a positive integer.
b) A Fibonacci Sequence is defined as follows: the first and second terms in the sequence are 0 and 1.
generate the first n terms of the sequence.
b) Write a C program toe find the roots of a quadratic equation.
i) To find the factorial of a given integer.
iii) To solve Towers of Hanoi problem.
to select his own time intervals and repeat the calculations for different values of 'u' and 'a'.
a) Write a C program to find both the larges and smallest number in a list of integers.
i) To insert a sub-string in to given main string from a given position.
b) Write a C program to count the lines, words and characters in a given text.
a) Write a C program to generate Pascal's triangle.
b) Write a C program to construct a pyramid of numbers.
of without computing the sum. Are any values of x also illegal ? If so, test for them too.
complement of a binary number.
b) Write a C program to convert a Roman numeral to its decimal equivalent.
a) Write a C program which copies one file to another.
b) Write a C program to reverse the first n characters in a file.
ii) Traversing the above binary tree in preorder, inorder and postorder.
Write C programs to implement the Lagrange interpolation and Newton- Gregory forward interpolation.
Write C programs to implement the linear regression and polynomial regression algorithms.
Write C programs to implement Trapezoidal and Simpson methods.
3. Programming in C, P.Dey & M. Ghosh, Oxford Univ.Press.
4. C and Data Structures, E Balaguruswamy, TMH publications.
Formatted disks without operating systems.
and JRE for applets should be configured.
Google. This should be demonstrated to the instructors.
of toolbars, saving files, Using help and resources, rulers, format painter in word.
objects, Mail Merge in Word.
Week 26 - Task 3 : Concentrating on the in and out of Microsoft power point and presentations in LaTeX.
presentation which needs to be replicated (exactly how it's asked).
Hyper linking, Renaming, deleting, modifying pages, Hosting website.
3. Introduction to Information Technology, ITL Education Solutions limited, Pearson Education.
5. LaTeX Companion – Leslie Lamport, PHI/Pearson.
Switches (SPDT, DPDT, and DIP), Coils, Gang Condensers, Relays, Bread Boards.
3. Soldering practice – Simple Circuits using active and passive components.
4. Single layer and Multi layer PCBs (Identification and Utility).
1. Study and Operation of CRO.
1. PN Junction diode characteristics A. Forward bias B. Reverse bias.
10. CC Amplifier (Emitter Follower).
11. Single stage R-C coupled Amplifier.
15. Feed back amplifier (Current Series).
16. Feed back amplifier (Voltage Series).
2. CROs - 0-20M Hz.
3. Function Generators - 0-1 M Hz.
students with the use of English in everyday situations and contexts.
facility and English language software for self- study by learners.
1. Spoken English (CIEFL) in 3 volumes with 6 cassettes, OUP.
2. English Pronouncing Dictionary Daniel Jones Current Edition with CD.
3. Spoken English- R. K. Bansal and J. B. Harrison, Orient Longman 2006 Edn.


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I'm not for Obamacare, but watching FOX News with my Dad makes me want to die. Blah, I hate this.


It is no secret that Google and Apple have monopolies on their respective platform's application marketplaces. Apple owns iOS' App Store and Google owns Android's Play Store. There are almost no other alternatives for third-party and indie developers to distribute their applications, which are sometimes their only source of income. That gives Apple and Google an edge to treat developers however they see fit, which may not be always for the best. The newest official report claims that The Netherlands Authority for Consumer and Markets (ACM) is going to investigate both of these marketplaces.
ACM is worried about the lack of competition inside this segment, which almost always causes unfair practices. One of the most important things ACM is going to investigate is whether Apple and Google treated their own applications differently than the competitors inside their application marketplaces. Google has been a subject of similar investigations by the European Commission, where they decided that Google is giving preferential treatment to its services in the search engine results. ACM reports that they mostly received reports of unfair practices concerning Apple's App Store. Apparently, some developers gave very detailed feedback on the issues.
Apart from the investigation, ACM will also start a market study to check the competition conditions on the platforms. They are interested in the in-app payment system of the App Store and Play Store. As you probably already know, both of the companies demand companies to use the marketplace's first-party in-app purchase system with a 30% commission. iOS developers are also complaining that they can't unleash the full potential of the devices, while Apple's applications can.
The investigation has not started yet, so we obviously don't know the outcome. After the investigation, ACM may decide that Google and Apple don't violate the fair competition practices at all.


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Q: Failing installation of Swirl in R Trying to install swirl but failed and following message appear in R console:
package 'sys' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'assertthat' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'askpass' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'glue' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package 'magrittr' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
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What is the point of buying / renting a disk array if it can't handle what it is really built for, i.e. "repair itself" after a failure?
Thanks for all your work on this. Hang in there ASF Infra!
Thank you all for working hard to resolve this critical issue. Any more updates?
@Tilman: Most disk arrays can't recover from multiple disk failures at the same time, or at least more than 2. I don't have the details, but it sounds like there were probably more than 2. One wonders if alerts were not addressed in a timely manner.
Will it be possible to recover the queued messages, or is the array a total loss? Stated another way: Are we going to get a major flood of email when the service resumes?
Apparently I'm completely blind, because the mail loss thing was actually mentioned. Thanks for covering all bases. People might get the impression that you've been doing this a while!


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DAMMED TO ETERNITY
James Scott was sentenced to life in prison for causing a destructive levee break during the Flood of '93. But was he simply an easy scapegoat for a town raging at its devastation?
by Adam Pitluk
Jennifer Silverberg James Scott
James Scott: "There's the truth, but people dont want that in this case. They haven't got the whole story. My side of the story hasn't changed, and it's not going to change. Theirs has. I wish the people could believe in me."
The Jefferson City Correctional Center is an unsettling place. Yellowish limestone walls, colored that way because of too many years and too little care, tower as high as those of any other building in the state capital. Picture the prison from The Shawshank Redemption, complete with four stories of cells stacked on top of each other and wrought-iron bars clanging around the clock. The windows are small and filmy, obstructing any view and defeating the purpose of their construction. They also dim the sun's brightness and make nightfall seem that much darker. Originally constructed in 1836 with buildings built as early as 1868 still in use, the prison is an aging hulk, yet sturdy enough to hold about 2,000 men, most of whom will serve the majority of their adult lives within its walls. Inmates live in cells no larger than the average residential bathroom. In fact, they are bathrooms -- with beds squeezed in as well. Close quarters for such free-willed men.
Among the inmates is James Scott, a 30-year-old small-time repeat offender from Quincy, Ill., who has been serving a life sentence here since July 14, 1998, after his second trial ended with a guilty verdict. He is led by a heavily armed guard into a small office with a concrete floor and cinderblock walls. This is his first media interview since 1994, when he was first convicted. He didn't take the stand at either of his two trials and therefore has never publicly spoken about what landed him here.
His felonious crime was "causing a catastrophe." He became the first person in Missouri to be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced in the law's 20-year history. More specifically, he was convicted -- at both trials -- of intentionally causing the West Quincy levee break during the Flood of '93, resulting in damage to 14,000 acres of Missouri farmland and residential areas. He was given a life sentence, and although he is eligible to be heard by the parole board in July 2011, it is almost certain he will spend his life here.
He sits down in tattered prison clothes -- dark-gray threads smeared with dirt, probably the result of working at the prison panel factory -- and his new-looking black high-tops, clearly the only article of clothing he makes sure to keep clean. His hair is sandy blond and parted down the middle, giving him a tougher look than he had at his trials, when his hair was short on top and grown past the collar in the back. He sports a neatly trimmed goatee with hints of red in it and keeps his cheeks closely shaved. He speaks with a simple Midwestern drawl but is clearly not used to talking much. For the last six years, he has repeatedly asked himself two questions: How did he end up here, and will he ever see another sunset?
Scott speaks regretfully of how much sunsets used to mean to him. He talks of sitting on the banks of the Mississippi River in Quincy, looking west over the glistening water and watching the colors melt into the gentle ripples. He talks about better days when he and his now ex-wife, Susan, would go dancing at the local roadhouse and then head on down to the river to talk. Despite his checkered past, and despite the occasional snickers Scott heard behind his back -- the pointing fingers and the whispers about how he was the guy who burned down Webster Elementary School when he was 12 -- Scott wants nothing more than to return to the banks of that familiar river and to see his family once again. He also knows he can't.
He has agreed to talk now because, legally speaking, he is at the end of his rope. Lately he has been spending his time reading law books and filing appeals, but things don't look too good.
The life sentence came partly because Scott was judged to be a repeat offender. Webster Elementary wasn't the only thing Scott set on fire. There were other crimes and misdemeanors -- a lot of property damage but no injuries or deaths. Scott, an old-school fire-starter, is now ironically owing his life because of too much water.
Scott says, though, that he is sorry for his past crimes and has recognized his part because of his new devotion to God; he found Jesus in prison and notes that owning up to one's sins is a step toward redemption. "I'm sorry for the hurt and pain that people went through, but it's done," he says. "Let things lie. You can't change it. I can't change it. God knows I wish I could, but I can't."
However, though he is sorry for the fires, he will not apologize for the flood.
"As for what Judge (Robert) Clayton said, how I show no remorse, you know, I'm not sorry. I'm sorry for what the people during the Flood of 1993 lost, but sorry for something I didn't do? No."
Troubled Waters
July 16, 1993. Chaos. For weeks, residents living on and around the floodplain had sandbagged the West Quincy levee, originally designed to hold back 30 feet of water. Bulldozers were brought in to build the levee up, making it possible for it to sustain up to 32 feet of water. On Tuesday, July 13, the water level was at 31.9 feet.
As Scott tells the tale, he was sandbagging the levee on July 16. For the four previous days, he says, he had been down at the levee along with scores of other volunteers. He was initially persuaded to sandbag by his friend's mother, Janet Maglioshetti. "She told us to go and help out, and that's what we did," Scott says.
At one point, he and ex-wife Suzie went to sandbag it together, but the efforts had shut down for the night." We got there and they told us that they was through for the night, so we went to the Castle (Villa Kathrine Castle on Front Street, a local after-dark hangout) and just rode around and talked," he says. This was July 15. Afterward, Scott says, he went to half-brother Dan Leake's house and partied like a rock star. "We were drinkers," he says with a hint of regret in his voice. "There were a lot of parties around that time. A lot of drinking."
The next day, the day the levee broke, James and Suzie woke up at daybreak. She went on her way to work at 18 Wheeler, a truck stop in Taylor, Mo., and Scott went to help out with the sandbagging. "I told her before we left that I wanted to see her for lunch. I was going to eat lunch with her," Scott recalls.
The couple had plans that night to hang out together, either at a party or down by the river. Scott says he worked on the levee throughout the morning with other volunteers. The Army Corps of Engineers gave the volunteers a crash course on levee maintenance, telling them how to spot boils and other trouble spots. A Corps worker, says Scott, told him they needed some guys to ride in boats along the river side of the levee and duct-tape holes in the plastic tarp that had been thrown over the sandbags. But they couldn't get the motor running on this particular boat, Scott says, so he and a couple of other volunteers were given waders; they walked north along the levee, toward the Quincy Memorial Bridge.
Scott says he and a man named either Rudy or Bob -- he can't recall -- were patrolling the levee, and they ran into a man named Duke Kelly from the National Guard. Scott told Kelly he had noticed water seeping from underneath the plastic tarp.
"'Course (the prosecutors) said I made up Duke Kelly and this guy Rudy or Bob," Scott says.
But both men did surface, sort of. Kelly now works for Pepsi-Cola in St. Louis and testified in Scott's trial that Scott told him about a problem he and Rudy/Bob had seen. Kelly said he walked with the two men a short distance on the north side of the levee, and he told Scott his concern was with his men on the south side of the Bayview Bridge. Kelly said if he decided this was a major problem, he'd contact someone.
Rudy/Bob, although never physically located, exists in a picture a passerby took, says Scott. The picture is in Scott's possession. He says the fact that the man could not be found was used by the prosecution to inflame the jury and the picture put him on the spot.
That evening, the levee broke. Scott says he was getting ready to leave the site, but when he got to his car, he ran into two men who gave him the bad news. Scott started walking the levee and telling people the what he'd heard. As he was talking to a state employee, he says a local newscaster, Michelle McCormack of WGEM-TV in Quincy, grabbed him and asked him to comment on the levee's condition and his efforts to help save the community by sandbagging. A nervous Scott boasted about his heroics and about his recent discovery of trouble spots.
After this first encounter with the news, Scott says, he went with the Coast Guard to load boats in the floodwater. At some point during that time, he says, he lost his car keys. He was coming off the levee, and WGEM news grabbed him again, this time to do a live feed for the 10 p.m. broadcast.
Unbeknownst to Scott at the time, it would be this broadcast that eventually sealed his fate and put him in prison for life.
Sgt. Neal Baker was at home in Quincy, watching flood coverage on the 10 o'clock news, when he saw a familiar face.
Baker, a police officer in Quincy since 1980, had known James Scott for years. He had arrested Scott for arson, when he burned down a garage, and sent him to prison in 1988. And Baker was around when Scott and his brother, Jeff, burned down their elementary school in '82. To Baker, Scott was the kind of guy a cop keeps an eye on: a local bad boy.
"When I see Jim Scott standing on a levee, with it as hot as it was, professing, out of his love for mankind, to have worked on a levee, it just went against everything I knew about him," Baker says.
Baker says the reporter wasn't asking probing questions; on the contrary, she was sympathizing with Scott's position, at one point putting her hand on his shoulder. Baker says Scott was having difficulty answering the reporter's questions.
"He can't name names; he can't tell you times; he can't describe the simplest routine that anybody that actually worked on that levee would have been able to do," Baker says. "So when I looked at that, I never said, "Aha, I can get Jim Scott again,' but my antennae were raised as I listen to him. He can't answer these simple questions, and if you watch it, he's looking around there at first, and the things he had to say and the way he said them, and the fact that he's over there to begin with, you scratch your head."
Moreover, says Baker, Scott looked far too clean to have worked on a levee all day.
Soon enough, Baker and the Quincy Police Department had joined a task force along with county, state and federal law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI. On Oct. 1, 1993, Baker and his younger brother Bruce, a detective at the time, went looking for Scott and found him at Burger King, where he had just punched out for the night from his janitorial job. They arrested him there for a recent burglary in Quincy. Baker says the tone during questioning was conversational; on three occasions, he and Scott shared a cigarette break outside.
"There were several things that Mr. Scott was suspected of, and we talked about all of them," Baker says. He adds that Scott thought he was being charged for the levee and not the burglary. "Jimmy Scott said, and I'll delete the expletive, "You guys want to talk to me about that levee.' When he brought it up, he didn't bring it up in such a way that seemed that he was eager to talk about it.... It was a compound word that started with mother, and he was grumbling."
The two talked about the burglary and four other crimes in which police considered Scott a suspect, the levee coming up last. Baker says Scott admitted to two of the crimes but denied the other two. As for the levee, though Scott did not admit that he sabotaged it, he told Baker that he saw a trouble spot and pulled four sandbags from one area and threw them on another. According to Baker, Scott also said that he didn't mean to make it worse. He was simply trying to help.
But after Scott was charged, some new evidence arose. A man named Joe Flachs, himself a troubled youth at the time who was under house arrest, told police a very interesting story. Flachs would later testify in Scott's first trial, in 1994, that Scott told him about a plan to break the levee in order to strand his wife in Missouri; Scott reportedly wanted to party in Illinois without her.
It was, in media parlance, a "sexy" story. A story about a man who caused a flood because he wanted to strand his wife on the other side. The Associated Press moved the story on its news wire, the New York Times wrote a piece, and CBS and ABC led their nightly newscasts with the story. CNN News and Court TV descended on sleepy Quincy. Court TV, in fact, broadcast gavel-to-gavel coverage of Scott's second trial (he was granted a retrial in July 1998 because prosecutors failed to notify the defense about two new witnesses whose testimony implicated Scott). They revisited the case again in January 1999 because producer Vivian Ducat was fascinated by it. "I thought it was a story that seemed to come out of a novel," Ducat says.
Yet in all the hoopla, nobody mentioned Scott's version. "My car was in the shop getting a new starter, and as soon as it was ready, on July 17, I went and picked Suzie up," Scott says. "I brought her home less than 24 hours after the levee failed. She was home with me in Illinois."
The wife-stranding motive was used by John Jackson, the prosecutor at Scott's first trial in 1994. According to Scott's attorney at the second trial, Marion County public defender Raymond Legg, that motive was never brought up by Tom Redington, the prosecutor at Scott's second trial.
"What (Scott) had said and what witnesses remember him saying, I think, is open to dispute," Legg says. "I was hoping the prosecution would bring up the statement about stranding his wife. I was prepared to refute that. The state chose, though, not to introduce those statements, probably because they knew I'd be able to turn it against them.
"I wanted to focus on a lack of evidence and their reliance upon a motive when motive is not an element of the offence," Legg says. "When people focus a case on something that is not an element of the offence, it's because they don't have anything else."
Apparently the prosecution had something because Scott was, once again, convicted of causing a catastrophe. The prosecutors in the two cases, Jackson and Redington, say they are certain about Scott's guilt and think that the punishment is appropriate, given Scott's previous run-ins with the law.
Legg, on the other hand, remains convinced of Scott's innocence. "I don't think he did it, I really don't," he says. "I really believe that if someone had gone out there and sabotaged that levee, they would have died in doing so. I told that to the jury, and I told that to the jury because I believe it, and I believe it to this day -- although when push comes to shove, I don't know what happened on that levee; I don't think anybody really does."
Fear and Loathing in Quincy
James Scott recalls a fairly ordinary life growing up. He was an average kid making average grades who liked to play soccer and watch football, a real sports nut. But when he was 13, he and brother Jeff burned down Webster Elementary School. In a town of 50,000 people, he says, it was impossible for him to live down that stigma.
At 17, it was a garage. He did a five-year stretch in prison for that one.
He credits a lot of anger back then to the fires. He says he wasn't out to get anyone, nor did he intend to harm anyone. He says the actual act of making a fire and watching it spark and catch was the driving force behind his madness.
"Things I've done in general, you know, the stupid fires, the stealing, this and that -- I don't know, I never got everything I asked for when I was a kid, but Mom and Dad was always trying to be there," he says. "Dad blames himself for not being there all the time. I've told him, "Don't blame yourself. Kids are going to do what they want to. You can't change that.'"
And sometimes, you can't change what others think of you, either.
"If you ask me, they should have had the trial here locally," says Jack Freiburg, an insurance agent in Quincy. "Know what we would have done? We'd have hung him from the Bayview Bridge and let the birds get at him. The birds should get a crack at Jimmy Scott, too."
Bob Hofmeister, a farmer who testified against Scott, thinks Scott is a sick man who can do no right. Asked what sealed his decision as to Scott's guilt, Hofmeister says just knowing Scott over the years was enough knowledge.
"We knew he was the man; it was only a matter of proving it," he says. "I knew in my mind he'd have to brag about it in a bar, and so we convicted him on circumstantial evidence. He's a menace to society and too dangerous to be free."
While some think Scott's punishment is too harsh, Hofmeister figures it's not enough. "This individual is too dangerous to be in society," he says. And what would he suggest? "Maybe hang him from a tree and everybody go home for lunch," he says.
Fortunately for Scott, Judge Robert Clayton stayed within the law. And he lectured Scott at the sentencing. "I think you have a problem with unbridled aggressive behavior," he told Scott. "I'm not sure where that anger comes from, but I cannot and will not run the risk that you may or may not be able to curtail your aggressive impulse and anger. You are a threat to society." Six years later, Clayton says Scott "absolutely" deserves to be where he is.
Clayton was new on the bench at the time, and this case was a baptism by fire for him. He was in a precarious position; not only was this one of his first sentencings, it was the first sentencing in Missouri history for this law. What to do? Because Scott had been a troubled youth, Clayton threw the book at him.
"You are in touch with reality, but you are out of touch with empathy," Clayton told Scott. "So maybe the water will put the fire in you out."
Scott says he had done his time for his past crimes and that those crimes should therefore have had no bearing on this case. "There hasn't been no fires since. No thoughts of fires, either. When I see them now in certain places, my heart goes out to the people involved who lost," he says.
When the Levee Breaks
Dr. R. David Hammer has been a soil and atmospheric-sciences expert, working with river systems for more than 20 years and teaching for the last 14 years at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Hammer knows levees, having grown up near one. He testified for the defense in the second trial, proclaiming Scott's innocence on the grounds of science. Hammer says now he is even firmer on his stance -- that this case has left a bad taste in his mouth. He testified that six parameters increase the likelihood of levee failure under flood conditions. The levee at West Quincy met all six.
"They did several things that were just absolutely outrageous," he says. "The first one was, they didn't anticipate in advance that the crest that was coming out of the Raccoon River in Iowa was going to affect them."
The Raccoon River, which flows into the Mississippi, was moving faster than anticipated. Prolonged rainfall in southwestern Iowa in July filled up the surrounding lakes and reservoirs, causing all the rainwater to flow into the Raccoon. As that crest started to move down the Mississippi, it broke levees everywhere it went.
"One of the things the prosecutor said that was absolutely dumbfounding, his opening statement, was, "We were fighting the river and we were winning,'" Hammer says. "Bullshit. There had been something like 11 or 12 levee failures, almost one a day, upriver from them."
Then there were the actions of the West Quincy Levee District. Donald Bawmann, the district commissioner and a prosecution witness, had gone on TV three days before the levee broke to guarantee that it wouldn't break. And when it did, says Hammer, the district needed an explanation, a scapegoat.
Hammer says that when the levee was repaired, it was done so with large rock, called riprap. It's incredibly expensive, Hammer says, and repairs were made over about a quarter-mile stretch. "It's an admission -- they know that was a soft spot," he says.
The Corps of Engineers, says Hammer, neither monitored the levee nor instructed volunteers the way they were supposed to. The decision to bulldoze the rear side of the levee, an act carried out by Hofmeister, was a last-ditch attempt to strengthen it.
"From an engineering perspective, it would almost guarantee that this levee would fail," Hammer says. "It was already wet and soggy -- it had been under water for 90 days. They had no other choice. The river was coming up too fast; they'd waited too long; the top of the levee was too soft to drive on it. They didn't have time or the logistics to sandbag it."
Hammer says the probability of levee failure under those conditions was so high that, whether or not Scott was out there and did what prosecutors say he did, the levee would have failed anyway.
Hammer was not the only expert to testify for the defense about the probability of the levee's failing on its own. Dr. Charles Morris, a civil engineer from the University of Missouri-Rolla, had a similar opinion. He, however, had no view on Scott's guilt or innocence. He didn't even know the final verdict when the RFT called him recently.
Morris testified in both trials that the West Quincy levee could have broken without being sabotaged. "The reason I testified is I thought the jury should know that no one had to do anything to cause the levee to fail," he says. "I don't know if Mr. Scott did anything or not. I had the feeling, and I still do, that the jury felt it failed, so someone had to do something to it.
"I think it was in a process of imminent failure. I wasn't making a decision of guilt or innocence."
Prosecutors tried to discredit both Hammer and Morris by saying they were academics and that what was more important was to listen to what the people responsible for the levee had to say, including Corps officials and levee-district officials. Nobody, however, pointed out that if they were to say the levee failed because of natural causes, they would be implicating themselves as having built a bad levee, Morris says.
On the other hand, says Morris, it's surprising that the levee lasted as long as it did. "I would compliment them and pat them on the back and say, "Man, you guys did a great job even though it failed.'"
Norman Haerr, chairman of the West Quincy Levee Drainage District, asserted that the levee was rock-solid. His testimony consisted of detailing the patrols and the amount of seepage going over the levee. The bulldozed area held the high water when the river was at 31.97 feet. When the water came rushing through, the level was 31.67 feet -- about 4 inches lower.
"We felt that we could have held it out without (Scott) being there," Haerr says. "It's sort of like a basketball game. You're behind by one point and you're going up for the easy layup, and the ref stops the game with about 10 seconds left. You can't prove that you're going to win, but we felt we could have."
Haerr says he felt there was maybe a 5 percent chance that the levee would break, but not in that particular spot. He maintains that there were three trouble spots they were worried about but that this was not one of them.
According to a 1998 Court TV report, the state's expert on levees, Bawmann, a civil engineer from the Corps, said that if the levee had failed as a result of natural causes, a big area of the levee would have collapsed. This was not the case.
Bawmann now says that the Corps still maintains that sabotage was the only way the levee could have broken. "Our products are solid," he says. "We like to build them with quality, and our performance, ever since we've been in this kind of construction, has been outstanding, so we know how they're supposed to perform. There's nothing unusual here."
However, Bawmann also testified that it would have been possible for a trickle of water to have destroyed the levee within a matter of five minutes. Under cross-examination, he admitted he could not absolutely rule out Mother Nature as the cause of the break.
The plot thickens. One Corps employee familiar with both the levee and Scott has a different opinion altogether. He prefers to remain anonymous for fear of jeopardizing his job. A self-proclaimed river rat, he's convinced the trial was a witch hunt -- people at the office were openly talking about pinning this on Scott.
"I think they found their witch," he says. "Mr. Scott is a local. Mr. Scott has had problems his whole life. He is not an upstanding citizen, as most people like to view it, and Mr. Scott was there. Is Mr. Scott capable of doing that sort of thing? Very definitely. Has he created these little disasters before? Yes, he has. Is he a nice person? Definitely not. My personal problem with the whole thing is that our system is supposed to presume innocence until guilt is proven. In my opinion, that never was done."
The Corps employee says levees do not just suddenly blow out. Failures are normally caused by overtopping; the water carries away sand and cuts the levee down. "Did they have proof that he caused this overtopping? Not in my mind," he says. "The problem I have with it is not the fact that they may have imprisoned an innocent man, because, to tell you the truth, people might be better off with Jimmy Scott in jail anyway. At the same time, it's not a very far jump from convicting Mr. Scott based on the fact that somebody dislikes him or he may have done something in the past from maybe convicting you, for instance, for something you may have done. They don't really have proof, but they're going to go through with it.
"Suffice to say, within the first 15 minutes that his broadcast aired, he was considered guilty. They knew it, and there was no way they were going to walk away without it. They wanted somebody's head."
Documents from the Corps of Engineers show that six other levee systems upriver from West Quincy were overtopped in the week preceding this one's failure. Interestingly, the Corps classified the Fabius River Drainage District (a.k.a. West Quincy) as having been overtopped and not sabotaged as of August 1993, two months before Scott was arrested and charged.
According to the Corps document, "On July 1 (1993), drainage districts and towns started raising their main stem sand levees by using bulldozers and pushing sand from the landside slopes.... In addition, during this period underseepage and through seepage became major problems. Many boils were located, and the ones that were moving material were ringed with sandbags. Of particular concern was the through seepage in the area where the sand levees were pushed up and the flood waters were over the elevation of the clay cores of the main stem levee." The Corps recognized problems with the Quincy area before the flood; they singled out the bulldozed area.
James Scott is staring out a prison-office window. Although the window is opaque with dirt, and notwithstanding the fact that it offers a bleak view of a prison wall and a chain-link fence, Scott's stare is unyielding. Dusk is falling, and Scott is trying to catch a glimpse of the sunset. These windows are facing southwest, so he can just make out the colors meshing on the horizon, a lighting scheme of oranges and yellows not found inside prison cells. James smiles while answering a barrage of questions. He's trying to tune out the fluorescent lights that flicker and drone above.
"There's the truth, but people don't want that in this case," Scott says. "They haven't got the whole story. My side of the story hasn't changed, and it's not going to change. Theirs has. I wish the people could believe in me.
"I wake up in a, it's probably 7-by-11-foot room with bars. Every day. Same routine, every day. I work six days a week with no freedom. I have freedom when I go to my cell, because that's my time by myself. That's my time with God. But I'm ready to go home. I don't know where I would go, because my home and my family are in Quincy. But I can't go back there. This case has hurt me that way."
But Scott remains confident -- perhaps delusional -- that even though his case won't smell a parole hearing for another 11 years, he'll be released.
"One day, people are going to say to themselves, "Come on, we've got Jimmy locked up for this? What's the real story?'" But he's on his ninth life. Scott filed an appeal in November, his last chance at freedom before the authorities throw away the proverbial key.
The guard notifies Scott that he must go back. It's time for the first of two evening counts. James is led up a long prison staircase, and as the guard nudges him along, he turns his head, raises his voice and yells, "Find Joe Flachs and talk to him."
When the RFT tracked down Flachs, he refused to comment unless he was paid.
There is no dramatic exit for Scott, no walking off into the sunset. He retreats to a 7-by-11-foot cell, and that's that. Just another night of the rest of his life to ponder why that levee broke and whether his actions were the cause of 14,000 acres of damage.
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Best TPO from a Least Developed Country
The Export Board of Zambia(EBZ) won the World TPO Award 2006 for the Best TPO from a Least Developed Country. The EBZ has since become the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA).
For a long time, Zambia was dependent on copper and cobalt exports for generating foreign currency, for jobs and for supporting other activities. But it was obvious that such a narrow range of commodities would never enable Zambia to achieve sustainable economic development and that it was essential to diversify exports. So, in 1985 an Export Development Act was passed, creating the Export Board of Zambia. Two years later the EBZ became operational. Its success was rapid and striking.
Twenty years ago earnings from non-traditional exports (excluding copper and cobalt) amounted to less than $70 million, less than 10% of total export earnings. By the end of 2005, earnings had topped $560 million, or close to 40% of total export earnings. EBZ originally targeted an average annual increase at 10%. Actually, it rose to over 15% annually.
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EBZ focused on small business, nurturing the entrepreneurial culture and promoting self-employment as an accepted alternative means of livelihood for a greater number of Zambians. The development of women entrepreneurs was also encouraged.


Edgar Salazar has replaced Will Robson as artist on Venom #162 and Venom #163. No reason was given for the change by Marvel, but it comes as the series goes from monthly to twice-monthly for the "Poison X" crossover with X-Men: Blue.
• But the X-Men may have bitten off more than they can chew. After all, the trafficker isn't the ONLY one interested in symbiotes…and Venom knows that better than anyone!


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As mentioned, Google Plus is also shutting down on the same date. Google also stated that it would shut down the social networking site due to 'other challenges' it faced in maintaining and continuing the service. The company has stopped users from uploading or creating new content pages since February 4. It will allow users to download all their photos and videos before the shut down date. From April 2, the company would start deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts.


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Friedrichsfelde () is a German locality (Ortsteil) within the borough (Bezirk) of Lichtenberg, Berlin.

History
The locality was first mentioned in a document of 1265 with the name of Rosenfelde. In 1699 it was renamed Friedrichsfelde after the Prince-Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg. It was an autonomous municipality of the former Niederbarnim district until 1920, when it merged into Berlin under the "Greater Berlin Act".

Geography
Located in eastern suburb of Berlin, Friedrichsfelde borders with the localities of Lichtenberg, Rummelsburg, Karlshorst, Marzahn and Biesdorf (both in Marzahn-Hellersdorf district). In its south-eastern corner is situated the "Tierpark Berlin", the second zoo of the city.

Transport
As urban rail, Friedrichsfelde is crossed both by S-Bahn and U-Bahn. The stations serving the locality are Friedrichsfelde Ost (lines S5, S7, S75), Friedrichsfelde (U5), Tierpark (U5) and partly Rummelsburg (S3). The quarter is also served by the tramway lines M17, 27 and 37 and traversed by the federal highways B1 and B5.

Photogallery

References

External links

 Friedrichsfelde page on www.berlin.de
 Friedrichsfelde Event- & Informationportal for all citizens of Friedrichsfelde

Localities of Berlin

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