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Friday, October 18, 2013
Harvest Brings Farm Families Together, Redefines Commitment
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What The World's Newspapers Are Saying
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican led the website of Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
At the end of their 25-minute meeting, the pope gave Abbas a pen, which the Palestinian Authority president said he hoped to use "to sign the peace agreement with Israel."
The pope replied: "Hurry, hurry," according to the newspaper.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan recently called for a national dialogue in his ethnically and religiously divided country.
He announced the formation of a committee that would hold discussions on resolving differences in Nigeria. But, as the Vanguard newspaper reports, Nigerian lawmakers say that the committee's final outcome must first pass through them to become law.
Here's how Reuters describes Nigeria's religious makeup:
"Nigeria's nearly 170 million people and 250 ethnic groups, split roughly evenly between Islam, which dominates in the north, and Christianity, prevalent in the south, mostly live side by side in peace. But the country suffers bouts of bloodshed over land where the two religions meet in the middle.
"The oil producing Niger Delta is a haven for criminal gangs who steal oil and kidnap, while the Boko Haram insurgency has killed thousands and destablised swathes of the north."
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La Tercera reports on Chile's efforts to win a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council.
The General Assembly elects five new countries to the council on Thursday. Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia are looking for spots. All are virtually guaranteed a place on the 15-member council because none of the races are contested.
This would be Chile's fifth time on the council. The previous occasion was in 2003 and 2004. That was when Chile refused to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Chile's term would last from January 2014 to December 2015.
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From the Philippines, a story of hope amid the earthquake Tuesday that killed more than 100 people. The Inquirer reports:
"Two statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary stand — without any blemish — amid the ruins of two churches in Maribojoc and Loon towns following Tuesday's devastating earthquake. It was enough for residents to raise their hopes that life will get better."
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Found Recipes: Dr. Klaw's Authentic New England Lobster Roll
The key to Dr. Klaw's lobster roll is to keep it simple.
Gabriella Herman
The key to Dr. Klaw's lobster roll is to keep it simple.
Gabriella Herman
Lobster may be a sign for all things high-end these days, but there is nothing fancy about the humble lobster roll. The origins of this lobster-mayo mashup in a bun are misty and factious, but the idea is that it started as a roadside treat, a way to offload an overabundance of lobster quickly and easily.
At least, that's what Ben Sargent says.
"You didn't have to put a bib on, there was no cracking," he says. "You just stopped on the side of the road and had this unbelievable bite of something you just never knew could be so good."
Sargent knows a thing or two about lobster rolls. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Sargent spent his summers fishing, surfing and hanging out in his grandfather's tackle shop on Cape Cod. In his book, The Catch: Sea-to-Table Recipes, Stories and Secrets, Sargent writes about watching his grandfather as he flawlessly cooked New England culinary standards. Sargent says he's caught lobsters every way you can, including with his bare hands.
But what gives Sargent crustacean cred is a stint in New York City's illicit lobster roll trade.
When Sargent moved to Brooklyn a dozen years ago, he was shocked by Gotham's take on the humble seafood sandwich, calling the New York City lobster roll "too chef-y."
"This sounds ridiculous but there was too much lobster. It had too much mayonnaise, it had a garnish, it was spilling out over the top," Sargent says. "It was trying to be impressive because if you're going to charge $30 for a lobster roll, it's got to look like $30."
So he went underground — literally. Sargent set up shop in a basement apartment and started pumping out about 200 lobster rolls a day. He sold them for $14 — cash only, word of mouth, only in secret — under the alias Dr. Klaw.
To get one of Dr. Klaw's lobster rolls, his customers sent a text to a secret cellphone number, and at any given hour Sargent, as Dr. Klaw, would hand off a steaming, delicious roll.
"Dr. Klaw had a very, very religious following of lobster roll aficionados," Sargent recalls.
He kept Dr. Klaw shrouded in mystery because he was operating illegally.
"For the most part you never really saw Dr. Klaw's face," Sargent says. "Dr. Klaw operated mostly at night and was essentially a hand that would come out of a mail slot with a lot of bling, a lot of gold jewelry, and it handed you an illegal lobster roll."
But then, it all fell apart. He says one of his most loyal customers accidentally ratted him out.
Sargent came home to find a cease-and-desist order from the city health department. The city had found out Dr. Klaw's secret identity and told him if he didn't give up his trade he'd go to jail. It didn't help that his landlord got the notice, too.
Things have gone all right for Sargent since then; he went on to own a handful of restaurants and host a show on the Cooking Network. But he still misses being the self-styled seafood-slinging gangsta known as Dr. Klaw.
"Every night was such an adventure when I was Dr. Klaw. There was the high rolling, the money, the women — you name it. It was a pretty wild lifestyle," he says. "And I don't think I'll ever do it as Ben. It's just not as much fun."
Dr. Klaw's Lobstah Rolls
There are three secrets you have to follow to make the perfect lobster roll: 1) Keep it simple — keep the green stuff out of the mix, and never ever add celery. 2) Steam the lobster in a salty bath. 3) Never toss out the lobster liquids that are in the shells. That liquid is like lobster extract or lobster flavor on steroids.
Courtesy of Ben Sargent
Courtesy of Ben Sargent
Serves 6
1 large onion, halved
2 tablespoons coarse sea salt
4 large garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
3 bay leaves
1 teaspoon black peppercorns, cracked
4 (1 1/2-pound) lobsters
8 tablespoons (1 stick) salted butter
1 teaspoon garlic powder
6 top-sliced hot dog buns
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
Fine sea salt
Old Bay seasoning
1. In a large clam or lobster pot, add 2 inches of water. Put in the onion halves cut sides down and add the coarse sea salt, garlic, bay leaves and black peppercorns. Bring to a boil over high heat.
2. Put in the lobsters head up, the first two sitting on the onion halves, and loosely stack the other two lobsters, making sure all the lobsters are evenly spaced apart. Cover and cook over medium-high heat until bright red all over, about 6 minutes. They will be a little undercooked for a reason!
3. Transfer the lobsters to a large rimmed baking sheet and let cool. Working over the sheet to collect all the lobster juices and fat, twist the tails and the claws from the bodies. Pull off the tail ends or flippers from the tail shells and push the tail meat out of the shells with your thumb. Cut down the top of the tails and discard the dark vein. Twist the knuckles from the claws. Cover the claws with a kitchen towel and, with a mallet or the back of a large knife, gently crack the claws on both sides to loosen the shells from the meat. Break the shell off of the claws and pull out the meat, preferably in one piece. Break up the knuckles and push out the meat.
4. Cut the tails down the center and give all of the lobster meat just a few chops; the meat should be in nice chunks. You should have about 5 cups of meat. Put the meat and the collected juices in a large skillet and set aside.
5. Heat a griddle. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, melt the butter with the garlic powder and stir. Open the hot dog buns and brush only the insides with some of the garlic butter. Toast the buns on the hot griddle on medium-high heat until golden brown and crisp, about 2 minutes per side. Reduce the heat to medium if the griddle gets too hot.
6. Very gently reheat the lobster meat over low heat until barely hot. Remove the skillet from the heat, stir in the mayonnaise, and season with fine sea salt. Pack the lobster meat into the toasted buns and drizzle each with a little more of the garlic butter. Sprinkle with Old Bay seasoning and serve right away. You should have a nice pink-orange sauce developing around the meat as a result of the mayo and lobster juice cooking just a bit.
The cooked lobster meat and juices can be refrigerated overnight. Bring to room temperature, then reheat very gently if you are assembling the rolls the following day. Save the lobster bodies and shells for bisque or stock. Store in the freezer for up to one month.
NOTE: Lobster rolls should taste like lobster, not celery! Just use a good sweet hot dog bun, big chunks of lobster, a little mayo and some butter, and you will have perfection.
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Greatest Living Figure Of Chasidic Music
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Modzitzer sect of Chasidic Judaism, which originated in the Polish town of Modzitz, is known for its beautiful melodies. Among the most emblematic and prolific composers in this tradition is Brooklynite Ben Zion Shenker — who, at 88, continues to create new works.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NprProgramsATC/~3/m_B7p6l_jqc/the-greatest-living-figure-of-chasidic-music
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You’ll Pay for This, GOP
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“There are no winners here,” President Obama declared at the White House this morning. Then, with an elegant air of nonpartisanship, Obama began to fashion the shutdown into a political weapon. Here’s how he’s going to deploy it.
1. Economic excuse. Obama noted that before the shutdown, the economy was recovering, and the deficit was falling. The fiscal standoff changed all that: “Every analyst out there believes it slowed our growth.” Obama rattled off the damage: families going without paychecks, home buyers and small businesses unable to get loans, consumers cutting back on spending, CEOs reporting that the fiscal anxiety had “set back their plans to hire over the next six months.” Even the “threat of default,” said the president, “increased our borrowing costs, which adds to our deficit.”
Today, this litany of laments looked like simple compassion from the president. But over the next year, it can serve as an excuse. If economic growth or deficit reduction isn’t where we’d like it to be, Obama can blame the shortfall on the “Republican shutdown” or the “Tea Party shutdown.” He’d be following in the footsteps of his predecessor, who spent three years after Sept. 11, 2001, blaming economic disappointment on the damage done when “the enemy hit us.”
2. Republican downgrade. Two years ago, when Standard and Poor’s downgraded the government’s credit rating, it cited our high deficits as well as the 2011 debt ceiling standoff. Ever since, Republicans have argued that the deficits, not the standoff, caused the downgrade. This time, we haven’t been downgraded, but we’ve been put on a credit watch by Fitch, another ratings agency. And this time, there’s no ballooning deficit. Obama wants to make that difference stick. He wants the downgrade threat of 2013 to reinforce the Democrats’ narrative about the downgrade of 2011. “The agency that put America’s credit rating on watch the other day explicitly cited” the congressional standoff, Obama pointed out. The Fitch report, he went on, said that “our economy remains more dynamic and resilient than other advanced economies and that the only thing putting us at risk is—and I’m quoting here—‘repeated brinksmanship.’ ” “That wasn’t a political statement,” Obama added, politicizing the statement.
3. National security. Even after killing Osama Bin Laden, Obama is constantly accused of weakness. No matter what he does in Iran, Egypt, Libya, or Syria, the old portrait of the Democratic president as soft on foreign policy never goes away. What usually helps Democrats in this area is economics. Their devotion to American labor at the expense of free trade comes across as tough on foreigners. But the fiscal showdowns of 2011 and 2013 could add a new twist. This morning, Obama reported that U.S. diplomats have
been hearing from their counterparts internationally. Some of the same folks who pushed for the shutdown and threatened default claim their actions were needed to get America back on the right track, to make sure we’re strong. But probably nothing has done more damage to America’s credibility in the world, our standing with other countries, than the spectacle we’ve seen these past several weeks. It’s encouraged our enemies. It’s emboldened our competitors. And it’s depressed our friends who look to us for steady leadership.
If Republicans stage another big fight over the next debt ceiling, that would be three in a row. It might facilitate a significant political development: the transformation of debt payment into a national security issue. Republicans could become the deadbeat party. Obama seems quite willing to attack them from this angle. And in framing economics as the key to American power, he has reality on his side.
4. The value of government. What happened in 1995 and 1996 has happened again: Closing the government has made Americans miss it. In his remarks today, Obama proposed,
One of the things that I hope all of us have learned these past few weeks is that it turns out smart, effective government is important. It matters. I think the American people, during this shutdown, had a chance to get some idea of all the things, large and small, that government does that make a difference in people’s lives. You know, we hear all the time about how government is the problem. Well, it turns out we rely on it in a whole lot of ways. Not only does it keep us strong through our military and our law enforcement—it plays a vital role in caring for our seniors and our veterans, educating our kids, making sure our workers are trained for the jobs that are being created, arming our businesses with the best science and technology so they can compete with companies from other countries. It plays a key role in keeping our food and our toys and our workplaces safe. It helps folks rebuild after a storm. It conserves our natural resources. It finances startups. It helps to sell our products overseas. It provides security to our diplomats abroad. So let’s work together to make government work better, instead of treating it like an enemy.
Congratulations, Tea Party. In the midst of Obamacare’s glitch-ridden debut, you did the one thing that could make us love our government: You took it away and held it hostage. Don’t expect any thanks from the president you helped.
Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/10/_2013_shutdown_politics_how_obama_will_make_the_debt_fight_a_weapon_against.html
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Lamar Odom -- Eating Armenian, But Still RAIL THIN
Lamar Odom
Eating Armenian, But Still
Rail Thin
Lamar Odom ate out last night -- Armenian, of course -- but emerged from the restaurant looking scarily thin ... especially for a guy trying to make an NBA comeback after a months-long drug binge.
Lamar and some friends hit up Gavar Cuisine in Glendale, CA -- and he walked out sporting his customary Nike warmup, white tee, and interestingly ... a rosary.
LO thinks he can kick his drug habit without rehab AND return to game-shape for the upcoming NBA season, so ... if anyone could use religion it's him.
But judging by his gaunt frame ... what he really needs is a couple of double-cheeseburgers.
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Celebrity Style We're Iffy About: Likes or Yikes?
Would you wear these outfits? You be the judge about the stars' (Miley! Olivia!) fashion choices.
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Obama thanks Senate for passing debt deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is thanking Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate for passing a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a default.
Obama says if and when the House approves the bill, he'll sign it immediately. He says the U.S. will start reopening the government right away.
Obama says now it's time to win back the trust of Americans that's been lost during the crisis.
Obama spoke at the White House minutes after the Senate passed the measure. The bill calls for opening the government through Jan. 15 and extending the nation's borrowing authority through Feb. 7.
Obama says once these issues are resolved, he wants to move forward this year on immigration, farm legislation and a larger budget deal.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-thanks-senate-passing-debt-deal-004009696--politics.html
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Timeline: Congress' path to federal shutdown
Highlights of Congress' battle over the partial government shutdown and expiring federal borrowing authority:
Sept. 20: Republican-run House ignores White House veto threat, votes to keep government open through Dec. 15 but only if President Barack Obama agrees to halt money for his 2010 health care law.
Sept. 24-25: Tea party Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and other conservatives speak on Senate floor for more than 21 consecutive hours about using shutdown bill to weaken health care law.
Sept. 27: Democratic-led Senate removes House-approved provision defunding health care law, sends bill keeping agencies open through Nov. 15 back to House.
Sept. 29: House shifts demands on health care law, votes to delay implementation for a year and repeal tax on medical devices. Separately, House votes to pay troops in case of shutdown. Senate approves bill next day, Obama signs it into law.
Sept. 30: Senate rejects latest House provisions curbing health care law. House reworks shutdown bill again, delaying for a year health care law requirement that individuals buy health insurance and requiring members of Congress and staff to pay full expense of health insurance, without government paying part of costs. Senate kills latest House health care provisions.
Oct. 1: Government's new fiscal year begins, partial federal shutdown starts, around 800,000 workers furloughed.
Oct. 2: House approves first of more than a dozen bills restarting popular programs, reopening national parks and National Institutes of Health medical research. Over the next two weeks, Democrats mostly vote "no," saying entire government must reopen, and Senate ignores the measures. Obama meets with congressional leaders at White House, no progress reported.
Oct. 4: Republicans increasingly tie shutdown fight to need for Congress to renew federal borrowing authority by Oct. 17 or risk economy-rattling government default. Their demands also evolve to deficit reduction.
Oct. 5: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says he is bringing most of his department's 350,000 furloughed workers back to work immediately.
Oct. 10: Boehner proposes six-week debt limit extension, conditioned on Obama bargaining over spending cuts and reopening government. House GOP leaders discuss standoff with Obama at White House without agreement. Congress gives final approval to bill providing death benefits for slain troops and Obama signs it.
Oct. 11: A bipartisan Senate group works on a measure that would reopen the government and prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its bills.
Oct. 12: Boehner tells House Republicans that negotiations with White House have stalled. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., begin talks.
Oct. 14: Reid and McConnell say they've made progress toward a deal extending debt limit and reopening government.
Oct. 15: House GOP effort to craft its own plan collapses after Boehner fails to gain enough Republican support for two alternatives that are more conservative than evolving Senate plan.
Oct. 16: Reid, McConnell announce deal on reopening government through Jan. 15, extending debt limit to Feb. 7. Congress plans votes later in day.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/timeline-congress-path-federal-shutdown-194000519.html
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Japan's SoftBank says in talks to buy Brightstar stake
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp is in talks to buy a stake in U.S. wireless device distributor Brightstar Corp that media reported could be worth more than $1 billion and boost its bargaining power with hardware suppliers.
The company's billionaire founder Masayoshi Son has said that one of the key benefits of an earlier purchase of U.S. mobile carrier Sprint Corp would be to bolster the group's position with handset makers, an industry dominated globally by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc.
A report by the Nikkei business daily said the Japanese tech and telecoms group was in the final stages of talks to buy an up to 70 percent stake in Brightstar in a deal worth more than 100 billion yen ($1 billion).
SoftBank said in a statement: "We are in discussions on this matter but at this time we have not made any decision."
The talks mark a renewed acquisition drive by SoftBank after the $21.6 billion Sprint purchase completed in July.
SoftBank, Japan's third-largest company by market capitalization, said on Tuesday it would pay 150 billion yen for a 51 percent stake in Finnish mobile game maker Supercell, whose hit games include "Clash of Clans" and "Hay Day".
"The volume effects and bargaining effects should begin to emerge in handsets in about six months to a year," Son told an event in late September, referring to the Sprint acquisition.
"Our negotiating power has got a major boost."
According to Brightstar's website, it purchases handsets from more than 100 manufacturers including Samsung, Apple, LG Electronics Inc and Sony Corp, supplying carriers in markets worldwide.
The Nikkei said SoftBank would make the purchase from an investment fund and other sources with an eye to eventually boosting its holding to around 70 percent. It added that the deal would be completed as early as the end of this year.
SoftBank's shares were up 1.8 percent in early trade, compared with a flat benchmark Nikkei average. SoftBank has gained 134 percent since the start of the year, far outpacing the Nikkei's nearly 40 percent rise.
($1 = 98.5950 Japanese yen)
(Reporting by Nobuhiro Kubo and Edmund Klamann; Editing by Michael Urquhart)
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Merkel signals support for plan to lift carbon prices
By Andreas Rinke
HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced support on Wednesday for EU plans to prop up carbon prices by temporarily removing some of the surplus allowances weighing on the bloc's emissions trading market that is meant to fight climate change.
German support for the plan to withdraw 900 million permits, a process known as backloading, is needed for a law to pass.
The proposal has been stalled for months as Berlin withheld its backing due to differences within Merkel's outgoing center-right government.
Although there is added uncertainty over German policy as Merkel tries to form a new coalition following last month's election, the carbon and power markets both rose in expectation that Merkel's stance made backloading more likely.
"We need a degree of backloading of CO2 emissions so that the certificate price can reach a reasonable level again," Merkel told a union event in the city of Hanover.
She said a rise in certificate prices would help modern, flexible gas-fired power stations which were now struggling to compete with coal-fired plants, which emit many more carbon emissions, because carbon permit prices were now so low.
The EU benchmark carbon price was up nearly 8 percent at 5.35 euros a tonne at 1301 GMT, after Merkel spoke.
Merkel's comments and the resulting rise in carbon prices, which raises electricity generation costs, affected the German wholesale power market, where contracts for baseload (24 hours) delivery in 2014 rose around two percent to 38.10 euros per megawatt hour.
The European Commission plan to withdraw carbon permits from its Emissions Trading System (ETS) is aimed at lifting prices depressed by over-supply and an economic downturn.
Lithuania, which holds the EU presidency, said on Monday it was confident the plan would proceed soon after "optimistic signals" from members states at a ministerial meeting.
German environment minister Peter Altmaier said there that Germany was finalizing its position on backloading, implying the government could adopt a formal view before it leaves office.
Altmaier, a member of Merkel's conservatives, has long voiced support for the proposals but Germany's economy minister, a member of Merkel's junior coalition partner which was voted out of parliament in the September election, had opposed them.
The two ministers were jointly responsible for energy policy and the departure of the pro-business Free Democrats (FPD) is likely to make it easier for Merkel to support backloading.
CO2 REDUCTIONS?
In Hanover, Merkel also said Europe needed a carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction goal for 2030.
"Without such a European goal there will be no investment in power stations in the future because nobody will know exactly how it will develop," Merkel said.
EU regulators are considering doubling the bloc's target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and setting a tougher binding goal for renewable energy use, EU sources said in September.
The Commission, the EU executive, outlined new targets earlier this year but has yet to make a firm legislative proposal.
Merkel reiterated that amending Germany's renewable energy law, aimed at boosting green power, will be a priority for a third term but that German industry had to be protected.
"We need clean, safe but also affordable energy. We want to expand renewable energy but it must happen in such a way as not to put at risk Germany's industrial position."
Because the incentives for green power have become so popular, the cost of a surcharge added to consumers' power bills to finance them has risen sharply [ID:nL6N0I5119], pushing up bills for households and consumers.
Merkel faces a delicate balancing act to reduce incentives for green energy sufficiently to lower electricity costs while keeping up the renewables boom in Europe's biggest economy.
Merkel is in exploratory talks with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) about forming a government but any coalition deal could take weeks and Merkel's energy shift to renewables and away from nuclear energy will be high on the agenda.
Merkel said the government would have to look at which energy intensive companies need exemptions from the surcharge to remain internationally competitive.
She said Germany would have a "real problem" if the European Union launched a case against exemptions from the surcharge, arguing it amounted to state aid.
(Additional reporting by Stephen Brown and Nina Chestney and Henning Gloystein in London; Writing by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Anthony Barker)
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World record: Wireless data transmission at 100 Gbit/s
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Extension of cable-based telecommunication networks requires high investments in both conurbations and rural areas. Broadband data transmission via radio relay links might help to cross rivers, motorways or nature protection areas at strategic node points, and to make network extension economically feasible. In the current issue of the nature photonics magazine, researchers present a method for wireless data transmission at a world-record rate of 100 gigabits per second. (doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.275)
In their record experiment, 100 gigabits of data per second were transmitted at a frequency of 237.5 GHz over a distance of 20 m in the laboratory. In previous field experiments under the "Millilink" project funded by the BMBF, rates of 40 gigabits per second and transmission distances of more than 1 km were reached. For their latest world record, the scientists applied a photonic method to generate the radio signals at the transmitter. After radio transmission, fully integrated electronic circuits were used in the receiver.
"Our project focused on integration of a broadband radio relay link into fiber-optical systems," Professor Ingmar Kallfass says. He coordinated the "Millilink" project under a shared professorship funded by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since early 2013, he has been conducting research at Stuttgart University. "For rural areas in particular, this technology represents an inexpensive and flexible alternative to optical fiber networks, whose extension can often not be justified from an economic point of view." Kallfass also sees applications for private homes: "At a data rate of 100 gigabits per second, it would be possible to transmit the contents of a blue-ray disk or of five DVDs between two devices by radio within two seconds only."
In the experiments, latest photonic and electronic technologies were combined: First, the radio signals are generated by means of an optical method. Several bits are combined by so-called data symbols and transmitted at the same time. Upon transmission, the radio signals are received by active integrated electronic circuits.
The transmitter generates the radio signals by means of an ultra-broadband so-called photon mixer made by the Japanese company NTT-NEL. For this, two optical laser signals of different frequencies are superimposed on a photodiode. An electrical signal results, the frequency of which equals the frequency difference of both optical signals, here, 237.5 GHz. The millimeter-wave electrical signal is then radiated via an antenna.
"It is a major advantage of the photonic method that data streams from fiber-optical systems can directly be converted into high-frequency radio signals," Professor Jrg Leuthold says. He proposed the photonic extension that was realized in this project. The former head of the KIT Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ) is now affiliated with ETH Zurich. "This advantage makes the integration of radio relay links of high bit rates into optical fiber networks easier and more flexible." In contrast to a purely electronic transmitter, no intermediate electronic circuit is needed. "Due to the large bandwidth and the good linearity of the photon mixer, the method is excellently suited for transmission of advanced modulation formats with multiple amplitude and phase states. This will be a necessity in future fiber-optical systems," Leuthold adds.
Reception of radio signals is based on electronic circuits. In the experiment, a semiconductor chip was employed that was produced by the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) within the framework of the "Millilink" project. The semiconductor technology is based on high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMT) enabling the fabrication of active, broadband receivers for the frequency range between 200 and 280 GHz. The integrated circuits have a chip size of a few square millimeters only. The receiver chip can also cope with advanced modulation formats. As a result, the radio link can be integrated into modern optical fiber networks in a bit-transparent way.
Already in May this year the team succeeded in transmitting a data rate of 40 gigabits per second over a long distance in the laboratory using a purely electronic system. In addition, data were transmitted successfully over a distance of one kilometer from one high-riser to another in the Karlsruhe City center. "The long transmission distances in "Millilink" were reached with conventional antennas that may be replaced by fully integrated miniaturized antenna designs in future compact systems for indoor use," says Professor Thomas Zwick, Head of the KIT Institut fr Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (Institute of High-Frequency Technology and Electronics). The present data rate can be still increased. "By employing optical and electrical multiplexing techniques, i.e., by simultaneously transmitting multiple data streams, and by using multiple transmitting and receiving antennas, the data rate could be multiplied," says Swen Knig from the KIT Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ), who conceived and conducted the recent world-record experiment. "Hence, radio systems having a data rate of 1 terabit per second appear to be feasible."
The "Millilink" project (March 2010 to May 2013) was funded with a total budget of EUR 2 million by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the program "Broadband Access Networks of the Next Generation". Apart from the research institutions of Fraunhofer IAF and KIT, the industry partners Siemens AG, Kathrein KG, and Radiometer Physics GmbH participated in the project. The project focused on integrating wireless or radio links into broadband optical communication networks for rapid internet access in rural areas in particular. Other possible applications are indoor wireless local area networks (WLAN), wireless personal area networks (WPAN), and intra-machine and board-to-board communication. In the recent experiment, the originally purely electronic "Millilink" concept was extended by a photonic transmitter. At KIT, work is now continued under the Helmholtz International Research School of Teratronics (HIRST), a graduate school focusing on the combination of photonic and electronic methods for signal processing at highest frequencies.
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Reference: Wireless sub-THz communication system with high data rate. S. Koenig, D. Lopez-Diaz, J. Antes, F. Boes, R. Henneberger, A. Leuther, A. Tessmann, R. Schmogrow, D. Hillerkuss, R. Palmer, T. Zwick, C. Koos, W. Freude, O. Ambacher, J. Leuthold, and I. Kallfass. nature photonics. doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.275, http://www.nature.com/nphoton/index.html.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public corporation according to the legislation of the state of Baden-Wrttemberg. It fulfills the mission of a university and the mission of a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. Research activities focus on energy, the natural and built environment as well as on society and technology and cover the whole range extending from fundamental aspects to application. With about 9000 employees, including nearly 6000 staff members in the science and education sector, and 24000 students, KIT is one of the biggest research and education institutions in Europe. Work of KIT is based on the knowledge triangle of research, teaching, and innovation.
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Extension of cable-based telecommunication networks requires high investments in both conurbations and rural areas. Broadband data transmission via radio relay links might help to cross rivers, motorways or nature protection areas at strategic node points, and to make network extension economically feasible. In the current issue of the nature photonics magazine, researchers present a method for wireless data transmission at a world-record rate of 100 gigabits per second. (doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.275)
In their record experiment, 100 gigabits of data per second were transmitted at a frequency of 237.5 GHz over a distance of 20 m in the laboratory. In previous field experiments under the "Millilink" project funded by the BMBF, rates of 40 gigabits per second and transmission distances of more than 1 km were reached. For their latest world record, the scientists applied a photonic method to generate the radio signals at the transmitter. After radio transmission, fully integrated electronic circuits were used in the receiver.
"Our project focused on integration of a broadband radio relay link into fiber-optical systems," Professor Ingmar Kallfass says. He coordinated the "Millilink" project under a shared professorship funded by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since early 2013, he has been conducting research at Stuttgart University. "For rural areas in particular, this technology represents an inexpensive and flexible alternative to optical fiber networks, whose extension can often not be justified from an economic point of view." Kallfass also sees applications for private homes: "At a data rate of 100 gigabits per second, it would be possible to transmit the contents of a blue-ray disk or of five DVDs between two devices by radio within two seconds only."
In the experiments, latest photonic and electronic technologies were combined: First, the radio signals are generated by means of an optical method. Several bits are combined by so-called data symbols and transmitted at the same time. Upon transmission, the radio signals are received by active integrated electronic circuits.
The transmitter generates the radio signals by means of an ultra-broadband so-called photon mixer made by the Japanese company NTT-NEL. For this, two optical laser signals of different frequencies are superimposed on a photodiode. An electrical signal results, the frequency of which equals the frequency difference of both optical signals, here, 237.5 GHz. The millimeter-wave electrical signal is then radiated via an antenna.
"It is a major advantage of the photonic method that data streams from fiber-optical systems can directly be converted into high-frequency radio signals," Professor Jrg Leuthold says. He proposed the photonic extension that was realized in this project. The former head of the KIT Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ) is now affiliated with ETH Zurich. "This advantage makes the integration of radio relay links of high bit rates into optical fiber networks easier and more flexible." In contrast to a purely electronic transmitter, no intermediate electronic circuit is needed. "Due to the large bandwidth and the good linearity of the photon mixer, the method is excellently suited for transmission of advanced modulation formats with multiple amplitude and phase states. This will be a necessity in future fiber-optical systems," Leuthold adds.
Reception of radio signals is based on electronic circuits. In the experiment, a semiconductor chip was employed that was produced by the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) within the framework of the "Millilink" project. The semiconductor technology is based on high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMT) enabling the fabrication of active, broadband receivers for the frequency range between 200 and 280 GHz. The integrated circuits have a chip size of a few square millimeters only. The receiver chip can also cope with advanced modulation formats. As a result, the radio link can be integrated into modern optical fiber networks in a bit-transparent way.
Already in May this year the team succeeded in transmitting a data rate of 40 gigabits per second over a long distance in the laboratory using a purely electronic system. In addition, data were transmitted successfully over a distance of one kilometer from one high-riser to another in the Karlsruhe City center. "The long transmission distances in "Millilink" were reached with conventional antennas that may be replaced by fully integrated miniaturized antenna designs in future compact systems for indoor use," says Professor Thomas Zwick, Head of the KIT Institut fr Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (Institute of High-Frequency Technology and Electronics). The present data rate can be still increased. "By employing optical and electrical multiplexing techniques, i.e., by simultaneously transmitting multiple data streams, and by using multiple transmitting and receiving antennas, the data rate could be multiplied," says Swen Knig from the KIT Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ), who conceived and conducted the recent world-record experiment. "Hence, radio systems having a data rate of 1 terabit per second appear to be feasible."
The "Millilink" project (March 2010 to May 2013) was funded with a total budget of EUR 2 million by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the program "Broadband Access Networks of the Next Generation". Apart from the research institutions of Fraunhofer IAF and KIT, the industry partners Siemens AG, Kathrein KG, and Radiometer Physics GmbH participated in the project. The project focused on integrating wireless or radio links into broadband optical communication networks for rapid internet access in rural areas in particular. Other possible applications are indoor wireless local area networks (WLAN), wireless personal area networks (WPAN), and intra-machine and board-to-board communication. In the recent experiment, the originally purely electronic "Millilink" concept was extended by a photonic transmitter. At KIT, work is now continued under the Helmholtz International Research School of Teratronics (HIRST), a graduate school focusing on the combination of photonic and electronic methods for signal processing at highest frequencies.
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Reference: Wireless sub-THz communication system with high data rate. S. Koenig, D. Lopez-Diaz, J. Antes, F. Boes, R. Henneberger, A. Leuther, A. Tessmann, R. Schmogrow, D. Hillerkuss, R. Palmer, T. Zwick, C. Koos, W. Freude, O. Ambacher, J. Leuthold, and I. Kallfass. nature photonics. doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.275, http://www.nature.com/nphoton/index.html.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public corporation according to the legislation of the state of Baden-Wrttemberg. It fulfills the mission of a university and the mission of a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. Research activities focus on energy, the natural and built environment as well as on society and technology and cover the whole range extending from fundamental aspects to application. With about 9000 employees, including nearly 6000 staff members in the science and education sector, and 24000 students, KIT is one of the biggest research and education institutions in Europe. Work of KIT is based on the knowledge triangle of research, teaching, and innovation.
This press release is available on the internet at http://www.kit.edu.
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Big gains on tap for small Royal Mail shareholders
LONDON (AP) — Small shareholders in Royal Mail on Tuesday had their first opportunity to cash in on the stock's spectacular stock market debut.
Royal Mail shares first soared on Friday, when trading began, though only for big institutions and investors who bought through brokers. On Tuesday, trading was opened to the general public. That allowed small shareholders who bought stock through the government to sell their shares — and pocket a near 50 percent windfall.
At the close, Royal Mail shares were 3 percent higher at 489 pence ($7.82). That's around 48 percent higher than the 330 pence at which the government initially priced the shares.
"With the short term return so strong, it's understandable smaller investors are looking to take some money off the table," said David White, a trader at Spreadex.
The sharp rise has led some to argue that the government sold the near 500-year-old company too cheaply.
"The Royal Mail share price has soared further, bringing more proof that the company was undervalued by the government's City mates," said Dave Ward, deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, or CWU, which has balloted around 115,000 of its members for industrial action over issues linked to the sell-off, including pay and pensions.
A strike by postal workers could threaten disruption to mail deliveries in the busy weeks before Christmas. The result of the ballot is expected over the next day.
Investment bank Lazard is also set to be questioned next month by British lawmakers over the pricing of Royal Mail and concerns that institutional investors were allowed to buy into the company too cheaply.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/big-gains-tap-small-royal-mail-shareholders-094155300--finance.html
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Adrian Peterson -- DNA Test Proved He Was the Dad
Adrian Peterson
DNA Test Proved He Was the Dad
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When Adrian Peterson was told that he might be the father of a love child in South Dakota, he suspected it was true ... but he took a DNA test just to be sure, TMZ has learned.Sources very familiar with the situation tell us ... when AP was notified about the situation roughly 2 to 3 months ago, he immediately offered to step up and help out in any way he could.
Adrian didn't suspect he was being targeted in any sort of cash grab -- but we're told that he realized it would be smart to get definitive proof that he was the child's biological dad before he made any big moves.
We're told ... once the test came back positive, AP supercharged his efforts to be a part of the kid's life -- and also offered to help out financially.
As we first reported, Adrian had initially planned to meet the child in the next couple of weeks -- but instead, he rushed to the hospital last week after learning the boy was on life support stemming from injuries allegedly caused by the mother's boyfriend. The boy died shortly after Adrian visited him.
Our sources say ... Adrian plans to fly back to South Dakota to attend his son's funeral later this week. We're also told he will continue to communicate with the mother in the future.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Judge Won't Lift FilmOn X Injunction
Christopher Patey
Alki David
U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer won't modify her near-nationwide injunction against Alki David's FilmOn X.
In September, she concluded that broadcasters were likely to prevail in their copyright lawsuit against the digital TV service. But then last week, a judge in Massachusetts declined to enjoin Aereo.
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David saw some vindication in the Massachusetts, but Judge Collyer is shrugging it off.
In response to a motion to modify the FilmOn X injunction, she writes that "a contrary decision by a co-equal court in another district involving different parties does not represent a change in controlling law."
That might be true, but ironically, FilmOn could be rooting for the Supreme Court to agree to hear the broadcasters' appeal in the Aereo case. If that happens, there is at least the shot of a true change in controlling law that might impact FilmOn's ongoing battles with broadcasters in both DC and California.
Until then, Judge Collyer says she wants to know why "it appears that FilmOn X may be acting in defiance" of her preliminary injunction order. She's ordered David's company to show cause, in writing, why it should not be held in contempt. FilmOn X has until Oct. 21 to respond.
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What makes telenovelas so popular?
Public release date: 15-Oct-2013
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A particular type of consumer enjoys stories with plots, characters, and imagery that allow them to get lost in the narrative, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
"Stories have the power to change people's behavior," write authors Tom van Laer (ESCP Europe Business School), Ko de Ruyter (Maastricht University), Luca M. Visconti (ESCP Europe Business School), and Martin Wetzels (Maastricht University). "Contemporary examples include the persuasive power of Latin American telenovelas, which influence family planning choices and enrollment in adult literacy programs, as well as Internet users sharing written stories, photos, and videos about themselves and their market experiences."
The authors wanted to understand what kinds of stories allowed consumers to mentally enter a story, a phenomenon called "narrative transportation." They also wondered which kinds of consumers were more likely to identify with the narratives. They reviewed articles written in five different languages that dealt with the theme of narrative transportation and tested consumer reactions to those stories.
They found that consumers were most likely to engage with realistic stories with identifiable characters and plots that easily lead to mental imagery. They also identified five characteristics that made participants more able to be transported: familiarity, attention, ability to fantasize, higher education, and female gender.
"Consumers who are 'transported' are changed by their experience. People who lose themselves in a story accept the story is true and relate to the characters," the authors write. "As the Hopi proverb goes, 'The one who tells the story rules the world,' and now we know how."
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Tom van Laer, Ko de Ruyter, Luca M. Visconti, and Martin Wetzels."The Extended Transportation-Imagery Model: A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers' Narrative Transportation." Journal of Consumer Research: February 2014. For more information, contact Tom van Laer (tvanlaer@escpeurope.eu) or visit http://ejcr.org/.
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A particular type of consumer enjoys stories with plots, characters, and imagery that allow them to get lost in the narrative, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
"Stories have the power to change people's behavior," write authors Tom van Laer (ESCP Europe Business School), Ko de Ruyter (Maastricht University), Luca M. Visconti (ESCP Europe Business School), and Martin Wetzels (Maastricht University). "Contemporary examples include the persuasive power of Latin American telenovelas, which influence family planning choices and enrollment in adult literacy programs, as well as Internet users sharing written stories, photos, and videos about themselves and their market experiences."
The authors wanted to understand what kinds of stories allowed consumers to mentally enter a story, a phenomenon called "narrative transportation." They also wondered which kinds of consumers were more likely to identify with the narratives. They reviewed articles written in five different languages that dealt with the theme of narrative transportation and tested consumer reactions to those stories.
They found that consumers were most likely to engage with realistic stories with identifiable characters and plots that easily lead to mental imagery. They also identified five characteristics that made participants more able to be transported: familiarity, attention, ability to fantasize, higher education, and female gender.
"Consumers who are 'transported' are changed by their experience. People who lose themselves in a story accept the story is true and relate to the characters," the authors write. "As the Hopi proverb goes, 'The one who tells the story rules the world,' and now we know how."
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Tom van Laer, Ko de Ruyter, Luca M. Visconti, and Martin Wetzels."The Extended Transportation-Imagery Model: A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers' Narrative Transportation." Journal of Consumer Research: February 2014. For more information, contact Tom van Laer (tvanlaer@escpeurope.eu) or visit http://ejcr.org/.
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Ash (Aska): Film Review
The Bottom Line
Straightforward account of life after global news teams lost interest
Venue
Reykjavik International Film Festival, Icelandic Panorama
Director
Herbert Sveinbjornsson
REYKJAVIK — Following three agricultural families through the aftermath of 2010's devastating volcanic eruptions in Iceland, Herbert Sveinbjornsson's Ash offers long-term coverage of what for Americans was a news-cycle blip most significant for its effect on global air traffic. The in-depth doc lacks a broad appeal that could justify Stateside theatrical bookings, but festivals, particularly those with an environmental slant, should take notice.
After a vivid account of what it's like to live near a volcano as it erupts, the film moves on to cleanup. We get to know three farming families whose situations are quite different: One who has worked their land for generations, one for whom farming is a new calling, and one working unrelated jobs in the city as they try to get a sheep-raising enterprise on its feet.
All have staggering clean-up jobs on their hands. One counts up 400 tons of ash they've trucked off just from around their property's houses, before moving on to the fields. More devastating is mud, which can destroy the soil beneath it. Then there's the "tourist eruption": the cigarettes and beer cans left by around 25,000 city folk and journalists who come out to watch the show.
The families cope with these and other difficulties (like a foreign-currency farm loan that turned onerous after the economic crisis) in different ways. One makes lemonade from lemons, capitalizing on tourists' curiosity by building a volcano study center that happens to be a marketing boon for local produce. When 2011 offers yet another eruption, one must marvel at anyone willing to keep living off such volatile land.
Director-Editor: Herbert Sveinbjornsson
Screenwriters: Hildur Margretadottir, Herbert Sveinbjornsson
Producers: Heather Millard, Herbert Sveinbjornsson
Directors of photography: Hildur Margretadottir, Herbert Sveinbjornsson
Music: Ulfur Eldjarn
No rating, 111 minutes
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Kerry, Karzai extend talks on Afghan-U.S. pact for third round
KABUL (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai extended talks on Saturday as part of a last-ditch effort to negotiate a security pact that would determine, among other things, how many U.S. troops stay after 2014.
Talks had hit a wall over two sticking points that the United States hopes will be ironed out by the end of the month, a deadline previously set for signing the deal.
"We will try to see if we can make a little more progress, which we have been doing," Kerry told reporters and U.S. embassy staff.
Karzai's spokesman, Aimal Faizi, told reporters: "There are still issues we are finalizing, therefore there is a need for a third round of talks this evening."
While the United States is keen to conclude the negotiations quickly, the Afghan president has said the pact can wait until after Afghan elections, due in April.
Progress towards an agreement was made on the first day of talks, on Friday, according to both Afghan and U.S. officials.
An agreement appeared to have been reached on the first of the two sticking points - a U.S. request to run independent counter-terrorism missions on Afghan territory.
The focus of the talks had turned to the second contentious point, a U.S. refusal to guarantee protection from foreign forces, which it wants to avoid as it could require taking offensive action against its ally Pakistan, an Afghan official said.
Most foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and without a deal, the United States could pull out all of its forces in an outcome known as the "zero option", which was unthinkable until a few months ago.
The collapse of similar talks between the United States and Iraq in 2011 - triggered partly by Baghdad's refusal to provide immunity to U.S. soldiers serving there - led to the United States pulling its troops out of the country.
Afghan security has been deteriorating, increasing worry about the country's prospects after Western forces leave. On Saturday, a car bomb killed four people in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Efforts to draw the Taliban into negotiations have come to nothing. The militants say they will fight on until all foreign forces leave and they dismiss Karzai as a U.S. "puppet".
(Reporting by Leslie Wroughton; Writing by Jessica Donati; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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'Fashion Police' Writer Expelled From WGA Accuses Guild of 'Smear Campaign'
Fashion Police writer Larry Amoros reacted Monday after being kicked out of the Writers Guild of America by labeling the organization's actions a "smear campaign," adding that he did not participate in a trial concerning charges again him because "I am allergic to kangaroos."
His reference is to a kangaroo court, which is a term for a mock court where principles of law and justice are disregard or perverted.
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The WGA board expelled Amoros as a member for providing "scab" writing services to E! Entertainment's Fashion Police show while the guild was striking the program -- a violation of the guild's Working Rule 8 -- and fined him about $14,000.
Amoros countered in his statement that he isn't a member of the guild: "How can the WGA throw me out of a club I am not a member of? Next week, I look forward to being expelled from the NFL for not being a football player."
He said he has not been an active member of the WGA since 1998 and, with the exception of a "nominal dues payment" three years ago, has not paid dues for the past 15 years.
Under guild rules and legal precedent, according to a labor lawyer, Amoros can still be fined even if he did resign, so long as the alleged misconduct occurred before he resigned.
Amoros said he formally resigned last month in a letter to WGA president Chris Keyser after the WGA threatened to expel him if he did not meet with Keyser. Amoros described what the guild wanted as "ratting out the other writers on Fashion Police."
That may reflect guild Working Rule 9, which provides that "It shall be the responsibility of every member to report, in confidence to the Guild office, for appropriate action, any violation or abuses of the terms and working standards established by the current Minimum Basic Agreements and Code of Working Rules."
He said the WGA wanted information from him on the eve of its trial against host Joan Rivers. Those charges were later resolved.
Amoros said the guild held a trial against him for failing to participate in what the guild said was an investigation during a strike on a nonunion show.
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He said that, as a nonmember, he felt he had no obligation to participate in what he calls "a witch hunt." He said he had a right not to walk off Fashion Police when the strike was called April 17, which he says was his right under NLRB rules.
"I didn't attend because I am allergic to kangaroos," said Amoros, adding: "The purpose was transparent -- throw the striking writers, who have been out of work for more than six months, a bone."
"I'm saddened that my talented colleagues are being used as pawns by the WGA West leadership in its war against E! and that this never- ending folly has cost them work and deprived people of their talent and humor," Amoros said. "The WGA West has been carrying on like this for months, and it seems that all it has done is wasted time, money, cost writers work, created ill will."
The WGA responded: "When the strike at Fashion Police was sanctioned by the WGAW on April 17 and the work stoppage order was issued, Mr. Amoros was a current member who, as he noted, was behind in his dues. That did not excuse him from the obligations laid out in the Guild's constitution and Working Rules. We acknowledge that he submitted a resignation e-mail on Sept. 21, 2013, however, the disciplinary action was based on conduct he committed before he decided to resign."
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Monday, October 14, 2013
Canton Real Estate and Canton Homes for sale ...
Canton Real Estate and Canton Homes for sale
Located at northern part of Georgia, in the Northern portion of the Atlanta real estate market, the city of Canton features various types of real estate properties. Canton Real Estate and Canton Homes properties can be found for rent or for sale. Among these types of properties, you can find vacant land, residential properties and commercial properties.
Canton Real Estate
The buying and selling market for property has been continuous active for the city of Canton Georgia for the past few years. As of October 2010, there are over 1,800 properties for sale within Canton and over 1,100 properties that have recently sold in the past year. This trend shows that this market has various options of listing and buying properties to be very active in this part of Georgia.
Canton Homes for sale
This activity in the building market in Canton is very impressive considering the population that resides there. According to the 2008 United States Census Bureau, there was over 2,700 households in Canton Georgia for the year 2008. The realty market appears to have grown considerably in just the last few years.
The price value of realty and homes for Canton has fluctuated in the past five years. Today, the average value of homes in Canton Georgia continues to drop as many other home values in Georgia and across the nation. Last year they experienced only a 1.2% drop in home value but a 16% drop over the last 5 years which can be measured as a small or great decrease depending on what area you are comparing it to.
Canton Homes for sale
Of all the various types of homes and realty properties found within Canton Real Estate, there is almost equilibrium of houses being sold in comparison to houses being bought. This can be a positive outlook for someone interested in investing, buying, or selling property there. They will be able to find a great range of properties for sale with a fairly good value. Selling property, however, may be a bit more challenging with all the options out there.
The lovely Georgian town of Canton lies in Cherokee county, in the north of the state, up against the Blue ridge Mountains. As the county town it has a population of some 22,000, and has long been famous as the town that originated the Canton Denim. Canton real estate and Canton Homes have since boomed, and busted, in this area.
Canton became best known for its massive growth during the property boom of the last decade the fastest growing city in Georgia, not to mention one of the 5 fastest growing cities in the US. It has made the most of its location to pull in investment and government assistance to redevelop itself after it lost much of its industry.
Canton bungalow
With the large capital investment came jobs, and major property expansion the development of leisure facilities at the Heritage Park helped cement the great leisure and recreation opportunities of the Blue Ridge Mountain area.
Then came the bust- and Canton real estate and Canton Homes suffered badly in the property crash of 2008; it was in Georgia that much of the debt fueled property speculation occurred. Nearly 1800 homes are being foreclosed here now, out of 2600 homes that are up for sale; all of that from a total number of households of 7500.
Canton Mansion
There have been big declines in property prices, and even over the last 12 months prices have fallen by 4%. That said, prices are still higher here than across much of Georgia, with the average home value estimated at $215,000, and the falls have not been as severe.
The market can be seen as one of significant opportunity there a great number of new build properties, many larger and more luxurious, and they can be bought for historically low prices; some 20% less than the peak prices of 2008.
So if you have cash to burn, and are looking not just for a great family home, and a wonderful location, but for a real long-term property investment, it may be that Canton is the place for you.
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Canton Georgia is a Real Estate Hot-SpotThe investing, renting, selling and buying market for Canton real estate and Canton homes is currently a very active market. Canton is located in northern Georgia and has property listings for residential properties, commercial properties, and vacant land.While browsing the various types of properties available there, one may be amazed ...
Cherokee County Real Estate consists of Woodstock,Canton,Towne Lake & Ball GroundThe Cherokee County Real Estate market consists of five great cities. Woodstock, Towne Lake, Canton, and Ball Ground. Each city has plenty of what Atlanta Metro home buyers are looking for. There are plenty of great Canton homes for sale with mountain views, or Woodstock real estate in gated communities. ...
Cherokee County homes make for some strong Atlanta Real EstateCherokee County has been one the Atlanta real estate market's shining stars over the last 3-5 years. With home sales quadrupling during this time frame, the county has sustained solid growth event through the downturn in the national market. With majestic views to the Blue Ridge Mountains, winding rivers, and great ...
There are always some great homes available in the Canton real esate marketCanton real estate is a great market to be a part of. There is a great selection of homes, commercial property and land. Shopping is now abundant, along with entertainment and recreation. Canton currently has some great homes on the market. Re-sales, new construction, and foreclosures and short sales round ...
Canton Homes Offer Many Different Styles and ConstructionCanton, Georgia offers home buyers many different options in their search for the perfect home. With many different styles, construction, and settings, there is always something to please everybody. Below are some examples of what type of Canton real estate is offered in this market. Canton Home Style - What style Canton ...
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