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Superbank Goldman Sachs' second-quarter earnings are down 82 percent from the last quarter. Meanwhile, employee compensation is down somewhat from last year. Though Goldman's stock perplexingly rose as this news broke, the story's still enough to get finance bloggers wondering: is the public's favorite--and famously successful--Wall Street villain finally faltering?

  • Decline About Environment, Not Goldman  Economist Hugh Johnson tells Marketplace that "the earnings really reflect the fact that things changed in this world of ours in the second quarter and they changed for the worse, unfortunately. Investors became very very concerned about what the future has in store."
  • Predictable Fall, Rebound Expected  Richard Bove of Rochdale Research says Goldman's financial advisory business "is expected to recover in the third quarter and throughout next year ... [Goldman's] backlogs are solid. The third quarter is starting off with good results." Meanwhile, Goldman's "most important business," trading, may have declined due to "the uncertainty that developed in the quarter related to European finances and fears of a new economic downturn in the United States." The decline probably won't continue, says Bove, mostly because "money is building in investors' hands and it must be put to work."
  • 'Chinks in Goldman's Shining Armor,' The Wall Street Journal's Michael Corkery dubs the news. Nevertheless, he also highlights three reasons investors "may believe that Goldman hasn't completely lost its money-making touch." Goldman, he explains, despite declining from its previous performance, still outperformed J.P. Morgan and others in both trading and equity. It remains on top in mergers and acquisitions, as well.
  • 'Looking Human'  Felix Salmon admits that "for the time being, this is just one bad quarter," and top management are likely doing "everything they can" to reverse the downward tick. Nevertheless, in Goldman's comments to the press about "worry about global growth," he sees evidence of the sort of"lazy" finger-pointing Goldman didn't used to have to do. " This quarter, at least," Salmon writes, "Goldman is just another bank: it’s not special any more." If they have more quarters like this one,Goldman stock will drop and the bank will "stop being able to hire anyone it likes."


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One would think the side to take in the Gawker-versus-child-pornography-on-Reddit war would be an easy choice, but Gawker writer Adrien Chen's ban from the site has led to an Internet divide over the matter. A number of Reddit site moderators, for example (and maybe obviously), have rallied behind Violentacraz, who managed Reddit's "jailbait" section, which eventually got shut down because of a photo of a 14-year-old performing oral sex. In addition to the original list of subreddits seeking to erase Gawker media from their threads, the subreddit r/BanGawker, which posted a plea to ban Gawker links, has convinced a total of 28 threads to block all Gawker sites because of Chen's supposed threat to identify Violentacraz in a blog post. (It's worth noting that Reddit the site did not ban Gawker.) "Moderators are free to moderate their subreddits as they see fit," Reddit’s general manager Erik Martin told Betabeat's Jessica Roy. "They can ban all usernames that start with the letter g if they want.") This has escalated to far more than a Reddit-versus-Chen brawl, with Reddit attempting to protect its users' anonymity (and right to post inappropriate pics) and the rest of the Internet trying to protect themselves from those users.

Chen isn't the only one attempting to expose the people behind the inappropriate stuff that gets posted on Reddit. In an attempt to take down the subreddit r/CreepShots—where Redditors post photos of women (often in bikinis) without their permission—a female Reddit user started the Tumblr Predditors. Similar to Chen's possible outing of Violentacraz, the site attempts to provide accountability, matching real-life human identities to Reddit handles, outing "sexual predators that use Reddit." The site has worked, to an extent, getting r/CreepShots taken down because of a supposed personal threat to one of its moderators following a post written by Katie J.M. Baker at Jezebel (another Gawker media site) about Predditors.

As relentless anonymous Internet users, Redditors, however, believe they have a right to their creeps and their kiddie porn, even if they probably wouldn't do what they're doing if everyone knew their identity. The photos are legal, Reddit's moderators argue. "When you are in public, you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. We kindly ask women to respect our right to admire your bodies and stop complaining," explained the r/CreepShots subreddit. But, the legal implications actually aren't so clear. Because of Predditors police are now pursuing a Redditor for taking photos of his students and posting them online, wrote Baker. As for the jailbait section, one legal expert said he found nothing illegal on it, Jeffrey Toobin told Anderson Cooper on CNN. But another called the photos of scantily clad kids "borderline." With no clear-cut illegality, people believe they have a right to post these unsavory photos, and instead of just stopping, they have created a CreepShots part deux, r/CreepSquad, as you can see to the right. There, CreepSquad posters are urged, "Please stay safe. When posting here, we strongly suggest that you use an alternative account or, at the very least, delete personally identifiable information about you that you may have posted in your comments," explains moderator POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS

But this isn't just about the law. "Will Redditors want to take photos of unsuspecting girls and women if they know they might actually face IRL repercussions, regardless of whether they've committed a criminal offense?" wondered Baker. Apparently not, which is why we have seen such a strong reaction from the Reddit community following Chen's supposed threat.

Unable to stand up to Baker's assertion, Redditors have instead resorted to the following plea: "Please don't take reddit outside of reddit." This "what happens on Reddit stays on Reddit" philosophy suggests Redditors believe their postings aren't subject to the laws of Webland. As The Awl's Choire Sicha so eloquently explains, that's not how the Internet works. Reddit users probably shouldn't post things if they're uncomfortable with someone doing a little Google sleuthing.


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“Think of it as an ecosystem where all the applications live together,” says Neesha Hathi, describing Schwab Advisor Services’ nascent Intelligent Integration approach to its technology platform for RIAs who custody with Schwab. In an interview in Schwab’s San Francisco headquarters on Oct. 5, Hathi, Schwab vice president for Advisor Technology Solutions, described the philosophy behind this new approach.

By the time you read this, in fact, Schwab’s Bernie Clark will have announced the first “partners” for the ecosystem, which will include more than one CRM system which has been vetted by Schwab and will integrate with Schwab’s platform. In a separate interview the same day, Clark called the Intelligent Integration project “mostly about workflow, mostly about efficiency.” Schwab’s plan, he said, is to “overlay technology that uses your [existing] technology, and use your CRM as your navigator, making sure that all of our information flows through that single point of entry.”

Hathi further explained the approach and the philosophy during the interview.

What do you actually call this “Intelligent Integration?” A “platform?” Why start with CRM?
We do call it a platform, but I think of it as an ecosystem, a network of different providers. Advisors often use our technology consultants to help them think about portfolio management—“I’ve been using this application for 20 years or so, should I change?” There are so many applications, and instead of using one or two like they might have 10 years ago, now they’re using five or six. It causes complexity and frustration.

With my strategy background [Hathi formerly headed strategy for Schwab’s advisor group], we asked ourselves that if advisors want to grow, which we continue to hear is their top priority, then how do we help them grow in an increasingly competitive environment? How do we help them get their shops in shape so that when growth comes back, they can scale their offices to be more efficient?

We decided we should work through this selection process of providers, so when they choose a provider, they know it has some legitimacy in the marketplace, and that [their software] works well with the applications that they’re already using...

We decided we should focus on creating choice in the marketplace, creating relationships with a few different providers, but also create integration with those providers…

So the Intelligent Integration principles have always been about creating high quality integration with a number of providers, a few in each category that we identified, and making sure that it’s not just technology integration, but helping the advisor work through the process of selection, implementation, of “How do I change my workflow? How do I change my business to take advantage of that integration?”

Ten years ago, those applications would have been just their custodian’s platform and their portfolio management systems. Now, the application most used is their CRM system. So we asked, how do we make that more powerful, how do we bring data to the CRM? The approach is all designed to improve an advisor’s workflow, to help advisors act out of the CRM.

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Will these applications live on the cloud? How will they integrate?
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Instead, for [application] designers, we’re putting out a best practices workflow. There’s lots of validation we’re doing; it’s more costly but this approach provides better integration. We’ll have a place where all Web-based services can live, and where the applications providers will plug in.

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I was struck by the answer Richard Dawkins gave to the audience member question "What if you're wrong?" (many copies of this have been on Youtube for ages) being so quickly pecked at and unpicked by theists as not being an answer at all.  Of course, "we" knew what he meant, but he obviously didn't pick the killer sound-bite sentence or two 'come back'.

So, what's an excellent winning quick-fire answer that could only be understood as an answer and doesn't require too much thinking time on the part of the person being answered?

(Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, I couldn't find it if it was.)

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Emphasis on "rational people". It doesn't work in practical cases.
Hmm...You have a point there, but hey, do any non-rational people deserve any attention or care?
Do you think you're very rational when answering a "what if" question like you did?
Actually, I do, since I'm pretty convinced that I am right.
Okay, I'll be honest. I have no idea what I'd say, because I have never been confronted with that question before.
But since I'm not really the kind of man who thinks he should still give evidence for things that are -logically speaking- obviously true, I would just give that answer and see what comes next.
You're answering the question "What if you're wrong?" with "I'm not, you are." ?
Oh, wait, did I write "you are?" sorry, I meant to say only "I'm not".
Must be tiredness taking over.
Oh, hang on, I get what you're saying now. Gah, I'm so tired I can't even focus anymore!

Okay, here it goes, the good explanation, I'll try to make myself as clear as possible here. So don't shoot me if it's not really...well...understandable.

Okay, WHAT IF I'm wrong?

IF I'm wrong, I'll still be standing in front of "god" and I will know that I have enjoyed my life.
IF I'm wrong, and god tells me I'm a bad person, he must be out of his mind.
IF I'm wrong, and I get sent to hell, well, I guess I'll just do what humans have been doing for ages: adapt and overcome.
Hell ain't a bad place to be, Ethiopia is, Haiti is, Iraq is, America is. They're all bad places, but hell isn't one of them.

That's what I would say.

Sorry for my earlier (quite dumb and stupid) comments, but the exams are happening now and all this studying is kind of messing with my head...
If I am wrong I will call whatever monster that sits before me a cold hearted coward before trying to destroy it with my bare hands. They weren't worthy of us, not the other way around.
They weren't worthy of us, not the other way around.

I really like this.
My quick answer: "If I'm wrong, I'll admit it and move on."

If the question implies "what if you're wrong and burn in Hell?" My answer would be, "I resolved before I lost my faith that it would be better to burn in Hell than to grovel before such a demon as people call 'God'."
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TV Pitchman Billy Mays Found Dead at Home

In this Dec. 6, 2002 file photo,TV pitchman Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home. Tampa police say Mays, the television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50.

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TAMPA | Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.

Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was hit on the head when an airplane he was on made a rough landing Saturday, and Mays' wife told investigators the TV personality didn't feel well before he went to bed that night.

There were no signs of a break-in at the home, and investigators do not suspect foul play, said Lt. Brian Dugan of the Tampa Police Department, who wouldn't answer any more questions about how Mays' body was found because of the ongoing investigation. The coroner's office expects to have an autopsy done by Monday afternoon.

Mays' wife, Deborah Mays, told investigators that her husband had complained he didn't feel well before he went to bed some time after 10 p.m. Saturday night, Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.

"Although Billy lived a public life, we don't anticipate making any public statements over the next couple of days," Deborah Mays said in a statement Sunday. "Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times."

U.S. Airways confirmed Sunday that Mays was among the passengers on a flight that made a rough landing on Saturday afternoon at Tampa International Airport, leaving debris on the runway after apparently blowing its front tires.

Tampa Bay's Fox television affiliate interviewed Mays after the incident.

"All of a sudden as we hit you know it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping," MyFox Tampa Bay quoted him as saying. "It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head."

McElroy said linking Mays' death to the rough landing Saturday afternoon would "purely be speculation." She said Mays' family members didn't report any health issues with the pitchman, but they said he was due to have hip replacement surgery in the coming weeks.

Born William Mays in McKees Rocks, Pa., on July 20, 1958, Mays developed his style demonstrating knives, mops and other "as seen on TV" gadgets on Atlantic City's boardwalk. For years he worked as a hired gun on the state fair and home show circuits, attracting crowds with his booming voice and genial manner.

After meeting Orange Glo International founder Max Appel at a home show in Pittsburgh in the mid-1990s, Mays was recruited to demonstrate the environmentally friendly line of cleaning products on the St. Petersburg-based Home Shopping Network.

Commercials and informercials followed, anchored by the high-energy Mays showing how it's done while tossing out kitschy phrases like, "Long live your laundry!"

Recently he's been seen on commercials for a wide variety of products and is featured on the reality TV show "Pitchmen" on the Discovery Channel, which follows Mays and Anthony Sullivan in their marketing jobs. He's also been seen in ESPN ads.

His ubiquitousness and thumbs-up, in-your-face pitches won Mays plenty of fans. People line up at his personal appearances for autographed color glossies, and strangers stop him in airports to chat about the products.

"I enjoy what I do," Mays told The Associated Press in a 2002 interview. "I think it shows."

Mays liked to tell the story of giving bottles of OxiClean to the 300 guests at his wedding, and doing his ad spiel ("powered by the air we breathe!") on the dance floor at the reception. Visitors to his house typically got bottles of cleaner and housekeeping tips.

As part of "Pitchmen," Mays and Sullivan showed viewers new gadgets such as the Impact Gel shoe insert; the Tool Band-it, a magnetized armband that holds tools; and the Soft Buns portable seat cushion.

"One of the things that we hope to do with 'Pitchmen' is to give people an appreciation of what we do," Mays told The Tampa Tribune in an interview in April. "I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell."

Discovery Channel spokeswoman Elizabeth Hillman released a statement Sunday extending sympathy to the Mays family.

"Everyone that knows him was aware of his larger-than-life personality, generosity and warmth," Hillman's statement said. "Billy was a pioneer in his field and helped many people fulfill their dreams. He will be greatly missed as a loyal and compassionate friend."

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ok... So I'm an atheist.. but this was too good not to repost.
"Billy Mays here for new Oxi-clean pearly gate cleaner.

Is your salvation tarnished ? Your eternity looking a bit dingy ?

Make your here ever after shine with new Oxi-clean pearly gate cleaner !

Why, just listen to this satisfied customer, Saint Peter himself:

"I don't know which is more surprising... That he made it up here or that I bought this crap."

Yes folks, try it today and we'll throw in a package of new 'Angel-brite'. Keep those wings heavenly white and smelling as fresh as day one in the garden of Eden...

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Comment by Gaytor on June 28, 2009 at 6:50pm
Billy Mays here, half used baggie of coke left over available for 29.95! Here's how to order!
Comment by Tres Cool on June 28, 2009 at 9:35pm
One down, now there's about 10 more of these annoying jerkoffs I'd like to see gone. How about the Sham Wow guy? Or the Geico lizzard. Oh please gawd, strike down the Cavemen. Oh and I hope the whole Head-On factory gets food poisoning.
Comment by Reggie on June 28, 2009 at 11:34pm
But wait! There's no more!
Comment by Andres Kazan on June 29, 2009 at 1:15am
I'm an atheist too, but I think the comments are kinda disrespectful...
Comment by Misty: Baytheist Living! on June 29, 2009 at 7:09am
Yeah.. I don't wanna see anyone die..(but if they are already dead, I suppose it's not that bad.)
Dan- I still <3 you.
Tres Cool- Well, I don't even know who you are, so I can't un <3 you.
Comment by Reggie on June 29, 2009 at 7:40am
Hernan - I can understand your point, but as an atheist, I don't see the point in being overly glum and reverent about death. As a humanist, I think that towards relatives and friends of the deceased one should be compassionate and respectful for they are mourning the loss of a loved one. But I don't see how death changes anything about what one might say about a person if they were alive. Respect the dead? Why? Will they haunt me? No, I'd rather respect the living, unless they are undeserving.

Perhaps this would be a good topic of discussion?
Comment by Andres Kazan on June 29, 2009 at 8:48am
It certainly is. I just blogged about this: link
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Ha Ha! I totally called the Coke use! Story Link

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what's with the obsession with "selfies" and snapping other pictures with cellphones at ballgames. I can see it a little bit if you're at the Super Bowl, but exactly what's the point of taking a bunch of meaningless pictures at an ordinary event? Do they people want to record every aspect of their life? Are they that self-absorbed?

I've been to games where my buddies spend more time taking pictures and posting them to Facebook DURING THE GAME than actually watching and enjoying the game. And what's the point? To show your silly Facebook friends that you went to a game???

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Minnesota and 'cute girls' usually do not go together...
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10 if you add the three together
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That was kinda cute. All three chicks are solid.
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The mouth breather behind them. :yack:
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Prof. Beinart’s new book, The Crisis of Zionism, is mostly quite good, but I fear that he–along with a majority of our dovish pro-Israel camp–may understate the extent to which episodes of Palestinian violence (e.g., Hamas and Islamic Jihad attacks during the 1990s, the frightful toll on Israelis of the Second Intifada, and the intermittent rocket and other attacks from Gaza following Israel’s unilateral withdrawal in 2005) have undermined the trust of a majority of Israelis in the utility of peacemaking–even as Israel’s counter-measures have further alienated many Palestinians from faith in a negotiated peace.

Still, his depiction of the failures at Camp David in 2000, the pernicious and inexorable advances of the settlement movement and the ways in which Prime Minister Netanyahu resists a deal that would require a major curtailment of settlements, humbling Pres. Obama in the process—all seem spot on. Since a deal has especially been possible after Abbas replaced Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab League has been offering a regional peace since 2002, this is all very sad and maddening.

I share Beinart’s concern for Israel’s future if a two-state agreement is not reached soon. This is not because I think a one-state solution is a viable alternative, but because I think it is not. One state, whether as an ongoing status quo of occupation, with Israel ruling indefinitely over several million non-Israeli Arabs, or if a unified one-person/one-vote regime is imposed in all of Israel and the Palestinian territories, would mean either Jews or Arabs ruling the roost over the other. In the long run, and we don’t know if this means ten years or 50 or more, it is the Arabs who will likely win out, but at a terrible cost.

One would not have expected this line of thought from the editor of The New Republic magazine from 1999 to 2006, known as unwavering in its support for Israeli policies under his then-boss, Marty Peretz, the former publisher and editor-in-chief of TNR. He has sharply turned away from his and TNR’s support for the Iraq war in 2003, but it’s unclear to me if he has also strayed from the internationalist-liberal hawkishness that defined his first book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals – and Only Liberals – Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again. According to Wikipedia, this book attempted a difficult synthesis (a project I sympathize with, by the way, even as I wince at that overweening book title):

… Beinart argued that, paradoxically, the only way for America to distinguish itself from the predatory imperial powers of the past is to acknowledge our own capacity for evil. Acknowledging our own moral fallibility, Beinart argued, would lead America to embed its power within structures of domestic and international law. This, Beinart argues, was the great accomplishment of early cold war liberals like Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and Harry Truman. The Bush administration, by contrast, carried on the tradition of right-wing anti-totalitarianism – exemplified by cold war intellectuals like James Burnham – which warned that recognizing America’s fallibility would lead to crippling self-doubt.

I apparently would find much to agree within his second book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, HarperCollins, 2010, as depicted in this same Wikipedia article:

… according to George Packer in The New Yorker.., [Beinart] “look[ed] back at the past hundred years of U.S. foreign policy in the baleful light of recent events [and found] the ground littered with … the remnants of large ideas and unearned confidence [as demonstrable in] a study of three needless wars”, the First World War, Vietnam, and Iraq. … WWI, Vietnam and Iraq were presented as each “based on an oversimplifying ism – Progressivism, liberal anti-Communism, and neoconservativism – and … respectively, the hubris of reason, the hubris of toughness, and the hubris of dominance.”

Beinart’s view of the closed-minded rigidity of most Jewish community organizations on the one hand and the growing embarrassment and alienation of liberal American Jews regarding Israel on the other, also seems correct. Yet I find his suggestion that public education authorities subsidize general academic subjects in Jewish day schools, so that new generations can afford having a good Jewish education outside of a right-wing Orthodox environment, a non-starter (and off-topic).

I fully understand the logic of his proposal for a “Zionist BDS” to engage in an economic boycott of West Bank settlements in order to emphasize the illegitimacy of the settlement enterprise and to blunt the fundamentally anti-Israel intent of the leadership of the international BDS movement. I see this as making a moral statement and helping to define the issues, rather than a practical way to break the logjam.

I agree on the need to emphasize the legitimacy of Israel within the Green Line, even taking into account Israel’s imperfections, and similarly take issue with the international BDS movement for its semi-hidden agenda to undermine Israel as a majority Jewish state. Aside from this, Israel’s unequal treatment of its Arab citizens does not rise to the level of legislated segregation and disenfranchisement that was true in South Africa; primarily, this inequality is in the underfunding of Israel’s Arab towns and villages and in not insuring Arab citizens equal access to housing and jobs. But apartheid is uncomfortably closer to the truth in the West Bank, where Arabs have no citizenship rights and are systematically denied equal rights and protection under the law.

Yet Israel is nowhere nearly as vulnerable to an international boycott as apartheid South Africa was; for one thing, unlike South African whites, Israeli Jews are not a small minority in their own country. For another, most Israelis (and Israel’s American supporters) dig in their heels when they feel under attack. Any kind of boycott action, including “Zionist BDS” that only targets West Bank settlements, tends to get lumped together as anti-Israel.

And I’m not just speaking of right-wingers. Hence, there’s the bristling reaction to his book that we see even among some liberal-ish writers and editors, as discussed in a long, insightful article in New York magazine. But I think it’s really only right-wingers who have questioned Beinart’s loyalty and passion as a Jew. (He happens to attend an Orthodox shul and to send his children to a Conservative Jewish day school.)

I know from my own experience that you have to have a thick skin. It’s not easy going against the grain and being an iconoclast. But it’s the right thing to do–and not just for moral reasons–but to promote a pathway for a more secure and better future for Israel and for ourselves as Jews in the Diaspora.

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Latitude: 4° 03' South
Longitude: 39° 40' East
Initial heading:205.8°South-southwestSouth-southwest
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Latitude: 25° 45' South
Longitude: 28° 11' East
Initial heading:28.8°North-northeastNorth-northeast
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Mombasa (Kenya)Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 8:00:21 PM
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Distance from Norderstedt to Douglas

Distance is 950 kilometers or 590 miles or 513 nautical miles

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Latitude: 53° 42' North
Longitude: 9° 60' East
Initial heading:278.8°WestWest
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Latitude: 54° 09' North
Longitude: 4° 29' West
Initial heading:87.1°EastEast
Final heading:98.8°EastEast

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Norderstedt (Germany - Schleswig-Holstein)Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 6:11:34 PM
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Distance from Euskirchen to Havana

Distance is 7996 kilometers or 4968 miles or 4317 nautical miles

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Latitude: 50° 40' North
Longitude: 6° 47' East
Initial heading:284.5°West-northwestWest-northwest
Final heading:221.9°SouthwestSouthwest

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Latitude: 23° 08' North
Longitude: 82° 22' West
Initial heading:41.9°NortheastNortheast
Final heading:104.5°East-southeastEast-southeast

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Euskirchen (Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia)Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 6:59:04 PM
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Distance from Bissau to São Paulo

Distance is 5174 kilometers or 3215 miles or 2794 nautical miles

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Latitude: 11° 52' North
Longitude: 15° 35' West
Initial heading:220.6°SouthwestSouthwest
Final heading:224.0°SouthwestSouthwest

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Latitude: 23° 33' South
Longitude: 46° 38' West
Initial heading:44.0°NortheastNortheast
Final heading:40.6°NortheastNortheast

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Bissau (Guinea-Bissau)Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 4:09:04 PM
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Distance from Worcester to Passaic

Distance is 249 kilometers or 154 miles or 134 nautical miles

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Latitude: 42° 16' North
Longitude: 71° 48' West
Initial heading:231.9°SouthwestSouthwest
Final heading:230.4°SouthwestSouthwest

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Latitude: 40° 52' North
Longitude: 74° 08' West
Initial heading:50.4°NortheastNortheast
Final heading:51.9°NortheastNortheast

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Worcester (U.S.A. - Massachusetts)Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 12:53:34 PM
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Distance from Saarbrücken to Ennepetal

Distance is 231 kilometers or 144 miles or 125 nautical miles

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Latitude: 49° 14' North
Longitude: 6° 60' East
Initial heading:6.3°NorthNorth
Final heading:6.6°NorthNorth

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Latitude: 51° 18' North
Longitude: 7° 22' East
Initial heading:186.6°SouthSouth
Final heading:186.3°SouthSouth

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Saarbrücken (Germany - Saarland)Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 6:22:07 PM
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Creating bold, sexy and diverse styles for the impossibly slim (male and female), Soda embellishes core items such as jeans and Ts with innovative sequinned, printed and see-through fabrics. Branch in Emporium.

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Polpo Smithfield

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This Venetian-inspired mini-chain of déshabillé bàcari doesn’t seem out of place on a street lined with food industry behemoths, though how long its carefully conceived decor (old Underground-style tiling, tongue-and-groove panelling, Anaglypta ceiling) can maintain the veneer of individuality will be interesting to see. We like Polpo on the whole – there are many reasons to do so. You don’t have to dress up, the menu of small plates is flexible, food is served all afternoon and until gone 11pm most days, and water is brought to the table without asking. The kitchen’s unfussy cooking doesn’t aim high and therefore often exceeds expectations. Fennel is a favourite ingredient, whether it’s the spice featured in salami and meatballs, or the bulb used in salads. Cicchetti of sweet grilled fennel with white anchovy was a lovely start to a meal that was hard to fault. Tender pillows of pink-middled grilled lamb came on a juicy basil- and caper-flavoured caponata that was more tomatoey than sweet-sour but delicious nonetheless. Staff were keen and chirpy, but had no clue about the specials board, from which we eventually chose a ricotta and cherry semifreddo with comforting biscuity texture. As with the other branches (Soho, Covent Garden), there’s also a bar in the basement.

Venue name: Polpo Smithfield
Address: 2-3 Cowcross Street
Opening hours: Bar Open 5.30-11.30pm Mon-Sat.Restaurant Meals served noon-11.30pm Mon-Sat; noon-4pm Sun
Transport: Barbican tube or Farringdon tube/rail
Price: Dishes £3-£14

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A fantastic Italian restaurant – I've had a number of great meals here…. It serves delicious little dishes of Italian delights (the meatballs are my favourite) and carafes of wonderful wine- you won’t be disappointed.

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We ate there last week and had a super meal - worth having the squid and the meatballs!. The highlight was the bruschetta and the pizette so strongly urge you to try those. The only niggle was the glass of white wine which was a little warm - and replaced without any fuss when we mentioned it. Would certainly return.

I visited Smithfield Polpo a few weeks ago left incredibly disappointed. The hot food we ordered arrived cold, borderline frozen in the case of the meatballs. We sent it back and received the meatballs again just a degree or two warmer. We also had octopus which was like chewing through truck tires. I had altered the waiter of an allergy yet I took a mouthful of salad to discover it was covered in the very thing I was allergic to, later on I spent the rest of my evening being quite sick. As well as bad food we also experienced long waits - desert took 35 mins to arrive despite there only being 6 of us in the entire restaurant at the time. The staff were not very apologetic and I would not recommend this restaurant to friends or family.

I left Polpo very disappointed last night. The evening had stated off well: I sat down at the last available table available so I didn't have to queue. While waiting for my friends to arrive, I had the chance to appreciate the very welcoming and stylish setting, with brick walls illuminated by a soft candle light. Scanning though the menu though, I was surprised to see very few dishes belonging to the venetian tradition. Where are my sarde in saor? What about my portion of baccala mantecato? The plates offered could have been found in any other tapas bistro, boasting pork belly and meatballs. To add to my disappointment, my drink, an aperol spritz, was not stirred and was served with lemon instead of a slice of orange(!). When I tweeted the mistake to the restaurant, they referred its recipe to a cafe in venice.. making a spelling mistake with the italian. Friendly service, overpriced and mediocre food. Don't think I will come back.

Disappointed by our return visit to Polpo in Smithfield. My husband and I were given a table in a tight spot leaving little room for movement. Some of the dishes were lukewarm (roast potatoes) although we were not charged for them as we complained, some dishes were good but others mediocre. We did not feel full at the end despite spending £80 for 2 including wine. On a previous visit, we were a group of 12 and were asked to sit very tightly together until they finally agreed to give us an additional table.

So another Polpo! Polpo has always done its thing rather well. It's a decent stab at authentic Venetian dining, small plates, good flavours. Sure the food is probably not going to win any major awards anytime soon - but to go to Polpo jut for the food is not really the attraction. Polpo soho has created a charming ambience with a real buzz that does faithfully evoke the sense of being in a local Venetian haunt. Polpo Smithfield is the exact opposite of this. What should be an informal, buzzing place to eat has now become a dry, soulless lunchtime crush for City types. At lunch I was surrounded by a seething collection of self-important, secretary screwing, boozing city pricks - consuming vast quantities before thrusting their cards at the waitresses. Polpo Smithfields appears to located solely to make money - and it will, but the atmosphere and life of Polpo Soho are non existent in this rather sad setup

Extremely overpriced despite the reviews. I don't understand why Polpo os so successful in London.

Went for lunch expecting great food following reviews of the Polpo restaurant in Soho. I was hugely dissapointed. Whilst the menu looks enticing, the actual food is terrible. No flavour at all. We ordered a rabbit salad which tasted more like plain lettuce with boiled chicken. Octopus salad lacked a decent marinade. The only OK dish was a mackarel salad, but nothing special.

Spent an evening here with some friends who were over from China, hoping to impress them since they were last here in the 90s. Sadly, we ended up taking them one of London's most tasteless, overpriced, pretentious places to have ever popped up in our little neighbourhood. Staff were snooty when we arrived, and we got the impression they were doing us a favour by getting us a table. We sat down and ordered 4 main courses, a bottle of wine and side of "garden greens". The garden greens arrived five minutes before the main courses and consisted of a few leaves of cabbage. £5 for that. FIVE POUNDS FOR A BUNCH OF CABBAGE LEAVES. My squid ink risotto lacked any kind of flavour, and my partner's beans could have been made at home by boiling them in plan water for a few minutes. The other main courses were apparently "fine". The wine was overpriced for £20 - compare this to the cracking bottle you could get for that price in Vinoteca around the corner and it's not a great bet. Huge letdown.


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Join us at Mr. Adams Steakhouse, a family friendly restaurant with a large buffet, tasty appetizers, delicious cuts of meat straight from our charcoal grill, chef's special dessert menu, and a long list of wine and beers all served by our excellent and experienced staff. Don't forget to ask about our flaming pineapple served after a fulfilling rodizio meal guaranteed to satisfy any meat lover.

Looking to go out for a few drinks and appetizers? Mr. Adams Steakhouse Sports Bar is a great place to enjoy a night out on the town with friends at our full service sports bar with wrap-around TVs, live music, and a great atmosphere. With our self-pouring draft beer booths and friendly bartenders, we'll help you make it a night to remember.
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I Wish I Said Hello: Making street art out of missed connections

Newly launched online project I Wish I Said Hello invites members of the public to create street art out of missed connections.

Remember when we ran a missed connections competition, and the winning entry was illustrated by author Sophie Blackall? Well here’s your chance to visually portray some of those poignant, public expressions of unrequited love/lust. Lisa Park and Adrià Navarro—the team behind I Wish I Said Hello (iwishisaidhello.org)—have created a street art project based around other people’s crossed paths. Here’s how it works: Choose a suitable missed connection from Craigslist or some other source, making sure it mentions the specific location where the event unfolded. Download the template (which is in the shape of a Google Maps pin) and fill in the details. Print it out and stick it at the site of the missed connection.

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The site launched in May with six stickers proclaiming thoughts like “You caught my eye. Didn’t want to be creepy so I tried not to look your way” and “Next time you bum a smoke, we’re falling in love together” at various Manhattan locations. But Navarro is quick to point out that this is a street art project, not a platform to help people find each other. “Although we would love it if the two main characters passed by our stickers and reconnected, we think the chances of that happening are very low,” he says. Instead, the focus is on the street art itself, and the reactions it provokes in passersby. “There’s something poetic about this desperate hope for the reencounter. Everyone can relate to it, because it’s those little details and everyday encounters that improve our quality of life.”

And if you need more inspiration, check out these selections from Sophie Blackall’s sweetly whimsical book of illustrated Craigslist ads titled Missed Connections: Love, Lost and Found (Workman Publishing, $14). Best subways for street art spotting
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3 New York celebrities to silence with Twitter’s new "mute" function

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In “do we really need this?” news, Twitter is rolling out a mute function, for silencing  tweeters who are grating on your nerves (but who you don’t want to commit to unfollowing, we guess?). And while we’re dubious about the usability of the function, that didn’t stop us from coming up with a list of the three most mutable celeb tweeters around.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwynnie. We love you, we hate you, we love to hate you and hate that we love you. You, miss, are that rare combination of incredibly obnoxious but also not-at-all self-aware, which gives you (and your tweets) an air of self-seriousness rarely found in nature. Everything about Her Goopiness is otherworldy fabulous, and her Twitter is no exception: photos of Gwyneth sitting on a beautiful wood floor pulling on a pair of boots, singing impromptu backup on music royalty Holly Williams’s (as in Hank) tour, feigning awkwardness and discomfort standing next to a huge blown-up portrait of herself. Is there anything she can’t do? Reading GP’s tweets just makes us feel bad about ourselves, so it’s Mute City for this gal.
Alec Baldwin
Jack Donaghy, you will always be our homeboy. But few New Yorkers have been as much in need of a muzzle as Baldwin, who is his own worst enemy when it comes to talking about, well, everything. He’s gotten in trouble on the Interwebs and off (he was arrested just this morning after riding his bike against traffic), and at press time, his latest tweet, at user @patientdoctor (who has just 89 followers), was, “Tony…you’re a douche.” Way to keep it classy, dude.
Lindsay Lohan
Our prodigal Long Island daughter is back on home turf, (hopefully) staying out of trouble under the watchful gaze of Queen Oprah and without the irresistible allure of L.A. unseemliness. To that end, LiLo’s tweets are…kind of a snoozefest. Retweets, shout-outs to her (sort of) famous friends, obviously shilling paid-for endorsements (à la the Kim Kardashian model of tweeting).… Look, if less-than-stellar posts are a symptom of our favorite New York Mean Girl being back on the straight and narrow, then that’s a trade-off we’re willing to take, but we’re sorry, Linds, we’re going to have to mute you.

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Celebrate Independence Day with flair at Nyc's highest rooftop lounge. You'll have a dazzling view of the fireworks from the five terraces this place has to offer. Get tipsy at the open bar and eat all the picnic-themed snacks you'd like from pigs in a blanket to the classic buffalo chicken. And be ready for some of the best burlesque dancers around to strut their stuff just for you!

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Galleria Marina Barovier

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Marina Barovier hosts a collection of classic masterpieces of Venetian 20th-century works in glass and represents numerous renowned artists (local and international) working in glass. It stages a few shows a year. As this guide went to press, Marina Barovier was planning to move her gallery; check the website for details.

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San Marco 3202,
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Bass elected new Coweta County library director on Tuesday

New Coweta County Public Library System Director Jimmy Bass, left, is congratulated by Board of Trustees Chairman Tom Dombrowski, center, and Vice-Chairman Robert Ward.

Jimmy Bass, who was unanimously elected Tuesday as executive director of the Coweta County Public Library System, brings a wealth of experience and a load of enthusiasm to his new position.
"I'm elated and excited," Bass said. "I'm looking for us to continue the good work we've been doing and to improve things as we move forward. We have a great staff and great community support and we are dedicated to serving our customers. My goal is to work hard, work smart and constantly improve."
Bass is a native of Albany, Georgia. His father owned several heating/ air conditioning companies and retail stores. Early on, Bass developed a love for learning and for music. Upon graduating from Riverview Academy, Bass went on to gain degrees from Darton College, Georgia Southwestern University and Florida State University.
While pursuing his education, he continued to work in the family business and started his own rock band which played at universities and clubs throughout the Southeast. The band played many notable events including a bill with popular 1980s band .38 Special. The group even performed for President Jimmy Carter’s birthday. At Florida State, Bass was elected his class president and completed two internships with the State Library of Florida and the Leon County Public Library system.

Upon graduating from FSU with his master’s degree, Bass returned to the Dougherty County Library System in Albany. During his time at Dougherty County, he worked in practically every department before assuming the role of manager at the headquarters library.

Bass became a board member for the Information Access Company and was selected as an original member of the PINES (Public Information Network for Electronic Services) committee. He was chosen to attend Supervisory Leadership academy for Albany/ Dougherty County and was a library representative for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The latter honor gave Bass the opportunity to travel to Seattle and see firsthand how the Microsoft organization operated.

In 2001, Bass married Kelley Wilkinson of Leesburg, Ga. The couple have two children, Spenser and Harris. In 2003, Bass accepted the position of library director for the then Newnan-Coweta Library on Hospital Road in Newnan.

While head of the Newnan-Coweta Public Library, Bass oversaw a $1 million renovation and addition to the library facility, became vice president of the Newnan Kiwanis Club and was selected as a board member for several organizations including Certified Literate is Coweta's Key – CLICK, the Georgia Gold Committee and the Public Library Division of the Georgia Library Association.

As the library became part of the newly formed Coweta County Public Library System, Bass continued on as the head of the rechristened A. Mitchell Powell Jr. Public Library. He focused on programming and used his interest in music to help out, particularly with children’s programming.

He performed music at the library and throughout the Coweta school system for many energetic, happy young children. Bass developed a "Friends" group for the library and developed the idea of the Anne Powell garden, remembering the wife of A. Mitchell Powell Jr. He was also selected to be a part of the inaugural class of the Pinnacle Institute, a statewide program designed for up-and-coming library leaders.

Upon assuming the job of interim director for the Coweta County Public Library System in August 2012, Bass focused first on making a smooth transition for both the public and staff.

After his appointment as the system's new executive director Tuesday evening, Bass said, “We have beautiful buildings, passionate and knowledgeable staff, wonderful support from the county and many exciting pages yet to turn in the successful story of our system. It is my goal to focus on staff development and support, crafty programming and new technologies/ products. Coweta is a thriving, vibrant county and it deserves a library system focused on special service, overall appeal and continuous improvement.”

In his free time, Bass enjoys spending time with his family, playing/ writing music and learning something new every day. His favorite authors include John Connolly, James Lee Burke and Jo Nesbo. Bass’ original music can be found on iTunes and Amazon. He enjoys playing tennis but admits that his wife, daughter and son can beat him. He loves Coweta County, he said, and looks forward to making the library system even better each and every day.

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Those who disagree with the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in the Hobby Lobby birth-control case claim that the decision has opened a Pandora's box that will release medieval religious mayhem on the country.

Life-saving procedures will be denied. Anyone will be able to opt out of any reasonable federal requirement. Religious fundamentalism will be forced upon public school students. Religiously conservative employers will usher in an era in which the role of their female employees will be to remain barefoot and pregnant. And all manner of social ills will be visited upon society.

The response has been as uninformed as it is hyperbolic. If this era of religious oppression were going to happen, would it not have happened over the past 21 years of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, on which the Hobby Lobby case was centered?

In 1993, the RFRA passed the House of Representatives unanimously, and passed through the Senate on a 97-3 vote. It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

Here's what the law states:

"Government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability. ...

"Government may burden a person's exercise of religion only if it demonstrates that application of the burden to the person --

(1) furthers a compelling governmental interest; and

(2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest. ...

(c) A person whose religious exercise has been substantially burdened in violation of this section may assert that violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and obtain appropriate relief against a government. ..."

Under section (c) of the law, the owners of Hobby Lobby challenged the Affordable Care Act's mandate that the corporation's health insurance plans pay for forms of birth control that it considers to be abortifacients: Plan B and "ella" (which are morning-after pills) and two IUDs.

The Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, have religious objections to abortion. The Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote, sided with Hobby Lobby, which by the way offers company-paid access to 16 other forms of birth control — 13 used by women, and three by men.

Lost in the noise of this decision is that those four other forms of birth control are still available to women, including to Hobby Lobby employees, just not at the expense of the corporation's owners. Birth control options — and access to them — are more numerous and varied now than at any time in history. Why the outcry about limits on choices?

Also lost in the shrieking is that this decision — and the RFRA itself — is not about an employer's "oppression" of employees. Are Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, the Amish owned cabinet maker that also was part of this decision, really oppressing their employees? (See below.)

This case is about whether the government may compel individuals to behave in a way that contradicts their religious convictions. That is what should matter here.

And anyone concerned that the RFRA will allow citizens to opt out of federal mandates for any and all "religious" reasons should be reminded that such attempts have been made and have failed. Government "may burden a person's exercise of religion" within certain boundaries. Taxes must be paid and Social Security numbers issued, regardless of attempts at religious exemptions.

Religious convictions?

Now, there are other considerations, specifically when it comes to Hobby Lobby presenting itself as a company that operates on Biblical principles.

True, Hobby Lobby pays its employees above-average wages, provides full-time employees with health and retirement plans, and limits its store hours — including being closed Sundays — so that employees can spend time with their families.

Detractors fail to note these facts. However, they do correctly note that Hobby Lobby engages in other practices that undermine its claim that it operates on Biblical principles.

Notably, its 401(k) plan includes tens of millions of dollars in funds which in turn invest in the makers of the birth control it opposes — and even the maker of a drug that induces abortions. Does the Greens' "religious" opposition to abortion not direct their investments?

Further, the craft store sells items made in China, where working conditions and oppressive family planning policies directly contradict what Hobby Lobby's owners say they believe.

This raises questions about the foundation of Hobby Lobby's RFRA argument. Do its owners really believe what they argued? That is fair challenge to what Hobby Lobby claims, and the corporation's owners should answer to that.