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The evaluation triad of patients with nasal and anterior skull base tumors is the history, the head and neck examination and imaging. The physical examination of the head and neck should include testing all the cranial nerves. These nerves mediate such important functions as vision, smell, swallowing, speech, hearing and balance, and facial movement and sensation. Nasal endoscopy or visualization of the nasal cavities of an optical telescope is another important evaluation tool.

Intraoperative Endoscopic Photograph: Right Nostril

As is shown in the intraoperative endoscopic photograph of the right nose (nasal septum NS) , tumors (tumor [T], neurosurgical cottonoid or sponge [C]) frequently have irregular surfaces, are friable and easily hemorrhage. The third element of the evaluation triad is imaging. Imaging consists of computer tomography (CT) to best visualize the nasal and sinus cavities, and bone and tissues of various densities. However, a sinus filled with either tumor or mucus will appear similar on CT scanning. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) complements CT by better delineating soft tissue from bone, and better visualizing soft tissue and fluid.

MRI of Left Maxillary Sinus

The image of the same patient as seen above illustrates the value of MRI (insert figure- inverting papilloma preop coronal MRI). The patient's left maxillary sinus (L-max) is filled with fluid which is unrelated to the tumor (T) in the right maxillary sinus and nose. On CT scanning the tumor and the fluid within the left maxillary sinus would be indistinguishable from each other, whereas MRI clearly shows two distinct processes. However, MRI does not show the presence or absence of bone as the tumor can spread beyond the nose and sinuses. CT provides this information and together both forms of imaging aid the surgeon in planning treatment.

PET and CT Scan Images

More recently, positron emission tomography (PET) is used to both evaluate the presence of viable tumor and to search for spread of tumor to regional or distant site. Unlike CT or MRI, PET images the metabolic activity of tissues and organs. When PET is combined with CT both structure and metabolic activity are visualized. In the preoperative evaluation of patients who have malignant tumors PET/CT is particularly useful to look for distant disease which would likely preclude surgical removal of the tumor and most likely the patient would be treated with radiation and chemotherapy. For example, the PET/CT of a patient post radiation therapy and maxillectomy for a malignant neoplasm shows tumor (T) within the right ethmoid sinus, orbit and skull base (insert figure- PET scan of C4 metastasis). This patient was being consider for resection of their tumor until the PET scan showed metastasis to the fourth cervical vertebra (C4). In the post-treatment patient PET can help to distinguish to distinguish between recurrent tumor and post-treatment changes on imaging.

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Alida Van Slichtenhorst V. S. Schuyler
Stefan Bielinski

Alida Van Slichtenhorst was born in what became Albany during the first half of the seventeenth century. We seek documentation regarding her origins She probably was not the daughter of Gerrit and Aeltje (Alida) Lansing Van Slichtenhorst - if they indeed were married in 1672.

Her first husband was Gerrit Van Schaick. Their marriage appears to have been childless. She was a principal in their joint will filed in November 1679. By 1681, she was a widow who had married twenty-two-year-old Pieter D. Schuyler. That marriage produced seven or nine children before his untimely death in 1696.

The widow's household was described on the Albany census in 1697 and on subsequent Albany assessment rolls.

Alida Van Slichtenhorst Van Schaick Schuyler lived another fifty-one years She died on December 25, 1748 at age eighty-eight.

the people of colonial Albany The life of Alida Van Slichtenhorst Van Schaick Schuyler is CAP biography number 5877. This profile is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. We are puzzled as to her origins unless she was a daughter of Rensselaerswyck director Brant Van Slichtenhorst. However, some genealogical sources insist she was the daughter of Gerrit and Alida Lansing Van Slichtenhorst.

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Always, when her generation of socialists were questioned by the young about some of the system's absurdities - the Government's evident distrust of the working class, for instance, or the inequality that stared you in the face even as you were reading or hearing about the elimination of class differences - they would take refuge in densely armored arguments about the enmity of the West and the danger of giving too much autonomy to a population that was still under the impress of fascism and not yet politically mature. ''The people are not ready'' - that was the catch-phrase; or, in a slightly more noxious formulation, usually by political officeholders: ''Our people are not ready.'' Now, to judge by the news, the people were more ready than their leaders could have wished in their most secret utopian dreams. And here was this old socialist, Jutte, in complete sympathy with demands that, 10 years ago, would have frightened her as symptoms of imminent collapse.

She prepared an omelette for the two of us, and poured out a good Bulgarian red wine. We watched the evening news while we ate. A Government official was talking to some workers in a factory. ''Here's the new line,'' Jutte said, ''its called 'dialogue.' Watch.''

The workers and the official all wore hard hats, which made them look equal. A worker said: ''If I as a comrade cannot work for change in my own company, I'm in the wrong place.'' This struck me as a very potent statement; for the implied right place, in the absence of a real possibility for change, was either outside the party or outside the country. The official appeared to be in full agreement. Three seconds of personal and political truth - I was amazed. But Jutte shrugged: ''It's not enough.''

The next item was an interview with a worker whose brigade had been exceptionally productive. ''Notice his name,'' Jutte said. The name was Knebel,' which means ''gag.'' The man rambled on about percentage points and socialist initiative while the camera explored his nervous face and dutifully folded hands. ''Here's where everyone switches to the West channel,'' Jutte said.

We talked for a while about personal matters. She was sorry she had not come to New York last year to see my mother before she died. And what was life in New York like these days? I told her: The streets are full of homeless beggars and crazy people. I can no longer take a walk in the evening, for fear of being assaulted; just recently, a young man in my building came home from basketball practice and was held up with a submachine gun; and the whole mess gets covered over with entertainment, the more glitzy and vapid the better, just so no one will have to bear the burden of thinking and feeling. ''You sound bitter,'' she said. ''I'm not usually that way. But there's not much hope for change at the moment.''

''There is here,'' she said. ''Lots of hope.''

BACK IN WEST Berlin that evening, my friend Jan, with whom I was staying for the week, told me a story that cast some light on the way the East German leader and Communist Party boss Erich Honecker used to govern his country. Jan had heard it from an elderly East German woman who was visiting her son, a friend of Jan's, in the West. She was complaining about the inconvenience of being temporarily evicted from her home to make room for a construction crew. Construction? You don't mean maintenance, plumbing? No, there were structural problems, the whole building was falling apart. But those buildings went up in 1972, how could they be collapsing already? Well, this one was. And they had to open up the floors to put up a scaffolding. The floors? Aren't scaffoldings put up outside? Not here - what if Honecker found out? He would be upset. That street was his pride, luxury homes for the masses. He was driven past this house every day on his way to and from work. It had to be hidden. They even hung flags out the windows of the empty apartments on the Day of the Republic.

Jan, incidentally, has a special interest in stories from the East: he used to live there. Six years ago, he fled, via Hungary, and found himself an apartment that would be a five-minute walk from his previous home if the famous Wall with its sharpshooters didn't stand in the way. ''What is the difference for you,'' I asked, ''between one side and the other?''

''A different set of lies,'' he said, ''a different style of hypocrisy. But there's more room for truth here. More oxygen. You can breathe better.'' Unfortunately, Jan could not come with me to test the new air on the other side. He was persona non grata there, excluded from the general amnesty for Republikfluchtige - ''defectors from the Republic'' - for reasons known only to the state security officer in charge of his dossier.

THE NEXT DAY, the border crossing is quick and almost friendly. The sun is out. It promises to be another mellow Indian-summer afternoon. I have an appointment at 11 with Petra, a costume designer. She's going to try to gain me admittance to a rally of theater people at the Deutches Theater.


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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19— Moving on several fronts to capitalize on the afterglow from their conventions, the presidential contenders plan next week to open the biggest television advertising blitzes of their campaigns, in which Gov. George W. Bush will emphasize education and Vice President Al Gore will trumpet himself as a champion of ''working families.''

Both sides said they were preparing for the hectic 80-day marathon to Election Day and had begun making critical decisions about where to campaign and where to funnel resources, including an infusion of nearly $68 million in federal subsidies each.

Mr. Bush is seizing the offensive and plans to advertise and campaign in historically Democratic states. Among the 21 states chosen for an advertising drive that begins on Monday is West Virginia, which Republicans have not carried since 1984. The commercials will also appear in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri, and states like Oregon, Washington and New Mexico, where President Clinton prevailed in 1992 and 1996 but where Mr. Bush thinks his chances are good.

''This is the point at which the campaign pivots,'' said Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief strategist. ''Our focus has been preparing for the conventions. Now we're making major forays onto the turf that the other guy considers his own.''

The commercials lay out Mr. Bush's broad goals for education, including greater local control of schools, stricter standards and increased federal spending to promote reading and strengthen teacher training and math and science.

Gore officials said they would focus largely on the battleground states of the Midwest and make particular appeals to women who seemed enticed by the Republicans. They also said they would continue to cite Mr. Bush's record in Texas as demonstrating his failure to tackle health care for children, improving the environment, gun control and other issues.

''The battle lines are drawn,'' said Robert Shrum, one of Mr. Gore's leading strategists. ''Al Gore comes out of the convention much more clearly defined to people. There's a choice on a thematic dimension: Who's going to stand up and fight for middle-class families on prescription drugs, a patients' bill of rights and education?''

Starting Monday, the two 30-second Bush commercials will run in rotation for several days in more than 40 media markets across the 21 states. Described by one aide as a ''heavy, multimillion-dollar'' advertising buy, it is the largest for a single period that the Bush campaign has made to date.

''We've expanded the battlefield,'' said Ari Fleischer, a spokesman for the Bush campaign. ''The fact that we're running ads in states that are traditionally Democratic while the vice president is still trying to shore up his base is an interesting reflection of where this election is.''

Bush campaign officials said they were working with state Republican Party organizations to develop programs to identify potential supporters and encourage them to vote. The Gore campaign is making such efforts as well, but is more reliant on unions to help drive turnout.

Before the Democratic convention, polls showed that Mr. Bush was ahead of Mr. Gore. The Gore campaign's objective has been to build on the publicity and good feeling from the convention to help Mr. Gore pull even with Mr. Bush by the end of the month.

In 1984 and in every presidential campaign since, the candidate who was ahead in the polls after the conventions won the election. But because there is an open race and both camps seem relatively evenly matched, Republican and Democratic strategists predict that the 2000 race may more resemble 1980, when President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were neck-and-neck in the polls after the convention and Mr. Reagan pulled out a victory in the closing days.

''I don't see how it can be anything but a competitive race,'' said Tom Cole, chief of staff for the Republican National Committee. ''Our biggest advantage right now is our base unified quicker than theirs. But that's going to happen at some point for them. Then we're going to be in a very close race.''

Speaking of Mr. Gore and his running mate, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Mr. Cole added, ''They're not going to go gently into that good night.''

Gov. Tommy G. Thompson of Wisconsin, a Republican, said the best evidence of the competitiveness was in his state, which was Clinton-Gore territory in the last two elections but now appears to be a tossup.

''George W. Bush has every opportunity to win this election,'' Mr. Thompson said. ''To give you an idea, George Bush has already been here three times and Al Gore has been here four or five times. And both of them are going to be in Milwaukee next week.''

Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the Democratic leader, said now that the public might be beginning to pay attention to the contest, Mr. Gore should hammer away at a theme he introduced at the convention: how the policies of a president can touch the lives of ordinary Americans.

''A lot of people weren't watching this -- they were watching 'Survivor' or something else,'' Mr. Gephardt said. ''Al Gore should articulate the stakes in this election and in people's everyday lives.''


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Taking an antibiotic for three months failed to reduce the risk of new heart attacks and death among people with coronary artery heart disease, a Utah study has found.

The study, which is being reported today, counters findings from two earlier, smaller studies from England and Argentina that found a benefit from a shorter course of an antibiotic.

The surprising findings from the earlier studies contributed to a widespread hope that antibiotics would be an effective therapy for coronary artery disease.

Despite the tentative nature of the findings, they led many cardiologists to prescribe such drugs for patients with coronary heart disease.

The new study suggests that antibiotic therapy is not justified for coronary artery disease, according to the authors of the Utah study and an expert who wrote an editorial about it. The two articles are being reported in Circulation, a scientific journal published by the American Heart Association.

Heart disease researchers, influenced by the recent finding that a bacterium known as Helicobacter pylori can cause stomach ulcers, have been paying more attention to the importance of inflammation in coronary artery disease.

The inflammation hints that bacteria and other infectious agents may be important in initiating or aggravating coronary artery disease, which is the underlying disorder that leads to heart attacks.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and most other developed countries.

The inflammation research and the importance of the tantalizing findings from the shorter course of an antibiotic in the British trial, published in 1997, led the Utah researchers to undertake the study using more intensive antibiotic therapy, said Dr. Joseph B. Muhlestein. He led the team of researchers who conducted the study at the LDS Hospital and University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Findings from two other large, long-term studies should provide more definitive answers about a possible infectious cause of heart disease. But the findings are not expected until late 2003.

Participants in the earlier British study took the same antibiotic, azithromycin, that was used in the Utah study. Azithromycin is effective against against Chlamydia pneumoniae, which is known to cause bronchitis and pneumonia. Scientists have accumulated considerable evidence linking chronic infections, particularly from C. pneumoniae, to a role in coronary artery disease.

The Argentinian study used a different antibiotic, roxithromycin, which is also effective.

Studies have shown that 50 percent to 70 percent of adults have been infected with C. pneumoniae at some time in their lives. At least 50 studies have found C. pneumoniae in the fatty plaques that narrow the coronary arteries that nourish the heart. But the presence of C. pneumoniae in the plaques is not enough to prove it causes coronary artery disease or heart attacks.

Such proof would be difficult and require evidence from many studies, Dr. J. Thomas Grayston of the University of Washington in Seattle, wrote in the editorial. Dr. Grayston is a pioneer in chlamydia research.

Dr. Muhlestein's team said reports of the earlier studies ''appear to be overly enthusiastic.'' But his Utah team said that because none of the studies were definitive, the possibility of antibiotic benefit for heart patients ''deserves further testing.''

The Utah researchers and Dr. Grayston stressed that the role of infections in producing heart attacks remained an area of legitimate research.

The Utah study was designed to detect striking benefits from azithromycin, but its statistical power was too weak to detect a more modest benefit. Thus, there is a need for larger, longer-term studies to determine whether antibiotics can produce a modest reduction in heart attacks, Dr. Muhlestein's team said.

The Utah study involved 302 people who had blood tests that showed they had been infected by C. pneumoniae. Of these, 150 took azithromycin and 152 a placebo, or dummy pill, for purposes of scientific comparison. The participants agreed to allow the choice to be made by lot.

The participants took two azithromycin or placebo pills each day for three days and then two pills once a week for three months. The researchers followed all 302 participants for two years. After six months, 9 who took azithromycin had heart attacks, strokes or died, compared with 7 who took the placebo. Then from 6 to 24 months, the figures were 13 among the azithromycin users and 18 for the placebo users. The difference was not statistically significant.

Dr. Muhlestein's team said its findings were consistent with three possibilities: C. pneumoniae does not cause coronary artery disease; azithromycin produces only a small benefit; or C. pneumoniae causes coronary artery disease but the wrong antibiotic was tested.


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The Yankees' roster is the oldest and the most expensive in the majors. The Yankees are also the worst-fielding team and have serious questions in their starting rotation. But at least they are outhitting the Montreal Expos.

Positives are hard to find around these Yankees, who are 8-11 and were swept by the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium over the weekend. In their next three games, the Yankees face the ace pitchers Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder and Barry Zito of the Oakland Athletics. That would seem an unlikely tonic for a team with a .217 batting average and a determinedly passive approach at the plate.

But for all the negativity around them, the Yankees are taking an unusual stance, for them. They have decided not to panic.

"Nobody's making any quick decisions on it after 19 games," General Manager Brian Cashman said yesterday. "We just have to weather the storm; that's that. When you play bad, everybody starts looking for a reason, and that is a dangerous area. Sometimes there is no reason. Sometimes it just happens."

George Steinbrenner, the principal owner, is restless in Tampa, Fla., but even he has remained calm in public. He issued a brief statement yesterday, calling on Joe Torre and Cashman to settle the team, sparing them the usual ominous overtones.

"I have a great manager in Joe Torre and general manager in Brian Cashman, and I have confidence in both of them," Steinbrenner said. "It's in their hands."

Cashman said he was putting his faith in the players' past performance and Steinbrenner was doing the same with him and Torre.

"I think he believes things will work out, because that's what our track records say," he said. "Joe and I have done quite well at getting the job accomplished. He believes we'll get it done, and we do, too."

Cashman stressed that he was not pursuing any trades, although he was also outwardly confident that the Yankees' farm system had the prospects to make a major deal. But if a team wants inexpensive, major-league-ready players, the Yankees are not a match.

Their monstrous payroll is tied up largely in aging players signed to long-term deals. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the average age of the Yankees on the 25-man roster and the disabled list is 32 years 126 days, the oldest in the majors.

"The Yankees don't have much to deal anymore," said one scout who has watched several of their games so far. "Who can you deal off the Yankees?"

The team's last major trade is starting to pay off. Since going without a hit in his first 16 at-bats against the Red Sox two weekends ago, Alex Rodriguez is 12 for 25 (.480) and has continued to play strong defense at third.

But the rest of the defense has been atrocious. The Yankees have made 19 errors in 19 games, and their .974 fielding percentage ranked last in the majors through Sunday.

"The big difference, for me, is the Yankees do not play defense like the Yankees this year," the scout said, before referring to outfielders Bernie Williams and Kenny Lofton. "Alex Rodriguez has played great, but Bernie is slowing down in center field and Lofton is worse than Bernie. There are balls that are not being caught, and not being thrown well, either."

Cashman said before the season that the Yankees could have problems defensively, and his fears were legitimate.

"We're not going to be the best defensive team in the league, bottom line," he said yesterday. "We're not going to be the fastest team in the league. Those two areas, we will do our best to shore up. But sometimes you are what you are, and you have to recognize that. But our positives far outweigh the negatives."

Cashman pointed to the pitching of starters Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez and relievers Paul Quantrill, Tom Gordon and Mariano Rivera, who have combined for a 2.27 earned run average.

But the other pitchers have a combined 7.43 E.R.A., and that group includes starters Mike Mussina and José Contreras. Mussina's velocity has been markedly lower this season, and Contreras (0-2, 10.64) has been a disaster.

The offense has been an even bigger disappointment. The hitting coach, Don Mattingly, who was handpicked by Steinbrenner after Rick Down was fired two days after the 2003 World Series, said Sunday that he had not thought about job security. Cashman said he was safe.

"Donnie's the right guy to deal with the problems," he said.

First on Mattingly's list could be Derek Jeter, who is 0 for his last 25 and leads the team with 15 strikeouts.

"He's taking more balls away than he usually does," the scout said. "He's so conscious inside. But guys have made great pitches on him so far. It's one of those things where, when you're hot, pitchers don't make their pitches on you. When you're not hot, they do."

Williams can also be streaky, and he is a notoriously slow starter because he hates the cold weather. But Williams has had almost no impact so far, driving in just two runs.

Williams said the ball did not sound right coming off his bat, partly because he was still below his ideal playing weight of 208 to 210 pounds as he builds back strength from his appendectomy on Feb. 26. Williams said he weighed 204 pounds.

"You can't really attribute it all to lack of strength or whatever it is," said Williams, who is batting .167. "Sometimes you don't feel as well at the plate. "

Most of his teammates could say the same thing. It is a reality for the Yankees, who are forced to take comfort in the schedule.

"I think that's what keeps us going," catcher Jorge Posada said. "We understand that no matter what happens, we're going to turn everything around. It all happens on Tuesday."

Starter Jon Lieber has completed his rehabilitation for a strained groin muscle and will join the Yankees the next time through the rotation. General Manager Brian Cashman said Lieber flew to New York yesterday and would be activated soon. Center fielder Kenny Lofton (strained quadriceps) will begin a minor league rehabilitation assignment later this week. Lofton can be activated from the disabled list on Sunday.


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Fraz and Guapo Flub are a pair of cartoon brothers who land jobs with a special delivery service, escorting parcels in a variety of dimensions across time and space, and this video collects four of their comical adventures, as seen on their popular Nickelodeon series. In "Flub, Flub & Away," Fraz and Guapo arrive in Spandexia to deliver some sidekicks; they decide to see if the superhero's life is for them, with disastrous results. The Flubs turn the King of the Gingerbread People into a dessert in "Cookie Crumbles," and have to bake a new leader before his subjects get wise to their mistake. "Hair Brains" finds Guapo and Fraz in Heebie-Jeebieville, where they have a terrifying run-in with the strange Dr. Cutter. And the Flubs decide they need a break from each other in "Tiresome Twosome," but that becomes impossible when they're accidentally attached to one another instead of being sent to opposite galaxies. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Each individual college hosts a number of social opportunities, for their students and for the general public, and you might have a look through the schools’ student life pages for more information:

The first office for general extracurricular issues should be the Graduate Student Life office within the Student Resource Center.  There are also a number of intramural demographic networks, such as the Center for Multicultural Education and the Office of LGBT Student Services to facilitate communication with your peers.

You might expect that the incredible range of graduate studies at New York University can pose obstacles in interacting with students of other disciplines in a professional setting, but there are in fact many opportunities for interdisciplinary activities.  Many graduate research forums are held overlapping schools and areas of study, such as MaRGIN, which can introduce fascinating approaches to current research projects.  With the spirit of interdepartmental research, NYU is pleased to outline some of its cross-University initiatives to keep students questioning beyond their schools.

The balance between your educational and professional lives is what makes the graduate student’s position at New York University so important.  As such, the participation in graduate representation is especially important for career-minded students.  While there are graduate student organizations within each school, students are also invited to take part in the Student Senators Council, the highest student organization in the University.

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close this bookCommodity Distribution, A Practical Guide for Field Staff (United Nations High Commission for Refugee, 1997, 77 p.)
View the document3.1 The framework - an overview
View the document3.2 Advantages and disadvantages of the three categories of distribution
View the document3.3 Choosing the system
View the document3.5 How to distribute through groups of heads of families (one method)
View the document3.6 How to distribute through individual heads of family (three methods)

3.1 The framework - an overview

Distribution systems can be classified according to whom the commodities are given. In each of these categories of distribution the recipient can either be a woman or a man. There are three broad categories of distribution system (see Fig. A).

Distribution to groups of beneficiaries through the group leadership.

Distribution to groups of heads of family.

Distribution to individual heads of family.

System Description

Commodities are given in bulk to a representative of a group of beneficiaries who further divide it among the group.

All of the commodities for the group of families are handed over to a representative of the group. The commodities are then immediately redistributed to the individual family heads by the representatives.

Commodities are handed over directly to each family head.

Type of situation in which these systems have been used

Early days of an emergency.
Mass influx of refugees.
No formal registration.
Large populations.

When people are settled.
When registration is done and ration cards are available.
Homogeneous groups.
Can be used in camps with small or large populations.

Settled population.
Registered population.
Beneficiaries living in camps, settlements or integrated within the local population.

Eastern Zaire, large influx, no registration or ration cards.

Somali refugees in Eastern Ethiopia.

Somalia, Malawi, Thai-Cambodian border, Cambodian repatriation.

Former Yugoslavia.

Rwandese refugees in Tanzania


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MP calls for change in selection of Speaker

Tauranga MP Brendan Horan is calling for a change in the way Parliament's next Speaker will be selected.

Current Speaker Lockwood Smith has been appointed New Zealand's next high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Prime Minister John Key has nominated David Carter as replacement.

Mr Horan has written to Mr Smith calling for the election of his successor by way of secret ballot.

"This would allow all members [of Parliament] - and New Zealand - to be sure that a Speaker succeeding you will enjoy the unquestioned confidence of the house," he wrote in the letter.

"It is unfortunate that matters have developed so that the question appears to have become a partisan issue. Parties are complaining that they have not been consulted, and the Prime Minister on radio described his nominee as happy to do anything I wanted him to do. It would be abhorrent for a Prime Minister to be exercising, or be seen as being able to exercise, control over Parliament's presiding officer."

Mr Horan said New Zealand was one of very few Commonwealth countries which did not already use a secret ballot.

Canada first elected a Speaker by secret ballot over 25 years ago and Britain has since adopted that, he said.

"It is vital that a new Speaker can be seen to enjoy the confidence of members, and that members are able to freely exercise their vote without there being any suggestion of party requirements."

Mr Horan suggested his letter be put this letter before the business committee for consideration.

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Fifty Years of Bond Style exhibition opens

'Designing 007 - Fifty Years of Bond Style', a new exhibition that explores the style of the suave secret agent, James Bond, displaying costumes, props, set pieces and design drawings from half a century of 007 films, has opened at the Barbican centre in London.

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Great outlook for building with glass

By Steve Hart

Changes to the way glass is used during the past 10 years have put pressure on firms involved in the industry.

While glaziers that can replace a broken window with a handful of putty are still relatively easy to find, those that can specify and supply glass as a building product, to fabricate walls, floors and staircases, are thin on the ground.

Debbie Paul, chief executive of the Joiner Industry Training Association, which administers glazing apprenticeships, says in the 1990s apprenticeships were not really promoted and that during that time architecture changed to include glass in all aspects of building construction - all of a sudden it was not something you just looked through.

And she says the reason youngsters aren't taking up training options is because the industry has a low profile among school leavers.

"They don't know about it," she says. "People think the industry is just a glazier up a ladder replacing a sheet of glass with some putty. But our glaziers never touch putty. Today, glass is such a versatile product because it is not heavy on maintenance. It can now be used in places that ten years or so ago were unthinkable."

Paul says the government's introduction of double glazing alone has led to new machines being imported to fabricate window units - but finding people to operate them has been difficult.

With the glass industry developing here, firms are unable to simply lure people from competitors - the people just don't exist.

"There is a lot of pressure on the glass industry at the moment and it is a well-paid industry," she says. "People can choose to work inside fabricating or outside as glaziers."

Stewart Knowles, CEO of the Glass Association of New Zealand, says with the tailing off of construction projects due to the downturn in the economy, demand for skilled labour in the glazing industry has subsided, but that pressures still exist in some parts of the industry.

"It has certainly been a very difficult situation for a long time to find skilled people to do work. Certainly some firms using new machinery will be in the thick of it - they will really be struggling as they need decent staff that can run processing machinery.

"There are various levels that you can work at in the industry. There's your glaziers replacing a window that a ball went through, and then there are your more specialised people doing construction with offices and high-rise buildings - and this is where the shortages are."

Marijke van Nooijen is general manager at Glass Relate and says finding staff with the ability to accurately measure glass to the exact millimetre required is harder than people think.

"No longer can a short piece of glass be hidden under putty. With frameless installations, glass has to be cut exactly right. If it is one or two millimetres out you've got a complaint because it needs to line up perfectly."

Van Nooijen says the company works closely with architects specifying which glass can be used where.

There are many rules covering schools, homes, business premises and public places. The high level of expertise that is now required is not something the average old-school glazier has, she says.

"And this is another point of difference to what the industry used to do. We even have toughening furnaces where we process imported glass."

Van Nooijen says the glass trade is still changing and people working in the industry need far more skills and education than they used to. But her firm is playing a part in developing the people the industry needs. At any one time, she employs three apprentices.

"It is up to glass companies to take on people and train them - most young people are keen to be trained."

One of Glass Relate's apprentices is Andrew Ball. He has almost completed his four-year apprenticeship at the firm and says he was blown away with the things that can be done with glass.

"When I started I thought the job would just involve putting glass in a wooden frame. Today you can make a building made entirely from glass - including its roof. I have been involved in installing glass bridges, a glass staircase, pool fences - people are using glass for everything now."

One of Ball's recent projects was erecting a glass wall outside a client's home to block the wind from whistling around the property.

"Once the glass was in place we had a sandblaster come and create wonderful designs and pictures of knights on horses in the glass - it looks great," he says. "I love what I do."

- NZ Herald

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Labour questions Govt commitment to Christchurch rebuild plan

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File photo / Geoff Sloan

A decision to sign two key government agencies to a long-term lease near Christchurch's airport makes a mockery of the plan to rebuild the central city, Labour says.

Inland Revenue Department (IRD) and the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), both of which have been operating at temporary premises since the February 22 earthquake, have signed a nine-year lease for offices at the Airport Business Park, on the outskirts of the city.

Labour deputy leader Grant Robertson said the decision to lease outside the central city area until 2021 contradicted Christchurch's central city plan.

"As part of the plan there is a statement that says the government agencies will come back to the central city because they are a core part of making it work, and it kind of makes a mockery of that plan if, effectively, the two largest government agencies, IRD and MSD, sign nine-year leases for the airport park,'' Mr Robertson said.

"It's hugely symbolic because the one thing that the Government can control is where government agencies go.''

While it was not yet clear where the central city might be built, Mr Robertson said it was clearly not going to be by the airport.

He said a short-term lease might have been understandable, but the long-term move raised questions about the Government's commitment.

"That's the question for (Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry) Brownlee, is the plan actually happening? Because if you're looking at the future of the Christchurch central city, nine years without those guys is a long time.''

However, Mr Brownlee said the Government remained committed to the plan and it was wrong to fixate on the length of the lease.

"The Government leases a lot of properties, there are always uses for properties that are under Government lease,'' he said.

"What eventually happens to that space, where the call centre eventually locates, it's only a very small part of the total number of government servants who work in Christchurch.''

Mr Brownlee said he was pleased the agencies had opted to remain in Christchurch at all, and that moving into the central business district was not possible at the moment.

"And, frankly, if you asked them when can they go back, they can't give you an answer to that,'' Mr Brownlee said.

"There'd be greater outrage if the call centre had actually left Christchurch, and I think people have to calm down a little bit.''

Asked whether other agencies were likely to set up outside the central city too, Mr Brownlee said he could not say because those were operational matters for the departments.

"The commitment to go back in remains the same, there's a comprehensive plan being drawn up by all agencies of government to return to a suitable space in the CBD,'' he said.

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Editorial: Restrictions put us at a disadvantage

The overseas investment regime might be worse in principle than in practice. Photo / Sarah Ivey
The overseas investment regime might be worse in principle than in practice. Photo / Sarah Ivey

A"think tank" independent of the state can make a valuable contribution to public debate. For 25 years, the NZ Business Roundtable financed forceful policy research in this country. Over the past decade a second business-backed body, the New Zealand Institute, offered different economic prescriptions. Since the death last year of the Roundtable's intellectual driver, Roger Kerr, the two have merged. The fusion, named The New Zealand Initiative, has just produced something interesting.

It has found New Zealand is not as open to foreign investment as we have supposed. Despite the visible evidence of foreign-owned banks and foreign domination of so many commercial sectors, the NZ Initiative finds our criteria for approving overseas investment are the sixth most restrictive of the 55 states in the OECD. Only Japan, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and China are more restrictive.

Most surprising, researchers Luke Malpass and Bryce Wilkinson have found we are the most restrictive in the OECD on applications for manufacturing investment.

They offer no examples of manufacturing proposals we have rejected but it seems extraordinary that the Government would ever refuse them. Local manufacturing has been moving offshore since import barriers came down, and those that remain constantly complain about the difficulty of competing at a high exchange rate. If foreigners find it profitable to invest in manufacturing here, they deserve a powhiri.

New Zealand, the study notes, ceased to be a "fortress economy" in the 1980s but the reduction of import barriers, elimination of exchange controls and open trading conditions has not been reflected in the inward investment controls. The rot set in, they say, about 15 years ago and it is best expressed in the Overseas Investment Act 2005 that calls it "a privilege for overseas persons to own or control sensitive New Zealand assets".

In line with that philosophy, the act gives government officials and ultimately ministers the power to decide whether the applicant is investing his money wisely, whether he is of good character and whether he has sufficient acumen and experience in his business. It is, as they say, absurd.

But they appear to be looking at the letter of the law rather than its application. Opponents of foreign investment often complain that very little is turned down by the office. The potentially restrictive terms of the act and its regulations are no doubt designed to give governments grounds to refuse an application that might cause a public outcry.

The Crafar farms sale is a recent example. It is to the Government's credit that it did not cave in to xenophobic opposition though it could have done so on two of the criteria it has written into the regulations. The Labour Party says it would have turned the application down.

The overseas investment regime might be worse in principle than in practice, but the principle is economically unwise and politically dishonest. It promotes the false impression that we can impose any conditions we like on potential investors at no cost to this country. There are always costs, in a lower price offered for the asset, in unnecessary paperwork and professional fees and, most seriously, in investment diverted away from this country by the hurdles we have placed in its path.

When our overseas investment rules are compared to other developed countries we appear to be a fortress still. A country with limited domestic savings cannot afford self-imposed handicaps in the competition for the capital everyone needs.

- NZ Herald

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Rawhide comes to Rerewhakaaitu

By Sports Reporter, sport@dailypost.co.nz

Rerewhakaaitu will come alive with the sound of hoofs and the thrill of cowboy stomping action for the annual rodeo tomorrow.

There will be plenty of action in the rink as cowboys from around New Zealand vie for points to become rodeo champion at Rerewhakaaitu.

The action will have a touch of international flavour as Queens-land's Bray Perrott looks to go up against local cowboy and favourite Rex Church.

Spectators will get their fill of bucking bronco riders, barrel racers, bull riders and calf ropers as the cowboys and cowgirls look to boost their points taking part in the five championship series throughout the country between December and April.

Each competitor earned points with the winner announced at the national rodeo in Manawatu next year, said Rerewhakaaitu Rodeo Club secretary Christine Church.

Those taking part where in good form after competing in Opotiki yesterday where more than 4000 spectators took advantage of the humid weather to watch the action.

Taupo locals get their chance to watch the thrills and spills with the Taupo Rodeo happening today.

Church urged people to pack a picnic lunch and make a day of it.

"It's going to be an awesome family day out."

Some of the country's best-trained bucking bulls and horses will be on display.

The action starts at the Rerewhakaaitu Domain tomorrow at 8.30am with the main attractions due to start about 1pm.

Entry is $10 adults, $5 for children between 5 and 15 and free for under 5s.

- Rotorua Daily Post

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An epic Australian road trip

Kiwi journalist Colin Espiner embarks on an intrepid Aussie road trip from Sydney to Perth

Encountering Australian wildlife on the road

A Grey Nomad in the wild. Note the satellite dish on the right. Photo / Colin Espiner
A Grey Nomad in the wild. Note the satellite dish on the right. Photo / Colin Espiner

The Grey Nomad: ageus caravanius

Natural habitat: Victoria and South Australia. Found in the winter months throughout Outback and northern Australia. Mostly docile, but can turn vicious when provoked.

The Grey Nomad spends summer in the southern states of Australia, mostly out of harm's way, watching the races, knitting socks for the grandchildren and betting on the pokies.

But come the cold winter months it takes flight and heads for the warmth of northern Australia.

Flight is hardly the word, though, for this particular bird.

With a girth equalling that of the Titanic, a voice like that doomed ship's foghorn and an accent that makes Julia Gillard sound like she's taken elocution lessons, the Grey Nomad can be quite an off-putting sight.

Usually travelling in flocks, the Grey Nomad likes company. So much so, it will pull up directly beside your tent in an otherwise empty campground and proceed to set up camp. This usually takes several hours and involves the careful placement of a washing line, a shower, and a satellite dish.

Yes, the Grey Nomad has cable. It also has more money than you. So while you wash the dishes by torchlight, you can listen to the Grey Nomad watching the Olympics.

The other advantage of the Grey Nomad's love of proximity is the chance to learn more than you ever wanted to know about which health insurer has the best cover on hip replacements, which colostomy bag works best in a caravan, and the merits of corned beef over spam for dinner.

When you pull up at a particularly tricky river crossing, you can be sure there will be a bunch of Grey Nomads sitting on the other side, deck chairs out, drinks poured, ready to see whether or not you make it across.

Yes, alas, the Grey Nomad does come in a 4WD variant. Thanks to off-road camper trailers, the sub-species of this otherwise bitumen-dwelling creature is allowed the chance to truly spread its wings and see the dirty roads of Outback Australia.

Which means that - just like the blowfly - it's pretty much everywhere.

Even when you are parked up for the evening in the most isolated spot imaginable, it's usually only a matter of time before Ron, Esther, Harold and Mabel round the bend, ready for a good game of Scrabble.

And as you drift off to sleep at night, the last thing you'll hear is a debate over whether tonight is a woolly singlet night.

The Grey Nomad, like most birds, wakes early, with a clattering of pots and pans.

Then it's off the next destination - and it's the same way you're going.

* Kiwi journalist Colin Espiner is a former online editor of Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. He and his partner have chucked in their jobs to spend several months driving the long way round from Sydney to Perth. A selection of Colin's blogs documenting their trip will be published on To read all his posts, see

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Photographs of Edward Schieffelin's Prospecting Trip in Alaska: Finding Aid
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This collection of photographs taken by Charles O. Farciot documents Edward Schieffelin’s gold prospecting trip through Alaska via the Yukon River in 1882 and 1883. Views include many close portraits of Alaskan natives and their families; the towns of St. Michael, Nuklukayet, and Anvik; trading stations; Schieffelin and his dog sled team; and Fort Yukon missionaries interacting with Alaskan natives.
Charles O. Farciot was born in Switzerland in 1840 and became a United States citizen in 1858. In the course of his life, Farciot learned enough to become a photographer and steamship engineer. After opening photography studios in Arizona, he met Edward Schieffelin, the founder of Tombstone, Arizona. Schieffelin, who was interested in searching for gold in the Yukon, took Farciot along as part of his gold prospecting party to Alaska in 1882. Discouraged by the harsh environment, Schieffelin left in 1883, but Farciot stayed behind to work as a steamship engineer on the Yukon River until at least 1886. Upon leaving Alaska, Farciot opened photograph studios in San Francisco.
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    Title: Nikolaus Pevsner papers
    Date (inclusive): 1919-1982
    Number: 840209
    Creator/Collector: Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983
    Physical Description: 72.0 linear feet (144 boxes)
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    Abstract: Papers and manuscripts of the German-born art and architecture historian (1902-1983). Papers date primarily from the years following Pevsner's immigration to England in 1933, and include written and visual materials used for lectures or as research for his many books and articles. Files related to Pevsner's radio lectures and affiliations document his career as a public figure, and correspondence tracks his relationships with many key figures in 20th-century art and architecture.
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    Language: Collection material is in English and German.

    Biographical/Historical Note

    The art and architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) was born in Germany. He worked with the Dresden gallery (1924-1928) and taught at Göttingen University (1929-1933) before immigrating to England in 1933. In England Pevsner taught at Birkbeck College (University of London) and the Courtauld Institute, and lectured as the Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge (1949-1955) and Oxford (1969) Universities.
    Pevsner was a scholar of Italian baroque painting, German sculpture and the 19th and 20th century architecture of England and Europe. It is as an architectural historian that he is best remembered, partly because of the astonishing amount of work he did in this area, and also because of his strong point of view. His polemical view is evident in his 1936 book Pioneers of the Modern Movement (later re-titled Pioneers of Modern Design) in which he first tried to persuade England to accept the Modern movement. He remained a persistent advocate for modern design and for historical preservation. Among his many publications are the following books: An Outline of European Architecture, the History of Building Types, and the monumental Buildings of England in 46 volumes, of which 35 were researched and written by Pevsner. Pevsner was an editor on the influential journal Architectural Review and edited the Pelican History of Art series which comprised 48 volumes. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1967 and a knighthood in 1969. Pevsner died in 1983.

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    Nikolaus Pevsner papers, 1919-1979, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 840209.

    Acquisition Information

    The Getty Research Institute acquired Pevsner's papers with his library in 1984. In addition, material was moved to the collection from accessions 840189 and 920028. Most of the books have been separated to the Getty Research Institute Research Library. Some heavily annotated books remain with the archive.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The Nikolaus Pevsner Papers contain his research files on art and architecture, manuscripts for many of his articles and books, correspondence with scholars, publishers and artists, lectures, and a collection of clippings and offprints of his articles. These papers date from 1919 to 1979, with the bulk dating from his years in England. (N. B.: Penguin Press Ltd has retained the files for The Buildings of England.) A small file of personal items includes family correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, awards and diaries. The books in Pevsner's library, many annotated, have been separated to the Getty Research Institute, Research Library.

    Arrangement note

    The archive is arranged in seven series: Series I. Correspondence, 1919-1979; Series II. Publication notes and manuscripts, 1919-1974; Series III. Lectures, 1934-1978; Series IV. Research material: abstracts, 1920-1962; Series V. Research material: illustrations - printed material, n.d.; Series VI. Personal file, 1918-1979; Series VII. Articles collection, 1923-1978

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    Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
    Morris, William, 1834-1896
    Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983

    Subjects - Corporate Bodies

    Architectural Association (Great Britain)
    Architectural guides for travelers
    Courtauld Institute of Art
    Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany)
    Great Britain. Royal Fine Art Commission
    Jerusalem Committee
    Omega Workshops
    Penguin (Firm)
    University of Cambridge
    University of London
    University of Oxford

    Subjects - Topics

    Architecture--Great Britain
    Architecture--Great Britain--Guidebooks
    Architecture--Great Britain--History
    Architecture--Great Britain--Periodicals
    Art historians
    Painting, Baroque--Italy
    Sculpture, German

    Subjects - Places

    England--Buildings, structures, etc.
    England--Buildings, structures, etc.--Guidebooks
    Great Britain--Description and travel

    Subjects - Titles

    A history of building types Academies of art, past and present An outline of European architecture Buildings of England Charles R. Mackintosh Englishness of English art Penguin dictionary of architecture Pioneers of the modern movement from William Morris to Walter Gropius The Architectural review

    Ashby, Charles R.
    Ebhardt, Bodo, b. 1865
    Fleming, John, 1919-2001
    Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
    Mackmurdo, A. H. (Arthur Heygate), 1851-1942
    Pinder, Wilhelm, 1878-1947
    Posener, Julius
    Russell, Gordon, Sir, 1892-1980
    Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938
    Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857-1941


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Playscript about the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Espionage Trial MS.M.054
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Its harshest critics compare it to a Ponzi scheme, but Ottawa’s true believers say Bitcoin is here to stay despite the recent collapse of one of the digital currency’s largest exchanges.

David Thomson is a software developer with Bit Access.

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“It’s the future of transactions,” says David Thompson, who organizes a regular meeting of local Bitcoin aficionados at the Clocktower Brew Pub in the ByWard Market, the site of the city’s first Bitcoin ATM. “The freedom that the Internet provides for us with information, Bitcoin provides for us in terms of money.”

Bitcoin backers such as Mr. Thompson and former Ottawa mayor Larry O’Brien say the digital dollars have several major advantages over cash: they can’t be counterfeited, they can be transferred almost instantly, and, unlike credit cards, there are no transaction fees on purchases.

“Everyone who owns Bitcoins is now a Bitcoin evangelist,” says Mr. Thompson, a software developer who works for Bit Access, an Ottawa startup that manufactures ATMs where customers can buy Bitcoins with cash. “They want it to succeed.”

Still, not everyone is buying into the Bitcoin craze. Because the digital currency is unregulated and not backed by any government, its value can fluctuate wildly. When Mt. Gox, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchanges, vanished on Feb. 24, taking hundreds of millions of dollars of investors’ money with it, the value of a Bitcoin fell to US$470 from US$550 in a matter of hours.

“Normally, people like a money that’s reasonably stable in value,” says Nick Rowe, a monetary economist at Carleton University.

“I do get the sense that for a lot of (Bitcoin supporters, it’s) ‘Hey, this is so clever that it must succeed.’ That strikes me as rather dodgy. If somebody built a really, really clever mousetrap, it doesn’t mean anyone else would want to buy it. It does make one a little bit suspicious about how clever Bitcoin really is.”

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There have also been a few tumultuous times at home recently for the currency’s supporters.

The company that originally planned to manage Ottawa’s first Bitcoin ATM, U.K.-based firm BiT Capital, announced early last month it was giving Bit Access up to $10 million in seed funding over the next two years to build and distribute Bitcoin ATMs across the world. BiT Capital founder John Bridge also said he was joining the Ottawa startup’s board of directors and would set up an office in the ByWard Market for his firm.

Most of BiT Capital’s handful of local employees, however, quit around the time of that announcement, including Kyle Kemper, who’s now a consultant with Ottawa-based Resilient 21 Group, which now manages the ATM at the Clocktower. He says he had “concerns with the way (BiT Capital) was being run, both professionally and financially.”

Bit Access co-founder Moe Adham says his company never received a cent from Mr. Bridge’s firm.

“We have no relationship with BiT Capital at this time,” Mr. Adham says, adding Mr. Bridge was never given a seat on the company’s board. “They were once a customer. They are no longer a customer.”

Attempts to reach Mr. Bridge for comment were unsuccessful.

David Descôteaux, a researcher at the Montreal Economic Institute, says Mt. Gox’s collapse is dramatic proof of just how volatile the currency really is.

“From the beginning, Bitcoin has had some trust issues,” he says. “It’s something new, it’s not regulated by government. So it takes a lot of time to build confidence among consumers and merchants. The security aspect was maybe not as solid as we thought, and I think this isn’t going to be good news for Bitcoin.”

The virtual currency is created when “miners” using supercomputers verify Bitcoin transactions by unlocking complex encrypted codes. The first “miner” to crack the code unleashes the keys to that string and receives new Bitcoins.

The currency’s value is determined solely by how much people are willing to pay for a Bitcoin, rather than by a central bank.

“It comes down to a theory of what is money as an acceptable medium,” says Mr. Kemper, who’s also a former gold trader. Initially, he dismissed Bitcoins but now calls the digital currency an innovation that could change the world of banking the way the Internet and e-mail changed communication in the mid-’90s.

“If someone’s willing to take that at this value, then that carries value. A lot of economists believe in it. It’s up to you to do your own research in all this and use a rational approach. Come to your own conclusions.”

Governments, meanwhile, have also begun to take notice of virtual currency. Last month, the federal government announced it was cracking down on Bitcoin and its digital competitors to make sure they aren’t being used by money launderers. Some countries, including Russia, have effectively banned the currency.

Mr. Kemper, however, defends Bitcoin, saying it’s no more likely to be used for illicit purposes than good old-fashioned dollars.

“The most shadowy of all the currencies has been cash,” he says. “But we don’t see the government going crazy about cash.”

Even other events that could potentially harm the currency’s reputation, such as the collapse of Mt. Gox, will be positive in the long run, he argues. The Tokyo-based exchange had been plagued by controversy for months, delaying trades and preventing members from selling Bitcoins, he says, so its demise might clear the way for more stable entities to take its place.

“Am I surprised at what happened?” says Mr. Kemper. “Yes, I guess. Is it totally unexpected? No. Obviously, their business wasn’t being operated properly. The bad actors need to be removed.”

Stashing large amounts of Bitcoins in third-party exchanges is a risky proposition, he says, and he advises users to keep their virtual loot in a secure digital wallet instead.

“This is very new. There are dangers in it,” he says. “It’s a lesson to people that exchanges are not wallets.”

Entrepreneurs such as Mr. Kemper hope that eventually, more stability will lead to more opportunity for emerging startups like Resilient 21 that cater to the digital currency sphere.

In addition to managing the Clocktower’s ATM – it splits a two per cent transaction fee with the pub – the company also makes point-of-sale apps for businesses that let customers pay using Bitcoins. In January, the Standard Luxury Tavern on Elgin Street became the first establishment in Ottawa to offer payment by Bitcoin, and Mr. Kemper expects many more to follow suit.

“It’s just a matter of time,” he says.

Bitcoin analysts like Mr. Descôteaux say that even if the pioneering digital currency doesn’t survive in the long run, it will leave an important legacy. Just as the early file-sharing system Napster paved the way for today’s iTunes, Bitcoin has shown the vast potential of peer-to-peer exchanges of money and other information, he says.

“The currency in itself can be very volatile and risky, but I think the technology behind it is probably going to stay,” Mr. Descôteaux says. “In what shape or form, it’s very hard to tell. The possibilities are still unknown at this point.”

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    March 03, 2014 - 20:09

    These articles are getting so annoying. The comments from "so-called" experts show a COMPLETE lack of understanding of what Bitcoin is...and what MTGOX was ect. If an exchange, Bank or auto repair shop lies to you and steals your money--you dont say; "The security aspect of cash isnt as good as we thought". MtGox was just a bad beusiness that defrauded its customers of their cash(bitcoins). That doesnt make cash(bitcoins) less valueble and less useful. If anyone wants to know why bitcoin is amazing and why it will change the world--Try the following experiment: Try to send $1 to someone in Keyna or $10,000 to someone in Cyprus. Ask yourself how much time that will take you and how much money it will cost you with a bank/Visa/Paypal. With bitcoin, you can send ANY amount to ANYONE instantly for a cost of 6cents. Whats more...the person who recieves the money doesnt have to know who sent it. No government or corporation controls bitcoins. They cant print more...steal your money to build bombs to kill innocent children around the world. Perhaps Bitcoin the brand will not succeed, but the technology of cryptocurrency is here to stay.


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In the immediate future, Bobby Abreu probably will be remembered most for the amount of money the Angels had to pay to part ways with him ($9 million).

Soon he might be remembered most as the guy who was pushed aside to make way for the Angels' star outfielder-in-waiting (that'd be Mike Trout, 20, who was promoted from Triple-A and is expected to join the team Saturday).

But one day Abreu will be remembered fondly as a guy who was very productive for the Angels for three seasons full seasons, plus this throwaway one. During his Angels career he played in 456 games, hitting .267 with 43 homers, 103 doubles, 239 runs, 246 RBI and 75 stolen bases. His best season for them was his first, 2009, when he hit .293 and drove in 103 runs. He finished 12th in the AL MVP voting.

Just as important, Abreu provided a veteran presence who was well-respected in the clubhouse. Mark Trumbo, who's ability to play left field after making the switch from first base helped make Abreu expendable, tweeted this from his @Mtrumbo44 feed: "All the best to @BobKellyAbreu. First class teammate on and off the field. I feel fortunate to have gotten to play alongside him."

The Venezuelan-born Abreu, whose own feed is mostly in Spanish, tweeted this in English on Friday night: "I would like to say "Thank You" to all the fans that support me through good and bad times - May God Bless You."

If Abreu, 38, doesn't get picked up by any other team, he'll complete a solid major league career in which he put up some stellar numbers, if not quite Hall of Fame caliber: In 16-plus seasons for the Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees and Angels, he hit .293 with 2,389 hits, 557 doubles (second among active players), 284 homers, 1,330 RBI, 1,413 runs scored, a .397 on-base percentage and a .480 slugging percentage.

Hit for average, hit for power, get on base, run the bases: Abreu became the prototypical left-handed slugger who could help a team in the "Moneyball" era. When he was traded from the Phillies to the Yankees on July 30, 2006, he began terrorizing the American League. He finished with 107 RBI and a career-high 124 walks that season.

It was his misfortune that he never played in a World Series, missing out on the Phillies' and Yankees' championship runs.

He signed a one-year contract with the Angels for the 2009 season, and after he tore it up that year, they signed him for two more, with an option for 2012. He was only 35 at the time and looked like he could keep chugging along. But his skills diminished, and in spring training this year he chafed at his reduced role in a crowded outfield.

The Angels will end up eating that $9 million, minus any salary he gets from another team. It's a painful sacrifice for owner Arte Moreno, but not unprecedented.

Abreu was informed of his release by general manager Jerry Dipoto following the Angels' fifth straight loss, 3-2. Abreu's departure represents a chance for the team to bring in fresh blood and restart their season. He knew that, saying: "It was something they had to do."

Abreu's classy, and he'll be missed. Eventually.

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President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Barack Obama's speech Wednesday to a U.N. General Assembly packed with more than 100 heads of state was a strange combination of modesty and chutzpah, of a change in tone designed to persuade people that more substantive changes in policy had occurred. Insofar as a more modest tone reflects an understanding of changing circumstances, this could be healthy. But the president's understanding appears to be superficial at best.

The theme caught by most news stories was that President Obama was declaring a new era of multilateralism and asking leaders of other countries to join in solving the world's problems. "Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone," he said. "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."

The president may have been reflecting a report last week from the widely respected London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, which argued that, after Iraq, Afghanistan, and the financial collapse, "the U.S. share of 'global power,' however measured, is in decline." Whether that is true or not, or whether the president believes it, he talked as if he were the right person to define what the problems are and to push, prod and bully the rest of the world into adopting his agenda for confronting them.

Thus he summoned other world leaders to help create a world free of nuclear weapons, to counter terrorism, to combat climate change, to create Israeli-Palestinian peace, to create more economic opportunity.

Two observations suggest themselves. The first is that the contrast with his predecessor in the Oval Office is nowhere near as sharp as Obama's rhetoric would suggest. President George W. Bush and (more often) some of his aides sometimes talked as if acting unilaterally was the only way to go, expressing impatience with the U.N. and the sluggishness of friends and allies. In practice, however, President Bush acted multilaterally – through the U.N or after assembling a coalition of cooperating countries – at least as often as he moved unilaterally in international affairs.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama also agree that it is the right and responsibility of the U.S. to fix all manner of perceived problems throughout the world, though they may prioritize problems differently and take slightly different actions.

The second observation is that Mr. Obama believes that aggressive government action, whether by our government or other governments, is the key to solving various problems. There is no apparent consciousness that government action sometimes exacerbates rather than solves problems.

Economic opportunity is just one example. We think the best way to maximize economic opportunity is often for the government to get out of the way rather than to become more deeply involved in decisions. It is also more than possible that the most effective way to reduce the threat of terrorism to the U.S. is to pull back from countries that breed terrorists rather than trying to run them.

The president's faith in government action, the more the better, is touching but more than a trifle naive. This may be a time when it is more prudent to tend our own garden (which is notably overgrown at the governmental level, which is choking out private-sector growth) than to increase international meddling and urge others to follow along.

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Scouts' '87 time capsule: Scrunchies, fan mag, empty box of cookies

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Members of Girl Scout Troop 477 check out photos of "Miami Vice" actor Don Johnson and rockers Mötley Crüe after opening a time capsule that was buried 25 years ago in Brea. The photos were in a magazine called 50 Star Pinups.PAUL BERSEBACH, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

BREA – Nobody could remember what was inside the box. The Girl Scouts who made it joked at the time that their parents would be in wheelchairs and their cars would be zooming through the air before it ever saw the light of day.

But there it was Sunday, 25 years after the girls lowered it into the ground, a steel box about the size of a cooler, the white paint peeling and flecked orange with rust: a time capsule from 1987.

Maybe there's a Twinkie inside, former troop leader Kathie Cademartori suggested.

The girls of Troop 272 buried the time capsule in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Girl Scouts, sealing inside mementos of middle-school life in 1987. They left their instructions in the form of a bronze plaque: "To be opened on the 100th anniversary."

On Sunday, the husband of one of those former troop members needed a hammer, a crowbar and an hour to break the box open. A small crowd gathered in the Brea Lions Scout House – current Girl Scouts, parents and a few former troop members who were as curious as anyone to see what they had left behind all those years ago.

Carrie Rebay, now 38, a former troop member and Cademartori's daughter, pulled on gloves and reached inside. The first souvenir from the past: a golden birthday balloon with "Happy 100th" written by the girls of 1987 to the girls of 2012.

And then, of course, a green box of Girl Scouts thin mints. Empty.

There were ashes from a campfire, a banana hair clip, scrunchies, fake nails. When Rebay dug out a survival kit of matches housed in a plastic film container, she had to pause to tell the younger kids what film was.

And then came a magazine, 50 Star Pinups. The girls giggled when they flipped open a page to Charlie Sheen. "Oh my goodness!" one exclaimed when she turned the page to an image of teased and feathered hair. "That's Bon Jovi?"

Near the bottom of the box was a blue binder, a scrapbook the girls had made of life in 1987. There was an entire page devoted to "watches" and another to hair. One page showed magazine cutouts of "Women in the News": Mother Teresa, Oprah, Princess Diana.

The girls had also included a receipt from McDonald's, showing that a hamburger in 1987 cost 65 cents.

"Twenty-five years, it's so far away when you're that age," said Danielle Wilson, now 35, who still lives in Brea. "I thought it was going to be like the Jetsons. ... But we're still here, still around."

Brea Girl Scouts are putting together another time capsule, to be opened in 2037. And there has been talk of including a Twinkie this time.

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The Ducks' George Parros and Columbus' Jared Boll mix it up during the first period on Jan. 7. The Ducks won, 6-0. KEVIN SULLIVAN, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Photographing hockey is, really, shooting a moving target. With fast players and an even faster puck to keep track of, taking photos of hockey is almost a sport in itself. As the Ducks get ready for post-season play, we picked a few of our favorite staff shots from the 2010-2011 season. Click on the photos tab to see a slide show.

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