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Then the auto paint shop fire sent an evil-looking cloud of black smoke into the air .

12:07 a.m .

ONEZIE :

My younger daughter and I are fine .

This building shook like hell and it kept getting stronger .

Then as things got rougher , we ran for the door and spent the next few minutes outside watching the brick sidewalk under our feet oozing up and down , and the flowers waving in an eerie rhythm .

Amazing what it does to one 's heart rate and one 's short-term memory .

Everyone looked calm , but there was this surreal low level of confusion as the aftershocks continued .

4:02 a.m .

SHIBUMI :

Albany escaped embarrassingly unscathed .

Biggest trouble was scared family who could n't get a phone line through , and spent a really horrible hour not knowing .

8:01 a.m .

HLR :

Judy and I were in our back yard when the lawn started rolling like ocean waves .

The only one that submitted a bid lost .

Two American companies reached deals for fields auctioned in June .

The meager representation of American oil giants in Iraq 's opening oil industry surprised analysts .

Iraq finally opened its doors after six years of war , and instead of U.S. companies , you have Asians and Europeans leading the way , said Ruba Husari , the editor of Iraq Oil Forum , an online news outlet .

It will be a long time before anything else will be on offer in Iraq .

They waited for and accepted the sanction with no complaints .

Another question is what type of advantage the violators obtained in the actions deliberately carried out .

Here it seems necessary to state that it is n't a disadvantageous situation for rival nor is an obtained benefit in the same game , because evidently the result of the action supposes leaving their own team with less players .

And neither is it a useful strategy for the next game , because the club will not be able to count on those players .

The advantage , obviously , consists in the fact that the players will begin the following phase of the Championship without cards that could threaten their participation in a future game .

Here it seems necessary to state that it is n't a disadvantageous situation for rival nor is an obtained benefit in the same game , because evidently the result of the action supposes leaving their own team with less players .

And neither is it a useful strategy for the next game , because the club will not be able to count on those players .

The advantage , obviously , consists in the fact that the players will begin the following phase of the Championship without cards that could threaten their participation in a future game .

But it is about a long term advantage , with a certain degree of indetermination , because the team can be eliminated first of change , and in addition with this action the players fulfil a sanction game and go to the second cycle of cards , in which the suspension by card accumulation takes place with one less than in the first cycle .

So that , by passing rounds , it is not so clear that it is an advantage .

Support for democracy in Latin America continues to edge up , as does backing for private enterprise .

Crime has become a bigger worry than unemployment .

And Brazil is seen as more influential than the United States across much of the region .

Those are some of the findings of the latest Latinobarómetro poll taken in 18 countries and published exclusively by The Economist .

Because the poll has been taken regularly since 1995 , it tracks changes in attitude across the region .

Scalia and Thomas dine with healthcare law challengers as court takes case

The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the politically divisive question of whether it would hear a challenge to President Obama 's healthcare law , two of its justices , Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas , were feted at a dinner sponsored by the law firm that will argue the case before the high court .

The occasion was last Thursday , when all nine justices met for a conference to pour over the petitions for review .

“ The justices were wining and dining at a black-tie fundraiser with attorneys who have pending cases before the court . ”

Their appearance and assistance in fundraising for this event undercuts any claims of impartiality , and is unacceptable .

Scalia and Thomas have shown little regard for critics who say they too readily mix the business of the court with agenda-driven groups such as the Federalist Society .

And Thomas ” wife , Ginni , is a high-profile conservative activist .

Moreover , conservatives argue that it 's Justice Elena Kagan who has an ethical issue , not Scalia and Thomas .

Over 100 participants from the main interest groups attended and debated issues such as the role of key actors including public authorities , social partners , voluntary and community organisations as well as service users .

There were relatively few cases reported of attempts to involve users in service planning but their involvement in service provision was found to be more common .

Note was also taken of the variety of different roles played by public welfare

The Foundation organised , together with the European Commission , the Spanish Ministry of Social Affairs and the Galician regional government , a European conference on social exclusion : a major challenge for public welfare services .

The Foundation recently published a comparative study as part of the EPOC project which assesses the extent to which direct participation can humanise work while increasing profitability .