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With underwater scenery often more spectacular than what's above the surface, it's a pity that your typical point-and-shoot camera can't take to the seas. Luckily, ruggedized, waterproof cameras, like the 12-megapixel Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 ($379.99 list), let you capture your surroundings, even at depths of up to 33 feet. While you do get standard features, such as optical image stabilization and a high-quality, 2.7-inch LCD on the Tough-8000, underwater cameras often come with tradeoffs. And in this case, that means underwhelming image quality and a high price tag. Read the full review: Olympus Stylus Tough-8000
Bill Clinton on the Time Two Ladies Gave Him a Happy Ending in KoreaS Why, oh, why did Newsweek allow Bill Clinton to contribute to a feature called The Decade's Happiest Endings? Sure, he saved a pair of truth-seeking reporters from the hellish nightmare that is a lifetime of hard labor in a dictatorial communist nation—but, c'mon. Americans love happy endings, and they got a big one on Aug. 4, 2009 ... Witnessing it was a gift I'll always treasure. Soon they walked off the plane into the embrace of their families, their country, and good people all over the world-now that's a happy ending. We should make more of them. Also, Bill is wrong, because The Miracle on the Hudson was clearly the happiest ending of the decade, not least because it had both kinds of happy endings.
How To: Organize a Poetry Slam for Your Cause Who says you can't use art to promote change? Poetry is a great way to tell people about your cause, while getting them to take action. 1. Before you do anything, go to a few poetry slams in your area. This will give you some tips on what to do and what not to do for your own event. If you don’t have any slams nearby, you can rent a documentary. 2. You want to find a space big enough for a lot of people. Your school’s library, auditorium, community center, town hall, or a nearby café can work. 3. Get your friends and family to help out. Assign people different positions such as judging or spreading the word. 4. Post fliers for everyone to see. Make sure they include: • Sign-up sheet location • The cause you are having the poetry slam about • Poem length • Date, time and location. 5. Bake some yummy goodies to sell during the event. Donate the profits to a charity or organization that benefits the cause you support. 6. Make a schedule of performances and allow some extra time between poetsce Power Poetry: online poetry slams for teen poets H&R Block Dollars and Sense
VOTE NOW! Help Decide The Next Pop Superstar of 2013! This round closes at 9:00 a.m. EST on Monday, January 14th. In the meantime, read more about Fifth Harmony and Austin Mahone! Austin Mahone What: Say You're Just a Friend Who: Austin Mahone Why: What do you get when you mix Justin Bieber's style with Ryan Lochte's swag? Probably Austin Mahone, a 16-year-old Youtube sensation with a legion of #Mahomies at his beck and call. Fifth Harmony What: Anything Could Happen Who: Fifth Harmony Why: This girl group's ecstatic cover of Ellie Goulding's "Anything Could Happen" launched them into the X Factor, where they came in third—just as One Direction did in Britain three years ago. Could lightning strike twice? Previous Rounds Round Two (01/09 - 01/11) Round One (01/07 - 01/09)
Too Freaky to Fake–5 Television Curses SOMETHING IS AMOK. These 5 streaks of bad luck are so horrible we just have to believe. 1. The Reality TV Divorce Curse Couples, especially famous couples, generally break up during or immediately after a filming a reality TV show. Seven couples on The Real Housewives have filed for divorce over the course of the franchise’s five years on the air. The list of celeb couples who had a reality show, then called it quits, includes: • Britney Spears and Kevin Federline • Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey • Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro Reality shows have also ushered in divorce for Hulk Hogan, Danny Bonaduce, Travis Barker, Kathy Griffin, Corey Feldman, and that annoying couple from John & Kate Plus Eight. Mommy needs to have a sex scandal in on camera so we can afford baby formula. One might be tempted to dismiss this phenomena as the inevitable result of an industry that attracts famewhore divas and self-centered douchebag husbands. But way a reality TV show destroys marriages is that it holds a mirror up to the couples’ lives. And it really sucks to have your everyday, normal fuckups played back right in front of you. Most couples react to this by nitpicking their partners until they reach a breaking point. A classic example: An American Family was a PBS documentary, filmed in 1971, that followed the day-to-day trials of the Loud family. Producer Craig Gilbert wanted to know if the camera would distort the everyday tribulations of a common U.S. family. The Louds, however, assumed they had been picked for the show because they were the perfect American family. How does the guy on the right fit into this ‘perfect’ picture? The proud Louds were in for a shock of family-shattering magnitude: They had to deal with issues they’d never before confronted–like one of the sons came out of the closet on the show. In 1971. The show’s big climax incredibly drew 10 million people to watch PBS for something other than Sesame Street. Unable to cope with the stress of maintaining their perfect facade, mother Pat Loud asked her husband for a divorce and kicked him out of the house. Thus began the television-watching public’s obsession with seeing people worse off than they are. 2. Otechestven Front Otechestven Front is a Bulgarian slice-of-life interview show. Presenter Martin Karbovski travels around interviewing normal-seeming folk with extraordinary tales. The most extraordinary tales, however, happen after the show airs, when the guests die. The weirdness started two years ago, when a criminal died days after appearing on the show. Rumors of black magic circulated, but probably the criminal just pissed someone off who saw him on TV and whacked him. If Otechestven Front is really just about exposing criminals without using that face-blur thing, it’s hard for us to call it a curse. Which is why no one really paid attention when another guest died immediately after their appearance. Even if there was a curse, it’s hard to call it a coincidence when the victim is an 85-year-old Bulgarian woman whose story was, honest-to-gosh, that dogs had eaten her legs. This curse sure took a while to ramp up into proportions we would call noticeable. We prefer to think of her like this, without huge scars where the legs should be. However, soon after, people started dying of actually unexpected reasons: Rushing into the house to save a cat, surprise cancer (which sounds bad until you consider the alternative is slow, agonizing cancer). So Martin Karblovski is apparently the angel of death. Remember this neckbeard, it may be the last thing you ever see. 3. Deadliest Catch Turns Even Deadlier It takes a lot for a show with the word deadliest in its title to be considered excessively unlucky. But for thirteen months, starting in January of 2010, the series had a streak of bad luck way worse than the usual. We imagine the usual involves cameramen plunging overboard and having to fistfight dozens of giant crabs. Then again, we’ve never been able to watch the show for more than five minutes without having to leave and go to Long John Silver’s. First, a ship captain had a stroke aboard his ship, and sadly died a month later in the hospital. According to a producer, the captain asked for the cameras to keep rolling while he died. “I’m going to pretend to die a few times, first, in case my actual expiration doesn’t take.” In May of the same year, a production manager for the show received felony drug charges. He is accused of giving cocaine to an undercover cop in the town of Unalaska. If “Unalaska” doesn’t scream “fake undercover town name” to production managers, then there’s no helping them. But, then things got absolutely stupid. To understand how ludicrously dumb, pretend you are going to rob a bank. Presumably, you make a plan for getting the money and getting away, but then what do you do? You probably said, “lay low,” unless you are as big of a drooling moron as Joshua Tell Warner. Warner hit a Washington Mutual in 2007, then soon after hopped on board a Deadliest Catch fishing boat. An ideal way to escape local law enforcement investigation, but Joshua Warner’s perfect crime had one chink: He was on television all the time. Someone recognized him: lots of people, actually. He is now serving a nine-and-a-half year sentence for that robbery. What is most incredible is that a 2007 WaMu bank actually had any money in it. Around that time shooting was supposed to start on a spin-off starring fisherpeople Andy and Jonathan Hillstrand. However, midway through filming, the brothers withdrew their involvement, perhaps after learning the title of the show (“Hillstranded”). Discovery filed a lawsuit claiming they totally bailed. In February, a fisherman on Deadliest Catch died. The autopsy revealed that his sleep apnea caused his heart to enlarge and his arteries to harden. Apparently that’s a real thing, which gives us yet another reason to be totally paranoid when we sleep. 4. The Vampire Diaries Hoping to capitalize off of the success of the Twilight series, CW has created a television show all about really scary monsters doing really emo bullshit. It seems appropriate that a show about curses and stuff would have a problem with actors constantly getting laid up. Star Ian Somerhalder had walking pneumonia for two months. Four different episodes were filmed with Somerhaulder delivering his lines through a stuffed up nose and a mouth filled with cough drops. The closer to death Ian became, the more realistic his vampire character looked. The other two main actors also had injuries which greatly affected their ability to act, or make love with their eyes, or whatever it is they do. Paul Wesley twisted his ankle and was on crutches whenever not on camera. Lead hottie Nina Dobrev threw out her back and was hobbled for weeks, as well. They are actually holding each other up in this photo. We searched Youtube for a clip of the actors hobbling around on-camera, but couldn’t find anything (that is, besides the usual morgue of taste that comprises The Vampire Diaries). While checking up on the set, the executive producer fell down some steps and ended up in the hospital. We blame all of these events on the curse, and not on the fact that today’s teen heartthrobs/old producers are clumsy and sickly. 5. Diff’rent Strokes Almost everyone knows the tragic story of this Dana Plato had sex and did drugs with her co-actor, Todd Bridges, introducing him to a world that would consume his life for over a decade. After the show Plato went from posing for Playboy to doing soft core pornography films. After filming the ‘Just Say No’ episode with Nancy Reagan, Bridges admits he probably got high. Note the word ‘probably,’ which implies he doesn’t even remember what happened the day he met Nancy Reagan. Bridges went to jail in 1994 for using his car to settle an argument. Although Bridges straightened out, and now does motivational speaking, Plato did not turn herself around and died in 1999. Gary Coleman entertained audiences with his real-life antics, including auctioning his virginity (sounds like Dana Plato dropped the ball), entering into a high profile marriage, and being a security guard and punching a lady. But the curse of Diff’rent Strokes hit Coleman hard in 2010, when he hit his head and had a stroke. Yes, there is a wordplay joke there. We’re not making it. It’s strange that television shows could be beset with such strings of tragedies. Let it serve as fair warning that there is no end to the madness that is show business. Let it also serve as fair warning that TV curses have no sense of taste, since the CBS Monday night lineup continues to be curse-free. Facebook friend Evan Hoovler. Related on The Smoking Jacket: 6 Ironic Casting Calls in Movies and TV The Teen Mom Guide to Parenting
Tell me more × I've been struggling with this for a few days now - I added bootstrap (and some other gems) to my rails app, but for some reason the appropriate CSS files are not rendering and thus the bootstrap styles are not showing up. Here are the relevant parts of my files: application.html.erb in app/views/layouts: <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> <%= csrf_meta_tags %> <script src=""></script> application.css in app/assets/stylesheets: * This is a manifest file that'll be compiled into application.css, which will include all the files * listed below. * Any CSS and SCSS file within this directory, lib/assets/stylesheets, vendor/assets/stylesheets, * or vendor/assets/stylesheets of plugins, if any, can be referenced here using a relative path. * You're free to add application-wide styles to this file and they'll appear at the top of the * compiled file, but it's generally better to create a new file per style scope. = require_self = require_tree . (There are also plenty more CSS files in this folder, including bootstrap_and_overrides.css and gmaps4rails.css). And the server log when I load the page: $ rails server => Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.2.8 application starting in development on => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server SECURITY WARNING: No secret option provided to Rack::Session::Cookie. This poses a security threat. It is strongly recommended that you provide a secret to prevent exploits that may be possible from crafted cookies. This will not be supported in future versions of Rack, and future versions will even invalidate your existing user cookies. Called from: /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/actionpack-3.2.8/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/abstract_store.rb:28:in `initialize'. [2013-03-11 15:19:32] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2013-03-11 15:19:32] INFO ruby 2.0.0 (2013-02-24) [x86_64-darwin11.4.2] [2013-03-11 15:19:32] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=94815 port=3000 Started GET "/" for at 2013-03-11 15:19:35 -0700 Processing by HomeController#index as HTML Rendered home/index.html.erb within layouts/application (2.8ms) Trip Load (0.2ms) SELECT "trips".* FROM "trips" Rendered layouts/_navigation.html.erb (62.0ms) Completed 200 OK in 143ms (Views: 141.0ms \| ActiveRecord: 1.3ms) And the source code that actually gets rendered in Chrome: <script src="/assets/application.js?body=1" type="text/javascript"></script> <meta content="GfG+KCsrNZaChqWvUz/g5RqsdHrXOtumFzHaOjJmFQg=" name="csrf-token" /> <script src=""></script> And my Gemfile: gem "bootstrap-sass", '~>' gem "simple_form" gem 'gmaps4rails' And config/environments/development.rb: config.cache_classes = false # Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil. config.whiny_nils = true # Show full error reports and disable caching config.consider_all_requests_local = true config.action_controller.perform_caching = false # Don't care if the mailer can't send config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false # Print deprecation notices to the Rails logger config.active_support.deprecation = :log # Only use best-standards-support built into browsers config.action_dispatch.best_standards_support = :builtin # Raise exception on mass assignment protection for Active Record models config.active_record.mass_assignment_sanitizer = :strict # with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5 # Do not compress assets config.assets.compress = false # Expands the lines which load the assets config.assets.debug = true I have the assets pipeline in config/application.rb set to true and I haven't changed the debug settings. My RAILS_ENV is development. As I understand, rails should be compiling and serving all of the CSS files including boostrap_and_overrides.css.scss because of the require_tree . call. I've run rake assets:precompile and bundle exec rake assets:precompile multiple times, but I don't think that should matter. Im running ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474). The REALLY weird thing is that me and my partners on this project have the exact same code (from our github repository), and it works on their local machines but it doen't work on mine. Does anyone have any input at all into what's going on? share\|improve this question correct, you don't need assets precompile in development(in fact, you might want to remove all files in /public/assets). Can you see the content of the css from source view in Chrome?I had similar problem before where the css links are there but they all empty. – kasperite Mar 11 at 22:40 No, the CSS file that gets rendered in Chrome is empty (which is weird, since it should at least include the require comments etc). For what it's worth, the MD5'd file in public/assets specified in manifest.yml is also empty (but that shouldn't matter in development, right?) It occurred to me that things might be working for everyone else on my team but not for me because they might have RAILS_ENV=production, but I've tried setting mine to production as well, but nothing is configured to serve the assets, so I don't think that's the problem. – Noah Gilmore Mar 11 at 23:21 can you post up your development.rb in config/environments(you said it's not different from others?). I got this error once in production but it was a wrong unicorn setup(not rails issues). It's your local issue for sure. – kasperite Mar 11 at 23:39 you probably want to remove public/assets (or at least ALL of the files in that directory) in development mode, otherwise the rails server will serve those up instead of compiling the files on the fly. I would delete those files and restart the rails server – house9 Mar 11 at 23:50 Sure, I just updated the post with it. I haven't changed that file, and at any rate it shouldn't matter, since everyone on my team has the same file (since we're pushing it to github), right? – Noah Gilmore Mar 11 at 23:54 show 3 more comments 1 Answer I also encountered the same issue in Rails 3.2.6 which disappears when I upgrade to Rails 3.2.15. share\|improve this answer add comment Your Answer
One Lonely Seahorse By Saxton Freymann Go to catalog One lonely sea horse learns she has a lot of friends that she can really “count” on. In this rhyming counting book, the sea creatures are artfully sculpted from fruits and vegetables. JE Fic Fre Suggested for ages 2 - 6 Reserve this title By Sara Pennypacker and Marla Frazee (Illustrator) Go to catalog Irrepressible third-grader Clementine always has an ingenious idea “sproinging up” in her brain, each leading to a series of humorous mishaps. Followed by "The Talented Clementine.” Reserve this title A First Test and a Wicked Sending No Girls! Go Home! You Won't Last! Hurrah for Astrid Lindgren!
Return to Index Quite a bit calmer between Thanksgiving and March. They pay me July 14 2006 at 6:04 PM (Login kenatthefarm) Response to Hopefully you are well compensated for your indentured servitude. fairly well. Far more than a "rebel" like me ever thought he would make- without resorting to grand larceny that is. Appreciate your understanding, too. Some differences I have picked up between the attitudes of "road warriors" and the rest of the working world. (1) Non travelers imagine that working on the road is exciting and easy. The "road warriors" are the chosen few, they muse. (2) Road warriors believe they are the accursed few. Singled out to lose not just 8 hours a day to "the man," but entire 24 hour spans at a time. Lost forever- away from home and family. (3) Non travelers who occassionally fly and have to change planes on their itenerary call it a "lay-over." (4) Road warriors HATE the word "layover" and rarely use it because what the uneducated "non-traveler" is actually referring to is (by our vernacular) a "stop-over." Lay-overs are when you have to spend the night in a "hub" city to catch the next scheduled flight to your destination. (5) Non-Travelers who occassionly fly rush to the baggage turnstile and crowd around it, as if their bags are ALL going to be the first ones unloaded from the plane. Not only do they prevent others from seeing their luggage, they crowd so closely as to create a dangerous situation when others try to remove heavy bags in a sea of "idiots." YOUR IN THE WAY STUPID! (6) Road warriors saunter casually to the baggage turnstile (they know their bags will not be "first" off the plane). Road warriors stand back at least 3' from the turnstile- as a courtesy- so that all travelers have an unobstructed view of the belt, and because Road warriors value their knees and ankles. Respond to this message Click The Banner To Visit sites.
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Student Vote English Français Facebook Twitter Youtube How does Student Vote work? Why is Student Vote Important? Organization - About us Current and past projects Register - Become a Student Vote school Student Vote Day Major newspapers and political figures are beginning to release their endorsements as the Alberta provincial election campaign comes to a close. If you subscribe to a newspaper, you likely agree in part with its views and opinions. If you haven’t made up your mind, like many Albertans, an endorsement could sway how you vote. Can an endorsement sway an entire election? A newspaper cannot determine how the public votes, but they likely have some influence over their readership. The current campaign is very tight; a minority government is possible and the result is far from certain. By publishing an endorsement, a newspaper could provide a party with a crucial boost before Election Day. The National Post, a traditionally conservative newspaper, has endorsed the Wildrose and leader Danielle Smith due to the notion of change they propose for the province through “fresh blood and vibrant new ideas.” The paper “encourages” their Albertan readers to vote Wildrose on Monday. Preston Manning, the former Reform Party leader, also endorses the Wildrose. He suggests the Legislature undergo a “spring cleaning” to eliminate alleged corruption and negativity resulting from the forty-one year PC administration. The Globe and Mail, on the other hand, supports the Alison Redford-led Progressive Conservatives and calls the Wildrose “remarkably change-averse.” In terms of oil, energy and health policy, the Globe believes the PC are the better choice for Alberta’s future, domestically and internationally. Notably, the Calgary Herald has not endorsed a party as their editorial board was unable to come to a consensus of whether to support the PC or Wildrose. Instead, the party offers reasons to vote for the two parties and suggest readers should “choose based on the issues that matter to them the most.” The Herald believes the PC are better for the province in terms of Alberta’s “smart, stable and sure” international presence and image, while the Wildrose offer “bold” change for the province. Will the endorsement of a newspaper or a political figure impact how you cast your Student Vote ballot? Who will the students of Alberta endorse? We’ll find out Monday. Do you want to receive the Student Vote Blog by email? Sign up here! Social Media Post to Twitter About Student Vote Non-partisan organization engaging young Canadians in the democratic process. View all posts by Student Vote → Leave a Reply
YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollections Palin said yes to a road to nowhere September 19, 2008\|Erika Hayasaki \| Times Staff Writer GRAVINA ISLAND, ALASKA — The 3.2-mile-long partially paved "road to nowhere" meanders from a small international airport on Gravina Island, home to 50 people, ending in a cul-de-sac close to a beach. Crews are working to finish it. But no one knows when anyone will need to drive it. That's because the $26-million road was designed to connect to the $398-million Gravina Island Bridge, more infamously known as the "bridge to nowhere." Alaskan officials thought federal money would pay for the bridge, but Gov. Sarah Palin killed the project after it was ridiculed and Congress rescinded the money. Plans for the road moved forward anyway. Some residents of Ketchikan -- a city of 8,000 on a neighboring island where the bridge was to end -- see the road as a symbol of wasteful spending that Palin could have curtailed. Some of them even accuse her of deception. "Surely we won't have to commute on the highway if there won't be a bridge," said Jill Jacob, who has been writing and calling the governor's office for the last two years to protest the road. "It's a dead-end highway, a dead-end road." Since Palin was named the Republican vice presidential nominee two weeks ago, she has been boasting that she told Congress that Alaska didn't want the hundreds of millions that had been earmarked for the bridge. But in 2006, Palin stood before residents in this region during her gubernatorial campaign and expressed support for the bridge. It became apparent after she was elected that the state's portion would be too costly, and Palin ordered transportation officials to abandon the project. She held on to the $223 million in federally earmarked funds for other uses, such as the Gravina road, approved by her predecessor. "Here's my question," said Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein. "If Sarah Palin is not being truthful on an issue like the Gravina bridge project, what else is she not being truthful about?" Alaska transportation officials say construction of the road began in June 2007 because the state was still hoping to build a bridge, and "you need that highway access," said Roger Wetherell, a department spokesman. But Weinstein, who backed the bridge project, said that Palin should have redirected the money. "If the bridge was canceled, give the money back, or get the earmark removed, or redesign the road so it's better for development," he said. "Especially if you're opposed to earmarks, and now you're telling the world you're opposed to earmarks." His frustration came to a head after he heard Republican presidential nominee John McCain and Palin tout her reputation as a reformer focused on saving taxpayer money. He didn't feel much better when a campaign ad called them "the original mavericks," and said: "She stopped the 'bridge to nowhere.' " Weinstein need only glance across the salmon-rich waters separating his city from Gravina Island to see what he believes are millions of dollars being spent unnecessarily. Why, he asks, didn't she stop that? Geographic limitations Ketchikan is on Revillagigedo Island, about 35 miles wide and 55 miles long, a stretch of rugged hills, mountains and spruce. Residents talk of reaching into the clear water and grabbing wriggling salmon with their bare hands. Locals drink rainwater, rarely use umbrellas and hide their garbage from black bears. It is a place where many residents own boats, and the 600-student high school mascot is the king salmon. It started as a fishing enclave of Alaska Natives, then white settlers built a thriving logging industry. But the city's last major pulp mill shut down in 1997, and nearly 500 jobs were lost. "Ten percent of our economy disappeared overnight," Weinstein said. "That's why projects like the Gravina access project became all the more important." Tourism is now Ketchikan's main source of income, with 1 million visitors annually. Between May and September, cruise ships the size of stadiums -- often several at a time -- stop daily, unleashing passengers to admire the abundance of totem poles and stop at the dozens of stores selling necklaces and earrings made of gold nuggets and violet-blue tanzanite. Todd Phillips and his wife, who own a shop on Main Street, moved here from Denver 11 years ago because they liked the region's tranquillity and entrepreneurial potential. But the city needs to grow, he said, adding that Palin was right on the bridge issue "in the beginning, and she should have followed through with it." Now, Phillips said, "we feel like we just don't count. We're just a forgotten dot." Ketchikan, with its vast stretches of protected wetlands and forests, has little room to grow. About a quarter-mile across the Tongass Narrows waters sits the mostly flat and vacant Gravina Island, about 21 miles long and 10 miles wide, and ripe for commercial and residential development. A 10-minute ferry boat ride takes passengers and their vehicles from one island to the other. Los Angeles Times Articles
Talking with Kids about HIV/AIDS Talking with Kids about Tough Issues As upsetting and confusing as it can be to bring up the subject of AIDS with young children, it’s essential to do so. By the time they reach third grade, research shows that as many as 93 percent of children have already heard about the illness. Yet, while kids are hearing about HIV/AIDS early on, what they are learning is often inaccurate and frightening. You can set the record straight—if you know the facts yourself. HIV is transmitted from person to person through contact with blood, semen, vaginal fluid, or breast milk. HIV can be prevented by using latex condoms during sex, not sharing “drug needles,” and avoiding contact with another person’s bodily fluids. So stay informed. Sharing this information with your youngster can keep her safe and calm her fears. Finally, talking with your child about AIDS lays the groundwork for any future conversations about AIDS-preventative behavior. Here are some tips on how to get started: Initiate discussion Use a “talk opportunity” to introduce the subject of AIDS to your child. For example, try tying a discussion into something your child sees or hears, such as a commercial about AIDS. After you and your child watch the ad, say something like, “Have you heard about AIDS before? Well, what do you think AIDS is?” This way, you can figure out what she already understands and work from there. Present the facts Offer honest, accurate information that’s appropriate to a child’s age and development. To an 8-year-old you might say, “AIDS is a disease that makes people very sick. It’s caused by a virus, called HIV, which is a tiny germ.” An older child can absorb more detailed information: “Your body is made up of billions of cells. Some of these cells, called T-cells, help your body stay healthy by fighting off disease. But if you get a virus called HIV, that virus kills the T- cells. Over time, the body can’t fight disease any more and that person has AIDS.” Pre-teens should also understand how condoms could help protect people from getting AIDS and that the disease can be transmitted between persons who share drug needles. (If you have already explained sexual intercourse to your children, you might add, “During sexual intercourse, the semen from the man’s body goes into the woman’s body. That semen can carry HIV.” If you have not yet talked about sex, don’t bring it up during initial discussions about AIDS. It’s not a good idea for your child’s first information about sex to be associated with such a serious disease.) Set them straight Children’s misconceptions about AIDS can be pretty scary, so it’s important to correct them as soon as possible. Suppose your 8-year-old comes home from school one day, tearful because she fell down on the playground, scraped her knee and started bleeding—and the other kids told her she would get AIDS. As a parent, you might explain, “No, you don’t have AIDS. You’re fine. You can’t get AIDS from scraping your knee. The way you can get AIDS is when the fluids from your body mix with those of someone who has AIDS. Do you understand?” After such a discussion, it’s also wise to check back with your child and see what she remembers. Understanding AIDS, particularly for young children, takes more than a single conversation. Foster self-esteem Put your child’s safety first Some adults mistakenly believe that AIDS is only a disease of homosexuals. Whatever your beliefs, try not to let your opinions or feelings prevent you from giving your child the facts about AIDS and its transmission—it’s information that’s essential to their health and safety. Be prepared to discuss death Questions & Answers What is AIDS? How do you get AIDS? You can get AIDS when the fluids from your body mix with those of someone who has AIDS. You can’t catch it like the flu and you can’t get it just by touching or being near someone with AIDS, so you and I don_t have to worry about getting it. (NOTE: If you have already talked with your child about sex, you should also add, “You can also get AIDS by having unprotected sexual intercourse with someone who has the HIV virus.”) Can kids get AIDS? Very few children get AIDS. But if they were born to a mommy who had AIDS, they could get AIDS when they were born. A long time ago, some kids who had hemophilia—a disease that means their blood doesn’t have enough good cells, so they need to get blood from other people—got AIDS when they got blood. But that doesn’t happen anymore. AIDS is mostly a disease of grownups. (NOTE: If your child already knows about the link between sex and AIDS, and IV drug use and AIDS, you might also add, “Sometimes teenagers who have unprotected sex or who share drug needles get AIDS.” But you should still emphasize that “AIDS is mostly a disease of grown-ups.”) Do all gay people get AIDS?
cinco de mayo: a love story My parents met at a Cinco de Mayo party 20 some years ago. My Aunt's neighbor knew a great guy and it just so happened that her sister in law was a fabulous single woman. She brought a blueberry pie that he couldn't get enough of, it was love at first bite... A few months after they first met, my dad invited her over to his apartment for a dinner party. As a food lover, my mom was VERY impressed with his cooking + hosting skills. He made Kay's Green Enchiladas. My mom thought she hit the jackpot, a handsome, caring, and compassionate man who could also cook. Little did she know he only had 4 dishes up his sleeve - hot dogs, buttered noodles, god's eye (don't ask), and kay's enchiladas. Until a year ago, I didn't know who Kay was, and to be honest, I didn't really care. I was just thankful for her fabulous recipe. I recently found out that she was a co-worker of my Aunt's. While I've never met Kay, I'm sure glad my aunt did! You might take one look at this recipe and go running for the hills. Don't get me wrong, it's not complicated, It's just.... well, untraditional. It has cream cheese and parmesan cheese in it. Seriously, Kay might just be a genius. These enchiladas will change your thought on what an enchilada should be. They have a fairly traditional green tomatillo sauce that's accented with green chilies and some cilantro. But the combination of the shredded chicken with sharp red onion bits and cool, slightly tangy cream cheese make the filling to die for. Wrapped in a flour, YES flour tortilla and then smothered with that delightful green chile tomatillo sauce. All sprinkled with parmesan cheese that gives it a nice crunchy golden top make these enchiladas perfection. Give it a try and I guarantee you'll start questioning why everyone doesn't make enchiladas with cream cheese and parmesan. kays green enchiladas adapted from kay, my aunt's co-worker yields 8 - 10 enchiladas depending on how generous you are with the filling for the filling: 4 large or 6 small chicken breasts shredded 8 oz cream cheese ½ c. heavy cream or half n half ¾ c. finely chopped red onion 8 - 10 flour tortillas for the sauce: 1 small can chopped green chilies 1 - 12 oz can tomatillo, drained 2 T. fresh cilantro ¼ c. chicken stock 1 c. greek yogurt ½ c. heavy cream 1 egg salt + pepper to taste to top: ¼ c. parmesan cheese dollop of sour cream or greek yogurt Preheat oven to 350º F. Warm tortillas in the oven for 10 minutes or microwave for 15 seconds until warm. While tortillas are in the oven, put all of your sauce ingredients into the food processor or blender and blend until combined. Set aside and assemble your filling. In a medium bowl, combine shredded chicken, red onion, cream cheese, and greek yogurt. Stir until combined. Fill tortilla with the chicken mixture, fold over both sides and roll (or however you prefer your enchiladas). Put into a 9x11 pan, roll and repeat. When you've assembled all of your tortillas, poor sauce over the top, sprinkle with parmesan cheese and bake for 15 - 20 minutes, until bubbly and hot through. Serve with your favorite toppings, I like a dollop of greek yogurt or sour cream and some chopped fresh cilantro. improv style: you can use any kind of chicken you like - thighs, breasts, rotisserie, canned (although fresh is always better if you have it). i'm sure shredded pork would be delish too! don't have greek yogurt? you can substitute plain non-fat yogurt, sour cream, heavy cream or half and half. the original recipe called for heavy cream and half and half but i actually like the tang and texture the yogurt gives to it. if you can't find canned tomatillos, i've found that salsa verde will do in a pinch. sometimes if i'm feeling crazy i'll add in some frozen corn or black beans. you cold make these completely vegetarian by leaving out the chicken and bumping up the beans and veggies. if you're not a fan of onions, you can leave them out OR try cooking them in a pan first so they caramelize a bit. this will get rid of their sharpness but you'll still get the great depth of flavor. you can use corn tortillas if you like but i prefer the chewy flour tortillas. plus they're much easier to work with since corn tend to be more rigid and break. traditional enchiladas call for you to fry the tortillas first but i find this to be an unnecessary step that adds more fat and calories so i skip it all together. 1. I love your parents. So cutie. 2. I'm sorry, I really have to ask... god's eye??? What is this? haha 1. if you ask him he just says "you know... gods eye. it's, you know." so... what i've gathered over the years is that it's some sort of dip. not sure if it's chili cream cheese with an olive in the center or if it's some form of bean dip. maybe one day the mystery will be revealed as i've never seen him make it, haha!
Home History Culture Oral History Transcribed Interviews Interview with Eva Welk (EW) Conducted by Michael M. Miller (MM) 11 November, 1993, Aberdeen, South Dakota Transcription by Travis Bartelson November, 1994 Edited by Janel Wald August, 2005 MM: This is Michael Miller, the Germans from Russia Bibliographer at NDSU in Fargo, North Dakota, and it's Veterans Day, November 11, 1993 and I'm in Aberdeen, South Dakota visiting with Eva Welk. And, Eva, when were you born again, what was your birthdate? EW: Twenty-fourth of December, 1909. MM: Twenty-fourth of December, 1909. Of course it is a real pleasure to be in your home. You have lived in Aberdeen here how long, Eva? EW: Ever since my parents passed away. MM: And that was what year? EW: My parents passed away two years and nine months apart on the day. My father died the twenty-seventh of November in thirty-seven [1937] and my mother died the twenty-seven of August in forty [1940]. So you can figure it out. MM: Yes right. And they both died right in Strasburg, right? EW: Right in our home. MM: And they moved to Strasburg from the farm when? EW: In 1928. MM: 1928, and you were the only one at home yet then? EW: Yes, Mike was just married. MM: Oh, he had just gotten married and then it was time they decided to move off the farm. Then who stayed on the farm, Eva? EW: Well Mike. MM: Oh, he took over the farm. EW: Mike and his wife. And she died in, well, I think I was about sixteen years old so you can figure it out. MM: She was a young person yet when she died. But let us go back to the farm; I'm interested in knowing what the farm is because you’re the only one that still can tell us [what] you know about that farm and so forth, as far as having lived there with your folks. There was of course a large family and everybody had to do their chores and so forth, and you all had your work to do. Can you still remember as a young child who was still at home? EW: Well, I just remember a little when the first one got married; I was only six or seven years old. MM: Who was that now, Eva? EW: Barbara. MM: She got married in Strasburg? EW: Aha. MM: She was Barbara? EW: Deringer. MM: She married a Deringer, right. And you were about six or seven, and who else was still at home then? EW: The rest were all at home. MM: Oh, they all still were at home. And of course you were the youngest one and the rest were all at home. Describe the house a little bit, your house where you lived, Eva; the Welk home. EW: Well what do you mean? MM: The rooms, where did everybody eat for example. EW: It's just about like it was today; the only thing they made, they fixed it up nice, they did a good job. Where we came in it was what we used to call (33). MM: Yes, (33) yeah. EW: And our kitchen was long and narrow, but we had everything arranged so it still looked nice. Now they have it filled up with all kinds of things. MM: Right. EW: It isn't like it used to be. And then we had a nice, big dining room where we ate our meals. And then we had a living room, the front room, and the bedroom just like it is now, but all be it was, my mother was a very neat house keeper, and everything had to be just so. Well now it's so filled up that I don't feel at home when I go up there. MM: They have other things in there. And then where did all the children sleep? EW: Where did all the children sleep? Well, I slept with the girls part of the time and they had me on the davenport and, you know, it wasn't anything for two, three to sleep in one bed, and the boys all slept upstairs. And they had to go out and go up from outside. MM: In those cold winters? And then the heat came from downstairs up, huh? EW: Yes, it was a nice opening. I think the last I saw it was just a hole up there. But we had a nice opening where they could close or open it. MM: And then the boys of course would all head upstairs and the girls would be downstairs? EW: Right. MM: The house where you lived was built out of a sod house? EW: Yes, you can see it as you go in; they still show it. MM: And then in the home, course your mom had to do a lot of cooking with such a large family? EW: Yes, but you know we had so many things on the farm; they butchered their own. They had their own meat and we always had a large garden. And then in the fall, my father would buy apples by the barrel so the kids could have [apples] when they wanted them. It was surprising how they got along. MM: So they did a lot of butchering? EW: And we had chickens. MM: Lot of did they…? EW: Turkeys. MM: Oh you had some turkeys too. Did they make a lot of sausage? EW: Yes, they made a lot of sausage; the neighbors would even help them. MM: What kind of sausage did they used to make, Eva? EW: Well, they made a couple different kinds, I didn't like the liver sausage, I like the (65). MM: (65) Yeah, that's good, I still like that today. And they made some head cheese? EW: Yes they made some head cheese. I didn't care too much for that, but we ate it. MM: And then of course your mother had to a lot of canning? EW: Yes, like the cabbage and different things that was always, if I say at that time, they had a way of making, and the eggs, we always had plenty of eggs and bacon. Took some when they took the cream, they also had a crate of eggs that they took to town. MM: Oh they'd sell some of the eggs. EW: And that's where we got the groceries that we needed. MM: They would sell the eggs and the cream and then they'd buy groceries with it, and how often would they go into town to sell this? EW: Well, I imagine about once a week or every two weeks. MM: So you as a child, you didn't get to town too often? EW: No, the day when we all got to town was the Fourth of July. We all got a little money to spend. Very little, wouldn't mean anything now days. MM: Back on the homestead, as far as cooking is concerned; in the summertime of course your mother had a summer kitchen, remember that summer kitchen? EW: Yes I do. And that was cleaned up early in the spring and then we moved over. And when we were in the summer kitchen then the whole house over at the main house had to be papered and painted. And it was shiny all summer and it was cool. You could, it made no difference how hot it was outside, you could walk in and it was always cool. MM: Those thick walls helped a lot, how they built those. And then at night you'd sleep in the house, it was nice and cool? EW: Oh yes. MM: And then your ma would do a lot of cooking outside in the summer kitchen? EW: In the summer kitchen. MM: Did she make a lot of noodles during the summer time too? EW: Well I can't tell you if it was different but I know we had noodles because my father liked them. MM: What kind of noodles did she make? EW: Oh, what they call (94). MM: (94)? EW: (95). MM: And did they make pigs in the blanket? EW: Yes. MM: Some soups too of course; a lot of soup? EW: And Lawrence liked noodles when he'd come back once in awhile, cause that was something he never got, so my mother would make something extra. MM: And she'd make him some noodles, for him. And they'd have like, in the summer time later on as the summer went on they'd have noodles and watermelon? EW: Yes, we even would raise our own watermelon and muskmelons. MM: Pumpkins too? EW: And then I don't know about pumpkins. Pumpkin wasn't as popular as it is now. MM: Do you remember, Eva, as a child, everybody had to have their chores, you were young yet of course, and as you grew a little older you had your chores, what were some of your chores you had to do? EW: Well I think they started me to milk when I was only about nine, eight, nine years old. MM: You were out in the barn milking in the morning. EW: We didn't milk so much in the barn, we had pens fenced in where they were in the summertime. MM: That's where you'd milk. EW: And then in the barn, I think I was a little afraid to go between the cows. MM: I see, and the other boys had to go out too, and the girls and help you? EW: The boys, they had to do quite a bit of milking, like Mike. MM: Of course, some of the children were older than you and some even had to go out in the field of course and do work. And at that time you still only used horses, had a team, nice team of horses. EW: I never had to work like that at home, but one year I was baby-sitter at my sisters, Anna Mary's, and I think his hired man left and he took me out and put me on the plow. And I followed him and that's where I learned to plow. MM: You thought you were going in for baby-sitting and of you went to the field. How old were you then, Eva? EW: Well I can remember what his mother said when we came to town and she found out that I was, you don't have to put that on tape, when she found out that I plowed she said, "(129)". MM: That I understand good. They were concerned what are the folks going to say back home on the farm huh, Ludwig and Christina. Back on the farm, of course you had to do your chores and the others had to do their choirs, and your dad of course was a farmer, did he do any other kind of work other than farming? EW: Well you know the funny part, they always just tell that he was a blacksmith and he was. At the same time he did a lot of playing for weddings, and it doesn't come out, you hardly ever hear about that. MM: So he was at the farm, he was a blacksmith and he played a lot of weddings, now, and that's important for us to know, I mean we need to stress that more when we, when they write about him. Now when he played for those weddings he had a good accordion, did he bring that accordion from Russia or did he buy that in North Dakota? EW: No, I think he brought that with him, cause that's what I used to hear. I don't remember. MM: So you grew up hearing that accordion. So there was a lot of music in the house. EW: And then when John came along he played the accordion and he played clarinet. And Lawrence used to say, "It's too bad that John gave up clarinet, he was a good clarinet player." But things change. MM: Right, do you remember, Eva, in the Welk home on the farm in the evenings would Dad bring out the accordion and they'd have music in the evening or was there a certain time they would play? EW: I think it was mostly in the house. When we got through in the evening we all sat around outside were it was cool, and I often think we didn't work as long in the evening as some of the neighbors, because I can remember some of the neighbors they would be pitching hay and doing things like that when we were resting, so we didn't work that hard in the evening. MM: And then he'd bring out the accordion and play some music? EW: Not outside. MM: Was inside? EW: I can't remember that he had the accordion outside. Now when Lawrence came along I suppose he had to go were he wouldn't bother anybody. MM: Do you remember some of the songs your dad used to play, remember some special songs he played, on the accordion? EW: You mean Lawrence? MM: No, your dad, Ludwig. EW: They didn't have, I don't know if they had names, they just knew 'em, I can't remember. MM: Did they sing along, too, or just play? EW: My mother would sing along. MM: Oh would she. You don't remember any of those songs, what she sang? I suppose they were in German, huh? EW: Now the funny part I can remember the German prayers that my mother taught me, to this day I can pray it. MM: Oh you can, from those, what was some of those, Eva, that you, some of those songs, prayers? EW: Not songs. MM: No prayer, prayers. EW: Prayers. MM: Yes, what were those, can you repeat those? EW: One for evening and for breakfast, I mean for evening and when you get up. MM: What was the evening prayer? EW: (173) and that's the way it went on, it's a long [prayer], and I know it all the way through. Isn't it funny how you remember things? MM: And then in the morning you'd have a special prayer. And then as they played the music the children would join in and singing with your mother? EW: No, I don't know if the children would join in. Then when Agatha came along she played the organ. MM: Was there an organ in the house? Do you remember that, when it came to the house? EW: No. MM: That was already there? EW: That was there, I think when I was born and it was there when we left. I don't know who ever got it. Mike was a little careless that way, he didn't remember who came and got it. MM: From the family our whatever. EW: Now did I give you enough information? MM: Oh, we have a lot of information. What about, I'm interested, Eva, of course John played the accordion, too, did he go out and play for dances too then? Did he play with your dad or did he just go out on his own? EW: Well, when he was home-- of course it's so long ago I can't tell you for sure and I don't want to put anything in that I'm not sure about. MM: Right. EW: I don't think he went out with my dad so much because my dad had different players. And they used to tell us how they'd played for a wedding for two days and evenings and the third day yet where they couldn't get away, but they made quite a bit of money that way. MM: And they'd go quite a ways to go and play at those dances too. So they'd come home and of course while dad was gone playing for those weddings there was work to do. Then the children had to do more work too, of course. And your dad had to have the farm, worked the blacksmith and playing so they had enough to survive all this, with this money together of course they could raise the family. Your dad played the accordion, Agatha played the organ, and John played the accordion and the clarinet, did anyone else in the family play an instrument? EW: No, and when I came along I used to practice a little but by that time I had to help my mother and there wasn't too much time. MM: So there was a lot of work to do. But you remember of course when Lawrence would practice on the accordion, and did he use your dad's accordion to practice on? EW: I don't know if he was allowed to use my dad's accordion or not, I can't tell you. MM: But he had some accordion? EW: I think he bought himself one and then he sent for one, but it was always worn out so dad made, I think he promised him if he would stay home till he was twenty-one years old he would get him a good accordion, which costs four hundred dollars. And you know, they must have noticed something in him because I still wonder why they spend so much money. MM: That was a lot of money. EW: At his age. MM: How old was he, when they bought that accordion? Do you remember, about? EW: Well I imagine he was about, I would say about seventeen our so. MM: And then of course he really did a lot of practicing, do you remember the times when Lawrence would go out and practice on the accordion, you were in the house you could hear the music, him practicing? EW: Well that's so long ago I don't, and the barn was quite a ways from the house. So if he went back there we didn't hear it. MM: Later on when Lawrence got to play a little better, you know when he was, he knew a lot of tunes, would he play in the house too then for the rest of the family? EW: Yes, I think so. MM: Of course your dad played, continued to play and the rest of the family was listening and singing and so forth. Then Lawrence would go off and play for dances, too? EW: You mean when he had his new accordion? MM: Yes. EW: Oh yes, I think he went with the buggy, a horse and buggy. MM: And they'd go off. Do you ever remember who played with him, he had some partners, some other band members in this little group? EW: Yes, he would come home and have one from, was he from (237) or some place. MM: And they played. I suppose they got home late at night too then, huh? EW: I can remember when I was quite young when he came home. I knew he was home with his partner. I got up in the morning and baked the cake so we would have a cake at noon. Oh, what a life. MM: Did you do a lot of baking? EW: My mother did most of the baking till then, when I got a little along in years then I had to do the baking. MM: So Lawrence would go off and play for these dances, did you ever get to go along to any dances when he played? EW: Yes, I got to go to dances and dance and I was about fourteen. MM: Oh you got to go along already to the dances. EW: Huh? MM: You went to the dances already and start dancing at fourteen. EW: I was bridesmaid three times and when I was quite young and you couldn't help but dance. But they all let us, especially the bridesmaid. MM: Who were you bridesmaid for three times, Eva? EW: Well I had a close friend, girlfriend, and then I had two cousins for I was bridesmaid. MM: In the Welk relationship? EW: Yeah. MM: Of course you went to these dances and Lawrence would play and you'd come home with Lawrence then, after the dance? EW: I think with Mike most of the time. MM: Oh, he'd go too, huh? EW: Well Mike was older than I was. MM: Yes. Did he play for barn dances too? EW: You mean Lawrence? MM: Yes. EW: I think so. Well I suppose he played for barn dances when he had his cheap accordions. MM: What about name's day parties, a lot of playing too? EW: Name's days weren't so popular anymore I don't think. MM: A lot of weddings of course, played a lot in Strasburg? Did Lawrence play a lot in Strasburg, too? EW: You mean weddings? MM: Yes. EW: I don't know if he played so many in Strasburg. And then when he was good enough, then he'd be, by that time he would be gone most of the time. MM: After he was twenty-one. Now then let's go back to the farm and let's talk a little bit about school. Was there a farm school near your house? EW: Yes, I never went to the farm school. When I came along we had to stay with the nuns, the Eursiline Nuns in Strasburg, in the wintertime. And in the spring and in the fall we would walk three miles. Now look at what they're doing nowadays, they can't walk a half a block. MM: So you walked all the way from the farm into Strasburg during the nice weather? EW: Well, sometimes they would take us in the morning but we would walk back, like in the spring and in the fall. MM: And who else do you remember of the children? Did all the children do this in the family? EW: No, the oldest ones, we had a school in the summer kitchen years ago, that I don't remember anything about. MM: And you'd go into Strasburg and stay with the Eursiline Sisters? EW: Yes, and that's the best training I ever had. They made us do everything right on time. MM: So then everybody had their choirs with the sisters? EW: Well we didn't have so many choirs, but they gave us time to practice to learn and I often think it was good training. MM: Who went to stay with the Eursiline's of the family, you and Mike stayed with the Eursiline Sisters? EW: And Lawrence. MM: Those three, Lawrence, Mike, and yourself, Eva. And how many years were you in town for the winters with the sisters? EW: I can't tell you because in those days they paid so much and they gave the nuns whatever they needed, like cream and eggs and different things like that. And they paid so much but I don't know how much they paid in those days. MM: And you were about how old then, Eva, when you would stay in Strasburg, in school? EW: How old? MM: How old were you about then? EW: Well I started when I was six or seven. MM: Oh, so you started staying with the sisters that early. And then, you and Mike and Lawrence were all in with the sisters at the same time? EW: No, I think Lawrence got out a little earlier and I don't know about Mike; all I know is that I was the last one. MM: And then how many years were you in school? EW: How many years? MM: Did you go to school, how many from, you started at age six how many classes did you take, till the eighth grade? EW: No, I didn't make the eighth grade. Sometimes I’ve read books that Lawrence was only in the third grade, that isn't so; he must have been in the fourth or fifth and they didn't put him through without knowing anything. MM: There was a real good education during those years and of course the sisters taught only in German? EW: Oh no, no, German that was a… they also put German in one hour a week. MM: So everything was in English, classes were all in English, teachers would speak in English, and then you'd have German, too? EW: Yes EW: Did you see Larry's show on public television? MM: Yes. EW: About three weeks ago, did you see it? MM: Yes. EW: What he said that his father used to say, that the choir back home was the best choir that he ever heard, and Lawrence used to tell that when, after a few years when he would be out that he never heard as nice a choir as we had at home. MM: Who was the choir director, do you remember? EW: (342) MM: And he had a beautiful choir, huh? EW: He was from Germany, but oh was he ever strict. When he would walk in our class you could hear a needle drop. He was so strict we were afraid to make a move. But he had 'em trained. MM: Did you sing in the choir, too? EW: No. MM: You were too young yet then. When you were in school, you know in staying with the sisters, what was the schedule like? Did you have to get up early in the morning? EW: Yes, we got up at the same time and then we would say our prayers together, the morning prayers and then we would go down and have our breakfast. It was good training. MM: And then you'd go to school. And you were in school in the morning and then you'd come home for lunch? EW: You asked me if I liked afternoon coffee or a snack in the afternoon, they had for us children, (364), each one had a piece because it was too long from lunch to supper. MM: What was that called? EW: It was, it was bread with syrup on it, and that syrup had soaked in a little and it was good. And you know, when you are kids you get real hungry. MM: So you'd have that in the middle of the afternoon? EW: No, about four o'clock, or after four. MM: Now where was the school, Eva, where did you go to school? EW: Well first we started in the basement under the church and then St. Benedicts came along, that's where I went to school. MM: So you went into the first school, it was just brand new. That must have been interesting. EW: So you went to that one too? MM: Yes. Now the church was very important in your family and of course the beautiful church in Strasburg, do you remember those early days in the church there at Strasburg? How was the priest, do you remember who was the father when you were there? EW: That was a (384), his name was Max too, wasn't it? MM: Schephtmeier maybe, Father Schephtmeier. EW: I won't say anything about that cause I'm not so sure. MM: You’re not so sure of the year? EW: Isn't that funny now I remember the German choir. MM: Very beautiful choir, huh. We always heard about that wonderful choir. Did you have your first communion there in Strasburg? Do remember that a little bit? EW: Yes. MM: Had your white dress. Had your beautiful white dress. Did your mother make it, did your mother do a lot of sewing, [and] make dresses? EW: I can't tell you if she made it or if she bought it, that I don't remember. I know everybody had to be in white (397). MM: The clothes that the Welk family would wear, you would wear, did you buy most of those clothes or did they make some of those too? The dresses and so forth? EW: Yes, Barbara was good at making clothes; she was the oldest one. MM: So she would make the clothes for the others too. And of course you had to have your clothes in your little suitcase when you'd go to town for the week when you'd go to school. Well then would you stay in Strasburg all week and go home on weekends? EW: Yes, they would come on Fridays and get us. They sent enough along so we could get from Monday morning till Friday. MM: You'd go home for the weekend. And you enjoyed staying with the sisters? Did you enjoy those years? EW: Yes, very much so. And to this day I still think it was the best training because everything had to be right on time. MM: Sisters are real strict and they had, and those sisters of course. Were they some sisters that were German? EW: We just had one that came from Germany, that gave us a German hour. MM: What was her name, do you remember? EW: Sister Paulina. MM: Sister Paulina. And then you learned to read and write in German? EW: I was never very good about the writing, but I can pick up a German prayer book that I had from my mother's sister in Montana and I can read German yet, so it wasn't lost. MM: When you would go home, Eva, on the weekends, of course you were growing up and getting a little bigger, did your folks have a lot of company on weekends, did they get together (429)? EW: Yes, they had a lot of neighbors and then I think when the flu came along it took some of their best friends. That was, that was in eighteen, wasn't it? MM: 1918 yes. Of course you remember that, you were already a young girl then, and that was tough. During the time of the flu did everybody still go to school or did they stay home? EW: I think they stayed home because they would all come down one after another. MM: Did this happen in your home too? EW: Yes, I think my mother was the only one left, I think they all got down. MM: So you were on the farm and of course you stayed on the farm with your folks until they moved to Strasburg, but do you remember the times, Eva, when Lawrence left the farm and then went down to South Dakota and to Yankton and so forth, do you remember the times when he'd come home for visits? EW: When we lived in town? MM: Well even on the farm. EW: Well I think I told you. One time when he came home and had a partner I heard about him coming home that night and I got up and baked a cake. MM: You mentioned that, yes. And then later on when Lawrence was playing and traveling and so forth and down in Yankton and then of course met his wife and so forth and you were already in Strasburg and he'd come home more often then. By that time you were living in Strasburg and Mike was on the farm, raising a family out there. You remember some of the times when Lawrence would come home when you were in Strasburg, I bet. EW: Yes, and when he would come home, we had a nice home in Strasburg and there he had his own bedroom when he would come home, he didn't have to go out to the farm. I read one time that he would always come home and crawl up the outside steps and that isn't so cause he stayed in town when we lived in town. MM: Cause you were there, you saw it, you lived there of course. And he'd come home and did he ever come home then and play much with his little band, in Strasburg or around there, when he was down in South Dakota? EW: Yes, one time he gave a concert for the school, St. Benedicts School. That was before your time? MM: Yes. Was that in the gym or where was that concert? EW: That was in the gym. MM: In the new gym they built during the WPA days. EW: I remember my mother got tears in her eyes, and I asked her after that, I was with mother alone, and I said, “What made you so sad when Lawrence played?” And she said, "Well I just wish that dad was still here, that he could hear." MM: Of course by that time--. EW: My dad was gone. MM: Your dad was gone? EW: I told you they died two years and nine months apart. MM: And your dad died in Strasburg, when they moved to town? EW: Umhu. MM: And so you still remember that when Lawrence came home he played in the gym, there in Strasburg. And by that time did he had a nice orchestra already? EW: Well I would think he had about, I would say about twelve. MM: Oh, so it was a nice size already then. Singers too? EW: Huh? MM: Was there some singing also, did he have some vocalists? EW: Not at that time. MM: And then after that, what year was that about when he came home and played in the gym, do you remember about what year? EW: Well I would say it must have been in, my father died in thirty-seven I told you, that must have been in thirty-eight or--. MM: Shortly after? EW: I wouldn't say for sure because it's so hard to remember everything. MM: All those dates, yes. Was there ever another time when he came home and played in Strasburg with a big group that you can remember, after that one time your mother and you went? Did he ever come back again, like in the forties, that you can remember, or were you down here in Aberdeen already then? EW: No, my mother died in the forties and I came soon after that, I came down here. MM: And you remember of course when your mother died and not everyone in the family could come to the funeral, right? EW: And it was hard for him cause he couldn't get home, it was real hard that he couldn't come home when she was so sick. But we talked back and forth. MM: On the phone. You had a phone by then already? EW: Well we didn't have a phone in the home but we had to call from somewhere. We had some neighbors that had. Do you remember Mike Schumacher, he had the Ford garage. MM: So you'd go over there and use their phone? EW: I don't remember if I used it or if one of the other children talked to him. There was no plane going out where he was; he was in Pennsylvania some place. MM: With his orchestra in Pennsylvania. Your dad died and then shortly after that then you stayed with your mother of course, continued to live with your mother. Did you work too in Strasburg or did you primarily work for your mother? EW: Well my mother had diabetes for eleven years and I had to give her the insulin (004). they had me up in Bismarck to teach me, I even had to weigh her food. MM: You learned a lot there. EW: So when I came to Aberdeen I had no trouble getting jobs. MM: Cause you had all that experience from taking care of your mother and of course--. EW: My father both. MM: Your father too. How long did you take care of your father? EW: Well he wasn't down, he had heart condition and a little lung trouble. MM: And your mother after she died, then your family members all came together, did Lawrence get home for your mother's funeral? EW: No, I told you he couldn't; there was no plane. MM: Oh, he couldn't come at that time, right. EW: And it was very hard for him. He wrote me a letter, sent money home for (15) and I had that letter, I sent it to Shirley a while back. You know about it? MM: Yes, she told me about that letter. EW: Did she? MM: Yes. EW: They like old things and I still have that letter in there and I thought here's something I'm going to send you, whether you appreciate it or not, but it was the oldest thing I had that her father wrote me in his own handwriting. MM: Right. And then of course when your mother died and it was time for you to leave Strasburg and you came to Aberdeen? EW: I came down to John's, they lived in Ipswich. MM: Oh I see. EW: That was only twenty-five miles and they said you won't have trouble finding a job. So that's what I did for quite a few years. Till I retired, then I had a few good hobbies. When I retired I played bridge and (25) was my hobby. MM: Beautiful work. EW: That's (26). Did you ever see (27) before? MM: Yeah my mother did that too, and Mrs. Kline did that also, Mrs. Johnny Kline. You knew that. They got together to do a lot of craft work during those years, a lot of crocheting. EW: I learned it when I was only eleven years old. MM: Who taught you how to do (29)? EW: Well, when Louie got married he and his wife lived at our place for a while, till they had a home fixed up for them. And I know I would always tie it so you couldn't pull it open, but I kept at it and finally I got it. And the next thing I knew one of the sisters wanted me to make a (34) for an alter cloth or something. And I said, "Oh my gosh, that would take me all my whole life". MM: One of the Eursiline Sisters wanted you to do that? EW: Huh? MM: One of the sisters wanted you to do some (36), did you ever do? EW: No, not for the church. Because it was such slow work when I first started. MM: Yes, beautiful work. Did your mother do many crafts, did she have time to do any crafts? EW: My mother did some knitting. MM: Oh. EW: And when she wanted to, I used to (40) and embroider and crochet. I learned to crochet I think in school. And when she wanted me to knit, I thought, "Oh that's old fashioned", I never wanted to knit. And that's very popular again. MM: Yes it is, of course. So in the evenings your ma would do a lot of, for past time they'd sit of course there was no, there was no electricity either then, was there? Did they have electricity then? EW: In town? MM: No, on the farm. EW: No, no they burned coal. MM: Burned coal. By the time you were growing up they were already bringing in coal and burning coal. Of course that was a... EW: They had what they call brick coal or whatever and they would just fill it up once a day or so and it would last. MM: It kept the house nice and warm and then she'd do her baking with that coal too? EW: No, I think they had wood. And then at night they would put some coal in the cook stove so it would keep the kitchen a little warm overnight. MM: Your mom made a lot of bread. Did you learn how to make bread from her, and (53)? EW: I was never too good about making bread. She did the bread and I did the, oh like when it came to cakes or pies. But you know, I can still remember when Lawrence would be home and she would eat something sweet, he would always say, "Well mother, can't you have fat?" It hurt him just to see her eat a little something sweet. MM: And she loved it but she still wanted to have a little bit. Then after you moved down to Aberdeen, Eva, and of course the rest of the family was spread out, some were back home, Mike was on the farm, and you had a family member down here in Aberdeen too, one of your brothers was down here, right? EW: No, he was still in Ipswich. MM: Oh, he was still in Ipswich. EW: But they would come in quite often to see me, John and his wife. They did quite a bit of shopping here in town. MM: Were there quite a few German Russian people down here at that time? EW: Yes, but I never got to well acquainted because they belonged to St. Mary's. MM: I see. EW: And I joined Sacred Heart and I've had it ever since. MM: But through those years when you were down here in Aberdeen, starting in the forties and then on from there, did Lawrence keep in pretty good touch with you? EW: Yes he did. MM: You would see him once in a while? EW: And, he would always say anything that you need or just that I would never ask him for anything wasn't in my way of. And you know I sometimes think, "it wasn't fair the publicity he got before he passed away," Because he would have been the last person to ask the government for anything, that I know. MM: That was not in his work ethic? EW: Huh? MM: That's not how he felt. But then did you ever get to see him perform with the orchestra as he got more popular? EW: Oh yes, I was out there a few times and when he played in Bismarck I had some good friends that called me, we went up. The funny part, her picture was in the paper last week with the couple I went up to Bismarck. And then they played in Jamestown one time, I think I went, my niece and I went up. And now in Strasburg I can't tell you what years that would have been. MM: When he played. Now what about the time when Lawrence was surprised, remember that TV show he had, “This Is Your Life”, do you remember that? EW: I was there. MM: Oh my, how did you find out about it, did somebody call you? EW: I was taking care of a sick person and they just wouldn't give up and wouldn't give up. Ralph Edwards, you know, he was the head of it, they called me and they asked me to come out, and they said they would pay your way and we can pay you extra. And I wouldn't give in. You know how stubborn I can be. MM: I know that. EW: I wouldn't give in till Fern called me. MM: Is that right? EW: And said, "Eva, we need someone from the family." And the rest all had their families so I, I had to get someone in my place to take care of the sick lady and I flew out and you know the poor fellow he was so surprised. MM: Then you flew out on the plane? EW: I did. MM: That wasn't your first airplane flight? EW: No. I think [on] my first airplane ride I went out to California. My niece's husband in Minneapolis, he said, "You just come to Minneapolis, I'll put you on the plane and see that you get out there OK" It always worked OK going out and back till the last time when I flew back from California. Everything went wrong. And I told Lawrence after I got back, I said, "Now don't look for me anymore, I can't do it alone." Do you want to know what happened? MM: Yes, yes. EW: After I got on the plane they announced that the plane would be a little late, it was something with hydraulic or something. And so right away I was wondering if I'd make it in time, and sure enough by the time I got to Denver the plane was gone, to Sioux Falls. MM: Oh my. EW: So they are good about paying your expenses, but that isn't the only thing you need. Then I had to sit around all afternoon out there and in the evening they had some more people who had to go to Sioux Falls. They put us on a little plane and it was just up and down, up and down. And then when we got to Sioux Falls I had to call a cab and go to the Holiday Inn, I think it was the Holiday Inn. And I think that can be very dangerous in a strange place to take a cab when you don't know people. Now here when it gets too cold, I don't walk my four blocks, I just call a cab, I know who they are and I'm not afraid to take a cab. MM: Now when you got out to California for that, “This Is Your Life” show, who picked you up, do you remember? EW: Yes, he had some people lined up to pick us up. Cause Shirley and Don they were gone at the time. And they had all the arrangements made so that none of the family would be there to pick me up, but we got together. They must be pounding up there. MM: Umhu. EW: And then after the show I remember so well the poor fellow, he didn't sleep that night. And then the next morning he got up, I think he went to six o'clock mass and then he took us all out to Disneyland that were on that show. MM: Oh, Umhu. EW: What a life. MM: Of course, you remember vividly that show, when you were on that show that was quite a surprise. Was there a lot of people there, big audience? EW: Yes, and I can see Ralph Edwards coming towards him, how he surprised him. MM: And of course he was surprised when he saw you. EW: Well that was after he saw Ralph Edwards. MM: Yes. EW: When he saw his children and everybody else. MM: So that was a big moment, of course. EW: And then I saw it after I was home I could see it on the television, came out. Did you see it? MM: Well I, I've seen a video tape of it since then. But you remember when we talk about TV and radio, when you were on the farm growing up, Eva, was there a radio? Do you remember a radio at that time yet or was that in town already? EW: I think we got the first radio in town. MM: So you remember Eva at your folks' house in town, when they would get WNAX down here in Yankton so they could hear Lawrence play on the radio? EW: Yes, and he sent me a nice- it looked like a phonograph and it was a radio too. MM: This was in the forties? EW: No, it was before the forties, it was before the forties. MM: Is that the radio you gave to Shirley? EW: Oh no, I didn't give Shirley a radio. That's the phonograph I gave her. MM: Oh, the phonograph, yes. And that radio you got in the thirties and then you'd listen to Lawrence on the radio, back in Strasburg and then of course down here in Aberdeen. EW: I think when I first heard him on the radio it was out in the, it wasn't Denver? It was a different place where they played. I would get up at night and listen to it. MM: Oh really, oh yes. Now you remember of course when Lawrence met his wife, Fern, and they got married, would they come home once in a while? EW: Yes. MM: And you were already living at Strasburg at that time? You were still in Strasburg then when they would come home? And then they raised a family, did they bring the children too, then? EW: Yes. MM: Do you remember some of those times? EW: I told Shirley when she was here, when they first brought her home she was about, I would say about [a] few months old, and he said to me, "Eva, did you ever see such a cute baby before?" Isn't it funny how you remember such dumb things. MM: It's just (171) again, just like it is today. You can remember just little incidents like that. EW: Well, I think I must have said, "Well she is cute", but I didn't think she was that cute. Because I'll tell you who was cute, Jimmy's wife, Edna. They already had a [baby], cause Mike got married in twenty-eight [1928] and Lawrence got married in thirty-one [1931] so I had a lot of little nieces already. And she was cute, and she's such a good hearted girl to this day. MM: They’re wonderful girls, yes, all the family. I of course went to school with Diane. EW: With Diane. MM: Yes, she's gone now but I graduated from high school with Diane, so you know about, she graduated in sixty-one [1961] from high school. EW: Jimmy was always good when they played in Aberdeen to call me and we would have a nice little visit. Now Larry wouldn't call. But yeah, I think he lived to (185) he was. MM: So when Lawrence got married and then they lived in Chicago for a while and from Chicago they went to California. EW: No, they lived in Yankton for a while. MM: Oh, Yankton and then they moved from there. EW: And I was down in Yankton, I went down with someone when Fern lived there and he was gone quite a lot. MM: Did you ever hear him play down in Yankton? Hear Lawrence play down there, any dances on the [radio]? EW: No, I can't remember that I ever went any place where he played down there. MM: Or what about here in Aberdeen? Did he ever come up here and play in Aberdeen? EW: Well I can't tell you what year it was. MM: Well anyway, it was after you had come down here? EW: But I know one time when he was here he had supper with me. Where I worked, they told me to invite him, that's OK. And before he took me where I stayed, and before he left that evening he said, "Eva, would you take a quart of milk along?" And I thought, "Now why would you want a quart of milk?" He said, "Well I get so awful thirsty after the dance," and he can't, and he wanted to go to communion in the morning, so he made me take it, and I think he must have drank the whole quart or maybe had it a few times. But that was his way of doing and I think that's what kept him the right way. MM: So through all those years Lawrence of course led a good Christian life too, just like you did. EW: And he had, he must have had a lot of temptation with his work, more than I have had to fight. But he made it. MM: And then as he went to California and started on TV, do you remember the first show when he was on TV? EW: Yes, I remember it. MM: You had your own TV by then? EW: No, we didn't have our own TV but the neighbor I took care of, she wanted me to go and see it and have someone else in my place, and I did. I saw his first show. MM: And during those years when he was starting on television and so forth would he call once in awhile just to say hello? EW: You mean um...? MM: Lawrence. EW: Oh yes. Yes he kept track how everybody was getting along. MM: And then he'd come back to Aberdeen here once in awhile for a visit? EW: Yes and the funny part even when he was at home he and Buster (223), you know who Buster (223) was, he's in Fargo now, they would always come down to play golf after he would get through up there then they would come down to Aberdeen. And you, did you see that set of dishes that they gave to my mother? MM: It's in the house there in that corner, yes. EW: And one time when he came down with Buster (229) I had breakfast fixed for them and I used those dishes. They were only used a couple times I think while I had 'em. MM: Well, who got those dishes first of all? EW: Huh? MM: Those dishes were given by Lawrence to your mother? EW: To my mother and I saved them. MM: You took those from the house and brought them down here? EW: Yes and I didn't bring 'em down right away, I saved them at Anna Mary's place. And then one time I thought I have to save them and if anything happens or so I think it should go back to Lawrence's family again. So one morning when I fixed breakfast for Buster (236) and him and myself, we sat all around, I had the table set for three. I said, "Lawrence, did you ever see dishes like that before?" And he looked so serious and said, "I can't recall." And you know that was so many years before when he gave the dishes to my mother. And I told him, I said, "You gave them to mother when you first started out." "Oh, did I really?" he said. MM: So then, you had to remind him of that? EW: Huh? MM: You reminded him of those dishes, that beautiful dishes set I've seen that, it's gorgeous. EW: And I think I was more proud of those dishes than she was. MM: Oh, when he gave them to your mother? EW: We still lived on the farm. MM: Oh, when he gave those dishes to your mother you were still on the farm, oh. EW: And then of course we were packed and I took them to town. MM: Is there anything else you kept of your mother and your folks'? Did you keep anything else from the old house that you brought down to Aberdeen? EW: Not to Aberdeen, this is all. Do you know those (256)? MM: Yes. EW: I think Shirley must have liked them. And one time he sat here in the chair, where I sit now. MM: Lawrence sat there. EW: And he looked at 'em and said, "I think I like your arrangement better then the way some have put them up." Well I put 'em up the way the directions told you. And everybody would admire them. MM: Champaign glasses, bubbles are beautiful. EW: And that Champaign bottle... MM: Yes. EW: That's another thing I think Shirley might have liked. But we didn't have enough time. They came down just in time for lunch and we went out that day ahead, I wasn't very hungry but I ate a little. And we didn't really have enough time by the time we had pictures and everything picked up for them to take along and then all the albums and the phonograph and everything. MM: It all takes time. Well she'll keep in touch, I know that Shirley was so pleased to come down here and I think you enjoyed the visit, too? It was a nice visit, nice to see her husband? EW: He's such a nice man but I think he was a little in a hurry, there was so much (274) business at the time. MM: Yes. EW: And I think he was afraid it might rain again that day, it looked like rain and he was kinda anxious to get going, I think. MM: But we're real appreciative of Shirley, you know, Shirley and Larry and Donna too. Now, they're all real interested in what we're doing. EW: Do you know that Larry almost lost his home. MM: Oh, in this terrible fire? EW: His home was left across the street. But they say it smells awful from smoke. And he and his wife they were on a trip. I don't know where, I didn't ask. MM: Well, thank God that they're safe. Eva, I want to ask you, too. I forgot to ask you earlier, but your mom and dad, of course your mom was a Schwan and your dad of course was a Welk. And did they ever talk much about the old country, once in a while something would come up? EW: Well, they didn't have so much time to talk about things as now days. But they told me how, about the main business where they would, how they would do their harvesting. I couldn't even understand it. MM: You were pretty young yet then? And they talked. EW: Now, did I give you enough information? MM: Yes, we've visited beautiful information. There's a lot to talk about, you and I could talk all day. The life in the Welk home when you reminisce about back on the farm, we're going to close our conversation soon, but when you reminisce and when you look back and you think about that farm back near Strasburg, what kind of highlights in your memories when you look at that farm and with your mom and dad, Ludwig and Christina, and then raising such a large family, what do you think about some times? EW: Well, it makes me wonder how they used to do it. MM: Raise a family like that in such a small house. EW: But they never complained, my mother never complained that it wasn't large enough. MM: They always made do with what they had, right? EW: Right. MM: They were always satisfied. And same with the neighbors and they always found time to have a little entertainment, a little music, it's wonderful you had music in the home. And they'd always find time to go to church, and you'd go to church on Sundays of course into Strasburg? EW: Yeah, when it was possible, I'm sure they never missed. MM: And then they wanted to make sure for their children, especially for you and Mike and Lawrence. You went into Strasburg and stayed with the sisters, Eursiline Sisters. And that was good training, I think for Lawrence too. Cause he always mentioned you know. EW: And he married a good Catholic wife. MM: She's a real wonderful person. EW: Yes she is. MM: Yes, I had a nice visit with her last year. EW: And she's ninety years old. MM: She was just ninety. So she's older than you are. EW: Huh? MM: She's older than you, Eva. EW: Oh yes, quite a bit older. MM: I forgot to ask about the holidays. Now on the farm, you know when you were growing up as a child you know and growing up and so forth, what was Christmas like? When Christmas came to the Welk home on the farm, what was kind of the memories of that? EW: Well, we didn't buy so many presents like they do now days. The only thing when we lived on the farm I can remember, my father bought a couple things for me one time and he wrapped it up and they didn't want me to find it. He bought, that there he bought it in the store, but I think I found it anyway. MM: What was it? EW: Well it seems to me it was stockings and something else for a kid about my age. MM: Hum, that's interesting. EW: But, what we got, you know they used to call (336)? MM: Yes, (336). EW: And they would bring us things in a basket. I suppose they had it already filled up outside, I don't know how they got it, got hold of it. And they gave it to us and you know a few little things meant more then when they get all the different gifts nowadays. MM: And then everybody in the family, all the children would get something? EW: Not for all the children, they didn't want anything from (346). MM: Aha, but they'd get a little gift anyway. Did your mom make some things for Christmas? Make some craft work or make any clothes or anything for the children or the older ones? EW: Well, I don't know if it was just for Christmas but she would knit stockings and she would knit mittens. MM: For the winter? EW: But I don't know when they got them, whether she gave them for Christmas. Anyway I know she used to make things like that. And I thought, "Well I'm not going to start that." MM: That's cute. EW: But now it isn't old fashioned anymore. MM: No, now they're making all those kinds of things. And did they do a little singing then Christmas Eve? EW: Ah. MM: Did your dad play the accordion? EW: I think we were all so afraid when I was little to sing. MM: But later on when you were getting a little bigger then there was a little singing on the farm, for Christmas. Your dad would play the accordion a little bit, I suppose? EW: That I can't tell you for sure, if we sang alone or if he played with us, if he played the accordion. MM: Would they then go into Strasburg for midnight mass? EW: Yes, just a minute. I don't know if they went to midnight mass or if they went early in the morning. I know we children didn't. MM: You didn't go in. But then of course on Christmas Day. EW: Do you have a tape for Shirley? MM: Did I make a tape for Shirley? I can make her one if you want. EW: No, that's OK. There's so many things I just don't, I'm not sure about. MM: Now on Christmas Day of course they'd have a nice meal. Your mom would make special foods? They made a lot of (378) I suppose and cookies and things like that. EW: Oh, I was going to give you some cookies and coffee. MM: We'll do that afterwards, we’re almost done now, then we'll have some coffee and cookies. What about Easter time, was there anything, was Easter important? EW: Yes, yes, and Easter time we made nests and I think the boys just made their nests to make me believe more in it. I was always the first one to be up and out and bring it in and I can remember one time it had a basket, a nice Easter basket in my nest, and when I came in, in the morning, I went in, in front of my parents bed, and I thought to myself, "Now how in the world can he lay a basket?" MM: The egg is OK, but the basket too, huh. EW: I went in and showed them, I was dumb enough in those days to show 'em what I had in my nest. MM: Cute. EW: And it was a nice Easter basket that they bought in town and they didn't let on that they had it around the place. Where they had it I don't know. MM: So you always got along good with the other children, the older boys? And your older sisters, you always had a nice family life, everybody got along good? EW: Yes, they wouldn't allow us to fight like the kids fight here. MM: Aha. EW: And of course they were all so much older except Mike and Lawrence. They were good to me, both of them. MM: And so Lawrence and Mike you got to know the best then? EW: Yes, because some of the older ones they were gone by the time I was a few years old. MM: We talked a little bit about Fourth of July, but that was always big too? EW: I told you, that's the only time we got a little money, but not very much. MM: And then you'd go to town? EW: We would go to town. MM: There was a parade I suppose, and a little music in town. A band would play. Who were the neighbors there by the Welk farm; do you remember the neighbors? EW: Yes, I think their best, the ones they missed the most were Ben Fickes, Ficks. MM: Ben Ficks. EW: And then they had some more, but they were just about half a mile over. That farm isn't there anymore. And then Scherrs. MM: Do you remember the first name, Eva? EW: Yes, I think Valentine Scherr lived there last and Carl Scherr. And the father's name was Mike Scherr, they had the farm and that was left to the boys. Do you think my memory is pretty good yet? MM: It certainly is if you can remember who the neighbors were and who the father, Mike Scherr, and so forth your memory is very good. It's very good, your memory. Especially I think today, your memory is very good, I'm real sure. You remember exactly what happened with the sisters when you went to school, the first grade, you know that's a long time ago. You talk about years; you were born in 1909 right? So that was nineteen, lets see once, six, 1915 when you went into town to school. You know that goes back in years. So the Forth of July.... EW: I'm going to put on some water. MM: We'll have our coffee in just a minute, but on the farm I want to ask you too, like you'd go in on the Forth of July in the morning and come back at night of the forth? And did they have these church holidays too, like Catholic days or a Sention day where they'd have these important church days, too, where they'd go into town for different services, wouldn't they? EW: Yes, right. MM: What were some of those days, do you remember? EW: Well like, Sention day and then, well that isn't so important now but I know we would always take time off when there was a holy day coming along. MM: There was still work that day on the farm. EW: Know one time while we were getting ready for church some farmer went out. I guess they forgot it was a holy day and they were going, I don't know who told them then that it wasn't a workday, that I don't remember. MM: Oh, but they were out in the fields working and they weren't supposed to be. Did you ever remember, Eva, when you were growing up, a little girl and so forth, when your dad did some blacksmith work. And he'd maybe even make some of those iron crosses. Did he ever make any of those iron crosses? EW: I don't remember that, the crosses that they made but I remember the plow shares that he would have for us on the farm, so that didn't cost him anything. MM: Did he do some work for other people too then? EW: I can't tell you for sure. MM: About that. You don't by chance recall ever any of the Indians coming over from Fort Yates to the farm? EW: No, but I think they were telling us that years ago they were very much afraid of them. MM: Maybe that was the first year so when they came over, when they landed and homesteaded you know so. So that was important. I think were going to close our visit so we can have some coffee and cookies. MM: And I want to thank you, Eva, so much for our visit today and, I know the Welks, Shirley, Larry, and Donna will be happy too that we talked about your life on the farm, down here in Aberdeen and a little about good old Lawrence. We all appreciated him and we’re so happy that he's still on TV so we can all still watch him, right? EW: And I enjoyed that show so much, when Larry was on and that's only about three weeks ago. MM: That was a wonderful show and you remember they even showed the homestead and the church in Strasburg. And that brought memories for you. EW: It was so nice to see everything and then he said, "I think that's what made my father get up where he was." He enjoyed that choir so much. MM: Do you think that work ethic and that family life back on the farm, for you too and for Lawrence and the other members of the family, [do you think] that had a lot to do with his success and his hard work in his life? EW: Well I know it had a lot to do with mine. Oh I have to tell you something else. You know, everything is so different nowadays; when Lawrence died, the news called me right away and they wanted to know if they could come over that evening. They had a man that was real handy about taking pictures, and I didn't have to give him any picture[s]. He walked in here, he had a lady with him that interviewed me a little bit, and he just went around. He said, "Do you have a picture of you and Lawrence together?" I said, "No, I have one that's real old, a small snapshot." I showed it to him, he put it over there, and the first thing I knew he took that picture there and then he took a picture of where we were both together and then he walked over here and took a picture over here. MM: Right here? EW: Right here. MM: Imagine that, huh. EW: I didn't have to take a picture down. And then by that time they could tell the phone was ringing all the time. MM: So of course they wanted to ask you and so forth. I forgot to ask you, Eva, when Lawrence died you know he was quite sick and so forth, did you have communication with anyone in the family, who would keep you informed about Lawrence and who called you when he died? EW: Shirley. MM: Shirley called. EW: Shirley called. The same day. And it was a good thing she called when she did because it was on a Monday and I was busy, I washed that morning and what little cleaning I can do. It isn't like it should be but when I watch people, how they put in time without doing any work. You know they start to shingle this place over here about two, three weeks ago and they still have a lot to do. MM: Say I forgot to ask you, Eva, is that a radio, that big Champaign bottle, over there? What is that? EW: You mean when he sent it to me? MM: Yes. EW: Oh, it was in, I think it was in the forties. And everybody tells me when you get through with it give it to us and I said, "No, I think I'll just let 'em fight over it." MM: Well that's something you should maybe consider giving to Shirley. EW: Yes. MM: Because that should go in the collection you know, for exhibit, for the future. But that's a beauty, you sure kept that in good shape. EW: And I showed Shirley something else that her father gave me when I was fourteen years old. MM: What was that? EW: It was a wristwatch, a beautiful wristwatch. And in those days I thought they was all diamonds. Would you like to see it? MM: Yes I would, yes. EW: To me when I was fourteen years old. MM: This wristwatch? Oh my, isn't that beautiful. EW: You know they used to wear those long wristwatches. MM: Is it still working? EW: Well you know what I did? One time when he had, when we had a reunion at home, I put it on but I took it down to the jewelry store. I had it cleaned inside and outside before I put it on. And I put it on and I said, "Lawrence, how do you like my new wristwatch?" And he looked at it and he said, "Here she's still wearing my wristwatch." Now he remembered that but he wouldn't remember his dishes. MM: But that, at fourteen he gave that to you, huh. You were in town already by then? EW: No, I wasn't in town, I was on the farm. MM: Oh, I see. EW: And I was never so proud of anything that I had as I was with this thing. MM: You wore it a lot then? EW: Huh? MM: Did you wear it quite a bit? EW: I wore it till I thought I'd better get a smaller one. MM: It’s beautiful, still in good shape yet. EW: Huh? MM: I said it's still in good shape; the diamonds are all still there. EW: But isn't it funny that you can have something that stays as nice. I think one time I lost a blue and I took it to the jewelry store and they put something in. MM: Real nice, that's a treasure; put that piece of paper inside also. You've got this yet. We're going to close our conversation with Eva Welk. It's Veteran's Day, November 11, 1993, and I'm in Aberdeen, South Dakota. This is Michael Miller from North Dakota State University. North Dakota State University Libraries Germans from Russia Heritage Collection NDSU Dept #2080 PO Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 Tel: 701-231-8416 Fax: 701-231-6128 Last Updated: Director: Michael M. Miller
Karen and Clifford Hello and welcome! I am a breeder of English Springer Spaniels (ESS) and belong to the Eastern ESS Association. Each litter is registered with the American Kennel Club (AKC). I have been breeding Springers since 1996 and have many very happy adoptive families. Springer Spaniels are an outstanding breed for pets and these are top quality dogs. They are bred from show dog lines and make great pets. Springer Spaniels are a gentle loyal breed. Simply send in the forms to register your purebred puppy. English Springer Spaniels are a Sturdy gun dog, with a good natured vitality that makes them excellent companions. Springers were originally grouped into a diverse group called "Land Spaniels" which eventually were divided into distinct groups, the larger types were named Springers. They were used to "spring" game for falconers. This work required great stamina along with a keen nose and an inexhaustible interest in flushing birds. With the introduction of the gun, the breed's role changed and it was required to retrieve the birds as well. They are willing and affectionate dogs, and do exceptionally well with children. A happy spirit. Springers are essentially a country dog, although they can adapt to urban life with adequate exercise offered. Their coat needs regular grooming. Check the puppy page for information about the puppies, then call us and come see them in person.
Welcome to PBIS Rewards The PBIS Acknowledgement Program is a web based data collection system for tracking acknowledgement slips students have received and teachers have handed out. Ingham ISD has created this online data collection program, to be used by both students and staff, to input and track the positive feedback each student is receiving. This system is designed so students can input their acknowledgement information and track it and school staff can monitor student/teacher data and make decisions based on the acknowledgement data. The program uses computer generated, randomly chosen serial numbers placed on each acknowledgement slip. The school PBIS team will determine which specific data they will track, choosing from student name, student grade, what skill was acknowledged, date, time etc. The student uses the web based application found on the school’s website to input the random serial number and other information as chosen by the school’s PBIS Team. The PBIS Team can generate data based on the fields required during input. The team can then use this information to determine the quality and efficacy of their acknowledgement program and can more closely monitor who is receiving the acknowledgements.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Raw Apple & Banana Sauce Recipe I used to be an applesauce fanatic. During college I constantly bought those little cups of pre-portioned apple sauce servings. It seemed like a frugal option at the time. (And hey, I always reused the cups, so I figured that justified the purchase! :-) But especially in the last year I've become very wary of extra ingredients (either for flavor, color retention, or longer shelf life) that are added to storebought canned & jarred goods. I was reminded of this when I stopped by the grocery store today to pick up a few things for my husband who has a bad bout of the stomach flu. I looked at the jar of unsweetened applesauce and I noticed while it didn't contain added sugar, it did contain erythorbic acid, a type of ascorbic acid or in layman's terms: manufactured Vitamin C. A food additive used to preserve color in canned goods. Vitamin C is a really good thing. Especially when you are trying to build immune health! But to get Vitamin C in the form of an extremely processed food additive isn't the best way. I worry about how this additive was manufactured. What it was made from? Where did it come from? Will it be metabolized the same way that natural Vitamin C is in our body. I don't know. I looked at the jar of applesauce and decided I could do better than that. How hard would it be to go home and throw a regular apple in the blender and make a raw applesauce without any super processed additives? It wasn't hard at all. From now on when I need applesauce I won't be buying it in a jar. This was so easy to prepare and so delicious! So often we choose what we think is the faster way to make food. The easier way. The way that's most convenient. Yet, so often it can be just as easy & convenient to make at home. If you've never made a raw applesauce (which you could also just consider an apple smoothie!) I really suggest you give it a try. I love that you don't waste any of the apple. Simply remove the seeds & core and toss in the rest, skin and all! (Note: If you have a Vitamix - you lucky duck- just toss in the whole fruit!) Voila... instant, raw, healthy, delicious, vegan, naturally sweet & gluten free applesauce! Raw Apple & Banana Sauce An "unrecipe" by: Carrie Forbes @ Free of gluten, dairy, soy, eggs, sugar, and a ton of other completely unnecessary things! Printer friendly recipe. 3 large apples, any variety, preferably organic, cored & cut in large pieces 1 banana 1 pear, cored and cut into large pieces 1/2 cup water (may not be needed if you own a Vitamix) 1-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice In your high-powered blender (or your Vitamix and I'm seriously jealous if you have one) add cut up apples, the banana, and the cup up pear pieces. With regular high powered blender: add water & blend with fruit. Blend on highest speed until smooth and the consistency of applesauce. Pour apple & banana sauce into a jar and stir in lemon juice. (The lemon juice will help to retain the light color of the sauce.) Serve applesauce chilled with cinnamon sprinkled on top! **In a Vitamix you MAY be able to leave out the additional water needed to help blend the sauce. In my high-end (but not a Vitamix) blender, I needed the water to help break up the fruit and blend into a smooth consistency. Pin It! 1. Ooh, I am absolutely going to be making this in the very near future! I'm planning a refined sugar fast starting in June, and lots of fruits are on my dietary agenda as a result ;-) Also, I just added this to my compilation page of recipes, if you don't mind. I'm new to the blogging world, and this is helping me keep track of all the tasty-looking concoctions I come across! 2. Sounds perfect! I actually have some overripe bananas and kinda ignored apples right now. Gonna make this! How long will it last in the fridge, do you think? A few days? Maybe I'll freeze some. 3. I've never thought to put banana in it! This is the perfect baby food, too, you know. C. LOVES applesauce! 4. abby - I SO meant to put in a sentence or two saying that mom's everywhere have been making this forever! :-) lololol! I'm glad you pointed it out!! I love apples & bananas together! 5. Tasty Eats - Yes! Definitely freeze it for longterm storage. I've had mine in the fridge for about 4 days and it is still very fresh, but I will probably freeze whatever I don't use today! LinkWithin Related Stories Widget for Blogs
Obamacare in fact funds abortions I hope the sisters of the CHA are proud of themselves. I found this story on the site of Jill Stanek. Obamacare to fund abortions in Pennsylvania; heat on Dahlkemper … less than 4 months after Obamacare’s passage, and with Obama his executive order supposedly banning public funding of abortions, we get confirmation it was a fraud. FacebookEmailPinterestGoogle GmailShare/Bookmark About Fr. John Zuhlsdorf 32 Responses to Obamacare in fact funds abortions 1. TJerome says: Quel surprise. I hope all of the fake Catholics who vote Democratic are happy. But of course, the Dems are for the “minimum wage” the highest good in their ideology. 2. DavidJ says: This is my shocked face :\| 3. JosephMary says: And someone is surprised? You mean we have been lied to! 4. ghlad says: And so it begins. The really infuriating thing about 99% of what this administration has done is that it’s purposefully obfuscated. Not that there’s any chance that things won’t eventually get noticed (ie, abortion funding in Obamacare) – it just adds slime to what is already disgusting. How can people not see what’s really going on? Matthew 13:15, etc… 5. Leonius says: You are dealing with a population which contains a large number of people who think things like Rome is in Greece and you wonder why they cant see what is going on? 6. Stu says: I’m shocked, shocked to find that Obamacare is funding abortions! 7. Bryan says: I hope Sr. Keenan is enjoying that pen from The One that she was paid with for her complicity. Prayers ascending for her soul. Not surprised a bit. 8. JohnE says: From Jill Stanek’s website: UPDATE, 4:03p: I’m told on high authority from someone who saw it that the Obama administration issued a statement last night stating the $160 mil wouldn’t cover abortions and then pulled it back. I’m told a new or revised statement is in the works. Revised statement: “Ok, I lied. Big deal, so did George Bush!” 9. Hans says: You mean the bishops were right?!? How could that happen??? So much for those who said the CHA sisters were being “prophetic”. 10. Hieronymus says: Of all of the great many predictable things that Obama has done so far, this could well be the least surprising. I don’t think there is a person in this country who sincerely believed that abortion wouldn’t be covered. Has anyone seen the story yet about Rep. Stupak bursting into the House Chamber and launching 13 pieces of silver toward Madam Pelosi’s throne? 11. gambletrainman says: I think the voters are blind in one eye, and can’t see out of the other. Usually, if a candidate says “I don’t like what the incumbent is doing. I have a better plan.” he outlines the plan. In this case, it was “I have a better plan.” Ok, so what’s the plan? That should have been a red flag right there. I hope I’m wrong, but seeing the attitude of the people, and how short their memories are, I really don’t see much of a change in Congress this year. Right now, people are fussing, but I think when it comes down to the wire, it’ll be “I don’t like what so-and-so is doing, but can’t find anyone any better, so, I’ll just vote my man/woman back in.” And don’t forget, with all the newbies coming in, how many will be bought? You know, I’ll give you x millions of dollars if you change your vote”. Like I said, I hope I’m wrong. 12. stgemma_0411 says: Hence why Bart Stupak did the “Sign and Retire” deal. Not like we didn’t see this coming, unfortunately. 13. stgemma_0411 says: On another thought….Couldn’t someone sue a bunch of these people for Breech of Contract, contending that there was an implied agreement , via Congress and Obummer, to not have any federal monies fund anything? And what happened to the Amendment that said this wasn’t permissible? As soon as one dollar is paid out to an abortion provider, couldn’t someone sue over constitutionality? 14. EXCHIEF says: This administration lies about everything else–why not this. The man is Machiavellian and evil. No one who considers himself a Christian (much less a Catholic) can ever morally justify a vote for him or any of his ilk…but, unfortunately millions did. 15. RuariJM says: From the same story: I would think it’s time to campaign to ensure that the relevant section in the PA proposals, covering abortion, is removed. In order to achieve that, public encouragement should be given to Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper to hold the White House to the terms of the EO. 16. TonyC says: It would do my heart good to hear that Rep. Stupak called BHO’s hand on this one. Did anyone see that news report? The American Catholic really nailed Stupak–>”CHUMP”. 17. Hieronymus says: I see two possible ways that this could play out, and I don’t know which I would rather see. 1) Abortion is openly covered in this case and the White House’s lie is there for the world to see. This would re-invigorate the push against him and his party going in to this fall’s elections and, I think, would make possible a repeal of this ridiculous bill. 2) Now that all of the fuss has been raised, the White House comes out affecting displeasure that PA would try to use federal funds for abortion. Obama takes a “strong stand” and winds up looking like a strong, ethical man of his word — but in the end the funding is not granted (so openly anyway) here and now (but most likely will down the road now that the door has been opened). I think since the abortion industry is already being funded by US taxpayers (look at the source of most of Planned Parenthood’s money), and the bill’s repeal is more likely effected by option 1, I almost want to say that I hope the funding does explicitly cover abortion. I would have to sort out the ethics of that though . . . 18. Jackie L says: I’m sure they’ll be outraged at NCR over being duped into believing and telling their readers how there is no abortion funding in Obamacare. I expect each one of those writers are embarrassed and will work to correct this ASAP!(sarcasm over) Actually I expect to see this ignored for a while followed by being told that being focused on a single issue is narrow minded, and we can’t impose our views, legislate morality, etc. 19. duhvinci says: I love the way no one here is surprised or shocked. 20. Steve K. says: Let all the poisons that lurk in the swamp hatch out. 21. Steve K. says: Really, Vox Nova, Oneros? Really? 22. Peggy R says: Stupak insists this is not happening. Sure, keep telling yourself that, bud. 23. Trad Tom says: That would be lame-duck Stupak, right? 24. stgemma_0411 says: Is Stupak still talking? Because I thought he was retiring/resigning. I’m not about to listen to a single word this guy says, because he is about to ride into the sunset with a ton of our tax money, via his pension, and laughing the whole way. Thankfully, God’s justice can’t be circumvented. 25. Wayne NYC says: The new spin started yesterday by the group of ex-pro life dems (in a desperate attempt at deception) the very dems that told us there would be no funds for abortions in Obamacare….they have launched a re-election PAC asking voters for their monetary backing in standing up to the pro-life “lobby”….they now call their conspiracy the “Whole-life” Coalition .Satan’s talking points. 26. AndyMo says: Shills like Vox Nova are dedicated to this legislation. They know that when it gets out that yes, Obama is pro-abortion, and yes, this legislation will fund abortions, their credibility is completely sunk. That’s why they’ve switched to the “everybody is lying but us!” tactic. Even Fr. Z is deliberately lying, in their book. Apparently, Fr. Z believes his readers “aren’t worthy of knowing the truth.” 27. vincentuher says: Now then how can a Catholic U.S. citizen pay taxes to a government which pays for the murder of human beings in the womb? O Jesus, Conqueror of death, save us. 28. Supertradmum says: Several stories on this and how Stupak states that the pro-life groups are lying about his on Lifesite News. http://www.lifesitenews.com/ 29. Supertradmum says: Who is willing to go to jail for not paying taxes? Can we separate which taxes go to this fund and target that one or ones? 30. Hieronymus says: I hate to break it to you, friends, but we have been funding abortions for a long time — even during Bush’s presidency. A quick glance at the Planned Parenthood annual report (2008, the most recent that I could find) shows that they received $350 Million from government grants and contracts. We have been funding our own destruction for quite a while. 31. RuariJM says: There is crossness in the land that the situation has been clarified and the $160 million will not be used to fund abortions in Pa.
Alija Izetbegović From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Alija Izetbegović 1st Chairman of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina In office 20 December 1990 – 14 March 1996 Prime Minister Jure Pelivan Mile Akmadžić Haris Silajdžić Hasan Muratović Preceded by Obrad Piljak (As Chairman of the Presidency of the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina) Succeeded by Živko Radišić (As Chairman of the Presidency of the Tripartite presidency) 1st Bosniak member of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Presidency In office 14 March 1996 – 15 October 2000 Succeeded by Halid Genjac Personal details Born (1925-08-08)8 August 1925 Bosanski Šamac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Died 19 October 2003(2003-10-19) (aged 78) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Nationality Bosniak Political party Party of Democratic Action Spouse(s) Halida Repovac Profession Politician, activist, lawyer, author, and philosopher Religion Sunni Islam Alija Izetbegović (Bosnian pronunciation: [alija izɛtbɛɡɔʋitɕ]) (8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003) was a Bosniak politician, activist, lawyer, author, and philosopher who in 1990 became the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000. He was also the author of several books, most notably Islam Between East and West and the Islamic Declaration. Early life[edit] Izetbegović was born in the town of Bosanski Šamac, situated in the north of Bosnia; he was one of five children born to a distinguished but impoverished family descended from former Bosniak Ottoman aristocrats from Belgrade who fled to Bosnia in 1868, after Serbia gained independence from the Ottoman Empire. His grandfather, Alija, was the mayor of Bosanski Šamac. While his grandfather Alija was a soldier in Üsküdar, he married a Turkish woman, Sıdıka Hanım. The couple moved to Šamac and had five children. His father, an accountant, declared bankruptcy in 1927, and the next year the family moved to Sarajevo. With a devoted family and Muslim upbringing, he received a secular education. During the Second World War, at the time when Bosnia was part of the Nazi puppet state the Independent State of Croatia, Izetbegović joined the radical Islamic organization Mladi Muslimani (Young Muslims), and after the war he was arrested in 1946 and sentenced to three years in prison, not for collaboration but because he was opposed to the new Communist regime.[1] Before incarceration, he had earned a law degree at the Sarajevo Law School (University of Sarajevo).[2] He remained engaged in politics after serving the sentence.[3] Izetbegović was married four times. He had a son, Bakir, who also entered politics, as well as two daughters.[4] Dissident and activist[edit] In 1970, Izetbegović published a manifesto entitled the Islamic Declaration, expressing his views on relationships between Islam, state and society. The authorities interpreted the declaration as a call for introduction of Sharia law in Bosnia, and banned the publication.[5] The declaration remains a source of controversy. It was used by Serb nationalists to justify the war, often quoting the declaration as an intent to create an Iranian style Muslim republic in Bosnia.[5] Passages from the declaration were frequently quoted by Izetbegović's opponents during the 1990s, who considered it to be an open statement of Islamic fundamentalism. [6] The opinion is shared by some Western authors such as John Schindler.[7] Izetbegović vigorously denied such accusations.[5] British author Noel Malcolm asserted that the Serb nationalist interpretation of the Declaration was false propaganda and offered a more benevolent reading.[8] Explaining that it was "a general treatise on politics and Islam, directed towards the entire Muslim world; it is not about Bosnia and does not even mention Bosnia" and that "none of these points can be described as fundamentalist". Malcolm argues that Izetbegović's views were much more thoroughly expressed in his later book, Islam between East and West, where he presented Islam as a kind of spiritual and intellectual synthesis which included the values of West Europe."[8] Izetbegović wrote the book Islam between East and West in 1980. It explores the notion that "Islam is the only synthesis capable of unifying mankind's essentially dualistic existence".[citation needed] Bosnian War[edit] Main article: Bosnian War HDZ leader Stjepan Kljuić, SDS leader Radovan Karadžić, and SDA leader Izetbegović in Sarajevo, 1992 In February 1992, Izetbegović called a national referendum on independence for Bosnia as a European condition for recognition of Bosnia as an independent state, despite warnings from the Serbian members of the presidency that any move to independence would result in the Serbian-inhabited areas of Bosnia seceding to remain with the rump Yugoslavia. The referendum was boycotted by Serbs, who regarded it as an unconstitutional move, but achieved a 99.4% vote in favour on a 67% turnout (almost entirely constituted of Bosniaks and Croats).[citation needed] The Bosnian parliament, already vacated by the Bosnian Serbs, formally declared independence from Yugoslavia on 29 February and Izetbegović announced the country's independence on 3 March. It did not take effect until 7 April 1992, when the European Union and United States recognised the new country. Sporadic fighting between Serbs and government forces occurred across Bosnia in the run-up to international recognition. Izetbegović appears to have gambled that the international community would send a peacekeeping force upon recognising Bosnia in order to prevent a war, but this did not happen. Instead, war immediately broke out across the country as Serb and Yugoslav Army forces took control of large areas of Bosnia against the opposition of poorly-equipped government security forces. Initially the Serb forces attacked non-Serb civilian population in Eastern Bosnia. Once towns and villages were securely in their hands, the Serb forces – the military, the police, the paramilitaries and, sometimes, even Serb villagers – applied the same pattern: Bosniak houses and apartments were systematically ransacked or burnt down, Bosniak civilians were rounded up or captured, and sometimes beaten or killed in the process. Men and women were separated, with many of the men detained in the camps. The women were kept in various detention centres where they had to live in intolerably unhygeinic conditions, where they were mistreated in many ways including being raped repeatedly. Serb soldiers or policemen would come to these detention centres, select one or more women, take them out and rape them.[11] Izetbegović consistently promoted the idea of a multi-ethnic Bosnia under central control, which seemed a hopeless strategy under the circumstances. The Bosnian Croats, disillusioned with the Sarajevo government and supported militarily and financially by the Croatian government, increasingly turned to establishing their own ethnically-based state of Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia in Herzegovina and Central Bosnia. The Croats pulled out of the Sarajevo government and fighting broke out in 1993. In most areas local armistices were signed between the Serbs and Croats (Kreševo, Vareš, Jajce). Croat forces launched their first attacks on Bosniaks in Gornji Vakuf and Novi Travnik, towns in Central Bosnia on June 1992, but these attacks failed.[citation needed] The Graz agreement caused deep division among Croats and strengthened the separatist group, which led to the Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing campaign against Bosniak civilians. The campaign planned by the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia's political and military leadership from May 1992 to March 1993 and erupting the following April, was meant to implement objectives set forth by Croat nationalists in November 1991.[12][13][14] For three and a half years, Izetbegović lived precariously in a besieged Sarajevo surrounded by Serb forces. He denounced the failure of Western countries to reverse Serbian aggression and turned instead to the Muslim world, with which he had already established relations during his days as a dissident. The Bosnian government received money and arms. Following massacres on Bosnian Muslims by Serb and, to a lesser extent, Croat forces, Arab volunteers came across Croatia into Bosnia to join the Bosnian Army. They were organized into detachment called El-Mudžahid. The number of the El-Mudžahid volunteers is still disputed, from around 300[15][16] to 1,500.[15] Foreign fighters, styling themselves mujahiddin, turned up in Bosnia around 1993 with Croatian identity documents and passports. They quickly attracted heavy criticism amplified by Serbian and Croatian propaganda, who considered their presence to be evidence of violent Islamic fundamentalism at the heart of Europe. However, the foreign volunteers became unpopular even with many of the Bosniak population, because the Bosnian army had thousands of troops and no need for more soldiers, but for arms. Many Bosnian Army officers and intellectuals were suspicious regarding foreign volunteers arrival in central part of the country, because they came from Split and Zagreb in Croatia, and were passed through the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia unlike Bosnian Army soldiers who were regularly arrested by Croat forces. According to general Stjepan Šiber, the highest ranking ethnic Croat in Bosnian Army, the key role in foreign volunteers arrival was played by Franjo Tuđman and Croatian counter-intelligence underground with the aim to justify involvement of Croatia in Bosnian War and mass crimes committed by Croat forces. Although Izetbegović regarded them as symbolically valuable as a sign of the Muslim world's support for Bosnia, they appear to have made little military difference and became a major political liability.[16] In 1993, Izetbegović agreed to a peace plan that would divide Bosnia along ethnic lines but continued to insist on a unitary Bosnia government from Sarajevo and on the allocation to the Bosniaks of a large percentage of Bosnia's territory. The war between the Bosniaks and Croats was eventually ended by a truce brokered with the aid of the Americans in March 1994, following which the two sides collaborated more closely against the Serbs. NATO then became increasingly involved in the conflict with occasional "pinprick" bombings conducted against the Bosnian Serbs, generally following violations of ceasefires and the no-fly zone over Bosnia. The Bosnian Croat forces benefited indirectly from the military training given to the Croatian Army by the American military consultancy Military Professional Resources, Inc. In addition, the Croatians provided considerable quantities of weaponry to the Bosnian Croats and much smaller amounts to the Bosnian Army, despite a UN weapons embargo. Most of the Bosnian Army's supply of weapons was air-lifted from the Muslim world, specifically Iran – an issue which became the subject of some controversy and a US congressional investigation in 1996. In September 1993, the Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals (Drugi bošnjački sabor) officially re-introduced the historical ethnic name Bosniaks. The Yugoslav "Muslim by nationality" policy was considered by Bosniaks to be neglecting and opposing their Bosnian identity because the term tried to describe Bosniaks as a religious group not an ethnic one.[17] Ending the war[edit] US President Bill Clinton meeting with Izetbegovic in Tuzla, Bosnia, 1997 In August 1995, following the Srebrenica massacre and the 2nd Markale massacre, NATO launched intensive bombing campaign which destroyed Bosnian Serb command and control system. This allowed the Croatian and Bosniak forces to overrun many Serb-held areas of the country, producing a roughly 50/50 split of the territory between the two sides. The offensive came to a halt not far from the de facto Serb capital of Banja Luka. When the Croat and Bosniak forces stopped their advance they had captured the power plants supplying Banja Luka's electricity and used that control to pressure the Serb leadership into accepting a cease fire. The parties agreed to meet at Dayton, Ohio to negotiate a peace treaty under the supervision of the United States. Serbian and Croatian interests were represented by Milošević and Tuđman, respectively. Izetbegović represented the internationally recognised Bosnian Government.[18][full citation needed] After the war[edit] Alija Izetbegović's grave in Sarajevo He died in October 2003 of heart disease complicated by injuries suffered from a fall at home. An ICTY investigation of Izetbegović was in progress, but ended with his death.[19][20] Following his death there was an initiative to rename a part of the main street of Sarajevo from Ulica Maršala Tita (Marshal Tito Street) and the Sarajevo International Airport in his honour. Following objections from politicians from Republika Srpska, the international community, and UN envoy Paddy Ashdown, both initiatives failed.[21] On 11 August 2006, Izetbegović's grave at the Kovači cemetery in Sarajevo was badly damaged by a bomb. The identity of the bomber or bombers has not been determined.[22] Personal life[edit] In October 2006, his son Bakir (born 1956) was elected to a four-year term in the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a representative of the SDA. Four years later, in October 2010, he too was elected to the Presidency as the Bosniak member.[citation needed] Available in English • Notes From Prison – 1983–1988 • The Islamic Declaration, Alija Izetbegović, s.n., 1991 Available in Bosnian • Govori i pisma, Alija Izetbegović, SDA, 1994 2. ^ Bartrop, Paul R. (2012). "Izetbegović, Alija (1925-2003)". A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO. p. 140. ISBN 9780313386787. 3. ^ a b Nedžad Latić, Boja povijesti, ISBN COBISS.BH-ID 7. ^ John R. Schindler, Zenith Press (2007) 8. ^ a b Noel Malcolm. Bosnia: a short history. 9. ^ After the Peace by Robert L. Rothstein; ISBN 1-55587-828-8; ISBN 978-1-55587-828-3 10. ^ YouTube 11. ^ "ICTY: The attack against the civilian population and related requirements". 14. ^ "ICTY: Summary of sentencing judgement for Miroslav Bralo". 16. ^ a b "Predrag Matvejević analysis". 18. ^ Dianna Johnstone. Fool's Crusade, London: 2002 [ISBN missing] Political offices Preceded by Nijaz Duraković Chairman of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina post created Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Succeeded by Živko Radišić Tripartite presidency Template:Bosnian Chairman of the Presidency
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Edition: U.S. / Global RECORDINGS VIEW; A Rocker Who Hasn't Gentled With Age By Jon Pareles Published: April 30, 1995 BOB DYLAN HAS JOINED THE parade of well-known rockers who have released albums from "MTV Unplugged." That's as far as his conformity goes. Dylan's "MTV Unplugged" (Columbia CT67000, cassette and CD), recorded late last year, isn't a tepid, defanged run-through of hits, like Eric Clapton's and Rod Stewart's sessions, or a spontaneity-free recital like Mariah Carey's. Acoustic guitars in hand, Dylan's new band still rocks, and the sly old master makes his songs crackle and rage and ache. Dylan, now 53, is as death-haunted as any grunge rocker, as corrosive as most punks, as free-associative as some rappers. Yet on MTV, as elsewhere in current pop, he's an oddity. His musical tastes are old-fashioned; he doesn't play folk-rock as currently revived by everyone from R.E.M. to Tom Petty, but folk with a rocker's edge. And his songs are highly individual yet almost selfless, barely concerned with private gratification. His best work, like "MTV Unplugged," brings human passion and musical wit to metaphysical struggles. In the 1990's, Dylan's songwriting has apparently stalled while he has released solo albums of traditional songs, sung in a voice as caustic and untutored as his rural sources. On tour, however, he has reawakened his great 1960's songs and winnowed more recent material, spurred by a band that's in touch with all of Dylan's roots, from slide-guitar picking to church organ. Dylan emerged from the 1960's folk revival, unfurling visionary images as he melted down country and blues, Celtic ballads and gospel tunes, rhythm-and-blues and a touch of pop. Despite the post-modern juxtapositions of his lyrics, Dylan has almost always treated his music as if it came from the days before recording. He's dedicated to live performance, with all its sparks and faults. He has always toyed with his songs, sometimes wrecking them in the process (as on previous live albums like "Hard Rain" and "Bob Dylan at Budokan"). But on "MTV Unplugged," he doesn't just rattle off familiar words; he inhabits them again, with the bravado he had three decades ago now transmuted into an elder's crustiness and compassion. He rasps and slurs, croaks and bays, as unpretty as ever but less guarded. Three decades ago, he sang "Desolation Row" with a sneer; on "MTV Unplugged," his quiet, conspiratorial voice makes the song more paranoid. "MTV Unplugged" includes only three songs that aren't from the 1960's: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" from 1973, "Shooting Star" from 1989 and an exhilarating version of "Dignity," besting the studio rendition on 1994's "Greatest Hits Vol. III." Yet in performing on MTV, Dylan may have been thinking about reaching the children of his baby-boomer fans. His touring band is augmented by Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam's producer, who plays electric (not unplugged) organ with judicious assurance. Guns 'n' Roses fans can recognize "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," while "Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35" has the chorus that's a sure-fire crowd pleaser: "Everybody must get stoned." "Rainy Day Women" turns into a jaunty free-for-all, with O'Brien's organ, Bucky Baxter's slide guitar, John Jackson's guitar and Dylan's plunking lead guitar gleefully jostling one another over Winston Watson's rollicking drums. DYLAN ALSO CHOOSES 1960'S portents that still seem trenchant. "Like a Rolling Stone" might well apply to a scruffy, displaced younger generation, and "All Along the Watchtower" maintains its foreboding mystery, while "The Times They Are A-Changin' " has become as much a warning as a battle cry. On "MTV Unplugged," Dylan re-emerges as an antiwar protester. He sings "With God on Our Side" with sullen disbelief while the band turns it into a stately country hymn. And in "John Brown," an Appalachian-style ballad from 1962 that has never appeared on an official Dylan album, he tells the story of a disfigured soldier; the song's graphic descriptions make a bitter contrast with the band's string-band lilt. "MTV Unplugged" could have easily included more material from the sessions, but the songs on the album hit home. Dylan knows, as Nirvana did, that "Unplugged" doesn't have to mean mellow. Photo: Bob Dylan--At 53, still death-haunted and corrosive. (Frank Micelotta/Columbia Records)
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The Employer of Choice At 10:30 on a Thursday morning, the fourth-floor furniture department of Dayton's in downtown St. Paul is empty of customers. Two employees pass the time chatting near the escalators. The background elevator music is conspicuously loud amid the silence. The acres of purple leather sofas and Lester Loden loveseats might as well be tucked away in a dim warehouse. You get the impression that you could crawl under the covers of a sleigh bed and lie undisturbed for days. The scene on other floors is not much more robust. A trio of Dayton's employees gossip at the Elizabeth Arden skin-care products counter; a young leather-clad woman browses the lingerie section; a pair of elderly ladies haunts the shoe department. The busiest action is at the foyer pay phones and the coffee and pastry stand. The sleepy scene highlights what Brian Sweeney, St. Paul's planning director, noted the night before at a city-council meeting: The downtown Dayton's store "frankly is not competitive." The impetus for Sweeney's comment was a public hearing on a proposal for a $20 million renovation of the last vestige of retail shopping in downtown St. Paul, soon to be known as Marshall Field's. Under the renovation plan, the number of floors would be dropped from five to three, aisles would be widened, floors and ceilings redone, exterior bricks scrubbed, and new facades added to the primary entrances on Cedar Avenue and Wabasha Street. To pay for the overhaul, Target Corporation, parent company of Marshall Field's, is banking on $7.8 million in public funds. The city would contribute $6.3 million in the form of a forgivable loan for renovations. St. Paul also promises to secure a $1.5 million grant for the company to cover the costs of asbestos removal. (The latter funds would likely come through the Metropolitan Council.) If Target failed to keep a store open downtown for 10 years it would have to pay back the $6.3 million. When the deal, negotiated by Sweeney's office and the St. Paul Port Authority over six years, was made public last month, members of the St. Paul City Council were falling over themselves to embrace it. "They were jubilant; they were giddy," recalls Bernie Hesse, an organizer for United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 789. Council member Jay Benanav went so far as to suggest that perhaps the city's contribution was too stingy. "Why not put in a little more to make that look like a first-class building?" Benanav wondered to the Star Tribune. "I'd like to see a little more pizzazz." But what council members weren't aware of when they made their initial rose-hued assessments of the plan was that, along with pocketing almost $8 million in public funds, Target Corp. would be receiving an exemption from the city's living-wage ordinance. Under this regulation, adopted in 1997, companies that receive more than $100,000 in public financing must pay all employees a living wage. Calculated at 110 percent of the poverty level for a family of four, this amount is $9.02 an hour at present. Living-wage ordinances have long been a burden that Twin Cities politicians would rather artfully dodge than embrace. Until last month Minneapolis's policy contained a loophole that allowed the city to grant exemptions without going before the public to explain why a publicly supported corporation could not pay its employees $9.02 an hour. Under pressure from city-council member Jim Niland and living-wage advocates, this policy was eventually amended. But not before, among other examples, Target was granted a waiver for its proposed downtown Minneapolis store. As the fine print of the proposed Dayton's deal became public, other nagging questions presented themselves as well. Will the subsidy ultimately lead to a loss of jobs at the Marshall Field's store? Is the deal simply a means for Target to make a less economically painful farewell to downtown St. Paul down the road? Why hasn't the company made its financial records available to the city? These were the issues that Brian Sweeney was attempting to defuse as he took the podium at the city council meeting last week. Sweeney noted that the subsidy was "very much on the low end" of what municipalities have ponied up to large retailers nationwide. Citing a report by a retail consultant, Sweeney pointed out that Norfolk, Virginia, recently offered $30 million to Nordstrom for a new location, while Rochester has put together a subsidy of $20 million for the same retailer. (Sweeney has also pointed to Minneapolis's courting of the downtown Target store, which at last count amounted to a benefit package of more than $50 million. "We love being compared to downtown Minneapolis," he quips.) But Sweeney had a more difficult job in laying out a justification for the waiver of the living-wage ordinance. According to the proposed contract, the only reason given for the waiver is Target's "long-standing participation" in St. Paul. To sweeten this pot, Sweeney made the case that the company is the "employer of choice, when you look at the combination of wages, benefits, and the flexible working schedule." He even went so far as to cite the Dayton's employee discount as proof that the corporation is a benevolent employer. But Sweeney's best argument lay in pointing out the alternative to giving Target $7.8 million and a living-wage exemption. "Bottom line, the Dayton's store as it existed previously was not a competitive enterprise," Sweeney summarized. "This agreement makes it a competitive enterprise." This logic did not blunt criticism from the public during the hearing. David Buckley, a board member of ACORN, referred to Target's hints at leaving downtown as a "veiled threat." Labor organizer Hesse called it "economic blackmail." St. Paul resident Jennifer Blevins wondered why a corporation that earned $1.1 billion in profits in 1999 can't pay a living wage. "It's not up to the city of St. Paul to make Dayton's their charity case," she argued. Mary Buivid, who identified herself as a former Target Corp. employee, begged the council not to grant the waiver. "I'm one of those people who has had to try and survive and live on a non-living wage," she said. Council members also had questions for Sweeney. Benanav wondered if the Dayton's store would be slashing jobs at the same time that it cuts its retail space from five floors to three. Michael Litwin, Target's regional real estate manager, replied that the company has no plans to eliminate any positions. Benanav also asked the city for detailed information on exactly how much Dayton's pays its employees. Council member Jerry Blakey wanted to know about health benefits. Kathy Lantry added to the wish list an accounting of how many projects have been granted waivers to the living-wage requirement since its adoption. But perhaps the most enlightening moment came when council president Dan Bostrom pointed out that the city's ordinance requires that any company asking for a waiver offer a "detailed explanation" for why it can't pay a living wage. "Have we received that?" Bostrom asked Sweeney. "No, we have not received that," Sweeney answered. "We can get that." Ultimately, at the behest of Blakey, the issue was laid over for two weeks, pending more information. So far only council members Chris Coleman and Pat Harris have embraced the waiver (although neither returned phone calls from City Pages seeking comment). The remaining council members left the meeting talking tough. "In some ways it's not a loan, it's a gift," says Benanav of the subsidy. "And I think the least we can ask for is high-quality jobs and good wages, and if that doesn't work for them they can find other means to finance their operation." Unspoken at the hearing is the theory that Dayton's is simply using the city to take care of a costly asbestos problem and will ultimately take off for greener--presumably suburban--pastures anyway. "The only reason Dayton's didn't boogie, in my opinion, is they can't sell the building because they've got asbestos," says Hesse. He speculates that Dayton's will ultimately prevail, but hopes that the debate will at least highlight the issue and perhaps become fodder for the upcoming mayoral campaign. (Benanav, Blakey, and Bostrom are all running for the city's top post.) Target spokeswoman Melissa Stark says it is not clear how the company would proceed if the deal is ultimately derailed because of the living-wage issue. "We'd have to review our options," she says. "We are committed to the city of St. Paul. We are ready to sign this deal." On the morning after the city council meeting on the lower level of the downtown store, employees outnumber customers. Three workers are passing time in the Field Gear section of the men's department. One of them, a college-age man with a goatee, brings up Sweeney's comment of the previous evening--that Dayton's, with its generous package of benefits, is the "employer of choice." Grumbling ensues about the impossibility of saving for retirement when you're struggling with the basics of food and shelter. "You can't eat a 401K," the young man quips. Show Pages My Voice Nation Help
EXCLUSIVE: DC's Digital Rankings Lead May Sales Discussion Mon, June 11th, 2012 at 9:30am PDT \| Updated: June 11th, 2012 at 10:17am Comic Books Kiel Phegley, Staff Writer Just ahead of DC Comics big summer launch with "Before Watchmen" and just past Marvel Comics release of #1 event seller "Avengers Vs. X-Men," May was supposed to be a bit of a sleeper month in the Direct Market of comic book stores. However, with the May sales data released last week by Diamond Comic Distributors, the month seems much more exciting than anticipated. Overall, comic sales were up 40% from May of 2011, and aside from chart toppers like "AvX" and "Justice League" taking their expected positions atop Diamond's top 300, DC saw a strong performance for its "second wave" of New 52 titles including a reported level for "Batman Incorporated" #1 of over 100,000 copies ordered and a strong start for the alternate world actioner "Earth 2." That's not to mention the collected editions chart where "Justice League" and "Batman" topped performers overall with an eclectic mix of titles beyond that. To see behind DC's sales plan and into their ideas for the next step, CBR News spoke with SVP of Sales Bob Wayne and SVP of Marketing John Cunningham (joined by DC Publicity Director Brandy Phillips) who also shared exclusively the rankings for DC's digital performance in the month. Below, the pair discuss the surprises held in May's strong performance from collections that will help balance periodical sales to digital series marketed towards non-traditional comics fans to how the marketing machine built for the New 52 still serves the line heading towards its September "Zero Month." Story continues below "Batman Incorporated" #1 hit over 100,000 in sales yet still was only the #7 book in the market. CBR News: Gents, before the sales numbers came out, I worried that there would be very little to talk about with the May sales numbers as people waited for things like "Before Watchmen" to shake up the chart, but as it turns out, there was a lot to look at in May. Starting with the "Second Wave" titles for the New 52, "Batman Incorporated" has apparently hit over 100,000 copies, but how have those titles done overall. Did having a group of books launching under the shared branding help amp up the numbers, or was the response more title-by-title? Bob Wayne: Well, we're certainly very happy that "Batman Inc." launched in the top ten, and actually, "Earth 2" #1 had a set-aside on the Diamond chart because we'd offered a returnability factor to let retailer stock up, but something happened in "Earth 2" #2 which caused retailers to go back and scoop up all the overship and extra copies we had. So when the actual sell through of "Earth 2" #1 comes out, you'll see that it would have made the top ten on this chart as well. I'm just giving you that with an asterisk in there. "World's Finest" as a compliment series in tandem with that book was a top 20 book, and we're happy with the other titles as well. We certainly didn't think they'd all be top ten titles, but they're clumped in together quite well. "Dial H" and "Ravagers" were in the top 50. So it's a good place for us to be. John Cunningham: I think it's fair to say that all comics sell individually. There was never an expectation on our part that these would all perform on the same level. I don't think anybody thinks that way when launching a series. But the fair comment would be that they all launched above the level we expected, which was a very good performance. One thing I've heard anecdotally is that the orders on the first hardcovers and trades for the New 52 have impacted the sales picture for the ongoing titles. Is that true from your perspective? How will you be looking to shape the size of the line? Wayne: We're going to remain in the mode where we constantly evaluate the titles we're publishing to see if they're hitting where we want them to hit commercially and just as importantly where they are creatively and critically. We don't have to have a straight line on the chart that says, "If they sell below this number, the books have to be cancelled." And the numbers we're looking at for the collections is another way of determining what the long term health of a property is. Readers may not see the full sales picture for "Earth 2" #1 for another month. Obviously, looking at the sales data we've got here, things like "Justice League" and "Batman" did well as we all knew they would. But were there some surprise performers elsewhere on the chart that boded well for the long term life of some of these comics? Wayne: We track hardcover and trade paperback books together on the same chart, and the most heartening thing on that list from my point of view is how well "Animal Man" did. That came in as the #5 book on the Diamond chart. It's certainly not hitting at that level on the periodical chart, but it's showing us that it has a real continuing strength, and I think that will just build as we go towards the "Animal Man"/"Swamp Thing" stories intertwining for a few months [with the "Rotworld" story]. I believe that'll be good for both series. And as Animal Man is a character who was kind of in the DC Universe and then moved to Vertigo and moved back, ramping it up in this fashion has had great results. Cunningham: The other thing to keep in mind with the trade paperbacks is that the totality of that business is not only the Direct Market. We've been extremely excited by the fact that of the six books we released in the month of May, five made the New York Times bestseller list. We were very clear from the beginning of the process that we launched the New 52 as a two-phase gambit. The first phase was the periodical launch, and the second stage was the launch of the collections. And we were excited to take those out to the mass market and see how they'd do. And in fact, you'll see in the New York Times list from this Sunday that Scott Snyder's "Batman" is the #1 hardcover on the list. Or looking at BookScan numbers, that same book is in its third week in the top 50 of all hardcover fiction – not even just graphic novels but all hardcovers. That's the fulfillment of the promise we knew we had at the launch, and it's extremely heartening for us to see that now. Wayne: Or to go further, the highest ranking item on the Diamond chart that's within the Marvel Universe is "Spider-Man: Season One" at #13. I don't believe that if you'd have told people two years ago, "There will be a new 'Animal Man' book and a new 'Spider-Man' book coming out in the same month, and the 'Animal Man' book that is a reprint will outsell the 'Spider-Man' book [of original material]" – I don't think that would have been anybody's expectation. One last thing I've noticed in terms of this collections chart is that "Watcmen" is again ranking high, I assume in anticipation of "Before Watchmen's" release. Can we also assume that that bodes well for sales of those new series? Wayne: We offered retailers some special incentives to stock up on the "Watchmen" books, and you'll see that reflected on the May chart, and I believe that will be reflected on the June charts as well. We're very happy with where we are on the orders for the June issues of the "Before Watchmen" titles and where we're at right now with the July in-store issues as well. I believe when we're talking a month from now that "Before Watchmen" will be a part of that conversation. #1Batman (2011-) #9 #2Justice League (2011-) #9 #3Earth 2 (2012-) #1 #4Green Lantern (2011-) #9 #5Batman (2011-): Annual #1 #6Batman and Robin (2011-) #9 #7Smallville: Season 11 #4 #8Nightwing (2011-) #9 #9Action Comics (2011-) #9 #10World's Finest (2012-) #1 #11Detective Comics (2011-) #9 #12Batman Incorporated (2012-) #1 #13Batgirl (2011-) #9 #14Red Hood and the Outlaws (2011-) #9 #15Ame-Comi I: Wonder Woman #1 #16Batman: The Dark Knight (2011-) #9 #17Batman: Arkham City: End Game #1 #18Wonder Woman (2011-) #9 #19Batman: Arkham City: End Game #2 Shifting to our digital sales rankings for the month, we're continuing to see the digital original material rank right up there with the popular day-and-date print books. The "Ame-Comi I: Wonder Woman" title and latest "Arkham City" title are the new examples of that. And with those new releases and now the "Batman" stories by guys like Damon Lindelof that are rolling out, I see a real focus on digital first comics that look to appeal to folks outside the Wednesday comic shop experience. Now that you've got new digital comics coming out every weekday, can we take this as a sign that the digital line is building up a business with a specific shape and goal in mind, or is this just a result of things like "Batman Beyond" doing well out the gate? Wayne: I think it's C) All of the Above. We're definitely trying to make sure that the stuff we push in the smaller bites on the digital side would have the widest appeal to not necessarily the weekly comic shoppers but to the person who was disappointed that "Smallville" went off the air and wants to see what the next season would be like. The "Ame-Comi" line is trying to build off interest in our DC Collectibles success. And people playing the various "Arkham" games are an enormous audience of people that we'd like to see migrate sideways to get them into the comics community. Some of the new releases also work differently in that they aren't formatted in a way that immediately screams "eventual print release." The "Legends of the Dark Knight" short stories don't feel like the kind of project you'd publish as a stand-alone collection. Will all of these projects eventually move to print? Wayne: The stuff that we're publishing at least through today is stuff that will eventually go to print. I think a lot of that is dependent on the storytelling choices made by the creative people. If someone comes up with something that doesn't translate from digital to print, we'd have to think about whether we'd want to try and move it over. I think to your other point, the "Batman: Black & White" backups we did and the various collections we've done with that material shows that you can tell Batman stories in shorter bites and people will be interested in those different takes. I think what you're seeing in this week's episode is that it's somewhat optimized to be told at that screen ratio, and it doesn't have much to do with what's going on in the monthly "Batman" books. Brandy Phillips: We're experimenting. A lot of the books that are currently in digital have print format-components are on a different schedule. Like Bob said, you'll see more of that, but there's no definite answer at this point. Cunningham: I think it goes back to the original formulating of your question, which was about this stuff "building a business." I think the unique opportunity in digital is that you're building a business. Some would say that the Direct Market is a very codified market and how there are rules and ways you have to do things there. I'm not so sure I'd agree with all of that, which is another discussion, but the digital world is a brand-new world, and I think we would be doing this a disservice if we didn't do this in an experimental way. That's a process that will continue to develop over time and not just in this first year or two of its existence. It's a changing market, and we need to always be on top of that change. Speaking of this market being very different from the Direct Market, one of the notable things about this month's rankings is that "Earth 2" charted much higher than it did on the print chart so far. We know things may shift there, but with all the talk lately about how it can be harder to sample things or have impulse buying happen when the DM sells out of an issue. Do you think the digital buying habit may allow for that a bit more? With a new launch, are you seeing people more willing to try it out or more able to try it out digitally? Cunningham: We don't really necessarily have a metric in place that's measuring intent, though we're always striving to find more information on these things. When you ask the question that way, I go back to the Nielsen survey we did in conjunction with the New 52 launch last September where we saw that the digital reader at that point in time had a good component of lapsed readers. I think that may account for why a property like "Earth 2" which has a grounding in a long-running DC tradition may hold appeal there as well. But I think the predominant reason is just what you say – it is easier to sample things in digital. Lastly, we know a month of #0 issues is on tap for September to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the New 52. We've talked with Dan DiDio about the Editorial side of that equation, but considering things like the Nielsen survey and the TV commercials from last year, how will you Sales and Marketing guys be approaching outreach for the zero books? Cunningham: It's going to be the same sort of planning process. I think we want to make a big splash, but I also think that when we were launching the New 52, as I mentioned before, we were very aware of the long-term play in that. This is our reminder in the one-year anniversary month, it's an opportunity not just to give fans a reminder of the origins and secrets that are in the storyline, but also it's a reminder of what happened a year ago and how far we've come. We're looking at a lot of similar tactics. We talked at ComicsPRO a few months back about how we're going to do another Nielsen survey, though that's not necessarily timed to this September. But a lot of the work we did putting together the New 52 has become part of our everyday now. It was a significant moment of change for the company and I believe for the industry, but a lot of those ideas continue now. A lot of those strategies informed what we did with "Before Watchmen," for example, and not even just zero month. TAGS: dc comics, bob wayne, john cunningham, sales charts, digital comics, earth 2, batman incorporated CBR News Send This Article to a Friend Separate multiple email address with commas. You must state your name. You must enter your email address.
The typical spans between columns of the South Bay Expressway's Otay River Bridge measure 300 feet, or about the length of a football field. Photo: South Bay Expressway As the last segment of a new toll bridge was put in place in late March, California transportation officials looked forward to the end of a major traffic headache. The South Bay Expressway's Otay River Bridge is part of a new, 10-mile express toll road, built for $635 million, that opens this summer. The ¾-mile, four-lane bridge is expected to free up local traffic snarls in the San Diego area by connecting residents to employment centers on either side of the structure. Made of post-tensioned concrete, the bridge is designed to withstand the force of a large earthquake. Using pre-cast segments enabled the bridge to be erected relatively quickly, minimizing the project's impact on the surrounding environment. Under an agreement with California DOT (Caltrans), the South Bay Expressway Partnership Ltd.—owned by Australia-based Macquarie Infrastructure Group, a company that has taken over toll roads in Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, and other states—will operate and maintain the expressway and the bridge. The agreement requires the partnership to invest $20 million in local environmental mitigation efforts such as wildlife habitats and awareness programs. Visit for more information.
Television's top 5 lovable losers Hello and welcome to yet another edition of the top 5. And they thought i'd be cancelled by now! Mwahaha. Anywhoo, the top 5 this week focuses on lovable losers of the television world. I'd include Bill O Reilly on this list, but apparently that's not an act folks. Yikes. 5) Alan Harper "Two and a Half Men" A divorced penniless chiropractor living in his brothers home with a son that doesn't respect him. Sounds just wonderful. He never has enough cash due to the ridiculous alimony he has to pay his ex wife, and despite the fact that they are divorced, Alan is completely whipped by her. And everyone else he encounters in his day to day activities. What makes the character redeemable is simply that he's so pathetic, so worthless, that we love watching him fail at everything he tries. He's the Lebron James of television. Despite all of this, he's the funniest character on the show, due to get a lot more screen time once Charlie Sheen's character drives his mercedes off a cliff. Examples of "Loserness" -While trying to gain extra money, Alan takes on a job product testing for a pharmaceutical company. He falls variety to a number of ailments, including thinning hair. - Was Charlie Sheen's lapdog for 8 years -His son looks like a fat Hayley Joel Osmont 4) Gil "The Simpsons" Gil is the hapless grey haired sadsack who is routinely shown in dead end jobs, or in dead end situations. He's actually based on Jack Lemmon's character from "Glengarry Glenn Ross", which speaks a lot about his character. Gil is undeniably lovably, if only because, like everyone else on the list, he is a pathetic loser with no success in his life. His funniest moments are often one's that showcase the endless failure that is his life. Gil, like most of the Simpsons cast, is starting to wear out his welcome in terms of comedy, as his schitck is getting pretty old. However, he can still be funny, and he hasn't be entirely overused. (Like Sideshow Bob) Examples of "Loserness" 3) Butters "South Park" Perhaps the dumbest person on this list, "Butters" Leopold Stotch is the naive, vulnerable 8 year old who is almost always tortured at the hands of the sadistic Eric Cartman. He fails at mostly everything at life, and not only that, his alter ego's also fail. His super villian alter ego, Professor Chaos has tried time and time again to destroy the world, never succeeding. Never coming close, even. Oh, and he's murdered tens of people tap dancing. Oh, and he's been bought by Paris Hilton. Examples of "Loserness 2) Larry David "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Larry David is the master of being not only a loser, but an awkward loser. Whenever he fails, it's usually publicly and in a grand spectacle. He's won a few times on "Curb", but the losses far outweigh the wins. David gets to number two on the list specifically because his losses are horrible, but also oddly relatable. Sometimes you watch and think, shit, that could happen to me. Larry's everyman quality combined with the fact that his failures are so bad you enjoy watching them, but almost feel pangs of guilt at doing so. Examples of "Loserness" 1) George Costanza "Seinfeld" Well, he's based on Larry David, so that should tell you something. George Costanza is Biff Loman in the body of a bald, fat, unemployed new yorker. He can never find happiness and fails at everything he tries to do, no matter how small or easy it may seem. Costanza has had TV pilots fail, he's lost an immeasurable number of women because of his weird quirks, and he's lost a number of jobs because of ridiculous fuck ups. So, behold your number one lovable loser, George Costanza! Examples of "Loserness" Comment 1 George Prax's picture haha awesome list. Top two is perfect. Could have just put the entire collection of Curb and Seinfeld on there lol
Smart Football has moved! Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Linemen Splits This doesn't always come up, but one of the most interesting games within the game in football are the splits between the offensive linemen. Some teams use a lot of wide splits, with as much as three to even six feet between linemen, while others keep it closer to roughly a foot, or even toe-to-toe. But like everything else in football, what kind of splits you take is informed both by what the defense does and what your philosophy is. To understand why splits matter, you need to understand how defensive fronts align. Typically, most defenses are taught to align on the basis of where the offensive guys align, which makes sense because those defenders are trying to get through or around the blockers to get to the running back or quarterback. So defensive linemen and linebackers were told from the earliest days of football to align "on the inside eye of the guard," "heads up the center," or "on the outside eye of the tackle." The linebackers had similar instructions, though they aligned behind the offensive line. Over time, defenses got better at mixing up these alignments, even before the snap. We've all seen linemen shift from the outside eye of the guard to the gap between the guard and center, or simply align late. All this is designed to confuse blocking schemes. So as offenses became more complex, it became necessary to give linemen rules that would allow the run play to be blocked no matter what games the defense played, and to do that you needed a nomenclature that could be communicated via playbook as well as on the sideline (or at the line) in the heat of a game. This system became known as the assignment of defensive "techniques" to each defensive player. The credit for it is typically given to Alabama's legendary coach Bear Bryant, though he gives much of the credit to Bum Phillips. Below is an example of the numbering system. Note that this is not the same as "hole numbering," because it is about where the defender aligns not where the run is designed to go. Although it looks a bit confusing, this system is used at literally every level of football, from pee wee football to the NFL. Below is another diagram with slightly different nomenclature, though it also specifies the "gaps." (Hat tip to the USC Trojan Football Analysis site for the image.) So now that we know that defenses align based on where the offense aligns, and we know that offenses identify defenses based on the alignment, we can discuss splits. It's a bit of an oversimplification, but the choice is basically between tight or wide splits. I begin with tight splits. Tight Splits Tight splits are the most common. In fact, most people probably don't think of them as tight, but merely notice when they see "wide splits." Below is an example of a typical alignment. The advantage of tight splits are easy to see: Linemen are close to each other so you can get good teamwork between them; there are few or at least narrow gaps between them; and the line is constricted to keep defenders away from outside runs and quick outside throws. The teamwork part cannot be underemphasized. One reason that tight splits are so common is because zone running and slide protection is so popular today. Zone running requires linemen to step in a direction, double-team guys in their area, and then one of them works up to block the linebacker. If the linemen are too far apart, you cannot get a good double-team, and the play won't go. For slide protection, linemen slide into a gap, and work together to create a fence for the QB. Any unblocked rushers must come from the outside, as the priority is to prevent a blitzer or linemen up the middle. The point about gaps is similar. But the point about constricting the line for outside plays is underemphasized. Most teams, when they want to run an outside option play or a sweep of some kind, will have their line condense in by cutting their splits. That way a fast runner can get outside quickly. Wide Splits Wide splits are more interesting. Traditionally, the teams with the widest splits were option running teams. That might sound surprising, but the reason was is that they used a lot of man blocking rules (i.e. block your man, rather than zone an area). More importantly though, by splitting out, because the defense aligned on the basis of where the offensive linemen were, the guy the QB was reading was split out. So if on the triple option you wanted your QB to first read the defensive tackle ("T") and then the defensive end ("E"), you'd split your linemen out to give him more time to make each successive read. (Hat tip: Hugh Wyatt) You also simply created wide running lanes inside by having your linemen split out so wide. If you watched the old Nebraska teams, while they didn't take enormous splits, they did have wide ones for both their inside option plays and inside man blocking runs. But there's a new trend for wide splits, and that's with air-it-out passing teams like Texas Tech. Traditionally passing teams took very narrow splits to stop inside penetration, Texas Tech takes exceptionally large splits. Their rationale is a few-fold: (a) make the pass rushers come from farther away and enlarge the pocket, (b) open up throwing lanes for the quarterback, and (c) because they throw so much, all they need is a block or two to have an effective draw play -- the defensive ends aren't even really a factor. They can do this because they are almost exclusively a "man" pass protection team, just as the old Lavell Edwards BYU offenses were. (Indeed, Mike Leach's offense is a direct descendent from BYU's offense, he spent time there as an assistant, and many of his other coaches had experience at BYU as players or coaches when Edwards and Norm Chow were there.) The obvious concerns are that if one guy gets beat in pass protection then there is no help, and also that there are wide gaps for linebackers to shoot through. For the latter, Tech feels like they can hurt that in other ways, through quick passes, screens, outside run plays, and traps. And they also feel that they can simply teach their linemen to be smart and reactive, and still stop that kind of penetration. For the former problem though, the answer is simply that they have to have good blockers. They freely admit that they put their linemen one on one a great deal of the time, but their philosophy is that if someone gets to the quarterback, everyone knows who got beat. More and more teams have been adopting this strategy. As a side note, I observe that Leach went to this trend after he got away from having a two-back formation as his primary one for passing downs. With a two-back offense you can stop a lot of overload passing threats to either side, but with a one-back formation -- Leach's current primary version -- the wide splits were necessary to take those extra rushers out of the play. For more on all this, see my old article here. And you can get a flavor for what Texas Tech does in the video below: So in sum, the choice of what splits a team uses will vary by play. Some will rely on teamwork and overwhelming force to overpower the defense, others will play games with varying them to set up the play they have called, and others, like Texas Tech, build it into their philosophy. As a final thought, many of you might think: Hey, if you always go tight splits for outside runs and wide for inside runs, won't the defense catch on? The response is the same one Bill Walsh would give when he heard this concern: If you have built a tendency (like running inside whenever you go wide splits), you simply self-scout, figure that out, and then confuse the defense by breaking your own tendency. Some of his biggest plays came when he broke his own tendencies. Anonymous said... Another good offensive lineman trick....if you are at tackle and the play is going thru C gap (off of your outside leg) and the defender is lined up in an outside shade.....take an extra large split - so much that he has no choice but to jump the inside gap. Anonymous said... Good stuff. I noticed that Florida has recently widened its splits. And of course, there are the teams that take extra wide splits on punt team. Patterson said... Very Informative. Watching the Florida game I was surprised by the size of our O line gaps. I assumed that LSU should have been able to exploit this with inside penetration and blitzing. It seemed like Miami did this well. Anonymous said... It will be interesting to see how Muschamp attacks Missouri this weekend with their extra-large splits. Will he blitz or rely on his awesome front four and drop 5 or 6 DBs all night? It'll be fun to watch. Phil said... "Indeed, Mike Leach's offense is a direct descendent from BYU's offense, he spent time there as an assistant" I realize this could mean a couple different things, but Leach never worked at BYU as an assistant When he worked under Mumme they took alot of trips to BYU to study what Edwards and Chow were doing, and Leach was actually a college student there I agree that BYU is the source of alot of what they do, but he was never on the staff at BYU Mr.Murder said... So, you've finally converted to the A 11 as a way of widening the splits? The Mizzou system is beginning to get solved. They finally built up enough film to have tendencies, it would appear. Their unbalanced stuff is really worth a gander. Now imagine this: Unbalanced with five yard splits for both the play side tackles. Is that anything like what they do? They're all over the place from what I've seen prior. It opens throw windows for a 5'10" passer. Anonymous said... I missed the Texas/Mizzou, any story as to how the Texas line played with the Tiger's wide splits? Beernutts said... GA Tech is doing alot of wide splits now that Paul Johnson is running his offense. The OL is having a hard time against many opponents thus far though. Anonymous said... If a team passes 50 times a game, has huge splits and relies on man-to-man blocking from their o-line, shouldn't stunting and slanting like crazy be the answer for a defense? Sure you'll get burned on a draw every now and then, but that was likely to happen anyway.
Sunday, December 18, 2011 Chocolate Coconut Cherry Balls Chocolate Coconut Cherry Balls adapted from 1 stick unsalted butter, melted 1 14oz bag shredded coconut 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 12oz can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 boxes confectioner's sugar 1 10oz jar maraschino cherries, drained & chopped 2 cups chopped pecans 1 lb semisweet chocolate chips 1 block (1/4 lb) paraffin wax, grated Combine the melted butter and coconut. Mix well. Add the vanilla, sweetened condensed milk and powdered sugar; mix with hands. Add the maraschino cherries and pecans. Mix well until combined. Refrigerate mixture for 15 minutes, then roll into small balls (or be lazy like me and use a scoop). Place the balls on a foil or wax paper lined baking sheet. Chill the balls for 12 hours in the refrigerator, then turn over and chill for another 12 hours (I usually just do 4 hours per side in the freezer). Once the balls are firm and chilled, melt the chocolate chips and paraffin wax in a double boiler. Carefully dip the balls into the melted chocolate mixture and coat well. Place on a baking sheet and chill or freeze until firm. 1. This is awesome loved the pictures. I was also searching online for a recipe for some holiday cherry balls. These are very similar to the ones my friend from N Y made from her hand me down 3rd generation recipe. Thank you for your help and input. 2. Glad you enjoyed it! It's definitely an old recipe, but a popular one! 3. I used to make a chocolate/cherry/coconut ball back in the 1960's. I wish I could locate that recipe as it was a favorite. As I recall it called for chocolate chips, melted and the cherries were stirred into the chocolate. There must have been some other ingredients but ?. Dropped by teaspoons and rolled into a dish of coconut. Most recipes I have found (like yours) dip the balls into the chocolate to coat.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 EpiCentre's unsecured creditors appeal ruling Anonymous said... Nothing but criminals here. Try looking on the inside at Bob Durkin and BMG. Drugs, money laundering, and of course....a lot of payoffs! It's all one big Ghazi family! Will be glad when it all shuts down. The Freeholder said... Well, I don't know about the drug and money laundering allegations. I hear all sorts of things about that, but so far, no one is arrested. Given prosecutors who want to make a name for themselves and LE agencies that have gotten addicted to asset forfeiture dollars, I'd think if there was anything there, we'd have seen arrests. In terms of the unsecured creditors, just what don't they get about the term "unsecured"? They made bets with their money and they lost. They expect the secured (also know as "smart") creditors to bail them out? Good Lord, you'd think they were an auto workers' union who expects the government to steal the company from the creditors and give it to them to finance their over-generous compensation packages.... sanitizer said... The retired union and non union member's health care plan and pension is considered unsecured and when a company such as the airlines declare bankruptcy, ostensibly to re-organize it is simply a move to divest itself of costly retirement plans it promised it's long-term employees. Anonymous said... What about the small businesses that took a huge hit. No help from anyone at all!!! The Epi Center continues and Ghazi's life and spending takes no change. Some how I hope they all get whats coming to them. To put small businesses out and continue to show your face like some great business man is beyond me. How you sleep at night I will never understand. When Afshin sees these hard working folks I hope he falls to his knees with guilt!!!Sadly i am sure this is not the case. Good Luck to everyone that has been a victim of his cheating business ways! I hope you can and have survived!!!Small business owner taken for a bunch!!! Anonymous said... @Freeholder-6:34 --- Maybe no arrests yet, but that doesn't mean anything. Right now the concentration is mostly on Ghazi and how he lied and screwed over everyone by not paying them for work done. The point is, Ghazi is not the only one involved. Bob Durkin and his "Bar Management Group" have been part of this since the beginning and are just as guilty. Their reputation is trash in every city they've tried to keep a business in. This scandal and eventually the drug and money laundering by BMG will all catch up with them. You can bet on it.
tech e blog Don't get us wrong, Rolex watches are very expensive, but when compared to the $25-million Chopard 201-carat Watch above, they're a bargain. It features 3 heart-shaped diamonds that "swivel around a flower-motif encrusted bracelet with white gold, yellow gold hardware." Continue reading to see more. 5. Richard Mille RM 56 Felipe Massa Sapphire Watch ($1.7-Million) If you're a part of Fiddy's Money Team, dropping 1.7 mill from your money tree on a transparent wristwatch that looks like a prop from Martin Scorsese's Hugo probably isn't a big deal. Limited to five pieces in the world, the Richard Mille RM 56 Felipe Massa Sapphire watch has a tourbillon movement that's completely covered in sapphire crystal. With 1,000 hours to machine the case, 430 hours to grind and 350 to finish, this timepiece says: "If you're wondering what's going on in my head, don't ask questions. Check the watch." 4. Piaget Emperador Temple Watch ($3.3-Million) 3. Louis Moinet "Meteoris" Watch ($4.6-Million) It may look like a lot, but considering the series comes in a set of four tourbillion watches, the price isn't that bad. Moinet decided to use pieces of meteorites to make each watch. He teamed up with Meteorite hunter Luc Labenne to collect pieces from the moon, a Mars meteorite, and an asteroid. 2. Patek Philippe Ref 1527 Wristwatch ($5-Million) Considering this one was made in 1943, it is without a doubt, a vintage piece. With an 18K gold perpetual calendar, 23 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance (which sounds so intricate it must be important), silvered matte dial, and applied gold Arabic numerals to name a few of its fancy details. 1. Patek Phillipe Henry Graves Supercomplication Pocket Watch ($11-Million) Long off the market, this solid 18-karat gold watch was specially made for the banker it's named after in 1933 and took five years to design and build. It was actually quite ahead of its time with a chronological function for each hour, a chart of NYC's skyline and chiming minute repeater. [Sources 1 \| 2] This entry was posted on 07/26/2012 03:00am and is filed under Feature, Gadgets, Top 5, Watches . You can leave a response. Interesting Posts Around the Web
Public Finance, Public Affairs by Mary Hrovat Originally predicted to be a quick success at the transition to a market economy because of advantages such as fertile soil, up-to-date heavy industry, and the only warm-water port in the former Soviet Union, Ukraine is lagging behind the other former Soviet republics economically. John Mikesell reports that it is hard to say exactly why this is so, although he can cite contributing factors such as tensions between Ukraine and Russia and the loss of talented people in purges during the Soviet regime. He also mentions problems faced by all the former Soviet republics: "Everything's new--the whole world of doing government finance in a market economy is absolutely foreign to the former Soviet Union countries. They never had visible taxes, for instance, and that's a problem. They never had to worry about financial constraints. They just have no idea about how it works when somebody other than the government owns things." Mikesell, a professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, returned recently from a year in Kiev. Working with the accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick while on leave from IU, Mikesell served as chief fiscal economist on the Ukraine Ministry of Finance Fiscal Reform Project. The project's goal: to create a macroeconomic budget policy department in the ministry. With that work behind him, Mikesell now shares his knowledge with others working to help Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. For example, he currently serves as a consultant to the World Bank's Public Sector Resource Management Adjustment Credit Mission to the Kyrgyz Republic. Some members of the Public Finance and Policy Analysis faculty group. Clockwise from right, Kerry Krutilla, Kurt Zorn, Clint Oster, Ming Tai-Seale, Ann Holmes, Thomas Ross, Gerard Wedig, Craig Johnson, and Joyce Man Public finance is an area in which IU faculty members regularly provide valuable analysis and insight: to Indianapolis and other cities concerned about the pros and cons of subsidizing professional sports; to the state of Indiana, for which one SPEA faculty member served as chairman of the Board of Tax Commissioners and for which others are now analyzing data on important issues of property tax reform; to the region, where SPEA faculty members are helping the Indiana Gaming Commission determine how to grant licenses for riverboat gambling establishments; and to the world, through study of the economic impact of environmental change and through international projects such as Mikesell's work in Ukraine. Riverboat gambling as a public finance issue? Yes. Indiana's state legislature requires that licenses for riverboat casinos be granted based on the economic development impact on the state, among other factors. Each licensed riverboat is expected to produce between $20 million and $35 million per year in taxes to Indiana. In addition, each riverboat applicant pledges to make additional payments to the communities in which they operate that, in some cases, total over $100 million. Three professors of public and environmental affairs at IUB, Clint Oster, Barry Rubin (also associate dean), and Kurt Zorn (also the director of professional graduate programs), analyzed data that helped the Indiana Gaming Commission determine which companies wishing to set up such establishments should be granted licenses. Oster, Rubin, and Zorn were respon-sible for determining the projected impact of each company's planned activities. Applicants provided data on their projected levels of economic activity: number of employees, wages to be paid, number of customers expected, and amount of gross receipts anticipated. All of these items depended on the size of the boat, the number of gambling stations, and the types of activities on the boat. Oster, Rubin, and Zorn then used input-output analysis, which focuses on multipliers that show the relationship between the amount and type of economic activity and the amount of income generated for the region and the state. Beginning in early 1994, the SPEA team developed the process by which this analysis was done, and then, by late 1994, began applying the process to data supplied by applicants. "The process takes into account secondary and tertiary linkages," Rubin says. He offers the example of a hotel or restaurant on a riverboat that might draw in customers who then go on to spend money in other places, such as at a dry cleaner or a movie theater. The input-output analysis takes the basic activity being generated and translates it, through the use of multipliers, into secondary activity across the area. The group used multipliers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the United States Department of Commerce. The hard part was taking the data supplied by companies in various formats and translating it consistently and accurately into usable form. Other factors considered by the Indiana Gaming Commission included tax revenues and the financial health of the applicants, both of which Purdue University faculty members studied. The state police also investigated applicants to determine that they were reputable firms. Rubin says that the completed analyses were presented to the commission objectively, with no ranking or other evaluation attached, and the decision-making was left up to the commission. Although this is an area in which the stakes are high (the annual revenues per riverboat were typically forecast to be between $100 million and $200 million) and the potential for litigation correspondingly high, the group chose their method of analysis wisely, and there have been no challenges to their method. Rubin states that they wanted to use a conservative and tested method, and the type of analysis they did has been used for between ten and fifteen years with good results--analysts used it to determine the economic impact of proposed closings of military bases, for example. Rubin has also served as an adviser to the Economic Analysis Unit of the Indiana Department of Commerce and has worked with the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Zone Board. His studies of urban enterprise zones and urban economic development have required a great deal of economic impact analysis like that done for the Indiana Gaming Commission. After studying the effect of the enterprise zone in the Evansville area, one of the first in the country, Rubin broadened his work to consideration of other types of influences on a region's economic life and development. With funding from the National Institute for Global Environmental Change Midwestern Regional Center, which is supported by the United States Department of Energy, he has studied the impact of global climate change on the economic activity in an area. His analysis of regions in the Midwest looks at many factors, including the unemployment rate, population size, in-migration and out migration, employment by sector, wages generated, and nonwage income. He predicts how global climate change affects these factors, which in turn affect the tax revenues and public expenditures in a region or city. Rubin works with an econometric technique he describes as a simultaneous equation simulation model that can be applied throughout the United States on different scales. Just as Hoosiers may choose to gamble on riverboats, Indianapolis and other major U.S. cities gamble on the value of professional sports franchises. Cities spend money to build stadiums and give tax breaks to professional sports teams because they believe having a professional sports team will have a positive impact on the city's economy. In fact, the presence of a sports team has an insignificant impact on the tax revenues and employment rates of the city, and provides an inconsequential return on an investment often amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, including the costs of building a stadium, the interest charges on bond issues, and the tax losses the city sustains in granting subsidies to the teams. In effect, the tax subsidies and other forms of support benefit the already-wealthy owners and players of professional sports teams in a process Mark Rosentraub characterizes as "welfare for the rich." Rosentraub, a professor and associate dean in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis and director of the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at IUPUI, studies the effect of professional sports franchises on their host cities. He describes the basics of sports subsidies and gives case studies of several cities, including Indianapolis, in his book Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying for It. In Indianapolis, he says, the situation is a little better than elsewhere in the nation due to contributions from the Lilly Endowment toward the building of the RCA Dome (then the Hoosier Dome) and also because the dome contains a convention center that generates revenue. The reason teams generate very little economic growth is that most revenue comes from people already living in the area. If local residents did not buy tickets to a Colts game, for example, they would be likely to have spent the money on dinner, a movie, or some other leisure activity in Indianapolis, generating the same economic effects and tax revenue. In other words, the total amount of money spent in the city is not substantially enhanced by professional sports teams. Conventions, on the other hand, bring in people from outside the area who spend money in the city that would not otherwise have been spent. Rosentraub says that a team's performance has a negligible effect on how much a city benefits from its presence. While there are social and cultural benefits that are difficult to quantify, the economic benefit to a city from boasting its own professional sports team does not justify the expense. Rosentraub plans to continue writing and talking on this topic, educating city administrators and the public. Revenues and expenditures at any level of government depend on a range of activities and events, from climate to political change to leisure. Public finance faculty members in SPEA continue to contribute knowledge, insight, and analysis at all levels. Mikesell sums up the problem-solving approach to public finance at IU: "We try to stay ahead, and to define what's going on, as opposed to trying to keep up."
Name: Giampaolo Dallara Nationality: Italy A graduate of aeronautical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Dallara joined the Ferrari racing department in 1959. He stayed only briefly before moving to Maserati and from there to be chief designer of the new Lamborghini company in 1961. His Miura design established Lamborghini as a rival to Ferrari in 1966. In 1968 Alessandro de Tomaso lured Dallara to his car company to design a Formula 2 racing car. This was raced by Jonathan Williams, Jacky Ickx and by Piers Courage and that autumn a deal was struck between De Tomaso and Courage's team boss Frank Williams for a Grand Prix car in 1970. The De Tomaso 505 had potential but Courage crashed and was killed at the Dutch GP and the project faded away. In 1972 Dallara decided to go it alone and established his own car design company at Varano, working as a consultant engineer to Lancia on the Stratos project and building sports and GT cars. In 1974 Williams asked him to help with the design of the Iso-Marlboro F1 cars, which became the first Williams FW01-03 cars in 1975. Although Dallara went back to sportscar design in 1977 Williams's partner Walter Wolf asked him to build a Formula 3 car. This was raced on occasion in 1978 by Bobby Rahal and was developed in various forms until Guido Pardini won the Italian Championship in 1980. It was the start of an enormously successful period for Dallara with Formula 3 success all over Europe. In 1987 Dallara was asked by Beppe Lucchini of Scuderia Italia to design a Formula 1 car for 1988. This showed promise and the relationship grew until 1992 when Scuderia Italia made the disastrous decision to switch to Lola chassis. Dallara went back to building F3 cars and has dominated all the major European championships ever since.
endorphins (ĕndôrˈfĭnz) [key], neurotransmitters found in the brain that have pain-relieving properties similar to morphine. There are three major types of endorphins: beta endorpins, found primarily in the pituitary gland; and enkephalins and dynorphin, both distributed throughout the nervous system. Endorphins interact with opiate receptor neurons to reduce the intensity of pain: among individuals afflicted with chronic pain disorders, endorphins are often found in high numbers. Many painkilling drugs, such as morphine and codeine, act like endorphins and actually activate opiate receptors. Besides behaving as a pain regulator, endorphins are also thought to be connected to physiological processes including euphoric feelings, appetite modulation, and the release of sex hormones. Prolonged, continuous exercise contributes to an increased production and release of endorphins, resulting in a sense of euphoria that has been popularly labeled "runner's high." See more Encyclopedia articles on: Biochemistry
Not a "TEXT" Book Decision The NCAA in its never-ending attempt to micro-manage every aspect of intercollegiate athletics is taking on modern technology. The Division One Management Council has approved a proposal from the Ivy League to ban text messaging as part of the recruiting process. The motivation behind the ban is to protect prospective student-athletes from over burdensome contact which can actually cost them money. The ban will go into effect if it is approved by the NCAA Division One Board of Directors on April 26th. I know they mean well, but this is a typical twenty pound solution to a five pound problem. Banning all text communication (can e-mail and instant messaging be far behind?) takes the prospect out of his or her comfort zone. If you really want to get to know a teenager you better be able to speak their "language". As the father of a 21-year-old and an 18-year-old I can tell you that these kids communicate with the most modern technology available. My younger daughter rarely gets a call on our home phone and when she does it's usually to confirm an appointment for her hair, nails or eyebrows. For her it's either My Space or Face Book, test messages or cell phone calls. Instead of banning an effective means of communication that seems to work best for the kids involved, the NCAA should have looked at other solutions to the "problem" as it relates to potential cost and/or aggravation. Place reasonable limits ----- If its one, two or three text messages per day I really don't care. But some sort of mutually agreed upon limit would help somewhat. The problem is if you use your limit and the kids texts a coach a question he or she has to choose between being rude (not responding) and breaking a rule. Let's not do that one. Create an opt-out system ----- This is the simplest way to do this. A school must complete a prospect profile sheet on each kid they are recruiting and on it they must have the student-athlete's permission to send text messages and/or any other form of communication. It would work along the lines of the "do not call" system we have for telemarketers and that seems to be working reasonably well. Make the schools pay ----- All member schools would have to submit reports to the NCAA documenting who they sent text messages to and how many times. That report would include a $ .10 per text "fee" that the NCAA would then forward to individual student-athletes to defray the costs to them. This seems like a win-win way to go about it. Schools get to make the contact, but the kid doesn't have to pay for it. Banning text messaging will only speed the transition into the newest and coolest new technology and will actually hinder the most crucial thing about recruiting a kid. Getting to know who he or she really is and whether or not they'll fit in at the school in question. As we continue to hold coaches more and more accountable for the behavior of their kids, how can we justify putting further restrictions on getting to know them in the first place? Fightin Gators Top Stories
Vietnam vet to get US honors after burial snub LOS ANGELES - A legendary Hmong general who led a CIA-backed "secret army" in the Vietnam war is to be honored at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, three months after a burial snub, organizers said. "It is honorable that (US authorities) have granted official permission to hold a memorial service," said Philip Smith, director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), who backed the push for an Arlington burial outside Washington. "General Vang Pao's family is also very pleased at the good news from Arlington National Cemetery and the US Army," he added, saying Vang Pao's son Chong Vang will speak at the ceremony on behalf of the family. The 81-year-old general died on January 6 in California, and was buried near Los Angeles on February 9 after efforts failed to persuade US authorities to allow his burial at Arlington, final resting place of US military heroes. At Friday's ceremony a US Army wreath-bearer and bugler will help "honor the Laotian and Hmong veterans, and their American military and clandestine advisors .. during the Vietnam War," said organizers. They will lay a wreath at the Lao Veterans of America monument, inside the Arlington cemetery. The event is being co-sponsored by the Lao Veterans of America Institute (LVAI), the Lao Veterans of America, Inc., members of the US Congress, and the US Department of Defense, according to a joint organizers' statement. After Vang Pao's death, supporters appealed to bury Vang Pao as a hero at Arlington. The Pentagon said no, arguing that the limited spaces at Arlington were reserved for US combat veterans. US intelligence agents tapped Vang Pao when they sought a force in Laos to fight off North Vietnamese communists, who along with the United States had turned the neighboring country into a battleground. Vang Pao became legendary for his organizational skills from his mountain post, guiding everything from US air strikes to medical supplies and managing a motley army of Hmong, lowland Lao and Thai mercenaries. North Vietnam triumphed in 1975 by seizing Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, and communists afterward took over Laos. Vang Pao was sentenced to death in absentia and became the leader for some 250,000 Hmong who moved to the United States. But Vang Pao remained a controversial figure. In 2007, he was arrested in California on charges of plotting to overthrow a foreign government after an undercover agent tried to sell him weapons at a Thai restaurant. Prosecutors dropped their charges in 2009.
Dad GUARDS Door While Daughter Uses Target Bathroom; Then THIS Happens A YouTube commentator and father known as Dave "Coach Dave" Daubenmire walked into Target a few days ago with his smartphone video camera turned on and asked employees to clarify the company's new policy that allows anyone to use restrooms that match their self-determined "gender identity" even if it doesn't correspond to their biological sex. The answers he got to his questions were surreal. The following day he returned with his camera and a warning sign as he guarded the Target women's restroom door while his daughter allegedly used it. Watch what happens: A short while later, this happened: Do you agree with what Coach Dave is doing and how he's doing it?
What would you like to know? Share this Story 10 Time-saving tips for busy mothers on the go Moms: These tips could save you time when you're on the go We're still waiting on someone to figure out a way to add an extra hour to each day, but until then we're trying to make the most of the minutes we've got. Here are a few of our favorite time-saving tips while still takin' care of business. 1. Let's start with the good ol' morning routine. We're going to go ahead and shake things up by telling you to skip that early a.m. shower. As a mother, you may have already come to terms with the fact that daily showering is optional (not by your choice, so much as by necessity). If you're ever in a crunch for more time, opting out of your morning shower is a smart bet. Just grab some dry shampoo and go. 2. Although it can be tempting to skip breakfast — especially when you're in a rush — going without that morning meal can hinder your productivity for the rest of the day. Here's a trick that's both quick and healthy: Use your Keurig machine to make a cup of oatmeal that you can take with you. 3. Oatmeal not your thing? Maybe you're more of a smoothie gal. If that's the case, toss your favorite smoothie fixin's into your blender the night before. Don't blend it yet — it might freeze and you'd have to thaw it the following morning. Rather, simply store the ingredients inside of the blender pitcher in the fridge and fire up the blender for a fresh smoothie the next morning. 4. Create a playlist on your iPod or MP3 player that is exactly the amount of time you have to get ready in the morning. Order it in a way that will clue you into your approaching time limit — either up-tempo to chill or vice versa. It'll help you maximize your time and cut back on unnecessary dawdling. 5. If the blouse or dress you're intent on wearing has a few wrinkles, don't head back to your closet. Before you hop in the shower, just hang the wrinkly item of clothing in the bathroom. The steam will make the wrinkles fall out, and you won't have to waste time ironing. Alternatively, you could toss the offending garment into the dryer to get rid of wrinkles sans ironing. 6. Pick products that do double duty. You may not think you're spending a ton of time rifling through your makeup to find each product you put on your face, but those little increments add up. Edit your everyday makeup kit to include products like a pretty stain that serves as a blush and a lipstick, and a tinted moisturizer with built-in SPF. 7. When it comes to meal planning, work smarter... not harder. Before you hit the grocery store, hit up, where you can put in every item on your shopping list and it'll churn out coupons for everything. Once you've got your groceries, work in bulk. Need to cut a bunch of cherry tomatoes or grapes for your kids’ lunches? Put them in between two Tupperware lids and slide your knife through the opening. Planning to make mashed potatoes or baked potatoes? Instead of scrubbing a bunch of potatoes, put them through the dishwasher. 8. At work, stop multitasking. Although it sounds counterintuitive, multitasking can actually kill your focus. If you have five things to do, do them in chapters. You're more likely to actually be able to check items off at the end of the day. And don't be afraid to assign projects out when appropriate. "If something can be done 80 percent as well by someone else, delegate," stresses author John C. Maxwell. 9. Invest in a set of Bridgestone tires for your car. Doing so can mean the difference between being in and out of a Bridgestone in a short hour with good-as-new treads, and having to spend hours upon hours (not to mention tons of money) to get lesser replacements somewhere without the benefit of Bridgestone's stellar warranty and customer service. 10. When you're juggling kids, a career and all those two entail, it can seem impossible to carve out enough time to hit the gym. To make going feel more convenient, always keep a workout bag in the trunk of your car — you never know when a window of time might open up. But don't worry, we all have days when the gym isn't on the radar. Fifteen minutes of laughter reportedly has the same health benefits as a half-hour of sit-ups, though, so indulge in some girl talk on your gymless days. More ideas for super moms Messy activities that are a ridiculous amount of fun 8 Ways to manage sticky toddler messes 10 Ways to be a stronger parent Tagged in New in Parenting SheKnows is making some changes!
This is sick right? 1. Quigley_Sharps Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member Is it just me or does she look like one step from the grave? 2. ghostrider ghostrider Resident Poltergeist Founding Member Looks like the pics of the survivors from Dachau. 3. Quigley_Sharps Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member thats what I was thinking as well. I cant believe people like this. 4. Clyde Clyde Jet Set Tourer Administrator Founding Member I would need to see less clothing to truly determine how starved I am...she is. 5. ghostrider ghostrider Resident Poltergeist Founding Member This poor girl was so weak, and dizzy from hunger, she walked out with her kid's pipe cleaner car on her head. 6. RightHand RightHand Pioneer in a New World Moderator Founding Member That's truly sad! And to think that someone in her condition is utilized on a runway is even sadder. 7. E.L. E.L. Moderator of Lead Moderator Emeritus Founding Member Somebody feed that girl. Quick, a cheeseburger and shake....STAT! 8. CRC This makes me so angry you cannot imagine....and sad... There's our role models for our kids....arrrrgggggghhhhhh! Drives me crazy.. My daughter was a gymnast and later a cheerleader...a good one. Dateline NBC did a 2 hour special on her squad called "The Dream Team"...they won 1st place at Nationals all 4 yrs she was on the squad...Big news in a little town... Anyway...I noticed her losing weight...and took her right to the Dr...she had lost almost 20 lbs in a month! (and she is a teeninsy thing!) Seems the coach told her "If you gain ONE ounce, and your fat a$$ keeps us from not winning? You are OFF this squad" The Coach. I took her to the Dr weekly for weigh ins...watched her eat....watched her sleep....It was horrible... Found out later one girl on the squad had already started losing teeth and her parents didn't even know....she developed bulemia, while my daughter was leaning more toward anorexia....:mad: :mad: You do not want to know what I said to the Coach AND the principal...and School Board members.... The message we send young girls, from magazine covers, to all the articles in them...from movies...everywhere! They are bombarded with messages that "You cannot be toooo thin!" and it flat pisses me off.. Sorry...but this one hit close to home... Someone that loves this young woman needs to put her in a hospital...and soon...before she dies. 9. Quigley_Sharps Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member I agree, it sickens me too see this going the direction its going now days.:( 10. TexasDoc TexasDoc Monkey+++ Founding Member She would be healthier 3 days dead . sick is not the words I would use 11. Quigley_Sharps Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member Hi Doc! 12. TailorMadeHell TailorMadeHell Lurking Shadow Creature This model isn't the only one that I would put in the hospital. Seems I just heard about a certain coach that needs to be there, with my foot firmly placed. This is either a really bad thing, which for the most of us are. Or really good for the necros out there. She's so close I bet they flock to her daily waiting for her to choke to death on that grain of rice she calls supper. Work 23 hours of the day, sleep none, spend one hour exercising to lose the 'weight' and eat a few calories worth of food which she will most likely throw up later. Sounds like a fantastic idea to me. Means when a strong breeze comes around all these superficial 'role models' will be blown into the nearest ocean where they could either all bond together to make a raft or just be shark food. This crap in origin is from France and has been invading this country for so long that now it is acceptable to be this skinny and either you are coddled because you are obviously 'sick' in the head or you are thought of as 'ultra' cool and kids look up to you. If I sit little tailor down for a viewing of 'history' and show him gruesome documentaries on the concentration camps, I am a no good parent. So what is the difference here? Is it that someone just hasn't tossed her into an oven yet? Maybe one day soon we won't have to see that stuff coming out of France anymore. Maybe we'll see them all wrapped up in their Muslim gear. I agree someone needs to send this one a home cooked meal of fried chicken, some taters and gravy, some biscuits, cornbred, collard greens with hamhocks and a big pecan pie to top it off. Oh wait, now I've done it, I'm hungry. :D 13. kckndrgn kckndrgn Moderator Moderator Founding Member Ugh, that is just disgusting!!!! She, and many more, have been utterly brainwashed into thinking that they are beautiful. All they are doing is sending themselves to an early grave. 14. CRC Thanks TMH...and Ryan....and all.. That just sooooo pisses me off ...Pick up any fashion magazine... Even the articles on dressing "Plus Size" women put them in a 10 and up.. Marilyn Monroe wore a 14.... I thought Heroin Chic was out.... :rolleyes: :mad: 15. ghrit ghrit Ambulatory anachronism Administrator Founding Member The truely sad part is that if she put on 30 pounds in the right places, she would be absolutely traffic stopping gorgeous. But I fear she can't see that without some serious medical attention, and soon. When I first opened this thread, other than her color, a biafran baby leaped to mind. What a shame. 16. RightHand RightHand Pioneer in a New World Moderator Founding Member Size numbers are so arbitrary that they can't even be relied upon when shopping. Marketers decided that if they adjusted the number assigned to as particular size garment, they would sell more and they were correct. A few years ago I tried on a beautiful black wool sheath (the gals will understand what that is) from the 1950s that I found in my mom closet. It was a size 16 and since I normally wore a size 6 or 8, imagine my surprise when I couldn't even get it over my hips let alone zip up the back. We are vain characters and love to feel that false sense of attractiveness we get when we can fit into a small size. When I was in my late teens/early 20's and weighed not more than 98 lbs without an ounce of body fat, I used to wear a tight girdle that zipped up both sides????? At that time, I didn't see myself as fat, only not thin enough. I recovered. 17. CRC I see we grew up in the same era.... My grandmother put me in a girdle when I was 14 yrs old and weighed about the same as you did....(zippers? didn't have those though...) And understood on the sizes.... I have had everything from a 4 to a 16 in my closet and they ALL fit... It is all designed , you're right , to sell more clothing... survivalmonkey SSL seal survivalmonkey.com warrant canary
What to Do When an Employee Dies This post is about a serious topic - how a DECENT company deals with the death of one of its employees. My husband and I have both had some first-hand experience with this. Both incidents were long ago, but the wounds are still fresh. Let's just say that both employers handled some of it well, but some of it was handled just horribly. Enough that people still talk about it. So, managers and execs, listen up. In the unexpected and unfortunate event that an employee dies, keep the following in mind. 1. If the employee died in the office, hire some grief counselors and bring them onsite the very next day. 2. If you are the manager of this employee, be decent and either call or meet with the spouse or next of kin yourself. If you knew the employee pretty well, you are most likely the most appropriate person to break the news. Don't be a wussy and leave this to some anonymous HR person. BE SENSITIVE. If you have difficulty being sensitive, ask someone who IS sensitive what you should say. And don't delay! 3. When the time is right, ask the next of kin about funeral arrangements and ask if co-workers might attend. 4. If co-workers are invited, allow employees to attend the funeral. If you don't give them time off, well you're just an asshole. 5. If the employee's manager is at a different location, have him/her travel to the funeral. If the employee was particularly close to workers at remote locations, perhaps offer to pay for travel for these other workers. 6. Stop worrying about "setting precedent" with regard to offering benefits or assistance to the family. Just do the fucking right thing, okay? Hint: if you use "setting precedent" as an excuse, more than likely you're being a jerk and NOT doing the right thing. 7. As the manager (or other point of contact for the family), keep in touch with the family over the next month or so. At least once a week. Ask how they are doing, what you can do to help them out. Realize that despite the awkwardness, the next of kin might need to immediately learn about financial matters (such as last paychecks, medical benefits, life insurance, pensions, stock, etc). Some people live paycheck to paycheck, and the stress of figuring out their future financial situation is one thing you CAN do for the family during a time like this. The family also needs to figure out how to get the deceased's personal effects back and how to return company property the deceased employee had at home. 8. Please, be decent and lobby to extend COBRA health insurance benefits to the widow(er) and dependent children for at least 18 months at no cost to the family. It is indeed possible for your company to do this; fight for it on behalf of the family. 9. Have someone set up a fund with the bank where people can make donations for the support of the deceased's children. Publicize it through the company, but don't strong arm people into donating. And maybe make the donations anonymous so that the family doesn't have to write thankyou notes (another detail that they must attend to at a very hard time for them). 10. Send flowers. For employees who cannot make the funeral, allow them to write notes of condolence and deliver them to the family. 11. When packing up the employees stuff and returning it, please be sensitive and respect his/her privacy. 12. Don't move another employee directly into the deceased employee's cube, office, or desk. Leave it empty for a while. It might be a good place to put server equipment and such in the meantime. Sue Raisty Silicon Valley, California http://blog.sueraisty.com
Wheel Wheel Brakes The brakes are used for slowing, stopping, holding, or steering the airplane. They must (1) develop sufficient force to stop the airplane in a reasonable distance; (2) hold the airplane stationary during engine runups at high power settings; and (3) permit steering of the airplane on the ground. Brakes installed in each main landing wheel of an airplane are actuated independently of each other by the pilot. The right-hand brake is controlled by applying toe pressure to the top portion of the right rudder pedal and the left-hand brake is controlled by pressure applied to the top portion of the left rudder pedal. This provides for simultaneous use of rudder and brakes to control the airplane's direction of movement on the ground. Some airplanes are equipped with a hand lever which, when held in the ON position, operates the individual wheel brake as rudder pressure is applied. The independent brake system is used on most small airplanes. This type of brake system is termed "independent" because it has its own hydraulic fluid reservoir and is entirely independent of the airplane's main hydraulic system. Independent brake systems are powered by master cylinders similar to those used in conventional automobile brake systems. The system is composed of a reservoir, two master cylinders, mechanical linkage which connects each master cylinder with its corresponding brake pedal, connecting fluid lines, and a brake assembly in each main landing gear wheel. Each master cylinder is actuated by toe pressure on its respective pedal. The master cylinder builds up pressure by the movement of a piston inside a sealed, fluid filled cylinder. The resulting hydraulic pressure is transmitted through the fluid line which is connected to the brake assembly in the wheel. This results in the braking action (friction) necessary to stop or slow the wheel. The brakes may be locked for parking by a ratchet type lock built into the mechanical linkage between the master cylinder and the brake pedal. The brakes are unlocked by application of sufficient pressure on the brake pedals to unload the ratchet.
General: Vocab Ch. 1-4 Card Set Information General: Vocab Ch. 1-4 2013-03-05 00:19:23 real estate vocab General book vocab from chapter 1-4 Show Answers: 1. salesperson person who performs real estate activities while employed by, or associated with, a licensed real estate broker 2. appraisal process of using established methods and good judgement to estimate the value of a property 3. home inspection report based on visual survey of property structure, systems, and site conditions 4. market a place where goods are bought and sold and a price for goods established 5. brokerage the bringing together of parties interested in making a real estate transaction 6. immobility the property of real estate that refers to the fact that property cannot be relocated elsewhere person who adheres to the Code of Ethics of National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) 8. uniqueness the property of real estate that states even if 2 parcels may appear identical, they are never exactly alike 9. broker in real estate, a licensed person who acts as a go-between on behalf of others for a fee or commission 10. property management maintaining and administering another's property for a fee 11. annexation conversion of personal property to real property 12. bundle of legal rights ownership of all legal rights to the land: control, possession, exclusion, enjoyment, and disposition 13. improvement any structure or modification erected or imposed on a site 14. surface rights ownership rights of the surface of the earth, excluding air or mineral rights 15. emblements growing crops, such as corn or soybeans, that remain personal property 16. fixture personal property that is converted to real property by being permanently attached to the real estate 17. subsurface rights ownership rights in the water, mineral, gas, and oil that lie beneath a parcel of land 18. real estate a portion of the earth's surface extending down to the center and up into space, including all natural and artificial attachments 19. severance changing an item of real estate to personal property by detaching it from the land 20. personal property any property that is not real property 21. water rights common law right of owners of land next to rivers, lakes, or oceans 22. chattels another name for personal property 23. trade fixture an article installed by a tenant under a commercial lease and removable before the lease expires 24. air rights the right to use the open space above the surface of the property 25. apartment complex a group of low-rise or high-rise rental residences that may include parking, security, etc... 26. actual cash value in insurance, replacement value minus depreciation 27. coinsurance clause in an insurance policy that requires the property to be insured for a specified percentage (usually 80%) of its replacement cost 28. planned unit development • a merger of diverse land uses into a subdivision or development • sometimes called master-planned communities 29. cooperative a multiunit residential building owned by a corporation and operated on behalf of stockholder-tenants who hold proprietary leases 30. mixed-use development high-rise development that combines commercial and residential uses in a single structure 31. condominium a multiunit development in which owners own their units separately and share ownership of common facilities 32. manufactured housing type of housing that is also known as a mobile home and has a semi-permanent foundation 33. modular homes prefabricated homes that are preassembled at a factory then later driven to the building site to be finish 34. replacement cost cost of repairing damaged property without deduction for depreciation or annual wear and tear 35. homeowners' insurance a package insurance policy against loss due to fire, theft, and liability 36. nonagent an intermediary between a buyer and seller who assists both parties with a transaction, but who represents neither party 37. customer in a real estate relationship, the 3rd party (or nonrepresented consumer) who receives some level of service and who is entitled to honesty and fair dealing 38. fiduciary relationship an affiliation of trust and confidence as between a principal and an agent 39. special agent an agent who is authorized to represent the principal in one specific act or business transaction, under detailed instructions 40. agent the individual who is authorized and consents to represent the interests of another person 41. general agent an agent authorized to represent the principal in a broad range of matters related to a specific business or activity 42. principal the individual who hires and delegates to the agent the responsibility of representing the individual's interest 43. implied agency the establishment of an agency relationship as the result of the actions of the parties that indicate mutual consent 44. law of agency the basic framework that governs the legal responsibilities of an agent to a principal 45. puffing nonfraudulent exaggeration of a property's benefits or features 46. disclosed dual agency an agency relationship in which the agent represents 2 principals simultaneously, with their knowledge or permission 47. common law agent duties the responsibilities of care, obedience, accounting, loyalty, and disclosure 48. buyers' agents real estate licensees who represent buyers exclusively 49. client the principal in a real estate agency relationship 50. undisclosed dual agency an agency relationship in which the agent represents 2 principals simultaneously, without their knowledge or permission 51. latent defect a hidden structural problem that would not be discovered by ordinary inspection 52. stigmatized property a property that has been branded as undesirable because of the events that occurred in or near it 53. universal agent a person who is empowered to do anything the principal could do personally; this person has unlimited authority 54. express agreement a contract in which the parties formally state their intention to establish an agency relationship 55. errors and omission insurance type of insurance that covers liability for mistakes and negligence in the usual activities of a real estate office
I've been an entertainment-industry fan for many years. Movies, TV, music...I live for these things. I expect that entertainers I know and like will live for a long time, but they can fall in an instant. I wonder why these things happen. There are days when I expect a certain actor to do another movie or a certain singer to release a new album. I eventually resign myself to the fact that these talents are long gone. Their works remain, though, and I'm thankful for that. These celebrities may seem random, but each one of them has held some importance in my pop-culture history. So, in no particular order, these are the celebrity deaths that caught me off-guard. May they all rest in peace. -Jim Henson article image This was probably the first celebrity death that caught me off-guard. Jim Henson was one of my favorite talents. I'm a Muppet fan...Not as hardcore as some, but definitely up there. Henson was a talented and personable man. I know that because I had the great pleasure of meeting him. The year was 1990. I was 7 years old and on a vacation with my family to Walt Disney World. This was around the time that Disney was trying to buy the Muppets the first time. My brother and I were given permission to talk to him and so we did. He did the voice of Kermit The Frog for me and he even agreed to take a picture with us. In retrospect, I probably should've asked for an autograph as well. Either way, I'll always remember the time I met him and I'll always remember all the great entertainment he gave my generation. I only hope that we'll all find the Rainbow Connection someday. -Jam Master Jay article image I've seen a few rappers die in my life so far. Rappers like The Notorious B.I.G, Tupac Shakur and Big Punisher all come immediately to mind. Out of all of them, though, Jam Master Jay caught me off-guard. I think it was because Run-DMC was one of my favorite rap groups. I was a subscriber to Time-Life's Sounds Of The Eighties series and the first disc I recieved was the 1986 disc. One of the songs on there was Run-DMC's (with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry) version of "Walk This Way". That inspired me to seek out the album "Raising Hell". All throughout my listening to the group, Jam Master Jay stuck with me. He was one of the finest turntablists in rap history. When he was murdered, I was extremely surprised. There didn't appear to be any wars or grudges going on with him, so that makes it even more suspicious. Either way, I'll miss the man who provided the backing for the Kings Of Rock. -Anna Malle article image One of the most recent deaths that caught me off-guard was this woman's death. Anna Malle was one of my favorite porn stars of the 90s. She was extremely sexy and she had a nice voice. I thought that she was still making movies, but when I visited her IMDB page, I found out something shocking. On January 25th, 2006, she died in a car accident. She wasn't drunk. She had her seat-belt unbuckled. I've come close to accidents a few times but I've always made sure to wear my seat-belt. Buckling up truly does save lives...I only wish that this beautiful and talented woman could've remembered that. I'm running a major risk by including her on this list, so I can't mention any of my favorite scenes involving her, but she was a tremendously beautiful woman, and I will miss her work. -Chris Farley and Phil Hartman article image There's no way I could ever write as eloquently about these 2 as Allison could, but I'll give it a shot anyway. In a way, I was expecting that Chris Farley would die relatively young, but it came as a shock nevertheless. I wasn't necessarily a hardcore fan, but I enjoyed his work nevertheless. I enjoyed the movies "Tommy Boy" and "Beverly Hills Ninja" and I thought that Farley was good at physical comedy. I miss his work. I do know that he was planning on moving into dramatic work. Shortly before his death, I recall reading that he was going to star in a biography about silent film actor Fatty Arbuckle, a comedic actor whose career was ended after a violent sex scandal. It would've been interesting to see that. Side note: One of his last movies was 1998's "Dirty Work". I recall seeing ads for that movie and seeing Chris Farley in them. I was like "Wait a minute...That can't be him". I haven't seen the movie yet, but it would be interesting to see his final work. As for my feelings regarding Phil Hartman, I refer you to Allison's article "Man Of A Thousand Faces: A Tribute To Phil Hartman". Both her thoughts and mine illustrate what Phil Hartman meant to me. Both of them are much-missed. I can only wonder what they could've done had they lived. -Raul Julia article image I was a fan of the 2 "Addams Family" movies and the character of Gomez was my favorite part of the movies. I think that's because Raul Julia played him over-the-top...I like it when actors do that. He was a handsome guy as well. I was really hoping that he would act for a long time, but when I heard that he died, it felt odd. He was so full of life in the "Addams Family" duology that he seemed unstoppable. I think that was probably one of my first glimpses into the concept of mortality. I really wish he could've stayed alive. He was good at what he did. I can even forgive him for "Overdrawn At The Memory Bank", the PBS TV-Movie that was transformed into a great episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". -Chris Penn article image When he died, I was really surprised. I hadn't seen too many recent pictures of him. I was most familiar with his role in the 1984 movie "The Wild Life". It was somewhat of a quasi-sequel to "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". He played Tom Drake, a real party-hardy type who always used the line "It's casual". That line has become part of my personal lexicon. Whenever people apologize to me for things they say, I always say "it's casual". I try not to take things too seriously, and those two words always sum up the feelings I have. I haven't really seen any other Christopher Penn movies. I do have a copy of "Resevoir Dogs", but I haven't opened it since I bought it...back in 2002. I'll have to give it a view. Either way, I had no idea that this would've happened. He was a good actor. Oh, and Universal, if you're reading this: Can you please release "The Wild Life" on DVD? I mean, "Scarface" is a great movie, but do we really need a 3rd release of that title? -Gregory Hines article image Gregory Hines was a brilliant dancer and great actor. Every dance he did and role he played was energetic. There was always a vibrance to him, even in his dramatic work. I was surprised when he died in 2003. You look at certain people and you don't think anything's wrong with them, and then you find out that they're dying. You can't process it...I'm still figuring it out. I liked him in the movie "Running Scared". It was a buddy-cop movie he did with Billy Crystal. The two of them played off each other quite well, especially in the scene where they commandeer a cab in order to track down some criminals. I thought the best part of that movie was the final sequence, with lots of shooting and bags of cocaine being tossed from elevators. I also remember when he appeared on "Sesame Street" in the early 90s. He and Savion Glover (who was a castmember at the time) tap-danced up and down the street while taking turns saying the alphabet. I miss his work. -John Candy article image This was a death that not only shook me, but many of my generation. We grew up with Candy, seeing him in "Spaceballs" and many John Hughes movies, as well as on his cartoon "Camp Candy". Anybody in my age bracket (late Generation X/early Generation Y) who saw "Spaceballs" or "The Blues Brothers" could appreciate this man's comedic timing and delivery. I'm a "Spaceballs" fan and I always laugh whenever I hear his lines in that movie. "Funny. She doesn't look Druish." "I'll have the cleavage." "Ow! That's gonna leave a mark!" Why is that the most life-filled talents are the ones who die the quickest? I tremendously miss his work. I keep on wondering who will do Barf's voice if the "Spaceballs" cartoon ever gets off the ground. I'm thinking of Tino Insana (who voiced the Candyesque Uncle Ted on "Bobby's World"), but he could never replace the Candy Man. -Laura Branigan article image As you can see, Branigan has the biggest photo in this article, but I think that's appropriate. Her talent was tremendous. My first exposure to her music came in 1998. I was 15 years old and my mom had purchased a CD of 80s dance music for me. My main purpose was to get the Rick James song "Super Freak". I had heard that song on VH1 and it really grabbed me. The song was on the disc along with 19 others. One of the other songs was "Self-Control" by Laura Branigan. I heard it and I loved it. It was such a moody and danceable piece. I was only in my teens, but by listening to the lyrics I envisioned a dark city. To this day, when I listen to the song, I see drug dealers, hookers and murderers walking the rain-splattered trash-strewn streets of a perpetual night-time Hell. I then saw the music video for the song and many of my visions were reflected. In the video, Branigan plays a woman who has erotic dreams (well, as erotic as MTV could get in 1984), about walking through the city and into a club. In that club, there's gambling, dirty dancing and a masked man who leads Laura into an orgy. She runs away down a hallway but it keeps expanding and hands grab out for her. It was sexy stuff. I then found more of her songs. In my final year of high school, I had several Laura Branigan albums on cassette. I listened to them on the ride to and from school, swapping them in and out along with the George Carlin album "A Place For My Stuff" and the soundtracks to "Days Of Thunder" and "Pretty Woman". She wasn't releasing that much work at the time I was getting into her music, but I was expecting that she would eventually come out with something new...And then 2004 came. I can recall the night when I found out about her death. I had returned from seeing the movie "Without A Paddle" at the drive-in. I visited the Home Theater Forum and went to their music section. I learned there that Laura Branigan had died of a brain aneurysm. This was the all-time shocker for me. I loved her work and knew that she had more in her, but in the blink of an eye, she was gone. She was only 47 years old. It goes without saying that I miss her. These are 10 people whose work I admired. These are the deaths that caught me off-guard. Whenever I come across entertainments involving these 10 people, I briefly wonder what their next projects will be. I then sigh and resign myself to the fact that they're no longer here. I'll always have my memories, though. That's why I'm glad that I have all the entertainment opportunities that I do. There are many more people that I miss besides these 10, but I have my movies, CDs, TV shows and books to refer to when I want to hear their jokes or songs or any of the things they gave us. I miss them all and I know that I'll see them when I get to the big wrap party in the sky. R.I.P to all of them.
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Monday 24 October 2016 My detox diary: Joe O'Shea is hitting the wall on the extreme 30 day detox Joe O'Shea and wife Holly enter the second week of their extreme detox and diet. And while the spirit is willing.... Published 12/08/2015 \| 02:30 Highway to hell: Joe O'Shea's first week on the Whole 30 detox has made him walk into doors and forget his own mother's name. Just over a week into our month-long extreme detox and the question that keeps coming up, in between the hunger pangs and the dizzy spells, is simple: "In the name of God, why?" • Go To Why put yourself through something as difficult and soul-crushing as the Whole30 programme (or one of the many variants)? It's a self-inflicted, month-long purgatory, a denial of everything that is good and right in the world (spuds, pasta, cheese, sugar, bread, beer and wine, to name but a few) in pursuit of what seems like a selfish goal. Just five days in, it felt like we had hit what marathon-runners call 'The Wall'. The sudden and total elimination of everything bar meat and veg (and I mean everything) had left us feeling dizzy, extremely fatigued, plagued by headaches and very, very dopey. A panicked google of "what to expect on the Whole30 programme" revealed dire warnings about another common side-effect, what one survivor baldly described as "prolonged and chronic flatulence". Not exactly the picture of health and attractiveness, is it? Hollow-eyed and staggering, barely able to form a coherent sentence, rapidly emitting the kind of noxious fumes that would have shut down a Victorian gas-works. Thankfully, I appear to have side-stepped the most, ahem, explosive side-effect. Which is a relief, as I'm due to go through an airport shortly and would hate to be responsible for the untimely deaths of three sniffer dogs. So today marks nine days out of 30 on the American-devised programme, the latest in a long line of wildly popular detox and diet plans that includes Atkins, Paleo and Caveman. The premise for myself and my wife Holly is simple. Nothing - and they mean nothing - but protein (in the form of fish, meat and eggs), vegetables, fruit and nuts. The luxuries? Black coffee and fizzy water. Yes, folks, the party has hardly stopped round ours this August. Read more: No dairy, no sugar, no carbs: Joe O'Shea dives into an extreme 30 day detox Surprisingly, the total prohibition on alcohol has been the least difficult rule to follow, partly because when you are lying prostrate on the couch, moaning with hunger, a trip to the pub is far down your wish-list. Giving up bread and basically all forms of carbs has been far harder. And simple things, such as watching the Great British Bake-Off (previously a shared pleasure), has become an exercise in torture: "Oh my God, look at that black forest gateaux! Turn it OFF!" So, why do it? Well, the obvious answer is vanity, this modern need to conform to the ultra-thin and toned body image pushed at us from all directions. But I think, for most people at least, looking good is not really the object of radically changing their diet and exercise regime. A number of recent studies have shown that in times of recession and economic uncertainty, the number of people who start to care more about exercise and diet significantly increases. In the US, a study by researchers at Bentley University found that people are more likely to take up walking, running or swimming during a recession (but gym membership rates can suffer as people cut back on spending). My own theory is that, in uncertain times such as we are living through now, changing your diet and getting fit is a way of taking control of at least one part of your life. You may not be able to control the economy, your future career prospects or the way the country works. But you can control what you eat, how you look, how you feel. Going for a brisk walk or a run in the park is a cheap, rewarding and fun way to get back some small sense of achievement and control. Foregoing a scooter-delivered pizza and making a healthy meal for yourself is another simple but effective way to both save money and feel better in yourself. And as anybody who exercises regularly will tell you, it just feels good (at least after you have showered). The brain rewards you with washes of fuzzy endorphins that can carry you through the rest of the day. I have seen it with my friends and family. These past five years or more have been tough on a lot of us in so many ways. But lots of us have taken back some small measure of control by positively changing our lifestyles, changing our diets and getting some exercise. Of course, going the whole hog and living like a monk with a lethal potato-allergy for 30 days is not for everybody. And the first eight days have been pretty hellish (in relative terms at least - we're not wandering the desert without food or water). But apart from losing a couple of nights' sleep to cluster headaches, walking into the odd door (seriously, that really happened) or briefly forgetting my own mother's name in the middle of a phone call (that also happened), it hasn't been as bad as we might have expected. Having said that, there's still two weeks to go and we are hoping for phase 2 - the boundless energy and clear-headed wonder - to kick in shortly. This could all be worth it. Especially if (and I say this more for others than for myself) I can continue to avoid the "prolonged and chronic flatulence". Irish Independent Read More Promoted articles Editors Choice Also in Life
Dismiss Notice Bushnell Onix 400 GPS (NIB) w/extras (Trades?) Discussion in 'Non-Firearm Item Classifieds' started by Warthog, Dec 24, 2010. 1. Warthog Warthog Turner, OR Active Member Likes Received: Bushnell Onix 400 GPS (NIB) w/extras I have brand new Bushnall onix 400 GPS that I picked up for hunting. I played with it for a few hours, but never really used it. Comes with a car charger and extra battery. It has tons of features: Layer a satellite photo, topo map, compass, navigational aids and XM services ona single screen with TruView Navigation Extra-large 3.5" full color LCD Downloads and displays georeferenced satellite photography Displays XM weather data on the GPS map* XM Satellite radio entertainment including XM sports* (*With XM Satellite subscription) SafeTrack battery conservation mode SiRF GPS receiver Digital compass Embedded 128 micro SD card Rugged rubber armor Waterproof (IPX7 rated) Topographic Maps: Shows the grade and elevation data for a certain part of the earth, in addition to other physical and manmade features. Trails: A previous path of travel that has been stored in the unit. The trail allows youto repeat a path or return to your starting point on the same path. WAAS: Wide Area Augmentation Systems. This is a network of satellites and ground stations providing GPS signal connections that enhance accuracy. Your Bushnell GPS has a WAAS-enabled receiver accurate to 3 meters 95% of the time. I'd take $130 for the package. Trades: Milspec AR15 stock, Magpul CTR, ACS, OR? AR Carbine rail system, prefer drop in, but will consider others. +/- cash as needed. FTF Salem area - Or I will ship it USPS Flat rate. 2. Warthog Warthog Turner, OR Active Member Likes Received: Thread Status: Not open for further replies.
Could Weight Loss, Stress and Anxiety Have Caused my Inverted Nipple? i havent always had it but its been months im already scheduled to see a doctor but am very curious and worried as i kno it sometimes is a sign of cancer for some women. it looks like to me it s a grade 1 or 2 but im ver y scared oh and i am 21 years old an A cup weigh 103 5'1 or 5'2 Doctor Answers 3 Causes of inverted nipples Neither weight loss, anxiety nor stress could cause changes in the shape or inversion of the nipple. However, as this can be a sign of breast cancer, although you are young, you should seek medical attention. Inverted nipples An inverted nipple can be genetic and can also be due to scarring or even cancer. At your age, it is unlikey cancer, but it is good to be checked out. If it is a benign inverted nipple, there are procedures that can release it. Steven Wallach, MD New York Plastic Surgeon 4.1 out of 5 stars 24 reviews New inverted nipple causes In an older patient with a new inverted nipple there is a worry of breast cancer but this is extremely unlikely in your case. Consult with a surgeon to see what he may find. None of the other things you mentioned would have caused this. You might also like...
Sunday, 4 January 2009 New Years Resolution Challenge - 9 in 2009 DVD Panache has come up with a fantastic idea. Create a list of 9 film related resolutions for 2009. I love lists. I love challenges. Therefore, I am jumping on this train of movie going madness. I have so many film related goals so honing it down to 9 and just for this year is a challenge, but I am up for it! Final Tally: 7/9 6. Buy a new TV Bonus: Have a fabulous opening night outfit - done! Part of playing along is tagging 5 people. I don't usually tag but please play along. Click here for all the details on how to do participate. Joseph said... Nice. I would like to accomplish No. 9 as well, but that would be quite a feat. :) It's amazing how they tend to stack up. Shannon the Movie Moxie said... It's amazing how they do that! They must be second cousins to dust bunnies or something. I tend to see a lot of film in the theatre or from the library so borrowed-without-a-return-deadline can sure stack up. I only have 11 right now but it's been 11 for a while! Oh, make that 13. 13! Creepy number. Jamie said... What a cool list. It's going to be another amazing year in MovieMoxieVille! What's a microcinema? Shannon the Movie Moxie said... A really small indie house, something like what Cineforum was (they used to play the Salvador Dali film) but they just closed so I never made it out there. Sacred Suzie said... More movies Shannon? Holy cow! If anyone can do it, it's you. I think getting a new TV rocks for one of your challenges. We're doing that too. I gotta make R doesn't go crazy though! Shannon the Movie Moxie said... I added a bonus one because I forgot it but it's important. Jenn said... That's a great list of goals for the year. I should really make it a point to watch all the movies that I own but haven't seen yet either. Like the boxed set of the original Planet of the Apes movies. That's just calling for a weekend long movie marathon. Andrew Robinson said... you've listed most of my new years resolutions regarding things I want to with my website and movie journalism [feel strange saying that]. Bob Turnbull said... Yowza, that's a helluva list Shannon. I'm still trying to put mine up - it's mostly around seeing either types of films or ones from directors I haven't explored enough yet. And the microcinema! Yes, that's definitely got to be there... And just to see more movies in general, 'cause you know I didn't really see much last year...B-) Juan Carlo said... What, no "Learn Spanish so I can read my friend Juan's blog"? ;) Shannon the Movie Moxie said... Watching unseen DVDs seems to be a common theme for all eh? Andrew - you've already completed one of the ones listed, haven't you? Bob - Yes, you are a slacker. Se more movies - now! ..kidding. Juan, that one might take more than a year! I'm ambitious but that would be quit a feat! Marina said... If I can figure out the technical stuff behind Skype recording, we're going to try to scratch #3 off the list. And hey, if you're looking for a festival...VIFF is fab... Shannon the Movie Moxie said... Woohoo sounds like fun Marina! I'd be up for that.
New Pillow Talk Connects Long Distance Lovers Hear your sweetie's heartbeat at night with this long distance survival product. Long distance relationships aren't fun and they last for what seems like forever. They make you yearn for your lover morning, day and especially night. Now, with Pillow Talk, you can at least cuddle with the thought that he is sleeping at the same time you are with a paired pillow. How? This new technology comes with two fabric panels and two rings. Place one panel in each pillow and give one pillow to your lover to take with him (or send it to him) along with one ring. You keep one fabric panel and place it in your pillow and keep one ring. When he goes to bed at night and puts his ring on, your pillow will glow and you can hear his heart beat. When you put your ring on, his pillow will glow and he can hear your heart beat. Pretty neat, huh? Both of you can now cuddle with a glowing pillow knowing you're both resting with matching rings, and the sound of each other's heartbeat in your ear - what a heavenly long distance connection. Some people may speculate that PIllow Talk doesn't enhance the connection of couples at all since it doesn't do anything but glow a pillow and pulsate. However, it's much more than just the technology that long distance couples are looking for when they purchase this product. What long distance couples cling to with products such as these is just the thought of being able to connect. Feeling as though you are doing something to connect means much more than what you are doing to connect. Sending a card, calling, emailing, texting, sending packages, having a pillow, and many other long distance survival tactics are ways to get through the time apart. It's a way to show that you care and are hanging on to the person until this time apart is over. Long Distance Survival or Marketing Ploy? So is it really necessary for long distance survival or is it more a marketing ploy? It's both. The technology will appeal to the heartwrenched long distance loving techies, definitely. It's not imperative for survival though. You could probably have a photo of your faraway sweetie printed on a pillow and cuddle with that and get the same effect. Explore YourTango
The McRib of Social Media Movements Why the Hornets-Bobcats name debate is a debate between social media reality and actual reality. There has to be some rib in there, right? Calgary Reviews via Flickr Ah, the McRib. It is the unicorn of fast food sandwiches, fleeting and magical. But McDonald's is crafty. You can't have a McRib on your own terms. You can only have a McRib if they say you can. But let's say you're really passionate about this, and determined to make McDonald's see the error of their ways. You grew up with the McRib. You have strong memories of the McRib. It means something to you. So, you start a blog. You create a Facebook page. A Twitter account. You tweet incessantly about it. When other people talk about McRib, you respond to them immediately. You write incessantly. Join our cause. Recapture the magic. You get a couple dozen people to gather at McDonald's to show their support (You call it Ribbed for McPleasure, and it's combined with a beer special at Applebee's). You constantly post pictures of people eating McRibs, smiling, with bits of bun on their faces. You follow all of the relevant people on Twitter, namely reporters. You tweet at them whenever they mention McDonald's. They follow you back. One day, when a manager at McDonald's says he'd be open to bringing the McRib back for good, those reporters come and contact you, and you respond immediately. You do an interview wearing a self-made McRib t-shirt, complete with a secret sauce stain. Newspaper columnists start debating the lore and nostalgia surrounding the McRib. The mayor of your town sends out a tweet: Definitely McRib. But people start taking the other side of the argument, and they make good points. Some make the case that if the rest of the food at McDonald's tasted better, you'd forget all about the McRib. Others say that bringing back a single sandwich won't make a trip to McDonald's any healthier. And still others argue that if the McRib were to return permanently, then it would cease being mythical and end up being akin to the Filet-o-Fish. But by then, all of it has started feeding upon itself: the pictures, tweets, Facebook comments, blogs, interviews, the #ReviveTheMcRib hashtag, the whole thing. When McDonald's finally announces that it's thinking of bringing the McRib back, you celebrate and write in all caps and everybody looks at you as the grassroots organizer of a now-powerful movement. You are the ACORN of marginally healthy drive-thru cuisine. WE ARE SO CLOSE TO VICTORY THAT IT HAS TO HAPPEN. But wait. How many people actually have your back? You have no doubt that if the McRib came back, you would eat as many McRibs as humanly possible. You would visit McDonald's at every available opportunity. But your legions of Twitter followers and Facebook fans and blog readers, would they do so too? Would they go get a McRib the same day it came back? Would they keep going back? McRibs are fun to talk about, but they cost money. How many of them would actually act on their promise to eat a McRib at every meal? McDonald's says it's going to be slow and methodical about this, to see exactly how many McRibs they would realistically sell. That's infuriating to you. You know that McRibs make you feel something you haven't felt for a long time. They satisfy some sort of hunger for you. They revive a warm memory of fast food trips past. Maybe the McRib doesn't taste the way it used to. Maybe the McRib won't live up the expectations you have placed on it. We're not really talking about the McRib. I don't even like the McRib (I'm not sure what's in it. A little bit of rib, I'm guessing). Replace McRib with Hornets and McDonald's with Bobcats. Now go back and re-read the top of this blog. For some reason, Bring Back The Buzz, I can't quit you, and until now, I haven't been able to figure out why. I've written way too much about this. I did a feature story last year in the magazine, and wrote an update a few months ago on this blog. My opinion: I am a realist. No, it won't make the team any better. But yes, names and symbols matter. And a change might prove that a franchise that's been historically tone-deaf toward this community is listening. If nothing else, the fact that we're talking at all about the Bobcats, who haven't won a game at home since November, is a good thing. This town needs a little pro basketball navel-gazing. So great. Do it. Yesterday, I realized why I'm so obsessed with this. This whole debate is really a debate about social media reality versus actual reality. I'm on Twitter, and I tweet a lot. I used to tweet more. It used to be a more personal extension of me. I've met wonderful people on Twitter that I wouldn't have met otherwise. Inadvertently, it led me to my wife, because somebody I knew on Twitter wanted to get together to play a board game, and she brought Kelsey along. But I'm starting to be a realist about Twitter too. Yes, it has the potential to help organize revolutions, but sometimes tweeting is like talking to an empty room. Ever been to a Bobcats game where the announced attendance is 12,000, but only about 5,000 people are actually there? Twitter is like that sometimes. Many times it feels like I'm taking it too seriously. For a time I got worried about when I would post, what I would say, how often I would say it, the ratio of professional to personal, how often I should re-tweet people, who I should reply to, and so on, and for what? Do I have a personal brand? Is this an echo chamber? Is this helping people see my work, or is it just getting passed around among my buddies? Is a retweet a personal connection? Are my Twitter followers my friends? It's all very blurry online. Most of the world is not on Twitter, but when you're on there, and your friends and celebrities and companies and spambots are there too, it's hard not to feel that the whole world is one tweet away from you. Most of the time, it's not. So I'm wary now. If you want me to support your cause on Twitter or like your page on Facebook, I'm hesitant. Sometimes saying no online is hard, because it's so easy to say yes. And because it's easy to say yes to the Hornets, Bring Back the Buzz has created a grassroots PR campaign that might be better than most public relations firms could mount. If you follow them, they constantly shove pro-Hornets propaganda in your face. If you agree or post a picture, they amplify you. Twitter has become a listening post for the media, so they're hard for the media to ignore. It's a fun story. There is emotion. Nostalgia. The little guys standing up to the big guys. The guys doing this know exactly what they're doing (One of the three guys involved is a marketing major, the other two, including We Beelieve's John Morgan, are teachers). They are loud. But you don't need a lot of people to be loud. You might be really good a throwing your voice. You might have a bullhorn. Or you might have Twitter. Or Facebook. The Bobcats are already aware of the volume. They're now in the midst of trying to measure the size of this movement with surveys and studies, all of which say: okay Beelievers, let's see if you've got two pair or a full house. And what happens if they don't change the name? Does Bring Back The Buzz go away? Will Facebook explode? And so what if it does? Will that dissipate if and when this team starts winning? We're now out of the realm of the hypothetical. This is either going to happen, or it won't. The unicorn is real. Either it's going in the zoo, or it's going to be set free. 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Search for content in message boards Alexis LaCasse/Maria Poitras Replies: 0 Alexis LaCasse/Maria Poitras Posted: 13 Feb 2004 7:59AM GMT Classification: Query Last week, we lost Alice (LaCasse) Olivier. Fortunately, her story lives on. It lives on in the pages of a seminal book about Manchester called "Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City." The book is a 1978 collaboration between historian Tamara Hareven and photographer Randolph Langenbach, who set out - via oral history interviews and pictures - to chronicle the deep-yet-sometimes-stormy bond that existed between the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and its largely immigrant work force. "By any standard, Amoskeag was a giant," the authors noted. "At its peak, in the early twentieth century, it was the world's largest textile plant, employing up to seventeen thousand workers. . . (and) there was hardly a person in Manchester between 1838, when the construction began, and 1936, when the mills shut down, whose life was not in some way affected by the Company." Alice's family was deeply affected by the Company. Her mother, Maria Poitras, came to Manchester from Trois Rivieres at the age of 16. She lived in a boardinghouse and worked at Amoskeag. In 1910, she married an Amoskeag mill hand named Alexis LaCasse. Down through the years, they had 12 children. When Alexis died at 44, the burden of supporting the family through the Great Depression fell to Maria and her two eldest daughters, Laurette and Alice. "My father died in 1935 just a few months before the big crash, before the Company went bankrupt," Alice told the authors. "He was a second hand in the spinning room, and he never made more than $22 a week. "From Friday 'til Tuesday, when he was paid in a paper envelope that he would bring home," she added, "there wasn't money in the house except for a penny for each child to put in the collection basket on Sunday morning and 15 cents for my father and mother for the church." What enabled the LaCasse family to get by - other than faith - was a low-cost apartment in one of Amoskeag's corporation tenements. The apartment was at 313 Canal St., at the corner of Canal and Middle. It was always clean, but it wasn't plush. "In the winter, Alice recalled, "a little bit of heat went to the second floor, but hardly any at all reached the third and fourth floors. My mother had a whole set of those old-fashioned irons with the detachable handles. We'd all undress downstairs and we'd each get one of those hot irons that had been heated in the kitchen stove, wrapped in a towel. We'd run upstairs with the towel. . . and stick that under the covers, two or three of us in each bed." Even before her father passed away, when Alice was just 12, she was asked to become a supplemental bread winner in order that two of her brothers - who wanted to enter the priesthood - could continue their schooling. "My father desperately needed money," she said. "He couldn't support the family by himself. Jackman's boardinghouse was right next door, and they offered my parents to give me a job, which was really illegal in a sense, because I was so young. "I worked in the kitchen and I got $3 a week - which I gave to my mother - plus my board. That was a big help to my family because I was a 12-year-old and I had a good appetite. In those days, $3 was enormous. Why, at the boardinghouse, they used to serve a meal for 35 cents!" At 14, when she finished grammar school, Alice took a job at Amoskeag. "I was actually scared of the mills," she confessed. "As a child, I used to go and visit my father in the spinning room. You can't hear yourself talk in there, the noise is so loud. He worked there all his life, the poor man. No wonder he died at Alice caught a break. "My mother came with me to the office. . . (and) when she spoke to the man, she told him that she preferred that I didn't work in one of the places where men and women were working together. She wanted me to go where there were only girls. So I got into the cloth room, where it was nice and quiet." When Amoskeag went under, in keeping with what she had been taught by her parents, Alice found a job with the Works Progress Administration. In later years, she worked in the electronics industry and eventually, she landed a job as housekeeping supervisor at the Elliot Hospital. "The only thing I ever did was work," she said. Actually, this remarkable woman did much more. She set aside her dreams of an education to make sure her brothers - Aime and Lorenzo - were able to continue theirs and, ultimately, they realized their own dreams of entering the priesthood. In 1939, Alice married Marcel Olivier. They raised a daughter, Elaine Duclos, and two sons, Julien and Michael Olivier and although Marcel died in 1998, Alice lived on to enjoy her 12 grandchildren and her six great-grandchildren. She was a member of the Association Canado-Americaine and the St. Anne Guild and L'Union St. Jean Baptiste. She worshipped at St. Augustine and later at St. Joseph Cathedral. She sewed and she knit and she quilted and in 1999, she was asked to represent New Hampshire at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. where she demonstrated the art of traditional Franco-American cooking. Oh, and she did one more thing. She went back to school. Yes, Alice Marie (LaCasse) Olivier was in pursuit of a long-delayed dream when she enrolled in the city's Adult Education Program. She realized that dream in 1976 when - at the age of 60 - she earned her diploma from Manchester High School Central, and just for good measure, you should know that she was the valedictorian of her graduating class. Alice died Jan. 31 at the age of 88. Fortunately, her life story - shaped as it was by the corporation whose blood still runs through the veins of this city - lives on in the pages of "Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City." Find a board about a specific topic
Skip to main content U.S. Edition Return to Transcripts main page Interview With Jalal Talabani; Interview With Hamid Karzai Aired September 24, 2006 - 11:00 ET JOHN KING, GUEST HOST: This is "Late Edition," the last word in Sunday talk. GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We would take the action necessary to bring him to justice. KING: A new vow from President Bush to get Osama bin Laden. We'll bring you Wolf Blitzer's exclusive interview with the president. Then, terror on trial. Senate Republicans reach a deal with the White House on treatment of terror suspects. We'll get perspective on this and much more from two key members of Congress, Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, and the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, Democrat Jane Harman. PRES. HAMID KARZAI, AFGHANISTAN: Terrorists have infiltrated our borders to step up their murderous campaign against our people. KING: As violence rebounds in Afghanistan, can the government assert control? Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, is our guest. Anti-American sentiment reaches a new high. Is the United States loosing luster on the global stage? We'll get expert insight from two key statesmen, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and former ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke. PRES. JALAL TALABANI, IRAQ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Although the new Iraq has passed through crucial stages in an incredibly short period of time, the political process has been strengthened. KING: With all the trials and tribulations in Iraq, can the new government improve security to prevent a civil war? We'll talk to Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, about the rising insurgency and his country's next steps. Plus, only 44 days left until the midterm elections. We'll talk party politics with two top strategists, Republican Matthew Dowd and Democrat Stan Greenberg. "Late Edition's" lineup begins right now. It's 11 a.m. in Washington, 8 a.m. in Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. in Afghanistan, and 7 p.m. in Baghdad. Wherever you're watching from, thanks for joining us for "Late Edition." Wolf Blitzer is away this weekend. I'm John King. Today, we'll bring you three special interviews with three presidents. Iraq's Jalal Talabani and Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai will join me live right here. We'll also be bringing you Wolf Blitzer's exclusive interview this past week with President Bush. All that in just a few minutes. But first, let's go to Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN Center in Atlanta for a quick check of what's in the news right now. Hi, Fred. KING: Thank you, Fred. The war on terror higher on everyone's radar this week, from debates over treatment of terror suspects to reports that Osama bin Laden is either dead or perhaps sick. Here to help us make sense of all this are two key U.S. lawmakers. Republican Senator Arlen Specter joins us from his home state of Pennsylvania. He is, of course, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. And joining me here in Washington is Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman. She's the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Thank you both for joining us on "Late Edition." Congresswoman Harman, I want to go straight to you. You're the ranking Democrat on intelligence. There is this French document suggesting Osama bin Laden perhaps might be dead. Have you seen any credible intelligence that he's dead or that he's sick? REP. JANE HARMAN (D), CALIFORNIA: No. Neither. And this news is not confirmed. If it were confirmed, I'm sure I'd know about it. I'm sure we'd all know that it was true. It would be a good thing. I would prefer us to capture him, and then using some appropriate legal tools, debrief him and find out what he knows about future attacks against America. KING: We're going to have what I assume will be a spirited discussion about what those appropriate legal tools might be. Senator Specter, I want to bring you into the conversation with this question. Five-plus years after 9/11, we're debating whether or not there's some Saudi document that suggests he might be dead, he might be sick. Why is it that we don't know where he is? Why has he not been captured or killed along with his deputy, Mr. al-Zawahiri, Mullah Omar, the spiritual leader of the Taliban? Whose responsibility, whose fault is that? SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R), PENNSYLVANIA: It's like looking for a needle in haystack. I don't think you can say that it's anybody's fault. It's a big world. There are lots of places for him to hide. He made a lot of precautions. I had a chance to talk to General Tommy Franks recently about the question as to whether they had him spotted and could have found him at one point. And General Franks said that that was not true. He's a hard man to find, but I think one day we will find him. KING: I want to move on. But Congresswoman Harman, you're shaking your head at that statement. HARMAN: We missed a chance. We had him cornered at Tora Bora in Afghanistan. And under this administration, no action was taken. We also know, I think for a fair certainty, that he's in the tribal area of Pakistan. I don't believe he's in Afghanistan. Resources were not focused on this problem as we got bogged down in Iraq. Now we have more resources on the problem. But we should have been able to capture him within the last five years. KING: Let's come back, Senator... SPECTER: John, Congresswoman Harman may be right or she may be wrong, but General Franks said that he wasn't isolated in Tora Bora. I don't think we ought to make a political issue. Everybody wants to capture Osama bin Laden, and one day we will. KING: Let's move on to something that is a major policy issue, but also I suspect will be a major political issue between now and the fast-approaching November midterm elections. And that is, pick up your Sunday newspaper today or talk to sources, and you see what has to be a troubling statement. The national intelligence estimate saying the war in Iraq has not, as the president often asserts publicly, made the United States safer but is in fact contributing to the spread of radical Islamicism around the world. I want to read you a quote from this NIE that's in The New York Times today. It says this national intelligence estimate says this: "It asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe, and cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology." You agree with that, Congresswoman? HARMAN: I do. And I'm not going to comment on the document because it's a classified document. But every intelligence analyst I speak to confirms that. And that is why, although I hope we will do something appropriate this week with legislation on military commissions, put into context, the best military commission proposal in the world and even capturing the remaining top al Qaida leadership isn't going to prevent copycat cells, and it isn't going to change a failed policy in Iraq. This administration is trying to change the subject. I don't think voters are going to buy that. KING: Senator Specter, I want to talk about the detainee issue as we move on. But I want to talk specifically about this for a second in the sense that the NIE is the same document the president used to say Saddam Hussein, based on the best consensus of the intelligence community, had weapons of mass destruction. It is the document the president used to justify going into Iraq. If he now has a document that says the Iraq war is making the problem worse, not better, should he be campaigning in the last month of his campaign telling the American people that we are safer today, five years after 9/11? SPECTER: I think the president ought to say whatever he thinks is true. But I'm very concerned about the intelligence report that I read about in The New York Times this morning. And I'm even most concerned about the part which said that the administration had intelligence briefings in early 2003 before the war in Iraq was started. And my feel is that the war in Iraq has intensified Islam fundamentalism and radicalism. And I think it is a bigger problem. And I think that the military commissions have to be taken up and we ought to be dealing fairly with the people who are detained. But I think there is a much more fundamental issue as to how we respond. And that is what we do with the Iraq war itself. That's the focal point for inspiring more radical Islam fundamentalism, and that's a problem that nobody seems to have an answer to. KING: Well, Senator, you say you're troubled about briefings the administration had back in 2003. Are you troubled to point that you think this was the wrong war, the wrong decision? SPECTER: By hindsight, we operated on faulty intelligence. And I think, had we known that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction before the war was started, I think the odds are very strong that it wouldn't have been started. But when you deal with Islam and you deal with fundamentalism, you're dealing with a culture which is very alien to us. And to figure how they're going to respond is very, very complex. And if we had an intelligence report that the likelihood was that it would augment terrorism and augment fundamentalism, I think that would have to be taken very much into account. Well, we know today it's a published report. We really ought to make a determination as to the details of it, whether it's accurate, and try to figure out a sensible response now. KING: Congresswoman Harman, your committee, the House Intelligence Committee, had its own report this past Wednesday that says this: "The threat of terrorism is very real and in many ways more alarming than the threat that existed prior to September 11, 2001. There are a growing number of groups building the capability to attack the United States, our allies and our interests abroad." More groups capable of attacks bigger than 9/11? HARMAN: Well, I don't know that. And that report, by the way, was issued on a party-line vote. The Democrats on the committee voted against it because we felt that both the methodology and the conclusions were hyped. And I want to make that point. Arlen Specter is right when he says we should understand accurately what the intelligence is. Once we do that, the administration, which makes statements based on intelligence, should also be accurate. On a talk show, on "Meet the Press," about a week ago, the vice president said, we still don't know whether there were pre-war contacts between Al Qaida and Iraq. And we do know there weren't. The intelligence is absolutely clear, both the classified and unclassified intelligence. And he should correct the record. And again, here, if it is believed -- and I think it is widely believed, not just this NIE, which remains a classified document -- that Iraq is making the world less safe, we should -- the president should not be saying we're turning the corner in Iraq. KING: Senator Specter, Congresswoman Harman, I ask you both, please stay with us. Much more to discuss about the war on terror. Also, coming up later this hour, are Iraqis ready to stand up and take charge? We'll ask that country's president, Jalal Talabani. Then we'll bring you Wolf Blitzer's exclusive interview with the president of the United States. And coming up at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, "This Week at War" looks at both Iraq and Iran. Don't miss it. And stay here, "Late Edition" will be right back. KING: This is "Late Edition." I'm John King, in for Wolf Blitzer, reporting from Washington. We're continuing our conversation with Republican senator Arlen Specter and Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman. Senator Specter, to you first: You will hold hearings this week on a deal hatched in the Congress last week on how to deal with the terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, whether there are fair rules to hold them, to interrogate them, and then ultimately, to bring them to trial. You obviously have concerns about this agreement. Senator McCain is among those who brokered this deal. He was the one who stood up to the president and said, what you're doing now is wrong. I want you to listen to Senator McCain here. He thinks this is a good deal. U.S. SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ): And there is no doubt that the integrity and letter and spirit of the Geneva Conventions have been preserved. KING: But pick up the Los Angeles Times yesterday and you see this, from Major Michael Mori, who is a Marine Defense lawyer. He says of this deal, "It is worse than the system that was in place before. It is not going to ensure there is a fair trial." Senator Specter, you're the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. You want to look into this issue. Does the deal, as it now stands, give terror suspects a fair trial? SPECTER: Most of it is a big improvement. I think Senator McCain, Senator Warner and Senator Graham did a good job in preserving the Geneva Convention -- indispensable that those standards be maintained. They did a good job, too, on having classified information made available to the defendant on a reasonable basis. But there's one part that I vigorously disagree with, and that is taking away the jurisdiction of the federal courts on what we call habeas corpus, which is the great writ that goes all the way back to 1215. And tomorrow, the Judiciary Committee, at 9:30, is going to have hearings on that point. KING: What's wrong with it, Senator? SPECTER: Well, what is wrong with it is that the federal courts have been the only instrumentality to deal with the problem. Congress has a constitutional responsibility to deal with it, and Congress punts it. It was too hot to handle. And in June of 2005, the Supreme Court came down with three opinions; last June, another opinion. And the federal courts just have to be open. This legislation is very complicated. As a matter of fact, so far, there have been many conflicting reports about what the legislation does. And the courts have traditionally been open to make sure that individual rights are protected. And that is fundamental. KING: Thank you, Senator. Congresswoman, a good deal, bad deal, what's wrong with it? HARMAN: Well, it's better than where we were. I want to commend Arlen Specter. He's a careful, thoughtful lawyer. I'm glad he's holding hearings tomorrow. I hope that the intelligence committees will also hold hearings because there's a carve-out for a so-called CIA program which could be different interrogation practices. Now is the time when Congress has to exercise oversight. This will never be a good deal unless Congress, at least with respect to the CIA program, demands to be fully briefed, demands to understand what the legal justification is for any different techniques for people held by the CIA and demands to know whether those separate techniques are necessary, whether they're effective. And we can't just hear, one more time from this White House, trust us. That won't cut it. And they're here, finally, only because the Supreme Court has forced them to be in Congress. KING: The Supreme Court has forced them on this issue. But the detainee issue is just one of several issues in which Congress is trying to reassert itself, if you will, in its oversight role in the war on terror. Another one is the whole National Security Agency domestic eavesdropping program... HARMAN: Right. KING: ... terrorist surveillance program, in the president's words. Senator Specter cut a deal with the White House on this, negotiated with the White House on this. You think he sold out? HARMAN: Well, Senator Specter and I have had long conversations, sort of like law school master classes, about what the steel seizure cases meant. And I think they meant that the law Congress passed, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, controls here. There is no inherent authority for this White House to operate a program outside the law. And some of us are pushing a bill that says that and we're having a little bit of a fight. What I worry about, John, is that, at 3:00 a.m. on Friday morning, this Friday, the last week that Congress is in before the election, there will be a take it or leave it program with lots of poison pills in it. And Democrats and some conscientious Republicans are going to be put in a box: If you oppose this, you're soft on terror. I hope that all the people in Congress, in both parties, push back this week and make sure that any package is a responsible package, and also make the point that Iraq is getting more dangerous. And whatever we do on this legislation, we shouldn't be changing the subject. The administration is accountable for a major foreign policy failure here. And it's time for them to change course. KING: Senator Specter, do you feel put in a box by this White House, with the time clock ticking toward the election? SPECTER: No, no, I don't feel put in a box, and I'm not puttable in a box. (LAUGHTER) I haven't sold out. I'm not for sale. The legislation that I have proposed is very fundamental to bring this eavesdropping, surveillance, wiretapping under judicial review. The tradition is to have court approval before it's done. Now, the legislation which we are working on, I think, will even satisfy Congresswoman Harman. But she'll have to say that for herself. We have made fundamental changes. We have taken out the phrase that nothing in the bill impairs the president's Article II power. That was surplusage. There's nothing in legislation that can affect the constitutional power of the president. That is fundamental. We've also added considerable resources to the NSA, and we are now going to be able to have individualized warrants for calls originating in the United States. And we're also opening up the foreign intelligence surveillance appellate court to make it public with a mandate that the case goes to the Supreme Court of the United States. We've been working very hard with the Democrats in the Senate, with a number of Republicans who had questions about the bill, and with the White House. And I think we'll come up with a bill which will be generally satisfactory. KING: It is a complicated policy issue, a very divisive political debate as well. I'm sure there are people all over the world right now, Senator Specter, studying Article II of the U.S. Constitution. We thank you both for joining us. Senator Arlen Specter, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in Philadelphia this morning. Congresswoman Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, here with us in Washington. Thank you both. And stay with us because, still ahead, we'll bring you our three special interviews with three presidents. First, is Iraq on the brink of civil war, and can the battle for Baghdad be won? My interview with the Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani. But up next, a check of what's in the news right now. And coming up at 1 p.m. Eastern, "This Week at War." Stay with us. You're watching "Late Edition." KING: Welcome back to "Late Edition." I'm John King, filling in for Wolf Blitzer. Just ahead, my interview with the Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, on the challenges facing his country and when it might be possible for U.S. troops to start coming home. First, earlier this week, Wolf Blitzer sat down with the president of the United States, George W. Bush, and asked him, among other things, about the current situation in Iraq. WOLF BLITZER, HOST, CNN'S "LATE EDITION": Let's talk a little bit about Iraq. BUSH: Sure. BUSH: Yeah. BLITZER: We see these horrible bodies showing up ... BUSH: Of course you do. BLITZER: ...tortured, mutilation. The Shia and the Sunni, the Iranians apparently having a negative role. Of course, Al-Qaida in Iraq's still operating. These people want a unity government. The unity government is functioning. I'm impressed by President Maliki. BLITZER: You weren't upset when he went to Tehran and gave a big hug and a kiss to Ahmadinejad? BUSH: Excuse me for a minute. I was on a brilliant point, as you know. (LAUGHTER) I fully recognize it's still dangerous and there's more work to do. The enemy has got the capacity to get on your TV screens by killing innocent people, and that should speak volumes to the American people about the nature of these people... BLITZER: The visit from Nouri al-Maliki to Iran... BUSH: To Iran. BLITZER: ... that was a picture that -- a lot of Americans saw that picture, big hug, big kiss, and they said, hey, what's going on here? BUSH: What's going on here is you've got the president of a sovereign nation going to a neighbor, making it clear to the neighbor to stop meddling with their new democracy, that he would expect there to be support of this new government and not undermining the new government. This is a man who is dedicated and committed to a unity government. He has taken great risks to advance the cause of peace and unity is his country, and so... BLITZER: So the bottom line, you have confidence in him, because a lot of other people are beginning to lose confidence. BUSH: Yes. I don't only have confidence in him, but General Casey and, again, our ambassador. That's how I learn it. I can't learn it -- I frankly can't learn it from your newscasts. What I've got to learn it from is people who are there on the ground. And so I ask them all the time, how are things going? Give me the decision-making process of Prime Minister Maliki. Is he growing in the job? The guy's been there for about 100 days, and I am impressed by his strength of character. BLITZER: I woke up in New York like you did this morning. I read... BUSH: What are you reading now? BLITZER: ... the "New York Times." There's a paragraph in here -- I'll read it to you -- about your dad's former secretary of state, James Baker: "In his 1995 memoir, Mr. Baker said he opposed ousting Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf war in 1991 because he feared that such action might lead to an Iraqi civil war, to criticism from many of our allies, and to an eventual loss of American support for an occupation." BUSH: He was writing before September the 11th, 2001, and the world changed that day, Wolf. BLITZER: But Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. BUSH: Excuse me for a minute, please. The world changed that day because we had to deal with threats. No question, Saddam Hussein did not order the attacks. And we took out Saddam Hussein because he was viewed as a threat. He was a state sponsor of terror. He had used weapons of mass destruction. He had invaded his neighbors. The decision was the right decision, and now the question is, will this country and our coalition partners have the will to support this new government, a democracy in the heart of the Middle East. BLITZER: You know, you were thinking of dealing with Saddam Hussein long before 9/11. BUSH: I wasn't in office long before 9/11. BLITZER: Well, let me remind you ... BUSH: I wasn't in office that much longer. BLITZER: I'm going to remind you of an interview you and I did ... BUSH: 9/11, 2001 and I swore in, in January of 2001. BLITZER: But when you were a candidate for president, you were still the governor of Texas, you and I sat down in Iowa... BUSH: Right. BLITZER: ... just before the Iowa caucus, and we had this exchange. Listen. BUSH: We shouldn't be sending mixed signals. And, if at any time I found that the Iraqis were developing weapons of mass destruction, they wouldn't exist anymore. BLITZER: Who wouldn't exist anymore, the weapons? BUSH: The weapons of mass destruction, yes. I'm not going to -- they just need to hear that from a potential president, that if we catch them in violation of the agreement, if we in any way, shape, or form find out that their developing weapons of mass destruction, that there will be action taken. And they can just guess what that action might be. BLITZER: The point, though, being that, at least to my mind, the weapons of mass destruction issue, in your mind, even as a candidate running for president, was a trigger potentially that could lead to war. BUSH: Well, of course, Saddam -- I've used Saddam Hussein for what he was, a threat. He was declared a state sponsor of terror, Wolf, by previous administrations. BLITZER: But there are other countries that have been declared state sponsors of terror, like North Korea, like Syria, Cuba. You don't go to war against them. BUSH: Well, North Korea hadn't invaded its neighbors. North Korea hadn't made declarations of intent. North Korea's relatively isolated compared to Iraq. Every threat must be taken seriously. And every threat must be dealt with in a different fashion. I strongly stand by my decision to remove Saddam Hussein. BLITZER: And you don't look back with any regrets? BUSH: I regret when people lose lives. But presidents don't get to do do-overs. But I believe that the decision was the right decision. And now we've got to help this young democracy survive. And what's interesting is extremists and radicals aim to destroy young democracies, whether it be Hezbollah, or whether it be Al Qaida, who you mentioned, in Iraq. And, that's the real challenge of this century. It's a challenge between moderation and reform versus extremism and radicalism. Those extremists and radicals are willing to use terror and murder as a weapon to achieve their objectives. KING: Here on "Late Edition," more of Wolf's interview with the president, George W. Bush, and my live interview with Iraq's president Jalal Talabani. And coming up at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, John Roberts hosts "This Week at War." Don't go away. "Late Edition" will be right back. KING: You're watching "Late Edition." I'm John King, in for Wolf Blitzer, live from Washington. In a moment, Iraq's president Jalal Talabani joins us live right here on "Late Edition." But first, another excerpt from Wolf's interview With President George W. Bush. BLITZER: You're here in New York. The president of Iran is here in New York. You have a chance -- I don't know if you still have a chance -- but you had a chance to meet with him. Given the stakes involved, a nuclear confrontation, what do you have to lose by sitting down with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? BUSH: Our position is very clear to the Iranians, that if they want to sit down with American officials, that they first must verifiably suspend their enrichment program. They know our position. The world knows our position. And I clarified it at the United Nations over the past couple of days. BLITZER: But if it would help to sit down, talk to them, and try to convince them -- you know, there have been other moments when great leaders have made that major decision to have a breakthrough -- you know, Nixon going to China, Sadat going to Jerusalem. Secondly, Wolf, in order for there to be effective diplomacy, you can't keep changing your word. At an important moment in these negotiations with the E.U.-3 and Iran, we made it clear we would come to the table, but we would come to the table only if they verifiably suspended their enrichment program. And the reason that's important, that they verifiably suspend, is because we don't want them to have the technologies necessary to be able to build a nuclear weapon. A nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran in the middle of the Middle East would be a very destabilizing and a troubling occurrence. BLITZER: India and Pakistan already have a nuclear weapon. Israel has a nuclear weapon. Why would it be so bad if this Iranian regime had a nuclear weapon? BUSH: This Iranian regime is -- promotes militias like Hezbollah to create instability. This Iranian regime has made it abundantly clear that they would like to destroy Israel, who is our ally. BLITZER: Do you think they would drop a bomb or launch a missile on Israel? BUSH: Wolf, my judgment is you've got to take everybody's word seriously in this world. Again, you can't just hope for the best. You've got to assume that the leader, when he says that he would like to destroy Israel, means what he says. If you take -- if you say, well, gosh, maybe he doesn't mean it, and you turn out to be wrong, you have not done your duty as a world leader. BLITZER: So you take him seriously at that? BUSH: Absolutely, I take him seriously, just like I take Al Qaida seriously when they say they're going to attack us again, just like I take these extremists seriously when they say they're trying to disrupt democracy. BLITZER: George Voinovich, the Republican senator from Ohio, has compared him to Hitler. BUSH: Yes, you know, I mean, people have got strong opinions about him, and I can understand why. He's a -- look, Olmert -- Prime Minister Olmert of Israel reaches out to President Abbas of the Palestinian territories to try to help establish a democracy, and there's an unprovoked attack by Hezbollah on Israel. Hezbollah's funded and armed by Iran. Iran wants to stop the advance of democracy and peace. And I can understand why people have strong opinions about the Iranian regime. Our goal is to have a diplomatic solution, starting with convincing the Iranians that they either face isolation and possible sanctions if they don't give up their weapons programs. BLITZER: The foreign minister of Israel told me the other day that they believe -- the Israelis -- there's only a few months left, a few months of a window before they get to a point where there's literally a point of no return and they've learned how to enrich uranium, and effectively could go forward and build a bomb. How much time does the world have to resolve this? BUSH: First, if I were the Israeli foreign minister, I'd be deeply concerned about somebody in my neighborhood whose stated objective was the destruction of my country, and the desire of that country to end up with the capacity to do so. And so I can understand her concerns. I'm not going to discuss with you our intelligence on the subject, but time is of the essence, in my opinion. BLITZER: Is it a few months, though? BUSH: Well, time is of the essence, and that's why here at the United Nations, I spoke with our allies. Condi Rice met last night with foreign ministers of the EU3 and Russia, and I think China was there as well, urging them to follow through on the resolution we got passed at the United Nations Security Council. I'm concerned that Iran is trying to stall and to try to buy time, and therefore it seems like a smart policy is to push this issue along as hard as we can, and we are. BLITZER: Because a lot of experts say short of regime change in Iran, or military action, there's no way this leader in Tehran is going to give up that nuclear ambition. BUSH: We'll find out. The country can face isolation. They could face, you know, sanctions, or they can choose a better course. The choice is the Iranian leader's choice. I spoke yesterday at the U.N. and I spoke directly to the Iranian people. It's important for the Iranian people to know this, that we respect their heritage, we respect their history, we respect their tradition. We believe this can be a great nation if the government, you know, relies upon the talents of its people and encourages and nurtures those talents. BLITZER: Is there anything you heard from him in his address last night or your analysts that was encouraging? BUSH: Not really. KING: Coming up next here, two conversations with two presidents. I'll talk to Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, about the future of his country and when perhaps U.S. troops might be able to come home. Then, I'll speak with the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, about the search for Osama bin Laden and much more. And this programming reminder: Coming up at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, "This Week At War." Stay with us. "Late Edition" will be right back. KING: Welcome back to "Late Edition." I'm John King, in this week for Wolf Blitzer. It was another deadly week in the battle for Baghdad, raising new questions of if and when the Iraqi government can take control of its future. Joining me now to discuss these challenges here in Washington is the president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani. Mr. President, thank you very much for joining us on "Late Edition." I want to begin with something that I think many Americans found troubling this past week. I want you to listen here to Major General James Thurman. He's the commander of the 4th Infantry Division in Iraq, and he's talking about the violence in Baghdad and how he needs more Iraqi troops to come help him try to quell the violence. Let's listen to General Thurman. Let's listen to the general for just a minute. MAJ. GEN. JAMES THURMAN, U.S. ARMY: What I've asked for is those additional Iraqi army units to come in to bolster the security inside of Baghdad city. What I still need in here in terms of battalions from the Iraqi army that I would like to see is approximately six battalions. (END VIDEO CLIP) KING: He says, President Talabani, that he needs about 3,000 more troops, but U.S. officials tell us he's having trouble getting those troops, because the Iraqi troops sign up and they want to be stationed in their home province, and they don't want to come into Baghdad. How can you answer here to an American who has sent a son or a daughter into Iraq, perhaps to a war that they didn't even support, (inaudible)? TALABANI: No, we are ready to send as much as is necessary forces to Baghdad from various parts of Iraq, if the joint commandership of Iraq and United States asks. In Kurdistan, for example, we are ready to send as much as necessary forces. It became the part of Iraqi army, and commander in chief of Iraqi army can move the units of Iraqi army from different parts of Iraq to Baghdad, because Baghdad is our capital, and we are much invested to secure Baghdad. KING: But, obviously, you have a dire problem in Baghdad and across much of the country. I want to, again, bring in another one of the U.S. generals over there. Major General William Caldwell is the spokesman for the U.S. coalition. I want you to listen to his assessment of how the violence within Iraq is not getting better, but in fact is getting worse. Let's listen to General Caldwell. MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM CALDWELL, U.S. ARMY SPOKESPERSON: This past week, there was a spike in execution-style murders in Baghdad. Many bodies found had clear signs of being bound, tortured and executed. KING: And a United Nations official Manfred Nowak says this, sir. He's the U.N. special investigator on torture, and he says, "The situation, as far as torture is concerned, in Iraq is now completely out of hand. The situation is so bad that many people say it is worse than in the times of Saddam Hussein." Is the situation in Iraq worse than in the times of Saddam Hussein? TALABANI: In the times of Saddam Hussein, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi innocent people were buried in mass graves which we've discovered, and the Iraqi people were deprived from all kinds of democratic rights and free economy and everything. Now we have in Iraq only one problem, which is the problem of security. But if you look to other side of Iraqi people's life, you'll see much progress and development. But the problem of, the issue of terrorism, which is concentrating on Iraq, is one of the problems that Iraqi people facing. But it's not worse than the past. Months ago, you had daily in Baghdad about between 10 to 15 car bombs. Now you have two to three to four. Still, though, there are assassinations still continuing. But less than it was months ago. KING: You say less than it was months ago. Many of the American people who have now 140,000 troops in Iraq, who are now more than three and a half years, more than $300 billion into the commitment to Iraq, many Americans thought U.S. troops would be coming home this year in sizable numbers. General John Abizaid, the U.S. commander, says not. He says this this past week: "I think that this level," meaning 140,000 U.S. troops, "will probably have be to sustained through the spring. The secular tensions, if left unchecked, could be fatal to Iraq. And the center of the problem is Baghdad. It's the area where we have to spend the most military effort." He says could be fatal to Iraq. Three and a half years, more than $300 billion later, about 3,000 U.S. lives lost in this war, and still a question of whether Iraq will come out intact from this. What is the problem? Is it that the Sunnis and the Shia simply hate each other and can't get along? Did the United States not do it right when it came to training the Iraqi military forces? And some Americans, sir, are beginning to ask, will the Iraqis step up and fight for their country? TALABANI: Well, as Sunni and Shias, now we are going to see that the national reconciliation is going forward. Yes, there are Sunnis and Shias which argument about forming a committee to amend mandate of constitution, about discussing the issue of federation in the south jointly and national unity government headed by Nouri al-Maliki is going well, which is representing all Iraqi people. The American government is very important historical achievement for Iraqi people when they liberated Iraq from the worst kind of dictatorship, which was threatening the peace and stability not of the Iraqi people only but of the Middle East. And I think this is true that we are very sorry for sacrifices American forces had in Iraq, but I think that was a price of liberating Iraq, and 27 million Iraqis were liberated. And this is a great nation in the world. You have a responsibility. You have sacrificed hundreds of thousands of your sons in the second and first world war to liberate Europe from dictatorship, from Nazism. And now, this is the -- I can say it is similar to what you have done in the history. Although I am very sorry for any bloodshed from the American forces. Iraqi people is going to train its army, and we are preparing to replace American forces each month in one province of Iraq. And we are preparing to be ready for next year when we are continuing the training of our forces to talk to our American allies and friends about the timetable for when they can remove their forces. KING: When this all began three and a half years ago, no one in the United States imagined it would be this ugly so far down the road. I assume you didn't imagine it would be such a difficult challenge. What is the single biggest miscalculation of the U.S. administration? Not enough troops? Not a quick enough emphasis on sealing the border? What is it? TALABANI: Not forming an interim government. In the beginning, when General Garner and Ambassador Khalilzad were there, they were planning to form an interim government for Iraqi people. That government was able to secure the area and rule the country. Then there was 1483 resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations, which changed (ph) liberation to occupation. This was the biggest mistake. KING: Give me your assessment of the neighborhood. Your prime minister recently went to Iran to meet with Mr. Ahmadinejad. The president of the United States clearly thinks Mr. Ahmadinejad is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Is that Iraq's assessment? You have had tensions with Iran throughout your history, more under the regime of Saddam Hussein, of course. But is Iran a good neighbor or is Iran a threat trying to develop nuclear weapons and endanger peace and security in the world? TALABANI: Now Iraqi new government is trying to normalize the relation with all our neighbors, including Iran. And the visit of our prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to Iran was successful. Iranians promised him to help the security in Iraq, to give us 1,000 -- $1 million as loan for reconstructing the country, to help us with our neighbors to solve the problems of security, and let us see what will be the result of this visit. I hope -- actually... KING: Is it your assessment, sir, they want nuclear weapons? TALABANI: As the nuclear weapon, we are for cleaning the area from nuclear weapon. We are against any kind of nuclear weapon by any country of the Middle East. I called in my speech in the United Nations to make the Middle East like Latin America, clean from all kind of mass destruction arms. Iran is claiming that they are only looking for having nuclear technology, not the bomb. KING: But do you believed -- the question comes down to credibility and trust. Mr. Bush says this is a man who says Israel should be wiped off the map. This is a man who questions whether the Holocaust even occurred. The president of the United States says he does not trust him and thinks he wants a nuclear weapon. Do you trust President Ahmadinejad? TALABANI: Well, we had good relation with Iran, and at the same time with the United States of America. We are thinking that as much as we can we must struggle, we must try to improve relation between United States of America and Iran. And this is the way which we can achieve our goals and protect our national interests in the area. KING: Jalal Talabani, the president of Iraq, joining us at a very difficult time for your country. Sir, we wish you the best of luck. And stay with us. There's much more ahead on "Late Edition," including my interview with Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai. What will it take for the United States and Afghan forces to tackle the resurging Taliban? Then, is the United States losing global standing in the world? That and much more coming up on "Late Edition." (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KARZAI: Our efforts to build Afghanistan into a stable, prosperous and democratic polity have also encountered setbacks. KING: Violence on the rise in Afghanistan five years after the U.S. invasion. Why are the Taliban and terrorists gaining ground? We'll talk to the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, about the rise of the Taliban, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the drug trade and more. BUSH: The world is engaged in a great ideological struggle between extremists who use terror as a weapon to create fear, and moderate people who work for peace. KING: President Bush rallies support for the war on terror at the United Nations, but is the U.S. approach losing allies and inciting enemies? We'll talk to former secretary of state, Alexander Haig, and former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Six weeks until midterm elections in the United States. How will Iraq, terrorism and the economy impact the balance of power in Congress? We'll hear from two party strategists, Democrat Stan Greenberg and Republican Matthew Dowd. Welcome back. I'm John King, filling in this week for Wolf Blitzer. We'll get to my interview with Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, in just a few minutes, but first let's go to Fredricka Whitfield at CNN Center in Atlanta to get a quick check of what's in the news right now. KING: Thank you, Fred. And turning now to Afghanistan. Five years ago, nearly unanimous world agreement on toppling the Taliban. Today, the Taliban is regaining ground, and NATO is begging for men and machines to continue the fight. Joining me now, the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. As you know, this weekend there's been a great discussion about this report, could Osama bin Laden be dead? Could he be sick? You see intelligence about him all the time. When was the last time you saw credible information about his whereabouts and the state of his health? KARZAI: We really did not have accurate information as to the precise location of Osama bin Laden in the border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan or his exact movements, but we knew all along generally where he was. KING: Generally where he was. Is he in your country from time to time, do you think? KARZAI: No, he has never been in our country after September 11, after the strikes against him, after we chased his organization out of Afghanistan. There were reports from time to time, but generally he's been outside of Afghanistan. KING: Outside of Afghanistan. I assume that means in Pakistan. And yet we saw at the White House just this past week, President Bush standing shoulder to shoulder with President Musharraf, saying he trusts President Musharraf as an ally in the war on terrorism, saying President Musharraf is making tough decisions to stand with the United States. I don't think you do trust President Musharraf, do you, sir? KARZAI: President Musharraf is a friend and a brother of mine. We meet very, very often. I do have confidence that we can move further in the war against terror with a more stronger, sincere cooperation. KING: You're being very diplomatic. I want you to listen to something President Musharraf said just this past week. There is obviously world concern about where is Osama bin Laden, is anyone helping the Taliban in its resurgence, are they helping Mr. bin Laden, al-Zawahiri hide out somewhere? There are many who say he's in Pakistan, as you just said. Others say no, he's in Afghanistan. Mr. Musharraf says he's not the problem. Let's listen. PRES. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, PAKISTAN: I'm already doing a lot in Pakistan. They need to be doing more in Afghanistan. He must realize what is the correct environment, and take action accordingly in Afghanistan. The problem lies in Afghanistan, and that is creating problem in Pakistan. KING: President Karzai, President Musharraf, your neighbor, says you're the problem. You think he's the problem. You're meeting with the president of the United States this week for dinner at the White House. He's trying to bring about a reconciliation. You're being very diplomatic here, but this is for the world trying to combat terrorism. KING: It is a huge problem if the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan cannot agree... KING: ... never mind where Osama bin Laden is. But he says you're at fault; you say he's at fault. KARZAI: Yes. I don't say he's at fault. I'm simply seeking cooperation on terror, on removing the sanctuaries for terrorism. KING: Forgive me for interrupting, forgive me for interrupting... KARZAI: Please. KING: You're seeking cooperation, which means you're not getting it, in your view. KARZAI: Not getting... KING: You get information from time to time about where you think Mullah Omar is, where you think Taliban people who are trying to topple your government, in fact trying to kill you... KING: ... where they're moving back -- you say they are moving back and forth across the border, and you call the Pakistani authorities and say, they're here in your country, and they say what? KARZAI: They deny that. They say they are not there. But they don't say that there is no cross-border activity taking from Pakistan into Afghanistan. President Musharraf told me when I met with him in Kabul that their intentions should not be doubted. Their capabilities should be doubted, that sometimes they don't have the capability. Whether it's lack of capability or anything else, what we need -- all of us, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the United States, the rest of the world -- to be sure that we are doing the right thing to defeat terrorism, to be sure that we go after their sources of supply of money, of equipment, of training, and of motivation, and of deployment in Afghanistan or elsewhere. It's a fight for all of us. Therefore, neither I nor President Musharraf, nor any other government in the world can afford to let ourselves down in this. We have to struggle, and we have to do it correctly and together. That's the answer. KING: President Musharraf recently signed an agreement with the tribal -- the tribes up in the region, Waziristan region. President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld, I'm told by a senior official, were very skeptical that this was a good deal, but they say -- and the president said publicly, President Bush did, that President Musharraf assured him that this is a deal that will help the fight against Al Qaida, that will help the fight against the Taliban. But you are clearly skeptical, and U.S. commanders on the ground say since he signed this agreement, the attacks on your country have increased. What is wrong with this deal, in your view? KARZAI: They have. President Musharraf assured me too in Kabul, he came just a day after they had signed the agreement in their part of Waziristan province, the tribal territories. We are waiting to see more about that agreement. The initial reaction that we received was perhaps that this was an agreement signed with the Taliban. Later on, the government of Pakistan said that this was an agreement signed with the tribal chieftains there, with the tribes. Now, if this is an agreement with the tribes, and the agreement says, do not allow terrorism, do not allow the Taliban sanctuaries and do not allow people to cross into Afghanistan, it will surely have a binding and the tribes will honor it, and we would like that. Unfortunately, since the agreement was signed, we saw more violence in Afghanistan exactly at the border areas with north Waziristan of Pakistan. Our governor, a very prominent Afghan, was assassinated with a suicide bombing. Other attacks took place in the area. So we would have to really see as we go ahead into the future whether the agreement will hold as it has been signed. KING: So when you sit down with President Musharraf and President Bush for dinner Wednesday night here in Washington, will you tell President Bush, I know my friend here told you this is a good deal, but I'm here to tell you, sir, it's a bad deal and it is making the terrorism problem worse? KARZAI: I wouldn't say it like that. We will be meeting, the three of us, to find better ways of defeating terrorism completely -- we have defeated them -- to defeat them completely, to take them off the agenda for us. That is the purpose. And if we cooperate, especially between Afghanistan and Pakistan, more effectively, more sincerely, more broadly, with a focus on the places where they get trained, with a focus on the places that use the name of madrassas, religious schools, but are not madrassas, are not religious schools; they're actually places where they teach hatred, preach hatred against all of us -- if you go there and stop them there and remove those places, it will be much safer for all of us, and that is focus for our meeting as we go into it in a few days. KING: In some ways, as you well know, that's a generational problem, speaking to young people, trying to raise a new generation that doesn't have the hatred that you speak of. KARZAI: Exactly. KING: You were recently in Canada, during your trip to the West. You were at the United Nations. You also went to Canada, which has NATO troops as part of the deployment in Afghanistan. Public opinion in Canada is running against this because they recently had a tragedy, some troops killed while giving candy to children. A suicide bomber came in. Do you worry, sir, that the West is losing its stomach for this fight? KARZAI: No, I am not worried about that. I think the West has stood with Afghanistan quite steadfastly so far. And they will stay with us because this is not only a fight for Afghanistan. The West's arrival in Afghanistan was after September 11, after the tragedy that struck here in America. And it came from Afghanistan because Afghanistan was taken by the Al Qaida, the Taliban and their foreign sponsors. Now Afghanistan and the rest of the world join hands to defeat them. That defeat has to be completed. And until we do, that we will have to be together. And I'm sure we will be. KING: You mention -- you say the West has the stomach for the fight and you mentioned in the days after 9/11, the world, then, was unified. There was worldwide, unanimous opinion that the United States was right. There was an outpouring of support for the United States and then an outpouring of support, militarily, financially and spiritually for your country, as you tried to put it back together. Pick up a newspaper in the United States today, and you see this, an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community that the war in Iraq is actually making the terrorism problem worse. Was the war in Iraq a mistake? When you had world unity to deal with the Taliban, deal with Al Qaida, help Afghanistan back on its feet -- the world was together then. Then came this war in Iraq that President Bush launched, which has splintered world opinion, and to hear you, distracted from the bigger fight in your country. Was it a mistake? KARZAI: The world may have a difference of opinion over Iraq, but the world is united on Afghanistan. KING: But do you lose precious resources because of that? KARZAI: And the United States is right to get Afghanistan together with the rest of the world. We were given all the resources that were pledged to us by the United States and by other donor countries to Afghanistan. Now, if we are given more resources, we will be grateful even further. So the resources promised to us arrived in Afghanistan, were spent in Afghanistan. Does Afghanistan need more resources? Yes. Does Afghanistan need more assistance? Yes. If it is given, will we be happy? Of course. KING: Now, we're talking about the terrorism problem. And obviously, it is the biggest problem along the border. But there are other questions: About five years later, what is the performance of your government? And one of the issues is, not only the resurgence of the Taliban but the resurgence of the opium trade around the world, which is heroin, that ends up killing children around the world, including here in the United States. This is from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report, back in September. Antonio Maria Costa says, "The news is very bad. On the opium front today, in some of the provinces of Afghanistan, we face a state of emergency. In the southern provinces, the situation is out of control. This year's harvest will be around 6,100 metric tons of opium, a staggering 92 percent of the total world supply." Are you failing that challenge, sir? KARZAI: We are facing a difficulty, but we are not failing the challenge. When I was inaugurated as the elected president two years ago, I called on the Afghan people to do away with poppies. Some of them responded very well. And then we moved into some of the provinces that were the biggest growers of poppies with the implementation, the implementation of a good alternative livelihood. In that province of the country, which is called Nangarhar, which was among the biggest growers, we have reduced poppies by 95 percent. In other provinces where we perhaps did not work as dedicatedly and with a proper alternative livelihood, we still have the problem. But we have to take a minute and think, how come Afghanistan is growing poppies? What caused Afghanistan to grow poppies? What caused the country to grow poppies that was among the biggest exporters of raisins to the world 30 years ago, that was among the best producers of fruits in the world 30 years ago? War, destruction, desperation, droughts, where families were not sure if they were going to have their house the next day, where fathers and mothers were not sure if they were going to have their children the next day, and where they were not sure if they were going to have their country the next day. That forced people to destroy vineyards, replace them with poppy fields, to destroy pomegranate orchards and replace them with poppy fields. So it has become a grim reality but a reality, an embarrassment to Afghanistan but a reality. How do we fight it is -- let me go a little back. Four years ago, I was quite naive about this. I thought we were going to destroy poppies in a year, but I was wrong. KING: You admit you were wrong. We're almost out of time, so let me ask you, as you finish your answer, reflect on your critics who say this is a man who took on a remarkable challenge, perhaps one of the biggest challenges in the world, and he's too nice. He's too weak for this job. KARZAI: I am too nice and I will remain to be too nice. That's how I carry the country along, and I'm proud that I'm too nice. But the poppy problem will not go away just by talking about this. It will have to be taken care of by dedication from the Afghan government and eradication and the arrest of drug lords and fighting corruption and by the rest of the world, with us, by providing to us in Afghanistan good alternative livelihood and economic development and over a period of from five to 10 years. KING: Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us today on "Late Edition." Thank you very much, sir. And coming up, how will the war in Iraq hit home at the November ballot box? We'll ask our political panel, Matthew Dowd and Stanley Greenberg. And then (inaudible) were showboating at the United Nations. I'll talk to former secretary of state Alexander Haig and the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke. And coming up at the top of the hour, "This Week at War" and what Iran and Venezuela gained. Stay with us. BUSH: I'm looking forward to the campaign. I'm looking forward to reminding the American people there are significant differences in between what our party believes and what the other party believes, that there's -- it's easy to tell us apart. KING: President Bush, speaking there in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday, in his campaigner-in-chief mode, you might say. This is "late Edition." I'm John King, filling in for Wolf Blitzer. And joining me now from Austin, Texas, Matthew Dowd. He was the chief campaign strategist for the Bush-Cheney re-election back in 2004. He's also one of the authors of "Applebee's America: How Successful Political, Business and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community." And joining me from New Haven, Connecticut, Stan Greenberg, former campaign adviser to President Clinton and other Democrats. Gentlemen, welcome to "Late Edition." Let us start right there. The president says it's easy to tell them apart. One of the big issues in the news on this Sunday morning is an issue that the Republicans believe is their trump card in this election, as it was back in 2004 and 2002, and that is national security. The president goes around the country saying he has made America safer. But pick up your New York Times, your Washington Post, listen to CNN reporting this morning. There's a new national intelligence assessment that says the war in Iraq is making the global terrorism problem worse in some ways. I want you to listen to the president, and then I want to ask you about this issue. BUSH: We have put in place the institutions needed to win this war. Five years after September the 11th, 2001, America is safer. And America is winning the war on terror. KING: Matthew Dowd, is it a problem for Republicans that they have put so much, invested so much in this issue and this theme that the Republicans and the Bush White House will keep you safer than the Democrats to have every American now hearing today -- and I assume from the newspapers and then from the Democrats in the echo chamber over the next week or so -- look, the Iraq war we told you was a bad deal. Not only is the Iraq war a bad deal, the president's own intelligence agency says it's contributing to the terrorism problem. MATTHEW DOWD, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, I think the situation is that if you ask the Democrats and ask the Republicans if they wanted to run on a certain issue and the issue is the war on terror, Republicans would prefer that even with current events or whatever. I don't think Democrats want to run in an election based on the war on terror. The Republicans have an inherent advantage on it and trust in American people. Democrats have an advantage on some other issues. It's not the war on terror, and I think if you had an election that was decided on that, which I don't think this election is only going to be decided on the war on terror, Republicans have an advantage on that. KING: Stan Greenberg, you agree? Should the Democrats maybe not invest too much in this? STAN GREENBERG, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: I think we should invest entirely in it. I'm finding myself in a situation where I'm agreeing with the president almost too much. He says there's a big difference between the parties, and it's on this issue. I think what this report does this morning says that the country indeed is less secure as the consequence of Iraq. And the main take-away in our research and others, the main take- away from the last month of the president's campaign to say this election's on the war on terror, is for people to say, but this is about the war in Iraq. And the war in Iraq, they see a country bogged down, less secure, diverting us from making the country less safe in so many ways. So Democrats have many issues, the financial pressures on people, but they want to engage the security issue. They want to engage the Iraq issue. And that's why this report this morning, where the president did not release this information to the American people on our security as a result of the Iraq war, is very important to how we go into this final phase for the election. KING: I want both of your thoughts on some of those specific issues. But first, I want to try to set the table, if you will, and ask this basic question. Is 2006, 1994, 1994 of course the year when Republicans stormed to control of Congress, Newt Gingrich and the Contract of America out there for the Republican Party. But more important, I think both of you would agree in that campaign you had profound disappointment with President Clinton, the health-care plan, a sense he was not as president what he had promised to be as a candidate. As you give me your thoughts, look at -- here's the Gallup Poll numbers from a bit earlier this month. How is the president handling his job? President Bush at this moment in time, 39 percent. President Clinton heading into the 1994 elections, 39 percent. Matthew Dowd, if you're a Republican and you look at those numbers, do you think, oh, boy, the way it's coming against us this time? DOWD: Oh, yeah, I mean, this is definitely a change election. Like '94, it's a change election, so people are -- have an incentive to vote incumbents out of office. The difference between '94 and 2006, though, I think Republicans will lose seats in the House. I think they'll probably lose seats in the Senate, and they will probably lose some governor's races. The difference is the Republicans have an inherent home-field advantage in this election. There's more safe House seats for Republicans. There's more safe Senate seats for Republicans. I think the question we have today is, how big is the wave, and can that wave overcome the home-field advantage that Republicans have. It is a change election, and I think that's where we sit today. I think the question still is is how big is that wave, and can it overcome Republicans' advantage. KING: Can it, Stan Greenberg? Can it overcome the Republican advantage, both, as Matthew said, the seats are different, the playing field is different and we had the Republican National Committee chairman in here last week, and he said he's got a lot of money to unleash on Democrats. GREENBERG: Well, look, the playing -- look, there's no doubt that the playing field is a more difficult one for Democrats to have that big an election. But on the other hand, the Democrats need to pick up 15 seats. This is many fewer seats than they needed to pick up in 1994. And in terms of the mood, I mean, I was in the White House in that election, and know what it feels like when those things are turning against you. There are so many things here that have that kind of power: You know, the 60 percent-plus who want to go in a new direction, the low approval rating for the president. But even more than that, the low approval rating for the Congress, which, the Congress' rating has been dropping even as the president's numbers have edged up, and the numbers wanting to vote for Democrats for Congress have held up during this period. And so it's a very big number we're looking at and will take us, I think... DOWD: John, one thing to say though, the interesting going on is Democrats have not exhibited any advantage in perception of them as a party or them in Congress. As the numbers in Congress have fallen, which Stan is right, Republicans and Democrats have fallen simultaneously. There's no inverse relationship to a fall in Republicans and a rise in Democrats, and I think that's basically because the American public has not seen the Democratic Party or Democratic candidates offer an alternative. That's a problem. Maybe they could solve it in the next six weeks. That's still a problem for them to be successful in the elections. KING: Do you agree with that, Stan? GREENBERG: Well, I mean, it's a problem in that -- I mean, it's true in comparison to '94. Both parties are in a spiral downward. The Republicans are falling much more sharply, and it's a very big gap, and there's a lot of alienation, which is leading a vote for change. But it's also the Republicans have governed differently. They have governed as a polarizing party in control of all the institutions. They're going into an election where they have said to the American people, we control this place. They own it. And so as voters vote for change it's very hard for the Republicans to get out of the way. KING: I'm going to ask both of you to stand by while we take a quick break. We'll be back to Stanley Greenberg and Matthew Dowd in just a moment. And we'll ask our political strategists more questions about the upcoming election. So please stay with us. And this quick note as we do head to break and into the future, midterm election season and prepare for 2008 of course, CNN is launching a new news service on, the CNN Political Ticker, as we call it. We'll give you an unprecedented look into the day's political stories just as they are happening. Starts tomorrow morning, so get up early. Be sure to go to And coming up at the top of the hour, "This Week at War," the only comprehensive look at Iraq and the war on terror. But up next, we'll get a check of what's in the news right now. Stay right here with "Late Edition." KING: This is "Late Edition," and I'm John King, filling in for Wolf Blitzer. We're continuing our conversation, now, with Republican strategist Matthew Dowd and Democratic strategist Stan Greenberg. Stan, I want to bring in a bit from a memo you wrote this past Friday, with some of your partners, about the election, the tide you see right now. And it says this: "The president's strategy is backfiring because it is driving independents to the Democrats... The strategy also seems to be energizing Democrats and de-energizing Republicans, giving Democrats a growing edge in enthusiasm for the election." Stan Greenberg, you say Democrats have a growing sense of enthusiasm, but what about Matthew's point that he made before the break that maybe they haven't done a good enough job, in his view, of giving the voters an alternative. Absent laying out a detailed proposal about what the Democrats would do, are they not more vulnerable, if you will, when the Republicans unleash all their money on these ads, saying if you have a Chairman Rangel, you will have higher taxes; if you have a Speaker Pelosi, you will have a weaker front on the war on terrorism? GREENBERG: Look, I take that critique seriously and I have made that critique, actually, during the course of the election cycle about Democrats need to be talking about what they're going to do. People want a new direction. And they are hearing that from the candidates. We shouldn't just take what Matthew and I battle over on this show. When you go into the individual races, candidates are saying on the air that they want clean energy -- you know, no pay raise until you get a raise in minimum wage; give the government the ability to negotiate lower drug prices. So you've got candidates on the air, saying what they're going to do. But look, I don't doubt the power of money. They have the micro- targeting systems that are much more developed. Their party, at an organizational level, is very strong. But the enthusiasm -- very, very strongly on the turnout side for Democrats, and also in the desire to change the direction of the bush administration. KING: And Matthew, let's talk a bit about your party. What makes this campaign interesting is it's not just the Democrats who are a bit anxious going into it but the Republicans, who are generally the confident party, the unified message, they seem anxious as well. And it's because of some divisions within the party. Pick up today's Sunday New York Times Magazine and you can read this: "These days, of course, talk of a Republican realignment has given way to simple survival this November. Now the lofty ideals and the bold ambitions of Mehlman and Rove often seem in direct conflict with the short-term survival instincts of Republicans who want nothing more than to get past the next election." The immigration issue, Matthew, would be one there, Republicans going out of their way to pick a fight with the president. There are others as well. What is the state of the Republican Party right now? And are you worried about that intensity, when it comes to voting day? DOWD: Well, you know, candidates from both parties -- as you get closer to an election, one common thing is anxiety. So whatever election you're in, they're anxious. candidates are always anxious. I think you have to look at state by state and see what the enthusiasm is for a candidate in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The enthusiasm is great. And there's not a lot for his Democratic opponent Phil Angelides. That just happens to be the case in California. I think it's state to state. One thing, I think, that we ought to note about turnout is Democrats have not turned out this year in their primaries. It's almost some of the lowest turnout you've seen. And so I think one of the points that I made earlier and, I think, Stan agreed with, you have to offer an alternative. One of the things John Kerry, I think, was faulted for in 2004 is, though he had a vote against, vote against George Bush, he never had a vote for, and here's why you ought to vote for me. And I think Republicans should be worried. It's a "change" election. They have become the party of power in Washington. People want a change. And so they're going to have to present how they would change things or do reforms in Washington. But I think Democrats, in order to compete, in order to overcome some of the inherent advantages that Republicans have, are going to have to offer an alternative that allows the American public to vote for them as opposed to just against the Republicans. KING: I'd like each of you, in closing, your thoughts on this issue. Why are the parties different when it comes to such an environment? And by that I mean, we see Lincoln Chafee, a liberal Republican senator in Rhode Island who has disagreed with the president, didn't even vote for the president in the last presidential election and Lincoln Chafee faces a conservative primary challenge. And what happens? Laura Bush comes up and campaigns for him. The Republican Party throws in all sort of money, all sorts of get-out-the-vote resources to help Lincoln Chafee, to try to save that seat, keep it in Republican hands. Joe Lieberman, in your home state, Stan, of Connecticut votes against the Iraq war and what you have is this amazing dynamic with a man who was your vice presidential nominee just a few years back is now considered a pariah in the party and the Democrats are supporting his opponent Ned Lamont. Why is it that the Republicans can forgive and forget, if you will, and the Democrats seemingly can't? GREENBERG: Well, look, a very important part of the dynamic of this year is the very intense feelings about the present desire for change and that's what, I think, is playing out and will unite the Democrats in Connecticut, will unite the Democrats nationally. What's interesting about it, on the Republican side, is that you find the national Republican Party trying to push candidates to the center or liberal records. So they don't want to run on a conservative record. I think that is the challenge there. Conservatives are on the defensive and that's part of the reason why they're demoralized and part of why they have to try to achieve unity on the Republican side. KING: Matthew? DOWD: Well, Stan's right. Conservatives are on the defensive, especially on the defensive in the Democratic party. You can't be a conservative, it doesn't seem like, or a moderate in the Democratic Party and get elected or be even supported by the institution of your party. At least we have a party, now... GREENBERG: I would look to Virginia and our candidate there. I would look to our governor's candidate in Ohio. Look, across the country, you've got moderates; you have a range of Democrats running across the country. DOWD: I think... GREENBERG: Colorado... DOWD: I think Senator Lieberman could go on this show and probably tell us all what it means to run as a conservative in the Democratic party. KING: Matthew Dowd in Austin, Texas, Stan Greenberg in New Haven, Connecticut, gentlemen, I wish we had more time. Thank you both for joining us on "Late Edition." DOWD: Thank you. GREENBERG: Thank you. KING: Good luck in the weeks ahead. That's good luck to both of you. Coming up here on "Late Edition," did the president of Iran win any friends and gain any influence at the United Nations? I'll talk to the former secretary of state Alexander Haig and the former ambassador Richard Holbrooke. And coming up at the top of the hour, "This Week at War," with more on what we heard in New York and this week, of course, the latest from Iraq. KING: Anousheh Ansari, what's her story? The Iranian American telecommunications entrepreneur made history this week, becoming the first female tourist to travel to outer space. Flying with a joint U.S. and Russian crew, Ansari became the fourth tourist in space. She had to endure six months of training in Russia, which included numerous spins on the centrifuge. It's estimated she paid around $20 million for the flight. Ansari's expedition also makes her the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian in space. She will return to Earth later this week. KING: And coming up on "Late Edition" next, the battle for world opinion. Alexander Haig and Richard Holbrooke talk about what's at stake for the United States and the world. And coming up at the top of the hour, "This Week at War" with our reporters in Baghdad, the Pentagon and at the White House. And if you missed any of our show today, you can download a video podcast of the whole two hours. Just go to and click on the link for "Late Edition." KING: Welcome back to "Late Edition." Joining me now, two veterans of the diplomatic wars. The former secretary of state, Alexander Haig, is here with me in Washington, and in New York, the former ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke. Gentlemen, welcome to "Late Edition." I want to begin with the big news in this morning's newspapers, confirmed by CNN, that there is a national intelligence estimate, the consensus view of this administration's intelligence agencies, that says the Iraq war is contributing to the problem of radical Islamism, Islamic terrorism, call it what you will. Secretary Haig, very troubling for this administration from a policy standpoint, at a time when they say the American people are safer and Iraq is the central front in the war on terror to have their own agencies saying it could be making the problem worse. Is it not? ALEXANDER HAIG, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Well, I'll tell you, what I saw today was The Washington Post's silly season oxymoron of the year, because anybody who knows what's going on in Iraq knows that whether you agree with being in there or how it was done and the manner in which it was conducted, today it is a key, key influencer of global terrorism. And its outcome is going to have a major impact. So, it's an oxymoron written especially for the Democratic Party, which is not unusual for The Washington Post. KING: Ambassador Holbrooke, I'm going to guess you disagree with that assessment. RICHARD HOLBROOKE, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS: Well, I'm a little puzzled by what Al Haig just said. This is a report, which everyone confirms, of the national intelligence community. I take it that General Haig is suggesting that the intelligence community works for the Democrats. I think that's a really bizarre... HAIG: No, no. HOLBROOKE: ... Al, let me finish. This is a strange comment. HAIG: That's a big job to let you finish. (LAUGHTER) HOLBROOKE: What the report said very clearly is what every journalist has said for a long time, that Iraq was not originally where the terrorists were. The 9/11 terrorists didn't come from Iraq, but Iraq has become a breeding ground for terrorists. It's increased anti-Americanism around the world. It's contributed to other crises. It's strengthened Iran. Those are simple facts, and I'm glad that the national intelligence estimate system, which you used to be very involved in, as was I, has come around to making it official. Let's deal with the crisis in Iraq and the challenges in Afghanistan. The war in Iran -- I mean the war in Afghanistan -- and the crisis in Iraq... HAIG: Is this a filibuster again? (LAUGHTER) HOLBROOKE: ... (inaudible) from facts. This isn't a filibuster, Al. You're the one who filibusters. HAIG: No, it isn't a filibuster. KING: Let me referee for just a minute. We're going to disagree on this point, so let's move on to another point. And that is what we saw, the world stage comes to New York, if you will, for the United Nations General Assembly. In The New York Times, today, another one of those papers Secretary Haig might have issues with, but David Brooks, a conservative columnist, writes this: "One of the lessons of this past week is that the international system is broken. When it comes to actually uniting to take action, words and resolutions lead nowhere. Thanks to a combination of American errors, European escapism, and Russian and Chinese greed, the worst people in the world now drive events while the best people do nothing." He is referring, of course, to the debate at the General Assembly. I want to ask specifically about one issue, and that is an issue the president of the United States chastised the United Nations for, and that is Sudan and Darfur. Ambassador Holbrooke, you spent a lot of time there. You went through some of these issues yourself with the Clinton administration when it came to Kosovo. Why can the United Nations, and why is the United Nations willing to watch as people die? HOLBROOKE: First of all, I'm rather struck that David Brooks' column is a faint echo of William Butler Yates' famous poem, "The Center Cannot Hold." But on Darfur, I was puzzled by the president's remarks for this reason: The Security Council passed by a vote of 14 to nothing, China abstaining, a resolution to get the U.N. into Darfur. Now it's up to the powers that voted that and particularly the permanent members, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, to implement it. For the president to say it's the U.N.'s responsibility when the U.N. is just the building on the East River here in New York where they voted that resolution doesn't make sense to me. The challenges to the great powers, if they do nothing, as happened in Rwanda 11 years ago, the tragedy will only get worse. KING: Secretary Haig, the United States is the greatest of those great powers Ambassador Holbrooke just mentioned. What should the bush administration do about Darfur? HAIG: Well, I think they're going to have to talk very frankly to the secretary-general, and they're going to have to have our weight felt to the degree it can be felt. But this is becoming a very different United Nations, and in that respect, I am sympathetic with the observation of the critic you mentioned. On the other hand, I also agree with Dick's comment about the United States and the major powers have to do something. And they haven't thus far been doing very much. KING: We had some issues this past week that some would call sideshows but others would call quite significant. One, Hugo Chavez stands at the podium at the General Assembly and says the devil was here. I can still smell the sulfur, insulting the president of the United States while on international territory, I guess the United Nations, but still in the United States. The other issue, I think the bigger issue from a strategic security standpoint is the visit by the president of Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad, who not only spoke to the United Nations but was given a platform at the Council on Foreign Relations. I want both of your thoughts on this. Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, a great articulate voice for human rights in this world, spoke out. He condemned the Council on Foreign Relations for giving Mr. Ahmadinejad a platform. He said, quote, " 'Civilization means setting limits,' and Mr. Ahmadinejad had stepped beyond all limits with his calls for Israel to be wiped off the map and his questioning of whether the Holocaust occurred." Ambassador Holbrooke, should the Council on Foreign Relations, as interesting and as fascinating as Iran might be right now, as important as it might be, given its president a platform? HOLBROOKE: Well, John, I'm a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and I'd rather not second-guess or comment on the decisions that its president, Richard Haass, made. They made their decision, and I don't think it's a long-term issue. What really is interesting here is why Ahmadinejad outcommunicated the world's leading communications nation, and why a year ago when he came, no one paid any attention, why CNN and its colleagues Fox, MSNBC, the networks gave him so much air time when all he did was repeat what he said over and over again. There was nothing new in it and in a sense -- and as you know, all U.N. General Assembly speeches in the fall are just for domestic consumption... KING: Well, let me jump in. HOLBROOKE: ... And there's no... KING: Let me jump in, Ambassador Holbrooke. Let me jump in on that point. Because you're willing to criticize us in the news industry for giving you a platform but took a pass, diplomatic or otherwise, on criticizing your own organization. I want to give Secretary Haig a chance to answer that specific question before we move on. Shut they have given the man who says, "I want to wipe Israel off the map, the Holocaust didn't happen" a platform? HAIG: Well, I think, given the circumstances, it probably isn't too bad that we did give him a platform, because as Dick said, he just repeated himself. Everybody knows where he stands. I would rather take Chavez as an issue. Now, here's a fellow that stole the show. And back in Watergate, I can remember the president of a neighboring southern country who came into California and started criticizing the president. I called him on the phone and I said, you know, one more speech like that and I'm going to have you escorted to the border, and I think we should have taken some action instead of getting patted on the back by the liberals of America for turning the other cheek. We should have told that fellow, we are his host, and you make another comment like that, and actually the secretary-general should have done that rather than encourage it, and tell him that one more pop like that, instead of bringing him up before a church group in New York, and we would have thrown him out of the country. KING: Gentlemen, we're short on time. I want to ask both of you in closing for your observations as briefly as possible on this point. The president of the United States will have the president of Pakistan and the president of Afghanistan over to the White House for dinner on Wednesday. These are two neighbors who are critical to the war on terrorism, the resurgence of the Taliban, the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaida. And they simply keep finger-pointing and blaming each other for what is wrong. What must the president of the United States get from them this week, Richard Holbrooke? HOLBROOKE: I listened to your interview with Karzai carefully. It's an important interview. Having been in Afghanistan a few months ago, I just want to say very clearly that what he said in answer to your last question on drugs is simply wrong and made no sense. Last year the United States spent $1 billion on drug eradication, $1 billion. Drug trafficking, drug production went up. They're not going after the big guys. They're going after the farmers, crop destruction, which drives them into the hands of the Taliban. As for the meeting, I'm glad President Bush is bringing them together. He must use all his persuasive powers to get them to do more. And I'm very concerned about the deal Musharraf made on the border in Waziristan with the tribes, but I'm also concerned... KING: I need to jump in. We're going to run out of time. We're going to run out of time. I want to give Secretary Haig the last word. I'm very sorry we're short on time today. You get just a few seconds, sir. HAIG: You know, I'm not too -- I'm not alienated by what Dick just said. I think the president is right to get them together. I also think it's important to look back at the history of our relations with Pakistan, and we could ask ourselves as Republicans why we embargoed them for doing what their neighbor did, and that is develop nuclear weapons. We should have gone into a regional ban rather than bilateral tensions, which have really cost us the kind of support from Pakistan we will need and continue to need. They've been our friend. And we haven't treated them that way. KING: Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Gentlemen, I'm sorry we did not have more time. Thank you both for joining us here on "Late Edition" today. KING: And now, in case you missed it, let's check some of the highlights from the Sunday morning talk shows. On "Fox News Sunday," former President Clinton answers the question of whether he did enough to find Osama bin Laden while he was in office. KING: Covered Bill Clinton a long time. I've seen that testy Bill Clinton before. And on CBS' "Face the Nation," Senator John McCain defends the agreement with the White House over detainee rights. MCCAIN: We couldn't outline everything that should be done. We tried to outline what couldn't be done under the War Times Act, leaving the Geneva Conventions alone, which was our first and utmost priority. Look, ACLU and The New York Times don't like the agreement, but we think this will recognize, people will recognize that it defends both our values and our security. KING: Highlights from the other Sunday morning talk shows, right here on "Late Edition," the last word in Sunday talk. And that's your "Late Edition" for this Sunday, September 24th. Be sure to join Wolf Blitzer next Sunday and every Sunday at 11 a.m. Eastern for the last word in Sunday talk. Thanks very much for watching us on this Sunday. I'm John King in Washington. © 2007 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you. Read our privacy guidelines. Contact us. Site Map. Offsite Icon External sites open in new window; not endorsed by Pipeline Icon Pay service with live and archived video. Learn more Radio News Icon Download audio news \| RSS Feed Add RSS headlines
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spacerzimmer topbars spacercz bottombooksarticlestalksblogcontactsearchspacer Article Archives [ 2016 ] [ 2015 ] [ 2014 ] [ 2013 ] [ 2012 ] [ 2011 ] [ 2010 ] [ 2009 ] [ 2008 ] [ 2007 ] [ 2006 ] [ 2005 ] [ 2004 ] [ 2003 ] [ 2002 ] [ 2001 ] [ 2000 ] [ 1999 ] [ 1998 ] Hope, Hype and Genetic Breakthroughs The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2012 I talk to scientists for a living, and one of my most memorable conversations took place a couple of years ago with an engineer who put electrodes in bird brains. The electrodes were implanted into the song-generating region of the brain, and he could control them with a wireless remote. When he pressed a button, a bird singing in a cage across the lab would fall silent. Press again, and it would resume its song. I could instantly see a future in which this technology brought happiness to millions of people. Imagine a girl blind from birth. You could implant a future version of these wireless electrodes in the back of her brain and then feed it images from a video camera. As a journalist, I tried to get the engineer to explore what seemed to me to be the inevitable benefits of his research. To his great credit, he wouldn't. He wasn't even sure his design would ever see the inside of a human skull. There were just too many ways for it to go wrong. He wanted to be very sure that I understood that and that I wouldn't claim otherwise. "False hope," he warned me, "is a sinful thing." In 1995, a business analyst named Jackie Fenn captured this intellectual whiplash in a simple graph. Again and again, she had seen new advances burst on the scene and generate ridiculous excitement. Eventually they would reach what she dubbed the Peak of Inflated Expectations. Unable to satisfy their promise fast enough, many of them plunged into the Trough of Disillusionment. Their fall didn't necessarily mean that these technologies were failures. The successful ones slowly emerged again and climbed the Slope of Enlightenment. When Ms. Fenn drew the Hype Cycle, she had in mind dot-com-bubble technologies like cellphones and broadband. Yet it's a good model for medical advances too. I could point to many examples of the medical hype cycle, but it's hard to think of a better one than the subject of Ricki Lewis's well-researched new book, "The Forever Fix": gene therapy. The concept of gene therapy is beguilingly simple. Many devastating disorders are the result of mutant genes. The disease phenylketonuria, for example, is caused by a mutation to a gene involved in breaking down a molecule called phenylalanine. The phenylalanine builds up in the bloodstream, causing brain damage. One solution is to eat a low-phenylalanine diet for your entire life. A much more appealing alternative would be to somehow fix the broken gene, restoring a person's metabolism to normal. In "The Forever Fix," Ms. Lewis chronicles gene therapy's climb toward the Peak of Inflated Expectations over the course of the 1990s. A geneticist and the author of a widely used textbook, she demonstrates a mastery of the history, even if her narrative sometimes meanders and becomes burdened by cliches. She explains how scientists learned how to identify the particular genes behind genetic disorders. They figured out how to load genes into viruses and then to use those viruses to insert the genes into human cells. By 1999, scientists had enjoyed some promising successes treating people--removing white blood cells from leukemia patients, for example, inserting working genes, and then returning the cells to their bodies. Gene therapy seemed as if it was on the verge of becoming standard medical practice. "Within the next decade, there will be an exponential increase in the use of gene therapy," Helen M. Blau, the then-director of the gene-therapy technology program at Stanford University, told BusinessWeek. Within a few weeks of Ms. Blau's promise, however, gene therapy started falling straight into the Trough. An 18-year-old man named Jesse Gelsinger who suffered from a metabolic disorder had enrolled in a gene-therapy trial. University of Pennsylvania scientists loaded a virus with a working version of an enzyme he needed and injected it into his body. The virus triggered an overwhelming reaction from his immune system and within four days Gelsinger was dead. Gene therapy nearly came to a halt after his death. An investigation revealed errors and oversights in the design of Gelsinger's trial. The breathless articles disappeared. Fortunately, research did not stop altogether. Scientists developed new ways of delivering genes without triggering fatal side effects. And they directed their efforts at one part of the body in particular: the eye. The eye is so delicate that inflammation could destroy it. As a result, it has evolved physical barriers that keep the body's regular immune cells out, as well as a separate battalion of immune cells that are more cautious in their handling of infection. It occurred to a number of gene-therapy researchers that they could try to treat genetic vision disorders with a very low risk of triggering horrendous side effects of the sort that had claimed Gelsinger's life. If they injected genes into the eye, they would be unlikely to produce a devastating immune reaction, and any harmful effects would not be able to spread to the rest of the body. Their hunch paid off. In 2009 scientists reported their first success with gene therapy for a congenital disorder. They treated a rare form of blindness known as Leber's congenital amaurosis. Children who were once blind can now see. As "The Forever Fix" shows, gene therapy is now starting its climb up the Slope of Enlightenment. Hundreds of clinical trials are under way to see if gene therapy can treat other diseases, both in and beyond the eye. It still costs a million dollars a patient, but that cost is likely to fall. It's not yet clear how many other diseases gene therapy will help or how much it will help them, but it is clearly not a false hope. Gene therapy produced so much excitement because it appealed to the popular idea that genes are software for our bodies. The metaphor only goes so far, though. DNA does not float in isolation. It is intricately wound around spool-like proteins called histones. It is studded with caps made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms, known as methyl groups. This coiling and capping of DNA allows individual genes to be turned on and off during our lifetimes. The study of this extra layer of control on our genes is known as epigenetics. In "The Epigenetics Revolution," molecular biologist Nessa Carey offers an enlightening introduction to what scientists have learned in the past decade about those caps and coils. While she delves into a fair amount of biological detail, she writes clearly and compellingly. As Ms. Carey explains, we depend for our very existence as functioning humans on epigenetics. We begin life as blobs of undifferentiated cells, but epigenetic changes allow some cells to become neurons, others muscle cells and so on. Epigenetics also plays an important role in many diseases. In cancer cells, genes that are normally only active in embryos can reawaken after decades of slumber. A number of brain disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia, appear to involve the faulty epigenetic programming of genes in neurons. Scientists got their first inklings about epigenetics decades ago, but in the past few years the field has become hot. In 2008 the National Institutes of Health pledged $190 million to map the epigenetic "marks" on the human genome. New biotech start-ups are trying to carry epigenetic discoveries into the doctor's office. The FDA has approved cancer drugs that alter the pattern of caps on tumor-cell DNA. Some studies on mice hint that it may be possible to treat depression by taking a pill that adjusts the coils of DNA in neurons. People seem to be getting giddy about the power of epigenetics in the same way they got giddy about gene therapy in the 1990s. No longer is our destiny written in our DNA: It can be completely overwritten with epigenetics. The excitement is moving far ahead of what the science warrants--or can ever deliver. Last June, an article on the Huffington Post eagerly seized on epigenetics, woefully mangling two biological facts: one, that experiences can alter the epigenetic patterns in the brain; and two, that sometimes epigenetic patterns can be passed down from parents to offspring. The article made a ridiculous leap to claim that we can use meditation to change our own brains and the brains of our children--and thereby alter the course of evolution: "We can jump-start evolution and leverage it on our own terms. We can literally rewire our brains toward greater compassion and cooperation." You couldn't ask for a better sign that epigenetics is climbing the Peak of Inflated Expectations at top speed. The title "The Epigenetics Revolution" unfortunately adds to this unmoored excitement, but in Ms. Carey's defense, the book itself is careful and measured. Still, epigenetics will probably be plunging soon into the Trough of Disillusionment. It will take years to see whether we can really improve our health with epigenetics or whether this hope will prove to be a false one. Copyright 2012 Carl Zimmer Content Management Powered by CuteNews
[conspire] HP Melt Down Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com Thu Aug 25 14:00:18 PDT 2011 Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com): > The discrimination against older employees is very close to my heart, > but a different thread. /me is gloating because he was 'carded' recently while buying a bottle of wine. [HP and the consumer-hardware market:] > What upsets me is that it isn't either/or. these guys JUST DON'T WANT They don't want to compete in the market where you'd like them to. Some folks call that 'capitalism', though Views Differ<tm>. Anyway, speaking of capitalism and Our Lords on Wall Street, _The Wall Street Journal_ just ran an opinion essay by the now startlingly hairless Marc Andreessen (who has lately emerged as a venture capitalist) in which he makes the point that _software_ is ultimately what matters and is generating capital value, and that it's gradually eating up many former hardware markets. Worth time reading, IMVAO: Elsewhere in this thread -- and relevent, so bear with me -- Paul Zander expressed an understandable lack of comfort about the prospect of Internet-connected refrigerators with RFID readers and automatic shopping list generators (as an example of 'smart' appliances not necesssarily being your friend). Yes, quite, _but_ the problem is much less that of 1950s hardware suddenly sprouting CPUs and network capability than it is of those functions not being under _your_ control. That ties in with Andreessen's point: I _want_ properly selected and configured embedded appliances. I don't need them to be manufactured by HP. In the final analysis, it matters less to me who makes the hardware than whether I have full control of what's in the firmware. Smartphones? Tablets? DVRs? Sure, but they'd better be capable of being reflashed with CyanogenMod, or Meego, or Debian, or something of that class. More information about the conspire mailing list
Actor Gary Collins Dies Katy Winn / Corbis Actor Gary Collins died Saturday morning in Biloxi, Miss., of natural causes. The 74-year-old left behind his wife, former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley, and three children. Collins was best known for his starring role in the 1970s television series The Sixth Sense, although he had recurring roles and guest turns in a number of other shows, including Friends and Hawaii Five-O. He was also the host of Hour Magazine in the 1980s and emceed the Miss America Pageant from 1985 to 1989.
Customer Care 1-800-667-8280 Osso Bucco with Saffron Risotto 4 servings Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Season the veal shanks with salt and pepper and then coat in flour, shaking off excess. Heat oil in a skillet set over medium-high heat. Add veal, brown on all sides, and then remove and place in a casserole. Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl, and then pour over veal. Cover and bake 2-2 1/2 hours, or until very tender. Start the risotto 30-40 minutes before the Osso Bucco is done. To make it, heat oil in a pot set over medium heat. Add onion and cook until tender. Add rice and cook, stirring, until it achieves a nutty, toasted aroma, about 2-3 minutes. Add wine and saffron. Adjust temperature so that the liquid gently simmers. Cook until the wine is almost fully absorbed by the rice. Add 1 cup of stock, stirring and cooking until is almost fully absorbed. Add remaining stock 1 cup at a time, cooking and stirring until it is almost fully absorbed each time. When the rice is tender, remove from heat and stir in parsley, Parmesan cheese and salt and pepper to taste. Serve Risotto alongside the Osso Bucco, garnished with sprigs of Italian parsley. Related Recipes
ANCONTROL(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual ANCONTROL(8) ancontrolconfigure Aironet 4500/4800 devices ancontrol -i iface -A ancontrol -i iface -N ancontrol -i iface -S ancontrol -i iface -I ancontrol -i iface -T ancontrol -i iface -C ancontrol -i iface -Q ancontrol -i iface -Z ancontrol -i iface -R ancontrol -i iface -t 0- 4 ancontrol -i iface -s 0- 3 ancontrol -i iface -b beacon_period ancontrol -i iface -e 0- 4 ancontrol -i iface -K 0- 2 ancontrol -i iface -W 0- 2 ancontrol -i iface -L user_name ancontrol -i iface -j netjoin_timeout ancontrol -i iface -l station_name ancontrol -i iface -m mac_address ancontrol -i iface -o 0 \| 1 ancontrol -i iface -p tx_power ancontrol -i iface -c frequency ancontrol -i iface -f fragmentation_threshold ancontrol -i iface -r RTS_threshold ancontrol -i iface -M 0- 15 ancontrol -h The ancontrol utility controls the operation of Aironet wireless networking devices via the an(4) driver. Most of the parameters that can be changed relate to the IEEE 802.11 protocol which the Aironet cards implement. This includes such things as the station name, whether the station is operating in ad-hoc (point to point) or infrastructure mode, and the network name of a service set to join. The ancontrol utility can also be used to view the current NIC status, configuration and to dump out the values of the card's statistics counters. The iface argument given to ancontrol should be the logical interface name associated with the Aironet device ( an0, an1, etc.). If one is not specified the device “ an0” will be assumed. The ancontrol utility is not designed to support the combination of arguments from different SYNOPSIS lines in a single ancontrol invocation, and such combinations are not recommended. The options are as follows: -i iface -A Display the preferred access point list. The AP list can be used by stations to specify the MAC address of access points with which it wishes to associate. If no AP list is specified (the default) then the station will associate with the first access point that it finds which serves the SSID(s) specified in the SSID list. The AP list can be modified with the -a option. -i iface -N Display the SSID list. This is a list of service set IDs (i.e., network names) with which the station wishes to associate. There may be up to three SSIDs in the list: the station will go through the list in ascending order and associate with the first matching SSID that it finds. -i iface -S Display NIC status information. This includes the current operating status, current BSSID, SSID, channel, beacon period and currently associated access point. The operating mode indicates the state of the NIC, MAC status and receiver status. When the “ synced” keyword appears, it means the NIC has successfully associated with an access point, associated with an ad-hoc “master” station, or become a “master” itself. The beacon period can be anything between 20 and 976 milliseconds. The default is 100. -i iface -I Display NIC capability information. This shows the device type, frequency, speed and power level capabilities and firmware revision levels. -i iface -T Display the NIC's internal statistics counters. -i iface -C Display current NIC configuration. This shows the current operation mode, receive mode, MAC address, power save settings, various timing settings, channel selection, diversity, transmit power and transmit speed. -i iface -Q Display the cached signal strength information maintained by the an(4) driver. The driver retains information about signal strength and noise level for packets received from different hosts. The signal strength and noise level values are displayed in units of dBms by default. The hw.an.an_cache_mode sysctl(8) variable can be set to raw, dbm or per. -i iface -Z Clear the signal strength cache maintained internally by the an(4) driver. -i iface -R Display RSSI map that converts from the RSSI index to percent and dBm. -i iface -t 0- 4 Select transmit speed. The available settings are as follows: TX rate NIC speed 0 Auto -- NIC selects optimal speed 1 1Mbps fixed 2 2Mbps fixed 3 5.5Mbps fixed 4 11Mbps fixed Note that the 5.5 and 11Mbps settings are only supported on the 4800 series adapters: the 4500 series adapters have a maximum speed of 2Mbps. -i iface -s 0- 3 Set power save mode. Valid selections are as follows: Selection Power save mode 0 None - power save disabled 1 Constantly awake mode (CAM) 2 Power Save Polling (PSP) 3 Fast Power Save Polling (PSP-CAM) Note that for IBSS (ad-hoc) mode, only PSP mode is supported, and only if the ATIM window is non-zero. Set preferred access point. The AP is specified as a MAC address consisting of 6 hexadecimal values separated by colons. By default, the -a option only sets the first entry in the AP list. The -v modifier can be used to specify exactly which AP list entry is to be modified. If the -v flag is not used, the first AP list entry will be changed. -i iface -b beacon_period Set the ad-hoc mode beacon period. The beacon_period is specified in milliseconds. The default is 100ms. Select the antenna diversity. Aironet devices can be configured with up to two antennas, and transmit and receive diversity can be configured accordingly. Valid selections are as follows: Selection Diversity 0 Select factory default diversity 1 Antenna 1 only 2 Antenna 2 only 3 Antenna 1 and 2 The receive and transmit diversity can be set independently. The user must specify which diversity setting is to be modified by using the -v option: selection 0 sets the receive diversity and 1 sets the transmit diversity. -i iface -e 0- 4 Set the transmit WEP key to use. Note that until this command is issued, the device will use the last key programmed. The transmit key is stored in NVRAM. Currently set transmit key can be checked via -C option. Selection 4 sets the card in “Home Network Mode” and uses the home key. Set a WEP key. For 40 bit prefix 10 hex character with 0x. For 128 bit prefix 26 hex character with 0x. Use “” as the key to erase the key. Supports 4 keys; even numbers are for permanent keys and odd number are for temporary keys. For example, -v 1 sets the first temporary key. (A “permanent” key is stored in NVRAM; a “temporary” key is not.) Note that the device will use the most recently-programmed key by default. Currently set keys can be checked via -C option, only the sizes of the keys are returned. The value of 8 is for the home key. Note that the value for the home key can be read back from firmware. -i iface -K 0- 2 Set authorization type. Use 0 for none, 1 for “Open”, 2 for “Shared Key”. -i iface -W 0- 2 Enable WEP. Use 0 for no WEP, 1 to enable full WEP, 2 for mixed cell. -i iface -L user_name Enable LEAP and query for password. It will check to see if it has authenticated for up to 60s. To disable LEAP, set WEP mode. -i iface -j netjoin_timeout Set the ad-hoc network join timeout. When a station is first activated in ad-hoc mode, it will search out a “master” station with the desired SSID and associate with it. If the station is unable to locate another station with the same SSID after a suitable timeout, it sets itself up as the “master” so that other stations may associate with it. This timeout defaults to 10000 milliseconds (10 seconds) but may be changed with this option. The timeout should be specified in milliseconds. -i iface -l station_name Set the station name used internally by the NIC. The station_name can be any text string up to 16 characters in length. The default name is set by the driver to “ FreeBSD”. -i iface -m mac_address Set the station address for the specified interface. The mac_address is specified as a series of six hexadecimal values separated by colons, e.g.: 00:60:1d:12:34:56. This programs the new address into the card and updates the interface as well. Set the desired SSID (network name). There are three SSIDs which allows the NIC to work with access points at several locations without needing to be reconfigured. The NIC checks each SSID in sequence when searching for a match. The SSID to be changed can be specified with the -v modifier option. If the -v flag is not used, the first SSID in the list is set. -i iface -o 0 \| 1 Set the operating mode of the Aironet interface. Valid selections are 0 for ad-hoc mode and 1 for infrastructure mode. The default driver setting is for infrastructure mode. -i iface -p tx_power Set the transmit power level in milliwatts. Valid power settings vary depending on the actual NIC and can be viewed by dumping the device capabilities with the -I flag. Typical values are 1, 5, 20, 50 and 100mW. Selecting 0 sets the factory default. -i iface -c frequency Set the radio frequency of a given interface. The frequency should be specified as a channel ID as shown in the table below. The list of available frequencies is dependent on radio regulations specified by regional authorities. Recognized regulatory authorities include the FCC (United States), ETSI (Europe), France and Japan. Frequencies in the table are specified in MHz. Channel ID FCC ETSI France Japan 1 2412 2412 - - 2 2417 2417 - - 3 2422 2422 - - 4 2427 2427 - - 5 2432 2432 - - 6 2437 2437 - - 7 2442 2442 - - 8 2447 2447 - - 9 2452 2452 - - 10 2457 2457 2457 - 11 2462 2462 2462 - 12 - 2467 2467 - 13 - 2472 2472 - 14 - - - 2484 If an illegal channel is specified, the NIC will revert to its default channel. For NICs sold in the United States and Europe, the default channel is 3. For NICs sold in France, the default channel is 11. For NICs sold in Japan, the only available channel is 14. Note that two stations must be set to the same channel in order to communicate. -i iface -f fragmentation_threshold Set the fragmentation threshold in bytes. This threshold controls the point at which outgoing packets will be split into multiple fragments. If a single fragment is not sent successfully, only that fragment will need to be retransmitted instead of the whole packet. The fragmentation threshold can be anything from 64 to 2312 bytes. The default is 2312. -i iface -r RTS_threshold Set the RTS/CTS threshold for a given interface. This controls the number of bytes used for the RTS/CTS handshake boundary. The RTS_threshold can be any value between 0 and 2312. The default is 2312. -i iface -M 0- 15 Set monitor mode via bit mask, meaning: to not dump 802.11 packet. to enable 802.11 monitor. to monitor any SSID. to not skip beacons, monitor beacons produces a high system load. to enable full Aironet header returned via BPF. Note it appears that a SSID must be set. Print a list of available options and sample usage. WEP (“wired equivalent privacy”) is based on the RC4 algorithm, using a 24 bit initialization vector. RC4 is supposedly vulnerable to certain known plaintext attacks, especially with 40 bit keys. So the security of WEP in part depends on how much known plaintext is transmitted. Because of this, although counter-intuitive, using “shared key” authentication (which involves sending known plaintext) is less secure than using “open” authentication when WEP is enabled. Devices may alternate among all of the configured WEP keys when transmitting packets. Therefore, all configured keys (up to four) must agree. ancontrol -i an0 -v 0 -k 0x12345678901234567890123456 ancontrol -i an0 -K 2 ancontrol -i an0 -W 1 ancontrol -i an0 -e 0 Sets a WEP key 0, enables “Shared Key” authentication, enables full WEP and uses transmit key 0. an(4), ifconfig(8) The ancontrol utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0. The ancontrol utility was written by Bill Paul <[email protected]>. The statistics counters do not seem to show the amount of transmit and received frames as increasing. This is likely due to the fact that the an(4) driver uses unmodified packet mode instead of letting the NIC perform 802.11/ethernet encapsulation itself. Setting the channel does not seem to have any effect. September 10, 1999 FreeBSD
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Close X Rabie Shots How soon would the signs start showing if your having an alergic reaction to this shot? Our vet told us to look for face swelling (which there isn't any), a lump at the injection shot (which there isn't one) and diarrhea(which one of the pups started last night). They had their shots on Sunday morning about 9:00am. Last night late, one of the pups, we think its Athena started with diarrhea, she had three really runny stools. Since my husband introduced them to a new chew bone yesterday, I am not sure if it from that or the shot. I know if she or he still has the diarrhea this afternoon when we get home from work, we will most definately be taking them to the vet, but I am just not sure about the time frame for the reaction if they are to have one. I know I can call the vet, I just thought I would ask the question to people who have had to deal with it first to see if they have any other thoughts with regards to this situation. Thank you so much. Asked by Athena on Apr 29th 2008 in Vaccinations There are no answers yet. You can: • Be the first to answer this question!
Hangman: Guess the letters in a hidden word or phrase. Bob's Hangman Game This is a normal and easy to play hangman game.The only thing is that it's got a lot of nonused words and names from the dictionary. This activity was created by a Quia Web subscriber. Learn more about Quia Create your own activities
Memorabilia Mania: Papers, Artwork & Ephemera to Keep for Your Kids Apartment Therapy's Home Remedies Pin it button big Forget a box of chocolates. Life is like a filing cabinet. That fills up every year with paper. Real, actual paper. And childhood is where it starts. As parents, we find ourselves acquiring piles of paper every year and lament over each sheet's preciousness. What to keep? What to toss? What to digitize? Here's a plan for managing it all. To begin: don't try to make every decision at the moment you acquire something. Some sheets of paper, in particular artwork and stories, as well as cards or letters from loved ones, need time and space before you can determine what really is keep-worthy. The first step is to start with a box, a file, or a ring binder, where you can keep papers to assess at a later date. Then, once a year, set yourself a date to sort through them all. Process them with these guidelines in mind: • The best work of art your child has produced that year. If you have a hard time deciding what's best, go with something that is technically an achievement, that is different from what you kept last year, or that is a drawing of something they cared about that year. Try to choose something that is flat, which will make it easier to store. • A class photograph. Don't forget to write classmates' names on the back! Even better: make a note of their closest friends, too. • A special award they received that year - or - a best assignment - or - keepsake from a "best moment" - or - their report card. These things do serve as great reminders in our later life of what our early passions were. But don't go crazy, and try to limit yourself to just one thing per ability or interest, and choose only your child's top moment in that area of their life. • Their best story/poem/diary entry from that year. • Photographs! If they aren't digital already. • Cards. If there was a particularly special birthday that year. • Artwork or stories. If your child is particularly artistic or has a passion for writing. When you are done digitizing, create a book and print it! Don't keep the files forever. This will help prevent digital hoarding. Having a giant digital library can actually be just as cumbersome as lugging around a box of papers. Everything else. As nostalgic as we can all be at times, nobody wants to enter adulthood with boxes and boxes of memorabilia. Their life-filing cabinets will thank you. Will this work for you? How do you decide what stays and what goes? Share your expertise below! (Image credits: Leah Moss)
Here is a description of the most powerful mantras for transformation including a clip of each mantra so you can hear it and practice it for yourself. Quantum Sound Frequency: Om Higgs Boson Aadhi Sivaya Namaha During April, 2010, at the Four Seasons Cairo at Nile Plaza Hotel, Dr. Pillai gave several evening seminars for participants on an Egypt-Israel trip in which he introduced them to concepts from particle physics and related them to MindScience. He said, “Experiencing a particle is going to give you unlimited intelligence.” In particular, on this trip Dr. Pillai taught a Quantum Sound Frequency for people to use to train their mind in a different way: Om Higgs Boson Aadhi Sivaya Namaha Higgs Boson is the name given to the so-called “God particle,” a hypothetical particle which scientists are searching for which would help explain the existence of mass in the universe. The CERN laboratory in Switzerland is famous for particle accelerators and has research funded by many nations for high-energy particle physics explorations, including the Higgs Boson particle. Aadhi is a Sanskrit word representing the primordial energy, the primeval energy of life. Sivaya is a Sanskrit term designed to create transformation in consciousness. Dr. Pillai sees a connection between research into higher energy physics and discoveries in higher consciousness and predicts a time will come when scientists and yogis will work together for practical solutions to pressing issues through a consciousness revolution. The quantum sound frequency Om Higgs Boson Aadhi Sivaya Namaha is designed to invoke a change in one’s consciousness. With the principle of what we think about we attract towards us, this quantum sound frequency helps open people to what Dr. Pillai is calling Particle Mind. The Particle Mind is not really the mind principle as we know it. It is very, very subtle. You cannot put your hands on it. The mind cannot conceive of a particle moving so fast. It moves at a rate of approximately a billionth of a billionth of a second! The ‘non-mind’ willexperience the particle even though this might seem intangible. He said most people have used their minds only for suffering. It is time to experience a change and to become conscious enough to understand the power within us. Dr. Pillai said, “It is my heartfelt desire that you realize this power within you.” Dr. Pillai emphasizes that people need commitment and discipline as the mind can wander about and indulge in worry. He instructs people to redirect the mind, to visualize a lion or a sphinx or a lioness or a Narasimha (Vedic archetype of Vishnu with Lion’s face) and repeat silently. Here is Dr Pillai talking about Higgs Boson: THIRU NEELA KANTAM- The Karma Busting Mantra [Pronounced: TEE-ru NEE-la KAN-tum] What is Karma? Karma is the law of cause and effect. Karma is life. The subtle frequencies of what is going to emerge into events and opportunities are all stored as karmic impressions; whatever one does or is doing is because of karma. The concept of karma is very subtle and cannot be understood at a gross level, as generally, we do not pay attention to what course our life is taking. We do not understand the deeper meaning behind most of our actions. We do not have the energies to go into deeper levels of awareness to appreciate karmic impressions. The first step in understanding karma begins with staying conscious and putting your attention or focus on the throat. Just by this simple exercise you can control a lot of karmic happenings. We all have in some sense accepted karma; we do not even want to challenge it. Many are stuck in the same job, in the same position, doing the same thing repeatedly. Repeated action and thought is karma. For a person who is free of karma, every moment is new- he/she can create a new event every moment. Diffusing Karma The diffusion of karma cannot be done by the mind. That’s the most important thing that we have to understand. Mentally, you can make as many affirmations you want, you can write them down as many times you want, you will end up repeating the same actions and behaviors. Every one of us is born with a certain mindset, and does certain things. That forms the pattern of their life. We work unconsciously as if we were under a spell. We unconsciously move and work under the same patterns and mindsets. We are not conscious of our thoughts, actions and behaviors. The influence of karma puts you under a spell that does not allow you to think straight or work effectively. You need to start with becoming alert to the core. More energy needs to be created to diffuse karma. Dr. Pillai says, “When you become alert, you begin to challenge reality, challenge karma. When you challenge karma, you are not going to accept things as they are. Every minute you are going to be conscious. At no time are you going to be unconscious.” That is why Buddhism follows a beautiful concept of mindful action: bringing reality into every action, eating with awareness, reading with awareness, working with awareness. But this becomes a tedious task for many. We cannot even bring awareness into our breathing for merely a minute. As Dr. Pillai puts it, “When you bring more attention, then you become more alert. Then karma will stop. Karma stops because you are waking up to a different dimension of existence, where you are able to see the karma coming forth, and then the attention burns off the karma.” How to Change Karma? We always want something more out of life. For some this manifests, while for others, it does not. Again, this is because of karma. Perhaps you want a better job so you change jobs, but everything stays the same! Perhaps you move from one bad relationship to another? Perhaps you have money worries that never end? Perhaps you have tried most of the techniques that are available, you have even tried affirmations and it has not worked? In order to manifest anything you want, you must break the old patterns or karma that has been created. Only when you dissolve your old bad karma, whether for money, career, relationship or even health and well-being, you can manifest abundance and all that you want to experience in life. Here is Dattatrey Siva Baba talking about Karma: Thiru Neela Kantam Makaral Sivaya Nama Thiru Neela Kantam is the sound frequency for busting karma. This sound was discovered when cosmic events were created. This is the story of how the sound came into being… In primordial times, the demons and the gods were churning the ocean of milk (ksherasagara) for the purpose of finding the elixir of immortality (amrutham). The elixir was supposed to come out of the churning of the ocean of milk. They used a snake as the rope for churning. After churning the ocean for a while, the elixir emerged from the ocean, but at the same time the snake vomited poison. Siva, the greatest being, was watching the whole scene, taking pity on both parties; he picked up the poison and drank it, which stayed in his throat, turning it blue. This poison in the story represents karma, repetitive thought patterns and behavior. Thiru Neela Kantam literally means blue-throat, referring to the time when Siva drank the poison, which got lodged in his throat. Thiru Neela Kantam is the sound frequency for busting karma. When you wake up in the morning, do the karma-bursting meditation Thiru Neela Kantam for at least three minutes while still in bed. Chant the mantra Thiru Neela Kantam in the throat while visualizing a blue light. Later on when you shower, repeat the mantra. After the shower, it is important to take a lemon or a lime (or even a flower) and roll around your head (around the brain area and forehead), throat, neck, shoulders and chest (heart area). As you do this, pass your negative financial karma into the item. Mentally put the mantra Thiru Neela Kantam into each area of your body. Let the negative thoughts about anything you want to manifest be absorbed by the item. Let the negative karma stored in your throat pass into it. Let your burdens from the right and left shoulder pass into it. Literally let the burden lift off your shoulders. Let any heartache and sorrow about all aspects of your life in your heart pass into it. ** if you use a lemon or lime, cut each one after your roll it to cut the karma. If you uses a flower, do not smell the flower petals. Hold them in your right hand as you do the ritual. Imagine the flower petals have absorbed your past-life karma and present-life karma and then crush them, saying the mantra Thiru Neela Kantam. Then throw these lemons or flowers away and wash your hands. Do not touch them! Blue is an important vibration. While doing this technique or chanting or meditating on the sound, you have to visualize the color blue. Blue is the color of life and its chakra is located at the throat. Blue also represents the element of air, thus visualization of the color blue helps you vibrate with life. Here is the karma busting mantra, Thiruneelakantam, recited 108 times. You can chant along with it or use it to accompany the above ritual: VAYANAMASI- Unlock the Power of Miracles Miracles are the backbone of every religion. No religious story or myth is complete without being laced with miracles and supernormal powers. These cannot be engineered or doctored by mere human power, as they belong to the realm of the divine. Be it Jesus, Krishna or the Prophet, all have performed miracles. Jesus himself said, “After I am gone, I will still perform miracles. All you have to do is call my name.” In The Lord’s Prayer there is a reference to the name of the divine: “Hallowed be thy name.” The name of God is hallowed. In Hindu religion, God’s name is a mantra (quantum sound frequency). Rama’s name is a mantra, and that name is hallowed. To say that name is to bring that divine power into the world and this divine power is responsible for creating miracles. We are starting to understand the power of nature that is beautifully expressed in the Indian tradition. That power begins with God’s name. In Indian philosophies, one of God’s names is NAMA SIVAYA. NA represents the element of earth. MA means water. SI represents fire. VA represents air. YA represents space or ether. These five elements are God. Without these elements, nothing—neither the world nor the human race—can exist. That is why they are so important. Scholarly debates and reading of scriptures are of no consequence if you do not understand these five syllables NA MA SI VA YA. If you fully understood them, you would understand the power of God. By understanding them, you imbibe the qualities of these five elements and attain their power. This mantra brings in miracles, as it carries the power of god- the five elements. Dr. Pillai has discovered a different version of NA MA SI VA YA, which is VA YA NA MA SI. This is the reverse of NA MA SI VA YA. It is has still the five elements, but the order in which the elements are used is different. With VA YA NA MA SI, you start with the final element VA (air) and YA (space) so VA YA is placed before the earth element NA and MA SI, which is water and fire. Why? Because we want to vibrate with the air and space so that we can bring about changes more quickly. Here is Dr Pillai talking about VA YA NA MA SI: And here is the VA YA NA MA SI mantra, 108 times so you can chant along with it: What is the Miracle Mantra? The Miracle Mantra uses a set of powerfully concentrated sounds and images Dr. Pillai assembled specifically for manifesting our material and spiritual desires. Each phrase calls on different potent energies from Dr. Pillai ‘s current and past lifetime. The Miracle Mantra is especially good to do before sunrise each morning, since this time is considered creation time. The mantra may also be done as many times as possible throughout the day and evening, as your time permits. If you do not have the necessary materials with you, visualize them as you do the practice mentally. Place a picture of Dr. Pillai in front of you and show a candlelight to the picture as you recite this mantra silently or out loud: Om Ilam Valla Madurai Siddhaya Soma Sundara Rajati Rajaya Dr. PillaiSri Sivaya Swaha What do the various parts of the mantra mean and how do I pronounce them? Om Ilam Valla (pronounced: OM IL-ahm VAH-lah) Ilam literally means all. Valla means having the ability to do everything. Madurai Siddhaya (pronounced: MAH-duhr-eye Sid-DIE-ah): This phrase brings in the energy of all Dr. Pillai ‘s previous incarnations when he came in a human body to demonstrate that everything is possible. Specifically, Madurai is a place in India where Dr. Pillai performed miracles as a Siddha, an enlightened master. Soma Sundara Rajati Rajaya (pronounced: SO-mah SOON-dar-ah Rah-JHA-tee Rah-JHAY-ah): This phrase references when Dr. Pillai came again to Madurai as a king known as Soma Sundara. This sound will give you the consciousness of a king. The phrase Rajati Rajaya reinforces this consciousness. Arunachaleswaraya (pronounced ah-roo-NAH-cha-lay-SWAH-rye-ah): Arunachala is a sacred mountain in India that is said to destroy ego and represent Lord Shiva as the element of fire. The entire phrase also refers to Dr. Pillai in his current incarnation as only fire and light. Namasivaya (pronounced: NAH-mah-she-VAH-yah): is the ultimate mantra that gives you everything, including controlling the five elements and the five senses. Dr. PillaiSri Sivaya (pronounced: BAH-bah SHREE She-VAH-yah): Baba dissolves your sins. Sri attracts money. Siva gives you enlightenment. Swaha (pronounced: swah-HA) Swaha is a way to invoke or call on the object of your prayers. Here is The Miracle Mantra, 9 times: What are the “Ah” and “Ara Kara” quantum sound frequencies? The “Ah” and “Ara Kara” sounds are ways to work with the creative energies found in Nature and the Universe to help manifest the things you want, whether they are material or inner in nature. How can they help me manifest what I want? The “Ah” quantum sound frequency specifically moves the creative energies found in the sex center, located around the area of the sex organs, up into the center located between the two eyes and eyebrows (area of pineal gland). By moving this energy, you shift its expression from creating a baby into creating other desires, such as a home, job or relationship. This is the sound Dr. Pillai gave to Dr. Wayne Dyer to share with the world. The “Ara Kara” quantum sound frequency specifically references primordial sounds in the Universe for creation and manifestation. Ara strengthens your imagination. Kara brings out the manifestation into physical reality. Together they call on the primordial energies of creation, fire and material forces. How can I learn to do use these sounds as a mind process? Ah Meditation For the “Ah” sound, sit quietly in a comfortable upright position. You can close your eyes for better focus if it helps. You may do the sound silently or out loud. This sound is about the feeling and expression of joy and joyful creative energy, so enjoy your recitation of “Ah” rather than just doing it mechanically. To begin, focus on the area around your navel center. Feel the energy as you repeatedly say “aaaaahhhhh”. Continue the sound as you slowly raise the energies from the navel center into your pineal gland. Let the sound penetrate your pineal gland (between the eyes) as you feel the energies in your pineal gland as you continue the chant. Now bring in a visual image of what you wish to create at the pineal gland, as you continue the sound. Then, just enjoy the emotional satisfaction of your manifestation, and end the sound. Here is one of Dr Pillai’s longest serving students, Mohini, guiding us through the Ah Meditation: Ara Kara For “Ara Kara”, simply repeat the sound. While all manifesting relies on joyful creative emotion, for this mind process you are not specifically trying to move your internal energy. ARUT PERUM JYOTI- Accessing Divine Love, Divine Grace Chant this mantra: Arut Perum Jyoti Here, Dattatreya Siva Baba explains this mantra: Grace fills your mind and purifies it. Grace fills your ego and purifies it. The mind merges with grace, and merges with God. Arut perum jyoti-this mantra comes directly from the Divine. Shiva Nataraj, the dancing form of Lord Shiva, gave it to me when I was Swami Ramalingam in my previous incarnation. I am so happy to give it to you. As you do the mantra, Arut perum jyoti, visualize white light entering you. Keep seeing the grace light go deeper and deeper into your cells. Try this mantra for 20 minutes. Here is a recording of Dattatrey Siva Baba chanting this mantra: OM SADA SHIVOM- Finding the right career Understanding Career and Karma Unless you were born independently wealthy, at some point, you have to consider career. In Sanskrit what you do-whether it is a business or a job-is called karma. Karma literally means action. What you do is karma because karma is performing an action. You are doing exactly what you wanted to do. If you are not doing anything that means that’s what you wanted to do. You wanted to do nothing. Realize that what you do for a living is karmically determined. Most people will have a job while very few people become independent entrepreneurs. Am I in the right job? Ask these questions: Are you happy doing this thing you are doing? Are you making enough money? Is it worthwhile to continue this activity? These are very, very important questions for everyone to ask. The moment you ask this question, you will begin to generate certain impulses within your karmic consciousness. At least if you begin to ask this question it opens a way to lead you to something else. So I am happy when people honestly consider these questions. There are sounds to help harmonize you with the right profession. [Pronounced: SAHDA SHE-VOHM] Put this sound, Sada Shivom, into all your sense organs by chanting it out loud repeatedly, with eyes opened or closed as follows: One minute in the right eye One minute in the left eye One minute in the right ear One minute in the left ear One minute in the right nostril One minute in the left nostril One minute on the tip of your tongue One minute on the middle of your tongue One minute on the back of the tongue and tonsilsThen put the sound into your third eye, which corresponds with your pituitary.Dissolving Old Career KarmaKeep a calendar. Write out your weekly goals. There are usually four weeks in a month, so meditate on how to make the most of your time. What options do I have? What can I do? Even asking those questions is worthwhile. The Divine is going to help you. The Higher Self is listening to you. It is going to pop ideas into your mind. ‘Hey, this is not good. Go here, go there.’ You will have guidance from inside you. This is the mantra that will remove time karma. These sounds will destroy bad time, slow time. Recite this mantra over and over, as much as possible. Om Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha I pray to the God of Time, to give me understanding about time. Chant with sincerity and deep emotion. You are asking the Divine to condense time for you, to accelerate time for you. Creating New Career Karma In addition to working with these sounds, become conscious of how you spend your time. Relate your concept of time to money. That’s very important. When you do these things together (the meditation, and then consciousness focused in weekly goals) you will find miracles happening in your life. But then, you should not get distracted; you have to be really focused on your goals. Since you are dealing with karma, you may want to listen to the chant Thiru Neela Kantam as often as you can. The Tamil Siddhas called it the “karma-busting” mantra. You can also use the meditation Ara Kara, because Ara Kara is new karma. The Ara Kara sound was discovered by the enlightened saint Thirumular and is presented in his work Tirumantivam as a tool for manifesting your desires. Be grateful to him for sharing this wisdom that he received from his own meditations. Your gratitude for each mantra or tool creates an inner connection between you and the world of enlightened beings who have received and passed on these deep wisdoms. This inner connection can greatly assist you. Always be grateful for receiving spiritual knowledge. So to repeat: Thiru Neela Kantam destroys karma that you want to get rid of Ara Kara creates the karma you want to manifest and removes the idea that anything is impossible Many people have found tremendous things happening in their lives with these two chants. I am so happy to make these sounds available to you because they are so powerful. Considering Career and Space Karma Now, I will talk a little bit about space-or place-karma. Everyone has Space Karma. They hang on to a place and die in the same place. If you change your space karma, there will be tremendous happenings in your life. What does this have to do with you? If you have lived in a particular city for a long time and if you’ve not had any success, then you might want to move. Make a decision. It’s not going to be easy because karma is very powerful and won’t easily permit you to move. If you move to another city or another country, you will create totally new karmic impulses. This is very, very important. You will come into contact with different forces. Regarding Space Karma, I just want to add one more thing. In many spiritual traditions, people go on pilgrimages. Pilgrimages are trips to sites with a great amount of power. That’s why I take people to India to certain power spots. Once they go to the power spots, their karma that is so frozen suddenly begins to become liquid. When it is liquid, you can then change your karma. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Google+ photo Connecting to %s Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Join 129 other followers %d bloggers like this:
The Question: Could you tell me what the largest body of fresh water is in the world? The Answer: The largest freshwater lake in the world is Lake Superior in Michigan, which has an area of 31,820 square miles. But that fact is due to a historical inaccuracy regarding Lake Superior's neighbors—Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Read more about the controversy in our feature, "Michigan and Huron: One Lake or Two?." —The Fact Monster
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search If you're going to learn how to smoosh you're going to need a lot of time on your hands. Not to mention an understanding that smooshing is NOT the same as smashing. Lets take a brief look at what smooshing is and how it is applied into today's world first. edit A Short Description of Smooshing Smooshing is highly controversial for having fuzzy meanings. To put it simply, to smoosh is to make something flat and/or very gooey. In this process, making the smoosh sound. Mind you, smooshing is an activity not to be taken lightly and to pull off a good smooshing requires skill and/or, as the experts call it, "dumb fucking luck." Smooshing can be applied in many ways. Unfortunately, most of these result in a bloody mess that will have your local garbage man swearing up a storm. Thats why you don't put dead babies in a trash compactor. Smooshing makes messes. This is a good thing with clay, playdoh, or politics. However, you have to watch yourself when it comes to... edit Smooshing People A trait that mass murderers constantly covet. Anyone who can preform a good smooshing is an excellent candidate for a career in homicide or cannibalism! Smooshing people takes time, practice, a car(preferably a dump truck) or some other heavy object, and balls. Of these traits one of the most important is balls. You have to have to be carrying a lot in your sack to strike up the courage to actually smoosh someone. Well, that is, until you get to the part where they stop fighting back. Then it becomes fun! There are several methods to smooshing people but the easiest of which is the 'Car Smoosh' edit Car Smooshing This way, no one fights back and everyone is happy. Well, except the guy being smooshed. As far as he's concerned being hit with a car going 90 and then being rolled over several times until fragments of his skull are embedded in the pavement is a pretty fucking lame time. But hey, you couldn't give a flying blue shit less could you? Follow these fun steps to Car Smooshing! • Gas up, you're going to need a lot of it. • Make sure your car is harmless enough to keep your smooshee alive during 'first impact'. • Go get a smoothie while you're at it. You're probably parched and your balls meter is about to be totally expended. • Oh, hey look! Four candies for only one dollar! You lucky son of a bitch! • Get down to business, its time to find your prey. • Once you track them down, cut the lights, otherwise they'll suspect your car engine is stalking them! We wouldn't want that, would we? • Prepare to ram that poor son of a bitch and make sure they only semi-know its coming. Thats when it sucks the most. • After ramming that fucker and making their teeth kiss the gravel its time to turn their face into road pizza! • If you have a stick shift fiddle with it angrily, this makes it seem more dramatic. • Run over their legs a few times, this will provide maximum smooshage to their lower reigon and totally piss them off. • Now, go in for the kill. Make sure you go fast, you want them to feel their spine cracking right before they smoosh. • Afterwards, its just a matter of smooshing them so much tourists have to stop on the side of the road and take pictures until some very unfortunate social worker goes to clean it up. Now you know how to carsmoosh! Good luck! edit Other Smooshing Methods Although car smooshing is one of the more fun ways to smoosh people there are other ways too! You just have to be creative. Take these smooshingly good times for example!: • Drop an anvil off the empire state building.(You'll have to breach security to do this so you better have some hair on your peaches) • Steamroller smoosh! • Fatass smoosh! • Hammer smoosh! • Tippin' the refrigerator smoosh! • Shooting down a helicopter and hoping it lands on your target smoosh! • Hiroshima smoosh! • smash smoosh! • smoosh smash! • Fat Oprah smoosh! • Cheap Whore smoosh! • Tractor Wheel smoosh! • Mental smoosh!(Oh, if you can turn someones mind into smooshie you're a fucking legend among men.) • World Trade Center smoosh! • Push smoosh! edit People Smooshing Tips If you're going to go out smooshing you're going to have to have the right attitude as well. Find yourself some good ole' rock music. Something fun with an upbeat tune to it that the whole family can enjoy while you're smooshing their father into the wall because that jackass pink slipped you. Also, try to confuse the people you're smooshing. Showing up in a pink bunny costume will not only disorient and confuse your victims it will also make them feel a little cheerier about being turned into smooshie. Also, try to hide your face.(Go get some cheap sunglasses, it will go great with ZZTop!) People don't like to be involved in a smooshing in anyway. If they see your face they'll probably call the fuzz and you don't need that at all. edit Other things you can smoosh If you're not a homicidal maniac, never fear! There are other things you can smoosh besides people! Like dead people for instance! There is an abundance of things in the world that can be smooshed! Like alluminum! Or oranges(Get some goggles before you smoosh anything that resembles that evil fucking plant called grapefruit)! Midgets are good smoosh fodder too! edit Smooshing Tools If you're going to preform a proper smooshing however, you're going to need to know the tools and how to use them. First off, you're going to need a hammer. No, don't even THINK about throwing it you asshat. That would be bad. We don't need to take grandmammy to the hospital while you're getting ready for your big hunt... Well unless... you know, gramma IS the big hunt. Then its fine. Hammers are good for breaking locks among other things... like bones... or turtle shells. If you're a Rocky Balboa of the world you'll probably end up breaking the locks to the local meat freezer and beating the shit out of cow spines for a couple of weeks. Nummy! You're also going to need a hazmat suit. This is especially handy when you have no fucking clue what you're smooshing... Or if you just like to seem like a professional. Obtain a camera. You might be able to sell your smoosh victim as art! Hell if someone can get money for painting with his ass you sure can get some money for making road pizza out of a raccoon! Besides, pictures are worth a thousand words... if you're lucky it might be worth a thousand questions too. edit See Also Personal tools
Space Explorers One of the most curious properties of light is its wave behavior. In this laboratory, we will test the phenomenon of diffraction that describes how waves behave when they encounter an obstacle. We begin by studying water-waves in glass aquariums, with emphasis on how waves can add and subtract when passing through slits (interference). Then, using a small light source such as a mag-lite without its top, students will observe similiar beaded interference patterns when light passes through a small opening (example).
Mdakadaka is the second studio album by Namibian musician Qonja. It was released on Lowkey Records in December 2008. The first single The Good Life, became a big come back hit for Qonja prior to the album`s release. The album features production from Namibia`s biggest producers like Fredro, Elvo, The Dogg, Becoming Phill and Christian Poloni amo.. Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdakadaka No exact match found
Prosecutor: Tsarnaev said martyrs go to heaven Prosecutor: Tsarnaev said martyrs go to heaven BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a friend a month before the deadly attack that he knew how to make a bomb and said it's good to be a martyr because you "die with a smile on your face and go straight to heaven," a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday at the friend's obstruction trial. Tsarnaev also texted the friend, Azamat Tazhayakov, 90 minutes after the bombings and said, "Don't go thinking it's me," Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann said. Siegmann's comments came during opening statements at Tazhayakov's trial, a prosecution that promises to provide a glimpse into the government's case against Tsarnaev. Tazhayakov, 20, has pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges. He and his roommate, Dias Kadyrbayev, went to Tsarnaev's University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth dorm room several days after the bombing and took a laptop computer and a backpack containing fireworks that had black powder spilling out or had been emptied of their powder, Siegmann told the jury. "The government will prove to you that the defendant and his co-conspirator removed the backpack for one reason, and that reason was to protect their friend who they had just learned was one of the two suspected marathon bombers," Siegmann said. Prosecutors acknowledge that Kadyrbayev is the one who actually put the backpack in the trash but said Tazhayakov agreed to get rid of it. "Tsarnaev told the defendant and Kadyrbayev that it was good to die as a shaheed, or a martyr, as you would die with a smile on your face and go straight to heaven," she said. Tazhayakov's defense attorney, Nicholas Wooldridge, urged jurors not be swayed by the emotional impact of the marathon bombings. He asked them instead to focus on Tazhayakov's actions. "Azamat's actions will show that he never intended to obstruct justice. As a matter of fact, he never intended to help the bomber himself," Wooldridge said. As the lawyers outlined their cases to the jury, the mother of two men who each lost their right leg in the bombings listened in court. Liz Norden declined to comment afterward. Wooldridge said Tazhayakov went to Tsarnaev's dorm room with Kadyrbayev three days after the bombings and hours after the FBI released video footage and photos of the brothers. But he said Tazhayakov watched a movie while Kadyrbayev looked around Tsarnaev's room after receiving a text from Tsarnaev that said, "If you want, you can go to my room and take what's there," followed by a smiley face, which Wooldridge said was a symbol that meant marijuana to the friends. Wooldridge said it was Kadyrbayev who threw the backpack away in the trash after his girlfriend learned it belonged to Tsarnaev and told him, "Get it out of the apartment." "Azamat never even touched that bag," Wooldridge said. Kadyrbayev's girlfriend is expected to testify against Tazhayakov under a grant of immunity from prosecutors. Kadyrbayev faces his own trial in September.
Walter Reuther - Tmwi Expand Video(s) Walter Reuther From Tmwi Jump to: navigation, search Get the Flash Player to see this player. Mark segment: Dock windowTranscript Guest: Walter Reuther January, 1958 WALLACE: Good evening. Tonight from Detroit, we go after the story of conflict between big business and big labor, between the automobile companies and the United Auto Workers. A struggle that promises to shape the future of our entire economic system. Our guest, is the president of the United Auto Workers, Walter Reuther. His new profit sharing plan for union working men is being attacked by big business as a giant step towards socialism. Mr. Reuther, in a moment I shall ask you to answer that charge, we'll get your opinion of the men who make it, and we'll get your views on unemployment now and in the year ahead. My name is Mike Wallace. The cigarette is Parliament, another fine product of the Philip Morris Company. WALLACE: We'll talk with Walter Reuther in just a minute. WALLACE: And now to our story. Yesterday, here in Detroit, Walter Reuther and his United Auto Workers finished hammering out their plans for upcoming contract negotiations. The demands will include increased unemployment benefits, an undisclosed but apparently substantial hourly wage hike, and most controversial, a profit sharing plan that has outraged the Big Three: Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. When contract negotiations begin this spring, Mr. Reuther will demand that the Big Three, share twenty-five percent of what he calls, "their excess profits" with the union rank-and-file. He will also suggest that the corporations take another twenty-five percent of these excess profits and distribute them to car buyers at the end of the year in the form of rebates. And so, Mr. Reuther, the first question I'd like to put you is this, what is the idea the philosophy behind this profit-sharing demand? If your union wants more money, why doesn't it at simply ask for higher wages, the way that unions have been doing all along? Why profit sharing? REUTHER: Well, we have proposed profit-sharing for 1958, because we believe this is the most effective way to expand purchasing power. And purchasing power is the key to the economic future of the American economy. Our economy is in trouble. There is a serious and growing imbalance between expanding productive power and lagging purchasing power. And we believe that workers consumers and farmers are being short-changed and that they are not getting their fair share of the fruits of our developing technology... WALLACE: Well... I am... REUTHER: The giant corporations are getting more than their share, they're getting a disproportionately large share. And because they are keeping more than their proper share, this is creating a serious imbalance out of which unemployment and recession is developing. WALLACE: Yes, but Mr. Reuther, you could get your proper share, or what you call your proper share, by a higher wage rate but what I'm asking you to tell me is what is the philosophy behind instead of a higher hourly wage rate? What's behind the idea of sharing in the profit... WALLACE: ...At the end of a year? REUTHER: It's a very simple idea, what we are saying in effect to the General Motors Corporation, to the Ford, to Chrysler to other corporations. We have devised a two-pronged approach to collective bargaining in 1958, we want a minimum economic demand which we know can be paid out of the increased productivity measured by the level of productivity in the total economy, that's the way of measuring the economic progress that every worker is entitled to make based upon the growth of our economy, based upon the progress in our technology. Now, we say, we will defer the balance of our equity until the end of the year, so that, realizing the balance of our equity will not create inflationary pressures on the price structure, the prices will have been paid, the profits will have been made and at that point we say that workers, consumers, and stockholders should share in getting their equity out of the fruits of advancing technology. WALLACE: All right. REUTHER: Now, this is not only a matter of economic justice, this is a matter of economic necessity because our free economy will not work unless we maintain an expanding and dynamic balance between higher productive power balanced by higher purchasing power and when one gets out of joint with the other, we get in trouble. WALLACE: All, right. Now Mr. Reuther, if I may, for the rest of these questions, can I ask you to be just a little bit less lengthy... REUTHER: I'll try... WALLACE: ...in your and your answers. I don't want you to shorten them so that there will not be sense within them, but if you can be just a little bit shorter in your answers. Mr. Brisch of the Ford Motor Company has suggested there are some hooks in your profit sharing plan. And I'd like to put to you some of some of the hooks that possibly been... maybe... within your plan and see if you can answer them. First of all, what does it do to of the principle of unionism a profit-sharing plan? Won't you be creating economic and class distinctions as between your own workers, let's say a man at Ford, is a lathe operator; a man at Studebaker Packard is a lathe operator: Ford, because they have a more attractive grill or for whatever reason, has a profitable operations; Studebaker Packard let us say say does not this year or next year have a profitable operation equal pay for equal work is supposed to be one of the tenets of unionism and yet the Ford man may make as much of a thousand dollars a year more than the Studebaker Packard man for doing exactly the same job. REUTHER: (CLEARS THROAT) The question here is this: that if we formulate a set of economic demands, based upon the unfavorable economic position of some small company, then we turn over the gravy train to the General Motors Corporation and workers and consumers are denied the equity that they have out in the greater productivity and the greater efficiency of the General Motors Company because, they are able to employ the most advanced technology in terms of automation, etcetera. WALLACE: Well, still... REUTHER: On the other hand if we have a uniform demand based upon the economics of GM we then inflict hardship upon the small company. And we say that, if a big company, because of the volume of production, because of the advanced technology they employ, if they make bigger profits. then why shouldn't the worker and the consumer share in those greater profits? WALLACE: When you say that the consumer should share in those greater profits, and we'll come to the philosophy behind it in just a minute, but... won't car buyers, who'll be looking for the biggest rebate, go to the company with the best financial record? Let's say that the Ford has had a particularly, well, let's change it now, the General Motors has had a particularly good year last year. Chances are that if I am buying a car, I'll go and buy a General Motors car 'cause my hunch is that I'm going to get a rebate at the end of the year. As a result of which, you'll be operating against the companies which are not as good financial shaped as the companies which are... REUTHER: But that argument... WALLACE: ...which are in an extraordinary good shape... REUTHER: That argument taken to its logical conclusion, would... lead you to believe that you are in favor of the American public subsidizing by higher prices ninety-seven percent of the production, which is made by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in order to keep three percent of the production made by the independents into being. Now I say... WALLACE: I'm in favor of supply and demand and free private enterprise... Mr. Reuther... REUTHER: And if you had a rebate, then you would have a competitive price rather than a rigged administered price. The prices in the automotive industry have nothing to do with the law of supply and demand: the Ford Motor Company on their fifty-seven models, they set the price in their cars. GM set the price a little higher Ford responded by making a further adjustment. We have an administered prize structure that has nothing to do with the law of supply and demand. That's been the trouble with America. We have gotten into trouble under a most unusual economic situation. Inflation is supposed to be the result of where the demand for goods and services exceeds the available supply of goods. We've had inflation under circumstances where we had much greater productive capacity than we had consumers available, because we had rigged inflation, rigged by powerful corporations who exercise monopoly control of basic industries and who can arbitrarily set aside the law of supply and demand and fix the price. And what we're saying is, that the consumers of America and the wage earners of both been shortchanged and the only way we can get them their equity, is to get it out of profits after profits have been made. WALLACE: What about tax money? This is another hook. Senator Butler of Maryland has pointed this out, that if your plan had been adopted in 1956 for example, General Motors' profits would have been considerably less, about five-hundred and seventy million, and they would have to pay to the government about three-hundred million dollars less in taxes. If universally adopted, the profit sharing plan -- I imagine of what you have in mind -- is that it be the universally adopted because you want, all workers and all customers to share in this... golden cornucopia. If universally adopted, he says the drop in government revenue would be four or five billion dollars annually. Now, we need big budgets now, we need big revenues, now... What's going to happen to the tax structure? REUTHER: Well, you see the trouble with the economics of Senator Butler, Mr. Brisch and these people, they are dividing up economic scarcity and what we propose to do, is to share of the fruits of our advancing technology so that we can share economic abundance. In 1955 our industry was operating roughly at ninety-five percent of capacity. Today it is operating at sixty percent, the steel industry less than sixty percent the home appliances industry less than in sixty percent. The tax base that we need to finance a stronger defense posture, to overcome our deficits in education and science, to also meet the Soviet Union's offensive on the economic and political front... What we need is a full employment, full production economy, in which we are getting out of the American economy its maximum potential output. And then spread the tax based on that broader economic base. WALLACE: Are you suggesting then that we lower the fifty-two percent rate on corporations is that the point? REUTHER: No, what I'm proposing is to give the American consumers... WALLACE: Wait a moment, Mr. Reuther... REUTHER: Why haven't we got more purchasers... WALLACE: Mr. Reuther, you're not answering the specific questions that I put. Now, you know as well as I, that fifty-two percent is the tax rate on corporation earnings over twenty-five thousand dollars, is that not so? REUTHER: Yes... WALLACE: And when you take half of what you call excess profits away, from the corporations than fifty-two percent of that half is not going to go in taxes to the government. And that tax money is going back to the individual consumer, who will pay a much lower rate, thus depriving the government of tax money, if your profit-sharing plan goes into effect. And it seems to me that is simply arithmetic. REUTHER: Well, it seems to me you haven't been thinking about this problem very clearly. That's fifty-two percent of what tax base. Is it fifty-two percent of an industry operating at sixty percent of capacity or fifty-two percent of the industry's profits operating at full production, this is true of steel, it's true of every basic industry, the only way we can meet our tax needs, is to base the tax thing upon a full employment economy. When General Motors makes half as many cars, in 1958 as she did in 1955, she will pay only half as much taxes, perhaps even less than half taxes. What I'm suggesting is, the key of the economic situation is to expand purchasing power, because that will get us into dynamic balance between productive power and purchasing power. And on a full employment, full production economy the government can get more taxes than on an economy based upon scarcity. WALLACE: Mr. Reuther, you think that GM is only going to make half the cars in '58 than they did in '57? REUTHER: I know the industry is going to make... at least three million cars less. WALLACE: Well, under those circumstances, why did you junk your four-day workweek? Forty hours... paid for thirty hours work, that was talked about in your union meetings for so long and so loud? REUTHER: First of all, we never had such a demand, that we just in the headlines in the propaganda. What we talked about was that has automation made it possible to create greater economic wealth with less human effort, we wanted not the... the destructive idleness of unemployment, we wanted creative leisure, where people could use their leisure creatively and constructively WALLACE: You told our reporter... REUTHER: What we said was, we wanted to try to work out, a system and as automation made it possible to create more wealth with less manpower, we wanted to absorb the difference by reducing the workweek. WALLACE: Well, there are a good many people at your convention, here in Detroit this... this week, who where somewhat disgruntled at the fact that the thirty-hour or the four-day week was junked, but... You told my reporter this week that you expected at least five million unemployed this year, correct? REUTHER: Unless something is done to correct the present threats: now something has got to be done to correct the imbalance, between productive power and the lack of purchasing power. WALLACE: You've also said that you want to forget about the five-day -- the four-day workweek for the time being, because in Sputnik without --we need all of our resources and we need all of our men at work. Is that not also correct. REUTHER: And you will find that every delegate at our convention who talked about the short work week was concerned not with more leisure; he was concerned with getting the unemployed back to work. WALLACE: Well, that's the point! REUTHER: That's what we want to do. WALLACE: If we need these men in our industry, and we can't afford, a four-day week for that very reason, because we got to put these men back to work. you must agree with the Republicans, that come May or June or July there's going to be a considerable upturn and that the economy will be in pretty good shape by, let's say the middle of this year. REUTHER: I do not agree with that. Because where is the purchasing power going to come from to stimulate the purchases of cars, to purchase the appliances to do all the other things necessary to stimulate a full employment, full production economy... The defense program will not feed new jobs into the economy for many many months, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. And they've got to engineer them, and they've got to tool them before our workers can be employed. The only way that we can stimulate full employment and full production is by expanding purchasing power in the hands of people, so that they can buy the goods that we have the capacity to create. WALLACE: Mr. Reuther, let's come to the nub of the profit sharing discussion which is... in the minds of a good many people, it's been suggested by the heads of the Big Three, and by numerous newspapers across the country that this is, a Reuther-giant-step towards Socialism. How do you react toward that charge? REUTHER: Well, I react this way: I think this is perhaps the most pro-free enterprise demand that we've ever made. Because the only way you could make free enterprise secure, is to give every American a stake, in the fruits of its technology. And what we're proposing here, is not a new idea there is nothing revolutionary about it; there are more than twenty-thousand of companies in America that have profit-sharing plans: two members of the Eisenhower cabinet: Mr. McElroy, for Procter and Gamble, Mr. Fossem of Eastman Kodak, both of those companies have profit sharing. WALLACE: But, they were granted freely by the company, not asked for in... order to demand... REUTHER: That doesn't change the basic principle. What's the difference? Whether our worker shares in profits, because the management thought about it, or whether he shares in profits because he thought about it. Does that changes the principle? WALLACE: Yes... Indeed it does! REUTHER: How does it changes the principle? WALLACE: ...And I think this comes to the principle of the whole thing. A man opens a store or a man opens a company. He risks the money; he has the privilege under our system of free private enterprise, does he not, of deciding what he's going to do with that money. It is not up to his workers to tell him what he should do? REUTHER: Well, you'd have a very difficult job convincing Ford workers and Chrysler workers and General Motors workers, who are unemployed that they don't risk anything, that they don't suffer loss when the company is in... bad condition, they also suffer. But here's the thing you need to understand, that this principle is being applied in Ford, in General Motors in Chrysler's. The executives are sharing in the profits. Now, they are not sharing in the profits as stockholders: they're sharing in the profits as employees. WALLACE: Because they run the company. REUTHER: But they're still employees, they're high paid employees, but they're not getting profits, they are not getting their profit bonus as stockholders; they're getting it as an employee. WALLACE: Harlow Curtis makes his profits in a free enterprise system, manufacturing goods the public wants. Now, who is to decide what is to be done with that money? These profits in Harlow Curtis in his pocketbook; is the union to decide that or is Harlow Curtis and the management of General Motors to decide? REUTHER: But they are not the property of Mr. Curtis. Mr. Curtis in 1955, in addition to his two-hundred thousand dollars salary, got a bonus out of profits, of five-hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Now, what we would have gotten was roughly six hundred dollars. And I say that Mr. Curtis, because of his greater contribution, is entitled to an addition to his salary of a bonus out of excess profits of five-hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Now, this he doesn't get as a stockholder, he get as an employee. Then, why shouldn't a GM worker also share in the equity? Because he also contributes. Perhaps not in the same measure... WALLACE: But what does he contribute? No, wait just a second... REUTHER: He contributes, with his skill, his sweat, intelligence... WALLACE: Wait just a moment... REUTHER: His sweat... WALLACE: ...I'm acting... REUTHER: His intelligence... WALLACE: Of course he does, of course he does, and I'm acting only as the devil's advocate here for just a moment... But I would like to put to you sensibly, this question: a manager first of all, collects the money, risks the money, has the imagination, has the courage, has the initiative and then hires the workers to work for him. And what you're asking is, that the workers who work for him, should to have the privilege of sharing in his... REUTHER: Sure, but you're confusing the manager with owner. Mr. Curtis doesn't own General Motors, he just works for it, he doesn't own the General Motors Corporation. WALLACE: Up to now, I haven't seen the stockholders of General Motors suggesting a profit-sharing a plan for employees, and they have the perfect right to... to... to suggest that Mr. Curtis that he not give himself that bonus. I imagine the stockholders of General Motors are very pleased with the way the General Motors has been operated under Mr. Curtis. REUTHER: Well, this just so happens, that every time we've asked for a new idea we've been rejected. They rejected the pensions that we asked for several years ago. Why? Because they have operated on a double standard, economic and moral. We had a situation where we asked for a dollar and a half per hour employee, get a hundred dollar per... for month pension. And they said it was wrong it was morally wrong, it would undermine the independence and the self-respect of the worker. And yet, at that very time, the president of the General Motors Corporation, was averaging with a salary and his bonus, three-hundred and thirty-two dollars per hour based on the forty hour a week. Now, the company didn't think, he could save on a measly three-hundred and thirty-two dollars an hour and, in they had created a pension of twenty-five thousand dollars a year for him. Now, what's the difference? WALLACE: Mr. Reuther, you seem almost... you seem almost more interested in cutting down Harlow Curtis' take than increasing the take of the workers in the Big Three. REUTHER: That is not true. The difference is this; I do not begrudge one penny Mr. Curtis gets. What I resent is, that they try to deny the worker his fair equity and they try to deny the consumer. And when they deny the worker and the consumer their equity, the system gets in trouble gets in trouble; it's in trouble now. Unemployment it's on the increase. The industries operating at sixty percent. The steel industries are operating sixty percent. At the very time when America ought to have full employment and full production, making the things we need to meet the challenge in the world front and overcoming our domestic problems, we're limping along. So this is not just a matter of justice, this is a matter of the system won't work. When the people do take more than they're entitled to... WALLACE: When the system won't work, you're talking about capitalism. REUTHER: That's right... WALLACE: You don't want socialism. I gather? REUTHER: That's right... WALLACE: What you do want then is a kind of Reutherism. Now, this afternoon, a few of us were sitting around, and an automobile executive suggested this definition of Reutherism; He said, "Reutherism is ruthless exploitation of the capitalists by the workers" He said it, believe me with "tongue-in-cheek." But in just a minute I would like for you, if you can, to define Reutherism. And we'll get Walter Reuthers' reaction to that question in just 60 seconds. WALLACE: All right, Walter Reuther. What is Reutherism? REUTHER: Well, I'm not sure what Reutherism is, but I can tell you what I believe. I believe to begin with, that free labor and free management have a great deal more in common than they have in conflict. And I believe that freedom is an indivisible value, that you can't have free labor without free management, and that we both need to learn to work and cooperate together to preserve our free society in a free world. Now, we reject the whole concept of Marxism and the class struggle because that philosophy was based essentially upon the struggle to divide up economic scarcity. We believe that free men, free labor, free management, working together within free government, in a free economic system, have the glorious opportunity of cooperating in the creating and the sharing of economic abundance. We believe that this is the first time in the history of human civilization that we can solve man's economic and material needs: food and clothing. And we can facilitate the growth of every human being, as a social being, as a cultural being, as a spiritual being. WALLACE: Mr. Reuther, you say you reject the class struggle between one class and another. Let me ask you this, I'd like to cite an article given a four-page spread on January 13th, in your own union newspaper, called Solidarity. The writer of this article Harvey Swados, says quote, "Factory workers... the factory worker's attitude toward his work is generally compounded of hatred, shame and resignation. The plain truth is that factory work is degrading." End quote. Now... this, as I say, was given a full-page spread, with no editorial comment, in your paper. When union men, working men, feel like this about their work, and the union prints this kind of an article. Isn't it reasonable to assume that they, that their aspirations perhaps, or somewhat different, than management's... that there is some bitterness in them? And that they want to write that bitterness in whatever way they can? REUTHER: (CLEARS THROAT) Well, I don't share the point of view expressed in that article I do believe that one of the really difficult problems of our free society, is to (CLEARS THROAT) how we find a way, as automation begins the mechanized production, and the worker's identity, his sense of creative expression is almost completely wiped out -- a fellow, who works in the Cadillac plant; makes a beautiful car, but he has no sense of creative achievement. And I think that one of the great problems of our modern civilization is to enable us, to utilize the most advanced tools of technology. But in the leisure time of people find a way to give them an opportunity of creative self-expression. This is one of the great problems and I think resentment can develop if a person is denied the sense of creative satisfaction. WALLACE: Under those circumstances, a profit-sharing plan might, just might in addition to the money involved, make them feel just a little bit more equal, a little less resigned. REUTHER: You know, a few years or now, they'll been bragging about this, just as they brag about the pension plans, they did want to give us; just their bragg about the other things they gave us at the bargaining table, only after we fought for them. I predict they'll talk about this one of these days in glowing terms. WALLACE: Mr. Reuther, three short questions. We have just about a minute. Last November, on this program, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt suggested you might make a very good president of the United States. She said you have the qualities necessary; intelligence, knowledge of the world's people and the ability to grow. You think that you'd make a good president? REUTHER: Well, I think that Mrs. Roosevelt is very gracious lady and a very generous friend. I have no presidential ambitions, whatsoever I'm going to devote what limited the ability I have to the service of the American labor movement. WALLACE: Do you think that Governor Williams would make a good president? REUTHER: Well, I think there are a lot of Democrats who'd make good presidents and I think this is a choice for the Democratic Party. WALLACE: I'm asking Walter Reuther whether he thinks that the Governor Williams would make... REUTHER: Walter Reuther does not have the choice at the moment. WALLACE: Obviously he doesn't have a choice I'm just asking whether you do or not? REUTHER: I think, I think Governor Williams would make a good president. WALLACE: You do? WALLACE: Final question; John L. Lewis recently called you, "An earnest, Marxist, chronically inebriated by the exuberance of your own verbosity." Reaction if you please. REUTHER: Well, I'm rather sad about John Lewis. He's made a great contribution to the American labor movement, but his ego really is larger than any mortal should have. He broke with Franklin Roosevelt; it's rather tragic that he spends his last days isolated and bitter. WALLACE: Thank you very much, Mr. Reuther, for spending this half hour with us here tonight in Detroit, I wish we could have another half-hour. Over the years, Walter Reuther has been attacked by big business more than any other labor leader. Yet, he continues to be elected by his UAW rank and file and a good many unions look to him for his inspiration. It's possible that the continuing conflict about Walter Reuther reflects conflict of far greater significance within our society itself. WALLACE: Next week, a change of pace to turn from tonight's left-of-center views, to the far right. Our guest... you see him behind me, will be Fulton Lewis Jr., the political commentator and columnist whom the liberals have called America's golden voice of reaction. If you're curious to know what a major spokesman for the far right, thinks of President Eisenhower, the New Deal, and labor leaders like Walter Reuther. And, if you want to hear why of Fulton Lewis Jr. is still proud to call himself, an unreconstructed supporter of the late Senator Joe McCarthy, we'll go after those stories next week. Till then, for Parliament, Mike Wallace, good night. ANNCR: The Mike Wallace Interview, has been brought to you by the new, high filtration Parliament. Parliament! Now for the first time at a popular prize. Dock windowContents Start of film Introducing Walter Reuther Opening credits Parliament commercial Philosophy of profit-sharing Hooks of profit-sharing Principles of unions Advantages to consumers Tax structure Purpose of four-day week Profit-sharing and socialism Decision of profits Sharing privileges Parliament commercial Definition of Reutherism Current situation of the American worker Short questions Presidential aspirations Governor Williams' presidential possibilities Reaction to Lewis' comment Mike Wallace closing monologue Parliament commercial Next week: Fulton Lewis, Jr. Closing credits Digitization credits The Mike Wallace Interview Walter Reuther The Walter Reuther interview was digitized by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and Quinn Stewart, School of Information, University of Texas and indexed by New Media UFM Guatemala in June 2007.
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Great Park trees are rooted in history (Page 2 of 3) But more difficult to quantify was the historical value of the leafy giants, which are considered heritage trees because their age, size or history makes them irreplaceable. As runways and houses on the base were demolished in 2006, hundreds of trees deemed healthy enough were dug up and placed in nurseries. Lennar Corp., which bought the base in 2005, launched the largest tree-rescue project the county had seen. Several 2-story-tall ficus trees shade the parking lot of the Heritage Tree Warehouse off Irvine Boulevard. Each boxed tree weighs 16 tons. An irrigation line sneaks over the side of each 6-foot-tall box made of recycled pine and cedar and then burrows beneath the pavement. Every day, a team of three or four people from ValleyCrest Tree Co. checks the trees for insect infestation and dead limbs. Trees are grouped together in nurseries by type to undergo the same watering regimen. So far, only three transplanted trees have had problems. Two sycamores went into shock, entering a state of dormancy to conserve energy. One tree was blown over by a gust of wind. FivePoint Communities spokesman Aaron Curtiss would not comment on how much water is used and how much it costs to keep the trees alive. Though the heritage trees were pruned, they don't look like the uniform trees lining median strips throughout the city. But that's the point. They're irregular, misshapen, often with interesting limb structures from undergoing stress on the old base or because they grew to avoid a nearby structure, said ValleyCrest principal Brett Park. When they're about to replant, designers and architects decide which direction each tree should face, usually highlighting the most eccentric parts of the tree. The overall goal is to get away from the look of an engineered landscape so that spaces develop more organically, even chaotically, Park said. Designers match deciduous with deciduous, evergreen with evergreen. Diverse plant areas called ecotones are used as transitions, mimicking chaparral habitats. The design group intends to figure out how and why each tree got to the base and hopefully tell some of those stories, possibly on plaques by the trees. Join the conversation Comments are encouraged, but you must follow our User Agreement
Eliot Ness’ revolutionary police work goes far beyond Al Capone Hey, Kevin Costner — want to make “The Untouchables 2”? It’s got a pretty good plot. After taking down Al Capone, the real-life Eliot Ness achieved even greater law enforcement success in his next job as public safety director of Cleveland. The city, now with Capone out of Chicago, would become the most lawless and crooked metropolis in America. Granted far wider power (after all, despite his celebrated over-achievements, Ness in Chicago was simply a federal Prohibition enforcer), the supercop not only brought the Cleveland mob to heel, cleaned up police bribe-taking and reduced crime dramatically, he did so with innovative practices that have become commonplace in law enforcement today. Ness pioneered the police force of today, introducing, among other ideas, squad cars.Photo: Getty Images The truth is, because of TV and movies, Ness really gets too much credit for nabbing Capone — his liquor-smashing bravado was actually separate from the tax-evasion investigation that eventually sent the gangster to jail. Yet conversely, Ness never gets enough credit for revolutionizing the way police fight crime in big cities. Starting in 1935, one of Ness’ first changes in tactics was the implementation of the patrol car over the traditional practice of cops walking the beat. Pre-Ness, a beat cop spots a robbery down an alley, so he . . . runs to the nearest Murphy call box, probably blocks away, to phone for backup before hot-footing it back (presumably out of breath, too, as police fitness standards were nonexistent) to sort through whatever was left of the crime that was previously in progress. Ness’ squad cars were equipped with another novelty of that time: A two-way radio that linked them to a centralized radio bureau, the “nerve center of the police department,” as Ness called it. Thirty-two new cars would patrol 24 hours a day, each painted in a tri-color scheme so bright — a lot of cops at the time hated their look — that they were impossible to not notice and thus intended to lower crime by appearing to be everywhere all the time. Surprisingly, the shift to squad cars and two-way radios wasn’t because Ness had a blank check to clean up Cleveland. In fact, just the opposite. His force was being trimmed due to a lack of finances. Douglas Perry gives an extensive look into the life and legacy of Eliot Ness in his book: “Eliot Ness, The Rise and Fall of an American Hero” (Viking). “Faced with severe budget cuts during the Depression, Ness didn’t have the manpower anymore to have cops walking beats all over the city . . . and the squad cars were leased because the city couldn’t afford to buy a fleet,” Douglas Perry, the author of “Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero,” told The Post last week. Another of Ness’ changes in approach to law enforcement was a scientific focus: Forensics and ballistics. Investigators, using cameras, reconstructed crimes by more closely examining bullet damage and angles. His investigators also pioneered the use of lie detectors. And beyond gangland activities, Ness was an originator in the measurement of skid marks at crash scenes to determine rates of speed. A firm believer in crime data, his precinct captains were ordered to accrue and then analyze statistics on a monthly basis — including the volume, nature, location and time of wrongdoing in their areas. Utilizing that data, Cleveland’s most dangerous neighborhoods soon were more precisely identified and thus saw a steadier stream of those flashy squad cars during peak bad-guy hours. And at the most dangerous intersections, curbs were rounded, safety islands built and traffic signals installed. As a precursor to internal-affairs bureaus and deep undercover work, Ness rooted out corruption within Cleveland’s notoriously mob-bought police ranks by hiring secret officers — who’d come to be known as the “Unknowns.” These men, who reported to Ness exclusively, posed as janitors at station houses listening in on locker-room talk, or as parking attendants near Mafia hangouts in town to see if cops came and went — and which ones used the back door. Ness created Cleveland’s first police academy, where he personally taught jiu jitsu and other defense courses. Before his arrival, Cleveland’s cops received zero physical training and weren’t even required to prove their proficiency with a gun before being handed a badge. Finally, and most progressively, Ness’ vision of crime fighting included crime prevention. That meant putting cops into community outreach programs. It all paid off. Eighteen months after Ness took over, crime in Cleveland had dropped 25 percent. “Faced with severe budget cuts,” Perry said, “Ness experimented fearlessly, and he ultimately showed Los Angeles and New York and other big cities what worked and what didn’t.” Share Selection
Canadian Mathematical Society Canadian Mathematical Society Solutions should be submitted to Dr. Valeria Pendelieva 708 - 195 Clearview Avenue Ottawa, ON K1Z 6S1 Solution to these problems should be postmarked no later than October 31, 2000. Let x, y, z be positive real numbers for which x2 + y2 + z2 =1. Find the minimum value of S= xy z + yz x + zx y . The segments BE and CF are altitudes of the acute triangle ABC, where E and F are points on the segments AC anbd AB, resp[ectively. ABC is inscribed in the circle Q with centre O. Denote the orthocentre of ABC be H, and the midpoints of BC and AH be M and K, respectively. Let CAB= 45ˆ . (a) Prove, that the quadrilateral MEKF is a square. (b) Prove that the midpioint of both diagonals of MEKF is also the midpoint of the segment OH. (c) Find the length of EF, if the radius of Q has length 1 unit. Prove the inequality a2 + b2 + c2 +2abc<2, if the numbers a, b, c are the lengths of the sides of a triangle with perimeter 2. Each of the edges of a cube is 1 unit in length, and is divided by two points into three equal parts. Denote by K the solid with vertices at these points. (a) Find the volume of K. (b) Every pair of vertices of K is connected by a segment. Some of the segments are coloured. Prove that it is always possible to find two vertices which are endpoints of the same number of coloured segments. There are n points on a circle whose radius is 1 unit. What is the greatest number of segments between two of them, whose length exceeds 3? Prove that there are not three rational numbers x, y, z such that x2 + y2 + z2 +3(x+y+z)+5=0. © Canadian Mathematical Society, 2014 : https://cms.math.ca/
Take the 2-minute tour × Can I play Bad Company 2 with the following hardware? • Intel dual-core 2.8 GHz CPU • 2GB RAM • 512MB external graphics card • Windows XP, service pack 2 share\|improve this question closed as off-topic by OrigamiRobot, Jeffrey Lin, Frank, FAE, MBraedley Jul 12 '13 at 15:33 you're borderline. To give you a yes or no answer, we'd have to know what video card you have, not just how much ram it has. Just because you meet the min specs does not mean it will be playable for multiplayer. – robertpateii Oct 25 '10 at 15:21 This question appears to be off-topic because it is about system requirements. – user9983 Jul 12 '13 at 15:21 why don't you just try it? I understand when people ask questions that are somewhat difficult to find out yourself, but such a question is just... TRY IT YOURSELF! Install and run! You probably spent more time waiting for the answer than you would spend installing and trying – Novarg Jul 13 '13 at 0:15 2 Answers 2 Your system is capable of running the game. Check out the minimum and recommended system requirements for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Minimum System Requirements: OS: Windows XP Processor: Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz Memory: 2 GB Sound Card: DirectX Compatible DirectX: 9.0c Recommended System Requirements: OS: Windows Vista/7 Processor: Any Quadcore Processor Memory: 2 GB Video Memory: 512 MB (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260) Sound Card: DirectX Compatible DirectX: 10 share\|improve this answer Yeah, but it'll be slow. You can get a good increase in frames by OCing your processor into the 3+Ghz range. Unless of course your GPU isn't powerful enough and bottlenecks your CPU. More information about your graphics would be helpful. A model number would tell us a lot more about it's capabilities. share\|improve this answer
Take the 2-minute tour × I'm preparing to create a database to store contact and demographic information for tens of millions of people. Given the large dataset and the heavy use it will get I'm trying to determine whether a nosql database would be a good fit for this. Usage of the database will involve processing records in batches of 10,000 to 1,000,000, checking whether a record already exists in the database, and adding it if it does not (if it does exist in db, I'll want to retrieve the existing UUID). So it would need to be quickly searchable by UUID, name, address and/or phone. In my reading so far, nosql databases appear to allow only a single primary key. However some of the features I've seen described in the documentation aren't real clear to me. Is there a nosql database what would be suitable for this or should I stick with MySQL and focus on improving that? What features should I be focused on in nosql terminology? share\|improve this question closed as not constructive by APC, talonmies, Ben, Eric, Lars Kotthoff Jan 22 '13 at 18:44 1 Answer 1 MongoDB supports indexing, even multiple indexing. As does MySQL. The only feature you should focus on is...well... indexing. Relational vs. non-relational is your choice. Most big companies with huge DBs are using relational, obviously - it's the tried-and-true method. share\|improve this answer
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View Book OSHO Online Library » The Books » Light on the Path « < 2 3 4 5 6 > » Chapter 32: Only Your Original Face Can Become Enlightened Ego is a false phenomenon created by the society - so is personality. Ego is the false center that the society has given to you in place of your real being. And the personality is the false individuality that the society has created, as a circumference to the center of the ego. So you are caught in a net with the false personality and the false ego. And unless they both disappear, you cannot see what is behind the curtain of the false; you cannot see the original self, you cannot see your individuality. The master is certainly going to destroy your personality, but not your individuality. He will take away everything that the society has imposed upon you. And in taking away everything imposed by the society, he is simply taking that which you don’t have, but which you only believe you have. Once he has taken all the falsities, you will discover the original self, the original face. But the master gives as much rope as possible, because nothing can be done against you. So it is good to run a little bit, just as a game; but to go on running forever is stupid. That means you have taken your fear too seriously, not knowing that the fear is absolutely ungrounded. The master will make every effort to make you aware that your fear is ungrounded. You will lose only that which you don’t have. And you will get only that which you really have. The moment this becomes clear to you, you will allow the master to catch you. And unless you allow him, nothing can be done. The master cannot be impatient about it. The act of transformation of the disciple is an act of his free choice. If the master forces it upon you, it will be again something false. That is being done by organized religions. They don’t give you rope, they don’t allow you to run away. They catch hold of you immediately, as you are born, so that you cannot run away at all. Till you go to the grave, the organized religion keeps its hold on you - from the cradle to the grave. Even after you are dead, they take every step that you cannot escape. They don’t allow you freedom even after you are dead. They start from birth, and they continue to keep a hold on you through marriage till death comes over you. Everything happens in the church: the baptism of the child, the circumcision of the child, the marriage, the death. Finally, the last sermon over the dead body is to be given by the priest. The old religions don’t give you any moment to run away. And the people who choose teachers from traditional religions.those teachers won’t allow you any freedom. They will impose all kinds of falsities on you. And this is the beauty and the wonder, that you are not afraid of them! You are afraid only when you come across a real master. Who is afraid of the priest? Who is afraid of the rabbi? Nobody is afraid of those people - and they are doing every harm to you that can be done. But you accept it because all that harm goes on nourishing your ego, your personality. The whole function of organized religion is to keep you away from your real self, your original face, your individuality. The master’s function is different. « < 2 3 4 5 6 > »
Can information technology function as assistive technology? Printable Version AccessIT Article ID: 1238 "Information technology" (IT) is "any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information. Information technology includes computers, ancillary equipment, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources." "Assistive technology" (AT) is "any item, piece of equipment, or system, whether acquired commercially, modified, or customized, that is commonly used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities." AT includes a computer, software, a wheelchair, a van lift, an alternative keyboard, or a hand splint if it is used to enhance the functional capabilities of a person with a disability. The same electronic tool can, in some situations, be both IT and AT. For example, a laptop computer is information technology. However, if the laptop computer is purchased to help a student with a disability write because he cannot hold or manipulate a pen, it is assistive technology as well. Similarly, a text-to speech software program purchased for a person who is blind is both AT because of its specific use and IT because it meets the definition of information technology. To determine if IT is also AT, rather than focus on the tool itself (for example, a computer or software), consider its function in a specific situation. If its purpose is to compensate for a limited function or provide access to information that a person with a disability may otherwise be unable to access using standard equipment or procedures, it is AT. Other examples of IT functioning as AT include the following: • A PDA or smart phone used by a person with a memory impairment to remind her of scheduled events. In this case, the information technology (the PDA or smart phone) functions as a memory prosthetic (AT) to improve the functional capabilities of the person with a cognitive disabiity. • A web version of a book used by a person with limited use of his hands and arms as an alternative to the printed version because he is unable to turn the pages of a printed book. For definitions and more information on assistive technology and information technology, consult the Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards and the following AccessIT Knowledge Base articles: Last update or review: January 23, 2013
Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) is an international pan-Islamic organisation whose primary aim is to unite all Muslim countries into a single Islamic state, or Caliphate, under strict Islamic Law. The notion of the Caliphate dates back to the seventh century. Originally founded in 1953 in Jerusalem by Taqiuddin an-Nabhani, a Palestinian court clerk, the organisation has become truly global in its reach. Currently under the global leadership of Ata Abu Rashta, HT has a membership possibly as high as one million people across 40 countries around the globe. Its organizational structure marks the group out, as unlike groups such as Al-Qaeda that operate loosely on a franchise model, HT is rigorously hierarchical and run centrally from the Middle East. Hizb ut Tahrir demonstration in London 2012 Hizb ut Tahrir demonstration in London 2012 Originally focusing its efforts in the Arab world, Hizb ut-Tahrir did not become active in Britain until 1986. Syrian born Omar Bakri Muhammad, formerly a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded the British group and nurtured it from its tiny beginnings into one of Britain’s most active and sizeable Islamic organisations with an estimated membership of around 8,000. Bakri Muhammad led the organisation for ten years before splitting away in 1996 to form the far more extreme Al-Muhajiroun with Anjem Choudary. HT UK is currently led by Dr Abdul Wahid. The core international aim of HT is the re-creation of a unified and centrally administered Islamic state ruled under strict Islamic law. However, unlike proscribed Islamist groups such as Al-Muhajiroun, Hizb claim to restrict their desire to create a Caliphate to existing Muslim countries only. In the UK and the West it claims that it is focused solely on “building the case for Political Islam and defending the Ummah and Islam.” While they remain legal in Britain and most of Europe, they are banned in Russia and widely proscribed across the Middle East and South Asia and Central Asia. Their legality in Britain has remained an issue of contention. Following the London bombings in 2005, Tony Blair announced his intention to ban the group but backtracked after warnings that such an action might drive them underground. Despite a general consensus regarding the group’s extreme nature, several reviews of the group have failed to provide sufficient evidence to legally justify an outright ban. David Cameron also supported a ban whilst in opposition. While the organisation is explicitly committed to non-violent methods, they have been marred by continual criticism over the group’s extremism; and while it does not engage in terrorist acts itself, it has been accused of being a “conveyor belt for terrorists.” In the past it has supported violent groups such as Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Jama’ah Islamiyyah. The organisation is more outwardly moderate in the UK in more recent years; however, on the eve of the first Gulf War Bakri Muhammad called for Muslims to assassinate John Major, for which he was arrested. In the 1980s and 1990s they also published leaflets calling for Jews to be killed. Many believe HT to be a college of ideological indoctrination that, while abstaining from terrorism itself, creates fertile recruits for more extreme organisations. For example, in 2003, while searching the houses of Omar Khan Sharif and Asif Mohammed Hanif, following their failed attempt to blow up a bar in Tel Aviv, the police found HT literature. Hizb ut-Tahrir: Beliefs Hizb ut-Tahrirs’ particularistic interpretation of Islamic Law results in numerous extreme and illiberal positions laid out in their draft constitution. Their views are highly misogynist, and they argue that “the primary role of a woman is that of a mother and wife,” and they are not allowed to “take control of ruling” which bars women from becoming the Khaleefah or a judge. They also demand the segregation and the covering up of women. They call for homosexuality to be made illegal and strongly oppose same sex marriage and are also outspoken opponents of Western style democracy and instead favor a single elected Khaleefah with suffrage being restricted to Muslims only. In addition, much of their rhetoric crosses the line from anti-Zionism and enters the realm of open antisemitism. As well as calling for the destruction of Israel they have openly stated, “In origin, no one likes the Jews except the Jews. [...] The American people do not like the Jews nor do the Europeans, because the Jews by their very nature do not like anyone else.” The National Union of Students (NUS) passed motions in 2004 and 2005 explicitly censuring HT. In 2004, NUS Conference passed a motion applying its No Platform Policy to HT, Al-Muhajiroun and others. In 2006, NUS Conference held a debate over a proposed motion to remove HT from the “No Platform Policy,” but it did not pass. More recently Taji Mustafa, Chief Media Representative of HT UK, has controversially claimed that the chief cause of on street grooming is “the liberal values of the society that we live in,” and that “People need to question the liberal values which have led us to where we are.” HT tread the line very finely, and despite the government feeling unable to proscribe the group, it is clear that their often controversial rhetoric makes them an extremist organisation. Key People Omar Bakri Muhammad: (Born- Syria 1958) Founded the UK branch of Hizb ut Tahrir in 1986 and remained leader until 1996. He was formally a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and left HT to form Al-Muhajiroun with Anjem Choudary. He has been the mentor of many of Britain’s most extreme Islamists. He has become more openly extreme since leaving HT praising 9/11 as ‘magnificent’ and is now banned from entering the UK following a decision by Charles Clarke. Ata Abu Rashta: (Born- 1943 in Mandate Palestine) Current global leader of HT taking control in April 2003. He joined HT in the mid-1950s and worked closely with the founding members. He worked primarily in Jordan and has been detained numerous times by the Jordanian government. Taqiuddin al-Nabhani: (Born 1909 Haifa- Died 1977 Beirut) Originally founded Hizb ut Tahrir in Jerusalem in 1953 and remained its global leader until his death in 1977. Dr Abdul Wahid: Chairman of UK Executive of Hizb ut Tahrir Britain. Taji Mustafa: Chief media representative and member of the UK Executive Committee. He is an IT professional with a degree from the University of North London. He recently stirred up controversy while addressing a HT conference in Australia after being called a “hate preacher” amid calls for him to be denied a visa. Dr Imran Waheed: Chief media advisor for HT UK. He also works as a psychiatrist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Sajjad Khan: Chief political advisor of HT UK and editor of the New Civilisation Magazine. Share \| \| top \| back \| home \|
look up any word, like plopping: A BMW full of douchebags; typically (but not limited to) a convertible BMW with at least one extra douchebag crammed into the undersized backseat. Sometimes this vehicle may be blasting some sort of house music and those inside may be dressed for a nightclub during daylight hours for some reason. Despite the fact that there are at least three other people capable of sending that text message, the driver is usually texting while driving. Holy crap, that BMW just flew past us going 90km (56 miles) an hour in a school zone. That driver didn't even look up from his phone at that stop sign. What a douchebag! There were four people in that douchebag sardinecan. by ndfnico November 13, 2011
Voter ID laws target elusive voter fraud Posted Sept. 25, 2011, at 7:11 a.m. Last modified Sept. 25, 2011, at 7:43 a.m. WASHINGTON — Several states adopted new laws last year requiring that people show a photo ID when they come to vote even though the kind of election fraud that the laws are intended to stamp out is rare. Even supporters of the new laws are hard pressed to come up with large numbers of cases in which someone tried to vote under a false identify. “I’ve compared this to the snake oil salesman. You got a cold? I got snake oil. Your foot aches? I got snake oil,” said election law expert Justin Levitt, who wrote “The Truth About Voter Fraud” for The Brennan Center for Justice. “It doesn’t seem to matter what the problem is, (voter) ID is being sold as the solution to a whole bunch of things it can’t possibly solve.” Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin have passed laws this year that allow voters without the required photo ID to cast provisional ballots, but the voters must return to a specific location with that ID within a certain time limit for their ballots to count. Indiana and Georgia already had such laws. Other states have photo ID laws too, but provide different way to verify a voter’s identity without a photo ID. Texas and South Carolina are awaiting approval for their laws from the Justice Department because of those are among that states with a history of voting rights suppression and discrimination. Indiana’s law, passed in 2005, was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. Levitt combed through 250 cases of alleged election law fraud cited in legal briefs filed in that challenge. He found only nine instances involving a person allegedly voting in someone else’s name, possibly fraudulently or possibly because of an error when the person signed in at the voting booth. “They identified a lot of fraud, but very, very, very, very, very, very little of it could be prevented by identification at the polls,” Levitt said. The remainder involved vote buying, ballot-box stuffing, problems with absentee ballots, or ex-convicts voting even though laws bar them from doing so. Over the same seven-year time period covered by the cases Levitt reviewed, 400 million votes were cast in general elections. “If there was evidence of this, we’d know about it,” said Elisabeth MacNamara, president of the League of Women Voters. Her organization, which has affiliates in every state, knows voter registrars, attends election meetings, observes and works at polls and is intimately aware of how the election system works. Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, said one reason there is scant evidence of voter fraud is no one checks ID at the polls. He cited a mid-1980s grand jury report that described how, over a 14-year period, “crews” were recruited in Brooklyn, N.Y., to vote multiple times in multiple elections at various polling places, using the names of real voters, dead voters, voters who had moved away and fictitious voters. “Nobody’s saying its large scale,” but such fraud could make a difference in close races, said von Spakovsky, who led the Justice Department’s civil rights division under President George W. Bush. “It is something that happens in an instant and then it’s gone,” Republican Rep. Todd Rokita, who spent eight years as Indiana’s secretary of state, testified during a recent Senate hearing. “Witnesses dissipate. These are volunteer poll workers. It’s not a domestic violence case. It’s not something that leaves visible scars or bruises. It’s the kind of case that is very hard to prosecute. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.” The laws and other voting restrictions have riled civil rights leaders and voter protection groups. Some groups say the new state laws are the equivalent of poll taxes and literacy tests that effectively kept minorities out of voting booths. They argue that blacks, Hispanics, senior citizens, people with disabilities and the poor are more likely to lack the required photo ID. But they also contend others could be disenfranchised: voters who fail to bring ID with them; students whose school IDs are deemed unacceptable; people whose drivers’ licenses have expired; women whose driver’s licenses do not reflect their married names or new addresses. “We basically see these voter ID restriction laws as a solution without a problem,” said Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of The Advancement Project, a civil rights group. Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott, a Republican, launched an investigation in 2005 to uncover what he called an “epidemic” of voter fraud. But reviews of Abbott’s investigation two years later yielded no cases of voter impersonation fraud. A Dallas Morning News review in 2008 found the 26 cases prosecuted were all against Democrats, most involved blacks and Hispanics, and typically involved people who helped elderly voters with mail-in ballots, but failed to follow state law by signing their names and addresses on the envelopes. Abbot’s investigation was paid for with a $1.4 million Justice Department crime-fighting grant. After a five-year hunt for voter fraud, the Bush administration’s Justice Department came up with little widespread fraud, finding mostly cases of people mistakenly filling out voter registration forms or voting when they didn’t know they were ineligible, The New York Times reported in 2007. But none of the cases involved a person voting as someone else. Lorraine Minnite, author of “The Myth of Voter Fraud,” spent years researching voter fraud after finding that pushes for election reform often raised concerns that the proposed changes could lead to more voter fraud. Her research turned up one case of voter impersonation from 2000 to 2005: A New Hampshire teenager who cast a ballot as his father, who shared the same name. Minnite said she concluded “the whole problem is way overblown” largely for political reasons. Asked by The Associated Press for examples of unprosecuted cases, Rokita’s office pointed to suspicious or poorly filled out voter registration cards submitted in 2008 by the now-defunct community activist group ACORN. Rokita’s spokesman Timothy Edson said the Indiana photo ID law prevented people from fraudulently voting under those registration cards. But Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, who led the hearing where Rokita testified and opposes the photo requirement, insisted such fraud should be prosecuted if it is happening frequently enough to warrant the new laws. “There ought to be a clear example to the people of this country we just won’t stand for this wherever it might occur,” Durbin said.
DON'T KEEP TOO MANY SPOTTERS There are disadvantages to the lone wolf workout, but rolling around the gym with a posse can also be counterproductive. It’s understandable to want some support, but if there's an audience for every exercise, you're likely spending a lot of time standing around and tying up stations instead of putting in work. Advice: Want a group environment? Try a class. The motivation that comes from working out with others can be great and there are plenty of options out there if you do your research. (If you end up in a Zumba class, it’s your fault.) BE COURTEOUS WITH YOUR CAMERA A camera can be a valuable workout tool. You can use it to check your form or just to provide video proof of a hard-fought PR for later inspiration. Unfortunately, it's really easy to start getting all Scorsese with it. Advice: If you're videoing a lift, start recording during set up and stop recording when it's done. If you're going to take a picture—which is still pushing it—turn your flash off, Maplethorpe. [ pagebreak ] LEAVE YOUR CELL PHONE AT HOME Just about every gym bans cell phones in the locker room—no one wants to be surrounded by cameras while changing—but, if we had our way, cell phones would be banned from the building altogether. If you're texting or talking, you're not working, and that's bad for everyone's business. Advice: Some will argue that their phone is also their music player, in which case it's worth getting a workout-specific MP3 player. For $50 or less, you can buy one that'll play Slipknot without tempting you to check Facebook between deadlifts. KNOW THE CLIMATE OF THE GYM BEFORE JOINING If you're coming from a cookie cutter gym to an old-school powerlifting plant, the atmosphere is going to be very different. Where grunting and weight dropping were once forbidden, they're now the norm. That transition's easier to make if you're ready for it. And if you're going the other way, know that throwing any kind of serious weight overhead is going to get you deemed a "lunk." Advice: Hang around the gym before you make a commitment. Go when you'll actually be working out, and talk to the staff. Be honest about what you're looking for. RESIST THE LURE OF THE SPEED BAG With every discipline, you have to start somewhere. No one expects to step into the rack and squat six plates his first time out, but most exercises allow you to work without bothering anyone. Learning to hit the speed bag is not one of those exercises. Advice: We know why you want to hit it. It’s just dangling there, asking for a beating. And watching someone skilled work the bag is borderline hypnotizing. But listening to a novice poke away at it can produce a racket that even the best headphones can't filter. If you're dead set on getting good, have someone show you the right way to do it and work on your rhythm. Keep your sessions short. LABEL YOUR GEAR Whether it's a lifting belt, a blender bottle or a kettle bell, it's best to make sure everything you use in the gym is easily identifiable as yours. Ever picked up someone else's bottle and taken a swig because they have the exact same one as you? Not a good feeling. Advice: Invest in a Sharpie. Use it. WASH YOUR STUFF Wiping up messes you make and giving people enough room when they're mid-movement are givens, but it bears mentioning as often as possible—your gnarly gym clothes can affect everyone around you. Advice: Not only is it smelly, but it's unsanitary and can lead to infection if you let it get bad enough. While disinfectant sprays might help cover up some of the funk, it can't hold a candle to a good wash. Your clothes will likely last longer and you won't be the subject of anonymous reports to the gym manager.
After Having Cataract Surgery In Both Eyes, My Doctor Is Suggesting I Try Monovision. What Does This Mean? Question: After having cataract surgery in both eyes, my doctor is suggesting I try monovision. What does this mean, and what are the risks/benefits? Answer: Monovision is a visual phenomenon where one eye is corrected to see distance vision, that is far away, and the other eye is corrected for near vision or reading. Many contact lens patients have this set-up so that they don't need reading glasses for example. It's reasonable if a person has had monovision, prior to developing cataracts, that they decide to have this done following their surgery. That is, the lenses that are put in during surgery would be calculated by the surgeon beforehand to arrange for monovision. I would not recommend doing this if a person has not been a monovision patient prior to surgery because there is a chance that they may not tolerate it, and we would not recommend going back to the operating room to remove and replace an intraocular lens implant.
back to: 1-127 "Like the Clear Blue Sky" Peter Ablinger's 33-127 by Evan Johnson Scale, noise, scale; scale, noise, scale. Peter Ablinger's 33-127 for electric guitar and CD is a subset of the 2002 work 1-127, comprising the last 95 of the latter work's individually numbered segments, and from the listener's point of view it is so transparent that it is virtually opaque. This is not music in the accustomed sense. So what is it? The piece itself could not be more straightforward. Again and again, ninety-five times in all, a scale descends, with gentle and unpredictable irregularities of both rhythm and pitch, from the top of the electric guitar's range to the bottom. The sound of the instrument is clean, clear, and precise. And then, at some point in each of these tranquil, neutral scales-all but one of them, anyway-its progress is interrupted by a cacophony of recorded street noise, which the guitar, now louder and rougher in tone, attempts flailingly to accompany. A moment of this, or a few seconds; then the scale resumes as if nothing has happened. It reaches the bottom of the instrument, the track readout on the CD player clicks upward on its way to 95, and we begin again. But why these scales, and why this noise? The figure of the scale, ascending or descending, regularly or irregularly, has been a fixture in Peter Ablinger's music for almost thirty years. Weiss/Weisslich 1 (written in 1980, when the composer was twenty-one) consists entirely of two scales, first descending on the white keys of the piano from the top of the instrument to the bottom, then doing the same in reverse; since then, series of pitches rising or falling by step at a moderate tempo have figured prominently in countless pieces, notably the large-ensemble work Der Regen, der Glas, das Lachen (1994), Grisailles 1-100 (1991-3), and 6 Linien (2004), which has a structure essentially identical to that of 33-127. More specifically, Ablinger notes in his manifesto-essay "Metaphern" ("Metaphors") that, over the course of several years, he wrote a large number of pieces in which "an instrument steps down its particular range, from top to bottom." This particular gesture, out of which 33-127 was born twenty-five years after Weiss/Weisslich 1, reappears inevitably and obsessively in work after work, and it forms something absolutely fundamental to Ablinger's art. Clues to the significance of these descending scales, always taking in the entire available compass of the instrument in question, lurk in every corner of Ablinger's thought. He studied graphic design before turning to composition, and even then one of his primary teachers was the visually-minded composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. Ablinger writes often of the inextricable connection in his work between music and the graphic arts; in this sense, a scale is an axiomatic stroke of the pencil, the definition of a field. "This line," he has written of his attachment to the scale, "was my personal manifesto of the fundamental." Ablinger also draws constant motivation from the distinction between simultaneous and successive, vertical and horizontal, aria and recitative. (An entire series of works labeled IEAOV-Instrumente und ElektroAkustisch Ortsbezogene Verdichtung, or "Instruments and Electroacoustic Site-Specific Condensation"-is based on the computer-driven process of literally tipping chunks of sound onto their side, so that the successive becomes simultaneous and the simultaneous successive.) The scale, as a diagonal stroke, is the most efficient way of mapping out a two-dimensional space in which both "recitative" and "aria" have their place. The slowly and irregularly repeated scales that form the backbone of 33-127 are the frame upon which the canvas is stretched, and an insistent reminder of all that is left out. Despite the continuing focus on the scale, though, if one had to choose one focal concept to define Ablinger's art, it would be noise. Not "noise," precisely: Rauschen. The dictionary would have it that the German word means, in fact, "noises"; but for Ablinger it is more than that-it means the noise of the natural world, waterfalls and wind and rain, noise as a fact, not to be mastered or claimed for musical purposes, not to be absorbed into a discursive syntax, but to be acknowledged, confronted and plumbed. Rauschen, for Ablinger, are not musical material; he is not Luigi Russolo, John Cage or Helmut Lachenmann, looking to broaden the definition of music incrementally to include the heretofore rejected. It is telling that noise in Ablinger's music is virtually always recorded or synthesized, and almost never produced by instruments of any sort. (Der Regen, der Glas, das Lachen is a prominent exception.) This noise does not exist in relation; it cannot be rationalized by surrounding discourse, or absorbed in any comfortably "musical" context. To hear Rauschen is not to listen to music at all, but, in Ablinger's words, to "hear hearing." Noise is also surfeit. It is the result, particularly in nature, of the accumulation of individual sounds beyond any hope of recovering them in their particularity. It is the pure incomprehensibility of too-much-ness. To perceive noise, for Ablinger, is immediately to perceive something in noise: "[everyone] hears his own melodies therein, and can rightfully say that they are contained in it." Another of Ablinger's obsessive pursuits in recent years, accordingly, has been the freezing of this experience within the frame of the work of art. By laying an abstract grid over a recording of noise (street noise, the noises of nature, even speech), rationalizing that noise with the help of computer software into pitches and rhythms, and transcribing the results for musical instruments, any environmental sound can be reflected in a more "musical" surface. What we hear, then, is an externalization, a making concrete of the inward experience of hearing the unhearable. The results can vary widely in the fidelity of the reproduction of their origins, depending on the fineness of the divisions of time and of pitch; in the remarkable series Quadraturen III (1996 - ), not only contours of speech but individual words emerge audibly from a computer-controlled player piano. This is what happens in 33-127 as well. The recorded street noises that break into the oblivious tranquility of the scales are excerpted from Ablinger's Das Buch der Gesänge (1997-9), a nearly five-hour compilation of one hundred recordings of ambient Berlin sounds. The guitar, loud and distorted as an additional agent of sudden change from the placid scalar surroundings of these interruptions, does the best it can to keep up, filtering the densely overlaid urban cacophony into a spasmodically jagged series of pitches that are often barely perceptible from within the general chaos. The scale eventually resumes, inevitably: it maps out all those pitches, and all those stretches of time, left out of the excerpted streets of Berlin. "That which one sees or hears is the complement of that which one does NOT see or hear," Ablinger writes; it is not a question of foreground and background, precisely, but of obverse and reverse, statement and counterstatement, act and consequence, blank canvas and wall. The compositional process of 1-127, from which 33-127 is excerpted, was a combination of the aggressively arbitrary and the unaccountably intuitive. Why 127 sections? Why not? Why the specific series of descending pitches and slightly irregular rhythms in each scale? Why not? By contrast, the insertions of the prerecorded material and its rastered instrumental accompaniment are as rationalized and rigid as their surroundings are capricious and uncontrolled. Each scale was first written out in full, without a window of interruption. Each pitch in each scale has a duration of three, four, five, or six sixteenths; the first time the chain of durations lands on an imaginary quarter-note beat, the recorded excerpt takes over, and the second time this happens the excerpt ends. The portion of tape from Das Buch des Gesänge available for use shifts forward incrementally for each of the 127 pieces in the full work 1-127; and the pitches available to the guitar in its filtered accompaniment are those within the interval between the last scale note before the interruption and the first note after. Once the scales have been intuitively and arbitrarily assembled, everything about these noisy interruptions follows as a consequence. 33-127, in other words, is simply a stark juxtaposition of two strands of Ablinger's work, each reaching back, in various forms, through decades. The diagonal line of the scale defines a canvas, a space, a palette. It is the axiomatic presentation of the simultaneous and the successive; it is the first principle. The noisy interruptions are the true field of operations. They are the domain of Rauschen, of hearing as opposed to of music. The guitar is not the protagonist in the interruptions, and it is not the narrator it is when playing its descending scales; the roles are reversed, and here the guitar is a listening ear. Because of the differing compositional approaches of the two areas, furthermore, the Rausch-interruptions have the same role formally that they do sonically. The interruptions are harsh in their arbitrariness. They are violently anti-subjective, and as the ninety-four of them amass in the listener's memory their impenetrability only increases, until by the end of 33-127 we are aware that we have heard a waterfall, a set of unrationalizable Rauschen domesticated and framed by the scales (fashioned by hand, cognitively transparent, human) that both delimit them and foster their emergence. The seemingly endless near-repetition, with a constant mutation of local detail just disruptive enough to prevent complacency, is also horizontalized Rausch: an accumulation of detail that builds up to sublime incomprehensibility, the waterfall laid on its side. Finally, we return to the graphic arts. A burst of white noise is, to Ablinger, a black vertical line, while a less homogeneous but still overwhelming noise-the excerpts of Das Buch des Gesänge incorporated into 33-127, for instance-is a mass of dots and strokes too dense to be separable. 33-127, then, is comparable to the visual art of Ablinger's favored Giorgio Griffa and Agnes Martin - a series of vertical and diagonal lines, intersecting, perhaps drawn freehand and thus slightly irregular, the predictable structuring of the locally unpredictable evoking the experience of gazing, as Ablinger has it, into "the clear blue sky." Here is the text in pdf: "Like the Clear Blue Sky" by Evan Johnson from: liner notes for the CD "33-127" field recordings: some other pieces including/consisting of field recordings: Quadraturen IV ("Selfportrait with Berlin"), for ensemble and Berlin field recordings Quadraturen I ("Stadtportrait Graz") Das Buch der Gesänge / The Book of Songs Der Gesang, 1. Akt der Stadtoper Graz (dt.) The Singing, 1st Act of the Cityopera Graz (engl.) the scale: Weiss/weisslich 1 back to: 1-127 this page was created by Aljoscha Hofmann. last edited 18.08.2008 CET
This shows the (simplified) internals of a 555 timer chip. As in the last example, it is doing a square wave. A voltage divider sets the inputs of the two op-amps (used as comparators). The upper op-amp compares the trigger input to 1/3 the supply voltage. The lower op-amp compares the threshold input to 2/3 the supply voltage. A timing interval starts when the trigger input goes low enough to trigger the upper op-amp. That sets the flip-flop, causing the output to go high. The 555 waits for the threshold input to trigger the lower op-amp. As the capacitor charges, the threshold input slowly rises until it reaches the required level. Then, the op-amp resets the flip-flop, bringing the output low. The flip-flop's inverted output also provides current to the base of the transistor on the bottom, which discharges the capacitor through the discharge input. When the capacitor is discharged enough so that the upper op-amp is triggered again, a new timing interval begins. Next: 555 Sawtooth Oscillator Previous: 555 Square Wave Generator Simulator Home Generated Wed Dec 7 2016
You are here Timely topic! Libraries sense their best path forward requires innovation - which by definition involves willingness to experiment and embrace (calculated) risks. But, when people are surrounded by uncertainty, and they experience real or perceived threats to their status / livelihood, taking risks seems foolish at best. I've stumbled across a 'trust equation' created by Maister, Galford and Green at trusted Trust = credibility, reliability, and intimacy (safety) divided by self orientation. The denominator is about individual focus (me, customer, organization). Highest trust comes from the organization providing the environment (C,R,I) and the person orienting beyond themselves to something larger (team, org, community). All that said, libraries have to provide the environment for trust to take root. And in times of uncertainty, they have to double down in being consistent and repetitive in the message and actions for trust to grow. In our own minds we say something once, and trust that it has been heard. In reality, we must sometimes say and do things consistently, over and over, before others trust we mean it. Well said, Cherylg, and love your comment, sam. "libraries have to provide the environment for trust to take root." Yes.
Philip K. Dick's estate threatens Google Nexus One, the new cellphone from HTC and Google, is named in homage to the the Nexus series of androids in Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Andoids Dream of Electric Sheep," filmed as "Blade Runner." Dick's estate's response? It's threatened Google. Names can't be copyrighted, so the vague legal mutterings imply a trademark fight. As there are hundreds of live trademarks for the term "Nexus" -- one filed by Google last month! -- this'll be a fun one. 1. IP abuses like this are exactly why nobody respects IP law. If Google were selling replicants, then Dick’s daughter might have a valid case. They’re not, so she doesn’t. Lawyers who bring nuisance lawsuits need to be held accountable, or this will only get worse. 1. Dick’s daughter? Laura or Isolde? Doesn’t his son Christopher have a say? Given what PKD’s personal life was like, I wouldn’t be surprised if his estate were completely out of control with conflicting interests, etc. 2. Nexus is an English language word: n. pl. nexus or nexÂ·usÂ·es 1. A means of connection; a link or tie. 2. A connected series or group. 3. The core or center. In PKD’s novel, Nexus was a model of synthetic human, an android (another English word). In Google’s product, Nexus is a smartphone. I’m pretty sure there’s no “likelihood of confusion” to base an infringement suit on, but IANAL. 3. Meh? Google apparently named the device exactly after the humanoid in Dick’s story and are going to make a bunch of money off it. It’s not like Google was paying homage to a shampoo. 4. If they called it the Nexus Six, I might see Dick’s estate having a leg to stand on. I’m always mortified by the lengths some death authors’ families go to to milk their work…Frank Herbert’s son is at the top of this list of d-bags IMHO, but he’s far from alone. 1. “Frank Herbert’s son is at the top of this list of d-bags IMHO” slightly off topic, but I was at a Dragon-Con in atlanta once, tripping in an elevator with Brian Herbert right next to me trying to hit on this chick by selling himself as his father’s son. “So…yeah…Frank Herbert was my dad….” a paraphrase, but that’s the gist of what I remember. and she was having none of it. terribly strange experience on acid. 5. Gee, last I heard the Estate of Phillip K. Dick WASN’T IN THE CELLPHONE BUSINESS, so they have no cause of action. 6. Has Isa Dick Hackett ever done anything with her life other than leech a living off of her father’s works? I honestly don’t know the answer to that question, but behavior like this does not put her in a favorable light. It isn’t like PKD invented the word… 7. Seba Smith first coined the expression counting sheep in “Way Down East; or portraitures of Yankee Life”. The word Android was immortalize by Auguste Villers de l’isle Adam in “Tomorrow’s Eve” Funny that Philip K. Dick can borrow from two authors in his title alone, and then his family object when a 3rd entity borrows from him. 8. Motorola probably whetted Ms. Dick’s appetite when they paid Lucasfilm a bunch of money to use the name “Droid” for their phone. The key difference is that nobody used the word “Droid” before “Star Wars,” whereas the words “Android” and “Nexus” have been around much longer than P.K.D’s novel. 9. The problem is, by using this name so closely associated with their “android” operating system, they’re clearly making a reference to the movie (at least in my mind). They want customers to draw the connection. Not sure it would give rise to a trademark infringement claim, however, an unfair competition claim for false association might not be out of the question. In any event, I think it’s shady. Come up with your own names, Google. Show a little creativity. 1. How dare the folks at google be literate and try to express their admiration for Philip Dick’s work? 2. I absolutely agree.. As someone who loves PKD’s work and listen’s to the DADOES about once a month I came to the same conclusion. It is absolutely in your head. I never once made the connections since the cell phone is neither trying to kill me nor does it do any of the promised things Pris’ model could(would) do. :-) In all seriousness paying homage doesn’t necessarily mean they want to draw a connection between the two. Just that as fans they enjoy his work. I named my cat Mr. Mojo Risin but in no way should my cat be confused for a junkie singer who did so much heroin that it killed him. 10. Not that I think PKD’s estate really has a case — but while “Nexus” isn’t a novel word, naming an “Android” phone “Nexus One” probably isn’t just coincidence… 11. That’s OK, they could try “Lexus” . . . oh wait, that’s been used already . . . by a porn star. 12. Has Google publicly stated that they named it after the characters in the book? (Seriously asking, I don’t know and haven’t seen any statements from them to that effect.) 13. Interesting tidbit: Verizon Wireless actually licensed the ‘Droid’ name from “Star Wars” creator and director George Lucas when it recently launched a Motorola Inc. smart phone with that name. From WSJ: “We were honored that Verizon chose to name their newest technological venture the DROID smart phone, and we were happy to grant them a license to use the mark,” said a spokeswoman for Mr. Lucas’s company, Lucasfilm Ltd. So Dick’s lawyers may not be completely barking up the wrong tree, given the existing precedent. 14. So what other PKD-inspired products are planned by replicant ad-men? I’m hoping for SubstanceD by Squibb, or a Sony Screamer. 15. It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference if it was named as a reference in a reference in a dead author novel. The copyright madness needs to stop. The dude is fucking dead. So what if a company plays a subtle word game paying homage to a dead author? It isn’t even a freaking made up word. “Nexus” is a real word. Dick’s corpse doesn’t get to lay claim to the use of the word for all pieces of technology from now until his bones finish decomposing. The point of copyright law is to at least according to the constitution, to “promote the useful arts”. Not let blood sucking relatives of dead authors tax any references to cultural icons. There is nothing about this that promote the useful arts. 16. I use to have a potbellied pig, named Floyd, I am building a website dedicated to him, “” Sure the background color of the site is pink, but other than that, no references. Should I worry if I profit from the site, I don’t think I would, unless I started to somehow generate bizillions of dollars from it, then I could see a swarm of ugly little lawyers swoop in like greasy vultures. I think this battle will be won by whoever can afford the most of the vermin. 1. Note: Technically Dick’s estate is making a dubious trademark claim, not a copyright claim. Not the same thing. The copyrights should die with the creator. That would create a pretty perverse motive for murdering copyright holders. I would prefer some fixed period of time that ensures that the author will have plenty of time to reap the benefits of their work during their lifetime (say 50 years or so). 17. And yet Google tries to sue Froogle, Spoogle, Doogle, and anything with a similar sounding name… 18. Fortunately, the phrase “a new life awaits in the offworld colonies” appears only in the movie and not the book, otherwise the estate might be coming after Boing Boing for their videogames sub-site next. 19. “Authors’ estates shouldn’t exist. The copyrights should die with the creator.” Rich people’s estates shouldn’t exist. J.D. Rockefeller’s fortune should have been given away when he died. 20. In the Vatta’s War series by Elizabeth Moon, there’s a planet named Nexus II. It’s the headquarters of the company that has a monopoly on ansible technology. Comments are closed.
Science Explains What REALLY Happens To Relationships After Kids First comes love, then comes babies, then comes ... a crazy chemical reaction!? Parents, get ready for the greatest news you'll here all day. When it comes to parenthood, there is no better feeling than raising a family with the love of your life. To say that making the decision to have kids with your partner is life-changing would be a major understatement (and pretty obvious so we won't say it). But according to recent studies, they are even more perks to having a "mini me" running around the house! In fact, science confirms what we pretty much already knew: Children bring partners closer together. But there's so much more to it than that. Apparently, we can thank oxytocin, which is famous for being the love or bonding hormone, for that feeling of closeness we get. The best part is that this hormone has many functions. For starters, not only does it increase a woman's attachment after sex, it also helps guide her maternal instincts after childbirth (and during breastfeeding). Scientists have actually found that this hormone has actualy played a significant role in the relationship that moms share with their children. Ironically enough, men also produce the same hormone, but it's long been debated as to what extent its bonding powers work on the opposite sex. A recent study out of Israel suggests that a man's oxytocin levels may actually be on par with their partners' when raising their kids together. Researchers drew blood from 80 couples who were raising a six-week old baby and found identical amounts of the bonding chemical in their blood stream. As the child matured to six months, the scientists once again analyzed the levels and found the same result. It seems that new moms and dads experience an increase in their oxytocin levels as their children get older. How sweet is that?! The team noticed a few other things, too. Women are way more affectionate when it comes to parenting behaviors while men have what's been categorized as stimulatory parenting behaviors. This basically means that men bond through the rough housing and wrestling variety. While little is known about these 80 couples other then the fact they live together, if their oxytocin levels are on par, does that mean the couples themselves become more bonded—independent of the child? While children often lead to a more stressful household, often those stressors can be traced back to money and time; yet with parallel bonding chemicals surging through both parents, it's only logical to think that even the most distant of couples would become less so. Check out this other interesting tidbit: There are more intimate activities that can increase these same oxytocin levels such as making eye contact, engaging in some pretty steamy foreplay or having sex Expert advice It seems like you can't do anything right. Explore YourTango
Author's Bio: Born in a small Irish town outside of Akron, Ohio, Mike Finkelstein lived a peaceful life in his early years. However, during the impending doom that was the Y2K scare, Mike was abandoned, at the age of five, in a sporting goods store. There, he was raised, as one of their own, by a pack of inflatable rafts. These years spent in the retail life, living on cans of beans, learning to read by halogen, being taught to float by his new family, are among Mike's most treasured. Tragedy struck, though, when the Author was 17: his adopted mother (a blue, two-person Saturn) fell on a box of sharpened pencils. Thankfully, she did not suffer -- deflation was almost instantaneous. The funeral was sweet, with friends and family saying few words, only the occasional rubber squeak. Taking the lessons learned in the store, and the money he earned working in the stockroom, Mike paid his way through college, earning a double major in Private Investigations and Dental Hygenics. Educated and ready for a life out in the world, away from sharp, pointy objects, the Author joined a traveling circus. Here, he was billed as "Mr. Raft" and wowed audiences with his ability to endlessly float. His time in the spotlight, though, was short-lived. When traveling across the country (during his third year with the circus, it should be noted), Mike discovered his next calling: whitewater tour guide for the dyslexic. Here, too, his ability to float came in invaluably, although he was ever watchful for vengeful rocks and freshwater swordfish (rare, but evil). It was here that the Author gained notoriety, being one of the few people to save Lassie (and not the other way around) when the intrepid collie fell into the river and Mike was the one to save the pooch. Taking his life experiences, Mike eventually settled down to write a loose interpretation of his story as the web-comic "Castlevania RPG". He currently lives on a private island in the Bahamas, having used his money made from the web-comic to buy the island and have a mansion built on the property. One day the Author hopes to be able to buy the moon. He's already close to having a down payment.
Take the 2-minute tour × I have installed Gnome and Awesome window manager. The window manager has a panel that displays systray icons according to the freedesktop.org System Tray Protocol Specification. I'd like to change the icon of the battery in the system tray. systray with incorrectly themed icons for power and Parcellite I first tried changing the icon theme; the icon in the systray does not match the icon from the selected theme, so I'm not sure where the icon is coming from. I've tried several themes in case there was a problem with the one I selected. I've read the mentioned specification, as well as the Gnome Icon Theme Specification and the Creating icon themes for GNOME article. I've also tried using inotifywait -mr on /usr/share/icons while restarting my Gnome session and while changing the icon theme using gnome-tweak-tool. It actually does touch the battery icon in my theme, but that's not what gets displayed. [UPDATE: the theme icon is what is being displayed, but it's rendering as black instead of the true color, which is a couple shades of gray]. I looked through every image in /usr/share/gnome-power-manager. The icon wasn't anywhere in there [UPDATE: it was - but I didn't recognize it because it's not black]. I tried hitting it with xprop, but it didn't give me anything useful, and running xprop -spy isn't showing anything when the widget is updated. share\|improve this question A little bit unrelated but you may want to look into xfce4-power-manager as a replacement for the old gnome-power-manager – Ulrich Dangel Jun 24 '12 at 5:25 @UlrichDangel That would just add another battery to the system tray unless I also move away from using gnome-settings-daemon. – Shawn J. Goff Jun 24 '12 at 15:01 2 Answers 2 Your icon theme (whatever you're using) is probably inheriting another theme which is inheriting another theme etc...until it finds all the icons. Look in your theme's index.theme file and see what icon theme it inherits. Look there for the battery icon. If you dont find it there, look at what theme that inherits..etc. You'll probably find the icon after 1 or two iterations. you can find index.theme in /usr/share/icons/[theme name]/index.theme share\|improve this answer Install lxappearance. Find the icon theme package that you want to theme the icon. Move this untarred package into /usr/share/themes. Open up lxappearance and select it from the font section. share\|improve this answer I already tried changing the theme - the icon isn't coming from the theme. I added that info to the question. – Shawn J. Goff May 27 '12 at 23:18 With awesome, I suggest using the xfce4-power-manager panel applet. It follows the gtk2 theme installed. If you've using gnome, then its gonna try to render it with the gtk3 style's I'd guess.Personally, I've never managed to get gtk3 to play nice under any minimal environments. – sublimepua May 28 '12 at 0:22 Your Answer
Take the 2-minute tour × I'm interested in personal analytics, and would like to find a robust way to aggregate and store my web browsing history in a format I can understand and manipulate. I mostly use Google Chrome. For a while now I've used a Python script along these lines (which is code I got from elsewhere but I've forgotten where): SQL_STATEMENT = 'SELECT urls.url, visit_time FROM visits, urls WHERE visits.url=urls.id;' dumpdir = '...\Chrome History Dump' storage = open(dumpdir+'/hdump.txt', 'a') def date_from_webkit(webkit_timestamp): epoch_start = datetime.datetime(1601,1,1) delta = datetime.timedelta(microseconds=int(webkit_timestamp)) return epoch_start + delta paths = ["...\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Archived History", "...\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History"] for path in paths: c = sqlite3.connect(path) for row in c.execute(SQL_STATEMENT): date_time = date_from_webkit(row[1]) url = re.search(pattern, row[0]) try: urlc = url.group(0) except: urlc = "ERROR" storage.write(str(date_time)[0:19] + "\t" + row[0] + "\n") Unfortunately recent updates to Chrome have broken this approach---I've not looked into why yet, but I've resolved to find a better way to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions? These are some of the criteria I have in mind: • The solution should extract the browser history and (preferably) remove Google's copy of it. • It would be good if it were possible to run it automatically, either every time Chrome starts (as I did with the little script above) or on a regular schedule. • The solution should be as robust as possible to changes in the way Chrome stores its history--either by design, or (even better) because it is a continually maintained piece of software. • It need only store the URL and the visit time, the information in the history can be discarded. Many thanks. share\|improve this question It would probably be more productive to figure out how to fix your current solution for the latest version of Chrome, rather than looking for a possibly non-existing solution. – Ivo Flipse Aug 6 '13 at 10:24 Well perhaps. But even when I first starting using that solution I didn't feel completely happy with it. I find it very hard to believe there isn't a better way to do this kind of thing. – JOwen Aug 6 '13 at 20:13 If you don't mind Google watching over what you're reading, you can have Google Web History track all the sites you visit and then search for metadata without burdening your own browser or computer resources mvark.blogspot.in/2013/08/… – mvark Sep 4 '13 at 6:39 Your Answer Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.
We roll two fair six-sided dice. Find the probability ofthe following events: (a) The two dice show the same number. (b) The number that appears on the rst die is larger thanthe number on the second. (c) The sum of the dice is even. (d) Theproduct of the dice is a perfect square. Want an answer? No answer yet. Submit this question to the community.
Take the 2-minute tour × I have started to write card game applications. Some model classes: • CardSuit, CardValue, Card • Deck, IDeckCreator, RegularDeckCreator, DoubleDeckCreator • Board • Hand and some game classes: • Turn, TurnHandler • IPlayer, ComputerPlayer, HumanPlayer • IAttackStrategy, SimpleAttachStrategy, IDefenceStrategy, SimpleDefenceStrategy • GameData, Game are already written. My idea is to create engine, where two computer players could play game and then later I could add UI part. Already for some time I'm reading about Test Driven Development (TDD) and I have idea to start writing application from scratch, as currently I have tendency to write not needed code, which seems usable in future. Also code doesn't have any tests and it is hard to add them now. Seems that TDD could improve all these issue - minimum of needed code, good test coverage and also could help to come to right application design. But I have one issue - I can't decide from where to start TDD? Should I start from bottom - Card related classes or somewhere on top - Game, TurnHandler, ... ? With which class you would start? And what would be the next 5 to 7 tests? (use the card game you know the best) I would like to start TDD with your help and then continue on my own! share\|improve this question start by reading what TDD is - "In test-driven development, each new feature begins with writing a test..." - and distinguish it from mere unit testing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development – Steven A. Lowe Jun 4 '12 at 22:36 In general I know what is TDD, but as it's something new form me, it's hard to start - find the right place to start. – Maxis Jun 5 '12 at 6:15 you start with features and test descriptions, not classes and code – Steven A. Lowe Jun 5 '12 at 13:41 5 Answers 5 up vote 7 down vote accepted How about the below. The {} is the hints for the next step and after that I would get into specific attributes too. 1. A pack of cards exists {Pack} 2. The pack has 52 cards {Card and Pack - number of cards} 3. The cards have 4 suits {Card attribute} 4. Each suit has A,2-10,J,Q,K {Card attribute} 5. A game is selected. {Game instance} 6. Players are selected {Player instances} 7. Cards are shuffled. {Shuffle method(s)} 8. Cards are dealt. {Deal method(s)} 9. Each person plays. {Play method(s)} 10. One person wins. {Part of Play method, maybe call to Win method} 11. End Game. {EndGame method} share\|improve this answer All other answers are very helpful, but I was looking where to start in my example and what could be the next steps. This answer provides exactly what I was looking for! I will follow these steps and hopefully will get feeling how TDD works! – Maxis Jun 5 '12 at 20:10 I would start with the lowest-level objects, those objects that you may need to write few tests for anyway because they mostly return properties like Suit and Color. Once you have the basic objects, you can start adding tests for behavioral methods, and for methods that cause those basic objects to interact with one another. share\|improve this answer Do you always start TDD from bottom? In my case, when classes are already partly designed it seems logical. But what if I forget about already written code and start from scratch and just know the game rules? In what cases would you start TDD from top? – Maxis Jun 5 '12 at 6:22 According to Pryce/Freeman's book on growing object-oriented software guided by tests, they claim that TDD should start with the highest level tests possible: "end-to-end"/acceptance tests – Jodes Oct 18 '14 at 7:43 If you truly want to embrace test-driven development, then you can start by forgetting that you've written any code. (Don't throw it away, just set it aside in your mind.) Then ask yourself which test you would write if you hadn't written any code yet. What is that you would want to assert first? Answer that question then start the TDD cycle: 1. Write a failing test. 2. Change your code to make it succeed. 3. Repeat. It doesn't really matter where you start, as long as it makes sense to you. It seems like you already have a solid understanding of how you want the application to be designed. That's great, so don't be afraid to write crappy tests. Over time you'll get the hang of it and can improve them. Remember the tests are there to keep you (and others) from negatively altering your code. They are a "contract" you're defining so that you not only have an executable test, but a reference to how you anticipated your code would work. So start by writing tests that describe to you what your code should be doing. If you're still not sure how something will work, play with ideas (by writing tests) until it makes sense. share\|improve this answer Putting already written code aside was exactly my idea. Now I want to see how I could get to it by using TDD approach - how TDD dictates design. – Maxis Jun 5 '12 at 6:38 Technically you cannot do TDD on already existing code. In TDD, tests are the basis for your design, here, the design is already made and then you want to refactor. My recommendation is: 1. Write the tests based on the already implemented design (look for test-cases on each method) so you get code coverage 2. Make sure all your tests pass 3. Start doing some refactoring and/or new implementations, whenever you are about to implement a new feature or make a design change (adding methods, changing an algoritm, make additional checks, etc.) first write a test that fails 4. Change your code to pass the failing test 5. Go to 3 The class doesn't matter, the question is: how do you get into the process? share\|improve this answer Fitting tests into already existing application can be rather difficult and you might end up restructuring your code significantly. You might restructure it so much that the restructuring might feel as if you're 'starting from scratch' anyway. Since it seems that you're just 'having fun' you might benefit more, at least from the design perspective, by starting from scratch. I think that you should definitely test your models. Start with the 'smallest' models, like the Card objects for example. Your tests will verify these work. You can then move onto the Hand models. Then the Board. In this way you build a hierarchy of tests that start with simple behaviors then build up to more complex behaviors. For example, say you have a method named getHandValue that calculates a hand value based on the value of the cards in the hand. Well, you probably want to test the getCardValue method before testing the hand method because the hand method uses the card method anyway. Also, you can use mock objects to get rid of unnecessary setup work. For example, say you have a 'board' with a method getBoardValue. Let's say that this method uses all the hands currently in play to calculate its value. Instead of creating a hand and then creating cards to add to the hand you can simply create a mock hand object that returns a predetermined value. Now you don't have to do all this setup and remember what cards you added to the hands. Some things are harder to test and that's where design decisions come into play. Also, don't test the interfaces directly ( just in case you thought about it ). Only test the implementations since it's the implementations that actually do the work. share\|improve this answer Your Answer
Take the 2-minute tour × I have the ADSL modem Philips CPWBS154 that was recommended by my ISP. It comes pre-configured as a all-in-one solution: it is an ADSL modem but also a Firewall, a DHCP server, a WiFi access point,... I want to add an Airport Extreme (802.11n) that should bring me "N" support, disk sharing and also dual network (private and guest). To be able to benefit from the dual network management, the Airport Extreme should act as the DHCP server. But if I configure it that way, it complains about "Double NAT" configuration. So, at least I should disable the NAT of the modem. What is the recommended configuration: • How should I configure both devices to get internet access without NAT on the modem? • What services should I keep active on the modem ? (Firewall, Mac address filter,...) • Which devices should connect using PPPoE? share\|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 1 down vote accepted Basically this comes down to a question of how hands-on you like to be with your devices. In most home-networking configurations I've had my hands on, the modem is a simple one-port device, so the router got the task of supplying network connectivity to the computers in the household. The modem did PPPoE, the router did everything else -- DHCP, NAT/Firewall, DNS, etc. There are the odd ducks that have had nice featureful modems, and the decision was made to keep them enabled for most networking services, but add the other router as an AP to extend the wireless range. It's got some advantages, but there are lots of gotchas. You've got the choice: • Turn off all features of the modem (set it to Bridge mode) OR leave DHCP and PPPoE ON, but make sure the WiFi is OFF, and only connect it to the Airport. (Leaving the modem's DHCP will work because the Airport is the only thing that will connect to it.) • Connect ethernet wire from the modem into the WAN port on the Airport Extreme. • Configure the Airport to handle everything else (if the modem has a Bridge mode and you're using it, this includes PPPoE). If you didn't turn on Bridge mode, you need to make sure the Airport gets a WAN address through DHCP (that's from your modem), and set its LAN address to static 192.168.whatever.1. • In this configuration, the Airport is the gateway for all your networked devices. • Pros: one box to administer once you get everything working. • Cons: no range benefit on the wifi from having two devices. Complicated: most anything else. • Leave the firewalling and PPPoE to the modem; set the modem to a static internal address (it's your gateway, so 192.168.whatever.1 is appropriate). • Set the Airport to a static address of 192.168.whatever.2; it will be your DHCP/DNS server. • Turn OFF the modem's DHCP and DNS functions. Turn the Airport's DHCP and DNS functions ON. Make sure its DHCP server won't give out the .1 and .2 addresses to clients (maybe set it to start at .50, or .100). • Leave both WiFis ON, but configure them as desired (you could use encryption on the Airport for your "private" network, and leave the modem open-access for a "public" network if you like). Make sure the channels are different by 3-5. • Connect the Airport to the modem with a (long) ethernet cable, and put it ... wherever. The other side of the house, for best WiFi range everywhere in your home. Near the stereo, if you have a network-enabled PVR or HTPC and need a nearby ethernet port. • Pros: lots of flexibility here. you can adjust for range, to accommodate specific devices, whatever you like. • Cons: you are the network administrator, and this stuff can get complicated. Take your time, read other home-networking questions on this site and others, list out what you need from your network and map out your design. (Edit: here's a good question from someone with a network design in mind and specific goals he's trying to accomplish -- take a look.) Remember the basics of network troubleshooting: Does machine A have a network connection (check cable or wifi status)? Does it have the expected network address (ipconfig/ifconfig)? Can it see the router (ping)? Can it see machine B (ping)? Can machine B see it (ping, from machine B)? Can it see the gateway (ping)? Does DNS work (nslookup)? Can it see the internet (http://google.com/)? share\|improve this answer Your Answer
This page has been archived and commenting is disabled. Tyler Durden's picture Full interview below: - advertisements - Comment viewing options Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:15 \| 5105719 ekm1 ekm1's picture Incomplete explanation. No naked derivatives existed in 1987. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:18 \| 5105736 LawsofPhysics LawsofPhysics's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:22 \| 5105749 ekm1 ekm1's picture Oil was $20/barrell Now it's 500% higher Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:26 \| 5105762 strannick strannick's picture That we could be so lucky. The next crash will make 2008 look like 2007 Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:37 \| 5105784 ZerOhead ZerOhead's picture If pumping the market created an economy boosting 'wealth effect' Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:54 \| 5106022 disabledvet disabledvet's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:11 \| 5106066 NidStyles NidStyles's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 19:30 \| 5106481 Headbanger Headbanger's picture It's only.... 27 years ago.. Then again... Never mind.. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 22:26 \| 5106931 old naughty old naughty's picture "...may look like..." Aren't we constantly stride to greater, broader, eh...bader?" Mon, 08/18/2014 - 00:19 \| 5107391 Drunk In Church Drunk In Church's picture I agree. A collapse followed by significant deflation. But it has to happen, so why worry about it? Bitchez. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:32 \| 5106334 CHX CHX's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:36 \| 5105801 Escrava Isaura Escrava Isaura's picture Article says: Key Point Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:53 \| 5105847 Caviar Emptor Caviar Emptor's picture Ponzi? Check Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:01 \| 5105871 Escrava Isaura Escrava Isaura's picture Thanks, Caviar. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:04 \| 5106257 BobPaulson BobPaulson's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:09 \| 5106270 BrosephStiglitz BrosephStiglitz's picture (Great name by the way.) Sun, 08/17/2014 - 19:02 \| 5106424 BobPaulson BobPaulson's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 21:41 \| 5106772 Escrava Isaura Escrava Isaura's picture And, how about me? Can I take down arrrows as complement, too? Or is it too late? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:59 \| 5105865 Terminus C Terminus C's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 23:36 \| 5107222 TrulyBelieving TrulyBelieving's picture Mon, 08/18/2014 - 02:38 \| 5107622 TheCosmicTaco TheCosmicTaco's picture Great point, sir. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:24 \| 5105933 Omen IV Omen IV's picture Oiil - $9.60 circa June 86' See thru buildings Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:10 \| 5106057 disabledvet disabledvet's picture Russia itself is in a recession. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:14 \| 5106074 NidStyles NidStyles's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:57 \| 5106242 BrosephStiglitz BrosephStiglitz's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:07 \| 5106265 BobPaulson BobPaulson's picture Didn't Sock Puppet in Chief say they make nothing in Russia? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:15 \| 5106287 BrosephStiglitz BrosephStiglitz's picture Mon, 08/18/2014 - 03:00 \| 5107645 TheCosmicTaco TheCosmicTaco's picture Russian oligarchs keep their wealth in rubles? Nyetski. Dollares... Da! Da! Da! Mon, 08/18/2014 - 05:06 \| 5107730 BrosephStiglitz BrosephStiglitz's picture Physical assets are also at risk in foreign territories. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:38 \| 5106173 BrosephStiglitz BrosephStiglitz's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:55 \| 5106232 Escrava Isaura Escrava Isaura's picture Great, and correct point about oil. And you can clearly see it on the chart below. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:45 \| 5106369 ekm1 ekm1's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:59 \| 5106418 Escrava Isaura Escrava Isaura's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 22:47 \| 5107010 Woodrox Woodrox's picture 400% higher Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:22 \| 5105750 Leonardo Fibonacci2 Leonardo Fibonacci2's picture Is Obama a homo? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:00 \| 5105868 Terminus C Terminus C's picture Are you a troll? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:57 \| 5106026 Escrava Isaura Escrava Isaura's picture Terminus C, No! Leonardo Fibonacci2 has issues around his sexuality. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:13 \| 5106072 mt paul mt paul's picture maybe he's a Sun, 08/17/2014 - 19:00 \| 5106286 Escrava Isaura Sun, 08/17/2014 - 20:15 \| 5106574 oudinot oudinot's picture Leonardo: Are you a 'homo'? That's all you moan about. You have an issue with your sexuality, no doubt. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:24 \| 5105756 zorba THE GREEK zorba THE GREEK's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:26 \| 5105766 LawsofPhysics LawsofPhysics's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:30 \| 5105782 Vampyroteuthis ... Vampyroteuthis infernalis's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:33 \| 5105787 LawsofPhysics LawsofPhysics's picture "short of a lifetime" -- bullshit. Full faith and credit. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:36 \| 5105798 ekm1 ekm1's picture Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:39 \| 5105808 LawsofPhysics LawsofPhysics's picture I'd argue that no one really knows what the "cost" is because the central panners don't allow price discovery. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:02 \| 5105873 Terminus C Terminus C's picture and energy (oil) is subsidized by blood and force. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 19:04 \| 5106293 BobPaulson BobPaulson's picture As you dig deeper you find that what the fundamental problem is that there is no market, so no rules apply. It's all coercion. The NWO set figured out a while ago that if you could make yourself bigger than the market, you can pretty much control everything. For there to be supply and demand costs based on counterparties, you need to have choice, liquidity and a few other things which make a give trade small compared to the rebalancing effect of a "market". Maybe markets are gone forever. I hope note, but it is not inconceivable that as the ant hill/ bee hive/ rats nest of the earth gets too full, it's hard to actually have flucutating markets. I'm saying this while looking out the hotel window in a polluted steel producing city in China teeming with people and I am not inspired by our species these days. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 09:13 \| 5108198 GoldenTool GoldenTool's picture In order to have a real market you must have rule of law, aka an even playing field. We have rule of men which is feudalism 2.0. Unless changed in the next 30 years this will go on a long time I think. "Sic vita est" Mon, 08/18/2014 - 07:51 \| 5107913 spinone spinone's picture Please, cost is what you have to pay for a good or service. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:34 \| 5105792 ekm1 ekm1's picture Not so. Economy rebounded in 2009 when oil was $35. Negative GDP started again in 2011 when oil crossed $80 Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:19 \| 5106297 BobPaulson BobPaulson's picture Energy is the only currency unit that could reliably replace gold except in its most liquid form (electricity) it is hard to store. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:45 \| 5105826 orez65 orez65's picture "The economy is going to crash ..." Well, no. The current "economy" is an illusion. It will be not be pretty, but it will not be the end of the world, as a "crash" implies. Those with dollar denominated assets will be wiped out. Those with "hard" assets will prevail. "Hard" assets such as factories, real estate, gold, silver, people skills, etc will still be there after the "crash". They'll take over from those with dollar denominated assets. Like an accounting revolution. It has to happen, that which is unsustainable will stop. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:29 \| 5105772 ekm1 ekm1's picture No, it's opposite. Bonds and stocks are not edible, neither can they be used to fuel a truck. A crash will remove the chains of finance from the real economy. Economy will rebound soon after that as it rebounded in 2009 when oil was $35 and died again in 2011 when oil crossed $80. This is how it works. Economy needs abundance of energy, not abundance of electrons in computers called stocks and bonds Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:37 \| 5105796 LawsofPhysics LawsofPhysics's picture Correct. Without calories available for consumption (and that's the important bit) you can't actually do shit. But then again ekm1 is an optimist, I recognize full well that there are no monetary, economic, or political solutions to resource scarcity. People die, you start over, same as it ever was. Perhaps we can interest these guys in a financial "product" of mass destruction. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:07 \| 5105887 assistedliving assistedliving's picture LoP "Perhaps we can interest these guys in a financial "product" of mass destruction." As Warren taught us we already have. Derivatives. Simply invented to circumvent the regulators, keep off the Balance Sheets, confound your local and state treasurers, trade amongst themselves until the musical chairs stop and devil take the hindmost (that wud be u n me) Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:24 \| 5106314 BobPaulson BobPaulson's picture If only the derivatives traders kept to themselves. The problem is they participate in the world of real assets, and the dollar value of their activitity swamps the real economy. Is the only way to kill the vampire to revert to barter? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:15 \| 5105914 ThroxxOfVron ThroxxOfVron's picture "calories available for consumption " This is the only unit of account that does not change and the only liquidity that actually matters in any economy no matter how prehistoric or advanced. Calories are money. -ALL of the rest are derivative or counterfeit or illusion of money. Note/clue: derivatives and illusions of calories may be traded, pyramided, counterfeited and/or promised; but, it is not possible to short or forward or option or account shift calories. IMHO, calories are the only money that exists, and are likely the only viable unit of redeemable backing for currency. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 23:06 \| 5107074 Kprime Kprime's picture I'd like one of your apples. I will trade you this picture of a lucious, ripe, tomato. It's so pretty you can almost taste it. You can see it's loaded with calories. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 06:21 \| 5107776 Optimusprime Optimusprime's picture Your example can be extended almost indefinitely into a basic metaphor for our way of life. CogDis would probably have something to say on this score. For those who like to read, Walker Percy's short but brilliant essay on semiotics in his great book Lost in the Cosmos is a good place to start on this subject. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:50 \| 5106220 Kirk2NCC1701 Kirk2NCC1701's picture Agree. Using fundamental laws/principles, I'd extend your argument to: Available Precious Calories (Watts in SI units) + Available Precious Materials. Where: Materials + Energy = Inputs Labor = Value Add Work (effort+tech) +Information (knowledge), to create the Outputs (products+services). Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:28 \| 5105774 indygo55 indygo55's picture "The Fed can't and won't let the stock market crash" They and their cohorts own most of it. They will just throw the kill switch if things look bad. The real action happens when the FED starts a new round of stimulus. Thats when the fireworks with the dollar starts IMO. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:39 \| 5105805 The Count The Count's picture That is all just an outer layer of the onion. A couple layers farther in you would find the richtest investment bankers plus who have placed their people in the white house, the Fed, etc who make sure that they can do whatever they feel like and should it go wrong, get bailed out. These are the same folks who finance all campaigns giving to both candidates, this way they cant't lose. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:49 \| 5105837 eddiebe eddiebe's picture That's what I think too, Zorba. Doug Casey thinks markets dictate still. I don't believe it. The PTP or whatever their current name is have all markets under control via the dollar hegemony. They let air out of the various balloons as they see fit and blow bubbles as they see fit according to their algos. Right now stocks and bonds in the US for sure are in nosebleed bubble territory and at the same time they are inflating the western currencies like crazy. Nobody knows what anything is worth anymore, and even if they did it doesn't matter because PTP can adjust at will whatever currency they target. There is an issue they can't get around though. They can only keep wages depressed to a certain extent (thereby keeping a lid on inflation ) without causing riots, and they have to be careful as to how tightly they keep the lid on commodities for the same above reasons. So we will have inflation in areas of their choosing mostly, but certainly in fiat currencies. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:59 \| 5105859 Ocean22 Ocean22's picture That's the game. Chaos. Total chaos. Problem reaction solution. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:47 \| 5105834 Cattender Cattender's picture i just keep buying silver... insane as i am.. LOL! Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:54 \| 5105846 gatorboat gatorboat's picture "No naked derivatives existed in 1987." Fed will print ALL THE DOLLARS NEEDED to keep stocks inflated, even if they have to buy up THE ENTIRE STOCK MARKET. The US DOLLAR is what will CRASH. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:56 \| 5105856 ekm1 ekm1's picture Crash of USD = world war 3 Careful what you wish for Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:02 \| 5105869 LawsofPhysics LawsofPhysics's picture Perhaps, but war is inevitable. As a veteran, my point is always simple, if you are going to go to war, then don't fuck around, go to war and exterminate your fucking enemy. Welcome to the real world, as Nature/innovation cannot be "planned", that's like saying you can do away with free will or something. Dangerously ignorant and stupid. Again, I have seen enough war to not want to see it again, but don't think the modern politico "gets" it. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:07 \| 5105889 ekm1 ekm1's picture No objections, none whatsoever. My point is that small wars like Iraq one to control oil are much better than large uncontrollable wars if USD collapses. The concept of lesser evil applies Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:18 \| 5105918 LawsofPhysics LawsofPhysics's picture "My point is that small wars like Iraq one to control oil are much better than large uncontrollable wars if USD collapses." - And my point is that such wars are not. in the end you still lose control of all the resources and have chaos, but now you have no more capital or resources to invest in those fusion reactors etc. When you are dealing with a closed system with finite resources, such "wars" just allow for the accellerated mis-allocation and mal-investment of capital and resources and exponential equations are a bitch. I expect the "hunger games will start in the next 10 ten years. Look for the government to clean out those ghettos with a draft (again). military service and real sacrifice will become manditory again, it always does. History is very clear on this. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:33 \| 5105964 ekm1 ekm1's picture Somebody said a long while ago: "Only the dead saw the end of wars" Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:39 \| 5105985 Implied Violins Implied Violins's picture ...not if we take the war to the people we really need to fight. That's the only way to end this cycle of madness. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:42 \| 5105991 LawsofPhysics LawsofPhysics's picture Yes, unfortunately, millions of years of evolution are not on your side. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 19:05 \| 5106328 BobPaulson BobPaulson's picture BTW, your comment on obliterating your enemy for strategic outcomes is the Sun Tzu concept. Agreed. The current pilots of this plane, The Masters of War as Bob Dylan called them, don't give a shit about that. The outcome they want is to sell more arms to both sides. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 23:09 \| 5106918 Kprime Kprime's picture actually, when a thing has a low statistical probability over time, the larger the time line grows, the greater the probability. Evolution may be slow, but when the millions of years pile up the little changes compound. Overnight, it seems, a new creature appears. Society is not immune from evolution's power of change. Revolutions are part of the process of evolution in societies. With each round of metamorphosis new results become possible, nay even probable. At some point in the evolution of society the congregational body begins to recognize the cancer of .gov. As development continues, the fittest develop antibodies against this cancer. Note how the white blood cells of the US society were triggered to swarm to Bundy's defense. Societies are developing immune systems all over the globe. These immune systems are learning to attack societal parasites (sociopaths). These parasitic s have historically drained the life blood of every society in human. Commonly they self promote and replicate unchecked as .govs. Their drain on societies ends parabolicly. Those with governmental tendencies always turn cancerous and kill their host. If mankind is to survive over the long haul, mankind must develop total immunity to governments. Mankind must learn to recognize, attack, and expel any individual humans, or small gathering of humans, which try to express the cancerous gene of government. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 00:29 \| 5107426 FreedomGuy FreedomGuy's picture Exactly, Laws. Even if one believes that Iraq is some sort of contrived war it is not controlled. It is like those "controlled burns" the forest service uses. An unexpected wind shift turns them into a raging uncontrolled disaster than mostly has to run its course. Control is an illusion. Influence is reality. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 07:54 \| 5107923 spinone spinone's picture The low-intensity wars are about manuvering for resources and influence. Total war is about exterminating your enemy. Total war will mean ICBMs in the air. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:47 \| 5105992 ThroxxOfVron ThroxxOfVron's picture "small wars like Iraq one to control oil are much better than large uncontrollable wars" ALL those who think and speak thus are obviously not in Iraq or any other place chosen to be the 'better' theater of sustained violence and chaos in lieu of conflict where they happen to actually be. This is exactly why the politicians and corporatists that promote these conflicts should be confined to the locations of the most fierce fighting. The arm-chair in front of the bloomberg termainl is nice and comfy when it isn't on the bombing range. Go live in Mosul for a decade and tell us what you think. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:42 \| 5105966 ThroxxOfVron ThroxxOfVron's picture Anything deviating from that simple precept is not war. The proliferation of expensive and often violently kinetic non extermination objective activities labelled nation building, police action, military adventure, etc., aren't explicitly war. War has been replaced with a series of neo-corporatist neo-globalist police state adventures, religious and/or ethnic cleansings and forced migrations/conversions, expropriations, forced labor and enslavement regime activities. The terminology of war has been also been broadly appropriated for use in the propaganda campaigns of these non-warfare violences and asymetric applictions of domestic laws/regulations/codes of conduct by those that profit from them. The police state. Big data/NSA/domestic spying. War on poverty? War on drugs? War on terror? --Orwellian advertising slogans... Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:54 \| 5106021 Amish Hacker Amish Hacker's picture The War on Everything, because war is the most effective way to transfer huge sums of money from a lot of people to a few people. Therefore, the wars (and the full-spectrum militarization of American society) will continue. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:50 \| 5106221 christiangustafson christiangustafson's picture Throxx, you're getting darn near profound on us now. Nice work. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 21:19 \| 5106716 TheRideNeverEnds TheRideNeverEnds's picture Like the 87 crash he says? So we are in for a shortlived event that will be an incredible buying opportunity at prices that will never be even remotely approached for the rest of human history? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 23:36 \| 5107220 Buck Johnson Buck Johnson's picture Bingo, and when it implodes it will take the dollar with it also. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:18 \| 5105732 HUGE_Gamma HUGE_Gamma's picture Will I be able to close out short positions and cash out my dollars? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:21 \| 5105751 Winston Churchill Winston Churchill's picture Does Hotel Kalifornia ring any bells ? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:18 \| 5105734 fonzannoon fonzannoon's picture Bullish on San Fran, bullish on US companies, just hoping for a violent 20% btfd. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:19 \| 5105739 Eireann go Brach Eireann go Brach's picture The history books will call the next crash "The Obongo Crash". It will be defined as the moment all whites and blacks across the country finally gave up on the dickhead in the White house! Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:28 \| 5105825 Deathrips Deathrips's picture It was not just one man..the history books will echo. "In the year 2014 the populace was more concerned with what one person was responsible for the state of the American economy. Little did they know that a psy-op technology called controlled opposition was being unloaded by state owned media to keep control of the debt serfs. Another weapon in the arsenal of controlled servitude was cognitive dissonance in which the people refused to believe that they rooted for the same team. A majority of the population identified with colors over simple logic. These two tools of disinfo gate keepers led to the ultimate collapse of the US Dollar. Till the end the financial war lords they called market makers and politicians preyed on the niave labor of the financially dependent. Ironic as it was in 2015 when the people chasing exceptional colored flags were put in FEMA camps for their safety, against the ever growing populace that had woken up and would not tolerate a distraction anymore. This all began with the controlled begging the government to protect them from critical thinkers. As they ate govt subsidized cheese and drank pond water, many wondered why they had ended up where they were. As the movement within the FEMA camps gained steam, the inhabitants painfully realized that they had asked for this ...and had what they had bleated for." Fuck Fascist Socialists. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:19 \| 5105743 Bloppy Bloppy's picture The Fed WILL fail to control this market one day. Price controls don't hold up forever. In the meantime, good to know Manhattanites have their priorities straight - they're abuzz over Rihanna being forced to wait in line for her drink: Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:21 \| 5105747 eddiebe eddiebe's picture My guess is a fiat crisis coupled with stagflation and it has already started. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:23 \| 5105748 Peter Pan Peter Pan's picture The way it will work is that rather than offering stock for sale and having the market collapse, it will be required that only bids for specific quantities can be made to which sellers can then respond. In other words, no sales in order to stop a shit load of stock owners hitting the sale button. Come to think of it they might do the same with bonds to stop China and Russia dumping. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:24 \| 5105758 Winston Churchill Winston Churchill's picture A little late IMO. to stop Russia and China dumping. Who is the bagholder ? A much more important question. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:34 \| 5105777 The Count The Count's picture Anybody really still think reality is what it used to be? You pay extra to get an isle seat in a plane? Selling your own stocks is halted? A guy like Corzine is free? The NSA can do whatever they want? Do not expect the media to provide any help...they NEVER ask the right questions, they just serve us shit from either the left or right spoon, which ever gives you more pleasure. Ever hear a reporter on CNN ask the white house spokesman who is funding ISIS in Irak and where are the arms coming from. Well, that would be Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states...our so-called allies. ISIS fighters are mostly not even Irakis so all the talk about reforming the Iraki government to be more 'inclusive' is a bunch of BS. We are living in The Matrix my friends, and slowly but surely those that want to see the truth are getting a glimple of how f....ed it all is. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:07 \| 5106051 TruthTalker TruthTalker's picture You forgot to say that the US has armed ISIS as well and that ISIS is Langley operation Mon, 08/18/2014 - 00:34 \| 5107434 FreedomGuy FreedomGuy's picture Most reporters nowadays are dumber than a box of rocks, but they look good on camera. They know how to look concerned and thoughtful on cue and change voice to a grave tone. However, they have little to no intellectual curiousity or skepticism of power unless it is the opposing party. Most are leftist tools unable to filter out their own biases from their reporting. So, they are good looking, stupid, incurious, unskeptical and highly biased. What do you expect from them? Jon Corzine is still free and still rich. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:33 \| 5105789 jarana jarana's picture minute 7:15 or so; last sentence gives all the summary to me (not literally the same words): "...we don't want to buy now. We want to be able to buy when [this-'87-like-thing-or-whatever-who-the-fuck-cares] happens..." Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:39 \| 5105809 techstrategy techstrategy's picture It will restore balance. Illiquid stocks trade at a significant premium because valuations reflect the ability to scalp premium in options, not the underlying value capture by a company. Exit all low float, high multiple stocks for cash and gold. Let those responsible hold all the risk and feel all the pain. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:44 \| 5105824 max2205 max2205's picture Will it 86 or 87 Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:48 \| 5105835 No More Bubbles No More Bubbles's picture His fund will go back to $800K. All the gains were fake bubble nonsense fueled by parabolic debt growth - debt that can't and won't ever be repaid at ANY interest rate. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:51 \| 5105842 Paracelsus Paracelsus's picture Ummm,they developed an orderly way to wind up a business. But,alas,all the assets are tied up by the court until such time as agreement is reached. The world has something like $400 Trillion in unhedged risk floating around. JPM is probably responsible for $100 Trillion at least of this toxic debt. JPM was responsible for the loans to England (The City) that allowed the Allies to continue fighting during the 1st World War.It was largely because of that conflict from which our present disasters have followed.Capitalism is like a finely engineered machine.But there are rules.Don't prop up failing businesses. The Boardmembers and shareholders are responsible for the decisions which incurr profit or loss. Japan has propped up Zombie banks for decades,and now they are an insolvent nation. The USA started with the FED-supervised LTCM hedgefund bailout in the late 1990's. Question: If the advantages of Hedge Funds being like a private investment club,high risk,high yield. And they are very opaque,unwilling to open their books until someone brings a box of thumbscrews. One more item: They are also highly leveraged,using risky computer models which can fail to represent the reality of modern finance.LTCM was leveraged close to 100:1 when the Russian Bond default happened. If they want to play with Vegas rules,then they should play with Vegas rules. (Think Kneecaps...) Sun, 08/17/2014 - 15:55 \| 5105851 robertocarlos robertocarlos's picture I think I was earning 12% interest on a 5 year GIC. Let's try that again. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:02 \| 5105870 saveUSsavers saveUSsavers's picture 'GD 'Ameritrade WILL BE DOWN ONLINE, mark my words! Same as before. Especially since Da Mafia Boyz now use Dark Pools. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:04 \| 5105880 robertocarlos robertocarlos's picture When we go broke, I'm going to hate working for a living. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:15 \| 5105915 Chippewa Partners Chippewa Partners's picture 508 points and 22% down will be on their wish list when it's game over. HFT and having more exchanges than O has golf clubs insure it. There will be no liquidity. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:18 \| 5105921 Fuku Ben Fuku Ben's picture Our market timing for a crash is tied to the opening of the Abyss Check us out Chronozon Capital - Profit from the Plunge into the Pit Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:26 \| 5105937 TheFulishBastid TheFulishBastid's picture The economy will crash, unless it continues to go up. At which point it will probably go down. 19.95/month and you too can trade, using the TFB proven system of dart throwing at stock picks. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:26 \| 5105941 q99x2 q99x2's picture I want to print my own currency damn it. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:29 \| 5105944 db51 db51's picture People, It's time for a reality check. There will never be a market crash. We may all be living in mud huts pissing in our drinking water, but the market will continue to infinity and beyond. It is so detached from any reality now, it should be obvious to all. I believe Pre 1960 Monopoly Money would be a better investment than Gold or Silver until such a time it is regulated by the Fed. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 16:30 \| 5105956 petruchio2100 petruchio2100's picture Ironic how I learned from Ty that the CB's have bought the stock market. Crash will therefore be mitigated (or their baby). Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:04 \| 5106045 Little Boomer Little Boomer's picture Like 1929. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:00 \| 5106186 petruchio2100 petruchio2100's picture Since you wouldn't remark cleverly at the expense of reason, please respond to my next comment below, thanks. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:18 \| 5106092 bugs_ bugs_'s picture 1987 was far scarier than 2008. even watching people clean their desks and walk out of lehman that weekend there didn't seem to be fear on the faces - just acceptance. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:40 \| 5106105 petruchio2100 petruchio2100's picture According to ZH the CB's have bought in $21T, or 47%, of global equities just since the last crash. (I know my fellow bears can draw a straight line as well as I, so please either explain how the fact that at this rate all equities will be owned by CB's by 2021 doesn't mitigate crashes not sought by them, or change your handle to Moron Here.) Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:24 \| 5106119 novictim novictim's picture Can there be a bank run these days givent he Federal reserve system and its willingness to print money? (That was a real question btw) Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:40 \| 5106181 GrinandBearit GrinandBearit's picture Another bear fantasy. A -22% loss in one day can not happen today... they would close the stock market. Way too many safety mechanisms in place today. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:45 \| 5106201 DarthVaderMentor DarthVaderMentor's picture Yep, you keep believing that. It could go down 22% in a millisecond, even before the safety mechanisms even realize there's a problem. BTW, are you aware that many safety mechanisms have been removed or inactivated? Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:42 \| 5106357 GrinandBearit GrinandBearit's picture Even if it did, it would fully recover once the BTFD algos took over. For the last 6 years being a bear has cost many here a LOT of money and caused much stress and anxiety. The market is rigged from top to bottom and will most likely stay that way indefinitely. Hugh Hendry was right to capitulate when he did. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 20:38 \| 5106631 Wait What Wait What's picture it always seems silly to me for ppl, esp. here on ZH, to express fear of that moment/day when all hell is going to break loose. spend your life thinking about and preparing for that one possible 'end of the world' scenario and you're going to miss out on all the things you could have been enjoying in the meanwhile. if you really think the Fed won't just step in, buy everything in the name of 'financial stability' and restore order, even if it causes all manner of economic dislocation and strife, then you probably haven't been paying attention to what it has been doing for the last 30 years. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 17:43 \| 5106190 DarthVaderMentor DarthVaderMentor's picture The graph between what's coming and 1987 may look the same, but the magnitude will be so different you'll need a logarithmic market value y-axis to show it on the same chart....... Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:08 \| 5106205 petruchio2100 petruchio2100's picture Probably, but it will come from the bond market, not stocks. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 19:26 \| 5106478 GrinandBearit GrinandBearit's picture Been hearing stuff like this for the last 6 years. 2009/10/11/and 12 I actually fell for it too. These markets are perfectly rigged... perfectly controlled. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 22:51 \| 5107022 Midnight Rider Midnight Rider's picture That's the way the smart money wants you to feel. After six long years of being beaten over the head with the concept that the Fed is in complete control of all the financial markets of the world, the last bear will finally roll over, just as they are positioned for it. Look, last year at this time the Dow was up over 2500 points. This year it is up 85. Can anybody do the math? I think there is a little bit of difference there. About 2400 points if my math is correct. Who wants to take the bet of a massive bull market taking off from historically unprecedented market valuations in an economy barely scraping by recessionary levels and massive headwinds ahead from numerous directions. Ok, who wants to take the bet on a market topping process staring them in the face? Just do a survey of the posts on this website. More and more capitulation posts of the Fed never letting the market fall. Ever and forever. The Fed is all powerful. When the diehards roll over like they are today, everyone is on the same side of the trade, and the market shows a topping action allowing the smart money to position itself, I would take notice. Your post is your own evidence. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 18:10 \| 5106274 Midnight Rider Midnight Rider's picture People, there is no free lunch. There wasn't in the 18th century or the 19th century and there still isn't today. The Fed thinks they can artificially push financial assets to the moon forever with no consequence. This is where they have forgotten to include the second half of the equation into their calculations thinking they can get away with it. Temporarily inflating and pushing wealth around from one place to another does more long term damage than the Fed is willing to admit. There are those on the Fed thwho recognize it and are attempting to normalize policy before it's too late. Are they going to succeed? Probably not. Besides, the vast majority of Americans do not have a major stake in the stock market. Do we need to be reminded again of the top 10% owning the vast majority of all equities? The Fed's current policies are causing major economic damage that we just haven't had to recognize yet. It's there though. Papered over in the trillions of phantom wealth that will once again vaporize just as every other bubble in recorded history. The Fed has not redefined the laws of physics. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 23:08 \| 5107079 AdvancingTime AdvancingTime's picture If you rated people on a "wealth chart" by how many tangible assets they owned you might be shocked to find much of the wealth people own is in paper and this is full of risk. More on this subject in the article below. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 02:53 \| 5107638 TheCosmicTaco TheCosmicTaco's picture Had a free lunch yesterday. God bless the Hare Krishna's. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 19:18 \| 5106459 swanpoint swanpoint's picture Black Monday looks like an 'ol 8am gold chart! Seen this 50 times in 2 years Sun, 08/17/2014 - 19:18 \| 5106461 bluskyes bluskyes's picture The price-value divergence will continue, until people just drop out of the system all together, and the current system becomes immaterial. All "authorities" are against the free market. The only free market is the black market. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 00:39 \| 5107446 hedgiex hedgiex's picture YES. The sooner the black market emerges the better. US/EC people have no experience like the generations in crony infested economies of S America/Asia on how to survive and build wealth away from the financial market economies and outside the controls of Govts. The psyche that the markets are reflections of economies are deep rooted. They are not in present times and it do not matter whether the markets crash or not. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 20:21 \| 5106598 Quaderratic Probing Quaderratic Probing's picture No liquidity now.... Sun, 08/17/2014 - 20:33 \| 5106621 Wait What Wait What's picture is this the same Passport Capital that blew up its basic materials fund 2 yrs ago? c'mon, TD find someone with some credibility. the Fed will never allow markets to fall. they will ride this whip til the wheels fall off, which they can do til the rest of the world decides US financial hegemonic status needs to be tossed aside. no one has the balls to do that completely... yet. check back in a half decade or so. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 23:18 \| 5107121 duck dodgers duck dodgers's picture It seems to me the BRICS are moving in that direction as fast as they can. Sun, 08/17/2014 - 23:05 \| 5107072 AdvancingTime AdvancingTime's picture Mon, 08/18/2014 - 02:05 \| 5107598 boeing747 boeing747's picture 'Oil' is still the key to coming crash. Maybe I can see $200 oil this time (1st in my life time). Ukraine which owns key pipelines is in war. ISIS shit is near major oil fields. South China Sea where main oil tankers have to go thru is in near-war. TBTF carefully controls the pace of progress. Next time you know whom they will blame. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 02:43 \| 5107625 TheCosmicTaco TheCosmicTaco's picture When China crashes, it will take the rest of Asia and much of the world down. It's gonna be a financial Armageddon. For sure. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 02:49 \| 5107628 TheCosmicTaco TheCosmicTaco's picture Methinks all this apparent liquidity is an illusion. It's gonna vanish like a snowflake in the Sahara. Soon. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 03:11 \| 5107659 damicol damicol's picture Ok for the sake of argument lets assume the markets can only ever go up as the CB's are owning more and more of it. Therefore the Fed will not let it crash. So where does this logic take us. Private savings will become a smaller and smaller part of the market, for one thing salaries and disposable is going down and debt is rising, and more are retiring. As they retire, retirement funds have to liquidate more and more equities and bonds to pay the pensions and benefits.. Who are the buyers . Not Joe soap or his sons who are tapped out and couldn't afford whaazzamoo wizzy corp stock at 98X and zero earnings or dividends, and 2.35 trillion in debt and a price tag of $96,237 a share. So the fed buys it. Where does the Fed get the money to buy this stock. From the taxpayer. Erm no, the entire tax take is not enough to fund the rank insanity of the spending so far and the deficit just goes up Raise taxes, maybe, confiscate , maybe, but that just reduces tax take overall and depresses economy. SO, print it, Thats the only option Result market rises, pension gets paid and debt increases and interest to service goes up. Wealth created, ZERO, minus additional cash now in system, minus interest payment, equals wealth destruction. Trajectory, Higher inflation, lower wages, higher taxes, MOAR printing. Never ending printing. Just like Japan, just like Europe, Just like Argentina, Just like Ghana, Just like Venezuela, Just like Zimbabwe. Need any more examples. OR the Fed does not buy them and they get dumped on the market. Who will buy. Not me, Maybe you, Maybe no a single sensible person, and certainly not any billionaire who is dumping as fast as he can right now . See Buffet. What happens then. Crash or rise to infinity. Crash, then all your retirement funds get wiped out, Rise to infinity then inflation will wipe you out and the billionaires too. Who do you think will win. When the billionaires are out as far as they can get out they will dump the market and let you fight and kill each other over bread. Its a slow process, it takes time to manage an exit whilst propping the market close to all time high. with lots of fools and idiots and a MSM working 24/7 selling it for them, but they are getting out, and getting out fast. And if that's the case then the market will not see SPY at 1980 again before 2020 minimum. A gradual drift down is my best guess until it gets to about 1800 then off the cliff it goes as the market is thrown to the wolves. Mon, 08/18/2014 - 16:56 \| 5110680 flow5 flow5's picture Tripe. 87 was the result of the largest contraction in real-output since the Great-Depression. 2014's 4th qtr flash crash is the product of a sharp decline in the roc of MVt. It will be much easier to reverse.
The Technium China’s DNA A short report in Newsweek (High-Quality DNA) about a new Chinese initiative in genetic sequencing serves as a signal for several large global trends. First the opening sentences: Lesson 1: Science will go where there is the least resistance to it. It is borderless, constantly seeking the fewest restrictions and the most investments. Research and investigation will route around legislation and prohibitions or lax enthusiasm. Science will go where it is wanted. Lesson 2: China still has a predominant copy-culture, preferring to copy ideas rather than invent their own. This was true of the US for its first 100 years. English authors and inventors thought of the US as one huge continent of intellectual pirates. And it was true. But just as the US quickly outgrew its copy-culture to become a culture of originality, so too is China. The notion that China is incapable of inventing world-class innovation is wrong. Lesson 3: The shift we feel towards the east is just beginning. While China is aging and breeding below replacement level, their engineers are young and have decades of productivity ahead of them. They will sway the course of science. We should find out what they are thinking. So far, at least 80,000 Western-trained Ph.D.s have returned [to China], the vast majority in the past five years. Lesson 4: A reverse brain drain is operating. And not just from the US among overseas Chinese. Many capable non-Chinese researchers are taking positions in China. I think this is good for them, for China and good for the world. It’s healthy competition for talent, and it should force more attractive conditions for research everywhere, particularly in the US, which has had little competition. China has picked up the pace of patenting and in a few decades the total number of patents from China will exceed the total in the US, once the lone superman in patenting. Again, this is good for the world, and indirectly good for the US because it will force the States to invest more in R&D, beef up education, make it more attractive for foreign talent, and easier to secure the brightest foreign students, and keep prohibitions of innovations to a minimum.
Take the 2-minute tour × I have an application (Star Trek Bridge Commander) which runs fine on Wine when I navigate to its directory and 'open with -> Wine Windows Program Loader' from the right click menu. Unfortunately, it quits with a runtime error if I try to use 'wine (path)' or 'wine start (path)' in the terminal. This is a problem because I am trying to make a custom shortcut (.desktop file) to open it. Thankyou for any assistance :) share\|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 1 down vote accepted You need to into the directory of the file and then run to run your program. For example, the following will give STBC (and many other applications) a runtime error: wine /home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files$x86$/Activision/Bridge\ Commander/stbc.exe The correct set of commands to use is: wine stbc.exe This is apparently because it gives the application the correct working directory, which does not happen with the first example. How to put the working set of commands into a single command for use in a .desktop file (shortcut), however, is something I don't know how to do, so I simply created a bash script containing both commands and linked the .desktop file to that instead. share\|improve this answer Your Answer

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